บทถอดความฉบับเต็มของ Eat the frog first, and more helpful tips for a great 2021 with Lindsay Dickhout

there's four chairs together right there in front of the pool. Can't we have those by now? It's like eleven thirty And he goes, oh no, no, these people came down early this morning and resume those. To make a long story short, I will tell you even at four o'clock, those people never came. Oh jeez, never came. And so you're going like, all right, but I mean, like I said, these poor people, they're working so hard and they're so understaffed, and it's the first time opening, and they really, I think just were not ready. It was the service was very slow and it wasn't even like full. 00:06:28 Speaker 3: So did they end up squeezing chairs in for you guys? 00:06:31 Speaker 2: They were so kind and they ended up getting us four chairs you know, over to the left, like where we liked to sit. They totally took care of us, and you know, it was fine, but it was funny the day we left, and then the next day they set up the same chairs for us, which was nice. And then the day we left, Nancy and Mike went back to the pool and they said, oh, you can sit there, but it's windy so we can't put the umbrella up. And they go, okay, then we'll sit over there. They move over there, and literally ten minutes later someone sat in those chairs and they put the umbrella up. 00:06:59 Speaker 3: Oh man, and. 00:07:00 Speaker 2: They were like, okay, very well. 00:07:03 Speaker 3: The beach chair thing is the pool chair thing is so hard. 00:07:07 Speaker 4: It's so tricky at resourts, Like some resorts will let you reserve, but then if you don't go for you know, thirty minutes or so, they'll move this stuff. I feel like there's no good answer because you also can't be like a squatter, because that's what a lot of people will go at seven am and put their stuff down and then, like you say, they could go adventure all day and then just come for the end of the pool day. 00:07:27 Speaker 3: What is the answer for what resorts need to do for the pool chairs. 00:07:31 Speaker 2: I think that there just really needs to be whatever their policy is it just needs to be clear, like if you want, if you want, if it's first come, first serve, and you want people to get up and reserve, yeah, there has to be a time limit. You have to be down there within an hour or so. I don't think it's fair to to like you're saying, to squat on a bunch of chairs when there's lots of people that want to be honest with you, If the option is available and you can afford it and it's not a fortune, if there's a I always try to get a cabana just so you have a parking place and you don't have to worry about it and you can rush your things. But it can be super expensive or maybe I mean I know it like Grand Wa Lea in Hawaii where they have all the water slides and everything. If you don't know where your cabana is, it could be so far away from anything you're doing it wasn't even worth the money. So there's kind of That's what I like to do when I get to a hotel the first day when we arrive, I like to go. If I don't know the hotel, I like to go to the pool, look around, find out. I will always talk to, you know, the person that's like the manager at the pool, and say, how does it work here? Do you have to come down first thing? 00:08:42 Speaker 3: Do you have enough chairs? 00:08:43 Speaker 2: Can you make a reservation for chairs? Because to me, that would be the best if they have a map of the pool, wouldn't it be nice just to reserve those things in advance? 00:08:52 Speaker 3: So it's not an issue, yeah, because it really is. 00:08:56 Speaker 4: You know, you travel somewhere and you spend a lot of money and then to get down there, I mean, thank goodness they accommodated you. But I've been in those situations to where you're kind of out of luck and you know, you're so you know, sitting somewhere super inconvenient, and it just seems like, you know, well that's off balance. 00:09:12 Speaker 3: We just traveled all this way and spent all this money. 00:09:16 Speaker 2: There was a pass it where we thought about checking out that first day. Oh well, I mean it was so outrageous. I mean just imagine. So all right, so we're at the adult pool. Okay, so there's not like, you know, kids running around, I mean it's just adults. It's not full, and there's tons and tons and tons of empty chairs, and it's eleven thirty, and the first place they put Mike and Nancy was like like literally staring at a wall with their back to the water. And I'm going, but and tons and tons of empty chairs. Listen if all the other cheers were taken and people were sitting in them and you just got down there too late, Okay, that happens. I know this sounds so obnoxious, but like you're you're spending a lot of money, you're traveling there, You're you know, you expect a certain level of service and whatnot. Anyway, they did eventually give us some very nice chairs and we ended up having a nice time. That's not my favorite pool at that hotel, though it never has been. I think it's too small. 00:10:16 Speaker 3: It is small, but that's the one with the swim up bar, right. 00:10:18 Speaker 2: Yes, that's the one with the swim up bar. But I have to say the whole vibe of the place was just very different this time. I like Lesbiontanas because it's very quiet. 00:10:28 Speaker 4: It's just so like serene and relaxing. It is a full checkout and unwind. 00:10:35 Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is. And I think I really like that. I'm not like a Vegas pool party. I mean I've done it before. I don't not like it, but it's not really my scene and certainly not what we were going for. But there was a lot of like I have to say, like, there was a whole group of girls that I think we're doing a bachelorette thing or something, and you know, we really keep to ourselves, obviously because of COVID. I mean, in general we would Everyone was definitely wearing masks. I didn't feel unsafe in that kind of way. But yeah, it was just okay. I don't think they were ready to open. Having said that, we had a great time. We

did try some new restaurants. We went to camal Over at Schilano Bay, and we had been there before you had. 00:11:16 Speaker 1: We had. 00:11:18 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the same place. I was thinking. It's a really cool hotel, Like the lot is so modern and pretty. Even if you don't eat there, it's a really great place to have a drink. It's really beautiful. 00:11:27 Speaker 3: And how was the dinner. 00:11:29 Speaker 2: The dinner was fabulous. We got the chicken for two that takes an hour. Yep, best chicken ever. I liked it. I think that place is very pretty. I mean, would I run back there, I don't know. Would. I. I liked it. It didn't didn't really have a pulse though. When we went there last time there was a wedding going on, so there was like lots of activity and you know, it was just very festive and everything. This was a little like quiet. But I liked it. And the food was spectacle killer. Their chef there trained with Thomas Keller, you know, from French Laundry, and he's he's It was amazing, so good, and. 00:12:10 Speaker 3: Then things are just weird with COVID. 00:12:12 Speaker 4: When we went not too long ago, there was a full pulse like DJ outside pulse, like you were like this, it really had energy. 00:12:20 Speaker 2: I think it also depends on what night you go. I mean we went on Thursday, but you want to something so weird, and I think maybe everyone's just figuring it out now. On Saturday night at the pool, they brought a DJ to the pool, like at five o'clock when everyone was leaving. It was very strange. It's like no music all day and then they started playing it. But the whole thing is very odd anyway, So we went there. Then instead of going to Flora, we went to acre or Ak and they might call it you're right, it was so cool. I loved it. I thought it was really neat. The food amazing. It was exactly what you said, like a total Miami vibe, cool DJ playing like ed M music, very santro Pei kind of deal. It was, and the place is just cool. 00:13:05 Speaker 3: I liked it. 00:13:06 Speaker 4: And when isn't it fun to go to new places since you've been to Cabo gazillion times, just to go to new places, not just go to the you know, the usual suspects. 00:13:15 Speaker 2: I would go back to Acre in a heartbeat. 00:13:17 Speaker 3: Lived Acre would be your top choice. 00:13:20 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I still love I don't know that I like it better than Flora. It's so different. I think I would tell you I like them equally, like I think for me, Flora Farms is just I love live music, and I love kind of how homespun it is, and it's it's sort of like chic and casual at the same time. I like all that, and I like the little shops and everything. I just like that whole experience. But Acre sexy. 00:13:44 Speaker 3: It is. 00:13:46 Speaker 2: It's really sexy and it's cool, and I like the table. It was really cool. I loved it. 00:13:50 Speaker 3: Would you ever stay in the Treehouse hotels that they the little treehouse hotel rooms that they have

