Reel Talk: Embracing Your 20’s & Trusting The Process with Ali Velas

Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Natalie Barbu

Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.8 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Episode 186: Do you ever take a moment to reflect back on your life and all the puzzle pieces that fell perfectly into place, leading you to exactly where you belong? This week, Natalie is sitting down with her dear friend and first-ever podcast guest, Ali Velas, to take a trip down memory lane and do just that. Ali updates us on her career path and the positive shifts in her life since the pandemic. The two swap notes on middle school trauma, body hair, and the desperate need for entrepreneurial courses in place of P.E. You’ll laugh, relate, and be reminded that you’re exactly where you are meant to be. Today’s episode dives into: How they met and details of the eventful backstory Ali’s professional background and the way COVID influenced her outlook on work The benefits and limitations of working for corporate vs. a small business Leaving a big city and the feelings that surround it Why taking the leap into entrepreneurship is scary in the best kind of way Embracing your youth and trusting that it all works out Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast community! Please be sure to rate, follow, review, and of course, post to your highlight reel. Follow your host Natalie on Instagram @nataliebarbu and @therealreelpodcast. Follow Ali @aliveras and check out @creativeavestudio Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible. Check out these deals just for you: SHOPIFY – Go to shopify.com/realreel to start your FREE trial and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast nation.
0:03.0	Nation. I think right to when you're still like in that discovery mode if you're in like an
0:14.2	entrepreneurial creative mindset mode try as much as you can so that you can actually figure out what you
0:18.9	like and don't like and where you want to be in life it's's just, I think it's a full circle moment
0:24.6	when you get to a spot like myself or Natalie where
0:27.4	this is just my opinion of, you know,
0:28.9	when you hit that moment of like, wow.
0:31.1	Like my life.
0:31.8	Yeah, like you were just saying, like all the pieces that the people I met the places I lived it all connected and you're like sitting here and you're looking back at the timeline and you're like whoa.
0:42.0	Welcome to the Real Rail where I take you behind the Instagram reel and into the real lives of
0:47.5	entrepreneurs, content creators, and anyone who inspires me and may inspire you too.
0:52.4	I'm your host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it. Hi Ali, thanks for coming on my podcast. Thanks for having me. I'm excited because you were my very first podcast guest ever, I think, right? I was the first or second. I think you were the second episode but the first guess yes so it was back in 2018 yes we were in
1:17.5	LA you had just moved there right yes yeah I had just yeah it was like a few months in. Yeah, yeah, that's insane because I feel like so
1:26.2	much has changed since then. A lot has changed since then. Like so much, like in both of our lives.
1:32.1	No one go back to that episode.
1:33.7	What were even talking about? I think just like my life in LA and I think my career at that time
1:39.7	which was very different from what it is now.
1:43.0	But it's like fashion.
1:44.3	Yeah, it was definitely fashion focus too.
1:46.4	And talking about like making the leap and moving across the country,
1:49.9	I think.
1:50.8	Yes, correct.
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