Building a Modern Day Wife Empire: Community, Business, and Balance with Meagan Elieff and Meghan Fialkoff

Samantha and Nicole will be joined by Meagan Elieff and Meghan Fialkoff, founders of Modern Day Wife. They will share the inspiring story behind Modern Day Wife.’s inception, how they built a thriving community of modern women, and the key decisions that shaped their journey. We dive into their biggest wins and challenges in hosting events across the US and Canada, their secrets for making lasting business partnerships, and their advice for women looking to make bold career leaps. From launching new ventures like their podcast and E-Magazine to balancing family, marriage, and business, Meagan and Meghan offer invaluable insights into navigating it all. Tune in to discover what’s next for Modern Day Wife and how these powerhouse women continue to inspire a global community with their mission of empowerment.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, lovely people.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
This is Nicole and this is Samantha.

Speaker 3 (00:03):
With the power of We, we are here to switch
it up and teach you about business relationships and how
to not only survive but make it in Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
In each episode, we will have top influential guests from
the world of real estate. We work hard, we stage hard,
and we get it done the power of we. And

(00:37):
we're bad. Wow. How are you?

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Boo boo, I'm amazing. How are you today?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I am well, I've been better.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
I broke my leg on this episode.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, we're not. But oh my god. It's been a
couple months, and you got to do a lot of
cool things this summer, so let's talk about it. It's
not all about work.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Not all about work. But I did get to go
on an amazing trip with all my girls friends. We
went to Spain, went to Granada Malaga, which is such
a fun party place, and you got to Libel, which
is incredible. So traveling is just such a good way
to see the world.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, and now it's been so incredible at Elite and
Elite Mason, we have been so busy, which has been incredible.
But you know, I really when I think about when
I started this company, I think about, you know, how
networking was so important to me. It was such a
big thing and everyone was like, how can you just

(01:33):
go out and do that? And when I started, there
was not a lot of networking going on at all.
You know, I created network and events. I would do
them at restaurants. I would do them like as much
as I could. But I'm super excited about our guests
today because they are a phenomenon. Why don't you tell
a little bit about them?

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Megan and Megan co founded Modern Day Wife, a global
lifestyle brand and community empowering women to excel in their careers, families,
social lives, and relationships. Since it's founding in twenty nineteen,
Modern Day Wife has inspired women worldwide to take change
and become the executives of their own lives.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Welcome Megan and Megan.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, welcome, Yay. I'm so excited to have you guys on. Wow.
I remember when we first did our first Modern Day
Wife and I was like, they have something great going on.
But really, what I want to know is, why did
you start Modern Day Wife? Was that something that you
know just came about? She is a Megan.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
I'm like I'll take that one one Megan one. Yeah,
I was like, how are we?

Speaker 5 (02:37):
How we lock?

Speaker 6 (02:38):
Yeah, we want one thing two exactly.

Speaker 7 (02:41):
Well, it's really interesting because I started the company in Vancouver, Canada,
so it's kind of fun because I'm Canadian and then
Megan Fielkoff is American, so we are basically covering North America.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
It's very fun. So that's awesome fun fact about us.

Speaker 7 (02:56):
But yeah, so it was actually back in twenty eighteen,
so for me, I'm not going to go down the
whole career path. But I did have a woman's networking
group before, which was really amazing, but it was more
based around self confidence, self love, gratitude and wellness called
Project You. I ended up actually selling that company to
someone else who actually works in our business now, which

(03:16):
is so crazy.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Her name's Chelsea. So it's nice to see how.

Speaker 7 (03:21):
People follow and yeah, and they come back, they come
back exactly. And it was just a time in my
life actually where I had hardship.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
I think like when you have hardship, you can learn
a lot of.

Speaker 7 (03:31):
Things exactly, Like right now we talk, right, you're dealing
with something, right, you have an injury or whatever it is.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
It always teaches you a lesson.

Speaker 7 (03:40):
So at that point in my life, my husband actually
was diagnosed with Crohn's disease.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
So that's okay.

Speaker 7 (03:46):
It's an interesting chapter of the story. And I think
for us, we've been through so much in our marriage
that for sure we are very solid. But the interesting
thing about this story is we weren't married, okay, but
I had a partner who is suffering from a severe illness,
and how do you handle that? I also, at the
same time, you know, we didn't have a ton of money.

(04:08):
Then we were living together. We had been together for
about three years. So I'm navigating, Okay, well, how do
I still look good? How do I care for someone
who's unwell? And I think a lot of us have
had to deal with that situation, whether it's a spouse
or a family member. How do I actively enjoy my career?
How do I have friendships? How am I actually making

(04:28):
my life go right? And so I started to look
towards the future, like where am I going? I'm very
much always a future oriented personally. You need to put
it there exactly right, like what am I putting there?
Where am I going? And I'm like, well, I want
to be a wife. I'm not engaged or anything yet,
but hey, what about the concept of modern day wife

(04:50):
a woman who's trying to navigate what she's doing but
actually needs people and resources because she knows like I
knew for doing this on my own right ever, So
that's actually how the concept started. And I'm definitely if
you know me like Megan knows me pretty well, I'm
definitely like a branding junkie, I'd say, like, I love

(05:10):
building brands, like I've always been interested in building companies.
Business is definitely something I'm very passionate about. So I
immediately saved the Instagram handle, saved the website, went on Fiver,
and got a logo made wow, Well, my husband was
actually in the hospital the logo came in.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
How I started to lead home staging.

Speaker 7 (05:31):
Right, but like it also gave me purpose, Like it
gave me a light when something was really traumatic in
my life to go to that fueled my energy to
actually like survive something that was so dark.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
I love this so much because that, I mean, we
have very similar stories. When I started to lead home staging,
I got divorced. I didn't know what I was going
to do with my life. A realtor said, you're going
to start a staging company, come to my house. We
created a logo right there. Wow, I started. Yes, that's
out of my garage. So crazy, that's amazing. So basically, listeners,
guess what. You can do anything that you put your

(06:05):
mind to, just by doing what putting one foot in
front of the other right.

Speaker 7 (06:10):
Always, and it's instant, right, Like even this morning, I'm
getting my makeup dead and I'm talking to the makeup
artists and we're like, yeah, let's do that. I'm like, Okay,
I'm doing it now because if I don't take action
on it now, it's not going to happen. Right, that's
the reality situation. It's not going to get done. So
you have to be very fierce of the decisions that
you're making and are like, Okay, I'm going to do this.
I'm making the decision, I'm making the choice, and it's

(06:30):
going to happen.

Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
And that's that's where it started.

Speaker 7 (06:33):
And then Megan and I met, which is a really
fun story. Yeah, I'll let Megan tell that story again.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Thing too.

