October 29, 2025 • 17 mins
Gia names the reality show that didn’t portray her personality, and the one that did.
Plus, is she really ready to live alone?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey guys, and welcome back to another week of geodiaries.
This weekend was actually jam packed, but it was a
really good weekend. On Friday, Christian and I kind of
explored Jersey City a little bit, which was super fun.
So we got to kind of see my new neighborhood
(00:22):
and I am just so excited to move in. I
can't wait. I officially have one more week at home.
This is my last week home, which is kind of crazy,
and I was kind of saying that this weekend that
I really haven't had time to process that I'm really moving.
(00:44):
Of course, I know all the things are happening and
everything's falling into place, but mentally, I haven't had time
to process it. So this past weekend I kind of
got a little emotional with him because I don't know,
I think it just kind of hit me that him
and I are going to be at a further distance
and I am not going to be with Audriana all
(01:07):
the time and my family, and I think it's kind
of a funny feeling just because of the way that
I grew up, in the way that I was raised,
I was always raised to be there for my family
and just be another person obviously if they ever need anything.
So that was my role not only as the oldest child,
(01:30):
but the oldest sister. And I'm constantly there for my
mom if she needs anything. When it came to my sisters,
and now that Audriana is the last one in the
house that still needs rides and still needs to go places,
I do absolutely everything for Audriana if she needs me.
So that's kind of weird because I feel like I'm
(01:53):
leaving her. Of course, she has my stepbrother, but my
two sisters are away at college, and I was the
only sister left at home for her, so the only
girls are going to be her and my mom in
the house. And I think she's definitely upset about it,
but she's also just so mature. She's so happy for me,
(02:17):
and she knows that this move is just going to
bring bigger and better things. But I think it was
just a lot for me mentally. So Christian recently just
moved with his family to a closer town to me.
So it's kind of funny because we kind of always
change distances from each other. And I just feel like
(02:41):
it's going to be like college again. It's going to
be like when I was at Rutgers. We know that
weekends are going to be really dedicated to us, but
I if we want to see each other during the week,
we're going to see each other. Obviously, there's going to
be weeks that are busier than others. And if I
feel like going to see him, I'm going to go
see him, And if he feels like coming to see me,
(03:02):
he's going to come see me. But this morning, I
was working out with my mom and she was like, well,
I still want to see you at least once a week,
whether I come home once a week or she comes
to visit me. I really do want to come home.
I think like every Sunday at least for Sunday dinner,
(03:22):
just to see the fam. And yeah, I don't know.
I'm really excited. But this week I kind of had
time to process it a little bit. And this is
my last week home, so it's kind of crazy. That
was Friday, and I took my first path ride from
Jersey City, so it was so easy. I am, guys,
(03:46):
my life is going to be changed. I am so
excited to be able to get into the city so
much easier, have such an easier commute. It was life changing.
I ended up going to Brooks's house and it took
me twenty minutes to get there. It was just amazing.
(04:08):
And this past week, every event that I've been at
in the city, I've kind of just been, you know,
typing in my address seeing how far it is. It's
twenty twenty five minutes. Like it's just life changing, literally,
So I am just so excited to go into this
(04:30):
new chapter and just see where this takes me. Right now,
it's a lot financially, it costs a lot to move
into a new place. I'm furnishing the whole thing, and
I'm so type a that I have been buying everything
and I just really want it to feel like a
(04:53):
home when I move in. And if obviously I'm going
to need to buy little things here and there, that
it's totally fine, but I just want it, like I'm crazy.
I wanted to feel complete on the first day, which
I know that's not going to happen, but I just
wanted to feel homey right away. And I'm excited for that.
(05:16):
I am bringing little Bella with me, so I hope
she adjusts, and yeah, I'm excited, I really am. I
can't wait. So that's kind of also what I did
on Saturday. So Saturday, I kind of just went through
everything that I have ordered so far for the apartment
(05:37):
because I didn't go through it yet. There was a
lot of things that I wanted to return, a lot
of other things that I wanted to repurchase. So Saturday,
I literally went through all of my boxes. And I'm
so happy I did that because half the things I
opened and I was like, I hate that. So I
(05:57):
did a lot of returns and then I went to
home since for the first time, I love Home Sense.
