January 16, 2024 • 33 mins
JoJo shares ALL her highs and lows of 2023!She reveals the bad habit she can’t shake from her Dance Mom days, the Vogue project she turned down, and what got her through the dark times.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Jojo Siwa Now with me Jojo Siua
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Oh welcome back to Jojo se one now and happy
twenty twenty four. That is scary. How how is it
twenty twenty four? I don't know. I wrote the date
for the first time just a couple of days ago
on something actually was on my in my workout journal
and I wrote down one slash three slash twenty three,
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and I was like, oh my god, no, it is
twenty four. Saw this thing that was like, uh, congratulations,
you are still mourning twenty nineteen and it is now
five years later, and I was like, Jesus, that is
so scary. Anyways, though, it is the new year and
I could not be any more excited for this year.
I think it is going to be a great year.
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I will say twenty twenty three had a lot of
good in it. Twenty twenty three had a lot of
bad in it, a lot of heart in it. I
feel like everyone can kind of like agree with them
themselves on like look looking back at twenty twenty three,
I feel like for me and at least for all
my people around me, it was a very ugh. This
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feels like weird to say, but like educational year, Like
I feel like I learned a lot about myself, feel
like all my friends learned a lot about themselves. I
feel like I learned a lot about the world. I mean,
maybe that's just because I turned twenty in twenty twenty three,
and I feel like you just learn a lot when
you turn twenty. But I want to start off this
podcast with a little bit of a twenty twenty three
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highs and lows moment. I had so many freaking highs
in twenty twenty three. I was writing them down today
to be able to talk about them on the podcast,
and I was like, oh my god, I actually don't
even like, I don't think I can remember them all.
I tried to go through every month try to be like,
what were my moments, And first one that I want
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to talk about is pretty obvious, and that is of
Special Forces. I had the best time in New Zealand.
It was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
But again back to that educational thing, it really did
change me. It changed the way I think about life.
It changed my perspective on friends, on family, on myself,
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on work, on personal life, on everything. And so being
able to kind of now apply that to the rest
of my life. Hopefully I got a long long time left.
I mean, I hope I'm not done anytime soon here
on earth. But it's cool that I got to learn
those lessons at such a young age, and Special Forces
is definitely one of the things I'm most grateful for
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in twenty twenty three, and that actually leads me into
my second high, and that is all the incredible people
that came into my life in twenty twenty three. I
met so many of my closest friends in twenty twenty three,
which is crazy because I feel like, you know, for me,
like I've kind of met friends throughout my life that
have like really stuck around. I friends from when I
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was little. I have friends from when I was like,
I mean like I had like friends from when I
was six. I friends from when I was like twelve.
Then I met a couple when I was like fifteen,
you know what I mean. But I feel like in
twenty twenty three, I gained Oh my gosh, if I
was to actually like really say, I mean, Nick Tyler,
one of my friends named Kez Kelsey Savannah, I had
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so lex Oh my gosh Lex came into my life
in twenty twenty three. I had so many incredible people
that I'm like, wait, you are now like considered best
friend to me, family to me, which I am just
I'm so grateful for it. It's been a dang good year.
I got into some really fun hyperfixations in twenty twenty three. Uh.
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I wanted to become a barista in twenty twenty three,
so I built a coffee bar. I thought I was
gonna go into the World Cup in twenty twenty three,
so I went through two weeks where I was determined
to become a professional soccer player. Did not stick with it.
I went through a rock climbing phase. I went through
a really intense tap dancing phase. I still tap dance,
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but I went through like a like I go every
single day phase. I went through a workout classes at
a gym. Phase. I went through. This is actually one
that I've been going through since I was like fourteen,
and that's indoor skydiving. And this year twenty twenty three,
so I guess last year twenty twenty three, I got
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really back into indoor skydiving because for my twentieth birthday,
we actually went on an Alaskan cruise, which was so fun,
and I gosh, I love Royal Caribbean so much. I'm
actually just about to go on Icon of the Seas,
their new ship. I'm going on the inaugural sailing of it,
which I am so stoked about. I was gonna be crazy,
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the best six days ever. But I went on another
one of my Caribbean ships, Quantum of the Seas, for
my twentieth birthday and for my brother's twenty third birthday.
And on that ship actually have indoor skydiving, so it
was the first time that I had done it in
a really long time, and I did it a lot.
And that's actually where I met one of my best
friends this year. She was an instructor and we just
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we grew super super close and it's been amazing. And
we figured out that we had some like ties to
each other before we even met, which is crazy. It's
such a small world. Uh. And then yeah, I really
really stuck with it this year and now it's become
like a part of my family. I won't kind of
I won't talk about why just yet because I don't
know if that's something that how it relates who it
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relates to would actually want me to talk about. But
now it's like become a part of my family. Indorse, skydiving,
which has been so fun and so awesome. God, I
can't ever get enough of it. The last hyperfixation that
I am so happy about is drums. So towards the
end of twenty twenty three, I got to perform with
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the artist G Flip, who is so amazing. They're an
Australian artist who is just so phenomenal. I can't even
say enough amazing things about G anyway, so thank god
I did, because watching G perform that night, I literally
was like, oh my god, I G is an incredible drummer.
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That is their thing. Kind of how people will sing
and dance or sing and play guitar or singing play piano,
which they also do, they sing and drum and I
was like, oh my god, I want to learn how
to drum. Like I was so inspired after that night.
G is just such an incredible person, Like it was
just the best freaking night in my life. I was like, yes,
made the right choice. It's very happy that I left Florida.
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I miss Tyler, my brother, of course, but so happy anyway,
So I left the concert and I was like, yo,
I am gonna get a drum kit. I'm gonna drum.
I'm gonna teach myself. This is gonna be great. And
two days after g Textan was like, dude, if you
ever wanted to learn how to drum, I would teach you.
And I was like, Oh, you don't even know that,
That's what I was thinking. So then Gee's been helping me.
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I got a drum kit, got one at the house
and one at my studio. I have been playing now
for about three months, and I just love it. She
is a phenomenal teacher. It's been so fun. I can't
I really can't get enough of it. It's been great,
all right. I feel like that though those were pretty
much my highs. I mean, we got to go to Hawaii,
which was sick. I moved actually into my brother's room,
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which was sick. That kind of leads me into one
of my low lights. The reason why I moved into
my brother's room. So our house is structured so there's
like three rooms on the right side, and then one
room on the on the left side, right, and so
on the right side, and this room actually that I
filmed the podcast and was my old bedroom. And I
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decided that because my brother was moving out and he
moved to an apartment a while ago, so he hasn't
been at home for a minute, but still in California.
But then this year he decided in twenty twenty three
that he was going to move to Orlando, and that
that was something that honestly, I was this, Okay, you
gotta stick with me here, you gotta stick with me here.
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I was stoked about not because my brother was leaving,
but because he was going to live his life and
go do what he's wanted to do. I feel like
my life and my career. Some people look at it
and see like, oh wow, that really takes over the
whole family. And the thing is is it has, and
there has been cases where it has, and there has
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been cases, of course where it hasn't. But I've always
looked at my brother and questioned, like, what is what
is who is he? What does he do? What does
he want to be? Where's he going to go? And
he's older than me, but I still, you know, I
still look at him and I think like, what is
what is his life? You know what I mean? And
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so this year when he decided to move down to Orlando.
