In this episode of "Curious Conversations," hosts Tully and Sarah return for 2023, sharing their holiday experiences and goal-setting strategies. They introduce guest Morgan Riddle, a content creator who transitioned from a corporate role in nonprofit to full-time social media after a viral TikTok video. Morgan discusses her life traveling 40 weeks a year with her professional tennis player boyfriend, the mental health struggles of constant travel and bubble tournaments during COVID, and her coping mechanisms like morning walks and therapy. She addresses online hate, noting the toxicity of platforms like TikTok, and explains her shift to YouTube for more genuine content. Morgan also highlights the importance of being open about mental health, despite her privileged lifestyle, to show that happiness and struggles can coexist. The hosts praise her authenticity and emotional awareness, and the episode touches on goal-setting, resilience, and the value of sharing personal experiences to help others.
Welcome to Curious Conversations with Tully and Sarah. We sit down and chat with business owners, entrepreneurs and some of the best conversation starters. This is a podcast about real life lessons and people doing cool shit. Tonight? Perhaps tonight. I just said that so you could get off your phone. I didn't realise we were recording yet. I was waiting for you to set up the podcast. We're back. We're here 2023, guys. We are back for another big year. A huge year. Yes, a massive year and we are. Well, firstly, how was your holidays? You were with me. Most of it. Yeah, I was. We met the queens, and it was so nice. It was actually really refreshing and most people that follow us know that we actively took a break. Yeah, I don't. I actually was ready to come home. I deleted social media for 24 hours, which was heaven, and then we read full books. We swam. We. Yeah. It was great. We spoke about our years, spoke about our goals, wrote down our goals. I actually did my goals before we went away. I did it like just before New Year's. I bought a new journal, wrote down my goals, and actually, oh, it was last year that I did it, but for this year, I feel like I was quite specific with a lot of things where in the past, I usually do a lot of visual boards and stuff and just write. My goal is down, but not as specific, so I did it in a different way this year. And today's guest actually gave us a very, very, very good idea for a future episode on goals. Yeah, she did, and I think we might do that next up just a little. I think if you talk about your goals out loud, we're likely to happen. Yeah, but one that's also bloody scary. Oh, 100%. There's probably some things just for me personally. I probably won't say out loud. Like I don't tell, like I probably wouldn't tell you either. I just like little things that I want to keep to myself, but other goals, I'm like, great. And you know what? By listening to a podcast, you might trigger something in someone's brain and they'd be like, "Oh, that's actually maybe a goal of mine." I know sometimes I read people's goals and I'm like, "Oh, shit, that's a good goal. I'm going to use that." Yeah. So it's also nice, but I think that'd be a really great episode. I agree. Yeah. Who is today's guest? Yes. So we just had Morg's in. So Morgan Riddle from the United States of America. We were lucky enough to just our paths aligned last year. And it's so funny. I was talking to Sarah about this a little while ago. I'm like, "It's so funny how people just come into your life and they align." That is Morgan. So we love Morgan. We do love Morgan. So she came on today and Sarah just want to give like a little brief rundown of what the podcast episode is about. We chat about a lot about mental health. Morg's is, and I say it in the intro, I didn't meant to hype her up, but I 100% will be her hype girl because she is one of the most honest and down to earth, down to earth influences that I follow, but also gives value back to people who are connected with her like the goal thing. I've learned so much from Morgan on goals, goal setting, holding yourself accountable, things you can actually do. I was like, "Oh my God, I never knew that." Yeah, and there's been a lot of things over the last year when I followed her on social media and she speaks about it. It's then the episode I've taken from her. So I was like, I know we're both super excited to have it on. It was a really, really great episode. We did have a few technical issues. It is our first podcast back for 2023. Mercury is in retrograde. Yeah, that made me feel a lot better because we did have a few technical issues at the start of recording and then midway through it stopped recording, but we have an amazing editor, Hi, Matt, who helped us out and we really appreciate you. So it's a really great episode and we hope you guys enjoy it. It is a great episode. We do cover mental health. We have content creation. So Morgan is a content creator and I really love the story behind how she fell into it. And she'll say this in the podcast and I have spoken to her briefly about this. She's never been happier and I think halfway through I say that is a perfect, great advice. But when you're stuck in a situation and you're not happy, do something about it. Also, if you want more of Morg's, go watch her YouTube or go watch the new Netflix series breakpoint. Yes. 100%. So we hope you guys like and enjoy. Don't forget to subscribe, like and pass on to all your friends. I love you. Have a beautiful day. Ciao. Morgan. Hi. Hello. I went to say Morg's that I'm like, you sit and tell me the other day. I say Morg's. Oh yeah. It feels weird hearing you say Morg's. It doesn't. That's why I love. Well, welcome to Curious Conversation. Thank you for having me. We're very excited. We're very excited. I've been wanting to sit down with you for a long time because I feel like every month I send you a life update. You do. And I think since last year that I've got to know you that you're one of the most emotionally aware people I know. 100% thank you. Thank you. And I think I just feel like I always have such beautiful conversations with you. I always learn something. You're very curious. And that's one of the things I really love about you. Oh, you guys know who we created. I really swear. Thank you. You're my show. I'm so glad you bought that in because I think you've summed that up perfectly. Now we've known you for a year, but I just want you to give a little bit of an intro into who Morgan is and just a little insight into the listeners can kind of get a bit understanding of who you are and what you do. Okay, starting I guessed from the beginning. So I grew up in Minnesota, which is middle of America right near Canada. I lived there until I was 18, went to college in New York City, which had been my dream since I was 13 years old, probably. I majored in English. So I studied Shakespeare and stuff. And that was mostly because I just had no idea exactly what I wanted to do. And my dad told me that if you are an English major, that will tell people that you're smart and you can write well and that really helps in any career that you want to go into. So I did that and my focus in college was actually more so like internships as opposed to really being a star student in my classes. I wanted to get the life experience of New York and the city and I think making that choice, starting the first semester in my freshman year really made my college experience very different from most peoples. And I learned a ton. I got to know so many people in the city. You just had the best college experience there. And then after graduation, I was the media director for an apparel company that gave 50% of profit to fighting pediatric cancer. Oh, thank you. And got really interested in like nonprofit work and companies that gave back. So that kind of transitioned into a contributor position. So I would go on NBC New York, NBC Boston, NBC Chicago today and talk about companies that give back and have a mission behind them. So my first year as my career were really working in the nonprofit space. And then about a year ago, exactly, I started doing social media full time. It was this week, a year ago. Crazy. Yeah. And then someone jumping to social media full time. I think the best way to go about it is unintentionally. There's so many people. I mean, if I think I read article the other day that was saying how most 10 year olds, if you ask them what their dream job now is, it's to be a YouTuber. Oh, wow. And so it's kind of a new like dream job, especially in America. And so so many people want to do it at such a saturated space that I think the most kind of organic way to do it is to fall into it, which is what happened to me. I had, I think right when I met you guys, I was still working that corporate job. I wasn't super happy with it. I didn't really know what I wanted to do. And the day that I centred my resignation, I posted my first Get Ready With Me TikTok, where I was just getting dressed for a tennis match and that blew up overnight. I think it got 1.2 million views overnight. And then I've been doing that ever since. Oh my God, that's crazy. So now you've got Instagram, TikTok, and you've just recently launched your YouTube, just started YouTube like three weeks ago. Yeah. Wow. So if someone comes up to you and asks you, "What do you do?" What would you say? You know what? One of the reasons I wanted to start YouTube is because before when I was working in corporate, I was able to say, "Oh, I'm the media director for this gaming company." That's cool. Especially, you know, I know how I look. I know people's assumptions of me being able to do that. They always kind of had this sigh of relief that was like, "Oh, like she's normal." To then transition to the reaction I get from people now when I say, "Oh, I'm a TikToker or I'm an influencer." You get kind of like a down look from people. They're like, "Oh, that's cool." I feel like you saying YouTuber is a little bit better, just like a little bit better. So that's one of the reasons I was kind of excited to start. I'm not going to lie. But yeah, start YouTube. Love it. Love video editing. I've been video editing for like 10 years. So it's just coming super naturally and it's really fun to share more of kind of a genuine look inside my life. TikTok, Instagram, you can only get little glimpses of people. But I think YouTube is a lot more personal. Yeah. I could say with both watch Sarah and I, both watch your YouTube and you're amazing at editing. Thank you. Exactly. Like who you are on YouTube to what you are as we know you. So I love that. You're very authentic. But I'm.
