Mari + Greg Q&A: Real Talk on Fertility, Success and Life Lessons
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This is the Pursuit of Wellness podcast, and I'm your host, Mari Llewellyn. Greg, welcome back. I was just telling you, I almost brought a meal to today's episode because I'm getting very comfortable as a guest on this show. Tell them what you were thinking of bringing. Well, I didn't bring it because I packed soup today, and that would be a ridiculous meal to bring onto a podcast episode. It would be ridiculous to bring any meal onto a podcast episode. Soup, spaghetti, and meatballs, that'd be inappropriate.

It would have been an inappropriate regardless. An efficient sandwich. Guys, Greg and I just filmed the suspect trend outside. And when I tell you this man's sense of humor is literally making fun of me all day long, like roasting people is how Greg laughs. Couldn't come up with one thing for me. I would never make fun of you on camera. I couldn't do it. That's where you and I differ.

I could make fun of you on camera all day. I think it's funny. Yeah, it's funny. You take things too seriously is your problem. I would never disrespect you on. Yeah, but off camera, it's fine. Off camera, behind. Off camera, you disrespect me all day. Anything's fair game. You like get really intense with me at home. That's not true. Yes, your humor is like roasting me.

And now all of a sudden you see it. This is why I'm meant for the camera and you're not. Well, I think what Mari's realizing that she's getting a little old and she's having trouble keeping up with the trends. That would have been a fantastic roast in the video. You could have been like suspect is 30 years old, which is the reason why she's doing this Gen Z trend. Yeah, this is a Gen Z as trend and she's trying to keep up with them. You could have said that. It's tough. Like just the fact that we had to physically run. It's tough for her.

Oh, you're projecting because you're on a weight loss journey right now. You're having a hard time keeping up. I'm not on a weight loss journey. What happened is that we are doing this new meal prep service, right? But the food's fucking incredible. It was supposed to be like clean. It is clean. The food's so good. Well, it is clean, but it's so good that I'm having several of them for each meal. Yeah, well, you're eating. Also, I've lost weight. So you're like compensating for me.

I don't know if that's like a conscious decision, but that may be what is happening. Sure. As a family unit, our net weight is the same, right? Like let's say like you lost 15, I've gained 15. I actually feel like whenever I've been fluffier, you've been leaner. Like maybe that's psychologically a thing.

I don't know. But maybe, yeah, maybe our family has been the same net weight. Like as Arnold has grown, Lulu has lost weight. Like is this toxic or no? Although our dogs are looking a little thick these days. Stop. No, I think that they like, their bodies know it's getting cold. You're going to give them eating disorders, babe. Stop. You have to be careful with the language we use in our house. They need some coat. They need a coat. Yeah, they look cute right now. I like them a little. Lulu looks a little bit like a seal when she gains weight. She looks very nice. Yeah.

They're so cute. Okay, you ready for this Q&A? I've been giving, I've mentioned this on the podcast. Please go for it. Everyone knows what the dogs eat. We get it. Those dogs are my pride and joy, specifically Lulu. Oh my God. You love my dogs so much. So you basically just said Lulu's your favorite. I mean. Arnold brings me joy, but Lulu is my pride and joy.

Yep. You know what they say? Boy dogs love their moms and girl dogs love their dads. Arnold has no love for me. That's not true. No, he enjoys me. I enjoy Arnold, but there isn't like a, Lulu loves me. She loves me too. Yeah. I'm not saying she does. I'm not saying she does, but like, I'm just talking about my personal relationship. Do you think Arnold loves me?

He recognizes you as like a more important figure than me. The thing is, he stares into my eyes. I've never felt that with Arnold, so I can't even picture that happening. But also I look at Lulu sometimes and just cry thinking about what we've been through together. If anyone knows that they still like a rabies test on Amazon for Arnold.

