March 22, 2024 • 25 mins
Influencer & Podcaster Daisy Marquez stopped by the Cruz Show to talk about her Daca Foundation, her Podcast & more. She told us a great story about immigrating to this country & talked about why she chose this career path
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I was good. Boy was good. Everybody. This is what's good this
glove really and you're checking out theCruise Show podcast, make sure to subscribe.
Rate sure, Liz go Your DaisyMarquess is on the Cruise Show.
Let's Get It Real ninety two three, LA's new home for What's going down?
So? Hi, how are youguys doing? I'm doing good.
I love you. Oh, Ilove that. You know what they actually
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call me? They call me dangerousDaisy. Yeah. And then I had
one of those nights and I gotit tatted on my neck and my mom
was so mad and I regret it. This was like years ago. I
regret it behind my neck. Ohmy god, it's so embarrassing. It
looks dope though. Really no.But you know what's so embarrassing when I
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go to my princess pilates classes andI'm like in cute little picktails and all
the girls are looking at me likewhat's dangerous about you? And I'm just
like it was a mistake. Nothing. What city did you get that tattoo?
Go? Actually? Yeah? DuringCOVID that itself was yes, I
was, and I was like,I want it darker. And then I
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went back and I was like,oh, dear gosh, like why did
I do that? But I gotit because when you drink a lot,
you become like a troller or no, I just become more bold. It's
just kind of like they call melike, oh devious, Daisy, Danger's
Daisy crazy days, just like itwas just a nickname. And they were
like, bet you won't get ittatted, and I was like, bet
I will, but now I willnow looking back and I'm like, I
regret it now, but it's okay. Something I always say I believe in
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is all Daisies are down. Honestly, whenever you were like you want some
Tannesasey, I was like, ifyou're drinking, I know. She looked
at me like, wait, areyou playing or not? I was,
you know, Daisy Diaries is thepodcast? Congratulations? Thank you so much?
Right? Yes, why start apodcast? Why why broadcast for the
world? Honestly, I felt likeI lacked a platform where I could be
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myself and be vulnerable and just beopen. And I wanted to also provide
that for my friends and for anyonehonestly that wants to go on there and
share their story or just be vulnerableand comfortable, a safe place, a
comfortable place, and I feel likemy friends would always tell me like you
make me feel so comfortable, andeverybody usually comes to me when they want
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advice. So I was like,you know what, I already go on
lives on my Daisy Diaries Instagram account. So I was like, I definitely
want this to be bigger, moreprofessional, like just do it the right
way. And so I already lovetalking in front of a camera just in
general, you know what, Iwould love to podcasts, and that's where
the idea came from. So it'slike a diary and each episode is like
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a chapter, and so my guestscan go on there and great conversation.
Yes, create conversation. I wantedto feel very intimate, very comfortable,
just like girl talk, just likeyou know, witty banter, just like
do you have any guys on theshow or no, it's only been females
so far I've seen. I'm like, what's going on? I mean,
oh my god, you know I'mbeing honest. So I I just feel
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like I wanted to first have likeall my girlfriends come on there, kind
of set the tone of like whatDaisy Diaries is. And then once I'm
like up more episodes down I catchthe momentum, then I'll like bring a
guess that I'm not that I don'tknow, or like that I would love
to interview, or like men,I don't know. I'm just like a
girl's girls. I'm just like Idon't I don't know if I want to
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have men on there yet, butfor sure I don't want to. Well,
would you say, is like thedifference because like you know, you've
had this career as an influencer.The difference between like blogging and podcasting,
Like I feel like everyone's so intimatewith when you're vlogging, like they see
where you are, where you go, and podcasting is almost kind of the
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same thing. I think it's thesame thing, but I think what what
differentiates it for me is like whenI'm vlogging, I'm very like funny and
goofy, and like I can belike that on the podcast, but I
feel like I'm wouldn't be taken asserious if I were to be opening up
at a very serious or intimate topic, versus like on the podcast, It's
like people go on there and theyknow, like we're about to enter some
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topics and conversations and like this isit's you're supposed to be very more open
minded. I feel like for apodcast versus a vlog, it's like ten
thousand things can be happening on theblog and then it's just kind of like,
you know, you can miss somethings here and there. But I
definitely actually feel more comfortable now filminga podcast episode than like YouTube video.
Surprisingly, I've been on YouTube forI think seven eight years now, quite
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some time. You know. Istarted when I was like eighteen nineteen and
I'm twenty six, so I definitelya little girl I was. I was
in high school. I was asenior in high school when I first made
my video and then it blew upand then kind of now I definitely want
to be taken more serious and Iwant to get into other adventures and like
projects like hosting and stuff like that. So I'm like, you know,
I feel like podcasting would kind oflead me to yeh, did thousand person?
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Yes, for sure, Especially interviewingpeople. I feel like that can
betle bit nerve wracking, it canbe yeah. Yeah, So it definitely
it's it's like I'm getting the hangof it and I'm loving it, so
far. When you're interviewing somebody,you just gotta be curious, curious,
and I like to make them feelcomfortable. I really like to bounce off
of like people's energy and people's conversationsand stuff. So yeah, on the
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graund everything looks beautiful and nice anestheticallyamazing, right, yeah, but because
you can control that, yes,But there's another side when it comes to
social media that you can't control.There's a lot of things you can't control
real life. What real life.Yeah, Like there's a dark side to
it as well, Yes, thereis. Yeah, it's tough. It
is tough, especially like especially likenow with like councel culture. I feel
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like every five seconds somebody's getting canceled. Cancel culture is very real now.
