What We're Thinking About - Aliens, Astrology, and What We Save on TikTok - #WeGotGoals by aSweatLife

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[Jeana Anderson Cohen] (00:01):
It is the first podcast of the month in August. Wait, Dana, did you
raise your hand? Do you have something to say?

[Dana] (00:07):
No, sorry. Sorry, I was adjusting my headphones.

[Kelly Matkovich] (00:10):
Thank you.

[Dana] (00:12):
But

It's

[Dana] (00:12):
I

gonna go

[Dana] (00:12):
do

well.

[Dana] (00:13):
like that I could raise my hand at any time and stop

any moment.

[Dana] (00:15):
this podcast.

De-railed already.

Yeah, derailed. That's cool. First podcast of the month and the last
podcast of season eight of the show. We got goals and we are coming
at you to share some things we're thinking about. We will shoot
the breeze as well. We'll just mostly try to crack each other up.
And by the way, I'm Jeannie Anderson Cohen. I am the founder and
CEO of A Sweat Life and joining me today is Kelly McEvich who leads

(00:41):
our community. and Dana Farber who runs Moonstone Marketing and works
with The Sweat Life on all things content and social media. Hello
and welcome to the podcast, friends.

[Dana] (00:51):
So loud!

Hello.

I'm working

Did you,

on my

what

accents.

accent did you just

[Dana] (00:56):
I like

go into?

[Dana] (00:57):
it.

It was kind of like Eastern European.

[Dana] (01:00):
Yeah, just big. Just big. Movie villain.

Yeah. Why

Yeah.

are movie villains always Russian, by the way? Like give them a break.

[Dana] (01:08):
Should we?

I'm sorry.

[Dana] (01:09):
Should we give them a break?

That's big question. Big question. A lot of good, a

[Dana] (01:15):
not

lot

[Dana] (01:15):
the

of

[Dana] (01:15):
topic

good.

[Dana] (01:16):
of today's

Not on the podcast,

[Dana] (01:16):
podcast.

not on the podcast. Dana got canceled today.

[Dana] (01:19):
Oh,

I'm

[Dana] (01:19):
I just

going

[Dana] (01:20):
got turned

to

[Dana] (01:20):
around.

go.

[Dana] (01:21):
I'm sorry.

She just, she was confused. She didn't mean to. She would never knowingly
say that.

[Dana] (01:26):
Never.

We always start every day at a sweat life with one good thing, but
before we get into one good thing, what's everybody drinking? What's
the beverage on your desk?

[Dana] (01:39):
It's got Brew Doctor, Prickly Pear, Cabocha.

Ooh,

Mmm,

prickly pear.

Kelly.

[Dana] (01:44):
I love Brew Doctor and I love their branding. It's adorable.

It is very cute. We can see it. It's pink and green. You can't
see it, podcast listeners, but you can be jealous.

[Dana] (01:53):
But you

Kelly,

[Dana] (01:53):
can imagine

what do you have?

[Dana] (01:53):
it.

I'm trying to drink more water and I just, I don't like water, I like
water, but I don't love it.

I'm going

And

to go to

so

bed.

I'm trying

[Dana] (02:03):
It's gonna

to trick

[Dana] (02:03):
be the

myself. Ha ha ha.

[Dana] (02:05):
tagline of this episode. Kelly, I don't like water.

And so I've been infusing my water with cucumber by like making it concentrate
in my fridge like in a glass and then I pour half of it into my glass

[Dana] (02:23):
Wow.

and half regular water so it's not overly cucumber-y. And I will say
it does make me drink more water.

[Dana] (02:32):
I like that.

So yeah.

[Dana] (02:32):
I like the concentrate.

Flavored water. Wow. Very fancy.

[Dana] (02:37):
What are you drinking, Gina?

I made myself a little iced oat milk latte

[Dana] (02:43):
Mmm.

with my fancy coffee machine. I always have a coffee in my hand.
I am constantly reminding myself to drink more water. I did just go to
Miraval Resorts in the Berkshires. Shout out to our friends at Miraval.
And they have fruit infused water everywhere. And that really,
I was so hydrated the whole time I was there. I only had one or two

(03:05):
coffees a day. Here in Chicago at home, I drink six coffees a day.
That's

you

an exaggeration.

drink a lot of coffee and

[Dana] (03:11):
That's

I

it's

drink

[Dana] (03:11):
a lot

a lot

3

[Dana] (03:11):
of coffee.

of coffee.

p.m central time that's

Yep.

late for coffee.

Depends

I also

on who you

just

ask.

I just booked Miraval Austin

You're gonna have so

so

much

I'm going

fun!

there in September. I know I'm excited for

[Dana] (03:26):
Ooh,

my birthday.

[Dana] (03:26):
that makes me

For

[Dana] (03:27):
feel

your

[Dana] (03:27):
like

birthday!

[Dana] (03:28):
I want to book Miraval

Hahaha

[Dana] (03:30):
Arizona

I'm sorry.

[Dana] (03:31):
so that we can hit the trifecta.

Miraval, Arizona has really great rates right now. This is not a
commercial

[Dana] (03:37):
Oh my god, this

nor,

[Dana] (03:38):
is in fact not an

Hahaha

[Dana] (03:39):
ad.

not an ad for Miraval, but I did just look at the rates, which are
really good right now because of the heat, but like everything's
in, you can

[Dana] (03:47):
Yeah.

stay inside the whole time if you want. It's dry heat too.

[Dana] (03:51):
Yeah,

You're on the

[Dana] (03:52):
you

mountains.

[Dana] (03:52):
can like set me on fire for like a good vacation. That's fine.

Hehehehehehe

I mean, the world's kind of on fire. Anyway,

[Dana] (04:00):
Yeah.

Thank you.

we start every day at a sweat life with one good thing. So Dana,
Kelly, what's good? Let's start with you, Dana.

[Dana] (04:11):
I feel like it's a fun summer so far. My goal, if anyone's been following my journey
on this podcast of wanting to have a fun summer, I feel like that journey has been
achieved. It feels like it's been a fun summer. I've done a lot of live music.
I saw Barbie earlier this week. My hot take on Barbie that no one asked for is I really
enjoyed the movie. I might say the marketing. was better than the movie. And I only say that

(04:35):
because my expectations were crazy high because of the marketing, but it's one of those
things where I feel like they showed kind of the best parts of the movie in the
marketing. So just know that I thought it was a great movie, like great, but I still
think marketing was like what we're gonna be talking about for years to come more
than

Mm,

[Dana] (04:55):
the movie

Greta

Say

[Dana] (04:56):
itself.

hey.

Gerwig. Get her on the phone.

[Dana] (04:59):
Haha

Kelly, what's good?

talk about something I talk a lot about but hiking big mountains. I am
in an area where we're surrounded by 14ers and what 14ers are mountains over
14,000 elevation and this weekend we're gonna hike Mount Massive. It's

What

a massive

a name.

mountain, I know. So it'll be my first 14er this summer. I feel like summer's
flying and I haven't done one yet. So we have a group of us that are
going. It's so much more fun to do with friends because it is a day.
It is challenging.

