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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome back to the Overcomfort podcast. I'm your host, Jennica Lopez.
Thank you guys so much for choosing to listen or
watch this episode today. Today we're not cooking you guys.
It's gonna be super chill and relaxed because I like
to do these little random questions and answers Q and
a's with you guys, so that we could just have
a moment to catch up. If you guys have any
(00:28):
life questions, any advice questions, whatever it is, I'm gonna
answer them today in this episode, and maybe we'll do
another one soon, but I like to have it in
between slawe. You guys get a nice little refresh of
what's going on. So cheers, grab your little cafecito, grab
whatever you have. We're gonna be getting right into it.
(00:50):
These questions are directly from my broadcast channel on my Instagram,
So if you guys aren't a part of it, what
are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You guys gotta go join there.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
In that channel, I give exclusives out about who's gonna
be in the next episode. You guys get to know
little things. I share little things, random things here and there.
But anyways, we're gonna get right into it, because you
guys had a lot of cute and good questions, a
lot that are very uh, some are repetitive. So if
you guys are new, you guys will hear this answer
for the first time. And if you guys aren't, you.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Guys are probably gonna have me hear the answer again.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
But here we go. Hm, what relaxes you and inspires you?
I love that's a really good interesting question actually, because
they go kind of hand in hand. What inspires me,
I'll say is definitely my We're already gonna get cliche
(01:44):
and deep here, but I would definitely say my past,
Like what I've lived in my past inspires me to
not get back there, if that makes any sense, Like
I use it as my motivation to really just push
me to not like I remember what I felt back
then and I don't want to do that or ever
be in that position again, So it would it's that's
(02:11):
my inspiration. And what relaxes mean I always love Like
I know that I cook here on the podcast, and
you guys would assume that I'm not relaxing, but when
I'm cooking home at home and it's not for the podcast,
I'm definitely most at peace, or if I am just
chilling on my bed watching TV, when I am coloring,
(02:33):
when I'm probably just actually doing nothing. But I have
to really make sure that all my work is done
and everything that I'm doing is done, because then.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I won't relax. It's a mental thing.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I need to learn how to just like shut it
off when I when I'm.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Really trying to. I don't know if I'm making sense.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But like you guys, get me. When we're so like
fight or flight or we're looking to we're still our
minds keeps going like about the next thing, and I
need to learn.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
To just stop, sit and be still. But that's really
really hard.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Okay, okay, do you miss your mom?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And would you ever get into singing like she did?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I have a couple questions of that same thing about
getting into singing, and I was gonna do a solo
episode about it because I get asked this a lot
because both of my sisters are singers and because my
mom was a singer, I feel like people assume that
I would.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But to be honest, you.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Guys, I put into perspective like I haven't sang in
a long, long long time. Like I'll post videos here
and there on TikTok, but as an actual career, like
I don't ever see myself doing it one because I
saw what my mom went through. It is also the
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career that like, you know, took her, So I would
say that there might be maybe slight resentment there, but
I see the struggles that my sisters go through, and
it is a whole nother playing field where it allows
people to judge you for you loving music in general
(04:13):
and judging your voice, and which isn't a problem, but
everybody is right, has a right to their own opinion.
But I just don't feel like I would want that
on my life. I already get a lot of comments
and stuff now that I just feel like, I don't know.
I don't think I have the thick skin to do it,
and I just like doing it for fun, like for myself,
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like one am my hidden talents, you know, Like.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I guess I also play guitar.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
People.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I think people forget that I know how to play
the guitar, which I don't really play.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That often because I always have like longer nails.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
But anyways, to answer that question perfectly, I don't think
I would ever choose to do a singing career, maybe
get back into like serving at my church in that way,
but I don't know. I'm kind of happy with where
I'm at right now. Have you always been a church girly?
If not, what made you get closer to God? So
(05:10):
I grew up in church. My uncle is a pastor,
my theop is a pastor. So my family grew up Christian.
My dad's side was Catholic, so I kind of always
knew about God and all that I gave my life.
I accepted Christ into my life when I was fourteen,
right before my mom passed away. So yeah, I've always
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been into church, but after my mom passed away and
everything like that, I kind of stopped going. Then it
was COVID, it was church online, and that was enough
for me. Like church online was great, especially for me
like anti social, and I just really don't want to
get like I don't really like to. This is so
contradicting because I have a podcast, but I just don't
(05:56):
like talking to people. So I've gotten better at it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I just feel like I have a lot of social anxiety.
