1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Girl. Welcome 2 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: to I Choose Me, a podcast about the choices we 3 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: make to move forward in our careers and our lives 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: with courage and perseverance. My guest has been in this 5 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: industry as long as I have, and we once played sisters. 6 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: You guys. Alison Sweeney went on to grow up on 7 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: the legendary set of Days of Our Lives, host a 8 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: reality show, write best selling novels, and is now executive 9 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:39,480 Speaker 1: producing and starring in beloved Hallmark films like Romance at Hope, 10 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: Ranch and Sugar and Vice, a Hannah Swinson Mystery. Alison 11 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: Sweeney is not just stepping into her new career chapters, 12 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: she's producing them. Let's get into it, Okay, this is 13 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: so fun to reunite with you. When do we last 14 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: see each other, because I know, I remember we work 15 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: together on a brand New Life in like nineteen eighty eight. 16 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's right, eighty eight, eighty h 17 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 2: eighty seven, yeah, yeah. 18 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 1: But we've seen each other. 19 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,039 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, We've seen each other at events over the years. 20 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, those like Halloween. I think 21 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 3: I saw you when my kid, my son was. I 22 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 3: have a funny picture of my son when he was 23 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 3: one year old at one of those Universal folloween you know, 24 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 3: day time things, and I mean into you there, maybe 25 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 3: at Brooks House one time, I don't know, lots of 26 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 3: times over the years. 27 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been good. It's been good because I feel 28 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: like I've seen you grow up. Because when you did 29 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: that show, you were like, how ten. 30 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, twelve, twelve or thirteen, I think, oh. 31 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 1: My gosh, and I was like fifteen. Yeah, I was 32 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: your older sister, and I don't know why, but I 33 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: still feel like I'm your older sister. 34 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 2: I love that. I mean it's just fun. You feel 35 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 2: like family. I had run into the Toms quite a 36 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 2: bit over the years. Do you remember David, Yes, of course. 37 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 2: Were we twin brothers or was he meant to be young? 38 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: Were younger? 39 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, he was younger and his sister Heather was on 40 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 4: Young and the Restless, And it's just funny, like, no matter, 41 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 4: even though that show didn't last very long, we still 42 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 4: it just I still felt like we were a family. 43 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: I know. I just had the opportunity to have Barbara 44 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: on the pod and it was bananas out. She came 45 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: to my house Barbara Eaton came to my house, looked incredible, 46 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: sharp as a whip, Yeah, funny, amazing, just the way 47 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: I remembered her, And it just got me thinking back to, 48 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: you know, everything that she taught me on that set, 49 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: because that was my very first job. Was it your 50 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: first show? 51 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 2: No, I had. I had done commercials before that, but 52 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 2: that was the like and and and then I had 53 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 2: done a series that didn't get picked up where we 54 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 2: did a couple episodes, but that was the first time. Like, 55 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 2: do you remember that we traveled? Was it the pilot episode? 56 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 2: But we got to go to la Quinka? 57 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: Yes, we got to go to brings. I remember that. 58 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 2: Was so cool I felt and somehow I feel like 59 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 2: maybe I got pushed in a pool or I had 60 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 2: a scene in a swimming pool. I just remember, like, 61 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 2: I felt so cool that we were all location doing 62 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 2: you know, fun stuff. Yeah. 63 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: I loved talking with her and just reminiscing and hearing 64 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: stories from her that I'd never heard before. Yeah, so 65 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: that was incredible. Since I remember you as young Allison, 66 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 1: little twelve year old Alison, what would you tell younger Allison? 67 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 2: Now, I mean, I think the obvious thing I would say, Actually, 68 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 2: because the reason I remember that bathing suit scene is 69 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 2: how mortified I was, even at twelve years old, to 70 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 2: be in a bathing suit. And I think every woman 71 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 2: girl relates to that feeling, and so I would I 72 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 2: would love to say to her like, hey, it's gonna 73 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 2: be okay. Don't everyone feels the way you feel, so 74 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 2: don't you don't have to be ashamed or feel bad 75 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 2: about how you look. But I don't think even if 76 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 2: I had said that to myself, I would it would 77 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 2: have listened. So I don't know that that would have 78 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 2: been an effective way to use my time. I know. 79 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: I mean we both have you know, your daughter Megan 80 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: is seventeen, right, yes, so we all have like young 81 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,799 Speaker 1: adult girls. I have three of them, but my gosh, 82 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: just I wish they could hear our messages, like things 83 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: that we wish we could have done differently. But I 84 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: tell them and it's like in one air and out 85 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 1: the other. 