Beyond The Yellow chat with @yourcentralcoastgirlie

In this episode we catch up with Kelly the legend behind instagram's @yourcentralcoastgirlie We talk all things pizza, breweries, taking pics and of course the beautiful Central Coast. Check it out!

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:32

G'day everyone. Welcome to Beyond the Yellow and uh hot tip, hot secret, whatever you want to call it. I've really been looking forward to uh having a bit of a chat, bit of a chin wag, bit of a conversation with my uh with my next guest. Um you would have known, most of you would know that originally this channel was called the Marty Mariner Show. Um, and you know, fantastic interviewed players and coaches and staff and supporters and A-League things going on, and and that will not change. I can guarantee you that that that form of the show will still keep going. Uh Marty Mariner will jump on, and there will be plenty of that sort of content. Um, but along my journey over the years through work and socials and all this sort of stuff, I've met some really cool people with some really cool stories who've been on some really cool journeys. And I would I I've said to myself, I'd really love to have you on the show and talk to you about this more because I think to me, I don't know what you're like, but I I love listening to people's stories. I I love listening to journeys, especially when they're people who we just walk past in the street, fellow people on the central coast, people who've come from not necessarily nothing to something, but have created something and have jumped into something, maybe beyond their comfort zone. And you know, everybody has a story, and I want some part of this channel to represent that. So um that's why we changed it to uh Beyond the Yellow, um, because the yellow being the mariner's colours, this is a bit beyond that as well, and um, yeah, essentially the channel, other than that, will uh be much the same. But football, people, stories. And as I said right at the very start, one of the stories that I really, really wanted to do was on uh an absolute legend by the name of Kelly, or as you would know her on uh Instagram, uh Your Central Coast Girly. If you are not following her, please do so. We're gonna talk about the channel very, very soon. But um, a lot of stuff on the Central Coast about what's going on, what she's been doing, lots of food on there and drinks on there and things. I love it. I love checking out all those posts because I mean the thing that got me, and I'll mention this in the interview as well. At the start, um, I realized I've been on the coast now about 44 years when I came out from England. So that's a fair chunk of time, right? And I've lived everywhere from south to north and probably a few places in between there too. And when I go through um, you know, her Instagram account and I see places that I've been to, and I go, Yeah, I've been there, I've tried that. Oh, that's that's really cool, it's really relatable. But then there's places that I've been to and I didn't even know they did that. And I go, Well, next time I'm gonna try that. But now there's also places where I go, I didn't even know that was there. I didn't even know this this coffee shop was there or this this bakery was there or whatever. And you're just discovering all these things, which for someone who's been here for 44 years, it's great because I get to try all these different things as well. So um, yeah, I I love this uh I love this account for that particular reason as well, because uh yeah, it it enlightens me, and not many things enlighten me these days, but uh this certainly does. So I want to have a chat to Kelly to find out how it all started and what she does with it, and maybe we'll pick her brain with a few uh little uh what specks of gold that might be on the coast, maybe ones that not many people know about. So let's not keep her waiting any longer. It's time to have a bit of a chat, a bit of a chin wag, a bit of a conversation to Kelly, your Central Coast girly.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

Let's go! Let's start. Welcome to Beyond the Yellow.

SPEAKER_02 4:09

Welcome back to uh Beyond the Yellow, and as I mentioned in my my slightly longer than expected but still quite relevant preamble. What a special guest I have, someone I've been looking forward to chatting to for quite some time. It's Kelly, your Central Coast girly. Mate, how are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 4:26

I'm good, friend. How are you?

SPEAKER_02 4:28

I'm going well. I we were talking before, we've been communicating for quite some time, but to actually use our words, how cool is this?

SPEAKER_03 4:36

I know, face to face. Like who knew, right?

SPEAKER_02 4:39

How special. How special.

SPEAKER_03 4:40

Um lovely.

SPEAKER_02 4:42

Let's uh let's kick it off at the start. What a good place to do so. Um I noticed in your bio, which is what the young kids call it on Insta, which is also what the young kids call it.

SPEAKER_03 4:52

Um former I'm getting a whole bunch of stuff already from you.

SPEAKER_02 4:56

Oh, look, just stick with me, kid. You'll have um originally from Sydney, right? So whereabouts in Sydney, all that, and how did you end up in uh God's country here on the Central Coast?

SPEAKER_03 5:08

So I um most of my time in Sydney was on the northern beaches. My husband owns a brewery on the northern beaches, so um I grew up there, so did he. We were mutual friends. Um, but when we got together, we both sort of obviously wanted to buy something. Um, and it just wasn't achievable in Sydney. We don't have any kids, but we have three dogs, which I think you can see here. Um, and there was just nothing in Sydney that we liked that was good for our dogs, so we decided to sort of like expand. Um, and I lived on the central coast when I was young for like a year or two. My sister was born in Gosford Hospital. Um, I know, amazing. And then we um had some friends who moved up here as well. So we kind of like brought it in our circle and found the central coast and you know, fell in love and just sort of yeah, made the move, which was yeah, a bit fortuitous, but exciting.

SPEAKER_02 5:58

Here we are. And how have you found because I mean I obviously I, you know, got friends who've um well done both actually. They've come from Sydney down to here and they love it because it's all relaxed and it's all really, really cool. But then there's been people who've gone from the coast and moved to the city because they love how busy it is and stuff like that. So has it met the expectations?

