Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine, Hey, besties.
Speaker 2: Today on the bright Side, we're joined by entrepreneur and
Speaker 2: founder of Women of Today, Camilla Alvs McConaughey. She's here
Speaker 2: to talk all about beauty, parenting, and what it means
Speaker 2: to be a McConaughey. It's Thursday, October seventeenth. I'm Simone Boyce.
Speaker 3: I'm Danielle Robe and this is the bright Side from
Speaker 3: Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we come together to
Speaker 3: share women stories, to laugh, learn and brighten your day.
Speaker 4: So, Simon, when I.
Speaker 3: Was growing up, I was obsessed with MTV's series Diary
Speaker 3: and the tagline was always you think you know, but
Speaker 3: you have no idea. And that tagline is what I
Speaker 3: thought about for our guests today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that sounds pretty accurate. I mean, talk
Speaker 2: about building the life you want from scratch. Camila Alves
Speaker 2: McConaughey emigrated to the United States from Brazil at just
Speaker 2: fifteen years old.
Speaker 3: When she arrived in the US, she took on any
Speaker 3: odd job that she could make money at. She was
Speaker 3: waiting tables, she was cleaning houses, all while learning English
Speaker 3: mm hmm.
Speaker 2: And then Camilla pursued a modeling career and her big
Speaker 2: break came when she landed a billboard in Times Square.
Speaker 2: Since then, she's been on the covers of several magazines
Speaker 2: and has walked the runway for brands like Valentino and
Speaker 2: Carolina Herrera. And yes, maybe you've seen her in an
Speaker 2: appearance or two alongside her husband, Matthew McConaughey.
Speaker 3: And she's really created a platform that stands for something.
Speaker 3: It's called Women of Today, and she says she's really
Speaker 3: on a mission. And then on her Instagram you'll see
Speaker 3: she's a huge advocate for health and healthy eating and
Speaker 3: is just so family first. She's the co author of
Speaker 3: this children's book, Just Try One Bite, which made it
Speaker 3: onto the New York Times bestseller list.
Speaker 1: We are such big fans of Just Try a One
Speaker 1: Bite in our house. You know. I actually have my
Speaker 1: mom to thank for this. Danielle.
Speaker 2: She started reading this book to them, and then I
Speaker 2: realized that my kids would come home and say all
Speaker 2: these new words that I hadn't heard them say before,
Speaker 2: like whole foods, and they were talking about eating healthy.
Speaker 2: And then I realized that it was Camilla's writing that
Speaker 2: is introducing all this new language into their vocabulary and
Speaker 2: helping them learn about the power of eating healthy.
Speaker 4: That's really amazing.
Speaker 3: It's not easy to get kids interested in whole foods
Speaker 3: or healthy foods, right, that must be quite a book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's cracked the code here. You know what else
Speaker 2: I'm really interested in hearing about from Kamila.
Speaker 4: What's that?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 2: A few years back, she and her husband, Matthew decided
Speaker 2: to move to Texas, which is where Matthew is from.
Speaker 2: And I'm really curious to hear how this lifestyle shift
Speaker 2: has changed them as a family. And they've just always
Speaker 2: seemed so down to earth, so this seems like a
Speaker 2: fit for them.
Speaker 3: It is not easy to get kids excited about whole
Speaker 3: foods or healthy foods, so I think what she's doing
Speaker 3: must be really special. And Simone, I have to tell
Speaker 3: you everything I know about her is from the Internet
Speaker 3: or from Instagram. I don't really know who Camilla really is,
Speaker 3: and I'm excited to get to know where with you today.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk to her as well.
Speaker 2: Let's bring her in, Kamila Alvis McConaughey, Welcome to the
Speaker 2: bright Side.
Speaker 5: Thank you all so much for having me.
Speaker 3: You know, I looked at your Instagram before we started
Speaker 3: and it says woman on a mission.
Speaker 4: I'm so curious what that means to you. Why you
Speaker 4: wrote that.
