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Moms Club Goes Texas Big with Michelle Schwartz of Buying Beverly Hills and Kellie Rasberry of The Kidd Kraddick Morning Show · Inside The Moms Club

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Hi, Welcome to inside the Mom's Club, where being a mom is the
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coolest place to be. Here in the Mom's Club, we believe that what
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embarrasses you now will make a great story later. And let's face it,
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you don't laugh sometimes you're gonna cry. Join us in having a good laugh
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together. I'm Monica Samuels. You are now inside the Mom's Club, your
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private destination for all things mom running. Welcome, Welcome Mom's Welcome to inside
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the Mom's Club. I'm your host, Monica Samuels, and I'm here with
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my lovely co host, Julie Orchid. Welcome Julie. Yes, we're very
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excited. We were in this beautiful space Alberne's Restaurant on Oaklawn in Dallas.
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It's one of my favorite restaurants. I listen at nine am, full makeup.
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People who know me. This is a big deal, and it is
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a big deal. Look at look at the space. It's beautiful. They
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have done an amazing job and I love them so much. They're They're the
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restaurant I go to for all my special occasions. So my son's graduating in
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a couple of weeks, right, fingers crossed, you will he will graduate.
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It's gonna and we're gonna have the graduation dinner here. It's a place
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for special occasions. It's a it's a place that you're gonna you'll just have
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it. I've never been here before, but I'm not from Dallas, so
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we'll have to bring you next. We're gonna get on Albernas dot com,
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make you a reservation. All right, and we are all so Dallas.
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I welcome home. Thank you, thank you well, and I understand from
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our everybody we all had a good night sleep too. We also want to
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thank the Beaman Hotel. You're in Dallas, yes, which which by the
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way, is the last year was voted the top staycation hotel in Dallas.
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Soa Dallas and you want to staycation, book your room at the Beaman.
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Okay, but yes, indeed, I am from I am from Dallas,
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and it is so excited to be here. I was born in Dallas,
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raised in Plano, and it is so it who counts, I mean,
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it's gotten bigger and bigger. Well, you know, when I when I
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lived here, it was it was north. Now it's central Dallas basically,
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so yeah, it's changed, it's changed quite a bit. So yeah,
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and We're excited today because guess what, we're giving our first mom Dallas Mom
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of the Year Award. This is our first Mom of the Year award.
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We're going around the country and in each city we're selecting a mom and honoring
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her with a beautiful award. And we that we did a show in Dallas
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in Austin that was live and we did not give a Mom of the Year
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award. Everyone is I feel like a fight would break out over who would
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get that. Well, that was a problem because we kind of were arguing.
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You thought it was you, I thought it was me. Yeah,
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and then you know what, Jennifer Well and Jennifer you know quietly, I'll
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tell you what. You know the truth. The truth is when Jennifer threw
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her name and I was like I might not win this, I'm like,
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we're out. Yeah. So yeah, so disqualified ourselves. Well I disqualified
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myself sadly two weeks ago when I was here for s m U Mom's Weekend.
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That'll do it. Well, it did do it. I had my
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first hangover in since law school. Uh uh huh. And that's and and
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I think that was when Lincoln was president maybe, so it was really it
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was really, I mean I was. I felt awful because I've told my
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son for all of college, don't drink. Stop drinking. You know,
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everybody, no, no drinking to humble myself the day after and asked him
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for advice on how Monica I am how to cure a hangover. I mean
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that was kind of I'm sure he said hair of the Dog Mom. No
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he didn't, but another mom did. Actually, because we were all part
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of the club she's trying. Yeah, we were kind of helping to each
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other. Yeah, actually so, and then we didn't help ourselves. You
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and I disqualified ourselves. Oh yeah. We had the chance to go to
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the Country Music Television Awards two years in a row, and it's been a
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blast. This is where I learned to jelly roll Is had no idea,
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but he's a really fun like he preached. He's saying, I mean it
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was awesome. It was awesome. The show was awesome. I mean,
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it's what happened after that was awesome about we did. Okay, be honest,
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if your if your daughter did what we did, you would be You'd
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be bay. I would be very upset if my daughter did what I did.
