Episode 168: Turning Local Stories Into a Dream Career | Lindsay DeLong | Laguna Beach Living
Lindsay DeLong didn’t set out to run a local media platform, but her love for storytelling and community made it inevitable. As the editor of Laguna Beach Living, she’s built a space that celebrates the people, places, and stories that make a town feel like home. From discovering hidden gems to shining a light on local changemakers, Lindsay is all about connection. We talk about how she transitioned from journalism to entrepreneurship, what it takes to run a digital publication, and why hyperlocal stories matter more than ever. You’ll hear about career pivots, building a brand from scratch, and the joy of creating something that connects people where they live.
“If you can overcome tragedy and still be a happy person who is still inspired, that makes you a powerful person.”
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Chapters
00:00 From writer to editor-in-chief
01:15 The spark behind Laguna Beach Living
03:00 Why hyperlocal media matters
05:20 Finding your voice as a journalist
07:00 The business side of running a publication
09:15 Building a loyal audience
11:00 Social media strategies for local brands
13:10 Balancing creative work with operations
15:00 Career pivots in the media industry
17:15 Lessons from interviewing community leaders
19:00 Navigating change in journalism
21:15 Advice for aspiring writers and editors
23:00 Defining success in creative entrepreneurship
Everyone wants to be featured. Literally if you wanna feature like an artist, they're gonna say yes. If you want to feature like a hotel like Mogul, they're gonna say yes. It's just like very, a localized thing that people are very
excited about. That's Lindsay DeLong, and this is The Powerful Ladies Podcast.
Hey guys. I'm Kara Duffy, a business coach and entrepreneur on a mission to help you live your most extraordinary life by showing you that anything is possible. People who have mastered freedom, ease, and success, who are living their best and most ridiculous lives. And who are changing the world are often people you've never heard of until now as we've become a global society, an unfortunate byproduct has been the decline of a tight-knit, connected local community.
Today's guest, Lindsey DeLong. Is doing just the opposite. She is connecting, celebrating, and sharing her hometown of Laguna Beach, California. And she's doing it through local digital journalism. And her publication is called Laguna Beach Living. And what's even cooler is that she's now on a mission to teach others how to create their own.
Business and do so celebrating their local cities and towns. Listen to this episode to learn what makes Lindsay one of the happiest entrepreneurs. Why local journalism is actually on the rise, and how you two can create your dream life exactly where you are today.
Welcome to the Powerful Ladies podcast. Thanks for having me. My pleasure. You came recommended from someone on our team, which is super exciting. Amanda? Yeah. So let's tell everyone who's listening, who you are, where you are, and what you're up to in the world.
Yeah. So my name is Lindsay DeLong.
I run some media companies. I'm the editor in chief of Laguna Beach Living, and I also just started my own company called the City Living Network, where I help I create blogs for people, city specific blogs. Yeah, and it's been a blast. We just launched like February 1st. I did a soft launch in January, and then I had two people just from my network that like already booked.
So this month I'm working on Denver, and next month I'll be working on San Diego. So it's been fun. How did you get
into the business of. Talking about cities and that being your specialty.
Yeah. So I've been a journalist since forever wrote for the student newspaper and in college. And then after college I wrote for.
Everyone I wrote for any magazine that would take me, I wrote for free. I traveled. I like did you know band interviews? I did everything. I wrote about politics, I did everything. And then yeah. I eventually started at a private Jet magazine as their associate editor, and then I went to another magazine where I wrote for free.
I would write travel articles like 18 page spreads, which was amazing and very good exposure. But was a lot of work for no money, but that's what you have to do, to work your way up. And so I just really worked my way up for years and years. And then I got hired at a company called the Fullest.
It was a small little blog at the time, and they needed a managing editor. So that's when I got into really like the editorial side of things. We within a year we had made that small little blog into, like a legit publication. It was sold in Urban Outfitters, whole Foods Barnes and Noble and I managed a team of 200 writers.
Wow. Just really got a lot of great experience. About three years into that. We were like, Hey, we have a wonderful team. We know how to create a like digital publication. Why don't we do it in Laguna Beach? Which is where we were all based. And so I had the writers write the articles. We built the website, we launched it.
And that was three years ago. And it's just really gotten very popular and it's been so much fun. It's always been a dream of mine to start a city publication. I remember 10 years ago, living in Long Beach and like buying like Long Beach style.com and I was gonna make a cool style blog about Long Beach, but I just like really didn't know how to do it.
