that there's a place for the female in law enforcement. I think there's a need for the female in law enforcement. I knew I could be a ranger because I knew in my heart I wanted to be a ranger. And I just needed the chance to be able to prove it. I'd always been interested in law enforcement. And that clicked. I knew that's exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to fly airplanes and helicopters, but I wanted to do something useful with it. There are 2,000 agents in the Secret Service and approximately 160 are women across the country. And when I started 12 years ago, there were only 36. Well, I did not grow up thinking I was going to be in law enforcement. I didn't grow up with a badge on my Barbie doll. When I was little, I used to watch Perry Mason. I know it sounds a little bit hokey, but hey, I watched Perry Mason. And I used to think, what a wonderful, wonderful way to earn a living. A typical day might include duty matters, such as issuing search warrants, signing off on grand jury subpoenas, conducting a grand jury investigation. OK, now I'm going to need that fax for my 2 PM hearing. It might also involve meeting with agents, law enforcement, federal law enforcement, with respect to investigations, ongoing investigations that are happening, assessing evidence, strategizing in terms of how the investigation is to be completed. So generally, you have to research pre-trial motions and make your arguments on paper to the judge before trial begins. Our lives revolve more around the courtroom versus anything else. It may involve a trial, the beginning of a trial, jury selection. From there, you might go to another court appointment to begin jury selection for a trial. Or you may have another series of hearings. The courthouse is a hub of activity wherein the US attorney's office is ever present. I believe that what I am doing is important, and therefore, I pursue it. I saw an article in a magazine. It was only about two inches by two inches tall advertising for customs. And I called and sent in applications, and that started the process. I started as a GS2 park aide in the Smokies.  And I decided that that would be what I'd like to do. It started out in interpretation and decided that I wanted to be out in the resource and doing something to protect it. And that's actually why I got started into law enforcement. I found myself watching a Marine patrol officer going by one day when I literally was sweating into my varnish. And I knew him. I knew the work he did. I knew that he got paid every month, whether it rained or snowed or whatever. And I said, that looks great. Let's give it a try. I have evolved up to what is called an A-certified. Vessel commander. The A-level certifies you to drive every boat within a customs fleet. Our area here, which includes Port Everglades, is one of the major commercial shipping areas in South Florida. Our day can go in several different directions. I think this is probably the guy right here. He'd be pulling me out of bed saying that the Bahamian Initiative has a plane following a boat into my coastal area. Can you intercept? And we can be in the inlet within 30 minutes. And I have a speed with this particular boat of about 50 miles an hour. So I can be running offshore. And my day will be never ending after that, if we're fortunate enough to do the intercept. There's two types of smuggling. One is what we call an open load. Now, the other type is sophisticated concealment. And that usually involves concealed compartments. We have had them where they have been secured underneath ships to the ship's hulls. That's why, being a dive team, we come into play. And we go and have to do an extraction of that. We have to search the bottom of a cruise ship or the bottom of a 600 foot freighter. Clear? I want to have my own personal identity, because I'm not one of the guys. I'm Wendy, and I'm a female. I will be an equal. I will be a respected team member, but I'm not one of the guys. And I don't expect them to be one of the girls. I'm not an FBI agent because I want to be praised for what I do. I'm an FBI agent because I wanted to serve my country. I've always thought that the profession that I would choose in life would be one wherein I could make a difference. I want to become a law enforcement officer to protect the resources and make a difference. And I think every person, if they examine themselves in law enforcement and why they're in it, it's not necessarily to tell people what to do, but you get this savior complex. And you feel like you can make a difference. And if I don't do it, if I don't dedicate myself to it, then who's going to do it? Somebody's got to get the guns off the street. Somebody's got to get these grenades off the street. One example of how a case is generated. An informant comes in and gives you some information. At that time, I'll go through the computers. Then I'll punch the name in into our national computer and see if he has any record, any criminal history. And we'll set the first meet. And by that time, I've already told her what to tell him, what the story is that I want him to know. If they do a good job, you know, make your life easier on that first meet. Then I'll set up a second meet, and what I try and normally do is to see how much this guy could give me and to see what his prizes are. And really, to see if he has any supplier, because that's what we want to get off the street. It's a guy that's really got the big stuff. Okay, he is showing her the guns at this point. Okay, here we go. Take down, guys. Let's go. But there's only a few of us that really dare to go out into the streets and actually target these kind of individuals and actually purchase these kind of deadly weapons. The challenge is what's going to make me a better person. It's going to make me stronger because I'm going to have to keep thinking. I'm going to have to keep trying. Well, at a little one, I have a 12-year-old stepson. I have a little one, a five-year-old. He's like, Mommy's going to jail today. They do worry. Sometimes they don't want to know everything I do. I kind of pick and choose what I tell them because who wants to scare their mom, you know? Yeah, they worry about me. But they also let me know that they think that I'm very capable. And they have confidence that I can take care of myself. I think they were more concerned that I was moving a greater distance away than they were that I was getting into law enforcement. My family has been extremely supportive of my decision to come into this field. My mother has always worried. The Secret Service protects not only the president and the vice president. First lady, the vice president's wife, the children, former presidents. But we also protect heads of state and heads of government while they're guests in this country. I am currently assigned to the liaison division for the Secret Service. And the liaison division is responsible for primarily gathering protective intelligence from other federal agencies for the purpose of gathering protective intelligence and feeding it to our intelligence division. A primary function is to maintain this relationship with the U.S. Capitol Police and the House and Senate Sergeant at Arms for the purpose of gathering this protective intelligence information as it pertains to threats against any of our protectees. Every protectee that the Secret Service brings up to the Capitol Hill is essentially advanced by either me or my partner, Agent Enright, and we split that up. We do spend our time training and focusing so that we're in the right place at the right time. If that place is between a gun and the president, then I was in the right place at the right time. As a female, I know I don't have the physical strength as a man, so we do more listening and we do more talking. You don't, so to speak, have the macho image. You want to see what's going on and you're more apt to talk your way out of it. I think we're at an advantage because women are a little more sensitive. We tend to use our mouths more and our brawn less. But women do seem to bring more of a common sensical approach to things sometimes.  You have to be quick and sharp when you're in law enforcement but there's also a time to be gentle and to sit back and let people talk to you, let them provide information to you. I think that works well with a woman. Compromise, not backing up, but being willing to provide options as opposed to drawing a line, this is it. I came here as the chief ranger. I am now the person who's responsible for visitor protection for the law enforcement rangers and for interpretation. What kind of problems have you had with these kids? Just some minor ones, they're a little noisy last night. Fort Jefferson, drive to this national park is actually about 68 nautical miles from Key West. Fort Jefferson on one six. How's that youngin'? Livin' and workin' out here, I have had to learn what fishing gear are supposed to look like, what boats are supposed to look like, how they're supposed to carry, what the people look like. Just the normal day-to-day operation.  They're interested, most of them are interested in the fort. They wanna see this fort. So you try your best to make them feel like this is theirs because it really is. You always wanna recognize that it's the National Park Service. Welcome, it's nice to see you. Hi, Anna. And that we need to get ourselves into the mode of thinking that these visitors who come here deserve some kind of service from us, whether it's educational or it's law enforcement. Let's go right through here.  