WEBVTT - Terrible Roommates: featuring Chelsea's Ex-Roommate Colleen Siragusa

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<v Speaker 1>Oh hello everybody. Hi, Hi Katherine, Hi, how are you Chelsea? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm we're gonna get started right away today with our

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<v Speaker 1>very special guests because she has a lot to say,

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<v Speaker 1>she has a lot on her mind. This has been

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<v Speaker 1>a very very long time in the making. She has

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<v Speaker 1>had a long time to reflect on our relationship. This

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<v Speaker 1>is a non traditional guest. I'm going to introduce her

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<v Speaker 1>with the intro that she gave me, which is she

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<v Speaker 1>is a wife, a mother of two, and a survivor

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<v Speaker 1>of living with Chelsea Handler. Her name is Colleen Saragosa

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<v Speaker 1>and she was my roommate in Brentwood on Barrington six

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<v Speaker 1>or five South Barrington. Whoa yep, yea for I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know how many years do we live together. We lived

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<v Speaker 1>together for three okay, three years we lived together. I

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<v Speaker 1>was in my early mid twenties. I was twenty three

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<v Speaker 1>to twenty six, so you're a little younger than so

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<v Speaker 1>I must have been. Well, maybe I was like nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>to twenty one. In my book I wrote that you

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<v Speaker 1>were a twenty eight year old virgin? Was that a lie?

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<v Speaker 1>Let's just jump right in. Okay, Hi to Colleen Saragosa.

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<v Speaker 1>Hi college, Oh my god, Colleen and I were texting

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<v Speaker 1>the other day. I said, you know, it would be funny.

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<v Speaker 1>You should come on my podcast and you can tell

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<v Speaker 1>all the horror stories about what it was like to

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<v Speaker 1>live with me. And She's like, I would love nothing more.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm finally ready. I've had twenty

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<v Speaker 1>years to digest what it was like to be attached

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<v Speaker 1>to you for three years and she's just coming out

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<v Speaker 1>of the fog and wait. So but back off to

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<v Speaker 1>the most recent time I ran into you, which was

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<v Speaker 1>like four or five years ago. Four years ago, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>four years ago. I was in Brentwood, at the top

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<v Speaker 1>of Brentwood. You were in Starbucks and I was walking

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<v Speaker 1>my little girl, she was what two at the time

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<v Speaker 1>I was walking and we haven't seen each other. We

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<v Speaker 1>mind you. I'll get into the story because I'm sure

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<v Speaker 1>everyone wants to know the story of Chelsea and how

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<v Speaker 1>I survived living with her, because it wasn't an easy feat.

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<v Speaker 1>I needed tons of therapy after that. But anyway, we

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<v Speaker 1>hadn't seen each other in seventeen years. I harbored a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of bad feelings towards her. I'm also known as

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<v Speaker 1>dumb Dumb dumb dumb in my book My Horizontal Life, Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>my Horizontal Life. I wrote a book and I talked

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<v Speaker 1>about someone I named her dumb dumb and that was

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<v Speaker 1>named after I can laugh about it now, I can.

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<v Speaker 1>I can. I I was upset for so many years

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<v Speaker 1>and I actually asked a mutual friend of ours and

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<v Speaker 1>I went to her in tears and I said, in

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<v Speaker 1>my dumb dumb I need to know, and she said yes,

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<v Speaker 1>and I was just like wow, Wow, I was so mad.

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<v Speaker 1>I was so mad, and it's taken a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>time and and I'm a different person now. And anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>fast forward to a few years ago. I ran into

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<v Speaker 1>her at Starbucks and I walked past her and I'm like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>there's Chelsea. Do I stop? Do I stop and say anything?

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm like, no, don't. So I walked past her,

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<v Speaker 1>and then on the way back, I was like, you

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<v Speaker 1>know what I'm gonna I'm gonna stop. And I stopped

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<v Speaker 1>and I said hi, and she stood up and she

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<v Speaker 1>hugged me hm and and she had tears in her eyes. Sorry,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm emotional all the time, all the time. It's very

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<v Speaker 1>welcome here, and it was it was why it was

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<v Speaker 1>so hard to live together because she's always emotional and

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<v Speaker 1>I have no emotion. And she made me cry all

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<v Speaker 1>the time. All the time. I was the butt of

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<v Speaker 1>every joke. Yes, so anyway, I she hugged me and

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<v Speaker 1>she said, can you sit down for a second. I

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<v Speaker 1>said sure, So we sat down and and um, I said,

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<v Speaker 1>am I dumb? Dumb? And she said yes you are?

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<v Speaker 1>Are you pissed? And I was like, I've been pissed

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<v Speaker 1>for a really long time, but you know I'm over it.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm over it now. And um, she said, I was

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<v Speaker 1>a real bitch to you, wasn't I? And I said, yes,

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<v Speaker 1>you were, and she said I'm sorry. And that was

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<v Speaker 1>the first time I was like, wow, I think Chelsea

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<v Speaker 1>has changed. I think Chelsea has gotten a lot of therapy.

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<v Speaker 1>And I really felt that she was sorry for the

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<v Speaker 1>hell that she put me through for those three years

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<v Speaker 1>because it was it was. Man. I want to meet

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<v Speaker 1>Joe Koy. I want to shake his hands, because the

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<v Speaker 1>man I can put up with her bullshit deserves a

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<v Speaker 1>freaking metal. Let me just say, first of all, he's adorable,

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<v Speaker 1>he's funny. The two of you together are on fire,

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<v Speaker 1>and I I am so happy for you. Because you

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<v Speaker 1>have found what is most important in this world, and um,

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<v Speaker 1>and it is. I mean, I'm married, I have a family.

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<v Speaker 1>It's totally changed who I am and made me see

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<v Speaker 1>what's important in life. And um, yeah, we have lots

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<v Speaker 1>of stories to share. When we got together, so we

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<v Speaker 1>waited tables together at a couple of places, at Judy's,

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<v Speaker 1>Daly and on muscowna what establishment that I was fired

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<v Speaker 1>from when we found out he was basically stealing from us.

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<v Speaker 1>Remember we were getting paid, we were getting paid under

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<v Speaker 1>the table. And then on top of that, I called

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<v Speaker 1>and I reported him so that he had to legally

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<v Speaker 1>pay us, but he would pay us and make us

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<v Speaker 1>reimburse him for the payment that he would give us

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<v Speaker 1>because he thought we were making too much money at

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<v Speaker 1>a restaurants. The worst part is is that he ended

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<v Speaker 1>up thinking we were stealing from him, so he put

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<v Speaker 1>cameras up all around the restaurant and he was videotaping us.

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<v Speaker 1>And I just remember Chelsea one day just she was

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<v Speaker 1>so pissed that the cameras were up and she just

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<v Speaker 1>went flipping the birds of the camera and she just left.

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<v Speaker 1>That was it. So we ended up moving because I

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<v Speaker 1>ended up leaving too, and I found a place in

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<v Speaker 1>the Palisades, Pacific Palisades, not a place to live. We

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<v Speaker 1>lived in brent but she found a job in the

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<v Speaker 1>Pacific Palisades. And then you brought me to that judge.

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<v Speaker 1>By the way, I lived in Brentwood for years, is

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<v Speaker 1>in that apartment. My husband had to drag me out

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<v Speaker 1>because I love that apartment so much, the same apartment

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<v Speaker 1>that she and I, Colleen and I lived in when

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<v Speaker 1>I we were in our early twenties. I didn't realize

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<v Speaker 1>you were twenty three through six, so I must have

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<v Speaker 1>been yeah, twenty to twenty three because we were super young,

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<v Speaker 1>young and I was younger than you. Okay, so anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>we we So then we got a job in the Palisades.

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<v Speaker 1>We worked at that together. So when we ran into

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<v Speaker 1>each other four years ago, I was like, what are

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<v Speaker 1>you doing here? And she's like, I still live in

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<v Speaker 1>the apartment that we lived and I go, what if

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<v Speaker 1>I hadn't met my husband, I would be there till

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<v Speaker 1>I die because I loved that apartment so much. I

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<v Speaker 1>mean it is it was like Melrose Place to me.

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<v Speaker 1>I I it was awesome. And she's like, my daughter

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<v Speaker 1>lives in your room. I'm like, shut the fuck up.

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<v Speaker 1>She's like, yes, my daughter lives in her room in

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<v Speaker 1>your room, and my husband and I still live in

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<v Speaker 1>that apartment. I could not wrap my head around that.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, I cannot believe you're still there. I know

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<v Speaker 1>it was awesome. I'm glad that you moved out, though,

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<v Speaker 1>because that was you know, that is very you to

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<v Speaker 1>stick with something for years. Well, that's the thing I do.

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<v Speaker 1>I get very comfortable. And I mean I waited tables

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<v Speaker 1>at the same place in the Palisades for fifteen years.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean I loved it. I mean it was a

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<v Speaker 1>great job. I mean I was a struggling actress, but

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<v Speaker 1>I that's what I did for my living. I waited tables.

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<v Speaker 1>But it was more than just that. It was I

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<v Speaker 1>met so many people there that just made my life

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<v Speaker 1>so happy, and it was it was awesome. She, on

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<v Speaker 1>the other hand, is the worst waitress of all time,

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<v Speaker 1>of all time, and I got her the job there,

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<v Speaker 1>and so she started working there. But she would, I

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<v Speaker 1>mean her and I would be the only waitresses there,

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<v Speaker 1>and she would go up to people. This is I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going to tell a story, a true story. Someone ordered

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<v Speaker 1>something they called her over they were they had a

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<v Speaker 1>problem with it, they didn't like and she goes, too

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<v Speaker 1>fucking bad, you ordered it, eat it, and walked away.

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<v Speaker 1>And I was like, oh my god, so I'm the

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<v Speaker 1>one that had to go, and you know, I'm so sorry.

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<v Speaker 1>And Coleen was like the best waitress of all time,

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<v Speaker 1>Like she was in a fucking great mood. Every customer

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<v Speaker 1>wanted to sit in her section. Everyone who come in

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<v Speaker 1>and would see her, they'd be like, oh my god, Calle,

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<v Speaker 1>it's here. I'd be like, great, you fucking take everybody.

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<v Speaker 1>They all fucking love you. I'll just run the food out,

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<v Speaker 1>but I have to tell you. And I was trying

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<v Speaker 1>to find it because it was so funny. Terry, the owner,

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<v Speaker 1>actually gave me a letter that was given to her

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<v Speaker 1>by a customer, and I'm telling you, it was like

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<v Speaker 1>three pages long about the service that she got from

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<v Speaker 1>Chelsea anyway. It was awful. And Terry was like, look,

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<v Speaker 1>I know that you you sometimes and I wasn't even

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<v Speaker 1>in contact with you at this time, but she was like,

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<v Speaker 1>I think that you probably would like to hold onto this.

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<v Speaker 1>And it got lost in the shuffles some It's somewhere.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll find it, but it is unbelievable the service that

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<v Speaker 1>you gave, how terrible it is, how you should never

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<v Speaker 1>be allowed to set foot in this restaurant. And I

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<v Speaker 1>was like, wow, I mean you were just bad. I

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<v Speaker 1>had no interest in waiting tables. It was simply a

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<v Speaker 1>means to an end until I could support myself in

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<v Speaker 1>other ways. Yeah. Yeah, I mean as soon as she

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<v Speaker 1>got her first development deal, she was like, I'm done.

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<v Speaker 1>I will never wait tables again. As soon as I

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<v Speaker 1>got my first, like the smallest thing, like I got

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<v Speaker 1>a guest star role on the Practice, and I I

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<v Speaker 1>just thought, because I didn't know anything about how much

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<v Speaker 1>money you'd make, I was like, oh, I'll just retire,

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<v Speaker 1>like this is it, Like I'm now going to be

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<v Speaker 1>a successful person. And then I realized, oh, it's like

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<v Speaker 1>ten thousand dollars, you know, for the year. And I'm like, oh, well,

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<v Speaker 1>wait a second, I'm gonna need to supplement this with

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<v Speaker 1>some other stuff. But in the beginning, you're like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I got a job, I could quit everything. But anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>so okay. So we moved in together, and Colleen, who

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<v Speaker 1>I described in my I was very much fast and loose.

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<v Speaker 1>I was out and about meeting men hooking up left

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<v Speaker 1>and right, and Colleen was putting on her pajamas at

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<v Speaker 1>eight o'clock. Well, first she puts on her bad Bath

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<v Speaker 1>and Body Works lotion for an hour and a half.

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<v Speaker 1>She's the one who tap to lubricate. I've never seen

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<v Speaker 1>anyone lubricate as much as this girl. She has never

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<v Speaker 1>had an ounce of dry skin. Well but maybe after

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<v Speaker 1>a baby, but not before she would put on Bath

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<v Speaker 1>and Body Works lotion. She would go. Plumria was one

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<v Speaker 1>of her favorites. Remember that because I remember all the

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<v Speaker 1>sense because I still the shower because of you. I

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<v Speaker 1>used the Pair one because they come out with new

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<v Speaker 1>flavors all the time, you know, so some of them

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<v Speaker 1>are superior to the previous ones. Plumya, I remember this.

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<v Speaker 1>And she would just and she had these long French

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<v Speaker 1>manicured nails, and she would sit on the couch and

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<v Speaker 1>she loved her shows. She just wanted to She just

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<v Speaker 1>wanted to like come home and snuggle, you know, with herself. Basically.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean she wanted to meet a guy, because you

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<v Speaker 1>had crushes on various people. But I didn't go out.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like a herm. I loved being home. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>a homebody, and I just loved the apartment. I love,

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<v Speaker 1>I loved it. And she loved activities, like she liked

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<v Speaker 1>to get her nails done, she liked to go to work,

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<v Speaker 1>like she was very bounced see about all the things

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<v Speaker 1>that she had going on, you know, But all of

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<v Speaker 1>those things were interests that I never had. You know.

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't looping up at night with lotion. I remember

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<v Speaker 1>the smells that stayed with me forever. But I would

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<v Speaker 1>always be like, don't you want to go out, like,

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<v Speaker 1>let's go meet people, And she'd like, she just didn't

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<v Speaker 1>want to write, Yeah, that's just not your person. I

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<v Speaker 1>just didn't want to go out. I mean I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>want to go. I didn't want to leave you apart.

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<v Speaker 1>We go to CPK to get our I still go

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<v Speaker 1>to my daughter's restaurant. We go every Sunday night to

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<v Speaker 1>c p K. What do you order? No? No, I

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<v Speaker 1>mean I'm want to strict. We'll get into that, but

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<v Speaker 1>I mean I'm really strict with my diet. So I word,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a vegetable plate with with shrimp and with vegetables. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's really but yeah, CPK is one of my favorites

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<v Speaker 1>and then tanning, you'd go to I did. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>do that anymore because you know, yeah, well I don't

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<v Speaker 1>do that anymore that anymore. But I love the sun.

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<v Speaker 1>So we have a beautiful pool and I would be

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<v Speaker 1>out there while she was parading in men into the

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<v Speaker 1>apartmental I'd be like hi, and She's like, there's my roommate,

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<v Speaker 1>you know. And I'd call her a virgin all the

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<v Speaker 1>time because she was one at a later age than

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<v Speaker 1>I was one, and I just couldn't understand I'm still

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<v Speaker 1>a virgin. She I couldn't understand how she didn't want

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<v Speaker 1>to get some penetration. I was like, Colleen, let's go,

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<v Speaker 1>let's get the show on the road. She kept trying

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<v Speaker 1>to get me to go out and everything. But I just,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I just I was very naive. I was

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<v Speaker 1>very young, twenty three year old, very young and naive,

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<v Speaker 1>and I was the butt of a lot of jokes

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<v Speaker 1>and it it did wear on me, but you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I got through it. But yeah, Chelsea and I, I

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<v Speaker 1>mean we um. Do you remember when we went shopping

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<v Speaker 1>for our couches together? Okay, so Chelsea and I decided

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<v Speaker 1>that we would go shopping and each get our own

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<v Speaker 1>couch because we love to watch shows together. We'd watch friends. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so we got our own couch. And she had no money.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean she would she would ask her sisters for money.

