By the end of last week it was extremely clear to me that I needed a break from my phone. Not just social media, but my phone in general. Every time it buzzed (or god forbid rang — lol), I felt something deep inside of me jolt into fight or flight mode. The anxiety has been brewing SO intensely and I have been feeling it in every muscle & bone of my body.

I sleep with my phone on airplane mode every night, and by the time I turn it on I usually have between 45-60 text messages. Every morning. At least. I feel like my phone has kind of turned into a DM inbox, especially because I haven’t changed my phone number ever & have had my same number since 6th grade, giving it out with wild abandon. Old habits die hard.

I receive text messages often from people I haven’t seen in 15+ years. Or people I’ve met once. Or people I’ve never met. But you know what the craziest part is? I feel a deep & innate need to get back to everyone. Every time I try to not respond to place a boundary in my energy field, a week or two passes and I feel like a bitch. I don’t like to ghost people. So then I go on a responding spree. But I also know that my energy is precious and as time goes on, I realize how much I need that energy for my own healing body, my own family, my husband, and my close circle of friends. There is only so much energy to go around!

And although some things can easily be ignored, a lot of the messages I wake up to every day are from my team and my family. So the moment my phone goes on, I am immersed in a different world. An online world. One where being “on” is the name of the game & if too many hours pass by without me getting back to someone, they will start to worry about me! Or things with TBB just simply won’t get done.

I know I am not the only one in this boat and I am certainly not special because I wake up to so many messages. I think all millennials are in this boat, and especially those of us who have chosen a more public life. I was recently told, “You know you have too many friends when you have a birthday to go to every single weekend.” Well, that would be me. I love having a lot of friends. But because of my life on the internet, I also have a lot of internet friends, and then a lot of eyeballs that can form opinions on what I am doing or saying even if we are not friends. Where does all of that energy go…?

We live in an “on demand” world. We are all on demand, at all times. My time with my phone on airplane mode every night and into the next morning is deeply coveted for me, because it’s just about the only time I am alone with my thoughts before I get into response or reactivity mode. All of the most efficient business people I look up to talk about this time as the best time for thinking — proactivity vs. reactivity. My goal is to be able to turn my phone on AND remain proactive and creative, but is it just me or is that a really hard thing to do!?!?

Anyway, this weekend I kept my phone off for 48 hours and believe me when I say it was fucking bliss. Yes, my mom got a little worried so if you are going to follow suit I recommend you tell your family before you do it so no one freaks out. I thought about telling her on Friday night before I turned it off, but to be honest keeping it off was very spontaneous. And truth be told I have told her & others many times that “I’m going to turn my phone off for the weekend” and that lasts about 2 hours before it’s back on. So I didn’t really want the pressure or to make it a THING, I just wanted to do it if it felt right. And boy did it feel right.

On Saturday morning, Jonathan and I woke up and just KNOWING in my heart that I wasn’t going to turn on my phone filled me with an unexplainable joy. I felt free. I felt like I could breathe, and like I had space to do… whatever the hell I wanted?! What a novelty! It actually felt like the 90’s again which I miss & think about all the time. How sad is that? That I had to turn my phone OFF to actually experience that feeling of total freedom again. To return to something that is an actual birthright for all of us, to keep our energy inside of us for even a day.

All day we laid in bed, binge watched our favorite show (This is Us — we are late to the game but it is SO GOOD), cooked healthy food together, went on a long walk in our dream neighborhood, went to Erewhon (turns out grocery shopping is a hell of a lot more productive when you don’t look at your phone every 15 seconds), made dinner and got in bed early to cuddle & read. I read a whole novel this weekend. It was so simple… and returning to the simple joys of life for even one day blew me away.

