The Real TRUTH about New York Fashion Week - Ep 35

Welcome to Amai To Allow the Podcast. Honestly, fashion is not as inclusive as people say it should be, or would never be as inclusive as people wanted to be. Welcome back to Amai To Allow the Podcast with Sophie aka the mother fricking Audity. Guys, who's consistent again? Who's consistent queen? What are you talking about? I miss you so much. Hi, welcome back to Amai Podcast. We're doing another solo episode, even though we just did a solo episode last week. And that's because I have a lot of things to say and share, and I am currently sitting on my baby. If you are an OG podcast listener, you know that this is where everything started. This is my girl. This is my baby. Her name is Gardinia. This is my green couch. She has traveled everywhere with me, and I finally got her out of storage just for this specific episode back in New York City for New York Fashion Week. And I was just like, you know what? I need to come sit my ass on her so I can feel her butt home so she can give me all the inspiration I need in my chest for this to be a really solid, good episode. I miss you guys, also someone commented the other day and they were like, Sophie, we really like your voice. You could talk me through it. And I was like, you guys don't want me to talk you through. Wait a second, I've been told, first of all, did you guys know I'm a talker doing sex? I think this is so random. It has nothing to do with this episode, but I am such a talker. Like I was just talking to my baby the other day and I was like, uh, this was a joke that in there. Nothing crazy. Oh, why did she say, yeah, yeah, yeah, I said it and then what? Um, but I was talking to my baby the other day and we're talking about, I was getting shy because I was reading a book, you know, you guys know what I love reading my romance novels. And I was talking to them about how I really, really, really, really, I'm loud during sex and especially because I tend to be very vocal like everyone I'd kiss, like, I'm just a moner. I'm like, hey, stop, baby, yeah, guys, and I'm not even doing it because I don't even know how to fake it. I just, I'm very, I'm just very vocal. The way I yap on the podcast is exactly the way I yap when I am having sex and I don't know what it's not why I'm sharing the information with you where I want you guys to know that. Welcome back to today's episode. We're going to be talking all about New York Fashion Week. That is why I am back in New York. I'm going to say this for till the end of time. But if you're new here, hi, my name is Sophie. I am the host of a my two-law of the podcast. This podcast is for those people who just need an escape from reality. A fun, authentic, vulnerable, real, just fun hour, maybe hour and a half escape from just life in general, we are so unapologetic over here. You are getting the real version of me. I swear to you, I do not know how to script. I don't know how to lie. I don't know how to do anything but be who the fuck I am. So yeah, so if you're ever thinking of who the fuck am I listening to, you're listening to me. Sophie, aka the motherfucking audity. But yeah, I am in New York for a New York Fashion Week and this is the yearly pilgrimage of everyone in like the influencer industry, the fashion industry, the editing, press all the likes. They all congregate in New York for something called New York Fashion Week. It happens twice a year in February and in September and we're going to talk a little bit about New York Fashion Week in this video because we're going to talk about all things fashion. Now, I say that as I'm wearing an Africa versus everybody's shirt that I got as a festival out of music festival that I was at in Detroit and I'm wearing I think a Lulu lemon leggings and socks that I got from I think unique low that actually smell really good for someone who's been wearing the sock all day. Guys, my feet don't smell random. Someone was smelling my shoes the other day and they were like, oh my gosh, I hope your shoes smell nice. I'm like, yeah, I don't have smelly feet. I've never suffered from smelly feet sidebar moving on. But I want to be talking about fashion as someone who this is what my fashion style comprises of. I generally don't think I have, hmm, I don't explain this. I think I'm not one of those people who says I have style but I do have an eye for fashion. Like I'm not going to put layers and looks together. I just know things that look cute or look good. I will also say that I think I thrive better as like a model, a muse because I feel like I'm just, I'm just that girl, like I don't need to be stressing myself doing everything else. I just want to be that girl. So we're going to talk about things fashion. But before that, we're going to talk about the elephants in the room and that's not my fat ass. Okay. Well, I don't think that landed because even Donald is just in the background. He didn't laugh. Okay. Disrespectful. You didn't even laugh at that. Oh, oh, please, oh, please. But we have a new sort of like thingy. You all see this? This is the new am I too allowed like, what do you call this thing? A mic stand? A mic thing? A mic? Bum? A mic cover? Whatever it is, I wanted to do a little more branding and this is our 35th episode of Amai Too Loud and I'm like, y'all, we're just getting bigger and better and I'm just really, really, really proud of us and how far we've come and just the episodes are getting better. I'm getting better as slowly speaking because if you started the fricking podcast with me from the beginning, first of all, you guys did not tell me how fast I speak, guys, nobody is just commented and said, Sophie, slow the fudge down. Okay. Maybe you have commented. But I'm actually listening to your comments now and I actually have your screen. I actually have to stop myself now and actually allow myself to enunciate the words because again, my mouth moves faster than my brain. Yes, that's what I meant to say. My mouth moves faster than my brain and it happens a lot even in my personal relationships where I do not mean to say something and I've said it and then my brain is like, oh, shoot, you shouldn't have said that and then I always get in trouble with my friends but not they just realize it's always a part of love. So again, another sidebar. The point is we have a new fun thing for the podcast and I'm really proud of the baby. This love branding involves and this branding is important because your girl is doing her first live episode or live podcast show in Nigeria in October. More details coming. I am just so honored and excited that I'm able to do that and also start from like the roots. I would not want my show to be anywhere else but Nigeria first and then everything comes second because again, I am Nigerian first before anything else. Okay. So we're going to get into this episode. First again, my opinion for this episode is fashion can never be as inclusive as you guys want it to be. And I have so many reasons for that. First of all, again, that you guys, I have gone over like 50 different tangents before I even got to the beginning again, which I'm really proud of, right? Anyways, I was bringing up the fact that I'm wearing this outfit because some people might wonder why if I'm not fashionable, what experts am I, am I then an expert in fashion? And I say everybody can be an expert in fashion, right? I think it's pretty cool that fashion is a tool that you can use to express yourself in different ways. And for me, fashion has always been that mask that I can put on, especially if I'm like going out to events, going out to meetings. If I have to think of my style in three words, I would say sexy, comfortable and fun. Maybe those three. I love colors where I'm not too bold about like yellows and purple that I don't mostly do that. I'm usually in blacks and neutrals and grains, a lot of grain. Fashion to me is very sexy and comfortable. And that can be really hard to do, right? But that's usually what I think my style is. And as I go through all the looks I've sort of done in the past, I love that I tend to go for the looks that aren't as, let me say