Catch Up Episode- Dealing with burn out & a podcast update

In this episode Brigette discusses her battle with burn out and the future of the podcast.

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Welcome back to your point of view guys. It has been literally so long since I have addressed you guys and I feel so bad about that. Let me just start out by saying I'm your host, Bridget. If this is your first episode, you're coming in for a check-in episode of basically what's gonna go on coming in the next few months episode and where I have been. So basically, I thought I would be able to pick up right where I left off after the holidays. I felt this burnout coming. I was just always so freaking tired because I consistently was doing a billion things at once, and really I still am, but I'm doing it in a different way to where I'm giving myself more time to relax. I'm seeing my friends more, and that's something I wasn't really doing before. All of the work that I have been doing on TikTok, Instagram, the podcast, on top of my normal full-time job, really just kind of caught up with me. So my original plan was to come back sometime in January or even February. I had so many plans, even my birthday month in April. I was like, oh yeah, totally do an episode. I just didn't want to say anything just in case it didn't happen, and it didn't. So I'm glad that I didn't say anything. But it's just a really long sprout of burnout that I was experiencing. And that's just basically a feeling of being overwhelmed and tired consistently. And I didn't know burnout could last out for months or years if you let it. And now I know that that is something that can happen. And I feel so bad for leaving you guys high and dry basically. But I just really wasn't sure what to say because I didn't have a proper update. And I also didn't want to keep saying, I'm coming back, I'm coming back, and then not come back. So surprise episode on the Sunday. I'm recording it on a Sunday and uploading it as well. And I wanted to let you guys know just about what I've been up to since then. I have been really focused on trying to expand my social media. I've grown a following on Instagram, which has slowed down because again, burnout, but I still have a pretty solid fan base there for with you guys, which I'm so appreciative of. I feel like that's where a good chunk of my listeners have come from. And also my last episode that I uploaded with Lauren Highland, who is a part of the vertical series called Private Lessons. That episode did really well, especially on social media. The promotion of that I didn't expect it to do as well. And I'm just thinking to myself, like, oh, I still have supporters and listeners that will listen to a random episode. Um, so it really made me want to figure out my stuff and come back, especially because there's so much going on during summertime with celebrities and um pop culture in general. And I definitely want to provide some sort of my take for those who care, which I'm always shocked that anyone cares. And I've been doing this for so so long, and I have a good following on TikTok and I have a solid following on Instagram, and now I'm growing one on YouTube as well, and people are even asking me to do more long form on there, and I'm just always shocked. I'm like, oh, someone actually cares if I don't post on time and stuff, and it's a really bad way that uh of thinking that I have because obviously I do have this audience, no matter how big, no matter how small we we are, that does care. So I do want to again 100% apologize for going goes, but it really was a mental health struggle, and I just have so much going on. Um, you guys know I have my cat Penny, and I now have a foster that's going to my sister. Her name, they named her Saracha, and I didn't want to change it because I don't want to get attached to her. But now that my sister is gonna have her, I've like started calling her Perline and stuff like that. But she's like a little feisty kitten that's only about I want to say two, three months at this point, and it's a lot more work than you would think. You would think you'd be able to leave like cats, especially unattended for a long period of time. But when they are in that kitten stage, they need so much attention. And um, I'm an animal lover, so did I really need to go and help a foster cat and foster a cat? No, but my heart was telling me this is the one that I need to bring into my life, and now look, she's gonna be in my family in an extended way with through my sister. So, yeah, with that, and of course, Penny, she also wants lots of attention, so it's just a lot to juggle. Um, being someone that does so much, I still want to have a full life, I still want to go out with my friends, I still want to, you know, um be a pet owner and all these things that I kind of pulled back uh on the last couple years. I did have another cat butter back in 2022. I got him, I think. And he was only alive for about 11 months, and he was a senior cat. So he was only alive for about 11 months. He had so many issues, and from then on I kept telling myself, like, oh, I don't have the time for it. I can't really, you know, give love to the cat the way that I want to, and I was just kind of holding myself back for it from it. But then I, you know, fell in love with Penny when I fostered her and stuff like that. And it's like, yes, it does take time