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If you've ever worked on a home, you know, it just gets extended and extended and comes up and now we have to replace our roof and all the things are happening. So thank God for Mama Deb because she's our neighbor sl very close family friend. The day that we're recording this, it's August 1st. We're supposed to move in August 30th, so T minus 29 days. Really hoping and praying on that date that we can move into our new home. But for now our family is at Deb's house so. So we are very cozy in bed because I'm not gonna lie. I'm looking at absolute chaos. I'm living out of laundry baskets. That's not an exaggeration. All of my is folded in laundry baskets because, to be honest with you, I'm not unpacking all this and then in 29 days, repacking it and moving down the street. That's crazy. So there's a lot going on, but I really, really wanted to do this episode. I have a list of ideas that I want to talk to you guys about on the podcast for solo episodes in my not different things that have come up that you guys have been asking about or just randomly late at night. I'll just think about topics that I want to talk about with you guys. And this was one of them. And it is all about glowing up. I turned 30 this year, and I truly do not feel like I've ever looked better. And everyone talks about how old I look on social media. I really don't care because I feel like I am the healthiest, happiest version of myself, that it really doesn't affect me what they say because I just feel so good in my own skin. And glowing up isn't always about the way you look physically. A lot of it is in here. It's internal. And if you don't feel confident and satisfied with your life and the way that things are going, then you're gonna physically look like that. And I feel like it wasn't until I really came into myself turning 30 and actually started cutting out a lot of things in my life was when I started to look so much better. And I see your guys's comments where you're like, well, actually, I don't really see your comments, which we'll talk about that in a little bit. But Scott's like, everyone's saying, girl, you are glowing. You are radiating. You look so happy. And I want to talk about how I got to this phase in my life because I'm not saying like, oh my God, I look so hot. And I'm going to tell you how I look that hot. I don't know. That's not how I feel. It's. I've just made little tweaks in my life and my lifestyle that has really brought out the best version of myself. And I don't think I've ever felt so happy and content. And I want to talk about it. So I have a little notes folder up on my phone that I've been jotting down some things because, you know, I feel like I just learn something new every Day either about myself or about life in general or what my body likes, what my body doesn't like. And I am still a work in progress. I'm a human. I'm living on this earth for the first time. First thing I want to talk about is less is more. And it's actually so funny because I started getting work done when I was very, very young. I told you guys, I started getting lip filler when I was 21, and that was because I have a dog bite scar. So I got attacked by Chocolate Lab when I was 7 years old by one of my very close friends. Dog that I grew up around. And it was just a freak thing. It bit me twice. And I have a lot of scarring, including my right cupid's bow has a big gash in it and it's not as pronounced as the left side of my cupid's bow. So I started getting lip filler to kind of flip my lip up and cover that area. And then it just got out of control. You know, I even look back to when I first got lip filler and they were so lumpy and uneven. But I was so naive and I was just happy to have big ass DSLs that I didn't care. But, you know, you live and you learn, and then here's what happened. I just started adding on top of that. I never got my lips dissolved and started over. And let me tell you, there is nothing wrong with getting lip filler. There's actually so many people that I see get lip filler and I'm like, wow, you look incredible. I am such an advocate for getting work done. If you feel like there's a part of your body or face or whatever that you want changed and that keeps you up at night and that you're like, if this one thing was different about myself, I would feel so much more confident. I am in your corner applauding you, telling you get whatever done that you need to get done. And there's so much work I've had done on my face and my body that I'm so thrilled about. But there's other stuff that I look back and I'm like, girl, what the were you thinking? And lip filler was one of those things. Now here's the thing. I am a nurse, technically, still, and you can't take that away from me. K, quit saying I used to be a nurse. Technically, I still am. I just don't work as a nurse. But I'm going to keep those letters after my last name active as long as I can. Okay. I had the worst lip filler blindness. Oh, my God. Sometimes old videos for my tik tok will pop up where I'm getting ready. And I said, how did you even close your mouth? I. I literally had built in flotation devices in my face where I could just bob in the water because my lips are so filled. Who let me do that? I just want to know who. Who let me do that? And I would fucking block people left and right for commenting. You have too much filler. Your lips are out of control. I was like, you know what? Go fuck yourself. Because I probably knew, but look at me now. It's okay. You know what is better than lip filler over lining your lips? And that's what I do every fucking day. Do you see how high my lip liner is going right now? Yeah. You'd never know that I didn't have lip filler because it's make it forever wherever walnut. So stop doing lip filler. I also stopped freezing the out of my face with Botox. That's probably why people say I look old. But to be honest, I just don't care. I don't care anymore. And