Speaker 1: I'm Honey German. My parents are Dominican. I was born
Speaker 1: and raised in New York City. I love sneakers and
Speaker 1: I'm a body positive advocate. I'm Carolina Bermudez, but i
Speaker 1: was born and raised in Ohio. I'm a wife, a mama,
Speaker 1: and a worker being. This is life in English Windows
Speaker 1: d s. Carolina Windows, Honey German. It is so good
Speaker 1: to see you today. Now I do look a little
Speaker 1: bit different, and I know we're going to get into
Speaker 1: that in a minute. But how are you feeling on
Speaker 1: this fine day. I'm feeling amazing, are you? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: feeling good. I've been feeling really really good lately. You know,
Speaker 1: it's crazy because it's like the healthier I get, the
Speaker 1: better I feel. And I never thought that would be
Speaker 1: possible because I always felt like I look good, I
Speaker 1: feel good. But now it's like a different feel good
Speaker 1: and look good. But you've made the lifestyle changes though,
Speaker 1: that's the reason why I feel. Yeah, No, for sure,
Speaker 1: it's a daily thing now. It's not you know, thirty
Speaker 1: pounds and thirty days anymore. Before me, you know, it
Speaker 1: was always like crash that you know, I've struggled with
Speaker 1: my weight, my whole life. My mom was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I've always I've always been a big girl. Just now
Speaker 1: I feel like I caught the right rhythm and the
Speaker 1: right wave during the pandemic. How is everything with you?
Speaker 1: Because I know like you do yoga. I used to.
Speaker 1: I used to, but you know, well after I noticed
Speaker 1: a big shift for you, I want to focus on
Speaker 1: you really quickly because I did notice that after you know,
Speaker 1: your situation happened with your stroke and everything where you
Speaker 1: giving guidance from your doctors. Because I started noticing you
Speaker 1: posting your breakfast that NOONI was making you you would
Speaker 1: get like almonds and young burn and fresh fruit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was like a combination of the doctors and me
Speaker 1: realizing that I can heal myself through foods. I was
Speaker 1: always like online, like, you know, the stroke is a
Speaker 1: brain injury. So I then I started foods that helped
Speaker 1: with the brain nutrition and brain function. And then I
Speaker 1: just started to just do that only because I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta heal myself. I gotta heal my brain. So
Speaker 1: then it was just like, Okay, you gotta eat a
Speaker 1: lot of salmon, you gotta eat berries. So I kind
Speaker 1: of like adopted a diet that would help me heal
Speaker 1: myself from the stroke, and decided that, you know, I
Speaker 1: wasn't going to poison myself in any which way because
Speaker 1: how I look, you know, having a stroke which did
Speaker 1: not happen for health reasons. You know, I want to
Speaker 1: put that out there. I did not have high blood pressure,
Speaker 1: I did not have diabetes. I was not an unhealthy person.
Speaker 1: You know, it was just a freak accident. The only
Speaker 1: thing they were able to link it to was birth control.
Speaker 1: They couldn't find anything else. I didn't have hard problems, nothing.
Speaker 1: When I was being transported because you know, I went
Speaker 1: to a rehab. When I was being transported from the
Speaker 1: hospital to the rehab, can you believe the E M. S.
Speaker 1: Worker said, Okay, now time to take care of your health.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you fucking asshole. You don't even know why
Speaker 1: I had a stroke, and you over here telling me
Speaker 1: I was being unhealthy. Right, just take me where you
Speaker 1: need to take me. He diagnosed you on the ride.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, you know what happened. I
Speaker 1: guess he assumed, like, okay, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes,
Speaker 1: poor diet. I guess you just made all these types
Speaker 1: of assumptions. I'm like, first of all, I was a
Speaker 1: healthy person and I still am. I decided I wasn't
Speaker 1: going to poison my body or my brain, and I
Speaker 1: was just going to try to heal myself because food
Speaker 1: heals absolutely naturally too. You know, I've always been very
Speaker 1: health conscious and like, I just think that over over time,
Speaker 1: you know, I fell into the run. Yes, I was
Speaker 1: having wine every night, and yes, then I was having
Speaker 1: like you know, I was, I was indulging in letting
Speaker 1: myself go a little bit. But I always do a
Speaker 1: good job of bringing myself back. You know that. It's
Speaker 1: not like you were at McDonald's getting the number two
Speaker 1: with supersized fries. You ways have a glass of wine.
