Speaker 1: Hi everyone, It's Sophia, Welcome to Work in Progress. Hello,
Speaker 1: friends and listeners, Welcome back to Work in Progress. This week,
Speaker 1: you all have been submitting some really great listener questions
Speaker 1: and I just wanted to say thank you for all
Speaker 1: your feedback on our Q and A episodes. I'm so
Speaker 1: glad you like them. I really enjoy doing this with
Speaker 1: you guys, and so many good questions have come in,
Speaker 1: and so we felt like this week was as good
Speaker 1: as any to jump back in and try to work
Speaker 1: through some of these. So let's get started. First question
Speaker 1: from Maria. Wow, this is really oh so topical my dear,
Speaker 1: for me, you, and I think everyone else. Maria's question
Speaker 1: is how do you deal with stress, specifically now when
Speaker 1: the world is kind of a mess. Oh? Boy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: things feel really heavy, don't they. It's hard when every
Speaker 1: second you, you know, turn on the news or open
Speaker 1: a paper, it seems like tragedy is everywhere. I think.
Speaker 1: What I really try to remind myself to do is
Speaker 1: to hold the both. And because it's not lost on
Speaker 1: me that for myself, for so many people, I love,
Speaker 1: even things I hear from you guys, you know, out
Speaker 1: on social and in some of your feedback is that
Speaker 1: things seem more stressful than ever, the world feels messier
Speaker 1: than ever, and yet people are in love, they're happy
Speaker 1: at work, they're so grateful for their families, and so
Speaker 1: I think what I try to do is remind myself
Speaker 1: to make room for both, And when things feel really,
Speaker 1: really stressful, I try to make a list of the
Speaker 1: things that I'm grateful for. I try to remind myself
Speaker 1: how lucky I am to have people I love to
Speaker 1: call or lean on, to have joy in my life,
Speaker 1: to even even to be hurt by what's hard out there.
Speaker 1: You know, I think a capacity to care for others
Speaker 1: is a beautiful thing, and so when the world feels heavy,
Speaker 1: I remind myself that that's a sign that I'm human
Speaker 1: and that that feels really important. You know. I think
Speaker 1: there's all sorts of things out in the world that
Speaker 1: encourage us to lose our humanity or to look at
Speaker 1: other people and say, well, what did they expect or
Speaker 1: are they signed up for that? Or they deserve to
Speaker 1: feel this way? And I really want to reject those
Speaker 1: I don't mean to be judgmental, but like I would
Speaker 1: call them lesser human instincts, you know, maybe maybe the
Speaker 1: ways that we can be a little base or cruel,
Speaker 1: and I really want to go in the opposite direction
Speaker 1: of that stuff. So that's what I think is the
Speaker 1: best antidote to stress. Gratitude, care, kindness. And then you know,
Speaker 1: for our little individual bodies, probably boring, but sleep, water,
Speaker 1: taking vitamins, you know, doing little things to help make
Speaker 1: your physical self more resilient. I think all those incremental,
Speaker 1: little acts of self care really add up to create
Speaker 1: big shifts. And so I try to make sure I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about all the good things and then doing small
Speaker 1: good things for my little body. And I hope you
Speaker 1: are too. Riley asks, what is your favorite show you've
Speaker 1: acted in? Oh my goodness, this is so hard for
Speaker 1: me because I cherish experiences on different things for different reasons.
