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Ep#99 The UGC Marketplace Revolution: How We're Putting Power Back in Creators’ Hands with A New Platform for You

• Kristen Werner & Mia Steel

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Tired of middlemen, high platform fees, and confusing content rights? This episode reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how we partnered with Fingertip, an award-winning Australian tech company, to launch a creator-led UGC marketplace that changes the game for good.

You’ll hear how a perfectly-timed email led to a partnership with Forbes 30 Under 30 founder Ollie, and how our shared values creator ownership, transparency, and direct brand access formed the foundation for a platform built by creators, for creators.

We break down:

  • Why UGC creators are done with platforms that take a cut of their pay
  • How you can keep 100% of your earnings and still grow your creator business
  • Why Fingertip’s tech stack is a game-changer for managing portfolios, contracts, and invoices
  • What this means for brands tired of scrolling TikTok to find creators
  • How you can join the marketplace now for just $10/month

Whether you're a creator sick of chasing briefs or a brand craving better content sourcing, this is your backstage pass to the platform that’s redefining the UGC space.

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Speaker 1:

Are you ready to master the art of creating content that converts?

Speaker 2:

Hey, I'm Mia, a mum of two who went from being a burnt out ambo to six-figure content creator in less than a year, all while navigating a late ADHD diagnosis.

Speaker 1:

And I'm Kristen, also a mum of two and a former corporate branding queen turned entrepreneur.

Speaker 2:

My dyslexic brain sees marketing very differently, and that's my superpower, and together we're showing women like you how to master video marketing and create content that generates income, whether you're just starting out or ready to scale?

Speaker 1:

we are breaking down everything from landing brand deals to building your own empire.

Speaker 2:

Welcome to. I Am that Content Creator podcast where we turn scroll stopping content into serious income. No filters, no fluff, just real strategies from two neurodivergent mums who get it. So let's turn your phone into a video marketing machine and let's go, let's go, guys be professional guys, I'm going in. Okay, there's that intro done.

Speaker 1:

Welcome to the I Am that Content Creator podcast. We're cutting through the noise to show you exactly how to create scroll-stopping content, land premium brand deals and build a thriving online business. No BS, just proven strategies that scale. Welcome, I'm Kristen Werner, joined by Mia. Let's go. Welcome to the podcast. Today. Mia and I have just come off the back of a fucking great chat inside the hive live with a very, very, very exciting thing that is happening in terms of somebody we've partnered with to do something very fancy, fucking schmancy in the UG space, but also in the link in bio space. We just had Ollie from fingertipcom. We got fingertipped. Yeah, we got fingertipped. Yes, we've been fingertipped. Can we unfold what that actually means? Because to the outside world, who's listening? You guys are like gross. What are we talking about?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, look, we're kind of breaking up with.

Speaker 1:

Stan Storm. I mean they've been so fucking good to us and like Stan's store makes so much sense. But something's happened and it's Australian and we're kind of sick for it and we want to tell you a little bit about it.

Speaker 3:

It's been really great to work with you guys so far and kind of building out what thing it could be for your audience and for everyone on this call. Like, I really appreciate your time now and I'm really excited to share what fingertip is about. So my story I'm from melbourne originally, I moved to sydney and I'm now married and we have to compromise between melbourne and sydney and obviously it's sydney. I don't think I had much of a chance there, but very happy here, and my experience has been in quite a few different industries. I worked at L'Oreal in commercial strategy. Then I went up to Sydney and joined Klarna, which is the buy not pay later, when buy not pay later was like hot shit.

Speaker 3:

And then I've worked in a couple of other startups and it got to a point about two years ago where I was working in the startup I wasn't feeling as thrilled by the leadership of that company, but I love the product and I was like man, if I just had my own time and my own chance to give this a crack, like maybe I could make it something. And so I thought you know what? Fuck it. Excuse my language, fuck it.

Speaker 1:

That's very welcome here. The very same place.

Speaker 3:

And I just thought I'd give it a go, and my fiancee at the time was very supportive.

