July 25, 2025 • 29 mins
Bob Guiney and Trista Sutter are hanging out with season 5 Bachelorette Jillian Harris! We get a full preview of her upcoming wedding that's been 8 years in the making!
Jillian opens up about how much she enjoyed being single, but ultimately found someone she wanted to share her life with, which completely rewrote her rules on relationships.
Plus, Jillian tells us why she and her fiancé co-wrote a children's book, and how her Jilly Box business became bigger than she could have ever dreamed!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the almost famous podcast with iHeartRadio. Hey everybody,
it's Trista and Bob with the almost famous OG's And
we were having so much fun with Gillian Harris that
we wanted to chat some more. So let's dive back in. Okay,
so tell us about the wedding. You're getting married this
year and it's going to be in Europe. We know
(00:22):
you just had your bachelorette party, beautiful pictures from that.
Tell us about it, or at least what you want
to tell.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Okay, it's actually not in Europe anymore.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh, it's not in Europe anymore.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I know.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I told People Magazine it was in Europe because I
really thought it was going to be, but we actually
had booked everything in Italy. I was We've literally planned
the wedding four times and we decided that we were
this summer because we love Italy, and I really struggled
with the guest list, and I was like, this is great,
We'll do it in Italy. Keep it small. But my
mom health has not been great over the years. My
(00:56):
mom really struggles with bipolar. She's been really really good
for the last year and a half or so, so like,
thank the Lord, but if she were ever to relapse,
then she wouldn't be able to come, and then my
dad wouldn't come, and I just could not risk that.
So last minute I canceled that wedding again for like
the third or fourth time. And now our wedding is
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here in Kelowna, and actually, believe it or not, I
was also convinced to make it. It's like a five
day wedding. So we're actually getting married at a church first,
which if you see news reports of a church going
down in flames on August verbs, it will be because
of me. Lots of candles, you guys, Okay, for anybody
(01:41):
that knows me, you will be shocked. I spent the
entire weekend going through and picking all of my prayers,
picking all of my oh like read I have, like
I want to customize it. So like, no, I'm taking
this very seriously. So we're married on at our church.
And it was the same church that Justin's parents got
(02:02):
married at, so that's really beautiful. And it's the same
church that the kids, our kids go to Catholic school.
This is a whole other thing, but it's the same
church that they go to for their Mass every Thursday,
So anyways, that's happening, and then we're having a big
Italian themed rehearsal dinner here at the house afterwards. I'm
very excited about that, just aesthetically, it's going to be
(02:23):
really really fun and not like everybody expectually inherits to
have like whites and pinks and whatnot. It's going to
be like like so much color, like your background, like
so so much color.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And then color.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah. And then on the weekend we're getting married at
our farm and it's just like it's a flower there's
flowers everywhere, lots of color. Brides get to wear whatever
they want, bouncy castle for the kids. I don't know,
all the good stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
That's so I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
You and Justin have always been such a wonderful couple.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So you waited this long and you're gonna have two
weddings not just fun too.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And then we're having a party the next day. We're
going a Ukrainian themed party because I'm Ukrainian and it's
gonna be on our doc and I have I hired
this lady. She's a Ukrainian refuge refugee. She came over
right during the war, and she has this company and
she makes parogis in the mall, like you know when
you go to the mall and they make like cinnamon
buns in front of you and you can. Yes, it's
(03:32):
like this, but pogis so so we're doing like a
big parogy bar and Caesar's and everything like that. So yeah,
it's like a it's a full on freakin' Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
It's so awesome. I love it. You're getting you're getting
all those all those security deposits back from all those years.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I don't know. I don't even know none of those
vendors are even still in business.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, we have to start from scratch. But that's okay whatever,
that's yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I'd have done it on your own, even I don't
put that past you.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You could have done it on your own.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But yeah, it's amazing. I cannot wait to see pictures
and video and.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
All the things.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
How are the kids feeling about a big wedding or two?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They're excited. I don't think they have any idea what's
what's going on? But Annie's got her dress is the
exact replica of mine. But baby Blue, I love it. Oh, yeah,
so she's super excited about that there's a woman in town.
So the dress is all like locally made, Canadian owned,
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all that kind of stuff, and Leo's they've all got
like several outfit changes and whatnot. But there's a lot
of kids. Like, there's gonna be I think, like forty
kids at the wedding.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
It's gonna be a bit chaotic. I'm a bit concerned,
like we have dedicated babysitters and all that kind of stuff.
But yeah, it's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
That is so unbelievable. Yeah, wait, so can I ask
so the kids her been like do they even know
that you weren't married legally technically?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Annie barely calls me mom. She calls me Jillian Harris
she does. And everything around our house has like Jillybox Jillian,
like the Jillian are Like if we meet somebody, she'll
be like, oh is that from the Jilly Are they
from the Jillibox or is that Like our kids are
really into our business.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Like oh my gosh, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And there too.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, they wanted they really want me to change my
last name, which I said I would, but not my stage.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Name, right, you got stage name function. Yeah, that's why
Canyon is Canyon. She she she kept Canyon. That was
her maiden name. I just call her Canyon. So she's
Canyon Guiney to everybody.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I love that, but yeah, they know that we're not married.
It's it's disgusted. It is.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
So I need to tell you this, Jillian, because what
you just said made me laugh so hard. My son, Grayson,
who's six his he will be and it interests her
to me tell the story a million times, but it happens.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
This kind of thing happens all the time.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Like people will come over and he'll go, oh, is
that one of your old girl friends And I'm like, what, No,
that's your mom's friend.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Oh sorry, bachelor Bob.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
And like literally he'll say, we'll be like we'll be
at McDonald's at the playland and I'll order them like
milkshakes and French fries, and a fourteen year old girl
will be delivering the and.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
He'll go, yep, that's him. He'll be of from the plateland. Yeah,
he'll take a picture with you.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Oh my god, that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
You'll go ahead, bat you Bob, take a picture with him.
