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Speaker 1 (00:03):
I'm Heather to Brow and we're going to keep this
between us. Hi, everybody, It's on bonus episode. By the way,
so many messages from all of you about our holiday decor.
If you haven't seen it, go watch my YouTube channel
Heatherdbrow and you can go see everything there. Christmas Eve,
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which you love and you hate, and you want to
know why Terry loves it and he hates it. I'm
gonna tell you why. Tell me why he loves it
because we go out to a fabulous meal. Love that,
and we're going somewhere fun tonight. Oh yeah, it's a
great restaurant and with the kids, and I always bring
Christmas crackers, which are those they look at chips, your
old their paper and you twist and snap them apart
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and they have like a little crown inside and a
joke and a little trinket and a question. And we
go around the table and we do all that and
it's just silly and fun and magic in the air.
And then we go home and we put on our
Christmas pjs, our magic pjs, which my kids still allow. Yeah,
and then the reason he hates it is because then
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we do Secret Santa.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I hate Secret Sanna. Yes, yeah, Secret Sanna is BS
And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Shall I tell how it started? Okay, so this is
why it started. I and buy all of the kids' gifts.
So we celebrate everything. We're Jewish, but we have a
tree and we celebrate Honika and we do a fabulous
big Honka party and all the things. But we also
love Christmas. And so one year, all the kids wanted
to buy gifts for each other and I went, okay,
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I thought it was sweet, and then I realized it
was so many presents it was stupid. So what we
decided to do was a secret Santa on Christmas Eve,
so everyone got one little gift and then on Christmas
Day they got their presence from us. And Santa always
brings one special thing for the family, so it was
spless to be that it was sweet. But now you
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could say why you hate it?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, first of all, I don't like receiving gifts. Yes, okay,
I have everything, I like, everything I need, and it's
really hard to buy for me because I don't want anything,
and if I ever wanted anything, I would have it. Okay,
So when you buy something for me, it's like perfunctory
It's like you're spending a bunch of my money on
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me for something I don't want, right, So that it
just I don't like it, right, I get that, okay?
And so then the kids want to buy something for
whoever they picked randomly out of secret senate and it's
basically just a way to get another Christmas gift that
I'm paying for. So I don't like that either, yes,
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And so you know, why don't we just get you
another gift rather than it's just like, this is just
an excuse to get another gift. And now they're all adults.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
So it's more expensive.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So now we're buying an adult level gift that I'm
paying for. Right, although let's be honest, you and people
should know this. You know you make as much money
as I do now, right, so you're paying for it.
I feel by the way, just you know, the last
several years I feel bad say that I'm paying for
is if you aren't participating because you pay for half
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of our stuff that you know you paid for that
stuff as I do. Okay, so you're paying for it, yes,
So it's like, why don't why another getting enough? As
it is, this is the.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Last year that we're going to do Secret Sanna like this,
this is what I've decided. I agree with you, and
we've gotten to the point where it doesn't make sense.
I think someday it will make sense to do Secret
Sana when all of our kids hopefully have significant others
and now there's so many people to buy for and whatnot,
that makes sense to me to do a Secret Santa
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so everyone gets one nice gift.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
No, it makes sense when they're paying for it.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yes, yes, that's what I'm saying. So we'll do that then.
But what I think, because they want to be included
and they're old enough to want to participate, I think
what we do is we make a theme and it's
not an expensive thing, like there's a price limit and
there's a theme. So it's like one year it's beach,
or one year it's you know, skincare, and one year
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you know just like so it's more like little things
that have to be more or maybe it's a thoughtful thing.
I just think there's a better way to do this.
So it's not really just about this extra gift. It's
more about thinking about the person that you're getting something for. Right, Right,
So I'm going to work on that. But in any event,
we come home from dinner, we put on the Christmas pjs,
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we do our secret Sanna, and then we make reindeer
food because we've been doing that since they were little.
