Cruising Through Anxiety and Success

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the heart of the city, where the beat meets
the rhythm of your day. It's Shauna.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
And check me out at Bella Underscore Lalla one two five.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
It has been a crazy week with this weather that
we're having. Last night it was thundering so hard the
house shook.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, it was like a quick thunderstorm, which I like
thunderstorm sometimes it's something like romantic about it or like comforting,
I should say, But when they last really long and
lose power. No, but yeah, that thunder was crazy last night.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
It was so loud. I jumped and then the house
literally started shaking. And then I was looking on Facebook
and my friend posted she was at Walmart in Matamoras
or Milford, PA. And they wouldn't let the people leave
or go into the store because there was a tornado.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh my gosh. So they locked everyone in and then
kept everyone from coming in. Yeah, that's see that. I
would I think it'd be safe if you let people
run in because if they're in their cars, bye bye.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
You know exactly, That's what I was saying.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
I'd been banging on that door, like no, let me
inside this concrete building.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
And then somebody wrote I was reading the comments, and
you know, you would think that you'd be safer in
the building rather than in your car or standing outside.
But somebody had wrote that their roofs are metal, Oh really,
and that it's not safe.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
I didn't know that. We're gonna have to look at
like some Google images of Walmart's in Tornado Valley, because
there's a crap ton OFT's, you know, in the Midwest
and all that, and that's where they get hit a lot.
And in Florida. I've never seen a Walmart roof ripped off.
But maybe I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I mean, I'm that's just it.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Is metal, because now that I'm thinking, when I look up,
it is like just a metal roof.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
So hu I never looked up. I never thought about it.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
I only did one time because it was another storm downpour.
And you can you know, you ever you're ever in
a store and you just hear the rain just pounding
on the roof.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, like when you're in the mall.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, so Walmart is always really loud, and now it
makes sense because it's a metal roof, because you're like
you're shopping and all of a sudden you here and
I look up and you know, they have sometimes had
the skylights and i'd see the rain. So that's why
I know. Yeah, it is metal, but that's crazy. I
didn't know that. I guess I'm not running into a
Walmart during a tornado.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
No, And I don't even go to Walmart.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
I like Walmart.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
I don't have to worry about it. I used to
love Walmart and then I don't know.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
They're better now because yeah, they were good, and then
they got like really trashy, really just unorganized, just you know,
like crappy.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
They're just empty, like especially our local one in Middletown,
it's never stocked. Ever.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, they're getting better. They are. Have you been, if
you've been in it lately, someone must have taken over,
some younger generation I think, came in and was like,
we need to revamp all these Walmarts. Now there are more.
They're not as good as Target yet, they're getting there,
but they have furniture set up like oh with the
place settings, the clothing is so much better. Oh my god,

(03:38):
the clothing is great. Yes.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
When I went with you to get the Justice Simpson outfits,
I have to say I was very umbrassed.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah. The clothing, I'm like, it's really good. And the styles,
you know, it used to be crappy, Like my mom
used to buy me Walmart clothes for school and I
get made fun of. Now this, it's really I like
Walmart's clothing better than Target's clothing now, and I used
to love Targets clothing. So yeah, they're stepping up their game.

(04:07):
So maybe seanna give it another chance. Go in shop around.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
I'll have to go.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
I'll go in the daytime, Yeah, don't go in the nighttime.
And nighttime is a little sketchy, yes, a little scary.
But although I did see on TikTok speaking of Target,
there is a lot of sex traffickers going to Targets.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Really. Yes, I'm wondering if it's because it's a lot
of kids in there usually or.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking, So just be careful.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, I know, you know me, I always run into
someone weirdo, like that's just my luck song. I'll probably
run into a sex trafficker. Next time, I always get
the Mother of God. Women. Yeah, they always get me,
always get me, and I know it. As soon as
they oh, weird little door is cute, or I like
your dress, I'm like, my head goes to the side. Okay,

(04:59):
Mother of God. Okay, no, not interested. And for those
listening who don't know what the hell I'm talking about,
we have a I don't know if this religion is elsewhere,
but we have this big religious type cult in our
area that they are made up of a lot of
women and they believe that God is a woman, which

(05:19):
is fine, everyone could believe what they want. But they
call themselves the Mother of God or whatever, and they
go around, you know, Jehovah's come to your door and knock.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
These people are told to go into stores, to go
into moles, go into and you know, parks, and then
they come up to you and it's usually women, and
they try to get you to come to their meetings
and they scared, like no pamphlets, they just when the
first time, you know me, I'm too nice. The first
time it happened to me, I didn't know what the
hell was going on, and they got me in Target

(05:51):
and they gave me their phone number and they gave
me the address. That's all they give you in your phone.
They'll they tell you to put in this is our
number and this is the location, and meet us here
Friday at this time. So it was scary, yeah, and
I was scared. And then more and more women were
complaining about this going on, like and they everyone was
saying they're sex traffickers or sex traffickers. So I started

(06:11):
to believe that till I looked up the address and
it was like this, it's not not, in my eyes,
a church, but it was their their church and they
have these weekly meetings and they just send women out
because women, I guess are more approachable and you feel
safer with them. But it is, it's annoying, it's sketchy.
It you know, you don't know, you don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
You don't know if there's somebody in the parking lot
waiting for you.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, and they usually have a man outside. And that's
what people have why they think they're sex traffickers. But
I don't know what they are. But yes, they're always
in Target. They always get me in Target and sometimes
the grocery store, and I'm like, nope, mother God. Nope, nope,
I'm good. I'm good.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
So yeah, it's just scary these days.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
And it's scary and it's annoying, like we should be
at the age where we're just leaving people alone. You
want have your religion, that's fine. If people find your
religion through friends or whatever, that's fine. Don't come to
our doors. Don't be stalking us in stores like I
feel like the should be that should be in the past,
Like enough, already enough enough, as long as they're not
sex trafficking me. And I could just tell them, hey,

(07:16):
go go away, leave me alone. I'm not interested.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
So you leave for your cruise this weekend, right.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yes, in Saturday, I'm leaving. So I'm excited, but not excited.
I know that sounds horrible, and I was kind of
venting to you about it, but it seems to be. See,
I was a party people who were Disney too. I'm
not one of those Disney adults. I didn't understand why
people were so obsessed as adults to go there.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
You know, I don't get it either. I know many
adults that I know, some people that don't have children
I know, and they go two three times a year
a lot.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
It's very odd to me, but I'm not gonna judge.
Just to me personally, it's odd. I went, you know,
I went last year and it was okay. It was expensive.
It was not worth the money. I thought everything was overpriced. Oh, extremely,
everything was waiting on lines, crowds. That's not a vacation
to me. But anyway, so I was a party paper

(08:16):
with that, and now I'm gonna be a party pooper
about my feelings towards cruises. I've never been on a
cruise besides when I was young, so I'm trying not
to judge by that. I was probably about six or seven,
seven years old, i'd say, and we went on the
big red boat, which was the Disney cruise, and we
hit a hurricane. So as you can imagine, that was horrendous.

(08:38):
Everyone was throwing up. I was throwing up. They would
throw up everywhere, like the walls had throw up, the
elevators had throw up. Oh, because everyone was seasick from
the boat from the hurricane, you know. And I swore
from that age, I'm like, I am never going on another.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
We should have canceled, it is what they should have done.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
Well.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
They told us that they could get us around the hurricane.
We're gonna go around it. Nope, we didn't go We
maybe went around maybe the worst part of it, but
we were still in it, you know. So anyway, I'm
my family is taking us on a cruise for my
dad's seventieth birthday, and my stepmom is taking us, so

(09:13):
you know, I have no choice pretty much, and I'm
not going to be like, Nope, not going on a
trip that you're paying for, and I'm gonna give it
another shot. But oh my god, I feel so guilty
feeling like this. I'm anxious. I am like, I don't
even know what to expect. I'm not looking forward to
it other than being my family, you know, I'm like,

(09:34):
oh my god, it's a fully booked cruise. There's thousands
of people. That means, you know me, I don't like
a lot of people on my vacations. I want to
relax away from people. Uh yeah. So, but people like
you said, like with Disney, there's a lot of those
obsessed cruise people, like they swear by cruises and they
go on cruises multiple times a year every year.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Well, the people that I know that go on cruises,
they like it because they said which you told me,
is not the case that everything is included. Who drinks.
You could eat as much as you want, You could
drink as much as you want. You know, you can
go off to different islands and explore, and you know

(10:19):
there's always something to do in nightclubs and you're never bored.
And you know, I don't know. I've never been on
a cruise. I have no desire to go on a cruise.
It has always been my fear since I've seen the Titanic,
that the ship is going to crash, crash, and we're
all going.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
To die ice bog straight ahead. This time, they hopefully
would have enough lifeboats for everybody. So yeah, all right,
I can only speak on going on the Royal Caribbean.
So I don't know if other cruise ships are all
inclusive meaning everything, but the Royal Caribbean is not. And

