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Nicole Digiacobbe

May 09, 201837 minEp. 100
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You may as well call her Supermom. Nicole is someone I have great admiration for. She is not only beautiful and smart, she's basically #ElleWoods. She competed as Miss Delaware at the Miss USA Pageant, and she went to Law School! She developed a big love for Photography when she was in School and really started pursuing it as a #sidehustle. Flash forward to now, she's married w 2 beautiful daughters and has totally put all of her skills from her past lives to create her own Niche Business.  She has mastered how to capture and edit beautiful photographs and videos using only her iPhone. And she offers a course on her website "thislovelylife.com" as well as so much other goodness.  There's no one I respect more than an innovative, creative, wise woman, and that Nicole.

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Carala. She's a queen of talking. He was, She's only got the snoop on. No one can do with Caralam, Carola, No one can do with Carol Carola. You guys, we are getting towards the end of my Influencers series and I'm so pumped right now because I haven't called d Jacoby joining me. This woman does it all. She's a mom of two beautiful girls, she's a wife, and she is wanting to get digital with all of you people in cyber world. She's so incredible at using her iPhone

to make beautiful pictures. You would think she had professional equip it, but she does everything with her iPhone and she is so informative about sharing her knowledge. I cannot forget to hear this interview. She's so so, so wise beyond her very young years. You'll get excited. Here's Nicole. Okay, I'm here in the call D Jacoby. How that your name? I had a practice. It's a tongue poster, which I love. Is it is? We can thank my husband for that. Okay.

He likes to keep it interesting. You need you know, yes, So this is actually you are going to be my second to last interview on my influencer series. I've had such a long influencer series because I've had the chance to meet all these incredible influencers, including yourself, and so I was like, I need to do a series and all these girls and just break it down how you become an influencer, What is an influencer? How do you

make it a job? Like all these people are wanting to know how to do this, and some people have figured out how to dole it in, like you have figured out how making incredible business for yourself, um, your social media's and your platform. So just talk to me about where you're from, how you got interested in photography, and then how this world has emerged for you. Absolutely, Okay. So I'm from Delaware. It is a tax free state, so no tax free shopping. It's the second smallest state

and it's just a tiny small town feel. Everybody knows everyone born and raised there. And I did live in Florida for I want to say a year, and I went to University of Tampa and had an opportunity to model while is there at the Home Shopping Network. So that was yeah, guess um see some old It was like all the headshot day the other day. Oh my gosh, it was Yeah. I did jewelry so I would stand there model, and then I did petitque fashion because I'm so short. Um so they had to put me into

category right. Yeah, it was fun. Um So I lived in Florida for about a year during college, and then of course I went back to Delaware, finished and graduated from the University of Delaware and then took a small break. Um, I competed at miss us A representing Delaware. That was back. Yeah, that was back in two thousand seven, so you didn't miss u s A. How was that? It was amazing. It really didn't learn from that. So I went into that like I've always been a tomboy my whole life,

Like I played field hockey. I played field hockey my freshman year in college. Um, I ran track hurdles like I've always just been a tomboy. Um. One of my girlfriends had tried out for the pageant and she was like, just give it a try. So I tried it, entered I think like a month before we could, like the deadline was and when I won, they were like, you're going to miss USA now, And I honestly had I had no idea like I didn't know that when you won, you went to miss us. It was it was so bizarre,

it was surreal and it was it was an amazing experience. Um, Donald Trump is interesting. What was he like? So when I competed. I don't know if the rules are still like this, but when I competed, he was allowed to pick I think seven of the top fifteen. I forget what the exact numbers are, but he was able to line everyone up and just kind of like look us up and down. I swear no, he could pick seven of the fifteen just by looking at y'all. Yeah, yeah,

he half of the finalists got picked. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. I don't know if it's still like that anymore, but I remember that rehearsal and he showed up and he had his little notepab with his assistant and he just kind of like went down the road shaking our hands, meeting everyone. I didn't get a chance to really he said. He did like a little hello, and that was it. I didn't have, you know, blonde hair, big boobs. I wasn't six ft all. We have a type here, Yeah,