SPEAKER_03 6:15

I think it's good. Like I work in Sydney a couple of days a week, so I have like a nine to five in Sydney, but I work from home a couple of days. Um, my husband still commutes a couple of days, but we are both like just like firm on we made the right decision. It's definitely like a much better lifestyle for us, but it's just I think you know, life these days is so like chaotic and you're moving a million miles a minute. True. It's so nice to actually like wake up in the morning and go out and and you feel the vibe of the coast, like it's so chill and everybody's friendly, there's no pressure, and it really it's like a holiday every weekend. So I guess like that's yeah, put that as your slogan.

SPEAKER_02 6:51

Like that's a t-shirt. That's a t-shirt. Yeah, yeah, we'll we'll do that. Um, but I think that's it, right? Because I think back in the day, I mean I came out from England quite some time ago. And then Huh?

SPEAKER_03 7:03

Your accent's gone.

SPEAKER_02 7:05

Oh, don't even start me on accents. I mean, it was 40 was 40 years ago. I mean, okay. Um the old word will slip in every now and then. Don't you worry about that, you geezer. There you go. That's all you're getting. Um when we first came out, like all pretty much all the central coast was the holiday destination that people from Sydney went to, right? It was the beaches here and all this sort of stuff. And yeah, absolutely. The terrible and then getting on and all this. But but now it's become this place where people have realized, oh, you can actually live there as well, because well, I will say that the transport structure has probably got better, but maybe that not be the case sometimes. I'm talking to someone who travels on trains, but yeah, it's more a place now, it's more accessible, right? You can live here on the central coast, commute it and all this sort of stuff as it developed over the years, and then come back and enjoy it on the weekends.

SPEAKER_03 7:54

Yeah, well, I used to commute when I was in the northern beaches. It used to take me maybe like it's almost like just over an hour on the bus over military road through all the traffic, and now it takes me maybe an hour and 15 on the train. So it's not it's pretty comparable, and the train's so much nicer than getting the bus.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

A lot better now. You get um you can charge your phone in them and everything. It's great.

SPEAKER_03 8:14

You can, but also we go past the Hawkesbury River every day. Stunning, you know, absolutely beautiful, rather than sitting on military road in you know, the middle of peak hour traffic.

SPEAKER_02 8:23

Not really, yeah, not really comparable, is it?

SPEAKER_03 8:25

No, no, it's not at all.

SPEAKER_02 8:26

No, Hagwar's Hawkes. Not not so good for phone reception, or has it got better now? Because like normally when I went through Hawkesbury, totally lose it.

SPEAKER_03 8:33

Not nothing.

SPEAKER_02 8:34

Nothing, yeah. New South Wales government. I know they've they've watched this.

SPEAKER_03 8:39

Chris Mims, hey, I mean, it's probably on their priority list.

SPEAKER_02 8:43

Well, it might be now. We brought it up on the show, so this could be the the day. Um, okay, so you're here on the Central Coast, and now I've discovered you through the world of Instagram. How did all of that start?

SPEAKER_03 8:57

Oh, okay. It's a bit of a funny story. So basically, my husband owns a brewery.

SPEAKER_04 9:02

Um does he still own the brewery?

SPEAKER_03 9:05

Yeah, he does. He commutes five days a week, and um, he's doing some he he's like he owns a brewery, but he also owns like a venue and then he does canning for people, like any kind of drink that you can do, um, like kombucha, soft drink, etc. etc. beer, like yeah, any spirits in a can. So he does that.

SPEAKER_02 9:22

Um we'll get him on the show next week, don't worry about that. I'll let him know.

SPEAKER_03 9:28

Um, but prior to um getting together with him, I didn't have any sort of like insight into small business. And when we got together, it was very quickly apparent to me that like you can be a small business that does a really good job, but if you can't afford to pay someone to advertise for you, then you're pretty much, I don't want to swear, but pretty much up shit creek without a paddle. Like there's only so much you can do, especially as well. Like a lot of the people who run small business, you don't have a degree in social media, right? So you're just doing the best that you can on social media. So from that, it was like was always like a bit of a bugbear for me because I was like, it doesn't really seem fair. Like all the places that you see advertised 24-7, I'm sure they're amazing. But what about the little guy? And like what about the underdog? And so when we moved up here, we sort of like took the approach of to explore the area, let's like just go out to all these other bits and pieces. But through that, it kind of became a place of like, well, as you said, other people are commuting, other people are moving up, and how do you sort of show them what the coast looks like and kind of like just like keep keep a log of like what we're doing that we like as well. Um and it kind of expanded from there, but it's kind of just turned into a thing I kind of call it my my love letter to the central coast. Like it's it's not about me. A lot of like people's Instagrams are them and their face, and that's fine for them. But to me, it's kind of like a love letter to the central coast, and it's kind of just finding small businesses and people who do things really well and really showcasing them so that they can then hopefully draw in an audience and connect in that way. So kind of like being a connector, but yeah, it's it kind of all just started from like marrying someone who works their ass off in a small business that I didn't feel like he was getting the credit he deserved.

SPEAKER_02 11:18

And a brewery. I mean, I mean we we need to talk, but I mean, you know, might might surprise you too. I mean, I've had no media training either. I know people are surprised too.

SPEAKER_03 11:30

You started a podcast though.

SPEAKER_02 11:32

Well, yeah, but I just started talking because I can do that.

SPEAKER_03 11:34

Like, you know, I can I can take a photo on my phone. There you go.

SPEAKER_02 11:40

Oh, you influenced everything. Look at you all. Um, but but when you first started, because I know for an example, when I first started now, I I can't look at my first lot of podcasts and and shows. I'm like, oh my god, oh my god, but you've got to start somewhere. Are you someone like that too? Are you reflective where you look back at what you did at the start and go, can't believe I did this, this, this? Or are you someone who just gives yourself a break and says, nah, I was starting out, it was all good.