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So let me be what we did is after the show. We were
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looking for an uber and we we were looking. It was a big crowd,
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and out of the blue, Julie says, hey, let's take that
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taxi cab over there. Okay, And it was a little sketchy, but
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it was only a mile. It was a mile, rod Yeah, but
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what the vehicle was a white, unmarked minivan with a green light on top.
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I'm pretty sure I think you could order it on Amazon. Say,
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I'm going to make some money tonight. D Yeah. So anyway, we
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made it through a lot of prayer on my part, I believe, and
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when we got there traumatic it's got to know it read it's okay, it
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was true, we got there. But anyway, he charges thirty five dollars
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after trying to gouge us, and Jennifer was only with cash but it was
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in her car. Yeah, and she comes out with thirty five one dollar
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bills. Wow, she hands the guy. That's a whole different show.
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I don't know what to say about that. Sure, what that's all about,
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I know, I don't know. But we had a good time.
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But I did call Monica about a week ago, maybe ten days ago,
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and I was all passionate about the fact that was very upset over the Golden
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Bachelor, and I don't know why except for the fact they were married for
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ninety days, and I was like, how is this possible? Still a
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complete head scratcher to me? I don't know, but I need someone to
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explain reality TV to me. I need I need someone to give me the
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details. Okay, I knew, I know you're upset about that. I
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was. I mean I even think she bought him a wedding gift. I
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mean, she was that into their marriage. And this, I mean,
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I know that people get invested in the sure and you were deeply invested.
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Hope is ripped from me. Well, I know, and so we're gonna
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so you know what we are going to lucky you. Oh boy, we
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have an expert on this topic. God here. Today. She is featured
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in the Netflix hit series Buying Beverly Hills. She's actually a very successful real
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estate agent and a managing partner the agency, which is the the real estate
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agency that the show is surrounds around. After after college, she started her
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own marketing and PR firm. Says she's been accomplished business person for a very
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long time. She's the mom of two sons. Please welcome Michelle Schwartz.
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Welcome to the mom Ye. Hi, so thank you so much for being
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here and clearing a lot of things up because you see, you see how
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you see the effect these shows can have on someone like Julie Uyes not quite
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over the goal was upsetive. Thank you, thank you? Yeah, well,
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why didn't they talk about where they were living before like getting married?
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Michelle? You get the tail on the head was really like did you discuss
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this? Yeah? Do you think that? Yeah? I mean it's like
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it's like talking about finances before you got married, like she had some light
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Okay, yeah, Reality TV Monica, Well if yourself. So the first
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way we start is let's just be let's start with you. Okay, you're
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depicted a certain way on buying Beverly Hills. It's an edit and okay,
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well that's what and then you're here in person. So can you share the
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difference between what we see when we're watching that show and what the real Michelle
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Schwartz. Yeah, I mean I think this is the perfect room for this
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answer. Okay, Like, as moms were not always proud of how we
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speak to our children, how we feel dismissed. They don't listen. We
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have to yell. So imagine someone's following you around at all of those amazing
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moments and then they just get to chop it up however they want, right,
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and so you don't you know, obviously it's not all of me.
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I think we are all. We all have many sides to us. Not
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everything is moments that we're proud of. But you know, they're captured,
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and I think it made for a really good show and they can thank me
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for a season three later. I mean, so we have so yeah,
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that's yours hoping. Yeah, well that's right. So that so you're kind
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of the cliffhanger at the end of the show. Well, not to spoil
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if you're listening on the podcast and you haven't watched mine, I want to
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play a pause, watch the show, and then listen to this. I'm
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about to spill something. Okay, But at the end of the show,
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you're asking Maritzio, who founded the agents? You need known for a very
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long time. He's been told that you said his daughters aren't worthy to take
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it over. So I don't think that's what I said. No again,
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I'm not putting words in your mouth. No, no, no, that's
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what they that's that's what that members are led to believe. And he calls
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you in and he kind of tells you, I'm not sure you're not gonna
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be the next anyone, but Michelle, Yeah, that's what he's saying.
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Say that. And then after that he immediately brings in a guy who I
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was not that impressed with, to be honest with you, through the whole
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show, like, oh, he's going to be the one. He's like,
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Oh, I need you. I might not be around a lot.
