Speaker 1: Hey guys, it's Hailey here. Right before you start this podcast,
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you, first of all, we
Speaker 1: love you, thanks for listening. But second of all, Lauren
Speaker 1: had her baby, Yes, she did, a little baby gurnie
Speaker 1: girl called Florence, And this podcast we recorded right before
Speaker 1: she was sliced open, So enjoy. She will talk about
Speaker 1: nesting and we're actually going to open up about some crazy, big,
Speaker 1: wild mistakes we have made as business owners together. And
Speaker 1: next week, next week you will hear the first ever
Speaker 1: podcast with Lauren as a mum of two, with little
Speaker 1: Florence on our lap. So sit back, relax and enjoy.
Speaker 1: Love you ad A lady and lady, A lady, ad lady. Hello. Hello,
Speaker 1: is Hailey Pierson here and my bestie Lauren de Chez Roy.
Speaker 1: How are you? I am very well? And Betty the
Speaker 1: dog she's also here.
Speaker 2: Oh she just loves this curling up.
Speaker 1: She nestles her little nose into your fanny every single
Speaker 1: podcast every week. Yeah safe space, Yeah, she loves it's warmth.
Speaker 1: We're besties, we're business partners. We're the creators of Adelaidy,
Speaker 1: Haloes Hay and Hay Lawsy Media and we do everything together.
Speaker 1: Except bang. All right, Peerson, what have we got today?
Speaker 1: On the shopping list?
Speaker 2: We are talking about some of our epic failures in business.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and we want to kind of lift the
Speaker 1: curtain because we are best friends, but we also run
Speaker 1: a business together and have for ten years, multiple businesses really, and.
Speaker 2: Running a business for us is like a marriage. We
Speaker 2: have to make sure it's streamlined and there's good respect,
Speaker 2: good communication, and we don't bang.
Speaker 1: And we don't bang. That would make it really messy.
Speaker 1: It would make Yeah, it's too messy, but I would
Speaker 1: if you needed me to.
Speaker 2: That's really nice. You know, I've done it one time
Speaker 2: and what happens.
Speaker 1: So that's coming up.
Speaker 2: And also I am in full nesting mode and I
Speaker 2: just kind of want to break down nesting because Magpie, yep,
Speaker 2: it is a thing. It is a real thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, well, the Member of the week, I
Speaker 1: just wanted to quickly share this with you because it's
Speaker 1: kind of like a nesting thing as you prepare to
Speaker 1: have your child and you don't know that your future
Speaker 1: baby will be a dictator like your other child. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I also have a dictator. I have a lord
Speaker 1: in my house, Alfie, like I pray have to be
Speaker 1: bowed down to him every morning, and I just want
Speaker 1: to just lift the curtain of what it's like at
Speaker 1: my house in the morning. If I wake my child,
Speaker 1: if I don't wake my child up, alfie, he yells
Speaker 1: at us that I didn't wake him up early enough,
Speaker 1: and then he refuses to go to school because I
Speaker 1: was my fault that I didn't wake him up.
Speaker 2: I can see that.
Speaker 1: So this morning I went in there. I gave him
Speaker 1: a kiss. This morning, darling, all right, time to get up,
Speaker 1: let's go. Doesn't do it. Twenty minutes later, our feet
Speaker 1: get out of bed. It's time to get up. And
Speaker 1: then I hear from his room, mom yelling at me.
Speaker 1: Is not going to get me out of bed. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry if you yell, I'm staying in bed. I need
Speaker 1: a better wake up. So I walk him there, Good morning, darling,
Speaker 1: I love you so much. Time to get up now.
Speaker 1: And then he goes thank you, and then gets up
Speaker 1: and has a shower.
Speaker 2: What why do you and I both have dictated children?
Speaker 1: And and do you know what? I bowed down to
Speaker 1: it too, Like Jimmy's always like just let him do it,
Speaker 1: like stop doing everything for him. But I just do
Speaker 1: it like I'd made him his breakfast, I made him
Speaker 1: his lunch the rap. I know for a fact he'll
Speaker 1: complain about the chicken in the rap because it was
Speaker 1: a little bit too wet, like I should have dried it,
Speaker 1: like patted it more dry with them because it was
Speaker 1: too much mayonnaise. And he'll say, it's too wet.
Speaker 2: You should have done that? Why would I?
Speaker 1: And then he'll throw out his apple because they might
Speaker 1: be like slightly bruised.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I'm with Olphie. Do I need to
Speaker 2: adopt your child?
Speaker 1: You would have been this is the thing. I wasn't
Speaker 1: likee this. You were that child.