Speaker 1: You know, I loved I loved playing Brooke Davis for
Speaker 1: nine years. What a rare thing that an actor gets
Speaker 1: to do that nine seasons on a series, you know,
Speaker 1: doesn't happen that often. And I loved her journey, and
Speaker 1: I loved fighting for her, and I loved helping make
Speaker 1: her a person that I care about and that so
Speaker 1: many fans care about. And then you know, on the
Speaker 1: flip side working on Easy on Netflix with Joe Swamberg
Speaker 1: and Jacquelyn Tiboni. You know a writer, director that I
Speaker 1: absolutely love, an actor that I absolutely love. You know,
Speaker 1: I just did one episode of that show. The series
Speaker 1: is an anthology, that's how it works, and yet it
Speaker 1: was one of the most fun experiences I've ever had
Speaker 1: as an actor, because you know, the shows based on
Speaker 1: outline and then the actual scenes are mostly improved. And
Speaker 1: I loved the challenge of that. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if I could handle doing a whole series like that
Speaker 1: because the pressure is so crazy. But maybe maybe it
Speaker 1: would be the most fun thing I've ever done, and
Speaker 1: I've just never done it, and I just haven't done
Speaker 1: it yet, so whether it's like such a long job
Speaker 1: or something that happens really briefly. I have attachments to
Speaker 1: different projects for different reasons. I've never been good at
Speaker 1: picking a favorite, So I hope that that's not a
Speaker 1: terrible answer, Riley, but I am sort of incapable of
Speaker 1: doing that. Kayla asks what project have you worked on
Speaker 1: that has taught you the most about yourself? Kind of
Speaker 1: a similar answer to the previous question. I think I
Speaker 1: think about learning through life climbing a ladder, and I
Speaker 1: think every time you level up, every time you climb
Speaker 1: aroun you learn something new. Sometimes in you know, in
Speaker 1: different phases of our lives, we learn versions of similar lessons.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes we get tested, you know, through the decades,
Speaker 1: to see how well we can apply our learning, our
Speaker 1: sense of the view, were all sorts of things, so
Speaker 1: I think it's hard to narrow down on just one thing.
Speaker 1: I think working on One Tree Hill really taught me
Speaker 1: to advocate for a character, taught me to advocate for
Speaker 1: the women around me, definitely taught me in hindsight, I
Speaker 1: think taught me that some battles are absolutely worth fighting,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you just have to realize that, you know,
Speaker 1: not everything will be one or workout, and that's okay
Speaker 1: too a long life we lead, I would say the
Speaker 1: next long series I did in Chicago really taught me
Speaker 1: to advocate. At first, I was advocating for women, you know,
Speaker 1: for a group of us, for a community, and then
Speaker 1: it really taught me that, you know, if you don't
Speaker 1: put your own oxygen mask on first, you're doing a
Speaker 1: disservice to yourself and everyone else. And that job ultimately
Speaker 1: taught me to choose myself and to protect myself, and
Speaker 1: that was a really valuable lesson too. I think, I know,
Speaker 1: I just talked about this show too, but working on
Speaker 1: Easy taught me that I love improv you know, not
Speaker 1: necessarily a big lesson for me as a human and
Speaker 1: you know how I grow and show up in the world,
Speaker 1: but it was certainly an amazing lesson for me as
Speaker 1: an actor and a storyteller. And I loved it, like
Speaker 1: I can't talk about it without grinning. It was just
Speaker 1: such a fun experience. And yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: every job, you know, can really illuminate something for you,
Speaker 1: whether it's in your creativity and your work, or in
Speaker 1: who you are as a person and the ways you're
Speaker 1: learning to you know, move as a human in the world.
Speaker 1: And that's something I really appreciate, you know, in all
Speaker 1: the ways that my day job as an actor is
Speaker 1: so bizarre and you know requires you to kind of
Speaker 1: move around at a moment's notice and you know, basically
Speaker 1: be like a circus performer. I really like that you
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to constantly, you know, meet new people,
Speaker 1: watch the way people work, learn new things. You know.
Speaker 1: When I made good, SAYM, I learned that I actually
Speaker 1: really am fascinated by medicine in ways I always thought
Speaker 1: I was, but I I didn't get to have the
Speaker 1: experience until I was, you know, shadowing surgeons and standing
Speaker 1: and operating theaters and you know, getting to peek around
Speaker 1: inside the literal body cavities of patients and ask questions.
Speaker 1: You know, what a profound privilege to get to do that,
Speaker 1: To get to stand and shadow surgeons in the way
Speaker 1: that on set, I've shadowed directors. You know, I always
Speaker 1: knew it was something that I wanted to learn more about,
Speaker 1: but I got to have the experience up close and
Speaker 1: personal and realize that, you know, it's definitely one of
Speaker 1: the coolest things I've ever been fortunate enough to see.
Speaker 1: And so, yeah, I think every project has taught me something.
