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Generation In-Between: A Xennial Podcast
Xennial co-hosts Dani and Katie talk about their analog childhoods, digital adulthoods and everything in between. If you love 1980's and 1990's pop culture content, this is the podcast for you!
Generation In-Between: A Xennial Podcast
New Year Thoughts: Our Words of 2025
Do you watch Ryan Seacrest on NY Rockin Eve and wish it was Carson Daly (or even Dick Clark)?
Are you a resolutions person or a "word of the year" person?
If your plans for 2025 involve listening to the same playlist you've had since the 90's, and this podcast, you might be a Xennial. And we are too.
In our first episode of 2025, we reflect on the new year, sharing personal updates and discussing the concept of choosing a guiding word for 2025.
Also on this episode:
• Katie announces the acquisition of her second performing arts studio
• Dani reflects on balancing holiday chaos with joy
• Both discuss the concept of choosing a word for the year
• Both share their plans to attend PodFest 2025 in Orlando
• Both discuss the Importance of being intentional and present in daily life
Thanks for joining us in 2025 (and beyond)!
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Did you celebrate the 25th anniversary of Y2K by watching other people party on TV, while you sipped your drink in your PJs under your weighted blankets?
Speaker 2:Is your New Year's resolution to not throw your back out while sleeping or to be sure to get to bed before 10 pm each night?
Speaker 1:If you think that songs that debuted in 2010 are new ones, you might be a Zennial, and we are too Hi. I'm Katie and I'm Dani, and welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2:welcome to Generation Inbetween, a Zennial podcast where we remember, we revisit and sometimes we relearn all kinds of things from our 80s childhoods and 90s teen and young adulthoods. And welcome also to 2025.
Speaker 1:Yay, woo, happy New Year. I keep hitting my microphone. Dani is getting beat up. I don't know. Are we on an angle? I don't know. I don't know what's going on, I don't know, but anyway, she's okay everyone.
Speaker 2:If you're watching on YouTube.
Speaker 1:you can see that she's okay. I am but listeners, I promise she's just fine. And yes, in case you haven't guessed, this is our first recording in a while. Yeah, first recording of 2025. Um, do you remember when, like, 2025 was like really far away?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what is funny? Cooper told me the other day that like he was looking up some random facts and he's like, oh, today is george judson's birthday, like if he was born or something like that. So what? Listen, rewind, stay with me everybody. This makes no sense. The cartoon the judsons took place in the future, correct, right? So it was like if george judson had a real birthday, it would have been on this, on whatever day oh, got it.
Speaker 1:That was been the day he was born, right okay, so like we're now in judson's time oh man, he might like be an infant, but we're still here.
Speaker 2:Weird, that's really okay, now that made sense now that made sense actually.
Speaker 1:Now that made sense Actually. I think it made sense the first time, but it just took me a second. So I remember when my kids were in preschool. I don't have like a lot of great ideas surrounding like traditions and memorable things. We've gone over this on the show before but for some reason when they were in VPK, I had this great idea to have them all hold a sign because they had a little preschool graduation when they were four, just had turned five. It's a class of whatever the future year.
Speaker 1:So I have all my kids holding like class of 2025, class of 2026. And it just was like so funny at the time, I know, because it seems so far away. It's like this little tiny child holding this very, very future date. At the time, I know, because it seems so far away, it's like this little tiny child holding this very, very future date. But now I'm like, well, I guess I got to bring those back out because these kids are about to graduate in these actual years that are on those things. So um phew, but we are here and we are in 2025 and we decided for today. We were just going to kind of talk about that, talk about some new year stuff, talk about what's going on on the podcast, talk about our own goals and what we've been discussing with each other and just our own internal reflections and looking ahead.
Speaker 2:And for those of y'all, who were hoping we would have some research on easy fingers or something like that we do not today.
Speaker 1:For those of you who like it when we just show up and willy-nilly combo, that's what's happening today, although I will say I think we'll have some tidbits of maybe some inspirational stuff or some things that you could like. I don't know, glean. I was going to say cling to and then I was going to say glean. So I said I was about to say gling. There's some things you could gling from today, but not watching too much of Wicked. Too much Wicked from today, but not watching too much of wicked. Too much wicked. That is ridiculous. Yes, yeah, so okay, I have a little note here that I was going to ask you this first.
Speaker 2:Still be looking at katie right up. This little. I have a little. It's a very, very little no, you don't need to.
Speaker 1:Um I, the first thing I had on here was just us talking about like what's been going on. Oh well, so let's talk about.
Speaker 2:let's talk about, uh, the christ. Yeah, did you do anything fun.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I didn't go anywhere or anything like that, but it was a really nice break. Good, yeah, we did have family in town over Thanksgiving, so by Christmas it was a little quieter, which was nice. We could just enjoy being home. And I got a lot of stuff done and ended up being a little busier than I anticipated, listeners, because I bought a business, literally right before Christmas.
Speaker 2:That's right. Another job, everyone Another job. She can't stop.
Speaker 1:I would say same job, another location.
Speaker 2:That's another job location.
Speaker 1:That's another job. Yes, yes, so I have a small performing arts studio. I bought a second smallish performing arts studio, so maybe two small together make a medium. Nope, no, no, two separate things, separate staff, separate locations. But so I ended up spending a lot of the time kind of updating student records and getting teachers onboarded and stuff like that, which I was actually saying to my husband. I enjoy doing like. I'm not a big like filling out forms kind of person, but I was enjoying putting the puzzle pieces together, but that's probably because it's for something you're excited about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not like, just some like boring, like I gotta get my household organized, like that's not. But that's probably because it's for something you're excited about. Yeah, it's not like just some like boring.
Speaker 1:like I got to get my household organized. Like that's not fun, that's a task.
Speaker 2:But this is exciting because it's like your business that you just started growing not that long ago. Hello, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then obviously we've been working on some ways to get the podcast growing. We've got some fun things coming. We're going to Pod fest that's what it's called Next weekend.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, next weekend I know, we'll talk about that in a little bit. Yeah, we will Um.
Speaker 1:so that was the main thing I did my kids um the day itself. Christmas itself was just so nice. Yeah, we had a nice.
Speaker 2:Christmas day. It was really great. We didn't have family. Well, we had lots of family visiting during the run of Christmas story. We had people in and out and then we made it to the end of Christmas story and then I did another event the weekend after, so I really didn't see my family to spend quality time with them until Christmas Eve. We had Christmas Eve and we had Christmas Eve, Christmas day and then the day after Christmas we were getting ready for more house guests. Yes, which is lovely, but it was. It's a lot, you know, just having people in your house and you know, I'm still cooking and cleaning, and trying to figure out what we're doing in the during the day and um.
