May 12, 2024 • 15 mins
Original Air Date: May 12, 2024
Saluting one of our great iHeartRadio moms for Mothers’ Day: Danielle Monaro of Elvis Duran And The Morning Show from sister station Z100.
Saluting one of our great iHeartRadio moms for Mothers’ Day: Danielle Monaro of Elvis Duran And The Morning Show from sister station Z100.
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Welcome to Sunstein Sessions on iHeartRadio,Conversations about issues that matter. Here's your
host, three time Gracie Award winner, Shelley Sunstein. I want to introduce
you to assist from down the hall, Danielle Monaro of Elvis, Duran and
the Morning Show. She is aco host of this show and has been
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for a very very long time.And the reason I'm having her on is
because it's Mother's Day and I wantto talk about careers and motherhood and meshing
them all together. But first,Danielle, Yeah, this was your only
radio job, right it was,so it's insane. Tell me the backstone.
So it's been almost twenty nine years. Oh my god. I started
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interning when I was in college.I went to Saint John's University and somebody
I was doing the radio show there, WSJU and they said, does anybody
want to intern at Z one hundred? And I was like, oh,
Mike, I love ZE one hundreds. I put my hand up and I
put in the application, came infor the interview, wound up calling NonStop.
John Bell was actually here at thetime, and I interned for him
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and I kept calling him and Ithink I got the internship because he was
just tired of me calling him,and finally he was like, just come
in, You've got the internship.And that's how it started. I interned
here. I would come in atfive am and I would leave at five
pm. And I wasn't getting paidanything. And I would walk around and
I would ask in different departments doyou need help? Does anyone need anything,
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to kind of get my face known, so that after the fact maybe
I would get something and get keptand I did, and then I just
kept doing little things. And thenwhen Tom Pullman came in, he was
the one who really said, hey, we want to try you on this
show. We want to try youwith this. And I was like what
and he liked me. So howold were you? Then? I guess
maybe twdgouss Maybe I was just outof college. Maybe so how old are
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you and just out of college?Yeah, something like that. I don't
know, twenty one New York Cityready, Yeah, but I wasn't.
I didn't. I don't think no. I think it was like twenty five,
twenty six, something like that.I don't know. Wait, you
were not in fifty one now I'mfifty one now and I've been here twenty
nine years. Do you don't guysme to do the math? I'm the
worst. See, this is thething. If you want to make it
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in radio, you can't. Hecan't be good at that. No math.
I have no idea. So whatwas sure? So when you were
on the air for the first time, Tom Pullman put you on the air.
By the way, it was TomPolman who put me and Jim back
together and put us on cue.Wow. So this, I mean,
I was brilliant? Is he?He's just brilliant? So what was the
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first on air? Tom? So? I was, well, I actually
was helping with we did we dosomething called phone taps? I was helping
with them, but they were callednutcrackers back then. So I was helping
John Lander, who was our morningshow guy at the time, do nutcrackers.
And then little by little, likepeople started leaving and they were revamping,
and like Tom said, Hey,there's a show called Pajama Party with
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Sharon Sharon Daster with Sharon Stevens andone of the co hosts didn't work,
We'd like to try you on that. And that was I think Friday night
from like eleven pm to like twoam. It was one of those shows
and we just talked about hottie ofthe week and up and coming artists,
and we did like a love questionnaire, like helping people with their problems.
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And then I got that full time, and then the morning show started revamping,
and then people started leaving, andeventually Tom was like, hey,
Elvis wants you in there doing entertainmentfull time. And I'm like, what
is happened? Like I still pinchmyself to this day saying, am I
really doing what I'm doing? Butyeah, and it's I'm so lucky,
so blessed that, you know,bank goodness Disney didn't hire me, because
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that was what I wanted to dowork in Walt Disney World. I auditioned,
made it to the final cut tosing and perform in Disney, And
if that had happened, I probablywould have gone there and I would not
have been here today. Huh.Yeah. And when you were a little
girl, what did you want tobe when you grew up? So I
wanted to perform on Broadway, whichI still do. I wanted to be
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a I actually originally wanted to dotelevision, and I never even went near
the television studio in college because somebodyapproached me about doing stuff on radio,
and I just said, okay,gravitated towards radio and didn't even go near
the TV studios, which is reallyweird. No, it's because radio was
so much fun. It is,but but I wanted to do TV at
the time, and the thing's changed. It's crazy. But yeah, So,
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I mean I wanted to, youknow, be a Disney villain,
perform and I really wanted to performin Disney, and just you know,
I went to college and did alltheater stuff and radio stuff, so it
was always going to be something performancewise, that's what I wanted to do.
