SPI 936: The Three Teens Building a Creator Empire with The Wild Adventure Girls

SPI 936: The Three Teens Building a Creator Empire with The Wild Adventure Girls

Angelina: We’re YouTubers. I feel like every YouTuber gets hate comments or not nice comments. And my sister’s like, “I love the hate comments because it drives me to do better.” And I think sometimes people will take those comments and, like, it hurts them. But you know what? There’s also fans that love watching you.

And especially for a young girl, I know for sure, and young boys and girls, they’ll take it and be like, “Man, this really hurts my feelings,” but it’s okay. That means you’re growing, and you just have to be like, “These people aren’t in my circle. They’re not in my bubble. They’re just outside. They don’t know who I am. But I’m never gonna stop,” right? Yeah. ‘Cause if, I mean, we would’ve stopped a long time ago if it was the hate comments and people not liking us, but we love doing it.

Pat Flynn: I don’t think I’ve ever done this before. Maybe I have once, but in the 1,000 or almost 1,000 episodes of the SPI Podcast, we have three guests with us today, and this is a powerhouse of creators. YouTubers that are young girls, 16, 17, and 18. Creators over at Wild Adventure Girls. They have a podcast. They have a channel.

They have a community. They have merch. They are generating revenue. We get into how they got started, the kinds of things they do as creators, what they enjoy most, and this is gonna be a very inspirational episode, especially to those of you who are young girls or have young girls. I know I have one myself, and I’m definitely gonna be sharing this episode with her.

And it was so much fun. Super professional. I am very impressed. And this is Angelina, Annabella or Bella, and Scarlett over at Wild Adventure Girls from WildAdventureGirls.com or WAG Podcast. And if you haven’t found them on YouTube yet, definitely do so. Super fun, super energetic, and I love the insight we get from this episode.

Here they are, Angelina, Annabella, and Scarlett.

We have the Wild Adventure Girls in the house. Welcome to the SPI Podcast. Thank you all for being here.

Angelina: Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for having us.

Pat Flynn: This is, uh, we don’t often do interviews with more than one person, and we have three today.

We have Angelina, Scarlett, and Annabella in the house, who are literally in a house, but in a beautiful looking studio, if you are listening to this. I am interviewing… I mean, this is gorgeous. I have, I see a checkered background and this, like, really cool logo in the back, and a couch set up. I mean, this is gorgeous.

Scarlett, maybe we’ll start with you. Podcast, YouTube channel, millions of subscribers, you must be enjoying life right now. What do you love most about what you’re doing right now?

Scarlett: I really love, honestly, just being able to kind of film with just the three of us. It’s really, really fun. I love how we get to just make really fun content and get to inspire kids.

So that’s really my favorite.

Pat Flynn: I love that. That’s really important to me, too. As you might know, I have a Pokémon YouTube channel and seeing the kids get excited and involved, especially with other family members, is really cool. Annabella, can you go over, like, how you guys all met? I’d love to get the origin story of how all three of you kind of got together.

Annabella: All righty. Well, Angelina is my sister, so we were kind of met at birth. And then Scarlett, Scarlett is actually our cousin. Yeah. Okay. So we also-

Pat Flynn: So you’re all related.

Annabella: Yeah. Yeah. Yep. We’re all family.

Pat Flynn: But what made you decide to go, “You know what? We need to turn on the cameras and hit record.” What, what inspired that?

Annabella: Well, Angelina, do you wanna take that? Yes. ‘Cause it’s really from Angelina.

Angelina: It actually kind of started with me. So-

Pat Flynn: Okay …

Angelina: We’ve done YouTube for 11 years now. So we started, I was seven, you were six, and you were five.

Scarlett: Wow.

Angelina: And as a young girl, I loved acting. We were such a great team. We were always having fun and outgoing.

And I went to a very special school, and I have dyslexia. And because I have dyslexia, they didn’t give me the time or didn’t give me patience, and so they didn’t welcome me back after that. And so my mom wanted to show those teachers that were so mean to me like, “Hey, these girls are amazing girls, and they can do amazing things.”

And we started our YouTube channel that way, and then where we really got into it is we filmed our first video, which was Bats: The Creatures of the Night, and we put that in a film competition. We won it. So that’s when we really knew, “Okay, we want to do this for, like, the rest of our lives.”

Pat Flynn: That is insa- How old were you when you won that competition?

Angelina: Ooh. I think- Um, it was in, the award was in 2019. So-

Pat Flynn: Okay, so like seven years ago. That’s- Yeah. Yes. Yep. And you’ve been doing this since then, and- Yes … I’ve been watching some of your adventures. They are wild. They are crazy. They’re super fun. Congrats on a million subscribers on YouTube. Thank you. That must’ve been a, a huge deal.

