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Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms The same, but different. But we're starting to prepare more, because before, I guess the earlier episodes, it was people that we knew. So we didn't necessarily have to prepare. But now we want to talk to people, literally totally new people.

So I think in September, we're actually going to be talking to a fox newscaster. And we obviously have to prepare for that. So just as of right now, nothing, but soon to be, we're going to be a little bit more professional. Aja Dang: I do. I listen to it as I edit. I listen to it before I export and then I listen to it in the car, when it's live and then that's it.

Jon Pfeiffer: Do you have a routine about where you sit versus where Laura's sits? Do you always sit in the same spot? Aja Dang: It has been. We tend to be on the same side.

When we have a guest, we can look at them. But yeah, I think I tend to sit on the left of her actually thinking about it. Aja Dang: When people ask me what I do, I just say I work in social media, and if they want to dive into that more, then I'll explain to them what I do.

Aja Dang: No. My mom watches my YouTube videos. And she's like, has a Twitter and I think an Instagram and definitely a Facebook. It's really weird, but my dad has no clue. All he knows is that sometimes he sees my pictures or sometimes his co-workers' daughters follow me, but I don't think he truly understands what's happening. Aja Dang: I dabbled in it.

I think closer to maybe seven years ago, but it didn't start to become my job. Yeah, until recently. Jon Pfeiffer: But it wasn't always as smooth sailing as somebody from the outside might see. Jon Pfeiffer: I heard you actually say this in an interview, that when you first started social, there was a lot of anxiety involved, just paying your bills.

Aja Dang: Yeah. I mean, I just started making money off of social media. So I came from the broadcast television world, and I was kind of against social media.

I thought it was a phase. And I realized it wasn't. I realized that on YouTube, I would have more freedom than if I was working with a network television, and that was kind of my draw to it, to start doing more of it.

But yeah, I barely made money for years. Jon Pfeiffer: In to visuals, visualization--I can't even pronounce the word. Aja Dang: Yeah, I used to watch that all the time.

I should actually watch it again. I think, I just, I would fall asleep to it because I wanted to visualize just not living paycheck to paycheck, or just kind of figuring out what my path was. I think that was moreso what the magic was for me, was trying to figure out what I was supposed to do in life, because I was really lost for a really long time.

Jon Pfeiffer: Okay. I told you before we started that I kind of do a deep dive into each guest's social media. There [were] three things that jumped out at me. Aja Dang: Well, it doesn't necessarily have a name, because every launch goes to a different organization that I'm passionate about. So my first launch was called Support Your Girls. And proceeds of that went to Planned Parenthood.

When I had no money and no health insurance, that's who I would go to, just for my yearly checkup. So I think that they're being unfairly demonized. And women--it's not just women, I found women, men, children all in the office, when I was there and taking away those access to health care to low income families is just I don't understand the purpose of that.

So that's why Planned Parenthood. Jon Pfeiffer: And you have a website where one of the taglines is, become an avid fan of yourself. Jon Pfeiffer: I know. Jon Pfeiffer: Which leads me into my third area, that I found out about is you're kind of funny, because you said, "If you bite Beyonce, do you get her powers? You can tell I'm quite obsessed with her. I have had a couple of videos done.

Aja Dang: I'll let you know, if I'm ever that close to her. I think I'm getting there slowly. Aja Dang: I think what I might do, is have to go in for a cheat kiss and then see what happens there. Jon Pfeiffer: And then there were a couple of other funny tweets: "Kids these days will never know the struggle of yelling across the house to your sibling, to let them know their favorite show is back from a commercial break. Aja Dang: The struggle, man, the struggle's real. They don't know how blessed they are with the streaming.

Jon Pfeiffer: Okay, let's shift to your background, because to understand the social, you have to understand where you're from. So you're from Hawaii? Aja Dang: Dude? I honestly think it was because of Samantha Jones from Sex in the City.

Even though she was a PR person, I thought that they were the same. So there was really no rhyme or reason for me picking marketing. However, just like the last two years was when I started doing my public speaking courses and all that stuff. And then I realized that's when I wanted to kind of be on television. So marketing wasn't really what ended up happening, but it ended up guiding me to a direction. Jon Pfeiffer: And I had heard you say that marketing turned out to be not your favorite classes.