So I just I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But whatever anyways, And I guess like now that I'm older,
I definitely have gotten closer. I do feel like I've
recommitted and resurrendered my life because it's it's helped me
a lot, and it's been one of the best decisions
that I've made. It's, uh, it's a hard honestly, Like
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when you accept God as your learned savior and you're
just following down the path that he did, or that
the trying to live in his will, Like it's really
hard to be a follower. Like it's like damn, like,
like it doesn't get easier. I'm I'm not gonna lie
to you guys, but to know that I'm going to
be secure and promised so many beautiful things and that
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my life is at the end of the day in
the hands of God and He's going to take care
of me, and then I have really nothing to worry about,
and I'm I'm really happy about that. It's something that
I don't ever regret and I would recommend it for everybody.
But we can get that into that another day. Okay,
there's gonna be a random array of questions, like they're
gonna be like serious and we're gonna be a little
(07:10):
bit silly. Just a thought, what you guys can know.
And if you guys are ever inspired to ask me
any questions, I'm gonna answer them in my broadcast channel.
So make sure you guys join me. Follow me on
Instagram and it's called Jeddika's Diary, so you gotta get
a little sneak peek. But next question is what is
your favorite memory of your mom? And what's your favorite perfume?
(07:30):
Oh those are two very different questions. I like that
my favorite memory. I wouldn't say that it's necessarily a memory,
but that year that she passed away, in October, I
went to a youth camp and the parents, some parents
showed up and some parents would send letters in and
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my mom sent hers in because she was working, and
I remember, and I still have the letter to this day,
and I don't think I would ever read it out loud,
just because I like, I would love to keep that
for myself and for my own memories. But I have
the original copy that she emailed, because my mom loved emailing.
She didn't handwrite it, but she wrote an email to
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Jackie and Jackie Pritt it in and has Jackie's email
and stuff on there. But it was this beautiful, beautiful
letter that she wrote me about just like me as
her daughter, and how she was trying her best because
my dad had just passed away. Like I can't replace that.
It was very very like it was the sweetest thing
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that my mom I felt like has ever done. Like
I just felt I felt her loving it. I'm not
saying I didn't feel in anything else, but it was like, wow,
that was like just for me. That is literally just
for me. So I read it at different points in
my life, Like I read it actually the other day,
like three weeks ago, and I was just the way
(08:57):
what she was saying, like spoke to me so differently
now that I'm older and like I'm living certain situations
and I don't know, it's just those those that's probably
my favorite favorite memory or favorite moment of my mom.
And hmm, what's your favorite perfume? I have a lot
of perfumes. I love very sweet, vanilla warm perfumes.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I just I like smelling like soft like that.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'm not very like the fruity type or the old
sandalwood like not too strong masculine scents like that, but
I do love Right now, I'm wearing the Ariana Grande Alphaba.
I love the Glinda version. I love Kylie Cosmetics perfume,
the cosmic one Kyali. I wear a bunch of different ones,
(09:48):
so you guys don't know like my main main scent,
but yeah, those ones are my favorite. Okay. If you
could live in any place and time, when and where
would you choose to be? Any place I would love
to live in honestly, Okay, I would love to live
(10:12):
in New York, but in a different era, like I
would love to be more like the early early older
in the two thousands. Like I was too baby because
I was born in nineteen ninety seven, but I would
love to be like eleven, thirteen, fourteen or at that age.
I think it is such a cool time, or like
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the eighties.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I also think that those times are cool.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Or when Princess Diana was here. I love Princess Diana
her vibe.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I think that was early two thousands something like that.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, okay, Next one, what are your thoughts If forgiveness
is the way to heal slash move forward? Does that
mean the person who's done wrong gets a free pass.
Forgiveness is more for you than it is for that person,
even if that person has never said sorry or whatever,
(11:04):
it is more for you to heal. It doesn't mean
that they get a free pass. I love, I love
to forgive, and I know it's hard to say to forget,
but to not forget. Sometimes there's things that I hold
on to and I'm learning to let it go because
I used to be a very person like like I
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would hold it in a lot because I was My
emotions were very silent and suppressed when I was younger.
So I just learned to do that with other situations.
But I do know that healing is more for you
than it is for that person. So you don't want
that bitterness to be growing and bubbling up and you
have to let it go. But you also are wise
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enough like, Okay, how can I be better in this situation?
