Life Uncut - Karina Irby Uncut

Episode Date: June 1, 2020

Karina Irby is the Aussie boss lady that owns Moana Bikini and Bikini Body burn. She is the woman that is paving the way for a more real, raw, unfiltered and hilarious social media, changing the way we look and think about our bodies and with an instagram audience of over 1.1 million we think she's just the kind of influence we need. That and she's also bloody hilarious!Jump onboard as we talk all things embarrassing moments, business, instagram, adversity, body image and of course, LOVE.Check out this boss babe on insta @karinairbyAnd you can follow us @lifeuncutpodcastIf you love having us in your ears each week please hit that big fat subscribe button, leave a big fat review and share the love, because, well, we love love.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura. And I'm Brittany. Hi Brittany. How are you Laura? I'm bloody great babe. How are you? I'm great, but why don't you just jump on in and tell the guys what we've got coming

up today. Okay, we have a very special episode, and I know I say that every week, but this one is extra jazzy. I actually love that you say that every week. Extra jazzy. We have a guest coming on today. Her name is Karina Irby, and she is a social media, Instagram sensation. She's also an incredible boss woman.

She started her own company. She's an entrepreneur, and she is going to be talking us through her life and all of the things. She's also just a great bloody person, isn't she? Actually a legend to speak to. Yeah, it's an amazing chat. So we do have that coming up. But before we get into that, what's been happening, Laura?

What have you done this week? I saw some friends. It was really nice. What other than me? Believe it or not, Brittany, there are other people in my life. Not many, but there are. I actually don't believe that. This cloud of isolation has lifted.

I saw some girlfriends. I went for some nice coastal walks with them. We had a barbecue. Of course, we had a very small barbecue. Don't worry, guys. Within limits. We stuck to all of the parameters, but it just really felt so nice to have this feeling of normalcy.

And then also it was such a beautiful, sunny weekend here in Bondi. So yeah, I had such a nice weekend. And you? Well, I tried to go out to dinner with some friends and I was like, you know what? We need to just get together and do something. We tried to go out. I can't tell you how many restaurants we called to try and get in. And it's just nuts.

I think there must just be queues of months for people because they're still taking limited seats. was only 10 people so everywhere is just this waiting list so we ended up just having a really nice night we stayed in I so I haven't felt what you felt yet about being back out and normal well I didn't go out anywhere I just had people around to my house it was that's what I did they came to my house so we did the same thing then okay okay but I think like when feeling like you're going out and doing stuff when you're a mom is just literally having a couple people over to your house you're like oh my god this is wild but you know what we did we're at very different points

in our life we all dressed up like we dressed up like we were going out because i think we all needed a pick-me-up you know when you're slobbing around for months in your active wear on you don't brush your hair you say months that's been the last 11 months of my life it's pretty cute we put on um we all like literally we fake tanned and we put makeup on one of my friends came over like looking saucy af knee-high boots and we're like ready to go out and then we just sat in my lounge room had wines order takeaway had ice cream and we actually had the best night i've had in a long time so there was a lot of effort that went into that you lost me at knee-high boots put pants on when my friends came around it was great well guys before we get into the actual episode we just

wanted to touch on a couple of things that have been happening one of them being that we put a photo up on our instagram page of courtney kardashian and i'm sure that most of you know of or have seen that photo and if you haven't go have a look at life uncut podcast now there's this photo that Kourtney Kardashian put up recently and it has been extremely digitally altered so she's photoshopped the photo and it's caused a lot of conversation around one is it okay to photoshop two can you call someone out for photoshopping and what is okay I mean we see everybody in in the public eye everyone uses photoshop we almost can't deny that now it's so rare to have somebody that doesn't but the Kardashians are very well known for it it's almost it's strange to watch

they'll put a photo out that's photoshopped and people will call them on it and they don't even get embarrassed they just like laugh at it and it's like so normal to them that they're like oh like haha i'll just delete that and put another one up i think that the kardashians especially this photo of courtney i actually think that they put out heavily doctored images like heavily photoshopped images with the intention of creating conversation because look we have a podcast we're talking about it right now the image that we're specifically talking about today it's a it's a self looks like a selfie but Courtney looks like a completely different person in it her she's obviously used facetune to change the shape of her jaw she's changed the shape of her nose she's

changed the shape of her eyes and it's not about whether or not we think that plastic surgery is okay or whether we think that fillers is okay this conversation is specifically about whether or not we think doctoring images on social media is okay and I honestly think that they do this with the intention to cause this sort of conversation and to create traffic to go to their Instagram for people to look at that photo and it it drives their numbers up it's tactical it's strategic we have said before absolutely have nothing against injectables cosmetic surgery or whatever you want to do we are actually we're here for it it's going to make you feel better and it's something you want to change your body's your body the only thing we want to talk about now

is the fact that people like this with 100 200 million followers they're so influential to today's youth and they're putting out this idea that every day you wake up in the morning you're cooking breakfast and you're looking immaculate you are looking absolutely perfect and that's our newer generation coming through thinking that they have to maintain these standards and then before we know it every single Joe Blow is photoshopping every single photo on a daily basis it's not even like it used to be Laura with magazines that used to photoshop for editorials that we almost let slip because we're like oh it's a high-end editorial we let them do what they have to do but now it's like Laura and I were talking this morning and Laura's saying

it's every 16 year old that's that's altering their photos because we think that we have to maintain this certain level and the thing that caused so much uproar with this one particular photo if you haven't seen it go and have a look I actually love Khloe Kardashian I think she's funny I think she's a boss business lady but she photoshopped the photo to the point that her necklace half her necklace had been like photoshopped out of the picture that is how heavily it had been photoshopped I just don't think it's setting a good example well I think just what you touched on in regards to how it used to be only magazines that would photoshop images and we all recognize and there was big conversations around it 10 years ago how damaging it was that magazines

would photoshop these images of models now it's accessible to everyone everyone can use phase tune and everyone can make structural changes to their face very very easily with a little swipe of the finger and I think what that does is it commodifies on people's insecurities it it says if you don't like this thing about yourself that's not perfect in quotation marks then you can change that and I think that you know instead of saying and liberating that everyone is beautiful in all of their many diverse differences it sets this one precedent and it's like this is what's not this is what's normal this is what's beautiful and you all have to fit this mold and I think that that is what's really damaging. I genuinely think people who have a huge social media following, people who

are in the public eye, people who are role models have a heightened responsibility to be inclusive and to set a good example and you know I know that the Kardashians cop a massive flack but their brand is based on a certain image. That conversation always comes back down to photoshopping and filtering and whether or not it's acceptable. It's such an interesting conversation. That kind of leads us into our guests for today but before we introduce Karina we just want to do a little bit of accidentally unfiltered because we love it because it's my favorite part of the episode and also that was really heavy and I think we need to like lighten it up a bit oh absolutely so what have you got for me today all right guys so you know that I accidentally unfiltered is

