September 9, 2024 • 42 mins
Can you find wellness amid chaos? That's the question we're tackling as we return after a long break, deeply affected by the ongoing conflict since October 7th. The heartbreaking news of six hostages killed by Hamas has left us grappling with overwhelming emotions, challenging our ability to maintain our wellness routines. We share our raw and honest reflections on trying to find some semblance of normalcy through small steps like meditation, even when the world feels like it's falling apart.
Imagine life as a grueling bike ride where celebrating small victories can keep you going. We discuss how focusing on resilience and gratitude has helped us navigate these difficult times. From maintaining a 10,000 steps a day streak to appreciating the moments with family and the basics of safety and shelter, we share the power of small wins and the importance of gratitude. It’s about finding joy and achievement in everyday habits, supported by family, prayer, and the little things that make a big difference.
Ever thought a family cruise could be a perfect bonding experience? We reflect on our recent trip, detailing the highs and lows of traveling with kids and how it became an unexpected source of joy. From exploring Morocco and Portugal to handling seasickness, the adventure fostered family unity and brought us closer. We also delve into the challenges of navigating anti-Semitism in Europe post-October 7th and share our strategies for maintaining wellness routines through it all. Stay tuned as we wrap up with tips for an enriching morning and evening routine, and tease our inspiring guest for the next episode.
Your hosts: @lynnhazan_ and @tonydoesknow
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, welcome to the Lynn and Tony Know podcast.
I'm your host, Lynn.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And I'm Tony.
We are both wellness coachesand married with kids.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Join us as we talk about all things health,
wellness, relationships, lifehacks, parenting and everything
in between unfiltered.
Thanks for listening and let'sget into it.
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It's been a very long time.
Yeah, today is September a verylong time yeah.
Today is September 2nd, FirstSeptember.
No, it's September 2nd.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Second.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And we're end of summer, beginning of the school
year, and we're excited to beback.
We have a lot to catch up on.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, yeah, where to start?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, I want to start where we are now.
In this period of time, I thinkyesterday was probably the
hardest day since October 7th.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
We woke up with the devastating news that they found
six of our hostages that werebrutally killed by Hamas, and
it's hard to do anything else,it's hard to think about
anything else.
I feel like I'm a ghost.
I feel like I'm a shell ofmyself most days, kind of moving
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through life, doing what I needto do, you know, working,
taking care of the kids and thehome and working out, but then
there's just this other part ofme that's somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And and yesterday and I still feel it today and you
know I was excited to work.
We were planning on recordingtoday.
For a week or so we wereplanning it like excited to get
back into the swing of thingsand um, and then this happened
and it kind of just like putsputs us back, and I think this
whole year has been a challengeto record because of everything
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that we're dealing with, notonly from the war aspect and and
what's you know, the subsequentthings that are going on even
in the U S and and, and you knowbeing a Jew, and the diaspora,
and not only that, but also justlike life is really hard right
now.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, yeah, there's no better way to put it and you
know, when it comes to how thataffects how we approach
something like this, it'schallenging because you know so
much of what this podcast hasbeen about is where we are, what
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we're doing, what we'retypically what it was was what
we're doing to improve ourhealth and lives and wellness,
and all that Starting out, youknow, specifically to being
pregnant and then postpartum,and then you know we had our
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cold plunge period and then,very shortly after that, within
months, the wars started, and soit becomes this push-pull, even
even with us, of how do weapproach what's really going on
in our lives?
Uh, without it becoming entirelyabout, you know, the war,
because we don't even we don'twant our own lives to become
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entirely about the war, but wealso feel compelled to speak out
about it in a way that bringsawareness to some corners of the
universe that it might not getto, and so it's been a tightrope
walk that's challenging and attimes just doesn't feel doable,
(03:39):
and that is why, in large part,why there hasn't been a lot of
recording going on, because it'slike how do we approach it,
what do we do?
How much of this are the peoplethat tune into us, going to
want to hear, and you know, partof me says it doesn't matter.
That's what's real for us rightnow, and whoever wants to
listen can listen.
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Whoever wants to check out cancheck out, and no hard feelings.
But this is kind of where weare.
So it's it's relevant to us andit's relevant to what we're
going through, and it's alsorelevant to the the health and
wellness aspect of of what we do, because how do you juggle both
?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And we've been.
We've been struggling Like thethe pat.
It's interesting that, likepost baby, we were so on point
with our health and wellnessroutines and meditating and
walking and eating well, and youknow recording regularly and we
were we're on track.
And then, you know, october 7thhappened and it completely
threw us off of everything and Ithink in the past year has been
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a real struggle, like it's beena real and and I think anybody
who's on a wellness it's acalled a journey for a reason,
like it's it's just going, it'sit's getting back on the bike,
it's getting, it's just you falloff and you get back on.
And, um, this past year hasbeen a true uh challenge for
both of us because it and and Ithink the podcast has been kind
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of a testament to where we arejust like not having the
capacity to do it.
And you know we made acommitment and it's something
that we really genuinely enjoydoing.
And last week we were like justlike okay, like it's been a year
.
You know we recorded last yearbut not so consistently.
And last week we were likeexcited, you know, with the
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direction of the podcast, kindof fusing the health and
wellness that we're passionateabout and also what's going on
in the world and the people thatwe've met and the people that
we know.
Their stories will have animpact in not only our lives but
your lives.
And then yesterday happened andit's just like, oh, you know,
like knock me off my feet.
Like knock me off my feet.
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And, um, I woke up this morning.
I'm like, okay, I need to dosomething for me.
And it started with a 10 minutemeditation and it's just like
it's baby steps and it's it'sit's just doing whatever you can
and, and regardless of whetherthis war is effect, if you know,
if you're just listening andthis war doesn't affect you in
any way life happens and I thinkyou know this has been a hard
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year for a lot of people, notjust people experiencing what's
going on on the outside world.
I think, like you know, there'san article that, um, I saw, you
know, circling around last week, uh, the surgeon warning that
parents are so stressed out thatthey can't function, that four
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out of 10 parents are sostressed out that they can't
function.
And when I saw that, I feltalmost relieved because I was
like, you know, this has beenthe hardest, I think the hardest
year of my life in terms ofeverything, everything, finances
, wellness, parenting, mybusiness.
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You know, even our marriage hasbeen hard, like, not hard in a
bad way, like we're not fightingand like at each other's
throats, but it, this year hasdefinitely put, you know, some
challenges in our, in ourmarriage.
I would say, you know, and andknock, knock this off our, our,
our kind of like, our, howthings like were before, and
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seeing that article, it was like, okay, like I'm not alone, like
you know, a lot of people aregoing through this, where you
know the the life that we'reliving is not like sustainable.
You know we're expected to doeverything, we're expected to
work and make a ton of money andeverything is just so expensive
and it's just like impossibleto keep up with the Joneses and
childcare and you know, when dowe have time to work out and
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have date night and be socialand all these things?
And we don't have.
There's no village and there'sno support and there's no family
nearby and and it just you feellike you're suffocating.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, yeah, listen, um, it's all the.
All the things that any one ofthem would be hard to deal with,
not impossible, but when theyall come at you at the same time
, it feels it feels like a lot.
And, all of that being said,there's so much room for being
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appreciative of the things thatwe don't have to deal with right
now, which you know, in ourcase, would be the health of our
family.
We don't have to deal with anyhealth challenges for any one of
us right now, knock on wood.
But you know there are a lot ofcomplications to life that we
aren't facing that we can alsobe grateful for.
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It's just, you know, even wherewe are, which both of us very
actively work on ourselves andpursue growth aggressively.
There are there are just goingto be times where you hit your
new ceiling and haven't brokenthrough it yet to get to the new
floor, and that's where itfeels like we've been for a
little bit, but we are making aconcerted effort to refocus and
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and get those parts of us backonline that are required to take
on all the challenges thatwe're currently facing.
Just like, but when you saylike, we fall off the bike and
get back on it.
Right now it feels like you getback on the bike and the chain
falls off yeah, there's alwayssomething breaks, go out, yeah
you're like I'm fucking back onthe bike though that's what I'm
supposed to be doing.
(09:22):
Yeah, it's exactly the analogyanalogy gets run over a piece of
glass.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
That's literally life right now.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So is what it is, and we can't afford a new bike.
So we got to fix the bike.
We have to keep it.
Keep it moving or we walk.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Speaking of walking, one of the things we can
celebrate is your current 10,000steps a day streak, yeah, so
like the one, thing, the one.
