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Two Jersey Js: A Life Worth Living · Two Ts In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge

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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Hi guys.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jackie Goldschneider, I'm Jensler, and we're two Jersey Jays. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we have a really really great episode today. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I was thinking. You know, first of all, when
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  Speaker 2: I said that, Evan always jokes whenever a show starts
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  Speaker 2: and they're like, we have a really great episode today,
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  Speaker 2: He's like, what are they going to say?
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  Speaker 1: I suppose we'll be fun you guys, tune out, turn
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  Speaker 1: turn your radio.
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  Speaker 2: No, But it actually is a great one today because
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking, like you know, when you have like
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  Speaker 2: you you wake up and you have this idea and
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  Speaker 2: you're like, oh, I really want to do this, and
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  Speaker 2: then like an hour later you're like, nah, too much effort. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: our guest today wakes up and oh my god, every
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  Speaker 2: single thing you can imagine doing she has done. I
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  Speaker 2: absolutely agree, and I'm I definitely forget the Oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: I should do this, And three minutes in on my
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  Speaker 2: a You're like, no, because that'll take a lot of
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  Speaker 2: aff Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, she is especially acquire shower exactly. But this woman,
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  Speaker 1: as you guys probably know, is a go getter for sure. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So today we have yes on the pad. Then again, Jack,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we gave it enough of a bang.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Today we have Maria Manuno's yeah, baby, yeah she
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  Speaker 2: is well, first of all, she's like the most stunning
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  Speaker 2: woman in the world. I always thought of her as
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  Speaker 2: just like a celebrity correspondent, right right, Yeah, So when
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  Speaker 2: I sat down to just like look at her bio,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, Like there is nothing that she hasn't done,
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  Speaker 2: literally because she got.
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  Speaker 1: When you hear the name, it's like you can't even
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  Speaker 1: like pinpoint though. One thing, she's just been a present.
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  Speaker 1: When she's younger, well she's your age, right, she's a
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  Speaker 1: little younger than me. But like I always picture her
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  Speaker 1: from and I maybe I mean, you know, I know
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  Speaker 1: Access Hollywood like all of those et and I know
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  Speaker 1: she didn't do all those not tamous Knight and whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I just always picture her.
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  Speaker 2: I picture her also as the panteine girl, yes, like
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  Speaker 2: I know that with that unbelievable hair.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, But she has been everything.
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  Speaker 2: So she's been obviously a TV host, she was on
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  Speaker 2: Access Hollywood, E Extra, she was an actress, she was
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  Speaker 2: an actress, still an actress. She uh was a wrestler.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know, like we have to ask her
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about that, but like kind of a
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  Speaker 1: I can't even if you picture her in a ring, No.
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know exactly in what capacity she
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  Speaker 2: has to start as a WWE, but I know.
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  Speaker 1: That she actually I know that she actually like fought
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  Speaker 1: Oh really, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I hope I'm not off there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that, but I'm pretty right. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: am pretty sure she produced a movie.
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  Speaker 2: I know that. Yeah, I know that she has won
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  Speaker 2: beauty pageant, right, She's had a radio show, a podcast,
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  Speaker 2: a reality show chasing Mariam Minuno right right there, like
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  Speaker 2: literally there's been and she started early, like she started
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  Speaker 2: in childhood. So I'm really excited to talk to her
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  Speaker 2: because I only know this like little bit of fame
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  Speaker 2: as an adult, fully formed result, so I could make
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  Speaker 2: rational decisions.
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine starting so young. Yeah, and she's been
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  Speaker 1: through it, you guys. I mean, I don't know listeners
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  Speaker 1: what you know, but she is. She's battled, she had
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  Speaker 1: she's had several battles with her family having cancer, her
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  Speaker 1: mom had a brain tumor, her actually her dad had
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  Speaker 1: had Type one diabetes, which is what.
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  Speaker 2: My daughter has.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited to kind of talk to her about that.
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  Speaker 1: And now she's in her own battle with pancreatic cancer,
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  Speaker 1: so you know she's been through it, and she has
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  Speaker 1: a baby. She has a baby, and she has a
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  Speaker 1: new movie. Yes on it's on Lifetime. M Yeah, yes
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  Speaker 1: it is hill manor yeah, I can't imagine. No, I
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  Speaker 1: feel very inadequate segment.
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  Speaker 2: She's very open about her health battle. Yeah, so we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about everything. Really excited to have her on. So
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  Speaker 2: let's welcome Maria Minutos. Hi. Guys, Hi, Maria. You're just
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  Speaker 2: as beautiful as I was to say.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, thank you. I was hoping my my crazy
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  Speaker 3: sunlight was gonna shift just at the right time, because
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  Speaker 3: see it's like right there.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, you look ethereal it's actually.
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  Speaker 2: Like an angel.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, So it's not only what you look like, but
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  Speaker 1: as we were like, as we were opening here talking
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  Speaker 1: about the things that you've done, it's a little bit intimidating.
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  Speaker 2: It's bordering on annoying. But I am.
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  Speaker 1: Welcoming you with open arms and a warm heart.
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  Speaker 2: We both are. I am pretty amazed, are you Right now?
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  Speaker 3: We're in Jersey, I'm in Connecticut.
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  Speaker 2: Actually you're in Connecticut. Okay, so yeah, so we're neighbors.
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  Speaker 2: I met. We are in New Jersey. You know that
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  Speaker 2: came out like where and you grew up in Boston.