you write in your most embarrassing stories and we read them out for everybody to laugh at you mainly us but honestly we get such good feedback from this section of the podcast like I love this this is my absolute favorite so guys thanks for the lols why do you say lol shoot me in the face fuck I have just rubbed off on you disgusting I love that for me I hate myself okay here we go so this one came in the other week from one of our listeners and I freaking love this it's like it's wholesome it's wholesome but it's great okay I actually the wholesome ones are the best ones I went over to this guy's house I had been talking to for a while he lives with his parents and I went over there pretty late so his parents were in bed and I never met or saw

them we stayed downstairs on the lounge and we watched a movie I had every intention of going home that night until I woke up yeah we all do until I woke up at 6 a.m with the light streaming through the windows yeah we've all been there I realized I had fallen asleep and then the guy had just left me on the lounge and he'd gone to bed. I was stressing big time. What if his parents come downstairs and there's just a stranger sleeping on the couch? She's like, okay, what if I, what if I go upstairs and try and find his bedroom? No, that's a terrible idea. What if I opened the wrong door and it turns out to be his parents' room? So I just decided I was going to bail as quietly as possible. I gather my things. I opened the front door. Then the fucking house alarm

starts blaring at 6 a.m in the morning i just ran i ran in shock to my car and i could see his parents behind me running down the stairs in their pajamas i got in the car and i gunned it down the street only to realize he lived in a cul-de-sac so she had to turn around so i had to do a three point turn and then awkwardly drive back past his house where the alarm was still blaring and his parents were out the front now screaming at my car they definitely thought i was robbing them anyway i ended up dating the guy for a few months so it was pretty awkward the next time i met his parents i have so many questions i pictured the i picture the parents running down the street with like baseball bats in their pajamas like yeah but also if you have someone to your house and you

know that your house has an alarm i feel like it's something you need to talk about what a setup what an absolute yeah yeah that was you got done all right have you got me and accidentally unfiltered yeah you want another one i want another one i actually have a really wholesome one as well what happened to all the sex and the farting and the vomiting in the bathtub i think we had to take a break yeah i think so too this one is so cute because it made me it took me back to my childhood okay stay with me this morning this literally came in last night i'm gonna tell you laura this came in last night at oh no 5 p.m yesterday and it happened yesterday i love that people have embarrassing shit that happens to them and straight away the first thing they think is

Oh, I'm going to message that to Life Uncut. They will love this. Okay, ready? So this morning I meant to send a photo of my worming medicine to my mum asking if it's the right brand. Yes, I'm 26 and this is my life. What a moment in time, guys. I sent it to the guy I'm seeing by accident.

I literally sent him a picture of my worming tablet and said, is this the right one? My cover-up, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, yearly worming time? Did your parents make you do this too when you were little? oh girlfriend she said she sent in a photo so she's 26 and she's got worms i have a question anyway what how does that happen maybe she works in in like child care daycare i don't know but she sent in the photo i'm gonna put i'm gonna ask you if i can put on our story so you guys can see

it's literally the worming tablet that you take he wrote back and said what's it for and she just left it blank i had to say to her i said just leave him on soon but i love that she's like she says to she says oh my parents still make me do this yearly like whatever oh I just tried to like throw it under the because you know how gross that chocolate is too I'm 26 but yeah my parents still make me work my butt I was like are you still seeing him because she was supposed to meet up with him she's like well it only happened this morning give it time I'm not sure our accidentally unfiltered they don't need to be gross no no no no no no they do I'm ready for some dirty sex ones guys come back at me it's been a while well should we jump on in to our

special guest yes time to bring on karina do we have sound effects babe when you start doing the editing we'll bring in some sound effects okay okay well let's just like today on the show we have the absolute powerhouse of a woman that is karina irby she is the boss lady that owns moana bikini and bikini body burn she is the woman that is paving the way for a more real, raw, unfiltered social media. She's changing the way we look at our bodies and with an Instagram audience of 1.1 million, we think she's just the kind of influence we need. Karina, welcome to Life Uncut. Knock, knock ladies. Hey, thank you so much for having me. How are we? We're so good and it's actually such a pleasure to have you on. We have both

been following your Instagram for so long and when we were tossing up people who we wanted to have on the show you were very top of the list so this is an absolute treat. Thank you guys. I would like to say I actually reached out to you and Laura reached out to you and you didn't get back to me and you got back to Laura so I'm not going to take it personally. I know how rude. But like you obviously have your favorite whatever. So I guess we just want to say straight up how are you and how has ISO life been for you? Yeah, I'm fantastic. I'm really, really good. ISO has been, I mean, yep, crazy time. I haven't really been personally affected by it too much. I'm quite a loner, love my alone time as it is. So my personal lifestyle hasn't really been affected or changed

much at all. And regarding our work life, that's changed a little bit, but mainly for good. We've been so crazy busy at the Moana HQ. We have had to do a little bit of social distancing which means less dance parties and cuddles but we have had a lot more time online with our online community and it's actually been really fun getting to know people on a more deeper level. That's amazing. That's actually so nice to hear a positive spin on it. I mean I think that there's been so much negativity around the whole situation. Everyone's so quick to talk about what anxiety it's driving and like how badly some businesses have been affected, but there have also been some businesses that it's just, it's done wonderful things for. So I'm so glad to hear that you are on that side

of the coin. Thank you. Yeah. I just think that, you know, you, you do need to try and see the positive in situations and yeah, that's just what I try and do on the daily. So I'll keep running with that. Well, let's get into, let's get into the questions. So starting at the beginning, you grew up in Port Macquarie. Tell us a little bit about your childhood. Yep. Grew up in Port Macquarie um actually mainly grew up in a small little surfy town called Lake Cat Eye which is about 10 minutes out of Port Macquarie not a whole lot goes on there but surf and um that was all I really cared about growing up I was a little teenage surfer girl um yeah my parents divorced when I was about 12 I grew up with my dad and yeah I mean moved up to the Gold Coast to study

at university and I can't say I've ever really looked back so you know um I grew up in Lighthouse Beach. Yeah I know I do vaguely actually remember seeing you around because do you have crazy blue eyes right? I guess. Are you guys having a moment? I feel like I used to see you and I used to think wow look at that girl's dark hair and really blue eyes like she's so pretty. Thank you I mean let's okay we can finish the interview here. No we um I so I have a sister she's a few younger than me and we went to tacking point primary school and you were in the year between both of us so I think it's a crazy world just thought I'd throw that in there it's a small world it's crazy I completely agree with you what we want to know is this upbringing in Lake Cateye Port Macquarie surfing