[Dana] (05:39):
So wait, what's a fourteener?

It's hard.

[Dana] (05:41):
Does that mean 14 hours or 14

No, I mean, it's 14,000,

[Dana] (05:45):
days?

14,000

[Dana] (05:47):
No.

elevation, like the height. Yeah, so you are

[Dana] (05:50):
Wow.

at like sea level in Chicago. Okay.

500 feet, Kelly.

[Dana] (05:57):
Oh wow, that's a lot.

It's a lot. So the path we're taking is seven miles, which doesn't seem like
that crazy, but it's about 4,000 elevation gain. And I know before I lived
in Colorado, I didn't really have a concept of. elevation game like really
meant nothing to me. That's like it's a lot. It's like a thousand per mile
basically and then so you're just going straight up a mountain. It'll

[Dana] (06:21):
That

take

[Dana] (06:22):
everything about that scares

I'd say

[Dana] (06:24):
me so much.

it would probably take us like five or six hours maybe depending on how
much we break and I'm over the bigger group and stuff so yeah but hiking
big mountains.

Is it gonna be hot?

Yeah, but that's so you start these hikes early, you start them at like,
try to get to the trailhead at five or six a.m. Because it's hot and you
don't want to be on top of a mountain when there's thunderstorms and a
lot of times there's afternoon thunderstorms so that's a lot of people die.

Oh dear.

Getting

Oh dear.

struck by lightning

[Dana] (07:00):
Well,

so.

[Dana] (07:01):
it's interesting you say that because I was in my mind thinking of all the ways that
I would die on that trip

What?

[Dana] (07:06):
in general. Like wake up at six,

No.

[Dana] (07:08):
I'm dead. Like get like already dead. So

Yeah.

[Dana] (07:12):
wait, I have a quick question, side note tangent. I am not a bit hiker, but we'll
get more into hiking. My boyfriend really likes hiking. And so we're going to Vermont,
we're going to the Green Mountains. So that's going to be a lot of hiking. What
is your recommendation, Kelly? the best hiking shoes or boots? That might be a

Ooh.

[Dana] (07:29):
loaded

Oh.

[Dana] (07:30):
question, but Gina too, obviously, but I feel like, Kelly,

Yeah.

I

[Dana] (07:32):
you've

mean,

[Dana] (07:33):
done the work to

Kelly

[Dana] (07:33):
now.

knows.

It's such a preference. It's like running shoes, you know, people have such
a preference, but I would say, like, I always thought, oh, you need hiking
boots. I almost hike exclusively in my trail runners. So

[Dana] (07:47):
Hmm

I don't really hike in boots anymore. Unless it's like winter time and we're
in snow, I'll be in like more of a boot, but summertime, I would just
wear like a trail runner. So I really like. trail shoes,

[Dana] (08:00):
Okay.

but there's so many different kind, but I think your feet get hot if they're
in like a full boot in the summertime. So I go trail runner.

[Dana] (08:09):
Okay, so I don't need to buy a whole new wardrobe to become a hiker is what you're
saying.

be

Although

close.

it is fun.

[Dana] (08:15):
I was like, but can I? But can

It can.

[Dana] (08:17):
I?

I definitely run this line of still like city fitness girl and like outdoorsy
girl. I'm not full granola. I'm like on this line of like I want to look
cute but also like functional

[Dana] (08:29):
Yeah.

and I feel like brands are catching on to that. So it's not so like long
hiking shorts and you know

[Dana] (08:36):
Yeah,

browns

[Dana] (08:37):
it's a very specific

and boring

[Dana] (08:37):
look.

and yeah.

Yeah, also Puma has a trail running shoe too,

I'm sorry.

that you can rock on the mountains. It should be a delight. I have
hiking boots that I got to hike at Kelly's house, but that was
like more cold

[Dana] (08:58):
Yeah,

season.

[Dana] (08:58):
because I was immediately like, Saral makes hiking boots, they're cute, but then

Mm-hmm.

[Dana] (09:01):
I'm like, that's not functional, so.

Mm-mm.

[Dana] (09:04):
And too big in a bag to carry.

I would say all the Instagram girlies that do have like, Danner. like kind
of these old legacy brands that are like, they look very cute, but I don't
know if they're necessarily functional or feel good on your feet.

[Dana] (09:22):
Oh yeah, Timberland.

Yeah.

And you also want to break them in before you hike too, if you're
going

[Dana] (09:28):
Such

to get

[Dana] (09:28):
a good

a boot.

[Dana] (09:29):
pro

Yeah,

[Dana] (09:29):
tip. Damn, okay,

Yeah,

[Dana] (09:31):
good

hike

[Dana] (09:31):
call.

around Chicago with your boots.

because they... Yeah, elevation gain of 12.

[Dana] (09:40):
All right, Gina, what's yours?

I went to see Beyonce. I mean, if you're confused about which Beyonce
it was, it's Beyonce, Nolz Carter, mother of blue Ivy Carter, wife
of Jay-Z. She performed at Soldier Field in Chicago. I went to the
Sunday show. It was magical. It was nonstop action. There was a

(10:04):
giant horse. The horse's name is, I found out, someone on Instagram
told me. Ruh-nay, like R-E dash, like nay, like what a horse says,
like

[Dana] (10:16):
Ha

nay,

[Dana] (10:16):
ha ha.

I love it. But the show was like top five moments of, not top five
concerts, top five moments of my life. It

[Dana] (10:26):
Oh wow.

was

Dang.

really good.

Did you cry

I

at

cried,

all? Okay, yeah.

I

Ha

cried,

ha ha.

yeah, for sure. The second she came on stage, I cried. And she
just seemed, she's really obviously like a great performer, but she seemed
Like it was truly a joy to be performing.

[Dana] (10:45):
I feel like that's a real talent if you can make every like everyone in the audience
feel like oh she's happy to be here.

She's having fun,

[Dana] (10:53):
Yeah.

which I loved. One time I saw Tyler the Creator perform at Coloring
Book, Chance the Rapper's show that he hosted in Chicago, which was an
awesome show, but Tyler the Creator seemed like it was a burden to
be there and I'll never forget that. Even though he's a great performer,
the whole time I was like, he does not wanna be here, but I think

(11:17):
he was pissed because Kanye interrupted his set. Kanye

[Dana] (11:20):
Kanye does

B.

[Dana] (11:21):
tend to interrupt

interrupting.

[Dana] (11:22):
things. Yeah,

Yeah.

[Dana] (11:23):
it's kind of a slang.

We don't play Kanye in this house anymore. So he's not interrupting
anyone.

[Dana] (11:28):
Mm-mm.

But my good thing is Beyonce. Okay, let's get into it. We all have
a topic to dig into. I'm not going to give them away this week.
I'm going to let everyone reveal their own topic, which means I'm improving
at my job. Kelly, would you like to go first?