SPEAKER_03 12:06

Uh, I think I'm a mixture of both. I I do look back at the stuff that I did, um, but only because I look back at it and I feel bad that I didn't do a better job for the place that we went.

SPEAKER_04 12:16

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 12:17

And I make a little bit of a note to be like, because obviously, like as you do social media or anything, you learn along the way. And I I look at things now that I used to do like back when I started, and I think I could do a much better job of that. And I don't really feel like I did the place justice. Yeah, um, but as as they say, like some exposure is better than no exposure. So I like you know, it's it is what it is, like no one's ever gonna be perfect.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

So that's another t-shirt too. It is what it is, especially in social media. Well, we're gonna open up a t-shirt shop here, we'll stop my side hustle. T-shirt shops and stuff like that. Um, and and when obviously when this kicks off too, when when you start seeing that people are following you, like you start seeing it in. I mean, I think you're over 3,000 or something, Instagram follow. When you start seeing get into a couple of hundred, you go, a couple of hundred people are following this. How could this? And then it gets to a thousand. Do you sit back and go, This is pretty bloody cool?

SPEAKER_03 13:15

I do. Um my husband really does. I think he bought me a bottle of champagne when we hit a thousand, and I was like, What are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 13:27

I love it.

SPEAKER_03 13:28

Yeah, no, he literally like come home from work and he's like, Look, a bottle of champagne. I was like, What is that for? He's like, You hit a thousand followers on Instagram.

SPEAKER_01 13:37

I was like, I love that. I love that.

SPEAKER_03 13:40

I was like, Why did you spend that money on that?

SPEAKER_01 13:42

No, um, yeah, wow, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:44

No, but it's exciting, but it's Instagram is its own beast. Like, you can post something and think this is the best thing I've done, and I have and I and it gets like two follows, and then you do something where you're like, I just chucked it up on Instagram while I was on the bus, and it's like, oh, 700 shares, and blah blah, you're like, I don't I don't understand it, but it's exciting. Like, it's fun. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 14:08

It does work like that a lot. I mean, uh, and again, and I'm the same. I've had interviews with with players and coaches, all the mariner stuff, which I won't test you on your mariner's knowledge, don't worry about that one.

SPEAKER_03 14:17

I'm a huge fan. And anyway, um no football knowledge whatsoever, but yeah, go for it.

SPEAKER_02 14:26

That that's in part two. We'll talk about that later.

SPEAKER_03 14:28

Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_02 14:29

But yeah, I I've had interviews where I've you know, it's really been something that I thought, wow, I didn't know that about the player. I found that really interesting. And you know, everyone will sort of, I think, and you know, it'll be the run of the knot. But then I'll get some which is just like a player's come in late and we've been like, yeah, mate, can you do this now? Yeah, let's get it done. Bang, bang, bang, knocks it out. And it's gone gangbusters. And some have gone well on the YouTube channel, but some have gone really well on Spotify and you know the iHeartRadio and all the so some go better being listened to, some go better being visual and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 15:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:01

You just can't judge it, can you? You can't judge it.

SPEAKER_03 15:03

Exactly. And I think that's when it comes back to your point of kind of like looking back on what you've done. It's like you're never gonna be able to pick what goes well, and you're not gonna be able to pick what like goes. So you kind of just gotta like post something and move on. Absolutely. Just got to keep moving forward. And it's like, I guess like they call it like content creators, it's because it's not about the posting and the likes, it's about the creating at the end of the day. Like that's the fun part of it anyway.

SPEAKER_02 15:26

Yeah. Do do you do you have um like there's there's certain podcasters and people that I listen to, and I kind of I don't try and copy them because I would never even try to, but I kind of admire the way that they interview and they do things like that. Do you have anyone in the Instagram game or anywhere that you've sort of seen how they style things and go, I kind of like how they do that?

SPEAKER_03 15:48

Not really, not really, to be honest. Like anybody who does something similar to me, I I immediately unfollowed. Because I don't know, just because I don't I don't want to be swayed by somebody else's stuff, but I also wouldn't want to like be like, oh, I'm so excited to go to the woodport, and then somebody posts about the woodport and I go, Oh, well, I shouldn't go there now. Do you know what I mean? Like, I feel like I I did see that on social media like a while ago. It said if you shouldn't follow anybody who does the same thing as you, you should just like give them the space that you would like them to give you, and you know, if you run into each other. Um, but I do I am a huge I am a huge fan of a couple of other people, like Isaac Eats. I don't know if you follow him. Yeah, love him, love his stuff. I think you know, I find the way that he engages with the camera is amazing. Really love him, and he always seems to do, I guess, like what I would hope to do is just find that little tiny thread that you pull people in on.

SPEAKER_02 16:46

Your little niche.

SPEAKER_03 16:48

Yeah, exactly. Like he's never gonna go to every place and say this is the best, this, that, and but he finds that one little thing that like draws you in, which I think is really cool. Yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_02 16:57

