May 21, 2024 • 24 mins
JoJo Siwa Now is introducing a brand new format called "5 Things". Each week, we'll focus on a new topic... Starting off with a bang, JoJo's first topic is: 5 things she missed out on because of Hollywood!
Although JoJo's living her dream life, there are some things she missed out on, like a High School football game or even school lunches! Ever wondered what it's like to grow up in the spotlight? Now's your time to find out.
Plus, JoJo tells us about her 21st birthday in Disney World!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Jojo Sea Now with me Jojo Seua
and iHeartRadio podcast. Welcome back to Jojo See one Now.
Oh my god, I am so excited for this podcast
because I've been wanting to do this for a while.
I've been wanting to switch up the podcast, do something new,
do something innovative, do something creative, and I truly I
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just haven't been able to put my finger on what.
And then my mom actually had this idea and we
kind of worked on it together. And so today I'm
going to be introducing you guys to the new format
of Jojo Sewn Now, which I am so stoked about,
which I'll get into in just a second. My life
has just changed drastically because I am now twenty one.
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I can check into a hotel by myself. I can
drink alcohol, I can buy weed in the state of California.
I am twenty freaking one, and I don't know how
to feel about it. I had a great twenty first birthday.
I got to be in Disney World with literally my
favorite people ever family friends Tyler Cameron, who y'all know
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is like my lifeline of a best friend. Je Flip,
who everybody knows I love and they inspire me so much.
There who got me into drums. They are who I
did my first eefor adult performance with, and they they
have just been such a good friend to me and
such a good I guess, I guess person for me
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to like personally look up to, because obviously g is
such a public icon, but even personally being their friend
and being able to talk to them and being able
to be inspired by them on not their public profile
but on like a more intimate friend level, it has
been so great. So getting to spend the day with
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them family tie. I mean, it just was literally the
best twenty first birthday. Being in Disney World, drinking around
the world to Epcot. Oh my god, I had way
too much fun. It genuinely was the best day I
also my whole freaking life. Literally since I was four
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years old, the only thing that I ever want to
do on my twenty first birthday was go to Applebee's
and get a perfect margarita. And finally, finally, twenty one
years of waiting and I got to go to Applebe's
on my twenty first birthday. My family remembered that that
has been my dream and we made it happen, and
it just h made my heart so happy. It really did.
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Aside from that, a couple of other updates that have happened.
I got my new tattoo, which I'm stoked about. I
got the beast Eyes of Karma tattooed on my right arm,
thinking that I'm gonna get some more tattoos on my
right arm. I want to get four hundred and seventeen
to represent Boomerang being the four hundred and seventeenth video
ever to hit a billion views on YouTube, which is crazy.
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We decided that my second song coming out is Choose
Your Fighter, so I'm really stoked about that. I jumped
right off of the tattoo train. I want to talk
a little bit more about this. I feel like I
decided that I want to make my whole right arm
like a cool patchwork sleeve. I want to get the
four hundred and seventeen tattooed. I have a couple of
other things that I want to get tattooed. The thing
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for me is I really like to make sure that
I'm never gonna hate something if it's on my body.
And so my tattoos have been quite impulsive. They've been
like I want to go get this today. Let's go.
And I actually the other day I was supposed to
get another tattoo. I was supposed to get one with
the Dance Moms girls. If you saw everyone got a
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DM and I was supposed to go. It was after
we did the press tour for Dance Moms. We after
we had our party. We had this plan to go.
We had this plan. We were gonna get DM all
different fonts. I was stressing the fuck out of it
because I didn't really want DM. But I was like,
you know what, if everyone's gonna get I'll get it.
I wanted something related to Dance Moms, but no, like
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that's too weak, you know what I mean? But I
was like fine, whatever. Then I was like, they're all
so girly. They're gonna want to get a curly tattoo
with a gurly font. And I was like, that's just
not my vibe. But you know what, I'm gonna commit.
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna stick to the plan.
But then I ended up convincing everyone. I was like,
let's get different fonts to represent each of our different experiences.
Everyone loved the idea. They were all down. I was
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stoked about Okay, so I was gonna get like a
big blocky DM and I was gonna make it really cool.
And then after we got the matching tattoos, I was
gonna get under it S five e three to represent
season five, episode three, which is when I came onto
the show stoked about it sold Literally, we go get
that tattoo tomorrow. Anyways, it was after the press tour.
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Everyone was out at the party and it was time
for me to leave the party. I had just been
there for too long. I wasn't drinking. Everyone was drinking,
and I was like, I've been here for too long.
Y'all are having fun, like y'all live your life. I'm tired.
I'm going downstairs. So I go to my hotel room
and then I wake up in the morning. Don't think
twice about anything. I was like, Oh, everyone's a boarding mission.
No one's going to get tattoos. They are all wasted
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right now, Like there's no way wake up the next morning.
Check my phone and it's like meeting the lobby in
ten minutes. We're going at like three in the morning.
That's dramatic. Maybe it was like one in the morning
and I was like y'all are nuts. I was dead asleep,
so then, honestly, that is the only reason why I
didn't get the matching dance mom tattoo is because I
was out like a light, dead asleep. But I was
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supposed to get it, So maybe maybe I'll still go
and get it. But I'll get I'll get I'll get
my cool blockie letters. I was so happy that I
actually didn't end up going because everyone got the same font,
and of course I would have just partook and been like,
you know what, fuck it, I'll just get that font.