he has a team. We're probably all this type. He absolutely has a type Oh my god, what a crazy experience. How yeah. But other than that, it was amazing. It was really good for growth. Um, we did a lot of public appearances and a lot of charity work and probably oh yeah, it was. It was so good for me as a person just to to be put in those situations where you're forced to have to speak in front of people and just interact with just everybody. So it was, it was great. I loved it. What does

that teach you about fear? Because I feel like that's such a like a lot of people, including yourself, might have have so much fear, but you didn't have a chance to be afraid. You had to just dive into it. So what about just walking through fear? Because I feel like so many people get to those moments where it's scary and they're like I can't do this. But I feel like that is something I've come across all the time,

especially being in business and growing a business. There's always that little bit of fear and that doubt and that fervousness, and I always now take that as a good thing. You feel like so many people hit that moment where they have fear, Like you said, especially in business and they just throw their hands up because trying. But what did you realize about fear in that moment that it's not it's not as scary or it's not what you make it out to be. It's not it's it's really not.

I just think it needs to be that extra push and it's just it's almost like an extra challenge, Like you just have to look at it like a mini challenge that comes in the way to make sure that you continue on your path. I don't know, I don't know the best way. You just have this like moment of growth Like that's I always find that that's what

comes after those moments where you push yourself. You you do a public speaking event or you go on stage and have to compete in a swimsuit and heals and millions of people, and then when it's all over with, it's like I did it. I can do anything. Like you just have a moment of like empowerment it where you realize that, like you really can't do anything. Anybody can do anything that they put their heart in mind into and you work hard, you can anybody can achieve anything.

So it was only a great rocket push for you. Yeah, it was it. Definitely. It gave me a lot of confidence to UM just to be around other women that have, you know, a lot of big goals that they want to achieve, and it makes you want to be by it. You know, it makes you want to be a better person too, and and you know it makes your goals attainable.

And you see everybody else doing these things and you're like, well, you know what, some people I feel like, they're like, well I can't do that, but you have to change your mindset and think I can do that too. And it's just that once you realize that then that I feel like that changes the game. I totally agree. Yeah,

so how did you decide to get into it? And like all of that apt though, I've always had a passion for photography, like even are in college, I would take headshots for my roommates or UM just anyone, and I just loved photography. And during college I took UM photography classes as electives. I processed film and dark the dark room, and I did digital photography, just a lot of creative classes. I've always been very creative UM, but

I never pursued that. I ended up graduating college and I went to law school, which is a totally different Yeah. So I went to Redgers in New Jersey, UM for law school, and it was just like a totally different path. But while I was in law school, I still did photography and I did it for pageant girls, So I shot a lot of combined all your world. It was like, it was kind of it's weird how all of the

different paths have just kind of come together. Um, And it's like my passions have always been there, They've always been the same, and now what I'm doing finally, at this point in my life, at thirty one, I am Now they've all just kind of come together, like writing. Yeah, okay, so so okay, So the way that happened. So I was in law school, um, doing a lot of writing, reading, which I love. I hate math. I'm terrible math. I

still count on my fingers. Um me too, so bad. Um. So yeah, in law school, I did a lot of photography for pageant girls. Um. Graduated. I worked at JP Morgan for a year doing antimony laundering. UM, just reviewing Anna Lawyer. Basically you're totally Elwood's you are right. So weird to think of that, Oh my gosh, yes, so weird.

To think of. Um, yeah, so did photography. Always have jumped seography and then uh, photography is hard trying to learn like shutterfly and also like the shutter speed and all that stuff. I know. Yeah, so difficult to do photography. Yeah, it is is challenging. I did a couple of workshops with our wedding photographers and they they taught me a lot.