Speaker 2: I was that child, Like if mum bought the wrong
Speaker 2: prec for my panini, it was over.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, will you that little quick child? Did
Speaker 1: you have a little like kalamato olives and some domades?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd have like tatamara and fetta in a panini,
Speaker 2: or I'd have like precto sundried tomato and Gilsberg. And
Speaker 2: if she bought like not the Sun done it Daniella,
Speaker 2: which is like the expensive aged one, I could tell
Speaker 2: don't be skimping on preci.
Speaker 1: You were that kid in school that a dormardy fell
Speaker 1: out of his school bag. What's that on the ground.
Speaker 1: It's just my dominey.
Speaker 2: I was like the boy where I'd cut up my
Speaker 2: own salami.
Speaker 1: I had my own little meat slas it would have
Speaker 1: no thinner mom thinner.
Speaker 2: Like my dad when he goes to Romeos at Mitcham,
Speaker 2: I swear they must all dodge because he goes, I'll
Speaker 2: have a kilo of thanks. I'll come back in twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: I want it extra thin, and then he like makes
Speaker 2: them hold it to the light. He goes thinner, thinner,
Speaker 2: he doesn't thinner, all right, I'll be back in twenty
Speaker 2: Yes See, I wish I was like that. I wish
Speaker 2: I could be more demanding, would be a tile. But
Speaker 2: I feel bad. I don't want to put them out. Sorry,
Speaker 2: but yeah, that was a.
Speaker 1: Big part of life.
Speaker 2: And if it's thick, Dad doesn't enjoy it. He likes
Speaker 2: lots of slices thin. And the fact that they hold
Speaker 2: it to the light. I'm like, I'm so sorry, and
Speaker 2: they know it's my dad, Like that'll be when they
Speaker 2: grow up, And can I just say as well? Speaking
Speaker 2: of Dictator, yesterday, Sophia was just on another level like
Speaker 2: Burg and I were like, when she gets her period
Speaker 2: one day, we're all running like boarding school or living
Speaker 2: with grandber Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, boarding school, but you'll live like two k's away.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. She literally said to Bergo, oh my god,
Speaker 2: and he just was stunned. She goes, are you the parent,
Speaker 2: and he goes, yeah, I am the parent. She goes, well,
Speaker 2: maybe you should act like it.
Speaker 1: She did not say that. She did yep, five five.
Speaker 1: I'm actually scared of her.
Speaker 2: I'm so scared of her.
Speaker 1: But he should be the parent. What was he doing
Speaker 1: that wasn't he was parent being an idiot, not being
Speaker 1: a parent.
Speaker 2: He was having good tangrum about something.
Speaker 1: She didn't eat her eggs. She didn't eat her eggs.
Speaker 2: She didn't eat her eggs that we bought from you know,
Speaker 2: handsome Max of delicious eggs, and then they went cold.
Speaker 2: And then she goes, these eggs are cold. My well,
Speaker 2: maybe if you'd eaten them twenty minutes ago when we
Speaker 2: bought them they were hot.
Speaker 1: But she doesn't want you to heat them up because
Speaker 1: then they won't taste the same. No, yeah, they'll be
Speaker 1: too hot.
Speaker 2: And so then Bergo was stressing, like, eat your eggs
Speaker 2: and she was just getting so angry at him, and
Speaker 2: she turns like she's a Gemini. Yeah, she goes from
Speaker 2: happy little Sofia to like crazy little Sophia. And then
Speaker 2: she said that, and I was like, we're done, Like
Speaker 2: this baby has to be calm.
Speaker 1: Well, they say the second one is the crazy one. No,
Speaker 1: I know they do.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: They do say that. Everyone's in the room's nodding. My
Speaker 1: second one's the wild one. They always say the second one. No, No,
Speaker 1: I feel like you have a plastic baby. Anyway, there's
Speaker 1: a little man. So if you have a little dictator child,
Speaker 1: welcome to the dictatorship. Welcome. Let's go into what you
Speaker 1: want to talk about. Nesting.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh my gosh, did you go through this when
Speaker 2: you were pregnant?
Speaker 1: Nesting? Yeah? When you say nesting, you mean just getting
Speaker 1: everything ready for the baby in your house, right, yes.
Speaker 2: And it's like the end of pregnancy. You have this surge,
Speaker 2: like this massive surge of energy. And I was looking
Speaker 2: into it because the last couple of weeks, every time
Speaker 2: I buy something, every time I do something, I go
Speaker 2: to bedroom, it's nesting. It's nesting. You wouldn't understand and
Speaker 2: He's like, it's nesting a thing. So I was like,
Speaker 2: let's google nesting.