crazy. Anyways, the point is, I am here for New York Fashion Week. We're going to get into my first fashion week experience. We're going to get into the drama of New York Fashion Week influencers, designers, all that stuff. If you're not really interested in this, I don't care. I don't care. I take that back. I'm not interested in New York Fashion Week. I'm going to try to get you to be interested in it in this episode because I'm going to give you all a bunch of story times around New York Fashion Week influencer culture, all that stuff towards the middle of the episode. But first we're going to start with the first segment of the episode, which is the too much tea roundup where I, Sophie, feel all the tea from my timeline. Because if you know my FYP, you know my FYP is global. Guys, I follow everybody from Mr. Beast to Tokyo Makinwa to the little Filipino boy who does the boat's steese or a thing. Like my FYP knows Becca Bloom, she knows, give me a name. Broda Shaggy, Kai Sanat, Emily Kaiser, Jura Fowalo, to Heli Bailey. I just, I watch everybody. I'm an equal opportunity lover of content. So let's get into the too much tea round. First of all, did you guys see the video of Nicolandria at the VMAs? Oh my God. For them to be the only couple standing after Love Island, well, I don't think so. I think Shalian A's are still together, but I don't think they're posting as much together, which I think is a smart idea because of all the drama with A's on Speedy Mormons podcast. However, when I was talking about them right now, Nicolandria, I've not met Alandria yet. I feel like every fucking body in New York has met Alandria and I've not met her yet. When I do, I'm going to show her how much love I offer her. She looked so incredible. And I feel like if I ever was going to do reality TV, I once the run she's currently having after reality TV, like it's very barby-esque. Like people know she's going to be a star, so they're just like propping her up in the best way. Her designer, stylist, her everything. She looked great. Her body is tea. Her face card does not decline. She's with Nic. He's an amazing cheerleader, like everything not fits. Everything just does what it does perfectly. She killed the VMAs right carpet. And I'm also glad that they didn't have them walk together. I follow Nic on Snapchat. I'm not ashamed to say I follow Alandria to trust me. But he posted about how he was going to tell us that they were not going to walk first. Tell us, God, guys, this part of social relationship is so scary. But yeah, he posted that they were not going to be walking together, so I already kind of knew because I'm a Nicolandria stand for sure that they were going to walk in together, which was fine. I think that was a smart thing to do because they're trying to make both of them separate individuals. In case their relationship doesn't work out, it doesn't matter because they're both separate individuals. And I love that with couples. I hate the couple thing where if somebody breaks up with the other person, the person's career is over. And that's an example of that is Diara and Ken, like no shade to Ken. I think he's doing well for himself now, but that relationship was very heavy on Diara. And now that they're broken up, she's just going to do amazing things, shout out to Diara. But I don't want that for Nicolandria. I don't want that for Nic or Alandria. I want them to both shine. So I love that. And she looked immaculate on that note of black women shining and thriving. There's been a lot of conversation recently about black people not supporting their own. And honestly, I want to confess that I've also been a part of that rhetoric where I'm always talking about, oh, like are people don't support each other? We are so negative, we're badly behaved. I generally have always thought like that. But then the other day I was on TikTok. And I saw this TikTok that gave me like a ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. And she said, there's a creator recently who I think I forget who it was. I'm sorry guys. I don't keep people's names in my head, but she was, she basically posted something and she was basically ranting on about how black women aren't supportive, black people don't support each other. She's exhausted for the hate blah, blah, blah, blah. And the creator said, yeah, because white people don't fucking watch you. If white people watched you, they probably would hate on you too. And I don't know how I feel about that shade, but it had me thinking that because you're in your own echo chamber, the noise is going to be the loudest from the people who are in the echo chamber with you. So for example, if I posted a video and all the comments are my people hating on me for something and they all look like me. And then I have two or three comments from like my friends who are white who like it. It's not because my people don't support me, it's generally just because that's the majority of people that are watching my content. And for me to actually make this scientific, I decided to go do a deep dive and I went to check on about five to 10 of my mutual white creators accounts. Guys, I'm telling you right now, I don't think white women hate as much as white women do. I don't think black women hate as much as white women do. Have you seen the reddit threads? NYC influence a snark. I don't know if you guys are onto this, like, I don't think you guys understand that. The secret life of Mormon wives are going to talk about Taylor Franky Paul, be the next spatula red. If you guys don't know about this temple, tell you guys, I don't think you understand. I went down a reddit rabbit hole and comment section rabbit hole where it's just the way they speak about each other is terrifying. The way this 14 year old 16 year old, even white boys talking is such that like the hate is crazy. And I feel like it happens because they're in a majority white country too. And I say this because we also hear a lot about how Nigerians will make you or break you. And I realize, I think we tend to fall into this sort of hole where we try to villainize each other rather than forgetting that I think it's not necessarily a Nigerian thing or a black thing or a white thing. It's a human thing. People are going to be hate as regardless. So when you find yourself saying, oh, my community hates me, it's not necessarily a community. It's just the people you are surrounded by and more often than not, it is your community. And I think that again, for like whenever we talk about like how Nigerians have such great engagement, they engage with your content, but I'm like, yeah, like if you're a Nigerian and a Nigerian has 200 million plus people, of course, they're going to be loud. Of course, they're going to come in like in masses. That's the whole point of having numbers. If you are a white person and you're getting hate, of course, they're going to come in numbers because again, you're the majority in this context. Anyways, just some food for thought for you as we're thinking through hate and all that stuff. I don't watch reality TV. So now you're probably wondering, Sophie, how don't you watch reality TV, but you're a Nicolandria Stan? I'm an avid TikTok reality TV watcher. Reading, I know these people from TikTok recaps. I am an avid TikTok recap. Like give me the recap from somebody with a little small head in the corner of the TikTok where they go, love, I didn't review episode one. Let's go. So this is a route for them or not. And I just listen and that's the way I get my opinion. So maybe sometimes I form opinions of other people's opinions. That's how the world works. Okay, if I need to actually go for my opinion, then I watch the full thing. For example, with the ACE interview with Speedy Mormon, I saw the ACE interview on TikTok with the recaps. And I said, hmm, something is off here. Let me go watch the full video. It wasn't plenty off. It was mostly the way he said. And then I went to the actual YouTube video to watch the full thing. So that's how I operate. Anyways, I say all this because the bachelor's, I used to watch the bachelor in the bachelor's from Nigeria when I used to live in