Speaker 2:so it was a lot, but it was fun. We enjoyed our time with our people, but, uh, I'm ready to get back into the swing of life if that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's how I felt too. Yeah, I was like okay, we didn't have too much downtime.
Speaker 2:Honestly, we didn't, and I think next year we may do something totally different for the holidays. If you're my family members listening, I don't know what that is yet, so please don't ask me any questions. You're like wait, what did you mean?
Speaker 2:Don't freak out we don't know yet, but like I think we might do something a little different because my kids are older, caden's going to be away at college and home, and so I don't know what we're going to. I think we're just going to try something a little different so we still don't feel exhausted when it's all over, like we still feel tired.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, no, I get that, I totally get that.
Speaker 2:Also, guys, it's freezing here right now. We live in Florida. If you're watching us, today is not a glamorous day. Usually we're not glamorous Today's. Even worse. I had a training client this morning and this is what I wore. It's a shirt that says indoorsy, because there's a little funny joke behind it. Usually I work outside with this client and if it is below 50 and we are doing strength training, it is not safe to do strength training outside when it's really cold. So I was like we have to work out inside today, so I had to wear this sweater, but also I don't want to go outside when it's cold.
Speaker 2:Katie's over here. In short, sleeves guys.
Speaker 1:She's from Indiana. I am. I will say, most of the day I've had like a blanket wrapped around me. I didn't bring one in here, though, and then I was like well, I really wanted to wear my Dr Pepper. I said I had to wear my Dr Pepper shirt. So then Dani like gets this look of panic. She's like why, like almost like, are we talking about Dr Pepper today? Like what's going?
Speaker 2:on. Did I miss some research?
Speaker 1:I thought we were just jabbing today. But I was like no, I just got it for Christmas, so I wanted to wear it.
Speaker 2:I wanted to wear it. It's cute, it's fun.
Speaker 1:There we go and anyhow, it was just kind of funny when we were both walking, but it is cold, it's freezing and it's windy.
Speaker 2:I had a hat on. And I took it off because for our YouTube filming it was like making this weird shadow on my face. But now I'm looking at myself and this camera and I should have left the hat on. Yes, it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 1:It's fine, it's fine. I think you look great.
Speaker 2:You're supposed to be listening to us, anyways, everyone.
Speaker 1:Correct, even if, like, we're on in the background and you can see us. It's about the sound, just pretend that we are showered and made up. I did go in my hot tub this morning, which was a great idea going in.
Speaker 2:Not so fun getting out. It's so miserable getting out in the cold.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I had to like emotionally prepare myself Like the jets went off because that's like, okay, that's my timer. Time to get out and I was like I can't do it, I can't do it, I can't do it and eventually you know in. Is it just regular National Lampoon's vacation when he goes to jump in the pool?
Speaker 2:vacation. When he goes to jump in the pool and he's like this is crazy, this is crazy, I'm like in the hot tub saying that to myself. Well, it's not because it's cold, it's because he's jumping in it with a woman. Very true, so you weren't doing that no, no, I wasn't.
Speaker 1:And you know how you have these like weird intrusive thoughts. So I get out, I'm freezing and for a split second I'm like I should just jump in the pool. I did not my first what? First of all, my pool is not heated, polar plunge. And then I was like why did I think that I?
Speaker 2:need to go inside Intrusive thoughts.
Speaker 1:Sometimes they win, but not today, and my doodle would have just jumped in right behind me, which we've been trying to keep him out of the pool because it's so cold. We don't want him out there.
Speaker 2:Because, like when he's wet, we leave him outside.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's so cold I don't want him outside and wet. So all the all the Midwestern people right now are like rolling their eyes at us when you said below 50 is not safe. When it's that cold, you guys to work out to do strength training. I agree To do cardio is fine because you're able.
Speaker 2:Your heart rate goes up, so your body temp raises, but when you're doing strength training your heart rate is usually not elevating to keep you warm, correct, so you can do it. I don't feel comfortable doing strength training stuff with people when it's below 50. I just don't. I feel that I just don't. And don't come at me, guys, and tell me, blah, blah, blah, it doesn't matter, I'm not doing it. And also I don't like cold, there you go and that. And also I don't like cold, there you go, and that's okay. But all like I was. Um, I still have some friends in missouri where we used to live when we were stationed there and they had all these pictures of snow and my dc friends and guys.
Speaker 1:I don't miss that shit at all yeah, a friend of mine who lives in evansville, indiana. She has this gorgeous backyard and she sent me a picture and it's just white like steps and I mean it picture.
Speaker 2:Oh it's pretty until you have to live. But I was like, oh, it's pretty, until you have to realize you have to leave the house and you have to shovel your driveway and steps and salt, and then the roads. People don't know how to drive and it's just miserable.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but anyway, we don't have to worry about that here, even when it's really really cold.
Speaker 2:We don't have to worry about the snow or anything, although my kids would love if it did snow, but it won't. Um, did you get any other fun christmas presents besides your dr pepper shirt? I don't think so.
Speaker 1:I got like some smaller stuff, but um gosh, I hope I'm not forgetting anything big I didn't really get a whole lot for christmas.
Speaker 2:We don't, troy and I don't do presents and, like my sister and I decided we wouldn't do presents.
Speaker 1:Oh, I got a new coffee maker for my house. Oh, that's a big one, yeah, adulting, adulting. Amelia got it for me and my old one didn't have a programmable thing. This Okay, so you can program the time on this one. So, first of all, it's a Hamilton Beach coffee maker, so we all had jokes about that. We're like it's Alexander. Hamilton oh, I was like I don't get it so he was like we've just been making up all these like Hamilton songs about the way more fun than mine.
Speaker 2:Like people just go to their own corners in my house and just, but I guess we can. You can't hide from each other in your house. You have to interact. Oh no, we cannot.
Speaker 1:So so at first I was like it's not hard to program it, but the screen is very small and it doesn't light up, so it's like hard to see Teeny readers. So I was. I was having my daughter, Amelia, do it for me because she gave me the gift. So I was like, okay, you're going to program it for me. It's Christmas break, so she's been doing it. So the other day I'm like I'm going to do it myself. It's nighttime, so I'm getting ready for it. It's like 6 PM. I'm like, okay, I'm going to set it for 7 AM or whatever. It was like a Saturday Didn't have to be up super early. You get up at seven o'clock on Saturday, Well, but see, you can start the coffee but not get up.