For the record I texted my mom from J’s phone around 6pm that day! She was annoyed & had been worried !! Hence why you should tell your family if you are going to go phone-free. And as much as I LOVE how connected my mom and I are, and it’s my favorite thing about our relationship, it’s also kind of sad yet again that we as humans are used to being SO ON that if the majority of a day passes by without someone we love getting in contact, it scares us. I mean, I’d feel the same level of worry if I didn’t hear from my mom all day. We are a society and a culture that is supposed to be reachable from the time we wake up to the time we fall asleep.

What I learned from the experience…

Of course Saturday was so blissful that I had to do it again on Sunday. Plus, there was the mounting anxiety of, “What if I turn my phone on and have 60+ messages and then my day is not mine anymore?” So I kept it off. Went to the farmer’s market. Went on another long walk. Had more quality time with my love. Got massage & cupping. Then I kept it off until this morning, and something miraculous happened! I had ENERGY to get back to people. I was EXCITED to talk on the phone, to catch up with my close friends, & to hop on social media and share a little tidbit about my weekend.

The burnout was already healing. And that was an amazing feeling. But I feel in my bones I will be approaching social media & my phone differently from here on out. What used to serve me as a blogger, writer and human no longer serves me in the same way. I built my career off of sharing everything… very much to a fault. I reached a point somewhere along the line where I felt that if I kept certain aspects of my life to myself, then I would be boring, or people wouldn’t want to follow me anymore, because I lead with an open heart and share it all. But also somewhere along the line I lost the energy I used to be able to give to myself.

So now, that is what I am focused on. Returning that energy to myself. I have a lot of big goals for my business and my life, and I recognize that I can accomplish absolutely none of it if I keep going at the pace that I have been going. It’s easy to tell myself, “it’s just one more email, just one more DM, just one more little slide for my IG story…” but that’s not what it is. It all compounds. When I did a plant medicine ceremony last year I saw my email inbox & the time I spent within it as an absolute energy assault. I know that is a strong word, nut our energy is precious. Our time is also precious. And I really fear that we as a society give too much of those things away (both time and energy) for our own good.

Energy Boundaries !!

Today I am writing with a clear mind. I really believe that if I had not taken a break over the weekend, I wouldn’t have had it in me to write this post. I am also looking up at my organizational post-it notes that outline my goals both in business & in life for the rest of 2021 and beyond. I have some BIG goals, you guys. I am excited about them. And it’s going to require a lot of my energy to bring all of this to fruition. I know I need to use my energy wisely & have respect for what I am really trying to do here, and not continue to play small in the ways that I have been. Playing small is scrolling social media all day & using all of my creative energy to write Instagram captions + respond to DM’s / comments all day. Playing small is considering myself an influencer rather than the spiritual teacher I know I am in my heart.

I am transitioning into that person now. Spiritual teacher. I envision myself in a white bubble of light, and I envision my business in a white bubble of light. I genuinely believe in this energetic shift I am creating, and I know that we can all do the same if we feel called to. I also genuinely believe and know that what worked for many of us in the past isn’t going to continue to work as we move further and further into operating from the 5D. BOUNDARIES are going to become not only more needed, but completely imperative. 

So yes, all of this is my focus right now. I can’t say I learned all of this from my 48 hours off of my phone — this has been a long time coming for me. These thoughts have been percolating and brewing for YEARS. I have simply reached a point now where if I don’t operate in this way, everything will suffer. My business, my energy, my mind and heart. I promise to continue to show up with an open heart and let you into my life but I won’t be sharing *everything* & also, I don’t think seeing everything serves the greater good anyway. I would much rather show up as a teacher and guiding light, what I know to be in my heart, than an internet diary pouring my heart out into the ethers every day. You feel me?

You will see all of this reflected in my upcoming Celestial Diet & Lifestyle program (are you on the list yet?!), other exciting projects I have in the works, but ultimately in the energy with which I will show up in the world. Energy speaks louder than words. & I believe and know it is time for me to be the example of all I believe in, and highlight a different way of doing things. A new way of doing things. This will also be reflected on my podcast — you will see a lot more solo episodes and a very different type of energy exchange. A much more sustainable one. It’s going to be good. 