I know exactly what it's like but is that do you think that influenced you to start your company Moana Bikini um yeah definitely I mean I always had a passion for swimwear being that like surfing was my life and obviously um I don't you know you guys might have heard that I was struggling a lot with eczema growing up and I did get bullied a lot for that. And, um, you know, when I was wanting to go surfing, a lot of the time I did wear a full length wetsuit because I was embarrassed and I didn't want people to see my legs because I was getting called like all sorts of names. You know, people were making out that I was contagious and I had a disease and that I was, you know, scabby legs and it was really tough. Like kids and teenagers can be so cruel. And yeah, I think

that one of the main reasons, well, I know one of the main reasons I started Moana was because I said to myself when I got into my early twenties that I didn't want to be that person anymore. And I did want to be a breath of fresh air for other girls that would definitely be dealing with the same things that I'm dealing with. Like I know that I'm not alone in this big wide world. And if I just started a swimwear company because I want to wear bikinis, like I want to want to wear bikinis. And you know, if I start a brand and I completely embody what I want to embody, maybe other people will appreciate it and follow the journey with me and together we can support each other and that's really how the passions kicked off listening to you say that I'm not even lying

I just got goosebumps and I felt so empowered because I'm like yes like you're the person that you're the person that women need you don't realize how how much things affect you and how much body image and people can be self-conscious even though they're the most beautiful humans and I just think someone like you that's obviously so inspirational putting out there what I guess society sees as a fault it's not obviously but you you're very about um you know you have eczema as a skin condition and I've seen your pictures and you happily show it when it's the absolute worst and I just love that you're showing that you can still be beautiful you can own your body and hats off to you because I'm empowered right now

oh thank you so much I I do love to hear that I wish I could have been a bit more like this when I was a young teenager but I got there in the end. I think it's a true testament as well to the fact that Instagram and people who are using social media now are craving authenticity and how there's been a shift in that you know it's no longer about the perfectly curated feed or the perfectly beautiful photo it's about this engagement and feeling like you're part of a community. I guess what I'm really interested in is it seems to be the common thought that someone who has a big influence of following and has a huge community can easily start a business because you have 1.1 million followers it seems like it could be so easy for you to then start your Moana bikini but

actually it was kind of the flip side of that you started Moana and then that's when the followers came so talk me through that and talk me through how you were able to grow that following and what that journey has been like for you yeah um that's so true um I never intended to even be a personality on Instagram I like I didn't even see that as an opportunity when Instagram came out I didn't even want to be on Instagram I like put it off for so long I was like oh no I don't want to uh it was all about Moana Moana's my life um I put that on Facebook we grew it organically on Facebook Instagram came in it naturally just jumped on that because you know business and getting the word out there and yeah Moana had I think it was like 200k at the time and I actually just

reposted a picture of myself wearing Moana for no other reason than I just wanted to show off a bikini and in one of the posts I was I did have a bit of eczema I didn't address it or anything like that and followers just started trickling over to my page and I did get a little bit of weird bullying at the start mainly because I didn't address the actual you know condition that was on my skin but I also got a lot of people that were like oh hey what's going on with your skin because you look like me and I think that's just kind of what kicked it off and gradually I got more confident and started to post I guess the real version of myself online it's crazy that you just said I put a photo of myself and I didn't address the eczema it sucks that we're in a world

where you have to address something like that anyway it's literally just a photo of you and I think that that's I guess that's what you're trying to change is to normalize it because that shouldn't even be a sentence absolutely we had been groomed to see perfection on Instagram we had been groomed to see people face tune and smooth out their skin so to see someone post something and be like hey what's going on here there is a level of curiosity but then there is this like alignment and sort of going like oh okay this person is going through the same thing as me and there's there's power in that there's power in that community as well so I mean I think that's a testament to why your followers kind of trickled over from it being like very product and brand

base to being your like they're your advocates now they're your community of girls something I really wanted to ask you about which is about Moana specifically when you do your campaigns you have these amazing photo shoots where you include women from all different walks of life all different body sizes and you do these call outs I guess on social media where you're like come on get in a pair of bikinis and let's do this what was it that made you want to do that and have that level of inclusivity yeah oh my god so they're called our Molana army beach meetups and they're so much fun they're just such a crazy day even just thinking about it I'm like wow how do we do this? Um, I, I always, it was no question or doubt in my mind that I wanted to do that. And

not a whole lot of thinking really went into it. I was just like, Hey, we need to get all our customers down here because how much fun would that be? And I feel like that stems from, um, why I started more honor in the first place, which was making other people feel good about themselves so we can, you know, do our struggles and learn to grow together. And being together in a community is so powerful and fun. And, um, like we had girls down there that had actually never worn a bikini before and they're physically in tears like oh my god I can't believe I have a bikini on you know like I'm 34 I've never worn one and there's like 300 plus women they're like supporting her and cheering her on like I just can't believe the power in

these beach meetups and once all this corona has you know gone away we plan on doing another one ASAP but yeah maybe you guys could come to the next one absolutely sign me up yeah you know what even even for myself like after having a baby there was a real period there where my body is not the body that it was a year and a half ago and it never will be again I mean it's still insane no it's not it's not but it's not even the point I am I am still a victim of this comparison culture that exists on social media and I and I know better so to think that it affects me on some level even though you know I work in the social media world I know I know exactly what happens I can only assume how hugely it affects other people who maybe don't have that same insight

yeah absolutely I couldn't agree more I want to like we just skipped a part you've created this amazing company how did it come into fruition how did it start your challenges um literally for the people listening that don't know your story give it to us it's it's a fun story um I you know Moana's nearly been around for a decade now which is insane to think and as I touched on earlier Moana didn't start um for a reason where I wanted to be a businesswoman or I wanted to make money or I wanted to grow a company that was never even didn't even cross my brain all I wanted to do was um you know make myself and other women feel good so with that in mind um I finally just got a little kick that I needed. Um, I was working at a local surf shop and as I've mentioned as well, I'm a bit

of a loner. I don't have a whole lot of friends and the people that I was working with at the time, they were my family and they were my friends and I really valued the job there and the relationships. And I got very unfortunately and randomly let go, uh, one day, um, for something that was just very untrue and just crazy to me to even really think about. And I was just so upset and heartbroken. I just felt cheated on. And, um, it just made me so mad. And I was like, you know what? Like I've just dedicated X amount of years to the company and the friendships there. And I'm mad. And, you know, I just want to be accepted and loved and make other people feel good. And you guys have just, you've just not made me feel like that. So I'm finally going to do what