Yeah, absolutely. So me, yeah. I mean, it it's it's tough actually, because I the the art of um, as I said, it's a big surprise, no media training here. But I love the way that when people interview, it's a very personal kind of level. It's very just I mean, I I say I've said it since day one. We have a bit of a chat, a bit of a chin wag, a bit of a conversation, and that's all it is. It's just like if if we were talking in the street, this is how I would chat to you and we would talk about stuff. I just record it and put it out there. I'm not very much a kind of uh 60 minutes kind of interrogation-y current affair sort of stuff. I like to keep it really casual. Um, but I don't. There's a couple that I do listen to more than others, but I do also like to sort of flick around. And as much as I might not follow and stay in that, but I want to see what other people are doing. Um, and going, yeah, actually, I'm gonna vlog how they did that because I really like that idea, or something similar to it that I think I could adapt that to this. But um, I very much don't follow too much because this to me is my is very this is my hobby. Uh, there's no money making out of this. This is just me just having a bit of fun. And so I just want to keep it that way. Um yeah, it's just it is what it is, right? I think is what you said before. I I have a ball, and if I record these things and then I go back and I'm the only watcher, then I'm okay with that because I I had a good time doing it. So um, but yeah, but I expect this one to go viral because you're on it, and if not, well, it's it's the guess. Um, so I do notice now flicking through your content as well, there's um a lot of love for the central coast and events and different places. Um, was there anything that surprised you about the central coast when you first started going to different places and and finding different things? Was there anything that you started going, I didn't actually realize this about the central coast?

SPEAKER_03 18:48

Yeah, to be honest, like public transport for me was a big one. Because I think like coming from Sydney, you're so you're like, I can walk out the front door and there's a bus or train to or something. So getting around for us at the at the start was like, how do people, you know, like even in the northern beaches, it's like, oh, we'll just walk down the road, go somewhere, have a bunch of drinks, and then come home. But like, I'm like, how do people go out in the nighttime if you don't drive? Like, it's I'm very I get I found that very I still find that very confusing. Like we have to basically like rock paper scissors. Who has to drive tonight? That's how it is, yeah. Yeah, um, but aside from that, just like I don't know, maybe it's a very me thing, but like if I live somewhere, I like to like know as much as I can know about like I like to be like that's a good place there, and that's a good place here. And through posting, I had so many people who were like, This is 10 minutes from my house, I never never knew it existed.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

100%.

SPEAKER_03 19:43

And that to me is so strange because I'm like, what do you mean? As soon as I go to the like, you know, go to a suburb, I'm immediately on Google. What is everything? What are the best places? What are the everything? Um, and I found that really interesting because like being a newbie to the central coast, you kind of think you know, you're the last to know, but like apparently not.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

Absolutely. Well, but that's the thing though. I mean, when you're when you're on the central coast, I mean it's kind of like that, oh, they're from Terragal or they're from there, and it's kind of this kind of our suburb and all this, right? But then when any person from the Central Coast goes to Sydney, hey mate, we're all Sandy Coast, mate. Yeah, we're all on the same page there, and it's just all of a sudden everyone comes together.

SPEAKER_04 20:24

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 20:24

Yeah, it's a different story, right? But it was interesting what you just said about talking to people who say that's 10 minutes from my home and I, you know, didn't even know it was there. I actually said that in my introduction. That again, I've I've lived everywhere on the coast from right down south to up north now. And there's places that you that I see on your um page that I go, yeah, I'll be in there, I love that place and stuff like that. But then you've bought something there, and I've gone, I didn't know they sold that. Where did all that start? Or there's places. It is, but it's kind of, I don't know, I can't explain it. Maybe it on the Central Coast, we're so comfortable that we like our regular, this is our coffee shop, this is our bakery, this is our whatever. Maybe we get too much of a bit of a routine rather than did you know five minutes around the corner, there's this other bakery that sells these awesome looking donuts and stuff. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 21:13

Exactly. Yeah, no, it's it's yeah, it's very interesting. I think like I've always been very like maybe it's in my nature. I just like always feel like I I want to try something new. I would like want to explore. I've always feel like the next best thing is just like right there.

SPEAKER_04 21:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:29

Um, and I think like maybe that's why the Instagram account works so well, is because I it's I'm not doing it for any other reason than just like I want to find something else. I'm like, God, let's go.

SPEAKER_04 21:40

Let's go somewhere else, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:41

Yeah, I think it goes back to what we were talking about before. It's like life is so especially these days, like cost of living is terrible, everything's you know, hard, like things overseas are bad. Sometimes the the the one thing that like you can really control is like that little pocket of joy, like that little And that I guess like that's what my account is about. Is like there are amazing restaurants like Astra or you know, that kind of stuff, but a pocket of joy doesn't need to be that. It can just be finding a new coffee shop that you didn't know was there and having the best cinnamon scroll ice latte you've ever had. And that has, you know, it's it's it's about that, I guess, more than anything. It's like finding those little moments.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

It makes it makes a lot of sense. And I mean, I I mean, part of the evolution of this this particular show. Again, I used to be just all mariner stuff, but now because there's so many interesting people on the Central Coast who've got awesome stories, who who've done some awesome things, awesome gen, all that kind of stuff. So we're kind of branching into that kind of thing. But every now and then, if we're out somewhere, I might start taking photos and putting things to not to your quality, of course, but I'll try to do all that.

SPEAKER_03 22:50

I love your stuff.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

I do.

SPEAKER_03 22:54

Honestly, a couple of times I've been like, oh, what's going on here?

SPEAKER_02 22:57

Like look, it's your space. We talked about it's your space, man.

SPEAKER_03 23:00

It's okay, it's everybody's face, it's a fluid thing. You know, there are no walls. You know, I can put my hand out and do whatever.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

Yeah, next week, next week you'll be doing a YouTube channel interviewing footballers and go, like, yeah, in your face, Mr.

SPEAKER_03 23:13

I'm already, I'm already you know, hiring a podcast studio, I'm ready to go.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

Your Central Coast Mariner's correspondent or something like that, you'll be on the Marty. Anyway, moving on. Um glad I can edit this afterwards, but anyway, no way. Um, do you ever like and this has only happened when I have started doing some stuff, like with Happy? I know he's really supportive and the celebrates and stuff like that, and and my better half is exactly the same. But when you're stopping and you're taking photos and you see something and you're oh and you go like that. Do you ever turn around and he's there like, come on, like my coffee's going cold here, or do you ever get any of that? No, no, I do.

