Some stories hit different when you’ve lived pieces of them alongside the person telling it.
A Full Circle Moment
The Los Angeles stop of Hope Giselle’s Not Your Average Girl Tour was the first stop — the launch. And now, with the tour officially wrapped, it hits even deeper knowing LA wasn’t just a beginning, it was the foundation of everything that followed. You could feel that in hindsight, like the energy in that room was quietly setting the tone for the entire run without anyone realizing it in the moment.
For me, this was personal.
Hope and I go way back. We’ve had real conversations over the years about where we wanted to be, what we were building, and what it would take to get there. And sometimes we don’t talk — not because the love isn’t there — but because we’re both out here soaring. And trust, I’m always applauding her… from heart to spirit. But seeing her in that space, fully stepped into her power, hit different in a way I wasn’t fully prepared for.
Credit: Corey Fletcher (@cdotfletch)
The Energy in the Room
That first night in LA? You could feel it before anything even started.
The room was filled with something you can’t fake — love, support, anticipation, and emotional readiness, even if nobody admitted they were ready for what they were about to see.
As the screening unfolded, the audience reactions became part of the storytelling itself. There were moments of full laughter breaking tension when Hope dropped her signature humor into heavy subject matter — those laughs were definitely therapeutic after holding your breath too long. Then there were stretches of complete stillness, where nobody touched their phones, nobody shifted, nobody interrupted the moment.
And then came the emotional waves.
You could see people wiping tears discreetly at first — trying to stay composed — but by the mid-point of the film, that composure was gone. Shoulders dropped. Heads nodded. People leaned forward like they were trying to stay close to every word. It wasn’t just watching anymore — it became shared emotional processing in real time. I’m a cry baby so I’m just glad the lights were dim to hide my ugly crying face.
That energy didn’t just stay in LA. It followed the tour like a living thing, building with every city.
Credit: Corey Fletcher (@cdotfletch)
From LA Launch to Nationwide Impact
What started in Los Angeles didn’t stay there.
The Not Your Average Girl Tour expanded into something that felt less like an event series and more like a traveling emotional experience, one that shifted slightly in tone with every city, depending on the crowd, the questions, and what people were willing to give back in return.
Photography: Corey Fletcher (@cdotfletch)
Across its run, the tour reached six cities nationwide, including four sold-out stops in Miami, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, and brought in over 350 attendees. With support from Gilead, Pop Culture Collaborative, and SoHo House, the experience extended beyond the stage — directly pouring back into the community by uplifting six Hopeful Legacy Grant recipients and awarding over $6,000 in funding.
But the numbers only tell part of it.
Each stop carried its own version of that LA energy — sometimes louder, sometimes more contained, but always deeply responsive. In certain cities, the audience couldn’t hold it in — reactions came instantly, with applause breaking through mid-moment like the emotion refused to stay quiet. In others, the silence said even more — heavier rooms, still air, and people taking everything in like they were processing it in real time before they ever found the words to respond.
This wasn’t just a tour — it felt like impact moving through rooms, shifting something every place it touched.
The Team That Made It Happen
None of this happens without the people behind the scenes making it move.
Huge shoutout to my boy E.C., the tour manager, who kept everything grounded even when the emotional weight of each stop shifted the pace of the night. That kind of work is invisible when it’s done right — but you feel it when it’s missing, and it was never missing here. I’m just glad Whiskey was around for him. I can’t even imagine the stress that poor man went through.
And of course, JAX Productions, who captured every single moment, not just the polished visuals, but the in-between reactions too. The shaky breaths, the audience tears, the sudden laughter, the quiet pauses right before something heavy lands. That’s the footage that turns a tour into a living archive.
What Hope Giselle created with Not Your Average Girl is bigger than a documentary.
It’s a mirror. And mirrors don’t always feel comfortable, especially when they reflect truths you’ve been avoiding or feelings you didn’t know you still carried.
Watching it in a room full of people reacting in real time made that even clearer. You could see strangers realizing they weren’t alone in certain experiences. You could feel people processing things they hadn’t put language to before. And you could tell when something landed so deeply that it changed the temperature in the room entirely.yet put into words
And watching her go from vision to execution? That’s the part that hits.
Because when you’ve had those conversations… when you’ve heard the dreams out loud… and then you see them happen in real time?
It’s different.
My final take?
I love this girl. Period.
And I’m proud — not just of what she’s done, but of who she is.
From launching in LA to closing out a nationwide run, Hope Giselle didn’t just create a tour — she created a shared experience that moved through every city it touched.
And trust… this is only the beginning.
When that documentary drops for the world?
It won’t just be something you watch — it’ll be something you feel in your chest.
Watch the official trailer below:
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