Speaker 6 (06:39):
Yes, So it was COVID.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
I was pregnant and I've run a nonprofit for many
years with my dad and I was traveling around the
world doing fundraising actually, and then COVID happened and I
was pregnant, and I was like, what's what's actually going
to happen when I have this child? Like, how am
I really going to keep traveling like this?

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Right?

Speaker 5 (06:57):
It was not really a game plan. So I had
always been looking for someone to do a business with.
And Megan had DMed my nonprofits Instagram page thinking that
my chapter in New York was the international page.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
That's so fun.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
She was really I think, yeah, you're looking for International
or Vancouver to benefit the chapters there, and was like,
we'd love for this event. She was doing a modern
day wife digital event with Elena Cardon and Elena as
a patron of my nonprofit, and they wanted the whole
thing to benefit it, and she's like, can we do
a call? I was like, we don't need to do
a call. The answer is yes, like what we're talking about.

(07:37):
So I got to see how she ran things behind
the scenes, because I was essentially an affiliate and any
tickets that were made were going to benefit my nonprofit.
So I saw how she was running the other affiliates
like she had her Google drive folders and it was
very organized.

Speaker 6 (07:52):
In her emails, you.

Speaker 5 (07:53):
Were impressed well and also reminded me of myself. And
the truth is like, I haven't found anyone else that
I've worked.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's very hard.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
It's hard, perfective to be honest with you.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Also, like, now I see how I'm around so many
people who know what they're doing, but at the time,
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (08:10):
I didn't.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
There weren't people who I felt like were organized or
followed through or were enthusiastic.

Speaker 6 (08:19):
So I knew that.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
And then I was I did an IG live with her,
and I don't know. I on that IG live, I
was like, this is the person I've been looking for.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Don't you love that? That's so exciting. You must have
like lit up like a firecracker.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
Yeah, well, I think I just I don't know if
what happened. I just know that I just had a knowingness.
I don't know why. I don't even know what I
even thought about modern day wife. I don't think there
was a process like, well I love this because blah
blah blah.

Speaker 6 (08:46):
It was like I just like it. There wasn't an
even a reason. Well this makes me feel blab I
was just I just liked it.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
And you know, at the time, I was married and
I was pregnant and so on, so obviously it didn't
relate to me.

Speaker 6 (08:57):
But I we did a call all after.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
The event and we partnered and we launched it in
the US and we worked our asses off.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Amazing. And how many events have you done now?

Speaker 6 (09:11):
Probably fifty, I'd say a lot.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Wow, fifty probably Can you imagine five years? That is
a lot of work. And I know, let's get down
to the nitty gritty. I know that gets tiring. What
do you do to take care of yourself so you
don't get burnt out?

Speaker 5 (09:28):
Well, the truth is, for the first three two and
a half, probably three years, we were burnt out.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah that is like I love that. I love that
you guys are honest because everyone like looks at you
guys and go, oh, it looks you know, it's so
perfect on the outside. But it's important that people know
that this stuff that we do every day takes a
lot of work, a lot of grind, It takes a
lot of communication, and you know what, we are human. Yeah, no, yeah,

(09:56):
it's so much the chills thinking it's for you.

Speaker 7 (09:58):
It's true though, Like I remember, because this is an
interesting thing that people don't know. We made a decision
during COVID to do something we didn't really know about,
which was digital events.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
But I just.

Speaker 7 (10:08):
Remember Megan and I talking about it and we're like,
we'll just figure it out, and that really was our
Maybe I was like or I was like, we're doing
it and I can Vince Bridget, who now works for us,
who was our intern at the time, research Hoppin, which
was like a platform, and we just decided to take action.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
And do it.

Speaker 7 (10:27):
But we didn't totally know what we were doing, but
we learned and we made it go right. But I
wanted to say that for us, like when everyone else
stopped working, not everyone, that's a generalization, but a lot
of people were like, it's COVID, Like they couldn't work,
and so we started creating, and I.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Think that gave us an advantage.

Speaker 7 (10:44):
But to Megan's point, like there were a lot of
sacrifices when we first started.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
It was that summer of August twenty.

Speaker 7 (10:50):
Twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty one, that was when we
first started doing in person events again, Yeah, April April,
and so we were like crazy, She has a new baby.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
I was getting married.

Speaker 7 (11:00):
I flew to La like two weeks before my wedding,
did this event outside with Megan in a parking lot.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
Got burnt. I was getting married in two weeks.

Speaker 7 (11:07):
Like, we just did some things that were a bit
insane and that did put stressors on other areas of
our life.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
But it was the reason why we have what we have.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
But now you have stories. You know, we do stuff
that's crazy and I look back and I go, how
did we get all that done?

Speaker 3 (11:25):
But you know what, how do you find the company
is that you partner without your events, Like you have
a lot of like cosmetic companies and different companies.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
How does that come about?

Speaker 7 (11:34):
Yeah, I mean we can both probably answer this one.
I mean, for me, I'll give my my How I
got into sourcing was because I was a retail buyer.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Got it.

Speaker 7 (11:43):
So I was lucky and fortunate enough that in my
corporate career I was trained on how to find brands
because that's what I did, because I bought brands to
bring into a store. So I basically use that knowledge
when we first started Modern Day Wife Amazing to target companies,
so understanding what are their needs, what is the small
business looking for what type of exposure do they want?

(12:04):
What do they need from a community to pop up at?
Are they looking for sales? Are they looking for marketing
or PR? So there was a strategy that I had
learned on how to get contact information from retail buying.
But a lot of it is cold calling, right and
really looking. But I also had I think what was
really helpful is an aesthetic eye. Like when I worked corporately,

(12:27):
it was a curation, like it wasn't anyone and everyone
that could do the event. So Megan and I always
talked about that from the beginning. It was like, Okay,
we were kind of curating and we still do it today,
like curating the sections of the event, and then also
thinking about, Okay, who's your target audience, Like who's coming
to Modern day wife. You can't have X brand if
that's not exactly going to appeal to the audience that's

(12:48):
at the event. It's just unethical on both parties.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well that's what who easier? Like, yeah, that demographic perfect.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
I want to know.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
So it's actually quite a wide range of age twenty
five to forty eight. But obviously every sponsor and speaker
does bring in different audiences. Like a couple of years ago,
we had this woman who had a company for baby
some this baby thing, and her husband's a cardiologist and
all like the moms of Brentwood in their fifties, I

(13:16):
guess and sixties all came to that event. Right, So
obviously it does fluctuate based on who's speaking.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
That's great because I see it's changed a lot because
when we did the White Party, it was very young,
and now when we did the part wherein she spoke,
I saw, you know, people are coming up to me
that were of all ages and we're really interested.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
So yeah, it was great.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
It is it's twenty five to forty eight. Obviously we're
always honing in on who would be the ideal person.
But I think one of the things we've learned, well,
I've seen from listening to other people's podcasts or reading things,
that you do create a business, and maybe you had
an idea of what you wanted, but then there is
like who wants to be who I think they said,
like who your avatar is?