So I just got a camera, started learning how to shoot on manual, did the photogra graphy stuff for Pagan Girls in law school, and then worked at JP Morgan for a year, and then got pregnant with Olivia, our oldest daughter. Okay, so we're all trying to get pregnant. Oh yeah, so yeah we were. We got married during law school and then I had seen a doctor who had told me that I did like a blood test that determines your account and he said that I had like an account of a forty year old and was like,

you need to start trying yesterday. So we started trying to get that yes and when poor women like right when you're hitting your stride for a career, it's like, oh, now you need to have a baby. Not that having a baby the best thing, but it all happened, but that wasn't right. We I had a I literally had a timeline. I was like, Okay, I'm gonna graduate, worked for five years, save money, like totally out the window. So he's out the window. Yeah, and that was fine

because having a family to us was really important. So we started trying while it was in law school. I think I walk across the stage and I was twelve weeks pregnant, So I was I didn't I don't even know, did I know? Yeah, I had just found out I was pregnant. Graduated, so we always make a joke that Olivia has a law degree because we are so smart. She's such a sweetheart. Um. So yeah. So then I worked during my pregnancy at JPMorgan quit that and I actually I knew I wanted to stay home with her.

Um But as far as sharing her on social media, I was one of those pregnant women that said I will never share my kids photos online and did a company tell me three sixty okay, and I'll talk to me about that. Because I have I totally can understand that debate. Like if I was a mom, I would wonder the same way, like do I want because it's not of the people aren't gonna be weirdest, but there's that percentage that are weirdest. It's like, I want to

subject my kids this. How do you navigate that? So I feel like with there the way that So I started sharing a few photos and because family and friends were kind of like, this is weird, like why are you sharing photos? So it's like, okay, final share a couple And then I realized that, like her generation, social media is going to be the way of life, and I don't want to shelter her from it because I want her to feel comfortable using it and and do

it in a safe way and a controlled way. Um and she our daughters are such a big part of our lives, so it's weird for me to have to almost hide them if I weren't to share them with social media, because it's I mean, it's that's our life. Like my kids are my everything. I spend my whole day at home with them, So for me not to share that part of my life, it would not be what am I sharing? You know what I mean? How did you get comfortable with it? Like how did you

finally let yourself be comfortable with it? And like, how did you justify? Like, Okay, I'm not gonna worry about the weirdos, because you are right, this is are your children's generation areations growing up with social media. There's no way around them. Exactly. Um I found a unity on Instagram with other moms that were staying home, and um,

I just feel like they were positive influence. We would all just share stories of our photos of our kids, and along with that would come stories or if their babies were teething or you know, we just looked to each other for advice and that support system to me, was just so helpful and it really is what started my whole journey as an influencer. Okay, so no tell me about that. How did you become an influence? Okay?

So how did you get into this world? So I came across a few profiles on Instagram of other moms that I just mentioned, just very um just like more of like, uh, just the community where they were sharing pictures of their kids and captions that um I could relate to. And so I was like, you know what, I love photography and I love taking pictures of Olivia, so why not just start sharing too? So I just

started sharing photos of her. Um. This was in two thousand and fourteen, so this is when Instagram wasn't oversaturated like it is now. So I think timing has a lot to do with it too. It's a lot harder now to grow U versus back then when algorithm and things were in against everyone, so um so getting in at the right time. Olivia was six months old two thousand fourteen, started sharing pictures of her. Brands would reach

out a little. At the time, it was small shops because there wasn't a big I don't even think influencer marketing was a term yet, and you were probably one of the only people doing like professional picture type things. Yeah, not many of them were professional photographers, so it's probably leaps and bounds. Yeah, I was only shooting with my DSLR back then and now I only shoot with my iPhone for the most part, so it's yeah, it's funny to see the switch. But um, I started sharing more

photos of her. I would work with small brands for product exchange, and then there came a point where I had an agent reach out to me and she said, I have a brand that wants to work with you. What is your rate? And I was like like, wait, people pay for this to get pay Yeah. So I wrote her back and I was like, you know, let's

let's talk more about this. And so I had a couple paying jobs from her um and then realized, you know what, I'm just gonna start asking for payment every time someone reaches out because what happened was I was getting overwhelmed with free products and I felt like, you know this, it just wasn't worth my time to continue to shoot for free. And that's how it starts. People will send you free stuff in exchange for a post. Right. Okay, I'll send you my product if you take a picture, right,

And that's how it was. It's I mean, I don't know how it is now. I think I think it's there's a big shift that's happening where a lot of people, especially mom influencers, are realizing that time away. Basically, when you take on free products, your taking time away from

your family. So you're having to make a post war which takes to yeah and edit, and there's just a lot that goes into it and setting up the shot and making sure your kids are happy that day, and if they're not, you have to wait the next day.