I was so proud of him because I was like,
you freaking go. You go live your life, you go
do your thing. Him and his girlfriend Abbey live down there.
Now there arriving, they're so happy and so yeah, they're
they're living their best life down there. I love going
down there. I love actually staying at their apartment. I
called their apartment the Ritz Carleton because it is the
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not the Ritz Carlton at all, but I love calling
it that, and I love staying there with their dog.
It's freaking great. But now that I know he was
never coming home again, I was like, well, I'll screw that.
He has the nicer room in the house, so I'm
moving to his room. So I moved over to the room,
and uh, yeah, it's been It's been freaking great. Uh.
The other the other low light actually is is was
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a really devastating part of the year. In the beginning
of the year, we got a sweet little puppy. His
name was Toowey. He was the best dog ever. Oh
my god, he was crazy. He uh used to put
one arm up and scream all the time and then
walk on it like he was fine. And and then
just walk like you see he was. He would just
sit there and then just like fall over like he was.
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He was the most personality crazy dog ever. Uh and unfortunate,
on April twenty eighth, about a couple couple months maybe
a month two months after we got him, he unfortunately
was attacked by coyote and the coyote came in our yard,
scooped him up and ran off. My my dad was
outside with them, same morning routine too. He was out
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playing with the other dogs. My dad was five ten
feet away from him. Like we know to watch for coyotes.
It's a very big thing in our yard. We've had
a coyote attack before that a dog has survived, and
so it was you know, we were aware of it,
and so yeah, it happened and we were all just devastated.
And then a couple months later we got new puppy.
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His name is Clyde. We call him Baby Clyde. And
I was looking at Clyde. Something came over me and
I was like, I wonder when Clyde's birthday is. And
no matter what you believe in, this is still a
freaky coincidence, whether you believe in reincarnation or not. I
don't know if I do or not, but it's still
just a freaky coincidence. I was like, I wonder what
his birthday is. I'm I never looked to see what
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a dog's birthday is said, but I was like, I
want to know what when Clyde' is. It just came
over me anyway, So I go and I pull out
his birth certificate and he was born on April twenty ninth.
So two, he passed away on April twenty eighth, and
Clyde was born on the twenty ninth. Isn't that like,
that's like there's some it's weird, it's freaky, but we
missed Towey Boy every day. But we are very very
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grateful for Clyde, and we love all of our puppies.
I feel like twenty twenty three for me was a
pretty transitional year. Last year, New Year's Eve, we were
we were on a cruise and I remember I was
entering twenty twenty three and I was like, I have
one rule for myself, only one. No dating. I had
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just gotten out of a whack. That's that's not fair
to call it that I had just gotten out of
a whack relationship and I had a lot of things
happen to me, and I had a lot that I
couldn't talk about pop happened. And there's still a lot
that I can't talk about publicly that happened. But I
did learn like, look, all right, no more public relationships.
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That is the lesson that I haven't learned. But I
was like, all right, no dating in twenty twenty three,
and Miss Mother Nature held me to it. There was
a few times where I got close few people that
I wanted really bad, but Miss Mother Nature was like
absolutely not. Somehow she she swiped every every possible relationship
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away from me in twenty twenty three, which honestly was
the best thing for me. At the end of the year,
I got to do this massive project that I have
been waiting about. I mean I've had the plan for
it for two years, like the set and Stone plan,
but I mean it's been in my head for six
or seven years now, and so finally got to do
this massive project. And if I would have been in
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a relationship, I wouldn't have been able to do the
project the way that I wanted to in the way
that I did, so like Miss Mother Nature and away
had my back, but yeah, home girl was not letting
me date. However, twenty twenty four is the year for me.
Sign me up for the freaking bachelorette like count me
in Dog, twenty twenty four is the year of dating. Also,
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something else that I wanted to do in twenty twenty
four is travel by myself a lot more. I traveled
by myself for the first time ever in twenty twenty three,
and it was freaking awesome. I went to Ohio for
the first time. That was where I went for twenty
four hours by myself on a word trip. But it
was a lot of fun. And then I flew to
New Zealand for Special Forces with my two best friends,
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so I wasn't alone, but I wasn't like it wasn't
like I was with my parents, you know what I mean.
And then flew to Hawaii by myself, I flowed, flew
to Florida bunch by myself. I've kind of been all
over by myself now and I thoroughly enjoy it. I
always loved my solitude time, and I think it's I
think it's a good thing, you know what I mean,
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Something that happens over New Year's that I feel like
literally all seven billion of us in the world think
about is New Year's resolutions. And I think New Year's
resolutions are awesome, but I think sometimes they become unrealistic
and people think that you're going to make a lifestyle
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change on the first of the year, and truthfully, best
thing you probably do is make it the last day
of the last year, you know what I mean. It
is that way, Like you there's not as that is
not as much fresh as I started mine on the
December thirty first, and it was so great. I'm still
sticking with them. It's been amazing. But I think New
Year's resolutions, honestly, for me this year, I feel like
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over the time I've developed some pretty solid habits and
I'm really happy with my keeping my room clean, my
eating habits, which has been a learning curve and I'm
we're going to talk about that eventually on this podcast,
but yeah, it's I've really developed some cool workout habits
and cool eating habits, some cool sleeping habits, and I
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feel like there's now like I don't need to change
anything or or make a massive change on you know,
January first, but I just want to keep sticking to
the plant now what I do need to do is
stop biting my nails. That look I thought when I
left Dance Moms, Maddie told me she because when I
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left Dance Moms, I text about it and I was like,
guess what I left. And she was like, oh, get ready,
you stop biting your nails immediately. And I was like, actually,
for real and she was like, yeah, mine are literally
perfect now because I left the show, and I was like, sick,
here I am eight years later, still biting every day
of my life. So that did not work out for me.
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But that's okay, that's all right, We're gonna, We're gonna
it's it's fine, it's fine. Twenty twenty four for me,
I think it's gonna be a pretty epic year personally
and professionally. I twenty twenty four is there's a lot
in store. There's I mean, the most massive project of
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my career for sure is happening in twenty twenty four.
And it's scary, and it's a shift and it's a change,
and it is a goddamn leap of faith. And I
think because it's something though that I'm so passionate about,
I'm not scared of it. And I also think, thanks
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to Special Forces in twenty twenty three, I'm not really
scared of much anymore, which is it's not a bad thing.
I think it's good to have healthy fear, but I
think sometimes fear can hold you back from doing something
that you could really end up loving, you know what
I mean. And so I think I'm really excited for
this new career journey that I'm gonna embark gone in
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twenty twenty four. It is scary, but I'm not scared.
Does that make sense? I feel like that makes sense.
I mean, look, what goes around comes around, and I
think it's I think it's gonna be good or it
could be bad. You never know. Karma always chooses her
own way. You never know how she's gonna go. Oh okay.