everyone says I'm cuter in person anyway, so to all you haters, go yourself. No, but I really do love Botox because where my next segment's gonna go is everything in moderation. It's okay. It's okay to get work done. It's okay to get filler and Botox, but just don't go overboard, you know? Like, my lips look like they were stung by a million bees. I couldn't smile at my kids without looking like a crazy person because I couldn't move my face. And I'm an advocate for Botox when it comes to the longevity in your skin, fine lines and wrinkles, and having a little bit of that glow, you know, like that beautiful skin glow. That's why I get Botox. But I don't need 100 units in my face. I was, like, out of control. And there's a fine line between a little bit of sprinkle prevention and then taking it overboard. I was taking it overboard. Okay? So the less is more has really helped me and my glow up. Less is more meaningful. My filler in my face has all been dissolved. I'm getting Botox only about every six months right now, and it's a much smaller amount of units of Botox. Summer's winding down, and whether your kids are just soaking up the last few weeks or already asking when school starts, this is the perfect time to Ease back into learning with IXL IXL is an award winning online learning platform that helps kids truly understand what they're learning through fun, engaging and personalized content. 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Tap the Double Date icon to see your profiles built for two. When two pairs match, the group chat kicks off. Scope the profile, send memes, keep the chat fun, hype each other up, flirt a little, maybe plan a hang. It's always better when you're in it together. Try the new Tinder Double Date. Explore all the possibilities. Tinder. It starts with a swipe. Download Tinder today. And also, I feel like anytime I was really unhappy with myself or going through a hard time, I was always wanting to do a quick change. Chop my hair, dye it, get some plastic surgery. Which don't get me wrong, there's a couple procedures I'll talk about that really did help me in my confidence, which then helped me glow up. But the less is more approach has really helped simplify my life and also given me a newfound confidence that I didn't think I would ever have. Because don't get me wrong, after 10 years of my lips being incredibly overfilled, I was really worried when I dissolved them because I was like, what the fuck are these spermy looking wrinkly ass lips? But I got used to them and now I can't even imagine going back to how filled my lips were. You couldn't even see my teeth. I got braces at 14. I love my teeth. Why? What's the point? What's the point of even trying to smile with teeth? Because you can only see half my teeth. People now will ask me, did you get veneers? I'm like, no, I just. You can see my smile now. It's actually crazy. So lip filler blindness was really off the charts and we're on a natural path. All right. The other part of my less is more segment that I want to talk about is skin care. You guys know skincare is my Love language. I love skincare. I feel very educated on skincare. Just coming from esthetic nursing. I. It just like fascinates me and the science behind it. I just used to buy all that fucking product in skincare, no matter what it was. But do you know what I stopped doing recently that has made my skin so incredible? Like even you guys have noticed. You're like, what the fuck are you putting on your skin? I stopped washing my face in the morning. Less is more. I'm telling you, I for years, like since I was pregnant with Ziggy and I started using my cleanser morning and night, no matter what was going on, I washed my face, which for some people it works. And if it's working for you, don't, don't, don't fix when I'm broken, you know what I'm saying? But I stopped washing my face in the morning and only started washing it at night. In the morning I just use my Medicube exfoliating pads. You know what I think it is is I think I was overstripping the natural oils of my skin and now I have such a beautiful natural glow by using so many less products. And, and I also think it has to do with not over washing my face. And again, I don't have very acne prone skin. So if you have acne prone skin and washing your face morning and night works for you, please do not let me stop you. But I was always in my head like, if I don't wash my face morning and night, I'm going to have the worst breakouts. It's going to be so bad. My pigmentation is going to be horrible. No, it's not the case. Less is more. I stopped doing my filler all over my face because don't get me wrong guys, I did not just lip filler, I did cheek and chin filler as well. That's all gone. Stop doing as much Botox and stop washing my face in the morning. And I feel like my face has never looked younger. The haters would disagree, but it's okay. They're just mad because they're not cute. Another thing I want to talk about that really helped me glow up is my environmental change. I think it is so important what you surround yourself with and who you surround yourself by. And it's so funny because Scott will tell me about comments saying like, you've never looked happier, you're glowing. You seem so much happier being in California. And honestly, it's true, I feel like Arizona became so suffocating to me. I feel like the environment became so toxic and suffocating and I was also surrounded by so many negative memories that even when I go visit, it's hard for me. It's hard for me as soon as my plane lands in Arizona because I feel tied to so many negative things. And don't get me wrong, not everyone has a luxury to leave. Or you could be stuck in a place because your family's there. And family is the most important thing in the world. So I completely understand not being able to leave. But if you have the opportunity to escape your environment that you're feeling suffocated by, it can help boost your life in