December 8, 2025 • 32 mins
On this episode of Inside the Moms Club, we sit down with actress and mom, Jodie Sweetin--best known as Stephanie Turner from Full House and Fuller House. Jodie opens up about growing up on a beloved TV show, navigating her career, and how motherhood has reshaped her purpose. From raising strong young women to embracing authenticity in the spotlight, Jodie shares honest, funny, and heartfelt stories to which moms can relate.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome, moms. Welcome to Inside the Mom's Club. I'm your host,
Monica Samuels, and I'm here with my lovely co host
and sometimes roommate, Julie Orchid.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
That's right, that's right. We're friends. We're co hosts or
hosts together. I'm inside the Mom's Club.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
We are, and then we're out here in Los Angeles.
We share a hotel room, yes, ye, which is always
an interesting experience, and.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Last night was a new experience.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Particularly Yes. The fact that we're still saying we're friends
after that is quite an accomplishment because last night accident.
I was watching a podcast on my iPad in bed, Yeah,
and all of the suddenly, okay, it wasn't that loud,
all of a sudden, now the blue, I see this
(00:49):
figure appear over me. Yeah, grab my iPad, slam it shut,
and shove it in the dresser there.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Now, I can see how that would make you a
little edgy if it was true.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I mean, it is true, it is a little true.
But it was very dark.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I couldn't see what was happening, and maybe the podcast
had been playing, as my kids would say, six seven, like.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
A long time. Yeah, So I thought you were asleep.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And I was awake.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm so sorry, so rude.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
That's my first thought was how rude.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I think I felt sorry for my kids because.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, now I know how they felt when because then
I was afraid. So that was the next thing that happened.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Watching TV is over, it's over.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
First, I did the passive aggressive thing and I jumped
out of bed to make it clear that I was awake,
but you didn't seem to care.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I had headphones on, which is normal for when you're listening.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
To and then I went and got back in bed
and thought, okay, now I can't I what am I
going to do to go to sleep because now I
don't have anything. It's she doesn't want me to have
this thing on. But then I but then I had
a plan. Yeh, like you like when you're a little kid.
I got I got it out, yeah, turned it on
as low as I could, and I created this sound
barrier with pillows.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
So you were hiding under the papers, yeah, and in.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
A cave over myself.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And that total accident, and that didn't seem to bother you.
But yeah, now I felt I felt like a child.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I'm so sorry about that. I've apologized many times. If
you were awake, I would have asked, but I had
headphones on. I couldn't hear what was going on, and
it was very dark. So I hope we can still
be roommates.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
We can, Yeah, I had, I had to think about it,
but yeah, but reliving that made me reminded me of
like when I was a child, yeah, which I can
barely remember bedtime and yeah, So I'm excited about our
guests because I.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Want to talk to her about things that remind me
of that. Because let me explain. Our guest today is
an actress, producer, host, and author who garnered the love
of millions on the hugely popular sitcom Full House and
the Netflix spin off Fuller House, and fans can currently
tune in to hear her in her on screen front
(03:07):
of Me and current bff Andrea Barber, who together co
host hal Rude Tanner Rito's, and she's the mother of
two teenage daughters. Welcome Jody, sweet and welcome to the
Mom's Club. We're so you could join us today. Thank
you for having me. I'm so proud. I'm glad you're here.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
And you know.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
How Rude came to mind, It was like naturally.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I think that's what she wanted to say.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
How I want, Lily, I have to say. I also
I I've got a side. I can't side with you
on this one.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Maga.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
It's you need headphones, scar sharing a room, the brightness
and the and you got it headphones if there's anyone
else within hearing distance. Otherwise you're I described it. I
gotta says the air Force. That's not a great way
to come on someone. Show you're the problem.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I will in this scenario.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I do.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I do. I think really the how rude belongs to her?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
WHOA oh wow wow, Well okay, I want to give
you a little heads up on the first part of
that though. Do you know why I had that on?
It is because of the snoring. I was trying to
drown that one out. So see there was something going
on there. But no, I can take that. I guess
there's no hell rude for that. I that's right.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
It sounds like you both need to travel with earplunks.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I think you're right. That's yes, we're slow. You know,
it's only been four years, but we're learning how to
do these things. But what I was Louisa, I brought
all that up is. It reminded me of like being
a kid, like when your parents shows up and take
something from you because you're almost to have your phone,
you're not supposed to have your iPad. And I thought,
you know, I can't even that's I had the feeling
(04:46):
of being that young, but I've forgotten what it's like
to be that young. And then I thought about the
show today and what we're doing and looking back through
all the episodes of Full House and looking at you
when you were five years old, when you.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Started yeah to thirteen, and you know, you.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Have a podcast where you're looking through all that. What's
it like to see yourself at that age? I mean,
you literally get to watch yourself grow up be that age.
Is It kind of surreal because to me, I don't
even I barely remember.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Right, I mean I barely remember this morning. These days,
the peri metopostal brain fog is really really kicking in.
It's super fun. But you know, going back and watching
the show is so much fun because I never watched
it growing up. I haven't watched these episodes, so you know,
it brings back. It's like watching an old home movie
(05:40):
that you haven't seen in a really long time, it
brings back, you know, these memories, and I think as
an adult having the perspective, it's now it's like you
can sort of laugh with yourself. But you know, there's
that time in like your middle school teenage years when
you're just like mortified because oh my, I've got a
catchphrase and everyone knows it, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, because the show ended when you were
what thirteen or fourteen?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
So I was thirteen and I was finishing eighth grade
that year, and then I went into I was going
into high school. So it was just kind of a
big shift time of shifting in general.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
It was a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
So I watched or listened to some of your podcasts,
and so how do you remember, Like is it a
memory that sparks? And because I can't, I mean, you're
not kidding about the brain fog, but I'm just saying,
does it spark, like you remember like something and then
you're able to talk about it.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Oh yeah, Well, things that happened in the past, I
can remember. It's the more recent things, No, I have, truly,
But I just I have so many it's like growing up,
Like they're all of my childhood memories, you know, like
they're all important things that you know. It's like, that
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was the house I grew up in, and quote unquote
you know, it didn't have four walls or roof, but
that was the house I grew up in. And so
like I, you know, just I knew the ins and
out of everything on there.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And a lot of ways. It's got to be kind
of cool to be able to see yourself through those
years and because you don't you can't remember it. But
and for your kids to see that, your two daughters,
do they ever have it?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
What care?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
They don't really care.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
They watched maybe a couple episodes when they were younger,
but like Full House was not their thing. Uh they
were they were more into like Tim Burton and uh
like interesting like weird anime stuff like that when they
were little. But Full House they watched it and they're like, oh,
that's cool, can we watch what we wanted now?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Even when they came.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
To Fuller House, they were, you know, a little bit older,
and they would come on Friday nights to the tapings,
but they they didn't want to sit in the audience
and watch what was happening. They wanted to be backstage
hanging out with the kids on the show and eating
craft service.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
So absolutely our audience remembers this show really well. Do
you have a favorite one that you'd love to share
with us today?