Speaker 1: What does it say?
Speaker 2: And it's actually a proper thing, a biological thing that happens.
Speaker 2: It's not just a social construct. Just like birds, cats
Speaker 2: and dogs prepare sheltered areas for their litters, humans experiences
Speaker 2: innate protective instinct to secure their environment. So your hormones
Speaker 2: surge and late pregnancy hormonal shifts are widely believed to
Speaker 2: trigger this sudden burst of energy. Deep cleaning, nursery prep
Speaker 2: washing clothes. Like yesterday, there was eight errands. We had
Speaker 2: to go to eight different places yesterday so I could
Speaker 2: collect everything because in my brain, I have to get
Speaker 2: this nursery ready, even though she's not going to be
Speaker 2: in her nursery.
Speaker 1: I needed to tell you what's going on in my
Speaker 1: brain at the moment. This is just my brain. Because
Speaker 1: you're nesting and you're doing all your errands, and you're
Speaker 1: outdoing things. I'm picturing you as a as a human
Speaker 1: bird with a big beak, and every time you would
Speaker 1: get the things from your errands, you'd deal with your beak,
Speaker 1: and then you come home and you make the bed.
Speaker 1: If you I can't help it. That's what's happening in
Speaker 1: my You're me to buy a bird, so do you.
Speaker 2: I'll buy a bird suit to actual mess.
Speaker 1: You don't have hairs anymore. I'm just looking at you
Speaker 1: as a giant magpie.
Speaker 2: Am I like the fat bird that you painted once
Speaker 2: upon a time? Am I the which I?
Speaker 1: Just? I had? Shrike shrink? Get a little suit? Sorry, continue,
Speaker 1: I just can't get out of it.
Speaker 2: I bought the fat bird. I've got your print ready
Speaker 2: to go into it.
Speaker 1: Not a fat bird? What is it?
Speaker 2: What's it called?
Speaker 1: It's a fat is a fat bird? That's missus Fatso
Speaker 1: I bought business fats over the nursery. Oh, I should
Speaker 1: have just done a self portrait. I'm sorry. Continue with.
Speaker 1: I just needed to let you do. Now I can't because.
Speaker 2: Now I'm imagining myself going to get bird sticks. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like getting little sticks with my beak.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got a huge beak. What are you trying
Speaker 1: to say about my Okay, so tell me you bought
Speaker 1: that ridiculous?
Speaker 2: Yes, I have gone wild and hormones rushing everything that's happening.
Speaker 2: That the nursery thing is funny because when you actually
Speaker 2: think about it, babies don't need anything I spoke to
Speaker 2: a lady the other day. She came early, she didn't
Speaker 2: have anything ready, and her baby slept in a drawer
Speaker 2: for a bit. It doesn't matter, Hey on.
Speaker 1: A draw Oh she literally said that to me.
Speaker 2: But maybe she was joking. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think she would. I think, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: time where you have a baby and someone can rush
Speaker 1: out and get a cot Oh, I don't like. I
Speaker 1: think she's probably not. It was a joke, like she
Speaker 1: was extending and going, my baby slept in a drawer.
Speaker 2: Oh well, it made me feel better about myself because
Speaker 2: I was like, I've got a pascinet, bitch. So she
Speaker 2: didn't sleep her child in a drawer.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think the baby slept in a drawer. Okay,
Speaker 1: but I mean it's a good alternative.
Speaker 2: Yeah's are but it makes sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah, does it? No?
Speaker 2: No, you can just fascinate. Yeah, the pete. You get
Speaker 2: all your baby stuff ready. You gotta get all the bottles,
Speaker 2: and you gotta wash them and get everything ready.
Speaker 1: Have you got everything? Go your bottles?
Speaker 2: Yeah, got all that. And then we're moving the nursery
Speaker 2: like Sofia's playrooms, going into the nursery and the other
Speaker 2: day we're selling a big king sized bed, but we're
Speaker 2: gonna put it on Marketplace, put a couch and make
Speaker 2: that the playroom. We're taking off all the sheets to
Speaker 2: take the photos in my nesting era, I'm like barking
Speaker 2: orders at Burgo.
Speaker 1: This needs to move, that needs to move, that needs
Speaker 1: to go there.
Speaker 2: He's just like, And then I'm putting the sheets back
Speaker 2: on the king sized bed, the mattress, to protector and
Speaker 2: everything because I can't have mess because I had to
Speaker 2: take the photos of the bed to sell and then
Speaker 2: put everything back. And I'm trying to put like, you know,
Speaker 2: the sheets on a king sized mattress. It's very heavy.