Speaker 1: But you know what, you're a female, you're a mom,
Speaker 1: you're a working woman. A glass of wine every now
Speaker 1: and then. You know you didn't say a bottle of wine. No, No,
Speaker 1: I mean some knights of bottle. Yes, when I was
Speaker 1: crying and I would be like, you know, my tears
Speaker 1: would make it salty. You know what I'm talking about? It? Oh,
Speaker 1: please forget it. Like you know, I'm like crying, What
Speaker 1: am I going to do? How about it's going to do? This,
Speaker 1: but like, no, you know, the one thing that I
Speaker 1: did do was I evaluated, Okay, I'm forty three years old.
Speaker 1: I had my breast implants put in in two thousand
Speaker 1: and three, and I went for a mammogram. Um what
Speaker 1: I go every year, but at this point, I went
Speaker 1: for a mammogram and the person who was doing my
Speaker 1: mammograham told me she was like, you know, it looks
Speaker 1: like your implants have somewear and tear. You may want
Speaker 1: to look into getting them replaced. And she's like, how
Speaker 1: long have you had them? And I said, you know,
Speaker 1: I've had them for seventeen years. This woman almost fell
Speaker 1: on the floor. She said, what I said, fell on
Speaker 1: the floor right now, because I know it's like a
Speaker 1: certain amount of time and it's not seventeen years. Women, Well, no,
Speaker 1: you know what they actually do say either ten years
Speaker 1: you should go for like a tune up, or when
Speaker 1: there's wear in tear, you know. So I just said,
Speaker 1: you know, I had not said, what the hell has
Speaker 1: Mark been doing with these that you got? Well there
Speaker 1: it's you know what it is, having kids, coming out
Speaker 1: of having kids, breastfeeding all of that, John, And so
Speaker 1: we knew that, like, yeah, no, but that's okay. No,
Speaker 1: he did tear it up a little bit. But but
Speaker 1: now I we knew that we weren't going to be
Speaker 1: having any more children. And then after that, Mammogram, I said,
Speaker 1: you know, I really have to focus on me, like
Speaker 1: I have to focus on making time for this. But again,
Speaker 1: and I hate, you know, I don't want you guys
Speaker 1: thinking that, like all we're talking about is the pandemic,
Speaker 1: but like this is the reality of our last year
Speaker 1: and a half. You know, I feel like we're still
Speaker 1: in a damn pandemic. Watching Good Day New York and
Speaker 1: the school in Harlem went remote mad kids with COVID, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: that was weeks ago. Yeah, no, I know, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just crazy, you know, and like every day we're going
Speaker 1: to be hearing stories, you know, and people are just
Speaker 1: trying to get back on track. So during the pandemic
Speaker 1: that you used to yeah, this was right at the beginning.
Speaker 1: And I said, I'm not missing my mammogram. I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, no matter what, I know, there was
Speaker 1: like storms and everything. I remember we had no power
Speaker 1: and I was like I couldn't even call to see
Speaker 1: if my appointment was still on. I was like forget
Speaker 1: that I'm just showing up. After that, I had to
Speaker 1: talk with the lady and then I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: you know what I really do, I should focus on
Speaker 1: myself and get these out if they're really, like, you know,
Speaker 1: in bad shape. So I went to my doctor. By
Speaker 1: the way, he's not paying for this. I paid full
Speaker 1: price for my dets uh doctor to tell over in
Speaker 1: New Jersey, and I had him evaluate me and he
Speaker 1: just said, look, he goes, I want you to do
Speaker 1: me a favor. He's like, I know that this is
Speaker 1: gonna make you uncomfortable, but I want you to at
Speaker 1: least see three other surgeons. He's like, see three other
Speaker 1: people get their opinions. And because he basically said, he
Speaker 1: doesn't want anybody coming to him, you know, uninformed, you know,
Speaker 1: so he wanted to make sure that I felt the
Speaker 1: most comfortable with him, that you know something that no, no,
Speaker 1: not at all, and so um so I ended up
Speaker 1: going to a bunch of different doctors and I decided
Speaker 1: to go with him. I said, you know, this is
Speaker 1: time like I feel comfortable with you. You always make
Speaker 1: me feel at ease. And you know, I ended up
Speaker 1: getting my breast implants replaced and I got a little lift,
Speaker 1: you know, because mom was forty three and I needed