Or like some sort of manic mental health test for a dog. I could have that one too. Yeah, maybe for wives and dogs. A rabies. Dude, you would have been so good in the video. Look at you now roasting me. I'm overwhelmed, all right? It's about to be Black Friday. It's the holiday season. Mari's like, tell me about Christmas gifts. I'm overwhelmed. You're overwhelmed? Yeah, well, listen, Santa...

No, he can't make the things that Mari's asking for anymore. Stop acting like I'm asking for a lot. I asked for a horse trailer. Yeah, I don't know. I don't want to buy a horse trailer. I'm from New York.

I'm a country girl. I'm a city slicker. You are such a city slicker. It's crazy. Couldn't even get off a horse. You want some Ugg boots? I can go to Nordstrom. I can handle that. I have Ugg boots. I don't know where to get a horse trailer. That's all I want for Christmas. Guys, Horse Girls Listening, DM Greg the best horse trailers. Yeah, that she can tow in her car. Wait, I wanted you to talk to Michelle about it. Yeah, I'll figure it out. Okay. Yeah.

The elves are going to be very overwhelmed. Yeah. Collectively, we've been having a little bit of a mental breakdown in our household. Me specifically. Me specifically. About what? You don't think my last few weeks have been insane? The LA trip. You know. People yelling at me. Who yelled at you? People yelling at me and you. My freaking fertility medication. Me crying every two seconds. Our furniture issue. Yeah.

I don't know. We're blessed. You're right. I'm not here to complain. Our house got egged this morning. God. Our house literally got egged this morning. As if, like, I was already holding on by a thread. And then Greg comes and tells me our house got egged. And I was like, what is going on? Well, it got egged. It got egged. It got egged. We have one egg that hit our front door. Your singular egg. And Lulu was very happy about it. She ate it. But.

It seemed to have happened at 1130 at night, which is obviously hours into the time that we are asleep. The dead of night. That is the dead of night, 1130 to us. You know, I have no information yet, but there is an investigation going on and whoever did it will be getting dozens of eggs hit onto their house. Period. By someone anonymous. I just am guessing that will happen. Maybe we'll write on the eggs like, from Mari and Greg. You're a horrible criminal.

That would be. Bloom eggs. That'd be, that'd be how to not do a crime 101. Yeah. Here I am like wanting revenge, like wanting them to know it was me. Yeah. Mari wants revenge with a signature. Yeah. Right. The real world is anonymous, right? You win quietly. You, well, I'm not really the best at that. Yeah. You're like the loudest person. Okay. Do you want questions? We're doing a full Q and A. We are doing, if you want to do that. Sure. What do you want to talk about? Yeah. Just, just, just go.

Just go? Just cue it. They're always so serious, these questions, I feel. That's fine. I can handle that. How are you preparing to become a dad? We rarely hear perspectives from men. Well, first of all, you know, establishing a safe physical home. So we bought a house in Texas. Clearly the security is not up to date because we're getting egged. But, you know, creating a safe physical home. You haven't done much prep. Let's be real.

You haven't really done much. Well, I think for men from just from what I could see, it takes like you got to have the baby for them to realize it's a baby. It's obvious my producer is nodding because she has a baby. She knows. Because here's the thing, guys. Greg has a 12 step morning routine. And I looked at him one day and I was like, what are you going to do when we have a baby? Like you can't have this crazy morning routine.

And he goes, oh, I'll bring it with me. Yeah. Like he's going to put it next to the cold plunge next to him while he's lifting weights. I mean, that might work. Babies can cold plunge. Whenever I see super dads like running across Zilker Park in Austin with the stroller and they're like lifting a weight and there's a dog, I'm like, I could see you doing that.

I think you're going to be like really just like pushing a stroller. I hope I can do that. But while running, you know, those dads that are like really shirtless and like with dog. Yeah. You probably noticed them more than me, but yeah. That's a compliment to you. That's how I feel. I feel like you're going to be a superhuman. How do you manage budgets and investments? That's a good question. That's a great question. You know, it's been very complicated. Yeah.