(10:56):
so you pay this large fee for a room and
includes the buffet. It includes the main dining room, which
has the same menu every day, it looks like, and
that's it. There's other restaurants on the boat that are nicer,
like a steakhouse, an Italian restaurant Johnny rockets.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
I think, but those aren't included.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
They're not included. No, you have to pay like thirty
to forty five dollars per person, and then drinks are
not included, not even soda, Like I couldn't. I would.
I understand if alcohol wasn't included, but they're not even
including soda or you know, it's just water basically in milk.
I think that's included. So I'm like, the.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Water probably isn't even bottled water. Yeah, it's probably water
from the ocean.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
That's what I've read. It's from the ocean, and they desalient,
desalinate it like they take the salt out. So I
just I don't understand why people would like this. If
I go to an old inclusive resort in another country
or another island, everything's included. All inclusive means everything's included, drinks, soda, water, everything,

(11:59):
and I don't have to stress. So I'm not paying
for this cruise. But we paid for our drink package.
So for me to get my soda and iced tea
and my Virgin Pinuclata because I don't drink alcohol, that
was like one hundred and something dollars. My husband got
the alcohol package and that was like over two hundred
dollars and we had it on a discount. The regular
price would be astronomical, Like we got forty percent off.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
So then you have Julia Night and Geo's drink package.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, so the kids and that's their drinks aren't included.
And then on top of that, now I'm like, all right,
we just paid this, we both the packages. That was
a lot of money. I'm thinking that's it. Nope. Now
I find out that at the end of the trip,
I'm gonna be hit with a twenty one dollar per
day per person fee for gratuity for the ship. So

(12:46):
you add that up. We're on a five day trip.
You add that up between four of us, and they
don't care that the baby's only three. She gets charged
that fee too. That's four hundred and twenty dollars at
the end of the strip.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Now hotels do that too, though I've not ever.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Thin some hotels have resort fees. Yes, is not what
it No, this is not this is a gratuity. Some
hotels have resort fees for like parking and all that.
But it says it right up front in your payment
there's a resort fee, and you could pay it at
the end degree. But like with this cruise, Like I
don't know, it wasn't in the price right there, you know,
Like when we go to resorts, it says resort fee

(13:23):
right there in the payment under the tax, and that's
added into your total. You know. I don't like these
surprise things. I don't like these things added on the end.
And I know it's not just me, because I'm in
a Facebook group for Royal Caribbean and so many people
every day are like, I just got to the end
of my trip and I just got charged six hundred
dollars in gratuity. What the hell is this? So there's
so many people who don't know or don't see it.

(13:45):
So it must be small print somewhere, you know what
I mean?

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Oh of course.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
So I don't like that about the cruises, that nothing
not everything's included. And I don't like being timed anywhere.
If I go on vacation, I will I'm going to
be to expel another culture or another island or a beach,
and I don't want to be timed. Like if I
want to go to the beach at six am and
I want to stay there till midnight, that's what I
want to do. But with cruises, Like, I don't know

(14:09):
how people like to go to a beach and be
on a timeland. Okay, shoot, we got to make sure
we do this, this, and this and get back to the
dock by this time or else the boat's leaving without us,
and then you're really screwed, you know. And that's what
I never It never appealed to me. The only thing
that appeals to me about a cruise is the entertainment,
because I love entertainment. So there's a ton of that.
Everyone's telling me. Dance nightclubs, shows, this, this and that.

(14:33):
That appeals to me. And being able to check out
other islands to see where we want to go on
the next vacation, Like so we're going to Bermuda next week.
We've never been there, and we never were. We always
wanted to go, but we weren't sure if it would
be a good place to go to. So the good
thing about a cruise is, yeah, you go in, you
take a sneak peak of it, and then you know,
you get back on the boat and maybe hit other

(14:53):
islands and take a sneak peak at them. That's a
good thing, but not to do every vacation, like I
don't get that of it. So anyway, yeah, we'll see
if I change my tune after this trip, if I
like cruises or if I hate them. Hopefully I don't
get sea sick because I have an issue with that.
I brought a lot of dramamine, a lot of anti

(15:14):
nausea for me, for the kids. Let's just let's hope
it's good.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Julina gets sick in the car car, so she's.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
She's gonna be with me. We're gonna probably probably have
a lot of nausea on this trip. So I bought everything.
The bands for the wrist, there's patches behind the ear,
peppermint oil, the sniff the anti nausea liquid. You got, Julina,
I got myself stuff. So I'm all hooked up and
hopefully it helps.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Well. I have zofran if you need.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
I'll probably take that too. Well, you know this is
what I mean. I have so much anxiety about this.
I traveled a lot of places all over the world,
and I've never really cared. I've never been this stressed out,
but I'm so stressed out about this cruise. I can't
even tell you. It's like, what is going? Why I learned? Why? Why?

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Because and the funny part about it is you don't
have to travel really anywhere because you're just driving an
hour and a half de side to the port.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, it's an hour and a half. The port is
an hour and a half from our house. And then
we just get on the boat, which is nice that
I could see how that would appeal to people too.
You don't have to take a flight. Yeah, just get
on a boat. That's great, I get it. But the
other stuff about, you know, having to pay for drinks
and the good food, Like we're getting the shit food
for free. When I go to an all inclusive resort,

(16:31):
you can go to a buffet, but you can also
go to all the amazing restaurants at the resort and
it's included in your costs, you know. So I just
I don't know. Maybe these people have never been to
a resort and that's why they think the cruise is
the best thing in the world. But again, maybe I
change my tune next week when I come back and
I'm like, oh my god, Shauna, I'm never doing anything
other than cruising around the world. I doubt it, but

(16:54):
we'll see.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
You never know. I just know that it is not
for me.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
No, no, and yeah, well, well, well I will update
you guys. Maybe I'll do a little vlog while I'm
on the cruise to show you my anxiety and uh,
when I'm in a crowd, maybe like, oh my god,
look at the line of people in the trying to
get in the elevator. Look how shitty this buffet food looks.
Look at the vomit coming out of that girl. No,

(17:20):
I won't do that, but well, I'll keep you guys updated.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
You're gonna be studying by the pool if you can
even get a pool chair, I know, and you're just
gonna be like stuck there the whole time.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
I'm gonna try and do like there's a lot of karaoke,
there's a lot of shows, there's dance classes, so that
I think that is the good part about the cruise.
So I'm gonna try and do those things during the
day besides going in the pool. And you know, the
kids are probably gonna have The kids will have a blast.
I think, as long as they're not seasick, they'll have
a blast. And hopefully no one catches the neumal virus

(17:54):
or no one catches some crazy disease while on this cruise. Ship,
because that's my other fear during COVID. Do you remember
happened to that cruise ship. No, they got stuck on
it for months to the people because COVID hit and
like they didn't want to spread or whatever. I forget,
but they were on that trip the ship for months
and it was like horrible, like they quarantined the ship

(18:15):
to be locked down, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
A few years ago, my friend went on a cruise,
probably Royal Caribbean, and she it was like a seven
day cruise or something, and in the middle of the cruise,
they hit a storm but they missed it, but they
couldn't get off the boat for whatever reason. Yeah, so

(18:37):
they had to stay on the boat like an extra
I don't know, a few days and they got charged.
So like her vacation, you know, it was like seven
days or whatever, so she missed work and they charged
extra few days. Yeah, but they charged like I don't know,
twenty five or fifty dollars. Oh okay, okay, but still

(18:58):
I'm like, you couldn't get off the cruise. She's like no,
but she's like, you know, they kept us entertained, you know.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
I mean, life is not too bad. But that's there,
that's there on them that I should have to pay
for that exactly.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
See, that is what would scare me. And being in
the middle of the ocean and not by land.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, I'm wondering how I'm gonna feel about that. My
sister said, it's kind of eerie that you wake up
and we have a balcony that you go to the
balcony and there's just nothing for miles around, like when
you're looking out, and yeah, that's that is kind of creepy.
It's scary and yeah, and yeah, I'm gonna try not
to think negative because I'm gonna start like, where's the lifeboat?

(19:38):
What if this sayings the sharks are gonna get us?

