- I have three tattoos.
I used to be really shy, so my mom put me in pageants.
I used to be so cheap.
I wanted to be a pilot when I was in college,
and I went into ROTC.
Also in college, I had a long distance fiance.
Hey guys, my name's Shayla
and I make these videos every Wednesday.
I've been traveling full time since 2015,
and I usually go and live for a couple of months
to kind of slow travel.
But I make these videos every Wednesday
to inspire you to travel,
or to do whatever it is that makes you happy.
Please subscribe if you're into that,
and please like the video if you like the video.
It always feels weird saying that.
This Wednesday I wanted to talk to you
about life before Living On a One Way.
Because I've lived so many places,
and I've done so many things,
and I want to hear if you have done that.
So if you have, let me know.
First of all, I'm from Minnesota,
Lakeville if you know it.
I lived there for 18 years of my life,
until I went to college.
I have one sister, Amber, who you all know;
and if you don't I'll put a playlist somewhere.
She is 16 months younger than me,
so I'm her older sister, which usually shocks people.
I don't know why.
It can't be her career, or house, or child.
I was in dance.
I think I was in debate for a little bit.
Choir.
Loved speech class, I was in AP classes.
I was friends with the nerds,
I was friends with the cool kids,
I was friends with the goths, I didn't care,
I just like people.
I didn't drink in high school
until senior year spring break,
and then in college I was the DD for everybody.
Don't get me wrong, I had my moments where I drank
and honestly when I did, I didn't know what I was doing,
I had no idea how to keep track of alcohol.
My body does not like alcohol.
I swear I get hangovers worse than everybody.
And I don't know if I'm just a baby, or if like really I do.
I've learned that energy drinks, for me,
are the best way to go;
because I can just have yerba mate, and like get
all the energy like everybody else,
but I don't feel horrible the next day.
I also love to dance.
I'd have my Red Bull and I would dance
my freaking face off.
My hair would be up, it would be drenched in sweat,
like I wasn't the pretty girl, I was dancing.
My sister and I used to film ourselves like this,
when my parents would go out, and we were old enough
to babysit ourselves, and we would just videotape
ourselves and make news segments, and make Jenny Jones,
if you remember Jenny Jones.
This is something that I've been doing
since I was little, and it kind of took awhile
for me to remember that, but maybe I could find
some of those clips and share them.
That would be amazing.
I wanted to do it all at one point,
and now I'm doing this, and I think it's so much fun,
but also so challenging.
It's pretty difficult, but I enjoy it.
I was a first generation college student.
I was like making appointments with my Dean.
I was the nerd, for sure.
I was like uh, can we set up an appointment?
And he was like, what?
I need help with college.
After high school in Minnesota, I went to college
at the University of San Diego.
And to save money, I graduated in three years,
which meant 18 to 21 semesters,
18 to 21 units every semester.
I worked on campus at the gym,
and I did internships, which I freaking loved.
I was a peer advisor for all the freshmen,
they failed the first semester,
they had to come the second semester.
First question I asked, look I know you have to be here,
what do you want to get from this?
And honestly that's something that I love doing.
Life development, and helping people come up
with what, how they can make their dreams reality.
And I'm actually going to work on this a little bit,
I'm going to do strategy calls.
If you're in to something like that, send me a message
and we can talk about it later.
That's not what this is about.
I wanted to be a pilot when I was in college,
and I went into ROTC for a half a semester,
and then I was like there's got to be better ways to travel.
Also in college, I had a long distance fiance.
I was engaged at 19, and he was in the Marine Corps
in North Carolina, and I was in San Diego.
So when I graduated college, I moved to North Carolina.
Before he got out of the Marine Corps, I went to Spain
to be an AuPair, or an international nanny,
and then we moved to Hawaii where I worked
as a bartender for like eight months.
And then we broke up and I moved home.
About the time that I moved home,
my parents got a divorce.
So if you know what it's like to be an adult
with parents getting divorced, I feel ya.
I went back to the restaurant that I was working at,
and I traveled two weeks to Peru, two weeks to Thailand;
there's a plane flying over, we're just going to let it happen.
And then I took three months traveling,
and then that's how this whole thing started.
And that's where the videos start.
So I'm going to do a couple quick fire questions that I got.
What do my parents do?
My parents are both entrepreneurs, which is why
I think I'm such an entrepreneur.
My dad owns a construction company,
and he has since I was born, and now flips houses.
My mom worked for family jewelry company,
cosmetology, got really into horses,
so we did horse shows for awhile;
and now she owns a bar in Northfield, Minnesota
called Froggy Bottom, so go say hey.
How many tattoos do I have?
I have three tattoos.
There's one right here,
hey boo what's going on?
- [Male] Not much, we just had lunch.
- Seth was on his break so I had to talk to him.
Well, that's one of the questions, how did Seth and I meet?
On Bumbo when I was home at one point.