But you know, I thought Ididn't have a voice for radio.
I honestly thought, like I soundlike Elmo, Like who's going to listen
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to me? So that even tothis day, you know how you can't
stand what you sound like? Icannot. When I hear myself, I'm
like, oh that's awful. I'mthe same way. I'm the same way,
but nobody else sounds like Daniellman,no body, oh thank you.
See a program director our boss,yeah, is called a program director,
the one that you know can critiquethe way you sound on the air and
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one of my best program directors.He was really really difficult to work for.
I think he was on the spectrum. We didn't know from the spectrum
right at the time. Yes,he would say, if somebody listens to
you for ten seconds and does notget your personality, you have no business
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being on air. Wow, he'skind of right. Yeah, yeah,
I can see that our personality comesout. Ah. Thanks, and part
of that is the voice. Allright. When you first started, yeah,
first on air, were you terrified? Yes, okay, tell me
about that. Well, I oh, I was terrified that people would hate
me, and like I did getand back then we were getting like emails.
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So we got an email and itwas like, take her off the
air. She's horrible, she soundsawful. And I literally took that email,
ran out of the building directly crying, was so upset, and they
had to explain to me, One, it's gonna take a while. Two
not everyone's gonna like you, andthree frame that email because years from now,
when you look back at it,if you do become successful, you're
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gonna go wow. I didn't knowwhat was going to happen, and thankfully
i've you know, did you frameit? I did not frame it.
I know I should have framed it. I didn't listen, but I still
don't listen. But but I meanthankfully now, I mean I've done I've
grown up. I've done everything onair. I've grown up with the listeners,
you know, getting engaged, goinginto labor. Just my whole life
is unfolded here and I've grown uphere, and I feel like everyone that
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listens to us as family. Imean you must feel the same way because
you've grown up with all these people, and you know, everybody knows who
you are and twice, I meanwe have like generations. Because Jim and
I started at BLJ. Yeah,I was twenty three. He hated me
in one sense that I was youngerthan him, and I ended up being
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the younger person on air. Butyou know we got along. Yeah,
I mean I joked that he hadme. But then, you know,
people who listened to us then listento us now and sometimes their grandchildren.
I mean, it's really, it'slike insane. I'm speaking to Danielle Minaro.
She is the co host of ElvisDuran and The Morning Show, and
she's here because I want to honorDanielle as a mom but first tell me
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how you met your husband. Okay, so this is funny. I met
him through Elvis because Elvis wanted todate him. So wow, yes,
so we went. We used todo this thing called blind date dinners,
where we would set our listeners upon blind dates. We would chaperone and
see how they interacted. Sometimes atthe end of the night, people would
switch partners because they get along betterwith other people. And Sheldon, my
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husband, was one of the peoplewe were going to set up on a
blind date dinner, right because Elvismet him on a booze cruise. Now,
I was supposed to be on theBooze cruise, but my grandfather passed
away, so I didn't go.Thank you, so I didn't go.
So Elvis comes home that night afterthe boot cruise and he's like, yeah,
I met somebody for you. Iliked him, but he's not gay.
And I go what And I gowhat does he do for a living?
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He goes, I don't know.He says he throws knives. He
wouldn't even tell them what he didfor a living. I was like,
you want to set me up withsome guy that you don't even know what
he does for a living. He'sBritish. Okay, that's great, and
he goes but he likes Broadway.He likes Broadway, he likes to cook,
he likes all these things. SoI thought he was gay, but
he's not gay. So then theyinvited Sheldon up to the show and they
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said dress it up a little bit, because you know around here we don't
dress it up normally. And hecame, we met. I was a
total bitch to him. I'll betotally honest. I wasn't interested in meeting
someone. We wound up doing theBlind Day dinners. We all went out.