SPEAKER_03 23:52

We went to we went to um Dionysus wine bar the other night, um, which was really nice. Oh, you have to go there, the people are so lovely. But he put the guy, we all had wine, put the wine down, and then put some food down. And my husband just sat back like this, and the guy media was like, Are you used to this? And he's like, He's he's like, if I touch it, like um, but like back when we got together, I did his social media on his business page for a while. So um it was very much, which is fine, but like it was very much focused on his business and what's happening with him and that kind of stuff. So I feel like we have a really good partnership in that respect. He's like, Here's your space, and if I have to sit back for a second and let you do whatever you need to do. Um, he does get a bit annoyed sometimes when I'm like, Oh, hold the toast and like spread it, and I'm gonna film you. And he's like, like what? Like this. And I'm like, no, no, no, just like slowly do this. And he's like, No, I'm not doing that. Like, or I'm like, and tell me what you think of this. And he's just in the he's in the of so much footage of him being like, it's great.

SPEAKER_02 24:58

And I'm like, It's great, it's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 25:00

It was like holding a knife to your neck. Tell me what you think. Um, no, but he's he's like the most patient human, but at the same time, he used to be he was a chef for years and years. Wow, um, yeah, I'm Alco seafood chef, like uh really, really good. Um, before he started his own brewery. So he loves food as much as I do.

SPEAKER_01 25:19

Oh, cool.

SPEAKER_03 25:20

Um, and he's happy to go out and happy to you know do whatever needs to be done. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:25

Well, a chef, a chef who could deal with seafood and owns his own brewery, I might marry this bloke myself.

SPEAKER_03 25:30

So you can you can if you want my friends at work all make fun of me because I probably haven't cooked since we've been together. I don't, I don't, I don't I honestly don't do anything at all.

SPEAKER_02 25:39

Wow, wow, look at that. And even does does he help you? And and this is something my wife's lovely because she'll we'll get the coffee, and I'll take some like turn the plate around. Like you sort of seem to like sit back, but does it sort of help now? Kind of be like, Yeah, look, how's that for a shop? Well, what about that? Like, does it get involved in that stuff too?

SPEAKER_03 25:55

No, he'll ask me, he always asks me where I want to sit. Right. Like, where do you want to sit? So if I'm in the right thing, but he will when they put the food down, he will kind of be like, Oh, you know, his mind, and then he'll kind of like push this forward, like, do you want to take a photo of blah blah blah?

SPEAKER_02 26:10

But I love that. That's so cool. Uh that just um, so let's talk about just some of the places that uh that that you've been to. Is there a place that you can think of that you went, yeah, I'll go in there. I've heard some bits about it, but you actually went in and went, Wow, this was I mean, and I know the majority of places we can go into, we can see some really cool stuff. But was there anywhere you went into and you went, This is dead said awesome?

SPEAKER_03 26:32

Yeah, Lagoon Artisan. Have you been? No, I've been.

SPEAKER_01 26:37

But I'll have to now, aren't I?

SPEAKER_03 26:39

Okay, so one thing about me is that I am obsessed with pizza. Like I love pizza, but not pizza with stuff on it, just a margarita pizza. My opinion is if you can't do it. Well, it is, but I my my opinion is if you can't do a margarita pizza well, it's like you can okay, you and I could make a pizza and pile like a whole bunch of stuff on the top of it, and you can't really taste it. Do you know what I mean? Like it's so caught up in things. You have to make a good crust, you have to have a good sauce, and it has to be cooked well to do a good margarita. So I'm always looking for like the good margarita. Always, always the good margaritas, the drinks and the pizza. Um but when we moved from this um from Sydney to the Central Coast, I really struggled. Like I couldn't find and like don't get me wrong, like I love a hungry wolf's pizza, I love a Domino's pizza, but when you want like that authentic Napoli pizza, I found it really hard. Um and we went to Lagoon Artisan actually because they we have that they did really good sandwiches, which I posted about recently. But they do really good pizza, but the the reason you have to go there is because they bake their facaccia from scratch when you order their sandwich in the pizza oven. So you yeah, so you go there, and they're those um like deli sandwiches that have got like so much mortadella, they've got the you know the fresh mozzarella, all this kind of stuff. But you walk in and your pizza is, I mean, your bread is a dough.

unknown 28:10

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 28:11

And you say, I'll have this and I'll have this, and then you sit there and you watch them get it, put it in the oven, it cooks, it comes out, they cut it hot, they put all the stuff on, and it is honestly the most delicious sandwich I've ever had in my entire life.

SPEAKER_01 28:26

Wow, okay.

SPEAKER_03 28:27

And they do a breakfast menu of different sandwiches, the lunch menu is different, then they do pizza at nighttime, and then mozzarella sticks are like that. Wow, and the staff are and also it's like just like a block from the beach, so you can walk in the morning along the beach and then walk up, have your sandwich, have your coffee. You know, it's it's epic, absolutely epic. So my favorite place on the central coast.

SPEAKER_02 28:54

Your romantic walk along the beach in the evening, too, right?

SPEAKER_03 28:57

Oh, I don't really walk a lot, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:00

Come on, I thought I was on to a winner there going, yeah, because they miss a walk. Walk back to the car to go home. Sit in the car and watch other people walk along. Okay, uh, whatever we're doing.

SPEAKER_03 29:10

Exactly. But no, but it is lovely, like you can do a walk in the morning and stuff. People take their dogs there, so you can walk your dog in the morning, go for a breakfast sandwich.