Or how can I not let myself get hurt? And
you look for different ways, healthy ways to forgive that
person and to move on from it, but also be
wise with your next decisions. Your boundaries. Boundaries are huge
when you are looking to heal and forgive people. So yeah, ooh,
(12:10):
how do you balance your online life with your personal life?
To be honest, you, guys, I feel like I do
it pretty well. A portion of my life, like ten
percent fifteen percent of my life, No, let's say no,
thirty percent of my life. Maybe fifty is what you
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guys see and the other fifty percent, Like I keep
to myself, like dating, who, who I'm around, where exactly
I'm going, Like, there's a lot of things that I
keep to myself for safety reasons and because I want
to keep things for me, like I don't need the
opinions or comments of anybody else. So I've really learned
(12:52):
to balance it, like I know when to not record
or I know when this is a moment that I
would like to share and if I'm ready for.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
People's opinions and comments in my life.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
So it's really it's hard, but I've made it easier
because I have to learn how to respect myself and
my privacy as well. Okay, are you dating anyone and
have you ever dated anyone toxic? How do you feel
about your mom that she kept toxic ment? Pretty that's
(13:30):
that's a good one. Okay, I am not dating anyone,
and I don't want to say that I've dated anyone toxic.
I feel like I'm probably a little bit more toxic,
but yeah, I'm probably the toxic one to be honest
with you guys just a little bit, and also just
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you know, like life and it just never worked out
with certain people. But how do I about my mom
having toxic men? Do I wish that she learned and
that she wouldn't Yes, absolutely, I wish that she was
loved properly when she was younger or in those toxic relationships.
I wish that she was loved because it would have
changed a lot of things. But also learn and understand
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from her experiences. So I see it like as a
kind of lego when when like learning, But I do
wish as a woman that there was a little bit
more self. My mom was very like tough like she
was very tough and very confident. But then obviously where
women were girls and we were weak and we fall
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into certain things. But I'm very proud of her story
and what she went through, and I loved learning from
those situations as well, because you know, the stuff that
she went through I would not put up with. So
kudos to her. Okay, you have a very busy lifestyle.
(15:00):
What do you do to decompress from everything? This kind
of goes into the relaxing situation. But I else, I
like to have a certain time for me to be
done with work. Like I love to wake up early,
film my videos, edit them, and then send them toever
who I need to send them to. Sometimes I work late,
(15:23):
like days that I'm about to film the podcast, I
have to write the questions and do my research and
all that stuff, or I'm posting or but I like
to have a certain time when I'm done, like if
it's like five o'clock, like, okay, you guys, I'm done,
Like my brain is fried. I can't like I really
can't process anymore, and I'm gonna have to leave it
for tomorrow because that's when I'm gonna be fresh and
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when my ideas are gonna be better, and when I'm
just feeling better in general. So yeah, I like to
just cut off at like five six maybe seven ish.
And I have those boundaries with like my management.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
They'll talk to me about work.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I'm tired of talking about work, and then really focused,
like I'll do my doom scrolling, I'll be on my
social media, or i'll color, or i'll read or yeah,
I'll watch my movie or my show and I just
live my normal life.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's how I really did compress.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Would you ever move from LA to either Miami or
New York and would you ever make a movie if
you had the chance. Ooh, I've honestly, I've said it before,
I've said it in my Instagram, but I love the
East Coast like I love Miami. I love New York.
I've really been loving New York more though I don't
know why, but I just feel very different there and
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I love the energy that I feel and the content
I create out there as well. Miami's always going to
have a piece of me. I love the home that
I've created there, but I don't know if I would
ever leave. Like I, I feel like my siblings depend
on well. More specifically, Jackie depends on me with her
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kids and stuff, especially right now with like her divorce,
and I don't want to miss when the kids have
important dates. I want to be here. I want to
be present. I want to make sure that I make
it to like all the games and important school moments.
They're like stuff like that that I just feel like
I need to be home and in LA and nearby.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
So I can be here.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
But I don't know whatever God has planned for me.
I'm just gonna believe it and trust it, but I
do think I'm gonna be staying here update us on
a personal level how your fitness journey has impacted you
and how it's going. I am so happy with where
I'm at right now. I do struggle with body dysmorphia,
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and I do feel like I look at myself, I'm like,
like there's really no difference, but that's just me and
I have to work on that. But personally, I'm happy.
I'm good, I'm healthy, I'm doing the best that I can.
