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You're listening to Off the Vine with Caitlin Bristow.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome to Off the Vine.

I'm your host, Caitlin Bristow, and today we talk about self-worth,

patterns, confidence, and being your own best friend. And today's guest is not here to sugarcoat

anything. I love him online. Misha Brown, I always see his stuff pop up on my for you page.

He's one of those guys that I'm like, am I following him or is he just that popular online that the algorithm always pumps out his content to me? But I get to sit down with him, bestselling author, performer, and the internet's brutally honest best friend. I think he goes by your bestie. Now he switched his handles a couple of time on Instagram. I believe he's your bestie, Misha, on Instagram, TikTok, all the things. You've probably seen his viral lessons in not crossing a gay man videos, but behind is a very much deeper story. His new book, Be Your Own Bestie, A No Nonsense Guide to Changing the Way You Treat Yourself is exactly what it sounds like, and we're getting into all of it today. And this is going to be

one of those episodes where you feel like you're just sitting down with your besties. So let's welcome

Misha Brown to the podcast. I saw that you auditioned and did, no, did you do cruise ships? Oh,

forever. Okay. I can't wait to talk about this because so cruise ships to me are like my personal

hell, even though I've never been on one. But I also auditioned when I was younger to go so cruise ships to me are like my personal hell even though i've never been on one

but i also auditioned when i was younger to go on cruise ships to dance and i swear i would like

purposely bomb the auditions subconsciously i would because i was so scared of a cruise ship

but i i thought it was like my dream and then my girlfriend she like made it and she got on the cruise ship and she was like, it was hell. And I was like, okay, so I want to know your experience on cruise ships because. Yeah. First of all, what cruise line? I did a lot of different ones. Did. I did like the big ones and then like I worked my way up to working on like the Ritz Carlton of cruise ships. Yeah. A small luxury brand. Oh, that's cool. It's like 400, 350 passengers. Oh, sheik. Yeah. Okay. So that's a whole different ball game if you're doing like a little. I saw that four seasons just started doing a cruise ship. And Ritz Carlton. I said them, but they actually have one. That's so cool.

So then how did you get there?

Because it was probably like you have to work your way up.

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