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<v Speaker 1>She would call and be like, I put money in

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<v Speaker 1>my account. I'm completely broke. And I was like, well,

0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.080
<v Speaker 1>we need sofas. So I got a credit card. I

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<v Speaker 1>opened a credit card, and every month on the refrigerator

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<v Speaker 1>I had how much she owed me, and she would

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<v Speaker 1>pay me pay me back. But we would fight constantly.

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<v Speaker 1>We would get into drag out whole hair pinch id

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<v Speaker 1>like to pinch on the floor in our apartment, rolling

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<v Speaker 1>around pulling hair. I mean kind of stuff are you

0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.079
<v Speaker 1>fighting about? Like what? Like what? She would to vide

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<v Speaker 1>the bill? She would like, give me, well, it wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>just that bill, because there was other bills, right. She

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<v Speaker 1>would divide the bills like if there we split anything,

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<v Speaker 1>and she would divide it down exactly to a t.

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<v Speaker 1>So it would be like so and so in like

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<v Speaker 1>twenty eight cents, and I'd be like, oh my god, Colin,

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<v Speaker 1>can you just round it to a certain number. But anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>go on with your version. Well wait. We would just

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<v Speaker 1>fight about anything about everything, and probably because she was

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<v Speaker 1>making fun of me and I would get upset and

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<v Speaker 1>I started to sit and I was super sensitive and

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<v Speaker 1>then when I start to cry, you're gonna she would

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<v Speaker 1>do that to me and it would it would really like.

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<v Speaker 1>So Chelsea is super handy. I mean, she decided that

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<v Speaker 1>in her bedroom she needed a desk for you know,

0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.199
<v Speaker 1>we had those computers with the big monitors and everything,

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<v Speaker 1>and so she was when desktops first came out. So

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<v Speaker 1>she was like, I'm going to Ikea and I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>get myself a desk and I'm gonna put it together.

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<v Speaker 1>And she did and she came back with this desk.

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<v Speaker 1>Then she was like, it's going to be done tonight,

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<v Speaker 1>and like a week later she was still on the

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<v Speaker 1>floor putting like I mean, she hit. It was funny.

0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.920
<v Speaker 1>It was funny because, yeah, it took forever for her

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<v Speaker 1>to put that together. Do you remember that. I do

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<v Speaker 1>remember my desk because I remember that was the first

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<v Speaker 1>email account that I ever got, was when we were

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<v Speaker 1>living there. It's still my email address, it's my original

0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.560
<v Speaker 1>email address. It's causing me a lot of problems quite frankly,

0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:49.840
<v Speaker 1>because well is a ship show and it's the server

0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.840
<v Speaker 1>never works, So I have some other email addresses, but

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<v Speaker 1>that's my primary email address. But we lived in this

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<v Speaker 1>right in this kind of like Melrose Placy type place,

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<v Speaker 1>so we would hang out a lot, like we go

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<v Speaker 1>to launch or we go to dinner. We worked together,

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<v Speaker 1>so we were basically like you know, operating as sisters

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<v Speaker 1>because we were fighting all the time, but also together

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<v Speaker 1>all the time, right, Like we would fight and then

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<v Speaker 1>be like, let's go to the movies, you know, and

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<v Speaker 1>then but wait, something I would like to do is

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<v Speaker 1>I'd like to read those Chicken Soup for the Soul books.

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<v Speaker 1>And Chelsea would be on her couch and I would

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<v Speaker 1>be on mine, and I would read her chapters of

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<v Speaker 1>the book and we would just I mean, it was

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<v Speaker 1>like a really nice bonding time. But I remember, do

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<v Speaker 1>you remember we had dinner with Terry and a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of people from the restaurant one night, and I mentioned

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<v Speaker 1>that I was reading Chicken Soup for the Soul to

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<v Speaker 1>you one night and the ones that the one lady said,

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<v Speaker 1>it's so nice that to do that as a as

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<v Speaker 1>a couple, like she totally thought we were a couple,

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<v Speaker 1>And Chelsea's face was like, no, no, we're not together,

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<v Speaker 1>we're not there. Yeah, yeah, but it was so funny.

0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:59.400
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I mean we would do stuff like that. Honestly,

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<v Speaker 1>it just was I was like, you know, the demon

0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.920
<v Speaker 1>and she was the wholesome one. I was the demon

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<v Speaker 1>child like crazy was like. And we and then she

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<v Speaker 1>had a crush on a guy that would come to

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<v Speaker 1>the restaurant, and we were all about it, like we

0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.040
<v Speaker 1>just wanted this to happen for her, right, we wanted

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<v Speaker 1>this to come to Fruition because she had It was

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<v Speaker 1>years that you had a crush on him, the soap

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<v Speaker 1>opera star. Okay, I I hope he never ever listens

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<v Speaker 1>to this, but we're not going to mention his name.

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<v Speaker 1>But he would come in and I had the biggest

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<v Speaker 1>crush on him, and I met lots of celebrities. I

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<v Speaker 1>became friends with lots of celebrities by them coming in,

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<v Speaker 1>just by seeing them every day. And he would come

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<v Speaker 1>in and talk to me, and I was like I

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<v Speaker 1>would come home every day and tell Chelsea stories about

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<v Speaker 1>this is what he said today, and it was just like,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, it was so exciting. I really really yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I loved him. I did. I was like, wow, I

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<v Speaker 1>So anyway, I got the opportunity to go to a

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<v Speaker 1>function that was a really high end function, and I

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<v Speaker 1>was like, I'm gonna ask him to go with me.

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<v Speaker 1>And I did. I knew where he lived. He lived

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<v Speaker 1>in the Palisa, So I went to his house and

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<v Speaker 1>I knocked on his door and and he answered the

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<v Speaker 1>door in his briefs. He was in his yeah, oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and he was beauty. He's he is, he's beautiful. And

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<v Speaker 1>he got behind the door and I'm like he's like, Colleen,

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<v Speaker 1>what are you? What are you doing here? And I'm like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I just have a question to ask you. I'm going

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<v Speaker 1>to this function and I would like you to come

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<v Speaker 1>with me. And he just looked at me and he

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<v Speaker 1>started laughing and he said, oh, I can't go with you.

0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.960
<v Speaker 1>I said why not? And he said because I have

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<v Speaker 1>a function that I have to go to tonight. And

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<v Speaker 1>I said, well, maybe it's the same function and then

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<v Speaker 1>you could take me, and he just was like, I'm sorry,

0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.679
<v Speaker 1>I think you should go. And by this point I

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<v Speaker 1>just looked at him and I was like tears and

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<v Speaker 1>tears running down my face and I was like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going, I'm going. And I got in the car

0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.879
<v Speaker 1>and I drove home and I bawled the whole way home.

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<v Speaker 1>And when I get home, she's just like, what is

0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.200
<v Speaker 1>wrong with you? Because I'm just like a man mass

0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:12.280
<v Speaker 1>And I told her what happened, and she's like, you're nuts.

0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.480
<v Speaker 1>You've got the biggest balls of anyone that I've ever met.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't believe that you actually went to his house

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<v Speaker 1>and did that. And I was like, yeah, yeah, I did.

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<v Speaker 1>I did, but I I've seen him since you did that.

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<v Speaker 1>After that, Oh man, he was on and I wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>there to see him. I knew someone that worked there,

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<v Speaker 1>and I went to see the show at taping a

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<v Speaker 1>few times there. So when I found out he was on,

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, oh my gosh. So I told the

0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.679
<v Speaker 1>person and they said, oh, let me tell him, and

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<v Speaker 1>so he was like, yeah, yeah, send her back, send

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<v Speaker 1>her to my trailer. So I got to see him

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<v Speaker 1>and he introduced me to his wife and his lovely children,

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<v Speaker 1>and I mean, he's he's an awesome person. And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>that was just me hoping that, you know, but I

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<v Speaker 1>fucking don't you do regret doing that exactly. That is

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<v Speaker 1>what every listener should know. I don't regret at all.

0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:05.200
<v Speaker 1>I've done a lot of crazy ship in my life,

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<v Speaker 1>crazy shit that I and you know what, it's brought

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<v Speaker 1>me to where I am right now, and I have

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<v Speaker 1>no I mean, I I don't think you know this,

0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:16.920
<v Speaker 1>but I was in love with this guy for years

0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:18.359
<v Speaker 1>and years and years. I was friends with him for

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<v Speaker 1>years and years and years. And we spent the day

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<v Speaker 1>together and I hope he's not listening, but anyway, I

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<v Speaker 1>loved him and we spent the day together and I

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<v Speaker 1>never told him how I felt and he was leaving,

0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.040
<v Speaker 1>he dropped me off. We spent the day and down

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<v Speaker 1>Barrington Avenue. I decided I had that because I feel

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<v Speaker 1>like my life sometimes is like a romantic comedy. And

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<v Speaker 1>I saw him leaving and I started running down Barrington

0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:46.080
<v Speaker 1>Avenue calling his name, and he stopped in the middle

0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:47.720
<v Speaker 1>of the road and I went up and I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>I love you, I love you. It didn't go well.

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<v Speaker 1>It didn't you know again, it didn't go well. Yeah again,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't remember that it was supposed to be a

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<v Speaker 1>romantic comedy moments, I know I have. I've had a

0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.040
<v Speaker 1>lot of those moments where I think it's going to

0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:06.919
<v Speaker 1>go one way and it it just it doesn't. It

0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.639
<v Speaker 1>goes bad, so, you know, but I don't regret it

0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:11.760
<v Speaker 1>at all because now I've I've met my husband and

0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:13.879
<v Speaker 1>he's wonderful. Yeah. Did you have to take any of

0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.040
<v Speaker 1>those sorts of risks with your husband? You have to

0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:20.639
<v Speaker 1>take risks. We met online dating? Yeah, we met on

0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:24.120
<v Speaker 1>e harmony. We're like an e harmony success story. Yeah,

0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:28.159
<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of e harmony success stories. Yeah, so great.

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<v Speaker 1>Before we get to all the fun stuff, we'll take

0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:32.960
<v Speaker 1>a quick break. Okay, sounds good. We'll be right back.

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<v Speaker 1>But yeah, getting back to Chelsea and I we um um,

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<v Speaker 1>we have to talk about something else. We have to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about our vacation that we decided to take. I

0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.440
<v Speaker 1>wrote about this in My Horizontal Life and this is where. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>the cruise ship. We took a three day cruise from

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<v Speaker 1>Long Long Beach to Ensonata for for the for the

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<v Speaker 1>New Year's holiday. We were like, let's spend New Years together.

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna We had no money, so we were carnival cruise.

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<v Speaker 1>Everybody just yes, it was Carnival cruise. It was. It

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<v Speaker 1>was a disaster. I recommend I recommend never going to Ensonataval.

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<v Speaker 1>I would like to recommend for going on a carnival

0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:28.000
<v Speaker 1>cruise with it doesn't matter who the company is. I

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<v Speaker 1>had visions of us walking on board and seeing like

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<v Speaker 1>Captain Stubing and you know the doc from the Love Boat,

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<v Speaker 1>like I thought the whole that's what cruises were based

0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:41.480
<v Speaker 1>on my television experience. Yeah, I have a picture of

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<v Speaker 1>Chelsea on the cruise. So let me just good news.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me just get this real quick, because this would

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<v Speaker 1>summarize right here, This would summarize Chelsea. Do I just

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<v Speaker 1>where do I show it? This would summarize you giving

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<v Speaker 1>the finger to her, bundled up in blankets. That was

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<v Speaker 1>pretty much where. We're gonna have to send that to

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<v Speaker 1>me so we can use it for the podcast. That's

0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:08.959
<v Speaker 1>how cold we were because we thought, oh we we're

0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:11.400
<v Speaker 1>gonna go to Mexico. It's going to be beautiful, Oh

0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:15.080
<v Speaker 1>my god. And all right in this picture we are

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm gonna tell this story. This right here is

0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:21.080
<v Speaker 1>us wearing our bracelets so we don't get sick, you know,

0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:26.359
<v Speaker 1>the motions bracelets, which you know they don't work. But anyway, um,

0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:29.359
<v Speaker 1>so there's me and Chelsea there I am as a brunette.

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<v Speaker 1>My goodness. So maybe, but but this cruise we were

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<v Speaker 1>freezing the entire time. We get on there and there

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<v Speaker 1>was these First of all, do you remember running through

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<v Speaker 1>the decks like we were like running like we were

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<v Speaker 1>in the Titanic or something like running away from people

0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:48.399
<v Speaker 1>that were chasing us. Do you remember, Okay, when we

0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:50.560
<v Speaker 1>first got on there, I think there was a guy

0:22:50.680 --> 0:22:52.840
<v Speaker 1>is that and you were like Rod Rod, and so

0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:54.640
<v Speaker 1>we're running to try and find our room. You don't

0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.919
<v Speaker 1>remember that you stole away. I don't remember that part. Well,

0:22:57.960 --> 0:22:59.880
<v Speaker 1>we get on. We get first of all, the room

0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:02.840
<v Speaker 1>is the size of like a bathroom. I thought it

0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.119
<v Speaker 1>was gonna be like a romantic love sweet you know,

0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:07.040
<v Speaker 1>where we have some big master and she and I

0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:09.800
<v Speaker 1>would just switch off when we hooked up with guys. Meanwhile,

0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:12.399
<v Speaker 1>we check in and it's literally the size. It's like

0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:15.840
<v Speaker 1>a twelve foot by twelve foot room, cabbyhole. You had

0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:18.200
<v Speaker 1>to climb over one of the single beds to get

0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:21.640
<v Speaker 1>to the fucking bathroom. Like the bathroom wasn't easy, like

0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:26.080
<v Speaker 1>accessible for anyone to take a shower. You couldn't take

0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:28.639
<v Speaker 1>a shower. I mean you were like this washing because

0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:30.800
<v Speaker 1>you couldn't move your arms. It was awful. And then

0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.480
<v Speaker 1>we had a porthole. This is a really fun story.

0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:35.959
<v Speaker 1>So if you've ever been on a cruise, you know

0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:38.400
<v Speaker 1>that dinner time you sit with the same people every

0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:40.440
<v Speaker 1>single night. And we're all excited to go to dinner.

0:23:40.520 --> 0:23:43.400
<v Speaker 1>Let's eat it's all you can eat buffet. We get there,

0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:46.199
<v Speaker 1>we sit down. So who we sit down with is

0:23:46.240 --> 0:23:49.360
<v Speaker 1>a family of Mormons. And they were lovely, they were

0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:53.199
<v Speaker 1>you know, it was a really nice family. But this

0:23:53.240 --> 0:23:56.720
<v Speaker 1>one over here, she just offended them left and right,

0:23:56.840 --> 0:23:59.280
<v Speaker 1>left and right. I mean, it was so bad. It

0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:02.400
<v Speaker 1>was it was I was so embarrassed. I was so

0:24:02.480 --> 0:24:05.680
<v Speaker 1>embarrassed because every other the word is f this and

0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:07.960
<v Speaker 1>then they're just like I mean, it was like a

0:24:08.000 --> 0:24:10.240
<v Speaker 1>husband and wife and they're like five kids or something,

0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:13.920
<v Speaker 1>and it was so so bad. So we finished dinner

0:24:14.000 --> 0:24:16.240
<v Speaker 1>and the next night, I'm getting ready for dinner and

0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:18.560
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, are you ready to go? And she's like yeah.

0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:20.880
<v Speaker 1>She's like yeah, I'm not. I'm not going have fun.

0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:24.160
<v Speaker 1>And I'm like, what you have to come to dinner

0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:26.400
<v Speaker 1>and she's like no, you fucking go have a good time,

0:24:26.960 --> 0:24:29.280
<v Speaker 1>and she didn't leave the cabin the rest of the

0:24:29.320 --> 0:24:34.640
<v Speaker 1>two days. I gotta once I got a full understanding

0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:37.040
<v Speaker 1>of the company we were keeping. I was like, I'll

0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:40.320
<v Speaker 1>just be inside the cabinet. So I was so upset.

