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• Meagan Smith: Hi everyone, welcome to Off Topic. I'm Megan. Jenny O'Mahony: I'm Jenny. Samantha Potter: And I'm Samantha. Meagan Smith: So this week, Sam, you just got back from a pretty cool trip, didn't you? Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. I was in Toronto for a brand trip with Amazon because they have their big prime big deal day sale coming up gosh, four days. It starts on Tuesday. I got I got the it's the sixth, sixth and seventh. Meagan Smith: When is it? What, October sixth? Sixth? Samantha Potter: I got their dates wrong in my first reel because that's just you know, my attention to detail is real strong over here, but that's okay. I know, I know. Meagan Smith: Also, how is it October? How is it October? Jenny O'Mahony: I know. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: Like what is happening right but yeah. Yeah, of course. Ask away. Meagan Smith: happening? Jenny O'Mahony: Like are we allowed to ask you about what those trips are like? Is that Meagan Smith: Like what do you do? What do you yeah, tell us about it. Jenny O'Mahony: Okay, so okay, hold on, I think we need to zoom out. So at what stage 'cause my understanding is anybody can make an Amazon storefront, correct? Samantha Potter: To the best of my knowledge, I believe you can. Yes. Jenny O'Mahony: So you can anybody can technically make one, but at what stage do you get so I have an Amazon storefront and I get generic emails. I don't invites to anything, nor nor should I, to be very clear based on any volume through there. But at what stage did you knowing that it might be different now, right? Because processes change, but at what stage Samantha Potter: Mm, mm. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: did you experience something beyond like an entry level? what can you timeline what that what it kind of What would a scaling Samantha Potter: For sure. Jenny O'Mahony: to getting to an event look I guess? Samantha Potter: Okay, so it's my like entry into the I was part of this I had a storefront for years before. And then I started taking it more seriously. And then I got a friend of mine, I was just asking about the program and she's You're not in it and I said no. So she made an email introduction to the manager. Jenny O'Mahony: And this is the affiliate, like associates program. Like what do they call the program? The inf Okay. Okay. Samantha Potter: Like it's called like the managed influencer program. I don't even know if it's called the managed influencer. It's called the Managed Amazon program. Amazon Canada. Jenny O'Mahony: Where you have access an account a manager who directly connects with you versus okay. Samantha Potter: Yeah, so you have like a rap. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Got it. Samantha Potter: So you have a direct point of contact at Amazon. And she brought me on right away, which was really nice. and so they the program has evolved and changed so much since then. So I don't know like what volume of sales you need to on a regular basis to be hitting to actually make it into this program. Like I have these questions, similar questions, because I'm not in the managed program in the US, but I'm at a point where I feel like I they're separate. Yeah. It's by market. So Jenny O'Mahony: It's by mar it's by market then. Okay. Meagan Smith: they're separate so there's a Canadian one and American. Got it. Got it. Samantha Potter: I'm at a point now where I'm like close to being okay, what, you know, I'm doing enough sales, I think. Or I'm like, okay, how do I be managed in the US group as well? So it's probably like evolved and changed, but they can see all these business development managers on the Amazon side can see all the back end numbers of the creators and different accounts and whatnot. And I'm sure there's certain flags that come up for them. When they're looking through. Also, like an introduction never hurts, right? If you're okay, this, you know, this person I think has a lot of potential. Jenny O'Mahony: for sure. Meagan Smith: For sure. Samantha Potter: and I think it really, yeah. In like in everything in life, right? Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Who you know is always a factor. That's just in any other in any place, yeah. Meagan Smith: helps. Yeah. In life. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. So I think that having that side of it for me though was kind of the biggest unlock because I'm such a I'm I'm driven. I I'm competitive. So as soon as it's hit this number, like they give you targets and goals and like nothing happens if you don't hit them. But I'm competitive. So I want to hit them and I want to advance my business and my career. So you keep it yeah, that's like my motivation, right? I Meagan Smith: Yeah, that works for you. Like that target Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Samantha Potter: can't be self-motivated when I wasn't part of the managed program. I still know Meagan Smith: Mm. Samantha Potter: the more that I can sell, the more money I can make. Jenny O'Mahony: But that external motivation factor is that is just like human psychology. Most people do well with external motivation. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. It's like right. It's having a trainer or going to the gym by yourself. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: A hundred percent. Meagan Smith: Yeah. I won't go to the gym by myself, which is why I have a trainer. Cause I need someone. I need I need someone to Samantha Potter: And I don't go to the gym or have a trainer, so Jenny O'Mahony: I would literally Meagan Smith: annoy me and be you have to do this. Are you Samantha Potter: Mm. Meagan Smith: doing this? Are you otherwise I forget. I also forget. Jenny O'Mahony: I would never Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: would never hit my sets, my reps, my weights without if my trainer Lauren wasn't adding more weight on. I'd be like, Well, that's good enough. I would never progressively overload. You're like, yeah. So you have a personal Meagan Smith: Yeah, the account the accountability piece is real. Yeah. Yep. Samantha Potter: sorry, you wanted 12? I did five, but no one's arguing with me. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: trainer, essentially, mode I'm joking. You have targets. You have sales targets. Samantha Potter: Basic yeah, exactly, exactly, exactly. Meagan Smith: For work. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: So like basically how other marketing jobs are. You have targets to hit. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah, exactly. It's like you have a c you have exactly if you're if you're in a sales role, that's kind of what it what it looks like. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: and then it once you kind of hit certain thresholds, I d I honestly don't know what they are, but then you start seeing like invites to these kinds of events and you start, you know, being on their radar. And I think one of the biggest there's of two big unlocks there. There's one where it's just volume of sales. So if your volume of sales is just so high, then obviously you're gonna be on people's radar. And then also if your year over year growth is really high. So last year, if you sold like this is obviously like not the case, but if you sold ten dollars and then this year's selling a hundred dollars and you start to scale that up, you're seeing huge growth for people, then Jenny O'Mahony: Consistent growth. Yeah. Samantha Potter: yeah, then you you probably will get somebody's attention. And that's kind of exactly. Yeah, you see Jenny O'Mahony: It's like future talent. It's investing in talent, basically, is what they're doing. Okay. Samantha Potter: you see some promise in somebody and yeah. Yeah. And Meagan Smith: It's really cool. Samantha Potter: then from there, like you you may get invited to events. And at these events I would say like there's certain ones that are probably more like a lot a lot of the time, it depends. This is specifically from my experience with Amazon, but a lot of the times our airfare and like Ubers to and from places are not covered. Typically they cover hotel Meagan Smith: Okay. Samantha Potter: rooms and food at like the event. If the event is all day, then food would be included. If it's an evening event, then your food in the evening would be included, that kind of thing. Meagan Smith: Like your breakfast wouldn't be if the event doesn't start 'til seven or something. Got it. Samantha Potter: Exactly. Exactly. So a lot of this is also self paid when you're going to the event. So you kind of have to weigh is it worth it? Isn't it? what makes the most sense? And so I would think typically events like this they'll hand out an an itinerary. So you kind of know what's coming and what you what's gonna be said. And so a lot of the time there's updates about what's going on with the program. There's education around like they'll bring in experts to talk to to talk to people. Like at the prime day one, they brought in, they brought in, I forget his name right now, the founder of one of the founders of those bars, those chocolate bars that are with nuts. Some are peanut butter. Yes, midday squares. There we go. Thank you. Meagan Smith: like the day ones? midday squares. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: My gosh, all I could think about was the guy that completely cancelled guy from the Epstein Files who has like the David bars. I was like, my god, they did not P Peter Attilia. That was the only I for some reason that was the first. I was like, No, they didn't. Let's anyways, no Yeah, I I I know why he'd be available to speak at that event, but god. Meagan Smith: Ha ha. Samantha Potter: I the him. That's so funny. That would be a terrible choice. No, no. They brought in Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: He probably has some time, yeah. Samantha Potter: Right. That's so funny. No, they brought in one of the founders from Midday Squares who's like nailed the branding of it. And so just speaking on personal branding and like helping us, you know, just some something that would be useful for there's creators in the room, there's publishers in the room. There's a whole different group of it's not always just creators. Meagan Smith: so it's not just creators. Samantha Potter: There's also like different Meagan Smith: okay. Samantha Potter: elements. So it's something that would be beneficial kind of for all to hear and listen to. they'll do panel. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm. I didn't realize so it's not just creators. Cause it's always called like Amazon influencers when I see their Meagan Smith: Yeah, I didn't realize that either. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: so so that's interesting. So they're making a concerted effort to have diversity in their attendance pool to make more globally relevant, especially probably given that that these creators all have different niches. Right? So they're interesting. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Is it networking too? Like hi is Samantha Potter: Totally. I mean it's up to you. right, it's up to you. There's always social parts of the event and Meagan Smith: For sure. But because it's not just influencers, is there networking opportunities with Samantha Potter: there's networking opportun not not really. with the publishers, with the people attending, I find it's that's actually one of my what I learned the most is from talking to other people at the events, like other creators other, and how they're doing their business. Like this exactly. This business is really lonely. Like my Meagan Smith: Right, like other creators. What's working, what's not. Cool. Yeah. Samantha Potter: you know, I don't go Jenny O'Mahony: Mm, yeah. Samantha Potter: to an office every day. I don't see anybody else. I don't my my colleagues. Yes, which I love. I love it so much. Exactly. Meagan Smith: It's also female dominated, which is pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. It sounds like going to a conference. Do you know what I mean? Samantha Potter: It's pretty much what it is. Yeah. Meagan Smith: But with like all cool women. Samantha Potter: With all very cool, Jenny O'Mahony: Totally. Samantha Potter: smart entrepreneurial women who Meagan Smith: Yeah. Yeah. Samantha Potter: have made yeah have have made a really great career for themselves. Which I that's the Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: And for themselves. Jenny O'Mahony: Creatively and outside the box, which I appreciate. Meagan Smith: Yeah. And for themselves and their families or just themselves. which is pretty cool. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. But to answer your question on the networking, there are also brands who will have activations there. Which I also really appreciate because during the sales, there's so much on sale. So to n to sift through things and to know what's actually good, to be able to touch, feel, use and try these products, I think makes such a huge difference. So there are like brands that you can, you know, network with and Meagan Smith: Yeah. 'Cause you don't want to be recommending things that you've never even tried you know, use this Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: face cream and you're I've never even tried it. Yeah. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Right. Yeah. That's and and biggest I find beauty so hard Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: and I need to have tried it and loved it. And the eye masks that I love may not work for you guys and vice versa, right? Everyone's skin and face is so different. Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: But that's why all your recommendations I do always really trust because I know I know you, but I also know you've tried it. It's not it's not something that you're just there's a really good sale or I'm gonna make money off of it. You're I actually use it. Same with you, Jenny. Samantha Potter: There's this is good. This Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I also Meagan Smith: You'd never recommend anything you don't use. Jenny O'Mahony: no, but also we have both heard and nobody else will have really been privy to this, but the amount of times that the amount of no's that you give for products Meagan Smith: Right. Jenny O'Mahony: because you don't share this thing sucks. You're Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: just like, Meagan Smith: Yes. Jenny O'Mahony: my gosh, I was sent this thing and it's so bad I can't share it. Or do you know what mean? so you there is 'cause I think what gets sort of watered down in any sales space is overselling and making and like hyperbolizing how important and how good anything is in the name of making money in the name of a sale. And Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: it's totally unnecessary because there are so many good products out there that you don't need to just hawk anything because there's a good version of everything. You just have to find it, right? Samantha Potter: Yeah. You just have to find it. And Meagan Smith: That's good point. Yeah. Samantha Potter: that's the find it and order. And the amount of returns and orders that come Jenny O'Mahony: Mm. Samantha Potter: to my house are it's actually insane. And my front door, I just need a separate garage for for this so I don't have to stare at it anymore. Meagan Smith: Just all the stuff you're ordering, yeah. Samantha Potter: It's so annoying. But at the same time, like I'm not just gonna recommend every single garland that's on A that's on Amazon. I need to look, touch, feel. I need it to actually look realistic because That's also if I'm not gonna put it in my house, I'm not gonna recommend it to you to put in your house. why why would I do that? Meagan Smith: So funny. I've totally directed Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. Meagan Smith: people to your Amazon storefront for garlands specifically because one of my Samantha Potter: That's so funny. Meagan Smith: friends was once asking me, and I was I have no idea, but I know who knows. And I've bought garlands that you've and they don't Samantha Potter: But I know who knows. That's so funny. No. Yeah. Meagan Smith: because you I wanted a fake garland that I could then put real stuff in for Christmas, for example. And Samantha Potter: Mm. Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: I forget which one I bought, but it was years ago. And I was this is still so I still get compliments on it. And it wasn't expensive. And yeah. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. And you s I love it. I love that. See? Yeah. That and that's the key. it's just, yeah, some of the girls I've been at events, the last holiday event I remember. a couple of them looking over my shoulder, they're like, What are you doing? I'm like zooming in on people's review Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: photos to be like, How realistic do these stems look? Like Yeah, yeah. yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Or is it a real review? Because you get f because a Meagan Smith: Is it a real review? Jenny O'Mahony: lot because there's you ca anybody can list stuff on Amazon, right? Like you actually Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: need to be able to when you're buying off of a third party seller, essentially, you need to be able Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: to know, are these twenty one thousand reviews actually real? Twenty one thousand reviews? Or has somebody like been sneaky? You wanna see who's Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. somebody bought it, yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: fulfilling the order, you wanna see you actually need to do due diligence. Even within 'cause any platform there's gonna be a lot of crappy peop it's it's population statistics. People there are shitty people. People suck. Meagan Smith: But that's a good that's a good point. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: yeah. And that's a good point 'cause I don't think people fully realize how much work it does go into recommend I don't I don't do this, right? So I didn't know how much work is actually behind the scenes recommending anything. Samantha Potter: Yeah, yeah, yeah. it's in it's insane. So I have like a VA helping me. And and I've had somebody helping me in the past as well. And my VA was just part of the prime stay sale in June. And she was like, I had no idea how much work this actually is. pulling all of us, finding the products that are on sale, making the graphics, doing all this the like Meagan Smith: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: And making sure that the sale price is actually a good price. Because it's not just about because that that is the other thing, is it Samantha Potter: Yes. Yeah. That is like it's huh. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Yes, that's a good point. Jenny O'Mahony: can look something's a good price, but it might not it might not actually be. Samantha Potter: yeah. Have you guys seen Meagan Smith: You might be able to buy it at shoppers for cheaper. Yeah. Samantha Potter: like the totally? Yeah. Or somebody was this phone stand was ninety nine hundred dollars and now it's ten. And you're What? Like, yeah. But but I don't Yeah, that goes into, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Whoa, hold on. And that's what I mean, to the level of due diligence to right that goes Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: into what you do versus what you could do and other people do. Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The part that I'm having a lot of trouble with, and like I've done it. So here it's take it as you will. But there's so many people who have who are there's so much AI content around it now, especially in the home Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. Samantha Potter: decor space I'm finding. