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Crazy For KDrama, Stephanie Kurze
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Stephanie worked up the courage to move to a totally different state and lifestyle, as well as blogging about Korean TV Dramas!
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers share their stories to inspire
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you
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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams
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yeah
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welcome to the juniors podcast I’m your
host Joe part of and today I am
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interviewing Stephanie curves who is
living her dream by moving to North
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Jersey and running a successful korean
entertainment blog
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welcome to show Stephanie hey Joe thank
you for coming on
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thanks for having me is pleasure to have
you so let’s start by giving our
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audience a background on yourself okay
well I as you said I just moved here I
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live in New Hampshire for all of my life
and then I discovered this crazy thing
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called kdrama which is the term for
korean television and I started a blog
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and it it’s been about hello like
two-and-a-half years now and it just
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completely changed my life and I got
inspired to you move away from my town
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into the city by myself my cat and try
and just experienced a lot new a lot of
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new and bigger things what would you say
is your biggest inspiration i get
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$ADDRESSNUM e honestly I get inspiration
from everywhere it’s it’s almost a
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matter of too much inspiration too much
things just coming into my head I
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started out you know I started out I
knew that I when I grew up I knew that I
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wanted to be a writer was definitely
going to be writer i wanted to write
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books didn’t and I started out doing
that and and I work really hard at
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trying to write and it just you know it
wasn’t working for me and then when i
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started watching these shows and i
wanted to talk about them you know I’d
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had a couple blogs before and they never
really you know i was just knew never
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really inspired to keep going with them
i have a pretty short attention span and
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but this one I just kept going and
really it was having people read me like
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it’s amazing i am i’m such a numbers
fanatic
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I’ll on the back of my blog or you can
actually see
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how many people are are are reading you
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we’re across the world and it just was
astounding that people all around the
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world where was actually interested in
what I had to say and it just completely
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changed my life and I you know was just
really inspired to keep trying and keep
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pushing for what kind of books would you
write as a kid I was always a big big
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into romance I was a big romance fanatic
and so that’s actually what got me into
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watching kdrama well because it’s it’s
like watching a romance novel on your TV
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and they’re super short there there from
anywhere from 16 to 20 episodes and it’s
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just like so there’s a unlike American
television there’s a start a middle and
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end you you know within those hours you
see the whole story and then you can
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move on to something else I like to take
things apart and that’s that’s the the
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writer part of me was analyzing these
things to see how they work and how I
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could apply it to my writing and then it
just started taking over more and more
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and more and now I now this is what I do
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my dream has you know because of this
might my dream change didn’t know I had
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to realize that and become ok with that
you explained how your dream came about
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for writing about kdrama online
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what about moving to New Jersey which is
my favorite state by the way being from
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South Jersey well i’m going to come out
and say that my dream was never to end
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up in New Jersey book I actually say
that I am New York adjacent but where
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I’ve lived in New Hampshire it’s it’s a
beer you know it’s a fairly small town I
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not only you know I live in the woods in
the National woods there’s a there’s
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really just if you like skiing if you
like hiking there’s lots of things to do
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free if you’re not big into the
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things then you’re really kind of left
out of everything and so I knew that I
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was it wasn’t where I needed to be but I
didn’t have anywhere else to go
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like I didn’t have a driving urge to be
anywhere so I just stayed there and when
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my obsession with this korean
entertainment started and I realized it
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was like oh my goodness there’s so much
more out there and not to say that
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there’s anything wrong with New
Hampshire but when I realized that
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there’s so much more you know to get to
try korean food for the first time I
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would have to go to Portland which is
like two hours away or if you know if I
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want to try any of these things that I
was seeing or maybe try and learn the
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language or go and see some of these
musical bands I’d have to come to New
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York and so that’s when I realized that
you know if I turn become really old and
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still live in New Hampshire and have
never tried anything different than i’m
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going to be really sad
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so it didn’t matter where I ended up I
just needed should not you just need to
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try something different and luckily
through this and i have a you know I
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have a job where I can work from home I
i just decided okay it’s gonna happen
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and it was you know I had to decide the
town where I was going to go and i dunno
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check the couple of different places I
boston or provenance and and finalized
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settled on you know the new york area
and a just to end up in New Jersey i
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just found this apartment that I
absolutely loved it