I'm really really focus, to be honest, I have a
lot of good things coming that.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I cannot wait to share with you guys.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
But yeah, like it's it's been working out well. So
I'm happy and healthy and we're all we're all good
over here. What's the biggest lesson you've learned? How do
you manage stress and anxiety in your life? The biggest
lesson I've learned was to stopp being a people pleaser
and to do to doing things just so that people
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can like me. I felt like that came from me
having like a sense of belonging growing up, or like
I just never wanted to be bullied. I want people
to like me for me and not for who my
family was all that. So I really tried to prove
myself to people and just for them to be my friend.
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And I had to learn the hard way when it
came to that. And how do you manage stress and anxiety?
I take time for my so the moment I wake
up in the morning, I am praying and I get
ready to go to the gym, I have my breakfast,
I read my word, and then I go work out
so that I can get all that energy so my
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creativity can start flowing. And then I come home and
then get to work. First comes me, then comes work.
That's how it helps me manage my stress and my
anxiety and sets the tone for my day. How has
your faith in Jesus influenced your approach to health, habits
or discipline? This is really good and this is something
that I had to learn recently because I'm in Bible
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College at my church. But it's like you're living out
You're living testimony basically, and whatever you're trying to I
learned that it's your private life is your strongest testimony.
So whatever I'm doing privately is going to be more
important than what I'm doing posting publicly. Or so on
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and so forth. I think like how I am as
a person who my heart is, where my posture is
and my heart or how I treat people, how my
family is, if I'm giving, like I feel like that
has changed my approach a lot. It's also like when
I think about in Bible College, I learned like, oh,
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you have to think about grieving the Holy Spirit, and
it's like essentially grieving God like imagine he's right here
because he realistically is like imagine hurting his feelings with
certain things that you're doing. And it changed the perspective
for me, like you have to see like, oh, man,
like I'm not trying to nor does God make us
feel guilty. We're just more aware of our decisions and
we want to be better people and be better followers
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and it doesn't hurt to like do make better choices.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
If that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
So it's really changed a lot of like I can't
give God what he's given me like and saved me from,
so the least that I can do is obey and
surrender and make better ties voices. So that's what basically
the answer is, Like that's what's changed my faith and
what's helped me and guided me. Last question, have you
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ever written a testimony? And have and have you gotten baptized?
And how did you come to know God? And where
you raise Kathic? Okay, I was not raised Catholic. I
was around it because my dad. I came to know
God right before my mom had passed away, and a
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couple of years after my dad passed away, so it
all kind of aligned. And when I'm when I say that,
like following God is hard, like that only prepared me
to lose my mom that same year. So it has
been a journey of up and down, its emotional roller coaster,
and my relationship with God was very rocky. But I
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just want to say that these last couple of years,
like these last two three years, has changed dramatically because
I'm older now and I understand and I'm more aware,
and I feel like I'm healed to understand more about Godden,
to understand more about myself, which is when I got
baptized last year. I had been Christian my whole life.
I never saw baptism super important until I realized like, okay, wow,
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this is a commitment and this is a choice.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
And then I got baptized and it was.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It was great, it was beautiful, it was amazing. I
felt so happy, and I think that choice had to
be more for me than anything else. And basically, yeah,
my testimony. I always get this question, and I guess
I could say it on the podcast one day. But
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I feel like you guys kind of know about my life,
but there's a lot of things that you guys don't
know that are things that I don't know if I
would share completely. But I have written my testimony. You
guys also know, like my life has been an open
book by choice and not by choice when it came
to like the reality show and obviously the podcast and
stuff like that. But those are things that I choose
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to say it because I know that it's gonna make
me uncomfortable, but I know that it's gonna help you
guys heal and make it a sense of comfort for
you guys. So anything that I could do in my
life for if I could be a living testimony, or
if I can be someone that has inspiring stories that
came from certain situations, then I will be it and
do it.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
And I hope that I could do the.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Best at it. But yeah, I think that is going
to be it for today, you guys. If you guys
want to send me your questions, I'm going to be
doing these more often because you guys send really really
good ones and they're different. So make sure you join
my broadcast channel on my Instagram. It's called Jenika's Diaries.
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You will see it right there. You have to join it,
and I will see the questions there. I'll ask. But yeah,
other than that, make sure you guys like come and subscribe,
leave a review, and I will see you guys next
Tuesday
Welcome back to the Overcomfort podcast. I'm your host, Jennica Lopez.
Thank you guys so much for choosing to listen or
watch this episode today. Today we're not cooking you guys.
