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153. Lets catch up... pregnancy prep, travels, life updates & more · Hot Girl Energy Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello you guys, Welcome back to another episode of the
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Speaker 1: Hawkgirl Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Kayleie, and this is
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Speaker 1: your weekly reminder that it's a new day, a new week,
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Speaker 1: a new mindset, and another day for you to become
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Speaker 1: the Hawkgirl Energy you want to attract. Hello you, guys,
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Speaker 1: welcome back to another episode. This week has been totally
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Speaker 1: chaotic for me. I am leaving on a trip this weekend,
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Speaker 1: and I really wanted to get a podcast episode up,
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Speaker 1: but obviously all the last minute things are being thrown
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Speaker 1: in my face when it comes to work, when it
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Speaker 1: comes to house appointments, and just like all in all appointments,
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Speaker 1: prepping for the trip, all that. So to be fully transparent,
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Speaker 1: I did not have the time to write a script
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Speaker 1: or prepare for a podcast episode this week. But I'm like,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I haven't done a sit down girl
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Speaker 1: chat episode in such a long time. I just thought
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Speaker 1: it'd be fun to kind of share some updates on
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Speaker 1: where I'm going on this trip, you know, house updates,
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Speaker 1: my back injury, things that I'm doing to kind of
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Speaker 1: prepare myself for pregnancy, all that. So this is very
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Speaker 1: much just kind of like a personal episode but I
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Speaker 1: always love to do episodes like this the odd time.
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Speaker 1: That way we can kind of build a personal connection
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Speaker 1: and you guys can kind of get a bit of
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Speaker 1: a life update of what's been going on currently in
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Speaker 1: my life. Okay, firstly, let's talk about this trip, because
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Speaker 1: I'm leaving this weekend to go to Costa Rica, which
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Speaker 1: I am so beyond excited for. If you've been to
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Speaker 1: Costa Rica, please send me your rex. I would love
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Speaker 1: your recommendations. But I've never been, and I'm very very excited.
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Speaker 1: I feel like usually around this time of the year,
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Speaker 1: I'm always itching for a trip.
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Speaker 2: I'm always wanting to get away.
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Speaker 1: And January is obviously the longest month of the year,
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Speaker 1: which we all know, or at least feels like the
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Speaker 1: longest month of the year in my opinion, and I
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Speaker 1: just always feel like I'm craving a trip or this
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Speaker 1: time of the year, especially with you know, February coming
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Speaker 1: around the corner. I know February is usually a pretty
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Speaker 1: hard month for me as well, with the winter blues
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Speaker 1: in the winter season, and I just am always itching
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Speaker 1: to get a little bit of sunshine, a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a tan. So I booked a last minute trip,
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Speaker 1: and I am going to Costa Rica with my sister
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Speaker 1: and my parents. So unfortunately Zach is not coming with us.
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Speaker 1: He is stuck here getting some stuff done for work,
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Speaker 1: which is totally fine. But I just want to talk
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Speaker 1: about like going on a trip with your parents, because
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Speaker 1: coming from someone who is almost thirty, still going on
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Speaker 1: vacations with my parents, I think is honestly cool in
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Speaker 1: my opinion, because I kind of picture my life, you know,
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Speaker 1: a few years from now, hoping that Zach and I
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Speaker 1: have one or two kids by that point, and I
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Speaker 1: want my parents to come on vacations with us, especially
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Speaker 1: when the kids are young, at least one trip a year,
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Speaker 1: and then Zach and I with our future children, all
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Speaker 1: going to a resort that's kid friendly, you know, having
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Speaker 1: my parents help out, kind of just going on a
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Speaker 1: trip with my family, and then including my parents and
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Speaker 1: my sister and my sister's future husband and my sister's
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Speaker 1: future kids eventually as well. Like I think, you know,
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Speaker 1: combining family trips and like doing it with your sibling
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Speaker 1: and then having your sibling with their husband and their kids,
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Speaker 1: and just kind of creating a tradition where you can
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Speaker 1: go on trips, whether it's during the holiday season for Christmas,
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Speaker 1: or if it's birthdays, or if it's honestly like just
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Speaker 1: this time of the year, wanting to get to a
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Speaker 1: tropical location. Like I picture my life doing a trip
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Speaker 1: with my parents, with my kids and my family in general,
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Speaker 1: and seeing that as like a yearly tradition thing. I
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Speaker 1: don't know, that's just my opinion, but I can see
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Speaker 1: that happening. And then also going on a trip with
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Speaker 1: just me and my husband, like just me and Zach
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Speaker 1: getting away, needing a break from the kids, you know,
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Speaker 1: also prioritizing our relationship, making that a priority. And then
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Speaker 1: maybe again just going on a trip with just my family,
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Speaker 1: so me, my husband, and my two kids going somewhere
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Speaker 1: or maybe more local that's a bit easier to you know,
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Speaker 1: travel with kids, maybe somewhere in Canada. Again, doing a
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Speaker 1: little trip with just us four or three or whenever
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Speaker 1: we have kids kind of situation. So that would be
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Speaker 1: like my dream world of how I would picture my
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Speaker 1: life is doing three vacations each year and kind of
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Speaker 1: spacing out that way. Anyways, I just wanted to talk
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Speaker 1: about that quickly because I feel like some people might
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Speaker 1: turn their head saying like you're almost thirty and you're
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Speaker 1: going on a vacation with your parents. Hey, if my
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Speaker 1: parents want to take me on a trip and they're
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Speaker 1: going somewhere warm and I can't go away with my
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Speaker 1: husband because my husband is stuck here working, I'm gonna say,
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Speaker 1: hecky yes, and I'm going to enjoy that time with
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Speaker 1: my family because I think I've really appreciated the time
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Speaker 1: of you know, just like realizing how much my parents
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Speaker 1: have done for me. I think as you age, you
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Speaker 1: kind of realize like, wow, like my parents have done
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Speaker 1: a lot for me, and I truly do appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: But also just like once you move out and you
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Speaker 1: don't go as home as much, I feel like I
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Speaker 1: definitely see my parents kind of always struggling and always
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Speaker 1: like seeing me on a weekly basis and just kind
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Speaker 1: of like missing me not being home all the time.
