Fifteen three-year-olds, climbing on me, in 100-degree Texas heat. That was my whole day, 9 to 5, five days a week, with zero leftover energy for the weekend. I was a preschool teacher, and I loved those kids. But the job was eating me alive It's loud from the second you walk in. Someone's melting down, another kid just skinned their knee, a third is having an accident, and you're out on the playground in the heat for hours, sweaty and sticky and covered in dust. It's not just tiring, it's overstimulating in a way that's hard to explain. Highs and lows all day, with zero seconds to breathe in between. I'd come home with nothing left. No energy to make dinner, none for my friends or my workouts, nothing for myself. I'd just sit there empty, already dreading tomorrow, knowing I had to get up and do the exact same thing all over again. And the part that scared me most was looking down the road. This was the ceiling. A little more burnt out every year, stuck in the same room, watching my bank account quietly shrink the whole time. I'm 25. I could not picture signing up for 30 more years of this. I wanted out so badly, but I'd been taught my whole life that you do grade school, then college, then you get the steady job and you stay in your lane. At least be grateful, “you have a stable job and you’re helping kids right Angela?” Little did I know, the way out was already sitting in my pocket. I had a little fitness page, and brands had quietly started paying me to make content for them, from home, on my own time. By October I walked in and told my boss I was done and handed in my 2 weeks. Now, I make anywhere from $5-8k/m, a full time salary from my phone now with full freedom because I chose to take a different route. I wake up at 6am now because I want to, not because I'm dreading a classroom. I'm filming this from my friend's pool on a Tuesday afternoon. I break the whole thing down on the UGC World podcast: https://youtu.be/RIo2zNt-7wE?is=tc17yowJR8eu4fbJ

HI FRIENDS! I'm celebrating that I was selected to be a creator for Aonic by the UGC World Agency! (Shoutout to @Alexander K & @Angela Recine 🤗) Aonic is a clean & science driven product company led by doctors, scientists and KimK's very own personal trainer, Senada Greca. This came at the PERFECT TIME because I just re-started my fitness journey and created my very own fitness social media accounts to share my journey. It's almost like future me was preparing me for this win 🎉 My goal is to lose 15 lbs. in the next 90 days and I'm excited that Aonic is part of my journey. Aren't synchronizations mind blowing?!

Hey guys! My name is Sophia Austin, I’m one of the Advisors here at UGC World :) so many of you have been asking about my story so I figured it was about time to write it all out so here ya go.. I graduated high school at 17 years old in a class with around 800 other people in it, and I was one of the very few who did not go straight into college. At the time, I felt lost. I was just going through the motions… school, work, scroll, compare, care way too much about what other people thought, repeat. I knew something was wrong, I knew something needed to change, but I didn’t know how to fix it. I didn’t even know what “it” was. Everyone else opened their college acceptance letters and celebrated. I opened mine and felt dread. All I could see was four more years inside a system that was not working for me. Nobody around me could understand that feeling. So I said no to every single acceptance letter. I refused to follow a path that didn’t feel like mine. I used my savings and bought a one way ticket to Mexico. Alone. Freshly 18 years old. I volunteered with a program dedicated to researching and restoring the Mesoamerican barrier reef. I thought I was searching for a “passion” but I was really searching for myself. That trip cracked something open in me. Being somewhere nobody knew my identity stripped away all of the performing and people pleasing. I met people from completely different cultures and realized something that changed everything: Everyone was just as unsure as I was. Some people are just better at hiding it. I kept traveling. Croatia. Austria. Hungary. Bosnia. Italy. Spain. Thailand. Laos. Indonesia. Australia. Each place taught me something different about who I am, and how much bigger life is than the box I was living in. Somewhere along the way, I built a relationship with God. And getting to know the one who created me helped me finally understand myself underneath all the noise. I started creating content along the way, just sharing what I was experiencing.