Thing yeah, this is important.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
This is a funny segue , but this is important, it's
celebrating the small wins and Ithink and I want to just go
back to like your point like youknow, things are kind of sucky
right now, but the sucky thingsare illuminating the good things
.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And and I really like try to focus on my gratitude
every day and, like you know,I'll have moments where Noah is
like ransacking the living room,like there's shit everywhere
and there's like toys everywhere, and I try to take a breath and
enjoy this moment and enjoy herand and she's just this happy
kid that doesn't know anythingthat's going on outside of, like
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her playing with her toys, andI try to be in that moment with
her and and you know the moments, like you know we were, we had
a wonderful weekend with friendsand and it really does like the
hard, the hard years reallyilluminate the good times and
I'm really hold, I really holdonto those moments and um, and
it's about, yeah, and and goingback to gratitude, of just being
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grateful that I'm safe and thatI have a roof over my head and
that there's food in the fridge,which is that's being rich in
life that I'm.
And I think, as humans, we tendto to focus on, like what we
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don't have and how things can bebetter, and there's always
something to to have anxietyabout, especially when we live
in this like world whereeverything you know like you,
you know bill, like there'sbills coming at you and and you
know you have kids that you needto support and and the school
years and I'm I'm sure a lot ofparents are feeling the stress
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of like this impending schoolyear.
Like summer is all nice anddandy and you can kind of live
in like the Lulu land, and thenSeptember hits and you have
soccer practice and this andrunning around and, um, school
drop off and all that stuff.
So I'm really trying to focuson, like my gratitude right now,
like this is where like andprayer and and I'm I'm praying.
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I'm praying a lot more becauseI feel like I, I my soul needs
it you know, yeah, I'm going toreel you back towards the point
you were about to make, whichwas going to be a good one.
Yes, so we're focusing on thesmall wins.
And I, for the past 45 days,I've been walking 10,000 steps a
day.
Uh, it started on the crew andwe'll talk about the crews, but
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it started on the crews.
We were in on our 16 day cruisein Europe and we were walking a
lot and you know, every day Igot like 10, 15,000 steps and it
felt really good.
It felt like I accomplishedsomething every single day while
on like it felt productive,Like even though I'm on vacation
, I'm still getting my steps in.
And it felt good and it helpedme keep, like you know, the all
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you can eat buffets in check andand all that stuff.
And so when we came back, I waslike I'm going to continue this
streak.
So I've been intentionallywalking more, like like
yesterday, at like six, 7pm, Iwas only at like 8,000.
I was like, okay, I'm going togo take a nice walk around the
block.
So I'm intentionally takingtime out of my day, even if it's
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really busy, to go walk.
And yeah, I hit 45 daysyesterday, a streak which is, I
think, pretty remarkable.
And if it feels good, it feelslike like I'm accomplishing
something, even though it's kindof it's just an app that like
throws confetti on your on yourphone, when it's.
It is fun, but it's likesomething that I like, I'm, I'm
sticking to and I'maccomplishing every day go ahead
and tell us what app, so thatwhen, so the app is called pacer
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.
Okay, um and yeah, I just likeit counts your steps and then I
hold my phone and we have it.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
The only difference here is that it throws confetti
it celebrates and it tracks youryour stretch, your streak.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, it's like, so like, and I I think with habits,
making it some sort of like,any habit that you want to like
start and you want to sustain.
I think making it into a game,cause we're, you know, we're
human beings.
We like to play games and weneed rewards.
And my reward is like seeingthe 45 days, or like the, you
know, once the confetti hits,I'm like I did it, yay, and like
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, and it's also become like athing in my home, like all my
friends know and like my familyknows and people like and my,
like my kid, you know Mia, willbe like oh, what, how many steps
are you at, you know?
And like I'm walking, like likebefore bed, you know I have
like 300 steps left and I'mwalking in the living room back
and forth and it's so funny andlike, and like tony and mia are
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like cheering me, they're like,okay, you could do it like 100
more and it's kind of been thisthing and it's nice, and like
I'm encouraging everybody in thefamily to walk more, like tony
started walking more startedwalking to work.
I started walking to the journalstation and I'm sure people
want to ask, okay, like, what isthe steps doing for you?
Like, what is you know?
Are you seeing?
(14:31):
Like people want results.
Like, what are you seeing right?
Like, are there any?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
like so I mean.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I mean so multiple things, like the fact that I
didn't gain any weight on thecruise is remarkable.
That is a true remarkable andwe'll talk about the cruise and
like what we ate and all thatstuff.
But I came back and I was likeyou know nothing, no weight gain
, which to me is kind of cool,you know.
I didn't have to worry aboutthat.
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And then, um, I also noticedthat I'm calmer and especially,
you know, as a I work from homeand I run my own business.
Like a lot of times the day canjust get like really crazy and I
can, I can sit up my desk, likeand just work through the whole
day and not take like a secondlike a breather.
So it forces me to go outsideand walk the dogs and I've been
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listening to like thesespiritual podcasts and that's
been really nice and givingmaking me feel good.
Um, it definitely helps mysleep.
Like I pass out.
I pass out like at nine, 30,I'm like I'm done and being more
active, you know, and like justbe just being in motion and and
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not being sedentary.
I think it'll be important inthe long run.
So we'll see how long I cankeep this streak going.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It's a good streak and my next.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
my next goal for my next streak is meditation, is
getting back to a meditationstreak, so that's like kind of
my next adding on you know, yeah, the, the.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
The difference here is and I think it's important
that we talk about when westumble, like we are not going
to nail it every time.
We're going to go throughseasons of challenge where the,
the habits slowly start to fallaway.
And then you know, especiallywhen you build something in,
like the month of July, that wehad where it was, we were gone
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for almost an entire month andwe're, you know, in multiple
different places.
We go home with my to see myparents were, you know, in
Barcelona for four days andwe're on a boat and you change
all these venues and if yourhabits aren't absolutely locked
in, they will go away, like youwill.
You will stop, and if you stopfor over a month, it's going to
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be something I mean, we haven'tlike this this year at all.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
We haven't stuck to our habits like, yeah, we cold
plunged and and again we try,like we try and and these, this
thing.
This is what I tell peoplethink.
Like we lead these, likeperfect, like healthy lifestyle,
we eat super healthy.
It's not, it's not the case atall.
Like we, we try we try.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Growth is very much not a straight line.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
We try, like we're going to.
We're trying it.
You know, september.
We're going to try againtomorrow.
We're going to start waking upearly.
I'm going to try to again.
It's it's.
This year has been a challengein itself Cause, like, what
we're dealing with on a globalaspect is not normal.
No, and I am Jewish and I'mIsraeli and you know it affects
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me directly and things likethese happen in life, like if
you're you know whether or notthe war affects you, but you
could be dealing with, like ayou know a sick parent or you
know like, or a death in thefamily and there's stuff there's
stuff, there's stuff andeveryone has stuff and it's
weighs on you and it's so hardto pour back into yourself when
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there's just so much to thinkabout and so much heaviness and
just in general, what's going onin the world is not normal.
Since the pandemic we've beendealing with unprecedented times
like our.
I'm tired.
I'm a millennial, I'm fuckingtired of unprecedented times
yeah you know what I'm saying?
like I'm tired of it yeah, I'mlooking forward to some
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precedent in time whenever thathappens yeah, I don't know what
that looks like, but I welcomeit so let's talk the summer,
let's talk the cruise, let'stalk cruising Cruise traveling
with kids.
The cruise was awesome, lovedit and we shared a room, a small
interior room with no windows,with a toddler and an
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11-year-old.
Yeah, and it went great.
It went great.
There were moments.
There were hard moments.
There were hard moments.
Uh, the flight to Barcelona washard with Noah, not going to
lie the flights are hard.
The flights are hard with atoddler, like you know babies
are easy in a way, cause theyjust like kind of lay there,
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right.
But toddlers need to move, theyneed to be entertained.
You know they're used tosleeping in a crib, so like
sleeping on a like I can't evensleep on the plane.
I'm going to expect a toddlerto be able to sleep like
comfortably on the plane Notreally.
And they want to interact andthey like want to interact and
like you're in this confinedspace and toddlers need to like
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run around.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Especially ours.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Oh, my God, Our toddler.
Yes, she is, yes.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I genuinely believe that she is above average in
activeness.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
She's very active.
She needs constant stimuli.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
She requires stimuli, tom's hand of all throwback not
everyone's gonna know thereference.
That's all I have to put thevideo in um, but other than that
, I think you know it went wellso it went very well and one of
the biggest reasons that it wentvery well is because we truly
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anticipated our, our bar, ourbar for success was so low that
all of like the challengingmoments, we had prepared
ourselves for the entire thingto be that level of challenging.
So then, when it wasn't, whenit was only a couple of moments,
we weren't disappointed, weweren't like mad about it.
When things did pop off withher or she had a bad day or she
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had a bad night's sleep.
It was like, okay, this is kindof what we expected to happen
and that's fine, we can dealwith it.