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Speaker 1: And I have a very close relationship with my family,
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Speaker 1: and I know not everyone's like that, but it does
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Speaker 1: make me a little sad because I think about, you know,
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Speaker 1: my future, and I think about my kids moving out.
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Speaker 1: Obviously that's years and years away from that, but the
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Speaker 1: point is is that like my parents obviously still see
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Speaker 1: me as their baby girl. Right, So so if I'm
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Speaker 1: able to do these, you know, week trips with them
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Speaker 1: or just like going to see them on a weekly
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Speaker 1: basis and doing a dinner with them, like I know
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Speaker 1: that means so much to them.
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Speaker 2: And also like.
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Speaker 1: Our parents are getting older, right, Like that's also something
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Speaker 1: I think about, Like it's kind of scary to think
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Speaker 1: how time is going by so fast. Like I feel
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Speaker 1: like I'm not almost thirty. I feel like I'm like
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Speaker 1: nineteen or twenty not really, but you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: Like I feel like time hasn't moved this fast. Like mentally,
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm like twenty five, but I'm twenty nine.
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Speaker 1: But the point is is that I just have realized
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Speaker 1: how fast time is going by and how much I
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Speaker 1: appreciate my parents and kind of trying to put myself
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Speaker 1: in their shoes of understanding that you know, their first
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Speaker 1: daughter is married and moved out and is trying to
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Speaker 1: have a baby. Like I think that's really wild to
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Speaker 1: think about and something that makes me realize that like
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Speaker 1: I should truly appreciate the time that I spend with
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Speaker 1: my parents, and to also just feel so lucky that
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Speaker 1: I do have a good relationship with my family, and yeah,
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Speaker 1: I actually had an influencer message me. She's a mom,
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Speaker 1: she has a daughter that's three years old, and she
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Speaker 1: literally completely changed my perspective about, you know, me traveling
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Speaker 1: with my parents at this age. She said, I pray
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Speaker 1: that my daughter at twenty nine years old wants to
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Speaker 1: go on vacation with me, like, and that break there
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Speaker 1: kind of change my perspective where it's like, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I am going to see it that way too when
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Speaker 1: I'm a mom and I have a kid, Like, it
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Speaker 1: would be a dream of mine to have such a
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Speaker 1: strong relationship with my daughter or future son and be
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Speaker 1: able to like travel with them and do fun things
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Speaker 1: together with them. So anyways, that's what kind of changed
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Speaker 1: my perspective on that. And now I actually look forward
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Speaker 1: to doing a trip with my parents every single year.
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Speaker 1: So anyways, I just kind of change my perspective on that,
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Speaker 1: and I actually really get excited about spending time with
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Speaker 1: my family and enjoy the moments that we do have
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Speaker 1: together and the excitement around just I don't know, being
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Speaker 1: able to go on a trip with them, and honestly,
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Speaker 1: we always have the most fun memories and most funny times,
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Speaker 1: and I want to try and film a lot of
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Speaker 1: family content, not just like me and my sister, but
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Speaker 1: try and include my parents, because my parents are actually
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Speaker 1: so funny.
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Speaker 2: My dad is literally he could be a comedian. I'm
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Speaker 2: not even over exaggerating.
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Speaker 1: My mom, on the other hand, she is so funny,
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Speaker 1: but she does not always want to be on camera,
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Speaker 1: so that's why I don't always film stuff when I'm
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Speaker 1: with my parents, So I try to respect my mom's
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Speaker 1: privacy when she wants to be private. But my mom
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Speaker 1: is so freaking funny and she doesn't try to be funny.
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Speaker 1: She's just like naturally, like the queen of like drama.
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Speaker 1: I can't even explain how my mom is.
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Speaker 2: My mom is just like, I don't.
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Speaker 1: Know, she's just really funny and she just like attracts
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Speaker 1: drama all the time and it just makes me laugh.
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Speaker 1: Like she's just a really funny individual naturally. So anyways,
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Speaker 1: stay tuned for live content. I'm gonna be posting a
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Speaker 1: lot on TikTok and Instagram, and of course i'm gonna
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Speaker 1: be blogging the entire trip on YouTube. So if you
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Speaker 1: want to follow along, make sure to follow my socials.
