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Olivia Nicole Buba

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RENEGADE SESSIONS: OPEN MIC EDITION 🎤👀

ACL weekend, Austin. We’re not an official ACL event, but we’re popping up right next to the action. Renegade style. 🤠

The stage is yours. Singers, pickers, poets, first-timers, pros. Bring your song and your nerve. Just here to listen? Who doesn’t love a good listener?

🔊 Full PA system provided. Just plug in. House guitar available in a pinch. 🎶 Open mic 7-9 PM (come through at 6:30 to mingle + sign up) 📍 Somewhere downtown. Location reveal coming soon 👀 🎟️ FREE. RSVP at the link in bio.

I’ll be kicking off and closing out the night with a set. Tips welcome, Venmo QR codes on site. ❤️

See y’all out there. 🌙

#RenegadeSessions #AustinMusic #OpenMic #ACLWeekend #livemusic taken in Austin, Texas by @barbells.n.breakdowns

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10 days ago

🌅 RENEGADE SESSIONS — DOUG SAHM HILL RECAP

What a beautiful evening. 🌅

Still thinking about last Friday at Doug Sahm Hill — sunset, skyline views, good people, and live music under the Austin sky.

Massive thanks to Robb Safko of EYERL @eyerl_music for joining us on the Renegade Sessions stage and sharing such a special, intimate set with us. And thank you to everyone who came out, brought friends, listened, mingled, and made the evening what it was. 🪄

We love getting to relive these nights through little clips — but for now, we’ll let the views speak for themselves. ✨

And if you’re ready for the next one… keep a close eye on the main RENEGADE page over the next couple of days. 👀

We’ll be dropping the link + details for our NEXT Renegade Sessions very soon.

SAVE THE DATE:

Saturday, October 10th

🌙 6:30 PM — Come mingle while we set up + sound check
🎶 7:00–9:00 PM — Live music

More details coming your way soon.

Until then… enjoy a little taste of the view we got to enjoy.. 🖤

See y’all at the next one.

#AustinMusic #ATXMusic #ThingsToDoATX #LiveMusicAustin #FREEAustinEvents taken in Doug Sahm Hill by @barbells.n.breakdowns

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18 days ago

Some songs I wrote for her.
Some songs came long before I ever knew her — and somehow still feel like they were made for her.

For all this love, this is what I know: I know it especially through loving her.

In this little clip, we’re singing along to my soon-to-be-released single, “Candles.” (Find the Pre-Save link 🔗 in my bio) And yet, dubbing “No Hesitations” over it somehow works just as well..

Another song that feels like it was describing the surrender.
The fall.
The choosing to be all in.

Funny how songs sometimes know and hold things before we do.

I love you, Habibti. 🤍

…but I did not love your onion-sardine breath yesterday. 🧅🐟 Fun fact, I’m laughing in this bc she decided a garlic-onion-sardine salad was necessary approximately one minute before we filmed this.

#ATXMusic #AustinMusic #austinmusicians #ATXartists #austinmusician taken in Austin, Texas by @barbells.n.breakdowns

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18 days ago

🫡 📔 Dear food diary… ✍️ Had such a helpful chat with my therapist today. 🧠💛

One thing that really landed was the reminder that sustainability always wins over intensity. I’ve done a lot of work around adjusting my expectations and working with my own rhythm instead of constantly fighting against it—especially when it comes to job applications. 💻✨

Instead of telling myself I need to apply to AN OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF jobs today, and getting psyched out — I’ve been focusing on my non-negotiable handful each morning before I even get out of bed. ✅
It’s been a game changer.

But I realized… I haven’t been extending that same grace to my fitness, or to learning / upskilling. 🏋🏻‍♀️📚

I’m so often all in or not at all.

If I can’t do the 2–4 hours of studying I imagined, I won’t touch it at all. If I can’t get to the gym and make the lift look exactly the way I’d like it in my ideal, I’ll push it off to another day and skip it altogether! With the deep learning for example - Instead, why not make the goal 30 minutes? Heck… make it 15. ⏱️

Lower the psychological barrier to entry so much that everything beyond it feels like bonus points. 🎮✨

Consistency beats intensity when intensity isn’t sustainable.

On another note, here’s what today’s 2MAD — Two Meals a Day looked like! 🥩🍳

I’d actually never heard the term until I saw it on one of @low_carb_karo ‘s posts. I’ve been pretty unplugged from the keto community on social media for a while, so I really appreciated it crossing my radar. It feels like such a natural fit for the way I already enjoy eating. 🥹 And automatic hunger signals!