I love my home Goods, don't get me wrong, but
I just felt like Home Sense had such a bigger
variety of things and I kind of felt like it
was a bit better than Home Goods. Don't come at me.
They all have their perks, and I know they get
(06:20):
new inventory and new shipments all the time, so I
don't know, I just Home Sense had a lot. So
all the things that I returned, I went to Home
Sense and bought things that I really loved. And it's
so funny because I have these two feather lamps in
my room right now, but they're white, and the vibe
(06:42):
of my apartment I'm going for like a more of
like a neutral tones, so beige's browns very just cozy.
And I went into home Sense and I saw my
same exact lamp that I have in my room because
I was gonna bring my lamps from home. There was
one and it was the gold stem and the lamp
(07:09):
like the lamp the lamp cover, so it was a
gold stem and the lamp cover was beige feathers. It
was perfect, like this was literally perfect. And I'm running
around the lamp section trying to find a second one,
and no either way, I was gonna buy the first one,
(07:31):
and I'm looking, I'm looking, and they do this on purpose,
like they hid the second lamp. The second lamp was
hidden and I found it. I was with my best
friend Lauren, and I was like Lauren, Lauren, I couldn't
reach it, and she's taller than me. So we found
the second lamp. I have two beige feathered lamps for
my room and it's actually perfect. It's gonna look so good.
(07:54):
I also got like this beautiful painting for above my bed,
and a bunch of little nicknames because my TV stand
has like little pocket openers almost like I don't know,
like little windows. If you get what I'm saying, so
you can like put stuff on the shelves. So I've
been buying a lot of that stuff and I think
it's gonna look really great and yeah, I don't know.
(08:16):
I'm really excited. So that's what I did on Saturday.
And then yesterday I did a breast cancer walk with
my family. So for those of you who don't know,
my dad's sister, my Zizzy Maria, she's also my godmother,
battled breast cancer this past year. She is a survivor.
So we did a five k for her yesterday and
(08:41):
she was just so happy. It was so nice. We
were all walking together, and then we went back to
my aunt's house and had lunch and it was just
it was so nice. I'm so proud of her. She's
a fighter. She's so strong and it was pretty amazing
to just see her glowing and just so happy obviously
(09:06):
to have beat this and fought this, and she's pretty incredible.
And then last night I went to the Sabrina Carpenter
concert with buckshum Cosmetics and it was so much fun.
I was never like not a fan of Sabrina Carpenter,
but I was never like a oh my god, But
(09:28):
now I'm like, oh my god, her body is tea.
She is so sexual and I never realized that all
of her songs are about men. So then I'm sitting
there thinking like, girl, what have you gone through? I
also felt like she gave off that she was a
Southern bell but just like everything her wardrobe, the shoes
she wore, just everything, her hair. I looked it up
(09:51):
and she's from Pennsylvania and I was like, there's just
no way. And then I just found out last night
that Taylor Swift was also from PA. So there's something
in the wall her over there. But she was incredible.
She seems so sweet and down to earth and fun
facts she lives in New York City too. She So
she was awesome. I mean I loved everything about her.
(10:13):
Olivia Dean opened for her and she was incredible to
her voice was just amazing. Yeah, I don't know, Sabrina
killed it. She's gonna be at Madison Square Garden in
this entire week. So if you want to go see her,
I think you should go see her. This is your sign.
But she was awesome. Her outfits were just everything sparkly,
(10:34):
they were just awesome. I think she wears a wig
because the volume in her hair. I'm like, there's no
way and as she should like she shouldn't damage her hair.
That's like, honestly so smart in my opinion. So it
(10:57):
was a really fun weekend. Lots of things coming up,
my move and just working. So yeah, and as you
guys saw, season two of Next Gen NYC is confirmed,
So lots of fun things coming up and I can't
(11:18):
wait to take you guys along this journey with me.