It's 90 minutes for a bike up. I'm your only law enforcement officer stationed out here. There are things that actually happen out here. This is my beat. This is what I do and what I do is I'm a federal law enforcement officer. I would hope that anybody who watches me work or watches me living out here sees where I live and how I live knows that I love it. If I didn't love it, I'm actually smarter than this. I'd go do something else.  You never think about the danger. I'm never afraid. I won't go headfirst into something that I know that I can't handle. If there's two boats out there and I'm by myself, if I feel uncomfortable, I won't make the stop. I'll hang back, I'll follow them to the ramp, but I'll make sure someone is at the ramp to help me. I think you need to know your own limitations. Yes, it does worry me sometimes, but anything can happen to me not just here on the job, but going to the grocery store, walking across the street to take the kids to school or anything so you can't really just let stuff like that just put a dab on you. Well, I would say that it is a unique part of my job, the fact that I'm a woman at a male institution because I may work at housing units. They may have up to a hundred or more male inmates in that unit. They're basically trying to keep the peace, to maintain a sort of calm sense in the units and keep down fights over pool equipment, or TV, the channels, games. So you basically monitor units, you do shake downs in the units to keep down the influx, high influx of contraband where there's no sense of hard contraband. You all right? Special housing unit, I work special housing unit where we maintain inmates that may be problems on the outside unit. So they're locked down basically 23 hours a day. You take them out for showers, for rec, or maybe to change sales. We also do sale, shake downs, and segregation units. I think that the male inmates, as well as my male colleagues have respect for me. Because of the way I carry myself, the way that I deal with the inmates, I try to treat them like people and be firm and fair, so the times are changing. You have to wait until they call a nice move. I think since I've been in the Bureau of Prison as a young woman in corrections that I have excelled fairly quickly because I am a good listener and I can learn very quickly. Look for me, look for me. I'll be here for the long haul. I don't think of that when I start my day. I don't think, oh, I'm a woman, I better work harder today. That's not how I start my day. I think women will always have to try harder. The microcosm of the FBI or other law enforcement agencies that are in existence is a part of the bigger scenario of life. And in some ways, that old saying it's a man's world is certainly true. I believe as an African-American female prosecutor, there is one set of expectations that I must meet. And as a female prosecutor, there is a set of expectations that I must meet. Yes, I do believe that you have to be twice as good. And in fact, I have a tacky little sign and I generally speak and hate him that says a woman who strives to be as good as a man is lacking in ambition. I don't think I have to work harder. I think I want to work harder to make it easier for females who come behind me that are doing the same job. As a supervisor on a sub-district level, I supervise in the field 70% of the time and 30% of is behind the desk. What we do during the day is basically airboat patrol. We patrol approximately 125,000 acres plus a day use area at Shark Valley, which sees hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. We patrol our boundaries, do markings on the boundary, look for any kind of intrusion that may have happened the night before or the week before. Boaching in Everglades, especially in Tamiami sub-district are quite heavy. We border Big Cypress National Preserve, which is a hunting area. When we do a stop in the Everglades on airboats, what we're looking for, we're looking for current registration. We look for any kind of frogging apparatus or any kind of weapons. Depending on whether it's hunting season, we make sure the guns are unloaded. Check their licenses, make sure that they know the regulations. And then during the night patrol, we go out looking for intrusion. We look for actual persons on airboats or buggies intruding into the boundary of Everglades National Park. To navigate out in the Everglades, you learn the shape of the hammocks. You learn the turns of the trail. It's just doing it over and over again. You can't go out once and learn it. You have to go out all the time and just keep doing it. You need to be able to take care of yourself and you need to be fully trained and committed. If you love what you're doing, you'll be good at it. I also work with some officers who still feel that it's not a women's place or a women's place in law enforcement is for searching female prisoners. It's a necessary evil, if you will. In the beginning, I used to think I had to be macho until I realized later on, I will just be myself and they can take her to leave it. I think there's always going to be some resistance or some perception that they have no business doing that type of work, but I think it's gonna be less and less. The fact that we are women of law enforcement, we do have a degree in machismo. We wouldn't be doing this job. It's, we're not showing up with a lace on our socks. I tend to think that a woman shouldn't be macho to be in law enforcement. A woman should be a woman. My typical day, I come to work in the morning. I generally tend to some paperwork, return phone calls, messages that I've received either the previous day or early that morning. I create any paperwork that I need to regarding any investigation that I conducted the previous day. I'm in the process of attempting to indict a large number of individuals from an investigation that I've been working on the past two years. So I liaise on, I work with the assistant United States attorney who will be prosecuting the case. And we prepare testimony for the grand jury. We conduct search warrants, we execute search warrants, so we execute arrest warrants. There's a lot of time spent in preparing for those activities and rehearsing those activities and making sure that everything's gonna run safely and smoothly. Something happened this morning as a matter of fact that kind of made me feel good when I came into work. One of the mails on my squad left a voicemail message on my telephone and said, congratulations on some of your recent accomplishments and wanted to let you know that I'd go through a door with you. And that to me is the highest compliment that you can pay another agent. They know that I can pull my load, pull my weight around here and I think they respect me for that. Generally, the situation has been that the mails have wanted to work with me. I can only speak from my own experience. And I think that's a matter of how you conduct yourself and the reputation that you earn for yourself during your time at work. I believe all the deputies I work with do feel comfortable working with me in any situation. You know, when it comes down to it, they know I'm the boss and they don't seem to have a problem with that. Oh, my typical day, it starts out extremely early. One of the things that's very important to me is it's a remaining and good physical fitness. You can't do this job and not be in shape. I come into the office because I'm responsible for managing a program on the forest as well as doing field work. I have four male law enforcement officers that work for me and one legal technician who's another woman. Hang on a second. Would Mike have it on his part? All set priorities and we work together primarily as a team. Okay. And we do patrol on snowmobile, two officers at a time. Well, there's a warrant for your arrest. Just face the officer, put your hands on, talk your head, there you go. And one of the unique things that we have to deal with that most police agencies don't is how do you transport somebody you've arrested out on a snowmobile. What do you know about your warrant? I don't know nothing about it, this is a mistake. Put the suspect handcuff facing rearwards and then you have the second officer riding behind the first officer and they transport that way. We're required to requalify with our firearms and our defensive tactics training every quarter. And so what we do is try and make it as real as possible and we will set up a combat course that will require the officers to utilize cover and concealment and the terrain around them, the rocks and the trees and the targets that we utilize are what we call knockdown targets. He's hit, he's down. I've grown tremendously professionally and personally and it's a great job. It's a fun job. I think when you're young, you're out of college, you're in your 20s. How can you imagine that one day you will be in Kathmandu, Nepal, protecting the First Lady of the United States? How could you even imagine something like that? Some days this is the best job in the world. I'm outside, I'm doing a variety of different things. It's not boring to me and I'm out meeting people. Since I've been with the Bureau, I've had so many opportunities that are just inherent in the job to learn, to travel, to meet so many people that I would never, ever have been exposed to to learn about different lifestyles. And that's one of the benefits and one of the pleasures of the position and one that keeps me waking up happy every day and ready to go to work. I can go to work every day of my life and say I'm doing what I really wanted to do all my life. There are a lot of people who can't say that. I was actually the first female pilot hired in customs and a lot of respects that made me very proud. It showed me that my training in background counted for something. Launch the Black Hawk, launch the Black Hawk. The Black Hawk, I fly as a co-pilot. You have to be able to get that airplane airborne and working in a law enforcement mode in eight minutes. So it has to be completely preflighted, inspected, all your gear put on board. That helicopter is a big mission. He tries to round up everybody and let his ground crew out to arrest people. The flying is difficult in that the terrain is constantly changing and moving. We're also flying low-level and without lights and you're concentrating on the law enforcement aspect as well as the flying aspect. So you have to split your time between watching that smuggler and not being detected by him and flying safely and not running into the terrain. I fly the citation as captain and the mission of the citation is interdiction. That aircraft was specifically designed to with radar and flare track potential smugglers that are flying into the country illegally from Mexico or from Canada in some cases. Yeah, what he's doing, I'm gonna pull in for an ID. You wanna bug me down to about 4,500. 