Nicolette

Principles over parties. Nuclear Navy Vet ⚓. 90s Disney fan. Biological sex truther. Marathon swimmer. Jiu-Jitsu for self defense. Wife to @america1st2024

[Atlas @a7las1984]

Super excited to announce that I have affiliated with @labs_vanguard!

You can now use code ATLAS10 at checkout for 10% off or use my affiliate link:

https://t.co/276hiXw3FI

For those who don't know me:

👋 Hi, my name is Atlas!

I am a husband, father of 4, BJJ Blue belt, tech sales leader and member of Fitness and BJJ X!

A bit about how I ended up here:

A year ago I was feeling awful, lethargic, exhausted by 2pm, I had a short fuse with my wife and kids, brain fog that I couldn't shake, I would struggle to find words while I was speaking, I was cold all the time etc.

My performance as a husband, father, employee, and BJJ player were suffering greatly.

I requested my primary care physician check my hormone levels. She added it to my bloodwork and when we reviewed it she said "You are fine. Total T is in the mid 300s" she didn't check any other hormone markers...

Went to a new doctor and talked to him. He laughed and said he would only write me a script if I was below 300.

Training BJJ 5 days per week, outwardly, I looked healthy, but my bloodwork was a mess...

I had high cholesterol, Total T came back at 243 this time, Free T was even worse at only 43. I was 260 ish lbs, BMI = Obese, approaching 2.5lbs of visceral fat according to a Dexa scan and my Test levels were that of your average 85 year old.

I started on Test C and 3 months later I had my first follow up appointment. The PA told me he wanted to put me on Arimidex because my Estrogen as 43 and that we probably needed to look at lowering my Testosterone dose because my Total T was pretty high in the 640s...

At that moment I knew I had to take my health into my own hands.

Since September of last year I have used Vanguard Labs exclusively and have recommended them to countless real life friends, family members, BJJ buddies etc as they began their TRT or peptide journeys.

And I'm now excited to be able to represent Vanguard as an official affiliate!

I am thinking we might need to work on an official Vanguard Labs Don't Die, Get Labs BJJ Gi!

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

It is very weird that they asked, unless they were coming from a place of asking if you might have a privacy request. That is actually fairly normal.

I do have clients that ask for a privacy clause in their contract so that I cannot share any of their photos for any reason.

This is mostly requested by my military/police type couples, but it is also becoming more popular among Gen Z couples as well.

[William M Briggs - Statistician to the Stars! @FamedCelebrity]

Challenge accepted.

Probability of winning the Powerball is 1 in 292.2 Million. So probability of winning 5 times is 1 in 2.1 Trillion. Which is close enough to a probability of 10^-12 for anybody.

Probability for Spencer Pratt. Given his ~ 29% of open votes, and assuming 24,000 mail ballots would have the same breakdown, the chance of 0 Pratt votes is 10^-3720.

That's about 439 Powerball wins in a row.

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

Shoutout to the photographers keepin it real...for real!

I'm so glad you had an meaningful experience. I know a lot of us out here are trying to de-influence people to the endless wedding trends seen online.

Every minute people spend trying to recreate some trendy video is a minute they didn't get reflecting with their grandma or sharing a private thought with their new spouse.

I focus so much of my marketing on talking to people who want to live in their wedding day and actually experience the width and length of it, which is impossible to do if you spend the whole time trying to copy everyone else's wedding.

I think a lot of this is, unfortunately, rooted in insecurity and fear. They want to "feel" how these trends look, but they overdue it and inadvertantly remove the opportunity to see themselves truly reflected in the day.

I did a video a few weeks ago on my IG about how very few things in weddings are even traditional anyway, and how my grandparents had a single wedding portrait taken, at a studio. My grandparent's generation got married at church and then ate sandwiches. This stuff now is all just marketing and has been since 1840 when Queen Victoria broke with "tradition" and wore a white wedding dress to prop up the lace industry in England.
🙃

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

My husband sent me this post and I had to take a deep breath before commenting because I have A LOT of thoughts.

