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Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garth. Hey, everyone,

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Speaker 1: welcome to I Choose Me. This podcast is all about

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Speaker 1: the choices we make and where they lead us. My

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Speaker 1: guests today are absolutely crushing it as dance partners on

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Speaker 1: the current season of Dancing with the Stars. We will

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Speaker 1: get to them in just a little bit. But I

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Speaker 1: can't do this without thinking about my own journey on

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Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars. I was researching on my flight

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Speaker 1: the other day. I was watching all of their dances

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Speaker 1: back from the season so far so I could talk

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Speaker 1: to them, and it got me thinking about my dances.

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Speaker 1: So I started rewatching some of my dances on YouTube

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Speaker 1: and just going down memory lane. And I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it's just it got me thinking about my own I

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Speaker 1: Choose Me moment decision back in two thousand and seven

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Speaker 1: on season five to do the show. So I wanted

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Speaker 1: to bring in my longtime man, mister showbiz Randy back

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Speaker 1: onto the podcast. He was there with me and he

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Speaker 1: knows he probably remembers it better than I do. So Hi, Randy,

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Speaker 1: I will I'm thrilled to be back. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: can you believe that I did Dancing with the Stars

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven. That was when Fiona was

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Speaker 1: six months old and she's eighteen. Now.

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Speaker 2: Well that's that's the crazy thing, because I've said this before.

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Speaker 2: Nothing marks time like other people watching other people's children

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Speaker 2: grow up. And the idea that Fiona's eighteen because I

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Speaker 2: remember she was like a baby practically.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in my arms like that kind of bait.

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Speaker 2: That's completely mind boggling to me.

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Speaker 1: And of course this season Tory was on Dancing with Stars.

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Speaker 1: She was eliminated very early, which was very upsetting because

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Speaker 1: she had so much potential to grow so much. That

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Speaker 1: was fun watching her.

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Speaker 2: By the way, well, I'm so proud of her though,

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Speaker 2: because oh my god, right, it was Yeah, for so

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Speaker 2: many years she was so afraid to do this, and

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Speaker 2: you know, she really overcame all of her fears to

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Speaker 2: go on the show, and not just her.

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Speaker 1: Fears but her physical limitations. You know, guy, she has

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Speaker 1: had five children by cesarean section. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Five c sections will do something to your core strength.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So I was so proud of her.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it just really got me not only thinking

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Speaker 1: about her and this couple, but also going down memory

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Speaker 1: lane and thinking about my experience on Dancing with the Stars.

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Speaker 2: That was wild, amazing, amazing.

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Speaker 3: How did it.

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Speaker 1: Even come about? How did this opportunity to do the

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Speaker 1: show even come about?

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Speaker 2: For me?

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Speaker 1: I don't remember.

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Speaker 2: Well, the show hadn't been on that I mean, it

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Speaker 2: had been on a few years and it was kind

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Speaker 2: of just I think, hitting really hitting its stride of

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Speaker 2: being a cultural phenomenon, and they reached out to me

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Speaker 2: for you and you and I talked about it, and

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Speaker 2: I think initially, I mean, you tell me, but my

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Speaker 2: memory of it was that you we were both maybe

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Speaker 2: a little bit on the fence about it because you were,

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Speaker 2: you know, busy working as an actress, and you know,

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Speaker 2: this just to do a reality show like this, We

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Speaker 2: weren't sure, but we talked about it, and I think

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Speaker 2: that you decided and I think I just we decided

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Speaker 2: together that to look at this as a challenge. They

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Speaker 2: took the producers at the time. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: they do this anymore, but I don't know if you

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Speaker 2: remember this, but the producers took us out to lunch

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Speaker 2: before we committed to it. Conrad Green, who was the

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Speaker 2: original executive producer, and Dina Katz took us to lunch

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Speaker 2: and sort of walked us through everything, and we decided

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Speaker 2: after that to go ahead and move forward with it.

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Speaker 2: But I don't think you tell me. But I don't

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Speaker 2: think you had any idea how physically challenging this was

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Speaker 2: going to be. Is that really accurate?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? First of all, I don't remember any of this.

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Speaker 1: I don't remember this lunch you speak of. I don't

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Speaker 1: think I thought it through it all, quite honestly, because

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Speaker 1: And I didn't know I'd be rehearsing for six or

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Speaker 1: when they introduced me to my dance partner, who was

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Speaker 1: only knew he was Julian's brother, and he had never

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Speaker 1: done the show. That's all I knew about him. And

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Speaker 1: at that time, absolutely right, there was no social media

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Speaker 1: or anything. Right. But yeah, when I remember meeting him

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Speaker 1: and thinking, oh my god, he's so young. He is

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Speaker 1: a baby boy, and I just felt like a towering,

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Speaker 1: such a weird discrepancy between us in my mind that

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Speaker 1: team with him, you know, it felt really weird. What

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Speaker 1: when they told us.

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Speaker 2: Well, do you remember the day that you met him

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Speaker 2: and where you were in the whole circumstance.

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Speaker 1: I remember he came to our house.

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Speaker 2: Right, you came to the house. We were in the backyard,

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Speaker 2: sitting out by the swimming pool, and he came out,

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Speaker 2: and I had seen pictures of him, but I had

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Speaker 2: the exact same reaction because when he walked out and

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Speaker 2: it was walking. I remember him walking around the pool

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Speaker 2: and my thought was, he's like a kid. He looks

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Speaker 1: How's he gonna lift her up?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the other thing I wanted to bring up

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Speaker 2: with you, because I don't know how many of the

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Speaker 2: fans follow you on Instagram and have seen your exercise videos.

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Speaker 2: And if you haven't, ladies, you absolutely check it out.

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Speaker 2: But right now, fitness is a major part of your life.

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Speaker 2: It is, and I follow you and I watch your

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Speaker 2: your your routines and it's amazing. But at the time,

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Speaker 2: safe to say, fitness was not a major priority for you,

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Speaker 2: and I don't think you realized what a physical challenge

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Speaker 2: you were not in bad shape, but I don't.

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Speaker 1: Like, I don't right, you know, I can't stress that enough.

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Speaker 2: No, absolutely, but I cannot believe how your body transformed

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Speaker 2: you were literally, as you just said, rehearsing six to

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Speaker 2: alone from that, you know, And what I think happened

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Speaker 2: go on this show they go one of two ways.

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Speaker 2: They either rise to the occasion and rise to the challenge,

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Speaker 2: to the challenge and gave it everything you had and

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Speaker 2: did really, really well on the show.

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Speaker 1: I did not actually make the decision. The decision was

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Speaker 1: I was getting into, not really having had any live

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Speaker 1: my best to just jump in like you said, and

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Speaker 1: like go for it because that was the only option

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Speaker 1: right now. You didn't want to do that.

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Speaker 2: That's the thing about you. Anything that you've ever decided

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Speaker 2: to put your mind to, you've given it one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: I mean, when you decided to become an actress, you

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Speaker 2: and so you jumped into two classes and studying and

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Speaker 2: all of that, and I think you took that same

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Speaker 2: work ethic. Both your mother and your father had a

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Speaker 2: your father you grew up on a farm, and your

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Speaker 2: you grew up with two parents modeling a strong work

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they just instilled in me like even if it's work,

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Speaker 1: So that I feel like anything I do, whether it's

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Speaker 1: I've gotten older, and I realized, you know that you

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Speaker 1: I would, like I always think, would I do Dancing

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Speaker 1: with the Stars again? Would I do that now? Because

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Speaker 1: when I do it now, what would would you recommend

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 2: I mean, had you not done it before right at

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Speaker 2: because safe to say, I don't think you've ever been

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Speaker 2: for you to even have time to, you know, go

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Speaker 2: out to dinner. So the I don't know where we

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Speaker 1: And not to mention the hips of it all, Well.