Speaker 6 (13:57):
Like who is the audience?

Speaker 5 (13:59):
So you obviously can't than just neglect who is interested
in it, right, but it is you know, it's women obviously,
I think what we're doing that's difference is it is glamorous,
it is feminine, and we're also not There are a
trillion women's groups now on just scaling and being a
founder and being an entrepreneur.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
And so on, and you guys, was not like that
when I started. So it's so amazing to watch, But
here we.

Speaker 5 (14:25):
Are trying to differentiate ourselves from that you see having
because modern day wife is career, relationships, home life, social, personal,
And the only negative thing I would say about all
of those various groups that Megan I both agree on
is that then when like you want to go to
be a mom, or you want to have a great

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marriage or all these areious things, nobody's talking about that anymore,
and you don't unless you sum well, it's no, this
is like an actual cultural problem. And we won't get
into all of are necessarily how we feel about that,
because that's another topic and perhaps controversial. But like I, I,

(15:08):
you know, I just we really have lived what we
stand for. Like when we got partnered, I was pregnant
and I literally was so just thinking I'm gonna have
this baby and they're just gonna be in a crib
and I'm just gonna be working and they just sleep.

Speaker 6 (15:23):
I had no clue. No one talks about it.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
And even like the Duela and the books, all they
did is they bring you up until the pregnancy and
having the baby, and then it's like there's this assumption.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
But the culture's not set up that way. Now.

Speaker 5 (15:36):
It's not like you're living with your mom and the
mother daughter house.

Speaker 6 (15:40):
All of us are the community.

Speaker 5 (15:41):
And so so so we you know, our events ideally
would address all these things. Our digital events actually, the
one really great thing about them is is we did
incorporate that into it. We always had a power couple
speaking about how their relationship is doing, like successful actions.
You know. We do have our Modern Day Mama series

(16:02):
that we launched last year or so that was it's
focusing on motherhood and so on. But but yeah, like
we we think it's important for women that we talk
about all of these things because them you're not set
up for success in these other areas that most women
do want to dwell.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
In, right, right, So, what's your biggest event that you've
had so far?

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Ooh, that's like a fun probably.

Speaker 6 (16:28):
I think the Game Change event was last June. In
April two.

Speaker 7 (16:32):
Yeah, I was gonna say both of those. No, No,
I was gonna say that. That's where I was like,
I was gonna say April, but then I was like, oh,
it was really June at the Sophie Tel.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
We basically, we obviously have like ideal scenes that we've
been capturing for a long time, like what are we
what are other events that we like? What are things
that we aspire to and you take all those various
different pieces and you put them into Okay, well what
is our ideal scene?

Speaker 6 (16:55):
Right?

Speaker 5 (16:56):
Right? And you know in other women's gripts, we've seen
a lot of cuteeses, like even down to colors, a
lot of peaches and pinks and cute s fonts and
all these things. And then you see a million other
women's groups copying that, right. And we even read in
Jaqueline Johnson's book The Create Cultivate Founder, how that is
what's going to happen? You're successful, all the copycats come
and so on. Right, But essentially, like those events, part

(17:16):
of why they were game changers for us and we're
big was because we started like we had and you
were I think you were part of the event April.

Speaker 6 (17:25):
For maybe at the London.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
It was amazing.

Speaker 6 (17:28):
And that screening room, right, the screening room, we're actually.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
In your team. Let's go back to your team. I
think that is so important to talk about because you guys,
like us, we run these big companies, but we have
to really talk about like the team behind you. I
forget the guy's name, Derek. Oh my god. I was like,
of course, you know, because I don't know. I'm in
the hallway. I'm like, I can't find Dasha. Something's happening.

(17:53):
And is that Samantha, Oh my god, yes it is.
And he's like that snap, snap snap. It was done,
and it was like, wow, you he's a good one,
I will tell you.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
And I love that screening room. That made it so
much more. But it really I liked it.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
You really have the integrity of hearing the people were
saying talking about the people who really wanted to listen
got to listen.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Right, You've done a good job because what you're doing
is not easy. Let let's just get something straight you guys.
It's not easy. They have to put all these different
you know, brands and different things in hotels which are
not set up for this. So you guys have had
to create. You've had to stage each of the hotels,

(18:41):
and honestly, I've been impressed because you know it's not
easy to do that, so well.

Speaker 6 (18:48):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 7 (18:49):
But it takes like great partnerships, Like we've had an
amazing partnership with you guys right where you're willing to
see like, Okay, this is worth it for us to
be a part of what you're doing and we love that.
And it's also to what you said teams like finding
the right people, Like I think Megan and I have
really wanted to find key players because the reality is like,
if you want to expand you're not going to do

(19:09):
that on your own. So for me and I think
megancho we've had like a vested interest in finding those people.
Like in the back of my mind, I'm always like, Okay, who's.

Speaker 6 (19:18):
The next person, who's the next person?

Speaker 2 (19:20):
From one of your people? You did? I love that
And they were like, Hi, I met you a modern
day wife.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
I was like, really, that's good to know.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Wow, I'm so excited that she wants to have me
speak And it was an amazing call. She was so positive,
so happy, and I was like, I have to tell
the girls we love.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, so excited.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
I mean it does come back. So what I want
to really get out, and this is what Nicole and
I talk about a lot, is that when you're networking,
it's really important to understand networking. It doesn't just happen.
Things don't just come in the next day, the next month,
the next two months. It can come back to you
in six months, a year, two years. And that right

(20:01):
there is why these girls are successful.

Speaker 6 (20:03):
Than it's very nice.

Speaker 5 (20:05):
Well, the thing is too, it's everything is not a transaction.
And this is why some and I were just in
the car talking about like we would never survive in
the corporate world because there's so much of just transactional
and how much money and blah blah blah and so on,
and it's like no, like a big part of this
and this is networking is like it's it's relationships.

Speaker 6 (20:26):
Everything is your who I community love that.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Say that again for everybody. What is it?

Speaker 5 (20:32):
It's relationships, So for real and not just standing there
talking and saying like like what can.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
I get official and actually getting to know someone and
building that relationship you.