If you’re someone who struggles with the all-or-nothing mindset too… maybe this is your reminder that:

✨ 15 minutes.
🥩 One meal.
🏋🏻‍♀️ One workout. (simple ones too)
… COUNT 👏🏽

Sometimes the smallest promises are the ones that teach us we can trust ourselves again. 💛

#ketovore #carnivore #keto #lowcarb #2MAD by @barbells.n.breakdowns

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3 months ago

Would recommend — 1010% 🤤

Okaaay 👏🏽 🫡 Reporting to the diary…

Full disclosure, this actually isn’t today’s food 😂—it was Tuesday’s breakfast, but it was SO GOOD. 🥹

As for today… well…

✅ Job applications (actually started sending my non-negotiable handful before I even rolled out of bed 😅)

Highly recommend doing the thing you have the MOST resistance to first. The rest of the day feels lighter. (Just neurospicy tips and tricks 💡) Gotta keep that executive dysfunction from getting outta hand 🤭

✅ Drank my water & stayed hydrated.

✅ 30 Days to the Splits routine. Day2/of/30

✅ Stayed on track with ketovore.

🏋🏻‍♀️ Gym…?… 🤦🏻‍♀️ Not so much.

But tomorrow I’ll stack a longer LISS cardio session onto my lift. Not as punishment—just because I’ve been wanting to add one dedicated, longer cardio session into my week anyway, and it’ll feel good knowing I followed through.

That said…

I’m still proud of today.

I had so many opportunities to cheat, and every single time I came back to the same thought:

It’s just not worth it.

Not for 10 minutes of satisfaction.
Not when I know how much better I feel eating this way.

So here’s to another promise kept. 🥩🧠💪

One meal.
One decision at a time. Moment by moment.

Brick 👏🏽 by 👏🏽 freaking 👏🏽 brick 👏🏽. 🧱😤

#ketovore #carnivore #keto #lowcarbbreakfastideas #ketofitness by @barbells.n.breakdowns

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3 months ago

Wait.. How am I just noticing homeboy in the back rn.. 👀

💪 Today’s Workout - LWR BODY, Machine Focus.

+ Finisher:
• Barbell Glute Bridges — 4 × 10

✨ Ended with positions 1–6 of @blogilates’s 30-Day Splits Challenge (my new post-workout ritual) followed by an 8-minute cardio cool-down (honestly, just me jumping up and down and dancing prior to walking out). THAT SAID - ✍️ MARK MY WORDS - I AM committed to doing the stretching routine DAILY for the full 30days! 👏🏽

Today’s Macros
🥩 129g Protein (32%)
🧈 116g Fat (64%)
🌱 15g Carbs (4%)#

^Cals came out to approx. 1,638

I’ll be honest… I dragged my feet getting to the gym today.

I felt weak.
I felt tired.
I questioned whether I should even bother.

But showing up was the win today. 💯 Sometimes it’s simply about keeping the promise you made to yourself.

One workout.
One meal.
One day at a time.

That’s how I’m building consistency.

#keto #ketovore #carnivore #lowcarb ketofitness carnivorefitness by @barbells.n.breakdowns

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3 months ago

🥩 Today’s Ketovore Breakfast
• 1 can sardines with extra virgin olive oil (red chili flakes)
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup cheese curds
• 2 cloves minced garlic
• 1/4 cup sliced black olives
• Finished with flaky sea salt
*Everything fried up in the oil from the sardine can 🥹😋

Macros:
729 calories
🥩 60g protein
🧈 50g fat
🌱 6g carbs

I’m currently eating 2 main sit-down meals a day, so I like making each one nutrient- and calorie-dense enough to keep me fueled. After a quick nap, I’ll head to the gym, and my pre-workout will simply be a coffee with heavy cream (might even melt in a tbls of butter)

DAY 1 of Posting 💥 ..Truthfully, this isn’t Day 1. It’s Day 5.

I fell off over the weekend, fasted on Sunday, and started fresh on Monday. I’m tired of the cycle of making promises to myself only to break them a few days later.

So this account is different.

I’m documenting this journey as much for my own accountability as anything else. I’m curious to see what happens when I consistently fuel my body with foods that genuinely make me feel my best.

For me, that’s a ketovore way of eating, regularly strength training, getting outside, sleeping well, and building habits I can actually sustain.

If you’ve ever been someone who’s been “on and off” more times than you can count, you’re in good company.

Follow along and let’s see where this goes. Maybe we’ll both surprise ourselves. 🥩🧠💪🏼

#Carnivore #Ketovore #Keto #KetoAthlete #AnimalBased by @barbells.n.breakdowns

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3 months ago

🌅 This Sunset Stories was one of those that reminds us why we gather..

Thank you to every single person who came, listened, shared, sang, spoke, laughed, and simply showed up with an open heart. We truly couldn’t have imagined spending our sunset any other way.

