[SPEAKER_00]: Hello, hello.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you've ever wanted a podcast to sound like a phone call with a friend, this is that I'm calling you to say.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm on holiday right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, I know separate work and vacation, but I at least wanted to say hi.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I can give you a full episode this week, but I wanted to take a little moment, carve out of my day.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's the first day I got here and say hi.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm so sure, you know, I want to talk about this to have a little bit.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's so strange me even being here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so grateful for it, but it unfolded incredibly unexpectedly.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was out to dinner with a friend and she said that she was book for a job in Hawaii.

[SPEAKER_00]: Throughout their, hey, I have a hotel room with anyone wants to come and overlaps with my birthday.

[SPEAKER_00]: We can celebrate being Hawaii.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't need this whole room to myself.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought about it and you know what?

[SPEAKER_00]: Why not?

[SPEAKER_00]: So here I am on a balcony in a hotel in Hawaii.

[SPEAKER_00]: Overlooking the ocean right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sitting outside.

[SPEAKER_00]: You might be able to hear a little sound to the birds in the background.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe people passing by.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love recording outside.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a little bit distracting.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's my favorite place to be.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'd much prefer to be outside than inside, but [SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to technology, sometimes to just a bit more efficient, there's a lot more that you can control when you're inside.

[SPEAKER_00]: But there's something beautiful to be outside.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm here for my friends birthday.

[SPEAKER_00]: My dad and his siblings grew up here.

[SPEAKER_00]: My grandparents only lived here for a handful of years of their life.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I want to go see their old house while I'm here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to go maybe eat at one of their favorite restaurants while I'm here.

[SPEAKER_00]: want to honor them, make it feel like I'm with them a little bit because the last time I was in Hawaii was with my grandma and my cousin Morgan and my grandma passed over the holidays and who if I give myself a second it'll make me sad to think that I wish I was here with her even though she was a pain in the ass will look really stupid watch me was here she was thrown a fit the whole time and Morgan and I were like okay well we're gonna enjoy Hawaii but that's just what it is to have a diva in your life like [SPEAKER_00]: they're going to be annoying sometimes.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then they're going to be glamorous and fabulous other times, which this trip is really seeming to be quite glamorous.

[SPEAKER_00]: I flew here first class.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much Hawaiian Airlines for sponsoring my flight here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was in a sweep this morning.

[SPEAKER_00]: Mind your, I was sleep deprived.

[SPEAKER_00]: I went to bed far too late.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then I had to wake up maybe about four in the morning.

[SPEAKER_00]: Went to bed maybe one in the morning.

[SPEAKER_00]: No wonder I feel that won't get right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm going off of maybe three and a half hours of sleep at this point in the morning.

[SPEAKER_00]: Injury stories, dream stories, and I also feel like an airport story falls into the same category of listening to someone's traffic story.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, I can't picture it at.

[SPEAKER_00]: Also, I just don't simply think I care.

[SPEAKER_00]: But my point is, didn't get a lot of sleep last night.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then I roll up to the airport and I have a first class seat in a little sweet that is a lie back chair.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have room for my laptop and my notebook and I can have a tray of food.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can curl up in a ball.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can sprawl out and let me tell you did I go to sleep not once but twice on that flight.

[SPEAKER_00]: This flight blue by also flying to Hawaii from Los Angeles is considerably easier.

[SPEAKER_00]: than flying from New York or DC.

[SPEAKER_00]: I forget where I flew from last time, but it cuts the trip in half.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's great.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Hawaiian Airlines is such a girly little airline.

[SPEAKER_00]: It reminds me of, what was the one?

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't exist anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: Was it Virgin Atlantic?

[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's what it was called.

[SPEAKER_00]: It had the purple lights.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I used to fly all the time in, twenty-fourteen, twenty-fifteen, and then it went out of business.

[SPEAKER_00]: but I was talking to someone the other day and they flew front here and there's a bear on the wing and he's like, I don't know, kind of jarring.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm looking out and there's a beautiful girl with a flower in her hair on the wing.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, this is a cute airline and it had the lights kind of like Virgin Atlantic where they were purple, but then also they became lights that look like stars when the lights were off and then they were also orange at a certain point.