I have three tattoos.
Tattoo number one, that little dot,
means don't sweat the small stuff.
When you're super involved in your own problem,
if you kind of take a step back at a birds' eye view,
you realize how little of a problem it is.
I have this wave, can you see this wave?
I have this wave which means ebb and flow.
Sometimes things are in abundance and really good,
sometimes things are not;
but it all kind of evens out.
And then I have this one on the side,
and that is a matching tattoo with my sister.
It means 8 0 8, it's what we used to yell
at the end of the driveway,
'cause that's what time the bus came.
Heavily meaning tattoos, that's kind of my jam.
Can't have dairy, my belly kind of hurts,
but it's more just like I feel
lethargic and tired and nasty.
Have I been skydiving?
I did it twice.
Once with my college roommates, the second time
for my sister's 19th birthday,
and my parachute got a little bit twisted,
and he had to untwist us and kick us out.
He said he almost had to pull it,
so I'm not going to do it a third time.
Bungee jumping once, I have a video about that.
After that, I was like okay, I've done all the things
I need to do for adrenaline, I'm good.
When I was little, I used to be really shy.
So my mom put me in pageants, and I was
Little Miss of America in Minnesota in 1996.
I have the cutest nephew in the whole freaking world.
His name's Bennett, Baby B.
I am his Tee Tee, so whenever he sees me on Facetime,
he's like, hi Tee Tee, and it melts my heart.
I said before I haven't, I didn't shave until I was 21
because I did laser hair removal;
which I highly recommend, I got it on Groupon.
I've also done Botox and I actually have a video
about that if you're interested in it.
I've done it twice, and I might do it again.
I'm a certified yoga teacher.
I did yoga in college and I was so hooked.
I was going five to six times a week,
and then I became a teacher.
Then I led yoga retreats.
I used to be so cheap.
And I'm still moderately cheap,
but
it was extreme.
I'd want to go out to dinner with friends,
but I would just get a side salad.
'cause I didn't want to spend money on the food.
I think that's why I've been able to travel so much.
It's kind of made me a minimalist, because I don't
want to have a bunch of things.
I want to have a few really nice things.
What did people think when I first started doing this?
I specifically remember everyone that I was friends with
on Facebook got an invite to my page at the time.
And I remember a friend of mine being like,
oh yeah, so and so thinks it's really kind of goofy
what you're doing.
And I was like I don't care, like I just never cared.
I was just like well they don't think it's cool,
but I've got a bunch of other people who are into it,
and that enjoy it.
And yeah, people thought I was crazy what I was doing,
and they would wonder how I was making money,
and if my parents were paying for stuff.
And I was just like.
I really love natural foods, natural deodorant,
natural cleaning stuff.
I like doing things the natural way.
'Cause I think it's good to do these things
to help your body just run better.
First place I ever traveled, to Mexico.
That was like your spring break destination,
so we would go to Mexico.
And I remember meeting this Canadian girl
who was the cool Activities Director.
I was like what?
You're from Canada,
and you're an activities director in Mexico?
This is the coolest job ever.
I think that put a little seed in my head.
Some of the places that I've lived.
Hawaii for eight months
and I worked at Senor Frogs and Yardhouse.
North Carolina, and I worked on
the military base, Camp Lejeune.
Spain for three months,
and I nannied in Nicaragua for two months.
We lived in New Zealand for two months in the van.
Puerto Rico for eight months.
That was like really what started all of this.
I guess I lived in Greece for three months as well,
working with the Syrian refugees.
Obviously I lived in San Diego while I was going to college.
And now I'm living here in Washington for four months,
and I think it's the coolest.
That's a little bit about me.
I was a total nerd in high school,
but I also like was friends with the cool kids,
I was just, I was just really confident in what I did.
I want to make another video to help you guys
figure out how to do these things,
like the international nanny, or volunteering abroad.
I want to know, do you guys live in those places?
Have any of you ever been an AuPair?
I just want to know more about you,
and to kind of connect with you on a different thing,
to show like, yeah, I just grew up and I just decided
to do this, and did it sort of blindly,
and just went for it.
And it's happened to work out.
Please subscribe if you're not already,
and please like this video if you enjoyed it.
I will see you guys all next Wednesday.
Mwah.
The bonus footage this week,
if you remember Amber's pants dance,
someone sent me their kids doing the pants dance,
and I freaking love it.
So I wanted to show you because I think it's so funny.
See you guys all next Wednesday.
Mwah.
- [Female] Oh, look at you girl.
- This is one of those rompers that you're like,
is that a dress or pants?
- [Female] Let's see it, let's see it.
- You can't tell it's pants.
Betcha can't tell, betcha can't tell it's pants.
They're pants.
No dress, no.
It's pants.
- It's not a dress, it's pants.
- Not a dress, it's pants.
Yeah, I'm telling ya, it's pants.
Not a dress.
It's pants.