Speaker 2: It's as well, yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Can actually cause you to go into labor yep.
Speaker 2: Trying to do it all properly, and then I was like,
Speaker 2: can you just help me with this corn. I couldn't
Speaker 2: quite put the sheet on. He goes, did you even try?
Speaker 2: He didn't say that, yeah, oh my god, my jaws
Speaker 2: on the floor.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, And I was like, he's joking.
Speaker 2: I did try. This is the little things I swear.
Speaker 2: But then I don't understand I can't lift a king
Speaker 2: sized mattress.
Speaker 1: Now you have an entire human being inside of you.
Speaker 2: But I'm also barking orders, so I do feel bad.
Speaker 2: It's like one time he slightly snapped it me.
Speaker 1: What's kind of funny is when you tell me your
Speaker 1: side of the story. I'm always like, yes, sister, I'm
Speaker 1: on your side. He's an asshole. But then I hear
Speaker 1: his side and it's like you would have been speaking
Speaker 1: to him so rudely.
Speaker 2: Because I don't know where my dictator child gets her
Speaker 2: dictatorship from.
Speaker 1: That's weird.
Speaker 2: I just like I think about it all the time.
Speaker 2: Where did you get that from?
Speaker 1: Okay, so when you're nesting, are you feeling are you
Speaker 1: doing the weird cleaning thing where you see a mark
Speaker 1: on the wall and suddenly everything has to be clean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I'm thinking, I need to do the pantry,
Speaker 2: I need to get out my clothes, I need to
Speaker 2: clean out Sophia's room. It's like the baby has to
Speaker 2: come home to this idea of perfectness which doesn't really exist.
Speaker 2: But also the baby can't see into Sofia's cover.
Speaker 1: It's not about that. I think it's about having a clear,
Speaker 1: clean house, which gives you a clean mindset. To come
Speaker 1: home because you know it's going to be absolutely chaos.
Speaker 1: Everything else around is gonna be chaos. But if you
Speaker 1: can control your house and make sure it's clean and nice,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a maternal thing to make sure
Speaker 1: that you know you're a provider and a protector.
Speaker 2: And yes, and the space is all clean, and I
Speaker 2: just I don't know about you and what Jimmy did,
Speaker 2: but like always forward thinking, like I've gone and bought
Speaker 2: the size four onesies and the three onesies and all
Speaker 2: the clothes and getting all the like the little thing
Speaker 2: to put all your nappies and stuff in. Yeah, all
Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. And then he's like, why are
Speaker 2: you buying so much stuff?
Speaker 1: Because who else is going to buy it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Because our child needs clothes, our child needs things. He's
Speaker 2: literally bought two car seats and a box of wipes
Speaker 2: and goes, oh, I've done my job, do you. I
Speaker 2: was just getting more annoyed.
Speaker 1: To Okay, So if you look at it, if you
Speaker 1: didn't buy all this stuff, what does a baby got
Speaker 1: a car seat? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Cool, we'll just drive around twenty four seven.
Speaker 1: But you need to lift, you need to help out.
Speaker 1: Did Jimmy buy clothes and stuff. No, no, actually no
Speaker 1: he did not what It's always led by us because
Speaker 1: I think it's just our role. It's the same as
Speaker 1: when you go home. Jimmy's role is outside. I don't
Speaker 1: even think about the lawns. That's his role. A gardener.
Speaker 1: My role. You have a garden.
Speaker 2: Yes, somebody's doing well.
Speaker 1: Someone's doing well.
Speaker 2: His name's Wayne Greg is it my dad? Wayne? Person
Speaker 2: just comes over you and do a little whipper snippers,
Speaker 2: But you.
Speaker 1: Know, like it's your I guess it's your role to
Speaker 1: go right, I'm gonna nail this because you don't trust
Speaker 1: anybody else to do it, so you have to do it.
Speaker 2: I am going to nail it. But we're also working
Speaker 2: full time, have a child, doing everything, and in my
Speaker 2: head it is so structured of like these little things.
Speaker 2: So I had to go buy the prince and then
Speaker 2: I have to go buy the frames, and then I
Speaker 2: had to go to the shop and buy something else,
Speaker 2: and then I need to buy that that that like
Speaker 2: everything is listed in my head. And then I went
Speaker 2: and bought like all these silly like candle because I
Speaker 2: needed to put these knickknacks on the buffet. So one
Speaker 2: day when someone walks in there, they're like, oh, wow,
Speaker 2: you've got this beautiful yellow buffet with these nice little candles.
Speaker 1: I saw the candlelarbras that you bought for the baby's room.