Nigeria. And even when I was in America too, I stopped watching it a long time ago. Like maybe I've not watched it in about four or five, six years. But I might be watching this season on TikTok, please, I'm never going to watch that full episode in my app. Thanks to do. But I'm going to be watching it on TikTok because Taylor Frankie Paul is the new bachelor right. If you do know who Taylor Frankie Paul is, let me tell you because I'm nosy, guys. This one has two kids and her and her husband were in a Swinger controversy. You're probably like Sophie. What is a Swinger? Swingers are when couples have sex with each other. Okay. A dream of mine. Moving on. But this is literally what they used to do in the Mormon town that they were at. So she and a group of other moms and wives and their husbands used to sleep together. And then one time she slept with somebody else's husband, but her husband didn't know. And that one's husband didn't know as well. So it was a whole thing. And then she had a mental breakdown. And she was arrested. It was in charges. Re-dropped. Back with her husband who's the father of her kids and then she wasn't back with her husband. But she's sexy. She has a little hair. She's a Mormon wife. It's drama. And there's also a Hulu show called The Secret Life of Mormon wives that they're all on. I'm telling you good. I don't think you guys understand that white women have drama. If you're worried about bodies, okay, bodies and just the real housewives of Legos. I don't think you've seen drama yet. I don't think you see. Like this is things that like stressed me out because when I talk about our community, when you're talking about a show where a couple is on there and they used to swing a fucky chadat, we're not playing the same game. We're not playing the same game. Anyways. So she's going to be the new bachelor at. And I think that's interesting because the bachelor at franchise has never done this before. Typically it's people who were formally on the show that then put up to be bachelor or bachelor at. But last bachelor didn't actually do really well. And then the last bachelor at two was okay, but it wasn't really like anything like crazy. I think who Luz trying to change into a different thing. She's going to be the new bachelor at. She has two kids. She was married before. They're divorced now, but she's still in love with her ex husband, but she's going to be the new bachelor at. And I think that's a great TV. And now that I'm saying, I'm like, I wonder if I could ever be on reality TV. I don't think I can. Only because I think someone like Taylor Frankie Paul shows you how messy life is. And the internet nowadays, I don't think allows people to be messy. Like when I think about love Island season seven and just lately in the world, everything just has to be perfect. Everything has to be this way. There's no nuance anymore. There's no black and white. It's oftentimes, there's no gray. It's only black and white. It's very strange because I know that if I wasn't a reality TV show where I had to talk to men or women, guys, you would hit me. Because I'm messy. I'm dramatic. I lie. Sometimes I do. I can talk to somebody. I can gossip. There's this text book I saw when people were talking about how getting canceled. Let me say this down. I can be mean. I can be very, very, really honest. I can cheat. I can lie very, very well. I can have sex. I can talk behind someone's back. I think that's gossip. I don't know. I don't know what else I think I'll be canceled for. When I started listening to those things, I was like, actually, it's not done a lot. I said that back. I don't think I'm bad. I actually don't think I've done anything crazy, actually. Hopefully, I don't say that. You guys go find clips of me being amazing. Guys, guess what? I actually, I don't know if I've ever said something podcast, but I actually was invited to be a part of a reality TV show, The Circle, when it first started out. I was like, OG and even love is blind, too. OG, season one, season two, during the pandemic, they hit me up. I went through all the screenings, talked to a therapist. I was literally supposed to submit my passport and information to get on a flight to go. And guys, I couldn't go because I couldn't work outside of America. I'm telling you what, no, having a green card or blue passports can do to you in this country, heartbreaking. I don't know if I feel like The Circle is a very different vibe for reality TV because that one's a bit about the mind game and all that stuff, but I can't imagine me on like a too hot to handle. Because first of all, Klonjee is not that serious. Klonjee is like being horny. I would be upset that you're going to want to fuck somebody. But then again, there have been times where I just was so horny that I could have done anything. So maybe I take that back. Love Island, I don't think I would thrive as well on because I don't think I would do good with somebody I like. Actually, I take that back. I've called someone my dick sister before. So maybe I actually don't care about sharing. There's a lot about myself I'm sharing right now. I love a solo episode. Sophie's mother's Yapa Yapa and goes, anyway, so Taylor Franky Paul is the Bachelor Red. That's going to be fun. I'm excited to watch the on TikTok. And then while we're talking about just social media in general, guys, this is so off topic. Kind of trying to bring a bag of wisdom away to bring this around. But there's a creator, I don't know if I can call her a creator, but I went to DC before I got to New York for my goddaughter is 10th birthday and I have a goddaughter who's 10 and another one who's five. And I say this because even when I was posting the content, the only reason I posted them was because their mom posts them often, but not often enough. And even when I visited my family, my niece and my nephew, I post their photos, but very like here and there. And I try sometimes to just cover up their faces. And I say this because I was scrolling again on my FIP and I heard about this creator who's I think a 15 year girl. Her name is Salish and she just opened or she just launched a skincare brand, et cetera, make good, open those photos like that. But her dad has a YouTube channel with over 32 million subscribers and all he does is content around his daughter. My daughter has a crush. My daughter stays hungry for 24 hours. My daughter locked in a room and no offense to this man, but he looks like if you imagine the creepiest white smile you can think of, that's what this man looks like. No offense to him, but exactly sometimes offense. And when I saw how many teenagers were buying her products from Sephora, it just, it just it clicked something in my head because when I was buying presents for my daughter's, I remember when I was searching for stuff, I saw a mom and her daughter. Whenever I buy stuff for my daughter's, I usually ask kids around the area for the kid section, what they really would want their mom to get for them. And this young girl, she was eight. I was like, Oh my God, what would you want? And she was saying the Barbie, she was saying like, you know, a cute teddy bear is cute, like mugs. She was actually being a kid at eight, right? And I could tell like, Oh, this girl has a good head in her shoulders. I asked another parents and I'm not judging this parent. I'm even going to, I don't know them for anywhere. And this girl was like, Oh my God, I would love you should definitely get her. And this was like a 10 year old. She was like, Oh, you should get her the road, the road blushes. And she mentioned something about getting this, my 10 year old needs lip balm, lip gloss and maybe a concealer. And of course, I was like, Oh, of course, thank you so much in my head. I was like, I'm going to get in my 10 year old daughter with that. I realize there's no, I don't, I'm not a parent, so I don't know. Nobody is, it's, it's not crazy that a 15 year old is launching a skincare line and Sephora was wrong with your skin at 15 that you should be going to Sephora to buy. Why are you putting on concealer at 15? When I was 15, I was in secondary school. I don't think it counts