0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:43.440
<v Speaker 1>I had to go and have dinner with the family

0:24:43.720 --> 0:24:47.040
<v Speaker 1>who you know by association I was the devil. So

0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:49.240
<v Speaker 1>I had to sit at this table with them, and

0:24:49.280 --> 0:24:52.359
<v Speaker 1>they hated me and it was just awful. Oh it

0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:54.400
<v Speaker 1>was I can't believe she made me go by myself

0:24:54.520 --> 0:24:57.320
<v Speaker 1>and she just she thought it was funny. I was like,

0:24:57.400 --> 0:25:00.119
<v Speaker 1>I just can't commingle with those people again. And and

0:25:00.160 --> 0:25:02.359
<v Speaker 1>when we got to Ensenada, I was like hey, because

0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:04.600
<v Speaker 1>there was like, oh, they're gonna be gambling on the ship.

0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:06.840
<v Speaker 1>I was like, okay, great, that's something that will keep

0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:08.840
<v Speaker 1>me busy for at least an hour. But you create

0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:12.080
<v Speaker 1>your gamble until you crossed the Mexican border, so I

0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:15.240
<v Speaker 1>was like, you had to wait like twelve hours to

0:25:15.280 --> 0:25:17.320
<v Speaker 1>start the gambling. And I was like wait, what what?

0:25:17.680 --> 0:25:19.400
<v Speaker 1>And then on the way back, the same thing as

0:25:19.400 --> 0:25:21.720
<v Speaker 1>soon as you got into I don't even remember gambling

0:25:21.840 --> 0:25:25.639
<v Speaker 1>American waters. Yeah, we gambled together. We did. Did we win? No?

0:25:25.840 --> 0:25:27.439
<v Speaker 1>I mean we had no money. It was like twenty

0:25:27.480 --> 0:25:29.600
<v Speaker 1>dollars and you know, I think I blew that and

0:25:29.640 --> 0:25:31.679
<v Speaker 1>lost it right away. But I was like trying to

0:25:31.680 --> 0:25:34.240
<v Speaker 1>convince Colleen. I was like, listen, when we get to Ensenada,

0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:36.760
<v Speaker 1>we have to jump ship and we have to get

0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:38.679
<v Speaker 1>a car to take us back to l A. And

0:25:38.720 --> 0:25:41.960
<v Speaker 1>She's like, Chelsea, we could get assaulted. At least we'd

0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:44.440
<v Speaker 1>have a good New Year's Like, who cares what happens

0:25:44.760 --> 0:25:46.600
<v Speaker 1>on the way back home. But I'm not taking this

0:25:46.640 --> 0:25:49.479
<v Speaker 1>fucking boat back. And I was just trying to convince her.

0:25:49.520 --> 0:25:52.359
<v Speaker 1>Do you remember that I trying to convince her to

0:25:52.440 --> 0:25:57.040
<v Speaker 1>get off the boat and the rules. Yeah, I follow

0:25:57.200 --> 0:25:59.280
<v Speaker 1>the rules all the time. I followed the rules. I

0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:01.199
<v Speaker 1>was like, why do you We'll pay someone. I'm like,

0:26:01.240 --> 0:26:04.000
<v Speaker 1>we'll find somebody to get us back to l A

0:26:04.160 --> 0:26:06.439
<v Speaker 1>and we will pay them. And she's like with what money.

0:26:06.520 --> 0:26:09.600
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, who cares, We'll figure that out later. Yeah, No,

0:26:09.760 --> 0:26:13.280
<v Speaker 1>that was just it was. It was a nightmare. Kept

0:26:13.280 --> 0:26:15.760
<v Speaker 1>you alive by not letting you, like find a random

0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:19.720
<v Speaker 1>driver and you're welcome. Possibly, yes, but yeah, thank you. Yeah,

0:26:19.960 --> 0:26:22.119
<v Speaker 1>she had a good hand in keeping me alive. At

0:26:22.200 --> 0:26:24.160
<v Speaker 1>least I wasn't such a bit that I just left

0:26:24.160 --> 0:26:25.720
<v Speaker 1>her on the boat, because that would have been a

0:26:25.760 --> 0:26:28.479
<v Speaker 1>step above that would have been. That would have been.

0:26:28.720 --> 0:26:30.800
<v Speaker 1>But I think I I don't think. I think we

0:26:30.800 --> 0:26:33.119
<v Speaker 1>were just so mad. I I honestly don't think we

0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:34.680
<v Speaker 1>talked the whole way home. I think that we were

0:26:34.720 --> 0:26:36.920
<v Speaker 1>like pissed. I was just like, I mean, we get

0:26:36.960 --> 0:26:39.360
<v Speaker 1>so we would get so aggravated with each other. We

0:26:39.359 --> 0:26:41.280
<v Speaker 1>were we were like sisters, and it was like we

0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:43.919
<v Speaker 1>wouldn't talk to each other. We'd be like, fuck you,

0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:46.880
<v Speaker 1>and then ten minutes later she'd be like, you want

0:26:46.880 --> 0:26:50.920
<v Speaker 1>to go to c p KNY, And I like, let's

0:26:50.920 --> 0:26:55.320
<v Speaker 1>do it. That's funny. That boat was also so depressed

0:26:55.359 --> 0:26:58.000
<v Speaker 1>because it was cold. I don't know. I had this

0:26:58.040 --> 0:27:01.840
<v Speaker 1>idea that was in Mexico everything was warm. It have

0:27:01.960 --> 0:27:05.199
<v Speaker 1>to get there first, and it was freezing, so like

0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:08.080
<v Speaker 1>there was no bathing suit action. There was no lido

0:27:08.200 --> 0:27:12.159
<v Speaker 1>deck activity, nobody was. There was a pool and it

0:27:12.200 --> 0:27:16.480
<v Speaker 1>was completely covered, like it was closed off, like we

0:27:16.520 --> 0:27:18.480
<v Speaker 1>thought we were gonna be hanging out our bathing suites

0:27:18.680 --> 0:27:21.360
<v Speaker 1>right right. It's like we did nothing. We did tracked.

0:27:21.720 --> 0:27:24.720
<v Speaker 1>It's like we almost had no idea what happens on cruises,

0:27:24.760 --> 0:27:26.040
<v Speaker 1>Like we thought it was going to be well. I

0:27:26.040 --> 0:27:28.000
<v Speaker 1>think we just took a bad one. I think there

0:27:28.040 --> 0:27:30.440
<v Speaker 1>are really good cruises, yeah, but I sure there are,

0:27:30.560 --> 0:27:33.000
<v Speaker 1>but in general, I would like to stay away from them.

0:27:33.080 --> 0:27:36.480
<v Speaker 1>I know, you know, it's just not that's not my scene.

0:27:36.520 --> 0:27:38.320
<v Speaker 1>It's funny what you remember from that trip and what

0:27:38.440 --> 0:27:41.119
<v Speaker 1>I remember from that trip, like different memories that the

0:27:41.160 --> 0:27:43.240
<v Speaker 1>other person doesn't remember at all. It makes you wonder, like,

0:27:43.240 --> 0:27:45.840
<v Speaker 1>am I making all this shut up? You know? Like

0:27:45.880 --> 0:27:47.880
<v Speaker 1>when I talked to my sisters, they're always like, you're

0:27:47.880 --> 0:27:50.760
<v Speaker 1>so full of ship your memories, they're not real. I'm like,

0:27:50.920 --> 0:27:53.760
<v Speaker 1>and then somebody will corroborate it, you know, in my

0:27:53.840 --> 0:27:56.040
<v Speaker 1>family they'll be like, actually that wasn't that was true?

0:27:56.080 --> 0:27:58.120
<v Speaker 1>And my sisters will be like, oh great, don't give

0:27:58.119 --> 0:28:01.159
<v Speaker 1>her anymore, you know, gas, because she already thinks she

0:28:01.200 --> 0:28:04.240
<v Speaker 1>fucking remembers everything, and I know I don't. Joe's always like,

0:28:04.280 --> 0:28:06.920
<v Speaker 1>you have a six month memory, He's like, and even

0:28:06.960 --> 0:28:10.119
<v Speaker 1>then it's pretty shifty. Well, he's adorable. I want to

0:28:10.160 --> 0:28:11.560
<v Speaker 1>meet him, I know, I want to tell him to

0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:13.680
<v Speaker 1>come and say hi if he's in the neighborhood. I also,

0:28:14.200 --> 0:28:15.800
<v Speaker 1>do you remember your car, your first car that you

0:28:15.840 --> 0:28:18.240
<v Speaker 1>bought at six o five? No, which one was. She

0:28:18.359 --> 0:28:22.399
<v Speaker 1>had a black Echo, a Toyota Echo, and she was

0:28:22.440 --> 0:28:24.720
<v Speaker 1>so proud of herself, and she would go, look at me,

0:28:24.760 --> 0:28:31.280
<v Speaker 1>I'm so cute. O, oh my gosh. She loved that car.

0:28:31.440 --> 0:28:33.720
<v Speaker 1>Oh that car was the buzzing around because that was

0:28:33.760 --> 0:28:36.119
<v Speaker 1>the first brand new car that I had ever driven,

0:28:36.160 --> 0:28:38.320
<v Speaker 1>because my father was a used car dealer, so every

0:28:38.360 --> 0:28:40.640
<v Speaker 1>car I had ever had up until that point was used.

0:28:40.880 --> 0:28:43.200
<v Speaker 1>And I remember when I got rid of the Toyota Echo.

0:28:43.280 --> 0:28:45.120
<v Speaker 1>I went to go turn it in and I got

0:28:45.200 --> 0:28:46.760
<v Speaker 1>it in this place in the marina. It says I

0:28:46.800 --> 0:28:48.360
<v Speaker 1>got a whale of a deal. It's said on the

0:28:48.400 --> 0:28:52.120
<v Speaker 1>license plate, and I remember that. And then I when

0:28:52.160 --> 0:28:54.120
<v Speaker 1>I turned that car in and I got my next car.

0:28:54.240 --> 0:28:56.520
<v Speaker 1>I remember the car. They were opening up my glove

0:28:56.560 --> 0:29:00.280
<v Speaker 1>compartment and they found an egg McMuffin clove compartment from

0:29:00.320 --> 0:29:03.560
<v Speaker 1>like two years before, and I was so hard. I

0:29:03.640 --> 0:29:06.160
<v Speaker 1>was like, oh my god, this is exactly what my

0:29:06.240 --> 0:29:08.920
<v Speaker 1>parents like. This is exactly how I had turned into

0:29:09.000 --> 0:29:12.080
<v Speaker 1>my parents, because they would drive around their disgusting cars

0:29:12.160 --> 0:29:16.880
<v Speaker 1>with fucking McDonald's, old McDonald's coffees and egg mcmuffins in

0:29:16.920 --> 0:29:19.440
<v Speaker 1>every compartment you could find, and then it happened to me.

0:29:19.480 --> 0:29:22.640
<v Speaker 1>I was like, oh, this is a full circle moment. Yeah,

0:29:22.680 --> 0:29:25.120
<v Speaker 1>that was her. She was so proud of that car. Yeah. Yeah,

0:29:25.160 --> 0:29:27.400
<v Speaker 1>And then I gave it to know I didn't give

0:29:27.440 --> 0:29:29.880
<v Speaker 1>it to someone. Oh, I got Chewy. When Chewy and

0:29:29.880 --> 0:29:32.200
<v Speaker 1>I got together, he I was like, this is you,

0:29:32.480 --> 0:29:35.600
<v Speaker 1>this is the car you need this to No. I

0:29:35.600 --> 0:29:37.680
<v Speaker 1>got him a different one. But he had his own

0:29:37.680 --> 0:29:40.160
<v Speaker 1>little Toyota Echo, a red one, because that was a

0:29:40.160 --> 0:29:43.160
<v Speaker 1>perfect size car for him. That Toyota Echo was amazing

0:29:43.200 --> 0:29:44.960
<v Speaker 1>because you didn't even have to put it in reverse.

0:29:45.240 --> 0:29:47.000
<v Speaker 1>You could just pick it up and turn it around.

0:29:47.720 --> 0:29:49.840
<v Speaker 1>That was my joke and stand up. When I had

0:29:49.880 --> 0:29:51.880
<v Speaker 1>that car, I would talk about it all the time.

0:29:52.560 --> 0:29:54.560
<v Speaker 1>What kind of Yeah, what kind of car did you drive?

0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:58.040
<v Speaker 1>You had a Okay, well I came here. I think

0:29:58.080 --> 0:30:00.640
<v Speaker 1>it was my Camaro. Wasn't my rent? Yes? Yes, okay,

0:30:00.640 --> 0:30:03.560
<v Speaker 1>so my Camaro. By the way, we're both from Jersey

0:30:03.800 --> 0:30:07.200
<v Speaker 1>and um I had my car, my nineteen seventy one

0:30:07.320 --> 0:30:10.960
<v Speaker 1>or something Camaro. My dad shipped it out, and yeah,

0:30:11.000 --> 0:30:13.120
<v Speaker 1>it was the greatest. I loved my Camaro. But yeah,

0:30:13.120 --> 0:30:16.040
<v Speaker 1>it blew up on me. My dad whenever he came

0:30:16.080 --> 0:30:18.200
<v Speaker 1>to visit. He would do the oil changes. He like,

0:30:18.320 --> 0:30:21.040
<v Speaker 1>would you know, do my car in the parking lot.

0:30:21.360 --> 0:30:25.080
<v Speaker 1>That's another thing. She's always been super close with her family, right,

0:30:26.040 --> 0:30:28.680
<v Speaker 1>we actually have some questions that are exactly about that.

0:30:28.720 --> 0:30:31.200
<v Speaker 1>So I'm interested to hear. Oh, yeah, we have to

0:30:31.200 --> 0:30:33.040
<v Speaker 1>take colors. By the way, people have to call in

0:30:33.080 --> 0:30:35.360
<v Speaker 1>and get advice because I'm the one to give advice.

0:30:35.600 --> 0:30:37.600
<v Speaker 1>Who am I to give advice? This is perfect, but

0:30:37.960 --> 0:30:40.719
<v Speaker 1>they just needed from anybody. It doesn't really matter, all right,

0:30:40.760 --> 0:30:43.040
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, well that's something. I would talk to my

0:30:43.080 --> 0:30:45.320
<v Speaker 1>parents every single day, so I would tell them everything

0:30:45.360 --> 0:30:49.360
<v Speaker 1>that happened throughout the day. And that would drive me like,

0:30:49.440 --> 0:30:51.280
<v Speaker 1>what are you doing? Like she'd be on the phone

0:30:51.280 --> 0:30:52.560
<v Speaker 1>with her dad and she'd be like, and then whoever

0:30:52.600 --> 0:30:54.600
<v Speaker 1>the crush was, let's say his name was Luke. She'll

0:30:54.640 --> 0:30:56.320
<v Speaker 1>be like, and then Luke came in, and then Luke

0:30:56.360 --> 0:30:58.840
<v Speaker 1>said this to me, didn't And I'm like, that's your father.

0:30:59.720 --> 0:31:02.520
<v Speaker 1>And then she'd be on the It was so funny,

0:31:02.760 --> 0:31:05.320
<v Speaker 1>and I would be so annoyed. I like, you need

0:31:05.360 --> 0:31:07.160
<v Speaker 1>to get some friends, Like you cannot be on the

0:31:07.200 --> 0:31:09.040
<v Speaker 1>phone telling your parents all this, And she's like, I

0:31:09.080 --> 0:31:12.200
<v Speaker 1>love my family. I tell them everything. I tell my

0:31:12.200 --> 0:31:14.880
<v Speaker 1>mother everything, and I tell my father everything. And that

0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:17.560
<v Speaker 1>was not the relationship I had with my parents. You know,

0:31:17.800 --> 0:31:21.200
<v Speaker 1>I wasn't telling them anything. I'm still really close. I

0:31:21.200 --> 0:31:23.800
<v Speaker 1>mean they're they're here visiting me for two months. And

0:31:23.800 --> 0:31:26.280
<v Speaker 1>and now Colleen has her own child and she has

0:31:26.320 --> 0:31:28.480
<v Speaker 1>a step well she has two children because she's a stepmother.

