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Hey, it's Mariana. I'm an influencer and co-founder of Summer Fridays and this is the

Life with Mariana podcast. In this episode, I'm joined by Rachel Parcell. She is one of the

original bloggers. She has been doing this for over a decade. So she's got such great advice for

you about using affiliate links, how to get more engagement, and how she balances being a mom

while running a business because she is a mom of three. She also has her own brand that is

available on her website as well as Nordstrom. So listen to Rachel as she shares some branding and

marketing tips, some best practices that she uses to schedule her life, and how she stays passionate

about content creation. And be sure to subscribe to my podcast. I've got new episodes every Tuesday,

and if you're loving it, leave me a rating and review. And while you're listening to the episode,

if you find it entertaining or motivating at all, I would love if you could just share the

episode with one person. Now let's hear from Rachel. So I've been following you for so long, but I

don't even think I know when you started your blog or what you were doing before you started it.

Yeah, so I started my blog in 2010. I was engaged to my now husband, and I wanted to start it as a

journal to document my first year of marriage. And I had never heard of like a fashion blog or

influencer. It was really just for like my friends and family. And for myself, just to journal and

remember like this special time in my life. And so I started it. I had no idea what was in store.

And you could say I was I was pretty naive when I started this online journal that has

become this whole thing that I had I just I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

It's so crazy because now you've built such an amazing career. You're really like one of the first

bloggers, and it was really happening by accident. So at the time, what was it that you that made

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