It's definitely- Should we even be giving people advice? Yeah, that's what I'm wondering. I can tell you where we're at, but please do not take notes on this. The reality is that we used to own 100% of our business. And as business owners, I'm not going to get into that right now. Our finances have just changed a ton over the last two years to a point where-

you know, us moving to Texas, selling the LA house after moving to Texas. It's been a very confusing years of profits and losses and, and, and necessary expenses to establish ourselves in a new, in a totally new state while like trying to balance the line between like, is this necessary? Is this excessive, but like it feels necessary. I'll say like,

We are trying to have a financial conversation two Sundays a month. Oh, is that how many? That's a thing. That's a thing. I got a calendar invite the other day that said financial discussion with a heart next to it. And Mari said maybe on the calendar invite. Yeah, depending on my mood. Great. And... I don't... Listen, I don't do numbers.

If you sit me down and tell me. That's not a choice. It is a choice. It's a choice. I married someone who does do numbers. Barely. You got to step it up. Maybe I'm the one who needs to take more leadership here, yeah. I'm taking leadership on our home in other ways. The problem is, both of us, but mostly Mari, if we want something, we can justify it in our heads as an absolute need or we will die.

Or that we deserve it. Right? You have more packages arriving to the house than me. Just to be very clear. You have more clothes than me. I'm not even going to get into it. Okay. Clearly we're not in the headspace to answer this question. Yeah, but listen, it's the holiday season. We're a little stressed. Deal with it in January. We also just realized that we hate all of our furniture and we have to sell it. I'm not. You see, we have to address this issue is how Mari's handling this. Our house doesn't look good. Yeah.

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Favorite thing about Mari aside from her entrepreneurial spirit, which we all love? You know, we've had a couple issues pop up lately, whether it's with a service provider who's helping us with our house, whether it's, you know, dogs need the vet or parents need something. When Mari needs to step in and handle something, she handles it very, very well.

I don't want to give, they're all personal examples, so I won't dive into them on the show. But, you know, I know that Mara can handle herself on an independent level for pretty much anything that life throws at us if for some reason I'm unable to be there to address something. Even if it means like, you know,

talking like yelling at somebody not not not raising your voice actually the most impressive thing is that when that does happen you don't raise your voice and bring emotions into it you handle them logically with a straight voice and now you're so well spoken especially now with this podcast really out of control so you can communicate it very well all right i'll boil all that down to communication skills and being able to you know use those communication skills to your advantage in life situations thanks babe

I feel like that was still entrepreneurial, but that's okay. No, it helps you in entrepreneurship. Also, I feel like I used to be bad at that. So that's the biggest thing. Yeah, it seems to have been really like a skill that you've developed or you've been at least deploying this year. It was one of the things I was like really insecure about for a long time was like having hard conversations. And now I feel like I have a lot of them under my belt. Yeah, but I think you just need to nip them in the butt sooner. I do. You're getting better at that.

Yeah. But like... But there's also like you can be too reactive. Totally. I actually think taking a beat sometimes is helpful. Totally. I do that with work. Sometimes if I get tired, especially if I'm on the road and especially if I'm on an airplane and I can't just call somebody and, you know, knock something out, I'll send a bad email or a bad text message sometimes to important people. And...

You know, things get read differently than how they're supposed to be said. I know you like to send a voice message. Love a voice message. I hate a voice message. I've never sent one and I won't listen to them. But I'll send like impulsive texts and emails sometimes, more so in my professional life that like, especially if I'm in the air and can't make a phone call because I'm on a plane, that I wish I didn't send. And they always backfire. Yeah. In those scenarios, I should have slept on it, you know? Yeah. Or like called you or Leo and been like, am I in the right place?