That's what everyone's doing. But I didn't really want that,
and so I'm happy that I didn't go because then
I would have something on my body forever that I
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didn't really want. But I will be getting with a
dance Mom sattoo at some point in time. Stay tuned. Okay, Honestly,
I feel like those are pretty much my updates. Talk
about the tattoos, talk about the new music, talking about
my twenty first birthday. Now I want to talk to
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you about the new format of Jojo Siua. Now I
am so stoked about this. So basically what I want
to start to do is it's I'm calling it the
five things or five things. You can add the or
take away though whatever you want. But five things that
I hate doing on a daily, Five things that I
want everyone to know about me, Five things that I
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wish I could have done as a kid, Five things
that I regret doing now you know what I mean?
Five things because I feel like that you'll get to
know me more, You'll get to know my experiences more,
You'll get to know my life more without me just
like chit chatting and you don't know what you're gonna get.
I feel like now in the title of the episode,
you're like, Oh, I know what this is gonna be about.
I'm curious about this. I want to watch us. Let's
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fucking go. And So today, because it was just my
twenty first birthday and I have had so a wild
life in front of the public eye, I wanted to
do the five things that I missed out on because
of Hollywood. Because as great as my career has been,
there also has been a lot of times that I
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have realized I am missing out on simple things that
most people, I guess take for granted. I was making
the list of things and I didn't include this on
my list. Of five things. But one of the things
that I came up with that I was just like, wow,
people really take that for granta and I never had.
That was school lunches. That was something that I was like, Damn,
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I did miss out on school lunches. Like I don't
know why my brain thought of that, but it just did. Anyways,
that's not one of the five things though. That's our
bonus little six thing. But I came up with five
things then. I don't think most people would realize that
I truly missed out on growing up in the industry,
being in front of the limelight. Since I was nine
years old, there's been a lot and a lot of
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things I didn't really realize I was missing out on
until I was older and realized that I just never
had them, if that makes sense. So the first thing
that I have is honestly kind of like child star
one oh one prom. I never gone to homecoming, never
gone a prom. I don't really wish that I had, though,
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I honestly I attribute that to what you wear to
homecoming or prom, and for me, if I had to go,
i'd be miserable. They had like insta prom back in
the day for influencers, and I was always invited, but
I never wanted to go because I'm not like that.
I'm not like a grillly girl that's gonna want to
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wear a dress like I'm more of a Let me
wear a jacket, let me be company, let me wear pants.
I don't. I don't wear ball gowns. I just went
to my best friend Nick Vile his wedding and I
was like, bro, your dress code is killing me. And
he was like, ball gowns if you're a girl. And
I was like, I will be in a suit. I
will be taking the boys dress code. And he was like,
I so frequent utely you can take the boy's dress code.
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And I was like, thank you very much. I was like,
because I ain't getting my black tie dresses out no
freaking way. And so if I went to the prom,
I definitely would have not wanted to wear a dress
or be gurly girl. But I wasn't as secure in
my identity. I didn't even know that I was essentially
as gay as I am when I was that age
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prom and homecoming, and so I would have definitely tried
to fit the mold of a girly girl. But I
would have just been so uncomfortable. Now, if I was
going to problem, I'd be giving my suit, giving my chains,
giving my glasses, and let's freaking go. But back then,
I would have been like, let's go dress shopping, let's
find some heels, and I would have just been so uncomfortable.
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Second thing that I missed out on is I have
written down football games now. The reason why I have
this written down is because I used to say this
joke when I was little because people would be like,
do you feel like you're missing out on a childhood
and I always said no, And my example was always
football games and people would be like, why not, You
literally are and I'm like, no, I'm not. People my
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age go to high school football games, but I go
to the Super Bowl, so it's just a trade. And like,
twelve year old me really had a valid point. Okay dramatic,
I was fourteen at the time, but fourteen on me
had a very very very valid point, like super Bowls
freaking sick to go to at fourteen. But at the
same time, then when I was sixteen seventeen is when
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I got into my first relationship and my girlfriend at
the time of sixteen, going to high school football games
every weekend, and I realized that it wasn't the actual
game of football that people were saying I was missing
out on. It was the adventure that came with it,
the stories that came with the memories that came with it,
the before the game, after the game, what happens at
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the game, during the game, the snacks you met, it was.
It was so much more than just the game of football.
And so I always said that, like, I didn't care
about missing the football game, but I realize, oh, no,
one meant the actual game. They meant everything surrounding it.
So started to realize that I did miss out on
something when I was sixteen to seventeen eighteen, but I
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still didn't really care, if that makes sense. I was
still really happy and still really secure. Anything that I've
missed out on in my in my life because of
my career, I've never cared about because it was it's
it is so worth it. I mean, I have literally
my dream life and I wouldn't trade it for absolutely anything.
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The next thing is friends, my own age. That is
something that I honestly have never ever had. I even
when I was little, I definitely had friends, but they
were always older than me. I was seven and my
closest friends were fourteen and fifteen, you know what I mean.
And then you know, when I was fourteen and fifteen
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my closest friends, it jumped and my closest friends changed
to the twenty seven year old to thirty year old.
