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Cori Adams - Fitness and Community · She’s Smart

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Hey everybody, welcome to She's Smart. I'm your host, Maria Robotham.
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On today's episode, I sat down with the powerhouse that is Corey Adams.
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If you've been fortunate to secure a coveted spot to her Gold Step Aerobics
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class at the Westport Westin YMCA, you already know.
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She brings the heat, the energy, and the best beats that make you want to move.
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But before she became the Queen of Step, Corey built a career in the fashion
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world working with brands like Mulberry and Weldon.
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She's got a story full of unexpected turns, saying yes to opportunities,
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and creating a community wherever she goes.
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We talk about everything from finding your passion to trusting the universe.
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And trust me, you don't want to miss this conversation.
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So get cozy as we connect, learn, and laugh together on She's Smart.
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Music.
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When's your birthday i'm a capricorn you're a capricorn yeah
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december 23rd me and jesus and i am in good company let me tell you do you still
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go to the church by the way i do whenever we're home the kids scheduled for
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snowboarding in the winter oh are they both snowboarders they're both competitive
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snowboarders get out yeah so why did i start this two years ago i was like it
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just came to me i have these amazing conversations with women all the time.
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We need more of those. So I made a list. I love it. I made a hundred women.
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And I made the hundred. And you were on the list. And I was like,
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oh, but wait, let's be real here.
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I made the women that I was like new. I'm like, all of these women will come and hang out with me.
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And then I have my wish list of women, like real reaches. But why not?
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Like I put it all on there. it has never felt so right it was like styling it just,
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there was all ease to it hard work I've had to work hard to understand this
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I produced the whole thing myself I do all of it and I love it and it's like
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a new experience and I get to sit with these,
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incredible women who make me smarter. This is the best part.
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As I was doing this, I was like, oh shit, I need to start reading.
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I feel like I'm smart a little bit going into this and understand what's going on in the world.
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So that really kickstarted. It kind of pushed you a little bit.
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It absolutely has. I'm not a big reader either.
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So that is something that I felt like when you're in those conversations,
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like, yeah, I totally know what you're talking about.
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So I got I'm not going to fake it. I didn't go to MIT. Yeah, I went to FIT.
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I went to Boulder and then the fashion students here. Yeah, perfect.
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But it really did invigorate me.
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A friend of mine started a book club in Weston. I was so intimidated because
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these women were just, like, there are people under the radar that you're like, they are scholars.
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I sat in one of the book clubs and I'm like, I really need to get my shit together.
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Because, like, I thought I was okay. These women are freaking smart and insightful.
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But it's inspiration for you. And it's like, what else is out there?
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What else can I learn? What else can I do?
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Because if you're in your own little bubble, right, and you knew something for
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so long, and then it's like, let me tap into a little something else,
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say yes to an opportunity I never would have thought of, and boom.
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Which is how you got to where you are. Yes, it's true. Okay,
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so I want to know, you grew up in Westport. I grew up in Westport.
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Tell me about growing up in Westport. It was awesome. My mom is no longer with
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us. It'll be six years in March.
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Miss her every day. She's the one that used to drive through Westport when she was a kid.
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They lived in City Island in the Bronx, and I'm a baby of four kids.
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My mom used to drive with her family.
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She started kind of outreaching to Westport.
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She found this house on Fairfield Avenue, the end of the cul-de-sac,
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basically decided that she was going to rent it without my dad's knowledge.
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My dad's one of 14 children.
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And all the sisters helped her move up to Westport.
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She had a candlelight dinner waiting for my dad and all the boxes unpacked because
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she wanted to be here that badly.
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She actually had my dad directions to get to his new house. That was 1980.
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They moved Memorial Day Week in 1980.
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Your mom was a badass. Yeah, she was.
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She didn't know. She didn't know. And it's funny because I feel like there's
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things of her just saying yes, doing stuff, jumping on opportunities.
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She just was like, I'm going to do it. then she did it.
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I think when I grew up here, obviously you don't know how good you have it until you come back.
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When I grew up here, the Westport Playhouse was huge.
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Paul Newman was a big thing. It was very much an artist community.
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Then it went through its ebbs and flows.
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And then downtown Main Street, we had Barneys, New York, which was hilarious
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because then it was like this influx of new money that came through in the late
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eighties. And then I went back to an artist community.
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I went to Beach School, which is now Camp Campo for many, many a summer.
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They used to have two-week sessions and they used to have like parents night
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at the end of the two weeks that we used to be like full-on rock
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out to all the things i keep being a champion for that
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need to bring that back i keep trying every time i see the director i'm like
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so uh when i was a kid so yeah so that hopefully makes it come back but it was
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great the population has not changed that much since i'm growing up here which
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is always wild to me yeah being as like so many people have moved in.
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I moved back 11 years ago and now going on 12 in October.
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I actually never thought I would move back. I was like, I'm moving to Europe.
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I'm moving to California. I didn't know where I was going. My husband and I
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lived in Brooklyn for 10 years and we were looking at a bigger place because
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we were pregnant with our first baby.
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I'm like, this is nuts. We're going to spend crazy money for a bigger apartment.
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We'd come up here on the weekends, every weekend to Westport to see all my family.
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I'm the baby of four. All my family's here. So he's like, cool.
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Family's all here. We're having a baby. This makes perfect sense.
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I was still working for Mulberry at the time, so I had to commute back and forth
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to the city. But we did it, and that's it.
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Been here now for 12 years. Isn't that crazy?
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Yeah, but growing up here was pretty magical. Like, now I see my girls.
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I mean, as you can tell, I'm rocking. I heart KHS.
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I'm on the exec board of PTA over at Kings Highway.
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It's not changed. I know. I'm like, wow, I'm really representing Westport right
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now without even thinking. What is your position on the executive I do all the social media.
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So I started with doing the fundraiser event for two years with them.
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And then now I do all the social for them. It's been great. They don't even bother me anymore.
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The funniest thing is that I teach Tuesdays and Fridays and our meetings are always on Tuesdays.
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So I have not been to a meeting and I can't even tell you how long. Just send an email.
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I have been PTO president of each school.