I hooked him up with a listener, and the whole night he and
I just clicked. We had thebest time. He was so wonderful and
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I was trying to figure out inmy head, how do I see this
guy again? And then he woundup just kind of emailing saying thanks for
a wonderful time. I flirted back, and that was the end of it.
Well, what was this throwing knivesfor a little He worked for Enterprise
rent a car back then. Imean, now he's you know, he's
a real estate agent, but backthen that's what he did right out of
college. And so like you know, he came here on scholarship to play
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soccer and he wound up doing that. And I guess he was just kidding
around with them and he didn't reallywant to tell them what he did.
And so you know what, hedid not throw knives. And he is
a white. He's still I mean, we've been married. We got married
in two thousand and three, so, I mean, you know, and
you have two sons, two sonseight, Spencer's eighteen and Preston is fifteen.
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What was it like for you beinga working mom on air? So
I remember not being able to Iremember, you know, getting pregnant and
looking into the rules and like thewell, how much maternity leave do I
get? And there was nothing.And I was one of the first people,
I think that they had to dealwith with the maternity leave. And
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they're looking through the pages of thecontracts and going, we don't have that.
So they said, all right,well let's look at the union and
the union and have it. Wow. So they said to me, you
need to use your vacation days oryour whatever or sick leave, and I'm
like, sick leave, I'm notsick right. So I wound up having
to use vacation days. I woundup for Spencer taking six weeks and for
Preston taking five weeks, and that'sa lot to leave your little one home,
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you know whatever. My body wasvery used to the time, and
everyone used to say, you mustbe exhausted. But because I get up
at the crack of dawn anyway,you know, you're all messed up anyway,
so I'm always tired. So tome, that wasn't a you know,
that part wasn't a big deal.But it was tough at first leaving
them to come back to work.And my biggest thing was that I wasn't
there in the mornings for the morningroutines. Once I came back to work,
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and my husband would explain to me, you're very lucky because you have
the best of both worlds your homein the afternoon. A lot of people
don't have that, and he wasright. Took a while to see that,
but I always felt like, Wow, someone gets them ready for schools
and that's just how they grew up. They know that's their norm because that's
what our lives were. And thankfullyI have a husband who can be there
and we had help and everything,so you know, it wasn't at first.
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Going back wasn't easy, but Ifelt like I had a good balance
and I was surrounded by so manypeople that helped me out. And Elvis
is amazing. He is the typeof guy if I say, hey,
there's muffins with mom at school,He's like, well, then you need
to be there. He's like,you need to take off, or you
need to take a couple of hoursoff and you need to go. So
he never held me back from doingwhat I needed to do as a mom.
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He just always got it, whichwas very nice. How old are
the boys now? Eighteen and fifteen? Okay, so the eighteen year old
doesn't he have a college scholarship forsoccer, So he is not a scholarship,
but he got recruited to play soccerfor Eye to Eye Academy in Leeds
in England, which is huge.Yeah. So he's in soccer in you
know, in England football, Imean that rule. Yeah. So he's
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playing and he's studying sports management andmarketing out there or does he want to
go pro? So he would loveit? Yeah, of course he'd love
to go pro. He'd love toplay somewhere. He'd loved to play in
Ireland. He'd love to play inyou know, someplace in the un Okay,
he'd love to come here and playfor MLS, So we'll see what
happens. He also has other thingshe'd like to do too, so you
know. And the younger one istwo time All American for track. Wow,
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he's breaking records left and right.He runs varsity as a freshman and
he's it's insane. And he lovessoccer too. He's playing soccer for a
academy as well. So it's yeah, it's they don't get it from me.
They definitely don't get it from me. They get it from the husband's
side. I was not a sportyperson. Nobody did theater. I'm the
theater person. So yeah, wow, m hmm. Now okay, did
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you have either one of them everexpressed an interest in going into broadcasting.
So I think if anybody does it, it would be Spencer because he just
loves all things media and he isstudying sports marketing and management and he wants
to do some journalism. I don'tthink he knows where he wants to land
yet, but he does love.He loves the brook. He loves when
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he comes into the studio, andwe put him on the podcast or he
gets to be part of the show, so I know he loves it.
