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Ep.160 Midlife Unfiltered: The Real Slim Sherri Is Saying What We’re All Thinking

• Michele Henning Folan • Episode 160

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What if the real glow-up in midlife has nothing to do with wrinkle creams—and everything to do with finally showing up unapologetically as yourself?

Meet Sherri Dindal, better known as The Real Slim Sherri—the blue-haired, tattooed, profanity-positive powerhouse who's become a viral voice for women over 40. With over 5 million followers, Sherri’s raw, hilarious, and brutally honest takes on menopause, midlife identity shifts, and societal invisibility have struck a nerve—and built a movement.

After 26 years in a male-dominated investigative career, Sherri walked away with no backup plan. What followed? A wildly successful boutique, a clean skincare brand tailored for menopausal skin (Wholesome Hippie), and an accidental TikTok empire born out of a post-COVID haze. Oh—and now she’s headlining sold-out comedy shows across the country on her Gen X Takeover Tour.

She never planned this life. She never thought she was funny. And she definitely never expected midlife to be the beginning of everything.

From parenting through “second puberty” (ahem, menopause), to the sacred ritual of quiet mornings with coffee, Sherri's message is refreshingly clear:
 👉 Stop shrinking. Start taking up space.
👉 Midlife is not a crisis—it’s your power source.

🎧 Tune in to hear how she built a brand, a tour, and a loyal following by simply telling the truth.
 💥 Want in on the midlife revolution? Visit TheRealSlimSherri.com, check out WholesomeHippie.com, and grab tickets to the Gen X Takeover Tour before they sell out.

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Michele Folan:

I'm your host, Michele Folan, and this is Asking for a Friend. What if the best way to face midlife wasn't with fear but with laughter? This week, on Asking for a Friend, I'm joined by the one and only Sherri Dindal, better known online as The Real Slim Sherri. Comedian, entrepreneur, creator of the wellness brand Wholesome Hippie and the unapologetic voice of Gen X women everywhere, with millions of followers across TikTok and Instagram, sherri has made it her mission to bust open the taboos of aging, motherhood and middle-aged meltdowns with humor, heart and just the right amount of sass.

Michele Folan:

Whether she's delivering a midlife PSA in her bathrobe or prepping for her upcoming Gen X takeover tour, sherry reminds us that we are not invisible. We're just getting started. In this episode, we talk all about how she turned a spark of creativity into a movement, what winning the Cheer Choice Award meant to her and why midlife women deserve to take up space. Speak up and laugh loudly. If you've ever felt like the only one navigating this wild season of life, sherry's here to assure you. You are not alone and it's time to own your story unapologetically. Sherri Dindal, welcome to Asking for a Friend, thank you.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

That sounded amazing, thank you.

Michele Folan:

Oh, thank you. Thank you, that sounded amazing. No, thank you for having me. I love to write. I love to write and try not to lean on chat GPT too much.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

Oh well, you know, I mean, you got to use the tools. You've got Use the tools that are out there, Exactly.

Michele Folan:

Exactly. Well, such a treat to have you here, and I told you before we got started that I've been following you for a very long time, and the real Slim Sherri is always one of those Instagram posts that I just giggle because you say what I think.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

You know, I think I say what a lot of people are thinking. You know, especially at this phase of life, if you will, I think a lot of the stuff I try to speak about are things that I feel like a lot of us didn't have the uh we, we didn't, they kept, they gate kept. You know they were gatekeeping and, uh, we weren't really warned up for a lot of the things that were coming for us at this phase of life. And so I just am like I'm opening all the gates, I'm going to spill all the secrets and so, uh, at the same time, I just like to poke fun at that. Just where we are, you know you're aging and uh, you know just menopause and all the things that have uh, suddenly appeared in my life, and I know the lives of so many other uh women, and so I just poke fun at that, because sometimes laughter is the best medicine, oh and for sure.

Michele Folan:

And if we can't laugh about some of this stuff, we're doomed.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

If we can't, laugh about some of this stuff, we're doomed. I mean, we're doomed regardless. Laughter just makes it a little more palatable, you know. It just makes it a little easier to swallow. And you know, laughter, just laughter, is healing. And you know, I think there's a lot of us that are, you know, hit in this phase of life. We've raised our kids or are still raising kids, because I am, you know, our parents are aging, You've got, you know we're, we're the sandwich generation, and then you know, we still, we're still working. And then also, you know, like I said, then there's menopause and aging and your body starts to turn on you and there's, it's just a lot, it's a lot that's happening at one all at once, and, um, I just, I think laughing about it is all you can do, because if not, then the only alternative is to cry or drink. Well, there's that too Alcohol, you know, if you partake, then there's that.

Michele Folan:

But just soften the blow a little bit, Exactly, and you say you have one child too, like who I have three.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

two are still at home. So I have a son that's grown and on his own he's a middle school teacher. And then I have two girls, 11 and 14. And they are so their puberty is meeting my second puberty, and so we just there's a lot of clashing that goes I don't talk about them as much I want to, but I think that you know, they're very, they're sensitive, they're sensitive kids, these kids today, and so I try not to poke at them too much on social media because they I don't want to hurt their feelings, but I could do a whole series just on being a 52 year old mother with two teenage girls. Let me tell you, it is God bless you, it is fun.

