METAMORPHOSIS SCRIPT

What would Locals World be without @thelocalNewYorker.

#startsomewhere #dreamwithus

When you grow up in a town known for it’s invisible “bubble,” as they say, you can’t help but not know any better than to simply enjoy it.

Picture this, a butterfly flies up and up, right below the ceiling of a conservatory, such as in the Hayden Planetarium (New York, New York). This butterfly knows there is something more out there, there’s gotta be. The butterfly lives in a beautiful safe place. This safe place has trees, streams, leaves and flowers. Being granted a community, there are others that look like this butterfly and this butterfly looks like them. However sometimes, she questions and gets curious about the details. The colors and lines that shape their wings come with many differences. Yet, this butterfly keeps flying on and knowing that what she sees is what she believes to be true, and that’s all there is.

The butterfly is taken care of by something greater than its meant to be know and understand as. The butterfly belongs and is given the surface level “purpose,” or her fate. The butterfly knows she is at an in-between stage of potential, from this cocoon that immerses her presence. The butterfly is told, she should just enjoy what is in front of her… like the others. To stop trying to change the circumstances of what is. But the butterfly knows that this is not all there is.

The butterfly knows there’s an entire WORLD out there waiting for her to fly amongst. There must be, even though she can’t see it, there is a magnetic pull, a parallel universe version of herself happening right now. To join in the sky with the “rest,” of her kind, and fly into the unknown. An undying feeling they’re missing out from the party. The ceremony of life in the eyes of this invisible third eye watching over her.

The butterfly is determined. Keeping at trying to find an escape. Everyday she sticks her routine, believing it will move the needle. She takes flight up and up, looking for a crack in this glass structure and invisible bubble, that is all she knows. It’s home, it’s comfort, it’s safety, it’s what she is crafted and formed to be a part of. But she does not give up one thing she knows to be true. Fate is not her destiny. What she doesn’t know is the answer can’t be found in the bubble at all.

The answer is somewhere out there.

This butterfly is a lot like the early stages of my life, and in a way still is. Born and raised in Westchester, New York, a place known to be what one may picture as the "perfect place to grow up."

An invisible bubble that hands out an invisible security blanket and mirrors images of what you are innately taught the way life should be. Family, holidays, celebration, education, security, safety, love. All illustrated by having a roof over your head, and a paved sidewalk to stroll down to the local ice cream shop, “Scoops,” with a brick three-story elementary school, only a bike ride away. A backyard with grass, two dogs one Golden, Cheerio and one Lab, Lauren, (Ralph got adopted). You spend your whole childhood playing, having leisure time, not understanding elsewhere there are scarcity of resources, but to just be happy. And if you’re not happy, something is wrong with you. You spend all this time on playdates and activities and hobbies, but have an undying feeling that this can’t be all.

My first time across the Atlantic, I saw the turned angle and side of the world I imagined my whole life of. Her beautiful name was Espana. She had coasts, mountains, cities, history, families doing nothing, having fun, and culture. Other girls like me, but just from “some place else.” Then I met Italia and Greece in Southeastern Europe exploring pasta, moussaka and ruins, all of which are known to be roads for transformation.

It wasn’t until College that I understood that the bubble wasn’t just over me. It was over everyone around me. That’s when it clicked. We’re all looking for different things and with that, some are kept in the bubble, and others have the spirit in attraversiamo, fully heartedly want to dive in the deep end, let’s cross over. (Eat Pray Love line)

Studying hospitality for a major was my way out. Let me be a sponge and soak in, understanding, what's outside of this bubble? Give me everything I need to know from culture to technology and this little blue dot we’re born onto.

I returned to Spain senior year and lived in Madrid: Plaza Santa Ana, on Calle de Principe, with a wrap around balcony that overlooked the (Sonders: The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passed in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it) till the late hours of the night and early mornings of the days. I borrowed the city's beauty and allowed her to show me what she had to offer, and she allowed me to stay for a while safely in return.

Over the years I’ve come to an incredibly important realization. My most beautiful moments are alone. The guilty pleasure behind that is that I love it. But really, aren’t we always alone in a crowded room, we leave our homes and nests and families every day to go to school, and work with strangers all the time, at least *pre-2020. The only difference is that it’s only you and your journey’s journal that hear about your day to day and that is your truth.

The summer after college, I finished Earth Is Hiring by Peta Kelly. Peta and I met in person in Brooklyn at the Earth is Hiring book tour in 2017. This is when I told her, thank you for giving me my life vision, allowing the download to work through me, choose me, my body, my will, my imagination to create and bake a cake from a few ingredients all around Earth that I’ve been lined up to follow the breadcrumbs for. The recipe for Locals Closet that was seen as a reality, before I could even see the mixer, the bowl and the chef.