I'm like she's fourteen. Bro, she doesn't know why stop?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
You know, it drives me crazy, you know, but it's
like he does that all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
We need to get them together, they need to hang out.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, no, absolutely, the kids definitely have no problem Ris
and me and us, and they're like, Annie will be like,
actually in Harris, I'm the boss with everyone.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
You're like, okay, honey, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Room. You know, if you were a normal employee, you'd
be paid.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
You wouldn't get paid to day, but I'm gonna let
you have the day.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
And there for seven and nine.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So Leo's turning nine August fifth, and Annie tre then
at the end of September.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Oh my god, I just feel like Grayson and Annie.
Grayson and Annie might be the same person.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, we honestly, and if we do, we should do
a bachelor union with everybody kids while kids and you
can have bounty castles, water slides, we could do challenges
for the kids like we can. You'd be so wholesome,
so much fun.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
That would be awesome, dude, like a little bachelor pad.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Max and Blakesley can babysit. Max Yes, turning eighteen on Saturday,
Oh my.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Wow, that's unbelievable. Trista, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That's drinking age in Canada.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well hopefully, well, good thing he's not in Canada. No,
I'm just kidding, he he. I don't think he's really
interested in it.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You know, I'm his mom, so he probably hides.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, I don't know that he is.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
He's really interested in like working out and taking care
of his body. So hopefully he's not take.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
After his parents.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, yeah he does.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I don't know about me, but thank you.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Meanwhile, the Guinea Boys are doing jaeger bombs.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And it's all about bance.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
That's right, healthy balance, that's so funny.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Okay, I do have one question related to the wedding.
I feel like in society there is definitely this like
pressure to do things in a certain order, in a
certain way, and before maybe you're forty years old, how
do you feel about that societal pressure? Obviously it's not
something that you worry too much about because you know
(08:50):
you're you're doing things your own way, which I think
so many kudos to you, But how how has that
impacted the decision to wait and how.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
How do you feel about that societal norm.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well, I I always joke that you're gonna have to
like take me down to the aisle and depends like
I've waited for it. But yeah, I mean at this rate,
I feel like Justin and I are kind of already married. Yeah.
Like to be honest, like, it's not that I didn't
want to marry him. I love him, work together, we're
(09:24):
good partners. But I'm a little European that way. That
I also because I'm an only child, I I'm so independent.
I was like, oh, I don't know if I want to, Like,
I like being my own person. Like you read the
things that they tell you in this book here, it's
like says like you become one flesh, and I'm like,
(09:44):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Not sure I feel about literally.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Okay, I'm I'm not even kidding you. There's one excerpt
I got to bring this up and it says literally
Lord is blessed with the Silent White or something like this,
and I sent it to our wedding party. I'm like,
do you guys see what I'm having to deal with
right now? So I don't really care about my age.
I think when I started to care about my age
(10:12):
is when I couldn't find that person I started that
it wasn't going to happen for me, and I just
even though being a parent and being in a relationship
is the hardest thing in the whole world. It is
so hard. I'm so happy that I'm in it. But
at one point, right before I met Justin, I was
really loving my life and I was like I could
(10:34):
actually get used to this.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Like I was.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Traveling all over the world, I dated whoever I wanted,
I did whatever I wanted. I was fit, Like I
was like, you know what, I may not want to
do this like relationship kid thing, but having kids was
so important to me, and so yeah, I think I
really really stressed about the timeline of things around the
(10:57):
time I met Justin, Like I was wondering, like I'm
going to be thirty four. I think it was thirty
two or thirty four, and everybody was on their second
marriages for Pete's sakes. So but now where I'm at
right now, I just don't feel like I'm forty five.
Like I don't feel that I'm old.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I feel like you're not.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I feel forty five is not old. I'm at least
compared to us.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
At least compared to me. I'm the old one, twisted,
just the I only think she's even fifty, Yet she
keeps saying that she.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Had her birth dap it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I'm fifty two.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I love that we are gorgeous for our a You
too are a couple of stars.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Oh Bob, you.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Too were alling on you too?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No, I don't, I don't care. And also, like, I
believe that people can get married, remarried, they can go
on to have five marriages. I think you can have
a marriage, you can have babies on your own, you
can get married. Like I think that there's no rules.
I think it's rules that get us into trouble mentally.
I think that ultimately you need to be happy and
(12:06):
do what makes you happy and sets you free, and
that is so important. I think you still have to
work in a relationship. I think there are still challenges
in relationship, but life just doesn't always Who made up
the rules that it had to go that way anyways?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Right?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Right?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, yeah, right?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I think it was this. I think I think I
might have been this.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
I think I might have been this guy.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I think so, maybe, I think so.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I just don't think it has to be that way,
and our father, father Maurice. I've had quite a few
conversations with him and he gets a kick out of
me because we have to do this course right, and
then you have to do reflections in the course, and
I feel like, how did you feel? I'm like, dude,
I've been doing this for thirteen years. Like they ask like,
who's going to take care of the children, Who's going
(12:50):
to take out the trash? I'm like, Justin and I
have already thought about this extensively for the last thirteen years,
which is why after thirteen years we are now getting married,
because we've actually worked all this stuff out right.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yeah, we got there.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
We're We're good now.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I love seeing videos of Justin, like you know, back there,
like surfing with the kids on the water and doing
all the fun stuff. And he's such a great athlete,
man is he is? He still do all that cool stuff,
all the all the sponsored stuff he used to do.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Well.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
He so he his main job is still Instagram and
he has a pretty good going at that. He's very
lucrative with with his partnerships and whatnot, which is awesome
and he loves it. So his main things are like golf,
the farm, anything, yard, travel, and then the kids and
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he actually like quite a bit of stuff in the
kitchen and whatnot in some fashion, So like don't like
totally lifestyle like dad dad lifestyle. Sure, yeah, but it
keeps them mostly busy. Is our farm. Our fam is
like a full time job. So we have eleven acres
and right now it's a flower farm, but we ordered
five hundred oak trees and when those go in, next
(14:14):
string will be we'll have a trouble farm.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Whoa.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And then we I think are going to rent out
our property for weddings.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
But yes, that kind of shocked you haven't done that
already with the weddings.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Well, because we are fire here, so farm right, Yeah,
the farm burnt down, the barn burnt down, and then
it's taken us a long time to like rebuild and
replant and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, because
are you in.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
La Bomberno, No, I'm in Michigan. Are you to move
back home? No?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
No, we got lucky from that perspective, but yeah, there's
but we've often talked about the Canyon's dream is to
have a farm and make it like a wedding farm
because there was a couple in Seattle that we loved
when we lived there.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah. Yeah, so the parks, I'm super busy. It's a
it's a money taker from us, not really a money maker.