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Like I would be wearing my life jacket the whole time.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
I saws a mom asking that the group I'm in
for the cruises if anyone could suggest a portable life
jacket that she can keep in her like purse for
her whole family, like a few of them, and that
they could just pop on. I I didn't read the
comments to see if there was such a thing, but
I'm I'm sure there's probably something like in the airplanes
that go into your seat you know, but I don't

(20:07):
think it would fit in a purse. But shant to
be like one round her head, her neck. She had
swimmy's on her arms, swimmy's on her ankle.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Walking down the hallway, you're going swimming.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Nope, nope, just in case, just in case, and go
down the Shanta be drifting off. Everyone's stuck you home
by the cruise. And then they're saying sea's drifting off
in the waves.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
There she goes, cruises are not for me.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Oh man, I'll make sure we don't book that for
your your fortieth nice fortieth birthday cruise. I'm gonna tell
your mom Shaana would love that take her on a
cruise or her fortieth birthday. I'll get you some inflatables
as a prank.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
If and that will be the time that she actually schedules,
then you won't be.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Like, good, good idea, I don't have to go to
the airport. Okay, let's oh happy birthday, Oh Jesus. And
we were just talking about how Julina gets carsick.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
So poor kid can't go anywhere.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
I know her so her I've tried two car seats
with her and Seana can attest to this it was
hours or hour. It could be hours or thirty minutes
worth of her screaming the whole time. The seed hurts,
the seed hurts, the seed hurts. Then she'd get car sick.
Then she'd throw up, and it was like I tried
a different car seat, nothing, it would still be like

(21:35):
her screaming, the seed hurts, the seed hurts, and I'm
getting car sick. So I've had like this dream car
seat on my wish list, you know, my dream car seat.
It was the Great Go Easy Turn three sixty. And
I think many moms probably have this on their wishlist
because it's so cool. It's so unique. The car seat
actually can spin three hundred and sixty degrees around forever.
You know. However, you need to get the baby in

(21:57):
or out. And I love it because in a small car,
this is amazing. When I used to have my little
Honda Civic, I'd always hit my head. I'd have to
reach in and climb, you know, kind of squeeze my
body to get the baby in. So this is the
perfect car seat for a smaller car. But I have
it in my pickup truck now and it's still perfect.
Before I get her in, I just turn the seat
and she can climb right in it, and then we

(22:17):
spin her right back around and knock on wood. It's
been a week and she has not gotten carsick. She
has not complained that the car hurts her, the seat
hurts her. So I think it's a winner. I love it,
and I hope it is a winner for her because
I don't ever want to go back to the traditional
car seats after this. And I love it that it

(22:37):
will grow with her until she's sixty five pounds and
she's tiny. She's like twenty twenty seven, twenty eight pounds
right now, so we have a lot of years with
this car seat.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Is it one that can't grow with you?

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, it's to grow with you. So it'll go from
the baby seat to a booster seat for her. And
it has like four reclined positions, which I love, so
when they're little, they could sleep in it, you know.
And it's just solid and it has the snuglock. Oh
my god. I can't say enough about snuglocknuglock. So you've

(23:09):
never put in a car seat, but if you have
put in a car seat, it is one of my like,
I hate it. I'd rather do anything than putting in
a car seat or taking out a car seat, but
putting it in is even worse because the stupid anchors.
You gotta get the anchors in. You got to tighten them,
and they never tighten. It's so hard to tighten them.
I don't know why. My brother in law can kind
of do it, like he's pretty good at it. He's

(23:30):
a cop, so he was trained. But so I always
have to drive to his house. But like, can you
tighten this car seat? You know, and he'd put his
knee in it, and he has a push and pull
and push and pull. It's not an easy process and
I can never get it tight. So with snugglock, oh
you just.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Buckle it in.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
No, you put these anchors in and if there you
gotta like pull on the I don't even know what's
called it, the belt to make the seat like tight
against the seat. You know. In the old days, we
use the car strap like the seat belt that would
go through it. They don't use it anymore. Like I
guess this is safer. You still can if you don't
have the anchor things on the bottom, but most car

(24:06):
now have these anchors like the end that you can
put the anchors onto them, so you just can't tighten them.
No matter what you do, is never tighten off. So
with the snuglock, you put the anchors in, you kind
of tighten it not too much, and this snuglock puts
the belt underneath it and then you clip it shut
and then it tightens it and holds it in place

(24:27):
and it cannot move. It was So it's probably the
safest my daughter has been in a car seat since
she was an infant, because I never had snuglock before.
That was the number one on my list too, was
for finding a Greeco car seat with the snuglock. So
I'm very happy with that. And in the video I
posted a video and you'll see, like if you watch it,

(24:47):
you'll see the snuglock. I close it onto the belt
and it just tightens it immediately, So it's so easy.
Oh my god. So again this is easy for mom
and dad getting a kid in and out of the car.
It's gonna grow with them, and it's safe and you
you could feel how safe it is by using the
snug lock, and it's not going to be a pain
in the butt, which car seats ninety nine percent of
the time are is.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
It easy to turn, Like, would I be able to
turn it and get Julia out?

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yeah, one handed, one handed. I in the video you
see that I do it one handed, and because I
had the phone on my other hand, I was filming
and I'm like, how am I going to do this? Nope.
It is so smooth and then it locks right in place,
so with one hand you could just pull it and
it spins around and then it locks in place so
you don't worry about it moving while you're driving. But
absolutely love it. Highly recommend it for new moms or

(25:34):
mom's old moms like, I'm this is my second child,
she's three years old, and I needed it because I
was just so sick and tired of the other car
seats and they weren't comfortable. And now these new car
seats you can throw them the whole thing in the wash,
besides obviously the base, but you just pull off the
whole thing one two three, they cot, the cushions come off,
goes right in the wash. So if she does get carsick,

(25:55):
knock on wood, hopefully she won't. If she does get
carsick into the wash, it and it's easy to put
back on. Another pro are you taking it?

Speaker 2 (26:05):
With you on the cruise.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
No, I don't need it for the cruise, but I
mean driving there. Yes, when I get to Bermuda, We're
probably not going to go anywhere far. We'll prob I
just walk because I'm not I'm not lugging a car
seat like, I'm just not doing that. But if yeah,
when I go to Florida in July, taking it on
the on the plane and bringing it, you know, so
we could put it in our rental car.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
And if she does throw up, you could always use
our handy dandy Force of Nature.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Oh my god. Yes, yes, and you know, you know me,
I like things that are not full of chemicals and toxins. Yeah,
so Force in Nature is perfect for that. Perfect that
that's another mom must have.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
We featured them a few times, a few times.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
I love it. I use it in my kitchen. My
sister has one, my friends have them. It's it's a
great way to kind of get away from the traditional
house cleaners that are just full of chemicals and toxic toxins,
hormone disruptors, endocrine disruptors. That's all in the basic cleaners nowadays,
and it's so so bad for you, especially the fragrances.

(27:09):
And I always say, it's kind of sad we grew
up that way. We grew up having to smell a bleach.
We grew up having the fabuloso or the fantastic and
thinking or the lysole cleaners like oh that smell meant
a clean house and the snuggle snuggle, Yeah, all that stuff,
Like we it was kind of ingrained in us. If
you smell the stuff, that means the house is clean. Meanwhile,

(27:29):
those smells are so toxic and yeah, your house might
be clean, but it's full of like cancer, cancer, basically
cancer and disruptors, and it's not good for you. So
Force in nature just uses your regular tap water and
these like I'm gonna call them saline packets or you know,
it's not just salt, but it's a just natural compounds

(27:52):
and it's ionized. You put it in the bottle and
it sits on this little thing and it kind of
ionizes the water and it charges so almost like a
saltwater filter for a pool, where when it kind of
electrocutes it, it turns it into a natural chlorine or
you know, which is a disinfectant. So it's not really bleach,

(28:13):
but it is it's a natural disinfectant. So I am
big about disinfecting, and that was the other thing. Once
I was going natural, it was hard to find cleaners
that actually killed germs too, not just cleaned up the dirt.
I wanted germs gone, so force the nature is perfect
for that. So it's natural, no fragrance, it's toxic, toxin free,

(28:35):
and it kills germs and bacteria. And you can remake
it from your kitchen sink, just at the Bible. Little
packets and your kitchen tapwater can create this amazing powerful cleaner.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
This week, we caught up with Melissa van Riper from
Clear Light. We featured them last week on the show.
It is the Red Light Personal Red Light Therapy Tower,
and we're obsessed with it, absolutely in love with it
and can't get enough of it.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
Actually every night, twenty minutes every single night.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah, And so we caught up with her and she's
gonna give a little bit of insight into the company
and how the red Light actually works and can benefit you.
You're listening to Shauna and La La. We are here
with Melissa Van Riper from Clear Light, Saunas and Red

(29:34):
Light Therapy. As you know, last week we spoke about
us having the red light, and I love it. You
love it every night.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
I use it every single night. I have it on
my nightstand, so it's like my non negotiable at night,
I get ready in bed, I lay there, I put
it on for like twenty five minutes, twenty minutes, and
I just zen out. And I have noticed it took
a few days that I started to like, I'm sleeping better.
I'm really truly sleeping better. I feel relaxed.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
You know.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Everyone's always a little bit hesitant with things like is
this really working? You know, but I truly will hardly
believe it. It has been.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
I used it. I've been having a lot of like
major stomach issues, and it just helped me like relax
and clear my mind.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
I think that with you. Shanna has a lot of inflammation,
So I think it's going to be beneficial to her
the longer that she uses it in her body. You know,
she has CP, she has a lot of GI issues.
What else, right?

Speaker 2 (30:39):
I know I have terrible migraines, terrible pain, you know,
and I've been struggling with it forever. But I think
it's really going to help me.

Speaker 5 (30:52):
Yeah, consistency is the key with any I mean, I'm
sure you know anything that you try. People always ask me, oh,
what do you do for bibermlager? I'm like about a
thousand things, Like not one thing is going to help
or doesn't help me. I wish. I wish it was
one thing.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
I know.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah, yeah, because it's like that's what I said, that
if she starts every single night using it, I think
that she's going to see a difference. Like I've seen
my sleep. You know, I don't have as many health
issues as her, but it could be helping me in
my brain fog and like who knows that I've been
so overwhelmed and you know I need a magic pill

(31:31):
for that.

