Latest / QUESTION EVERYTHING / The Raw Truth About Marriage, Motherhood + Wanting More: Valeria Lipovetsky
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- 0:03Speaker 1: No one has all the answers, but when we ask
- 0:05Speaker 1: the right questions, we get a little closer, closer to truths,
- 0:11Speaker 1: closer to each other, even closer to ourselves. I'm journalist
- 0:16Speaker 1: Danielle Robe and each week, my guests and I come
- 0:19Speaker 1: together to challenge the status quo and our own ways
- 0:22Speaker 1: of thinking by daring to ask what if, why not?
- 0:28Speaker 1: And who says? So? Come curious, dig deep and join
- 0:33Speaker 1: the conversation. It's time to question everything.
- 0:40Speaker 2: It took me a long time to learn how to
- 0:42Speaker 2: manifest properly. I found it manifestation like I was doing
- 0:46Speaker 2: it wrong for a long time because I would ask
- 0:49Speaker 2: for things visualize them. But what I didn't do is
- 0:53Speaker 2: I didn't check with myself if I am ready to
- 0:56Speaker 2: receive it. So you can ask for things, but if
- 0:59Speaker 2: you I don't believe you deserve it, Dan coming for you.
- 1:04Speaker 1: That was from last week when you heard part one
- 1:07Speaker 1: of my conversation with Valeria Lipovetski, And if you haven't
- 1:10Speaker 1: listened yet, I'd recommend going back because we threw out
- 1:14Speaker 1: all of our question cards. We sat down face to
- 1:16Speaker 1: face and talked about everything from manifesting the life you
- 1:19Speaker 1: want before you're ready for it to the childhood wounds
- 1:23Speaker 1: that shaped our ambition to why authenticity online isn't about
- 1:26Speaker 1: having all the answers, but being honest about the search.
- 1:30Speaker 1: And if you are new to the episode, this week,
- 1:33Speaker 1: I want to catch everyone up. Valeria is a creator, entrepreneur,
- 1:36Speaker 1: and former model who built a multi platform empire. I'm
- 1:41Speaker 1: talking over seven million followers while raising three boys and
- 1:45Speaker 1: discovering who she is outside of the roles of wife,
- 1:48Speaker 1: mother and influencer. She's thoughtful and hilarious, and as you're
- 1:53Speaker 1: about to hear, she's unafraid to say the things that
- 1:56Speaker 1: most people keep inside. So today, in part two of
- 2:02Speaker 1: our conversation, we're going even deeper. We're talking about the
- 2:06Speaker 1: impossible trade offs women make when they're building something they
- 2:09Speaker 1: care about, and how guilt sneaks in even when you
- 2:12Speaker 1: love the life you're creating. We talk about timeliness, egg freezing,
- 2:18Speaker 1: reparenting yourself through motherhood, and the quiet courage it takes
- 2:22Speaker 1: to say I want more. We also had a really
- 2:25Speaker 1: interesting conversation about marriage. She's been married to her husband, Gary,
- 2:29Speaker 1: who is a character in many of her videos, and
- 2:33Speaker 1: they met when she was very young and have built
- 2:35Speaker 1: something pretty special together.
- 2:37Speaker 2: This is before I got on social media or did
- 2:40Speaker 2: anything at all.
- 2:42Speaker 1: He said, your life is going to be here.
- 2:43Speaker 2: Literally one of the first days that we had when
- 2:48Speaker 2: we talked about like things that I.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Fell in love. He was very poet.
- 2:53Speaker 2: He was like, your life will be your art. And
- 2:56Speaker 2: now looking back, it's something that I remember literally a
- 2:59Speaker 2: couple of years ago. And set him down. I'm like,
- 3:01Speaker 2: do you remember when you said that? And he's like, yeah,
- 3:03Speaker 2: do you understand what we've built? It's literally our art
- 3:07Speaker 2: and our business is my life.
- 3:09Speaker 1: She also talks about what changes when your kids grow up,
- 3:12Speaker 1: what no one tells you about sex after babies, and
- 3:15Speaker 1: why some women, including me, are terrified to lose that
- 3:18Speaker 1: romantic can't get enough feeling. Like when I was at
- 3:22Speaker 1: dinner with women who said they didn't want to have
- 3:23Speaker 1: sex with their husbands, Okay, we get into.
- 3:25Speaker 2: That, or they're not allowed to say stuff like that.
- 3:28Speaker 2: If there's a non married woman at the table.
- 3:30Speaker 1: There's like a rule. They broke the rule.
- 3:32Speaker 2: They broke the rule, they.
- 3:33Speaker 1: Go to jail.
- 3:34Speaker 2: There is a phase in marriage, especially when the kids
- 3:37Speaker 2: are little.
- 3:37Speaker 1: Okay, I'm jumping back in because the best parts are
- 3:41Speaker 1: in this episode. And I love that Valeria does not
- 3:43Speaker 1: sugarcoat one bit of it, but she does offer hope.
- 3:47Speaker 1: We laugh a lot, we open up, and we even
- 3:50Speaker 1: pulled a card from the Question Everything card deck because
- 3:53Speaker 1: of course. So if you've ever found yourself stuck between
- 3:56Speaker 1: the life you built and the life you're still dreaming of,
- 4:00Speaker 1: the one that's on your vision board, this one is
- 4:02Speaker 1: for you. It's time to question everything with Valeria Lipovetski
- 4:08Speaker 1: Part two. Okay, So I think a lot of people
- 4:15Speaker 1: look at your life and think it looks really shiny
- 4:18Speaker 1: and bright, which I'm sure it is, but there's definitely
- 4:20Speaker 1: sacrifices and struggles that people don't see. What's the first
- 4:25Speaker 1: thing that comes to your mind.
- 4:26Speaker 2: I don't think it's unique to me. I think every
- 4:29Speaker 2: woman da picks up any project or passion or fully
- 4:34Speaker 2: actualizes herself, feels this guilt that I should be somewhere
- 4:39Speaker 2: else or like with the kids or at home. And
- 4:42Speaker 2: I'm getting comments all the time. I even had a
- 4:44Speaker 2: video recently that Gary took a video of me. I'm
- 4:47Speaker 2: walking in and he's like, you're walking in with the mission,
- 4:49Speaker 2: and I'm like, I have fomo. Like this week, there
- 4:52Speaker 2: were all these things that I wanted to be part
- 4:53Speaker 2: of but I couldn't because I had to work. But
- 4:55Speaker 2: I also wasn't at home with my kids and my husband.
- 4:58Speaker 2: And it's like I want to be I want to
- 5:00Speaker 2: do everything, and he's like, it's okay, just to show pass.
