you know on YouTube you can find
beautiful content of other travelers I
call them travel porn you know and I
could sit there forever and watch it but
it's another thing when you sort of
weaving a story in 2014 at the height of
her show pretty little liars Shay
Mitchell made a bold move as an actor by
launching her own YouTube channel the
channel features everything from beauty
tutorials to vlogs but Shay's real
passion lies with her Travis series
shake a ssin when you watch it he might
think that you had this huge team with
you who is on the ground with you like
what does it take to pull off the issue
you know that was one of the most
flattering compliments I got was when I
my shake asian india was released i had
you know this brand contact me and say
we want to work together you know but i
don't know your team looks pretty crazy
that looked like a very expensive shoe
how many people are you traveling with
and I'm like four you know and they're
like what uh it's four it's my producer
it's my shoot a shooter and my
photographer and myself and that's all
it is from start to finish
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oh not too many
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and he was they wanted to get a story
where you know just everything went
wrong and it just yeah that was so
difficult most recently when I was in
Qatar we were out shooting in the desert
and our car got stuck and then we had
another car come to come and take us
away and that car got stuck and then it
was just like this is crazy you know to
get this Instagram photo that I thought
was so innocent was gonna take an hour
tops ended up being you know we're like
are we ever gonna get out sometimes you
know you get these crazy things that
happen and you have to be one of those
people that can just kind of take
whatever comes you kind of we're at the
forefront of doing this of being an
actor and and opening your world up to
YouTube and now it feels like that is a
really viable thing for people to do it
is yeah I mean social media back then it
wasn't really highly respected you know
to be an actress and then going into the
YouTube world they were kind of like Oh
cute so you want to be an actor anymore
you want to be a YouTube star too which
I was like no but you know I've done a
lot of endorsements and I'm realizing
that this is a trend of where a lot of
brands and marketing are gonna be paying
attention I mean look Will Smith jumped
on board the rock came on board there's
a fine line between youtuber and actor I
was not here eight years ago you know I
was working as a bottle service waitress
in Toronto I stick with what feels right
to me because at the end of the day if
I'm passionate about it that's really
all that matters to me obviously you
know you have your name of an actor when
you first started all these things but
how did you really grow that presence in
social media because not everyone you
don't sleep you know I guess I just had
this idea and a strong definition of
what my brand was and what I wanted to
put out there and truly it was to live
life to the fullest and I wanted that to
kind of come across and everything that
I did so back in the day when you when
people would say but what are you do you
want to get into food do you want to get
into fitness or is it beauty or is it
travel but make up your mind
I couldn't why can't I do
all of it you know I do do all of it I
got a blister but I just think that that
shows the effort that went into my
paddling burned off those honey's don't
you recently published a video on a trip
that you did to Jordan to go and visit a
Syrian refugee camp it's very different
a lot of other stuff in your channel why
did you want to tell that particular
story
one thing that was one of my missions
going into you the YouTube world was
that I wanted to also produce and put
out content that was important to me and
that I thought needed to be more out
there and to bring awareness to certain
causes that were important does that
video do as well as you know my first
makeup tutorial does no of course not
but at least even getting that amount of
people to see and maybe speak about it
and have their own conversations and
maybe look in and do their own research
about it that's what I want you do many
different things on your channel but
shake Asian is really your parenting
project what's the biggest hope do you
have a long-term goal for it is it kind
of every day as it comes it's every day
as it comes but there's also a long-term
goal with it I think the thing about
Sheikh Asians is that it's truly my
interest I don't have anybody above me
saying do this do that but the travelers
honor is really male-dominated there was
that missing sort of relatability
factors and so I wanted to sort of take
the charge in that and a lot of people
are doing a lot of great things in this
space and that's also what I guess keeps
me moving is that you know there's
somebody else that's getting those
really great shots and telling a great
story and it makes me want to go there
as well