#Randombling: That Nerdy Chick

Randombling: A 5 minute long unedited random stream of consciousness produced by a nerd for nerds.

#nowplaying: Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

Wow. What a week, what a time ... what - an everything.

First off, my trip to Seattle is a go! Currently dealing with the financial peeps in planning, and what it's going to look like - but it's EFFING RAD man!! I'm going to be on an amtrak all the way up the coast for 31 hours - which is GREAT because I totally need to get the proposal to my lit agent on "A Nerd's Guide to Being Unapologetically Awesome." Book proposals are superly duperly long, but fortunately everything in my life is documented online - so a lot of the research the publisher is going to require is actually already done and documented since I have a shit ton of testimonials and what not already in writing. Pretty grateful for that, every bit helps.

But yah man, I'm coming to Seattle!!! So friggen excited!! It's #2 on my must see in the US! (#1 is going anywhere in the state of Hawaii. Never been before, just needs to happen at some point.)

Will make a formal announcement once everything is booked, but it'll be next week. SO. FREAKING. EXCITED!!

On a personal note, the whole no casual sex thing has been a mighty dose of everything healthy in my life. I'm pretty much the most excited person to be alive on this planet - so I can't help but also be the horniest person on the planet as well (since excitement travels everywhere ::wink wink::). I'm naturally not predisposed to want to have intimate relationships with people, but I have been opening myself up more and more and it feels damn good. (But not opening myself up TOO much either - a nice balance.) I've been dating this one duderino for a few months now. I can't talk about it since it hiccups the natural ebb and flow of dating but it's going incredibly slow which for me is GREAT. I'm still dating on OKC to keep my sanity (bitches go crazy when they like a boy - always. always. always. keep dating to not go psychotic). But I have to admit, sex has DEFINITELY changed. It's becoming less of a "bone" and more of a connection. I know I know this is the way life SHOULD be - but have you read how I lost my viriginity? I'm very much a matter of fact person, and INCREDIBLY analytical. It makes me a shark in business, but cold in my personal life. Guys have trouble figuring out how they can be a part of my life. They want to be the protector and be the provider - and here I am saying I can throw a punch, take a punch, fire a gun, wield a knife, and oh yeah! I run my own business. There has to be a give and take in there somewhere otherwise I emasculate the men. I guess I'm just so used to taking care of myself, and going after what I want, again great in business, shitty in your personal life. Need to be the chick, Friel - you need to be the chick.

It's hilarious too, because I complain and complain how dudes don't step up to the plate and take the lead, but maybe it's me that doesn't even give them the chance. OOOOHHHH how I am starting to see the light. Oh yes, it's there.

Be the chick.

Be the chick.

Be the chick.

Professionally speaking, things are going GREAT! Getting the sales team up on their legs and ready to start going after some leads. It's crazy adding more to my plate helping manage everyone - but it's gotta get done, and no one said starting a business was easy. I'm grateful to at least now have office space however so I can take a break.

OMMMGGGGGGGG I stayed in ALL weekend and slept, and lounged around. Felt GREAT! Totally took a me-weekend. Totally needed it.

Oh! and my leg is doing better after my epic wipe out.

It went from looking like I got hit by a car to now just a gnarly case of road rash. Not too shabby!! I kinda feel like a leopard. I wouldn't be mad at a leg tattoo - could be pretty rad!

All in all, lots going on - as usual, but from the depths of my everything thank you all so so so so SOOOOOO much for the emails, tweets, comments, posts, etc. You all make. my. life.

It's crazy how all this time I thought I was alone with all these weird and random life experience, only to find out that by posting on it - others would just find me! It's GREAT! Keep it up nerds!! I love love love LOVE IT!!!

Peace love and lollipops to all!! Many blessings! And if you ever want to find me you can ...

email: jenfriel at talknerdytomelover d c

Facebook: Facebook.com/JenFriel

Twitter: Twitter.com/JenFriel

#YAYLIFE

Oh, and if you want a sneak peek on what the book is going to be about, have a listen to the lecture I gave at Cal State Fullerton. You can just put it on in the background or whatevs. It's pretty long, but peeps dug it. YAY!!

