Adriana Marr
Appearances
House of Maher
Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
You switched with Simone too, right? I did.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
Yes, please. Plus, I can create iconic videos with a tap using instant slow-mo. It lets me slow down the action of my recorded videos so when my sisters are playing back footage of my first cold plunge, they can slow down and replay my reaction a million times.
House of Maher
Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
That crossroads for you. Being a girl boss. Right.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
And you worked in all of the rooms, started in post, went to set, like you got to experience everything.
House of Maher
Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
I was actually thinking about this the other day. I don't know why because I've always struggled when Alona asks because I'm like, well, it's always a choice, you know, and I felt like so much of my life has just been like, well, that choice. Maybe I'm so like realistic about it that I'm like, I don't know about the butterfly effect. But I think a good one for me is
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
In high school, I went on exchange, okay. But I was, that year prior, I was researching so much. I so wanted to do it, but it's very expensive. Like it's $60,000 sometimes. I'm like, we don't have that money. And so I was searching everywhere for scholarships for this and that. And the one I'd heard about was Rotary Youth Exchange.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
And I remember like, cause I was watching all the YouTube vlogs and I was like, okay, this seems like cost effective. Like I can do this. And I remember I Googled Rotary Youth Exchange. And I think for some reason, like our wifi wasn't working. And so it only loaded like eight clubs in the US and it was all in the Midwest. And I was like, oh, there's no Rotary in like Vermont. I can't do this.
House of Maher
Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
And then like a few weeks later, I was like,
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
let me look at rotary again and i had like full bars and so it completely loaded and i saw that rotary there's clubs there's two clubs in burlington and so i was able to then reach out and if i hadn't looked it up again and just decided hell why not i wouldn't have ever found this option because rotor is the only way i would have ever gone abroad because the other ones are way too expensive and this was in high school this was in high school and like now that leads me like that year abroad was
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
very life-changing and I think it really altered my sense of the world and like who I was and what I wanted to do you know I always knew I was interested in like you know travel and politics but I was like no I wanted to have a career in this and so when I came back I was a senior in high school so I was applying for colleges and even at that point I was like I don't know if I want to go to college but my dad was like go to college for one year and then we'll decide
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
um and i decided to do global studies and i was like there's a path forward in this and if i maybe i would have found that without like going abroad but that definitely ensured it
House of Maher
Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
I mean, I'm in the midst of it, so I don't know what it's going to look like. I think the last crossroads I had... was going into this job of I had graduated college and just that transition from, you know, a structured college life to then fully in the workforce, working 40 hours a week, you know, not having the summers off and breaks off like that was a really Thank you. Thank you. C
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
And to this day, we now say, add that to my calendar too. Add that to my calendar. Add that to my calendar.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
I don't know. I don't know.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
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House of Maher
Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
Absolutely. I run every important email past Olivia. The amount of shared notes that we have together, because I'm like, can you just take a look at that before I send that? I'll run it through Grammarly, then I'll run it to Olivia, and then I'll send it.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
Because it's also your writing skill, but it's then like you understand tone really well and how to like convince people. I love that. No, you got to put that. I was talking about an email. She's like, you don't have a call to action at the end. And I was like, frick. Got to have a call to action. I need to work on that.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
You'd be a great AP lit teacher.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
Wow. This doesn't work out. No, yeah. This doesn't work out for sure.
House of Maher
Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
This was your first time living together since childhood in Bristol. Were you worried going into it of how you would live together now as adults? And how did it go?
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
Why would you say that? Writer for filth.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
Wow. I'm your host, Adriana Marr, and that's Alona Marr, Olympic rugby medalist and chronic rereader of Vampire Academy. Okay. And it's true. Good one. I think that's the best book series there is.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
She also got me a purse this year, but we had decided no presents. And then all of a sudden here she comes down the stairs unwrapped because that's a loaner. She'll be like, last gift. She won't wrap it. Why would I wrap it? No, it's easier to find it. What's the point of that? Wow. Eco warrior.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
The Amazon box. But it came downstairs with the thing and it was really wonderful and sweet. But then I was like, I didn't get her anything. She was panicking. I was. And Olivia and I also didn't give each other anything. And I was like, that's fair. No. Oh, no. But you've been really wonderful with supporting my travel. One year, I did not use up all my PTO days. I still had a week left.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
And I was like, I have to use these. This is my payment, essentially. And I was like, I'm going to go to Scotland. And you're like, yeah, you go to Scotland. Here's some money. Get that bus tour. And it just made it so much easier for me to do so of like, OK, I was going to do this bus tour. But then I was like, OK, with flights and then I'll stay in a hostel, yada, yada.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
Like, you know, I'm very careful with my money. And so knowing that the bus tour was covered was really wonderful and allowed me to be like, and I can have a sit down dinner tonight. You're crazy with a girl.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
She was so giddy. She loved it. She loved it. It's the simplest things that can make people so happy, you know, just showing that you notice them.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
Yeah, I took note.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
Something like that.
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Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing
Let's see behind that curtain, Alona. What happened at The Village that you maybe didn't share online because you already put so much on TikTok and you wanted everyone to know?