away from these things that I want to do, but you can't just live your life to work consistently. As much as I love this job, it's it is still at the end of the day, it is it went from a hobby to something that helps me pays my pay my bills. So it does shift your mindset and how much you have to give into it and how seriously you have to take it. Because obviously, when I first started, I was literally just doing anything. My videos, if you go back, please don't. But if you go back to 2021, the audio sucks. Sometimes the lighting sucks, and like now everything is just shifted. You invest more, and it just takes a little bit more out of you when you know that this isn't just a hobby anymore, it's also an income, and also there's people that want to hear from you. And if you do pull away, they'll ask, where have you been and are you okay, and all these things. So, all that to say, I have just had a difficult time juggling everything in life, but I realized that is life, period. And this is something I did enjoy before I got super burned out and just found it almost impossible to get one episode out. And as someone who didn't know how much work podcasting actually takes, I used to think like, oh, this is something I can simply just do once a week. You just sit down for maybe an hour and a half, two hours. But it's really difficult, especially if you don't have your own studio and you're working in a home where you know I have a roommate and animals that are making noise and you need quiet and all this other stuff. So I am coming back for sure, full time with the pod again. But I am also going to need a little bit of grace, which you guys have given me so much. If there is a time where I am falling short with an episode, like if I've missed a week or something, I don't want to miss more than one week. But if it happens, I'll definitely do a better job at letting you guys know why and when I'll be coming back. But now, this is like the first episode of me basically saying that is no longer. I will be putting out um episodes more consistently. I'm going to shoot for every week, and I am also gonna be covering different things than before. I think before it was mainly just like pop culture. Now I also want to do TV shows and I also want to do interviews. So the interview that I did with Lauren, I love doing. I was very rusty in it. Very, very rusty in it. I listened to it back and I was like, oh, I should have asked this, or I should have built up in this way, explained this. But that's what happens when you aren't consistent with something. So, as passionate as I am about wanting to be an interviewer, be a journalist, or just somebody that has conversations with other people and you know provides that space for whatever the subject is, I do want to take that more seriously. And I do have another interview that's coming up. It is for another vertical series, but I won't spoil anything until it's actually done. Because sometimes you have people that say they're gonna come on and things happen and it hasn't aligned because I'm supposed to have two other people on here and it just kind of like fell through because of a bunch of different things like timing or whatever else. It just didn't happen. So I don't want to say anything too too much. But in addition to doing that on the show side, I don't know how many of you guys watch Love Island, but I have been a watcher for the last couple years now. Now I passively watched season, I think it was five of Love Island UK, and I loved that season, and I was a little late to that. I think it was like a year or two late to it, but it was so many episodes, I was like, How am I gonna keep up with the show? So I just kind of passively watched it, loved it, followed the people on there, and kind of just stopped watching it until a couple of years ago. So for those of you who do not know, Love Island is a dating show where they put a bunch of really hot singles on in a villa in Fiji. This is the USA version. It started in the UK, but the USA version is the one I will be covering. They put a bunch of very hot people in there and it's basically filmed almost in real time. So they I think have like a day or two head start before it airs, but it allows people to vote on their favorite couples. You get to see um their storylines play out in real time. It's kind of like a big brother thing, but for dating. And so this show has blown up in popularity since season six, and it has been a very difficult show to be a fan of because the fandom does get a little crazy. So while I will be covering it with TikToks, I'll save more of my opinions for my podcast because I just don't need a bunch of outside crazy opinions on how I truly feel about it. And I will have hopefully some of my friends coming on to talk about it with me. I'll try to do that once a week because let's be real, it's gonna be hard for me to be like, yeah, every single day I'm gonna do a podcast about Love Island when I can barely do it once a week. Um, if something super crazy happens, I'm gonna try my best to give you guys an update on that. But other than that, I'm gonna commit to the once a week. And I think the day of publishing that episode will be Monday or Tuesday. I'm gonna try my best to let the whole week go so I can form proper opinions on what's going on, and then we can break down all of the highlights of what's most important that went on on the