- 5:03Speaker 2: And one of the comments was of this like older lady,
- 5:07Speaker 2: which I understand. She's like, you know, really savor these
- 5:11Speaker 2: years with the kids because they're going to grow up,
- 5:13Speaker 2: and like I get it, yes, but also I'm never
- 5:16Speaker 2: going to be this age again, you know what I mean?
- 5:18Speaker 2: Like it's this I don't know. It feels like you're
- 5:21Speaker 2: always sacrificing something. It's either you or what you want,
- 5:25Speaker 2: or it's either the time with the family something else
- 5:28Speaker 2: like work, Like there's always something.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Do you feel like when you say yes or no
- 5:32Speaker 1: to things, there's like an immediate hell yes or hell
- 5:35Speaker 1: no for you.
- 5:36Speaker 2: I'm learning how to recognize them better.
- 5:40Speaker 1: I don't know if we ever get it right in life.
- 5:42Speaker 1: If there's a woman out there who's figured that out,
- 5:45Speaker 1: I love to know she's lying.
- 5:47Speaker 2: Maybe I'm telling you. I don't think you ever get there.
- 5:50Speaker 2: Do you have it figured out?
- 5:51Speaker 1: Or like close to No, I'm really working on this
- 5:55Speaker 1: because I love people. I'm in the business of people,
- 5:58Speaker 1: and so I can find somebody interesting anywhere I go.
- 6:02Speaker 2: That's actually amazing. How do you get to care though?
- 6:06Speaker 2: Do you always care? Yeah?
- 6:08Speaker 1: I have cared since I was a little kid. I
- 6:09Speaker 1: just want to hear people's stories. It's the way that
- 6:12Speaker 1: you're so good at the share.
- 6:14Speaker 2: I'm not, you know what, I think that I'm playing
- 6:16Speaker 2: a role. I think that I do love people, and
- 6:18Speaker 2: I think that I do love stories. I don't know
- 6:21Speaker 2: why I said that I do like people, but.
- 6:23Speaker 1: I keep saying yes to other people and know to
- 6:25Speaker 1: myself because there's only a certain amount of time in
- 6:28Speaker 1: the day. So people that listen to the pod are
- 6:30Speaker 1: going to laugh because they've heard me talk about this
- 6:32Speaker 1: for like four years. I have not figured it out.
- 6:35Speaker 2: Something's going to happen.
- 6:36Speaker 1: Hopefully I'll have a baby and then it don't make
- 6:39Speaker 1: me choose them at least.
- 6:40Speaker 2: No, but you still will go back to having experiences
- 6:44Speaker 2: where you have to choose yourself one hundred percent. I
- 6:46Speaker 2: would try to figure this out before you have the baby.
- 6:49Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out as much as I can
- 6:51Speaker 1: because I feel like once you have a kid, you're
- 6:53Speaker 1: just like reparenting yourself all the time.
- 6:55Speaker 2: You'll do that anyways. I have to say the biggest thing,
- 6:57Speaker 2: Like a lot of people talk about how amazing it
- 6:59Speaker 2: is to have children, because there's obviously you love them
- 7:02Speaker 2: so much and all of that. Yes, but I think
- 7:05Speaker 2: that the most beautiful aspect of becoming a parent is
- 7:09Speaker 2: that you are seeing your inner child so clearly when
- 7:13Speaker 2: you have your own kid, and they are the greatest
- 7:17Speaker 2: teachers to everything that you need to attend to. They
- 7:20Speaker 2: really shine light on everything.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Is there a lesson that your kids have taught you
- 7:25Speaker 1: that adults never could?
- 7:27Speaker 2: Well, each of them taught me different things. I mean
- 7:29Speaker 2: my eldest, he has so much confidence and he moves
- 7:34Speaker 2: in the world like he owns it, like I never
- 7:36Speaker 2: had that as a kid. I don't know even how
- 7:39Speaker 2: it feels like. There was this one incident where it
- 7:42Speaker 2: was a big school function and it was actually honoring
- 7:47Speaker 2: someone that the school lost. My son did not know
- 7:50Speaker 2: that person. There was no interaction there, and he decided
- 7:53Speaker 2: to go on stage in front of like three hundred
- 7:55Speaker 2: people and make a speech about this person. And I
- 7:58Speaker 2: couldn't even control myself. I literally went under the table
- 8:02Speaker 2: because my inner child was like screaming, I could never
- 8:07Speaker 2: and I was holding I was like squeezing Gary's legs.
- 8:10Speaker 2: I'm like, what do you think. I've never experienced that
- 8:14Speaker 2: in my life.
- 8:14Speaker 1: And how did he do?
- 8:16Speaker 2: He did amazing, Like he made such a beautiful speech.
- 8:19Speaker 2: He was so thoughtful, so beautiful, you know for his age.
- 8:23Speaker 2: Like everybody came up to us after and we're like, wow,
- 8:26Speaker 2: this is amazing, and I don't know what happened. It
- 8:29Speaker 2: was like took over me physically. So he really taught
- 8:33Speaker 2: me the art of really owning who you are. And
- 8:35Speaker 2: I'm still learning, Like I'm watching him and learning and
- 8:39Speaker 2: this idea of just like they don't like me, Yeah whatever,
- 8:42Speaker 2: I don't care. I don't know if it's a show
- 8:44Speaker 2: or not. But I'm like inspired. My middle one, he's
- 8:46Speaker 2: more of like the asking questions. Like he's very philosophical,
- 8:50Speaker 2: so the questions that he ask always inspire me to
- 8:52Speaker 2: dig deeper.
- 8:54Speaker 1: Is the middle one the one you did the podcast with.
- 8:55Speaker 2: I did it with two of them, the eldest and
- 8:57Speaker 2: the middle one. But Benjamin is like it's it's not
- 9:00Speaker 2: his first time here. This kid just knows, you know.
- 9:03Speaker 2: He's very like insightful and then my little guy is
- 9:06Speaker 2: just so joyful. And that's the theme of this.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Year for me. Joy That was my word this year.
- 9:14Speaker 2: Really mine too. Wait why was it your word?
- 9:18Speaker 1: The honest answer is there was a guy that I
- 9:21Speaker 1: had dated a little bit and he was like, you're
- 9:25Speaker 1: so intentional and thoughtful and strategic, Like, what would it
- 9:32Speaker 1: be like to just throw it all to the wind?
- 9:35Speaker 1: And I thought, I've never even considered that.
- 9:38Speaker 2: What does that even mean?
