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December 18, 2025 • 16 mins

Samantha is undertaking a new endeavor. We talk about the hopes and the worries of taking on a new mantle.

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. Welcome stuff I've never
told you protection buy Heart Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
And welcome to another happy hour where I talk. But
before we start talking, know that we're not sponsored by
any of the things that we are talking about, which
honestly I probably should be. I don't know it's a
complict of interest since it would be like making money anyway.
Moving on, But also, if you're doing happy hour things,
do so responsibly because we all need you to stick

(00:41):
around and be healthy. Annie, are you doing anything responsibly
in this happy hour? I hope so.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I am behind the curtain. Listeners. We're recording a lot
today for the holidays. Yes, so even though it's going
to be a week before you hear them episode, I'm
still drinking out what I was drinking and on in
the episode I did my happy hour a week before.
Because we're recording them simultaneously. Coming to you from the past,

(01:12):
read from the past, from the future.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
We don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
We don't know what time is anymore. I can't stress
this enough, for we are messing this up all of
the time.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
I am in the nineties.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Apparently I'm in wherever I want to be.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
I don't know where talking about your traveling. I am
still slipping on my soda, keeping my energy up so
that we can keep talking, or ruining my sleep tonight,
I don't know whichever one you want to call it. Interestingly,
this is a conversation we've already had where I was
talking about my future possibilities of things that I might
want to do, and I've decided I'm jumping into my

(01:46):
late in life hobby and passion. And I was thinking
about this before, where a lot of people like I
didn't even start doing this till I was late something
and then hopefully it becomes a good part of your life.
I'm gonna stamp this as this is gonna be a
good part of my life, which is I'm going to
try to start doing group fitness leads, so I have
coordinated up to six routines by myself. I have started

(02:09):
teaching in my classes with other instructors, and like zumba
and dance specifically, it's like I'm more like cardio jams,
Like that's what I originally knew it. Friend DeMarco who's
no longer there because he got too big for us
and moved on to a better company that treats them better.
Rightly so, rightly so, because I do not pay like

(02:30):
the club that he works at, the membership is like
two fifty a month. No, thank you, I do Who
has that? Who?

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Not me?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
It's not me. I'll tell you it's not me. I
look at people a little differently when I go in
there and see them and there, I'm like, oh, yeah,
y'all rich rich, Like y'all can just spend money like that?
Because why because I say, at Ell Fitness, where I
still have the twenty fifteen dudes, thank you very much,
and it has not increased in now or do I
have the initiation fees so or the yearly fees because

(03:01):
I refuse to pay that. That's ridiculous. But with that
so I have started my training. Any so, I've started
my certification process. I'm halfway through, and it's specifically with Zumba,
which is a trademarked program that is based on Latin music.
Latin remix music is what I like to call it,

(03:23):
a lot of merengue, a lot of like rigoton kind of.
So I'm trying to get my foot in the door
to see if I like this. I do. I like this.
What I do love is hyping people up and dancing
with them like that is one of my favorite things
to do. And often, like when you see me in
a class, people know why I am very quickly because

(03:44):
I'm loud and energetic, because how they would put it,
and I'm somewhat coordinated. I do follow them. I've fallen
a few times.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
You have.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
I've fallen so many times.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
That's kind of how we started workshopping you being on
the show. You fell the end of the night, did
I yes?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Was that the uh bok else?

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
When I fell in the parking lot, yeah, yeah, but
it was okay. I survived, No wonder I have this
knee and drink. There's so many things that I'm like, oh,
where'd that come from? Anyway? But for the most part,
I am coordinated, uh and I can do a couple
of routines. My routines have been well received with getting
compliments of course, Like I don't think anyone would tell

(04:27):
me they hate it to my face, but you see
people and they walk out, like they will walk out
if they don't like something I've seen it happened. It
embarrasses me. For the people I'm like, oh no, oh no,
or if it's too tough, Like sometimes some of the
things are like this is way too many squats, So
I go, I go by myself. I go on my
own four to five times a week, Like I am

(04:50):
pretty avid in this world because I just love dancing
so much, Like there's so much creativity where I get
to like no coreyography and it's not hard choreography, it's
super easy choreography, and then you can make your own hype,
and then you get into the music and hopefully it's
good music, like so many different things, and then the people,

(05:10):
like I have a core group of friends. I've made
so many friends through Zoomba from a lot of different
ethnicities and nationalities as well as ages. Like our age
gap ranges from like twenty five to a woman in
there as an eighty seven years old, no ninety two
years old, and she moves she's super cute too, so
it's really fun, Like it is a great way to go.

