EP 74: Culture Clash, Fever Dreams & Meeting Icons: My Wild Week!

Ever had a week so wild you had to pinch yourself? Welcome to another episode of The Sew Flipping Extra Podcast, where I dish on my unforgettable experience at Red Bull's epic Culture Clash event, interviewing icons like Shaggy (yes, THAT Shaggy!). I dive deep into the hilarious drama of waking up convinced I'm dying (spoiler: it was a fever), questioning the line between happiness and sadness, and why I believe happiness is always a choice. Plus, I spills the tea on backstage adventures, star-struck moments, and why even Mummy Pig from Peppa Pig managed to trigger some serious jealousy.

Get ready for laughs, real talk, and some extra motivation to keep manifesting those good vibes!

Key Takeaways:

• Happiness as a choice: Finding joy even when things get tough
• Surviving a midweek fever and bouncing back strong
• Exclusive backstage stories from the Red Bull Culture Clash
• How Daniella scored an interview with Shaggy (yes, THAT Shaggy!)
• Anticipating the upcoming Glomama Awards and celebrating her nomination

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Chapters

• 0:00 Happiness is a choice, not a condition
• 2:42 Not well but pushing through
• 10:13 Red Bull Culture Clash adventures
• 15:31 When Mummy Pig gets more TV time
• 19:10 Upcoming events and exciting opportunities
• 24:28 Creating the day you want to have

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

last night one of my friends asked me am I happy? And I thought about it for a second and I was like when someone answers you that question okay, no, I can't speak for everyone but when he asked me that question, I thought about it for a second and I was like, yeah, and he said he said he said, okay, I know you, so I know you're happy, but I really happy. And I said the answer that you're looking for from me is not in happiness, because happiness to me and this is something I've had this status on my WhatsApp for years, maybe five years which is happiness, is a choice. We get to wake up and decide if we want to be happy. A situation happens and we decide if it's gonna make us angry or we're just gonna be happy. That happiness isn't doesn't get taken away from you. In a moment where something doesn't go your way, you choose to be happy and then you find things to bring more happiness to you and happiness finds you and happy people find you, because you are just happiness, you ooze happiness.

Speaker 1: 1:14

So I said I am happy. I said I can't even think what could take me out of being a happy person. I don't even think death, I don't even think hearing of someone's passed away will cause me to be unhappy. It might. It will not my. It will cause me to be sad, but unhappy. That's that unhappy and sad. I don't know, they're different things. Am I right or wrong? I'm, I don't know. Maybe I need to deep that a little bit more. But because I'm sad, it doesn't make me unhappy. It just makes me sad because of a situation, a thing that's happened. That doesn't cause me to be unhappy. So I'm. I said yeah, I'm a happy person. I said you have to change the question that you're asking me, because it is not in whether I am happy or unhappy. Anyway, with that said, it's giving serious energy. I don't know where that serious energy come from, because we have this serious back here. Can you hear my voice? I've not been well this week. I'm gonna tell you all about it, though Hang on, let me clear my throat and let's do the intro so you can get into this episode.

Speaker 1: 2:25

Hi guys, welcome to another episode of the so Flippin' Extra podcast, a platform for me to express, explore and connect and be so flippin' extra, why, I hear you ask Well, babes, that's what brings me joy. So, without further ado, let's get into this episode, because I've got a few things to say. And two, my energy is low today because, yeah, I've not, I've honestly, I've not been. Well, all right, guys, let's get into it. So, honestly, we're not gonna dwell. We're not gonna dwell on on me waking up on Wednesday morning and thinking I was dying. Honestly, I'm not even lying to you guys. I thought I was dying.

Speaker 1: 3:08

I woke up and I was like the hell, my eyes were hurting and then, and then okay, so I called my best friend and as soon as she answered, I had to FaceTime her because I was like I need her to see if I'm really sick or not. I don't know what I don't know in it, like, whatever, don't judge me. As soon as she answered, I burst into tears. My face was boiling hot. The tears were so hot on my face. The tears were hot on my face, and then I was like I don't even have a thermometer but I feel really, really hot.

Speaker 1: 3:41

So then I had to charge my iWatch so that because I thought there's no way I have a smart watch and it can't tell me if I'm, if I'm running a temperature, but I'm hot. I am so hot, like, obviously I'm hot. But I was feeling hot, hot, so charge my watch. I put my watch on and it's really weird because the watch normally. I just thought I'd put it on and it would be like ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, you have a temperature. But it didn't do that and I was like going on the phone like how do I find out my temperature? And it's like the watch test is your temperature while you're sleeping. I was like, oh, I'm not sleeping, I need to know my temperature. However, I found an app that you can actually use, the. You can measure the temperature anyway. Set up the app, done the.