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  Speaker 3: No, I grew up in Boston. Yeah, just outside of Boston, Hedford.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, I went to Boston Universe we went to
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  Speaker 1: after a couple of years. But yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, that's for another episode. So Maria, welcome. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for being with us. We really do
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it, and thanks for having no we want to
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  Speaker 1: just start out, you know, when we have started out
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  Speaker 1: already kind of listing your accomplishments. Your career has been huge.
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  Speaker 1: I honestly, Jackie just said, like, you know when you like,
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  Speaker 1: wake up and you think I'm going to do this today,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, five minutes in, you're like, eh,
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  Speaker 1: not so much. Like we're saying that Maria Minuno's is
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  Speaker 1: the one that actually does it, which is rare. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, and again we started talking about all the
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  Speaker 1: things that you've done, but maybe I'm sure that we're
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  Speaker 1: missing a lot. I was actually saying you started out
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  Speaker 1: as like miss teen, Were you like miss teen Massachusetts?
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  Speaker 1: I was, yeah, I can't seriously, Wow, how did you
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  Speaker 1: get into pageanting?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I remember I was like thirteen and I got
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  Speaker 3: a card in the mail for the Miss Perfect Teen pageant,
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  Speaker 3: And at that time I was like starting, like I
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  Speaker 3: really wanted a model, I wanted to do stuff. And
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  Speaker 3: I got the card in the mail and my parents,
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  Speaker 3: my dad was like no. And then the next year
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  Speaker 3: I came again. The next year, I enlisted the help
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  Speaker 3: of my cousin Anthony. I was like, you got to
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  Speaker 3: convince them to let me do this, and at that
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  Speaker 3: point I was like fifteen, actually, and so I did
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  Speaker 3: it and I won Miss Massachusetts perfecteen.
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine.
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  Speaker 1: I imagine it putting that title on a pageant now,
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  Speaker 1: I would never write no way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I was perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: Dad happy once he won. He's proud, of course, like
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  Speaker 2: we went.
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  Speaker 3: It was the first time we won. And then we
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  Speaker 3: went to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for the national competition.
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  Speaker 3: I think I came in like third or something there.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And then eventually I did Miss mass Teen USA and
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  Speaker 3: did that, and so yeah, that was kind of the
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  Speaker 3: entry point.
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  Speaker 2: And then in college, that's when your career started really
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  Speaker 2: taking off in the TV world.
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  Speaker 3: Right, so I feel like everything is like baby steps, right,
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  Speaker 3: Like how does a Greek girl from you know, parents
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  Speaker 3: who are immigrants make it? I don't know. You just
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  Speaker 3: make one move after another. So the pageants were, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a great entry point. Started doing some commercial work and
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  Speaker 3: things like that, and then in college I was really
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  Speaker 3: studying journalism and film and worked on a movie with
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  Speaker 3: my now husband Kevin. That really was the launching pad,
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  Speaker 3: like you know, when my classmates didn't want to work
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  Speaker 3: for free and I did well. Then somebody I met
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  Speaker 3: on the movie helped me get my big break in
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  Speaker 3: LA at Channel one News.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: So I didn't finish my last year of college because
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  Speaker 3: I ended up getting that job.
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  Speaker 1: And you and Kevin your husband, now I believe I
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  Speaker 1: him correct, You started dating in college and your father
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  Speaker 1: was not pleased. And you already said that your Greek.
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  Speaker 1: You have a very strong Greek heritage background, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: my dad was.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was more like he was like freaked
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  Speaker 3: out that it could be having sex. I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: like it was just very bad. It was a very
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  Speaker 3: ugly time. So it was because he was in Greek
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  Speaker 3: And yes, my dad was, you know, had his dream
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  Speaker 3: of you know, me marrying a Greek person and that
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  Speaker 3: whole scam.
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  Speaker 1: But you love that moving, But do you love my
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  Speaker 1: big fat Greek wedding? Doesn't love that doesn't but doesn't
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  Speaker 1: resonate with you?
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  Speaker 3: Is that, of course? With the whole world?
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  Speaker 1: Ye, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: That's true every Jewish, Yes, for sure. With all of
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  Speaker 2: these jobs and all of these amazing things that you've done,
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  Speaker 2: is there any one that's been your favorite? You've done,
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  Speaker 2: commercial work, reality shows, radio work, all of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, listen, I love everything, which is why
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  Speaker 3: I've done so many different things. I've wrestled, and so
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  Speaker 3: I love to talking about that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we talk about that. We have to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because jams can kind of understand what you're
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  Speaker 1: saying right now.
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  Speaker 2: Were you part of the WWE?
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  Speaker 3: I am fourno on the WWE? I wrestled at WrestleMania Guys.
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  Speaker 3: Mark Wahlberg was sitting front row and I watched his
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  Speaker 3: mouth go, what are we? I'm like, God, why'd you even?
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  Speaker 2: Who said? Marie? We have an idea? It was you?
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  Speaker 2: I want to be a wrestling What what are you
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  Speaker 2: talking about?
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  Speaker 3: Inside scoop, I watched wrestling my whole life with my dad,
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  Speaker 3: and so I was a diehard wrestling fan. I met Kevin,
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  Speaker 3: who's also a diehard wrestling fan. When I first met
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  Speaker 3: Kevin as a chubby nineteen year old at one point
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  Speaker 3: when he you know, we were working on his movie.
