Oh, hello, I'm Lexi Lombard, a host of the Lexi podcast, and a wise woman once told me when it comes to your career, bite off more than you can chew, and then learn to chew faster.

And I am trying. In the last year, I have taken on posting vlogs regularly on YouTube,

so that's a weekly post as well as weekly podcast episodes. I have a coloring book that's out

and I want to promote. I'm working at a boutique. There was a little blip in there where I was

working for a matchmaker. I will discuss how that came together and also fell apart very quickly.

And trying to maintain consistent posting on social media, daily TikToks, at least three

times a week on Instagram, be politically involved and informed and

an activist for women's rights, and be a part of a writer's club that meets twice a month and

compose a book of 12 essays to publish. And that's a lot because I don't have a partner, I will say,

I worked with someone on the coloring book.

But everything else is really a one-man show.

And I think that's because when I began my career, it actually began on social media.

I don't know if you know this, but I fell into this social media occupation as a form of income and as my livelihood. When I was a teenager,

I had a YouTube channel when I was in eighth grade and I continued that all through high school,

saved up enough money, deferred college, went to L.A., took a couple years, and then ended up

moving to New York, going to school,

working, and was there until the pandemic happened. And now I'm back in Los Angeles. But this

entire time, I've been supporting myself fully with social media. Now, ever since the pandemic,

social media has changed dramatically. One, we have even more people than ever, but it's

also an influx of new creators that have

gotten themselves to a posting schedule that's fairly hard to maintain, I would say. I don't know

if I actually have things of value to say every single day and it's taking a lot of forethought,

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