I want to go back a little bit onto like you mentioned before, you did a get ready with me for tennis and stuff. So why, how we met you, you were traveling in Melbourne. So you do a lot of traveling. Yeah, let's talk about that. Okay, so I've been with my boyfriend for a little over two and a half years and he's a professional tennis player. So the reason I come to Australia for the first month of every year, we come for the Aussie swing of the tennis tour and Australian Open, which is so fun. This is just my favorite place to come. But yeah, we travel about 40 weeks a year, full time. We spend about five to six months a year in Europe. And then obviously there's some tournaments in the US and then Australia and random places. So how often do you get to spend time alone by yourself and see your family? I go home, I would say every five to six months. Okay. And then my mom will come to turn them in some time so I get to see her. She'll come out to LA when we're home. I, what was your other question? What was my other question? A learn time. Yeah, a learn time. A learn time. I spend so much time by myself. Yeah, also depending where I am, if I'm in places like Melbourne or Sydney where I have friends, I'll spend as much time with you guys as possible, obviously, like we hang out every day. But when I'm in Europe, for example, I don't really know people in a lot of the cities. I'm just, I'm by myself 24/7 all the time. Yeah. And that's when your hot girl walks coming. Hi. Hi. You say to Australia is your favorite place. Yeah. What? Oh, you know, when we're traveling a lot, obviously, I get really homesick. Yeah. And I love Europe, but it really is so different from the US. It's fascinating too. Yeah, the food, the language, the people is really different. So if I'm spending more than a couple of weeks there, I just start to get really homesick it. Yeah. It does feel so unfamiliar even though we've spent so much time there. Australia is so similar. Yeah. I have my exact same workout classes. I go to the food is the same. Everyone speaks English. You know, it just feels so familiar that I can spend a good chunk of time here and I don't feel really homesick. Yeah. And everyone here is so healthy and hot. And like, it's like, it's just a good place. There's good vibes here. And we also, I was come right at the beginning of summer here. We're everyone's just, you know, good mood. You know, good mood. And so excited about the tennis. And I wonder if Morgan came here and went to I should think the same. It's pretty miserable. It's really cool. Like in Melbourne. It's like, don't get me wrong. Like, there's so many fun things in winter. Like, we've got amazing food, amazing coffee. There's like sporting events and stuff. But it's very different to summer. It's like, you need to come here one winter just to experience it. Just to come forward. Yeah. Just to go around with something. Yeah. So you've been traveling full time with Taylor on the tennis circuit for how long now? About two and a half years. How was it during COVID? Terrible. Was it? Yeah, it was really rough. So the tennis tour started again in September of 2020. But when it started, there was these things called bubble tournaments. So most tournaments for the next year were bubble tournaments, which meant that you were in a bubble. You could only go to the hotel and the tennis tournament site. You could not see anyone outside the tennis tour. And you could even go on walks outside. I know why. Yeah. It was really hard. Looking back, I don't know why I chose to go to the tournament. I think the whole world was not going so well. It was like, okay, well, either I go, and I sit in my apartment in LA or I go and I sit in a hotel room in Paris. Yeah. I would have if it was Paris. Yeah, I was going to do that. I would have chosen Paris too. I was trying to go. So obviously you just, you did the carpet thing as well. I want to just talk about, because I'm putting myself in that situation, I hate being home sick and I really don't like being lonely. And I like spending time by myself. But mentally, how do you prepare for a trip to Europe when you know that's kind of what the trip's going to look like? The bubble tournaments? I work in two questions. I think the bubble tournament's first. And then just a Europe in general. In general. Knowing it's not your favourite place to be. Yeah. And then the first one was at a time where I really hadn't quite figured out how to take care of myself. Okay. So I didn't have the processes in place that I now have to make sure that I'm not miserable. It was a really hard year. And I know I was a hard year for everyone. It just sucked for everybody. So even though I was in all these cool cities and traveling in the world, I was pretty miserable. Yeah. And definitely did not take care of myself physically or emotionally in the way that I think I've really learned how to in the last year. Now what, I mean, I've got a couple of things. When the Hocker walks, obviously out to our walk every single day, usually first thing in the morning. And I was listening to the Huberman Lab podcast, which I really love. It's very scientific. He just does these deep dives into different topics. And he did one where he mentioned that sunlight first thing in the morning can really spark dopamine. Oh, wow. Like, give me all that. Yeah. I mean, I can get. And the morning my alarm goes off. And I usually slip on my shoes and go on a walk in my pajamas. First like before I do anything else before I check my phone. And you pay J's in my PJs. I love that. Well, throw on like a sweatshirt if I'm, you know, in an underwear or something. But first thing in the morning, get outside, usually go and grab my coffee. And yeah, that's helped a lot. Just set up your day. Yeah. Because I, especially during the pandemic and stuff, I always found myself waking up with so much anxiety. And I would get up and I'd lay in bed. And I wouldn't really know what to do because I'm not jumping out of bed and getting ready and going to an office anymore. I'm getting up and I'm like, well, work from home and have this. But a lot of times I would just kind of lay in bed for 20 minutes on my phone. And that's just the worst way to start the day. 100%. Over the last year, your social media and profile has grown like astronomical. How do you deal with this external, is it a pressure? Pressure for what? People always have opinions. Yeah. Like, that's it. Opinions and assumptions of you. Like the more people that follow, the more people that know you, there's a lot more noise around you. Yeah. It's been weird. Every time that I have a TikTok, that starts getting a little bit of traction or starts going viral, hate's going to happen no matter what. And I have a hard time with the TikTok platform. I really don't post very often compared to other creators, which is not great for my career, but it's awesome for my mental health because that platform is so toxic and people are so nasty and so mean. That being said, I think I get a lot less hate than other creators do. I, for every 100 positive comments, I'll maybe have one negative one. And all the negative things that I really see about myself are just about the way that I look or that I look fake or the tennis community is ruthless, just mean. So people on Twitter who saw a clip of me for three seconds at a match will, you know, take to the keyboard and write all their assumptions about me. And that's one of the reasons that I wanted to start YouTube because I think I can really show who I am on there. And if people watch, you know, the three videos that I have up and still hate me, that's fine. Like, if you want to form your, you're going to have your opinion on me once you know a little bit about who I am or a lot about who I am. But for people to hate and be really nasty online after seeing such a small part of who I am, that's just, it's frustrating more than anything. You know, you want to justify yourself and be like, "No, I'm like this. I'm like this. I'm not really like that." You can't do that because it'll just