for me to even say that because I was in secondary school in Nigeria. And we didn't, there was no way we were having that kind of makeup in school. But even the culture now, kids are growing up so freaking fast, so fast, too fast. And if your parents are exploiting that for their own gain, and there's so many people that come into mind right now of the baby is just even born. And the baby already has an Instagram page that has 100,000 followers. What are you following the child's page for? Where what what I just like, I can't. And it's different if it's like maybe like I don't, I don't know how it's different. I don't know how it's different. I don't know how it's different. I am maybe when I'm a mom, if I'm a mom, and I give my baby, I might be like, I want to share my child in that way. Besides that, I just can't imagine why there needs to be a page for my child. I don't imagine why I need to post my child on Instagram or YouTube unless they want to do it. The only reason I'm online right now is because I chose to open my own page and I open my pages when I was like, 18, 19, 20, like it is absurd to me that people aren't able to understand this. I don't know. I have no words except all those words I just said. But it was interesting. I saw that I've seen a lot of discourse around her dad like, you know, taking advantage of her. I've seen a lot of discourse about her parents needing to like watch their kids because why is a seven year old going to a mall to go do a meet and greet with a 15 year old and then seven year old is begging you to go to Sephora to buy skincare at seven. You can't even read. You don't even know what hydrochloric acid is. Yes. And last thing about my internet roundup is, of course, I have to talk about this. Tell me, I don't know what to start from because that wedding, guys, I think was absolutely breathtaking. Was absolutely like, I'm still in awe when I went to the Vogue article to read it and to click on all those images myself, I had to do it. And this stress Africa versus everybody shows you how much I just, I love that they wrapped their culture so much and there's so much discourse around this wedding. I don't even know where to start from with it. First of all, outfits were immaculate and impeccable. And what I love the fricking most is that I know that people have been talking about Vicki James versus the designer who did her dress account in the person's name. And I love Vicki James. I'm definitely having Vicki James do a dress for me. I don't think people understand that. There's a certain style that people have and we're going to talk about this with Fashion Week 2. I don't understand this lack of thinking people have sometimes because if I saw, tell me a lot in a corset full on, bust down wig and the Vicki James dress. I'll be like, no, that's not her because that's not her. And if you're listening to me, you're like, who is Vicki James? Vicki James is an incredible designer. She is also like just an incredible artist, content creator, everything like that. She's from Nigeria and she's been out on Nigeria. And as I was saying, so that's what Vicki James is and there's a lot of comparison between her and this other designers for her wedding because we were like, oh, this is such a soft wedding. It's so demure. Other weddings are allowed. And again, I don't understand why people are saying that. I don't think you need to compare weddings to each other because when I get married, my wedding is going to be distinctly me. And that was my favorite thing about their wedding. It was so them you could tell. You could tell the like people who were coming to their wedding were there to celebrate them and their love. And I think sometimes as an immigrant, as an African, as an Nigerian with parents, weddings are oftentimes not for the couple, but therefore, like everybody else around. I saw a TikTok the other day where this couple were saying the things about our wedding that happened when we didn't even want to turn to bride was like, oh, yeah, I said no kids. But there were kids who even had food. There were kids who were walking and even asking me what I'm doing here. The man said about how he was rushed during his wedding and he didn't even know what was happening. They just said, just come anyways. I'm like, if I'm going to do weddings, I am not going to be doing it for everybody's sake. I wouldn't be doing it for me and my love's sake for sure. And it could tell that that was what this wedding was. And their weddings that should be done for you. If you are getting married, fight for you on your passing. Like unless you give up, like I want for weddings. And I have said this to anyone who can listen to me, anyone I've been in the past, I've told them I want for weddings and I have my weddings prepped and ready to go. I just want somebody who's going to be with me who will make this journey with me. And I love that they have sort of done their wedding in the way where like they did Iceland and I was specifically to them because they love spending their holidays there. They did a monaco because they love going to Monaco. They did Dubai and they like, it was so effortless and clean and just so them. It was special. I don't know, guys, I just, I want for weddings and I'm excited for it. And no one can climb me for it. And I've always wanted for weddings before this wedding happened. So nobody should come and tell me, oh, I'm copying somebody else's wedding. And also, can we talk about this comparison around people and weddings because amounts of discourse of people saying like, oh, like this is how you do a wedding, this is how you do a wedding. No, that noise. You know, that kind of shut up. Have you married? Did you marry? Do you have the kind of money they have? Why are you putting your mother in rich people's business? I don't understand it. There's some things that I would not even say, I was loud. In fact, if they wanted to do 50 weddings, they could have done it. If they wanted to invite the entire fucking world, they could have done it. People's weddings are theirs. It's theirs. There's no classy. There's no. This is the perfect wedding. There's not anything. Because I even saw, I don't know if you guys have been following this other influencer back up bloom. You can tell me, I know everybody on the frp, but a bloom also had a wedding and her wedding was sponsored by Lancome, which is interesting because she's a billionaire's daughter. And for me, having her wedding sponsored by Lancome was a very interesting move because her wedding pictures had a Lancome, hashtag Lancome partner. And I was like, I don't know how I feel about that. How about by again? Is that a wedding? It's not my wedding. I probably didn't have to pay anything. And if she wanted to rich people know how to rich themself, I'm no good to count how money for her. She got more money then. But yeah, Timmy's wedding was incredible. I love Mr. Easy's. It's been a good friend of mine for a really long time. Both of them together are just amazing to see. She's so soft and he's even softer with her. And I just wish them all the best. I love their wedding down. I love the intentionality behind it. I love the fusion of Western and Western Africa influences in there. I love that like they kept her rooted to who they were at the same time. And I just love when people like marry their best friend. You can tell like they're both each other's friends. I love the privacy around it. And I love that now that they're sharing everything. It's like, oh, we didn't even know this happened. Now you guys have to see an inside look of it. So wish them all the best. But that fashion again was immaculates. And on that note, let's talk about New York Fashion Week. So I'm here in New York for Fashion Week. And if you don't know, New York Fashion Week is a week in September and in February where designers, artists, editors all come to New York to showcase fashion styles. There's also London Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, and Copenhagen Fashion Week I think. And they both all happen in February and spring. In February, you have like them showing off fall styles