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Speaker 2: That's true, that's true. But you know what I think,

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Speaker 2: I think that you would. You would rise above that.

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Speaker 2: So the good news is you've already done it.

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Speaker 4: I don't have to do it.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to do it again. You've crossed that

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Speaker 2: off your bucket list. Let me ask you something, how many?

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Speaker 2: Because you know, I think anybody who's a fan of

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Speaker 2: yours now knows that you don't have the greatest memory.

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Speaker 2: But how many of the couple of the stars from

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Speaker 2: your season do you remember?

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Speaker 1: Can I name?

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Speaker 2: Can you name? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I can only do this because I saw some clips. Okay,

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Speaker 1: my birthday Buddy, the Vegas Guy, amazing performer Wayne Newton,

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Speaker 1: Jane Seymour right, the Cheetah Girl, Sabrina Bryant, Elio Castro

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Speaker 1: Novez Lobby he was, but she was my friend, like

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Speaker 1: we we bonded, we hung out. Yeah, I love Sabrina. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Karen Matheson who also went on to work with me

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Speaker 1: and be friends with me. Let's see, let's see, let's see.

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Speaker 1: Uh oh uh Melby right, Harry Spice. I was scared

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, can you imagine if I had left

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Speaker 1: Okay, oh my god, so much fun going down memory

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Watch, Okay, I'm looking forward to it, all right, okay, bye.

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Speaker 1: Bye, Okay, So I'm so excited to get into this interview.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome former Bachelor Joey Grazzida and pro dancer and

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Speaker 1: mirror ball champion Jenna Johnson Schmerkovsky to the I Choose

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Speaker 1: Me Podcast. I'm so excited to have you both on.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for taking time from your busy, busy,

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you for having us. We're excited.

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Speaker 1: It's today, a rehearsal day, a tape day. What's happening?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so we already had rehearsal this morning for.

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Speaker 1: How many hours? Four? Four hours I was rehearsing like

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Speaker 1: You guys are just absolutely crushing it on this season. Joey,

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Speaker 1: It's like you came out of the gate swinging. You

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Speaker 1: said that you've played the drums and that you've incorporated

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Speaker 1: you have that, like, you know, flip ability, which is

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Speaker 5: I didn't have any dance experience, and I always need

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Speaker 5: to clear up the fact that I wasn't actually a

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Speaker 5: about I did. If you've ever heard of powderpuff cheerleading,

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Speaker 1: I know you've got the best pro You're so lucky.

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Speaker 3: I'm very aware.

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Speaker 4: He definitely is a capable body. He's very athletic, he's

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Speaker 1: You should add that to your resume, A capable body.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's a good title. I'll take that.

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Speaker 1: Jenna, you're just such a talented, talented dancer. How old

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Speaker 4: Yes, I started actually when I was three, and I

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. And this was in Utah, right, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: So Utah is becoming like the it place now with

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Speaker 4: Uh huh. If you remember Chelsea high Tower who used

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Speaker 4: Lindsay Whitney, Riley, Ezra Steffans.

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Speaker 1: Such a dance scene coming out of there, It's wild.

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Speaker 5: Sure.

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Speaker 4: I wish that I had time to watch all I knows.

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Speaker 4: But again, I can't speak on it because I haven't

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Speaker 1: You're doing it, you're probably gonna see one of them,

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Speaker 1: you know, next year in the cast. I would imagine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there comes, there comes. It's so intimidating to do

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Speaker 1: this show. I know firsthand. And U Joe, did you

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Speaker 3: Yes? And no.

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Speaker 3: Every week.

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Speaker 3: You just kind of have to do it to understand

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I still I think I have PTSD from the

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Speaker 1: Forget everything you've been taught that you just have to

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 3: I said it to all my friends.

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Speaker 5: I have no recollection of that entire dance. I came

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Speaker 5: I was like, wait, was it good? I think I

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Speaker 5: Because I just totally blanked But you do it so much,

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's the key. Maybe you should try that's your goal,

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Speaker 3: I wish that would make it.

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Speaker 1: Just like, you know, don't black out Jenna. You know

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Speaker 4: Yes, very sad. Yes, so that you guys.

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Speaker 1: Were rooting each other on obviously during the competition. I'm

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Speaker 4: Yes and no. There's like a fine balance because obviously

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Speaker 4: in now that he's eliminated, he's been full throttle into

439
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 4: what is going on with me and Joey, and he's like, listen,

440
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 4: I want you guys to bring it. So I really

441
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:03,000
Speaker 4: love his support. But yeah, you know, it's hard to

442
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,639
Speaker 4: like try to separate and be like, oh, I'm not

443
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:07,640
Speaker 4: going to talk about dance, because we have so much

444
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 4: dance in our life. It's crazy. Yeah, our whole world

445
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:12,679
Speaker 4: is danced, and so it's nice to kind of just

446
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 4: like separate and just the humans for a second at home.

447
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,159
Speaker 4: But I then do have the luxury of being like, hey, babe,

448
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 4: can you try this eight count with me? Can you

449
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 4: see if this lift works? Can you see if this

450
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 4: feels nice? So I feel really grateful in that aspect.

451
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Speaker 1: That's that's good. That's good to have that kind of

452
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 1: support and that kind of shared experience is so valuable.

453
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 4: Yes it is. I mean I don't know if I

454
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 4: would be able to do the show without him, and

455
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 4: without him his knowledge, his expertise, and just his full support.

456
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 4: It's incredible.

457
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Speaker 1: I love that. Okay, so you be honest, is it

458
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Speaker 1: ever uncomfortable for you guys to dance like sensually with

459
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Speaker 1: one another when you're partners and the whole world are watching?

460
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Speaker 1: Because I know that was super weird for me.

461
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Speaker 4: I will let Joey answer because it's for me at all,

462
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 4: because I've been doing this for my whole life and

463
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Speaker 4: I'm you know, a plenty of partners where this is

464
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,919
Speaker 4: my work, this is what, this is my craft, this

465
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,679
Speaker 4: is my artistry. So it's not weird for me. But

466
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 4: I definitely have like a level of respect for everybody

467
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 4: that jumps into this process and is willing to throw

468
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 4: themselves into fully accepting like the character each week. But yeah,

469
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Speaker 4: I'll let Joey. Joey answer this one.

470
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Speaker 5: I wouldn't say it's weird. I would say the word

471
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Speaker 5: I always use is like hesitant. I think that when

472
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Speaker 5: you come into it, it feels just odd to be

473
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 5: like taking charge in a dance and being more physical

474
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,120
Speaker 5: and getting into someone's space, because if you've never done

475
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,119
Speaker 5: it before, you just like it just doesn't feel I

476
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 5: guess right to do it right away, so it doesn't

477
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 5: feel weird, especially now I've been doing it as long

478
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 5: and how comfortable and Jen and I have gotten it's

479
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 5: not as much a thing, but I do need reminders

480
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 5: sometimes to be more closer and being in the space

481
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 5: and listening to her when that's the time to do it,

482
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Speaker 5: when you're supposed to be here, when.

483
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Speaker 3: You're not supposed to be here.