island as far as like the pop culture stuff. I might have to split the episodes in two and just record it the same day. So it is gonna take, you know, a little bit more time from me, but I know not everybody wants to like cares about Love Island to where they're gonna listen to every single podcast. And I want to be able to give my listeners who have been there from the beginning and still, even when I upload and I don't do proper promo, there are people that still listen and I just I'm in so I just can't say thank you enough. Like it just means so much to me that you guys are like, hey, let me listen to this girl who hasn't gotten her shit together and doesn't post consistently. But I love you guys so so much uh for doing that. And while I have you guys on the subject of love violent, I do want to talk about it just a little bit. It's been crazy. So for you guys who don't know much about the fandom, people get really parasocial. They do a lot of digging, which started in season seven. So last season there was a contestant named Ulysses, so she was removed from the island because she said a slur, she said the n-word on a podcast, and it wasn't there was no mistake in it. She was like, managed, managed. Like there was no mistake in it. The girl said it wasn't anything that you can misconstrue, and everybody was like, get her off the island so because of so much pressure, and it just looks bad. Just like any other situation, when they remove somebody from a TV show or whatever for saying a slur, they had to remove her in real time. Now that shifted the season because they they cast people based on the personalities that are in the house and matching up. There's supposed to be a certain level, excuse me, certain number of women and men and stuff like that. So it did throw it off. Instead of having one bombshell, they had to have two, which bombshells are the newer hot people that are thrown into the villa to shake things up because otherwise it's boring as hell to watch people just have no conflict. That's not a very good reality TV show. So it threw things off last season because Ulysses was very much someone that was supposed to be the I don't care, I'm not a girl's girl, like I'm gonna go after what I want. And because we didn't have her, it became Girls Girl Island, and things got really toxic with the fan base, wanting these strangers to have loyalty to each other just because they're women. And in a situation like Love Island, now I will say this: you should have a level of decorum when you're going about talking to someone that is already talking to a girl that has become your friend. Do I think you should just say F everybody's feelings and just be like whatever? No. But I also don't think you should stop yourself just because your friend, especially in the beginning, your friend that you met like a couple of days ago also likes a guy. If you guys are connecting, you should absolutely go in and talk to that guy or that girl or whatever. Men don't even have these problems, mind you. This there's never been a conversation like, why did he talk to her when his homeboy already liked like that's never been a conversation? It's always a separate set of rules for women, and it's really freaking annoying. So, anyways, they were pretty much going after people for that, and it's very heavy cyberbullying that has been going on in the last couple of years. Season six, which is my first season that I watched on Love Island. Yes, there was some hate and stuff like that, but it was nothing like it is now. A lot of people are blaming the younger fans, which I do think a lot of it are kids, people in that are preteens and maybe like 17, 18-year-olds that probably shouldn't be watching the show. Like maybe if you're 18, but anything lower than that, I'm like, okay, no, because of the energy that they're bringing. But it's been really difficult on the islanders' mental health ever since the show has blown up. And oh, I think I'm like rambling. Now I'm trying to think of what sorry, y'all. See, I'm rusty. I'm like, wait, where am I going with this? Oh, yes, okay. Basically, the whole entire point is that the Vandom is nuts and things had to change this season. They said that they were going to do less influencers. That was another issue last season, and also they were gonna do better vetting. So we have been introduced to the season eight Islanders for about two days, and they've already had to kick somebody off of the original cast. So there was a contestant named Vasana, which honestly she was a baddie, cute, and all that, and I didn't really have any feelings towards her because obviously she hasn't even stepped on the island yet. But you know, I thought she was cute enough and would have brought in something really good as well, like her personality seemed fun. They kicked her off from saying the N-word maybe when she was a teenager. I don't know, it didn't even really look like her in the videos for me. I had to keep watching it, and then I was like, okay, yeah, that definitely is her. But she was removed, and there's been some discourse as to whether or not the fans are taking it too far by doing this digging and all this other stuff. When it comes to Vasana, apparently this was a video that was not posted anywhere on social media and allegedly is like a friend or someone that didn't like her that posted it, and Love Island did apparently do their due