Speaker 1: to get these girls perked up. You know, you got
Speaker 1: the third teen, No girl, I got the like I
Speaker 1: got the twenty eight year old ones that you know,
Speaker 1: they they they're not really like up to my chin,
Speaker 1: but they're kind of like they're realistic. My headlights are straight,
Speaker 1: they're pointing in the right direction. You know, um where
Speaker 1: you scared changing them? Like what if he picked the
Speaker 1: among the side where you shook, because I would be shook,
Speaker 1: you know what. I First of all, I had to
Speaker 1: go during and I was more scared, honestly to go
Speaker 1: to the hospital during the pandemic, because I said to
Speaker 1: my husband, I go, I'm literally going in and like,
Speaker 1: I got it, You're in and out. You I went
Speaker 1: to recovery. They let me come home, and at that
Speaker 1: point in time, going to any place and visiting it
Speaker 1: was giving me anxiety. You know what, I imagine, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I died fixing my implants as that was
Speaker 1: gonna go on my damn tombstone, right, So I know,
Speaker 1: and that's what I said. But it was also like
Speaker 1: it was a necessity, like after seventeen years, they were
Speaker 1: just like, and then I began thinking to myself. You know,
Speaker 1: throughout this time, everybody kept saying, oh, well, when the
Speaker 1: pandemic is over, Oh, when the pandemic is over, And
Speaker 1: so I kept saying to myself, what if I have
Speaker 1: to go back to work and I never got this
Speaker 1: done and I had the opportunity to recuperate at home,
Speaker 1: you know, so I was in a hurry to just
Speaker 1: get it done because we work in the city. I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm not trying to go and wear a
Speaker 1: seatbelt on my new girls and you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: like it's even driving or carrying a handback do none
Speaker 1: of that, right, Yeah, totally. So um, you know I
Speaker 1: did it. Am I glad. I did it one million percent.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad, Like I feel more comfortable now. But like,
Speaker 1: there were girls who were going in and getting full
Speaker 1: body makeovers during the pandemic because they didn't have to
Speaker 1: be out and about. They had full time to recover. Yes,
Speaker 1: so a report that said plastic surgery was way up
Speaker 1: during the pandemic because it's like, you know, whoever had
Speaker 1: that money was like, fuck it, nobody's gonna see me.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be laid up at home, let's just do
Speaker 1: it now, and not just women men, Even men were
Speaker 1: going in and getting like facelifts or getting like their
Speaker 1: calves done. I saw something. I was like, who even
Speaker 1: thinks to get their calves done? But then again, like,
Speaker 1: let's not seen some bad legs on these men. Chicken
Speaker 1: little I know somebody who definitely would benefit from some
Speaker 1: caffeine plans. Yes, no, So it's like, you know what.
Speaker 1: I took that time and I said to myself, like,
Speaker 1: this is where I'm going to like really focus on me.
Speaker 1: I only had to miss one day on the air,
Speaker 1: which is that's amazing, Carolina. I had it done on
Speaker 1: a Thursday, so I missed on Friday. I was back
Speaker 1: downstairs in my seat doing the show on Monday. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you a question, who did you want to kill?
Speaker 1: Who jumped on you or who hit your boobs a
Speaker 1: by mistake? And you were like, jump on you the
Speaker 1: freaking dog, dude. And by the way, her name is Rain.
Speaker 1: She did not act like she is a monster, you know,
Speaker 1: but beautiful. That's my dream dog, she really is. But
Speaker 1: you know, I will say this like she has kept
Speaker 1: me active throughout this pandemic. I'm not even kidding because
Speaker 1: every day she's a big dog. She's a German Shepherd.
Speaker 1: If you guys haven't seen her, go to my Instagram
Speaker 1: at the real Carolina. She's beautiful. She's a beautiful dog.
Speaker 1: But she is feisty, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: she needs a lot of attention. It's a puppy, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's a puppy. So, like, you know, I said to
Speaker 1: my husband, I was like, I can't do anything. I
Speaker 1: need you to get like, you know, come home, walk
Speaker 1: the dog, like during your lunch hour. Sure enough, he
Speaker 1: can't make it one time because the fine of his
Speaker 1: was late, and who has to take the dog out? Me?