Speaker 2:Oh, but it up.
Speaker 1:Oh, but just in case it might have been sunday because I think I had a few things to do before our rehearsal sunday. But whatever day it was, I'm like, okay, I'll set it for seven, whatever. An hour later I come back, there's a full pot of coffee at night. I set it for 7 pm and I'm like, who turned on my coffee maker? And everyone's like, not me and I was like, oh, I was like I said it for seven.
Speaker 1:Oh, what happened? So then I look, so then I'm like, okay, I must not have paid attention to am pm and amelia's like do you need me to do it? I'm like, no, I have to learn. So last night I go to do it again. And I'm like, okay, like whatever. Yeah, I look it's a 7 am. Again it's like 530 or six. Like an hour later Tegan goes mom, your coffee pops brewing again.
Speaker 1:Shut up, katie, I was like shut up, so I go over. So the clock is wrong. Oh, so I think I'm setting it for 7 am. But it's just so funny all this wasted coffee. So I did save it and made like iced coffee. But yeah, but with this weather being so cold, I'm not going to drink iced coffee when I wake up. There's some nasty ass coffee eventually I am going to figure out this.
Speaker 2:Sir hamilton alexander, hamilton beach coffee maker of mine, this is why, like I have so many friends who have like hella fancy, like coffee pots, and shit. We have like a basic ass 20 buck Mr Coffee pot, because I don't want to do all that, I just want to make the coffee. We used to have a Keurig and then we got rid of that because mold grows and the thing we got rid of ours too, so like.
Speaker 2:When I found that I was, I wanted to throw up and I will never use a keurig anywhere because I freak out about it. I had actually. I had coffee at my hairstylist the other day and she told me it was keurig and I about died, but too late. I drank it because I want to be mean. I'm still here. It's okay, we have a basic mr coffee. Um, did you watch any fun things?
Speaker 1:so you had some downtime, so I did so. I've been watching this show tracker. You still haven't watched dr odyssey, no, and I think this is why. I think this is why because I'm kind of just like saving it. It never feels like the right time. I haven't, I haven't been watching, I'm like I really want to enjoy it. Oh, you, you will.
Speaker 1:But then I'll like turn on Tracker in the background and the premise of Tracker it's like your basic network hour-long show of like this guy, justin Hartley, who was on this Is Us. For those who watched that show, oh yeah, that guy so like you know, tall, good-looking athletic guy and he's a loner and he's a rewardist. So he travels around the country trying to find people for rewards. So he like gleans the internet Is he like a bounty hunter Kind of? But he's finding like missing people. Oh see, that's like true crime, shit, yes, yes, but that's like his whole job and he's good at it. So like he will go and like there's a $10,000 reward for someone's like daughter who's missing. So then he'll, like you know the police never find them, but this tracker guy always finds them.
Speaker 1:He finds himself in all sorts of shenanigans, but he's like a nice guy and then he's got this kind of dark backstory that you learn episode by episode and it's an interesting show. Okay, so you've been watching Tracker. The scenery of it's really good because a lot of it's in the Pacific Northwest, so he'll be in like Oregon or Washington or like mountainous parts of California, so like that part is kind of nice. You can kind of just like turn it on.
Speaker 2:And also he's nice looking, he's good looking.
Speaker 1:My husband was like, oh, I know why you watch it. And I said honestly, like it's not that he's not good looking, it's almost that he's like too good looking.
Speaker 2:I know he's like one of those pretend people.
Speaker 1:He's like a cookie cutter, that good like. I'm like not attracted to him, but I'm like, yes, I like to watch you in this show. You know, like, not in an objectification way, it's just easy to watch.
Speaker 2:You know who else is like. That is um Anthony, that is on Queer Eye. Oh yeah right. Even my husband said he's just one of those like really beautiful people.
Speaker 1:Yes, that you just they don't feel about Justin Hartley. Yeah, like I'm like that. He's not like a celebrity crush, it, it's just like, yes, he is objectively very good looking.
Speaker 2:He is. Yeah, I'm not going to watch it, though, because I hate true crime and some of it's not crime, but some of it's like runaway stuff, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's like true crime light in my opinion, but it's very good so.
Speaker 2:I've been watching that, but I do need to watch Dr Odyssey. Well, let me tell you that there is a movie y'all need to watch. If you have ever been a stay-at-home mom that had a spouse who traveled a lot. There's a book out there called Night Bitch, and just the title of it is glorious.
Speaker 2:I love that I completely forgot the name of the author, but they made a movie about it not too long ago. Amy Adams is the star long ago. Amy Adams is is the star. She does not have a name, she's just called um. I think it's just mom, or maybe it's mother, I don't remember. But and her, you never know the name of her kid either.
Speaker 2:It's just like baby or son or whatever. Um, but it's so, so good. It's really weird. But basically this lady she left her job as an artist, she owned a gallery and all this stuff to stay home with their kid and she's miserable, she doesn't regret it, she doesn't hate being a mom, but like it's just that whole juxtaposition that all women go through of I'm not doing the right thing, no matter what I'm doing, like whether I'm home or working or like both, or in the guilt the mom guilt, yeah, but, and her husband's gone all the time.
Speaker 2:So she, she's single parenting without being a single parent, which is a weird dynamic, because then when they come back you have to figure out the balance and it's just weird, it's just a whole weird thing. But she starts to think she's turning into a dog at night. Oh, weird, yeah, I won't say anything else about it because you don't know if she really is or if she's just kind of losing her mind. You don't know if she's really turning into a dog. What I know, guys, I love weird stuff. Katie loves true crime. I like weird stuff.
Speaker 2:But the book was so good, Okay. So I read this when it came out a few years back and then I read it again with my book club here and everybody hated the book. They were like this is weird and terrible. And I'm like, hello, I loved it. And I think I loved it because I could relate to it so much. I've never turned into a dog and I also hate dogs, I was going to say. But the feelings and thoughts she expresses about the, the just motherhood in general and the feelings you go through where you're just so exhausted and you're so tired and you're miserable, but also you're so grateful and you're and you're, you know, like all of that. She does a great job expressing that, especially when you have a partner who travels and is in and out, so they're there sometimes but then they're not really. Now I will say the dad in the movie is a huge asshole. My husband is not that way so if y'all are watching, now they're like damn sure, is it?
Speaker 2:no, he was not that way. But it is a hard balance for them too, because if you're gone and then you come back, you can't just come back and jump right in because you don't know how the fuck things work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's a weird dynamic yeah, but like mom or whatever spouse is home, wants the help, so there's probably a reason right there.