Speaker 5: I just think that as women we go to different transitions,
Speaker 5: different stages of life. I should really say it's human beings. Really,
Speaker 5: that's not only a women thing, it's it's human beings.
Speaker 5: We go through different stages of life. I feel like
Speaker 5: every stage of our life brings different missions. And for me,
Speaker 5: I have this mission that I just want to do better.
Speaker 5: I want to do better for myself. I wanted to
Speaker 5: do better for my family. I want to do better
Speaker 5: for my community. So that's kind of like my when
Speaker 5: I say women in a mission, it kind of gives
Speaker 5: me excited to kind of accomplish or to follow through
Speaker 5: instead of like I must do you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Mission just sounds more fun and exciting.
Speaker 1: It's the I get to versus I have to framing.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I just had a conversation about this.
Speaker 5: If that shift is something that has really helped me,
Speaker 5: even for the smallest things, the simplest things. Look, we
Speaker 5: have three kids, right Like, sometimes I'm in the car
Speaker 5: for six hours straight. This is six to seven hours
Speaker 5: straight driving from this to the school to that, school
Speaker 5: and then come back and then what I've doctor whatever
Speaker 5: it is, and my kids. Hence we are in a
Speaker 5: unique situation. I understand that not everybody can do that,
Speaker 5: and I go, I get to do this. I get
Speaker 5: to be in the car with them. I get to
Speaker 5: have the ability to drive them. I get to have
Speaker 5: a car to take them. I like, all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm happy, and we're having different conversations instead
Speaker 5: of me being stuck in traffic, you know, bitching about
Speaker 5: how am I stuck in traffic? Right So, even for
Speaker 5: the simple things like that too, when you have a
Speaker 5: really big problem, right Like, I had somebody that was
Speaker 5: in the hospital and it was like it was a
Speaker 5: really bad situation, drop everything and go take care of that.
Speaker 5: And why you're there, It's like, well, I get to
Speaker 5: be here and care for help care for this person.
Speaker 5: Right Like, even that gives you a different energy to
Speaker 5: win into situations.
Speaker 2: Camilla, you mentioned having this mission or purpose to girge
Speaker 2: you through life's transitions. What stage of life are you
Speaker 2: in right now? Because I totally relate to, especially as
Speaker 2: a woman going through different life stages. Right there's like
Speaker 2: the time pre kids, pre husband, where you have your
Speaker 2: independence and all you can. You get to be selfish, right,
Speaker 2: and then you get married there's another person that you
Speaker 2: need to factor into your life. Then you have kids
Speaker 2: and there are more responsibilities, and then hopefully we find
Speaker 2: our way back to ourselves and find the things that
Speaker 2: light us up.
Speaker 1: What stage of life would you say that you're in.
Speaker 5: I think that I am on the serving stage of life.
Speaker 5: It is not necessarily about all the things that I
Speaker 5: want to do. The season right now for me is
Speaker 5: to really make sure that the people I love have
Speaker 5: everything that they need so they can succeed on their journey.
Speaker 5: And it is challenging and beautiful at the same time
Speaker 5: because it is a compromise. You sit back and go
Speaker 5: but I could have been doing this, so I could
Speaker 5: have been doing that, and I say no to this,
Speaker 5: I say no to that, And I'm not telling people
Speaker 5: that that's what they should do, because everybody has different
Speaker 5: definitions of what success is for them. At this stage
Speaker 5: of my life, it's more of making sure everybody that
Speaker 5: I love has everything they need, because if they're good,
Speaker 5: my heart is good, and if my heart is good,
Speaker 5: then everything else falls into place. And I'm trusting and
Speaker 5: cultivating things slowly, but planting little seeds and cultivating to
Speaker 5: where when that stage passes, I don't have to start
Speaker 5: all over again, right, Like, I don't have to start
Speaker 5: all over again and be lost of like what do
Speaker 5: I do now? Because I've had a lot of older
Speaker 5: friends and I've had so many conversations with them, and
Speaker 5: I have seen some of my friends go through this
Speaker 5: stage where they only educated one hundred percent to just
Speaker 5: the kids, and then once the kids out of their house,
Speaker 5: they don't know what to do. They're fully lost and
Speaker 5: trying to figure out to start all over again. That's
Speaker 5: really hard.