My first year out of college I got my next “course.” My next direction, life lesson, and discovery out of the collected moments working out of The Assemblage, a co-working space in Manhattan’s East Side. Embedded into my career I was essentially a student of FEST, it’s broken down into Fashion, Entrepreneurship, Spiritually and Technology. Working at a sustainable fashion startup, you learn how to build something from the ground up and how to transition an idea into the game, and become a key player. One thing I know for sure, is everyone starts before they’re ready if they’re smart.

Truth be told and as one could imagine, Locals Closet sat on the back burner, but for a perfect reason for the delay, unlike American Airlines... It was already happening on the side lines, it just wasn’t my doing in the creating.

What I've come to realize in 2020, is that the seeds are at work before they sprout. Throughout this year I've been pushed to trust seeds.

"The message of the void is to surrender to the known. To allow the fertile darkness of nothingness to nourish the new seeds growing within you. Regardless of whether you know what they'll one day come. You're being called to surrender to the mystery of what's next... To hand over your control and trust that just because you can't see what's happening beneath the surface, doesn't mean things aren't at work.

The greatest weavings happen when we find a way to surrender and trust that our life is being knitted for us. Right beneath the surface. In ways known and unknowable...." - Starseed by Rebecca Campbell

I've also had my own downloads on the rose, how it blooms in the late of Autumn, when all is already at the end of its lifecycle, yet it just begins to blossom, as the beautiful late bloomer and divine timing of its collateral beauty of its destiny.

Back to how things are already at work,

- Peer to peer and clothes swapping became a new norm INTL.
- Clothing rentals like Rent The Runway became Unicorn Status. 
Women founded, non-profits, companies for the greater good, S-Corp, B-Corp, small companies with scalability and passive incomes arose
- Solo-preneurs sharing their story around the globe, Women investment groups, crowdfunding webinars, Girl Boss, B School, Boss Babe communities explode with a loyal following and engaging audience 7-fig business become new expectations...
- Apps would target the market and sponsor Ads on Social Media on renting outfits for one day, two days, one week, a month
- Suitcases became cool, AWAY, with smart travel technology and “minimalist” carry on suitcases.
- 2020 Update: Airbnb Experiences jump, Hyatt launches their Hyatt Loves Locals program and other upcoming National/ INTL. hotels join the local community-based tourism curiosity & skepticism. 

I met with a Founder for Coffee one day in Brooklyn. I was thirsty for answers. Then you realize something once you face your fears, your competition or what you believe to be the lucky ones, aren't your competition at all.... These platforms weren’t for you to build, they were whispered into someone else’s ear to create. The entity chose this person with their own soul contract to birth this new reality. A clothing rental platform is not what was my job to create. Predicting W Hotels and Rent the Runway would eventually partner.... was inevitable in my opinion, and also wasn't my responsibility to make it happen. No boats were missed. They are just one part of this larger whole to either co-create with others, or show that the market is alive, it’s there and it’s ready. Sometimes the world isn't ready yet for our creations, until we decide to activate our voice and tell them otherwise...

Local’s Closet is not trying to reinvent the wheel. Not of telling people how to travel or of the sharing economy between goods or even the trade economy of skill. No, no, no, not at all.

We’re also not trying to reinvent the wheel of anything really, especially how to fly a plane, though it would be pretty innovative…. We’ll leave that to Mr. Elon Musk to handle in his own court.

We’re simply embracing what’s already been put out there and who we want to serve the most; the aspiring next generation of travelers, the modern millennial, and Her. Mother Earth and our planet. Shifting the global community, but on a much larger scale. As you may have heard,"The world will be saved by the western woman," was delivered during the Vancouver Peace Summit 2009, stated by The Dalai Lama.

Locals World, hello babe, is a platform where connection is currency. Tor the new age and New Paradigm that is here right now. Allowing the Modern Millennial, ya capitalized, to Expand Her Horizons, Cross Borders and Open Doors... to step into her power. We’re embracing this next roaring twenties. Because, boy is there a LOUD ROAR for a wake up call.

We are forging, paving a new path, being the leader we wish we had.