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We want you to come. My twelve year old wants to punch him in
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the face. Yeah, that's what he said. We're not doing that,
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but yeah, exactly, so I guess what I'm so, what's the there's
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some misconceptions about women and business, and there's certain stereotypes that I don't know
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that that's any kind of intentional thing. I don't think they're trying to say,
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well, men can do things better than women. But what's your feeling
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about the misconceptions that exist in the business world and how do we fix those?
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I mean, I would not be sitting here if we could fix them,
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right, I would be on yacht somewhere in the middle of the Mediterranean.
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So look, let's go back in history, right, Like real estate
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was always oh, like a stay at home mom's job. Like it was
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always this ideal you can make your own schedule. I think as time progressed
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and as things change and prices went up, there are men that saw that
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there's a lot of money in it. Yeah. Right, And so now
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you have all these powerhouse men and all of these shows that are on television.
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Most of them are featuring strong men, so and successful men, and
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the shows are making them even more successful. There's not many women that you
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see in that position. I think that I think we can all agree that
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when a woman is strong and forceful, she's a b word, right,
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or she's not deserving of it, or she's a complainer. Whereas I think
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that if you were to put my words in somebody else's mouth that's on the
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cast, I would not have been kind of dragged through the ring or the
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way that I was. But I did say those well, there is that
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Well, in fact, I'm an attorney, and I have to say when
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they when they flashed back to where you when you said, I didn't say
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that, and then it's like, oh, she said it that it was
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amazing, So that was yeah, that that does happen. But the but
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even we talk to a strong man that you know, that's compared to the
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woman who's the bee work. The guy that in the end that he sort
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of picks I mean no offense, but he's a little gospel. He makes
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ten thousand calls a hearing guy. Well he has a big board where he
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marks them all off. Yeah, but you have a gold Michelle. I
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eat to like be like a mentor. That's how this show, you know,
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started to be a mentor, Like how you came in. And I
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actually have two daughters that I mean, I want them to be very successful
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independent. So how are you mentoring these women that you know, I know
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you have a lot of women that work for you. Well, clearly Mauricio's
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daughters are not interested in that. We can move on. Yeah no,
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So you know, I think what was unfortunate is that you got you didn't
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get to hear all of my apple, and so it kind of made me
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it appeared like I was coming out of left field and like, but but
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I really have achieved a lot of success both within the company and like in
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my life right, So with age comes wisdom, That's all I was saying,
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and you know it was so I started with Mauricio at the company.
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We started it together while I was one of the founding agents, and I
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have had to ask for every step of the way for my growth, right,
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nothing has been handed to me. So I now run three offices with
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one hundred and sixty five agents under me. We are the three most profitable.
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Not to give away like corporate finance information, but we are the most
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profitable offices for the company. My offices and I make it a point to
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recruit strong female real arners love it. So you know, I think that's
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kind of like what my claim, not claim to fame, but like that's
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what I tout. I love that. I love bringing in more women.
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A lot of them are moms. I not in a weird way, but
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like I built my career off my kids, right, Like that's a whole
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new sphere of influence that I did not have beforehand. Your target market,
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you're spending time with them, You're in their home, you're doing play dates,
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you're at the park, you're at the birthdays, and so you know,
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throw on a little hat and all of a sudden they want to talk
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to you about real estate. And so that's really kind of how I built
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my kids. I mean also, like I used to give them my business
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cards and say go ride a bike. And for every lead you're building a
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business. We know, they got to know what hard work is. Well,
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you lead into that because listen, you mentioned you have two kids.
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Yeah, you have a very busy life. Yeah, I'm sure we all
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do. Yeah, coffee comes to you in the morning. Your husband's amazing
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guy. Yeah, how do you I mean, this is a silly question
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because you can't balance it all. It's not perfect, But how do you
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do it? Like, you are a very busy woman. So I guess
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my favorite way of describing it is that I live a life of like playing
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a game of whack a mole at all moments. You know, you're just
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constantly putting out fires all the time. Yeah, and so you know,
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being a high functioning you know add probably I don't know, I'm constantly listening
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and knowing what's going on in many different like pockets and moments, and so
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it's really just kind of taking care of what's in front of you when you
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have it, instead of trying to plan everything out. I'm like, I'm
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a master procrastinator, Like you know, everything's at the last minute, but
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you work best. I get I worked fast under pressure like a diamond.
