I have arrived in Kirkland.
No, I've arrived in Santa Barbara.
I'll tell you more.
I am so tired though, and I'm in desperate need of food.
So let's do that first.
This is home for the next four days.
or So, I know there are some people in the world who love the two bed
situation cuz one can be for like wearing clothes sitting, but uh,
for some reason it freaks me out.
It makes it feel empty.
Like I'm alone . So anyway, I'm gonna lay in my clothes on the bed
that I will not be sleeping in.
It's three o'clock.
Oh my gosh.
I have to tell you why I'm here.
Uh, I'm not in the head space to do that right now.
I'm just so tired from travel.
So I'm gonna rest for a little bit and then freshen up.
Maybe we'll go get din in a little later and I'll tell you why.
I'm here in Car to California outside of Santa Barbara.
Quick little CVS Hall with this like giant.
Oh gosh, the bag so big it knocked the camera over.
Okay.
I got like two giant EVs.
Sorry, my face isn't in the shop, but they're giant.
I got these cute little vegan healthy bites just to keep her around the
hotel room, some Advil, just in case I always forget something,
and this time it was deodorant.
So need that and another healthier snack.
This is like almost open.
Who tried to open these nuts?
What the heck?
It's becoming a bit of a joke that every time I come to California,
I am in the gloomiest room.
It's a gloomy day.
I like bring the, bring the gloom to Southern California.
Apparently I'm in carpenter and I am here for actually a
really big career moment for me.
I am shooting a LinkedIn learning.
This week, so I'm here today is Tuesday and I will be here until
Friday, very, very early morning.
Friday, no, Saturday.
Actually very, very early Saturday.
So this is like my new home for a week, basically a few days.
The LinkedIn thing is definitely a big career moment for me because LinkedIn
is like how I started my career.
I always tell the story, you know, my first.
Upwork job.
It was actually posted on LinkedIn, so that's how I applied
to my first freelancing gig.
I saw it on LinkedIn and then when I worked in corporate, I
did a lot of work with LinkedIn.
I worked at a staffing company.
So we constantly, you know, were running LinkedIn ads.
We had like our own LinkedIn reps who had come to visit us in, into
Detroit and things like that.
So, yeah, it definitely feels like a big moment to be going
to their production studio.
Um, flying out to do that and having my own LinkedIn learning
course, so, I don't know.
I don't like normally say like I'm proud of myself, but I'm proud of myself.
It is supposed to be releasing in January, so I will of course
let you all know when it's live.
I don't wanna tell you too much about what it's about, but it's, it's about something
that I don't really have content on.
So it's more in like the content creation space than anything.
So if you're a content creator or you're wanting to create content for
your brand, I think you'll really like this LinkedIn learning course.
That's my night.
Tomorrow will be more exciting.
I.
I'll talk to you then I think good morning.
I have been up for a couple hours.
It's eight 15 right now.
I got up around six.
I slept so good last night.
I slept so long last night.
I'm just getting ready to go into the office.
I'm gonna leave here in about 30 minutes, so time to put on the face.
This is what I'm wearing.
I'm bringing like three different outfits though I feel like this is pretty casual.
Just gonna wear my vans with it and keeping it super casual today.
Um, but I also have some more, more professional looking like a,
have a skirt tights combo that I think will be cute with this shirt
and some other, some other tops.
But let me get ready so I'm not late to my first day at the office.
Let's go.
I'm so scared.
I'm nervous.
It is so humid.
Just have lunch.
I'm in my little cube again.
Um, my ins, or no, not I'm the instructor, he is my producer, is often a meeting.
So taking a minute to say hey to you and, uh, show you how the sausage is made.
Basically, it's just me sitting at this.
Giant computer and recording into this cool headset.
Um, Okay.
LinkedIn literally just saved this vlog, I think.
Yeah.
I decided to not bring my camera this trip and just log on my
phone and I'm not good at it.
So I apologize if the quality is not what you were expecting.
So how did day one.
Well, first of all, they gave me a little swag bag, which is very
nice with this little tripod, which is definitely helping.
It was a long day of talking and or not slides, screen sharing, but it was good.
I mean, I got like nine of my videos done of the screen shares, so
they got four more to do tomorrow.
And then I have to do the face to camera, like the uh, series intro.
and then intros for each of the videos.
Just like one minute, like, Hey, here's the tool I'm showing you.
Here's why you need to know about it.
Stuff like that.
So should be doable.
Yeah, it was just, it was weird being back on a campus like.
I haven't been an employee somewhere.
I'm not an employee of LinkedIn, just to clarify.
But I haven't been in like a corporate environment in so long.
Uh, this definitely felt corporate.
It was very cool.
Like LinkedIn is so cool.
If I ever wanted to get a corporate job again, um, yeah, I
would probably wanna work there because it's a beautiful campus.
