May 15, 2023 • 14 mins
The one where Dylan unveils the newest podcast produced by So I Said Media, Letter to my Homegirls, hosted by Sydnei and Morgan!
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Dylan Sellers (00:00):
So I said new pod alert. I got some guests. Alert,
(00:07):
alert. So I said media isexpanding. Yes, sir. In bigger.
We're getting bigger out here.
Yeah, I'll say so. So I saidmedia will be presenting a new
podcast with Sydnei and Morgancalled
Morgan Adrine (00:21):
a letter to my home girls.
Dylan Sellers (00:23):
That was listen, that was
Morgan Adrine (00:29):
often known.
Dylan Sellers (00:31):
We did. So tell me about like, how this
happened. Like, I know they likeyou know, so I said Media is
helping put this together. Butlike, the idea was birthed
before you came to me, right. Solike, talk to me about like,
where this came from?
Sydeni Sellers (00:48):
Well, we originally started thinking
about a way to be a voice towomen, right? So it was going to
be sort of like a retreat space,at first to where we hosted
events, did a little Instagrammarketing. But then Morgan said,
wegot to do something else. Yes,
we've got some stuff today,we got some. We got a whole lot
of great conversations. And wefelt like the people needed to
(01:10):
hear it.
Dylan Sellers (01:12):
So was this one of those situations where y'all
was on the phone and be like,Man, people need to hear what
we're saying on the phone, kindof Exactly,
Morgan Adrine (01:20):
exactly. Like our phone conversations. We'd be on
the phone for like hours justtalking about everything. And
it'll just be stuff about likerelationships and healing and
just practicing likemindfulness, self esteem,
everything that I feel like oursociety and more specifically
women, our age, needs to hear.
Sydeni Sellers (01:39):
I agree. And I think it was more solution
oriented. So it wasn't justabout like venting about the
crap that's going on outside butcoming up with like solutions
and different mindsets to helpother people. I think that that
is probably what like, made usfeel like we needed to
Morgan Adrine (01:57):
let people hear because our culture is laws. So
if we could give a littlesolution a little Hello, a
little insight, little wisdom,because it's rough.
Dylan Sellers (02:10):
So we've been recording for a little while
now. Right? And so I've gottento kind of find your style. And
it's it's not something that I'mused to right your your energy
between the two of you. It isbig sister little sister, but
also like, coming from differentworlds, but understanding each
(02:32):
other kind of thing. So you gotto tell the people like how you
met, right? Because they need toknow like how this relationship
happened.
Morgan Adrine (02:39):
Yes, so this is big homie. And I'm mid homie.
Right? We met years ago, notthat long ago. Yeah,
Dylan Sellers (02:52):
we worked together for how long? How come?
I never met you? Yeah, sevenyears ago. Okay, so because I
was
Sydeni Sellers (02:58):
because you like to steal all my friends. They
become your friends. Andsometimes you just gotta keep
your friends close.
Morgan Adrine (03:06):
Yeah, I see seven years ago because we work
together at the centers. AndSydnei was instantly like, Oh,
me, like, I would just like getadvice, talk about life
experiences. Obviously, Sydneiknew she was with me as I was
going through, like thatrelationship. So seeing was
there through it all. So and Iwould just be like Sydnei, yo,
(03:27):
like, give me some advice put meon game because it was it was
rough. It was rough.
Sydeni Sellers (03:34):
And I think for me, it was not just being able
to give advice. But a lot oftimes, people they want you to
tell them stuff to make themfeel good, but they never apply
the things that you say. Yeah,so it was It wasn't an
exhausting relationship.
Morgan Adrine (03:49):
Yeah, and that was one thing I always
appreciated about you like youalways kind of keep like, no,
listen morg. I ain't gonna lieto you.
Sydeni Sellers (03:55):
This was a little while. But come back from
it. All right. tomorrow's a newday. We won't Harbor on this
longer than this next minute.