Speaker 1: And what did she do? Like I swear she pulled
Speaker 1: the leash so hard. And this is when she was
Speaker 1: a puppy. So it's like you've got to make sure
Speaker 1: that when you do things like this that you like
Speaker 1: think about yourself and say, no, I am not going
Speaker 1: to be the person that you can count on at
Speaker 1: this time. I need to figure out my stuff. I
Speaker 1: need to count on me alone, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And like that was a really difficult thing for me
Speaker 1: to do because I'm so used to taking care of everybody. No,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine, I know what the boobs. It's like
Speaker 1: I had a breast reduction probably like six seven years ago,
Speaker 1: and Jesus, I couldn't do anything for a long time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like, uh anything. I remember I was taking
Speaker 1: a train and I was like, if somebody bumps into me,
Speaker 1: today is gonna be a today that I fight somebody
Speaker 1: on this somewhere. Today's when you choose violence. Uh, And
Speaker 1: we don't want ever choose violence, but I want I
Speaker 1: want that button more violence. But honey, you look so
Speaker 1: good and like it's about what your routine has been
Speaker 1: because I can see that you've incorporated more fitness, take
Speaker 1: care of your you know what you eat, what you're consuming. Yeah, No, definitely.
Speaker 1: I consume only mostly foods that can nourish the body.
Speaker 1: It's a weird thing, but I think of it when
Speaker 1: I'm eating it, like is this poisoning me? Or is
Speaker 1: this like spreading all over me? Like a strawberry it's
Speaker 1: being good, a blueberry it's it's being good. Or a
Speaker 1: French fry? Is it poisoning me? Is it hindering my recovery?
Speaker 1: It was physical and it was it was mental. So
Speaker 1: it's like I had to think about both. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like when you have a stroke, the brain forgets
Speaker 1: you have an arm and you have a leg. The
Speaker 1: brain forgets about the side of your body that is affected,
Speaker 1: which for me was my left So it's like I
Speaker 1: needed my brain to be an optimal health, not just
Speaker 1: you know, regular health. Like if I tell you the
Speaker 1: amount of things I've done to try to recover fully,
Speaker 1: I even did oxygen therapy, like where they put you
Speaker 1: in a pressurized tank. I did months of that. So
Speaker 1: it's like I couldn't be doing all that and then
Speaker 1: eating fast food impossible, Like why am I spending thousands
Speaker 1: and thousands of dollars on these you know, holistic approaches
Speaker 1: and then I'm going to be eating trash food? Hell now.
Speaker 1: So it's just like everything I consume, I tried for
Speaker 1: it to be you know, nutritious and you know, just
Speaker 1: beneficial towards me as a person that in conjunction with
Speaker 1: the physical therapy, which sometimes would be six twelve hours
Speaker 1: a week, it depended days, I would do physical therapy
Speaker 1: for two or three hours a day. So wow, So
Speaker 1: that's what really propelled me to like lose the exist
Speaker 1: weight that I did not need because I was working
Speaker 1: all day trying to build muscles. You know, the muscles
Speaker 1: on the left side of my body just shut down
Speaker 1: like when you turn off a car. So I had
Speaker 1: to get them all back in order. So it required it,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of hours in the gym, a
Speaker 1: lot of hours with personal trainers, physical therapists. So my life,
Speaker 1: you know, for nine months until right now, it's mostly
Speaker 1: you know, recovering, working out, physical therapy, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would do the treadmill on two points. Oh, but
Speaker 1: when you're so weak, that's tough and it's waste a
Speaker 1: lot of calories. That's what happened. You know. It's just
Speaker 1: me trying to get better, me trying to recover lad
Speaker 1: to you know, the best version of me. I'm like, damn,
Speaker 1: I haven't been like I'm like a hundred and forty
Speaker 1: eight pounds. I haven't been this since I was twelve
Speaker 1: years old. And I would saying and at one point,
Speaker 1: you know, people that know me know I was heavy.
Speaker 1: At one point, I was two hundred and thirty pounds,
Speaker 1: and then I went on a health kake. You know,
Speaker 1: I lost weight, Like I've lost the weight throughout the years.