Speaker 2:But then it's also like but it's like they don't know where stuff is or how it works, and then the kid doesn't want the dad and the kid wants you because you're there and it's just like but and I love that. They let Amy Adams look like a real person. I love that too, like she's heavier than you've seen her before in other roles, sure, but she looks like normal, a normal mom walking around, yeah.
Speaker 2:And you see her stomach, you see like her body. I appreciated that they had a sex scene and they didn't show any of her parts. I love that because had a sex scene and they didn't show any of her parts. I love that because a woman directed and produced it. So just saying you can still have sex scenes and not have to blatantly display all the bits and pieces.
Speaker 1:That just made me think of something I saw that I was going to ask you about If you've heard of this thing an intimacy coordinator. Oh yeah, I had just started reading about that so like listener, explain that for listeners.
Speaker 2:So what an intimacy coordinator is now. They have these on on movie sets and TV shows, but they also have these in live theater now too. I was actually talking with Devin about that, cause she had one in Bat Boy, I guess. Okay, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Um, that's um. For those of y'all that don't know, devin was one of our co-stars in Christmas Story and she, she's a professional performer, like that's her job. And anyway, what an intimacy coordinator does is it's their job to respectfully kind of choreograph intimate scenes, scenes, and they're there to make sure both parties feel comfortable and that it's done in a way that respects each person and what they are okay with and what they're not okay with. This didn't used to be a very prevalent thing, right, that's what I was reading and that's why they have them now is because, especially for the women, unfortunately, especially for the women- unfortunately um there would be really gross things that would happen and very uncomfortable moments, and so now it's pretty common to have intimacy coordinators on pretty much all sets that have intimate scenes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I love that. I. It's weird, it's like such an obvious thing, but something I'd never really thought about.
Speaker 2:Well, you, know why I think that. I think that now it's more prevalent is because now we have more women directing and producing and in bigger roles where it had just been men before, and I no shade men, but here is some.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, you can't like the the thing I read about. It basically said everything you just said, but also said, like you know, women or men or whoever were in the scenes were just expected to take the stage direction as written, which for most things in a movie like makes sense, I suppose.
Speaker 1:But if there's any physical touch, well you figure there's like for fight scenes and stuff. There's been always been coordinators for that, correct for safety and um personal space and all that same thing applies especially for when you're half what most a lot of times you are nude.
Speaker 2:You have, like those, one of those, those um, I forgot what they're called. They have a special name that they wear during intimate scenes. They're not like underwear, but they're like. There's a name for them.
Speaker 1:I don't know why I know all this. I said I don't know what they're called.
Speaker 2:I know a whole lot about intimate scenes.
Speaker 1:I was like I want to tell you something.
Speaker 2:You're like I know everything I think oh, you know why I think it is. I think I watched a documentary one time about females in the industry. And I think they went into great detail because they interviewed someone about that, but now of course it's leaving me completely. But anyways, so long story short, it's a great movie. Watch the movie, read the book. The book is better, but that's always. The movie's a tad different. I don't like the way they made the ending in the movie.
Speaker 2:I don't like the way they made the ending in the movie. I don't like it. They made it. They changed the whole feel of the end. And now Troy watched it with me and he actually liked it. He said I can totally see why you really connected with this and he's like but I think it was really good.
Speaker 1:He liked it.
Speaker 2:Good, but Troy likes weird too, so it worked out sometimes, though, he liked it Good, but Troy likes weird too, so it worked out. Sometimes, though, like I'll, we'll watch something really weird, like we watched salt burn.
Speaker 2:I never did watch that I've heard and he turned to me 20 minutes in and goes what the fuck are we watching? And then I was like oh my God, like I know people out there, like my sister loved it and I texted her. I was like I don't, I have no words, like it was just too much for me. It was too much. And, um, the acting was phenomenal, the actors were great, the story was great, but it was a lot. Yeah, it was. For those of y'all who've seen it, it was the graveyard scene.
Speaker 2:For me it wasn't even the bathtub scene, which was really gross too. But the graveyard scene, I was like I just I can't. If you ever decide to watch it, just know that was not ready.
Speaker 1:That'll be the moment. That'll be the moment Awesome.
Speaker 1:All right, anyway, so so I know one of the things we wanted to talk about kind of were like goals, words of the year, et cetera. But before we did that, I was going to ask you and I I've been thinking about it myself for an answer. But you go first if you want. Okay, what's something like? I feel like a lot of times, especially in our culture, right Like this, this idea of resolutions and new year, new me and change all these things, and I know you and I both don't necessarily come from that frame of mind. We look at it a little differently but I would like to know something from 2024 specific to 2024. If, if you have it, something about you or personal growth or something that you actually really like, that you want to make sure you're taking forward into 2025.
Speaker 2:Okay, sure, and listeners think about yours too, I mean, I'd be interested.
Speaker 2:But this actually is pretty easy, because this just happened, yes, and it was something that happened throughout 2024 that now I'm seeing the results of. If that makes sense and if you're my friend or you follow me on social media, then you already know the answer to this. But I think the biggest thing that happened for me in 2024 was finally getting to the point where I could get out of my own head with performing stuff and just kind of accepting that I don't have to be as good as anybody else, I just have to be as good as myself.
Speaker 1:Does that make?
Speaker 2:sense it does. And I really want to make sure like I went on my first audition of the year. Um, just when was that? Two days ago, right, and that was the first time. Now I didn't have some like blow them out the water vocal audition or like 600 pirouettes in my dance audition, like I didn't have one of those like that, but I felt I was, I had a good time, which Katie's always like. Cause I hate auditions. Everyone and Katie's like. I enjoy them and I'm like you're fucking crazy Like they're terrible.
Speaker 1:I mean, I am, but not for that reason.
Speaker 2:But yeah, she's not. But like, like I just always was so mind blown and then I remember leaving a couple of nights ago and I was like I get it, like because when you stop standing in your own way, you can just have fun and it's okay. Like you're not going to book every role, you're not going to and they don't. Nobody expects perfection when you go on into an audition. I think I finally realized that and I think maybe, maybe it just took auditioning repeatedly again in my life at this stage in my life to be able to understand that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and what I always say about auditions too and usually I follow this I can think of like one in recent memory where I didn't leave feeling like happy or whatever. But, like I always say, an audition is a performance. Someone already said yes to yeah, so, like, I'm allowed to be in this space. I was invited. Not saying that they like said Katie, come audition. But like when I said I would like to come audition, they said, sure, this is when you're coming and you're going to sing a song and you're going to do a dance and maybe you're going to read a scene. And so I've already been told yes, right, and that's it, it's its own thing, yeah. And then if a week later they call me and they're like yeah, we really liked what you did and there's a part for you, great, but nothing takes away from the preparation and that moment that I had to shine at the audition yeah, and you can have fun doing that. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I think too like and, to be quite honest, I didn't feel like that was like some amazing vocals I did, or some amazing dancing, but I do feel like I was able to show who I was as a performer, if that makes sense. Yes, because here's a funny tidbit that I forget, that people don't know but you've seen me audition for something, so you know I do this every time and it's so dumb but I have to do it. So in vocal auditions, you're just supposed to go in there and sing, but I always have to add in movement, because I just have to in movement, because I just have to. I came out after and I was talking to my friend Jen and I said something about oh, I did a kick and she went wait you did kicks.