#Randombling: That Nerdy Chick

Randombling: A 5 minute long unedited random stream of consciousness produced by a nerd for nerds.

#nowplaying: Shake it out - Florence and the Machine

Well HELLOOOOOO sexy lover faces. How are you all doing today? Good? Yeah? I thought I saw a smile on that face!!

So, we had our first big announcement this week courtesy of TNTML's Senior Advisor Mr. Ben Parr.

Really really really rad dude, and talk about the most humbling thing ever to have someone you respect so so so much come on board to help you with your business. It's like, FOR REAL?!?! Very very very humbling. My value add is in team building, and trend spotting. Structuring a business is not my cup of tea - but that's where Ben comes in and is helping me out. (For a stake in the company of course, you HAVE TO make things worth people's time.)

I'm just stoked for life, man. You have to understand it still shocks me every.single.day. that all of this actually worked. Following your passions ... following your dream ... becoming a living cliche - you really can make things happen by using social media, and by having a kind heart and a pure soul. I don't lie, I don't cheat, and I DEFINITELY don't steal - and yet nothing but AH-MAZING things have happened and have blessed this community.

I say all of the time that this is the GREATEST time to be alive, but I really can't stress that enough. We're going through a revolution of sorts right now, and it's rooted in technology. One person can have a voice, one person can have an opinion, one person can express said opinion, build a following, and have that single voice be amplified into something great. Do you know how many people told me I was bat shit for doing what I did? Do you know how many of my friends and even my family stopped talking to me for extended periods of time? I physically couldn't stop because this website was the one thing in life that made me happy. When you spend 24 years of your life in a depression and in a negative state of consciousness, happiness has a different value add. I will never and I mean NEEVVVERRRR do something that makes me unhappy. After spending 2 years in bliss now and seeing HOW DIFFERENT life can truly be - it's too much of a sacrifice to spend even .25 seconds doing something that I don't enjoy.

I am really really really proud of this community, I am completely humbled by the team now behind us, and I am ready now more than ever to get shit done.

I am 26 now running a new media production company with an unscripted show in development, a scripted show in development, a book deal, and a website I built with my bare hands just shy of the top 100,000 on the net. That took me two years to do and it all came very naturally through a series of at the time "unimportant/ insignificant" decisions. It just felt right, man. Starting a site felt right! It didn't have to make sense, it just felt good. What feels good to you today? Every. Single. Day. is another chance you have to turn it all around. Every SECOND of every day. Mine happened around 9pm on November 3, 2009. What's going to happen for you today, October 28th at ... ::insert the time in your time zone here:: ... just fucking do it, man. The time is now. The time is now. The time is now. Get off your ass, let go of your fears - AND JUST DO IT!!!!

HAHA oh goodness I get too excited sometimes. On another note, we have a LOT of events coming up!

First up, I will be tweeting live from the Playboy Mansion tomorrow night. DUDDESSSS!! So so so excited! I need to get my DRANK on something fierce. I love Playboy. I've been doing to their parties for almost 6 years now, and the people there are like family. No catty girls, just half naked people running around having the time of their lives. It's AHHH-MAZZINNNGG!!! The service can be a bit spotty on the grounds, but I will be tweeting as much as possible during the night, and uploading pics on WhoSay.

Here's a vid from last year ...

I'll post my costume as well tomorrow. It's going to be super duper sch-mexy. I'm digging feeling like a girl again courtesy of my fancy shoes from Blowfish.

OH OH and THENNNNN ... on Monday, I will be speaking on a nerdy panel at the Nerdist Theater here in LA ...

Going to be SOOO RAD!!! If you live in LA come check it out!!

OH OH AND OHH!! We ALSO have the Nerd Herd on the 5th, TNTML's 2nd anniversary party. That's going to go down at the Brass Monkey at 8pm. (Click here for more info)

Come by and meet your favorite writers on the site, and kick it with some karaoke!!! Going to be a BLAASSTT!!! Super stoked for that, and super stoked for life in general, man.