I feel like that. I feellike that's one of the dark sides of
like social media and just the Internetin general. You know, you can't
control everything, and definitely I feellike us human beings are not perfect,
and I feel like social media influencersare put on this pedestal where they're like,
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oh, you can't fuck up,and if you fuck up, you're
gonna get canceled. Oh my god, I just cursed up, So sorry,
No, you're fine story, butyeah, I feel like I don't
know. I take everything with agrain of salt. I try not to
take anything too personal on the internet. And at the end of the day,
I feel like I'm living my lifefor myself and I can't satisfy everyone.
So as long as my family myfriends love me and I'm doing what
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I love, I feel like,you know, I'll be fine. But
there, I feel like you canget lost in it. I definitely did
get lost in it at some point, but I feel like having a true
support system is what really helps youkind of get out of it. Every
Why do you think you're getting lostbecause I'm I didn't. I basically transition
from my teens to my twenties inLa. So I graduated high school,
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I moved to LA and I gotthrown into this world, and so I
didn't have any family over here,so I got to experience everything like when
I wanted to, and I didn'treally have anyone being like you shouldn't do
this, you shouldn't do that.So I got very low the sauce.
I guess you could say, I'mgrown, yeah, and exactly, And
I was like at the clubs ata very young age, and I'm just
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like, but I'm very glad thatI went through that at an early stage
because now I'm like over that.You know, family back in Dallas.
Yes, all, my family's inTexasan and Mexico, so that's right.
Yeah, yeah, are you here? I'm Mexican. Yeah. Where are
you from? I'm from I'm fromLos Angeles. I was born here in
the valley here. I know,I look like, where's your family?
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Fronts from Mexico, you know,from the capitol. Nice? Nice,
I want dark like this. Iwas born in somebody. It's beautiful.
I was able to visit for myfirst time in years two years ago,
so that was beautiful experience. That'sawesome. Yeah. Man, yeah,
yo, Daisy Marquez is here theDaisy Diaries, the podcast wherever you find
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your podcast you feel me, theDaisy Daca Foundations. Well congratulations you came
here undocumented, right, Yes,So I actually crossed the border at nine
yearsyears old? Remember that moment.Yes, And I actually went on a
date last night and I was havingto tell the guy about it and I
got kind of tearried. I thoughtlike I kind of healed from it,
but I feel like when I haveto like relive the moment, it definitely
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like takes me back to how traumatizingit was. Because like during the summer,
my all my cousins would go toMexico. So I begged my mom.
I was like, can I pleasego. She's like, well,
if you go, you're gonna haveto cross the border. And I didn't
comprehend that at nine years old.So I was like, okay, cool,
whatever the day comes. And theydropped me off at the stranger's house.
Let's go yat this house and they'relike, these are the guys that
are going to cross you. They'relike, my grandma just handed me off,
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and I was like, oh mygod, like what am I getting
myself into? Long story short,it was like six hours of walking and
you have to cross the river ona little floaty. It was a big
group of us, and then unfortunately, like the immigration came like on a
helicopter and like the four wheelers andstuff, and so they basically were just
like everybody on their own and theythrew me in a bush and I just
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remember that he was like, stayquiet and I'm so sorry if nobody comes
for you. And at that pointI was like I'm gonna die. I
was like, I'm not, likeI'm never gonna see my family again.
Yes, and so I just stayedquiet, and I remember seeing the guy
like running away and like from adistance, I just see like him very
very tiny, and I see thefour wheelers come and they beat him up
and they take him, and Iwas just literally I just remember I was
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like trying to soothe myself, likerocking myself back and forth. And then
finally the other coyote came. He'slike, let's go, let's go,
and by that time, I thinkit was just three of us. And
then finally I made it safely backhome. But I was so mad at
my mom because she made me gothrough that. But if I never experienced
that, I would not be thestrong, independent woman that I am today.
So I'm thankful for the experience.It was very traumatizing, but it
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made me who I am today.And so because I experienced that, and
I'm under DKA, I'm very thankfulto be a part of the program.
Unfortunately, it did close, butI reached a point in my life where
I was like, would I behappy with my life and with my platform
and what I did if I wereto die tomorrow, and when I said
no, I was like, somethinghas to change. I have to get
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back to my community, because theend of the day, my community put
me on this pedestal, you know, and gave me my platform. So
that is where the Daisy Daka Foundationcame about. Financial support. Yes,
and so I was like, thepermit, you have to renew it every
two years. And let's say thismonth you have bills to pay, you
have college, you have kids.It's five hundred dollars. So it's either
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you pay your permit or you feedyour kids or like, you know,
bills. It could be a lot. It's so expensive to live nowadays,
you know. So I would hateto be in that position where I have
to choose whether I can keep mySocial Security number or I get to feed
my kids. So I wanted toprovide that financial support for DACA recipients.
And so each month, I selecta handful of DEKER recipients and I'm doing
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this all on my own. Idon't have investors, so it's just pocket,
yes, out of my pocket,just for the kindness of my heart,
and thank you. I hope.So I'm going but yeah, no,
I hope, like In the futureit can become like a bigger thing
and I have investors, but fornow, I wanted to do it on
my own. And yeah, no, I simply, I genuinely just did
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it to give back to my communityand I know that and how can people
receive that financial So you go toyou can find the instagram Daisy Daka Foundation
and then there's a website and allyou have to do is submit pictures of
your work permit and you you givejust a statement as to why you you
feel like you should receive the financialsupport. I have came across such beautiful
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stories and I personally call them Ishould probably give them a heads up because
then when I'm like, hi,it's Daisy, they like freak out and
I'm like, oh shit, Likesorry, yeah, I just like call
him out of nowhere. But yeah, it's it's very beautiful and I love
what I do. That's amazing.I can die happy out watching he is.