86 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 2: No, yeah, I think you have to go through it. 87 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 2: I think you have to live it. And now I 88 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 2: feel so, you know, the confidence I have comes from 89 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 2: it being earned, you know, And I think maybe part 90 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 2: of growing up is that feeling. I mean, you know, 91 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,479 Speaker 2: hopefully with that you can help your kids keep it 92 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,840 Speaker 2: within a healthy range. But I think it does have 93 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 2: to be each person has to get there themselves. Yes, 94 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 2: I sort of think that has to be the way. 95 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: It is so true. I mean I was the same way. 96 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: So I just I'm excited to learn about everything that 97 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: you've got going on, because you have just been like 98 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 1: NonStop working since you were twelve. You have not one 99 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,479 Speaker 1: but two movies premiering right now, Romance Hope, r Aunt 100 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: and Sugar and Vice A Hannah s Winson Mystery. Ooh, 101 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: you're busy. 102 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 2: And it's funny about the hannahs Winson because you know, 103 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 2: I when I did the very first I played Handa 104 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 2: for the first time, I never thought I would be 105 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 2: here making, you know, premiering the thirteen movies of this character. 106 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 2: You know. I mean, I think that's true of anyone 107 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 2: who gets the series. I'm sure you felt that, or 108 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 2: I should ask you when you did nine. It two 109 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 2: an out where you're like, oh, yeah, this is gonna go, 110 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 2: this is gonna be no big time. 111 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,359 Speaker 1: I don't know anything, Yeah, and you just have no idea. 112 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 2: You sort of like not to compare the d just record, 113 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 2: I do cute little movies, but it just, you know, 114 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 2: you were like, you're like an I, but it's it's 115 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 2: just you just have no idea what the audience is 116 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 2: going to love and respond to, and so you just 117 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 2: kind of go and you do it, and you look 118 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 2: around and you have fun with the crew and you 119 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 2: get to know people little bit, and then you get 120 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 2: to do it again, and then you go again, and 121 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 2: the next thing you know, here you are ten years later, 122 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 2: still playing this character. And I just feel so blessed. 123 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, you say it in Romance of the Hope. It's 124 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: kind of more of a deeply personal story for you 125 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 1: that you've brought your own family kind of story into it. 126 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: What parts of yourself did you see reflected in Hope? 127 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 2: Well, so, I mean sort of more deep deeply. U. 128 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 2: The arch the arc of my character is a woman 129 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 2: who drops her kid off at college and is deciding 130 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 2: to tackle like her dream job, do something she's always 131 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,599 Speaker 2: wanted to do and sort of always felt so responsible 132 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 2: raising our kid that she kind of waited until she 133 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 2: could do this. And now she's buying a ranch and 134 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 2: she's going to be a horsewoman and have a ranch 135 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 2: and like do the whole thing. 136 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: Okay, I want to bring her I know exactly, you know. 137 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 2: And then when we were doing the development with the scrap, 138 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 2: I really wanted to make sure it wasn't some kind 139 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 2: of the trope was not going to be that like, oh, 140 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 2: she's not good at it. No, she's a smart lady 141 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:10,679 Speaker 2: who like figured it out and did all the research 142 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 2: and she knows and she loves sources, and she's not 143 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 2: afraid of hard work. And so she tackles this new 144 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 2: you know, she bought this ranch that's always been her 145 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 2: dream and she's doing it. But I wanted the story. 146 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 2: I really wanted to help the story be that you 147 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 2: don't have to do everything yourself. That it isn't actually 148 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 2: like some big child, you know. I feel my daughter 149 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 2: and I laugh about it all the time, but I 150 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 2: bring in all the grocery bags in one trip, like 151 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 2: I really will, like almost hurt myself trying to make 152 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 2: it happen. And I don't want help from anyone, and 153 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 2: it's inexplicable. I don't I don't know why I do it. 154 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 2: And now my daughter does it, and I look at 155 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 2: her sometimes and I'm thinking like did I did you 156 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 2: see me do that? And now you have to like 157 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 2: I don't know where that comes from, but I thought 158 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 2: this movie was a good opportunity to just sort of 159 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 2: have that be the lesson, like that it's nice, it's 160 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 2: okay to ask for help, it's okay to share a 161 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 2: responsibility and a task, and it's okay to be to 162 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 2: go at it as a team and to include your 163 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 2: community or your family or your you know, loved one. 164 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 2: And and I thought that was a really fun message. 165 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 2: But then the family part is really my mother's name 166 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 2: is Hope, and her my grandmother was Hope. And you know, 167 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 2: we all loved we all grew up with horses. We're 168 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 2: a big horse ranch family. This is sort of a 169 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 2: dream we would all have. And uh and then. 170 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 1: My daughter, Yeah, your daughter, this is her debut, her premiere. 171 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, and okay, she is my She was my 172 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 2: age when I booked Days of Our Lives, so she 173 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 2: was sixteen when she played this part. So I sort 174 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 2: of had this very meta like, oh, my gosh, I 175 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 2: know here she is doing a movie with me. 176 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: Has she always wanted to be an actress? Did you know? 177 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: Early on in she's. 178 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 2: A performer for sure. She loves you know, the spotlight. 