This year has been really really amazing for me, just
have just because after doing Special Forces, I really saw
that I could be on my own and that I
could really handle my own and face any challenge. So
(11:42):
after Special Forces, I think that's when I knew I
really wanted to move out and do this for myself
because a lot of the times, and I don't think
it's I just I don't do a lot of things
for me. I care for everybody else, my friends, my family,
the people that I love around me, and I was ready.
(12:05):
I knew after Special Forces that I was ready and
I am just really excited for this new chapter. So
I can't wait for you guys to see that too.
And I actually saw this really funny TikTok. Well, it
was funny to me of this girl. She posted a
(12:27):
video she was like, I really didn't like Gia that
much and after watching Special Forces, like she is my favorite,
she is seriously my favorite. And she was like, I
just fear that when I watch her on season two
of Next Gen, I'm not going to like her again.
And I commented and I said, well, thank you. I
(12:48):
want to see exactly what I said. I don't even
know if I'm gonna be able to find it now,
but basically, season one of Next Gen it was not
it for me. That was not my high point. That
was not who I really am as a person. And
I think I tried to really, you know, show that
to you guys. And that's why I'm so grateful for
(13:09):
Special Forces, because there's no going around it like this.
That show shows you as your real, raw, true self.
And Season one and Next Gen just wasn't it for me,
Like that just wasn't it. That wasn't me. And when
(13:29):
this girl said this in this video, I was like,
I get it, Like I get why it maybe wasn't
your favorite on Next Gen, Like I didn't love me
on Next Gen, so but I do love me on
Special Forces because that's me and I even want to
read you guys a text message that my cousin Leleiana
(13:51):
sent me and she's so cute for this. She goes, Hi,
I'm actually so obsessed with Special Forces and cannot believe
you actually did that what I said. I love you
so much and I'm so happy you like it. She goes,
I love you, No, I genuinely love it, and I
actually like am seeing you like the GA I know
(14:11):
makes my heart so warm. Like when she sent that
to me, I was like, I love you because it's true,
Like that's who I am, that is that is me,
and I you know, you have your Everyone has their
highs and lows on reality TV, and I definitely would
not say Next Gen was a low because I freaking
(14:34):
love Next Gen and I am so grateful to be
a part of it. But last season it just it
wasn't it. You know, that wasn't it for me? You
really didn't get to see me for who I am.
So then this TikTok and her recaption of the video
was am I in a twilight Zone? So yeah, because
she really loved me. She I'm her favorite on Special Forces,
(14:56):
but on Next Gen, I wasn't. And I commented and said, well,
thank you with like the teary eyes and I hope
you like me this season on Next Gen. Last season
was not at lmao, and she said, ha ha ha,
I hope I do too, with two paint cards. So again,
I think everyone goes through their highs and lows on
(15:18):
reality TV. And this is why I am just so
grateful and I am so proud to have been on
Special Forces and have had that and had that experience,
because it's hard when you're in this world and you
definitely have moments that you're super proud of in moments
(15:39):
that you're not, and then you sit back and you're like,
that just wasn't me. And it's hard because no matter what,
you had to have said something to those links on
camera to have made them edit it a certain way,
which is true, which is valid, but it's hard because
you sit back in your like, but that's just not me,
(16:01):
like that, this is not Gea in her true self,
you know, like, this is not me for truly who
I am in my true self. So seeing that video,
it was like very rewarding in a way because Special
Forces is something that I'm so proud of and I
(16:23):
hope that when you guys see me on this season
of Next Gen you get that same feeling. And sometimes
when you sit back and realize, Okay, that wasn't me,
it's kind of hard to like defend yourself and say
that wasn't me, because yeah, I did say those things.
You know, maybe it got chopped up a certain way,
(16:44):
but yeah that did happen. So it's all about self
reflecting and just growing and evolving. And I'm definitely a
changed person after Special Forces. And that was it for
this week. Geodiaries, Love you guys. Bye h
Hey guys, and welcome back to another week of geodiaries.