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I was president of Hurlbut. I was president of WIS. Oh my gosh.
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Because our elementary schools are two. Okay.
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Oh, okay. And now I'm president of the middle school PTO. I can't seem to say no or leave it. Yeah.
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Yeah. I know. Once you're in, that's it. You just keep going through.
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You have the same group of women.
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Always volunteer. It's the same group of women. Always same group of women.
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So my mom, when she moved to our hometown of Orinda, which is very much like
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Westport or Weston, it is very affluent.
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The parents are very well educated. They all do really well.
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And my mom was this very young mom. She was 20 when she got married.
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That was my mom. She was a baby. Same thing. Babies having babies.
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She was 20 years old, and they show up to their house in Orinda,
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which is this very, you know, fancy place.
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Even we didn't have a fancy house. We had fancy people. Yeah.
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But my mom opens the door one day, and this group of women...
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Are like, hi, welcome to Arenda. Like it was like something right out of a movie,
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something right out of a movie.
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And I can't remember what she called it. It was like the welcome wagon.
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Yeah. They got married in 75.
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The welcome wagon shows up at the house. My mom is this 20 year old who's like, hi.
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And she's like, so he doesn't know what to do. But she joined everything.
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She did everything. Then she eventually became a teacher.
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But she did everything. And she told me, you will when you start doing this
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there will be one group of women and they will do everything all the time and
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you will follow each other through high school.
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Literally I got goosebumps because my mom said to me I'm like mom are you in here? She might be.
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So my mom would always say to me growing up she's like the group of women that
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you meet when your kids are young and the more you get involved and do things
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that is going to be your crew.
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I met my crew when Dakota was three and it's been almost 10 years now. It's wild.
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Amazing, right? Yeah. Total goosebumps from head to toe at that one.
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She might be here. I have a lot of spirits that visit.
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All the time. Does your mom visit? She does. I smell her a lot.
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Oh, you get the smell? Oh, yeah. My mom wore knowing perfume.
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Yeah. My mom wore knowing perfume. There's so many Sims right now.
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My mom wore knowing and beautiful. Still does. Come on. Knowing and beautiful.
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Come on. Okay. So that's what my mother-in-law wears. She wears beautiful in the summer.
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She wears knowing in the winter. and I had no idea she were knowing and she
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came to stay at our house not that long ago and I was like, wait a second.
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I was like, how did I never know that you've worn? I know my husband would be
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together 20 years this year.
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I'm like, how is it that I never knew you wore it? So we go to the same church.
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And when my mom first passed the first month, I would sit there and I would
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just constantly smell her all the time.
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There was a woman that used to come to church and she would wear all white and
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she would just sort of float in and out of church. It was wild.
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I would see her around town and it was like there was
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some sort of presence about her it was pretty
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incredible so my mom definitely makes her appearance i
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believe in like the penny thing she leaves me pennies all the
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time i smell her all the time yeah it's pretty
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magical smell is it's pretty wild it's only happened to me once and when it
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did i had to call my dad because i thought something happened because i'm really
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into my spirits i know when they're in rooms i can feel it i'm so good with
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it my dad had a sister she was our lala and we were all incredibly close.
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She was an amazing human being a saint.
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She passed away when I was in college. I was at the front door in Weston.
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I go to open it and all of a sudden her scent flooded the room.
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Isn't that incredible? She comes back as a butterfly. So I know I see her.
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She's always around. I have a butterfly tattoo.
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She's always around. I picked up the phone. I was like, Daddy,
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is everyone okay? He's like, yeah. I'm like, I just smelled Lala. He goes, okay.
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Are you all right? My dad is an 84-year-old Italian man. Oh, my gosh.
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I love it. You know, I tell my sister and I are all like these wackadoo things.
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And he's like, okay, guys. Okay, ladies.
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Sure. Sure. You smell dark. Are you okay? Yeah. Is everyone okay?
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Did someone just pass through? And I don't know about it. And he goes,
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no, everyone's fine. I'm like, mommy, okay? Yeah. He's like, mom's fine.
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Call my sister. Sister, are you good? Kids good? Everyone's okay?
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Like, we all right? You felt such a strong sense of spirit. I've never smelled someone.
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It's pretty wild. I remember once I was at, what was it, granola bar or something.
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I was passing this woman and I smelt it so strong. And I said to her,
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I'm sorry, I have to ask you. She said she was wearing the perfume.
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It's like my mom just pops up in these random ways.
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I thank her every day for being here because being back in West.
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It's such a magical place.
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And it's, again, like something that I didn't necessarily appreciate as much growing up.
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But the community that I've created with what I'm doing now and with my kids,
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it's just next level. I don't know if I could be somewhere else right now.
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I feel like a total champion for the town. My girlfriends crack up.
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They're like, you know, you're the mayor.
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My parents were the same. They were 19 and 20 when I got married.
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And I'm the baby of four kids. And my mom was 20 when she had my sister.
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She was 33 by the time she had me.
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I went to Earthplace Nature Center when I was a kid. They used to have a crystal
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shop in the front. They had all the rocks and the gems and all the things.
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I remember my mom going there, and all these moms were like their first time
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bringing their kid there.
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My mom's like, oh, no, I got three more at home. They were shocked because she
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was such a baby with former kids. Wow. So you went to Staples?
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Went to Staples. I did all of it. What drew you to FIT?
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So I was the girl growing up that got all the magazines, got very into fashion,
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a very young age, loved it all.
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When I was in high school, if you went to Staples, it was like almost an automatic
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in if you were applying for schools.
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You kind of had an edge when you were going, you know.
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So my parents were funny. Italian dad, my mom was a mutt, you know,
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same thing. They never really pushed college.
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Like that was something that they were like, okay, we need to sit down.
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My sister went, she did four years up near Yale. It was not something they really pushed.
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Who knows? I don't know if that's a good thing or not. It's just too much. Yeah, just what it was.
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So after high school, I applied to some schools, but I wasn't super serious about it.
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My sister had her first baby, and she moved down to Texas for her husband's career.
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My parents, because my nephew was the first grandchild, decided to help take care of things.
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In Texas, the cost of living was next to nothing, and they built a house.