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And I say all these and I'vekept it very real on my podcast,
like I have made mistakes along theway and I'm not perfect, and
I've told myself accountable and i haveapologized and I've grown and I feel like
my audience has been able to seethat. You know, I'm not the
same person that has made those mistakes, and you know I can only try
my best and so the only personthat could judge me is God. So
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I'm trying to you know, sometimespeople have to see a fuck up.
It's all good. Yeah, andthat's that's what makes us humans. And
it's okay, and not everyone's gonnalike me, and I have. I
have made amends with that because Ifeel like I used to want everyone to
like me and I wanted to havethe best reputation. But it's like that's
inevitable. So yeah, one persondoesn't like you, your world is crushed.
I know you know who you areexactly right. Yeah, so I
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don't take it personally. You can't. You just can't. What's up?
Let you without saying too much?Right now? You bring up finances?
You know, you say you findand the Daisy Docer Foundation. Yes,
that's saying numbers. What brand haspaid you the most for a campaign?
No, I'm not saying I revealedthe number, so I don't want the
iris watching Just what brand? Youknow what brand? Oh? Wait no,
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yeah, actually Shean has a verybig budget. I definitely made very
high numbers with Yeah brand, yougot some Jackie's money. I'm like,
I know you got the budget sponsor, right, No, I actually you
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got any active campaigns going on rightnow? Right now, I'm doing like
sponsorships here and there. But I'mnot on like a long contract. I
was on a I was on avery long contract with Savage Expentee, but
that ended. I feel like nowadayswith like TikTok and just how everything is
so fast paced and like attention span, I feel like things are moving quicker.
Back then, it was like you'reon a contract for four months,
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six months, but now everything isvery like short term of yeah, yeah,
yeah. Are you worried about theTikTok band? Honestly, no,
I'm honestly not as active on TikTokas I should be. I just feel
like I I like longer content versusshort content. I'm just such a like
youtubeer. I don't even YouTube asmuch anymore. But no, yeah,
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I'm actually not that worried. Doyou think there's a difference now between influencers,
cause, like you said, alongwith like TikTok, everything's so like
fast now. Do you think there'sa difference between influencers now and influencers when
you started, Yes, for sure, because I feel like back then,
especially like twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, like it's I think even up to
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this day, it's still so hardto grow on YouTube. But if you're
able to grow an audience on YouTube, you like have created a stamp for
yourself in the social media world becauseTikTok, anybody can become an influencer.
Anybody can get a bunch of followers. So I think it's I think once
you make it on YouTube, itlike you have just like really created something
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for you. You've created a solidlike fad, a solid foundation. Then
you can kind of build up versusTikTok. Like if it gets banned,
it's like crap, Like what iseverybody gonna go on YouTube? It's like
so hard to stand out there andcreate. So I'm very thankful that I
started YouTube better a young age.I still love it. I'm just not
as passionate as I was because I'ma little bit older now and I wanted
to do philanthropy or I wanted toinvest or, do real estate or stuff
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like that. So I'm definitely justtrying not to limit myself to just one
thing. For sure. I editall my content. I even edit my
podcast. My podcast episodes, Istill edit them. I get some help,
but I'm just such a perfectionist whenit comes to my editing. Because
yes, that's why I'm like,I see the camera here and I'm like,
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Okay, this is it tough foryou to pay people because it's like
you work so hard for your money. No, because you know what I've
learned is not even that. No, I've learned that as as money comes
in, it has to come I'mactually I'm the most I am. No.
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My friend the other day she's like, you're such a make a wish
and I was like, what doyou mean And she's like, because you
just give so much to everybody,And I was like, well, I
love that. I love that.I don't think that's a bad I think
it's a bad exactly. I waslike, okay, I was like,
don't tell anyone, no, butyeah, no, I I I've learned
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that as money comes in, itit has to go out, and you
can't really just hold on to that. Especially during COVID, I was like,
my mom's like, so what areyou going to do? And I
was like, what do you mean, And she's like, well, she's
like, what if the world nevergoes back to normal. She's like,
what are you going to do withthe money that you've made on social media?
And I was like nothing, Andshe's like, you need to invest
that money. She's like, becausewhat if the Internet's gone tomorrow? And
I was like, crap, You'reright. So my parents are definitely my
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mentors, and they they taught meto invest my money into properties in Texas.
So that's why I'm based in Texas. Now, that's right, that's
right. Yeah, it's cheaper outthere too, It's so much cheaper.
Yeah, no, I say,everybody's moving there. No, Honestly,
you guys like, yeah, waitwait Walker, you got to live around
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some wild people out there. Ohno, yeah, no over there.
No. Oh that is so true. It's so sad, but it's so
true. No. But yeah,my life in Texas is so different than
here because I drive to Target andI see cows and horses on my way
over there. You know, Idrive to Target over here and icy a
bunch of yeah man naked on theway. I know, the same drive.
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Yeah, I know about my city. I love La though, I
love the balance of like going toTexas and being with my family and it's
so simple and then coming here andit's like hectic and work. But I
love it. I love the lifeand I'm very very very thankful. It's
like text mex food. Honestly meeither, I feel like, but I
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feel there's a lot of text mexfood here. No, I mean not
really out here. It's different,different, Bro, We're close to Mexico.
Bro, you feel me your right, very like I did. True,
I'm like, well, I didn'tgo to college. I couldn't go
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to college, but beat Yeah.They basically were just like, we're going
to charge as an international student,and I was like wow, like I
was so broke that I was sodepressed. And then that's how I got
into YouTube and stuff, yeah,or YouTuber literally nobody, you know,
watch nobody's videos and seid no ohno. I honestly never like I would
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watch like Bethanimota and stuff like growingup, but I never was like I
want to be a social media influencer. I think how I got into it
was I was depressed because I workedmy ass off to go to college,
and when I found out that Icouldn't because I was so broke. I
was like, what am I goingto do now? And so I was
just doing makeup for fun on Snapchatand so people were like, we want
longer videos. So then that's whyI got into YouTube, and I was
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like, I was like, Okay, what's the worst that can happen?