Speaker 1: And I guess the overarching theme really is that I'm
Speaker 1: curious and I like that about myself. I guess i'd
Speaker 1: wonder for you guys, what big lessons you take away
Speaker 1: from work and what things you really like that you've
Speaker 1: discovered about yourselves. Maybe send us some answers to those
Speaker 1: questions on social because we'd love to know. Tia wants
Speaker 1: to know what woman in your life has inspired you
Speaker 1: the most. Oh my goodness, I have such an incredible
Speaker 1: community of women and friends and co workers and mentors,
Speaker 1: and I'm just endlessly inspired, truly by so many of
Speaker 1: the friends I've collected, you know, along the way in
Speaker 1: these past two decades of adulthood. I'd say the first
Speaker 1: person who comes to mind is Nia, my best friend,
Speaker 1: who is just so tenacious and curious and wise and god,
Speaker 1: she's just good at everything and manages to be this
Speaker 1: incredible professional and also the most fun person to go
Speaker 1: on an adventure with, go to a party with, hit
Speaker 1: a dance floor with. She's just she's like the best
Speaker 1: person that I know. And I feel that way about,
Speaker 1: you know, my group of girlfriends back home in LA.
Speaker 1: I feel that way about so many of the women
Speaker 1: that I've worked with on camera, who have inspired me
Speaker 1: by the way they show up and the women they
Speaker 1: are behind the scenes. I feel that way about, you know,
Speaker 1: the folks that I've made friends with in the last
Speaker 1: you know, half decade from across the women's sports industry
Speaker 1: who've managed to advocate for pay equity globally and who
Speaker 1: have you know, really helped inspire you know, not only
Speaker 1: like my love of sport, but the way I show
Speaker 1: up as you know, a part owner of a team. God,
Speaker 1: I mean, think about our our whole executive team at
Speaker 1: Angel City, you know, so crazy, Like I grew up
Speaker 1: playing Ayso soccer and now I get to collaborate with
Speaker 1: this group of women on one of the best teams
Speaker 1: in the league and watch, you know, the women that
Speaker 1: we support and the women who play for us, and
Speaker 1: the women who work in our back offices. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just like, I'm so endlessly inspired by the tenacity
Speaker 1: and the courage of the women in my lives in
Speaker 1: every vertical. And yeah, I feel very lucky. You know.
Speaker 1: When I think about that first question for Maria, like
Speaker 1: how I deal with stress, sometimes I just think about
Speaker 1: the people in my life who I get to call
Speaker 1: on a day to day basis, and thing like, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to deny that today's a hard day
Speaker 1: or that this crazy thing is happening, but I feel really,
Speaker 1: really lucky to be part of the community that I
Speaker 1: am a part of, and that extends to a lot
Speaker 1: of you. You know, I started this podcast because I
Speaker 1: wanted to have interesting conversations with people that inspire me.
Speaker 1: Glorious dynam think about an inspiring woman, my god, my
Speaker 1: first guest, you know, back in twenty nineteen, and to
Speaker 1: pick her brain about her advocacy in the way that
Speaker 1: she has stood up for the equality of women in
Speaker 1: this country and around the world, Like, that's a dream
Speaker 1: come true for me. And the fact that so many
Speaker 1: of you show up to join me in these conversations
Speaker 1: and listen like you guys inspire me too, So add
Speaker 1: yourselves to the list. And now a word from our
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Speaker 1: Christine wants to know what is your favorite song on
Speaker 1: Cowboy Critter. I mean, that feels so tough to pick one.
Speaker 1: The whole album is so beautiful, and I think one
Speaker 1: of the things that inspires me most about it is
Speaker 1: what an education it is for so many of us
Speaker 1: about the folks who helped create country music as a genre.
Speaker 1: It's really inspiring to me to see someone like Beyonce
Speaker 1: show up and give us all a history lesson on
Speaker 1: the incredible contributions of black artists to country. So I
Speaker 1: absolutely love that. And when I think about the way
Speaker 1: that she's partnered with so many incredible people to make
Speaker 1: this record, you know, traditional voices from country, historic voices
Speaker 1: from country, and then even like people who we just
Speaker 1: love like. I love watching her journey as a woman.
Speaker 1: I have loved over the last few years, in particular
Speaker 1: watching Miley Cyrus's journey you know, as a woman and
Speaker 1: an artist. Flowers was like definitely my my theme song
Speaker 1: for a year. So I think this week it's probably
Speaker 1: Most Wanted. It's the Beyonce and Miley du it. I
Speaker 1: just love it. It makes me want to scream, sing
Speaker 1: and cry all at the same time. It's so beautiful.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, check in next week because I
Speaker 1: might be on a different one, or who knows, Most
Speaker 1: Wanted might just be on repeat forever. We'll see. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is a nice question from Elizabeth. What's been the
Speaker 1: best part of your twenty twenty four so far? Wow?