Speaker 1: My first reaction to someone who's quite more but I
Speaker 1: don't see the danger in everything, is that they actually
Speaker 1: are a weapon. They are like in the game Cludo,
Speaker 1: you were killed with a candlestick, like that was part
Speaker 1: of it. And it's a giant, heavy candle that when
Speaker 1: your baby is doing tummy time that could easily just
Speaker 1: like fall on their head and kill them. Also, having
Speaker 1: a giant, unstable, cheap candle in your room with the
Speaker 1: fire is a big fire hazard. Yeah, but I'm always
Speaker 1: on your side, except for those candlearbrahs. But the nursery
Speaker 1: imagine her coming home.
Speaker 2: Going Look, I'm sorry to be in pain, but I'm
Speaker 2: just wondering when my candle.
Speaker 1: Like they're literally half a meter tall. So maybe I'm taking.
Speaker 2: Nesting to a whole new level and I'm just buying
Speaker 2: shit for me.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's what you're doing. Ah, you're camine. Everything looks amazing.
Speaker 1: Oh and it's just so chig trolley. I feel my trolley.
Speaker 1: That's so good. There.
Speaker 2: It is nesting. That is my last little bit of pregnancy.
Speaker 2: I swear I'm never going to talk about it again,
Speaker 2: because next time I speak to you, I will have
Speaker 2: the baby.
Speaker 1: You'll be sitting you're sitting on the egg right now
Speaker 1: as a bird, yes, And then the baby will be
Speaker 1: chirping and the egg will crack. A little baby in
Speaker 1: certain name will arrive. Should be here.
Speaker 2: I love her so much, and you'll get to hold
Speaker 2: her during the next podcast.
Speaker 1: Then we can talk about bathing story. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is so exciting. Oh, sympathy bebes ah my baby. Alrighty,
Speaker 1: we are about to raise the curtain on our business.
Speaker 1: If you're a small business owner, what we're about to
Speaker 1: say might make you feel a little better about your
Speaker 1: own life, because when you start a business, oh my god,
Speaker 1: so many things happen and nobody else knows because you
Speaker 1: hide it from everybody.
Speaker 2: You pretend everything's fine. And I have to say, with
Speaker 2: our business, the best things there's always been you. I've
Speaker 2: always had someone else. So when I'm firing up, or
Speaker 2: I'm angry, or I'm sad, or the world is ending,
Speaker 2: or I don't know.
Speaker 1: COVID happens, Yep, you always pre back, I actually couldn't.
Speaker 1: I'm not cut out to have a business if I
Speaker 1: didn't have you, if I didn't have someone to lean.
Speaker 2: On, And both of our brains are different. Owning a
Speaker 2: business is really isolating. It's really hard. It can be
Speaker 2: really stressful, and it can be really lonely.
Speaker 1: The pressure of making sure that all your stuff are
Speaker 1: and you know, you have all these people relying on you,
Speaker 1: their families, all that kind of stuff. But what we
Speaker 1: thought we'd do, there's so many perks too, because I
Speaker 1: love it doesn't feel like work like it does, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't like I love what I do so much.
Speaker 1: But over the years of us being in business together
Speaker 1: eleven years now, there's been a few things that have
Speaker 1: happened that, like, not heaps, but a few things that
Speaker 1: have happened that we'd go, oh, yeah, let's not tell
Speaker 1: anyone that happened.
Speaker 2: Let's let that not put that in a podcast.
Speaker 1: But that's what's gonna happen today because we are unhint.
Speaker 2: And we are over share is a.
Speaker 1: Few little things that have happened that you wouldn't have
Speaker 1: known about. What. Let's start with something little. We print
Speaker 1: a magazine right our ade Lady magazine goes all over
Speaker 1: South Australia forty five thousand copies twice a year. Yep,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. It's a beautiful, glossy Matt magazine.
Speaker 2: Do you know when we started as well, it was
Speaker 2: a really stressful time. We launched a magazine when three
Speaker 2: other print publications stopped printing, So that happened on the Monday,
Speaker 2: I think, and we came out launching a magazine on
Speaker 2: a Wednesday. But this has clearly been like a year
Speaker 2: in the making, the stress of it. I remember almost
Speaker 2: wanting to pass out when I saw that, because I
Speaker 2: was like, we're starting a magazine as other magazines are.
Speaker 1: Do you know, funny though different brains, you went that way.
Speaker 1: I was like, I never look at anything that you
Speaker 1: and I do that it's going to fail. It doesn't
Speaker 1: even enter my mind. So I was like, I don't care,
Speaker 1: it's gonna work. It's us. Yeah, this is gonna work.