Speaker 1: 4:27

The scans that I had to do to measure my temperature and I was 38 degrees. It was a 38 degrees, very hot fever. So I was like rah, I've just got, I'm just out here with a fever. So, yeah, called my doctors, got a doctor's appointment, went to see them. They gave me some spray for my nose. It's just so weird because I don't even go to the doctors. On a normal day I don't even go to doctors. But I honestly thought what has happened to me? I've woken up and I just feel like I feel like someone just ran over me, my body hurts and everything. I went doctors. They gave me this nasal spray to uncongest me and um sent me on my merry way. Mate, you know what I'm saying. Just said you know if you're still feeling bad after a week and all that stuff. Anyway, I felt better. I've had a few days.

Speaker 1: 5:17

Friday I felt bad again, like my head was literally spinning. If I coughed or sneezed, my head hurt. It was one of those ones. But I'm better now and I was obviously. I was better because I had to. I had to go to the Red Bull culture clash yesterday. By yesterday it was Saturday, because obviously you guys listen to it, you won't know what day of the week it is. So, yeah, saturday went to the Culture Clash.

Speaker 1: 5:43

My girl Naya was performing on the Homegrown team, so I was repping for my girl. I was also her social media content capture creator team. You get me. So it was so much fun. I was up on stage. At one point my cousin messaged me. She's like I can see you on stage Waving the flag. I was like jumping up and down with that flag, like I was just there. I was just there in the mix. It was so much fun, it was so hype, it was just energy, energetic, good vibes, everything. Obviously I had to bring the mic out, I had to bring the extra mic. So after nai done her thing on stage, her and the homegrown teen girls were amazing.

Speaker 1: 6:29

Obviously, spices team one, like they weren't not gonna win, and the people that she had on her team, like it wasn't all jamaica, it wasn't jamaica city, which I thought, I'm not gonna lie, I thought it was just the jamaicans which I mean maybe heritage wise they are. But everyone was over on that side, apart from everyone that was on our side. But whatever, on our side, on the homegrown team, it was given international women's day, girl power, because obviously it was on the 8th of march, so it was international women's day. So we had princess naya, kyla, kelly, laroque, malika, egypt, them not done their thing. Shy steve was hosting their side of the stage and yeah then do you know I'm not gonna pretend, I know everyone else that was there, like the other team which was like the uk hip-hop drill artist. I don't know if they'd like if I called him drill, but the man them, bushkin, was hosting that one. I don't know who was hosting with Bushkin, and then you had Spice hosting on the other side and the native side. I don't know who was hosting. I was there for my girl in it. That's what I was there for. I knew I was there, but yeah, the energy was just good. It was amazing. So when the whole performance finished, we went back down to the, our dressing room, the homegrown dressing room. I'd done a couple interviews with some of the girls that were there, which was really really great. Glad I got to speak to them, and then myself, naya and Kyla went for a little walkie-poos and we just ended up in the in the spice team, the spice camp.

Speaker 1: 8:09

As soon as I got in there, I saw Chris and Kane from the x-rated podcast. If you don't listen to their podcast and you're into, I don't know, just all things x-rated, I know. And by x-rated it's given porn, it's not like they just don't give a fuck, like they say what they want to say, but it's all jokes, like they cuss each other. It's just fun, it's ban art, it's high energy. And yeah, if you, if you're into, if you like all of that, listen to their podcast, they are absolutely funny.

Speaker 1: 8:44

So I was like, oh, can I have a picture of you guys? Obviously I'm walking around with my mic at this point, innit. So Chris is like, oh okay, like good enough for a picture, but good, not good enough for an interview. And I was like no, no, no, no, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, allow me. Innit, like I just wanted to sneak in there with a picture first, and then I would have been like, oh, um, can I get an interview as well, please? I was gassed. Now, honestly, calm down. I was gassed, I'm not even going to lie. Yeah, woo, yeah, I think I was sweating. I think my palms were sweating while I was talking to them. I was just like, ah, give me butterflies. Anyway, that was cool.

Speaker 1: 9:26

And then a little bit later, I saw Shawnee B who done up cycles for him and alterations and stuff, and he was with the artist shaggy, it wasn't me. And then he was like danny, do you want to interview with shaggy? Spin around, spin around and pinch me. Yeah, okay. So I got to interview mr shaggy. It wasn't me.