Aja Dang: Yeah, no. My favorite classes were definitely the more presentation-heavy classes. So like public speaking, or I guess actually marketing. Just anything with presentation and group presentation. Actually, well, I used to be really shy when I was younger. And then I just I don't know, it's just something happened. Aja Dang: Yeah, something happened, and I just really liked it. I mean, still to this day, I get nervous when I'm on camera or when I have to interview someone, but it's just Jon Pfeiffer: I've also heard it said that if you're not a little bit nervous, you don't have that right edge.

Jon Pfeiffer: So then, some point in your career in college, you started doing some interviews of indie bands. It was, I think, maybe my last semester of college, and it was called "Yeah Live" and I interviewed indie bands in Berkeley. Not the bands. The bands are really dope, but my producer, I feel maybe he was homeless.

I don't know how he got the job, but there was this-. I think I found them on like Craigslist, probably not the safest route to go. But yeah, it gave me a lot of experience. And it gave me the idea of my interviewing style and probably warning signs to avoid with bad producers. Aja Dang: Yeah, I find that when you find kind of commonalities, and you talk about those, then people that you want to interview tend to be more open about things that you have questions about.

Aja Dang: Oh My God! I edited it myself! Yeah, so I had this idea in grad school because everyone knew they wanted to work in news journals. And I was like, "That's not really my thing.

But sports is cool. It didn't have a name, but I would essentially interview athletes and they would teach me how to play their sport. Aja Dang: And I thought for some reason, Maxim magazine would be the greatest person--organization to do it, but I didn't know anyone there.

So at the time I don't actually know if they still have the competition, but they had a competition called Hometown Hotties, where your local girl can apply and be in the magazine. I was like, "Okay, so I'm going to apply. I'm going to make it to the top I'm going to tell people about my idea. And I'm going to win and they're going to give me my idea. Aja Dang: I won in my way. It was funny because the week the finalists went to Vegas was actually when I had to do my finals week. So I was just, outside of shooting and stuff for Maxim, I was just in my hotel room studying and stuff, and they thought that made me kind of boring.

But I was like, "Listen dear. I don't know what to tell you. Aja Dang: Yeah, and they ended up giving me my show. And the YouTube video you saw was just part of the application process. Aja Dang: My first interview was with Shaq, which was really cool. He was not about the interview. He wanted to get out of there immediately, but he taught me how to play basketball. Danica Patrick was really cool, Floyd Mayweather Aja Dang: Yeah it was, I couldn't walk.

I almost peed in my pants. I was like, "My god, I'm going to die. Jon Pfeiffer: I watched, actually, they had an IndyCar race on yesterday, where they showed some celebrity in the car with Mario. And he couldn't talk. It was scary.

But it was fun. But yeah, it was just any type of athlete across all various sports. It was really cool. Aja Dang: It lasted a year, and then Maximum got bought out and they were like, "Bye!

Aja Dang: I did not like it. I did not like it, because with Maxim, we had all this freedom. It was a very small group of three people, me, cameraman and two producers, and we just vibed with each other. All of our ideas, we did together. And we just did anything. We did literally anything we wanted to. And when I went to Fox Sports-. Aja Dang: Not so much. There were moments where I was actually falling asleep at work, because no one would let me do what I wanted.

I was like, they wouldn't let me write anything. Any script I wrote, it was like too controversial, even though it was online, and that's what they hired me for. Aja Dang: Like to be a little bit more edgy. That's when I was like, "Okay, network is not where I want to be.

So what's next? Jon Pfeiffer: But then your first video that's still up, is September of Did you take down videos? Jon Pfeiffer: That's a little bit like as getting your boyfriend to watch the Hallmark Channel. Aja Dang: That came about because I was in my late 20s and didn't want to be the sexy girl anymore. I kind of grew out of that phase. And I wanted to do more. Obviously, you can't live your life being the sexy girl your whole life. It was time to take a change. Aja Dang: I pivoted to beauty.

Yeah, my first pivot outside of kind of the parody videos was a makeup tutorial. A natural, easy makeup tutorial. Aja Dang: I'm not even wearing any makeup talking to you right now.

So that was also the other issue, was I pivoted to more female centric content, but that content wasn't me. So then there was another pivot to doing content that was me. And that's where we are now. Yeah, I don't have a category, and I think that was what I was struggling with when I pivoted, was everyone was like, "You need a category. So what else can I do? That was a real struggle. I ended up just copying a whole bunch of YouTubers who were more popular than me and it just wasn't authentic.

