Real Girls Radio - EP 12: Is University worth it? Life advice in your 20s ft. Brontë King

Episode Date: September 7, 2022

Grab some snap and chillax whilst Brontë and Milly chat about...our Uni experiences, becoming a CEO at 21 years old and life as an influencer. It's just 2 gals chatting away about what we've learnt at two 25 year olds, about ourselves and our 20s so far.This episode is super chatty and fun to listen to, but also helpful and relatable, so we hope you enjoy!Brontë's instagram:https://www.instagram.com/brontekingg/GalsWho:https://www.instagram.com/galswhograduate/https://www.instagram.com/galswhotravel_/Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/e-1-the-unheard-truth-of-millys-journey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Love this podcast? Support this show through the Acast Supporter feature. It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just hit the link in the show description to support now. Hello everyone and welcome back to World Girls Radio. Okay, so we have got a guest on today. Oh my god, are you ready? Drumroll please. Bronte King! I love how I just did my own drumroll. Hello everybody. Bronte, you're our first guest. Oh my gosh, what an honour. An absolute honour. Thank you so much for having me. Thanks for coming. So, Bronte King, would you like to introduce

yourself? Because I feel like you're going to do a better job than I am. Okay, so I'm much for having me. Thanks for coming. So Bronte King would you like to introduce yourself because I feel like you're going to do a better job than I am. Okay so I'm Bronte King, I'm 24 years old, I'm the founder of Girls Who Graduate which is an online support network for female students and graduates and I started it in 2019 and we've been going for three years now. I feel like you've done that a lot haven't you? Yeah. It's like like a script for you now I tried to change it up then I was like everyone's going I'm the founder of Girls Who Graduate and CEO and founder isn't that such a cool like title I love it that's really fun I know what do you do I'm like I'm the founder and CEO oh my god it's so cool so we met at an event didn't we like not even that long ago I know we. We met like... At the beginning of this year. No, not even. Really? I think it was April.

Really? Yeah, maybe April. I don't remember how much April. May. What's that? June, July, August. I feel like we met three, four months ago.

And we're like besties. Yeah, we see each other. We've always seen each other every minute of every day. Every day. Literally every day. Every update. Bronte just got a red umbrella today.

She was like, look, a red umbrella. Anyway, so we're going to start every episode like we always do with a flop and a fly. So Bronte has got her flop and fly. I'm ready. Would you like to go first? Yeah, what should I do first, flop or fly? I think maybe the flop.

And then we go for a high. And then we go for a high. Okay, so my flop would be... I haven't even thought about my flop and fly. I thought of my flop earlier and then I was like, what is it? Okay, let's go for my fly. My fly would be getting my MOT done and booking the dentist. I'm going to the dentist later and I haven't been for five years.

Oh my God, don't. You know my dad's a dentist. Really? He would tell you off. Oh my God. That is not good. Five years. I know.

You're joking. I don't think I should say that out loud. My teeth are absolutely fine. I see the yellow and rotting away. Yeah, so that's a really adult thing. It's life admin. I feel like that's a really high of my week. What about you?

What's your fly? My fly? God, what's my fly? I didn't even think about this. My fly is having you on the podcast. Oh, stop it. That's my fly, guys. Do you know what? I think my flop would be the rain today. i just honestly i know i know we can't blame the rain i'm trying to think

what what my flop would be it's just been a good week so far it has been a good week um yeah i mean the rain like it's just i'm not i'm not an autumn yeah me too i'm a summer through and through i think the flop for me is the fact that the weather annoys me so much like i should be able to like not i shouldn't have to change my mood i know what you mean i mean it's like seasonal depression isn't it and it's like yeah and i just it really does affect when i wake up and it's like gray and cloudy i just don't feel my best i don't feel like it's going to be a good day and i need to switch that around yeah we need to switch that around um there is like sad lamps that you can get, SAD lamps that you can get. And I did buy that in lockdown and it actually does help when you wake up.

There's another Lumilite. Yeah, I think there's a Lumilite, but there's also like, I just got one for £5 of Amazon. Oh, it's like a really bright light, isn't it? Yeah, and you put it on in the morning if it's dark in England and it really does help. So it brightens up the room. That's really good. Does it help then? Yeah, it really does.

In lockdown, I put it on and I was like, here we go. I can just imagine you like, put a light on and then your smile is just raging i'm like charging myself up for the day i love that okay so i feel like there's so much to talk about here so much but i just want to start with some quick fire questions okay go i'm ready are you ready yeah instagram youtube or tiktok instagram stories that wasn't on that wasn't on the instagram stories it wasn't even an option okay instagram okay sweet or savory sweet oh yeah i agree nights out or nights in oh it really depends summer nights out winter nights in okay yeah i agree favorite month of the year

july and this is an interesting one first thing you notice about someone when you meet them their energy yeah really whether like like the reason we got on so well is because as soon as we met it was so warm and like you know when you meet someone you can just tell whether you're gonna get on with them or not we just bounce off each other didn't we and i feel like like even my friend you know i told you my friend said that we literally sound the same. Yeah. We're all the same.

I'm really sorry if in this podcast you think one of us is talking and it's the other one. Yeah. Much of you can't differentiate us. I know. But I just, I think as soon as you meet someone, you can tell immediately. Yeah. People say like, I think I'm a very good judge of character. Me too.

That's one thing I do think. And I meet people and I'm like, I know we're going to get on. So do you think if you met someone and then you you you kind of misjudged them and then you realize that later on would you still be friends with them yeah actually I have done that in the past I have met someone and I've thought oh not sure but then they could just be socially awkward they could feel they could feel uncomfortable in the situation there could have been something that happened before you met them that's making that it's on their mind so you have to be careful with that but you normally do but what if they you get on with them at the start and then you see their true colors true oh yeah that's

happened before yeah what are we talking about like a friend yeah yeah yeah yeah that is hard isn't it i think it's hard but i think we're at the age now where like we're we don't have time to have friends that we we don't get on with no like just cut them out oh absolutely like if someone's not serving you right in your life then yeah then you're at the age where like it's either they're in it for the long run yeah or you're very true you're off but then i hear people have like seasonal friends yeah which is interesting yeah um yeah i'm not sure about that i think you can tell when someone is a long-term friend or not. Yeah, I agree.