and spring styles. And in September, you have them showing spring and summer styles. That's usually what it is. Like a spring and summer, 2026, that kind of thing. It's usually done by like the Fashion Week Committee, you know, like the Anna Windtours and the Vos and all this stuff. And usually they have some incredible brands that some of us have never heard of and some of you have. My first New York Fashion Week was in 2021. I went viral online in 2020 and then I had a bunch of friends who were fashion girlies. Now, again, when I started this episode, I told you, I don't think I'm a fashion girlie. I can put that shit on. You could give me the clothes on. I would wear it because body or the all day, okay, period. I can do that. However, I don't think I'm a fashion girlie. Like I don't consider myself a fashion influencer. I do dress up when I want to, right, because I look the fuck good. My first fashion week was in 2021 and a few of you might have heard the story because I've done several story times about it, but I was really close friends with a bunch of fashion influencers. And the thing about influencer culture is we're all doing influencing in our living rooms. Like right now, I'm recording my podcast in my friends' apartment because I'm homeless. You know the vibes already. But typically for influencers, like we tend to always be in our homes and our apartments doing content. Then the way for you to sort of meet brands and interact with brands is at events like this. It makes sense that you'd have access to brands because brands are through events. You can go to PR meetings. The brands mostly have their headquarters in the city. If you live in LA, if you live in Atlanta, Miami, maybe there's always like PR people from these brands there. But events like New York Fashion Week also help people who don't leave in these big cities get options or access to these brands as well. So for fashion week, there's like a core schedule where people can go to these shows. It's not open to the public. You have to be invited to these shows. It's a whole process. It's mostly very, very white, very Asian, always black. And then there are events around Fashion Week. So they're New York Fashion Week after parties. There's events that brands would put on like La Roche Posea had an event with Laura Roche. Pandora would have an event. And this is where influencers go to shine. I mean, if it's celebrities, like love Island stars, people who want to be seen by the brands, they get invited sometimes PR companies work overtime. Because the idea is because this thing is happening. These fashion shows are happening. People are walking. The models are here. Models also are a part of all this too. But influencers, editors, press people, they want to get a piece of that pie that's happening around New York Fashion Week. So Fashion Week might be from September 11 to 16, but events can be happening from the 9th to the 20th because everybody's in New York right now. If you go to London, it's the same thing. People are going to be in London. They're after parties that like, Nylon Control would burn a boy or like, and a winter would throw a card to be like, it's really, really fun upscale stuff. Like, the other time I was partying last year, I think two years ago, with Cardi B, Ricky Thompson, Quinn Blackwell, Liza Koshy, celebrity, celebrity, like Kevin Hart, like, people were just always around. That's essentially what Fashion Week is. Now, I was friends with fashion girlies in 2021 and I just blew up in 2020. Most of us had already kind of blown up around that time. And all the girlies were like, let's go to New York Fashion Week. Now from what I knew, you got invited to Fashion Week, but from 2021, I think they began a push of, we all need to be in New York for you to be seen because remember, everybody went, most of what got their virality in 2020. So people are like hungry for like accessibility and like visibility. That's the word for it. So everybody's going to Fashion Week. We knew like all the friends, all the influencers are going, so we have to go to, I remember going to Zara and like shopping for the stuff I was going to wear. I had friends who like, we're going into debt. I'm not going to lie to y'all, like, they were not paid. They arranged because they went to go buy a jacket and was bad. Like, it was crazy because people wanted to show up and show out so people understood, like they were here to stay. I did New York Fashion Week then in 2021 for the first time. I walked my red carpet and I would tell you the Sophie that I did New York Fashion Week in 2021 is not the same Sophie that I was doing New York Fashion Week in 2025. It's been four years and I lived in New York for the two of those years. I'm turning around and one Sophie went in so, like, wide eyed, like, I went there like, oh my god, I can't touch these celebrities. Like, I'm going to a Laquan Smith show. I'm going to this show. I'm going to that show. There's a coach, so there's a Kate Spade show. Like, it felt like so surreal because remember, before 2020, I was getting my masters. I was getting my bachelor's and then after 2020, I went viral. celebrities are following me. People know who I am and I'm going to New York and PR people are telling me I can get invited to these shows. Now, I didn't know anybody. So when I'm coming in, like, I'm depending on my friends to, like, show me around. And I would say was the worst experience ever. I mean, I almost got fucking jumped in the bathroom a fashion week. Well, I've said that story time enough. We've moved past it. But I remember just experiencing how cutthroat the fashion industry is. If you've heard models talk about how terrible the fashion industry is, New York Fashion Week is even worse. Like getting into these events feels like the biggest case of who you know, right? So like, if you go to a line, you can be in line for twars because you don't know the right person. Who's your manager? Who's your agency? What agency do you belong to? Whose guest list are you on? That's the kind of vibe New York Fashion Week gives. So I've done New York Fashion Week for the past four years. I've been to two fashion shows only. So think about this. Nobody who lived in New York, I'm not really a fashion girl. So I'm not, I don't know most of these designers, but the idea is throughout the year, you're like interacting with the designer as you're buying their outfits. So then the designers and the PR houses would invite you to come to their show. They would dress you up. And then you can go to their show sit front row, take videos, do all those things. So I've done that twice or three times. My Croatia was Bronx and Bangkok last year. They dress me. I was front row. It was incredible how to get time this year, by the way, because I listened to this episode, I would have fashion week would have been over, but I have three shows planned that I'm going to be going to and I'm sitting with and I'm documenting it with Snapchat. I think one of those shows is dressing me, but they are the fashion creators who like, they have like, we are curing shows that they go for. Like I know Pat Bow, I know Brandon Maxwell and the like. So fashion week is a bit chaotic for sure. But I think if you're an upcoming influencer or creative, I don't always tell people who aren't in the fashion industry or the makeup and skincare business to come to fashion week. Because I don't think you make money here. And most brands don't pay you to come to fashion week unless they pay you around the activations. For example, Vaseline could pay me to come to an event during fashion week and I'll post a real about me using Vaseline for fashion week. That's the deal that I can get. Otherwise for the most part, you don't really get paid. So a lot of creators that you see who are going to New York, they're not getting paid. They're spending their own money, dressing themselves for the most part and just hoping to be seen, to be photographed, to mingle with PR people and agency execs, to then be able to be invited maybe next year and the like. It's a great networking event. I think if you don't live in New York, I always