Michele Folan:

Good times around here. Mine are 30 and 28. And that can be a wild ride.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I can't even imagine what you're going through right now I've got a 35 year old and so our conversations when he comes to visit are different these days, because he's starting to complain a little bit about some of the things you know at 35, you know, my knees bother me or whatever, something's hurting and I'm like welcome to midlife. Like, technically you're 35, you're midlife now, which is a bunch of bullshit, but that's what they say is that you know, the average lifespan of a guy is 70 or whatever. So he's technically, I'm like you're technically middle-aged. I don't know what to tell you. Welcome to getting old.

Michele Folan:

Well, and you know, back to the definition of midlife, someone told me the other day why do you keep saying you're in midlife? You're 61 years old? And I said okay, if you want to go at this, we'll do this right now. And I DMed her back and I said age is just a number. I still feel like I'm midlife. I don't feel advanced age, so why am I? I'm not going to pencil myself or put myself in that category.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

People love to tell us where we're supposed to be Like the constant. I get that sometimes too. Like you're not mid. I mean comments, you know I'll say something about midlife, and they're like you're not midlife, you're 52 or whatever. Like I'm like, so you assume that I plan to die at 70. Like that's, what you're assuming is that I plan to die. I think a lot I said.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

There's so many 70 and even 80 year olds that I know that are just living their best lives. Like they don't, they don't, they don't, they're not fragile, they're not, you know, ready to one foot in the in the grave and another on a banana peel. We're not there, you know. And so for me, I'm like midlife is a state of mind. I think I don't consider it a number. Um, it really is a state of mind and like how you see yourself, and so I still see myself with a whole lot of life ahead of me, and so I don't.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I do feel like I'm just in the middle somewhere. You know, I'm not, uh, I'm not. I'm not young and I'm not old. We are the youngest of the old people, is what we are technically, where the or no, we're the oldest of the young people. That's what I'm going to say we're the oldest of the young people and yet we're the youngest of the old people. So we're like in that middle place and, uh, it's just, yeah, it's a state of mind, and people love to push their ideas on you, and so for some, I'm like if you, if you in your head, are telling yourself like I'm, I'm not going to. 70 is the average lifespan, and when I'm 35, I'm middle-aged and I'm, you know, I'm close to dying at 70. That might be, that's probably going to be your fate. Yeah, you know, that's probably going to be beyond 100. And so I'm like I, technically, am right in the middle. So, yeah, you are yeah.

Michele Folan:

Well, I'm going to join you. I mean my target's like 90, 92, somewhere in that neighborhood, but I'm going to be right there with you. Well, I had a grandmother that lived.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

My great grandmother lived to be she missed her 105th birthday by a month.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

So longevity runs in my family. Both my grandparents on my mother's side lived into their nineties and when my great-grandmother turned a hundred, we had this huge celebration, family reunion. She got like a letter, a certificate from Ronald Reagan and all of a sudden there's all these generations of children around her her grandchildren and great and so on. And I just remember watching, you know, and being there and observing and hearing about her life and all that she had done and I thought this is amazing.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I was about 12 or 13, I think, at the time, and I in that moment was like I'm going to live to be a hundred. I, you know, I'm going to live that long. And so I had to stop telling. For many, many years I was like I'm going to live to be 100. And then I realized I have to stop doing that. I'm probably going to die on my 100th birthday. So I just have to say I'm going to live past, I'm going to live beyond 100. I'm going to live beyond so that I don't kick it on my 100th birthday. But yeah, longevity runs in my family. Now I might feel differently when I get into my 90s. Maybe I won't be here many, many years, decades. I've said I'm going to live beyond, to be 100 or older, a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Michele Folan:

I love it, Sherri. You've built something truly special, and I think you really need to take us back to the beginning and how your journey into comedy really got started.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

Well, I mean, it wasn't until recently that I would have ever given myself the comedian label. I never perceived myself as being a comedian. I am now because I'm on a comedy tour, so I can't really not be a comedian. But I never even really considered myself very funny. I've always been rather serious. I had a corporate career before I started my own business. For 26 years I was an investigator. I had a really serious job and I never considered myself funny, witty, sarcastic.

Michele Folan:

Yes.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

But never really considered myself to be very, very funny, and so when I so how I got started on social media was I didn't plan to do what I do now I I got COVID, like so many other people, back in 2021. And I was just laying in bed for a month scrolling TikTok. Before that I didn't, it wasn't even on TikTok. I got on TikTok because I was stuck in bed and I was sick and I needed something to entertain myself. And so, you know, at that time it was very much dance trends and all this kind of stuff, and I was like this, you know, whatever, this is stupid. But then I started across videos that were not about dance trends, they were people just talking head, you know, and I was like I think I could do this, and I thought initially I would do it to promote my businesses. I was like, oh, I should do this to promote my business and it that it just never turned into that. It was, um, I, you know, made a video, maybe one video about my business, and then I one day just made a video, and then I made another funny video, not no real talking. I think the big one, my first big one, was when I did the sounds only Gen X hears, which are just opening notes to songs that we all would know, right, Like no, no, no confusion about which song it is. And that song was my first real viral video and I picked me up like 40,000 followers overnight and I was like what in the world? Like I didn't, I didn't know what I was doing. You cracked the code. I was just like what I mean I? It was like a dog, it's like a dog whistle. You know, that's what that that that video was like. Those little sounds are like a dog whistle. And so I had all these new followers and so I started making a little bit more Gen X content because you know early on, that's what TikTok likes. They want to put you in a niche, you know. And so I was like, oh, I'll do what they want me to do, I'll make more videos about Gen X. And it's funny because before I got on TikTok, I never identified as Gen X Like it wasn't like a thing we didn't label ourselves that way. This is very much a new generation thing, millennials, gen Z, that labeling. We didn't really label ourselves like that. So it wasn't like I must've seen somebody make a video or something about talking about Gen X. And I remember thinking, oh, that's me, that's me.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