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  Speaker 3: He lost, his movie went bankrupt. The whole world caved
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  Speaker 3: in on him. He was going to go potentially work
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  Speaker 3: with the WWE, and he was like, you could wrestle,
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  Speaker 3: all right? It was like great, So he went and
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  Speaker 3: he met with Shane McMahon and he met with you
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  Speaker 3: know them over there. I think he even had FaceTime
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  Speaker 3: Evince at the time. And my job at Channel one
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  Speaker 3: came in the interim, and so that never even came
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  Speaker 3: to fruition. So we left and we moved to LA
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  Speaker 3: But then the dream to wrestle was still there, so
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: then let me finish. So then flash forward years later,
• 10:19
  Speaker 3: I was telling my publicist because they started having Monday
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  Speaker 3: Night Raw guest hosts. I said, you got to get
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  Speaker 3: me in. I have to do this, And so he
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  Speaker 3: calls me like a month after that meeting. Meanwhile, he
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: had not made one call yet, and he's like, you're
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  Speaker 3: not going to believe this. I didn't even call them.
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  Speaker 3: They called us. They want you to do it. I said, great,
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  Speaker 3: on one condition, I want to wrestle. They didn't take
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  Speaker 3: me seriously. They thought I was you know, and by
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  Speaker 3: the way, WW is such a machine, they don't have
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  Speaker 3: time to worry about Maria wrestling or whatever. So I
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: went and I hired a coach. I started doing backyard
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  Speaker 3: wrestling and learning. I showed up for that guest host appearance.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I know how to wrestle, let's go, and
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  Speaker 3: they created something on the fly, and from there I
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  Speaker 3: knew how to taunt the audience as a fan, so
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  Speaker 3: I taunted the audience. I taunted the other wrestlers and
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  Speaker 3: it became a thing that led to WrestleMania, and it
• 11:14
  Speaker 3: was the first time the women got airtime on TV.
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  Speaker 3: It was a big deal. And I was doing Dancing
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  Speaker 3: with the Stars at the same time. So I had
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  Speaker 3: cracked ribs, fractured feet. I was a hot mess. But
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  Speaker 3: I had to go and I did it, and it
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  Speaker 3: was one of the highlights of my life for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And then the other favorite thing I've done was like
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  Speaker 3: Nightly News for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Ria, but your face, I would have never if we
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  Speaker 1: had been friends back then, I would have never allowed
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  Speaker 1: for such a thing.
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  Speaker 2: You could really get hurt. No, right hurt. Look at
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  Speaker 2: her face? Who does that?
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  Speaker 3: I'm dead? I said, okay, you know I said that
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  Speaker 3: to Daria Baronatto, who's now Sonya Deville and WWE. When
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: she first came to After Buzz as one of our hosts.
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  Speaker 3: We went to Aronda Rosie the UFC fight and we
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: were sitting in the booth and I go, you are
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  Speaker 3: too pretty to be fighting and having people punch you
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  Speaker 3: in the face. We out you and then long story short,
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  Speaker 3: I'm in a meeting with USA Network for tough Enough,
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  Speaker 3: no for something for general, and they're like, you should
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  Speaker 3: do tough enough. I'm like, no, but I know who's perfect.
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  Speaker 3: And then she did that and ended up launching her
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  Speaker 3: whole career, which is so cool. So she made the shift. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So dancing with them? What's easier dancing with the stars
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  Speaker 2: or WWA or what's harder? I can't imagine. Both of
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  Speaker 2: them are so out of my realm of what I
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  Speaker 2: possibly can do.
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  Speaker 3: They're both really hard wrestlers, really have a hard life.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they're traveling three hundred and sixty days a
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  Speaker 3: year by rental car and you know, the whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the what they put their bodies through is
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  Speaker 3: so intense. I have the utmost respect for them, which
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  Speaker 3: is why I think I did so well with them,
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  Speaker 3: because they knew I wasn't just, you know, there for
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  Speaker 3: any other reason. I really respect them and their craft
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  Speaker 3: and dancing.
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  Speaker 2: My god, when I.
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  Speaker 3: First started had the video, I couldn't put you know,
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  Speaker 3: two steps together. Derek had, you know, a definite project
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  Speaker 3: player on his hands. But you know, the cool thing
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  Speaker 3: in my life is I've I love challenges. I love
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  Speaker 3: living in that moment of like terror and like am
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  Speaker 3: I gonna be Okay? Am I gonna be? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: We did all right? All right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm so glad you said that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you said someone like you that you don't get
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  Speaker 1: scared of. Yeah. Well, I was going to say, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be this cheesy transition, right, but like,
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  Speaker 1: clearly you're a fighter, and you know, I'm sure we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about your health challenges. But when I
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: was reading what I was reading about you, even going
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  Speaker 1: back to your childhood, what struck me was that you
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  Speaker 1: grew up with a father with Type one diabetes, and
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: I have a daughter with type one diabetes. So I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot about how difficult that can be, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure most of our listeners don't know. But type
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  Speaker 1: one diabetes is way more It's still a bitch, but
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  Speaker 1: it's way more manageable now. So going back that many years,
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  Speaker 1: I'm there were no pumps, there were no sensors, right,
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  Speaker 1: So it was life and very life and death. And
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  Speaker 1: I was reading about how often your father would have
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  Speaker 1: low blood sugar and how often he was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on the verge of death and you had to be tough.