ways that I cannot even explain to you. And if you don't have the option to move permanently, even trying to get a little bit out of your town or your city, or go on a week vacation if you're able to, it has completely changed my life. Being out of a toxic environment. It's made me a more present, happy mom. It's given me a new sense of purpose. It's given me a new routine that I was stuck in. I was stuck in such a negative, toxic routine. And I will say to the weather, the weather was killing me, you guys. And again, like, I get it. We moved to Arizona in 2019 when we didn't have a lot of money because it was a really cheap place to move to. Not anymore. House prices in Arizona have really gotten insane because so many people are going there. But when we didn't have that opportunity, like, we just had to suffer through the summers when, you know, May through August, it's triple digits. It was hard for me not being able to go outside and go out on the boat because it's too hot or you can even swim for a long period of time because it was so warm outside. And also, as an active mom, I like to take my kids out and about and do things with them. And I just felt like I couldn't leave the air conditioning and it was really taking a toll on me. So I feel like leaving that really negative environment for me that was just filled with a lot of really hard times in my life changed my life completely. Another thing that has helped me with my glow up phase of life is cutting out toxicity. And that's in so many different ways. Number one, social media, I get it. It's my job, okay? I'm so fucking grateful for social media has completely changed my life, my career, my kids lives, everyone around me in a positive way. But social media is so toxic and it has become More and more toxic as the days go on. It's really crazy how negative it can be. And back in February, I stopped scrolling on my for you page. I stopped reading my comments, I stopped checking my DMs. I scroll on Instagram because my Instagram feed is just like, obviously people you followed, which is mostly my friends. But I will not go on the Explore page. I do not do the TikTok for you page. I haven't scrolled my TikTok for you page in a solid six months. I think it's so toxic. Every other video I would see is some, some person talking about me. Some person saying that, you know who I can't stand? Avery Woods. Do you know who pisses me off? Avery Woods. It's like you have. You don't even know who I am. You haven't even met me. And every time I would see a video like that, it would ruin my entire day. It would put me in such a negative headspace. And then I got to asking myself, I'm sorry. The only reason people leave hate comments or make videos is, is to a get attention off the hate that's fueled from my name, which makes me laugh. Because they want views, because they want money from social media and you get money by brands working with you. And brands don't want to work with bullies. So I don't know why they're wasting their time. But their only goal is for me to see it. They want me to see how much they hate me, what they don't like about me. And I said, the biggest you I could give to those people is just not watching the content. So I stopped watching it six months ago. I don't know what anyone's saying about me, and I really don't give a anymore. And that has completely changed my life. Thank God for Scott. Scott helps me with commenting and keeping me updated on what's trending because if I don't know what's trending on Tick Tock, I don't know what videos to make. So he'll send me funny videos and stuff because I. I still love doing it. The only thing that makes me sad about it is that I feel like I lost that interaction with a lot of you. And that was something that brought me so much joy. But I feel like my OG followers and supporters will be supportive of the fact that I took a step back from that because they know how much it affected my mental health. And as strong of a person as I am, I never thought social media would affect my mental health as Much as it has, but it really, really has. And cutting that toxicity out of my life has given me so much more happiness and has taught me to just live in the moment. Because if you're running down that rabbit hole of scrolling, it can take your entire day. And I'm like, girl, look up from your phone. And since I started doing that and living in the moment, it has given me an immense amount of joy. Staying on the same topic of toxicity, why do you have negative people in your life? Cut it out. They gotta go. Like, who you surround yourself with is so important. And if you have toxic people in your life, same with the toxic environment like I talked about, it's gotta go. And once that's cut out, you will feel an immense amount of freedom. And it, it can be really hard. Don't get me wrong. Like, it can be very hard to cut people out that are toxic because like me, I'm an empath. I feel bad. It's hard for me to do that. But once you do and you start to move on with your life without them, you will feel such a weight lifted off your shoulders and feel like you can truly live for yourself again. You want people that are surrounding you, that are going to lift you up and support you no matter what. And if you get even an inkling that someone is not doing that for you, they've gotta go. I got to a point where I was like, how many chances am I going to give these people? How many, how many is it going to take? Because when it starts to trickle into affecting my kids, I won't have that. And I did not grow up with it easy. You know, there was a lot of really bad hardships in my family, especially when it came to relationships. And, and I remember specific memories with specific people. And I remember telling myself growing up, I will never allow something like this to happen with my kids. Comparison is a thief of joy. I've talked about that a million times. And that also kind of ties in with social media. But if you are