You're listening to Joe Jociwa now with me, Joe Jociwa, an iHeart Radio podcast. Well, the day has finally come. I have my very own podcast. After years of being in front of the world. It has been a solid 11 years now. It's been over a decade that I have been in the public eye, which is quite crazy when I actually start to think about it. It really gets put into perspective for me when I see my old costumes, when I see what nine-year-old Jojo was wearing and how tiny it is. I'm like, How have I been doing this for so long? Anyways, we're going to talk a bunch about that. We're going to recap pretty much a big chunk of my life today. But first, I just want to say I am so excited to be starting Jojo Siegel now. This podcast is all about my past, meeting my future, and what I want my future to be and who I am now because I think the world really got to see me grow up. But then at some point, I think the world still visualizes me as a kid because that image is still out there in front of the world.

But I'm a bit of a different human now. I hit age 20, and now I got lots of fun stories. I got lots of fun things up my sleeve. But of course, everything is always done with a good heart, with pure intention. Everything I try to do is super genuine and super true to who I am. I think I truly did build my whole career off of being exactly who I am. I never wanted to be a character or something fake or something phony. And so you see me as a kid and you see me that I was filming videos all day long and screaming around my candy-filled house with rainbow walls and wearing these crazy outfits and being 17 years old, wearing a side, pony, and hairboe. And the thing is none of that was fake. None of that was a persona that I would put on for videos. But I just didn't show the other side. I didn't show once the camera was cut, it was me who was editing everything. It was me who was coming up with the idea for tomorrow. It was me who was behind it all. There was never network or management or corporate.

Of course, I have a manager, and of course, I was signed to Nicolodian for the last few years of my life, the last lot years of my life. But it was always genuinely from me and from my heart. And so I think that's something that a lot of people think about Childstars is that... And I think this comes from me meeting a lot of Childstars that have been put in a position where they're doing something they necessarily don't want to do. But for me, it's the opposite. I was always doing exactly what I wanted to do. I have had such a great support system around me for years. And so it's cool to see how I transitioned from being a kid on Dance Moms to a YouTuber to a singer to now a podcaster to a Special Forces recruit to a dancing with the stars, X-Star. There's so many crazy things that I've done. And so today I want to take a trip down memory lane and take a trip down future lane and take a trip down current lane. Well, my friend from England was just hanging out with me, and so I've been saying the quote chat shit right now a bunch.

So we're going to chat some shit. Let's do it. What's going on with me right now is actually, it's quite fun to... I'm in a phase of life that I'm in right now. Currently, it is October in 2023. I'm in a very, very fun, confusing phase of my life. I'm about to be 20 and a half years old, so I'm close to my 21st birthday. I feel like you do turn an adult when you're 18, but I also feel like there's a sense of adulthood that comes when you turn 21 as well. So being almost there, I feel like I'm in this weird phase where I still feel young, but I'm not quite young anymore. Does that make sense? I don't know if that makes sense, but it is what it is. I've been working on new music for the last year, which has been so much fun, and it is finally all really coming together and coming full circle. Truthfully, I've been working on it since eight April 2022, so it's been over a year that I've been working on writing, recording, producing everything to do with my new music, and it is my biggest passion in life, and I'm so happy about it.

Also currently is Special Forces has been airing, which has been so fun. Oh, my gosh. Getting to watch Special Forces has been crazy. No, it was one of the most wild experiences of my life, and I'm going to talk so much about it on this podcast, give you all the stories. This is my little spoke in journal, this podcast, and so you're going to hear lots and lots. I don't want to spoil too much. But finally watching it air and come to life and see how it's been produced and chopped down and edited has been crazy because there's so much that happened. I mean, we're on camera 24 hours a day. It's crazy. Special Forces really was one of the most wild experiences of my life. Let's go back to the beginning. My career started when I was nine years old. I did my first TV show, Abby's ultimate dance competition. And prior to Abby's ultimate dance competition, I came out to California a little bit when I was four. My mom got me an agent out here. Actually, people don't know this about me. So when I was little, I was very different. I was very smart as a kid, but I was very witty.