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  Speaker 1: How old were you when he first was diagnosed.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he was diagnosed when he was like twenty, way
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  Speaker 3: before I wash, okaved, yeah, so it was my whole
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  Speaker 3: life with him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, So I mean I'm I'm thinking you
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  Speaker 1: know that already. Now you have a different type of
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  Speaker 1: childhood starting there, and you obviously rose to all of
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: these occasions. But yeah, the fighting thing, the wrestling thing. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to sound cheesy, so I'm glad you
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  Speaker 1: said it, but you clearly enjoy a fight.
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  Speaker 2: So the one job aspect that we do have in
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: common was the reality show. Yeah, yeah, unfortunately, yes, right,
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  Speaker 2: so your reality show it was called Chasing Briam and
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  Speaker 2: you know, sorry, did you enjoy it? Do you like
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  Speaker 2: sharing your did you have to share your whole life?
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  Speaker 3: You know that was such a tough thing because I
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  Speaker 3: had no problem sharing. The problem is they were so
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  Speaker 3: fake about it. They had like their agenda of what
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  Speaker 3: they wanted, which was marriage and babies, and that was
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  Speaker 3: my dad's dream. That's all he wanted at the time.
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  Speaker 3: And I said to them at one point, I go,
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  Speaker 3: if my dad is sick of this, then that means
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  Speaker 3: the audience is going to be totally sick of this.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: So instead of allowing for reality to happen, which I
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: think is hard with budgetary constraints, I'm like, guys, we
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: are definitely full of stuff. And imagine if they had
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: been filming these last seven years. There was so much
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: stuff that had gone on. But they were the I guess,
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  Speaker 3: the plan you know, laid out was just very restrictive
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  Speaker 3: and so it wasn't as fun as I thought. The
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: one good thing is is I do I do have
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  Speaker 3: my family on camera, and it was it was fun
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  Speaker 3: to be with my parents a little bit more than
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: I would have at that time because we had to
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  Speaker 3: squeeze in filming. But but but I do think that
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  Speaker 3: Jackie's like, I think about that for you, because you
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  Speaker 3: have your kids forever, you know, right, I have toes
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  Speaker 3: that I'll ever be able to watch back, you know,
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  Speaker 3: for all the good and the bad.
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  Speaker 2: You don't find the time and the energy. How do
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  Speaker 2: you find the time for all of for all of it?
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: I mean before I was just a human doing. That's
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: why I said, I'm like the brain tumor came to
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: make me a human being. I was just a human doing.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: I was just a machine NonStop. And I think when
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: you grow up the way I did. I just had
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: someone on my show on Heel Squad talking about how
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: we're high functioning codependence and hfc's are just really good
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: in crisis. We're really good at solving everything. And you know,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: I grew up not speaking the language. I had to
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: be my parents interpreter. I was first gen had to
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: literally revive and save my dad on the regular. We
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: were always in fight or flight and you know, we
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: you know, had some really rough times financially as well.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: So I think that when I made it in this business,
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: I found it to be such a blessing. I was like,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: my God, I'm making more money than my parents ever
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: could have dreamed of. How could I say no? And
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: how could I not go for every opportunity and do everything?
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: And so yeah, that's what I did, and then got
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: through a brick at my head and then said, let's recalibrate.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: So you, guys, I just want to make sure that
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: our viewers understand a little bit even more about your background.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: But your mom had a brain tumor. I hope it's okay.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I'm sure.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's okay. I know you're very open about
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: your struggle. It is okay. So your mom had had
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: a malignant brain tumor. And was it a year later
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: that you were diagnosed as well with a brain tumor? Month?
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: But a nine one months? I mean, wow, it's mind growing. Yeah,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: So what was that that whole time period? Were you
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: working through it? Were you? Well?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: It was crazy because my mom was diagnosed beginning of
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: September twenty sixteen with a malignant brain tumor called glioblastoma
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: stage four brain cancer, one of the deadliest cancers you
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: can get. Oh gosh, don't ask. I have no freaking clue.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: This was twenty sixteen. Someone do the mau Yeah, thirty
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: thirty eight, thirty nine something like that. Anyway, I was
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: working at E News at the time, and now I'm
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: trying to like and serious X, I'm trying to keep
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: all the masters happy while I'm also trying to keep
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: my mom alive. And I thought the headaches I was
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: getting and the pain I was having and the fatigue
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: was all due to the stress of my mom. And
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: then I started learning my speech and then I was
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: needing second takes and I was like one take, Maria,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Like what the heck's going on? And then I started
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: having really bad ear pain. And so the ear pain
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: took me to the doctor because I'm like, do I
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: have an ear infection? At thirty something like this is crazy?
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: And he was like, you don't have an ear infection?
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: What else are you feeling? Well? Once I started rattling
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: off all those symptoms, He's like, I go, oh my god,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: and he's like what I go, I think I have
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: a brain tumor, Like my mom, isn't that crazy? Just
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: saying it right now, I'm reminded of how crazy that was.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: And he's like, I don't think you're crazy. Let's just
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: get MRI to rule it out, and then the MRI
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: said I had a brain tumor. Now luckily mine appeared
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: to be benign, but they were like, we don't know,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: but mine. Also when I talked to her the same neurosurgeon.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: When I call the neurosurgeon, doctor Keith Black's office, I
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: was like, I need an appointment. They're like, oh, okay,
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: so what time can your mom came? I go, no, no, no,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: it's for me and they were shook. I said, so,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: surely this is going to be an easier surgery than
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: my mom's and he was like, nope, this is way
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: more complicated. Wow.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Is that hereditary or coincidental?