I was already a journalist, I already knew how to write, I just didn't know the steps to do. And so now that I like, have created such a successful publication with Laguna Beach Living, I was like, like I. I I know how to design a website. I know how to like, do graphics. I know how to start a podcast.
I know how to like, get writers and find interns and, build a team. So I was like, why don't I just bundle all that together and create this. Network, so the City Living network. And yeah, we do everything for you. So we build out the website, we do 10 launch articles, and we just do it all for you in 30 days.
And so then at the end of the month, you're ready to go. You have a media kit, you have email templates that tell you like, Hey, this is what you need to. Email someone. If you want a free media stay, this is what you need to email someone if you wanna eat for free at their restaurant. This is what you need to do if you wanna have a puppy party, which I'm actually having one soon, a puppy picnic party.
I teamed up with a local picnic company and they're doing a picnic. For some influencer dogs in Laguna. But that's the kind of thing you can do if you own like a city publication, that's your job. And so if my job is gonna be to like host a picnic party for Easter where all the dogs in town are wearing cute little bunny hairs, then yeah I wanna do that and I wanna help other people do that too, because it really is a dream job.
I love it. And, yeah. So I am so thankful to be doing that right now. And we just launched Lexington, Kentucky which was so much fun. I had her contact me, last year in like June, she was like, her name's Emily and she is so cool. She's a photographer in Lexington. She contacted me and was like, Hey, I love what you're doing with Laguna Beach Living.
I need you to teach me how to. It in Lexington. And so that's what really got the wheels turning. And so I was like yeah, I'll do it. And so created the course. It's a nine module course. It like basically just walked you through everything. I just talked like a mile a minute, but I so excited
it.
Perfect. No, you're, you are. You're excited about what you're doing. And you know what I think is so great about this type of work is that the local journalism has had so many blows to it in the past couple of decades. And knowing friends who have written for papers that we never thought would go away and printed publications we never thought would go away.
We so often see the same news everywhere now, and so often it's not about where we are. Yeah. How is or how are local digital publications changing how people relate to their community and stay connected to each other?
Yeah, so just like you said, like it's not someone that doesn't live in your town telling you what to do, it's very localized.
And so that's what's so great about, you really get involved with the community and you're highlighting local businesses and entrepreneurs. So everyone is super excited to talk to you. Everyone wants. To be featured. So literally if you wanna feature like an artist, they're gonna say yes.
If you want to feature like a hotel, like on, like Mogul, they're gonna say yes. It's just very, a localized. Thing that people are very excited about and the perks are so great. It's just every day I wake up and I'm like, okay, what do I have to do today? Oh, I have to write an article about the Ritz Carlton.
Not that bad, yeah. Like it's pretty dang awesome. So I'm very excited to bring this. To other people. My Lexington girl, Emily, she is been launched for three weeks now. She's gotten so many media stays like this weekend she stayed at like the Kentucky Castle and had a actual elsa, like girl that came and sang and it was for like her kid's birthday party and all she has to do is write an article about it and I'm just like, oh my gosh, you really learned everything and applied it and I love you. She is absolutely fantastic. It's so much fun.
Has this just been, has your life been this magical and fun always?
Or is this the new chapter in your life?
That's a funny question. That is a good question. It just makes me laugh. But yeah, I've always been very like positive and happy go lucky. And I've worked really hard and like even when I was writing for free, locked in my house being like, I can't go outside and I really wanna go outside.
But I, this article done, I was,
I have, not always I, like Ghost wrote a book in San Diego, like for a attorney who dealt with child sex crimes and that was. So sad. He like asked me, Hey, how long would it take you to write this book about this topic? And I wanted the job. I was like, three months.
But then I didn't realize that is gonna really be like something that you have to really dig deep. You do so much research, you have to like, read a bunch of really sad stuff and it took me nine months. It was like totally. Absolutely. Horrible. I felt like I was like in depression, like really not wanting to do it, it got me out of.
Credit card debt, like I paid off my student loan, so it was good. But yeah. With the journalism, like with my career, I feel like I've always been pretty positive. I just knew that like I was going to have to like, work my way up. But yeah. Like the personal aspect like I got cancer, like the, like everything hasn't been always like, yeah, perfect.
I always cry when I talk about cancer. Ugh.
That is a logical response to cancer crying. When did you go through your cancer journey and how did that change your perspective on life?
Yeah, so I got cancer when I was 33. And yeah, it was just like a super random thing where I like found a lump and I was like, okay, I gotta go get that checked because I hadn't been to the doctor in a while.
