@jamienelson6
@pink1968
@flamingo_jungle
jamie-nelson.com

The scene:
We are at Jamie’s gorgeous home, sunbathing nude in the backyard, surrounded by penises. It’s just us, but she has a penis topiary, penis statue, and too many penis sculptures inside to count. The minute we start the interview, the gardener surprises us and we go from celebrating our sexuality to scrambling inside. Hilarious. We are everything all the time and this is why we are sisters. Join us poolside for real girl talk.

Highlights:
+ Being terrified to be in FRONT of the camera
+ There’s a lot of glitter on the introvert
+ Creatively directing being a form of control
+ Vulnerability achieved through a “train-wreck”
+ Creating a Playboy-biker-themed house
+ Starting with an inflatable bed in a closet in NYC
+ Renting your entire house out and living in the office
+ Choosing your life perspective as glass all the way full
+ Finding balance and no longer doing it all
+ Having 5 careers and no time to wrench
+ Trying to keep up with 85-yr old car guys
+ Feeling the pressure of your own high expectations
+ Doing a lot of damage to your body
+ Home-owning is not for the faint of heart
+ Biggest goal: life hacks and superpowers
+ Growing up very poor and eating from a food bank
+ Playing all the sports and having other parents want to kick your ass
+ Being an honors nerd rebel and considering pre-med
+ Wanting to do and be it all and not being accepted anywhere
+ Being a pervert and having a drawer full of speedo’s for your male guests
+ 1968 Playmate Pink Convertible Ford Mustang
+ Becoming a photographer in high school because she couldn’t paint or draw
+ Being young and poor in New York
+ Biggest gift: resourcefulness
+ Being poor teaches you tenacity and grit
+ Cross-marketing still, video and home rental
+ Life happens for us, not to us
+ When you focus on the negative, the universe shows you more negative
+ You don’t get it until you GET it - you live it
+ The red heart tub IS a celebrity
+ Killing yourself to buy a house for your mom in the Dominican
+ Raising flamingoes in their own ecosystem
+ Feeling like you’ve never worked a day in your life
+ Fulfillment comes from giving back
+ Setting up a non-profit to give scholarships to a photoshoot studio
+ Moving to LA for the weather and more shooting seasons
+ Space, inexpensive vintage, abundance of time and sun
+ Perfectionism and learning to be gentle on yourself
+ Dreams, visualization, manifesting
+ Midgets, cakes, smoke-bombs, roof jumps
+ When the payoff of a centered life > the payoff of partying
+ Dealing with our problems, not escaping to boyfriends
+ Compound interest lesson from sexy financial wiz Jamie
+ Having “quite a bit of OCD” and counting everything
+ Being inspired by an entrepreneurial mom
+ Appreciating the power of being different
+ Thinking too much about what other people thought
+ Feeling hodge-podge in life, then appreciating it all
+ It’s too much fun - too fun not to share
+ Success comes from so many failures and so much hard work

A taste:
“I just make sporadic, dumb decisions constantly. They end up being the smartest decisions ever because I’m the only one dumb enough to just do it and then it always works out. It always works out.”

“Even my fun is very overachieving.”

Favorite sayings:
“All of the sudden…” (is not all of the sudden)
“Slow down to speed up.”

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