So I made some more funny videos and then I started really scratching the surface on sort of some of the more taboo topics you know and and some of the more serious topics, injecting humor of course, but started chipping away a little bit at some of the uh, the stuff that we, you know, went through growing up. And then that turned into me getting bored, honestly, about talking just about Gen X. I didn't, I was like I, I'm, I'm more than that, I can talk about more than that. And it just so happened at that time I was also about to turn 50. I was entering, you know, I wasn't in menopause yet, but I was very much perimenopausal and entering about to be menopause. And also just the aches and the pains and I was like what happened to my back and why did my knees hurt? And that turned into talking about midlife and it turned into talking about midlife and it turned into talking about menopause.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

And then I, you know, in between there I started doing some empowerment videos, just wanting to empower through the comments, reading a lot of the comments of women not just women, guys too, yeah, just about where they are and and. Uh, you know, kind of like what you said. We first started talking about you. You say the things that are in my head, and, and so I wanted I started doing my daily doses and wanting to do more empowering videos. And, just you know, people asking why, how are you so confident? And and and and how do you? You know, how do you go about life the way that you do, like, how did you get there? And so I started my daily dose videos and the rest is history. It just sort of took off and and next thing, you know, I've got 5 million followers and I don't even know how, I don't know why one of them follow me. To be honest, I'm like, don't, I'm the blind leading the blind. Don't follow me. Uh, I will lead us into some sort of chaos.

Michele Folan:

But that's why people like you and I you know I I'm curious because you do come across really confident. Have you always been that?

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

confident person cross, really confident. Have you always been that confident person? You know, it's funny because yes, to a sense. So, to put it into perspective, I said I was an investigator for 26 years and so I had to carry myself a certain way. I was in a male-dominated field. I was one of very few women in the early 90s that got into the field of work that I was in.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I worked a lot of organized crime cases and things like field of work that I was in. I worked, you know, a lot of organized crime cases and things like that, and so I was surrounded by a lot of guys and I had to have a certain had to carry myself a certain way to be able to survive in that world and have a certain level of confidence, be able to grow in my career. And so, yes, on that side my career, and so, yes, on that side, I've always been kind of a do not, don't mess with me, uh, kind of girl. Okay, and and and can definitely have that level of confidence that lets people know like I'm not gonna, I'm not a pushover, I'm not going to be somebody that you, you know can easily run through is especially because of the career that I had. On the other side of that, uh, the truth is, is behind that. You know, that's the mask that I wore for many, many years. You know of what women I think a lot of us do, especially if you have a career and you're trying to compete, we get really good at putting the mask on and pretending that we are something right. So the truth of that is is that, although I've always been had a certain level of confidence, I didn't have the internal belief system about myself that I was good enough or that I, you know that I was good at anything really. So that was.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

But, yes, the, you know, the in in it when it comes to career and all that. I've always had that. I don't know where I got it. Probably, you know, some, somewhere in my past, my youth, the way I grew up, but it, you know, there's still always been that self-doubt, and I think a lot of women struggle with that right, like that internal voice, that critical voice in your head that tells you you're not good enough, you're not worthy, you're too much, you're too loud.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

These are things I heard through my career, of course, that I was, I didn't play well in the sandbox. I was, you know, too much, too loud too. You know passionate too. You know passionate, if you will, was a word they like to use. So yeah, those those things, a lot of women internalize that stuff, and so I, now that I don't work in the corporate world anymore and I own my own business, I've come out of that a lot more. I've been able to climb out of that and work a lot on myself. So yeah, the confidence, just I don't know, I think I kind of came by it naturally in the in the workplace, outside of the workplace.

