Claudia Oshry: How to Stop Letting Your Body Image Hold You Back & Build Lasting Confidence
Do you ever feel held back by body image?
What’s one thing that instantly boosts your confidence?
Today, Jay welcomes Claudia Oshry, a comedian, podcaster, and social media personality. Claudia is the co-host of the extremely popular podcast "The Toast" and has gained a large following on Instagram for her relatable and often self-deprecating posts. Claudia has been open about her personal life, including her struggles with body image and her journey to motherhood.
Claudia opens up about the misconceptions surrounding her online persona, her journey with Ozempic, and her decision to embrace motherhood. She discusses the challenges of vulnerability on social media and the importance of self-acceptance and living life on your own terms and finding fulfillment.
Jay and Claudia share their personal experiences with weight and body image, revealing the societal pressures and internal struggles they have faced. They explore the complexities of Claudia's weight loss journey and decide to use Ozempic openly in the public eye. Claudia shares her personal transformation and the newfound confidence she gained through her weight loss journey.
In this interview, you'll learn:
How to Overcome Misconceptions
How to Embrace Vulnerability
How to Deal with Weight Stigma
How to Build Confidence
How to Find the Right Partner
Remember, it's okay to seek support and share your struggles. Embrace your true self, live life on your own terms, and never stop pursuing your dreams.
With Love and Gratitude,
Jay Shetty
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What We Discuss:
00:00 Intro
02:27 How It Feels to Be Misunderstood
04:57 Protect Your Own Peace
06:56 What is Fat Camp?
08:34 The Struggle of Losing Weight
12:38 Responsible Use of Ozempic
16:20 Struggle with Self Image and Confidence
19:36 How Does Getting Pregnant Feel?
24:18 Getting Ready to Start a Family
30:46 Friends Change Throughout Your Life
33:08 Choosing What to Share About Your Life
39:45 Becoming a Content Creator
42:45 Learnings from the Corporate Life
46:16 Building a Brand as a One-Man Team
49:26 Smart Advice for Content Creators
52:49 Just Get Started
55:08 Stability is Beneficial in Running a Business
58:04 Running a Business with Family
01:01:44 How to Record a Good Episode
01:03:27 Know When to Listen
01:07:11 The Worst Type of Humor
01:10:46 Greatest Lesson from Grief
01:14:50 The Girl with a Dead Dad
01:18:37 The Dangers of Exposing Children Online
01:21:30 Claudia on Final Five
Episode Resources:
Claudia Oshry | Website
Claudia Oshry | TikTok
Claudia Oshry | Instagram
Claudia Oshry | Youtube
Girl With No Job: The Crazy Beautiful Life of an Instagram Thirst Monster
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Speaker 1: It seems like you were comfortable in your own skin.
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Speaker 1: Like what would you say to someone who maybe does
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Speaker 1: doesn't have doesn't want to go on his MPG because
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Speaker 1: they're scid or whatever it may be, But like, what
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Speaker 1: would you say with him?
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Speaker 2: So I feel like people don't like my answer because
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Speaker 2: when I was like struggling with my self image. I
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Speaker 2: feel like I'm gonna cry and ass are so much
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Speaker 2: of my confidence, I would say, like all of it
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Speaker 2: came from the fact that I had a husband or
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Speaker 2: a boyfriend at the time, Beyonce, who loved me so
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Speaker 2: much and he thought I was like the greatest thing.
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Speaker 2: And so if he thought and look at him like
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Speaker 2: I just I love him so much, and so he
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Speaker 2: thinks I'm so great, Like that's nothing. You should get
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Speaker 2: your confidence from a man, whatever, But like I did,
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Speaker 2: just to be loved so unequivocally by somebody who I
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Speaker 2: think is so great that gave me a lot of confidence.
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Speaker 2: Like he thought I was the best, he thought I
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Speaker 2: was the smartest, he thought I was the prettiest, so
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Speaker 2: like I was because his opinion is only one that matters.
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Speaker 2: But also like I look at him and I think
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Speaker 2: of him as like so charming attractive, like who wouldn't
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Speaker 2: want to marry him? And he likes me, like, oh
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Speaker 2: my god, I must be like the greatest thing ever.
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Speaker 2: And and I really feel like so much of my confidence.
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Speaker 2: It's so funny because he says that he gets confidence
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Speaker 2: from me, which I feel like really happy that it's
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Speaker 2: a two way street. But having a relationship that I
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Speaker 2: felt really solid about, but also somebody who just loved
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Speaker 2: me so much. Really, it just made me believe like
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Speaker 2: what he was saying, do you know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: What's interesting to me is just so much of how
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Speaker 1: whether it's body shaming we do to ourselves or that
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Speaker 1: society does to us, how so much of it is
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Speaker 1: built up around aesthetics and visuals, and how health and
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Speaker 1: vitality are actually not based on simply visuals.
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Speaker 2: No, but I will say visually at the time, like
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Speaker 2: if you were to just compare me visually now and
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Speaker 2: me visually then, like I was very unhealthy, Like I
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Speaker 2: had a lot of random medical issues that like a
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Speaker 2: twenty five year old girl shouldn't be having. So I
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Speaker 2: agree with you that like a lot of times we
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Speaker 2: judge people's health based on their weight, and that's not
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Speaker 2: the case for everyone. But to be clear, like it
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Speaker 2: was the case for me. Yeah, like I was not healthy.
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Speaker 2: I did not walk to work, like I was really
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Speaker 2: like living a very inactive, unhealthy lifestyle. That's not the
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Speaker 2: case for everyone you see who's overweight, but that was
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Speaker 2: one thousand percent the case for me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and.
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Speaker 2: Bitch, well, now pregnant, so like it's kind of reverted back,
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Speaker 2: but so not pregnancy wise. I just really like lead
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Speaker 2: my day with little pockets of activity. I think that
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Speaker 2: like met going to meetings, going to work, Like I'm
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Speaker 2: always being like, okay, I'll walk. I worked out like
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Speaker 2: before I got pregnant, I worked out like, you know,
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Speaker 2: three to five times a week. I would spend my
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Speaker 2: weekends like doing things that I enjoy whilst being active,
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Speaker 2: like going for walks in the park with Ben. Just
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Speaker 2: like making sure that I wasn't rotting in bed as
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Speaker 2: much as I can I'm capable of, because I'm capable
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Speaker 2: of a great deal of rotting. And then with meals,
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Speaker 2: that's really where I probably struggled the most, but just
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Speaker 2: just trying to be a little bit more well rounded.
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Speaker 2: I feel like I eat like a six year old,
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Speaker 2: and so I do, like I eat rice and chicken fingers,
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Speaker 2: and so just changing sometimes to like brown rice and
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Speaker 2: grilled chicken and you know, thinking a little bit more.
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Speaker 2: But it's hard because I'm such a picky eater that
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Speaker 2: you know, I'm not going to be making bronzino on
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Speaker 2: the weekends with like a top of nod, you know,
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Speaker 2: that's never gonna happen. I don't even know what top
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Speaker 2: of nod is.
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Speaker 1: And then I mean, as I'm hearing you speak, I'm
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Speaker 1: just like, is there a lot of people talk about
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Speaker 1: this right now, like this idea of when you become pregnant?
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Speaker 1: Is there like a loss of the life you had? Like,
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Speaker 1: is there a feeling of like, wait a minute, just
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Speaker 1: a few moments ago, a few months ago I was I.
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Speaker 2: Would say, I don't feel I really. I mean, I've
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Speaker 2: been married for one hundred years and we decided to
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Speaker 2: wait to have kids. And I think that because we
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Speaker 2: made that choice, I am now not spending my pregnancy
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Speaker 2: and you know, hopefully the next year or two morning
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Speaker 2: a life. I feel like I lived life to the
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Speaker 2: fullest and I really really waited till I was ready.
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Speaker 2: So the only thing I feel like I'm mourning is
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Speaker 2: my body. Like that, nobody talks enough about like what
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Speaker 2: it's like to lose significant weight and then get pregnant.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how I feel about it. I don't
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Speaker 2: have like fully fleshed though outs. I'm like struggling every
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Speaker 2: single day. But no, I don't feel sad about like
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Speaker 2: a life left behind. I feel like I lived every
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Speaker 2: minute of my twenties, like on the edge of cliffs,
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Speaker 2: going on trips, partying, like doing everything I wanted to do.
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Speaker 2: And when I turned thirty over the summer, I was like,
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Speaker 2: you know what, I'm done, Like I really feel And
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Speaker 2: that's what I'm so happy about, because, yeah, I like
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Speaker 2: see my friends with kids, and I'm like, oh, I
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Speaker 2: do wish I had, like, you know, joined them. But
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Speaker 2: I feel so fulfilled in that one chapter of my
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Speaker 2: life that I'm really ready to start the next chapter.
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Speaker 1: Ye, what was the reason for putting kids off in
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Speaker 1: the beginning?
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Speaker 2: What was the I would say it was mostly career.
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Speaker 2: I've been working since I'm eighteen, and I just could
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Speaker 2: not fathom taking time off. And I don't know, it
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Speaker 2: just it really scared me. It doesn't scare me so
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Speaker 2: much anymore. But also the weight thing played I could
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Speaker 2: not fathom at my previous weight getting pregnant. I think
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Speaker 2: it would be a high risk pregnance one and two Like,
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Speaker 2: I think it would take me to a new way,
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Speaker 2: a new category that I might not be able to
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Speaker 2: come back from. So I always knew I had to
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Speaker 2: figure it out before and Ozemba came to me at
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Speaker 2: like the perfect time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the first thing you mentioned I related
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Speaker 1: to that is obviously me and my wife don't have
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Speaker 1: kids yet and we'd love to one day. But I
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Speaker 1: think a big thing for me also was I was
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Speaker 1: very clear on who I was when we met and
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Speaker 1: things were kind of going in the right direction for
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Speaker 1: me and then my wife, I was like, really patient
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Speaker 1: and I really wanted her to find her purpose before
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Speaker 1: we had kids, because I wanted her to know who
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Speaker 1: she was and know her identity and have clarity on
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Speaker 1: her worth and her value in everything before we have
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Speaker 1: a child. Because I just felt I was like, I
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Speaker 1: want her to also live a life and what that
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Speaker 1: looks like. And you know, in the past couple of
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Speaker 1: years she's just like blossom and grown. It's been so
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Speaker 1: fun to watch and it's like now I'm like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: now you know I from when we're lucky to have children.
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Speaker 1: It's more you can conceive it totally. Yeah, and that
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Speaker 1: you're coming at it from a point of like I
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Speaker 1: know who I am without anything, Yes, And I think
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Speaker 1: that was so important to me for her, I already
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Speaker 1: had it myself.
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Speaker 2: And also different career thing right, like as a woman
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Speaker 2: it's not like you give birth and then you go
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Speaker 2: back to work. It's like a two year thing from
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Speaker 2: conception to the end, like till you really start to
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Speaker 2: feel like yourself again, especially when your job is like
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Speaker 2: being public and people have so much to say about
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Speaker 2: your body, Like I don't necessarily didn't want to put
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Speaker 2: myself through that, Like I really wasn't ready for it.
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Speaker 2: So I cannot recommend enough waiting till you're really ready.
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Speaker 2: And I know that that's a privilege, but like I
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Speaker 2: I'm so pleased with how it's worked out so far,
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Speaker 2: and I'm really really glad that I waited because I
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Speaker 2: remember I always used to say, like I wanted ten
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Speaker 2: kids when I was twenty five, and I remember sitting
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Speaker 2: at my friend's couch and I was like drunk, and
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Speaker 2: he was like, by the way, like when do you
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Speaker 2: want have kids? I'm like, when I'm twenty five, and
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Speaker 2: he was like, how old you? I'm like twenty five,
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Speaker 2: So maybe maybe when I'm twenty six, And I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I always I've always always known I love kids, like
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Speaker 2: my niece and my nephews or my whole life, like
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Speaker 2: I've always known that I wanted to be a mom,
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Speaker 2: and then I started to get a little worried because
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Speaker 2: I didn't feel it. I'm like, oh crap, Like I
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Speaker 2: was so annoyed at the biological hawk, and I was
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Speaker 2: so annoyed at COVID. It like took two years for
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Speaker 2: me that like maybe if COVID hadn't happened, I would
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Speaker 2: have been living my life those two years and been
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Speaker 2: ready when I was twenty eight. But I was like, crap, noe,
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Speaker 2: and I got a little worried that I was never
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Speaker 2: gonna be ready because I know it's something that I want.
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Speaker 2: And that's why I feel so grateful that I very
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Speaker 2: naturally came to the conclusion that I'm ready. And my
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Speaker 2: husband was amazing about that. Like if I had said
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Speaker 2: Tim five years ago, let's have a kid, he'd say, okay.
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Speaker 2: If I said Tim this year, Like he was really
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Speaker 2: let me lead, which I so appreciatd and never put
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Speaker 2: pressure on me to like either wait longer or hurry up.
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Speaker 2: Same with our families, Like nobody really tortured us about it.
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Speaker 2: And I know a lot of girls get like endless
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Speaker 2: harassment from their parents and their in laws, and like
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Speaker 2: I didn't get that, And I'm so grateful because I
594
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Speaker 2: really came to the conclusion on my own. So no,
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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't like look around and I don't
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Speaker 2: look at social media and see people like you know,
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Speaker 2: on trips and flying out of planes and think, oh,
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Speaker 2: I wish that was me. I'm like, you know what
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Speaker 2: I did my time. Honestly, that video makes me tired.
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Speaker 2: I want to go take a nap.
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Speaker 1: Walk me through that internal dialogue of like, how do
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Speaker 1: you get to that place of getting ready? I think
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Speaker 1: so many, any of us, yeah, are waiting to feel
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Speaker 1: ready in life, whether it's waiting to feel ready to
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Speaker 1: start a podcast, whether it's waiting to write your book,
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Speaker 1: whether it's waiting to have a kid, whether it's waiting
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Speaker 1: to get married. And you're we're just waiting, yeah, but
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Speaker 1: we never feel ready for most of us, I know,
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Speaker 1: walk me through what you feel being ready means.