So then that's whenever I started.And then I just I was like,
oh crap, Like now I'm inthe space like yeah, I'm like,
should I keep doing it? Andso I literally grudge it and everything.
Yeah, I feel like that eraof when you started and like the social
media influencers and beauty bloggers and everythinglike that, I feel like there was
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no blueprint other than like Michelle,which kind of just happened. Like organically,
what's the worst twenty sixteen makeup trend? Would you say? Oh my
god, my eyebrows, the blockeyebrows? My god, I had upside
down Nike checks I'm talking about.No, it was so bad, and
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I literally look back at it,I'm like, why would y'all tell me
that I look good when I hadblocks my eyes? I know, I
was like, oh my god,y'all had me out here thinking I was
at ten and I was over herelike a five with those eyebrows. We
were concealing our eyebrows like like crazy, No, y'all were figuring out the
eyebrown situation. The eyebrow situation.Yeah no, no, for sure,
would you take block brows or fluffybrows? I definitely like the fluffy brother.
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I just I can't, man,you bring up Snapchat. It seems
like Snapchat is like re launching rightthere. Have they reached out to get
back on it. Snapchat is whereit's at right now, right literally,
Like for example, like David Dobrick, you know, he was creating blogs
on YouTube, but now he completelymoved over Snapchat because it's so yeah,
I think, I think, andlike the finances Snapchat is on top and
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then it's like honestly though, butlike on YouTube, you will only make
real money on YouTube if you're makingover a million views. But on Snapchat,
they the way you have to beposting at least like fifty to one
hundred stories to be making Like there'sthis influencer that recently talked about that he
makes fifty k a month just fromposting Snapchat stories, but he posts like
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fifty to one hundred like constantly.Yeah, a day, I think we
need it's a day, like aday because it's like every I think it's
like every six or twelve stories,there's an ad, so imagine, yeah,
post one hundred. But it's likeit's kind of like they literally take
pictures of like your yeah, andit's just like people just like tapping.
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But they just tapped through like thirtyads and that's a bunch of money.
So Snapchat, let's go. That'sinteresting. I'm like, you guy,
shouldet back up. I will tapthrough all of you. I think the
reason why people still held on toSnapchat for a long time was the filters.
They filters, the filters also becausemessages are just gone. You know,
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there's an event that you're hosting onthe twenty third, right, making
stuff up? Wait when when don'tyou have an event coming up? What's
today? What March thirty? Doesthat ring a bell? Don't cut this
out, don't worry about it.Okay, wait, oh we changed the
date. Sorry, that's no worries. Yeah. So I'm seen in a
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dinner for Women's History Month, andI'm going to have a lot of my
friends and just have it really beabout women. Empowerment. Like I said,
I'm just I'm a girls girls andI wanted to. I haven't been
able to celebrate the launch of theDaisy Zaca Foundation. It just kind of
like happened, and I'm like theball has been rolling and I'm like wait,
I'm like, let's actually celebrate thisbeautiful thing that has been created.
Bring a lot of my you know, girlfriends, and just celebrate women and
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Women's History Month, and yeah,just bring out I wish I love her,
come on over your down So Iwould love to bring bringing Jenny six
nine is that's fine her thing.She invited me to think that, ye
are you? I got the insjust go in for sure. I'm like
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a f class influencer. No,I got the petty invite, but I
got them. I might, Imight peoples, yea, I will pull
up a cameras though. It's likesometimes you go to the influencer parties and
everybody's blogging. I just started andeverybody's working. No, you know what,
I think back then it was sodifferent because now it's like you see
influencers like on live at the party. So I was like so and I'm
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just like, oh my god,times really have changed because I never that's
all that scary too, though,it is like I'm not trying to be
at one point. Listen at onepoint, dude, Like, I don't
know if you were that type ofinfluencier where you go to a party and
you're blogging everything, right, becauseobviously it's like a job, But at
what point you were like, like, man, I got to start living
life a little bit more and beingpresent. I think like two three years
ago, I would take my cameraeverywhere, and I mean I had to
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YouTube channels. Back then. Iactually had a couple's channel and then that
didn't work out, so then Iturned it into did you sell the channel?
No, that's actually my podcast channel, so I was like, you
know what for one so I stillhad a following on there, and I
was like, perfect, I'm goingto delete all these old blogs, let
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go of that, and yeah,I I'm very glad that I kept it
still because I was going to deletethe whole channel. But yeah, no,
I used to always bring on mycamera for everything. But I think
moving back to Texas and made mereally appreciate the little things and living in
the moment and my family and soeven when I go to concerts now,
I always try to stay as presentI think I think being present really has
helped me stay grounded. Yeah,that's what always threw me off, like
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lean in attendance to those kind ofevents like did you people just recording everything
is about recording, and it's it'sit's very competitive. I would say,
I definitely am so glad that I'mnot as in it as I was.
I still like to, you know, come in and whenever, yeah,
pop up, but yeah, Idefinitely just try to to focus on myself
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and be myself. That's great,that's great. Yeah, absolutely, thank
you very much for stopping by.Thank you so much for having me.
This was my highlight of my days. Not thank you, appreciate it.
Come through any time for real,yay, but on time, on time.
Yes, you're right, you're right, crucial we learn to pay check
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Let's Get It Real ninety two three, LA's new home for What's going down?
So? Hi, how are youguys doing? I'm doing good.
