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New Year's Resolutions, Mom Fails and Fresh Beginnings
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In this debut episode, we formally introduce Just 4 Moms, a no judgement zone podcast where four regular moms talk about regular stuff. Join Kallie Branciforte, Caitlin Houston, Megan Schinella and Charlotte Smith as they share details about the new podcast, what happened to their old podcast, Mom Fails and New Year’s Resolutions for 2025.
https://www.just4momspodcast.com/episodes/episode1
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Magical Lip Gloss and Nostalgia
00:00:00
Speaker
Caitlin, I like your pink headphones. They're very Caitlin. Thanks. I thought you were going to talk about my lips. go i those I forgot to put on lip gloss. No, this was but was supposed to be clear. I never touched your lips. No. ah you anna Annabelle has wicked clear lip gloss. Does it change? It's like magic? Yes. So I thought I was putting clear on. and Well, it looks nice. Wait, did you guys have the lipstick and the things that would change? It would like measure your mood. I was just going to say the mood, yes. Right? Do you remember the rings that would change color? I remember the rings, yes. no I think there was a lipstick. There was purple, black. Yes. Where do we? I mean, Amazon. We definitely can find it. That would be fun. I think it's a good color on you, Caitlin. Thank you. It is.
Introduction to 'Just For Moms' Podcast
00:00:48
Speaker
Welcome to Just For Moms. I'm Charlotte. I'm Caitlin. I'm Megan. And I'm Callie. We are regular moms talking about regular stuff like aging, parenthood, work-life balance, and figuring out what's for dinner again. A no-judgment zone to talk, laugh, and maybe cry about all the things women think about on a daily basis. things i' plan
00:01:13
Speaker
Well, welcome, guys.
Creative Differences and New Beginnings
00:01:14
Speaker
This is our first, like, official, ah official episode. I feel like we did our last one thinking maybe it would be official, and then we're just dum-dums with technology, so no. Yeah. And we could shut up about things that we should have shut up about. Right. Can you hear me now? Turn your volume up. Yes. Down. So this we're hoping we can get through as, like, an official, official episode. How are we feeling? Excited. It's cold. It's cold out.
00:01:39
Speaker
I feel like when we did New Year's last year, Caitlin, you didn't say excited. but why but I know. There was a pause there. I noticed that. I feel like last year you were like, Oh, the New Year's it's the worst. Listen, I learned a lot in 2024. I also feel like my thoughts on the whole new year, whatever has changed in the sense that I still stand It's just another month and and another number on the calendar year, but um I'm excited for what we're doing here. That's why I'm excited.
00:02:15
Speaker
yeah Yeah, I am too. I mean, and we didn't want to get into too much dirty laundry, but we do want to acknowledge the elephant in the room is that you guys are listening to us and we have a different format, a different name. I will say that 20 minutes ago, I was like blow drying my hair and making a cup of coffee. And that part of this whole setup is real nice. Not that I didn't love seeing you in person, but it is nice to be just here on our computers. I feel like it's just easier for everyone, right?
00:02:43
Speaker
So much easier. Yes, home and slippers. Yeah, I do have my slippers on today. um yeah But the I mean, the reason we are doing it this way is that the first iteration, it wasn't really ours. we were We were asked to be part of a podcast and all of us were game to try and we sort of knew each other peripherally. And then I think through the course of the year, we realized that maybe we had different visions for the podcast. It just sort of started getting away from us creatively a little bit. And we had the opportunity to start fresh with
00:03:16
Speaker
full control, totally on our own. And like the optimistic idiots we are, we were like, yeah, let's do it. I like how you just presented that because I was hoping that was you were going to tell the story. and Yeah. not a Good job, Charlotte. Thanks. No. In a different way. I mean, what I learned from the whole thing is that I think when we were first approached about it, and we all were sort of tentative and we didn't really want the control, right? like I remember saying, I just want to show up and record. And I don't want to have to worry about any of the logistics of it. And I knew that the financials probably wouldn't be the same as other aspects of my job. And so that was sort of,
00:03:57
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a part of my thought process. But then, I don't know, after the year, I think we realized that we have a pretty good thing
Embracing Podcasting and Creative Control
00:04:04
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going. We really love talking with each other. And our conversations were bleeding into text conversations. And I just think we loved being around each other. And the stuff that seemed like maybe hard work a year ago now just seems sort of fun and like part of the price of doing business, right? Yeah, I definitely agree with that. I was thinking this morning, like,
00:04:27
Speaker
I was excited to set up my post and literally last year I was like, I don't want to do anything because I have so much to do. And it's not that I don't have anything to do right now, but I do have some more time. And, um, I don't know. I like feeling like this is our little baby.