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Yeah, and being a mom too. So in the show, at one
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point you're criticized because you suggested that Farah, who wants to be a mother,
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get married to have children. You say, well, you know,
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she probably wouldn't be ready to take care of the business because she wants to
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be a mom, and they know what it's like and right, and so
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I took it as I know exactly what that's like. There's a difference between
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you're my target market, you understand all. To be honest, I didn't
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take anything that you said wrong. I was like, you know, when
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you're young. When I was twenty in my twenties, I thought, oh,
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I should run the business. I'm so smart, I'm so good.
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Why don't they listen to me? And actually they they told me, well,
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with age comes wisdom and experience. And it wasn't until you're sitting in
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that seat that you realized, oh, yeah, that's true. True.
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So you really didn't say anything. They said you were a hypocrite for saying,
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well, she was your a mom. So I'm not saying you can't
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do it, and I'm just saying like when you're going through newborns at that
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time, like it's it's not the ideal I mean ideal moment to start a
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company. So your kids are ten and twelve old, so in your career
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twelve and fourteen, twelve and fourteen, so they were little too when you.
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I got my license when I was pregnant with my first son. Wow,
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that was when my transition. So I used my maternity leave as minch,
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do you do a general in the day of the birth. I could
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see that. Wait a second, So it took me a full year before
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I could get one deal done. So I had had my son, my
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older son that I got pregnant a couple months later, and Marisa was like,
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get these kids out of the way and let's start making money. I
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was like ten four, got it? So yeah. So then I I
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then was pregnant and we were transitioning and coming up with the concept of the
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agency and talking about these like secret meetings, and I was super pregnant with
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my son, my second son, and they call me and they're like,
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we're going into a new office right now. I'm like, okay, I'm
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having contractions, guys. I was that. So our office, our company
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started on September first, twenty ten. My son was born September eighth.
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So I was closing my first deal with my best friend, having contractions on
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the floor of a conference room with Sarah by the way, contractions on the
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conference room without any furniture. Well, you've taken working at the pressure to
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a whole different hal you were you were proad pressed so well, and so
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tell us a little bit about the agency. So is it a Fortune five
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hundred company? What's the stats? Not pretty big? Okay, Yeah,
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it's not a pu We're not a pup company, you know, but it's
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so is it international? We are? We are international, and we're in
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Oh gosh, now you're asking you stats. We're I believe we're in like
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eighteen countries. I might be short sighting us a little bit. Yeah,
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we you know, most of Los Angeles, we cover all like the West
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coast. We've now branched off into New York, Miami, we have Charlotte,
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we have Austin, we have Dallas. So yeah, we're really taking
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over and we're Canada, Mexico, all the above. And Europe. Yeah.
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Wow, it's doing really well. Yeah, it's a great brand.
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It's i mean, the brand recognition is out of this world. Oh yeah,
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well that's that. It's one of the most popular shows on Netflix right
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now. Yeah, it is. Well. Real Housewives of Beverly Hills also
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helped. Well, sure that was a walking billboard for our company. That's
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just like twelve years for those that don't know. So Marizo is married to
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but currently is strange from Kyle Richards if I've got that all right, because
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everything day it changes, you know. Kyle Richards in this in this show
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and buying Beverly Hills did say something interesting. So she's sitting with her daughters
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and she says, somebody came up to me and said, you know,
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I like all the characters in your show. And she's like, We're not
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characters, We're we're real people. Yeah. So, but yes, it's
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connected back to the Real Housewives. Yeah, so, I mean they did.
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They did an amazing marketing job. I mean I called murracy almost like
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the popager, right, he's like the Chris Jenner of real estate marketing.
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So he's really just parlated and used the the TV platform to make a huge
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brand name for ourselves. So can we get a teaser? So you're season
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three? Are you looking at season three? Are you? Yeah? Yeah,
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yeah, yeah, we won't we won't tell anybody, you know.
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Well, you know one of our one of my castmates is an agent here
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at our Dallas office. Oh really yeah, Well her name is Melissa Platt.
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So if you guys need anyone, and oh, I know I know
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Melissa on this show. Yeah yeah, so Melissa, she works both in
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La and Alice. Okay, Okay, So I don't know if we're going
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to get a season three. I don't know how they're going to edit me.