Speaker 3: I really like the name of your lifestyle brand. It's
Speaker 3: called Women of Today, and it's devoted to everything from
Speaker 3: cooking and health to style, work, family. I'm wondering, what
Speaker 3: do you think it means to be a woman in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four? What does it mean to be a
Speaker 3: woman of today?
Speaker 5: You know, Look, I'll tell you why I name it
Speaker 5: Women of Today. It goes back to the things we
Speaker 5: were talking the beginning of the transitions, the different stages
Speaker 5: that would go in life. We know that that stage
Speaker 5: is going to pass, no stages forever. So this idea
Speaker 5: of women of today. Being in every stage that you're
Speaker 5: in and every age that you're in, you're going to
Speaker 5: have new things that are exciting to learn. And the
Speaker 5: most important thing for me what this journey with the
Speaker 5: women of today was to be able to learn from
Speaker 5: each other and to also have a community that wasn't
Speaker 5: just specific one age group or one demograph. My go
Speaker 5: from day one was I want young, I want older,
Speaker 5: I want middle, I want all you know, all the
Speaker 5: I wanted to feel exactly. I wanted to feel very welcoming,
Speaker 5: and we have achieved that and it makes me really
Speaker 5: really happy, really happy.
Speaker 3: You know, in hearing about who you are today, I
Speaker 3: think most people would never know who you were when
Speaker 3: you were fifteen and you moved from Brazil to the
Speaker 3: United States and spoke very little English and we're cleaning
Speaker 3: houses for a living. I'm curious if you think about
Speaker 3: those times now at all.
Speaker 5: I think about those times almost daily, almost daily. It's
Speaker 5: not one time that I drive by the gate of
Speaker 5: my house and I said a prayer of gratitude. It
Speaker 5: is not one time that I go to supermarket and
Speaker 5: I walk out I tell my kids how grateful we
Speaker 5: should be that we have the ability to do that.
Speaker 5: We talk about it a lot. I have a lot
Speaker 5: of stories from that time in my life that I
Speaker 5: share a lot with the kids, and that time was
Speaker 5: very formative for me. I don't think I would be
Speaker 5: the first I am today fighting had that experience in
Speaker 5: my life.
Speaker 3: Is there a story that sticks out to you, I'd
Speaker 3: be really curious to know something that's close to your
Speaker 3: heart from that time.
Speaker 5: I actually he was just talking with my eleven year old.
Speaker 5: We went to shake check the other day and just
Speaker 5: last week, and it were a Garrett French fries and
Speaker 5: for and we sat down, just him and I. We
Speaker 5: were eating the French fries, and I went, hey, Bud,
Speaker 5: you know when mama was this age and she was
Speaker 5: working do this and that, you know, I couldn't even
Speaker 5: afford to buy the French fries, you know. And he
Speaker 5: was like what it was like, Yeah, I couldn't have
Speaker 5: afford to buy the French fries. So me and this
Speaker 5: older lady who who she was Brazilian and then we
Speaker 5: cleaned houses in the same area. We became friends. I said
Speaker 5: we would go to the dollar store and I told
Speaker 5: her because because you know, when you're from a different country,
Speaker 5: especially from South America. I'm really going to say from
Speaker 5: South America. The mentality is you work, and you said,
Speaker 5: you know, you help your family back home, right, you
Speaker 5: kind of become big responsible for the family back home.