I would love your thoughts below. What are your boundaries with social media? This is something I will be working on big time from here on out, and would love all of your own ideas, hacks, tips & tricks !! XO 

Okay, so this isn’t MUCH of a dilemma if you don’t care that much about social media. But if you’re a blogger, you should care about social media. Unless you’re Emily Schuman or something, in that case — your blog readership is set regardless of your social media presence.

For those of us who started blogging post-2009 (which, I’m willing to say, is most of us…) then the aesthetic and vibe of our social media matters a LOT when it comes to driving readers to our blog.

Our Instagram accounts, and also Snapchat, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, and others to some extent; are a huge reflection of what our blogs are all about.

If you’re a food blog, you’re in luck. All of your food photos will probably flow nicely together as long as you have some nice backgrounds and an eye for photography and food styling. If you’re a fashion blog, you’re also in luck. Your style will attract a certain type of curated audience and they will keep coming back for more because they love the way that you dress, and you can even throw in some fun quotes and scenery without it being totally out of place.

In other words, for those types of blogs, it’s EASY to stay consistent. The challenge might be staying innovative and keeping things fresh and exciting… but even so, your Instagram feed (and all other social channels as well) will reflect what your blog is all about — so you will keep on gaining followers and traction at a steady rate. You KNOW what will keep your audience engaged.

The LIFESTYLE bloggers:

Then there are those of us who don’t always blog about something so specific. I mean yeah, I write about health & lifestyle. I do healthy recipes, shoot some vids here and there, am a total fitness fanatic, am a sucker for the beachy-gypsy-wanderlusty travel lifestyle pics, love a good selfie, and like to share my IN THE MOMENT real life with you guys.

My Instagram photos & videos now range from yoga flows in my living room to super styled and very curated photo shoots for brands that I work with to post-workout sweaty selfies to long-as-can-be captions about what I am feeling in the moment.

You know, like this…

You see, I’ve found myself in a dilemma. But I also kind of love the dilemma for other reasons. I’m torn, you guys!

I want to have a beautifully curated Instagram feed. I want the photos to flow super well together and have the artistic aesthetic of Marianna Hewitt‘s Insta or the super reliable consistency of Chocolate Covered Katie‘s.

When I give advice to new bloggers, I tell them to BE CONSISTENT and give their audience the type and style of content that they followed them for in the first place.

But I also want to switch things up and keep things unpredictable and fresh. I want my social accounts, sort of like this blog, to have a “reality show” feel and vibe. NOT in the “famous for being famous” reality show way… but the very open, sharing my life, letting you guys know what I am up to every day kind of way.

And with that, there comes a lot of variety. No two days are the same. Try as I might, I don’t always have that killer white & grey marble slab with me for food photos. And I don’t always have the most kickass lighting for my yoga videos. I also like to throw in a few spur-of-the-moment ‘WHAT UP, GUYS?’ photos when I am feeling most inspired, which most definitely don’t always have a professional quality to them.

On the flip side, I love the creative side of curating a beautiful, perfectly flowing Instagram feed. I love high quality imagery, and I love capturing the perfect yoga photo on the beach at sunset with my fave photographers. I love being super, duper proud of the quality of a food photo I capture for a brand, and I love sharing the art of photography with you guys who are following.

SO, that is why I am in a perpetual dilemma! Do I keep sharing pure, un-curated, in the moment reality with you guys, or do I exercise some self-restraint (which I’m bad at) and JUST post the beautiful images with the best lighting even if inspiration strikes in between?

I think I know the obvious answer to this. Inspiration should never be ignored.

And I feel LUCKY, beyond lucky, to feel so inspired in the job that I do.

Just like beautiful, aesthetically jaw-dropping photography inspires me to no end, sharing REAL, authentic, & raw moments in real-time inspires me.