I was very quick. And I could dance. I don't know. I'm just reading stories. I don't remember what I was like when I was little, but that's what people tell me about me when I was little. Anyways, my mom brought me out to California, WME, which is a massive agency. They didn't have a kids department at the time, but they wanted to create one, and they wanted me to be the first kid ever signed to their agency. And back in the day, my mom felt like that was too big of a risk. And so we put me with an agent that already had a kid's department. And looking back, knowing how big WME is now that we understand the industry, it's crazy to think what my life path could have been or would have been if we would have taken that opportunity. But I know that it would be so different than where I am now, so I am very grateful that everything worked out the way that it did. I cut to, I was nine years old. I was a dance competition kid my whole life, up until nine, and then I still wasn't until I was about 13.

I did dance competitions. My mom owned dance studios. Dance was my life, but I knew I wanted more. I knew I had more in me, but I was in Omaha, Nebraska. That's where I'm from, and so there's not much there, right? And then when I was nine, I did my first TV show, Abby's ultimate dance competition, and that was... I mean, it was a Skype audition at the time. It wasn't even Zoom, it was Skype. And yeah, it was like a six, eight-month-long audition process. Lots of paperwork. The final audition was in New York. They ended up liking me. I did season two of the show, it was incredible. I finished fifth on the show. But what was cool about it is the world gravitated towards me. I had a very large personality as a kid, and I was not afraid to speak my mind. I was not afraid to vocalize. I was not afraid to talk. And people seemed to enjoy that. And so then the producers of Dance Moms, which is at the time, it was lifetime's number one show in 141 countries. A crazy, crazy status was Dance Moms. It was the same producer, same network as Abby's ultimate dance competition.

And so after I did season two of that, they asked me to join Dance Moms in season five. And originally, I was only supposed to be there for a week, actually. And then they ended up enjoying me being there, enjoying me as a part of the team. And so I stayed for two and a half years. I stayed from the time I was 11 to 13. And it's great. I can't complain. I, of course, had hard days on dance moms, but I had a lot more good days than I did hard days, and it really did shape me to be who I am now. And who I am now is because of that. It's a good thing. I laughed because obviously I did Special Forces and everyone was like, How are you going to deal with the DS yelling at you? And I was like, same way I dealt with Abby Lee yelling at me back in the day. And of course, me and everybody laughs about that. But really what's true, I've been trained from a very young age to have critiques go in one ear and straight out the other, but while letting the information that you need to have stick in your brain, if that makes sense, which I think is a bit of a blessing in disguise.

It's tough. I got to do a lot of fun things. I got to be on Dancing with the Stars. I got to do Special Forces. I got to do my music. I got to go on D-R-E-A-M, The Tour. I feel like every project that I've done has shaped me in a way. From smaller projects, I did The Angry Birds movie. I did a TV show called Celebrity Watch Party. I did a show called Living Bell Shorties to the big projects, Stars, Sport Forces, Mass singer, Dance Moms, Jersey U. My World, my D-R-Y-M tour. Everything does really attribute to who I am today. I have memories and I've made friends along the way. I'm a very firm believer is the people that are around you, you will be a product of them. I'm a very firm believer and keep your bubble good, because if your bubble is good, you will be good. I think that is something that is so important. If I could give anyone advice, it would definitely be that. I want to talk past, present, and future me. That's called the Triple P. We should make that a thing. We should ask people what's their Triple P?

Past, present, and oh, future is enough. Unless we did past, present, and future. All right, so for my past, present, and future, because something about me is I'm a little bit dyslexic. So I have this big sheet of questions here and things that I want to talk about. And it's really fun because clearly my P's and F's now, apparently I didn't know that was going to be one. But my B's and D's, I get mixed up, my Ms and N's, my Z's and S's, and my E's and threes, letters that are similar. I get a little confused, P's and Q's are a big one. It's not bad. I can read, I can write, so it's nothing that's hard for me to deal with. But if I'm writing a handwritten card to somebody and I write, Happy birthday, I will either do it all in caps or happy would have a capital H, H-A-P-P-Y. And then birth would have a capital B. And then, Day in birthday, the D and Day would also have a capital D because my brain doesn't register which way that D or B is supposed to go. They look the same.

We lean with a rack with a lean with a rack with it. That's my life saying. Anyways, my past, present, and future. My past me... I'm going to answer this in a bit of an emotional way. I don't think my past me felt many emotions. And I think that my present me is feeling the effects of that. I think past me took everything and made it positive. And so now I have this odd... Oh, God, why did I get this deep? This is... I mean, we're already down this path, so we might as well just keep going down this path. But I feel like present me now feels like sometimes I have to keep that positive outlook to keep that reputation, which is weird because it's not something that I force, but I tend to not let myself get emotional. I let myself get sad or let myself feel things until I do, and then it is a wrap. The second that I feel sad, it takes a lot to get me there, but once I'm there, it's very hard for me to come out of it. And so I think with my future me, I want to find that balance.