4.5 Roger. The crew concept is critical when you're in an aircraft and you're flying a law enforcement mission, you're concentrating on being safe, you're concentrating on following that suspect, you're concentrating on flying. It's fatiguing and it's difficult, but that's part of the excitement of the job. That's fun. Spent my first Christmas with the FBI conducting a homicide investigation up on an Indian reservation. Spent my first Thanksgiving involved in a kidnapping up in the mountains of Western Arizona and I've been called upon many times to react during holidays and in the middle of the night and do so willingly, I have no qualms about that. But most importantly, being able to have a family myself, being able to have a child or so, and I've given all that up for my career because I never find the right moment to say I gotta stop. I can say that if I had it to do over, I would, number one, be a mother and number two, be a park ranger. Rather than at some points, I can say that my child was not first and he should have been. So there's a prize. Just this past Saturday I gave up my son's first football game. I've missed, I missed his first play. I've missed my daughter's games. But when you're there, you just make it, I believe in quality time, not the quantity of it. So when I'm there, I ensure that it's important. In the beginning of the morning, you will be assigned a deputy that you're gonna be working with. You and this deputy will go to the local jails in the area. Take out anywhere between 10 and 20 prisoners.  Within the martial service, there's the NASAF program, which is the National Asset Seizure and Forfeiture Program. I've seized boats in the past. I've seized live animals. I've seized bars, discos, anything and everything that can be seized, we will seize. There's a lot of surveillance. Surveillance is the longest part of the situation when it comes to actually sitting around waiting to get your guy. You can be sitting on a house for three weeks, four weeks at a time and come up with nothing, but you have to be there at that one time where you see him there and then then in turn you either.  And I believe what I'm doing is the proper thing for me. So when I weigh the differences, there's not much of a difference. I'm doing the right thing. Plus I'm damn good at what I do. Don't become a cop because you watch television and it looks exciting. There's a lot missing on television. You've gotta have a lot of self-confidence.  I think that you just have to be very determined. You gotta keep up the good spirit. You gotta set your own goals and don't let anybody take you down. You need to be independent. You need to be able to work alone. You need to be competent so that you can do your job when you are working alone. I think that the career opportunity is there for the taking. And you can go as high as you'd like to go if you're willing to put in the time and the work. Be dedicated. Definitely have integrity. And this goes for any person that wants to be a police officer, regardless of male or female. So I think integrity is the most important. My jurisdiction covers areas that are in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia. Right now I'm in uniform patrol in the George Washington Memorial Parkway and the surrounding park areas. I do a lot of vehicular patrol. I need 383 on one. Running radar, traffic enforcement and that type of thing. I also ride a scooter. A scooter meaning a motorcycle that's about 200 cc's or so. It facilitates our getting around in some of the remote areas where the bikers and the joggers and the hikers go. So going back to working in a predominantly male-oriented field, and he's a good friend of mine and we've worked together for a long time. And one day we were just talking and talking about the job in general and he says to me, he says, you know, Chris, when I think of you and I work with you, I don't think of you as a female. But it's that attitude that you have to separate the female from the police officer. And I don't feel that way. I'm a female and I'm doing law enforcement. I got into this job because it's what I wanted to do for a living. And I figured if it's what I want to do for a living then I should do it. It never occurred to me not to try it because I was a woman. I thank two women in law enforcement. Train yourself, get trained, have confidence in your abilities. Love your job. Remember, it's not really a job, it's a life. I'd like to tell other women that are thinking about it, don't go into it half-hearted. If you go into it half-hearted, people will see through that and you won't succeed. When we get to the point where we recognize that everybody does the job their way, not a gender way, we've come to a realization that it's an individual thing and not a gender thing. And I think we've done that. I think every person is in charge of their life.  I tell myself this little model that I came up with to help me keep focus on life. And that's that I must accept the challenges of life, quickness in my heart, and never lose hope in humankind. Thank you.


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So another interesting question from our members is how do you use resilience as a stress management technique? Well, that's an interesting question because we've seen definitely an increase in people wanting stress management. And so from my perspective and that of our team, even better than managing stress is don't get stressed in the first place, right? Easier said than done, I know, but prevention is definitely the best cure. So what I mean by that is if you build your resilience skills or your emotional fitness, then you can prevent stress from developing in the first place. And we know that your level of resilience isn't something that's fixed, that you're born with it and that's all there is. It is something that can grow and be developed. So I think of it like a tolerance level, if there's a bar and the more you develop your resilience skills and your coping capacity, the more things you can handle before you hit that bar and it takes a lot more for something to even register as a problem for you. So I'll give you an example. I haven't missed a lot of flights in my lifetime, but definitely when you travel a lot, it's something that's bound to happen sooner or later. And I remember quite a few years ago, I'm going back maybe a decade now, I had got some really bargain tickets for a flight from Sydney to the Gold Coast in Australia and I was really excited about it and I mucked up the timings and missed the flight. And I was so upset by it. I was so stressed out by it. I had to, you know, even though I got a new flight within an hour, which was amazing and the financial loss wasn't that much since I'd got such great tickets anyway. I, at that point, that ruined my day. I was so frustrated with it all day and that impacted on my wellbeing. Recently I had a somewhat similar situation. I was flying from Mexico to Malaga in Spain with a transit through Lisbon and the transit was quite tight, didn't make it. But over the years, with some experience with some personal growth and development, I've come to approach things differently. So this was just an inconvenience, really. It was go to the counter, get the new flights and honestly the new flights, I had to wait hours and hours and hours in the airport. I had to go to Madrid and then do another transit and I ended up getting home about 10 hours later than was originally planned. And yet my experience of it was completely different. It was, my thinking about it was completely different. It was, oh well, this is what it is. How am I gonna use this time as effectively as possible? So I get some work done, contact some friends, stay in touch, do a little bit of shopping and it didn't ruin the day. It was just life, it just happened. So we move on and we go to next. So this kind of situation wasn't worth losing my peace over. But why I could handle that much better is because I had developed a greater level of resilience and that basically came down to how I think about it inside my own head. And that is how resilience is a stress management technique. You don't do it after you're stressed, you build that muscle beforehand, either voluntarily by learning new things, finding, listening to other people who have been through challenges, how they approach things, et cetera.  I hope that answers the question. Hi, I'm Emmy Golding, Director of Psychology for the Workplace Mental Health Institute. We hope you liked the video. If you did, make sure to give it a thumbs up. We have more and more videos being released each week. So when you subscribe, you'll get a notification letting you know when a new one's just been published. So make sure to hit that subscribe button and don't miss out on this vital information for yourself, your colleagues and your loved ones.