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Speaker 1: I'll link everything in my description down below. So obviously
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Speaker 1: this week it's just been really locking in and getting
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Speaker 1: everything done. I had a few brand deals that I
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Speaker 1: had to film that I finished today, which I'm so
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Speaker 1: happy about. I had one final house meeting that was
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Speaker 1: in regards to our tile selection. Picking grout colors, guys,
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Speaker 1: is no freaking joke, and thought, oh, you need to
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Speaker 1: pick different groat colors for different types of tile, and anyways,
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Speaker 1: it was just like very overwhelming, and I think there's
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Speaker 1: so many different groat colors that you could do, and
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I feel like that's not a detail
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Speaker 1: that you think about when you're designing a house. You're
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Speaker 1: just like, Okay, like this tile looks nice with this
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Speaker 1: wall color and this cabinet color and whatever.
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Speaker 2: And then they're like, yeah, so now we.
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Speaker 1: Need to pick a groat and we got to pick
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Speaker 1: this and I'm like whoa, Like what That's where I
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Speaker 1: got really thrown off and things started to get really
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Speaker 1: stressful because I couldn't make my mind up on certain things.
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Speaker 1: So anyways, that's kind of like a random house update.
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Speaker 1: But I think we only have one more decision that
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Speaker 1: we have to make, which is our on suite shower,
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Speaker 1: and that is it.
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Speaker 2: Then we can sign off and.
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Speaker 1: Everything and I can give you guys a whole update
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Speaker 1: of what the house is going to look like. So
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Speaker 1: I can actually show you guys, like rendering images of.
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Speaker 2: How the house visually looks.
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Speaker 1: We weren't able to provide any images just yet, just
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Speaker 1: because we've had to change a few things based off
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Speaker 1: of what the builder can or cannot do. I've talked
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Speaker 1: about this a lot on my YouTube channel, just kind
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Speaker 1: of providing house updates anytime I can, So if you
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Speaker 1: want more house stuff, I definitely talk about it a
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Speaker 1: lot on YouTube, just because that's the life I'm living
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Speaker 1: right now, is really just locking in and designing this
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Speaker 1: entire house from top to bottom. But we're basically done,
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Speaker 1: like we are so close to the finish line. So
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Speaker 1: I will be doing a house walkthrough hopefully when I'm
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Speaker 1: back for my trip, and I can show you guys
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Speaker 1: kind of like sketches and rendering drawings that our designers
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Speaker 1: have done of like what each space is going to
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Speaker 1: look like. And I'm so obsessed, guys, I literally am
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Speaker 1: freaking out like all the things that we selected. I'm
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Speaker 1: just so happy. Definitely have made a lot of like
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Speaker 1: changes since I first started this design process, but in
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Speaker 1: a good way. It's been like learning opportunities where it's like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I almost went this direction, but I'm happy we're ending
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Speaker 1: on this decision because I think this is better for
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Speaker 1: the value of the house, or the future for the house,
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Speaker 1: or the design aspect, because obviously you don't want to
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Speaker 1: be too trendy when it comes to the designs, like
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Speaker 1: you want it to be, you know, something that's very minimalistic,
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Speaker 1: but that will also be something that will still be
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Speaker 1: in style ten to fifteen years from now, right, So
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Speaker 1: just trying to really focus on going down that route
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Speaker 1: when it comes to picking stuff, because of course you
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Speaker 1: see stuff on Pinterest and you're like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: that's beautiful, and then my designer will be like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but you might only love that for two years, and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, ooh, good point. We need to think longevity,
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Speaker 1: We need to think minimalistic and yeah, just because like
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Speaker 1: as much as I want to say this is our
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Speaker 1: forever home, like I could it could be our forever home,
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Speaker 1: but like I do also see us maybe having one
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Speaker 1: other house in the future that's a bit more secluded,
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Speaker 1: like I would love to be in the trees in
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Speaker 1: the forest and be kind of out of the city.
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Speaker 1: This house here is still in the city, which I
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Speaker 1: like only because, like, because we're trying to have kids,
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Speaker 1: I want to be in close proximity to our families
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Speaker 1: for the support. So it might be like my kids
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Speaker 1: will live here throughout their childhood, but then the next
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Speaker 1: house it might be like the teenage years, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. So I can't see us staying in
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Speaker 1: this house for a very long time, like between ten
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Speaker 1: to fifteen years, but I could also see us like
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Speaker 1: staying there forever if needed. But anyways, that's kind of
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Speaker 1: like the life planned for the house. But let's talk
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Speaker 1: about the appointments I'm doing this week, because obviously, when
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Speaker 1: you're going on a trip, you want to get all
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Speaker 1: these last minute things done before you leave. So the
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Speaker 1: first thing I did was I ordered a bunch of clothes.
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Speaker 1: Obviously I'm actually only I think I only bought three
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Speaker 1: new outfits. Everything else I'm actually bringing from my trips
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Speaker 1: from previous years. I told myself that I didn't want
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Speaker 1: to purchase too many things where I feel like I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna wear ever again. Like, I only want to
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Speaker 1: purchase things that I know I'm gonna wear for future
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Speaker 1: trips or just like I don't know, just get good
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Speaker 1: value out of it for future things. So I really
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Speaker 1: did try my best to pick outfits that weren't things
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Speaker 1: that I was just gonna, you know, sell or give
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Speaker 1: away down the road. So I decided not to buy
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Speaker 1: too much for this trip, but I did invest in
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Speaker 1: some good quality things, like one brand that I continuously
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Speaker 1: buy from, and I'm gonna tell you right now it
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Speaker 1: is a little expensive, but I am always gravitating towards
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Speaker 1: these bikinis and these outfits, and that's from Monday Swimwear.
