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Welcome to the Real Real, where I take you behind the Instagram reel and into the real lives of entrepreneurs, content creators, and anyone who inspires me and may inspire you too.

I'm your host, Natalie Barbooo and let's'm doing another solo episode

today's episode is all about my plan on being consistent on social media. I'm really trying to be more consistent and I'm hoping to use

this podcast not only to motivate myself and like hold myself accountable but also hopefully to motivate you guys because I know so many of you have a goal to kind of grow on

social media this year and so I want to show you guys what I'm doing and not only

as someone who you know my full-time income is to be a social media creator and I feel like I've kind of gone in and out of webs of consistency and motivation, but I've been at a place where I've been on like a high point, like where a lot of my videos have been doing really well, my content has been doing well, growing super, super quickly, gaining thousands of followers to a point right now where I feel like I'm at a lull where I'm like

trying to get back into it and kind of resetting in a way like obviously I'm not starting from

zero or anything like that but in a way I feel like I'm resetting a little bit or I feel like I'm kind of have to come up with a new strategy because social media that's the thing. It's always changing. People are always in and out of relevance and it's a revolving

door like you might have a bunch of followers or a bunch of subscribers but not

everyone that followed you five years ago is still following you today and then

today you're getting new

followers that you know weren't around a long time ago so you have to maintain the

people that have been with you for a while but then you also have to maintain how to

grow and reach a new audience because people are not going to be with you forever.

I mean if I look at people that I have been following for years, maybe I started following them a few years ago,

majority of those people I do not follow anymore or I do follow them but I never

interact with their content so I never see their content I don't interact with it it doesn't

come up on my page I'm not clicking on their YouTube videos I'm not watching their

TikTok and I think that just shows

the inconsistencies of social media and that's not a bad thing I don't say that in a

negative way I think a lot of people kind of like take things personally like it's like oh my

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