We weren't expecting easybreezy thing to take place, and
so she was a little bit of ahandful a couple times and
that's it.
And overall it was really good.
She was amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, no, we had a great time Like couldn't have
gone?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
What Favorite parts?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Just being with my family, you know, spending just
all this time with my parentsand, you know, my sister and her
kids, and it was just nice anda bonding experience.
And I don't know bondingexperience and, um, I don't know
, that's just like I'm like, youknow I'm for.
You know I turned 41 on thecruise and spending it with my,
my family, like you kind of turna corner and you're just like,
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yeah, this is what's so, this iswhat's the most important to me
in my life is being with myfamily, like everything else
like doesn't fucking matter.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And we got into some just some very nice routines on
the cruise, like we adapted tocruise life very quickly.
You know, we obviously we allhave dinner together, we all
have breakfast together, lunchprobably going to have together
if we're on or off the boat,because we all ended up on like
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the same buffet scheduleessentially.
So we had the buffet availableat all times pretty much, and
then we also had the the moreformal dinners that were
something that we did prettymuch every night, unless we just
wanted to bail and go to thebuffet and then post dinner, we
we all got on the same likepost-dinner snack routine where,
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even if we didn't say anythingto each other, like hey, we're
going to meet, we would walk inand her whole family would be
ready to snack.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And there's literally 3,000 people on this boat 3,000
people and we'd always run intoeach other.
It was crazy.
We'd run into her family on thesame feeding schedule.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And it was just this nice routine that just unfolded.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And I used to be anti-cruise.
I don't even want to go intowhy I was anti-cruise, but this
has definitely made me abeliever.
I'm a believer because it's nota ufo but I'm a believer in
cruises for kids, like it'sawesome for kids especially you
have you've like you know, likefor mia say, she's like 11 and
she had she was able to likewalk around the boat
independently, like where is shegonna go?
You know what I mean.
Like she's stuck on this boatso like she can like be
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independent and go and go to thearcade and go play pickleball,
and there's like tons of funstuff for the kids to do.
You know, and, um, you know,the nursery was not like the
best on the boat that we were on, but I know that, like most
cruises have a better like club,like toddler club and like like
nannies and and that sort ofthing.
It could have been better onour boat but, like you know, we
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made it work we didn't get to.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
We didn't get to do much with the nursery, simply
because their schedule for rightfor taking babies just didn't
work for us it didn't, didn'thelp, but I think
Speaker 1 (23:19):
other boats have.
Like you know, if you'replanning on going on a cruise
with your kids, definitely look,look into that, um, but it's
great and you know you, you go,you know you stop at different
locations every day and you candecide to like go as far as you
want to go, like we were like Ithink our favorite stops were
morocco and when we went tocasablanca because my father was
born in casablanca, so that waslike really, really nice to be
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there with him and to see himspeak arabic with like the cab
drivers and and show us likewhere he grew up, and that like
that was really nice.
That was like a bucket list,like moment um.
And then we went to the marketand had like our fried donuts,
which were amazing and I'm oh, Icould totally eat one now, um,
and then portugal was just likemy favorite like need to go.
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Lisbon and porto, like just themost gorgeous places, and and
you just go back on the boat andyou have all your stuff and and
and it's nice and yeah, wethere was, like you know,
headphone parties.
We never made it to thenightclub because I'm an old
bitch and there's no way I canstay up past 11.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, no, the nightclub didn't happen, but
that's okay, because there wasplenty of other things to do and
there's so much comfort in theroutine of like, oh, we can go
explore this different countrytoday.
We can do it for as short or aslong as we feel like, and then
we can go back to the boat.
The boat is home base and weknow everything about the boat
and we don't have to guess oryeah, or think about what to
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feed the baby.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Oh, that's the best part.
Yeah, because traveling is sohard with kids, because you have
to think about what to feedthem three times a day.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
No, you just put them up to the buffet and say go
nuts, it's great, really wellshe she like a champ.
Yeah, she had fun.
Yeah, it was wonderful.
I didn't gain any weight.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
We didn't gain any weight.
Remarkable we walked a lot wewalked a lot, and also the
cruise ship.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You're walking a lot like, yeah, just on the cruise
ship.
Yeah, you, you know, front toback, yeah, a long way we worked
out.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
We did work out like the first week and how I was
also sick, like that.
That was a whole other thing.
Yeah, I like bronchitis andthat I had to deal with.
So I like was not, I had noenergy to work out, but then,
after feeling better, like wewent to the gym a few times and,
like you know, a few people askme like, oh, how do you like
stay healthy on on vacation?
(25:32):
The thing is, I'm healthy everyevery single day, like I I make
, I try to make good choicesevery single day.
That, like if I go on a cruise,like I'm not, like we're so
worried.
I did try to like eat.
You know, some days I was likeyou know what I'm going to, just
eat a salad, or I'm like notlike I listened to my.
I listened to, kind of like,what my body wants, you know,
(25:52):
and I, after years of reallyworking at it, I've become like
an intuitive eater where I canlike be like you know what I'm,
I'm full now.
I'm not gonna uh, or I'll,maybe I'll go to the.
I'll go back to the buffetlater for dessert, you know.
Okay, let's ask, uh.
So I got a few questions.
Uh, somebody asked if, uh, any,if any of us got seasick.
(26:14):
So there was one bad day it's.
We had one day at sea and itwas super rocky and I did not
feel well.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, you and Mia were both not enthused by it,
and it was literally one day.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
It was only one day, yeah, we heard stories from a
couple of people.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So so for context, this particular ship is the one
that was doing, is still doing,the nine month around the world
tour.
So our section of this uh tourwas just the the barcelona to
england section of the wholearound the world tour and we
were talking to some of thecouples that were on the boat
(26:52):
for the full thing and and theyhit like rough seas, like rough
where it was, like flooding,parts of like the second floor
they said second and third floorwhich we were on.
So it was a little bit.
We got a little bit lucky, Ithink, in terms of how rocky it
was, because it was just thatone night, but like it felt like
we were rocking yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
It was intense.
I stayed in bed the whole likemost of the day, I think because
like there was nothing to doyeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
It wasn't the best day, but seasick overall.
No, not just from being on theboat, but like motion sickness,
I would say, from that one dayyou you probably dealt with.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Somebody asked I like this question how was your
family dynamic on the whole trip?
Does Tony speak Yivrit reallywell?
Yivrit means Hebrew.
How was our family dynamic?
How is?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
our family dynamic.
Family dynamic is great, and ittypically is.
We have a great time together.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
My parents and my sister love Tony Like everyone
loves him Like I'm very lucky.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah, I'm part of the family, so they have to.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
No, I don't met a bear very well, but I understand
a lot and it gets better everytime that I'm around your family
for a long stretch, because youknow I'm listening to it
constantly.
The Hebrew still got a ways togo before I would consider
myself good at it, but we'll getthere.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Somebody asked how uneasy was it wearing your
Magenta Veed in some places.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
In actuality, not at all, really, not at all really.
But there were places where wehad to have the conversation and
talk about it, whether or notthat it was going to be a thing
anywhere that we actually did.
For me it was whatever, it wasno big deal, but there it had to
be part of the conversation.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
When we go to places, um, you know that, have either
experienced, you know, recentevents that were tumultuous or
you know, I don't know how toelaborate on that, but there
were times where we talked aboutit yeah, I think paris was one
where we heard that we should becareful, but really like I
don't know, I feel like maybe inmy head it feels like it's much
(29:12):
worse on social media than itis in real life, like nobody's
like looking at you, like no,he's no.
I feel like the people who aremost at risk are people who are
visibly jewish that are dressedreligious.
Jews I think have are most atrisk.
I think if I were to do itagain, I would have worn my Star
of David like loud and proud,like I don't think we should be
(29:34):
hiding ourselves.
You know, like it's the same asNew York City, exactly Like
people might give you like adirty look, but like they can't
do anything.
And if they do that, you knowlike come at me.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
No, no, do not come at me.
No, don't come at me.
Do not come at me, I mean Ihave.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I have a pepper spray .
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I was going to say, you took like one Krav Maga
class.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
So I'm pretty strong though.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
You're very strong for your size.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Um, but let's talk about like that aspect of the
traveling, because thatdefinitely was a concern going
into this cruise and going toeurope with the whole family and
the kids like how bad isanti-semitism in europe?
And I would say it's the same,it's as bad as it is in, like,
new york city.
Yeah, there are protests andthere are signs and there are
stickers and there are, you know, you see it everywhere, like
(30:24):
there was no escaping it, it wasin every, which is interesting.
But I think the most Jewishfriendly stop was Morocco, was
Casablanca, yeah, yes, but Ialso think there's a reason for
that.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
It's because there's not a large Jewish population
there to be anti-Semitic too.
