GITN2IT Podcast

On this episode, we go for round 2 with one of most stylish Melbourne-based gatekeepers Hayley aka Flossy (check our part 1 HERE)

Together we cover Pilates scams, Adobe hacks, pro-gatekeeping, the perks of being mysterious, and the little things that inspire us along the way.

0:00 intro 🎥👏👯🎩

0:50 she’s back! it’s FLOSSY! 🎬🎤🤸‍♀️

2:00 Joseph Pilates the house down 🦶

3:30 mlm pilates scams 🪤🎲

5:00 I’m calling my lawyer!! addendums, contracts 📞⚖️💸

8:50 piracy is back!!! hackintosh, adobe subscription 👩🏽‍🔧🛠

12:30 the pantone drama 🎨

15:00 gatekeep gatekeep gatekeep! & go offline 🤫

25:00 mystery is the coolest 🕵️‍♀️🥸🥷

28:30 Romy Mars is inspo! 🎞 🎀

31:00 f*ck u technology 🤭🤭🤭

36:00 I’m hungry for dopamine 😛, and I’m addicted to tiktok 🥲

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On this episode, we find ourselves back on the island of enchantment, Puerto Rico, for Bad Bunny’s highly anticipated and controversial residency. And since we looove the drama, we took a risk, bought last minute red eye flights with no concert tickets, no hotel, just a pocket full of sunshine and a dream.

Season 3 let’s gitn2it amores…

2:00 youz a witch 🧙🏿‍♀️

4:20 vmas were weird 🎺💤again

7:00 perfectionism comes from fear 😨

8:00 wear a top hat 🎩 like rauw alejandro 👑

10:00 BAD FKN BUNNY residency experience 🌴🪑🪑🔊🪘🪘

14:45 the future is a house party 🏠

18:40 post concert blues in the us vs the world 😪

24:00 the summer i turned pretty 💕

29:30 spooky szn = kiki with the ancestors

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On this season finale episode of GITN2IT - We get very raw about how the deliberate kidnapping and disappearance of immigrants all across the United States is impacting us and our community. We are children of immigrants. We are also creatives with opinions, and from day 1 we vowed to use this platform to turn the volume UP for voices that need to be heard. We agreed that whatever happened in our world, we wouldn’t choose silence, we wouldn’t play the game of limiting how our stories land to make ourselves more digestible and easy to hear, it’s stand ten toes down with the truth or nothing. And this one might be a hard one to hear.

On June 6th 2025 we were enjoying an ordinary summer day in East LA, getting ready for a photoshoot by doing some thrift shopping with some friends. Traffic is a part of everyday life in LA, you just kinda know when and where to avoid driving during after school hours- but something was different today. The streets were lined with patrol cars, rows and rows of them headed to DTLA. I even thought to myself, did someone start a fire again? and thats when my friend got a text- “ ICE just hit Santee Alley get the f out of there come home.”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided the DTLA garment district, detaining undocumented day laborers from their jobs and disappearing them into concentration camps. 40 days later, agents continue daily kidnappings all over Southern and Central California in what has now become one of the most violent attacks on human rights in American history.

This episode is about laughing through pain, embracing heartbreak, Latinx resilience, the LA community fighting back, and why it’s always a good time for you to pick up a camera/brush/keyboard etc to make art that documents your history!

We are dedicating this episode to THE goats of the creative world: immigrants and children of immigrants. This goes out to the indigenous baddies like us; to the future ancestors and all the new ones that sacrificed their lives for a chance at progress and a better life. It’s just a fact that immigrants are the cornerstone of entrepreneurship in every industry including ours. BUT their lives matter way more than just the labour they gift to keep this country alive and going.

I hope we don’t remember immigrants for simply being ‘hard-working folks’, but for being kind, brave, brilliant, complex, ambitious, deep-loving humans.

And you know what?

I would never be here if it wasn’t for immigrant love.

Kristel

Grab a tea , be brave, and let’s GITN2IT!