I do agree. And whether they're like, check up on you, ask how you are, make the effort to see you, make the effort to text you, make the effort. Yeah, I do think that shows a lot. Very true. Okay, so quite topical question here. Yeah. Obviously, you two girls will graduate, so you took all things graduation post uni life

i want to know about your uni experience because i think everyone's uni experience is so different isn't it like some people love it some people hate it yeah and that's why i hate people saying when when you go to freshers like this is gonna be the best time of your life because everyone has such a different experience like i hated first year i hated freshers i did not enjoy it one bit i cried most days i went home every week i i really did not enjoy uni um the first year. I hated freshers. I did not enjoy it one bit. I cried most days. I went home every week. I really did not enjoy uni the first year. I loved second and third year, but first year was not for me.

Yeah, I agree. I hated first year. Same. Sorry, uni friends, if you're listening to this, but, like, we really didn't have fun. I literally hated going out. I used to leave early. But why do you think that was? Did you not see, like, people that you bonded with? No, because because I found really good friends and the girls that I met in first year are

like my bestest friends now but I don't for me I just really found the change hard the change from going from living at home and having such a comfortable home life with my school friends and being at school to then going to uni and it was just so alien I just didn't like it at all you didn't go traveling before no I went straight from school straight to uni. And I didn't even really want to go to uni. It wasn't really, I just went because everyone else did. Thank God I did. I think a lot of people do that.

Yeah. Oh, a lot of people just go because it's the thing to do. But actually there's so many other options. But I'm glad I went. I'm really good. I went second and third year were like the best years of my life. Like I had so much fun. But first year I had to push through.

If you're thinking in first year, like I want want to drop out I really want to drop out I'm not enjoying this just power through I think I think I I'm quite well I had quite a few friends who dropped out in first year and I don't know if they regret it or not anymore like I'm not sure if like they're like happy with that decision or if they're like oh I wish I kind of pushed through it's really hard it does get better you do get more comfortable with the lifestyle and you like even if you haven't found your friends in first year it doesn't mean you're not going to find your people in the second or even third year yeah definitely i made friends in second and third year that i didn't even know existed in first year did you enjoy we're about to ask each other a question sorry did you enjoy second and third year um i did but i think it's

just so different for me because i had i just had my eating disorder yeah it's just fucking shit and at uni i feel like it's just that makes things so much yeah yeah yeah so people actually ask me like did my parents ever worry about me living alone because i think that's when you're obviously in the most control that you've ever had in your life so um it's like obviously a very hard situation to be in but also I I liked having that obviously because like my ed was well my eating disorder was like being in control of me so I liked that control yeah but um I so I thought I was happy but I would I just wasn't happy I wasn't happy I didn't want to go out I didn't want to socialize I felt like everyone hated me I was very insecure

um I just felt like everyone was talking behind my back. It was just not nice. It's so hard because it's the first time you have proper independence and you're completely alone. And I feel like that must happen so much because it's the first time you also have food independence because your parents aren't cooking for you, your mum's not cooking for you,

you're doing your own food trip, you're meant to feed yourself. It must be so hard. So hard. Did you ever have any issues with with food and stuff because some people have asked that I think I was so lucky growing up with having an older sister my sister helped me so much with mindset when I grow up grow up that's all I heard I heard just positive things about my body and eating and all of that and I always saw her as like someone I looked up to and someone

that I like that was what I aspired to be like so she was always so positive about my body and my like what I look like and what I ate and all of that that I think that honestly helped me so much like I have her to thank for how I felt about myself as I grew up and still now I look at myself and I just think the stuff that my sister says to me like this is your body this is what's getting you through life this is what's keeping you alive and I'm just like yeah I don't care what it looks like it's keeping me alive um so I think I had a really like positive outlook on it because of the way that I saw my sister with hers and everything obviously after she got over everything she had such a positive mindset on it and it really helped me wow yeah so do you think if you didn't have her then oh I think I'd struggle yeah I mean I used the gym at uni

as a form of like not feeling homesick and like not feeling anxious I used it to like just get my energy out and like see it as more of something for my brain rather than anything for my body so I think that really helped as well knowing that whenever I moved my body I'd feel better about not being at home not like being in my like comfortable surroundings so I think that really helped but yeah I do think having my sister is like that positive influence growing up really really good yeah I mean there were days where I honestly like I look at other people when we were about to go on a night out and be like you look incredible in that if I wore that I would not look like that yeah there were of

course it wasn't like oh my god I love myself I love my body there were times when I'd look at my friends and be like oh my god I would kill to look like that so you'd have like bad body image days yeah definitely and like when I grew up I had friends that were tiny I had one friend she was she wrote my speaking about this she she is tiny she's got the most perfect body she's got it's just like I just look at her I used to be like wow oh my god I'd love to look like you and let me just say nothing is perfect oh sorry sorry that was me speaking as my like younger self but now i would not say it's like sorry take that back that was me speaking as my younger self so yeah obviously i did look at her and be like oh my god perfect but now i look her and think everybody's body is so different like i couldn't look like her if i wanted to because her body is so different to mine so there's no point in me even looking at her and

thinking god i'd love to look like her because i couldn't my body is mine and like it's so different to everyone else's so yeah that's it you just can't compare yourself no to anyone um but I feel like yeah a lot of people were asking that on Instagram so that's that's good for them to know um also so with back to uni what did you study film and television interesting quite quite rogue it's because I didn't want to go to uni so i just wow really yeah i just kind of picked whatever looked interesting so if you knew like you know your experience with uni now would you go back yeah do it all over again yeah i would i really would and i go through that first year time where i felt really sad and really lonely

and and i just didn't feel like i belonged there because it's made me who I am now and like it made me really enjoy second and third year so yeah I would definitely would you I think I would I think I would I don't know I don't know if I do I mean I loved my course so much so I would definitely do it like just to learn because I've learned so much from my course I did psychology so there's just so much I've learned from it but I just wish I'd do I did it differently because I didn't do it the right way I don't think yeah I didn't do the right way but also because I went traveling before I had already gone to that step of independence yeah so like that's basically like you know going to uni like you're moving away from home you're independent so I already did that so I don't think uni did that for me

yeah that's true actually do you know what I mean yeah so I would do it again but I think I would just do it differently I think it's just so expensive as well like if you really