Speaker 3:

Probably shouldn't have bought the engagement ring two weeks before quitting my job and giving fingertip a crack, but that's the lesson a better decision, I feel I think I probably should have waited no way that I didn't wait, because it might have been some costume jewelry otherwise and so I just kind of started this journey. And I started it with some other co-founders who were involved in a previous startup as well, and I had started the fingertip journey without actually knowing what fingertip was going to be yet. I knew that there was a problem, but I didn't. How do these small businesses or these independents or these freelancers, sole traders, get online in a way that isn't intimidating or expensive and it's really, really accessible? Because those are the three really important pillars of what we've eventually built. So I spent six months just hustling, literally walking the streets, speaking to as many different businesses as possible, from tattoo artists to cafe owners, to retail shops, whatever it be. And my initial version of fingertip was a little bit more QR code centric, and the idea was to have a QR code in every single shop front for mom and pop shops that would lead to this business hub. But as I learned as I started pitching this to hundreds of businesses a week, was that they were more excited by this business hub. So then I flipped the pitch around and started pitching the fact that I could help them get online in a really easy way and get all the different bits of information from different platforms into one clean and accessible platform, and that seemed to make their ears prick up. So that's kind of when the first iteration of Fingertip was born and when we started building it A couple of months after that, I brought on a technical co-founder His name is Matt who is incredibly talented, and then from that point on it was just like a rocket ship where we started building really really fast.

Speaker 3:

You know Kristen and Mayor can attest to that that we like to build and listen and constantly keep iterating, and so that's when fingertip was born. And the first version of fingertip, which I'll go through with you guys in a second, was a website builder. We just wanted to not be as simple as a link tree, but then not as scary and as intimidating as a Squarespace or a Wix. So what's that middle space going to look like and how am I going to make someone really confident that they can go in and update whatever they need? And for Matt and I it was like if our mums can use it, then I think we've built something really good. So that was kind of like the test that we used and it's worked really well.

Speaker 3:

And then after that, it was calling up customers for months being like hey, I'm Ollie, really appreciate you taking a chance on fingertip, but what do you actually want out of this? And from those conversations and from those coffees that we had hundreds of coffees that we had over the three or four month period of feedback, we learned that they needed not just a website builder that is mobile friendly, but a appointment scheduler, an invoicing tool, the ability to sell products or to generate surveys and forms, to write blogs, whatever it be. And we're constantly iterating and continuously listen to our customers. And that's essentially what's brought Fingertip to what it is today.

Speaker 2:

It's very, very cool, and I'm just going to plug you for a minute because you probably won't do it yourself, but Ollie has won a few prizes. I'm just going to read them out. So you've got the 2024 Air Wallex Australia E-commerce Tech Innovator Award, which is very cool. You've been named the Nora Tech Evangelist of the Year also very cool. Forbes 30 Under 30, amazing, and also winner of the PAWS Awards Prodigy Prize. So you're a busy man. You've done it all. It's only the beginning.

Speaker 3:

That was very nice. I didn't know you were going to do that.

Speaker 2:

It's amazing. I can't not say that you've done amazing things and fingertip really only launched two years ago not even 12 months yeah, so you've done a lot.

Speaker 1:

To put it into context, certainly for our community. You know we're very across the dance floor and all that kind of stuff, but what we love when we connect with you and you showed us fingertip, it was like holy shit. The possibilities are endless and you've created something that is so user-friendly and so easy to change and move about. And I think the way that you're listening to customers and even the way the conversations that we've had with you the ability to go, yep, cool, we'll try it. Like I think that's what makes businesses like Fingertip so easy to work with is because you've got people that are ready to go yeah, fuck it, let's give it a shot. Didn't work, okay, we'll try again. Like that's what probably attracted us most of anything.

Speaker 1:

I think Ollie sent us an email and, um, the kite site guys introduced us and so he sent us an email me and I working. I was like and we were just building what is UGC, hide ourselves, right, that's what we were doing at the time. We got Ollie's email and me and I were like, fuck it, should we just reply? Like we can chat. And then we replied. He replied and within like what 20 minutes we were on a call together.