SPEAKER_02 29:17

Okay, it's amazing. There's there's there's a hot tip for for everyone. Um, and a quick and a quick another question too. I'm always intrigued this because I do see other vloggers and different things. When you go into a place and you start, is it are you okay if I video? Do you just start video? Have you ever had anyone saying, excuse me, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 29:37

No, I think it's weird. I've I've I've had the experience of going in somewhere and seeing a like a proper content creator do that.

SPEAKER_02 29:47

Right.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

Um, I'm I'm not like a proper content creator. I don't know. Like, I think some people have like all the equipment. Do you know they do all this stuff? Like they have the ring light camera and they have the tripods and stuff. I'm doing it as in like I don't want anybody to know that I'm even in there.

SPEAKER_01 30:02

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_03 30:04

To me, if you looked at us at the table, it would look like I'm just someone who takes a photo on their phone. Like one of those, I'm not turning up with all the stuff. Sometimes I might walk up, like at Lagoon Artisan. Like, I walked up and I might take a video of them doing the pizza. And it's only because I've commented so much on how much I love their pizza that he knows who I am. And he's like, Do you want to take a video? And I'm like, Okay. But no, I'm not, I've never had any contacting ever. No. And also, like it's a bit of a bugbear for me in that I don't want people to know who I am when I'm going there. I don't want people like number one, it's I'm going out with my husband or whoever I'm with. Yeah. Um, but also a bugbear of mine is somebody showing you their, you know, visit to a restaurant or visit to a hotel or something on a holiday, and they have gotten some special treatment because of who they are.

SPEAKER_02 30:57

Yeah, true.

SPEAKER_03 30:58

Something like that. Whereas I don't want to, I would never want to portray to people, oh, look, we had this amazing experience, and that's because they knew who we were, and they gave us a thousand appetizers and everything was styled perfectly. We've been put at a specific table. Yeah, like I hate I hate looking and being like, this hotel looks amazing, but these people are staying in the, you know, these people are staying on the top floor and they have premier access to all these places that will never go. Yeah. Like, do you know what I mean? Like, I just I like it. No, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:29

I mean, yeah, well we were talking about people. I mean, we watch um Hannah Ricketts. I don't know if you watch Hannah Ricketts, she's um a vlogger from England who does she does food reviews, but she also goes to hotels. She's been to America recently, and she will book the room.

SPEAKER_03 31:43

She's writing it down.

SPEAKER_02 31:44

What? I'm writing it down so I can Han Hannah Ricketts. But anyway, so she'll she'll go to different places, sometimes even just a bakery, sometimes a bit of a thing, but when she books in a hotel room, she'll do it in a different name because she's sort of getting a bit well known now that people will say, Oh, you're here and it's five-star this, and she wants that authentic kind of experience. So when she puts it on her vlogs, it's what 99% of the time it's gonna be the experience that we would get if we booked into that hotel. And I think there's great value in that because you know that there'll be people out there that will make it very much known, especially overseas and stuff, that yes, I'm a vlogger and I'm doing this, and I get the five-star treatment. And it's not not gonna be what we're gonna get if me or you book that room, but you you want it to be authentic, and she's really good with that. So I actually can totally understand what you're saying about going into these places and as you'll end up wearing sunglasses and hats and that to hide in places soon, because people will be like, that's what she looks like. She's coming now, and away you go.

SPEAKER_03 32:46

Um, yeah, I think it's it's it's I there's a lot of I think there's a lot to be said for being honest in what you post. Like, I understand some people's style is too they're selling things for in a certain way, and everybody has their own way of doing things. Um but as well, like cost of living is such a thing, and I like it's such a butt, like we use it so much, the word cost of living. Um cost of living is such a thing. I would hate to tell someone, hey, go here, spend your hard-earned money, you know, you've got just enough money to do one thing this weekend, go do this, and they go and they're like, Oh, well, that thing that you said you really liked wasn't on the menu. They said they don't make it, or you didn't tell me that you know it's the the cost of the food is $150 a person, blah, blah, blah. And it it's you lose all your credential, but also like I just I would hate to be the the reason someone went out and spent their money on something and actually just really had a bad experience. I think that's not fair. I wouldn't want anybody to do that to me. Um, but at the same time, like I don't I don't know how I would sleep at night just telling people go stay here, go sleep here, and and like it's terrible. Yeah, it doesn't matter to me, it's not my money, I don't care. Um yeah, it means a lot, it matters to me. Yeah, you know, it means a lot.

SPEAKER_02 34:05

Yeah, you've got to have that credibility with it, and especially with as you said, you're traveling to so many different places, and and and people will watch and go, Yeah, well, look, oh, how good is that? You want to be authentic in what you're doing. So, yeah, no, I I can totally appreciate that. And finally, is is there a place on the central coast that you haven't been to yet, or an event you haven't been to yet, or something that is in the the bucket list of things to do on the central coast that is got to do that?

SPEAKER_03 34:30

I I have a big list of things.

SPEAKER_02 34:32

Um I'm not surprised by that, by the way. But I'll ask the question anyway.

SPEAKER_03 34:36

I'll give some I'll give some special mentions to to places that are on my up-and-coming list.

SPEAKER_01 34:42

Oh, watch out, watch out.

SPEAKER_03 34:44

Watch out, and they're probably not the places that you expect, but let's have a look.

SPEAKER_01 34:47

Oh, let's have a look.

SPEAKER_03 34:48

Um, the Beachy, Black Phoenix Espresso, Green Tangerine, Settlers Tavern, Anglers Rest, Amarylla, um, Terigal, Tiger Terrigal, Tall Timbers at Arimba.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

You haven't been to the tall timbers.