don't want to yeah like what would you say to people who don't want to go to uni no who don't yeah don't want to go to uni

but they feel like they have to I would say they feel like they have to but they don't thing is I didn't want to go

but I felt like I had to and I still really enjoyed it and I'm really glad I gave it like a chance but then I would say if you're really like against it use this time to like you said go traveling or like what do you really find that you're passionate about and then go and find a job in that or go and like start your side hustle that you've been wanting to start for ages you have that time it's like so exciting it's such an exciting time that you can do any path

you could literally like you could go off and volunteer somewhere or go work abroad like you could go like you'd have no responsibility like you have no children

you have no like bills well it depends where you live but like it's just there's just so much freedom so much freedom and you need to turn it around from being like

this is such a scary time and I know it is a scary time but turn it around to being like this is such an exciting time that I could it is a scary time but turn it around to being like this is such an exciting time that I can do anything I want right now absolutely

you only live once guys you're only in your 20s for not even that long guys I'm 25 in a month I'm 25 in two months I need to decide what I want to do that's like

we're on the road to 30 no don't yeah no seriously we're on the road to 30 off we go oh my god no but they say that 30s are

the best years really oh bring it on bring it on yeah i'm ready i'm really ready have you had like have you enjoyed your 20s so far i've loved it yeah i've had such a good time and i live by myself and i i thought oh in your 20s you gotta live with all your friends and all of that and i have lived with friends but i just love it i just love being so like independent like I'm really enjoying the time before you know you've got to really like have like like I said before like have responsibilities have children have a dog oh yeah dog's first step yeah dog's first step but like I'm just enjoying just like literally just living for myself yeah I agree I agree what would you say it's like being your best year in your 20s um I always say oh my god

that was the best year and then I have another better year oh my god this is what I said in my previous podcast like every so I was saying every summer just gets better and better every summer and I'm like that's the way to live yeah that's how it should definitely and I think what I realize is like just like really living I'm trying to I'm trying to get my point across really living for like saying yes to everything but not saying yes to too much but also I'm just like so much stuff that I've done I probably would have said no yeah but I've said yes and I've had the best time and there've been really good memories from it so I feel like in your 20s just kind of like opening yourself up to more opportunities yeah I did love third year of uni I must say that was a highlight of my 20s just like like have no

job it's like your last year of having a student loan like just going out no money yeah it was hard but like just going out all the time and like we just and like living with my best friends and like we just had the best time like it was just like a constant sleepover 24 7 so yeah once you find your people like it honestly yeah there's nothing like and I was so close with them and we literally just had the best time. We were just crying with laughter the whole time. So did you go out a lot then? In third year, yeah. First year, you wouldn't catch me out.

Because they say in third year, like you've become a hermit. I know, no, no, no, that wasn't me. I mean, I did balance it, but yeah, I did go out a lot. And I think when I moved to London, I loved that. Just before COVID, I had like five months of living in London. And I really enjoyed that. Like going out in London and like being like, oh my my god I don't have to get the train home or like I don't have to text my mum being like I'm on the way home it was so nice just like having my own

my own place yeah what was your guy situation like at uni I was single for three years okay so I went to uni with a boyfriend and everyone's like it's never gonna last you're not gonna like don't go to uni with a boyfriend and then we lasted first year oh wow and then in like two months into second year I was like I think it's time for me to be single and then I had three or four years of me being single and I absolutely loved it what about you yeah I've always been single you know this right yeah yeah is that why you were like I was like wait wait obviously single life is fun at uni but never boyfriend but i think i'm glad i think i'm glad no i think that's really nice i think i think you'll look back when you're like married with kids and be like thank god i was single that whole time do you think yeah i don't

know i think you will i don't did you enjoy being single at uni yeah like it was fun it was good but it's no different like i don't know any different. Yeah. For some reason, everyone said, like, oh, you're going to find, like, the man you're going to marry at uni. Oh, yeah. And I did not. I was nowhere near. Isn't that that fact where, like, they say you've already met,

like, when you're, like, 20, you've already met the guy you're going to marry? Like, somewhere in your life. Oh, my God. That's crazy. So you might have met the guy that you're going to marry. Well, maybe. But I don't know where they get that statistic from.

Oh, I think that's different from, because, like, some people Meet people at 30 And then they get married Don't they But they may have crossed paths Wow On the tube Oh my gosh

How exciting I know So keep an eye out guys To be fair My boyfriend now I met two years ago And I never thought When I met him two years ago

That we were ever Going to be together Oh my god did you not Like was it not Like love at first sight No like Obviously when I met him I was like

Oh he's such a lovely guy Like I said at the beginning About energy I really got his energy Straight away And I was like, oh, he's such a lovely guy. Like I said at the beginning, that energy, I really got his energy straight away and I was like so warm, so fun. He is a golden retriever. I always say he's a golden retriever.

He's a golden retriever. But like, I never thought, oh, he's going to be like my boyfriend and we're going to be in love and all of this. Like, I just thought,

oh, he's such a nice guy. And then two years later and yeah, he's my boyfriend. It's weird, isn't it? Crazy. But like back then when we crossed paths, I mean, it was through work. I never thought, God, he's my boyfriend it's weird crazy but like back then when we crossed paths I mean it was through work I never thought god he's gonna be in my life so what made you reach out again or did he reach out um uh so you don't need to say this oh I don't mind I don't

mind would he mind no he won't mind I would love it um so i messaged him about work again because that's kind of our that was our relationship was just work um i messaged him for gals who travel um for the content because he is um like a producer videographer photographer all of that um and yeah and i said could i have some help and then we meant for a coffee and it was like oh okay okay and then from there yeah, he's now my boyfriend. Oh, honestly, guys, they're so cute together. So cute. I just can't.

Millie's coming to Bali with us. Yes. So Bronte is doing, oh my God, I'm just so proud of you, by the way. I really am. I'm proud of you. No, you've done so well. You've done so well with your Galaxy Graduate, Galaxy Travel. Galaxy Travel's quite new, isn't it?