It's gonna be super chill and relaxed because I like
to do these little random questions and answers Q and
a's with you guys, so that we could just have
a moment to catch up. If you guys have any
(00:28):
life questions, any advice questions, whatever it is, I'm gonna
answer them today in this episode, and maybe we'll do
another one soon, but I like to have it in
between slawe. You guys get a nice little refresh of
what's going on. So cheers, grab your little cafecito, grab
whatever you have. We're gonna be getting right into it.
(00:50):
These questions are directly from my broadcast channel on my Instagram,
So if you guys aren't a part of it, what
are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You guys gotta go join there.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
In that channel, I give exclusives out about who's gonna
be in the next episode. You guys get to know
little things. I share little things, random things here and there.
But anyways, we're gonna get right into it, because you
guys had a lot of cute and good questions, a
lot that are very uh, some are repetitive. So if
you guys are new, you guys will hear this answer
for the first time. And if you guys aren't, you.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Guys are probably gonna have me hear the answer again.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
But here we go. Hm, what relaxes you and inspires you?
I love that's a really good interesting question actually, because
they go kind of hand in hand. What inspires me,
I'll say is definitely my We're already gonna get cliche
(01:44):
and deep here, but I would definitely say my past,
Like what I've lived in my past inspires me to
not get back there, if that makes any sense, Like
I use it as my motivation to really just push
me to not like I remember what I felt back
then and I don't want to do that or ever
be in that position again, So it would it's that's
(02:11):
my inspiration. And what relaxes mean I always love Like
I know that I cook here on the podcast, and
you guys would assume that I'm not relaxing, but when
I'm cooking home at home and it's not for the podcast,
I'm definitely most at peace, or if I am just
chilling on my bed watching TV, when I am coloring,
(02:33):
when I'm probably just actually doing nothing. But I have
to really make sure that all my work is done
and everything that I'm doing is done, because then.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I won't relax. It's a mental thing.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I need to learn how to just like shut it
off when I when I'm.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Really trying to. I don't know if I'm making sense.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But like you guys, get me. When we're so like
fight or flight or we're looking to we're still our
minds keeps going like about the next thing, and I
need to learn.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
To just stop, sit and be still. But that's really
really hard.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Okay, okay, do you miss your mom?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And would you ever get into singing like she did?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I have a couple questions of that same thing about
getting into singing, and I was gonna do a solo
episode about it because I get asked this a lot
because both of my sisters are singers and because my
mom was a singer, I feel like people assume that
I would.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But to be honest, you.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Guys, I put into perspective like I haven't sang in
a long, long long time. Like I'll post videos here
and there on TikTok, but as an actual career, like
I don't ever see myself doing it one because I
saw what my mom went through. It is also the
(03:52):
career that like, you know, took her, So I would
say that there might be maybe slight resentment there, but
I see the struggles that my sisters go through, and
it is a whole nother playing field where it allows
people to judge you for you loving music in general
(04:13):
and judging your voice, and which isn't a problem, but
everybody is right, has a right to their own opinion.
But I just don't feel like I would want that
on my life. I already get a lot of comments
and stuff now that I just feel like, I don't know.
I don't think I have the thick skin to do it,
and I just like doing it for fun, like for myself,
(04:37):
like one am my hidden talents, you know, Like.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I guess I also play guitar.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
People.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I think people forget that I know how to play
the guitar, which I don't really play.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That often because I always have like longer nails.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
But anyways, to answer that question perfectly, I don't think
I would ever choose to do a singing career, maybe
get back into like serving at my church in that way,
but I don't know. I'm kind of happy with where
I'm at right now. Have you always been a church girly?
If not, what made you get closer to God? So
(05:10):
I grew up in church. My uncle is a pastor,
my theop is a pastor. So my family grew up Christian.
My dad's side was Catholic, so I kind of always
knew about God and all that I gave my life.
I accepted Christ into my life when I was fourteen,
right before my mom passed away. So yeah, I've always
(05:33):
been into church, but after my mom passed away and
everything like that, I kind of stopped going. Then it
was COVID, it was church online, and that was enough
for me. Like church online was great, especially for me
like anti social, and I just really don't want to
get like I don't really like to. This is so
contradicting because I have a podcast, but I just don't
(05:56):
like talking to people. So I've gotten better at it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I just feel like I have a lot of social anxiety.