Speaker 1: But now during the pandemic and after the stroke, I
Speaker 1: dropped thirty pounds. I don't celebrate it because it wasn't like, wow,
Speaker 1: look at me, I got snatched, you know. It was
Speaker 1: just like I had to work my ass off to
Speaker 1: be able to walk again, and in turned, I lost
Speaker 1: this weight. So it's it's a weird thing. It's like
Speaker 1: bitter sweet, yeah, you know, because I'm so happy I
Speaker 1: lost all this weight, but I'm not happy because of
Speaker 1: what happened that how you had the course of events
Speaker 1: that made you have to make that change. So it's
Speaker 1: like I want to and I want to post cute
Speaker 1: pictures and I want to get all these outfits, but
Speaker 1: I'm like, bitch, you lost this damn weight because you
Speaker 1: have to learn how to walk again. Relax, calm down.
Speaker 1: It's not that serious. But that's okay too, though, But
Speaker 1: that is a celebration of who you are. You shouldn't
Speaker 1: be so critical, you know, Like I mean, you should
Speaker 1: take those moments to really put yourself out there and
Speaker 1: shine because you've earned it, I know. But then I
Speaker 1: feel weird, like you didn't lose this weight because you
Speaker 1: went to the gym when you were you know, able
Speaker 1: and fit and when you should have gone to the gym.
Speaker 1: This is because you had to fight for your life
Speaker 1: that you ended up losing this damn weight. So it
Speaker 1: makes me feel a little weird because I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: I could have been like this my whole life if
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been so lazy, or I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: not gave priority to me and my health. So it's weird.
Speaker 1: I will I'll put a little snatch the picture every
Speaker 1: every now and then, but I don't really take pictures
Speaker 1: that much now either, Carolina. I still don't feel comfortable.
Speaker 1: That's gonna take time, you know, I think it is.
Speaker 1: And I think that maybe people listening right now, I
Speaker 1: think to themselves, like, oh, well, Honey had a team
Speaker 1: of people. Honey had physical therapists, and she had this,
Speaker 1: and she had that. But you know what it's like,
Speaker 1: but ever forget forget that these people. My body was
Speaker 1: dead on one side getting on a treadmill. I have
Speaker 1: to use a harness to use a treadmill because I
Speaker 1: physically could not hold myself up. So it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a team of people, but you have an
Speaker 1: able body. How about that? It was like some iron manship.
Speaker 1: They had you in like harnesses and stuff, and they
Speaker 1: had you like yoked up to all of these different
Speaker 1: machines and monitoring you like everything everything, But you know
Speaker 1: what it was just the will, the will to want
Speaker 1: to get better and the will to want to be
Speaker 1: healthy again and to have my life again. You know
Speaker 1: it was None of those people could have put that
Speaker 1: in here or in here, you know, they couldn't put
Speaker 1: that in my heart. You know, there's people that have
Speaker 1: strokes and never get back up. They just say, fuck it.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. I'm in a wheel chair now,
Speaker 1: and you know, so it's not it's not the people
Speaker 1: around you. It's your fight. It's the fight you know
Speaker 1: that you have to really be better, to get better
Speaker 1: and to live a better life. So it's like anything
Speaker 1: that anyone is going through. You know, if you're listening
Speaker 1: right now, if you put your mind to it, and
Speaker 1: I know it's like, oh, easier said than done, Well
Speaker 1: guess what I did it. So you can't tell me
Speaker 1: easier said than done. If I did it, you can
Speaker 1: do it too. You know, whatever it is that you're
Speaker 1: going through, you just every day, work a little bit
Speaker 1: and you'll wake up a year later and I'm like, oh, Ship,
Speaker 1: look at this, I got better. I just want to
Speaker 1: point out for the record that you know, Honey is
Speaker 1: talking about learning how to walk again, how to move
Speaker 1: her arms. I just talked about getting new titties. Guys,
Speaker 1: that's all. I'm here for. What I mean, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: bringing the substance everybody. I want you all to know. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just messing around. But it's true. Let me look
Speaker 1: at what you do. You know, you're learning how to
Speaker 1: do things again. But like, mentally, this is something that
Speaker 1: you just hit on, and I think that that's true
Speaker 1: your mental strength and my own mental strength. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you in different ways, you know what. At first of all,
Speaker 1: we didn't touch too much about the fact that you
Speaker 1: bad withed COVID. You know, like you didn't tell me
Speaker 1: about your symptoms. That ship was crazy. You go, how
Speaker 1: scared you work, Carolyne. I am scared. I'm terrified at
Speaker 1: catching COVID. How did you feel when that test came
Speaker 1: back positive? Well, first of all, I was furious because
Speaker 1: I had been so careful. I lost friendships during COVID
Speaker 1: for real, because like you know what it is, I'm
Speaker 1: not a hypocrite and I'm not saying, and I'm just
Speaker 1: like always you guys know, we keep it all the
Speaker 1: way real with you here. Um. I had some friends
Speaker 1: that were like, oh, no, I'm not going out, I'm
Speaker 1: not doing this, But then they would have like a
Speaker 1: play date with six of their kids friends over and
Speaker 1: the moms would stay and they'd have wine, and I like,
Speaker 1: I just wasn't doing anything to put myself or my
Speaker 1: family in jeopardy. And I said, the biggest risk that
Speaker 1: we took as a family was having Mark go into
Speaker 1: work every day because I was truly keeping my little nest.