Speaker 1:

So, like it's just really exciting to be in a space with people that are willing to give stuff like this a try and getting into fingertip and using it and understanding it. I think you guys are going to be blown away with the cost saving that you have in something like fingertip, but then what it's actually able to do for you and your business, and when we also show you that how we've combined the Hive marketplace with this, the UGC marketplace with this, it's just really incredible that there are tools now that you can use in your business that really, really work for you. So that's kind of how this all amalgamated If you're trying to understand what it looks like we're going to show you a bit further.

Speaker 3:

But yeah, you guys move fast and we like that a lot. It's such a pleasure to hear when people are excited by fingertip. As much as we wanted feedback from our customers, it was also really exciting to hear that people loved it as much as Matt and I loved building it. We're building something that Matt and I are excited by. I wish I had something like this with all these crazy, weird ideas I had growing up.

Speaker 3:

The hardest part is just finding the right platform to get started, whether it be washing cars or dog walking or small little startup ideas. I just needed one place to consolidate this information, so at least it seemed more professional than just an idea. It was just something to get started, and the great thing with fingertip is again, like I mentioned before, it's all about accessibility and affordability. The decision that people come to whether they're going to start that hustle or not or, you know, start a new business, whatever it be it's a lot of stress comes with that decision, so we want to try and make that as easy as possible and risk-free as possible. You can start for free with fingertip and jump into the features without overcommitting, and we're confident that once you do, you know, give us a go that you'll love it.

Speaker 1:

I think the other thing, like before, which we can clearly tell but you guys are Australian and I think, like most of our communities, we have some US and some UK, but most of us are Australian and it's just nice to hear an Australian business owner doing shit like this for us, where it's not common and that's what we love about what Mia and I have built is there's not a lot of people in Australia doing what we do for a community, for what we do. So it's just really nice that the partnership has worked like that, that you guys are also um in Australia as well. I think that's part of the support we're really excited about yeah, so we'll rewind back to how all of this started.

Speaker 1:

So I'm gonna put a sound effect in here when I do it. So this one time, this one time at BrainCamp.

Speaker 2:

This one time I had this adhd idea to create a whole, entire ugc marketplace, and so creators didn't have love about that idea.

Speaker 1:

Dear me, is you, like in our slack channel, put like I've had this idea, it's amazing, but I just need to sit with that and get it out. I can't tell you yet. So there was like a pause of like, like every so often we have these, these entrepreneurial adhd ideas sometimes we act too fast or fuck it up and sometimes we go, no, I'm going to let it sit. And you didn't let it sit and I was like fucking tell me. And you're like it's not ready yet.

Speaker 2:

I had to let it sit, I had to make it sound really good to you. Like I felt like I was pitching the idea to you because I'm like, well, this could be fucking good, but I've just got to make it sound really, really good, and so I was getting it in my head. I'm like, yes, this is a big problem, we're solving a problem. This is, you know, something that our creators need. And anyway, I had this idea because, obviously, I've been a UGC creator for three years now and I've worked with a lot of brands and I've worked on a lot of platforms and with agencies and recently I've been, you know, I've had a bit of an influx of UGC jobs and it's starting to really piss me off with all of these agency fees and Upwork tokens and Upwork fees and fees, fees, fees, fees. And you know, a few times I've worked with agencies and they're like, oh, our budget for you is $200. I'm like, well, our budget for you is $200. I'm like, well, no, no, no, I know that you're charging the brand thousands of dollars to do this, no, and so it's just, it's a thing Like there's there's fees.

Speaker 2:

And I thought, these poor brands who don't go through UGC platforms and who don't go through. Agencies sit on social media scrolling, scrolling, messaging hundreds of creators, only to find that it's not the right match or, you know, go back and forth with emails for ages and just doesn't work out. And there isn't really a platform dedicated for UGC creators where brands can find them and work with them directly, without going through the tokens and the platform fees and the terms and conditions of some of these UGC platforms. Basically, you're signing all of your content away, you're signing usage rights away, you're signing your what do you call it? The rights to your content. So they own your content and they want all the raw footage for free, and it just goes on and on, and so I'm like well, there's nowhere for us to go and be found. Why don't we build it? And so we started building it.

Speaker 1:

We did do what we say, though, mia, and we backed it before we build it. Now, this is something massive that we talk about inside our community, and for those who are a little neuro-spicy, for those that like to pivot and like to just fucking do shit, we do have a process that is back it before you build it. So you want to back your idea before you go and actually spend the time in building it, and we did that. In our community, we're like, fuck yeah, so we backed it before we built it.