179 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 2: She's good at the school plays and stuff like that. Sure, 180 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 2: she's going to be an actor. I think you and 181 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 2: I both know you have. I sort of tell people, 182 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 2: I don't know how you phrase it, but like you 183 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 2: have to not want to do anything else, like to 184 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 2: make this into to make being an actor work, it 185 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 2: has to be more important to you than anything because 186 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 2: there's so much heartache and so much rejection and so 187 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 2: much you know, it doesn't go your way. 188 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, how did you set her up for success? Because 189 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: my daughter did a movie with me when she was 190 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: seventeen as well, and I was I couldn't say enough 191 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 1: to her about what to think about as she moved forward, 192 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: if she if she moved forward and as a for 193 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: her career. But I was worried about all the rejection 194 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: and you know, all the because that's affected me for 195 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: sure in my life. And I'm sure you have relatable 196 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: stories as well. 197 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's such a it's people don't. I 198 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 2: think people don't. It's hard to explain to people how 199 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 2: that makes you feel, especially because you have to really 200 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 2: give of yourself to get to do the audition. You know, 201 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 2: you have to fall in love with that those sides 202 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 2: and be so on board and really believe like you're 203 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 2: the right person for it, and then to hear to 204 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 2: not even ever hear back. 205 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: It's just yeah, that's the new normal. 206 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's crushing. 207 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: How about like comparison. You know, I grew up on 208 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: a set as a young adult that was you know, 209 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,719 Speaker 1: kind of mentally very difficult for me and challenging just 210 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,439 Speaker 1: because I was you know, a young girl, a teenager basically, 211 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 1: And the comparisons and working with other co stars that 212 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 1: aren't you know, the most the easiest people to work with, 213 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: like all of the pitfalls of the business along the way, 214 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: how do you prepare for them? 215 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, you just have to say. And by the way, 216 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 2: she probably won't, you know, I don't know what she'll do. 217 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 2: Who knows. I'm excited for her to do whatever she wants. 218 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 2: But I think it's you know, very important to say 219 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 2: to anyone in that position that you have to be 220 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 2: who you are and not let other people change you, 221 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 2: not allow yourself. That's and I suppose that would be 222 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 2: true of you know, even friendship groups or any job 223 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 2: you have. Is when you find yourself in a toxic 224 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 2: environment or one person can be difficult, you have to 225 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 2: not you have to stay true to who you are. 226 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 2: And my dad said that to me when I faced 227 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 2: a difficult situation one time in a work environment. Is 228 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 2: he said, you have to behave in a way that 229 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 2: you can go to sleep at night and close your 230 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 2: eyes and be okay with how you handled yourself and 231 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 2: no one else can do that for you. That's you. 232 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 2: And I just remember thinking like it faced with lots 233 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 2: of difficult challenges in my life and decisions and ways 234 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 2: I handled situations. Is like, you know, even if it 235 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 2: needs an apology afterwards, is I need to go home 236 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 2: tonight and I have to lay my head down on 237 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 2: the pillow and be okay with how this day went. 238 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 2: And I feel that was a great life lesson. 239 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're in this similar timeframe in your life as 240 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: I am. And both of these projects that we were 241 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 1: talking about are women stepping into new chapters in their lives, 242 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: one through reinvention hope and then one through intuition and 243 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 1: problem solving. So how do you feel like those themes 244 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 1: sort of mirror what's where you are personally right now 245 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:24,199 Speaker 1: as a woman. 246 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think that I do feel there's a 247 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 2: lot of intuition I am trusting more about myself now 248 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 2: than I ever did before. I think we are inherently 249 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 2: intuitive people, but it does also come from experience and 250 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 2: wisdom and life lessons. So the more you experience, the 251 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 2: more you take in kind of sizing up what's around 252 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,079 Speaker 2: you and the people around you. The more information, more 253 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 2: data you're putting into your intuition so that you can 254 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 2: trust it more. And what I love about playing the 255 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 2: character of Hannah is that she is someone who is 256 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 2: looking outward. She is very aware of everything that happens 257 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 2: around her, and we focus on that in the storytelling 258 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 2: and in the cinematography of her. Note even at the 259 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 2: beginning of the movie, there's always clues before the you know, 260 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 2: we end the first act usually with the murder, but 261 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 2: there's plenty of clues that go into it before that 262 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 2: even happens. And my character, yes, exactly that my character 263 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 2: notices about people's behavior, and sometimes it's not to do 264 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 2: with the murder. Like what I loved about this premise 265 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 2: is that she also along the way solves other people's 266 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 2: little situations like oh, a couple misunderstood each other and 267 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 2: got in a fight, or you know whatever, Like it 268 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 2: can be anything, but sometimes she puts those things together 269 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,839 Speaker 2: Oh that person needed didn't know that this happened, and 270 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 2: she solves that along the way too, because she's so 271 00:13:56,440 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 2: intuitive and she's also very aware and conscious of the 272 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 2: people in her life. And I really liked I really 273 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 