So I Said Pod With Dylan Sellers
So I Said Pod With Dylan Sellers
So I Said... A Letter to My Homegirls: The Birth of a Powerful Podcast | S2.Ep.5
The one where Dylan unveils the newest podcast produced by So I Said Media, Letter to my Homegirls, hosted by Sydnei and Morgan!
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So I said new pod alert. I got some guests. Alert, alert. So I said media is expanding. Yes, sir. In bigger. We're getting bigger out here. Yeah, I'll say so. So I said media will be presenting a new podcast with Sydnei and Morgan called
Morgan Adrine:a letter to my home girls.
Dylan Sellers:That was listen, that was
Morgan Adrine:often known.
Dylan Sellers:We did. So tell me about like, how this happened. Like, I know they like you know, so I said Media is helping put this together. But like, the idea was birthed before you came to me, right. So like, talk to me about like, where this came from?
Sydeni Sellers:Well, we originally started thinking about a way to be a voice to women, right? So it was going to be sort of like a retreat space, at first to where we hosted events, did a little Instagram marketing. But then Morgan said, we got to do something else. Yes, we've got some stuff today, we got some. We got a whole lot of great conversations. And we felt like the people needed to hear it.
Dylan Sellers:So was this one of those situations where y'all was on the phone and be like, Man, people need to hear what we're saying on the phone, kind of Exactly,
Morgan Adrine:exactly. Like our phone conversations. We'd be on the phone for like hours just talking about everything. And it'll just be stuff about like relationships and healing and just practicing like mindfulness, self esteem, everything that I feel like our society and more specifically women, our age, needs to hear.
Sydeni Sellers:I agree. And I think it was more solution oriented. So it wasn't just about like venting about the crap that's going on outside but coming up with like solutions and different mindsets to help other people. I think that that is probably what like, made us feel like we needed to
Morgan Adrine:let people hear because our culture is laws. So if we could give a little solution a little Hello, a little insight, little wisdom, because it's rough.
Dylan Sellers:So we've been recording for a little while now. Right? And so I've gotten to kind of find your style. And it's it's not something that I'm used to right your your energy between the two of you. It is big sister little sister, but also like, coming from different worlds, but understanding each other kind of thing. So you got to tell the people like how you met, right? Because they need to know like how this relationship happened.
Morgan Adrine:Yes, so this is big homie. And I'm mid homie. Right? We met years ago, not that long ago. Yeah,
Dylan Sellers:we worked together for how long? How come? I never met you? Yeah, seven years ago. Okay, so because I was
Sydeni Sellers:because you like to steal all my friends. They become your friends. And sometimes you just gotta keep your friends close.
Morgan Adrine:Yeah, I see seven years ago because we work together at the centers. And Sydnei was instantly like, Oh, me, like, I would just like get advice, talk about life experiences. Obviously, Sydnei knew she was with me as I was going through, like that relationship. So seeing was there through it all. So and I would just be like Sydnei, yo, like, give me some advice put me on game because it was it was rough. It was rough.
Sydeni Sellers:And I think for me, it was not just being able to give advice. But a lot of times, people they want you to tell them stuff to make them feel good, but they never apply the things that you say. Yeah, so it was It wasn't an exhausting relationship.
Morgan Adrine:Yeah, and that was one thing I always appreciated about you like you always kind of keep like, no, listen morg. I ain't gonna lie to you.
Sydeni Sellers:This was a little while. But come back from it. All right. tomorrow's a new day. We won't Harbor on this longer than this next minute. Okay, we're gonna let it go. But yeah, I definitely appreciate the friendship for sure.
Dylan Sellers:Man like this, that that's the kind of energy that I got to because normally when I'm doing this with y'all, I'm sitting, where Kat's sitting our producer trying to like you know, mix it. And I remember the first time that like we recorded together, right, which was a couple of months ago, we're all sitting in the room. And we're like, oh my god, like the vibe How are you doing this right now? Like I was intrigued and I'm not easily impressed. Because I'm kind of intellectually arrogant I aint gone lie to you, right? Like it's just a little bit like impressed often, right? But it helped me see Sydnei in a different light, right? Because like, she's my younger sister. Right? So like, she's big, homie. Yeah. Don't call me me. But like I saw her big homie energy. And I'm like, yo, somebody's been out here learning and live in
Sydeni Sellers:LA and a teacher.
Dylan Sellers:So what are some of the things that we can expect to like hear from you? Like, what are? What are some of the topics that you're going to be talking about, like, give us a little taste?
Morgan Adrine:Definitely, we'll be talking about obviously, we'll be talking about relationships. But we have a lot more to say, than just relationships, we want to talk about healing. Because I think a lot of times, if you know, all times, if you're not healed as an individual, how do you expect to have a successful relationship with somebody else? So we'll definitely be talking about healing, practicing mindfulness, setting boundaries, and what that looks like in relationships. And even with your soul, like boundaries, they don't they don't
Sydeni Sellers:they like them, but they don't like they don't like to
Morgan Adrine:hold hold
Dylan Sellers:boundaries, because people be like, be feeling like they're gonna die on the other side of the boundary, bro.