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Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with every Monday Swimwear bathing suit that I've
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Speaker 1: ever gotten, including the resort wear. So just like beach
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Speaker 1: cover ups, they had like really good like cover up dresses,
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Speaker 1: cover up pants, over shirts. They also have like really
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Speaker 1: cute dresses that you could wear like out to dinner
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Speaker 1: for like a nighttime outfit. Like if you need anything
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Speaker 1: for a tropical vacation, Monday Swimwear has everything. It truly
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Speaker 1: is my favorite brand when it comes to resort wear.
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Speaker 1: So honestly, I just ordered from there and Revolve that's it.
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Speaker 1: And I think Revolve I only got like a cowboy hat.
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Speaker 1: Like I literally didn't get any clothes whatsoever. So anyways,
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Speaker 1: I purposely decided to just invest in a brand that
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Speaker 1: I knew I was going to like the stuff, and
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Speaker 1: all this stuff that I've gotten from them in the
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Speaker 1: past has been so great, so I just knew for
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Speaker 1: a fact that it was worth.
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Speaker 2: Paying the higher price point, knowing.
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Speaker 1: That I was going to wear it for our future
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Speaker 1: trip that we're going on this summer. We have another
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Speaker 1: trip that we're going to. We're going to a wedding
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Speaker 1: in Portugal in the summer. So anyways, I just thought,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'll wear this again. I love, obviously re
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Speaker 1: wearing my bikinis. I have bikinis since like high school,
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Speaker 1: and I'm still wearing some of them. So I bought
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Speaker 1: one new bikini, and I think I bought two or
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Speaker 1: three Nu dresses. So I bought one new bikini and
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Speaker 1: then three outfits for the night time vibes. So that's
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Speaker 1: what I got for the trip, and then a cowboy
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Speaker 1: hat and just like random things off Amazon that I
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Speaker 1: needed before the trip, you know, and like you think
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Speaker 1: of like the Lost Man of the things that you
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Speaker 1: need on your flight Zach got me a Kindle for Christmas.
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Speaker 1: I bored my mom's kindle when I went to Italy
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Speaker 1: with Zach this past summer, and he surprised me with
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Speaker 1: the kindle for Christmas, which I was really happy about.
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Speaker 1: So I think I'm going to download the second Housemaid
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Speaker 1: book because I love The Housemaid the first book, and
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Speaker 1: I watched the movie, and I really told you guys
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Speaker 1: that I went to see the movie obsessed, except I
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Speaker 1: thought the book was better. I thought the book was
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Speaker 1: better than the movie only because obviously we knew what
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Speaker 1: happened beforehand. But the movie was still good. But they're
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Speaker 1: coming out with a second movie.
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Speaker 2: It looks like.
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Speaker 1: They've confirmed that they're going to be doing it for
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Speaker 1: the second book. So I'm gonna actually download the second book.
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Speaker 1: But if you have any other book recommendations, comment down
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Speaker 1: below or send me a message, because I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 1: I could probably read two full books while I'm away.
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Speaker 1: Maybe three, we'll see. But I spent a lot of
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Speaker 1: time reading when we were in Mexico this time last year,
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Speaker 1: me and Zach. I just think i'll have the time
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Speaker 1: to read a lot since i'll be tanning most of
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Speaker 1: the time, and I don't really like to be scrolling
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Speaker 1: on my phone while I'm at the beach. And also,
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Speaker 1: if you guys know, like when you're in the sun,
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Speaker 1: you can't really see anything on your phone, And the
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Speaker 1: Kindle is really really good because I feel like you
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Speaker 1: can see everything when you're outside.
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Speaker 2: Two.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, let me know your book recommendations. But I'm
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Speaker 1: very excited to just be chillin by the beach reading
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Speaker 1: a book. So anyways, ordered stuff for the trip, and
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Speaker 1: then I booked a nail appointment. I think I'm going
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Speaker 1: to do an almond shaped nail. Right now, I have
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Speaker 1: my square nails. I'm going to change it back to almond,
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Speaker 1: and I'm probably just gonna do like a neutral pink,
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Speaker 1: like kind of like a bubble bath situation toes, probably
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Speaker 1: like a baby pink. I don't ever like a neutral toe.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that's weird, but I'm not like neutral
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Speaker 1: nails on my toes, Like it's got to be some
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Speaker 1: type of pop.
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Speaker 2: So I feel like I'll probably.
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Speaker 1: Do like a baby pink or something that's like close
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Speaker 1: to my nail color but not neutral, like I need
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Speaker 1: to have a solid color. That's just something that I
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Speaker 1: don't know, doesn't look good on me, and I just
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Speaker 1: feel like I need to have color on my toes.
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Speaker 1: So I booked that, and then I also booked an
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Speaker 1: eyebrow waxing because I haven't got my eyebrows done since
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Speaker 1: before Christmas, so.
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Speaker 2: I did that.
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Speaker 1: I booked a facial because I haven't had a facial
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Speaker 1: done in so long. Felt so good. I got the
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Speaker 1: facial last week and it was so needed. My skin
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Speaker 1: was so dry. She's like, you needed this hydro facial
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Speaker 1: so badly. But I just know that as soon as
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Speaker 1: I'm in Costa Rica, my skin is gonna thank me.