And so there's just a lot that goes into it, and you have to What I've really started to do now is I'm only taking on paid partnerships and jobs that are really worth it to me because anything that I take on, I know how much time that's gonna be away from my family and any time that Yeah, so any time that I'm spending away from my family, the job that I'm doing just has to be worth it to me. And that also keeps your brand strong because you're basically saying, I am not spending any part

of my life on it. I don't believe in I I think I turned down nine percent of that. I know. Yeah, Like this month especially, I think I'm doing four partnerships. But there are partnerships that I'm so excited about. Like one is a Fathersday campaign for Chaps Ralph Lauren um Us Bank, which is a really cool um campaign called Power of Possible, just talking about how anything is possible. So I'm very selective now, which is really nice to be in a place to be able to do that.

That is amazing. Okay, so tell me when that which happens. When do you go from you're a little influencer where people are giving free stuff to where you felt comfortable to ask for money, Like what was that? I think I was around ten k when that agent had reached out to me and said, you know, UM, would you be willing to post I think it was for like a hundred and fifty dollars and that was great at the time, that was amazing. UM. So I was at

ten K when I started getting paid. It really picked up around twenty five thousand followers UM and then now it's that's I meant pretty much, only do paid partnerships unless it's in exchange for like a big product like love Sack. I'm working with them for one of their UM sectional couches. Was more than happy to do that, you know product totally yeah, UM, what has worth the

trade or a great absolutely? Yeah. But I think you have to you have to build that experience like so, I would never trade doing free products for anything like that. Working with shops for free products is how I learned, and I think it's learned just how to interact, how to you know, not get taken advantage of a lot of times there's a disconnect between a shop that works really hard to hand make a product and and so they you know want you to do like three posts

because they don't understand what goes into creating three posts. UM, so you have to just kind of like openly communicate to them and say, you know, in order for me to do that, it's going to take this, and you know, I'd be willing to do one post and maybe an Instagram story And so that really helps just communicating and

establishing a really good relationship with brands I've worked with. UM, my favorite thing is when I work with a brand multiple times, and I think that's yeah, and I think that's really good for any brand to do, to show that they have loyal um followers and people that believe

in their products. And when you're consistently like when I there's one brand I worked for all the time, Raw Sugar Living, and like, I will never work for another body wash company now because I'm so loyal to them and I love them and they're so kind to their influencers. So I mean it's just stuff like that, like just little stuff that you learned communicating relationship, building contracts, how to read them well. And also I was talking I think it was the Ashley's and I did their interview.

Basically it makes so much more sense for a brand to reach out to an influencer because instead of paying I don't know, tin grant to hire a photographer, higher locations, model, higher, get it edited, you know, do all the the steps that go involved to doing an advertisement on a regular TV, your magazine or radio. You're you create the whole thing.

You're the photographer, you're everything, you're the whole production, you're the you're the model, You're the whole production, like your director. So it's so much it feels like a lot of money infantry received because I'm kind of like, well, why would I have I'm speaking to people who might be scared as for money because this is how I was. I was like, you just gotta get past that totally.

Why would I ask for me? It's like, okay, well this is why, because you have an audience that's gonna hit this and these people, so it's worth that exactly. And sometimes you have to explain that to a brand because their PR person may not be up to date with everything, and they might they might not know the benefits of influencer marketing yet. It's I think it's our responsibility as an influencer to sometimes educate brands and let them know yes, So, how do you edit on an iPhone?