But when you first started, I know as a creator myself that sometimes it can get hard to, like, just get going. Mm-hmm. You have a lot of things that you tell yourself about why it’s not gonna work, or you might be embarrassed or those kinds of things. Going back to Scarlett, maybe you can go over some of the first videos that you’ve done that you might remember and some of those hard moments that you had to push through in order to get to where you’re at now.

Any, does that spark any memories or any kind of feelings that you had early on in the days of the YouTube channel?

Scarlett: Yeah. We, when we had first started filming, um, some of our first videos, they were all really outside or inside, and they were all about animals. Some of the harder things about it was if it was outside, it would be the weather, and we were really hot, really young.

Let me think.

Pat Flynn: Were there any feelings of like, “This is not gonna work,” or being scared to be on camera, any of those kinds of things?

Scarlett: I was definitely when I… I guess as I got older and I was in middle school, and I was like, “Oh, my gosh, what are people gonna think? I’m entering middle school.” Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah.

“I’m on the internet. Oh, no.” And I never really was nervous on camera. It was more of when I went in school, and I was like, “Oh, people know I have a channel.” Oh, yeah. I mean, it’s not just the three of us. People are gonna know. It was more of like, “Oh, what are people gonna think?” You know?

Pat Flynn: So you kept going anyway.

What kept you going despite all that?

Scarlett: Kept me going was, honestly, I had so much fun filming. It was really fun. We did crazy science experiments.

Angelina: Some crazy ones- And they were crazy … where my dad would come into the house, and we’d be in pirate costumes, and we would have fire extinguishers everywhere. Yeah.

And he’d be like, “What is going on?” He had no idea.

Annabella: And we would blow stuff up.

Angelina: He has no i- Yeah. He… It would be every day he would walk into something new. If that’s slime on our ceiling- Ceiling … from a volcano eruption to all these different kinds of foods to us, like, having, like, crazy costumes on. It was a rollercoaster.

It was fun.

Pat Flynn: That’s so cool. I’m a dad as well. I have a 16-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, so middle school and high school now too, kind of around the same ages. And I can just imagine coming home and just seeing the house kind of going nuts and, like- … crazy things everywhere. And, you know, thankfully because I’m a creator myself, I kind of, I w- I would want that to happen.

I encourage that. I, I wonder if for especially young boys and girls out there who wanna be creators, and maybe their parents are like, “Hey, this is a distraction. Make sure you’re doing your schoolwork and those kinds of things.” I don’t know if, Annabella, you have any thoughts on, like, how to navigate that?

‘Cause obviously, school’s important. You wanna get the s- things done that you need to get done, but there needs to be some room for creativity and, and, and some space to play, I guess. So how do you help a person maybe talk to the creator, the, the young creator out there who’s maybe trying to balance school and being a creator at the same time?

Annabella: Yeah, I would say definitely, like, making a schedule, like, really helps. Like, pick specific days. Like, “Oh, I’m gonna do school this day and knock this out.” And then on certain days be like, “I’m gonna film on these days,” and save hours to film- Mm … or edit or whatever you have to do. ‘Cause it is really hard to balance, like, sports, channel, and school.

But, like, making a schedule for each day, like, really helps, so then you, like, stay organized instead of, like, trying to figure it out on your own.

Pat Flynn: Yeah, that’s actually really fantastic advice. Especially when you’re a creator, you wanna kind of create all the time. You kinda put everything else behind, and then your responsibilities are forgotten about.

Or the opposite happens, you just never give yourself time to play and be creative and experiment and film and edit. Speaking of editing, I’m curious, Angelina- When it comes to the editing and all the kind of technical stuff to start a channel, I know that often holds a lot of people back as well. Tell me about the early days of what you did for editing- Ooh

which I know gets in, in the way for a lot of people.

Angelina: Actually, so we’re all thankful that we have a family that supports us when it comes to YouTube, and really honestly, it was my mom the whole time. She was the filmer.

Pat Flynn: Your mom was the editor?

Angelina: Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Pat Flynn: And the camera person?

Angelina: She, she was the filmer.

She was the editor, and she was the one, like, when we did our educational videos, she had the lines set up. She would do the research. Yeah, she was everything. Wow. So it was, in the very beginning, it was boss woman. Shout out to mom. Yeah. Yeah.

Pat Flynn: Shout out to Mom. Is Mom in the room right now?

Angelina: She is in the room, actually. She is, yeah.

Pat Flynn: Hi, Mom. Great job, Mom. Hi.

Angelina: She’s waving. She’s waving.

Pat Flynn: That is so cool. So is she still doing those kinds of same things, or have you learned to, like, hire other people and do kinds of stuff?

Angelina: We do have other people, and then sometimes if it- she works on more of the different stuff when it comes to sponsors and getting those collaborations, but when it comes to Shorts, I’ll go and, ’cause I love editing, so I’ll come and help with the shorts, and she will as well.

But for long-forms, we do have editors now.