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I talked a little bit about traveling alone and twenty
twenty four. So far, I have a couple of travel plans.
I wanted to talk about this because I think it
would be so fun, and especially because I don't even
really know where we all went. I have to find
out from the DS and stuff. But twenty twenty three,
when I did Special Forces, that was in Queenstown, New Zealand, However,
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we went all over New Zealand. They would stick us
in a car and drive us for three hours and
we never knew where we were going out long we
were going to be in the car, like, we never
knew anything, right, And something though that I want to
do in twenty twenty four is I actually want to
go to New Zealand again with my family and take
them to the damn wall so they can like actually
visualize it and see, like, whoa, that's like where they were,
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That's how tall it was. Take them to where the
trenasium was set up, take them to all of the things,
Take them to where the ice bath was, take them
to where the hikes happened, take them to where our
base was. Oh my gosh. So how the boat challenge
was like really even for myself, like go back, Go
stay at the hotel we stayed at before we actually
went to forces the mill Burk. It was awesome, great,
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it was a freaking resort. It was amazing. Then we
went to the freaking middle of nowhere, slept on a
sheet and called it a day. But I think that'd
be so fun. And then we also have a plan
to go, Like I was saying, earlier icon on the seas.
That's happening at the end of this month, end of January,
and I am so excited. Oh. I always meet the
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best people on cruises. I always have the best time
on cruises, and I I could not be any more
stoked about it. Something that I do think is really
to really focus on as I'm getting older is taking
care of yourself, whether that's you know, some girlies do
their self care, facial routine and nighttime routine. Me personally,
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I use baby face wash and baby lotion and that
is it because baby wash on my whole body, baby
lotion on my whole body. Call it a day Johnson
and Johnson Newborn howshig not sponsored, but that stuff life changing.
It's the only thing I put on my skin. It's great.
No routine, it's one time. This was maybe like I
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think it was like three years ago. You know how
Vogue do that thing where it's like Datta da skincare routine,
get ready with dat da da, and it's like for Vogue,
So it's a it's a pretty big deal, right Well,
Vogue asked me to do it, and I of course
said yes. You don't say no to Vogue. So they
come over to the house, they set up, they do
all this stuff. They're like, all right, uh, can you
grab us your products so like we can we can
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set them up with the video and I was like,
oh sure, grab my baby washing, grab my baby lotion
on the handed to and they were like, oh no,
we need like we need like products and I was like, oh, yeah,
this is them and they were like no, no, no, we
need like your full skincare routine. And I was like, yeah,
this this is it. And they were like no, we
need like your full thing and I was like no,
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I swear on my life, like I this is all
I use. And we went back and forth, and I like,
I was like I don't know I can with you.
I'll like go through my covers like whatever y'all want.
And they were super nice about it too, and I
was super nice about it too. It just was like, not,
this is not happening. So then we went through the house.
We tried to like rummage up some shit to like
put in this video to like make it look like Finally,
after like ten minutes looking for stuff pulling my brother's
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girlfriend's skincare, I was like, this just isn't this just
isn't the vibe, is it. And everyone was like, yeah,
this just isn't the vibe. Like no hard feelings on
either end, but like it's just not the vibe. And
I was like, all right, let's let's not do it.
So only project that I've ever like been on set
and been like that, this isn't This isn't. You agree?
I okay, I know it's just not. But back to
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what I was saying, taking care of yourself, eating, working
out right, taking care of your body, getting outside, treating,
getting enough sleep. Oh my gosh, I cannot stress how
important sleep is. And I'm just learning that. And I
I'm a very bad sleeper. I really am. I wake
up alive in the middle of the night. I don't
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fall asleep easily. I do wake up easily because I'm like,
all right, let's go freaking time to shine. The day
before I did this big project in twenty twenty three though,
like the biggest project, the one that I've been like
talking about but not talking about, So the one if
you follow me on social media and I use a
a heart with the fire and the big wave emoji,
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this is that same project anyways. And so the night
before that I fall asleep, and I don't fall asleep
till like three in the morning. I'm just staying awake.
I was practicing at home. I was just too stoked
having the best night right too stoked, couldn't fall asleep,
woke up at like my call time on set was
like seven am, and so I was up at like
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four so I could get a workout in before I
was just I was too excited. Long story short, not
a good sleeper. So that is something though that I realized,
like does affect me. And I noticed when I get
a good night's sleep, how I wake up and how
I feel and how I how I fall asleep, and
it just it all depends when I don't sleep how
I feel. And so figured out what works for me
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is actually comfort shows. If I put on a show
from my childhood, that will put me to sleep. Currently,
I'm in a good Luck Charlie phase. I've gone through
a Zach and Cody phase, gone through a Wizards Waverley
Place phase, and now I'm in a good Electrinity phase
and it just freaking freaking gets the job done. In
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twenty twenty three, I fell in love with dance again,
and that is something that I have found, my love for,
lost my love for found my love lost, my love
for found my love for lost my love for and I.
Since I was about seventeen, I've been in a phase
of like found my love for it again. But in
twenty twenty three, I this is this is oh, I
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getting serious. This is one of the hardest things for
me to talk about because I can't legally to safety wise,
to protect myself. I went through a situation in the
beginning of twenty twenty three that actually affected my mental
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health mental well being more than anything ever has. And
the only thing that got me through was dance. And
there was days where I texted my friends and said, hey,
I'm going up to the studio because my friends and
I will do hang outside the studio. Will come up. Well,
we'll talk, we'll dance, we'll have food, we'll chill, we'll gossip, like,
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we'll do whatever, like where everyone's pretty chill. But in
the beginning of the year I was like I would
There would be days where I like, I need to dance.
Everyone's you're invited, please come, please hang out with me,
But like, I have to dance today. It's not like
a talk day. Because if I talk, I can't talk,
and that really got me through that. And I what's
crazy is that anytime I went through something that was
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hard or something that was made me not okay, I
found myself wanting to go to Studio Siwa and wanting
to dance. And now Studio c has kind of become
that safe place for me and my closest friends. They
will text me and be like can we go to
the studios day? And I'll be like, I will meet
you there in an hour, like count me in. And
the amount of times that I have cried on the
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Studio Sewa floor is actually insane. I went through heartbreak
without going through heartbreak this year because obviously no dating,
but I definitely got my heartbroken this year. And I,
when I tell you the what the walls have Studio
Sea have sayed is co crazy. It is actually insane,
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but it's great and it's become my safe space. And
now that's why I'm out there all the time, just
to keep myself mentally happy. And I think that's something
that's so important that when you find that thing that
truly can keep you happy, embrace it, run with it,
and keep freaking going with it. Ah Man. You know,
I gotta admit, New Year's is one of my favorite holidays.