Speaker 2:

And this is a good lesson too. If you've been in a niche or something and you've established a problem and you think you can solve it, go for it. But go to your community, ask them. Just reassure yourself, it might be a problem for you, but no one else gives a shit about it. So you take that problem, you find a solution. You go to your audience, you ask them is this something that you would want? And our community said hell, yes. So, like right, we've got a wait list, get on the wait list. And we're going to start building this thing.

Speaker 2:

And, as the universe has it, we were building this thing and we were getting into all the tech and the software and doing all this stuff and we got this little email from this random guy. As we were building, said thing, said thing, luckily only a few weeks in, not like months into it. And he's like um, a friend told me to get in contact with you guys and just want to see if you'd like to I don't know see what we do and see if we can. I don't even remember what the email was. Basically it was just like a couple of sentences.

Speaker 1:

It was basically like hey, so-and-so, said get in touch, this is what we do. And we kind of clicked on the link and we were both working in Slack at that time. We're like fuck it, We'll just email him back. So email back saying, yeah, cool, we're here, like if you want to jump on now, and he's like great. So he jumped on and like within it would have been like a half an hour turnaround. All of a sudden we're on a, on a um google meet with him finding out this and like blown away, like we're like boom, like the mind blown.

Speaker 2:

Emojis everywhere, yeah yeah, I think we fell in love with ollie straight away because immediately, like this guy works as fast as us.

Speaker 1:

He works fast, he works hard and what he's building is fucking sick and he's got that attitude that we love and that what we've got inside our community like anything's possible, like cool, you don't know. Well, we'll find a way, we'll find a way like it'll be fine, yeah, um, I think that's what we, yeah, that's what we like so much. It was like, yep, cool, let's test it, let's see so it. Right place, right time and this is what we talk about inside our community all the time is this kind of stuff. When you put yourself out there and when you're building your personal brand, you become magnetic to opportunities, and sometimes they're great opportunities and sometimes they're not. But this, this is not a pretty good one so far.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and look, ollie didn't even know that we were creating a UGC marketplace. He just thought that, you know, we had this community of creators who would like to use his product, and so we got talking and we just mentioned that we were just building this marketplace. So, for context, ollie's company is called Fingertip and so basically, he has built this freaking amazing website builder that is like a link in bio tool, basically a stand store on steroids, and we immediately fell in love with his product when we met him on the Zoom and he took us through it and we're like, hmm, wouldn't it be cool if the marketplace was all of these fingertips in one place, so all these UGC creators could create their fingertip and be displayed in a marketplace where brands could use filters and search through them and find the exact creator that they're looking for? And he's like you know what? Sure, let's do it.

Speaker 1:

And we had a partnership that very day, basically, and he just helped us build it and they did all the backend and the landing pages and all the tech, and it's been so fun working with them and we just launched it to our community today and he came in Lots of excited messages in the community about this, because what this does for you as a business owner for example, if your digital products or if you have a brick and mortar business, like they've set it up so incredibly well that it's the link in bio, it's the tool that, like he said when we spoke today. He said we basically built something that if our moms could use it, then it's good enough. As in, it's easy, it's simple, it's not overwhelming, but it's drag and drop and it's making bigger and smaller and it's like you can drag and drop and make things adjustable straight away. It's mobile friendly. It's incredible in terms of what you can do with the platform.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so all the UGC stuff aside, fingertip yeah, it's this link in BioBuilder where you can you don't need a website, you don't need Calendly, you don't need, you know, invoicing tools Like it does literally everything that you could possibly think of you can build courses, you can invoice, you can write blogs, you can embed all of your socials, your podcasts, your everything inside this fingertip and it's all optimized for mobile. It's incredible and, yeah, we just fell in love with the product and decided that this is going to be the perfect place for UGC creators to not only build their portfolio, so they can ditch the Canva websites that you know. The big long Canva links and the videos play all at once and it takes you ages to design. They can get a portfolio up in seconds, basically, basically because they've got lots of AI tools in there integrated to help you, and yeah, and you can have your own URL as well.