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Hopefully, like you know, you get an opportunity to like me next
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season and you get to see a little more lighthearted side of me and a
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more positive, supportive person. Then do you get any saying that, Like
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no, she gets no, say, I just feel like this is I
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don't think. Okay. So we interviewed someone from the real house Wise of
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Toronto and she said I was cast as a villain. They literally took a
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bunch of tests. They looked at me. She even told me during the
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show we were doing, she said, you know, like Monica, if
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I were to cast the villain for your show, I'd pick you, and
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I was like, based on what do I just say that the villain?
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But she said she was cast that way and she hated it because she said,
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ever since she can't go in public without some person accosting her telling her
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how awful she is, has that happened? So it's kind of yeah,
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I turned off comments. Yeah, it's totally I'm not interesting totally. Yeah.
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So yeah, yeah, you got kids to protect that, yeah yeah,
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yeah, yeah, we're adults here Keyboard Warriors. So in season three,
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the only way you can protect yourself is to be nothing but sweetness and
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light through the whole thing. Yeah yeah, yeah, well that's true that
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that might not get you to season four, so you're gonna have to But
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everybody likes a good redemption. Yeah, you know, it's story if well,
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I love the powerhouse that you are. You are, yeah, you
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know anything that you do in creating for women, yeah, I mean I
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think we needed to have We needed to highlight strong women in real estate and
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especially within our company because it looks like a boys club from the yeah off
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the mom's flub, but from the outside. Yeah yeah, yeah, well
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thank you. So much. We are all very inspired and yes, you
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are a good example for all women entrepreneurs and all of our our daughters out
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there, so thanks so much for joining. I would just say, if
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you want to start a business, you want to do anything, just the
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best thing to do is to fail, just keep failing because that means you're
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learning and you're growing. Yeah, that's true. That's true. That's true.
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That is good. That is great advice. Well, thank you so
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much, Thank you well. I would also like to take this opportunity I
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Yeah. Absolutely, So, well, this is the exciting moment.
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Yeah, we have waited for it. First set out ever Mom's Club Award
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recipient. I mean, we're going to get to visit with her a little
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bit before the rand moment where we hander the award, which is very lovely.
24:02
It's over here. It's actually cast by the same people that create the
24:06
Oscar Awards. Oh okay, so it is a very nice award, and
24:08
I'm sure she's gonna put in a place honor. Her daughter will want to
24:11
polish it every day and everything. Well, I will tell you, okay.
24:15
She is the great thing about this award. Everybody in Dallas knows her
24:19
and loves her, and around the country too. Everywhere I go in Dallas,
24:22
I say her name like I love her. I love her. She
24:26
really she can run for office, but I wants I don't think she wants
24:30
to do that. I wouldn't advise it either. But but she's the co
24:33
host of the kid Cratit Morning Show. She has two podcasts, A Sandwich
24:38
and Some Lovin and Love Letters to Kelly, which has great relationship advice.
24:44
Julie has been listening to it a lot. I mean she gives solid,
24:51
to the point and very valuable. That's yes, that's very valuable. Oh.
24:56
I forgot to mention. On May thirty first, it will be her
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thirtieth anniversary of hosting. I mean, it's truly a remarkable career. Well,
25:11
it's made more even more remarkable. She's only thirty nine. There gotten
25:15
today. She's really good friends. I understand with Kelly Clarkson, who today
25:19
is forty two, so who was older than our recipient. Anyway, she's
25:26
got to get the Mom's Award. You have to be a mom. She's
25:27
a proud mom of Brooke, Emma, Kelly, who is here today,
25:32
Cole and Dylan. She's welcome to the Mom's Club yes day. Yeah,
25:40
please welcome to the Mom's Club. Kelly Reside. It's good. That's my
25:57
wedding anniversary. Is your anniversary? Celebrate that's her wedding anniversary on my Oh,
26:07
I'm exciting. It's been the whole hour talking to you. Yeah,
26:11
I love you need a good I know you don't like the term villain,
26:15
but you need a good villain on any reality show to make it juicy and
26:18
entertaining. And I love you. You do a great job. Thank you.