Speaker 1: I think I think the best part of this year.
Speaker 1: I really like to do a check in on New
Speaker 1: Year's and my friend Kenny, one of my best friends
Speaker 1: years ago, gave me and a bunch of our pals
Speaker 1: this like packet of questions to fill out for New
Speaker 1: Year's and I just find it super inspiring. And this year,
Speaker 1: as I sat to like do this workbook and really
Speaker 1: think about what twenty twenty four was going to have
Speaker 1: in store. I realized that in some ways, you know,
Speaker 1: things feel harder than ever, and yet I'm happier than
Speaker 1: I have ever been. I feel less pressure to be
Speaker 1: what other people need me to be, or to be
Speaker 1: concerned with other people's assumption versus the reality that I
Speaker 1: live in. And as a person who like literally came
Speaker 1: into my adulthood on camera with the pressure of the world,
Speaker 1: you know, looking in as I think anybody who grows
Speaker 1: up quick on TV does, Like, that's a pretty profound
Speaker 1: way to feel. To know what is true and what
Speaker 1: is good and what matters to me and to the
Speaker 1: people that I love in a way that isn't you know,
Speaker 1: swayed or pressurized from the outside. That feels like a
Speaker 1: pretty big deal. And to sit in that and really
Speaker 1: reflect on that. At the start of the year, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just felt like a really major milestone. Took me
Speaker 1: a long time to get here, and I'm really grateful
Speaker 1: to be here, and now being here, I really want that,
Speaker 1: you know, for everyone I know and everyone I don't,
Speaker 1: for all of you for sure. And then I think,
Speaker 1: if I get like a little less sort of overarching theme,
Speaker 1: a little less meta. I'm really excited about some projects
Speaker 1: I've signed on to do and a project that I'm
Speaker 1: pitching with some of my favorite people, and I just
Speaker 1: feel really inspired as an artist again, and that feels
Speaker 1: very exciting. So yeah, twenty twenty four feels like it's
Speaker 1: shaping up to be a good year. Tenley wants to know, Oh,
Speaker 1: do you like to see a One Tree Hill reunion
Speaker 1: or should this series stay as is? You know, I
Speaker 1: think my opinion on this has really changed, And I
Speaker 1: also think that's pretty natural, Like you wrap a show
Speaker 1: after nine years and no matter how much you loved it.
Speaker 1: I mean, clearly I loved it. I sobbed every day
Speaker 1: for the last two weeks of filming. But when you wrap,
Speaker 1: you're like, I did it, I'm done. I want to
Speaker 1: go do other things. You really want to have a
Speaker 1: new experience as an artist and a storyteller. And then
Speaker 1: when the girls and I decided to do our rewatch show,
Speaker 1: when we started Drama Queens and really got to reclaim
Speaker 1: our first which was kind of our first love, and
Speaker 1: you know, get to really examine the show from such
Speaker 1: a distance that we could really watch it and experience
Speaker 1: it and not be like, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to say triggered, but kind of not be triggered
Speaker 1: by it and not be like sort of yanked backward
Speaker 1: into it. It's been so cool, and I've really loved
Speaker 1: watching it, and I've loved getting to experience it the
Speaker 1: way the fans of the show got to experience it,
Speaker 1: And in a way, I love it now more than
Speaker 1: I think I ever have. And so I think the
Speaker 1: right kind of reunion would be amazing. I also think
Speaker 1: when you did something really special, the wrong kind of
Speaker 1: reunion could be terrible. So, you know, I think if
Speaker 1: it felt like our podcast feels, if it felt like
Speaker 1: a reclamation, if it felt like a return to what
Speaker 1: is so good good and a continuation of that, and
Speaker 1: didn't require us to like keep the trash in the
Speaker 1: house if you will, if you can follow the metaphor
Speaker 1: I'm saying here, I'm trying to keep it classy. You know,
Speaker 1: if we could reclaim it and take the trash out
Speaker 1: at the same time, I would say never say never. Oh,
Speaker 1: I like this question too. Ali asks what do you
Speaker 1: admire most about your parents? Gosh, my parents are really
Speaker 1: cool and complicated and great, and you know, we've got
Speaker 1: family stuff, like I think every family does. I think
Speaker 1: the thing that I really admire about them is as
Speaker 1: I have gotten older and really wanted to do the
Speaker 1: work on examining patterns and processing trauma and you know,
Speaker 1: growing as a human, becoming a healthier human, my parents
Speaker 1: have not shied away from that. And I think for
Speaker 1: parents especially, that can be really hard to you know,
Speaker 1: unearth things about your family, or to examine old wounds
Speaker 1: that exist, you know, within a family, or to clue
Speaker 1: their kids in on things when their kids are suddenly
Speaker 1: their peers because everyone in the room is an adult now,
Speaker 1: you know. And my parents have been more and more
Speaker 1: as the years have gone by, more and more willing
Speaker 1: to do that. And that is something that to me
Speaker 1: speaks to things I admire in folks that are older
Speaker 1: than me. In general, I think intergenerational friendships are incredibly important.