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I know, there's so many, But I mean, is there
something that comes to mind that you always like to.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
There's so many, But I have to say, in recent watching,
we've now made it through like almost five complete seasons
of Full House. I love the Stephanie car in the
kitchen moment.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I just love it.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
It's so good. It's such a great episode.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
There's so many good moments in it. There's such a
sweet moment at the end with Danny and staph like
and I think maybe that's also like we watched it
and it really just stuck with me again because it
was just such a sweet scene with me and Bob.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I love that.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
But I mean, I love that episode and it's one
that I get from fans a lot, which is you know,
the car through the kitchen, because yeah, it was just outrageous.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah. Now, your career, so that's just you've done so
many things as we've looked for your career. Wow, you
have been.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
We could jump all around.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh yeah, well, let's talk. But now so you're now
very involved in stand up, that's what your main focus is.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
I mean, yeah, we've been doing some stand up.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
I've been the kind of my pet project right now
is a show called Smoke Show with Sweeten, a comedy pageant,
and we're really building up our audience. We figured out
our streaming stuff and we're looking at that so that
we can start streaming it, you know, to anybody who
wants to watch.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Because not everyone is in LA.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
But it is so much fun and uh, I'm my
two friends produce it with me, Sabrina and Gia Cognata
and their sisters, and we just we pick the most outrageous,
inappropriate things to put comedians through, the weirdest beauty pageant
(09:58):
that you've ever seen. Yeah, it's it's just it's great
and we've gotten some great reviews.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Julie Seebah from who did all the comedy stuff at
Ellie Times, has come every week and you know, she's like,
this is one of the best monthly shows. So that's
a huge compliment. But yeah, that's like moving more into comedy,
moving more into kind of writing, directing. Like I mean,
I still I love acting. I'd love to be able
(10:25):
to do. You know, there's a couple of projects that
I have a couple of scripts that trying to get
those off the ground that are a little bit different, darker,
you know, more.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Dramatic.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
So yeah, yeah, that brings me to dateless.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Am I going to get it wrong?
Speaker 5 (10:45):
You know what? Dangerous?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
There's a different title anyway, So I don't even know
what title they wound up, like you're changing it about
my seventeen year old son and dateless and dangerous.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
It's about in culs in cells.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Basically, it's about the radicalization of young men online. Oh
oh wow, which is a thing.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
It's a huge thing. It's a huge thing. And you know,
I play a mom, uh to two teenagers.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Boy and a girl, and.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
You know, the the boy is really struggling with fitting
in and getting you know, girls, and you know he's
like an awkward kids like we all were, but he
is really involved kind of in gaming and starts getting
more and more in these kind of radicalized, misogynistic, violent
(11:39):
areas of the.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Internet which we know exist. And then you know, Mom.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Is like, what has happened to you?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
What is what's going on?
Speaker 6 (11:47):
So yeah, it was I really enjoyed being able to
do something more dramatic, you know, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
That's the that's the role I saw you play in there,
and I was like, Wow, she's going to get a
hold this kid and we're gonna you know, right the ship.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah. No, Well, what where do you prefer? Do you
prefer comedy or do you prefer drama or And what
inspired you to like, you're seems like you're really into
comedy obviously that's been most of your career and non
stand up, did you were surrounded by comedians? I mean
growing up? Is that did that inspire you? Or have
you always been just like this naturally hilarious person who
(12:25):
had you know, You're you're just naturally funny, and so I.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Would like to think it's a combination of both.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
And I will say that that Bob, you know, he
always gave me one of the biggest compliments, which was,
you know, he told me.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
He said, at five years old, you had better.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Comedic timing than most stand ups I'd ever seen as adults.
And he really meant it, and he would say it
all the time and in interviews, and he you know, he.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Was like, you just you really got it.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
So I think it was something that I was sort of.
I was very I was bright as a kid, and
I think comedy and wit, you know, the like it
requires the ability to kind of look at things and
see things and.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
You know, get the joke. And and I did at
a very early age.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
So, you know, growing up around two stand up comedians
as well as their friends who are also stand ups,
and all this stuff, you know, I learned. I learned
a lot about comedy, and I learned a lot of inappropriate.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Jokes, which, uh, which went over my head at the time,
But now I.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Get like, wait, I've heard that a long time ago.
So I have a quick question. You brought up, Bob,
and so we'd love to have you know, it's so sad,
but I also want to know a positive last memory
that you had with him, and you know what he
meant to you.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I know that's a loaded question, but you know what
I mean, like, yeah, yeah, he was.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Very trying to remember the last time I had seen him.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I believe we had been at Jeff's house, Jeff Franklin,
our creator, and I believe it was for like a
barbecue or some Labor Day kind of holiday whatever. We
you know, we would get together for like family barbecues, and.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
We'd always go to Jeff's.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Bob was always kind of the gatherer of the people,
and it would be like a family barbecue at Jeff's house.
