I'm Ellen Pompeo. Welcome to Tell Me. Today I sat down with Tinks. You may know her from that app. I

never post videos on called TikTok. She's a Los Angeles-based content creator. Stand for graduate

also. I have to throw that in there. Her most popular videos are pop culture commentaries.

She loves to give us an inside look at her life. I love Tinks. We had a great conversation. We had

a lot of fun and we talked about what hard work looks like and what success looks like and I hope

you enjoy our conversation. Hi Tinks. Hi. Good morning. How are you? I'm good. How are you? So we

have to start with like you have to tell me where Tinks comes from. It's a really funny story. When

I was younger, I was actually not that confident and it bothered me. I wanted so desperately to be

confident like the other girls. So I was home for this summer and I watched this movie. It had

Jason Dunton it and it's a movie that not a lot of people have seen. I think it's called Strike.

And anyway, in it, there's this character called Tinker Parker and she's like the coolest girl. All

the boys love her. So when I came back to school that fall, I told my friends, you guys, I have an

alter ego now and her name is Tinker Parker. And when I'm her, I'm really confident and I'll say

anything and they're like, okay, it was kind of my Sasha Pierce moment and slowly but surely I

sort of just became her. And so Tinker Parker got shortened to Tinker, which got shortened to Tinks.

And so now it's been my nickname for 20 years. The moral of the story is sometimes you have to

fake it till you make it with confidence and that really does work. I tell myself that all the time

and I have an alter ego too. My assistant is named her San Jalina. San Jalina, I love that. Yes,

because San J Gupta did the podcast and sometimes I get so overwhelmed. Yeah. And I freak out

and I'm like, I'm doing too much in San J. He does so many things among them like brain surgery

once a week. Right. No big deal. No big deal. So I was like, how do you do brain surgery?

Beyond TV, write books, do podcasts, and you're literally the happiest man I've ever seen.

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