Put out the reindeer food, and then we like hang
out sometimes we play games, whatever, and then on Christmas
Day we open presents, we put out food, we hang
out together. It's really nice.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And now they don't. They used to wake up so
what five.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
We stept to negotiate with them, what time? Now it's
so good.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Now they're like, they still wake up a little early,
considering the fact that they're basically adults now, but they're
still like, to me, you know, I want to sleep
until nine?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Did they say? I think they said ten thirty was
good this year.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, which is actually pretty great. Great.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, sleep in a little, go to the presence, work out,
have a meal. But our Hank guy is so fun.
So when I was growing up, we did Santa until
we went to Hebrew school and then we started doing Honka,
so we had eight nights of Honkikah. We had a
present every dyn. Remember there was one particular year I've
told you about this where there were eight presents, and
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one was wrapped in the shape of an umbrella. An umbrella,
so we knew what it was and we didn't want
to waste to night on the umbrella, so we waited
till the last night, which is supposed to be like
the best night, we got the snoopy umbrella. I didn't
want it to be like that for the kids, and
I don't buy them eight presents. They get around four each.
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What we do on Honka is we have a big
Honka party and we have friends and friends that we've
been doing Honkah with for twenty years. My sister and
her family and my mom and they all come over
and we have a beautiful dinner, and then we do
a table of unwrapped presents.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And they're very good presents.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, some of them are good. Some of them are dumb,
like crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Stuck or but some of the are high end electronics.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Sometimes there is like good electronics. Sometimes there's like dumb
alcoholic beverages like buzzballs, or like joke gifts, things you'd
get kits in or at the paper sores, stuff like that.
And I buy some stuff, my sister will break some stuff.
My friend Sarah brings some stuff, and we played dradl
and we have this dradal war and the first person
to get to twenty one everyone goes pick pick pick pick.
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They get up and they go over to the table
and they get to pick gif and it's so dumb
and it's so fine and we have such a great time.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, that's really fun.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
It's really really great. So that's basically our holiday. Sometimes
we go somewhere. This year we are we're taking a
trip to Cabo with the kids.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Is it nice to be living in a very secure
place where we don't have to worry about telling the
world that we're leaving? Yeah? Yeah, I mean because look
what happened to Kathy Hilton, Kathy and Rick's suddon. Yeah,
everyone knew they were in Bravo kan and they they got.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Crazy. But Rick was there, Yes, yes, yeah, thankfully there
was security ran up or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
But by the way, I mean, he could have killed
one of them and he would have been within his
right to do so, is that true. I think he
had a shot. I think the story is he had
a shotgun and he was in a room with them,
and he shot it straight up and rather than shooting them.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, and they ran and they ran. Yeah, did they
catch them?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That is crazy, but I mean what would I have done.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I would have shot them. You don't have a gun,
I know, but we live in an extraordinarily secure place
that you thankfully. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So, so we're going to go to Cabo, and I
told the kids they have to come for at least
part of the time, but I think most of them
are staying the whole time we're there. Yeah, and then
we do this thing on New Year's Eve, which I
don't know if we've explained on this pod, but this
is a really cool thing. And we've been doing this
for maybe twenty eight years maybe, So on New Year's Eve,
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Terry and I sit down separately and we write down
what happened this past year, highlights like the highlights every day,
but like what was good, what was bad, like what
we needed to work on, like all that kind of stuff.