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Speaker 2: I feel like jealousy is a really powerful emotion, and
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Speaker 2: I started to feel like I might be ready to
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Speaker 2: start a family when like I would hear about other
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Speaker 2: girls that I knew, friends people telling me, and up
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Speaker 2: until that point, when people would tell me, I would
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Speaker 2: be so happy for them, like I would cry, like
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Speaker 2: really genuine and I remember the first time. It was
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Speaker 2: like December of twenty twenty three. One of Ben's friends,
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Speaker 2: who his fiance excuse me wife is one of my
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Speaker 2: good friends. They told us that they were pregnant, and
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Speaker 2: I was so happy for it, but like I was
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Speaker 2: a little jealous. And then I was like, oh, that's interesting.
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Speaker 2: And that's why I feel like it's so important to
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Speaker 2: listen to yourself and be able to identify emotions, because
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Speaker 2: I was like, Okay, let's jut that down. I told
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Speaker 2: Ben I'm like, by the way, I'm a little jealous
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Speaker 2: of Natalie. He was like, oh, that's great. And that
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Speaker 2: was in December. That was actually when I decided to
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Speaker 2: get off of zembic and I was like, ohkay o,
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Speaker 2: good to know. And then I just started like listening
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Speaker 2: to my feelings and when other people would tell me,
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Speaker 2: I'd be like, damn, now I'm starting to feel a
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Speaker 2: little left behind. And so really it was my own
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Speaker 2: emotions that told me I was ready. And I've always
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Speaker 2: been very good at like identifying my own emotions and
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Speaker 2: like thinking how does this make me feel? And I
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Speaker 2: pissed him. I happy, and that's really I would say,
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Speaker 2: how I knew yeah, but it was a struggle.
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Speaker 1: It feels like you're someone that always knows you ready
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Speaker 1: there because you got what married at twenty three?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I got married very young. I got engaged. Me
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Speaker 2: and Ben met when I was eighteen. We got engaged
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Speaker 2: when I was twenty one, so we did author of
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Speaker 2: college and then twenty three. Yeah, when I got.
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Speaker 1: Married, how did you know Ben was the one and
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Speaker 1: you were ready to get married? Then?
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Speaker 2: It just wasn't even a question. Honestly, I would have
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Speaker 2: gotten married sooner, Like I know, it sounds so crazy,
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Speaker 2: and it is. But we met when I was eighteen,
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Speaker 2: so I was a freshman in college, and then when
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Speaker 2: I was a senior, I wasn't allowed to get engaged
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Speaker 2: in college. It was like girl, get a degree and
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Speaker 2: then we could talk. So I graduated in May, and
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Speaker 2: then Ben and I got engaged in June. It was
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Speaker 2: I know, it sounds it was four years. I was like, bitch,
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Speaker 2: I'm ready, Like let's go. Like I knew like from
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Speaker 2: day one that Ben was loved my life. It took him,
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Speaker 2: i want to say, like three months to know that
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Speaker 2: I was the love of his life. But it's okay.
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Speaker 2: Some people were all on our different journeys. We all
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Speaker 2: have our impresses.
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Speaker 1: I'm you and my wife's Ben.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I I try not to like hold resentment.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, no, I remember that time you knew
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Speaker 2: that I was so cute? Yeah, like, okay, you know
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Speaker 2: like me, I don't know. I just I just knew.
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Speaker 2: And it's so crazy because we met when I'm eighteen.
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00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 2: I'm thirty now, so there is a huge part of
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Speaker 2: my life where Ben isn't a factor. But I don't
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Speaker 2: even remember. It's like before Ben and after Ben, Like
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Speaker 2: I don't remember. It's weird if ill like tell him
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Speaker 2: a story and he wasn't there, I'm like, eh, where
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Speaker 2: were you? Like you, I actually feel like we're related
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Speaker 2: and we might be, but like whatever, I it's the
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Speaker 2: craziest thing. I can't really explain how I knew, but
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Speaker 2: I think when I when we first met, I was
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Speaker 2: like so excited to have a boyfriend because I loved
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00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:47,719
Speaker 2: watching movies growing up. I'm like, oh my god, I'm
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Speaker 2: literally share from clueless. I finally have a boyfriend. And
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00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 2: I was so obsessed with the idea of having a
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Speaker 2: boyfriend and like the fact that there was this person
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Speaker 2: who wanted to spend time with me, and I was
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Speaker 2: so excited about it, and then like, I feel like
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Speaker 2: a relationship. We really grew up together. So the law
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Speaker 2: we were together in the more time we would spend,
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Speaker 2: it was like becoming abundantly clear, like we really had
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Speaker 2: the same values and we really are the same person.
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Speaker 2: And it's so funny because Ben is so funny, but
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00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 2: he's married to me, so it's like good luck. And
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00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 2: I always say if he had married anyone else, he
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00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,400
Speaker 2: would be the funniest guy in every room. But people
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00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 2: say to me, people have known Ben for like three years, like,
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Speaker 2: by the way, Ben's funny. I'm like, no, I know,
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Speaker 2: but he can't get a word in with me. He's
694
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Speaker 2: just the best. And I honestly, I know it sounds
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Speaker 2: so crazy to have gotten married so young. And when
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00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 2: we were getting married, I grew up in a modern
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Speaker 2: Orthodox Jewish community, so it really wasn't that crazy. Most
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Speaker 2: my friends have been married around the same age as me.
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Speaker 2: But when I would meet like people, you know, regular
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Speaker 2: secular folk, they would think it was so crazy. And
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Speaker 2: I remember like being offended when people would say that,
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Speaker 2: I'm like, you don't know me and Ben, you don't
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00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 2: know but let me tell you something, the older I've gotten,
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00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 2: the more I learned, like we were crazy. We've changed
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Speaker 2: so much, you know. And when people say like not
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Speaker 2: to get married young, like they're right for that, they're
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Speaker 2: saying it for a reason. I think that the way
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Speaker 2: it worked out for me and Ben is really not
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Speaker 2: how it works out for most people. Because I'm so different.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I used to be so annoying, if
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Speaker 2: you can imagine it, Like I was just such a
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Speaker 2: different person and so was Ben. You know, I was
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Speaker 2: like very insecure and I don't know, I just was weird.
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Speaker 2: And I and I grew up, I think, into a
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Speaker 2: person that's amazing. But I grew up to be somebody
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Speaker 2: a little different. And it's possible that I had grown
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Speaker 2: that I would have grown into somebody that Ben didn't like.
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Speaker 2: And it's possible that Ben would have grown into he
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Speaker 2: was twenty one, that he would have grown into somebody
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Speaker 2: that I wasn't particularly into. But we really made a
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Speaker 2: conscious choice to like grow up together. So I understand
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Speaker 2: why people said that, and they were probably right for that.
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Speaker 2: But we're different. Sorry, just saw we are. No.
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Speaker 1: I think that's a really fair point, and I think
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Speaker 1: even Roddy was twenty five and I was twenty eight,
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Speaker 1: and even that is somewhat it's still you know, it's
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Speaker 1: still younger, and it's like it's it's the same for us,
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Speaker 1: like we were sure, you know, it worked out for us.
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Speaker 1: But I would say I knew myself very well. Rodiye
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Speaker 1: knew herself enough for the time. She's definitely grown. I've
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Speaker 1: kind of staid the same, Yeah, And so there is
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Speaker 1: a sense of like, sometimes you get lucky and you're
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Speaker 1: fortunate and you're blessed and it's beautiful, and sometimes it
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Speaker 1: can be really hard. Of course I'm crazy, And I
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Speaker 1: think what I'm hearing from you is just like it's
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Speaker 1: not an issue if whether you're the rule or the
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Speaker 1: exception or whichever one you think you are, the point
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Speaker 1: is just be thoughtful about it, like because yeah, you
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Speaker 1: don't want to rush into something too young.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I also think Ben's a really patient person. And
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Speaker 2: I definitely did not know who I was literally until
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Speaker 2: I would say a year or two ago, And I
743
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 2: think I led with that like sort of insecurity, and
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Speaker 2: he was very patient with me, and he was still
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00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 2: like dealing and growing with his own thing. But I
746
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 2: don't know if in those early years, if I was
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Speaker 2: like the best version of myself, and I think that
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Speaker 2: he really saw in me who like my potential and
749
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Speaker 2: was very measured and really patient. So it takes two
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Speaker 2: people to tango. And he definitely is like the kinder,
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Speaker 2: patient one in the relationship and I'm a little bit
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Speaker 2: more like rough around the edges, if you can imagine.
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Speaker 2: And he I would attribute a lot of our marital
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Speaker 2: success to him.
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Speaker 1: I love that much. You love then he's the best. Yeah,
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00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: it's amazing, call to me.
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00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 2: But not you've never met him. He's downstairs, honestly on
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00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 2: a call. Like, let me tell you, my husband is
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00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 2: always on a call. I don't know who the hell
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00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 2: he's talking to. Literally this morning, he doesn't. It's the phone.
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Speaker 2: Forty minutes, I'm where are he was like walking the talk,
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00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 2: I'm on a call. Who the hell are you talking to?
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Speaker 2: I can't.
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Speaker 1: No, it's it's lovely to say, I want you love
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Speaker 1: him like it's it's really beautiful.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, I will say. Like, one other reason why
767
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 2: you shouldn't get married young is I have oddly made
768
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 2: so many lifelong friends much later in life. And these
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00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 2: people weren't even at my wedding. It's the weirdest thing. Like,
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00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 2: and some of these bitches at my wedding, like, girl,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, you get out of here, and they're
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00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 2: like in my pictures and shit. Also, I wish I
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00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 2: had waited because like, if I had been on ozembic
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00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 2: at my wedding photos, I would have been a lot
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00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 2: happier with the end results of the pictures. But that's
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00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 2: my fault. That's my fault.
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Speaker 1: No, I could so relate to that. I'm at that.
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00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: I'm at that stage where I've got a lot of
779
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: friends who are older than me, and they all renewing
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00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: their vows right now, right and they literally were like, Jay,
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00:31:58,440 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: you went at my wedding. But I love that. You
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00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: how weird because friends change so much from when you
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Speaker 1: get married.
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Speaker 2: So much, And I feel like there's a point in
785
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 2: your life where, like you you have made all of
786
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 2: your friends, and twenty one was not that for me
787
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 2: at all.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you haven't. You haven't worked enough, you know.
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00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 2: And so many of my best lifelong friends are people
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00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 2: I've met through work.
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00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: How's that? How does that work?
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Speaker 2: I like my two of my best friends, like Brian
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00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 2: and Taylor like I met they were guests on our show.
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00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 2: You meet a lot of people, and like, you know,
795
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 2: the reputation of podcasters, content creators, influencers like is what
796
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 2: it is for reason, Like some of them are insufferable,
797
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 2: but some of them are just like the most fabulous
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00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 2: people you'll ever meet in your entire life. And that's
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Speaker 2: my friends Brian and Taylor. And they were not at
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Speaker 2: my wedding. And sometimes I'll think about that and I'll
801
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 2: be like, oh, I should have wait, yeah, I should
802
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 2: have listen to everybody. Well you I know, but you know,
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00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 2: they do say that's a curse. I don't know if
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00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 2: that's just for the real housewives, but every real housewife
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00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 2: who has ever renewed her vows ended up divorced.
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Speaker 1: Really just about that that's a fact.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, you know it's a fact. But it's like,
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Speaker 2: I don't plan on renewing my vows. Also, I feel
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00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 2: like bow renewal is like an inherently non Jewish thing,
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Speaker 2: Like Jewish people don't renew their vows. I don't know,
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Speaker 2: at you a single Jewish person that's renewed her vows.
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Speaker 2: Oh interesting, Yeah, I don't know if it's like in
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Speaker 2: the Bible or anything. I just feel like it's not culturally.
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Speaker 1: Jewish interesting, got it, Okay, understood? Understood. Yeah, it's a
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Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, I've I'm always trying to convince Rady
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Speaker 1: that I want to do it, and she's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: of course you wont another wedding because you didn't plan
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00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: the last one once.
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Speaker 2: I'm so with her on that, although the only reason
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Speaker 2: I would do it was would be like to get
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Speaker 2: new pictures because I was like so ugly at my wedding.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of like one of my biggest regrets.
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Speaker 1: I think Rady would do it for new pictures because
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Speaker 1: she even though she looked absolutely gorgeous, she's still she's evolve.
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Speaker 2: They're not really, but I guess there are. It's a
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Speaker 2: time capsule, you know. It's a moment in time, not
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Speaker 1: the code on Purpose. How do you decide what parts
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Speaker 1: of your life to share publicly and what parts to
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Speaker 1: keep private.
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Speaker 2: I generally just lead with what I'm comfortable with. It's
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Speaker 2: like if I wouldn't be ashamed to tell the person
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Speaker 2: next me on the train, and I don't really feel
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Speaker 2: shame about a lot of things. I feel like maybe
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00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 2: that's something I could and should work on. But no,
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Speaker 2: I would say the ozembic thing is like the one
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Speaker 2: thing I really had to push myself to share. But
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Speaker 2: for the most part, I share what's comfortable, and I'm
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Speaker 2: just I'm an open person. I think that some people
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Speaker 2: find that unconceivable, but I just am.
