Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 2: This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 2: episode is going to be a longer one part of
Speaker 2: the series where I interview fascinating people about how they
Speaker 2: take their days from great to awesome and any advice
Speaker 2: they have for the rest of us. So I am
Speaker 2: delighted to today welcome Molly Beck to the program. Mollie
Speaker 2: is an entrepreneur, an author, and she also runs a
Speaker 2: substack newsletter.
Speaker 1: Called beck on Tech. So Mollie, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Laura, I'm so delighted to be here. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm thrilled to have you. So tell our listeners
Speaker 2: a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 3: My main job is I am a startup founder. My
Speaker 3: company is Workperfectly dot com. Our software helps large enterprises
Speaker 3: start private podcasts for their employees. And as you touched
Speaker 3: on in my intro, outside of Work Perfectly, I keep
Speaker 3: myself busy with a lot of smaller entrepreneurial ventures. I
Speaker 3: write that daily tech newsletter, I sell templates on Etsy,
Speaker 3: I do some investing. I just like to always have
Speaker 3: my hand and some other things awesome.
Speaker 1: That is good.
Speaker 2: Well, I first got to know you many years ago
Speaker 2: when you were sort of known as a proponent of
Speaker 2: what you call the reach out method, and that's the
Speaker 2: title of your first book. I wonder if you could
Speaker 2: tell people a little bit what it means to reach
Speaker 2: out as a method.
Speaker 3: Reaching out is the idea of sending one message email
Speaker 3: social media. I even had someone wants to do a
Speaker 3: reach out on twenty three and meters to someone that
Speaker 3: you don't know or is on the edge of your
Speaker 3: network every single workday, and the idea being that there
Speaker 3: are so many opportunities out there bouncing around, but unless
Speaker 3: people know about you, it can be hard for those
Speaker 3: opportunities to come to you. And it's also hard to
Speaker 3: show up at some sort of conference and hope that
Speaker 3: you make a connection. But if you're really intentional single
Speaker 3: day about reaching out to someone on the edge or
Speaker 3: a complete stranger of your network, you can grow that network.
Speaker 3: And what we're trying to develop by doing it every
Speaker 3: single day is a bad memory. It can be really demoralizing.
Speaker 3: If you've found one person that you think will change
Speaker 3: your career, you reach out and you hear crickets. But
Speaker 3: if that one person is the person you've reach out
Speaker 3: to on Tuesday and by Friday you've already done three
Speaker 3: more reachouts you've completely forgotten. So you're trying to make
Speaker 3: it a habit of being okay with going out into
Speaker 3: the universe, saying hi, giving someone a gift, being a
Speaker 3: joy in their inbox, and seeing what comes back to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how long does this tend to take when people
Speaker 1: do it?
Speaker 3: You know? Before AI, I would have said, oh, maybe
Speaker 3: ten or fifteen minutes a day. Now I think that
Speaker 3: you can have used tools like chat, GPT or cloud
Speaker 3: to help you write a quick reach out to someone
Speaker 3: and send it off in five minutes or less.
Speaker 2: And how do you think about which person to reach
Speaker 2: out to on any given day?
Speaker 1: Like do you have a running list and you just
Speaker 1: work through it? Or I mean, how does that work?
Speaker 3: I definitely have a reading list and I do work
Speaker 3: through it. But like this morning, my reach out was
Speaker 3: to someone that I was reading their substack. They're just
Speaker 3: a random person that I follow. I was so touched
Speaker 3: by what they write. I pulled out a quote from
Speaker 3: it and I said, I think that this quote is
Speaker 3: so amazing. You should do a podcast around this topic,
Speaker 3: and if you do, I will be your very first listener,
Speaker 3: just a quick little note hopefully it made them smile
Speaker 3: and then move on with my day. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love that idea, sort of being of service and
Speaker 2: like being a positive force in someone's inbox, like you're
Speaker 2: not reaching out asking for the person to do something
Speaker 2: big for you.
Speaker 3: Right, Such a great point. Absolutely, And like Laura, that's
Speaker 3: how you and I met. In twenty twelve. I sent
Speaker 3: you a reach out although I wasn't even really calling
Speaker 3: it that then, and said, I absolutely love your books.