Okay, we're gonna let it go. Butyeah, I definitely appreciate
the friendship for sure.
Dylan Sellers (04:10):
Man like this, that that's the kind of energy
that I got to because normallywhen I'm doing this with y'all,
I'm sitting, where Kat's sittingour producer trying to like you
know, mix it. And I remember thefirst time that like we recorded
together, right, which was acouple of months ago, we're all
sitting in the room. And we'relike, oh my god, like the vibe
(04:34):
How are you doing this rightnow? Like I was intrigued and
I'm not easily impressed.
Because I'm kind ofintellectually arrogant I aint
gone lie to you, right? Likeit's just a little bit like
impressed often, right? But ithelped me see Sydnei in a
different light, right? Becauselike, she's my younger sister.
Right? So like, she's big,homie. Yeah. Don't call me me.
(04:56):
But like I saw her big homieenergy. And I'm like, yo,
somebody's been out herelearning and live in
Sydeni Sellers (05:10):
LA and a teacher.
Dylan Sellers (05:11):
So what are some of the things that we can expect
to like hear from you? Like,what are? What are some of the
topics that you're going to betalking about, like, give us a
little taste?
Morgan Adrine (05:20):
Definitely, we'll be talking about obviously,
we'll be talking aboutrelationships. But we have a lot
more to say, than justrelationships, we want to talk
about healing. Because I think alot of times, if you know, all
times, if you're not healed asan individual, how do you expect
to have a successfulrelationship with somebody else?
So we'll definitely be talkingabout healing, practicing
(05:42):
mindfulness, setting boundaries,and what that looks like in
relationships. And even withyour soul, like boundaries, they
don't they don't
Sydeni Sellers (05:51):
they like them, but they don't like they don't
like to
Morgan Adrine (05:53):
hold hold
Dylan Sellers (05:55):
boundaries, because people be like, be
feeling like they're gonna dieon the other side of the
boundary, bro.
Morgan Adrine (05:59):
Yeah. And then a big thing, we just really want
to talk about things that I feltlike our society kind of just
overlooked, like everybody issuch a culture of, like, do it
for the gram, so to speak, andeverybody is so you know, trying
so hard to please others or tomake themselves look like a
certain image or portraythemselves as a certain way.
(06:21):
They were just here to keep itreal like this. Like, that's why
I say our, our society is lost,we have lost our individualism
in our society.
Sydeni Sellers (06:30):
I agree. I think also to like embracing the
imperfection in ourselves. Ithink, like, society, the world
likes you to be perfect. Got itall together. Everything's okay.
But giving yourself Grace it'sghetto outside, okay, like life
is happening, even though I'mable to encourage somebody else
(06:51):
I could be literally melting inthe inside. Right. And I think
that that's one of the thingsthat we want to convey to that.
Though my experiences havegotten me to be able to have a
different perspective. I'm stillexperiencing life. And I don't
think that's talked aboutenough.
Dylan Sellers (07:06):
All right, so tell us about and I'm saying us
because like, I'm trying to,like y'all to like the So I
Said, media crew like thefamily, right? Y'all have your
own followings. I'm saying like,you guys are pretty popular on
the gram, though you don't do itfor the gram. The gram do it for
(07:28):
you. I like that. So like, Iit's, it's a world that I don't
know very well. And you guyshave presence there
individually, right? And solike, tell me more about like,
who you guys are individually.
And it's weird, because like,Sydnei's my sisters, right? Oh,
(07:48):
I know her. But like, Yes, butNo, no. And I tried to do that.
Like as, as a big brother, oneof the things that like I've,
I've come to understand is thatI shouldn't make the mistake of
trapping Sydnei where she'salways been. Right? And so like,
yes, she's my younger sister.
(08:12):
But trapping her in that spaceis a mistake. It keeps me from
knowing her for who she trulyis. Yeah, it keeps us from being
friends, right? Like me andSydnei just talked about this
recently, like, maybe a fewmonths back, where she said
something to me about like itwas some family stuff going on.