Yeah, it only started in January. But it's literally like skyrocketing. It's literally my favourite thing in the world. So do you want to explain to the listeners what girls who travel actually is

and what you're doing with that? Yeah, so girls who travel came from girls who graduate, obviously. And I started it because I was kind of travelling after COVID and loads of people

were asking questions. It was quite a popular thing on Instagram. I think everyone wants to travel after COVID, obviously, everyone's been in lockdown. And so I started i started it's just all my tips and tricks on instagram of me traveling um and then and then i was in bali and those are people asking like

what i do in bali if how they get there how they travel and i was like why don't i just host a trip so i started a trip in bali which is happening in october and it sold out in literally like two minutes like 500 people trying to get on mad it was crazy I think it's because like it's such a like it's like a female support network like it's very safe it's very friendly it's very like girls supporting girls and like if people want to travel after uni or just girls want to travel at all but they don't know who to travel with just book on a trip with girls who travel and then make friends for life and like I'm just so excited so Millie's coming with us I'm coming to Bali I'm so excited I just can't say no I'm just so excited. So Millie's coming with us. I'm coming. To Bali. I'm gate crashing. I'm so excited. I just can't say no. I'm so excited.

So I actually, when I went travelling, I've already talked to Bronte about this, but I actually went with a group which was True Travels which is who Bronte

is doing it with. Yeah. Which is so weird. It's crazy. And it's like, it is definitely the best way to see a place because they organise

everything for you. Oh, the itinerary. And you meet people and you get on with the people that you're with so well. Yeah. Like I got on with so many people there so i did a thailand one did i do the same thailand one that you're doing with true travels yeah yeah so we're doing a thailand trip in february now so that's crazy that's mad i really did you go from bali to thailand no i went from bali to australia oh okay wow you really got your troubles yeah but I went to so I

went from Japan to Thailand and then went to Thailand from Thailand to Philippines wow and then Philippines to Bali what a trip yeah it was great that's incredible it was amazing oh my god I really would recommend anyone to just do even if it's just like a month yeah just at least like go traveling see the world experience you know new culture yeah and one of the reasons i started is because i want i know it's scary as a like a girl alone to go traveling like it's so like i would hate to get on a flight and just end up in a random hostel like i want girls who travel to be a place that girls come get the confidence to travel alone but know there's loads of girls there and then go on by themselves because they've got that confidence from the first trip

um yeah i just just was so excited. So the Thailand one, when is it? February 2023. Oh my God, I'm just going to keep on going. So we're going to do another Bali trip, another few Bali trips next year and just keep them going. So you're going to do Bali and Thailand? Bali and Thailand.

And then I also quite want to do a ski trip. Oh my God. That'd be really fun. That would be so cool. Like Galsu Travel Ski Trip. Oh, that would be so cool. Galsu Ski. Galsu Ski. So idea like the name come from i was literally like i said i started girls who

graduate when i was sitting on my bed i just moved all my stuff back from uni i was kind of like surrounded by suitcases and was like straight fresh out of uni and i was really upset i was sitting on my bed like conley this is over i was like she wanted to cry i was like that was the best time ever and like now i've got to actually live adult life it's such a big chapter yeah it's so it's such a weird feeling and i was like so i put out on my instagram i was like who else is feeling like this and so many people replied so i just started a closed facebook group and then i was like so you had already been on instagram like influencing at this point kind of yeah like i'd i kind of shown what i was doing with my life but not much i think I had like 10k maybe okay um and I was doing like

maybe like one two ads a month it wasn't really an income it was just like a side thing um and then I spoke about it on my Instagram because the majority of my followers were like um students or graduates and loads of people were like I feel like this I had post-university depression I had post-university blues like I was in such a bad place after uni and I was like that's what I feel like I could go into if I like if I don't speak about it or open about it so I started to close

Facebook group and I was like graduate gals girly graduates and I was like students so I was like I didn't know what to do

so and then and then girls who graduate came to just came up and I was like right I'm just gonna call it that and we can change it later on and now it's like

we've got girls who rank girls who sweat girls who read girls who travel like I love it it's it's yeah it's so fun and you've got's like we've got gals who rank gals who sweat gals who read gals who travel I love it it's yeah it's so fun and you've got the merch

we've got the merch coming she's got it all yeah it's all coming it's all coming she's got it all I will link the Facebook group in the podcast notes thank you very much

and everything else obviously but obviously like being CEO you found out Glasgow right and you're young and you're a woman

and it's obviously in this industry it's gonna be very hard do you get taken seriously I mean it is hard like I'm not gonna lie like especially like learning on the job like I don't know any of this like when we're talking about like money and like investment and all of that or like not even investment like we're talking about like different like income streams and like business talk i'm like but i think honestly being like i please could you let me know what that means i think honestly like asking questions in meetings they respect you a bit more then because otherwise i'm like i'll write something down i'll quickly like scribble it down and then i'll either have to

ask my sister or my dad like what does that mean because i just won't know what it isn't it you shouldn't feel embarrassed because like like i said i'm learning on the job I came from uni I just started this closed Facebook group and now it's turned into a business so when I'm in a meeting I just go oh excuse me what do you mean so they don't like they don't you know judge you no oh sometimes I do feel a bit like oh god do I feel stupid yeah I had a meeting with a lawyer the other day and I was like oh I'm not even gonna ask I was like I'll write it all down and ask later because I have no clue what's going on um it is it is a lot it's a lot learning on the job but actually I feel like women are getting more respected in business now recently like I feel like people want to support them hopefully for the right reasons

they don't just want to be seen supporting female entrepreneurs hopefully it's for the right reason fingers crossed um but I feel like people are they're opening up a little bit more but I do get scared like walking into like at the moment we're doing like grad fuel which is a recruit uh graduate recruitment company we're like getting the girls jobs in the community and I have to go have like a meeting with city bank and I'm like hello it's just it's a very corporate it's very corporate but I I'm just like do you know what they they work there I work yeah I do my thing and like we're integrating they would want to learn from you yeah exactly and I just think like we do have very different lives and very different jobs and like that's just life so so if someone's listening and they want to like start their own business or company whatever what

would you advise them to do I know this is really cliche and everyone says it but just do it yeah because with girls who travel I was like oh I could start a travel thing like maybe like maybe i'll start it and then one day i'll just like bronte you tell everyone just to go for it you just go for it yeah like obviously with this podcast you're probably always like umming and ahhing so true and then you've done it and now you're like so glad i did it i think just you've you've got to um and ah about it and then wake up one morning and just do it just get yourself no one else gonna do it for you no and also i've seen this um thing on tiktok where where it's like, if you think of an idea, someone else is going to think of that idea later on.