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Speaker 1: So it's easy for you. But you were saying earlier
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Speaker 1: that there's there's times when you're like, oh, this could
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Speaker 1: be judds, this could yeah, this could be misconstrued in
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Speaker 1: so and I think that's a really valid point. I
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Speaker 1: appreciate you being so honest about it. That's why I'm
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Speaker 1: raising it because I think at one point we were
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Speaker 1: in this phase where we're like, vulnerability means you share
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Speaker 1: everything with everyone, and I don't subscribe to that definition
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Speaker 1: of vulnerability. I think vulnerability is actually I know why
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Speaker 1: I'm sharing it with this person, and I feel safe
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Speaker 1: to share it there, and so I think that societies
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Speaker 1: had to evolve. And then you also see performative vulnerability
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Speaker 1: where people are like literally telling a vulnerable story only because.
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Speaker 2: They you get rewarded for it.
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Speaker 1: Totally exactly. It's then ruins the purpose of vulnerability because
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Speaker 1: then it's not vulnerable. So it's like this messy space
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Speaker 1: where I'm trying to I'm constantly reflecting on like what's
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Speaker 1: truly vulnerable? How comfortable do I feel about it? What
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Speaker 1: does that mean? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I guess then, like I wouldn't categorize myself as a
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Speaker 2: particularly vulnerable person because when I share things, even things
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Speaker 2: that are deeply personal, I don't feel like it's a
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Speaker 2: big deal, do you know what I mean? I'm just
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Speaker 2: in hope. That's just how I am. So I would
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Speaker 2: feel weirder not telling people things Like even when I
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Speaker 2: was trying to conceive with Ben, I do a podcast
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Speaker 2: ever day, I'm alway talking about what's going on in
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Speaker 2: my life and my marriage, and it was this huge
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Speaker 2: part that I wasn't sharing, and it felt so deceitful.
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Speaker 2: It was so foreign to me because I'm so used
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Speaker 2: to saying, yeah, last night I did X, Y and
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Speaker 2: Z and my color and my underwearest purple, Like I'm
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Speaker 2: such a sharer that actually not sharing is what makes
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Speaker 2: me uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: And why did you not share that? What was there?
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Speaker 2: You know, what's it's like a Jewish superstition, like.
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Speaker 1: H culture culture, it felt private? Yeah, you know, yeah, no, no,
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Speaker 1: I think Indian culture Jewish culture are very similar. It's
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Speaker 1: a lot in common. And yeah, there's definitely there are
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Speaker 1: definitely certain things that you don't share and you don't
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Speaker 1: open up too much about you wait.
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Speaker 2: Till they're real and yeah, taking care of you exactly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, no, I respect that, and I get that.
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Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's healthy for people to,
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Speaker 1: you know, find I just I just want to encourage
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Speaker 1: people to think about, you know, whether they're a public
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Speaker 1: figure or not, who you share what with This is
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Speaker 1: so important and just don't fall into the trap of oh,
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Speaker 1: everyone's being vulnerable, that's what it means to you know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think that's like a byproduct of the
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Speaker 2: Internet is like nobody really keeps anything to themselves anymore.
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Speaker 2: And I think what started out as like a genuinely
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Speaker 2: like good initiative to open up a things is now
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Speaker 2: like we're all sharing, we all know a little too
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Speaker 2: much about each other.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: That's how I feel, let's pull back.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Sometimes I word something like we shouldn't tell us that, Like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I don't think there was a need for.
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Speaker 2: You with myself. Like today on the podcast, I was like,
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Speaker 2: I gotta go. I got a poop, And it's like,
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Speaker 2: why when I say that and just say it again,
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Speaker 2: do you know?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah? Yeah. And also one thing's really interesting to me.
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Speaker 1: I got a friend's birthday last month and he said
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Speaker 1: to me, he was like, Jay, like, I noticed, like
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Speaker 1: you never post what we're doing personally and privately. And
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Speaker 1: I said to him, I said, it's because I'm really lucky.
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Speaker 1: I think my public life's amazing, but my private life's
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Speaker 1: better than my public life. And I imagine a world
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Speaker 1: in which I'm sitting in an old rocking chair talking
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Speaker 1: to my grandkids and talking to family and sharing these
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Speaker 1: stories that no one knows anything about. Yeah, And there's
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Speaker 1: something about that feels really sacred and special to me.
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Speaker 1: And I really want that because I remember years ago
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Speaker 1: sitting with someone and I'm not even family or close
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Speaker 1: with him, but I remember sitting on a beach with him,
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Speaker 1: and he was an older man. I was in my
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Speaker 1: late twenties, he was probably in his sixties, and he
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Speaker 1: just had so many life stories to share. He wasn't famous,
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Speaker 1: he wasn't well known, and he just had all these
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Speaker 1: cool stories that I was like, no one's gonna know these, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but he gets to live them every day. And there
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Speaker 1: was something about that. I was like, I want to
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Speaker 1: have memories that are only mine. Yeah, that was important
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Speaker 1: to me.
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Speaker 2: I think that that's something I learn as I get older.
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Speaker 2: But it also makes it complicated when sharing is your life.
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Speaker 2: And I feel like there used to be a time
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Speaker 2: when I would literally be sharing a piece of content
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Speaker 2: every thirty minutes. I would have a cocktail and post,
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Speaker 2: which is like so dangerous and stupid, but the craziest,
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Speaker 2: Oh my god. I used to be like blackout in
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Speaker 2: a drive through at Waterburger in Texas, like Blackout ordering
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Speaker 2: like a crispy chicken biscuit like whatever, like, and it
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Speaker 2: was just I looked so scary and I'd catch them
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Speaker 2: all over my face, like and I think that's why people,
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Speaker 2: you know, that's why I have a lot of the
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Speaker 2: following that I do. They loved that life. But that's
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Speaker 2: not my life anymore. And it occurred to me, like
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Speaker 2: several years ago that I didn't have to share every
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Speaker 2: thought that I have. One it was getting me in
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Speaker 2: trouble and two like, yeah, some things can just be
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Speaker 2: like thoughts or memories or things that you keep to yourself.
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Speaker 2: And so I do feel like my strategy has shifted.
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Speaker 2: But it's tough when that's also how you make a living.
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Speaker 1: Yeah you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's yeah. So how
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Speaker 1: do you balance that.
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Speaker 2: I'm working on it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard.
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Speaker 2: It is hard. I think that I've gotten much better,
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Speaker 2: and I look at it a lot like this is
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Speaker 2: my job. We're putting out content like for the job,
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Speaker 2: but it doesn't have to be like the most authentic
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Speaker 2: one percent, three hundred and sixty degree view of my life.
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Speaker 2: Like I can have things for myself.
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Speaker 1: That's it's it's good to know you're working on it.
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Speaker 1: That's the point, right, So none of us have figured
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Speaker 1: it out.
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Speaker 2: Too. Like an Instagram story from twenty nineteen, I would die.
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Speaker 1: I would die.
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Speaker 2: Well, I was out of control, Like I just used
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Speaker 2: to say so many things like stop talking, okay, stop
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Speaker 2: like not everything needs to be shared.
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Speaker 1: One thing I want to dive into with you. We've
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Speaker 1: talked about a zembig, We've talked about pregnancy, we've talked
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Speaker 1: about marriage, and of course we can keep talking about those.
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Speaker 1: But I think what often happens with someone like yourself.
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Speaker 1: And I'm projecting because I feel this happens to me sometimes,
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Speaker 1: But I'm projecting this idea that people don't see the
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Speaker 1: hard work from a business perspective, the strategy perspective, the
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Speaker 1: sleepless nights, the growth, Like you've built something incredible and
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Speaker 1: it's shadowed, not in a bad way, but it's overshadowed
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Speaker 1: by this amazing persona that you have and your charisma
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Speaker 1: and your aura and everything else. Right, It's like it's
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Speaker 1: that's what we're watching and that's what we're captivated by,
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Speaker 1: but there's a really thoughtful business person behind it who's
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Speaker 1: and I don't mean that from a oh, you're just
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Speaker 1: figuring out how to build a business, what you mean? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean it from like a you've you've figured out
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Speaker 1: how to turn a tumbler page into you know, yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 1: which which is really amazing and I think so many
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Speaker 1: people today want to do that. So I wanted to
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Speaker 1: kind of go back to the start and ask you, like,
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Speaker 1: what did you want to be before girl with no job?
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Speaker 2: That's a great question. I almost like didn't have time
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Speaker 2: to figure it out. So I started this tumbler in
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Speaker 2: freshman year of college, which is when people figure out
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Speaker 2: what they want to do. It very slowly, but also
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00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 2: quickly became something I was making money off of. So
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Speaker 2: much so by the time I graduated, I was making
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Speaker 2: like sponsored Instagram posts for a fee that would have
1014
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Speaker 2: been my salary if I ended up with like a
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Speaker 2: job in media, and at the time, like content creation
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Speaker 2: was not a job. So when I made the decision,
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Speaker 2: it just made no sense, like to sit at a
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Speaker 2: desk and earn a living that was comparatively small to
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Speaker 2: what I was pulling for my Instagram. But people were
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Speaker 2: just like they couldn't believe it. They're like, it's not
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Speaker 2: gonna last forever, and I'm like, maybe, but maybe what
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Speaker 2: if I just ran with it? And it was really
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Speaker 2: like inconceivable to people that I was not getting a
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Speaker 2: job postgrad and that I would be like on my phone.
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Speaker 2: And I understand why because right after that I was
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Speaker 2: making a really good living, but I was doing nothing,
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Speaker 2: Like I was home all day, and I was watching
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Speaker 2: a lot of TV, and I was like recapping in
1029
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Speaker 2: and writing funny blog posts and I was making money,
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Speaker 2: but I was not doing anything, Like, I had no
1031
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Speaker 2: structure to my day. I did not set an alarm
1032
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Speaker 2: and it was lovely, but it was not fulfilling, and
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Speaker 2: I knew that it wasn't a sustainable way. And that's
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Speaker 2: why when we started the podcast, I loved it so
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Speaker 2: much for a million different reasons. But it gave me structure,
1036
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Speaker 2: It gave me a day like and now even to
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Speaker 2: this day, I very much operate like on Monday to Friday,
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Speaker 2: nine to five. I work forty hours a week, like
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Speaker 2: every other American like, and I think some people run
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Speaker 2: from that sort of convention, but when you didn't have it,
1041
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Speaker 2: it was like kind of horrible. So I craved that
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Speaker 2: sort of structure instability, Like, seriously, if you're looking to
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Speaker 2: answer an email for me after five o'clock, I'm not answering, Like,
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Speaker 2: I have boundaries, and I love that my life kind
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00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 2: of mirrors that conventional work life. But that was a
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00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 2: goal that Jackie and I like set because this line
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Speaker 2: of work, well, yes, it can be very lucrative. It
1048
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Speaker 2: is kind of nuts, and it can be a little unstable.
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Speaker 2: You have a month where you get a ton of
1050
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Speaker 2: work in a month where you don't get So it
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Speaker 2: was fun for a girl who was twenty one, but
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Speaker 2: I knew it wasn't going to be like a sustainable
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00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 2: way to live. But the funny thing is that I
1054
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 2: think there's like a large, you know, misconception that like
1055
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 2: I work an hour a day. People are always saying
1056
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 2: that to me, Like it's like when you say someone
1057
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 2: from SNL works an hour a week, Like, well, no,
1058
00:43:58,239 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 2: you see them an hour a week. You see me
1059
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 2: one hour day on the show. But there's so much
1060
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 2: that goes into running a show of that size. And
1061
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 2: also it's not the only thing that I do. I'm
1062
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,439
Speaker 2: not bothered so much that people think I don't work
1063
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 2: like whatever, you know, Like, sorry, you're dumb, you don't
1064
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,359
Speaker 2: know how the industry works, Like, bitch, I work hard. Okay.
1065
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Speaker 1: Have you ever had a real drug?
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00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 2: Oh my god? Okay, so yes, Like in the sense
1067
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 2: that throughout high school and like summer's in high school,
1068
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 2: I was a camp counselor. I worked at a toy
1069
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 2: store by the when I went to college, All through
1070
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:29,760
Speaker 2: four years of college, I worked a had an internship,
1071
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 2: like a paid five day a week internship at a
1072
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 2: media company. It was an internship, but it was structured
1073
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 2: at like a corporate job. So yes, I did work
1074
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 2: in a corporate office for four years, never like full
1075
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 2: full time because I was part time student And it
1076
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 2: probably would have worked at that media company postgrad if
1077
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 2: I didn't decide to become a full time content creator.
1078
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,799
Speaker 1: So like yes and no, Yeah, what did you learn
1079
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: from the toy store? The intenship that.
1080
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 2: Work toy store was not for fucking me. Like, seriously,
1081
00:44:56,160 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 2: gift wrapping is hell on Earth. I still can't do it,
1082
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:02,359
Speaker 2: And honestly, when anybody asked me to wrap a gift,
1083
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 2: I actually have trauma from that fucking store. Really yeah,
1084
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,320
Speaker 2: it was horrible, like that stupid gift wrapping section, Like
1085
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 2: no matter how many times somebody showed me how to
1086
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 2: do it, like I could not fucking do it.
1087
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: Here, I am trying to make this amazing point that
1088
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: you guys, am, your point, just this idea that maybe
1089
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 1: you picked up all these really cool skills that help
1090
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: you in your career today.
1091
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 2: That actually I will say, like we'll get a toy
1092
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 2: story like having to talk to strangers like who you
1093
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 2: don't know, and like pretend like you know what you're
1094
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 2: talking about. That builds character, That builds actually like a
1095
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 2: great personable vibe in the corporate space. I don't feel
1096
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 2: like I learned much, honestly. I I liked the free
1097
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 2: lunch like it was amazing. It was one of those
1098
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 2: big companies that gives you free lunch, and there were
1099
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 2: snacks everywhere, like free snacks. I was always eating goldfish
1100
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 2: and m and ms, and I liked I don't know.
1101
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 2: Actually my sisters worked at the same company. It was
1102
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 2: this huge company with like different media companies within it,
1103
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 2: so they all work at different companies, so we all
1104
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 2: have lunch together. I have very fond memories of that time.
