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Marie Reginato - Tips to Show Up Confidently on Camera
Ever wondered how to overcome camera anxiety and show up consistently on social media? Join me as I chat with my fabulous cousin, Marie Reginato, who transitioned from a traditional nine-to-five job to becoming a successful cookbook author and motivational leader. Marie shares her early struggles and triumphs in starting a food blog and how the courage to put herself on Instagram opened doors to incredible opportunities, including growing her Instagram to over 60K followers. We dive into the secrets of consistent effort, the importance of talking about your work, and trusting in the right timeline for success.
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Hello and welcome to the Aspirant Podcast. Today we're going to be talking about everyone's favorite topic showing up on camera. Right, there can be so many insecurities and hesitations that show up here, like worrying about how we look, fearing what we might say wrong or feeling anxious about being judged by others. So if you've ever felt nervous about hitting that record button, this episode is for you. My guest today is none other than my fabulous cousin, marie Reginado, who is a two-time cookbook author and motivational leader who helps people tap into their potential and unleash their inner weird, wild and woo. Hello, marie.
Marie Reginato :Hi, oh my God, that intro. I'm like, ooh, I want to listen to a podcast on that because I still get nervous. I am so excited to be here. This is honestly such a pleasure to sit with you and have this conversation. Let's go, let's dive deep into this topic.
Natasha Clawson:Yeah, yeah, so for those listening, marie has been on the internet for a while, starting back when blogs were cool. So this is about nine years ago kind of like the start of Instagram, when things were, you know, single posts and actually a very less complicated time.
Marie Reginato :If I will Tell me, take me back. Yes, I think I have to agree with you on that. It was before Instagram stories, so it's like almost in the dark ages, and I remember I was working nine to five and I was absolutely miserable and I had just maybe got out of college two years before that. And I've always known, there's always been like this burning desire in me since I was little, where I'm like I cannot work for someone else, like it's just not going to work. I need to figure out and carve a path for myself where I can have my own freedom, I can go travel, I can work and create what I want to create. And so it started off as a food blog around. I want to say, like 2015, 2016, 2015. And I had a friend and I did not have Instagram at the time, and he told me he's like Marie, I think you need to get on Instagram and start posting your food. Like how else is anyone going to find you? I'm like, oh God, here we go, like you know, opening this whole new world, this whole new door, and I would wake up every single day. I was working full time. I would wake up every morning and post a chia pudding or smoothie bowl, and I just leaned into that consistency.
Marie Reginato :I during that time, I think back on and it was my mid, early twenties and I just became so happy and I felt so fulfilled by doing something outside of my traditional nine to five.
Marie Reginato :And then that started to really take off. I started to hone into my food photography, but my overarching goal was to always do cooking videos, so I had that as my North star. And then I just backtracked. I was like okay, I live in San Francisco. I don't know anyone in the food industry, let alone like camera work. How am I going to make this happen? And then, like just opportunity started to come up because I was showing up, I was talking about it non-stop. And then the food photography evolved into a publishing house reaching out. Honestly, when I was about to give up, like weeks before I was about to give up, a publishing house reached out and said we want to do a cookbook with you, and then that changed the direction of everything. And then that opened doors. And then I remember Instagram came out with videos and I'm like this is my time, like I finally like let's do this.
Natasha Clawson:So Instagram didn't have videos when you started. They just had photos. So video wasn't even an option right there. So, but you started putting yourself out there and I love what your friend told you. He said how are they going to find you? And I think a lot of entrepreneurs are struggling to find clients, and there's this whole piece of how are they going to find you. Well, if people don't know about you, they can't can't find you. So talk to me about that early experience where people reaching out to you were you reaching out to them. Was it a little bit of both? What did that look like?
Marie Reginato :This is so funny because when I remember, like when I would talk about how everything got going, especially within the first year and a half, because everything I worked on my blog very consistently with so much love and dedication for about a year not even a year and a half after that point that's when the momentum started to build. I found my groove. My photography started to improve, I was showing up online, I was actually socializing on social media, you know.
Marie Reginato :I love that, yeah, you got to kind of have some fun and actually talk to people on the platform. You know what a concept. And so I started doing that. And then I remember I would tell people like, wow, clients are just kind of finding me and I feel really lucky. But then I think about it's like no, that was not luck. That was me showing up every single day in preparation for those moments that I knew in my body were going to happen.
