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Hey everyone, it's Tiffany and welcome to another episode of Raise Your Hands Say Yes.

I am super excited for this week's interview because it was an interview that came along very

organically.

I'll tell you about that in a minute.

But it's addressing something that I think all of us live with and struggle with,

which is social media, social media comparison syndrome.

And also the bigger question of how can we as creatives use social media to build relationships

with other like-minded people. I know that for a lot of us, we feel like we're living a double

life. Like we've got sort of our real life and then our creative worlds or our online business worlds or the

worlds of people who we see who are like us and it's not always the same people that we're

sitting down at the dinner table with which is fine and so social media can be a really really

useful tool but at the same time, you know, it also studies have shown that social media makes us lonely.

And then I think that what happens, right, is the more lonely we feel, the more we try to find connection via social media, but it only leaves us

feeling more lonely, and we're spinning in circles. So I am interviewing Jamie Myers today,

and Jamie is a social media strategist, an expert on Instagram, and a teacher about how to really

use Instagram and a harness Instagram for your platform, but also

the main underlying current throughout all of her work is really about how to use Instagram

specifically as a platform to build relationships and highlight the work that you do or highlight

your life in a way that is authentic and also

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