Speaker 1: I never wanted anybody to kind of penetrate that like
Speaker 1: safety wall that I had put up for me and
Speaker 1: my children. But then I just remember when I got it,
Speaker 1: I was so upset because I was like I was
Speaker 1: heartbroken actually because I felt like I did all the
Speaker 1: right things. I did everything I was supposed to do,
Speaker 1: Like why is this happening to us? And then I
Speaker 1: went into super mom mode. I had kids that had
Speaker 1: a hundred and three fever, so I said, you had
Speaker 1: all of us, We all ended up getting it. And
Speaker 1: when I tell you, as a person who was asthmatic
Speaker 1: and was very afraid to get it, I am grateful
Speaker 1: to sit here and say to you today that in
Speaker 1: my head it was much scarier than it actually was.
Speaker 1: But I don't want that to to lessen the effect
Speaker 1: of like what I went through, because it was awful.
Speaker 1: It was ten days of aches, pains, not being able
Speaker 1: to breathe, being short or short of breath, losing all
Speaker 1: of my taste, which was just like for me. You know,
Speaker 1: I cook all the time for my kids, and I
Speaker 1: remember we ordered Greek food and I looked at my
Speaker 1: husband across the table and I just started crying. I said,
Speaker 1: I can't taste anything. He said what, and I said,
Speaker 1: I just I said, there's nothing there and I lost
Speaker 1: my taste. It took me a couple of months to
Speaker 1: get it back. And that's why I say like months,
Speaker 1: and I was doing I was looking up on the internet,
Speaker 1: like you know, people were saying, like burnt orange peels,
Speaker 1: trying to get it back on your own. Everything I could, yes,
Speaker 1: because it was just like you know, I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I want my taste, don't want my smell. I couldn't
Speaker 1: smell anything, and think about it. One of the most
Speaker 1: comforting things at night when I lay with my babies.
Speaker 1: We have our nighttime routine. I lay in bed with
Speaker 1: them with Mark. We say our prayers and we go
Speaker 1: to bed, and something that I do is I give
Speaker 1: them both kisses on their forehead and I just take
Speaker 1: a big whiff, like because they've already been bathed, and
Speaker 1: you know, I smell my babies. I was like so
Speaker 1: upset about the fact that I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: what if I don't get it back, because you know,
Speaker 1: there are people with these long standing symptoms that are
Speaker 1: still you know, the long haulers. You know, older brother
Speaker 1: had COVID and he still has a cough. Quote he
Speaker 1: had COVID last year, the lingering cough. Yeah, no, it
Speaker 1: was at all. But you know what I just say
Speaker 1: to myself mentally, after what we have been through, I
Speaker 1: feel like I can take on a lot more. I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm like, Okay, I don't want to welcome it,
Speaker 1: but like, I'm very proud of the way that we
Speaker 1: came through this whole thing as a family, but me
Speaker 1: as a woman, just me speaking, you know, for myself.
Speaker 1: I actually was very surprised at the resilience that I had.