Michele Folan:

You know, it's something that's the femininity you know that feminine power got to put some of that on the back burner sometimes when we're playing in a man's world, and that's probably where some of that response came from, you know, because maybe you weren't that you were. You were behaving outside the norms of what they expected, and I see that with women who are our age, that you know, we kind of grew up in a different time.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

Oh yeah, I mean we also grew. I mean we grew up in a time where, you know, we didn't have the internet. You know, we, we, we solved our beef face to face, right, we were none of this internet troll crap or none of that. We just, if you said something, you said it to somebody's face and you, you know you guys either solved it or you got punched in the mouth. That was kind of how things happened back then, and so you know, you do.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I do think we had most of us had to learn to carry ourselves a certain way anyway, and so at least where I grew up, you know, there was definitely. That's probably where I said some of it stems from just where I grew up and how I grew up and and, uh, the environment you know which I was in, and so a little bit of that came from that. And knowing I always wanted to be a cop, and so that was early, that was in my, you know, younger years I knew that that I certainly carried myself a certain way, but some of that was just toughness. That was that again, that's the mask you put on, the don't mess with me, and so I've carried that my entire life.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I still have very much a do not. I've had to be careful because I get recognized in public a lot and I definitely have a RBF big time, and so people are afraid to come up to me. They've, they've even, you know, they come up there, they're so nervous I'm like, oh, don't be afraid to come up and talk to me, but I have, I forget that I have this RBF. That's kind of permanent. It's etched into my skin and has been there a long time, and so I've tried to be better about being more open, seeming more approachable, because I'm not super approachable.

Michele Folan:

Well, so RBF is resting bitch face, if anybody was curious as as what Sherry was referring to. But so you've had kind of an interesting career which I love. The investigator piece Did you ever imagine you'd be an entrepreneur?

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

No, you know, I didn't. I thought I would be an investigator for till I retired, which I didn't think I'd ever retire. I've always said I'm going to work till I die. That was, you know, because public servants and investigators you don't make a lot. You don't. You're not in that kind of job to make a lot of money. Right, like you do it because you love it. And so I did it. I did because I loved it and, uh, I didn't. I always dreamt about like starting my own business. I always had all these ideas but never could bring. I never brought any of them to life because I was always too busy working and I worked a lot of hours, I traveled a lot and finally be 10 years this year. I was burnt out, I was tired, I was like I was going.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I'm pretty sure it was in the thick of perimenopause at that time. I didn't know it, I did not know what was going on in my life. I just knew that I felt crazy, I felt all kinds of weird things and I just was like I got to get out, I got to quit, I can't do this anymore. And so it took me a while to work up the nerve, but I did? I quit my job and I never had quit a job without having another job. So I told myself you got a year to figure out what you're going to do with your life and if you can't figure it out, you're gonna have to go back to work. And that was something I just couldn't wrap. I didn't want to. I was like I don't want to have to go back and I don't want to be a failure. And I'm, you know, I'm not good at anything. That's those again. That's that internal voice. Right, I'm not good at anything. Um, I don't have any it. I had nothing else and so I quit that job. I quit my job, told myself I was going to start a business, and I did.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I first I started a boutique, which I still own, a boutique and then, about five years in, I was like okay, I, you know, I don't want to do this forever. I didn't want to sell clothes forever. I didn't, I don't even, you know I didn't even want to wear clothes. You know, I don't even want to wear clothes. You know, I don't want to sell them forever. Nobody likes pants. Okay, but yeah, so we started Wholesome Hippie, my skincare company, for my boutique. Originally I thought, well, I have really sensitive skin. I wanted something for myself and I thought it would just be a brand for my boutique, something I would sell exclusively through Feather and Vine, which is my boutique, and it turned into its own brand. It's you know, it's, it's so good and it's my baby and uh, it's yeah I.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I never, I never, imagined I would actually become an entrepreneur. It always, like I said, I always had a lot of ideas. I had a lot of looking back. I've had some really good ideas. I was like, ooh, I should have pulled the trigger on that. That would have been, that would have been good.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

But I didn't and I did what a lot of people do. You get sucked into a career and you work that career. You know, we were taught, we came up in a time where it's like loyalty was rewarded, right, and you work for a company for 30, 40 years and then you draw a pension or retire and but it's not like that. It's not that we were sold the dream. That is a lie. It was a lie, and a lot of them, a lot of people do put in 20, 30 years and then you get your walking papers handed to you because the company goes out of business or they lay you off or whatever, right. So you know, I was.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I thought that that was what I was going to do forever.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

Was what exactly?

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

What I had been told was the blueprint to my you know what, what my life was supposed to be, which is get a job and work for them forever and then retire.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

And a lot of my early career, one of the companies I worked for I had a pension, and then what happened was, 10 years in, they went, they were going out of business and I was laid off. I had nothing, no pension, nothing, you know and I started over and then I realized, you know, like that dream, I guess, that they sell us is a crock of shit and so shit. And so I have now, at this point in my life, 10 years into being an entrepreneur. I'm like at least I am in control of my own fate. Now I haven't put my not that I'm knocking people that put in 20, 30, 40 years into a company I loved being loyal, but it never paid off for me. So I wish that if I could go back and get 10 years of those those years back and had started my businesses 10 years prior my gosh. I would be. You know, I would be closer to retirement.

Michele Folan:

In a whole different place. Yeah, hey, Sherri, we're going to take a quick break and when we come back I want to talk about the wholesome hippie line and what makes it so special. You listen to the podcast. You might even see my reels on Instagram. Perhaps you've even clicked a link or two, but you still haven't made a move. You're still waiting for the right time to start.