0:00 Justin Bieber is my subconscious talk 😶‍🌫️

1:30 at the gym, we elevate bro 🏋🏿‍♀️

4:00 Ally! let’s talk about 🧊 ice

5:45 Black and Brown u.n.i.t.y. 🤝🏽

7:10 Rodney King riot parallels 🪖

9:40 art is really important right now 📣

11:20 P and Kriz real talk ⚠️*trigger warning*⚠️ ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

17:20 Willy Chavarria Paris fashion week 🥐

25:10 But remember Demna? ⚠️

27:45 the comments section: paying models 🫰🏽

30:40 being the first in spaces 🥇

33:20 Love Island: Latin sociology 101 🏝️

38:00 we all need to be like Amaya Papaya 🥭🍈

41:00 go live your own Love Island experience babe 🛫

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On this ✈️SPECIAL TRAVEL 🧳 episode of GITN2IT - We broadcasted from the beautiful island of Puerto Rico! we spill everyday secrets of the airline industry, the humble Jibaro hero, fashion classism and critics, island 🏝️ karma PLUS our special guest: Gabriela M. Arrufat Batista!

I'm a firm believer that when a place calls you, it means it's about to teach you a lesson. You may or may not want it or feel ready for it, but your only mission is to just show up. Puerto Rico was that for me.

I started a fashion project 3 years ago inspired by my first trip to PR. It was just after peak pandemic and I was in a creative rut searching for anything to wake me up inside. And it did. The sunsets, the coquis, the waterfalls immediately brought me back to myself, and this time around I couldn't wait to return to feel that ‘main character’ feeling again. But I have been a different person since then, and part of me was nervous that I had hyper-romanticized some place because of who I was at the time. Like seeing an ex lover after so many years, and expecting to still be in love. Ugh.

The perfectly planned trip begins- and nothing goes as planned.

To be a main character is also to allow the side character to enter the story and change it. Their job is to veer you off course into a fun new adventure, miss a flight, end up on a mountain on a horse, push you through some tough mud.

That is Gaby. A self-proclaimed Afro-Caribbean bartender baddie (who tells me she proudly served Bad Bunny her signature cocktail ) , her irresistible aura quickly took us from total strangers at the bar to distant cousins cracking jokes at the family bbq. Gaby popped into my story at the perfect time; after a long day of travelers diarrhea , food poisoning, and delayed Airbnb experiences due to weather. I didn't know it , but all I wanted that day was to be one of the girls at “piano night” causing a ruckus with a stiff drink in hand.

Being here got me thinking about the pressures to create ‘good’ art, and fast. I kinda don’t believe in either. The best art isn’t always the perfectly planned and executed concept. I think it comes from happy accidents, the mistakes, the mishaps, the perfect chaotic moment that pushes you right out of your comfort zone, and into the zone of genius. It’s when your camera dies and you need to shoot on your cousin’s flip phone, or your outdoor set gets rained on so you say f**k it and make the rain the main event.

Art, like travel, is about risk taking and much more exciting when you embrace it for what it is instead of trying to make it what you THINK it’s supposed to be. The key is this: sometimes the fun is not in doing the picture perfect hangout at the beach, it's in embracing the unexpected- stay indoors during the storm and talk to people, have a few drinks, laugh, and just be yourself. Pay attention to what the world around you is trying to teach you. A.I could never.

I wanna dedicate this episode to the people of Puerto Rico who despite weathering so many metaphorical and literal storms, they never hesitate to make you smile, share their culture and make you feel at home. They deserve our attention, our helping hand (after all they gave us Baby Miko and Bad Bunny), the least we could do is make sure the coquis keep singing their song of resistance, and RESPECT the land so this island doesn’t become another colonial disaster story lost and forgotten.

X Kristel

Grab a coffee ☕️ , and let’s GITN2- the bochinche!

0:00 the microwave incident 👹

1:55 meet Gaby 🍹🍹!

3:49 Airports, drug dogs, and ❄️ oh my!

6:30 “We met at a bar” , Puerto Rican 🇵🇷 pride

8:30 Met Gala tea 👗, Bad Bunny Pava, the Jibaro hero

10:36 Creativity from the oldest colony in the world

12:45 Dandyism, red carpet cringe 🎤

14:51 It’s OK to challenge 😅 artists

15:19 the fabulous Andre Leon Talley

18:48 bring back shame??💨💨💨

20:48 What not to Wear + Fashion Police

25:13 the romanticization of Puerto Rico 👩‍❤️‍👩

30:00 JOY is the Boricua way 🌞

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In a time where it seems everyone’s rights are being stripped away each time we tune into the news , we’ve both been really intentional about the music we listen to the books we read and the people we surround ourselves with. At the end of the day, the media and art that is a part of our lives should make us want to live more, laugh more, and see hope in the future. That’s why hearing about Pope Francis’s passing and watching his funeral ceremony filled with LGBTQ+ community, women, sex workers, and social outcasts, made us think just how disturbingly rare it is to know a public figure who embodies kindness. It shouldn’t be the case, but kindness IS radical, it’s rare, and dare I say punk?…✝️🕷️🏳️‍🌈