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Totally coincidental. I believe it was the IVF that did
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: this because when I was doing IVF. First of all,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: at some point we're going to learn how dangerous IVF is.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: I'm not against it obviously because I have a beautiful
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: baby because of it, but I do always tell people
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: to get a scan before you do anything, to see
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: if there's anything that will grow. The reason my neurosurgeon
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: wouldn't let me get pregnant is he was afraid when
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: you get hormones going, things grows when right, So I
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: unknowingly might have had the brain tumor in my head
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: all this time, or maybe it came out of nowhere.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know, But all I know is when I
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: was taking those progesterone shots, I called my doctor and
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: I said, I want to drive my car through a
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: brick wall and I was my head was exploding, and
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: she was like, stop the progesterone. And that was I
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: think months before I finished, months before I was diagnosed,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I had finished my last IVF cycle, So I think
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: the hormones grew it. So I always tell my girlfriends
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: and now all of you, because it's really sketchy to
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: like go out in public and say this stuff. I
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: feel like people like get really like freaked out and upset.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: But secretly, behind the scenes, I always tell my friends,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: if you are going to do IVF, find a way
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: to get a skin and make sure that nothing's going
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: to grow, because these hormones have the potential to grow things.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: They say that about right now, So I'm not I'm
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: way past the time to get pregnant, but I'm in
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: that phase of menopause where you take hormones. You take
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: estrogen right to make you feel better with in terms
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: of what's going on with your body during menopause. And
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: then I think it's sort of the same idea, right,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Like it's a very it's a balancing act and it's
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: a risk versus reward because you know, hormones can if
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know what, they can actually cause cancer, but
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: they can grow cancer from what I understand.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: So and doctors don't tell you that I had five
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: rounds of IVF myself.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: They don't tell you, and you wouldn't know that metals
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: stuff like, you wouldn't know. And then also the other
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: thing that's crazy is nobody knows that you can actually
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: do natural realms. So it's a much less expensive thing too,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: which they don't want you to really know about. But
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: my IVF doctor, doctor Wennie Chang, who is amazing, told
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: me that it was possible. So if you have follicle naturally,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: you can just do a trigger shot and go in
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: for your your removal. You just have to time everything carefully.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: But there is a way to do natural cycles to
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: avoid all of those shots.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I hope that a lot of women are listening.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope that you know. You know, I always
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: say that you have to advocate for yourself at these
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: doctors appointments, because they really some doctors do not do
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: a great job. But anyway, So, so you you're diagnosed
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: with this brain tumor, they find that it's benign, you
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: have surgery.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: To reveals whether it's benign or not. So yeah, so
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: they removed it as much as they could because there's
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: a tumor that's there's still tumor in there that's wrapped
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: around my facial nerves. So if he tried to get
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: rid of it, I would have been paralyzed. So he
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: left it alone, thank god.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: So yeah, and so do you have any remaining Yeah,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: there's stuff that I fee.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: But I manage it. And I've been doing a lot
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: of things like lightning my mind talks and load has
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: been helpful. Meditation has been helpful. I'm experimenting every day
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: with stuff to to heal and get better.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I am. It occurs to me that I know I
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: have known some people with brain tumors and malignant or not.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Brain surgery is a very very serious kind of surgery.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I don't think you know, it's not just like Okay,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: we're going to go in and take it out. When
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: it comes to the brain, it's and you can if
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I'm not right, but I think it's very very tricky
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: and very very risky, and so I just that hits
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: me because you've just gone through a lot of stuff.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was an eight hour surgery.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: No, that one.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Was six and a half I think, And then the
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: pancreas surgery was like eight.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: After your brain tumor comes out and you're recovering, then
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: you get thrown another health Yeah.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Well, I was feeling something. I was getting really bloated.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Things weren't right. I was like, something's off somehow predicted
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: on my own show. An audience member later was like,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: you predicted this in April before you were diagnosed. I'm
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: like what, And I listened and looked. I was like,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: oh my god. But that's not pertinent to the story.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: But the truth is is I knew something was wrong.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: I kept investigating different diagnostic tests. They kept telling me
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: it was fine. I went to the doctor's buckled over
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: and excruciating pain, like unbelievable, unbearable pain. They told me
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: it was fine. And it was only until I got
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: this pernuvo scan that they found a tumor, a large
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: tumor on the tail of my pancreas. It's called the
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: neuroendocrine tumor. That's what Steve Jobs had and it had
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: doubled in size within two months of that scan, where
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: I went to the doctors and I was like, I'm
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: in so much pain?
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: And when when was this? This was last year and
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: it was you did the pernubo scan. Well you just
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: saw our listeners because I hear more and more about
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: people doing it. That's a full body.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: It's a full body scan. Yeah, so they listen. It's
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: not it's not free, and it's not perfect, but they
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: saved my life when you know, traditional hospitals told me
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: I was fine and sent me home. This thing doubled
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: in size. Now where would I be by June if
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: from November to January it doubled And my baby was
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: due in June.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: So wow, And now how old is Athena?
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: She's seventeen months next week?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Wow?
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Do you call her your miracle baby?
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Right? She is?
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: I think I read that as yeah, wow, So your
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: your health journey now, are you in the clear? Are
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: you still battling?
