Unapologetically #Awesome Tour: Hello, San Diego!

#NowPlaying: Escapade - Janet Jackson

*waves* hello hello hellooooooooooo interwebz.

Currently kickin it at Starbucks - yay free wifi!

Dudes, and my friend got a free $15 starbucks card from them the other day with their 40th anniversary or somethin promo. Was pretty rad. I thiiiiinkkkkkkk it might still be going on today. Don't quote me - check out Mashable for the deets.

MMMMM caramel macchiatooooooooo with an extra shot of yummy in my tummy. 

WHY ARE YOU SO AWESOME?!?!?!!?

K. Ready for a rundown? First off, god bless being so effin nomadic. Dude, the am/pm that is next to the place that I kicked it last night, I have stopped at no less than 10 times. Between my work in cellular sales prior, and having training sessions down here - ANNNDDDD all the stuff with the Fiesta Movement, I was like woah! Totally checked in here before! Loves it.

I'm hanging with Polly Dixon from @dustycpollyd - and dudes, she's got a really rad story. Don't let her partying fool you, this chick is VERY LITERALLY one of the smartest people I have ever met. She's a lawyer, and just went through a really really really gnarly life experience that I am encouraging her to post on the site about. She's a fucking genius, just sort of processing a total life overhaul. Can COMPLETELY relate ... like hardcore. We had some serious bonding over some of these ...

Tampons were not included.

Who owns a shower cap? Like seriously??? WHO??!!

Either way, went out and got crazy with the cheeze whiz!

Met up with @davedemuth

and @blakeswan

See, the pink sunglasses is part of Polly's branding. Pretty smart what she's trying to do with it all. I'll let her tell you guys about it - as I only report on my things. Dude, her glasses are absurd. There's just NO other word for it. You bust out with those at the bar, and you are instantly the coolest person on the planet. Seriously. These pictures do not do the glasses justice.

Look ma, I'm having fun!

We pretty much closed the place down at that point. We got there kinda late, so that was going to happen anyway. Then we mosied on over to this place ...

OMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGG!!!!!! I totally had a burrito baby. It was buffalo chicken, and seriously made my life. LOOK AT THIS THING!!!!!

That was very literally the best burrito I have ever had - EVERRRR!!! Like ever ever ever ever ever ever ever. I don't know what was going on in my mouth, but I wanted more, and more and more. It was obscene, they should prolly get a restraining order - I'm not kidding you. NUTS!

HAHA! It was funny though, I was standing waiting for my food, and this dude who was pretty cute but definitely trashed was like "how you doin!" I was all, totes mcgotes awesome sauce duderino! He immediately pulls put with, "what's your facebook?" And me being me, and being handed an iphone - I get super excited and enter in my Facebook URL, click add - and even whip out my own droid to click confirm all while standing there. I was more excited about talking tech than I was about this dude getting in my pants, but it was pretty fucking funny - and totally smooth on his part.

 

Dude, his names Linden Broccoli. I kid you not - hahahahahaa! Best. Name. Ever.

He kept calling me Katy Perry though, it got a bit old. "When's your next album out Katy? Have you kissed a girl today?" UGGHHHHHH!!! I took it as a compliment, but the attention it got from the rest of the restaurant was a bit awkward. I was like do you not see the boobies? Big dif! She's known for her knockers - I'm known for the badunkadunk!

Thennnnnn ... we all called it a night. Unfortunately. Burrito baby had, alcohol consumed. Wasn't very saucy, more like a mild spread.

Grabbed my sleeping mask, WHICH btw for you fellow nomads out there, you should NEVER leave home without cause you never know when you're facing east, and might wake up in a SUPPPPERRRR bright room. Seriously!! Well, technically if you really tried you could use an app to assist in finding the north star, and then based upon that you could figure out pretty quickly which way is east - but who are we kidding. Just grab a damn sleeping mask.

Put on my "chill time" playlist on my ipod - and I was OUUUUTTTTTTT like a light.

Good night had by all. For reals.

Woke up this morning though, and had an idea for a social experiment ...

I bought this University at Buffalo School of Medicine hoodie at Goodwill a while back for $4. I want to see if by wearing this, smarter duderinos are actually attracted to it. Like hey, you went to med school? How rad!

I totally wanna jump your bones now.

I have no idea if it's going to work, or actually detract dudes today - but I'm definitely going to test it out, and report back my findings.

UGH! Note to self 2 am burrito babies are not bueno 12 hours later. Tummy not feeling so yummy.