1105
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 2: And I think it's a good corporate like media especially
1106
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 2: that's like a lot of women. It's it's a good
1107
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 2: environment to learn how to talk to people, learn how
1108
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 2: to deal with like workplace antics and people's personalities. And
1109
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 2: sometimes I do miss like I think there's a lot
1110
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 2: of stability that comes with the corporate job, especially when
1111
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 2: you're thinking about like motherhood. I mean some of these
1112
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 2: bitches over here with there's six months paid maternity leave,
1113
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 2: like that is a joy, and they're a corporate health insurance.
1114
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 2: There are a lot of things about like what people
1115
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 2: consider a boring corporate life that actually is somebody without
1116
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 2: a lot of like without a lot of that I'm
1117
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,399
Speaker 2: very envious of, especially when I'm like entering this phase
1118
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 2: of my life, like me and my husband both have
1119
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 2: our own companies, Like we don't have maternity leave. We
1120
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Speaker 2: leave and the company suffers. Do you know what I mean?
1121
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 2: There's no built in we have our own two person
1122
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:42,399
Speaker 2: health insurance. It's expensive and it sucks, okay, Like people,
1123
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 2: there is a little bit of that privilege from the
1124
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 2: corporate life. And I know people who are in corporate
1125
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 2: would look at someone like me and be like, oh,
1126
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 2: I always wanted to be my own boss and it's great,
1127
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 2: but you know, there's no insurance. Yeah, there is a
1128
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:54,839
Speaker 2: one hundred percent. And I feel like I'm only as
1129
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 2: I get older appreciating the prose of that sort of
1130
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,439
Speaker 2: what people would say more stereotypically boring life.
1131
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that stigma needs to go as well.
1132
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: I think that there was this whole cultural shift towards entrepreneurship.
1133
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 1: Quit your job, build your passion, and it's like, I
1134
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: don't think either is for everyone, and I think we've
1135
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:14,360
Speaker 1: kind of made.
1136
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 2: Like we've put we've put more value on the latter,
1137
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 2: the entrepreneurship. But to be clear, I feel like we
1138
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 2: did people of disservice when we did that, because there
1139
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,839
Speaker 2: is something lovely about a boring job that doesn't keep
1140
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 2: you up all night, that you can set boundaries with
1141
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 2: that pace, that makes that pace your bills and you
1142
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,359
Speaker 2: don't own it. You don't overrun the company if things
1143
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 2: are going south. That's literally not my problem. Like there
1144
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 2: is a piece in that. Yeah, Now you don't have
1145
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 2: as much creative control. Who cares?
1146
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,879
Speaker 1: Yeah. And also just like I think about this very often,
1147
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: like I couldn't do anything without my team. My team
1148
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: are all employed, right, and it's like I couldn't last
1149
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 1: without them.
1150
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 2: So it's not like one of the best parts though
1151
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 2: it's amazing being a business owner. It is like other
1152
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 2: people making their living from you.
1153
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: I love it. It's the best feeling in the World's
1154
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 1: the craziest feeling. Yeah, it's the most fulfilling feeling. And
1155
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: I know I couldn't do anything without them, which is
1156
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 1: why I value I'm like, oh, we going to push
1157
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: entrepreneurship real, right, but it's like what would we do
1158
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,879
Speaker 1: without our amazing team members? Like I know I wouldn't survive.
1159
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,479
Speaker 1: My chief of staff was like unwealth for like a week,
1160
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 1: and I was just like, I was like, I don't
1161
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: know what to do right?
1162
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 2: That toxic like hustle culture entrepreneurshi I'm not a fan of.
1163
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, But was there ever a time you had to
1164
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 1: do it? Was there every time you did have to
1165
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:23,720
Speaker 1: work twenty four seven.
1166
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 2: Before when when things started to really blow up for me?
1167
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,359
Speaker 2: But it wasn't this like standardized economy like it is now,
1168
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 2: Like there's a formula you blow up on Instagram, you
1169
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 2: get an agent, you get a manager, you get a
1170
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 2: rate card, you get a media kit. Like No, that
1171
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 2: was like not the case for me. So when things
1172
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 2: started to work really quickly, I was doing all my
1173
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 2: own deals. I did not have a publicist, I did
1174
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 2: not have a manager, I did not have an agent,
1175
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 2: I didn't have an assistant. It was literally just me
1176
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 2: and it was manageable because it was my full time job.
1177
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 2: But I don't know shit about fuck, Like I'm literally
1178
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 2: seventeen like somebody else. So I was just kind of
1179
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:52,399
Speaker 2: making it up as I went, and I think people
1180
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,720
Speaker 2: really underestimated me because I was advocating on my own behalf.
1181
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 2: I was eighteen. I'm much better now, but I used
1182
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 2: to have like a really thick, long Island accent, and
1183
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 2: I was just like every other word out of my
1184
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 2: mouth is like and totally and it's not necessarily giving you,
1185
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 2: you know, business woman. So I would get underestimated a lot.
1186
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 2: And it was a unique time. Now the girlies and boys,
1187
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 2: but mostly girlies who end up doing what I do
1188
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 2: now it's kind of all set up for them. But
1189
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 2: at the time, it wasn't a thing people like a
1190
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 2: brand would reach out and based on like if it
1191
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 2: was a brand I heard. I'm like, one of the
1192
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 2: first brands I ever worked with was Burger King and
1193
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 2: they're like, how much would you want to And I
1194
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 2: was like a thousand dollars and they were like okay,
1195
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 2: and I was like, bitch, a thousand dollars. I about
1196
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 2: a purse, I was like, and then I forgot like
1197
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 2: I had to pay taxes, but whatever. And that's another thing,
1198
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 2: by the way, when you do this line of work
1199
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 2: and nobody teaches you how to do your taxes, not
1200
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:44,879
Speaker 2: me getting a bill from the government, like in twenty
1201
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 2: eighteen for like one hundred thousand dollars to pay taxes. Yeah,
1202
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 2: and my biggest fear is going to jail. But yeah,
1203
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 2: that's another thing they don't tell you. Nobody teaches you.
1204
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 2: You kind of just have to learn along the way.
1205
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 2: Now I feel like it's pretty set up where if
1206
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 2: you join this line of work, there are certain business
1207
00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,400
Speaker 2: managers and accounts who know how to do this. But
1208
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 2: at the time when I was getting started, it was like, girl,
1209
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 2: you're on your own. Good luck.
1210
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Speaker 1: Have you ever been close to going to jail? No?
1211
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 2: No, if only I was that interesting. Like when I
1212
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 2: was I senior in high school, I went to go
1213
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:15,439
Speaker 2: visit my sister Jackie at college and it was a flight,
1214
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 2: so I packed up my things. I didn't have a
1215
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 2: group in Manhattan, so I didn't have a license at
1216
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:21,839
Speaker 2: the time, which used to make traveling really hard because
1217
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 2: I didn't have any form of identification. I used to
1218
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 2: give them a high school idea. They're like, this is
1219
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 2: not legally admissible, so I'd be like, I don't have
1220
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 2: a license. Sorry, I'm literally seventeen and I don't have
1221
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 2: a driver. I don't have a driver's license, and for
1222
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 2: some reason, they pulled my bag and they were going
1223
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 2: through my wallet and they found my fake ID and
1224
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 2: they were like, I thought you didn't have Now now
1225
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 2: I realized they were like doing this to scare me,
1226
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 2: but at the time, I thought I was really going
1227
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,279
Speaker 2: to jail. They brought a cop out. She wants to
1228
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:45,359
Speaker 2: call my parents. She's swiping my hands. You know when
1229
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 2: you ever get like that, and they're like, you tested
1230
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 2: positive for explosives. I'm like, bitch, what are you talking about.
1231
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 2: I'm literally high school student.
1232
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 1: Wait, how do you test positive?
1233
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean I had gotten a mad
1234
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 2: a cure, so I imagine there was like some chemicals
1235
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 2: on my hands. But it was so they were really
1236
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:00,839
Speaker 2: trying to scare me, and this police officer was like, listen,
1237
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 2: I think you're a good kid. I'm gonna let you go.
1238
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 2: And I ran for my fucking life. I was so afraid,
1239
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 2: but I was never I didn't break the law. I
1240
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 2: didn't say that. This was my idea. It could have
1241
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,399
Speaker 2: been my cousin Sandra, Like. It was the scared, most
1242
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 2: scared I've ever been in my life, and probably the
1243
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 2: closest I've ever gotten to go into jail, which is
1244
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 2: like not that close.
1245
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:19,320
Speaker 1: Still, it was scary.
1246
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 2: It was scary. And let it be a lesson to
1247
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 2: any of the miners listening, like, put your fake ID
1248
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:24,840
Speaker 2: in your check bag.
1249
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 1: Got it, Yeah, put your fake idea in say bag.
1250
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 2: Don't say I never touch anything.
1251
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: What advice would you have, like you were saying, like
1252
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 1: it seems like and I agree with you, there is
1253
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:35,800
Speaker 1: more set up. We kind of yeah, I think our careers.
1254
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:37,879
Speaker 1: Actually we didn't know each other then, but they took
1255
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 1: off her on the same time. I was twenty sixteen
1256
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 1: years oh yeah, I was a little older. I was
1257
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,839
Speaker 1: twenty eight, oh yeah, twenty seven, twenty eight.
1258
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 2: So we had like a pretty good idea of the world.
1259
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,399
Speaker 1: To some degree for sure. I mean I never knew
1260
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 1: a person. I'd never known anyone who worked in entertainment,
1261
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 1: anyone who'd worked in media, anyone who'd done outside anything
1262
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 1: outside of London. So it was a whole new world
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Speaker 1: for me completely. But you're right, there are more systems
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Speaker 1: today than they were then. What advice would you have
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Speaker 1: for people who are at the age you were when
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Speaker 1: you first blew up, like seventeen eighteen years old, because
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Speaker 1: that's happening more and more now, Yeah, you were more
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Speaker 1: of an anomaly.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that's now I'm old in the space. Yeah. I
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Speaker 2: have two A really hardcore piece. Yeah, I mean you're ancient. Sorry.
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Speaker 2: I have two extremely important pieces of advice if you
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Speaker 2: find yourself wanting to get into this line of work,
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Speaker 2: Like I don't care who you are, where you're from,
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Speaker 2: what you've done. Delete all your old social media posts,
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00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 2: like none of it is gonna age. Well, it's gonna
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00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 2: come back to buy you and they ask, and it's
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Speaker 2: gonna ruin your life. Like if I had to go
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Speaker 2: through what I went through, Like everybody found my old
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Speaker 2: tweets and they were like, oh r, she's fucking crazy.
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Speaker 2: Delete your tweets. I ca't believe people are still having
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Speaker 2: their tweets. Girl, Delete your tweets, like stop. That's the
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Speaker 2: first second of all is every dollar you make, put
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Speaker 2: fifty cents in a savings account for your taxes because
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Speaker 2: that's depending on where you live. Like, that's what it is.
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Speaker 2: It's half. And the good thing is sometimes you save
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Speaker 2: too much and then you get a little left over.
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Speaker 2: But just know, if somebody pays you one hundred dollars,
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Speaker 2: you got fifty.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, very pragmatic advice.
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Speaker 2: Well as if her in my life, like when when
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Speaker 2: before I had a business manager, trying to do my
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Speaker 2: own taxes with like an old school accountant who, like
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Speaker 2: I think I got from like a family member. They
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Speaker 2: had no idea what I did for a living, and
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Speaker 2: so I was underpaying, I was under reporting. I was
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Speaker 2: not getting any like ten ninety nine from the brands
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Speaker 2: that I work with. It was such a mess. It
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Speaker 2: was the wild wild West, so much so that years
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Speaker 2: later I got that huge bill and it was like
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Speaker 2: the worst thing to ever happen to me. I almost
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Speaker 2: had to go on a payment plan with the government,
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Speaker 2: Like it was so crazy. And I think that happens
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00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 2: a lot in entertainment, especially just like new wave of
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Speaker 2: social media entertainers. So finding an accountant, a business manager,
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00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 2: or teaching yourself, that's fine. But as long as you're
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Speaker 2: putting away half of what you make for taxes, like
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Speaker 2: you're safe.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Don't you think it's incredible how much you've learned
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Speaker 1: in the last day years.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Sometimes I go back and read my old emails
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Speaker 2: of like me like talking to people, and I'm like, girl,
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Speaker 2: that's the worst email ever. But it's like so cool
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Speaker 2: to see how different I speak now and how i'm
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Speaker 2: I think a lot smarter and able to advocate on
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Speaker 2: my own behalf, and the little girl sending those emails
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Speaker 2: work out like that's who I am.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's big. Did you ever pretend to be owned manager?
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Speaker 2: As the name Rebecca? I was always pretending to be
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Speaker 2: my own assistant, like trying to get dinner reservations, trying
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Speaker 2: to set up calls a cloud is available. I mean,
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Speaker 2: while it's like literally mein and it worked.
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Speaker 1: It worked. They negotiating your behalf sometimes.
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Speaker 2: Well, I actually was always negotiating on my own behalf.
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Speaker 2: And because I always found that, like so many of
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Speaker 2: the girls who worked at media companies worked at agencies,
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Speaker 2: these account managers were followers of mine, were listeners to
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Speaker 2: the toast, and that's always worked on my own behalf. Actually,
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Speaker 2: I think like a huge demographic of my following is
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Speaker 2: media girls, girls who who work at brands, who work
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Speaker 2: at agencies, And so it's always kind of benefited me
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Speaker 2: to lead with me because they're excited to work and
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Speaker 2: they want to make it work. And look, it's charny.
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Speaker 1: On the other line, if someone wants to be the
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Speaker 1: next to you and start the toast, and you know,
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Speaker 1: start their.
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Speaker 2: Virtual don't everybody's set the toast isn't off.