I love you. Oh, Ilove that. You know what they actually
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call me? They call me dangerousDaisy. Yeah. And then I had
one of those nights and I gotit tatted on my neck and my mom
was so mad and I regret it. This was like years ago. I
regret it behind my neck. Ohmy god, it's so embarrassing. It
looks dope though. Really no.But you know what's so embarrassing when I
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go to my princess pilates classes andI'm like in cute little picktails and all
the girls are looking at me likewhat's dangerous about you? And I'm just
like it was a mistake. Nothing. What city did you get that tattoo?
Go? Actually? Yeah? DuringCOVID that itself was yes, I
was, and I was like,I want it darker. And then I
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went back and I was like,oh, dear gosh, like why did
I do that? But I gotit because when you drink a lot,
you become like a troller or no, I just become more bold. It's
just kind of like they call melike, oh devious, Daisy, Danger's
Daisy crazy days, just like itwas just a nickname. And they were
like, bet you won't get ittatted, and I was like, bet
I will, but now I willnow looking back and I'm like, I
regret it now, but it's okay. Something I always say I believe in
(01:30):
is all Daisies are down. Honestly, whenever you were like you want some
Tannesasey, I was like, ifyou're drinking, I know. She looked
at me like, wait, areyou playing or not? I was,
you know, Daisy Diaries is thepodcast? Congratulations? Thank you so much?
Right? Yes, why start apodcast? Why why broadcast for the
world? Honestly, I felt likeI lacked a platform where I could be
(01:53):
myself and be vulnerable and just beopen. And I wanted to also provide
that for my friends and for anyonehonestly that wants to go on there and
share their story or just be vulnerableand comfortable, a safe place, a
comfortable place, and I feel likemy friends would always tell me like you
make me feel so comfortable, andeverybody usually comes to me when they want
(02:14):
advice. So I was like,you know what, I already go on
lives on my Daisy Diaries Instagram account. So I was like, I definitely
want this to be bigger, moreprofessional, like just do it the right
way. And so I already lovetalking in front of a camera just in
general, you know what, Iwould love to podcasts, and that's where
the idea came from. So it'slike a diary and each episode is like
(02:36):
a chapter, and so my guestscan go on there and great conversation.
Yes, create conversation. I wantedto feel very intimate, very comfortable,
just like girl talk, just likeyou know, witty banter, just like
do you have any guys on theshow or no, it's only been females
so far I've seen. I'm like, what's going on? I mean,
oh my god, you know I'mbeing honest. So I I just feel
(03:00):
like I wanted to first have likeall my girlfriends come on there, kind
of set the tone of like whatDaisy Diaries is. And then once I'm
like up more episodes down I catchthe momentum, then I'll like bring a
guess that I'm not that I don'tknow, or like that I would love
to interview, or like men,I don't know. I'm just like a
girl's girls. I'm just like Idon't I don't know if I want to
(03:21):
have men on there yet, butfor sure I don't want to. Well,
would you say, is like thedifference because like you know, you've
had this career as an influencer.The difference between like blogging and podcasting,
Like I feel like everyone's so intimatewith when you're vlogging, like they see
where you are, where you go, and podcasting is almost kind of the
(03:45):
same thing. I think it's thesame thing, but I think what what
differentiates it for me is like whenI'm vlogging, I'm very like funny and
goofy, and like I can belike that on the podcast, but I
feel like I'm wouldn't be taken asserious if I were to be opening up
at a very serious or intimate topic, versus like on the podcast, It's
like people go on there and theyknow, like we're about to enter some
(04:08):
topics and conversations and like this isit's you're supposed to be very more open
minded. I feel like for apodcast versus a vlog, it's like ten
thousand things can be happening on theblog and then it's just kind of like,
you know, you can miss somethings here and there. But I
definitely actually feel more comfortable now filminga podcast episode than like YouTube video.
Surprisingly, I've been on YouTube forI think seven eight years now, quite
(04:33):
some time. You know. Istarted when I was like eighteen nineteen and
I'm twenty six, so I definitelya little girl I was. I was
in high school. I was asenior in high school when I first made
my video and then it blew upand then kind of now I definitely want
to be taken more serious and Iwant to get into other adventures and like
projects like hosting and stuff like that. So I'm like, you know,
I feel like podcasting would kind oflead me to yeh, did thousand person?
(04:57):
Yes, for sure, Especially interviewingpeople. I feel like that can
betle bit nerve wracking, it canbe yeah. Yeah, So it definitely
it's it's like I'm getting the hangof it and I'm loving it, so
far. When you're interviewing somebody,you just gotta be curious, curious,
and I like to make them feelcomfortable. I really like to bounce off
of like people's energy and people's conversationsand stuff. So yeah, on the
(05:18):
graund everything looks beautiful and nice anestheticallyamazing, right, yeah, but because
you can control that, yes,But there's another side when it comes to
social media that you can't control.There's a lot of things you can't control
real life. What real life.Yeah, Like there's a dark side to
it as well, Yes, thereis. Yeah, it's tough. It
is tough, especially like especially likenow with like councel culture. I feel
(05:39):
like every five seconds somebody's getting canceled. Cancel culture is very real now.
I feel like that. I feellike that's one of the dark sides of
like social media and just the Internetin general. You know, you can't
control everything, and definitely I feellike us human beings are not perfect,
and I feel like social media influencersare put on this pedestal where they're like,
(06:00):
oh, you can't fuck up,and if you fuck up, you're
gonna get canceled. Oh my god, I just cursed up, So sorry,
No, you're fine story, butyeah, I feel like I don't
know. I take everything with agrain of salt. I try not to
take anything too personal on the internet. And at the end of the day,
I feel like I'm living my lifefor myself and I can't satisfy everyone.