Speaker 1:

You can either purchase a URL inside of Fingertip or, if you've got one, you can connect it to it. So it comes from that Just little things that are so incredibly helpful. Even the thing that I love the most that still blows my mind is the invoicing. You could do invoicing from your fingertips, so it just makes the process so easy. And just stepping through it like it's an absolute no-brainer in terms of how simple it is to use and the tools as a business owner and as a UGC creator like they just it just makes so much sense. It's kind of scary.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah. And so the whole idea around our marketplace is that we want all the money from the brand's budget to go directly to the creator. No middlemen, no agency, no platform fees. It's your money, your contract, your rates, your terms, and the brands have an easy way to work with you, connect with you. All they have to do is put in their key search words, like I'm looking for a mom who is 40 plus and has a caravan, and you put those keywords inside your portfolio and they can find you straight away and then fill out your form, you can invoice them, you can even do your contracts on there. They can sign the contracts on your fingertip as well, and Bob's your uncle and we're pretty freaking excited about it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah. So if you're listening to this and you are a UGC creator, what's up? Do we want to just talk through, mia, the process of how you can join the UGC Hive marketplace and what that looks like, and, I think, just to like our big vision for it. Like Mia said before, it's really to take that messy middle out the way so that the brands are getting the most out of this and you, as the content creator and the UGC creator, are getting the most out of this. Will there be some back and forth? Yeah, but that's very normal. However, we're taking away all those pain points. We're just making it easier with the forms that we've inbuilt, the questions that you can ask, the way that we've set up, the template for you to use. We've made it easier. So I suppose I think we need to just make it really clear that if you want to be on this marketplace, how can you be on our marketplace?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so you can join through our marketplace link and even if you aren't a UGC creator, you can still sign up and use fingertip a real link and buy tool. It's amazing just for that. But if you are a UGC creator and you want to get found by brands on this platform, you sign up, you create your fingertip, your portfolio, and then we put it onto the marketplace and we're going to be working with brands and getting brands into this marketplace to find creators and whatnot. So we'll be working on both sides. But essentially you could be on the marketplace with your fingertip portfolio.

Speaker 2:

But then the great thing with fingertip is it's sort of like a website in that you can create multiple different pages. So you might have one page for your portfolio that's on the marketplace, another page that is in your TikTok bio where you're selling your digital products and all the other stuff. You might have a separate page for another side hustle, because you're spicy like us and you're selling something completely different. You can have all these different pages with one fingertip. And the biggest thing with this is price.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, so we skipped over that. We should put that at the very fucking top, shouldn't we Sold?

Speaker 2:

ties Shits all over anything else that you know when you sit down and you know I'd hate to do that for our business you sit down and you look at all your subscription fees.

Speaker 1:

We did do that and we ignore it constantly. It's in a spreadsheet in the deep, dark depths of the Google. Drive.

Speaker 2:

Bookkeeping, not our problem.

Speaker 1:

Problem. Not right now is problem.

Speaker 2:

And like as much as we love Stan and we've been loyal to Stan this whole time you know, 29 USD a month or 99 USD a month can be a lot of money for a creator who's just starting out, and you've got other expenses and whatnot. Fingertip is 10 USD a month for everything.

Speaker 1:

And you can try it for free. If you just need to be like, let's just have a little looksy poos, you can do that. But once you realize its capabilities I mean for $10 US a month you may as well just jump the fuck in.

Speaker 2:

really yeah basically, and when you join through our marketplace link, you get to be on the marketplace included in that price as well. So it's super, super affordable.

Speaker 1:

So many things that it can do, I think what's cool about the way that well, what's cool about us and the way that we've set it up. I said that in my own head. I was like what the fuck that's really. What we're excited about is how we've set it up is when you join through our link, if you choose to join the marketplace hopefully you do, but we've got free trainings inside a free portal. So when you join you can come in and get those free trainings and get some different tools and tips in a free portal and then join to the marketplace fingertip link in there. And what we're hoping that that's going to do is for brands if brands are listening to this we really want creators that have been trained in UGC so that you as a brand, understand like.