It's not like you're going togo around posting anti-Semitic
stuff in Morocco.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
But people were really nice to us.
No, they were wonderful to us.
My sister went to a Starbucksand the woman asked oh, where
are you guys from?
And she said Israel.
Then the woman gave my sister abunch of free bottle bottle of
water and the thing is like, yes, there was antisemitism, but
there was also a lot ofpositivity, and I shared on my
(31:12):
Instagram like a recap video oflike all the positivity and the
love that we received whenpeople you know heard that we
were, you know, from Israel,cause you know my family's from
Israel and and it was nice and Ifeel like the positive like
outweighed the negative in a way.
Like, yeah, you see all thesigns and it sucks and, like you
know, you're just trying totravel and have a good time with
your, your family, and then youget like slapped in the face
(31:34):
with free Palestine signs and,and you know, all kinds of
propaganda at the same time,it's like at this point it's
like you're kind of used to it,yeah it's like whatever, all
right, par for the course.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
The the good thing is we didn't like literally run
into any anti-semitism.
We didn't run into anydemonstrations, we didn't run
into any protests.
We, we, we steered clear of allthat.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
It was just like a sign or graffiti or whatever
yeah, same same, speaking oflike in my question, because I
asked like, oh, ask me questionsabout, like, the crews, of
course I got a free palestine.
You did it um, dork, I don'tknow, I don't, I don't get it um
, at least frame it in the inthe question format yeah, then I
(32:18):
mean, I got another like a lotof seasick questions.
And then one more question Doyou think Europe and the Middle
East are worse than before, orjust slightly less bad in Latin
America?
I think he's talking aboutanti-Semitism.
Oh yeah, like the same.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
No way worse than before.
What?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Before October 7th.
Yes, yeah.
Definitely's definitely allover the place.
Way worse.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Definitely worse.
Yeah, I mean statistically it's.
It's not even a, it's not evenan opinion, the statistical fact
that it's worse.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Yeah, so, yeah.
So what, what can people lookforward to for the next season?
So what can people?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
look forward to.
Oh man, they can, they can lookforward to us, uh, feeling our
way through this season ofdifficulty, um, which we're
going to keep it real, like it's.
It's so hard to get on cameraand create, sometimes when
you're in a season where youdon't feel like, you just don't
(33:21):
feel good necessarily, liketoday, I didn't like, I didn't
feel like, oh hell, yeah, let'srecord a podcast.
But we committed to it and,like we discussed the other day,
it's, it's important for us tobe honest about it and if we're
going to put ourselves out therein this way, then we got to
give them the good and the badat the same time.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
And yeah, we're taking you on this journey of
getting back to us you know,like, even, like, even our sex
life is not where it needs to be.
Like you know, we still havesex like weekly, but like, I
think, like a good, like, whenthings are really good between
us, we have sex like three, fourtimes, and and these are all
(34:02):
aspects of things that we thinkare important and we're not even
doing it.
You know, like, like we're, youknow, we're all about
practicing what you, what youpreach and what we preach in the
first two seasons.
We're not currently reallystaying on track.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yeah, I mean, like I said, with that bike analogy,
the most recent chain fallingoff the bike was our, our
chiller for our cold plunge.
Uh yeah, crapped out after ayear, which is fine.
You know, you buy it from chinaand that's what happens yeah,
so that's why we haven't beencold plunging we've been cold
plunging, which is a uh, notgreat, right, don't love that.
(34:34):
But you know this is this isjust going to be a season of
getting back up on on the horseand and keeping it moving.
But right now we're just like,where do we move to?
Like, what are we moving forwardto?
So we are still in the inquiryof some of this and are going to
(34:57):
bring anybody that's interestedin seeing what that looks like
along, because, uh, that's wherewe are and we're going to be
anybody that's interested inseeing what that looks like
along, because that's where weare, and we're going to be
bringing on some superinteresting guests that I'm very
excited about, that are goingto bridge the gap between, you
know, the all of the things thatare affecting us right now,
including the war.
We're going to have guests onthat have, in very similar
(35:19):
fashion to us, you know, beencompelled to put down some of
the things that they cared aboutvery passionately before
October 7th and pick up the,pick up the sword and do their
thing.
And you know that's that'sgoing to be something that that
we'll talk about a lot and itwon't become the focus, but it
(35:40):
will become a big piece of whatwe talk about here, so and also
how they, you know, stay healthyand keep their mental health in
focus.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
And yeah, I think the this podcast is a direct
reflection of everything we'regoing through and we're always
going to keep it real with youguys.
So, yeah, this week we're goingto try to get on our habits.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, we got to stop saying try, we're doing it,
eliminate, we are committed.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
We are committed to.
Do you want to like walkthrough like some of our more?
We've discussed this inprevious episodes, but do you
want to walk us through like ourmorning and night, like
routines that?
Speaker 2 (36:22):
ideal, like the ideals.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah, the ideals.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Yeah.
So morning routine for me, Imean, I'll speak for me.
It's similar to yours, but I'llspeak for mine specifically.
It would be, you know,downstairs in the gym by five,
15 or so, uh doing, breathing,doing the exercises like working
out and stretching, meditating,so in a perfect world that
takes all of that can take 45minutes to an hour and just
(36:50):
depends on you know how much ofof each uh goes into it.
So for me that's what themorning routine looks like.
And then post, that would becold plunging, and then that's
that's the perfect morning.
You know, hitting all of thosenotes for wind down, it would be
.
It would be the journaling, atleast 15 minutes of reading, and
(37:12):
uh, that's a.
What else am I missing at night?
It's the journaling and thereading.
The gratitude journals and thereading are the big things at
night.
I mean, if you wanted to reallyramp it up, do a nighttime
meditation as well, like thatwould be top tier.
But we've never gotten intothat routine fully.
It's mostly been meditate, kindof get in where you fit in on
(37:36):
that one.
But that would be the two, thetwo things, and I and I think
especially for you right now itfeels like one of us has to have
our phone so we can monitor thebaby when we need to, but
shutting down the phones umbefore getting into bed is ideal
as well.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yeah, I mean for me, I need better boundaries with
the phone.
Um, for the last year sinceOctober, like before that, I was
like leave my phone downstairs,I wouldn't scroll in the
morning.
But since October 7th it's justlike I need to know what's
going on all the time and it'sreally bad for my mental health,
waking up and just like beingconsumed with just images of war
(38:19):
and protests and just news andit doesn't, it's not good for me
and I know this.
Um, and I have to separate.
I have to I think I have tolike physically separate myself
from my device.
It doesn't help that my job issocial media, like people are
like oh, why don't you just takelike a break, take a month
break?
It's literally my job.
Like I need to know everythingthat's going on.
(38:40):
You know I need to know thetrends, I need to know the news,
Like I also work with someJewish nonprofits, so I do need
to know what's going on.
And also, you know, I'm, myfamily lives in Israel.
Like I can't, I'm not, I can'tbe the Lulu you know.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I can't, I can't.
The boundaries are, but I needto create better boundaries.
And, but I need to createbetter boundaries.
Maybe we'll get.
Travis to talk about socialmedia.
Yeah, mental health, that wouldbe good.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
So I'm working on creating some better boundaries
and you know, ideally my morningstarts with morning prayer.
I want to bring more, you know,prayer into my life.
You know prayer into my life,uh, and meditate.
You know morning prayer,meditation, um affirmations,
writing.
You know gratitude journal inthe morning.
Um, what else in the morning?
(39:32):
You know, obviously my uh walkthe dogs.
You know cold plunge when weget that fixed, uh, I usually
have my workout a little later.
Um, yeah, that's like kind ofwhat the hit in my morning and
(39:53):
then during the day, getting my10 K steps.
Um evening, yeah, everythingthat you shared for the evening,
making sure the kitchen isclean.
I feel like waking up to a cleankitchen is like it's key.
Yeah, I mean, there's a more ofa, there's a longer list.
Like I'd like to like actually,the past year I haven't been
able to even have time to showerand get dressed Like I'm in my
(40:14):
workout clothes all day.
I make a conscious choice, likeI prefer to have time to work
out than have time to shower andget glammed for the day, like
that's like my choice.
I am like I'm making a choice,but I would love to be able to
like look good and feel good.
You know what I mean For likezoom calls and and things and
(40:35):
things like that.
Like I only shower and getdressed when I have to go
somewhere.
So I would like to maybe try tofit that in, but it is what it
is.
It's not going to be perfect.
Like you know, I I juggle a lotfor one person and taking care,
you know, picking I try to pickup Noah at three and that
limits my day from like nine tothree to get all my work done
(40:56):
and and sometimes cook, even ifthere's things going on.
So yeah, I'm just trying toalso show myself grace that I'm
doing whatever I can.
I'm doing the best that I can,you know.