Speaker 1: 9:52

No, come on. Are you guys all right? Do you hear what I'm saying? Do, okay. Do you even know who shaggy is? You know what? If you don't know who shaggy is, I don't what. You know? No, I, I actually believe that everyone who's listening to this podcast knows who shaggy is. If you don't, let me know that you don't, because I'm no, yeah, I might crush you, but whatever, it's not your fault, it's not your fault. I guess if I asked callie, do you know who shaggy is? I'm sure she'd say no and I'd be like it wasn't me. She'd be like it wasn't you. What mom? But yeah, honestly, the event was amazing. I'm so glad I got to be part of that. I'm so glad I got to be backstage, up front on stage, all up in the mix, rubbing shoulders with. It was so much fun and it was just good.

Speaker 1: 10:42

Obviously, presenting is what I want to do, what I love, so it was nice to see the people presenting, hosting and just being like in myself, thinking I can do that, can do that, like it doesn't scare me, it doesn't make me think like, oh my god, is this really what you want to do? Absolutely, yeah, even more, like being so up close and and in its face and seeing it, I was like, absolutely, this is what I want to do. This is absolutely what I want to do. I can see myself doing this. The energy would be energising. Are you not here for this. Can you hear me? Can you hear my? Can you hear my? My chest, I sound so blocked. But yeah, just want to say I'm so grateful for that.

Speaker 1: 11:24

So on to the next one. I can't wait to tell you the next one. My wife's coming out with me next week as well, because next week we have the glow mama awards. So remember, a couple months ago I was like guys, go vote for me, I'm nominated for an award the most ethical and sustainable mama. The day has come, well, the day is coming. Next week, saturday, is the actual award show. Uh, obviously I'll be rolling with the mic. Babes that me and this baby ain't going nowhere. I need to speak to the people. We need to have conversations. Everyone needs to know that it's extra tv up in this bizzatch bizzatchy. Do you know what I'm saying? So yeah, I'll be bringing the mic out, but I'm just really excited because obviously it's just a nice opportunity to be around.

Speaker 1: 12:16

Some great mamas get dressed up, just love on each other, lift each other, hype each other up and just congratulate each other, and it would be absolutely great to win. I know I expressed last week what winning would mean to me and why winning is important to me, but also just being there, just knowing that you got nominated for something and so many people believed in you and so many people cast votes for you because they believed in you or they love you or they just want to see you win. It's absolutely amazing. Let's not get it twisted. Winning would be awesome. Just that the the opportunity to get dressed up and have fun and feel sexy and feel cute. I am all the way here for it.

Speaker 1: 13:09

So, yeah, I am working on my dress. I I think my dress is going to be absolutely phenomenal. I can't wait for you guys to see it. Honestly, it's going to be banging. It's going to be absolutely banging. I do say that, although I started it last week and kind of took it apart. But who's worried? We do things lastminutecom around here.

Speaker 1: 13:30

But Monday I'll be working on it. Well, maybe not monday, because, monday being tomorrow, norinda is coming to do part two of my declutter. So, yeah, um, tuesday, I'll be working on it again. I've got such a busy week this week. Um, I'm off to. I'm off to birmingham for a modeling job. Uh, tuesday, I swear I have something on Tuesday. Oh, I can't remember. Sorry this is. I don't know why I'm having this conversation with you guys. It's not like you guys don't care, so yeah, so another thing I actually wanted to inform you guys about March, because January and February, I don't know, they felt quite quiet to me, like obviously I've done a few bits here and there I Belgium.

Speaker 1: 14:16

In February it felt like that was really really the main thing that was happening. I'd done the NHS ad which came out last week. So I guess is that a February thing or a March thing? I'm not sure. But March there's events happening, there's stuff happening in March. So I'm going to give you a rundown of some of the events that happen in that, and one I'm really excited about and two that Miss Mikey will be coming out for.

Speaker 1: 14:42

But one thing I did want to I did want to touch on is that Mummy Pig's pregnant. Now, if you don't know who Mummy Pig is, she's Peppa Pig's mum, daddy Pig's wife, brother george's mum. She's pregnant now, I don't know. Apparently this is um national news and the reason I say that is because, uh, two weeks ago, a couple weeks ago, I was on this morning modeling. So we get to the green room usually getting about 7 30. So I get in about 7 30.