This evening was powerful and moving beyond words.

And perfect in every magical sense of the word—not because it was polished, but because it was real.

Thank you for your presence.
Thank you for your authenticity.
Thank you for your truth.

Thank you for sharing your art—not as a single-sided performance, but as an offering. A discussion. A topic and texture we were all invited to reach out and feel with you. For trusting this little community with pieces of yourselves. And all of us, with you. Those moments of vulnerability are what make Sunset Stories what it is.

Whether you performed, listened quietly from a blanket, or touched the heart of someone sitting beside you by willingly gifting us your share-back reflections, you helped create something incredibly special.

We’re so grateful to each of you, and we can’t wait to gather again soon.

✨ We’ll update the “link-in-bio” Partiful url with our next Sunset Stories date as soon as it’s set. We hope to see you there..

Until the next one. 🤍

#ThingsToDoATX #AustinOpenMic #AustinCreatives #AustinMusic #AustinPoets taken in Zilker Park by @barbells.n.breakdowns

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4 months ago

🌅 SUNSET STORIES — THIS SATURDAY!

A little switch-up this month… Sunset Stories is happening on SATURDAY instead of our usual Sunday gathering! ☀️✨

📍 Zilker Park
🗓️ THIS Saturday, 27th
🎤 Open Mic + Storytelling + Music + Poetry + Community
🌇 Sunset Gathering

We’re incredibly excited to be back under clear skies after a rainy spring/summer and to gather once again beneath a real Texas sunset OUTSIDE!

If you’ve been thinking about coming, we’d absolutely love to see you there.

Check the Link in Bio + Stories for details and updates. ❤️ RSVP so we know who is coming!

In the meantime, this is our first recap reel from our May Sunset Stories gathering and my goodness… what a joy it’s been to revisit these moments.

It was so wonderful seeing both familiar faces and new ones join the circle.

One of our favorite things about editing these little videos is getting to relive the evening all over again. Every gathering takes on its own personality because it’s the people who show up that shape the space.

The songs.
The poems.
The stories.
The laughter.
The reflections.
The vulnerability.

It’s never quite the same twice.

And honestly, I’m especially excited to experience Sunset Stories with an actual sunset again this weekend. 🌅

There’s something so magical about watching the sky change colors while people share pieces of their hearts.

Can’t wait to see what this Saturday brings. ❤️

#OpenMicAustin #AustinThingsToDo #ZilkerParkATX #ATXMusic #ATXArt 🥹🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ taken in Austin, Texas by @barbells.n.breakdowns

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4 months ago

He really just had a beauty light in his pocket 😂🥹 I swear this is the best of Austin. 🥲🥰

@chrisbronson_ and I out for a little date night, dressed up for @thetinyminotaur - stopping by @lustre_pearl_east / @praxiscoffee for an extra drink prior to walking home.. and finding the most incredible strangers there are.

😜🤩🙂‍↕️

#Austin #ATX #AustinMusic #AustinCulture #AustinTexas taken in Lustre Pearl East by @barbells.n.breakdowns

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I’M AN ASTRONAUT… 🌖 ✨ 👨‍🚀

And this love is the space suit that holds me in the cold, dark, corners of the space within… That deeper work that you inspire me to do. Our friction is blinding and illuminating and nurturing… and my darkness changes from the scary unknown thing, to a blanket, embroidered with stars. I can choose when to reach for it instead of being controlled by it. I know I’m only half your heart, but half of the infinite is never ending….

Special thanks to @wildguessfest for the beautiful container of a weekend. All the amazing music and the amazing people. Special thanks to your other half who I love dearly @shengsilver… for the high times, laughs and epic snack sessions :) and to @aylasoul for the beautiful late night conversations….

To infinity and beyond…. taken in Austin, Texas by @barbells.n.breakdowns

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5 months ago

My love — March16 became a special day for me the moment I met you.

The day the universe gifted the world with you.

You’d walk in to my life a complete stranger, and yet there was nothing unfamiliar about you.

My bones have remembered you since the very beginning of time.

It was such a sweet experience getting to watch you work your magic on stage last night, watching you choose to do a show on your birthday..

Seeing you in your element.. the same “element” that made falling in love with you a mix of crushing and fan-girling simultaneously..

Christopher.. I’m so deeply in love with you. And.. 👀 we should take “cinematic videos” more often, bc until we do.. I’m stuck recycling the same ones.. but it’s okie bc these are cuties 🥰🦦🫧🥫🪱🌊

Thank you. My love, you are a gift.

I am so grateful I get to hold you in my arms.

#NewOnSpotify #NowStreaming #NewMusic #FirelightbyChrisBronson #ChrisBronson by @barbells.n.breakdowns

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