You're listening to the Beautiful Mess podcast, your cozy comfort listen, and today we have something pretty special.

Recently, Elsie and I had a girl's trip with a couple of friends, including Elise Grype, who we often refer to as our third sister.

Maybe you've heard to say that.

So Elise decided to get off social media over a year ago, and we wanted to know everything.

So we recorded this interview while we were on our trip together.

If you've ever fantasized about quitting Instagram or even if you're just curious what it looks like for someone who did, then here's our conversation.

Okay.

So I feel like we should start out with sort of an origin story. So we met

Elise as online friends. How long ago would you say like 20 years ago? Yeah, at least. Yeah,

at least. So online friendships are real and but also it's our friendship has changed so much by Elise being offline.

So tell us your origin story.

Okay.

Hi.

So I'm Elise.

I'm the third sister that sometimes gets mentioned.

The third sister.

She's here.

Yay.

In real life.

And I started, you know, I got on the internet in 2005, started a blog, and over

the years did a lot of different things. I had different, like I had SG shop, I had my own brands,

I had a podcast for a little bit, always selling things online, blogging, blah, blah, blah,

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