And she dropped some gems on me.
I was like, What am I talkingto? I think we friends now.
(08:33):
Didn't like you before, butRight. Yeah, we're friends.
Right? And so you know, justtell me a little bit about who
you are individually. Like, whatare you bringing to the people
as an individual for thispodcast?
Sydeni Sellers (08:51):
I mean, I can go first, like you said Syd ,
SydneiJasmarie, are you onInstagram, okay, and all of my
social media. But I think as faras like a podcast perspective,
and my stance is mindset. So asof late, I did some like digging
on, like, different definitions.
And I really would considermyself like a mindset
enthusiast. Think there's somuch power in shifting your
(09:14):
mindset. I mean, it's helped meand it's changed my life
tremendously. Just like having adesire to do more, be more, wake
up feeling better, and changingmy outlook on my life. That I
think that's probably the anglethat I'm bringing with through
the lens of with the podcast isjust a shift in mindset shift in
(09:36):
perspective, because change yourmind change your life.
Morgan Adrine (09:40):
Okay? So I'm Morgan on Instagram at msmo
Marie, but for me, so I starteda brand called be more and then
I also have a blog called Liftto be more.com. So the whole
concept of me starting be more Ias a kid as a kid Kid, young
(10:00):
adult teenager, I struggled withself esteem. And obviously,
because I had certain issuesthat I was dealing with
internally that correlated to alot of my relationships, and
overall just reflected how Ipresented myself to the world.
So I wanted to create a platformto where I do believe that
there's power and transparency,and there's power in spreading
(10:24):
your story. So one thing that Iwanted to make sure that I did
is through my blog, andessentially, through this
podcast, I wanted to make surethat I highlighted topics
relating to self esteem, selfconfidence, maybe some of the,
like, mental struggles that wemay go through, like anxiety,
depression, because all thatstuff is real. And I mainly just
wanted to be a voice for younggirls and young women, because I
(10:47):
didn't have that. And I feellike if I had that voice, while
I'm not regretful for anythingthat I did, but if I had that
voice, a lot of things wouldhave been differently. So like
how you my big homie, Iessentially just want to be big
homie for somebody else. And ifI can empower someone through my
own experiences and my ownstory, then I feel accomplished
(11:08):
on this earth.
Sydeni Sellers (11:10):
Love to hear it.
Dylan Sellers (11:13):
Love it. I'm, I'm incredibly excited. I think that
when we started so I said media,we didn't have an eye to
starting to like producepodcasts immediately. It was
really just like the so I saidpod right. And we was gonna do
some other media stuff. But I amgrateful that you guys are
(11:35):
allowing us to help you carrythis baby, right? To do what it
needs to do for the people whoneed to do it for Yeah. So is
there anything else you want toshare with the people about
like, the pod? I know it'scoming and coming soon. It's
gonna be a hot summer.
Morgan Adrine (11:50):
It is. It's gonna be a hot summer.
Sydeni Sellers (11:53):
It is it is Malik Ali and they were
Morgan Adrine (11:57):
given spicy, spicy,
Sydeni Sellers (12:00):
spicy, just be prepared. I mean, tell a friend,
to tell a friend and tell allyour friends. Yeah, and one
thing too is just because we areboth women is not just a women
forward podcast. I think that'salso something I want to like
put emphasis on. Because it'snot about we know everything.
(12:20):
Women, we do everything right.
And men are just trash because
Morgan Adrine (12:23):
And so I want to say we are not male bashing out
that's not the thing.
on this podcast. We do want toobviously we are our target
audience is women. But we dowant to share insight on the
male perspective because Ibelieve that's important if
we're truly talking aboutrelationships and healing and
what all of that looks like. Sostay tuned to a letter to my
homegirls.
Dylan Sellers (12:42):
So you'll get to see some of that because we're
gonna record a few more episodesto like give people a taste and
you're gonna lead it and I'mgonna be like a guest almost.