I've always wanted to do. And my dad was cheering me on the whole time. And he gave me $800 and he said, Karina, go and start up a swimming label, go and make people feel good. And, um, you know, you've talked about it for years, just go and do it. And I was like, you know what, dad, I'm going to go and do it. See you later. Oh, hang on. Can I have $800 first? And so what percentage of the company does your dad own now? Oh, I hope he's not listening. He always makes jokes. He's like, Oh, bloody got shares in this one. I'm like, yes, dad. Well, um, FYI, my dad since has been paid back um and I also bring him daily treats so if anything he owes me now but we always talk about this on our podcast is that from some of the biggest adversity you have in life can be

an opportunity for growth and I think that that's a testament for what you've done here taking something that could have been like and was probably a really really sad time in your life and then flipping that narrative and creating something that's so incredible that you can now be like screw you guys look what I've got absolutely and you know the fun part is I actually went to a cafe many years ago and I was sitting there with a friend just ordering a coffee and the man who actually fired me came and had to wipe my table mic drop I should like uh I'm sorry you missed a spot pal it's on my butt wipe my butt I felt so uncomfortable and like I really liked this person and I just felt uncomfortable because I knew that he felt

uncomfortable. It was just really strange. What has been one of your most proud moments with Moana where you're like, you know what? I never saw us doing this, but this is incredible. Definitely our beach meetups. Like they're just crazy powerful. I just can't get over it. Like the amount of hugs and tears and dance parties and photos and positive energy. It's just like, oh it's just goosebumps material for like the whole half a day like I've never been so heavily impacted by an event in my life and it's just so it's just so freaking crazy words can't describe the emotions that are there on the day and the fact that we can even pull it off and do it and people want to be a part of it just blows my mind so how many people are we talking that turn up to

these and are they like are they all locals or do people come from all over um the last one we had was actually on the Gold Coast. Prior to that, we've done them over in Hawaii because a lot of our customers are over in the States. So we try to meet them halfway. We do plan on doing one in the States. We wanted to do it this year, but coronavirus hit. So no, but, um, the last one we did was just on the Gold Coast. We had over 350 girls and we had people fly over from, um, interstate, fly over from overseas. Um, yeah, we've had a lot of people just come and show up to these things and that's that's it again like I'm just like this is so crazy like people just want to be loved and they want to be a part of something and they want to be accepted and the

fact that we can offer this to you know as many people that are willing and able to show up is just such an unheard of thing why do you think you have such a huge community that's based in America like what what was the catalyst there to create that community and why was why is the majority share not in australia um it just organically happened um the very first sale i ever made was over um in florida actually and moana has just very naturally grown into the states we never specifically marketed to the states everything's just being very organic so i don't know i mean they just obviously love our vibe they love our bright colors and yeah i guess just word of mouth is so powerful as well so can we talk a little bit about I think I think a lot of people

think that maybe starting a business is easy um starting a swimwear label is like oh okay you just go and get something made and off you off you go but how long was how long was the process of when you started to maybe getting an employee like how long were you putting the hours in yourself what kind of workload was it um were there really hard moments where you were like oh I just I can't do this when I look back and think wow how did I get here it actually blows my mind a little bit because I'm like how did I do that what the heck um I didn't even drink coffee back then like what the hell Karina when I started um it was definitely hard but I it's so funny though and it sounds cliche but I didn't see it as hard because I it was such a it was so fun it was like

a hobby and it still is to this day but I started while I was working a part-time job and um because I needed money. I had rent to pay. And then gradually as Moana got more successful, I dropped down to permanent part-time. Then I dropped down to casual. And then finally, maybe a year and a half later, I was confident enough to leave and do Moana full-time. And I was just working out of my spare bedroom. And I did many, many, many late nights sitting up till 3am watching YouTube tutorials on how to make seamless designs, learning a bit more about photoshop and illustrator not even so much about business and entrepreneurship like none of that crossed my mind i just wanted to produce amazing unique swimwear that's going to flatter girls

make them feel special make them look beautiful and just overall make them feel good that was honestly my only priority i'm pretty sure i got my first staff member maybe like two years into business and they were just a part-time helping me out with customer service so yeah and i think mainly the only struggle that i really had was keeping up with um the supply and demand i never expected that we would be selling out so quickly like literally in a matter of minutes seconds on some designs which i actually cried a lot because we had this community of girls that was so excited for let's just say the britney bikini the britney bikini launches and it sells out so quickly and then I'm getting absolutely destroyed online. Like you haven't made enough. How are you going

to fix this? I've waited weeks for this. And I hear them and I understand where they're coming from, but I'm like, you don't understand how hard it is. And I would be crying and so upset, but I'm obviously learned how to keep up with that a bit more now. If you're going to give some advice to someone who is going to, or has been thinking about going out and starting their own business what is like that one golden nugget of advice that you're like here it is girlfriend okay well my little golden nugget is to just truly be absolutely passionate and in love with your idea and your message sometimes I've met a lot of people through business and I find that the businesses that are achieving more and going further are the businesses where the people

genuinely love and care about what they're doing they're not focusing on money they're not focusing on ego or impressing their family and friends they're doing it from their heart and they mean everything that they are preaching and I just think that you should always go into business with that kind of mindset and I guess not just do it for financial reasons I think like people underestimate the power of storytelling and the power of community I don't think that in this day and age like product and good product is enough because everyone can make a decent product it's such an accessible thing now but that storytelling element and that the community element that goes with it is is what sets business apart absolutely and at more on a bikini um i say to our staff that

customer service is the most important part of the job and it's why our customer service girls are trained so in depth on how to talk to customers speak the language just at the end of the day make them happy um that's all i really care about i just want them to come first i want everything to be perfect for them and i just want them to feel amazing and obviously our product speaks for itself but our customer service is really our main focus area jumping in now to your personal social media girlfriend you are wild and I feel like you share so much you share so much of your of yourself of like things that maybe other people would be self-conscious about like I mean you talk about cellulite on your social media you talk about eczema you talk about body confidence

what was it that made you make that transition so I know if you go back real deep into the Instagram archives originally your photos are really perfect and you are that sort of aspirational inspirational perfect Instagram model and now you're very real and you're very authentic and you're very you what made you swap where did that come from yeah well I guess there's two sides to the story um one is uh how I gained confidence in being my putting my personality online. And then the other side is my visual appearance, appearance online. And, um, my visual appearance came about like, yes, I used to edit photos. I used to make sure I looked a certain way. And that purely just came from being bullied and, um, you know, copying all that horrible slack

when I was a kid and a teenager, like I was petrified of being called the contagious scabby girl you know it's so scary um and you know I guess I yeah I was just scared and then like I touched on before I finally put myself out there with an unedited photo and I did this because I was exhausted and sick and tired of it and I just found myself to be being uh I guess a little bit of a hypocrite because my whole life I dreamed of having a role model that had eczema and would just talk about it and just be that person and I'm like well Karina you can be that person like you have a platform to do it. And yeah, I posted a picture in winter when my eczema was quite bad and I was petrified. I posted it and I instantly got so much love and attention and people were