Speaker 1: How you could be a hundred and have a hundred
Speaker 1: and three fever feel like total ship and still take
Speaker 1: care of your family. You know. It was very challenging,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad that we got through it together. You know,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. One of my biggest fears still is getting COVID,
Speaker 1: So like, you know, the fact that you were able
Speaker 1: to you know, it's still function as a mom. You
Speaker 1: gotta find a way. The kids are hungry. You gotta
Speaker 1: figure it out, you know, like I mean. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't like we were getting deliveries and god bless my friends,
Speaker 1: we were getting deliveries at the door. People were sending
Speaker 1: sup they were sending a bunch of stuff to us,
Speaker 1: and even just to warm it up in a pan
Speaker 1: was a lot for me, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 1: and then I have to do the dishes after and stuff,
Speaker 1: and so it's like I'm not gonna like physically popped.
Speaker 1: It's like, yo, you're battling COVID. But you still gotta
Speaker 1: feed your family. You do. And that's and that's the
Speaker 1: reality of it. And also kind of like modeling for
Speaker 1: your children. When life gets you down, you gotta push
Speaker 1: through it. You know. I said to my husband, I go,
Speaker 1: we can't have them living in squalor, like we got
Speaker 1: to clean up. Like I said to them, like come on, guys,
Speaker 1: let's go, you know. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I think that they now realized like the reason why
Speaker 1: Mommy was so crazy about them not going out, Like
Speaker 1: they realized that after they're like, wow, Mommy COVID is serious. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's not that mom was overreacting, you know, no, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And so you know, I think that there are many
Speaker 1: things that I've come out of this, like looking back
Speaker 1: and like, you know, we started the conversation with like
Speaker 1: talking about my plastic surgery, which you know, it wasn't
Speaker 1: necessary thing, it was not just for cosmetic reasons, and
Speaker 1: like you know, and then just realizing poetically you have
Speaker 1: to get and replaced an amount of years. Right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But in the big picture though, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you look at at everything that you've gone through, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just I really encourage women because
Speaker 1: you know, I think we have a lot of people
Speaker 1: who listen. You know, we might have a handful of
Speaker 1: guys who listen to which I totally appreciate. Maybe it
Speaker 1: gives you perspective into what your wife or your girlfriend
Speaker 1: or your mom or your sisters are feeling, and I
Speaker 1: love that. I just definitely think that we as women
Speaker 1: need to stop down and take that time and say, nope,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this for me. And that's exactly what
Speaker 1: I did. You have to especially like in Latino households,
Speaker 1: you know, la Mama is the one that's always and
Speaker 1: that's what they're saying. It's like one thing I you know,
Speaker 1: I love about the Manican women that it's like, yo,
Speaker 1: all week would kill ourselves, but guess what Saturday, after
Speaker 1: that house is cleaned, or even if the house is
Speaker 1: not clean, we're gonna get our hair done. That's a fact.
Speaker 1: And that little act of self care, even if it's
Speaker 1: once a week, it's important, and you know it means
Speaker 1: something especially to moms, you know, yeah, they do so much.
Speaker 1: And you know what, No, there was something that we
Speaker 1: were talking about before um that I did want to
Speaker 1: touch back on, you know, because like we were talking
Speaker 1: about you getting your you know, your nutrition and your
Speaker 1: workouts and your physical strength back, and you know we're
Speaker 1: talking about me and it's like taking inventory of where
Speaker 1: you are at is important and how many times do
Speaker 1: you do that? Think about it? Because I don't do
Speaker 1: it enough. I'm just going through my day where it's
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of like a steam rolling through things.
Speaker 1: You got to stop and take a minute and say,
Speaker 1: like where am I at? What can I work on
Speaker 1: for me? What's gonna make me feel better? You know?