But he loves he loves his Instagram. He does these
like sandwich reviews and like he just loves being on there.
So that's his thing. But sports wise, right at the
beginning of COVID, he we went to the island and
(15:24):
he was showing teaching Leo how to skateboard and he
shattered his ankle. Oh no, because it was COVID. They
did job putting it back together. Yeah, reoperated on twice.
And he has like chronic chronic pain, like to the
point that it's I can see that it's it's really
affecting his his space as a person. Like, yeah, he's
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such chronic pain, and he's like he's all about like
no GMOs, no advil, no no pills, no like no medicine,
and so like he just he just lives with this pain.
But November fourth, he's getting a full ankle replacement.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
My brother in law just got that.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
What.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yeah, you have.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
To tak out to Justin and let him know because
he's nervous.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I will, Yeah, you know what, I'll connect them and
they can talk about it. Because my brother in law,
Jad just did one and he's getting ready to do
the other one next year.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Why why did he have to get his ankles replaced?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Well, he so he just had this kind of weird
degenerative bone condition that started coming on. But he was
he played sports in college and stuff and had blown
out his ankle like twenty times, and then all of
a sudden it became a thing where like we'd be
playing golf and we'd look I'd look over at him
and it was like he had like a weird appendage
where his foot should be, and like, what is going
on with you?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
He couldn't climb out of bunkers?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
She like yes, Like sometimes Justin will get out of
bed and he's literally limping like he's been shot, like
and tell him angle gets warmed up. It's so sad.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Yeah, that's that's what my brother went through too.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I broke my ankle during COVID.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Do you remember when we did that like the Roses,
Like we passed the Roses and did that little video
And I was in a boot during then and had
my ankle worked on and.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I have this. I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I wouldn't call it chronic pain, but you're right, like
when I get out of bed, I have to limp
to the bathroom in the mornings, and it is and
I still don't have feeling. Tell us about the children's book,
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like a cute little children's book.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
This was Justin's idea, and how it actually started was
we wanted to write a book. I think there should
be a movie about Nacho, but anyways, we wanted to
about Nacho from like Reichs to Riches, how he like
came from Mexico and he just about died and then
he liked, do you know that Nacho had his own
like billboard in Times Square? He was, Yes, he was
featured on the Ellen Show like this dog went viral
(17:54):
on Instagram all the time, and so we wanted to
write a book about him. But for some reason our
public didn't like that idea. I don't know why, but
we're going to continue to hit them up for it.
So then they were like, well, we do want to
do a children's book with you though, but not that,
And I'm like, well, that was our idea, Like I
don't know, like so then then Justin and I chatted
(18:15):
and we're like, you know, what would be interesting is
like people look at our life and like, yes, you know,
I still acknowledge the amount of privilege that we have
in our life. We're both mostly able bodied. We live
in such a safe place, like there are so many great,
great things that we have to be grateful for. But
but even if you could took somebody else like exactly
(18:36):
like us, people look at us and think like, oh,
they're so perfect their Instagram life and all this stuff,
But behind the scenes, it's chill, like like like on Friday,
I just bo called off the whole wedding because Justin
put its fucking dirty tuna dish in with my clean
dishes at six in the morning when I'm trying to
we're trying to get we're leaving this condo that we rented,
(18:57):
and I'm trying to leave it in decent shape. It's
six in the morning. I'm trying to get out of there.
I have wedding meetings back in Colonna, have like an
hour and a half drive. There's a clearly a dirty
side and a clean side. And he was just speaking
dirty tunic, and so all I said was all I said,
was all I said was okay, and I took the
dirty tunis and he's you don't have to be so rude,
and I'm like, I'm not being rude, it's just don't
(19:19):
put your thty tunics and thing. He's like, oh, well,
you don't have to be accountable for anything.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Like you're the one that.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I like.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
Anyways, So then then at this point, at this point,
like I'm talking like like this, like like not fist,
like not fisical, but look like we're like job and
this job, and that Leo comes downstairs.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
He's like, are you guys breaking up? I'm like, yes,
we are again, we're breaking up. I'm like, no, we're
not breaking up, Jillian, You're gonna scar this poor kid.
Like it's like, hey, no, we're not breaking up, but
I want to. But anyways, behind the scene was like
it's chaotic. We just got a new kiddie, got a
(19:59):
new puppy. I'm the worst driver ever. Like all of
our seat, all of our bushes are all trash because
I run over everything, and so like our days are
just absolute chaotic. And it isn't until bedtime that we're
all like, oh, holy right, okay, let's do this. And
every day is the same, and so I just wanted
(20:19):
to write a book kind of about that for kids
that it's okay if it's a show, like as long
as you have each other, everything is going to be okay.
And so there's gonna be a series. Now we're working
on just another perfect Christmas, and then it'll be just
another perfect vacation. But this one is just like everyday life,
like just another perfect day, and just how like the
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day starts off perfect, but then how it just like
spirals out of control.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I love it, and I need I need I need
that book because I'm listening right now.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Do I show it downstairs?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
I love it, just screaming on going, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Oh my gosh. That is so cute. Such a good idea.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You know, I always wanted to write a children's book,
and my literary agent was like, Okay, what's your idea.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I'm like, I don't have one. Like, tell me an
idea and then I'll write it. But I don't know
that's a perfect idea.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I wonder if you could write something about like finding
love or about the show. But that's good for.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Kids, Yeah, I mean for sure we could.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I that's so true.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh my gosh, like chat GPT, so Max is obviously eighteen,
He's going to be applying to colleges real soon. They
open up like August first, which stresses me out to
no end. But I literally put in chat GBT, this
is my son, this is who he is, this is
his personality, this is his family life, blah blah blah.
Give me ten college essay topics that he can write about.