Speaker 5 (31:32):
Yeah, I wish.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
So what is your role at clear Light.

Speaker 5 (31:37):
I am the consumer product manager at ClearLight, so that
means a lot of things. I work on the R
and D of new products and development, and I also
work on the existing products and making them and improving

(31:57):
them as technology improves. Obviously, I work very closely with
both of our owners, Rally and Andy.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
They are.

Speaker 5 (32:09):
Really amazing. I've done product development for a really long time,
over twenty years, and this is the only company where
they are continuously trying to add cost to their products.
They're like, oh, we're not costing, we don't cost down,
we cost up. So they're just constantly trying to make

(32:30):
a better product that you know, like we're working on
our sauna app now where that technology didn't exist, you know,
twenty almost thirty actually almost thirty years ago when they started.
So they're just constantly improving their products, which I think
is really commendable, and they care about the people who

(32:53):
buy their product. They offer a lifetime, your lifetime warranty
on the saunas, which is really amazing.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Yeah, you don't see that with many products.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
No, No, and ys see companies cutting down cost.

Speaker 5 (33:08):
Yes, always in my career. So yeah, but red light,
I've you know, as a chronically ill person, you hear
these things, right, Oh, red light it's good for you.
This is good for you, and you know exactly know why.
But you're like, okay, I should look into that, right.
But with red light, it's not just that, you know,

(33:31):
I think one of the famous parts of red light
is that it'll help with you know, skin rejuvenation. Everybody
sees those very robotic led masks out there. Skin rejuvenation
is like quite frankly the surface level of the healing
that it does. It goes, it goes. You know. Yeah,

(33:53):
I'm like, I'm trying not to make like a weird
skin pun, but yeah, it goes. It's it's it's to
the cellular level. Honestly. Personally, I use the Personal. I
have all of our units, but I have the Personal
right next to my desk, and I use it all
of the time. So I use it. I had some
like surgeries, I use it on like scars and wound healing.

(34:15):
I use it on every ache and pain that I have.
So if I have an ear infection, I put it
on my ear. If I have I have a sits
behind my knee, I stick it behind there. If I'm
sore after physical therapy, I just kind of prop it up.
And the size of it makes it so that you
can do that. You know, with our larger towers, those
are great for like overall, you know, kind of a

(34:38):
one stop shop. You know, you're sitting in the sun
en you use our core tower. That's great because you
don't have to like, you know, maneuver it around. You're
kind of covering your whole body. But this one is
really portable and you're able to like specifically target and
position it where you need relief the most. And if
it's you know, muscle recovery, you can focus on that.

(35:01):
If you're putting it next to your bed for sleep,
it actually is also great in the morning to help
wake you up and stabilize your circadian rhythms. Honestly, the
more research that you do on red light therapy, the
more that you're like, Wow, this really can help with
so many different things.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah, and I like the fact that there's no medication
involved and it's all natural.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
Yes. One thing that I've love about all of the
therapies that we offer is that they're not invasive. I'm sure.
I always say, like, I've done some shady stuff to
heal my body, you know, going into like different chambers
and you know, getting poked with things and trying different

(35:48):
therapies and stuff. This you just sit there and I
can just go about my day and you know, or
even I'm just working and I put the red light
wherever it needs to go. So it's non invasive. It's
you don't have to do you don't have to do much.
It is easy, which you know, is very convenient.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
That's why I love it because I just press the button,
put the time on, and then I don't have to
do anything else. I don't have to work out, I
don't have to drink something, I don't have to anything.

Speaker 5 (36:20):
Yeah, you don't have to go anywhere or deal with anyone.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Yeah, you could take it with you, like on vacation.

Speaker 5 (36:28):
Yeah, yeah, it's true. Yeah. So do you want me
to go into like the background of red light therapy
or have you guys done that already?

Speaker 2 (36:39):
No, you can definitely go into the background of it.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Okay, we're going to ask that, Like, so you know,
if you can explain what red light therapy is to
pay people and you know how it differs from this
regular some light, you know, regular the light bulb in
your house, you know.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (36:54):
So, red light therapy is known as photo biomagulation, also
known as low level light therapy. It uses specific low
level wavelengths to provide therapy and wellness benefits. So we
use on our red light, we use six fifty and

(37:17):
six fifty nanometers, so that's the specific wavelength, and for
near infrared we use eight fifty So those are specific
wavelengths for the human body. We find that there are
quite a lot of people who use plant grow lights
and repurpose them as as human human red lights, which

(37:42):
are not the same wavelength. So but funny enough, that's
how that's how red light therapy was discovered. It was
discovered in you know space that they realized that red
light therapy was able to use be used during to
help plants grow and and they were like, oh, this
is interesting. That can that help with humans? And it can.

(38:07):
So there's a lot of science involved re light therapy
first started. I'm like, wow, this is verywhelming. So in
a nutshell, relate therapy taps into the power of the
red and near infrared wavelengths to boost energy production to

(38:27):
our cells, which then gives our cells more energy and
more life. So we're born with a certain amount of
cells and like that's it. So you're born with x
amount of cells, and it's our jobs to keep them
healthy and living and vital. So red light produces ATP

(38:48):
and that gives our body. It gives our cells more energy.
So the red and near infrared wavelengths increase the energy
production in our cells to create a mill you'll called
at P and that generates cellular energy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
So it's like I was reading that when we when
we get regular sunlight, it goes into the cells and
it creates vitamin D and red light. It's like stronger
than that, or it creates a different, you know, type
of energy and it helps the cells along. So I
thought that was really cool.

Speaker 5 (39:20):
Well, with your with your full spectrum of your of
the light of like sunlight and all of the all
of the braids, right, you don't you don't have you
have a very you have a little bit of near infrared,
but you don't have red light in in your in
the sun. There's some that say that there's a little

(39:42):
in like the sunrise and the sunset, but I don't.
I'm not a scientist, so I don't want to I
don't want to claim that. But also when you when
you break down right and vitamin D is a whole
nother uh conversation, and I'd be happy to talk about
that in a few months. Spoiler alert. I when you

(40:05):
have a product like our our red light therapy towers,
it is a it's all you're getting. You're getting red
and red red light and near fread. You're not getting
any of the of the harmful rays of like the
UVC or the UV or the UV a which you
know if you get too many, too much of could
be harmful. So this is like a pure therapeutic experience.

(40:29):
So you're you're only getting what you what you need,
that's all you get, So.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
You're not getting more than your body needs.

Speaker 5 (40:37):
Well for the absorption level that your body will only
absorb what it needs and everybody, everyone's body is different,
so that that's called a dose response curve. Okay, so
let's say you did a twenty minute session. Maybe your
body absorbed for the whole twenty minutes, maybe it didn't,

(41:00):
But however, that's not going to be harmful for you.
Someone like me, if I sat out in the sun,
just for instance, and I sat out in the sun
for twenty minutes, that would be more harmful for me
because I'm someone who's like very fair and could burn.

(41:21):
So so what I'm saying is when you are using
the red light therapy, you're only getting those specific two wavelengths.
You're not getting all of the other harmful rays that
you could get in the uh environment.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
Yeah, so what would be like a typical safe amount
of time to sit in front of the red light?
I mean, because me personally, I would sit in front
of it all night long, like have it on when
I sleeping, maybe it'll help me.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
But what I mean is are you asking like, is
there too much of a good?

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah, That's what I'm trying to get to.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
No, sour our timers only go up to thirty minutes
because typically no one's absorbing more than that anyway. But
there it's not harmful unless you have, like there's always
contraindications for anything. Unless you have like a photosensitivity or
take medication that causes photosensitivity, then you would want to,

(42:21):
you know, check with your doctor first. But but yeah,
once your body is done like absorbing, there is no
harm to keep going. I mean, I definitely use my
red light a lot, and I do think that I'm like, eh,
I definitely stopped absorbing it probably a while ago, but

(42:43):
it does help me sleep, it does calm me down.
So there's also there's also that too, So I think
there's peace of mind knowing that you're not doing any
damage to yourself either.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
My question I also had was the goggles, like the
personal tower that I came with goggles. Now, I never
is our red light harmful to the eyes or is
that just for people who just want to put them on.

Speaker 5 (43:07):
No, it's not harmful to your eyes at all. It's
actually really good for you. However, the red light is
very intense, so I am light sensitive. However, the red
light does not bother me. Very bright like white LEDs
bother me, or like flashing lights like lee sirens of
police lights and things like that, those like bother me,

(43:29):
but our red light does not bother me. We include
the goggles just because usually like it's that like when
you turn it on, because I think we're just instinctually
we go to protect our eyes. But I recently went
to the eye doctor and I no longer have an astigmatism.

(43:50):
And I can't say that it's because I use red lay.
I don't know, but I'm like, I've had it since
fifth grade, wow, way beyond fifth grade now, So I
do know that there are there have been studies that
it does help with your Eyesay, it hasn't improved my vision.
I still need glasses, but it definitely isn't isn't bad

(44:11):
for them. So the answers we only include the We
include the goggles just for personal for personal preference. Some
people like to cover their eyes, some people don't. And
then I think people also use them based on their
comfort too.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Yeah, yeah, that was my one.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
I saw them in there. I was like, I'm gonna
have to ask about these, just to make sure.