make things worse, you know? And that's one thing I admire about you is that you don't let anything like that get to you. Like, geez, you got to think, skid. It's a good quality to have. Yeah. I feel like I've always been pretty resilient, but it's still hard. And again, the amount that I get is very, very small. I don't have any other creators and hopefully it'll stay that way forever, but you never know. Yeah. So we've spoken a lot about YouTube and TikTok. I want to go to Instagram for a little bit because I really enjoy your content on Instagram, especially your stories. I think Sarah and I can relate to a lot of things you say. You're very open about, and you mentioned anxiety before, you're very open about anxiety and mental health, I would say, in general. I know you just talk a little bit about why you feel you can talk about that to your Instagram followers. Yeah. I think, I mean, I just think in general, it's become more common for people to be open about it. Yeah. I started going to therapy for the first time I think when I was 16 or 17. So it's something I've always really struggled with and not really been so open about. But I can't even remember the first time that I really started talking about it on my social media, but the first time that I did, I really realized how much people need, yeah, others to be open about that, especially online where everything is like, look at me, look how great this is, look how, you know, and with my life and my lifestyle, like I, I know that I have a super privileged life. Like it's, it's a dream life for a lot of people. And so I think that it's important for me to, you know, be transparent and be like, yes, you can live this amazing, fun, beautiful, awesome life and be really happy with it. And still.
have issues with the - Me, Matt, yeah. - Computer in your heart. - How do you know? - I call her Barbara. - I have a head. - Literally from like, Barbara in my head is like the answer. - And that's an assumption people do make. It's like all the money in the world, it all these materialistic things it can't buy you your mental health. - No way. - There's been two, and we were discussing it the other day, two things that you pose probably regularly, and it's a tool that I've taken away from you. It's like, I don't know what you call it. It's your, if you're feeling down, the notes is like what? - The ultimate guide to my unhappiness. - Yes, yes. - Can you explain that? - Sure, so I actually saw this in a TikTok a couple of years ago, and I thought I was so brilliant, and I wish I remembered the creator's name, but basically she made a note in her phone that she titled the ultimate guide to my unhappiness and listed out just really basic practical things of this is not good for me. So for example, mine would be drinking alcohol. Makes me feel really bad. Not going on outdoor walks. Just kind of like a practice list of things that if I'm doing a lot of this or if I'm not incorporating this into my life, I'm gonna start filling down. - Yeah. - And so if I'm having a low day, I can go back to the notes and my phone would be like, "Well, I did have a cocktail at dinner last night and I didn't go on a walk yesterday." And I think just looking at it from a very objective perspective of, okay, this is why I'm filling down. There's nothing wrong with me. These are things that boost the serotonin and boost the dopamine and stress you out is super helpful. Just look at it objectively. - Just all these little self-care things that you know work for you. - I mean, it really is like, it's the little, little things that are easy. If you're having a busy week, it's easy to overlook those things or to not think about it, but they can make a huge difference. - Whenever you post that, I take a mental note, I'm like, "Oh my God, like, when I'm feeling down, it's because I haven't done like some work out in the morning." - Yeah. - And I get frustrated for the rest of the day. - Yeah. - What are your, some of your old, on your notes? - Working out, being indecisive. - Oh yeah. - Because that's a good one. - That really triggers something in me and then I get frustrated with myself and then at the next thing triggers me even more, it's all because I wasn't decisive. Like the other day, I was triggered because the night before, I didn't have a plan to do a workout in the next morning. And so then I was indecisive of what I wanted to do. - And then I was settling in there. - Yeah, yeah. - I got that. I liked that one. - They're the two I can think of at the top of my head. - I know I can think of my other, sorry. - I was like, let's get up. - But I really was recording on the phone, too. - And the other one was a recent post. It was just around New Year's and you sat down with a friend and went over goals. It was like you financial and I can't remember the other categories. - Financial, personal, career, health, I think. - Spiritual. - Spiritual might have been in there. - But there was only like one or two things in each of those below. - Yeah. - So it was, they're achievable. - Yeah. Yeah. - Yeah. So my best friend from college, Claire and I do this quote unquote business meeting every month where we do a Zoom call because she's based in New York and we go over this big list of all these different goals that we have. And we basically have a life check in with each other. And you know, we'll chat about I want to do this. Like this is what's going well. This is what's not what's not going what. - Oh my gosh. - What's not going well. - Yeah. - And then at the end of it, we'll each have a to-do list that we have to finish before the next time we meet. - I love that. - I love that. That was like Sarah was saying that she wants to be more accountable. And that's exactly what you're doing with your friends. - I love that. - Because especially for me, you know, working in social media, I don't have a boss. I don't have any co-workers to keep me accountable. So I'm, you really have to learn how to be super accountable for your own life and career. So even just having a friend or a family member, having someone to check in with every couple of weeks to make sure you're staying on track, I think, is really helpful. - I love that. Your group of girls sound very similar. Are your girlfriends obviously your friend Clarice? But are they all think the same as you? - I would say so. I definitely keep a tight group of friends and a lot of the friends that I have now I've had forever. My best friend, I met him when we were, I think, five years old on the first safe kindergarten. I really like nurture my friendships. And I feel like I have good intuition about people that if I meet someone and I click with them and I'm friends with them, they're going to be my friend forever. But if I meet someone and I don't click with them, it's very easier for me to quickly discontinue them out of my life because I just can't, I can't deal with that. I don't have dramatic friendships. I don't have fake friends. I never fight with my friends. I can't have that energy in my life at all. - Yeah, that's a good thing. - I just don't have time for it. - Yeah, that's a good, I like that. - One thing I'm trying to recognize with friendships and I'm asking you because I know how self-aware you are is like the value out, my values are lining with theirs and what value we bring to each other's lives. - Yeah. - Am I overthinking friendships if I think like that? - I think it's important to be aware of. Obviously some people are not going to be at the same places you, like we're all very similar, like very hard working, very driven and smart and quick to make decisions and people can be amazing, lovely people and still not quite have that. - Yeah. - Be able to like, do that switch on. And I still keep those people in my life because as long as they're trying and they're not toxic and they're just nice people in general, you know, it is good to surround yourself with people more successfully new and that sort of thing. But also just having your people no matter what they do. - Yeah. - That sort of thing as long