Speaker 1:She's like that was not the dance audition and I was like yeah.
Speaker 2:But like I and because I, that's just who I am. Like I and my favorite, katie knows, is auditioning for like silly shows where I can do those kinds of things and it's 100% appropriate, even though I do that.
Speaker 1:She does it when it's 100% not appropriate, but it works. It's nice when it works out. It's nice when it works out.
Speaker 2:But anyway, I think now it so that to me is huge for me, and Katie knows, and I've talked about it on here I am like I have horrible self-confidence problems. But I think I'm now getting to the point of realizing your self-confidence and I'm I'll just talk about it from a performing standpoint, because it's different in every area of life, doesn't have to be oh, I know I'm a good singer, I know I'm a good dancer. I think your confidence can come from I let myself shine through whatever I was doing. So that doesn't always mean being the best vocalist because, hello, I've booked roles where I wasn't the best vocalist or the best dancer and I I don't know why I booked it, who knows. Casting doesn't make sense. Sometimes we just it just is what it is.
Speaker 1:Well, and I think the best, saying the best this or the best, that is also very subjective, oh well, true, so, like, like, I think what you mean is maybe technique wise. Yes, that is what I mean, but that doesn't mean that you're not good at those things in the way that they needed, and it also depends what show it is. Yeah, Like you said, like you know, like Christmas Story, like the way that you sing and act was absolutely perfect. Yeah, Could you have done the same thing for like Sound of Music?
Speaker 2:and play Maria, no, no.
Speaker 1:But like could any of us Not?
Speaker 2:many of us, but like a handful. A handful of people. Katie could, but no, not me.
Speaker 1:But like yeah, so just like not to take away from what you're saying, but just to say like it's not that you're not good, it's just this sort of like narrow way that you view that specific technique is what you're talking about. But then you're also saying and this is where maybe you're saying, the growth through 2024 that you're now really stepping into is that it doesn't mean I'm not good. Right, it's just a different friends of ours, gina and Juliet. Literally, it was me then Juliet, then Gina.
Speaker 2:Oh okay, Y'all for y'all that don't know, they can blow the house down with their vocals.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Just know this before if this would have been me four or five auditions back, I would have panicked, panicked. I would have gone home and constantly been in my head Like but I didn't, because I was like I'm not supposed to be them. In no land or universe Am I them, can my vocals compete with theirs? And I don't have to like. That's not why I'm here. We're not, we are not trying to be in the same part, right? Yes, so I was like I think that was a big deal for me is just knowing show up, give them what you got, yeah, and that's all you can do and that's all you really expected to do. That's what auditions are for is so they see what you bring to the table. Now, granted, it is a competition because you're against all these other people, but not in the way that I think I had been putting it in categories in my brain, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2:So anyway, so moving forward and and I like I came home and like was rehashing to Troy and he was like surprised and he's like, wow, it sounds like it went really good. And it wasn't like I was like I had the best audition ever because I like did this note and like did this turn? And I mean, granted, I did feel really confident that I kept up in the dance audition. I hadn't been able to do that before. I kept up. It wasn't perfect but I kept up, which is at 44. Like we take that win.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll take it, and then a young girl, that, who was fantastic. She was like one of the young professionals from Orlando. We were leaving, we were talking to somebody else and I don't remember what happened, and she looked at me and she's like I meant to tell you you look like you could be a Rockette. Now I don't care if she was blowing smoke up my ass, I'm going to take that and I don't know what she meant. I don't care, thank you.
Speaker 1:You're about five inches six inches too short Guys. I look nothing like a Rockette. Listeners, if you've never seen Dani, I am 5'2 and not built like a dancer? I wonder what she meant by that. I don't care. Did she see the kicks in your vocal audition? Well, we did a fan kick, we did a fan kick.
Speaker 2:Maybe that's what she meant, maybe it was my face, maybe because I'm very expressive when I'm dancing. I don't know who cares. I didn't ask, I just said well, thank you, I'm putting that in my little pocket. I don't even care if you're lying, so it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:Anyway, what about you Also? Why would she lie?
Speaker 2:So I hope I can take that into this year of auditions. I love that.
Speaker 1:Mine kind of feed into like the word that we're going to talk about. But I would say mine is I know it's like, oh, I just want another business. Is I know it's like, oh, I just want another business.
Speaker 1:But more of learning the trade-off for that stuff the trade-off for time, like I'm getting better at that, where, like, if you say yes to this thing, then you can't also keep doing all the same things you're doing, especially if your schedule's already packed. So I'd gotten better even last year, like at being like, okay, wait before I say yes to this thing. Where do I have time for it? Right? Do I have time for my kids? Do I whatever? To the point that, like I told you, I'm like I'm not auditioning, at least for five or six months, for anything, which I think is smart. You have a lot happening I do. It's hard, though, because it's like the reason I do the things I do is because I'm a performer, but it is, but it's not.
Speaker 2:I mean, you're not making a like. You say that, but it's not because it's not like. You're making a business so you can perform. You're making a business so you can train other performers because you love performing. Correct. See what I'm saying. Yeah, so sometimes your own performing has to just look differently for a little while because you want to build up this thing that you really enjoy doing and that people are wanting.