saying, thank God someone has done this. Thank you so much. So even though I was scared, but when I put myself out there, I in return got, you know, a really nice, I guess like just good credit and it made me feel good and it was making other people feel good and I was like okay well fine I'm just gonna keep doing it am I embarrassed yes am I self-conscious about this absolutely but is it making other people feel good it looks like it is I'm just gonna keep running with it and that's kind of how that kept going if you guys don't follow Karina yet you need to go and follow her on Instagram she's not hard to find you actually don't give a fuck I love it so much like I really don't there is nothing that is off there are people that are on Instagram that you

know they don't care and they put the real out there but you're like a next level you are like this is unapologetically me and I love that so if you guys don't follow a girl follower um is there ever anything you put up now that you're like oh like it sort of makes you think is that too much or oh yeah or do you ever worry about what people you're like uh every day but that's okay I like to push the envelope yeah oh I mean like even like those farting videos I mean like to be honest like I didn't even want to post the reason I ended up posting that is because it was so funny

also guys if you don't know what we're talking about right now this is going to sound very random Karina maybe two days ago posted a video on her Instagram account where she spread eagle and farted so like it's as unfiltered as it could possibly get so talk us through this when did you get to the point where you were like do you know what I don't even care what the people have to say I'm gonna do I'm gonna do me oh well that wasn't my first farting video my first farting video came many months ago maybe even last year you see farting around um my family and friends is funny and it's a joke that it just goes around our circle in our family um it's just funny like for example my granddad he actually calls himself the pop-off king and as a kid he would do one

fart and break it into like several individual farts and then he would say to me how many was done and I would be like four and he'd be like it was six so like I've just grown up with farts as a funny joke in my family and um I'm pretty good at it I would like to think so I mean it's a great skill lean into what you're good at like that's that's my recommendation yeah you stay in your lane and you do what you're good at mine is farting but um yeah I don't know one night I just I had a funny tummy and Ryan was laying on my leg and I just filmed it just for you know shits and giggles not for social media absolutely not for social media and the fart was just dumb big Ryan's reaction was hilarious and then I shared it to everyone of my friends and family and everyone

thought it was the funniest thing and watching people's reactions I was like I'd love to put this on social media because it's just funny and everybody farts and if I can just distract people and make them laugh about this then like I just feel like that would be so great so one day I just posted it and it went it's probably one of the most viral things I've done even a couple of tv shows have requested my permission to use the video in their um shows you're like I am a successful woman I have I have a successful bikini company I got this booty like workout company and you want to put my fart on your tv program fuck go for it to be honest all I want to do in life is make people feel good about themselves and if that's putting myself

out I'm just gonna do it because in you know in reaction to that I'm helping like god knows how many other people so if I feel uncomfortable for 10 minutes then I can handle that I love it so much I mean honestly we've had such a good chuckle about it we were like how do we bring up the fart conversation on the podcast I was like dude she puts them on social media I don't think we have to be subtle let's just ask it's free game another thing that you've been really open talking about on social media is your your transformation in your body and your own body confidence and now this isn't the transformation that we normally see on social media where someone loses a lot of weight and gets really really tiny how did you go from being that girl who wanted to be

super thin to now being like you know what I'm really comfortable in my size and you're super fit and you're curvy but how did you make that transition and what you saw as being your own personal standards for beauty, I guess. Yeah. I mean, that's such a great question. I don't even know what, when the time was in my mind where that clicked for me or it changed. I do know that I just got tired of trying to be somebody that maybe the social media community wanted me to be or expected me to be, to be accepted, I think. And then with that being said, I did start getting into working out, not to be anything or look like anything. I just was like, I want to be fitter, fitter. My dad had a really unfortunate accident and now he's a quadriplegic. And that

really showed me a different side of life. And it also made me value, you know, my life and the ability that I have every day that now has been taken away from him in a matter of literally three seconds and I watched it all in real time as well. So going through that with my dad and being by his hospital bed for months and months on end, it's just opened my eyes to seeing that life is so much more than being skinny or being curvy or being pretty or being blonde or redhead or whatever. It's so much more than that. I think that life, you're put here to have fun with it and accept yourself, make the most of your situation and make other people around you feel great. And, um, I think it was just that moment where I was like, you know what? My dad can't

walk anymore. And here I am bitching about some eczema. I want to go and be the best version of myself. I want to make my dad proud and I want to make everybody around me proud. And I want to make people realize that life is precious and I want them to acknowledge that. It's, it's crazy that um it takes something like that isn't it but i i because i followed you for so long i see the relationship you have with your dad and i see like the wheelchair races that you do along the park like along the beach in the gold coast and it's obviously a really beautiful special thing that you have with your dad so i think that's really heartwarming to a lot of people to see it's also such a testament to your personality and to your strength that you have such a positive outlook on

life like you seem to take these hurdles and the shit that life throws at you and be using them as an opportunity to even make your to make your life even better and I think that that's yeah it's a real testament to who you are as a person and why you have created this community and why people look up to you because this positivity is infectious yeah absolutely and like there's a lot of times on social media where I will get backlash for you know certain things and um and and I get that everybody is entitled to opinions and, and things like that. And, you know, it's when I do podcasts like this, where I actually do have an opportunity to speak about why I am the way I am and why I talk the way I talk and, you know, why my actions are the way they are. And,

you know, I really appreciate you guys asking me questions like this, because it does help me, you know, share a little bit more depth, um, about my situation. And I think that's really special that you guys offer people like myself, you know, places to do that. So I think, thank you guys not at all we feel really privileged that you yeah that you trust us to be able to share that side of your story with as well so thank you we really appreciate that um something you just touched on which which is what we wanted to get into next anyway is this whole idea of online bullying and you know we have seen that you do get trolls as much as you have this amazing community around you there are people who get onto your social media and leave some pretty shitty

comments in the comment section and how do you deal with that I mean it really does depend on the topic if it's just a like a male saying like you know gross things about you know female stuff like I don't care twice about that I'm like haha that's funny um I think I I do find trolling oh you silly man you're so silly sit down sweetie but you know I think that if I do get trolled in I guess like a more political um manner um I guess that's hard for me because you know like like I've just shared with you guys a little bit about why I am the way I am like not a lot of people do get to see that so if people don't see eye to eye to eye to eye with me or they're not willing to be a little bit more open-minded on why I've said what I've said or I've reacted how I

have reacted which in my defense is always with a lot of love and respect I just you know I just try not to really think about it because sometimes people aren't really willing to you know listen some people just want to hear what they want to hear and you know I'm not going to change their mindset and you know maybe you won't change their mindset but at the end of the day I'm still here and I'm an open book and if anybody wants to come and have a lovely conversation with me I'm still going to hear them out 100% I think it's just how they approach it. For sure and I mean Laura and I have experienced it in compared to you in the tiniest amount obviously we're both on The Bachelor with that comes a lot of media and with that comes a lot of people that think they know you