Speaker 3: I believe I just read one of them, and I'm
Speaker 3: just so excited to be a fan of you. And now,
Speaker 3: I mean, look at this is thirteen years later. We've
Speaker 3: I was able to quote you and reach out, We've
Speaker 3: had professional collaborations, I'm appearing on your podcast. Not every
Speaker 3: reach will be so successful, but we never would have
Speaker 3: met if I hadn't just sent you that email, not
Speaker 3: even asking for anything, just telling you what a fan
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I smiled to get that email in my inbox.
Speaker 2: I'm very curious, like how often do people get back
Speaker 2: in touch with you?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, like, what would you say the
Speaker 1: response rate is?
Speaker 3: The response rate really varies on if it's someone that's
Speaker 3: actually on the edge of my network, like I've met
Speaker 3: them previously, or a total cold stranger, a cold stranger
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five percent, like one on a four. I'm
Speaker 3: getting our response someone that they at least recognized my
Speaker 3: name much higher eighty or even ninety. And then someone
Speaker 3: that I was actually like, used to be friends with
Speaker 3: or used to work with. You can say it like
Speaker 3: that's one hundred. Maybe not immediately, but they'll get back
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So be prepared for the cold reach outs to
Speaker 2: have a low response rate. Yeah, But the ones that
Speaker 2: are more sort of on your on the edge of
Speaker 2: your network, friend of friend, like more like.
Speaker 3: Someone you can name drop, like in the subject line like,
Speaker 3: oh I'm a friend of blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, exactly. Well, what a great discipline to develop.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's really helped grow your network over the years. So,
Speaker 2: but let's talk about your current project of Back on Tech.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you have your major startup stuff you're doing,
Speaker 2: but Back on Tech is a new newsletter where you
Speaker 2: talk all things tech.
Speaker 1: So tell us about it.
Speaker 3: You know, I just was really thinking, Hey, what am
Speaker 3: I super interested in these days? And it's really technology.
Speaker 3: I run a technology startup, I invest in other technologies.
Speaker 3: I love the Internet, I love learning about AI, and
Speaker 3: I have just been really interested in I like the
Speaker 3: process of creation, and I was looking at hunting around,
Speaker 3: casting about, as you might say, for an idea for
Speaker 3: a newsletter, and that's I decided to try it. I
Speaker 3: launched it a couple of months ago, and my rule
Speaker 3: when I first launched it is that I wouldn't tell
Speaker 3: anybody about it for at least a month make sure
Speaker 3: I could continually do it. It comes out every day
Speaker 3: at noon, so it's a daily newsletter, which you write
Speaker 3: one too. You know that can sometimes you start those
Speaker 3: and then you realize you run out of ideas. So
Speaker 3: I wanted to do it for a full month before
Speaker 3: I started, sort of lightly promoting it among people I knew.
Speaker 3: And now I'm a couple of months in it, and
Speaker 3: I'm just really enjoyed it. It's really short tech tips,
Speaker 3: interesting corners of the Internet, stuff I'm learning about AI
Speaker 3: that people can read every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I love the idea of making sure you
Speaker 2: have a lot of ideas as you are launching something.
Speaker 2: I know I've given the advice to people starting a
Speaker 2: podcast that you should have like twenty ideas for shows
Speaker 2: before you start, and because that tells you, really if
Speaker 2: it's something that you can keep running with, right, And
Speaker 2: I assume it wasn't that hard for you to come
Speaker 2: up with a month's worth of stuffing.
Speaker 3: It wasn't that hard, But I didn't really know that
Speaker 3: going into it. And nobody likes to be this person,
Speaker 3: and I've been this person where you start something, you
Speaker 3: tell everyone you know and then you just kind of
Speaker 3: run out of ideas, or you didn't like it as much,
Speaker 3: or you don't have the space for it. So giving
Speaker 3: yourself a little bit of privacy to launch something. I
Speaker 3: think I had like three subscribers. It was literally my mom,
Speaker 3: my husband, and my sister for the first month, just
Speaker 3: making sure that I could get into the practice. And
Speaker 3: then when I did start promoting it, I had a
Speaker 3: whole backlog, so it looked like, oh, hey, Molly's actually
Speaker 3: doing this, like she's really into it, and then I
Speaker 3: felt more confident sharing it with others.
