Hey everyone it's Morgan Yates. And before we get into this video literally at all. I just need to address the obvious and that is
That my face is not moving correctly today. I got my wisdom teeth out less than 48 hours ago
so if you think I look different that's why or if at any point in this video if I am like
Smiling or laughing and it just something looks a little bit off
That's why is because I like cannot move my face fully into like a smile configuration and it's very unfortunate
But we are filming a video today. Anyway, I have some exciting news
I'm gonna be sharing in this video. So I didn't want to delay it any longer. So oh my gosh
As you can tell by the title today, I am doing a Q&A so I actually pulled questions a while ago
I posted on Instagram stories with one of the little question boxes asking for questions and I just saved those from forever ago
So if you didn't see me recently asked for questions is because I didn't do it. But here we are answering lots of questions
Thank you to everyone who submitted them and we're just gonna jump right in
Yay, question one pertaining to the title of this video
So when asked do you know when the med train trip will be?
As well as I just got a lot of other questions asking about the trip that I've talked about on my blog channel as well
As on Instagram that I'm going to be hosting that you guys can actually come book on too
So if you've been following me for a minute now
you've seen me go on some really exciting group travel trips to Greece and Croatia and
Spain and Portugal and Israel and Jordan and just like the Mediterranean at this point
I feel like I've been all over in these like group travel trip settings
It's maybe my favorite way to travel just because of all the cool people you get to meet and I'm very excited that
Contiki agreed to team up with me to host a trip so that all of you guys can come on a little vacation
With me, it's gonna be really fun. The big announcement is that the trip is finally here. You can finally book it
I'm gonna have the link below
It's gonna be taking place June at 20th through 28th of the summer and it's going through Coastal Italy the South of France
Ending in Barcelona literally all of like the Mediterranean highlights in some of my favorite cities ever are gonna be on the trip
So I would love to meet any of you guys who can on that trip
I think would be a really fun time plus if you decided to come on this trip or go on any other trip with them
And this is not sponsored. They don't even know I'm mentioning this in this video
I have a code, which is just Kentucky Morgan and you get $100 off this trip or any trip with him
I'm also gonna have linked over on Instagram a little promo video
I put together Thank You Lauren for this question, which is also the perfect lead-in to today's sponsor this video
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They're available at Target. This is the carry-on suitcase that I always travel with
I was worried if I check a bag even though it's unlikely that they might lose it and then I'm gonna get to my destination
And I have no clothes and no anything
So I prefer to fit everything in the carry-on bag American Tourister also sent over this bag is part of their new life is good
Collection they have three bags in that line. I think this looks very like Palm Springs
Maybe I'll bring it to Coachella and that bag as well as the other ones in the new collection are available at Target
So again, if you're in need of any affordable luggage, I will have that linked below
So thank you again to them for sponsoring this and we will get on with our next question KC asks
When is your next trip and this video goes up? I will be getting ready to leave to go to Scottsdale. Arizona super randomly
I'm doing something with our tourism board and Adrian and I are going out there to do a little wellness retreat
It's gonna be fun time
I'll be vlogging it and it'll be on this channel in a week or two probably got something for a few days and then a
Little bit after that on the 18th, I think Adrian and I are going to Colombia
The nation not South Carolina. I'm actually doing a Contiki trip there. It's the Colombian coasts and culture trip
So excited for that choice asks, what do you ever go on The Bachelor?
Absolutely not. I can think of absolutely nothing that I would excel less and
On top of fact that it was stressing out to know and I couldn't even go through the audition process because that would be too
Stressed out. So I don't think reality TV and I will ever
Intermingle, Annie asks always wanted to ask a youtuber. That's what happens when youtubers killed
You get those?
anti-aging skincare brand deals
I feel like every time I do a Q&A I get a lot of these questions asking if I'm West Coast for life
Do I see myself living in LA forever, or when I go back to NC? That's fine
I think I probably West Coast for life
I would say I don't like putting a definitive answer on this type of thing because I don't know what I'm gonna want to do
In a year who knows five years down the road. I could be living in the South of France. That would be amazing
I definitely see myself in LA for the foreseeable future just because I don't know where else I would move
necessarily or where it would make sense or I would want to move but I think
When the time comes if and when I do want to move somewhere else it'll make sense at that time
And then I will go there. I don't know
It's kind of a cop-out answer, but I don't I don't know reading anything good right now
Yes, actually I am currently reading the book never split the difference by Chris boss
I got this book wreck from Sarah ray Vargas on YouTube
I watched one for a little book club videos and actually ordered a couple of the ones she talked about
I don't really like reading fiction. Yeah, I just don't like it
I would rather
Like watch something if I'm reading something that's fake and doesn't like apply to my life
Even when I try to read like self-help things
I feel like that's the only thing I can somewhat motivate myself to do. I often still get bored
So this however this has caught and kept my attention
It's about negotiating and a certain by a guy who used to be the lead like
Hostage negotiator for the FBI. So he tells like all these crazy stories which I of course also like because in another life
I would have been like Alex Parrish from Quantico and the FBI I can wishfully think at least
But I think his stories are so interesting and then he just like explains all these negotiating principles and it applies
So much to everything I do and working for myself and it also applies to interpersonal relationships and blah blah blah
I really recommend this
I also got a few questions asking about how I travel so often in groups of girls
And is there drama or like how do I avoid drama? Do not see over on Instagram?
