Babes, how did you get here

What happens when a Jamaican beauty entrepreneur leaves behind a fully booked calendar, a thriving lash and microblading academy, and everything she's built—moving to Dubai with $700, no clients, and nobody who knows her name, taking a nine to five job for the first time since college, sleeping through jet lag after years of hustle, navigating the bruised ego of being unknown in a city where she o...

What happens when a diplomat's wife lands in Jamaica with a toddler, three towels, and no plan—discovers she can't find a single pastry she likes, teaches herself French patisserie in three condensed weeks in Montreal, starts a catering business out of sheer boredom, gets approached by the owner of Café Blue to transform Jamaican cocoa into world class chocolate, spends three years learning to ide...

Nobody talks about what really happens backstage at beauty pageants. The harsh words. The brutal judges. The tears nobody films. Today, Sydney opens up about the constant humiliation, the lack of confidence, and the moment everything changed. She didn't just survive the industry — she became Miss Planet. This is the episode we filmed before she won. Watch it differently. Babes, How Did You Get Her...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | From Jamaica to Dubai: A Beauty Entrepreneur's Leap Into the Unknown – Starting Over, Ego Checks & Building Dreams in a New City What happens when a Jamaican beauty entrepreneur leaves behind a fully booked calendar, a thriving lash and microblading academy, and everything she's built to move to Dubai with $700, no clients, and nobody who knows her name—taking a nine...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | From Jamaica to Dubai: A Beauty Entrepreneur's Leap Into the Unknown – Starting Over, Ego Checks & Building Dreams in a New City What happens when a Jamaican beauty entrepreneur leaves behind a fully booked calendar, a thriving lash and microblading academy, and everything she's built to move to Dubai with $700, no clients, and nobody who knows her name—taking a nine...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Two Canadian Sisters Who Call Jamaica Home: Growing Up Between Cultures, Identity Crisis, and Finding Belonging in the Arts What happens when two Canadian sisters, aged eight and nine, move to Jamaica without a choice, spend their formative years navigating the zoo effect at Mona Prep, grappling with cultural identity, building careers in theatre and horseback riding...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Shauna Silvera: From Jamaica to Dubai – A Pastry Chef's Journey of Motherhood, Sacrifice & Building a Life Across Borders What happens when a Jamaican pastry chef gets offered an opportunity in Dubai, turns down a promotion at home, leaves her three year old son with her village, boards her first ever flight, and spends the next nine years building a career in recipe...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Janelle Brown: From UK to Thailand – A Two-Week Holiday That Turned Into Seven Months in Phuket What happens when a British content creator books a two-week Christmas holiday to Thailand, finds an apartment five days after landing, and decides she's not going back—building a digital nomad life as a social media coach, navigating car crashes, client losses, dating dis...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Why I Chose Cambodia Over College: A Story of Language, Loneliness & Learning to Belong What happens when an 18-year-old from Colorado takes a one-month volunteer trip to rural Cambodia, falls in love with the golden rice fields and slower pace of life, and decides to skip college entirely—spending the next six years hand-washing clothes, learning Khmer from children...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Marlon Cotterell: From Jamaican Model to South African Reggae Frontman – Fashion Week, Prison, and Finding Home in Cape Town What happens when a Jamaican model flies to South Africa for a week-long fashion show, decides to stay three months, and ends up living there for 15 years—building a career as the frontman of South Africa's biggest reggae band, spending a week...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Marlon Cotterell: From Jamaican Model to South African Reggae Frontman – Fashion Week, Prison, and Finding Home in Cape Town What happens when a Jamaican model flies to South Africa for a week-long fashion show, decides to stay three months, and ends up living there for 15 years—building a career as the frontman of South Africa's biggest reggae band, spending a week...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Farnoosh: From Iran to Jamaica – A Nurse Who Found Home in the Kids She Never Thought She'd Have What happens when an Iranian-Canadian early childhood educator takes a two-week volunteer trip to Jamaica, falls in love with the kids in Riverton and Mustard Seed communities, and decides to leave everything behind—her family, her career, her country—to build a life serv...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Kofi: From Ghanaian Military Nurse to Street Photographer in Cambodia – A Story of Survival, Love, and Reinvention What happens when a military nurse from Ghana goes AWOL, books a one-way ticket to Indonesia, gets interrogated at the airport for eight hours, loses his passport in Cambodia, sleeps on the streets for three months, and somehow ends up married to a Korea...