Speaker 1:I've talked about this. I went so long without performing that I get nervous when I have any time. I put it on the back burner because I got back into it. So now we're going on six years, 2019, and um was just like, oh my God, I can't believe. Like all this, like obviously life happens and I don't regret any of it, but like my career took precedence. Obviously having children took precedence, like all these things that I just never want like a year to go by and be like, wow, I didn't perform in a single thing, because that's just like time is finite and like we, I don't want that. So, just continuing to find that balance, like you just said, like I didn't say indefinitely, I'm not auditioning and doing anything. I said look, my birthday's in May, my son's graduating in May. I'm not trying out for anything until after that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and let's see where we are and that's that's that. But also like the business side, yeah. And I keep telling myself like if I get an itch and I really need to perform, I do own two performing art studios. Now I can literally just be like we're having a cabaret night and I'm singing a solo Come watch me, people and somebody would show up. You know, danny will be there. So I think just kind of continuing to develop that and then that concept of like, yes, you want to include all the important things in the time you have, but they can't all be at once.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had. I used to be like really bad about saying yes to everything when my kids were small and Troy was in the military. Um, I and I loved to organize events. So anytime somebody would say we need somebody to host a baby shower for a squadron, I would say yes, oh, we need somebody to volunteer to do something in school, cause I was a stay at home mom Right, and I did not enjoy that, so I needed something to occupy my time other than children. So I would. I would say yes to 1600 things.
Speaker 1:It's not the same as a job, but I know what you mean, though, and then I was like stress all the time.
Speaker 2:Somebody said to me Danny, when you say yes to one thing, you're saying no to at least one other thing, at least one. So you need to really think about that, and I don't know why I never thought about that. It's so simple, like hello, of course, but it's true because you do. You know, when you say yes to another business or another student or another class, you are saying no to some more time with your family, right, but that's important because you're establishing a business, right. But if you also said yes to a business and then you're going to audition for three more shows Right Then when would you see the family?
Speaker 1:Exactly, and that honestly, is the big thing right now. It's family, like knowing my son's graduating.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Just the time away from them. I had in the last show that I did, I just I had some trouble. Last show that I did, I just I, um, I had some trouble I struggled.
Speaker 2:It was a lot I was.
Speaker 1:I was like I'm not enjoying this much time away from my family.
Speaker 2:As much as I'm enjoying performing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I this is. This is too much time, yeah, and I don't want to do it again for a while. Yeah, it's a big commitment. So that's what I'm going to take forward. I really like that.
Speaker 1:So I know, when we've talked before and you brought up this idea to me, and I know again, if you follow Dani on social, you've seen her post about this stuff, coming up with a word or a phrase for the year, and so I think we've each kind of come up with a word for ourselves but then we also came up with a word for our podcast.
Speaker 1:Yes, so do we want to start with that one and do you want to talk about the concept of this, which is pretty explanatory what I just said? What could you follow up? You pick a word. Yes, you go to our website, you click store. It doesn't say merch. Sorry, everyone, focus word.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Somebody told me about this years ago that I'm not. I'm not a big Katie's a big journaler. She's a writer, right Like, but just that's just who she is. I'm not. I like to write, but I'm not a writer, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2:Um, and so journaling is big for her and a lot of people you know resolutions is their thing. Yeah, it's too much for me. I don't like to do resolutions. I don't like to sit down and make some huge, ginormous goal list, because it overwhelms me. It's too much, right? So somebody said to me one time that they just picked one word and that would be the word, and it was like an all encompassing word, so it was one they could use in different areas of their life, cause a lot of times your goals can be specific, like you know, for your business, or maybe your health or whatever, sure, but this one is supposed to be one that encompasses lots of different categories, if that makes sense. So that is the concept of having one word for your year, kind of like you're, it's like you're guiding light as you go about your life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and in the journaling world we would call that kind of like your why.
Speaker 1:Like when you're having a bad day, that word or phrase or whatever is like the reminder of like why you're doing all the things that surround it and if you're doing things that don't surround it, like maybe it's not what you should be doing. Not that you can't like change course throughout the year. It's not like that's the only time you can change your mind, but kind of like your intention of what you want. So we were talking about it for the podcast. It may seem a little obvious, but we came up with growth, yeah, yeah, growth, because I think 2024, well, I know was very foundational, yeah, from an episode perspective, from like technical perspective, from the platforms we're on, like really like laying all the groundwork and now that we have a lot of that, that we can just now say great, right, how do we go from where we are which is pretty decent and we are enjoying it and loving it to growing? That, yeah, and what does that growth?
Speaker 2:look like yeah, and I think, too, like we had a year of just trying to figure out what we were even doing, like what, like I haven't listened back to our first few episodes, but I want to go back and listen yeah, we should, cause they might be a little cringy, but like figuring out the flow of how we wanted it to work, even with, like, how often we wanted to have guests on, cause we realized when we had back to back to back to back to guests, we kind of lost. Like we were like wait, our whole fund, like foundation, is the two of us Right? So guests should just be added bonus, not like yeah, like we're not a talk show, right, although, although this one's a little bit talky, and we would be okay with that idea and we would be okay with that idea.
Speaker 2:Anyway, yes, so I think, yeah, so growing this year and now we can talk about pod pod fest. Yeah, so that's our first thing this year. We kept saying we need to do more like events and like figuring out things, not because we're we're just trying to figure things out by ourselves or with the knowledge that we already have or the sources we already have. And so I don't even remember when we saw it.
Speaker 1:I guess it came across our social feed or something it must have been, and I was like look, it's in Orlando.
Speaker 2:Like it's not even that far, let's just go. Yeah, so we're going.
Speaker 1:We're going, and we're going to have our stickers and we're going to have I hope it's worth our time. Yeah, and I hope we don't get there Now.
Speaker 2:Granted, it's going to be worth our time regardless, because we're going to have time away to focus Mm-hmm, and we don't have like the next thing in our calendar. We have to rush to Correct. That's our whole.
Speaker 1:So that alone is great, so that alone by itself. But, we could do that without PodFest. But this is like a catalyst, right, and we'll be out of our house, away from distractions. But I'm saying like we could go to a hotel if we wanted. That sounded really strange, but if we wanted we can go, we could get out of our homes, we could. But podcast is like it's like oh, that's a thing and a reason and hopefully I'm hoping we can learn some stuff.
Speaker 2:Have you looked at the calendar yet? Like the schedule, I have not. I skimmed it.
Speaker 1:It's pretty good. Okay, yeah, it's pretty good. There's all these different sessions you can go to, obviously, like I would say, our number one thing there. Yes, of course we want to like learn things, but we're already decent at knowing how to do the podcast stuff Like I mean Hello, we did not even turn the mic on, right, that's another story, but I don't think any pod fest can help us with that.
Speaker 2:No, they did have some like technical stuff, okay Okay, which honestly I should go to, because, no, I would love to.
Speaker 1:I would love to too. I'm not saying we can't use help in those areas. I just mean, like, more than anything, I'm excited about networking, getting our name to people, meeting other people, finding people to follow.