Speaker 7 (20:43):
Have to have a relationship with because like we even
say this, like we had an event when you're in
a pinch, like who's going to be there to one
hundred percent of the people that you actually built a
relationship with, right, And sometimes I think it's interesting because
we do have so many members in the community, you're
so many brands, but we are talking about that, like
how do we continually make you know, make those gestures

(21:04):
that are kind and you know, you want to get
to know the person because that is the person that's
going to show.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Up for you at the end of the dayactly and
a last So it's important.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
It's so true.

Speaker 7 (21:12):
And also thing that I've realized, which I think you
really were just saying with the networking pieces, even with
social media promoting right, like you don't people don't always
answer your stories or respond to your post because I mean,
we're all busy, Like I miss so much stuff on
social media.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
I'm sure we all.

Speaker 7 (21:28):
Do, but just putting it out there because you never know,
like who's watching right, right, or like like you said,
maybe down the road they're like, oh, I'm going to
do the Modern Day wife event, or oh I do
want to like meet with Megan Fielkoff in LA for coffee,
or oh yeah, Megan Leaf Canadian Megan's doing Blood in Canada. Like,
it's great to just keep putting yourself out there because

(21:49):
I think sometimes it's easy to retract and be like, oh,
I'm not going to go to that event, I didn't
meet anyone, or oh I posted that story and no
one said anything. But then you get you meet someone
for like coffee two weeks later and they're like, oh, yeah,
I saw you did blah blah blah on your Instagram.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
You're like, exactly, you never said anything. You watched that great,
Like I'm happy.

Speaker 7 (22:05):
So it's just a reminder, like for yourself when you're
feeling introverted because maybe you're not getting the acknowledgment right
out of the events or what you wanted. I love
that you said maybe it doesn't come right away, yeah,
but it is there.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
Because I did put it there.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
And one thing I really want to talk about is,
you know, you guys are asking a lot of people
to do stuff right. All these events are right. I
do a lot of charity. I'm involved in so many
different organizations and sometimes I'm like, is this, you know,
is this really helping? But you know what, it does help.

(22:40):
It does help because even though we're putting our furniture
there maybe someone's not buying furniture. But I just made
an amazing friend with Megan, and you know what, if
I'm if I needed something, she referred to me somebody.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
Also, like, here's actually my real like overarching viewpoint on
all of it. The reason why you're involved in network
and you're doing event is it's what kind of game
do you want to be playing? When someone's just like
I didn't get blot of it, it's like, then you're
not the right person because I do the things I did,
the amount of charity and my my father and I did,

(23:14):
it wasn't because of what we were.

Speaker 6 (23:15):
Getting out from that event is like, what game do
we want to.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
Be playing in our life? What role do we want
to have in the society? What kind of pr and
publicity do we want to have? I love that you
do put yourself out there and you you outflow and
you provide and you give and you help and you
so on. And that's putting you on these large communication lines.

Speaker 6 (23:37):
In the world.

Speaker 5 (23:38):
It's the wrong think. It's the wrong to think to
you ad some saying like what to just be transactional
on each event? And this is you know, Megan and
I another thing and I know we talked too much,
but fine, like that is that, Yes, it's the Jewish Italian,
deadly Jewish.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
God knows.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
I'm Jewish Italian too.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
Oh I was raised here.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
That's probably why I'm not as talkative.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Well, yeah, but my dad grew up in New York,
in Brooklyn, so everyone always would say to me, where
are you from? Now, I'm not New York from New York,
but my father was, and he raised me like this.

Speaker 5 (24:18):
Well, you're lucky because New York is the best country
in the world.

Speaker 6 (24:23):
But I'm like, I'm not American.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
I have my own country.

Speaker 6 (24:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
But last thing too, and I really hope I don't
forget oh so and I realized this recently. We speak
to so many people who work in companies and you
can see who if the boss or the CEO actually
knew that's what their employees were doing, what they were
what what if they if they don't want to do
event maybe it's because they just want to work less,

(24:48):
or they want to see the vision and they're like, yes,
I want to do this because it wi accomplished my goals.
The comany you actually see who's a good employee I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
And that's exactly why I'm so involved in my company.
That's a exactly why, because I mean, when I started
my company, I created it. You know, there was no
career for women in staging. There was or men, there
was no career. And I stood on stage talking behind
Robert Ridkin from Campus right. He was bringing Compass out

(25:16):
and someone says to me, are do you have your
design license? And I said no, and he said, you're
not going to be successful. I said, not only am
I going to be successful, but I'm going to show
people how to start a staging career. And that's what
I've done amazing, So I get what you're doing. That's
why I cried earlier because I feel like my career

(25:38):
I'm watching you guys.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
A sorry, And it's so nice to just have a
platform for women to come together because I feel like
we're just changing that in society from like, you know, it.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Was never like that before.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Now we can all come together and motivate each other
to start a business or to you know, talk about
whatever we want to talk about, and normalizing like that
you can be a mom and work, And I think
that's something that really hasn't talked about before, or.

Speaker 5 (26:01):
Just be a mom, or just be a mom, right,
like these are the things about too, like whatever.

Speaker 6 (26:06):
You want to do, yeah, right, like that right, that's
the most important job on the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
I can do whatever you want. Yeah, yeah, i'd agree.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
And also like you know, the social media. Let's go
to the social media because everybody is like so obsessed
with social media, and oh, I don't look like this,
I don't look like that. Like you know, we deal
with it in our own world in elite like that
staging company did that. That's but really you got to
be proud of what the hell you're doing. That's right, right,

(26:35):
And you know, I'm super proud of this one. She's
like a total boss. She has like twelve people under her,
she's running this show and she's but she's you know,
she's really focused on making sure that her people are
happy and successful and making money. Yes, you know, it's
a important thing.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
And you know in any business, like if you're the
people who are working with you or happy, then everything's
gonna flow naturally.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
It's so true.

Speaker 7 (27:03):
We have that point, We do have that conversation, right,
and you're gonna get you sometimes you have to spot
like when you're like, oh, like yeah, you have a
situation of the day, and I'm like, I think we
need to spend more time with that person because you
can you can see like the.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Morale, like the attention it drops.

Speaker 7 (27:16):
You just have to like watch it, right, but it's
not true, And I think also, like what I love
about leadership is it's also letting other people shine, Like, yes,
you give them directions. Yes, there's obviously parameters in which
they have to work under, like if it's your business,
they're not going to go do something that's completely.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
Off topic to what you're doing.

Speaker 7 (27:32):
But it's so amazing like when you see like I
love actually the fashion show in our Business because it's
like the girls actually have a company, like their own
little business within our business. But that's so exciting. That's
so amazing, Like you just watch them. They're having fun,
they're doing their jobs, they're enjoying it and they're thriving.
But then we're winning because it's also an extension of

(27:55):
modern day wife, right.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
But it is.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
It's funny, it's its own Tara and Carly Runner fashion show. Yeah,
Tara's the director and Carl's assistant director. And they have
their own subculture, like they're both artsy teras are.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
Like Demure.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
That's like venus a lot of year and they have
their own subculture like we don't.