Pat Flynn: Gotcha. Okay, so you have long-form and short-form, which is great. Are the short-form videos just, like, clips from the long-forms, or are you actually doing, like, specific videos for the short-form stuff?

Angelina: So it depends on the channel. So we have three channels. So we have the Wild Adventure Girls, WAG Nation, and WAG Podcast.

And so when it comes to the podcast, we’ll take clips from the podcast, edit it to be really cool and trendy, and post it. And when it comes to WAG Nation, we’ll either do skits or take stuff from the videos. And Wild Adventure Girls mostly is us being skits and creating our own videos.

Pat Flynn: That’s really cool. When it comes to the skits, maybe Scarlett, I can go back to you.

How much prep work goes into one of these videos? I know that Mom’s helping out. You probably all put in some ideas, but when you are getting ready and going to film, what do you already have ready? Are you scripting every line? Like, what goes into the effort of production there?

Scarlett: Yeah. So when we start a long-form video, one of us will come up with the idea.

We come up with our title and the thumbnail for that, and then it goes into a script or a outline. So we don’t wanna script everything. You know, it’s gonna be natural and funny in the moment. But it’s like, if we wanna say an intro, maybe a couple key things, like we filmed a video where it was trying a bunch of one-star restaurants.

Oh, that was awful. So that took planning of mapping out the places, finding the reviews, being able to say things about the restaurant, and then from there, we would have a few key things that, like, we need to order and do, and then the rest, it would just be kind of fun in the moment.

Pat Flynn: That’s cool. I like that.

So there is a lot of prep work, but I love that you are leaving room for just stuff to happen, ’cause that’s where all the best stuff is. It’s not scripted, and all the stuff in between that, so that’s great. Going back to Annabella, I wanna ask you, because this one-star restaurant review video, you know, I know that there’s a few bigger creators like Ryan Trahan who kind of popularized those style, and I look to other creators too for inspiration all the time, and sometimes a lot of people have a hard time balancing this idea of, well, I wanna get inspired by somebody versus I just wanna, like, copy exactly what they’re doing.

What are the things that you three do, and again, Annabella, I’ll have you answer first, that kind of brings your flavor into those kinds of videos that maybe other creators also do?

Annabella: Yeah. So, well, when we do look and kinda scour the internet to get some ideas, I make sure that, like, when I write an outline, it’s definitely not the same.

Most of the time I’ll see the idea, and I don’t watch their video at all. Mm. And so then I kinda create my own outline, or we all create our own outline. And then when it actually comes to filming, I think what really brings us out is we have a very fun and not scripted personality, so we’re really just having fun with the camera.

And we’re all best friends, so we wanna kinda bring the viewer in to be like our best friend as well. So I think that really gives, like, a different vibe to the viewers from, like, other creators.

Pat Flynn: I love that. Keep going with that, ’cause I really love that. If you want your audience to feel like they’re your best friend, too, like more specifically, what are the kinds of things you do to, to have that feeling?

Annabella: Yeah. We’re usually super, like, energetic, or we talk about, like, really, like, relatable topics that we know that, like, our viewers would resonate with. And we make sure to bring them, like, to everything and being, like, very inclusive when we’re filming, like, certain things and making it like they’re just, like, a part of our group.

Like, whenever we do things or we have, like, jokes and we wanna bring our viewers into it, like really kind of being like their older sister in, like, a really fun way. That’s like the v- That’s, like, our goal is to make our viewer feel like that.

Pat Flynn: I love that so much. I think, first of all, you guys are way, way smart.

I mean- Thank you. You’re so young, yet you have so much knowledge of YouTube. I’ve been on YouTube since 2009- Yeah … and only now, with the Pokemon channel, am I realizing that understanding who your audience is and what’s relatable to them, and all those kinds of things, is really important. Which is why, like, for my shorts channel, a lot of people love when I open a pack of Pokemon and I don’t get anything, and it’s like a complete waste of money, because that’s very relatable.

And- Yeah … a lot of other creators will be like, “I only wanna show the best hits and all the best cards I pull.” And it’s like, well, that’s not real life. So I love that you’re here kind of sharing and amplifying that as well. You guys wanna play a quick little game? I have something fun, I think.

Angelina: Sure. Of course.

Pat Flynn: Okay. So we’re gonna go one by one, and I want you- Okay … to fill in the blank, right? You know it’s a Wild Adventures Girl video if blank.

Angelina: Okay.

Pat Flynn: So this will help me understand a little bit more about what makes your videos very unique. So I don’t know if there’s a volunteer who wants to go first, but, like, you know you’re watching a WAG video if…

Who wants to go first?

Scarlett: I’ll start.

Pat Flynn: Okay.

Scarlett: If, if it’s really funny.

Pat Flynn: Really funny. So comedy- Comedy … and bringing in the laughs is really key.

Scarlett: Yes.