[SPEAKER_00]: It felt very sweet.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think a lot of times airlines are sterile.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you think of American, Delta, United, those are classics.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, no fuss, no frills, like just very neutral professional corporate.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hawaiian thought fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: The employees had flowers in their ears as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: Everything about it felt okay I'm flying on vacation.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you were flying home, that's so fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: It must be amazing to grow up here.

[SPEAKER_00]: If I could say something about Hawaii, not overrated, not at all.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't even know what to do if you're listening to this episode, hopefully it goes up the next day or two.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would love to hear if you have any recommendations on a Wahoo.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to run a car the entire time.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think at least a day.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'd like to go surfing.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've been here for not even a full day yet.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've been paddleboarding.

[SPEAKER_00]: I talked to someone at the hotel about how to get a surfboard.

[SPEAKER_00]: Our hotel is on a lagoon.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a man-made lagoon, which is great for kids.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pretty safe.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not exactly my style.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would love to just swim right into the ocean.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to see some waves.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I think in walking distance, there should be some.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I would love to wake up in the morning and surf.

[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't served since Australia and I want to keep up with this and make sure that I can improve and stick with it because I had so much fun when I was doing that over the spring.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've had some good travels this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, if I get out Japan on to the list and maybe Paris.

[SPEAKER_00]: I need to go to New York as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't been to New York in almost a year and I try to go.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would say seasonally is the aim but by and you will leave.

[SPEAKER_00]: ends up being the reality.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm overdo.

[SPEAKER_00]: I thought I was going to be there for spring.

[SPEAKER_00]: I thought I'd be there for summer.

[SPEAKER_00]: August is just around the corner.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I need to say hi.

[SPEAKER_00]: I also need to see my family on these ghosts.

[SPEAKER_00]: So if I can organize that, that would be nice and keep up with the travel.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think a lot of us with remote work forget that if we're going to be on our laptop, we really can be on our laptop anywhere and to take advantage of that because when are parents dream of it?

[SPEAKER_00]: Talk to someone who had to show up at work for how often would people stay at companies?

[SPEAKER_00]: Two generations ahead of us.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thirty, forty years.

[SPEAKER_00]: Day and day out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Show up at the office.

[SPEAKER_00]: Clock out if you told one of them that they could do their same amount of work.

[SPEAKER_00]: And why?

[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like we have to do it for them.

[SPEAKER_00]: We owe it to them.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because I think so.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm also going to vlog this trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've started taking videos already because once I got into my first class flight seats, I am the [SPEAKER_00]: least humble, braggar, ever.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm such a sore winner, and I'm a really humble loser.

[SPEAKER_00]: If something bad happens if I experience adversity or just take a mild ill, I can reason with it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't throw myself too large of a pity party.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty mellow about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I experience a win, I shout it from the rooftops.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's how I feel about my first last play.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, oh, [SPEAKER_00]: That's part of the story.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just that I went to Hawaii.

[SPEAKER_00]: I flew first class to Hawaii.

[SPEAKER_00]: I watched a couple beachy movies.

[SPEAKER_00]: I started to watch the beginning of a Ralph Lauren doc and I would like to finish it.

[SPEAKER_00]: It started to cut out with the commercials and sign up for our credit card.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're landing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Remember to take care of the natural land.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's just all those sort of [SPEAKER_00]: program messages playing so I didn't get to see it but that would be something that I would download.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't do any reading on the flight.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's always interesting what I end up spending my time doing.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was an early morning flight so I'm not surprised that I slept but a lot of times I can really buckle down and I can edit a podcast in half the time on an airplane.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've been [SPEAKER_00]: In law the land the past few days though.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll say I have not been able to focus I've been having maybe too much fun if there is such thing but I thought really I'm serious that if I could just get to why then okay work time said no one ever ever ever ever [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm a little bit of a hypocrite being like, isn't it amazing if you ever know where you can work anywhere?