484
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 5: So at this point it's just like she I listened

485
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 5: to direction, I go into it. But I do remember

486
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,959
Speaker 5: when you first start, you know you have to grab her,

487
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 5: and it's like, wait, I wouldn't grab this like it's

488
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,639
Speaker 5: this physical and be this close to someone.

489
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 3: It just doesn't feel right necessarily. So yeah, the word

490
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 3: I would use is hesitant because it's new.

491
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 5: But then once you learn what it's supposed to be

492
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 5: and you start to feel what these moves are, then

493
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 5: at the end of the day it just feels like.

494
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 3: I'm listening to my coach and doing dance moves.

495
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,679
Speaker 5: So we're at the point where I wouldn't say it's

496
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:30,160
Speaker 5: as weird as it was in the beginning.

497
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that's so true what you say, because

498
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:36,159
Speaker 1: if you haven't danced like close contact, danced like that,

499
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 1: it's not doesn't come naturally to people, like like you said,

500
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Speaker 1: like I wouldn't just step right up and be so

501
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: close body on body to somebody that you know. I

502
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,199
Speaker 1: don't know that well, so I totally get that.

503
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 4: Also, if you're like not used to having to act

504
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,680
Speaker 4: or like play a role, trying to tell somebody to

505
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 4: to like, I think this is a funny concept. I

506
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,159
Speaker 4: don't know if you've faced this or felt this at all,

507
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 4: but like Joey, this week, you're going to be sexy,

508
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 4: Like what is your sexy face? How do you tell

509
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 4: someone like you know to put on this like performance

510
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,679
Speaker 4: or character. It's it's really hard to teach that. And

511
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 4: I think that's something that joe is excelled in. Is

512
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 4: he just naturally is a great performer. I don't know

513
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 4: where it came from. I'm so grateful for it. But

514
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 4: that is a funny concept as well of like, you know,

515
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 4: we're doing the rumba, you've got to be like sensual

516
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 4: and like what does that mean for your face? What

517
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,400
Speaker 4: does that mean for your performance? Unless you're really used

518
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 4: to acting or a dance before. So that's something that

519
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,359
Speaker 4: I think is one of Joey's strengths this season.

520
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 1: For sure, you have instincts, Joey, maybe you should be

521
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: an actor next.

522
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 3: I know who knows.

523
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 5: I never thought i'd be here today talking to you

524
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 5: and dance about national television.

525
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 3: So I have no idea what's going to be next.

526
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 5: But yeah, the performance part has surprisingly been one of

527
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,679
Speaker 5: my favorite things of Once you know the dance, you

528
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,439
Speaker 5: just get the ability to go out there and like

529
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 5: act as you're supposed to. And I'm really excited for

530
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 5: having that with Halloween this week, Like it's just going

531
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 5: to be a new thing. So yeah, it's been surprising

532
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 5: because it was one of the things I was the

533
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 5: most nervous about, but as I've gotten more weeks under

534
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 5: my belt, it's actually one of my things I look

535
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 5: forward to the most. Is when I'm like, Okay, I

536
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 5: know these steps. Now, I can start thinking about how

537
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 5: I'm going to perform. And we usually don't hit those

538
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,919
Speaker 5: until like end of the day on Saturday or starting

539
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 5: on Sunday, we start talking about that, and that's when

540
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 5: I actually get the most excited about our dances, and

541
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 5: when we start thinking about how we're going.

542
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: To perform, it all comes together. Your fiance beautiful Kelsey.

543
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: She addressed comments in the beginning of the season. You

544
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: know how they are. She said that you gave her

545
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 1: the security and the reassurance that she needs. How do

546
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: you do that? How do you give that to your

547
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: partner in this extraordinary experience that you're in.

548
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,439
Speaker 5: I don't know if there's an easy answer to that,

549
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 5: because I'm still learning that every day. I think in general,

550
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 5: partner you're trying to always make them feel reassured and

551
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 5: secure in the relationship, and this is just one of

552
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 5: those situations where it's so chaotic and I'm not to

553
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 5: be with her as physically as much as I would

554
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,439
Speaker 5: like to because I'm always away with dance, and then

555
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 5: on top of it, you add this element of outside

556
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,679
Speaker 5: noise and it's all new. But for me, what I

557
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 5: continue to try to do is stay present when I

558
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 5: am with her, really try to have a gauge on

559
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 5: where her emotions are at so I can understand what

560
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 5: I need to be doing.

561
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 3: But I'm still learning that every day. And we actually

562
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 3: had to talk.

563
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 5: About this the other day, which was amazing to hear

564
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 5: where her head's at with a lot of this. She

565
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 5: gave me like a sweet message and said, I hope

566
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 5: when you get these questions you start deflecting them, because

567
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 5: I want this to be about you and your journey.

568
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 3: I don't want this to be about how I'm handling

569
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 3: and how we're handling all this, which is like so

570
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 3: sweet that she's saying that, But at the same time

571
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 3: I understand and Jenna understands, it does come with the territory.

572
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 3: So to see where we've.

573
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 5: Come from week one to now, I think has been

574
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 5: amazing just because it is all new, but we're both

575
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 5: still figuring it out because we're both still new to

576
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 5: being in a public relationship. And we've actually leaned on

577
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 5: Jenna and Bow and asked a lot of questions because

578
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 5: they've been doing this a lot longer of what all

579
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 5: that's like.

580
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 3: But yeah, no easy answer that one. I'm figuring it

581
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 3: out every day.

582
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure Jennifer, you you get tons of comments,

583
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: like you know, you and your husband, it's got to

584
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: be something that can weigh on you or can like

585
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,239
Speaker 1: just come into your experience and it's you don't need it.

586
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: It's like unnecessary, like you said, Joey Noise. Yeah, and

587
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: you guys handle that well together, I'm assuming since you're

588
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: both pros at this.

589
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, we do our best, but yeah, I think you

590
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 4: know it's it's not as abrace up to us because

591
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 4: it is something that we do. We have experienced multiple times,

592
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 4: and even more so when Val and I became a

593
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 4: public couple that was very jolting for fans. They wanted

594
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 4: him with every single partner that he was with and

595
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:54,719
Speaker 4: definitely not me. So we've experienced it. I now I

596
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 4: don't have time for anymore. It doesn't bother me because again,

597
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 4: I'm I'm used to it, but I'm also so secure

598
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 4: in my relationship and what my job is as a

599
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 4: pro on Dancing with the Stars. But it's it's sad

600
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 4: that people have to go to those lengths to try

601
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 4: to make people feel some type of way and can't

602
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 4: just celebrate the beauty of like, this is such a

603
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 4: beautiful journey that you're about to go on en a

604
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 4: once in a lifetime opportunity that's only three months long.

605
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 4: So I think in the beginning it was a little

606
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 4: not defeeding, but it was a little sad that it

607
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 4: just had to be those comments, especially targeted at Kelsey.

608
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 4: But I feel like as soon as week one happened

609
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 4: and week two, people are now just supportive, And I

610
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 4: think it's you know that initial shock of like, oh,

611
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 4: these two are next to each other and then now

612
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 4: it's just been nothing but support. So I think it's

613
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 4: that initial shock needed to wear off, and now fans

614
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 4: have just been so beautiful and so supportive of our journey.

615
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: I love that. Okay, doing the show is a major

616
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: I Choose me moment because it it's a big decision

617
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: and you have to go into it ultimately doing it

618
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: for yourself. But it's also a choice to wake up

619
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: every day and to choose to stay and work at relationships.