Pat Flynn: I love that.

Angelina: I would say chaotic. Chaotic. That was good. I feel like we’re very chaotic and fun. Chaotic? That was gonna be mine. Like, we’ll say chaotic- … because it’s just, the one thing about us is, like, we’re really funny people, and we will just- we don’t get embarrassed like most people would.

Yeah, we just don’t care. And so we will just say the funniest things. If it’s like, we did this one where we went to f- we did, like, famous desserts, and we were talking about this famous pie, and it was like, on the sign it had some famous poem or something. Scarlett read it like she was the one that created it, and Bella was like, “Wow, very original,” and cut to the t- cut to the sign.

Mm. And so I feel like chaotic and- but funny is really true too.

Pat Flynn: Chaos is good. Cha- like, that’s entertaining, right? Yeah. But like who, I don’t know who said organized chaos, but I, I, I love that. I did,

Annabella: Yeah. We are very, yeah, organized chaos. I think mine would be, like, hectic. Like, uh, like on the chaos part, because we’re just really fun and chaotic ’cause we’re three girls, like, doing, like just random videos that are, like, really fun.

Like that, that would be mine.

Pat Flynn: I love it. I love that

Okay, let’s, let’s go one more time around, round robin. I want you to each tell me your favorite memory from any video. If you wanna pull out the video and your favorite memory from that What might that be? I know this is a hard one. I get asked this all the time, and I hate it because I’m like, there’s so many good moments, so I don’t know if there’s just one that sort of comes to mind.

Angelina: I got one. I got it. I got it.

Pat Flynn: Okay. Let’s hear it. Let’s hear

Angelina: it. Wait, what’s yours? ‘Cause I feel like we’re saying the same thing.

Scarlett: Okay. It is a video from a really long time ago. I think we were about, I don’t know, maybe seven, eight, and nine. We were young, and it was when we made this glow-in-the-dark slime. Oh. And we were filming the thumbnail of the video, and my mom said, “You know, it’d be really cool for the thumbnail if you poured the slime on their hair, and it would look really cool with, like, blacklights.” And it turned out really good.

Pat Flynn: Oh, that’s awesome.

Scarlett: But the funny part, like, I can laugh about it now, but back then I was freaking out- You were so mad. Was that we couldn’t get the slime out of our hair. Ooh. And we all had to take a bunch of vinegar and pour it in our hair. If you ever need to get slime out of anything-

Pat Flynn: Mm …

Scarlett: use vinegar. Vinegar. It got out of our hair. It took a long time, and we smelt like vinegar, but it was actually really fun. It was really fun.

It was hilarious. That’s

Pat Flynn: so funny. Thanks, Mom, for that one as well. Yeah.

Angelina: No. Oh, gosh. Okay, this one’s an oldie, but it lives in my head rent-free, and every time when I go and have my, like, my new friends and I tell them I have a YouTube channel, this is, like, the one video I’ll pull up all the time, and it’s our Ghostbuster video.

Annabella: Oh, yeah.

Angelina: So when the Ghostbusters, when it came to the females, that movie that came out of the three or four females, we wanted to do a recreation of it ’cause it was like, “Girl power, we gotta do it.” And there’s a couple scenes from it, but my f- my favorite scene was in the movie, one of the ghosts, like, vomited slime onto this girl, and Bella was the ghost, and we threw slime on-

Annabella: At me

Angelina: Takes.

Scarlett: It took two different takes.

Angelina: It was dumb.

Scarlett: And more vinegar.

Angelina: Oh. Oh, yeah. More vinegar. Oh, yeah. Of course. It was, it was… That was, like, the best. We… It would be days after you would find slime drops on our tile floor and, like, my dad coming in- On our ceiling. Yeah, on the ceiling.

Ugh. Oh, no, that was good. That was, that one was a really, really fun one to film. I’m

Pat Flynn: feeling like slime is a major theme here of- Slime videos … of what-

Angelina: It was.

Pat Flynn: Yeah. We were definitely-

Annabella: We loved slime …

Angelina: the slime kids back-

Pat Flynn: Yeah …

Angelina: in the day, for sure. Yeah.

Pat Flynn: My daughter probably watched one of your videos at some point, ’cause we got into a slime thing as well.

And it definitely was a major cleanup process a lot of the time.

Annabella: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Slime was, like, our main thing. Yeah. I think my favorite was, it was like this is one of the best videos we filmed. It was an old one, but you’re basically supposed to take, like, a Gatorade bottle- Oh … and fill it with a whole bunch of dangerous chemicals.

Oh, yeah, poke a hole in it, stick a handkerchief in it, and you light it on fire, and it will explode. Blow up. And I remember that we decided to do it inside, for whatever reason, instead of outside. And it was so loud and so crazy. We were so freaked out by it, but we still kept going, and so instead we put slime in it as well.