So I didn't vlog this Tyreese intimate to Cabo with four of my girlfriends and guess a little bit before that
I went to New York with Danielle Kinsey Brooke and Keaton and we had our little girls New York Christmas trip next month
I'm going to Coachella and sharing a house like eight other girls. I do have some advice and tips here
However for me this is just like never really been a problem. All of my friends are very chill. Everyone's very laid-back
Very accommodating very go with the flow. So we just don't really argue about anything like when we all got to Cabo
Who's that trip?
I think we spent probably 45 minutes trying to decide who went in which room because
Genuinely, no one cared there were five of us
We had to split into two rooms, and we finally just like flipped a coin because we're all like I literally don't care
So I think a couple big tips here going into any kind of like girls or not even just girls
But any kind of like group vacation
I think the biggest things that could cause conflict are not being on the same page about how much money you want to spend
it's good to like have that conversation or whatever so that some people aren't over here like bitter when people wanna do one thing but
They don't wanna spend money on it or blah blah blah - I would say plan your sleeping arrangements in advance
Because some people that would probably cause conflict for it didn't with us
But it'll at least if something else save you time before you get on the trip three
I think just be on the same page about what you're wanting to do on the trip
So if some people are super chill
Some people are super like I'm gonna need to be at a yoga class on the beach at 7 a.m
And like everyone ease come with me like that. Those things don't line up. So add it out
There are just certain friends
you just shouldn't travel with because been there done that I'm very lucky that all of my friends are very just like
Level-headed chill gals, so we don't really ever fight about anything actually never we literally never fight
Next question is how to get confident and love myself
so I assume that this has to do with like
Appearance matters and I would say if you are at a place where you're not confident and who you are or what you look like
Or whatever
I think it's a bit big of an ask to try to go from like being
Dissatisfied with whatever the thing is to like getting to a place where you're like
I
Love all these things about myself like it's like you're just sending your brain these
Conflicting messages and it's a lot to jump from this one place over to the other
I think a much more realistic place to get to as your next step or in goal is just a place of like
Neutrality everyone should listen to the Ashley Graham did me Lovato podcast that just came out
they talked a lot about this there but as much as like I love body positivity and that concept maybe
You just need to get to body neutrality rather than trying to be like oh
I love this thing and like that doesn't feel true
It's a lot easier to get to a place of just being like
neutral about it and being like this is the way it is like I accept it and like I
appreciate that my body can like hike up this mountain and like
Carry me across the world to travel and I can appreciate that
My body is strong and like allows me to work out and do all these things that I love
I think that's a very healthy place to be at a if you stay there, that's fine
but I feel like then it's a lot easier to launch into like a place of like positivity with
Confidence and all those things. I don't know. That's my advice. I think also just doing things that make feel good
Yeah, it is a process. It is a lot of unlearning
Messages that you have taken in from society and from advertising throughout your entire life of like what people should look like and yeah
I think one thing that helped me was in college when I was taking all these like critical media Theory classes
analyzing every add an image and whatever from like a critical analysis perspective and
Being like hmm. I'm gonna buy out of this messaging right now
I know it's easier said than done to say like don't compare yourself to other people
But I think another practical thing here is like yeah
you can appreciate that like this person over here is beautiful and looks good and whatever and
Just because you don't look like that doesn't mean that these things are mutually exclusive
You can also look great and be beautiful, you know what I mean?