0:31:28.640 --> 0:31:31.920
<v Speaker 1>And you actually gave birth. I did, I did. How

0:31:32.000 --> 0:31:36.479
<v Speaker 1>was that not fun? It's it's terrible. It was. I mean,

0:31:36.560 --> 0:31:39.200
<v Speaker 1>I people say it's the most beautiful. It's not. It's

0:31:39.240 --> 0:31:41.680
<v Speaker 1>beautiful when you're holding your baby at the end. But

0:31:41.760 --> 0:31:44.479
<v Speaker 1>I ended up having an emergency C section. It was

0:31:44.600 --> 0:31:49.600
<v Speaker 1>traumatic and really scary. And an epidural is a life saver.

0:31:50.040 --> 0:31:52.080
<v Speaker 1>And anyone who doesn't do it, I don't know what

0:31:52.120 --> 0:31:54.640
<v Speaker 1>the funds wrong with you, because it is, like, I mean,

0:31:54.760 --> 0:31:57.560
<v Speaker 1>it really helps you a lot, a lot. I would

0:31:57.560 --> 0:32:02.600
<v Speaker 1>like to get an epidural just just yeah, it sounds good. Yeah,

0:32:02.640 --> 0:32:05.280
<v Speaker 1>so yeah, so yeah I gave birth and yeah, and

0:32:05.320 --> 0:32:08.280
<v Speaker 1>then I, um, I gained tons of weight my I

0:32:08.640 --> 0:32:11.440
<v Speaker 1>you know, balloons, like I don't even know. I've I've

0:32:11.480 --> 0:32:15.320
<v Speaker 1>lost forty five pounds in six months. What are you

0:32:15.320 --> 0:32:17.360
<v Speaker 1>doing okay? So well? First of all, let me just

0:32:17.400 --> 0:32:21.160
<v Speaker 1>say that I went to my doctor and my doctor said,

0:32:21.240 --> 0:32:24.000
<v Speaker 1>you have high cholesterol. I was on medication for everything,

0:32:24.080 --> 0:32:26.880
<v Speaker 1>high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and the beginnings of a

0:32:26.880 --> 0:32:29.800
<v Speaker 1>fatty liver. And I was like, okay, I have to

0:32:29.840 --> 0:32:33.000
<v Speaker 1>do something. I have to take control of my body here.

0:32:33.120 --> 0:32:37.240
<v Speaker 1>So I started on this diet where I eat super clean,

0:32:37.280 --> 0:32:40.120
<v Speaker 1>I eat veggies, I eat protein, I cut out carbs,

0:32:40.160 --> 0:32:42.480
<v Speaker 1>I cut no there's no bread, there's no pasta, there's

0:32:42.520 --> 0:32:45.960
<v Speaker 1>no alcohol whatsoever. So you probably couldn't do this diet.

0:32:46.320 --> 0:32:49.200
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I just eat really clean and I exercise

0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:52.160
<v Speaker 1>five times a week. I run and I do at

0:32:52.200 --> 0:32:54.360
<v Speaker 1>intervals like I walk and then I run and I

0:32:54.480 --> 0:32:57.000
<v Speaker 1>on an incline, so I think it's really important to

0:32:57.000 --> 0:32:59.640
<v Speaker 1>get your heart rate up. And then I walk, like

0:32:59.720 --> 0:33:02.200
<v Speaker 1>every point tenth of a mile, I stopped, like I'll

0:33:02.200 --> 0:33:05.360
<v Speaker 1>either walk or run, and I do that for four miles,

0:33:05.400 --> 0:33:09.160
<v Speaker 1>so it keeps my heart rated and even keel. And yeah,

0:33:09.200 --> 0:33:12.120
<v Speaker 1>I just started losing weight and I started making really

0:33:12.160 --> 0:33:15.960
<v Speaker 1>small goals for myself, and every month, I'd lose ten pounds.

0:33:15.960 --> 0:33:19.640
<v Speaker 1>So not any specific diet, just common sense, like common sense.

0:33:19.680 --> 0:33:21.160
<v Speaker 1>But I also do these meals. I don't know if

0:33:21.160 --> 0:33:24.480
<v Speaker 1>you've heard of it. It's called Factor and my husband

0:33:24.520 --> 0:33:26.760
<v Speaker 1>and I he's lost like thirty pounds two. Um. We

0:33:26.840 --> 0:33:29.080
<v Speaker 1>do these Factor meals. So we get them delivered and

0:33:29.080 --> 0:33:31.400
<v Speaker 1>we eat them for dinner, and they are delicious. They

0:33:31.440 --> 0:33:34.240
<v Speaker 1>are it's like a gourmet meal. I hate to cook anyway,

0:33:34.240 --> 0:33:35.480
<v Speaker 1>so I'm like, I put it in the mic way

0:33:35.480 --> 0:33:36.680
<v Speaker 1>for two and a half minutes, I put it on

0:33:36.680 --> 0:33:39.520
<v Speaker 1>a plate. It looks like a gourmet meal. There you go. Done.

0:33:39.840 --> 0:33:43.120
<v Speaker 1>It's portion control. It's delicious. I got my parents on

0:33:43.160 --> 0:33:46.440
<v Speaker 1>it while they're here. We're doing the Factor meals. So

0:33:46.640 --> 0:33:49.520
<v Speaker 1>I tell everybody because I've been getting like people commenting

0:33:49.560 --> 0:33:51.680
<v Speaker 1>and on Instagram and stuff, and I send them the

0:33:51.720 --> 0:33:56.240
<v Speaker 1>Factor thing. I'm like, it's worked. So it's combination of everything.

0:33:56.280 --> 0:33:59.200
<v Speaker 1>I do the Factor meals and I work out, and

0:33:59.240 --> 0:34:01.960
<v Speaker 1>I'm just really you know, diligent about what I put

0:34:02.000 --> 0:34:04.479
<v Speaker 1>in my body. And and you had said when we

0:34:04.480 --> 0:34:07.040
<v Speaker 1>were on the phone, like you know, getting to know

0:34:07.080 --> 0:34:10.040
<v Speaker 1>what your interests were and stuff about you. You had

0:34:10.040 --> 0:34:12.359
<v Speaker 1>said that, like you are finding that you're actually able

0:34:12.400 --> 0:34:15.000
<v Speaker 1>to carve out time for yourself because You're like, this

0:34:15.080 --> 0:34:16.799
<v Speaker 1>is my time. I go to the gym, and so

0:34:16.800 --> 0:34:18.839
<v Speaker 1>it seems like you're feeling really great and well as

0:34:18.840 --> 0:34:21.840
<v Speaker 1>a as a mom and all moms, no, you have

0:34:21.920 --> 0:34:23.759
<v Speaker 1>no free time. You have none. I mean, for the

0:34:23.800 --> 0:34:27.240
<v Speaker 1>past five years, I don't do anything else for myself.

0:34:27.280 --> 0:34:29.879
<v Speaker 1>It is for her all the time, and you start

0:34:29.920 --> 0:34:32.319
<v Speaker 1>to get really depressed. We moved to Orange County from

0:34:32.440 --> 0:34:34.360
<v Speaker 1>l A last year and there's a dairy Queen across

0:34:34.400 --> 0:34:38.440
<v Speaker 1>the street, which is not not because I'm like, just

0:34:38.440 --> 0:34:40.799
<v Speaker 1>go to dairy Queen, and you know, and I wanted

0:34:40.840 --> 0:34:42.680
<v Speaker 1>to try all the restaurants and stuff, and I put

0:34:42.719 --> 0:34:45.080
<v Speaker 1>on the pounds, but yeah, I don't have any time

0:34:45.080 --> 0:34:48.000
<v Speaker 1>for myself. And then she started school, which is the

0:34:48.040 --> 0:34:51.959
<v Speaker 1>best thing in the world. Schools awesome. So she started school,

0:34:52.000 --> 0:34:54.640
<v Speaker 1>so she goes for four hours a day and those

0:34:54.640 --> 0:34:56.840
<v Speaker 1>four hours are my time, and I go right to

0:34:56.840 --> 0:34:58.400
<v Speaker 1>the gym. I drop her off and I go right

0:34:58.400 --> 0:35:01.160
<v Speaker 1>to the gym. So it's not even like a question

0:35:01.160 --> 0:35:03.680
<v Speaker 1>of what I'm gonna do today, It's off to the gym.

0:35:03.719 --> 0:35:06.720
<v Speaker 1>And I feel the best that I have ever felt,

0:35:07.160 --> 0:35:10.400
<v Speaker 1>and I have time for myself, and the most important

0:35:10.440 --> 0:35:13.319
<v Speaker 1>thing is no more fatty liver. No more cholesterol, no

0:35:13.440 --> 0:35:17.120
<v Speaker 1>more high blood pressure. Everything's under control, and I feel great.

0:35:17.280 --> 0:35:21.279
<v Speaker 1>So I love that. Yeah, that's such a motivator for

0:35:21.320 --> 0:35:24.040
<v Speaker 1>so many people who are feeling like that. Yeah, once

0:35:24.080 --> 0:35:26.600
<v Speaker 1>you have kids, I don't even understand how people can function.

0:35:26.680 --> 0:35:29.680
<v Speaker 1>I don't even get it. It must be so it's

0:35:29.800 --> 0:35:32.960
<v Speaker 1>talk about all consuming. It's it's the hardest thing that

0:35:33.000 --> 0:35:36.200
<v Speaker 1>I've ever had to do. I love this child so much,

0:35:36.480 --> 0:35:39.239
<v Speaker 1>but it is the hardest. Okay, I have O c D.

0:35:39.400 --> 0:35:41.520
<v Speaker 1>My husband is a perfectionist. She doesn't have much of

0:35:41.680 --> 0:35:43.840
<v Speaker 1>a of a chance here. She's a she's going to

0:35:43.920 --> 0:35:46.120
<v Speaker 1>be a disaster, but she's she's already got O c

0:35:46.280 --> 0:35:48.640
<v Speaker 1>D issues where all of her toys have to be

0:35:48.719 --> 0:35:52.240
<v Speaker 1>perfectly stacked up and and um. But she's the sweetest

0:35:52.280 --> 0:35:55.839
<v Speaker 1>thing ever. But yeah, the tantrums and everything, it's it's

0:35:55.880 --> 0:35:59.839
<v Speaker 1>not fun. How do you handle tantrums? I just locked

0:35:59.880 --> 0:36:03.080
<v Speaker 1>myself in my bedroom and no, no, no, no, no. Um.

0:36:03.600 --> 0:36:06.560
<v Speaker 1>I'm getting better at it. Usually I'm like, what's wrong?

0:36:06.680 --> 0:36:08.440
<v Speaker 1>What you know? And now I have to I have

0:36:08.560 --> 0:36:11.640
<v Speaker 1>to calm myself down and try to see it from

0:36:11.640 --> 0:36:15.120
<v Speaker 1>her perspective. Because kids, they're upset for some reason. You

0:36:15.160 --> 0:36:18.640
<v Speaker 1>have to try and understand where they're coming from instead

0:36:18.680 --> 0:36:21.959
<v Speaker 1>of just getting upset. So my husband, who he's really

0:36:21.960 --> 0:36:25.359
<v Speaker 1>good at handling that, he's helping me see that. I've

0:36:25.360 --> 0:36:28.560
<v Speaker 1>gotten a lot calmer over the years. I've let things go.

0:36:28.760 --> 0:36:32.080
<v Speaker 1>I'm very wound up and tight and very structured, and

0:36:32.360 --> 0:36:34.880
<v Speaker 1>so I have as a mom, let go because you

0:36:34.880 --> 0:36:37.440
<v Speaker 1>have to let go, because right, it's too bad you

0:36:37.440 --> 0:36:39.120
<v Speaker 1>didn't have that skill set when you were living with me,

0:36:39.160 --> 0:36:42.200
<v Speaker 1>because that was your first experience with the toddler. It

0:36:42.360 --> 0:36:45.759
<v Speaker 1>was it was Okay, So we're gonna take callers. People

0:36:45.800 --> 0:36:48.120
<v Speaker 1>are going to call in or right in, Katherine, do

0:36:48.160 --> 0:36:49.600
<v Speaker 1>you want to get the ball rolling? Or should we

0:36:49.600 --> 0:36:52.280
<v Speaker 1>take a quick break first. Let's take a quick break first,

0:36:52.480 --> 0:37:00.279
<v Speaker 1>and then we'll come back with callers. Okay, Well, see

0:37:00.280 --> 0:37:04.879
<v Speaker 1>how we do this as a couple, as the odd couple. Alright, Well,

0:37:04.880 --> 0:37:09.399
<v Speaker 1>our first caller today is Emma. She says, help, I'm

0:37:09.400 --> 0:37:12.759
<v Speaker 1>a twenty five year old virgin. Dear Chelsea, I'm just

0:37:12.800 --> 0:37:15.120
<v Speaker 1>going to cut right to it. I'm a twenty five

0:37:15.160 --> 0:37:17.839
<v Speaker 1>year old virgin, and I hate it. I shouldn't really

0:37:17.880 --> 0:37:19.680
<v Speaker 1>use the word hate because I don't hate the fact

0:37:19.719 --> 0:37:22.400
<v Speaker 1>that I still am, but I'm embarrassed and I can't

0:37:22.400 --> 0:37:25.080
<v Speaker 1>help it. It's not that I want to wait, or

0:37:25.280 --> 0:37:27.240
<v Speaker 1>that I'm waiting for the right person and all that ship.

0:37:27.320 --> 0:37:30.600
<v Speaker 1>I just haven't had the moment of okay right now

0:37:30.800 --> 0:37:34.080
<v Speaker 1>is fine, but would stop something from going further. Every

0:37:34.080 --> 0:37:36.359
<v Speaker 1>man I've had somewhat of a relationship with has been

0:37:36.360 --> 0:37:39.040
<v Speaker 1>respectful and kind about it. But I hate bringing it up,

0:37:39.360 --> 0:37:41.360
<v Speaker 1>and I hate that I feel like I have to

0:37:41.360 --> 0:37:44.520
<v Speaker 1>bring it up. I also hate looking around me and

0:37:44.560 --> 0:37:47.360
<v Speaker 1>seeing all of my friends talking comfortably about their sex

0:37:47.400 --> 0:37:50.960
<v Speaker 1>lives when mine is non existent. So I'm seeking any

0:37:51.000 --> 0:37:53.279
<v Speaker 1>advice that you can possibly give me because I can't

0:37:53.280 --> 0:37:58.960
<v Speaker 1>help but feel alone in this. Sincerely, Emma, Hi, Emma, Hi, Emma, Hi,

0:37:59.080 --> 0:38:03.200
<v Speaker 1>how are you? Hi? Emma? This is my roommate from

0:38:03.280 --> 0:38:05.920
<v Speaker 1>many many moons ago in l A. Her name's Colleen,

0:38:06.640 --> 0:38:11.680
<v Speaker 1>and she's our guest today. Yeah. Hi, Hi, it's so

0:38:11.760 --> 0:38:14.400
<v Speaker 1>nice to meet you. Guys. Well, it's so nice and

0:38:14.440 --> 0:38:16.560
<v Speaker 1>refreshing to meet a virgin. I don't meet a lot

0:38:16.600 --> 0:38:21.000
<v Speaker 1>of virgins. I don't either, Yeah, I do know other

0:38:21.120 --> 0:38:26.600
<v Speaker 1>virgins your age, not within like my circle. Oh that

0:38:28.600 --> 0:38:31.560
<v Speaker 1>makes it even more. That makes it stand out more. Colleen,

0:38:31.640 --> 0:38:34.960
<v Speaker 1>why don't you talk about your experience because one of

0:38:35.040 --> 0:38:37.000
<v Speaker 1>us had sex at a very young age and one

0:38:37.000 --> 0:38:44.000
<v Speaker 1>of us was a little bit more um responsible, Yes, yeah, responsible. Well, Emma,

0:38:44.360 --> 0:38:47.440
<v Speaker 1>first of all, there's nothing to be embarrassed about at all.