So I just I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But whatever anyways, And I guess like now that I'm older,
I definitely have gotten closer. I do feel like I've
recommitted and resurrendered my life because it's it's helped me
a lot, and it's been one of the best decisions
that I've made. It's, uh, it's a hard honestly, Like
(06:25):
when you accept God as your learned savior and you're
just following down the path that he did, or that
the trying to live in his will, Like it's really
hard to be a follower. Like it's like damn, like,
like it doesn't get easier. I'm I'm not gonna lie
to you guys, but to know that I'm going to
be secure and promised so many beautiful things and that
(06:49):
my life is at the end of the day in
the hands of God and He's going to take care
of me, and then I have really nothing to worry about,
and I'm I'm really happy about that. It's something that
I don't ever regret and I would recommend it for everybody.
But we can get that into that another day. Okay,
there's gonna be a random array of questions, like they're
gonna be like serious and we're gonna be a little
(07:10):
bit silly. Just a thought, what you guys can know.
And if you guys are ever inspired to ask me
any questions, I'm gonna answer them in my broadcast channel.
So make sure you guys join me. Follow me on
Instagram and it's called Jeddika's Diary, so you gotta get
a little sneak peek. But next question is what is
your favorite memory of your mom? And what's your favorite perfume?
(07:30):
Oh those are two very different questions. I like that
my favorite memory. I wouldn't say that it's necessarily a memory,
but that year that she passed away, in October, I
went to a youth camp and the parents, some parents
showed up and some parents would send letters in and
(07:51):
my mom sent hers in because she was working, and
I remember, and I still have the letter to this day,
and I don't think I would ever read it out loud,
just because I like, I would love to keep that
for myself and for my own memories. But I have
the original copy that she emailed, because my mom loved emailing.
She didn't handwrite it, but she wrote an email to
(08:13):
Jackie and Jackie Pritt it in and has Jackie's email
and stuff on there. But it was this beautiful, beautiful
letter that she wrote me about just like me as
her daughter, and how she was trying her best because
my dad had just passed away. Like I can't replace that.
It was very very like it was the sweetest thing
(08:35):
that my mom I felt like has ever done. Like
I just felt I felt her loving it. I'm not
saying I didn't feel in anything else, but it was like, wow,
that was like just for me. That is literally just
for me. So I read it at different points in
my life, Like I read it actually the other day,
like three weeks ago, and I was just the way
(08:57):
what she was saying, like spoke to me so differently
now that I'm older and like I'm living certain situations
and I don't know, it's just those those that's probably
my favorite favorite memory or favorite moment of my mom.
And hmm, what's your favorite perfume? I have a lot
of perfumes. I love very sweet, vanilla warm perfumes.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I just I like smelling like soft like that.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I'm not very like the fruity type or the old
sandalwood like not too strong masculine scents like that, but
I do love Right now, I'm wearing the Ariana Grande Alphaba.
I love the Glinda version. I love Kylie Cosmetics perfume,
the cosmic one Kyali. I wear a bunch of different ones,
(09:48):
so you guys don't know like my main main scent,
but yeah, those ones are my favorite. Okay. If you
could live in any place and time, when and where
would you choose to be? Any place I would love
to live in honestly, Okay, I would love to live
(10:12):
in New York, but in a different era, like I
would love to be more like the early early older
in the two thousands. Like I was too baby because
I was born in nineteen ninety seven, but I would
love to be like eleven, thirteen, fourteen or at that age.
I think it is such a cool time, or like
(10:32):
the eighties.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I also think that those times are cool.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Or when Princess Diana was here. I love Princess Diana
her vibe.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I think that was early two thousands something like that.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, okay, Next one, what are your thoughts If forgiveness
is the way to heal slash move forward? Does that
mean the person who's done wrong gets a free pass.
Forgiveness is more for you than it is for that person,
even if that person has never said sorry or whatever,
(11:04):
it is more for you to heal. It doesn't mean
that they get a free pass. I love, I love
to forgive, and I know it's hard to say to forget,
but to not forget. Sometimes there's things that I hold
on to and I'm learning to let it go because
I used to be a very person like like I
(11:25):
would hold it in a lot because I was My
emotions were very silent and suppressed when I was younger.
So I just learned to do that with other situations.
But I do know that healing is more for you
than it is for that person. So you don't want
that bitterness to be growing and bubbling up and you
have to let it go. But you also are wise
(11:47):
enough like, Okay, how can I be better in this situation?
Or how can I not let myself get hurt? And
you look for different ways, healthy ways to forgive that
person and to move on from it, but also be
wise with your next decisions. Your boundaries. Boundaries are huge
when you are looking to heal and forgive people. So yeah, ooh,
(12:10):
how do you balance your online life with your personal life?