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I really love like the end of the year and
the very beginning of the year holidays. End of the year,
we got Halloween, we got Thanksgiving, we got Christmas, and
then we got New Year's. That chunk of holidays for
me is like my freaking kryptonite. I think the reason
why I love New Year's is because I have a
lot of fun New Year's memories. I mean, you know
how you have those like super faint memories from when
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you were a kid. This one, I did gymnastics when
I was little, And I have this one where we
were at this our gymnastics place with me and my
brother and it was like a big sleepover and you
stayed all night you did gymnastic and I mean, god,
I was probably four or five. Long story short, it
was a babysitter for the parents to go out and
go have a fun night and you stayed at the
gym with the coaches and it was great. And I'm
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sure the gym that had to have been a cash
cow for the gym cash cow. So there you go,
dance teachers out there, if you're looking to make some
money gymnastics coaches. I be looking to make some money
freaking babysit on New Year's you will get bank that
was backed. I also remember the year that, like my
brother and I were old enough to be home alone,
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and my my parents went out. We uh we we
banked pots and pans outside at midnight, and then we're like,
all right, good night this year for New Year's I'm
not even gonna sugar go what happened at all. I
was like, yeah, I'm gonna have a great night. You're
gonna stay up late. It's gonna be fun. Had steak
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dinner with my dad. It was amazing. He cooked the
steak I decided. He had buffalo cauliflower, sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts, broccoli,
and flaming your on New York Strip and rabbi. It
was the best meal ever. Anyways, after that, I was like,
all right, I'm gonna go work out, so I stay awake,
make it up to bed. I'm like, all right, I'm
gonna stay up all this sudden. It's eleven fifty six,
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seven eleven, we'll say, we'll say six, we're gonna, we're gonna,
We're gonna now. Actually we're gonna say seven because we're
gonna make it even closer to midnights eleven fifty seven,
and I was like, I can't do it. I'm going
to bed, closed my eyes and I woke up and
it was the next day. I could not do it. No,
it was just I'm sired. I can't help. But my
mom called me and she was like, so, who'd you
(27:38):
bring in the New Year's with? And I was like,
literally no one. I fell asleep and she was like
I don't believe that for a second. And I was
like okay, and she was like, who are you talking
to and like cause she knew I was at home,
but she was like, but who are you talking to
him midnight? I was like, you can go through my
call history, Like I don't know what tell you. I
literally fell as I was like, I was determined to
(27:58):
make it. Couldn't even stay awake three minutes. But I
wasn't talking to anybody. I just was just was sleepy.
Speaking speaking of my mom, toughout this podcast up, I
actually have a funny story about her, so she my
mom helps me out behind the scenes of this podcast.
I have an incredible podcast team who kind of helps
me figure out what will be I guess interesting to
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talk about because let's look at I'm sitting here talking
to myself for thirty minutes. I gotta have some sort
of structure, right. And then after we get that list,
my mom goes through that list and like checks it out,
kind of fills it in the gaps because she knows
me better than I even know myself, right, And so
she added this note to the end of my my
what I Want to talk about list? And I laughed
out loud because I was, like, Mom, this is so
(28:43):
obviously wrote by you, it is actually hysterical. She wrote,
You're really disciplined with your schedule and time. That is
clearly something you taught yourself. What made you like this?
Like mom, is that the advice that you want from me?
But it's so funny because my mom and I we
talk about all the time, and my dad and I,
(29:04):
actually my dad and I talk about this more than
my mom and I do. But how you know, parents,
you raise your kids, and kids you're raised by your parents,
and you have traits, You have beliefs, you have habits
that you are taught, you have habits that you don't
even know. You have things that you don't even know
are taught, but they just are. They're inherited. And then
you have like your stuff that you develop by yourself,
(29:25):
you know what I mean, and then you repeat the
pattern to your kids. And something that I did not
get for my parents at all is the way that
I schedule out my day and my life. I quite
literally schedule out every single day. I'll read you today's schedule.
So I make a note on my phone every night
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before I fall asleep, I pick out my outfit or
outfits for the next day, depending and then I write
out my schedule. So last night at ten fifty two pm,
I wrote down seven to fifteen, wake up, seven thirty,
fat burner, finish up by eight eight fifteen, I eat breakfast.
I had down yogurt, but then this morning I wanted
to switch it to the alvocado and egg bagel, so
we swapped it out. Nine o'clock, work out, ten thirty
(30:09):
in the shower, at eleven o'clock, get ready, twelve o'clock,
eat lunch, twelve thirty podcasts after that in any particular order,
go through photos, go to the studio, drum, run your
old tour, XMG prep choreography, set up pastries for tomorrow.
So that's kind of how like I structure out my life,
and that is definitely not something that I've learned from
my family. My family is like a wake up at
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your leisure, order breakfast when you're feeling it, wake up
when you're feeling it, maybe get ready, maybe done, get
some work done, has some lunch, get some more work done,
call it a night. I'm like, no, I set my alarm,
I wake up, I do this, I do that, I
eat this, I eat, then I go there, I travel there.
And there will be some days where like my day
(30:52):
is like specifically structured, Like tomorrow, I have rehearsals with
my girl group where I'm choreographing for their two that
they are going on in twenty twenty four. Gets your
tickets at live nation dot com. My girl group Xomgpop
we have our first tour choreography day, and it literally
my day will be structured out. To wake up, I'll
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plan my wake up time, my workout time, my breakfast time.
Then I'll plan what time I go to the studio,
and then from there I'll plan how and what time
I drum for, what time I stretch for what time
I rehearse for what time I eat for like I'll
really I'll go into graphic detail about how particular it is.
And that's just one of those things that keeps me
on track. It's one of those habits that I developed
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in twenty twenty three. Actually I didn't do it before
twenty twenty three, so it's definitely a twenty twenty three habit,
and that is one that I'm grateful for that's stuck
around and I think think if I could, if I
could give any advice, it is create habits that can
just become your lifestyle. Create eating habits instead of going on,
you know, a diet. Sometimes a diet is the right answer.
(31:58):
You need to like really drop it and then figure
out what your common ground is, or you need to
really gain it and then figure out what your common
ground is. But you know, find something that you can
truly maintain, and it might be small changes for me.
It's something that I've definitely had to learn with my
diet because I I'm already I mean, I'm a little
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I'm little, you know what I mean, And so I've
had to figure out to get to my body goals.
Can't necessarily put myself on a diet because that could
get unhealthy for my body type, and so I've had
to be very slow about my process, very slow about
changing little tiny habits that will make a difference. But
here I am two years in and it's still making
the difference, and it's gotten frustrating. But I know overall,
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it's not what you look like in your body in
the mirror. It's what you feel like, what your health
is like. And that's the stuff that is truly important.
And that is why I'm going to do a whole
podcast dedicated to things that I've learned, work out things,
eating things, things, hell things, because that is something that
in twenty twenty three I became so passionate about. So
(33:05):
we are gonna fall down the rabbit hole, fall down
the drain, and that will be on a Jojeseua now
coming up, So you'll just have to wait and listen
to that. Everybody, I just want to say, happy freaking
New Year. I hope you have the best twenty twenty
four ever. Thank you for listening. Makes you listen to
all of the podcasts everywhere you listen to your podcast,
(33:26):
listen to every Joja's you wa now and get Ready
twenty twenty four. There's gonna be so much awesome coming
your way. I love y'all and we'll see you next time.