26:22
I know you get so much heat for it too. Any outspoken woman
26:26
who has an opinion is going to get backlash, no matter, no matter
26:29
what. That is true. That is true. Well, there's a little
26:33
known fact that people don't know about you. Now. You were on the
26:36
air kid Credit for years. But when Kathy Lee Gifford retired, they were
26:41
looking for a new co host from I Don't Understand Yes, and you auditioned
26:45
to be and you co hosted with me. It's just sort of a regious
26:48
philib it. Yeah. So what was that like? What you two iconic
26:53
men in different radio and TV? What was what was that like? Well,
26:57
when they were doing they were casting a real wide net to replace Kathie
27:00
Lee Gifford, the irreplaceable some would say, Kathie Lee Gifford. And so
27:04
they decided as part of their search to do a women of Radio Week,
27:10
and so they you know, radio stations across the country were trying to get
27:12
the female host or co host or you know, sidekick to be on that
27:18
women radio week. And my listeners cast enough votes to get me a slot,
27:22
and I was on the Friday show. And so when I walked into
27:26
the office that first day, my parents got to go with me to New
27:27
York and that was really exciting. Emma Kelly's father, we are no longer
27:32
together, but at that time we were, and he went with me too.
27:34
And as soon as I walked in and met Gelman, the producer,
27:38
he was on one side of the desk, and he said, did you
27:41
bring any flats? And I said, I am wearing flats. And at
27:44
that moment I knew this is probably not going to be my mom. But
27:49
yes, Regis is a very well may he rest in peace. Was a
27:52
very tiny man, and if you can believe it or not, Kelly Ripper
27:56
was even tinier than Regi's so very delicate piece to get to do morning TV.
28:03
So but I had a great time. There was a bunch of snapoos
28:04
they were supposed to send me over, a bunch of you know, stuff
28:10
to learn about the guests that were going to be on the next day,
28:11
one of whom was Lorraine Brocco, who was on The Sopranos. And I
28:15
didn't have HBO, so I had never seen an episode of The Sopranos.
28:18
Okay, and my packet never arrived. Oh so I just basically said,
28:23
you know, like, what's it like to be married to Edward James almost
28:26
I did not know they had just like split up. So that was a
28:30
little embarrassing. That's a moment, but that's a moment. But the fun
28:36
part was, you know that ABC Studios is all right there, so my
28:40
my then I don't know if we were married at the time. Was I
28:44
married to Freddy at the time? Anyway, casting a director for All my
28:48
Children was watching and they said we They panned the camera to Freddy in the
28:52
audience and they said come over as soon as you get off, and they
28:55
wanted him to audition for a role on All my Children. Oh didn't get
28:59
it. Yeah, that is so crazy. Yeah, I mean, it's
29:02
just like it was a crazy weekend, but it was a lot fun.
29:03
So in theory it could have been today. Now your husband is Alan,
29:08
yes, so he is in the past. So I had a lovely daughter
29:11
so instead of live with Kelly and Mark, it would be live with Kelly
29:15
and Allan, only to be Kelly be spelled different in each possibly. So
29:19
if you've been offered that at all, if things have gone a little different,
29:22
would you have ever left kid to work? Absolutely? Oh take that
29:30
off? Well, yeah, exactly, And I say that happened. Yes,
29:34
I was offered. At one point I went out to Los Angeles to
29:37
do a workshop for hosting, because you never know what your career is going
29:41
to do. And this is many years ago, and at the time a
29:45
lovely lady named Marky Costello was conducting the workshop and workshop and she said,
29:49
if you had moved to LA, I'd love to represent you and work with
29:52
you. And I had to make a really big decision. Do I want
29:56
to stay in Dallas with my sure thing with the kid cratit morning show?
30:00
Career was really starting to, you know, take hold here, or do
30:03
I risk it all and give up everything with no job and moved to LA.
30:07
So I chose to stay here, but sometimes I wonder what might have
30:10
been. But it all worked out there. Well, you've certainly done well
30:14
and the people of Dallas absolutely love you, so you well, I appreciate
30:18
any good in your career you have had a chance to meet. I don't
30:22
even know tons and tons and tons of people. Do you have a geek
30:26
out moment with a celebrity one last week? I probably embarrassed myself. Yes,
30:34
you know, I have moments where I'm stunned, speechless and it's so
30:37
embarrassing. In front of Michelle Pfeiffer, I was Anne Harrison Ford for that
30:42
was what it was called that movie, and I just kept looking at her
30:48
and telling her how beautiful. She was. So embarrassing. And then I
30:53
had to interview Reese Witherspoon one time. They actually, you know, sometimes
30:57
fly you out to Beverly Hills and these press junkets and all. I I
31:02
just couldn't shut up. Yeah, I just kept talking about She was with
31:06
Ryan Philippi at the time, and they got married in Charleston, South Carolina.