Speaker 1: I really try to make sure I have a community
Speaker 1: that you know, fans from seventy five to twenty two.
Speaker 1: And what I respect about my parents, what I respect
Speaker 1: even about some of my mentors in the political space
Speaker 1: is people who become more and more progressive as they age.
Speaker 1: People who are more and more willing to make room
Speaker 1: for others, for their equality, for their needs, for their joy,
Speaker 1: for their ability to thrive, for their ability to ask
Speaker 1: hard questions and get real answers. Like it's really something
Speaker 1: I'm passionate about. And so I appreciate that in my
Speaker 1: own family with my parents, that they're every year they
Speaker 1: seem more willing to you know, show up as them
Speaker 1: as their whole selves and make room for others. And
Speaker 1: that's something I'm really grateful for. And I zoom out
Speaker 1: again and I have to draw this parallel because it's
Speaker 1: true and be like we're gearing up for the selection,
Speaker 1: and so I think it's an important thing to examine,
Speaker 1: you know, It's something I appreciate. Like I said about
Speaker 1: my mentors in the world of policy and politics, it's
Speaker 1: something that I, you know, appreciate about people I advocate alongside,
Speaker 1: like folks who've been doing this for a long time,
Speaker 1: who say, yeah, we tried something, it didn't work. We've
Speaker 1: learned better. We're going to be more progressive. We're going
Speaker 1: to make more room, we're going to give more resources
Speaker 1: to people. We're gonna we're going to take care of
Speaker 1: more children, We're going to get more kids out of poverty.
Speaker 1: We're going to feed more kids in school. You know,
Speaker 1: like the list goes on. We're not gonna lean on
Speaker 1: these carceral options like we used to because now we
Speaker 1: know they don't work. Like all of that. You know,
Speaker 1: that is something that not only takes a willingness to evolve,
Speaker 1: but to do it on a public stage takes a
Speaker 1: lot of courage. And yeah, it's the reason that you
Speaker 1: see me advocate for the folks that I do in
Speaker 1: election years because that's something that's really meaningful to me.
Speaker 1: So I think in the personal you know, just me
Speaker 1: and my folks in my house, to the you know,
Speaker 1: nationwide all of us and the policies that affect us,
Speaker 1: I actually really see like a parallel there and hopefully
Speaker 1: you guys do doo. And now a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 1: Catherine asks what is your favorite self care treatment that
Speaker 1: you like to treat yourself to. Oh? Wow, my favorite.
Speaker 1: The thing that feels the most like a luxury to
Speaker 1: me is to get a massage. You know, my body
Speaker 1: is pretty shattered from years of doing stunts and getting
Speaker 1: injured and having to keep working and you know, flying
Speaker 1: as often as I have to to do my job
Speaker 1: but also have any sort of relationship with my family
Speaker 1: and friends back home because I never work where I live.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think in recent years, like I don't
Speaker 1: do it a lot. I wish I did it more.