as they're good people, that's what you want around you. - That's true. That is very true. - Very interesting. - Yeah. I want to talk about, obviously, I want to talk about, because I've watched it on the way again, the Netflix series. - Mm-hmm. - Oh my God. - Can you just tell us a little bit about that, how that experience was? - Yeah. So they started filming us this time last year, right at the start of Australia and open. And for Taylor and I, they only really filmed us at tournaments. - Yes. - So it wasn't a huge impact on our lives, the actual filming process. And the show released four days ago, I think. - Yeah. - And it's kind of been a slow burn. Like people have slowly kind of started watching it, getting introduced to it, which is nice, because I think if it was a big blow up overnight, I had a lot of anxiety about the show coming out. - Yeah. Yeah. - Yeah, just because like, I didn't know how people were going to react to it. I don't know. I didn't even know how much screen time I had in the episode, or if I was in it at all, or how I was portrayed, or what I said in it. So it was just kind of scary, like, not having any control over something that is going online to be broadcasted to millions of people. But so far, I think it's been good. It's still, it's just, it's weird. You know, everything happened in the past year. And it's been a little bit weird up in the justment. I'm an adjustment, but I'm excited. I hope it makes tennis more popular. - I was just about to say. - So I was about to say, you've been given the title, like, a wag that's trying to make tennis cool again. - Wait, I actually have a quote that I, because I've talked to you before, so I just have to reset. - I've never been to a restaurant. - Even though I like know you, but Sarah keep going and I'm going to join this quote. - No, I'm just like, it was cool. - I think you are, in a sense. Like, we didn't tell you a new event with you, you say. - Mm-hmm. - And the amount of girls that rocked up, did they have any affiliation with tennis, or did I just follow you on social media? - Yeah, I think it was a mix. I know that there were two girls there who worked so that Australia opened. - Yeah, really? - So I like, oh, maybe I'll see you this week. And definitely, you know, I get so many views on my profile from the tennis, and I think that's how a lot of people have started following me, obviously. So, yeah, it was fun to do kind of a more girl catered event, because I don't really think tennis or tennis media caters much to female fans, specifically. So I want to do more of that. - Yeah. - It was really fun. Like, that's like, sometimes I struggle with doing social media, because, you know, I used to work in the nonprofit space, and like, really actively helping people and being super hands on. And so, sometimes doing influencer stuff in social media, I'm like, God, am I just pushing products on people? Like, what am I doing? You know, it's just, it's definitely been a mental game, especially the last couple of months. But then, we do something like yesterday, where I get a huge group of girls together to do something really positive and fun, and people get to make friends, and that's the good side of social media, I think. - I just got to find this part. It said, I found an article, and she's an influencer on a mission to make tennis cool again. - Yeah. - And I loved that. I was like, "I'm going to write that down." Because it's true, and we were talking about the Netflix series a few days ago, about, you know, getting people into tennis and stuff and saying the butt. So I really liked that. I was like, "I'm going to copy and paste that." - Yeah. - I'd put, kind of as a joke, I had this viral TikTok about the tennis tour, where I'd made the caption on a mission to make tennis cool again. Not even really thinking of it, and that one caption has stuck with me for the last year, where it's always used, and so it was just fine. I guess that is, like, the purpose of a lot of my videos. So, I want to go back to that what you were just talking about.
social media working for not for profit and having this kind of, I don't want to lay put words in your mouth that guilt about like the capitalism. I have so much guilt about it. Because people would make a huge assumption that with influencers that they don't. Yeah. No, I do especially because like I was saying to you guys the other day the US is entering a recession right now. It's like something that I've struggled with is like, am I really going to go online and push people to buy all of these products when people can't even afford groceries right now? Yeah. That's a really hard part of influencing to be honest but the only way to really make money as an influencer is to push products. Yeah. So that's something that I've really struggled with. I don't really know what to do or how to go about it. There's nothing online where I can Google like I feel guilt. There's nothing about it. So it's just kind of a integral. But you're the first influencer that I've actually heard speak or openly about feeling guilty about that. Yeah. Yeah. It's hard. I guess the steps that I'm taking towards trying to deal with that is I've stopped working in fast fashion brands completely. I don't work with any fast fashion brands anymore which I'm losing out on a lot of money from doing but it just I don't know it didn't feel right too. I do not push products at all that I don't actually use or have previously used or believe in. And I've never really been the type of like influencer where I'm linking stuff on my stories all day or doing halls of things like I don't really do that and I definitely don't do that anymore. So that's kind of what I've I've been doing to to deal with that but it's hard. Yeah. Mox, this is why I love you so much. Yeah. No, my heart. Honestly, just warms up that that and now that people are getting this insight to you that we're being proven to that just like how much of an amazing human you are. Amazing. Yeah. Amazing. With all the mental health work that you do. Have you rubbed off on Tyler in any way? With mental health stuff. Yeah, like all the checking in with yourself. Oh god, I've tried. I've even like sat down the night before a match and been like, okay, just visualize yourself. I'm lifting the trophy. He was like, shut the fuck up. Like manifest this trophy. No, he doesn't get it. He does have a deal with better health right now. So he is also I guess in a way supporting, you know, improving your mental health. But he's he's he's stubborn. He doesn't quite think like that. I think he does. I think in a way everyone kind of does. Yeah. You know, like he he visualized. Oh, okay. The life is my mouth. I'm starting to struggle. We can keep talking about you can hit it that out. He he visualizes himself playing well in the match or visualizes himself hitting a shot a certain way. That's like law of assumption in some sort of way. But he's never going to call it that. Yeah, right. I suppose like athletes have a very different like they're probably mentally aware, mentally, but even different ways. I think you're right. Yeah. And I want to talk about a little bit about you're just talking about brands and you know, not working. Are there any dream brands that you think align with you and you would love to work with? Because I feel like we can manifest that now and put it out into the house. I think some of my dream ones would be either headspace or calm. Love that. Which are both meditation apps that I use. I have both of them and we'll just go back and forth because they're very different meditations. Yeah. On both of them and sometimes in the mood for one or the other. Delta. I'm a delta girl. All the way. We only fly Delta. I absolutely love it. It's a Minneapolis based company. I don't think they do any partnerships. But if they if they do want to be the first. Yeah. I would absolutely love that. A coffee brand. Oh yeah. Yeah. I know I get a lot of flak for this, but I do drink Starbucks all around the world. That's not the idea. I'm not struggling with that. In