Speaker 1: And there are so many resources now, so for example,
Speaker 1: for people who want to eat better. Honestly, this is
Speaker 1: something that I do all the time. It's one of
Speaker 1: my little hacks. Like whatever I want to grow in,
Speaker 1: I go to social media, and this is where I
Speaker 1: think it's so important for us to share, whether it's
Speaker 1: a struggle or a success. It is so important to
Speaker 1: like be able to go on there and I'll put
Speaker 1: in a hashtag, even if it's hashtag healthy eating, and
Speaker 1: I'll start seeing different accounts like of people who practice
Speaker 1: healthy eating or like people who can come up with
Speaker 1: a meal plan for you. You don't necessarily have to
Speaker 1: pay for these things anymore, but you've got to put
Speaker 1: in the time and the research, and that's where it's
Speaker 1: really going to show up on whether or not you
Speaker 1: want to do this, not for sure, Like I love
Speaker 1: me a hashtag, you know, I'll put hashtag brain foods,
Speaker 1: and then I'll look and even if it's a graphic
Speaker 1: you know, which is pictures of there, it is okay,
Speaker 1: so I need to eat dark chocolate, Okay, I need blueberries,
Speaker 1: I need sins. You know that I'm serious. Even with
Speaker 1: a simple hashtag, you can find some guidance in whatever
Speaker 1: area is that you know that you feel like you're
Speaker 1: lacking or you want to you want to improve. Social
Speaker 1: media can be a friend too. I want to encourage
Speaker 1: people to do that, you know, because there may be
Speaker 1: people listening right now that want to make that change
Speaker 1: and they just don't know how to do it. So
Speaker 1: you know, that's where I say, hashtag homework out. If
Speaker 1: you don't have if you don't have a gym, if
Speaker 1: you can't afford a trainer, be because let's face it,
Speaker 1: they're expensive and a lot of people are watching their
Speaker 1: money right now, especially after you know, the past year
Speaker 1: and a half, hashtag at home workouts. You will get
Speaker 1: your at home workouts where you can switch it up.
Speaker 1: You know, YouTube, you they have. I have this one
Speaker 1: girl that I follow. She does the most amazing, like,
Speaker 1: you know, ten minutes at home workouts. It doesn't need
Speaker 1: to be that deep. If you got YouTube on a
Speaker 1: tablet you can even put YouTube on your TV. You know,
Speaker 1: these smart TVs are amazing. Now, have you guys checked
Speaker 1: out Isaac Boots? I want to get Isaac Boots on
Speaker 1: this show. Have you checked out Isaac Boots? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I used to watch his videos. He would go live
Speaker 1: at like eleven a m. On Instagram and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: hell no, nobody bothered me. Right now, Isaac Boots is on.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to work on my tushi because you guys
Speaker 1: know I don't have a butt, but don't get me
Speaker 1: started on but I got my pancake booty over here.
Speaker 1: But Isaac Boots would offer a class eleven am every day.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he does it anymore because honestly,
Speaker 1: like now that I'm like in work mode, he is
Speaker 1: amazing you guys. And oh it's outside with this dog everywhere.
Speaker 1: I already love him follow And he has these like workouts.
Speaker 1: He has these little weights that you can put on
Speaker 1: and so you never know what you can discover. And
Speaker 1: that's what I really want people to focus on. You know,
Speaker 1: So even if you've been brought up using you know
Speaker 1: monte Gio, I say, then you know cooking all of
Speaker 1: your stuff and that there are ways that you can
Speaker 1: find those alternatives, and we want to help you find
Speaker 1: those resources. Carolena, my air fry has saved my life.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that much. I don't eat it unless
Speaker 1: I can make it in the air fire. Let me
Speaker 1: send you my salm and recipe, child, because it's so good.
Speaker 1: I'm talking yeah to me because God, I have to
Speaker 1: eat that every day. My husband will kill me. But
Speaker 1: if I don't eat, oh, you gotta get back on
Speaker 1: your salm and ship. You know he monitors everything I
Speaker 1: eat to make sure it's brain friendly. Can we give
Speaker 1: a special shout out to my boy Noony who you know?
Speaker 1: I just you know, I have a special place in
Speaker 1: my heart from and let me tell you, boy really
Speaker 1: showed up and showed out. He's been He's been absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: You know we're gonna talk about that, you know, in
Speaker 1: a different episode. Choose your damn spouse right, because when
Speaker 1: ship goes down, bro, that is who's gonna hold you down.
Speaker 1: You better not be out here waiting time with these
Speaker 1: fun boys because if you marry him, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: the same exact person when she goes down. And you
Speaker 1: funked up in a hospital, preach, honey, that is going
Speaker 1: to be the next topic for real, because we got
Speaker 1: to talk. I mean, there are a lot of fools
Speaker 1: out there acting up and we need to get you
Speaker 1: girls like you. You need to be treated with the
Speaker 1: respect and honor that you deserve, and we're going to
Speaker 1: touch that next time. But if you guys have questions,
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Speaker 1: couple of months. We're ready for them and we want
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