{"id":38304,"date":"2017-12-06T15:16:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T20:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=38304"},"modified":"2017-12-06T15:16:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T20:16:27","slug":"wednesdays-video-five-things-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/wednesdays-video-five-things-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday&#8217;s Video: Five Things About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officially, Eryn Decker (<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/congratulations-to-eryn-and-donnie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">n\u00e9e Patton<\/a>) is my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/wednesdays-video-poison-rings-in-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">right-hand woman<\/a> at Wendy Brandes Jewelry, but in actuality, she often functions like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x5Za8HggalY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boss of me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As anyone I worked for in my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/never-is-the-next-new-thing-my-bio-and-columbia-spectator\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pre-jewelry days in the corporate world can attest<\/a>, not just anyone can be the boss of me, no matter what the organizational chart says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freak_Strike\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38306\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cartman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cartman.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cartman-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, Eryn is so organized, efficient, results-oriented, and persuasive that she generally gets me to do what she wants &#8212; especially when it comes to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCffTpc4r3ru3j5T6MwxsMVQ\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">company YouTube channel<\/a>. She was the one who decided we&#8217;d be doing a weekly video, and if I try to delay shooting by saying I don&#8217;t feel inspired, she&#8217;ll assign me a topic. That&#8217;s what happened this week. &#8220;Do &#8216;5 things about me in 5 minutes&#8217;!&#8221; she said with a &#8220;Don&#8217;t argue with me&#8221; attitude. I was like, &#8220;Damn, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/jewels-of-the-month-boss-and-bossy-necklaces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bossy<\/a> much?!&#8221; and got kind of rebellious. That&#8217;s why you&#8217;ll hear me sassing her in today&#8217;s vlog. Vive la r\u00e9sistance! <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SYQeV_TJ08k\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Feel free to respond to my five facts with five facts about yourselves in the comments either here or on YouTube &#8230; but don&#8217;t come crying to me if Eryn turns up at your place and forces you to make a video about it.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCffTpc4r3ru3j5T6MwxsMVQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to subscribe to my YouTube channel!<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officially, Eryn Decker (n\u00e9e Patton) is my right-hand woman at Wendy Brandes Jewelry, but in actuality, she often functions like the boss of me. As anyone I worked for in my pre-jewelry days in the corporate world can attest, not just anyone can be the boss of me, no matter what the organizational chart says&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/wednesdays-video-five-things-about-me\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[669,1291],"tags":[1469],"class_list":{"0":"post-38304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-about-wendy","8":"category-video-about-wendy","9":"tag-five-things-about-me","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38304"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38312,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38304\/revisions\/38312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}