my origin story

My last few teen years were quite unconventional. When I was 15 my dad's family construction business came to an end and he was searching for a new career. My Dad had joined the Citadel after high school, and although afraid of heights, he fell in love with flying helicopters. When searching for a new career he remembered how much he loved flying and started applying to airlines. He very quickly got a job with a smaller airline under United. Although exciting news, it meant we were leaving the only home I had ever known. The original plan was to move to Houston. Until my mom approached me with the question " How would you feel about transferring to online School, moving into a fifth wheel, and travel the states?" Not thinking about how much my life would actually change, I immediately said yes, which my little brother holds a grudge against me for. Why wouldn't you want to leave school and travel everywhere?? I ended my sophomore year in public school and began online the following year. Our house wasn't sold until late November 2018, so I definitely had some FOMO (fear of missing out) seeing all my friends at school while I was stuck at home or work. After the house sold it took a while before we actually had everything ready to head out. In February we set out for our first location Kemah, Texas with my parents and brother in the truck and me following behind in the jeep. I really had no idea what to expect when it came to staying in RV parks, and I'll tell Ya its nothing but retired couples. In my 9 months on the road, I met one person close to my age, he was a part of another travel family. We traveled up the west coast and back down through the middle of the country from February through August. If you look at a map of where all we went it's in the shape of a chicken leg. When we got back to Texas we stayed at my Grannies in central Texas because she had enough land for us to park our trailer. By this time, I was 17 and already decided I was tired of not having friends, so if my family took off again, I wouldn't go with them seeing as I was going to be 18 soon anyway. I decided since I was staying, I would go ahead and get a job. I had interviews for a few places but ultimately decided to work at Chick-Fil-A. And this is where my "influencer" story begins. Most people know my deep-fried hands story as being my first viral video. However, it was actually a video about the face shields that they had given us at work for Covid. Soon after that video blew up, I deep fried my hands... Now it's not what it actually sounds like, I did burn my hands with a fryer, but I didn't purposely dip my hands in a fryer. I was working fries that day, and we were in the middle of a rush so all I was focused on was popping out fry box after fry box. one of our fryers needed to run a filter so I began doing it but was pretty occupied with getting fries out that I had forgotten I stated a filter. That particular fry machine was slightly defaulty. Its filter pans sensor at the bottom didn't always work so it would often ding at you till you kick it or take it out and put it back in. The filter started dinging at me and started to really annoy me, so I squatted down pulled the filter out and pushed it back in forgetting there is fresh hot oil in the pan, and it all came out and right onto my hands. My gloves immediately started melting off, so I stood up, flicked the gloves off, under my breath said "fuck", and calmly walked over to a team member and asked them to take fries because I just burnt myself. After posting a story time to TikTok my account really started to take off, and I found that I really loved telling stories, creating videos, and going live during my breaks. I get asked a lot where I see myself in 10 years, and to be truthfully honest when it come to my career, I have no idea. The internet is constantly changing, and with this being the career path that I have chosen who's to say what the next big thing is or if I'm even going to want to share my life with the world as much as I do now. I am so extremely thankful for the opportunities this path has given me and I can't wait to continue to grow and see what's next!

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3 years in: I'm 21 now and the last 2 years have been... incredible. I went to my first festival, Lollapalooza, in 2021 and absolutely fell in love. I have now been to a total of 20 festivals and even get to go to the majority free. After my first few festivals in 2022 I found a company called Collective Festival MGMT and joined their team. They are a promotion company for festivals and EDM events. Through them I have had the most amazing experiences and have met the most incredible people. I very often get asked how I attend so many festivals, and that's all with the help of CFM and the fabulous Arby the RV. In August of 2022 I decided I wanted to live in an Rv again but this time on my terms. So, I flew down to Florida where my parents were staying and within a day I found my new home, Arby the Beef Chariot. She attended her first festival in September at Imagine then into storage till I was done procrastinating (4 months) and began remodeling. Ash and I finally moved in in March and began our little adventure together.   

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