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oh there we go take notes Krista what's this frizziness
right now full of you at some point here so I'm just waiting for Gary to get
ready for bed we came back from Mimi and Alex's flat and it was such a great
evening that I feel like just dug deeper until everything I feel like it was a
great preparation for tomorrow I'm super super excited I was just getting ready
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to go to sleep and pump myself up and hide myself up for the most amazing
event tomorrow okay today is the day I woke up with a sore throat and running
nose so that's fun today Saturday my meetup is in I don't know very soon I'm
gonna go get a blow dry now maybe some tea and try to get some medicine for
myself and that's it kids at home everyone's sick of course because
everyone say ok today I need to be focused I was really really really
really stressed out and nervous yesterday to a point where like I cried
I think like three or four times yesterday everything like kind of
aggravated me I definitely think that it's a little too much Brown
good luck when you see me not talk to you hi Bob nice to see you
okay I kept waking up a bunch of doing something I wasn't part of the plan we
running to get myself a top or something because I really don't like my outfit it
was in like a weird mood yesterday and I bought like something that I feel like
was a little pretentious looking for a talk so I'm going to just get like a
sweater and no one knows this where I'm also gonna have a little more time for
myself which is all I've been trying to get this past few days
let's just talk about this really quickly in general one school area
perhaps a few litres of back door some kind of a service entrance that's
ideally where I wanted to go through and if I see all of you to jump in find me a
picture of me protect me with your money
cares about me means take my skills bomb
when do we need to eat she said to me for 12 yeah okay so right now I'm just
waiting for Valera to finish getting ready for the Meetup Gary and Krista and
Chantelle and Paul already went to the venue to check it out and get everything
set up and make sure all like the lighting is good and then I'm gonna film
valaria on her way to the event there's a lot of people going now and we're like
so excited to meet you guys
thirty-six counting tickets sold and I was feeling actually more people will
come in addition to that it's cool it's it's cool it's kind of scary I won't lie
I guess I won't tell valaria this but I'm more concerned about her not
concerned because I know she's gonna murder it I know it she's a little
anxious and nervous right now which is completely understandable because nobody
could have foreseen any of this stuff coming but I'm just you know I want it
all a little tight and I keep giving her pep talks so I'm trying you know am i
nervous no it's not more like I'm excited than nervous you know I love
seeing her shine like I love seeing her doing her thing
I love seeing her being put into the situation where she's not comfortable
and I love seeing her just push through it and come out the other side just
winning it so
when she told us oh yeah else is gonna be helping us with you know I'm scared a
good way I use my fury use me I forgot to update that other stories didn't
accept credit cards so I couldn't buy anything so I just put something
together white pants Gary's sure to make me feel powerful and there's jacket by
Smith which is a Canadian company I know it looks like it ripped but this is the
style we will have to attach it properly we're sniffing coughing but are super
excited oh the sun is shining feel like yesterday the podcast that I had to talk
with Mimi and Alex kind of reminded me of why I do what I
do and I just makes me feel better about today I think that sometimes we make
everything so much bigger in our heads I feel like I was on this mindset where
you know I can't screw up and I'm this expert of God knows what well I'm not an
expert I never want to be an expert I'm just gonna share my story a little bit
and and laugh and cry and hopefully clap and be happy and just have an amazing
day let's do this I hope you did ready ready ready Krista
and Gary ordered us an uber because they don't trust us to leave by himself
yeah I agree all right how you feel I feel Gucci how
do you feel this is more space than my living room yes yes please
I don't know what I'm going to say do a cartwheel karaoke get it started yeah
now you feeling okay I just I'm I'm just crazy when it comes
to all these little details and now I'm even more crazier because it was just a
business it's one thing but now it's like it's flair how so I want to make
sure she's okay and she's comfortable when she's you know so I'm a little
nervous but I'm nervous to make sure she's okay that's okay
I don't know Showtek scary yeah let me just a second just a second this is so
awkward though there is yeah
you see the room okay just don't don't be lonely it's okay everything's good
why would you say that I'm just telling you it's bigger than I thought it would
look it's just a little you know this is where the security is going to be I'm
freaking out I'm like shaking I'm like shaking
okay so Paul I decided that that's the right idea
yeah oh you weren't gonna look at me
this is insane I thought were gonna be it like a YMCA conversation with Valeri
lip of etske okay standing up there that's perfect yeah it's great