Speaker 2: And it did and it did.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you print things that's in print.
Speaker 1: It's not like social media where you can delete it
Speaker 1: and change it and stuff.
Speaker 2: It's it's out that you can't sit there with a
Speaker 2: pen and change forty five thousand collies because you've done it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so once and this our magazine goes through several
Speaker 1: editing processes, right, so the writer does it. It's edited,
Speaker 1: writer edited, edited, like all of our everyone, everyone. So
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, I think we we killed somebody off.
Speaker 1: We said that Iris at Fall, who is a famous
Speaker 1: fashion designer, the one with oversized glasses. You would know
Speaker 1: her face, love her. We said she'd passed away, and
Speaker 1: then it printed, and then and then we got a
Speaker 1: notification for someone saying she's like ninety eight, she's alive.
Speaker 1: We killed her off. And then it kind of became
Speaker 1: a joke that we were like, when is this lady
Speaker 1: gonna die? We kept looking at our watch's going She's
Speaker 1: still alive. She's still alive. Even four years later, she
Speaker 1: was still alive. It's so bad that she died one
Speaker 1: hundred and two. And you know, finally our mag was right.
Speaker 1: We may have celebrated because we were like, thank god,
Speaker 1: now I'm not embarrassed about that magazine. How did that get?
Speaker 1: I don't know. We just missed. But we didn't. We
Speaker 1: didn't highlight it, we didn't put it out there. We
Speaker 1: just like went on with our day after we'd killed
Speaker 1: off a very famous person.
Speaker 2: So that she say is what I want to be
Speaker 2: when I grow up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dead Hailey. Yeah, I'm joking. Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: just came out of my mouth. Okay, that was one
Speaker 1: about the story about Japan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was about to say the time we went
Speaker 2: to Japan in February of twenty twenty to film two
Speaker 2: episodes for our TV show for a client, and I
Speaker 2: remember our cameraman saying, Guys, I'm a bit worried about
Speaker 2: this COVID thing. I'm going to pack hands sanitize the
Speaker 2: masked and we were like, you're a loser and wearing
Speaker 2: a mask is embarrassing.
Speaker 1: On the plane we actually said, Grant, you're a loser,
Speaker 1: like take it off, take the.
Speaker 2: Mask off, like it's really not okay. And we lived
Speaker 2: our life in Japan and then we got back and weirdly,
Speaker 2: COVID was a thing.
Speaker 1: Like legit, I've reckoned. That week we got back, they
Speaker 1: said that there's this thing that's going all around the
Speaker 1: world and everyone epidemic is an epidemic. Yeah, And so
Speaker 1: that episode that we filmed overseas didn't air for a
Speaker 1: year and a half. Yeah, because no one could travel.
Speaker 2: No one could travel. So we've just filmed all these
Speaker 2: travel episodes about traveling and how good travel is, and
Speaker 2: then you can't travel and then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that happened.
Speaker 2: That was fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What about that time we said we were going to
Speaker 2: start an app?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Okay, so this was an expensive mistake. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we thought, let's do an app version of I guess
Speaker 1: what our business does. But so the way it would
Speaker 1: work is you download the app and people would pay
Speaker 1: for it and then you get like, you know, like
Speaker 1: the old entertainment thing it was like flash your card
Speaker 1: and you get ten percent off.
Speaker 2: Here it was like at the Essam Gold card as well.
Speaker 2: We could both come from Safah. Yeah, it was like
Speaker 2: be an ad a lady friend and get a discount.
Speaker 2: Yeah the ad Lady Friends Friends with benefits friends card.
Speaker 2: But I remember Jimmy was involved, Burgo was involved.
Speaker 1: We had several building of the app meeting, like it
Speaker 1: was tens and tens and tens and tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars to build this app. Yeah, and then we
Speaker 1: were like, I just don't think anyone's going to download that.
Speaker 1: And then I got pregnant and went fucking so and
Speaker 1: then Ela must said absolutely to be dead suit. So
Speaker 1: and then we just we just stopped. So that was
Speaker 1: just one thing we didn't do, but also glad we
Speaker 1: didn't do it.
Speaker 2: And what about the fashion line?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the fashion line? Okay, so we also you
Speaker 1: may have heard this in a previous podcast, maybe it
Speaker 1: was our first podcast. We mentioned this that we were like,
Speaker 1: we love clothes, we love it, and so we thought,
Speaker 1: it's not that hard. How can like, will let's do
Speaker 1: a fashion Well, this makes some kindorful dress. And we
Speaker 1: joined this business group in Melbourne where we had to
Speaker 1: do tutorials and like lectures and all this kind.