- 9:40Speaker 1: To not center work and thinking about strategy and how
- 9:45Speaker 1: do I get to a certain place in my career
- 9:48Speaker 1: and just follow the joy? And I love it. It's
- 9:51Speaker 1: actually really been working for me to move from joy. Okay,
- 9:55Speaker 1: I'm trying to move with what feels good, not what
- 9:57Speaker 1: I think I should do.
- 9:58Speaker 2: I think that's beautiful. Though. I feel like for me,
- 10:01Speaker 2: joy came out actually from observing other people, and I'm like, oh,
- 10:05Speaker 2: it showed me that I'm not fully leaning into joy
- 10:09Speaker 2: in my life. I'm not fully like in there, you know,
- 10:13Speaker 2: I feel a little bit, I feel like fifty percent
- 10:16Speaker 2: sixty percent, but I'm always like in control. Trauma Re's
- 10:18Speaker 2: found maybe, but it's also I don't know, it's kind
- 10:22Speaker 2: of scary to move with purely joy.
- 10:26Speaker 1: It is, but it's also kind of freeing.
- 10:28Speaker 2: Have you experienced it? Did you have an experience where
- 10:30Speaker 2: you like, that was I moved from joy here?
- 10:34Speaker 1: I did?
- 10:34Speaker 2: Actually, you know what, You'll be surprised the fact that
- 10:38Speaker 2: your word was joy, My word was joy. You'll be
- 10:42Speaker 2: surprised how many people words worse joy this year. That's
- 10:45Speaker 2: always the case. I told you, we don't have unique experiences.
- 10:48Speaker 2: It's all the same. So for me, I observed other
- 10:50Speaker 2: people doing it and I was like, Okay, I need
- 10:52Speaker 2: to do that more. And because they modeled it, I
- 10:54Speaker 2: now know how it looks like that to me is
- 10:57Speaker 2: one of the greatest gifts of womanhood observing. Yeah, because
- 11:00Speaker 2: when you see a woman living in a way that
- 11:03Speaker 2: you admire, it took a lot of sacrifices and hardship
- 11:08Speaker 2: and discovery for her to get there. And it's almost
- 11:11Speaker 2: like she's giving you a cheat code. You're like seeing
- 11:14Speaker 2: it and you're like, I could do that. I don't
- 11:16Speaker 2: know how, but that looks good. Yeah. It takes a
- 11:18Speaker 2: lot of courage. I've been really loving thinking about the
- 11:23Speaker 2: amount of courage it requires to fully figure yourself out
- 11:28Speaker 2: and kind of do the rounds and come to this
- 11:31Speaker 2: self actualization. You know what I mean. Courage is a
- 11:33Speaker 2: big word for me. Why because it takes a lot
- 11:38Speaker 2: to stand up and say I'm stuck, or I don't
- 11:42Speaker 2: like the way I live, or there's more for me
- 11:44Speaker 2: to find out, and then the courage to make the
- 11:47Speaker 2: changes and to take the action, and then the courage
- 11:50Speaker 2: to stick to it, to the boundaries and the new
- 11:53Speaker 2: rules that you made, the courage to stand up to
- 11:56Speaker 2: the norms that are not your norms anymore. Like courage
- 12:00Speaker 2: throughout that whole cycle. That's a big word. I think
- 12:03Speaker 2: that for me, we don't mention that word enough. With women.
- 12:06Speaker 2: Let's talk about timelines. Because you've been sharing your experience
- 12:11Speaker 2: of you decided to freeze your eggs. You already did it.
- 12:13Speaker 2: Was it like a big conversation on your podcast or
- 12:16Speaker 2: social You shared a journey.
- 12:17Speaker 1: I shared the whole thing, And that was actually one
- 12:19Speaker 1: of the first times I've ever been really vulnerable on
- 12:21Speaker 1: the internet. And I felt like I had the courage
- 12:25Speaker 1: to be vulnerable because it didn't feel like it was
- 12:28Speaker 1: about me. It felt like I was trying to demystify
- 12:30Speaker 1: something that I felt at the time. Women weren't really
- 12:33Speaker 1: talking about and so I did like a docu style
- 12:37Speaker 1: thing and I shared my stomach, distended the needles, all
- 12:41Speaker 1: my feelings, the whole thing, and then I did a
- 12:43Speaker 1: podcast with the people the doctor who did it with me.
- 12:46Speaker 1: Because there's not a lot of information around it. It's
- 12:49Speaker 1: not been around as long as IVF, so there's a
- 12:51Speaker 1: lot more studies that have been done with IVF. And
- 12:54Speaker 1: just for clarity, IVF is when you take the egg
- 12:57Speaker 1: and then the man's sperm and make an mber. When
- 13:00Speaker 1: you freeze your eggs, it's just the egg. It's the
- 13:02Speaker 1: first half of IVF, and the eggs are more fragile,
- 13:05Speaker 1: they're harder to dethaw. You don't have as great of
- 13:08Speaker 1: a success rate when you dethaw them, so you need
- 13:11Speaker 1: more eggs.
- 13:12Speaker 2: Was that a big decision for you to make?
- 13:15Speaker 1: Yeah, it was huge. I'm a really holistic person, like
- 13:18Speaker 1: I try not even to take advil if I don't
- 13:20Speaker 1: have to, and so the idea of putting hormones in
- 13:23Speaker 1: my body terrified me. And I'm glad I did it.
- 13:25Speaker 1: I got fifteen eggs, twelve that were genetically healthy, which
- 13:29Speaker 1: is not really enough. I should have done another round
- 13:31Speaker 1: to get twenty eggs. I just could not imagine doing
- 13:34Speaker 1: it again.
- 13:35Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard, it's a really hard one.
- 13:38Speaker 1: It was tough. The six months after were harder for
- 13:41Speaker 1: me actually than the actual process because.
- 13:43Speaker 2: You have to rebalance your hormones.
- 13:45Speaker 1: Yeah. I didn't even recognize it because I treat my
- 13:47Speaker 1: body like a machine and I'm just like, let's get
- 13:49Speaker 1: to it. But in hindsight, like I was overly emotional.
- 13:53Speaker 1: I think for six months I was bloated. I didn't
- 13:55Speaker 1: fit into my genes the same way. Like it was
- 13:57Speaker 1: just a lot of discomfort. But I'm glad I did it.
- 14:00Speaker 1: And I never felt more proud of my body, which
- 14:02Speaker 1: was cool. And I think you feel proud regardless of
- 14:05Speaker 1: the outcome. You had the courage to try something.
- 14:08Speaker 2: What made you do it? Because you're only thirty four now,
- 14:13Speaker 2: so when did you do it?
- 14:14Speaker 1: Thirty two?
- 14:15Speaker 2: So what made you do it?