Speaker 2: People excellent, Well we're going to take a quick ad
Speaker 2: break and then we will be back with a little
Speaker 2: bit more from Molly Beck.
Speaker 1: Well, I am back.
Speaker 2: I am interviewing Molly Beck, who is an entrepreneur and author,
Speaker 2: the founder of a substack called beck on Tech, which
Speaker 2: we've just been talking about. So Molly, back on Tech
Speaker 2: gives a short tech tip many days. I wonder if
Speaker 2: you could share one or two that you think our
Speaker 2: listeners might find useful.
Speaker 3: You know a tech tip that I recently shared that's
Speaker 3: a very dedicated part of my morning routine is I
Speaker 3: do something called a money minute, which is every morning
Speaker 3: when I sit down on my computer, the first thing
Speaker 3: I do is I checked all of my bank accounts,
Speaker 3: credit cards, savings account I even checked my four oh
Speaker 3: one K my coinbase, And that means it takes probably
Speaker 3: it definitely takes less than a minute. I don't have
Speaker 3: that many accounts, but it means that I always have
Speaker 3: a really good handle on the total amount of money
Speaker 3: that I have. And I started this about two years
Speaker 3: ago when I was just sort of always feeling I'm
Speaker 3: an entrepreneur and sometimes I feel nervous about hey, like,
Speaker 3: what is my financial forecast look like three six, nine months?
Speaker 3: And to know what the forecast is, you have to
Speaker 3: know what's going on now. So now I feel really
Speaker 3: on top of it with this practice of quickly running
Speaker 3: through all of my accounts every morning. It's the first
Speaker 3: thing I do before I check my email.
Speaker 2: Now, that's interesting that you would check your four oh
Speaker 2: one K every day, because I've certainly heard the advice
Speaker 2: that one should not do that.
Speaker 3: Laura, I literally do you are going to mention that?
Speaker 3: As I was saying it, I was like, Laura's not
Speaker 3: gonna like this Sparrowaki thing.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I get it. I totally get it.
Speaker 2: But and a lot of my investment accounts are attached
Speaker 2: to my check account, so I have to see them anyway. Like,
Speaker 2: it's not a mystery. I totally get it. But maybe
Speaker 2: you can explain why you consciously get well.
Speaker 3: For rest all, it doesn't change that much because it's
Speaker 3: just tied to the market. But you know what reminds me,
Speaker 3: I'm I you know, in thirty years, I will, hopefully
Speaker 3: God willing be here to tap into it and like
Speaker 3: what's going on there? And I also think like thinking
Speaker 3: about retirement is a big source of anxiety for a
Speaker 3: lot of people, especially if you have a more unstable
Speaker 3: income like a founder does, and just knowing that number,
Speaker 3: even if it's not always exactly what I want to see,
Speaker 3: but it's getting there and you can see the graph
Speaker 3: go up over time. I think it does help with
Speaker 3: anxiety for me. Almost anything that I'm nervous about in life,
Speaker 3: it's because I'm avoiding it, and if you just dive
Speaker 3: head into it, you know. I think in therapy they
Speaker 3: literally call that exposure therapy. I think it does, like
Speaker 3: really actually help to lower the anxiety.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, so exposure therapy with our four one
Speaker 2: really care Yeah, yeah, and you had another one recently.
Speaker 2: We mentioned that there's some setting that you can automatically
Speaker 2: shorten your meeting.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's called like the speedy meeting setting, and Google
Speaker 3: has it outlook has it Just like literally Google, Hey,
Speaker 3: I don't do the speedy meeting setting, and it will
Speaker 3: automatically make your meetings twenty five minutes or fifty five minutes,
Speaker 3: so you never even have to worry about like slightly
Speaker 3: adjusting the time. That just gives you a buffer. I
Speaker 3: also think when I get a meeting invite from someone
Speaker 3: that has set the meeting for twenty five minutes, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: this person is like they're on top of their life,
Speaker 3: like they know what's going on. Like we got to
Speaker 3: be on our game, and I think it's like a
Speaker 3: very positive signal to the other person that you are
Speaker 3: on top of your schedule.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and you'll have time to go to the restaurant
Speaker 2: before your next meeting, which is a big benefit.