Speaker 5: And the challenge with that is that you end up
Speaker 5: really not doing anything for yourself. So I told this
Speaker 5: lady one day, I said, you know what, We're going
Speaker 5: to take one dollar a week and we're going to
Speaker 5: go to the dollar store together and we're gonna buy
Speaker 5: one thing for ourselves. Okay, so just so we can
Speaker 5: feel good about the hard work that we put in
Speaker 5: this week. So we will go to the dollar store
Speaker 5: and buy I don't know it, know, be a hair
Speaker 5: clip or a little makeup thing for a dollar. And
Speaker 5: it's really good dollar dollar store in Torrance, California. But
Speaker 5: I still go back there, believe it or not. I
Speaker 5: still go back and I take the kid. We would
Speaker 5: do that, and it was a McDonald's just around the
Speaker 5: corner from there, and we would then go to the
Speaker 5: McDonalds after the dinner time. And I told miss oh
Speaker 5: Warder the burger and I say, sometimes we would just
Speaker 5: sit there and wait because people will leave their French
Speaker 5: fries behind and we'll go and we'll take the fresh side.
Speaker 5: That's how we will get the fries. That's amazing.
Speaker 4: How did you have a vision at that time of
Speaker 4: what could be?
Speaker 5: I don't think I had a of what it could be.
Speaker 5: I think I had a vision that I wanted to
Speaker 5: do something better for me and at that time, right
Speaker 5: at that time, for me, it meant to evolve. I
Speaker 5: didn't want to be in one place. I didn't want
Speaker 5: to be settling too one thing that I came here
Speaker 5: to do. And I remember I used to set a prayer.
Speaker 5: I used to you know, I believe in the power
Speaker 5: of prayer. I'll be driving in the car and listening
Speaker 5: to India IRI at those times, just a lot of
Speaker 5: you know, inspiring songs, and I would pray. I would say, hey,
Speaker 5: you know, if I have a bigger mission here to
Speaker 5: keep me here in this country and make this a
Speaker 5: home for me, but if I didn't to let me
Speaker 5: go back to Brazil. And I want to make this
Speaker 5: very clear, I'm not saying that doing that kind of
Speaker 5: job is anything bad, is nothing wrong. It's a job
Speaker 5: to take a lot of pride in it. But I
Speaker 5: always wanted to learn more and get to the next level.
Speaker 5: So I went from like cleaning houses to not speaking
Speaker 5: the language, working on a Mexican restaurant there was only
Speaker 5: the menu was only numbers, because that's all I knew.
Speaker 5: I was like, okay, number three, I got it, you know.
Speaker 5: Then working in an Italian restaurant, then having to really
Speaker 5: learn the language too, you know. Like so those things
Speaker 5: kind of was just always in me to try to
Speaker 5: continue searching because I just felt like what it was
Speaker 5: for me for my journey wasn't a different place.
Speaker 3: We have to take a quick break, but we'll be
Speaker 3: right back to our conversation with model, author and entrepreneur
Speaker 3: Camila Alves McConaughey, and we're back with Camila Alves McConaughey.
Speaker 3: So part of the site talks about beauty around the
Speaker 3: world of all kinds. Are there any Brazilian beauty secrets
Speaker 3: that you think as Americans need to know?
Speaker 5: Look, I think that we do growing up in Brazil,
Speaker 5: like taking care of yourself. The self care situation is real.
Speaker 5: Like that's not a question, Okay. I remember when my
Speaker 5: dad first came to visit and he I picked him
Speaker 5: up at the report and he looked at it like
Speaker 5: I was striving and he saw my nails and he's like,
Speaker 5: what's true with you? Like why, like why is like that?
Speaker 5: And I'm like what, like you know because like being
Speaker 5: here like that was not even a no. You did
Speaker 5: it when you had time, you know or whatever. But
Speaker 5: it's like in BRAZILA grew up and it's like every Friday,
Speaker 5: every Friday in dependly of your social status and doesn't
Speaker 5: matter your social status. You can believing in the favela
Speaker 5: and they have a salon that is like, you know,
Speaker 5: really inexpensive to get your nails done and your hair
Speaker 5: done and you're taking care of yourself, like it is
Speaker 5: part of the culture.
Speaker 1: I had no idea about this, Camilla. This is wild.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is cool.