So as long as my family myfriends love me and I'm doing what
(06:23):
I love, I feel like,you know, I'll be fine. But
there, I feel like you canget lost in it. I definitely did
get lost in it at some point, but I feel like having a true
support system is what really helps youkind of get out of it. Every
Why do you think you're getting lostbecause I'm I didn't. I basically transition
from my teens to my twenties inLa. So I graduated high school,
(06:45):
I moved to LA and I gotthrown into this world, and so I
didn't have any family over here,so I got to experience everything like when
I wanted to, and I didn'treally have anyone being like you shouldn't do
this, you shouldn't do that.So I got very low the sauce.
I guess you could say, I'mgrown, yeah, and exactly, And
I was like at the clubs ata very young age, and I'm just
(07:08):
like, but I'm very glad thatI went through that at an early stage
because now I'm like over that.You know, family back in Dallas.
Yes, all, my family's inTexasan and Mexico, so that's right.
Yeah, yeah, are you here? I'm Mexican. Yeah. Where are
you from? I'm from I'm fromLos Angeles. I was born here in
the valley here. I know,I look like, where's your family?
(07:28):
Fronts from Mexico, you know,from the capitol. Nice? Nice,
I want dark like this. Iwas born in somebody. It's beautiful.
I was able to visit for myfirst time in years two years ago,
so that was beautiful experience. That'sawesome. Yeah. Man, yeah,
yo, Daisy Marquez is here theDaisy Diaries, the podcast wherever you find
(07:50):
your podcast you feel me, theDaisy Daca Foundations. Well congratulations you came
here undocumented, right, Yes,So I actually crossed the border at nine
yearsyears old? Remember that moment.Yes, And I actually went on a
date last night and I was havingto tell the guy about it and I
got kind of tearried. I thoughtlike I kind of healed from it,
but I feel like when I haveto like relive the moment, it definitely
(08:11):
like takes me back to how traumatizingit was. Because like during the summer,
my all my cousins would go toMexico. So I begged my mom.
I was like, can I pleasego. She's like, well,
if you go, you're gonna haveto cross the border. And I didn't
comprehend that at nine years old.So I was like, okay, cool,
whatever the day comes. And theydropped me off at the stranger's house.
Let's go yat this house and they'relike, these are the guys that
are going to cross you. They'relike, my grandma just handed me off,
(08:33):
and I was like, oh mygod, like what am I getting
myself into? Long story short,it was like six hours of walking and
you have to cross the river ona little floaty. It was a big
group of us, and then unfortunately, like the immigration came like on a
helicopter and like the four wheelers andstuff, and so they basically were just
like everybody on their own and theythrew me in a bush and I just
(08:54):
remember that he was like, stayquiet and I'm so sorry if nobody comes
for you. And at that pointI was like I'm gonna die. I
was like, I'm not, likeI'm never gonna see my family again.
Yes, and so I just stayedquiet, and I remember seeing the guy
like running away and like from adistance, I just see like him very
very tiny, and I see thefour wheelers come and they beat him up
and they take him, and Iwas just literally I just remember I was
(09:15):
like trying to soothe myself, likerocking myself back and forth. And then
finally the other coyote came. He'slike, let's go, let's go,
and by that time, I thinkit was just three of us. And
then finally I made it safely backhome. But I was so mad at
my mom because she made me gothrough that. But if I never experienced
that, I would not be thestrong, independent woman that I am today.
So I'm thankful for the experience.It was very traumatizing, but it
(09:37):
made me who I am today.And so because I experienced that, and
I'm under DKA, I'm very thankfulto be a part of the program.
Unfortunately, it did close, butI reached a point in my life where
I was like, would I behappy with my life and with my platform
and what I did if I wereto die tomorrow, and when I said
no, I was like, somethinghas to change. I have to get
(09:58):
back to my community, because theend of the day, my community put
me on this pedestal, you know, and gave me my platform. So
that is where the Daisy Daka Foundationcame about. Financial support. Yes,
and so I was like, thepermit, you have to renew it every
two years. And let's say thismonth you have bills to pay, you
have college, you have kids.It's five hundred dollars. So it's either
(10:20):
you pay your permit or you feedyour kids or like, you know,
bills. It could be a lot. It's so expensive to live nowadays,
you know. So I would hateto be in that position where I have
to choose whether I can keep mySocial Security number or I get to feed
my kids. So I wanted toprovide that financial support for DACA recipients.
And so each month, I selecta handful of DEKER recipients and I'm doing
(10:41):
this all on my own. Idon't have investors, so it's just pocket,
yes, out of my pocket,just for the kindness of my heart,
and thank you. I hope.So I'm going but yeah, no,
I hope, like In the futureit can become like a bigger thing
and I have investors, but fornow, I wanted to do it on
my own. And yeah, no, I simply, I genuinely just did
(11:03):
it to give back to my communityand I know that and how can people
receive that financial So you go toyou can find the instagram Daisy Daka Foundation
and then there's a website and allyou have to do is submit pictures of
your work permit and you you givejust a statement as to why you you
feel like you should receive the financialsupport. I have came across such beautiful
(11:26):
stories and I personally call them Ishould probably give them a heads up because
then when I'm like, hi,it's Daisy, they like freak out and
I'm like, oh shit, Likesorry, yeah, I just like call
him out of nowhere. But yeah, it's it's very beautiful and I love
what I do. That's amazing.I can die happy out watching he is.
(11:50):
And I say all these and I'vekept it very real on my podcast,
like I have made mistakes along theway and I'm not perfect, and
I've told myself accountable and i haveapologized and I've grown and I feel like
my audience has been able to seethat. You know, I'm not the
same person that has made those mistakes, and you know I can only try
my best and so the only personthat could judge me is God. So
(12:13):
I'm trying to you know, sometimespeople have to see a fuck up.