Sure, and now that I'm looking at my topic, I feel like it's gonna be a bunch
of mini topics, but I couldn't exactly think of a topic I wanted to talk about,
and a lot of times, I'll go to my TikTok likes are saved to like come
up with an idea. And so, because I did that, I wanna know from you all,
so you're gonna have to pull out your phones, what are your last three,

(12:11):
either TikTok or whatever platform you use the most.

[Dana] (12:16):
is just sending a bunch

Yeah,

[Dana] (12:17):
of them.

that's gonna happen. TikTok or Instagram, I don't know how either you save
them or like them to basically tap them for later. I wanna know your last
three saves,

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

what they are.

Okay, I don't use the save function, but I do a lot of liking.

Okay.

I do send posts.

[Dana] (12:38):
I save a lot.

Okay, you go first, but I send posts, mostly I send posts to two
people, my husband and Dana. Yeah, and

[Dana] (12:47):
Yep. It's true.

Well, I wonder

it's.

too, if this could be kind of slanted because you're, you, you both are
probably in myself or on there thinking about the sweat life. And

Yeah.

so it's, but although

[Dana] (12:58):
Well,

it's

[Dana] (12:58):
that's

probably

[Dana] (12:58):
why I'm

stuff

[Dana] (12:59):
pulling

we're

[Dana] (12:59):
up my

interested

[Dana] (12:59):
TikTok

in. Yeah. Same.

[Dana] (13:00):
because my TikTok and Instagram, I tend to save things that are more like work related
or like client for

Mm-hmm.

[Dana] (13:05):
me, like client related. TikTok is just like random things I

Oh,

[Dana] (13:09):
enjoy.

okay. Well, let's hear your tech talk.

Yeah,

[Dana] (13:11):
Okay.

let's

[Dana] (13:11):
So my,

hear it.

[Dana] (13:12):
my most recent three are, I follow this creator called Snack Queen. She's great. And
she made a baked potato dip that apparently looked good enough to say. So I'll include
links to all of these. So a snack queen baked potato dip. I saved one that's a PSA
to homeowners or anyone, especially fellow females living alone. That's about a

(13:34):
thing that you can like put on your door that like double locks the door. So I
have that saved

Oh.

[Dana] (13:40):
because I was like,

Did you

[Dana] (13:40):
that's

buy

[Dana] (13:41):
interesting

it?

[Dana] (13:41):
and sure, why not? Never liked to get murdered. And then I saved tree house glamping
in Washington. And it's a really pretty tree house you can glamp in. Washington state.
So those are all very random, but things I'm interested

Yeah.

[Dana] (13:55):
in homeowner safety, snacks, and treehouse glamping, apparently.

This is okay. So follow up question. Um, cause I, do you go back and like
look at your saves to be like, Oh, I like to this idea. Like I can't,
I catch myself saving and I'm like, Oh, because I want.

[Dana] (14:16):
Only if I vaguely see something that then I'm like, I think I saved a TikTok about
that. And so that's the only reason I save it is like for future reference for
things. But no, I probably should go through my saved TikToks and be like, what
am I doing here?

Yeah,

[Dana] (14:31):
What are you doing? Or

yeah,

[Dana] (14:31):
actually maybe

like

What

I'm

have

thinking,

I done?

[Dana] (14:33):
make one of the recipes

make

[Dana] (14:34):
I'm saving.

the recipes.

[Dana] (14:35):
I don't know.

Yeah, that's what

[Dana] (14:36):
Yeah.

I was thinking. I'm like, I definitely have recipes I saved and I've
done nothing with them.

[Dana] (14:40):
Yeah, like

Mmm.

[Dana] (14:40):
I have a ton of food saved on TikTok that I'll probably never make. A lot of like
food hacks or like for my future when I have a very fancy fridge where I have multiple
types of ice in my freezer, things like that. Like I save those kinds of videos for
like organization too, but

fancy

Yeah.

[Dana] (14:56):
I don't actually

eyes.

[Dana] (14:57):
do anything with them.

Gina, do you want to tell us yours?

Yes, well, I will also say that I haven't. I believe I personally
believe when you partner with someone, whether that's like in marriage
or dating or whatever, you start to keep things in each other's brains.
But I think that also extends to keeping things in each other's mobile
devices. So

[Dana] (15:21):
Mm-hmm.

I keep my recipes in Justin's brain and mobile devices. So he's
doing like a lot of the cooking for us. which I love, thanks Justin,

[Dana] (15:33):
That's

husband

[Dana] (15:33):
great.

of the century. Also Andy, because Andy is

[Dana] (15:38):
Yeah,

a consummate

[Dana] (15:38):
I feel like

chef.

[Dana] (15:38):
you guys both have good cooks as husbands.

We've manifested the lives we've wanted. And so if I see a recipe
I like on Instagram, I send it to my husband and he saves it. So
he has this, he has like a great library of saves of really good
recipes. The other week he showed me them and I was very impressed.
Okay,

[Dana] (16:00):
Jake

so.

[Dana] (16:01):
and I share a lot of like Chicago things to do, TikToks,

Mmm,

[Dana] (16:04):
but then we don't

I like that.

[Dana] (16:05):
save or do anything with them or do those things. We're like, cool. And that's

Oh my god, you send each

Ooh!

other

[Dana] (16:11):
it. I know

like

[Dana] (16:11):
we

date

[Dana] (16:12):
should start,

ideas?

That's

[Dana] (16:13):
not

cute.

[Dana] (16:13):
even, I mean, no, that

Yeah,

[Dana] (16:14):
sounds cuter

yeah,

[Dana] (16:15):
than

but...

[Dana] (16:15):
it would be. Yeah. But it's

Mm-hmm.

[Dana] (16:16):
more like, oh, this is like a crab boil place. Like we were talking about wanting to
a crab boil. So it's like, cool. That's a place that someone

Dana,

[Dana] (16:24):
does.

can I propose an idea for you?

[Dana] (16:25):
Sure.

What if you, you two, put your date ideas in a hat and then,

[Dana] (16:33):
Oh, and then like pick one that actually be

yeah.

[Dana] (16:35):
really cute. Cause I feel like more often than not, we just do nothing.

Well, then you could draw

[Dana] (16:39):
We watch

like,

[Dana] (16:39):
succession.

yeah, or you could draw one a week or draw one

[Dana] (16:43):
I

a

[Dana] (16:43):
love

month

[Dana] (16:44):
that

or whatever.

[Dana] (16:44):
idea. Oh, that's so cute. Okay, I love that idea. I'll report

I stole

[Dana] (16:48):
back.

that from my brother-in-law and soon-to-be sister-in-law

[Dana] (16:51):
That's

who

[Dana] (16:51):
really cute.

put their potential honeymoon destinations into a hat, but then
the last one was the one where they would go. So they drew them
all one by one because they wanted to see their reactions, which was
cute.

[Dana] (17:04):
Were they happy with whatever they want?