00:04:44
Speaker
Well, I think we also realized that we had maybe stronger opinions than we thought we did. and And I think what the best laid plans of just showing up to record ended up meaning that we like realized we had an opinion on social media and the website. There were so many ways that we ended up sort of getting pulled into the whole thing.
00:05:04
Speaker
that we didn't intend to but then we were like we actually know what we're doing and know what we want and like why would we ever want to have someone else like making the soup if if we're right here yes it makes me think about like i feel like everything is as a woman and we're always like like i could do Like, why would I explain to somebody else how to do it when I know how I want it done? And sometimes, um sometimes I'm like, okay, you have to just get over that, right? Like, I have to get over that all the time when I'm like, like, say hi or a new babysitter, and I have to be like, they're not gonna do it the way that I would do it, and that's okay, I have to allow that, because there's only so much time for me. But I feel like this was very much one of those situations where it was like, why why would I let someone else do it when we know how we want it done, and we can do it the way that we want it?
00:05:52
Speaker
yeah Yeah. And I think there was a moment when we realized that no matter how much we communicated and the four of us felt like we were in lockstep, it was, we just were not able to.
00:06:03
Speaker
communicate or be her, I don't know. So. Yeah.
Control Freaks of the Podcast World
00:06:06
Speaker
I mean, we weren't in charge. We were just the host. We were hired as the host and yeah we are with parent clearly very clearly all control freaks and we just want to be in charge of it. Yeah. Very type A over here. I was going to say we tried our hardest to let someone else do it their way and.
00:06:22
Speaker
Hi guys, welcome to just for a moment. So we talked a little bit about what we wanted to be the same and what we wanted to be different. And I think for all of us collectively, it makes sense for us to have a little bit of a roadmap or else we just end up talking about stuff that is not frankly interesting to anyone else. So we will have a bit of a roadmap.
00:06:41
Speaker
Speak for yourself. Sorry, right, right. I think because we're doing this from our homes, our hope is that we can be a little bit more timely before, because we had to come to a studio, we were recording Way Out, and so it was hard to talk about our lives in the moment. Or if we did, you were like, wait a minute.
00:06:56
Speaker
Why are you guys wearing sun dresses? It's November. Anyway, we're hoping to be a little more timely. and then um But we'll still have like topics, and I think we really like our peaks and our pits. And then one chapter we were going to add is we have been referring to as mom fails, but it's sort of our way of just talking about some of the sort of reality that I suspect all of us go through on a daily basis. And so we just want to share that with you all to know that, you know, none of us know what on
Mom Fails: Hilarious Mishaps
00:07:30
Speaker
earth we're doing. So that's what we're going to move into now, unless did you guys have anything else you wanted to talk about with the old show or
00:07:39
Speaker
I don't know. Do we want to talk about New Year's? I feel like we're going to get into that with our topic a little bit. Okay. So does anyone have a mom fail or something that they want to commiserate about? Always. I have a mom fail. Okay. Go ahead. I have a mom fail. So I have a year and a half year, one and a half year old. And so he's just in the like, get into everything phase right now. Like you can't turn your back for a frigging second.
00:08:03
Speaker
And so yesterday I had him and the three month old solo and I'm fine. I'm like killing it. I'm like doing great. I was like telling Michael, I was like, remember when I had two kids before and I thought it was so hard and now I have four kids. So two kids feels easy.
00:08:15
Speaker
and I jinx it a little. So I went to go pee and I pee fast. Like I'm a fast peer. I'm gone maybe 60 seconds. This child has pulled the pulled the table, I mean the chair from the dining room table into the kitchen, gone up onto the counter, ton of stuff on the counter. He could have touched like a bag of bread and you know, like no, he gets my cup of coffee. It wasn't just coffee. It was like coffee with milk and there was like sugar pulls it off, falls into the drawer underneath.
00:08:39
Speaker
So now it's shattered, the mug shattered. My favorite mug that's from Marshall, so I can't even replace it, has shattered into the drawer and it's just all over everything. And again, not just coffee, but coffee with cream and like all this stuff. And it was just, you know, I kind of jinxed myself by being and like, I'm killing it. only Only two kids today. And then, and then he pooped. So, you know, it's fine. When you walk into that, what is Tate's reaction and what is your reaction?