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There was all these new houses in this cul-de-sac area. So my parents decided
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instead of staying in a hotel every time, they were going to buy a second house
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like five doors down from my sister.
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Makes perfect sense. My sister, because she just had her first baby,
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she was trying to figure out, she was a working woman.
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She's like, I need to be home with the baby. So she said, Cora,
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would you have any interest? I know you're trying to figure out your next move.
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Would you want to run a daycare center with me?
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And I was like, I have no experience. She goes, you have to take the first aid
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course. I said, all right, did that.
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I moved to Texas. I was 18, going on 19 at the time.
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We ran a daycare center for a year out of our house, seven to five every day,
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taking care of five babies.
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And I mean, it was hilarious. I'm like, OK, I was like a babysitter, thick.
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Like my dad did not let me go out like during the high school days.
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I was like the one with the 10 o'clock curfew. So I babysat,
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made money and did all the things. So I had all the child experience already.
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Then I was like, I got to figure something out. So I took some classes down
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there when I was living in Texas, just like a community college.
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Then when I moved back home, I was like, all right, I think I actually want to like
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go more into this. And I commuted back and forth to FIT. I never lived in the
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dorms. I never did the whole full college experience.
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That's the one regret I do have in my life, not doing the full on college experience.
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All my experiences come from my work experience, from people,
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like connections, like that's sort of how my path is always. You love it?
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I did. I did. I felt like I probably could have given it a little extra move,
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to be honest. I think I enjoy working more than the education side.
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I think as I've come into my own, I'm craving knowledge more than I did when I was younger.
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I definitely enjoyed it. It was fun. I learned some things. I worked in retail.
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Then I was a buyer for Intermix for many years.
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I know. It's a story. I know. I loved Intermix. I loved it. So sad.
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Yeah. So I was like assistant buyer.
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Then my other life before my
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husband, I was with somebody for a very long time who was a photographer.
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Photographer I would do styling gigs I was an assistant stylist with
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him on different things and then I was like that's it I'm
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leaving this job I'm going to be a full-time stylist me and like
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7,000 other girls my age I was like I don't
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know how it's gonna happen so my mom was like listen we don't
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want you to leave I was like well if I'm gonna stay with the company I
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don't want to stay in the store I want to go corporate and I get no experience
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but you're like but this is what I'm gonna do I can do that I have no experience
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whatsoever so they're like we're gonna put you as an assistant and I was an
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assistant for a while and I was the assistant buyer and then I was the buyer
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for all the accessories and that was super fun and then that kind of ran the course.
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Literally every single thing that I've done it's just sort of like migrated
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from something else like it's just sort of these opportunities of.
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Arisen. And I'm like, okay, let's try this. When I look back at my past and
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what I've done, like the career with Mulberry, I was with my parents going to the movie.
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I got a phone call from this guy that I met. We used to go to all the free concerts
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in Williamsburg on Sundays, like the best shows ever.
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He randomly calls me on a Sunday and he's like, hey, I don't know if you remember
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me, but there's a girl that I know that she's leaving.
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She works for this brand mulberry i don't know if you know them i'm
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like yes i definitely know them because we were buying them at the
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time at intermix i was like i totally know the brand he's like
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yeah they're looking someone to run the wholesale division and
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i had sales in my background so i was like okay i went
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and met with them and the guy that was interviewing me was amazing work husband
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loved him we hit it off we knew people that knew people and like that was it
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every single step like one of my welding days it was waiting for my daughter
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at ballet like she was doing ballet all the moms are sitting together in the waiting room.
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What are you doing right now? I'm trying to figure out my next move.
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You should totally talk to my friend.
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She's just started a handbag company. I'm like, handbag company.
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She's making bags out of, you know, Norwalk, whatever it is.
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Look at the website. I'm like, oh, I need to be part of that.
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Met with her. And that was it. It was the two of us that did the business together.
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You jumped in the building.
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Yes. It was literally like, hey, I know my friend who's doing this.
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You should totally talk to her. The universe, definitely.
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And the same thing what I'm doing now. It was literally like out of the blue.
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So not to say this is the way for anyone to run their life, but it's worked.
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It's worked for me so far. So everyone knows today I took Corey's step class
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and that is a vibe in there.
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Thank you. It is like a...
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Spin class in such that you are in a rabbit hole.
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It is dark, but not so dark you can't see your step. Don't worry.
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Everyone's safe. It's on the darker side.
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The music is blasting. Blasting. Blasting.
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The best beats that simmer into your being. Every part of you wants to move with them.
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The steps that you do in the step class, you can follow them.
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There are some that I've seen online where they're doing full-on hip-hop dances
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on the steps, and I'm like, That would be a goal, but probably not safe for
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most of us. Yeah, totally.
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So I, and by the way, it's packed. It is completely waitlisted.
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How many people are in that room? So it maxes out at 43.
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The most I've had on the waitlist to date has been upwards. So almost 40 people
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on the waitlist. Holy shit!
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Yeah, so it's kind of bananas to me though, because this Friday is two years
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that I've been teaching the class.
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Yeah. The funniest part about the whole thing is that I have not really changed
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up the routine that much since I started.
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I'll integrate some things here and there. I will definitely switch up the music,
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but that opening song has been the same since day one.
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I'm still surprised every week that there's still this many people showing up every week.
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These women and a few men. And a few men. Yeah. So now there's definitely been
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more men coming into classes.
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At the end of it, it's they're telling, you know, they're like Corey,
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like, and there's women that take like multiple classes that I know what they do.
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And they've told me every single
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time they're like, I've never sweat so much that I do in this class.
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And I'm like, thank you. And this is coming off never teaching a class.
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That is amazing because your energy up there is that of a sexy dancer ballerina
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who knows your body. You know how it moves.
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Your energy just comes out of that stage.
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Oh, thank you. You want to be like, yes, let's keep going. Let's keep going.
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And then there's one move where you step over the step and do a turn and your hand comes up.
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Every time I did it, I was like, yes. Slipping my ass out a little bit.
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I was like, I feel like we all need to be doing this more.
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It's like your little flamenco move. It felt so freeing. Yeah.