#fail

Alrite, about to close up shop at this Starbucks, and head over to Pacific Beachhhhhh!!!! BEACH BEACH BEACH BEACH BEACCHHHHHHH!!!! Needs to happen ... like, now! If you guys are in the San Dizzle totally come hang out! Follow my checkins on Foursquare - Foursquare.com/jenfriel ... just do me a favor though, please tweet me prior to arrival. @JenFriel I get a lil spooked when people randomly show up behind me with a whats up! Takes me a minute to connect the avatar to the irl human being. WAHOO!!!

Have a great day everyone!!!

xoxo #nerdsunite

Unapologetically Awesome Tour heads to San Diego!

In the land of Jen desires a Kokomo checkin, I need a vacation. Desperately. I am being proactive in this scenario, and decided to head to San Diego for the weekend. The best part is that I came up with a frugally responsible plan strictly utilizing public transportation. 

First, I'm popping over to the Greyhound station here in Hollywood - and hopping on a bus.

Cost: $16.72 (money received via the psychological fugue fund aka friend of the site)

Bus station to Gaslamp district (where I want to go): $2.25

Upon arrival in the Gaslamp district, I negotiated a deal with a hostel to stay in one of their rooms in exchange for some nerdy loving.

Cost: $0

Food: I got a bunch of Zone bars the other day from the gym doing some sort of promo thing. I'm pretty certain I can survive off of a box of 10 for a weekend. I don't think I'll need to eat more than 3 over the course of 3 days. Might be close, but doubtful. Either way, never underestimate the kindness of Facebook friends you haven't friended yet for web favors in return. Fucking FABULOUS!

And there I beeeeeeee in the San Dizzle izzle my nizzle! I'm literally getting out of town for the weekend for under $50 round trip. How AWESOME is that?

If you're in the area and wanna kick it totally hit me up on twitter: @JenFriel and follow my checkins on FourSquare: foursquare.com/jenfriel

Can't wait to meet some of you! Except that dude over there. Yes, yes you. You smell.

#geterdone

#OwnIt: I am Unapologetically Awesome, and I like ...

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @SteveMcKeedotTv

Every day we do little things that we're just too scared to admit to anyone in public. I don’t mean like an ass rash. I mean stupid stuff that we do and stop startled if someone sees us. As nerds we do this even more. We can’t help it. We are genetically predispositioned with more vivid imaginations and are fascinated by far more things than the norm but we’re stupid for worrying about it. If we just owned it, everyone around us would just go along with it…I hope.

Maryanne Williamson wrote, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you…As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

That’s quote ties right into @JenFriel‘s unapologetically awesome mantra. I caught the bug from her.  I ‘m unapologetically awesome. So here’s what I’m proposing. Today’s challenge is to admit one thing you do that’s embarrassed to you but in all reality other people probably wouldn’t care if you just owned it.

I’ll start with a few to get people warmed up. I love bad pop music. In the safety of my own car I blast chick music and boy bands when they come on the radio. I’m deathly afraid of karaoke, like petrified. I talk to myself in the mirror regularly, and I watch waaaay to many romantic comedies. 

My name is @SteveMcKeeDotTV and I own it!!!!

Unapologetically Awesome: #TahoeTechTalk

Alrite el nerderinos, wow - what a fucking day. No ... for reals, I'm still digesting all of the information from Tahoe Tech Talk ... like ... wow. I'm pretty speechless. If they have this conference next year you absolutely absolutely ABSOLUTELY have to attend. (Notes will be posted tomorrow.)

One of the speakers there today was a reporter by the name of @Alexia, from TechCrunch. During her schpeil, she was saying pretty point blank - if you have a story tell me. And ohhhmmmyyygoooddddd I have a good one. Like you all know, they're freaking basing a movie off of it! But in the very "here and now" type shit, I stood up in front of the entire conference (as there was a Q&A portion) and I said "3 months ago, I was sleeping in my car. Today I arrived on a private plane and they're turning my site into a major motion picture. Is this something TechCrunch would be interested in covering?" It definitely got EVERYONES attention, and everywhere I looked across the room, eyes were on TNTML. It was pretty rad, I'm not going to lie ... but here I was, this nerdy chick, standing in front of people I RESPECT, through and through - and I got eaten alive. The problem is (thanks to this experience, I have learned ...) I've never had to pitch. I had investors approaching me the 3rd week of the site, just based on the name and general premise, not even friggen execution ... people wanted in. The film came to me, I didn't go to it. I just said, wow - this is actually really good ... I realized it when I was standing up there that I set everything up so literally everyone would come to me. It was such at trip! It also exposed an area that I do need to work on, that I should sit down with someone to work on a pitch. But bottom line, this is it:

They are very matter of fact making a movie out of this site. It's super rad, and I can't wait. I'm a hustler, and I know its going to get done.

