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The Papaya Podcast

The One About Loving The Body You Live In Right Now, Following Your Purpose and Becoming A Sports Illustrated Rookie with Achieng Agutu

The Papaya Podcast

The Papaya Podcast

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

From Fashion blogger to Sports Illustrated Swim Rookie, Achieng is ready to pump us all up with her wisdom, infectious joy and the way to live and love yourself RIGHT NOW TODAY. She shares her swim search journey and how we can all be more gentle with ourselves, because we’re human and this is our first time doing the dang thing, too. This is the kind of episode that just may change the very way you see yourself and how you live your life!

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0:00.0

Hi friends and welcome to the Papaya podcast. I'm your hostess

0:08.3

trying her mostest 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.

0:18.0

So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real because we are all in this digital space together.

0:25.0

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the show.

0:30.5

I am so excited to be here today with one of my favorite follows of the last couple

0:34.7

years and you might know her as no ordinary noir. She is a confidence queen and she has

0:42.1

been known for making some of these videos and sound bites that really hype you up. There's no other way to describe it.

0:48.0

Please welcome, Aaching a go to to the show. Thanks so much for being here. Hi, thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited.

0:56.7

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.

1:06.9

Yeah. And I was like, this is not yet. 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 excited.

1:35.8

I know I'm stoked. Now you sort of I don't I don't know the point that I discovered you but I'm sure it's the point that many, many people did.

1:44.0

And I believe it was during, for me, it was during the pandemic and there was just this confidence,

1:51.0

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.

2:01.0

Talk to me about the early,

2:03.7

when did that sort of start,

2:05.1

like when you started making that type of content,

2:08.0

started becoming a content creator

2:09.6

and you know how it took off from there.

2:19.5

Hit started. you know how it took off from there? It started, I don't know what I would say, like specifically started, I have been doing social media since 2017, so I had started a blog called Norna Noy Noir and I was just posting sort of like my affinity for like life and travel and fashion and all these things that I wasn't interested in in hopes that like somebody else

2:33.6

would be like that's so cool I want to read your blog every week and so I

2:37.0

started it like that and went into like a place I was trying to juggle like work and school and being a creator and that was really hard.

2:47.0

But then the pandemic happened where like everyone was home, like trying to figure out how to make like whipped coffee and banana bread and dance on

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