Speaker 3: Grab a little handful of eminem you know, just a
Speaker 3: little snack.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: So you said you do your money minute as part
Speaker 2: of your morning routine. I wonder if you have any
Speaker 2: other sort of routines through your day that are helpful
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 3: Yes, I do. I would say one of my biggest
Speaker 3: routines actually is what I don't do, and that is
Speaker 3: that I do not have email on my phone and
Speaker 3: I don't check my tech messages very often. So that
Speaker 3: means that when I wake up in the morning, I'm
Speaker 3: not even like touching my phone until I really sit
Speaker 3: down at my desk, and that means in the morning,
Speaker 3: I'm focused on the kids. I am focused on getting dressed.
Speaker 3: I do think part of my morning routine is like
Speaker 3: getting dressed, putting on makeup. I wear a dress almost
Speaker 3: every day looking nice, and that means when I sit
Speaker 3: down at nine or nine fifteen to really start the day,
Speaker 3: I have not checked my email in a while, and
Speaker 3: I have emails to respond to, things to do, and
Speaker 3: so that's my first sort of part of my routine
Speaker 3: is what is not on the routine the rest of it.
Speaker 3: When I sit down, I do the money minute, I
Speaker 3: check all my email accounts. You know, most people these
Speaker 3: days have more than one. I'll work one, a personal one,
Speaker 3: and then I try to just dive into the day.
Speaker 3: Right now, I have a newborn at home, so my
Speaker 3: day is a little bit all over the place with
Speaker 3: breastfeeding on demand. And sometimes that's good to be shaking
Speaker 3: up the regular old routine being dependent on someone else.
Speaker 3: I also would say another part of my like sort
Speaker 3: of shutdown ritual is I do one let's check on
Speaker 3: my email accounts. I usually look at my to do
Speaker 3: list and I know what's the very first thing I'm
Speaker 3: going to do when I come back the next day.
Speaker 3: And then I just shut the computer and walk away.
Speaker 3: And I like to say, like I work in podcasting,
Speaker 3: like there's no emergencies. The biggest emergency is that my
Speaker 3: kids are not always going to be at my house.
Speaker 3: Like that's the most urgent thing in my life is
Speaker 3: that I should be present at home with my family
Speaker 3: right now. And the podcast will be there at nine
Speaker 3: am the next day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a normal work day starting at nine am.
Speaker 2: Do you have a target in time or I'm curious
Speaker 2: what that tends to.
Speaker 3: Le Yeah, my normal work day, I drop my kids
Speaker 3: off at school at nine and then I live like
Speaker 3: next to the school, go to Starbucks. I try to
Speaker 3: be at my guest by like nine twenty every day.
Speaker 3: And like the kids school bell, I can hear it
Speaker 3: from my house and it rings at nine thirty, and
Speaker 3: like nine hundred percent when I hear that bell ring,
Speaker 3: I better be at my desk. So I use that
Speaker 3: as like a little timing ritual. I loved your before
Speaker 3: breakfast tip recently. That was on like alarm clock noises,
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, the school bell's like kind
Speaker 3: of my alarm clock. To start my day start at
Speaker 3: nine thirty, and then the kids have to be picked
Speaker 3: up at four thirty. So I try to start that
Speaker 3: little shutdown ritual right around four o'clock. Sometimes I have
Speaker 3: little things popping up, but I do try to start
Speaker 3: winding up for the day around four o'clock.
Speaker 2: And do you have a set sort of sense of
Speaker 2: what you make and how do you choose what you're
Speaker 2: going to do in any given day. Is it based
Speaker 2: on what you see coming in in the morning, or
Speaker 2: do you have a general guideline of how you're organizing things?
Speaker 3: Laura, this is such the problem of being your own boss.