It's all good. Yeah, andthat's that's what makes us humans. And
it's okay, and not everyone's gonnalike me, and I have. I
have made amends with that because Ifeel like I used to want everyone to
like me and I wanted to havethe best reputation. But it's like that's
inevitable. So yeah, one persondoesn't like you, your world is crushed.
I know you know who you areexactly right. Yeah, so I
(12:37):
don't take it personally. You can't. You just can't. What's up?
Let you without saying too much?Right now? You bring up finances?
You know, you say you findand the Daisy Docer Foundation. Yes,
that's saying numbers. What brand haspaid you the most for a campaign?
No, I'm not saying I revealedthe number, so I don't want the
iris watching Just what brand? Youknow what brand? Oh? Wait no,
(12:58):
yeah, actually Shean has a verybig budget. I definitely made very
high numbers with Yeah brand, yougot some Jackie's money. I'm like,
I know you got the budget sponsor, right, No, I actually you
(13:24):
got any active campaigns going on rightnow? Right now, I'm doing like
sponsorships here and there. But I'mnot on like a long contract. I
was on a I was on avery long contract with Savage Expentee, but
that ended. I feel like nowadayswith like TikTok and just how everything is
so fast paced and like attention span, I feel like things are moving quicker.
Back then, it was like you'reon a contract for four months,
(13:45):
six months, but now everything isvery like short term of yeah, yeah,
yeah. Are you worried about theTikTok band? Honestly, no,
I'm honestly not as active on TikTokas I should be. I just feel
like I I like longer content versusshort content. I'm just such a like
youtubeer. I don't even YouTube asmuch anymore. But no, yeah,
(14:05):
I'm actually not that worried. Doyou think there's a difference now between influencers,
cause, like you said, alongwith like TikTok, everything's so like
fast now. Do you think there'sa difference between influencers now and influencers when
you started, Yes, for sure, because I feel like back then,
especially like twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, like it's I think even up to
(14:26):
this day, it's still so hardto grow on YouTube. But if you're
able to grow an audience on YouTube, you like have created a stamp for
yourself in the social media world becauseTikTok, anybody can become an influencer.
Anybody can get a bunch of followers. So I think it's I think once
you make it on YouTube, itlike you have just like really created something
(14:46):
for you. You've created a solidlike fad, a solid foundation. Then
you can kind of build up versusTikTok. Like if it gets banned,
it's like crap, Like what iseverybody gonna go on YouTube? It's like
so hard to stand out there andcreate. So I'm very thankful that I
started YouTube better a young age.I still love it. I'm just not
as passionate as I was because I'ma little bit older now and I wanted
to do philanthropy or I wanted toinvest or, do real estate or stuff
(15:09):
like that. So I'm definitely justtrying not to limit myself to just one
thing. For sure. I editall my content. I even edit my
podcast. My podcast episodes, Istill edit them. I get some help,
but I'm just such a perfectionist whenit comes to my editing. Because
yes, that's why I'm like,I see the camera here and I'm like,
(15:30):
Okay, this is it tough foryou to pay people because it's like
you work so hard for your money. No, because you know what I've
learned is not even that. No, I've learned that as as money comes
in, it has to come I'mactually I'm the most I am. No.
(15:58):
My friend the other day she's like, you're such a make a wish
and I was like, what doyou mean And she's like, because you
just give so much to everybody,And I was like, well, I
love that. I love that.I don't think that's a bad I think
it's a bad exactly. I waslike, okay, I was like,
don't tell anyone, no, butyeah, no, I I I've learned
(16:18):
that as money comes in, itit has to go out, and you
can't really just hold on to that. Especially during COVID, I was like,
my mom's like, so what areyou going to do? And I
was like, what do you mean, And she's like, well, she's
like, what if the world nevergoes back to normal. She's like,
what are you going to do withthe money that you've made on social media?
And I was like nothing, Andshe's like, you need to invest
that money. She's like, becausewhat if the Internet's gone tomorrow? And
I was like, crap, You'reright. So my parents are definitely my
(16:41):
mentors, and they they taught meto invest my money into properties in Texas.
So that's why I'm based in Texas. Now, that's right, that's
right. Yeah, it's cheaper outthere too, It's so much cheaper.
Yeah, no, I say,everybody's moving there. No, Honestly,
you guys like, yeah, waitwait Walker, you got to live around
(17:02):
some wild people out there. Ohno, yeah, no over there.
No. Oh that is so true. It's so sad, but it's so
true. No. But yeah,my life in Texas is so different than
here because I drive to Target andI see cows and horses on my way
over there. You know, Idrive to Target over here and icy a
bunch of yeah man naked on theway. I know, the same drive.
(17:25):
Yeah, I know about my city. I love La though, I
love the balance of like going toTexas and being with my family and it's
so simple and then coming here andit's like hectic and work. But I
love it. I love the lifeand I'm very very very thankful. It's
like text mex food. Honestly meeither, I feel like, but I
(17:47):
feel there's a lot of text mexfood here. No, I mean not
really out here. It's different,different, Bro, We're close to Mexico.
Bro, you feel me your right, very like I did. True,
I'm like, well, I didn'tgo to college. I couldn't go
(18:07):
to college, but beat Yeah.They basically were just like, we're going
to charge as an international student,and I was like wow, like I
was so broke that I was sodepressed. And then that's how I got
into YouTube and stuff, yeah,or YouTuber literally nobody, you know,
watch nobody's videos and seid no ohno. I honestly never like I would
(18:30):
watch like Bethanimota and stuff like growingup, but I never was like I
want to be a social media influencer. I think how I got into it
was I was depressed because I workedmy ass off to go to college,
and when I found out that Icouldn't because I was so broke. I
was like, what am I goingto do now? And so I was
just doing makeup for fun on Snapchatand so people were like, we want
longer videos. So then that's whyI got into YouTube, and I was
(18:52):
like, I was like, Okay, what's the worst that can happen?