2: like that about this character. And the story is that, 274 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 2: and we lay that out in the movie and also 275 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 2: the way we film it that she notices someone walk 276 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 2: in and she notices their purse, so she notices that 277 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 2: they are limping, or she notices, you know, something, and 278 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 2: then later it makes sense and she's able to do 279 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 2: the math on that. 280 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. It sounds like she's very present 281 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: in the moment of wherever she is. Does that reflect 282 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: on you as a woman playing that character? Do you 283 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: take that home with you? 284 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 2: I love that. That's such a good point. Yes, I 285 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 2: do feel part of the whole challenge I had when 286 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 2: I was on Days of Our Lives and you know, 287 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 2: now a parent, and then I agreed to host The 288 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 2: Biggest Loser, which was basically like two full time jobs 289 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 2: and you know, trying to be a mom. One of 290 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 2: the things I really tasked myself with was being present 291 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 2: with whatever I'm doing right there. If I'm at work 292 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 2: and I'm not acting in my scene because I'm thinking 293 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 2: about how I'm not making my kids lunch or whatever, 294 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 2: like then I'm not doing anything. Now I've ruined both jobs, 295 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 2: you know, and so I really sort of tasked to myself. 296 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 2: And in fact, I think it makes it's funny because 297 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 2: now I'm realizing now I might have to break this 298 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 2: habit because I'm bad at planning trips and planning out 299 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 2: things in the future because I really live in like 300 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 2: what what do I need to do today? And where 301 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 2: am I and how do I be present in what's 302 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 2: happening right now? And then people are like, hey, let's 303 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 2: go to dinner a week from now, and I'm like, oh, 304 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 2: that's a long beto. 305 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: I'm not there yet. I need like night before, you know, 306 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: day before plants. 307 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 2: It's rough. 308 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: It's rough when you're doling so many things, and it's 309 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: not like now your kids are a little bit, they're 310 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: older and you don't have to be with them as much. 311 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: How old is your son? 312 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 2: My son is turning twenty one. 313 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: Tom, Wow, congrats? Yeah, so I know you're an empty 314 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: nester basically. 315 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah. And by the way, the second she got 316 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 2: the driver's license, like she was out of here, like 317 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 2: she's on her own. I mean it was. It was 318 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 2: a big change from taking her to her lesson waking 319 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 2: up at the krack of dawn. She rides horses, to 320 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 2: ride horses and you know, whatever other activities she wanted 321 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 2: to do. And now she you know, I can text 322 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 2: her and she'll bring me milkcmee from the market, Like 323 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 2: I don't even have to go to the market, so 324 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 2: if I don't want to, and so yeah, but you know, 325 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 2: I missed the times in the car with her. 326 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 1: I know, I know. Yeah, you talked about the Biggest 327 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: Loser You've also been. You were an amazing host of 328 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: that show for maybe thirteen seasons. It was so fun 329 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: to see you there, Like I didn't expect it, but 330 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: there you are. 331 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. I had a lot of fun being a part 332 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 2: of it. It was an amazing experience, so different from 333 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,920 Speaker 2: acting like it's a really it's I mean, it's such 334 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 2: a different thing, even just doing you know, a podcast. 335 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 2: I love the long form of this, but I love 336 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 2: being me. You know, it's so weird to be yourself 337 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 2: on TV. 338 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: Doing Charter right right, You've said you were there to 339 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: foster positive conversations about hell and you know, there were 340 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: some credit how along the way. How did you feel 341 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: about that whole experience looking back. 342 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:07,680 Speaker 2: Oh, I am proud of my part in that show. 343 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,959 Speaker 2: I'm proud to have watched so many people change their lives. 344 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 2: I mean, I have to tell you, like standing there 345 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:17,919 Speaker 2: next to some of the amazing women and men, people 346 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:20,880 Speaker 2: who who worked so hard to get fit and change 347 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 2: their lives, and yeah, I mean one of the whatever, 348 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 2: I'm not going to defend it, but certainly it didn't 349 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 2: work for everyone, but it worked for a lot of people. 350 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 2: And that's true. You know, anything really that you try, 351 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:36,640 Speaker 2: and certainly you know, doing it in a honest way 352 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 2: in front of America is hard to But I just 353 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 2: felt like I was so proud to meet those people 354 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 2: and see them on their journey and be a part 355 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 2: of it, if in small, some small way, be a 356 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 2: cheerleader for them and through a difficult time. I thought 357 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 2: they were amazing and inspirational and inspired me. And by 358 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 2: the way, I also found that was the other thing 359 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:56,920 Speaker 2: about being sort of like the face of the show, 360 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 2: is that or you know, part of the show people 361 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:02,679 Speaker 2: recognized is I met people every day who talk to 362 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 2: me about their own weight loss, just fans of the 363 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,719 Speaker 2: show who lost fifty pounds or just learning better or what? 364 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 2: And you I remember you? And I not to take 365 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,679 Speaker 2: it back to brand New life constantly, but do you 366 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 2: remember that we worked with someone who didn't who literally 367 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 2: ate bags of pasta And I was literally like it 368 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 2: didn't eat a lot, and so it like literally like 369 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 2: just would carry around bags of cooked pasta. 