- 14:16Speaker 1: I really want kids. I do not want to miss
- 14:19Speaker 1: that opportunity in my life. And I didn't have a partner.
- 14:22Speaker 1: I still don't have a partner, And I was like,
- 14:26Speaker 1: I don't know how long I'm not going to have
- 14:28Speaker 1: a part What if I never find a partner?
- 14:30Speaker 2: Why would you think that I think I will, but
- 14:33Speaker 2: you never know. But I feel like also that pressure
- 14:36Speaker 2: of the timeline.
- 14:38Speaker 1: I constantly feel like I'm running out of time because
- 14:40Speaker 1: of it. I wake up sometimes like ready for my day,
- 14:43Speaker 1: like I'm running out of time I have to go
- 14:46Speaker 1: have kids.
- 14:47Speaker 2: That's kind of crazy. So many people don't realize that
- 14:50Speaker 2: this clock ticking is so loud in your body and
- 14:53Speaker 2: in your head as you get older, Like men don't
- 14:56Speaker 2: have to think about it.
- 14:57Speaker 1: The clock ticking is so loud because you had kids
- 15:00Speaker 1: so young. Do you feel like the clock is ticking
- 15:01Speaker 1: in other ways or no?
- 15:04Speaker 2: No, And you know what, when people ask me about
- 15:07Speaker 2: how it is to be a young mom, there's obviously
- 15:11Speaker 2: cons to it as well. But I have to say
- 15:14Speaker 2: the advantage is the fact that it's done and I'm
- 15:17Speaker 2: still young and I can raise them and I can
- 15:20Speaker 2: live my life. But on the other side, because I
- 15:23Speaker 2: also had them so young when they were little, like,
- 15:27Speaker 2: I don't remember a lot of the first couple of
- 15:30Speaker 2: years because I was in such a daze. I was
- 15:33Speaker 2: a child myself in a way, you know. So I
- 15:35Speaker 2: feel like when you're older, you're present, you can really
- 15:38Speaker 2: appreciate the experience. I wasn't as present.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Did you feel that with your third more?
- 15:43Speaker 2: Even the birth. The birth with the third was so
- 15:45Speaker 2: different because with my first, when they pulled him out
- 15:50Speaker 2: and they put him on me, I didn't have this
- 15:52Speaker 2: like maternal instinct kicking out of me. I was just
- 15:55Speaker 2: like what am I doing now? Second was a little
- 15:57Speaker 2: bit better, but the third was just an out of
- 16:00Speaker 2: body experience where it was just like him and I.
- 16:03Speaker 2: Even Gary still is mad at me because he's like,
- 16:05Speaker 2: you didn't let me into that experience. He was beside me.
- 16:09Speaker 2: I was twenty eight, but it was such a moment
- 16:13Speaker 2: of just me and Maxie and he did not have
- 16:17Speaker 2: room in there. I feel so sad for him because
- 16:19Speaker 2: he really wanted to be.
- 16:20Speaker 1: Part of it. But you're full of self.
- 16:22Speaker 2: But I'm full of self and that child that came
- 16:25Speaker 2: out of me, and there wasn't enough room for everybody.
- 16:27Speaker 2: But I think that was kind of the birth that
- 16:30Speaker 2: helped me be at peace with the other two where
- 16:33Speaker 2: I didn't feel it. I'm happy that I had a
- 16:35Speaker 2: completely different experience, but that was my third, so I
- 16:39Speaker 2: think that older moms really like immersed themselves in that experience.
- 16:45Speaker 1: My good friend from growing up just had a kid
- 16:47Speaker 1: at thirty eight, she's starting thirty nine, was her first child,
- 16:51Speaker 1: and she's so calm, and I'm like, how are you
- 16:54Speaker 1: so cam I'm more nervous than she is. But I
- 16:57Speaker 1: do think some of that is her age.
- 16:59Speaker 2: Yeah, really brings you down, Like you don't think about
- 17:03Speaker 2: stupid stuff, you know, you kind of really focus on
- 17:05Speaker 2: what matters. I was thinking about a lot of stupid stuff.
- 17:08Speaker 2: That's kind of the minus of it. But I can
- 17:11Speaker 2: only imagine and like really sympathize with this idea of
- 17:17Speaker 2: like I need to do all of this. I need
- 17:19Speaker 2: to build my career, and I need to find a partner,
- 17:21Speaker 2: and I need to get married.
- 17:22Speaker 1: That's a lot. Well, what's hard to I think for
- 17:24Speaker 1: a women is a lot of times when you hit
- 17:26Speaker 1: that stride in your career, because it takes time if
- 17:28Speaker 1: you're building, unless you get like super fortunate, it doesn't
- 17:32Speaker 1: happen overnight. So I'd say I'd probably hit a stride
- 17:36Speaker 1: last year for the first time. I was thirty three,
- 17:40Speaker 1: and like that's peak parenting age, you know, And so
- 17:43Speaker 1: a lot of times I think those two things collide.
- 17:47Speaker 1: It's the one part of feminism that I think we're
- 17:49Speaker 1: still trying to figure out. It's really hard.
- 17:52Speaker 2: That's really hard. But I think you're doing a great job,
- 17:54Speaker 2: and freezing the eggs is a great move to kind
- 17:56Speaker 2: of reclaim some of that time.
- 17:58Speaker 1: I feel that way. I do. I think it took
- 18:00Speaker 1: a little bit of the pressure off. It's almost like
- 18:03Speaker 1: buying insurance. Do you think being a boy mom shaped you?
- 18:06Speaker 2: Yeah, I honestly I think I would mess a girl up.
- 18:10Speaker 2: If I had a daughter, I would be so scared.
- 18:13Speaker 1: I think you might have another baby. Why you say that.
- 18:15Speaker 1: I just have this feeling and I think it's gonna
- 18:17Speaker 1: be a girl. I'm on record, I don't think so,
- 18:20Speaker 1: because I just got used to this, Like I'm in
- 18:25Speaker 1: a honeymoon stage with my kids, and yes, I see
- 18:28Speaker 1: them growing and I'm like hmm. But I also just
- 18:31Speaker 1: really believe there's like season for everything in life, and
- 18:34Speaker 1: you can't be greedy. I don't think i'll do well
- 18:36Speaker 1: with a baby. Now you're in career mode.
- 18:38Speaker 2: I'm in career mode. I mean, like, I really want
- 18:40Speaker 2: to prioritize my marriage, you know, And now we have
- 18:44Speaker 2: the space too without like feeling someone is abandoned, you know,
- 18:49Speaker 2: So I want to like get into that phase in
- 18:51Speaker 2: our lives.