He's never said, oh, thisis what I want to do, but
I think I could see him goingtowards that if the opportunity was there.
Do you remember my daughter interned foryou, Yes, when you were pregnant.
That's crazy with which kid? ButI don't even remember. I think
your first kid. And how oldis your daughter now? She's thirty eight.
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Wow, it's so crazy. Imean, it's so crazy. It's
so crazy. So do you haveany advice for young moms? I mean,
I don't want. I hate whenpeople say you can't do it all,
because I feel like you can.If you want to have a career,
if you want to get back intothe workforce, but you have young
kids at home, there's a wayto do it. There's a way to
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figure it out. You know.Sometimes I know you have no choice and
you have to work and you wantto stay home. You know, some
people have the opposite. That's mysister. My sister. My sister,
her dream was to be a stayat home mom, and she she got
a degree, she was teaching,and now she's a stay at home mom
and she's so happy. Some peopleneed both, some people need a little
of everything. I say, youjust got to keep surround yourself with people
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that are in your corner, Surroundyourself with people that lift you up,
that tell you you can do itand that will help you out. And
rely on other people who have gonethrough it and ask questions. When anybody
asks me a question or wants adviceor needs help, I am the first
person to say, I got you, what do you need? Let's get
you through this, because it's important. You can do it. There is
a way to do it, andyou know it makes you a stronger person.
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I always also say you need totake care of you as well when
you're a mom. You know,I feel like if you let yourself go
where you only concentrate on the kidsand never yourself, you're not going to
be as good of a mom becauseyou're going to be missing out on things
and you may regret things. AndI don't want people to regret things.
It's not always easy to do itall, definitely is not. There have
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been times where I've cried. Imean, I'm sure you've had times where
you've cried, and so I justcan't do this, and people go,
well, how do you do it? I go, I don't sit.
If I sit down, I'm gonnafall asleep. Exactly exact. Keep going.
You've got to keep going. AndI love it. I love being
a mom and I love doing whatI do. You know, so happy
Mother's dappy mother Daniel Minero, ElvisDurant in the morning show. So you
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could catch her there, or youcan divide your time. You haven't end
joined the Jim Kerr Rock and RollMorning Show. You've been listening to Sunstein
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Welcome to Sunstein Sessions on iHeartRadio,Conversations about issues that matter. Here's your
host, three time Gracie Award winner, Shelley Sunstein. I want to introduce
you to assist from down the hall, Danielle Monaro of Elvis, Duran and
the Morning Show. She is aco host of this show and has been
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for a very very long time.And the reason I'm having her on is
because it's Mother's Day and I wantto talk about careers and motherhood and meshing
them all together. But first,Danielle, Yeah, this was your only
radio job, right it was,so it's insane. Tell me the backstone.
So it's been almost twenty nine years. Oh my god. I started
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interning when I was in college.I went to Saint John's University and somebody
I was doing the radio show there, WSJU and they said, does anybody
want to intern at Z one hundred? And I was like, oh,
Mike, I love ZE one hundreds. I put my hand up and I
put in the application, came infor the interview, wound up calling NonStop.
John Bell was actually here at thetime, and I interned for him
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and I kept calling him and Ithink I got the internship because he was
just tired of me calling him,and finally he was like, just come
in, You've got the internship.And that's how it started. I interned
here. I would come in atfive am and I would leave at five
pm. And I wasn't getting paidanything. And I would walk around and
I would ask in different departments doyou need help? Does anyone need anything,
(01:30):
to kind of get my face known, so that after the fact maybe
I would get something and get keptand I did, and then I just
kept doing little things. And thenwhen Tom Pullman came in, he was
the one who really said, hey, we want to try you on this
show. We want to try youwith this. And I was like what
and he liked me. So howold were you? Then? I guess
maybe twdgouss Maybe I was just outof college. Maybe so how old are
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you and just out of college?Yeah, something like that. I don't
know, twenty one New York Cityready, Yeah, but I wasn't.
I didn't. I don't think no. I think it was like twenty five,
twenty six, something like that.I don't know. Wait, you
were not in fifty one now I'mfifty one now and I've been here twenty
nine years. Do you don't guysme to do the math? I'm the
worst. See, this is thething. If you want to make it
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in radio, you can't. Hecan't be good at that. No math.