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And it was, I enjoyed it so very much.
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I'm so happy. And I want other people to, well, you can't get in,
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but you got to join the Y. And it happened.
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Okay. So I give you a little insight as to how it came about.
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We were doing the rounds of Christmas parties.
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That particular year, we had so many. The very last one we were supposed to
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go to was on a Monday night. Our babysitter canceled, and it was raining.
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I said to my husband, honey, I just don't think I'm going to sit this one out.
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He's like, this is the one I actually need you to go to. I was like, oh, why?
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So we go to the party, and the woman who was in charge of all the things at the Y was
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approach. She was making small talk and doing all the things, making her rounds.
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We started talking and she said to me, basically, Corey, what do you do with
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the Y? And I said, you mean for workouts? I said, well, I do my own thing.
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I used to do Tracy Anderson, aka Trey Trey for many years. I said,
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I've always loved fitness.
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I was the one memorizing Jane Fonda on a mound of dirt. My dad has videos of
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me at the age of seven when we're doing construction.
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Oh yeah. I have all the things at the house. I did all the things growing up.
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So when she asked me, I was like, yeah, I just do this, this, and this.
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And she goes, well, would you ever want to teach a class? And I said,
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I have no experience teaching whatsoever. She's like, that's okay.
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She goes, a lot of it's just the energy that you portray.
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She said, you'd have to audition. She goes, it's not just like you've got the
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gig and that's it. She goes, you'd have to audition. Let's see where it goes.
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I was like, all right. And I remember turning to my husband and going,
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I'm going to be a fitness teacher.
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He's like, what? I was like, yeah. And then we had a couple of our buddies at
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the party. are good friends of ours.
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I go, guys, I'm going to be a fitness. They're like, oh yeah,
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okay, Cora, you sure? And my husband's like, he tells the story differently.
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He's like, I said to you, it makes perfect sense. I'm like, really?
21:05
I don't remember that part.
21:06
So then she's like, okay, the audition date's going to be in a month and a half
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and we'll kind of see where it goes.
21:12
So I have a video. It's hysterical. I was looking at it yesterday.
21:15
I ordered a step and I was trying to remember routines they used to do back in the day.
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I would set up my iPad and videotape myself to see how it looked and start creating routines.
21:26
And the music is something I've always had a serious love.
21:31
Like music is my husband. I love language. We've like go to so many shows and all the things.
21:35
So I was like, okay, if I'm going to do this, I'm not going to do typical pop
21:39
music. I'm not going to do whatever.
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I was like, I'd want to do really the music that I love. If they're giving me
21:43
full ownership over this to do it. And they asked, what would you teach?
21:46
I said, I would teach step.
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I remember that I loved it when I took it.
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I remember the sweat I got, the energy it brought i
21:53
was like i think i want to bring that back because i don't know if
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anyone that's doing it so that was it and
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i created a whole routine and practiced it they said okay you've got this date
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you're coming in for the audition i thought i was doing it for one person i
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come in and i see three little benches set up like oh shit i gotta teach a mini
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class so it was a 20 minute little
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tea yeah oh yeah your audition was actually a little tiny mini class,
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So I did it. And I get an email the next day. Congratulations.
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You're on. I was like, OK, this is happening. Let's go.
22:23
So they're like, hey, you're going to be this. How about Tuesday?
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I was like, sure, that sounds great. They originally put me in the smaller studio, max out at 20.
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And I get a call or email a couple of days before. They're like,
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that's at capacity already. We're going to put you in the bigger studio.
22:38
You're going to be on a stage and you're going to have them like, what?
22:42
I was like, what am I doing? I remember that day my nerves
22:45
were just at like I knew I'd practice
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so many times I used to write all my moves I'd write the song
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and I would write the moves all down in front
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of me in case I forgot anything yeah I had an iPad in front of me with my self-recorded
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just in case I forgot anything I was the first day that I taught my music it
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bounced all around I was like oh my god my nerves got the best of me and that
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was day one and literally after that day it just became consistent and the class
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was continuing to be full.
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So then they asked me, do you want to teach a second class? And I said,
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okay. And I originally started with a Saturday.
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I did that for about a month. And then I was like, no, it was in the smaller studio.
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And I said, it's just not the same thing. I said, I'm just going to do the one
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class. And they're like, you can't, you have to teach.
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So there was somebody that was teaching on Fridays and I guess it wasn't a very attended class.
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That's the spot that I'm teaching on Fridays now. So I've been doing it for
23:39
almost two years. It's insane to see how everyone comes together so beautifully.
23:44
I've been told, I had like a year ago, I had people, I forget what I called
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it, but I had a jar and I said, if there's anything that you feel from this
23:52
class, I would love to know because it only helps me with you guys.
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So just like the most beautiful messages, the most beautiful words. And
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Yes, it's a great workout. You sweat your butt off. But people really talking
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about like, I feel completely different after this or I was having such a shitty
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morning and I'm leaving with such a buzz. It's the best way to start my day.
24:10
Have that is just so cool. And like people have made there's two women in my
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class that I just I mean, it's incredible.
24:17
The demographic in the class is not a bunch of teenagers with hard bodies.
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You get everything from a young girl to I think the top age in my class is like
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75 years old. It's a vast group of women.
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These two women met in class and they're like soul sisters.
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They do everything together. And they're probably both late 60s.
24:37
Literally, they are like soul sisters.
24:39
There are women we've met in our class. I've met women that I've become really close to now.
24:45
There's one that was brand new. She lives in Weston, brand new to the Y.
24:50
Apparently, I was playing a Bjork song in my class and she's like,
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who is this bitch playing Bjork? Like, who the fuck plays Bjork in their class?
24:57
She joined the class and she's diehard there twice a week.
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So my brain has been working overtime to think about what's next.
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What can I do next with this?
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A third class. Hybrid. A hybrid.
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Yeah. I love that. I think the reason I'm thinking more about it now,
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too, is if it wasn't a crazy waitlist, it'd be one thing.
25:17
But I'm like, OK, I know that there's so many people that want to come.
25:21
An entire other class wants to be there, Kori.