So you need to do that before they, you know, do it. Yeah. So, like, someone else could have thought about this idea. Yeah, someone else could have started a graduate support network, which there are other ones out there. But, like, you've just got to put your all into it and know that, like, you want... Yeah. Do you know what I mean?

You need to believe in yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and put your all into it. know that like you you want yeah do you know what I mean you need to believe in yourself yeah yeah yeah did you um like reach out to anyone for help or did you literally just set up a Facebook page I literally set up a Facebook page it just went from there and then I hosted an event in person and obviously I've been to a few as we do in our industry we go to brand events so I kind of knew what I was getting into there because I've been to a few so I kind of knew what I wanted it to be like so I hosted my own for like um strad straduates straduates students and graduates straduates

um students and graduates and they all came so it was nice not having like people in the industry it was just people just like just girls that finish uni and wanted to make friends and have support and then super drug sponsored our goodie bags and we gave all the girls goodie bags it was it was great so I think like I did do a lot by myself I have done a lot by myself um I've had help along the way but no I didn't go to anyone and ask for help I mean my family and my sister and my friends all supported and helped me but yeah I just kind of did it alone and went for it how do you like manage your time because this can be for everyone at uni for you know people like obviously doing stuff that we do where it's like every day is so different and you don't have a set schedule i think routine routine really helps me like knowing that when i wake up i do exactly the

same thing every single morning um and then i block out like two hours in the morning to go through what i need to do um have a shower get, and then film any ads that I need to film. I think knowing time blocking really helps. Like in the morning, knowing exactly how many hours you have to do this, how many hours you have to do that. I write a to-do list before I go to sleep. And I write, just before I go to bed, I write my day out and then I write my to-do list next to it.

And so I know exactly where my to-do list is going to fit into my day. And I think that really helps. And do you ever like procrastinate a lot? Yeah, time because I feel like oh my god I don't know just like having the title founder of yeah I feel like if I label myself like that I would feel so guilty if I were ever procrastinating yeah I wasn't productive oh I do feel guilty I get all the time but then sometimes I'm like no you've just worked the whole weekend like some some days with our jobs we work the whole weekend and then on a Tuesday I'll suddenly have some free time and I'll be like oh my god this just feels illegal on a Tuesday to be having a nap at 4pm

but no I I definitely I definitely feel guilt when I'm not working um and I do procrastinate I do but then I'm like come on like your life like you you're living such a good life right now you've got such a good job like you're so happy you're living such a good life right now. You've got such a good job. Like you're so happy. Like that motivates me. Yeah. My life right now motivates me to do even more. That's actually such a nice way of putting it. Because like we've got like.

We have, we are blessed. Yeah. With our jobs and like I just think, God, like if I was looking at my life from a younger point of view, I'd be like, wow. Yeah. That's so cool. So now that motivates me to do do work and I think if this is why like people who are stuck in a job that they don't enjoy it they're stuck in a cycle

because they're just gonna be sad or like you know it actually affects your mood and it affects your productivity and everything else around you like everything so that you have to do something you actually enjoy I know that's really hard to say when like it's hard to find a job and the the like trying to find a job right now is really hard so i think if you're not enjoying your job find something on the side that you really enjoy doing and grow that even if it's like building your portfolio for another job on the side of your job right now just do something that while you're not enjoying your current nine to five job is making a change for like your future that's actually such a good job so then you know you're working on something you're not enjoying your current nine to five job is making a change for like your future that's actually such a good job so then you know you're working on something you're not just getting up every day being like i hate my job you're like at least i'm being proactive somewhere else to

make my future self happy very good advice yeah very good advice um did you want to do this sort of thing after uni or did you want to actually go into film and tv no i had no clue what i was doing okay i couldn't tell you everyone's like what would you do if you weren't doing this i'm like i had no clue what i was doing when i left uni i was like i'm gonna go for this instagram thing full time because i love it and i really enjoyed it allows me freedom and that was just yeah that was my side hustle um i did a few internships and um what do you call them when you're when you in summer like when you just go to... Placement. No, not placement.

No. Internship. Some internship, no? Some internship. Yeah. What's it called? Yeah, sorry. I've got a brain...

In summer? No, or like... So camp. Back camp. No, sorry. You know when you go to an office and you like, and you're like, they're like intern work experience.

Oh, work experience. Oh my God. People are going to be listening. You can do that anytime. I did it in my summers at uni. I did work experience. I'm very proactive. PR companies.

So I was like the other side of what we do now. So I was like contacting influential content creators and I was like sending them gifting and like reaching out and like all of that. And I really enjoyed doing that. And I was like, God, if I when I leave uni, if I don't find a job, I'd quite like to be the other side of it and do like PR. That's exactly what I'd do. Or I'd love to be like a manager, like a talent manager. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Do you like being in the industry? I do. I do. I can't complain. Like complain like it's it's it's a great job but at the same time there are a lot of a lot of cons yeah there's a lot of cons yeah but at the same time they weigh out the like freedom yeah just yeah the happiness and like freedom that we get from the job but i think i've learned because i've been in the industry for quite a while i've learned what i shouldn't the cons that I can keep do you know what I mean I can keep far what what

about you I think I do enjoy I do enjoy being in the industry but yeah like you said it's there are negatives to it but I do think the positives that weigh the negatives but sometimes when the negatives come they can come with a big punch in the face. Like people can really take the piss out of you or like they can really mug you over. Yeah. Like the income is sometimes a bit inconsistent. Yeah. And also the fear that it could just end whenever.