Like, stay tuned. This is all wegot for this one. This was been
so I said, we just did and I'mout
So I said new pod alert. I got some guests. Alert,
(00:07):
alert. So I said media isexpanding. Yes, sir. In bigger.
We're getting bigger out here.
Yeah, I'll say so. So I saidmedia will be presenting a new
podcast with Sydnei and Morgancalled
Morgan Adrine (00:21):
a letter to my home girls.
Dylan Sellers (00:23):
That was listen, that was
Morgan Adrine (00:29):
often known.
Dylan Sellers (00:31):
We did. So tell me about like, how this
happened. Like, I know they likeyou know, so I said Media is
helping put this together. Butlike, the idea was birthed
before you came to me, right. Solike, talk to me about like,
where this came from?
Sydeni Sellers (00:48):
Well, we originally started thinking
about a way to be a voice towomen, right? So it was going to
be sort of like a retreat space,at first to where we hosted
events, did a little Instagrammarketing. But then Morgan said,
wegot to do something else. Yes,
we've got some stuff today,we got some. We got a whole lot
of great conversations. And wefelt like the people needed to
(01:10):
hear it.
Dylan Sellers (01:12):
So was this one of those situations where y'all
was on the phone and be like,Man, people need to hear what
we're saying on the phone, kindof Exactly,
Morgan Adrine (01:20):
exactly. Like our phone conversations. We'd be on
the phone for like hours justtalking about everything. And
it'll just be stuff about likerelationships and healing and
just practicing likemindfulness, self esteem,
everything that I feel like oursociety and more specifically
women, our age, needs to hear.
Sydeni Sellers (01:39):
I agree. And I think it was more solution
oriented. So it wasn't justabout like venting about the
crap that's going on outside butcoming up with like solutions
and different mindsets to helpother people. I think that that
is probably what like, made usfeel like we needed to
Morgan Adrine (01:57):
let people hear because our culture is laws. So
if we could give a littlesolution a little Hello, a
little insight, little wisdom,because it's rough.
Dylan Sellers (02:10):
So we've been recording for a little while
now. Right? And so I've gottento kind of find your style. And
it's it's not something that I'mused to right your your energy
between the two of you. It isbig sister little sister, but
also like, coming from differentworlds, but understanding each
(02:32):
other kind of thing. So you gotto tell the people like how you
met, right? Because they need toknow like how this relationship
happened.
Morgan Adrine (02:39):
Yes, so this is big homie. And I'm mid homie.
Right? We met years ago, notthat long ago. Yeah,
Dylan Sellers (02:52):
we worked together for how long? How come?
I never met you? Yeah, sevenyears ago. Okay, so because I
was
Sydeni Sellers (02:58):
because you like to steal all my friends. They
become your friends. Andsometimes you just gotta keep
your friends close.
Morgan Adrine (03:06):
Yeah, I see seven years ago because we work
together at the centers. AndSydnei was instantly like, Oh,
me, like, I would just like getadvice, talk about life
experiences. Obviously, Sydneiknew she was with me as I was
going through, like thatrelationship. So seeing was
there through it all. So and Iwould just be like Sydnei, yo,
(03:27):
like, give me some advice put meon game because it was it was
rough. It was rough.
Sydeni Sellers (03:34):
And I think for me, it was not just being able
to give advice. But a lot oftimes, people they want you to
tell them stuff to make themfeel good, but they never apply
the things that you say. Yeah,so it was It wasn't an
exhausting relationship.
Morgan Adrine (03:49):
Yeah, and that was one thing I always
appreciated about you like youalways kind of keep like, no,
listen morg. I ain't gonna lieto you.
Sydeni Sellers (03:55):
This was a little while. But come back from
it. All right. tomorrow's a newday. We won't Harbor on this
longer than this next minute.
Okay, we're gonna let it go. Butyeah, I definitely appreciate
the friendship for sure.