0:38:47.640 --> 0:38:51.760
<v Speaker 1>I lost my virginity at twenty nine. In my head,

0:38:52.040 --> 0:38:54.839
<v Speaker 1>like I was telling Chelsea, I feel like my life

0:38:54.880 --> 0:38:57.120
<v Speaker 1>should be like a romantic comedy, and that's what I

0:38:57.160 --> 0:38:59.920
<v Speaker 1>was waiting for, the perfect love and we were going

0:39:00.040 --> 0:39:02.799
<v Speaker 1>to ride off into the sunset together. And I felt

0:39:02.800 --> 0:39:06.360
<v Speaker 1>the same way as you. I was embarrassed. I was like,

0:39:06.400 --> 0:39:09.080
<v Speaker 1>I'm just gonna have sex with with anybody because this

0:39:09.160 --> 0:39:11.719
<v Speaker 1>is so you know, you just at like why am

0:39:11.760 --> 0:39:15.120
<v Speaker 1>I not meeting someone or what's going on? I actually

0:39:15.440 --> 0:39:19.279
<v Speaker 1>wish I would have waited longer because the person that

0:39:19.360 --> 0:39:23.560
<v Speaker 1>I did have sex with it was a mistake and

0:39:24.200 --> 0:39:26.480
<v Speaker 1>it was a mistake and it was a horrible experience.

0:39:27.040 --> 0:39:30.640
<v Speaker 1>It was awful and it was terrible. It wasn't a

0:39:30.680 --> 0:39:34.319
<v Speaker 1>good at treeria Is, I would have waited. So my

0:39:34.400 --> 0:39:39.000
<v Speaker 1>advice to you is, don't be embarrassed, don't settle. You're

0:39:39.000 --> 0:39:41.800
<v Speaker 1>gonna meet someone who loves that you are a virgin,

0:39:42.280 --> 0:39:45.879
<v Speaker 1>You're gonna meet someone who appreciates you and who adores you,

0:39:46.320 --> 0:39:49.799
<v Speaker 1>and don't ever apologize for it. Just be who you are.

0:39:50.160 --> 0:39:53.000
<v Speaker 1>That's the most important thing. And if you're not feeling it,

0:39:54.320 --> 0:39:57.480
<v Speaker 1>don't do it. Yeah, that you should embrace the uniqueness

0:39:57.520 --> 0:40:00.399
<v Speaker 1>that is you and your virginity and all the other

0:40:00.560 --> 0:40:03.839
<v Speaker 1>unique things about you and focus on those things. That's

0:40:04.040 --> 0:40:07.239
<v Speaker 1>that's something that's cool. Ye uncommon you know what I mean,

0:40:07.360 --> 0:40:11.799
<v Speaker 1>it's it's uncommonly cool, I should say. Anyway, anyway you

0:40:11.840 --> 0:40:14.680
<v Speaker 1>phrase it, it covers it, like, that's cool. You have

0:40:14.760 --> 0:40:16.560
<v Speaker 1>something that not a lot of people have going on

0:40:16.680 --> 0:40:21.759
<v Speaker 1>right now. Yeah, that's true. It's definitely like uncommon. Like

0:40:21.800 --> 0:40:24.400
<v Speaker 1>when I tell men when I'm in a relationship and

0:40:24.440 --> 0:40:27.200
<v Speaker 1>it's starting to get a little risque, you should say,

0:40:27.960 --> 0:40:29.480
<v Speaker 1>I've never had Like I said, I've never had a

0:40:29.560 --> 0:40:32.279
<v Speaker 1>bad experience telling them. They're always very nice and they're

0:40:32.760 --> 0:40:37.080
<v Speaker 1>surprised for sure. But it is uncomfortable kind of to

0:40:37.200 --> 0:40:40.160
<v Speaker 1>bring up because I can't help but have that little

0:40:40.200 --> 0:40:41.959
<v Speaker 1>guy in the back of my head being like this

0:40:42.040 --> 0:40:46.040
<v Speaker 1>is so embarrassing. No, I know, I know, I feel you.

0:40:46.120 --> 0:40:48.839
<v Speaker 1>I was in the same boat I actually didn't even

0:40:48.840 --> 0:40:50.960
<v Speaker 1>tell the guy that I had sex with it. I

0:40:51.080 --> 0:40:55.520
<v Speaker 1>was really I didn't even tell them. I was just like, Yeah,

0:40:55.920 --> 0:40:57.960
<v Speaker 1>was it because you were so eager to have sex

0:40:58.080 --> 0:41:00.279
<v Speaker 1>or was it you were so into the guy? Like, well,

0:41:00.440 --> 0:41:03.200
<v Speaker 1>I honestly think I was twenty nine. I hadn't really

0:41:03.239 --> 0:41:06.480
<v Speaker 1>met anyone that I really really really liked, and we

0:41:06.480 --> 0:41:09.319
<v Speaker 1>were dating, so it was going there. But I didn't

0:41:09.320 --> 0:41:11.319
<v Speaker 1>want to tell him because I was embarrassed. I was

0:41:11.360 --> 0:41:14.000
<v Speaker 1>the same way as you feel. I was embarrassed. I

0:41:14.040 --> 0:41:16.920
<v Speaker 1>was just like, Oh, he's going to run away if

0:41:16.920 --> 0:41:19.359
<v Speaker 1>he finds out I'm twenty nine years old. This is

0:41:19.560 --> 0:41:23.240
<v Speaker 1>and so I didn't say anything. And after the fact

0:41:23.560 --> 0:41:25.680
<v Speaker 1>I told him and he was just like what. But

0:41:26.360 --> 0:41:28.880
<v Speaker 1>I regret that whole situation because I would have just

0:41:28.920 --> 0:41:33.560
<v Speaker 1>waited to find someone that appreciated me. And so my

0:41:33.600 --> 0:41:36.719
<v Speaker 1>advice to you would be to just hang in there.

0:41:36.840 --> 0:41:38.520
<v Speaker 1>You are going to meet someone. You're going to meet

0:41:38.520 --> 0:41:41.160
<v Speaker 1>someone that adores you, and it's going to be like, Wow,

0:41:41.239 --> 0:41:44.360
<v Speaker 1>you waited for me, and that's gonna be so special.

0:41:44.880 --> 0:41:48.319
<v Speaker 1>So that is special. Yeah, I think I've read too

0:41:48.320 --> 0:41:52.440
<v Speaker 1>many books in my lifetime, so I have this whole

0:41:52.600 --> 0:41:55.480
<v Speaker 1>preconception of like it's a magical moment. Like I just

0:41:55.520 --> 0:41:58.240
<v Speaker 1>read I'm in graduate school and I just read Forever

0:41:58.239 --> 0:42:00.600
<v Speaker 1>by Judy Bluem and it's literally about a teenage girl

0:42:00.600 --> 0:42:02.080
<v Speaker 1>having sex for the first time. And I was like,

0:42:02.120 --> 0:42:05.480
<v Speaker 1>this is too fitting. This is maybe a little past two,

0:42:05.520 --> 0:42:08.719
<v Speaker 1>but also like too fitting. I love Judy Bloom read

0:42:10.640 --> 0:42:14.279
<v Speaker 1>those are the fastings around. So, Emma, what are you

0:42:14.320 --> 0:42:16.200
<v Speaker 1>waiting for? Are you waiting to be in love and

0:42:16.280 --> 0:42:18.920
<v Speaker 1>being a relationship, like a really serious relationship. Is that

0:42:19.000 --> 0:42:22.400
<v Speaker 1>what you're waiting for? I think kind of yes, And no,

0:42:22.640 --> 0:42:25.720
<v Speaker 1>I don't. I'm not like into hook up culture. I

0:42:25.719 --> 0:42:29.600
<v Speaker 1>I live in Boston, so like dating out here is

0:42:29.680 --> 0:42:34.200
<v Speaker 1>hard enough as it is, especially in Boston. Um, but

0:42:34.600 --> 0:42:38.400
<v Speaker 1>I've definitely like gotten away from that whole. I'm going

0:42:38.440 --> 0:42:41.120
<v Speaker 1>to wait for the one, and I'm gonna wait for

0:42:41.160 --> 0:42:44.040
<v Speaker 1>someone that I really like. You know, if I'm currently

0:42:44.120 --> 0:42:47.640
<v Speaker 1>dating someone and it's going well for a couple of

0:42:47.640 --> 0:42:50.440
<v Speaker 1>months or weeks or whatever, like and I have a

0:42:50.480 --> 0:42:52.560
<v Speaker 1>moment where I'm like, I feel comfortable enough right now

0:42:52.920 --> 0:42:55.959
<v Speaker 1>and they know, so let's give it a shot. That's

0:42:56.000 --> 0:42:58.239
<v Speaker 1>kind of my mindset right now. And it took me

0:42:58.280 --> 0:43:02.440
<v Speaker 1>a while to get in that mindset because the embarrassment

0:43:02.520 --> 0:43:07.000
<v Speaker 1>just like never went away. Yeah, and I think it

0:43:07.200 --> 0:43:10.160
<v Speaker 1>is something that's lovely. Of course, it's not like what

0:43:10.200 --> 0:43:12.759
<v Speaker 1>it looks like in movies or you know, sounds like

0:43:12.800 --> 0:43:16.319
<v Speaker 1>in books. But my advice would be lose it with

0:43:16.360 --> 0:43:19.160
<v Speaker 1>the person that you can kind of laugh about things with,

0:43:19.760 --> 0:43:22.440
<v Speaker 1>Like you're laughing in the middle of it, You're cracking

0:43:22.560 --> 0:43:25.960
<v Speaker 1>jokes and like sometimes it's really romantic and sometimes it's not.

0:43:26.120 --> 0:43:29.520
<v Speaker 1>Sometimes you're just like fooling around. So I mean it

0:43:29.600 --> 0:43:31.799
<v Speaker 1>might be helpful to be with somebody who, like you

0:43:31.840 --> 0:43:34.480
<v Speaker 1>can kind of joke around, laugh about it, and also

0:43:34.520 --> 0:43:37.160
<v Speaker 1>like you don't necessarily have to say it's your first time.

0:43:37.480 --> 0:43:41.440
<v Speaker 1>I think that's fine. Yeah, that's so true. I've definitely

0:43:41.640 --> 0:43:45.719
<v Speaker 1>been in relationships and and with men that I do

0:43:45.800 --> 0:43:49.640
<v Speaker 1>feel comfortable enough like not only telling them, but being like, yeah,

0:43:49.760 --> 0:43:53.080
<v Speaker 1>let's try. But as it continues, it's like, Okay, no,

0:43:53.239 --> 0:43:56.280
<v Speaker 1>I was wrong, Like I'm not ready for this, please

0:43:56.320 --> 0:44:00.520
<v Speaker 1>back up. Yeah. I also I would say, I don't know, Catherine,

0:44:00.560 --> 0:44:02.719
<v Speaker 1>I disagree with that. Maybe calling you can speak to us,

0:44:02.800 --> 0:44:05.480
<v Speaker 1>but I think like if you're gonna if you've waited

0:44:05.520 --> 0:44:09.040
<v Speaker 1>this long, right, Which isn't it like a ridiculous amount

0:44:09.080 --> 0:44:11.040
<v Speaker 1>of time. It's a it's a logical amount of time,

0:44:11.080 --> 0:44:12.920
<v Speaker 1>Like you've waited this long and you're not going to

0:44:13.080 --> 0:44:16.120
<v Speaker 1>jump to Like, why not have that experience be on

0:44:16.280 --> 0:44:18.000
<v Speaker 1>the table with the person that you're going to have

0:44:18.120 --> 0:44:20.560
<v Speaker 1>it with so that they can be even more careful

0:44:20.800 --> 0:44:25.279
<v Speaker 1>and like caring you know about the situation, because if

0:44:25.320 --> 0:44:28.920
<v Speaker 1>you have been, you know, saving yourself for the right person,

0:44:29.080 --> 0:44:30.960
<v Speaker 1>you know, it doesn't have to mean it's your husband,

0:44:31.040 --> 0:44:34.319
<v Speaker 1>but the right person, someone who cares for you deeply, right,

0:44:34.760 --> 0:44:36.799
<v Speaker 1>that's all you really need is somebody who really cares

0:44:36.840 --> 0:44:39.719
<v Speaker 1>about you. Why not have that experience together so that

0:44:39.800 --> 0:44:42.239
<v Speaker 1>they know going in you know that it is your

0:44:42.239 --> 0:44:45.400
<v Speaker 1>first time, because it can be a more delicate situation. Yeah,

0:44:45.480 --> 0:44:48.200
<v Speaker 1>that's true, that's true. I completely I do agree with that.

0:44:48.320 --> 0:44:50.560
<v Speaker 1>I think that you know, he should know, and you

0:44:50.600 --> 0:44:53.839
<v Speaker 1>should feel totally comfortable with him, and it gives him

0:44:53.880 --> 0:44:56.480
<v Speaker 1>the opportunity to make you feel even more comfortable and

0:44:56.600 --> 0:44:58.839
<v Speaker 1>even safer. And if it goes the other way, then

0:44:58.880 --> 0:45:01.839
<v Speaker 1>it's not meant to be with him exactly. And I

0:45:01.880 --> 0:45:04.640
<v Speaker 1>think me as a person, I would feel so guilty

0:45:04.680 --> 0:45:07.000
<v Speaker 1>if like I didn't tell them, and then it would

0:45:07.040 --> 0:45:08.560
<v Speaker 1>just be like in the back of my head and

0:45:08.600 --> 0:45:12.719
<v Speaker 1>I'd be like, I'm such a fucking horrible person. Well,

0:45:12.719 --> 0:45:14.520
<v Speaker 1>then you have your answer about whether you should tell them.

0:45:15.360 --> 0:45:18.319
<v Speaker 1>That's true. So that's why I always That's why I've

0:45:18.440 --> 0:45:20.479
<v Speaker 1>always told people, because I have a feeling I would

0:45:20.480 --> 0:45:22.680
<v Speaker 1>just feel like so guilty, and I know what I'm

0:45:22.680 --> 0:45:26.239
<v Speaker 1>not like obligated to tell like my partner. But at

0:45:26.239 --> 0:45:28.080
<v Speaker 1>the same time, it's like I wish I could just

0:45:28.160 --> 0:45:32.120
<v Speaker 1>like not and not have those feelings of like anxiety

0:45:32.120 --> 0:45:35.360
<v Speaker 1>and guilt over it and just let it happen. Yeah,

0:45:35.400 --> 0:45:38.120
<v Speaker 1>I think it's special, Like it's special. Embrace the fact

0:45:38.120 --> 0:45:42.600
<v Speaker 1>that it's special. Nothing embarrassing, Yeah, embarrassing losing your virginity

0:45:42.680 --> 0:45:44.600
<v Speaker 1>when you're you know, a teenager to someone that you

0:45:44.600 --> 0:45:47.799
<v Speaker 1>don't even know, whose name you don't remember the point

0:45:47.840 --> 0:45:51.520
<v Speaker 1>of that. No, mine was Mitch, I remember who I

0:45:51.560 --> 0:45:54.000
<v Speaker 1>lost my virginity too. But he knew I was a

0:45:54.040 --> 0:45:58.400
<v Speaker 1>virgin and he was very careful with me. Yeah. I

0:45:58.480 --> 0:46:01.200
<v Speaker 1>have a friend who she actually in her thirties and

0:46:01.280 --> 0:46:03.560
<v Speaker 1>just lost her virginity. But when you say, like all

0:46:03.560 --> 0:46:06.360
<v Speaker 1>my friends were talking really easily about this. I remember

0:46:06.360 --> 0:46:07.760
<v Speaker 1>there was a time when a bunch of us friends

0:46:07.760 --> 0:46:09.440
<v Speaker 1>were talking and one of the girls was like, how

0:46:09.440 --> 0:46:11.880
<v Speaker 1>did everybody lose their virginity? And when it got to her,

0:46:12.000 --> 0:46:15.400
<v Speaker 1>it was like, well, it almost happened this one time,

0:46:15.520 --> 0:46:18.920
<v Speaker 1>and then it didn't, and you know, she handled it well.