why are the chairs they're gonna bring the chairs a little later but let's
check you know what I'll show you where Lake of the room is where you're gonna
get changed
it's bigger than it looks you gotta get her face literally this is
350 chairs bed this is really this isn't no crazy player this is real
I love your outfits okay don't shoot cameras so gary said walk around is not
just possible yes and like go anywhere there's no rules your party now okay
does this have any sanity Gary you think this is gonna look this way
no like show everybody we're this
look it's valaria and valaria right yeah how did my shirt get the London that's
Gary Alex do you know if you would have a safety pin thank you yeah it's okay if
I try this type in Jake that's really cute do you feel for the photos you want
to come down here or would you rather what do you think it's like I think a
line is like the most organized and
say hi how are you we're gonna go put this camera upstairs
on tripod so we can get a view of the whole audience and valaria this is so
cool
Wow this is a shot I can't believe it what Wow
you know what I'm actually not as nervous as I was a few days ago it's
just like my people and I have already met two girls I have crazy like ties in
my belly okay Krista the boss lady everyone's doing
such an amazing job and we have Chantal who's Emma's friend from England she's
from the UK but I don't think she's from London and she came to help them shoot
and we have Krista was bossing everybody around and making sure everything is on
point but I have given read for moral support and for everything else because
he's doing everything he's the best okay I need to breathe now
yeah so hopefully it's nice type child in your room but we are known though so
hopefully you brought me a dress cuz you chinos I like stars look like you got
this for me that me shut up is that crazy that's in it oh my god
that was really I want to cry on that girl like oh my god so much she'll go to
me I like 90% of the time she's gonna find my gosh there you're gonna smash it
it's gonna be so good I can't believe this is their first time doing it so
weird a little bit a little bit just a little bit I'm like shaking excited
maybe it's like excitement yeah I think it's excitement it's just weird that
everybody's here in person I'm so weird we know what it's like to be like on the
other so I'm like trying to be level-headed but if like I'm gonna block
out the zombies you're holding the camera okay I'm like shaking holding
thank you so much for doing this okay thanks for having me so much fun so
were you or were you born and raised in Jersey yeah and then I just went to
Canada for uni study film that's my mammal why Canada it's like the one of
the best film schools in the world really there's no fight and you and
everyone in the same class yeah we met on the first day she's amazing she's not
like she never talks about you know that it was like such a big school and make
such a hello why didn't you tell me you went to
like one of the schools some schools in the world the best yeah like I'm gonna
do a good before yeah yeah yeah school I like literally like cry every day it's
like a year intensive program for film production yeah so we like our final
film like made it to the last round and so ours was one of the five like
produced so we got a whole crew together Chantal and I wrote it and I did the
cinematography I always introduced it said watch it we did it all these
festivals and it won an award the best comedy scene excuse me
that's so cool no I don't think you like when you mention it doing by the way
that is so cool Thanks you practice your speech as it should be that's it
what else did I say should I talk my with twin brother finding signed up for
this shit like I just wanted to send my own goods drink me God me what the hell
am I doing here how are you people who are you I have
like my body aches because you say yeah and excited so together it's I think
that we should breathe it can sit none of your readings I just looked at all of
you
are you gonna come out with camera yeah yeah so should you
yeah really yeah and then you can pass it off to me like and then I'll grab it
yeah no no no we're gonna play a little me maybe put this on the other side
believe me me standing on stage and speaking people we're just like
expressing my thoughts and stuff when people care it's so different than just
the way it was is a kid but not in a million years that I would ever crazy
when you told me if you days ago you told me like such a good metaphor to the
way I feel when you said you're like and in cocoon and you already like you
turning into a butterfly and that cocoon is like you're trying so hard to stay in
there but it's like it hurts uncomfortable when you're like breaking
free you know and this is exactly how I feel I feel like it's just the why I'm
so a little business all over the place is that I'm trying to find my
this new and this new identity of mine that I love that this is the identity
that I wanted to find always I could never thought that I would have become
this person you know like I feel like I'm becoming the woman that I wanted to
be that's one of the ones that yes of course because growing up thinking yeah
I'm special on it was something about there's something about me this was it
you're not only doing that to me you can walk okay so here we are you know what I
feel like my feeling yeah you know those documentaries like wouldn't read nice
beers with going they'd all like I know exactly what he's talking about all