And now it's still the same now that I am twenty, right,
I'm twenty one. I guess I'm twenty one. My best
friends are thirty, thirty five, thirty two, thirty three, I
think like twenty eight, maybe even one of my best, best,
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best best. My two closest friends are twenty eight and
twenty four. My best friends have always just been so
older than me. And I think that's because I talked
about this when I went on and call her Daddy. Actually,
a lot of people think that I'm mentally younger than
I am because of my public persona, and like, yeah,
no shit, you see this as a sixteen year old, right,
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that looks like an eleven year old. I believe it too.
But what people didn't understand is that that was actually
a massive consumer products photo shoot that I was at
and I was deciding everything for it. The products that
came out, well, I guess I didn't really decide the
products that came out, but I was deciding what I
looked like, and I was deciding that, you know, what
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I wanted my hair to look like. And I was
deciding that this was my career at fourteen, and so
even though I was looking young, the inside of me
was much much older. And so I've always just gravitated
towards older age friends because of a maturity difference level.
And that's something actually that people just don't believe. And
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I always I have this new setting that's like you
just have to be there, like you just the girls
I get to get and the girls that don't. I
did this podcast the other day with somebody who is
mid thirties or young thirties, young young mid thirties, I believe,
And during the podcast she was questioning me about my
older friends, and I was like, honestly, you just had
to explain it. And she was like, you at twelve
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being friends with a twenty year old is the equivalent
of you now being friends with a twelve year old?
Could you ever see that being a thing? And do
you see where I'm coming from? And I was like, no,
one thousand percent. I see where you're coming from. But
back then, it just it was what it was. And
I was like, I was explaining to her how it
translates now, and she was like, that blows my mind
that like as a twenty year old now like your
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friends are thirty like And this was in the beginning
of the podcast where she didn't really fully know me
yet or hear me talk yet. And then we ended
the podcast. We were chatting for a second and it
clicked for her and she asked me. She was like,
you know what I'm realizing And I was like, what's up?
And she was like, I am your friend age and
I could see myself being friends with you, and she
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was like can we be friends? And I was like, fuck, yeah,
we can be friends, Like this is what I'm saying,
Like you, people don't get it till they get it,
and I I didn't even realize that until I asked
my best friend who's older than me. I was like,
why were you friends with me at thirteen? Like what?
Why did it work? Like? I don't get it, and
because I could have picture myself being friends with a
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thirteen year old and she was like, you just were different,
and she was like it just it was what it was,
and it was it was just like, it's the same
way that we're friends now we have the same age gap.
Nothing's changed. She was like, it's you've just been on
a maturity level that is beyond your years. And yeah, anyways,
my mom used to try to get me to have
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friends my own age, and I just never ever ever worked.
I would be like, Mom, they're just so immature. And
she would even see me hang out with them and
they'd want to make slime and my mom would be like,
you love making slime, and I'd be like, for a
YouTube video, I make the slime and then I go
edit the video, like that's where I die. I just
do it for the video, you know what I mean.
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And she was like, oh, okay, that makes sense. So yeah,
friends of my own age. I just it was because
of Hollywood, but I also didn't want friends my own age,
if that makes sense. All Right. I got two more,
And this first one that I'm about to explain to you,
or I guess it's our fourth one that I'm talking about,
is really interesting when you think about it. And this
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is something that I had to come to terms two with,
maybe like a year ago. Little under a year ago.
I feel like it was a little under a year
ago because it was right after I did Special Forces
that I really had to come to terms with it.
I didn't choose my career when I was old enough
to choose my career, if that makes sense. I chose
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my career when I was nine. And think about in school,
right when you go to kindergarten, everyone in kindergarten wants
to be an astronaut, a firefighter. You dream of these careers, right,
and some do stick to the plan, don't get me wrong.
And when I was little, when I was two, I
said I either want to be a surgeon or Hannah
Montana and that never changed. The only thing that changed
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about it is when I was twelve, I was like,
I either want to be a pop star or a neurosurgeon.
We just got a little more specific. But the thing
is is the same way that Like, you're a kid
and you want to be an astronaut, and then you
go to school and you realize, oh, I like this more.
Maybe I want to be a book writer. Maybe I
want to be an artist. Maybe I want to be
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an engineer, Maybe I want to be a technician, Like
there's so many different jobs. Maybe I want to work
at McDonald's, Like whatever it is that you want to do.
I never got the chance to test out different careers
or choose my career at an age being wise enough
to and I don't want to change my career at all.
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But becoming older, once I hit seventeen and my ex
girlfriend a girlfriend at the time, you know, she was
working at Starbucks, she was working at the local grocery store,
she was working volunteering for Ocean Life. She songwriting so
many different things. And then you know, my brother, my
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brother worked at Universal for a little bit. My brother
now has literally my like third dream job ever in
the world, and we laugh about it all the times.
I'm like, you know, you're literally living my dream, like
besides what I'm doing, Like, you're literally living my secondary
dream right now. And he got to, you know, to
see you wanted to be a chef. He was really
good at cooking. And so getting older, I never realized
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this when I was younger, but getting older and seeing
everyone around me kind of at this phase of life
choose their careers. Even my friends right now are not
the thirty year olds like my little bit more distant
friends that are closer in my age trying out different
things even though they have like their main thing that
they want to do, They're still figuring it out and
still trying things out. And like my friend that's twenty four,
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I'll be like, I just don't know what I want
to do in life, and I'm like, you're so young,
you have so much time to figure it out, Like
just be young, be twenty four. And I'm like, damn,
you're twenty and you haven't figured out. You're not changing it.