From the depths of my soul thank you all SOOOOOO much for the emails, comments, tweets, love - everything. I am INCREDIBLY grateful. Thank you thank you thank you - I still can't believe it all worked, but I'm just gonna go with it.

#dowhatyouloveALWAYS

#Randombling: That Nerdy Chick

Randombling: A 5 minute long unedited random stream of consciousness produced by a nerd for nerds.

#nowplaying: Blinding - Florence and the Machine

A hoi hoi mateys ... lots o good news kickin round. First off, have a SUPER big week. Like crazy super big. On Tuesday, I meet with this big agency to discuss representation for the brand. Huge huge huge deal. It's going to help me switch more into creative mode, so I can focus more on that rather than feeding the ad sales pipeline. I just need help taking this to another level. I know what we're doing is working, clearly, I'm not in a ditch yet - but I recognize that I need more hands on the deck.

THENNNNNNN, I'm meeting also this week with an uber uber uber financial guru. I need to start setting things up for this site as a small business, so I'm going to take a crash course on it. Dudes, this guy is so so so so soooooooooo highy regarded in his field ... ahmazing and totally humbling that he wants to meet. So fucking flattered, man.

So yeah - the biz side of things could not be more on fire. There's a lot that I want to start doing to expand this brand, but I need to set things up for that. It's terribly exciting - and only 5% stressful hahaha. Life is ... right here. Saying, what's up! Things are just clicking effortlessly - it is BLOWING.MY.MIND. The laws of attraction have like a 30 second return manifestation. Freaking me out, but I'm going to stop questioning it and just go with it and say prayers of gratitude.

It's been a great couple of weeks, but incredibly stressful as well. I just finished post production on the TV show I was filming back east. It was weird being a producer on it as well. I fucking loved that part ... but it takes a different part of my brain, and when I'm actually filming I can't do both producer and talent at the same time. It's literally a switch in my noggin - I just have to manage that part better. Creatively I'm always a whackadoodle noodle, but that's not a producers job, that's the talent. The producer has to get releases signed, scout locations ... etc. etc. etc. I love it, don't get me wrong - but I learned a LOT of what not to do for season one hahahaha. Fuccckkkkkkk me, man. Anywho, we find out in a couple weeks about season 2 and 3. If we get a thumbs up on it, they wanna do them back to back which will be fun, and easier for me since I have travel required. It'll put me back east for like a month tho, but we shall see. One bite of the elephant at a time.

On the TNTML pilot note, we're still movin and groovin. The suits want to sell it this cycle of buying, so that's exciting. They scrapped the first script and are making it more autobiographical. I'm bummed we didn't get the showrunner that I wanted, but whatevs! These people know what they are doing, and I'm just along for the ride. Dude, my writing idol knows my name - I can die now. It's exciting, but also weird at the same time. Dudes, TV shows are such a crap shoot. It's timing, it's the right team - it's nuts. It's a weird, weird, weird, industry. I'm not mad at it, but I do find it fascinating.

Also, I start writing my first book this week. That is pretty much the trippiest thing that has ever happened to me. Even when I filled out my google plus profile I put Lifecaster/ Author. I'm gonna be a fucking author, man. Didn't even see that one coming - but it's still next doable actions, and going to be a very big project. I'm just stoked and clearly honored to be doing it. It's going to make it easier for me to explain to you all too how to be a personal brand and do more of what has worked. It's also going to give the brand TREMENDOUS credibility to be like oh, yep, I wrote the book on that ... literally. Credibility is the foundation for brands, so this is ... HUGE!

I could not be more honored and humbled. Thank you For Dummies - this is all so unbelievable.

That's whats up. I'm stressed ... I'm excited ... I'm humbled ... I'm ready ... and today I'm going to nap. Gotta rest up baby, this is going to be a FUN week!!! Yayyyyy LIFFEEEE!!! 

#bringit

Oh and PS. I MET ANN SPADE YESTERDAY!!!!!! GIRL CRUSH! GIRL CRUSH! GIRL CRUSH!!