um and they i mean every article that ever comes out about us you try not to read the comments but they are horrible comment section oh the daily mail jesus it's the cesspool of humanity but i think like the real testament here is that you're never going to make everybody like you and you shouldn't want to make everybody like you because then you become such a diluted version of yourself um and you know what people are going to love you for your authenticity and they're also going to hate you for it and it's okay to sit somewhere in the middle of that you because i've been following you so long and i actually read a lot of the comments you literally can't win this is what i have found it doesn't it doesn't matter what you have posted how happy positive um how

raw you've been there's someone or not even someone it's usually like 100 people that just that will just jump on your back and i've seen you have conversations like i find it amazing how much time you find to dedicate to your audience I've seen you have conversations with people and it just goes around in circles is there ever a time where you're like oh my god I just I literally I don't want to do this anymore or does it ever weigh you down the trolling and the negativity because you obviously have so many people that love and adore you but we often talk about how it only takes one person's negativity you latch on to that so does it ever get you down yeah definitely um it definitely gets me down and um just because i don't want to make anyone feel

bad because that's never my intention and sometimes uh with those comments where i have spent time to listen acknowledge and hear somebody out um when those conversations do go in circles i do throw my hands up and i do get frustrated i'm like this person isn't willing to listen they're not willing to just be open-minded with where I'm coming from, even though I'm hearing them, they're not really hearing me. Occasionally, if it's getting out of hand, I'll send them a really nice voice message. You know how you can do that on Instagram DMs? Oh, I think I did it to you. You did. You slid on into my DMs. Not jealous, whatever. I did. I'm cheeky. But yeah, I do like to hit people up, those kinds of people in voice memo.

I feel like it's a nice reminder that even though we're talking via a phone screen, that I'm a human and you can hear the empathy in my voice. You can hear my personality, my tone, and you can hear that I am a good person and I'm listening and I'm acknowledging you. Sometimes I guess, and you guys probably would have found it as well. People will read your captions or your comments, but they'll read it with whatever tone they choose to read it with. And we don't have any control over that. So I think that voice memos, you know, they're really good. And nine times out of 10, when I ended up having a voice memo conversation, we're, we're in a good place together by the end of it my question is like why do you bother with the

trolls like I think most people's uh way that they approach it is that they just block and delete but you actually take time to engage and write back and have conversations with and actually take it upon yourself to change their opinion like why why do you feel compelled to do that why do you want to do that I don't know I'm so busy i think that i just have a lot of empathy for people as well and um i care i guess i care about what they say and i just want them to feel acknowledged and i don't want to always try and change somebody's mind because i you know i don't have time for that and i don't want to change people's minds at all like imagine if we all felt and thought the same like the world would

be a crazy boring place but I just want people to understand that on social media they can be heard and they are heard and I am listening and I'm learning and I'm willing to do that and I just think it comes around as well like I want to be treated how I treat other people and I just believe in that like you know you treat others how you wish to be treated and it's just something that I do like to apply in my social media because you know there's so many young girls watching and I just really do want to be a good role model for those people that are you know are sitting back in with the popcorn watching everything go down and just in relation to that what what piece of advice do you have we do have a young audience we have I mean we have a pretty broad audience but

what advice do you have to people that are sort of going through um trolling or bullying or or this um imposter type syndrome on social media what what advice do you have to them I think um the advice that I could give to them is to just never take it on board keep in mind that you know everywhere in the world you know everyone everyone's different everyone has a different background and they all have different experiences which is something that everyone having an opinion on social media really does need to recognize and acknowledge I mean here in Australia we're not exposed to things that you know the American population are exposed to so there is a huge cultural difference there as well and sometimes I think that people can forget that and you know

just in general so if you're getting trolled just remember you don't even know their story you don't know why they're acting out you don't know why they're saying the things they are and the the reason they're probably saying those things to you probably has absolutely nothing to do with you at all they've never met you they've never spoken to you deep down you know who you are you know that you're a beautiful boss babe and just really try hard not to take it on board because you need to be confident with who you are that leads into a question that I find really interesting what are your opinions on facetune and photoshop on social media and people using it and passing themselves off as though that's actually what they look like oh god it's it's oh so annoying it actually

really makes me sad just for the reasons that you were just saying about that school teacher there's two sides and I think that editing is yay and nay I don't believe that you should be making yourself look like somebody you're not I don't believe you should be smoothing out your skin to look like a doll and I don't believe that you should be reconstructing your your body or your face as well not only is that just awkward because i don't know i don't know about you guys but i can tell straight away as soon as someone i like to say has cooked their photo like i can tell yeah i'm just like well that is cooked like the whites of your eyes are brighter than the moon right now that's not normal you know like your eyebrows in your hairline like that not even

botox or whatever procedure would do that like i get it but you know a lot of those people i think that are editing their pictures so heavily is they may not be accepting themselves and they might be a little scared of controversy. And I sympathize with that. And I think that if you're in a place where you're still learning to accept, you're a bit scared to just actually post a raw photo of you because it actually is a huge deal, especially now like bullying is real. And if you're not quite at that phase and you do just want to facetune a little bit of Photoshop, a bit of your picture you know what that's fine you go for it just don't make yourself look like somebody you're not because how awkward when I see you in real life and I don't recognize you

I used to have that fear that not I wouldn't like photoshop and edit my photos distort photos but my Instagram used to be at this point where I only wanted to put these the best angles and the best photos with the best lighting and my makeup was great and then I used to think I've literally put the top one percent of who I am I'm gonna see someone in the street like this like like like a hobo and they're gonna be like that's Britney but you know what I mean and then I got to the point now where I just I just put whatever up I mean I still put good photos up but I show who I am more but I used to be petrified especially when I was dating online dating I was like what if I walk into the restaurant and he doesn't even know who I am but I also think that that shift now

even in your own social media, Britt, like that is just a true testament that the platform of social media is changing. And that, like we said earlier, people are craving authenticity. People are seeking out authenticity. And because people like you, Karina, are putting their raw version of themselves out on social media, other people feel empowered to follow. And that's a, that's an incredible legacy that you're, you are setting. I think as well, like that's why I focus really heavily on stories. Um, I love Instagram stories a hundred times more than posting a picture. Um, I like my personality more than what I look like. And, you know, I like to share that as well. I, you know, I just think that I can be fun and I can make people laugh a bit. And