say the costs often time outweigh the benefits unless you're actually working a brand deal so you know you're going to get paid after. If not, I don't think I've ever gotten a deal out of New York fashion week especially because I'm not a fashion influencer. I'm also like very rarely a makeup, a beauty, skincare influencer too. So it's usually like a mix of both but this year's been fun because I'm documenting stuff through Snapchat. I'm going to be doing some fun interviews because I'm trying to do more hosting. So I'm going to be in New York doing all of that and more. I'm also we have New York Fashion Week London Fashion Week Copenhagen in Paris. That's I saved the best for not last. That's is Lagos Fashion Week. Lagos Fashion Week is the epitome of African fashion. I have been obsessed with Lagos Fashion Week since it started by GT Bank. I think what five, six, maybe seven years ago, maybe even longer. But this year I'm going to be at Lagos Fashion Week and I'm pouring all my energy into Lagos Fashion Week because I love African designers, I love with African designers. So I will be in Lagos. I'm really, really excited. And I think for someone who has ever seen some level of the behind the scenes of New York Fashion Week, I've never been to any other Fashion Week except for New York, I really want to do London Paris and Copenhagen soon. But even when I see even when I see like news around other Fashion Weeks, it's very clear it's not for people who look like me. The models on the runway, my S may be or sometimes look like me, maybe. And for the most part, they're really not, fashion is not an inclusive space. It's still very much the skinny, skinny girls. They're really, really, really dark skin models versus the light skin, light models. There's really any in between over the past two, three years since people have started just realizing that we don't care about being diverse or inclusive. People have just gone back to regular schedule program. With Lagos Fashion Week, it feels like my culture is celebrated. It feels like being black is celebrated, being African is celebrated. And our designs are epic. If you know anything about Nigerian Fashion, you know Nigerian Fashion is epic. And Lagos Fashion Week just has movement to ask style. And I'm one person who's always going to be decked out in African clothing. You guys know this for a fact. So it feels like why would I chase an industry that is not oftentimes careative and chase me and let me go where I'm celebrated. So I'm really excited to actually see what Lagos Fashion Week is about. And I know a bunch of creators, mostly black creators coming from America to Lagos as well this year for Lagos Fashion Week, I am excited to see what that looks like. I hope it is as good as I think people are hoping it would be this year. I'll keep you guys posted. But I will be in Lagos in October. And I can't wait to share some more about what I'm going to be getting on between Lagos. But stay tuned for that. Now we're going to get into the loud line segments. And this is where you guys are going to be asking me questions. If you want to your question here, keep your eyes tuned to our stories on Instagram and take talk at Amai Tulao Pod. We're going to be putting questions stickers before every episode. We also be asking those questions before the episode airs where you guys can ask us anything you want around some topic. We're going to give you prompts. Or go to Amai Tulao.com to send your voicemails or part of the dilemmas you might have. And this is where we'll be answering all of those questions. Because yeah, the girl has her own show, Bob. Yay, talk to me nice. First question I'm seeing here is what actually happens at New York Fashion Week. I just said it, it's usually just a bunch of shows that are pre-planned. They have a schedule. Usually happens at spring studios in New York, but they're events around Fashion Week where that's where people come to shine. Like you just want to go strut your stuff. Guys, I'm telling you, people just fly to New York just to be photographed on the streets to post and use the hashtag New York Fashion Week. So people don't even come to New York. So people will actually just take photos in their house. Or do you get rid of me for Fashion Week in their apartments and don't go to Fashion Week and still get the buzz of using the hashtag to get somewhere. So influence that culture is so interesting to me. Are the shows as glamorous as they look online? Yes and no. I think New York Fashion Week is very similar to the energy that New York also gives. New York is very glamorous and fun and high fashion and looks serious and everything else. But New York is also very dirty, very messy. They're rats everywhere. People get stopped on the subway. Somebody will shave in her leg on the subway the other day on TikTok. New York is also very much crazy in that way. So Fashion Week I wouldn't say is glamorous, but I would say you get to meet people, you get to see people like there was an event the other day and like all the stars were in the room. That's the vibe you get. Yeah, New York Fashion Week is fun. It's glamorous for the shows themselves because you can't be sitting inside by side with Anna Winter and Sarah Jessica Parker and people like that at dinner or at a fashion show front row. You get to see really cool celebrities while also in New York walking your dog, you also get to see celebrities. So it's just like the best of both worlds essentially. Do people really wear the designer looks after the show? This is something that I am not sure about, but it also depends on the designer. Like I know whenever they do like a Paris fashion week or London Fashion Week, you have like the Jacques Moussen. It's always very like, it's very like, how do I explain it? It's not ready to wear. I think it's Couture, there we go. See, I'm not a fashion girl. Like their Couture shows where like you're not necessarily going to wear this everyday looks, but then there are fashion shows like a Ralph Lauren when Ralph does shows. These are ready to wear pieces that they're being shown. And these are like trends that people are setting for the future. Like we know now that whatever is shown at this spring and summer fashion week is what the fashion world is saying is trending for next year. The color is the texture. Like for example, Pantone sets the color of the year. And last year they said the color of this year was butter yellow. Everywhere you go now, there's butter yellow somewhere. I guess what I think fashion week is. Like maybe they're going to say that the short skirt is back and then you're going to see a little short skirt pieces on the runway this year. So like by next summer people are wearing a lot of short skirts. That kind of is the vibe of what fashion week gives. How do influencers get invited to shows? I think I already mentioned this a little bit, but most influencers usually would get invited by like PR agencies who like maybe scour online. If you've been tagging the brand then you can get invited. Your agency might have connections. So people just go and try their best. I know like when I was 20s or 21 there were times where people would just stand outside the actual show and hope that if they're extra seats that people would just pull them in so they can see and fill up the seats for the show. Like it just really depends. The hustle is the hustle. If you want to get seen you will get seen. I just I didn't like I went to an event the other day with Pandora and they had a red carpet. And when I walked in with my friend Sonya Barbie an incredible model and actor and everything we wanted to walk the red carpet because I wanted my photos. But I was like, oh I don't know if they're going to kick me out because let me tell you something about New York. You could be at a fucking fashion show because I've invited you. Make the mistake of walking a red carpet or walking an event or something then people will just stare at you. They will not flash their camera. They will not waste their gigabyte and their memory card on you. So I think most influencers just like take the risk of and I just go