Speaker 2: Of like almost like we were going to be sewing
Speaker 2: the dresses. I don't think we quite signed.
Speaker 1: Up to the rock. We didn't know what we were doing.
Speaker 1: We just want a colorul dress.
Speaker 2: So we threw money at this thing. Yeah, but we
Speaker 2: should have just bought colorful dresses and not spent the
Speaker 2: money on that.
Speaker 1: So we did it, and then we realized this is
Speaker 1: actually really hard and anyone that can actually have a
Speaker 1: successful fashion line is actually amazing yeap, And we didn't
Speaker 1: have it in us. No, it was going to be
Speaker 1: called Watermelo Juice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we were founded over watermelo juice and banana
Speaker 2: breadet natures.
Speaker 1: Probably I still like the name of that though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we shouldn't have said that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, keep that to yourself. There's another mistake. What about personally?
Speaker 2: Have you done anything personally?
Speaker 1: You have?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: I can can I tell this story? I think funny,
Speaker 1: it's a funny stuy.
Speaker 2: I think I know the story're about to tell, and
Speaker 2: it's highly embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this is when we were first first doing
Speaker 1: our TV show at our big major client.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: They came on and they invested forty thousand dollars with us,
Speaker 1: which is like huge, right, And you've got to remember, guys,
Speaker 1: when we sold our first ever TV show, we had
Speaker 1: a piece of paper with a Channel nine logo on
Speaker 1: it and we said, we believe in this, it's going
Speaker 1: to be a thing, but we'd never film. It's done
Speaker 1: under by ways. You don't know what that means. Means.
Speaker 1: We have to pay for everything editor, the show to air,
Speaker 1: the producer, the cameraman, everything.
Speaker 2: It's our brand, our show, which comes with all the
Speaker 2: perks of like we go where we want, we show
Speaker 2: what we want. But then it's also the financial stress
Speaker 2: of having a show every week.
Speaker 1: And getting sponsors that love us, and you know that,
Speaker 1: you know we're on brand with Anyway, there was like
Speaker 1: a launch party. I don't know why I wasn't there,
Speaker 1: but you went, and Millie was there.
Speaker 2: It was for Save the Zoo, Save the Animals at
Speaker 2: the Zoo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just so funny with what I'm about to
Speaker 1: tell you. Yea, save the Animals at the Zoo. And
Speaker 1: you walk in and what were you wearing, Lauren.
Speaker 2: Dichaza, I was wearing a jacket made of rabbit fur.
Speaker 2: I didn't think.
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't as you were standing there and
Speaker 1: they were talking about, you know, saving the animals. Did
Speaker 1: you At what point did you look jown and realize
Speaker 1: I'm actually wearing a rabbit? No?
Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't get to that point because Millie came
Speaker 2: up to me and said, you're an embarrassment and take
Speaker 2: off your jacket. And then I took off my jacket
Speaker 2: and then I froze and then I walked in. So
Speaker 2: I don't think people actually saw, because Millie, you saved
Speaker 2: my life.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. I thought you were in there
Speaker 1: wearing the rabbit. No.
Speaker 3: All I really remember is that we walked in and
Speaker 3: as you've walked in, we saw the sign about save
Speaker 3: the zoos, and that's when we were like, oh, I
Speaker 3: just grabbed the jacket off of you and bolt it
Speaker 3: up and we threw it behind their reception area.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is so funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, personally, it wasn't a highlight of.
Speaker 1: My career, but it is because we can laugh about
Speaker 1: it now.
Speaker 2: But now we laugh about things. It's like once we
Speaker 2: went filming and we had to pull a squat on
Speaker 2: the freeway and I remember we pissed all over our shoes.
Speaker 2: Like that wasn't a highlight, and then we walked into
Speaker 2: this business barefoot and said, we're so sorry, we're late,
Speaker 2: and we're but this is what happened. But we tell people.
Speaker 1: I can't not tell people when someone says how, I
Speaker 1: can't say I'm good if I'm not.
Speaker 2: I can't lie. Yeah, And I think that's also a
Speaker 2: great thing about us and how we work is we
Speaker 2: don't hide secrets, and when things fail, we tell people
Speaker 2: and we're so honest, but maybe we're actually two honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like that time that I just got a job
Speaker 1: at Nova, but it was a secret and no one
Speaker 1: knew and I got up on stage at I think
Speaker 1: it was the lighting of the Christmas tree. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I announced that.