And you know, I just I have so many memories
of Bob and his laughter, Like I can hear his
laughter and I can hear I can hear him say
(14:34):
hey Joe, Like I just know, I know the sound
of his voice, and I can still hear it in
my head. Yeah, and you know, Bob was He was
a hugely influential part of my life. And you know, Bob,
I have a very dark sense of humor. I think
I kind of always did, but certainly being around you know,
stand up comedians, particularly Bob, really, you know, I was like.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Oh, you can.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
You can be funny and be dark. You can laugh
at painful things, you know. I watched Bob and Dave
go through losing their sisters and their parents, really horrible
battles with cancer and sclarederma, and they made jokes the
whole time, Jokes to their sisters, jokes to their family,
jokes like they just you they laughed at it because
(15:21):
it you know, otherwise it eats you alive.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, well that's what you know. Our tagline for our
show is if you don't laugh, sometimes you're gonna cry,
because that's the kind of a mom thing. Yeah, so yeah,
we kind of we believe in that so that you
you That's.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Where my friend and I did a mom slash comedy podcast.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
It was I hate to.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Call it like mom advice because it was probably everything
that you shouldn't do, right. It was really was her
and I and you know, it's called never thought I'd
say this, and it was just about all of the
things that like, as a mom, you're like, I never
I never thought that that sentence would have to leave
my mouth in regards to another human being.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
You know, totally. We don't lick the toilet, lit.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
I you'd think that, like humans know that, but when
they're little, they don't know that.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean I'd like to say, I run
like a really tight ship wreck.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
That's what I like to say, because yeah, we're like
little pirates over here, yeah, complete with sailor mouths.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
So it's I.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Don't think people know that you have two daughters and
they're teenagers.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
I do, seventeen and fifteen.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
And how do you how do you talk to them
about like working full time and doing it all and
juggling like today, you know you were so you had
to make a shift or right left.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Sometimes I'm better at balancing things and sometimes I'm not.
Sometimes I can be present with them and more focused,
and sometimes I'm you know, away shooting a movie for
three and a half four weeks, and you know, I've
got to They have to be kind of independent.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I mean, they have their dads in their lives. I don't.
They're not like not off on their own.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
But you know, they have seen me go through relationship
breakups and you know, not having any money and you know,
and figuring it out and driving a car that somebody
gave me and just to make sure that I could
get to a job that you know, I was making
ten bucks an hour at and I was fine with.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Like watching they have watched me do all.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Of those things, and I would like to think that
they you know, it's hard to be a mom and
a working mom. We all, you know, we know that
there's no there is no balance. People say, how do
you balance it all? You're like, I don't, But I
would like to think that the moments that I wasn't
there that I did have to show up for something
(17:41):
that I love to do, that's important to me, that's
my career. I hope that my girls saw that not
as something that was more important than them, but as something.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
That they should do too. That we all.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Need fulfilling lives because they're all all can have that,
whether you're a mom like that's okay. We had an
amazing you know nanny and my grandparents or my parents,
and you know that you call in the village and
you help, and I just always hope that my daughter
saw that there was nothing that ever held me back.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Well, we have a real quick question at the top
of your head. Do you feel, like a lot of people,
you enjoy spas I would imagine do you like to
go to the spa? Okay, what's your favorite spa experience?
You have one favorite thing that like if this is
the first thing, this is what I wanted.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
To do, so I think it's for Oh no.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
So my daughter, my older one, for her sixteenth birthday,
she wanted to go to Disneyland. So we went to
Disneyland and really lived it up at the Disneyland Grand California.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Which has a beautiful spa in it. Oh, and.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
There was the most just magical like meditation because it's
all sort of you know, based in nature, and it
was amazing and also one of my favorite favorite facial places.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
It's called Sula.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
It was called Sula Face but now it's just Soula.
She's opened another place here in LA They do buckle massage. Oh,
so she does a facial that like they put on
gloves and they get in and like work all of
this jaw tension, all of the lymphatic drainage. Let me
tell you, when you finish, you're like there's cheekbones. Like
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I'm not even kidding you. It like if you can
get it the day of or day or day before
an event, like it just it makes you go called.
It's amazing that Amanda they started in They started in
Toronto and I got my first treatment up there and
then I've stayed in touch with her.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Now they have an LA version. I'm on, well, we've
got an idea for you for another spat experience. So
we're very excited that we have a new sponsor. Yes, oh,
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inclusive resort in the US for twenty twenty five. It's
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Speaker 3 (20:22):
It's like beautiful, that's where it's four hundred degrees for the.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Past five months.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
They might have a sauna, but it's not like walking
out your front door and that's your sauna. Like they
had got everything. And we were so excited to have
as part of our inside the Mom's Club family and
to be a sponsor for our zoomer moms. And with that,
let me welcome a bunch of ladies who'd like to
ask you questions. Jody, our zoomer moms. Welcome Zoomer Moms
to the Mom's Club. Hi, zoomer mom. Hi ladies. Well,
(20:50):
I want to introduce each one of you and introduce yourself.
Tell us a little bit about yourself, and do you
have a question for Jody. Let's start with Janine.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Jeanine, wellcome to the Mom's Club.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Hi, it's good to see you. Thank you for having
me today.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
Absolutely the question that I have, and it's about all
of our busy lives and when you're pulled in so
many directions and responsibilities and children and work and philanthropies
all of that, sometimes it's hard to squeeze in the
time that you need to take care of you and
(21:26):
to feel grounded through habits or routines. Can you share
some of your thoughts about having some habits and routines
that kind of keep your head screwed on straight.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
So this year, like early in the year, I started
really having this moment of like I feel untethered, like
you were talking when you're just so busy and you're like,
I can't. I feel like I'm trying to catch up
with my own thoughts and my own life and you're
like kind of racing after yourself almost.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
You know.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
I realized, Okay, I need to take some time in
the morning and really slow down, even if it's ten minutes.
And I started this journaling practice, and then I found
this journal company. It's a woman owned South Asian woman
owned company called Silken Sounder, and it's a monthly journal thing,
and it is it's a combination of like bullet journaling
(22:23):
for your day so you can kind of write everything out,
and also like there's a theme of the month like
resiliency or you know, acceptance or whatever. And then in
the journals there's also like little questions for you to
reflect on and there's like a ten minute thing each morning.