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And it was like, I'm like, okay, people pay tens
of thousands.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Of dollars for this, and literally it was.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Like, that's awesome, crazy, it's it's it is, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Some of it scares me, but at first stamps I
person really scared me. But then I was like, this
is actually like for so long, I feel like we
were doing things the hard way, so hard and the
way the world has gone with how hard families have
to work in order to maintain their life, like the
cost of living and everything. Make it for some of us,
(22:22):
make it us. I'm good, I'm easy for make it.
Somebody helped, Somebody helps each other out, Like I think
this yeah could be maybe yeah, take a little break people.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Yeah, I'm like you, Jillian, like I don't like I
don't like that Alexa listens in, and I don't like
Siri knowing what's up and Canyon loves it.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Can you'll be like.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I was talking about how much I wanted a new
pair of boots, and sirih said, these are the four
that my phone just recently popped up and told me
these four boots are for sale.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I'm like, well, it's going on my Head's Siri.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Gonna pay for those boots?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
No, I have no problem. I used to bug me.
I used to bugg me. But if somebody on the
internet could be listening to everything I say and they
can make my life easier because of it, listen, yeah,
like help me with my relationship, my kids, the puppy training,
pee training, I don't know, my my incontinence, Like, I
don't know, give me help me? Why why do I
(23:12):
pee when I walk? When I fart? Like, help me?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Oh my god, that's so funny. Oh, we gotta do
this more often, Jillian Harris.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I mean for real, but before we go, if Justin
comes in, awesome, But I want you to tell everybody
about the Jillybocks.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Oh yes, okay, so before in right, like in twenty sixteen,
when I first started on Instagram, like a lot of
other influencers, I would get sent all these all this
gifting right from all different people. And when I shared
it on my socials, Let's say I got sent something
from like Eve Saint Laurent or something, and I shared,
like I got some new lipstick or perfume or whatever.
(23:54):
You know, people are like, oh cool, Jill's really lucky,
like whatever, but like you think Eve San Laurent really gives.
I shouldn't use them as an example because they still
send me stuff and I really like them. But anyways,
but when I would get stuff gifted from small brands,
women own brands, Canadian own brands, brands that have you know,
historically been marginalized, and I would share, they would lose
(24:18):
their They would be like, you change my life, And
that feeling was so addictive. Like to know that I
could help other families and I could help other small businesses.
I just love that so much. So that became something
that I really love to do. But I couldn't monetize
on that. And not to say you have to monetize
on everything, but my platform is worth something and my
(24:40):
time is worth something. And if I kept on doing that,
I would just be like a billboard. So I was like,
and a lot of these brands wanted to collaborate. They
wanted me to do my own custom products. So I
was like, what if we picked a handful of small
brands and I either picked their favorite product or we
designed an exclusive product and we curated a box and
(25:00):
the box was a surprise and we sold that tour
to the customer. Well, what happened was we were like
so excited about this project, we actually like leaked the
whole idea. We shared the whole idea. We brought our
customer along that. When the box launched, we had five
thousand boxes to sell, but we had a wait list
of over one hundred thousand people. Our websites black, everything crashed.
(25:24):
People waited online to get a box for like twelve hours,
Like people were crying, people finding my phone number, calling
me like like trying to give me money, like thousands
of dollars to get this box. I'm like, what the Like,
I actually didn't realize like how good of an idea
this was. So that was five years ago. We're well
on to our over our fifth year. Now we sell
twenty thousand boxes in one day we do this, and
(25:47):
we do this four times a year, and we completely
sell it one day and we have like donated well
over a million dollars like back into the community, Jill,
and we try to partner with mostly small brands, women
own brands, like brands that like have a good give
back component, be corporate certified, that kind of stuff. So
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that's kind of the thing. And now we're just expanding
our marketplace so that some of these brands can't do
twenty thousand units. It's just too many units for a
small brand. So we're bringing their product into our marketplace.
So people who want to shop with values, if they
want to support a small brand, or if they like
you can actually shop buy your values. If you want
like indigenous owned or black owned or vegan, you can
(26:32):
actually shop buy values. And so we're going to expand
that's our big goal this year is to expand in marketplace.
So that's my big baby. I'm super passionate about it
because I don't get to just succeed other people in
my cirket to succeed. And you know right now with
Amazon and Shean and t Moon all that, like a
lot of these small businesses are really really hanging on
(26:54):
and by a thread. And these businesses are the backbone
of our economy. They're the back They're the ones stone
eating to have the hockey teams. They're the ones that
are paying the taxes to clean up the streets. Like,
it's so important to support these small businesses. So that's
my baby, and that's mostly what I do. But then
I do Instagram stuff too.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Love it. I love it.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
I love that your your your passion turned into this
thing that's actually helping so many people too.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I love it. It's so funny. That's awesome, like curating
the boxes and designing the items and the photo shoots
and like, oh just it's so so much fun.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I love it so fun.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
We love you, Jilly, we do.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
We love you me and my multiple personalities.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
I love you guys, and you guys love no. It
is great, though, isn't it nice when we get to
connect like this? And that's what's so great about the
Almost Famous OG podcast. We bring back superstars like Jillian Harris,
and you guys get to see that she's just as
beautiful and lovely as you thought she would be.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Right, Trista so.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Much for having right Oh my gosh, thank you so
much for comingming on, especially leading up to your wedding.
I am so happy for you, guys, and not that
you needed the wedding to make me happy for you
guys and make the rest of the world happy for you.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I'm happy for us too. It's about it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Be Yeah, Yeah, you're going to have a great time. Okay,
Well tell Justin. We're sad we didn't get to stay high, but.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
We're both putting fires today. But we're good. We're good,
he says. Hi, and you guys can connect over Instagram.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, let me know if you if you can. If
I think, if you still me number, send me his
number and I'll connect him with my brother in law
for the ankle talk.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Sound good?