620
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: And being that the show is in such an out

621
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: of the normal environment, what choices are you both making

622
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: on how to prioritize your partner even you know, with

623
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: your busy schedules when you're off the dance floor, Because

624
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: I know how busy your schedules are, and I know

625
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: how long you're rehearsing, and I know how consuming all

626
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: consuming this is for those three months, Like do you

627
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: have to at the beginning of your day or your

628
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: week like schedule in time with your partner. How do

629
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: you keep you know your partner priority amidst all of this,

630
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: because it's so important.

631
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 4: For sure, I can just speak on behalf of myself.

632
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 4: But I think leading up to the season val and

633
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 4: I both kind of prep ourselves, like, all right, we

634
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 4: know what storm is a to hit, let's prepare ourselves.

635
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 4: So this season, we actually right before we started, we

636
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 4: went on a family vacation, just the three of us,

637
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 4: and it was so nice to just regroup and enjoy

638
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 4: those moments of doing nothing. And then I think also

639
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 4: during the season, like you said, it's so important to

640
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 4: take time and be like we need a date night,

641
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 4: or we need to just like snuggle for two hours uninterrupted,

642
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 4: or we need to just like talk and catch up

643
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 4: on life. And so I think prioritizing those moments and

644
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 4: really reconnecting communication is huge and our relationship, and so

645
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 4: I think the more that we're vocal and talking and

646
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,719
Speaker 4: just checking in with each other to see where we're at,

647
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 4: the better I am just personally and then in our relationship.

648
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 4: So I think just like those recheck in moments, and

649
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 4: then also understanding that there is a finish line at.

650
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: The end of the day, right for it's temporary.

651
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 4: It's temporary. So just knowing that, like I can do anything,

652
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 4: how many more weeks we have four something for four

653
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 4: more weeks and put my heart soul into it. So

654
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 4: I have no regrets at the end of this. That's

655
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 4: kind of always my mentality going into the season, and

656
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 4: especially when you have a good partner like Joey that'll

657
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 4: understands like you need to give everything and you need

658
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 4: to do this for you because next season, you don't

659
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 4: know where you're going to be, you don't know what

660
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 4: partner you're going to have, So I think having that

661
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 4: mindset is important absolutely.

662
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 5: Joey, Yeah, I would say mine's definitely a little different

663
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 5: because we didn't.

664
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 3: Know what it was going to be like exactly, and.

665
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 5: We came off of a TV show where we had

666
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 5: all the chaos for three months in a row before

667
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 5: I did this, which was fun because we traveled around

668
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 5: a lot and did a lot of things, but then

669
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 5: we also didn't get as much time to actually, I

670
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 5: don't know, stay in our own little bubble in our

671
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 5: world maybe.

672
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 3: As much as we'd like to.

673
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 5: So we were actually excited for this too because it

674
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 5: was the first time we got our own place to

675
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 5: ourselves and the first time we've got to kind of start.

676
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 3: I can't think of other way than just saying playing.

677
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 5: House and starting to actually be a real couple in

678
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 5: a spot that felt like ours, which was really exciting.

679
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,959
Speaker 5: But then what I try to do to help with

680
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 5: all the chaos is have like a reset, because you

681
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 5: come back from practice and you're drink, you're tired, and

682
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 5: Kelsey is.

683
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 3: So good at giving me.

684
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 5: I usually ask for like five to ten minutes where

685
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 5: I'll literally just pop my butt down on the couch

686
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 5: and just sit there and do nothing and just like

687
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 5: stare out into space. And then as soon as I

688
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 5: feel and I have those five to ten minutes, I

689
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 5: tell her all about my day. I ask how her

690
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 5: day was, and we just have that open communication to

691
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 5: see what I've missed, what she's missed, and I try

692
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 5: to bring as much energy to that conversation as I

693
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 5: did the entire time I was at Dancing with the Stars.

694
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 5: And when I do that well, it seems to really

695
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 5: help with get us back on the same wavelength. And

696
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 5: as you said, we schedule in as much dinners as

697
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 5: we can. If she has family in town, if she

698
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 5: has friends in town, I make sure I spend the

699
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 5: time to go get dinner with her. We've kind of

700
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 5: made Tuesday nights a ritual where sometimes we'll do stuff

701
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 5: with Jenna and Val sometimes we'll do stuff with the

702
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,760
Speaker 5: people that are visiting, but we always get time to

703
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 5: catch up and see each other then, And it's just

704
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 5: the little things, as Jenna said, trying to when you

705
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 5: do have that uninterrupted time, making the most of it.

706
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 5: Whether it's snuggling on the couch, whether it's watching a

707
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 5: TV show and just being next to each other, whether

708
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,399
Speaker 5: it's talking about our day. We just try to find

709
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 5: those little moments in the chaos and do the best

710
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 5: we can at it.

711
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: You guys aren't just killing it on the show, You're

712
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: killing it in real life with these relationship goals. I mean,

713
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: I'm inspired just listening to both of you have basically

714
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 1: your shit together and know what it takes.

715
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 3: And bake until you met it the deal right now.

716
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 1: Well, whatever it takes, whatever it takes, so you sound

717
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: wise beyond your years for those just the you know,

718
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 1: I need five or ten minutes to get home and

719
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: just stare at a wall because I need to come down.

720
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, because if I didn't, I would it would seem

721
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 5: like I wasn't present in the conversation.

722
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:53,959
Speaker 3: And I just have been.

723
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 5: Vocal about that, Like I literally am still thinking about

724
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 5: the last eight count I did and how I messed

725
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,040
Speaker 5: up that last dance move, like I just need a

726
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,400
Speaker 5: second if I didn't get enough in the car, and

727
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 5: then I give her as much as I can when

728
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 5: I get that time, and that's helped a lot.

729
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know when I was on it, I had

730
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: a six month old and three daughters at that time,

731
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: and they were all super young, and I was married,

732
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: and life was crazy enough before the show, and then yeah,

733
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:23,439
Speaker 1: it just got like indescribably hectic and so shutting off

734
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: my mind coming home to the kids and like jumping

735
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 1: right back into what's for dinner? And you know, did

736
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: you do your homework? All the things a mom does,

737
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 1: and then all the things that a wife needs to do.

738
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: It's like, ah, there's not enough time in the day

739
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 1: or enough bandwidth in my brain to manage it all.

740
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 1: So kudos.

741
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 3: I don't get to complain at all. If that's the

742
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 3: what you came back to, Yes, exactly, I'll never complain

743
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 3: once again. Is all that I just took from that.

744
00:36:51,520 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: That's good. That's good. The show is such a sure

745
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: cooker of emotions. I know it was for me, especially

746
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 1: as the competition goes on. It's stressful. It's fun, but

747
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: it's stressful. What are each of you doing to unwine

748
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: or do as self care. Mm hmm, that Chuck will

749
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: tell me a lot.

750
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 4: No, I think you know. I love coming home. I

751
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,359
Speaker 4: love a bubble bath. Like if I have a night

752
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 4: where I can just do a bubble bath and just

753
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 4: lock everything out, that's when I'm at peace. Also just

754
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 4: doing like for me, it's doing little things of being

755
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:40,919
Speaker 4: mom and having the time to do that. I feel

756
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 4: like that brings me a lot of happiness. Although I

757
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 4: do feel like I have to be on. I really

758
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 4: feel I'm not at my best when I'm missing my

759
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 4: son and when i feel avoid So this last this

760
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 4: past week was really really chaotic with Disney Night. We

761
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 4: had our individual dance, we had a team dance, we

762
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 4: had an opening numbers pros. I think every day I

763
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 4: started at five point forty five and was home at

764
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 4: like seven, and I felt not myself and I realized

765
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 4: I just was missing my son and I felt like

766
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 4: part of my heart was gone all week. And so

767
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,800
Speaker 4: yesterday Valin I went to the pumpkin patch with Rome,

768
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 4: our little boy, and I just like felt replenished. I

769
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 4: felt my cup fully fill back up and then I'm reinspired.