Peace out. Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Oh welcome back to Jojo se one now and happy
twenty twenty four. That is scary. How how is it
twenty twenty four? I don't know. I wrote the date
for the first time just a couple of days ago
on something actually was on my in my workout journal
and I wrote down one slash three slash twenty three,
(00:30):
and I was like, oh my god, no, it is
twenty four. Saw this thing that was like, uh, congratulations,
you are still mourning twenty nineteen and it is now
five years later, and I was like, Jesus, that is
so scary. Anyways, though, it is the new year and
I could not be any more excited for this year.
I think it is going to be a great year.
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I will say twenty twenty three had a lot of
good in it. Twenty twenty three had a lot of
bad in it, a lot of heart in it. I
feel like everyone can kind of like agree with them
themselves on like look looking back at twenty twenty three,
I feel like for me and at least for all
my people around me, it was a very ugh. This
(01:14):
feels like weird to say, but like educational year, Like
I feel like I learned a lot about myself, feel
like all my friends learned a lot about themselves. I
feel like I learned a lot about the world. I mean,
maybe that's just because I turned twenty in twenty twenty three,
and I feel like you just learn a lot when
you turn twenty. But I want to start off this
podcast with a little bit of a twenty twenty three
(01:36):
highs and lows moment. I had so many freaking highs
in twenty twenty three. I was writing them down today
to be able to talk about them on the podcast,
and I was like, oh my god, I actually don't
even like, I don't think I can remember them all.
I tried to go through every month try to be like,
what were my moments, And first one that I want
(01:56):
to talk about is pretty obvious, and that is of
Special Forces. I had the best time in New Zealand.
It was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
But again back to that educational thing, it really did
change me. It changed the way I think about life.
It changed my perspective on friends, on family, on myself,
(02:17):
on work, on personal life, on everything. And so being
able to kind of now apply that to the rest
of my life. Hopefully I got a long long time left.
I mean, I hope I'm not done anytime soon here
on earth. But it's cool that I got to learn
those lessons at such a young age, and Special Forces
is definitely one of the things I'm most grateful for
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in twenty twenty three, and that actually leads me into
my second high, and that is all the incredible people
that came into my life in twenty twenty three. I
met so many of my closest friends in twenty twenty three,
which is crazy because I feel like, you know, for me,
like I've kind of met friends throughout my life that
have like really stuck around. I friends from when I
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was little. I have friends from when I was like,
I mean like I had like friends from when I
was six. I friends from when I was like twelve.
Then I met a couple when I was like fifteen,
you know what I mean. But I feel like in
twenty twenty three, I gained Oh my gosh, if I
was to actually like really say, I mean, Nick Tyler,
one of my friends named Kez Kelsey Savannah, I had
(03:22):
so lex Oh my gosh Lex came into my life
in twenty twenty three. I had so many incredible people
that I'm like, wait, you are now like considered best
friend to me, family to me, which I am just
I'm so grateful for it. It's been a dang good year.
I got into some really fun hyperfixations in twenty twenty three. Uh.
(03:45):
I wanted to become a barista in twenty twenty three,
so I built a coffee bar. I thought I was
gonna go into the World Cup in twenty twenty three,
so I went through two weeks where I was determined
to become a professional soccer player. Did not stick with it.
I went through a rock climbing phase. I went through
a really intense tap dancing phase. I still tap dance,
(04:07):
but I went through like a like I go every
single day phase. I went through a workout classes at
a gym. Phase. I went through. This is actually one
that I've been going through since I was like fourteen,
and that's indoor skydiving. And this year twenty twenty three,
so I guess last year twenty twenty three, I got
(04:28):
really back into indoor skydiving because for my twentieth birthday,
we actually went on an Alaskan cruise, which was so fun,
and I gosh, I love Royal Caribbean so much. I'm
actually just about to go on Icon of the Seas,
their new ship. I'm going on the inaugural sailing of it,
which I am so stoked about. I was gonna be crazy,
(04:49):
the best six days ever. But I went on another
one of my Caribbean ships, Quantum of the Seas, for
my twentieth birthday and for my brother's twenty third birthday.
And on that ship actually have indoor skydiving, so it
was the first time that I had done it in
a really long time, and I did it a lot.
And that's actually where I met one of my best
friends this year. She was an instructor and we just
(05:12):
we grew super super close and it's been amazing. And
we figured out that we had some like ties to
each other before we even met, which is crazy. It's
such a small world. Uh. And then yeah, I really
really stuck with it this year and now it's become
like a part of my family. I won't kind of
I won't talk about why just yet because I don't
know if that's something that how it relates who it
(05:35):
relates to would actually want me to talk about. But
now it's like become a part of my family. Indorse, skydiving,
which has been so fun and so awesome. God, I
can't ever get enough of it. The last hyperfixation that
I am so happy about is drums. So towards the
end of twenty twenty three, I got to perform with
(05:56):
the artist G Flip, who is so amazing. They're an
Australian artist who is just so phenomenal. I can't even
say enough amazing things about G anyway, so thank god
I did, because watching G perform that night, I literally
was like, oh my god, I G is an incredible drummer.
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That is their thing. Kind of how people will sing
and dance or sing and play guitar or singing play piano,
which they also do, they sing and drum and I
was like, oh my god, I want to learn how
to drum. Like I was so inspired after that night.
G is just such an incredible person, Like it was
just the best freaking night in my life. I was like, yes,
made the right choice. It's very happy that I left Florida.
(06:41):
I miss Tyler, my brother, of course, but so happy anyway,
So I left the concert and I was like, yo,
I am gonna get a drum kit. I'm gonna drum.
I'm gonna teach myself. This is gonna be great. And
two days after g Textan was like, dude, if you
ever wanted to learn how to drum, I would teach you.
And I was like, Oh, you don't even know that,
That's what I was thinking. So then Gee's been helping me.
(07:02):
I got a drum kit, got one at the house
and one at my studio. I have been playing now
for about three months, and I just love it. She
is a phenomenal teacher. It's been so fun. I can't
I really can't get enough of it. It's been great,
all right. I feel like that though those were pretty
much my highs. I mean, we got to go to Hawaii,
which was sick. I moved actually into my brother's room,
(07:25):
which was sick. That kind of leads me into one
of my low lights. The reason why I moved into
my brother's room. So our house is structured so there's
like three rooms on the right side, and then one
room on the on the left side, right, and so
on the right side, and this room actually that I
filmed the podcast and was my old bedroom. And I
(07:46):
decided that because my brother was moving out and he
moved to an apartment a while ago, so he hasn't
been at home for a minute, but still in California.
But then this year he decided in twenty twenty three
that he was going to move to Orlando, and that
that was something that honestly, I was this, Okay, you
gotta stick with me here, you gotta stick with me here.
(08:06):
I was stoked about not because my brother was leaving,
but because he was going to live his life and
go do what he's wanted to do. I feel like
my life and my career. Some people look at it
and see like, oh wow, that really takes over the
whole family. And the thing is is it has, and
there has been cases where it has, and there has
(08:29):
been cases, of course where it hasn't. But I've always
looked at my brother and questioned, like, what is what
is who is he? What does he do? What does
he want to be? Where's he going to go? And
he's older than me, but I still, you know, I
still look at him and I think like, what is
what is his life? You know what I mean? And
(08:49):
so this year when he decided to move down to Orlando.