I want to find that balance of being able to just feel emotions as they arise and not bury them. Daddy Foxy on Special Forces, which you're going to hear a bunch of Daddy Foxy stories, and you'll hear why I call him Daddy Foxy. He told me that. He said, Suppressing my emotions is not going to be good for me. And that's a lesson that I did learn on Forces. I had to get my emotions out, but I'm still something that I'm working through. And so that's something that I want to work on in my past, present, and future. I love my life, and I've gotten to do a lot of cool things in my life, especially related to my career. And I think my future is going to be really cool. I think my past was really cool. I have this fun little game that I like to play in my own brain because four years ago, I did The Mass singer, which was my favorite TV show of all time. I enjoyed it so much. And two years later, which would be two years ago, I did Dancing with the Stars, which was my favorite thing I've ever done in my life.

Oh, my God. That's so fun. And now today I did Special Forces. So I'm questioning, I'm like, What am I going to do in two years that will become that next favorite? I don't know what it'll be. I didn't expect Stars and I didn't expect forces. And I also didn't expect Mass singer, so I don't know what she's going to be, but I am excited for her. I feel like I'm on a path of emotion, which is fun. And so I want to talk about my bubble because I do have a really good bubble around me. I have a really good friends, a really good family. And I've tried to keep good people in my life. And I've had to learn a lot of life lessons at a very young age of how to keep good friendships and to utilize having good people in your life, because good people are really hard to find. And once you find them, you cannot let go of them. And that's actually something that I am dealing with right now, is I have a really good human in my life. And I can sense that I might have to not be your friend anymore.

And that's something that's really tough, because once you have a good person, you don't want to let them go. And it's so hard. And I've had to do that. And I've had to do that with actually my two best friends. With both of them, I had a massive, massive falling out. Didn't speak to them both for months, separate occasions. But they are such good people, and they are such good people for me that they did make their way back into my life. I'm a firm believer in life is going to happen how it does, and you have to trust the universe. Miss universe is scary. Miss universe plays tricks on us. She certainly plays tricks on me. But you have to trust her, because in the end, you only get this life once. And whatever you say, whatever you feel, it's okay. And you are able to be who you want to be. You're able to have the friends that you want to have. But keep your close people close. Keep your family good, keep your friends good, and having people's backs, being honest, genuine, and having their backs. Speaking of things that are scary and speaking of things that are good things, Special Freaking Forces.

Oh, my gosh. I'm shifting gears here because I just love Special Forces so much. It was the most wild ride of my life. I was away from my family. I was away from my friends. And I'm a very, I mean, as you can probably tell by how I was just talking about my family and friends, I'm a very family-oriented, friend-oriented person, and I do require my people to be able to live. And Special Forces ripped that away from me. And I'm not going to lie, first day I was thriving. I was chilling. Yes, I got upset and emotional, but I was thriving day one and day two. But then day three kicked in, and I realized... Honestly, you'll see this in a future episode, and it's been in trailers, so I can talk about it. But I do say I wish I could call my mom and just tell her how much fun there's been and how much pain there's been. There's been pain, but there's also been a lot of fun, and that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to call my friends and be like, Yo, we just ran down a damn wall.

That was insane. I didn't want to call my friends and be like, We just did this workout and it sucked. I wanted to be like, Yo', I just belly-flopped into the fucking pitch black ocean, ate absolute shit and enjoyed it. It was awesome. My biggest rush in my life, I dive backwards off of a helicopter. I don't know. I really miss telling my people the good. But what was cool about Special Forces is the people that were there became those people for you. And it started with 14 of us, and I won't spoil it. But all of us really have become such a family because we all share the same experience. And yes, you can watch it, but you can't feel it, and you can't smell it, and you can't understand the time of what it really, really was. You see us doing that driving challenge, right? Every person that did the driving task, it was about 25 minutes. And so those of us, I think I went fifth or sixth, you're just chilling in the woods for a couple of hours. And then after you pass the test, it's another however long until the next person comes.