370 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: And I don't know why, person, I'm. 371 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 2: I do, I'm not. Thanks, Oh my god, I need 372 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:37,159 Speaker 2: you to know, at twelve years old, that was really 373 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 2: influential on me. Like, I mean, it's no one's fault, 374 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 2: it's my fault. But I seriously started eating pasta all 375 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 2: the time, and that didn't go well for my body type. 376 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: Did you think that pasta was going to make you 377 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:50,320 Speaker 1: certain differently healthy? 378 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:52,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, that it was good for you. That was good 379 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 2: for you. Whoa this plain pasta? Anyway? All that is 380 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 2: to say, when I was on the Biggest Loser, those 381 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 2: kinds of lessons actually really affected me to oh, ranch 382 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 2: dressing is not good for you. A Caesar style has 383 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:06,159 Speaker 2: more calories than a burger. Like, I mean, you know, 384 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 2: I think there was a lot that people learned from 385 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 2: that show that we had misunderstandings about fat free, fat 386 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 2: that or whatever like that you realized I was like, oh, yeah, 387 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 2: I definitely ate those cookies like boxes when I was 388 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 2: a teenager, you know. And so I think the show 389 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:26,440 Speaker 2: really did a really good job of helping people learn 390 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:28,639 Speaker 2: lots of stuff that they had just never been told. 391 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you went on to do more of that 392 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 1: by writing your own books about health and fitness and parenting. 393 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: How did you come to be an author? 394 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,719 Speaker 2: That was sort of the first part of that was 395 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 2: to do with like being on the soap and just 396 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 2: feeling so exposed growing up as a teenager. And I 397 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 2: don't know if you felt the same way, but when 398 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:54,439 Speaker 2: you're dealing with teenage issues and you're in the public 399 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 2: eye and on Dasbrael Lives, I was on TV almost 400 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 2: every day, so there's sort of no hiding a bad 401 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 2: haircut or a difficult time or you know, weight loss, 402 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 2: weight gain or weight loss or whatever like it. Just 403 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 2: I felt so exposed to the process of being puberty 404 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 2: and teenager life. And I decide, and I remember my 405 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 2: first interview with soapropera digest. I remember announcing my age. 406 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 2: I'm sixteen years old, and I remember thinking to myself 407 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 2: at that moment while there goes you know, I'm never 408 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 2: going to be able to lie about my age because 409 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 2: now people know it's in a magazine and I'm at sixteen. 410 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 2: I made the decision I'm going for it. And I 411 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 2: felt sort of the same way about the whole process 412 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,679 Speaker 2: of growing up, like, I guess people are going to know. 413 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 2: It's not like I can hide the acne on my face. 414 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 2: I might as well just talk about it and be 415 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 2: upfront about it. And I think the internet like came 416 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,879 Speaker 2: around kind of at the same time, which is, you know, 417 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:49,640 Speaker 2: weird to say. 418 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:54,159 Speaker 1: I know, yeah, we were before the internet. 419 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 2: People, there was a time before the internet, and I 420 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 2: lived during that time. And then there were these like 421 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 2: chat rooms so you could go and read what people 422 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 2: were saying about you and about the show. And I 423 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 2: was an early addict to reading people's comments about the show. 424 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 1: Did you tend to like zero in on the negative 425 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,399 Speaker 1: ones more than the positive ones? Like that's the worst? 426 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you And by the way, I can still 427 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 2: imagine it. I can still picture my mind like the 428 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 2: very beginning of the chat chat rooms in the nineties, 429 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 2: and I can see it still clear as day of 430 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 2: some of the negative things people wrote about me, like 431 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 2: it's it's not unbelievable. 432 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 1: Like, at what point have you come to realize that 433 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 1: that other people's opinions don't have anything to do with you, like, 434 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 1: you know, and at what point did you decide I'm 435 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: I'm good the way I am without other people's opinions. 436 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 2: I think I would say I still struggle with that, 437 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,679 Speaker 2: but it's more that I I kind of had to 438 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:05,160 Speaker 2: wean myself away from like the unhealthy opinions. Yeah, look, 439 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:07,920 Speaker 2: I try not to look like other people look at 440 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 2: the comment section in my book posts or whatever, and 441 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 2: I know what I will also say is I have 442 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 2: amazing fans, like the best fans, and they write such 443 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 2: nice things and like supportive things, and so I don't 444 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 2: want to not see that. But I but sometimes you 445 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,679 Speaker 2: like I do skim and I look for trigger words 446 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 2: to skip over. I hate the word trigger. I'm embarrassed 447 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 2: that I just said that. But but I try to 448 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 2: like just go past and try to get bullet points 449 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 2: because I do think. I do think that as a 450 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 2: filmmaker and like a writer and an actor, the compliments 451 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 2: or the little moments and scenes that people loved and 452 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 2: respond to and the lines that they