This was a good example of in the moment sharing, but also something I found super beautiful and wanted to share for that moment too:

That’s why when you go to my social media accounts these days (and this blog), you see a medley. High quality photos that have days and hours of prep work behind them & an experienced photog behind the lens — and hopefully when looking at them you feel a little bit of the magic that sparks within ME and the photographer when we nail that perfect shot.

That’s what I want when I share those photos. I want you to feel the magic, and I want the inspiration I feel to radiate back to you and make you inspired in your own life, and in your own way.

Like this shoot for Alo Yoga with my BFF Lex & BFF behind the lens Danika:

Similarly, you’ll see a grainy video of me DRIPPING sweat in a yoga class, and you’ll also hear some bomb-ass music playing along with the video because there’s almost nothing I love more these days than finding the perfect song to accompany my yoga flow vids.

And starting on Thursday, you’ll be along for the ride with me as I travel to Kauai for 8 days and capture the beauty around me in ALL sorts of ways. With my GoPro, my Canon 6D, my iPhone, my Snapchat story, my iPhone video (grainy at times I’m SURE), my mom’s Nikon, allllll of it.

Because I love switching it up. I LOVE staying inspired and making sure things never get dull. Not for me, and not for you guys. I want to keep it fresh and exciting always.

So, WHY is it a dilemma then?

So yeah, because of the lack of total consistency, I don’t see the steady, predictable rise of my social following the same way I used to. When I used to be very consistent with the same style of food photo 3 times a day, I knew how many followers I’d gain per week no matter what. Now I am more likely to LOSE & gain the same amount of followers per day, because not everyone is in it for the full lifestyle.

But I am interested in sharing my lifestyle above all else. The good days and the bad. The ordinary and the extraordinary. The AWESOME quotes, songs, fitness routines, recipes, outfits, moments, all of it. ALL of it.

But I promise I am still a creative nutcase and still have an aesthetic vision for everything I do.

Don’t you worry about that.

This is where I see social media moving. We want realness. We CRAVE realness.

Just tryin’ to bring dat to all of you.

What do you think? Have you noticed a change in my social media aesthetic over the years, or did you not really notice because you’ve just been along for the ride? If you blog, how do you curate YOUR social media? Heck, even if you don’t blog, how do you like to make your Insta feed look?!

XO,

TBB

Hashtag #TBBMADEMEDOIT on Instagram if you agree!!

ALSO, if you like this kind of content, you can preorder my Going Viral: A Guide to Becoming the Boss of Your Own Life, & Turning Your Blog Into a Business eBook HERE!!

First of all… What is it?

When I first heard about people purchasing their likes & followers on Instagram I didn’t believe that established bloggers or brands could really get away with it, so I wrote it off as something only super untruthful people did. Obviously it’s so against Instagram’s policy to do something like that, so I figured why would anyone credible risk it and put themselves into a position where they may lose your account if they got caught? (Let alone the whole authenticity thing… I mean, hello.) But I’ve since learned that there are many, many loopholes in the Instagram system & many thriving businesses that SELL likes and followers!

WTF, right?!

My first question about the whole thing was: WHERE do people even go to buy likes & followers? Isn’t it some sort of underground business… Wouldn’t it be sketchy to hand over your money to people selling Instagram likes?! So of course I looked into it myself to see what I could find. What I found were that there were ALL sorts of websites that sell likes and followers for a wide range of prices. All you have to do is type in your Instagram handle, choose the amount of likes or followers (or both) that you want, and cough up some money. Not even THAT much money, to be honest.

My Own Personal Experiment…

In good fashion, after I did some research about different sites in the business, I bought some likes (not followers, sorry, TOO weird for me after building a business around authentically growing my following) to see what all the hype was about and to be able to accurately critique the whole process. The first thing I did was purchase 500 likes for about $10.00. Sounds innocent enough, right?

While the transaction was going through, I was basically terrified that A) My Instagram account would get shut down for doing something against policy, B) Everyone would look at my photo and KNOW that I had just bought likes and that I would lose all of my credibility and authenticity, C) The website was fake and would just steal my money and run off with it, and D) That I would fall in love with the idea of “having more likes” and want to do it again and again.