You are pops. Are you are doing this? You are
touring for your life like you already have chosen this.
I'm missing out on that joy of like getting to
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pick what you do for the first time and experience
different jobs. Now, with that being said, in my job,
in being an entertainer, I do have so many different
jobs that I get to do. I get to do
my podcast, I get to do music. I get to
do music videos. I get to do merchandising. I get
a manager, girl group. I get to perform. I get
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a rehearse, I get a direct I get to produce,
I get a write, I get to do social media,
be an influencer, give be a mentor. There's so choreographed.
God Like, there's so many different like aspects of my career,
which I'm very grateful for because I think I would
get very bored if I didn't have that, because I've
been doing the same thing for the last eleven years.
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Like by this point in time, you know, I feel
like if you do the same thing from the time
you're thirty to sixty, you're a little more developed, you
kind of you know, run a little bit more autopilot.
But from the time you're nine to twenty, so much
changes in your life that I feel like you need
that constant stimulation, You need that constant change. And I
feel like, for me, I would have gotten so bored
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if I was doing only one thing. And so that's
why I'm lucky that, you know, I have the movies
and the TV shows and the music and the podcasts
and the press and the photo shoots and the brand
ambassador or stuff, and like, there's so many different layers
to my career that I kind of get a focus
on different ones at different times. But I now I
got to work at a normal job, which I definitely would
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want to for a day. I think for more than
a day. Honestly, I think it's really cool and I
definitely wouldn't take it for granted Anyways. Last thing, and
this goes without being said, but it's not talked about enough.
The biggest thing that I missed out on and still
am for sure missing out on because of Hollywood is privacy.
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I have none, and I when I was little, it
was much easier. Now that I'm older and I want
privacy and I don't get it or I can't have it.
That's much harder to deal with. And it's weird how
things I thought we're gonna get easier over time got
harder over time than the two things are hate and privacy.
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It was easy for me to deal with hate and
bullying when I was younger than it is now. Now
I take things way more to heart and ways way
more serious, and I'm way more secure and I wait
overthink more and so that gets that gets harder on me.
But the other thing is privacy. I didn't really care
when I was little. It didn't really matter to me.
But now you know, I want to go on a
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date and I can't because then it's public. I want
to go out and be a lunatic, and I can't
because then it's online. The next day. I want to
dress like a bum and go to Target, but I
can't because there's no privacy and it's something that I
know isn't ever gonna change. And I told myself this
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because I was talking to somebody and they told me
that they could never handle my public life. And I
was like, no, no, no, you don't understand. Like I do
have a side of my life that's in my house
and like I can keep things private, and they're like, no,
you can. But at the end of the day, your
life is so public that even if for some odd
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reason you were like, all throw away my career for you,
we still can't go on a date. We still can't
go and not be seen together because that's just your life.
It's so public. And that was tough for me to
wrap my head around because I was a bit younger
and I didn't understand it, and I was like, give
it a shot, why not? But then I realized that
public life is not for everybody. And that's when I
realized that that person was not meant to be my person.
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And that is totally okay, and I'm much happier now,
and so that's all that matters. But and so are they,
which is great. But yeah, privacy is something that you
It is so small and you don't even realize as
a non celebrity that you have it. And it is
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so crazy to think that like that is something that
you just are supposed to have as a human. But
then when you have a public life, like you don't
get that. Gwen Stefani said a quote she said, everybody
has their shit. Mine is just really public and hit
like a ton of bricks because I was like, that
is exactly what I've been feeling for the last twenty years.
That's a lie. Eleven years. Eleven years, Oh my god,
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I can say twelve now I'm twenty one. Fuck yeah,
twelve years. A dozen years. That's sick. I love that.
It's privacy. That's something that I've very much so missed
out on. And I'm also never gonna get ever U
And I realize that, and I'm okay with that, and
it is what it is, and it is one of
the things that I will just lack for forever. But
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I've made it this far. I'm gonna keep making it
a well, everybody. That is five things that I missed
out on because of Hollywood, and honestly, the five things
that I will forever miss out on because of Hollywood.
Sure there's gonna be more, but there's a lot more
that I gain and that I get to be excited
about because of my job in Hollywood. So not complaining.
I love my life. I wouldn't trade it for the world. Yeah,
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thank you guys for listening. I hope you enjoyed this
new five things. If you didn't enjoy it, honestly, keep
it to yourself, don't really care. If you didn't enjoy it,
let me know. I would love to hear. I hope
you all have a great day today. I hope you
all today remember five things that you are grateful for.
Five things right now in this moment. I'm grateful for
my family, my friends, Aussie Bites. They're a really good
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food that I'm gonna go eat right after this. If
you've never had Ausie Bites, go try them. Celsius, Red Bull,
and Ghosts because of those are the three things I
get me through my day. And podcasts. I'm really grateful
for podcasts that I get to do this podcast and
that you guys like it. Thank you all for listening,
and I will see you next week. Going to just
to Now and I tell you five things that I've
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done with X's that I shouldn't tell you. Good luck,
enjoy that one. Good Bye. Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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I'll see you next week.