Speaker 1: 15:16

I'm in the green room and I look on the tv and I see, um, I'm not sure who the presenter is, but he's one of the presenters of the good morning show and he's interviewing mummy pig. Like I kid you guys, not, this is a real interview. I mean, obviously it's not a real interview because she's a cartoon, but he's really, he's real and he's interviewing Mummy Pig. So she split screen and she's got a little bump. So I'm reading the subtitles because you know the volume's a bit low. She's like yeah, I'm expecting, sorry, what? Ok, ok, sorry.

Speaker 1: 15:56

I guess what the real question is is why am I so pressed about mommy pig being on tv, getting an interview to be able to talk about the fact that she's pregnant? I don't know, do you know what? Okay, let me be really honest with you guys. This, this level of honesty, might make me look like a little bit of a dickhead. I'm not gonna lie. I think I was a little bit jealous. Oh, wow, did I just say that out loud? Wow, no, I'm being way too honest with you guys. I'm.

Speaker 1: 16:16

I feel like I feel like I was honestly jealous of mummy pig, the fact that she got a slot on daytime tv to talk about her pregnancy, because I tell you what I just want. I just want to get a slot and talk about upcycling and talk about why I love upcycling, and talk about why I love repairing clothes and why I love recreating stuff out of out of eulog trash and why I love saving the planet using people's old garbage and why I love being creative and why I think it's really important for children to really take in the skill of recreating and re-repairing and re-wearing and just loving the things that they spend their money on. That's all I want to do. I just want to sit down and have conversations. I want it. I want it to be on national tv because I want to. I want to hit the masses with with what? With my words, and I want people to be inspired by what it is that I do and then also be inspired by what it is that I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 17:21

But here I am watching Mummy Pig on TV talking about she's pregnant and then here I am watching Mummy Pig do up photo shoots where she's emulated if that's the word other celebrities who have done photo shoots when they were pregnant. So you see, if you guys remember when courtney kardashian told her husband, her newest husband that she was. I think it's the newest husband that she was pregnant. She was at a concert and she held up a sign and she said I'm pregnant, or something marie pig done that. She copied that. She copied Rihanna's pregnancy picture. She copied Beyonce's pregnancy picture where she has the veil over her, the pregnant belly, I think, she's kneeling and she has the arch of flowers around her, or something like that.

Speaker 1: 18:09

All of this, all of this I saw when I was at this morning waiting to be one of the models on the show and, yeah, it made me a little bit jealous. But I'm gonna continue doing what I do. I'm going to keep talking about what it is that I love. I'm gonna keep doing workshops so I can inspire people and bring more people on saying that I have a workshop on Tuesday. That's what I'm doing on Tuesday. I have a workshop on Tuesday where I'm showing people how to upcycle the things that they already have, how to re-repair, reuse, cut up, stick on, sew, mend. All of that stuff is what we'll be doing in this workshop and I'm going to keep doing it because I love it. I absolutely love doing all of this stuff. So, yeah, it's all good right. So to end to end end are we? But it's not that time already, surely?

Speaker 1: 19:07

So up and coming events that I have coming up are, like I said, glow mama's coming up. I also have a launch, a carnival launch. So it's going to be my first launch of the year where I'll be wearing a new costume, launching a new costume, the costume design that's going to be out for this year carnival, august 2025. I'm so excited. I've seen, I've seen a glimpse of the costume. I haven't seen the full costume yet so, honestly, I don't know what I'm wearing and I'm so excited to see it because the designer is theola Designs and her costumes bang. Every year I've mod. This is going to be the third year in a row that I've modelled for her. Every year, costumes bang.

Speaker 1: 19:52

So not obviously, I'm not worried about anything. I've been in the gym. I've had a week off because I've not been feeling well, but I've been in the gym. So body's banging, body's gonna be banging, body's gonna be banging even more by next week, sunday, like, come on, I'm going in this week and, yeah, I'm so excited for you guys to see the pictures, when I don't know if I'll be able to share the pictures straight away or how soon I'll be able to share them, but as soon as I can share them, you guys will see them and you can engage with them and show love to the designers, show love to the, to the tribe team, the mass team, and show love to me.

Speaker 1: 20:29

Obviously, other events, like I said, glow mama, idol home show. I'm back at idol home show this year finally got my well, I got confirmed a couple weeks ago, but I finally got my just my stuff to post so that I can post and show you, like my leaflets and stuff. But you know, obviously they're online, online posts that I'll be posting this week just to show you guys. But also, if you want to come down, I'm only there for one day this year, which is good, because that day that I'm there I'm gonna have two sessions and they will just be sorry, they will just be dedicated. You can come down. It's on a Sunday, which I'm so glad. It's on a Sunday that I'll be there, because I think it's really a great day. So come down. It's great for the family. Bring the whole family down. Kids are free. Obviously they have the food hall there so you could come down from the morning, spend the day there.