Yes, but then they had to book with the travel agent and the travel
agent let them down. So they'll go later. I want them to have the
best wedding and the best honeymoon. Anyway, okay, Kelly, to answer
your question. So I see a lot of puppies, babies, and small farm

(17:29):
things on my Instagram. As I've talked about on this podcast before,
I am currently in the process... of allow me to say a woo-woo sentence,
manifesting a small farm for my future. So I get a lot

[Dana] (17:41):
Did

of stuff that would...

[Dana] (17:42):
put it on your vision board during spot

I

[Dana] (17:44):
working

really did

[Dana] (17:44):
week.

put it on my vision

[Dana] (17:45):
Yeah.

board. My vision board's like, I can see it from here. So last couple
things I've sent were a laundry room that I liked, so, which is so
stupid and adult, but whatever. So this laundry room, I'm holding
up a picture of it. There are little areas under the washer and

(18:13):
the dryer

[Dana] (18:13):
Ooh,

to put your baskets

[Dana] (18:14):
so functional.

and yeah, and there's a sliding shelf that you can put the basket
on

You don't even have to

to

bend

load.

down.

You don't

[Dana] (18:22):
Oh

even

[Dana] (18:22):
my

have

[Dana] (18:23):
God,

to bend down.

[Dana] (18:23):
that's so smart.

Think of all of the time you could save. Okay.

[Dana] (18:30):
No, that's huge.

Yeah, and that was from a creator called, I think it's like KLK Interiors.
So they designed that laundry room and I liked it. Okay, thing number
two is a baby listening to classical music. And he's... talking about

(18:54):
it like a little philosopher. And I love philosopher babies. So the music's
playing in the background, I'll link to this. The music's playing in the
background and he looks at his mom and he goes, do you like this song,
mom? And his mom goes, yeah. And he went, I'm thinking about you.
We'll think about daddy too. It's just

Hmm.

like,

[Dana] (19:12):
Oh,

it's

[Dana] (19:13):
that's

really

[Dana] (19:13):
so cute!

like very cute. And then the comments are, sometimes comments on
the internet

[Dana] (19:20):
Mm-hmm.

are a terrible place to go, but the comments on this. are wonderful.

[Dana] (19:24):
Oh, I

It's

[Dana] (19:24):
love

just

[Dana] (19:25):
when

like,

[Dana] (19:25):
there's a good comment section and everyone in the

yeah.

[Dana] (19:27):
comment section is like there for a good time and if someone

Yeah.

[Dana] (19:29):
tries to ruin the party, everyone's like, no, we're not.

Yeah,

[Dana] (19:31):
No,

we're not doing that

[Dana] (19:33):
we're not

here.

[Dana] (19:33):
doing

This

[Dana] (19:33):
that

is

[Dana] (19:33):
here.

a baby

[Dana] (19:34):
Yeah.

and he's lovely. Okay, and then the third thing was.
a video of a woman and it's like a reveal where she's like, my husband
asked me for a divorce this morning. And she goes,

Cool.

and then you hear him in the background go, no, I didn't, I asked
you to go for a run.

[Dana] (19:59):
Oh.

And she was like,

Oh,

same

I've seen that trend,

thing.

yeah.

Yeah,

[Dana] (20:02):
That's so funny.

and I said that to my husband because I found

[Dana] (20:06):
That's

it delightful.

[Dana] (20:06):
great.

Penny, LOL.

Can I? LOL. Okay, we're gonna do a bonus. I'm gonna play the sound
from it.
Okay, hold on. I'm gonna start it over. She goes.

[Dana] (20:37):
I'm not gonna lie, I can't hear it.

Yeah, it's not loud enough.

Oh, damn. Okay, well, it's so cute. I'm gonna put it in the comments,
but it's like this

I'm going to go to bed.

self-affirming little girl who's like, Owen didn't like my hair.
And I said, if you don't like it, you don't have to look at it. And

[Dana] (20:54):
Oh, nice.

I like it. And

[Dana] (20:55):
Oh, I

her

[Dana] (20:55):
love

mom's

[Dana] (20:55):
it.

like, good. You stood up for yourself, baby. And she's like so proud
and I loved it. So that's

[Dana] (21:03):
You

less.

[Dana] (21:03):
do love Kid Talk. Kid Talk?

Yeah.

[Dana] (21:06):
Sure. Kid

Yes,

[Dana] (21:07):
Talk.

I love Kid Graham.

Oh. Ha ha ha.

kids to Graham. If you read the emails sent out by me once a week,
most of the links from across the web are children, I had to like
contain myself this week.

[Dana] (21:21):
Only one kid an issue, you know?

Oh, it was three this week,

[Dana] (21:26):
Oh yeah,

but

[Dana] (21:26):
that's limiting you.

it could have been six. Kelly, what about you? What are the last three
things you saved or sent?

Mine are on TikTok, because I don't really save anything on Instagram,
but I do on TikTok and the last three are pretty fitting. One is about,
I bet Gina knows this trick, but I don't think I know this. The last hole
on your running shoe, the closest one to your ankle, I've always just

(21:54):
laced it like just a regular lace. I didn't really know what it's for, but
it's a heel hook. It's called, and you can do this runner loop. And it's like
this whole loop you do. It's not just like your regular, I don't know. Anyway,
I was like, oh, that's a really cool hack and maybe I'll do that.

[Dana] (22:09):
So like it goes

Did

But.

[Dana] (22:10):
through

you try

[Dana] (22:10):
the

it?

[Dana] (22:10):
back pull tab, like you lace them through the back.

Yeah, but it's like this whole loop thing you do. It's not

[Dana] (22:17):
Interesting.

just your normal cross. Anyway, it's called the runner's loop and I didn't
know about that. Gina, did you know about the heel hook?

I knew about it, but I've never used it in that way, and I couldn't
show you how to do it.

Yeah, okay. Okay, so we're all learning

So

something

learning

new.

something new.

We'll share that one out. The other one is from, so I'm doing this big
hike at the end of August called the Tour de Mont Blanc in Europe and
it's a 100 mile hike and someone had posted, I must, I'm getting like
fed like that information. They're on day one of their hike, so I saved
it so I wanted to follow her on her journey to see what I should expect.

(22:57):
So that was fun. And then the last one is, You guys, you all know what
dermaplaning is?

[Dana] (23:04):
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

So

Shave

for the

your

listeners,

face.

it's, yeah, you take this blade to your face and it's taking off kind
of the first layer of skin and then like your hair, basically, off your
face. And I've done it a few times with an esthetician and I do like
it. And I've bought some from Amazon, Amazon like really cheap ones
that I've done in the past, but I'm like, oh, I kinda wanna put this in
my routine. So I... a lady was talking about it, she's an esthetician

(23:31):
and she has like an actual blade that's like I wouldn't trust myself with.
Anyway, she goes through the whole process and now I am, this is something
I want to do and

[Dana] (23:41):
Interesting.

you're supposed to do it

I

every

guess.

five to seven, five to six weeks. Yeah.

Ooh, they're so on the Real Housewives of New York, Caroline Manzo,
Birdie, Mavie, every dog

[Dana] (23:55):
Wait,

here.

[Dana] (23:55):
the new New York City?