- 18:52Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you the most personal thing you
- 18:54Speaker 1: can totally tell me to buzz off. Okay, So I
- 18:57Speaker 1: was at dinner with some of my camp friends I
- 19:00Speaker 1: used to go to overnight camp, which your kids are
- 19:02Speaker 1: about to do, and there was probably eight women there ages.
- 19:07Speaker 1: I was the youngest, so thirty four to forty four,
- 19:11Speaker 1: maybe even forty eight, And somebody made a joke like
- 19:14Speaker 1: who wants to have sex with their husbands? And they
- 19:17Speaker 1: all laughed and were like, yeah, who wants to have
- 19:20Speaker 1: sex with their husbands? And I was like, no.
- 19:23Speaker 2: What I always think about when you are not married
- 19:27Speaker 2: or don't have kids, and you are in that group
- 19:30Speaker 2: of people that have kids and are married, they're not
- 19:32Speaker 2: allowed to say stuff like that. If there's a non
- 19:35Speaker 2: married woman at the table, there's like a rule.
- 19:37Speaker 1: They broke the rule. I still think about it. I'm like, so,
- 19:41Speaker 1: should I just be having all of the good stuff now?
- 19:43Speaker 2: I mean yes, But also there is a phase in marriage,
- 19:48Speaker 2: especially when the kids are little. Listen to me, you
- 19:51Speaker 2: really learn like all the things that you dislike about
- 19:55Speaker 2: your partner when the kids are little, because they really
- 19:57Speaker 2: amplify not only did your sleep, you also stress, especially
- 20:01Speaker 2: if it's your first and you're figuring out this whole
- 20:04Speaker 2: parenting thing and there's just so many things at play,
- 20:08Speaker 2: and not even take into consideration where you're at with
- 20:10Speaker 2: your career or anything else, there's just so many factors
- 20:13Speaker 2: that are really there, like to test the kind of
- 20:18Speaker 2: bond that you have. So those years are kind of interesting,
- 20:22Speaker 2: and you also don't feel good. You don't feel like yourself,
- 20:25Speaker 2: and it's difficult to get back to that feel. But
- 20:29Speaker 2: the reason why I'm saying like, at this point in
- 20:31Speaker 2: my life I want to prioritize my marriage is that
- 20:34Speaker 2: we're past that phase and there's so much to like
- 20:39Speaker 2: explore and do, and we're like different people than we
- 20:42Speaker 2: were when we had kids or when the kids were
- 20:44Speaker 2: five and six. Like, we're different people, especially Gary and
- 20:46Speaker 2: I were very active and we're developing ourselves together and
- 20:49Speaker 2: a part. So if you don't like remember that and
- 20:52Speaker 2: go back to that, then it's like, hey, I need
- 20:54Speaker 2: to now, you know, go back to this and prioritize this.
- 20:57Speaker 2: Then yeah, then you're like, oh, yeah, I.
- 21:00Speaker 1: Just don't want to feel that. I know this may
- 21:02Speaker 1: sound strange, but every guy I've ever seriously dated there
- 21:06Speaker 1: will be a moment where I'm on the couch and
- 21:07Speaker 1: like I have to go to the grocery store. Somebody
- 21:09Speaker 1: has to go get food, and I'm like, no, don't go,
- 21:12Speaker 1: Like I don't want to be apart from you. But
- 21:14Speaker 1: that's still there, and that's what I'm hoping is not lost.
- 21:19Speaker 2: No, I don't think it's lost when you are connected
- 21:22Speaker 2: with your partner one hundred percent. It just looks different
- 21:25Speaker 2: than the way it is when you just first start dating.
- 21:28Speaker 2: But it's also you have to participate. I don't know.
- 21:32Speaker 2: I think that there's a lot. We talked about it
- 21:33Speaker 2: with Gary. I'm like, I feel like it's our renaissance
- 21:36Speaker 2: now because the kids are older and they're going to
- 21:38Speaker 2: go to sleep away camp. It's fun, it's nice. It's
- 21:40Speaker 2: like discovering each other again, you know, because you'll be surprised.
- 21:45Speaker 2: Throughout the marriage. There are times where you feel like
- 21:47Speaker 2: roommates because you are taking care of everything else.
- 21:50Speaker 1: So you have a rule you don't talk about it
- 21:52Speaker 1: in front of unmarried women.
- 21:54Speaker 2: Yes, it's the same thing with birth. I have like
- 21:57Speaker 2: girlfriends that are like giving birth. I'm not going to
- 21:59Speaker 2: talk about negative birth experiences, like you don't know.
- 22:03Speaker 1: But sometimes they should know no, no.
- 22:05Speaker 2: Because you amplify everything, Like you were sitting there being like,
- 22:08Speaker 2: what do you mean? No, I'm not going to have
- 22:11Speaker 2: sex with my husband, you know what I mean. But
- 22:14Speaker 2: they're not giving you like contacts, and they're not giving
- 22:16Speaker 2: you the complexity of it all and the seasons. Like
- 22:19Speaker 2: there's so much there.
- 22:21Speaker 1: That's very wise. Is it ever hard putting your marriage
- 22:24Speaker 1: out into the public, because I see some of the
- 22:26Speaker 1: comments when you talk about Gary or have videos, and
- 22:29Speaker 1: the two of you are very honest. I respect it
- 22:31Speaker 1: a lot.
- 22:32Speaker 2: To honest for America, especially Gary, Oh my god, Gary
- 22:36Speaker 2: triggers people. Gary triggers women, and I understand because he
- 22:42Speaker 2: has a way and the way he speaks and carries himself.
- 22:47Speaker 2: Also with his age, it's just like he knows who
- 22:49Speaker 2: he is. He's unapologetic about it and that's it. But
- 22:52Speaker 2: the way he speaks sometimes it sounds like facts. So
- 22:55Speaker 2: for people, especially these days where everything is like a
- 22:58Speaker 2: question market the end, it's hard.
- 23:00Speaker 1: That's interesting. I do think that's what it.
- 23:02Speaker 2: Is, one hundred percent. I'm telling you I've been sitting
- 23:05Speaker 2: dissecting and for years now.
- 23:07Speaker 1: Does it ever affect your actual relationship? No?