You're listening to Jojo Sea Now with me Jojo Seua
and iHeartRadio podcast. Welcome back to Jojo See one Now.
Oh my god, I am so excited for this podcast
because I've been wanting to do this for a while.
I've been wanting to switch up the podcast, do something new,
do something innovative, do something creative, and I truly I
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just haven't been able to put my finger on what.
And then my mom actually had this idea and we
kind of worked on it together. And so today I'm
going to be introducing you guys to the new format
of Jojo Sewn Now, which I am so stoked about,
which I'll get into in just a second. My life
has just changed drastically because I am now twenty one.
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I can check into a hotel by myself. I can
drink alcohol, I can buy weed in the state of California.
I am twenty freaking one, and I don't know how
to feel about it. I had a great twenty first birthday.
I got to be in Disney World with literally my
favorite people ever family friends Tyler Cameron, who y'all know
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is like my lifeline of a best friend. Je Flip,
who everybody knows I love and they inspire me so much.
There who got me into drums. They are who I
did my first eefor adult performance with, and they they
have just been such a good friend to me and
such a good I guess, I guess person for me
(01:32):
to like personally look up to, because obviously g is
such a public icon, but even personally being their friend
and being able to talk to them and being able
to be inspired by them on not their public profile
but on like a more intimate friend level, it has
been so great. So getting to spend the day with
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them family tie. I mean, it just was literally the
best twenty first birthday. Being in Disney World, drinking around
the world to Epcot. Oh my god, I had way
too much fun. It genuinely was the best day I
also my whole freaking life. Literally since I was four
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years old, the only thing that I ever want to
do on my twenty first birthday was go to Applebee's
and get a perfect margarita. And finally, finally, twenty one
years of waiting and I got to go to Applebe's
on my twenty first birthday. My family remembered that that
has been my dream and we made it happen, and
it just h made my heart so happy. It really did.
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Aside from that, a couple of other updates that have happened.
I got my new tattoo, which I'm stoked about. I
got the beast Eyes of Karma tattooed on my right arm,
thinking that I'm gonna get some more tattoos on my
right arm. I want to get four hundred and seventeen
to represent Boomerang being the four hundred and seventeenth video
ever to hit a billion views on YouTube, which is crazy.
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We decided that my second song coming out is Choose
Your Fighter, so I'm really stoked about that. I jumped
right off of the tattoo train. I want to talk
a little bit more about this. I feel like I
decided that I want to make my whole right arm
like a cool patchwork sleeve. I want to get the
four hundred and seventeen tattooed. I have a couple of
other things that I want to get tattooed. The thing
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for me is I really like to make sure that
I'm never gonna hate something if it's on my body.
And so my tattoos have been quite impulsive. They've been
like I want to go get this today. Let's go.
And I actually the other day I was supposed to
get another tattoo. I was supposed to get one with
the Dance Moms girls. If you saw everyone got a
(03:40):
DM and I was supposed to go. It was after
we did the press tour for Dance Moms. We after
we had our party. We had this plan to go.
We had this plan. We were gonna get DM all
different fonts. I was stressing the fuck out of it
because I didn't really want DM. But I was like,
you know what, if everyone's gonna get I'll get it.
I wanted something related to Dance Moms, but no, like
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that's too weak, you know what I mean? But I
was like fine, whatever. Then I was like, they're all
so girly. They're gonna want to get a curly tattoo
with a gurly font. And I was like, that's just
not my vibe. But you know what, I'm gonna commit.
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna stick to the plan.
But then I ended up convincing everyone. I was like,
let's get different fonts to represent each of our different experiences.
Everyone loved the idea. They were all down. I was
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stoked about Okay, so I was gonna get like a
big blocky DM and I was gonna make it really cool.
And then after we got the matching tattoos, I was
gonna get under it S five e three to represent
season five, episode three, which is when I came onto
the show stoked about it sold Literally, we go get
that tattoo tomorrow. Anyways, it was after the press tour.
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Everyone was out at the party and it was time
for me to leave the party. I had just been
there for too long. I wasn't drinking. Everyone was drinking,
and I was like, I've been here for too long.
Y'all are having fun, like y'all live your life. I'm tired.
I'm going downstairs. So I go to my hotel room
and then I wake up in the morning. Don't think
twice about anything. I was like, Oh, everyone's a boarding mission.
No one's going to get tattoos. They are all wasted
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right now, Like there's no way wake up the next morning.
Check my phone and it's like meeting the lobby in
ten minutes. We're going at like three in the morning.
That's dramatic. Maybe it was like one in the morning
and I was like y'all are nuts. I was dead asleep,
so then, honestly, that is the only reason why I
didn't get the matching dance mom tattoo is because I
was out like a light, dead asleep. But I was
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supposed to get it, So maybe maybe I'll still go
and get it. But I'll get I'll get I'll get
my cool blockie letters. I was so happy that I
actually didn't end up going because everyone got the same font,
and of course I would have just partook and been like,
you know what, fuck it, I'll just get that font.