Like quickly, I know that's your thing? Like that do you do that? Is this? How can people figure out how to do this? And how did you figure it out? Is it all right? So I started, well, light Room has a mobile app, which is really helpful because I edited in light Room on my desktop. So I started editing in light Room on my mobile and then on my phone and then UM, there's a couple of other apps like snap Seed, Visco and face Tune two that are really helpful UM and those are like my go

to apps. UM A color Story is nice because you can add in sunflair and they have really nice filters to UM, but those are my go to apps. And so I started sharing tutorials on my Instagram to help people learn how to edit on their phone. And I was just getting overwhelmed and bombarded with like, um direct messages and I would answer them. I sometimes a photo for somebody and then show them how I did it.

And I loved it so much. But my husband was like, Hunt, You're spending like two to three hours a night talking to people, He's like, and you're neglecting, like your per small content and so yeah, and it just was just so easy to do because that's my favorite part of being on Instagram is interacting with my followers and helping them learn how to edit, because I think anybody can learn how to create a beautiful photo UM and not

be a professional photographer. So it got to a these days and all totally totally, So I got to a point where I had to figure something out. So I ended up creating a membership site for photography UM. And it's like seventeen dollars a month. I made it affordable and YouTube it's no, it's it's like an actual site. It's called the DG girls dot com. Yeah yeah, girls dot com. Okay, so seventeen dollars a month and what

happens on your site? So I do one training tutorial month and then we have an interactive Facebook group where everybody posts before and afters. They asked questions. UM. I also talk about Instagram and you know what hashtags to use because that's constantly changing and recently this is really important. I'll watch Gary's Gary V's um daily v content and he'll like slide in these small things here and there.

So the other day he said to only use zero to five hashtags within your caption, and that's it, because like in your caption, not like separate, not as a separate comment. You know, sometimes you can do like it within the phrase the Senate or whatever. Yeah, like right at the end of your caption. Yeah, right at the end of your caption. Just put like zero to five

captions a hashtags. And I guess it's because Instagram's really coming down on accounts and if you use bulk hashtags, they're flagging at a spam a lot of times, not always, but it's a quick way to get shadow band. So, um, just a little shadow band means your posts aren't seen by anybody except your followers. So like if you were to use if you were a fitness influencer and you used the hashtag fitness mom, you wouldn't be seen to

anybody else that wasn't following you already. And sometimes they'll take it even further and your hashtags won't even work at all. I had a couple of friends, Yeah, I've had a couple of friends that were shadow band for two weeks. My one friend, um, she just got the band lifted because she posted a photo of her kids in the bathtub and somebody reported it. You couldn't see anything,

but somebody reported it and so Instagram flagged her. Um. Yeah, but the same thing can happen using hashtags repectively, and you're never supposed to use the same ones. You're always supposed to change it up. Really yeah, because they they'll think it's a bot or um like an automated system doing it for you, and then your your account will be flag. So like we just talked about stuff like that in the group, Um my idea and what if is you're offering because everyone has an iPhone and everyone

can learn how to do this on their iPhone. But they definitely yeah, and it was it was It was just a way for me to help a larger scale of people versus sitting there every night going through individual d m s because even when you respond to somebody and give them an answer, the conversation still keeps going so and then I would start to feel bad. And so it's definitely it's helped because now I can direct them somewhere or I'll answer one question and say if

you if you're looking for more help with this. We have a really great community and support group over my membership site. Yeah, so how long have you had the membership site? Only a couple only two months, so this is fresh and I yeah, and I didn't even do like a big advertisement or anything. I did a couple of stories, um, and then I did one post on my feed and that was it because I wanted to do like a soft launch so I could get time

to really figure things out and tweak things. Um. So I was supposed to open it back up to the public last week, but then I just I and so busy with contractors and the kids, and sometimes I just get in like this funk where I'm like overwhelmed, so then I just disappear. You know what. That's freaking awesome. And how how what a win win because it makes it worth your time. Yeah, you know, like I'm all Gary Visa about that too, win wins. Just like how