We did. And we exploded that, and it went all over our ceiling. Ceiling. It was hilarious. And it was so funny. But there’s so many good videos that we have that are just so awesome. Hilarious. Oh, yeah.

Pat Flynn: That’s cool. Just be safe, everybody, if you’re gonna mix things together and light things on fire. Oh, yes. Oh, yes.

Get your parents’ permission before you do any of it.

Angelina: Oh, I wouldn’t recommend doing it now.

Scarlett: No. It probably could be crazy. It would be awful. Yeah.

Pat Flynn: What would you offer to a young girl who wants to be a creator? ‘Cause I know as a father, and I have a young girl as well, the YouTube space can be full of not so nice people.

Mm-hmm. Um, how do you just keep moving forward and stay positive when sometimes the, the comments that come in, whether you’re a boy or a girl, or a man or a woman, there can be some really mean people out there.

Scarlett: Oh, yeah.

Pat Flynn: And I don’t know if you have any thoughts or advice for both the young creator and their parents who might be thinking about going into YouTube.

Angelina: Yeah, that’s a really great question because it is a really big thing. You know, we get, I mean, it’s, we’re YouTubers. I feel like every YouTubers gets hate comments or not nice comments, and our strategy really is, and it’s actually example is, we did, like, this trolls video where we were like, our hair, we, like, put water bottles, and we were like, all our hair was, I was, like, bl- purple, you were blue- Yeah, and you were pink. That was funny. And we did a dance, and Bella did it wrong, and she purposely did the dance wrong, and Bella got so many hate comments because of it. And instead, my mom was like, “Hey, don’t look at the comments.” And my sister’s like, “I love the hate comments because it’s like, it drives me to do better.”

Annabella: Hmm.

Angelina: And I think sometimes people will take those comments and, like, really, like, “Man, that’s terrible,” and, like, it’s like it hurts them. But you have to think about, like, you know what? It’s, like, you gotta put it past you because there’s, like, there’s also fans that love watching you and love- Yeah … seeing you.

And especially for a young girl, I know for sure, and young boys and girls, they’ll take it and be like, “Man, this really hurts my feelings,” but it’s like, it’s okay. That means you’re growing, and you just have to be like, “These people aren’t in my circle. They’re not in my bubble.” Yeah. “And that’s okay.” Yeah.

“They’re just outside. They don’t know who I am.” Yeah. “But I’m going to- You don’t even know who they are either … I’m never gonna stop,” right? Yeah. ‘Cause if, I mean, we would’ve stopped 10, like, a long time ago if it was the hate comments and people not liking us, but we love doing it. Yeah.

Pat Flynn: I feel like every creator goes through that.

I went through that myself when I was a blogger, and I got, I went through a period where I quit because of what one person said, what one person said. I quit, and I let thousands of people down as a result of that, like you were saying. There’s two things I’ve learned about the sort of haters and trolls that are out there, and thank you again for being so honest and, and open about that.

Hurt people hurt people, and this was something that a friend of mine told me in this moment. Like, people hurt others when they are hurt themselves. So I try to lead with empathy and try to understand that somebody probably hurt them, and they’re just projecting it forward to me because I’m here, and I’m easy, and I’m accessible- Yeah on YouTube. So they’re just gonna leave a comment and hide behind their, their username. But then the other thing is every second you waste thinking about a hater or a troll, like you said, is a ti- a second you’re taking away from somebody who does enjoy your content, who needs you, who wants you to create more.

So I appreciate that advice there. When it comes to the podcast, I’m curious ’cause the podcast is the newer sort of component to your brand, right?

Scarlett: Yes. Mm-hmm.

Pat Flynn: And you have this beautiful studio now. Thank you. How do you go from wild adventures out in the wild, you know, slime everywhere- … animals, to now you’re sitting down and having a conversation.

How do you determine what to talk about and how to put yourself out there in, in, in a kinda different mode like that?

Annabella: Yeah. I think for us it’s that we have so much fun on our camera, but, you know, at first it was kinda scripty, so our viewer couldn’t really get to know us- Hmm … which is why we kinda sparked the idea of a podcast, and then we pivoted our channel.

Now they see more of the real us. But we thought how cool would it be if our viewer could really connect with us instead of just seeing us on the camera, you know, like, kinda being a little scripty, that they could see, like, the raw, real version of us. And when it comes to ideas, we kinda all sit down and talk about what we think the viewer would really enjoy and like to hear us talk about, and also what might be just, like, really relatable to them, and that they would really, like, enjoy learning about or hearing about us talking about.

Mm. And that’s kinda how we get our ideas.

Angelina: We try imagine our viewer… Like, last year we sat down, and we were like, “Okay, we gotta imagine this avatar that our viewer is,” and so we named her Skyler. She’s 15 years old. Her favorite shows are Outer Banks, Stranger Things. She loves popcorn and pizza. She loves hanging out with her friends. She likes Taylor Swift. And when we really honed in on the type of viewer we wanted, we realized, like, those videos we really enjoyed when it came to the podcast and w- what Bella said, too, was we would sit down, and really we wanna be the b- we wanna be the older sisters for our audience, right? Mm-hmm. Hmm.