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it’s so beautiful and so now you know
dreams change and now i’m now i’m in
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jersey city and you know i’m just like i
can see myself staying here I love being
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in the city and now I’m like why didn’t
I come here sooner I wasted so much time
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when I could have been having all these
awesome adventures but i have now
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yeah i mean living just outside New York
City has got to be pretty exciting
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considering you go into the city quite
often don’t you I can see the skyline
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from a backer that’s a great place for
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it’s amazing yeah I go in and you know I
people are like well because I came here
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by myself I don’t you know I knew I knew
one person here but my friend i went to
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school with it but besides that I I
didn’t know anybody that you know people
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are like aren’t you going to be afraid
aren’t you gonna you know and I didn’t
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really think about it like that I just
was I wanted this adventure and I was
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never really i was never really scared
you know ever i just wanted to try it so
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now i go into the city and I won’t have
a plan and i’ll just be like what’s
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gonna happen today and you know that in
the city
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something is always going to happen and
II and you just have to be ready for
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open to be like oh I’m not gonna do this
I’m gonna go over here and see this you
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know lunar new year parade or no and
it’s just it sometimes I walk through
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the city and it just boggles my mind
that this is what my life is now this is
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incredible and I have to think the
blog.really for giving me the
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opportunity to do that so when you told
your family and your friends that you
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were ready to move to North Jersey to be
a part of the new york life how was that
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received everybody was super supportive
they they knew you know they’d all known
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for a long time that I know they love me
hopeful that was you know when they like
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to see me about really was it wasn’t the
place for me and the heart you know it
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was hard leaving my friends but you know
without without like my friend Lori she
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was she was a pusher edge i don’t i
don’t think that that i would really
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should what have you done today
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you know what oh you should check this
and this is what you should do you
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should go online and and your blogger
you could go and meet up with these
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other bloggers and and I don’t think
without that encouragement i would have
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had that yes i can do you know to be
able to get here as you
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she’s definitely pusher right I heard in
a good way you know to be that to help
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me you know it’s good to be have friends
who are really smart because
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it pushes you to be the better version
of yourself and and I think that’s what
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you need sometimes even though it’s
intimidating haha but I you know I’ve
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had much I’ve had much better reactions
to to move here then then it’s kind of
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funny that then i had with working as
hard as I do on the blog like I’ve had
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more pushback on that then I did
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besides about completely like uprooting
my life and moving it the five states
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away so it’s it’s it’s been interesting
it the whole experience well how was it
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received by everybody when you told them
hey I’m doing this blog and oh my god
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I’m getting like five hundred hits a day
oh my god I’m getting thousand hits a
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day
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oh my god it’s blowing up its it’s taken
me all these places and meet your
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meeting all these people because of i’m
following what I have a passion for
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right
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I you know it’s my my closest friends
have been really nice about it but you
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know i have come across especially for
having an interest that’s kind of
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outside the norm
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I go to a blogger meeting now even now
here and everybody all my lifestyle
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blogger I’m a food blogger and I’m like
I blog about korean television you know
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it’s you get the eye rolls you get the
oh my gosh really tell me about that
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people just think it’s crazy that you
spend so much time working on something
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that had doesn’t have any meaning i was
you know just because it doesn’t have
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any meaning to you doesn’t mean that
it’s not you know meaningful to me and
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yes I work a lot of you know I put a lot
of time until you know I i started out
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really small because i didn’t think that
I was going to keep going but I put a
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lot of time into the blog and people
don’t get that whole what you you work
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everyday on something that you don’t get
paid for like both
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yes but i love it and can’t shut up so
it’s a nice outlet
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that thatthat’s a good jumping . for how
did you get started with the blog i
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started watching the dramas and then I
wanted to talk about it and because
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there was no one in New Hampshire who is
watching them or wanted to talk about
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them and my friends for nice however
there’s only so much you can listen to
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somebody will talk about something that
has nothing to do with you before your
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eyes start blazing over and so I just
started to blog about it and it it
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slowly grew and I just remember being
being on my phone the phone my friend
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Jamie I called her cause she’s she’s
such a a support when i was doing this
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at such an encouragement like teaching
me about social media and teaching me
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about doing these crazy photoshop
encouragement things for me and I
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remember being on the phone with her the
first time that I ever got a hundred
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hits a day and now I’m like if I ever
got hundreds the day I would cry i would
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seriously somebody thing would be wrong
