00:04Hello, I'm Yinka Bikini and today I'm sharing a diet coke break with influencer, style icon
00:10and blogger Tia Ward. The subject is dating and we're gonna get into it talking about breakups,
00:16talking about dating advice. Are you ready? I'm ready, let's go. So you spoke about relationships
00:22a lot covering a broad range of topics on YouTube and you obviously went through like a big breakup
00:27so like why do you think that it's important to share your experience? I just think that there's
00:32so much to learn from sharing like the minute you don't voice your experience with even just
00:37with your friendship group no one learns anything. I guess that like you never know what other people
00:42have been through as well so everyone like sort of smiles and like hey I'm great but behind that
00:48the experiences do happen. Yeah definitely and you know we all put on this mask for everyday life some
00:53of the most bonding and fabulous conversations I've had with my female friendship group specifically
01:00have only been so informative because of the honesty. You're not always going to agree with
01:05people and yeah you're not always going to be right and your friend's gonna have to check you
01:08sometimes but that's fine you know because you grow and again then you when you know better you do better.
01:13So like what what inspired you to to start this series? I think when you go through oh that was
01:21satisfying. Yeah it was it was it was quite snazzy. I was so bored of seeing makeup tutorials and you
01:29know perfect family life I had an influx of DMs and questions from family friends strangers and I just
01:37thought what a better way to answer these questions than on YouTube. When a relationship does become
01:41tumultuous yes it can sort of like break down your confidence how did you build that back up?
01:46For me personally spending time by myself and really get into the core of who I was again I let
01:52myself fill my own cup up again because you can't pour from an empty cup. When I met you the
01:58first time
01:58you had like knee-length hair I swear. Maybe not knee-length hair. It was long. It was it was
02:03on its way there. Yeah.
02:05Do you think it's part of the healing process do you think it's sort of like cutting off the old
02:09energy yeah
02:10is it is it symbolic that way? I think so for me it was. It looks good. I wanted to
02:14change I wanted
02:15to feel like a new person because I felt like your image is something that you can control you can
02:21pick
02:21your clothes you can pick your hair your color whether or not you wear makeup or not what jewelry
02:25you have on these are all expressions of yourself and again being in a situation where I felt like I'd
02:30lost part of my identity and I was finding my feet again part of me was like I just want
02:35a
02:35transformation yeah what is the strangest date that you've ever been on I can let you know mine go on
02:40yeah so there was this oh my gosh listen yeah it was mad so um this guy was like oh
02:49you want to go
02:49on a date yeah and I'm not really but my sister was like yeah just go you haven't been on
02:53a date in
02:53ages yeah went yeah rocked up and he took me to a life drawing class but like naked people yeah
02:59it's
02:59like a naked lady yeah which is fine because I like I like drawing it's lovely but then it's like
03:04if you saw what he was drawing yeah it was really inappropriate oh no and then it's like he kind
03:10of
03:10hung around at the end of the class oh no to the model doing creep mode yeah just just doing
03:15and it
03:15was doing the most he was doing the most okay I mean he became teacher he became student oh he
03:21became
03:21creep oh I was just standing there just like holding my pencil in the back confused can you tell me
03:27your best chat up line I'm more of a banter person I'd probably make a joke about your earrings like
03:32did you know your earrings don't match they told me they look nice they do look nice so basically
03:36it'll be banter you're playing on my insecurities to get oh no no I got one I got one go
03:42on I like
03:43your rings you should give me a call oh okay I see you I see you thank you so much
03:50for having me thank
03:51thank you for coming my love
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