I have no idea. So whatwas sure? So when you were
on the air for the first time, Tom Pullman put you on the air.
By the way, it was TomPolman who put me and Jim back
together and put us on cue.Wow. So this, I mean,
I was brilliant? Is he?He's just brilliant? So what was the
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first on air? Tom? So? I was, well, I actually
was helping with we did we dosomething called phone taps? I was helping
with them, but they were callednutcrackers back then. So I was helping
John Lander, who was our morningshow guy at the time, do nutcrackers.
And then little by little, likepeople started leaving and they were revamping,
and like Tom said, Hey,there's a show called Pajama Party with
(02:59):
Sharon Sharon Daster with Sharon Stevens andone of the co hosts didn't work,
We'd like to try you on that. And that was I think Friday night
from like eleven pm to like twoam. It was one of those shows
and we just talked about hottie ofthe week and up and coming artists,
and we did like a love questionnaire, like helping people with their problems.
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And then I got that full time, and then the morning show started revamping,
and then people started leaving, andeventually Tom was like, hey,
Elvis wants you in there doing entertainmentfull time. And I'm like, what
is happened? Like I still pinchmyself to this day saying, am I
really doing what I'm doing? Butyeah, and it's I'm so lucky,
so blessed that, you know,bank goodness Disney didn't hire me, because
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that was what I wanted to dowork in Walt Disney World. I auditioned,
made it to the final cut tosing and perform in Disney, And
if that had happened, I probablywould have gone there and I would not
have been here today. Huh.Yeah. And when you were a little
girl, what did you want tobe when you grew up? So I
wanted to perform on Broadway, whichI still do. I wanted to be
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a I actually originally wanted to dotelevision, and I never even went near
the television studio in college because somebodyapproached me about doing stuff on radio,
and I just said, okay,gravitated towards radio and didn't even go near
the TV studios, which is reallyweird. No, it's because radio was
so much fun. It is,but but I wanted to do TV at
the time, and the thing's changed. It's crazy. But yeah, So,
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I mean I wanted to, youknow, be a Disney villain,
perform and I really wanted to performin Disney, and just you know,
I went to college and did alltheater stuff and radio stuff, so it
was always going to be something performancewise, that's what I wanted to do.
But you know, I thought Ididn't have a voice for radio.
I honestly thought, like I soundlike Elmo, Like who's going to listen
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to me? So that even tothis day, you know how you can't
stand what you sound like? Icannot. When I hear myself, I'm
like, oh that's awful. I'mthe same way. I'm the same way,
but nobody else sounds like Daniellman,no body, oh thank you.
See a program director our boss,yeah, is called a program director,
the one that you know can critiquethe way you sound on the air and
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one of my best program directors.He was really really difficult to work for.
I think he was on the spectrum. We didn't know from the spectrum
right at the time. Yes,he would say, if somebody listens to
you for ten seconds and does notget your personality, you have no business
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being on air. Wow, he'skind of right. Yeah, yeah,
I can see that our personality comesout. Ah. Thanks, and part
of that is the voice. Allright. When you first started, yeah,
first on air, were you terrified? Yes, okay, tell me
about that. Well, I oh, I was terrified that people would hate
me, and like I did getand back then we were getting like emails.
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So we got an email and itwas like, take her off the
air. She's horrible, she soundsawful. And I literally took that email,
ran out of the building directly crying, was so upset, and they
had to explain to me, One, it's gonna take a while. Two
not everyone's gonna like you, andthree frame that email because years from now,
when you look back at it,if you do become successful, you're
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gonna go wow. I didn't knowwhat was going to happen, and thankfully
i've you know, did you frameit? I did not frame it.
I know I should have framed it. I didn't listen, but I still
don't listen. But but I meanthankfully now, I mean I've done I've
grown up. I've done everything onair. I've grown up with the listeners,
you know, getting engaged, goinginto labor. Just my whole life
is unfolded here and I've grown uphere, and I feel like everyone that
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listens to us as family. Imean you must feel the same way because
you've grown up with all these people, and you know, everybody knows who
you are and twice, I meanwe have like generations. Because Jim and
I started at BLJ. Yeah,I was twenty three. He hated me
in one sense that I was youngerthan him, and I ended up being
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the younger person on air. Butyou know we got along. Yeah,
I mean I joked that he hadme. But then, you know,
people who listened to us then listento us now and sometimes their grandchildren.