there at Acre. Yeah, I didn't see. 00:13:58 Speaker 2: It was dark when we got there. 00:14:00 Speaker 4: But like you know that long path you walk down, if you go down the little paths, those are all like little tree houses. 00:14:07 Speaker 3: That's why I'm trying to get you to backpack through Caaba with me. Come on, three nights, three differents. 00:14:13 Speaker 2: Never happened art at. 00:14:14 Speaker 3: The tree house. 00:14:16 Speaker 2: So is there a pool there? What do you do there? 00:14:18 Speaker 3: That's a great question. I don't know. 00:14:19 Speaker 2: It feels very inland. 00:14:21 Speaker 3: Yeah it does. 00:14:23 Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't know. Maybe I'd love to see a picture of them. But it was cool. I really liked that place. And then on the last night we ate at Agua right there on campus, and we had heard that they were not ready to open, and the chef left to go to Acre. I think actually and blah blah blah, and I would agree with all that, but it is so beautiful to sit there that you know. The food wasn't great, but it was a great experience. I really liked it. And also that day a couple of our girlfriends were staying at my friend Christina's house, and so they were next door at Club ninety six and one of my girlfriends, Tanya, haven't seen in a few years, and so we popped over there and socially distance hung out with them and it was nice fun. 00:15:03 Speaker 3: That's fun. 00:15:04 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll take atmosphere over food sometimes. 00:15:08 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure. And we had had two really phenomenal meals, so it was like, okay, so it's not gonna be the best meal whatever. But then, I mean, Sunday, we were lazy and we went into town. We went into Juan Jose del Cabo because we liked that restaurant Tropicana, and it's a total old school, you know, restaurant that's attached this little boutique hotel. And they were so sweet. Anyway, I got it's like ninety degrees outside. I got chicken soup, like fresh homemade chicken soup with rice and it was so delicious and fresh tortillas, and we drank Margarita's and we went a little overboard, and then we flew home. And when we got home, it was early, and so we decided to watch the undoing. Have you seen it? Oh, oh my gosh, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant. I think only of the first three episodes are out, and we binged the first three episodes last night. 00:16:03 Speaker 3: Was it good? 00:16:03 Speaker 2: Oh it's phenomenal. Oh my god, it's so good. They are so brilliant. Nicole Kidman is so gorgeous, and it is so so good. It's a it's crazy. 00:16:16 Speaker 3: I can't wait. I need a new show. And you just you did all the episodes all in all in one. 00:16:22 Speaker 2: They only had they only had three. I mean, I think they're dripping them out. I don't know if they're dripping him out every week and I just caught it on the third week or what. But it's so good. It's like a thriller and it's just so good. 00:16:33 Speaker 3: Right, it's on the list. 00:16:35

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It's really really nice to see. 00:20:32 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:20:33 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think people are just used to it now, like people are in the groove now to where you know, I feel comfortable at least right now. 00:20:41 Speaker 2: Did you see all the news about the vaccine. 00:20:43 Speaker 1: No? 00:20:43 Speaker 3: I didn't. 00:20:44 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Pfizer says they got a vaccine, and Fauci says that the results seem to be incredible crazy, I know, So that could be in the next few months. Can you imagine how life would what life would turn back into with a viable vaccine. I wonder how quickly I'm going to say, things would go back to normal. But I still think there's a new normal. So there's not that, But you know what I mean, how quickly do you think? I wonder how long it would take to get vaccines to everyone and how quickly everyone would feel comfortable. I submit, it's still to the end of twenty twenty one. 00:21:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're right. 00:21:29 Speaker 4: I think a lot of people will be weary about it, so it doesn't become the answer for a lot of people in that way. And how available will it be? Yeah, and everyone's settled into. 00:21:40 Speaker 3: This new normal? What is the new new normal? 00:21:44 Speaker 2: It's interesting, I don't know or do people like do you get cocky when you now you have a vaccine? And how protective is it? Really, And is it like a flu shot where you know, you get you could still get the flu, but it's not as bad, or can you still be a carry And then I don't know, crazy, right. 00:22:04 Speaker 3: That's the thing. 00:22:05 Speaker 4: Yeah, because I mean I feel like a lot of people still get the flu with the flu shot. 00:22:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. 00:22:13 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:22:14 Speaker 2: And when I look at how we've traveled, like I said, these little trips we've done, we've got private and really stayed to ourselves and and you know, been as cautious as possible obviously, and doing the same for Thanksgiving and then staying home Christmas. Junior's I you know, it's just it's so odd. I wonder when people will travel travel. 00:22:34 Speaker 4: Like international trips and big trips. It's a really good question. 00:22:40 Speaker 3: I wonder. 00:22:42 Speaker 2: I still don't. I don't know if I feel comfortable getting on a commercial flight. 00:22:46 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:22:49 Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's hard because sometimes you you know, I've heard friends have said that they you know, they've booked their flights and they feel really safe and you know, they're not booking the middle seat, and then they get there and say, hey, we're overcrowded. 00:23:00 Speaker 3: We have to book every seat. 00:23:02 Speaker 4: If you're not comfortable book another flight, but then there's no guarantee that next flight won't be the same way. 00:23:09 Speaker 2: Very difficult to know what to do. And then you know, the other thing is, and Terry and I were talking about it last night, is that you know, when you have family members that are older, or you have people that in your life that are sick. We don't knock on wood, but I'm just saying, you know, but I do have relatives that I haven't seen in a long time, and I want to see them. But how do you weigh the you know, the risk to you, to them to other people, and then bringing it back to your kids and your family. I mean, it's just it's so hard to know what to do. 00:23:39 Speaker 3: There's just so much to navigate. 00:23:40 Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like you and I are fortunate that we don't have close family. 00:23:45 Speaker 3: Like a couple of young girls that work for me, they moved here from somewhere else. 00:23:48 Speaker 4: And they haven't seen their family in you know, coming up on a year now or what you know, nine months now, haven't seen their family. I just feel so fortunate that that's not our situation. Of course, we want to see our extended family, but you know, imagine seeing your mom and dad, you know, every other month. 00:24:03 Speaker 3: And then just not seeing them for so long. Oh, it's crazy. 00:24:06 Speaker 2: I haven't seen my mom and over a year. 00:24:09 Speaker 3: Oh is that right? 00:24:10 Speaker 1: Yes? 00:24:11 Speaker 3: Oh I didn't realize that. 00:24:12 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. And my aunt and uncle too, and they're all in New York, so I haven't seen anyone. And we thought about taking a trip, and then I was like, is that selfish? Because I want to see them? Is that exposing them? Is that fair? And then where do I how do I even see them? And now the weather's getting cold. It's just it's so hard to know. I don't know what the right answer is. 00:24:36 Speaker 3: And and you know, I'm kind of like thinking, all right, well let's wait and see. 00:24:40 Speaker 4: Now that the weather's getting colder more of a traditional flu season, is that what is this next phase? What are we entering into? Is it lightening up? Or are we going into another phase of it? 00:24:52 Speaker 3: I don't know. 00:24:52 Speaker 2: I have my Christmas lights up, but that's all you need. I just want to tell you. I put them up in October. I