those girls like Michael Jackson seemed did it like I think all contents do it
before they go out and they do like oh the circle in the back room this is our
this is our we'll just keep it around a table yeah I think you guys have
obviously put a ton of work at this this is this is something like super special
I'm still just in complete shock and disbelief that this is happening
needless to say that I'm proud of malaria but I want to
it's anything - nice yeah we're gonna cry I want you guys to take a moment and
I want you to enjoy each of these walnuts but I want you to think about
what's coming I know what you think about what's happened I want you to
enjoy what's going on right now literally from second to second this
isn't like a concert this is she's she's influencing people and she's improving
lives and seeing the response that we're getting from the audience I want us to
understand that as much as it's malaria this it's it's all of us it's all us
we're all doing this we can't we can't do this without you guys just a wicked
would not so this is your event very much so just because you're not wearing
a navel themed name which I should have known I would have gotten you just
Katrina one doesn't mean every picture it's you guys
this brand isn't just one person I want you guys to chill I want myself to show
to keep thinking about this and really have fun and I'm gonna tell you once you
get out there once you're in front of that crowd I promise you the first by a
couple of seconds it'll be you'll be nervous by Sheree what's gonna turn into
something Gary wasn't enough but we do the next music honestly I just want to
add that it's so amazing that for us being like these young girls to leave
such a mark when people's lives like I just want you to remember that because
although for us you know sometimes it's such a daunting it's a lot of work and
you know we think we're just posting videos out there of putting makeup or
dancing kids but we're like making someone's day
and we're like motivating someone and he's just super super cool and all of
these people are here to just say thank you to the product that we keep showing
them and you know making them laugh because this is not always an easy world
to be in so I'm so so proud of you we haven't of you thank you it's really
is such a team effort I think that's good time which just it's going to bring
us closer and closer and closer and we're just gonna take over so what I
ready to see the tears yeah we're feeling good yes oh I got an injury
security like security guy pep talk I told them I want you to if there's a
problem unit pounced into force oh yeah yeah thank you get in my bed it's like
she's nervous now that you're gonna choke on the peanuts thank you
the door opens I don't want you to be sick I'm not coming after a song right
maybe we took it a little too far here now
okay guys just go oh they went they listen to me
I joined the team about two months ago and it's been a crazy adventure ever
since I wanted to mention the event has a hashtag malaria means London so we
encourage you all to post about it and we're gonna be choosing some of our
favorite stories and including it in the blog so I wanted to call up mmm so you
all recognize that's so busy my god are you oh my god there's so many people
thank you so much everyone for taking time out here we get to come here and
really yesterday this crazy I started with malaria I think it was two years
ago I knew this is going to be something special by going
like crazy this is really to me so thank you so much and actually I'm going to
invite someone else out gerry oginski
Wow so before I get started
he's like calling me it's like he called me okay how long you gonna call me it's
a two hours I said how many minutes is that you feel good he's a little he's a
little nervous where's Jake Jake you want to say
I would like to announce join up on the stage to come up and I'd like Julie to
say if you think things about the young woman's trust and I also want to point
out before trinkets started but thanks to all of you for this
awesome cause we raised over 4,200 pounds please take mine and I'm just
absolutely blown away by this donation it really will change the lives of young
women that we work with I elements trust we believe that all young women should
have the opportunity to work and thrive over 1 million young women in the UK
currently are unemployed or trapped in lower paid insecure work and this means
so this means that they struggle to afford basic things like food and
housing but it also means that they stuff they're more likely to suffer from
things like anxiety low self-esteem and depression and so this donation will
help us to provide support services to help young women gain confidence and by
deployment and now I am so proud to announce my lovely and amazing wife
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oh thank you so much okay this feels so awkward
can I have my heart and you racing on another level if you guys been part of
my journey and follow me you know that this is something that has been such a
challenge for me to face but I know that I'm speaking to my people I know that
the people in this room are all on the same wave are all with the same mindset
and I just feel like this world is a better place right now thank you so so
much it's Saturday today I'm sure you got other things to do so I can't even
tell you how I appreciate you guys being here and spending this time with me