770
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 4: I have more energy. So it's doing those things that

771
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 4: you know are going to bring you a lot of happiness,

772
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 4: but bubble bath in some realm time.

773
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 3: I could definitely do better at this.

774
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 5: As she said, I think that sometimes I am so

775
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 5: in this whole experience and putting so much energy towards it,

776
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 5: and I forget to give myself some time and do

777
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 5: things that I enjoy doing. But for me, it's really

778
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 5: just getting some type of alone time. For me, I'm

779
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 5: very simple in this regard. I've realized that when I

780
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 5: give too much too people, when I give too much

781
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 5: to things that I'm doing and I don't just give

782
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 5: myself the ability to take it in and let my

783
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 5: mind just kind of wander and actually think about what's

784
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 5: going on in my head, I will always feel kind

785
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 5: of jostled and all over the place. And she hit

786
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,399
Speaker 5: last week exactly kind of was how I felt too.

787
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 5: I mean, we just had such a long week, and

788
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 5: we had I had extra things like a photo shoot

789
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:25,760
Speaker 5: to go with Kelsey. I had to go to dinner

790
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 5: one night with her and her family, and I say

791
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 5: had to, like I wanted to go do this stuff,

792
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 5: but I did all of it, and I realized I

793
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 5: never gave myself that ability to give thirty minutes to

794
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 5: maybe just have some time to yourself.

795
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 3: I'm not a big meditation person.

796
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 5: I just like to kind of have blank's time and

797
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:44,240
Speaker 5: blank space where I just let.

798
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 3: My mind wander.

799
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 5: So I did that a lot more these last couple

800
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:49,919
Speaker 5: of days, and I need to keep doing that more

801
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 5: of just giving myself the ability to think about what's

802
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 5: going on, be grateful for things, organize some stuff in

803
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,800
Speaker 5: my head, and then go back to the chaos right after.

804
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 5: So yeah, I just I just try to carve out

805
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 5: little pieces of time.

806
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 3: I don't need to be doing much.

807
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:05,879
Speaker 5: I just need to be able to take it back

808
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 5: for a second, and that usually helps a lot.

809
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: I'm on board with both of you. Bubble baths are

810
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 1: my sanctuary.

811
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 3: They sound nice. I don't do them.

812
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:14,439
Speaker 2: You should.

813
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: You gotta try it. Epsom salts is you need the

814
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: Epsom salts bath while you're doing this, Joey curious. I

815
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: also spend a lot of time in my head too,

816
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: and I found, like when I'm so busy, if I'm

817
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: driving somewhere, to just have silence and just be with

818
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: myself in the car and let my mind do what

819
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: you said, Like Rome and think things through that just

820
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: needs to process. That was really helpful for me. So

821
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: just turn the radio down, turn the music off, don't

822
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 1: call anybody on your drive, just be with yourself. That helps, sure,

823
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 1: for sure, for sure, you know you're deep in the competition. Now,

824
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: it's not just about dance. It's about pushing yourself, It's

825
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 1: about perseverance. What would you say that each of you

826
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:02,240
Speaker 1: have learned about yourselves through this experience, especially you, Joey,

827
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: since this is your first time.

828
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 3: I'm still learning a lot right now.

829
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 5: I think the biggest thing that I've learned is that

830
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 5: I definitely am a hard worker, which I've always really

831
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 5: tried to hold on to. I know that I'm not

832
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 5: going to give up and put everything I can to this.

833
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 5: I hope Jenna feels that way, because I really do

834
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 5: try every day even if I am not maybe doing

835
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 5: the best of my steps or feel a little bit off.

836
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 5: I don't ever want to like give up. I want

837
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 5: to put everything into it. But I think the biggest

838
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 5: thing I've learned about myself is this game time type

839
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,959
Speaker 5: mentality thing that is still so new for me, because

840
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,760
Speaker 5: you don't get put in that situation that much. Jenna

841
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 5: can attest to sometimes where we're like about to go

842
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 5: on stage and I am in my head, I am

843
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 5: rethinking every single little detail. An example would be that

844
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 5: tango night again, we did a drum fill and I

845
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 5: did I had to do a fill and I had

846
00:41:56,719 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 5: to match it up perfectly, and five seconds before showtime hit,

847
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 5: Jenna asked me to do it.

848
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 3: I did nothing close to what the actual beat was like.

849
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,280
Speaker 3: I was completely offbeat and I felt it. I felt

850
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 3: her energy right behind me. She was like, Oh, no,

851
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 3: this is gonna be bad. And then something.

852
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 4: I didn't say anything, though, I just thought.

853
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 5: I was like, you're like, oh, this is gonna be anything,

854
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 5: and I don't know.

855
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:21,760
Speaker 3: Something.

856
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 5: Again that night, the moment clicks, and I just have

857
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 5: been able to bring something every time, and it's different

858
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 5: every time, but I just have been able to deliver

859
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 5: when it matters most.

860
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 3: And something about that has given me a really.

861
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 5: Great feeling, like, Okay, I guess in crunch time, I'm

862
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 5: gonna come when I need to. So probably that and

863
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 5: the ability of just how much effort you have to

864
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 5: put in. I've been really happy with putting in the

865
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 5: hard work. So I've learned that about myself.

866
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 3: I guess.

867
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 2: So.

868
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: I think that's valuable information for you to know about

869
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: yourself because you know that just doesn't pertain to this experience.

870
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: Like in the rest of your life, you know, you

871
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: can rely on your instincts and yourself when in those

872
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 1: moments of high stress and high pressure and sort of

873
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: alleviate some of that what we do to ourselves when

874
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: we freak out, you know, all.

875
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 5: The worry that isn't necessary. It's wasted energy if you

876
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 5: really just trust in yourself. And that's what I'm trying

877
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 5: to do better at each week, is not have that

878
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 5: worry because there's a mix. You have to be caring

879
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 5: enough and thinking about it, but then you can't have

880
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 5: wasted energy if you trust in yourself at the same.

881
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: Time, definitely, and you have to come prepared like you

882
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: have to do the work, and then at just some

883
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:30,839
Speaker 1: point just give it.

884
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 3: Up and trust it. Yeah, trust it.

885
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 1: Yep, it's hard. It's so hard. Joe. You have opened

886
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: up about your Jillbear syndrome, which affects your liver, and

887
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: for those of us that don't know much about it,

888
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: can you explain that and tell us kind of like

889
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:49,399
Speaker 1: when did you realize you had it? And how does

890
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 1: it affect your life?

891
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,839
Speaker 5: Yeah, I probably should get more knowledgeable on this since

892
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 5: I have it, but I will explain it the best

893
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 5: that I can from what I was told and just

894
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 5: things that I've been paying it to attention to.

895
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 3: I found out when I was in high school.