16:43
Speaker 1: Like being in the sunshine. I just feel like my
16:45
Speaker 1: skin literally heels, and then I'll be good when I'm
16:48
Speaker 1: back from Costa Rica. And then you know, my skin
16:51
Speaker 1: will probably suffer again from being in the winter season
16:55
Speaker 1: and going from obviously a hot climate's a cold climate.
16:57
Speaker 2: But that's okay.
16:58
Speaker 1: I'm hoping to do another facial, probably at the end
17:00
Speaker 1: of February or beginning of March. But I just feel
17:03
Speaker 1: like facials are so important during this time of the
17:05
Speaker 1: year because our skin is so dry.
17:07
Speaker 2: From the colder season.
17:10
Speaker 1: And yeah, I just feel like it's something that I
17:12
Speaker 1: try to keep up during the winter season versus the summer.
17:15
Speaker 1: I feel like my skin thrives during the summer because
17:17
Speaker 1: of the sun. So that's just like what works for me.
17:20
Speaker 1: So hopefully booking another facial in February, and that's really it.
17:24
Speaker 1: Just packing everything obviously is a non negotiable. I need
17:27
Speaker 1: to still pack to be honest for this trip. So
17:30
Speaker 1: just like picking up all last minute things that I
17:32
Speaker 1: might need from like the drug store. I'm just thinking
17:35
Speaker 1: of like smaller toilet trees or skincare products I might need.
17:38
Speaker 1: I did go to Sephora yesterday actually and pick up
17:42
Speaker 1: travel size like curl cream because I plan on doing
17:46
Speaker 1: like my natural curly routine while I'm down there, just
17:48
Speaker 1: because whenever I try and blow out my hair in
17:51
Speaker 1: a very hot location, it never stays straight or it
17:55
Speaker 1: never stays curly. It just goes really frizzy. So I'm
17:58
Speaker 1: trying to do my natural hair routine because it stays
18:01
Speaker 1: way better with a curl cream and a wave spray
18:05
Speaker 1: in that type of climate versus like wasting all this
18:07
Speaker 1: time blowing out my hair and it not turning out,
18:09
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So definitely going to prioritize. Yeah,
18:13
Speaker 1: probably doing less heat on my hair in Costa Rica
18:15
Speaker 1: and just embracing the natural curls. So that's kind of
18:18
Speaker 1: everything I'm doing before the trip. I'm so excited. I'm
18:22
Speaker 1: really looking forward to shooting fun content too with my
18:25
Speaker 1: sister and just kind of being in a different location.
18:27
Speaker 1: I feel like it always inspires me when I'm traveling
18:30
Speaker 1: to kind of like shoot video content, take photos, obviously,
18:34
Speaker 1: also give like outfit inspo all that. It's definitely one
18:36
Speaker 1: of my favorite types of content to provide. I feel
18:39
Speaker 1: like I always have such a fun time when I'm
18:41
Speaker 1: traveling and doing content. I just feel like for me personally,
18:45
Speaker 1: like I love doing routine videos and filming that. But
18:48
Speaker 1: obviously for me sometimes I kind of feel like I'm
18:52
Speaker 1: in a rut when I'm filming the same thing like
18:54
Speaker 1: what I eat in a day, my morning routine, all that.
18:56
Speaker 1: So it's kind of nice to go to a different
18:58
Speaker 1: location and change it up a little bit and do
19:01
Speaker 1: things that are a bit more out of my comfort zone,
19:03
Speaker 1: like doing fun content with my sister, outfit videos all that,
19:06
Speaker 1: And then when I come home from my trip, I
19:08
Speaker 1: always feel reinspired to get back into my morning routine,
19:12
Speaker 1: get back into filming my what I eat in a
19:14
Speaker 1: days or whatever the case may be, you know what
19:15
Speaker 1: I mean. So it's just a nice little content break
19:18
Speaker 1: that I look forward to and change it up a
19:21
Speaker 1: little bit. Okay, next point that I wanted to talk
19:23
Speaker 1: about was my back injury because I am finally seeing progress, guys.
19:28
Speaker 1: It has been such a long injury and I don't
19:32
Speaker 1: even know if I told you guys that this injury
19:34
Speaker 1: happened like four months ago, three or four months ago,
19:37
Speaker 1: So it's something that I've been dealing with for a
19:38
Speaker 1: while and just kind of ignored. But I am on
19:41
Speaker 1: an anti inflammatory from my doctor, which I want to
19:44
Speaker 1: talk about my doctor's appointment, just because the last episode
19:46
Speaker 1: we kind of ended off there and I never really
19:48
Speaker 1: got to share.
19:49
Speaker 2: With you guys, like an update of how the appointment went.
19:51
Speaker 1: But my doctor did prescribe me with an anti inflammatory
19:54
Speaker 1: and I feel like it's helping a lot with my
19:56
Speaker 1: back and obviously keeping up with stretches, and I haven't
20:00
Speaker 1: been working out for two weeks now. I think my
20:02
Speaker 1: body just really needed the break and just needed to
20:05
Speaker 1: step aside from pilates and not work out at all.
20:09
Speaker 1: But I do think this was for the best, and
20:11
Speaker 1: I am seeing a lot more progress than what I
20:14
Speaker 1: did this time last week. So I'm really happy that
20:17
Speaker 1: things are working and I'm just going to keep doing
20:19
Speaker 1: these things so the next two weeks in hopes that
20:22
Speaker 1: my back is fully healed and I can again slowly
20:26
Speaker 1: get back into getting back into my workouts and getting
20:30
Speaker 1: back into routine, and hopes that my back injury is healed.