And so we’ll be like, “Okay, we’re gonna film this video that’s about, like, dating,” or, “We’re gonna film this video that’s about the summer trends or something,” just so the girls can connect with the girls.

Pat Flynn: That’s really cool. I lo- I love that, and I think listening to your audience and getting their guidance on what to do next is really, really smart.

That way you don’t- Mm-hmm … really ever have to make anything up or guess. You can kinda just vibe with them, and if you are treating them like a best friend like you said, then you’re gonna listen to them and kind of be that big sister for them, which is, which is really cool. Do you have, like… Tell me about, like, what a week looks like for the WAG Crew.

Are we looking at, like- Certain days of the week are for filming. I wanna know if, like, you have meetings where you talk about these things, or is it more just chaos? I don’t know. I’m, I’m very curious about how that works. Oh. I don’t know who wants to lead that on, on kind of the setup.

Scarlett: I can kinda kick it off.

Thank you. So our week usually, um, Mondays tend to be the days where we film for our podcast. They tend to be about every Monday. And then Tuesdays, those days tend to be where we h- film shorts or we have a meeting that day. Wednesdays can kind of become, if we’re filming a video for WAG Nation, it tends to be on those days, or we go live.

We go live a lot on the channel, about once a week or so. We’ll do that on Wednesday or Thursday. And then Fridays, we always would film, like, a different WAG Nation video or a Wild Adventure Girl video.

Angelina: And Saturday and Sundays are off- Off days … for us, being with family- Yeah … and

to relax and-

Pat Flynn: Yeah, that’s cool. Get schoolwork done. Yeah. Schoolwork, too. Right. But it’s summer now, right? So you guys are off of school.

Angelina: Yeah. Yeah. We’re off. And we were home, we’re, uh, we did online school. Well, they did. I’m graduated. She’s graduated. But they do online school, so it gave us the flexibility of, like- Mm-hmm them getting their schoolwork done in the morning, and then they had the rest of the day off.

Pat Flynn: That’s cool. So I’m curious, especially for you at the age you’re at, you know, a lot of kids are thinking about college, and we don’t have to say it’s the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do, but for you, I’m just curious what your plans are.

And for, for, for the rest of the gals, what does the future of WAG look like in terms of where this channel is going and where you’re gonna be spending your time?

Angelina: Yeah, that’s a great question. I grew up loving podcasts. It’s one of my favorite things to do. I love filming the podcasts. I love creating the ideas for the podcasts, looking at the edits.

And I am gonna do an online college, and it’s gonna go into business management, but my focus will be YouTube, and I wanna do that for the rest of my life is YouTube, ’cause I enjoy it. I love the community, and I love my fans. And I’m gonna step into more of the role when it comes to the podcasting, ’cause I love it so much.

Pat Flynn: Nice. Very nice. How about the others?

Scarlett: Yeah. I’m gonna be a senior in high school this year, so I am kind of thinking more about that. If I… I’m not sure if I wouldn’t go to college, but maybe online, get into marketing or a business, something like that. And it would still be doing the channel in the future, for sure.

Creating more, like, businesses and still filming and doing the podcast. That’s what would excite me the most, for sure.

Pat Flynn: Love it. Bella?

Annabella: And for me, I would probably do the same thing as Angelina, the same online college, and probably the same classes that she’s gonna take. And I’m gonna do the channel still.

I absolutely love, like, creating ideas. It’s, like, one of my favorite things and in the future I hope that we can be at, like, panels for, like, VidSummit and VidCon. Mm-hmm. That’s, like, a big thing, becoming speakers, getting more businesses, and just growing our brand all together. Like, that is what I hope to see in the future.

Pat Flynn: That’s awesome. Well, you are a power trio, all of you. I think all of you would be amazing on stage and on a panel at VidCon and things like that. I hope to see it- Thank you … someday. Uh, a few more questions if you don’t mind. I think we have a little bit of time left. Yeah, of course. Of course. You’d mentioned business.

I love the idea of kind of just doing things to amplify what you already have and getting- Mm-hmm … more skills to kind of take it to that next level. When it comes to the business and monetization stuff, obviously most of us creators on YouTube, we do have AdSense revenue and things like that. Mm-hmm. I imagine you have that as well, but- Yes

where else is business happening? Uh, is there merch? Is there brand deals? What else do you have going on kinda in the business to help supplement and, and bring some revenue in for you guys?

Angelina: Yeah, I’ll answer that. So yes, we do have sponsors. We’ve wor- we have worked with a lot of sponsors.

Scarlett: And brand deals.

