Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Influences

I just heard that John Cougar Mellencamp O'Hoolahan has a daughter who is an "accountability coach and fitness influencer."

She's Teddi Jo Mellencamp, and she is also a cast member of the "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," and outside of doing the hog price reports on some farm channel, I can't think of anything worse on television.

But let's take a look at how she is spending her time. An "accountability coach" must be someone who hollers at you for eating a hot fudge sundae and tipping the scales a bit more than you did last week.  This is all in the realm of "motivational speaking," sort of like Tony Robbins, whose mantra is, "Where would you rather be than right here, right now?"

Where else COULD you be than where you are right now? I mean, unless you have the power to transmogrify, you're here til you're not.

Fitness influencer?  This whole "influencer" business is fairly recent around here. Be honest: until her mother, Lori Loughlin, got in the cauldron of trouble for bribing people to admit a daughter (who did not want to attend college) to college, we didn't know that the woman who plays Aunt Becky, and the same person over and over on Hallmark movies, had a daughter who rakes in millions for making videos of herself parading around in the latest duds.
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And then, let's say you make a certain kind of  garish shirt.  All you need to do is wait for a "fashion influencer" to wear your shirt and tell the world on You Tube what brand of gaudy shirt you're sporting, and then sit back and watch the orders (and money) roll in.

I took plenty of aptitude tests in my day, as guidance counselor after guidance counselor sought to talk me into a career path that did not involve sitting in a small room, playing Conway Twitty records.

If only I had heard of accountability coaches and influencers, I would have had it made!


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