Speaker 6 (28:20):
I mean, I shouldn't say this. I Mega has a
bit more of a pulse, but we really just let
them do running.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Well and they're doing a great job. Fact, Like that's great.
So it's it's great to see people in your organization
really shining because not only does it make you guys
look really good, but it also fills your soul with
goodness because you know what, listen, I have had I've
helped so many people because I'm paying them and I'm
employing them. And you know what, people forget about that

(28:47):
CEOs all of us we forget like I mean, I
don't have a seventy eight million dollar mansion, but I
take pride in really making sure that my employees are paid.
You know, they have good benefits. We take care of them.
You know, that's that should be something to talk about
because that's really a hard job. It is very hard,

(29:09):
you know.

Speaker 7 (29:10):
Very it's a risk too, Like anyone who started a business,
it's like it's scary, it's scary, but you're also you
are providing for those people, like they're not like it's
not a bad thing that that's the responsibility of a
business owner, but the employee is not concerned about like
the you know, they're getting paid. Yeah, right, and then
it's like okay, well, but then us as business owners

(29:30):
were like, okay, how are they getting paid?

Speaker 4 (29:32):
Like we have to like put that there. You have
to manage it.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
You just do and sometimes you have to like pray
that it's gonna all work out.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
And even you know, I'm more on the price.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, Like you guys are amazing. I mean, Nicole and
I talk about it all the time, and I want
to tell you we were just talking about the event
that we you know, I finally said Nicole, you need
to come and start talking with me, and that was
super fun because you love, you know, mother daughters. We
get a lot of people that you know, want to
have good mother daughter relationships. So anything you want to

(30:03):
do with that, we would love to be involved because
it's important because mother whether it's mother daughter or mother son,
whatever it is you want to I want to get
out that, you know, we can have really good relationships.
Even though we've gone through a ton of things. You know,
we weren't sober, we were you know, whatever it is.
But we have chosen to communicate, to get work, to

(30:27):
have life coaching, and I want to get that out
there more and more because it's so important. As you
guys have kids, you'll see it's not easy right when
you and.

Speaker 5 (30:41):
Every day you're great, You're you're like, oh my, but
but that's why.

Speaker 7 (30:46):
I admire what you're doing because I was not. Like
I look back and I'm like, I can't believe I
was like so grumpy to my mom or like you know,
like when you were a teenager. Like I really look
back and I'm like, I wish I had something like
this what you guys are doing.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
But that's why we're tying this so that people can like,
you know, we we want to get more mother daughter,
mother son whatever. I mean. I'm super close to my son.
I have a hot son, by the way, and I
never talk about him. Dot isn't he cute?

Speaker 5 (31:16):
Like he is?

Speaker 2 (31:17):
But no one ever knows about my son because he's
not on this.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
We'll have to hook him up with someone.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, you would love her. Cue god. He's adorable and
they're super close and that's great one thing I did.

Speaker 7 (31:32):
I have to.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
I don't know why I switched to this, but you know,
when I was because you're a mom, and so I'm
trying to go to mom's stuff. When they were little,
I did not allow them not to be close, and
people would say, how do you have your kids so close?
Because I would do the one two three rule and
not really work.

Speaker 7 (31:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
I don't even know why.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
I'm scared of somebody'd be like one two, if I
get to three, you're in trouble.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Nothing ever happened, but we're.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Always so scared that she'd get to three, so we
would stop fighting or whatever.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
We were doing.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
And now they's like twins. They're like, we're really close.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
How what's the age gap?

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Seventeen months?

Speaker 4 (32:05):
Okay, that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Yeah, yeah, so we grew up together, but we are
waiting to talk every day.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Wow. Yeah, it's very cool. Like I want to celebrate this.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
This is.

Speaker 6 (32:18):
Creative point of life event.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yeah, he can find Modern is the place actually.

Speaker 7 (32:28):
To the next find your future wife, Like come to
Modern a wafe and find the wife dating Modern.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
It could be that.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, but you know it's so important. I wanted to
bring this up to you guys, because I want to
get more involved and I think that the mother daughter thing,
Like people ask me all the time, what are you doing?
How can I do that? What if my daughter does this?
You know it's important and you know obviously and for her.
She works for me and she's a boss, you know,

(32:59):
but she can help people. You know that way too, totally.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
Well, it reminds me a little bit. So I worked
with my dad up until you moved. I love that
from twenty four until thirty. Actually, no, twenty two is
when you go. I always think twenty No, I graduate
college and I'm twenty two. So I lived in Manhattan
nine years and I worked with him the whole time.
He's a peridontist in New York and we used to
He donated all his money to our nonprofit.

Speaker 6 (33:26):
Right, it's essentially how it happened.

Speaker 5 (33:28):
So I ran it for him and also planned some
humanitarian trips to Cuba for dentists.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Amazing, and I would.

Speaker 6 (33:36):
I was never going to leave, right.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
I came here because I met my husband at the time. So,
but I really enjoyed working with my dad because also
when you fight or things like that, it's not there's
nothing really to worry about because.

Speaker 6 (33:53):
It's an unconditional Look I.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
Ever really worried about any of that because you know
it's going to handle and you know you love that
person no matter what, So there's that security.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yeah, that's very true.

Speaker 4 (34:05):
Actually, I mean it's family, right, family.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
I mean, but you guys are like family now. And
I was like telling doosh sha, we haven't done anything,
like I missed the events.

Speaker 7 (34:15):
Well November. I was like, well, if you don't know
we're signing you up.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Well, that's because I didn't know. I remember. Actually one
I did a video for you guys. We did a
big on the.

Speaker 6 (34:30):
All White video twenty three.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
That was like, yeah, that was our first I do
something fun.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
You want to SLS for cool two?

Speaker 4 (34:39):
Well that is one November twenty.

Speaker 6 (34:41):
Yes, it's called it. So we have what we call
our legacy event.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Okay, let's talk about it.

Speaker 5 (34:45):
A legacy event is an event that we do every
year that becomes iconic in the city. So so let
shop at the SLS which is coming up December November twenty.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
I was like, November for twenty.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
Second, I don't know. I mean, I'm like different years.
It's okay, that is the next event. Right, so let's
shop s l S with a holiday event.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
And if you have never come, you have to go
to these events. They are the coolest events ever.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Right, Yeah, they're so fun.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
I mean all my team wants to go. Everyone, like,
you know what. I don't know if you're still doing this.
But one of the events I came the night before
and met that was so much fun.