This weekend was actually jam packed, but it was a
really good weekend. On Friday, Christian and I kind of
explored Jersey City a little bit, which was super fun.
So we got to kind of see my new neighborhood
(00:22):
and I am just so excited to move in. I
can't wait. I officially have one more week at home.
This is my last week home, which is kind of crazy,
and I was kind of saying that this weekend that
I really haven't had time to process that I'm really moving.
(00:44):
Of course, I know all the things are happening and
everything's falling into place, but mentally, I haven't had time
to process it. So this past weekend I kind of
got a little emotional with him because I don't know,
I think it just kind of hit me that him
and I are going to be at a further distance
and I am not going to be with Audriana all
(01:07):
the time and my family, and I think it's kind
of a funny feeling just because of the way that
I grew up, in the way that I was raised,
I was always raised to be there for my family
and just be another person obviously if they ever need anything.
So that was my role not only as the oldest child,
(01:30):
but the oldest sister. And I'm constantly there for my
mom if she needs anything. When it came to my sisters,
and now that Audriana is the last one in the
house that still needs rides and still needs to go places,
I do absolutely everything for Audriana if she needs me.
So that's kind of weird because I feel like I'm
(01:53):
leaving her. Of course, she has my stepbrother, but my
two sisters are away at college, and I was the
only sister left at home for her, so the only
girls are going to be her and my mom in
the house. And I think she's definitely upset about it,
but she's also just so mature. She's so happy for me,
(02:17):
and she knows that this move is just going to
bring bigger and better things. But I think it was
just a lot for me mentally. So Christian recently just
moved with his family to a closer town to me.
So it's kind of funny because we kind of always
change distances from each other. And I just feel like
(02:41):
it's going to be like college again. It's going to
be like when I was at Rutgers. We know that
weekends are going to be really dedicated to us, but
I if we want to see each other during the week,
we're going to see each other. Obviously, there's going to
be weeks that are busier than others. And if I
feel like going to see him, I'm going to go
see him, And if he feels like coming to see me,
(03:02):
he's going to come see me. But this morning, I
was working out with my mom and she was like, well,
I still want to see you at least once a week,
whether I come home once a week or she comes
to visit me. I really do want to come home.
I think like every Sunday at least for Sunday dinner,
(03:22):
just to see the fam. And yeah, I don't know.
I'm really excited. But this week I kind of had
time to process it a little bit. And this is
my last week home, so it's kind of crazy. That
was Friday, and I took my first path ride from
Jersey City, so it was so easy. I am, guys,
(03:46):
my life is going to be changed. I am so
excited to be able to get into the city so
much easier, have such an easier commute. It was life changing.
I ended up going to Brooks's house and it took
me twenty minutes to get there. It was just amazing.
(04:08):
And this past week, every event that I've been at
in the city, I've kind of just been, you know,
typing in my address seeing how far it is. It's
twenty twenty five minutes. Like it's just life changing, literally,
So I am just so excited to go into this
(04:30):
new chapter and just see where this takes me. Right now,
it's a lot financially, it costs a lot to move
into a new place. I'm furnishing the whole thing, and
I'm so type a that I have been buying everything
and I just really want it to feel like a
(04:53):
home when I move in. And if obviously I'm going
to need to buy little things here and there, that
it's totally fine, but I just want it, like I'm crazy.
I wanted to feel complete on the first day, which
I know that's not going to happen, but I just
wanted to feel homey right away. And I'm excited for that.
(05:16):
I am bringing little Bella with me, so I hope
she adjusts, and yeah, I'm excited, I really am. I
can't wait. So that's kind of also what I did
on Saturday. So Saturday, I kind of just went through
everything that I have ordered so far for the apartment
(05:37):
because I didn't go through it yet. There was a
lot of things that I wanted to return, a lot
of other things that I wanted to repurchase. So Saturday,
I literally went through all of my boxes. And I'm
so happy I did that because half the things I
opened and I was like, I hate that. So I
(05:57):
did a lot of returns and then I went to
home since for the first time, I love Home Sense.