That's what everyone's doing. But I didn't really want that,
and so I'm happy that I didn't go because then
I would have something on my body forever that I
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didn't really want. But I will be getting with a
dance Mom sattoo at some point in time. Stay tuned. Okay, Honestly,
I feel like those are pretty much my updates. Talk
about the tattoos, talk about the new music, talking about
my twenty first birthday. Now I want to talk to
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you about the new format of Jojo Siua. Now I
am so stoked about this. So basically what I want
to start to do is it's I'm calling it the
five things or five things. You can add the or
take away though whatever you want. But five things that
I hate doing on a daily, Five things that I
want everyone to know about me, Five things that I
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wish I could have done as a kid, Five things
that I regret doing now you know what I mean?
Five things because I feel like that you'll get to
know me more, You'll get to know my experiences more,
You'll get to know my life more without me just
like chit chatting and you don't know what you're gonna get.
I feel like now in the title of the episode,
you're like, Oh, I know what this is gonna be about.
I'm curious about this. I want to watch us. Let's
(06:53):
fucking go. And So today, because it was just my
twenty first birthday and I have had so a wild
life in front of the public eye, I wanted to
do the five things that I missed out on because
of Hollywood. Because as great as my career has been,
there also has been a lot of times that I
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have realized I am missing out on simple things that
most people, I guess take for granted. I was making
the list of things and I didn't include this on
my list. Of five things. But one of the things
that I came up with that I was just like, wow,
people really take that for granta and I never had.
That was school lunches. That was something that I was like, Damn,
(07:36):
I did miss out on school lunches. Like I don't
know why my brain thought of that, but it just did. Anyways,
that's not one of the five things though. That's our
bonus little six thing. But I came up with five
things then. I don't think most people would realize that
I truly missed out on growing up in the industry,
being in front of the limelight. Since I was nine
years old, there's been a lot and a lot of
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things I didn't really realize I was missing out on
until I was older and realized that I just never
had them, if that makes sense. So the first thing
that I have is honestly kind of like child star
one oh one prom. I never gone to homecoming, never
gone a prom. I don't really wish that I had, though,
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I honestly I attribute that to what you wear to
homecoming or prom, and for me, if I had to go,
i'd be miserable. They had like insta prom back in
the day for influencers, and I was always invited, but
I never wanted to go because I'm not like that.
I'm not like a grillly girl that's gonna want to
(08:41):
wear a dress like I'm more of a Let me
wear a jacket, let me be company, let me wear pants.
I don't. I don't wear ball gowns. I just went
to my best friend Nick Vile his wedding and I
was like, bro, your dress code is killing me. And
he was like, ball gowns if you're a girl. And
I was like, I will be in a suit. I
will be taking the boys dress code. And he was like,
I so frequent utely you can take the boy's dress code.
(09:02):
And I was like, thank you very much. I was like,
because I ain't getting my black tie dresses out no
freaking way. And so if I went to the prom,
I definitely would have not wanted to wear a dress
or be gurly girl. But I wasn't as secure in
my identity. I didn't even know that I was essentially
as gay as I am when I was that age
(09:24):
prom and homecoming, and so I would have definitely tried
to fit the mold of a girly girl. But I
would have just been so uncomfortable. Now, if I was
going to problem, I'd be giving my suit, giving my chains,
giving my glasses, and let's freaking go. But back then,
I would have been like, let's go dress shopping, let's
find some heels, and I would have just been so uncomfortable.
(09:47):
Second thing that I missed out on is I have
written down football games now. The reason why I have
this written down is because I used to say this
joke when I was little because people would be like,
do you feel like you're missing out on a childhood
and I always said no, And my example was always
football games and people would be like, why not, You
literally are and I'm like, no, I'm not. People my
(10:08):
age go to high school football games, but I go
to the Super Bowl, so it's just a trade. And like,
twelve year old me really had a valid point. Okay dramatic,
I was fourteen at the time, but fourteen on me
had a very very very valid point, like super Bowls
freaking sick to go to at fourteen. But at the
same time, then when I was sixteen seventeen is when
(10:28):
I got into my first relationship and my girlfriend at
the time of sixteen, going to high school football games
every weekend, and I realized that it wasn't the actual
game of football that people were saying I was missing
out on. It was the adventure that came with it,
the stories that came with the memories that came with it,
the before the game, after the game, what happens at
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the game, during the game, the snacks you met, it was.
It was so much more than just the game of football.
And so I always said that, like, I didn't care
about missing the football game, but I realize, oh, no,
one meant the actual game. They meant everything surrounding it.
So started to realize that I did miss out on
something when I was sixteen to seventeen eighteen, but I
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still didn't really care, if that makes sense. I was
still really happy and still really secure. Anything that I've
missed out on in my in my life because of
my career, I've never cared about because it was it's
it is so worth it. I mean, I have literally
my dream life and I wouldn't trade it for absolutely anything.
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The next thing is friends, my own age. That is
something that I honestly have never ever had. I even
when I was little, I definitely had friends, but they
were always older than me. I was seven and my
closest friends were fourteen and fifteen, you know what I mean.
And then you know, when I was fourteen and fifteen
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my closest friends, it jumped and my closest friends changed
to the twenty seven year old to thirty year old.
And now it's still the same now that I am twenty, right,
I'm twenty one. I guess I'm twenty one. My best
friends are thirty, thirty five, thirty two, thirty three, I
think like twenty eight, maybe even one of my best, best,
(12:24):
best best. My two closest friends are twenty eight and
twenty four. My best friends have always just been so
older than me. And I think that's because I talked
about this when I went on and call her Daddy. Actually,
a lot of people think that I'm mentally younger than
I am because of my public persona, and like, yeah,
no shit, you see this as a sixteen year old, right,
(12:45):
that looks like an eleven year old. I believe it too.