Those were my fears. I’ll tell you what actually happened. The “likes” started flooding in pretty much immediately on the specific photo that I’d chosen. (Oh, that’s the other thing, you can choose a photo or spread the likes out over several different photos.) After about 5 minutes had passed, I had 500 new “likes” tacked on to my most recent IG photo. It seemed way too easy to be true… If it were THAT easy, and honestly that cheap, why weren’t more people doing it, I thought?

(By the way, don’t think I didn’t feel guilty as F throughout the whole process. I felt strange and so inauthentic even though I was really just trying it out of curiosity. But I will get to that in a minute.)

The Catch…

Then I realized what the catch was. Even though these likes were coming in and looked real, if you clicked on the people who had liked my photo, the first 500 people that popped up were literally robot profiles. ROBOT PROFILES! Not real people. I mean, I knew this wouldn’t be real people liking my photo when I was purchasing the likes, but seeming the robot accounts for myself freaked me out and then really sent me into thinking “EVERYONE’S GOING TO KNOW I BOUGHT LIKES NOW!!” I take my authenticity on the Internet very seriously, so although this may sound like a trivial freak out sesh, it had legitimacy in my head.

The way you can tell if a profile is real or a robot is basically by looking at it for two seconds. The robot profiles always have some kind of weird bio that barely makes sense– some I saw were, “Just got a divorce and looking for a good time!” “Say hi to me, I love Instagram!” “Motorcycles and chicks” “Life ROCKS!!!!” and many more simple, robotic sounding phrases that I just couldn’t imagine a real person crafting their Instagram bio would ever say.

The other way you can tell whether an account is real or not is by taking a quick glance at the account’s photos. Some of these robot profiles are set to private and they each have very few followers. The ones that are not private always have about 12-15 photos, with NO likes or comments, and just look faker than life. They are either random selfies of the same person over and over, weirdly filtered photos of cars / bikes / scenic views / anything, and you can just TELL if you’re a perceptive person at all that they belong to someone who is not real. They are accounts crafted by like/follower selling companies in order to keep their businesses running.

SOOOO MANY PEOPLE USE THEM…

Ever since I figured out how to spot a robot profile, I have started searching through the “likes” on a lot of people’s Instagrams… Just out of curiosity! I really wasn’t trying to dig up dirt on anyone or question their morals with their blog/business, but once I realized how easy it was to figure out whether someone’s likes/followers were real… I couldn’t help but look out of pure curiosity and wonderment! Plus, I started thinking, is this something ALL bloggers do and I’ve just totally missed the train?

Basically what I found when I started searching was appalling. SO MANY bloggers that I have followed and admired for years had tons and tons and TONS of fake likes and followers. Tons. People who have generally the same number of followers that I do who I’ve always wondered, “How do they get SO many thousands of likes per photo while I’m over here super stoked if I even get near 2,000 likes?” had so many robot likes. It shocked me. That’s not to say that some influencers don’t have a super high engagement rate (likes per photo), because there are certainly many that do, but specific people who I’d believed to be getting all these likes all the time were total shams.

In a way you’d think this might make me feel relieved because I always wondered why my following wasn’t quite as engaged as some other bloggers that I looked up to, but it actually made me feel REALLY uncomfortable and grossed out to learn that they were buying likes. I think the whole business of selling/buying likes and followers is so slimy. If you are a blogger or an influencer and you are basing your whole business and persona off of social media, buying likes is exactly synonymous to portraying yourself as something that you’re not. It is untruthful, and it’s also a sad display of your own insecurity.

Why is it not okay to just get a real number of likes and move on with your day?! Yikes.