SPEAKER_03 35:02

No, I have I have been, but they've just redone their menu. I was gonna say that was the damn hotel that has just redone their menu as well. Fire and flower at Hamilton.

unknown 35:13

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 35:14

Brower waters. I really want to go to Brower Waters.

SPEAKER_02 35:17

Okay, have you been? I have it's it's I haven't been for a while, but it's a beautiful spot.

SPEAKER_03 35:21

That would be like the top of my list, but it's it's it's it's a special occasion type situation.

SPEAKER_02 35:26

Oh, absolutely. And I know um a few of those places, like you mentioned, I think it at the start, like the Beachy. I mean, I went to the Beachy like 10 years ago where it its reputation may have preceded it.

SPEAKER_03 35:37

I was there 10 years ago.

SPEAKER_02 35:39

Well, there you go.

unknown 35:40

Why are you doing it?

SPEAKER_04 35:41

I know exactly what you mean.

SPEAKER_02 35:43

There we go. We'll go no further with that. But I've been back recently and it looked really, really nice, and the food was really nice as well.

SPEAKER_03 35:49

This is amazing. It looks amazing.

SPEAKER_02 35:52

It does. It looks like I I love those places where you could, if it's just you and Hubby, me and the white, what whatever, you can just both of you can just go and have a nice night. But also if there's a group of six or a group of ten, you can also have a really good night. And it's just one of those places, it's indoor, it's outdoor. But hey, I don't want to spoil your review because you'll be coming up soon on your Instagram channel.

SPEAKER_04 36:12

Maybe I'll look at your review.

SPEAKER_02 36:15

I didn't, I didn't take any photos that night, but um, yeah, anyway. Um, but no, it's really, really cool. But yeah, a lot of those places because another thing is true when when you get a friend who says, Oh, we went to a restaurant the other day, or we went in, it was really nice. Straight away, I'm like, I'm gonna try that now. And I think when you just we just spoke about the trust and all that, when you find an Instagram account or a source of a someone who does this kind of stuff regularly, and they're like, Hey, check this out, man, that's that's gold, isn't it? For the for the business themselves, it's probably not costing you any money, but it's gold for them.

SPEAKER_03 36:49

Yes, and I think like the way that I make my content is that I always try to make something that the the business would be happy to have on their page because like at the end of the day, that's what I'm trying to do is like free marketing that they can use. So I'm always very conscious of like what's in it, like what the title says, and like I don't want to do anything that they might think, oh well, we can't use this. You know what I mean.

SPEAKER_02 37:11

Do you have businesses where they reached out to you and said, Can we use this stuff?

SPEAKER_03 37:15

Um, normally when I go somewhere and I post something, I always just add people as um collaborators, so they're free too. Yeah, I have had a couple of people who have um sort of like I've posted something and then I've done like a story after being like, Oh, here's just like another video of me eating it, and they're like, Can we have that too? And I'm like, No, yeah, no, we like like chewing on camera is horrible.

SPEAKER_02 37:39

Um the unedited version, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:41

The I always have to check the sound because I'm like, what have we been talking about? My husband and I'm talking about something ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02 37:46

But that is a thing, that is a thing, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:49

But no, they've like, I think I always just try to do it with like so that the people that I go visit that they can use it because that's the whole point of it at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_01 37:57

100, 100.

SPEAKER_02 37:59

That is um, you know, what what's next on the list? So we've got the Instagram account on fire. What's next? World domination, apart from you doing football podcasts. What else is in is there anything else in the pipeline?

SPEAKER_03 38:09

It's like the podcast. Um, not at the moment, like to be honest. Um, I turned 40 this year, so we've got a couple of like trips away and things planned. So I want to get through those first. Um, outside that my dogs keep us very, very busy. Um and I have a full-time job, so there's that too. But like, I just I don't know, like I just I think you get to the to the point in your life where you like you said, you live on the coast, you just want to potter around and enjoy you know, enjoy being on the coast, like sit out on the backyard, have a coffee, you know.

SPEAKER_02 38:41

Yeah, yeah, chill.

SPEAKER_03 38:42

What about you?

SPEAKER_02 38:43

Oh, look, TV deals are in the no, there's nothing like that. No, it's uh um the this this is the expansion for me because as I said, this was very much just uh football, the Marty Mariner shows number of years. We just did players and coaches and officials and supporters. It's very A-League kind of soccer base, but to me, you know, peep people like yourself, but people I know who I who I meet through social channels, through work and different things, people who work in medicine or mental health or entertainers and all. I thought I'd love just to have a chat with you, just a very informal kind of this kind of thing. For sure. Couldn't just do it on a soccer channel, a football channel. So this is my expansion now, and I'm I'm loving it because the more people I've realized, oh, I know them, or I chat to them through Instagram or Facebook, or they'll get in touch and say, Hey, enjoy that. I'll have to come on your show one day and have a chat about it. And I'm just that to me is what it's all about. And again, I think people think that anyone who does social media and to a certain extent makes money out of it, you don't. It costs you money.

SPEAKER_03 39:46

Um it does cost you money.

SPEAKER_02 39:48

It does. And and you know, when when I've explained to people that, you know, to to to pay for the editing software that I that I use, and when you're buying a microphone or a laptop or a camera or uh, you know, to to put it out there on podcast, I do it because I love it and I just get enjoyment out of doing it. It'll never be a thing where it'll be, you know, pay me money if you want to see my content, because it's just not what it's about for me. Um and again, if I this it won't happen, but if we recorded this and then I kick back when it was on YouTube in a couple of days and I'll watch it, if I get a laugh out of it, I think that was cool and no one else watches it, I'll be just as happy. I'll be a bit devastated, but I'll probably just be happy too. Hopefully, two people watch it. But you know, I I do it because I look back and I enjoy it. So yeah, that that's the expansion for me. What's that?