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I said that once or twice before and I will say it again I will say it again and again and again Welcome back to quarantine Quarantine credible decisions report, you know what that means. It's time to dye hair 100% I will say her hair looks really good if she did that herself I am impressed all this long clothes right now So we weren't even gonna dye her hair, but we're like, you know what let's bleach on his head Technically I've wanted this for a long time. Yeah, I just it takes so long to achieve it cuz I'm literally like I have black hair She does a dark hair On this girl's whole head or just oh wait and what the infamous tick-tock bang trend That's kind of ugly, but I'm still gonna. It's actually really cute You guys can pray for us right now and hope her hair doesn't fall out her gods love you Like every single time people dye their hairs because they're having a mental breakdown Would you say we're at that point? I'd say we're past that Think we've been past that point for a while.  Okay, what?  You know me doing it or you doing it both terrible choices So your friend doing it maybe will be a little bit better just because she can see the back of your hair No, it'll probably be dead after she's using 30 volume This has been under my cupboard for like four years Honestly, it does last a very long time. It's probably fine. We only use the most quality. Oh, I love a good trash bag moment Yes, she is Trashy, yeah, so with your roots here. Do you want me to try feather it?  They'd be like, yeah, it's fine. I'm like Well orange it's orange. Okay, you think orange is okay. You're like literally anything you want What about a rainbow? Are you okay with a rainbow?  Please don't let this unqualified blonde f*** touch your hair. Just see your hair fall out So weird now that everybody just mentions me in their hair videos I don't know why that weirds me out I thought I was just like in my own little corner on YouTube and now it's like I'm not anymore. Where's my corner? I want to go back to my corner. It's like at the salon. It's like, look down. Look down.  Look down. My necks are like a 90 degree What do you call that hair color cheetah print? Kylie did it. That's completely me Can you put your head down and then it goes back up like five seconds later. Can you put your head back down?  I'm sorry I shouldn't do that. We have finished the bottom layer. I'm living for this technique. Looking bright.  Why are you dumping the bleach on her head? I understand guys?  Like, is that the goal? Anyways, she just dumped bleach on her hair.  I love how we were going to leave the roots now, it's just not, I mean, what I know, we can always get brown and do a shadow root. Oh, she's going to do a shadow root now. It's going light! Really? Yeah! Imagine they get it like this, so long and they're just like... Bleach has some lather! My hair fell down. Oh, it stings! I wish this is how we did it at the hair salon. Oh, it'd be so good for me because I have no patience. Sometimes I really do just want to take the bleach and just dump it on people's heads, and just be like, I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry because it came out good. Like, I don't know, it's just like a lot of work. I just don't want to have to do it twice, so I'm just trying to like really get it. Listen, I am so happy I said good. She put so much bleach on. She put so much on. It is like a creamy white film over her hair. That's exactly what you're looking for when applying lightener. The second the brush went in my hand, all the things I remembered about bleaching just disappeared. This doesn't feel right! Okay, I'm glad they use foils. This is going to help warm up the hair and make sure those ends get nice and light and the roots get light, except her ends are already light, so I would have probably recommended not using foils on the ends and just using it on the top of the hair to heat it up and give it a process faster to match the ends of your hair, but that's okay. We can't be perfect, you know? Yay! Yay!  Oh sh**! We're on the right, mine is like one of those dry colored popsicles. I got blonde, brown, orange. We've got a Neopultin ice cream situation. Oh f**k! The one thing I don't know today is how they're going to fix it. Oh, she better not overlap that bleach again. I will tear apart this computer. I'll tear apart something. Did we fail? I like it! It looks like a hockey board. This girl doesn't give a sh**. Dogs? With yours, it's only your roots. This is nice. This, it's like a nice white, okay? Orange. This is what I like to call a hair fail. This is why you don't dye your hair impossibly and quarantine. But guess what? We're going to turn a hair catastrophe to, I don't know. A worse hair catastrophe? Fix this, okay? We tried the Sally's hair dye professional mixing route. No, we're going to f**king volmar fox dye this f**k. I could just see it go even more orange and like darken it. I have faith we're going to fix this. Like how did I miss that? Oh yeah, we're going to be sectioning this time. Oh f**k yeah. The oil look, the yellow just pops out. Round two begins. I couldn't do it twice. I couldn't. There's no way. I could not go through this again. It's not even coming out. I mean, at least she's just doing the route. This bleach like it was shampoo. Yeah. It doesn't really work like that. Uh-uh. We had some Cheeto patches going on. Do you know why guys? Do you know why it doesn't work like that? Cause bleach doesn't lather. Bleach doesn't lather. I think I'm going to make a bleach that lathers so I can contradict myself before somebody else does. Time for toner. Oh my God. It just approved that toner really does fix everything. We fixed it. But more. Oh. I'm covering this part down here cause it's. Oh, I wonder what they toned with. We'll remind again, but I think Sonia looks really good. Hers is like a white ashy platinum. I mean, it feels like, hey, it's honestly not even that bad. No. I think it looks good. I feel like we did a good job. Is it perfect? No. Is it a wearable? Yeah. This is a quarantine color. I accept what's going on.  The back has some spotting. The other girl, her bangs are kind of, you know, multicolored still, but these issues can also be resolved with a good toner, like a root and end formula instead of just doing one thing on the entire head. Giving the roots a little bit of a dimension would help a lot. But that also involves a lot of like technical techniques. Yeah, sure. We're going with that. Let's move on to the next video. Our next video is by Kylie Shell. And this is quarantine, maybe bleach my hair. Someone called Brad. I bought some box dye and today we're gonna make the bond. So let's see how this goes. Okay, so I guess we just walk it on there for 40 to 60 minutes. It's not me, it's the box dye. Not like I just like hate box dye for just like no reason. It's just that you don't know what you're getting in the formula. And I don't know why people when like bleach, powder bleach doesn't work, they then churned a box dye and think it's going to help the situation somehow. I don't know what the logic is behind that. That's not how it works. Start at the back. Why? Did you not read the instructions? You don't start at the roots. What's that thing? I don't wanna start at my roots. That's how you do it though. But not the front of my hair. I wanna start at the back of my hair. Cause look how light the top of my hair already is. You know what's going on with your hair, right? If you put it on top first, it's on the top longer and I'm already light up there. Yes! You know this girl watches my videos when she said that. You know it! That is correct. You want it to sit the longest on your ends. I also wanted to mention guys, I see a lot of people doing the ends first and then the roots after now that they know that cause I say that all the time. However, it's important to let the colors sit on your ends for at least like 15 minutes before then doing the roots. It's not enough to just apply to the ends first. You have to let it sit longer on the ends first and then go back and apply the roots. She's looking like she's doing a good job. She's like really like she's going in there. She's raking it through. You know, we're applying a lot of products it looks like but the only bad thing is that it this is box color and it looks like she's colored her hair before so it probably won't work. You can bleach it all at once or do it in stages and it doesn't matter. But the thing is that there's bleach under the brown so there's technically already bleach in my hair. It shouldn't be that difficult to make my hair blonde. So color doesn't lift color. I've said this many times. So she just said she has blonde under the brown. You can't lift color with color. You can't, the box dye is not going to lift because it's not bleach. I want something to happen. I want it to be good. I want to have fun. Maybe like this will be strong enough to just lighten her hair no matter what even though it's color. We are putting more and more. Oh, we got the bag on. Good. I got my head roll so calm. I'm glad we're incubating. So the brown that was in my hair wasn't my actual hair color. It was dye and underneath that was platinum blonde. So I think that's why it's lifting so quick because there's already so bleach in my hair. If we're lucky, the brown she has over her blonde is just a demi-permanent color and we'll just lift out just because she's putting a developer on top of her hair and those molecules will just fall right out. Hopefully, and she'll be nice and blonde. My roots are just like totally blonde at the end. They're not blonde. I want ginger. That's exactly what I thought was gonna happen. This is currently the same color. Yeah, that's your hair. I'm ready to go to Walmart and get another box dye. I think grab some toner too, I'm not sure. And we're doing it again with more box dye with an insane amount of ammonia and a developer we don't know the level of. I love it. I put some purple shampoo in it and I'm gonna let it sit in there for a few minutes. I'm scared. Honestly, where's Brad Mondo when we need him? I'm over here. Ow, I need him. I'm right here. Feels like hay. Uh-huh. And I still have some pretty brown spots. Right. I love that. It's actually not bad. So scared to brush it. It feels terrible. It looks terrible. It looks a little dry. It was a poor decision on my part.  Can't go back. So who knows, I might put a color over it. I don't know. The world may never know. Well, the world will know because you ended up coloring it pink, which is the next video. Let's check up on the update and let's see what she does. The follow-up video is called quarantine made me cut and dye my hair pink. Don't worry, Brad. I wanna let you know something. I am very worried. This pink does not look dark enough. Purple. Right, we're processed right now. It's just how we're looking. Well, it looks better, actually. I'll take that back. Okay, we just washed it out. That's what it looks like. And I take it back again. It was not dark enough. Now we're gonna cut my hair. Actually, though, the color is not bad because it goes from like a deeper pink to a lighter pink and I feel like it'll actually look really nice.  