Michele Folan:

But here's the truth. There's no perfect time, but there is today, and if you're feeling stuck, low on energy and like your body isn't responding the way it used to, you are not alone. That's why I coach women through Faster Way. We start with the basics fueling your body with real food, building strength and finally learning how to support your metabolism instead of fighting it. No extremes, no restriction, just a smarter, proven approach for women over 50. If you're even a little curious, click the link in the show notes or shoot me an email. I'm happy to chat with no pressure, but maybe it's time to stop watching and start doing. Let's do this together. Okay, we are back. I want to dig into your product line a little bit, because I think this is like my audience is your audience. Tell us a little bit about the line.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

So we're an all-natural wellness and beauty brand that is made right here in the state of Georgia where I live, so we make everything it's all made in the US. We started as a wellness brand so early on, uh, when we first started wholesome hippie, I wanted products that were really kind of all natural to deal with aches and pains, and I saw have suffered from migraines my whole life, so I wanted something for headaches. I had eczema, really bad as a kid, so I wanted something to help. You know people with eczema. So early on, most of our products were like wellness products, stuff for pain Cause. You know, of course I have plenty of that and especially you know my career. I've been in a lot of physical altercations and I've got a lot of old injuries and so I I'm reeling in pain most of the time, and so I wanted products that week that were. My mom is in stage four kidney failure and has been for many years, and a lot of that was caused directly from over-the-counter medications and I wanted an alternative to taking pills, like I didn't want to be popping pills all day. I didn't want that to be my fate. You know that my kidneys are damaged and a lot of people don't realize. Years of ibuprofen and naproxen and some of these other over-the-counter pain meds are really hard on our bodies internally, and so I wanted something that was an alternate for that, for me and for others. And so later came our beauty line.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I've always had extremely sensitive skin. I never had a beauty regimen until we started Wholesome Hippie. I was still washing my face because everything I used either broke me out or burned my skin, and so I was still using a bar of regular Dove or Caress soap to wash my face. My skin was so dry and I just thought that's how it was supposed to be, because everything I used never worked for me.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

And so my manufacturer who I work very hand in hand, I'm involved in the creation of every single product that we make and I was talking to her one day, and she was talking to me about beauty. She's like you know, you really should consider beauty. And I was like nope, I have really sensitive skin, I'm not going to do it. And she's like please, just let me send you some samples and try it. And let me know. I totally understand if you don't want to, but you should at least try it. And just so your audience knows.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

We don't bring any product into our lineup that I haven't tried myself. I put it every single thing I try on myself. So I was really nervous. So I was like, oh my God, I know what this is going to be, because this is just how my skin has always been. And, surprisingly, I loved it, skin loved it, and so we launched our beauty line. And so we launched our beauty line and now we have like five different beauty lines and I look back at pictures of myself before Wholesome Hippie, and I look older then than I do.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

Now it's really, really changed my skin. Now, if you, none of us took care of our skin, I mean we were lubing up with baby oil and laying out, like you know, pieces, you too, yeah, we did not take care. Nobody told us to take care of our skin. These kids today, my kids, are 11 and 14. They have more skincare than I do, and so they're they're learning early.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

We did not, and so sun damage and age spots and you know, wrinkles and fine lines and all the, all those things. I'm like we didn't have any of that. So it was, my skin was right for it. Okay, it was. It was begging for me to take care of it, and so, and now people are always like, oh my God, what do you use? Your skin is so good. I'm like I don't use anything but wholesome hippie, that's it. I use nothing but um, and I love it.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

We have some incredible products for pain. We now our most viral product is our magnesium infused products, which are for anxiety and stress and pain and nausea and muscle cramps and restless leg and on and on. It does they do a multitude of things, and so, and we just continue to come out with we. Now we're at a point we have such a robust lineup that we, we only bring new products. Point, where we have such a robust lineup that we, uh, we only bring new products in if we can make them either better or we can introduce a product that we see a need for and so, uh, that's, yeah, it's, I love it, I'm, I, it's behind me here, this is all my Okay. Yeah, I see.

Michele Folan:

I see the bottles. A lovely, lovely display there. This is our, our this is our.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

This is our newest product. This is our newest product. This is our Pain Plus. So we just recently came out with so this is really for people and it's for anybody, but I was thinking of our age demographics. So we created a product that has not just magnesium and arnica and turmeric for pain and inflammation, but we added glucosamine and chondroitin and MSM for your joints and your cartilage and we needed something for bone support, not just in turn, like a lot of people just take pills and that's fine, but when you take internally, take vitamins and supplements, your body doesn't absorb that much of it.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

And so topical or transdermal magnesium or other minerals and vitamins, your body can absorb a lot more, and so we created this, and this product is amazing. It's a cooling pain relief, so it goes on. It has menthol in it and capsaicin and a bunch of good stuff. Anyway, that's our newest product and probably will be our next viral product because it's so good.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

It took me a year to get that formulation right, but I wanted something that would take our current magnesium pain blend that we had and make it better, and so something because I noticed as I went into menopause, the joint pain is just brutal, like I. That was something I wasn't, you know, prepared for, and so I was like we need something to support our joints and also tack pain and you know. So, yeah, we, that's what we do Wholesome, hippie, and again, I'm very proud of the fact that we make it all. It's all natural, clean ingredients. We have a very long list of no-nos things we won't use in our products and we make them all in small batches, so they're super fresh and, yeah, we're super proud of it. That's awesome.