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's a little bit harder to focus.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, I, but at the same time, did I get my list down?

[SPEAKER_00]: I pulled out the four seasons, no pad and I wrote down the ten things I need to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: And after this podcast, I'm going to be crossing off my seventh item and that feels good.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, as I said, [SPEAKER_00]: It's summer time.

[SPEAKER_00]: I could so gladly take a week off with this podcast, but I don't want to.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to at least say hi.

[SPEAKER_00]: A mini episode in my opinion is better than nothing.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've always followed, do not let good be the enemy of perfect.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think done is better than perfect because sometimes perfect never happens.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I would like more people to implement it, and this is something I need to learn.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I don't need to learn it, but I want to try.

[SPEAKER_00]: To stop by, stop in, say hello.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if you're not in the mood to go to the full party, at least stop by, it's better to stop by and say hello.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's better to do a little than nothing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's get into your questions because I asked a few days ago for questions on Instagram and it's time.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's time to transition to that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just rambling at this point.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I love you all and I'm on vacation.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I have vacation brain.

[SPEAKER_00]: So let's get into a book first or word from today's sponsors.

[SPEAKER_00]: that I mentioned that I'm in a robe right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Life in that sense could not be better.

[SPEAKER_00]: Went for a dip in the ocean, went paddle boarding, took a shower in the hotel robe lying outside as the sun is setting.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a pretty good scene.

[SPEAKER_00]: Gemma wants to know how to invest money when you're on a minimum wage job.

[SPEAKER_00]: She'd love to help.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you could invest seventy five dollars a week, [SPEAKER_00]: If you could invest fifty dollars a week, two hundred a month consistently, it'll add up.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just almost make it a habit.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can do this weekly.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can submit it monthly.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can just put on your Google calendar, invest fifty dollars, invest a hundred dollars and put it on rotation.

[SPEAKER_00]: because it adds up my something I'm so thankful for is that I started doing this in my early twenties and you forget about it you just don't remember the money that you spent it's so easy to forget about it and it sucks spending money I mean very few people love to just spend money especially if you're not getting the instant gratification for it but I think it's really fun so I would I would thank yourself and follow the lead and regularly invest seventy five dollars a week [SPEAKER_00]: for the next year, two years, five years, ten years.

[SPEAKER_00]: Enjoy the silence as to how do I accept that I have to work?

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to accept that you have to work.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can resist it.

[SPEAKER_00]: You also could find alternatives.

[SPEAKER_00]: You could go find a remote place to live.

[SPEAKER_00]: You could work off the land.

[SPEAKER_00]: You could work an exchange for stay.

[SPEAKER_00]: You do not have to accept that you need to work.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is just one frame of thinking that a majority of us follow.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to accept that.

[SPEAKER_00]: You just have to do something wildly alternative.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, someone has a love island question.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thoughts on the hood ahead.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like her.

[SPEAKER_00]: I do not like her.

[SPEAKER_00]: She reminds me of a few people that I grew up with that love to stir the pot.

[SPEAKER_00]: and then love to play victim.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they can dish it, but they can't take it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that is so frustrating.

[SPEAKER_00]: It really gets under my skin.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't like her behavior.

[SPEAKER_00]: She reminds me so much of girls in middle school.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like the way that a Maya gave me the essence of a child in elementary school, how to give me the essence of a middle school girl.

[SPEAKER_00]: But obviously, [SPEAKER_00]: the hate.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, I understand.

[SPEAKER_00]: I do think people are being a bit brutal, but I understand it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ali Humphrey asked, what's been your favorite phase of life so far?

[SPEAKER_00]: I wrote this down in my journal today on the flight that every time I think my life is getting good, it just keeps getting better.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not an nostalgic person.

[SPEAKER_00]: I probably have maybe one toe in the future.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't completely live in the future, but I look forward to it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's nice to look back on old journal entries [SPEAKER_00]: And think, wow, you got what you wanted or you don't even know the memories you haven't experienced yet.