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Speaker 1: What advice would you have for someone who's listening to you,
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Speaker 1: watching you going, I want to build that, I want
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Speaker 1: to create that. Where where should they start work? Should
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Speaker 1: they think about? Well?
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Speaker 2: I would just get started. I think a lot of
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Speaker 2: people are always talking about they're like making strategy plans
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Speaker 2: and outlines for projects. Just get the project up and running.
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Speaker 2: You can record a podcast on your phone. The voice
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00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 2: Memo app actually is very high quality audio. It's good
1346
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Speaker 2: enough for a starting podcast. Then you can start to
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Speaker 2: make money, invest in the sure microphones that everybody has.
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Speaker 2: But before then, like, just get started. People are always
1349
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Speaker 2: like throwing launch parties for things that don't exist yet, like, just.
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Speaker 1: Get to work, do it, yeah, don't don't overthink it.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 2: And it's also like it's a podcast, Okay, it's not
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00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 2: like the nuclear program. It's just just talk.
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Speaker 1: What's the new?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I was trying to sound smart. I didn't think of anything.
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Speaker 1: No, I love it. I couldn't agree with you more
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Speaker 1: as well. I think there's just such a I feel
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Speaker 1: like we're all stifling ourselves by procrastinating.
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Speaker 2: And we're afraid of being judged. Right, we want to
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Speaker 2: put something out that's perfect, but it's like, you don't
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Speaker 2: get far without people making fun of you. Like I'm
1364
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Speaker 2: sure my old posts used to get sent around my
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Speaker 2: high school like, oh my god, look what Quauda is doing. Cringe, cringe, crns. Well,
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Speaker 2: it's not so cringe anymore, like girl, because I'm successful
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Speaker 2: and you're not. But you have that's just part if
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Speaker 2: you if you can't take being mocked, like I wish
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Speaker 2: that weren't the case because people are cruel and it
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Speaker 2: is what it is. And think about how you talk
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Speaker 2: to your friends about people on social media. So someone's
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Speaker 2: going to talk about you like that and you have
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Speaker 2: to be okay with that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, did you lose any friends along the way.
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Speaker 2: No, Actually, I've always been really good. I've never been
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Speaker 2: that girl with like a thousand friends. I've always had
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Speaker 2: like five really good friends and they're the same friends
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Speaker 2: I love. I love that too. There I have like
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Speaker 2: the best friends. But you know, you do notice people
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Speaker 2: treating you differently, like peripherally, and whenever anybody like started
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Speaker 2: being extra nice or whatever. I always accepted it, like, sure,
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Speaker 2: you want to come to your Hampton's house, I'll be there.
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Speaker 2: But you know, you got to keep note of people
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Speaker 2: who only started acting that way at a certain time
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Speaker 2: in your life.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah you have.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there is definitely that switch. And and yeah I'm
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Speaker 1: the same as you have all my same friends from
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Speaker 1: back in the day. I can't I literally fly to
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Speaker 1: London tonight to see everyone looking forward to just yeah,
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Speaker 1: just catching up, kicking it. And it's it's one of
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Speaker 1: those things that I've also fortunate that I had such
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Speaker 1: a good group of friends right before everything took off.
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Speaker 1: You must feel like with Ben too, because it was
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Speaker 1: around the same time.
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Speaker 2: So I was like, yeah, I guess I met Ben
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Speaker 2: freshman year and freshman years also when I started my blog.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it really took off till a year later,
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Speaker 2: but he's been there since the very beginning.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, how much do you think that?
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Speaker 2: That's a good question. But I often like thank the
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Speaker 2: Lord that I don't have to date at all period,
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Speaker 2: because I think dating end this day and age is horrible.
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Speaker 2: But also like with my weird job, like I think
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Speaker 2: it would just I wouldn't even know how to explain
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Speaker 2: it to people, and like I would just feel so
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Speaker 2: like awkward and embarrassed. So I'm like grateful for that.
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Speaker 2: But again, I think having this really stable force in
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Speaker 2: my life in Ben when it came to when it
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00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 2: came to like you know, how I felt about myself,
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Speaker 2: how I felt about my job, Like I think stability
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Speaker 2: is so beneficial when you're trying to build a business
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Speaker 2: and like having someone to come home to and having
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Speaker 2: a very stable personal life. I think it allowed me
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Speaker 2: to be a little nutty in different areas of my life,
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Speaker 2: like my job, because I didn't have to worry that
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Speaker 2: I was going to come home and it would be chaos,
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Speaker 2: Like Ben was always there, just how was your day?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's what it is. You just hit
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Speaker 1: the nail on the head. I think there's certain stages
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Speaker 1: in life where you go if I decide this, it
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Speaker 1: now no longer takes up any space. I felt that
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Speaker 1: way about getting married. I felt that way about deciding
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Speaker 1: which city we were going to live, because when we
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Speaker 1: first moved to the States, we lived in New York
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Speaker 1: for two years, then we moved to la We've been
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Speaker 1: there for six years. When we decided we were living
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Speaker 1: in LA and we got our place. It was like
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Speaker 1: another thing at there was a settled that freed up space.
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Speaker 1: And I think we're currently living at a time where
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Speaker 1: we struggle to make decisions, yes, because we don't want
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Speaker 1: to kind of you know, put our roots down, but
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Speaker 1: actually that creates more chaos in our lives.
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Speaker 2: One thousand percent. And I think we also live in
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00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 2: a culture that values that's sort of like wonderless do
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Speaker 2: I live in my car and I don't care, I
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Speaker 2: don't have a job. Well, I like a little bit structure,
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00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 2: a little bit boring, a little bit settled. I think
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Speaker 2: that's me getting older. But I also think it's just
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Speaker 2: like there's value in also leading a very sort of ordinary.
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Speaker 2: That's one of my sister's favorite quotes. And I forget
1442
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Speaker 2: it's like, you know, being ordinary in your personal life
1443
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Speaker 2: so you can be violent in your creative or artistic life,
1444
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 2: because it's like you can't have a million balls in
1445
00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 2: the air at one time. But so to have a
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Speaker 2: very I don't want to say regular because I feel
1447
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Speaker 2: like that as a negative connotation, but like a very peaceful,
1448
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:07,800
Speaker 2: very settled private life, it really does allow you to
1449
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 2: you know, for me, it's my work for anyone, it
1450
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 2: could be something else, just to like, I don't know,
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Speaker 2: fuck shit up.
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Speaker 1: You know what's the hardest part about working with family
1453
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 1: and what's there?
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Speaker 2: Is it?
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Speaker 1: One? Really?
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00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 2: Yeah? I know, And I'm unique in that. I think
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00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 2: some people have different family issues. I could never I mean,
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00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 2: look at how many female podcasting duos that it's every
1459
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 2: day we're talking about another one breaking up. Me and
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Speaker 2: Jackie will be podcasting to the day that we die,
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Speaker 2: like we are bound by blood. She's the only person
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Speaker 2: I can really talk to honestly. Like, I think a
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00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 2: lot of people think I'm very confrontational because I'm loud
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00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 2: and like a little aggressive, but actually, like if I
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Speaker 2: have a problem with you, I'll just start crying. Like
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Speaker 2: I cannot talk to people except my sister. I could
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Speaker 2: say whatever I want and it just like I don't
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Speaker 2: have a single complaint about working with family.
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Speaker 1: That's amazing. Yeah, I know, I know. I love that
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Speaker 1: me too.
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Speaker 2: To some people, they're like so confused by it. For me,
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Speaker 1: No, I love that. For you. I'm glad. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's it's the best thing when it works.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah, And I know, I'm special and lucky that
1476
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:07,440
Speaker 2: it does work.
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01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 1: How is your relationship had to change? Like, what's it
1478
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: meant to keep that up? Like what have you had
1479
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:16,080
Speaker 1: to do in order to have a sister relationship and
1480
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:19,400
Speaker 1: a business partner relationship because or all your conversations always
1481
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 1: about the podcast.
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01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's so intertwined. But interestingly enough, when
1483
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,800
Speaker 2: Jackie and I were growing up, were four sisters total
1484
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 2: from top to bottom, Like there's six years between us,
1485
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:30,400
Speaker 2: so we're all really tight, and we were all really
1486
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 2: tight growing up. You know, there were different dynamics as
1487
01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 2: we got older, Like in the beginning, it was always
1488
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:36,560
Speaker 2: the two older sisters and the two younger sisters, Me
1489
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 2: and Margot, Like we were just sort of divided by age,
1490
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 2: and Olivia and Jackie would like leave us out, and
1491
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:41,400
Speaker 2: me and Margaret were just like sharing a room, so
1492
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:42,880
Speaker 2: we were like, Okay, whatever, I guess it's just us.
1493
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:45,160
Speaker 2: And then as we got older, my interest started to
1494
01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 2: align a lot more with Olivia's, and then Jackie and
1495
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 2: Margo became like really similar and really close to the
1496
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 2: dynamics of what we shifted. But the dynamics when we
1497
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 2: were kids were never Jackie and I we actually probably
1498
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 2: got along the least. We didn't fight, we didn't hate
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01:00:57,160 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 2: each other, We just were not drawn to one another.
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01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:02,440
Speaker 2: So I would say we were probably the least close
1501
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 2: out of all four. Not that we had issues, but
1502
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 2: we were just not I don't think we understood each other.
1503
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 2: Jackie's very reserved, Jackie's very quiet but not shy quiet. Me,
1504
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:16,280
Speaker 2: I'm spreading my legs for everybody. I'm like, what's up?
1505
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:17,360
Speaker 2: Who you want to talk to you? Let's go here,
1506
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 2: let's go there. So I think that I thought she was, like,
1507
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 2: you know, weird, and she thought I was weird. We
1508
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 2: didn't understand one another, and then when we started to
1509
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:26,880
Speaker 2: work together, our differences ended up, you know, working in
1510
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 2: our favor. It made the conversations on the podcast more dynamic,
1511
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 2: and we just very naturally became so close through work.
1512
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 2: But also we were talking all the time, you know.
1513
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:41,720
Speaker 1: So wait, when you're when you're putting on an episode,
1514
01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:44,960
Speaker 1: how much of it have you talked about before? Zero zero?
1515
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 1: Literally zero zero.
1516
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:47,720
Speaker 2: Every single episode is completely off the cuff.
1517
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 1: Everything about it.
1518
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:50,160
Speaker 2: We have like five topics that we need to hit
1519
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,200
Speaker 2: every day, whatever the news of the day is, but
1520
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:54,120
Speaker 2: everything else is completely off the cuff, like we've never
1521
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:56,440
Speaker 2: once had a converse. And sometimes we used to sit
1522
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:58,360
Speaker 2: on FaceTime for like an hour before we would start
1523
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:00,720
Speaker 2: recording to get set up. We would just end up talking.
1524
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 2: And we actually felt like it was ruining that the show.
1525
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 2: She calls me a ten thirty, we start recording a
1526
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 2: ten thirty one, like we do not because we don't
1527
01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 2: want to waste any of the it's we will never
1528
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:11,560
Speaker 2: recreate a conversation that's so fake, like we just go
1529
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 2: for it.
1530
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 1: That's amazing. So that way, you're really catching up in
1531
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 1: that time too, exactly, you're avoiding talking the night before exactly,
1532
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 1: you're saying what you did.
1533
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 2: She lives in a different state, so we have a
1534
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:22,040
Speaker 2: lot to catch up on.
1535
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 1: How when did she move? And that when did you
1536
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:24,720
Speaker 1: guys she moved?
1537
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:28,120
Speaker 2: I think twenty twenty one. And I was like, okay,
1538
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:29,800
Speaker 2: it's the end of the show, Like, well, we'll do
1539
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:33,040
Speaker 2: remote but who the hell wants listened to remote podcasters?
1540
01:02:33,120 --> 01:02:35,880
Speaker 2: Like it's so covidy and it sucks. And I knew
1541
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:38,000
Speaker 2: that it was the beginning of the end, and I
1542
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:40,320
Speaker 2: was freaking a little bit. And let me tell you,
1543
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,040
Speaker 2: it's the best thing to ever happen to us. One,
1544
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:46,240
Speaker 2: because of COVID, we were forced to really invest in
1545
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:50,120
Speaker 2: the tech, so there's actually no delay, there's no lag.
1546
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't know that we live in
1547
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 2: separate states, so I think a lot of times people
1548
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:56,200
Speaker 2: are shocked to find out that Jackie doesn't live in
1549
01:02:56,200 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 2: New York anymore, which makes me so happy. And Two,
1550
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 2: a little bit of the distance physically has benefited us
1551
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 2: greatly because we're no longer on top of each other
1552
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 2: and we get to, like you say, have these natural
1553
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:10,840
Speaker 2: catch up conversations that we might not be having if
1554
01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 2: she lived down the block for me, which she did
1555
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 2: for many years. So it's actually been the best thing
1556
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:16,920
Speaker 2: to happen to the show. And I thought it was
1557
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:18,400
Speaker 2: going to be like the beginning of the end.
1558
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: What makes you feel like when you've recorded a great episode?
1559
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 2: How do you know, Oh my god, when we just
1560
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:25,160
Speaker 2: a laugh laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, Like sometimes we are
1561
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:27,880
Speaker 2: just so silly that I don't even think we're speaking
1562
01:03:27,880 --> 01:03:29,960
Speaker 2: English anymore. Like it's just that sisterly thing where you
1563
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:32,439
Speaker 2: can really only act so nuts with your sister. Those
1564
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:34,920
Speaker 2: are the best episodes, like true belly laughs.
1565
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that is something you can only do with
1566
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:40,000
Speaker 1: someone you know very exactly, very well exactly, and do
1567
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 1: you guys call it so there afterwards and like, oh
1568
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:42,600
Speaker 1: my god, you are so funny.
1569
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 2: That's a good question. Now, actually it's so routine to us. Yeah,
1570
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:49,560
Speaker 2: that's kind of sad. We should be like listen, that
1571
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 2: was so funny. Now we don't do that, but.