I've put a lot of energy into stories and I structure them and I want to edit them fun. And, you know, it's almost like every day is like a little mini YouTube on my story. And I think that's really cool because you you get to actually see my personality you get to see videos of me so obviously I can't face tune a video and I just feel like when you are on Instagram you can choose to follow people that are showing more of a vulnerable video kind of side of themselves as well like it's just up to the individual to you know to filter out who they do and don't want to follow and what they want to be exposed to totally I'm so much more I agree I'm so much more like I have a lot more personality on my stories and I'm so much more like this is

me in bed at night looking gross being a wanker and I love that more because people are like oh I didn't I didn't know you actually had a personality I'm like gee thanks I got one but um Karina we are a relationships podcast and you have the cutest relationship with Ryan you're totally smitten and in love couple girls yeah on Instagrams as well you work together you're together all the time you fart on him love that what how did you how did what's your story how did you meet tell me about it tell me about you guys and him I was um probably single for just under 12 months wasn't interested in getting into a new relationship I like my alone time like I said um tinder was a thing all my friends were like you should have fun on there it's like a game

it's fun and I was so embarrassed to go on it so I just didn't just watch from afar but one dark stormy night I was sitting on the couch and I was watching sex in the city and I had Nutella and tiny teddies and I was feeling all sassy I was like yeah you know I am I'm gonna shop me some boyfriends absolutely so I downloaded the app in the privacy of my home and I started swiping and I connected with Ryan I don't know how long it was but it was very freaking quickly like my whole tinder experience was only ryan and we matched um we chatted for a bit and then obviously he asked for my number because you know i'm just like so freaking cool and um i gave him my number and then you know later on he texts me and i just played a prank and i was

like sorry who's this you know so we had that banter kind of straight away and we texted each other for uh three weeks and then finally we went out for coffee and we've actually been very inseparable since that coffee date that's so beautiful what a tinder success story what um what's your secret what's your secret because i've been um you did it on your first tinder guy i've been on online dating for about nine years now britney's actually just worn a whole pattern in her phone from where she swipes from left to right i've lost some skin on my point on my pointer finger my swiper no one of the questions RIP Brittany's finger one thing one thing I really want to know about how your dynamic of your relationship works is obviously like you guys

work together he is a core part of Moana as well like how does that work for you do you not get sick of each other how who's the boss how does it work um definitely don't get sick of each other at all i miss him and he's just like downstairs right now love you honey you guys are disgusting we're so gross um i think that um you know ryan and i as cliche as it sounds we were just like so made for each other um we're completely different people but we have the same values um and we just work very well together both in a personal relationship sense and a work sense we both respect each other and we both know that we specialize in different fields as well so um you know at what ryan used to be the managing editor of surfing life magazine

he is um really great at marketing he's great at writing he's really well spoken you know um you've had to deal with him he's he is he has excellent excellent customer service skills he was on that email in a hot second I know he was and he's just so great and then um when the editorial job was you know going down because editorial has slowly faded away everything's online now I was like shotgun come work for Moana slash marry me and never leave my side again love you bye yeah basically um and then Ryan I don't even know if we really had a conversation about it but Ryan just really wanted, he just loves what Moana does for people. And he's all about that. And, um, so now Ryan is our customer, he's our operations manager. So Ryan is basically keeping the business

ticking along and he does a lot behind the scenes that no one even knows about, um, which he's fine with. He's like, you know, just a ghost that makes everything look amazing. But, um, at work, like, I don't know, like we don't fight, we don't argue. We always see eye to eye. And I think it's just because we we just we respect each other and we're just always on the same page no matter what it is we are always just on the same page and also because you're like well I'm the boss so suck it oh yeah no I'm the boss I am the boss he can he's my he's my two I see them oh yeah perfect I love this and do you have a bit do you have like one piece of relationship advice like what's what would you what would you pass down to your children one day

I think that relationships shouldn't be hard and I think that although a relationship although a relationship you do need to work at it every day but at the at the same time they shouldn't be hard and I've been in past relationships where they have been hard and they've they've been really sad and they've made me question my my true self and what I love about myself and what I believe about myself and then when I met Ryan I've never had to deal with that ever again. And it's just maybe noticed that relationships are meant to be fun. They're a life experience. They can be your life partner. And, um, you know, I just think that you need to just look out for those little warning signs and find that person that really listens to you and believes

in you. So ignore the warning signs. No, Brittany and her red flag. I was going to say you have literally just been singing to the choir with that advice. That's like something that we, we try and drive home on this podcast is that there's this real sort of I think there's this like glorification almost romanticizing of like difficult relationships because it's like you've got to work at it and and I just don't think that's the case I think I've I have also like you I've had relationships that have been so so hard they've been so turbulent they've been so up and down and I thought at the time that they would amount that would amount to something that was worthwhile and now in my relationship it's the it's the fucking easiest thing in the world

we're always happy we're always laughing and it made me realize that this is actually what it's supposed to be like and this is the only way it's supposed to be for you to be able to have a really long and fulfilling relationship that doesn't have you crying every other day or feeling like you're on this emotional roller coaster absolutely i couldn't agree more with that so um laura always makes a joke that like there'll be one really nice guy over on my right and there'll be 50 red flags in a bundle to my left and I'll run to the red flags on the left hand side and Fritz like oh shiny I mean you've got a vibe yeah evidently um Karina we always wrap up our chats with an embarrassing story we have a segment we called accidentally unfiltered which basically started

with like a really embarrassing story on my behalf and now we always get people to chime in so do you have for us a super embarrassing i feel like i already know the answer an accidentally unfiltered story of your very own i do and i'm sweating just thinking about it so this story um i've actually never told the public yes girlfriend oh i love this so this is you've heard it here first um we've got the exclusive all right guys are you ready i'm ready i've never look at us we're like on the edge of our seat okay well let me paint you a cute little picture Ryan and I had only been dating for maybe two years or so um it was Moana Bikini's Christmas party so we all went out to teppanyaki I don't drink alcohol didn't drink coffee at the time

but decided to get myself an espresso martini tasted great I loved it um but it was incredibly strong. And I knew that I was, and I got Ryan to test it and he was like, Whoa, that's, that's strong. And I was like, Oh, well, yay. Um, so anyway, I drunk one, one of those drinks and, you know, whatever, but maybe like two or three hours later we had moved on and we were out in public at Max Brenner for dessert with, you know, all this stuff. And I was also with, um, my good friend, Michael Huxley and all his stuff. Cause we always do a combined, um, Christmas party. because he has a school of makeup next door to us anyway all of a sudden I started to get these excruciating pains like pains that I've never actually felt before I thought that like I had

a stomach ulcer or my stomach was flipping and I was like oh my god and I I started to get sweaty and I said to Ryan I need to go home I don't there's something wrong with me I'm thinking like I need to go to hospital like there's something wrong with me so we left and we drove home and this sharp pain just kept coming on so something else that never happened before we had locked ourselves out of my old apartment i can see where this is going i know you can see where it's going but it actually gets so much worse than what you think it's gonna go as well which is great okay so i'll just cut to the chase a bit 45 minutes spent trying to get hold of a locksmith now by this time i'm you know what i'm about to shit my pants and i said to we're in the garage of my