Speaker 2: It's you said, I'm Hailey Pearson from Nova before you
Speaker 2: said ada lady. Yeah, and you hadn't even signed the
Speaker 2: contract yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think that happened. How will we I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's something wrong with us, there's something
Speaker 1: we're actually broken.
Speaker 2: Because when you say to me, don't say it, I
Speaker 2: say it. Don't say it, don't say it. It comes
Speaker 2: out like I have this like reaction. Okay, So we
Speaker 2: had this AI thing a couple of weeks ago. Right
Speaker 2: as I'm sitting there, I mean, it's too tall. I
Speaker 2: haven't been back to school in a long time. So
Speaker 2: Millie and then our general manager, Katie, we were.
Speaker 1: Sitting there listening to this AI thing, right and it
Speaker 1: was that point that I realized I am not cut
Speaker 1: out to be a worker for anybody else. I am
Speaker 1: not a non to fiver. I cannot sit in an
Speaker 1: office and listen to someone talk if they're not dancing
Speaker 1: around and we're in costumes. I literally, like Millie will know.
Speaker 1: I was so agitated. I kept moving and I was like, Haley,
Speaker 1: don't move you just crossed your leg again. Don't do
Speaker 1: it again because it's obviously board. And then I start
Speaker 1: yawning and doing the full and she's like, Haley, yawning, stock,
Speaker 1: you're being rude. But but for some reason, for some reason,
Speaker 1: we were in business.
Speaker 2: I know, but what about what about when we got
Speaker 2: the CRM. We've just implemented a massive CRM into our
Speaker 2: company for everyone to use. And we're on this tute
Speaker 2: with this poor guy trying to wrangle twelve girls grown
Speaker 2: ADHD and all of us are sitting there twitching, and
Speaker 2: then I go I said something to him that just
Speaker 2: went down like a lead balloon. I tried to crack
Speaker 2: a joke, yeah, and I tried to lighten the mood,
Speaker 2: and he just went, I'm sorry, I don't quite understand that.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, yeah, it's cool. And then you
Speaker 2: and I literally I think you were painting your nails.
Speaker 1: I cannot, like I often think that if this didn't work,
Speaker 1: like I've done radio and I can paint, but they're
Speaker 1: the only things I can do. I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I could not go to an office. I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: just can't. Me.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, with my briefcase and my nice
Speaker 2: little bob.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you would go in with your shoulder pads and
Speaker 1: you would own up with your bright pink lipstick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd start firing bitch's left rides at it.
Speaker 1: Yeah you would. No, Yeah, you're good at though.
Speaker 2: I haven't done it one time.
Speaker 1: When you were there, did we? Yeah?
Speaker 2: You cried?
Speaker 1: I cried. Yeah, after firing a person I don't remember
Speaker 1: who we find. I just went, well, cut em my love.
Speaker 1: I'm going to lunch because I'm a cold. You are cold.
Speaker 1: You are very cold times running a business. Yeah, do
Speaker 1: you know what far out we have done? We have
Speaker 1: done some things, and do you know what though, it's
Speaker 1: made us who we are. You've got to go through
Speaker 1: all the crap and the mistakes and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, and we'll still continue to do that. We're
Speaker 1: just lucky that we're surrounded by amazing people our stuff
Speaker 1: are so good at what they do that they support
Speaker 1: us in all our craziness.
Speaker 2: Without a great team, there is nothing, and you need
Speaker 2: people that are better than you at everything if you
Speaker 2: run a small business, and I've seen this micromanaging bosses
Speaker 2: who don't want their team to succeed if they're not
Speaker 2: surrounded by amazing people and want to be the top dog.
Speaker 2: It's never going to work.
Speaker 1: Do you know someone said to me once. The best
Speaker 1: thing that we're we do and it's not television. It's
Speaker 1: not making a magazine or doing events or doing a podcast.
Speaker 1: It's we. You and I have a skill at hiring
Speaker 1: the right people. We hire the best people, don't we.
Speaker 2: And it's like family. And they've seen so much, like
Speaker 2: Moggie walked in today to film this podcast and I
Speaker 2: walked out of my towel and had to open the
Speaker 2: door for Moggie like they have to deal with so
Speaker 2: much like Moggi.
Speaker 1: For the video with Moggi, this is Moggi. We love
Speaker 1: him so much. I'm so sorry he's one of the girls.
Speaker 2: And also the tow it was like a facewasher because
Speaker 2: I've got the biggest pregnant belly and I tried to hide.
Speaker 1: Did you see her fanny? Everyone? Everyone, We're sorry that
Speaker 1: we are who we are, but we love you. Have
Speaker 1: a nice week, guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, speak one, love you me. Bye.