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Like, it's not just a few people on the waitlist. It's an entire other room.
25:28
You know what? It's like at church and it's an overflow room.
25:31
That is what you need to do. That's totally true. You just have someone who's
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monitoring it and the overflow room doesn't have you, but they have your video.
25:39
And it's like synced in. That's amazing. And you're the overflow.
25:44
That's amazing. That is the next step. Take me to church. I'll sit in the overflow
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room so I can get my good work.
25:50
It's been incredible. When I was thinking about this whole thing,
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I'm like, just say yes. You just never know.
25:56
Just say yes. The things that really have changed my trajectory of where I've
25:59
gone next is just by saying yes.
26:01
Knowing well that I had no experience in certain things. Like Mulberry,
26:05
I had no experience running a whole country for wholesale at all.
26:09
When I started with my other company, marketing was sort of an underwritten
26:13
thing. If you get into, you know, you're a buyer or you're in sales,
26:16
marketing goes along with it.
26:17
But it wasn't something that I was like, oh, I've got my degree in marketing.
26:21
It was like, yeah, sure, I can do this.
26:23
It's truly fake it to me. It's unreal. My friends always joke around with me.
26:27
I remember going to Brooklyn and being a stylist, loving fashion. I love fashion.
26:31
But seeing something on the rack and just knowing it's going to work without trying it on.
26:35
My friends always bust me for this one. like we went to
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all there was like eight of us that went to brooklyn one night and we go into one
26:40
of those amazing tibetan shops right on bedford i saw
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this outfit and didn't try it on and they were cracking up they're
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like are you freaking kidding me cory i was like nope it's gonna work
26:49
it's good went to a wedding never tried on the dress that my dear friend at
26:53
the time he was a designer he just brought it with him like yeah it's fine it'll
26:57
work the flow works the flow i'm trying and when i feel that flow i try to really
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step into it as much as i can so what has changed about you or in you since you started teaching.
27:09
Because it's the fitness is you've got to be alert.
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You've got to be on your A-game. You could have a crappy day,
27:15
but it's not going to go very well if you're in there and feeling like shit. Oh, girl.
27:18
There have been days. As women, we know what that feels like when that time
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of the month comes. And I can't just be like, I'm not showing up. I still have to show up.
27:25
You still have to bring it. You still have to bring the energy.
27:28
You still have to do all the things. So what's changed me?
27:31
One thing that I know for me, which is funny because I've never been a runner.
27:34
Cardio is something that I enjoy, but it's felt like a little wind.
27:38
It's wild. so I think the class and I've
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heard this from a lot of people too there's one woman that comes to my class and
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she's like it's helped me so much with that as far as my
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endurance so I think my endurance definitely is majorly changed
27:51
I definitely can see how it's changed over the course of the two years since
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I've been doing this for sure they always joke around with me I'm like just
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focus on what you need to focus they're like most of the time I'm focusing your
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ass like whatever it takes whatever it takes focus on so I mean it's good like
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whatever you need to do it.
28:08
But you're right, though. I think that you have to like you're balancing a lot
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of stuff. You have to be quick to move to the next thing.
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Maybe it's part of like my routine not changing that much. It's funny because
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I don't have to think that much anymore.
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But you do have to be on your toes. I'm also very alert as far as what's happening
28:24
in the classroom. Right.
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Yeah. It's a lot of people to check and make sure everyone's doing it correctly.
28:29
So and I think facing the mirror is super helpful because I'm in the zone.
28:32
So I think if I was facing everybody, I would be more conscious,
28:36
but the fact that I lock into the zone, I encourage everybody to do the same.
28:40
It's brought a lot of happiness.
28:42
I've been told I'm a very good community builder, like introducing people to
28:46
other people that they've become best friends or whatever.
28:48
And I think that's been, you know, just blown out of the water with this class,
28:52
making sure that people feel good. You know, it can be intimidating.
28:55
You walk into a new situation, especially a bunch of women.
28:58
Yeah. And if they know it, it makes you feel like, oh, and just,
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yeah, creating that really comfortable, warm hug when they walk in,
29:04
just wanting them to feel good and
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No judgment, no anything. I really like that. It's a cool place.
29:10
It's not like your regular why. It's a cool why. Yeah, it's a cool why.
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I asked three questions at the end.
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So the first question is, what have you changed your mind about recently?
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I think the first thing that comes to my mind would probably actually be drinking. Okay.
29:24
That kind of goes off what I just said. My birthday is October,
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and I really wanted to create the best version of myself.
29:32
There is a woman 10 doors down from you that does
29:35
a lot of functional medicine and so forth and my dear friend's been
29:37
seeing her for years and has totally changed her whole thing so it
29:41
sounds terrible no sugar no wheat no life basically
29:44
what she first tells you so the only thing you can drink for alcohol is tequila
29:47
and vodka and granted I love both but there's only so much I can drink of either
29:51
one of them so I've sort of like pulled back a little bit my husband always
29:55
says dry January I've always supported him in that but I'm like and right now
29:59
is not as prevalent for me as it was. I've sort of changed my mind.
30:03
Talk to me again in six months. I'm sure we're totally different.
30:06
But for right now, that's taken like sort of... Not that I'm not drinking, but it's taken a pause.
30:10
Not drinking wine, that's kind of not fun. Not drinking beer,
30:13
that's kind of... I think that a lot of us are talking about this same thing.
30:17
I have friends and we're like, don't do it as much anymore. It's not as prevalent.
30:21
I don't know if it's an age thing, if we're just kind of growing out of it.
30:24
Believe me, there are times when we definitely enjoy ourselves. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
30:27
But it's just It's not as prevalent as it used to be. And I don't understand what's wrong with that.
30:34
And I can tell you right now, I cannot drink champagne for the life of me anymore.
30:38
I have a glass, half a glass, four sips. I will have a wicked headache the next day.
30:43
My body doesn't like it. I can drink tequila and I can drink a glass of red.
30:47
And sometimes I can and can't because I have rosacea and sometimes I like beet red afterwards.
30:53
But tequila never bothers me. And neither does vodka. Isn't that funny?
30:56
So it's, yeah, and I mean, now the F, you know, it's coming out.