Yeah, so yeah, do the best thatyou can.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Do your best.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Do your best.
That's the motivating soundbite.
Just do your best, honestly,that would be great.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Just do your best.
Honestly, that would be great.
Just do your best and walkaround assuming that everyone
else is doing their best, andlife would be at least 10% to
15% better.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Yeah, but it's hard, that's hard, yeah.
On that note, we're veryexcited for our first guest of
the season.
Yeah, super excited, yeah,super excited.
She's a boss as bitch, and I'mreally inspired by her and her
energy, um so stay, stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
Look out next week, for we're just I mean, we're
just going to leave it at that.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah, leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Okay, later.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Bye, okay, later bye.
Hey, welcome to the Lynn and Tony Know podcast.
I'm your host, Lynn.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And I'm Tony.
We are both wellness coachesand married with kids.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Join us as we talk about all things health,
wellness, relationships, lifehacks, parenting and everything
in between unfiltered.
Thanks for listening and let'sget into it.
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It's been a very long time.
Yeah, today is September a verylong time yeah.
Today is September 2nd, FirstSeptember.
No, it's September 2nd.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Second.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And we're end of summer, beginning of the school
year, and we're excited to beback.
We have a lot to catch up on.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, yeah, where to start?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, I want to start where we are now.
In this period of time, I thinkyesterday was probably the
hardest day since October 7th.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
We woke up with the devastating news that they found
six of our hostages that werebrutally killed by Hamas, and
it's hard to do anything else,it's hard to think about
anything else.
I feel like I'm a ghost.
I feel like I'm a shell ofmyself most days, kind of moving
(01:20):
through life, doing what I needto do, you know, working,
taking care of the kids and thehome and working out, but then
there's just this other part ofme that's somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And and yesterday and I still feel it today and you
know I was excited to work.
We were planning on recordingtoday.
For a week or so we wereplanning it like excited to get
back into the swing of thingsand um, and then this happened
and it kind of just like putsputs us back, and I think this
whole year has been a challengeto record because of everything
(01:55):
that we're dealing with, notonly from the war aspect and and
what's you know, the subsequentthings that are going on even
in the U S and and, and you knowbeing a Jew, and the diaspora,
and not only that, but also justlike life is really hard right
now.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, yeah, there's no better way to put it and you
know, when it comes to how thataffects how we approach
something like this, it'schallenging because you know so
much of what this podcast hasbeen about is where we are, what
(02:34):
we're doing, what we'retypically what it was was what
we're doing to improve ourhealth and lives and wellness,
and all that Starting out, youknow, specifically to being
pregnant and then postpartum,and then you know we had our
(02:55):
cold plunge period and then,very shortly after that, within
months, the wars started, and soit becomes this push-pull, even
even with us, of how do weapproach what's really going on
in our lives?
Uh, without it becoming entirelyabout, you know, the war,
because we don't even we don'twant our own lives to become
(03:17):
entirely about the war, but wealso feel compelled to speak out
about it in a way that bringsawareness to some corners of the
universe that it might not getto, and so it's been a tightrope
walk that's challenging and attimes just doesn't feel doable,
(03:39):
and that is why, in large part,why there hasn't been a lot of
recording going on, because it'slike how do we approach it,
what do we do?
How much of this are the peoplethat tune into us, going to
want to hear, and you know, partof me says it doesn't matter.
That's what's real for us rightnow, and whoever wants to
listen can listen.
(03:59):
Whoever wants to check out cancheck out, and no hard feelings.
But this is kind of where weare.
So it's it's relevant to us andit's relevant to what we're
going through, and it's alsorelevant to the the health and
wellness aspect of of what we do, because how do you juggle both
?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And we've been.
We've been struggling Like thethe pat.
It's interesting that, likepost baby, we were so on point
with our health and wellnessroutines and meditating and
walking and eating well, and youknow recording regularly and we
were we're on track.
And then, you know, october 7thhappened and it completely
threw us off of everything and Ithink in the past year has been
(04:41):
a real struggle, like it's beena real and and I think anybody
who's on a wellness it's acalled a journey for a reason,
like it's it's just going, it'sit's getting back on the bike,
it's getting, it's just you falloff and you get back on.
And, um, this past year hasbeen a true uh challenge for
both of us because it and and Ithink the podcast has been kind
(05:01):
of a testament to where we arejust like not having the
capacity to do it.
And you know we made acommitment and it's something
that we really genuinely enjoydoing.
And last week we were like justlike okay, like it's been a year
.
You know we recorded last yearbut not so consistently.
And last week we were likeexcited, you know, with the
(05:22):
direction of the podcast, kindof fusing the health and
wellness that we're passionateabout and also what's going on
in the world and the people thatwe've met and the people that
we know.
Their stories will have animpact in not only our lives but
your lives.
And then yesterday happened andit's just like, oh, you know,
like knock me off my feet.
Like knock me off my feet.
(05:48):
And, um, I woke up this morning.
I'm like, okay, I need to dosomething for me.
And it started with a 10 minutemeditation and it's just like
it's baby steps and it's it'sit's just doing whatever you can
and, and regardless of whetherthis war is effect, if you know,
if you're just listening andthis war doesn't affect you in
any way life happens and I thinkyou know this has been a hard
(06:09):
year for a lot of people, notjust people experiencing what's
going on on the outside world.
I think, like you know, there'san article that, um, I saw, you
know, circling around last week, uh, the surgeon warning that
parents are so stressed out thatthey can't function, that four
(06:30):
out of 10 parents are sostressed out that they can't
function.
And when I saw that, I feltalmost relieved because I was
like, you know, this has beenthe hardest, I think the hardest
year of my life in terms ofeverything, everything, finances
, wellness, parenting, mybusiness.
(06:53):
You know, even our marriage hasbeen hard, like, not hard in a
bad way, like we're not fightingand like at each other's
throats, but it, this year hasdefinitely put, you know, some
challenges in our, in ourmarriage.
I would say, you know, and andknock, knock this off our, our,
our kind of like, our, howthings like were before, and
(07:14):
seeing that article, it was like, okay, like I'm not alone, like
you know, a lot of people aregoing through this, where you
know the the life that we'reliving is not like sustainable.
You know we're expected to doeverything, we're expected to
work and make a ton of money andeverything is just so expensive
and it's just like impossibleto keep up with the Joneses and
childcare and you know, when dowe have time to work out and
(07:38):
have date night and be socialand all these things?
And we don't have.
There's no village and there'sno support and there's no family
nearby and and it just you feellike you're suffocating.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, yeah, listen, um, it's all the.
All the things that any one ofthem would be hard to deal with,
not impossible, but when theyall come at you at the same time
, it feels it feels like a lot.
And, all of that being said,there's so much room for being
(08:13):
appreciative of the things thatwe don't have to deal with right
now, which you know, in ourcase, would be the health of our
family.
We don't have to deal with anyhealth challenges for any one of
us right now, knock on wood.
But you know there are a lot ofcomplications to life that we
aren't facing that we can alsobe grateful for.
(08:35):
It's just, you know, even wherewe are, which both of us very
actively work on ourselves andpursue growth aggressively.
There are there are just goingto be times where you hit your
new ceiling and haven't brokenthrough it yet to get to the new
floor, and that's where itfeels like we've been for a
little bit, but we are making aconcerted effort to refocus and
(09:02):
and get those parts of us backonline that are required to take
on all the challenges thatwe're currently facing.
Just like, but when you saylike, we fall off the bike and
get back on it.
Right now it feels like you getback on the bike and the chain
falls off yeah, there's alwayssomething breaks, go out, yeah
you're like I'm fucking back onthe bike though that's what I'm
supposed to be doing.
(09:22):
Yeah, it's exactly the analogyanalogy gets run over a piece of
glass.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
That's literally life right now.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So is what it is, and we can't afford a new bike.
So we got to fix the bike.
We have to keep it.
Keep it moving or we walk.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Speaking of walking, one of the things we can
celebrate is your current 10,000steps a day streak, yeah, so
like the one, thing, the one.
Thing yeah, this is important.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
This is a funny segue , but this is important, it's
celebrating the small wins and Ithink and I want to just go
back to like your point like youknow, things are kind of sucky
right now, but the sucky thingsare illuminating the good things
.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And and I really like try to focus on my gratitude
every day and, like you know,I'll have moments where Noah is
like ransacking the living room,like there's shit everywhere
and there's like toys everywhere, and I try to take a breath and
enjoy this moment and enjoy herand and she's just this happy
kid that doesn't know anythingthat's going on outside of, like
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her playing with her toys, andI try to be in that moment with
her and and you know the moments, like you know we were, we had
a wonderful weekend with friendsand and it really does like the
hard, the hard years reallyilluminate the good times and
I'm really hold, I really holdonto those moments and um, and
it's about, yeah, and and goingback to gratitude, of just being
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grateful that I'm safe and thatI have a roof over my head and
that there's food in the fridge,which is that's being rich in
life that I'm.