Speaker 3: One of the reasons I try to do my to
Speaker 3: do list the night before is because I haven't seen
Speaker 3: the emails yet for the next day. I try to
Speaker 3: choose two big things that I want to get accomplished
Speaker 3: in the day, and then the rest is actually pretty
Speaker 3: email driven.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I as a founder now, a lot of my job
Speaker 3: is sales driven. So I either have meetings, or I
Speaker 3: have customer service questions coming in, or I have like
Speaker 3: somebody emails me. I want to get back to them
Speaker 3: right away because I want to upsell them. I do.
Speaker 3: It is sort of email driven, and I've just sort
Speaker 3: of made peace with that. I think that's okay as
Speaker 3: long as you as long as you a lot into
Speaker 3: your schedule. And then the other thing I do is
Speaker 3: I do like to have little projects and like they
Speaker 3: are sort of like little hobbies to me, and I
Speaker 3: try to do those outside of that like nine to
Speaker 3: four hour sometimes later at night, I'll fire up the laptop,
Speaker 3: work on my aut csha's and I sometimes do back
Speaker 3: on talk because I try to do them for a
Speaker 3: week at a time. I like to have nine to
Speaker 3: four sort of protected for my quote nquote real work
Speaker 3: and then do my like fun little projects other times.
Speaker 1: What's the Etsy Store?
Speaker 3: Oh? Well, it's so fun. I sell little like habit
Speaker 3: trackers that are like really bright, really colorful. They're like
Speaker 3: eighties and nineties themed. It's just like a cute thing.
Speaker 3: It's called the Neon Upside. It's just something I do
Speaker 3: for fun, but I really enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Well, do you have any habits that you are tracking currently?
Speaker 3: Yes, I actually do so. I have an eight week
Speaker 3: old and this is my fourth trial, so I've been
Speaker 3: through postpartum previously, and for three months after I have
Speaker 3: a baby, I do something I called every Days and
Speaker 3: it's in a Google doc and it's about twenty items
Speaker 3: that you know, I think after you get birth, you're
Speaker 3: you can it's easy for things to get a little
Speaker 3: off track. And I track these twenty things and I
Speaker 3: have with all of the kids, and some of them
Speaker 3: are super easy get up, get dressed. One of them
Speaker 3: is like say I love you to someone, like easy
Speaker 3: that's one second. But some of them are especially in
Speaker 3: like the week or two after you give birth. I
Speaker 3: try to do like one career related thing a day,
Speaker 3: could be as simple as one email because I'm not
Speaker 3: really checking emails back then. One of them is have
Speaker 3: a longer conversation with someone in person. I feel like
Speaker 3: that's important for mental health. I just try to keep.
Speaker 3: One of them is making sure I'm meaning enough protein,
Speaker 3: like I try to keep. I try to be more
Speaker 3: diligent about my habits right after I give birth because
Speaker 3: I do think that that is like a sensitive time
Speaker 3: in your life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's funny you and I've had enough babies
Speaker 2: that it starts to be a thing you can kind
Speaker 2: of have a set routine for doing.
Speaker 1: But I love that you just, you know, by focusing.
Speaker 2: On only having a few things though that you're doing,
Speaker 2: I mean, you probably do those things and then feel
Speaker 2: like you're the most productive person in the world.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent. And like saying I love you comment
Speaker 3: that's like it takes more time to do the check mark.
Speaker 3: But I'm like, oh, and I don't always do all
Speaker 3: twenty things every day, but if I do fifteen or
Speaker 3: sixteen of them, and some of them are like, hey,
Speaker 3: make sure to have face to face time, like a
Speaker 3: solid meeting with each of the three kids. Just like
Speaker 3: trying one is like clean one thing around the house.
Speaker 3: Like the standards are low, but like it's a really
Speaker 3: nice way to feel productive, and I think it would work.
Speaker 3: I usually do it after I have a baby, but
Speaker 3: I think it would work if you were going through
Speaker 3: any sort of hard time. Just like, make that to
Speaker 3: do list really easy and get that thrill of checking
Speaker 3: things off.