Speaker 2:And seeing what's worked for other people too. And the good thing is, katie and I are quite social, except it was so funny when we went to 90s Fest. She was like you go talk to those people. What did you say? I don't remember this. You're like you go talk to those people because I think they'll like you better.
Speaker 1:I said it was just certain people. It was something like people like you and people don't like me.
Speaker 2:And she was like that's not true, and it was just for certain people, and now I can't remember who it was.
Speaker 1:Other ladies, maybe I don't know. It was fun, I was like just those people. And then eventually we just stood by the porta potties and just caught everybody coming out Men, women, children, dogs. It's going to be fine, didn't matter.
Speaker 2:It'll be a good time and yeah, so that's our first thing for growth.
Speaker 1:Yes, so that was growth, so that'll be great, yeah, and then we were just talking before this started because we did forget to plug in the mics, but caught it just in time. Thank you, welcome A checklist, an episode checklist, but also just like a recording checklist, but also like a checklist like where's all the places, everything's going to go every time we go live. What do we need to go back and do you?
Speaker 2:know stuff like that, like even clips and things like that, and if you want to help us grow listeners, send our link to as many people as you can think of that would like us. If they wouldn't like us, don't send it, because we don't need hate in the new year.
Speaker 1:No no, no, only people that you think would enjoy us, and even if it's just one topic you think they'd like Also send us episode ideas too.
Speaker 2:We still have that link on our website. We do For episode suggestions. We have tons in the works we do, which, by the way, we're going to start redoing our not redoing. Start up again our Dawson's Creek rewatch. But guys, it's leaving Amazon Prime in 13 days. I can't believe it.
Speaker 1:What the hell. So then I was like, should I just binge it? But the thing is I like watching one at a time and then talking about it because then I'll blur them all together. So I don't really know. We'll have to come up with a plan for that. Where is it going?
Speaker 2:it's got to be going somewhere, something I don't have. That's where it's gonna go. Do you think it would go on disney plus?
Speaker 1:do they own dawson? Do they own um cw?
Speaker 2:they might, I don't know. This is a really boring conversation we've okay, people, let's get back.
Speaker 1:Okay, we're just staring at each other.
Speaker 2:okay, let's back. So that's our word for the podcast. What is your word for yourself? Okay, great, oh you already said.
Speaker 1:No, I didn't Not yet. Actually, my word is a little different than the thing that I said about 2024. My word is breakthrough. So that has to do with the podcast, of course. But I have so many projects that are just ready to like go to the next level, got it. And that includes performing art studios. That includes writing projects that I've had going on for several years, some of them that are like ready for the next thing, and what I mean by that is like it doesn't even have to be you know, millions of listeners or whatever. Although I am holding a mug that says future bestselling author, I am manifesting everyone, um, but just that, it's kind of like elevating to the next thing and myself as a performer too, which is going to be hard to do if I'm not auditioning.
Speaker 1:But I got a whole year, I can do it later. Um, that, like I can kind of like elevate up to whatever that next thing is for me. Um, and I think I think, because of all the foundational work I've been doing really the last five or six years, but certainly like the last year, year and a half, um, I'm ready for that. So that's mine. What's yours? Breakthrough?
Speaker 2:That's good. Mine um has been my word before, Yay, Uh, but it's still something I need to work on. And it started off as intention but then I changed it to intentional, because that I struggle sometimes. I try hard to be intentional with things I do, but sometimes I'm not. I'm good in some areas and some areas I'm terrible. Got it Not very good with intentional words. Hmm, Um, on a day to day, like I am impatient in my house, like and that's usually because I have 60, a hundred things going on in my brain Um, and I'm multitasking, which is a problem, because then nothing gets done a hundred percent when you're multitasking. And I'm like a chronic multitasker because I have attention problems. So, um, I'm going to work really hard this year on being intentional and things.
Speaker 2:I say um in relationships, because sometimes that falls to the wayside, especially with performing. You know, like I have to be intentional about the time I do have, like you were saying, with your family. I need to make sure that when I am there I'm like not just catching up on life, that I'm also giving them time, just time. You know right as well. Um, and that also goes like in other areas. That also goes with, you know, with performing stuff goes like in other areas. That also goes with you know, with performing stuff, like making sure I'm intentional on picking shows to audition, for that I really want to commit to, which I think I'm pretty good about that right now. Like I don't do back-to-back shows and um, cause it is a huge time suck yeah.
Speaker 1:You, you usually tend to pick the ones. But to keep doing that, yeah, I want to keep doing that.
Speaker 2:But also, like I want to be more intentional too about what I'm putting into my body, not just food I'm pretty okay with that I mean, the holidays threw me, but that's everyone Um, but also like other things I'm doing for my body, like I need to be more intentional that I am 44. Um, there are things I don't need to keep pushing myself to do and I need to make sure I spend more time doing other things. Like it's way more important for me to be spending more time with strength training and mobility than it is for me to push out crazy cardio workouts every day, you know? Um, so, just anyway, intentional is my word. Again, podcast stuff yeah, mostly it's just the day to dayday.
Speaker 2:Like not just hurrying up and getting through tasks with being intentional, and like my phone is a suck for me sometimes. We all do it, we do, and, um, katie knows it's one of my pet peeves when people are just sitting around and they automatically take their phone out. I hate it so much, but I do it too like I'm good about it sometimes and sometimes I'm shitty about it. So, yeah, it needs to be like, okay, I am intentionally going to sit here and scroll my social media for 15 minutes and then I'm going to be done Like right, and then I'm intentionally saying this is the start and the finish. I'm not just mindlessly because I am sitting somewhere for whatever amount of time.
Speaker 2:I really hate it when people are in line at the grocery store and do this scroll on their phones. Like literally, you're not in the line at the grocery store for longer than a few minutes. Guys, Insta can wait. It's just like, but can it? It can and I get it. Like we're like, oh, but I have five seconds, I need to fill that five seconds with right, whatever Correct you don't. And I feel, feel like, especially as creative people, we lose a lot of our creativity when we don't have that. I don't want to say dead space, but just freedom to just think well, that's what they say, like being bored is good for you.
Speaker 2:It is, and I notice that with kids really much these days and I actually had a chat with my youngest about it yesterday because I was like you know, I, I know that you're tired when you're coming from school, like he's not in any sports or anything right now, he's not in a show or anything, I was like. But you can't just come home and be on your phone and a TV like the rest of the day Right, you need to have something else to do, like without a screen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think, yeah, I think that makes sense, even with phones. Like an example of that, like last night, like obviously, because I'm doing so many jobs all the time, sometimes I am like checking this or that while I'm doing other things. But I'm trying to get better about that too. And even like last night, like I set my alarms.