20:35
Speaker 1: So that's a little update on my back injury. I'm
20:37
Speaker 1: also really trying to focus on this back injury because,
20:41
Speaker 1: as some of you may or may not know, my
20:43
Speaker 1: husband and I do want to start trying soon. We're
20:45
Speaker 1: not trying currently. Some people have made it pretty clear
20:48
Speaker 1: to me that I shouldn't be taking an approxyin, which
20:51
Speaker 1: is what I'm taking for my back, because it kind
20:54
Speaker 1: of like pauses ovulation. It doesn't really happen when you're
20:57
Speaker 1: on it. But I'm not actively trying in this exact moment,
21:00
Speaker 1: So no stress on that for anyone that brought that up.
21:03
Speaker 1: But I'm really trying to focus on my back right now.
21:06
Speaker 1: That's like my main priority. The one conversation I had
21:09
Speaker 1: with my doctor was I do not want to have
21:11
Speaker 1: this back injury and be pregnant at the exact same time,
21:13
Speaker 1: Like that just sounds like absolute hell in my opinion,
21:17
Speaker 1: because if you've seen a few, you know, women posting
21:20
Speaker 1: about pregnancy a lot of the time, the last few
21:23
Speaker 1: months are like really difficult on your back. So I'm
21:26
Speaker 1: really just trying to strengthen my back and make that
21:29
Speaker 1: the main priority right now and then focus on, you know,
21:33
Speaker 1: trying to conceive later. So that's kind of been on pause.
21:36
Speaker 1: But I'm still prepping for pregnancy in the sense where
21:39
Speaker 1: I'm still kind of like mentally preparing myself and getting
21:41
Speaker 1: my body in a healthy state that I want it
21:44
Speaker 1: to be in. So let's kind of talk about pregnancy
21:47
Speaker 1: preper a second, just because I know there was a
21:48
Speaker 1: few people that wanted me to.
21:49
Speaker 2: Talk about this on the podcast.
21:51
Speaker 1: I've talked about it a lot on TikTok and kind
21:54
Speaker 1: of just shared some things that we're doing, me and
21:57
Speaker 1: my husband, not just me, to kind of prepare ourselves
22:00
Speaker 1: for trying to conceive. So one of them being I
22:04
Speaker 1: had a doctor's appointment last week, as you guys know,
22:06
Speaker 1: and I got blood work done, So that was my
22:09
Speaker 1: first time ever getting blood work done, which some people
22:12
Speaker 1: were like, killie, that's crazy that you've never gotten blood
22:14
Speaker 1: work done before.
22:15
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
22:16
Speaker 1: I've been healthy, I've never like needed to get blood
22:19
Speaker 1: work done for anything, so I just never needed to
22:22
Speaker 1: do it, so I never really went. And then I
22:25
Speaker 1: just had this gut feeling where I was like, you
22:26
Speaker 1: know what, I feel like my sister needs to come
22:28
Speaker 1: with me to this appointment because I don't know. I
22:31
Speaker 1: just felt like I felt weird going into the appointment
22:34
Speaker 1: not having someone there, just because I was like, Eh,
22:36
Speaker 1: I don't know, I've never gotten blood work done before.
22:38
Speaker 2: Can you just come with me for moral support?
22:40
Speaker 1: Like it really wasn't anything serious, but I'm like, if
22:43
Speaker 1: you could just come, that would be great. Thank goodness.
22:46
Speaker 1: She came because I fainted, which was not expecting to
22:50
Speaker 1: do that in twenty twenty six.
22:51
Speaker 2: It was wild.
22:52
Speaker 1: I have never experienced anything like that before. I'm talking
22:56
Speaker 1: like full on body chills on my I was sweating,
23:00
Speaker 1: I was very loopy, very dizzy, I was very nauseous.
23:03
Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna throw up right there and then,
23:05
Speaker 1: and all these symptoms had me thinking like, oh, I
23:08
Speaker 1: must be low in something like I thought for sure
23:10
Speaker 1: my blood work results were gonna come back. When I
23:13
Speaker 1: saw my doctor about being low iron or being low
23:16
Speaker 1: something right, And based on the symptoms that I was
23:19
Speaker 1: experiencing from the blood work appointment, it was really gearing
23:23
Speaker 1: me towards the low iron thing, which I'm like, okay,
23:26
Speaker 1: maybe I'm iron deficient, Like I had no idea, right.
23:29
Speaker 1: My doctor comes back with the results and she's like,
23:31
Speaker 1: all right, everything looks great. I'm like sorry, what and
23:36
Speaker 1: she's like, yeah, like no, everything is like in a
23:39
Speaker 1: very healthy state, like there's nothing that you're low in.
23:42
Speaker 1: I said, are you sure I'm not low in iron?
23:45
Speaker 1: And she's like, you're actually like higher than most women.
23:48
Speaker 1: I was like really, Like I was just like totally shocked.
23:51
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, well, is there any other vitamins
23:53
Speaker 1: I need to take, because here I am thinking, okay,
23:56
Speaker 1: I gotta buy more vitamins to get my body in
23:58
Speaker 1: a better state before pregnancy whatever. And she's like, no,
24:01
Speaker 1: everything's perfect. Just keep doing what you're doing. I'm like, wow, okay,
24:05
Speaker 1: Like I was just in complete shock. I really did
24:07
Speaker 1: not think that the results would come back as good
24:09
Speaker 1: as it did, and I'm so grateful that it came
24:11
Speaker 1: back because I am a hypochondract Okay, I kind of
24:15
Speaker 1: posted it on my Instagram story last week, just kind
24:17
Speaker 1: of reminding everybody too, you know, go to the doctor's appointments.