through this show and get dressed and look really pretty and hopefully someone takes my photo. And most of the time it really works. Sometimes it doesn't and you just go back home. I've done that maybe once and I was in 2021 and I got lucky and I got into the show. So that was really fun. Nowadays I just I feel like there's other priorities that I have so instead of like chasing that I just tend to like focus on my craft and my thing. So their big events like the Black Beauty roster would have like a dinner for New York Fashion Week or Kensington Grey would have a New York City like after party that I would want to go for. How expensive is it to attend New York Fashion Week if you're not invited? Most people are not invited unless they're flown by brands but I can tell you like maybe from $5,000 to $15,000. It costs people from $5,000 to $15,000 at the minimum to attend New York Fashion Week. And this includes like buying the outfits getting the plane ticket, getting the hotel in New York if you don't have a friend to stay. It is expensive to come out here. That's why I tell creators a lot of times if you don't have the brand deal or you don't are not really into fashion like that or beauty or skincare maybe I don't think it's worth it to do that yearly pilgrimage out to New York for Fashion Week. And I think for a lot of people, especially with the creator economy, the visibility New York Fashion Week gets confuses a lot of creators that they need to be here. It's the same as Coachella. Unless you've experienced Coachella, you might not know if you're going to like it or not. I hate Coachella. It's a lot of walking. It's a lot of sand. It's uncomfortable. It's a fun festival. It's really expensive. It's a hassle to go there. It's just, it's a lot. But if I go to Coachella, brands will see me. Agencies will see me. The outfits are killing. The hashtag usually gets me more followers and views. So you see how like for a lot of creators, you have to look at the pros and cons. If you can afford to go to Coachella or go to New York Fashion Week because you're getting brand deals around stuff, go. But if you're someone who's struggling, you're not really sure. I don't think it matters that you need to go to New York Fashion Week this year or the next year. Like maybe you're just doing content if I was going to New York Fashion Week. It's actually the creator and Natasha who last year kept talking about how like, she really wants to go to New York Fashion Week but she lives in Canada. And she did content about what would it look like if she was at New York Fashion Week. And I think this year she's is going to be at New York Fashion Week and probably going to get paid to be here. It's like looking ahead. I think sometimes we forget as creators that. It's okay to enjoy what you have now. You don't have to look at people who have been doing this thing for seven years, for eight years, for one year, for even two days because their journey is not yours. Your journey is yours. Like it's your journey, it's your life with content in general. Like we tend to compare ourselves so much in comparison is the fucking thief of joy. Like your path is yours. Like, viability, visibility, algorithms, all these things. They don't matter because you look like you and they look like them all. Because even when we're talking about this fashion week stuff, the skinny girls probably get more invites than thick girls. Girls with hair probably get more invites like girls without hair. People with men don't get involved, I don't know. Like it's just, you never fucking know, you know what I mean? So I don't necessarily want to like be a Debbie Downer but I want people to think through that when they try to be a part of these loud moments, especially if it's something where it puts them in the red. I used to be that creator who thought I had to do these things to get ahead. And I realized that honestly, staying in my own lane and figuring my process out is the best recipe for me. Like their creators, I would expect to want to be a fashion week but they're over there living their best life doing other things and they're still getting their engagement because their audience knows who they are. That I think is how I want people to start thinking. Who pays for all the clothes influencers wear? Again, we're talking about money stuff. A lot of times for New York Fashion Week influencers pay for their own outfits unless they're getting dressed by a brand or getting styled. I will say though, there's something called gifting rooms during fashion week where people actually get gifted clothes. Like you can go to like a Levi's, you can go to a Fenty and they have gifting sweets where they give you purses, clothes, bags, even showrooms that like dress showrooms or designer showrooms gift you designer pieces that you can also wear. My, I don't want to tell you guys this. For me, for this fashion week, when you guys go on my Instagram, I'm going to be wearing like some Jimmy True heels at this boutega bag. I'm going to be carrying. If you know me, you know I'm not going to buy that shade. You're going to go out and buy a boutega bag. Jimmy true shoe, what thousand dollar list for what? Why? I'm more new man, I don't even need that. So I use this app called Shop Pickle. We are just shop for designer stuff and shop for like dresses that other influencers, creators, people around the area of bar. And I also sell some of my clothes that I have bought too. And I just use that and I just wear that. And it's simply the same because most people don't know. I'm telling you, social media is such a game. It is such a game. Like when I see young girls like trying to chase after this like unattainable dream, I wish I could shake them and be like, follow your own path. Like for me, I'm not going to buy five thousand dollar designer shoes. I'm also not going to run and sign in line as sample sales to buy designer shoes. It's not me. I love them. I would love for the designer to give them to me. I would happily wear them and model them. But I just, I'm not in the point of my life where that matters to me now. But there are people who absolutely kill it. Like any given Sunday, shout out to any. Shout out to Jackie Aina. Shout out to the girlies who actually rock this shit and style it. And they know what the fudge they're talking about. They wait in queue until someone has things to shop for. They even shop for these things. I kind of lost my shop. I don't consciously go online to shop. It's not my thing. So I think it would be like, it'll be crazy or maybe just not truthful of me to think I'll come and tell you, oh, people, like, you know, go buy that design. I think, no, no, I don't do that. But if you're the kind of person who is interested in doing stuff like that, go forth and conquer. So for most influencers that either get gifted and gifted in tweets, they either buy their stuff. Some people even rent some people buy and then go return after the week is over, whatever you think. So we're even going to sheen. I'm by dupes. I pretend it's the real thing. What works for you works for you. Just don't chase after this unattainable thing if you can't really afford to do so. Okay, last question is someone's asking me, what is the biggest fake flex influencers do at Fashion Week? I'm not once like call people out for the hustle. Like it is what it is. I think something that's hilarious to me though is something I'm going to be doing this like, I'm just going to be studying outside at Fashion Week places and then trying to interview people. But people just stand out to like, try to get the shot and pretend they're at Fashion Week. And this is where the discourse around like, oh, why influencers at Fashion Week, they're like, they're being so this and that. And they're destroying it. Fashion Week needs to be exclusive right now. Oh, shut the fudge up. It does not. It needs to be more inclusive. No matter what you think, I'm telling you right now. Every fashion show I've been a part of, everyone I've seen, the people in the room don't look like me most of the time, if not all the time. They might be five to 10 specs of us dabbed here