And I think, as humans, we tendto to focus on, like what we
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don't have and how things can bebetter, and there's always
something to to have anxietyabout, especially when we live
in this like world whereeverything you know like you,
you know bill, like there'sbills coming at you and and you
know you have kids that you needto support and and the school
years and I'm I'm sure a lot ofparents are feeling the stress
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of like this impending schoolyear.
Like summer is all nice anddandy and you can kind of live
in like the Lulu land, and thenSeptember hits and you have
soccer practice and this andrunning around and, um, school
drop off and all that stuff.
So I'm really trying to focuson, like my gratitude right now,
like this is where like andprayer and and I'm I'm praying.
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I'm praying a lot more becauseI feel like I, I my soul needs
it you know, yeah, I'm going toreel you back towards the point
you were about to make, whichwas going to be a good one.
Yes, so we're focusing on thesmall wins.
And I, for the past 45 days,I've been walking 10,000 steps a
day.
Uh, it started on the crew andwe'll talk about the crews, but
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it started on the crews.
We were in on our 16 day cruisein Europe and we were walking a
lot and you know, every day Igot like 10, 15,000 steps and it
felt really good.
It felt like I accomplishedsomething every single day while
on like it felt productive,Like even though I'm on vacation
, I'm still getting my steps in.
And it felt good and it helpedme keep, like you know, the all
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you can eat buffets in check andand all that stuff.
And so when we came back, I waslike I'm going to continue this
streak.
So I've been intentionallywalking more, like like
yesterday, at like six, 7pm, Iwas only at like 8,000.
I was like, okay, I'm going togo take a nice walk around the
block.
So I'm intentionally takingtime out of my day, even if it's
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really busy, to go walk.
And yeah, I hit 45 daysyesterday, a streak which is, I
think, pretty remarkable.
And if it feels good, it feelslike like I'm accomplishing
something, even though it's kindof it's just an app that like
throws confetti on your on yourphone, when it's.
It is fun, but it's likesomething that I like, I'm, I'm
sticking to and I'maccomplishing every day go ahead
and tell us what app, so thatwhen, so the app is called pacer
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.
Okay, um and yeah, I just likeit counts your steps and then I
hold my phone and we have it.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
The only difference here is that it throws confetti
it celebrates and it tracks youryour stretch, your streak.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, it's like, so like, and I I think with habits,
making it some sort of like,any habit that you want to like
start and you want to sustain.
I think making it into a game,cause we're, you know, we're
human beings.
We like to play games and weneed rewards.
And my reward is like seeingthe 45 days, or like the, you
know, once the confetti hits,I'm like I did it, yay, and like
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, and it's also become like athing in my home, like all my
friends know and like my familyknows and people like and my,
like my kid, you know Mia, willbe like oh, what, how many steps
are you at, you know?
And like I'm walking, like likebefore bed, you know I have
like 300 steps left and I'mwalking in the living room back
and forth and it's so funny andlike, and like tony and mia are
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like cheering me, they're like,okay, you could do it like 100
more and it's kind of been thisthing and it's nice, and like
I'm encouraging everybody in thefamily to walk more, like tony
started walking more startedwalking to work.
I started walking to the journalstation and I'm sure people
want to ask, okay, like, what isthe steps doing for you?
Like, what is you know?
Are you seeing?
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Like people want results.
Like, what are you seeing right?
Like, are there any?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
like so I mean.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I mean so multiple things, like the fact that I
didn't gain any weight on thecruise is remarkable.
That is a true remarkable andwe'll talk about the cruise and
like what we ate and all thatstuff.
But I came back and I was likeyou know nothing, no weight gain
, which to me is kind of cool,you know.
I didn't have to worry aboutthat.
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And then, um, I also noticedthat I'm calmer and especially,
you know, as a I work from homeand I run my own business.
Like a lot of times the day canjust get like really crazy and I
can, I can sit up my desk, likeand just work through the whole
day and not take like a secondlike a breather.
So it forces me to go outsideand walk the dogs and I've been
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listening to like thesespiritual podcasts and that's
been really nice and givingmaking me feel good.
Um, it definitely helps mysleep.
Like I pass out.
I pass out like at nine, 30,I'm like I'm done and being more
active, you know, and like justbe just being in motion and and
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not being sedentary.
I think it'll be important inthe long run.
So we'll see how long I cankeep this streak going.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It's a good streak and my next.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
my next goal for my next streak is meditation, is
getting back to a meditationstreak, so that's like kind of
my next adding on you know, yeah, the, the.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
The difference here is and I think it's important
that we talk about when westumble, like we are not going
to nail it every time.
We're going to go throughseasons of challenge where the,
the habits slowly start to fallaway.
And then you know, especiallywhen you build something in,
like the month of July, that wehad where it was, we were gone
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for almost an entire month andwe're, you know, in multiple
different places.
We go home with my to see myparents were, you know, in
Barcelona for four days andwe're on a boat and you change
all these venues and if yourhabits aren't absolutely locked
in, they will go away, like youwill.
You will stop, and if you stopfor over a month, it's going to
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be something I mean, we haven'tlike this this year at all.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
We haven't stuck to our habits like, yeah, we cold
plunged and and again we try,like we try and and these, this
thing.
This is what I tell peoplethink.
Like we lead these, likeperfect, like healthy lifestyle,
we eat super healthy.
It's not, it's not the case atall.
Like we, we try we try.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Growth is very much not a straight line.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
We try, like we're going to.
We're trying it.
You know, september.
We're going to try againtomorrow.
We're going to start waking upearly.
I'm going to try to again.
It's it's.
This year has been a challengein itself Cause, like, what
we're dealing with on a globalaspect is not normal.
No, and I am Jewish and I'mIsraeli and you know it affects
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me directly and things likethese happen in life, like if
you're you know whether or notthe war affects you, but you
could be dealing with, like ayou know a sick parent or you
know like, or a death in thefamily and there's stuff there's
stuff, there's stuff andeveryone has stuff and it's
weighs on you and it's so hardto pour back into yourself when
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there's just so much to thinkabout and so much heaviness and
just in general, what's going onin the world is not normal.
Since the pandemic we've beendealing with unprecedented times
like our.
I'm tired.
I'm a millennial, I'm fuckingtired of unprecedented times
yeah you know what I'm saying?
like I'm tired of it yeah, I'mlooking forward to some
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precedent in time whenever thathappens yeah, I don't know what
that looks like, but I welcomeit so let's talk the summer,
let's talk the cruise, let'stalk cruising Cruise traveling
with kids.
The cruise was awesome, lovedit and we shared a room, a small
interior room with no windows,with a toddler and an
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11-year-old.
Yeah, and it went great.
It went great.
There were moments.
There were hard moments.
There were hard moments.
Uh, the flight to Barcelona washard with Noah, not going to
lie the flights are hard.
The flights are hard with atoddler, like you know babies
are easy in a way, cause theyjust like kind of lay there,
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right.
But toddlers need to move, theyneed to be entertained.
You know they're used tosleeping in a crib, so like
sleeping on a like I can't evensleep on the plane.
I'm going to expect a toddlerto be able to sleep like
comfortably on the plane Notreally.
And they want to interact andthey like want to interact and
like you're in this confinedspace and toddlers need to like
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run around.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Especially ours.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Oh, my God, Our toddler.
Yes, she is, yes.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I genuinely believe that she is above average in
activeness.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
She's very active.
She needs constant stimuli.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
She requires stimuli, tom's hand of all throwback not
everyone's gonna know thereference.
That's all I have to put thevideo in um, but other than that
, I think you know it went wellso it went very well and one of
the biggest reasons that it wentvery well is because we truly
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anticipated our, our bar, ourbar for success was so low that
all of like the challengingmoments, we had prepared
ourselves for the entire thingto be that level of challenging.
So then, when it wasn't, whenit was only a couple of moments,
we weren't disappointed, weweren't like mad about it.
When things did pop off withher or she had a bad day or she
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had a bad night's sleep.
It was like, okay, this is kindof what we expected to happen
and that's fine, we can dealwith it.
We weren't expecting easybreezy thing to take place, and
so she was a little bit of ahandful a couple times and
that's it.
And overall it was really good.
She was amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, no, we had a great time Like couldn't have
gone?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
What Favorite parts?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Just being with my family, you know, spending just
all this time with my parentsand, you know, my sister and her
kids, and it was just nice anda bonding experience.
And I don't know bondingexperience and, um, I don't know
, that's just like I'm like, youknow I'm for.