Mm, I can shave my head.  The first girl didn't care. The second girl didn't care. Oh, it's just not look even. Let's do it. Oh, God. Maybe you need to turn and face me. Let me do the front when you face me. Okay, is that better? I don't know, I can't see. That's the last clip I have. That's all I have now. I don't know what happened. And obviously I've washed it a few times so it's really not pink anymore. It's actually kind of cute.  So we're on to something good. My hair dye finally came in. This is what we're using. Cotton candy. That is not gonna be dark enough either. I think this time. Okay, that actually looks kind of dark. So that's great. Let me know cotton candy. This is gonna look so good, though. It's also important when you're using Demi Permanent Color to wash your hair before using it.  They are nice and cleaned out. There's no oils blocking the little crevices in your hair and it can really attach to your hair strongly. I think a lot of it's gonna wash out. I think this is gonna look so good. Oh. Next day. This is what it looks like dry. It's not really showing up as vibrant as it actually is but like it's super vibrant in real life. But I kind of feel like and look like a pink highlighter and I don't need it. This is her color. This is what she needs to always have. This is it. She looks so good with pink hair. Whoa. Oh my God. Whoa. That was weird. Maybe one day I'll figure out what just happened but like I don't think it's today. I don't think today's the day. Thank you for that. That like kind of cured my depression. So let's move on. And our last quarantine hair color moment is by Taylor Searle. Searle. Bleaching and dyeing my hair like an e-girl in quarantine. We're gonna be cutting my hair. Dyeing my hair pink.  Whoa. I'm not going to do two strands in the front. I did my sisters like that yesterday and it was so cute. But I'm gonna do a chunk. Ooh, fun. So I'm gonna do pink with 40 volume developer and I'm gonna be cutting it too. I'm using short, short. Short cut. And it's the shade dark chocolate. Cool. That looks like your hair color already but. Because let's say I were to do the pink first and I was like whatever and then I did this on the rest of my hair. When I washed it, this could possibly bleed onto the light parts. So I'm gonna get the dark over. Yes. Okay, so we have it brown in the back now. The developer. 30 volume developer. 30 and 40 together. It makes 35. Yes. That's true. Because I don't think you're supposed to like completely use 40. So. Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it. Half of this. Yes. That is such a good idea. All you gotta do is add up the two developers. So 30 plus 40 is 70 and divide by two. That goes for any combination of developers. You can add up 10 and 20. 30 divided by two is 15. Which makes it a 15 volume developer. You can do with any developer combination. And then the bleach I got my favorite bleach is the Wella color charm. I love Wella color charm. I really do. This is good. It's virgin pink. Ooh, we love our tick fox. Make sure it's a little thicky. I'm like, I'm excited. I'm measuring. And she's making it thick. That is such a good idea so it doesn't dry out really fast. I don't even know. These gloves are literally stained pink from yesterday. Typically the thinner the bleach is, the faster it dries out and the less it processes. Starting at my end, starting at my end, Sprad Mondo. Why does everything smell like fish? I'm starting to think it's my koochie. It looks like I messed some in there. I don't even know and I really can't tell. It turned out exactly how I thought it was. Ah, shoot. I don't have to touch my roots, so that's good. Okay, well, I mean, it's a start. Hopefully she just bleaches the ends again and puts them in foils again and just gets everything evened out. The only thing I'm sad about is I got this piece right there. Ooh, a little bit of bleeding over there, huh? I'm gonna blow dry this. Okay. Gonna have to bleach again. Thank God. My hair is screaming right now. Your hair will be fine. I think it'll be fine. I really hope that this lightens enough. I will not cut my hair off, period. I don't think it'll fall off. Oh, we're just putting the pink right on. Okay, well, that's also something we can do. Maybe the pink will be dark enough. I now have a bag on my head to go over that yellow hair. Going to leave it for like 40 minutes. And I will. It'll be more of an orangey pink, probably. Like a coral. So I guess I'm just gonna sleep on this and then in the morning. What the? Oh my God. I don't know what happened. I don't really know. Oh. It's not pretty. It's not good. It's pink, so what I wanted, can't really complain. It's definitely pink. Tan and hopefully whenever I get ready later, I don't hate it and I hope that it's cute. Please, please. This is how my hair turned out. So happy with it. I think it's dope.  I just pulled it over to the side. It makes my eyes super blue. I feel pretty. What is going on today? How are these girls doing this? That looks incredible. You look so cool. I love it so much better than what you started with. Oh my God, I'm obsessed. Yes, this is exactly what you needed. I actually love the brown color you put on the back. I think it's perfect to compliment the pink in the front. I love the placement of the pink. I think it's so edgy, so fun and so young and so cool. 10 out of 10. Great job. Well, that was very surprising at how great all those came out. I mean, like the first one, you know, it could have just been a little bit better. I don't know what to say that. It could have been a little bit better. The last two though. Whoa, holy smokes. Like, hello. That was what I wanted. That was it. You guys all did a really great job though for doing that at home with limited supplies. I'm proud of you. I'm a proud father. My girls did it. Alrighty guys, don't forget to follow me on all the different social media networks. Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter under BradMondoNYC. You can also find my Snapchat show and my Facebook page and a Facebook group under BradMondo, I think the name is. Also make sure you check out xmondohair.com. If you want beautiful, fabulous, amazing, glowing, healthy hair, it'll be linked below or you can go to xmondohair.com and also follow us on Instagram at xmondohair for updates on new product launches happening very soon. And that is all for today guys. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to live your extra life and I will see you next time. Bye guys. This is Force Field, our heat shield. Force Field will protect your hair up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit. Not only does this have heat protection technology in it, but we also have conditioning properties and hold properties. So that way your hairstyle will last you all day and all night and feel and look incredibly healthy and beautiful.


This is Gabby. Name? Gabby? Gabby is looking to purchase her first home, but she doesn't know where to begin. Step one. Step one. So she decides to call her best friend Sam. I'll call Sam. Since Sam happens to be a licensed real estate agent herself. Gabby! Sam! So I've been thinking about it a lot, and I finally decided I'm going to buy a house. Yes! Amazing! Say no more. Okay, first things first, you need to figure out your budget and down payment. A lot of people think you have to have a 20% down payment saved in order to buy a home, but actually you don't. Here's the thing. If you put down less than 20%, the bank will consider you a higher risk, which means you'll probably be required to buy private mortgage insurance, or PMI. Private mortgage insurance. I've heard of that. Exactly. Yes. But anyway, how big of a down payment are you planning to make? There is no right or wrong answer. The median down payment for first-time home buyers in the U.S. is actually 6%. Gabby just needs to remember that if she makes less than a 20% down payment, she will need to buy private mortgage insurance, PMI. This was so helpful. Thank you. Of course. Bye. And so, Gabby has officially embarked on her home buying journey. A few days later, she's already set up an intro meeting with her banker and mortgage specialist, John. Hi, John. Hey, Gabby. Are you ready to talk mortgages or what? John jumps into his mortgage 101 speech. In order to calculate your potential mortgage, we need to figure out what your debt to income ratio, or DTI, is. DTI. Yeah, got it. Right.  We can calculate it by taking your potential future housing payments, so that's mortgage, property taxes, homeowners insurance, PMI, plus all your other current debts, credit card payments, auto loans, student loans, whatever else, and dividing it by your gross monthly income. Okay. And that's my DTI. Typically, a DTI 43% is the highest ratio you can have and still qualify for a mortgage, though you probably want to be even lower, just for peace of mind.  If Gabby has debt, as 80% of all Americans, her total debt will be factored into the size of her mortgage. If Gabby is debt free, she will just need to calculate her housing costs. And so, John finishes talking Gabby through his mortgage 101 speech and leaves Gabby with clear next steps. So just finish filling out those forms and we'll get the ball rolling, okay? And so, Gabby soon submits all the necessary documents to the bank. And in just a few days, Gabby finds out she's been pre-approved for her mortgage. Yes. That means she's ready to put in her offer on the house she's already picked out. And if it gets accepted, it'll be on to the closing process. But wait. Wait. The closing process. Gabby hasn't done any research about this. So naturally, she decides. I've got to call Sam. Gabby. Sam. I've just been peeking at some beautiful homes about to come on the market. Speaking of which, how are things going with you? That's exactly why I'm calling. I need your brain. What can you tell me about the closing process? Okay. Are you ready? I think so. So the closing process is made up of a series of steps that usually take weeks to go through. Inspection, appraisal, closing costs. Did you have a specific question? There are a few steps Gabby can take before finalizing her purchase. She can schedule a home inspection, which might uncover pre-existing issues with the home and its proper functioning. She can also ask for a professional valuation of the home to determine if the contract price is appropriate. You are an endless source of wisdom. Oh, and by the way, don't forget that you'll want to factor in homeowners insurance to your budget as well. Ooh. Good call. Thank you. Of course. Let's talk soon. And so Gabby is well on her way to buying her first home. With Sam's help, she will put in an offer on her favorite house and it will get accepted. And that's exactly where Gabby will live, happily ever after, or at least for eight years, which is the average amount of time Americans live in a home before moving.