I mean, it's really, it'slike insane. I'm speaking to Danielle Minaro.
She is the co host of ElvisDuran and The Morning Show, and
she's here because I want to honorDanielle as a mom but first tell me
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how you met your husband. Okay, so this is funny. I met
him through Elvis because Elvis wanted todate him. So wow, yes,
so we went. We used todo this thing called blind date dinners,
where we would set our listeners upon blind dates. We would chaperone and
see how they interacted. Sometimes atthe end of the night, people would
switch partners because they get along betterwith other people. And Sheldon, my
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husband, was one of the peoplewe were going to set up on a
blind date dinner, right because Elvismet him on a booze cruise. Now,
I was supposed to be on theBooze cruise, but my grandfather passed
away, so I didn't go.Thank you, so I didn't go.
So Elvis comes home that night afterthe boot cruise and he's like, yeah,
I met somebody for you. Iliked him, but he's not gay.
And I go what And I gowhat does he do for a living?
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He goes, I don't know.He says he throws knives. He
wouldn't even tell them what he didfor a living. I was like,
you want to set me up withsome guy that you don't even know what
he does for a living. He'sBritish. Okay, that's great, and
he goes but he likes Broadway.He likes Broadway, he likes to cook,
he likes all these things. SoI thought he was gay, but
he's not gay. So then theyinvited Sheldon up to the show and they
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said dress it up a little bit, because you know around here we don't
dress it up normally. And hecame, we met. I was a
total bitch to him. I'll betotally honest. I wasn't interested in meeting
someone. We wound up doing theBlind Day dinners. We all went out.
I hooked him up with a listener, and the whole night he and
I just clicked. We had thebest time. He was so wonderful and
(08:50):
I was trying to figure out inmy head, how do I see this
guy again? And then he woundup just kind of emailing saying thanks for
a wonderful time. I flirted back, and that was the end of it.
Well, what was this throwing knivesfor a little He worked for Enterprise
rent a car back then. Imean, now he's you know, he's
a real estate agent, but backthen that's what he did right out of
college. And so like you know, he came here on scholarship to play
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soccer and he wound up doing that. And I guess he was just kidding
around with them and he didn't reallywant to tell them what he did.
And so you know what, hedid not throw knives. And he is
a white. He's still I mean, we've been married. We got married
in two thousand and three, so, I mean, you know, and
you have two sons, two sonseight, Spencer's eighteen and Preston is fifteen.
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What was it like for you beinga working mom on air? So
I remember not being able to Iremember, you know, getting pregnant and
looking into the rules and like thewell, how much maternity leave do I
get? And there was nothing.And I was one of the first people,
I think that they had to dealwith with the maternity leave. And
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they're looking through the pages of thecontracts and going, we don't have that.
So they said, all right,well let's look at the union and
the union and have it. Wow. So they said to me, you
need to use your vacation days oryour whatever or sick leave, and I'm
like, sick leave, I'm notsick right. So I wound up having
to use vacation days. I woundup for Spencer taking six weeks and for
Preston taking five weeks, and that'sa lot to leave your little one home,
(10:16):
you know whatever. My body wasvery used to the time, and
everyone used to say, you mustbe exhausted. But because I get up
at the crack of dawn anyway,you know, you're all messed up anyway,
so I'm always tired. So tome, that wasn't a you know,
that part wasn't a big deal.But it was tough at first leaving
them to come back to work.And my biggest thing was that I wasn't
there in the mornings for the morningroutines. Once I came back to work,
(10:39):
and my husband would explain to me, you're very lucky because you have
the best of both worlds your homein the afternoon. A lot of people
don't have that, and he wasright. Took a while to see that,
but I always felt like, Wow, someone gets them ready for schools
and that's just how they grew up. They know that's their norm because that's
what our lives were. And thankfullyI have a husband who can be there
and we had help and everything,so you know, it wasn't at first.