I was so proud of him because I was like,
you freaking go. You go live your life, you go
do your thing. Him and his girlfriend Abbey live down there.
Now there arriving, they're so happy and so yeah, they're
they're living their best life down there. I love going
down there. I love actually staying at their apartment. I
called their apartment the Ritz Carleton because it is the
(09:11):
not the Ritz Carlton at all, but I love calling
it that, and I love staying there with their dog.
It's freaking great. But now that I know he was
never coming home again, I was like, well, I'll screw that.
He has the nicer room in the house, so I'm
moving to his room. So I moved over to the room,
and uh, yeah, it's been It's been freaking great. Uh.
The other the other low light actually is is was
(09:33):
a really devastating part of the year. In the beginning
of the year, we got a sweet little puppy. His
name was Toowey. He was the best dog ever. Oh
my god, he was crazy. He uh used to put
one arm up and scream all the time and then
walk on it like he was fine. And and then
just walk like you see he was. He would just
sit there and then just like fall over like he was.
(09:55):
He was the most personality crazy dog ever. Uh and unfortunate,
on April twenty eighth, about a couple couple months maybe
a month two months after we got him, he unfortunately
was attacked by coyote and the coyote came in our yard,
scooped him up and ran off. My my dad was
outside with them, same morning routine too. He was out
(10:16):
playing with the other dogs. My dad was five ten
feet away from him. Like we know to watch for coyotes.
It's a very big thing in our yard. We've had
a coyote attack before that a dog has survived, and
so it was you know, we were aware of it,
and so yeah, it happened and we were all just devastated.
And then a couple months later we got new puppy.
(10:39):
His name is Clyde. We call him Baby Clyde. And
I was looking at Clyde. Something came over me and
I was like, I wonder when Clyde's birthday is. And
no matter what you believe in, this is still a
freaky coincidence, whether you believe in reincarnation or not. I
don't know if I do or not, but it's still
just a freaky coincidence. I was like, I wonder what
his birthday is. I'm I never looked to see what
(11:00):
a dog's birthday is said, but I was like, I
want to know what when Clyde' is. It just came
over me anyway, So I go and I pull out
his birth certificate and he was born on April twenty ninth.
So two, he passed away on April twenty eighth, and
Clyde was born on the twenty ninth. Isn't that like,
that's like there's some it's weird, it's freaky, but we
missed Towey Boy every day. But we are very very
(11:23):
grateful for Clyde, and we love all of our puppies.
I feel like twenty twenty three for me was a
pretty transitional year. Last year, New Year's Eve, we were
we were on a cruise and I remember I was
entering twenty twenty three and I was like, I have
one rule for myself, only one. No dating. I had
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just gotten out of a whack. That's that's not fair
to call it that I had just gotten out of
a whack relationship and I had a lot of things
happen to me, and I had a lot that I
couldn't talk about pop happened. And there's still a lot
that I can't talk about publicly that happened. But I
did learn like, look, all right, no more public relationships.
(12:08):
That is the lesson that I haven't learned. But I
was like, all right, no dating in twenty twenty three,
and Miss Mother Nature held me to it. There was
a few times where I got close few people that
I wanted really bad, but Miss Mother Nature was like
absolutely not. Somehow she she swiped every every possible relationship
(12:32):
away from me in twenty twenty three, which honestly was
the best thing for me. At the end of the year,
I got to do this massive project that I have
been waiting about. I mean I've had the plan for
it for two years, like the set and Stone plan,
but I mean it's been in my head for six
or seven years now, and so finally got to do
this massive project. And if I would have been in
(12:54):
a relationship, I wouldn't have been able to do the
project the way that I wanted to in the way
that I did, so like Miss Mother Nature and away
had my back, but yeah, home girl was not letting
me date. However, twenty twenty four is the year for me.
Sign me up for the freaking bachelorette like count me
in Dog, twenty twenty four is the year of dating. Also,
(13:16):
something else that I wanted to do in twenty twenty
four is travel by myself a lot more. I traveled
by myself for the first time ever in twenty twenty three,
and it was freaking awesome. I went to Ohio for
the first time. That was where I went for twenty
four hours by myself on a word trip. But it
was a lot of fun. And then I flew to
New Zealand for Special Forces with my two best friends,
(13:39):
so I wasn't alone, but I wasn't like it wasn't
like I was with my parents, you know what I mean.
And then flew to Hawaii by myself, I flowed, flew
to Florida bunch by myself. I've kind of been all
over by myself now and I thoroughly enjoy it. I
always loved my solitude time, and I think it's I
think it's a good thing, you know what I mean,
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Something that happens over New Year's that I feel like
literally all seven billion of us in the world think
about is New Year's resolutions. And I think New Year's
resolutions are awesome, but I think sometimes they become unrealistic
and people think that you're going to make a lifestyle
(14:27):
change on the first of the year, and truthfully, best
thing you probably do is make it the last day
of the last year, you know what I mean. It
is that way, Like you there's not as that is
not as much fresh as I started mine on the
December thirty first, and it was so great. I'm still
sticking with them. It's been amazing. But I think New
Year's resolutions, honestly, for me this year, I feel like
(14:50):
over the time I've developed some pretty solid habits and
I'm really happy with my keeping my room clean, my
eating habits, which has been a learning curve and I'm
we're going to talk about that eventually on this podcast,
but yeah, it's I've really developed some cool workout habits
and cool eating habits, some cool sleeping habits, and I
(15:12):
feel like there's now like I don't need to change
anything or or make a massive change on you know,
January first, but I just want to keep sticking to
the plant now what I do need to do is
stop biting my nails. That look I thought when I
left Dance Moms, Maddie told me she because when I
(15:33):
left Dance Moms, I text about it and I was like,
guess what I left. And she was like, oh, get ready,
you stop biting your nails immediately. And I was like, actually,
for real and she was like, yeah, mine are literally
perfect now because I left the show, and I was like, sick,
here I am eight years later, still biting every day
of my life. So that did not work out for me.
(15:55):
But that's okay, that's all right, We're gonna, We're gonna
it's it's fine, it's fine. Twenty twenty four for me,
I think it's gonna be a pretty epic year personally
and professionally. I twenty twenty four is there's a lot
in store. There's I mean, the most massive project of
(16:18):
my career for sure is happening in twenty twenty four.
And it's scary, and it's a shift and it's a change,
and it is a goddamn leap of faith. And I
think because it's something though that I'm so passionate about,
I'm not scared of it. And I also think, thanks
(16:39):
to Special Forces in twenty twenty three, I'm not really
scared of much anymore, which is it's not a bad thing.
I think it's good to have healthy fear, but I
think sometimes fear can hold you back from doing something
that you could really end up loving, you know what
I mean. And so I think I'm really excited for
this new career journey that I'm gonna embark gone in
(17:00):
twenty twenty four. It is scary, but I'm not scared.
Does that make sense? I feel like that makes sense.
I mean, look, what goes around comes around, and I
think it's I think it's gonna be good or it
could be bad. You never know. Karma always chooses her
own way. You never know how she's gonna go. Oh okay.