00:09:07
Speaker
Tate's just no expression. He can, yeah. I mean, he just looks at you like nothing. Mine, I was, I don't know. I mean, something spills every day in my house. It's all small children in my house. So I'm just like, that's it. That is what it is. I like that he's young enough that he has no remorse or like a couple of years and he'll feel guilty, not now.
00:09:29
Speaker
I don't know. Okay. So that segues into mine. So I have a toddler. Her name is Arbor. She's three. She just turned three. Um, and maybe you guys already know this story if you're listening because I blasted it all over social media, but I even like, if you're watching, I can show you, you know, those like, I have an, a wallow water bottle. It has like a little hole in the top. I, I close it. I don't leave it open all day long, but she drinks out of it.
00:09:56
Speaker
And um like little beef sticks, not a Slim Jim, but like, I think it's like Archer's beef sticks or whatever. She eats them. Most of the time she eats them, eats them in entirety. Sometimes I'll find like a half of one somewhere in the playroom. um Yeah, so she eats them.
00:10:15
Speaker
I go to bed with my, I refill this water bottle all day. I take it to bed, drink it throughout the night. I'm drinking it at night. um Wake up in the morning. Yes. Wake up in the morning. I'm drinking it and I'm like, whoa, what is that? What is that smell? Is it my breath? I'm like, it smells like garlic. So I go in the bathroom, I brush my teeth.
00:10:37
Speaker
take my water bottle downstairs, go to the kitchen, take a sip and I'm like, who and I'm like dry heaving. I'm like, what does that smell? It smells so bad. Oh my gosh, there must be garlic on the counter from last night when I cooked and I'm looking and I'm looking and I go to take another sip and I'm like, it's coming from my water bottle. And I dumped the water bottle in the sink and there is a beef stick, not a tiny piece, but the entire beef stick that marinated in the water that I drank for 12 hours.
00:11:04
Speaker
So I approached my toddler and asked her about this. And she was like, yeah, I did it. And I said, why? And she said, because. And walked away. Like, like i don't I don't know, because. Why not? So now. She's like, round peg, round hole. Yep, doesn't care. And she like she asked me the other day, you got a beef stick in your water? I was like, that is not funny. oh You can't even troll me.
00:11:29
Speaker
ah so I love that you brushed your teeth too. You were like, oh, maybe I have like more than a bed. It's gotta be me. Yeah, sometimes I smell, it happens. Sure. The other morning, the same the same coffee mug tape kept wanting to put a cracker in it. And you know, like, why why do they always want to put things in liquid? And I'm like, no, no, no. And then he finally got the cracker in. And I was sitting on the sofa holding the baby. So like, there's, I just ate the cracker. I just ate the coffee cracker. What else, will he sit there and hold a soggy cracker? No. Yeah, he might as well.
00:11:59
Speaker
Might as well just have it, yeah. It wasn't bad. Caitlin, I feel like our the Venn diagram between food that you eat and know and food that I eat and know, like there's got to be an overlap. But I don't know what a beef stick is. I texted you, and I was like, is that what you call hot dogs? Apparently, it's a different subcategory. It's not jerky. A slim gym? Like a slim gym. No, it's not a slim gym. No, jerky's not a slim gym. I don't even eat these, and I know.
00:12:28
Speaker
Hold on. I'm going to tell you guys, it Archer grass jerky jerky is like harder. You it's like, uh, if it's a slim Jim, then it looks like a, pop it looks like a pepperoni that you give your dogs. It's a grass fed beef stick. It's like a very healthy, high protein little snack. Have you ever had a healthy? Yes, they're healthy. I've seen them. and So chomps are like the longer version.
00:12:53
Speaker
Actually, chomps makes minis too. chomps are Yeah, my kids eat chomps. They eat little ones. Yeah, but archers, are they're all called beef sticks, guys. you don't You don't eat the beef sticks, Charlotte? and No. yeah i mean i know i mean You don't eat the beef sticks? I mean, I don't anymore. I did as a kid. I don't know.
00:13:12
Speaker
yeah Yeah, I just remember Slim Jims. They're not Slim Jims. Wasn't there a commercial? No, I know the one you had in your cup was not a Slim Jim. But Slim Jims are like gas station. Yeah, these are better. Slim Jims are like the Band-Aid version. You're talking about the category of adhesive strip, and we're saying Band-Aid. Yeah, but Caitlin's are grass-fed, so that's a whole different volume.
00:13:40
Speaker
Mine are fancy. Mine are from the gas station. Hers are from the really expensive market in town. Well, those are good ones. I mean, those don't even count as mom fails. That's just mom life. Maybe we should... I guess. I have one. Oh, good. Like an actual fail? Yep. Okay. This happens a lot in my house. I mess up time, schedules, all the above, even though I have it in my calendar and I look at it four times. you know it's just I don't know. I just need to focus and I'm... Anyways.