(11:01):
Going back wasn't easy, but Ifelt like I had a good balance
and I was surrounded by so manypeople that helped me out. And Elvis
is amazing. He is the typeof guy if I say, hey,
there's muffins with mom at school,He's like, well, then you need
to be there. He's like,you need to take off, or you
need to take a couple of hoursoff and you need to go. So
he never held me back from doingwhat I needed to do as a mom.
(11:24):
He just always got it, whichwas very nice. How old are
the boys now? Eighteen and fifteen? Okay, so the eighteen year old
doesn't he have a college scholarship forsoccer, So he is not a scholarship,
but he got recruited to play soccerfor Eye to Eye Academy in Leeds
in England, which is huge.Yeah. So he's in soccer in you
know, in England football, Imean that rule. Yeah. So he's
(11:48):
playing and he's studying sports management andmarketing out there or does he want to
go pro? So he would loveit? Yeah, of course he'd love
to go pro. He'd love toplay somewhere. He'd loved to play in
Ireland. He'd love to play inyou know, someplace in the un Okay,
he'd love to come here and playfor MLS, So we'll see what
happens. He also has other thingshe'd like to do too, so you
know. And the younger one istwo time All American for track. Wow,
(12:09):
he's breaking records left and right.He runs varsity as a freshman and
he's it's insane. And he lovessoccer too. He's playing soccer for a
academy as well. So it's yeah, it's they don't get it from me.
They definitely don't get it from me. They get it from the husband's
side. I was not a sportyperson. Nobody did theater. I'm the
theater person. So yeah, wow, m hmm. Now okay, did
(12:33):
you have either one of them everexpressed an interest in going into broadcasting.
So I think if anybody does it, it would be Spencer because he just
loves all things media and he isstudying sports marketing and management and he wants
to do some journalism. I don'tthink he knows where he wants to land
yet, but he does love.He loves the brook. He loves when
(12:56):
he comes into the studio, andwe put him on the podcast or he
gets to be part of the show, so I know he loves it.
He's never said, oh, thisis what I want to do, but
I think I could see him goingtowards that if the opportunity was there.
Do you remember my daughter interned foryou, Yes, when you were pregnant.
That's crazy with which kid? ButI don't even remember. I think
your first kid. And how oldis your daughter now? She's thirty eight.
(13:18):
Wow, it's so crazy. Imean, it's so crazy. It's
so crazy. So do you haveany advice for young moms? I mean,
I don't want. I hate whenpeople say you can't do it all,
because I feel like you can.If you want to have a career,
if you want to get back intothe workforce, but you have young
kids at home, there's a wayto do it. There's a way to
(13:39):
figure it out. You know.Sometimes I know you have no choice and
you have to work and you wantto stay home. You know, some
people have the opposite. That's mysister. My sister. My sister,
her dream was to be a stayat home mom, and she she got
a degree, she was teaching,and now she's a stay at home mom
and she's so happy. Some peopleneed both, some people need a little
of everything. I say, youjust got to keep surround yourself with people
(14:03):
that are in your corner, Surroundyourself with people that lift you up,
that tell you you can do itand that will help you out. And
rely on other people who have gonethrough it and ask questions. When anybody
asks me a question or wants adviceor needs help, I am the first
person to say, I got you, what do you need? Let's get
you through this, because it's important. You can do it. There is
a way to do it, andyou know it makes you a stronger person.
(14:24):
I always also say you need totake care of you as well when
you're a mom. You know,I feel like if you let yourself go
where you only concentrate on the kidsand never yourself, you're not going to
be as good of a mom becauseyou're going to be missing out on things
and you may regret things. AndI don't want people to regret things.
It's not always easy to do itall, definitely is not. There have
(14:45):
been times where I've cried. Imean, I'm sure you've had times where
you've cried, and so I justcan't do this, and people go,
well, how do you do it? I go, I don't sit.
If I sit down, I'm gonnafall asleep. Exactly exact. Keep going.
You've got to keep going. AndI love it. I love being
a mom and I love doing whatI do. You know, so happy
Mother's dappy mother Daniel Minero, ElvisDurant in the morning show. So you
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