'cause I'm like totally healthy, ran a marathon when I turned 30. Sure. I like eat Cheez-Its and pizza and to drink some wine, but definitely didn't think I like, was the type that could get cancer, but like cancer doesn't it's just so random, like it doesn't run in my family or anything.
But yeah, sure enough, it was breast cancer and so that was like a big like life change, I remember like sitting there and like the doctor, like telling me like that I was gonna lose my hair. And I just remember like staring straight ahead and was like. I like, there's nowhere else you can go, like everyone's oh, you're so brave. There's not any other option. You have to like, just go, anyways, that sucked. But yeah, I like was, that's right when I really had like it within six months of when I like got like my first like real pegging like. Salary writing job.
Six months later I get cancer. So it was everything I had worked up to was. Then everything's perfect. Every, this is what I worked out to, this is what I wanted forever, and then all of a sudden I get cancer and I'm like, have to go through chemo, have to be bald when I'm like doing freaking interviews.
It's yeah, it was really hard, but. The fact that I liked my job so much and I was able to do it remotely. What I worked throughout the whole entire chemo, I worked throughout all cancer. Like I really like and within a year that's when we had built that small blog into the big wellness publication that it became.
So it was very a trying weird time. That I just kind. To do, but yeah, that's why I thought your question was like, so funny because Yeah, I know what I seem like, I'm like this like high pitch, like really excited about business and journalism and like super happy and nice, but yeah, like it hasn't always been this way.
Like there's definitely been like, bomb. Bummer part.
But yeah. Which I think is true of all powerful ladies, right? Yeah. It, you can't appreciate the amazing things in life until you've seen the other side. Yeah. And it sucks that it takes that other sides, like really see how incredible things are.
Yeah. But I'm sure it's also made you make choices differently, whether they're subconscious or not. Because after going through. All of that chaos and being afraid and the pain, like why would you choose anything but puppy picnics after that?
Why not? Really, like I, I don't, I could never do like a nine to five job just 'cause that's not like I.
It's something I have always not wanted to do. I know me personally wouldn't like that, so I've always been entrepreneurial. I've always worked my way up to do this, but yeah, just it's it, yeah, it, I lost where I was going with that, but puppy picnics. Yeah. So now I'm just like really thankful every single day that.
I get to wake up and do that kind of like stuff like, sure. It's not the hard hitting journalism. I'm not talking, I'm not writing articles that's gonna change the life of, the reader. But I'm writing articles and really like managing a publication that's making you know your life more fun, the reader's life.
More fun. If you need to know the five best pizza restaurants in Laguna Beach. I'll tell you, and it'll be fun to like figure out which ones I wanna feature. So it's just like fun journalism, which is a dream job that it actually pays the bills and very happy that I get to, share that knowledge with other people.
Because there's a lot of cities in this world and I think that everyone should do it. If your city, is cool. Like you could do it. Like I had a girl today who was from Maui and I was like, oh my God, please do it in Maui. That'd be so fun. Just any city has like really unique like parts to it, you just need to discover that.
And like a local newspaper's not gonna really show you that. And another thing is, whatever style you make, it is the style that, you created that. So everyone tells me, like Laguna Beach living, like they really like the style, they like the like vibe of it, and there's a zillion magazines and publications in Laguna Beach. So if I were to have been, like the competition's too big, there's already one in Laguna Beach, then I wouldn't have started it, and now it's popular because it's. My style, yeah. It's geared towards women that are our age, it's not geared towards old men. It's not geared towards teenage boys. It's geared towards like girls our age, and so that's. What I think City Living Network is more like it could be for anyone, yeah. But it's gonna be geared more for our age. Like my girl in Denver, which we're creating right now she is.
An amazing photographer. She's a lesbian. She's so cool. So we're doing queer Denver living and it's gonna be like all based on the LT LGBTQ community. And it's so cool. My gosh, like the articles we're writing are like very just informative and I think it's just gonna be a really cool, safe spot.
So it doesn't technically need to just be about Denver living in general. Yeah. Denver's a huge. So like you could definitely do like a niche topic. The girl in San Diego's gonna do Relaxed San Diego because she's like a school counselor. So it's gonna be like, so cool. I just love talking to people.
I love hearing their ideas and like coming up with a game plan and it's fun. It's, I talk all day and day about
it. And you brought up so many great points. One is that. Wherever you are. There's cool things going on and interesting stories and amazing people, and they're often missed in the kind of big media that's out there today.