No, the old New York

[Dana] (23:58):
Mm-mm.

City, when Caroline Manzo was still on it, she on a reunion, they
were talking about their skincare routines and she was like, once a
week, I take a straight edge razor and I shave my face. And I remember
being like, what the heck?

[Dana] (24:13):
scares me.

And now it's a spa treatment.

[Dana] (24:18):
Yeah.

Like I got it done and my skin looked baby soft.

[Dana] (24:22):
I feel like I'd be scared because my hair is thick and dark. I'm scared

They

[Dana] (24:27):
if

tell

[Dana] (24:28):
I

you it doesn't

[Dana] (24:28):
lightly

matter.

[Dana] (24:29):
shaved my face that it would grow back a beard.

Hmm,

[Dana] (24:32):
No?

it won't.

[Dana] (24:33):
Doesn't happen? OK.

No.

happen. The follicle doesn't change size.

Yeah.

[Dana] (24:37):
Oh,

We've

[Dana] (24:38):
interesting.

been lied to.

Yeah, it won't

[Dana] (24:40):
I

go

[Dana] (24:40):
do believe

back

[Dana] (24:41):
that.

Hehe

bigger or stronger. It'll be the same.

Yeah.

[Dana] (24:45):
Okay, I like it.

Ooh, Dana, are you ready? I'd love to hear what you're bringing this
week.

[Dana] (24:52):
So this podcast is being recorded on July 27th. That is two days after we found
out that the government shockingly, I'm sorry, I am back to turning this into a
vaguely political podcast

Yeah

[Dana] (25:04):
because the government has been lying to us as we knew and aliens exist. There is
governmental proof. There was, I don't even know this guy's official title other than
his head is very funny shaped. The guy who was talking on, I'm sorry, Spaceman. But
basically there was a whole

He works for the

[Dana] (25:26):
government,

Central Intelligence Agency.

[Dana] (25:27):
central intelligence

There

[Dana] (25:28):
agency, there you

you are,

hahahaha

[Dana] (25:30):
go.

spaceman.

[Dana] (25:31):
Space man. I got very distracted by the fact that basically we learned in this
conference, this, this tribunal that aliens are real and the, that they found proof
that the government has taken UFOs and non-human beings. So I know that you talked
about this on your podcast with Gideon, but I figured in general, aliens are always

(25:54):
a fun topic to talk

Yeah.

[Dana] (25:55):
about. So I'd like to discuss, do we think aliens are real? And also, if aliens
came to this planet,

They're

[Dana] (26:08):
like,

here,

[Dana] (26:08):
what would you do?

first

[Dana] (26:09):
Like, what

of

[Dana] (26:09):
would

all.

[Dana] (26:09):
you do? Well, they're here. Like, we already know they're here, but say they come
and they're like, hey, like. We're here, you know?

We want to party.

[Dana] (26:18):
Yeah, like

Yeah.

[Dana] (26:18):
we're here, like unavoidable.

We're here. Oh, Kelly, I feel like you have to go first, because I'll
take a lot of time on this.

Yeah, okay, I will go first because I don't have to. Well, I, it's funny
because I'm like not surprised, like even the news, I'm just like meh, like
I'm like,

[Dana] (26:37):
Yeah.

because

[Dana] (26:39):
It's like, duh.

yeah, I think it's very interesting that the government's talking about it. And
I feel like anytime I think of Aliens, my head just goes to Independence
Day, the movie, like that's just because it's the whole like the government
was lying and then there's aliens and there's this whole secret area where
they have aliens. you know, so it's like we watched that movie so much
growing up so that's what I think of. But they were also a violent aliens

(27:04):
so I'm open to whatever it could be. But I think it'd be very interesting
that for our lifetime we interact with someone outside of the earth.
It'd be very interesting. I don't know. We don't know.

[Dana] (27:24):
We don't

But

[Dana] (27:24):
know.

that's all I have to say.

[Dana] (27:27):
I like that. It's a very neutral take on aliens.

Yeah.

[Dana] (27:30):
You're like,

Yeah.

[Dana] (27:31):
I'll take them as they come. See

Yeah.

[Dana] (27:33):
what they're up to before I judge. And I appreciate

You know

Yeah.

what's

[Dana] (27:36):
that.

crazy? Has there been a single alien movie or TV show that's been
written by women?

[Dana] (27:42):
Oof. I don't know, was the movie Arrival written by a woman? Because that movie is fantastic.

That's the only one I could see possibly being written by a woman.
Let's Google it right now. We're women who Google, we can do this.
Writer, a rival writer. Movie.

[Dana] (27:59):
I know, now I'm,

Come on,

[Dana] (28:00):
now.

Google. You can do it. Nope, dudes. Dudes all around. Rival film.
Directed by Dennis Villanueva. Screenplay by Eric Hesteresser. Nope,

[Dana] (28:13):
I just

written

[Dana] (28:13):
said

by dudes.

[Dana] (28:14):
alien movies written by women and there's basically none.

Okay, so here's why I'm asking that question. That's to Kelly's
point, almost every alien movie, TV show, et cetera, positions
aliens as conquerors.

[Dana] (28:30):
Mm-hmm.

Like they're coming here for our resources, for our planet, for
our land. What if they just wanna meet us?

[Dana] (28:39):
They're like, look, what's

We're

[Dana] (28:42):
up?

just tourists.

[Dana] (28:42):
Yeah,

Yeah.

[Dana] (28:43):
totally. Well, that's the kind of space, that's the kind of alien life I'd be interested
in. And that's

Yeah.

[Dana] (28:49):
why I like the movie Arrival because like they come and they just wanna communicate.
They just wanna like chat. And like it takes a really smart woman scientist to
be able to like create that bridge of communication. So I agree. I feel like I wanna
believe that if aliens have come in our lifetime because, or, in other lifetimes

(29:09):
if they've come and the government has like shut that down, maybe they're not coming
here to destroy us and harvest our bodies. And instead they're

Yeah.

they would

[Dana] (29:17):
coming

have by

[Dana] (29:17):
here

now.

[Dana] (29:18):
just to like hang. Just like more of like a men in black situation where it's like,
they're just like on a passport. They're just like if there's a whole intergalactic
like species happening and it's like maybe Earth is just like a way station.

Yeah, they're just

[Dana] (29:32):
And

trying to

[Dana] (29:32):
as

get

[Dana] (29:33):
we

where

[Dana] (29:33):
start

they're going.

[Dana] (29:33):
to have to figure out ways to like. live outside of the earth as the earth becomes
inevitable. It'd just be nice to be able to do like a little like timeshare sitch
with like an alien race, you know?

Well, they're

If we

clearly

can breathe their

more

air.

advanced than us, right? Like they're

[Dana] (29:50):
Oh,

getting to

[Dana] (29:50):
yeah.

us.

[Dana] (29:51):
Yeah, so true, so true, yeah.

Yeah. I mean, if they're traveling to this planet on spacecraft,

[Dana] (29:56):
And I just feel like

then

[Dana] (29:57):
in

yes.