the U. I get you would be surprised like how much hate I get for the yeah, because I was going to Starbucks in Italy. When we were in we were in Trin for like 10 days for the world to refinals. I was going to Starbucks every morning because we're in Trin Italy. Am I going to get an iced omelglotte with cinnamon sprinkles on it? No where. So you know, I like what I like. So start in the morning. So Starbucks would be a good one. I feel like I feel like they're all achievable. So we can keep putting it out. Yeah. You know, I'm not bad. Yeah. Some of that. Yeah. Some of that. 100%. Apart from brand deals, what direction are you heading this year? Do you feel my big goal for the year is YouTube? Yeah. Yeah. Just focusing on YouTube. I do I think I am going to partner with a company to release a potential jewelry. Oh, I love that. Yeah. I love that. One of the biggest questions that I get on social media is like always about the jewelry that I'm wearing because I have an extensive jewelry collection. It's just one of my favorite things to accessorize with. But yeah, mostly YouTube. It's going to be the focus for the year. What is and I think I asked you before we hit record. What's the questions that you're asked most on social media? I don't know. I get a lot of questions about travel and travel tips. And like I'm going to Paris. Where should I? Oh, yeah. I get a chance of where I should go. And I partnered with like a travel app where I created these guides for all the cities. And now I just send people the link. I've got. Yeah. Which it has made my life. Oh, so much easier. Yeah. So much easier. I get that one a lot. I get a lot of questions about like tennis where people will be like, I'm going to the US open this year. What should I wear? And I'm like, I dress so yeah, I don't know something for the weather. Yeah. So I would say those are the most two common questions I get. And then I get a lot of questions about dealing with anxiety. Yeah. Mental health. I'm going to dive into anxiety and mental health. Those questions be more bit. What should people be wearing to these daily and open? Oh, I included this in my a little chunk of this in my YouTube video. But anything that's like as little as possible. I'm so hot. Tomorrow I'm wearing a little tennis skirt in sports bra because it's going to be how much sauce is there? It's already 37 which is what Fahrenheit. That's like 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Yeah, which is very, very hot. I'm really hot. And I just don't, you know, I'm from Minnesota. It's winter nine months here. There gets so cold. I don't function in anything above 80 degrees Fahrenheit. We did go shopping the other day with mugs to try and find a portable fan. Oh my god. Actually remind me. I've got one. I said it's only me. Yeah. I need to get it out. I was sitting in a five set match. I saw Sarah Taylor was playing the Spanish player name. But he still got five sets four hours. Oh, the listering sun. And I was taking I was having the people from the tournament bring me cold water bottles so I could just put them on my forehead because I was sitting there and I was like, I'm gonna pass that. Yeah. Take an eye to pack or something. I've got plenty of those in the phrase. I was like, oh my god, I'm such a baby. He's literally out there playing a full-ass match. And I'm like about to kill over in the back. I think I'm playing as well. I actually don't know how they play in that hate. Actually, no, I have neither. I actually think it's almost better when you're like moving. And then they have these little ice coolers that have air like cold air blowing on them when they sit in the box. Oh, do that. I want to try to why don't you petition for that for the box? No, honestly. I would pay any amount of money to get that. Okay. So if anyone's like seeing more struggling the box, just throw down some water or something. I was gonna like start like bargaining with fans like I'll give you a 10 if you bring me a nice park. I'm just blowing like cold air. I mean, I want to talk about before Sarah gets into the anxiety part and stuff like that. I just want to talk about the Australian open. I'm talking to a couple of days ago. You're like, it's going to be so hectic this week. Can you just run us through one of your days this week? Oh, yeah. Okay. So tomorrow is Tuesday. So I'm going to get up in the morning, get ready, film one of my get ready with me. Yeah. Take toss. I'm vlogging for YouTube. So I'll be vlogging the whole week. The whole first week of Australian open to post next week on Monday. So I'll vlog his matches at 1 p.m. So I have to get there around 12. I'll have lunch at the site. They have a clear dining area. Then the match can go anywhere from an hour and a half to like four hours tomorrow. It'll be an hour and a half. I hope so. Anyway, it's going to be yeah. Tomorrow is like the hottest day of the week. So hopefully it'll go quick. And then usually after that, I'll go back to the hotel, edit, we'll do dinner tomorrow night. Yeah. And then Wednesday, I've got like a brand that I'm going with chemist warehouse that I'm going with you guys to. So we'll be at AO all day that day. Thursday is another match. Yeah. I have an event that morning that's like a tennis clinic with a brand. So it's busy, especially now that I do social media and every tournament has a bunch of different sponsors. Usually there's kind of a good selection of different brands that I can can work with my socials. And now that I have so many like tennis fans or people interested in tennis following me, it's usually kind of a good match for those brands to work with me. Do you love working like now that you're talking about your weight this week? I was like, whoa, it's so different to what your weight was last year. Yeah. Yeah. You had a lot more free time. It wasn't a tactic. I knew like super pumped for this week. Like it's really exciting for you. It is. Yeah. It's really fun. And I am as type of person that the busier I am, the happier I am. I love being overly productive. I love having a book schedule. I think when I was working in corporate, you know, I was busy, but I was working from home and I was just
is hopping on Zoom calls and this is really fun 'cause I'm up and about and I'm filming and I'm editing and I'm going to this event and I'm so grateful. It's just, yeah, it's a dream. - It's amazing. - I love it. - I love it. - I love it. - I'm just kidding. - When I met you guys, I was so miserable. - This year I really was. - Why were you miserable? - I just, I didn't know what I wanted to do. - Yeah. - I had no idea what I wanted to do. I just felt super lost. Like I posted that TikTok kind of mortified to even do it. I was like, God, what am I doing? - Oh really? - Yeah. And like I said, the job I was with, I just wasn't super happy. And it was really stressful because the corporate job I was working was working on PST time. So I was waking up at 3, 4 a.m. Melbourne time to get up for meetings. And then I would have to go to his match and I'd have to bring my laptop 'cause I'd have to have a hop on a call in the middle of the match. - Oh, yeah. - It was a lot. - Really? - How did you figure out what you wanted to do? Like I said, I just fell into it. I didn't know that I actually was very against doing social media for a long time. And I could have started doing it full time. I think well before I did. But I think it was the pride in being able to say that I was a director at a company. At, you know, I was 22 years old. A director of an apparel company that did like 40 million year in revenue. I was killing it in the business world. And that was such a huge part of my identity was being this, you know, like, I don't know, I hit the world girl boss, but like, yeah, yeah. Being a girl boss and I got my New York really state license when I was 19. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I like, I don't know. That was always just such a huge part of my identity. And I couldn't let it go for the longest time I just cut in. - Yeah. - And then I didn't really have a choice anymore. So, and you just, and I know you're talking about these yesterday. You're like, I've never been happier. Yeah. And I love that. Like that's amazing. Like, if anyone is listening and they're currently in a situation where they're getting up in the morning that I want to go to work and stuff and you are having those thoughts, you're like a perfect example of like, just quit the job. - Yeah. - And do like, you know, take a risk because there's always something at the end of a risk. What's that saying you get what we're talking about yesterday? - Over the fear and freedom. - Yeah. - Over the other side of fear is freedom. - And it's so true. So I feel like if anyone is listening that is really good advice. - Not really good advice. - Really good advice. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, you never know. - Yeah. - I don't know what can happen. If you would have told me a year ago, this is what would be going on in my life right now. I would have been really confused. - Really? - Wow. - Yeah. - I think there's big things on the horizon for you. - I think I have a good feeling about 20, 23. - But I also said that about 2020. So. (laughing) - I don't know if I should. - Maybe that was a little delay. - Maybe there was a little delay. - But no, like, how I view your authenticity and how you come across, and I just see, so you provide so much value as an influencer to people, exactly what we was talking about before. It's like, if you're posting about mental health, I don't, did we speak about this or is it a car conversation? - You were much better to talk about it. - Okay. - So going back to our car conversation, I was saying that this year, I'm trying to really focus on getting rid of friends, people I follow that don't bring any value to my life. If I'm not learning something from them or anything like that, I'm getting rid of. And that's why I love your post because I always learn something and I take it away and I'm like, I'm gonna apply that in my life. And our car conversation was about other influences and why were calling influences and you said something quite profound that I never put the two and two together. - Yeah, so I don't wanna say this to put other influencers down, but I think that as mental health has become more common of a topic and conversation, and now we have people like self-diagnosing on TikTok and you know that sort of vibe. A lot of times when I see other influencers talk about mental health, it's throwing up a story post that's like having a bit of an off day today, just a reminder, we all go through it behind to yourself. And that sort of thing, I don't think is really like helping. - No, it's not helpful. - Who's that helping, you know? And you know, 'cause we're human, everyone has off days, we know that. Everybody knows that. We don't need an influencer telling us that. So when I talk about mental health, obviously it's a very sensitive subject. So when I'm talking about it on my social platforms, I really just wanna bring practical tools to people, things that I've learned in therapy or things that I've read in books, 'cause I've legitimately read every self-help book. On the planet I went overboard at one point in my life and read actually all of them. So I try to bring those tools to people and things that I've listened to podcast and how I have dealt with depression anxiety my whole life is I need like homework. I need really practical tools and tips to manage it more from like a scientific perspective, I suppose. So the ultimate guide to my unhappiness and a worry list and if people are asking me about, travel anxiety, something that's helped me if I have anxiety on a plane is taking ice cubes and putting them into both your palms. So you just ask for a cup of ice and the coldness from that will help ground you. Those are the sort of things that I, if I'm talking about mental health, I wanna bring practical advice to people that will actually. - How did you learn that? In a one of those self-help books. - Did you just like, "I don't even know like podcasts, whatever, but I have a note in my phone that kind of has a little mini list of the practical anxiety tips." - I love that and they're all like free. So they're all free tips, they're all something we can all incorporate into our daily life or when you are feeling very overwhelmed and it's so funny and we spoke about this the other day. It's like, I suffer from anxiety and we've got a lot of friends that do. And I find it so interesting to hear each, what anxiety means to them and how they deal with it. When you feel anxiety coming up, how does that feel within your body and in your head? Do you get panic attacks? Like how do you feel anxiety? - Yeah, so I actually luckily haven't gotten a panic attack since I was in high school. I used to get them really bad of like my, I think my mental health issues really started my junior year of high school because I was so stressed about college. - Okay. - So actually when I was in high school, I just was not a good student. I didn't understand the value of a GPA at my GPA. My freshman year was like 1.5 or something. - I don't know how you guys are. - You guys are not here. - It's really bad. I was getting like season Ds. - Oh, right. - And not because I was stupid or I didn't care about school. I just had no one in my life to tell me that that number was important for my future. So my junior year, I realized that it was gonna be really hard for me to get into college and not only to get into college, but my family couldn't afford to study in college. So I would have to get a scholarship. So that's really when all the stress of like, you know, growing up really fell down on me and it was absolutely crippling. And so that's when I started to like go to therapy and not so. - Yeah. But I feel like, sorry, you go. - How has therapy changed you and managed your stress? - When I was in high school, it was like night and day. I'd really-- - Really? - Yeah, the woman I had, I wish I could remember her name, but I was with her for like two years. She was so wonderful and she was a very practical therapist, so she gave me the homework. And actually the first day that I went and saw her when I was junior, the first thing she said was, I need you to get a gym membership and I need you to go every single day. - Oh, wow. - And I started to do that and that I, so the next two years of high school, my junior and my senior year, I went to the gym five AM every morning, my first home. - Oh, wow. - Because I was so determined to like not feel like that anymore. It was so new to me. I felt, I didn't even feel like myself for my body, but going to the gym and taking her advice, it wasn't even to change my body, because I felt bad about my body, it's just because that was really the one big thing that could change my mind. And that stuck with me for the last eight years. - It's like your morning meditation. - Yeah. - It sets you up for the day. - That's the same as that. - 100%. - We don't exercise in the morning, like it dictates our day. - I'm not a man, we're 100%. - To myself. - Yeah. - And I hate to say this, probably to others. Like it's awful. And so I know that's like my non-negotiable. Was it your decision to go to therapy or did your mom have any influence into the therapy? - Yeah, I think so young. - May I think my mom was. - Yeah. - Okay, let's get you real quick. - It's not what we were talking about before. And I had to gave Morg's the for warning. I was like, "Oh, therapy is like not as accepted here yet, "as it is in America." Like an American. - It's a personal group here. - But it's true. - I think so. Well, every American friend we know is in therapy. - Oh yeah, no, 100%. I'm just saying, - I'm not struggling there. - 100%. - Every American influencer I follow is. - 100% the therapist is just great. - Yeah. - I think it's amazing. And I wish Australia was more open to it. But I'm just saying it depends what group. Like Sarah and I are different. It's really hard to explain. You've had something in your life when you were young.