Michele Folan:

I love that you have this personal hand in everything which keeps the company so honest in their approach Very important to me, yeah, so cool. And the other thing that I'm seeing here is I'm seeing the Real Slim Sherri your persona, if you will that I see on social media, and then I'm seeing Sherry the business person, and it's really it's. It's it's funny because when I'm live.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I'm live on TikTok or something for my business. I'll be on my own business page live talking about our products or something, and people who follow me will come on and be like, oh my gosh, like what. I've never seen this side of you, or they're. You know they're, they're like. They're like where's Slim Sherri? And I'm like she's here, she just. I'm working, I have a job, I got bills to pay people.

Michele Folan:

Right, oh yeah, and then you just won the Cheer Choice Award. I cheer of the year. Yes, I did Okay, so huge congratulations, thank you. That's such an honor. What did that mean to you personally and professionally?

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I mean, I still am in shock, to be honest. I you know I was up for three. So, first of all, cheer Choice Awards. My company's involved where it's a charity event, and my company's been involved with them now two years in a row. We're a sponsor and we love what they're all about. And so last year when I first got involved, I'd never heard of them.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

A friend of mine told me about Cheer Choice and what they do is honor creators. It's for charity, but they honor creators for all that they do. And it's for charity, but they honor creators for all that they do. And I was like, oh, this is really cool, I want to be involved. And so I did.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

And then this year and you know, it's all, you're nominated by the people. It's a people, people's award, essentially. And so I got nominated for three different categories and the first two I was like, okay, I can, I can see these comedy novice. I was like, all right, I'll take that. Then it was motivational, inspirational. I was like, okay, sure, I can see that.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

Chair of the Year surprised me and I was like, now that, come on, people. Like in my mind, I was like this is for, this is an award for people that are like really doing life changing shit. Okay, these are people that are like out there just making a huge difference in the world. I there's no way I'm going to win that award. That's exactly where I was in my brain. I'm. There's no way I'm going to win out the other two. Sure I can, I can, I can accept that again.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I mentioned earlier internal critic not worthy. Most of them I have had in my. I have imposter syndrome had for a long time, so I had a really hard time with that one, and so I was also because my company's involved. I was a presenter in multiple for multiple awards during the ceremony, during the event, and so I was actually backstage as getting ready. Like they pulled all the presenters in the back when they started announcing that, uh, the cheer of the year, and so so I that was the only one out of the three, because you get knocked. So there's like this voting series that goes on, and so I eventually got knocked out of comedy and motivational inspirational. I was out, so I wasn't in the top five and so but I was still in the top five for cheer of the year, which I was like there's no way I'm gonna win this award, so I didn't even prepare a speech.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I was not, I didn't nothing, and so I'm in the back with everybody else when they're announcing this one. And then they said my name and I was like I didn't even realize that they were, that that was the award they were announcing.

Michele Folan:

They're like pushing you out on the stage.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

They were basically shoving me out onto the stage and I was like I what? I'm not ready, I didn't prepare a speech, I'm not ready, and so it was wild and I'm so humbled and so it's still in shock that there it's a lot for me to internalize. I hear it from people constantly, what I do for them, like that I somehow impact their life or have changed their life. Or in some cases I mean people tell me I've saved their life and so those things I don't take that lightly. But there's a part of me that's like when I was up for cheer of the year, I was like I'm not making a difference, I just swear a lot. I mean that was what I said in my acceptance speech. I was like this cheer of the year, this makes no sense. If you have are giving me an award for the most swear words in the year I could make, that would make sense to me. I can rationalize that in my brain.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

But this award, it just, you know it felt so surreal and it said it definitely, even though I'm still, you know, in shock a little bit about it, I have had to step back and like really recognize what I am doing and that you know, I don't you know, to have 5 million followers. Sure, that's a huge number and you feel like I just feel like I go out into this void, like I make a video and it just goes out into this void. But winning that award really brought it into perspective for me of, like, how finite that really is. You know how micro that can be, that it's not this huge void, that I am reaching one video at a time, you know, and touching how micro that can be, that it's not this huge void, that I am reaching one video at a time, you know, and touching people's lives.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

And I never really had I really that I had thought I mean I've had those moments. People come up to me and tell me, you know, whatever their story and I've met them, you know, randomly, in public, and they'll tell me that I, you saved my life or they'll send me a message. But it wasn't until that moment that I was like wow, I really had not thought about what impact I was making, that I would win an award like that. It just blew me away.

Michele Folan:

I mean you really don't know right, you don't know who you're touching on, a day or a moment when that person needed to hear your message most and that kind of gives you that incentive, Sherri, to keep going right.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I mean it is the reason I keep doing it. I mean it's you know, it's not easy. If I've been. I've been doing it three and a half years now, and there's times where I'm like I don't, I don't feel creative or I don't feel, I don't feel inspired, you know, to make a video or whatever. But I show up because they show like they're, they show up for me, those people that follow me, they look that tell me like I have to have my daily dose, I have to have a Sherry video today, or whatever. They show up for me and so I continue to show up for them and I will continue to do that until I can't anymore. And so I do because there are people that need it. And, like I said, it's not easy. Some days I'm like right now I'm writing a book, so I'm like I'm pouring all my creativity into a book. I don't have anything left over.