Speaker 5 (28:37):
All right bye, guys. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
That was amazing.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
She's so dang funny. I mean, honestly, guys.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I know it's so funny.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
And she's going to.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Put our editors to work. They're going to have a
tough time with this one. There's some salting in there,
which I love.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Oh gosh, no kidding, so true. I was like bombs
and the Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Yeah, as always, so great seeing you. Trista awesome talking
to Alian Harris, one of my favorite people from the franchise,
and like you said, definitely someone that we shall look
up to. And I mean the fact that she's doing
that jillybox and has taken care.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Of so many people that I love it. Yeah, I
absolutely love it. That's the good of what can come
from this kind of stuff, right.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, for real, for real. Well, thanks everybody for listening.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
We will talk to you soon.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
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This is the almost famous podcast with iHeartRadio. Hey everybody,
it's Trista and Bob with the almost famous OG's And
we were having so much fun with Gillian Harris that
we wanted to chat some more. So let's dive back in. Okay,
so tell us about the wedding. You're getting married this
year and it's going to be in Europe. We know
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you just had your bachelorette party, beautiful pictures from that.
Tell us about it, or at least what you want
to tell.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Okay, it's actually not in Europe anymore.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh, it's not in Europe anymore.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I know.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I told People Magazine it was in Europe because I
really thought it was going to be, but we actually
had booked everything in Italy. I was We've literally planned
the wedding four times and we decided that we were
this summer because we love Italy, and I really struggled
with the guest list, and I was like, this is great,
We'll do it in Italy. Keep it small. But my
mom health has not been great over the years. My
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mom really struggles with bipolar. She's been really really good
for the last year and a half or so, so like,
thank the Lord, but if she were ever to relapse,
then she wouldn't be able to come, and then my
dad wouldn't come, and I just could not risk that.
So last minute I canceled that wedding again for like
the third or fourth time. And now our wedding is
(01:18):
here in Kelowna, and actually, believe it or not, I
was also convinced to make it. It's like a five
day wedding. So we're actually getting married at a church first,
which if you see news reports of a church going
down in flames on August verbs, it will be because
of me. Lots of candles, you guys, Okay, for anybody
(01:41):
that knows me, you will be shocked. I spent the
entire weekend going through and picking all of my prayers,
picking all of my oh like read I have, like
I want to customize it. So like, no, I'm taking
this very seriously. So we're married on at our church.
And it was the same church that Justin's parents got
(02:02):
married at, so that's really beautiful. And it's the same
church that the kids, our kids go to Catholic school.
This is a whole other thing, but it's the same
church that they go to for their Mass every Thursday,
So anyways, that's happening, and then we're having a big
Italian themed rehearsal dinner here at the house afterwards. I'm
very excited about that, just aesthetically, it's going to be
(02:23):
really really fun and not like everybody expectually inherits to
have like whites and pinks and whatnot. It's going to
be like like so much color, like your background, like
so so much color.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And then color.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah. And then on the weekend we're getting married at
our farm and it's just like it's a flower there's
flowers everywhere, lots of color. Brides get to wear whatever
they want, bouncy castle for the kids. I don't know,
all the good stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
That's so I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
You and Justin have always been such a wonderful couple.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So you waited this long and you're gonna have two
weddings not just fun too.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And then we're having a party the next day. We're
going a Ukrainian themed party because I'm Ukrainian and it's
gonna be on our doc and I have I hired
this lady. She's a Ukrainian refuge refugee. She came over
right during the war, and she has this company and
she makes parogis in the mall, like you know when
you go to the mall and they make like cinnamon
buns in front of you and you can. Yes, it's
(03:32):
like this, but pogis so so we're doing like a
big parogy bar and Caesar's and everything like that. So yeah,
it's like a it's a full on freakin' Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
It's so awesome. I love it. You're getting you're getting
all those all those security deposits back from all those years.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I don't know. I don't even know none of those
vendors are even still in business.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, we have to start from scratch. But that's okay whatever,
that's yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I'd have done it on your own, even I don't
put that past you.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You could have done it on your own.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But yeah, it's amazing. I cannot wait to see pictures
and video and.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
All the things.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
How are the kids feeling about a big wedding or two?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They're excited. I don't think they have any idea what's
what's going on? But Annie's got her dress is the
exact replica of mine. But baby Blue, I love it. Oh, yeah,
so she's super excited about that there's a woman in town.
So the dress is all like locally made, Canadian owned,
(04:35):
all that kind of stuff, and Leo's they've all got
like several outfit changes and whatnot. But there's a lot
of kids. Like, there's gonna be I think, like forty
kids at the wedding.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
It's gonna be a bit chaotic. I'm a bit concerned,
like we have dedicated babysitters and all that kind of stuff.
But yeah, it's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
That is so unbelievable. Yeah, wait, so can I ask
so the kids her been like do they even know
that you weren't married legally technically?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Annie barely calls me mom. She calls me Jillian Harris
she does. And everything around our house has like Jillybox Jillian,
like the Jillian are Like if we meet somebody, she'll
be like, oh is that from the Jilly Are they
from the Jillibox or is that Like our kids are
really into our business.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Like oh my gosh, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And there too.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, they wanted they really want me to change my
last name, which I said I would, but not my stage.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Name, right, you got stage name function. Yeah, that's why
Canyon is Canyon. She she she kept Canyon. That was
her maiden name. I just call her Canyon. So she's
Canyon Guiney to everybody.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I love that, but yeah, they know that we're not married.
It's it's disgusted. It is.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
So I need to tell you this, Jillian, because what
you just said made me laugh so hard. My son, Grayson,
who's six his he will be and it interests her
to me tell the story a million times, but it happens.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
This kind of thing happens all the time.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Like people will come over and he'll go, oh, is
that one of your old girl friends And I'm like, what, No,
that's your mom's friend.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Oh sorry, bachelor Bob.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
And like literally he'll say, we'll be like we'll be
at McDonald's at the playland and I'll order them like
milkshakes and French fries, and a fourteen year old girl
will be delivering the and.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
He'll go, yep, that's him. He'll be of from the plateland. Yeah,
he'll take a picture with you.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Oh my god, that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
You'll go ahead, bat you Bob, take a picture with him.
I'm like she's fourteen. Bro, she doesn't know why stop?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
You know, it drives me crazy, you know, but it's
like he does that all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
We need to get them together, they need to hang out.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, no, absolutely, the kids definitely have no problem Ris
and me and us, and they're like, Annie will be like,
actually in Harris, I'm the boss with everyone.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
You're like, okay, honey, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Room. You know, if you were a normal employee, you'd
be paid.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
You wouldn't get paid to day, but I'm gonna let
you have the day.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
And there for seven and nine.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So Leo's turning nine August fifth, and Annie tre then
at the end of September.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Oh my god, I just feel like Grayson and Annie.