That's why I'm really like, girls who graduate and girls who travel, that's why I'm really focusing on them and I put most of my time into them than Instagram, than any social media because I know that if it did just stop then then then i have them as backup yeah really good idea because yeah it's never it's not gonna last forever oh stop it where do you want girls who graduate girls who travel to be in like

next five years that's a hard question i think i want girls who travel to be like the number one like place that girls come for like safe travel or like if they want to travel somewhere they come to girls who travel and i want us to have like hundreds of trips like all around the world like europe breaks like just everywhere like so they can book on any trip and they know they've got a group of like-minded girls it's a really great trip all of that i want that to be that girls who graduate i just want it like the place that all students female students and graduates come for like jobs support advice cv help um interview help like everything to do with graduate life like a whole life yeah like

like a student graduate hub yeah um and if social media were to go facebook to go yeah where would you take that hub yeah that's that's a hard question girls who travel easy it'd be like a travel agency that like

like a normal travel agency um girls who go to an office have some calls yeah I'd love a little office

yeah I'd love a little girls who office I can really imagine you with like a nice CEO desk yeah like a pink

feet up pink and red that's our colour yeah feet up I need a pink and red pink and red our colour. Yeah, pink and red. Pink and red. What made you think of those colours?

Because I've never put those two into a together. Yeah, I know what you mean. I love it. Like I would never think they go together. Because my first logo is pink and white. And the first one I ever made. And it's really cute. I mean, it's like, yeah, like pink with white writing.

You can't really see it. And then when I rebranded it was it was pink and red wow yeah it's really cute i really like that so you want to just stick with the gals the gals yeah yeah well we have guys who you do have guys who graduate we started that guys listening yeah we had um guys who that we started two years ago obviously i'm not a guy and it's hard to i find it hard to relate to the male audience because that's not that's not what i do but it is there for anyone we have a closed facebook group i mean that's really good to know i mean i haven't it hasn't been active for a while

but it's still there still they're helping some people at least yeah exactly so i've got a question for you yeah it's quite a open one okay and it's probably quite hard because i didn't i wouldn't know how to answer this but what's your biggest weakness oh okay we've got to be we've got to be true to ourselves here yeah okay we're gonna dive straight in um what's yours sorry i need some time to think i think my biggest weakness is being a people's pleaser yeah so being someone who like just won't stand up for myself i think really and being in this industry obviously that's really really big weakness because i do get that with you actually and i sometimes have to say no yeah Millie yeah no Millie say no and just be like actually I can

have that opinion and I can it's so it is true like I do sometimes feel like that with me although I'm getting better at it I'm learning more that not to be a people pleaser but I did used to just want to like yeah please everyone and like in certain situations someone would say something to me and I'd be like yeah and then I shouldn't have said yeah i should have just yeah it's it's the confrontation yeah i can't handle yeah i but then like i know but there is a side to me that will not take something like if if you've been like you know treated like shit i will literally go to that person yeah you can't do that yeah i think if it's on me and it's being made towards me i don't know i just can't i can't like stick up for myself yeah if you asked me this question last year i'd say people pleaser yeah but i feel like the past

year i've really grown to not to not be like that i think with girls who graduate and running girls who graduate and having gone through quite a few ups and downs with it behind the scenes like in terms of like people involved I've become very like good at knowing what's right and what's wrong and saying when it's wrong but if you asked me this question a year ago I would have been like oh yeah I just say yes to everything and I'm just like yeah okay of course I'll do that and I like over promise and now I'm very good at knowing when to say no and when when it's wrong and when to bring up when it's wrong so you say that's a strength I'd say that's a strength yeah it was um it's a growing strength I'll be learning from you okay yeah I'll teach you see what I can do

so what's your weakness there's just nothing oh god no no I do have weaknesses um let's have a think um I one weakness I do notice with myself is I become not obsessed I become very what do you call it when you do something a lot to so and then I'll get bored of it so like I'll be like suddenly I'll want to go to the gym all the time and I will go for like a month constantly and then after that month month, I'll be like, I'm bored. I don't like it anymore. Why did I do that? I've gone too hard. Do you know what I mean? Or like I'll say I really want to start doing something. And I'll get on the bandwagon and do it loads.

And then get obsessed with it. And then I won't be able to carry on because I've done too much of it. Yeah, I know what you mean. You know, I think that's a trait of ADHD. Oh, okay. Diagnosed on the podcast. Thank you. Yeah, I do get like that. I get like, oh, okay. Diagnosed on the podcast. Thank you. Yeah,

I get, I do get like that. I get like, or like, it even happens with clothes. Like, I'll buy something, I'll wear it constantly

and I'll be obsessed with it and then, I won't see it for a good few months in the back of my wardrobe and I'm like, right, rummage back and need to wear it again.

But I think that's so common though with clothes. It is common with clothes but I do find that in my everyday life. So you've got ADHD? Okay. It's not a bad thing, I can work on that.

I've definitely got ADD. Really? I think I've got ADHD without hyperactiveness. Really? I think I'm quite hyperactive. Do you think I'm hyperactive? No, I am. Oh, you are?

Yeah, sometimes. Ashley, no. I don't know. I'm quite zen. I think you're more zen than I am really I think you are oh gosh

but when you have a few drinks you're very up there guys she's so funny I'm off she's so funny if you ever meet me drunk I'm

oh no I have met a few people that like follow us drunk and I I grab them I kiss them I get so overexcited and like I met these girls at a festival

and they were like we're part of girls who graduate and I literally started crying oh stop it I grabbed them I was like kissing them oh stop isn't these girls at a festival and they were like we're part of Girls Who Graduate and I literally started crying I grabbed them I was like kissing them oh stop isn't it just the best when you meet people

like out and you're like not you know in your I'm literally like oh my god it's so lovely to meet you I get more excited to meet them

yeah I agree I met a few people at the festival that we were just at and it just makes you so happy it just makes you so happy

and also like I applaud you guys to actually coming up to us because i think it's quite daunting to do that i don't think i've ever gone up to someone and then we hit that's a lie we did who we did oh yeah what's his name not greg james no um jordan jordan jordan north guys we love jordan north you know radio one i feel like him right now with this headphones on um we love jordan we love Jordan you know Radio 1 I feel like him right now with his headphones on we love Jordan we love Jordan yeah we went up to him

because my mum loves him so what did you say I said hi Jordan so lovely to meet you how are you that's ballsy I love that yeah I had a few drinks

oh you did have a few drinks and then we got a picky we did get a pig yeah I actually saw the other day but I love it when people come up to you and actually like have a conversation with you

yeah I really like that yeah yeah yeah I agree when they actually like make effort to you know see how you are whatever but I also would hate like if like someone comes up to me and I'm like rude I would hate for them to then like that to ruin their day yeah I'm never I would never be the one to be like not making conversation with them or be rude or like yeah yeah because I've definitely come across a few people like that oh yeah and yeah being in the industry you do see people's true colors don't you yeah I find it really interesting

um but yeah going back to my weakness I'd say I need to be consistent rather than obsessive in short bursts which I am working on I know I've flagged it in myself and I've realized that I need to work on it yeah that's an interesting one because I'm sure you gained things from being obsessed about something for a few months yeah yeah I think also because with our jobs like we can bring something into our life that's yeah like we can just try different things whilst we're going for it and like it's quite good like on Instagram being like oh I've tried this I've tried that do you know what I mean like I'm like sharing it with people yeah yeah so yeah I'd say I need to work on being more consistent. Okay.

