Hi, friends, and welcome back to another episode of the Dreambigger podcast. I'm your host

Siff and I'm the founder for Ray. Last week's episode was with Baba, an extremely inspiring entrepreneur

and today I have another female force joining me. I'm talking

about none other than Shea Marie, one of the OG content creators who was doing her thing

way before the term influencer was even coined. I'm talking like 2013 before being a blogger was a cool,

coveted career option. But aside from being a trailblazer in the

digital space, Shea is also a startup founder. She's actually founded two brands, same a swimwear brand,

and the feelist, a clean skin care and body care brand. I loved chatting with Shea because her and I had

a lot of similar philosophies when it comes to running our brands,

which you're going to hear about on today's episode. I'm super excited to dive in, so let's get right

into it. So let's start from the beginning. I feel like you're an OG in the influencer space.

So at what point did you start creating content and what

made you really decide to start? Yeah. So, I mean, we're like we're going back like over a decade,

you know, at this point. And I grew up in a small town and I moved to Los Angeles after college

and I didn't know anyone.

I didn't have any connections or any ins and I feel like LA is all about who you know.

So I literally like I couldn't even get an internship in fashion.

And you know, you think of it as like, how can you not find, you know, a place to work for free, right?

And so I was basically just working at a bar at night to pay rent

and I was living in an apartment, a two-bedroom apartment with four girls, just trying to make it

work. And I'm trying to think of a way, like, how can I find a way to even potentially, you know,

get an internship or a job without like having any contacts and this was

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