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We didn't know it was bad for you. It's poison.
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Talk about that for a second. Y'all knew that it's not good for you.
31:05
We see what happens when you're in high school and they're like,
31:07
don't drink. Here's what a liver looks like. No.
31:09
Drinking, not drinking. Don't tan. Don't go out in the cell. You're like, but why?
31:13
You know, so we know all the things. Let's not be shocked. They like put it
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out there. No, for sure. But I also found that I do a moist January.
31:21
So I basically go back to normal. Yeah. I go back to just like during the week,
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I'm awake, alert, and I have to be.
31:28
And now the kids are so incredibly busy with showboarding.
31:30
I can't be on a mountain and not be 100% because when they launch themselves
31:34
off of 50-foot jumps, I have to be alert.
31:37
Yes. And because otherwise, I don't know what I would do.
31:41
But I do find that a couple weeks in just feel so much better.
31:47
We go through a stint between October 31st, which is the party at this house.
31:52
And then all of a sudden it's January 1st and you have not stopped.
31:58
Oh, no, you don't stop. And you have to be functional and you're trying to do
32:01
other things. I'm like, no. Good.
32:02
Guys, I'm good. It is true. Our dear friend throws a...
32:06
Bananas Halloween party every year, the kickoff. I still love drinking.
32:11
Recently, I'm like, all right, I think it's because I have all these guidelines for my health.
32:15
So I'm like, all right, I've never read labels like I've read them before now. Oh my God.
32:19
Yeah. So I'm just more in tune to this stuff. That's pretty amazing.
32:23
That's a good, cool change.
32:24
It is a cool change. It feels very empowering to know exactly what you're doing for yourself.
32:29
I make a wicked protein breakfast bar now that I make twice.
32:32
It's the easiest thing on the planet to make.
32:35
It's like next to nothing ingredients it's so easy
32:38
all right just share that with me at some point i make protein bowls every stick
32:41
them in the freezer it's so good it's so good it's so easy
32:44
and it's so funny because i think like last year i was saying to myself i definitely
32:48
want to cook more my mom was a huge cook my sister's an amazing cook my brother's
32:52
an amazing cook my other brother not so much i was like all right i really want
32:56
to get into this being more in tune to what i'm doing for myself is really i
32:59
want to be in the kitchen more i want to do more for my family in that regard
33:02
and And before it was like, eh.
33:04
That's such a great ginger. It is really good. So awesome. And it's cool to share with my family.
33:08
And it's cool for them to see it and my girls to see it. I'm sure my kids would
33:11
be happy if I didn't look at the lame.
33:14
I get in trouble because I'm the one who brings the organic gummy bears to things.
33:19
Told by one wife in particular, love you, that I'm not allowed to bring the candy.
33:24
Because it is not real candy. Yeah, I know. It is the Whole Foods organic. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
33:30
My daughter, who's seven, told me the other day that we were on a walk together
33:34
and she said, I really need you to put some real candy in my lunch. She was embarrassed.
33:38
She's like, Mom, all the kids have proper candy.
33:41
And she's like, healthy sugar, Mom? No.
33:44
Now that Red Dye's being banned, it's all going to be okay. And you can go back
33:48
to M&M's and it's going to be fine. Totally.
33:51
So what is the most random or interesting thing on your bucket list?
33:55
I was thinking about this. I've always wanted to get an aura reading.
33:57
There was an amazing woman in New York City. I can't remember her name now,
34:01
but she went and got it done with her husband.
34:03
There's something about that that I'm like...
34:06
You know what you feel, you know what you are, you know all the things,
34:09
but to have someone really get in there and be like, I see all the things and all this stuff.
34:14
So I think that's probably my most random. And there's, I don't know if she
34:18
still does it, but she was like down in Soho and this amazing like goddess guru and all the things.
34:23
My girlfriend, she does something in Westport that she's incredible and she
34:27
runs circles and all this stuff.
34:29
Goddess circle. It's incredible. I still have not gone to one.
34:33
You need to go. And it literally for two years, I get the emails. It's been on my list.
34:38
I will get there. It is going to happen. It will happen. And that will happen.
34:41
And then I want to do the combination of the ice bath and the sauna. Yep.
34:47
Because I'm like that with Ginger. I'm like, that's going to happen. Yep.
34:51
She's got, well, she's doing one. She's got like two spots left. I can't go to it.
34:56
Just like this. It will happen. I know. It will happen. Just like this.
35:00
It's really, it's pretty amazing. It's very cool. She's transformed a lot of
35:03
women. She runs like a circle every Tuesday now. these really amazing containers.
35:06
This woman was sort of her inspiration.
35:08
I remember when she told us she was going to do these, she said,
35:11
back in the day, I mean, this is many years ago. She's like,
35:13
guys, I think I want to do these goddess circles. We're like,
35:15
what are you talking about?
35:16
In the beginning, it's funny because when we first started doing them,
35:19
we all bring wine, weed, food, and it's transformed completely.
35:24
It's really about checking into yourself.
35:26
This woman that she went to was sort of like her inspiration and she did this
35:30
aura reading. I just think that'd be such a cool thing to do. My sister does circles.
35:34
Does she? Oh, yeah, in California. Oh, I think you told me this before.
35:37
She's a good full witch. Yes. She has her containers. Amazing.
35:39
She puts one every morning. She does different circles.
35:43
Of different types of things. Like when it's full moon, she does all her crystals
35:46
out. She tells me what's happening with the moon.
35:49
When we go away, we try to do a wives weekend. The seven of us.
35:52
I love it. Every time we do it, I do a goddess circle for us. And my sister writes it.
35:57
I love it. So Christina writes what we're going to say. Love it.
35:59
And then I force everyone outside.
36:01
I'm like, take the leaves and take the sage and we're going to build these packets.
36:06
You're like. And they're just, they do it. They love it. And the canisters are
36:10
still in our houses. Their daughters.
36:13
Asked to do it. They do it too now. They have their own little book of spells.
36:17
That's good. The magic is so real.
36:20
I agree with you. Awesome. The magic is so real. I mean, I don't know about
36:24
you. Are you affected by the full moon?