Internal Revenue Service IRS tax news! IRS May 15th tax deadline extended to October 16th for disaster area taxpayers in California, Alabama, and Georgia. The deadline has been extended, and you thought the IRS was tough on you. They're really harsh on lines, man.  First, the IRS kills the line, and then the IRS tries to revive the line, making it into some kind of zombie line, known as a dead line. You know? I mean, the IRS is like that kid in school who just can't let go of a game, always wanting to extend it until they win. All the while attempting to convince you the rules of the game are totally different than what you thought they were, the game being unrecognizable by the end of it. You know the kind of person I'm talking about here, you know what I'm talking about, but dealing with the IRS, it's no game, man. I mean, it's like fighting a mythical beast with multiple heads. You cut off one deadline, and two more pop up in its place. It's like a deadline hydra. Deadline extension. It's like, oh great, just what we needed. More time to stress out about taxes. I'm stressing out. Yeah, guitar hero can be pretty stressful.  But you know, maybe instead of a game guide, you should just buy another game to kind of ease the stress. But hey, at least we have a little more time to procrastinate.  Have you ever heard of heroin hero? Have heroin hero? Absolutely. Dealing with the IRS is like a natural disaster for your bank account. Except for this one, I'm 100% certain that this disaster was actually man-made, you know? Like a natural disaster may destroy my home, but a tax season disaster destroys your wallet. And the wallet pays for the home for crying out loud. Like living in California, I'm starting to think the universe decided to throw everything at us this year. Storms, wildfires, and taxes. And you know, I'm pretty sure I could deal with the first two if it wasn't for that last one. But whatever. Sorry about the rant, though.  I lost my train of thought. So I think, so I lost my train of thought. Dang it. What was I talking about?  It's like having a mental train wreck, man. Oh, well, I'm sure whatever I was talking about wasn't important anyways. And my mind has been distracted by the one-year-old child government maternity leave they give me, and I'm about to take, you know? You know how it is, flying the old jet out to the Bahamas. It's like, honestly.  You know to clear the tracks.  IR 2023-33, February 24, 2023, Washington. Disaster area taxpayers in most of California and parts of Alabama and Georgia now have until October 16, 2023 to file various federal, individual, and business tax returns and make tax payments. The Internal Revenue Service announced today. Previously, the deadline had been postponed to May 15th for these areas. The IRS is offering relief to any area designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. That's FEMA. There's a link to that here in these three states. There are four different eligible FEMA declarations, and the start dates and other details vary for each of these disasters. The current list of eligible locations and other details for each disaster are always available on the Tax Relief in Disaster Situations page on IRS.gov. There's a link to that here. The additional relief postpones until October 16th. Various tax filing and payment deadlines including those for most calendar year, 2022 individual and business returns. This includes individual income tax returns originally due on April 18th. Various business returns normally due on March 15th and April 18th. And returns of tax-exempt organizations normally due May 15th, among other things. This means that eligible taxpayers will also have until October 16th to make 2022 contributions to their IRA and help savings account, which is kind of nice because that can be some tax planning that you might be able to still do in that event. In addition, farmers who choose to forego making estimated tax payments and normally file their returns by March 1st will now have until October 16th, 2023 to file their 2022 return and pay any tax due. The October 16th deadline also applies to the estimated tax payments for the fourth quarter of 2022, originally due on January 17th, 2023. This means that taxpayers can skip making these payments and instead include it with the 2022 return they file on or before October 16th. So the October 16th deadline also applies to the 2023 estimated tax payments normally due on April 18th, June 15th and September 15th. It also applies to the quarterly payroll and excise tax returns normally due on January 31st, April 31st and July 31st. So the disaster assistance and emergency relief for individuals and businesses page, there's a link to that here, has details on other returns, payments and tax-related actions qualified for the additional time. So if you have other issues you think might be put in place, you can take a look at that page. For taxpayers in the affected areas do not need to file any extension paperwork and they do not need to call the IRS to qualify for the extended time because the IRS should be able to apply automatically because they have your location. The IRS it automatically provides filing and penalty relief to any taxpayers with an IRS address of record located in the disaster area. Therefore, taxpayers do not need to contact any agency to get this relief. So once again the IRS is pleading with us not to call them. Don't actually call us over here for goodness gracious's sake. However, if an affected taxpayer receives a late filing or late payment penalty notice from the IRS that has an original or extended filing payment or deposit due date falling within the postponement period, the taxpayer should call the number on the notice to have the penalty abated. If you do get something saying you got a penalty, when you should have got an automatic extension and you didn't get it, then call the number on the notice, not the 800 number because you possibly might actually get a hold of someone if you don't call the 800 number, although they say they're getting better even with that one in order to change or fix the situation. In addition, the IRS will work with any taxpayer who lives outside the disaster area but whose records necessary to meet a deadline occurring during the postponement period are located in the affected area. Taxpayers qualify for relief who live outside the disaster area need to contact the IRS at<PHONE_NUMBER>. I won't say that a hundred times because there's a link to this in the description. You can check it out yourself. Obviously, if you're outside the area, the government doesn't have your address. Therefore, it can't apply the extension automatically and if you qualify but are outside the area, you would then need to contact them. This also includes workers assisting the relief activities who are affiliated with a recognized government or philanthropic organization. Individuals and businesses in a federally declared disaster area who suffered uninsured or unreimbursed disaster-related losses can choose to claim them on either the return for the year the loss occurred or the return of the prior year. So that's kind of an important little detail there because you have kind of a choice on when to claim the loss and the year of the disaster that would be in 2023 but you're not going to file 2023 till next year. So you'd have to delay the benefits and it's possible that your income is lowered due to the disaster. So if you take the disaster on that year, then it might not have as big an impact on your taxes if your income was lowered because you'll be in lower tax brackets and so possibly you could take it in another year. So you want to kind of think through that to get your maximum tax benefit under the law. So the tax relief is part of a coordinated federal response to the damage caused by these storms and is based on local damage assessments by FEMA for information on disaster recovery. You can visit disasterassistance.gov. There's a link to that here. There's a link to this other stuff here. There'll be a link to this in the description.


Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Sonali, welcome to a new weekend vlog. This weekend is gonna be fun, so I had to vlog it for you guys. I'm about to go to breakfast with one of my friends and then later on, I think we're gonna hit up Barton Springs Pool because it's supposed to be 90 degrees out today and it's not even April yet, so it's gonna be fun. But this is the outfit of the day. This sweatshirt is from Amazon, super affordable. It's pretty thin, but it's really soft on the inside, so I will link it down below. This hat is the one we got at the Dell Match Play yesterday. It's technically Ryan's hat, but I was like, we're gonna share it from now on because you guys know nude is definitely my aesthetic. And then I just got some set active biker shorts on and a set active bra, and then my new favorite shoes, the new balances. Bye Sophie, my little creature. Cutie patootie, I love you. Just got done with breakfast at better half and their tie is so freaking good. Then I got a chicken biscuit, which was also so good and it's so nice to talk to Hannah because she does TikTok too. Pretty sure she just hit 10K followers on TikTok, so I'll have her at down below. But she talks about more of a damp lifestyle, which is so interesting to me. She's awesome and I've been seeing her around at South by Southwest events. We were at Bungalow that other weekend and I saw her from behind and I knew it was Hannah. And I was like, oh my God, Hannah, it's so awesome that I'm just seeing people. And we were just talking about how Austin is a small city, but it feels big, but also like once you start to like meet people and stuff like that, like you'll see them out and you'll just feel like you're in your small hometown in a weird way. I don't know how to describe it, but like, you know, if you go to the popular spots like Bungalow and stuff like that, like you'll see, you know, people and especially if you work at a big tech company like Oracle or something, that will definitely happen. Not that I've ever worked there, but Ryan used to work there. So that's why I'm saying that.  They're like knocking, I'm pretty sure like three to four bars on like the end of Rainy Street to put another high rise in and it sucks because Bungalow was one of the most fun bars on Rainy Street, definitely like one of my favorite. And so I think we're gonna stop by tomorrow. I'm hoping we like can me and my friends. I feel like that would be so fun, although like drinking on a Sunday, I don't know about that, but like I just feel like I will regret if I don't go the last day that it's open, but it does really suck that like Rainy Street is getting torn down because every city has their own like sixth street, like, you know, Bourbon Street in Nolah or West six, which is more of like the college bars or like the nicer bars, but I feel like no other city, at least not that I know of has a Rainy Street. And if you guys don't know what Rainy Street is, it's basically like houses that are turned into bars, like really old houses and they like revamped the insides. There's like a whole backyard situation. So it's a perfect place to do some day drinking because it's like a little bit of an outside indoor situation. And I am just gonna miss it so much, but I know like by the time they're gonna like demolish all of Rainy Street, which I don't even know if they will, all of it, but it definitely is going to be different. I feel like by that time, you know, I'll be old enough to not like wanna go out on Rainy Street, but I feel like, you know, Rainy Street does have the older age people that go there. I feel like college kids definitely go to sixth and West, but like Rainy Street is definitely like an older crowd. So I don't know if I will get tired of it, but it does really suck, but I'm gonna go home, take a chill pill, definitely have some more cleaning to do if you guys saw my week in my life.  I feel like I've been go, go, go and not had really much time to clean it nor had energy to clean it. So I'm gonna try to do that today and then we're gonna go to Barton Springs Pool at 2 p.m. So it's 11 p.m. right now.  So I'm back home and it is time to clean this place up. If there's trash ever on our counters, it's because we forgot to take out the trash for the valet guide to pick it up and we've been forgetting like for the past two days and so annoying because he only comes, I think Sunday through Thursday. So he doesn't come on Friday, obviously, or the weekend. And so I'm gonna go take it out really quick and I feel like that's definitely gonna make a big difference to get all the boxes out of the way and then I need to work on cleaning my filming room because there's just clothes everywhere and I was just thinking about it. Today's gonna be like the first time I'm gonna be in a swimsuit in a really long time and I'm a little nervous about it to be honest. I mean, I just got some really cute ones from Amazon. I did a tech tell call and I will link down below my Amazon storefront. I have linked so many really, really cute one pieces. I'm so about one pieces because they just make me feel like extra secure, extra confident, but even though it is a one piece, like it's still, you know, not me wearing a sweatshirt or not me hiding behind my card again that I've been doing this whole winter. So I'm a little nervous. I'm not gonna lie, but we're gonna make do. We're gonna be confident today and I feel like those swimsuits that I got, like I think they're gonna be perfect for today. My friend Mackenzie said that she's gonna like bring a tube to the pool because it is a little bit deep and I need to remember to bring my Chocos that I could like actually walk in it because it's like kind of like slippery and slimy in it. So definitely bring like kind of like river shoes, but I feel like it would be nice to, you know, just float in it. I feel like it's really gonna be cold. Like Barton Springs pool is freezing year round. Even in the middle of June, when it's super hot outside, it is freezing water. So I don't know if I'll be in the water too much. I mean, I want to be like, I love to swim, but like that cold, I don't know about that. So hopefully it gets like really hot outside so that like I'm pressured to go in, but I told Mackenzie if she like got me a pool noodle or something, I'd pay her back. So hopefully there are like them already out in the stores. I mean, it's just spring. So I don't even know if they like are carrying them right now, but let's turn on sport mode and clean this whole place. I was literally talking to Ryan the other day and it was just like being this messy is just not very like me. And I don't want to turn into this person. And I'm just like getting really worried. I'm like, okay, it's been like a couple of weeks or maybe like a week or two that it's been like this, like what happened to me and what's wrong with me that I can't physically clean it up. Like maybe I just don't have time.  So I can't let this happen again. I need you guys to hold me accountable and like keep this place clean because it's so, I mean, like it's not filthy, but it's like shit's everywhere. And like how hard is it to literally just push it back where it belongs? I don't know. But anyways, can't happen again. That's all I have to say. Also, whenever we leave Sophie for long amounts of time, we always put the trash up on the counter because there was this one phase in her life where she would literally knock over this black, like heavy trash can and go through the trash because there will be like leftover food in it. And I'm just like, we cannot have that happen again. So we try to just like get it out of the way. To Barton Springs pool, this is my little outfit. Literally everything you see here is from Amazon and I'll try to link everything in this swim category in my Amazon storefront, which will be linked down below. But I was gonna wear a hat, but I feel like this is just a little bit more practical because I'm gonna wear my hair down and not get like too sweaty. I was just wearing Ryan's hat from the Dell Mash Play this morning and like this forehead area just got so sweaty. I don't know how he wears hats all the time. I'll probably vlog some on my iPhone so I don't have to take this thing in. Did you miss us? So we scratched. Sophie, did you miss us? We got spicy boys. I think that's like my new addiction. It's so good. I've told you guys many times, but their tater tots, 10 out of 10. So we're about to dig in. And then later on, we have nothing really to do. I know I have a lot of computer work to do, so maybe I can get that done and just like get my life together. I am just so happy that I cleaned the place. Well, not everything's done yet, but I did my closet, I did my bedroom, and then this kitchen, which was the problem, like the big problem, and it was crazy walking into this house or apartment or whatever, to a clean kitchen and nothing on the counter. It was just a very different feeling than what I've been feeling the last past two weeks, but definitely a great feeling at that. So I'm gonna dig in, because I'm starving. My stomach was actually rumbling. What do we left? The Barton Springs Pool area. I just get the OG sandwich. It's kind of like an Asian fusion. And then these are the tater tots that I was starting out so crispy and beautiful and so good. Good morning. It is Sunday, so I wore my Sunday sweatshirt from Princess Polly. Thought it was fitting. It is currently 8 a.m. I'm just waiting for a client. I'm gonna do a couple shoot this morning, and we are at Maddie's. It's a restaurant and I love shooting here because there is beautiful trees. Just definitely a more like nature-y location. And usually like my clients either want like really urban, really like city vibes or nature. And so this is definitely one of the spots I really like to shoot at. And today I think me and my friends are gonna try to go to Bunglow. And they were like trying to chill this weekend and they were just telling me like, okay, we'll probably stop by and you know, check it out and stuff. And I'm just like, I don't think it's like a stopping by situation.  But like I said, it is a Sunday and I don't really wanna drink today. So I'm not sure if those plans will change, but I really do wanna go because it is the last time and I'm just really sad about it. It doesn't even feel real that all of that stuff is getting torn down on rainy street. So definitely have to take advantage while it's still here for like literally one last day. This is the location of today and I have never really seen these purple flowers before, but they're like all over UT's campus and I've been having so much fun, just like posing people with the flowers and I think they're so pretty. Honestly, I might come back here and like take some photos for myself cause they are stunning.  It sells Southern food and their donut holes are delicious. My shoot went so well. I honestly have a new love for morning shoots because first of all, I feel like I'm a morning person usually and I just like to get things done in the morning and you feel so productive like it's 9 a.m. And I just got a whole shoot done, like I worked and it just feels really good.   I showed you guys the purple flowers and the photos are so cute. I'm so excited to go home and like upload them because I feel like the photos definitely like look even better on like a bigger screen. Also, I'm very like a visual person, like my eyes are bad so I like to see everything bigger. I get made fun of because my text on my iPhone is grandma sized, like it is large and in charge but I wouldn't have it any other way.  I love to see them so big and blown up. It just like is so just like pleasing to the eye for me. At the light, turn right onto West Caesar Shabba Street.  