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm in the clear in a lot of ways,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: but like there's still stuff right, Like I was in
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: the Dominican Republic earlier this year because they thought they
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: found liver cancer, and I was like, I don't think
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: it's liver cancer. I think my body's just having a
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: hard time processing all these scans. People think scans are nebulous,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: they're not. When you're getting gatolinium and you're getting CT scans,
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: these are very powerful, high radiation, highly toxic things. And yeah,
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: if you're doing one, that's fine, But I've had to
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: do so many and no one's really counting, and no
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: one's really paying attention, and so I was like, I
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: think my body's just having a hard time detoxing all
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: this out while I went to the dr and I
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: created this little health proto call of just sun and
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: grounding and sweating and sleeping, and they all shrunk in
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: two and a half weeks.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: How in the world did you know that it wasn't
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: your liver? How would you be that in tune?
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: I am super intuitive, but I also I've learned over
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: these last seven years of this brain tumor experience and
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: stuff to listen. And I just felt I felt like
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: it didn't make any sense, and I didn't feel like
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: it was true, because yeah, I just didn't. So I
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: was like, I'm just going to go experiment, and I
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: know the equator is really healing from everything I've studied
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: and my natural path that's been on my show a
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: lot that's helped me through a lot, and I was
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: really pleased, obviously with the results. And so when you
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: say are you healed, I mean I still have a
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: brain tumor. I still have lesions on my liver, like
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: two new ones popped up, we just found, and I'm like,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at Kevin. I'm like, but I'm not scared.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: I think I'm fine. He goes, I think you're fine too,
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: And so I just think, again, these scans that I
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: got before now have accumulated. So it's it's a thing,
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: and so I'm constantly working on it. I'm using my
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: red light and my sauna and my sun and my
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: grounding and my fashion release exercises. I'm like, as as
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: much as I can devote each day to my healing
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: and my health. It's important obviously because I need to
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: be around for my baby. But I know I'm vibrant
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: and healthy. I know a lot of this doesn't make sense.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: The diabetes actually broke my heart and threw me on
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: the floor because I think I have so much trauma
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: with that. Like the brain tumor was easy in a sense,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Like I did have moments where like the mac truck
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: rolled over my chest and I'm like, oh my god,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: someone's gonna saw my head open. But I watched my
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: mom go in with a smile and I was like, Okay,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm in great hands. There's nobody better than
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: doctor Black. And the diabetes killed me because I had
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: quit sugar two years before, and I it just didn't
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: make any sense all this shit.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I just want everybody to understand. I don't understand it
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: all everything you're saying. I understand this part of it
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: that is type one diabetes. And I want you guys
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: to understand that that in itself is an every day
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: on your mind.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: I know this.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: I'll cry too, because it's like that in and of
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: itself is so hard, and then you have all of
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: this other stuff. You are my absolute new hero. You
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: have to be my friend, our friend.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: You must. You are so I'm so proud of you.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Maria.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: What's your energy level like has it affected like.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: It's been so hard at different time times like to
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: be honest, but right now it's been it's on the upswing,
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: and so that's been really exciting. I mean, doctor Allison
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: and I have done so much work that I feel
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: like I have more energy than I ever have. So
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: that's been really good.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: I say, I kind of have to pitch a perfect
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: game with my health, like I can't. I don't have
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: a lot of wiggle room because I have to. I
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: have to really heal from all these things and they
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: are healable. Like even when they found the breast lesion.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: I went back to doctor Funk and she goes, it's shrunk.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: I was like, yes, because I focused in my meditations
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: on it shrinking. So I keep getting success even though
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: there's so much shit that pops up and it's felt
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: like whack a mole. I know how to heal, and
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: I believe in my healing and Saint Nctarios, our healing saint,
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: has been so good to me.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: So I need to write that down.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Star Saint Niktarios Nectar Nectarios. Okay, he is the healing
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: saint in the Greek Orthodox Church, but he will heal
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: anyone who believes in him, and I've had so many
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: miraculous moments of healing, whether it's me, my mom, my friends.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: I wear my bracelet that I got at his church
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: in Aegina, Greece, which is an island just south of Athens,
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: and so ever since he's come into my life, like
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: so much good has happened, and I know that the
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: it looks like so much bad has happened too. And listen,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: it's not been easy, but I do believe that it's
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: happened for me, not to me. And I do believe
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: that it's happened to me because I can figure it
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: out and I can heal and I can show other
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: people how to do it, and I do that through
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: my show every day.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: So you know what a mindset. It's unbelievable. You know.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: They say that like you could have a million problems
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: until something happens with your health and then you have
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: one problem. There is just no there's no way around it.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: You are my hero.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I've had people in my life that have been you know,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: they've been, they've gotten sick, they've had kids. I have
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: friends whose kids have gotten sick.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Nobody.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I always say this to my daughter, who has Type
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: one I'm like, you know, nobody gets away, and I
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: just I'm much talking about health issues. No one gets away.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Everyone has got their stuff, and hopefully we all deal
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: with the cards we are dealt with, you know, we
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: can actually turn them into something productive. You wanting to
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: inspire people, you know and say, what did you just say?
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: It happened?
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Happened to me?