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: And I'm and I'm really like Jenny O'Mahony: It's brutal. Samantha Potter: I feel like people are gonna lose a lot of trust though, because you're making you're generating these AI videos and you're look at how good this is. It's only $599. I'm you don't know how good this is. You didn't buy it. You don't actually know. You're not touching, you're not feeling, you're not trying. And like, Meagan Smith: You don't you're not touching it. Uh-huh. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: yeah. And so I find, I mean, I find it really hard and really tricky there because I I recommend things that I haven't also bought before too, but I'm doing Deep dives into what the reviews look Is it, you know, who is it shipping from? I find that really important. it's shipping from a third-party seller that has 1% reviews, I'm gonna steer far away from it. But I don't know. I I really struggle with that because I feel like audiences are gonna lose a lot of trust in creators. Jenny O'Mahony: But I think you I've always noticed you mention if you've never used something before. you'll Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: say, This is I ha Meagan Smith: Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: I have something similar, mine isn't available, I found these that are similar. there you will have wording that is transparent as to whether Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: that is a specific that exact thing you've linked is what you've got. Like what you're you're very transparent about it. And and I think that's Meagan Smith: Yeah. You are very transparent. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. like one of those sorry Jenny. It's Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Which is I think that's what people don't realize is that like it's there it's not regulated. You can say whatever you want. You're not actually Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: being legally held to any standards unless you are actually within the program you are, then you actually have to adhere to higher Meagan Smith: you do? Jenny O'Mahony: you do. That's why they say Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: price subject to change. that's why there's disclaimers. Because if you are part of this tier program, you are Samantha Potter: There's disclaimers. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Meagan Smith: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: being held to a higher standard by Amazon, correct? Samantha Potter: Mm. Mm-hmm. I I you know what I don't I think it's anyone. I think it's if you're part of if you join the Amazon program, I it's part of the operating agreement, is my understanding. Meagan Smith: Yeah, they could kick you out if you Yeah. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah, if you're not following it. It's just that I have easier access to Jenny O'Mahony: I didn't read that agreement. Samantha Potter: that information because Jenny O'Mahony: I s I always say if it's an affiliate link, but Samantha Potter: yeah, there I mean, I feel like that's more than a lot of people do. But I have easier ac Jenny O'Mahony: I know. Samantha Potter: it's not like I'm reading through that agreement. Let me be crystal clear. It's because my business development manager is emailing everyone, being like, Hey, you guys gotta include blah blah blah blah blah, you know, whatever it might be. Yeah. Yeah. It's Meagan Smith: These are the flat yeah, yeah. Yeah, fair. Samantha Potter: not because I'm it's not because I my attention to detail is really strong or anything like that. Jenny O'Mahony: It is though. Meagan Smith: 'Cause you've read the it is Samantha Potter: It's not Jenny O'Mahony: It is though. Maybe not in contract wording, but it is in life. Samantha Potter: it it is in certain instances. Absolutely. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah. In and in specific things. I have the same thing. I have very strong Samantha Potter: It isn't in it is in products. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: my gosh. Meagan Smith: attention to detail if it's something I care about or I If I don't, I do not give a shit. But yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: So honest opinion based on so you got a preview about what's gonna be on sale, correct? You usually do, right? are you Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: allowed to to say what's on sale? is that are you allowed to share that? Samantha Potter: Yeah, I can say what so again, we'll do the disclaimer because it's not up to the Amazon team what what will actually go on sale or how much it'll go on sale for. So it's up to the brands to disclose that to the Amazon team and then they'll report it back to us, right? Jenny O'Mahony: okay. Samantha Potter: So it's always Meagan Smith: Got it. Samantha Potter: subject to s change. It's not within our control, it's within the brand's control. And like things change all Jenny O'Mahony: Right. Samantha Potter: the time, right? So yes. long way of saying, yes, I know what will be on sale, not necessarily everything. Jenny O'Mahony: But not by how much per se. Samantha Potter: I know I know by how much we are told, but I don't know that Meagan Smith: But it could change. Samantha Potter: they're actually going to adhere to what they told Amazon. Do you know what I mean? Like, yeah, and it might sell Jenny O'Mahony: Right. Or how many units will be available and all that stuff. Yeah. Samantha Potter: out and and then obviously with smaller brands that don't have that communication, a lot of the home decor stuff, there's they're just small Meagan Smith: Mm. Samantha Potter: little brands that aren't gonna, you know, they're not a big Clorox who's yeah, this will be on sale for this much, you know. It's this little mom and pop, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: they can afford tons of units and yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: It's this little mom and pop shop who doesn't have I I don't know what their percentage is, but I've been tracking the sales for long enough to know what is typically on sale, how much things typically go for. you know, there's ex Meagan Smith: So do ther certain things like this 'cause there's always a fall prime days, right? D Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Meagan Smith: is it and then there's usually a spring one and then there's Black Friday, you know, there's a bunch. Do things at the f are there always certain types is it always beauty in the fall and Christmas presents at Boxing Day or sorry, at Black Friday, like is it like that Samantha Potter: Mm. Meagan Smith: or does it totally change? Samantha Potter: It's a good question. And I think that it's it's kind of actually hard for me to answer because when I think about Meagan Smith: Fair. Samantha Potter: it, in the summer, I'm not looking for Christmas gifty kind of things or holiday depart. Like I'm not actually looking for that kind of stuff. So I Meagan Smith: Yeah. Yeah. That's true. That's true. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: yeah. Samantha Potter: and I do think brands are aware of that too and would focus on like Meagan Smith: Mm-hmm. Samantha Potter: whatever within their categories would fall into what's relevant right now. So like exactly. Or like posting. Meagan Smith: Like Black Friday, people are looking for Christmas presents. I have a kid whose birthday's at the end of October, so I'm always looking for Lego in Oc at the October, September one because he is a big all this kid wants to do is play Lego and Lego is so expensive. yeah. Yeah. Can you say that? Samantha Potter: yeah, yeah. He's a big Lego. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: So what were the big brands that were pitching? Cause typically like from my Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: anecdotal, when I see the brands that have made stands and prod like demo stuff for you, usually those Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: are brands that are have put themselves in a position to be featured because they're gonna have products on sale. Meagan Smith: Yeah, like if they're gonna have an activation at this event, they're most likely gonna Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. They're most likely gonna be on sale. Yes. So great question with that. So there's it's L'Oreal is always a big one. They always have Meagan Smith: Mm. Samantha Potter: their products on sale. Jenny, I think you actually posted one the other day. Might correct me if I'm wrong. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I use their yeah, because Abby Young has lots of L'Oreal as her that's like I Meagan Smith: And I bought that. Jenny O'Mahony: feel like that's one of her fave drugstore bands. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Mm. Meagan Smith: Yeah. I always use the deep conditioner of that, but I was like, I'm gonna try the Samantha Potter: Mm. So L'Oreal always? Meagan Smith: conditioner because it's so Jenny, you influenced me. Yeah. Samantha Potter: I love it. Yay. but so they're always a big one. And actually going into the holiday season, I would say the loomy lotion. Have you guys tried it? It's it's this lotion that has I wish I had it right. I probably have it in my closet actually. It's this little lotion that you put on your hand and it gives it a little shimmer, just like a little subtle like. Jenny O'Mahony: it's like I know it is. It's like the Road the Road New Glazing Milks. It's like that. A version of that. Meagan Smith: Yeah. There's a Samantha Potter: N but like for your body, not your fa like I Meagan Smith: there's a French one I bought. Yeah. Samantha Potter: wouldn't put it on my face. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Meagan Smith: There's one in when I went to the French pharmacy last summer and spent a lot of money. the European pharmacies are the I just literally went in and found some Jenny O'Mahony: blessed European pharmacies. So much better. Samantha Potter: So much better. Meagan Smith: woman and she gave me all the things to buy. there was something that there that I was obsessed with and now I don't have it anymore 'cause it was a year ago. And it just like gives your skin a shimmer. Jenny O'Mahony: Okay, so the loom I have heard about it, so that sounds fun. Samantha Potter: Yeah. I mean, if you want to come over and try it, go for it. It gives it a nice shimmer. And so if you're going to a holiday party or event or whatever, that's I just toss it. If I'm like showing my chest or shoulders or whatever, I'll just toss them on and it gives like a nice hydr yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Showin' some skin. Samantha Potter: It gives it a nice hydration, a little shimmer. Ma maybe look so I have a tiny little tan or something going on with my skin other than we've been living under clouds for several months. so definitely L'Oreal, Maybelline, Garnier, Cerrovet, the typical kind of drugstore beauty brands that you'd see. They're tip almost always on sale. Hoover's a big one that'll be on sale again. for this one. So there's I've I've tested out so many of the spot cleaner back, you know, the the upholstery cleaners. So Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Yep. Samantha Potter: for a price point, Hoover's, is usually ends up being under a hundred dollars when it's on sale. I think it's actually Meagan Smith: Mm. Samantha Potter: already on sale. and so and Jenny O'Mahony: wow. Okay. Samantha Potter: it's actually it works it works quite well. Bissle's another one. they weren't actually at the event this time, but sometimes they are but their I love their steam one because of the sticky messes that you can get you can actually like steam it out of the upholstery or like just give it a steam to also sanitize it. I Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Totally. Samantha Potter: that part of it, you know? Yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: Phillips is a big one too that is they had they had this coffee maker that it's almost you know when you're in an airport lounge and there's the coffee you can swipe through and choose what coffee. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Mm. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: you like push the button. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Samantha Potter: So they have a coffee machine like that now. It's 50 different coffees that you can choose from. Anyways, it's Jenny O'Mahony: Hmm. Samantha Potter: insane. and then they have this. I know, I know. Yeah, yeah, right. Jenny O'Mahony: The last thing I need is more coffee options and also the f the thing I need most Meagan Smith: Mm. Yeah. Yeah. Samantha Potter: We all need one in every room, a coffee machine in every room. Jenny O'Mahony: Absolutely. Samantha Potter: I might I'm trying to think of what the the standouts were. I there it's all it it they're all all the brands end up being very similar at the events. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: in terms of who has activations and whatnot. So there's some fry do you guys remember fry boots? The leather boots. So those those Meagan Smith: Yeah. I still Jenny O'Mahony: Yes, I do. Meagan Smith: have a pair in my basement because my mom told me you're never allowed to get rid of fry boots, but they're not in style anymore. I've had them for like twenty years. And they are in my basement. They're knee high, riding type. Yeah, yeah. they're still in my basement. Yeah. Yeah. Samantha Potter: I love that. That's so funny. I I probably had the same ones that you have in your basement. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I like wish I still had them. Cause I love it. I love it so much. Jenny O'Mahony: That's so funny. Samantha Potter: Anyways, their boots will be on sale. There's some hiking shoes that'll be on sale. lots like Ninja Shark stuff, which is filling up my house. I love their products so much. Meagan Smith: Jenny, didn't you want aren't you on the hunt for one of the Jenny O'Mahony: I'm I Samantha Potter: You want Jenny O'Mahony: I'm getting a ninja creamy. Yeah. It was part Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: of the bribing for kids weight gain over the summer. The things we do for our Samantha Potter: I Jenny O'Mahony: kids that don't that just don't Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: seem to have the part of their brain that wants to eat properly for their growth. Meagan Smith: We bought one of those for a that kid of mine's birthday last year. She wanted one and it was a birthday present. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. I've heard nothing but good things. Samantha Potter: I love that it was a birthday present. That's so funny. Okay, it's not on sale yet. Meagan Smith: It was a birthday present. Yeah. Loves it. Jenny O'Mahony: Well, 'cause you can make I know you already checked and you said it probably wasn't gonna be on sale, but that's fine. I'll just wait 'til it is. Samantha Potter: I said it well, it's not on the list, but again, I feel like it's a summer thing. Do you know what I mean? they might change it and put Meagan Smith: Mm. Samantha Potter: on sale. But I'm just looking right now. There's there's the plum color and there's a blue color Jenny O'Mahony: For the ninja creamy. Samantha Potter: for the ninja creamy. and it's twenty dollars more than the other creamy. I don't know what it does differently. It's really pretty. I'm gonna send it to you because it's really pretty. It's on Jenny O'Mahony: Okay. Samantha Potter: sale. the purple's really pretty. I was distracted. Jenny O'Mahony: I like the idea of colored appliances. I feel like I'm gonna slowly replace all Meagan Smith: Me tell. Jenny O'Mahony: my appliances and have kind of a rainbow of jewel toned appliances. That's my life goals. my gosh. Any of the shark hair things? okay. I was thinking yeah, Meagan Smith: My god, I love that. Samantha Potter: I love it. I love it. Jewel toned appliances. Yeah. I think it's on sale right now. Yeah, the flex style. Meagan Smith: I know, I'm slowly adding more colour to my house. Jenny O'Mahony: I was thinking maybe that now that I have a daughter who I can just be like, it's for both of us. Samantha Potter: Mm, mm-hmm mm. I that. Yeah, it's on sale right now. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. It's Jenny O'Mahony: Sweet. Samantha Potter: currently two Meagan Smith: There you go. Samantha Potter: forty nine, price subject to change. This is Canadian. Meagan Smith: So stuff also goes on sale early. Samantha Potter: Yeah. yeah. deals have started early. Jenny O'Mahony: It's not sales used to be. Do you know what I mean? it's always very fluid and Yeah. It's never two days. Yeah. Samantha Potter: I know. It's not actually two days. It's actually like forever. Yeah, that's the Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: the last year this sale was four days and so this year it's two. So there is a you know, it's kinda nice because it's actually like No. Well, I know. Just yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I don't think it needs to be f I don't think these things need to be four days. No. Meagan Smith: It doesn't need to be four. I just keep buying things for four days. I just I would rather just do it in one day. Jenny O'Mahony: But I do find I genuinely stock up on, for example, I love the Polish Choice body retinol and which small annoying because Meagan Smith: Yes, I do too. The body retinol, it's a good one. Samantha Potter: the body retina. Jenny O'Mahony: I'm like an annoying, Samantha Potter: What colour is that one? Jenny O'Mahony: it's purple. It's light purple. Meagan Smith: purp like light purple. Jenny O'Mahony: What's I'm an annoying Samantha Potter: I think I got that one. Jenny O'Mahony: fax person is the only body retinol on the market that actually has the percentage of retinol displayed versus saying it's a proprietary formula. So you can actually verify. Like can you imagine buying retinol for your face and not knowing what strength it was? you just Meagan Smith: No. Jenny O'Mahony: wouldn't. You you would not do that because you need to know. Meagan Smith: You would never do that. So it's the only body one that says the percentage. Interesting. Yes, it's zero. I'm pretty Jenny O'Mahony: That and necessaire, I believe, is Meagan Smith: sure I buy that because of you too, Jenny. That is there we can weak percentage. No, I buy the polished choice one because of you. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: The necessary ones ex way more expensive. I love the polished choice. Anyways, that goes on sale every time there's Samantha Potter: I found out. Jenny O'Mahony: an Amazon sale. I Meagan Smith: Yes. Jenny O'Mahony: have never paid full price because I always just get a bottle when it's an Amazon sale. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Yeah, there's stuff like that. Or I buy like two. I mean it lasts a long time, but yeah. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. It la yeah, yeah, like it's stock up. And the Jenny O'Mahony: It does, yep. Samantha Potter: touchland hand sanitizers and the bloom super belly. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: my god, the teens why Meagan Smith: They t the kids love that. It's so cool. 'Cause they all were ki they were Jenny O'Mahony: why is it cool? Why is hand like, okay, I'm not complaining. I just think it's random. Meagan Smith: all kids during COVID and so no hand sanitizer is cool. And it's the touchland stuff is so cool. When I gave put that in my kids' stocking Samantha Potter: This is so it's now everyone's hands any obsessed. It smells so good. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Yeah. But like for it's cool. Meagan Smith: last year, I was the coolest mom. Jenny O'Mahony: I that packaging for keeping in my bag or in the car because it doesn't there's no cap that like cause caps always end up falling off in my bag and then Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. get lost. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah, me too. Jenny O'Mahony: it doesn't leak, it doesn't spray. So it's a practical Meagan Smith: I like it too. Jenny O'Mahony: packaging. great for stockings Meagan Smith: Yeah. You can just pop it into your kids' backpacks. Jenny O'Mahony: and also great for stockings. The other thing I typically see on sale, Samantha Potter: Yes. Teacher gifts. Jenny O'Mahony: teacher gifts, Meagan Smith: Teacher gifts, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: is Laneige lip stuff. I feel like almost always. Samantha Potter: Mm, you know what? I'm not a I do not like the Laneige lip stuff. I don't find it works. Jenny O'Mahony: Okay, me neither. Me neither. But Meagan Smith: Me there. Jenny O'Mahony: if you have a teenager, they only care Samantha Potter: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: about brands, right? They're not mature enough to be like, this is better. Samantha Potter: True. Jenny O'Mahony: I'm like, dude, Vasel you will never ever convince me anything is better for nighttime lip moisturizer than straight up Vaseline. Samantha Potter: Fair Meagan Smith: Vaseline. Samantha Potter: enough. Meagan Smith: And I didn't realize how incredible Vaseline was until I got my tattoos and they were just put Vaseline all over them and I yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: It's amazing. There's a reason why dermatologists Samantha Potter: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: all love Vaseline or petroleum jelly. so Meagan Smith: Yeah. after you get tattoos, you just lather it in that and then and like scars. My dermatologist when Jenny O'Mahony: It's great. Yeah. Meagan Smith: I had to get them all removed was like, put Vaseline over it. That's the best thing you can do. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Vaseline. Yeah. yeah, Vaseline's great. Samantha Potter: Interesting. Huh. Jenny O'Mahony: But for stocking stuffers for kids that don't care about how the efficacy and more about the the packaging, Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: there's always Laneige. Summer Fridays, I Samantha Potter: Okay. Jenny O'Mahony: think, lately has frequently been on sale too during these sales. Samantha Potter: Summer Fridays was in our gifting, so it wasn't on like Jenny O'Mahony: Probably. Samantha Potter: a list. So I'm I'm guessing probably it'll be on sale. Meagan Smith: So when it yeah, when it's in your gift bag it's usually so do I. Jenny O'Mahony: And I actually I do like the Summer Fridays lip balm. I Samantha Potter: Yeah, I do too. Jenny O'Mahony: do like the Summer Friday it's good. Samantha Potter: I do too. Jenny O'Mahony: And the I don't want to use the term dupe, but the very similar formulation that you gave us Samantha Potter: A look alike. Meagan Smith: I like that one. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I actually find is almost identical. It's not sticky. It's not sticky. No, it's more of like a buttery. It's good. Meagan Smith: 'Cause not sticky. Is the Summer Fridays one not sticky too? Yeah, I d I like the not Yeah. Samantha Potter: Fantastic. Meagan Smith: Versus the lip glass we all used to use where like our hair would be stuck on our Yeah. That was so popular. Jenny O'Mahony: my gosh. Samantha Potter: Talk into it. you're are you using Jenny O'Mahony: Lots of kids' stuff too, hey. Samantha Potter: lots of kids stuff is always always on sale. You know what? I would yep. Yeah, Legos. Okay, can I just my daughter has Jenny O'Mahony: Good. Yeah. Meagan Smith: There is Lego on sale. I found some my son is obsessed with Minecraft. He's never played Minecraft, but he's obsessed with Minecraft Legos and I find a town. Jenny O'Mahony: my gosh. So much. Samantha Potter: she listens to Spotify podcasts all the time, but there's this Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: person on there, it would after her podcast was done, it would default to a guy playing Minecraft and like what he's doing, Jenny O'Mahony: Weird. Samantha Potter: like it's so weird and I and Meagan Smith: Weird. Jenny O'Mahony: I think you can go to Spotify usually Spotify's pretty good if you no, but if you just skip through it, it picks up that you don't want to see that or hear that. Samantha Potter: no, but it keeps no, it keeps coming up for her and now she's kind of into it. And so I've been like, What what are you what are you doing? yeah. I'm what are you watching? Jenny O'Mahony: so it did know what it was doing. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: She's I don't know, this guy's getting stronger. He's the playing this game and this guy's getting stronger. And like I'm like, I don't I don't know about that. what is happening? And I feel like this is I guess. Jenny O'Mahony: What? Yeah. I mean it's smart marketing, I guess. Meagan Smith: Yeah. We've just we watched the movie and he's obsessed with the movie and then he really likes the Lego. And I was Have you ever played Minecraft? No, I'm no idea what it is. But really likes the Lego. I don't know. It they're building I don't know. I Samantha Potter: Yeah. I don't get I don't get it. Like I don't get what the obsession would be with it. Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: Nice. My God. Meagan Smith: mean the movie's kind of funny. Jason Momo, wasn't it? Samantha Potter: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: Huh. So based on what you saw, what are you gonna Okay, if you weren't already gifted Samantha Potter: Mm. Meagan Smith: Yeah, what are you gonna Jenny O'Mahony: it, I think this the caveat, you might have Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: the product because you've A bought it before or Samantha Potter: Mm. Jenny O'Mahony: you were given it. But like what are the best things that if you hadn't already purchased it or didn't already have it for whatever reason, what would you be buying based on what you know right now? Samantha Potter: Great question. Because I was actually going to make a reel on this. I was like, if I didn't already have it. So like great minds think alike. I love it. Look at you. Okay. So Meagan Smith: Ooh. Jenny O'Mahony: Great. my god, segue, look at me. Meagan Smith: There you go. Yeah. Samantha Potter: I kind of break mine into like categories of home essentials that we need. So like I would definitely buy a toilet wand. have you seen the ones that I'm I'm obsessed with? Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: I don't like cleaning toilets. Okay. Yeah. Meagan Smith: I've seen your reel on it. Yeah. Samantha Potter: I don't like cleaning toilets. I don't want to, and I know people are going to be like, Jenny O'Mahony: Feel like that's a universal Meagan Smith: Who Samantha Potter: This is so wasteful, Meagan Smith: does? Jenny O'Mahony: statement. Samantha Potter: blah, blah, blah. I will be as wasteful as I need to be when cleaning a toilet, as long as I don't have to fucking touch it. no, thank you. So I would buy a toilet wand. Jenny O'Mahony: No arguments here. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Toilet wand, toilet paper, what's the other thing? The longer paper towel. those kinds of things that I would just and everyone's like, are you in perimenopause? Like I can't think of words. Meagan Smith: And like better than hearing that about better than Costco, 'cause I need to go to Costco next week. Samantha Potter: it's 5050. yeah, I Meagan Smith: Okay. I hate buying that stuff at Costco because it takes up my whole cart and then I can't get other stuff. Samantha Potter: I know, I know. Jenny O'Mahony: Don't you put it under the cart? Meagan Smith: No, I put my bubbly and my dog food under the cart. Jenny O'Mahony: okay. I go to Costco once a week, so I never have a full cart. Samantha Potter: So you need like two cards. Meagan Smith: Go ahead Yeah, I don't. Samantha Potter: Yeah, yeah. Meagan Smith: That's fair. I hate it, so I go I haven't gone in No, never buy toilet paper. Yeah. Never pay full price for toilet paper or Jenny O'Mahony: But we should never buy toilet paper full price. So that's an excellent thing to buy. Yeah, don't pay full price for toilet paper. Samantha Potter: Yeah, just never do that. That's the that's the takeaway. never. Meagan Smith: paper towel. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm mm. Samantha Potter: and then like you guys, I do a beauty a beauty restock of everything that I normally use. So my eye eye patches, my lip. Jenny O'Mahony: I'm gonna try so many eye patches. I'm gonna buy so many. Meagan Smith: Me too, I'm so excited. Jenny O'Mahony: I'm gonna try the Biodance ones and then whatever I can't remember the name off the top of my head. That's I'm having a perimetopause word finding issue. The Medi Hill. I'm gonna buy those ones. yeah. I'm wearing these are the fuck. No, the Samantha Potter: I'm so yeah. The Medi heel? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're the abvi abili abbe no. Meagan Smith: The Matty What ones are you wearing right now? What are those? Medicube? Jenny O'Mahony: other ones that I said I liked. Meagan Smith: Medicube? No. Yeah, Medicube. Medicube. Yeah, Cube. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah, Medicube. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, Medicube. Yeah, Medicube. Samantha Potter: good pull. I would also buy the Rubbermaid glass. Rubbermaid came out with a glass container. Tupperware, thank you. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Tupperware, tapes, cakes. Jenny O'Mahony: Like Tupperware? Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. And they're awesome. I love them. that's what our family uses now. They're on sale right now, too. Yeah. Bait. Yeah. Meagan Smith: I feel like Yeah, I feel like I may have bought them last time. Jenny O'Mahony: Okay, this is this is a really annoying question. How does the lid seal? Are we flaps that c click down? What's the sealing mechanism? Okay, do they snap Samantha Potter: So there are flaps that c click down, but it's not hard like Jenny O'Mahony: off? Samantha Potter: they I don't think I've seen one. Yeah, know what you mean. Do they break? Meagan Smith: What do you mean? Jenny O'Mahony: Do you know not I'm do they break? Like, do you know when you're at the amount of I are great, I have all the bottoms Meagan Smith: yeah yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: of the Tupperware? Meagan Smith: Because the they've actually broken off. Jenny O'Mahony: Because I can yes, correct. Samantha Potter: Okay, so I've had Meagan Smith: Yeah, okay. Samantha Potter: one set for a full year now and they have not for me. Jenny O'Mahony: Okay. And the seal's still good? Meagan Smith: I've had one set for longer than that and I am also like you and I'm not gentle. And I have a boy. He's not gentle. Yeah. Samantha Potter: And yeah. Yeah. And the it's crazy like this steel. Yeah. Yeah. The steel Jenny O'Mahony: Okay. No. Yeah. Hm. Cape. Cape. Samantha Potter: you can get on them. You can hear it you can hear the air it's crazy. I love them so much. Jenny O'Mahony: I do find s those I'm not like an ASMR person 'cause I find it's overdone, but that is ASMR I can get behind. The seal. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Okay. That's a good that's a good one actually. Mm-hmm. Meagan Smith: That me too. That's a satisfying one. Okay. Samantha Potter: Satisfying. Satisfying. Yeah. Yeah. yeah. And then like any of the appliances too that you would the I love the ninja f I think it's called the foodie, the glass air fryer. Jenny O'Mahony: Isn't that the crispy? Samantha Potter: Crispy, yeah, you're right. Yeah, no, it's the crispy. Yeah. Meagan Smith: My gosh, what's the difference? Jenny O'Mahony: Okay, yeah, yeah. The crispy it's like it's like it looks a Tupperware container on the bottom, like a glass Tupperware, but then you put the Meagan Smith: Is that the one you have, Jenny? Jenny O'Mahony: No, I have a big ass full on air fryer. I fucking love it. It's so good. I Samantha Potter: You have the ball. Yeah. That's the yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: don't have that air fryer. But I would you know you know one of those things? Meagan Smith: I need to start using my air fryer again. Jenny O'Mahony: I use it multiple times a day. Everybody in my house air fries. We use it instead we just use the air fryer. Samantha Potter: Do you guys have to Meagan Smith: Our o our oven broke a few Christmases ago and so we bought an air fryer and then yeah, we don't and it's so much faster. I don't know Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: We use the oven, but we use the air fryer more than the microwave. And the crispy Meagan Smith: Yeah, we don't have a we don't have a microwave. Samantha Potter: What? Jenny O'Mahony: like kid Meagan Smith: haven't had our microwave Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: I think Chris and I've had a microwave in the twenty years or whatever, fifteen years we've been together. We've had it for one year. I know. The Samantha Potter: I don't understand. Meagan Smith: first place we we we the first place we lived in together didn't have a microwave because it was some shitty apartment. And then we moved I don't know, we just haven't I think we had one once when we lived in a new build and then when we renovated we don't use a microwave. The only thing it's really Samantha Potter: Huh. Meagan Smith: annoying for is my because I'm a tea drinker. It's really Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: annoying. And I can't use those hot water bottle pouch things. Like the bean things because but honestly, we've Samantha Potter: Mm, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 'Cause it Jenny O'Mahony: The magic bags, yeah. Meagan Smith: the magic bags, we've never had one. And as someone like I need hot 'cause I have endometriosis. I walk around with heating pads on me. So that is very annoying. But honestly, Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: we just I don't know. We've never Samantha Potter: What about like leftovers? Do you guys eat leftovers? Meagan Smith: Yeah, we put it in the oven or like in a frying pan. And it it baffles every Jenny O'Mahony: Hm. It feels like it takes too I'm not patient enough for Meagan Smith: It Jenny O'Mahony: that. Samantha Potter: Yeah, I know, same. Meagan Smith: no and it baffles everybody, but I think because we lived so long, we it we just so happen to live in places Jenny O'Mahony: You're just used to it. Meagan Smith: without them that then when Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: we renovated the kitchen, we were both We don't need one. Everyone finds it weird. Jenny O'Mahony: Hm. I mean they do take up a lot of space, so if you don't need one. But we reheat mainly with the air fryer. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: And if you're used to Yeah. Meagan Smith: And we were so used to it. We hadn't had one yeah, we only ever had one when we lived in Olympic Village in that new build. That's the only time we've had one when we've been together. Yeah. Yeah. So I feel like I need a Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Hmm. There's probably a built in one. Interesting. So the crispy, you the you you really the crispy though. Samantha Potter: So it's kind of wild for me. I do really like the crispy and I feel like yes, you need the crispy for does make things crispy and Meagan Smith: Does it make things crispy? I'm assuming. Samantha Potter: you can bake. So like what I like to do with my Meagan Smith: It better. Yeah. Samantha Potter: So what I like to do is tater tots, for example, I'll bake them for 10 minutes Jenny O'Mahony: Mm. Samantha Potter: and then cause there's a bake, there's different settings on it. So I'll bake them for Meagan Smith: okay. Samantha Potter: 10 minutes and then I'll and then I'll air fry it Jenny O'Mahony: Or you bake it in the crispy. Samantha Potter: after so it's not just crispy, it's cooked all the way through and then crispy on the outside. So you you gotta use like my god, it's so fast. Meagan Smith: But it's still probably faster than the oven. my when my kids eat Jenny O'Mahony: 'Cause you don't have to preheat. Yeah, so we Meagan Smith: so many chicken trips, yeah. Samantha Potter: You don't pre heat. That's Jenny O'Mahony: air fryers are faster 'cause it doesn't preheat, regardless of the type of air fryer. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Okay. I had the R place one and it did have to preheat and it took forever. Like I was this isn't faster. Yeah, it was a toaster oven. Meagan Smith: You're like, this just the same as an oven. Jenny O'Mahony: Because it a toast it's like a toast ram. I wonder if the ninja air fryer will be on sale too, probably. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Probably. It's probably on sale right now. A lot of the ninja stuff is on sale. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, ninja's a good brand. I have to say, like they are Meagan Smith: They are a good brand. Jenny O'Mahony: a way better price point for compared to things like Vitamix or Blentec or you know what I mean? and they it is I have a Vitamix too. Me too. Yeah. Meagan Smith: I feel like that's how they got people started using them was because of Vit I I have a Vitamix. I've had it for ten years. I love it. Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Same. Meagan Smith: but I know a lot of people that swear by the ninja 'cause it was so much cheaper. Yeah. Samantha Potter: They're also so that's well, 'cause they have like three blades on their th thing that are actually really sh I just find them really innovative. That's what I think is they are always thinking outside the box. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. And they've done great job with their branding. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Meagan Smith: They've done such a good job with their branding. And come Jenny O'Mahony: Right? Meagan Smith: out with some cool products that are very timely and yeah, smart. Yeah. Cool. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those are probably and then probably honestly I'll I'll think about hosting and like what I'd get for little host hostess gifts and like what can be like an easy mm hmm easy. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Ooh, that's good tip. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm. Cause then you can just keep them stocked. These are the things that make like Meagan Smith: Or like teacher gifts, like teacher Christmas gifts. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good Samantha Potter: Teacher gifts one hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: These are the things that that can give the air of being organized, but it's not. It's more that you just know you're not organized. So when you have the motivation to stock up on something, then you do and then it's just there. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Then you can do it. Yeah. Meagan Smith: That's what I do. And then you have like a drawer. Yeah. I have a Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: yeah, I always I need to replenish that 'cause I feel that happened to me in June. I was my gosh, teacher presents. And I was like, Right, Samantha Potter: Same. Meagan Smith: I have a random area that has I think stuff that I bought from the Sage Boxing Day sale. Yeah. That's it but Samantha Potter: Perfect. Yeah, it's nice to have a little cupboard like that. Meagan Smith: that's a good that's a good tip. Cool. Well I'm excited to spend Tuesday shopping. Samantha Potter: Mm. Mm-hmm. Yep. Yeah. Get ready, guys. Yeah. Come on. Meagan Smith: And then somehow hide all the Amazon boxes from my husband. No. The kids Jenny O'Mahony: yeah, Tuesday. Nah. Just own it. Just own it. Samantha Potter: You can ship to my house if you want. Meagan Smith: come to you know, they'll come over to school, they're What has mommy bought today? When Samantha Potter: Ha ha ha. Meagan Smith: it's just piling up. Samantha Potter: Sawyer will just come unbox all my stuff for me. I'm nah. Hopefully it's not your birthday gifts, but you know. Meagan Smith: great. That's cute. I Jenny O'Mahony: Aww I love that. Meagan Smith: know, that's the thing. That's Jenny O'Mahony: yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. I have a I have a three Meagan Smith: the thing. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: year old on Sunday. Jenny O'Mahony: yeah. Meagan Smith: right Samantha Potter: Yeah. I know. It's like it's so Yeah. It feels kind of Yeah. Meagan Smith: Three's a big one. Jenny O'Mahony: It is it kind of feels like they're not a baby anymore officially. Meagan Smith: Yeah, I feel like they're still kind of babyish at two. Samantha Potter: If it but it feels kind of bittersweet, which is so weird because I way prefer bigger kids. I l obviously Meagan Smith: Yeah, me too. Samantha Potter: I love my kid with all my heart, but like Jenny O'Mahony: Sure, but you're recognizing that you don't have a little kid anymore. Even if you've Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: And you're d and you're done, right? you aren't having more kids. So you're like, this Samantha Potter: Yeah. No. Meagan Smith: is it. So it's it's great, but you're also like, babies. Yeah. She is gonna be a three year old, that one. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. It's so weird. Anyway. She's a teenager. Jenny O'Mahony: She's already like sixty two, let's just be honest. Samantha Potter: Yeah, she is 62 because you know what? She will give you the most attitude ever and she just doesn't care. She turned to her teacher. She does. She turned to her teacher Meagan Smith: This look. She has this look. I love it. I love it so much. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: She just knows she's right. Samantha Potter: the other day and she went, I'm not listening to you. Like I Meagan Smith: I love her so much. Jenny O'Mahony: And she wasn't. Samantha Potter: when I am in my like seventies, eighties, like I'm just gonna claim insanity and do things like that all the time. But she's just doing it now. No. Meagan Smith: I'm not listening. Just doing it in three. Jenny O'Mahony: Granny's just demented. No, she's not. She's Samantha Potter: She's fully aware. She just doesn't care. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: very, very lucid. Yeah, yeah. That's awesome. my god, I love it. Meagan Smith: She's always been like this. Samantha Potter: It's so cute. Meagan Smith: She's so funny. She has this look in her eyes, I've said it to you before, where you just know that she is taking zero shit from anybody. It's what you want. We want strong women. They're just ri they're really hard to raise. We all have strong women. Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. We want strong women. I know. I know. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: my god, it's so good. We do we do I know, right? Meagan Smith: We have strong girls. Yeah. Alright, should we talk about Yeah. Thanks, Sam. That's so helpful. And interesting. We should we do a quick, what is your hyperfixation? Jenny O'Mahony: Okay, well thanks for sharing all that. Wait, don't you have to go now? Don't you have to go now? on. Are Samantha Potter: Yeah. Absolutely. I do need to go test. I'll be okay. Jenny O'Mahony: you around? Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Hyperfixation, I'm in. Meagan Smith: Your hyperfixation. Jenny, what is your hyperfixation this week? Jenny O'Mahony: Hyperfixation round. Guys, I learned how to use the sewing machine. I which was no. Oops. Samantha Potter: Wait, is your headboard done? Meagan Smith: Yeah, is it done? Jenny O'Mahony: Samantha, I said I learned how to use a sewing machine. Okay? Don't try and circle this back to a previous project. Okay? Samantha Potter: No, you were hyper it cannot be hyper fixated. Meagan Smith: You went but you went quick. You like told us you were doing it and two hours later you were cutting the wood. Samantha Potter: I know, that's I was like, Okay, Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. S. Meagan Smith: And now you pause. I get Samantha Potter: I'm going. Meagan Smith: it, I do that. Jenny O'Mahony: Okay. So I learned the I learned how to use the sewing machine and I'm hopefully gonna s I'm I'm I'm fingers crossed I'm working all day at the hospital on s Sunday. I'm taking a vacation day today. It's Friday. And then tomorrow, I'm hoping by the end of tomorrow to have the headboard done depending because the sewing machine I have was given to me because it was not the best sewing machine, because my mother-in-law upgraded, okay? And It's very hard to find. I dept I dug to the depths of YouTube to find out how to use the sewing machine because it's from nineteen ninety, which is it is great for Meagan Smith: That's what YouTube is good for. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I don't really know how to use it per se. I sewed I but I did troubleshoot. I changed the needle. it was bunching the bobbin thread and I I figured out 'cause it's like adjusted needle Samantha Potter: Mm, mm, mm, mm. Meagan Smith: yeah. Homette Grade Eight is coming back to me. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: the th the thread tension. I'm like, where the fuck is the thread tension button? None of it's labeled. There's five things with Meagan Smith: right. Jenny O'Mahony: numbers. Which one's tension? Tell me. And it was really hard to figure it out because nobody Meagan Smith: So funny. Jenny O'Mahony: has a sewing machine. This sewing machine anymore. Anyway, so I persisted through frustration. I almost just we know I almost just impulse bought a sewing machine the second it didn't work. We know that that was a very real possibility. Samantha Potter: That's the easiest thing to do, a hundred percent. Meagan Smith: That's the easiest solution. Jenny O'Mahony: I was literally like, No, this is a resilience building moment and you're gonna absolutely fucking learn how Meagan Smith: Good for you. Jenny O'Mahony: to use this one and not just buy a new sewing machine. Meagan Smith: You're teaching your girls resilience, right? That's what you're you're showing them we Samantha Potter: Ha ha Meagan Smith: can do hard things. Jenny O'Mahony: I definitely when I sewed one line was like, I'm a seamstress. Meagan Smith: Ha ha Samantha Potter: Ha ha ha. Jenny O'Mahony: anyways, so that's my hyperfixation now. I'm gonna actually I'm gonna I am so determined to sew more things. the first one being two straight lines. Let's be clear. I need to make two seams and that is it to have the fabric for the headboard and then I'll staple it and the the rest of it's pretty easy. But yeah, my hyper fixation is I'm a I'm a fucking seamstress. So just I t I'll I'll I'll it's fine. what do you need? I can probably figure out how to make it tomorrow. Meagan Smith: I need I need someone to have Lachlan's Halloween costume. You're I'm coming. I'm coming for ya. Jenny O'Mahony: I I genuinely do do think I could probably figure that out. Yes, that I could do. So basically I'm I'm now I'm I'm into upholstery apparently 'cause I I now Meagan Smith: I like it. Jenny O'Mahony: am following a lot of upholstery pages. It's really interesting. and a seamstress. I've I've gained two professions this week. So that's it's pretty f I'm impressed with me. Meagan Smith: Amazing. I love that for you. Samantha Potter: Love it. Love it. Mm-hmm. Meagan Smith: Sam, what about you? What are you Samantha Potter: my hyperfixation is kind of twofold. It's my cycle tracking. and making what I'm able to do in that s portion of my cycle actually realistic. So like aligning Meagan Smith: Right. it. Samantha Potter: like my output with where I am in my cycle. Exactly. Meagan Smith: Where and your energy levels. Jenny O'Mahony: So that you're not just doing like high output all the time around the clock. Cause that is Samantha Potter: All the time. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: to be clear, that is your issue. Is that yeah, you go f there's like your it's like a switch, not it's not a dimmer switch, it's like a off and on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're trying to like find the dimmer. Good for you. Samantha Potter: Default. Yeah. I just go, go, go. Yeah. Yeah. It's just on. And it's just mostly on. Dial it back. Yeah. Which is like really Meagan Smith: Default. Yeah. Yeah. I like it. Good for you. Samantha Potter: hard. And for Meagan Smith: Good for you. Samantha Potter: me, I'm like, you know, but I'm I'm trying. I'm working on it. And I would say like my husband has been 20 out of 10, super supportive and taking on so Meagan Smith: Amazing. Samantha Potter: much. so Meagan Smith: Good for him. Samantha Potter: hopefully he doesn't burn out from it, but it's Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, that is that is mine. Meagan Smith: that's good. He needs to help you. Yeah. Yeah, he's fine. Jenny O'Mahony: Nah, he'll be fine. But good for you, 'cause that also I feel like that's a good way to make it more tangible. Right? 'Cause you're like, I'm following Samantha Potter: Mm, mhm, mhm. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: this thing versus trying to tap into how you feel. 'Cause Samantha Potter: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: that's actually quite hard. Meagan Smith: Which is so hard. Jenny O'Mahony: Introsception is tricky, right? Especially for our brains where we're like Yeah, exactly, where we are innately Samantha Potter: Yeah. And incapable. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Yeah. Yeah. Interception. I'm very l like, just listen to Samantha Potter: Yeah, Meagan Smith: your body. I I can't do that. I don't know how. Samantha Potter: yeah, yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah, I'd basically binge eat once a day at the end of the day if I did that, right? Like one meal, t three thousand calories. A hundred percent. Yeah. So good for you. Sweet. Okay, we'll have to you'll have to keep us up to date on how are you using the aura ring? Is that what you're using for? You did stop it, hey? Meagan Smith: Yeah. If I don't have reminders in my phone to tell me to eat, I will forget to eat. Yeah. Yeah. Good for you. I like it. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. I w No, so I sto I s I stopped using the aura ring. I f I stopped Meagan Smith: Yeah. Samantha Potter: it. I need to cancel my subscription. Like that email. I'm committing. Like that email really annoy like really annoyed me when Jenny O'Mahony: you you committed. Okay. Okay. Meagan Smith: You're you're done. Yeah, I like it. Mm-hmm. Samantha Potter: they were you have to pay for as a woman if you wanna track your blah blah blah blah. I'm Jenny O'Mahony: The female options. Meagan Smith: For the yeah. Samantha Potter: this is so stupid. why? Jenny O'Mahony: For a product that's already targeted at women anyways? your demographic is women. So are you using an app then? Yeah, Samantha Potter: Yeah. Meagan Smith: And also like you already cycle track. Samantha Potter: Yeah, so I'm using Jenny O'Mahony: totally. Samantha Potter: I actually got, we talked about this, my little brain zapper where Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: Right. Samantha Potter: it's called Sam Samphire or something. Anyways, I don't know how to pronounce it. We can put it in the show notes, but it goes on your head and rewires your brain. it basically in the luteal phase it's a brain zapper. In the luteal phase really? Okay, okay. Jenny O'Mahony: Your br I love that it's a brain zapper. Yes. It's so fun. Meagan Smith: I do that with my therapist. It's y yeah, yeah, it's pre cool. It's a thing. Samantha Potter: It's like you're you're the wrong Meagan Smith: They like put things on your brain. Samantha Potter: part of your brain is firing out of control and the rational part of your brain is not firing. And so like this is like rewiring it to get the rational part. Jenny O'Mahony: so it's basically saying is it like when your amygdala is you're living in your amygdala? Is that kind of what it's doing? It's bringing you to your prefrontal cortex. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Mm. I that sound that sounds that sounds familiar. You know, we'll link Dr. and like she explains it all in a but that sounds right, Jenny, to me. Meagan Smith: Qual. Samantha Potter: anyway, so yeah, it's kind of bringing that back. I'm only on month two of using it, but they have an app where you track your s your symptoms, your cycle, your everything. it's and it's all included Jenny O'Mahony: Okay. So you're using that app. Meagan Smith: Cool. Samantha Potter: if you buy the brain samper. I'm not paying for to track all this stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Meagan Smith: You're not paying for a separate app. I love that. 'Cause I hate when you have to do that. Jenny O'Mahony: so you don't have to pay a subscription. It's a one-off. See, I think that's I hate subscriptions for something Samantha Potter: No. Yeah. But y that's Meagan Smith: You buy the th that's nice. Me too. Jenny O'Mahony: that I physically had to buy a product for already. Samantha Potter: Yeah. Yeah. Same. Same. Very annoying. Very annoying. Yeah. Megan, what's yours? Meagan Smith: Yes. Agreed. Yeah. Cool. Jenny O'Mahony: Right? Sure. Meagan Smith: I've been watercolor painting with my daughter after school. Jenny O'Mahony: you have Meagan Smith: Yeah. So we bought these books. I bought them on Amazon and they're just Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Samantha Potter: Vineyard storefront that you have to make. Meagan Smith: like pre they're f I will, I will. They're flat they're like flat. So there's kind of an outline and then you Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Meagan Smith: kind of just go for it. And she is so good. The first one she did, I was like, Whoa, you nailed that. Jenny O'Mahony: Okay. I've that we should get the two our two kids together to do it 'cause I bet you they'd both love that, okay? It's therapeutic, I bet, hey? Meagan Smith: Yes. But it's so fun. Like it's I used to love doing arts and crafts Samantha Potter: Mm. Meagan Smith: as ki a kid. Samantha Potter: Mm. Meagan Smith: And so she'll come home from school and we'll do it immediately when she's super dysregulated and all over the map. And it's really nice to just do it with her. And then Jenny O'Mahony: Mm-hmm. Meagan Smith: we kind of just sit there silently, but kind of chatting. But Jenny O'Mahony: Because you're co regulating. Meagan Smith: we're co regulating. But also it's really Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. I love it. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Meagan Smith: fun. And watercolor is so forgiving. Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm. Jenny O'Mahony: Mm. Meagan Smith: so and then I just bought nice watercolors, but I bought cheap. paint things. But yeah, it's fun. And I've been buying them for my friends. I had t a friend with a 40th birthday and then my best friend's birthday, they're a week apart. And so I bought them them too with little watercolor kits. So like I'm getting everyone Jenny O'Mahony: That's so cute. Samantha Potter: Which Meagan Smith: into it. Samantha Potter: I which I also think would be a great host hostess gift too. Yeah. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: I was just gonna say, if you're stocking up, I think that's Meagan Smith: A great hostess gift. Yeah. It's a really no, Jenny O'Mahony: awesome. Because you don't have to be good at painting. Meagan Smith: no. And it's so forgiving. And if you mess up you just paint over it or wipe it off essentially with water. Jenny O'Mahony: Is it what did he what what's that guy say? It's a happy little tree. my god, you are at Yes. I was like, the g the guy with the painting, it's a happy little tree. Samantha Potter: Bob Ross. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Meagan Smith: my god. my god, my sister in law was him for Halloween one yeah. It was very, very funny. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Well I think we know what you're Samantha Potter: So funny. Jenny O'Mahony: gonna be for Halloween now. Meagan Smith: my whole family's being not my whole family, the friend group is being Harry Potter characters. Jenny O'Mahony: okay. Meagan Smith: I've never read Harry Potter, so that might be my next hyperfixation 'cause I gotta learn. Jenny O'Mahony: have you watched the movies? Have you watched the movies? Meagan Smith: I keep falling asleep. Jenny O'Mahony: They're long. Watch the movies with your kids. They're they're both old enough. Okay, so maybe do a movie marathon during the day. Meagan Smith: Yeah. I trying. I keep falling asleep. I keep falling asleep. We need to not start this at it's five o'clock and then I pass out. Yeah. I'm no I'm notorious for falling asleep during movies. Yeah. I've Jenny O'Mahony: No, do it during the day. But they're really they're good movies. And yes, I Samantha Potter: Day. Jenny O'Mahony: think I I would to acknowledge, I know that the author is problematic. Two things are true. She is problematic. I don't support her things Meagan Smith: So she's very problematic. Jenny O'Mahony: that she has said, and also the books and the movies are great. And I'm so sorry that that probably Meagan Smith: She sucks. Jenny O'Mahony: isn't palatable for a lot of people to hear and we everybody wants to cancel her, but still. Meagan Smith: But what we are trying to do with the costumes is either buy them secondhand or not I know that you're not supposed to do this, but not buy we're not buying the official costumes or any of that 'cause we don't want to support her. But there's a let me tell you, there's a lot of secondhand, multiple Harry Potter stuff. And there's Samantha Potter: There's a lot. Jenny O'Mahony: You can still enjoy the movies. Yep. Meagan Smith: I don't know how many of us. I think there's fifteen people doing it. So Samantha Potter: That's so fun. Meagan Smith: yeah. But yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. I don't like the author. I love but as a human, but I really appreciate the creativity and the storylines and Samantha Potter: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Meagan Smith: Yeah. My daughter's very into it right now. Like that whole d that Samantha Potter: Here might be. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Yeah. Meagan Smith: age group is very and it it's it's yeah, it's cool. Jenny O'Mahony: It's a magical Meagan Smith: It's so magical. Jenny O'Mahony: it's literally magic. Samantha Potter: It is. Meagan Smith: And like when we were in Edinburgh last summer, a lot of it was filmed there and like the Jenny O'Mahony: Yes. Meagan Smith: station the station they go to is the station in Edinburgh and so it's like kinda cool too. Samantha Potter: yeah, that's so cool. Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: Yes. And you can also like to your kids about some of the statements she's made and why and why you yeah a hundred percent. So it doesn't all have to be it doesn't have to be all or nothing. A hundred percent. Cool. Meagan Smith: Totally and why it's wrong. Yeah. But I agree, two things can be true. Yeah. Yeah. Samantha Potter: Elever. Jenny O'Mahony: All right, well TGIF. I th we who knows when this is gonna be Samantha Potter: T G I I Meagan Smith: Yeah. Jenny O'Mahony: live, but TGIF. Meagan Smith: All right. Jenny O'Mahony: All right. Meagan Smith: Thanks everyone. Bye. Samantha Potter: Bye guys.