If you guys ever have questions or anything please please please do not hesitate to email me. I read everything, and will 100% respond. If for whatever reason you haven't heard back from me, I might have read it too fast or not starred it in my inbox - just resend it, and yell at me so I can apologize haha. And if you do resend it and I still don't reply, I'm sure it was for something weird. Quit being weird.

JenFriel at TalkNerdyToMeLover dot com

All my love and all my heart TNTML. Thank you for changing my life. xoxoxoxxoxoxxoxoxoxo

#Randombling: That Nerdy Chick

Randombling: A 5 minute long unedited random stream of consciousness produced by a nerd for nerds.

#nowplaying: Brand New Day - Josh Radin

AHHHHH so much going through my brain. I'm so stressed man. Like in the best possible way one can be stressed. I'm just anxious, and clearly incredibly motivated.

The tech world and Hollywood are two very different places ... we operate at like a gajillion miles per hour, and when we see something we want, we create it - instantly. Hollywood is a slower beast - I can respect that ... like dude, so through and through ... our producers on this are just off the wall bananas.

No literally - they throw bananas ... a lot of them. I'm not even sure where they all come from, but if I can dodge a ball, I can dodge a banana.

I'm actually going to be looking at a sublet today - whoop whoop!!!! I need to get off the couch, DESPERATELY. Don't get me wrong, urban camping for the last year has been literally the gnarliest ride of my life - but this stuff with the pilot is emotionally tolling ... very very very much so. I'm an extroverted introvert. When I get in situations like this, I need a lot of space; I don't have that right now.

Again, best worst problem ever - last year at this time I was googling public showers, so a couch was considered a blessing. I just can't keep stressing myself out with this sheer excitement and unbelievable rush from stuff with the pilot and not have a place to decompress. I need an off button.

It's funny too, this clothing company that I was introduced to last month totally just contacted me yesterday and want to help out. Dude, their stuff totally doesn't suck! Like literally, I even said to my friend when I first saw the logo, I was like fuck, that's brilliant. They're not marketers nor do they know anything about social media - so I said I'd love to exchange social media 101 for a place to stay. Dude! I can break this stuff down for anyone, it just takes time out of my day. If you're willing to give me a place to call my own where I can decompress .... I will GLADDDLLLYYYYY teach you social media, and help spread the good word of the nerd.

HAHA! You guys are going to freak when you see their shit, it's good stuff man. Definitely good quality. I'm pretty stoked - should find out more today, but at least doing my end of the bargain by looking at a place. 

BAHHH!! This is just all so batshit. Best worst problem in the world to have - they're turning your life and website into a TV show, but I can't keep spinning and spinning, and running this site, doing all the SEO, and not have a place to just be. It's going to make me stop loving life ... and dude, that can't happen - EVER.

I honestly am so ready for a challenge ... what I did with this site, as humbly as possible, wasn't even challenging for me. This was all just so matter of fact, that now I'm very ready for a challenge ... however, understand said challenge cannot take place without a solid foundation aka my own home page.

Oh and PS. when I was sleeping in a bed last week in Vegas for the ENTIRE week ... I got to do some epic body contorting. Something that one cannot do while sleeping on a couch ... BAHHHHH!!!

This. Felt. AMAZING!

I'm hanging out at Cafe Solar in Hollywood to try and write out this story. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth, but I find the people watching here to be very inspiring ... so I'm hopeful. If you're in the neck of the woods, and don't see me writing like a mad woman - totally come by and say hi. I only bite upon request. RAWRRR!!! Oh, but do me a small favor, please tweet me prior: @JenFriel. Not gonna lie I get a bit spooked when people just sit down at the table. hahaha love you all, but I don't immediately pull avatars up in my brain IRL. Gotta look at the handle. JIIIGGAAAAAAA!!!!