0:46:18.960 --> 0:46:21.640
<v Speaker 1>But at the same time, like she's now at a

0:46:21.640 --> 0:46:23.960
<v Speaker 1>place in her life where like she's having the first

0:46:24.000 --> 0:46:27.600
<v Speaker 1>great love of her life, and it's just like all

0:46:27.680 --> 0:46:31.640
<v Speaker 1>this anxiety she had around it, all of these worries,

0:46:32.320 --> 0:46:34.520
<v Speaker 1>they're gone in like the blink of an eye, and

0:46:34.560 --> 0:46:37.440
<v Speaker 1>she's having so much fun, and it's just you know,

0:46:37.480 --> 0:46:40.719
<v Speaker 1>when it happens, that happens. Yeah, I also feel like

0:46:41.360 --> 0:46:45.320
<v Speaker 1>the pandemic didn't really help me at all. I moved

0:46:45.440 --> 0:46:48.160
<v Speaker 1>to Boston in followed nineteen, so we only had a

0:46:48.200 --> 0:46:50.600
<v Speaker 1>window of like a couple of months to go out

0:46:50.600 --> 0:46:52.719
<v Speaker 1>there and date and meet new people. And then it

0:46:52.840 --> 0:46:56.440
<v Speaker 1>was like, oh, just kidding, you're stuck inside, you're alone.

0:46:58.280 --> 0:47:00.440
<v Speaker 1>We'll just hang in there. You'll meet somebody who is

0:47:00.600 --> 0:47:03.440
<v Speaker 1>perfect for you and will make you feel special and

0:47:03.520 --> 0:47:06.560
<v Speaker 1>it won't matter that you're a virgin. It's very true.

0:47:07.160 --> 0:47:11.160
<v Speaker 1>Thank you, Thanks for calling Emma, you're adorable. Oh, thank you.

0:47:11.239 --> 0:47:15.520
<v Speaker 1>So you're adorable, virgin. Thank you so much. Hey, I

0:47:16.080 --> 0:47:20.560
<v Speaker 1>that's a great compliment. I'm gonna add that to my

0:47:20.680 --> 0:47:28.480
<v Speaker 1>like LinkedIn profile. Yeah, all right, thanks Emma. Let us

0:47:28.480 --> 0:47:32.200
<v Speaker 1>know how it goes. I will keep you posted. Jay

0:47:32.280 --> 0:47:35.160
<v Speaker 1>sounds good. Nice to meet you. Bye. Nice to meet

0:47:35.200 --> 0:47:38.360
<v Speaker 1>you too, Emma. Bye, Thank you. She reminds me of

0:47:38.400 --> 0:47:41.040
<v Speaker 1>me when I mean totally like, what a better question

0:47:41.080 --> 0:47:45.600
<v Speaker 1>to have a caller call in with. She's good, good producing, Catherine, Well,

0:47:45.640 --> 0:47:48.439
<v Speaker 1>thank you. I mean this next one is pretty on

0:47:48.480 --> 0:47:51.760
<v Speaker 1>the nose for you as well, Colleen. So our next

0:47:51.800 --> 0:47:55.960
<v Speaker 1>caller is Ashley. She is thirty one and a stay

0:47:55.960 --> 0:47:59.360
<v Speaker 1>at home mom. She says, Dear Chelsea, my mom and

0:47:59.400 --> 0:48:02.040
<v Speaker 1>I have always has been very close. However, I love

0:48:02.080 --> 0:48:05.200
<v Speaker 1>my independence and personal space, and she is about as

0:48:05.200 --> 0:48:09.280
<v Speaker 1>codependent as they come. We talk every day on the phone,

0:48:09.440 --> 0:48:11.840
<v Speaker 1>text back and forth numerous times a day, and she

0:48:11.880 --> 0:48:15.000
<v Speaker 1>shows up at my house unannounced all the time. She

0:48:15.080 --> 0:48:17.520
<v Speaker 1>has no boundaries and relies on my kids and I

0:48:17.640 --> 0:48:21.080
<v Speaker 1>for her fulfillment in life. Sadly, my brother and only

0:48:21.120 --> 0:48:24.040
<v Speaker 1>sibling passed away four years ago, which puts an even

0:48:24.080 --> 0:48:26.960
<v Speaker 1>bigger burden and responsibility on me to be there for

0:48:27.000 --> 0:48:30.359
<v Speaker 1>her emotionally since her partner is not at all. I

0:48:30.400 --> 0:48:32.879
<v Speaker 1>know how much the daily calls and texts mean to her,

0:48:33.200 --> 0:48:35.239
<v Speaker 1>but I can't help but feel super annoyed when I

0:48:35.320 --> 0:48:37.720
<v Speaker 1>have to check in with her and tell her every

0:48:37.719 --> 0:48:40.600
<v Speaker 1>detail of my life. So my question is am I

0:48:40.640 --> 0:48:43.040
<v Speaker 1>being a bit for wanting and needing my own space

0:48:43.080 --> 0:48:45.520
<v Speaker 1>when I know how much she needs me. Any help

0:48:45.600 --> 0:48:48.360
<v Speaker 1>on how to navigate this relationship would be so helpful.

0:48:48.800 --> 0:48:50.720
<v Speaker 1>I want to be there for her, but being married

0:48:50.719 --> 0:48:52.759
<v Speaker 1>with three kids is a very busy life, and I

0:48:52.800 --> 0:48:55.320
<v Speaker 1>can't help but feel that she just adds to the stress.

0:48:55.760 --> 0:49:03.120
<v Speaker 1>With love Ashley, Oh, Hi, Ashley, Hi, Ashley, Hi, Hi, Hi.

0:49:03.200 --> 0:49:09.520
<v Speaker 1>This is my friend Colleen. She's guess Hi Colleen. Hey, Chelsea, Hey,

0:49:09.640 --> 0:49:11.799
<v Speaker 1>So tell us what's going on? So your mom is

0:49:11.880 --> 0:49:16.440
<v Speaker 1>around a lot? Yeah, she is. We live only a

0:49:16.480 --> 0:49:20.319
<v Speaker 1>few miles away from each other, and like I said

0:49:20.320 --> 0:49:22.239
<v Speaker 1>in the letter, my brother passed away and I don't

0:49:22.280 --> 0:49:25.880
<v Speaker 1>have any other siblings. So I try to be patient

0:49:25.960 --> 0:49:28.759
<v Speaker 1>with her and let her over whenever she wants to come,

0:49:28.760 --> 0:49:32.280
<v Speaker 1>and always stay in touch, But sometimes it's just annoying

0:49:32.600 --> 0:49:36.520
<v Speaker 1>being there for her all the time. Yeah, that's a

0:49:36.560 --> 0:49:39.200
<v Speaker 1>tough one because I can understand. Yeah, but I mean

0:49:39.320 --> 0:49:41.880
<v Speaker 1>she I mean, how can you create boundaries now, I

0:49:41.920 --> 0:49:46.000
<v Speaker 1>guess is the question right when there haven't been any before?

0:49:46.480 --> 0:49:49.560
<v Speaker 1>How long have you guys lived this close to each other? Oh,

0:49:49.600 --> 0:49:53.719
<v Speaker 1>we've always lived really, We've always been super tight growing up.

0:49:53.760 --> 0:49:56.680
<v Speaker 1>She was a single mom. My parents got divorced when

0:49:56.680 --> 0:49:59.560
<v Speaker 1>I was a baby, so we were always her. My

0:49:59.640 --> 0:50:02.680
<v Speaker 1>brother and I were always really super tighten it, and

0:50:02.760 --> 0:50:06.680
<v Speaker 1>she was always like the cool, fun mom. Uh. I mean,

0:50:06.719 --> 0:50:10.480
<v Speaker 1>as you know, when you lose someone in your family,

0:50:10.600 --> 0:50:14.560
<v Speaker 1>but it's like to just see your parents crumble. In

0:50:14.600 --> 0:50:16.640
<v Speaker 1>a sense, it was different for you, I know, because

0:50:16.640 --> 0:50:19.360
<v Speaker 1>you were a child at the time. But it really

0:50:19.400 --> 0:50:23.319
<v Speaker 1>does just change a person. And she is very sensitive

0:50:24.280 --> 0:50:28.560
<v Speaker 1>and I try to not hurt her feelings to be

0:50:28.640 --> 0:50:30.960
<v Speaker 1>there for her, but sometimes it's just like I have

0:50:31.000 --> 0:50:33.239
<v Speaker 1>a lot of my own ship going on, and it

0:50:33.320 --> 0:50:36.680
<v Speaker 1>takes a lot out of me to take on her

0:50:37.400 --> 0:50:41.319
<v Speaker 1>stress and depression, you know. Yeah, Yeah, this is such

0:50:41.320 --> 0:50:44.279
<v Speaker 1>a tricky area because your mom sounds like she's you know,

0:50:44.480 --> 0:50:47.120
<v Speaker 1>she's grieving too. You know, she lost her son. Even

0:50:47.120 --> 0:50:49.160
<v Speaker 1>though it's four years ago. You know that doesn't ever

0:50:49.160 --> 0:50:53.320
<v Speaker 1>go away for a parent. Yeah, and you're her only

0:50:53.360 --> 0:50:56.239
<v Speaker 1>family and your children are her only family. So it's

0:50:56.280 --> 0:50:59.319
<v Speaker 1>like you want to be sensitive and empathetic too to

0:50:59.440 --> 0:51:03.440
<v Speaker 1>the fact that she that you're the only ties she has. Yeah,

0:51:03.520 --> 0:51:05.960
<v Speaker 1>and that's why it's like my door is always open

0:51:06.040 --> 0:51:08.480
<v Speaker 1>for her, and she does totally take advantage of that.

0:51:08.760 --> 0:51:13.520
<v Speaker 1>But it's like I just I like my own personal space.

0:51:14.040 --> 0:51:17.399
<v Speaker 1>And I told Catherine before, like I moved out when

0:51:17.400 --> 0:51:19.880
<v Speaker 1>I was eighteen, haven't been back since. We don't have

0:51:19.920 --> 0:51:22.200
<v Speaker 1>the type of relationship where I've ever like relied on

0:51:22.280 --> 0:51:26.600
<v Speaker 1>her for anything or depended on her to provide anything

0:51:26.640 --> 0:51:28.560
<v Speaker 1>for me and my family. I've always just been a

0:51:28.640 --> 0:51:33.120
<v Speaker 1>very independent person and I let her in as much

0:51:33.120 --> 0:51:34.919
<v Speaker 1>as I can, knowing how much it means to her.

0:51:35.000 --> 0:51:38.759
<v Speaker 1>But it really does just sometimes just suck the life

0:51:38.760 --> 0:51:42.200
<v Speaker 1>out of me, knowing how much it takes to be

0:51:42.280 --> 0:51:45.080
<v Speaker 1>there for her. Well, is there any other sort of

0:51:45.120 --> 0:51:48.040
<v Speaker 1>configuration you can work out with her, Like, is there

0:51:48.040 --> 0:51:50.000
<v Speaker 1>a a lot of time you can give her with

0:51:50.040 --> 0:51:52.920
<v Speaker 1>each of the kids alone or maybe all of them together,

0:51:53.400 --> 0:51:56.880
<v Speaker 1>so it's less on you and more on like you know,

0:51:57.000 --> 0:51:59.040
<v Speaker 1>like what about dropping one of your children off to

0:51:59.120 --> 0:52:01.080
<v Speaker 1>her for like two hours a week and they each

0:52:01.120 --> 0:52:03.120
<v Speaker 1>get their one on one time with grandma, So that

0:52:03.160 --> 0:52:06.560
<v Speaker 1>doesn't necessarily involve you or her being at your house,

0:52:06.680 --> 0:52:09.239
<v Speaker 1>like if you frame it's or her like mom, this

0:52:09.360 --> 0:52:11.920
<v Speaker 1>is for the kids. They get really jealous when you

0:52:11.960 --> 0:52:13.759
<v Speaker 1>spend you know, you can make up whatever you want

0:52:13.840 --> 0:52:15.920
<v Speaker 1>when you're with them all together. They all want one

0:52:15.960 --> 0:52:18.360
<v Speaker 1>on one time. You know, I think this might be

0:52:18.400 --> 0:52:20.759
<v Speaker 1>a great idea for both of you. You guys, you

0:52:20.800 --> 0:52:23.120
<v Speaker 1>get each kid for two hours a week at your

0:52:23.160 --> 0:52:26.520
<v Speaker 1>house and you do your thing with them alone, or

0:52:26.600 --> 0:52:29.960
<v Speaker 1>she could take them all out without you, you know, like,

0:52:30.080 --> 0:52:31.920
<v Speaker 1>is do you trust her to do that? Or is

0:52:31.960 --> 0:52:35.600
<v Speaker 1>she like able bodied and everything? Yeah? Oh yeah. She

0:52:35.920 --> 0:52:40.520
<v Speaker 1>is an absolutely phenomenal grandma. She's very super close to

0:52:40.800 --> 0:52:43.760
<v Speaker 1>my kids, Like they do probably go over her house

0:52:44.320 --> 0:52:46.560
<v Speaker 1>a couple of times a week, which is great. But

0:52:46.640 --> 0:52:49.480
<v Speaker 1>it's more so the thing that gets under my skin

0:52:49.640 --> 0:52:53.879
<v Speaker 1>is like when she pops over all the time unannounced.

0:52:53.920 --> 0:52:57.440
<v Speaker 1>She never feels like she needs to call and say like, hey,

0:52:57.680 --> 0:52:59.600
<v Speaker 1>I'm around the neighborhood. You mind if I pop over?

0:52:59.760 --> 0:53:01.600
<v Speaker 1>Is now a good time? It's just a sense of

0:53:01.640 --> 0:53:04.480
<v Speaker 1>like she's entitled the come over whenever she wants, or

0:53:04.560 --> 0:53:07.160
<v Speaker 1>like if she comes over and I'm not there, she'll

0:53:07.160 --> 0:53:09.680
<v Speaker 1>call me and be like, hey, where you at, It's like,

0:53:09.719 --> 0:53:11.759
<v Speaker 1>I don't know you an explanation of where I'm at.

0:53:12.400 --> 0:53:14.399
<v Speaker 1>Those are more so the things that really get under

0:53:14.440 --> 0:53:17.759
<v Speaker 1>my skin. It's instead of like not being there for her,

0:53:17.800 --> 0:53:20.359
<v Speaker 1>I'm always there to talk and all that, but it's

0:53:20.400 --> 0:53:23.120
<v Speaker 1>just like the sense of me owing her all these

0:53:23.120 --> 0:53:26.560
<v Speaker 1>explanations about my personal life when I just it's like,

0:53:26.600 --> 0:53:28.720
<v Speaker 1>I'm an adult. I'm thirty one years old. I shouldn't

0:53:28.760 --> 0:53:31.200
<v Speaker 1>be needed to check in with you every single day.

0:53:31.560 --> 0:53:34.040
<v Speaker 1>It's almost like when she calls when I how I

0:53:34.120 --> 0:53:37.000
<v Speaker 1>told you earlier, when she says, just doing my daily

0:53:37.080 --> 0:53:41.520
<v Speaker 1>check in, it's like that's that's not necessary. And whenever

0:53:41.560 --> 0:53:43.040
<v Speaker 1>she's like, hey, what are you doing, it's always the

0:53:43.040 --> 0:53:45.480
<v Speaker 1>same thing. Nothing new, nothing new because I just talked

0:53:45.480 --> 0:53:47.920
<v Speaker 1>to you yesterday. It's like if we went more than

0:53:47.960 --> 0:53:50.480
<v Speaker 1>a few days without talking to each other, then I

0:53:50.480 --> 0:53:52.600
<v Speaker 1>would have more to fill her in on and vice versa.

0:53:52.680 --> 0:53:55.200
<v Speaker 1>But it's like she already knows every aspect of my

0:53:55.320 --> 0:53:58.880
<v Speaker 1>life that it's like I just have to go with

0:53:58.960 --> 0:54:01.000
<v Speaker 1>it just because I know that maybe what she needs

0:54:01.000 --> 0:54:03.280
<v Speaker 1>now in the moment, it's just it's off to someone.

