LA (Don't get FOMO)
Esther Stanhope, The Impact Guru
TEDx speaker, award-winning author & personal Impact expert helping FTSE 100 execs get promoted, speak like a leader & win pitches with more presence & confidence! Parent, broadcaster & 80% Perfect Club founder
Tip – Don’t get FOMO when you see Instagram images of glossy places & people. Nothing is ever totally perfect!?
Hurrah, we’re back from the US and my mind has been totally blown away.
Yes, my other half, Adam, did his Hollywood ‘meetings’ and they were awesome. His animated movie about an orphan orangutan who saves the rainforest?“Ozi, Voice of the Forest”??is due for release in 2023.?
All sounds very glam and insta-perfect doesn’t it?
However, the ONE thing that really hit home in LA was this….
Don’t believe what you see!
The perfect glossy Instagram images of Hollywood and Venice Beach are NOT what they seem.?
You know this, right?
You know that Instagram is usually photo-shopped, tinted, plucked and plumped up (OMG, I’ve seen some sights).
However, when I saw all the hundreds of homeless people sleeping on the sand, dump trucks and litter bins as the sun came up, I was shocked, but not surprised.
Santa Monica 7.30am, homeless sleeper and trash truck before the surfers come out.
Nothing is perfect!