Grayson and Annie might be the same person.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, we honestly, and if we do, we should do
a bachelor union with everybody kids while kids and you
can have bounty castles, water slides, we could do challenges
for the kids like we can. You'd be so wholesome,
so much fun.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
That would be awesome, dude, like a little bachelor pad.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Max and Blakesley can babysit. Max Yes, turning eighteen on Saturday,
Oh my.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Wow, that's unbelievable. Trista, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That's drinking age in Canada.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well hopefully, well, good thing he's not in Canada. No,
I'm just kidding, he he. I don't think he's really
interested in it.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You know, I'm his mom, so he probably hides.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, I don't know that he is.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
He's really interested in like working out and taking care
of his body. So hopefully he's not take.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
After his parents.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, yeah he does.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I don't know about me, but thank you.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Meanwhile, the Guinea Boys are doing jaeger bombs.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And it's all about bance.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
That's right, healthy balance, that's so funny.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Okay, I do have one question related to the wedding.
I feel like in society there is definitely this like
pressure to do things in a certain order, in a
certain way, and before maybe you're forty years old, how
do you feel about that societal pressure? Obviously it's not
something that you worry too much about because you know
(08:50):
you're you're doing things your own way, which I think
so many kudos to you, But how how has that
impacted the decision to wait and how.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
How do you feel about that societal norm.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well, I I always joke that you're gonna have to
like take me down to the aisle and depends like
I've waited for it. But yeah, I mean at this rate,
I feel like Justin and I are kind of already married. Yeah.
Like to be honest, like, it's not that I didn't
want to marry him. I love him, work together, we're
(09:24):
good partners. But I'm a little European that way. That
I also because I'm an only child, I I'm so independent.
I was like, oh, I don't know if I want to, Like,
I like being my own person. Like you read the
things that they tell you in this book here, it's
like says like you become one flesh, and I'm like,
(09:44):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Not sure I feel about literally.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Okay, I'm I'm not even kidding you. There's one excerpt
I got to bring this up and it says literally
Lord is blessed with the Silent White or something like this,
and I sent it to our wedding party. I'm like,
do you guys see what I'm having to deal with
right now? So I don't really care about my age.
I think when I started to care about my age
(10:12):
is when I couldn't find that person I started that
it wasn't going to happen for me, and I just
even though being a parent and being in a relationship
is the hardest thing in the whole world. It is
so hard. I'm so happy that I'm in it. But
at one point, right before I met Justin, I was
really loving my life and I was like I could
(10:34):
actually get used to this.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Like I was.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Traveling all over the world, I dated whoever I wanted,
I did whatever I wanted. I was fit, Like I
was like, you know what, I may not want to
do this like relationship kid thing, but having kids was
so important to me, and so yeah, I think I
really really stressed about the timeline of things around the
(10:57):
time I met Justin, Like I was wondering, like I'm
going to be thirty four. I think it was thirty
two or thirty four, and everybody was on their second
marriages for Pete's sakes. So but now where I'm at
right now, I just don't feel like I'm forty five.
Like I don't feel that I'm old.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I feel like you're not.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I feel forty five is not old. I'm at least
compared to us.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
At least compared to me. I'm the old one, twisted,
just the I only think she's even fifty, Yet she
keeps saying that she.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Had her birth dap it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I'm fifty two.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I love that we are gorgeous for our a You
too are a couple of stars.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Oh Bob, you.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Too were alling on you too?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No, I don't, I don't care. And also, like, I
believe that people can get married, remarried, they can go
on to have five marriages. I think you can have
a marriage, you can have babies on your own, you
can get married. Like I think that there's no rules.
I think it's rules that get us into trouble mentally.
I think that ultimately you need to be happy and
(12:06):
do what makes you happy and sets you free, and
that is so important. I think you still have to
work in a relationship. I think there are still challenges
in relationship, but life just doesn't always Who made up
the rules that it had to go that way anyways?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Right?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Right?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, yeah, right?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I think it was this. I think I think I
might have been this.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
I think I might have been this guy.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I think so, maybe, I think so.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I just don't think it has to be that way,
and our father, father Maurice. I've had quite a few
conversations with him and he gets a kick out of
me because we have to do this course right, and
then you have to do reflections in the course, and
I feel like, how did you feel? I'm like, dude,
I've been doing this for thirteen years. Like they ask like,
who's going to take care of the children, Who's going
(12:50):
to take out the trash? I'm like, Justin and I
have already thought about this extensively for the last thirteen years,
which is why after thirteen years we are now getting married,
because we've actually worked all this stuff out right.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Yeah, we got there.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
We're We're good now.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I love seeing videos of Justin, like you know, back there,
like surfing with the kids on the water and doing
all the fun stuff. And he's such a great athlete,
man is he is? He still do all that cool stuff,
all the all the sponsored stuff he used to do.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Well.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
He so he his main job is still Instagram and
he has a pretty good going at that. He's very
lucrative with with his partnerships and whatnot, which is awesome
and he loves it. So his main things are like golf,
the farm, anything, yard, travel, and then the kids and
(13:51):
he actually like quite a bit of stuff in the
kitchen and whatnot in some fashion, So like don't like
totally lifestyle like dad dad lifestyle. Sure, yeah, but it
keeps them mostly busy. Is our farm. Our fam is
like a full time job. So we have eleven acres
and right now it's a flower farm, but we ordered
five hundred oak trees and when those go in, next
(14:14):
string will be we'll have a trouble farm.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Whoa.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
And then we I think are going to rent out
our property for weddings.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
But yes, that kind of shocked you haven't done that
already with the weddings.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Well, because we are fire here, so farm right, Yeah,
the farm burnt down, the barn burnt down, and then
it's taken us a long time to like rebuild and
replant and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, because
are you in.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
La Bomberno, No, I'm in Michigan. Are you to move
back home? No?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
No, we got lucky from that perspective, but yeah, there's
but we've often talked about the Canyon's dream is to
have a farm and make it like a wedding farm
because there was a couple in Seattle that we loved
when we lived there.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah. Yeah, so the parks, I'm super busy. It's a
it's a money taker from us, not really a money maker.