I love my home Goods, don't get me wrong, but
I just felt like Home Sense had such a bigger
variety of things and I kind of felt like it
was a bit better than Home Goods. Don't come at me.
They all have their perks, and I know they get
(06:20):
new inventory and new shipments all the time, so I
don't know, I just Home Sense had a lot. So
all the things that I returned, I went to Home
Sense and bought things that I really loved. And it's
so funny because I have these two feather lamps in
my room right now, but they're white, and the vibe
(06:42):
of my apartment I'm going for like a more of
like a neutral tones, so beige's browns very just cozy.
And I went into home Sense and I saw my
same exact lamp that I have in my room because
I was gonna bring my lamps from home. There was
one and it was the gold stem and the lamp
(07:09):
like the lamp the lamp cover, so it was a
gold stem and the lamp cover was beige feathers. It
was perfect, like this was literally perfect. And I'm running
around the lamp section trying to find a second one,
and no either way, I was gonna buy the first one,
(07:31):
and I'm looking, I'm looking, and they do this on purpose,
like they hid the second lamp. The second lamp was
hidden and I found it. I was with my best
friend Lauren, and I was like Lauren, Lauren, I couldn't
reach it, and she's taller than me. So we found
the second lamp. I have two beige feathered lamps for
my room and it's actually perfect. It's gonna look so good.
(07:54):
I also got like this beautiful painting for above my bed,
and a bunch of little nicknames because my TV stand
has like little pocket openers almost like I don't know,
like little windows. If you get what I'm saying, so
you can like put stuff on the shelves. So I've
been buying a lot of that stuff and I think
it's gonna look really great and yeah, I don't know.
(08:16):
I'm really excited. So that's what I did on Saturday.
And then yesterday I did a breast cancer walk with
my family. So for those of you who don't know,
my dad's sister, my Zizzy Maria, she's also my godmother,
battled breast cancer this past year. She is a survivor.
So we did a five k for her yesterday and
(08:41):
she was just so happy. It was so nice. We
were all walking together, and then we went back to
my aunt's house and had lunch and it was just
it was so nice. I'm so proud of her. She's
a fighter. She's so strong and it was pretty amazing
to just see her glowing and just so happy obviously
(09:06):
to have beat this and fought this, and she's pretty incredible.
And then last night I went to the Sabrina Carpenter
concert with buckshum Cosmetics and it was so much fun.
I was never like not a fan of Sabrina Carpenter,
but I was never like a oh my god, But
(09:28):
now I'm like, oh my god, her body is tea.
She is so sexual and I never realized that all
of her songs are about men. So then I'm sitting
there thinking like, girl, what have you gone through? I
also felt like she gave off that she was a
Southern bell but just like everything her wardrobe, the shoes
she wore, just everything, her hair. I looked it up
(09:51):
and she's from Pennsylvania and I was like, there's just
no way. And then I just found out last night
that Taylor Swift was also from PA. So there's something
in the wall her over there. But she was incredible.
She seems so sweet and down to earth and fun
facts she lives in New York City too. She So
she was awesome. I mean I loved everything about her.
(10:13):
Olivia Dean opened for her and she was incredible to
her voice was just amazing. Yeah, I don't know, Sabrina
killed it. She's gonna be at Madison Square Garden in
this entire week. So if you want to go see her,
I think you should go see her. This is your sign.
But she was awesome. Her outfits were just everything sparkly,
(10:34):
they were just awesome. I think she wears a wig
because the volume in her hair. I'm like, there's no
way and as she should like she shouldn't damage her hair.
That's like, honestly so smart in my opinion. So it
(10:57):
was a really fun weekend. Lots of things coming up,
my move and just working. So yeah, and as you
guys saw, season two of Next Gen NYC is confirmed,
So lots of fun things coming up and I can't
(11:18):
wait to take you guys along this journey with me.