[Dana] (29:57):
general,

They

Yeah.

figured it out.

[Dana] (29:58):
I can guarantee they're more advanced than,

Yeah.

[Dana] (30:01):
like if we are it, we just all had to Google something like, I don't know, this whole
podcast I've like barely known. Yeah, no, we can't be the top.

Wait, isn't

[Dana] (30:12):
We can't,

that like

[Dana] (30:13):
we can't do

Planet

[Dana] (30:14):
it.

of the Apes? Like the humans are like barbaric,

[Dana] (30:17):
Yes.

right?

[Dana] (30:19):
Yeah, it's like the ape, it's like it's on earth the whole time and it's like they
destroyed it and now the earth is run by apes. Spoiler

because

[Dana] (30:26):
alert,

no, that's

[Dana] (30:28):
if

I

how

[Dana] (30:28):
anyone

guess

it ends.

[Dana] (30:28):
never

Avatar,

I didn't.

[Dana] (30:29):
saw that movie from the 70s.

it's almost the reverse, right? It's like

[Dana] (30:34):
Mm-hmm.

Earthlings going to a different planet and of course taking over

[Dana] (30:39):
Yeah,

conquering.

[Dana] (30:39):
Avatar's like Pocahontas. It's like, we're here to save you,

It is.

[Dana] (30:42):
people who didn't need saving.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We've come to save you. And they're like, well, we were good. But

[Dana] (30:47):
Yeah,

like

[Dana] (30:47):
they're like,

also

[Dana] (30:48):
you can put

we'd

[Dana] (30:48):
your

like

[Dana] (30:48):
shirt

your

[Dana] (30:48):
back

resources.

[Dana] (30:49):
on. Yeah. So that was just a fun little tangent. Who knows who we'll see, but I do
like that we're all optimistic that these aliens will be friendly and just wanna
hang out with us.

I'm not fully optimistic.

[Dana] (31:03):
No,

That's

[Dana] (31:03):
but like

what I'm

[Dana] (31:04):
it's

hopeful for.

[Dana] (31:04):
an

Yeah.

[Dana] (31:04):
option no one's talking about though, which I like.

Ah!

Okay, so someone in my world, I can't say who, because this person
signed like a crazy document years and years ago. I don't know
who they could be. This person went to Area 51. to be a part of like

(31:30):
testing and learning about chemicals and other like government secrets
and came back from there and could tell me nothing. Could tell me nothing,
could tell like people in this person's world, nothing. So I can confirm
that Area 51 is real. I can, and I can confirm that there are real

(31:55):
airtight secrets.

[Dana] (31:56):
Well, imagine whatever they had to say to this person who's probably Justin.

No,

Hahaha

Justin has no

[Dana] (32:03):
I'm

reason.

[Dana] (32:03):
just

Justin

[Dana] (32:04):
kidding.

has

[Dana] (32:05):
What if Justin's

no

[Dana] (32:06):
like

reason

[Dana] (32:06):
randomly in Area 51?

for marketing purposes.

Secret service.

[Dana] (32:11):
But like, I mean, you have to be kind of scared of whatever you see to be like, I'm
not going to tell anyone about this

Yeah,

[Dana] (32:17):
because

literally

[Dana] (32:17):
like,

not going to tell.

[Dana] (32:18):
I know that you've been able to conceal this. I don't

Yeah.

[Dana] (32:21):
know. It's crazy.

And they're also like, so I've talked about this on the podcast, too.
Like I because I had like this deep interest in becoming an astronaut.
I met many astronauts, which is pretty dope to say that. So I would
go to, you know, like people follow bands, people go to baseball
card signings like I wanted to be astronauts. And if you ask them

(32:48):
about aliens, which I did, because I'm interested in that. they
clam up, like they don't say a word. So I think they also were sworn
to secrecy, which is

But

pretty

why

cool.

the secret?

[Dana] (33:00):
Yeah, and why are more

Like,

[Dana] (33:02):
people

why

[Dana] (33:02):
telling

can't

[Dana] (33:02):
these

we know?

[Dana] (33:03):
secrets

Yeah.

[Dana] (33:03):
on their deathbeds? Where are the deathbed confessions?

I think, okay, so I think the, well, first of all, the

[Dana] (33:11):
Yeah, why can't

gentlemen

[Dana] (33:12):
we know?

who testified to Congress yesterday,

[Dana] (33:17):
That was a testified, oh my god,

if we

[Dana] (33:19):
confessed

wasn't testified,

[Dana] (33:20):
whatever I said.

no, is testified to Congress, I wanna say garrouche, but that's
a justice. Let's see, I, aliens. Yeah,

[Dana] (33:31):
probably

let's

[Dana] (33:31):
pop

find,

[Dana] (33:31):
right

we're

[Dana] (33:32):
up.

gonna Google this. We're doing great. We're doing so great. And so.
when he testified, my question was, why? Like why now?

[Dana] (33:44):
Yeah.

Why are you telling this now? Which maybe we'll find out, who knows.

[Dana] (33:52):
And then I always get scared. I'm like, if they're telling us this now, then is there
something bigger that they're just trying

Yeah,

[Dana] (33:56):
to

it's like an

[Dana] (33:56):
distract

urgency.

[Dana] (33:57):
us over here and be like,

Yeah.

[Dana] (33:58):
be like, aliens are

Global

[Dana] (33:59):
over here.

warming.

[Dana] (34:00):
And then there's something real happening behind us.

Yeah, yeah. Whistleblower, he's a whistleblower. So he's protected

[Dana] (34:07):
Oh!

by whistleblower laws. Okay, so his name is

[Dana] (34:13):
But like he's

David

[Dana] (34:14):
showing his

Grutch.

[Dana] (34:14):
face and his name

Yeah.

[Dana] (34:16):
and everything. So like, is he not worried?

Well, he's protected now by whistleblower laws.

[Dana] (34:22):
Mmm, mmm.

So whistleblower laws protect you from retribution.

[Dana] (34:29):
interesting.

But I didn't know that you could be protected from the government
by whistleblower

[Dana] (34:33):
Yeah,

laws.

[Dana] (34:33):
I didn't know that either.

But here we are. We'll link to this in the show notes, but I'm sure
you've all read it. Ha ha ha. Hit.

[Dana] (34:40):
If anyone wants to know more about this, just DM us because we all have lots to talk
about aliens.

Yeah, I

[Dana] (34:46):
We

just

[Dana] (34:46):
can't

don't

[Dana] (34:46):
be the

understand

[Dana] (34:46):
only ones.

the secrecy. Like,

[Dana] (34:49):
No.

why can't we all just know? It's

[Dana] (34:51):
Yeah.

not like there's gonna be hysteria.

Of course, that would.

But I mean, if we could plan, like if we just knew this whole time and like...

We

[Dana] (35:00):
Yeah,

could

[Dana] (35:01):
like,

prepare.

[Dana] (35:01):
what would be the deal

Mariff

[Dana] (35:02):
if we found

or whatever.