before we get started I just really wanted to take two deep breaths because
it's something that I forgot to do today breathe and I heard it's really good for
you first breath breathe Emma I know you need it I know a lot of you came alone
some came with your spouse's your parents so the first thing that I wanted
to do is to connect a little bit more with each other and if you can just turn
to each other and for two seconds and just answer three questions your name
your favorite ice cream and this one is the third one is the hard one so make
sure that you think about it a little bit Backstreet Boys or anything okay
ready turn to each other please and then
switch
oh my god okay so diving into my story I had a
pretty good childhood I think that's where my optimistic mindset started but
I was really really invisible because I wanted to because that felt to me like
my comfort zone I felt that I didn't really have much to say or contribute
and I just prefer to not be noticed I think that for my mother who was a very
independent strong out there woman it was very difficult to see that her own
child suffered from this deep insecurities at such a young age so the
turning point for me was when I had my bat mitzvah and I feel like my mother
always really tried to put me in situations where I was out there and
hoping that that kind of will trigger something in me to feel more confident
it didn't she got a photographer to come and take photos of me and I think that
that day when we were doing the photo shoot she noticed something a little
different about me she noticed that for that moment I kind of escaped that
invisibility and I was actually confident in front of the camera and
shined something that obviously she hasn't seen before so she kind of build
this whole master plan to immerse me more into that world of fashion and
modeling and to throw me into a world that will really challenge my
insecurities modeling gave me the opportunity to travel the world at a
really young age which made me feel independent and strong also what
modeling made me do is face my insecurities over and over again so my
mom's master plan worked what ended up happening is that I discovered that I
actually had a power over my thoughts I had the power over
actions I had the power of what I put out there to the world and that was a
huge revelation to me and I think a lot of us don't understand how much of it we
are not holding in our own hands so that power came through self-awareness so I
went and pursued it YouTube made me stand up there and listen to my own
voice over and over again and seeing how was how I was acting how I was speaking
hearing my grammar mistakes hearing my accent and it was so oh my god you know
when you just like watch your own stuff and you just cringe because you just
like take yourself apart with all these extra things you could have done to make
it better you are your own worst critic and we all know it so it was very
difficult but it also was really exciting because in that uncomfortable
awkward feeling I knew that I will be able to reach that next level the next
layer of insecurities that I have to feel because no one else will make me
shoot a video no one else will be constantly beside me rooting for me
saying you're doing great although I do have my own version of Kris Jenner over
there putting yourself out there letting other people watch you judge you
criticized you made me go even deeper into myself because if something
bothered me I knew that you can't do anything with that person but something
bothered me for a reason bless you I started really going into myself saying
why is that person that you don't know bothering you what is in their response
or comment triggered something inside of me and that is still something that's
happening until this day so being that practicing and consistently that
self-awareness made me realize and find more tools to find my own voice to own
who I was and to be comfortable with being Who I
am and not what other people expected me to be and this is me sharing my journey
of becoming becoming the woman that I always wanted to be
we're just backstage with Gary and I was telling him the fact that this is
happening is so surreal to me I don't think you guys can understand how how
comfortable I felt just playing small and just hiding behind things and people
and opinions and I never thought that this day will come where I'll be able to
stand up and and just believe in what I'm saying and bring value to other
people and that feeling is absolutely amazing so I know that we all have it in
us and I see all of your faces I speak to you guys every single day I creep the
hell out of your accounts I know you guys are so special and you are you are
on your own journeys and I love witnessing that hi I'm Lauren
I gradually have complete burnouts of energy but now how would you deal with
those do you have I definitely have them and I was just discussing it last night
that I feel like I'm actually right now at a point where I feel burned out I
mean just yesterday I think what I cried 16 times because for me the way I cope
with things is that I get overwhelmed and I cry like it's nobody's business so
I cried a lot yesterday and I think that it happens to all of us especially today
there's so much to do so little time and we want so much for ourselves so I think
just like trying to stay in tune with how you feel and know when to take those
breaks I think I always remind myself that you know you can't pour from an