(22:43):
So I have really in this year made it a
huge priority for me.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
And I can't tell you how.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Just that ten minutes and literally like writing down my
day even though it's in my phone, right it down
somehow feels like, Okay, I can manage this. This is
really actually not that bad, Like this is this is doable.
Sometow times in my phone it's like there's so many
lines and I'm.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Like, oh god, it's too much.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
But I really think like finding a practice for five
or ten minutes, even if it's in your car, h
whatever it might be, find something that works for you
and try and stick with it for more than ninety days.
Be really religious about it for the first ninety days,
because that's about how long it takes to have, you know,
build habits and h and I it is. It's really
(23:35):
changed my life, my mental health.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I highly reck I agree, that's great journey in the
morning time for sure. Danny is Janine's daughter, so we're
her mother daughter oriented here, welcome to the mom's club.
Tell us a little about your itself and do you
have a question for Jodie.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Yes, and good to meet you. I'm a huge fan.
I feel like I've grown up with you, but you
do not know me.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
It's always a bit interesting.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
You know, people grew up with me, but I have
no idea exactly.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
And it seems like you have lived so much, so
much life on off the screen, and you've dipped your feet,
your toes into a lot of different areas.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I'm curious for you.
Speaker 9 (24:19):
Who have been your greatest support systems or what have
been your support systems and why.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
That's a great question. Oh man.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
I mean, my parents have always supported me and you know,
loved me, and like have always just wanted the best
for me.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
But I will say.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
As i've gotten like in my thirties and forties even
a little earlier than that, but I really have found
a great group of women that I surround myself with.
And I was talking about this the other day about how,
you know, I think we're told that girls can't get
along or that we you know, we're mean to each
(25:00):
other or whatever, and so there's this weird stigma I
think that carries on even into your twenties about like
who to trust and how to trust women. And you know,
once I really got over that, I have I have
sisters that I've been friends with for you know, fifteen
sixteen years now that have seen my kids in the
(25:21):
you know, hospital, over FaceTime like that. That are just
a part of my life and I couldn't do it
without them.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
And I also have.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
A really badass female team of a manager, publicist, social
media person like I have an all female team, which
I didn't pick it necessarily that way, but man, let
me tell you, those women have supported So Joe, do
you have a Mom's Club?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
You're gonna start chapter here, because speaking what this.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Show is all about. So I'm thrilled to hear that. Christy,
welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little bit
about yourself and do you have a question for Jodie.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Thank you?
Speaker 7 (26:02):
Yes, Christy Pruitt Haynes from Nashville, Tennessee. Hello, And so
I am on sort of the other side of mother ring.
I'm an empty nester, which took a lot to get
used to. I literally wrote a book about it to
try and process all of this. But knowing that you're
getting to that point your girls are getting older, how
(26:23):
are you preparing for that kind of transition? And or
have you even thought about that yet? And what do
you feel like is sort of next as you start
moving towards that new phase of mothering.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Yeah, well, you know, it's interesting because you know, both
my girls have two different doubts from two different marriages.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Because you know, I'm saying I was busy.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Yeah, you know which one one baby Daddy wasn't enough
I had to get to.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
If at first you don't succeed, try try.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Try to try again, and then if you don't succeed
again and whatnot, enjoy for the next eighteen Ye no, no,
you know, my girls they've always gone back and forth
between me and their dads, even when they were younger.
My older daughter her dad and my split when she
was around six months old, and my younger daughter her
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dad my split when she was about.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Three, and they.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Have they had kind of gotten used to the routine
of going back and forth between here and dads. So
I get there's these moments of like, Okay, this is
it's just me. I've got to fit in, like all
the stuff that I want to do on you know,
this weekend or whatever, especially when they were little. Now
they don't care about you know what I mean, unless
I'm providing money. But your story yeah, you know, I think.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
I also.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
I've also made it a priority, particularly raising two young women,
to raise really independent young women, not who are are
so closed off and I can do it all myself,
but who know that no matter what, they can get
up after falling down and keep going and try again.
(28:11):
And so I'd like to think that sort of this
next phase. And you my older one is kind of there.
She's like looking for jobs and she's decided she wants
to go to you know, community college first and then
transfer into you She's but like she's got a plan. Yeah,
she told me, you know, the other day she's got
a plan. And then her car broke down. She's like,
(28:31):
here's what I'm gonna do. Looked everything up. She's got
a plan. And I'm like, oh yeah, oh my.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
God, everything I did, it's like it's working. It's right.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Well, that's right, and that's it's you know. But I
I think that I'm actually really excited for this next phase,
sort of the fledgling, like launching, because I can't My
girls are so smart and funny and talented and independent
(29:01):
and deep and kind, like, I am so excited to
see who they become where it all goes I kind
of don't mind this moment of sitting back and getting
to watch them go out in the world a little bit.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I think it's actually cool.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Great one now talk to me at her high school graduation.
All the time, I missed all the times that were great.
You know, Yeah, then I'll be a mess. But a
great place is a really beautiful thing to watch.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah, that's cool. I love your attitude about all of that. Well,
thank you so much for being with us today.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
I am so happy to be here. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
We loved having on social media.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Where can her audience find you?
Speaker 6 (29:52):
You can find me on Instagram and TikTok at Jody
Sweeten s w E E t I. And you can
also check out my comedy s go At Smoke Show
with Sweeten, and we're going to start streaming that so
you can see wherever you're at. And then how Rude
Tanner Ritos is my full house rewatch podcast with Andrea
Barber who played Kenny Gibler, and so you can find
(30:14):
us at how Rude Podcast on ig there. So there's
a few places you can spot me, and I'm sure
you'll hear my voice on an obnoxious amount of podcasts.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Well great, Well, thank you so much for being with us.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Truly answers, good questions, you guys.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Great questions, really like thank you love moms, thought fulir
mom questions like that.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You know, it's like not about the other stuff. Yeah,
we get to connect as moms and I love it exactly.
We're the Mom's Club. That's what we're all about, supporting
each other, women, supporting women.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
So you have to say about the Mom's Club.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
What do I have to say about it? It's the best.
I mean, it's it's friendship.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
This is what's all about, thinking to the motto. But
you have other things, well, I have other.