should have posted it then, but they were they've been it's so nice, makes me happy. 00:25:02 Speaker 3: And they finished up. 00:25:03 Speaker 1: Mmm. 00:25:04 Speaker 3: Nice. 00:25:05 Speaker 2: It looks so good. My next door neighbor put theirs up to right after I did. I was like, yay, October lights. 00:25:11 Speaker 1: I love it. 00:25:13 Speaker 3: You were the first I know. I want to see a picture of it. 00:25:16 Speaker 2: You're like, I love it. What you decided to do about the holidays? What are you going to do? 00:25:21 Speaker 3: I mean, as of now, we're staying home, mellow and staying home. I'm going to do a lot lots of cooking. I usually do like half cooking for holidays and half. 00:25:30 Speaker 4: Ordering in just because you know we're usually traveling or you know things are crazy. But I'm going to cook everything homemade. 00:25:39 Speaker 3: Planning on bunkering back down. What about you, Jeff Heather, are you going to be no? 00:25:45 Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, you want to know something the universe is spoken because my Chef Heather outfit is gone. I don't know where it went. I don't know what happened, but I have literally, and you know how organized my house is. I literally have been through every cabinet, every drawer, and it is Chef Heather's outfit is gone. Now. I don't know that. To back up Halloween, I know I feel like it got put in a to go pile by accident. That's what I think. So if someone happens upon my chef heather outfit at a thrift store, please let me know. 00:26:24 Speaker 3: Give me one of the kids did it. 00:26:26 Speaker 2: No, I'm telling you it's gone because before I had Nicole do the one with my little knife my little monogram on it. I ordered another one, so I actually had more than one. I'm telling you they're gone, yeah, gone, gone and gone. I am pretty prepared this year. I have to say I'm pretty much done Christmas shopping. 00:26:46 Speaker 3: You're always done early. 00:26:49 Speaker 2: Yeah, but then you know I do that dumb thing at the end where I second guess everything and then I overbuy. I'm not doing that. I think. I really think what I did this year works and it's good and it's appropriate for the and I'm done. 00:27:02 Speaker 3: What a relief Like that's just so nice? Yeah, worry about it? 00:27:06 Speaker 4: Or do you worry that you'll see things that are new that come out closer to the holiday, like. 00:27:11 Speaker 3: I feel like I always I always do mine. 00:27:15 Speaker 4: I'm completely done by Black Friday because I just like the Black Friday sales and I but I'm completely done by Black Friday. 00:27:20 Speaker 3: But I don't like to do it too early. 00:27:21 Speaker 4: Because then if new things of this season come out, do people worry about that? 00:27:26 Speaker 2: The only time that I ever think that's a thing is with toys. With toys, I agree, because I think a lot of times like things come out on Black Friday, like they put out the hot new things, they release them right at the end, right. But when it comes to I don't know fashion or stuff like that, Like I'll tell you one thing I got Max. Okay, so Max, if you're listening, fast forward, So one thing I got Max is she really wants a typewriter. She really wanted like an old fashioned typewriter. So I did some research and I found such a cool it's a vintage. It works though, but it's a vintage typewriter and it's pale blue, and it's got it's heavy, and it's got a case on it, and it's an old fashion like you turned the thing and it comes with this little brush to clean the the keys and everything, and it's pale blue and it's so beautiful. And then I'm having to call I had a crest made for her, and I'm having to Cole put the crest and her name and a little name plate on it for her, And so that's like one of her gifts. So it wasn't a gazillion dollars, but it was like, but it's a really nice quality typewriter, that it's vintage and it's cool, and like, that's not gonna that doesn't come out at the last second. 00:28:43 Speaker 1: You know what I mean? 00:28:45 Speaker 3: Mm hmm. 00:28:47 Speaker 2: So I bought stuff for them that's either like sentimental or things that I know that they would really like or whatever, and that that aren't trendy. I'll put it that way, Like nothing thing I got any of them is really trendy. The only kid of mine that really fits in that category is Coco. 00:29:05 Speaker 3: Right last, the toys, the toys or the trending toys, or. 00:29:09 Speaker 2: She wants something new, Yeah exactly. 00:29:13 Speaker 4: But rather than that, you do not have that last minute mad dash stress where you're just buying to buy. 00:29:18 Speaker 3: No. 00:29:18 Speaker 2: And what I find is when I do the last minute dash, I always end up with stuff that no one uses. M I feel like, oh I should get that, I should get that, and then I get it and I'm like, that's so it's dumb. 00:29:30 Speaker 3: Yeah it didn't. 00:29:31 Speaker 4: Yeah, it wasn't as thought out as everything else, because you know, it's just thoughtful about thinking through how people would actually use it and would they appreciate it, what's right for this year. 00:29:41 Speaker 2: But the thing about it, and the thing about the little kids too, which I always think about, especially with Coco still, is that you know, with the other kids, if they open it up and it's like they don't need something to play with that minute. When you have little kids, they want to open something that doesn't need to be set up. They don't want to open the thing that takes four hours to put the tracks together or put it together before it They want something to play with right now. So that's always sort of my my thing with Coco is like trying to find what that thing is so she doesn't feel like, okay, no what because they ditch her right after we open presents. 00:30:15 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it makes sense. 00:30:17 Speaker 4: They're gonna go put their stuff away there, you know whatever, and she

wants to play with something new right. 00:30:23 Speaker 2: But I don't know now she's gonna be ten mm hmmm. 00:30:27 Speaker 3: So it's a transition time. 00:30:29 Speaker 2: It is, because I mean Stella really into toys. 00:30:32 Speaker 4: Toys, No, not herself, but she will she'll play with them because of the other little ones. 00:30:40 Speaker 2: No, I know, but when you get when you make a list for her. Do you think about toys now that she's ten? 00:30:47 Speaker 3: No? 00:30:49 Speaker 4: Again, you know, Coco kind of ages up because of her siblings, and Stella kind. 00:30:52 Speaker 3: Of ages down. 00:30:54 Speaker 4: So if I'm getting Presley something that it would that it would feel unbalanced if Selah didn't get this same thing. 00:31:00 Speaker 3: But if Stella was on her own, I wouldn't get it for her on her own, you know. 00:31:04 Speaker 4: I think the ten is kind of like the transitioning out of toys, at least for us. 00:31:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, because it kind of unless they love you know, there's some kids that just like love certain things, like they love hot wheels or they love dolls, and they just do for you know, until they're twelve thirteen. I know tons of kids like that. Mine weren't really like that. I think ten to eleven was like that switch And I don't remember if that's when sort of electronics became big also though, or if that's was just the age you know what I'm saying. 00:31:38 Speaker 3: Yep, probably a combination of both. 00:31:40 Speaker 2: Maybe a combination. Maybe that's when they started playing like with the Nintendo switch or the maybe I don't remember what the handheld game was at that time. 00:31:50 Speaker 3: It's interesting and did you ever figure out for Terry? Are you done with him too? 00:31:53 Speaker 2: Yes? 00:31:54 Speaker 3: Done with everyone? 00:31:56 Speaker 2: Yes? 00:31:57 Speaker 3: And what about other things like teacher gifts and and so. 00:32:01 Speaker 2: I thought about that because what I usually do every year is okay, so I make a big list and you know, everyone's on my list, and such a good idea because it's the same thing with the last minute grab items. Do it now, Especially if you're like Lindsay and you're really good at the Black Friday shopping, if you have your list in front of you, you could just at a price for each person. You could just take it off really, really efficiently. I think this year, first of all, I wonder how many last minute items they are going to be. There could be a ton, because I think because of COVID things were so slow that maybe now their things are production will come in, or it might be the exact opposite and there's not going to be a lot of new merchandise, right. I don't know. But when I went back and I made my list, what I usually do is, you know, especially for like people that work with us in our house, I usually buy something and then also give a bonus, I give money. But I feel like this year I'm just going to do money because I think it

would be more I think it's more appreciated this year, and to spend an extra whatever on a trinket rather than I don't know, what do you think? Do think people like to get a gift and money. Terry would say, no, just money. 00:33:10 Speaker 4: Craig would say the exact same thing. I like a gift and money. But Craig will always say, you know, I'll be building a teacher basket, you know, and putting in all their little favorite things in the dark chocolate. 00:33:20 Speaker 3: He's like, why are you just giving cash? I'm like, because it's a teacher basket. He's like, everyone just prefers cash that he would always say that. 00:33:27 Speaker 2: I know, but that's the thing. It's like, but I also believe that the teachers and everyone they love the thought of all that. I am just wondering that this year in particular, because I'm with you, something thoughtful and then the cash. But I just feel like this year in particular, everyone's lost so much and it's so hard for so many people that I'd rather spend. If I was going to give X and then the teacher basket was going to be forty bucks, I'd rather give X plus forty bucks. I agree, I just feel like this is that year. I feel like that is too And I also want to right, like, please don't feel obligated to write a thank you note, Like I would love for them not to feel burdened by that. 00:34:05 Speaker 4: I know, I agree, I agree, it's so kind, but I you know, we appreciate them so much. 00:34:13 Speaker 3: I feel like it's giving. 00:34:14 Speaker 4: Someone to do, like teachers always known, I'm giving you a gift. I don't want to put something on your to do list. 00:34:20 Speaker 2: Right, I don't want you to have to have a chore. We could put in self addressed stamped postcards like just I got the gift. Yeah. No, I think I'm just gonna do. I think it's just going to be money, and I think it makes it better for everyone and a little simpler this year and then for other people. I was going to give donations. 00:34:48 Speaker 3: That's a good idea because it used to. 00:34:50 Speaker 2: Be I mean I used to like send a basket, a big basket to like, you know, our agents or our attorneys or whatever. You know. You know, there's a lot of people in our world, right, yours two same thing, And I would always send bascuts. But this year, I think we're just gonna make donations. 00:35:06 Speaker 3: That's a great idea. That's a really great idea. 00:35:09 Speaker 2: I just think it's that it's I mean, we do every year, but I think in particular this year, I would just like to give more. 00:35:17 Speaker 1: This is Heather drew Bro's world. 00:35:23 Speaker 2: It is so hard to find the perfect food for your dog that's nutritious, meets all of their needs. I mean, I love my little guys, Georgie and Rocks. They're the cutest, sweetest thing ever. But you know what, I noticed, they weren't eating the food that had been recommended by the veterinarian, and so I was looking for something new. But I wanted to make sure it

