Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole,

and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom

or something like that. So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital

space together. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the show. I am so excited to be here today with one

of my favorite follows of the last couple years. And you know her as no ordinary noir. She is a

confidence queen and she has been known for making some of these videos and sound bites that really

hype you up. There's no other way to describe it. Please welcome Aching. Agu to the show. Thanks so

much for being here. Hi. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited. Okay, confession, because I was like, I know the big things that have gone on lately, but I did a quick little Google beforehand, and I found a clip of you on Ellen. Yeah. And I was like, this is not you. I was, that I had no idea that is, and that was like quite a while ago.

And I was like, I had no idea. It's so cool to see that you've like, I don't know, so much life stuff has happened. And that's like such a cool one. I thought that was awesome.

Yeah, that was many years ago. I was actually thinking about that earlier this morning. But, yeah, I was in Ellen and a lot of big girl things have happened since then. And here I am hanging out with you, Sarah, which is exciting. I know. I'm stoked. Now, you sort of, I don't know the point that I discovered you, but I'm sure it's the point that many, many people did. And I believe it was, for me, it was during the pandemic. And there was just this confidence,

pep talks that I feel like you were giving so many people who are going through a lot of just

body change or just really trying to hype themselves up in their bodies that they have now.

Talk to me about like the early, when did that sort of start?

Like when you started making that type of content, started becoming a content creator

and, you know, how it took off from there.

It started.

I don't know what I would say specifically started.

I have been doing social media since 2017.

So I had started a blog called Nournay Noir, and I was just posting sort of like my affinity

for life and travel and fashion and all these things that I wasn't interested in

in hopes that like somebody else would be like,

that's so cool. I want to read your blog every week. And so I started it like that and went into like a place where I was trying to juggle like work and school and being a creator and that was really

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