Marie Reginato :I never doubt it, like I didn't know the timeline, and you never have to know the timeline whenever you're starting a business or any venture. That is not up to you. When things happen like, forget that, don't even worry about that, and to me, that makes me feel so much more relaxed because then I get to stay focused on the creation part of it and trust that the right timeline is going to find me when the clients come out or when they come to me and when they find me. But also the one thing that I always love reminding people of and myself, is that you have to talk about what you're doing, and literally to the point where it might even start to annoy people, because no one's a mind reader Like no one's a mind reader Like no one can know what you're trying to create unless you are telling them. You have no idea if the person you're talking with might have a connection or an opportunity, unless you unabashedly openly own whatever it is that you are doing.
Natasha Clawson:So true and I think this is a point I bring up to a lot of people too about marketing is, by the time you're sick of the messaging. Someone who has not met you or encountered you doesn't even know what you're about. So just hearing that message is their first entry point and we get sick of things. But we need to keep bringing up those core messages because otherwise people don't even know what we do, and so kind of reframing that mindset of someone's just waiting to hear that solution that you have for them is so helpful. I didn't know that you were actually about to give up. I think that's actually interesting because I think so many entrepreneurs go through this and it's not something we talk about outwardly because, especially on social media, you are trying to put your best foot forward and there are points where we are vulnerable and share, and that's great. But at the same time you can't always be completely vulnerable and say everything's not going my way right now. Yeah.
Natasha Clawson:I agree that's.
Natasha Clawson:I love that you shared that, because now you know you're on Instagram, you have an audience of about 60,000 or more people, and but it takes time to get there too.
Natasha Clawson:I think that's the other thing I love about what you said is it was a year, a year and a half of putting in consistent effort, because what I see with social media is people put in a month or two and they say I'm not getting any returns, and it's kind of like the gym. If I show up to the gym like maybe on Monday, maybe in two weeks, and then I, like you know, go for two months like that, and then I expect these results are like clients pouring in. Well, obviously I don't have bigger muscles in two months from that kind of effort, and so I think equating that, um, that's so helpful. So I love what you had to say there, and what I would love to know about, too, is when when the video came out cause that's what we're talking about today uh, the video feature on Instagram like how hard was it to show up that first time? And what gave you the motivation and confidence to just, you know, to do it and not be worried about what everyone thought?
Marie Reginato :Okay You're going to. This is a crazy story I'm going to tell you I'm going to tell you. Wow, we are really going back.
Natasha Clawson:Okay.
Marie Reginato :So I do have to preface it by saying I used to watch Jada on the Food Network when I was in high school and I would come home I would watch Jada and I would take a nap and fall asleep to Ina Garten and it was like this thing I would do and I just loved and felt so inspired at a young age by Jada and you know Jada from the Food Network. She had her own show, she was very lively and I just remember being like I can do that, I want to do that, I love to express myself. So I've always had that in my mind, like at some point, like I want to use video as a way to express my love of food or whatever it is. And so when my cookbook was about to come out, I remember I went back to my old college town of San Luis Obispo and I stayed with my friend and that I think Instagram stories had just launched, maybe a month or two before. But I was nervous, I didn't want to show my face. I was like I don't know how to work this thing.
Marie Reginato :And I had a friend she had made sourdough and I'm like this is the most perfect opportunity. I can just hold the phone up to myself and be like look guys, look at this beautiful sourdough. It wasn't me like, okay, and go, here's the set. I'm going to show you how to make sourdough Like I'm going to be a presenter. It was literally so simple. Look at this beautiful sourdough and then this is the craziest story. Oh my God. Okay, that night I went to visit my other friend and I ended up staying. I split my time between the sourdough friend and the other friend.
Natasha Clawson:So now I'm at the other friend's house.
Marie Reginato :I'm at the other friend's house and she goes Marie, now that your cookbook is coming out, what do you want to do next? And this is one of the first times I ever openly said what I wanted to do outside of my family, so I talked to them about it First time I ever said to someone else. Well, and I was kind of shy, I was like you know, I really I really want to do cooking videos, like I really just want to express myself. And she's like great, go out there and fucking make it happen. And I'm like what is she talking about? I live in San Francisco, I'm not in LA. Like how am I just going to make this happen? Literally the next morning I get an email Hi, marie, we want to fly you down to LA because we want to shoot a series of cooking videos with you. And I swear to God it was linked to, because I actually finally showed up the day before and posted myself talking about it and it wasn't this big production, but it was something.