1572
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 1: It kind of protects why that hour is so good. Yes, right,
1573
01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 1: like that's the.
1574
01:03:56,720 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 2: Point and we're not trying so hard, like we're just talking.
1575
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:03,400
Speaker 1: That's it's such a special skill. It's actually such a
1576
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 1: special talent.
1577
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:06,640
Speaker 2: I agree that podcasting is a skill and it's a
1578
01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:08,960
Speaker 2: talent because I think every I mean, the running joke
1579
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:11,080
Speaker 2: is like, you know, everybody has a podcast. Not everybody should,
1580
01:04:11,080 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 2: but there are a lot of failed podcasts, and I
1581
01:04:12,720 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 2: think that a lot of people think like, yeah, I
1582
01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:17,040
Speaker 2: could talk for an hour a week. I actually don't
1583
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 2: think you could. It is an art, especially with a
1584
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:21,680
Speaker 2: co host, especially as an interviewer, when to talk, when
1585
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 2: to listen, when to stop, and so a lot of
1586
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:26,840
Speaker 2: people don't possess that skill. And I appreciate you saying
1587
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 2: that because it's definitely a skill the same way like
1588
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:31,600
Speaker 2: you know, any other job is a skill. Like if
1589
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 2: you're a mathematician, you know you need a certain set
1590
01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:36,840
Speaker 2: of skills, and podcasting definitely requires that too.
1591
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:38,840
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I just like to point it out because
1592
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:41,320
Speaker 1: I think we just it is that I have so
1593
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:43,480
Speaker 1: many friends who just like I remember when when I
1594
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:45,840
Speaker 1: first started creating content, and my friends like, oh, we
1595
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:47,800
Speaker 1: can do that, and then it was like this whole
1596
01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 1: journey where everyone realizes that it's different. And I think
1597
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 1: with you, because it's so natural and because it's so
1598
01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 1: off the cough, it can often be you can kind
1599
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:58,360
Speaker 1: of be like, oh, yeah, well that's whatever, but it's
1600
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:00,360
Speaker 1: like no, no, no, there's there's a real time, there's
1601
01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:03,480
Speaker 1: a skill there. How much have you practiced over the
1602
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: years or was this who you were at school with
1603
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:09,439
Speaker 1: your friends? Like is this just who you've been? Where
1604
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:10,760
Speaker 1: was the training, where were the reps?
1605
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:13,360
Speaker 2: It's this is always who I've been, like very like
1606
01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 2: leading with like, I've always loved attention, I've always loved
1607
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:19,200
Speaker 2: to talk. I've always loved to make people laugh. But
1608
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:22,040
Speaker 2: I do think that I have practiced and rehearsed a
1609
01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:25,360
Speaker 2: little bit in recent years. Just knowing when to listen.
1610
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:28,160
Speaker 2: That's always been my that's the biggest critique people have
1611
01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:29,720
Speaker 2: of me on the show, and they're totally valid in
1612
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:31,919
Speaker 2: that I never let my sister talk. I talk over people.
1613
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 2: I'm sure I've done it to you. I'm so sorry,
1614
01:05:33,480 --> 01:05:36,360
Speaker 2: like and I'm really trying. It's one of my worst
1615
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:39,400
Speaker 2: skills personally and professionally. I do it at a dinner party.
1616
01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 2: It's so annoying and like when other people do and
1617
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:42,400
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my gosh, she didn't shut up, and
1618
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:45,200
Speaker 2: people are like, bitch, that's you. So I am working
1619
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 2: on that. I used to be much worse. So it's
1620
01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:49,800
Speaker 2: a work in progress. But it's important to know, like
1621
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:51,560
Speaker 2: your skills, but it's also important to know what you're
1622
01:05:51,560 --> 01:05:52,760
Speaker 2: not good at. And I know that I'm not good
1623
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:58,160
Speaker 2: at knowing when it's my time to listen, Like.
1624
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:01,520
Speaker 1: Right now, have you ever measured how fast you talk?
1625
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 3: No?
1626
01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:04,560
Speaker 2: But I know it's insane. And if you see that insane.
1627
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 2: I used to talk so.
1628
01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 1: Much that it's funny because me and you, I'm at
1629
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 1: the opposite end, like I usually talk so slowly.
1630
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 2: Are you're very measured?
1631
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 1: Yeah? I knownice. It's so funny because when we're together,
1632
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:15,280
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I'm speeding up slightly just to yeah,
1633
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:15,720
Speaker 1: I need you.
1634
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:18,040
Speaker 2: To listen to episodes of The Toast from like twenty nineteen.
1635
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:20,160
Speaker 2: I used to swallow full paragraphs like I don't even
1636
01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 2: know what I was saying. You think it's fast now
1637
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:25,120
Speaker 2: to me, this is me being so much better.
1638
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:25,840
Speaker 1: It's amazing.
1639
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 2: It used to be really bad.
1640
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:31,200
Speaker 1: It's amazing. Have you you talked about their like wanting attention,
1641
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:34,720
Speaker 1: and I think anyone is doing something publicly naturally there
1642
01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 1: is a part of them that enjoys the attention, enjoys.
1643
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:39,760
Speaker 1: I always say, like, I love when people come up
1644
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:41,720
Speaker 1: to me on the street and say hello. I tell
1645
01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:43,560
Speaker 1: people in the podcast to say, hey, if you see me,
1646
01:06:43,560 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 1: come and say hello, I want to say hello to you.
1647
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:48,440
Speaker 1: I really appreciate the feedback and the energy I get.
1648
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:51,840
Speaker 1: I had a I was walking a few years ago,
1649
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:53,800
Speaker 1: now quite a while ago with one of my clients
1650
01:06:53,840 --> 01:06:56,520
Speaker 1: who's a well known actor. He gets recognized a hundred
1651
01:06:56,560 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 1: times for every one time I get recognized, so super
1652
01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:03,000
Speaker 1: well known and successful, and like he'd get stopped. I'd
1653
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 1: get stopped once, He'd get stopped multiple times. I'd get
1654
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 1: stopped once, And I asked him, like, how does that
1655
01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:10,040
Speaker 1: feel and he said, you know what, he goes, Jay,
1656
01:07:10,040 --> 01:07:11,760
Speaker 1: You're really lucky and I was like why and he said,
1657
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:14,640
Speaker 1: you're lucky because people stop me for who I pretend
1658
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:16,560
Speaker 1: to be, and people stop you for who you are.
1659
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:19,200
Speaker 1: And I was like wow, Like that really stayed. It
1660
01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: really stayed with me. Is one of those It was no,
1661
01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:25,880
Speaker 1: I can't but it was not enough fun. But that's
1662
01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:26,680
Speaker 1: my private part.
1663
01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:28,640
Speaker 2: You'll tell me afterpated.
1664
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:31,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that was one of my favorite moments. It
1665
01:07:31,280 --> 01:07:32,920
Speaker 1: stayed with me ever since that. I'm like, wait a
1666
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:35,040
Speaker 1: minute and saying with you like people when they're coming
1667
01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:36,440
Speaker 1: up to you and saying the toast is amazing, or
1668
01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:38,439
Speaker 1: when I keep hearing Jay, we heard you on the toast.
1669
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:40,160
Speaker 1: It was so fun. You know, when I get that
1670
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:42,960
Speaker 1: feedback from people, I'm thinking, oh, wow, like you're doing that.
1671
01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:47,560
Speaker 1: How have you been careful about your relationship with attention
1672
01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 1: so that it doesn't get unhealthy? How have you thought
1673
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 1: about that?
1674
01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:52,760
Speaker 2: You know what's so funny. The more attention you get,
1675
01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:56,200
Speaker 2: the less you want it. And so I think as
1676
01:07:56,240 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 2: somebody who was an attention whrror seeing I was an
1677
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:01,200
Speaker 2: attention segin whore growing up my whole life to end
1678
01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:02,400
Speaker 2: up in a line of work where you get a
1679
01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 2: lot of it. It's fulfilling for a second, and then
1680
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:07,720
Speaker 2: it's like enough, and I actually feel like I am
1681
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:09,960
Speaker 2: an attention or I'm actually really not so much anymore.
1682
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:12,360
Speaker 2: I like I got the attention that I wanted and
1683
01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:15,520
Speaker 2: it felt good, but it didn't solve all my problems
1684
01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:18,120
Speaker 2: like I thought it was going to. So not that
1685
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:21,800
Speaker 2: anybody who's, you know, is an attention seeker should get
1686
01:08:21,800 --> 01:08:23,400
Speaker 2: the attention because then it'll it's kind of a problem
1687
01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:27,040
Speaker 2: that fixes itself. But I'm really not. I think when
1688
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:28,560
Speaker 2: people meet me, like on the street, sometimes they're a
1689
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:31,880
Speaker 2: little uh taken aback. How Actually I'm not like a
1690
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:34,439
Speaker 2: dancing monkey, like I'm not so crazy all the time,
1691
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:38,519
Speaker 2: like making jokes something like I actually and definitely as
1692
01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:40,479
Speaker 2: I've gotten older, like a little bit more pulled back.
1693
01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:42,360
Speaker 2: You know, I'm still a little nuts more than the
1694
01:08:42,360 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 2: average person. But not, I think as much as people
1695
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:45,000
Speaker 2: would expect.
1696
01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:47,680
Speaker 1: What part of your confidence are you still working on?
1697
01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:52,320
Speaker 2: I'm really not, honestly, Like I feel very confident in
1698
01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:53,840
Speaker 2: all aspects of my life. Like I know that I'm
1699
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 2: great at my job. I know I'm a great wife,
1700
01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:58,720
Speaker 2: I know I'm literally gorgeous, Like, I don't feel like
1701
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:00,519
Speaker 2: I'm lacking confidence in any area honestly.
1702
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:01,439
Speaker 1: Wow.
1703
01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 2: I have a lot of other problems though, but not that, like,
1704
01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 2: oh girl, what I again? Okay, what what I say?
1705
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:14,360
Speaker 2: Is my biggest problem? I actually would say my biggest
1706
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:16,960
Speaker 2: problem is sometimes my humor can be mean, and I
1707
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:18,880
Speaker 2: think that's like the worst type of humor. And I'm
1708
01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:21,160
Speaker 2: actually really working on it. Like when you poke fun
1709
01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:22,680
Speaker 2: at someone, sometimes I feel like I really take it
1710
01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:24,160
Speaker 2: too far, Like it's okay to like think something and
1711
01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:27,479
Speaker 2: not say it, because I've noticed that a lot that
1712
01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 2: I sometimes border on mean, and I don't like being mean.
1713
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 2: That's not funny to me. I think some people feel
1714
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:35,000
Speaker 2: like they have to be mean in order to be funny,
1715
01:09:35,160 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 2: and that's not true. I can be funny without being mean.
1716
01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:39,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's something you're working on, yes, Like, sometimes.
1717
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:42,400
Speaker 2: I'll say something, I'll be like, damn, that was rough,
1718
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:44,320
Speaker 2: you know, like, and so I'm aware of it and
1719
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:49,200
Speaker 2: I'm really trying to stop. Yeah, if I will, at
1720
01:09:49,280 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 2: least I'm aware of it.
1721
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 1: You love the percent evil it's fun yeah, yeah, yeah,
1722
01:09:55,439 --> 01:09:58,080
Speaker 1: it's uh no that that's so beautiful to hear, I
1723
01:09:58,120 --> 01:09:59,639
Speaker 1: mean to hear you say, hey, you know what I'm
1724
01:09:59,680 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 1: like too, really confident. I love hearing that. I love
1725
01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:03,000
Speaker 1: it when someone says that because.
1726
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 2: It's a journey.
1727
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:06,920
Speaker 1: Yeah no, but I mean you've not that you've arrived,
1728
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:09,960
Speaker 1: because there is no arrival, but the idea that you
1729
01:10:10,160 --> 01:10:10,880
Speaker 1: feel that way.
1730
01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:12,519
Speaker 2: I mean that doesn't mean that like I don't see
1731
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 2: a picture of myself and like literally want to die.
1732
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:17,160
Speaker 2: But I don't try not to place too much value
1733
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:18,840
Speaker 2: on that because there are other parts of me that
1734
01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:22,320
Speaker 2: are worthy, probably more worthy than how I look. Yeah,
1735
01:10:22,320 --> 01:10:24,680
Speaker 2: but I am a shallow person. I do place a
1736
01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:27,639
Speaker 2: lot of emphasis and value on my physical appearance.
1737
01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:29,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, is that something you've ever tried to change your
1738
01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:31,200
Speaker 1: shift or you've just accepted it.
1739
01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:33,760
Speaker 2: It's actually like a new thing. I think since losing weight,
1740
01:10:33,800 --> 01:10:36,040
Speaker 2: I've kind of become obsessed with it. And that's like
1741
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:38,479
Speaker 2: one thing that I've gained during my weight loss journey
1742
01:10:38,479 --> 01:10:41,000
Speaker 2: that I don't like, the obsession with how I look,
1743
01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:42,960
Speaker 2: because before, like I knew and it looked great, so
1744
01:10:43,080 --> 01:10:45,439
Speaker 2: like whatever, you know, I worked on other things. But
1745
01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:46,840
Speaker 2: then I started to really like the way that I
1746
01:10:46,920 --> 01:10:49,000
Speaker 2: looked on the ozembic journey, and I kind of became
1747
01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:51,479
Speaker 2: obsessed with it. Like I used to weigh myself and
1748
01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:53,360
Speaker 2: be like, oh, I mean it's not great, but whatever.
1749
01:10:53,840 --> 01:10:56,240
Speaker 2: Then I would lose weight. And when I would weigh
1750
01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:58,160
Speaker 2: myself and it wasn't exactly what I wanted, I would
1751
01:10:58,160 --> 01:10:59,680
Speaker 2: be so hard on myself and I used to not
1752
01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 2: care about that. So that's actually something I'm working on,
1753
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 2: but with a pregnancy, like it's a problem for later may.