00:14:11
Speaker
So we had CCD. um That finished. And then I knew Gianna was starting field hockey. And I feel like we're always like late in our house, even though I try not to be. I try to like organize the water bottle before and all the equipment. And no matter what, we're still always late. So she gets home from CCD. And we got to rush to field hockey. And it just started the new session. So I'm like, come on, we got to go. like get like Where's your your shin pads? like You know, let's go. So I'm like, like psycho, get in the car, get in the car. You know, we're like running to the car. I'm like racing there. And she's like, mom, are we going to be late? And I'm like looking at the clock. I'm like, yeah, probably 10 minutes, but it's fine. You're fine. Right. So then we like pull it up and like all the doors are locked because it's at like a private school.
00:14:57
Speaker
So I'm like a psycho, like bashing on like the window and like, you see it's in session, right? And like one of the coaches comes over and lets us in and she looks at us and like, and I'm looking at the kids playing and they're like really young and little. And she's like, are you sure you're here for this? Like, what grade are you? And then I was like, Oh, she's in seventh grade. And she was like, Oh, that's the next session that starts in like 30 minutes.
00:15:23
Speaker
So I was like, oh, Gianna, you're early. You have 15 minutes just to play on your phone and go hang out. And she looks at me like thank like, really, mom, you were just so like crazy getting me here. And I'm like, well, at least we're early, right? That's a mom win, I think. That's a win. But then I felt bad because I was like a psycho like you know rushing her to get there, so we weren't late. But it all worked out, whatever. And then, of course, like my husband picked her up, and he's like so You dropped her off a little early. I'm like, I don't want to talk about it. So I guess a better mom fail would have been like when I packed my kids' backpacks and their lunches and I sent them to school all the way to school but for the teacher to come out and be like, no, no, no, school's not today. Yeah. that's yeah Just train her to relearn it. I know. It happens, right? All you got to do is laugh. I just feel like whatever. That's my motto, whatever.
00:16:19
Speaker
That's why you want your kids to be nimble. Like, you have three minutes. Go, go, go. Yeah. That's not my oldest. Preparing them for life. My oldest is the slowest human on the planet. And I just, there's nothing we could do about it.
00:16:33
Speaker
We've tried. Too slow. I'm finally at the place where like my six-year-old now like doesn't want to get up in the morning. You know like you have toddlers, and they're up at like the butt crack of dawn. And then now it's like, I'm like, get up. It's school. like What do I do? Please help, me guys. You have older children. I'm like, you get get up. We have to go to school. This is a whole new era that I'm entering.
00:16:53
Speaker
Yeah. It's just a series of 20 minutes, 15 minutes, 10 minutes. So that's what we're doing. We just, I'm going in and in. Okay. All right. Just making sure that's what everyone else is doing. Can you set, and is this your oldest, Callie? Yeah. Can you set like an alarm clock in the room or would that wake up other kids? No, no, no. Everyone else is awake. It's just him. Do they have an Alexa in their room? No, they have a hatch.
00:17:19
Speaker
Oh, I was gonna say because she plays a wake up song for kids and it's outstanding. And that's just not a good way to make your 11 year old mad. I'll go in and I'll whisper, hey Alexa, play the wake up song. And then it goes, oh but um everybody wake up, wake up. And it's like all these clapping noises and Annabelle's just like, I'm gonna kill you.
00:17:39
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Those echo dots, Callie, are so cheap. Now that's what we have in most of our rooms. Yeah. We almost got the kids. but So Michael has an Alexa in his office and the kids love it. They love to go in and tell Alexa to do things. So I almost got them one at Christmas, but then I was like, do I want them to be like addicted to tech and like talking to tech? But I love it for the wake up in the morning and that's not bad. The kids one you can turn off. Just use it when you want it.
00:18:03
Speaker
Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe I'll do that. You could troll it right from your phone. Oh, so there's a lot of parental because I don't mind the idea. Like I like that they can ask questions and stuff. Because listen, six year old also has more questions than I can answer. Ever. So go ask Alexa. You can turn like the weekends off. Like that's what we do just I don't know if he likes to sleep in on the weekends, if you let him sleep in. when When we first got our Alexa back when it was like new technology, we had just one and the kids were asking it questions and they broke it asking so many questions and you can go back and you can look and see what all the questions are.