The other thing that I keep thinking about, I have moved so much in my life and I've lived in Costa Mesa now for six plus years, and I still know nothing about the city. And I, part of why I know nothing about it is because there isn't a guide or a place for me to go. Yeah. To deep dive into, hey, this is the one place to go to figure things out.
Yeah, I go to Yelp, I ask friends, you, I'll go on adventure dining. We're like, we'll just show some, show up and see if it's good or not, but. Otherwise, it's like, how do you don't know the things that would relate to in a city if there's not publications like that.
Yeah.
I'm asking someone to make a Costa Mesa one.
Oh my God. Yeah. I was just gonna say, so you're gonna do Costa Mesa living, but it's just really helpful when it's like a girl, like a powerful lady or like someone that like Yeah. Looks like they have a lot of fun or just someone that is like you can relate to that's telling you like, Hey, this bar, like this restaurant is super good.
Or this artist is fantastic. Like it's it's fun.
There's so much to discover. Yeah. I also love that you mentioned how you did it despite there being competition. Yeah. 'cause so many people are afraid to go after what calls to them, which they think would be so fun. And what made you put that aside?
Was it that you knew there was room for everybody? Were you like, fuck it, I'm gonna do it anyway? What? What allowed you to get over that hurdle of. It's already happening. Why should I?
Yeah, so it's 2022. The world's been around for a long time. Like I know that the internet is like still somewhat new, it's been around for 20 years.
There's a lot of things that have been, already done on the internet. It's just like with anything, if you're gonna be a mom blogger, you're not the first mom blogger. There's a zillion mom bloggers, but like mom bloggers can still become successful because they're.
Showcasing their unique self. So I knew that I had a personality for it. And, but you don't really need a personality for it because you're behind a computer. Sure. You can like I wrote an article yesterday, a Valentine's Day gift guide, and I'm currently single and it was like a cynical Valentine's Day gift guide.
And I definitely threw in a few jabs at love and I make it, but you don't, it doesn't really, it's just all about. If you wanna just be like behind the scenes and showcase your favorite like spots, and you can do that if you wanna go and do like press trips and go check out Passa in Huntington.
And be like, I'm gonna, have a cocktail here and then I'm gonna walk my dogs on the boardwalk and then I'm gonna go swimming and have a massage. Like you can do it and you can ride about it. I dunno, I just feel like, for example, if I'm gonna just Google passe, it's this beautiful hotel in Huntington Beach right there on PCH h for people that dunno.
But if I were just to Google Passe, go to Poe's website, I'd be like, that's a gorgeous hotel. Yes. I like it. I wanna stay there. But if I were to Google it and then I see some girl. That's writing about it, that's showing pictures of her dogs at the pool, or her dogs. Like I'm the beautiful balcony.
That's the kind of article that I wanna read because it feels more relatable to me rather than just reading like a general newspaper article about how cool to say is, yeah. Yeah. I hope I'm saying that word right.
Yeah. You're, yeah. And it's, there's just so much, right? There's so much around us that we don't see every day.
What has surprised you the most and delighted you the most? Getting to learn about Laguna Beach in this way.
I really just really got connected with such a great group of people and through that, like through having the publication and so I've made friends that like, are some of my favorite friends ever.
And just like the opportunities that it's brought, have really been fun and very. Powerful. I have that word in my head now because of your podcast. But it's just been like an unexpected thing. Whereas maybe I did think I was gonna just be behind the scenes more like a journalist.
Writing about what's cool. But now that, it's been three years now, I'm like showing my personality more. I like post a photo of my dogs or and I'm really like. Getting to know the people that we're featuring, like on all the photo shoots we do. I always go, even though I'm not.
I'm not the photographer. I wish I was a photographer. If you're a photographer and a writer, like this job is absolutely made for you. But I'm not a photographer. I, but I go to the photo shoots. I have a pho photographer that I like to work with, but I'll go to the photo shoots and I'll be behind the scenes with my phone, like making behind the scenes videos, turning it into a little TikTok or reel and I just, it makes everyone, everyone becomes friends. Yeah. All our photo shoots turn into these really fun events where like we're like, yeah, let's definitely hang out after this. So it's just like the friendships I've made through it all have been really cool. And the perks also are cool. Like I have art from like amazing artists that are like hanging on my wall.
I'm like, we've done a trade for it, so cool. Now I don't wanna buy anything 'cause I just wanna do everything trade.
You mentioned before that the word powerful is stuck in your head. So when you hear powerful and ladies separately. What do they mean to you? And does that definition change when they're put together?
