Hi, welcome to Cheers. I'm your host, Avery Woods.

Hi, Jane. Hi. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm so good. Thank you for being here.

Of course. Thanks for having me. Do you remember how we first met?

Do you? Of course. I 100% remember. You do? Yeah. I literally told Jazzy. I said I was with Emily. I think we were at the mall somewhere in Scottsville. No, we were at Gilbert. We were at Joyride. Getting tacos. Tacos. Okay. We were getting tacos. You stopped me and you said, you stopped us and you said,

I am a chef. I'm a holistic chef. I want to make it on social media. I immediately pulled out my

phone and followed you. Yeah. You had like, you guys were like my very first followers. Oh. Like I had

probably a thousand followers at the point. I remember you were obviously a smaller creator and like getting started up, but we've all been there.

And I remember in like a year just watching you completely blow up.

And I was like, this girl is going to be so big.

And I remember I told you when I met you because I saw our content, I was like, your quality is so good. Because you were asking advice. You were like, how do I grow on TikTok? How do I make it on social media? Like I want to grow my business as a chef, but I also want to do influencing. And look at you. I know. It's crazy. Like the biggest, I feel like such a proud mom because the biggest moment that I was like, holy shit, she's literally doing exactly what she wanted was when you messaged me about signing with Smith and St.

Yeah. And I rave about my management. Like I have recruited so many of my friends. Like my inside joke is I'm like Smith and Saints recruiter because I have

gotten so many of my friends to sign with Smith and Saint because I'm like genuinely they are

the best thing that's ever happened to me 100% change my life best management like I have been

approached by so many different management companies that would consider themselves like the best

or the biggest and I refuse to leave my

boutique agency because they are so tailored to us it's so tailored to us and sponsored by smith

and saint yeah right and we're like hashtag sponsored by smith and saint but here's my thing I think that

it's a little bit of a misconception when you sign with a huge management team or company that

has this huge reputation, which I think is incredible and can bring you great opportunities.

But when you have a small team that is only managing a smaller amount of people, you have

such an intimate connection with them.

Like my team at Smith & St. is literally my family.

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