1754
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:06,400
Speaker 1: Yeah. Of course I can't thix everything a lot once.
1755
01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:08,600
Speaker 2: I'm not shating, no, no, no.
1756
01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:11,000
Speaker 1: Trust me, I can't either that. No, But it's interesting
1757
01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:13,960
Speaker 1: how sometimes the things we work on more become our
1758
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:14,759
Speaker 1: greatest stresses.
1759
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:17,120
Speaker 2: Yes, that's definitely how I feel with my weight.
1760
01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's one of those things that it's But
1761
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:21,880
Speaker 1: the great thing is you're aware, and I think that's
1762
01:11:21,880 --> 01:11:23,760
Speaker 1: what I always think about. I remember when Kevin Hart
1763
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:26,160
Speaker 1: came on the podcast, he was talking about how in
1764
01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:28,720
Speaker 1: a very different context, but he was talking about how
1765
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:31,879
Speaker 1: like some of the mistakes he made and not comparing
1766
01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:33,000
Speaker 1: at all, but he was talking about some of the
1767
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:35,360
Speaker 1: mistakes he made, and they came from a place of
1768
01:11:35,439 --> 01:11:37,840
Speaker 1: him feeling like this was never going to go away.
1769
01:11:38,439 --> 01:11:40,920
Speaker 1: And then he was like, now I need to deal
1770
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:42,640
Speaker 1: with the fact that one day I may not be
1771
01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:45,160
Speaker 1: as famous or successful as whatever. And it was just
1772
01:11:45,200 --> 01:11:47,200
Speaker 1: really interesting him saying that when I still think he's
1773
01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:49,040
Speaker 1: crushing it and killing it and he's like, you.
1774
01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 2: Know, and how we perceive people versus how they perceive
1775
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:52,480
Speaker 2: themselves are so interesting.
1776
01:11:52,240 --> 01:11:54,479
Speaker 1: Correct, Yeah, And that's what I find is always fascinating,
1777
01:11:54,479 --> 01:11:58,160
Speaker 1: because you think someone's peaking, yeah, and in their head
1778
01:11:58,160 --> 01:11:59,640
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, I'm insignificant right now.
1779
01:11:59,760 --> 01:12:02,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, But it does not that you want people to
1780
01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:05,400
Speaker 2: feel poorly about themselves, but seeing someone whom you perceive
1781
01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:07,360
Speaker 2: to be on top of the world talk about how
1782
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:09,679
Speaker 2: they perceive themselves and it's not necessarily like the best.
1783
01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:13,760
Speaker 2: There is like solace in that. Like even people who
1784
01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:16,200
Speaker 2: are killing it and rich and famous, like even they
1785
01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 2: hate themselves, So who cares if I do? Yeah, you know, I.
1786
01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:22,439
Speaker 1: Wanted to end with talking about you know, you talked
1787
01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 1: a lot about last year losing your dog, which I
1788
01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 1: think no one prepares you for. Yeah. I had so
1789
01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:31,400
Speaker 1: many friends who sadly went through the same thing in
1790
01:12:31,439 --> 01:12:32,880
Speaker 1: the last twelve months. I don't know what it was
1791
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:35,559
Speaker 1: about the last twelve months and maybe it's sadly always
1792
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:37,360
Speaker 1: the case, but at least in my life, I had
1793
01:12:37,360 --> 01:12:40,719
Speaker 1: so many people telling me that I had my business manager,
1794
01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:43,240
Speaker 1: a really close friend, like just so many people in life.
1795
01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:45,280
Speaker 1: We had Taylor Hill who came on the podcast and
1796
01:12:45,360 --> 01:12:47,560
Speaker 1: talked about the loss of her dog Tait and just
1797
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:51,479
Speaker 1: how hard that was for her. What has been your
1798
01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:53,719
Speaker 1: greatest lesson for grief in that journey?
1799
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:55,720
Speaker 2: So funny because you know, I lost my dad when
1800
01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:57,600
Speaker 2: I was in the eighth grade or excuse me, the
1801
01:12:57,680 --> 01:12:59,439
Speaker 2: ninth grade, like literally the first month of high school,
1802
01:12:59,479 --> 01:13:03,280
Speaker 2: worst time ever, and it was extremely hard, and I
1803
01:13:03,439 --> 01:13:06,400
Speaker 2: actually feel like being younger, I was able to bounce
1804
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:08,479
Speaker 2: back a little bit more. I remember going through that,
1805
01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:11,560
Speaker 2: and really I had just transferred schools and then my
1806
01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:12,920
Speaker 2: dad passed, and I really didn't want to be known
1807
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:14,640
Speaker 2: as like the girl with the dead dad. So I
1808
01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:17,080
Speaker 2: remember making an active effort to get back to my life,
1809
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:18,880
Speaker 2: and I leaned so heavily into my sisters. And that's
1810
01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:20,920
Speaker 2: really why my sisters and I are so close, and
1811
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:24,360
Speaker 2: my friends and extra school and I really and that's
1812
01:13:24,439 --> 01:13:27,400
Speaker 2: just being a kid, right, You're more susceptible, you're more adaptable,
1813
01:13:27,479 --> 01:13:29,760
Speaker 2: like you just bounce back. And I've found like when
1814
01:13:29,920 --> 01:13:31,880
Speaker 2: you know friends of mine now are losing parents, like
1815
01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:34,280
Speaker 2: it's so much harder. Like you're an adult, you understand
1816
01:13:34,280 --> 01:13:36,040
Speaker 2: the importance of life, You have kids of your own,
1817
01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:38,840
Speaker 2: and so not that it's the same at all, but
1818
01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 2: like losing my dog at twenty nine was like the
1819
01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:45,640
Speaker 2: first experience with grief as an adult, and let me
1820
01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:47,920
Speaker 2: tell you, it is so much harder. And this was,
1821
01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:50,320
Speaker 2: you know, a dog, not a human being. The difference
1822
01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:54,000
Speaker 2: was and I've long wondered my dad passed away overnight,
1823
01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:55,519
Speaker 2: like he was not sick. He had a heart attack
1824
01:13:55,560 --> 01:13:57,160
Speaker 2: and he died before he even got to the hospital,
1825
01:13:57,200 --> 01:14:00,599
Speaker 2: like completely kind of freak accident. And always talk about
1826
01:14:00,640 --> 01:14:02,120
Speaker 2: like is it better, you know, for someone to die
1827
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:04,599
Speaker 2: like that, or to get a chance to say goodbye
1828
01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:06,080
Speaker 2: to somebody who has like a terminal illness, But we
1829
01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 2: have to watch them suffer for months, And I feel
1830
01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:11,000
Speaker 2: like there's no right answer. Just everybody thinks their own
1831
01:14:11,240 --> 01:14:12,760
Speaker 2: and I never really knew what the answer was. But
1832
01:14:12,840 --> 01:14:16,320
Speaker 2: with THEO, he had terminal cancer and we ended up
1833
01:14:16,320 --> 01:14:18,519
Speaker 2: putting him down, but so we lived with the cancer,
1834
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:19,840
Speaker 2: I want to say, for like two or three weeks,
1835
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:22,400
Speaker 2: like really not a long time. It was the worst
1836
01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:24,639
Speaker 2: time of my life, Like it was worse than when
1837
01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:27,120
Speaker 2: he actually had died. Like seeing something you someone you
1838
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:30,519
Speaker 2: love so much being such pain, it's not worth being
1839
01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:34,000
Speaker 2: able to say goodbye, honestly. So oddly that experience brought
1840
01:14:34,040 --> 01:14:36,280
Speaker 2: me peace with my dad, Like I like, yeah, I
1841
01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:38,479
Speaker 2: didn't get to say goodbye, but like I didn't have
1842
01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:41,040
Speaker 2: to watch him suffer, Like that's it's definitely worse. And
1843
01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:45,400
Speaker 2: so the older I get, the actually the harder grief is.
1844
01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:47,680
Speaker 2: You know, Like I remember getting married and being like
1845
01:14:47,760 --> 01:14:49,679
Speaker 2: so angry that my dad wasn't going to be there
1846
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:53,719
Speaker 2: and feeling like this was so unfair. But I hadn't
1847
01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 2: really felt that anger up until that point. Like the
1848
01:14:56,920 --> 01:14:59,719
Speaker 2: older you get, the more important life moments, marriage, kids,
1849
01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:02,080
Speaker 2: you realize like how much you need a parent, And
1850
01:15:02,160 --> 01:15:04,240
Speaker 2: so as a kid, like, yeah, okay, he's not in
1851
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:06,160
Speaker 2: my soccer game, but like you just are. You're more
1852
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,280
Speaker 2: resilient as a kid, you really are. And so going
1853
01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:11,000
Speaker 2: through grief as an adult is forty five times harder.
1854
01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:12,840
Speaker 2: And that was just with my dog, you know, whom
1855
01:15:12,880 --> 01:15:14,320
Speaker 2: I loved more than anything. But a dog is not
1856
01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:18,760
Speaker 2: a person. And it was the most challenging thing. I
1857
01:15:18,760 --> 01:15:21,200
Speaker 2: actually don't even remember it. I blacked out that part
1858
01:15:21,240 --> 01:15:23,360
Speaker 2: of my life. It's coming up on a year actually,
1859
01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:26,160
Speaker 2: like this week. It was the hardest thing I've ever
1860
01:15:26,200 --> 01:15:28,080
Speaker 2: been through in my life. Like seriously, I like, I
1861
01:15:28,560 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 2: can't believe. I don't even think about that time because
1862
01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:33,000
Speaker 2: it was so it was traumatizing.
1863
01:15:33,800 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 1: That's so profound though the connection between the two.
1864
01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:38,280
Speaker 2: I know, well it was. They were so polar opposite.
1865
01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:40,439
Speaker 2: It's like what I've I think I actually would have
1866
01:15:40,520 --> 01:15:43,120
Speaker 2: preferred just like to take THEO to the doctor and
1867
01:15:44,120 --> 01:15:48,760
Speaker 2: have him die, like the three weeks of diapers of
1868
01:15:48,880 --> 01:15:52,479
Speaker 2: medic Oh my god. It was horrible, and I felt
1869
01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:54,880
Speaker 2: like I was doing the wrong thing because you know,
1870
01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:56,920
Speaker 2: it's cruel to keep a dog like that alive for
1871
01:15:57,040 --> 01:15:59,800
Speaker 2: your own they're so clearly in pain, it's the right
1872
01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:01,160
Speaker 2: thing to do to put them down, and if you're
1873
01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:03,080
Speaker 2: selfishly keeping them, And I said, I'm not going to
1874
01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:04,960
Speaker 2: do that. And so when we woke up one morning
1875
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:06,920
Speaker 2: it was so clear that he was suffering, we were like, listen,
1876
01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:08,880
Speaker 2: this is cruel. We're keeping him alive for us, Like
1877
01:16:09,400 --> 01:16:12,280
Speaker 2: we knew we had to do that, and with my dad,
1878
01:16:12,360 --> 01:16:14,040
Speaker 2: like I had always felt like, oh my god, I
1879
01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:15,840
Speaker 2: never got to say goodbye. It was, you know, high
1880
01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:20,000
Speaker 2: one day by the next. But what THEO, the passing
1881
01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:22,960
Speaker 2: of THEO really taught me is like, honestly, it's better
1882
01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:23,840
Speaker 2: it is.
1883
01:16:24,680 --> 01:16:27,760
Speaker 1: I think, what did girl with the dead dad like
1884
01:16:27,880 --> 01:16:29,280
Speaker 1: mean to you? Like? What did that kind of like
1885
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:31,200
Speaker 1: what did that symbolize for you that you didn't want
1886
01:16:31,240 --> 01:16:31,800
Speaker 1: to be? You know?
1887
01:16:31,880 --> 01:16:33,599
Speaker 2: I just remember in middle school there was a girl
1888
01:16:34,160 --> 01:16:37,639
Speaker 2: whose dad had died and her she was in my grade,
1889
01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:39,400
Speaker 2: and then her brother was in my sister's grade, and
1890
01:16:39,479 --> 01:16:41,120
Speaker 2: it was just kind of like the thing people said,
1891
01:16:41,240 --> 01:16:44,280
Speaker 2: do you know what I mean? No, not pointing, but
1892
01:16:44,439 --> 01:16:46,840
Speaker 2: like if you overheard like another parent talking, oh didn't
1893
01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:49,240
Speaker 2: did you hear? It was just kind of what you know,
1894
01:16:49,320 --> 01:16:51,519
Speaker 2: they were led with. And I didn't want that. I
1895
01:16:51,640 --> 01:16:53,559
Speaker 2: wanted to be a girl who was funny, a girl
1896
01:16:53,600 --> 01:16:55,439
Speaker 2: who was good at soccer, a girl who was beautiful,
1897
01:16:55,520 --> 01:16:57,880
Speaker 2: like literally anything. I did not want to have that
1898
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Speaker 2: to be the thing like, oh did you hear about
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Speaker 2: that Austray girl her father died? Like I didn't want
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Speaker 2: that to be the first thing people said about me.
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Speaker 2: So I remember making a conscious effort to just like
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Speaker 2: bounce back, and it did work for for in a
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Speaker 2: period of time.
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine how challenging it is to you know,
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Speaker 1: be going be giving birth, having lost and then let.
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Speaker 2: Me tell you, it sucks. Like and I see Ben
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Speaker 2: who has both parents, I'm so happy for him, but
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Speaker 2: I'm jealous naturally. Yeah, I don't think that's bad.
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Speaker 1: No, no, of course not.
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Speaker 2: And they're the best Ben's parents, Like his dad is
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Speaker 2: like always inviting me on Father's Day, but you know,
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Speaker 2: a parent as.