- 23:10Speaker 2: I think that it benefited our relationship because there are
- 23:13Speaker 2: certain things where I was like, oh, that's so interesting,
- 23:16Speaker 2: you know what, Yeah, that is a bit. I wonder
- 23:18Speaker 2: if he ever like looked at the way he responds
- 23:20Speaker 2: to certain things and I bring it to him, and
- 23:22Speaker 2: I'm like, just you know, see if that's something that
- 23:25Speaker 2: you like about yourself or don't like about yourself, and
- 23:28Speaker 2: do whatever you need to do with it. I never
- 23:30Speaker 2: want to change him. That's, to me, is like the
- 23:33Speaker 2: number one thing that I've seen my mother fighting an
- 23:37Speaker 2: uphill battle trying to change her partners. So I never
- 23:41Speaker 2: wanted to change Gary. But as much as he brings
- 23:45Speaker 2: things to me to show my potential, I bring things
- 23:48Speaker 2: to him. And I feel like a lot of people
- 23:50Speaker 2: because I believe that everyone is a mirror. Through a
- 23:52Speaker 2: lot of conversations, I was like, hey, this is an
- 23:55Speaker 2: interesting point, you know, And he did take some of
- 23:58Speaker 2: those to consideration. I did notice that his communication changed
- 24:02Speaker 2: a little bit, but otherwise he's like I loved him
- 24:05Speaker 2: when he was just very direct, rugged and unapologetic, so
- 24:09Speaker 2: I don't want that to change.
- 24:11Speaker 1: Well, you were also used to direct communication, Like it
- 24:13Speaker 1: sounds like your mom's direct.
- 24:15Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate that. I feel like it saves a
- 24:17Speaker 2: lot of time. I also don't need things to sound
- 24:22Speaker 2: a certain way in order for me to understand the message.
- 24:25Speaker 2: Does that make sense, Yes, I think that right now,
- 24:28Speaker 2: at this time and age, we're focusing a lot on
- 24:31Speaker 2: delivery and less about the message. And I personally value
- 24:37Speaker 2: more the message and what you're trying to teach me
- 24:39Speaker 2: or show me than the other nuances. Yeah.
- 24:43Speaker 1: Again, I think that's pretty wise.
- 24:45Speaker 2: So I'm not triggered by those things, but I understand
- 24:47Speaker 2: how others are. You know what else that so many
- 24:51Speaker 2: people got triggered, which was so interesting because you know,
- 24:53Speaker 2: when you do snippets from the podcast, people don't have
- 24:56Speaker 2: contacts to the conversation. So there was this moment where
- 24:59Speaker 2: I said, when the kids were little, Gary wasn't as
- 25:02Speaker 2: present as I wanted him to be. He was, obviously there,
- 25:05Speaker 2: was providing, was playing with the kids, he was doing
- 25:07Speaker 2: all the things, but you can tell that it's like
- 25:10Speaker 2: he's not in.
- 25:11Speaker 1: It in your relationship or in the family.
- 25:13Speaker 2: With the kids. He wasn't like skipping to do bad
- 25:17Speaker 2: time or read a story or change a diaper, which
- 25:20Speaker 2: in my head, I was like, that's what you'll be
- 25:24Speaker 2: so happy to do. But in reality that wasn't the case.
- 25:27Speaker 2: When I came to him and I talked to him
- 25:29Speaker 2: about it, he was very upfront with me and he said,
- 25:33Speaker 2: I don't enjoy it at all. I give you the
- 25:36Speaker 2: support you haven't any I'm there when you need me,
- 25:39Speaker 2: you need me to be there, I'll be there, but
- 25:42Speaker 2: I don't love doing it. So I'm just being honest
- 25:44Speaker 2: with you. But I will come into the picture fully
- 25:49Speaker 2: in a way that will exceed your expectations. When they're
- 25:53Speaker 2: going to be a little older, and I had to
- 25:56Speaker 2: make the decision of like, am I making this an issue?
- 26:00Speaker 2: Like are we fighting about this? Or am I trusting him?
- 26:04Speaker 2: And this is what it is right now. I'm nurturing them.
- 26:08Speaker 2: This is the years of like mommy, mommy, I have
- 26:10Speaker 2: an annea of help. He's there obviously around, but not
- 26:14Speaker 2: in this capacity that I saw it to me. And
- 26:18Speaker 2: when they turned like I would say, five six, he
- 26:22Speaker 2: became super dad. And thank god, because otherwise I'll be
- 26:27Speaker 2: so fucking annoyed because you promised me. But I had
- 26:30Speaker 2: this fear in me. I'm like, is he going to
- 26:32Speaker 2: do what he promised me? He'll do? And obviously he
- 26:35Speaker 2: did above and beyond, Like he's now the main parent
- 26:39Speaker 2: in the house, which is amazing because the boys really
- 26:43Speaker 2: need him now, Like he's shaping the men they're going
- 26:46Speaker 2: to become, where I am kind of taking the back seat.
- 26:49Speaker 2: I'm there, but he's leading the way. And it's also
- 26:53Speaker 2: amazing timeline because now I am able to focus on
- 26:57Speaker 2: my career and what I want to do.
- 26:59Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like such a bad thing if it
- 27:01Speaker 1: works for you.
- 27:02Speaker 2: Oh my god, the things that people there were people
- 27:06Speaker 2: there was this one woman. I confronted her because it
- 27:08Speaker 2: pissed me off. She shared the video being like, oh
- 27:12Speaker 2: my god, I feel so sorry for Valeria, Like who's
- 27:14Speaker 2: going to save her and tell her that this is
- 27:16Speaker 2: not right? And I'm like, girl, you got a two
- 27:20Speaker 2: month old, like your first baby. You know, it's so
- 27:24Speaker 2: interesting to me. But again I'm like, no, this is
- 27:26Speaker 2: not about me. This is how she It's okay, everybody
- 27:29Speaker 2: can have their opinions. But that was very controversial for
- 27:33Speaker 2: a lot of people. But again, also, you know, people
- 27:36Speaker 2: watch thirty second snippet and they don't get the full context.
- 27:39Speaker 2: But yeah, things like that, I think that these are
- 27:42Speaker 2: real conversations and real life that's happening that no one
- 27:46Speaker 2: talks about. So when women or men, married couples are
- 27:50Speaker 2: dealing with it, they're like, something is broken, something is
- 27:53Speaker 2: wrong with us, but it's so normal and that's what
- 27:56Speaker 2: we need more of.
- 27:57Speaker 1: And you're never afraid to share it, which is why
- 28:00Speaker 1: to me time ready to share everything?
- 28:02Speaker 2: Well not everything, you shared some stuff. I feel that
- 28:06Speaker 2: you are ready to start opening up.
- 28:09Speaker 1: That's wild because I saw a psychic and she told
- 28:11Speaker 1: me the same thing.
- 28:12Speaker 2: That's all the confirmation you needed.
- 28:14Speaker 1: So I always do rapid fire. Do you want to
- 28:16Speaker 1: do them? Let's do it, Okay.
