S4 E.3 Q&A - Career Advice, Funniest Travel Stories, Dream Collabs, and more!
In this EpisodeWelcome back, everyone! This week we’re answering some of the questions that you sent in to our Instagrams – well, moreso just Mariah’s, because Adriana forgot to post on her story until 5 minutes before we recorded this! Oh, well!
But before we dive into your questions, how about a quick catch-up session? To start… WE OPENED A STORE AT THE JERSEY SHORE!!! After a hectic, but fun and amazing weekend, Adriana took the week to work from home, and to organize her personal life a little bit. She and Bill are getting their master bathroom redone, so she took some time to organize what really matters to her – her nighttime skincare routine. Just kidding, but that is something that is VERY important, so proper time was necessary to organize the sh*t out of her bathroom drawers – mission accomplished!
In other life update news, Mariah has a literal team at Little Words Project now! It consists of one employee and one intern, and while it’s been great, this new season has been a struggle for Mariah. She explains that she has been getting worried about not being a good enough leader for her team, and she struggles with not having the structure that a corporate leader might. Adriana’s advice to her was to lead by example; you can’t necessarily teach everyone everything, or anything for that matter, but what you can do is be a good employee, and others will follow. Adriana also talks about being the kind of leader who stands in the front and encourages people to follow you, not a leader who sits back and expects everyone else to do the work for them.
And now, we dive into the questions. First up, we talk about feeling lost in your career. This was a bit of a difficult question for us to answer, as we’ve been fortunate enough to always know what motivates us and lights us up enough for us to pursue it without hesitation — that’s how we got to where we are now with LWP. For some people, however, this doesn’t come as easily. The best advice we can offer is this: make a list of all the things that you know you love, and think about how you can apply that to where you are currently, and to where you want to go. If you’re a teacher who loves being creative, figure out where creativity can fit into your classroom. And if the pieces aren’t fitting together, then maybe it’s time to take a step back and consider where else you can follow what you love and apply it to a career.
We also talked a lot about Little Words Project, our dream collabs, and where we see the company going in the future. Funny enough, our dream collab launched yesterday! We collabed with Barbie – yes, THE Barbie, and we couldn’t be more excited! Adriana has been dreaming of this since she started the company! As for other collabs, we definitely aren’t done yet - for Mariah, she’d love to collab with Nike and Alicia Keys. We’re manifesting! In regards to the future of LWP, Adriana would love to raise some capital to begin true skyrocket growth. She’d love for her and Bill to be able to take more of a backseat to the business so that they can focus on other projects that they’d like to work on, or other businesses that they want to invest in and help grow. Adriana is truly an entrepreneur at heart, and wants nothing more than to be in the weeds of growing a business from the ground up!
The girls also briefly touched on their funniest travel experiences – one of which included Mariah losing all of her clothes right before they went to Disneyland… well, more like was robbed of all her clothes! Someone stole them, and all of her best ones, too. But don’t worry, she was able to grab some new items at Target that same day, because, well… she really had no choice.
We wrapped the episode up by talking about the best and hardest part about this season of Little Words Project. Best – we’d have to say the excitement of it all, and really watching this brand take off in the world and having it be something that people love. As for the most difficult part, it’s just keeping up with it all! Our team is growing, we’re expanding our retail stores by the literal minute, we have the coolest collabs ever launching, and it’s just all so much, and it can be hard to keep up with. But, we wouldn’t change it for anything, and we’re so excited to keep growing.
We hope you enjoyed this episode! Keep writing in questions, and we’ll catch you next time!
Important Times0:38 - We’re back!
3:26 - Adriana’s struggle-filled (but great) week
6:56 - Classic life update
12:20 - Mariah’s new team
16:49 - Feeling lost in your career
22:46 - Dream LWP collab
25:40 - Funniest travel stories
32:01 - Where do you see LWP in 5 years
37:04 - Hardest part about LWP’s growth
47:48 - Last two questions
52:41- That’s it for now!
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