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. I'm actually so excited for today's episode because Emily and I met at an event

that was like, everyone was so quiet. And we were like, are we the personality hires of this event? And we never met. No. We'd never met. And we were like, okay, well, let's be the fun ones at this event. And we keyheed the entire time. And we've been friends ever since. I, you were, you were truly on the right. This is a couple years ago. You were very much on the rise on TikTok on Instagram. Things were sort of taking off for you. And I was like, I don't know who you are. I just thought you were like, you must be like a beauty creator or something. And then I found out you do so much more. I think this conversation today is going to be so perfect for the beginning of the year because a lot of people are looking at their lives, they're assessing their careers, they're assessing their life, what they want to be doing. So please welcome everybody, Emily the recruiter. Thank you for having me. Also throwback to our cute little date that was basically just us hanging out at a work event. That really was just you and I having a good time on a couch. That was like our first date. It was a blind date.

We didn't know each other. And we just had the best time. The best of times. And we had an NDA so we couldn't take pictures. We were all secretly in this room learning about these products. And then where but like during this, because we did have an end day, I can't talk about it. I don't know if we can or not. So we're just not going to risk it. I think it's not worth it. So we're

learning about all these things,

but like they needed volunteers. Who's the volunteers? Emily and Sarah. We were just, we were just

in there having having the time. And it was a lot of fun. And I was like I, you know, going into,

people don't realize like going into influencer spaces, I still to this day, it's been 17 years, but took a long time before I got invited to anything. And then you go and like people either really know each other or they're new to that space and they're shy, but it just makes everyone seem like they're all over. And then if people know each other, then they cling to that person they know. And so when you come into these rooms where you're like,

you look around, you're like, I do not know a single soul here. It's really intimidating. And so

I have always tried to like find people that also don't know anybody else and like do our best.

But in that day, in that room,

there was like nobody really knew each other. It was totally like, and I also think because of

what the NDA product was, wow, like they should have sent us some to talk about. They,

they had such a diverse group of creators that like niches didn't intersect. And everyone was,

you know, it's a natural feeling to be a little bit anxious. Like the way you feel networking with strangers, imagine that except there's cameras. Like it is a little bit uncomfortable. So we clung to the right gals. We had a good old fashioned time. And we made the most of it. And I have genuinely, I just think your energy was so perfect for a space like that.

And I was like in these spaces and a lot of times you come into them and you, I don't think people are intentionally rude. I don't think that they're trying to be that way. I think a lot of us are just, we can be so extroverted. I'm, I'm like that all the way through. And I've learned along the way a lot of people this is their outlet being a creator is like an outlet for being an extrovert

but extrovert, extravert. Am I, why am I glitching? No, I think that's correct. Extrovert is when you get energy from meeting people. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes. Yes. So I really think like a lot of people go into those spaces and you don't realize that there's a lot of people who are incredibly introverted

and they're just very good at being introverted online. There's no... really think like a lot of people go into those spaces and you don't realize that there's a lot of

people who are incredibly introverted and they're just very good at being introverted online.

There's nothing wrong with that.

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