So honestly, my channel is just authentically just me. Aja Dang: And then what I'm feeling that day. There's not really too much thought that goes into it.. Aja Dang: I've been to private school my whole life, even from kindergarten and never knew any better. So I had to take out a whole bunch of loans for undergrad and grad school and didn't understand it. And that day I had to pay it. Aja Dang: You think? If only my parents had money to bribe people, then maybe it would have been a different story.

Aja Dang: I don't--I mean, I don't know anything about her, from what I've read--which you can't really believe everything you read online--she didn't want to be there. To me, maybe there's a little spoiled-ness situation there, but to be so callous about not wanting to go to one of the best schools in the country and like kind of taking that for granted, while there are hundreds of thousands of kids who would love to be in her position, is, I think, really unfortunate.

I just wouldn't want my kid watching that. Aja Dang: Yeah, right? Yeah, it was Vlogmas. So you vlog every day what you do, and what I did that day was I had to dog sit to make money and still couldn't pay my loan. So I vlogged about that and told everyone how much I owed in student loans, and then it kind of just catapulted.

Aja Dang: I mean, some where very supportive in the fact that, thank you, no one online is talking about this. I thought I was alone. Thank you for sharing your story. And then there were the comments of, you're an idiot. This is your fault. Why didn't you go to trade school?

Why didn't you go into the military? You're dumb bitch. So it was kind of hard between those things, because especially when it comes to money, no one wants to be made to feel dumb about their money. But those comments of encouragement kind of convinced me to do more. Aja Dang: I know, right? You should have been a plumber. I'm like, "Okay, that's not for everyone dude.

Aja Dang: I post my real budget every month. Like my numbers, what I make, what I paid off, what I spent my money on every single month. Aja Dang: The moment I posted that original video, I immediately got a sense of confidence when it came to money, because just talking about it gives you kind of this control over it, than it would if you had ignored it. And then also being public about it makes me more responsible with what I do with my money. And obviously, the goal throughout this whole journey on YouTube is to pay off my debt.

So just also being able to see people comment, like, I paid off my credit card because of you, because of your videos. It's like, okay, cool. So let's all finish this journey together. Jon Pfeiffer: How much has your spending changed just because you know people are going to know what you spent it on? It's like the the athletic trainer that won't eat donuts Aja Dang: Right, right, right. No, I mean, my lifestyle hasn't changed that much. It's just because I just never really spend too much money on anything besides food, which is still a struggle.

But now it's just, being more conscious of how much money I put towards my debt and getting out of debt. And what I'm going to do with my money in the future. So it's just being more cognizant on how much I make and how much to throw to become debt free.

Jon Pfeiffer: Now, where do you draw the privacy balance line? Where on the one hand, you're willing to talk about the topic that no one will talk about, which is money.

Aja Dang: I was really open about my relationships back in the day, and then people started asking questions that they didn't really have the right to ask. So while I'm very open about money, talking I mean, sometimes my boyfriends are in my videos, but we definitely try to draw a line to where it doesn't get too personal. Because at the end of the day, people don't have the right to ask certain questions about personal experiences.

Jon Pfeiffer: Well see, I was going to throw that question back to you. Then whatever question you ask, I ask, "Tell me about yourself?

Aja Dang: I mean, but how long do you have when you ask that question? I think probably it's just like, "What are you passionate about? Aja Dang: Honestly, I live life just going with the flow, but maybe, how do we as a country work together to make it better? To make it work for the majority of people.

Aja Dang: Anything. So wine, we do red, and my dad is a whiskey drinker. So we drink whiskey too. Aja Dang: How about a super non-biased news source. I don't know how anyone would get any money from that. But that would be awesome. Jon Pfeiffer: And it makes you realize that these Vogue questions, they had them in advance for a long time. Aja Dang: Reality television.

Oh My God. The Bachelor, I can't stand it but I can't stop watching. It's so stupid. Jon Pfeiffer: Someone was talking about that The Bachelor is Aja Dang: Mm-hmm affirmative. Hey, at least they're open about it.

They're open and honest. Aja Dang: That ain't mine. My name is Tracy Dang. Ella : " just dance is pretty dang and I'm dang at it" Charlie: "dang". A word used by kids and adults years ago that seems to have fallen out of use but still used occasionally. A word that a kid used when they hit their fingers accidentally with a hammer or was hurt suddenly in an unexpected way. They used this word in place of curse words like damn , damnit, or any other cuss word that comes to mind.

Many times you'd get a whipping anyway for saying a word close to a curse word. This was done because years ago adults did not want their kids to cuss. It did not matter if you came from a religious family or not. Sometimes the non-religious would whip you harder than a religious person would. Kid 1.