- 28:21Speaker 2: Best perk of your job meeting different people from all
- 28:25Speaker 2: walks of life.
- 28:26Speaker 1: Oh I like that, I would say being in the
- 28:29Speaker 1: room some rooms, not all the rooms, but like same thing.
- 28:32Speaker 1: You get to meet interesting people.
- 28:33Speaker 2: And there are not part of your network per se,
- 28:36Speaker 2: you know, which that I love.
- 28:38Speaker 1: A simple way to build more of a following online
- 28:40Speaker 1: A quick tip.
- 28:41Speaker 2: Open up, share yourself, tell your story. People need something
- 28:48Speaker 2: to connect to, you know. And I go back to
- 28:51Speaker 2: this idea that social media made me such a better
- 28:56Speaker 2: version of myself because in a way that was my therapy.
- 28:58Speaker 2: I didn't need a therapist because I was going through
- 29:00Speaker 2: it doing it. So if you're just listening and are
- 29:04Speaker 2: okay to ask yourself the questions through these mirrors, you're
- 29:08Speaker 2: able to learn a lot about yourself. It takes a
- 29:11Speaker 2: lot of vulnerability, but it's a work that, like, I'm
- 29:14Speaker 2: so happy that I did.
- 29:16Speaker 1: I always tell people to have pillars, brand pillars, like
- 29:19Speaker 1: four things, because sometimes, like if you're an expert on everything,
- 29:21Speaker 1: they don't know what to come to you for.
- 29:23Speaker 2: But I think that happens naturally you do. Yeah, Like,
- 29:26Speaker 2: who do you see that is expert in everything? You
- 29:29Speaker 2: have natural inclinations towards things.
- 29:32Speaker 1: That you love to talk about. I don't know. I
- 29:35Speaker 1: see people that like are experts in psychology and they're
- 29:39Speaker 1: posting about cooking and then they're posting their kids.
- 29:42Speaker 2: Yeah, but you see, these are people that are doing
- 29:44Speaker 2: it wrong. And I'll tell you why, because they need
- 29:46Speaker 2: the pillars, you know what, You're right? Actually it's social
- 29:49Speaker 2: media one on one is you know, we have creator methods,
- 29:51Speaker 2: so we talk about it all the time. But yeah,
- 29:53Speaker 2: pillars are very important. But I also think that a
- 29:56Speaker 2: lot of people when they take their pillars too seriously,
- 30:00Speaker 2: they're blocking their creativity. So towards you, I'll talk about
- 30:04Speaker 2: the psychologist right, not to put you on the spot,
- 30:06Speaker 2: but the psychologists, let's say they have their expertise, they
- 30:10Speaker 2: have their pillar. I think it's a beautiful way to
- 30:13Speaker 2: connect with the audience when you show your humanity and
- 30:16Speaker 2: different aspects of your life, if it's cooking or children.
- 30:19Speaker 2: But if you don't have an aspect of your main
- 30:21Speaker 2: pillar in that other content, then you're losing it. So
- 30:26Speaker 2: when you're cooking, you can talk about something that connects
- 30:29Speaker 2: to psychology. When you're with your kids, you somehow connect
- 30:32Speaker 2: it to a lesson or something in psychology. That way,
- 30:35Speaker 2: you're able to play around connect with your audience. But
- 30:40Speaker 2: it's very clear that you're an expert in this.
- 30:43Speaker 1: That's a really great tip. One thing you love most
- 30:46Speaker 1: about your life right now?
- 30:47Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 30:48Speaker 1: I love everything.
- 30:49Speaker 2: I'm so annoying. I'm sorry.
- 30:50Speaker 1: I love everything that's beautiful.
- 30:52Speaker 2: I've been very intentional in creating the life that I
- 30:56Speaker 2: have now, so no complaints.
- 30:58Speaker 1: How long have you felt that way?
- 31:00Speaker 2: I would say the past two years. But I think
- 31:05Speaker 2: moving to Miami was a huge shift for me because
- 31:08Speaker 2: I didn't realize how much energy I was spending trying
- 31:13Speaker 2: to match my energy to the city I was living
- 31:15Speaker 2: in before Toronto, which I love. I love Canada, I
- 31:17Speaker 2: love Toronto, But at some point I was vibrating in
- 31:22Speaker 2: a different way and that environment wasn't fostering, you know,
- 31:26Speaker 2: like it wasn't something that kept me going. So I
- 31:29Speaker 2: was working so hard to continue being motivated and inspired.
- 31:32Speaker 2: And once we moved to Miami, it's like click. It's
- 31:37Speaker 2: truly magical. What happens to you when you're where you're
- 31:41Speaker 2: meant to be.
- 31:42Speaker 1: What's hard about your life right now?
- 31:43Speaker 2: I wouldn't say hard. I would say challenging. Sometimes it
- 31:47Speaker 2: is just the constant balls in the air that you
- 31:51Speaker 2: need to catch. But I don't think it's something that's
- 31:54Speaker 2: hard to figure out. It just requires me to be
- 31:56Speaker 2: more diligent and like clear scheduled.
- 32:01Speaker 1: Think mine is that a lot of times when we
- 32:03Speaker 1: want professional growth, it actually comes from personal growth. And
- 32:08Speaker 1: I think I probably have to make some decisions in
- 32:10Speaker 1: my personal life in order for everything else to flourish.
- 32:13Speaker 2: I mean, I think that you know exactly what you
- 32:16Speaker 2: need to do because you actually it's suck. A team
- 32:19Speaker 2: that came up a few times in our conversation.
- 32:22Speaker 1: The version of you from ten years ago could see
- 32:24Speaker 1: you now. What would surprise her the most?
- 32:26Speaker 2: Oh my god, that I have the courage to do
- 32:29Speaker 2: what I do, just like showing up every day and
- 32:32Speaker 2: sharing my point of view. It's insane to me. It
- 32:35Speaker 2: goes my mind.
- 32:36Speaker 1: What about you? I think making a living doing something
- 32:39Speaker 1: I love that I kind of like created from thin
- 32:42Speaker 1: air when I moved here, Like everyone thought it was
- 32:45Speaker 1: a joke. How do you make money being a TV
- 32:48Speaker 1: host or like a journalist or any of that, like
- 32:51Speaker 1: in today's world without a proper job. I like started
- 32:55Speaker 1: on the internet. I didn't start at a local news station.
- 33:00Speaker 2: Well, but you did your rounds, you did all the things,
- 33:04Speaker 2: you took all the stops. You just did it very
- 33:06Speaker 2: quickly and realized very quickly that it's not the path.
- 33:10Speaker 1: Okay, a book that changed your life, something you think
- 33:13Speaker 1: everybody should read.