Speaker 7 (35:29):
I heard.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
I want to be involved in all that because then
I can really get to know people and they can
we can do.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
It's actually all different areas of life, right.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Like I met someone who was really involved in like
the sober community and they put on this big event
for not drinking.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yeah, yeah, that's a bad event. It was near Malaru.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
I went to it.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
It was great because I'm sober and it was just
it was a big event that had like it was
it was like what you guys do.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
But for sobriety. And it was a really cool experience.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
And I brought some of my friends and they were
opening up to more getting sober.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
So like just through doing that, I was able to
meet those people. So yeah, it's really cool.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
See how this that's awesome?

Speaker 2 (36:17):
You know what I'm saying, Well.

Speaker 6 (36:18):
That's why you do the event.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
You see, like Shella got a whole group of amazing
young women to come, right, it's a sign never right.

Speaker 7 (36:27):
But these are the things that you don't always hear
about now right. It's like the other we're always talking
about this where someone's like, oh, oh the slippers. There
was a slipper company, maven Chase, that did one of
our events. And then I was at the pageant and
one of the other contestants was like, oh my god,
I bought the slippers from your Instagram.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
I'm like cool. But it's like the same thing. You
don't always know. But the connections do you happen? Right,
and we need to.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Talk yeah, talk about Miss International. Okay, I mean wow,
I know, I mean where did that come from?

Speaker 5 (36:56):
Me?

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (36:58):
Well this is the this is the cool story because
I feel we've talked a lot about family. So it
was a nice you know, segue into this. So it
comes to networking because actually I had a girlfriend who
did the pageant, and so she had reached out to
me about a year ago and she was like, you
should do the pageant, you should do it, and I
was like, I don't know. Her name is Sandy. I
was like, I don't know, I have so much going on.

(37:18):
Maybe I'll think about it. So I said to her, yes,
and then something happened in my life and then I
was like, oh, no, I can't do it. But then
I remember she reached out to me again in January
of this year, so January twenty twenty four, and she's like,
you should do it, Megan, like, you're perfect. You have
modern day wife like because you have to have a platform.
So basically the system that I'm doing is called international pageants,
which yes, it's still a beauty pageant. You compete in

(37:40):
evening gown, you compete in fitness, but they're very platform based, like.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
What are you doing in your community to make an impact?

Speaker 7 (37:47):
And they're also all about family values, integrity, and ethics,
so it is about you know, marriage, you have to
be married to compete in this certain category of missus
and what are you doing to make an impact?

Speaker 4 (38:00):
But also involving your husband.

Speaker 7 (38:02):
Wow, that's really special to me because you know, at
the foundation of modern day wife, it was originated or
started because of that relationship with my significant other. And
I do think family is important, however it goes for
anyone in their life like whether it's your husband, your kids,
extended family, Like more people in society need to talk
about the fact that you need to build that relationship

(38:23):
with your family because if no one's creating on it
or no one's getting the family together anymore, the extended
family like it does fall apart. So that for me,
I was like, Okay, that really resonates. And I also
want to have kids in the near future, so I
kind of knew that it was now or never for
me to sign up.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
I also had never done a pageant before.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Well you did an amazing job.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
Well thank you.

Speaker 7 (38:46):
But I think what helped me and I was actually
talking because with my hair and makeup artists, because he's here,
the gentleman that I met through the pageant, we're talking
this morning. I think what played into my favor is that,
of course I wanted to win, but I also was like,
I'm just here for the experience, right, like I want
to have.

Speaker 4 (39:03):
A good time.

Speaker 7 (39:04):
I learned so much about myself through the journey of
the pageant, Like I became more confident, I became more feminine.
I got to like enjoy like almost showbiz because you're
like on the stage putting on this performance, and I
also really just had a good time with it. And
I think you could see that, like I wasn't like
I'm going to beat you or like I have that
intention with the girls. I'm like you could definitely tell like, yes,

(39:25):
this is a competition, but at the end of the day,
I was like so happy with the experience even if
I didn't win, because the women at the pageant are
actually the people that I would have over for dinner.
Oh that's incredible because they're all doing something big in
their life.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
They all have purpose.

Speaker 7 (39:40):
Like no one was caddy or jealous, like I was
telling Megan, like it was the modern day wife was
at that event. Like our ideal person was that woman
that was there. That's incredible doing stuff right, amazing.

Speaker 4 (39:52):
So I mean it's.

Speaker 7 (39:53):
Opened a lot of doors for me, and I'm I
was also just such a cool experience. Like I think
sometimes in life you stop yourself from doing things because
you think, oh, it's too hard. And it was a
lot of work, Like I had to learn how to walk. Yeah,
I saw that more professionally or runway, but it's always
good to have a challenge.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
Yeah, Like I'm all about like when you get.

Speaker 7 (40:12):
The little like, like, what are you doing When I
say it's stagnant, it's not like a nice word, you
know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (40:17):
When you are just coasting along way? Yes, like it's
not a good place.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
Yes, And it's been fun.

Speaker 7 (40:24):
And also like the girls have loved Modern Day Wife,
and I think if that's something too that I can
bring awareness to, Like meganhead Or has a call with
one of the other delegates who like, can I get involved?
I'm like, I'm all about like expansion in whatever area,
Like why are we.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Were Doe do like a Modern Day Wife pageant?

Speaker 7 (40:44):
I don't know, probably not because I'm actually the answer
would be no, because like I definitely am committed to
the international pageant system. I'm not about that, Like I'm
not going to go and start my own thing. Like
if I was like going to do a pageant, it's
a great question, but it's a good viewpoint to have. No,
I would just build within what she's done, right. I
think more people should partner up instead of.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Just trying to do their own thing exactly, because like
that's how things are.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
What she's good at. You guys are good at Modern
Day RCT. It's like people don't forget continue to work
on what you're good at. Let's not do everything else
because that's when you get in trouble.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 5 (41:21):
Well also like that, that also brings up a point
of like the society, you know, you have to get
into a whole thing, but you know you obviously have
like there's a separation of the classes happening, right, like
an extreme.

Speaker 6 (41:32):
Separation, right, and part of that and whatever.

Speaker 5 (41:35):
I'm going to say this if people don't like it
or they do like it, but like, sorry, but j Loo,
like you don't need to start the alcohol brand. Let
the guy another person make money from the alcohol brand.

Speaker 6 (41:46):
It's just my opinion.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
It's just like you have to be able to share
with other people to have success too, Like when is
it enough? And when is when is Jlo going to
be like I'm gonna now do humanitarian work?

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Right?

Speaker 6 (42:00):
When does that happen?

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Good point?