Michele Folan:

Okay, all right. So let's let's talk about this, because you're bringing up a very important topic that I talk about a lot on my podcast is finding balance. So here you are 5 million followers. You are starting a Gen X tour, which we'll get to here it's already.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

we're not starting, it's already underway.

Michele Folan:

Okay, it's okay. So I I didn't know, I didn't know if you already had shows going. You've got your Wholesome Hippie and and now the book. So how do you find balance? How does Sherri kind of keep things together?

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

Well, I have a really amazing partner that helps me with that. I would not be able to do it. I don't. I don't manage my really amazing partner that helps me with that. I would not be able to do it. I don't manage my schedule. So that helps me tremendously. Somebody else isn't. Let's just tell me where to be and where to go, but it's not easy. I have two young kids still at home too.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

So I'm entrepreneur, mother, comedian, wife, influencer, if you will, creator, whatever you want to call it. It's a lot, and so I have had to like. Right now I am pouring a lot of. I can strike a balance. So there's times where I have really my bandwidth allows me to turn out multiple videos and I can put out a lot of new content.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

But now I'm three and a half years in, and for a long time I would not allow myself to go a day without posting a video. Like I was so strict with like I refused. I'm like nope, I have to post, I have to post. I've gotten a little more lenient with myself and gave him my given myself permission to be like. It's okay if you take a day without posting, but I also am in that mindset of like, if I don't show up, other somebody will. Somebody's going to show up, you know, for you. So I again, I don't take that lightly the people that do look forward to me. So I've learned, though, that I've three and a half years of content now, that it's okay to repurpose some of my content like kind of like reruns. Somebody said it to me one day they're like you don't, you're making new content every day, and I was like yeah, what else am I supposed to do? They're like you have a whole catalog of videos.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

Just repost them, and so I I do accept that I have to be. That takes time because, uh, tiktok and Instagram, and now Facebook, don't want us repurposing videos. They, they, they give us strikes for, uh, inauthentic content. They call it or unoriginal because it's a video that already exists. So they penalize us, they'll get strikes.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

You could lose your account even and so I have to basically take a video and do something to it, whether put Zoom effects on it or change the captions or change the music. I have to do something. It's not like I can just post it and go. So there's still some work, but it doesn't take the brain capacity from me. It allows me to do that. So I've given myself permission to repost content, and for a long time I wouldn't let myself do that. I would not, and so now it's like people who are discovering you today.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

This was how they put it into perspective. So what if somebody saw that video six months ago or a year ago? What about the person that never saw it, right? So you know you reposting it's like they're like, or think about television, like in your favorite show in the seasons over. If you want to keep watching it, what do you do?

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

You watch the reruns and I was like I never had really put that into my, into my, uh, allowed myself to see it that way, and so now I do, and so I, I manage my bandwidth somewhat through, you know, allowing myself a stretch of time, if you will, maybe a week, where I'm okay with like okay, I've got these videos I'm going to repost. I'm going to only do one or two new videos this week and I can repurpose that time to pour into my book or pour into my brand or whatever I've got, you know, pour into the tour, cause I've got tour dates coming up, and so it's not easy though I, but it keeps me going, it keeps me alive. This is what breathe. I've always been a big believer of like when you, when, when you stop dreaming and you slow down you, you stop moving. I mean I even have it tattooed on the inside of my arm keep moving. When you stop, that's when the end is near.

Michele Folan:

So I just keep moving you know I love this because I feel the same way. I'm not finished yet, no, just get started. I know I feel like I did the corporate thing for years and years and years and now I get to do my own thing. I retired from the corporate world a year ago. I've been doing the podcast for years, three years but but you know you, there's always something else Like I, I, always I the the goal line keeps moving. So, and speaking of the goal line continuing to move, talk about the Gen X takeover tour at who's going to be with you and give us a sense of like, what, what's the mission of the tour?

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

So, yeah, so it's me. It's the dad bod veteran, Kelly Mano, and the professor, Nick Harrison All four of us Gen X content creators. I'm the oldest of the four, so, but I'm not the adultiest, but the oldest of the four. We got together so I had done a cruise back in 2023, just myself, with some fans, and I wanted to do it again. It was such a great experience, I had such an amazing time and I was like, oh, I want to do this, but I didn't want to be the only person I wanted to bring. I was like somebody else. I can't be the only person. That's the center of attention. That's a lot right To be the sort of the person and so I had.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

When I was at Cheer Choice Awards last April, I met Nick Harrison and I was like, dude, we should do something together. Like you know, we should do something. And so we got talking about that and I was like, oh, you know, Kelly Mano and I had talked about a year ago about doing something together. Let me reach out to her and see if she's still interested. And then we folded the dad bod veteran in and we decided we were not planning a tour, we just decided we were all going to meet up in Nashville last year, which we did last Labor Day, met up in Nashville. And we would do, you know, we would just tell. We essentially in the beginning, told people well, we're just going to tell people that, hey, we're going to be in Nashville if you want to come see us, cause people, people want to meet us, people want to see us. And I figured that out when I was.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I was in Europe last year for two weeks and I was out of the country. I'm in Rome, I'm in Greece, I'm in Italy. I had 100 different people at least come up to me while I was out of the country and many of them were just like are you on tour? How can I see you? Are you on stage? And I was like, no, I'm none of that, and so anyway, I'm not a comedian, and so anyway. But I'm not a comedian, I'm not an actress, I'm not any of that. So anyway, you are now.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