00:18:42
Speaker
And it was Oliver like, Alexa, like, where do apples come from? Alexa, what color is Mars? Alexa, like the questions were such a ah wild, like scattered, just free association. So that would be miles. Yeah, that would. and Nico, you can edit this out if you want. He talks to Alexa and he has her he's like, Alexa, make a juicy fart sound. And like,
00:19:09
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the the sounds that she repeats from these kids being like that. I'm like, okay, that's enough. And I'm like, oh my gosh, this is poor thing. And if she's over there. But do you feel a little like, um, validated Charlotte that, that like your child asking, it sometimes my child asks so many questions that like, I literally can't, I can't, like I can't even function like that. He broke a robot and you're like, I'm still here though. But I, it was amusing. We beat the robots.
00:19:34
Speaker
Yeah, everyone's worried that robots are going to take over the world, but not when there's mothers. No, I feel like not I mean, this is not sponsored by Alexa, but you can welcome to call us who is it Google or Amazon, who is it? Amazon. um But what we have found is that they get tired of the like, in theory, Megan, sorry, Nico, like all of the fart noises and stuff, they do get old and tired of. So Arthur uses his, he listens to podcasts every minute of the day. And so he can just be like, Alexa play, whatever. And then they she has some cute games, you know, like 21 questions and stuff. So I think, I don't know, we really loved it. And I think technology is just part of the deal.
00:20:14
Speaker
Nowadays, so yeah it's a nice way to not have to be dealing. I didn't know about the 21 questions. I'm going to have to try that. Yeah, there's a lot of games that they like. There's like a mystery, like a choose your own adventure game somewhere where, you know, like, would you rather go into the haunted forest or into the haunted castle? And then how much fighting for Alexa's attention happens, though. That's my other concern.
00:20:38
Speaker
um None, because we have, I mean, at this point we have like one in the playroom and one in the kitchen and then they each have- So they can go, okay. Yeah, same, exactly. They can each have their own, yep. Okay, should we move on to our topic? Yes, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, that was me. No, that wasn't. was a good talk That was a good discussion. I apologize.
New Year's Resolutions and Personal Goals
00:20:54
Speaker
Come on. um So today we wanted to talk about New Year's resolutions. How do we feel about them? Do we make them? Do we hate them? So who wants to start? So New Year's resolutions,
00:21:06
Speaker
You know, I don't like changing something about yourself because it's a new calendar year. I saw this in the beginning of the show. But I do think it's nice to like wake up New Year's Day and say maybe in a couple of days I'm going to do something different to better myself. So I did get this new book for Christmas that's called Wellness. And it's this journal that has you journal in the morning and in the night and the evening. And the point of it is for you to like kind of track your habits and your energy level and things you're doing for rest, things you're doing for movement, things you're grateful for, all this like stuff. And after, I think it's a month or two months, like you're supposed to look back and see if you notice any patterns. And if there's something that you maybe want to adjust in your life to like make you happier or something like that. um And in the beginning of the book, it said how it takes 66 days for a habit to stick.
00:22:00
Speaker
And so that's the problem with resolutions personally for me is like someone wakes up New Year's Day and they're like, here I go. I'm on my wellness journey. Well, it takes you 66 days on average to adopt some new regimen by day 30. Most people are like, and I'm done. I mean, if you think about like dry January or the whole 30, those are all 30 day things. And so you really have to stick it out for longer than that. Um, so for, for,
00:22:29
Speaker
me this year, I am trying just to be more present in my family. I'm trying to be more conscious of things that I'm doing every single day to see what's making me happy and what's not, because if something I'm doing is not making me happy, I'm not going to do it anymore.
00:22:44
Speaker
um and I feel like it's really important to show my children like that I'm doing this journal. They keep asking me what I'm writing, and I said I'm writing about how I feel every day um to see you know what makes me happy and what doesn't, and to tell them like this is part of my new year resolution to just be happier and love myself more. My oldest understands my middle child's kind of like, he well, you know, Arbor doesn't really care.
00:23:14
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ah
00:23:17
Speaker
I know, but you know, about your wellness yes she does my, this, this is a different tune that I've sang though for years on my blog. Like I, I always write about intentions and setting intentions and hating resolutions, but.
00:23:29
Speaker
i feel like they're one in the same yeah i feel like they're how you look at it like i'm not a big yeah don't love the word resolution because like right like the basis of it like a solution right it's like a solution to a problem so i feel like people always make resolutions about like things they don't like about themselves that they want to change so i've never loved that but i like the new year just as like kind of a chance to like hit the reset button. Like I know that as like human beings, we like sort of concrete time markers. That's why like, we're gonna, we're gonna start the new diet on Monday, or I'll start that, you know, after the weekend, we kind of like like that. So I feel like especially after like the holiday madness, it's kind of a nice time to just kind of like, all right, let's reset.