24:20
Speaker 2: Don't avoid it.
24:21
Speaker 1: And there were so many people that messaged me after
24:23
Speaker 1: just saying thank you so much, Like I was actually
24:25
Speaker 1: going to cancel my appointment, but then you posted this,
24:27
Speaker 1: and it just kind of like motivated me to push
24:30
Speaker 1: through it and know that it's worth doing those checkups,
24:32
Speaker 1: and it really is. It is so important to just
24:35
Speaker 1: go through those appointments. I was so nervous going into
24:39
Speaker 1: that appointment a finding out my results about the blood work.
24:42
Speaker 1: I also had a PAP test booked that day, so
24:46
Speaker 1: everything like was just like I was very uncomfortable.
24:48
Speaker 2: About the entire situation.
24:49
Speaker 1: Like I was vibrating in the room in terms of
24:52
Speaker 1: like I was shaking constantly because I was so nervous,
24:55
Speaker 1: and I just didn't want to be there. Like clinics
24:58
Speaker 1: freak me out, hospitals freak me out. Like I do
25:01
Speaker 1: not like anything medical. I could never be a doctor
25:04
Speaker 1: or a nurse. I just freak out when it comes
25:06
Speaker 1: to that kind of stuff, blood, anything, you name it.
25:09
Speaker 1: Loved watching Grey's Anatomy, don't love being in the situation
25:12
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. Like I truly am just not
25:15
Speaker 1: that kind of person that enjoys those things. And I'm
25:19
Speaker 1: not saying people do enjoy those things, but I just
25:21
Speaker 1: I don't like being in that environment. Like I don't
25:23
Speaker 1: like it at all. It freaks me the fuck out.
25:25
Speaker 1: So I was really scared going to that appointment. I
25:28
Speaker 1: did not want to do it whatsoever. But I just
25:30
Speaker 1: kept thinking to myself and like, you are going to
25:32
Speaker 1: feel so much better mentally, and I do. Just going
25:36
Speaker 1: through that appointment getting the results back, feeling so good
25:40
Speaker 1: knowing that everything came back great.
25:42
Speaker 2: I am healthy.
25:43
Speaker 1: I got my PAP test results back, which came back
25:46
Speaker 1: great as well. Like I'm feeling really good now mentally
25:49
Speaker 1: going into like trying to conceive with my husband because
25:53
Speaker 1: I know all the results I came back.
25:55
Speaker 2: And I don't know.
25:56
Speaker 1: I just feel like also for yourself, like even if
25:58
Speaker 1: you aren't trying to conceive, and you just like want
25:59
Speaker 1: to know if you're healthy or not and just kind
26:01
Speaker 1: of get that peace of mind of knowing that you
26:04
Speaker 1: are a healthy individual and that everything you're doing is
26:07
Speaker 1: right and you don't need to stress about it. I
26:09
Speaker 1: just really want to encourage you to face your fears
26:12
Speaker 1: if you're like me, and just push through those appointments,
26:15
Speaker 1: because I know it's not fun. Trust me, I didn't
26:17
Speaker 1: want to do it. I didn't want to do the
26:18
Speaker 1: blood work. I didn't want to do you know, the.
26:20
Speaker 2: Pop test or anything like that.
26:21
Speaker 1: But I'm so happy I did it and the results
26:24
Speaker 1: came back so positively, and I'm so so relieved, and
26:28
Speaker 1: I feel really really good and proud of myself for just.
26:30
Speaker 2: Kind of getting through that.
26:31
Speaker 1: Now, the next step for us is my husband going
26:33
Speaker 1: to his doctor's appointment. So he has a doctor's appointment,
26:36
Speaker 1: I think it's next week for him, and then we
26:39
Speaker 1: both booked dentist appointments that are in February, so we
26:43
Speaker 1: have a dental cleaning that we're doing. So that kind
26:45
Speaker 1: of just like gets all the medical appointments over with.
26:48
Speaker 1: We don't need to stress about it, like get it done,
26:51
Speaker 1: get it over with, and we can kind of move
26:53
Speaker 1: on from that. So that's kind of what we're doing
26:55
Speaker 1: for appointment wise, to prep ourselves for TTC, and then
27:00
Speaker 1: all the other things we're kind of doing is just
27:02
Speaker 1: eating better. So we're really trying to follow a healthy diet,
27:05
Speaker 1: just eating specific foods that are like really really good
27:08
Speaker 1: for fertility. I've been reading a book which I've talked
27:11
Speaker 1: about i think here on the podcast before. It's called
27:13
Speaker 1: Real Food for Fertility.
27:15
Speaker 2: I'm learning so much.
27:16
Speaker 1: I'm almost done the book. Actually, I'm more than halfway through.