And so you're just you're chilling and you all have that bond that we can understand that we can share stories about it. And there's so much that goes on behind the scenes of Special Forces that you don't see because it's not even behind the scenes. It just gets edited out because it's 24 hours a day. And so when you're taking 24 hours and making it a 42-minute episode, where you have to share 14 individual storylines while sharing the group storyline, while sharing the tasks, while sharing the DS's storylines, while sharing a few duo storylines. It's a lot. And so a lot gets cut down and cut, edited out. So for us to be able to share those stories is truly a blessing. And I'm very, very grateful for my fellow recruits. They have become my family. Special Forces for me was a massive life-changer. Another project for me that was a massive life-changer was Dancing With the Stars. I was the first ever same sex couple to be on Dancing With the Stars, and that meant a lot as it would. I had just come out. It was in the same year that I came out.

I came out when I was 17, and I didn't understand at the time what a big deal that was. I didn't understand why that was scary. Now that I'm not much older, I'm only three years older, but I look back and I think, Oh, my God, I'm three years older than when I came out. That's terrifying. It feels like that was yesterday. Jeez. Oh, my God, that's wild. But literally, I remember I was on the phone with my girlfriend at the time, and I was like, I think I want to come out to the world. And she was like, Okay, do it. And so then I posted this picture, and I threw it on my Instagram story, and that's how I confirmed it. And it was just like that, and I didn't think twice about it. And then, of course, there was a lot of positivity and a lot of love and acceptance, but then there was also a lot of negativity. And I did lose a lot. And I didn't care. I still don't care the things that I lost and the people that I lost. And if I lost a chunk of fans because it's who I am.

It goes back to I created my career off of being genuine. And if you didn't like me because on January whatever, I was straight. And on January the next day I was gay, then you're not meant to like me anyways. And I don't know, I just try to really be genuine, really be who I am because you can only... Little Me said it. I saw this in a video. It was like, What's the best advice you could give somebody? And it was like, Be yourself, because if you're not yourself, then eventually you're going to have to break being your fake self. And no one wants to deal with that. That's what my little kid advice was. I'm going to take your advice and run with it. Anyways, so Dancing with the Stars was right after I came out, and it was incredible. It actually was some of the hardest days of my life emotionally. As hard as Special Forces was, Dancing with the Stars on week three, between week three and week four, is I went through my first real breakup. I had dated a man. I had a boyfriend, for those of you who didn't know.

But that sadness of that breakup lasted one night, and then it was done. However, with my first girlfriend, when we broke up, I was very, of course, devastated. It was my choice, but I was still very devastated, of course. And so going through that while being on Dancing with the Stars was a blessing, but it was also a curse because I was super distracted, and I had something to do every single day. But then at the same time, I was so emotionally exhausted because I'm going through something that I never had want to go through. And of course, it's the course of life. And now being a little bit older, I'm like, Yeah, you have to go through that in life. But I remember my dancing the Star's partner, Jenna. She was the best support system for so many reasons. I've had a lot of confidence issues in my life, and I think it comes a little bit from being in the dance world. I think it comes a little bit from being in the public eye and nothing that's beyond. But Jenna, for me, really broke me out of my shell, and she really made me feel comfortable in my own skin.

And there was days where I would have to call her. And she told me, if you're ever feeling a certain way about yourself, call me and just show me a mirror and I will know what to tell you. And I remember I did it one day, and she got me through it. And she's the best human ever. And we freaking made some history. We didn't win Dancing With the Stars, but we did make some history. Some of the dances she created, I mean, body language was just iconic. And Sandy and Frenchie dance, Pennywise, both of our Argentine tangos, everything. It's fun for me, actually, to watch Dancing With the Stars because I see how I started episode one. I got the purple glitter in my hair and a crazy colorful costume. And then you see episode two, and it's like, okay, she has a little color in her hair, but it's more rhinestone. Then you see episode three, and I put fine gold glitter in my hair, but my costume is a little bit hotter. And then it's like, episode four. Okay, episode four, I was Prince Charming and Freaking Descendants. We can't count episode four.