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I talked a little bit about traveling alone and twenty
twenty four. So far, I have a couple of travel plans.
I wanted to talk about this because I think it
would be so fun, and especially because I don't even
really know where we all went. I have to find
out from the DS and stuff. But twenty twenty three,
when I did Special Forces, that was in Queenstown, New Zealand, However,
(17:43):
we went all over New Zealand. They would stick us
in a car and drive us for three hours and
we never knew where we were going out long we
were going to be in the car, like, we never
knew anything, right, And something though that I want to
do in twenty twenty four is I actually want to
go to New Zealand again with my family and take
them to the damn wall so they can like actually
visualize it and see, like, whoa, that's like where they were,
(18:06):
That's how tall it was. Take them to where the
trenasium was set up, take them to all of the things,
Take them to where the ice bath was, take them
to where the hikes happened, take them to where our
base was. Oh my gosh. So how the boat challenge
was like really even for myself, like go back, Go
stay at the hotel we stayed at before we actually
went to forces the mill Burk. It was awesome, great,
(18:29):
it was a freaking resort. It was amazing. Then we
went to the freaking middle of nowhere, slept on a
sheet and called it a day. But I think that'd
be so fun. And then we also have a plan
to go, Like I was saying, earlier icon on the seas.
That's happening at the end of this month, end of January,
and I am so excited. Oh. I always meet the
(18:50):
best people on cruises. I always have the best time
on cruises, and I I could not be any more
stoked about it. Something that I do think is really
to really focus on as I'm getting older is taking
care of yourself, whether that's you know, some girlies do
their self care, facial routine and nighttime routine. Me personally,
(19:14):
I use baby face wash and baby lotion and that
is it because baby wash on my whole body, baby
lotion on my whole body. Call it a day Johnson
and Johnson Newborn howshig not sponsored, but that stuff life changing.
It's the only thing I put on my skin. It's great.
No routine, it's one time. This was maybe like I
(19:34):
think it was like three years ago. You know how
Vogue do that thing where it's like Datta da skincare routine,
get ready with dat da da, and it's like for Vogue,
So it's a it's a pretty big deal, right Well,
Vogue asked me to do it, and I of course
said yes. You don't say no to Vogue. So they
come over to the house, they set up, they do
all this stuff. They're like, all right, uh, can you
grab us your products so like we can we can
(19:55):
set them up with the video and I was like,
oh sure, grab my baby washing, grab my baby lotion
on the handed to and they were like, oh no,
we need like we need like products and I was like, oh, yeah,
this is them and they were like no, no, no, we
need like your full skincare routine. And I was like, yeah,
this this is it. And they were like no, we
need like your full thing and I was like no,
(20:15):
I swear on my life, like I this is all
I use. And we went back and forth, and I like,
I was like I don't know I can with you.
I'll like go through my covers like whatever y'all want.
And they were super nice about it too, and I
was super nice about it too. It just was like, not,
this is not happening. So then we went through the house.
We tried to like rummage up some shit to like
put in this video to like make it look like Finally,
after like ten minutes looking for stuff pulling my brother's
(20:38):
girlfriend's skincare, I was like, this just isn't this just
isn't the vibe, is it. And everyone was like, yeah,
this just isn't the vibe. Like no hard feelings on
either end, but like it's just not the vibe. And
I was like, all right, let's let's not do it.
So only project that I've ever like been on set
and been like that, this isn't This isn't. You agree?
I okay, I know it's just not. But back to
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what I was saying, taking care of yourself, eating, working
out right, taking care of your body, getting outside, treating,
getting enough sleep. Oh my gosh, I cannot stress how
important sleep is. And I'm just learning that. And I
I'm a very bad sleeper. I really am. I wake
up alive in the middle of the night. I don't
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fall asleep easily. I do wake up easily because I'm like,
all right, let's go freaking time to shine. The day
before I did this big project in twenty twenty three though,
like the biggest project, the one that I've been like
talking about but not talking about, So the one if
you follow me on social media and I use a
a heart with the fire and the big wave emoji,
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this is that same project anyways. And so the night
before that I fall asleep, and I don't fall asleep
till like three in the morning. I'm just staying awake.
I was practicing at home. I was just too stoked
having the best night right too stoked, couldn't fall asleep,
woke up at like my call time on set was
like seven am, and so I was up at like
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four so I could get a workout in before I
was just I was too excited. Long story short, not
a good sleeper. So that is something though that I realized,
like does affect me. And I noticed when I get
a good night's sleep, how I wake up and how
I feel and how I how I fall asleep, and
it just it all depends when I don't sleep how
I feel. And so figured out what works for me
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is actually comfort shows. If I put on a show
from my childhood, that will put me to sleep. Currently,
I'm in a good Luck Charlie phase. I've gone through
a Zach and Cody phase, gone through a Wizards Waverley
Place phase, and now I'm in a good Electrinity phase
and it just freaking freaking gets the job done. In
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twenty twenty three, I fell in love with dance again,
and that is something that I have found, my love for,
lost my love for found my love lost, my love
for found my love for lost my love for and I.
Since I was about seventeen, I've been in a phase
of like found my love for it again. But in
twenty twenty three, I this is this is oh, I
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getting serious. This is one of the hardest things for
me to talk about because I can't legally to safety wise,
to protect myself. I went through a situation in the
beginning of twenty twenty three that actually affected my mental
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health mental well being more than anything ever has. And
the only thing that got me through was dance. And
there was days where I texted my friends and said, hey,
I'm going up to the studio because my friends and
I will do hang outside the studio. Will come up. Well,
we'll talk, we'll dance, we'll have food, we'll chill, we'll gossip, like,
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we'll do whatever, like where everyone's pretty chill. But in
the beginning of the year I was like I would
There would be days where I like, I need to dance.
Everyone's you're invited, please come, please hang out with me,
But like, I have to dance today. It's not like
a talk day. Because if I talk, I can't talk,
and that really got me through that. And I what's
crazy is that anytime I went through something that was
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hard or something that was made me not okay, I
found myself wanting to go to Studio Siwa and wanting
to dance. And now Studio c has kind of become
that safe place for me and my closest friends. They
will text me and be like can we go to
the studios day? And I'll be like, I will meet
you there in an hour, like count me in. And
the amount of times that I have cried on the
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Studio Sewa floor is actually insane. I went through heartbreak
without going through heartbreak this year because obviously no dating,
but I definitely got my heartbroken this year. And I,
when I tell you the what the walls have Studio
Sea have sayed is co crazy. It is actually insane,
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but it's great and it's become my safe space. And
now that's why I'm out there all the time, just
to keep myself mentally happy. And I think that's something
that's so important that when you find that thing that
truly can keep you happy, embrace it, run with it,
and keep freaking going with it. Ah Man. You know,
I gotta admit, New Year's is one of my favorite holidays.