Speaker 6 (42:02):
Yeah, that's just my viewpoint. I think that's really important.

Speaker 5 (42:05):
And I think if there was more on her platform
humanitarian work and all the other people with four hundred
million dollar follower four hundred million followers, then they would
set that example as opposed to the goal seems to
be for most of these opinion leaders is how much
more can I amass for myself.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
That's a great point. I love it. True.

Speaker 7 (42:26):
But it also goes to the other flip side of
the coin too. It's like, okay, if you took one
less project, like how much more time could you send
with your family.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Or could you I love that, or could.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
You donate your time to charity?

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Right, because because that is so important to work life balance,
That's right exactly. Nicole talks about that all the time.
She asks every guest, So, how do you have work
life balance because this one works like eighty hours a day.

Speaker 5 (42:50):
Well, I mean, if this is the time to do it, yeah,
Like I there's so much I could say on that subject,
and you can chime any point two.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
But like you know, the.

Speaker 5 (43:03):
It is the time in your twenties to set yourself
up before you have a family and so on. Right,
Like it just so happened for me that I met
Megan at the time when I was pregnant and so on,
and so I made sacrifices and here I am today
with certain situations I have in my life. Right, So
I think now is the time to do that. Yeah,
I'm here I mean, I know we're the guests here,
but I am curious about your work life balance, Like

(43:26):
how do you both what are your schedules?

Speaker 2 (43:29):
God, Well, we work a lot, but I always make
sure that first of all, I meditate every morning. That's
that's something I need to do. Usually I make sure
that I can work out three to four times a week,
so that what time that I do it at night? Okay,
So for me, I always do it at night. So
I'm an early riser this one. I can't get up

(43:50):
in the morning, so I get up at like six
am or sometimes five thirty to be honest with you,
and I'm talking to you know, New York or Miami,
you know, or Guadalajara. Because I'm working on my own
furniture line right now, my very own furniture line. So
I'm creating my own furniture line. So I'm doing all
my creating and all that in the morning, and then
I go to the office or I go to appointments

(44:11):
or whatever I need to do. But it's really important
for me that I have family time. Yeah, so I
do a lot of on the weekends, I do a
lot of you know, barbecues and stuff. At the house.
I have a house in Palm Springs, so I invite everyone.

Speaker 4 (44:26):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
Yeah, what about you.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Work life balance, Well, I don't know much about that,
but I work a lot and I enjoy it, so
it doesn't feel like work Like, yeah, Astley, we talked
about this the other day. When you're working and it's fun,
you don't feel like, oh, I'm working so hard. I
mean sometimes there's a lot going on, so it's just
like a little bit like, oh, we have a hundred
things to do. But when it's a fun job, and

(44:50):
like I love the people I work with, like I
love my team, I don't feel like it's like I
like it being part of my life, you know, like
I enjoy it. So it's like work life balance in itself.
But I do like a lot of things for myself,
like like I don't know, I go to the gym,
I go to the beach. I do see my friends
on the weekends a lot. Yeah, I mean I have
a lot of girlfriends.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
And then we don't talk about work after hours. That's
that's the one we cut off the time. Let me rephrase,
we cut off a time so like we were at.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
Dinner with my grandma, the other day her mom. We're
sitting there, my mom trying to talk about work, and
I said, no, no, when grandma leaves you can talk
about it.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Not right now.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
That's great because we have to like separate it or
also you can get too chaotic, I think without anything.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Like Fernando and I everyone knows, I mean he you know,
runs the warehouse, so when we come home, we can't talk.
And one of the things that actually Nicole helped with
that is because you know, he runs the warehouse, so
they handle all that part so they don't come to
me as much. So we're not dealing at home because

(45:56):
it's it's starting to be a family business now, right exactly.
You have to separate the boundaries. Yes, and so during
work at the office, I'm like, is this done? What's happening?
But at home he always says I'm the boss at
home and he is the boss at home.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
But it's cute because what we've learned, I think through
all this is just communication is key. It's something that
I've learned with like working with my mom, working with Fernando,
and just working with everyone is just like you have
to overly communicate what you want when you need or
what anything in life, and it's not just for work,
like it tell me, like in my personal relationships and everything,
because communication is the only way like to make anything work.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
If not, there's just confusion.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Exactly or if some I think something else.

Speaker 6 (46:40):
Yeah, totally.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (46:42):
Can you elaborate on this topic because.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
Yeah, I love that. Yeah, this is a good topic
about communication munication.

Speaker 6 (46:51):
Yeah, Like, how do you do that?

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Well?

Speaker 1 (46:54):
I think it works for me and my mom to
work together.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
Well, she doesn't like it, but I call her Sam
at the office, and that's in my mind.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
And how I separate work from mom, I don't know.
I have to do that, but I don't know.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
I just know her so well because she raised me obviously,
and I don't know. I know in her sense ever,
so I know how to work with her and like
how to communicate with her in a way that she
will understand it.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Actually, what she does is she treats it like business. Okay,
so this is really important. I had a partner before
and it was very toxic and I love her, She's
a sweet person person, but it was it didn't work out.
When I started working with my daughter, she treated it
like business. So she might I might not always agree

(47:39):
with the stuff that she wants to do or what
she wants, but she presents professional.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
Very professional, like if I want something changed, I'll come
with a presentation and like what the negatives and positives
will be. Like I try to take it like to
the next level because at the end of the day,
we are family. But I think for a while, when
I first started working is I wanted her to look
at me as a partner and cool rather than her daughter.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
So I kind of overcompensated to try to make that happen.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
And it's worked, and honestly, it's taught me like how
to run a company and be professional with everyone else.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
So yeah, and how to I mean quite frankly, she's
helped me and Fernando because I've never worked with my partner,
right that you live with and you know, and it's
helped me to be able to separate that. And you know,
we always have to remember to go into the feminine
and as a CEO, for many years it was hard

(48:33):
for me to drop into the feminine. So I've had
to really work on that. How do you learn how
to do that? Because it's not easy. Well, so that's
why I'm not the boss at home.

Speaker 7 (48:46):
But I think that's but I actually love what you said,
because when you don't have those boundaries, that's actually when
it falls apart. I think, like personally, if I think
of like my own marriage, it's like when it's like
work goes into like the evening time because at the
end of the day, like being married, it is difficult,
but it's also very sacred, so you need to like
create on that right or it's even funny the other
And I kind of like to your point, my mother

(49:07):
in law was helping me because I'm helping with an
event at my husband's company right now. We started chatting
in the kitchen and my husband's like, no work, like
no work in the house, and we're like, oh, right, okay,
right right, Like it's dinner time because you have to
someone has to be the policymaker on that because then.

Speaker 4 (49:23):
You don't get that time.