I was pretty much heartbroken to learn that some of these people I’d looked up to were building their businesses off of dishonesty. This isn’t a very longstanding business: blogging as a career is a NEW thing. There aren’t THAT many of us doing that. So the fact that a whole range of people within the business are building their audiences untruthfully freaks me out about trusting people in the blogging/social media space in general.

Then I looked into it further and noticed it with a lot of people who aren’t even bloggers, but rather people trying to grow a business or brand on social media. In a way I understand it because of course having more likes and a bigger following makes you more credible… But if it’s not even real, then why does it even matter? How can you even feel okay with it?!?!

The worst part…

And here’s the whole part that really, really, really bothers me. As an influencer myself who has built an organic following on Instagram and various other social media platforms, the main way that I make a living is by working with brands and promoting their products on my social media. Brands pay influencers based off of their following number and the engagement that they get on their photos. I have 121k real followers on my Instagram, and some of my photos only get around 700 likes if it’s not super popular with my audience. That is TOTALLY okay with me because I understand that many, many people follow and don’t like to click “like” on a photo even if they think it looks good! That’s just the way social media works.

The fact that other people in the same influencer space as me are lying about their numbers and paying for them makes me really sad and bummed out, because they are probably getting paid more than the people who are being genuine about their following– and they’re also scamming the companies who hire them to promote for them. I for one know that they’re getting paid more than I am for their fake 5,000 likes versus my real 700 likes. It’s just a slimy, slimy way to do business in my opinion.

ALSO, it freaks me out that we get so much validation in our culture from the amount of likes we get on a photo… Let’s learn to take that feeling off the Internet and give each other a reason to feel real value in REAL life from REAL PEOPLE, yeah?

Ew the fakeness

The Up Side!!!

It does make me feel a lot better to know that those of us who are genuine will most definitely have longer lasting careers, because our audience base is real. Our audience actually reads our blogs, supports us when we have products to sell (like my upcoming book, woo!), comes to our events and engages with us on a daily basis. It’s AWESOME to know that the people who follow & like my photos actually like what they see, and I love you guys so, so much for coming to the blog and reading.

The other up side is that those of us who aren’t paying for likes & comments are saving the money we make from working hard and actually doing COOL SHIT with it rather than literally throwing it away on robot profiles.

The other upside is that now when I come across other bloggers who don’t buy their likes and followers (and remember, it’s easy to tell if you’re looking), I have SO MUCH respect for them!!! More respect than I would have before, because they are doing business the right away, the authentic way, and now I see how truly respectable that is when so many people out there aren’t being truthful.

I’ve also bonded with some of my closest blogging friends through having discussions about how much we value authenticity and realness in the blogging space (like Annie & Kelly, two of my BFF’s off the Internet who happen to have kickass, genuine blogs and social media accounts), so really, I know all hope is not lost.

And maybe some people care less about portraying genuine realness on the Internet than I do, and I get that. I know that for some people creating a brand or blog that LOOKS super duper awesome to the outside world is more important to them than what’s really going on. I guess I won’t knock it if that’s what works for some people.

When you read my book, you’ll learn another thing about me when it comes to WHY honesty is so important to me. I think if you’ve been burned in the past by someone dishonest and conniving, honesty takes on a whole new meaning in your life. So if you’ve never found yourself in that position (and I truly hope you haven’t!) then my penchant for honesty might seem like WOAHHH TBB you care so damn much!!! Yes, I do. I care a lot about portraying an honest, authentic life. That’s part of who I am and what this blog is all about– AND part of what the people I try to surround myself with are all about.

Thoughts on all of this? Would love to hear opinions from both angles… I’m all ears! The crazy Internet world we live in… Sheesh! 

I thought I was going to spend the month settling into my new place, getting back into my routine and getting my bloggy bloggin’ on every day, but… such as life, new things pop up with every day that passes. Exciting new things of course.

Like… A trip to Chicago to speak at the awesome conference for women in the digital space Create + Cultivate, where I am speaking on using the digital space for good via blogging, commerce, content and more. The conference is on August 15th and I would LOVE, love, love to have you there if you live anywhere nearby. I attended the conference this last year in LA and learned so much I could burst (my recap of the experience here), plus got to meet so many cool & inspiring people. I would highly recommend it.