Anyone can be powerful. And and anyone can be unpowerful. It doesn't really matter if you're a lady or a man. Like you can be a powerful man that sucks and you can be a powerful lady. That sucks. I dunno, I just think that anyone can be powerful in their own way or in.
A very general way, but if you could be powerful in your own way, in a way that's like making you feel happy and like you are, creating dream jobs for people or you're creating a dream job for yourself, or you just wake up in the morning and you feel like excited to go to work, that's cool and powerful.
So I know I. Yeah, I think it's just a powerful person for, anybody,
We ask everybody on the podcast where they put themselves in the Powerful Lady scale, and if zero is average everyday human and 10 is the most powerful lady you can imagine, where would you put yourself on that scale today and on average?
Oh man. I dunno if it, if powerfulness is what I just described, I would say that I'm pretty high because I feel happy when I wake up and I feel I feel inspired by my job and. It's not even just about jobs, it's just about life. Like from what I've went through cancer and like what I went through when I was younger in high school I lost my dad and I just.
If you can get over like tragedy and like bad stuff in life happening, and you can still become like a person that is me cry again. But if you can like overcome that kind of stuff and still be like a happy person that like feels inspired. Then I think that's powerful. I give myself a ton.
I like
it. How have other women helped you, mentored you, inspired you, like how important or power other powerful ladies to you in your life?
Good. Like everyone says, your mom and my mom is very like, just so sweet. Every day I'm like, ah, I wanna be sweet like her. She's just very nice.
And that's something that I wanna always strive to be and loving. And then like work-wise, I look up to so much stuff is done online now, but there's some, instagram, like entrepreneurs that I just really look up to with how they run their business and how they've created evergreen content that is just passive income at this point. And so I really, like right now, that is what inspires me is like to make some sort of passive income stream, which is what I wanna do with the courses. Like the course is created, it's nine modules, but so that's passive. If someone wants to like, join, like the City Live network, they get their course and they can learn everything.
They have forever access. They have. They can do the nine modules in two weeks or they can take a year to do 'em. But then the other side of that, which is not the passive thing, which is me actually building the website and actually like working with them one-on-one with consulting and stuff like that.
That is. Something that is inspiring to me right now, like the people that I look up to have really successful businesses where they've made passive income and like literally probably make like thousands of dollars while they're sleeping at night, just because they have like good Facebook ads going on.
And I can't sleep at 3:00 AM and they'll be scrolling and then some course will come up and I'll be like, I need that because Facebook knows what I want. Facebook knows me
for better or worse. Yes.
Yeah. Yep.
There's a whole series where my girlfriends and I were sharing like what we were buying drunk.
And the best online purchase in my book from that was is a dean. I still have it, denim jacket where the sleeves are fully sequenced and it has like a black and white unicorn print on the back. And I'm like, this is it showed up my house and I was like, I barely remember buying this, but I am so glad.
I thought that was a good purchase at 3:00 AM.
Oh my gosh. See, sometimes you just gotta make those purchases. That sounds like an amazing jacket.
It's, it's, you're a walking disco ball when you get to wear it, so it has to be used wisely. But it's fun. It's just one of those things, like you're talking like the puppy party, right?
Like when I have a course that teaches people how to turn what they love into it. Anything any product they want. Oh,
cool.
Yeah, and I was thinking about it 'cause I have a story in there of someone who started a business where they just do puppy birthday parties. Oh my gosh. And people think that's ridiculous.
How can you make money doing that? And it's no. She took two things. She loved animals, she loved event planning. And tried it. And now she's the, puppy party expert in her part of the world. Yeah. And we never, we think that there are so many limits to what we can create and do and actually earn a living that way.
And I'm so inspired that you're doing what you love and now you're sharing it with other people so they can do what they love. You're getting the bills paid. You're meeting amazing people. Like you're checking so many boxes that are on my life value list for myself. Yeah. And I'm just glad that people are getting to hear that you've survived big things.
Yeah. You're still having a great time and you're getting to do what you want and spend your time the way that you want to, and you're in one of the prettiest places on the planet. I know. It's okay, like who else wants that life? Like now you can just take a course and sign up and get it
right? Yeah.
It's every day, like I was driving yesterday and I was just like looking out the window and I was just thinking, everything. I have everything that I want. I, everything, I'm, everything is perfect. I don't, I'm not married. I, but I don't even know if that's something I want, but what I want, like in my life right now.