On this episode of GITN2IT - we dive into the convergence of the Divine Feminine, Pope Francis dying wish for humanity, Gaga’s art history lesson for the masses, Grief and Praise, the history of punk and zines, and why Nathan Fielder is ahead of the times. Oh and why you need to question EVERYTHING, because art is a mirror babe.

Grab your library card, noise cancelling headphones, and let’s GITN2IT

0:45 easter who? 🪨

1:30 rip papa francis ⚰️ 💐

4:00 pap-acy goals: sit down be humble, god is a woman

7:30 docs 👞 > red shoes 👠

9:30 directing energy, divine feminine 🐦‍🔥

12:15 The Smell of Rain on Dust, grief and praise 🌊

15:00 gagchella, screaming on stage 🎤, parris goebel

18:00 what makes someone extraordinary

22:45 2 types, irl and online ⚖️

24:00 question your likes

26:00 punk aesthetics comeback?? 🚬🖤

28:00 gen x said dont sellout babe ❌

31:00 zines, REAL DIVAS HAVE A LIBRARY CARD 📚

37:00 nathan’s the rehearsal 🎬

40:30 maybe a clown CAN change the world 🎭

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We both needed to admit something before posting this. When we started this journey into the audio creation world we had every intention to keep you posted on the latest trends, the hot and ready pop culture drama, all on a weekly basis but the truth is- it doesn’t feed our soul. We don’t just want to push out content, we want to cultivate and master our own artistry. Whatever that ends up looking and sounding like.

Not to mention, we are two indigenous children of immigrants who are very much tapped into mother nature and when she is having a bad day, girl we have a bad day too!

Life like art, is never a straight line It comes with twists and turns and surprises at every corner and that might mean a day without internet or a day you simply need to sit in the sun and cry. The point is, “showing up”, we realized this month, doesn’t mean just coming to the pod every week the way we used to at a 9-5. It means arriving to the medium intentionally when the lightning strikes, so we can deliver moments that are emotionally charged and extraordinary.

On this episode, we learn to move through grief and loss with our artistry, explore the science of thoughts and prayers, quantum entanglement, books and movies that are helping us feel seen, and the war on Elmo (and the rest of the Sesame Street gang).

PLUS some of you were asking how to tip your favorite episodes. Check out our 🆕 Buy me a Latte link below each episode. Every dollar is SO appreciated especially in this wack economy and anti-DEI time hunny!

Grab a latte , post up on your patio, and let’s GITN2IT…

1:30 this is creativity 🙂‍↔️ not content 😤

2:40 plz go outside and listen to this 🐦‍⬛🌳🌤

4:00 grief and the brain shift to be more present

5:45 The Midnight Library 🕛 📚

8:00 exploration is fundamental to humans 🧗‍♀️🛫🔭

10:00 the fyp is not your risk taking 🚨

12:00 shun the safer option to experience unusual 🙅🏾‍♀️

14:00 ever heard of ‘quantum entanglement’? 🙌🏾 👥🌪

16:00 the thoughts and prayers experiment 🙏🏾

22:00 global manifestation 🧘🏽‍♀️

23:00 my old ass

26:00 the call never goes away 📞

30:00 the haters are blocking the thots n prayers 🧿

31:00 pray for elmo 🧸🎈🚕

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In this neighborhood we’re not afraid to say it out loud. This week’s particular spicy topic has seen the industry tiptoe around it like a scaredy cat - until now. It’s not really a secret that the era of copy+ paste creativity is upon us. You can blame the digital age, capitalism, your boss, either way, some people are out here copying talented hard-working people’s work and having the audacity to claim it as their own. And as cultured Olympic gossip queens we * and our VERY talented special guest* have something to say about it okurrr!