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I absolutely absolutely love that. But you know, tell us
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: something good, tell us.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Let's tell us, let's pivot a hard pivot and talk
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: about this Christmas movie. Now, I'm a Jewish girl. I
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: love Christmas. Me friends all love it too, so I
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: just get this feeling. I remember sitting in the movie theater.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: I was single. It was like two thousand and six.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: I was like, I'm never going to meet newbody, and
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: I was watching that movie Love Actually yeah, my husband
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: a few months later, but I was like, I just
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: nothing makes me feel better than a Christmas movie, Christmas
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: general issues. Please.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you. The Christmas movies came at the
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: perfect time because it was on my bucket list to
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: do one, and it was because of my mom that
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: I got in the first one. Because I had made
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: this like little video on YouTube of our journey caretaking
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: for her in her last months. And my friend Ryan McPartland,
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: who is a Christmas movie star amongst other amazing things
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: like chuck and stuff, but he was making one just
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: down the street in Connecticut, so he connected with me
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: to tell me how moved he was by this peace
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: I put together. And then I ended up as his
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: sister in this, and then the director of that called
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: me to start in the next one, which came out
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: two years ago, and then he called me for this
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: one that we shot in London. So funny you talk
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: about love, Actually we shot ours in London, so you're
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: not really used to seeing, you know, these holiday movies
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: on Lifetime, et cetera, where they're set in London. There's
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: I think only two Christmas movies set there. So you're
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: going to get the most amazing British feels, the accents,
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: the charm.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Are you British in it? Do you have to have
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: put on the absent?
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: No, thank god, because that would take a little bit
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: of work because my accent ain't great. But but I've
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: worked on it the whole time there. But I play
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: an architect, like a New York City architect who, unknownst
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: to her had this great aunt that left her a
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: manner and she has one week she has to spend
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: there before she can make the decision of keeping it
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: or getting rid of it. And she's like, you know,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: the super type A, it's all about her career. She
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: shows up there, she sees a whole other lifestyle, you know,
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: a life where like community and events and you know, Christmas,
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: you know, Carol of the Bell, events and stuff are
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: the main focus. And she ends up falling in love
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: and sees a whole other path for life. And I
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: feel like a lot of us need to to kind
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: of see it for a few reasons. One like, listen,
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: we love holiday movies, and this one I think will
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: make you have all the holiday feels. And I know
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: for me, with everything that we've gone through, these have
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: been great escapes. And there are hard times out there.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: People are really suffering, and that's why we love watching these.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: But the other thing is is like for all of
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: us kind of type A high function and independence, some kidding,
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: all of us Type A women who kind of sometimes
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: forget that there's other things that matter other than just
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: business and making it and succeeding and buying more things.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Like are you listening to us.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: We need us in particular, need to be hearing this. Yes, yes,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I know, but it's just it's so true because it's
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: so easy, especially in we were in reality television and
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: you forget all of a sudden, you're so caught up
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: in that world and all you know you need to
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: be reminded. But please, I'm sorry, go on.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah. No, life is about more than that. And the
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: problem is is we've been born and bred into like achieved, succeed,
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: get good grades, get a huge job, make a lot
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: of money, and then maybe marriage and kids. Never health,
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: but everything's always an aside to money and success that's
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: always first. And so the great gift I think I've
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: gotten from all of the health crises is that there's
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: so much more to life. And I've been working actively
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: in the last seven years on redefining success from myself,
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: because we also define success by other people's standards, and
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: I caught myself doing that. I was chasing the people
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: who were working twenty four to seven and like all
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: this stuff, and I'm like, wait, this is so against
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: my nature. I don't care. Kevin's been trying to put
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: shows together with my name on it. This and that
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: I don't care. I just want to be happy. I
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: want to live. I want to cook something in my
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: kitchen with my family. I want to be present for
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: my baby. I want to work as little as possible,
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: but maintain as much as I can what I have now.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: I don't need more. Like I remember meeting with a
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: friend who was, you know, really successful in business, Murray folio.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: She's a business teacher, and we were talking about kind
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: of my next phase in life. This was two years ago,
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: and she's like, how much money do you want to
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: kind I'm like, I give her a number. It was
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: so low, and she goes, what I go, I don't care.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: I just need to be healthy. That's all that matter.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: But we don't ever realize it until shit hits the fans.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: So I'm always I think that now more than ever,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: and the millennials are doing this, the gen zers are
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: doing this. They're looking at our generation like we were
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: crazy people, workaholics, and they're going the other way. But
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: there's a happy medium, right.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: They're getting a lot of slack for that too. They're
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: called a very lazy generation, a very like coddles. Well,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: I think there is a happy medium.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Like we don't need to be chasing a
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: life that we didn't even want. And I think that
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: a lot of us chase a life we don't even want.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: We're not really happy, We're like snappy and short and miserable.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: I know, I remember, and it's not worth it.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: It's just I mean, can you just change that by
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: changing your mindset? Because I think I have a little
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: of that, Like I want things so that I mean,
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: I'm not super in tune to what I want. I
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: sometimes I know that I want things that I don't
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: really deep down want, but I want other people to
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: see me doing them.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And I think that it really comes down
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: to you having like some time with yourself to be like,
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: what do I really want? What do I not want?
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: And how do I now get time with myself to
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: be more introspective? Like meditation has changed everything for me.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: I'm not currently meditating the way I was. I'm about
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: to get back on track because we've been doing so
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: much here. But but I'll tell you like it, it
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: really is important to find the things that are going
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: to give you joy and happiness that don't cost anything.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Making that list and then realizing, well, like all these
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: things that I'm focusing my energy and attention on are
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: taking away from the things I really want. I really
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: want time with my family. I don't want to be
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: on my phone all the time. I want to be
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: able to go, you know, on fun adventures with my
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: with my kids, or with my friends. Or I don't
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: really care about the stupid new.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Chanelle bag like Ammen's sister.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be robbed, so I don't buy
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: this stuff. I'm like at this point, like you're just
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: a target anyway, Like, let's let's put that into just
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: not having to work more so, less less of that stuff,
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: more peace.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: If you ever want a new job, you could be
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: my life coach. Do you write?