playing the comparison game, you're setting yourself up for failure. You cannot do it anymore. And trust me, as a girl that was in my 20s for the last 10 years, I get it. It's impossible not to compare yourself, not just with people on social media, but everyone around you. Especially now being in la, I'm like, God, everyone here is so hot and tiny. And I just, I'm just, I'm at the point where I'm like, why am I having all these unrealistic expectations for myself? I'm Setting myself up for complete failure. And the second you realize that you are beautiful in your own way and that what makes you different from everyone else is just being yourself and being you and who you look like and who you are and how you act and what job you work, that's what makes you beautiful. And stopping the comparison game in my head has helped me immensely because I truly feel like you glow from within and when you have that self confidence, you glow from it. And when I stopped comparing myself is when I was like, oh, wow, I feel so much more myself and I feel so much prettier. But from the inside out. Another thing that I have recently done is enjoying my wins. I feel like putting my phone down and living in the moment, enjoying what I have worked so hard for has really changed my life. And especially working on social media, I always set the next goal right? I would hit something, then I was like, I need more. More followers, more brand deals, more money, more views. It's not important. And I also feel like the second I stopped overdoing it to hit the next goal was when my success started rising higher and higher. And this doesn't just have to do with social media. It can be anything in life, right? Like there's always another goal to hit. There's another expectation you need to meet and you just gotta enjoy your life. Like put your phone down, enjoy your life, enjoy where you are. Think about where you used to be and where you are today because you deserve to celebrate that. Everyone deserves to celebrate that consistency and routine. Now. This also kind of ties in with the environment. I feel like I couldn't get in a good routine in Arizona because I didn't want to leave my house because I was terrified of who I'd run into. Because I feel like I was just surrounded by so much toxicity. But being here and creating a new consistent routine has been so eye opening. You just need to be consistent and give yourself time and grace because you will see slow changes over a long period of time. And that's what I've done with Pilates. It's been two years and I feel like I'm finally now feeling confident in myself post baby. And when I say post baby, I'm saying Stevie turned four in May, so it's been four years since I gave birth. But I feel like that has helped me so much with my glow. Up is just finding a routine and a workout that works for me. And it's not just in order to change. My physical appearance has nothing to do with that for me. It's endorphins. Like when I'm in my routine and I'm consistently working out, I feel so much better. I glow a different way. I have more energy throughout the day to get things done or do things for myself. And I feel like that is what has helped me glow up. This one's from my good friend Jackie Aina, who I love so much. But she had great advice. And honestly, I took this advice probably six months ago, but she just reminded me recently, stop interacting with people that don't like you. Why the fuck are you doing it? There is no reason to interact with people that don't like you. And if you're interacting with people that you think are secret haters, they already have their minds made up about you. Why are you wasting your time talking with them? And if they're secret haters and every time you win or want to celebrate a small win and they're pulling you down, that tells me that they've already made up their mind about you. Why are you interacting with them? You need to cut them out of your life. And again, it's more toxicity that has got to go. Stop interacting with people you don't like. Which is another reason why I don't look at my comments. I don't look at my mentions. I don't scroll my for you page. I don't look at my DMS because I would start to interact with people that don't like me, that already have their mind made up about me even though they've never met me. To me, that's embarrassing for them. Them. It's embarrassing for them. They don't know who you are as a person. But if it's people in your personal life especially and they're being little secret haters, they're mad. They're so mad and they're so jealous. And they can't celebrate you and support you for what you're doing in your life. They don't deserve you. They've got to go. This is an ad by BetterHelp. I've told you guys a million times over that therapy has truly changed my life. And before I started therapy, I always had some sort of excuse of why I couldn't attend therapy. And it usually had to do with my busy schedule. These days it feels like there's advice for everything. Cold plunges, gratitude journals, screen detoxes. But how do you know what actually works for you? 