Ep 6 | The Influencers Are Wild

Sitting down on the pod today with Caitlin Fore, my longtime friend and artist, stylist, mom, and influencer (one of the good ones). We reflect on her journey balancing her happiness with her career aspirations, disappointments, and pivots- all while trying to have a life and a family of her own.

We then jump into what’s wrong with the influencer industry today (hint: a lot), what we learned in all the unrest of 2020, and how it forced us into a new way of using our platforms.

In this episode:

• Losing your dream job- only to end up happier, better off, and open to your REAL calling
• Balancing a family while sorting out your career
• Irresponsible/fake influencer behavior, especially during COVID and BLM
• Why I don’t identify as an influencer anymore and the future of the influencer industry (will Instagram survive?)
• Addressing our unconscious biases and how we have tried to fold that work into our platforms

Timestamps:

• 4:48 How we met (start here if you want to skip the astrology bits)
• 19:39 Getting her dream job… then losing it and rectifying the aftermath
• 34:00 Checking all the success and happiness boxes but coming up empty, now what?
• 36:00 Manifestation and self-worth
• 42:30 Not wanting to be a stay-at-home + the pressures society puts on women to make motherhood their whole identity
• 50:40 Influencer culture (rampant consumerism, irresponsible behavior, loop giveaways, fake people, and fake followings)
• 1:02:03 Bullshit influencers exposed during 2020 amidst Black Lives Matter, COVID, the election, etc., and one’s responsibility as an influencer
• 1:17:56 Inclusivity, body image issues, finding body positivity, and recognizing the societal programming of what bodies are “acceptable"
• 1:32:50 Retiring as an influencer but not from blogging

Follow Cait:

• Cait on IG: @caitfore | blog: sophistiCAITed.com | Etsy shop

Show notes + links:

• Topstick toupee tape
• Cassie on IG: @cassietaylorband
• Chelsea on IG: @womens.intuitive.health
• Jasmine on IG: @thejasminediane
• About that horrible carnival game (trigger warning: racist images and language)
• About the history of the policing system
• Book: So You Wanna Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Follow The Adults Podcast + Ashley:

IG: @theadultspodcast | @ashrockchalk
Twitter: @ashley_white
theadultspodcast.com | lestylorouge.com

*This episode was recorded in 2021