Speaker 1:

My background is brand and marketing. I've been at it for kind of 10, 15 years. It's my passion point. I understand what a brand needs. Mia is somebody that has done the content creation for brands very successfully and now she has got the niche. She understands what brands need. So together we've got the training to create that for you as a creator and for a brand. You can kind of then trust that we haven't just gone and fucking got anybody in there and gone. Yeah, fuck it, let's fill it up. But we're actually saying, cool, if you come in, here's some free training. So if you don't feel like you're up to spec or you want some more, you've got questions and then from there you can also come into any of our programs inside the Hive either the Fast Track Method or our community in general, if you want more support.

Speaker 1:

So this isn't something that we're leaving everybody out to dry here. We really want to make sure that we support the larger community and for brands, we want you to hear this as a brand and understand that the amount of TikToks I've seen and me and I have shared between each other brands coming on saying I don't know where to find creators. This is what I want. I'm looking and you know we can see the comments, thousands of comments. I'm like holy shit, like just people just finding them.

Speaker 1:

We want this to be for a brand. We want you to be able to go oh my God, I can go to UGC Marketplace in the. Oh, it's all free for you if you're a brand and you just type in I want a pregnant woman who has a caravan and is traveling Australia. I don't know, you may or may not be that, but the tags in there are going to allow you to do that. So, as a brand, I think what Mia and I have done and you know when Mia came to me originally with this idea, when she pitched her idea which was fucking great Cause they always are, our ideas are always amazing when we sit on them, like the idea was pitched I think what we like the most about it is that it matched both of our strengths in terms of what we bring together as a team to the hive and what we bring together supporting a community in general the UGC creators and the brands to get the most for both. So I think that's what we're actually really proud of. Is that that?

Speaker 2:

is possible and I think our differentiator, I guess you could say, is this is a marketplace built by content creators. We're on the ground with you, we're listening to you, we're listening to brands, we're working with brands. We're not some tech head up in our office who's just created this platform and just charges everyone money just to be the middleman and match people. No, we want the creators that are on our marketplace to be empowered, be educated, have tools and resources that are going to help them, and you know we'll have onboarding processes and you know instructions and you know advice to help you make your portfolio stand out like. Have an introduction video and list out this and do this and do this, so it's seamless for not only you but the brand as well.

Speaker 1:

And the process inside the fingertip platform is so simple, but we've created a template for you. So, if you want to, you can use our template straight up so that you can just jump in there and use it. You can also shift around and change it. You can start from scratch or you can use a template. So we've already set things up to make this easier, because we're about making things easier, simpler, cheaper, smarter, faster, harder, all the things. So I think you know and what was really cool, even just then when you were saying Mia, about just you know, if you've got questions, you want to change things.

Speaker 1:

The things that we love about partnering with Fingertip is Oli and his team are the same. They are all for what doesn't work, what does work. Let me know feedback, I'll think about it, I'll test it. I'll try it. Yes, we can do that. We haven't got it yet, but we will try. And I think when you work with companies like that and people like that, everyone becomes successful because you know there's nobody going no, can't do it, no, too hard. No, don't want to. You've actually got people, like you said, not the tech heads that are sitting out there just shucking something out in the hope to make some money. You've actually got people on the ground that give a shit about you as a person not about the whole idea, but you as a person.

Speaker 2:

I think that's why we're so excited to be partnering with Fingertip and a really good thing about fingertip, too, is there is so much functionality and design and you can really make it you. You can put your colors in and your pretty pictures and all these things, because I don't know if you've ever Gifts, gifts, whatever, like when you set up an Upwork, you know portfolio. It's so fucking boring. There's a bit of text and some videos and you're like, yay, this is great. And then you're in this big sea of creators from all over the world and you've got to buy tokens and it just stinks basically. So hopefully, this is a place where you can express yourself, your creativity, bring your personal brand into it. You know, we've just shown the creators an example of mine and you can embed your TikTok feed into there. You can embed your podcast, you can put reviews so brands can review you, and you can put that on your fingertip and it's all in real time and it's just yeah, it's freaking cool, basically, it's just freaking cool, just full stop freaking cool.