00:24:07
Speaker
Let's sort of like get back into like what were the habits I was doing last year that I really liked I was actually chatting with a friend about but She's doing I don't think she was doing resolution there. She was doing something, but she's doing a bingo card So she wrote like all these things that she wanted to do with that year Onto like a bingo card, which I thought was really cute But she said before she did that she's like I was reflecting on the year before which I feel like it's something I'm really bad about doing and like I'm good at like so good at looking forward and like making plans for the future but I'm I feel like I'm bad about looking back and like reflecting on the year before. Cause I'm always just like, what's the next step? But I do, I set sort of like some personal goals, business goals, and then I do use those. I like, we'll break them down by month and be like, okay, if I want to hit that this year, what can I do in January? What can I do in February? Um, but I look at them more like goals and not like resolutions, like what I want to fix about myself. And do you look back at them, Callie, to see if you accomplish them? Do you like to do that?
00:25:04
Speaker
I have done it, it's it's something I'm bad about doing. And I feel like this year, so I became a big notion, do you guys use notion? I became a big, yeah, I became a huge notion user in 2024. So this year, all of my goal setting and all of my, all of that is like on notion. So I feel like it'd be a lot easier for me to look back where in prior years, I wasn't so good. I mean, I would have a few like big goals and be like, cool, I hit that. Like I remember like two years ago when I hit the, my my big goal was to hit a million subscribers on YouTube. So of course, like I remember hitting that.
00:25:33
Speaker
Um, but I'm bad about going back to some of the smaller goals that I've set and like sort of reflecting on them and like, if I hit them or I didn't, and you know, sometimes like you don't hit them, but it's still, it's still a win. You know what I mean? Like something else could still happen. So I was going to say the one nice thing about like social media specifically is the end of the year. There is a lot of the like year in review or recap, and I typically don't love them, but I've learned that when I do one for myself, it does allow me to be Like last year financially was not a great year for me whatsoever, but then I looked back at sort of highlights from each month and it was like, actually, like a lot of these things didn't make you money the way you wanted, but like you did some pretty big things, which is, I don't know, that was helpful for me. It brought you joy. It brought you joy versus money to your bank account, which sometimes yeah at the end of the day, would you rather be rich or happy? Yeah. you know yeah
00:26:31
Speaker
I feel like you like you looked at probably the positives of that month that made you smile, right, Charlotte, when you looked through. Yeah. I feel like for me, I always create like on my notes, my notes app, and I write down things that I want to accomplish or do. And as silly as like drink more water, go to bed earlier, be better about cooking dinner. And what was, what did you say, Caitlin, 66 days?
00:26:59
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an order. Yeah. And I feel like sometimes I hit like barely two months and then I go back to my old habits. Yeah. I'm like thinking about that, you know? Well, there's a lot of pressure that you put on yourself to like change a lot at once instead of just picking one small thing. And studies show that a lot of people's anxiety and depression increases at this time of year because they're so stressed out about trying to do something different to make themselves better.
00:27:29
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And you know it's it's I mean, I understand like someone who wants to go on a health journey, that's fine, but also don't throw in, like and I want to make more money, and I'm going to paint my house. like Just pick one thing and stick to it. And and to each their own, like everybody can do what they want to do. It's just how I have to navigate life. you know I don't think we can plan what's going to happen. Like, Charlotte, you said last year financially, like I'm in the same boat. like Last year was nothing like the years before for me as ah as a blogger, as a content creator. And so for this year, I have no clue what's about to happen. like Did I think last year?
00:28:10
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We would be sitting here rerecording on our own with a different name. No. So I didn't even think we could be doing this three months ago. So I'm with you, Callie, in that I do I do like the opportunity to sit down and think forward. And that seems fitting in the new year because it's the fiscal year for a lot of brands. So it does professionally.
00:28:31
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I do love that quiet week between Christmas and New Year's to sit down and be like, what brands do I want to reach out to? What are big projects I want to get done? And so I love that sort of very loose roadmap that I set for myself. But I guess I find that personally a lot of the other things that might be in that health category or like to your point, Megan, the drink more water category.
00:28:51
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They end up feeling kind of arbitrary for me. Like, yeah, I could drink more water, but I don't really care to. i don't like what You know what I mean? So for me, I find that I'm good at setting goals for things that I should be doing, but I don't.