Speaker 2: I love the idea of checking off that I got
Speaker 2: up in the morning. I really like the idea I
Speaker 2: check off, yes, yes.
Speaker 3: Open my eyes, got a glass of water, like my mind.
Speaker 1: We're waiting already.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we're gonna take one more quick ad
Speaker 2: break and then I'll be back with more from Molly Beck. Well,
Speaker 2: I am back with Molly Beck, who is an author
Speaker 2: an entrepreneur. She writes the substack Back on tech. As
Speaker 2: she mentioned, she has four extremely young children. I'm curious,
Speaker 2: do you guys have a regular end of the day
Speaker 2: around your house? I mean, do the kids go to
Speaker 2: bed at a certain time? Do you go to bed
Speaker 2: at a certain time?
Speaker 3: We do have a ritual for the end of the day.
Speaker 3: But it is just going to sleep, you know. Like
Speaker 3: I we have four kids, so we usually two. One
Speaker 3: of us takes two and then my husband takes the
Speaker 3: other two. And then I admit I usually fall asleep
Speaker 3: with the kid that I put to bed in my
Speaker 3: bed and then he and I snuggle up together, we
Speaker 3: fall asleep. He eventually gets moved to his bed around
Speaker 3: like midnight when my husband comes to bed, and then
Speaker 3: midnight is also when the baby gets up to feed,
Speaker 3: So that is our schedule these days. I also like
Speaker 3: to watch Friends. There's like one specific episode of Friends,
Speaker 3: season four, episode thirteen. I watch it every night to
Speaker 3: fall asleep. It's like as soon as I hear the
Speaker 3: first like three lines of dialogue, like it's like a
Speaker 3: Pevoli in response, like my eyes start to close. I
Speaker 3: just watch it every night. It calms me down. I'm
Speaker 3: always asleep, like within two minutes. So that is how
Speaker 3: I go to bed.
Speaker 1: Now that's fast.
Speaker 2: Is there anything special about that episode or it just
Speaker 2: happens to be you form this habit.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a key episode, like Rachel's like having
Speaker 3: a crush on someone, but I like never even get
Speaker 3: to the part where she like meets the guy she
Speaker 3: sent me the crush on because I'm like a sleep
Speaker 3: so fast I.
Speaker 1: Love that some people listen to a calming tape.
Speaker 2: You've got an episode of Friends that is putting you
Speaker 2: to sleep as well, so Molly. As you know, I
Speaker 2: often ask people what is something you have done recently
Speaker 2: to take a day from great to awesome?
Speaker 3: Laura, wait for this tip. I'm such a before breakfast
Speaker 3: fan and I've been waiting for you to ask me this.
Speaker 3: Over the last three weeks, I have been on a journey.
Speaker 3: And the journey started when I realized I really want
Speaker 3: to eat more protein, like that was important to me.
Speaker 3: So it was hunting around on Google, like what's a
Speaker 3: good food a lot of protein? And everyone said cottage cheese.
Speaker 3: But I'm like a texture girly, and I'm like, I
Speaker 3: don't know if that's for me, but I really wanted
Speaker 3: to try it. So I get the Good Culture brand.
Speaker 3: You can get it at Walmart, which is where I shop,
Speaker 3: put it in my fridge and I decided that every
Speaker 3: time I open the fridge, I would take the world's
Speaker 3: smallest bite of this cottage cheese in an effort to
Speaker 3: train myself to like him. So I start day one.
Speaker 3: My groceries come on Monday. I start day one. I'm
Speaker 3: like having a little bite, Okay, not for me Tuesday.
Speaker 3: This is interesting. Maybe I'll do more than one curd
Speaker 3: By Thursday. I'm craving it. And now it's three weeks later,
Speaker 3: I'm a cottage cheese person. I'm doing two tubs a week.
Speaker 3: I'm putting it on English muffins, I'm mixing it with ragu,
Speaker 3: I'm doing it all mixing with salty. Yesterday for chips.
Speaker 3: Cottage cheese has like when I ever you might eat it,
Speaker 3: I think, oh my gosh, I can do anything now.