quote, like that 453 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 2: stays with me in a positive way and helps me 454 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 2: be better moving forward to do the next thing. So 455 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,440 Speaker 2: I don't want to I don't want to miss out 456 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 2: on that and feeling that engagement with fans just because 457 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 2: some people are terrible people like I. I can't I 458 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 2: can't let them ruin that for me. So it's a 459 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 2: it's a delicate balance. But all that is to say 460 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 2: that when I was starting to read people's engagement with 461 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,160 Speaker 2: me and and actually a lot of positive people who 462 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 2: are people who struggled with their weight or struggled with 463 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 2: like being a feeling, My character on the soap Bande's 464 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:24,360 Speaker 2: was a kind of she felt rejected by her family 465 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 2: to begin with. She felt like she wasn't the pretty sister, 466 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 2: she wasn't the favorite sister, and so uh, reading all 467 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 2: those people who really bonded with Sammy because of that, 468 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 2: I kind of thought, well, maybe I should write about that, 469 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 2: Like maybe, I don't know. I felt that I had 470 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 2: an audience to write to and I wanted to share 471 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 2: with them my own. 472 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 1: Experiences millions of people who related with that character every day. Yeah, yeah, 473 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 1: you were on that show forever. 474 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 2: Forever. Yeah. 475 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: Wait, so so about my life more than more? 476 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,120 Speaker 2: God half my life? 477 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's insane. Soap operas can be both a blessing 478 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: as you like, you had a great job for a 479 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: long time and I'm kind of a curse because there 480 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,120 Speaker 1: comes a time when you want to go somewhere else 481 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 1: and do something else. Yeah, how did you make that decision? 482 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's sort of made for you in 483 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 2: that they don't look at you for other work while 484 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 2: you're doing a soap, and then you have reps who say, well, 485 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 2: you're busy, so I can't send you out on auditions, 486 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 2: but they also you know, I mean I was never 487 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 2: going to I was not the person who was like 488 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 2: I'm going to quit my job and throw myself at 489 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 2: Like remember pilot season there used. 490 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: I heard it's coming back? 491 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,640 Speaker 2: Is it really everything old is new again? 492 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,360 Speaker 1: The even pilot season. 493 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 2: Its seasoned back. So I kind of just stuck with 494 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 2: the show. And also I had a great job. I 495 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 2: had so much fun playing this character. I think a 496 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,919 Speaker 2: lot of people who feel stuck on So it's to 497 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 2: do with like a character that maybe doesn't change or 498 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 2: doesn't grow, or doesn't get to do wacky things like 499 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 2: I got to do. So I never felt like every 500 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 2: day I opened that script like I have no idea 501 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 2: what's coming my way today, Like it could be anything. 502 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:19,439 Speaker 2: So yeah, it was pretty It was pretty crazy. So 503 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 2: for me, that was a big part of it. It 504 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 2: was always fun and I always felt I liked having 505 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 2: something to do and having being able to act every day. 506 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,439 Speaker 2: I never felt like, oh, this isn't good enough for me, 507 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 2: you know, or I should do more. I just I 508 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:39,120 Speaker 2: just always loved it. And then and then there came 509 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 2: a day where I kind of felt like, oh, I 510 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 2: want to try something else and see, you know, do 511 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 2: something else. And and I got the chance to do 512 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,120 Speaker 2: a Hallmark movie and I loved it. And it did 513 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,640 Speaker 2: feel very different to read the end of the script 514 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,120 Speaker 2: and know how like how it ends. 515 00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: It is the beginning in an end. Yeah, and that was. 516 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 2: Like a weird That was a very weird thing to 517 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 2: turn to the last page and be like, oh, oh 518 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 2: the end like great, and and and then playing that 519 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 2: as an actor, because you know, you're you sort of 520 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 2: have to play never ending. There's a cycle of something child, 521 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 2: you know, you know, there's always something going on on 522 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 2: the soap, and and so that was different too, and anyway, 523 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 2: I loved it. It was a new challenge for me. 524 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:28,919 Speaker 2: And then I ended up finding scripts that I wanted 525 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 2: to make and produce, and so I kind of got 526 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,919 Speaker 2: into that a little bit. And now I, uh, you know, 527 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 2: and now I am kind of my own boss, and 528 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 2: I sort of still can't believe it all and that 529 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,199 Speaker 2: here I am doing that. But yeah, I don't know. 530 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: Here you are, and like, what a great position to 531 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: be in for everybody that's listening. You're an executive producer? Now, 532 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 1: so what is an executive producer on a movie that 533 00:26:58,520 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 1: you're making? 