Morgan Adrine:Yeah. And then a big thing, we just really want to talk about things that I felt like our society kind of just overlooked, like everybody is such a culture of, like, do it for the gram, so to speak, and everybody is so you know, trying so hard to please others or to make themselves look like a certain image or portray themselves as a certain way. They were just here to keep it real like this. Like, that's why I say our, our society is lost, we have lost our individualism in our society.
Sydeni Sellers:I agree. I think also to like embracing the imperfection in ourselves. I think, like, society, the world likes you to be perfect. Got it all together. Everything's okay. But giving yourself Grace it's ghetto outside, okay, like life is happening, even though I'm able to encourage somebody else I could be literally melting in the inside. Right. And I think that that's one of the things that we want to convey to that. Though my experiences have gotten me to be able to have a different perspective. I'm still experiencing life. And I don't think that's talked about enough.
Dylan Sellers:All right, so tell us about and I'm saying us because like, I'm trying to, like y'all to like the So I Said, media crew like the family, right? Y'all have your own followings. I'm saying like, you guys are pretty popular on the gram, though you don't do it for the gram. The gram do it for you. I like that. So like, I it's, it's a world that I don't know very well. And you guys have presence there individually, right? And so like, tell me more about like, who you guys are individually. And it's weird, because like, Sydnei's my sisters, right? Oh, I know her. But like, Yes, but No, no. And I tried to do that. Like as, as a big brother, one of the things that like I've, I've come to understand is that I shouldn't make the mistake of trapping Sydnei where she's always been. Right? And so like, yes, she's my younger sister. But trapping her in that space is a mistake. It keeps me from knowing her for who she truly is. Yeah, it keeps us from being friends, right? Like me and Sydnei just talked about this recently, like, maybe a few months back, where she said something to me about like it was some family stuff going on. And she dropped some gems on me. I was like, What am I talking to? I think we friends now. Didn't like you before, but Right. Yeah, we're friends. Right? And so you know, just tell me a little bit about who you are individually. Like, what are you bringing to the people as an individual for this podcast?
Sydeni Sellers:I mean, I can go first, like you said Syd , SydneiJasmarie, are you on Instagram, okay, and all of my social media. But I think as far as like a podcast perspective, and my stance is mindset. So as of late, I did some like digging on, like, different definitions. And I really would consider myself like a mindset enthusiast. Think there's so much power in shifting your mindset. I mean, it's helped me and it's changed my life tremendously. Just like having a desire to do more, be more, wake up feeling better, and changing my outlook on my life. That I think that's probably the angle that I'm bringing with through the lens of with the podcast is just a shift in mindset shift in perspective, because change your mind change your life.
Morgan Adrine:Okay? So I'm Morgan on Instagram at msmo Marie, but for me, so I started a brand called be more and then I also have a blog called Lift to be more.com. So the whole concept of me starting be more I as a kid as a kid Kid, young adult teenager, I struggled with self esteem. And obviously, because I had certain issues that I was dealing with internally that correlated to a lot of my relationships, and overall just reflected how I presented myself to the world. So I wanted to create a platform to where I do believe that there's power and transparency, and there's power in spreading your story. So one thing that I wanted to make sure that I did is through my blog, and essentially, through this podcast, I wanted to make sure that I highlighted topics relating to self esteem, self confidence, maybe some of the, like, mental struggles that we may go through, like anxiety, depression, because all that stuff is real. And I mainly just wanted to be a voice for young girls and young women, because I didn't have that. And I feel like if I had that voice, while I'm not regretful for anything that I did, but if I had that voice, a lot of things would have been differently. So like how you my big homie, I essentially just want to be big homie for somebody else. And if I can empower someone through my own experiences and my own story, then I feel accomplished on this earth.
Sydeni Sellers:Love to hear it.
Dylan Sellers:Love it. I'm, I'm incredibly excited. I think that when we started so I said media, we didn't have an eye to starting to like produce podcasts immediately. It was really just like the so I said pod right. And we was gonna do some other media stuff. But I am grateful that you guys are allowing us to help you carry this baby, right? To do what it needs to do for the people who need to do it for Yeah. So is there anything else you want to share with the people about like, the pod? I know it's coming and coming soon. It's gonna be a hot summer.
Morgan Adrine:It is. It's gonna be a hot summer.
Sydeni Sellers:It is it is Malik Ali and they were
Morgan Adrine:given spicy, spicy,
Sydeni Sellers:spicy, just be prepared. I mean, tell a friend, to tell a friend and tell all your friends. Yeah, and one thing too is just because we are both women is not just a women forward podcast. I think that's also something I want to like put emphasis on. Because it's not about we know everything. Women, we do everything right. And men are just trash because
Morgan Adrine:And so I want to say we are not male bashing out that's not the thing. on this podcast. We do want to obviously we are our target audience is women. But we do want to share insight on the male perspective because I believe that's important if we're truly talking about relationships and healing and what all of that looks like. So stay tuned to a letter to my homegirls.
Dylan Sellers:So you'll get to see some of that because we're gonna record a few more episodes to like give people a taste and you're gonna lead it and I'm gonna be like a guest almost. Like, stay tuned. This is all we got for this one. This was been so I said, we just did and I'm out