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are going to cry. So laugh out there, moms. We'll
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see you next time inside the Mom's Club.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
That's right,
Welcome, moms. Welcome to Inside the Mom's Club. I'm your host,
Monica Samuels, and I'm here with my lovely co host
and sometimes roommate, Julie Orchid.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
That's right, that's right. We're friends. We're co hosts or
hosts together. I'm inside the Mom's Club.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
We are, and then we're out here in Los Angeles.
We share a hotel room, yes, ye, which is always
an interesting experience, and.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Last night was a new experience.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Particularly Yes. The fact that we're still saying we're friends
after that is quite an accomplishment because last night accident.
I was watching a podcast on my iPad in bed, Yeah,
and all of the suddenly, okay, it wasn't that loud,
all of a sudden, now the blue, I see this
(00:49):
figure appear over me. Yeah, grab my iPad, slam it shut,
and shove it in the dresser there.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Now, I can see how that would make you a
little edgy if it was true.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I mean, it is true, it is a little true.
But it was very dark.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I couldn't see what was happening, and maybe the podcast
had been playing, as my kids would say, six seven, like.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
A long time. Yeah, So I thought you were asleep.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And I was awake.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm so sorry, so rude.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
That's my first thought was how rude.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I think I felt sorry for my kids because.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, now I know how they felt when because then
I was afraid. So that was the next thing that happened.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Watching TV is over, it's over.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
First, I did the passive aggressive thing and I jumped
out of bed to make it clear that I was awake,
but you didn't seem to care.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I had headphones on, which is normal for when you're listening.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
To and then I went and got back in bed
and thought, okay, now I can't I what am I
going to do to go to sleep because now I
don't have anything. It's she doesn't want me to have
this thing on. But then I but then I had
a plan. Yeh, like you like when you're a little kid.
I got I got it out, yeah, turned it on
as low as I could, and I created this sound
barrier with pillows.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
So you were hiding under the papers, yeah, and in.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
A cave over myself.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And that total accident, and that didn't seem to bother you.
But yeah, now I felt I felt like a child.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I'm so sorry about that. I've apologized many times. If
you were awake, I would have asked, but I had
headphones on. I couldn't hear what was going on, and
it was very dark. So I hope we can still
be roommates.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
We can, Yeah, I had, I had to think about it,
but yeah, but reliving that made me reminded me of
like when I was a child, yeah, which I can
barely remember bedtime and yeah, So I'm excited about our
guests because I.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Want to talk to her about things that remind me
of that. Because let me explain. Our guest today is
an actress, producer, host, and author who garnered the love
of millions on the hugely popular sitcom Full House and
the Netflix spin off Fuller House, and fans can currently
tune in to hear her in her on screen front
(03:07):
of Me and current bff Andrea Barber, who together co
host hal Rude Tanner Rito's, and she's the mother of
two teenage daughters. Welcome Jody, sweet and welcome to the
Mom's Club. We're so you could join us today. Thank
you for having me. I'm so proud. I'm glad you're here.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
And you know.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
How Rude came to mind, It was like naturally.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I think that's what she wanted to say.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
How I want, Lily, I have to say. I also
I I've got a side. I can't side with you
on this one.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Maga.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
It's you need headphones, scar sharing a room, the brightness
and the and you got it headphones if there's anyone
else within hearing distance. Otherwise you're I described it. I
gotta says the air Force. That's not a great way
to come on someone. Show you're the problem.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I will in this scenario.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I do.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I do. I think really the how rude belongs to her?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
WHOA oh wow wow, Well okay, I want to give
you a little heads up on the first part of
that though. Do you know why I had that on?
It is because of the snoring. I was trying to
drown that one out. So see there was something going
on there. But no, I can take that. I guess
there's no hell rude for that. I that's right.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
It sounds like you both need to travel with earplunks.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I think you're right. That's yes, we're slow. You know,
it's only been four years, but we're learning how to
do these things. But what I was Louisa, I brought
all that up is. It reminded me of like being
a kid, like when your parents shows up and take
something from you because you're almost to have your phone,
you're not supposed to have your iPad. And I thought,
you know, I can't even that's I had the feeling
(04:46):
of being that young, but I've forgotten what it's like
to be that young. And then I thought about the
show today and what we're doing and looking back through
all the episodes of Full House and looking at you
when you were five years old, when you.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Started yeah to thirteen, and you know, you.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Have a podcast where you're looking through all that. What's
it like to see yourself at that age? I mean,
you literally get to watch yourself grow up be that age.
Is It kind of surreal because to me, I don't
even I barely remember.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Right, I mean I barely remember this morning. These days,
the peri metopostal brain fog is really really kicking in.
It's super fun. But you know, going back and watching
the show is so much fun because I never watched
it growing up. I haven't watched these episodes, so you know,
it brings back. It's like watching an old home movie
(05:40):
that you haven't seen in a really long time, it
brings back, you know, these memories, and I think as
an adult having the perspective, it's now it's like you
can sort of laugh with yourself. But you know, there's
that time in like your middle school teenage years when
you're just like mortified because oh my, I've got a
catchphrase and everyone knows it, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, because the show ended when you were
what thirteen or fourteen?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
So I was thirteen and I was finishing eighth grade
that year, and then I went into I was going
into high school. So it was just kind of a
big shift time of shifting in general.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
It was a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
So I watched or listened to some of your podcasts,
and so how do you remember, Like is it a
memory that sparks? And because I can't, I mean, you're
not kidding about the brain fog, but I'm just saying,
does it spark, like you remember like something and then
you're able to talk about it.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Oh yeah, Well, things that happened in the past, I
can remember. It's the more recent things, No, I have, truly,
But I just I have so many it's like growing up,
Like they're all of my childhood memories, you know, like
they're all important things that you know. It's like, that
(06:57):
was the house I grew up in, and quote unquote
you know, it didn't have four walls or roof, but
that was the house I grew up in. And so
like I, you know, just I knew the ins and
out of everything on there.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
And a lot of ways. It's got to be kind
of cool to be able to see yourself through those
years and because you don't you can't remember it. But
and for your kids to see that, your two daughters,
do they ever have it?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
What care?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
They don't really care.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
They watched maybe a couple episodes when they were younger,
but like Full House was not their thing. Uh they
were they were more into like Tim Burton and uh
like interesting like weird anime stuff like that when they
were little. But Full House they watched it and they're like, oh,
that's cool, can we watch what we wanted now?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Even when they came.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
To Fuller House, they were, you know, a little bit older,
and they would come on Friday nights to the tapings,
but they they didn't want to sit in the audience
and watch what was happening. They wanted to be backstage
hanging out with the kids on the show and eating
craft service.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
So absolutely our audience remembers this show really well. Do
you have a favorite one that you'd love to share
with us today?