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I've already done that, and I'm done, and and that's it simple. 00:37:32 Speaker 3: Yeah, I still always will. 00:37:35 Speaker 4: I like to have little things on hand, like as the kids closer, I'll pick out whatever my kind of favorite things are, and I'll pack up, you know, a dozen bundles of this and this, so when I go see you know, the girls I love to do my manicure pettic here, I'll give you know, like just those bundles that are good for you know, kind of little gifts people. You know that you wouldn't necessarily give a full gift cardtoon necessarily, but like just like those appreciation gifts I love doing. 00:38:00 Speaker 3: I love doing those. I just haven't figured out yet what those items are. 00:38:03 Speaker 2: You're so funny. I'm with Craig. I think I'm just doing money this year. 00:38:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, you're probably right. 00:38:10 Speaker 2: No, because I think what you do is very very thoughtful, and I think it's very appreciated and I think it's great. But I think for me this year, no gifts in that respect. 00:38:20 Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right. 00:38:20 Speaker 4: It doesn't feel like the year where all the offices need to be filled with all the gift baskets. 00:38:25 Speaker 3: Like my office, in my husband's. 00:38:27 Speaker 4: Office, it's i mean, we just get so many gift baskets and it's fun and it's fested and we hand it out to the employees and stuff. But you're right, it doesn't really seem like the year of the overcrowded offices with the massive gift baskets. 00:38:39 Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many people that I don't have food. I don't Yeah, I don't think we need baskets and baskets full of sweets, right. But you know, on the other hand, I hate to sound so unfestive about the whole thing and be such a grunch, but I just I feel like, like, let's help people this year. 00:38:56 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, it's true. I tried to. 00:39:00 Speaker 4: You had to do your idea for the Happiness Project where we do like a drive through thing, and they said, due to COVID, we couldn't bust in the kids. 00:39:07 Speaker 3: You knows, you. 00:39:08 Speaker 4: Can't put all the You can't put all the kids. How to get all the kids there in a distanced way? 00:39:15 Speaker 1: So what do you do? 00:39:17 Speaker 3: So the plan right now is to kind of do it. 00:39:19 Speaker 4: The opposite is to do the do more like you know, kind of party bus caravan to all the locations, give them all the gift baskets and gift bags, you know, kind of have people sponsor one kid at a time for the gift bags, and then if anyone wants to do, like, you know, the things that they would normally do at the booths, maybe someone will make, you know, fifty scrunchies and then at one location we'll hand out all the girls scrunchies or someone else, you know, like whatever people were going to. 00:39:46 Speaker 3: Do at the activity booths. Kind of make a to go version. 00:39:50 Speaker 4: So if it's a cookie decorating, we'll do, you know, have someone you know make fifty cookie decorating kicks and hand those out. 00:39:56 Speaker 2: So, oh, that's a great idea. Maybe we could do a mobile ba for photos. 00:40:01 Speaker 3: Yes, your thing is the backdrop thing. 00:40:04 Speaker 4: That's a great idea where we pop it up and you know, stay at Ecation for like an hour. And I was going to try to get like a Santa on board with us. 00:40:12 Speaker 3: So it feels like. 00:40:14 Speaker 4: Lots of jingle bells and it's still you know it just just trying to make it feel festive in a different way instead of feeling like a watered down, modified version of what it usually is. 00:40:26 Speaker 2: It's you're so amazing. I love this I love this event. It's so good. How many What year is this? 00:40:33 Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I think I started it before I had kids. I think this is gosh, this is like you're fourteen or fifteen. 00:40:40 Speaker 3: Wow, and it grown. 00:40:43 Speaker 4: So it's it's you know, it feels like such a bummer when there we have so many more kids this year that need help, that need help. I mean so many kids that that are in these shelters that weren't in the network at all before. So just having so many kids to help. But you know, maybe I always just trying to figure out, Okay, how could it be better? 00:41:03 Speaker 1: In a way. 00:41:06 Speaker 4: The good thing is is normally we have to

do it after the mall closes, so the event is so late from nine to midnight, so we're not we don't have time constraints like that, and we can go to these kids and give it all out. So I'm just trying to work on the logistics. If anyone has any great ideas of what we could do on the fly, please send them to me because I'm still trying to concept, you know, how we can make it so magical coming to their parking lot. 00:41:32 Speaker 2: How many different locations do you think you'll go. 00:41:34 Speaker 4: To I think spread it like I'm thinking maybe like four locations spread out over two days. No, sorry, four locations a day for two days, so eight total. So it'd be like on a Friday, like that last Friday of school in the afternoon, four locations, like an hour per location. Then like the following Monday, maybe an hour per location, four locations type thing. 00:41:56 Speaker 2: How many kids do you usually have? 00:41:58 Speaker 4: We usually have between five fifty and six hundred kids. Wow, I know it's a lot of kids. I mean, and each each kid gets a full packed gift bags in my warehouse, that's six hundred gift bags with twelve items. 00:42:11 Speaker 3: It's just a lot of stuff. And I just worry that people I don't know. 00:42:16 Speaker 4: I worry that people won't think to donate as much since be a big event, Like there's no big event to go to. Obviously we always have five hundred volunteers. We can't have five hundred volunteers due to COVID actually go. So I think people, you know, I don't want. 00:42:31 Speaker 3: I don't know. I got to. 00:42:32 Speaker 4: Figure out how to still engage people and make them realize that you know, donating items or don't like sponsoring a child really still impacts it even if they can't go to see it in person at the big event. 00:42:45 Speaker 1: Right. 00:42:46 Speaker 2: I remember one year we are a couple of years, but this one year in particular, when we're for Miracles for Kids, and I took the kids to go pack the bags of all the toys and they would what I thought was a really great way to engage people. And I don't know if you have too many families for this, but I feel like they probably had about the same amount. They would give you the family's name and say how many kids were in the family and the ages and everything, and that's how you would pack the toys. So we were like, actually in charge. You do it differently. You guys pack everything. But I'm saying, but we were in charge of packing each of the kids, like, oh, I've got a ten year old boy, Oh he'd like this, And you go to that pile and you put that toy in there. And it was a way of engaging them. But maybe even if it's virtual, I wonder if you connect people with people so it's not just hey, a kid needs your help, but it's like this. 00:43:34 Speaker 4: Kid needs your help, right, So it makes it very personal, very personal. 00:43:39 Speaker 3: You see, you're packing it for Oscar who's seven. Yeah, yeah, that would be a great way to do it.