Speaker 5: Yes, you get your nails done, you get your blowout,
Speaker 5: you get your wet, you do all your things and
Speaker 5: get ready for the weekends. Every like neighborhood you go,
Speaker 5: you're gonna find these little doors and it's a little
Speaker 5: or the nail ladies come to your house or you
Speaker 5: can go to her house. Like this is just it's normal,
Speaker 5: it's happening. And also one thing that Brazilians do a
Speaker 5: lot is that we do take beauty from the inside out,
Speaker 5: so it's not just what are we putting on top,
Speaker 5: but what are we eating? What are we drinking? That's
Speaker 5: something that it's big in our culture too.
Speaker 3: Your daughter, you cloned yourself. She's fourteen and she's you.
Speaker 3: How do you talk to her about beauty?
Speaker 5: It's challenging in this day and age that we're living. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but I talk a lot about can embracing what God
Speaker 5: gave her. I say, the sooner you embrace, like, you're
Speaker 5: gonna feel really good about yourself. You're gonna like really
Speaker 5: shine because we all have imperfections. It's not a thing
Speaker 5: right that's really nice, you know. Like I remember this
Speaker 5: is one time when she was younger and she had
Speaker 5: a young brown and I did growing up to people
Speaker 5: used to make fun of me too, But I waited.
Speaker 5: I'm very like slow to change anything, so like I
Speaker 5: waited until like just this year and she started to
Speaker 5: do her brows when all her friends were doing like
Speaker 5: you know, two or three years before. And I remember
Speaker 5: she had a little girl who made fun of her
Speaker 5: in a really bad way. That really got to her.
Speaker 5: And she went and she shaved it without telling me,
Speaker 5: without asking, And I remember like she was like she
Speaker 5: wouldn't look at me for like a day, and I
Speaker 5: didn't want to, like, you know, scold her. I feel
Speaker 5: like I didn't see it. And then later that day
Speaker 5: I was like, okay, I was like, we need to
Speaker 5: talk about this. So we sat down and I asked her,
Speaker 5: and you know, she came clean and the first thing
Speaker 5: I went I was like, you know, you look like
Speaker 5: that because you come from a generation of women behind you,
Speaker 5: that me, your grandmother, your great grandmother. The fact that
Speaker 5: we come from a different country that you are makes
Speaker 5: the fact that you half Brazilian and half American. I'm like,
Speaker 5: are you ashamed of me? Are you embarrassed? To me?
Speaker 5: She's like no, what are you talking about? I say,
Speaker 5: are you embarrassed of how your grandma is and how
Speaker 5: she looks? She's like no, And I was like, well,
Speaker 5: you have to understand that if you are embarrassed by
Speaker 5: these features that you have, you basically saying I don't
Speaker 5: appreciate you, like I don't respect or I don't love
Speaker 5: what that is. And that just kind of clicked for her.
Speaker 5: She's like, no, I love this, and I'm saying so
Speaker 5: there we go, like and it became a thing, even
Speaker 5: with her hair, because she has curly hair, right, and
Speaker 5: she's wanted to straight all the time, and she only
Speaker 5: wants to straighten maybe on a special occasion, Like I
Speaker 5: don't hear about it anymore. She just like embraced who
Speaker 5: she is. And I think the understanding that beauty is
Speaker 5: coming from this line of generations coming that's yeah, formed
Speaker 5: who you are.
Speaker 3: I'm going to back up and admit something very embarrassing
Speaker 3: to you, but I sometimes watch motivational YouTube videos in
Speaker 3: the morning when I'm getting dressed if I like wake
Speaker 3: up on the wrong side of the bed or need
Speaker 3: like a pump up. And I have listened to Matthew's
Speaker 3: OSCARS speech more than a few times.
Speaker 5: Okay, you're not the only one. We get a lot
Speaker 5: of people to shut out with us. It's a good one.
Speaker 4: It was such a good one.
Speaker 3: But in the middle of it, they cut to you,
Speaker 3: and I'll never forget the look that you gave him.
Speaker 3: You know, sometimes people like they cut to an audience
Speaker 3: member and they look a little disconnected, And when they
Speaker 3: cut to you, you guy, like, you looked so connected.