36:25
I remember my mom used to say it about my dad. His mood would get a bit twitchy with the full moon.
36:30
I always feel like when there's a full moon, at least it's me,
36:32
I think it's your next thing.
36:33
But the things that you have no qualms of saying at all,
36:39
like you just feel your most like confident self
36:42
it's something about the full moon every month it's just like you
36:45
just don't give a shit it was a wolf moon the other day oh was it
36:48
yeah it was this gorgeous orange okay thing
36:51
and the girls texted like did you see this like it's a wolf moon and they're
36:55
like what does this mean i'm like you have to go outside and howl right and
36:58
one of the daughters was like howling do that and she's my spirit animal it's
37:03
just wild and free it is it's just so And then I sent all the information about
37:08
what it actually was and what you can do.
37:10
And it all stems from my sister who...
37:13
Has gone through this way of life where it really has helped her with coping
37:17
and getting through everything. Does she have children, your sister? Yeah.
37:20
And is she introducing all that to them? Oh, they know all of it.
37:22
It's amazing. My niece, Aubrey, does her own canister. She has her own spell book.
37:27
My nephew, Miles, does it. Her husband, Noah, is just like, whatever.
37:32
She makes him go out into the woods and walk around on Christmas.
37:35
And she's like, this is what we do now. Yes. That's what you do. Well, I will tell you,
37:38
we went for a dear friend's birthday like extravaganza in
37:42
an island last month was amazing lex ran
37:45
a circle and it was guys and girls and it's the first time that she
37:48
did it with our crew of guys she's done it before with guys that
37:51
we don't know they've known that we've been doing this forever to
37:54
see them really tuning in was pretty wild the
37:57
energy from the men the masculine energy surrounding us
38:00
was pretty wild you definitely felt a whole different situation
38:04
got right in there and said the things all the
38:07
support and stuff so yeah it's so surprising when
38:10
they open up like that yes when they open up it is
38:13
we had over new year's eve we did
38:17
our family dinner like the wives and their kids and all of us and the kids were
38:21
upstairs playing and my wife daniella she's not my actual wife wait guys you've
38:25
been listening to all these episodes you know it's not my wife but one of my
38:28
wives daniella my besties she creates the most amazing experiences when you
38:33
go to her house for dinner party.
38:35
She thinks about every detail and she's brilliant at it. So we're all sitting
38:39
down for this beautiful meal.
38:41
One of my other wives, Dawn, always asks great questions and she gets this whole
38:46
conversation going. Love it.
38:47
So the question, I can't remember the exact question, but everyone had to answer
38:50
it. It was almost like, what would you keep and what would you get rid of? Okay.
38:54
And everyone went around and even the guys were answering and they were the most honest answers.
39:03
And like people had lost their, there were like dads that were,
39:06
two dads that were lost this year. Like the husband's dad are gone.
39:09
And they were all so open and vulnerable. And we're all just like, it's surprising.
39:14
And then at one point we're like, we need to all go have a dance party now because it's heavy.
39:18
This is, yeah, we all, this love is big and there's a lot and we're just going
39:22
to go. And then we all just went and had a big dance. Awesome.
39:24
But it was very cool to see them open up with other people.
39:27
The fact that they know all of us so intimately and so well,
39:31
you know, and it's funny because I think that,
39:34
There's times in those group settings that you get a little nervous, a little anxious.
39:38
And I always find that the men that are very forthcoming with their answers,
39:43
it's easy to come up and say something.
39:45
Just to be around that and know how comfortable they feel in that setting is very cool.
39:48
What is a piece of advice that you would give to your younger self?
39:52
I would say stop sugarcoating.
39:56
As far as people pleasing, I definitely went through a phase that I would make everything nice.
40:04
Just to make sure that there were no feelings hurt or make sure, you know.
40:09
Okay to say no to things that you don't actually want to do,
40:11
which is extremely empowering as we get older, separating the things you want
40:16
to say yes to versus the things that you don't, because your energy is so much
40:20
bigger when you're giving into the things you really want to say yes to.
40:23
The sugarcoating thing was funny, though. I remember my husband and I first
40:26
started dating, and I think in the beginning of our relationship,
40:29
I still had that whole pattern a little bit.
40:31
And not that it got me into trouble per
40:34
se but there was definitely situations that I was like god this
40:37
would have been so much easier if I just said what I need to say right and
40:40
get through and be done but making everything nice and pretty
40:43
and then realizing that wasn't the right thing so I would tell
40:45
20 year old 18 year old 15 year old Corey
40:48
say you know you don't need to like make everything nice
40:51
it's okay to come out with the truth it's okay to say
40:54
what you need to say and we'll move past it yeah and it's
40:57
funny because my little one I definitely see a
41:00
little bit of that in her and I'm trying to encourage
41:04
her like you know it's okay you don't have to make everything
41:07
so copacetic it's all right just to get out there and say this doesn't
41:10
feel good or this doesn't whatever but if you have that
41:13
sort of people-pleasing mentality but also
41:16
I think that kind of stage of when I grew up too and I was easier just to like
41:22
make everything nice versus like you know just coming out with it as a mother
41:27
of two girls and giving them that empowerment not to just say yes to everything
41:31
because it's so much easier for us sometimes.
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You know right away when something doesn't feel good when you say yes to something.
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It's such a gut and full body feeling when you know it's not the right thing to say yes to.
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For me personally, I get something right here in my chest when I say yes to
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something that I'm like, oh no.
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And now it's so cool. I avoid confrontation at all costs. I'm the same.
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I am the same. Like legitimately, like I, it pains my body.
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Oh God, But it was so hard for me to have a hard conversation.
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And granted, I'm not like...
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Perfect at it now by any stretch but if something
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i don't want to do and it's funny to see people's reactions when
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i thought they'd be like oh god it's like oh okay
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let's move on like you it surprises you you're like oh it's that easy okay it's
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that easy to set a boundary to say your opinion and not have it be liked right
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and that's good and that's fine and then like you know like my dad i mean i
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love my dad my dad's 82 he looks like a rock star he looks like he's 50 something years old.