0:54:03.920 --> 0:54:06.880
<v Speaker 1>They're trying not to let it annoy me. Yeah, I

0:54:06.960 --> 0:54:09.919
<v Speaker 1>agree with Chelsea that there is a conversation that has

0:54:09.960 --> 0:54:14.160
<v Speaker 1>to happen, and putting some parameters, like whatever that signal

0:54:14.360 --> 0:54:17.520
<v Speaker 1>is in place might be might be really helpful. So

0:54:17.600 --> 0:54:20.279
<v Speaker 1>maybe it's like, hey, mom, like the kids are back

0:54:20.360 --> 0:54:23.239
<v Speaker 1>in school now, schedules have changed, and we really need

0:54:23.320 --> 0:54:25.640
<v Speaker 1>to kind of know what to expect each day. So

0:54:26.120 --> 0:54:28.319
<v Speaker 1>you know what, if the light is on on the

0:54:28.320 --> 0:54:30.879
<v Speaker 1>front porch, like, feel free to come on in. If

0:54:30.920 --> 0:54:33.360
<v Speaker 1>it's not, we might just need some family time or

0:54:33.440 --> 0:54:36.279
<v Speaker 1>have a busy school work night that night, or you know,

0:54:36.320 --> 0:54:39.000
<v Speaker 1>whatever stage your kids are in, put it on something else.

0:54:39.080 --> 0:54:41.440
<v Speaker 1>Things are changing because of X y Z. The world's

0:54:41.480 --> 0:54:43.680
<v Speaker 1>kind of getting back to normal, and so we need

0:54:43.719 --> 0:54:45.719
<v Speaker 1>to have a little bit of family time. That's just

0:54:45.760 --> 0:54:54.600
<v Speaker 1>our nuclear not nuclear nucule I'm usually yes. My parents

0:54:54.640 --> 0:54:57.279
<v Speaker 1>actually they have a place in in Phoenix where they

0:54:57.280 --> 0:54:59.440
<v Speaker 1>live half the year, and then they just sold my

0:54:59.520 --> 0:55:02.480
<v Speaker 1>childhood home this last year, and so they've spent a

0:55:02.520 --> 0:55:06.000
<v Speaker 1>few weeks living in what we call the suite at

0:55:06.040 --> 0:55:08.960
<v Speaker 1>my sister's house. They've got their own bedroom with a

0:55:09.000 --> 0:55:12.239
<v Speaker 1>bathroom and all that nice stuff. But when they are

0:55:12.320 --> 0:55:14.799
<v Speaker 1>fun with the kids popping in, I have teenage niece

0:55:14.800 --> 0:55:17.480
<v Speaker 1>and nephew on that side. They'll leave the door open

0:55:17.640 --> 0:55:19.480
<v Speaker 1>and when the door is open, the kids can come

0:55:19.520 --> 0:55:22.359
<v Speaker 1>in talk about their day. But when they close the door,

0:55:22.400 --> 0:55:25.360
<v Speaker 1>the kids know like grandma and Grandpa are not ready

0:55:25.400 --> 0:55:28.720
<v Speaker 1>to chat, or they're having coffee together, or they're doing whatever,

0:55:29.280 --> 0:55:31.520
<v Speaker 1>and so it's sort of their signal. But yeah, maybe

0:55:31.520 --> 0:55:33.839
<v Speaker 1>there's some sort of a signal. And maybe it's also

0:55:33.920 --> 0:55:36.000
<v Speaker 1>like we're going to do this and have the light

0:55:36.080 --> 0:55:38.319
<v Speaker 1>on sometimes and have the light off sometimes, but we're

0:55:38.320 --> 0:55:40.680
<v Speaker 1>also going to do game night every Sunday. So it's

0:55:40.680 --> 0:55:43.919
<v Speaker 1>that sort of like creating a compromise before you even

0:55:43.920 --> 0:55:50.280
<v Speaker 1>need to. Yeah, how old are your children? Six and one? Okay,

0:55:50.360 --> 0:55:52.440
<v Speaker 1>well then you can totally pin it on them anyway,

0:55:52.640 --> 0:55:58.040
<v Speaker 1>you know, right right right? She has such a help

0:55:58.040 --> 0:56:01.080
<v Speaker 1>when she takes them, yeah eight, So I mean take

0:56:01.080 --> 0:56:03.120
<v Speaker 1>advantage of the fact that she wants to take them

0:56:03.200 --> 0:56:05.880
<v Speaker 1>and maybe lean in on that because that's a moment

0:56:05.920 --> 0:56:08.839
<v Speaker 1>for you to be okay, some alone time. Yeah, maybe

0:56:08.920 --> 0:56:11.279
<v Speaker 1>made into that and she's not. You know, setting up

0:56:11.280 --> 0:56:13.719
<v Speaker 1>boundaries sounds like, oh, it's gonna be a conversation. It's

0:56:13.760 --> 0:56:17.880
<v Speaker 1>gonna have hurt feelings, and it always does. But eventually,

0:56:18.080 --> 0:56:21.560
<v Speaker 1>after the initial wear and tear of a conversation like that,

0:56:22.080 --> 0:56:25.879
<v Speaker 1>it invokes respect in the relationship and both sides, you know,

0:56:26.040 --> 0:56:28.239
<v Speaker 1>because people start to understand, oh, it's not just a

0:56:28.239 --> 0:56:30.239
<v Speaker 1>free for all. I can't just show up because you know,

0:56:30.239 --> 0:56:32.120
<v Speaker 1>if my best friend said to me, you can't stop you.

0:56:32.440 --> 0:56:34.480
<v Speaker 1>I need you to call before you start coming over,

0:56:34.600 --> 0:56:36.640
<v Speaker 1>I'd be like, wait, what I thought we had an

0:56:36.680 --> 0:56:39.680
<v Speaker 1>understanding like I would feelings would be hurt. Oh sorry,

0:56:39.960 --> 0:56:41.920
<v Speaker 1>my feelings would be hurt. My back is all fucked up,

0:56:41.960 --> 0:56:45.279
<v Speaker 1>so I can't sit still. I'm just like, I don't

0:56:45.320 --> 0:56:48.719
<v Speaker 1>want you to think I'm masturbating during this call. I

0:56:48.760 --> 0:56:53.520
<v Speaker 1>know it's a sexy subject, but feelings are hurt. But like,

0:56:53.600 --> 0:56:56.600
<v Speaker 1>people do respect boundaries, so you just want to draw

0:56:56.640 --> 0:56:59.080
<v Speaker 1>them lightly, put it out there in a certain way,

0:56:59.120 --> 0:57:01.200
<v Speaker 1>like I want to be around the family, I love

0:57:01.239 --> 0:57:04.120
<v Speaker 1>you to pieces, I'm noticing I'm needing a little bit

0:57:04.120 --> 0:57:07.879
<v Speaker 1>more alone time, and so the nicest way you can

0:57:07.920 --> 0:57:10.000
<v Speaker 1>say that and figure out the ways to get that

0:57:10.080 --> 0:57:13.239
<v Speaker 1>alone time while maybe sometimes you're also providing her with

0:57:13.320 --> 0:57:15.520
<v Speaker 1>time with the children. You know, it sounds like a

0:57:15.560 --> 0:57:19.200
<v Speaker 1>good compromise. And then and you know what Catherine said.

0:57:19.480 --> 0:57:21.560
<v Speaker 1>I mean, Colleen, you haven't chipped in yet or chimed

0:57:21.600 --> 0:57:23.320
<v Speaker 1>in yet. Do you have anything you want to I

0:57:23.400 --> 0:57:25.600
<v Speaker 1>agree a lot with what Catherine said. I think that

0:57:25.680 --> 0:57:28.880
<v Speaker 1>you need to carve out time. I like the idea

0:57:28.920 --> 0:57:31.720
<v Speaker 1>of actually having the conversation with your mom and just

0:57:31.720 --> 0:57:34.440
<v Speaker 1>say maybe you even say, you know, this day and

0:57:34.480 --> 0:57:37.560
<v Speaker 1>this day, we're busy with this. How about you come over,

0:57:37.600 --> 0:57:39.960
<v Speaker 1>like she said, on Sunday for family game night, or

0:57:40.280 --> 0:57:42.800
<v Speaker 1>you just make it certain days. I mean, I'm I'm

0:57:42.840 --> 0:57:45.360
<v Speaker 1>super close with my family and I talked to them

0:57:45.400 --> 0:57:48.160
<v Speaker 1>every single day and there are yeah, there are days

0:57:48.200 --> 0:57:50.160
<v Speaker 1>I have nothing to say and it's just and I

0:57:50.160 --> 0:57:52.800
<v Speaker 1>tell them I got nothing for you today. But you

0:57:52.800 --> 0:57:57.200
<v Speaker 1>know what, it's about hearing their voice and and connecting

0:57:57.240 --> 0:57:59.920
<v Speaker 1>with them because they need it as much as you do.

0:58:00.640 --> 0:58:03.720
<v Speaker 1>And you're so lucky to have your mom be here,

0:58:04.360 --> 0:58:07.960
<v Speaker 1>and one day she won't be And so for me,

0:58:08.320 --> 0:58:12.360
<v Speaker 1>I'm getting emotional and I'm sorry, but um, she's been

0:58:12.400 --> 0:58:14.640
<v Speaker 1>crying the whole episode, so I don't worry about it.

0:58:14.760 --> 0:58:17.440
<v Speaker 1>My parents are here for two months visiting me, and

0:58:17.480 --> 0:58:20.680
<v Speaker 1>it's such a blessing. And I try to see them

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<v Speaker 1>every single day for some time, and they know they

0:58:23.680 --> 0:58:27.040
<v Speaker 1>have boundaries and they're like, you guys, have your family time.

0:58:27.040 --> 0:58:29.120
<v Speaker 1>We'll see you tomorrow. We're gonna we're gonna do our

0:58:29.160 --> 0:58:32.840
<v Speaker 1>own thing today. And I really appreciate that because it does.

0:58:32.920 --> 0:58:35.280
<v Speaker 1>It takes the pressure off of me. They know, you know,

0:58:35.400 --> 0:58:38.480
<v Speaker 1>So if your mom's not really getting the hint, you know,

0:58:38.840 --> 0:58:42.160
<v Speaker 1>have a conversation with her, just tell her how much

0:58:42.200 --> 0:58:44.600
<v Speaker 1>you love her and you love seeing her, but you

0:58:44.640 --> 0:58:47.080
<v Speaker 1>need some time. I mean, I'm a mom too, and

0:58:47.200 --> 0:58:51.200
<v Speaker 1>it's hard and you need some alone time. Yeah, I mean,

0:58:51.240 --> 0:58:53.000
<v Speaker 1>even if it's just you and your kids, you need

0:58:53.080 --> 0:58:56.440
<v Speaker 1>just you and your kids sometimes, just so I get it.

0:58:56.720 --> 0:58:58.760
<v Speaker 1>So just be gentle with her. She sounds like a

0:58:58.800 --> 0:59:01.920
<v Speaker 1>lovely woman. She is, and I do love her so much.

0:59:01.960 --> 0:59:04.200
<v Speaker 1>And I felt so guilty even writing this submission. I

0:59:04.240 --> 0:59:05.800
<v Speaker 1>felt like I was like going behind her back and

0:59:05.880 --> 0:59:08.200
<v Speaker 1>betray or even just talking about her like this, because

0:59:08.200 --> 0:59:11.320
<v Speaker 1>she is an amazing woman and we always have been

0:59:11.360 --> 0:59:13.640
<v Speaker 1>so tight, and like I know, she's not here forever,

0:59:14.280 --> 0:59:16.439
<v Speaker 1>and and she loves to remind me of that too.

0:59:17.440 --> 0:59:20.360
<v Speaker 1>She'll say, you'll miss me one day. I'm like, I know,

0:59:20.600 --> 0:59:24.800
<v Speaker 1>I know, but it's like you said, I think it's

0:59:24.840 --> 0:59:27.600
<v Speaker 1>a good idea to just come at her in like

0:59:27.640 --> 0:59:30.840
<v Speaker 1>a loving way, in a calm way, instead of kind

0:59:30.840 --> 0:59:35.040
<v Speaker 1>of you're annoying me. Give me, because if you dont

0:59:35.040 --> 0:59:36.840
<v Speaker 1>want to address it, it might come out that way.

0:59:36.920 --> 0:59:40.000
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's good, And it has in the past

0:59:40.040 --> 0:59:42.600
<v Speaker 1>where I have tried to address it and I have

0:59:42.760 --> 0:59:44.919
<v Speaker 1>kind of like snapped a little bit, and she will

0:59:45.080 --> 0:59:47.880
<v Speaker 1>like it does hurt her feelings. And you can think

0:59:47.920 --> 0:59:49.800
<v Speaker 1>of just real quick, one time in particular, off the

0:59:49.840 --> 0:59:51.680
<v Speaker 1>top of my head, I had just had a baby

0:59:52.240 --> 0:59:56.400
<v Speaker 1>and my son was like five days old, and she

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<v Speaker 1>just kept showing up and I'm like, mom, you've been

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<v Speaker 1>here six times in the last five days, like I'm

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<v Speaker 1>trying to figure out how to breastfeed. Our sleep schedules

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<v Speaker 1>are completely all over the place, Like please just call

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<v Speaker 1>before you come, and she just started crying. It's like okay, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>oh God, that conversation didn't go the way I hoped,

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<v Speaker 1>Like I just made her cry. She left, Yeah, that's

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<v Speaker 1>another way to also go at it is to just

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<v Speaker 1>blame yourself. I'm feeling slightly overwhelmed lately. I'm feeling irritable lately.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm feeling like I need some more space. So if

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<v Speaker 1>you can help me through this time by giving me

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit of extra space and a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>of a more alone time, I'd be so appreciative. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>if you come at it like it's your issue, that

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<v Speaker 1>is a really good, that's really good angle tof com

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<v Speaker 1>come into conversation like that because it is me. Yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>yeah it is. I mean, listen, everyone annoys the fucking

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<v Speaker 1>ship out of me. So you don't have to tell

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<v Speaker 1>me twice about your mother coming over too often. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't have I get it, I get it. But thank you.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought you would. That's why I wrote in I'm

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<v Speaker 1>like you. You get it from all angles. You've experienced loss,

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<v Speaker 1>and you also seem like the type of person that

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<v Speaker 1>does like your own personal space. So I really appreciate

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<v Speaker 1>your advice. Well, good luck, Ashley. Let us know how

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<v Speaker 1>it goes. Thanks. I will and I absolutely love your book.

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<v Speaker 1>Life Will Be the Death of Me has helped me

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<v Speaker 1>out so much. Thank you so much for everything you

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<v Speaker 1>put out into the world. It really does help. Oh, thanks, Ashley,

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<v Speaker 1>I appreciate that. Welcome. You're welcome. Thank you, take care

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<v Speaker 1>you too. Bye bye. All of our callers are always

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<v Speaker 1>so cool. Yeah, they're cool. They're cute there, I love it,

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<v Speaker 1>so nice, normal, they're not fucking weirdos, you know what

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<v Speaker 1>I mean. Well, a couple of times, but usually those

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<v Speaker 1>are men. Yeah, yeah, we try to avoid those. We

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<v Speaker 1>are going to take a quick break so you can

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<v Speaker 1>hear and add and then we'll be right back. So

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<v Speaker 1>our next question comes from Caitlin. Caitlin says, Dear Chelsea,

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<v Speaker 1>my eight year old daughter determined that the way for

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<v Speaker 1>her to do whatever the funk she wants is to

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<v Speaker 1>respond with I forgot you told me not to do that,

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<v Speaker 1>or I didn't hear you say that. Engaging with her

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<v Speaker 1>and entertaining her lame excuses is out of the question

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<v Speaker 1>because I know it's all bullshit and I won't pretend otherwise.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to wrap up these shenanigans without opening the

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<v Speaker 1>conversation up for an argument. How would you handle the

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<v Speaker 1>nieces and nephews that you've been saddled with if they

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<v Speaker 1>tried to pull this ship. A five milligram gummy with

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<v Speaker 1>a margarita definitely helps, but I appreciate any additional advice

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<v Speaker 1>you can provide. Cheers, Caitlin. I think anytime she says

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<v Speaker 1>anything like that, I didn't hear you, I don't remember

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<v Speaker 1>you telling me that, then something there's a punishment that

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<v Speaker 1>goes along with that because she wasn't paying attention or

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<v Speaker 1>she's conveniently forgetting. So there has to be a repercussion

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<v Speaker 1>for any time she says that, right, like whether it's

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<v Speaker 1>screen time. Well it's eight years old, so I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know if she's got a phone yet or what, but yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I nipped that in the bud right now. How she's eleven?