diligence and just was not aware of this. So now they're in the middle of scrambling to find another girl because again, you need to have the correct number of boys and girls on a dating show, otherwise, someone's gonna be left out, and that's just dumb. So now they're in the middle of trying to replace her. There has been some talk about another islander named Kenzie, who was alleged to be an orange man supporter. Now, as y'all know, I've not messed with that man. I don't like to really even talk about it too, too much because of how much just about how depressing the state of our country is, and like how everybody treats each other and everything because of that person. Like he's not the only reason, but he is a big reason he brought out the worst of the worst in people. So I understand people not wanting someone that is an alleged Orange Man supporter on their screens, but I also understand as the show standpoint, you can't just not cast them because then that would open them up to a lawsuit. And they can't remove her for that. And uh come to find out, Kenzie's brother or her alleged brother, people just become online, but I think it really is her brother, came on to say that she's never supported him. I don't know if those videos were dubbed as AI, like there's some crazy rumors that are going on about these people, y'all. Like it's gonna be a long summer. Like, we haven't even started yet. The show premieres on Tuesday, mind you. And I have all this to say already. So yeah, I don't know if those videos of her that was like dancing in front of one of his flags or whatever the hell else was real or not, but people want her off. There's a uh cast member named Sean, he's a cop, and there's drama with the police department, apparently, saying, like, oh, he left the police department to be a reality TV star when we're understaffed. What does that have to do with him? Like, get to hiring. I don't know, maybe if you guys trained your people better, you wouldn't have to consistently get rid of them and be short-staffed. Like, you know what I'm saying? I'm not even gonna get into that. I'm not gonna get into that because it's supposed to be fun, it's supposed to be a fun podcast, but I'm just like, what does that have to do with that man? And he's another one that people are side-eyeing because of his profession. Me personally, unless there is hard evidence of you saying a slur or being a disgusting human being, um, I don't really have much to say. They're gonna cast different people to make a good show, and that's why they do that. Now, I will always want to know who's who before you put your support, especially your money, because after Love Island, um, for those who don't follow the show, now people are blowing up to stardom, they're in rooms with A-listers, there's talks of people going to Met Gallus, hosting things, blah, blah, blah. So you should know where you're putting your money and your support with somebody. So I'll never say people are doing too much for exposing that, but I do see the nitpicking of things and the wanting to have people canceled to the point where it's like not fun to really entangle yourself with that fandom too much. But I'm just always gonna state my opinions and whoever likes it, likes it, whoever doesn't, doesn't. And if they get too nasty, just blocked. That's pretty much it. But yeah, I'm gonna try to keep it as much as I can on the show. But if things happen outside of it, obviously I'm gonna talk about that as well. But that is pretty much what I will be covering this summer. That's gonna be like an extra episode that is for free. I know I've talked about doing Patreon, but honestly, I I haven't earned it with you guys yet. So I'm gonna at least keep being consistent and giving you guys actually good content. And then later down the line, maybe next year, we'll do or the end of this year, I'll do more things with the Patreon when I know I have the time to commit to it and can deliver on paid content. So for now, everything is gonna be completely free, and we're just gonna have a good time, have fun the summer. I'm gonna keep doing, like I said, the pop culture stuff. Interviews hopefully will be coming. I know there's one that is supposed to, and then hopefully, God willing, more and more will come through there as well. And those interview podcasts won't eliminate the pop culture podcast. I'm just gonna try my best to keep it flowing every single week so I get into a proper habit with everything. But yeah, that is it for me with this little cutesy check-in with you guys. I just wanted to say thank you so much for all of the support. And if you're not following us, please follow my Instagram, your P-O-V pod for the podcast. My personal Instagram, which is I M D Bridget, which is I M D. My name is spelled B-R-I-G-Like George E-T-T-E. And yes, we're gonna have fun this summer. I'm gonna be consistent. You have my word, things are gonna happen. Even if I have to record on a phone with a little Mikey, you guys are gonna get an episode from me. And if not, an explanation will be there. And hopefully I can give you a bonus of something in some way. But I'm really gonna do a lot better than I have been. This is a new chapter. Thank you so much for listening, especially if you've listened this far. And I will see you guys very, very soon because Love Island is literally right around the corner. See you guys soon. Bye.