But he loves he loves his Instagram. He does these
like sandwich reviews and like he just loves being on there.
So that's his thing. But sports wise, right at the
beginning of COVID, he we went to the island and
(15:24):
he was showing teaching Leo how to skateboard and he
shattered his ankle. Oh no, because it was COVID. They
did job putting it back together. Yeah, reoperated on twice.
And he has like chronic chronic pain, like to the
point that it's I can see that it's it's really
affecting his his space as a person. Like, yeah, he's
(15:46):
such chronic pain, and he's like he's all about like
no GMOs, no advil, no no pills, no like no medicine,
and so like he just he just lives with this pain.
But November fourth, he's getting a full ankle replacement.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
My brother in law just got that.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
What.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yeah, you have.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
To tak out to Justin and let him know because
he's nervous.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I will, Yeah, you know what, I'll connect them and
they can talk about it. Because my brother in law,
Jad just did one and he's getting ready to do
the other one next year.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Why why did he have to get his ankles replaced?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Well, he so he just had this kind of weird
degenerative bone condition that started coming on. But he was
he played sports in college and stuff and had blown
out his ankle like twenty times, and then all of
a sudden it became a thing where like we'd be
playing golf and we'd look I'd look over at him
and it was like he had like a weird appendage
where his foot should be, and like, what is going
on with you?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
He couldn't climb out of bunkers?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
She like yes, Like sometimes Justin will get out of
bed and he's literally limping like he's been shot, like
and tell him angle gets warmed up. It's so sad.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Yeah, that's that's what my brother went through too.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I broke my ankle during COVID.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Do you remember when we did that like the Roses,
Like we passed the Roses and did that little video
And I was in a boot during then and had
my ankle worked on and.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I have this. I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I wouldn't call it chronic pain, but you're right, like
when I get out of bed, I have to limp
to the bathroom in the mornings, and it is and
I still don't have feeling. Tell us about the children's book,
(17:29):
like a cute little children's book.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
This was Justin's idea, and how it actually started was
we wanted to write a book. I think there should
be a movie about Nacho, but anyways, we wanted to
about Nacho from like Reichs to Riches, how he like
came from Mexico and he just about died and then
he liked, do you know that Nacho had his own
like billboard in Times Square? He was, Yes, he was
featured on the Ellen Show like this dog went viral
(17:54):
on Instagram all the time, and so we wanted to
write a book about him. But for some reason our
public didn't like that idea. I don't know why, but
we're going to continue to hit them up for it.
So then they were like, well, we do want to
do a children's book with you though, but not that,
And I'm like, well, that was our idea, Like I
don't know, like so then then Justin and I chatted
(18:15):
and we're like, you know, what would be interesting is
like people look at our life and like, yes, you know,
I still acknowledge the amount of privilege that we have
in our life. We're both mostly able bodied. We live
in such a safe place, like there are so many great,
great things that we have to be grateful for. But
but even if you could took somebody else like exactly
(18:36):
like us, people look at us and think like, oh,
they're so perfect their Instagram life and all this stuff,
But behind the scenes, it's chill, like like like on Friday,
I just bo called off the whole wedding because Justin
put its fucking dirty tuna dish in with my clean
dishes at six in the morning when I'm trying to
we're trying to get we're leaving this condo that we rented,
(18:57):
and I'm trying to leave it in decent shape. It's
six in the morning. I'm trying to get out of there.
I have wedding meetings back in Colonna, have like an
hour and a half drive. There's a clearly a dirty
side and a clean side. And he was just speaking
dirty tunic, and so all I said was all I said,
was all I said was okay, and I took the
dirty tunis and he's you don't have to be so rude,
and I'm like, I'm not being rude, it's just don't
(19:19):
put your thty tunics and thing. He's like, oh, well,
you don't have to be accountable for anything.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Like you're the one that.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I like.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
Anyways, So then then at this point, at this point,
like I'm talking like like this, like like not fist,
like not fisical, but look like we're like job and
this job, and that Leo comes downstairs.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
He's like, are you guys breaking up? I'm like, yes,
we are again, we're breaking up. I'm like, no, we're
not breaking up, Jillian, You're gonna scar this poor kid.
Like it's like, hey, no, we're not breaking up, but
I want to. But anyways, behind the scene was like
it's chaotic. We just got a new kiddie, got a
(19:59):
new puppy. I'm the worst driver ever. Like all of
our seat, all of our bushes are all trash because
I run over everything, and so like our days are
just absolute chaotic. And it isn't until bedtime that we're
all like, oh, holy right, okay, let's do this. And
every day is the same, and so I just wanted
(20:19):
to write a book kind of about that for kids
that it's okay if it's a show, like as long
as you have each other, everything is going to be okay.
And so there's gonna be a series. Now we're working
on just another perfect Christmas, and then it'll be just
another perfect vacation. But this one is just like everyday life,
like just another perfect day, and just how like the
(20:40):
day starts off perfect, but then how it just like
spirals out of control.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I love it, and I need I need I need
that book because I'm listening right now.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Do I show it downstairs?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
I love it, just screaming on going, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Oh my gosh. That is so cute. Such a good idea.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You know, I always wanted to write a children's book,
and my literary agent was like, Okay, what's your idea.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I'm like, I don't have one. Like, tell me an
idea and then I'll write it. But I don't know
that's a perfect idea.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I wonder if you could write something about like finding
love or about the show. But that's good for.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Kids, Yeah, I mean for sure we could.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I that's so true.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh my gosh, like chat GPT, so Max is obviously eighteen,
He's going to be applying to colleges real soon. They
open up like August first, which stresses me out to
no end. But I literally put in chat GBT, this
is my son, this is who he is, this is
his personality, this is his family life, blah blah blah.
Give me ten college essay topics that he can write about.
(21:52):
And it was like, I'm like, okay, people pay tens
of thousands.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Of dollars for this, and literally it was.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Like, that's awesome, crazy, it's it's it is, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Some of it scares me, but at first stamps I
person really scared me. But then I was like, this
is actually like for so long, I feel like we
were doing things the hard way, so hard and the
way the world has gone with how hard families have
to work in order to maintain their life, like the
cost of living and everything. Make it for some of us,
(22:22):
make it us. I'm good, I'm easy for make it.