- 33:14Speaker 2: I feel like I say the same books every time,
- 33:16Speaker 2: but I've realized that that book needs to meet you
- 33:19Speaker 2: at a certain point in your life.
- 33:21Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
- 33:21Speaker 2: Because there's so many books that got recommended to me
- 33:24Speaker 2: and I picked them up, and I'm like, that does
- 33:26Speaker 2: not make sense. So it really depends where you are,
- 33:29Speaker 2: but for me in different points in my life. New
- 33:31Speaker 2: Earth Echer totally was really powerful for me. That really
- 33:36Speaker 2: made me look at motherhood and emphasize how important for
- 33:40Speaker 2: me to find kind of my own identity aside from
- 33:44Speaker 2: all the roles that I was playing. So that was
- 33:46Speaker 2: New Earth. How to know a person was very amazing
- 33:49Speaker 2: for me when I started with the podcast, just really
- 33:52Speaker 2: gave me an insight into how to have conversations and
- 33:55Speaker 2: see people. And then a man search for meaning was
- 33:59Speaker 2: also very powerful that I still like go back to
- 34:03Speaker 2: all the time. So those three I would say my
- 34:06Speaker 2: top three.
- 34:07Speaker 1: Those are great. I can't believe you read a New Earth.
- 34:09Speaker 1: I pick it up and I'm like, what does any
- 34:10Speaker 1: of this mean?
- 34:11Speaker 2: But that's the interesting thing. I didn't read it entirely,
- 34:15Speaker 2: and it's the kind of book that I pick up
- 34:17Speaker 2: once a year and it connects. Sometimes I land on
- 34:21Speaker 2: the chapter I'm like, this is exactly what I needed,
- 34:23Speaker 2: And a lot of other times I'm like, yeah, no,
- 34:26Speaker 2: not there yet to understand this, you know. But that
- 34:29Speaker 2: to me is one of the most powerful books, the
- 34:33Speaker 2: ones that you know there's something in there, you just
- 34:35Speaker 2: haven't reached that point to really understand it, yet I
- 34:39Speaker 2: love it, so I always go.
- 34:40Speaker 1: Back to it. I want to hear yours. Mine is Oprah,
- 34:44Speaker 1: which sounds trite, but her book that is Wisdom on
- 34:47Speaker 1: Sundays or something. The chapters are titled like Purpose Resilience,
- 34:53Speaker 1: and so sometimes when I feel like I need to
- 34:55Speaker 1: pick me up, I go to whichever chapter is calling
- 34:57Speaker 1: me and I feel like, Okay, that's what I need it,
- 35:00Speaker 1: like I just needed whatever those words were.
- 35:02Speaker 2: I never read that.
- 35:03Speaker 1: I'll send it to you. It's a quick read, something
- 35:06Speaker 1: every woman should try once.
- 35:08Speaker 2: I think everything you need to try once. What do
- 35:09Speaker 2: you mean you're only here once?
- 35:12Speaker 1: I love that.
- 35:13Speaker 2: What it would be your answer?
- 35:15Speaker 1: Really being on your own just once? Yes, like you
- 35:19Speaker 1: don't have to be on your own for like a
- 35:22Speaker 1: long time, but like feeling like you could stand on
- 35:25Speaker 1: your own two feet without anybody else, I think is
- 35:28Speaker 1: like so powerful for a woman. I think you can
- 35:31Speaker 1: do that in partnership.
- 35:33Speaker 2: Yes, definitely, but you first need to know how it
- 35:35Speaker 2: feels on your own. Yeah, I'm telling you. The number
- 35:39Speaker 2: one thing I keep reminding myself, especially as my kids
- 35:41Speaker 2: getting older. Now, I think the most monumental moment in
- 35:46Speaker 2: my life was when I left home early on because
- 35:49Speaker 2: I learned to be alone without being lonely. That was
- 35:54Speaker 2: really powerful, and I was never scared being alone again.
- 35:58Speaker 1: And there are many times in your life for all
- 36:00Speaker 1: you have is you. I always do the card at
- 36:04Speaker 1: the end, but I forgot them because I only gave
- 36:06Speaker 1: them to you. Can we do one?
- 36:08Speaker 2: So you go first?
- 36:09Speaker 1: Okay, mineus. What's your superpower? I think I am able
- 36:12Speaker 1: to pretty quickly see what is special about a person.
- 36:16Speaker 2: I can see that. Okay, I want to hear mine. Yeah,
- 36:18Speaker 2: tell me something about yourself that sounds made up, but
- 36:21Speaker 2: it's one hundred percent true. That I am an introvert
- 36:27Speaker 2: and I really like secondhand shoes.
- 36:31Speaker 1: That does sound made up, Hilaria.
- 36:33Speaker 2: I love as Selene. I buy mostly secondhand shoes.
- 36:39Speaker 1: Not persons, just shoes, shoes, and where do you get them.
- 36:43Speaker 2: On the real reil? In general, that's what I love
- 36:45Speaker 2: about vintage and thrifting and stuff. But just I feel
- 36:48Speaker 2: like I get to walk in someone else's shoes. There's
- 36:52Speaker 2: something about it that's like there's a story here, and
- 36:56Speaker 2: I'm like I get to be part of it. After
- 36:58Speaker 2: I spray some alcohol on it to.
- 37:01Speaker 1: Kill the drums. See, you really do love people's stories.
- 37:03Speaker 2: Yeah, and their shoes.
- 37:05Speaker 1: All of this cameable circle. I can't believe you buy
- 37:08Speaker 1: secondhand shoes all the time.
- 37:10Speaker 2: All the time, the best ones, and I save money.
- 37:12Speaker 2: It's a win win for everything.
- 37:14Speaker 1: Yeah, especially Gary.
- 37:16Speaker 2: Gary doesn't know this weird thing that I have, Like,
- 37:20Speaker 2: these are great shooes. I'm like, thanks, they're new. But
- 37:23Speaker 2: one day I would love for the Real Real or
- 37:25Speaker 2: whatever other consignment store to have like a QR code
- 37:28Speaker 2: where you can scan and then see who it belong
- 37:31Speaker 2: to and maybe it will trace back to like nineteen nineteen,
- 37:35Speaker 2: you know.
- 37:36Speaker 1: And I think it actually might increase the value, Like
- 37:39Speaker 1: what if Marilyn Monroe owned the shoes? We don't know.
- 37:42Speaker 2: I think we're onto something here.
- 37:44Speaker 1: Good shoes take you places. Okay, you know what time
- 37:53Speaker 1: it is. Today's a good day. To have a good day.
- 37:56Speaker 1: I'll see you next week. It is abst