Speaker 5 (44:38):
You can also use a polarized sunglasses as well, if you,
if you it's at your comfort level.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Okay, Yeah, no, I'm fine without them. I just want
to make sure I'm like, yefully, I'm okay with not
using them because I'd rather not lay here with tanning goggles.

Speaker 5 (44:54):
Yeah, if you, if you did some research, and there
are lots of wavelengths that are harmful to the eye,
like uv B is m and actually if you look
at UVB, you wouldn't. You don't go to instinctually protect
your eyes because you're used to uv B. It's the
sun all the time. So actually UVB is more damaging

(45:15):
than the than the red and ear and bread.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
So what is uh, what's the plans for the future
of red light and clear light.

Speaker 5 (45:25):
Well, we have our we have our three towers, and
we have a various various different ways to mount them.
So we're just educating and making the therapy available. So
I did want to say that there are if you
did any kind of uh googling or looking on Amazon.

(45:49):
There's so many red light devices. There's red light devices
in so many things, and even my sponsored ads are
like red light pimple patches and things. Crazy. Red light
therapy is not all created equal. So when you're looking
for relay therapy, you want, you know, a trusted, trusted manufacturer.

(46:11):
You want someone who has the correct wavelengths, which are
the six fifty and the eight to fifty for the
human body, and you want them to have a strong irradiance.
So that's the power. We find that some of our competitors,
they'll start out real strong right with us, but then
over the you know, ten to fifteen minutes, their power,

(46:33):
their power drops and our power stays the same. So
when you're researching all of that stuff, that's that definitely
should be your deciding factor in how much you want
to spend, because there's there's so many cheap red light
bulbs out there to buy.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
And that's what I have the thing seen that even
my sister bought me this I don't even know what
to call it, this facial device off of Amazon where
you put it on your face, it like sits there
and it's red light, blue light, and I'm like, this
feels rinkydinky. I can't imagine this is true red light
or blue light or whatever the heck they're you know,
advertising it as And I'm like, how can they get

(47:12):
away with this? You know? I mean, I don't know
the science behind it. I don't know what to look
for when I'm looking at like an ad or a description.
But now we know, well yeah, I mean, but do
they put that on there? I don't know. Well that's
gonna have the look now, I'm going to go back
and look.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
But but that's my thought is are these companies saying
you know, because I mean, I'm sure you could probably
google it and see what the regulations are. But are
these companies just writing that in their description, just say
it to sell.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
To sell it. They say this is red light on
your skin, It helps this, this and that. Yeah, it's scary.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
Yeah, you definitely need to do your research in anything,
especially when it comes to our health and well being.
And to go back to what we were saying about
the therapeutic dose, So if you are sitting in arsana,
you are about depending on if you're sitting straight or

(48:06):
if you're leaning, so you're about twenty four inches away
from our red light so the farther you're away from
the red light, the longer the the longer the session.
So you would do the thirty minute session. But if
i'm if I have my device right next to my skin,
if I'm spot treating, or if i'm you know, just

(48:28):
doing my facial treatment, I'll just do five minutes. You
don't need that long if I'm right next to it.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
Oh wow, that's good to know.

Speaker 5 (48:35):
Yeah. So if you compared our Personal Tower to any
of the very popular LED masks, So the LED mask
will treat the faith and I've seen people strap at
all their shoulders and things like that, which are very funny.
But they also then sell the attachments and you've got
the neck and the hands and the boots and all

(48:57):
of that stuff. Their irradiance is lower, their powers lower,
their wavelengths are depending on the company. The wavelengths are
are correct, but you're only getting you're not getting the
versatile treatment. So with our with our Personal Tower, you can,

(49:19):
like I said, you can move it around. You're getting
you know, you're getting this much coverage, right, so you're
getting your face and your neck. And something that we
offer is our patented variable optics. So something that you
can't see when you're looking into like the lens. Each
each lens is turned differently. And instead of think about

(49:44):
a cat toy, you know the laser toys, and it's
one single beam of light and the cats are going crazy.
Those are what our competitors use, single beams of light.
With our variable optics, they're all of the lights are
pointing in different directions, so they're covering more of your cell.
So it's a more therapeutic, a more therapeutic, and so

(50:10):
it's offering more therapy and less time.

Speaker 3 (50:13):
Yeah, these are things that people wouldn't know, and that's
that's good that we're getting this out there because all
my friends, that's the crazy right now is red light therapy.
Red light therapy and they have the mask, like you said,
the next things that this.

Speaker 5 (50:26):
Yeah, yeah, I have a teenager. So we've got all
of the under eye patches and the pimple patches. And
I'm like, you're going out in public like this. I like,
what is happened there? Now? There are colors and stars
and things, and I'm like, you know, you could just
do five minutes on the red light and you're going
to be gonna be fine. You don't have to have

(50:49):
stickers all over over your faith, yeah, which is what
a time to be alive. We we offer a very
like a lot of different mounting options. So with the
Personal it comes with a stand so you can take
it on and off and you know, move it around.

(51:11):
We also have a fixed wall amount, so it's just
a little strong but mighty little bit mighty sainless steel
mount that you can just put it on the wall,
take it off and you can't see it when it's
on the wall. And for our other sized towers, we
have a personal I'm sorry, a core tower which goes

(51:31):
in our soun at thirty eight inches, and then we
have a fifty nine inch full body tower. That thing
is amazing. I have it on my door. It's almost
bigger than me. And that's a you know, a one
stop shop where you're just stand in it. Very it's amazing.

(51:52):
But with all of our towers, you're getting it. So
if you compare our small tower to our largest tower,
you're still getting the theme or radiance. You just have
more LEDs yeah and more coverage. Yeah yeah, yeah, that's crazy.
So the smaller doesn't have less power.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
And you sell the saunas too, right, I would selling
all the saunas on there, and that's that's really nice.

Speaker 5 (52:16):
Yeah, I'm I'm happy to talk to you about all
of the benefits of infrared sana. It's really every time
I talk about it, I'm like, you know, I'm just
going to remotely turn my sauna and get that preheated.
I'm going to go I'm going to go in because
it really it really is amazing.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Oh I know. To me, yeah, I've used saunas and
I absolutely love them.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
It's funny to me because this was is a big
thing in like Europe and Asia, the saunas. And my
stepmother's from China and she moved here i'd say like
fifteen years ago, and when she moved into our home,
she bought a sauna and I'm like, why if she's like,
I can't believe you guys don't have saunas, you know,

(53:04):
And she had We had a sawna in our house
growing oh the past, you know, for a long time,
and I just thought it was crazy. Every day she
would go in it multiple times a day and she's like,
this is what we do over there, and I thought
it was nuts. And now you see more and more
people in the United States, or you're getting saunas or
going to sauna treatments, and it's like we're behind on
the times.

Speaker 5 (53:22):
I guess, you know, honestly, Yes, I mean in Finland,
it's just a part of their culture. A lot of
families in Finland have multiple saunas in their home. They
have a family sna and then they have like a
party sauna. It's a communal it's a communal thing. There's
Russian banya's, there's the Native American sweat lodges, the Moroccan

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moms like there in other cultures. There's so many different
versions of the sauna and I am happy to be
a part of that, a part of this you know
awakening that it's finally coming over here. I mean you'll
see sauna studios popping up all over the place. I'm
not sure where you guys are located.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
Hudson Valley, New York.

Speaker 5 (54:07):
Oh, I'm in New Jersey, Okay, so you're gonna start
seeing it yet. Actually, there's one in We just.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
Had one open in I Cryo in Middletown. Yes, yes,
so that's where Shwana go. I mean I've gone with
her and it's nice. It's a big saunas, small saunas,
and then they have red light therapy there. It's like
a bed though it looks like a tanning bed the
one they have, But yeah, it's really it's like beneficial
and more and more people are doing it, which is good.

Speaker 5 (54:33):
And you're also going to see you know, physical therapists
offering it. The Stretch Lab studios in my town they
offer it, yoga yoga, A few yoga studios here offer it,
so you're going to see it pop.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
Up, which is a good thing. I'd rather that than
more doctors and pharmaceuticals exactly.

Speaker 5 (54:55):
Exactly. And I always say like it's like like I
said earlier, it's not one thing, it's a bunch of
it's a bunch of things. And it's also Saana and
red lay are a great compliment to other therapy. So
if it's you know, physical therapy or occupational therapy or

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medication or whatever kind of treatments you can still add
on to it. It's not going to harm or hurt
the other things that you're doing. For whatever particular ailment
that you're treating.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
It's only going to benefit it's going to kind of yeah,
I agree with that.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
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Speaker 3 (56:03):
Could you give us the website?

Speaker 5 (56:05):
Sure it is Infraredsana dot com.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Thank you so much. You've been a wealth of knowledge.
I learned so much.