Bringing the vision of this new world, into reality, where Modern Millennials can travel fearlessly, feel the magic of the interconnectedness between like-minded and un-likeminded souls out there. Other Locals, to other Sonders that are waiting for her to discover. To seamlessly immerse into one anothers cultures and experience the bigger picture, the undying feeling that there is something more, for herself. Ya, it's called the purpose and core of existence. And she will find it in this lifetime... "I can, I will, WATCH ME." (Oprah 2020 Vision Tour- BK, NY 2020)

It allows the Modern Millennial in seeking the opportunity to take leaps, cross borders, and open doors to actually do so. We are all looking for more than what our "fate life" (pre-determined, present circumstances) has to offer us. We are all destined for greatness. This is the fearless generation that keeps a suitcase in the corner of their room as a reminder that they can pack up and leave at any time they please. Because in this life time?

EARTH IS OUR HOME, AND WE ARE ONE, THE HUMAN RACE.

Subconsciously trained to believe by social media in the fragile developing years of teenagers to young adults that they should always be doing something, be somewhere, oh and showcasing it to the world. But when there’s no real life to complement it during a global quarantine, social media got boring, real quick.

You can only go on an African Safari once you get a husband, like on your honeymoon, because that’s just what people do. And that love and safety cannot be accomplished internally. Your tribe are those who surround you and you become most similar to those 5 people you spend the most time with.

1) The partner
2) The pet
3) The boss
4) The team of coworkers
5) The hairstylist or mom… unless your mom’s both… (in that case)

YOU GET THE POINT, YOU ARE NOT THESE PEOPLE.

And they my friends ARE NOT YOU.

Everyone is their own goddamn entity with the given right to follow their own paths.

~“Inhales during breathwork”~

Those who look like you, who come from a similar background, share similar weekend plans, those you’ve been calling your friend group for maybe one too many years, and as a result believed that is all there is. I’m sorry to break it to you but that’s neither the truth, nor your truth.

~“Exhales during breathwork”~

That’s all until Locals World came into your life.

~“Strikes Gong”~

Locals World, is here to build up human connection, because CONNECTION IS CURRENCY. As a reflection of what we all know for the greater good of humanity is needed. We’re here to co-build human connection between locals and travelers/ sonders/ modern millennials like you, to create a new age global network of the divine feminine energy and rising conscious that is happening right f*cking now. Our Mission, Vision and Values.

The Local of each city delivers the most authentic experience in their city that one could never really nearly achieve alone (ahem- Connection is currency... capital C). The Local is the Traveler’s curated concierge: tour guide, emergency contact and BFF (Best Foreign Friend), oh and Stylist (Locals Closet).

This is the modern age we live in, we’ve been calling social media something that isn’t social at all. And quite frankly, it’s getting old. We need an IRL in-person, back to the basics, foundation for humanity in order to move this god damn needle forward to save people, planet and profit full of love and tenderness, we need to go through the back door, find the third door, back exit to end up on this stage and pull some Houdini sh*t, to finally live our best lives, in our purpose, vision, dream, destiny, inner peace, love and light, and peace so that we can take care of this world in the way it's crying out to us to take care of it, BECAUSE WE ARE ALL DESTINED FOR GREATNESS AND ONCE WE REALIZE THIS, WE CAN BE IT.

~“Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm”~

But what we’re here to do, the secret sauce, is to bring together two individuals from different latitude / longitude coordinates across the borders in one place. Two people that 99.66% sure would have never met otherwise, are now,

1) The reason why the other is there in an opportunistic zone that just maximized her time, money, worth and experience in an invaluable way. AND
2) The opportunity has been presented for a relationship that never would have come about otherwise. Think lifelong GLOBAL "pen-pals" that are now a power team of each others support and saving the world, because they consider one another when now making global decisions, personal creations, and living their day to day. We refuse and no longer will think small.
3) With Locals Closet, we can now confidently seamlessly immerse into each others cultures, dress like a local, step into one another's shoes, and explore the city in a different set of eyes.

Side Note: With the current circumstance of 2020, we need something like this for community-based tourism and local economies integrated into cities we currently already are in, and exploring your own city in a different set of eyes.... gaspppppppp.

The butterfly understands an ability that was always there, but she didn’t know how to use it, or share it with the world. The destiny within herself all along to swiftly fly from flower to flower in new gardens that welcome her with gates wide open. A colorful destination, a confirmed place to stay, curated pieces to wear, and a best foreign friend….

Locals World can channel an untapped part of our future clients, where they are given all the tools needed to create change inward, outward and in this place we call home, our World.

Expand Horizons (mentally/ physically), Cross Borders (physically, energetically, metaphysically), and Open Doors (of infinite possibilities) to step into your true power (globally with Locals Closet). The World has now become your oyster, and you continue to fly from place to place all with one App & carry-on. This is the era of minimalist anyways isn’t it?