Oh and dude, there's totally a cute boy sitting over by the window. I'm making nerdy eyes. He has a mac, so I know his hard drive is compatible with my software. RAAWWRRRRR!!! Note to self, make a move before 1:37pm, and attempt to scour OKC to see if he is on there, and we are a match. He looks so super nerdy, he's gotta be on OKC. Ugh, he just looked over again ... avert the eyes Jen. Don't look directly at him!!!

love you all.

like for real.

like more than you'll ever know.

like so so long time it should be illegal.

wait, maybe this is illegal.

is one person really supposed to feel this way?

how can i bottle this and sell it?

hmm, what would my marketing strategy be?

whoops! something shiny ...

gotta go.

#bye

#Randombling: That Nerdy Chick

Randombling: A 5 minute long unedited random stream of consciousness produced by a nerd for nerds.

#nowplaying: What I got - Sublime

*waves* HELLOOOOOOO from Vegas!!! No like straight up, my life is being MADE this week thanks to Mike from @wantowle. Straight up, I have a bed ... to myself ... this ENTIRE week!! BAHHHHH!! LOOK!!! 

Happiest. Camper. EVERRRRRR!!!!

Ugh. Can't stand it. 

And oh yeah, during the day I get to do things I genuinely enjoy anyway?!?! Whatttt is going on!?!? HOOWWW is this my life right now!!!!!! Dude, grateful from the friggen depths of my SOUL!

So, I'm in Vegas for NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) and basically I am going to be using this new app that allows you to not only shoot from your iPhone but actually edit and upload as well. It's kind of amazing, I'm not going to lie; it's called Vericorder. I haven't tested it out yet, but in the training today my mind was pretty blown. Literally, like people around me had to grab like ponchos and shit because it splattered. It's cool though, I have special super powers that rejuvenate cell growth wicked fast ... so uh, it's covered. 

But look! 

That's an OWLE, which has the Vericorder app downloaded ... on a monopod with a mic set up. The quality is so legit, it's blowing my mind ... straight up. Look at the editing ... 

 

It's kinda hard to see - but its straight up like having Final Cut Pro on your iPhone. And the fact that it automatically uploads, tweets out - these guys have it all so on lock it's not even funny. I didn't get to play around with it today as much as I wanted because I was on this massive wifi hunt after I couldn't get the card working ... and yada yada yada - one of "those" ... but tomorrow its on like Donkey Kong!!!

Oh but PS. watch out for your stuff while you're at NAB (and I feel like in Vegas in general - but whatevs). A chick from my training session today totally had her purse stolen. And DUDE! My bag was right next to it!!! Albeit, mine is a big Swiss Army backpack sponsored by Samsung, it still spooked me. Bottom line, just watch your things man. 

SUPPERRR STOKED TO BE HERE!!! If anyone from the site wants to meet up or whatevs, hit me up on twitter: @JenFriel, and lemme know what you're up to. I think I'm going to a mixer tomorrow ... but other than that, I'm not planning meetings that far ahead - just wanna kick it. 

Thanks again so so much to Mike from @wantowle for the hotel and the experience. Seriously dude, you're making my life right now. This guy is such a hustler too - his stories are out of this wooorrlllllddddddd!!! HAHA! I'm learning so much .. BAHHH!!! Loves me some life. 

Oh, one last thing ... my last OKC date totally went to the pooper. We had an AWESOME date on Friday, then he sends me this text saying "dude, I totally made out with an internet celebrity." I was like um, seriously? I wasn't even mad at him - cause, I get it ... I was more curious about the fact that I profiled this dude - and very honestly didn't think he was like that. It means, I have a lot of work to do. Clearly. HAHAH!! ... and now I know ... and even in jest, but either way I'm over it. Onto the next! This experiment is getting more and more difficult, but I REFUSSEEE to give up! If I can literally manifest an entire new life for myself, and a series of the most INSANE experiences - I can attract the right person. Life is reflective, so maybe some more internal work ... I dunno. 

Either way, super grateful to be here, and super grateful to get to play with new toys and software all week!! WAHOOOO!!!!! But for reals, don't be shy - if you see me, or wanna hang it TOTALLY tweet me and let's get it done. If you read this site, I wanna thank you - and maybe hug it out. Dude, I give GREAT hugs. Am I still talking? Shut up, Jen. 

#YAYLIFE