896
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,760
Speaker 5: I was sick for a pretty long extended period of time,

897
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 5: and I just remember telling my mom, like, I just

898
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,840
Speaker 5: feel off, like I feel very fatigued, Like it's just

899
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 5: hard to be doing normal things right now. So she

900
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 5: got to the point of saying, well, we should go

901
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 5: to the hospital or like go to urgent care or

902
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 5: the doctor and just like figure it out. So we

903
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 5: didn't go to the emergency room. We went to the

904
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 5: primary doctor and they recommended getting a blood test. And

905
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 5: when I got my blood test, my Billy rubin count

906
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 5: spiked very high, which usually scares people and think it's

907
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 5: something along with hepatitis, something that could be wrong with

908
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 5: your liver. So then I had to go to the

909
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 5: hospital and get an ultrasound of my liver. I believe

910
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 5: it's an ultrastounds is the correct way to say it,

911
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,399
Speaker 5: but again I'm no doctor. But they checked and there

912
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 5: was no abnormalities to it, and then I went to

913
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 5: a specialist who explained what it probably meant, and it

914
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,800
Speaker 5: was Jolbert syndrome, which from what they described it as

915
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 5: is it's like a sponge in terms of your liver,

916
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 5: and most people when they have water have any type

917
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 5: of electrolytes or hydration come through their body. It soaks

918
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 5: up very nicely and then lets it out very nicely.

919
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 3: But what happens with.

920
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 5: Mine is my sponges already ringed out and dry, so

921
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 5: when it tries to have all this nice filtration, it

922
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 5: doesn't work, and that affects the yellow of my eyes.

923
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 5: When I get stressed, if I don't drink enough fluids,

924
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 5: I can get very fatigued, I can be a little

925
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:30,319
Speaker 5: bit more on the tired side, and visually people can

926
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:32,919
Speaker 5: tell because again when I did the TV show, which

927
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 5: is why I had to talk about it, when you

928
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 5: get no sleep, when you're stressed about dating so many

929
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 5: women and you have so much pressure on yourself.

930
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:42,800
Speaker 3: My eyes were very yellow on television.

931
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 5: It was very obvious that something was off, and I

932
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 5: just had to finally talk about it because I just

933
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 5: was tired of seeing it be a comment every single day.

934
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,760
Speaker 5: And again, I want to go and get more knowledge

935
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 5: on this. I haven't been able to do as much

936
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,240
Speaker 5: as I would like to because of how crazy schedules

937
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 5: have been. But I would like to get more understanding

938
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 5: because my sister just recently got tested and she has

939
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 5: it too, and that was because of the fact that

940
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 5: she was feeling similar things. So it's something in our family.

941
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 5: You can live with it fully. It's not anything that's

942
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 5: supposed to I guess stop me in any way.

943
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 3: But I do need to be aware of my hydration.

944
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 5: I literally am drinking Gatorade light right now because I

945
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,280
Speaker 5: felt a little fatigue coming back from practice to get

946
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 5: some more electrolytes and just get more fluids in my system.

947
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 3: And that's that's the history I know of it.

948
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: Well, I didn't notice your eyes at all. I was

949
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,799
Speaker 1: so engrossed in your journey that I didn't really see it.

950
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: So there you have it.

951
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 3: You did, but a lot of other people did.

952
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm me, yeah, comment on every single thing I

953
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 5: would do that was just like this.

954
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: The whole time, So I didn't notice. But yeah, I mean,

955
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: what are you doing to yourself? You're in another highly

956
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: stressful situation. You're probably losing sleep right now, and yeah,

957
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: it's important you're seeing hydrated. I mean, are those the

958
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: main things that you have to watch a specially in

959
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: this kind of a physically strenuous, stressful job that you're doing.

960
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 5: Right now, I can tell, like I've had it and

961
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 5: dealt with it enough that i know when it's at

962
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 5: a bad point, and it's at.

963
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 3: All time bad right now, like it is very noticeable.

964
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 5: I can tell that I'm just not taking enough fluids

965
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 5: in and not doing as much as I can because

966
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 5: it's almost impossible with how much we're doing.

967
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 3: But I manage it.

968
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 5: And I felt honestly great and fine the through this

969
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 5: whole entire time. So it's just, yeah, I'm putting myself

970
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 5: in a lot of high stress situations where I'm strenuous

971
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 5: and doing a lot of stuff, but I'm as far

972
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 5: as I know, I'm healthy.

973
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 3: So I'm feeling what happens.

974
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 1: When you don't when you notice it kind of is

975
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 1: it a flare up? Or would you say or how

976
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: do you notice that you?

977
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, it happened more I would say on The Bachelor,

978
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 5: and does right now because Jenna is great with giving

979
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 5: me enough time to have rest and we get breaks

980
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 5: and it's I feel like I've gotten in a really

981
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 5: good routine with dancing. It's more, I would say the

982
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 5: mental than the physical side that's been tough with this season,

983
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 5: just because of how much it comes in with The Bachelor.

984
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 5: It was more really really long nights and just a

985
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 5: lot of conversations and actually physically draining of what you

986
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 5: had to do for that show.

987
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:11,439
Speaker 3: And it's a very.

988
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 5: High stress short pound of time. So it was like

989
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 5: a two and a half month stretch where it was

990
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 5: a full on sprint.

991
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:17,760
Speaker 3: Even though it was the length.

992
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,319
Speaker 5: Of a marathon, it felt like a sprint, and that

993
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 5: one it was just they could tell there's just some

994
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:26,959
Speaker 5: days where I just I was yawning more. I felt very,

995
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 5: very tired. They always were trying to pump me with

996
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 5: more energy.

997
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 3: They're like, maybe Joey needs a Celsius or maybe he

998
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 3: needs this. I was like, maybe he needs a nap,

999
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 3: like and maybe you need to give him a little break.

1000
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,320
Speaker 5: But you don't get on that show because time isn't

1001
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 5: isn't available. And I'm glad I pushed through and I

1002
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 5: wouldn't have changed a thing about the whole experience, and

1003
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 5: I love everyone from that experience, but that.

1004
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 3: Was one of the first times in my life I

1005
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,240
Speaker 3: was like, Okay, yeah, something is a little off.

1006
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 5: But I had a great handler that was on the

1007
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 5: show that gave me a concoction every morning, is what

1008
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 5: he called it.

1009
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:58,280
Speaker 3: And he put.

1010
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 5: Collagen liquid IV and this huge thing of water and

1011
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 5: gave me fish oil, magnesium like he was just throwing

1012
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 5: me vitamins, just being like, we're gonna make sure you

1013
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 5: survive because he knew.

1014
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 1: No, we can't have our bachelor going down and.

1015
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 5: As much as I could so and we got through

1016
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 5: that just fine, and the show was always aware of it.

1017
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 5: But it's just no matter anyone that's been in that position.

1018
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 5: Energy is something that you want as much as possible.

1019
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 5: And I was in a position where I just didn't have.

1020
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 5: My body didn't help.

1021
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 3: Me a lot with that, but we made it through,

1022
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 3: So we're good.

1023
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: You made it through with flying colors. So kudos to you, Jenna,

1024
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: as a mother, relatively new mom, and a wife and

1025
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: a dancer. I'm sure as any busy parent and spouse

1026
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 1: that you have days where you feel like you're crushing

1027
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: it in some areas and dropping the ball in others.

1028
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 1: And I know I love that you've talked about the

1029
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: fact that you've done therapy and how beneficial it has

1030
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 1: been to you. So that is a very compelling I

1031
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: choose me sort of declaration by going get therapy and

1032
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 1: dealing because you're dealing with a lot. What has been

1033
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: your favorite mom moment of the week, like your biggest

1034
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,240
Speaker 1: triumph and your biggest like, oh I could have done better?