But then, boom, episode five hit. And it was like, what? Who? That was Sandy and Frenchie. And then after that, it was Pennywise. And then after that, it was Body Language. And it was like, Oh, that's a woman. It's not a kid anymore, that's a woman. And that was a really cool... That was a really cool way for me to grow up on Dancing with the Stars. And I think that started my grow-up process, and then I think Special Forces finished it. I feel like I definitely went into Special Forces one way and came out another. I love the human that I went in before, but I am proud of the human that I came out of. And obviously, you haven't seen all of Special Forces yet, so I can't really go into too much detail about everything that I went through. But what I can say is that I'm so proud of that journey. And I'm just, could talk about forces for years, and I could talk about stars for years. I always have this joke. I'm like, What if they did Special Forces All-Stars and Dancing with the Stars, All-Stars at the same time and I had to pick one?

I couldn't do it. I would tell Jen, I'd be like, Look, Jen, we're doing both. I'm going to get you on Special Forces. Even though you haven't done it yet, we're going to do it all-stars, and you're going to be on it. We're going to will rehearse, Dancing With the Stars in the Middle of the Night. We're doing both shows. We will be at the freaking Recruits by Day and DWTS by Night. Okay, let me see. You can't see it, but I have this list of things that I wanted to talk about today. And the next thing on my list is what it's like being in the public eye and living in the public eye. For me, it's all I know, which is scary if you think about it too much, but then it's awesome if you don't think about it too much. I have my days where I do think about it, and I have my moments that are like, What? Nothing is just for me. And I really didn't experience that until I started dating. And I realized that if I go on a date, it's me, girl that I'm with, and everybody else.

It is not... It's not me and a partner. It is not it's me and legit, a quadrilium like it is however many people are there. And the staring, people don't even... You don't really realize that you're staring and people don't do it on purpose. Even if people aren't asking for photos or videos or anything, which I love and I would never, ever say no to, or deny, or be angry about. But you have to deal with being at a dinner date and everyone's watching you. Everyone's watching you in every single move. I'm used to it, but then I realized once I started dating that my partners aren't used to it. So that became something that I had to learn how to juggle. And same thing in friendships. Now I realize like, look, if you become friends with me, you know what you're getting yourself into. I'm very lucky because I have a very good group of friends around me who I love and adore so much and I would do literally anything for. Some of the cool things about being in the public eye, you can go anywhere and have a good time. You really can.

And it's funny the good times that I've had and the funny stories that I can tell. And people want to become your friend and people want to be fun and people want to be nice to you and people want to hype you up. Of course, there's the negative here and there, but it's just such a fun life. I get to do a lot of really cool things because of the life that I live. I get to go on a lot of cool trips. I do a lot of brand deals. I get to meet a lot of really cool people. I've gotten to have some of the coolest people become my friends. One of my fellow recruits is a good friend with John Mayer. Kelly, is very good friends with John Mayer. And I love John Mayer. If I'm having a day, he can call me down by his music. And so she had to make a video for me, and she was telling me the story of how she asked him. He was like, You know, Joe DeSu and John Mayor? I was like, Yeah, of course. And the fact that that's a thing, how?

The fact that Miley Cyrus knew who I was, how? How did Miley? Stuff like that just blows my mind. So I think that's probably my favorite part about being in the public eye is the cool people. I don't have a fan girl, but I fan girl for a few people. I wanted to dive a little bit more into my my relationship world. I feel like I should have an ex on this podcast. That would be so interesting. That would be so intriguing. I don't know if any of them would be down. I don't know if I would be down. That seems like a bad idea. Never mind. Never mind. Anyways, relationships for me have been the hardest thing navigating the public eye. I've navigated growing up. I've navigated small things of getting new teeth to big things of cutting my hair. Those are both physical things. I guess losing one vocal cord is something that I had to deal with in the public eye. That's something that's not, no, that's still physical. I don't know. I've had to deal with mental things too. I've had to deal with... I've had to deal with a lot of mental things.

I do a Snapchat almost every day, and this was at a phase where I was doing it strictly every day. And my dad passed away, and he passed away in a pretty brutal way. He was a baby puppy, he was about four months old and got attacked by a coyote. I remember that day being like, I need to Snapchat, but I can't. I was so sad. And there's been lots of days like that where I am like, Got to, but I can't. And you just have to flip it on. Today, it was the crack of dawn. It was a crack of dawn. I dropped my friend off at the airport at 5:15 in the morning. Sun wasn't out yet, and I'm dropping her off, and I'm sobbing. I'm an emotional wreck when I get to airport. I can't do them. I hate the airport. It was a mess. And jumping her off and I'm crying, and she's comforting me, obviously, because I'm sad, and she's sad, too. And I hear on my way, Oh, my God, you're trying to see me. And I was like, Oh, let me whip it together quick. Hi, nice to meet you.