Leila asks do you ever feel pressured to have an abundance of designer things like other influencers? I don't feel any kind of pressure
I honestly at this point like that's just not something I care about there was a time where I was
All out here wanting this like cardio this Gucci bag blah blah blah and like I could afford it
But I could never bring myself to spend the money because I felt guilty because I felt like if I can easily spend this much
Money on such a trivial thing
Then like there are people out there that need that more than me and I should be donating this money
so said I did there was a time where I was like
Really out here wanting these things
I think for no other reason other than they were like cool and again
It wasn't like a pressure
Like I felt like I needed that thing to be cool
But I just like place this value on this item and I like wanted it because I was like cool
It's gonna be exciting or really looking forward to the buying thing is more exciting than buying the thing
I feel like at this point
I don't really have those desires at all anymore to go buy designer things out go spend that money on
Travel or on taking my friends out to dinner or on
Donating it to a cause that I care about so I was right now my priorities finance wise are definitely with saving
I think I got a question somewhere in here
Well if I'm still saving to buy a house
basically
Right when I was moving out here I was talking about I think in a vlog how I wanted or was considering buying a house
On the East Coast as like an investment
That's just too much work. So because I'm not there to manage that you know, so I
Instead. I'm still saving for a house down payment, you know could've bought one on the East Coast by now
But here we are everything I like in LA is in the two to three million dollar range at a reasonable
Reasonable price point but should the day ever come when I can actually afford to buy a house in LA
That's never gonna happen. If I'm not saving my money throughout time to be able to do that
so I think I've said this is my family's advice to do but I would really have a set amount of money that every single
week
I'm moving into a separate savings account and forget about it and whatever and that is my like one day house down payment fund and
She's looking good, but she ain't looking la good right now, you know as well as I just feel
Called if you will to save my money as well for certain other
things
One random example something that I felt was really important that I got the idea for a few months back is creating a like summer
internship grant
Scholarship type thing for a subscriber I talked about this in another video as well
But basically the summer that I came out to LA for the first time which like led to you know
One thing led to another led to another I would not be here living
In LA and like doing YouTube full-time if I hadn't come out here for this internship that summer
However, I could not I was doing an unpaid internship. Okay should be illegal
They not I would not have been able to come out here and do that had I not received this
Like summer internship grant through my school so I kinda wanna pay that forward
And have that kind of become an annual thing. Hopefully for someone else in a similar situation who's doing an unpaid internship?
So that's one thing a second thing that I have been I've never talked about us in videos something
I've been saving my money for for a couple years now as well kind of in a similar style to my lake house
Savings fund where like every X amount of time. I move a certain amount of money into this like
Whatever fund I'm just gonna say what of this ever since early college I had felt
Called to adoption if you will at one point in the far far future
so the point that I felt like I had this
Responsibility to start early and like planning for that so that can happen one day
So I literally have this is absurd to say I am so single in 25
But I have an adoption fund that I save so that one day that can become a reality and it's not like I popped up
One day and decided that let me I need to do this and I never took any steps towards it when I knew that was
Something I wanted to do
so I just I'm a big fan of a financial responsibility and I'm putting your money where
Your mouth is and where your heart is and your priorities are
Talking about that for too long. Okay, Gillian asked lovest question
what do you struggle with most as an innie gram ate from a fellow ate any kind of display of emotion or
sharing feelings
I'm the maid of honor and my best friend Caroline's wedding. You guys know Caroline everyone loves her
She's getting married this summer and I have to give a speech and let me tell you how much I've been dreading this speech
I think about it like every single day how much I am dreading giving the speech at my best friend's wedding
Because it makes me so uncomfortable to share how I feel
publicly Morgan from the editing future here
secondly
and maybe this is the better answer because I think it actually ties into the first I think actually my bigger struggle is only doing
Things I'm good at because I feel vulnerable when I am NOT good at something
And so I just stick to the things I'm good at and I think that at a certain extent that limits you so I don't
Know we try to work on that right. Now. Next question is if you weren't an influencer, what would your career be?
I think I would still be in this realm to some extent
I would probably say I'd be a
Talent manager perhaps I think I would like that a lot because I do love the negotiating business side of YouTube a lot of friends
Are always jokingly calling me manager Morgan because I'm one more time. They can always one more time out there
My friends are always calling me manager Morgan because I'm always out here like pitching us little group things in whatever nest dream vacation
Right. Now the place is top my travel lists are turkey. I really want to do like sailing the Turkish Riviera
I really want to go to Capri and like
Random coastal Italy spots that I'm not been to and I also want to go to Malta
So in Australia eventually, but if you can tell I just like tropical places. It's been out of focus for this long
Sorry and final question ending on a light-hearted fun note is what is your go-to?
karaoke song some of you may appreciate the humor in this because I
Do not like country music can only listen to it
if I am like in Nashville and just like committing to the theme for the weekend, but somehow my go-to karaoke song is
Before he cheats by Carrie Underwood. That is my song
I'm not a singer by any means, but if you give me a country song
I can somehow turn on this light. I bring out my past
I used up the strongest southern accent every one of my family sells very strong southern accent except for me
Long story short we switched schools when I was in Middle School and people are never like meeting about it
But I had become aware that like I sound a different than everybody else. And so I made it go away over time
Yeah, if you watch videos even from just like four years ago
You'd be like girlfriend. You sound like you are living on a farm. And yep, that girl is still somewhere in here
And so when I have to get up and sing a karaoke song for whatever
Reason, it's gonna be something country that is it for this video. Thank you guys so much for bearing with me
I will be back to normal where I can like
Express my face in the next video. Hope we could all find this amusing again
Thank you to American Tourister for sponsoring this as well. As I will have the trip of Contiki linked below
So that is it and I will see you in my next video