1035
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 3: Hmmm.

1036
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 4: I feel like I can always do better.

1037
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: So that's how we always feel.

1038
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 3: I know.

1039
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 4: No, I think last night, uh that was away, he

1040
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 4: was gone, and I just had a couple of hours

1041
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 4: one on one with Rome and we got to do

1042
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 4: our full our nighttime routine together, just the two of us,

1043
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 4: and it was so special and honestly I cried through

1044
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 4: the whole thing because it's been a second since I've

1045
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 4: been able to do that, just have that time together

1046
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 4: and feel like I was making a difference in his

1047
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 4: life and it was just so special and he just

1048
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 4: like snuggled me to I put him down. He said, Mama,

1049
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:04,760
Speaker 4: love you, and I was just like, you know, those

1050
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 4: little moments are like, oh my gosh, he loves me.

1051
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 4: I'm doing something right. So I would say that of

1052
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 4: the week, that was my favorite, just getting that, like

1053
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 4: amazing one on one time with him. Feeling reconnected and

1054
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 4: having those special moments is Ammy and Son. I mean,

1055
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 4: he's just He's the best.

1056
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:29,280
Speaker 1: Sam, It is the best. Do you ever get mom guilt.

1057
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 4: All the time? I think Joey's seen it, especially the

1058
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 4: long hours on like you know, we have our camera

1059
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 4: blocking day, which is a very very long day, and

1060
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 4: then the next day is a show day, So basically

1061
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:44,399
Speaker 4: Monday Tuesday, I feel like I'm gone. Sometimes I see

1062
00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 4: him and sometimes I don't. By the time I get back,

1063
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 4: he's already in bed. Those days are hard, and it's

1064
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 4: hard not to feel like, man, am I doing the

1065
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:57,240
Speaker 4: right thing? Am I making a mistake by or selfish

1066
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 4: by not being here for these moments? But again, it's

1067
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 4: back to that thought of like, this is such a

1068
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 4: short amount of time in the grand scheme of things,

1069
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 4: and I know that I'm so passionate about dance and

1070
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:11,759
Speaker 4: I have a shot this season with Joey, and I

1071
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 4: know that these moments don't come often, so I'm going

1072
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 4: to take advantage of it. And I've been so grateful

1073
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 4: for the patients of Joey. You know, when I do

1074
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 4: have those moments of like being a little bit down,

1075
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 4: just reminding me the like, oh no, you're good, or

1076
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,359
Speaker 4: like talking about Rome just like bringing him up makes

1077
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 4: me feel a lot better too. So I definitely have

1078
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,399
Speaker 4: mom guilt, but I guess it's just part of being

1079
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 4: a working mama. I think regardless of like what your

1080
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 4: craft is, you're always going to have those moments. I'm

1081
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 4: sure you're going to tell that I don't know how

1082
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 4: you did the show with three kids, like I'm surviving

1083
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 4: with one.

1084
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, the mom guilt thing was always a thing, but

1085
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 1: I mean I can look at it from the other

1086
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: side now and see how amazing my girls turned out

1087
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: despite the fact that I worked a lot and I

1088
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 1: did have passion for what things I was doing in

1089
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 1: my career for myself and knowing that by putting my

1090
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: energy on other things than them sometimes it showed them

1091
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: what it's like to have passion and how necessary that

1092
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: is in a person's life. And I think that that's

1093
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: something that invaluable that you're giving him, even though it

1094
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 1: doesn't feel right.

1095
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, and again we try our best, especially on show days.

1096
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,760
Speaker 4: We'll have him come to set, and I think it's

1097
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 4: like what other tddler can say that their mom and

1098
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 4: dad were a Disney prince or princess this week on

1099
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:37,880
Speaker 4: Dancing with the Stars, and he gets to like see

1100
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 4: the whole set and crew and me amazing people. So

1101
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,359
Speaker 4: I do feel like there are so many benefits, and

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00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 4: I'm grateful for the show that they do make it

1103
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 4: accessible for us to have our kids on set and

1104
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 4: to make that a priority. I'm really really grateful for that.

1105
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great. Do you and Val think that you'll

1106
00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 1: have a little dancer on your hands?

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00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 4: We will see. He you know what, he loves music.

1108
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:10,360
Speaker 4: He's very musically inclined child. He loves to sing. So

1109
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 4: whether that's going to translate into dancing, I don't know.

1110
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 4: I will support whatever he wants to do. We have

1111
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 4: a lot of dance in our life in general, so

1112
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 4: it might be nice if he does something.

1113
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: How about soccer?

1114
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 4: How about sports? But yeah, we'll see. I think it

1115
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 4: would be crazy if he didn't fit into this world

1116
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 4: pretty naturally. But I don't want to push him into

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00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 4: anything that he doesn't want to do, So we'll see.

1118
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:41,320
Speaker 1: Yep, you can just support them, that's it. Yeah, Okay, Joey.

1119
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 1: I was crushed when Kelsey's dad got quoted off eliminated

1120
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 1: how do you get it unroased? I don't know what

1121
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: you say, but I was pretty upset about it. How's

1122
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 1: he doing? How's Mark doing?

1123
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Speaker 3: Mark's doing great?

1124
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Speaker 5: I think a lot of people were upset, but and

1125
00:54:57,960 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 5: I mean, I'll be the first two a bit.

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00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,879
Speaker 3: When we to news, we were upset too. We were

1127
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 3: really rooting for it from the beginning.

1128
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Speaker 1: I was like, he's the winner, He's the one.

1129
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:09,880
Speaker 5: I mean, he's He's just such a lovable person. I

1130
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:13,280
Speaker 5: think people got glimpses of that during my season on Hometown,

1131
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:15,920
Speaker 5: but then to see more of him that obviously have

1132
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 5: all these interviews and having them be back on TV,

1133
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 5: people kind of figure out how special of a person

1134
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 5: he is.

1135
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:25,920
Speaker 3: It's just he deserves so much.

1136
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 5: And I think the one thing that you can't always

1137
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 5: see that I can at least share, is he's one

1138
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,280
Speaker 5: of those people that gives so much to other people.

1139
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 5: He is full force dad doing everything he can for

1140
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 5: Kelsey and all of their siblings, and you can just

1141
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 5: tell when you're around all of them how much he's

1142
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 5: thinking of them before he thinks of himself, which is,

1143
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,279
Speaker 5: I mean, the best thing a dad can do. But

1144
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:51,759
Speaker 5: I was so excited for this season, and I'm still

1145
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 5: so excited for the fact that it's what the show brings.

1146
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:56,440
Speaker 3: It gives them ability.

1147
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:59,439
Speaker 5: To put themselves first and try to do something for

1148
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:02,400
Speaker 5: them to meet all these other guys. He said it

1149
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 5: was the experience of a lifetime. He said it was

1150
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 5: better than therapy. You can look in his eyes and

1151
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 5: he say it, and you know that he means it.

1152
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 5: So I'm just so happy that he gained so much

1153
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 5: from this experience. And I have no idea what's going

1154
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:16,320
Speaker 5: to be next for him, but I have no doubt

1155
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 5: that he didn't regret one thing, and he's just so

1156
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:22,399
Speaker 5: grateful and for that, I'm just very happy for him.

1157
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 1: Maybe they'll do a Golden Paradise, you know, he can

1158
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 1: be on that. I would be for it.