Natasha Clawson:And so they made the decision from that video that you, they saw, of the sourdough.
Marie Reginato :I haven't officially asked them, but that was the only video I ever had of me, yeah, so it kind of makes sense because that was such a new industry and like I just I was just showing my excitement for it and like with video work, like that's kind of a big part. It's like you depending on what you're talking about, you want to show layers of your personality and I did that and I guess they liked it and it was literally the next morning.
Natasha Clawson:Crazy. That's crazy, and I love what you said too. There's this element in your business of vision. You have always you said how to North star, like you knew where you're heading, and I know that you do some work in like manifestation. This is where your weird wild and woo comes in. So tell me a little bit about the role of you know, because I'm more of a practical person. So I think, in terms of like setting a goal, some people are a little bit more woo about it. Right, we're manifesting, but I think whichever way you approach it more the practical side or more of the spiritual side you know they both interweave. So tell me just a little bit about the role of that in your business.
Marie Reginato :Oh, my God, yeah, so that is something that I've been always interested Like. I loved astrology. When I was a kid. I would pretend to be a witch in like the shower, like you know, when you're like taking the shampoos and you're like this is my cauldron, so I've always loved that. But at the the same time, I love the practical science. So to me, it's like so fun to understand, like how you can really use your brain to also connect with the spiritual side and make everything rig it to your favor. And so, for me, what? When I started to learn more about the science behind manifestation?
Marie Reginato :There's this thing called the RAS, your reticular activating system, and this is the only thing I'm really going to mention, because it is so powerful. It's like your best friend. So, essentially, it's a filtration system in your mind and your, your mind can only handle so much input information at once, or else it will literally explode. And so, in order for it not to explode, it finds whatever you're focusing on and it validates that. So if you're someone who's like I'm a solution oriented person, I will become someone who's on the food network. It literally distorts and brings in information that validates what you are already feeling.
Marie Reginato :So if you're someone who's like, whoa, it's me, this is never gonna happen, you will start to actually find information to validate that, and so I like to use that tool to remind myself like no, I am so powerful with my mind alone and what I can actually create, and from that it just helps you reframe of like oh no, my mind is very powerful. I don't always want to be in victim mentality, like let me take my power back and let's see how creative I can be. Let's always like if something doesn't work, that only means that there's another solution to be had. If there's a problem, there is always a solution. That is the polarity of it all. So that's what I really like.
Natasha Clawson:That's powerful and I know, you know my own experience, entrepreneurship, mindset, I mean the work matters right, but the mindset you bring to it matters so much because if you believe you can't do something, you will not even try, and so it's that you know, belief that you can show up, and let's see how we can tie this back to video even right. Because if someone is dealing with that anxiety, like I know that you still get nerves and it's kind of hard to believe sometimes from someone who is on the outside looking like well, she's been doing this for nine years, she shows up so confidently, she's beautiful, she's that right. Anyone could throw any excuse at the book for why they can't show up like you do, but unpack a little bit Like you still get nervous, Like how do you deal with that? How have you handled those nerves?
Marie Reginato :Oh my God. Well, absolutely. I think what you just touched on, too right there, is so important because it's such a trick of the mind Like this is all a mind game at the end of the day, like your mind saying, like, well, she's been in business nine years, she, her apartment has white walls and might have, you know, brown. It's not as pretty as a background. It's like watch your mind create all the excuses and manipulate you further into not taking action. It's not actually you. That's not you. That's some like crazy ass thoughts that have just hijacked your mind for a split second to paralyze you again, because your body and your, your, your body and your mind really want to protect you and keep you safe, and so it will do everything in its power to keep you where you are. So just know that going forward.
Marie Reginato :So for me, yes, I always wanted to show up on camera, but, oh my god, I still, to this day, get nervous. Are you kidding me? Like I have to take deep, big breaths. I have to take deep, big breaths. I have to put deodorant on so I don't sweat through the whole thing, but I do it anyways. And what I? And that's the thing I think, so many people.