After Chicago, I am going to Palm Springs for my cousin’s bachelorette party  (woo!), and then straight to Seattle for an Eddie Bauer brand summit and week of outdoor adventure. Ummm, sweet? YEAH. More travel than I planned on this month? Yeah. The new apartment decor can wait.

So, back to the title of this post.

I’m rambling, I know, and it’s because I am excited to update you guys on everything that’s going on over here. OH, and for those of you who are subscribed to my newsletter, I didn’t send one out this Sunday and will be hitting you with a double whammy this coming Sunday. Don’t worry, your email did not glitch!

No wait, now really back to the title of this post.

Okay, so, you guys may have noticed me posting some Instagrams with the links & tags “@LIKEtoKNOWit” and “LIKEtoKNOW.it,” and you may have been like, “Uhhh, what is Jordan doing cluttering up her caption box like that when she is usually such a psycho about having a really conversational, generally semi-concise caption?”

Or at least that’s what I thought when I saw bloggers like Gal Meets Glam & Pink Peonies using it far earlier than I did. Then I started working with rewardStyle and came to learn that the Like to Know It feature is actually the coolest thing ever — because it connects us from blogger to reader/follower, and allows US as bloggers to basically do the shopping for you.

Because of the nature of what I do, there are two main things I strive for with blogging: 1) to entertain and inspire you, 2) to make your life easier. (Maybe that’s 3 things? #whatever)! Like to Know It actually serves all three… especially the last one. It allows me to share my favorite outfits, home goods, etc. with you, and all you need to do is “like” my photo on Instagram (yes, double tap it, so easy) and you will get all outfit or product details delivered straight to your email inbox.

For example, I am about to post the below on my Instagram with the LiketoKnow.it widget. ALL you need to do is sign up for LiketoKnow.it (takes two secs and it’s way free), go to the photo on my Instagram, double tap it, and then you have all of these outfit details. Boom done, your shopping for the day/month is donezo. Because you’re a busy person and you don’t have time to peruse & browse around until you’ve found the hottest new fitness clothes!

No, that doesn’t mean that you automatically get charged for a purchase. Once you get the link sent to your inbox, you just go to the respective website and order it. You still get to pick your size, details, and/or change your mind about the purchase entirely, BUT the hard part is done. I have done the shopping for you. And with the extreme abundance of killer fitness clothes I have access to because of what I do, with “Like to Know It” you will be some of the first to discover some rockin’ new brands and styles.

Look, I told you I wear a lot of workout clothes…

Annddd a lot of other clothes too I suppose (lots of stripes! And PJs!):

Basically, I just want to help you guys live easier, more fit & active anndd stylish lives. Because when you feel good about what you’re wearing, your confidence increases tenfold. That’s what I want for all of you. Happy, healthy lives bursting with confidence, joy and a whole lot of fun. And yoga and running and late night lounging in comfy workout clothes and all that good stuff.

So, in conclusion: sign up for LiketoKNOW.it, double tap my outfit photos that have the link, and get the clothing info sent straight to your inbox. And if you’re not an Instagram person, that’s cool too. There’s always the bloggy, and I have included this handy dandy “Shop the Post” widget below in case you liked any of the clothing in this post!

And as always, if you have any questions just EMAIL ME and I am happy to answer them & help you out. I have a new email address, thanks to my boy Ty, and you can now reach me at jordan@truthbalancevirtue.com… it’s way more legitimate than the pretty unprofessional gmail account I’ve been using for years, and it suits us in our TBV Apparel expansion just swimmingly.

Thoughts?! Did you ever wonder what LIKEtoKNOW.it was?! Now ya know, and you can shop, shop, shop away! Any suggestions for the next few LiketoKNOW.it posts I should do for ya?!