What bloom supplements do you both use? Pretty simple. I use bloom greens every day, bloom colostrum every day, energy drink every day. I currently am obsessed with the colostrum and the creatine together with my electrolytes in one. Nice. I think the colostrum and the creatine have a crazy amount. And obviously the greens are amazing, but I feel like everyone knows that already. The colostrum and the creatine

have so many benefits behind them. Creatine is the most studied supplement in the industry. Colostrum is nature's superfood. I feel like those two together, you're tackling so many things at once and you can just put, and they don't taste like anything if you get the unflavored and I mix it with electrolytes and I feel like I'm set for the day. And I put it in this Hydro Flosk. It's in here right now with my electrolytes. I think as like,

overall nutrition we're all seeing it go back to the basics more and more it's like I remember growing up

Whether it was in the vitality space, the anti-aging space, or the muscle building space, I would walk into supplement stores and every six months there would be like this new superfood from Brazil. Yeah. Like, you know, increased testosterone or helped hair, skin, and nails or helped weight loss or whatever it is. And I feel like that was the same thing when people were like, have one Brazil nut a day or have like all these superfoods that people were – goji berries, acai bowls, whatever they may be. And it's really cool to see –

leave, I know you just said the word superfood, but like leave these exotic fruits and vegetables and going towards the simple things that we've just been using for thousands of years. So colostrum, collagen, which is our colostrum product, the basics of the fruits and vegetables that we have in our greens, of course, creatine, which is dense in red meats, like the things that like we're not really getting through our normal 2024 diet.

So we supplement with them, but they're still the basics. Yeah. And just proven forever. Like we're not eating bone broth anymore, right? How we used to, people used to have bone broth and soups all the time, but now we can supplement with collagen. So, you know, which is in the classroom. Yeah. Also this episode comes out right before Black Friday. So we have some big Black Friday deals for Bloom. Well, first, what are you making for Thanksgiving? What do you mean? Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving.

I'm making the normal Thanksgiving. The normal Thanksgiving? Yeah. And like surprise dishes? Yeah. Yeah? Potato gratin. You're making potato gratin? Yeah. You're not doing that. That's going to quickly turn into mashed potatoes. Once you realize how many slices of potato you need to make for potato gratin.

Potato croutons dank, but you're not making it. It was at our wedding. I've roasted you on this show. It was at our wedding in Mexico. It was fire. That's kind of where we discovered it. Anyway, Black Friday, Cyber Monday. It's a big event for us this year. We'll be having it on our website and on Amazon. And I think we're up to 40% off for the nutrition, for our supplements. And then I think the energy drinks are up to 25% off on Amazon. So...

I mean, stock up for the year. Like that's the lowest price our energy drink will literally be for well over the next 12 months. Yeah. Yeah. Sweet. Biggest sale yet. Grab it while you can. Stock up. If you do you buy like if you're buying non apparel items, do you go to shop? Do you go to a website or do you go to Amazon? You go to Amazon. Like what?

Like, do you think that we should suggest people just go to Amazon for Bloom out of convenience, like where they're going to go? Yeah. Yeah. Go to Amazon. The sale's on Amazon. So the sale will be on Amazon. Energy drinks, greens, colostrum. It's easy. Just type in Bloom and they'll all come up. Yeah. Cause we're kind of like the biggest, biggest one. Um, can Greg make a workout playlist? I think you should.

It's pretty good. I've been listening to more Texas rap now that we live here. The biggest. The largest. Yeah, yeah. Big X the plug. I love that guy. Bitch, I'm from Texas. Yeah. Oh, no. I'm in a very bad fight with my husband right now. Can you guys talk about how you fix issues? Try to nip it in the bud. That's not good advice. Actually, we don't do that. Sometimes you need space. I think you're a big need space person.

Yeah, but it's never more than. And I go on a walk and then we come back together and we say, hey, we both said things we didn't mean. Let's sit down and talk this out. And oftentimes we are way better afterwards than we were before. Like, I feel like a lot of times if we don't address things, it sort of feels like weird for a little bit. And then we have the conversation and everything's back to normal.

If not better. Yeah, and don't put alcohol in the mix. Not that we're like drinking by any means. Even a glass of wine at dinner. 80% of the fights we get into are for some reason when we've literally had only one drink. Yeah, but it's because we needed to have the discussion, but the alcohol just makes it bubble to the surface.