Marie Reginato :Our mind loves to overcomplicate something that is actually so simple. I remember my ex boyfriend's mom. She told me something and I will always carry this with me and I think about this every time before I go on camera. She's Italian, she's like Maria, you know what she you need to do you, just when you speak from the heart, you never lie Like I love it.
Marie Reginato :It's like stop thinking in your head, because usually what happens is you're overthinking. Do I look good? How are people going to perceive me? Stop right there. You've already gone too far. It does not matter what anyone else thinks of you. Why are you doing this again? It's so that you can express. This is a creative outlet. Everything that you do in your life is a canvas. It's creative. So come back to like. It doesn't matter what I say, it's how I say it. Am I coming from my heart? Because if I'm coming from my heart, that always means it's authentic and it's true to me, and that's the only thing I can actually control. And so I still get nervous all the time. But the faster that I get into it and I allow myself to take breaks and record, I'm like fuck, that sucked and I just do it again, but I don't let that stop me. I do not let it stop me because if I let it stop me, I wouldn't have been here today on this call with you.
Natasha Clawson:Inspired action. I've actually got a funny story for you. So about two years ago I paid a coach who was, you know, probably $300 an hour. So I paid her for 30 minutes to basically talk to me about what was getting me stuck from starting this podcast. Because I was getting stuck in all of the like, well, what if you know, what if I say something wrong?
Natasha Clawson:And like, a big value to me is being right about things or, you know, presenting the right information, being smart Not that I have to be the smartest person in the room, but that I want to be, like, qualified. You know, that's just been a value I've had my whole life. And so showing up on a podcast and having this fear that people are going to think maybe I'm dumb or she doesn't know what she's talking about. So I called Tracy, my friend Tracy paid her for the session because you know she is just everything you could imagine like embodying this energy, and she can show up on a stage and she can own it and she has no fear and she is a fear slayer, right, that is her actual brand. And so I said, tracy, I need to know, like, how do I get there? She goes, what makes you think I'm not nervous and I've just.
Natasha Clawson:I was blown away Like you're not because I don't show up for me, like I love the tool that you gave, which is like speak from your heart. And I think we should all repeat that in our head with that same Italian vibe, because, like that, that's a perfect thing. But Tracy said something, too, which was along that same thing. It was like, if I show up for me, I will fail every time because there's not enough of a you know reason why. If I'm just showing up to make myself big, but there's always one person in the audience whether that's this podcast audience or in the room that needs to hear what you're saying, speak to that person. It doesn't matter if it's your mom or your aunt, like, just speak to that person every time.
Marie Reginato :Oh, my gosh, absolutely. There's so much power and freedom in that and I think so much of the anxiety lies in that, in that energy of what are people going to think of me? And you know what I started to do a couple of years ago that actually really helped. And it might be. Take it for what it is, but I tell myself like, yeah, marie, there will be people that won't like you, there will be people that will really not like what you say, but great, they're not for you anyways. And the only way that you're going to find the right people, the right community, is if you're actually speaking your mind and your truth and from your heart, because that magnetizes the right people right to you. So who cares and know that? Yeah, there will be people that will not like what you say, but do not let them stop you because they're not even in the ring.
Natasha Clawson:It's almost like the law of attraction, right? It's just a math problem. If you make yourself bigger, you will attract more good and more bad, and those percentages might even be the same as before. But, like, I would like to take a lot more good and, you know, some more bad and just deal with it. Right, that's just, it's just part of it. Um, so I have a question how many times do you create content that you either second guess before you post, or you just, you know, thought you were going to post and you delete it and never see.
Marie Reginato :Oh, all the time. I literally did it an hour before we got on this call. I still haven't posted it. I'm like, is it good enough? And then I'm just gonna. That's the thing. It's like I've I've come to realize a lot of it is a numbers game and it is just repetition and practice. And it doesn't matter, honestly, really, how you feel about it. It's like did you do it? Okay, do you like it enough? Maybe maybe 75%? Okay, put it out there and move on. Make a decision and move on, because the more that you're like stuck, your energy is leaking. When you're like, oh God, maybe it's not good enough, I'll wait four more days to post it. So I might wait half a day, but I'll just do it and get it over with, because that clears out the energy, that gets that baggage of frustration out of my head and I'm onto the next. And to me, it's the people who are most successful aren't the ones who are the most talented. They're the ones who just get their ass in the game and they keep going.
