Gloria "GloRilla" Woods unveils the secret to her success in the music industry.
In 2022, the rapper catapulted to stardom when her song "F.N.F (Let's Go)" went viral on social media. That same year, Woods signed to Yo Gotti's CMG/Interscope Records label and released her debut album, Anyways, Life's Great.
Anyways, Life's Great would chart at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 200. Woods' triumph doesn't stop there. The Memphis native ultimately earned various award nominations, including the 2023 Grammys in the Best Rap Performance category for "F.N.F (Let's Go)."
Since then, Woods has continued to dominate the music charts with her hit single "Yeah Glo!" her new mixtape Ehhthang Ehhthang, and her tour with Megan Thee Stallion.
Fresh off the heels of her mixtape, Woods revealed during an interview with "The Angie Martinez Show" that detoxing and limiting distractions have been imperative to her accomplishments.
In the discussion, the 24-year-old opened up about her detox process, which began earlier this year, and her new goal.
GloRilla On Her Detox Process
When asked about what her detox consisted of, Woods shared that she eliminated numerous things in her life, including people and excessive drinking.
"I cut people off; I didn't cut smoking off… Slimming down on the drinking. That's what that was about," she said.
The "Tomorrow 2" emcee added that detoxing from those specific things helped decrease the amount of distractions in her life.
"Fasting from a certain thing that you feel like might be distracting you… That's what I did for the first month."
GloRilla On Her Recent Detox
Further into the conversation, Woods explained that one of the difficulties she faced during her recent detox was remaining celibate.
"I was celibate… It's very hard," she said. Despite the struggles, Woods shared that she has gotten used to her detox so much so that she is "still" practicing it today.
"I'm used to it now. I'm actually still doing it," she added. "I might have cheated once or twice, but I'm actually still on it."
GloRilla On Her New Goal
Toward the end of the segment, Woods discussed why detoxing is important to her and her new professional goal.
The "All Dere" rapper disclosed that detoxing has helped her become "locked in" with herself.
"I'm just trying to lock in with myself, you know what I'm saying. All the way locked in," she said.
Woods revealed that having that sense of clarity has resulted in her remaining booked and busy, a goal she wants to continue throughout her career.
"I don't want no breaks because I was at home like three months straight in the wintertime. Basically, almost the whole winter, I spent a lot of time at home, and initially, I thought I was going to like it because the whole year, I had been traveling and just moving around. I'm like I can't wait to just go and enjoy home because I had actually bought a new place."
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Because his storytelling was steeped in his love of technology, he didn’t always think of himself as a creative person. “Where I [am] the dreamer who wants to pluck things out of the sky and spend all day with my head in the clouds, Temi [is] so good at grounding me and helping me figure out how to make things make sense on paper. We just work together in such a complimentary way,” Skylar says.
It’s been more than six years since Brooklyn-based couple Temi and Skylar started dating, and nearly four since they cemented their working relationship. On TikTok and Instagram, the couple’s travel, fashion, and home content regularly rack up hundreds of thousands of views. They’ve worked with brands such as Coach, Aesop, Away, and Liquid IV, bringing their vibrant perspectives to every campaign they execute. Still, nearly two years since both Temi and Skylar committed to full-time content creation and creative directing, the couple says their romantic connection remains their priority.
“We told each other we would much rather go back to full-time jobs and preserve our relationship than to be full-time freelancers, barely getting a night's rest [and] barely kissing each other because we're so busy shooting,” Skylar says.
Working from home can make it hard to separate work from personal life for any entrepreneur. It can be even more challenging when your business partner is also your lover. Temi and Skylar had already used couples therapy as a tool to help them effectively communicate with one another. When they ran into challenges while working together, their therapist helped them set physical boundaries to help combat the issues.
"We told each other we would much rather go back to full-time jobs and preserve our relationship than to be full-time freelancers, barely getting a night's rest [and] barely kissing each other because we're so busy shooting."
“It actually took us doing very specific physical things to create boundaries between work and play in our relationship,” Skylar says. “So, for instance, we will only have conversations about work when we're out of bed or we're at the table or in the office. Initially, when we started, we had to light a candle to say that, 'Okay, this is a space where we're connecting, we’re not talking about work.' We needed really hard boundaries at the top. And then it became a little bit more organic.”
The boundaries have been crucial to implement, especially because the couple began working together so naturally. When the pair first met, Skylar was NY-based a social strategist for BuzzFeed and was using content creation to drive business to her lingerie company. She was shooting her own content. Temi was working for Microsoft in D.C. He’d recently traded in his DJing equipment for a camera. “I've always loved taking pictures,” he says. “Even when I was a kid, my African mother would wake me up at 3:00 a.m. [during a] party, and be like, 'Come take the family picture.'”
Growing up, Temi says he watched his parents support each other and be the true definition of partners. He knew he wanted the same for his own relationship. But, the couple also wanted to make sure they were being financially responsible. The pair didn’t quit their traditional jobs until they’d saved up two years' worth of their cost of living. And, Temi received his Master of Business Administration from New York University with the knowledge that it could either help him advance in his corporate career or be applicable to his business with Skylar.
Temi and SkylarCj Hart @hartbreakToday, they say their working relationship is more of a “quiet dance.” They still implement some of the boundaries they learned in therapy, but they also lean into their natural strengths and deep love for one another. When we speak, Temi has planned a date for the couple to see Princess Mononoke in 4K IMAX and added it to their Notion so they can factor it into their busy schedules. “I fully plan to date for the rest of my life,” he says.
Skylar says the couple doesn’t just wait for date nights to check in with one another, though. This often happens in the mornings, after Temi has made her peppermint tea and poured himself a cup of coffee. When they ask each other how they slept, she says, it’s not just a “nicety.” It’s a genuine question meant to foster connection.
“A lot of it happens during the day in the midst of work. We'll stop and we'll hug. Or we’ll slow dance in the kitchen,” she says. “Sometimes it's hard to set a whole date night when you have 7,000 things going on. So, we must grasp these moments and check in when we can. And I think it's become so organic to us that I actually didn't even realize how often we do it. But all day long, we're like, 'Are you good? I felt like your energy shifted,' because we're best friends, we just know. We just feel it happen.”
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