Meet Tyler Kidd

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Tyler Kidd. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Tyler below.

Tyler, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.

What is my purpose? That’s the million dollar question that sits at the base of everyone’s human experience. What do I do with my life? What career or life choices will make me feel fulfilled in a very noisy world?

I remember growing up my entire life (until the age of 22) having no answers. I didn’t have a 5 year plan, let alone a 1 year plan. I had no idea what I wanted to go to college for, and dropped out a mere 3 months into Freshmen Year. I was in a deep depression of always feeling used and not good enough. I remember just how badly I hated not only myself, but my heart and mind. I was mean, I didn’t hold friendships or relationships with my family well. The list can go on about the way I viewed and moved through life with a dark cloud over my head…

Then, and I know it may sound cliché but it’s the truth… I just woke up one day and realized the cloud over my head was self made. I realized the reasons I didn’t have goals or ambitions, why I disliked myself so much, and why nothing ever worked out for me was ME. I was looking at life and myself with such negative lenses. I had this new awareness that If I wanted a different life, I needed to give myself a different life. I woke up that day and decided that I was going to rewire the perspectives and views I had been carrying for so long, no matter how hard it was going to be.

I changed my thoughts to self, spoke more kindly to myself. I gave myself grace and patience as I unlearned bad habits and trigger responses. I began silver lining every unfavorable moment, instead of victimizing myself. I began the journey of loving the body I was in and finding a balanced wellness; mentally and physically. I worked on communicating my emotions and feelings to others, because I was in fact not alone. I found that if each day I woke up with the goal to improve myself by at least 1%, I would wake up one day feeling whole; and it worked.

Within that realization, I also realized that I was not the only one in this world to feel lost, unworthy, with no purpose. I realized that actually almost everyone in life experiences the same emotions, even if the causing situation is different and personal. There were other little girls and women out there who felt unloved. There were other givers out there who just needed to learn boundaries, and not to hate their big hearts. There were other depressed teenagers who just needed help learning to love themselves. There were other humans out there who came from disruptive households and lack of nurture. I realized if I could work on myself and my traumas, to which I’ve been very successful with, then I could share my life raw and unfiltered in the hope that it creates the space for everyone to do the same.

That is my purpose and how I spend my days now. Creating the space for others, that I so desperately needed myself a long time ago. Creating the space that anyone can enter and go, “I’ll be okay. It’ll all be okay.” I take all the “bad” things and experiences I have had, and turn them into my superpower. Maybe just then, I can truly make an impact in the world that leaves my life fulfilled and the world a better place.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

My friends, family and community love to call me the, “Go-Getter” or “Mother”, and I have found those to be very fitting when it comes to the question of who I am. After years of self dedication to becoming the best version of myself, and using what I learned along the way to help others do the same, I have found the passion for giving. Nothing fulfills me more in life, than being able to give something good to someone else’s life.

In 2023, I started my own business, The Get Well Soon Brand. GWS is all about feeling the best version of ourselves every day. It’s the brand’s mission to create content that’s relatable and heals the heart, merchandise that allows you to physically represent your true self, and the space to just be. The Funny, the Beautiful, the Ugly and the Rarity; all realistic aspects of being a human. Since launching, we have had 8 very successful merch drops that accomplished that exact brand mission. We launched our self help and wellness podcast, The Get Well Soon Podcast, in the spring that has an audience reach now of over 700,000 in just two seasons. In over a year, we have sat down many members of different communities to have those deep, somewhat difficult but very needed conversations that can lead to bettering not only yourself but the life you live. I also released a line of wellness teas with three complete sell outs and even entered stores this year! The GWS Brand has truly brought so much fire back into me and my love, just as much as it filled the cups of others.

Outside of running my own business, I have found a full time career in Influencing. With a little over 100,000 followers, I spend my days giving life hacks, routine tips and product recommendations to all communities. I have always strived to use my own life authentically, giving only genuine feedback or advice that personally worked for me. I found that I could continue that passion itself by creating the space online. A place people can go to with their issues and problems, without the fear of judgement or rejection. My content ranges from skincare and beauty to life advice from self experiences, with an anonymous submission system called WWTDU: What Would Tyler Do and Use? All of this, plus the opportunities that come to build and work on campaigns with so many brands I dreamed of as a little girl, have also given fire to the love of being a true giver.

I have many, many goals and ambitions for myself and The Get Well Soon Brand. The million dollar dream, which will be accomplished, is to build a worldwide networking system that connects people to one another in a forever lasting way. I want to have physical resource centers just as much as I strive to create those spaces online. I want to create such a big, life changing space that anyone and everyone can find solace and themselves.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Self Love. Find Faith. Never give up.

If there were three things I could drill into the heads of everyone, regardless of what phase they are at in life, it would be those. The most powerful thing in life is love, and at the top is self love. When you love who you truly are at the core, the world is yours for the taking. At the end of the day, despite anything else in life, loving yourself is the superpower that will get you everything you want and desire in this world. You don’t need to rely on anyone else to fill up your cup, give you validation or dictate the way you view life. You are simply YOU, and that kind of love will get you to overcome anything. It may not come easy, with all the beauty and life standards put onto us at a young age. But all of that is BS – nothing or no one is perfect. But we are who we are, and that is beautiful and rare.

When I mention faith, I don’t mean religion as some may think. You can find faith in everything you find light and joy in. I find faith when I look at the rising sun that today’s going to be a good day. I find faith when I see someone help an elderly person in public that the world is kind. I find faith when I see 222 on a random street sign in passing that everything will be okay. You find faith by finding what makes you go through your days thinking, “Everything is going to be okay. I am okay. Life is beautiful and I love to live it”. Finding faith in yourself and your daily life around you will help you stay grounded in those moments where life feels like a hard hit, or you have no idea where you’re going or what you’re doing. It’s okay, we all have those moments.

And you never give up. If you weren’t meant to be here, doing what you love and what brings you purpose, you wouldn’t be here. But you are, and that means there is a reason. So you find that reason, you find your core self, and keep rolling with the punches because eventually they stop coming. And those rare times when they do, they will bounce off of you like it’s nothing because you have you. It doesn’t happen over night, and you”ll never achieve perfection because there’s no such thing. You can, however, achieve the highest version of yourself each and every day; and that is what life is meant to be about. Constantly elevating and improving who you are to live the most fulfilling life possible, and time isn’t forever.

Is there a particular challenge you are currently facing?

Something I am working on pretty strongly right now, is going with the flow. I am learning how to exist outside of fight or flight, which has proven to be a little tricky. Through an upbringing of many different experiences and environments that required me to always be thinking ahead, to constantly be on my toes, I have found it harder to just be. The need for constant and utter control of everything in my life has turned to be very draining and limiting. With a career as time consuming and fast paced as mine, sometimes I find myself racing against a limit that doesn’t exist. With this newer awareness, I am in the progress of rewiring my brain, thoughts and perspectives to live life with flow and ease.

I practice reminding myself that everything works out for me, if it is meant for me. What is not meant for me, simply isn’t and makes room for what is. I practice telling myself that everything will be okay, because there have been moments before just like this (if not worse) and I have ended up on the right side of things. A big reminder to self currently is that I have time and nothing is perfect, and there is no need to rush. Allowing life to simply be life has been one of the bigger challenges of mine, but as I always say: there is nothing in life you can’t take and turn in to a super power. Challenges, lessons and pain all can be used as fuel to elevating to a better, more improved version of self. The only timeline we have to be on is the one we create for ourselves, at our own pace.

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