and there. But for the most part, these photographers are not taking photos of us, but not in those rooms. So there's so much space. We deserve to take up space. And fashion is already not an inclusive community. Like fashion, fashion. The same fashion we're talking about now, talking about how they don't have a good range of sizes. Fashion where we models on the runway as size zero and two, two might be too thick. That is a fashion week that's inclusive. Please, please. So when people talk about how fashion is more inclusive, I'm like, that's not true, bro. That's not true at all. Like I want to see more plus size models on the fucking runway. I want to see more plus size models outside the streets of New York fashion week. If they're not putting them on the runway, then they're going to strut their style in the streets of New York. Pointing back on the period. I want to see more people with like luxury versions versus alternative fashion. Like I want to see more. So I feel like whenever people talk about things are exclusive, I keep saying, people anyone who's calling for exclusivity doesn't actually know what exclusivity is. Those people who are in true exclusive spaces, you wouldn't be here about it. I'm telling you, when rich people reach rights, you wouldn't know they're reaching at all. Where rich people reach rights, you would not know they're reaching at all. I am telling you this for a fact. So for all those people telling influencers to not go to fashion week for cloning them for doing all these things, you're just a hater, let people enjoy what they want to enjoy. Fashion is not an inclusive space here. We have years and years and years to go. So the voices that we do have in the room, I want to celebrate them because they inspire me every day. I am sat willing and ready to learn. And New York Fashion Week has taught me so much as a person. I won't lie guys. I still broke down today. Like I remember other fashion weeks, I'm looking at the events and I'm comparing myself, okay, like, okay, my friend got invited to learn rich pose and I didn't. But I got invited to Pandora, but this person, that's the mind fuck. That's the mind fuck that creators have to deal with around fashion week. So I just, I want to share it like to creators who maybe you're interested in doing New York Fashion Week, creators who are interested in just being a creator in general or for just people who are interested in being a creator, like just take it one day at a time, do it at your own pace. I enjoy fashion week now in the way I am enjoying it because I'm very much now intentional about where I put my energy into. Being in the influencer industry is very, very hard. Especially when you get into spaces like this because again, we don't get to see these often. We're all in our living rooms, we're all in our beauty rooms, we're all in our vanity rooms, just sort of like speaking to our phones. And then when we're all in spaces like that, you realize just how small you are compared to the bigger picture. Like I remember like when I'm at events at fashion week, just the Pandora event, for example, I walked on the stairs and I swear they were about 150 to 200 people in that room. And I can tell you that I have 400,000 followers. There's somebody there with 10,000 followers and somebody there with 32 million followers. The industry is so big, yet so small at the same time. And I want it to be celebrated every step of the way. I want people to be celebrated every step from the person who has 1000 followers, the person who has 100 million followers. I think it's just so important that we continue to allow us open rooms in these spaces, especially for young black creators. Like I even want to see more African creators in New York, Fashion Week. I want to see more African creators at LaGos Fashion Week in Paris Fashion Week. I want to see more actresses and artists and so on and so forth. Guys, there's so much I would really enjoy seeing. I'm so glad like we're not getting there yet. So I know we want to say we're so glad, but I hope this episode at least gives you an insight into Fashion Week from my perspective. But that's pretty much it. Fashion Week is all about visibility. It's all about power. It's all about celebrating culture. And New York is the perfect example of how all those things come together. I think Paris is a good example of that. I think LaGos is a good example of that. I think Copenhagen is a good example of that. Maybe not Copenhagen. Let's just say let's not take Copenhagen. Well, Paris, London, New York and LaGos are all like hubs of fashion, of power, of visibility, of culture. And I think fashion is a statement of power, visibility, and culture. Like we see that with Timio Tidalau, we see that with people who are like any given Sunday, we see that with Jackie Aina, we see that with Keenan, we see that with young New York City influencers, we see that with people who just know how to dress. So yeah, New York Fashion Week is a vibe. It's a moment. I am happy I came this year, and I'm happy. I'm in such a healthy space as a creator. It's really hard, especially like doing this podcasting, launching shows, doing YouTube, doing all these vlogs. Sometimes I get very overwhelmed, but then I always try to breathe. I remember why I started, what I started, and why I enjoy what I do. And I realized that I am a 28 year old Nigerian immigrant, who has had the pleasure of attending not one, not two, but three before New York Fashion Week events in New York City, in America, by the special grace of God. Nothing I do is small. I have grown so much, and they're young girls who look like me, who are looking at me, and who are inspired by me, and they're people who I have looked at, who inspire me from peers to people who are older than me. And I could just imagine myself 10 years, from now to 20 years from now. What if this year I was invited to a Pandora event as a guest, and then in two years, I'm invited because I'm launching a line of travel charms with Pandora. Speak here. Shameless shoutouts, slash pitch. But you know, like, your life is what you make of it. New York Fashion, New York is where dreams are made. I'm learning right now that I tend to speak about my dreams and I take too long and acting on it. And sometimes when I'm in New York Fashion Week, I see the pace of the people who I think are my peers. I see how fast they're moving. I tend to want to compare myself to them. And then I remember that their story is not my story. And so if you listen to this episode, not necessarily about Fashion Week, but just like in general, if you've ever felt maybe insecure, you've ever felt like you're not moving at the pace you want to. We're living in a crazy world right now. What you are doing is enough. You are doing your very best with everything you've been given, and I just want to show you so much love. And that is the end of today's episode, guys. One day, the audience will walk their runways of New York Fashion Week. That's actually something I really want to do if I think about it. I also really want to hopefully have a line, maybe not showcase a New York Fashion Week, but have an event that I am co-hosting at Fashion Week maybe, but you never know. But your girl can only imagine, only dream. But that is the end of today's episode of a My To Love The Podcast with Sophie aka the motherfucking Audity. My next episode is gonna be with Donald. I've missed him so very much. We're just gonna chit chat about just so many things. I have not actually seen him in person for longer than like a few hours. So it would be nice to just catch up with my friend. And then we are back on the road, but there's a lot of new guests that I'm bringing onto the podcast because I've been enjoying having other people to just yap with. But I will say, so all episodes are my favorite because I never know what I'm gonna say when I start, but once I start, I'm like, oh, yeah, your girl's got it. She's got it. But I love you guys very much. Thank you so much for listening. And I'll see you in my next podcast episode. Oh, I was loud. Bye guys. 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