Somebody helped, Somebody helps each other out, Like I think
this yeah could be maybe yeah, take a little break people.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Yeah, I'm like you, Jillian, like I don't like I
don't like that Alexa listens in, and I don't like
Siri knowing what's up and Canyon loves it.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Can you'll be like.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I was talking about how much I wanted a new
pair of boots, and sirih said, these are the four
that my phone just recently popped up and told me
these four boots are for sale.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I'm like, well, it's going on my Head's Siri.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Gonna pay for those boots?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
No, I have no problem. I used to bug me.
I used to bugg me. But if somebody on the
internet could be listening to everything I say and they
can make my life easier because of it, listen, yeah,
like help me with my relationship, my kids, the puppy training,
pee training, I don't know, my my incontinence, Like, I
don't know, give me help me? Why why do I
(23:12):
pee when I walk? When I fart? Like, help me?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Oh my god, that's so funny. Oh, we gotta do
this more often, Jillian Harris.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I mean for real, but before we go, if Justin
comes in, awesome, But I want you to tell everybody
about the Jillybocks.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Oh yes, okay, so before in right, like in twenty sixteen,
when I first started on Instagram, like a lot of
other influencers, I would get sent all these all this
gifting right from all different people. And when I shared
it on my socials, Let's say I got sent something
from like Eve Saint Laurent or something, and I shared,
like I got some new lipstick or perfume or whatever.
(23:54):
You know, people are like, oh cool, Jill's really lucky,
like whatever, but like you think Eve San Laurent really gives.
I shouldn't use them as an example because they still
send me stuff and I really like them. But anyways,
but when I would get stuff gifted from small brands,
women own brands, Canadian own brands, brands that have you know,
historically been marginalized, and I would share, they would lose
(24:18):
their They would be like, you change my life, And
that feeling was so addictive. Like to know that I
could help other families and I could help other small businesses.
I just love that so much. So that became something
that I really love to do. But I couldn't monetize
on that. And not to say you have to monetize
on everything, but my platform is worth something and my
(24:40):
time is worth something. And if I kept on doing that,
I would just be like a billboard. So I was like,
and a lot of these brands wanted to collaborate. They
wanted me to do my own custom products. So I
was like, what if we picked a handful of small
brands and I either picked their favorite product or we
designed an exclusive product and we curated a box and
(25:00):
the box was a surprise and we sold that tour
to the customer. Well, what happened was we were like
so excited about this project, we actually like leaked the
whole idea. We shared the whole idea. We brought our
customer along that. When the box launched, we had five
thousand boxes to sell, but we had a wait list
of over one hundred thousand people. Our websites black, everything crashed.
(25:24):
People waited online to get a box for like twelve hours,
Like people were crying, people finding my phone number, calling
me like like trying to give me money, like thousands
of dollars to get this box. I'm like, what the Like,
I actually didn't realize like how good of an idea
this was. So that was five years ago. We're well
on to our over our fifth year. Now we sell
twenty thousand boxes in one day we do this, and
(25:47):
we do this four times a year, and we completely
sell it one day and we have like donated well
over a million dollars like back into the community, Jill,
and we try to partner with mostly small brands, women
own brands, like brands that like have a good give
back component, be corporate certified, that kind of stuff. So
(26:11):
that's kind of the thing. And now we're just expanding
our marketplace so that some of these brands can't do
twenty thousand units. It's just too many units for a
small brand. So we're bringing their product into our marketplace.
So people who want to shop with values, if they
want to support a small brand, or if they like
you can actually shop buy your values. If you want
like indigenous owned or black owned or vegan, you can
(26:32):
actually shop buy values. And so we're going to expand
that's our big goal this year is to expand in marketplace.
So that's my big baby. I'm super passionate about it
because I don't get to just succeed other people in
my cirket to succeed. And you know right now with
Amazon and Shean and t Moon all that, like a
lot of these small businesses are really really hanging on
(26:54):
and by a thread. And these businesses are the backbone
of our economy. They're the back They're the ones stone
eating to have the hockey teams. They're the ones that
are paying the taxes to clean up the streets. Like,
it's so important to support these small businesses. So that's
my baby, and that's mostly what I do. But then
I do Instagram stuff too.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Love it. I love it.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
I love that your your your passion turned into this
thing that's actually helping so many people too.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I love it. It's so funny. That's awesome, like curating
the boxes and designing the items and the photo shoots
and like, oh just it's so so much fun.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I love it so fun.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
We love you, Jilly, we do.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
We love you me and my multiple personalities.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
I love you guys, and you guys love no. It
is great, though, isn't it nice when we get to
connect like this? And that's what's so great about the
Almost Famous OG podcast. We bring back superstars like Jillian Harris,
and you guys get to see that she's just as
beautiful and lovely as you thought she would be.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Right, Trista so.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Much for having right Oh my gosh, thank you so
much for comingming on, especially leading up to your wedding.
I am so happy for you, guys, and not that
you needed the wedding to make me happy for you
guys and make the rest of the world happy for you.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I'm happy for us too. It's about it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Be Yeah, Yeah, you're going to have a great time. Okay,
Well tell Justin. We're sad we didn't get to stay high, but.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
We're both putting fires today. But we're good. We're good,
he says. Hi, and you guys can connect over Instagram.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, let me know if you if you can. If
I think, if you still me number, send me his
number and I'll connect him with my brother in law
for the ankle talk.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Sound good?
Speaker 5 (28:37):
All right bye, guys. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
That was amazing.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
She's so dang funny. I mean, honestly, guys.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I know it's so funny.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
And she's going to.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Put our editors to work. They're going to have a
tough time with this one. There's some salting in there,
which I love.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Oh gosh, no kidding, so true. I was like bombs
and the Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Yeah, as always, so great seeing you. Trista awesome talking
to Alian Harris, one of my favorite people from the franchise,
and like you said, definitely someone that we shall look
up to. And I mean the fact that she's doing
that jillybox and has taken care.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Of so many people that I love it. Yeah, I
absolutely love it. That's the good of what can come
from this kind of stuff, right.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, for real, for real. Well, thanks everybody for listening.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
We will talk to you soon.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
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