We got, I mean, I guess it was just a cafeteria lunch, you know, but,
It felt, what's the word for it?
Like cuisine.
They have snacks.
They have drinks, laqua, and fun drinks like that.
And I mean, I don't know.
I just feel like I would go in to work early every day for breakfast.
. I would stay late to hop snacks before dinner.
I just, I get how that's a good employee perk.
I went to the most amazing vegan restaurant.
I finally went into downtown Santa Barbara.
I haven't been there yet since I've been here.
And it was very cute.
It's all like Spanish style architecture.
I wish I could have logged more of it for you, but it was getting dark and
you know, I was just trying to like mind my, you know, new surroundings.
I don't know what people are like around here.
So I didn't wanna be like, Hi, I'm, I'm, Pretty tinkered out.
Take cold out.
Tinker, tuckered, tuckered out.
Not tined out.
They too just wrapped all of my steering recordings.
We're probably gonna do some reshoots, but I think we're gonna
get into the live action stuff today, which is very exciting for me.
Um, and just admiring this view on beautiful LinkedIn's campus.
I mean, how nice.
It's obsessed.
It looks like it's like not even real.
It kind of looks like it's like a Zoom background, doesn't it?
So nice.
So the campus is like a bunch of different buildings.
I'm going from the studio to like the main place where checked in,
this is where the main cafeteria is.
Gonna grab some lunch.
It's so dark in here in my little pod.
It's about 4:00 PM I think I'm about to get outta here, but I just
realized everybody is not here.
Uh, it's completely empty.
So I'm gonna use this time to show you around the campus a little
bit, or the recording studio section of LinkedIn's headquarters.
So this is the booth cam area.
I was in Booth four.
I sat over there and then on the other side was where my producer sat.
And then this is like the just kind of common area, the kitchenette area.
Super fun and like I know I've showed you the view a million times, but.
It's just really nice.
The kitchen's stocked with snacks and all of that stuff, and then here's what
you see when you walk into the building.
That's my name home from work.
I am tired.
It was a long one, and you guys can judge me if you want.
First of all, it looks like I have a dismembered head that's
just like laying on the bed.
It's attached.
I have a neck.
You guys can judge me if you want, but I'm wearing my shirt again.
Honestly, I.
, I don't wanna wear anything else.
It smells completely clean.
Whatever.
Today was a long day.
We got at least everything shot once.
Tomorrow we're gonna go in a little bit later at 10 and my producer said
We'll have a short day cuz it'll just be for anything that we wanna re-shoot.
So I went through all the files myself, made notes on anything that I wanted to
reshoot, things I wasn't super happy with.
And um, I'm hoping to not have to redo any of the face to camera cause I really.
I don't want to get ready again and all that stuff.
But anyway, it was a long day.
I found this bougie little vegan restaurant in Santa Barbara.
I guess it's close to Montecito, which is like a very bougie area, I guess.
Oprah owns a home there.
Natalie Portman owns a home there and it looks like a bougie little restaurant.
So I am gonna give that a shot.
It's all vegan.
Um, you all know.
Oh my gosh.
If you know, you know that every time I come to California I feel overdressed, but
since I'm gonna go to a bougie area, let me know what you guys think of my outfit.
I'll let you know if I end up being overdressed.
Hopefully people aren't just wearing vans.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I just like to dress up.
I didn't realize how much in Detroit we like like to dress compared to California.
So I'll show you my outfit.
It's basically what I wear yesterday just with a pair of like heeled booties.
It's only five o'clock, but you know what?
It gets dark at 6:00 PM.
You know, being like a small woman, I don't like to be out by myself after dark.
So it's just been early dinners for me and I'm fine with it honestly.
I actually love to eat dinner at like 5:00 PM Let me know what
is your preferred dinner time?
Let me know in the comments.
Very curious.
It gives kind of nineties, right?
It's like the wide jeans and some little boots.
I don't know.
Uh, we'll see if, like I said, I'm overdressed or not, but I feel good.
, I feel good.
And that's a wrap.
My LinkedIn learning course has officially been shot.
We'll see, you know, what the feedback is on it.
If I have to do any reshoots or anything.
Um, luckily I think most of it can be.
From home if I need to rerecord any audio or anything.
I used a new hairspray this week cuz I got, you know, like a travel size
one and it is flaky and disgusting.
There's like chunks of things in my hair.
So I really hope those didn't show up on video.
But I'm all set and it's only about noon right now, so I have all day to explore.
I don't really feel like I've been in exploring mood though is the problem.
So I don't know.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna have.
An early night because my flight leaves at 5 55 15 actually, which
means that I need to wake up at like two 30 to get to the airport at three.
So gonna be kind of a weird night.
So, uh, yeah, let's make the most of the day and try to
get myself a little tired out.