00:29:04
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I don't really care about them. And so then I'm not doing them. And it just feels like I'm going through the motion. So I don't know. There was a point last year, or maybe even the year before, when I was like, you're not getting any younger. You're not getting any smaller. And there's things that happen as you get older. So you've got to step it up. And I'm not eating whatever, 3,000 grams of protein a day. I don't have beef sticks in my water.
00:29:30
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I am deliberately trying to do more strength training and I am consciously trying to go out for a walk with the dog. So there was some point last year that was not New Year's where I knew I had to kind of reset a little bit. And, you know, for me, I guess the reset won't happen just because it's January one. It happens because something motivates me to do that.
00:29:53
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Well, Angie, last year you went to the doctor. like go to Didn't you go to the... You did all these things last year like that you had never done before. Or even you even said you were trying to drink more water just for health, whatever. and so Found those for flavor drops. Yeah. But like yeah you know what you just said is it doesn't have to be January 1st. It could be any time of the year. yeah It could be the middle of the month, the end of the month, nighttime, daytime, to just be like, you know what? I'm going to change something about myself.
00:30:22
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yeah What about supplements and vitamins? I feel like that stresses me out in the new year because I'm like, I don't think I take enough, but then I'm on social media scrolling and everyone's like, you know, I take, they have like a whole like Monday, Tuesday went like, and I'm like, I don't do all that i think it's toxic. No, I think it is toxic. I think it is not a regulated category. I think people are making money off of everyone else's hopes and dreams. And I think it is,
00:30:49
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like I think it's ramping up now more than ever. you like All the business about like food additives in Europe versus the US, I think people are using false, or not false, but they're comparing the wrong data to prove a point and it's just to like line their pockets. It's not because they care about like your wellness. It's because they want to sell you something and it's just, I don't know.
00:31:10
Speaker
Yeah. Sorry. That's when I hit mute or unfollow or I swipe because I don't want to hear it. Or I'll talk to you guys about it. Should I be taking these vitamins? Oh, no. All right. No. I went to see a naturopath. but I'm trying to remember when, before I was pregnant with Opal, I remember that was my big thing after Tate. I went to see a naturopath and I remember that was like the first thing I asked her. I was like, shouldn't I be taking supplements and stuff? She's like, no, no. She's like, let's, you know, maybe like do some blood work and like figure out your baseline, but you don't need to be like taking all of these random. She's like, maybe just eat eat some more meat and get some more iron. or like You know what I mean? like Don't need all of this all these supplements. yeah Yeah. Yeah. My thing is too, and that's TMI here, but like when I have tried these new supplements sometimes, they screw up my stomach like if I don't eat a big meal with them. So I'm like, All right, great. So I'm going to take zinc and magnesium and all this, but then I'm going to go feel like I got to go to bed early because I don't feel good. So I'm like, how is this maybe like my system has to get used to it? But then i'm I'm just like, whatever. I'm not taking it. I feel good without them. Yeah. I don't know. Good enough. Yeah.
00:32:19
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Listen, my grandma my grandma lived to 91, and I guarantee she never took a single supplement entire life. Unless you call her Miller High Life, she had every day after dinner a supplement. So that's why we all need to do that. Everyone have one Miller High Life after dinner. I love that our this episode's sponsored by Amazon and Miller High Life.
00:32:42
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My dream brand. Should we move into pits and peaks? I think we like this from the first first iteration. So I think we're going to keep going with it, right? Yeah. Who wants to start? I feel like I just keep jumping the gun here. And I was going to talk about my journal, and and I already did. So I'm going to tell you a peek. I kind of told you guys I was going to be late because I had to figure out my headphone situation, but the real reason I was late, and I wasn't really late, is because muffin, my cat is muffin, barfed, like all over our stairs this morning.
00:33:18
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Now, mind you, we have carpeted stairs. He did this before five o'clock and somehow I walked past it and didn't see it. And then my husband saw it, didn't clean it up, walked by it about 15 times and waited for me to clean it up. That's the most husband thing ever. Yeah. and so but so So I went and like just surface cleaned it and knew that I was going to have to carpet clean it. And then we had like a ah lot of personal issues on I was out of the house. So i anyways, I was cleaning barf. That's why I was late. I was cleaning loads of cat vomit off of my carpet. Because I do. I mean, but the fact that you walked past it and not in it, not to win. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, no, I did step in it. But it was just like the clear liquid part at the bottom of the stairs. So the not as gross part. I have a pit too. I'll just, maybe you guys can end on peaks.