We're going to Starbucks. It's a Starbucks day. I feel like I haven't had it in a while and we used to go so often during quarantine and it was very like addicting for us. What do you think? Like that in Chick-fil-A? We got Starbucks more after quarantine. Well, yeah, I guess like peak. Yeah, quarantine probably not. But you know what I mean? Like still in COVID and stuff and we would bring Sophie with us. She still has bedhead going on a little bit. She's still looking a little funky but it is like the most perfect Sunday. The weather is perfect. The birds are chirping. And I just texted my friends. I was like, I really just don't feel like drinking and I feel like if we go and we're not tipsy at least like it's just not going to be fun. So I'm not sure we're going to go to bungalow, which is sad but also I just, I'm not feeling it today. But we're going to go in. I'll probably get a half calf because I don't need that much energy right now. And then we will start our Sunday. Oops, forgot to vlog on my last bite. She's talking. The beginning half of this vlog had like a different like color profile on my camera. If you guys know cameras, you would probably know or fear into videography but basically like it's a different kind of setting for the colors. So it's a little bit less saturated and the highlights are brought down. Now I kind of want to go back to just like original coloring. So that's why the edit may look a little bit different halfway through the vlog. Just trying things out and just seeing what I like especially before I go to Italy. I want like everything to be really consistent over there. So just kind of like seeing what looks best and my hair is kind of weird. It's definitely like a bit greasy today. But I am currently trying to film a voiceover for a TikTok and my toxic trait is filming so much of my like vertical video content in the camera app and not straight on TikTok because like I always want to try to repurpose it for other things or like make other videos out of it and have that footage like forever. Because if you just film like a little clip in TikTok you're not going to have that little clip on its own if that makes sense.  So I have been using the app on my phone cap cut and honestly I always ask myself like how the heck is this app free? Because there's so much you can do like so many cool edits and then like even like removing the background on a video it's insane what you can do with this app. And again it's called cap cut not sponsored but I'm literally just like mind blown and definitely like video editing in general there is a learning curve and with your phone it's just so much easier to just like get it done because once I like air drop the videos to my computer and like I am a lot faster in final cut but I wanted to kind of like trial run doing editing on my phone like in the app because when I get to Italy at first I didn't want to bring my computer because it's just so big but then I was like I probably won't need my computer it's going to be like two weeks and I cannot go without my computer for two weeks but anyways I would still really like to like edit the footage in real time post the content that I get from the day like in the night because that was another thing like when we went to Big Bend I was planning to do all these TikToks and like day in my life to what we did in Big Bend and everything like that and then I never actually edited it because I took it all in the camera app and forgot to edit it or just like time passed and I didn't do anything with it which I still could and I definitely want to it's definitely on my to-do list of things to do but basically there's pros and cons to filming in the app on TikTok and pros and cons of filming in the camera app but also I find that the camera app has better quality so I like to film there but it is personal preference so I'm gonna film this voiceover and I always stutter so bad and you guys can watch me hopefully I don't stutter too bad but also I feel like in general I'm not good with words like I feel like writing is my weakness I feel like I don't formulate sentences how I want them to be like in my head I'm like thinking of this thought but I don't know how to say it sometimes which is so weird it's been a goal for a very long time to just like try to widen my vocabulary and also stop saying like... there we go, I said like but also stop saying like just filler words and everything like that I feel like it will really help with just talking to the camera and video editing because you don't have to cut out all the you know filler words here's a day in my life in Austin also it helps to smile because I just sound happier a little bit not that I'm like trying to be fake but I feel like if I don't smile it sounds like really monotone so I feel like every like YouTuber has their like YouTube voice and normal voice which I feel like I do talk like this but like if I'm with Ryan then I can be super monotone because I don't have to like be super peppy because he just like knows me well enough does that make sense? I don't know okay, let's do this all right here's a day in my life in Austin, Texas okay here's a day in my life in Austin, Texas here's a day in my life in Austin, Texas I got up pretty early because I had a early here's a day in my life in Austin here's a day in my life in Austin, Texas it's so loud I live like right on the street and like not that many cars come by like it still is kind of a main street but it's definitely a lot further down but there's so many freaking trucks and loud fucking cars that come by and it literally makes me so frustrated especially when it's a nice day Ryan will like leave the door open and the cars will drive by and I literally wanna punch a wall because it makes me so angry hearing that freaking loud motor now I thought I would actually punch a wall and I don't really have like anger management issues but just like that noise I'm like why do you do that? Like it's not cool you're just bothering everyone but I guess that's what I get living on the street now I know because our last place was not on the street there was like a little creek behind our last place and it was so peaceful but I definitely am a little bit closer to the city so I kind of should have known this was gonna be a thing woke up early Friday morning and went straight to UT's campus because I woke up early this Friday morning and headed straight to UT's campus to shoot a grad it is grad season so I've been okay it is grad season so I've been there pretty much twice a day and then I headed straight to and I'm here as immaculate the weather was perfect and then Alice and Olivia and Gorka I first stop was the gift shop of course we got this hat as always I'm rushing to make this TikTok really quick before I go to Zilker to meet my friends but I wanted to show you guys some of the Amazon fashion vines that I got recently so first off starting with this linen shirt and I will put the size that I got on the screen and the price but you can always find them in my Amazon store front and I will link them directly down below just to make it easier for you guys but this is what it looks like it's pretty large on me but I kind of like it because it's going to be perfect for like a swimsuit cover-up or just to wear it like this you can kind of like tuck it in a little bit more if you would like but I'm just wearing like a white bra and it doesn't seem to be extremely see-through which is great I totally forgot to show you guys the last two things so I'm going to insert video here it's just a gilded sweatshirt super affordable very like thin almost but super soft inside and perfect for like those summer chilly nights and then the sweatpants I definitely want to return and get a size up they're just like the essentials brand I'm pretty sure they're a dupe though but also pretty affordable so definitely go check out my Amazon store front and this is going to be my outfit for the day head it out to Zilker Park to meet some friends got an Aritzia ribbed tank on I think these sweatshirts are from Airy and I think they're a little bit dingy because they used to be a little bit whiter so gotta bleach them soon and then we have this white aloe hat and then we have Reebok shoes which Ryan just told me I could do better on the shoes but I don't really want to like get my other good ones really dirty so we'll see but I'm excited just chill out bake in the sun I literally just want to like lay down and feel the sun but I did that yesterday and I told Ryan like today can you itch my back and he was like I think your sunburn I was like hell no which could very well be a thing because I did get really tan yesterday but I'm kind of like embracing it honestly after college I feel like I'm just like eff it I am going to get as dark as I want because the sun feels so good so that's what I'm going to do today and I'm going to take Sophie with me too I brought Maddie some seaweed because I brought some yesterday to Barton Creek and she was like in love and so I brought her her own pack leave Jackie one too Ty's with us say hey Ty Louis with us say hey Louis aw he kind of said hi Sophie's somewhere over here I don't know where she is behind you Sophie say hi okay so we left Zoker still here with Jackie because she wanted to come on an adventure to H Mart since we had that seaweed we were like H Mart yeah H Mart one sounds really good right now so I'm going to show her around I'm probably going to get some sushi grade fish maybe make a sushi bowl later and it's going to be a fun time let's go on an adventure just went on a total hunt for the seaweed because they didn't know what the packaging looks like but we found it yes like out of all these seaweeds like how am I supposed to know which one to pick that's crazy it's currently 9 25 and I just got home we've had such a long day and Sophie was with me for it all I felt so bad but I also just didn't want to go home because it was all the way on the east side and we were all going all the way up like north west maybe lake line I honestly am so bad with like where things are I just go where the map tells me but I got the sushi grade fish so I'm going to make it tomorrow since we got sushi at H Mart I was just like so hungry I didn't want to like wait and get home and then cook and literally eat at like 10 p.m. or something so I got the sushi grade fish I got some king oyster mushrooms my favorite and they are so freaking cheap there central market they are so expensive and then I got this cool drink it says basil seed passion fruit flavor drink and it has like the little passion fruit beads in there and I know this probably looks weird and some people are like weirded out by textures but I really like like weird textures I don't know why I guess I'm the weird one but I'm very excited to try that out maybe I'll try it tomorrow in my weekly vlog so definitely subscribe down below I'm gonna end the vlog here because I just need to get in bed and just have me time go on tiktok maybe find some new recipes to make this week because I think that would be fun I don't have as many morning shoots as I did last week so I'm gonna have more of like time for myself and just like get my life together because I feel like last week was a lot like I said since South by Southwest it's been a lot and I just need to chill and today was like a perfect day and it was so nice to hang out with Jackie because she's been really busy too so we haven't gone to hang out in a while and she's like so sweet and honestly I want to spend more time with her because I love her so much but she's actually literally leaving to Portugal I think for like almost a month on Saturday so I guess we'll just have to hang when she gets back and I need to start playing my Italy trip but that's another story for another day so again subscribe if you guys are not already go follow me on Instagram and 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