[Dana] (35:03):
out there was an alien like 50 years ago? Like, that wouldn't change anything about
our lives, right?

You're not wrong, but I think there's like this general, they're
protecting us from ourselves for whatever reason. Just like there's so much
intelligence, we don't learn on a daily basis. Like think of the intelligence
reports that land on the president of the United States' desks.

[Dana] (35:24):
Yeah.

Like

Yeah.

there's so much stuff in there that we'll never know, but we learn
like

[Dana] (35:29):
But like, I don't

little

[Dana] (35:30):
want to know.

pieces.

[Dana] (35:31):
I honestly don't care except about aliens. And I'm like, no, I do

Same! I don't

[Dana] (35:35):
want

know!

[Dana] (35:35):
to know about this. Like

Yeah.

[Dana] (35:36):
90%, I'm like, no, I don't need to know.

You found a spy in Wichita? Boring.

[Dana] (35:41):
Yeah, boring,

Tell

Hahaha

me about the aliens.

[Dana] (35:43):
boring. I don't care. I don't care.

But I just think, I think it is very, it's very self-aggrandizing
to think that we are the only intelligent life in this endless boundless
universe that we literally cannot see the end of. We don't understand
fully, never will. So I think it's crazy to be like, no, we're it.

(36:08):
We're all that's here.

[Dana] (36:09):
Yeah.

No way.

[Dana] (36:11):
Yeah, I just really hope not. And like everything, we

No.

[Dana] (36:14):
like to make friends here at Spotlight, so.

Yeah, we

[Dana] (36:17):
Aliens?

are friendly

Applications

humans, aliens.

are open to...

[Dana] (36:22):
Ambassador ship galaxy wide.

We're looking

First

for

community

an ambassador

to open

lead.

outside of the earth.

Andromeda Galaxy Community

[Dana] (36:33):
I love

How

Lead.

[Dana] (36:34):
that

do you

[Dana] (36:34):
for

work

[Dana] (36:34):
us.

out at your planet?

[Dana] (36:36):
Oh,

I'm

[Dana] (36:36):
I love

gonna go

[Dana] (36:37):
it.

to bed.

[Dana] (36:37):
State of fitness, zero gravity. Mm.

State of, yeah, or like

I'm sorry.

G force of two. How do you work out in G force of two? That's hard.

[Dana] (36:46):
I love this.

More to come. Okay. My

Hahahaha

[Dana] (36:51):
Okay.

topic today, I could say is closely related

[Dana] (36:57):
Yeah.

to aliens. It is related to the stars. I'd like to talk about astrology
apps that you use and or trust. I can start by saying this week I
learned about a new astrology app, new to me, called The Pattern,

[Dana] (37:17):
Mmm

which people love. I really liked it. It definitely dug in to who
I am in a very real way. Spoiler alert, it was like, you're a rebel.
You don't like to do anything anyone tells you, et cetera.

[Dana] (37:30):
And you were like, you were like

I know.

[Dana] (37:32):
F off app,

Yeah,

[Dana] (37:33):
cause you don't like

why are

[Dana] (37:34):
being

you

[Dana] (37:34):
told

telling

[Dana] (37:34):
that.

me that about my, yeah.

[Dana] (37:36):
And then he threw your front at the wall.

Yeah, and then I broke my phone. I also use the CoStar app, which
is fine, but the pattern, I feel like, CoStar is great for like a quick
daily update, but pattern is the most in-depth overview I've ever gotten.

[Dana] (37:53):
Mm-hmm.

Okay, now let's start with Kelly, because your answer will be short.

How did you know? Yeah, I find astrology cool and I dabble, but I don't
dabble enough where it's integrated in my life or even just I don't
have any apps. I don't follow. I don't follow anyone on Instagram and I don't
have any emails. So yeah, I don't have too much to add. So I'm excited
to hear from you all. I just I don't follow too much astrology.

Oh, you should follow

Thanks.

ModernAstrologer

Uh-huh.

on Instagram. She'll tell you kind of what's happening in the stars
and how it will impact you. So like things going into retrograde and
just like general themes of the universe that affect all people. And
then I also enjoy the high priestess of High Priestess of Brooklyn.

(38:51):
She's

[Dana] (38:51):
Mm-hmm.

amazing. I have an annual reading with her. My birthday every

[Dana] (38:57):
I love

year.

[Dana] (38:57):
that.

That's what annual means. Okay, so

Wait, I

two

have a

recos.

question. When

Yes.

you do your annual reading, like, do you actually, is it more, do you implement
anything in your life or is it more just? over all encompassing information?
Or what do you do with the information you get?

Well, great question. So I will ask for an overview of the year and
then we'll go through it. The thing about Tarot, so she'll do Tarot
and astrology. The thing about Tarot is it's like, it's a divination
tool. So like you still have free will, et cetera, et cetera. So things

(39:44):
could change, but we'll go through the cards and then I ask follow-up
questions. So she'll be like, here's what's happening in your chart
this year. Here's what- your cards are saying like themes for each
month, any questions, and then I will ask her to dig into whatever
I have questions on still. So yes, I'll take some actions or she'll

(40:04):
say things like, this would be a good month to make a change in your
business, move, do X, Y, or Z. So you can take note of what's good
for you and what.

Did you,

[Dana] (40:17):
like that.

like the year prior, do you notice things that she said that happened?

Yeah, so I will re I record it and then listen to it later. So I'll
come back to it and listen and then I'll kind of like check in
on like, yes, that happened or no, we didn't whatever. For example, like
last year, she said that I would have a lonely month in the month

(40:45):
of March. And that's the month actually that Justin and I spent
in Austin, which was kind of lonely because we were. like away from
friends, but adventuring. So that was really, it was interesting to look
back on that. But yeah, I'll go, but I'll revisit them because I think
it's

[Dana] (41:03):
I love

fun to

[Dana] (41:03):
that

do.

[Dana] (41:04):
idea of doing like an annual tarot reading on your birthday. I might steal that.

All right, Dana, we want to know, what are you

[Dana] (41:13):
I

apping?

[Dana] (41:14):
also love CoStar. I love Pattern. I also love Sanctuary.

Mmm.

[Dana] (41:20):
So Sanctuary has beautiful branding and I just find it very easy to look at. I
also really love the Channy app.

Chania.

[Dana] (41:30):
C-H-A-N-I. So it's by Channing Nichols. And she's an amazing astrologer that I've followed
for a long time. And so the app is just beautifully branded again. And so obviously
I'm a big fan of well-branded apps. And then I also really love a tarot card app

(41:51):
that I like called Mystic Mondays that you can kind of pick a new card every day.
from like different decks. So you can do kind of like a virtual tarot card reading.
So I like to start my day with a Mystic Monday reading. Usually more often than not,
I check the Channy app, but I do like CoStar probably the most like just frequently

(42:12):
checking it. I haven't used pattern in a while. I used to use that one more, but
this is a good reminder to start using that one more because I do love that app. I'm
trying to think what else I use. I also have a widget on my phone that tells me what
phase of the moon. that we're in because

Ooh.