I feel. How do you and Greg keep... That wasn't great advice. So what's the advice for someone in a big fight? I gave good advice. Yeah? Okay. I did. You said don't wait. They're already in the fight. It's been... Let's say it's been a week. Yeah. Go on a walk. Write down your thoughts. I write mine all down in notes.

And a piece of advice my therapist said is don't use the word you too much. Use the word I, because if you say you, the person feels attacked. So you do this, you do that. Instead, it's I feel sad when I notice this happening.

Yeah. And I think just go into the conversation. That was good advice. Yeah. And go into the conversation and say, we are not going to raise our voice. Yeah. And we're on the same team. Yeah. And honestly, like physical touch, like holding a hand, because it helps you remember that like, this is my person. I don't need to get angry. Don't you think? Yeah. Yeah.

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We're not like that famous. I don't think it's to the point where it would affect us. Yeah, our lives are still just going to work every day. I mean, we meet a lot of people out and about, especially on the plane lately. Yeah. But I like meeting people. I feel like you're a bit more shy than me when we meet people. I would say we have relatively grounded day-to-day lives. Like we're still going to work every day. We still, you know...

I mean, our lifestyle has changed a lot. You know, we were in like a one bedroom apartment in Philadelphia a couple years ago. Material things change, but like the lifestyle or sorry, the material things may change. But, you know, the problems that you have are generally this. I think they get worse. That's crazy. It's true. Yeah, I don't know. I feel it's funny. I remember last September we had.

Without a doubt, the most stressful month that we've ever had in our careers. In our careers, I'm talking about. And we had already made some financial success at that point. It was only a year ago. And I'm driving home from work in LA. It's a two-mile drive home, but it's LA, so it takes 20 minutes more. And I'm in my dream sports car. I bought my dream sports car. It was my only car.

It was one of the first times we actually had more than one car just because like it's LA and you didn't really need that. But I bought a second car, bought my dream sports car. I'm driving home from work. I'm stressed out of my mind, like losing hair stressed. I'm at a red light and there's this guy next to me at the red light in the biggest piece of shit car I've ever seen in my life with a pizza delivery sign on the top of the car.

And smoke's coming out of the window. He's smoking a fat joint, right? This is the West Coast. We're not in Texas anymore. And he's bumping music and he looks so happy. And I'm leaving work in the sports car thinking that, you know, I'm trying to achieve all these things that I've always wanted, whether or not that they would make me happy. And I'm like pulling out my hair stressed or losing my hair stressed. And this guy's next to me delivering pizzas, stoned, so happy.

And I'm like, what the fuck's the point of all this? Like, I just had like a big realization moment of like... No, I think it's important. That's a good story because I think that that's the thing that could be misleading to people, especially if you just were to look at our life right now. It's like, oh, they just had... Things have just been this way for them. They're just lucky or it must be so nice. But I think it's difficult to like... And obviously, it's not...

We feel extremely grateful for the life we live. And we've had amazing experiences along the way and have had a lot of freedom. But if you were to actually experience the life day to day, you never really get to check out ever. It's just a constant. And I mean...

I've been able to step back a little bit, have definitely thrown myself into the podcast, which is a whole other thing. But like for years, Greg and I didn't leave the house. It was all we talked about, really dedicated our lives to this thing. So there are pros and cons to a lifestyle like this. And I also don't think there's a lot of people who could

who could make it for this long, actually. Like I think the first couple of years of very, very testing and then people either give up or they keep going. And Greg for sure has definitely kept going. And it's like that resilience, but it's a lot, it's a lot of pressure. You're responsible for a lot of people and their livelihoods, you know, pressure to show up every day. For me, I feel this pressure of like,

being the face of multiple things and feeling like if I don't show up, it affects other people. And yeah, it's just a lot. It's a lot. And in many ways it's worth it. But in some ways it's sort of like you have these moments of like, is it worth it? So it's complicated, I would say. They want to hear your point of view on the trying to conceive journey. Yeah, it's been very odd because, you know, we're two people who have been pretty much able to achieve everything

Everything we've tried to through hard work or through pushing ourselves with it, whether it's mental health things, physical achievements, business achievements, fixing relationships or managing our relationships with family or friends or each other. And I would say physical health challenges that we've had, whether it's acne. I know that's a big topic of this show.