27:20
Speaker 1: It's a large book, okay, I'm I'm like on page
27:23
Speaker 1: three hundred and ten, I think. Anyways, it's taken me
27:26
Speaker 1: a while to read, just because I'm not reading every
27:28
Speaker 1: single day. I'm reading like every second day on my
27:30
Speaker 1: treadmill for forty minutes. But we're very close to finishing
27:34
Speaker 1: this book. But it's been very educational for someone who
27:37
Speaker 1: knows nothing about fertility and just seeing how food plays
27:42
Speaker 1: such a big impact and just certain foods that you
27:45
Speaker 1: can eat that can really help you out is really beneficial.
27:47
Speaker 1: So I don't want to tell you guys, like, oh,
27:49
Speaker 1: you should eat this, you should eat that. Like I
27:51
Speaker 1: am not a medical expert or a nutritionus at all,
27:54
Speaker 1: but if you guys want to learn about.
27:56
Speaker 2: The education around food when it.
27:58
Speaker 1: Comes to fertility, highly recommend getting that book. It's been
28:03
Speaker 1: very very informative and I've really really enjoyed reading it
28:06
Speaker 1: just kind of learning about you know, women's bodies and
28:09
Speaker 1: fertility and men's sperm and all that jazz. And then
28:13
Speaker 1: the final thing for prepping for pregnancy is that my
28:15
Speaker 1: husband and I have decided to cut alcohol out completely.
28:19
Speaker 1: We are both not drinking. And I had my first
28:23
Speaker 1: outing last weekend or this past weekend. Sorry, it was
28:27
Speaker 1: my girlfriend's thirtieth and I.
28:29
Speaker 2: Did not drink.
28:30
Speaker 1: I was sober the entire time, and guys, I still
28:33
Speaker 1: had fun. I still had a good time. You don't
28:35
Speaker 1: need to have an alcoholic beverage to have a good time.
28:38
Speaker 1: So I had a mocktail too, mocktails actually, and then
28:41
Speaker 1: some water and had a really fun time. And it
28:44
Speaker 1: was funny because my girlfriend was also not drinking as well,
28:48
Speaker 1: so it was kind of fun that we could just
28:49
Speaker 1: like drink mocktails together and people didn't care. No one
28:52
Speaker 1: judged us. If anything, everyone was like super supportive. And
28:55
Speaker 1: you know, it's good to have friends like that, because
28:58
Speaker 1: if you have friends that are like making fun of
28:59
Speaker 1: you for not drinking, like why are they your friends?
29:02
Speaker 1: Like that's not a true friend. A true friend would
29:04
Speaker 1: be there to support you and your own decision. Again,
29:07
Speaker 1: this is something that's pretty extreme, like not everybody does
29:10
Speaker 1: this before prepping for pregnancy. This is not something you
29:12
Speaker 1: have to do, and everything that I'm saying you do
29:14
Speaker 1: not have to do if you're someone like me who's
29:16
Speaker 1: prepping for pregnancy. But these are just things that I'm
29:19
Speaker 1: doing that I want to do for my future self
29:22
Speaker 1: and for my future baby. And this is just something
29:24
Speaker 1: that I wanted to do for myself and my husband
29:27
Speaker 1: wanted to do. So we're very much treating this as
29:30
Speaker 1: a team thing where it's like, in order for this
29:33
Speaker 1: baby to happen, it's a two man straight, you know
29:35
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like both of us have to do
29:37
Speaker 1: our part and you know, do what we can for
29:40
Speaker 1: our future child. So yeah, that's kind of what we're
29:45
Speaker 1: doing right now. And I kind of just wanted to
29:46
Speaker 1: give an update here on the podcast about that, just
29:48
Speaker 1: because I know there's some girls who are in a
29:50
Speaker 1: similar situation like me, or you know, you guys might
29:53
Speaker 1: not be, but I just thought it would be informative
29:55
Speaker 1: to kind of just share things that I'm doing and
29:57
Speaker 1: my husband is doing to prepare ourselves for this next journey.
30:01
Speaker 1: But that's kind of all the updates that I wanted
30:03
Speaker 1: to share with you guys. I don't really have much
30:05
Speaker 1: else happening right now. I think those are probably the
30:07
Speaker 1: three things or four things.
30:08
Speaker 2: Sorry.
30:09
Speaker 1: I kind of chatted about like my trip to Costa Rica,
30:11
Speaker 1: my back injury, my house, and then my whole prepping
30:15
Speaker 1: for pregnancy journey. So that is today's episode. I hope
30:19
Speaker 1: you guys enjoyed this girl Chat episode. Again, I feel
30:21
Speaker 1: like I don't do these episodes too often, but I
30:24
Speaker 1: do love to throw them in there once in a
30:26
Speaker 1: while just kind of catch up with you guys and yeah,
30:29
Speaker 1: just chat about things that are going on. So I
30:31
Speaker 1: hope you guys enjoyed this episode. If you're new, definitely
30:34
Speaker 1: make sure to follow me the host, Kaylee. I'm on Instagram, TikTok,
30:37
Speaker 1: and YouTube. You can also follow at the hawkgirl Energy
30:40
Speaker 1: Instagram page. But I love you guys also much thank
30:43
Speaker 1: you guys for listening to another episode. The following week
30:45
Speaker 1: after that, I will be uploading an episode with my sister,
30:48
Speaker 1: but we're gonna do a conversation episode of how our
30:51
Speaker 1: trip went along with how we're going to be getting
30:53
Speaker 1: back into routine after travels all that fun stuff, So
30:57
Speaker 1: make sure to stay tuned for that episode in February.
31:00
Speaker 1: And I hope you guys have the best week ahead
31:05
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