And of course, I took a picture with her, which was really sweet. And then I go back to being sad with my friend, and literally, five seconds later, another person came out to me. I was like, Oh, my God, Judge of the Year. Can we take a picture? Of course, absolutely. But having the ability to snap in and out really quick is something that's interesting. I don't know why I started going on that tangent. Something about public relationships. I don't know why relationships are hard to navigate. They are so hard to navigate as it is. And then you put the public figure in it, and then you put the lesbian in it, and it is just a mess. But it's entertaining. I will say my love life is very entertaining. It keeps my people entertained, it keeps my family entertained, it keeps myself entertained. And I'm very busy, and I do have my priorities straight, and so I tend to not let it really override me, but it is pretty intense. Now, there's something that everyone wants to know. This is something that everyone asks me about. Oh, my God, I actually have a funny story about this.

This is a good segue for me to talk about this. Being in the public eye, people do come up to me a lot. I was just talking about that with airport experience. Sometimes it's like, me and times, and other times it's in bathrooms. But just the other day, I was somewhere and I was walking around, and I'm now 20 years old. I've not stuck a hair bow in my hair for two years now. Nothing against the hair bow, I just haven't worn it. And I still love them. I still love Jojo Bowes. I love what Jojo Bowes mean. I love what they stand for. I love my past of wearing them every day. I still sometimes stick Little Boes in. Anyways, it's been a long two years. I haven't worn one. I'm walking around and this girl goes, Oh, my God, are you Jojo with the Bobo? And I turn around and I was like, You did not just Jojo with the Bobo me. She just Jojo with the Bobo me. That became a thing. I was like, I just got Jojo with the Bobo. I just got... Because people used to say that all the time to me, Oh, my God, you're Jojo with the Bobo.

That became a thing. But I was 20 years old walking around somewhere with cool friends and just a cute Jojo with the Bobo. I was like, Fucking hell. Oh, God. I'm always going to be this bow kid, aren't I? I'm not mad about it. The Jojo Bow is something that I love. There are so many different Jojo bows. I think the meaning behind the Jojo Bow is my favorite part about it. If you see somebody with a Jojo Bow on, which is a big old hair bow with a little silver tag on the right ribbon, right bottom ribbon, if you're at school and you have no one to sit with at lunch, if you're wearing a Jojo Bow, you're a saunator, and you will be nice to everybody, and you will accept everybody, and be kind to everybody. And so if you're alone and you see someone with a Jojo Bow and you know that you can go sit by them because they will welcome you, or if you have known to play with that recess. And so that's something that makes me really proud. I came up with that when I was, I would have been 12.

And so that's now being 20 and seeing a 12-year-old dude and I have my girl group X-O-M-G-POP and seeing that age, seeing that I created that at that age makes me really proud of my baby's self. Yeah, Chinchillow's are great. There's so many cool ones. Oh, my God. I found one that was like Army the other day. I was like, Special Forces, though. There is my friend wanted one with a unicorn on it for her niece, and I was like, All right, girl, I got 5,000 for you to pick from. A unicorn is very... We got a lot of those ones. But pick your poison. Pick your poison. I think for me, the thing with the bow is, honestly, everyone would always ask me, they'd be like, When's the bow, bow going to go, go? That was a thing. That was a thing that people from my mom asked me, to corporate asked me, Nicolodian asked me, and something that I even asked myself, and of course, something that social media fans would ask me. And the honest answer was I didn't know. I have no idea. And like I said, I'm a firm believer and life just takes its course, and we just got to lean with the rock with it.

And so the same thing with the Jojo bow. I woke up. It was the day after my 18th birthday, and I literally was like, I don't want to wear it today. And my mom was like, Okay, so don't. And I was like, All right, that feels right. And then about like four months later is when I did Dancing With the Stars. And it was the first time that somebody had asked me this. I did my master interview, which was the big interview that you see before the first episode airs. And so doing the master interview, and I go and they asked, they said, Well, you were a side, pony tail and bow. And at first I was like, Nah, I don't do that anymore. And then they were like, But we really want that iconic Jojo look. And I realized I was like, Wait, this isn't... This isn't a bad thing. It's not a bad thing to be 18 and wear a bow? Who cares? It's who I am. It's what I am. And so I said, Yes. And I was like, Actually, you know what? I will stick the thing in my head. I absolutely will.

