{"id":2406,"date":"2017-03-15T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2024-03-24T06:05:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T13:05:42","slug":"98-alayah-benavidez-miss-united-states-dealing-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/98-alayah-benavidez-miss-united-states-dealing-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"98: Alayah Benavidez, Miss United States on Dealing with Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5144842\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/4ac1c0\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2414\" src=\"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Episode-98-Featured-Image-updated-300x187.png\" alt=\"Episode-98-Featured-Image-updated\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Episode-98-Featured-Image-updated-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Episode-98-Featured-Image-updated.png 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Alycia Darby interviews Alayah Benavidez, Miss United States! Alayah was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. She has her Associate of Arts degree in Teaching and is pursuing her bachelor&#8217;s degree at the University of Texas at San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>At a young age, Alayah discovered a passion for literature and as an adult has seen first-hand how her love of reading has helped her to develop confidence in testing and public speaking. This is what led Alayah to begin her own campaign, Read the Way, which focuses on childhood literacy. It has been a dream of hers to reach children across the country with her message and as Miss United States 2016 that is exactly what she is doing.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Alayah Benavidez, Miss United States on Dealing with Comparison (Episode 98)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zYwNVqwbTW8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3>Get in Touch with Alayah<\/h3>\n<p>Miss United States&#8217; Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/RealMissUnitedStates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RealMissUnitedStates <\/a><br \/>Alayah&#8217;s Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/AlayahBenavidez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AlayahBenavidez<\/a><br \/>Miss United States&#8217; Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/officialmissunitedstates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OfficialMissUnitedStates<\/a><br \/>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlayahBenavidez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AlayahBenavidez<\/a><br \/>SnapChat: @AlayahNicole or @MissUSNP<br \/>Miss United States Pageant: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedstatesnationalpageants.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UnitedStatesNationalPageants<\/a><br \/>Clarisonic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarisonic.com\/facial-cleansing-brushes\/mia-1-CL370.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.clarisonic.com\/facial-cleansing-brushes\/<\/a><br \/>Sleeping facemasks: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sephora.com\/sleeping-mask-P410154?skuId=1668664&amp;icid2=products%20grid:p410154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.sephora.com\/sleeping-mask<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alyciadarby\">@AlyciaDarby<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/winapageant\">WinAPageant Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more great pageant training, enroll in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/freepageantcourse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/FreePageantCourse.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1583616946812000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHe1YQzqw9ar1f-oA3dl-t_B29QZA\">Free Pageant Course<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/FreePageantCourse.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Free-Pageant-Course-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Free-Pageant-Course-1.png 700w, https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Free-Pageant-Course-1-300x129.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Episode-98-Featured-Image-updated-300x187.png\" alt=\"Episode-98-Featured-Image-updated\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Episode-98-Featured-Image-updated-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Episode-98-Featured-Image-updated.png 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In this episode, Alycia Darby interview Alayah Benavidez, Miss United States! Alayah was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. She has her Associate of Arts degree in Teaching and is pursuing her bachelor&#8217;s degree at the University of Texas at San Antonio. At a young age, Alayah discovered a passion for literature and as an adult has seen first-hand how her love of reading has helped her to develop confidence in testing and public speaking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,47],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8006,"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/8006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}