is everybody benefiting from this? Absolutely? Yeah, totally. It's been great and I'm I find a lot of my members are really interested in its Instagram parts, so I offer like Instagram assessments where I can look at their feed, analyze it, and then give them a plan for the future, like I think you should do this or maybe focused down on you know this, I see your followers really love your fitness post or your healthy eating posts and just kind of give them some sort of guidance to

really help them and have a plan for two eighteen, like kind of analyze what posts are doing the best. And that's another thing sometimes do you think the way a picture is shot can determine if it does well? Like it could be the same content, but depending on how you shoot it. Definitely absolutely. Actually my first post for my membership site with all about perspective and how

I took a photo of Olivia Um. She was sitting on our front steps playing with rocks, and I took a photo of her just straight on from far away, and then I got down and I took a shot of her up where you could really see her face and the emotions. And the whole post was about how perspective and just changing your angles and getting lower when you take a photo can just make all the difference. So how do you develop that? I just over time, you just have to keep doing it. Yeah, I think

a lot of times it's practice. And then I think a lot of people just have it, like, yeah, it's a gift. Yeah, I think some people are very creative. And and then some people you know, want to be and try to be and they can practice and do their best. You're such a great mom. I don't even realize that. Oh my god, you are the best. That's so funny. Like it might not be photography. You can practice and really it is hard, but really you might just need to like something else. Just know, I love that.

What would you tell a young influence er trying to get into this game? Like, what would you tell yourself if you we're standing there looking at your thirty one year old self right now, all you have learned, observed, everything that you have gathered over these years, what would you tell yourself as far as where you'd be right now? Like what would you not worry about? And what would

you tell yourself? Okay, I would get to this faster because I waited too long to do this, or like, what would you tell yourself You just cannot worry about what other people think. That is And I know it sounds so cliche, but it really is the truth. And you just have to post what feels good to you and what you're passionate about the things that you want to talk about because people can tell them people are faking it. You don't. You do not want to fake it,

um and try and do somebody that you're not. I think being you and sharing that with everyone people respect that and people can see see that and relate to you on a better level. Like being real, being open and real and honest. It's it's just the best way to be. So how would you describe your brand? Like, if someone's gonna look at your feed, your Instagram feed, what would you hope they would walk away? What would you hope your brand would be sent sitting up hopefully?

Like for me, I love positive energy, So I hope when people come to my page they get a sense of happiness and they see our family and how much I love my girls, and um, healthy living, which I actually have been slacking on healthy living posts. My husband and I we we really love you know, food, and we're raising our daughters vegan so um yeah, so people are really interested in that. And I've done refrigerator food halls before and people loved it and they wanted to

see more of it when I did a poll. But it's so hard coming up with cont tent for so many different things. And I need to get I need to get more organized, Like even though I've been doing this for three and a half years, it's there's still always more that you could be doing. More you could be putting out and there's in Because it's the wild West of the Internet and digital anything is possible. Like literally, it's wide open. I know, I know, it's so and

it's hard. Like I have a million ideas going all the time, and I'm like, oh, if only I had more time in the day, I could be doing this, you know, But so, yeah, exactly, that's to me. I can I interview all these influencers and I watched you guys stories and fold and I watch your Instagrams and all that. How did they figure this out? Like I feel so I'm still late to the party. I just realized you can make money on Instagram, like this year.

That's the best though, That's like because now it gives you, like when you realize that when you're on Instagram and it's not for the money, which I feel like, if you want to be an influencer, it can't be for the money, like you did want to do it because you are creative and passionate and you love talking interacting people and you can tell that about you, like you love just people and who Yeah, I want to know how people are doing their lives because I find it

so interesting. Yeah, definitely, And I feel like that's such a good place to be. You don't want to focus on the money, Um, but the money part is a very big motivating factor like that, it's like take it. Who doesn't want to get paid to do something that they're passionate about? Like when that aligns, that's everything, you know.