534 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,880 Speaker 2: Well, certainly you know as well as I that there's 535 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 2: plenty of people who have that title who don't never 536 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,400 Speaker 2: even met, Yeah, who don't do anything. And good for that, Yeah, 537 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,879 Speaker 2: But for me, it means I get to be in 538 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 2: all the meetings. I get to help decide what the 539 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 2: wardrobe is going to be, what the props look like, 540 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:21,679 Speaker 2: what the locations look like, who were hiring for the cast, 541 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,679 Speaker 2: who are hiring for the DP and the director, and 542 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,480 Speaker 2: you know you're just doing you're literally making the movie 543 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 2: all and and I have even from my experience at days, 544 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 2: I have always been someone who looked around and wondered, 545 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 2: was there a meeting about that? Like did someone discuss 546 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 2: that decision and like now here and that's how we 547 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 2: ended up here? Or was it? Like what, how does 548 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 2: this happen? And now I get to be in all 549 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 2: of those meetings and part of that decision, and I 550 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 2: feel so much better. There is no literally no decision 551 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,159 Speaker 2: that is too small, that's not important to me. I 552 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 2: love every part of storytelling, and I love knowing that, 553 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 2: you know, if we had we couldn't afford that many 554 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 2: you know, background people for one scene or that location, 555 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 2: and we ended up in a different location. I can 556 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 2: live with that, you know, I have to live with that. 557 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,359 Speaker 1: But go figure out how to make it work. 558 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, And I go into that situation knowing this was 559 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 2: this was the best choice to make the best possible 560 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 2: movie we could and you know, and then I'm proud 561 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 2: of that. Whereas like, you know, so I love it. 562 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 2: I have so much fun doing this. 563 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, a great opportunity to just show how creative 564 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 1: and capable you are, and you know how seasoned you 565 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: are from all your experiences that have led up to this. 566 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: It seems like you're a naturally other thing. 567 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 2: The other thing I love about it is hiring, like 568 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 2: giving people a chance. I love. We've had several successful 569 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 2: directors who was first time directing for homework was on 570 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 2: one of my movies, And I love supporting other creative people. 571 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 2: That's the other thing that's so fun is working with 572 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 2: people who love movies as much as I do and 573 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 2: having them, you know, really passionate about like what kind 574 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 2: of phone case would your character have? I mean I could, like, 575 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 2: I could look at six of them. I watch, you know, 576 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 2: like every detail, and I love people in every department 577 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 2: who care about it as much as I do. 578 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, you are a great executive producer. I can tell 579 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 1: that passion. I'm sure. No, But I think like ninety 580 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: percent of it is problem solving. 581 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, yes, and learning and taking it in the 582 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 2: information without freaking out. 583 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: I mean like okay, okay, yeah. 584 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 2: So what are our options. Let's let's think this through. 585 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 1: And then it's so hard to like, oh, yeah, they 586 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 1: just cut our budget. You're like, what what do you 587 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:39,239 Speaker 1: mean like freak out right? 588 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 2: Yeah? 589 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 1: That doesn't really do any good. 590 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 2: It does not help you out. 591 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: Now in your personal life, do you found have you 592 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: found that you've grown into more of a less reactive 593 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 1: person too, like as just Allison, I do. 594 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 2: Think I have. 595 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 5: I think I do think it helps me recognize that 596 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 5: it does doesn't help to you know, freak out you're 597 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,959 Speaker 5: not and then also taking on the responsibility of being 598 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 5: an executive producer. 599 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 2: I want people to come to me. I don't want 600 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 2: people feeling like they can't tell me stuff because I'm 601 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 2: going to freak out. So you have to be that. 602 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 2: You have to be that person for them to feel 603 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 2: like they can come and admit. And then you have 604 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 2: to say to someone every time and listen, I make mistakes, 605 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 2: you have to say it. I make mistakes too. Thank 606 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 2: you for letting me know, because now we can go 607 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 2: back and reshoot that scene with the right you know thing, 608 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 2: like better now than if I read about it, if 609 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 2: I saw it in the edit room, like and you 610 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 2: have to. You have to. It's like being a good parent, 611 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 2: you know, like you have to handle that. You have 612 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 2: to handle it well and then. 613 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: Letlematical problems diplomatically, I think is the word exactly. 614 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:48,959 Speaker 2: That's the word I'm searching for you. 615 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: How do you stay grounded? You have so much going on, 616 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 1: You've it sounds like you've always had a lot going on. 617 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: So if sure, you've learned how to manage it, but 618 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:01,959 Speaker 1: how do you say grounded in yourself while you're always 619 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 1: just sort of dispersing to all these different things, And 620 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 1: how do you continue to motivate yourself moving forward? 621 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,959 Speaker 2: If I need time, if I have to do, I 622 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 2: have to take care of myself again. I think a 623 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 2: lot of things are kind of like being a parent. 624 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 2: A good parent is if I don't take care of myself, 625 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 2: then I cannot take care of you know, my kids 626 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 2: or the people around me. And so if I need, 627 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 2: like I like to stay and watch all the other 628 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 2: actors and be a good I'm an onset producer. I 629 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 2: watch from video Village and I love to give notes. 