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I know, there's so many, But I mean, is there
something that comes to mind that you always like to.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
There's so many, But I have to say, in recent watching,
we've now made it through like almost five complete seasons
of Full House. I love the Stephanie car in the
kitchen moment.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I just love it.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
It's so good. It's such a great episode.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
There's so many good moments in it. There's such a
sweet moment at the end with Danny and staph like
and I think maybe that's also like we watched it
and it really just stuck with me again because it
was just such a sweet scene with me and Bob.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I love that.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
But I mean, I love that episode and it's one
that I get from fans a lot, which is you know,
the car through the kitchen, because yeah, it was just outrageous.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah. Now, your career, so that's just you've done so
many things as we've looked for your career. Wow, you
have been.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
We could jump all around.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh yeah, well, let's talk. But now so you're now
very involved in stand up, that's what your main focus is.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
I mean, yeah, we've been doing some stand up.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
I've been the kind of my pet project right now
is a show called Smoke Show with Sweeten, a comedy pageant,
and we're really building up our audience. We figured out
our streaming stuff and we're looking at that so that
we can start streaming it, you know, to anybody who
wants to watch.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Because not everyone is in LA.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
But it is so much fun and uh, I'm my
two friends produce it with me, Sabrina and Gia Cognata
and their sisters, and we just we pick the most outrageous,
inappropriate things to put comedians through, the weirdest beauty pageant
(09:58):
that you've ever seen. Yeah, it's it's just it's great
and we've gotten some great reviews.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Julie Seebah from who did all the comedy stuff at
Ellie Times, has come every week and you know, she's like,
this is one of the best monthly shows. So that's
a huge compliment. But yeah, that's like moving more into comedy,
moving more into kind of writing, directing. Like I mean,
I still I love acting. I'd love to be able
(10:25):
to do. You know, there's a couple of projects that
I have a couple of scripts that trying to get
those off the ground that are a little bit different, darker,
you know, more.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Dramatic.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
So yeah, yeah, that brings me to dateless.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Am I going to get it wrong?
Speaker 5 (10:45):
You know what? Dangerous?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
There's a different title anyway, So I don't even know
what title they wound up, like you're changing it about
my seventeen year old son and dateless and dangerous.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
It's about in culs in cells.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Basically, it's about the radicalization of young men online. Oh
oh wow, which is a thing.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
It's a huge thing. It's a huge thing. And you know,
I play a mom, uh to two teenagers.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Boy and a girl, and.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
You know, the the boy is really struggling with fitting
in and getting you know, girls, and you know he's
like an awkward kids like we all were, but he
is really involved kind of in gaming and starts getting
more and more in these kind of radicalized, misogynistic, violent
(11:39):
areas of the.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Internet which we know exist. And then you know, Mom.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Is like, what has happened to you?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
What is what's going on?
Speaker 6 (11:47):
So yeah, it was I really enjoyed being able to
do something more dramatic, you know, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
That's the that's the role I saw you play in there,
and I was like, Wow, she's going to get a
hold this kid and we're gonna you know, right the ship.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah. No, Well, what where do you prefer? Do you
prefer comedy or do you prefer drama or And what
inspired you to like, you're seems like you're really into
comedy obviously that's been most of your career and non
stand up, did you were surrounded by comedians? I mean
growing up? Is that did that inspire you? Or have
you always been just like this naturally hilarious person who
(12:25):
had you know, You're you're just naturally funny, and so I.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Would like to think it's a combination of both.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
And I will say that that Bob, you know, he
always gave me one of the biggest compliments, which was,
you know, he told me.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
He said, at five years old, you had better.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Comedic timing than most stand ups I'd ever seen as adults.
And he really meant it, and he would say it
all the time and in interviews, and he you know, he.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Was like, you just you really got it.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
So I think it was something that I was sort of.
I was very I was bright as a kid, and
I think comedy and wit, you know, the like it
requires the ability to kind of look at things and
see things and.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
You know, get the joke. And and I did at
a very early age.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
So, you know, growing up around two stand up comedians
as well as their friends who are also stand ups,
and all this stuff, you know, I learned. I learned
a lot about comedy, and I learned a lot of inappropriate.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Jokes, which, uh, which went over my head at the time,
But now I.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Get like, wait, I've heard that a long time ago.
So I have a quick question. You brought up, Bob,
and so we'd love to have you know, it's so sad,
but I also want to know a positive last memory
that you had with him, and you know what he
meant to you.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I know that's a loaded question, but you know what
I mean, like, yeah, yeah, he was.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Very trying to remember the last time I had seen him.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I believe we had been at Jeff's house, Jeff Franklin,
our creator, and I believe it was for like a
barbecue or some Labor Day kind of holiday whatever. We
you know, we would get together for like family barbecues, and.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
We'd always go to Jeff's.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Bob was always kind of the gatherer of the people,
and it would be like a family barbecue at Jeff's house.
