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Episode 40: A Tiny Thanksgiving (From Our Hearts to Yours) · Pretty In Pink Again

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  I'm Christina and I'm t, and this is the Pretty and Pink Again podcast for Motherhood Meets Rediscovery.
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  Hello.
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  Happy Thanksgiving.
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  Happy Thanksgiving.
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  Oh my goodness.
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  It's our first holiday season as Pippa's.
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  We started our podcast in February, actually on Valentine's.
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  It was like right around Valentine's Day.
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  It was, but it was just so crazy.
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  Right around last year at this exact time.
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  That this whole thing was manifested and was brewing.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  I know, it's wild.
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  It really is.
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  Because I vividly remember sitting across from you.
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  It was at the Sabrina Carpenter concert, and we went out for.
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  A little dirty martini.
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  7:00 PM drinks.
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  Yeah.
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  7:00 PM I know.
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  In bed by 10.
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  I know.
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  And we started talking about this.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And so that was, either in September or October.
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  That was like our first conversation and then we started to have meetings about this Yeah.
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  Around the holiday season.
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  So I vividly yeah.
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  I have the holidays in my head.
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  So much and I feel like it's been bringing back a lot of like nostalgia about starting this with you.
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  Right.
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  And so it's crazy that we're here.
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  It feels like this is almost like approaching the year.
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  Which is amazing.
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  So Thanksgiving is about gratitude and what you're thankful for.
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  And I want us to both share professionally what we're thankful for and personally what we're thankful for.
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  Oh, I love that this year.
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  Because this is our profession.
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  Yes.
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  This is one of your professions.
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  Yes.
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  And.
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  I wanted us to just share that with our listeners.
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  I know what we're thankful for.
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  What would you go first?
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  What?
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  Let's start, do we wanna start professionally?
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  Sure.
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  We live in a small town.
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  When you live in a small town, you get to see some of the same people.
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  And even though I'm a nobody, I'm a somebody because we live in a small town.
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  Yeah.
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  And lately I've been running into people, listeners at the hair salon, the nail salon, CVS, bounce town, wherever the hell I am.
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  And they overhear my voice and they say, I'm a young mom and I listen to your podcast.
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  And it means so much to me.
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  And it's always like the young moms, like the ones that have a one or a 2-year-old.
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  Yeah.
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  And this girl said to me the other day, we were getting our hair washed at Sam, so if you're listening now you know who you are.
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  And she was like.
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  Are you tea?
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  And I said, yeah.
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  Why?
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  She was like, I listen to your podcast every week.
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  I love listening to you and Christina thank you for doing this.
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  So I'm grateful because I've been able to just share my life honestly with you.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And with our listeners.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And have other people who have had.
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  Spiraling thoughts or ruminating thoughts.
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  I've been able to maybe validate some of those.
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  Yeah.
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  Or just share that.
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  Like you're not alone.
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  Yep.
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  So I am grateful for that opportunity this year.
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  I am.
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  So it makes me like so teary and I'm obviously gonna piggyback off of that be because I totally agree.
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  I feel like this podcast, I've been in this space, I've said this for 15 years.
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  Yeah.
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  And I'm new here.
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  You are not.
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  Yeah.
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  But I'm new here, if that makes sense.
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  Yeah.
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  So I'm new here with you because what I shared was so much different back then, and it's evolved so much over the years and I really felt like if you asked me a year ago, I really didn't know the direction of anything in my life.
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  Like I, I knew, obviously I had come into this role as a mom.
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  I.
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  I knew that I had been a content creator.
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  I didn't even know if I wanted to still be one.
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  I was struggling so much with my identity and what I liked and what brought me joy and things like outside of my household.
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  Like I knew, like in my household what was making me happy, but it was like I needed more than that and I felt shame even admitting that I needed more than that.
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  And shame is probably one of the worst feelings you can have, and I felt so lost.
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  And I wasn't even sure what I wanted to do.
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  I literally spent a big chunk of my year at the beginning of the year being like, what else do I wanna do with my life?
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  I almost felt like I was at a crossroads with my career.
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  What do I wanna do?
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  Do I even wanna stay in this space anymore?
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  Because we had talked at length so much about you have to love what you're doing.
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  You have to love what you do.
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  You have to love being here.
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  You have to love showing up.
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  And I felt like at that time I wasn't loving anything.
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  It's just, it was, and it was a me thing.
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  It wasn't a community thing.
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  It was just hard for me to show up as the best version of myself when I was struggling so much.
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  Yeah.
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  You didn't, you weren't sure what yourself was anymore.
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  You weren't.
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  So how can you show up as the best version of yourself when No, you're questioning yourself?
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  No, and honestly, I think if I didn't, I.
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  Have part in starting this podcast that I probably would've quit being a content creator.
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  I really do, because I felt like I needed so much more.
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  I needed connection.
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  I was craving, like seeing people every day.
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  I needed to get outta my house.
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  I needed to do, I needed a routine.
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  You needed a hug.
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  I needed a hug.
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  I needed, I just needed so much more than being behind a screen and I was blaming, being behind the screen.
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  And we had this idea to start the podcast and I was like, I need a passion project again, because it brought me back to starting my blog.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And my career as a content creator.
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  And I needed that passion project.
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  And I ended up with you rebuilding a community that ended up.
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  Resparking my own business and my side of things as well.
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  So this was like a double.
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  Like a beautiful like double thing.
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  I don't know what the word I'm looking for is, but it like, it helped us create a new business and it helped me revive the love for my own business.