Holiday Challenges and Raccoon Shenanigans
00:34:12
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My, everybody was sick over Christmas. Not like so horrible. You know, people just get sick. It's fine. um But then my, when my three month old got sick, that's like the worst, right? So Saturday night was just, she was just up the whole night and it was just, I felt like I had like a brand new baby again. You know, one of those, like you had to survive the following day on like two hours of sleep kind of deal. So she's better now. It's good, but
00:34:37
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That's no fun. no No, it's not a sweet baby. I know. You have a peak, Megan? No, I have a pit. It's a funny pit, though. Happy New Year, guys. I'll try this as fast as possible. Okay, so we were just visiting my parents. And um they have a pool. And they're having an issue. and So we couldn't use the pool as much as we'd like because they're having issues with um these two raccoons.
00:35:04
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and they are coming into the pool in the middle of the night and shitting in the pool. aye so We were there and it happened once and like jokingly, like I took a picture of it and sent it to my brother. and Then it happened again and my parents were kind of getting annoyed because then they have to have the pool guy come. You can't go in it. He goes whining. He wants to swim. so um Then my dad is setting up this whole handmade trap with like string tied from like one lounge chair to the other. Then there's a cone that's making a sound, a siren sound that's supposedly supposed to get rid of the raccoon. Then we have a camera there. Then we have owls in like these like clear things that are supposed to scare the raccoons. so We do pictures of any of this that we can show. I have a video. It is hysterical. like You will die. like My brother and I were dying.
00:35:59
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So they didn't catch any raccoons when they when we were there. They have to have someone come and put them in traps and then move them to like an area where they can still live. So animal rights, all that, don't worry, we're gonna take it. and but But then my parents were getting annoyed because we kept joking about it. Like we went out to get ice cream and the lady was like, what flavor do you want? And I'm like, do you have raccoon poop? And my mom's like, stop the raccoon.
00:36:29
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and i feel like I feel like I know where Nico gets all his fart jokes from. I know, right? yeah And then like we were getting on the airplane and Nico's like, mom, does it smell like raccoon poop on you? My parents were over it because they're just irritated, but it was just funny. And I just had to share because we still talk about it every day. I'll text my dad, did you catch the raccoon any poop today? And he's like, he did he see them swim?
00:36:56
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So they can, so they, yeah. So yeah. And they go right through the whole trap system thing. You will die when I send you the video. It is hysterical. Like it, my stomach hurts. So like, you know, cause my dad's like retired, so he has nothing else to do. And he's like setting up these like crazy traps and it's not working. And then the raccoon just comes in and then there's like poop all over and then like, we couldn't swim. And it was just like, it was, you just had to laugh. But why did they poop in the pool?
00:37:22
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I guess it's like a thing they do at night. It's just like, I was, cause I was, I was Googling it because I was kind of finding it funny. And there's like all these articles like that they do this and they go to the same spot and they like it in water. Cause then it feels better to them or something. Um, I feel like you need to get to present and you need to get your parents a subscription to Ranger Rick.
00:37:50
Speaker
Wait, I wish I could show the video of the sound. Hang on. Well, we'll share it. We'll post it to social. And then, so you need to get your parents a subscription to Ranger Rick. And then they also make like scat maps, like diagrams, like posters of different animals, scat. I feel like you need to send them. Oh, scat is poop. It's animal poop. But you need to send them, like. Callie's crying. Callie, it has been so fun. Why does it feel better?
00:38:18
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In the article, like imagine i was we were flying home and I'm Googling, like why do raccoons poop in pools? And I'm like reading 30-page articles about this that I'm sure my dad already read about. And it like it you just had to laugh. And like we're and like I'll literally text my dad now, hey, did you catch any raccoons? And he'll respond with like a really bad emoji back to me because he's so irritated with me asking.
00:38:42
Speaker
They've probably spent hundreds of dollars and it's like not funny guys. Yeah. Oh, that's so good. I mean, mine's so boring compared to that. Well, my peak and my pit is that we dropped off my daughter. So I really hadn't focused on anything new year related until we sent her back to school. So now I feel like the holidays are officially, officially, officially over. Did you bring her back yesterday? Yeah. Are you sad? I mean, she's ready to go back and yeah what is she going to do? Sit around and like,
00:39:11
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Yeah. Pick her nose in her bedroom. No, I mean, she needs to be this fool, so. Yeah. She's not going to poop in any pools. No. I don't think so. All right, guys. What a great spot to end it. Perfect. um Until next time. you feel Right? Yeah. Bye, everyone. Bye. Bye.