Natasha Clawson:I've got a funny story about this. So, cause, you started your blog and at that time I was probably a just graduated from college as a graphic designer and you know I've been doing that for a while, so I had all the art skills and I remember going to your house and you had all these flower pictures around the house and your mom had put them up along the living room. She's like, oh, they're so pretty, marie's photography. I'm like they're all right, you know they were nice and and you have this Instagram and I'm like they're okay. I'm like I could do better At the right, because I had just gone to school for that and I had wanted to do a blog and I even started one when I was living in Prague and I started it but I wasn't consistent.
Natasha Clawson:I didn't keep posting and, lo and behold, you posted and were consistent and in two to three years you were this amazing professional photographer because you got out and iterated and did it and you started exactly where you're at and I think so many times, well, I have to wait until I'm perfect to put it out. But, like you just said, it's the people who get out and iterate, because if you put a hundred social posts out. Guess what? You're going to get a lot of feedback on what works and what doesn't. If you put one out, some people might go. It's the best thing I've ever seen, but you haven't learned a whole lot.
Marie Reginato :Yeah, my favorite word ever now is refine, can you?
Marie Reginato :give yourself permission to refine. Because when I was 25 years old or so, when I started the blog, I was like, oh my God, this is fun and that's all I really did it for. I'm like, of course I have the North star, but I'm like, of course I'm gonna improve, like, and I look back at those photos please, god, don't scroll back on my blog that far. But yeah, to your point, they weren't great, but I allowed myself the time to actually improve.
Marie Reginato :And I remember a year and a half later and this was a big ass turning point in my career where I was able to leave my nine to five I randomly ran into this woman who I met one time and she said, wow, maria, I haven't seen you in like a year and your photos have improved so much. And I'm like, yeah, I was on a dinky little camera, now I have a DSLR. And she's like can we meet? And so I met her that weekend and she offered me a full time. It was still on my own. She's like I want you to work full time at this startup doing all the food photography with me and I was able to leave this horrible nine to five that I had that I was planning on leaving in three months. I was able to leave that month.
Marie Reginato :Because, of the consistency, the time, the refinement.
Natasha Clawson:Yeah, and I mean I think too there are levels of people like business owners and things. So even if you're starting at the space that doesn't feel that great, there is someone who needs that level of business because their business is at that level. So we scale together, sometimes we drift apart from certain businesses, but it's a part of this natural growth process and we're all changing and alignments change and so, just like you said, allowing yourself the grace that this is where I'm at, someone needs me exactly where I'm at, and someone's going to need me as I scale up too.
Marie Reginato :Oh, that is such a good point because it really reinforces that there. There's opportunity out there at every stage, and there sure are. And don't let your mind tell you otherwise, because, remember, that's a sneaky ass way to keep you safe and stay exactly where you are. Just be careful of that, because your mind will love to come in whenever you're doing something new. But the best way honestly to get out of that, especially when you're about to go on camera, is to remind yourself of a playful energy, like I'm just having fun. What do I have to be nervous about? I'm just having fun. There's no one else in the room with me right now. Like this gets to be fun.
Natasha Clawson:So what do you do when you are in a slump so say you haven't posted in a few days. Maybe you've had some bad news, you or you? Just you know we, we go up and down, so you're having a down week. What do you do to get?
Marie Reginato :jazzed and back on camera. Oh my God, I have to get out of the house. I have to. I feel like so much of my mind. I definitely have a mind like, yes, I'm glass half full, but my mind loves to quickly go into doomsday and I need tools to bring me out of it fast because I know it's not true and I know it's not actually my brain like functioning the way that I want it to. So me personally, I have to get out of the house because it's like if I've created that slump energy in the container of the home, then that's where it lives. So I need to shake it up. I need to go outside where it doesn't yet exist and start to recalibrate my energy that way.
Marie Reginato :Go out and see some friends, add laughter and play into your day. You have to do something that's going to actually make you feel good, but more than just like I just made money today, I just signed a new client. It has to be like more life giving than just checking things off, like it almost goes back to like human basics of what makes you feel good. And then, me personally, I freaking love breathwork. Breathwork changes your state so fast. It kind of like clears out those stories, those old cobwebs, and there's a lot of science behind why. But those two things getting out of the house, getting out of the area that caused that confusion to begin with or that, just you know, kind of perpetuated it and breath work really, really help and have fun Like go back, put a song on, go scream in a car, go scream into a pillow, scream into a pillow, go dance like, go twerk.