Speaker 4: It was real. I could feel it.
Speaker 3: It's really beautiful to witness because I think it showcases
Speaker 3: a real relationship.
Speaker 5: Yeah, make me tr eye know, what do you.
Speaker 3: Remember from that moment, if that's making you emotional, what
Speaker 3: I remember from that moment?
Speaker 5: You know, it's it's hard to describe what that feeling
Speaker 5: is and what that moment was and what that represents.
Speaker 5: I was just really happy for Matthew. It was really
Speaker 5: happy for him. Matthew did a lot of transitions to
Speaker 5: change the course of what he was doing. Our family
Speaker 5: went through a lot of transitions. It was a time
Speaker 5: there that we just decided were just going to hunker
Speaker 5: down and we'll figure out, you know, like we didn't
Speaker 5: know its work was going to come or out, and
Speaker 5: we took that chance, you know, like we went, that's
Speaker 5: what we're gonna do. Fucket, we'll figure out if it
Speaker 5: doesn't work, you know kind of thing, let's do it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: We were having kids in between, were removing. It was
Speaker 5: a lot of things going on at the same time.
Speaker 5: And then that project on itself, it was a that
Speaker 5: project didn't even have financing and to write before the movie,
Speaker 5: so literally we're all trying to find finance for the movie.
Speaker 5: I was making phone calls to find money for the movie,
Speaker 5: like you know, and math is losing all this weight,
Speaker 5: which was it was a journey to do that, and
Speaker 5: we changed our life routine, our kids are, like everything
Speaker 5: changed to be able to get to what he needed
Speaker 5: to get to create this character and to do the
Speaker 5: job that he needed to do. When his name was
Speaker 5: called out, it was like, you know, it's his peers
Speaker 5: saying like basically saying, hey, we acknowledge what you've done.
Speaker 5: And those people know what it takes to get it
Speaker 5: done because they're doing it themselves, different versions of it.
Speaker 5: So for them to do that to me, it was
Speaker 5: just like wow, like he did it. You know, he accomplished.
Speaker 5: So I have no words. I just my only regret
Speaker 5: is that I sat down. My only regret because I'm
Speaker 5: like me and his mom we wanted to stand up,
Speaker 5: like to keep like just you know, and I think
Speaker 5: we're like felt like, I don't know, like is it
Speaker 5: weird if for standing up like you know what I mean,
Speaker 5: we're calling attention to us, if we're standing up like
Speaker 5: this is not our you know what I mean? And
Speaker 5: we sat down, and in hindsight, I'm like, we know
Speaker 5: everything that went through for that to get to that moment,
Speaker 5: and I wish sort of should stand up and just
Speaker 5: stay there, like even honor him even more when the
Speaker 5: room else, you know, everybody sat down. And I think
Speaker 5: that anybody that is in a relationship, it's really cool
Speaker 5: to selfishly be really happy for your partner or they
Speaker 5: achieve something, whether you had something to deal with it
Speaker 5: or if you didn't. Like you know, like I'm happier
Speaker 5: when my husband achieved things. And when I achieved something.
Speaker 5: It's not because I don't value what I achieved. It's
Speaker 5: just because I'm just so happy for him.
Speaker 4: The family heartbeat.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it's time for another short break. Stay with us.
Speaker 1: We're back with Camila Alva McConaughey. I do you want
Speaker 1: to ask you about this? Camilla?
Speaker 2: Uh, My kids love your book that you co authored.
Speaker 2: It's called Just Try One Bite. And thanks to you.
Speaker 2: My son Keenan, whenever we pray before we eat, he
Speaker 2: says thank you God for whole foods, which he learned
Speaker 2: from your book. It's brought us so much joy in
Speaker 2: our family. What is the one recipe that your family
Speaker 2: asks you to make the most?
Speaker 5: Okay? Can I just stay here for a moment. You
Speaker 5: guys almost made me cry twice of this situation. Look
Speaker 5: it just made me so happy right now by sharing that.