Speaker 1: I've got friends who are like in their sixties who
Speaker 1: get a massage once a week, and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: that's like real adulting, probably, you know. But I think
Speaker 1: about my twenties, where I probably did it like once
Speaker 1: a year, and now I probably do it, I don't know,
Speaker 1: once every six weeks. So maybe I'm evolving in the
Speaker 1: right direction. But yeah, that feels like such a luxury,
Speaker 1: but also like medicine, and I think that's something I'm
Speaker 1: trying to wrap my head or is that there are
Speaker 1: kinds of self care that actually helped keep us healthy
Speaker 1: instead of the kinds of self care we have to
Speaker 1: do to cope when we're sick. So you know, I'm
Speaker 1: working on adjusting my perspectives on that. I think the
Speaker 1: biggest self care like daily change I've made in my life, though,
Speaker 1: is sleep. I'm actually sleeping like seven to eight hours
Speaker 1: a night now, and I never used to do that,
Speaker 1: probably the whole time I filmed one tree Hill. I
Speaker 1: slept like five hours a night, which just was not good.
Speaker 1: It wasn't healthy. But when you're working seventeen hours a
Speaker 1: day and you're trying to like have any semblance of
Speaker 1: a life around that, you can start to sacrifice your sleep.
Speaker 1: And I'm just realized I don't want to do that,
Speaker 1: and so probably sounds really lame, but sleep is really
Speaker 1: the greatest form of self care that I treat myself
Speaker 1: to the most regularly. And yeah, if you're an under sleeper,
Speaker 1: please start sleeping. Take care of your brain and your body.
Speaker 1: Take it from me. Took me a long time, but
Speaker 1: I'm really trying to be good about it. Oh, Samantha asks,
Speaker 1: what is your favorite kind of pasta? Girl? Who could
Speaker 1: pick a favorite kind? That feels hard? This is funny
Speaker 1: because I just ate lunch and I had or ketty
Speaker 1: with sausage and broccolini that I made, so you read
Speaker 1: my mind. My favorite kind of pasta is every kind
Speaker 1: of pasta. I really would like to learn to perfect
Speaker 1: a carbonara that is on my list. So if any
Speaker 1: of you listening out there have a good carbonara recipe,
Speaker 1: hit your girl, because I really need to know. Austin
Speaker 1: asks what is your biggest pet peeve Ooh, easy answer.
Speaker 1: I can tell you this because I travel a lot.
Speaker 1: People who watch things on their phones on airplanes with
Speaker 1: no headphones. I think it is like, straight up the
Speaker 1: most unbelievably inconsiderate thing you can do. Like we're all
Speaker 1: trapped in a metal tube together, the way sound travels
Speaker 1: on a plane and the engine noise, and just like
Speaker 1: there's already so much noise in a plane as it is,
Speaker 1: and to be like rapid fire scrolling through videos on TikTok,
Speaker 1: or like playing Angry Birds with the sound on and
Speaker 1: no headphones, I'm just like, how can you subject other
Speaker 1: people to this? And you know, I do know that
Speaker 1: I'm very noise sensitive with my particular you know, version
Speaker 1: of being a little neurospicy. But like, I just think
Speaker 1: it's awful to force people to listen to terrible sounds
Speaker 1: in public. It's like, you got to bring headphones, boys
Speaker 1: and girls. You just have to. That's mine, Chris. What
Speaker 1: is your favorite eighties movie? Oh? My goodness, I mean,
Speaker 1: the first thing that comes to mind is Princess Bride.
Speaker 1: I actually don't know if I think that's an eighties movie.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's an early nineties movie. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just watched it that in Flight of the Navigator. I
Speaker 1: watched obsessively as a kid. Those movies really shaped me.
Speaker 1: So probably those two. What are your favorite eighties movies? Guys?
Speaker 1: I'm realizing I probably didn't watch all that many because
Speaker 1: you know, I was a little baby. But yeah, tell
Speaker 1: me what you guys love to go back and watch
Speaker 1: from the eighties. I feel like I should add some
Speaker 1: things to the list. Christian, what is something that brought
Speaker 1: you joy in the last week? Oh, oh, my goodness,
Speaker 1: something that brought me joy in the last week. I
Speaker 1: went over to a friends for a big Sunday barbecue,
Speaker 1: and we're at that stage now where parents are there
Speaker 1: and some of our friends have kids, so there's kids
Speaker 1: running around, and it was this moment where I like,
Speaker 1: I looked around the backyard at my friend's parents laughing
Speaker 1: and all these kids running around in circles, giggling, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, it was just this really really cool
Speaker 1: moment where I sort of felt like I was suspended
Speaker 1: between these two worlds. You know, I remember what it
Speaker 1: was like to be a little kid running around the
Speaker 1: backyard on a Sunday with my friends and I was
Speaker 1: looking at you know, all these folks like in their sixties,
Speaker 1: just vibing, having a time, and I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: I'll be there eventually, and this is so cool, like
Speaker 1: to see all these sort of stages of life. It felt.