Speaker 1:I sent one text to my friend who I was meeting in the morning, like just confirming, and then I was kind of sitting in bed and my husband and I were watching something a commercial came on.
Speaker 1:I went to reach for my phone and I actually will stop myself and I was like I don't need anything, I can just like talk to him or just use the restroom or literally just sit here and watch the commercial or don't watch it, space out, you know but really like trying to decide what we're doing, and I think that that's important, like you said, not just for phones phones is a big one but business stuff, like yeah, I've been sitting down trying to figure out what is this going to look like? All these different places, and then the podcast too. I think we do a great job, but we keep saying like we want to be more intentional in, like you know, there were because we record.
Speaker 1:We've made that commitment to record every week, just about, and there's times we haven't not many but there's times that it hasn't happened, and that's okay because we do this volunteer and that's going to happen sometimes. But our intention is to do that and so really sitting down and saying, like you said about the guests, like how often do we have a guest and if so, what are we talking about? What are we talking about the next eight weeks instead of the next two weeks? You know, like as much as we can and those things tend to shift as well but just putting the thought ahead instead of my big thing to you.
Speaker 1:And I've always said this I wake up very early, partially to get work done, but I've always said I have to wake up for the rest of my house. For that reason Because if I wake up and life is already happening it can be a literally one kid eating a bowl of cereal my day feels out of control to me. It feels like everything has started and I haven't had time to like decide what this day is going to be for me. And so I get up early to be alone, even if it's only for five or 10 minutes, and look at that schedule and let it soak in and say, oh, okay, like I can send an email now and I don't need to get back on my computer until 930 and I can make breakfast and talk to the kids and whatever. But if I wake up and I haven't done that or had that moment, then for me it feels out of control and I think like in general in life it's the same thing when we don't have intention when we don't have that pause to decide.
Speaker 1:whatever the thing is like, decide oh, I am just going to stand here in the grocery store line and just take a breath. That's a decision when you're not getting on your phone. It's a small decision, but we make them all day long, and so I think that's a great that's a great word.
Speaker 2:I think that pause is smart, because I'm very reactionary, sometimes Like um, like I think I said this when my sister was here like you don't have to react to everything, uh, but I am like I am a very reactionary person, especially in parenting or like relationships, like I will just react and then regret it or be like shit. I should have, like, just sat for a second, um or like, instead of instinctually just saying no or yes, saying let me think about it or let's talk about it some more later when, like, especially because my kids will ask me stuff, when I'm like distracted, yeah, and I'll be like I, I, instead of just saying no or yes out of just because I'm trying to get something done. And they do that on purpose, sure kids?
Speaker 1:know sometimes, but sometimes not.
Speaker 2:Sometimes they just want to know, and I now I'm trying to be like no, give me a second, let's talk about it in a few minutes. Let me finish this and then we'll chat like I can't I've gotten better at that too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's hard, and and even saying like it's not, it's not you, I just have to finish this thing, like, if you can just be be patient, I will follow up with you in a couple minutes or whatever, instead of trying and and and with my spouse too. Yeah, you know, like, and he's got my husband's gotten to the point where he'll be like I'm gonna wait till you're done, like on your phone, you know, and then, and then I used to get defensive. Be like well, I'm writing back the so-and-so, he's gonna pick up tig, and he's like I'm not, it doesn't matter, I, yeah, do that, and then I'm gonna tell you the thing. Yeah, you know, and so you can't fully pay attention.
Speaker 1:He, he's like and you know he's like she's going to forget.
Speaker 1:Right she's not listening, right, and that's okay Like for him to notice and be like you know what. I interrupted you in the middle of that thing. I'm just going to wait, but I'm waiting here to tell you the thing. So maybe, like, don't text the next person, maybe don't keep going Till you like talk to me, you know, and that's okay too.
Speaker 1:So I love that, I love the conglomeration of all the words, because I feel like between growth has to be intentional, but then breakthrough sometimes can be. It's not that it's unexpected, but sometimes it does feel like bigger than the actions you're doing. But then when you go backward on your actions, you're like actually no, this all adds up. And so I because there was the intentionality and the baby steps and the growth and the dry spells and the whatever to get to that point, you know, and so I think I think all of our words kind of go together really well and we're going to continue to grow and listeners listeners if you have a word, a resolution, a goal, if you are like I am, I love my life.
Speaker 1:I am perfect, everything is great. Maybe not even perfect, but you're just happy and you're not changing a thing. We would love to hear about that too, because that's awesome. Yeah, that's like a great place to be. Go you Reach out to us. Let us know what your plans are for 2025.
Speaker 2:We're going to be back next time with our regular episodes about weird stuff. So, yes, don't worry, 90s, we'll be back at you. We are going to record a Dawson's, so get ready for that extra nostalgic or problematic, as long as we can While Dawson's is still around on them.
Speaker 1:It might be like three episodes, but whatever, no, we'll find it. We'll find it, we'll. We'll make it happen, we'll get there, yeah. So thanks again, guys, for listening. Make sure you are following us on social. We are on tiktok. Are we instagram? We are technically there, but that will growth. I know there'll be more there. We're getting getting there and um and then we are also on YouTube. You can watch us, you can subscribe. I think we are up to 16 subscribers.
Speaker 2:Lord help you for watching us. Thanks, guys.
Speaker 1:If we could double in 2025, then we got to start getting our life together and when we are on here.
Speaker 2:I can't look like this.
Speaker 1:I don't think people care. Have you watched YouTube videos?
Speaker 2:No, I don't People most people look like this? I don't do. I love how I said have you watched YouTube? I have. I don't watch YouTube. The only time I like go on YouTube is if somebody sends me something or if I'm trying to find some kind of um alternate modification for exercise for a client. Oh yeah, because you can find people you know anything. But I hate like my kids will watch YouTube shorts all the time and I I it. It annoys me, it's too much.
Speaker 1:It's a lot, it's a lot and it's so quick. I just I don't.
Speaker 2:That's why I don't like Tik TOK either.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:TikTok either. Yeah, well, it's fair, I'm old guys, we know a lot of you do, so we're gonna do it, I'm gonna make it happen.
Speaker 1:That's just my old brain, not at all, not at all, but um. So, yes, uh, stick around for Dawson's Creek if you want, and if not, um, we'll see you on our next regular episode or over on Patreon. And a happy 2025 guys. Happy new year, happy new year bye Patreon and happy 2025, guys. Happy New Year. Happy New Year, bye.
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