To be honest, you, guys, I feel like I do
it pretty well. A portion of my life, like ten
percent fifteen percent of my life, No, let's say no,
thirty percent of my life. Maybe fifty is what you
(12:32):
guys see and the other fifty percent, Like I keep
to myself, like dating, who, who I'm around, where exactly
I'm going, Like, there's a lot of things that I
keep to myself for safety reasons and because I want
to keep things for me, like I don't need the
opinions or comments of anybody else. So I've really learned
(12:52):
to balance it, like I know when to not record
or I know when this is a moment that I
would like to share and if I'm ready for.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
People's opinions and comments in my life.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
So it's really it's hard, but I've made it easier
because I have to learn how to respect myself and
my privacy as well. Okay, are you dating anyone and
have you ever dated anyone toxic? How do you feel
about your mom that she kept toxic ment? Pretty that's
(13:30):
that's a good one. Okay, I am not dating anyone,
and I don't want to say that I've dated anyone toxic.
I feel like I'm probably a little bit more toxic,
but yeah, I'm probably the toxic one to be honest
with you guys just a little bit, and also just
(13:53):
you know, like life and it just never worked out
with certain people. But how do I about my mom
having toxic men? Do I wish that she learned and
that she wouldn't Yes, absolutely, I wish that she was
loved properly when she was younger or in those toxic relationships.
I wish that she was loved because it would have
changed a lot of things. But also learn and understand
(14:16):
from her experiences. So I see it like as a
kind of lego when when like learning, But I do
wish as a woman that there was a little bit
more self. My mom was very like tough like she
was very tough and very confident. But then obviously where
women were girls and we were weak and we fall
(14:39):
into certain things. But I'm very proud of her story
and what she went through, and I loved learning from
those situations as well, because you know, the stuff that
she went through I would not put up with. So
kudos to her. Okay, you have a very busy lifestyle.
(15:00):
What do you do to decompress from everything? This kind
of goes into the relaxing situation. But I else, I
like to have a certain time for me to be
done with work. Like I love to wake up early,
film my videos, edit them, and then send them toever
who I need to send them to. Sometimes I work late,
(15:23):
like days that I'm about to film the podcast, I
have to write the questions and do my research and
all that stuff, or I'm posting or but I like
to have a certain time when I'm done, like if
it's like five o'clock, like, okay, you guys, I'm done,
Like my brain is fried. I can't like I really
can't process anymore, and I'm gonna have to leave it
for tomorrow because that's when I'm gonna be fresh and
(15:45):
when my ideas are gonna be better, and when I'm
just feeling better in general. So yeah, I like to
just cut off at like five six maybe seven ish.
And I have those boundaries with like my management.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
They'll talk to me about work.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I'm tired of talking about work, and then really focused,
like I'll do my doom scrolling, I'll be on my
social media, or i'll color, or i'll read or yeah,
I'll watch my movie or my show and I just
live my normal life.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's how I really did compress.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Would you ever move from LA to either Miami or
New York and would you ever make a movie if
you had the chance. Ooh, I've honestly, I've said it before,
I've said it in my Instagram, but I love the
East Coast like I love Miami. I love New York.
I've really been loving New York more though I don't
know why, but I just feel very different there and
(16:39):
I love the energy that I feel and the content
I create out there as well. Miami's always going to
have a piece of me. I love the home that
I've created there, but I don't know if I would
ever leave. Like I, I feel like my siblings depend
on well. More specifically, Jackie depends on me with her
(17:00):
kids and stuff, especially right now with like her divorce,
and I don't want to miss when the kids have
important dates. I want to be here. I want to
be present. I want to make sure that I make
it to like all the games and important school moments.
They're like stuff like that that I just feel like
I need to be home and in LA and nearby.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
So I can be here.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
But I don't know whatever God has planned for me.
I'm just gonna believe it and trust it, but I
do think I'm gonna be staying here update us on
a personal level how your fitness journey has impacted you
and how it's going. I am so happy with where
I'm at right now. I do struggle with body dysmorphia,
(17:43):
and I do feel like I look at myself, I'm like,
like there's really no difference, but that's just me and
I have to work on that. But personally, I'm happy.
I'm good, I'm healthy, I'm doing the best that I can.