There's just so much need, and you know, there's just so much need. 00:43:51 Speaker 4: I mean, we're just we're flooded with kids that need help, which is awesome, you know that we have so many people that want to participate in the program. 00:43:58 Speaker 3: It's just I don't know. 00:44:00 Speaker 4: I just wish maybe at some point that will be like my full time thing. I just wish I could because my team and I have my million dollar ten team does all the operations right so that we have to see our operating expenses. 00:44:11 Speaker 3: So it's just so much to manage. I just wonder if the logistics of that might be hard, trying to pair up every six all six hundred children with someone who's going to make their bag realistically in you know, in one month, you know, a month and a half. 00:44:26 Speaker 2: Much too much. 00:44:28 Speaker 4: But maybe maybe what I've done before is I do like a Google spreadsheet with all the things, and it's ever changing. 00:44:33 Speaker 3: So we will just go in and sign up, and the Google spreadshets always changing. 00:44:36 Speaker 2: Oh like a wedding registrate. 00:44:37 Speaker 4: Yes, you add it in and then it's and then it's gone. Maybe something like that because I think that so many people like you say, want to help. Yeah, I have to figure out how to make it easy for people to help, being you know, COVID aware. 00:44:52 Speaker 2: Have we even talked about Halloween? 00:44:54 Speaker 3: No, we have it. Oh Halloween, Oh. 00:45:01 Speaker 2: My god, it was so funny Halloween. Oh my god. First of all, did I have a costume? 00:45:07 Speaker 3: What I ended up being? You were Max on the first day of school? 00:45:10 Speaker 2: All right, I finally got my first day of school picture. 00:45:15 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:45:15 Speaker 2: I literally had no costume because I couldn't find my chef Heather out for now. That was gonna be my backup. So I went into Max's closet. I go, just give me that. 00:45:24 Speaker 3: That was really creative. 00:45:25 Speaker 4: I thought it was hilarious and all your faces. I was dying all the expressions of the first day of school photo. Did she think it was hilarious or laying. 00:45:34 Speaker 3: She? 00:45:34 Speaker 2: Well, Nikki thought it was hilarious. He and his friends were in the house when I got dressed, and his friend Cole was like, oh my god, missus Jabrow, I gotta take a picture with you. 00:45:42 Speaker 3: It was so funny. 00:45:44 Speaker 2: They thought it was funny. Sort of, sort of. She didn't think that the first day of school. Part of it was funny, by the. 00:45:51 Speaker 3: Way, but she said the outfit was funny. 00:45:53 Speaker 2: But we had such a great time at your house. Oh my god. It was just the weirdest. It's the weirdest year for everything. It's the weirdest year ever. 00:46:00 Speaker 3: It really is. But we modified it and we made it work totally. 00:46:04 Speaker 2: Oh my god. And your house and the it was so funny. I'm not gonna throw you in the US, but it was so funny. Oh my gosh. Here's the thing. I'm not going to tell the whole story. I'm just gonna tell you this. You have to understand that Lindsay is a perfect person. I mean perfect. She is organized. She does everything perfectly. She you are. Your makeup is always perfect, your hair is always perfect, your outfit's always perfect. You are perfect. So it's really nice for us mortals when something isn't perfect, it's great. It's so perfect. And so I'll tell part of the story. So Lindsay's garage was not very organized. Okay, okay, is that a good way. 00:46:46 Speaker 1: To say it. 00:46:47 Speaker 3: That's a very gentle, nice way to say it. 00:46:49 Speaker 2: So it's a little there's a lot going on in there right now, and so It was so funny because our friend Toddy walked in and was like, oh my god, because she doesn't have kids and she's not used to clutter. It was the funniest thing ever. And I couldn't stop laughing, and only because you're perfect. 00:47:06 Speaker 4: Well, that is very nice of you that you think of it like that, but obviously not you are. 00:47:12 Speaker 2: That's why it was so funny. We were like, it's like, you know, opening someone's whole closet when the company was coming in three minutes and you didn't know they were arriving. It was so funny. Oh my god, I love you so much and you were such a good sport. 00:47:26 Speaker 4: Until the next day when she group texted who wants to organize Lindsay's garage? 00:47:30 Speaker 3: And I sent an eye roll emoji, which. 00:47:32 Speaker 4: Was the nicer version by the way of the one I really wanted to send. 00:47:37 Speaker 5: Let just keep in mind that nice, sweet housekeeper who helps me all the time, and my only help was gone for one month, so the fact that the kids were like fed in the house did not burn down. 00:47:49 Speaker 4: I felt like a winner, and I didn't at all expect anyone to go into the garage. 00:47:53 Speaker 3: And then Craig has to do like a tour of his man area. 00:47:56 Speaker 4: I was like, well, everyone, get out of my garage and person I am complicated. I'm not that simple person who has like two pencils and puts them in the drawer. 00:48:04 Speaker 3: It's just not me. I just I have stuff. 00:48:07 Speaker 4: I'm crafting, I'm hot gluing like that's like the mad scientist area that no one's supposed to see. 00:48:13 Speaker 2: I totally get it. It's behind the curtain. But it was just so funny, and we had been drinking a little bit by that, so it was just like, oh my god. But I you know what I have to say. I love laughing like that. Just feel like, man, this year has been really devoid of like big hearty belly laughs, you know what I mean. And it was just nice because we've talked about this before. But we have a pod that we hang out with, and you know, I feel bad because I didn't post pictures from your birthday. I'm gonna post pictures from your birthday because we had such a great time. But every time I post a photo, I get a

ton of shit with people like where's your mask? And where's your this? And I want everyone to know I am very careful and I always have a mask on and I wash my hands and I sanitize. But just like my kids have a pod and they hang out with the same you know, group of friends, So we adults are doing the same thing. And I really think we're being appropriate and following guidelines and being smart. And when there's someone that's a fringe of my pod, like I don't sit near them, I don't go near them, I don't hug them, you know what I mean. We're just we're really thoughtful and careful. So I didn't post them, and then I realized I post pictures for Nancy's and then I thought, oh, I get because I was worried and when it was yours and so I don't know, you know, it's just really hard to know how to navigate it, how to do it right. And so I'm going to post pictures on your birthdays. We really had such a fabulous time and it was such a small group and it was outside and it was you know, the pod, and it was perfect and it was so fun. Even though my dress was the same color as my skin tone, and I really it's the it's not good, but thank god Greg takes a good photo. But you look so gorgeous, and it was so it was just so fun. 00:50:03 Speaker 4: It was so on both nights, Halloween and the birthday night were just they felt the same way. They felt like almost like effortlessly casual outside, laughing. 00:50:13 Speaker 3: Lots of food, lots of drinks. 00:50:15 Speaker 4: I know it's hard because I understand how it looks in a post, but I also get tired of putting like, you know, parentheses, masks, walking in masks, walking, you know, I completely understand how it seems, but I think at this point we know that everyone you know, hopefully is you know, being aware and doing their things, and I just don't want I just don't think we should have to, you know, give the disclaimer for every photo for the next year. 00:50:41 Speaker 2: I know, but then there's people out there that are COVID deniers or don't want to wear the mask, and that's not appropriate. So I don't want people to think that that's our deal, which it's not. But I would think they know us by now that you know we're being appropriate, an adult and safe. 00:50:58 Speaker 4: And I think there's just something to say about mental health, like, yes, would it be safer if we all stayed inside and the kids didn't have pods they hang out with, and we did neither. You know, COVID wise, yes, that would, but I mean, I just think that mental health is just as important. 00:51:13 Speaker 3: That's to me, that is not an option. 00:51:16 Speaker 2: Well, we also live in a lesson. You also have to understand that obviously there's different parts of the country that are feeling it differently. Where we live in Orange County, we're doing pretty well and we're not Our area isn't as dense as like being in Los Angeles. I mean, one of the reasons why we didn't end up going to Idaho for Thanksgiving is because it's bad in

