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

Hi, Victoria.

Hi. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. This is long-awaited.

I know. We were supposed to do this like a year ago, I think, and then our schedules just didn't line up. And I didn't live here. Thanks for having me. This is long waited. I know we were supposed to do this like a year

ago, I think, and then our schedules just didn't line up. And I didn't live here. So now we're here.

We're neighbors. Thanks for being on. I'm so happy to talk to you. We kind of chatted before this that

we have such like a weird crossover. I got the same car as you. Then I got the same watch as you. And we have a lot of the same audience, but we couldn't live like a more polar opposite life. I know. I was like thinking about it before bed last night. And I was like, if you were to ask me like when I'm like 15, like would I end up like this girl or this girl, I would say I'd end up like you. Like I could see myself totally like married with kids, like, you know, doing the whole thing. And I'm like, this, I don't know, I just could have seen myself becoming a lot like you. But you're your own person and you're thriving and I love watching it. I didn't follow you until you lived here in L.A. So I really want to like deep dive about your life and get to know you and how you got here

because I don't know that story.

What was growing up for you like, how did you get to New York?

How did you come to L.A.?

Yeah.

Walk me through it.

I grew up in New Jersey originally.

So I was in New jersey from like zero to 10

and then north carolina from 10 to 18 so that was interesting totally different um i always like

my mom was born and raised in the city my parents met living in the city like my mom grew up in

like the bronx queens like Puerto rican baddie like did her whole thing. Like, she loved it there.

And then my dad met, they both met interviewing for the same job. And so they always raised us like, you're going to go to the city. Like one day when like you become like successful or you graduate college, you're going to move to New York. And I wanted to go to New York for school straight out of high school. And my parents were like, no, that's not a place that you go to for college, like go have a traditional, like, four-year university. So I went to Indiana University for a year, and I hated it. I got so depressed. Like, I thought I wanted to be in a sorority. I got dropped from, like, every house. And so I decided to transfer to school in New York, and that is really what started my New York experience. Like I was living in New York for like three years before or four years before I started making videos. Where did you go to school in New York? The new school. Do you know like Parsons? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I grew up watching every episode of Project Romo in my entire life. My dad got me like a teal sewing machine and I would sew random swatches together while I watched Tim Gunn. Like, that's how I was raised. You've been an ally. I've been an ally for a long time. And so I always told myself, I was like, I'm going to live in New York one day and shop at Parsons. And yeah, I yeah it never worked out for me but I I see old

videos and like every time someone comes on the podcast I always kind of do my research or

look back at old videos and I found so many videos of you like on your balcony or showing what

you're wearing is that how you started making content so I started making content in the pandemic. So I was living in New York, like in my apartment. I was in my senior year of school. And like we weren't allowed to go back to school. I was working for a fintech startup. And that's what I was going to do after college. And then the startup went under because of the pandemic. And I had nothing going on. So I was like, fuck, I'm broke.

I have no prospects. I'm like, but I did have a popping depop. And I was like, deep pop had gotten really oversaturated at the point. And I was like, how do I get more people to my depop? And I'm like, what if I made TikToks? So I started making TikToks and they just took off. I got like a million followers in six months and my first brand deal paid off my student loans.

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