And so I was like, I probably tell them, Bow, that day and it was comforting. I was like, I like this. It felt like, all right, I don't even have to think about how I'm doing my hair today. But yeah, I got nothing against the bow. I love it. I always will. Yeah, she's my little... She's my little, you know, the toe to toe. I can't complain about her. We love her. If you've stuck along with me this far, feel like I need to do like a quote. Like, if you've stuck along with me this far, go comment on my most recent Instagram post, Penguin. Anyways, my life now, all right, my life now, day in the life, it consists. I wake up, I work out. Actually, that's a lie. I wake up, I make a pre-workout, I work out. Then I eat breakfast, then I normally will shower, I'll normally get ready. Then typically in a day, I try to do one really fun activity for me, whether that's surfing, whether that's indoor skydiving, whether that's dancing. I try to make something in my day be a hardcore fun moment. Is typically my day will have some computer work, whether that's editing a video for social media, replying to emails, creating graphics, creating posts, whatever it may be.

There's always some computer work. And then I will try to make sure my life is organized every day, whether that's my room, my car, my closet, whatever it is to be organized, I will put all my things together. And then I try to also do something meaningful with my family every day. And that's something that I wanted to change after I did Special Forces. Prior to Special Forces, you couldn't pay me to go to dinner. I like to be home. I like to not go out. And so now I'm really in a position where I'm like, Nah, you want to go to dinner? Let's freaking go. So we'll do dinner, we'll do movie nights. Well, we have fun. We have a really good time. It's pretty much my day in life. Every day is different. Every day is different, but my dream is still the same. Every day I wake up saying let's go win the game. I feel like I need to wake up and listen to D-R-E-I-M. I feel like that should be my alarm clock. I feel like that would really start my day right on the right foot. Actually, I think I'm going to do that tonight.

Music, for me, has been a massive part of my life from my first song, which is actually called I Can Make You Dance. Everyone thinks it's Boomerang. Technically, it was I Can Make You Dance. Anyways, we wiped that song from the internet, and then Boomerang became my first song. Yeah, Boomerang started it all off, and I'm so proud of that song. I'm so proud of the meaning of that song. I'm so proud that kids are still just now discovering that song. My best friend has a baby who's about to turn two years old, and she likes Boomerang, and she likes Jojo, Bobo, Shosho. And so she is having a Jojo themed second birthday party. I'm like, Boomerang came out your age, quadrupled ago. How is this possible? And it's cool to me. These kids are just now discovering old Jojo. And that's why I want to have that still live, because that is such a great thing for kids. My old music, candy candy store, hold the drama, every girl's a Supergirl, Boomerang, D-R-E-A-M, time to celebrate, worldwide party. All the messages behind those songs are so strong that you don't even really realize it.

Candy candy store talks about how life is so great and you have to live it like candy candy store. D-r-e-a-m talks about how life is a D-R-E-I-M, and we get won. Every Girl is a Supergirl talks about how we're all different, but every single one of us is a superhero. A Worldwide Party is about how there's so many different races, languages, sexualities, there's so many different religions, but at some point, one heart, one beat, Worldwide Party. And that really... You know what I'm realizing? That doesn't rhyme at all. One heart, one beat, worldwide. My party. When you sing and it rimes, but when you say it, it sounds so stupid. But anyways, yeah, I don't know. The songs have such important meaning to me. Now my music is more adult. I can't tell you what it's all called yet, and I have a lot of music done. But it's fun because it's music throughout stories in my life. I have some songs that are the most aggressive songs that I wrote, but they're about something from when I was 13 or 14. Or I have a song that is so young and cutie, but that's a song from now.

You know what I mean? It's crazy how different stories in my life have become songs that I write. Oh, there's a rhyme. Different stories in my life. Those are all the songs I write. That is a freaking bar, and we all know it. Thank you. We're going to fucking... What are we? Copyright. We're going to copyright that. Anyways, but no, the new music has been so fun to make, writing about love is fun. Writing about love is fun. Writing about heartbreak is fun. Writing about being done dirty is fun. It's fun. It's entertaining, and it feels like electrifying. I don't know. I love it. I really do. Speak about things that I love. Today is actually my favorite holiday. Well, now we're going to call it my favorite holiday. I do really love Christmas, but I really love Halloween. I don't know why I always have as a kid. I have a tattoo, and my tattoo is 1,031, and it has a lot of meanings. First meaning is I have the tattoo design, so it's a straight line, then the 0-3, and then a straight line. And the 0-3 represents A, the year that I was born, and B, the 0-3 also represents my number on Special Forces.