This year has been really really amazing for me, just
have just because after doing Special Forces, I really saw
that I could be on my own and that I
could really handle my own and face any challenge. So
(11:42):
after Special Forces, I think that's when I knew I
really wanted to move out and do this for myself
because a lot of the times, and I don't think
it's I just I don't do a lot of things
for me. I care for everybody else, my friends, my family,
the people that I love around me, and I was ready.
(12:05):
I knew after Special Forces that I was ready and
I am just really excited for this new chapter. So
I can't wait for you guys to see that too.
And I actually saw this really funny TikTok. Well, it
was funny to me of this girl. She posted a
(12:27):
video she was like, I really didn't like Gia that
much and after watching Special Forces, like she is my favorite,
she is seriously my favorite. And she was like, I
just fear that when I watch her on season two
of Next Gen, I'm not going to like her again.
And I commented and I said, well, thank you. I
(12:48):
want to see exactly what I said. I don't even
know if I'm gonna be able to find it now,
but basically, season one of Next Gen it was not
it for me. That was not my high point. That
was not who I really am as a person. And
I think I tried to really, you know, show that
to you guys. And that's why I'm so grateful for
(13:09):
Special Forces, because there's no going around it like this.
That show shows you as your real, raw, true self.
And Season one and Next Gen just wasn't it for me,
Like that just wasn't it. That wasn't me. And when
(13:29):
this girl said this in this video, I was like,
I get it, Like I get why it maybe wasn't
your favorite on Next Gen, Like I didn't love me
on Next Gen, so but I do love me on
Special Forces because that's me and I even want to
read you guys a text message that my cousin Leleiana
(13:51):
sent me and she's so cute for this. She goes, Hi,
I'm actually so obsessed with Special Forces and cannot believe
you actually did that what I said. I love you
so much and I'm so happy you like it. She goes,
I love you, No, I genuinely love it, and I
actually like am seeing you like the GA I know
(14:11):
makes my heart so warm. Like when she sent that
to me, I was like, I love you because it's true,
Like that's who I am, that is that is me,
and I you know, you have your Everyone has their
highs and lows on reality TV, and I definitely would
not say Next Gen was a low because I freaking
(14:34):
love Next Gen and I am so grateful to be
a part of it. But last season it just it
wasn't it. You know, that wasn't it for me? You
really didn't get to see me for who I am.
So then this TikTok and her recaption of the video
was am I in a twilight Zone? So yeah, because
she really loved me. She I'm her favorite on Special Forces,
(14:56):
but on Next Gen, I wasn't. And I commented and said, well,
thank you with like the teary eyes and I hope
you like me this season on Next Gen. Last season
was not at lmao, and she said, ha ha ha,
I hope I do too, with two paint cards. So again,
I think everyone goes through their highs and lows on
(15:18):
reality TV. And this is why I am just so
grateful and I am so proud to have been on
Special Forces and have had that and had that experience,
because it's hard when you're in this world and you
definitely have moments that you're super proud of in moments
(15:39):
that you're not, and then you sit back and you're like,
that just wasn't me. And it's hard because no matter what,
you had to have said something to those links on
camera to have made them edit it a certain way,
which is true, which is valid, but it's hard because
you sit back in your like, but that's just not me,
(16:01):
like that, this is not Gea in her true self,
you know, like, this is not me for truly who
I am in my true self. So seeing that video,
it was like very rewarding in a way because Special
Forces is something that I'm so proud of and I
(16:23):
hope that when you guys see me on this season
of Next Gen you get that same feeling. And sometimes
when you sit back and realize, Okay, that wasn't me,
it's kind of hard to like defend yourself and say
that wasn't me, because yeah, I did say those things.
You know, maybe it got chopped up a certain way,
(16:44):
but yeah that did happen. So it's all about self
reflecting and just growing and evolving. And I'm definitely a
changed person after Special Forces. And that was it for
this week. Geodiaries, Love you guys. Bye h
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