And so we write all that down, and then we
write down what we hope happens for next year, like
a wish list. And I take that wish and we
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seal it and we put it in the safe, and
then we sit down. We have a old drink and
we read do each other what we just wrote about
what happened this past year. And it's very interesting to
see what Terry remembers about this year and what his
highlights and low lights were and what mine were. And
sometimes we remember some of the same things as we've
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completely He'll say something, I'll be like, oh my god,
I totally forgot about that. I'll say something that you
don't remember, and we'll talk about it and really see
how our year went year in review, yeah, and where
we did well and where we need to shore up
some things, and how the kids are and all of that,
and then we read what we wrote we hoped happened
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that we sealed from last year.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Right, so we write what we hope happens next year,
and then we read what we wrote from last year
what we hoped would happen this year. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
So the first year we did it was boring because
we had nothing to open, right, But ever since that
we've been doing this now twenty eight years.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
We've had some years where we write down ten or
f fifteen we hope this will happen next year, and
none of them.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Nothing, not one. And there were a couple of shitty
years that years. There were some shitty years. I remember
reading what happened is last year, and I was like, yeah,
I'm glad that year's over.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah. And then and then none of that stuff happened yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And there's been other years.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, which many Yeah, And so it's kind of sort
of sets the tone for your thinking about what do
I want to accomplish next year?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Good it isn't And I love personally, I love sitting
with you right at the end of the new year
and having that like really in depth connected conversation. I
love it. It's one of my favorite things.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I think one of the most important lessons that people
need to learn throughout their lives and just remind themselves
over and over and over is that the thing they
worry about the most. And that's why we concepted this
a long time ago. We wanted to like I don't
know whether we read it somewhere to do this or
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I came up with it, but I think it was
a way. This was born out of very anxious years,
like years that something terrible thing has happened. But one
of the most important lessons I think people can have
for the new year and to remember is ninety eight
percent of the stuff you're worried about that, you're super
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anxious about. It's sort of incruining your mindfulness living in
the moment, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah, hard to talk yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Out of that, but it's really true. And the stuff
that does happen, you're rarely prepared. Well, you can be
prepared for it, but you're really able to anticipate it. Okay,
so your worst hopes. By the way, when we first
started doing we sort of worst were worst hope things
were fearing the most.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Remember that first started this week, like we had like
six different pages what what do you most not excited about?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
What do you what are you worried about? We stopped,
We got rid of the negative.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
No, there's no more negative.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
But I mean, you know why I did that because
I wanted to show each year that none of those
things happened. Yeah, it's like a lesson, and none of
them did happen. Year after year. We stopped doing it, and it
was like, let's just stop worrying about that. Easier said
than done. But just remember the things that you're so
worried about, ninety eight percent of that don't have.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Okay, so let's end this with a positive thing. So
what are you excited about looking forward to hoping to
manifest in twenty twenty six? Like, what what are those
things or what are the categories?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
For me? I want to do multiple interesting things.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Rather than before it was always making more money. It
was a big becoming, give them more surgery more, this
is all, you know, Financially motivated, I think that will come.
It's just more important to be inspired and to be
passionate and do things that are really really interesting. That's
what I want to do. And you know, I have
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to acknowledge that I have reached a certain level of
success where it's easier for someone like me to say
that older too.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, I mean I'm saying said that at age thirty.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
No, right, I wouldn't have. But now I want to do.
I don't want to sit over an operating table seven
days a week and cut people open and fix complications
of plastic surgery. I want to do stuff that's interesting.
And you know, I think that's important. Do find things
you find interesting as much as possible.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I love that. I think for me, I just want
everything positive and more meaning, more joy, more happiness, more opportunity,
more fun, more travel, more.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Jobs, yeah, more.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Create Yeah, more jobs, more creativity.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I am.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You know. I was talking to another gal on a
podcast a couple hours ago, and she's around the same
age as me, and we were talking about how when
you get to your fifties, it's like, you know, there's
nothing left to lose, right, so you just go for it.
You send that email, you do those things, you could
put yourself out easier because if not, now, when right?
So I feel like I am, I'm sort of cued up,
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and I've been cued up before and it's happened. I've
been cued up and it hasn't happened. So I'm not
even though I'm results based, I am, and I'm not,
you know what I mean? I just I like, you
want to do interesting things. I want to do, like
more creative, fun things like I didn't have on my
Bingo card this year that I'd be singing twice with
Richard Marx. I had no idea that that was going
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to happen. Who knew that was so fun? It was
so great, and I just I want more of that.
That's what I want. So that's what I'm manifesting. And
I hope you're all out there manifesting too, because Honestly,
if you can't see it, it can't happen. Happy New Year, everybody,