630 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 2: I love watching performances and bringing out little gems of 631 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 2: my co stars, and it brings me such joy to giggle, 632 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 2: like when I see something great that's happening with other actors, 633 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,560 Speaker 2: or just to make sure everybody looks beautiful or whatever, 634 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 2: you know, whatever. I love it. But there are some. 635 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,479 Speaker 2: Just last week there was a night where I had 636 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 2: to leave early because I was like, I'm not going 637 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 2: to be my best act I'm not going to act 638 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 2: well tomorrow. I don't go home, Merlan and get some sleep. 639 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,760 Speaker 2: And so I have to those decisions because you know, 640 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 2: so taking care of myself is part of being grounded, 641 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 2: because if you're you know, not eating well and you're 642 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,480 Speaker 2: not taking care of yourself, then then those emotions can 643 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 2: run high and then you can kind of lose control 644 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 2: of your way you react to stuff. So I do that, 645 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 2: and then staying grounded is like, you know, like I'm 646 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 2: changing into my fifth wardrobe change in like a bathroom. 647 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,280 Speaker 2: It's the size of a closet and like my elbow 648 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 2: it's the thing. And you know, there's just so much 649 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 2: like the real world of what we do is not 650 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 2: that glamorous, so you never get that feeling. 651 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,040 Speaker 1: Of like, yeah, like I such a big movie star. 652 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, exactly, I have. I have a chair with 653 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,000 Speaker 2: my name on it, but it's like taped on with 654 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 2: like you know, like like Scottish shame and it's really 655 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,520 Speaker 2: sweet but that someone made that for me. But it 656 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 2: is also like, right, I'm I'm doing great. 657 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 1: You're doing great. 658 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:55,240 Speaker 2: Yeah. 659 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 1: You got to remember, girl, you are making so many 660 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 1: people happy. My mother, oh lives in Breeze Hallmark. 661 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,840 Speaker 2: Oh that makes me so happy. I love that. Yeah. 662 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,400 Speaker 1: I put it on for her in the morning and 663 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 1: she's just happy as a clan watching it all day long. 664 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 2: It's so great. I do think we make people happy. 665 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 1: Yeah. I get sucked in too all the time. I'll 666 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 1: be sitting with her, I'm like, WHOA, this is good. 667 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:17,640 Speaker 1: I want to watch this. 668 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, because I think, I mean, there's plenty of great 669 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,320 Speaker 2: content out there for people who like a little more violence, 670 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 2: a little more sex, a little more whatever, you know. 671 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 2: I mean, there's there's no dearth of that available on 672 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,000 Speaker 2: the Dreamers. But what we offer our shows, you can 673 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:37,959 Speaker 2: watch with your mom and your kid, and everyone can 674 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 2: watch together and have a good time and be surprised 675 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 2: or not sprit you know, like, you know, we keep 676 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,040 Speaker 2: things pretty safe at the end, like it's all going 677 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 2: to work out, and I like, but I like that, 678 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 2: and I think there's you know, I'm happy to give 679 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 2: people that kind of especially Christmas, that kind. 680 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 1: Of Yeah, there's something there's something so comforting about knowing 681 00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 1: at the end of what I'm watching, everything's going to 682 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,960 Speaker 1: be good for every buddy exactly exactly the journey. It's 683 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 1: really fun. Alison Sweeney, what was your last I choose 684 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:07,479 Speaker 1: me moment. 685 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 2: My last I Choose Me moment was, uh, last weekend. 686 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 2: I had one night off and I went and stayed 687 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:23,400 Speaker 2: at a very fancy hotel and just stayed by myself 688 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:27,440 Speaker 2: and like hold up the covers and I like had 689 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,759 Speaker 2: the nicest in room dining, like just sat there and 690 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 2: like just just enjoyed everything, just me by myself. 691 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,520 Speaker 1: Like that sounds like a dream. 692 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,080 Speaker 2: It was, it was, And I didn't didn't fuck to anybody. 693 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,280 Speaker 2: I didn't. I just stop there alone and watch movies. 694 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,040 Speaker 1: And did you just put a bat the bathroom bone 695 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 1: immediately when you got there? 696 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,319 Speaker 2: Yes, oh yes, the fancy bathroom is the bathroom is 697 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,839 Speaker 2: the key. Yes, it was, like and they just there's 698 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,239 Speaker 2: something about those nice hotels that have like the like 699 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:02,680 Speaker 2: super fluffy duvet cover and the sheets are so clean 700 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,880 Speaker 2: and like crispy, and you just like it just was 701 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,160 Speaker 2: like all snuggled up like and I keep the room 702 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,239 Speaker 2: cold when I sleep, and I snuggle up to my 703 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,760 Speaker 2: like my nose and it's just the best. 704 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,240 Speaker 1: That's the perfect I Choose Me moment. Thank you Allison 705 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,120 Speaker 1: for being on with us. You're so inspiring. 706 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, thank you for having me. I can't 707 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 2: believe I got to hang out with you today. I 708 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:22,000 Speaker 2: love it. 709 00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 1: I love it too. Allison's new movies Romance at Hope 710 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:30,640 Speaker 1: Ranch and Sugar and Vice AHANNAHS. Swinson Mystery can be 711 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 1: seen wherever you stream Hallmark. Oh, and you guys, I'm 712 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 1: very excited to share that my book I Choose Me 713 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:44,799 Speaker 1: Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose and Embracing Reinvention is coming April fourteenth. 714 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,879 Speaker 1: It would mean the world to me if you would 715 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,719 Speaker 1: pre order a copy or pre order the audiobook wherever 716 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,680 Speaker 1: you get your books. And yes, I am going to 717 00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 1: be narrating the audiobook. So thank you all so much 718 00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:58,839 Speaker 1: in advance. I hope you love it.