i would cry if it was because I only had
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hundreds but you know as I always watch
the number slowly take over like it’s 68
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it’s 470 chapel and then by the end of
the night were just screaming and she
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was so kind of like be so excited for me
as well that a hundred people wanted to
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read what happened just say I try and
post five times a week but being me it’s
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generally something you know generally
more i’m right now I realized today that
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today’s post musical monday was my 999
post so i think tomorrow i’ll be doing
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something fun for my thousand post well
congratulations on that
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thank you i’m super excited I don’t
blame you i mean III get excited
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whenever I see hot you know high numbers
behind numbers from me and I numbers for
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you or two different worlds
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it’s gotten me some great opportunities
i’ve done some guest blogging for for a
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site that imports the drama’s I’ve been
invited to I been actually like I’m now
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considered press and press badges house
I walk in and I’m I’m just trying to
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blend in with the crowd because I’m like
somebody’s gonna realizing that I do not
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belong here people but it’s just and I
I’m going out this this in august i’m
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going out to speak at a conference about
it and I’m just it’s a meat it’s it’s
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like you start small but it’s amazing
where your life leads if you just keep
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working at it really is
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well when you got started was there any
roblox that you ran into and how did you
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go about overcoming them mainly it’s me
oppa I’m I’m very competitive and I’m
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very you know passionate about what I do
but I’m also hard to read what you it’s
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just like writing reading what you write
and being like is this good enough
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is this entertaining oh my god nobody’s
gonna like this oh my god this is so
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dumb why you might keep doing this
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the major hurdle to that I’ve had to get
past is really myself and luckily you
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know I have some friends out there who
who are just like no you gotta do this
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you’ve got it this is setup you’ve
gotten up just just do it and they’ve
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gotten me you know they’ve got any
farther than I think I probably would
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have gotten myself because I have a
tendency to like I’m just it’s just not
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good enough it’s just not it’s nobody
wants to know what he wants to read this
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is terrible but it’s not you know I’m
funny I’m it’s entertaining and you have
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to because you know either confident in
yourself or have people around you who
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are competent in you to get you to go
forward so was there any parts of either
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moving or well let’s first start with
was there any roblox that you hit with
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moving with moving it went really
smoothly and once I decided that I was
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going to do it and I you know put the
money aside for it
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people would be like well aren’t you
nervous are you worried and I’m like no
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not really i just once I made that
decision
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asian I couldn’t wait to get here and I
the little things about you know
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oh my gosh am I gonna get my stuff down
there oh my gosh getting from one place
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to another have to learn the bus system
i’ve never used public transportation
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before those little things but all in
all I just I think of it as a big
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adventure and I try not to worry about
it too much but I mean they’re still
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also I’m on the outside I like to
pretend I’m very adventurous but I’m
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still me on the inside my little
introverted who likes to sit at home
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writing and and watching TV you know
getting out there and meeting new people
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because you know I i can’t spend all of
my time with just me and my cat you know
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I have having to find out find a new
group of people to to be friends with
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and to hang out with its that’s probably
the biggest thing that that I’m dealing
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with right now is just trying to be like
okay now that you have like three
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friends that’s not just it you need to
go out and get more it’s very easy
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uncomfortable in in a setting
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hmm and that’s what it was that I in New
Hampshire’s I was very comfortable and
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there is no reason for me to leave and
there was you know I could I could have
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seen myself staying there forever I had
I had family I had friends you know I
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had a job it would had a car people and
I could there was no real reason for me
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not to be there until I finally found
one that and it that finding one was
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just me it was just it wasn’t what it
wasn’t making me happy and if I just
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made myself be comfortable there for all
of my life that’s that’s a sad life
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that’s you know all in all that if you
go when you don’t accomplish anything
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because you’re too nervous you’re too
comfortable
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the nuns just as it was there any parts
that haven’t worked out for you whether
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it’s in the blog
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or it’s in moving i hate my upstairs
neighbor
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Oh perfect
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that’s for removing um you know I ended
up the end up in maybe not the nicest
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area but it got me here you know and my
apartment is lovely and I may possibly
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watch my mother my upstairs neighbor
from time to time but you know I have
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never had to deal with out before
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well we’ll see how it goes and that’s
that’s probably moving is that’s
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probably my biggest my biggest hurdle is
just going from country mouse where
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everything is quiet and everything’s you
know kind of you know everybody’s really
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polite to the city where you know I
haven’t come across anybody who’s been