Welcome to Locals World, welcome to the future of humanity and our planet.

How we work. Create the world you want to see.

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, to take the first step.

A journey of one thousand miles begins with one step...

But what if you're facing the wrong direction?

We’re here to serve our planet and your inner-compass. Our destiny brings together two souls, to create an impact and leave this world a better place than what we were presented with, to LEAVE YOUR LEGACY. We’re coming from the third door. The one whose everywhere at the same time, because we’re creating one of the first global communities of many more to come...

Welcome to the era of FEST, where Fashion Entrepreneurship Spirituality and Technology (we did not make up this term, it simply resonates), breaking the rules to allow you to forget your name, where you come from, showing you with one passport stamp at a time that you are a just part of the universe, and we’re all singing one song.

On some level, at this point, we understand in order to bring the energetic, un-manifested. into the material world, we need some backbone behind faking it till we make it.

1. The Law of Pure Potentiality: The source of all creation is pure consciousness... pure potentiality seeking expression from the unmanifest to the maniest.

Ans when we realize that our true self is one of pure potentiality, we align with the power that manifests everything in the universe.

- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra

Ending this to remind me, you have to start somewhere, and start before you're ready. Because by the time I would stand in front of a stage of who this will resonate with, I could of made an IG Reel in 24hrs and posted this article at this hour. So cheers to putting things out there, before they are perfect, because we are perfectly imperfect, beautiful messes, all trying to make the most out of this human experience we endeavor. And I choose to face my North Star today, and assimilate the wisdom of my mind with the modern tasks at hand.

Merci! xx V

and besides, what's Locals World without an official Local New Yorker of almost 25 yrs?

@thelocalNewYorker

#taketheleap #leapyearFTW

Now go listen via Spotify Metamorphosis and A New Vision by Darpan, and then think your thoughts of where we go from here... newera@localsworld.co

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AFRIKAANS – dankie

ALBANIAN – faleminderit

ARABIC – shukran

ARMENIAN – Շնորհակալություն / chnorakaloutioun

BOSNIAN – hvala (HVAH-lah)

BULGARIAN – благодаря / blagodaria

CATALAN – gràcies (GRAH-syuhs)

CANTONESE – M̀h’gōi

CROATIAN – hvala (HVAH-lah)

CZECH – děkuji (Dyekooyih)

DANISH – tak (tahg)

DUTCH – dank u

ESTONIAN – tänan (TA-nahn)

FINNISH – kiitos (KEE-tohss)

FRENCH – merci

GERMAN – danke

GREEK – ευχαριστώ (ef-hah-rees-TOH)

HAWAIIAN – mahalo (ma-HA-lo)

HEBREW – .תודה / todah (toh-DAH)

HINDI – dhanyavād / shukriya

HUNGARIAN – köszönöm (KØ-sø-nøm)

ICELANDIC – takk (tahk)

INDONESIAN – terima kasih. (tuh-REE-mah KAH-see)

ITALIAN – grazie (GRAHT-tsyeh)

JAPANESE – arigatô (ah-ree-GAH-toh)

KOREAN – 감사합니다 (gamsahamnida)

LATVIAN – paldies (PUHL-dyehs)

LEBANESE – choukrane

LITHUANIAN – ačiū (AH-choo)

MACEDONIAN – Благодарам / blagodaram (blah-GOH-dah-rahm)

MALAY – terima kasih (TREE-muh KAH-seh)

MALTESE – grazzi (GRUTS-ee)

MANDARIN – Xièxiè

MONGOLIAN – Баярлалаа (bayarlalaa)

NORWEGIAN – takk

POLISH – dziękuję (Jenkoo-yen)

PORTUGUESE – obrigado [masculine] / obrigada [feminine] (oh-bree-GAH-doo / oh-bree-GAH-dah)

ROMANIAN – mulţumesc (mool-tzoo-MESK)

RUSSIAN – спасибо (spuh-SEE-buh)

SERBIAN – xвала / hvala (HVAH-lah)

SLOVAK – Ďakujem (JAH-koo-yehm)

SLOVENIAN – hvala (HVAA-lah)

SPANISH – gracias (GRAH-syahs)

SWEDISH – tack

TAMIL – nandri

THAI – kop khun

TURKISH – teşekkür ederim (teh shek uer eh der eem)

UKRAINIAN – Дякую (DYAH-koo-yoo)

WELSH – diolch (DEE-ol’ch)

YIDDISH – a dank

ZULU – ngiyabonga

xx V