I was recruit number three. Then the 1031 is how many days my first concert tour, D-R-E-A-M, the tour was. And the reason why I have it on this ear is because that's the ear that I wore on that tour. Final meaning of it is Happy Halloween. And of course, now this is no time like the present to release Joe Just Human now. First ever podcast. I'm so excited. So tattoo has a lot of meaning behind it. Halloween for me is my favorite. My favorite Halloween is probably either Halloween 2019 or Halloween 2021. Halloween 2019 was when I was in the UK for D-R-E-A-M-The-Tour. I wore this freaking Spiderman outfit. It was all sequins. I should have known I was gay. Not that being a girl wearing Spiderman costum means you're gay, it doesn't. But I should have known for me that that meant that. And then Halloween 2021, I'm sorry, was dancing with the stars. And so it was Pennywise, and I just... It was just all about that. It just was the best. Something else that's cool about Halloween is this started in probably 2017 maybe, is people started dressing up as me. And it's funny because it ranges from little kids that want to dress like Dojo Bobo.

That's a little kid say, Jojo Bobo. Little kids want to dress like that. But then the older kids want to dress like Abby Lee and Jojo Sievert from Dance Moms. They wear a little funny, sparkly outfit and a bow in their hair. It's fun to see the range of kids from adults that really do a Dojo Halloween costume. I think that's something that I'm grateful for that I did grow up having a look because it's so fun to recreate. Even me, myself, I love to recreate old Jojo looks. I think it's hilarious. I think it's cool. I think it's a tribute. Obviously, it's not who I am anymore, but it is who I was. And so it's cool to take a trip back down to memory lane and then see all the kids do that, too, and see the adults do that. It's awesome. I really do enjoy Halloween and seeing all that. Okay, this is interesting. I cannot say this. I can't say I never lied. I have told one lie in my career, one singular lie in my whole career. One thing has been fake, and that is that I like candy. I don't like candy.

Never have. I'll eat candy. I don't fancy it, though. It's just not what I gravitate towards. If there's a fruit plate and a vegetable tray and a candy tray, I'm going straight to the veggies of fruit. Fruit first, then veggies, then candy. Now there's a cookie or a Cupcake or a freaking Rice Krispy treat, don't count me out because that I will smash. But if there is a Snickers bar or some Skittles or some M&Ms or something. No, I don't gravitate towards it. We have a ton of candy in my house. Never eat it. I don't know. Just never been my vibe, I guess. See, one of the reasons why I love Halloween is because I do really love scary things. I like scary movies. I like scary houses, haunted houses. I like scary videos. I think scary is so fun. I mean, it just lights up the shul. I don't know. I love the rush that you get from it. Although I will say, and this is a fun point to wrap up my Halloween sense, Special Forces. Nothing scares me then. Nothing. I went to Halloween, Horn. I went to this year. Normally, I'm so scared this year.

I was like, All right, yeah, let's go. Let's go. Noth nothing scarier than DSQ. No, I'm chilling. Ds Billy? Nah, this ain't nothing. This is nothing. I don't get as scared anymore as I used to, but yeah, I like scary things. They're fun. Oh, especially scary movies. Oh, scary movie date. My favorite thing ever. I get excited thinking about it. Whenever I get excited, I get a numb left pinky. I don't know why, it's a thing. It gets numb when I think about a scary movie date. I don't know. All right, well, I feel like that is probably the place that I should wrap up this very first Georgia Sue and Al. Remember, if you made it this far or I guess probably like 20 minutes ago, go comment, Penguin, on my recent Instagram post. I'm excited to start to have guests on this podcast. Next, you can look forward to me chatting with Tyler Cameron, who became one of my best friends on Special Forces. I adore him so much. I'm so excited to get to talk with him. You're going to see lots of fun future guests. I'm so excited. It's going to be a blast.

You're going to get to know more about me, know about more my inside life, know more about my outside life. It's going to be an adventure that we are going on together. So buckle up and I will see you there. Peace. Thank you so much for listening, everybody. Be sure to follow us on Instagram and TikTok @jojasew and now podcast. Be sure to write us a review and maybe if you're feeling it, leave us five stars.