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  And like it revived my business in turn and also created such a beautiful community of people that follow Pippa, but then follow both of us.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And I just feel like we have built like such a wonderful group of people and I feel the same way.
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  Like I'm having people come up to me now and they're not like, oh, I follow Christina Reishi on Instagram.
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  They're like, I know you from Pippa.
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  I am listen to you.
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  They follow, followed you from Christina Te she but didn't really know you.
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  Yes.
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  And now they know you and I, so I, we were away.
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  When Raja and I took a trip, like people were coming up to me and saying I listened to your podcast.
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  Oh, that's so cool.
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  And like I, that was just to me, I know we made the right choice.
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  Yeah.
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  Obviously for so many reasons.
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  But we've created such a beautiful community of people.
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  I hope we can do so much more with that.
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  I feel like we're just at the beginning, I really do.
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  So professionally obviously I feel, what about personal?
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  What are you grateful for this year?
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  Personally?
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  I have a lot to be grateful for.
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  I think that my nuclear family is growing.
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  And I know we just did an episode last week about how the six of us like create chaos.
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  Yeah.
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  And how, I know when we're together it is pure chaos.
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  But since we're on the holiday season, I was looking back at all of the family photos that everybody hates taking.
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  Yeah, of course.
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  But I've just been looking at how fast every time is everybody is growing and how fast time is going.
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  And I am just very grateful that I still have this like small nuclear family.
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  That everybody is home.
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  And everybody is tight and that's mostly what I'm grateful for.
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  I love that is my nuclear family.
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  I love that.
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  Yeah.
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  I love that so much.
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  Mine is going to be a shout out to my husband because I feel like parenthood has rocked us and I'm sure it rocks everybody.
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  But we've been together for 15 years before we had Leo.
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  And so I really thought that we were, we got this right like this, it's, it can't rock us'cause we have so much foundation under us and it really still did.
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  And we've talked really the last couple of months just now that we're coming up for air, just about how I don't think that either one of us expected it to rock us as hard as it did because you were so solid.
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  'cause we were so solid and we had been together and we'd gone through so much together.
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  And so we really, I don't wanna say we were cocky going into it, but we really just didn't think that it was gonna be as big of a deal as it ended up being.
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  And I'm sure a lot of people can relate to that.
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  And I'm just grateful that he not only stuck by me through the hardest year of my entire life, but was really just.
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  A huge support and kind of just a I'm not going anywhere type of energy for me.
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  And it just allowed me to grow and find myself outside of obviously like our marriage and outside of our house.
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  Like he knew how important it was for me to have an identity outside of those things.
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  And was like comfortable with that and knew that it wasn't a threat to him, it was just that.
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  She needs this for herself.
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  Yeah.
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  And was like encouraging and held down the fort while I was off, building two separate businesses back up.
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  And I'm just really appreciative of that.
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  And I'm so grateful obviously for him and then the family we've been able to create because of that.
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  Yeah.
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  So that's so special.
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  Yeah.
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  We gotta give.
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  Gotta give a love.
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  Gotta give the love.
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  I know.
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  You have to choose your, you have to choose your spouse.
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  You chose each other way back when.
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  But you have to continue to choose your spouse.
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  It's true now.
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  Yep.
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  On Friday night, Nick and I were gonna go out to dinner with friends.
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  We were like all teed up and ready to go dressed and ready to go with a group of friends and I.
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  And we hadn't been talking at all during the week.
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  'cause it was such a stressful week.
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  And just so much was going on.
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  The kids were acting up, we were at each other's throats and the two of us canceled on our friends.
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  And we went to Maximas, sat at the bar you just needed at the time.
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  And we had a date night, just the two of us.
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  And I felt bad like canceling because I don't love to do that.
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  That's but that's what you needed.
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  But I just felt bad for a second.
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  And then I said to him like, I'm so happy we chose each other.
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  Yes.
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  Because, yes, that is so important.
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  And then we went into the rest of the weekend better because we chose each other.
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  I'll piggyback on that too, that I'm grateful Yes.
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  That Nick and I still choose each other.
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  Yep.
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  You have to.
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  And I love that you said that you have to choose each other every single day.
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  Really?
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  It's really hard.
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  Some days are easier than others.
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  Yep.
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  But.
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  Anyways, so happy Thanksgiving.
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  Happy Thanksgiving.
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  We're not gonna do a pink spotlight today, but we, you're our pink spotlight.
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  Yes.
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  You guys are our pink spotlight.
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  We just love you so much.
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  We're so grateful for you Continue to share the love.
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  We are so appreciative.
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  I feel like this podcast is growing because of you guys.
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  Like you guys are sharing our reels, you're sharing us with your friends.
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  Yeah.
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  And this is growing.
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  I, I am such a huge believer that like the best things grow slow and steady.
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  And this is like another example of this is growing organically, slow and steady.
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  We have such a wonderful group.
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  Everybody is so intentional with wanting to be here and be part of this community.
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  And we're just so grateful and we hope that.
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  All things will continue to build for all of us.
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  We hope we could have events later on.
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  We're gonna be, we're gonna celebrating.
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  We're the one year of us and we're gonna have giveaways.
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  There's just gonna be so much coming up and so we're just so grateful and we love y'all so much and so we appreciate that so much.
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  Yes.
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  We will see you all in December.
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  Yes.
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  Happy Thanksgiving.
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  Bye.
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  Enjoy the crazy holiday weekend.
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  Bye bye.