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He's an amazing man. Italian men don't age. My dad's had a skincare routine
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since I can't even remember how long.
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He uses an egg white mask on his face every day.
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He does glycolic cream on his face, like the CVS brand. He was involved in this
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oil from the emu bird for many years.
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After construction, it was a whole weird side thing. He does it every day.
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He looks fantastic, my father.
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He was actually asked when we were in Martha's Vineyard years ago,
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a group of guys came over to him.
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Like, hey, man, I totally saw you with Keith Richards, blah,
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blah, blah. They're all wasted.
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And my mother was looking and she's like, oh, my God, he got in the middle of
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all of them and took a picture because they thought he was a rock star. It's hysterical.
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He looks so good. My dad, I'm like, all right, I'm just following you on the path.
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Yeah, the Italian men. My dad does not age. We'll see Aldo and be like, your dad looks the same.
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Yeah, I know. Is that amazing? Can I have that?
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No, I've, you know, my mom looks amazing for her age. Yeah, girl. You got it.
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Skin. Oh, this is Botox. Let's be real. Let's be real, guys.
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I discovered it. I discovered it a few years ago, and it's changed the game. Oh, yeah.
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I'm good with it. Oh, yeah. I'm good with it. All the helping hands.
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I was doing the LED math last night with all the red.
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Yeah. Laying in the bed like this. My girls were scared shitless,
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and I'm like, it's fine, girls.
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I'm trying to look like you. Wait, isn't the one that you put on?
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Yeah, except I laid down.
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But I had the neck one I just started using, too. I want the neck one.
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Oh, yeah, girl. I got the whole thing. Oh, my God, the neck one.
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Oh, yeah. Send me that one. I'm so curious about it.
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My boys are like, I have. So I bought this like.
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New skin oh yeah oh yeah so i bought new skin
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yeah and i was like i wonder if i could use it on my
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tummy after babies it's just skin it's just skin just.
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Freaking skin it's just skin and and i'm i'm you know i'm happy that
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i'm able to just have skin but i don't really like the skin so
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i was like i'm gonna try this i might be used it three times
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it is not something i'm gonna keep up with i have too much shit i
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can't keep up with everything yeah but the boys saw
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it and they're like what is this i'm like don't turn it on it's literally ultrasound
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it'll shock you and they're like huh and they like stuck at their
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bodies they're like like you guys you have to put
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on lotion then you have to do it so then they're like
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wait we want to try it so they're like they wanted to
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see yeah like they're they're into it i
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think they steal my they steal my theragun get all
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the theragun but best they steal the theragun they're like
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i need a bath i need this no they're okay
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with taking care of their bodies but that think about years
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from now when they've got their girlfriend they've got their yv's and
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they're like my mom has that device but they'll
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be taking care i will tell you my my older one
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last night she was cute she came in she's like mom i think i want
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to do a mask and then she's got like her she's got all the things right she's
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doing all this stuff now but she was like you could tell that
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she's been watching but like even a little bit more now and
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i'm like you can't like i play cvs was
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like my second home growing up like literally like CVS I
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would go what I mean I don't even know once a week
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was like an understatement we didn't have Sephora back then
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oh yeah that was a big deal that was
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a big deal and like when there was new products at CVS it always be
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like at the ends yes I was like in the aisle thing so it was like the new pretty.
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Product the new wet and wild oh 99 cents that wet and wild how much we got on.
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Our face it's hysterical now to see like it is so crazy I'm like okay girl if
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you're buying stuff that's more expensive than mommy's buying.
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My routine has gotten so simple.
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One thing I'm glad about not having girls that I don't even know,
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they would also steal all of my things.
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We're, yeah. Like we'll go in the room like.
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I do steal my oldest son. I steal his socks.
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Because they're super comfy. Oh, he's probably got the good,
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like, super high Vans ones. Oh, yeah. I just had to get him a suit because he's
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going to his first bar mitzvah.
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Oh, my God. Oh, cute. And we're not Jewish, so I don't know anything about it.
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But my friends, they're like, where is he? He can wear a suit.
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So I bought him this suit, and he put it on last night. And it's like.
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Does he look so handsome?
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Does he smell good, too? Does he want a cologne? No, he's so smelly.
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No, I love him. I might remind him to do everything.
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But he's, like, growing up. Oh, he looks so – and I got him a little skinny tie.
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And then I was like, wow, it would be super fun to be, like,
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a billionaire and have, like, a custom Armani suit made or a custom Xenia.
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I'm like, that – and, like, a really great fabric.
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He shows up, like, so, like, bling. But I got them. They're,
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like, H&M. And he's skinny. So he's got this skinnier pants. Oh, so cute.
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Get ready for the outfits that you see when you drop them off for the girls. I've seen some.
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Yeah, I don't know how they sit down. I don't know how they dance.
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But bless them, I don't know how they do it.
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This big, and I think they get away with the dresses this big because they all wear sneakers.
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So it's like... What are you doing? You sit down, your coochie falls out.
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I've now attended two dear friends of mine.
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And it's wild. It is wild. I'm like, wow, these are getting smaller.
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Can they dance or do they not? Well, it's funny because you see what you expect.
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They're all kind of sitting around.
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And then they kind of migrate in groups. So you'll see them moving around the
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party in groups. The one party we went to had a dance coach. Yeah.
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Okay. So there was like three dance coaches and then they bring the party and
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they get everybody in the dance floor and they do all the things.
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The second one felt younger.
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That was actually in the city and they did it at this like spectacular place downtown.
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Oh, yeah. And it's a full, as you know.
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So, and I don't remember, the girls seemed younger for some reason.
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They felt like they were all wearing the shorter dresses, but they felt like
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their present maturity was younger.
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Just like they were really excited. like they have the cotton candy
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and all the different things and very cutesy and all
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the stuff but yeah there was a definite difference from
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one that i went to here in the city it was interesting to see we won't be going
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through that either we'll be sweet 16 with that time but our kid i mean we're
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coming on to that time i mean you're in it now i'll be in it soon this has been
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so much it's been awesome he's so awesome i love it i love it too and i love Working out. Yeah.
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Yay. This is amazing, honey.
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