Speaker 1:

And if you don't need to be a member of the Hive, our larger community to be part of the marketplace, we've made it so that anybody can be a part of it. If you are a creator, we'd love you to join up, but it's also if you get inside the portal that we've created and you're learning a lot, you're like holy shit, these guys have got what I want. Well then, just you can join us there too, but you don't need to. And I think that's also important is we really want to create a space for creators to get paid well and to make it fun and uniquely you, because you need to stand out in this space and you know, with AI and all that shit coming full throttle at us, the more that you can stand out as you, the more powerful you will become in this space. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2:

Yep. So we're super pumped, super excited. You're going to be hearing a lot more about this and, like Kristen said, it's separate to our community If you're not part of our community. That's cool, like we just want creators to succeed and be found and express themselves and have a really seamless experience when it comes to content and getting paid for it and you know, you can say goodbye to your Canva.

Speaker 1:

So we'll put all the links in the show notes for you so that you can go down and grab them, check it out. We'll put our fingertip link in bio. Now We've kind of like launched it so you can go and check that out and have a look. But, mia, we haven't done it. But like likes, don't likes. I think we need to get back into it, you know I'm gonna put me on the spot.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, that's, that's mine. Damn. Oh, can you go first?

Speaker 1:

while I think about it. I was hoping you'd go first. I can think of something. So my life I mean other than fingertip, I think would be what we were saying before is I'm about to go out and do the mowing on the vineyard. It's finally rained here in South Australia, thank fuck. And all of a sudden the grass is like yum, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, and it's very green. It's very green and she's very fluffy and just dewy, and so I'm going to do the mowing this afternoon. I'm going to put my pants on, I'm going to mow.

Speaker 2:

You gave me the feels when all those big trucks were delivering all the hay.

Speaker 1:

Dude, I have cried copious times over that Like, even when my kids are so crying. I was like I don't know what and I've been like this like for my whole life. When I'm happy about something and my heart is full, I just cry Like my tear ducts go. I'm sorry, we are full and we need to express oh my God, I don't know.

Speaker 1:

Western Australia is doing Farmers for Borders I think it's called and they're donating hay to South Australia because we're in a severe drought and you can't buy hay. You can't buy hay in South Australia and you can't New South Wales and the eastern coasts are very expensive. So the wa farmers have got together and donated. There was 90 semi-trailers and this is now. I've got goosebumps again 90 semi-trailers traveling the nullable fucking plains. I'm like about to cry now thinking about it. 3.6 kilometers long these, like all the semi-trailers were, and they're just going out to farms that need it, just dropping off this hay and like the tiktoks, because the music and everything and now the footage is like oh my god, people are nice, we're not all bad human and especially, like you know, we're.

Speaker 1:

We're in viticulture. We don't have a farm of that scale or anything, but we're in viticulture. We don't have a farm of that scale or anything, but we're in farming and like viticulture has been a fucking cut. It's really, it's just really taken a hit and you know there's vineyards being pulled out all around us because basically the last couple of years we've just been making it and so it fucking hurts. Like you get into farming and you do this and as an Australian especially, I couldn't even imagine. I saw it on that tiktok page. One of the south australian farmers was saying they've been in cattle for however many years and she said we can't get the truck to market because of the sandstorm they had and they can't feed their cows, so like we've just had to sell them all, so now they don't have any cows in their farm.

Speaker 2:

These are the people that are feeding us and like how can the government and just what it like, just don't give a fuck.

Speaker 1:

And you have to this whole like american beef to australia. I can't even listen, I can't even like, just so that, yeah, that would be my love, actually, because so go and watch it. Farmers over borders or farmers for borders, or something like that, get on tiktok and just get a tissue and fucking cry that shit out because my heart was so full. That's my love.

Speaker 2:

That was my love too. But also you do a Don't Love, oh, Don't Love, oh my poor little Dixie dog.

Speaker 1:

She's just behind me, pod dog, she's 16, and she was shaking her head and so the vet was like oh, I think she's got a grass seed in her ear, so it's okay and I we have to put her on a andy's whatever, put her to sleep for a little minute to do that, because she won't let me. Um, and they said, because she's older, we'll just do it really quickly and we'll just get it done anyway. So I took her in there and even when I left I was like please wake up, fucking please wake up. She did and she was fine, but like she's drinking lots of water and she's had a couple little accidents because she's so tired and I just I'm so sorry, mum. So I'm just kind of like I keep looking at her, like I know you're 16 and I know you have to go one of these days, but I'm not going to cope. So if we could not do that, it's the worst.