This one, we have not hit the finish line yet. So maybe I'll have a different perspective once we get to that point, which I know will happen. But it's definitely been one of the longest journeys we've been on, approaching over a year of trying. And I don't mean just having sex as often as possible or something. I mean going to doctors, figuring out what the hell is potentially slowing down this process.

It's a lot of mental energy. Yeah. And it's tough on the relationship too. I mean, I think we've been pretty good through it, but it is stressful for both of us, for sure. Yeah, trying to embrace the journey. And it can be difficult from like the female perspective to not get frustrated with your partner because you kind of feel like I'm the one taking tests and seeing negatives and I'm going to the doctor all the time and da-da-da-da-da. So you have to remind yourself that like,

You support me regardless. It just feels like I go through it alone sometimes. And I think a lot of women feel that way, even though you are very supportive of me. Yeah, I obviously don't. I can't entirely relate to what you're doing. Right. You're in nine times more doctor appointments than I am. But that's just kind of how it is. And as long as the support's there at home and you're talking about things together and, you know. Yeah. Yeah.

Certainly, you know, it's a unique challenge that nothing else has felt like this. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Thoughts on artificial intelligence and how it can impact business efficiency. These are crazy questions today. You know, it's interesting because we manufacture our energy drink at, I mean, we just posted some content from it. One of the most advanced facilities that I've ever been to for anything. Yeah.

It's well over a million square feet. It's right here in America. God bless America. And it has so few humans working in it because it's almost entirely robots. And then the humans are just using the forklifts and watching the machines and making sure, you know, they are doing what they're supposed to be doing. And needless to say, the people driving the forklifts will be replaced shortly. So, yeah.

In probably just a couple of years, probably less than five years, humans will just be used in this well over a million square foot facility to just watch the machines. And that's on the manufacturing level. But then, of course, you know, going back to the story I told earlier of sending impulsive emails or text messages, sometimes I use ChatGPT to help me write those messages. And it just feels like it's officially here.

Right. Like the the sci fi memo of what will it be like? It's like, OK, we can actually kind of see what this may be like at a larger scale. I think it's exciting. I can't imagine how schools are are reacting to some of this stuff. Right. I would have cheated on everything using this stuff.

I get a little freaked out because I've seen people like take my face and have me talking about products that I actually didn't talk about. So from like a talent perspective or whatever you want to call it, like my face and voice, I'm a little freaked out by it. Yeah, you know, it must be funny because every zip code, let alone, you know, almost on a state level, there's probably different concerns based off of like what that, what people generally do there. So like if you're coming from an L.A.,

You know, everyone's like, what the fuck am I going to do with my talent or my personality that I sell or monetize? And then you're going to be in a place like, you know, call it middle of the country, a blue collar state, right? Where people do hard labor and they'll be replaced by robots. Or you look at the Uber drivers or you look at pilots on planes. I mean, some of these are high paying jobs, you know, just because they're physical jobs.

Doesn't mean they're not high paying jobs and they'll be replaced shortly. Wild. Really wild. I mean, it does seem odd that we're still driving our car. It seems odd. It seems odd that I hold a wallet. You know, why is that not all just on my phone? Why is that not just all on like a chip in my hand? Right? I just think the act of doing real things is so important for happiness. Like I feel the most happy when I'm like taking care of my chickens or whatever.

you know grooming my horse or you know doing things around the house like I don't I don't know I think replacing actual work will make people depressed like even not driving you know I know I enjoy driving yeah I enjoy doing things to be present I feel um but then it's also nice because like everyone has e-bikes around here that's been nice not everyone needs to you know like even older people can go ride a bike because there's the electric element of it yeah

Would you ever consider bringing on another podcaster under you? Yes, I would. I think that would be quite cool to have an umbrella podcast situation. Let's see. A lot of people want to know how you feel about the Fee situation, Fee leaving. I just saw Fee come. I was leaving LA. Fee must have just landed in LA. I just saw her like two days ago. But...