You know I turned 41 on thecruise and spending it with my,
my family, like you kind of turna corner and you're just like,
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yeah, this is what's so, this iswhat's the most important to me
in my life is being with myfamily, like everything else
like doesn't fucking matter.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And we got into some just some very nice routines on
the cruise, like we adapted tocruise life very quickly.
You know, we obviously we allhave dinner together, we all
have breakfast together, lunchprobably going to have together
if we're on or off the boat,because we all ended up on like
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the same buffet scheduleessentially.
So we had the buffet availableat all times pretty much, and
then we also had the the moreformal dinners that were
something that we did prettymuch every night, unless we just
wanted to bail and go to thebuffet and then post dinner, we
we all got on the same likepost-dinner snack routine where,
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even if we didn't say anythingto each other, like hey, we're
going to meet, we would walk inand her whole family would be
ready to snack.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And there's literally 3,000 people on this boat 3,000
people and we'd always run intoeach other.
It was crazy.
We'd run into her family on thesame feeding schedule.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And it was just this nice routine that just unfolded.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And I used to be anti-cruise.
I don't even want to go intowhy I was anti-cruise, but this
has definitely made me abeliever.
I'm a believer because it's nota ufo but I'm a believer in
cruises for kids, like it'sawesome for kids especially you
have you've like you know, likefor mia say, she's like 11 and
she had she was able to likewalk around the boat
independently, like where is shegonna go?
You know what I mean.
Like she's stuck on this boatso like she can like be
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independent and go and go to thearcade and go play pickleball,
and there's like tons of funstuff for the kids to do.
You know, and, um, you know,the nursery was not like the
best on the boat that we were on, but I know that, like most
cruises have a better like club,like toddler club and like like
nannies and and that sort ofthing.
It could have been better onour boat but, like you know, we
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made it work we didn't get to.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
We didn't get to do much with the nursery, simply
because their schedule for rightfor taking babies just didn't
work for us it didn't, didn'thelp, but I think
Speaker 1 (23:19):
other boats have.
Like you know, if you'replanning on going on a cruise
with your kids, definitely look,look into that, um, but it's
great and you know you, you go,you know you stop at different
locations every day and you candecide to like go as far as you
want to go, like we were like Ithink our favorite stops were
morocco and when we went tocasablanca because my father was
born in casablanca, so that waslike really, really nice to be
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there with him and to see himspeak arabic with like the cab
drivers and and show us likewhere he grew up, and that like
that was really nice.
That was like a bucket list,like moment um.
And then we went to the marketand had like our fried donuts,
which were amazing and I'm oh, Icould totally eat one now, um,
and then portugal was just likemy favorite like need to go.
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Lisbon and porto, like just themost gorgeous places, and and
you just go back on the boat andyou have all your stuff and and
and it's nice and yeah, wethere was, like you know,
headphone parties.
We never made it to thenightclub because I'm an old
bitch and there's no way I canstay up past 11.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, no, the nightclub didn't happen, but
that's okay, because there wasplenty of other things to do and
there's so much comfort in theroutine of like, oh, we can go
explore this different countrytoday.
We can do it for as short or aslong as we feel like, and then
we can go back to the boat.
The boat is home base and weknow everything about the boat
and we don't have to guess oryeah, or think about what to
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feed the baby.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Oh, that's the best part.
Yeah, because traveling is sohard with kids, because you have
to think about what to feedthem three times a day.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
No, you just put them up to the buffet and say go
nuts, it's great, really wellshe she like a champ.
Yeah, she had fun.
Yeah, it was wonderful.
I didn't gain any weight.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
We didn't gain any weight.
Remarkable we walked a lot wewalked a lot, and also the
cruise ship.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You're walking a lot like, yeah, just on the cruise
ship.
Yeah, you, you know, front toback, yeah, a long way we worked
out.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
We did work out like the first week and how I was
also sick, like that.
That was a whole other thing.
Yeah, I like bronchitis andthat I had to deal with.
So I like was not, I had noenergy to work out, but then,
after feeling better, like wewent to the gym a few times and,
like you know, a few people askme like, oh, how do you like
stay healthy on on vacation?
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The thing is, I'm healthy everyevery single day, like I I make
, I try to make good choicesevery single day.
That, like if I go on a cruise,like I'm not, like we're so
worried.
I did try to like eat.
You know, some days I was likeyou know what I'm going to, just
eat a salad, or I'm like notlike I listened to my.
I listened to, kind of like,what my body wants, you know,
(25:52):
and I, after years of reallyworking at it, I've become like
an intuitive eater where I canlike be like you know what I'm,
I'm full now.
I'm not gonna uh, or I'll,maybe I'll go to the.
I'll go back to the buffetlater for dessert, you know.
Okay, let's ask, uh.
So I got a few questions.
Uh, somebody asked if, uh, any,if any of us got seasick.
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So there was one bad day it's.
We had one day at sea and itwas super rocky and I did not
feel well.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, you and Mia were both not enthused by it,
and it was literally one day.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
It was only one day, yeah, we heard stories from a
couple of people.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So so for context, this particular ship is the one
that was doing, is still doing,the nine month around the world
tour.
So our section of this uh tourwas just the the barcelona to
england section of the wholearound the world tour and we
were talking to some of thecouples that were on the boat
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for the full thing and and theyhit like rough seas, like rough
where it was, like flooding,parts of like the second floor
they said second and third floorwhich we were on.
So it was a little bit.
We got a little bit lucky, Ithink, in terms of how rocky it
was, because it was just thatone night, but like it felt like
we were rocking yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
It was intense.
I stayed in bed the whole likemost of the day, I think because
like there was nothing to doyeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
It wasn't the best day, but seasick overall.
No, not just from being on theboat, but like motion sickness,
I would say, from that one dayyou you probably dealt with.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Somebody asked I like this question how was your
family dynamic on the whole trip?
Does Tony speak Yivrit reallywell?
Yivrit means Hebrew.
How was our family dynamic?
How is?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
our family dynamic.
Family dynamic is great, and ittypically is.
We have a great time together.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
My parents and my sister love Tony Like everyone
loves him Like I'm very lucky.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah, I'm part of the family, so they have to.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
No, I don't met a bear very well, but I understand
a lot and it gets better everytime that I'm around your family
for a long stretch, because youknow I'm listening to it
constantly.
The Hebrew still got a ways togo before I would consider
myself good at it, but we'll getthere.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Somebody asked how uneasy was it wearing your
Magenta Veed in some places.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
In actuality, not at all, really, not at all really.
But there were places where wehad to have the conversation and
talk about it, whether or notthat it was going to be a thing
anywhere that we actually did.
For me it was whatever, it wasno big deal, but there it had to
be part of the conversation.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
When we go to places, um, you know that, have either
experienced, you know, recentevents that were tumultuous or
you know, I don't know how toelaborate on that, but there
were times where we talked aboutit yeah, I think paris was one
where we heard that we should becareful, but really like I
don't know, I feel like maybe inmy head it feels like it's much
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worse on social media than itis in real life, like nobody's
like looking at you, like no,he's no.
I feel like the people who aremost at risk are people who are
visibly jewish that are dressedreligious.
Jews I think have are most atrisk.
I think if I were to do itagain, I would have worn my Star
of David like loud and proud,like I don't think we should be
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hiding ourselves.
You know, like it's the same asNew York City, exactly Like
people might give you like adirty look, but like they can't
do anything.
And if they do that, you knowlike come at me.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
No, no, do not come at me.
No, don't come at me.
Do not come at me, I mean Ihave.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I have a pepper spray .
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I was going to say, you took like one Krav Maga
class.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
So I'm pretty strong though.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
You're very strong for your size.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Um, but let's talk about like that aspect of the
traveling, because thatdefinitely was a concern going
into this cruise and going toeurope with the whole family and
the kids like how bad isanti-semitism in europe?
And I would say it's the same,it's as bad as it is in, like,
new york city.
Yeah, there are protests andthere are signs and there are
stickers and there are, you know, you see it everywhere, like
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there was no escaping it, it wasin every, which is interesting.
But I think the most Jewishfriendly stop was Morocco, was
Casablanca, yeah, yes, but Ialso think there's a reason for
that.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
It's because there's not a large Jewish population
there to be anti-Semitic too.
It's not like you're going togo around posting anti-Semitic
stuff in Morocco.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
But people were really nice to us.
No, they were wonderful to us.
My sister went to a Starbucksand the woman asked oh, where
are you guys from?
And she said Israel.
Then the woman gave my sister abunch of free bottle bottle of
water and the thing is like, yes, there was antisemitism, but
there was also a lot ofpositivity, and I shared on my
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Instagram like a recap video oflike all the positivity and the
love that we received whenpeople you know heard that we
were, you know, from Israel,cause you know my family's from
Israel and and it was nice and Ifeel like the positive like
outweighed the negative in a way.