I'm a wedding photographer, mostly elopements and micro weddings now, but I still do some traditional sized weddings.

In my circle of vendor friends I'm known as the anti-wedding girl because I hate fake ass shit and that's what so much of it is now. Which is literally why I backed off big weddings in the first place.

Some bride will do a thing, put it on IG or fucking TikTok and 5 minutes later every other couple wants to do that thing. Vendors aren't innocent, but they're definitely reacting to the market.

The new vendor category at weddings is "content creation" and I crashout over this weekly. Some couples legitimately want it so they can put their phones away but still have fun bts clips. A lot of them do this instead of a videographer to save money, but still have video.

But a lot of couples get it and then do all these performances all fucking day so later they have wedding content for their feeds.

WTF?!!!!

I 2nd shoot for a photographer friend of mine a few times a year and her clients are very different from mine and they are all VERY about content for their feeds.

I have built my business to work with the chillest most genuine people and they are the total opposite and just want to have a great day focused on each other. A lot of them will still share some photos, but they are not building their whole wedding experience around what they want to post on social media.

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

@SarAllyce @aus877 A friend made it for me and it's good!

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

@America1st2024 @mattbramanti I'm just here to say I saw it right away on the first one, but I'm a woman, so there's that.

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

@SarAllyce You guys look great! Love the cake!

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

@America1st2024 "Dumbass fishes" sent me. 🤣

It also needs a couple flex spaces where the residents can host a party with their family/friends and for activities people to come in and teach classes like sewing, writing, etc.

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

@DigitalFringed1 The lemon raspberry is my weak link. I can't control myself. There's a location a mile from my pool and I try not to even look when I drive by because I don't think I have the power to resist.

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

@America1st2024 @Bengal_DPT *trips over own leg
*face plants
*breaks own nose and sprains wrist

I would complete zero. 😆

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

@iamhaleyshane @America1st2024 Ohhh I don't have that app. Looking it up! 🧐

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

My husband sent this to me and I've never felt more understood.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I ordered one pancake in America. The waitress wrote it down and said, "one short stack."

Short. I am a small and humble man. A short stack sounded perfect for me. I waited with a calm heart.

She returned carrying three pancakes, each the size of my face, stacked into a tower, with a block of butter on top sliding down the sides like slow lava.

This was the short one. I did not dare ask what the tall one looked like. Some knowledge a man is not ready for.

I ate for forty minutes. I was not full. I was afraid. The tower did not shrink. I am fairly sure it was growing back faster than I could eat it.

I had to surrender. I left half. In Japan, leaving food is a deep shame. So I leaned in close and apologized to the pancakes directly, in a low voice, one by one.

The waitress asked if I wanted a box. I did not know food could be taken into custody. I declined. I did not want it following me home.
In America, is the short stack truly the small one?
I need time to prepare my spirit before I ever face the tall one.

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

@labs_vanguard @America1st2024 And women who were told they would have strokes and get cancer if they tried it.

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

@thesiskokid @Wolffman96 Lmao, 696 has been under construction every single day since I was in my teens in the 90s.

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

The people in these comments clearly don't understand science or how it works.

[Enhanced Games @enhanced_games]

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[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

@thesiskokid Too much awesomeness out there to stay in one corner!

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

Randy Travis
Collective Soul
Goo Goo Dolls
Allison Moorer (best concert I've ever been to)
Linkin Park
Tim McGraw/Faith Hill
Eminem
Hank Williams Jr.
James Taylor/Dixie Chicks
NKOTB

[Sarah Ruddle @thesiskokid]

Introduce yourself with 10 concerts you’ve seen live:
1. Run DMC
2. Aerosmith
3. Melloncamp
4. Smashing Pumpkins
5. Boyz II Men
6. ELO
7. Radiohead
8. The White Stripes
9. Too many USO concerts
10. Eminem

[Nicolette @BasedStillsmith]

@A_Sober_Drunk That's good cause a lot of really great people will just go with the flow when their boss tells them to sign off on maintenance or safety checks that were never done.

Hall monitors prevent fires and international incidents.