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The Lavendaire Lifestyle

Bonus Episode: Becoming the Artist of Your Own Life: Aileen Xu on Embracing Your True Identity and Creativity

The Lavendaire Lifestyle

Aileen Xu

Self-help, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, How To, Mental Health, Education

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What does it really take to create your dream life? In this episode, Erika interviews Aileen about the story behind her success—from feeling invisible to inspiring millions through her creativity. They talk identity shifts, getting zero views, and staying true to your dreams—even when no one else sees the vision yet. If you’ve ever felt unseen, this conversation is your reminder: you can always become the artist of your own life. 

Erika Casupanan is a media personality, keynote speaker and host of the award-winning podcast, Happy to See Me. She was the first Canadian to win the U.S. reality show Survivor. She uses her platform to spotlight and inspire people who have felt overlooked and underestimated.


TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - Hair Color as Identity
5:08 - Feeling Underestimated
7:35 - Breaking the Praise Cycle
11:59 - From Music to Self-Love
17:05 - The Early Days of Lavendaire
19:47 - The Pressure of Social Media Metrics
21:55 - Staying Neutral Through the Ups and Downs
24:10 - Moments That Made It All Worth It
27:26 - Living as an Artist of Life
32:15 - Listening to Your Intuition
34:36 - Human Design
36:20 - The Key Questions Aileen Asked Herself
38.22 - Last Message

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Also, I don't know if I told you this, but do you want to know how I started watching your videos?

0:04.7

Oh, no, I'd love to know.

0:06.5

So during the pandemic, which I think is when everybody was doing so much introspection,

0:11.2

that's when I started to get into learning about manifesting and crystals and all of that.

0:15.5

So my YouTube algorithm was starting to really adjust to me doing all of this self-improvement stuff. And then I saw a thumbnail

0:22.3

for one of your videos. And I was like, oh, cool. She also has purple hair. I'll watch this.

0:27.1

And that's how I got into it. You have purple hair back then too. Yes. Yes. Oh, gosh. Yeah, I had

0:32.6

like colored hair for like over a decade. That was when I first started doing different colors with my hair,

0:38.2

that was my statement to change my identity. Oh, I'm an artist. I'm going to express myself.

0:43.1

It really does change your identity, right? Like for the longest time, I had long hair straight

0:48.1

across banks. It was my natural color. And then I kid you not, one day I just cut off 10 inches

0:53.4

of my hair and dyed it purple and then walked into the office and was like, hey, everyone.

0:57.8

I'm a new woman.

0:58.9

Yeah.

0:59.3

Did you feel like it was a big identity shift for you when you colored your hair?

1:03.9

Huge.

1:04.7

Yeah, it's funny because I think even a couple years before that, I chopped it all off into like a little bob.

1:09.7

So it was a, I graduated college,

1:11.6

I chopped off my hair. You know, I think we express ourselves based on how we're feeling or what we're

1:16.7

going through in life. And when I decided to like go blonde and pink and purple, that was when I was

1:23.3

like pursuing music and I declared to myself and the people around me that I'm going to be an artist.

1:28.3

Oh, so then when you decided to no longer have the colored hair, what were you declaring to

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