Dylan Sellers (04:10):
Man like this, that that's the kind of energy
that I got to because normallywhen I'm doing this with y'all,
I'm sitting, where Kat's sittingour producer trying to like you
know, mix it. And I remember thefirst time that like we recorded
together, right, which was acouple of months ago, we're all
sitting in the room. And we'relike, oh my god, like the vibe
(04:34):
How are you doing this rightnow? Like I was intrigued and
I'm not easily impressed.
Because I'm kind ofintellectually arrogant I aint
gone lie to you, right? Likeit's just a little bit like
impressed often, right? But ithelped me see Sydnei in a
different light, right? Becauselike, she's my younger sister.
Right? So like, she's big,homie. Yeah. Don't call me me.
(04:56):
But like I saw her big homieenergy. And I'm like, yo,
somebody's been out herelearning and live in
Sydeni Sellers (05:10):
LA and a teacher.
Dylan Sellers (05:11):
So what are some of the things that we can expect
to like hear from you? Like,what are? What are some of the
topics that you're going to betalking about, like, give us a
little taste?
Morgan Adrine (05:20):
Definitely, we'll be talking about obviously,
we'll be talking aboutrelationships. But we have a lot
more to say, than justrelationships, we want to talk
about healing. Because I think alot of times, if you know, all
times, if you're not healed asan individual, how do you expect
to have a successfulrelationship with somebody else?
So we'll definitely be talkingabout healing, practicing
(05:42):
mindfulness, setting boundaries,and what that looks like in
relationships. And even withyour soul, like boundaries, they
don't they don't
Sydeni Sellers (05:51):
they like them, but they don't like they don't
like to
Morgan Adrine (05:53):
hold hold
Dylan Sellers (05:55):
boundaries, because people be like, be
feeling like they're gonna dieon the other side of the
boundary, bro.
Morgan Adrine (05:59):
Yeah. And then a big thing, we just really want
to talk about things that I feltlike our society kind of just
overlooked, like everybody issuch a culture of, like, do it
for the gram, so to speak, andeverybody is so you know, trying
so hard to please others or tomake themselves look like a
certain image or portraythemselves as a certain way.
(06:21):
They were just here to keep itreal like this. Like, that's why
I say our, our society is lost,we have lost our individualism
in our society.
Sydeni Sellers (06:30):
I agree. I think also to like embracing the
imperfection in ourselves. Ithink, like, society, the world
likes you to be perfect. Got itall together. Everything's okay.
But giving yourself Grace it'sghetto outside, okay, like life
is happening, even though I'mable to encourage somebody else
(06:51):
I could be literally melting inthe inside. Right. And I think
that that's one of the thingsthat we want to convey to that.
Though my experiences havegotten me to be able to have a
different perspective. I'm stillexperiencing life. And I don't
think that's talked aboutenough.
Dylan Sellers (07:06):
All right, so tell us about and I'm saying us
because like, I'm trying to,like y'all to like the So I
Said, media crew like thefamily, right? Y'all have your
own followings. I'm saying like,you guys are pretty popular on
the gram, though you don't do itfor the gram. The gram do it for
(07:28):
you. I like that. So like, Iit's, it's a world that I don't
know very well. And you guyshave presence there
individually, right? And solike, tell me more about like,
who you guys are individually.
And it's weird, because like,Sydnei's my sisters, right? Oh,
(07:48):
I know her. But like, Yes, butNo, no. And I tried to do that.
Like as, as a big brother, oneof the things that like I've,
I've come to understand is thatI shouldn't make the mistake of
trapping Sydnei where she'salways been. Right? And so like,
yes, she's my younger sister.
(08:12):
But trapping her in that spaceis a mistake. It keeps me from
knowing her for who she trulyis. Yeah, it keeps us from being
friends, right? Like me andSydnei just talked about this
recently, like, maybe a fewmonths back, where she said
something to me about like itwas some family stuff going on.
And she dropped some gems on me.
I was like, What am I talkingto? I think we friends now.