Speaker 1: It felt like a moment that I wished my mind
Speaker 1: could take a picture of. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: ever have that, but I definitely have that where I
Speaker 1: look around and I think, God, I just want to
Speaker 1: snapshot this. I don't want to forget what this feels like.
Speaker 1: The sun was out, there was a little breeze, like
Speaker 1: everything was just a vibe, and yeah, I felt really
Speaker 1: grateful and it was a nice moment to just check
Speaker 1: in with what that feels like, how nice it feels
Speaker 1: to have that sort of swelling in your chest and
Speaker 1: realize you're smiling looking around, and to just go, Wow,
Speaker 1: this is really good. There's a lot out there that's hard,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot going on in the world that
Speaker 1: I know makes us all feel really uncertain. So for
Speaker 1: those moments that I just think like I want to
Speaker 1: remember this, I want to cherish this, I have so
Speaker 1: much gratitude because those are the ones I think that
Speaker 1: make all the other stuff worth navigating and doing, you know,
Speaker 1: makes me really happy. And obviously, you know, the forty
Speaker 1: six times I've listened to Cowboy Carter brought me joy
Speaker 1: this week as well for the world. Okay, Ava asks
Speaker 1: who is your dream dinner party guest? Living or dead?
Speaker 1: Ooh gosh, that is such a good question. I wish
Speaker 1: I could. I wish I could build out like a
Speaker 1: dream dinner party table. But honestly, it's funny. There's so
Speaker 1: many people I'm so inspired by who I'd love to
Speaker 1: have a meal with. But for whatever reason, and maybe
Speaker 1: it's the last question making me really think about you know,
Speaker 1: generations and phases in life. But you said living or dead,
Speaker 1: and I like what I would give to be able
Speaker 1: to have dinner with my grandfather one more time. That
Speaker 1: would just be so cool. He passed away right at
Speaker 1: the end of season four of One Tree Hill. Actually,
Speaker 1: and I would just love, you know, I was in
Speaker 1: my mid twenties then, and I would really love from
Speaker 1: this vantage point, like with all this experience under my belt,
Speaker 1: you know, the things I've done and the lessons I've learned,
Speaker 1: and the successes and the failures and all of the
Speaker 1: things I would love to sit down with him and
Speaker 1: just talk about life. Now, there's so many questions I
Speaker 1: would have to ask him about his story and you know,
Speaker 1: his relationships and the things that he survived in the
Speaker 1: ways that he served, and yeah, just so much. I
Speaker 1: didn't know to ask when I was twenty four, but
Speaker 1: I would know to ask him now, and that that's
Speaker 1: something I would really I would really really if I
Speaker 1: could snap my fingers and be in a parallel universe
Speaker 1: and have him, I would love to do that. So
Speaker 1: thank you for that question, Ava, It's nice to think
Speaker 1: about him, Oh my goodness. And then Emma wants to
Speaker 1: know who would be your one call from jail. Nia
Speaker 1: My best friend that I was talking about earlier would
Speaker 1: absolutely be my call from jail. I would just trust
Speaker 1: her to sort things quickly and not panic, so I
Speaker 1: think she would really she would really be the one.
Speaker 1: But now I'm like, well, what would I be getting
Speaker 1: arrested for. I wonder that's a fun one to think about.
Speaker 1: Have any of you ever been arrested? I have questions
Speaker 1: who would your one phone call be from jail? Friends?
Speaker 1: That would actually be a really fun thing to hear about,
Speaker 1: So send us those answers in addition to any of
Speaker 1: the other questions you have, and we will do another
Speaker 1: one of these very soon. This is always really fun.
Speaker 1: Thank you for asking great questions. You give me a
Speaker 1: lot of very cool things to think about. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: look forward to the next one. Have a great week y'all.