apartment at mermaid beach where it's like bumper to bumper apartment buildings no privacy and i've just said to ryan oh my god i need i need to go toilet i need to go toilet so i have got out of the car got out of the garage and i've run into this tiny little backyard where there's apartments all around me and I have had to squat in the backyard and I have gone to the toilet all over the lawn and I've got to admit um it's probably the best feeling of relief I've ever felt in my entire existence being on this planet um but it didn't end there unfortunately um I tried to clean up I did try to clean up the mess by um getting a bucket of water and you know rinsing it through the grass unfortunately that just expanded the situation karina you're like the poo jogger

oh well i actually ended up jogging so i couldn't go again in the backyard and we lived on the beach and ryan's like you're gonna have to go down to the beach so here's me at midnight on the phone i call my mom because i don't want to get attacked down the beach and i'm running down the beach i'm like mom mom help me i'm going to the beach i'm gonna poo myself and my mom's like karina at first she was very grumpy that I woke her up at midnight but by the end of the conversation when I'm squatting in the sand dunes digging holes trying to like get this out of my system she's hysterical I had to go down to the beach and like rinse and then by the time the locksmith had finally got back to the house hours later I'd let it all out and I felt fine so I publicly

pooed myself and then did you you were actually not the first person to do that so don't worry so good I wasn't expecting an embarrassing story quite that embarrassing did you end up going back to the Christmas party no that had long gone but obviously everyone knows and it's a very fun funnily talked about uh situation in the office so yes oh Karina you are an absolute vision thank you so much for taking time today to talk to us we we absolutely love you we've loved every second of having this chat but also thank you for just being the incredible role model and the empowering woman that you are on social media you have created such an inspiring community and we're so grateful that you've taken this time to chat to us today just before we let you go lastly we

always end our episodes with our suck and our sweet for the week which means that it's like your highlight and your low light so you get to kick it off what was your suck for this week I think my suck for this week was it's so so cute I just kind of missed my dad I haven't been able to see him and I know I like I haven't even called him in two days I normally call my mom and dad every day so I actually kind of miss my dad a little bit so I'm gonna try and call him maybe after this podcast. So that's my little suck. Yeah. And what is your sweet best part of your week? Okay. My sweet for the week would probably be our recent Milana bikini launch was just really crazy successful. And the amazing positive feedback we got from our customers

was phenomenal. And I had customers personally messaging me on Facebook and Instagram, letting them know that our customer service staff went above and beyond to make them happy and that just I don't know I just told the girls at work yesterday how much I really appreciate their time and their effort and I just I feel very honored and lucky to have those kind of people around me that's amazing Karina for everybody who is listening who maybe doesn't follow you on social media right now can you please tell us your Instagram handles where can they find you yeah so you can follow me on at Karina Irby spelled I-R-B-Y it's just my name on Instagram and um obviously Milana is um at Milana underscore bikini Brittany give me your second suite I just

didn't know what would go in there come on give it to me all right um okay so my suck this week okay my suck would have to be i had some news found out some news let laura know um basically we found out that the america is picking up the bachelor franchise in australia this is huge they're going to put on hbo like that's incredible the only season they're not going to pick up was the one that i was monumentally dumped on which is the honey badger and i just thought cut a girl a break like i got i got this text message from brit yesterday and she was like fuck you you win everything you're even getting your show shown in the states and i get nothing because laura sees laura sees and she gets the hot guy don't tell me i called him hot

she gets the hot guy stop hitting on my fiancee you creep she gets the baby she gets a season on hbo you sliding to her dms i get dumped like no no one else in bachelor history no baby no boyfriend no HBO series are you are we are we expected to feel sorry for you what are you doing right now I'm just telling you it's my sock yeah look it's been a hard week for Brittany that is a rough one too what is your sweet my sweet is probably um two things tied talking to you Karina I've actually just had the funnest hour and a half I've loved it thank you so much you're very inspiring so that's definitely a sweet my other sweet is um I lost my dog last week we had to put her down but I just had this fan like a girl that follows me on Instagram

she just she's an amazing artist and out of nowhere she's like I just drew your dog for you and for your dad because I know how much it meant and I sent and she sent it to me I put it on my Instagram story it was incredible it was so accurate of my dog Lily she was tears it you know what the smallest yeah the smallest piece of kindness from someone I don't even know and it made my my day and my whole my dad my family so I just thought wow like going out of your way to make someone else feel good it's just she doesn't know how much she's changed my my week so that's it that's so beautiful I love that I know and what about you L dog oh man am I starting with my suck you know the rules you start with your suck look I've only been doing this for a year guys I'm

still new to this um my suck I've had a really good week so I don't have a suck so this is going to sound like the most trivial thing that has happened to anyone um I spent a lot of time yesterday running around trying to get bits and pieces that we didn't have in order to do this zoom meeting so as much as I fucking love that the fact that we've done it and you are my highlight Karina the the running around and like not knowing exactly how to do it was like a bit of a look it's a new skill let's focus on the positives I now know how to do remote recording so I've learned a new thing um my sweet for the week I've really forgotten these things now I thought I had them at the start of every episode I'm like babes remember your second sweet she's like yeah babe

got it and then she forgets it every okay okay look my sweet I'm I'm sleep deprived I have like a baby that doesn't sleep very well so okay my sweet for the week is always pretty much revolved around Marley um my sweet for this week she has been teething and it's been a really really stressful time because she's just not sleeping she's pretty irate but we feel like we're on the other side of her first couple of teeth that she's pushed out and she's back to eating and she's back to sleeping better and she's just a happy baby again which is really I mean no one cares except for me but it's really important to me I can't no that's great and you know as a mummy it would be so hard to see your little one crying oh always it kills you it's horrible just still

blows my mind like how much they take over every facet of your life and I never thought that I would be the sort of mum that would be like oh guys we're gonna talk about my baby who's teething now but I am exactly that mum and I'm so fine with it so whatever absolutely I think it's great good for you. Well, Karina, thanks so much for coming on the show today. We've absolutely loved having you been a blast. Loved every second. Thank you so much for having me on the podcast. This was really therapeutic. And I, I got to admit, I opened up about a few things that I've never even publicly acknowledged. And I want to thank you guys for that. And I've had a really fun time talking. I actually really don't want it to end. You guys have such a great energy together. You

guys are a blast and yeah, you've got me hooked on life. You're a podcast. I love you guys. all right guys thank you so much for listening to another episode of life uncut if you haven't jumped onto our facebook group page yet then what the fuck are you doing get on over there it is life uncut podcast that's where all the real dark and dirty discussions go down we've also got the instagram page which is life uncut podcast there so pretty easy to find yep if you've enjoyed the episode guys hit five stars leave a review and subscribe and share the love because we love love We'll be right back.