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Are you writing a book? I mean, I know you've
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: done enough and I shouldn't be pressuring you.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: But you've written a book? You have.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: I've written a few books, but but that was in
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: my crazy stage. You know, it's been really hard. I
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: had a book deal just before COVID didn't feel right,
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: so I passed. I do have a few in me,
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: but I really just want to be with Athena, and
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: so it's going to take a while before I have
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: a documentary. I've been in the middle of I'm like,
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: everything's just going to take a backseat to my health
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: and my baby, So you don't need.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: To actually give us what we want them, because I've
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: got a list of things from.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: You, I will tell you. Funny enough, I was just
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: on a meeting with one of my team members and
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: I was like, listen, and I finally think I have
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: the energy to put some things forward that I've wanted
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: to do, and I almost did last year, but then
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: the pancreast tumor derailed me. But one of my dreams
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: is to put health retreats together and take people on
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: this journey so that if you want to be healthier,
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: you'll learn the foundational health things that you need to learn.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: But if you need to heal from something, we can
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: also teach you how to do that. I've also already
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: guinea piged myself. I've proven that the stuff works, and
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: doctor Allison, my partner, is the genius of all geniuses.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: And then I want to also put a course together
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: for women to be able to do exactly what you
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: were just asking, figure out what you really want. I
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: got this weird downloading COVID and it was like coming
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: through so fast and I'm writing everything down, writing everything down,
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I need this and then I go me
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: this shit. So I was just on the phone with that.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: I was like, if we can make this easy and
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: I can film this and it's a course and people
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: can just grab it and use it and do it,
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: I'm in. So I'm working on.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Going to pat those together. Jen and I want to
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: be deposit now.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Just tell us what's your bed And I am so
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: excited to see your holiday movie.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: You can go to my Instagram and you'll find it
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: Christmas at Plumb Hill Manner. And then my podcast is
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: He'll Squad, so you guys can always.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Listen to them as well be listening.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: And I hope that I don't know, I feel so
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: I don't want to put you on this weird pedestal
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: and if people do that a lot, and I don't
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: know if you would like that or not, but I'm
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: just I know, Jackie, we both are just in. Yeah,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: you know, it's like we're all humans, we all struggle.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Nobody's I feel very much like my priorities get reset
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: when I meet someone like you and I listened to
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: you and you're very guyased. Yeah, and it's really been
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: an honor to speak to you.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Thank you guys, thank you so much. And if I
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: can be helpful with your daughter with Type one. I
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: learned to look at the equator, my blood sugar, you're
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: going down. It was crazy, really, Oh my god. I
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: was like lighting bread without having to take insulin. People
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: heal from diabetes at the equator, people heal from MS Parkinson's.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know anything about this.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: That's amazing.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: If you wouldn't mind, then off camera we're gonna have
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: to have a little discussion because I would love to know.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Well. Also, if you go to heel squad dot com,
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: I took because Apple Podcasts doesn't organize the episodes that also,
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: you can't really find what you need easily when you've
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: done as many episodes as I have. But there's a
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: column called foundational Health. There's one for autoimmune, there's one
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: for cancer. Foundational Health. All those episodes will teach you
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: everything that I did to heal the liver lesions and
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: everything about the equator and how powerful it is. So
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: you can deep dive on the episodes that are connected
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: to specifically those themes on heel Squad dot com. They're
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: called healthy.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: I think amazing. I was working. Yeah, thank you so much.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: Wish know only good things and everything and happy holidays,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: and I can't wait to watch Thanks Maria, Thank you Maria.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: That was unbelievable. I feel like so freaked out and
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: not freaked out in the best way.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: I like to see this woman who is again, you're
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: probably the same age, right, I think she's a little
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: bit younger. She looks so young and well.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: Her mindset is fucking amazing. I it makes me feel
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: nervous because I don't pay attention to my health nearly
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: as much.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: When she said she did that scan, I forget. I
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: almost don't want to know. I'm very nervous. I know
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: everyone else, but anyway she is and inspiration doesn't seem
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: like I know.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: It's amazing. I want to have that guy on. To
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: know yourself so well that someone could tell you that
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: you might have. If someone ever said the words liver
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: cancer to me, I would black out, and then my
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: entire life, every focus of every second of every day
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: would be about whether or not I.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Have liver cancer.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: For her to intuitively know that it just doesn't feel
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: like I have that is fucking mind blowing into me.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: How do you know yourself so well? I don't know.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: You know, Jack, I'm a reaching hypochondriac, so I always
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: think I have everything, but I don't know. This woman
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: is amazing. I am definitely gonna watch her and Jackie Jacqueline.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Who's on Jackie Jackie? I know you got the name
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: of the new doctor that we want on the pod,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: doctor Joe Dispensa.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: I would love that game. I need to learn how
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: to do the things in life that I really authentically
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: want to do, which a lot of them. Listen, some
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: of the stuff I'm doing I do want to do,
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: and I love every second with my family. Career wise,
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: I'm not so sure what I really authentically want.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: It so easy, we both struggle, we both have mental
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: health struggles. Yeah, and so yeah, nothing is easy. Everything
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: is a journey. But yeah, I mean, I hope a
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: ton of people listen to this.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, me too. All right, guys on that note,
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: all right, we will see you next time.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: I love you, guys. You jack Let me go you guys. Bye.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: By