1159
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sure they would enjoy jumping in the pool.

1160
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 5: They were in the entire time. They'd be in the pool,

1161
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 5: drinking and having a good time.

1162
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1163
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 1: That's one of the best things about watching it is,

1164
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:40,360
Speaker 1: like just especially with the Golden is that you see

1165
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:43,800
Speaker 1: this group of people come together and support one another,

1166
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:47,879
Speaker 1: and like especially the men, they are around other men

1167
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 1: that are dealing with their feelings and all the things

1168
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:53,480
Speaker 1: are coming up for everybody and then they talk about it.

1169
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: It just must be such just like group therapy every day.

1170
00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, it happens, even from the show when I was

1171
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:02,920
Speaker 5: on about your h It's very amazing the things that

1172
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:06,239
Speaker 5: can happen when you take away all distractions and just

1173
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 5: put them out there. But there's something different about the

1174
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 5: Golden crowd because it's even more special and it's more

1175
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:16,120
Speaker 5: fulfilling to watch. We are still figuring out so much

1176
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 5: about life and don't have all these experiences bring into play,

1177
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 5: so it's more of an eye opening experience for us.

1178
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:24,439
Speaker 3: But I think on the flip side, the Golden it's

1179
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 3: more of.

1180
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 5: An appreciation and a I don't even know it just

1181
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,919
Speaker 5: there's something about it that feels so wholesome that they

1182
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 5: accept each other and uplift each other to this point

1183
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 5: you just you can't help but be like, we.

1184
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 3: Want all of you to be happy. It's not the same.

1185
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 5: Case when it's the young group, because you're like this

1186
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 5: person still figuring out exactly who they are and they

1187
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 5: got a lot of work to do, but it's at

1188
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 5: least nice that they're starting the process. It's for the

1189
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 5: Golden side, and it's it's special it's really fun to watch,

1190
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 5: and all those guys that've met have been amazing.

1191
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can tell, I can tell. Okay, before I

1192
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: let you go, Joey and Jenna, what was your last

1193
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: I choose me moment?

1194
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 4: I'll let you go first?

1195
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 3: I was trying to say, you go first, I'll go first.

1196
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 3: What was my last I choose me moment?

1197
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,640
Speaker 1: It can be like you said, Jenna, bubble bath, but

1198
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: it might be extra hard right now because.

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Speaker 5: That's the truth is is I feel like I feel

1200
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 5: like I've been choosing myself a lot with like doing

1201
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 5: dancing wasn't I choose me moment? But I want to

1202
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 5: do something outside of that because tell your truth. I

1203
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 5: did it because Kelsey was pushing me to do it,

1204
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 5: and I was like, you know, why not. It was

1205
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 5: kind of one of those things that I was I

1206
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 5: was a little on the fence about. I don't know

1207
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:41,959
Speaker 5: if I did it fully for me right away, but say,

1208
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 5: I guess what I'll say, is I choose me?

1209
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 3: Is I'm fully doing it for me now? Like there

1210
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 3: are moments in every.

1211
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 5: Day where I'm just I am doing really well, leaving

1212
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 5: everything at the door, and I am choosing myself of

1213
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 5: being fully in this. So I would even just say

1214
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 5: an exam being today, Like we got into practice, I

1215
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 5: had some stuff going on with personal things and things

1216
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 5: I was thinking about, and I was like, you know what,

1217
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 5: I'm going to leave it at the door. I'm going

1218
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 5: to choose to be here and just fully be invested

1219
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 5: in this. And I'm trying to have that mindset every

1220
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 5: day I walk into the studio.

1221
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:13,640
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's a good one, but it's

1222
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:14,280
Speaker 3: just the best I.

1223
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 5: Can do right now because sadly, dancing is all that's

1224
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 5: on my mind because I'm really trying to dive.

1225
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 4: Into this perfect Yeah, it's weird because I kind of

1226
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 4: want to say similarly, you know, choosing to do this

1227
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 4: season as a mom is a big I choose me

1228
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:35,600
Speaker 4: moment in itself, and I think I am putting a

1229
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 4: lot of pressure on myself this season because I was

1230
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 4: pregnant two seasons ago, so I missed out on a

1231
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 4: whole season. And as much as I needed that for

1232
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:49,080
Speaker 4: myself and I needed a second to step away, it

1233
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:52,280
Speaker 4: was such an eye opening experience because I realized how

1234
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,480
Speaker 4: much I do love the show and how much I

1235
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 4: love to create and choreograph and dance and how much

1236
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 4: I love watching Somebody's journey the show. So I had that,

1237
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:05,360
Speaker 4: and then last season I got eliminated very early on,

1238
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 4: and so I feel like there's been this like buyer

1239
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:12,439
Speaker 4: inside of me for the past two years that has

1240
01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 4: wanted to come back and have a chance, a shot

1241
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:18,919
Speaker 4: to like dance my face off with my partner and

1242
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 4: create some epic routines. And I feel like Joey and

1243
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:27,760
Speaker 4: I are having that this season, and so in a

1244
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:30,800
Speaker 4: weird way, this is my like choose me moment, and

1245
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 4: I'm so grateful for that.

1246
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:35,400
Speaker 1: I get it. I'm so happy for both of you,

1247
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:39,080
Speaker 1: and I'm here with my daughters. We're all rooting for you,

1248
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:41,840
Speaker 1: just like we were for you Joey on The Bachelor.

1249
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: So I just wish you both the best and thank

1250
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:48,640
Speaker 1: you so much for coming on and go dance, Go dance.

1251
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 1: Come on, you gotta practice.

1252
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 3: We're gonna keep dancing.

1253
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:53,560
Speaker 5: I love I love that both of our I choose

1254
01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:55,920
Speaker 5: me as we're also choosing each other and being in this.

1255
01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 5: So that makes me happy. I think we both want

1256
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 5: this bad and we're gonna keep doing it. We appreciate

1257
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 5: the support.

1258
01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: Yeah you got it, mate, Yeah high vibe from everybody.

1259
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:15,120
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you guys. That was such

1260
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 1: a good combo with Joey and Jenna and just reliving

1261
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 1: all the memories I had from when I was back

1262
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:25,520
Speaker 1: on the show rooting for them in this competition. For sure,

1263
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 1: as we continue to choose ourselves each week, I want

1264
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:33,240
Speaker 1: you to do something fun after listening to this podcast.

1265
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 1: I want you to dance. Dancing cannot only be a

1266
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 1: great exercise, but it can also release endorphins and bring

1267
01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:47,400
Speaker 1: up our moods. So this is your reminder. Feeling stressed,

1268
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 1: feeling sad, feeling anxious about something, choose yourself. Put on

1269
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 1: that I Choose Me playlist that we made, and take

1270
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:58,760
Speaker 1: a ten minute dance break. I promise you will feel

1271
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:02,520
Speaker 1: better once you let go and bust a move like

1272
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 1: no one is watching. And you, guys, do me a favor.

1273
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:11,280
Speaker 1: If you're loving the podcast, follow us on Instagram and

1274
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:14,720
Speaker 1: also I would love it if you would go on

1275
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:17,960
Speaker 1: to our show notes and rate us and review us

1276
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 1: because we love seeing that. My bosses love seeing that,

1277
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 1: and it's just cool to read what you guys are

1278
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 1: thinking and saying. And remember to use the hashtag I

1279
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:31,479
Speaker 1: Choose Me. I will be here next week. I hope

1280
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:32,840
Speaker 1: you choose to be here too,