[SPEAKER_00]: If Lexi last year knew that she was going to experience what she felt in Australia and New Zealand this year, she would be over the moon.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I like right now the best.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if you ask me most any time, that's often times my answer.

[SPEAKER_00]: Someone said, I finally met a really great guy.

[SPEAKER_00]: We've been dating for nine months, but I just don't want to boyfriend is that bad.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, that's totally normal and my friend and I were talking about this over lunch that it's harder to end a relationship that isn't in a bad spot.

[SPEAKER_00]: because when something is inherently wrong, when there's a concrete issue, you're standing for something.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's a lot harder to stand on the life that you want just a little bit more, you know, where you could be chilling at eighty percent happiness.

[SPEAKER_00]: in this relationship, but you just know what you really want for you to be in full alignment that you would be single, and it's hard to do that, but I wouldn't feel bad about that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's easy to feel bad about it because you're going to hurt someone's feelings, but it's not wrong to know what you want.

[SPEAKER_00]: Favorite way to consume cannabis, a joint or a split, for sure.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nebraska Jones asked how a spoon spoon.

[SPEAKER_00]: Is it summer camp right now?

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I'm calling it because I was spoiled rotten on this trip so I'm like, okay, I don't need to just get a friend to watch him.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna splurge and have him go to dog care and he's gonna be hanging out with all these dogs.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's this magician wizard dog whisper in my neighborhood and when he takes dogs out on a walk he, oh I wonder if you can hear all the birds in the background or really in the island.

[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I hope it's not too distracting, but it's wonderful.

[SPEAKER_00]: This sun set is really good.

[SPEAKER_00]: Guys, I'm fried.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not high, I'm just exhausted.

[SPEAKER_00]: I promise, but wouldn't put it past me either.

[SPEAKER_00]: Favorite way of eating eggs.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like it on a full breakfast plate.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I want bacon.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want potatoes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want pancakes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want a coffee.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want my eggs at a diner.

[SPEAKER_00]: A good one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like Clark Street diner.

[SPEAKER_00]: Meca wants to know if I would ever consider going back to Byron.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would go to Byron in a heartbeat.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love Byron Bay.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, so, so, so much.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is a fun question who would be on the Lexi Festival lineup.

[SPEAKER_00]: Camie Jensen, Babe Rainbow, Harmony, Givion, Ethokane.

[SPEAKER_00]: I also would want Camie to be DJing.

[SPEAKER_00]: She has my favorite music taste out of any friend.

[SPEAKER_00]: If I could pick one friend to DJ, the soundtrack of my life for the rest of my life, it would be her.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I also wanted to have a DJ set.

[SPEAKER_00]: Beyonce.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm thinking.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know there's so many good people.

[SPEAKER_00]: Tyler the creator.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thames.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let me look at my Spotify.

[SPEAKER_00]: Too Hollis.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that's one festival.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would also do sort of an oldies festival if I could.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, we'll have McGee there, DJ on, Kim Petrus.

[SPEAKER_00]: But once again, these all are going into one festival, whereas I would love to have another festival.

[SPEAKER_00]: where it's Johnny Cash, George Strait, Schneider Twain, Bob Marley, Ray Charles, Yoko Ono.

[SPEAKER_00]: These people can be dead or alive, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: In this world, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Buffalo Springfield, Gladys Knight, Billy Preston, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, Prince, Simon and Garfunkel Carroll King, Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's two different festivals going on.

[SPEAKER_00]: Does anyone else hear the bugle?

[SPEAKER_00]: If it happens a third time, I'll take it as my sign to wrap up this mini episode.

[SPEAKER_00]: But this was just a quick little stop-in and say hello.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so there's a show that's starting.

[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe I should go check it out and see it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you all for listening if you made it through this episode.

[SPEAKER_00]: This one's clearly for the inner circle, skeleton crew.

[SPEAKER_00]: Really appreciate you guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: And thank you so much for listening and look forward to the Hawaii blog.

[SPEAKER_00]: Talk to you soon.

[SPEAKER_00]: XOXO, Lexi.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.