On this episode of GITN2IT- we’re joined by our outspoken bestie from Los Angeles Daniel Hermosillo! Daniel is a photographer and digital artist born and raised in LA. Daniel started his creative career with a fine arts background in illustration and overtime found his passion and voice in photography. He’s worked with the likes of Rico Nasty, Kali Uchis, and is looking forward to who’s next!

Together, we get into the future of content creation, our favorite Latines at Paris Fashion Week, the art of belonging , Zoe Saldana’s brothers and sisters, full circle moments (and how they changed the way we view our careers), PLUS why friendship is at the core of our artistic practices 💚

BTW:

This season we’re taking YOUR burning life/art/culture questions and answering them on the next pod 🎙️ PAID SUBSCRIBER BADDIES go drop those hot Qs in the group chat. Can’t wait to see what’s been on your mind 💞

Grab the homie, mix that drink , and let’s GITN2IT…

1:08 the lore of our guest, DANIEL 🔥

2:54 Illustration🎨 → Photography📷, blowing FAFSA on a camera

5:18 from finsta to art insta, vulnerability of starting something ⭐new⭐

6:50 Lemme believe in mySELF ❤️‍🔥, cherishing creative friendships❤️‍🔥

8:40 Trauma of wanting validation, 🪑 immigrant parents don’t get it LOL

13:05 💰Re-defining success, BELONGING, opening (and slamming)🚪doors

17:21 Work HARD = build confidence, 🎂Cake-decorators, ✂️COPY+ PASTE creatives

22:00 Emilia Perez hates Mexicans, 🏆Wanting the prize vs community support

26:50 Willy Chavarria & Kendrick Lamar lead the revolution ✊🏿✊🏾, embrace your Ghetto!

35:00 Full-circle moment stories, 🕊️ staying HOPEFUL in scary times

41:00 How we all met, 🪄the magic of creative SYNERGY

44:28 🎑 “Every medium has it’s season”

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I think I’m in my tropicalia-dembow-salsa album era of life where I just want to log off, sit on a beach and disassociate with some fancy drink, with my favorite fancy people, and maybe shake a little… ass? I know I know, most of you reading this already know but, NOTHING heals deeper than a goooood juicy girls chat. The kind where you can’t help but laugh and cry about the topics that matter to us. THANKFULLY we did just that with a little bit of help from a special guest 🤭 …

On this episode of GITN2IT- we’re joined by our bestie from down-under Hayley aka Flossy. Flossy is a Melbourne-based graphic designer and artist with an avant-garde approach to traditional design. She honed her craft in the magazine and streetwear industries, developing a distinct visual style that blends punk aesthetics, femme nostalgia and post-modernist design. Recently, she showcased her work internationally with her debut solo exhibition in Tokyo.

Together, we get into our Australia x LA fire trauma bond, all the messiness of the creative flow, the magic of thinking creatively and musically about your own life, and how maybe logging off (and hanging out with the other kind of logs 🪵🌲) is…healthy? And so much more!! We don’t want to spoil it all for you, but we had a good time recording this and we hope you enjoy it just as much 😁

BTW:

This season we’re taking YOUR burning life/art/culture questions and answering them LIVE on the pod 🎙️ so drop those Qs in the group chat! Thank you once again for all of the continued support 💞 We can’t believe how much we’ve grown already on here, it was just our dog and our cousins listening for a while 😆 so we’re so grateful to all of you for investing in us. Ok! Not gonna get sappy!

Grab your bestie, put on your gym shoes , and let’s GITN2IT…

2:15 How we met 🤝 our guest, FLOSSY 🌊

5:00 Being honest with your creative homies 🗡️

6:15 Let your ideas go out in 🪁 Beta Mode

8:30 LA fire x Australia fire trauma bond 👩🏽‍🚒❤️‍🔥

12:00 Go easy, Visibility doesn’t = financial stability 💱

15:15 Monetizing Water and Nature 💰💧🏞️🤨

18:25 Micro Trend Final Boss, WIP Streetstyle 🤺

20:45 Creative thinking is like making 🎶 MUSIC ALBUMS

24:00 It’s ok if it doesn’t make sense 🤫

25:25 Day Two: The Messy Middle, Brene Brown 👪

28:00 Adult Friendships: theaters, circles, plays 🎭

32:15 Recession art, DIY, Go touch grass 🎑

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Happy new year ONE MORE TIME for the people in the back (especially for Angelenos) because what the actual f*ck was THAT, January girl?? I dunno about you , but every day felt like getting clocked in the face by a jack-in-the-box.