Idaho. 00:51:36 Speaker 3: The numbers went up, right when you were the numbers. 00:51:38 Speaker 2: The numbers went up. They're they're busting people to hospitals and in Seattle I heard and you know, they're really having a tough time. And I certainly not only don't want to be in the middle of it, I don't want to bring it back. 00:51:49 Speaker 3: Mm hm. 00:51:51 Speaker 2: So you know that that was a consideration too. 00:51:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I know it's hard, but you're right. 00:51:58 Speaker 4: The laughs, we ah, the we need more of the last more last. 00:52:03 Speaker 1: You're listening to Heather do Brosworld. 00:52:10 Speaker 2: Support for today's episode comes from Progressive Insurance. Fun fact, Progressive customers qualify for an average of six discounts when they sign up for Progressive auto insurance. Discounts for things like in rolling in automatic payments, ensuring more than one car, going paperless, and of course being a safe driver. 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Because we do have this pod. I mean I literally went for months and months and months seeing as we all did. Nobody never went anywhere. And even the first time Terry and I went out to dinner, I saw you and we didn't even touch each other. We like waved from like eight feet away, and we knew we'd both been on complete lockdown for five or six months. We didn't even touch. I mean, we've been super careful coming in as but now that we do have our little pod, I'll tell you what I like about it. First of all, you really do realize who you'd like to spend time with. If we didn't already know that this, this has been very eye opening. I think for a lot of people. The other thing I would say is this, I mean, I've never been someone to sit at a table and like look around to see who else is there or you know, I think I'm pretty present, you know, in moments, but for some reason, because there's been such a lack of company that it's like it feels so special. 00:54:24 Speaker 4: Yes, totally everything. Every time we get together, it feels so special. You're right, and you'll laugh more and you know, yeah, especially because on Halloween. The way it turned out, it was just going to be. It was just gonna be One other family ended up not being able to come, so it was just gonna be you guys in us. And then a whole bunch of stuff had happened that day. It had been a rough day, and then the Bellows and the Olsen's basically came in their pajamas, which I love because you're right, everything's feels special. I bet you if it was any other year, we all are so overscheduled. Once you're in bed and you're cozies, you're not leaving. They had heard that kind of you know, some things that happened that day and it was stressing and things. 00:55:07 Speaker 3: Were now okay. 00:55:08 Speaker 4: They were like, oh, we're coming over, you know, like to your point of like everything feels special, you know those times when you're like, nip, I'm cozy, forget it. They both got there it got up and came over and we laughed and we just had so much fun. 00:55:21 Speaker 3: And you know, pre COVID everyone would have stayed in bed. 00:55:24 Speaker 2: Oh for sure. And I also find celebrations to be easier. You know, you and I even talking for months, like what do the holidays look like, what does this look like? What does that look like? And I guess we're figuring it out as we go along. But I kind of like the pared down, easier celebration. Although your house at a Halloween looks so great. Did you post pictures? You posted a few. You got to post your bar kart. 00:55:48 Speaker 3: I like, yeah, the bar cart's fun. I tell you, it's so good. 00:55:53 Speaker 4: But you're right, everything is a little bit easier because of the things that you you know that you can't do. 00:56:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, well so I am. 00:56:02 Speaker 1: So. 00:56:02 Speaker 2: I did put up my lights, and I am going to put up my holiday decorations. I'm doing. I have to get your opinion on something to fill our Advent calendars with. I'm doing a cool Advent calendar this year. Can't wait for you to see it. 00:56:15 Speaker 3: You're not doing You're not doing food this year? 00:56:20 Speaker 2: I guess some, but I was trying to. I don't know. I'm trying to figure that out. 00:56:25 Speaker 4: Each person in the family have their own calendar or is it a family This is a family calendar this year? Oh, open it up and there's something inside for everyone, yes? And is it a different something or the same something for everyone? 00:56:38 Speaker 2: Well, you know, typically when we do it. It's usually candy, and I usually do sort of a small one and it's like each little door drawer, you know, it's got like many things in it, so it's not like a big candy bar every day. It's like, you know, a mini you know, Reese's peanut butter copper, you know, something like that. But this one is a little larger than the one I usually do. So I was thinking about, I don't know, maybe doing items instead of that, but then it just

feels like a lot of gifts and I don't want to do that either. 00:57:08 Speaker 3: I say, then you're I mean that, I. 00:57:10 Speaker 2: Don't mean expensive stuff, but even still, like then it becomes junkie. It's like what we always talk about when we talk about goodie bags and stuff like that. 00:57:18 Speaker 3: Right, and then you're just getting trinkets just to fill it. 00:57:22 Speaker 2: Yeah, so I have to I haven't really. I gotta work on that today now that I'm back in town. 00:57:26 Speaker 5: M h. 00:57:27 Speaker 2: That's one thing I do. But I'm gonna put up when you gonna put up your Christmas. 00:57:30 Speaker 3: Decorations after the birthday this weekend. 00:57:35 Speaker 4: After Stella's birthday is this weekend, so after that, they don't want the house like half put up. 00:57:41 Speaker 2: Oh, yes, Senorita Lindsay is having a party. 00:57:47 Speaker 4: Man, it feels like such a busy time of year. Yes, we're having a fiesta. And she wants to play the among Us game in real life. So good luck to me to figure out how to play the YouTube game. 00:57:58 Speaker 3: And every time I. 00:57:58 Speaker 4: Say like, okay, I watch the YouTube video, I think you do it like this, She's like not at all like that. 00:58:03 Speaker 2: He you know, you know what, then how to do it? It's almost like hide and seek. 00:58:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, with someone's it. Yeah, someone's secretly it. 00:58:11 Speaker 4: Yes, but you're very smart for yours to hire the murdering Mystery company, so that way, it's just not a disaster. 00:58:17 Speaker 1: You know what. 00:58:18 Speaker 2: She was very clear. This was the first year she was super clear about what she wanted. And you know how, you get worried because if you plan these parties and you have to plan them in advance, but if you plan it too far in advanced, they change their minds. Yeah, and I was worried, but she has not, thank god, so far. We still have the months ago, which or three weeks, so she has not waivered. So yes, I got the company to do it, and you know again, it's like it's a small list and it's people that she's potted together with just the same thing you're doing. And I think, you know, it's a really good way to still let them have their celebrations and do it safely. 00:58:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, and all the. 00:58:58 Speaker 2: All the people will be masked also. 00:59:01 Speaker 3: The all the all the any vendors. 00:59:04 Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, I'm not doing vendors or anything like that. I'm not gonna do it. I mean, the only vendors are like the Murder Mystery people. But I think it's gonna be pretty simple, Like the kids are gonna come, they're gonna eat the murder Mystery that you could do two hours or ninety minutes. I'm like ninety minutes, and so I'm like, I don't know if they would make it for two hours, So they're gonna do ninety minutes. And I love the way they have it organized and everything. It's like in thirty minute increments how it works. And then they'll do you