(05:32):
I am very nervous though that what if people don't
like my stuff? I am so overly anxious about, Like
I want my own original choreography because I just think
there's something too like being able to make my own
routines and then getting picking my own music out as
well as like like what if people don't like it?

(05:53):
Though you know that there's this level, but I feel
like this is a good place to be. Also, this
may be my form of midlife crisis.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Oh you think it might be, Andie, it might be
that restlessness of like i know I'm good at this,
and I know I've stuck with this for over ten years,
Like I've had one instructor for more than ten years,
almost ten years.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
I actually wouldn't. Fred is one of my favorite people.
He is zoomba zumba, but he's also like a psychologist
slash counselor. So we are very interlinked in like our
thought our thoughts and our thought process. But like, it's
something that I know I've done, that's something that I
know is easy. But it's easy just going in. I
started thinking about like, but I'm gonna have to commit,

(06:39):
Like there's no choice for me but to do this.
Like if I commit to teaching a class, I have
to teach the same class every week unless they're closed
or unless I'm out every now and again. So there's
a lot to this that I'm a little bit nervous
about because I also like staying at home and not
interacting with people and not being judged and not being

(07:00):
complained about, which you know's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yes, I feel like I have so many questions, but
I do compare this to my fan fiction journey, which
you and I were just talking about. It's gonna happen,

(07:24):
but it's it's gonna be fine because you're you're good.
You've been doing it ten years. You know what you're doing.
I've seen you do it. We did it before the
pandemic really set in together. So I feel really confident
in you. And I also believe people don't Most people
don't want to. They want you to succeed, right, They

(07:45):
want to build you up.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah I will. So since I have started doing my
routines in classes as like a guest instructor for just
a couple of routines. Again, Fred has he's had my
back since John. He's the one that's like, you really
should do this, You're ready, you can do this, and
I'm like, okay, okay, and I asked him ten thousand questions.
He's like, you're over preparing at this point, and I'm like, yeah,
i am, because I am an anxious performer and I

(08:09):
know it's going to take me a minute to feel comfortable,
especially because there's also a lot of different routines that
he makes up that I love that I want to share.
But I am so nervous that people are thinking that
I'm going to steal his content or see people think
I'm stealing his stuff, which I'm like, no, I want
to credit it. And I'm like, I've made this whole
plan on how I'm doing it. As a fact, I'm
changing my name. I'm going to have like an instructor

(08:30):
name that's different from everything else, kind of also testing
my earlier my very first There are maybe one of
our first Happy Hour episodes when I was being in
whining about my name, about using my Korean name, and
I decided, I'm going to use my Korean family name
as my identifyer, like Samantha Lee instead of anything else,

(08:51):
and I'll use Caroll that if I do have social
media for being an instructor. So like, it's testing a
lot of things in these waters. But I am also
a lot older, and I'm not as in shape. There's
a lot of anxiety in that. Even though and I
say in shape, I don't look like I'm in shape.
Let's try that again in comparison to so many others,

(09:14):
even though I again work out four to five times
a week, like, I definitely put it in like I define,
because it's something that I need as an outlet, because
I am such an introvert at least. This is like
social time that has a specific requirement that I don't
have to have long conversations in.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
I love that. But so it's coming, y'all. I'm doing this.
I'm doing this. I've I've like, like I said, I
got six routines. I'm working up having ten before I
get there. I'm in the middle of certifying for my
Zumba instructor certification because it's cheaper and faster than the others.
The others take four to six weeks, and I will
do it. Just I want to make sure I'm committed
to this. I'm a little worried that after I start,