And you know, I just I have so many memories
of Bob and his laughter, Like I can hear his
laughter and I can hear I can hear him say
(14:34):
hey Joe, Like I just know, I know the sound
of his voice, and I can still hear it in
my head. Yeah, and you know, Bob was He was
a hugely influential part of my life. And you know, Bob,
I have a very dark sense of humor. I think
I kind of always did, but certainly being around you know,
stand up comedians, particularly Bob, really, you know, I was like.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Oh, you can.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
You can be funny and be dark. You can laugh
at painful things, you know. I watched Bob and Dave
go through losing their sisters and their parents, really horrible
battles with cancer and sclarederma, and they made jokes the
whole time, Jokes to their sisters, jokes to their family,
jokes like they just you they laughed at it because
(15:21):
it you know, otherwise it eats you alive.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, well that's what you know. Our tagline for our
show is if you don't laugh, sometimes you're gonna cry,
because that's the kind of a mom thing. Yeah, so yeah,
we kind of we believe in that so that you
you That's.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Where my friend and I did a mom slash comedy podcast.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
It was I hate to.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Call it like mom advice because it was probably everything
that you shouldn't do, right. It was really was her
and I and you know, it's called never thought I'd
say this, and it was just about all of the
things that like, as a mom, you're like, I never
I never thought that that sentence would have to leave
my mouth in regards to another human being.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
You know, totally. We don't lick the toilet, lit.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
I you'd think that, like humans know that, but when
they're little, they don't know that.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean I'd like to say, I run
like a really tight ship wreck.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
That's what I like to say, because yeah, we're like
little pirates over here, yeah, complete with sailor mouths.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
So it's I.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Don't think people know that you have two daughters and
they're teenagers.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
I do, seventeen and fifteen.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
And how do you how do you talk to them
about like working full time and doing it all and
juggling like today, you know you were so you had
to make a shift or right left.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Sometimes I'm better at balancing things and sometimes I'm not.
Sometimes I can be present with them and more focused,
and sometimes I'm you know, away shooting a movie for
three and a half four weeks, and you know, I've
got to They have to be kind of independent.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I mean, they have their dads in their lives. I don't.
They're not like not off on their own.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
But you know, they have seen me go through relationship
breakups and you know, not having any money and you know,
and figuring it out and driving a car that somebody
gave me and just to make sure that I could
get to a job that you know, I was making
ten bucks an hour at and I was fine with.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Like watching they have watched me do all.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Of those things, and I would like to think that
they you know, it's hard to be a mom and
a working mom. We all, you know, we know that
there's no there is no balance. People say, how do
you balance it all? You're like, I don't, But I
would like to think that the moments that I wasn't
there that I did have to show up for something
(17:41):
that I love to do, that's important to me, that's
my career. I hope that my girls saw that not
as something that was more important than them, but as something.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
That they should do too. That we all.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Need fulfilling lives because they're all all can have that,
whether you're a mom like that's okay. We had an
amazing you know nanny and my grandparents or my parents,
and you know that you call in the village and
you help, and I just always hope that my daughter
saw that there was nothing that ever held me back.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Well, we have a real quick question at the top
of your head. Do you feel, like a lot of people,
you enjoy spas I would imagine do you like to
go to the spa? Okay, what's your favorite spa experience?
You have one favorite thing that like if this is
the first thing, this is what I wanted.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
To do, so I think it's for Oh no.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
So my daughter, my older one, for her sixteenth birthday,
she wanted to go to Disneyland. So we went to
Disneyland and really lived it up at the Disneyland Grand California.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Which has a beautiful spa in it. Oh, and.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
There was the most just magical like meditation because it's
all sort of you know, based in nature, and it
was amazing and also one of my favorite favorite facial places.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
It's called Sula.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
It was called Sula Face but now it's just Soula.
She's opened another place here in LA They do buckle massage. Oh,
so she does a facial that like they put on
gloves and they get in and like work all of
this jaw tension, all of the lymphatic drainage. Let me
tell you, when you finish, you're like there's cheekbones. Like
(19:40):
I'm not even kidding you. It like if you can
get it the day of or day or day before
an event, like it just it makes you go called.
It's amazing that Amanda they started in They started in
Toronto and I got my first treatment up there and
then I've stayed in touch with her.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Now they have an LA version. I'm on, well, we've
got an idea for you for another spat experience. So
we're very excited that we have a new sponsor. Yes, oh,
Woodlock Resorts, which was named the number one best all
inclusive resort in the US for twenty twenty five. It's
in the Poconos. It's only two hours.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
It's like beautiful, that's where it's four hundred degrees for the.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Past five months.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
They might have a sauna, but it's not like walking
out your front door and that's your sauna. Like they
had got everything. And we were so excited to have
as part of our inside the Mom's Club family and
to be a sponsor for our zoomer moms. And with that,
let me welcome a bunch of ladies who'd like to
ask you questions. Jody, our zoomer moms. Welcome Zoomer Moms
to the Mom's Club. Hi, zoomer mom. Hi ladies. Well,
(20:50):
I want to introduce each one of you and introduce yourself.
Tell us a little bit about yourself, and do you
have a question for Jody. Let's start with Janine.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Jeanine, wellcome to the Mom's Club.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Hi, it's good to see you. Thank you for having
me today.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
Absolutely the question that I have, and it's about all
of our busy lives and when you're pulled in so
many directions and responsibilities and children and work and philanthropies
all of that, sometimes it's hard to squeeze in the
time that you need to take care of you and
(21:26):
to feel grounded through habits or routines. Can you share
some of your thoughts about having some habits and routines
that kind of keep your head screwed on straight.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
So this year, like early in the year, I started
really having this moment of like I feel untethered, like
you were talking when you're just so busy and you're like,
I can't. I feel like I'm trying to catch up
with my own thoughts and my own life and you're
like kind of racing after yourself almost.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
You know.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
I realized, Okay, I need to take some time in
the morning and really slow down, even if it's ten minutes.
And I started this journaling practice, and then I found
this journal company. It's a woman owned South Asian woman
owned company called Silken Sounder, and it's a monthly journal thing,
and it is it's a combination of like bullet journaling
(22:23):
for your day so you can kind of write everything out,
and also like there's a theme of the month like
resiliency or you know, acceptance or whatever. And then in
the journals there's also like little questions for you to
reflect on and there's like a ten minute thing each morning.
(22:43):
So I have really in this year made it a
huge priority for me.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
And I can't tell you how.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Just that ten minutes and literally like writing down my
day even though it's in my phone, right it down
somehow feels like, Okay, I can manage this. This is
really actually not that bad, Like this is this is doable.
Sometow times in my phone it's like there's so many
lines and I'm.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Like, oh god, it's too much.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
But I really think like finding a practice for five
or ten minutes, even if it's in your car, h
whatever it might be, find something that works for you
and try and stick with it for more than ninety days.