Like I have it and I feel I just need a positive attitude. I need a job that I like and I need my dogs and pat my cat and like I have my house. I have a car like live in the most beautiful place in the world. And I just really enjoy being able to like, help people. Like I had a like hour and a half phone call today with the Denver girl and we had so much fun and we're like laughing and zooming and like making jokes. Yeah. And then the Lexington girl like is keeps texting me at 3:00 AM because it's 6:00 AM her time. But she wakes up and she checks her phone and she's giving like a super fun.
Email from someone like she just got asked to be a local celebrity judge in the local bluegrass festival. Wow. She, yeah, she's so happy and so she like so excited. Text me and I'm like, it's like something Now when I wake up and I don't have a text from her, I like wake up at six and I'm like, oh, I'm sad that I don't have something exciting to it's just, I like making other people excited and this just seems like such a. It's the perfect way to go, and I just can't, I'm so excited for the future. Like I can't sleep at night. Because I'm like so excited and that's like a wonderful way to not, reason to not sleep, because then you wake up at 6:00 AM or seven and then you're like.
I'm tired, but I am excited to get up because that's what I've been waiting all night for it to turn morning so I can get up and start like working and doing life. So that's exciting. Oh man, I like everyone's listening. Probably like she's way too happy.
For everyone who is listening and they're now curious about Laguna Beach.
What are five like must do things in Laguna Beach from your perspective?
Okay. Hiking is fun. So there's the top of the world hike. I mean like Main Beach, like that lifeguard tower is just like at sunset, hang out there. There's gonna be like people playing music. The sunset's gonna be so beautiful.
Have someone take some photos of you in front of that lifeguard tower, like you'll love them forever. And yeah, I mean Hotel Laguna just reopened and just sitting there, having cocktails like on the ocean is really beautiful. There's just so many. One of my favorite parts of Laguna Beach was the cat cafe that they had there.
You could go and hang out with cats, so that closed down in COVID. But atmosphere, they still do like nonprofit help for cat, so that's good. It's just so many great people there and there's just so many. Fun restaurants, there's like activities, the Saada Festival, like there's just so many wonderful, cool things in Laguna and all of Southern California.
Yeah. And everywhere. Every city in the world.
It's so true. EV, everywhere I've ever lived and I've lived in a lot of cities, could easily have its own. Its own publication. Yeah. Because there's just, there's always something interesting and Yep. I love the idea of getting to focus locally and contribute locally.
And I just finished reading a book called Good Morning, beautiful Business. And it's by Judy Wicks, who was the founder of the White Dog Cafe in Philadelphia. Okay. And she's one of the pioneers of the local economy movement. And she did so much work to get to know other business owners and work together, and there's such, there's so much of America has gone away from local and we were missing some of that community element. So I'm glad that's coming back and that you're part of that. Being revived.
Yay. Thank you very much. That's a nice compliment.
You're welcome. So for everybody who wants to take your course, follow you, connect with you ask you to come and check out something cool they're doing in Laguna.
Yeah. Where can they find you, follow you, and support you?
Yeah the website, city living network com. And the, my personal Instagram is I like Lindsay with an A and yeah. And then Laguna Beach Living is Laguna Beach living the Instagram and then laguna beach living com. So any of those.
Places you can find me or yeah, living or hi, I just keep addresses. But yeah. Yeah. Reach out to anyone that's interested in building like a city specific publication and it can be like niche based. Too, like Relax San Diego or like Queer Living Denver. So it's definitely, there's so many cool things in this world that need to like be showcased and if you have you have you don't even need to necessarily be like a journalist. The course teaches you like how to find writers that will write for free or write, for exposure. That's like what I had to do, literally for 10 years, like I wrote for any magazine, like anywhere.
Like I just was, wanted my name out there. I wanted to be a, a journalist. And so that's what I did and that's like how. That first magazine, eventually found me. They just like Googled Orange County journalists and like I came up and then she hit me up and it changed my life.
And so I think that people just need to like follow their passions and don't let something like, oh, I'm not like a good journalist, or I'm not like a photographer. Stop you because there's ways that you can still create. A publication without having to be the one that's actually writing the articles, I love that.
Yeah. It has been such a pleasure to talk to you. I'm so glad you are a yes. I love that I am wrapping up my recording day with all of your energy and optimism. Yeah. And I'm excited that you're down the road so we can meet up in real life. And I'm sure there's plenty of ways that we can collaborate with fellow powerful ladies together.
Yes. Let's explore some Costa Me spots. Perfect. Awesome. Cool.
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