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844 305 Andy that's 844 305 2639. Good morning. Happy Wednesday. What's the vibe today vibe checking with everyone. I hope it's a good day. I did my first live show. It was it was amazing. I loved meeting you all so much. I love just being in the same room as you all. It was hey listen. It needs some tweaks needs some fixing, but it was the first one. The first the longest journeys begin.

I'm going to begin with a thousand way that I totally fuck that up. You know what I mean the longest journeys begin with a single step. So thank you to everyone who came out to Austin my Austin show being part of that single step. I did the keynote at create and cultivate the next day and they were asking me, you know, about being a creator. What do I what do I think what do I want to do. What are my big projects this year and I was like being in the same room as people. Being in the same room as the people who I care about.

I care about and my community and my followers and it just feels so good to do things in real life and the more that I think about it and the more that I experience in real life things the more I'm like wow I love my phone. I love the platforms that it's given me I love you know social media and it's various forms.

You know here and there but I love in real life things it just it invigorates me in a way you know when you're like in a K home K hole with your phone you're just like on the couch and you're so deep in Instagram and then you come up and you're like whoa I just spent an hour and 15 minutes on Instagram you feel like a little bit drained.

I feel the opposite way when I come out of hanging out with people in real life so when I leave a rich mom walk or when I leave the live show I feel like I took a I feel like I just came out of the cold plunge when I do in real life stuff and I think everybody else does to I don't think it's about performing I don't think it's about being on stage at all I think it's just about doing things together and I just really enjoy that I'm not even talking in a post pandemic way I'm talking in a not being on our phones alone.

In our houses way so I loved it my huge thanks to everyone who came and you guys were all so nice to me everyone who I met was like oh my god don't be nervous like you guys were all being so funny everyone was drinking dirty shurlies at the show I haven't had a dirty Shirley since college if you don't know what that is it's a surely temple with vodka in it and the good thing about it is that you do not taste the vodka and the bad thing about it is you do not taste the vodka so you're like this is delicious and then all the sudden you're like

plastered I had some drinks on Friday night okay as you know I haven't been drinking but after my show I was so invigorated we went to my favorite restaurant

Abba or one of them I mean every restaurant is in Austin is amazing but we went to Abba and I had like two drinks of course I was like a little hungover I'm I'm such a weakling now you guys I had fun Daisy actually came out for the show and I was of course with Sabah and Sathy and Jen

and some other friends so it was just it was a magical night and I loved it so much you know it's always tricky when you go to a place that you love you want to try new things but you also just want to you also just want to go to the places you love so I actually went to Abba twice it's so good it's so good also into loodies which is again one of my favorite restaurants ever okay enough about my love of Abba let's talk to Ali hi Ali how are you

oh my god hi I did not think I was gonna get three I'm so glad you did I'm glad you know what's going on I'm actually I'm a junior in college I'm 21 and I'm studying abroad right now which is fantastic and I'm having a great time I'm actually calling because I'm currently on the hunt for an internship and I'm having like so much self-doubt about like you know not

being good enough I'm a marketing major and I feel like it's so unbelievably competitive and I just like I don't know I feel like I'm getting so much more rejection than like acceptance emails obviously and it's just like a lot of self-doubt and I'm like trying to enjoy my time abroad but also like focusing on my future yeah of course wait where are you abroad did you say I'm in Florence Italy oh my god how divine is that that is so fantastic

leave your task it all of my friends who went to Florence they just like came back and they were obsessed with it in a way that was like insane they loved it so much they had the best time two of my friends like became amateur chefs after that after going to Florence they just loved it okay well I'm glad you're having a good time

thank you so a couple thoughts first of all it being rejected is tough like there's no there's no like mantra well there is a mantra for that rejection is a redirection so I take that back but like getting 10 emails saying no you didn't get that internship it's not nice like it it does knock your confidence you do kind of start to doubt yourself and I and I get that and I've been there and I

I remember applying for internships and I remember applying for jobs and it's just a very arduous process because you're like I don't know like you they ask you to write a cover letter and you're like what do you mean write a cover letter of course I want to work for you I mean I don't know what to say in a cover letter like they all look the same like I remember spiraling about just that and so first of all I just want to validate you and acknowledge you like it's an annoying process like for sure

secondly marketing is very competitive it's really competitive like a lot of people want to go into it and it's there's no two ways to put it it's just a very competitive field and especially for I'm sure the types of internships that you're going there's a lot of people so the odds are the odds are tough and it's like again good to acknowledge that and remember this isn't a personal thing like I I truly truly wish that I had internalized that earlier like most of the time

they're not sitting there thinking like oh Ali is not good enough like most of the time they're not seeing your email or they already picked someone or their friends kid got the internship instead it's it's one of those things more likely than it is that you're not good enough you know what I mean

yeah and then the final thing I'll say is that I know it feels like a massive deal right now and it and it is it's and I'm proud of you for trying so hard and I'm proud of you for

for being stressed about it because it means that you care but also you will find something and it will be okay like even if it's not your first twice

you will get an internship and it and it will be okay and I I loved question mark my internships for the summers like I worked hard but it's they they didn't shape me in any major way

I'm sure all the career counselors out there like what the fucktinks this is terrible advice

but I'm trying to just take the pressure off a little because I know it can feel like the biggest deal in the world when you're in it and you're like if I don't get this internship I'm never gonna get a job and it's like dude the job landscape right now is tough like we all just need to hold hands and acknowledge that things are tough right now especially for marketing and other such fields so it will be okay try not to take it personally don't internalize the rejection and just keep going

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