[Dana] (42:27):
I also like very much use that to track my just moods and things. And the journal that
I use every week like has like a space for like Fates of the Moon and like your energy
level. And I do find that like whether or not it's real, which I think it is obviously
real. I believe in the Fates of the Moon. Name my business after the Moon. Uh,

(42:50):
love that bitch.

Thanks

[Dana] (42:51):
Uh,

for watching!

[Dana] (42:52):
I think that like, you know, I do notice the fluctuation of my energy, depending on
like the phase of the moon or just kind of like, again, where I'm at in my cycle. So
I like to kind of track all that together. And so kind of

Yeah,

[Dana] (43:03):
astrology,

girl.

[Dana] (43:04):
but also just kind of like energy tracking.

All right.

I mean, the moon's the boss of me for sure, because

[Dana] (43:10):
Mm-hmm.

I get my period on the new moon, like without fail, which is like
a pretty witchy thing to say. And

[Dana] (43:17):
I

I'm

[Dana] (43:17):
love

like

[Dana] (43:17):
that.

fairly proud of it.

[Dana] (43:18):
I love that for you. I

Every

[Dana] (43:20):
really

time

[Dana] (43:21):
do.

I'm like, yes, must be a new moon. I'll Google it. I'm like, yes,
right again.

[Dana] (43:27):
I love

So

[Dana] (43:28):
that.

yeah. So there you go, listener.

[Dana] (43:33):
Now you've learned so much about us today.

Yeah, you really have.

Thank

Kelly,

you.

any follow-up questions about our astrology practices and or apps?
She's shaking

No.

her head no to the listener. All right, let's bring it out with a tiny topic.
Today, we're gonna talk about our favorite ways to be mindful. Let's
start with Kelly, talk us through your mindful practice.

I feel like people talk about this a lot, but I'd say mine is going for a
hike or a run. Definitely either brings me out of a mood or gives me
some clarity and really makes me feel better afterwards. So any type of movement,
but really something more like a walk where it's just low impact and

(44:24):
you're just getting outside and feeling the sun. I think it's really helpful.
get some clarity.

Yeah, sometimes you just need to go outside.

Yeah.

[Dana] (44:35):
No, that's...

Tina, what's your mindfulness practice?

[Dana] (44:39):
Mine's also fairly basic, but I love just listening to music. Honestly, I've always
been like, if I put on a specific song, whether it's like, hey, I just want to wallow
in feeling sad and I have a playlist for that, or I want to feel upbeat, I have
a playlist for that, or just kind of just bouncing around Spotify or I have a record
collection that I love. So I just, I've always loved music and I feel like putting

(45:03):
on the right song or playlist or album or whatever it is will. just usually get me
out of a funk or let me get deeper into that funk or whatever I'm searching

I'm sorry.

[Dana] (45:13):
for in that moment. So I like to kind of do that while I'm doing other things like
cooking or even just like putting away laundry, just like things that are kind of
mindless and just let myself kind of like listen and feel whatever I'm going to
feel from the music. I'll do it with podcasts too. Like if it's like a true crime
podcast.

Whoa.

We've got some real dog action. I think

[Dana] (45:37):
We got

Justin

[Dana] (45:37):
some dog

just got

[Dana] (45:37):
action.

home. Dog action. No, they're just reacting. We have a dog across
the hall that they like to talk to. It's not helpful, Maverick. It's
not helpful to us,

[Dana] (45:47):
And I

please.

[Dana] (45:47):
was like, I'm a guest this week.

Yeah, excuse me. It's me, Maverick the dog, guest on the podcast.

[Dana] (45:52):
Ha ha ha.

I think aliens are real.

[Dana] (45:55):
Yeah, you didn't ask my opinion.

Yeah, he thinks horses are aliens. For sure, horses

[Dana] (46:01):
Haha

are aliens. Anyway, as you were Dana, I'm adding a note into our
conversation document, asking Dana to link to her mood playlist.

[Dana] (46:12):
Oh, I surely

Ooh.

[Dana] (46:13):
will. Yes, I will. But yeah, just listening to music or podcasts, like just letting myself
like audible audibly get into something. And then I can like do a mindless task and
just let my mind wander. So I like to do those things.

Hmm. I love that for you. Okay, so if you would have asked me two
years ago, if I meditate or do anything mindful, the answer would have
been, I can't meditate. I've tried and I can't, and that's not true
anymore. I built like a little altar to my woo-woo mental health
and self-care routine. On it, it has my vision board, which has my

(46:51):
tiny farm vision, petite acres. It has, trademark. Petite Acres. It
has my meditation pillow. It has my crystals. It has my tarot cards.
It has

[Dana] (47:05):
I love that.

grounding incense. Right now I am burning sandalwood because she up
to no good. And then

We are here to help you.

also I recently acquired the TheraBody

All right.

Smart Mask, which is... incredible. So it's like, you know, it kind
of looks like a sleeping mask, but it applies, and by the way, this
is not sponsored by them either. Like I paid with money for it.
It applies heat and massage to your temples, forehead, and around

(47:42):
your eyes.

[Dana] (47:43):
Oh, that sounds so good.

And it pairs with their app, like the TheraBody app. So I can select
either like sleep, focus, or I think the third one is stress. but I use
the focus routine, which is different for when I'm meditating. And then
if I go to sleep, I use sleep and it puts me out.

[Dana] (48:06):
amazing.

So this mask is deeply effective. I really like it for meditation.
Honestly, today,
so I try to like visualize what I want to go right in my life, what I
want for my future, what I want for a sweat life while I'm meditating.
So I do this whole like visualization. And since I got the mask, I've

(48:27):
been getting idea, idea while I'm doing that. Today, I presented this
whole strategy to Kelly. All of that came to me, by the way, when I
was meditating today.

[Dana] (48:39):
I love that, I need that.

Yeah, so that's mindless, but mindfulness. And we all need that $200
TheraBody mask. I added

[Dana] (48:48):
That sounds

it

[Dana] (48:48):
amazing.

to the gift guide the second I got it. That's

[Dana] (48:53):
Lots of

all

[Dana] (48:54):
good

for

[Dana] (48:54):
links

us.

[Dana] (48:54):
in this week, I feel like. Lots of good resources

Yeah.

[Dana] (48:57):
at round.

I'm gonna be busy linking to all of Lay's shit. Well, this has been another
episode of We Got Goals, which is in a sweatlif.com production, and
another thing that's better with friends. It is also the end of
season eight, so we'll be taking a little bit of a break as we get
ready for season nine. Look for that to come to a podcasting platform
near you in September. In the meantime, go back, listen, rate, review,

(49:22):
like, subscribe, all the stuff you do with podcasts while we're
making the new stuff. Thanks to Ryan Duffa for editing, Ryan Berriuga
for radio production, to Kelly Matkiewicz and Dana Farber for joining
me today. Bye. Goodbye,

[Dana] (49:35):
Bye.

Bye.

goodbye, goodbye. and Maverick the dog, thanks to Maverick.

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