Speaker 7 (49:24):
She cannot eli and then it just and you have
to you want to have that romance, like you want
to have those things. And then you also realize, like
in a marriage, it is like a give and take, right, Like,
what is one of the things my husband loves is
he likes having meals like dinner he was raised very
traditional Cimon Rnanda.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
It's very new for me, but it was kind of
new you.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
But then I was like, oh, I'll get into it.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
I see your posts.

Speaker 7 (49:48):
I'm like, I'm just gonna make it fun and honestly,
I'm having the best I know.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
I actually you are motivating me. I want to tell
you that because wait, Megan just made that. Okay, I
need to.

Speaker 6 (49:58):
Make die I did see what did you?

Speaker 7 (50:00):
I've made Like every every night I've been posting, I
feel like a stuffed chicken or something.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
Yeah, it was so I'm like you can just like.

Speaker 7 (50:06):
But before my attitude would have maybe been like resentment. Yes,
And it's like where is that coming from? Like who
is telling me to be mad to make my husband dinner?

Speaker 4 (50:15):
Like that does not make sense.

Speaker 7 (50:17):
And I'm like, I'm just gonna have a great time
with it. And for me, it's like one of the
things that I absolutely love doing. Now I'm like, O good,
it's like five point thirty, Like what am I going
to do? Like I'm relaxing. I'm like sharpening my skills
and now I'm like, oh, who wants to come over
for a dinner party?

Speaker 4 (50:31):
Yeah, Like it's just changing your viewpoint.

Speaker 7 (50:34):
But then it's also like he's fulfilled and I'm fulfilled.
So you just have to figure out what works for
your own marriage. Like that's not going to work for everyone.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Obviously. I probably asked him what are the things that
are important to you that I do? And that's part
of communication, right, so this is what we do.

Speaker 6 (50:50):
We should write that down.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
You do you ever to.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Have lunch?

Speaker 1 (50:57):
Do you ever listen to J's podcast?

Speaker 7 (50:59):
No?

Speaker 4 (50:59):
I need to.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
He's like, yeah, talks about relationships and he's really good podcast.
But he was talking about like the one thing you
should always ask your partner in a relationship or like
what are your three core values? And if you don't
know your partner's core values, that's why you guys will
get into arguments or fights or like miscommunications and things.

Speaker 6 (51:17):
But what is a core I don't even know what
that means? So someone like worry for us, I have
no idea.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
Family or it could be like like like success like
modern day wife, like putting that that could be one
of your Like that could be one of yours. Like
core values is like making sure like that's going before
whatever you're doing, Like it could be really whatever you
want it to be there's no more.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
But what is really important? Well, my core values are
very simple. Family comes first to me, my work, and
my health. Yeah, those are my three things that now
you could spread off like on work, I need to
my branding, my you know, all that kind of stuff.
But when I asked for Nando, he for him one

(52:02):
hundred percent. Was he wanted someone to cook for him, right, right,
he wants to feel like that. You know, I'm not
his boss, right. You know that's a huge one, especially
for women today in business. We have to really go
into our feminine when it comes to being with a
man because they don't want a boss. No, they don't

(52:23):
want to see you.

Speaker 6 (52:24):
Well, no, one doesn't.

Speaker 5 (52:24):
Even with Megan, like when I want to Obviously, we
tell each other when we get annoyed at each other,
and she gets annoyed at me when I put I
remind her did you did you?

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Did you do this?

Speaker 5 (52:35):
And like the truth is I was just raised that
way because my mom is super like always saying did
you do this? So I just was raised that way
and I tried not to do it.

Speaker 6 (52:46):
I'm not perfect. I try to do but there's nothing wrong.

Speaker 5 (52:49):
That's how she feels and then I would want to
know that because if I was doing that to a
partner and I didn't know it was annoying them, how
am I supposed to fix it? Like I'm not obviously
not trying to, Like, no, it's an yeah to just have.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Ye everyone raised differently or it comes from different cultures
or whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Well, this has been in an exciting day with Megan
and Megan it's we have to wrap this up because
we have one minute, okay, but I mean we have
so much to talk about. It's like we need to
have another episode. You guys are amazing, right.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
Yes, incredible, Thank you so much for coming on, and
we can't wait for your next event on November twenty second.

Speaker 6 (53:29):
Yes, so it got someone.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
No, yeah, November twenty not the SLS.

Speaker 5 (53:34):
Yeah, so first, actually there's tomorrow. We have our podcast
launch party exciting getting forty under forty.

Speaker 6 (53:40):
Tonight at Beverly Hills.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
Living May.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
Oh yeah, that's what we're doing on the EDDA.

Speaker 6 (53:46):
We're doing a photo shoot for IF Boxes.

Speaker 5 (53:48):
I'm so you know, we have a beauty box every year,
so we're not in today that shoots.

Speaker 6 (53:51):
A beautiful new box.

Speaker 5 (53:53):
Well, people could buy a ticket with the box for
the November twenty second event, but essentially we have Toronto
first October twenty fifth.

Speaker 6 (54:00):
Finally all flying to Megan.

Speaker 4 (54:04):
The Flying Files.

Speaker 6 (54:06):
Yeah, everyone's I actually had a dream about your house
last night.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
Now I just remember to tell you it, Okay, So
what was going on?

Speaker 5 (54:13):
Did So We're gonna go to Toronto and then we
are going to be in La November twenty second for
so let's shop at the SLS. So the ticket page
will be up probably next week so people can buy
tickets and they could get VIP with Swag vip with
IBox General Mission.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
So just in case they don't know how to find it,
how do they find Modern Day.

Speaker 5 (54:32):
We thank you so Instagram at the Modern Day Wife
and then we'll add that ticket link to our linkoln
bio as soon as it's ready.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Amazing, that's I mean, it's if you haven't gone, you
have to go. It's a must. It's so much fun,
it's so la.

Speaker 5 (54:48):
Also, if people sponsor, then they can come the night
before to founder hour Amazing. This year we'll launch our
second printed magazine.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Right and what happened on your first magazine Megan and Megan,
so we.

Speaker 5 (55:02):
Had both of you to a fireside chat at the
Low's Hollywood penthouse.

Speaker 6 (55:06):
Yes, and it was so feature in the magazine.

Speaker 5 (55:09):
It's amazing and we'll talk about that for November twenty
seconds event.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Too awesome.

Speaker 5 (55:14):
So this is so there's a lot coming up in
that event. Will be a great holiday shopping event.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
And yeah you're the holiday shopping is I spent too
much money? But anyway, thank you so much, Megan and Megan.
This has been amazing. You guys are beautiful. Congratulations on
Miss International and keep up the good work.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (55:36):
Okay,