Speaker 5: Thank you, because you know, just this book just try
Speaker 5: one bite. It was again, it was just a labor
Speaker 5: of love of like, hey, this mission of doing better,
Speaker 5: I have no idea where it's going to go. This
Speaker 5: is ana and the idea of the book came up.
Speaker 5: I'm like the kid's book, I have no idea, never
Speaker 5: thought about it, and we did it. And I hear
Speaker 5: from parents similar stories that you have sare now and
Speaker 5: it's just thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 1: Of course you're having.
Speaker 2: A real impact, like you you really are teaching kids
Speaker 2: in a fun way how to embrace foods that are
Speaker 2: better for us.
Speaker 5: So thank you, yes, thank you, thank you for sharing that. Okay, recipe,
Speaker 5: my kids really love this honey chicken that I might.
Speaker 5: I can never make enough of it. It's actually the
Speaker 5: recipe is on the Women of the website, so if
Speaker 5: anybody wants to go check it out. But it is
Speaker 5: the honey chicken.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm looking for some meal prep and spos so
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to rune.
Speaker 5: And the bolonnaise, the bolonaise pastor too. They love that.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, Okay, I am going to ask the question
Speaker 2: that Danielle brought up earlier. You and your husband seem
Speaker 2: like such thoughtful parents, but also thoughtful partners and human beings.
Speaker 2: It just seems like you do everything with intentions. So
Speaker 2: if someone were to ask your kids this question, how
Speaker 2: you think they would answer it?
Speaker 1: What does it mean to be in ma?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 1: What do you think your kids think it means to
Speaker 1: be a McConaughey, You.
Speaker 5: Got me on that one. I can't answer that question
Speaker 5: because that would be a question that you have to
Speaker 5: ask my kids. Yeah, but I'll tell you what. It's
Speaker 5: a big value that we install in our kids, and
Speaker 5: that's a respect respect for everything in life, not just
Speaker 5: what you believe in, respect for what others believe in,
Speaker 5: respect for other people's experiences, so what they bring to
Speaker 5: the table, respect for yourself, respect for elders, respect for
Speaker 5: your body. We're big values. We have a lot of
Speaker 5: values that we try to teach our kids. And I
Speaker 5: think that if a lot of parents stick to remembering
Speaker 5: the core values and not worrying as much about being
Speaker 5: a best friend, you can still be a best friend
Speaker 5: and teach values and know when to say no say yes.
Speaker 5: It's okay to be the tough one sometimes they need that.
Speaker 5: I was just reading a thing that Drew Barrymore actually wrote.
Speaker 5: She wrote on her Instagram, and she said when she
Speaker 5: was young, she never heard no. Nobody told her no
Speaker 5: when she was young, and as a kid, she needed
Speaker 5: that boundary. She needed somebody to be saying to her, no,
Speaker 5: you cannot do that. And because she didn't, she pushed
Speaker 5: it all the way into a way that wasn't healthy
Speaker 5: for her. Right. So it's okay to be tough sometimes
Speaker 5: with respect, with kindness, but it's okay to say no.
Speaker 5: So we're bigging vatless that I can say we're not perfect.
Speaker 5: Nobody's perfect on this and does I come with the manual?
Speaker 5: And every kid is different, right, But I tell them
Speaker 5: all the time, anytime that you look back in life,
Speaker 5: you'll be able to say that we try our best.
Speaker 5: We've tried our very best. It was not for lack
Speaker 5: of trying, you know what I mean. I was like,
Speaker 5: you know, if I feel like I'm trying my best
Speaker 5: and I'm doing my best that I can, then I'm okay.
Speaker 5: And if things don't work out, then that's a different
Speaker 5: thing to deal with. But I can lay my head
Speaker 5: and a feeling go I try my best, I do
Speaker 5: my best.
Speaker 1: Camila, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: Kamila Alvis McConaughey is a model, author, entrepreneur, and founder
Speaker 3: of the online community Women of Today.
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