31:08
I was in South Carolina, and I know that she just had They're
31:15
nodding the entire time. It was. Yeah. So I have not mastered
31:22
the art of interviewing. I'm not really great at it, but I'm just
31:26
a fan. Like everybody else. You get done speechless. You're like when
31:30
I say that's going to change that celebrities day nothing. Yeah, yeah I
31:34
did. It didn't work out for me either. I was just looking.
31:37
It was Brookshields and I was looking at her jaw line and I was like,
31:41
I'm yeah, so it was awkward and you know, but anyway we
31:45
wanted to us to being stared at in silence. Oh I'm sure. Yeah.
31:48
But well part of the criteria that we've made up for moms, you
31:53
made it up. No, no, no, no. It was a
31:56
very selective work. It's very cristeria. And one of them is you're just
32:02
giving philanthropic person. Kid Cretic had Kids Kids charity and can you tell us
32:09
a little bit about that, and you've continued with that good work, so
32:13
please share that. Yes, So kid Cratic was way before I met him.
32:17
He was married to Carol and they were expecting their first child and the
32:22
doctors, you know, doing the sonograms and everything said that your baby's going
32:25
to be born with a twisted femur and would never be able to walk.
32:30
And so, like any parent would do, you drop down on your knees.
32:32
If you've never been religious a day in your life, you start praying
32:36
and making promises to God. And Caroline Kratic was born perfectly healthy, walks
32:40
straight as a line, and the kids Jesus All and Kids made good on
32:50
his promise and he started the Kid's Kids charity, which takes children who have
32:55
chronically they're chronically ill or they have terminal illness, life offering illnesses, and
33:00
they take the child, their siblings, their parents on an all expenses paid
33:05
trip to Disney World because a lot of times when you have a sick child
33:08
in the family, they get one hundred percent of the attention. The siblings
33:12
are like, they can't help, but they feel for their their sibling,
33:15
but like, what about me, I'm just in the shadows. So we
33:17
give everybody you know, a moment in the spotlight on these trips and kid
33:22
and sadly passed away in twenty thirteen, but his dream was always for the
33:25
charity to continue, so we're continuing that still eleven years later, in his
33:29
honor. So it's unbelievable. Yeah, that is that is tremendous. And
33:36
of course being a mom is the main criteria and you are fill that,
33:40
you fulfill it. You should probably ask him that Kelly is worthy of well,
33:45
yeah, yes, that's good. Yes, the fact that she brought
33:52
her means that she's well worthy, because if I was getting an award,
33:54
I would probably not invite my son. He might, you know, I
33:59
might he might stand up like a wedding. Yeah, you might have you
34:01
know, point out some things that I not that I'm not a great mom,
34:05
but I mean so, yes, we're thrilled that she's here. But
34:07
she went from being a single mom to being the mom of four kids.
34:13
Right. My husband alan three children from his previous marriage, so Emma Kelly
34:17
was it was just us for about ten years, and so that was quite
34:22
a big adjustment. When I was a single woman and I was a homeowner,
34:27
I bought a home with intention of I'm gonna probably if I meet someone
34:30
to marry them. I need to have room for my husband his possible children,
34:37
you know, the older you get. And so I bought a house
34:38
with the intention I'm going to get married and have a man live here with
34:43
me. And I did that, but unfortunately I didn't realize that my husband
34:46
was going to have three children and that I was going to have four kids
34:49
sharing one bathroom upstairs. Oh boy, so we had But you know,
34:52
I did have that intention, and I think it is important with everything you
34:54
do to do it with intention. It didn't take over the closet space.
34:59
Actually, I I bought a huge closet. I mean I thought of everything.