Dude, Fi's the best. We came into our life when we lived in LA. She had lived in LA for a couple of years. She's one of our best friends and that will never change. And the professional relationship, I think and hope and I know, does not need to be directly correlated to our personal relationship. And I'm so excited to see what she does next. Yeah, I feel the same way. If you weren't the CEO of Bloom, what would your career be? I think I would always have some sort of entrepreneurial journey.

Yeah. Probably involved in social media on some level. Obviously, you know, that's where Bloom does most of its, spreads most of its awareness. I don't think that I can work for anybody else. What football team do you root for? Guys, Greg doesn't do sports. Yeah, I don't know. He does not do sports. He's just bodybuilding, UFC. Boxing. Boxing. Fighting, sports. What is your ideal last meal on death row?

I like a Jewish deli. I like meat-based sauce pastas. Sometimes if you're in Europe, a seafood pasta can just be out of control with several sticks of butter on that thing with some olive oil. I love a charcuterie board, cheese and meat. So this is the meal all together. Yeah, definitely like a kitchen sink scenario on the plate from several cultures.

Yep. I'm not, you know, my stomach's rumbling. I hear it. Yeah. Do you and Leo still work together? Occasionally. You mean all day, every day? They're literally inseparable guys. You know, it's been tough because like, you know, we come into this Austin, this is a crazy, this episode has me thinking of all types of things. We come into Austin office every day, but I'm on Zoom calls all

Because the team's still in LA. And so, you know, hopefully some people will be moving to Austin soon. And I try to get back to LA a couple days every five or six weeks. But I need to have more in-person time with people. I'm not enjoying coming into an office and then just going in front of my camera all day. Like today, I will not have a single in-person meeting. And I do not like that. And it's a shame, you know, when...

I can control that and I'm not. And it is drastically affecting how much joy I am getting day to day, let alone just with my career. So I need to change that. Yeah, I wouldn't enjoy that either. Yeah.

I mean, I do hop on calls a lot. You know what it is? It's like if I'm on the Zoom call, I'm on the computer and I find it very difficult to pay attention and focus. So when I'm in in-person meetings, I bring a pad and pen because I'm just too ADHD to have my phone or a laptop or an iPad. And just the bright light of the screen will throw me off. I've noticed. And so I...

I don't know if I have to like turn these Zoom calls on full screen and go on do not disturb mode, but it's like that's fucking discipline, right? And you can't just stay disciplined for 10 hours straight working. You should have Berkeley have some gaps in your day. What would that benefit? To give you a break. No, I'm not saying I need a break. I'm saying I need to have in-person work. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I've noticed you get pretty distracted on meetings. Yeah. You'll just sort of like walk away sometimes.

Yeah, I need to hire more people in Austin to work with me. When are you getting your own horse? Greg, me? Yeah. Who knows? One of these days, I'll get a horse to ride with you. I can't wait. I'm already looking. I've been on Facebook, horse sales group. You know, if you're a horse girl, I actually found this gorgeous Palomino, a male ranch horse, good age, good at everything, stunning horse.

He'd be perfect. I want to go trail riding. That would be fun. I mean, I'm ready for a string of horses, honestly. I need one for my friends, one for you, one for me. Mini horse for the kid. The kid? Mm-hmm.

Anyway, guys, I think we're going to wrap it here. Thank you so much for tuning in. We have a ton of work for the holidays. We got to go hit the desks. We do have to hit the desk. Just a reminder, Black Friday, biggest sale of the year, Amazon, energy drinks, greens, colostrum. Huge. Biggest sale of the year. Thanks, babe. Thank you. Bye.

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