Like, yeah, you see all thesigns and it sucks and, like you
know, you're just trying totravel and have a good time with
your, your family, and then youget like slapped in the face
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with free Palestine signs and,and you know, all kinds of
propaganda at the same time,it's like at this point it's
like you're kind of used to it,yeah it's like whatever, all
right, par for the course.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
The the good thing is we didn't like literally run
into any anti-semitism.
We didn't run into anydemonstrations, we didn't run
into any protests.
We, we, we steered clear of allthat.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
It was just like a sign or graffiti or whatever
yeah, same same, speaking oflike in my question, because I
asked like, oh, ask me questionsabout, like, the crews, of
course I got a free palestine.
You did it um, dork, I don'tknow, I don't, I don't get it um
, at least frame it in the inthe question format yeah, then I
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mean, I got another like a lotof seasick questions.
And then one more question Doyou think Europe and the Middle
East are worse than before, orjust slightly less bad in Latin
America?
I think he's talking aboutanti-Semitism.
Oh yeah, like the same.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
No way worse than before.
What?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Before October 7th.
Yes, yeah.
Definitely's definitely allover the place.
Way worse.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Definitely worse.
Yeah, I mean statistically it's.
It's not even a, it's not evenan opinion, the statistical fact
that it's worse.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Yeah, so, yeah.
So what, what can people lookforward to for the next season?
So what can people?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
look forward to.
Oh man, they can, they can lookforward to us, uh, feeling our
way through this season ofdifficulty, um, which we're
going to keep it real, like it's.
It's so hard to get on cameraand create, sometimes when
you're in a season where youdon't feel like, you just don't
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feel good necessarily, liketoday, I didn't like, I didn't
feel like, oh hell, yeah, let'srecord a podcast.
But we committed to it and,like we discussed the other day,
it's, it's important for us tobe honest about it and if we're
going to put ourselves out therein this way, then we got to
give them the good and the badat the same time.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
And yeah, we're taking you on this journey of
getting back to us you know,like, even, like, even our sex
life is not where it needs to be.
Like you know, we still havesex like weekly, but like, I
think, like a good, like, whenthings are really good between
us, we have sex like three, fourtimes, and and these are all
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aspects of things that we thinkare important and we're not even
doing it.
You know, like, like we're, youknow, we're all about
practicing what you, what youpreach and what we preach in the
first two seasons.
We're not currently reallystaying on track.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yeah, I mean, like I said, with that bike analogy,
the most recent chain fallingoff the bike was our, our
chiller for our cold plunge.
Uh yeah, crapped out after ayear, which is fine.
You know, you buy it from chinaand that's what happens yeah,
so that's why we haven't beencold plunging we've been cold
plunging, which is a uh, notgreat, right, don't love that.
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But you know this is this isjust going to be a season of
getting back up on on the horseand and keeping it moving.
But right now we're just like,where do we move to?
Like, what are we moving forwardto?
So we are still in the inquiryof some of this and are going to
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bring anybody that's interestedin seeing what that looks like
along, because, uh, that's wherewe are and we're going to be
anybody that's interested inseeing what that looks like
along, because that's where weare, and we're going to be
bringing on some superinteresting guests that I'm very
excited about, that are goingto bridge the gap between, you
know, the all of the things thatare affecting us right now,
including the war.
We're going to have guests onthat have, in very similar
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fashion to us, you know, beencompelled to put down some of
the things that they cared aboutvery passionately before
October 7th and pick up the,pick up the sword and do their
thing.
And you know that's that'sgoing to be something that that
we'll talk about a lot and itwon't become the focus, but it
(35:40):
will become a big piece of whatwe talk about here, so and also
how they, you know, stay healthyand keep their mental health in
focus.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
And yeah, I think the this podcast is a direct
reflection of everything we'regoing through and we're always
going to keep it real with youguys.
So, yeah, this week we're goingto try to get on our habits.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, we got to stop saying try, we're doing it,
eliminate, we are committed.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
We are committed to.
Do you want to like walkthrough like some of our more?
We've discussed this inprevious episodes, but do you
want to walk us through like ourmorning and night, like
routines that?
Speaker 2 (36:22):
ideal, like the ideals.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah, the ideals.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Yeah.
So morning routine for me, Imean, I'll speak for me.
It's similar to yours, but I'llspeak for mine specifically.
It would be, you know,downstairs in the gym by five,
15 or so, uh doing, breathing,doing the exercises like working
out and stretching, meditating,so in a perfect world that
takes all of that can take 45minutes to an hour and just
(36:50):
depends on you know how much ofof each uh goes into it.
So for me that's what themorning routine looks like.
And then post, that would becold plunging, and then that's
that's the perfect morning.
You know, hitting all of thosenotes for wind down, it would be
.
It would be the journaling, atleast 15 minutes of reading, and
(37:12):
uh, that's a.
What else am I missing at night?
It's the journaling and thereading.
The gratitude journals and thereading are the big things at
night.
I mean, if you wanted to reallyramp it up, do a nighttime
meditation as well, like thatwould be top tier.
But we've never gotten intothat routine fully.
It's mostly been meditate, kindof get in where you fit in on
(37:36):
that one.
But that would be the two, thetwo things, and I and I think
especially for you right now itfeels like one of us has to have
our phone so we can monitor thebaby when we need to, but
shutting down the phones umbefore getting into bed is ideal
as well.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yeah, I mean for me, I need better boundaries with
the phone.
Um, for the last year sinceOctober, like before that, I was
like leave my phone downstairs,I wouldn't scroll in the
morning.
But since October 7th it's justlike I need to know what's
going on all the time and it'sreally bad for my mental health,
waking up and just like beingconsumed with just images of war
(38:19):
and protests and just news andit doesn't, it's not good for me
and I know this.
Um, and I have to separate.
I have to I think I have tolike physically separate myself
from my device.
It doesn't help that my job issocial media, like people are
like oh, why don't you just takelike a break, take a month
break?
It's literally my job.
Like I need to know everythingthat's going on.
(38:40):
You know I need to know thetrends, I need to know the news,
Like I also work with someJewish nonprofits, so I do need
to know what's going on.
And also, you know, I'm, myfamily lives in Israel.
Like I can't, I'm not, I can'tbe the Lulu you know.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I can't, I can't.
The boundaries are, but I needto create better boundaries.
And, but I need to createbetter boundaries.
Maybe we'll get.
Travis to talk about socialmedia.
Yeah, mental health, that wouldbe good.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
So I'm working on creating some better boundaries
and you know, ideally my morningstarts with morning prayer.
I want to bring more, you know,prayer into my life.
You know prayer into my life,uh, and meditate.
You know morning prayer,meditation, um affirmations,
writing.
You know gratitude journal inthe morning.
Um, what else in the morning?
(39:32):
You know, obviously my uh walkthe dogs.
You know cold plunge when weget that fixed, uh, I usually
have my workout a little later.
Um, yeah, that's like kind ofwhat the hit in my morning and
(39:53):
then during the day, getting my10 K steps.
Um evening, yeah, everythingthat you shared for the evening,
making sure the kitchen isclean.
I feel like waking up to a cleankitchen is like it's key.
Yeah, I mean, there's a more ofa, there's a longer list.
Like I'd like to like actually,the past year I haven't been
able to even have time to showerand get dressed Like I'm in my
(40:14):
workout clothes all day.
I make a conscious choice, likeI prefer to have time to work
out than have time to shower andget glammed for the day, like
that's like my choice.
I am like I'm making a choice,but I would love to be able to
like look good and feel good.
You know what I mean For likezoom calls and and things and
(40:35):
things like that.
Like I only shower and getdressed when I have to go
somewhere.
So I would like to maybe try tofit that in, but it is what it
is.
It's not going to be perfect.
Like you know, I I juggle a lotfor one person and taking care,
you know, picking I try to pickup Noah at three and that
limits my day from like nine tothree to get all my work done
(40:56):
and and sometimes cook, even ifthere's things going on.
So yeah, I'm just trying toalso show myself grace that I'm
doing whatever I can.
I'm doing the best that I can,you know.
Yeah, so yeah, do the best thatyou can.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Do your best.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Do your best.
That's the motivating soundbite.
Just do your best, honestly,that would be great.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Just do your best.
Honestly, that would be great.
Just do your best and walkaround assuming that everyone
else is doing their best, andlife would be at least 10% to
15% better.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Yeah, but it's hard, that's hard, yeah.
On that note, we're veryexcited for our first guest of
the season.
Yeah, super excited, yeah,super excited.
She's a boss as bitch, and I'mreally inspired by her and her
energy, um so stay, stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
Look out next week, for we're just I mean, we're
just going to leave it at that.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah, leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Okay, later.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Bye, okay, later bye.
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