Angelina: Yeah, some pretty, some pretty big ones. We’ve worked with Nintendo. Google.

Scarlett: Uh, Faith and Family.

Angelina: Yeah, some really big ones. Wow. And so- Well, on The Wild Adventure Girls, we are all horse owners. That’s kind of what we got really big for. We have one Short that has almost-

Annabella: It has half a billion views.

Angelina: Yeah. It’s a really, really- That’s insane.

It’s a really big Short, and you know what? We’ve studied that Short so many times trying to wonder why because-

Annabella: It’s the dumbest Short, and it did so well.

Pat Flynn: You know what? That’s a huge lesson in and of itself because I have- Yeah … some of those, too. I’m like, “I worked so hard on these other ones, and they go nowhere.”

Yeah. Yes. And this other one that has nothing in the formula- … just took off, so.

Angelina: I know, and so us having, and the most famous, now all of our horses are pretty famous, but mine in particularly- … is named Bubba, and so we really wanna start Bubba Books, and- Mm … basically, it’s Bubba and his friends, so Bubba and friends, going on an adventure.

So if that’s… We had one book that’s in the process that I wrote, and it was, like, the m- the missing, like, it was like- Alarm clock … the missing carrot or something. Yeah. It was, like, treats, and it was this whole story, so definitely that, and then-

Annabella: Fashion lines.

Angelina: Yes. Or merch. We’re big on clothes. Mm-hmm. So Bella and Scar are very creative when it- Yeah, comes to clothing. Yeah. So definitely a fashion line. We have a merch store. Yeah. We do

Annabella: have a merch store now. And definitely some online courses- Mm-hmm … I think could bring in a lot. Yes. And those are pretty easy to make, and it could really help, like, a viewer- Yeah … learn more.

Pat Flynn: Hm.

Angelina: Mm-hmm.

Pat Flynn: That’s cool. Do, do you have Bubba merch?

Angelina: We do have Bubba merch. We do. Oh, good. Yes.

Pat Flynn: Yes.

Angelina: We do have Bubba merch. Yep.

Pat Flynn: Is there a plushie?

Angelina: We have a pillow. They were in the process. We have a pillow. Yeah. Okay. So the story on Bubba was our first video we ever filmed that hit was… Well, I don’t know if it was our first one, but it was one of them- One of the first that blew up was at the very end, I, ’cause my horse is very, he’s a very good boy. He’s, I mean, he’s- He listens very well. He, you could probably run around in flames, and he would not freak out, and he, at the very end, I smacked him on the butt, not hard or anything, and that kind of became the whole thing of, like, the fans were wanting that.

Yeah. They’re like, “You didn’t, you didn’t do the last thing,” and so- The thing, right … we have, like, we have, like, we’re, we have some really funny pillows that are designed like that, and so-

Pat Flynn: For that pur- purpose- Yeah … that I mentioned. Yeah. Okay. I got you. I got you. I understand. Yeah, that’s really cool. I mean, those kind, like, you’re building your own world, right?

And within that world- Mm-hmm … there are characters. There are animals, and those kinds of things can be things that the fans can wanna be a part of. In my world in, in the Pokemon space, I have a… I don’t know if I have him here I don’t have him here. We have a character named Steve because we do these challenges against time and we needed something to personify time.

So we- I bought this Amazon kitchen timer and I put googly eyes on it- … and I just named it Steve. And we have these eyebrows that can kind of move and make it sad or angry, and it’s just become a part … It’s like our timer, but we named him Steve, and now the audience is like, “Where’s Steve?” They wanna get autographs from Steve when I’m-

when I’m out there in person. So we just actually created a Steve plushie. It’s a plushie- Oh, I love that … of a kitchen timer with google eyes, and we sold out in like three hours.

Scarlett: That’s awesome. That’s amazing. Oh, wow.

Pat Flynn: All that to say, like you can create your own IP, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. With, with what it is you’re doing, and you’ve done that in, in Bubba, and I’m sure the other horses are there as well.

I follow a channel called How Ridiculous that has Rexy, which is like a little dinosaur that they use and try to- … smash and, and do all these things. So I mean, I love that you are building this world and where it’s gonna go from here. I mean, and only time will tell and- Yeah … or Steve will tell. And- … it’s gonna be amazing to see where it takes you.

I’m, I’m so excited. I wanna ask you one last question here as we finish up, and first of all, WildAdventureGirls.com, go there. I see … When I went to the page though, I have to say, I saw a big spider right on the homepage.

Angelina: Yeah.

Pat Flynn: And I’m definitely- Yeah … afraid of spiders, so it kind of freaked me out for a sec, but it’s not your fault.

Angelina: There’s actually one, I don’t know if you could see, it’s in our wild pack-

Scarlett: It’s in all of our logos.

Angelina: It’s in all of our … It’s just something that stuck around. Yep.

Pat Flynn: The spider? Yeah.

