Vibin' & Kinda Thrivin'

I keep reading how “aggressive” Vee and A were on this episode and I just have to say I fully and whole heartedly disagree. Sure they’re frustrated with all the talk concerning them, and they’re speaking on that. But in no way did this come off as aggressive towards the listeners or to the other parties involved in this situation. Vee and Alessandra are both very well spoken and clear with their opinions and view points on the situation in front of them. If you want aggressive go listen to the latest episode of Barely Famous- that’s mean girl energy. Not once did either of these women bash anyone , Kail & Lindsie could never say the same.

Alessandra is so relatable and raw. Love the way she’s so open about mental health struggles. Thank you for sharing and making this a safe place.

I one thousand percent could not relate more to the way you ladies described the way you feel. I have never been able to vocalize this to anyone and thought something was wrong with me. Hearing that I am not alone in feeling this way just took such a weight off my shoulders. Thank you for always being so open about these type of things.

Love you ladies and the relatable topics. I’ve also gotten into some products I really like based on the suggestions. I originally came over to listen as I really love BMND and this podcast is a different but a nice vibe between friends. Keep doing you.

This podcast feels tone deaf and disingenuous. The hosts love to speak over each other and not get to the point. I particularly do not like that they’ve talked about keeping it real while they are truly being fake under the pretense of asking for privacy when they themselves made their brand off of airing out their business both personal and professional. Feels like a bait and switch switch to the public and to behave like we are wrong for wanting that content that they led us to believe we would get from them just made me unfollow.

I unfollowed bmnd a long while ago and it was wasn’t until kail’s explanation on barely famous (which I don’t follow) that I fully understood why. Lindsie, kail and vee have a LOT of podcasts collectively. I can’t keep up with them all. And bmnd had stopped being interesting a long time ago - I realize now that it was because most of the personal element had been removed. I listened because I was invested in your lives from Kail, from 16&P to TM2. I don’t need another show full of random listeners’ raunchy stories or filler fluff. This was a painful hour to listen to. absolutely nothing of substance - no background info (didn’t know half of what they were talking about in super vague references), no explanations, no apologies, really nothing but angry cussing out followers and telling everyone to move on, that there are bigger concerns after the election. I don’t think it needed to be repeated 85 times, but I did appreciate that Alessandra went to such lengths to say there are no bad feelings toward anyone (and named names) and specifically asked supporters to not attack anyone on their behalf. But in the end, this episode really validated what Kail was saying. People are so quick to make her the villain and she seemed so hurt by Vee’s silence. Vee, if you like to let your actions speak for themselves, then you stay silent when people are hating on you and you keep it moving. *Meanwhile* you speak up for others! You can’t just sweep things under the rug and only focus on the positive. When you’ve hurt others or messed up, you need to sit in the negative for a minute and take accountability and work to make it right. And maybe you are, but it doesn’t look that way from the outside, so you can understand how followers who loved you both would have something to say. I’m glad these ladies are in therapy, sincerely. We could all use it. I hope that whether publicly or privately, these women all work things out and heal and move forward. Wishing them all success and peace. 💕