Speaker 3: I love cottage cheese. And also, look all this protein
Speaker 3: that I'm getting to cottage cheese is the.
Speaker 1: End cottage cheese. Well, you're making me wish I could
Speaker 1: eat dairy products.
Speaker 3: It would be great.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a perfect way to get more protein by
Speaker 2: so you get your That's another weekly routine though, here
Speaker 2: is that you get your groceries delivered every Monday.
Speaker 3: Every Monday. It's a good And then you know what,
Speaker 3: I never keep a list. I just anytime during the
Speaker 3: week when I'm like, oh, we you should add that
Speaker 3: to the walmarter just instantly add it. Then Monday morning,
Speaker 3: my husband hits the button when he gets to work,
Speaker 3: and then it gets sill over. In the middle of
Speaker 3: the day, I put the groceries away and then we
Speaker 3: try to never have to think about like groceries.
Speaker 2: Besides that, And does that have like a set meal
Speaker 2: plan that you're eating each night?
Speaker 3: I mean, is that you know I'm not on the
Speaker 3: meal prep journey. I know I could say your meal plan,
Speaker 3: like I know you do your little pizza night and
Speaker 3: you have your breakfast for dinner, But that's not our
Speaker 3: journey right now. Whatever really the kids want. Sometimes we
Speaker 3: get chipoli takeout. I think maybe maybe that's a goal
Speaker 3: for twenty twenty six is to maybe virtualize some of
Speaker 3: those meal plans.
Speaker 2: Oh, I just.
Speaker 1: Wondered what you were eating. I don't know what. There's grories,
Speaker 1: there's groceries being purchased. There must be meals happening.
Speaker 3: Casta to look at tacos. My husband makes this like
Speaker 3: keiche that we like for dinner. But it's nothing. It's nothing.
Speaker 3: Both my husband and I have the palettes of like children,
Speaker 3: and that's perfect because we have all these kids. Oh,
Speaker 3: we do a lot of chicken sees or salads. Actually,
Speaker 3: my kids really like that, and that's like to get
Speaker 3: me a little treat.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Well, that's more sophisticated.
Speaker 3: It is kind of that's like the only complicated food
Speaker 3: my kids eat. The amount of times I drop that
Speaker 3: into a combo. Oh you know, my children eating chicken
Speaker 3: sees or salads. It's like that's the only thing that's complicated.
Speaker 1: Like that, and the chicken nuggets. That's all literally literally
Speaker 1: and fishy.
Speaker 3: Exactly right.
Speaker 1: So, Mollie, what are you looking forward to these days?
Speaker 3: I'm in just the best mood. I feel like that.
Speaker 3: I obviously love having kids around. That's why I have
Speaker 3: so money. I love having a baby in the house.
Speaker 3: I feel like I've actually really bonded with my dog more,
Speaker 3: which is like so random, and Blibberry and I have
Speaker 3: just been snuggling every night. I'm really excited about some
Speaker 3: stuff going on at work perfectly. I love having my projects.
Speaker 3: I am looking forward to a happy, healthy spring, and
Speaker 3: I am looking forward to trying to look for the
Speaker 3: good every day. It can be so easy to just
Speaker 3: really feel overwhelmed, but I'm I'm really trying to look
Speaker 3: for the good and I'm trying to if I think
Speaker 3: of emotions like I'm trying to stay at the top.
Speaker 3: Anything that's sad, I'm not just not thinking too.
Speaker 2: Much about Yeah, it's a good time in life not
Speaker 2: to think about that. Also a good time to eat
Speaker 2: a lot of cottage cheese. I think there'll be a
Speaker 2: lot of cottage cheese in your near future.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 1: Awesome, Awesome, Well, Molly, where can people find you?
Speaker 3: They can find me. They can always buy my book
Speaker 3: reach Out anywhere books are sold. They can find back
Speaker 3: on tech at back on tech dot substeck dot com.
Speaker 3: They if you're interested in podcasts at their company, then
Speaker 3: go to workperfectly dot com and I am miss Molly
Speaker 3: back on all social platforms.
Speaker 2: Awesome, well, Mollie, thank you so much for joining us.
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