Speaker 1: 21:25

I'm not sure yet what time I'm on and hopefully I'll get some times next week, but the 23rd of March is the day that I'm down there and if you need to use my will grant you a discount. So, yeah, I'm really, really hoping that I see a lot of you down there on the sunday, the 23rd, and I'll be on the spring clean stage. So, yeah, once you get there, be where the spring clean stage at, because I'm here to see Danny Dawks in his house and, yeah, someone will show you exactly where it is and hopefully you'll hear me before you see me. Actually, no, no, no, hopefully you won't hear me before you see me, because that means that you'll be late for my presentation. And what am I presenting?

Speaker 1: 22:19

I am going to be doing a presentation on just not even just, let me, not just my stuff, like it's a little thing out here. I'm going to be doing a presentation on getting the most out of your clothes, like repairing your clothes, showing you the hacks, the best things to use to keep your clothes lasting you longer so that you can get the most out of them. If you love your clothes really and truthfully, you want to know the best ways to keep them going for longer, so that you can wear them for longer, so they look good for longer. Gooder is that a word, stop it. So that's basically what I'll be talking about. So I'm really, really excited.

Speaker 1: 22:52

It's going to be a lot more of a show and tell. Which have I done that before? I think last year I'd done a bit of a show and tell where it was showing you how you can do little hacks to re-wear your stuff. So like using ties and pins to make a little blazer. I've done that live last year, which was really, really cool. So just again, I will have little things like that. Like using pins to just to do stuff. Like if you had, if you wanted to itch up your skirt. Yeah, you can do a quick needle and thread to hold it up, but you can do pins and let the pins be seen like gold pins or black pins or silver pins and it just becomes part of your outfit like no mistakes, no, you don't need to hide it. Like visible mending I love me some visible mending. So, yeah, I'm really excited about that.

Speaker 1: 23:40

And what else is happening in March? I've got a few things happening at the end of the month, but they're not things that I'm talking about yet. So you just better watch this stage, you little nosy cat. Stop it. But yeah, what else that's? Do you know what? That's really all that I had on my list of things that I wanted to say. I just wanted to, like I said I've not been feeling too well, well, so I didn't want to stay too long, but clearly I've stayed. I've stayed longer than I usually do, so I think it's the sexy voice. You don't know how I stay in it. When I get a little bit ill, my voice gets a little bit croaky. I'm just like, oh sorry, what you want to hear me talk? Stop it. It's giving sexy, so sexy, so yeah, but that's all you know. I'm going to close it. We're going to close it off there. So peace out, a-town down West side is the best side.

Speaker 1: 24:31

Do I believe that? Not really. Nah, not most of the time. Well, I mean, I feel like it's better than the other sides, but do you know what? Forget that in it.

Speaker 1: 24:41

What I do believe is that we can create the day that we want to have. I do believe happiness is a choice, and I do believe you can go to bed at night and say I am excited for the day that I'm gonna have in the morning. I'm so excited for the day I'm gonna have tomorrow. I'm excited for the things that are going to come to me tomorrow. And you go to sleep with just a positive energy, a positive vibe.

Speaker 1: 25:10

And then you wake up in the morning and the first thing you say is I'm so excited for what's going to happen today. I'm so excited for the good things that are going to happen today. I'm so excited for the conversations that I'm going to have today. And then you go about your day and during the day you say I'm so excited for the good things that are going to happen today. And all you do is just see these good things manifesting in front of you throughout the whole day. And you called it, you said it, you stated it from the beginning of the day and when the little bad thing happens, when the little thing happens, it was just just a moment.

Speaker 1: 25:42

We don't have bad days. We have bad moments. We have bad things that happen, but they don't have to take away the whole goodness, the whole essence of the day that we've manifested for ourselves. One bad thing does not equate to a bad day, it's a bad moment, we keep it moving and we say I'm so excited for the rest of the day that I'm gonna have, that it's gonna be filled with great things manifestation, great people, great vibes, great energy. I love you guys. Peace out a town, down again, and make sure you're here next week, because I'm always keeping the vibes high, I'm always keeping the vibes going and I love you guys in it. Whatever, bye.