Speaker 5 (56:13):
Listen, I can talk about this for days.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
That's good you get. Yeah, you should be getting the
word out there because Amazon and all these other companies
out there are selling products that are not doing what
they should be doing. They're lying to customers and I
know a lot of my friends have probably gotten scammed
in there. They're thinking they're doing something and it's not.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (56:32):
Well, I mean that really puts the onus on the consumer.
So we we sell on Amazon as well. So you
just have to do your research and say, like what
you know to what products that you bring into your home,
just like any research you do with food or vitamin
supplement and things like that.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
Yeah, definitely, thank you so much. Melissa. Oh you're welcome.

Speaker 5 (56:57):
This was great. And if you want to talk offline
and I'm happy to.

Speaker 3 (57:02):
Share, yeah, then appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (57:05):
Thank you great, Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
Do you think red light therapy will help me like
lose a lot of fat? There? You know?

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Or I don't know?

Speaker 3 (57:15):
Or negate the sugary desserts that I like to have.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
You don't even really like sugar. Sugar?

Speaker 3 (57:23):
Here are the sugar, yes, but I really I really
want to eat those waffles that you got that Saint
Pierre sent us.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Oh my god, yes, the cinnamon waffles.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
The cinnamon sugar. I don't even butter. It was just heaven,
heaven on a plate. So I really want to eat those.
And I'm wondering, like, maybe if I add a little
extra time to my red light therapy, will that help?
Negate the fact that I just ate that sweet heavenly goodness.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
I doubt it, but it is sweet, heavenly goodness. It
would be even more sweeter if I had ice cream.
Oh yeah, I'm on this ricked diet for my gi
issues that I cannot have ice cream, Well, I can
have dairy free ice cream. Yeah, but that was kind

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of like. My treat for the week. Yeah, was the
Saint Pierre's cinnamon waffles. I can't tell you how good
they were. I could have ate the whole pack.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
I know, it's almost like a doughnut waffle. That's how
I can kind of describe it, you know. Yeah, you
heat it up in the oven, a toaster oven or
a microwave if you want, and it gets warm and
the sugar melts on it. And it was so good.
It really was good. And yeah, it was very bad
for my diet for the cruise, but I didn't have one.
I'm like, oh my god, this is so good. I

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want more. But yeah, so yummy. They sent us that.
They sent us some Brioche bread and the kids made
me French toast with their bread. They had a cinnamon bread.
And then they sent you some hamburger bums with the
sesame seeds. They look amazing. They just look so fluffy,
and I did. I didn't try them, but they look

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really good.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
Maybe, you know. I mean, grilling season isn't here yet,
but my dad might take out the girl this weekend
if it's sunny and not raining.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
I grilled. I grilled right before the storm hit last night.
So you take that grill out, girl, get those burgers going.
And they ship these over from the UK and it
just it came in the cutest box. And I love
I love food that's not from the United States because
you know, you know they're doing it right over in
Europe in the UK. Oh yeah, because we're really behind

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the times with that.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
So speaking of the chemicals, yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
So really that. I think this is a great thing
for mom as a Mother's Day breakfast treat. That's what
I told my kids. I want Mother's Day French toast
with this bread. You know, we tested it out the
other day. It was so good. But I want Mother's
Day French toast with their the same Pierre bread. Oh
my god, out of this world.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
Take it on the cruise with you.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
Oh god, you know, take the pounds on the cruise
with man. That's what I'm going to be taken.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
So your vacation, you're leaving on Saturday. Did you pack yet? No?

Speaker 3 (01:00:04):
I mean well yes, and now I have to pack
for my two kids and myself. Luckily my husband packs
for himself. So yeah, I got my daughter, my son
ninety percent done. I have a pile of crap on
my floor that I haven't put in a suitcase yet.
I haven't done my bath essentials and I haven't done
my makeup yet, so I haven't passed that. The makeup.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
Yeah, and I always take like two bad too much,
too much makeup that you don't probably use any of
it or all of it. No, I usually don't use really.

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Right, yeah, because when you're on vacation, you get tans,
so your skin doesn't need much. I just like taking
a nice Misscara and a nice lip gloss, and those
are my two go go tos for vacation. I don't
know anything else, so I'm always you know, Tart's our favorite.
I got my tart to let Miss Scarra that I
absolutely love and always take with me everywhere. And my

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Maricusha lip Plump Juicy lip plumping gloss and it's so
pretty well, there's just too many colors I choose from
number one, but the ones that I have so shiny,
so hydrating. I absolutely love it. And you you you
use that too, you have a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
I'm obsessed with the Maricousa lip bombs, absolutely obsessed with them,
and my mom is too. I got some for her
for Mother's die. I just I like how they match
your lip color and there's colors for everyone, every shade
you could think of. And my favorite part about it

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is my lips are always chopped, always, always, always.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
Her lips are so dry, and I.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
Like how they like make them smooth, and you know,
they give them like that non chopped look.

Speaker 3 (01:01:50):
Yeah, because when Shauna puts on lipstick a lot of times,
or lip gloss, it kind of magnifies the chap, the
chapped look on her lips, like you could see it
even more. But with this, when she put it on,
it it like hit it. It smoothed it out completely,
and you wouldn't have even known that her lips were
that dry, you know. Yeah, so absolutely amazing. They sent

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us a ton of different colors and I was excited
to try anything from like the more natural that matched
my lip tone to a little bit more red, and
I love them all. They really, they really they smell good.
There's one that's a plumper, so you kind of feel
that little tingle, and one that's just vinyl, so it's
just there's no plump in it, and it's just the
more like a shinier one. So like she said, shades

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for every person, and if you like plumping or you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Don't, Rosie is my favorite shade.

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
Rosie. I think I have Berry. I can't remember the name,
but it's a more reddish maroonish color and I liked
it because it gave me a little Papa color, because
sometimes my lips blend in too much with my lip gloss,
but this one was a little papa color, felt a
little sexy in it. So Mom's Tart is our favorite.
We love it. Definitely something and you should try out.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
And right now we are going to jump into an
interview with Sarah Sparks. She is an author of the
Monsters on Mill Street series for kids. Such a cute book.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
I know my daughter was looking it over and she's
too young to read it, but she absolutely loved the
illustrations and I'm thinking that she's getting the message behind it.
They were really, really, such a cute idea.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
You're listening to Shauna and La La and today we
have an exciting interview. We are interviewing the author of
the Monsters on Mill Street book series for kids. Sarah
Sparks is the author, and it's such a cute book.
I mean, well, the whole series is so cute.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
I like the illustrations too, besides what it was about.
I was like, this is so cute.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Yeah, and the colors.

Speaker 5 (01:03:53):
My daughter.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
I have a three year old, and she was loving
the colors, and you know, she couldn't read it. I
was reading it to her, but she was more interested
in the character.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
Thank you, thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (01:04:03):
Yeah, it's it's you know, the story is built to
engage kids, and your daughter is the perfect age for them.
So that's that's why we set out to make it
so bright and colorful and that she'll read over and
over and over again and to the point where you'll
you'll have to hide it somewhere the other books on
the bookshelf because you'll need to get some variety in there.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
But that's what I do with my kids.

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
But yeah, pitch it out.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
So can you share a little bit of your backstory
and the life changing injury that you had to uh
go through?

Speaker 6 (01:04:36):
Yeah, you know, so, I've I've always been a storyteller
in one form or another. Usually I was working in
corporate communications and telling other people's stories. But you know,
one day that kind of that kind of all changed
for me. So it was a few years ago. It
was actually Thanksgiving in twenty one, and I was walking

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to the bathroom and and I fell. So I fell
in what was probably one of the worst rooms in
the house to fall in because of all the hard surfaces,
and you know, I hit multiple of those on the
way down, and and I blacked out, and you know,

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that was that was the moment that kind of changed
everything for me. I was taken to the emergency room
and the doctors they looked me over and they diagnosed
me with the traumatic brain injury. And you know it,
it's funny because when you're diagnosed with the traumatic brain injury.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
It's it's different. It's different than what you'd expect.

Speaker 6 (01:05:47):
You know, if you break an arm or a leg,
you kind of know how the bone is meant to heal.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
You understand the process. You understand how you know your
your arm.

Speaker 6 (01:05:56):
Is casted and or your leg is casted, and a
few weeks later, the bone heels and you're back to
your normal self again. But with with a brain injury,
you don't really know what to expect from the recovery process.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
They they don't tell you you're going to be better
in a week or a month, or a year.

Speaker 6 (01:06:18):
In fact, there's this this caveat that is hanging over
your head where your brain might not ever actually get
back to the way it was before.

Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
This may be your new normal.

Speaker 6 (01:06:31):
And and so for me that was really scary because
you know, at that time, because of the injury, there
were there were things that I used to do that
I used to really take for granted that I couldn't.
I couldn't do anymore, things like reading, writing, and understanding
a grocery list, you know, reading an email.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
I couldn't. I couldn't process that information. The words were
just they would they would swirl off the page, and
I couldn't. I couldn't process what I was seeing.

Speaker 6 (01:07:02):
It was it's hard to play with my kids. You know,
I love my kids, I really I love my kids.