So what would you tell a young influencer who's wanting to get into this, Like, how would you suggest growing your brand, building your brand, having an identity with your brand? Like what would be your advice to someone trying to get into this That it takes a lot of time and you have to be willing to sacrifice, you know, binge watching shows or going out partying every weekend because you every hour you spend working on your brand and

your social media that will help you get ahead. Um. So I just think a lot of hard work goes into it. Remaining true to yourself. Um. I feel like everything I'm saying is so cliche, but it's so true. It is, And yeah, it doesn't happen overnight like some you might see some people where you feel like, oh, they're having overnight success, like, gosh, I wish that would happen to me, Like what am I gonna get my

big break? But that is such a small percentage of people, and you can't compare yourself, like, never compare yourself to anybody else. You have to just keep your head down and focus on your path and why you're doing it and your purpose and that that will bring you success. And another thing I always like to talk about is do you believe that everyone has a calling and a purpose? I do. I feel like that that purpose always aligns with your passion. So people may not know their passions

right away. Um, Like I always say to myself, gosh, I wish I had taken Like why didn't I major in photography instead of going to law school? Like that would have made a lot more sense. But I didn't recognize my passions back then. Um. But now I feel like everything has come together, and I feel like for most people that will happen at some point. How would you suggest that coming together? Though? What do you suggest people to do to find their purpose? You have to

really know yourself and stay stay on your your path. Um, like, I don't know, I don't know. It's such a hard question. What would you say. I think you have to stay curious, and I think that you have to follow your curiosity. It goes back to fear, like it goes back to not being fearful and having that confidence with yourself and knowing yourself. So like, if you are you know, if you have an idea and you're you're blocked by fear, you have to be willing to overcome that and and

step over that. I love that. Okay, so let's wrap up with leave your life. So just leave the inspiration. This whole thing is inspirational. But I always like to just leave people, like leave people with your message, Like we kind of kind of reaske you, like what you just want to put out to the world, what you want to tell people, what you've learned through it all, Like how just how what you've taken from your experience and you would, you know, just want to share with

someone who's looking up to you. I just think that, um, you have to stay you have to focus on your again, It's like what we were talking about. I think you have to focus on your passions and follow your past. Don't compare yourself to other people. UM, just stay positive. Your mindset is everything, so that it really is like, if you tell yourself you can't do it, then you're not going to be able to do it. And if you tell yourself you can, then you can. But it's

not going to happen through luck. You have to be willing to work hard at it. So putting in those extra hours and that that hard work for a certain amount of time, whether it's you know, a few years, will benefit you in the long run. You have to see the end vision and not be so anxious to have everything now because that's not gonna work and you'll only be setting yourself up for disappointment if you do it that way. Patience, Yes, patience, patients, patients and hard work. Absolutely,

you're amazing. Okay, So the d G girls dot com is where people can go, Yeah, all of your tutorials. Yes, I have a free editing e guy. So it gives you all of the apps that, um you want to use for your iPhone for editing, and it will tell you which app is useful. So, like there's an app called Juxtaposer that's really great if you have kids and or anything. Really but if you have kids and one kids smiling in one photo and your other kids smiling in the other photo, you can merge the two so

that you have a photo everyone's smiling. No way, so you can ficks, you know, yeah yeah, And so this app will tell you which apps to use for stuff like that. Um yeah, so that's it. Free you guy. You're amazing. Thank you. Hi to d Jacobe. Jacoby, it's a thankless name too. You sound like a famous photographer, I mean, like Nicole d Jacobe. I mean, that's so funny. You'll thank you so much for joining. Thank you, thank you for sharing your wisdom, and thank you for letting

my house be an animal house. Everyone. Oh I love it. I love it. I have my dog laying right next to me. So you're awesome. You're amazing. How amazing and informative is Nicole. I want to sign up for her online class because I've got to get better at doing my pictures and photography. And how awesome to be able to do everything on your iPhone. She's amazing, you guys. Next week is my very very very last Influencer episode, and I have Julie Solomon joining me. She's an expert

on growing your brand, being true to yourself. Y'all will not want to miss it, and it's my final one, so we'll see you next week.

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