Marie Reginato :I always twerk my butt and I feel great. You have to be silly. Life is so serious and when you're in those moments the last thing you want to do is compound more serious energy on serious energy. You got to break that and bring some playback into your life.
Natasha Clawson:You can get really stuck in that. I'm famous for getting stuck in that, so definitely bringing play, and I love the inspiration right, I call it my inspiration tank and when I get really done I have to go. I have to go listen to inspiring speakers. I need to go to the coffee shop and, like you said, have a laugh with friends, because it's really hard to show up and do work if it doesn't feel fun.
Marie Reginato :Yeah, and actually going back to specifically to the camera point, my default and you might even start to track this, like if I haven't showed up on social media in like a couple of days on stories, which actually is to me way more fun than the in feed stuff If you see me, and it's been a couple of days and then I immediately post myself outside in nature. That to me is the fastest way to get back into the game, because I'm outside, away from my home, where the energy feels lighter, and I just go somewhere where I know there's not going to be a lot of people around. So the park, the forest, the beach, my car even but that to me is like a really safe area where I feel good again, I feel inspired by life around me, versus just coming back to my apartment, shutting the door, where the patterns might still be the same. So that's a different story. But outside, start to film yourself.
Natasha Clawson:Yeah, I like that and I think too, you know, if you're filming yourself especially me, if I'm the person at the restaurant filming myself, I feel too silly. So I love the car, because no one's coming up to me in my car, I can just film, and it's quiet, there's no dogs barking, things like that. So that can give you a confidence boost. I love that.
Marie Reginato :And it gives you like the car is really special because it gives you a little peek into someone's life. It feels more chill, it feels more like we're friend to friend conversing. So I'm a fan of the car selfies and stories.
Natasha Clawson:So let's chat. We were talking about B-roll and it's so easy to capture some B-roll and lay just text overlay. You don't even have to talk on camera and those are performing so well. Do you use that in your Instagram strategy?
Marie Reginato :Okay, yeah. So what I think is super important, yes to the B-roll, especially if you want to show up on camera and those can be like your baby steps to get there. But performance wise, like that is doing really well. But what I find even more engaging is a series of all of it. So, like you, one reel is a B-roll, then the next might be you saying a little something, and then it's a B-roll, and then it's you again. Like the variety I think is really key and really fun and playful because it keeps people on their toes of what to expect. And B-roll it's like the quick looping is what's doing really well on Instagram.
Marie Reginato :I like B-roll if you're a writer, because that way you can use that way of expressing. So I always want to go back to whatever feels most authentic to you. Start to do it that way and start small, like, don't make it a big production. I actually think the big productions don't work as well on social media because there's a big turn now where it's like you want everyone to feel like they're in a room with you, you want to feel like best friends with people, and so no one really is looking for that staged performance any longer, like that's a thing of the past.
Natasha Clawson:Yeah, I think that's important and you've kind of brought it up in a few different ways today about social media being social and I like to think of social media as relationship building and I think you know to talk about mindset, right, if we frame social media as relationship building and how people get to know us and how we get to know them, then I think it can change everything, because so many of my clients I hate social media because it feels hard and you feel like if you actually let's compare this to a social circle If social media is there and you're posting something and nobody's talking to you or coming up to you, like yeah, that doesn't feel fun, like it would be like you're at a party and everyone's leaving you out, like that feels pretty.
Marie Reginato :That is a really good way of thinking of it.
Natasha Clawson:Yeah, but you know, if you're at a networking group or something, sometimes you have to take the first step right and go and connect with someone, and so social media just approaching it like that. You're going to have to go out and make those relationships and it takes some effort and, like you said, a year, year and a half to get return on your blog. But, oh, my goodness, here you are nine years later with two cookbooks, a thriving business, a thriving Instagram. So anyone can do this. I really believe that.