35:01
I thought, this closet. I need to have it big enough for
35:05
he and enough space for kids. It wasn't quite enough, so we ended
35:09
up buying our second home to get well. On your podcast, you're really
35:13
funny, and you know, I love how you give straight advice, and
35:16
you give advice really solid, like no girl. You you know you got
35:21
to walk from that, and you know, we really appreciate that you share
35:24
that your journey of finding someone and you have non negotiables, which I think
35:30
you know this age like you know, being thirty nine, that I'm honest
35:35
about my age too. I just turned fifty seven. Whoo, I'm not
35:42
a shame of it. I had my daughter. It took a while for
35:45
me. I went through the infertility struggles that so many face, and I
35:49
really can, if I really want to, I can transport myself back to
35:52
that really emotional time. So my heart really breaks for people who struggle with
35:55
infertility. But I had her. You know, I was six months shy
35:59
of forty, so you know, I was pretty well established in my career,
36:04
and I had to make a lot of adjustments, says, you know.
36:06
Unfortunately my marriage did not work out with her dad, so being a
36:08
single mom trying to date with a young child, I had to be really
36:12
creative with that because I didn't want just introducing a parade of men into her
36:15
life. Not that there was a parade of men. You know, I
36:21
did okay, Well I think I think you did better than okay. And
36:24
because of that, we are pleased to present to you, Julie. Yes,
36:30
let me get that. My assistant. Yeah, we have little fancy
36:32
gloves to to you, but I guess we don't. Yeah, Dallas the
36:37
first ever Dallas Mom of the Year Award. Thank you, I mean thank
36:46
you, thank you. I'm to congratulation. Thank you. You get to
36:58
give your speech now. Yeah, well you want to think obviously your child's
37:02
that's kind of important. I was asking my daughter on the way over here.
37:06
I said, you know, is there anything that I've done to embarrass
37:08
you as a mom? Is there anything I get right or anything I get
37:12
wrong? And she it was actually really sweet because she said that she didn't
37:16
really have any criticisms for me, but she said, honestly, she had
37:20
it. She thought it had more to do with the fact that she's getting
37:22
older now, you know, and she's coming out of that that period where
37:27
aliens take over your teenage daughter's bodies. And so what I've tried to do
37:32
with them, m kelly the most is have really open lines of communication.
37:36
I try to let her know that you can tell me anything, and I
37:39
want you know, if you ask me anything, I'll be as honest as
37:43
I can be. And you know, I've had some conversations with her sometimes
37:45
that are pretty difficult, and sometimes I have to tell the truth and it's
37:49
not always putting me in the best light. But I want her to see
37:52
that, you know, she can come to me and I'll come to her
37:54
with anything, and just keep those lines of communication open. And I think
37:58
that's the most important thing you can do is actually with teenagers, Yeah,
38:00
and walk side by side exactly. I think I think that pretty much sums
38:08
up why you are the recipient that well, thank you amazing speech, Thank
38:13
you so much. Well, I can't believe our time is up. I
38:16
mean, it's just so hard to believe it's it's I'm kind of sad.
38:22
Can do a double episode. Could I don't know how Albernez would feel about
38:25
that. We can go outside and do another episode of this. I want
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host Julie or Can and where ladies can we find YouTube? On social media?
38:55
Kelly, where can the listeners find Well? I'm Kelly at Kelly raz
39:00
byant know how to spell it? Kelly's with an ie, no P and
39:02
raspberry on Instagram, But Kelly Raspberry Evans my married name on Facebook? Okay?
39:07
Great? And Michelle, where can we find you Instagram? Michelle Schwartz
39:12
realtur and if you guys, ever, one thing I like to always do
39:16
is continue to pay it forward. So I'm happy to answer any questions if
39:21
anyone's interested in real estate, and I'll give you the real, true lowdown.
39:24
That is great. I love that. And Michelle has her comments turned
39:28
off, But for those of you, keep comments turned on. Let's stand
39:31
up for her next seas Yes, definitely, yeah, nothing nothing that good
39:42
at all. Positive. That's which to me leads us. Now, you
39:45
can find us at Inside the Mom's Club on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok,
39:52
maybe TikTok. We have a YouTube chant yeah well maybe TikTok. We don't
39:55
know that long that's gonna last if you can find us there and Julia's I
40:00
just can't believe it, but you know, we're another episode done, but
40:04
we can't end it without saying something very important. Ladies, and just remember
40:08
this, This is our Mom's Club motto. If you don't laugh, sometimes
40:14
you are, you're gonna so laugh. Ladies, have fun, be positive,
40:17
and we'll see you next time Inside the Mom's Club