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I really love like the end of the year and
the very beginning of the year holidays. End of the year,
we got Halloween, we got Thanksgiving, we got Christmas, and
then we got New Year's. That chunk of holidays for
me is like my freaking kryptonite. I think the reason
why I love New Year's is because I have a
lot of fun New Year's memories. I mean, you know
how you have those like super faint memories from when
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you were a kid. This one, I did gymnastics when
I was little, And I have this one where we
were at this our gymnastics place with me and my
brother and it was like a big sleepover and you
stayed all night you did gymnastic and I mean, god,
I was probably four or five. Long story short, it
was a babysitter for the parents to go out and
go have a fun night and you stayed at the
gym with the coaches and it was great. And I'm
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sure the gym that had to have been a cash
cow for the gym cash cow. So there you go,
dance teachers out there, if you're looking to make some
money gymnastics coaches. I be looking to make some money
freaking babysit on New Year's you will get bank that
was backed. I also remember the year that, like my
brother and I were old enough to be home alone,
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and my my parents went out. We uh we we
banked pots and pans outside at midnight, and then we're like,
all right, good night this year for New Year's I'm
not even gonna sugar go what happened at all. I
was like, yeah, I'm gonna have a great night. You're
gonna stay up late. It's gonna be fun. Had steak
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dinner with my dad. It was amazing. He cooked the
steak I decided. He had buffalo cauliflower, sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts, broccoli,
and flaming your on New York Strip and rabbi. It
was the best meal ever. Anyways, after that, I was like,
all right, I'm gonna go work out, so I stay awake,
make it up to bed. I'm like, all right, I'm
gonna stay up all this sudden. It's eleven fifty six,
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seven eleven, we'll say, we'll say six, we're gonna, we're gonna,
We're gonna now. Actually we're gonna say seven because we're
gonna make it even closer to midnights eleven fifty seven,
and I was like, I can't do it. I'm going
to bed, closed my eyes and I woke up and
it was the next day. I could not do it. No,
it was just I'm sired. I can't help. But my
mom called me and she was like, so, who'd you
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bring in the New Year's with? And I was like,
literally no one. I fell asleep and she was like
I don't believe that for a second. And I was
like okay, and she was like, who are you talking
to and like cause she knew I was at home,
but she was like, but who are you talking to
him midnight? I was like, you can go through my
call history, Like I don't know what tell you. I
literally fell as I was like, I was determined to
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make it. Couldn't even stay awake three minutes. But I
wasn't talking to anybody. I just was just was sleepy.
Speaking speaking of my mom, toughout this podcast up, I
actually have a funny story about her, so she my
mom helps me out behind the scenes of this podcast.
I have an incredible podcast team who kind of helps
me figure out what will be I guess interesting to
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talk about because let's look at I'm sitting here talking
to myself for thirty minutes. I gotta have some sort
of structure, right. And then after we get that list,
my mom goes through that list and like checks it out,
kind of fills it in the gaps because she knows
me better than I even know myself, right, And so
she added this note to the end of my my
what I Want to talk about list? And I laughed
out loud because I was, like, Mom, this is so
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obviously wrote by you, it is actually hysterical. She wrote,
You're really disciplined with your schedule and time. That is
clearly something you taught yourself. What made you like this?
Like mom, is that the advice that you want from me?
But it's so funny because my mom and I we
talk about all the time, and my dad and I,
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actually my dad and I talk about this more than
my mom and I do. But how you know, parents,
you raise your kids, and kids you're raised by your parents,
and you have traits, You have beliefs, you have habits
that you are taught, you have habits that you don't
even know. You have things that you don't even know
are taught, but they just are. They're inherited. And then
you have like your stuff that you develop by yourself,
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you know what I mean, and then you repeat the
pattern to your kids. And something that I did not
get for my parents at all is the way that
I schedule out my day and my life. I quite
literally schedule out every single day. I'll read you today's schedule.
So I make a note on my phone every night
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before I fall asleep, I pick out my outfit or
outfits for the next day, depending and then I write
out my schedule. So last night at ten fifty two pm,
I wrote down seven to fifteen, wake up, seven thirty,
fat burner, finish up by eight eight fifteen, I eat breakfast.
I had down yogurt, but then this morning I wanted
to switch it to the alvocado and egg bagel, so
we swapped it out. Nine o'clock, work out, ten thirty
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in the shower, at eleven o'clock, get ready, twelve o'clock,
eat lunch, twelve thirty podcasts after that in any particular order,
go through photos, go to the studio, drum, run your
old tour, XMG prep choreography, set up pastries for tomorrow.
So that's kind of how like I structure out my life,
and that is definitely not something that I've learned from
my family. My family is like a wake up at
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your leisure, order breakfast when you're feeling it, wake up
when you're feeling it, maybe get ready, maybe done, get
some work done, has some lunch, get some more work done,
call it a night. I'm like, no, I set my alarm,
I wake up, I do this, I do that, I
eat this, I eat, then I go there, I travel there.
And there will be some days where like my day
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is like specifically structured, Like tomorrow, I have rehearsals with
my girl group where I'm choreographing for their two that
they are going on in twenty twenty four. Gets your
tickets at live nation dot com. My girl group Xomgpop
we have our first tour choreography day, and it literally
my day will be structured out. To wake up, I'll
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plan my wake up time, my workout time, my breakfast time.
Then I'll plan what time I go to the studio,
and then from there I'll plan how and what time
I drum for, what time I stretch for what time
I rehearse for what time I eat for like I'll
really I'll go into graphic detail about how particular it is.
And that's just one of those things that keeps me
on track. It's one of those habits that I developed
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in twenty twenty three. Actually I didn't do it before
twenty twenty three, so it's definitely a twenty twenty three habit,
and that is one that I'm grateful for that's stuck
around and I think think if I could, if I
could give any advice, it is create habits that can
just become your lifestyle. Create eating habits instead of going on,
you know, a diet. Sometimes a diet is the right answer.
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You need to like really drop it and then figure
out what your common ground is, or you need to
really gain it and then figure out what your common
ground is. But you know, find something that you can
truly maintain, and it might be small changes for me.
It's something that I've definitely had to learn with my
diet because I I'm already I mean, I'm a little
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I'm little, you know what I mean, And so I've
had to figure out to get to my body goals.
Can't necessarily put myself on a diet because that could
get unhealthy for my body type, and so I've had
to be very slow about my process, very slow about
changing little tiny habits that will make a difference. But
here I am two years in and it's still making
the difference, and it's gotten frustrating. But I know overall,
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it's not what you look like in your body in
the mirror. It's what you feel like, what your health
is like. And that's the stuff that is truly important.
And that is why I'm going to do a whole
podcast dedicated to things that I've learned, work out things,
eating things, things, hell things, because that is something that
in twenty twenty three I became so passionate about. So
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we are gonna fall down the rabbit hole, fall down
the drain, and that will be on a Jojeseua now
coming up, So you'll just have to wait and listen
to that. Everybody, I just want to say, happy freaking
New Year. I hope you have the best twenty twenty
four ever. Thank you for listening. Makes you listen to
all of the podcasts everywhere you listen to your podcast,
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listen to every Joja's you wa now and get Ready
twenty twenty four. There's gonna be so much awesome coming
your way. I love y'all and we'll see you next time.
Peace out. Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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