Speaker 1 (01:07:11):
But kids are.

Speaker 6 (01:07:12):
Noisy, you know, they they move around a lot, and
all of that extra stimulus that's going on around me,
I could might it was so difficult to process it.
And so it was hard to even play with my kids.
I had to work at these relationships. Yeah, and it

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kind of dominoed and spiraled from that. You know, I
ran a business, I ran a communications firm, and all
of a sudden, I couldn't communicate.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
All of a sudden, I couldn't.

Speaker 6 (01:07:42):
Do the things I wanted to do, and and my
things started spiraling out of control. I almost lost the business.
We almost lost our house, you know, because of the
financial strain that we became fall under. And so it
felt like everything I touched was all the sudden breaking.

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But you know, the weird thing is is that during.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
That time.

Speaker 6 (01:08:10):
I could see these monsters so clearly. I could see
their stories so clearly. And that was odd because I've
never written children's books before. You know, this wasn't my
area of specialty. But their stories came to life so clearly,
and I just began writing. I began writing and writing,
and I clung to it like it was a life

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raft for me, because it was my life raft. Yeah,
And you know, honestly, if I'm honest, as I look back,
I think with all the work that I had to
put into, you know, the little things like playing with
my kids and building those relationships, I was so focused

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on that that I look at the monster books and
I realized what I was doing was I was writing
our lives.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
I was trying to hold onto those little moments with
my kid.

Speaker 6 (01:09:00):
It's the things that I was working so hard at,
the things I was I was trying to hold on
too before I forgot those moments, and I was writing
them down, and I was writing what we were living,
how we were playing, the challenges that we were going through,
and I was helping them work through.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
All of those little.

Speaker 6 (01:09:19):
Life's moments made it into these these books. And they're silly,
fun books for kids. You know, they're meant to be entertaining.
They're meant to be, you know, books that they can
pick up and read again and again and enjoy. And
so it's it's I tell folks, you know, when when
you read one of these books, I sometimes I joke

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and I say, you know, you're you're getting to see
what my kids are like. You know, you'll really get
a good idea what my kids are like, or what
are families like. But that's that's so very true because
there's so much of.

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
Us that I put into these stories.

Speaker 6 (01:09:54):
And it probably one of the hardest times in our
family's life. You know that I can recall I was
I was writing the books about us.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
Yeah, it's kind of that cliche saying like you took
lemons and you made lemonade with it. You know, that's
basically what you did, and that that's amazing And that
takes a lot because I can't even imagine a brain injury,
And it isn't it crazy how you were able with
everything going on your head, you were able to focus
on that and on a book, and then you started

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writing a children's book. You know, like that's not what
you usually hate, the typical story you hear from that,
and that's amazing to me.

Speaker 6 (01:10:31):
It was just it was therapeutic. That's the only way
I can describe it. Like I said, you know, when
the whole world is falling apart around you and you
feel like everything you touch is breaking you, really you
cling to the one thing you can do and do well.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
And this was the one thing that I could do
and do well.

Speaker 6 (01:10:46):
And so, you know, after the books were written, then
I had these stories, and you know, it took a
few years from.

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
My brain to heal. It's never it's never been quite
what it was when I started, you know, before the accident.

Speaker 6 (01:11:01):
But once the stories were done, I thought, you know,
there's there's so much good in here. There's so much silliness,
there's so much fun, there's so many good messages because
the books are they really have this social emotional learning
and life skills and growth mindset undertone to them that
I thought, you know, we've got these great series. We

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should be sharing them more kids should be able to
read them and and hopefully take away some of the
fun life lessons that are there.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
I think each book has, you know, different lessons in it.
And you know, the book that I read, you know,
it was kind of like, don't give up, you know,
keep going, don't let somebody tell you that you can't
do something.

Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
Yeah, and that's always a good lesson for any any age,
any especially My daughter's three, and she might not understand
fully what you're trying to get across. But the more
the older she gets, the more we read it, the
more you I instill those messages into her. Yeah, they're
going they're going to learn, They're going to pick up
on that, and it's very important.

Speaker 6 (01:12:05):
It's interesting because I you know, you say, as you
read it over and over again, you pick up on
those messages, and that's so so true.

Speaker 5 (01:12:14):
There.

Speaker 6 (01:12:14):
I'll tell you a story about one woman who I
met and I adore her, and she she took you know,
the three books that we started out with the Monsters
on Mill Street series home, and she started reading them
with her daughter, and their family was going through a
bit of a messy divorce at the time. It was
hard for her, it was hard for her husband, it

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was hard for their daughter, and you know, the daughter
would come home. She you know, jumped from parents' house
to parents' house, and the daughter would come home and
the mom said, she was like this tornado. She would
just be this big tornado of you know, anger and
frustration and she'd just want to explode and she would.
And so the mom had been really you know, shaping

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their days around this. She knew what she was going
to get when her daughter walked to the door, because
it was so hard. You know, kids can't control how
they feel about situations that really, at that age you
have no control over. And so they started reading these
books togethers and they actually read one of our older books,
The Angriest Monster on Mill Street, and that book deals with,

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you know, how how do you deal with big emotions
when you feel like you just want to explode, when
you feel like you want to huff and puff tornadoes
and you know, stomp and cause earthquakes. Because those are
the visuals we really use to describe those big feelings
in that anger. And you know, one day, the little
girl came home, she's about five years old. She came

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home and the mom was expecting this explosion and it
never came. The little girl she walked in the house,
she sat down on the couch and she just started
petting her blanket, this soft, fluffy blanket that she had.

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
And of course the mom was like, you know, what
are you doing. It was odd, and the little girl
just said, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:14:04):
I need a minute, and my blanket is soft. I
just I want to feel my blanket. It's really soft.
And what's really interesting about that is that that's a
grounding technique that we talk about in The Angriest Monster
on Mill Street, which is one of our previous stories.
And the little girl at five years old had taught
herself that grounding technique because of this fun, silly children's book,

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this monster story that's meant to be entertaining. It also
had that lesson underneath that she took and she internalized
and it made a difference for her, it made a
difference for the mom, for the whole family.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
It really is so in the book, does the monster
have a soft, fuzzy blanket.

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
No, he doesn't.

Speaker 6 (01:14:50):
He doesn't, but he does grow enormous. He grows up
past the rooftops, and you know, his size matches his
anger at that moment, and he causes chaos. You know,
he floods the street with his tears and he just
is you know, there has to be something that can
help me. And so he starts thinking about what can
he see, what can he feel?

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
What can he hear? What can he taste? What can
he smell? The five senses, he.

Speaker 6 (01:15:15):
Starts using those and as he's doing that and being
very present in the moment he's he starts to calm down,
he starts to breathe, and he starts to shrink, and
so do his emotions. And so it's it's a really
it's it's a way of integrating that growth mindset, I'm sorry,
not growth mindset, the grounding.

Speaker 1 (01:15:36):
Technique into the book.

Speaker 6 (01:15:39):
Without directly telling a child what to do or feel
or think, because that was critical when we were doing
these books. We never wanted to tell a child what
to do, yeah, because you know, are they really going
to listen to us as grown ups? I don't know,
maybe hopefully that's the goal, but we wanted to make
characters that they could relate to with challenges that they

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could understand and internalize and really come to the conclusions
about how to solve those problems themselves without being told
what to do. And I think that's what really sets
all of the books in this series, apart from a
lot of the other social emotional learning content that's out there.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
How many books do you have currently out for the series?

Speaker 6 (01:16:25):
So right now there are three out. So there's The
Angriest Monster on Mill Street, the Bounciest Monster on Mill Street,
and the Messiest Monster on Mill Street.

Speaker 1 (01:16:36):
And I'm just gonna say that.

Speaker 6 (01:16:42):
And at the end of summer we've got we've got
two new ones coming out. So we've got one of
them is The Strongest Monster on Mill Street.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
And that story.

Speaker 6 (01:16:53):
Deals a lot with resilience. I think that's actually the
one that you were talking about. It's how do you
overcome things that are out of your control, you know,
and life really isn't going your way? How do you
build up those resilient skills and how do you manage
to work your way through them? So that's the Strongest
Monster on Mill Street and then the Awesomest Monster on

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Mill Street is the second book that's coming out at
the end of summer, and that one is actually about
social anxiety and overcoming and dealing with social anxiety. And
it feels like both of these are very very grown
up topics, especially in a picture book for kids that are.

Speaker 1 (01:17:30):
You know what, three to eight years old.

Speaker 6 (01:17:32):
Yeah, but but it's done in a very silly and
fun and safe and you know, very Monsters on Mill
Street way.

Speaker 3 (01:17:42):
That's so cute.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Such it's such a cute title for the series. You
should really think about like doing like a TV show
or something cartoon.

Speaker 1 (01:17:51):
Yeah, I would love it. We actually we have we
have videos. I'm not going to say they're you know, like.

Speaker 6 (01:17:56):
Cartoons like television shows that you'd watch, but we do
have videos on our YouTube site.

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
So Monsters on Mill Street has a.