Marie Reginato :Oh my gosh, and I really like to go back to like I didn't have the skills before, but I went out and I actively learned them and I actively refined them. Anyone, if you have a passion for something, anyone nowadays can go out there and learn the skill. That's all you have to do, like you are worthy of it, you're deserving of it. And if you don't have it right now, you just go find the skills and you build your skills. I am doing something new on top of all this. I'm creating an app and I just I was like you know what I really want to do? Breathwork in a new way that I've never seen done. That's more motivational. I just last night got my breath work certification, so that's a skill.
Marie Reginato :I went out and I got it, and it's like don't let things stop you. You, just you, have to be the, you have to be the one to advocate for yourself, for your creativity, for the life that you ultimately want to create, and you have to be the one to take the first step life that you ultimately want to create, and you have to be the one to take the first step.
Natasha Clawson:I love it and congrats on the app that's coming out. I know you also run a program called the Manifestation Program. Do you want to tell us a little bit about that?
Marie Reginato :Okay. So the Manifestation Playground, so that is. It's a really big seven week course and it happens twice a year. But what I discovered is, okay, I love running this, but I actually want something to be more tangible. I want, like, the daily transformation to happen on your own terms, in your own back pocket. So we're actually shifting that and it's becoming an app where it's gonna have all these really beautiful activations that, whatever you're going through during the day, like, there's gonna be breath work in there. That's gonna help you transition out of that and snap you right back into remembering how powerful you actually are.
Marie Reginato :So it'll be like, before you get on camera, like watch or not watch. Before you get on camera and you're nervous, like drop into this quick three minute breath work activating process. So you just do it really fast and it gets that energy out. So I really want to support people on this. And then there's the really fun self-discovery educational part where I have like the best people in the industry. They're on there teaching everything from astrology, human design, relationships, womb healing and everything for your evolvement, for your becoming, and I just want this to be fun and accessible. And so that's coming out in September and I'm really excited for that.
Natasha Clawson:So it sounds like that's actually a tool that people can use. To show up more confidently on camera is just taking care of yourself, and as an entrepreneur, you and I can both relate. Taking care of yourself physically, emotionally, mentally, so you can show up to all of the daily challenges is so, so important, so we're oh go ahead.
Marie Reginato :Oh, I was just going to say and that's actually why I did it because, how I mentioned earlier, like I have crazy thoughts that just randomly come in and hijack my day, but I know they're not actually mine, and so I wanted to have things and that's why I created this essentially the most amazing toolkit for you at your fingertips, so affordable and so fun, so that you can get out of your head and come back to owning your day and becoming the person you always wanted to be. And I get it because I've been through that and I've lived that for four years, like really refining this. So yeah, yeah.
Natasha Clawson:It's for you and it's for me. Yes for this.
Marie Reginato :So yeah, yeah, and it's for you and it's for me, yes, for all of us. Where can people find you online? Yeah, so I'm definitely the most active on Instagram. So just my full name, marie dot Reginado, and then the app is going to be coming out at the end of September. So just come on to Marie dot Reginado, you know, on Instagram, and you will get all the updates there for, like, the name of the app and when it comes out and everything that's included, and it's going to be such a good price point, like it's such a steal, because I want this knowledge to be so accessible for people.
Natasha Clawson:I love it. So we're going to bring this to a close with one final question, and that question is what is one piece of advice that you would give your younger self, that person starting out nine years ago?
Marie Reginato :I would say break up with that boyfriend.
Natasha Clawson:My mom gave me similar advice yeah, right Break up with him?
Marie Reginato :Oh no, oh my God, actually, the thing that I would, oh my God, what would I, jesus? There's a few things that I always go back to. First of all, I kind of don't even want to give them advice, because you will figure it out. You will always figure it out. Stay solution oriented, don't feed into the crazy thoughts that your mind wants to throw at you. And stay solution oriented and you will find your way. You will find your way and if you get tripped up, go scream in a pillow and go book that trip, because you never regret spending money on a vacation. That's what I've learned too.
Natasha Clawson:I love it. You find yourself, yay, well, everyone, I hope that today has helped you find yourself and find your confidence to show up online. Thank you so much, marie, for joining me today.
Marie Reginato :Oh, my God, I love this. I can't wait to see all of you guys and honestly get social with me on social media, like when you come up on camera. When you show yourself, tag me and Natasha so that we can see it and cheer you on Like that's the best part we are your cheerleaders. Thank you so much for having me. I love this combo.