Speaker 2:

I don't know if you've ever had to put a dog down before, but oh my God, it's not cool.

Speaker 1:

That'll be a moment where you guys are like I haven't seen Kristen for six months and I will just be under this desk howling my eyes out.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And 16, gosh she's doing quite well and even a you know 30 something year old general anesthetic. It knocks you around, yeah, so it's 112 or something, she's whatever.

Speaker 1:

Seven times 16 is. Anyway, she's still at the harmony now. She's all right, but that's my don't. Love is the fact that, like one that's going to happen, but also like just having to take her and she hates going there. No little face, it's like mom don't do it anyway love our dogs love our dogs back to the loves. Lots of love, let's play.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, look this. Uh, this is so random but I don't know. Change the subject here. But I don't know about you, but one of my loves is watching botched that's the fucking weirdest love ever, but I'm here for it.

Speaker 1:

Do you know what? It is, is that the plastic surgery? Fucking show it.

Speaker 2:

It is so random and I love it, and every time it comes on my partner's just like, oh, for fuck's sake, like why the fuck do you watch this? I don't know. Like I love the doctors, they're hilarious and I just love seeing all this stuff that people have gotten done before. I don't know, I haven't gotten anything done yet.

Speaker 1:

I'm quite to embrace that shit. So you haven't had Botox. No, that's also what TikTok filters are for is to look like I've got Botox. I can't see me, you can see me, I can't, but on TikTok I can see me. So I'm like, that filter's nice, it's not much, just enough.

Speaker 2:

Buttons it out. You do it. You gotta keep going back. It's like that you couldn't stop, because you'd be like, oh yeah, so I haven't had anything me boobs and me boobs, me teeth and me teeth, me everything, everything. But I like watching other people get botched. Um, I love it. So that's my love, my don't love. Oh, I don't know, I'm not really feeling like a don't love kind of day. Actually, we don't always have to have a don't love kind of day.

Speaker 1:

actually, we don't always have to have a don't love, which is nice. I think we've got a lot of wholesome loves.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I don't want to think too hard about what I don't love.

Speaker 1:

No, we can just put that on our rant Slack channel. We have a Slack channel called the Rant Hotline, which we decided to create because we didn't want to negatively impact anything else we chat about. So sometimes and it can just be like don't even listen to this. You know, I just needed this out of my body and hear me. You can have it.

Speaker 1:

Don't you just love our Slack channels. We've got universe messages, shower thoughts, rant channel. Sometimes we accidentally put the wrong things in the wrong channel, like where was that really important message? I'm like I don't know, I was probably in fucking shower thoughts or some shit.

Speaker 2:

So we need AI in Slack to just like what were we talking about that day, about this thing, and then we'll just go and find it.

Speaker 1:

How do you know you're an ADHD entrepreneur? Look at the Slack channels, could you?

Speaker 2:

imagine. All right. Well, let's round up a good day of fingertipping launching stuff.

Speaker 1:

I'm going to go and have a mo. Yeah, you have a mo. All right, team, we'll see. Our next episode will be the hundredth oh what the fuck have we got?

Speaker 2:

like 100 episodes, 100 100, is that 100 weeks? No, there must have been we have we skipped a few, do we yeah?

Speaker 1:

actually not many, like every so often we do, but I must admit we're pretty solid. I think maybe we should revisit episode one. Ooh, maybe we'd listen to it. We're just going to have a chat with you guys right now. Maybe we'd listen to it and be like, ooh, what the fuck were you talking about? Maybe we'd listen to it and then just refresh, yeah, guys. So next week, next week, hopefully next week next episode Is number 100.

Speaker 2:

What's that stat where they're like only 1 percent of podcasters get past episode 30.

Speaker 1:

Is it there you go, so guys I've moved on like I've now got a bloody spatula and I'm like folks can't be far from another one I like that your spatula's pink as well. I know right, fuck All right. Sheet podcast, please. It's good, absolutely so many good ones too.