I'm really really focus, to be honest, I have a
lot of good things coming that.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I cannot wait to share with you guys.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
But yeah, like it's it's been working out well. So
I'm happy and healthy and we're all we're all good
over here. What's the biggest lesson you've learned? How do
you manage stress and anxiety in your life? The biggest
lesson I've learned was to stopp being a people pleaser
and to do to doing things just so that people
(18:30):
can like me. I felt like that came from me
having like a sense of belonging growing up, or like
I just never wanted to be bullied. I want people
to like me for me and not for who my
family was all that. So I really tried to prove
myself to people and just for them to be my friend.
(18:53):
And I had to learn the hard way when it
came to that. And how do you manage stress and anxiety?
I take time for my so the moment I wake
up in the morning, I am praying and I get
ready to go to the gym, I have my breakfast,
I read my word, and then I go work out
so that I can get all that energy so my
(19:14):
creativity can start flowing. And then I come home and
then get to work. First comes me, then comes work.
That's how it helps me manage my stress and my
anxiety and sets the tone for my day. How has
your faith in Jesus influenced your approach to health, habits
or discipline? This is really good and this is something
that I had to learn recently because I'm in Bible
(19:36):
College at my church. But it's like you're living out
You're living testimony basically, and whatever you're trying to I
learned that it's your private life is your strongest testimony.
So whatever I'm doing privately is going to be more
important than what I'm doing posting publicly. Or so on
(19:58):
and so forth. I think like how I am as
a person who my heart is, where my posture is
and my heart or how I treat people, how my
family is, if I'm giving, like I feel like that
has changed my approach a lot. It's also like when
I think about in Bible College, I learned like, oh,
(20:19):
you have to think about grieving the Holy Spirit, and
it's like essentially grieving God like imagine he's right here
because he realistically is like imagine hurting his feelings with
certain things that you're doing. And it changed the perspective
for me, like you have to see like, oh, man,
like I'm not trying to nor does God make us
feel guilty. We're just more aware of our decisions and
we want to be better people and be better followers
(20:41):
and it doesn't hurt to like do make better choices.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
If that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
So it's really changed a lot of like I can't
give God what he's given me like and saved me from,
so the least that I can do is obey and
surrender and make better ties voices. So that's what basically
the answer is, Like that's what's changed my faith and
what's helped me and guided me. Last question, have you
(21:08):
ever written a testimony? And have and have you gotten baptized?
And how did you come to know God? And where
you raise Kathic? Okay, I was not raised Catholic. I
was around it because my dad. I came to know
God right before my mom had passed away, and a
(21:28):
couple of years after my dad passed away, so it
all kind of aligned. And when I'm when I say that,
like following God is hard, like that only prepared me
to lose my mom that same year. So it has
been a journey of up and down, its emotional roller coaster,
and my relationship with God was very rocky. But I
(21:49):
just want to say that these last couple of years,
like these last two three years, has changed dramatically because
I'm older now and I understand and I'm more aware,
and I feel like I'm healed to understand more about Godden,
to understand more about myself, which is when I got
baptized last year. I had been Christian my whole life.
I never saw baptism super important until I realized like, okay, wow,
(22:11):
this is a commitment and this is a choice.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
And then I got baptized and it was.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
It was great, it was beautiful, it was amazing. I
felt so happy, and I think that choice had to
be more for me than anything else. And basically, yeah,
my testimony. I always get this question, and I guess
I could say it on the podcast one day. But
(22:37):
I feel like you guys kind of know about my life,
but there's a lot of things that you guys don't
know that are things that I don't know if I
would share completely. But I have written my testimony. You
guys also know, like my life has been an open
book by choice and not by choice when it came
to like the reality show and obviously the podcast and
stuff like that. But those are things that I choose
(22:59):
to say it because I know that it's gonna make
me uncomfortable, but I know that it's gonna help you
guys heal and make it a sense of comfort for
you guys. So anything that I could do in my
life for if I could be a living testimony, or
if I can be someone that has inspiring stories that
came from certain situations, then I will be it and
do it.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
And I hope that I could do the.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Best at it. But yeah, I think that is going
to be it for today, you guys. If you guys
want to send me your questions, I'm going to be
doing these more often because you guys send really really
good ones and they're different. So make sure you join
my broadcast channel on my Instagram. It's called Jenika's Diaries.
(23:42):
You will see it right there. You have to join it,
and I will see the questions there. I'll ask. But yeah,
other than that, make sure you guys like come and subscribe,
leave a review, and I will see you guys next
Tuesday
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