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Speaker 1: A parent, Yeah, for sure. Thank you for sharing, thank you,
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Speaker 1: thank you for being open. And it's I'm hoping that, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm hoping that people who have been through similar things
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Speaker 1: or you know, I know plenty of people in my
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Speaker 1: life who lost a parent early. And it's it's something
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Speaker 1: that's not talked about enough online, Like you don't you
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Speaker 1: don't really hear about it. Yeah, it's kind of like
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Speaker 1: something you talk about in therapy and nowhere else.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just like hard to talk about. Nobody wants
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Speaker 2: to be crying all the time. And I think that
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Speaker 2: no matter what stage of your grief that you're at,
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Speaker 2: like you can't talk about it without crying. That doesn't
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Speaker 2: mean that you're not healed. It's just sad, like it's
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Speaker 2: and I don't want to be sad, Like that's my
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Speaker 2: whole thing. Like I love being happy. I love making
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Speaker 2: people laugh. I love laughing, Like if I'm laughing, I'm
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Speaker 2: so happy. So I hate like sit around. And that's why,
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Speaker 2: Like I know when I talk about this on the podcast,
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Speaker 2: people don't like it. But I don't do therapy, not
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Speaker 2: for any reason. I'm not like against it. I know
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Speaker 2: it's really powerful for a lot of people. But I've
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Speaker 2: never really had a hard time communicating. And I'm very
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Speaker 2: blessed that, Like I have a lot of people in
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Speaker 2: my life who I feel completely open and comfortable opening
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Speaker 2: up to, and I know that's a privilege that not
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Speaker 2: a lot of people have. But I also like, I
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Speaker 2: don't know, I just don't want to spend my life
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Speaker 2: being sad, Like the world is sad enough, Like I
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Speaker 2: wake up every day with the goal of like making
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Speaker 2: people laugh, like I like to be joyous and spread joy.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know, sitting in the therapists office for
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Speaker 2: an hour a week like crying like oh my god,
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Speaker 2: like seriously, I can't.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, And I think that everyone has their
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Speaker 1: different coping mechanisms, like you said, and for some people
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Speaker 1: that is the only place they have to say space
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Speaker 1: and a space where they don't feel judged, in a
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Speaker 1: space where they don't feel, you know, look down a
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Speaker 1: certain way because their family friends may be that way.
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Speaker 1: And it's beautiful that you don't have that. I was
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Speaker 1: gonna ask you, what's been your Have you thought a
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Speaker 1: lot about like your energy, baby's energy, Like what like
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Speaker 1: walk me through that.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I have a lot because you know, people tell
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Speaker 2: me that I'm kind of like a baby whisper because
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Speaker 2: I love to sing and I love to dance and
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Speaker 2: I love to like I'm obsessed with babies and that's
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Speaker 2: what babies love, and that's what babies need, like their
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Speaker 2: first couple of months, always looking for somebody to sing
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Speaker 2: and dance to them. And so that's the type of
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Speaker 2: mom I want to be, like super joyous, super like
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Speaker 2: always singing. I don't know if you follow jesse j
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Speaker 2: the singer on Instagram. Okay, so she had a baby
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Speaker 2: and like she's always singing to her baby on Instagram.
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Speaker 2: Now I know she has like one of the best
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Speaker 2: voices in the world. And I don't. But like, I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna be Jesse j Like I'm gonna be singing to
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Speaker 2: my baby, and my baby's gonna think I have the
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Speaker 2: most amazing voice because my baby's gonna be my number
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Speaker 2: one fan.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be so funny if they don't, Oh my.
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Speaker 2: God, stopp so upset, like every time I saying the
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Speaker 2: baby cries.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well they love it till they're like four.
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Speaker 2: Oh of course, no, I'm talking about here.
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Speaker 1: One yeah, yeah, one, you know, one one fan for
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Speaker 1: one year is good enough. I love that. I love that.
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Speaker 1: And have you thought about whether you're going to be
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Speaker 1: sharing baby journey online?
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Speaker 2: And I have thought about it. I definitely want to
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Speaker 2: share my journey. I'm pretty against, you know, putting your
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Speaker 2: kids on social media. I don't judge other people who do,
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Speaker 2: but I'm not going to. And I feel like I
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Speaker 2: see a trend of people sharing less and actually pulling
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Speaker 2: their kids off social media because the dangers of it
1988
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Speaker 2: are like so obvious.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that's something. I mean, rather they talk
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Speaker 1: about lot like it's it.
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Speaker 2: I would love to.
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Speaker 1: It's one of our discussion.
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Speaker 2: But the internet wasn't such a disgusting place. I would
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Speaker 2: love to like have fun, but no, we can't have
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Speaker 2: nice things. People are disgusting and absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's challenging, it's it's such a Yeah, that's that's
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Speaker 1: the hard part, right, that's the hard part. That it's
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Speaker 1: like in the same way as you wouldn't just put
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Speaker 1: your kid up somewhere physically in that way that they're
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Speaker 1: exposed to anyone and everyone.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it just actually passed that law in California
2002
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:01,760
Speaker 2: about like family channels, and Damilvado was a big part
2003
01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:04,160
Speaker 2: of it of like just child's actors, but also child
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Speaker 2: like family channels, like basically explaining your kids on social
2005
01:21:07,000 --> 01:21:10,120
Speaker 2: media for money. They're all still actively happening, but I
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01:21:10,160 --> 01:21:11,559
Speaker 2: feel like in ten fifteen years, like we are going
2007
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:13,320
Speaker 2: to be hearing like the most craziest stories about kids
2008
01:21:13,320 --> 01:21:15,200
Speaker 2: who were forced to be on like YouTube family channels.
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Speaker 2: It's disgraceful, but it's also slippery slope. Like you know,
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Speaker 2: like you start posting your kids and that's the most
2011
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Speaker 2: engaging content, so you post more and more and more,
2012
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Speaker 2: and then you rely on it to pay your bills.
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Speaker 2: So you're yelling at your kids to smile for the thumbnail.
2014
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Speaker 2: And I never want I never want to be that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's great that you guys have sat because.
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Speaker 2: The actually haven't even talked to Bean about it. But
2017
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Speaker 2: I don't care what he says, Like I love them.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll agree with me. Yeah, but we haven't
2019
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Speaker 2: had like a full conversation about it.
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Speaker 1: Okay, good to know. Good tonight he'll be hearing.
2021
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Speaker 2: About this on the Jay Shatty podcast.
2022
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Speaker 1: Is this usually how it goes? No?
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Speaker 2: Actually, certain things I feel really strongly about and I
2024
01:21:46,720 --> 01:21:48,720
Speaker 2: say Ben, like, this is what we're doing. Certain things
2025
01:21:48,760 --> 01:21:51,280
Speaker 2: he feels super strongly about. I'm like, Okay, sometimes we
2026
01:21:51,320 --> 01:21:52,919
Speaker 2: both don't know how to feel. And there are people
2027
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Speaker 2: in our life whose opinions we like respect, and we'll
2028
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Speaker 2: call them and ask and get their opinions. That will
2029
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Speaker 2: come to a decision together. It just depends on what
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Speaker 2: the topic is, you know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that makes a lessonse. Yeah, if you
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01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:04,639
Speaker 1: feel strongly enough, it's a rule.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, and if you don't need to know, like
2034
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Speaker 2: as a half of a part, like a half of
2035
01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:10,840
Speaker 2: a marriage, like if there are certain things you don't
2036
01:22:10,880 --> 01:22:12,560
Speaker 2: have like strong feelings about what your partner does, like,
2037
01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:14,560
Speaker 2: so let them have that one and then when you
2038
01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:16,479
Speaker 2: have strong feelings about something and they don't, they will
2039
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Speaker 2: let you have it. Like that's the whole you know,
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Speaker 2: stick with compromise, but also knowing when you don't know,
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Speaker 2: like some all of this is new to me, motherhood, pregnancy,
2042
01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:28,400
Speaker 2: and so knowing that I have no experience and talking
2043
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Speaker 2: to people who do and if I trust them and
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Speaker 2: I think that like their values aligned with mind taking
2045
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Speaker 2: their advice, but like it's important to know, like when
2046
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Speaker 2: you don't know enough.
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Speaker 1: Claudia, you you're one of the most fascinating people I
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Speaker 1: ever met. You are hilarious, yes, profound today at times.
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01:22:48,320 --> 01:22:50,479
Speaker 2: I really don't want to cry. It is what it is.
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Speaker 1: No, I appreciate you being so honest and vulnerable with
2051
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Speaker 1: us and showing that soft side. Yeah, you know, I
2052
01:22:56,360 --> 01:22:57,320
Speaker 1: like for people to be able.
2053
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Speaker 2: To see you keep it turning in a box like
2054
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Speaker 2: she is going to surprise you.
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Speaker 1: I love it. Well, Clodia, it's been such a joy
2056
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Speaker 1: talking to you. We end every episode with a final
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Speaker 1: five Okay, these have to be answered in one word
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Speaker 1: to one sentence game, not a Clodia sentence.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I promise I will do one word yes, yeah, one.
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Speaker 1: Word of one sentence. Oh okay, but not a sentence
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Speaker 1: seventy nine walls not JA calling me out? Okay, all right, okay, yeah,
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01:23:22,040 --> 01:23:24,400
Speaker 1: and I'm not judging you no first time. Okay. So
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Speaker 1: question number one, what is the best advice you've ever
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Speaker 1: heard or received?
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Speaker 2: This isn't like, you know, a curated sentence, so I'm
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Speaker 2: just going to like speak, And I think it's something
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Speaker 2: I've realized as I've gotten older, especially as like a
2068
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Speaker 2: woman in the industry, you feel really competitive with like
2069
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Speaker 2: other people, I feel now like I like to work
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Speaker 2: to live and not live to work, like I just
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Speaker 2: would like to make a living. I don't need to
2072
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Speaker 2: be the biggest podcast or don't mean the number one
2073
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Speaker 2: selling comedian. I just would like to provide for my family.
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Speaker 2: I think when you get really caught up in like
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Speaker 2: the hustle culture, it's good to have ambition, of course,
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Speaker 2: but what you sue be important to me is actually
2077
01:23:56,200 --> 01:23:57,920
Speaker 2: really not important to me anymore now, Like just a
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01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,960
Speaker 2: job is a job. It's to provide and that's it.
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Speaker 1: Great sentence.
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Speaker 2: Thanks, Oh god, I forgot about the sentence. Okay, sorry,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna no.
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Speaker 1: No no, as well explained I would have asked you
2083
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Speaker 1: to explain Question number two, what is the worst advice
2084
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Speaker 1: you've ever heard or received?
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01:24:11,280 --> 01:24:13,040
Speaker 2: Oh my god, there is a okay, sorry, it's gonna
2086
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:14,640
Speaker 2: be more than one. Seven. There is a phrase that
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01:24:14,720 --> 01:24:18,599
Speaker 2: I hate. It's called like being realistic is the quickest
2088
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:21,240
Speaker 2: path to mediocrity. Like I so disagree with that. I
2089
01:24:21,240 --> 01:24:23,799
Speaker 2: think being realistic is so important, like so important.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, good answer. Question number three? What excites you most
2091
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Speaker 1: about motherhood?
2092
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Speaker 2: I'm such an affectionate person, Like I love all my
2093
01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:32,320
Speaker 2: nieces and nephews who are growing older now they're like
2094
01:24:32,360 --> 01:24:34,240
Speaker 2: starting to hate it, but like I cover them and kisses,
2095
01:24:34,280 --> 01:24:36,280
Speaker 2: Like I just says with kisses and hugs, and like
2096
01:24:36,840 --> 01:24:39,439
Speaker 2: this baby like is gonna but this movie's gonna love
2097
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Speaker 2: me more than anyone. It probably end up liking Ben more.
2098
01:24:41,680 --> 01:24:44,840
Speaker 2: But this maybe like is mine, you know, And I
2099
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Speaker 2: could kiss it as much as I want.
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Speaker 1: I love it. A question number before, what are you
2101
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Speaker 1: most excited to see about Ben becoming a dad? Oh?
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Speaker 2: My god, Like, I just know Ben is going to
2103
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Speaker 2: be the best, the best, like most affectionate. The kids
2104
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Speaker 2: are gonna love him. They're gonna like him so much more.
2105
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Speaker 2: They're gonna go to him I'm like, I don't know
2106
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Speaker 2: what exactly I'm most looking forward to, but I feel
2107
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Speaker 2: a lot of peace and knowing that I'm bringing a
2108
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Speaker 2: baby into the world with like someone who's seriously going
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Speaker 2: to be the best out on the Ponet.
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Speaker 1: Fifth and final question, we asked this to every guest
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Speaker 1: who's ever been on the show. If you could create
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Speaker 1: one law that everyone in the world had to follow,
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Speaker 1: what would it be.
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Speaker 2: It should be absolute law that everybody listens to the
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Speaker 2: Toast every second morning. And then yeah, of course, of course, yes,
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Speaker 2: actually no, this is my answer, not a purpose, sorry, just.
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Speaker 1: The tost Oh thanks, all right, Florida.
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Speaker 2: No, it should be law like it should be an
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Speaker 2: NPR should be public radio.
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Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, that's a great love. Thanks, I
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Speaker 1: love it.
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Speaker 2: Thanks, and then I ultimately you know that affects my
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Speaker 2: bottom line.
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Speaker 1: Clorodia, thank you so much, me too, Thank you. If
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Speaker 1: you love this episode, you will also love my interview
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Speaker 1: with Kendall Jenna on setting boundaries to increase happiness and healing.
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Speaker 3: You're in a child You could be reading something that
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Speaker 3: someone is saying about you and being like that is
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Speaker 3: so unfair because that's not who I am and that
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Speaker 3: really gets to me sometimes, But then looking at myself
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Speaker 3: in the mirror and being like, but I know who
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Speaker 3: I am. Why does anything else matter
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