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<v Speaker 1>And have you ever had to deal with this kind

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<v Speaker 1>of thing? Yeah? Yeah, it is hard. It is hard

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<v Speaker 1>because yeah, she'll say things and I know that she's

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<v Speaker 1>not telling the truth, or it drives you nuts because

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<v Speaker 1>you're like, no, you're I know, you're not telling the truth.

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<v Speaker 1>I know, I know, you know. But there has to

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<v Speaker 1>be repercussions for everything. There has to be. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>there was one time she was forgetting her jacket at school.

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<v Speaker 1>She forget a lot of things, but this is just

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<v Speaker 1>an example, but forgetting her jacket at school every day

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<v Speaker 1>every day, and we'd lose jackets, they'd be gone, and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, we can't keep buying you jackets. And it

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<v Speaker 1>was just like, okay, well, you know what, the next

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<v Speaker 1>time you forget it, you're gonna give me your phone

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<v Speaker 1>for the day, and doesn't forget her jacket anymore. That

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<v Speaker 1>was easy, you know. I mean, there has to be

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<v Speaker 1>repercussions for things. So it's either if she has a

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<v Speaker 1>phone that needs to be taken away with her anytime

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<v Speaker 1>she forgets something or she doesn't hear something, then you

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<v Speaker 1>can take away your phone. If she doesn't have a phone,

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<v Speaker 1>make it screen time. I'm sure she loves the most.

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<v Speaker 1>Whatever you take away, it's got to be a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit hurtful. It's got to hurt a little bit. Yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>take it away, take a couple of hours away at night,

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<v Speaker 1>or take it away altogether. I mean, I'm all about that,

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, parents are so scared of their children

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<v Speaker 1>not on screen time anymore. Like, okay, I'd take it

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<v Speaker 1>away completely. What will they do. I'm like, well, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know what the funk we did, which was not

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<v Speaker 1>be on our screens, but Yeah, you have to instill

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<v Speaker 1>Like I mean, she's doing that because she can get

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<v Speaker 1>away with it, So stop letting her get away with it. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>problem solved. Okay, and our last email comes from Darla.

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<v Speaker 1>Dear Chelsea. I'm a forty three year old single mother

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<v Speaker 1>of two. I recently had a third child as a surrogate.

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<v Speaker 1>Well before that, I was married in a loveless, sexless

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<v Speaker 1>marror of ten years, and in between the marriage and

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<v Speaker 1>the surrogacy, I was in a five year relationship with

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<v Speaker 1>a struggling musician. Before I met the musician, I had

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<v Speaker 1>never really enjoyed sex. When we came together, I was

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<v Speaker 1>in my late thirties and had the first of many, many,

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<v Speaker 1>many orgasms with that guy. I really feel like he

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<v Speaker 1>saved me, and I feel like he was my true

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<v Speaker 1>first love. As much as he says he wanted me

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<v Speaker 1>and the kids to be his family, he never really

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<v Speaker 1>blended well when we were all four together. I've always

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<v Speaker 1>struggled with low self esteem, but I feel like I've

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<v Speaker 1>overcome that to a large degree simply by getting older.

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<v Speaker 1>But now, after having had three vaginal births and tearing

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<v Speaker 1>pretty much the whole caslapis in this last delivery and

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<v Speaker 1>completely wrecking my breasts with nursing and pumping. Think rocks

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<v Speaker 1>and socks. Do I go back to the guy who

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<v Speaker 1>I know isn't right but loves me and accepts my

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<v Speaker 1>body we have unreal sexual chemistry. Or do I roll

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<v Speaker 1>the dice and maybe go online for dating. I've never

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<v Speaker 1>done that, By the way, I definitely want to partner,

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<v Speaker 1>not casual random sex. Thanks Darla. I thought you said

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<v Speaker 1>she's had her third child with a surrogate. She was

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<v Speaker 1>the surrogate. Oh, she was a surrogate for someone else. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>so she's has two of her own children, okay, not three? Okay.

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<v Speaker 1>So she's asking if she should go back to the

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<v Speaker 1>guy that she has great sex with right but like

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<v Speaker 1>not doesn't really jell with her with the family, or

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<v Speaker 1>whether she should go online and find she should go

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<v Speaker 1>and find someone else. She's got to find someone that

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<v Speaker 1>accepts her family. I think he well, yeah, ay, and yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>you have to find somebody who's like perfect all the

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<v Speaker 1>way around, and he's got all the qualities that you're

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<v Speaker 1>looking for, not one of them. Sexual chemistry is only

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<v Speaker 1>one component of a relationship. Don't settle. We've been talking

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<v Speaker 1>about this NonStop. Do not settle for anything less than

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<v Speaker 1>what you deserve, and you decide what you deserve. And

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<v Speaker 1>if you think that that's all you deserve is a

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<v Speaker 1>good sexual chemistry partner, then then that's all you're gonna get.

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<v Speaker 1>But I would say to set your standards a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit higher and desire someone that's going to come in

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<v Speaker 1>except your family for what it is and how many

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<v Speaker 1>people there are, and be able to contribute in a

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<v Speaker 1>meaningful way. Maybe they'll even have some family of their

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<v Speaker 1>own that they're bringing to the table. And don't settle

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<v Speaker 1>until you find exactly what you're looking for. Also, the

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<v Speaker 1>language that she uses around her body like that, to

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<v Speaker 1>me is like thing number one to deal with. Like,

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<v Speaker 1>obviously this other guy thinks you're crazy hot. Someone else

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<v Speaker 1>will think you're crazy hot. But I think you've got

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<v Speaker 1>to fix some of the stuff that's going on inside

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<v Speaker 1>and what happens when you look at yourself in the mirror,

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<v Speaker 1>because I mean saying like, oh, my my breasts are

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<v Speaker 1>rocks and stocks, like it just hurts my heart for her, Like,

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<v Speaker 1>do some looking in the mirror and talking to yourself

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<v Speaker 1>about how beautiful you are, even if it feels cringe

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<v Speaker 1>e and fake and bullshit at the beginning. Do it.

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<v Speaker 1>It will change the way you see yourself, Like get

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<v Speaker 1>giggly and excited when you look at your yourself, even

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<v Speaker 1>if it feels like lying to yourself, be like, oh

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<v Speaker 1>my god, I look amazing today. There is something that

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<v Speaker 1>it does in your psyche that when you do start

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<v Speaker 1>dating again, people are going to be so attracted to

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<v Speaker 1>that that like positive radiant energy you have because you're

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<v Speaker 1>psyched about yourself and they'll be psyched about you too.

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<v Speaker 1>Confidence is everything, too, have confidence in yourself and and

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<v Speaker 1>know who you are. And yeah, don't settle, don't go back,

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<v Speaker 1>look forward, look for someone new. Also, yeah, I sorry

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<v Speaker 1>I skipped over that, Katherine. Thank you for bringing that though,

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<v Speaker 1>Like it does feel like the timing isn't necessarily right

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<v Speaker 1>for you to be like that to be your sole

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<v Speaker 1>mode of operation is finding a man. Maybe you should

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<v Speaker 1>spend a little bit more time with yourself and your girls,

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<v Speaker 1>Like you've been through a lot. You just had another

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<v Speaker 1>baby for somebody else, Like that's a lot, So I

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<v Speaker 1>think you should take a time out and like reinvest

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<v Speaker 1>yourself and yourself and your girls and your family or sorry,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. If you have boys or girls, but

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<v Speaker 1>in your family and and yeah, find the value in

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<v Speaker 1>yourself and do a little inside work before you start

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<v Speaker 1>to look for you know, another external factor to bring

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<v Speaker 1>into your family dynamic. Yeah that's really good. Well fill

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<v Speaker 1>us in. Let us know how it goes, Starla, keep

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<v Speaker 1>us posted. Yeah, let us know. Well, let us know

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<v Speaker 1>what develops and what doesn't develop. Yes, well, let's take

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<v Speaker 1>a quick break and we'll be back with Colleen and Chelsea. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>we're back from our break. Colleen and I were gonna

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<v Speaker 1>have a snack, but she's not eating anything bad, so

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<v Speaker 1>we didn't have one. And now we're here we're just

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<v Speaker 1>having water. Yeah, it's so great. How many meals do

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<v Speaker 1>you have a day? Three? Or do you allow yourself? Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>this is I'm going to tell people what I eat

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<v Speaker 1>because a lot of people have been contacting me on

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<v Speaker 1>Instagram and stuff asking what I'm just gonna tell you

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<v Speaker 1>what I eat for breakfast, I have two hard boiled eggs.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it. For lunch, I have chicken salad. I make

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<v Speaker 1>chicken salad with a little mayo, and I eat Keto bread,

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<v Speaker 1>so I make like a little Keto sandwich. That's lunch

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<v Speaker 1>and then I eat a Keto bar from Costco. It's

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<v Speaker 1>like a little chocolate keto bar, and I have that

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<v Speaker 1>in between, and then for dinner, I have the Factor

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<v Speaker 1>meal or I go to CPIK and get my special

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<v Speaker 1>salad that I get at c p K. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't eat out all that often. My husband and

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<v Speaker 1>I are both on this diet, so we're you know,

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<v Speaker 1>but yeah, that's pretty much what I eat, and so yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't cheat. If I cheat, it's a keto dessert.

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<v Speaker 1>So Colleen, Yes, we also love when our guests ask

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<v Speaker 1>for a piece of advice from Chelsea. So is there

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<v Speaker 1>anything you'd like to ask Chelsea about? Well, I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>ask Chelsea a question about health because I really admire

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<v Speaker 1>and now she has Ben Bruno. You've got a trainer.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't have that, but but I your body's a

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<v Speaker 1>main thing. Thank you and your pictures in your bikinis.

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<v Speaker 1>I I'm like, okay, my goal. I've never worn a

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<v Speaker 1>bikini ever ever, so my goal is to look good

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<v Speaker 1>in a bikini. It doesn't have to be perfect. But

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<v Speaker 1>I got the pooch still, I had a baby, I

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<v Speaker 1>have the belly. I want to know how I can

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<v Speaker 1>tone my stomach. What exercises I can do at home

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<v Speaker 1>to just give me. I hate sit ups? I hate them,

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<v Speaker 1>so please don't tell me sit ups. But something I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know what to do to tone the stomach muscles,

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<v Speaker 1>to make me. You know, I don't have any definition yet,

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<v Speaker 1>So okay, I will tell you what I what my

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<v Speaker 1>experience has been. I with your diet that you're eating,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know how long you go without eating food.

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<v Speaker 1>Is it like three to four hours or is it

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<v Speaker 1>five to six? Like? What is it? I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like two hours, I'll eat, I'll eat a bar.

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<v Speaker 1>So okay, So I would say to try this every

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<v Speaker 1>so when I get my leanness, Like if I have

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<v Speaker 1>a photo shoot, this is what I do. I eat

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<v Speaker 1>and then I set my alarm and in between three

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<v Speaker 1>you have to wait three to four hours and then

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<v Speaker 1>I eat again. It could be something small, it could

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<v Speaker 1>be a full meal, whatever, but every three to four

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<v Speaker 1>hours to feed your body is how you get the

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<v Speaker 1>remaining last five pounds off. And you don't have to

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<v Speaker 1>do sit ups because as soon as your ribs, like

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<v Speaker 1>as soon as I start doing that, my fat just starts.

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<v Speaker 1>Because you need the fat to burn the fat, right,

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<v Speaker 1>so you can't deprive yourself a fat. So what you're doing,

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<v Speaker 1>your plan is working. But I would just say time it.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't eat every two hours, eat every three to four

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<v Speaker 1>hours with student wherever you're hungry between those three to

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<v Speaker 1>four hours, and see if that makes a difference, because

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<v Speaker 1>that's a way to kick start your metabolism. And that's

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<v Speaker 1>to have to get ready for anything, okay, because there's

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<v Speaker 1>like that last you know, five pounds and it's and

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<v Speaker 1>I have I've had a baby, whatever, but I mean

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<v Speaker 1>it's I'm not bikini ready yet, so I would like to,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, put on my bikini too and feel good

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<v Speaker 1>in it. Us feel good. And even if you're not

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<v Speaker 1>hungry with the three or fours, I know you will

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<v Speaker 1>because you eat pretty consistently, right, Like if you need

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<v Speaker 1>to split it up, Like the more you can do

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<v Speaker 1>that throughout the day, the more meals you can have,

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<v Speaker 1>the better. Like five small meals is better than four

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<v Speaker 1>small meals because it just keeps burning your fat and

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<v Speaker 1>it gets in there to those areas that are hard

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<v Speaker 1>to lose. So yeah, I'm doing it right now. And

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<v Speaker 1>I mean I can already tell I've lost body fat

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<v Speaker 1>and I've been doing it. It It takes you'll see a

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<v Speaker 1>difference in four or five days. But I wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>hear what happens with that with the diet thing too.

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<v Speaker 1>So you'll see a post and I'm keen and I'll

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<v Speaker 1>tell you, yeah, exactly Fitness for Life Chelsea Hammer. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>do you want to plug any socials or anything? Colleen?

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<v Speaker 1>That's fine, Colleen, What am I? I don't even know.

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<v Speaker 1>She tried to get the handle dumb dumb. She's like,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not on Instagram or anything, and she's like, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>gonna get the handle, dumb dumb on Instagram. Colleen underscore Saragosa.

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<v Speaker 1>There you go. There you go. You can follow me

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<v Speaker 1>there or ask me any questions and I'll get back

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<v Speaker 1>to you. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you.

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<v Speaker 1>This was so much fun, so much fun. I'm so

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<v Speaker 1>glad you came. Thank you, Colleen, Thank you, Gathrie. Where's

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<v Speaker 1>Joe Koy because I need to meet him here. Oh

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<v Speaker 1>my goodness, I said, I need to shake the hand

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<v Speaker 1>of the man. Okay, stand up dates. I have Winnipeg

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<v Speaker 1>coming up March tenth and March eleventh. There are still

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<v Speaker 1>tickets to the second show, which I believe the second

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<v Speaker 1>show was added on the tenth. Yes, we have two

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<v Speaker 1>shows coming up in Toronto March twelve. You can get

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<v Speaker 1>tickets to the late show still for that, and then

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to Ottawa, and then I picked back up

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<v Speaker 1>in Cedar, Rapids, Des Moines and Omaha April fourteen fift

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<v Speaker 1>and then every weekend and through July. So pick your

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<v Speaker 1>tickets up, go buy them at Chelsea hand the dot

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<v Speaker 1>com and you'll see me on my People's Choice Award

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<v Speaker 1>winning comedy tour, the best tour of one and even

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<v Speaker 1>though it's I consider it to be the best tour

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<v Speaker 1>of two as well. Thank you also for tickets to

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<v Speaker 1>Vancouver and Calgary. I really apologize for all the changing

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<v Speaker 1>of dates, but now the Grammys have been rescheduled for

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<v Speaker 1>the day that I was going to reschedule my Vancouver dates.

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<v Speaker 1>And I don't get nominated for Grammys very often people,

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<v Speaker 1>so I have to go to those. So we are

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<v Speaker 1>rescheduling again the Vancouver and Calgary dates. They are most

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<v Speaker 1>likely to be rescheduled in August. But you can always

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<v Speaker 1>check my website we will update or Instagram or Twitter.

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<v Speaker 1>We updated all the time and as soon as we

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<v Speaker 1>have those dates locked in, you will hear about it,

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<v Speaker 1>so my apologies and any tickets you have will be

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<v Speaker 1>honored for those new rescheduled dates. And if you like

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<v Speaker 1>to get advice from Chelsea and one of her guests,

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<v Speaker 1>please write into Dear Chelsea Project at gmail dot com