What would you say people misunderstand about you the most? People say that when they meet me, I'm nicer than they thought I would be. How weird. Which I really think on Instagram I come across quite friendly. Yeah, I know. But you just, when you're labelled as an influencer, people just instantly think she's a bitch. Yeah. But when my friends were like, honestly, if people could meet you and spend time with you properly they'd be

like oh my god she's like well I'd hope so people say I'm nicer in in in person you are very nice well when we first met just picking each other up right now when we first met at the event like you were radiating happiness you really were you were happy and you were chatty you were radiating happiness. You really were. You were happy. And you were chatty. You were very chatty. Yeah, I do. I can chat for England. You can chat for England.

That's a great stroke. Yeah, my voice notes are about four minutes long. Yeah, no, but I love that. I do just chat, chat, chat. I think voice notes are probably my favourite thing to do in the day.

Yeah. Voice note people on a walk. It's like a mini podcast. Yeah, mini podcast. Do you like small talk? Yeah. Like would you say you're good on dates? Oh mini podcast. Do you like small talk? Yeah. Would you say you're good on dates?

Oh, yeah. Wow. I can talk all day long on dates. Whenever I'm like, before I had a boyfriend when I was going on dates, my friends would be like, Bronte, you'll be absolutely fine.

You literally can talk about anything. You're scaring them off with all your talk. I know. I think sometimes I think, God, I need to let them speak. No, I'm the same, but I do that because I'm scared of awkward silences. I think you'd be so good on a date.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall of you on a date. I think you'd be so good. Why do you think that? Because you're just really good at speaking. Really? Yeah, you're so good at speaking. Oh, I think I'm so whiny and annoying. No.

And, like, too expressionate. Expressionate? Really? Is that expressive? Yeah, same, I do. When I get into something that I'm really passionate about, I'm like... But that's why we're so similar. Yeah, I literally can't stop.

I'm so similar. It's literally falling out of my mouth and I can't keep up. That's what it is. What about you? What do you think people misunderstand about you? Oh, interesting. Yeah, I'd say that. They think I'm a bitch when I'm not.

I think on Instagram you come across so friendly and... But my Amelia one is so bitchy oh yeah Amelia one is just you in the street posing away I have a private Instagram guys

and that is the real deal I love it so much I was about to say the name imagine everyone come follow it no it's got like 30 people

like my nearest and dearest and I post my my whole entire life no boy has ever been on there I was thinking no is life. No boy has ever been on there. I was thinking, is Matt? No.

Is he on it? No, Matt's not on it. Yeah, no, he's, no boyfriend's ever been on there because it's got my whole life. I've documented my whole life

for like five years. Wow. If you scroll right down, like, it's my whole life. Yeah, it's like a diary. I'm so happy.

Yeah. Sigh. I'm so happy. I'm so happy I started it because I love it. I look back and I'm like, God, I can go so happy. I'm so happy I started it because I love it. I look back and I'm like, God, I can go on archive stories and I can look back on like this time last year and it'll be like my true. I like diary it.

I like diary my life. I need to get one. You really do. What do I call it? I was thinking like gold digger. That's good. Amelia gold digger. Amelia gold digger. Yeah. No, you definitely should. It's really fun. I need to. Yeah. I really like that. that's good Amelia Golddigger Amelia Golddigger

yeah no you definitely should it's really fun I need to yeah I really like that when I see that on my Instagram like the stories I'm like oh

I'm ready for a movie right now I'm sitting down with my popcorn like what's she up to what's she doing now I'm up to no good oh I think we're

coming to the end of the podcast anything else you want to share with the listeners before we end I don't i can't think oh maybe some just i think some breakup advice oh yeah this is great to know yeah because i went through a breakup about five four five months ago now it was quite soon that i met well not i'd already met my new boyfriend but um and it was just so like raw it was so like the emotions are so intense and I know a few girls that are going through breakups now and like I

just want to like hug you so much and be like you will be okay like it is such a horrible time um but we have gals who date and I wrote my whole breakup Bible on there. Because when I was going through the breakup, I'd write every coping mechanism in my notes page. So every time I felt like I was strong and I found something that made me feel stronger, I'd write it in my notes page. That's really interesting. And I think just realising that they're just not meant to be.

And if someone can walk out of your life that easily, then let them. Yeah. Don't hold them against it. But what would you do if you really felt inside you that you're like oh it's just like a little hiccup we will we can get back together and it'll be like better then just focus on yourself let them do their thing and boys respond to silence um that's true

and so they they take longer to process their emotions yeah so i think just work on yourself if they if they're like right i can't be with you right now but you know inside that it's going to work then focus on yourself use this time to just like do what you want to do and then in a couple of months time in a year's time you'll get back together if it's meant to be but I realized like probably like a week after I broke up with my boyfriend my ex-boyfriend that it wasn't meant to be and obviously wasn't because two months later it happened so quickly but I met my new boyfriend and now we're like boom boom. I never expected that ever. And do you think if you hadn't met him, it would have been like you would still be?