So then that's whenever I started.And then I just I was like,
oh crap, Like now I'm inthe space like yeah, I'm like,
should I keep doing it? Andso I literally grudge it and everything.
Yeah, I feel like that eraof when you started and like the social
media influencers and beauty bloggers and everythinglike that, I feel like there was
(19:12):
no blueprint other than like Michelle,which kind of just happened. Like organically,
what's the worst twenty sixteen makeup trend? Would you say? Oh my
god, my eyebrows, the blockeyebrows? My god, I had upside
down Nike checks I'm talking about.No, it was so bad, and
(19:36):
I literally look back at it,I'm like, why would y'all tell me
that I look good when I hadblocks my eyes? I know, I
was like, oh my god,y'all had me out here thinking I was
at ten and I was over herelike a five with those eyebrows. We
were concealing our eyebrows like like crazy, No, y'all were figuring out the
eyebrown situation. The eyebrow situation.Yeah no, no, for sure,
would you take block brows or fluffybrows? I definitely like the fluffy brother.
(20:00):
I just I can't, man,you bring up Snapchat. It seems
like Snapchat is like re launching rightthere. Have they reached out to get
back on it. Snapchat is whereit's at right now, right literally,
Like for example, like David Dobrick, you know, he was creating blogs
on YouTube, but now he completelymoved over Snapchat because it's so yeah,
I think, I think, andlike the finances Snapchat is on top and
(20:22):
then it's like honestly though, butlike on YouTube, you will only make
real money on YouTube if you're makingover a million views. But on Snapchat,
they the way you have to beposting at least like fifty to one
hundred stories to be making Like there'sthis influencer that recently talked about that he
makes fifty k a month just fromposting Snapchat stories, but he posts like
(20:45):
fifty to one hundred like constantly.Yeah, a day, I think we
need it's a day, like aday because it's like every I think it's
like every six or twelve stories,there's an ad, so imagine, yeah,
post one hundred. But it's likeit's kind of like they literally take
pictures of like your yeah, andit's just like people just like tapping.
(21:06):
But they just tapped through like thirtyads and that's a bunch of money.
So Snapchat, let's go. That'sinteresting. I'm like, you guy,
shouldet back up. I will tapthrough all of you. I think the
reason why people still held on toSnapchat for a long time was the filters.
They filters, the filters also becausemessages are just gone. You know,
(21:38):
there's an event that you're hosting onthe twenty third, right, making
stuff up? Wait when when don'tyou have an event coming up? What's
today? What March thirty? Doesthat ring a bell? Don't cut this
out, don't worry about it.Okay, wait, oh we changed the
date. Sorry, that's no worries. Yeah. So I'm seen in a
(22:00):
dinner for Women's History Month, andI'm going to have a lot of my
friends and just have it really beabout women. Empowerment. Like I said,
I'm just I'm a girls girls andI wanted to. I haven't been
able to celebrate the launch of theDaisy Zaca Foundation. It just kind of
like happened, and I'm like theball has been rolling and I'm like wait,
I'm like, let's actually celebrate thisbeautiful thing that has been created.
Bring a lot of my you know, girlfriends, and just celebrate women and
(22:25):
Women's History Month, and yeah,just bring out I wish I love her,
come on over your down So Iwould love to bring bringing Jenny six
nine is that's fine her thing.She invited me to think that, ye
are you? I got the insjust go in for sure. I'm like
(22:48):
a f class influencer. No,I got the petty invite, but I
got them. I might, Imight peoples, yea, I will pull
up a cameras though. It's likesometimes you go to the influencer parties and
everybody's blogging. I just started andeverybody's working. No, you know what,
I think back then it was sodifferent because now it's like you see
influencers like on live at the party. So I was like so and I'm
(23:14):
just like, oh my god,times really have changed because I never that's
all that scary too, though,it is like I'm not trying to be
at one point. Listen at onepoint, dude, Like, I don't
know if you were that type ofinfluencier where you go to a party and
you're blogging everything, right, becauseobviously it's like a job, But at
what point you were like, like, man, I got to start living
life a little bit more and beingpresent. I think like two three years
ago, I would take my cameraeverywhere, and I mean I had to
(23:38):
YouTube channels. Back then. Iactually had a couple's channel and then that
didn't work out, so then Iturned it into did you sell the channel?
No, that's actually my podcast channel, so I was like, you
know what for one so I stillhad a following on there, and I
was like, perfect, I'm goingto delete all these old blogs, let
(23:59):
go of that, and yeah,I I'm very glad that I kept it
still because I was going to deletethe whole channel. But yeah, no,
I used to always bring on mycamera for everything. But I think
moving back to Texas and made mereally appreciate the little things and living in
the moment and my family and soeven when I go to concerts now,
I always try to stay as presentI think I think being present really has
helped me stay grounded. Yeah,that's what always threw me off, like
(24:22):
lean in attendance to those kind ofevents like did you people just recording everything
is about recording, and it's it'sit's very competitive. I would say,
I definitely am so glad that I'mnot as in it as I was.
I still like to, you know, come in and whenever, yeah,
pop up, but yeah, Idefinitely just try to to focus on myself
(24:48):
and be myself. That's great,that's great. Yeah, absolutely, thank
you very much for stopping by.Thank you so much for having me.
This was my highlight of my days. Not thank you, appreciate it.
Come through any time for real,yay, but on time, on time.
Yes, you're right, you're right, crucial we learn to pay check
your rich from The Crui Show.Thanks for listening to The Cruise Show podcast
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