Be really religious about it for the first ninety days,
because that's about how long it takes to have, you know,
build habits and h and I it is. It's really
(23:35):
changed my life, my mental health.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I highly reck I agree, that's great journey in the
morning time for sure. Danny is Janine's daughter, so we're
her mother daughter oriented here, welcome to the mom's club.
Tell us a little about your itself and do you
have a question for Jodie.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Yes, and good to meet you. I'm a huge fan.
I feel like I've grown up with you, but you
do not know me.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
It's always a bit interesting.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
You know, people grew up with me, but I have
no idea exactly.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
And it seems like you have lived so much, so
much life on off the screen, and you've dipped your feet,
your toes into a lot of different areas.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I'm curious for you.
Speaker 9 (24:19):
Who have been your greatest support systems or what have
been your support systems and why.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
That's a great question. Oh man.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
I mean, my parents have always supported me and you know,
loved me, and like have always just wanted the best
for me.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
But I will say.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
As i've gotten like in my thirties and forties even
a little earlier than that, but I really have found
a great group of women that I surround myself with.
And I was talking about this the other day about how,
you know, I think we're told that girls can't get
along or that we you know, we're mean to each
(25:00):
other or whatever, and so there's this weird stigma I
think that carries on even into your twenties about like
who to trust and how to trust women. And you know,
once I really got over that, I have I have
sisters that I've been friends with for you know, fifteen
sixteen years now that have seen my kids in the
(25:21):
you know, hospital, over FaceTime like that. That are just
a part of my life and I couldn't do it
without them.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
And I also have.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
A really badass female team of a manager, publicist, social
media person like I have an all female team, which
I didn't pick it necessarily that way, but man, let
me tell you, those women have supported So Joe, do
you have a Mom's Club?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
You're gonna start chapter here, because speaking what this.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Show is all about. So I'm thrilled to hear that. Christy,
welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little bit
about yourself and do you have a question for Jodie.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Thank you?
Speaker 7 (26:02):
Yes, Christy Pruitt Haynes from Nashville, Tennessee. Hello, And so
I am on sort of the other side of mother ring.
I'm an empty nester, which took a lot to get
used to. I literally wrote a book about it to
try and process all of this. But knowing that you're
getting to that point your girls are getting older, how
(26:23):
are you preparing for that kind of transition? And or
have you even thought about that yet? And what do
you feel like is sort of next as you start
moving towards that new phase of mothering.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Yeah, well, you know, it's interesting because you know, both
my girls have two different doubts from two different marriages.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Because you know, I'm saying I was busy.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Yeah, you know which one one baby Daddy wasn't enough
I had to get to.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
If at first you don't succeed, try try.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Try to try again, and then if you don't succeed
again and whatnot, enjoy for the next eighteen Ye no, no,
you know, my girls they've always gone back and forth
between me and their dads, even when they were younger.
My older daughter her dad and my split when she
was around six months old, and my younger daughter her
(27:18):
dad my split when she was about.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Three, and they.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Have they had kind of gotten used to the routine
of going back and forth between here and dads. So
I get there's these moments of like, Okay, this is
it's just me. I've got to fit in, like all
the stuff that I want to do on you know,
this weekend or whatever, especially when they were little. Now
they don't care about you know what I mean, unless
I'm providing money. But your story yeah, you know, I think.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
I also.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
I've also made it a priority, particularly raising two young women,
to raise really independent young women, not who are are
so closed off and I can do it all myself,
but who know that no matter what, they can get
up after falling down and keep going and try again.
(28:11):
And so I'd like to think that sort of this
next phase. And you my older one is kind of there.
She's like looking for jobs and she's decided she wants
to go to you know, community college first and then
transfer into you She's but like she's got a plan. Yeah,
she told me, you know, the other day she's got
a plan. And then her car broke down. She's like,
(28:31):
here's what I'm gonna do. Looked everything up. She's got
a plan. And I'm like, oh yeah, oh my.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
God, everything I did, it's like it's working. It's right.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Well, that's right, and that's it's you know. But I
I think that I'm actually really excited for this next phase,
sort of the fledgling, like launching, because I can't My
girls are so smart and funny and talented and independent
(29:01):
and deep and kind, like, I am so excited to
see who they become where it all goes I kind
of don't mind this moment of sitting back and getting
to watch them go out in the world a little bit.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I think it's actually cool.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Great one now talk to me at her high school graduation.
All the time, I missed all the times that were great.
You know, Yeah, then I'll be a mess. But a
great place is a really beautiful thing to watch.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah, that's cool. I love your attitude about all of that. Well,
thank you so much for being with us today.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
I am so happy to be here. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
We loved having on social media.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Where can her audience find you?
Speaker 6 (29:52):
You can find me on Instagram and TikTok at Jody
Sweeten s w E E t I. And you can
also check out my comedy s go At Smoke Show
with Sweeten, and we're going to start streaming that so
you can see wherever you're at. And then how Rude
Tanner Ritos is my full house rewatch podcast with Andrea
Barber who played Kenny Gibler, and so you can find
(30:14):
us at how Rude Podcast on ig there. So there's
a few places you can spot me, and I'm sure
you'll hear my voice on an obnoxious amount of podcasts.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Well great, Well, thank you so much for being with us.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Truly answers, good questions, you guys.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Great questions, really like thank you love moms, thought fulir
mom questions like that.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You know, it's like not about the other stuff. Yeah,
we get to connect as moms and I love it exactly.
We're the Mom's Club. That's what we're all about, supporting
each other, women, supporting women.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
So you have to say about the Mom's Club.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
What do I have to say about it? It's the best.
I mean, it's it's friendship.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
This is what's all about, thinking to the motto. But
you have other things, well, I have other.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Things to share. Thank you to our sponsors. We want
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so definitely do that. Well, we can't thank you enough
for joining us again. It goes by so fast. Remember
our motto, if you don't laugh, sometimes you are you
are going to cry. So laugh out there, moms. We'll
(32:10):
see you next time inside the Mom's Club.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
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