I'm definitely not gonna have any more coffee today so that I can
hopefully go to bed around like 8:00 PM These are regular glasses.
I need sunglasses.
Let's see what we can get into today.
All right.
Fun little day in Santa Barbs.
Do people call it that?
It's got a little hot.
I'm gonna take this off.
I came here to see the chromatic arch I think it's called, which is like
this little art installation that's an an arch and it's rainbow colored.
It's pretty cool.
I didn't take any pictures in front of it or anything.
Just inspiration.
Didn't really strike.
I'll put it up here so you all can see it, and I think it's around one 30 or two.
So I'm gonna go back to my hotel for a few hours, just relax, pack
up my suitcase, rest for a little bit, but not sleep because I wanna
be able to go sleep at like eight.
And yeah, just hang out for a little bit.
I actually have some things I wanna tell you about work-wise when we
get to the hotel, even though the lighting is terrible in there.
But I'll tell you more of that.
Okay.
So I wanted to give you a little work update because I have been
working throughout this whole trip.
It's always like, it's weirdly reassuring going away, like
getting away from the office.
I feel like I'm always left with like this sense of relief, realizing that
I don't actually have to be as plugged into my business as I normally am.
Like business still goes on.
I'm able to do so much just on the go.
So this week I've been working.
Actually, let me pull up my to-do list and tell you what.
I have another client, a big client that I'm gonna tell you about in a future vlog.
It'll probably be my next vlog.
I'm doing some content partnership stuff with 'em, so I had to
send an outline to a video.
I actually wrote that on the plane and sent that over to them.
I did a freelance Friday, um, club survey, so my membership group.
FFC or the Freelance Friday Club.
I like to survey them every year just to ask like what people want
more of and things like that.
So I built that out in Google Forms.
I posted it in the group and sent a notification to everyone.
What else?
Getting my podcast ready, which went out today, Friday.
And um, CJ Thomas, she taught an email marketing challenge.
I wasn't able to join the last call, which was on Tuesday.
That was the day that I flew in, but I got the replay ready, sent her a
thank you email, like made sure she felt good to run that by herself.
And lastly, and like very excitingly, I don't know if that's the word.
My mom and I have been working on a project together, so we have
the bracelets that we've been working on, which are so cute.
I have them with me, but I'm not wearing them today.
But those are still available.
I'll link Etsy if anyone wants to check them out.
I absolutely love those.
But this is.
To me more exciting because it's something that I've been wanting to do for so long.
We made a coloring book together, so I had this idea of, It's called Unplugged.
It's called Unplugged.
That's the title of it, because I've been very much on this journey
of like, Unplugging this year, and just life is not so serious.
Life is not all about work.
Like I've really been trying to get better about that, unplugging from
social media a little bit more.
And so I got this idea of like, you know, doing all these different scenes,
you know, camping scenes, nature scenes, fun, like holiday vibes, um, just
like all kinds of things that make me happier, that would make a person happy.
It's not all about me.
It was really important.
To make these really diverse, like different types of people, you know,
families, people with kids, older people, younger people, women, men, everybody.
So it's really cool.
My mom like absolutely crushed the concept.
She's an artist, so she hand drew all of these sketches or drawings.
That you can color in.
So that's one side of the spread.
And then the other side of the spread I designed, you know, I'm
not a designer, but like whatever, I made some cute little typography.
And you can color those words in as well.
And then the idea is like if I thought they would be cute to cut
out and like put on your office wall or something, the typography or
the pictures if you like them, but.
Yeah, it was definitely like a passion project.
I formatted this all by myself.
I do have a journal that I published before, like last year.
It's called The Coaching Journal, and I actually hired a designer to format
that book for me and everything.
I loved working with her, but um, I did this all by myself, , and
I'm actually shocked that I did it.
It took me a while to get the cover, like formatted and sized correctly, so, Working
on this over in bed a couple nights and got it submitted and I'm just so excited.
I'm so proud of my mom.
My mom is such a brilliant artist and um, it's just so cool that she's
able to share her art in this way and hopefully some of you will check it out.
I think this would make an amazing stocking stuffer gift, client gift,
Like it's all, you know, client appropriate, business appropriate.
Um, but yeah, definitely just encourages people to unplug a little bit.
So I really hope you enjoy it.
Let's clean up, Shall we
clean up?
Song Complete?
Do you guys remember that?
From elementary school?
Cleaning up?
Pretty much backed up.
It's 3 45.
I'm getting really tired, which I think is a good thing cause I really
wanna go to sleep around eight o'.
I dunno if that's really gonna happen, but I think I'm gonna go to dinner.
I'm not extremely hungry, but I know I should eat.
Ta, you do something every day to help somebody.
I think we'll all have a better world.
And I love you guys and thank you so for.