But what people didn't understand is that that was actually
a massive consumer products photo shoot that I was at
and I was deciding everything for it. The products that
came out, well, I guess I didn't really decide the
products that came out, but I was deciding what I
looked like, and I was deciding that, you know, what
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I wanted my hair to look like. And I was
deciding that this was my career at fourteen, and so
even though I was looking young, the inside of me
was much much older. And so I've always just gravitated
towards older age friends because of a maturity difference level.
And that's something actually that people just don't believe. And
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I always I have this new setting that's like you
just have to be there, like you just the girls
I get to get and the girls that don't. I
did this podcast the other day with somebody who is
mid thirties or young thirties, young young mid thirties, I believe,
And during the podcast she was questioning me about my
older friends, and I was like, honestly, you just had
to explain it. And she was like, you at twelve
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being friends with a twenty year old is the equivalent
of you now being friends with a twelve year old?
Could you ever see that being a thing? And do
you see where I'm coming from? And I was like, no,
one thousand percent. I see where you're coming from. But
back then, it just it was what it was. And
I was like, I was explaining to her how it
translates now, and she was like, that blows my mind
that like as a twenty year old now like your
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friends are thirty like And this was in the beginning
of the podcast where she didn't really fully know me
yet or hear me talk yet. And then we ended
the podcast. We were chatting for a second and it
clicked for her and she asked me. She was like,
you know what I'm realizing And I was like, what's up?
And she was like, I am your friend age and
I could see myself being friends with you, and she
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was like can we be friends? And I was like, fuck, yeah,
we can be friends, Like this is what I'm saying,
Like you, people don't get it till they get it,
and I I didn't even realize that until I asked
my best friend who's older than me. I was like,
why were you friends with me at thirteen? Like what?
Why did it work? Like? I don't get it, and
because I could have picture myself being friends with a
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thirteen year old and she was like, you just were different,
and she was like it just it was what it was,
and it was it was just like, it's the same
way that we're friends now we have the same age gap.
Nothing's changed. She was like, it's you've just been on
a maturity level that is beyond your years. And yeah, anyways,
my mom used to try to get me to have
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friends my own age, and I just never ever ever worked.
I would be like, Mom, they're just so immature. And
she would even see me hang out with them and
they'd want to make slime and my mom would be like,
you love making slime, and I'd be like, for a
YouTube video, I make the slime and then I go
edit the video, like that's where I die. I just
do it for the video, you know what I mean.
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And she was like, oh, okay, that makes sense. So yeah,
friends of my own age. I just it was because
of Hollywood, but I also didn't want friends my own age,
if that makes sense. All Right. I got two more,
And this first one that I'm about to explain to you,
or I guess it's our fourth one that I'm talking about,
is really interesting when you think about it. And this
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is something that I had to come to terms two with,
maybe like a year ago. Little under a year ago.
I feel like it was a little under a year
ago because it was right after I did Special Forces
that I really had to come to terms with it.
I didn't choose my career when I was old enough
to choose my career, if that makes sense. I chose
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my career when I was nine. And think about in school,
right when you go to kindergarten, everyone in kindergarten wants
to be an astronaut, a firefighter. You dream of these careers, right,
and some do stick to the plan, don't get me wrong.
And when I was little, when I was two, I
said I either want to be a surgeon or Hannah
Montana and that never changed. The only thing that changed
(16:38):
about it is when I was twelve, I was like,
I either want to be a pop star or a neurosurgeon.
We just got a little more specific. But the thing
is is the same way that Like, you're a kid
and you want to be an astronaut, and then you
go to school and you realize, oh, I like this more.
Maybe I want to be a book writer. Maybe I
want to be an artist. Maybe I want to be
(16:58):
an engineer, Maybe I want to be a technician, Like
there's so many different jobs. Maybe I want to work
at McDonald's, Like whatever it is that you want to do.
I never got the chance to test out different careers
or choose my career at an age being wise enough
to and I don't want to change my career at all.
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But becoming older, once I hit seventeen and my ex
girlfriend a girlfriend at the time, you know, she was
working at Starbucks, she was working at the local grocery store,
she was working volunteering for Ocean Life. She songwriting so
many different things. And then you know, my brother, my
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brother worked at Universal for a little bit. My brother
now has literally my like third dream job ever in
the world, and we laugh about it all the times.
I'm like, you know, you're literally living my dream, like
besides what I'm doing, Like, you're literally living my secondary
dream right now. And he got to, you know, to
see you wanted to be a chef. He was really
good at cooking. And so getting older, I never realized
(18:04):
this when I was younger, but getting older and seeing
everyone around me kind of at this phase of life
choose their careers. Even my friends right now are not
the thirty year olds like my little bit more distant
friends that are closer in my age trying out different
things even though they have like their main thing that
they want to do, They're still figuring it out and
still trying things out. And like my friend that's twenty four,
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I'll be like, I just don't know what I want
to do in life, and I'm like, you're so young,
you have so much time to figure it out, Like
just be young, be twenty four. And I'm like, damn,
you're twenty and you haven't figured out. You're not changing it.