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And my hesitation with it was, well, one, I couldn't afford a nose job for a very long time, but two, I just want it to look natural because it's the center of my face. And I was so terrified to have a botched nose job. We've seen it over and over again. It's fucking scary. And again, it's the center of your face. And once you up a nose, it's really hard to fix it because you got to start taking cartilage from other places. It gets really messy. So getting a nose job was one of the best decisions I've ever made for not just my confidence, but my glow up. And I'm not saying I was ugly with my prior nose, I never thought that way, but it just gave me such a confidence. It just made me feel like I was glowing and made me feel so much prettier because, again, it's the center of your face. And every time I was turning in any angle and I do work on my phone, I record myself. That's literally what I do for a living. And I don't have an editor I edit all my own things. I do it all myself. And every single time I turn my face, it really bothered me. That's actually why I got my septum pierced back in the day when I had that gold hoop, because I was like, it's gonna distract from my nose, bitch. It's bringing more attention to your nose. What? What the fuck was I thinking? I swear, someone should have slapped me back then. The overfilled lips, the septum ring. I was crazy. So, anyways, I feel like getting my nose done helped so much, and I truly think it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. My only recommendation when getting a nose job, you better do so much research on that surgeon, because love, Miha, my good friend that's a general plastic surgeon. She did my boobs, which we'll talk about in a second. But I told her, I said, I'm ready to get my nose done. She said, love you so much, but I'm not touching your nose. I don't do noses. I do general plastic surge surgery. I do the body. And so the surgeon I went to specializes in noses and, I think facelifts. And it was the most incredible experience. And he told me it would be a painless recovery, and it sure was. Was not painful at all. Waking up that entire week wasn't painful at all. The only thing that sucked was getting those tubes stuck in your nose. You have to keep in there for a week. That was very overstimulating for me, but getting a nose job was one of the best decisions I've ever made for myself. Number two, my boobs. And I'm not talking implants. I'm talking a lift. I breastfed my kids for a very long time. I was naturally a 34 DD before I ever had children. Children breastfed Ziggy. Of course, they naturally sag over time, but I didn't want to do anything to my boobs because I knew I was going to have another kid. Stevie comes along again. I also gain, like, a ton of weight when I'm pregnant. So my boobs got massive during pregnancy, Massive during breastfeeding. I breastfed Stevie for 14 months. And then once I weaned her and started losing baby weight, those girls were tube socks. The gap I had in between my breast is. Was a mile long. Okay? You could fit the entire state of California in my chest between my titties. It was insane. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's okay to have saggy titties. I was proud of what those titties created. Okay. I was breastfeeding a 35 pound baby. She was sucking those things dry every day on that booby milk and I was proud of it. I also didn't lose any baby weight when I was breastfeeding because I made so much milk, my body just like held on to it. So it wasn't until I weaned her at 14 months I started losing baby weight and then my nipples were grazing my hips. That's not an exaggeration. They were so saggy. So getting a lift helped me and my confidence in so many ways. Because I will say boobs aren't important to me. I guess it's not like something that I, I'm like, oh my God, I love having tits. I've never been like that. I've just always had them naturally. And really I just hated that I had to wear multiple sports bras to the gym because they were so heavy and hurt my back. David's also never been a big boob guy. What I think it is was watching my body go through so much drastic change between pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding that it really affected my confidence because I saw how different they were. And, and I'm not even kidding, I would be like sitting down and my boobs would just fall out my bra. That's how saggy they were. And it wasn't the implants that helped my confidence because I got implants to fill that loose skin. It was the lift. It helped me just feel like a normal human being and that helped my glow up in so many ways because I was like, wow, I don't feel like I need to wear an insanely tight push up bra so that my boobs aren't touching my belly button anymore. It just, it, it just helped my confidence and also just brought me back to a little bit of my pre baby body because you'll just never look the same again. And that's okay. Like the changes are all worth it. No matter how much weight I lose, I'll always have my loose skin and stretch marks and you're just, you're never going to be the same. But having a little bit of volume in my boobs again and getting that lift just, it helped me so much with my glow up and I feel like it just brought a little piece of my younger self back. Like my pre baby self, which again just helped me feel more like me. Because you lose a little bit of yourself when you have kids and I think it's important to fill that cup up and put yourself first sometimes. Okay, everyone that Is it for my little Glow up episode? I hope you loved it. I was thinking for the next solo I would do an entire episode on Tips for growing on social media. I feel like having our house remodeled right now. Buying our dream home, moving into it. So many amazing things in the works that I just pinch myself on every single day. And it would never happen without social media. And I've never been the type of person that thinks that there's not room for everyone on social media. There is room for every single person on social media. And I used to watch people in my position and be like, wow, one day I'm gonna do that. And I did. And now I want to extend that help to you guys. So if that's something you're interested in, please let us know because I think it would be such a fun episode and it would just bring my heart so much joy to try to help you guys if that's your end goal. I hope you enjoyed this episode. I loved catching up with you. I will see you next time. Cheers. Have you guys ever had it where you're rushing your ass out the door and you're like, I'm not prepared to be wearing shorts or a dress or something that shows your legs because you have not shaved. No time, no problem. 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