SO! That leaves me owning the brand, and having my life rights associated with the film in this super super super bitchin position that I don't need investors, sponsors, or even traditional advertisers of any kind. There are 5 projects that are literally all happening right now with this site and more specifically myself as a lifecaster. The super rad thing is, is that we are the non-web approach. I don't want advertisers on this site, and I don't want sponsors. Not in the traditional sense - I was able to use this platform to figure out who the hell I was. I was so unhappy after this breakup I had, that I searched tirelessly for happiness, and I found it in TNTML and our celebration of Unapologetic Awesomeness.

I want to give that back to everyone that is a community member of this site. Hey, do you want to write an entire post with all the words that rhyme with Fuck? Go for it! Does it make you happy? Awesome! This site has become less of a business venture for me, and more of just a social experiment. It doesn't need to be a business in the traditional sense. With the money I am going to make from this film, I can even leverage that into more - but again, everything is independent. This site will always be my baby. Just the way the people were talking today, it just didn't interest me. I'm more interested in exposing human nature, and human interest in its rawest, most unedited form. I really am batshit crazy. But I know it works, I have personally done it. Dude, if LiveVideo hadn't gotten all weird and janky, I would have done this under their brand. I don't really care, I am more interested in just getting it the fuck done.

Dave McClure said, so you're the brand? I was like yes - but there is a staff of 34 that can sustain it independently from myself as well. I kid you not, and I think it was only because of the enormous amount of respect that I had for the people on the panel, that I literally sweat through my deodorant. Yeahhhhhhh ... It was pretty bad. My bottom line though at the same time was just seeing an opportunity and taking it. I went up to Alexia after the conference and shook her hand, and said thank you for speaking with me.

I said, this is happening to be honest with you, whether or not you choose to report on it. You asked for a scoop, there you go!

The problem is, is that no one (to the best of my knowledge) has done this type of shit in real time. From inception, I have documented EVERY PIECEEEEE of it!!! Every triumph, every fail, every anything - I analyize the lesson, and then move on. I have NO idea if any of this is going to be successful, but I know that if Wired is interested, this big UK show that I am filming for tomorrow ... and AOL TWO FRIGGEN TIMES, in addition to heads of studios, and heads of networks ... I am doing something right. It's just not based in the same way that the minds there today were interested in.

I tell stories across social media. I dictate my life, and invite others to join in as well. We are story telling the human experience in real time. Social media may now only be viewed as a marketing tool, but I use it to engage with thousands of people in real time my thoughts, movements, actions ... its a total trip.

Dude, I was sitting there on the private plane back to LA going, what could I have done differently? FOR REAL. I WAS ON A PRIVATE PLANE BACK TO LA DOUBTING MYSELF. It was like WOOAHHH!!! Hold the mother effin phone!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't doubt the projects I am involved in, or the film ... but I mean, that guy Dave literally tore me a new one. And I even said very matter of fact, its good - I can give it out on TNTML, I can take it.

I can say this, the founder of QUIRKY @BenKaufman even spoke up and said he remembered meeting me at CES!!! CES!!! Do you KNOW how many people go to CES?!?!?! This site was less than 60 days old, and I was live broadcasting from my cell phone, and HE REMEMBERED ME! I know we're doing something right. I will go to my grave pursuing this - there is just too much here. But today was def a bit of a shocker to feel this within the tech community. Again though, it's incredibly matter of fact that they'll be talking about it anyway ... but I learned a very valuable lesson today, I am too close to this site to explain it to other people.

Everything is attitude nerds. I know you all hear about the wonderful things in life, but its because I choose to see them. Totally got ripped a new one today, but I took it. I stood strong, but more importantly I learned. People don't have to get what we do. I get it, and I see where this is going ... I'll work on how to explain it better - but those that "get it" have always just "gotten it." Call me crazy, but I'm only going to work on the packaging and explanation, just because you don't get it, doesn't mean I'd change a DAMN thing!

#nerdsunite

HERE ARE SOME OF THE STORIES!! #NerdsUnite

PS. I def did something right, one of the speakers I respected the most ... even tweeted THIS (but didn't @reply as to not be too "fangirlish")

He's now following me ...

GO BIG OR GO HOME!!!! TAKE RISKS! EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T GET WHAT YOU WANTED, YOU AT LEAST GOT EXPERIENCE & A FEW MORE HEADS TURNED!!

W00T! W00T!

Unapologetically Awesome Tour heads to #TEXAS!!!

... afterall, everything is bigger in Texas. #Rawr!!!!

WOOAHH!!!! Just found out, I'm going to be driving an Audi S5 back from Texas to Cali this week in celebration of unapologetic awesomeness!!!!!

WOAHH!!! Crazy cool!!! They told me I can plot out destinations etc, sooooooo if you want to hang out IRL shoot me a tweet, or Facebook my butt and let's get it on!!!!!