You are pops. Are you are doing this? You are
touring for your life like you already have chosen this.
I'm missing out on that joy of like getting to
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pick what you do for the first time and experience
different jobs. Now, with that being said, in my job,
in being an entertainer, I do have so many different
jobs that I get to do. I get to do
my podcast, I get to do music. I get to
do music videos. I get to do merchandising. I get
a manager, girl group. I get to perform. I get
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a rehearse, I get a direct I get to produce,
I get a write, I get to do social media,
be an influencer, give be a mentor. There's so choreographed.
God Like, there's so many different like aspects of my career,
which I'm very grateful for because I think I would
get very bored if I didn't have that, because I've
been doing the same thing for the last eleven years.
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Like by this point in time, you know, I feel
like if you do the same thing from the time
you're thirty to sixty, you're a little more developed, you
kind of you know, run a little bit more autopilot.
But from the time you're nine to twenty, so much
changes in your life that I feel like you need
that constant stimulation, You need that constant change. And I
feel like, for me, I would have gotten so bored
(19:51):
if I was doing only one thing. And so that's
why I'm lucky that, you know, I have the movies
and the TV shows and the music and the podcasts
and the press and the photo shoots and the brand
ambassador or stuff, and like, there's so many different layers
to my career that I kind of get a focus
on different ones at different times. But I now I
got to work at a normal job, which I definitely would
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want to for a day. I think for more than
a day. Honestly, I think it's really cool and I
definitely wouldn't take it for granted Anyways. Last thing, and
this goes without being said, but it's not talked about enough.
The biggest thing that I missed out on and still
am for sure missing out on because of Hollywood is privacy.
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I have none, and I when I was little, it
was much easier. Now that I'm older and I want
privacy and I don't get it or I can't have it.
That's much harder to deal with. And it's weird how
things I thought we're gonna get easier over time got
harder over time than the two things are hate and privacy.
(20:58):
It was easy for me to deal with hate and
bullying when I was younger than it is now. Now
I take things way more to heart and ways way
more serious, and I'm way more secure and I wait
overthink more and so that gets that gets harder on me.
But the other thing is privacy. I didn't really care
when I was little. It didn't really matter to me.
But now you know, I want to go on a
(21:20):
date and I can't because then it's public. I want
to go out and be a lunatic, and I can't
because then it's online. The next day. I want to
dress like a bum and go to Target, but I
can't because there's no privacy and it's something that I
know isn't ever gonna change. And I told myself this
(21:42):
because I was talking to somebody and they told me
that they could never handle my public life. And I
was like, no, no, no, you don't understand. Like I do
have a side of my life that's in my house
and like I can keep things private, and they're like, no,
you can. But at the end of the day, your
life is so public that even if for some odd
(22:03):
reason you were like, all throw away my career for you,
we still can't go on a date. We still can't
go and not be seen together because that's just your life.
It's so public. And that was tough for me to
wrap my head around because I was a bit younger
and I didn't understand it, and I was like, give
it a shot, why not? But then I realized that
public life is not for everybody. And that's when I
realized that that person was not meant to be my person.
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And that is totally okay, and I'm much happier now,
and so that's all that matters. But and so are they,
which is great. But yeah, privacy is something that you
It is so small and you don't even realize as
a non celebrity that you have it. And it is
(22:47):
so crazy to think that like that is something that
you just are supposed to have as a human. But
then when you have a public life, like you don't
get that. Gwen Stefani said a quote she said, everybody
has their shit. Mine is just really public and hit
like a ton of bricks because I was like, that
is exactly what I've been feeling for the last twenty years.
That's a lie. Eleven years. Eleven years, Oh my god,
(23:08):
I can say twelve now I'm twenty one. Fuck yeah,
twelve years. A dozen years. That's sick. I love that.
It's privacy. That's something that I've very much so missed
out on. And I'm also never gonna get ever U
And I realize that, and I'm okay with that, and
it is what it is, and it is one of
the things that I will just lack for forever. But
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I've made it this far. I'm gonna keep making it
a well, everybody. That is five things that I missed
out on because of Hollywood, and honestly, the five things
that I will forever miss out on because of Hollywood.
Sure there's gonna be more, but there's a lot more
that I gain and that I get to be excited
about because of my job in Hollywood. So not complaining.
I love my life. I wouldn't trade it for the world. Yeah,
(23:51):
thank you guys for listening. I hope you enjoyed this
new five things. If you didn't enjoy it, honestly, keep
it to yourself, don't really care. If you didn't enjoy it,
let me know. I would love to hear. I hope
you all have a great day today. I hope you
all today remember five things that you are grateful for.
Five things right now in this moment. I'm grateful for
my family, my friends, Aussie Bites. They're a really good
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food that I'm gonna go eat right after this. If
you've never had Ausie Bites, go try them. Celsius, Red Bull,
and Ghosts because of those are the three things I
get me through my day. And podcasts. I'm really grateful
for podcasts that I get to do this podcast and
that you guys like it. Thank you all for listening,
and I will see you next week. Going to just
to Now and I tell you five things that I've
(24:35):
done with X's that I shouldn't tell you. Good luck,
enjoy that one. Good Bye. Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
Be sure to follow us on Instagram and TikTok at
Jojosa Now Podcast. Be sure to write us a review
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I'll see you next week.
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