To be completely honest, we planned on coming back to the stack sooner, but each time we hit the mic it felt off. We’ve been here before but at the same time we haven't. And while we watched plenty of other creators hustle onward, we did the opposite and slammed the breaks. Turns out our instincts were right, this month was going to be different…

Pause.

Breathe in. Breathe out.

Before we Gitn2it, we just want to send love to all our readers and beyond who were affected by the LA fires. It really was one of the most devastating gut-wrenching disasters to observe. And while fires have become our new normal here, everyday felt like we were holding our breath for what was to come. One minute your power is out and you’re up checking in on friends and their animals, the next you’re figuring out how to rally more money into someone’s go-fund me, making sure our rooftops were properly hosed down, assembling an emergency fire kit in a panic, all while showing up to your work commitments trying to smile through the anxiety and panic. It’s in these moments you really begin to see who shows up, and what YOU are made of.

While there was plenty of darkness, we witnessed so much profound love in action, like people opening their doors to victims, donating literally everything to help others feel safe and comfy and you know, human. It reminded us how much we still believe in the power of community, CREATIVITY, and in the people to show up when it matters the most.

Besides censorship, planes falling from the sky and #CuteWinterBoots 🧊, we’re both finally feeling somewhat of a bit of reprieve and the wet weather is gifting us with a glimmer of hope that new life will soon be blossoming from the ashes. And I think in the midst of it all, we turned to our favorite artists to remind us- it’s not the time to be quiet and shy away. It’s time to lock tf in and stand our ground while we still have one. That said, NOTHING in Bing-bop-boom-boom-boom-bop-bam 2025 is stopping us from doing what we are meant to do - use our voice LOUDLY and believe in the healing power of art.

And that means you too x

Lock tf in, and Let’s Gitn2it…

1:00 The TikTok blackout drama 🕳️ , Europe is talking smack about us! 💅🏼

6:30 President Kraft Cheese 🧀, Loss of trust in social platforms 🙅🏻‍♀️

9:15 2025 is about getting out IRL 🌳☁️

11:45 Babes it’s about freedom of speech, not your career ⚖️

14:30 It’s giving H1+ler 🤮, Let the Art Speak for Itself 🗣️

17:30 Bad Bunny’s DTMF 📷 🌴, ancestry and colonialism

24:00 Red Chairs🪑🪑, Divine Source, Inspo is a Privilege💭

30:25 Art that’s human 💪🏾 > high tech 🦾

31:40 Sesame Street 🗽, Growing Pains

35:17 Anti-fascist Surrealist Art Movement 🎨

36:00 Pablo, Diego, Frida, Andre, Kanye…

52:00 Don’t be afraid to live in your dreams 💭

54:00 How will YOU respond this time?

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On this episode, we dive in what we’d like to call The Great Creative Crash-out of 2024. This cozy holiday episode is for all the community builders, loud mouths, and activists who need a daMn BrEaK! PLUS our honest predictions on where the world of creativity is growing post-covid / post-tiktok / post whatever this fever dream called 2024 was!

SO Get warm by the fire, spike your eggnog *responsibly*, and let’s GITN2IT…

00:58 Preparing and Repairing for 2025, Breaking Ring fingers lol 💍

3:16 Goodbye TikTok, Graduating TikTok University, Indigenous Knowledge 🎓

5:20 The Great Creative Crash-out 💥, Drew Afualo Says Bye, It Be your own people

6:54 Community Building Crash-outs, Leaders NEED Support to Support you 🫶

9:45 (One of many) Kriz crash out stories, Dark side of social media 🌑, Addicted to your audience 🫠

15:03 Cocomocoe hot takes, Post-tiktok predictions, Surfing the WWW 🏄🏽‍♀️

19:38 Why Gen Z doesn’t read 📚, IQ versus EQ, Are students asking questions ⁉️

27:36 Doechii and her lore 🐊, Artists experimenting again, The Artist’s Way

37:57: John Galliano and 2nd chances, When a friend believes in You, 💚LOVE is the source

43:53 OWN your crash-out, Creative predictions for 2025, ART IS BACKKK 💫

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