empty cup and nothing is really worth your health so just you know maybe going
a little bit slower for a little while and gaining all that you know a little
bit of energy back and then you can sprint again we always try to keep
moving and sometimes it's better for us to walk and sometimes it's time to run
so I think it's very important to again use that self-awareness use that
intuition is that real honest girl talk to your with yourself and be like listen
it's time to just chill like relax drink a little lemonade and enjoy your life so
that's really my only advice I wish there was some magic pill we could take
that I mean that was not a good I was going with this most valuable
lesson my mother gave me that I applied to business he said I think that just
seeing her never give up and I mean now that I think about it she went through
an immigration at 21 from Russia to Israel I was two years old and she moved
to a country with no money with no language with nothing and I just
remember like sleeping and different like bars and restaurants she used to
work and it was such a powerful beautiful journey that we went through
together she was a kid herself she didn't know anything and it's a lesson
that she taught me through just her own journey I think that she really taught
me that we create our own future with the author of her own books and it's
something that's very important to remember so she wasn't a victim of her
circumstances you could have easily you know just said listen it's really hard I
don't speak the language and I don't have any money and I have to think about
this two-year-old and I just you know and she just never never get out she
always found a way so I think that's something that I always kind of remind
myself that there's always a way no matter how you know hearted seems and
feels if every Muslim graham cracker carefully ought to train me on poor
animal data Coulomb shot empathy the end I appreciate it I'm so proud of you for
your courage I know it takes a lot of courage to stand up and you know talk
about something that's obviously so it hurts you and I think that it's gonna
take time for you to heal from it because I think there's nothing worse
than a betrayal from someone that is very close to you and unfortunately
there are so many people out there that just don't understand don't understand
themselves and don't understand life and just conducting themselves in such a
negative way so I think that the thing that really you can do the only thing
that you have control over is your own journey I don't think there's I wouldn't
want you to waste your precious time thinking about how to make them realize
and see how wrong they are I want you to focus on your own growth
and on your own thing and I think that a lot of people see that I mean other
people that she talks to people surround it with
see when there's a toxic person around so you don't need to point that out
you just really be strong minded and focus on your own and honestly karma is
such a bitch so she will he or she I mean they'll find their way and lessons
in life I think that just for you even looking at that person and maybe sending
even compassion because for someone to you know be toxic like that it means
that they're hurting inside so remember that and you keep doing your own thing
I think if I understand correctly your question is do you feel that you have to
play down what you who you are for for whatever that was do you feel that you
have to play down an amazing question I think that refers back to that playing
small you know because I I don't want to make other people feel like I'm bragging
or I'm you know more special than them I think that's constantly this thing in
my head where actually for the longest time I was writing myself being like
valaria you're so humble good for you and it actually became I like became an
enemy of mine now because I feel like I'm I started putting putting myself and
such like I started playing small so much to make other people feel okay
about themselves that it's like I'm not living to my full potential and I'm not
saying the things that I want to say and I'm not putting myself out there the way
I want to put out there and something that I've noticed that when I stopped
thinking about it and stopped playing small for other people to feel good and
I started showing up and doing my thing it actually affected the people around
me for the better because it's like shows them that they you know
can step up and do their own thing so it's like by showing my little shine
it's like I gave them their okay to show their own shine and it's just like this
beautiful gift that you give other people I know it feels weird sometimes
and you don't want to be judged by you know just owning who you are but you'll
be surprised how many people you will inspire and motivate by being your best
like SHINee itself I love the word SHINee
yes
that was like the second
hugging people everyone hugging to luck festival in
here people Krista is a champion I just want to come and say that it's
rare to see people with work ethics like this thank you so this is the yeah so
this is it and it's just like it's keeping on going we had a great QA a lot
of great questions a lot of really good engagement from the audience I can't
even like begin to describe how enthusiastic we all are and how amazing
this is like looks people are bringing their kids the kids know you're just
making them now
it's authentic okay when you keep so beautiful like an post that one it's so
cute yeah