Speaker 6 (01:18:02):
YouTube page and we have these these interactive videos.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
We have a couple of them up there now where
the kids actually get to be a part of the adventure.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:18:12):
They they jump when it's the monster's turn to jump,
and they have to march when it's the monster's turn
to march. So it's another way of bringing it to
life in a very physical, fun way.

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
That's really cool.

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
I don't want to have to let my daughter watch that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
At what moment did you realize your journey can become
a source of hope and resilience for children and families,
you know?

Speaker 6 (01:18:35):
I think it was when my own kids were coming
home from school and they were doing a lot of
you know, social emotional.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
Learning activities at school.

Speaker 6 (01:18:45):
And you know, there are a lot of curriculums out
there that try to teach this to to students very
very young, you know, from pre k all the way
up through high school really.

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
And so I was watching them come.

Speaker 6 (01:19:00):
Through the door, telling me about their day and telling
me what they had learned. And I thought the curriculums
were wonderful and good, but the message wasn't sticking. They
weren't really remembering the stories that they were getting, and
so I kind of thought, you know, these these monster
books that we have here, they're trying to communicate the

(01:19:20):
same underlying, you know, moral of the story as a
lot of these sel curriculums out there. They would be
a great supplement because kids want to read them. You know,
if a child can relate to the characters, they can
see themselves in the characters. If the story is funny
and rhymes and they get a really good giggle out

(01:19:40):
of it and they want to read it at bedtime
over and over again. That repetition and that you know,
relatability is gonna hopefully make that message stick more. I mean,
we all remember stories like the Tortoise and the Hair
and the Little Red hen and the Little Engine that could.
Learning through storytelling has such an impact that that's really

(01:20:07):
where these books, these books sit. They're entertaining their fun.
They also had that that underlying moral and message that
hopefully helps kids grow into amazing humans.

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
They are amazing humans, but amazing grown up humans.

Speaker 3 (01:20:22):
Yes, we need a lot more of that, and yeah,
they should have these And that's what we were talking
about with Teresa, that hopefully these books can get into
more school districts and you know, pre k kindergarten, and
I think that's a great place to start, you know,
and start then, because once they're a little older, it's harder,
it's harder to kind of change either the way they

(01:20:42):
were raised or the way their thought process. It's never
no hope for that. You know, you can always have hope,
but it's better at starting an a good age.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
I even think like in the guidance counselor's office, they
would be a good fit. You know, in case a
kid is having a meltdown or you knowing through something,
through something, we could look at book and read it,
or the guidance counselor could read it to them.

Speaker 3 (01:21:03):
Mm hmm. Yeah, that's that's great.

Speaker 6 (01:21:06):
And they have such a hard job, you know, teachers
and school counselors and even school librarians, they have such
a hard job already to begin with, one of the
hardest jobs I think in the whole world. And then
they have this added challenge where they don't actually know
what anyone child is bringing with them through the door
on any given day. And so, you know, my hope

(01:21:28):
is is that if folks are reading these books, and
if you know, the story is getting told over and
over again, that the message is internalized, and then one
day when that child needs it, they'll fall back on
that message that they know.

Speaker 1 (01:21:41):
Because it's habit, because it's already a part of them.

Speaker 6 (01:21:44):
So that's why I think, you know, introducing these books
to children, like you say, in the pre k kindergarten
first grade age range is good because the earlier they
hear the messages, the better.

Speaker 2 (01:21:54):
And it's really good for any age. You know, there's
no age limit on the book.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
Even Yeah, well I get what you're saying. But like
even as an adult reading it, and maybe an adult't
choose to read it themselves, like oh, I'm gonna buy
this book for myself, but as they're reading it to
their kids, I think it definitely might awaken something like ah, yeah,
you know what, that's a good way to handle that,
or I'm kind of getting the message here, and yeah,
it can be for all ages. Even if my son,

(01:22:22):
my son is eleven, if he wrote it to his sister,
he might pick up on some messages. He might necessarily
choose to read the book himself, but reading it to
his little sister, Yeah, that's a that's a good point.

Speaker 6 (01:22:32):
Yeah, especially those the two newest books, because the message
of building up resilience and how to overcome social anxiety,
those are are issues that really start to crop up
a little bit later for kids. You know, when you
start hitting that fourth, fifth, sixth, seventhethh grade range, that's
when those those big emotions and those challenges start to

(01:22:54):
steep in, and so yeah, you know when older siblings
are reading it to their younger ones that hopefully that
message sticks with them as well, because that's important for
them in that moment.

Speaker 1 (01:23:04):
It's important for all of us even as grownups, do
you think in that moment.

Speaker 3 (01:23:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
So there's a special pre sale going on for your
new books that are coming out in August. So where
can our listeners get a copy?

Speaker 1 (01:23:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:23:21):
So all the Monsters and Mill Street books are available
on many different platforms, so you can get them on Amazon.

Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
You can also get them.

Speaker 6 (01:23:28):
On our Monsters on Mill Street website, so that's Monsters
on Mill Street dot com, m O N S T
E R S on O N mill m I L
L Street S T R e e t dot com.
And so if you if you go to the website,
that's actually where we're running this really cool pre sale deal.

(01:23:50):
So this is kind of like the advanced sneak peak
look that folks get because the books don't come out
until the end of summer.

Speaker 1 (01:23:55):
And so if you if you place your.

Speaker 6 (01:23:57):
Order now on the website, we're offering discounts sort of
like this tiered discounts, so you can get five percent
off if you get one book or I think it's
fifteen percent off if you get two both of the
two new ones, and if you want to get them all,
we're doing like.

Speaker 1 (01:24:11):
A thirty percent off discount for all five books.

Speaker 6 (01:24:15):
We also have really cool discounts for schools and for
parent teacher organizations that go all the way up to
forty five percent off, because you know, we don't want
really costs to be a barrier of getting these books
in the hands of kids, of getting these books in
the classrooms and in the schools, So we want to
make sure that we're working with schools and with PTOs
and really helping them do this in a in a

(01:24:37):
wonderful financially appropriate.

Speaker 3 (01:24:39):
Way for them. It's so important, yeah, very important, even therapists, psychiatrists,
you know, like very important for all those to have
these books at hand. So that's amazing that you guys
are doing that, and I hope that our listeners take
advantage of that, and we have a lot of teachers
on our followers, so hopefully they could take that to

(01:25:01):
the board and get a lot of those books in
the school districts.

Speaker 6 (01:25:06):
We also have classroom posters that go along with it,
so if teachers are.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
Looking to decorate and just the classrooms in the fall.

Speaker 6 (01:25:13):
There's some fun ones there that my favorite one I
think is the one that focuses on tidying up the
classroom and cleaning up your space and checking the lost
and found, because lord knows, I have lost so many
water bottles and head bands to the school lost and found,
and I feel like those are.

Speaker 1 (01:25:29):
Those are some fun important messages.

Speaker 3 (01:25:31):
Yeah, everyson, I going to my son's school the lost
and found. The rack is just so packed and I'm like,
do these kids not realize they're missing all these things?

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
Or coats? Cops in the middle of winter?

Speaker 6 (01:25:44):
How do you go home without your coat when it's
you know, negative ten degrees outside.

Speaker 2 (01:25:50):
Geo left without his book bag.

Speaker 3 (01:25:52):
The one Well, my son came on with no book bag.
I said, wish your book? Oh I forgot it. How
do you forget your book back?

Speaker 2 (01:25:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
He needs that poster everywhere. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
Well, thank you so much Sarah for meeting with us today.
We had a great time and we're definitely gonna promote
the Monsters on Mill Street series and we're looking forward
to having you on the show again sometime soon.

Speaker 1 (01:26:19):
Oh my goodness. Thank you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
So much.

Speaker 1 (01:26:20):
I love you. I think you are both amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:26:23):
And for those of you out there who have not
gotten your mom anything for Mother's Day, or wifey or
your girlfriend, head nuts dot com right now. They have
the cutest options there to surprise your loved one. You know,
we got the I Love You box, the cutest box ever.
It's so cute. It says I with a heart and

(01:26:44):
then the letter you, and they're filled with treats. And
I thought it was so good. I ate the walnuts.
I know you got it for your mom, but I
snuck her walnuts. They were so good. It was like
candy coated walnuts. There was candy coated pretzels in there,
almonds with them.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
The pretzels were my favorite.

Speaker 3 (01:27:02):
They were good. They were so good. And they have
a ton of stuff on the website. So it's just
like a little unique gift. Rather than giving them flowers
and maybe a thing like chocolates, do this. It's something special.
It shows that you put some thought into it, you know.
And nuts dot com they had a ton a ton
of options on there to send a mom or grandma

(01:27:23):
or any loved one.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
And be sure to check out all of our Mother's
Day products in our gift guide on our website Shauna
and Lala dot com. That's our show for this week.
Thank you so much for tuning in you're listening to
Shauna and Lala. Check us out at Shauna and Lala
dot com on all social media platforms at Shauna and Lala.

(01:27:47):
You could follow me on Instagram at the Real Shauna
May and follow.

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
Me on Instagram with Bella Underscore Lala one two five.

Speaker 2 (01:27:56):
We will see you when Lala returns from Bermuda, hopefully
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