Growing up Jamaican gave her a unique confidence. She reflects on how that upbringing helps her navigate predominantly white spaces, unlike what she imagines it might be like in the UK. #JamaicanCulture #Confidence #WhiteSpaces #CulturalIdentity

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Barrington: From US Marine to Executive Chef to Guinness World Record Holder What happens when a former US Marine, executive chef, and scuba diving instructor decides life is too short to play it safe—and ends up breaking a Guinness World Record by scuba diving across all seven continents in under 20 days? In this exhilarating and deeply inspiring episode, host April...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Karina: From Moscow Dance Floors to Kingston Streets – Finding Home After Dancehall Broke Her Heart What happens when a Russian hip-hop dancer falls so deeply in love with dancehall culture that she moves 6,000 miles to Jamaica—only to discover that the community she worshipped would eventually exile her, leaving her stranded between two worlds, two Jamaicas, and two...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Karina: From Moscow Dance Floors to Kingston Streets – Finding Home After Dancehall Broke Her Heart What happens when a Russian hip-hop dancer falls so deeply in love with dancehall culture that she moves 6,000 miles to Jamaica—only to discover that the community she worshipped would eventually exile her, leaving her stranded between two worlds, two Jamaicas, and two...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Saiora: From Kazakhstan to Cambodia – Dancing Her Way to Freedom What happens when a Kazakh dancer realizes that following her passion means leaving behind everything familiar—the conservative expectations, the need to conform, the pressure to be "right"—and building a life 4,000 miles away in a country she barely knew, where she could finally be herself? In this ins...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Katie: From UK Makeup Artist to Male Prison Worker to Solo Fitness Entrepreneur in Thailand What happens when a 21-year-old British-Indian makeup artist gets tired of playing it safe, calls every MAC store in Australia until someone gives her a job, and ends up building a life that defies every cultural expectation her family ever had for her? In this inspiring and d...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Katie: From UK Makeup Artist to Male Prison Worker to Solo Fitness Entrepreneur in Thailand What happens when a 21-year-old British-Indian makeup artist gets tired of playing it safe, calls every MAC store in Australia until someone gives her a job, and ends up building a life that defies every cultural expectation her family ever had for her? In this inspiring and d...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Lana: From Beirut to Dubai to Kingston – Building Home Wherever She Lands What happens when a Lebanese tax professional gets a random call from a UK recruiter about a job in Jamaica—a place she only knew through Bob Marley—and decides to leave Dubai’s glossy efficiency for an island she’d never even Googled? In this warm, deeply authentic episode, host April Jackson...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Paz Fourcard: Redefining Solo Motherhood & Finding Love in Bali What happens when a 22-year-old Filipino beauty industry star gets pregnant, refuses to shrink, and builds a life that redefines what it means to be a solo mom—twice—before finding a love so pure it made her feel like she was finally coming home? In this deeply moving and powerfully honest episode, host...

Babes, How Did You Get Here? | Paz Forecard: Redefining Solo Motherhood & Finding Love in Bali What happens when a 22-year-old Filipino beauty industry star gets pregnant, refuses to shrink, and builds a life that redefines what it means to be a solo mom—twice—before finding a love so pure it made her feel like she was finally coming home? In this deeply moving and powerfully honest episode, host...

18, In Love & Never Looking Back: My 22-Year Journey from Bajan/Hindu Student to Jamaican Mom Hindu, Bajan & Jamaican by Heart: Raising My Daughters Between Cultures, Continents & Curries

What happens when a shy Indian girl who hated standing out, never traveled alone, and was expected to “settle down by 30”… ends up building a thriving online fitness business from a Thai island—teaching her dad what freedom looks like—and choosing solo beach walks over the life everyone planned for her? 📚 To join the Parenting community: https://april-s-site-fcfd.thinkific.com In this deeply hone...