(08:33):
Didn't like you before, butRight. Yeah, we're friends.
Right? And so you know, justtell me a little bit about who
you are individually. Like, whatare you bringing to the people
as an individual for thispodcast?
Sydeni Sellers (08:51):
I mean, I can go first, like you said Syd ,
SydneiJasmarie, are you onInstagram, okay, and all of my
social media. But I think as faras like a podcast perspective,
and my stance is mindset. So asof late, I did some like digging
on, like, different definitions.
And I really would considermyself like a mindset
enthusiast. Think there's somuch power in shifting your
(09:14):
mindset. I mean, it's helped meand it's changed my life
tremendously. Just like having adesire to do more, be more, wake
up feeling better, and changingmy outlook on my life. That I
think that's probably the anglethat I'm bringing with through
the lens of with the podcast isjust a shift in mindset shift in
(09:36):
perspective, because change yourmind change your life.
Morgan Adrine (09:40):
Okay? So I'm Morgan on Instagram at msmo
Marie, but for me, so I starteda brand called be more and then
I also have a blog called Liftto be more.com. So the whole
concept of me starting be more Ias a kid as a kid Kid, young
(10:00):
adult teenager, I struggled withself esteem. And obviously,
because I had certain issuesthat I was dealing with
internally that correlated to alot of my relationships, and
overall just reflected how Ipresented myself to the world.
So I wanted to create a platformto where I do believe that
there's power and transparency,and there's power in spreading
(10:24):
your story. So one thing that Iwanted to make sure that I did
is through my blog, andessentially, through this
podcast, I wanted to make surethat I highlighted topics
relating to self esteem, selfconfidence, maybe some of the,
like, mental struggles that wemay go through, like anxiety,
depression, because all thatstuff is real. And I mainly just
wanted to be a voice for younggirls and young women, because I
(10:47):
didn't have that. And I feellike if I had that voice, while
I'm not regretful for anythingthat I did, but if I had that
voice, a lot of things wouldhave been differently. So like
how you my big homie, Iessentially just want to be big
homie for somebody else. And ifI can empower someone through my
own experiences and my ownstory, then I feel accomplished
(11:08):
on this earth.
Sydeni Sellers (11:10):
Love to hear it.
Dylan Sellers (11:13):
Love it. I'm, I'm incredibly excited. I think that
when we started so I said media,we didn't have an eye to
starting to like producepodcasts immediately. It was
really just like the so I saidpod right. And we was gonna do
some other media stuff. But I amgrateful that you guys are
(11:35):
allowing us to help you carrythis baby, right? To do what it
needs to do for the people whoneed to do it for Yeah. So is
there anything else you want toshare with the people about
like, the pod? I know it'scoming and coming soon. It's
gonna be a hot summer.
Morgan Adrine (11:50):
It is. It's gonna be a hot summer.
Sydeni Sellers (11:53):
It is it is Malik Ali and they were
Morgan Adrine (11:57):
given spicy, spicy,
Sydeni Sellers (12:00):
spicy, just be prepared. I mean, tell a friend,
to tell a friend and tell allyour friends. Yeah, and one
thing too is just because we areboth women is not just a women
forward podcast. I think that'salso something I want to like
put emphasis on. Because it'snot about we know everything.
(12:20):
Women, we do everything right.
And men are just trash because
Morgan Adrine (12:23):
And so I want to say we are not male bashing out
that's not the thing.
on this podcast. We do want toobviously we are our target
audience is women. But we dowant to share insight on the
male perspective because Ibelieve that's important if
we're truly talking aboutrelationships and healing and
what all of that looks like. Sostay tuned to a letter to my
homegirls.
Dylan Sellers (12:42):
So you'll get to see some of that because we're
gonna record a few more episodesto like give people a taste and
you're gonna lead it and I'mgonna be like a guest almost.
Like, stay tuned. This is all wegot for this one. This was been
so I said, we just did and I'mout
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