SPEAKER_03 40:34

As far as all the podcasting and stuff, are you self-taught? Like all the software and everything like that.

SPEAKER_02 40:38

Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_03 40:41

Everybody can use a phone and take a photo. Like you've actually like learnt a skill, like that's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 40:47

But but you'd know yourself, you can take photos and you can take photos. That's different, right?

SPEAKER_03 40:53

I'm much more impressed by the.

SPEAKER_02 40:58

You know.

SPEAKER_03 40:58

Oh, yeah, it's you know, it's the it's the that's what it's there, right?

SPEAKER_02 41:02

But I was I was um back in the day a long time ago, um, when YouTube was first starting to kick about a bit, even before COVID, how long ago was that? Um, but I used to do guest stuff as the um as a a guest host or a co-host or a visitor. I was the Aussie bloke talking about English football, and they'd record stupid things, good times for them, but like two or three in the morning for me. But I would ask those guys about what software do you use? How do you do this? What camera are you using, whatever. And over the years, I've got a really good relationship with a lot of podcasters, um, particularly in the football field, I guess, but others that have come around. And I just asked them, what have you used for this? What's the what's the simplest version of this? Because I need it to be simple, I need it to be effective, and that's it. Don't give me the version 5.8 that does this, this, this, this, this, this. I don't need that. I just need this. And I'm just, yeah, I've just practiced and practiced and just done it as I've gone. And um, it does what it's it's it's it's what's written on the tin. Here's a podcast, listen to it, here's a YouTube channel, watch it. That's all it is.

SPEAKER_03 42:00

Professional, like all the you know, all this and whatever's going on down here with all this stuff. It's good.

SPEAKER_02 42:06

Have you met my friend Chat GBT? He's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 42:09

No, I don't use ChatGPT.

SPEAKER_02 42:11

Well, I do, and he did this.

SPEAKER_03 42:12

I only use Chat GPT, actually. I only use Chat GPT if I want to knit something, and I need to know how long it's gonna like literally take me to knit it so I can decide if I want to knit it or not.

SPEAKER_02 42:22

But I'm like, yeah, so you're a knitter as well. Yeah, I am and you and you bring this up at the end of the show. My god, this should have led it. Where was this? That was my exclusive.

SPEAKER_03 42:36

I told you I'm old. You're like, oh, the young people it's like, no, I'm sitting here like knitting and you know, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 42:42

Like from my point of view, you're not old.

SPEAKER_03 42:45

But anyway, we're old man.

SPEAKER_02 42:47

That's our second podcast. That's our second podcast when we talk about football season, the upcoming history of the central coast marriage. Can't wait to catch you on that one, too. Actually, no, that'll be after I interview your husband with the brewery.

SPEAKER_04 42:56

Anyway, I'll let him know.

SPEAKER_02 42:58

Can you?

SPEAKER_04 42:59

I don't actually know it works. I was gonna say I'd yell out for anyone hear me.

SPEAKER_02 43:04

It's how it all works, it's all kind of mate. It's um it's been awesome having a chat to you. We will uh we'll definitely have to do this again sometime. I know you you're that famous now. You're even appearing on Triple M. Patty and Maz doing every couple of weeks, jumping on there as well.

SPEAKER_03 43:16

Yeah, I think I was gonna say it's interesting when you actually think, oh, people actually care what I have to say. Like, you know, it's it's it's interesting to hear yourself out there, but yeah, it's going well, so I really appreciate it.

SPEAKER_02 43:26

It's something different. Well, I I mean I well, obviously did the um the what do they call it, Stars of the Central Coast with Maz earlier this year.

SPEAKER_04 43:32

She's the best inspirational.

SPEAKER_02 43:36

She absolutely is one of those people that it doesn't matter, you know, she she could say to you, Hey, I'm gonna go get a sandwich from the local deli, and you're like, Oh, you're awesome. Like, you can't stop being impressed by anything that she does.

SPEAKER_03 43:47

She just a lovely human as well. She's just such a lovely human.

SPEAKER_02 43:51

Just brilliant. Yeah, glad that um yeah, got to know her better through that as well. But yes, I'll be tuning into triple M when you're on there.

SPEAKER_03 43:58

And you better be. Don't listen to anything else.

SPEAKER_02 44:01

Exactly right. That's tuned in 24.7.

SPEAKER_03 44:03

107.7.

SPEAKER_02 44:05

Not bad. We'll work on that. You go triple M. You gotta get all that sort of stuff done too.

SPEAKER_03 44:10

That's my next thing. I'm gonna start doing voiceovers.

SPEAKER_02 44:13

You heard it here first. Hey, mate, it's been awesome chatting to you. We'll definitely do it again soon. And uh yeah, look forward to uh checking out your Instagram content, your Central Coast Girly. Yeah. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 44:24

And I might see you at the Central Coast Markets.

SPEAKER_02 44:27

Oh, might see you. Yeah. Or the next Wild Festival, the Food Festival.

SPEAKER_03 44:32

Yeah, that's true. That was really good.

SPEAKER_02 44:33

Oh, that was really good. But anyway, we'll talk about that next time. Catch you too, man. We'll uh we'll chat then.

SPEAKER_03 44:37

See you.

SPEAKER_02 44:38

See ya.

SPEAKER_03 44:39

Bye.