that change your life completely. Same with me. So I've been seeing a therapist like since I was like a teenager and you all have had similar situations. So for me and Sarah's friendship, we've always openly talking about like mindfulness, like mental health, like maybe you should do this. We're very spiritual. We've done yoga training together. We've all that stuff. But I think we're different, but all our other external friends or other friends are not very open to therapy. And it's so funny we had a conversation last night with one of our friends and she doesn't listen to the podcast. I can say this. I wish you did, but I think she does. But she was like, "Oh my God, guys, I've like found this new thing. It's called manifestation." Like all this. And I've been doing manifestation. And same with Sarah since I was like a teenager. And she's like, "Oh, the theory behind it is if you put it out to the universe." I sent Sarah a message and I was like, "Oh my God, LOL." Such and such, but they're so cute. I'm so happy that she's finally, because it's just something that I do. I go to morning affirmations every day. We talk about manifestation. And it was so funny. She's like older than us. She's like 40 this year. And I was like, "Oh my God, it's taken her that well." And so it's, and I know manifestation is different to therapy, but it's so it's not spoken about. Is it really that much here? But you've also got more serons as self with a friend she's like that seemed to be really accountable. And I'm like, "I want to be a part of that little bit." Yeah, I do. I do the same. I do the same. Do we do the same? I do. But yeah, it's like going back to that. Australians, I don't know what it is, the therapy thing. Maybe they are getting therapy that I only talk about it, but I wish, yeah, they would go more, but maybe us as being Australians and females and have a bit of a following, maybe we should be more open about talking about it so we can create a movement, because it is such an important thing to do. Do you want to talk more about your journey or do you want to go on a lot of topics of conversation? And whatever you go. If there's anything else you want to ask me, I'm an open book about history. I'll ask because we spoke about it before. You were talking about medication. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I had never taken medication and no anti-anxiety, no antidepressants until about two months ago. And the reason that I had decided to is because we were traveling in Europe for about six weeks on the tennis tour. And our last stop was in Turin, Italy. Yeah. We were there for 10 days. And I feel like sometimes I like gaslight myself into thinking that I don't have a mental illness. I'm like, no, I'm fine. But this particular stretch of this trip that we were on, I actually didn't leave the hotel room for 10 days. Oh, wow. I could not get myself to leave. The only time that I would leave was for my boyfriend's matches because I have to show up to those. But every single night I would make a plan like, okay, I'm going to get up. I'm going to go here. I'm going to go to this museum. I'm going to walk here. And then the morning would come. And I just couldn't do it. I couldn't leave the hotel. Part of that was also, you know, it was all the most famous tennis players in the world. And so there was this huge crowd of people outside the hotel room all times. And it just made me like very anxious to have to walk through a big crowd of people. To get up and do anything really. So yeah, that trip was just really bad. And that was the worst that I felt in a long time. I like fully stopped posting. I just, I couldn't do anything. So when I, and I was talking to my mom about it. So when I got back to the US, I started Lexa Pro, which is a very common like low dose. I'm on a low doses. Yeah. Anti-depressant. And I've always been kind of scared to take medication because, you know, SSRIs are something that are really hard to come off of. But I said to myself, if there's literally just a 10% chance that this is going to make me feel better, it's worth it for me to just try it. And if it doesn't work for me, then, you know, I'll like tape it off of it, whatever. And it was the best decision that I've ever made. Like it's, it's honestly been like night and day. Yeah. It's been a huge, huge difference for me. And realize you got that low. That makes me sad. In what, what, like, how does it change you? So it's not like it's like a happy pill. Yeah. You know, it doesn't like, you don't take it and you're like, well, on top of the world, like, you know, when you take out or on your own, it doesn't quite do that. It just makes your, it just raises your baseline a little bit. So it helps you reach a functioning baseline state where you're able to just like function as a human being. And like, not obviously, you're exactly not making the whole topic. Yeah. Yeah. So that's been the thing I'm still like on a very, very low dosage and I'll probably stick with that. But I'm, I'm really glad that I started taking it. I haven't talked about it at all on like any of my, yeah, my socials or anything just because it is, even though I'm open about a lot of things, it's still kind of a hundred percent thing to talk about. Yeah. Like, do I want like a hundred thousand people to know that I'm, you know, taking into press and so I'm not really sure, but I'm glad that I did. Yeah. Thank you for sharing because it does put a light onto, you know, you don't have to be like an ever-entrant maker. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of as long as the wrong struggles and it goes back to always just be kind to people. Like, yeah, we never know what anyone's going through. Also, can we go back? I love your and your mom's relationship. Yeah. No, the fact that you can talk about something like that to your mom and your mom, like, give you a new vibe. Like, that is such a beautiful relationship. Yeah. And like, hopefully one day we get to meet you mom because she sounds beautiful. Yeah. So you can know where I get you get your wisdom. Yeah. I heard you mum the other day telling you not to eat bananas and eat and you're bananas upset my stomach. I love them. They always give me tummy eggs so she's always like tough eating bananas. That's a great, that is a good mom. She's telling you that from across the world. Speaking about food. You've tried a couple of Australian delicacies. Yeah. I was going to actually get the bread and the vegetable. But if we have time during the week, I still want to do this. I need you guys. So you tried, so tailoring, you guys tried Veggie Might. Did you have it on bread? Crackers. Crackers. I saw it on you. I couldn't even have it on crackers. vomit. But there was no butter and basically it was like a table that I really just got steamed from you. Yeah. Yeah. But do you know what I do? I do. Do other Americans do this or foreigners do this before and they do the same thing. But the secret to Veggie Might, I actually really love Veggie Might butter butter and like butter butter butter. But it has to be on like sourdough bread crunchy like toast. And do you know what's really nice? This might sound so weird. Oh no. White breads also great. I mean whatever bread. But like do you know what it's also really really good and it's going to sound so random but Veggie Might and avocado together. Yes. It's phenomenal. It sounds so weird. Yeah. Like you're a hungover vitamin B which is Veggie Might. Super salty, on crunchy bread with avocado. I don't even have butter but like if you're new to Veggie Might, I would have butter. Oh trust me. And you're the favorite Australian delicacy. Tim Tim. Oh my god. And Morgan Bailey had a hot attack before because she just got a day in. Literally. Morgan's just, Morgan's screams. She's like, oh my god. Okay. So this morning, literally two hours ago, Tully and I are texting and it was like some article whatever that mentioned how much I love Tim Tam's. And I texted Tully two hours ago, Dream collab. And then just now Tim Tam's damn. So I'm pumped. Love those. I haven't tried what it's called a Tim Tam slam. Tim Tam slam. I haven't tried that yet. So I'll have to give that a go this week. For my, I've come in what it is. I'm gonna try it. You can buy the top of it. But and then you're a corner of either end. Yes. And then you suck the milk. Yeah. I actually love it. But I haven't had one for years. I'm looking forward to it. That'll probably be my favorite PR package. I've ever seen it. Oh my god. I love that. Just to wrap it up. I think Tully and I should do a rapid Australian slang quick hi up. Yes. This is one of your favorite things is to learn Australian. Aussie words. But some of these words more disorderly going to know because we spoke about them the other day. Let's start. You can put in my in context of a story. Okay. I'm gonna go. So like if I remember the other day when I said a singer and you're like, put it in context. Yes. So you have to put sangar in a sentence for us. Do you remember what it was? Yes. Okay. So sangar. I'm really craving a tuna sangar. Yeah. So Americans are listening. A sangar is a sandwich. It's been. Be I N. Oh, I just finished the smoothie. Where's your bin? Yes. It is a goby. It's like a trash can. Trash can. Trash can. Crumbling under pressure. Yeah. Okay. I don't know if you remember this one. You might stubby. No. Okay. I can do Tommy though. Yeah. I can put it in. I'm going to the potty and I'm going to bring a stubby. My dad drinks stubbies. Beer? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is that like a brand for beer? No, it's just like a basically a can. Yeah. A can. A can. A can. A can. Oh, yeah. A can. That's what it says. That's what it says. Oh, you reckon? You reckon? You reckon? What doesn't it even mean anything? It's like, oh, you think so? I think. Yeah. We set it the other day. We went to the beach. Let's go sit on that towel. Don't you reckon? Yeah. Don't you think so? We don't even need to add in. I love that. I want to bring that one. So you ask. Okay. Like another one. Like my favorite word. Vance? Yeah, how you-
How you gonna say thongs? The other day, Tully was driving in platform thongs. Literally couldn't drive the car. That's a thongs. I like flip-flops. Yeah. What's another one? What is some of your favorite thongs in those? Yeah. I love keen. Oh yeah, keen. Love vlog, which I've recently learned. I'm gonna start describing everyone as a vlog. Oh gosh, what are some other ones? Well, I have this note on my phone where I have all of my favorite. We love the race. What would you do? Use boot in a sentence. Not the boot that you put on your face. I have some towels for the beach in the boot. When you said boot the other day, and I the other day Tully was driving us and Sarah pulled up next to the car and I had a whole carful like the European and American girls that are also dating tennis players and you go, oh yeah, it's in my boot. Yeah, it's just like what? I didn't do anything. I like trunk. Yeah. Okay. Great. Okay. What would the more you have written down? Because some of them like spock, I think you made that. I got, oh the XX. Oh yes. So, didn't even realize we did that. Yeah, so whenever like Aussies or it's also in British and Ireland. You saw in England and Ireland. A lot of them will sign XX, which I think just means like kisses. Yeah, it just means like I kiss kiss. Yeah, I always like ending the message with a fiction. Yeah. I had so embarrassing because sometimes I've done emails to people who tried to oh my god, I'll count it. I was writing emails. I was like, I don't know, I kissed kiss and I sent it and I was like, oh my god, Sarah, like I was more to fall in. I was like, oh my god. But it's like, it's a good sign out that like I find when I'm here and I'm like, you know, a touch signal that Aussies, it's easy to pick up on. Like I'm like, I always want to say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's a key way to sign out. Yeah. In America, we don't sign off. Yeah, I think it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's appreciate your year. Yeah, and then David, you guys were affectionate. Okay. So, I have to compliment because people say I'm not affectionate. I hate hugs and stuff. So I'm like, I'll take that. I have to say, I think it's been a year's, it has been a year since I've known Morgz. And when we saw the other day, I said, Morgz, there's one thing that I've been actively working on as a human this year and to pronounce words better. Water, water, better for you. Because it's a new water. Because it's funny. Like I, whenever I'm around you, I'm like, really conscious of saying it, but then you'll go and I'm like, "Oh, Sarah, get me a water." Yeah, water, water, water. It's just like when you're around someone that doesn't say you're like so conscious about what your guys is, I'm so cute. You don't have to. Oh, I love you. I love your accent. So I'm like, you're never happy with. I hate my voice. Do? Yeah. And I get so much shit online. Oh, okay. I don't actually have a shit all I would get. No, because I have like, I mean, I've always talked like this. I feel like I've always had kind of a unique voice, but I definitely have vocal fry. Really? Yeah. What's vocal fry? Like my voice is just deeper. It's like the, I don't know. It's like with the Kardashians, like the way that they talk. Sometimes I just want my hair. I just want that though. And I feel like you pronounce. Oh, God, people online hate it. Oh, wow. People online. Like we didn't even open it. Anyway, but it was a pleasure to have you on. I think you. I'm so excited to spend the way to do again. And before we sign off, I feel like, wait, can people find you on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube? Yes, so my handle for all of those is M-O-O-R-R-G-S. Okay, moreg. That's why I pronounce it a lot. Oh, yes. Moreg. I've had an awesome time. In all sense, I was like 13 years old and I never changed it. And now I'm stuck with it because actually you've verified you can't change it. Oh, you're a member of the audience. So I'm going to be moreg. Because when I'm like 40. I'm great. I like it. It's beautiful. I think you're YouTube. You post every Monday. Monday. Monday in the US. So I guess two days. Yeah, actually. And so if you guys want to listen, jump on and make sure you hit that subscribe button. And don't forget to go to Netflix and watch episode three of breakpoint. Breakpoint. Yeah. And then also give that a review. Because that's great. Okay. Thank you all. Bye.
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Key Points:
The podcast "Curious Conversations with Tully and Sarah" returns in 2023 after a break, focusing on real-life lessons and conversations with entrepreneurs and business owners.
The hosts discuss their holidays, goal-setting practices, and the importance of being specific with goals, inspired by their guest Morgan Riddle.
Morgan Riddle, a content creator and influencer, shares her journey from a corporate job in nonprofit to full-time social media, starting with a viral TikTok video.
She travels 40 weeks a year with her boyfriend, a professional tennis player, and discusses the mental health challenges of constant travel, bubble tournaments during COVID, and dealing with online hate.
Morgan emphasizes self-care routines like morning walks for dopamine, her openness about anxiety and therapy, and her decision to start YouTube for more authentic content.
Summary:
In this episode of "Curious Conversations," hosts Tully and Sarah return for 2023, sharing their holiday experiences and goal-setting strategies. They introduce guest Morgan Riddle, a content creator who transitioned from a corporate role in nonprofit to full-time social media after a viral TikTok video. Morgan discusses her life traveling 40 weeks a year with her professional tennis player boyfriend, the mental health struggles of constant travel and bubble tournaments during COVID, and her coping mechanisms like morning walks and therapy.
She addresses online hate, noting the toxicity of platforms like TikTok, and explains her shift to YouTube for more genuine content. Morgan also highlights the importance of being open about mental health, despite her privileged lifestyle, to show that happiness and struggles can coexist. The hosts praise her authenticity and emotional awareness, and the episode touches on goal-setting, resilience, and the value of sharing personal experiences to help others.
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It's a podcast where the hosts chat with business owners, entrepreneurs, and great conversation starters, sharing real-life lessons and stories from people doing interesting things.
They took an active break, deleted social media for 24 hours, read full books, swam, and wrote down their goals for the year.
The guest is Morgan Riddle, a content creator from the US who shares honest insights on mental health, goal setting, and accountability.
She fell into it unintentionally after posting a 'Get Ready With Me' TikTok for a tennis match that got 1.2 million views overnight, and she quit her corporate job soon after.
She goes on 'hot girl walks' first thing in the morning, gets sunlight to spark dopamine, and avoids checking her phone immediately to reduce anxiety.
She finds TikTok toxic and full of hate, while YouTube allows her to show a more genuine, personal side of her life and reduce negative assumptions.
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