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like really mean to me but it’s a whole
different life here you do you know
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everybody everybody is super busy
everybody doesn’t have time to stop and
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talk or the inclination if it and if
somebody wants to talk to you
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well then they are weird you know
eventually you’re going to ask me for a
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quarter aren’t you but i’m blogging it’s
mainly you know it’s mainly time you
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know time to do you know to devote
myself to where I want the blog to go
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you know what my dreams for it to become
and the time that I have to put into it
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you know people are like you must watch
a lot of TV and I have to say no i watch
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very little TV because i don’t have the
time hope and that’s something that’s
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really have to balance is writing about
kdrama and watch that and actually
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having the time to sit down and watch it
but now being here you know it was
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easier to do it at home I still coming
answer home it’s easier at home because
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i didn’t i didn’t have to go out I
didn’t now I live in the city now I you
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know there’s lots of things to
experience if i’m home on a weekend then
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something is wrong
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yeah
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Paris there’s so much out there to
experience
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why am I sitting here watching two day
so it’s a hard it’s balancing I think
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it’s something that I’m really trying to
work on did you have any dreams for the
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future weather for your blog or maybe to
take on a new adventure living near the
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city or moving again to another city or
what I love it here i love it here and
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as much as I just say like oh how they
end up in New Jersey you know what
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jersey city is pretty cool
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yeah-huh here you know you’ll wander
around and you just like we’re what
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happens where where am i this gorgeous
gorgeous area i didn’t know it could be
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so pretty and then you’ll walk in
another area and be like okay now I’m
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back and it’s just so you know so I I
enjoy being I could see being here it’s
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easy to get into the with the path it’s
easy to get into the city I so I mean I
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would like to possibly get to a nicer
area but that will come later helpful
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but as for the blog i want to keep
pushing forward I want to keep i wanna
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you know I hopefully want to you know
get some contributors to get more
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product you know maybe turn it into a
website get contributors to not just
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help take the load off because I don’t
really work that way i would just take
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on new projects but I have tons of
projects in my brains that are just
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waiting on the sidelines because I don’t
have time to get to them and that’s I
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mean I’d love to be able to do it full
time I think that’s my ultimate lovely
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lovely goal is if I could do it do it
full time but I think that’s always into
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the future
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well I mean everybody wants to do what
they love as a full-time job and maybe
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you’ll get paid for what they loved one
. be nice but you know there’s plenty of
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success stories out there are people
that that just start and they go through
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and over time they become masters at
what they do and the money comes with
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time right
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I just I think about that because I
still work for my the job that brought
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me here and you know I’m just like oh I
wish I could do something that you know
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I don’t think it’s too much to ask for
that to work at a job where you’re just
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super passionate about it you know his i
don’t i don’t need a ton of money I just
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you know I don’t i’d like to be excited
you know be like yeah I start the day
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off and you know and that’s so maybe if
I don’t get that my regular job even
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though crazy doesn’t the blog’s crazy
for kdrama even though crazy doesn’t pay
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me I’ve got my creative outlet there and
I can be no I’ve got my I’ve got my
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voice and you know I’ve got people who
listen to me and so I guess that it’s
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the best of both worlds
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maybe well do you have any last thoughts
to share with our audience you know if i
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were to say anything i would just say
keep your mind open you don’t know where
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your dreams are going to take you you
don’t even know if the what you dream
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now is going to be what you dream and
five years down the road but it doesn’t
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mean that by changing your goal you’re
giving up at all it just means that
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you’ve learned from one thing to the
next and you’ve just grown into
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something else and by working toward
that goal you get to to somewhere else
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I don’t think that I would be as good as
crazy and crazy if i didn’t have my
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writing backgrounds so you never know
you know you’re never giving up you’re
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just changing just continue to challenge
and one last time would like to plug
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your blog and or twitter facebook i have
all of those oppa of the blog is crazy
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for kdrama dot-com and let’s see i am
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crazy for kdrama on facebook and twitter
and instagram i’m currently a giant fan
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of Instagram love that crazy with the
KRC with a CI did not go with the
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alliteration
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well thank you very much for being on
the show Stephanie I really appreciate
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having you and I would love to have you
on again at some point to a catch up on
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your progress of turning your blog and
your passion into a monetary inlet for
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your outlet so creepy
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well thanks for having me is been a ton
of fun
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yes most definitely not have a great
night thank you to thank you for joining
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us for this episode of the dreamers
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