Scarlett: Yeah.

Pat Flynn: Oh, gosh.

Scarlett: Okay. It’s a little spider in all the little logos. It’s in every logo of ours.

Pat Flynn: Maybe I won’t dive super deep into the brand then ’cause, uh- No, I’m just kidding.

Um, but WildAdventureGirls.com especially if you have a young girl, super inspirational. Thank you for what you do- Yeah … and the honesty and just kind of the inspiration you give young creators out there. I think everybody wants to be a YouTuber these days. When you ask kids what do they wanna be when they grow up, they wanna be a YouTuber, and we need good examples just like you guys for, for how to do that.

So, so thank you.

Scarlett: Thank you.

Pat Flynn: One question I wanna ask each of you.

Scarlett: Mm-hmm.

Pat Flynn: Who is your dream collab?

Scarlett: Dream collab

Pat Flynn: Dream collab. Mm. If there was any other creator you’d ever wanna work with and have in a video and, and do something together with, who might that be?

Scarlett: Man. Do you have one, Bella?

Annabella: I would probably say Salish Matter.

Yeah. I feel like that would be, like, a really big collab that could do really well, ’cause she’s also- I like that … a teen girl. Yeah. And she probably has, like, kinda like the same audience. Like, I would, I would probably wanna collab with her.

Scarlett: Yeah.

Pat Flynn: That’s cool. Any celebrities that you’d love to have a collab with?

Like, like, think big. Like, I don’t know- Oh … you mentioned you like Taylor Swift. Like, what if Taylor Swift got involved?

Angelina: That’d be cool. That’d be so cool. Um, big celebrity. Oh my gosh. Wow. If we could have anyone on, I think it’d be so much fun to… Well, I- they are YouTubers, and I really like them ’cause they have a similar podcast to us, but it would be LOL Podcast.

LOL Podcast, yeah. LOL Podcast. Especially if they’re similar age, and, like-

Scarlett: Yeah …

Angelina: they’re really n- I know they’re really nice. Yeah And so I’d love to have them on-

Scarlett: Or even just, like- … ’cause they would be fun … a co-host for a video, that’d be really fun.

Pat Flynn: Yeah, I would just invite you all to think big. I mean, you have- Oh, yeah

something incredible here, a brand with staying power that inspires so many especially young girls. A lot of people wanna get behind that and amplify that message, especially if it is a good fit. So I, in the Pokemon space, I’m, I’m, I’m discovering that there’s a lot of celebrities, athletes, musicians who are actually, like, closet Pokemon nerds.

And they follow me now, and I’m like, “What the heck?” And I’m having conversations with them. I would’ve never known, and now we’re moving forward into some collabs with people that I never would’ve dreamt I would’ve ever done that with. So that’s the power of, of being a creator and being on YouTube and the connections that you can make, and I would just invite you to think big, even bigger on that, because you have something incredible there.

And I just love what you’re doing in the podcasting studio, and I cannot wait to follow up with you guys in the future to see where you’re at. Yeah. But-

Scarlett: Yes. Thank you so much.

Pat Flynn: Let’s go around one more time. Where would you want people to go to follow your stuff? And maybe we can have three different places in case people wanna go to three different places, ’cause you have a lot of stuff going on.

So maybe we’ll start with Scarlett.

Scarlett: For YouTube, it would be our YouTube channel, WAG Podcast, and The Wild Adventure Girls.

Pat Flynn: Awesome. Bella?

Annabella: For us, it would probably be our TikTok, which is the same name, rather WAG Podcast or The Wild Adventure Girls.

Pat Flynn: Very nice. And Angelina, let’s finish with you.

Angelina: Definitely Instagram, which would be The Wild Adventure Girls.

Pat Flynn: All right. Well, thank you girls for all the inspiration and for being here today. Congrats on the success, and I look forward to much more.

Annabella: Thank you.

Scarlett: Thank you for having us.

Angelina: Yes, thank you so much for having us.

Pat Flynn: Thank you All right, I hope you enjoyed that episode with the Wild Adventure Girls. I’m definitely inspired, and it’s so great to see the younger generation kinda getting their head on straight with especially content and YouTube and doing it the right way.

And I think the biggest theme out of all this that we didn’t bring up on the show, but I wanna bring up here because it’s been a part of my sort of DNA now recently with content creation and everything, is find the fun. When you are having fun, your audience is gonna have more fun, and you’re gonna have better experiences, create more relatable content, and that is what the world needs today.

It doesn’t need any more AI slop or just educational videos that just regurgitate everything that’s already been said. Put your personality into it, have organized chaos, and have some fun.

To Angelina, Annabella, and Scarlett, thank you to the three of you for all the insight and for just having just the best inspirational things to say for those young creators out there. So I appreciate you.

Thank you all for listening to the podcast, and looking forward to the next ones. Cheers!