(09:55):
I'm like, nevermind, h.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
This is interesting. Do you think because I feel like
I have this problem where once I uh commit to something,
even if I realize it's not for me, I can't
get out. Do you do you think that you if
you realize it's not for you, are going to be like,
oh no, I got to get out or do you think.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I think I'll do it for a while. I think
I'll say a lot longer than I want to, and
then I think I'll start slowly transitioning it out, because
that's how I am, very like methodical if I have
to be, because I know that I have to keep
keeping good relations with the company, because I want to
keep going mm hmm to friend's class who is a

(10:42):
friend of mine. I got, like I said, I go
to like four or five. I know these instructors. I've
known them for years or I've built a good rapport
with them, so like, I don't want to lose that
with them. But I also know I am very good
about listening to I am stretching myself then I can't
do this or is becoming hazard to my mental health,
which you know it can be because performing is still

(11:05):
performing doing physical tasks on the same time of doing
a full time job on the same time of like
if there's any politics in there, I don't know about
Zoomba politics. Honestly, I think it felt like a cult
to me because they have very specifics that they own.
They license a lot, they license a lot, so that's

(11:27):
kind of odd to me. I don't know the history
behind it other than that I think a Latin dancer
created this, and I love that. I mean, this has
outlasted even like Tybo, Like you know, the popularity has
outgrown the popularity of like Aerba sized type of jazzer
size thing. So it's definitely hit a different realm. And

(11:48):
my dance is not necessarily Latin based. Don't get me wrong.
I love a good Latin beat, but I don't do
morengue and salsa and that's not my forte but because
I'm more on the like hip hop dance routines. But
don't get me wrong, I'm gonna get in there. I'm
gonna ge. I'm gonna get in there. I'm gonna do it.
You'll see me doing some merengue sussa. But yeah, so

(12:12):
I don't know. I don't it'll be interesting. I'll give
you a report when I start. Everyone who cares, if
you're in Atlanta, look out for me. I don't care.
I'm just that's a lie. I don't know what I'm doing.
I don't know why I'm making announcement like I'm actually
doing it. I'm just at the beginning process here. But again,
like I said, this does feel like as a later
in life adventure, which I am feeling a little a cliche,

(12:38):
a little bit cliche.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Ish act here. But I'm also really I'm nervous and
excited about what it could be and probably just gonna
be me teaching classes with like twenty thirty people.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Please come to my class.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah, maybe it'll get so popular it will be way
too many.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
I don't want to be too popular. I like thing
under the radar. Yeah, I need it just popular enough
that it fills the class. Yeah, without drama.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, yeah, I got you. I'm really happy for you,
and I'm excited about this. What does the certification process entail.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
It's like, so you can do it on different ways.
You can go in class all day for one day,
but it's a ten hour course a to ten hour course,
or you can do it online via zoom, or you
can do it on demand where it is you just
do it on a pre recorded thing. And that's what
I chose because I don't want to talk to people,

(13:40):
which is great for an instructor.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, now I think you'll I think you you said energetic, enthusiastic.
I think you got that. I'm excited to see some
of your routines. I think that's cool. I think that's
really cool.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
I feel very it feels very cliche.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
This.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Maybe I've in the life crisis y'all.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Maybe no offense, but I feel like you've had b
mid life.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
That was quarter life. We're bringing doing mid life. Okay, Well,
if it is, then it's a good one. It's a
healthy one.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
It's a healthy one. Happy for.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yea hopefully.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, hopefully, well, cross fingers everybody.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Everything can go wrong.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Show. Maybe I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
I'm speaking from my fan fiction experience. I turned it
into work, and it was I used to have this
anxiety about it.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
But now, Yeah, that's the That's the part is like
I'm gonna have to like no matter how I feel, Yeah,
I have to be there. That's that's a scary part. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, But I mean the good thing about a workout
that at least for me, is like when I start
moving around those yeah like better, Yeah, you feel better.
So hopefully that will kick in. Yes, we shall see,
you shall see. I can't wait to hear the update.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Me too.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
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(15:42):
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Speaker 2 (15:48):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
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