know, dessert and cake and then off they go. 00:59:36 Speaker 3: Yeah, and the whole party is how long. 00:59:40 Speaker 2: I said? I think I said five thirty to nine, because I figure people don't really get there till six, you know, And then I thought they would eat ye, you know, for like forty five minutes, and then the game is ninety minutes, and then we would do cake and and all those show doesn't want a cake, but I mean dessert and handle or whatever. 01:00:02 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's perfect. 01:00:03 Speaker 4: And that's it, like a small group of kids mostly from school. 01:00:07 Speaker 2: Right, Yes, Stelle is the only one not from school. 01:00:11 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the way to do it. 01:00:14 Speaker 2: Oh that's not true. There's another girl too, two of them, but they're still in that same So then. 01:00:19 Speaker 3: What is your birthday look like in January? 01:00:22 Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not going to worry about it. I'm so I'm just not there. Yeah, we'll see what happens. Right now, I feel like and some you know, I've been talking for the last couple of weeks about all the nose and very stressful and everything, and now I've got this bounce back of this little trip, and I feel like, Okay, now I need to like get my kind of world back together. So I need to organize my business stuff. I need to just compartmentalize everything, and I need to, i don't know, just like figure out how I'm moving into twenty twenty one feeling successful because I really haven't been feeling that way lately, and I know so many people feel like that because of the pandemic, but also just because of whatever. And you know, I have some products I'm working in that seem to be going in a good direction and some that have died, and I want to resurrect it. I just feel like I don't want to say fuck it and wait till January second to pick all this stuff back up again, because I'm worried I'm going to feel the same way I do today after this weekend, which is all right, well, I'm going to ignore that stuff and worry about it after and then it never feels good to do that. And truth be told, I did organize everything before we left on the trip, so I didn't really do that on this trip, but I've done that before, and I hate the way that feels. Because you can fool yourself over the holidays, Like whether it's you know, you're gaining weight, or you're spending too much money or whatever, it is destructive kind of behavior that you're doing to yourself that might not be terrible, but it's just you know, you wake up after the holidays and then you go, oh, it's like a load of bricks on your head and you feel like if to climb out of this hole and everything, I don't want to do that. 01:02:08 Speaker 4: It's hard because the holidays are so I mean, even there's just so many things you have to do. There's the you know, the things with school, like there's just so many things. Even with events canceled, there's still so many things. It's easy, like you say, to get caught up and just wait till wait, till the beginning of the year. 01:02:24 Speaker 2: Don't do it. If you want to go on the diet, go on the diet now. If you want to, you know, get your life together and organize yourself, do it now, do it all now. That way you feel good. It's like how I clear out my emails before the trips. It's like you feel so good going into the situation. So so that's going to be my plan. I feel like between for the next two weeks before Thanksgiving happens, I think that's what my plan is to really I have to organize a bunch of things with my house that I'm building and these projects I'm working on, and with the podcasts and changes we're making and all that kind of stuff. And I just want to That's that's my plan. And even with the kids, I want to make sure. By the way, they just bumped the s the ACT again. Really yes, they were supposed to take it in December and they just bumped it to February. 01:03:21 Speaker 3: Wow, I know. 01:03:23 Speaker 2: So it's like, you know, every time I feel like we've got a plan for something and then you know, and I know it sounds crazy, but to organize like they take they go to those tutors for the ACT because you know, you have to they teach you how to take the test. It's so important. But you know, you try to backplan or you're taking the test here, so let's do the tutor here and here, and it's you know, it's kind of expensive, and so you do it you know appropriately, but you don't want to do it too far in advance. And they have regular school work to do too. Oh my gosh. So that's the whole thing. 01:03:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, change the whole plan. 01:03:57 Speaker 2: So it changes the whole plan. So now I got to reconfigure out. So anyways, so my point is that is going to be my goal, and that's how I'm making myself feel better today instead of sort of drowning in the coogmire. That is all the stuff I need to do. I am making a pledge to myself to take the next two weeks and really just organize everything mentally, physically, figuratively, all of it. 01:04:24 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's a good thing to do because it's before we get into the real the holidays. You know, you don't want to be having this conversation with yourself two weeks before the end of the year when businesses are shut down, things are not moving and you just don't have as many options, you know, think about it, think about right now, like it's getting towards the end of the year to make the changes you want to do. 01:04:47 Speaker 2: Yeah, and even if even if it's something you can't do today, maybe you have to wait till January, but you have to plan for it, you know what I'm saying. Like, even you know, when I go on a trip or whatever, I clear out the emails and I get all this stuff done. But if there's I can't do beforehand, I will purposefully put it on my calendar for the following Tuesday and then Thursday, so it's not overwhelming on the Monday when you get back, so it's not you know, you have time to

handle and spread it out a little bit. Nothing better than checking things off a list. 01:05:17 Speaker 4: You're very good at, not procrastinating like you're very good about. I was recently like kind of hit a roadblock where I felt like I have my to do list, but I would kind of pick the easy things, like I was staying busy. 01:05:30 Speaker 3: But then you know, I kind of skimmed through the like a like a like a the book. 01:05:37 Speaker 4: It was a summary of the book Eat the Frog, and it's basically like, get up and eat the frog. 01:05:42 Speaker 3: Do your hardest thing first, whatever. 01:05:44 Speaker 4: Takes the longest likely to Sometimes it doesn't even take long, it's just you're procrastinating on it. 01:05:49 Speaker 3: Maybe you you know, need to make a. 01:05:50 Speaker 4: Sales call that you're just like, you know doesn't it's like the last thing you want to do, whatever it is. But it really resonated with me. Just wake up and eat the frog. Do the thing you're procrastinating on. Do the thing that you really need to do to move the needle. But like, sometimes we keep ourselves busy, Like I'll be busy all day, but then I'll look at what I did. I like, yeah, I responded to all these emails, I did all these up, but I didn't move the needle on any of my main objectives exactly one hundred percent. 01:06:17 Speaker 1: This is Heather du Bro's world. 01:06:23 Speaker 6: Support for this podcast comes from Pluto TV. Ready to get away from it all? Free yourself with Pluto TV stream hundreds of channels and thousands of movies and shows all for free. Yeah free, no contracts, no subscriptions, no fees. Imagine twenty four to seven channels of Narcos, CSI, Star Trek, Survivor, and everything else from hit movies to binge worthy TV shows, the latest news, live sports, comedy, and more. 01:06:48 Speaker 2: What are you waiting for? 01:06:49 Speaker 6: Download the free Pluto TV app for Android or iPhone and start watching now. Pluto TV drop in watch free. 01:06:58 Speaker 1: This is Heather du Bros. Here's head there. 01:07:05 Speaker 4: You're good about whatever's on your to do list for that day, you get it done. 01:07:08 Speaker 3: I feel like you have mastered eating the frog. 01:07:11 Speaker 2: Uh usually, But I have those moments too, and I have to fight against that because I was a huge procrastinator, and I'm the person who would have to clean my room before I'd start studying. That's the biggest procrastination in the world. That's why my house is so organized. Trust me, I know how to procrastinate, but but yeah, I do not how to eat the frog. I I remember there was this It was this story. I remember the Rabbi told ones when the kids were a preschool and he was talking about a jar and about and their rocks, and he put at the end of the story was gotta put the big rocks in first. Okay, put the big rocks at first, and the mediums, and then when you get to the little baby rocks, it fills in the cracks and everything. But if you start with the baby rocks, the big ones don't fit in. So you can spend to your point so much time with all the minutia. But you feel like, all right, well I tick twenty seven things off my twenty nine thing list. But those two things, like you're saying, either move the needle or or now you're gonna lose sleep tonight because they're still weighing on your mind because you didn't get them done. So right before I left for Cabo last week, I had something I needed to get done. I thought I had till this week to get it done. But this guy that I'm working with he called and he was like, hey, do you have that paper, and I was like, crap and so and it was something that was difficult to do and and had I had to put myself out there and had to write this whole thing, and had these photos of doing this whole thing, and I went, I went, okay, I just need to get it done. So I printed all this. I literally like I was sitting right here at this desk and I went, okay, you you are overthinking this. You just need to do it. 01:08:50 Speaker 1: So excuse me. 01:08:52 Speaker 2: I printed out all these similar things I had done before for different shows that have worked on, and I printed them all out and I put them all over and I like took a piece of this and took a piece of that, and then I rewrote the whole thing, and then I edited it and I fixed it and no, no, no, finally got it together, sent it off to Greg Ca. I go, can you add pictures for these pictures for me on this thing? And done? 01:09:13 Speaker 3: Awesome? 01:09:14 Speaker 2: But I mean it, but you have to force yourself to do it. It's like the same thing as working out. Like you know, I went through a period of time where I had stopped working out. In the last few months we talked about this, I'm out of my routine and whatever. So now I won't even let myself sit down for a second. I literally, if I go into the gym, I the first thing I do is I pull out the mat, I pull out the weights, I pull out the ankle, I pull out everything I need, and I just keep moving. Turn on the Tracy Anderson. We immediately turn it on, don't. I don't. I pit the play and I just go right Because you can't give yourself the opportunity to progress it. You can't give yourself the opportunity to take the easy way out, and you and when you do progress it, you don't get it done. And that's why I stopped working out, because I can pushing it off to the afternoon and then oh, well see I ran out of time. 01:10:04 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it would. 01:10:05 Speaker 4: It happens most times for me when I'm like, I just can't do it, I'll be late. I'll do it in the afternoon, and then the day goes and you and I are just morning workout people, like I think a lot of people are. If you don't get it in the morning, it's very tough. 01:10:18 Speaker 2: I agree, but I totally agree with doing the hard thing first, and it sucks to do the hard thing first. But when you do that thing, oh my god, you feel so much better, and then it's actually just