No, because when I met him, I was in a really good place. I was really like strong after the breakup. I was really loving life. I was really just happy. Like, I think it took me like a month after the breakup to be like fully happy and happy alone. But I think that when I met him I was at such a good time in my life I was at such like happy and independent time so I was like ready I wouldn't have been ready for any anyone as in that I wouldn't have been like if I wasn't on hinge I wasn't on any dating apps so I wasn't like searching for it but because I'd already met him

and I knew him and it just worked out but they say when you're not searching for it comes yeah it does girls it really does it really does would you say your relationship person or have you been more single well the sing the time I was single for four years I really enjoyed it and when I was single after my last breakup I was really I really enjoyed being single I'm I like I live by myself like I really enjoy my own time um but at the same time like being in a relationship is so fun because you have someone there the whole time and it's just really fun

and it's just like your best friend and everything I know and like whenever now whenever I think I need like oh I want to do this

I'm just like can I do this and I just text them so it is nice but at the same time I love being single and I feel like in your 20s

being single is the best thing and it's so fun but you've also got a great balance between like being in a relationship and also like still seeing your friends yeah you've got a great balance oh i'm so cautious of that very good i'm so careful of like living my life yeah but also having my

relationship i think it's so easy to get just wrapped up into like your relationship and then you kind of forget about your friends and then maybe you break up and then like some people can be like lost because they they've kind of like pushed away their friends yeah and i feel like that's why my breakup also was yeah bearable because I had such a good connection still with my friends from that relationship and I didn't let that slide when I was in a relationship so when I came out the relationship was just like they were there to support me yeah that's so true yeah breakups are awful but you'll be all right yeah they say it's like actual grief yeah like someone's died oh my god I literally remember waking up the next day after the breakup and I went for a run because i was just like i need to move i don't run i don't know

what was going on there and i was just crying i was just crying and crying and i got back home opened the door cried oh i know i was getting ready cried i just but you've just got to let it all out you've got to cry and cry and cry and then you're fine um and then i feel like once you've cried all out once you're ready once you've processed all the feelings you're just a new woman the breakup glow the breakup glow up is true it's something else incredible it is something else did you block him on everything no no it was really weird because we broke up civilly he wasn't very nice to me at the end yeah um but we i just wanted to keep it civil like i'm just not really a person that has confrontation or anything so i was just like i just want to keep it civil like I'm just not really a person that has confrontation or anything so I was just like I just want to keep it civil

and he was still watching all my stories still does and everything so yeah and you don't mind that it's alright but yeah I mean if it my boyfriend before that I blocked on everything he blocked me and it does help outside our mind yeah it's very context

dependent isn't it yeah you just need to you know put yourself first yeah stay strong girls I'm so excited for you to get a boyfriend in the future in the very near future

in the very near future okay in the very near future I can feel it coming the energy this is what I was saying this like

probably in the first episode of this podcast and that was about six months ago really still haven't got anywhere with it so it's okay

but the dating life is picking up that's good it is picking up yeah's okay. But the dating life is picking up. That's good. It is picking up. Yeah. I feel like in London, dating life is so fun. Yeah, it is. You have to also just be prepared for it, though, because, like, you can easily just not date.

Yeah. But you have to put yourself out there. Yeah. Because there is so much opportunity in London. There's so much opportunity. Or any city, really. Yeah. Yeah, any city, really.

Maybe in Bali you'll meet a surfer dude. Oh, my God, stop. That'd be fun. I could move to Bali. I would actually do that. Oh, my God, that'd be so fun oh my god that'd be so fun or like you meet an aussie out there yeah i don't i think aussie guys freak me out though not freak me out but just cringe me a bit yeah i do know what you mean but i think they actually are probably the people who get english humor the most yeah like over um american people i did go on a date when i was in bali did you yeah

and it was really fun with a French guy oh my god stop did you get an accent? yeah yeah oh I can't do that I know I did think by the end of it never again but it was really fun

going on a date in Bali like we went to the beach had a drink oh wow yeah that's actually like a bucket list thing to do I think yeah really fun

like when I was single I was like right I'm single in Bali let's just go on a date well you've got to be my wing woman oh well absolutely

don't you worry about it I'm a good wing woman so excited okay so we're going to end the episode with our favourite quote okay Well, you've got to be my wingwoman. Oh, well, absolutely. Don't you worry about it. I'm a good wingwoman. I'm so excited. So excited. Okay, so we're going to end the episode with our favourite quote. Okay. And you've got yours, haven't you?

Yeah. You can go first. I bet you've said so many favourite quotes. Oh, I really should add a list, I think. Yeah, I think you should. Maybe on the podcast Instagram page, you should have all the favourite quotes. I love quotes on Instagram. Yeah, that's actually a really good idea.

You know, when you're feeling down. Like, when I was going through my breakup, I just looked at all these quotes on the site. That's actually a really good idea. I'm going to do that. So my favourite quote is one that I found the day before my driving test. I was so nervous, and I was like, I don't want to do it.

I don't want to do it. Oh dear. And so I was Googling quotes. Inspirational quotes. Inspirational quotes. Pinterest. Get me through them. It's actually crying.

And it was. It's a bit cringe, but it does, if you put it into context, it does work. It was like, what if I fail? And and it was it's a bit cringe but it does if you put it into context it does work it was like um what if i fail and then it was like oh but what if you fly and it's like in each situation you could be like oh no i don't want to go i'm it's not going to go well but then you're like what if it goes amazingly and you have to like turn it around and be like like i did i used it in my exams i used it at uni like what what was if it goes really bad or any date like if you're going on a date and you don't. Like, what happens if it goes really bad? Or any date.

Like, if you're going on a date and you don't want to go, what happens if it's really shit? Oh, but what happens if it's amazing and he's the love of your life? 50-50 chance. Yeah. And I think you always have to, like, flip it around. Like, what happens if it's really bad? Nope.

It's going to be amazing. See the good in everything. Always stay positive. It's just being optimistic. You just have to be optimistic and positive. Yeah. So my quote is, when you discover your self-worth you lose

interest in anyone who doesn't see it which is really true stop so if no one in your life if anyone in your life who doesn't see your self-worth then you actually stop caring about them yeah it's so true oh i actually don't care about what you think that's so nice which so many people ask me like they're like how do you not care what people think of you but i'm like if anyone says anything negative about me then they don't see what i see in myself exactly so i don't care what they think and i think yeah once you're so right once you see your self-worth you see others that don't yeah you're it's so obvious it opens your eyes completely it's very yeah and that's with guys and girls and friends and family anyone definitely I like that I'll put that on the Instagram

we've covered everything we have what am I going to call this episode girl talk girl talk 101 101 well thank you so much Fronty

thank you for having me love you love you and I'm sure you'll be on for another episode I'm sure I can't wait to listen if people like you

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