easier. 01:10:30 Speaker 3: Yeah. And in the other stuff, I think oftentimes you dread something. 01:10:33 Speaker 4: I know, for me, it's like fifteen minutes, I'll be like, oh, I do not even want to do that, or you know, you make it to be something bigger or like suck. 01:10:41 Speaker 3: More in your mind. But then once you do it, you just feel so good. 01:10:44 Speaker 4: Even if you only got that one thing done in a day, you just feel so good, and it can be so quick. 01:10:50 Speaker 3: Better lately about prioritizing, like what is it. 01:10:52 Speaker 4: I really need to do, not just you know, thinking I'm moving the needle because I'm doing you know, attending to emails and all the other stuff. 01:11:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, because busy work, it doesn't push you forward. It just doesn't. And I do, like I said, I like to cross things off the list, and I like to get the list done. But at some point, if the list really doesn't make a difference in your life, who cares? 01:11:14 Speaker 3: It's true, that's so true. You know. 01:11:17 Speaker 2: It's funny because I remember, like I think it was a couple of weeks ago, Terry came home and he was like, would I go, oh, this day, he goes, what'd you do? And I had to literally think about it. I don't even I couldn't even make a list because none of it was terribly important. It just felt like a lot of busy work. 01:11:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, and some. 01:11:36 Speaker 4: Days, listen, there's stuff we need to do and arrange with the kids in the school and sign them up for things. 01:11:42 Speaker 3: You know. So I mean, it's not for nothing. 01:11:44 Speaker 4: But it doesn't it doesn't you know, feel your you know, fuel, you feel your soul. I mean, this year, more than any year, I've had those days where I go to bed where I feel like I didn't get enough done. I mean, especially when the kids were all home and all that kind of stuff. So just trying to flip that to where you can go to bed and whatever you've gotten done, you've gotten done and you feel satisfied with. 01:12:05 Speaker 2: I also try to save things now that Koch's doing sports again, I try to save things for while I'm sitting there. 01:12:11 Speaker 3: That's a great idea. 01:12:14 Speaker 4: Because then you can get it done at that time when you're sitting on your well, you. 01:12:17 Speaker 2: Know, you have an hour where you're sitting there and you know, I watch her she does her thing. But you know, it's not like I have to like be staring the entire time I watch her, and you know, they're just they're not playing games, so they're you know, for soccer, so they're just drilling. So it's on the line, wady to go. I can look down, I can answer an email, I can look back up. I can watch her kick the ball. I can clap. I'm not allowed to clap, let's be honest, but you know what I'm saying, like I can do all that, and that that, to me is a good multitasking time. 01:12:47 Speaker 4: Yeah, it is, because then you don't feel like you just have dead

hours. You know, then all of a sudden, the kids go to bed, and then you feel like you need to do it once you know they're in bed when you should be, you know, depressing yourself one hundred percent. You have a cutoff time, like when you're like, okay, I'm done working each day, Like that's like even if you haven't gotten your stuff done, is there an end time? 01:13:10 Speaker 2: Yeah, when we have dinner, I'm done. 01:13:13 Speaker 3: And what time is that? 01:13:14 Speaker 2: It depends. So a lot of times we have dinner as a family a lot during the week, so I would say pretty much four days a week we have dinner. Does that not sound like a lot now that I'm saying that out loud. 01:13:29 Speaker 3: So Monday through Thursday, right like Monday. 01:13:31 Speaker 2: Through Thursday, I have dinner with the kids sometimes, like I might sit with them and then I'll eat later with Terry or he's in La. So if the five of us will have dinner, but I have dinner with the kids at least, well for sure, four nights a week at home, and then I'll usually go out with them one other night, so probably five nights and then the two other nights Terry and I will go out. But why were we talking about that? 01:13:56 Speaker 1: Oh? 01:13:57 Speaker 2: So, so would I sit down with them, whether I'm eating with them or whatever. That's it. That's like I'm pouring a glass of wine. I'm sitting with the kids. Now we're talking, we're hanging out. And now it's the thing. Sometimes, you know, the twins will hang out longer and we'll chat or whatever, and sometimes the little ones will or you go outside and hang out with the dogs a little bit or whatever. I don't know. You don't like that, but I'm done after dinner. 01:14:23 Speaker 3: I love it. That's it. You're not on your phone. If you see something come in, you're not you're not responding till the next day. 01:14:32 Speaker 2: I mean pretty much. I don't get a lot of late night emails like that. 01:14:37 Speaker 4: Yeah, when work hours are done, probably most of your work emails are done. 01:14:41 Speaker 2: Yeah, the I mean the only time that changes is like on Wednesdays when Terry's in la if he's going to go have dinner with someone and he stays, I might like you know, banking or you know, stuff like that. I might sit at my desk and do some of that after dinner. But that's pretty much it. 01:15:00 Speaker 1: To me. 01:15:01 Speaker 2: That's a workday. You're done, it's dinner time, family time, and then after that, you know, chill time whatever. 01:15:09 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's so important. 01:15:10 Speaker 4: That's one thing I've really I used to be good at, but again, everything just got so compressed with COVID. You know, work is more complicated, you know, all the things navigating is That's one thing that's fallen off for me that I have to get back on, is I have no end time. I'm squeezing in every possible minute and it's just not good because then there's not like a reset before the next day, right,

you know, like I wake up, I work out, I do the kids, I work, work, work, I do the kids for the afternoon. I you know, if there are activities, but between all three of them, there really isn't that much. I always have at least want to deal with and then they go to sleep, and then I work, work, work until I'm until I'm exhausted and go to sleep just because I just don't everything so feels so impacted. I just don't have enough minutes. So I've just been trying to be more efficient, take things off my plate, and I have to set an end time. Like that's what I love. And that's why I've always said, like maybe I should drink more, because I think there's something like if I had a glass of champagne, then that feels like finished, Like Okay, you sit down, you relax, you have a glass of champagne, and then whatever whatever's not done, stay until the next day exactly. 01:16:14 Speaker 2: And that's basically what I do. That's my time to relax, like I said, poor glass of wine or glass of champs and just sit and talk to them and you're done. 01:16:24 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you have downtime for yourself too. 01:16:29 Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, look I'm getting better at that. You know, I'm not a I don't really sit on the couch, but like you know, the kid, Like Max and I are watching the Bachelorette together and that's been really fun, and I'm glad Terry and I have a shown how to watch together, which is good because I never do that. But you have to, you have. 01:16:47 Speaker 4: To and you have to do it uninterrupted, you know. I just like sometimes that the kids are watching a kid's movie. So like if you go to watch a movie with Coco, will you sit and just watch the whole movie? 01:16:58 Speaker 3: Like I I wish it wasn't the case, but I am on. 01:17:02 Speaker 4: I'll be kind of doing my emails because, like I've said, it's seen the same kid movie. 01:17:05 Speaker 3: I'm not gonna have an hour and a half of downtime. 01:17:08 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. You know if I if I went to a movie theater when when they were open with her, obviously I would sit there and watch the movie with her. And she and I have watched movies here at the house in the theater. But like if she just has something on like on the TV, and I'm no, I won't sit there. Yeah, but she doesn't really, she doesn't watch movies like that. Are My kids are a little older than that, so they she doesn't really do that anymore. I mean sometimes they. 01:17:33 Speaker 3: Do, but not a ton at a time. 01:17:35 Speaker 2: Not a ton, but yeah, I think a time is very important. Speaking of and uh, I can't believe I could talk to. 01:17:45 Speaker 3: You for hours, hours to catch up on I'll do it again soon. 01:17:49 Speaker 2: Yes, I would love to tell everyone how to find you. 01:17:53 Speaker 4: At Lindsay's cloud on Instagram or the how to be askome at Everything podcast. 01:17:58 Speaker 2: You guys, thank you so much for being here, Thank you for the support. Don't forget to it iTunes and leave us a five star review and tell us what you love about how they do Brose World and we will see you tomorrow. Thank you so much for listening to Heather Do Bro's World. Download new episodes every Thursday and Friday on podcast one. The podcast one app ors Apple Podcasts, and please make sure to subscribe to the show and leave a lovely five star rating. Go town Apple Podcasts and say how much you love Heavy Do Bro's World. See you next week.