Yeah, so, long story short, we were just going to go to Nashville and like, hang out for a weekend, that was the plan. But then Nick was like, well, if we're going to be there, you know well, actually it was the wives that got in, they were like, if you guys are going to be going to Nashville and doing this, you're, you're, you're. You guys are going to have to like, make it more than just like a get together. You're going to work. It has to be work. They always work us like dogs and so we were like, fine. So we Nick's like, well, let's do a comedy show. And I was like I'm not doing that, I'm not a comedian, I've not, I'm not, I don't, I've never done this. He's like I'm not that funny. And anyway, they sucker me in. Me, nick, or no, me, John and Kelly, none of us had ever done standup comedy ever.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

Nick had done some, but none of us had ever done it. So we go to Nashville that weekend and we get on stage. We go to a little tiny little comedy club holds a hundred people. We sold out. We had to do two shows because they it's sold out super fast. And then, uh, we were like, well, okay, we should, probably maybe we should do another city, because that sold out so fast for a lot of people that were like, oh my God, I missed it, and they were disappointed. And so we didn't want to disappoint people.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

So we went to Cleveland in November and did a show there at a dueling piano bar which was really really cool. And then after that we were, like that, sold out. And so we're like, well, now what do we? We? We probably need to plan something we should.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

So we decided we were going to do the old person tour, which is that we would do a show every couple of months, not not, like some most comics go out and they do, you know, weeks out and they're doing multiple shows. I was like I am not doing that, I have zero desire to do that. So we did Atlanta in January, we did New Orleans in February, we did Vegas in April Cheer Choice Awards. We were there, we did a show while we were there and now June 1st we'll be in St Louis playing. So we went from a hundred seater in Nashville to St Louis is 2100. Oh my God, that's so exciting. And so when this is all in under a year, we're like what is happening with my life? So we and we are booked out, we've got multiple shows.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

Now St Louis, and then we're doing, I think, atlantic city, cincinnati, south Carolina, dc. You're coming to Cincinnati. Yeah, I'll be in Cincinnati August 9th at the Hard Rock, I live in Cincinnati. Lady, I used to live in Cincinnati, really. Yeah, I lived there for almost five years. My first, not my first, my second child, my middle child, my oldest girl. She was born in Cincinnati. Where did you live? I lived over in Anderson Township.

Michele Folan:

I've lived there.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

Well, I was technically with them still so down on the other side of the freeway there of what is that? Oh, Beechmont, Beechmont, thank you. I was like it's not Belmont, Beechmont. I lived right off of Beechmont.

Michele Folan:

That's so funny. It's such a small world.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

She was born at. Was it Bethesda-huh?

Michele Folan:

yeah, she's born at Bethesda up in by Milford. Oh my gosh, that is so funny there, August 9th. Uh play, we're playing the Hard Rock, I'll, I'll be there, so that's awesome. Why, why do you think it's important, sherry, that gen x women are in the room and and I say in the room like this, laughing, connecting and being seen?

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

Oh, I think you know. First of all, we have been so Gen X women we're I'll back up. One of the big reasons is that we are at a point in our life where I think a lot of us believe and a lot of this is the storyline that has been handed down to us that you get to a certain point in your life and you are washed up, past your prime. You know you're invisible. Women at this age, for the most part in the past, become invisible, and so I feel like a lot of us need to be in that room because we're not dried up, we're not past our prime, we're just getting started. And to be in a room with like-minded women not just women, there's men there too, but 80%, I mean the truth is, 80% of my demographic are female is that you need to find a community, and that's what I think has made not just myself, but the other three that I'm on tour with has made us so successful is that we have built this community, and so I think the reason why it's so important to be in the room is to understand that we're just getting started.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

You can reinvent yourself at any point in life. You're not too old, you're not too much, you're not. You know, we've been, for the most part, gen X women and the women that came before a lot of us. We've just, we were taught to be quiet and we've been quiet, we've kept our heads down and, um, I, you know I'm at the point where I'm like fuck, that I've been quiet for far too long. I, you know I'm at the point where I'm like fuck that I've been quiet for far too long. I, I, you know, I, we, we are it's time, it's our time, it's our time to be heard.

Michele Folan:

You know, as you were saying this and you saw me nodding, cause I, I'm, I'm agreeing with everything you're saying is that we don't have to be our mothers.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

No, those women, those women especially, um, like my mom, she's an older boomer, okay, she was born in like 52, I think you know they were taught to be quiet very much Women. Women had a place, right, they especially that generation is in in the silent gen. Before that, those women had a place. And you know, here I come along, I'm tattooed, I cuss like a sailor, I've got blue hair, I'm basically every big middle finger you can possibly shout at the world Okay, that's me and I refuse to be quiet anymore. I refuse, and that's not loud in a bad way, it's just.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I want to encourage women of all ages to take up space we have. We have shrunk ourselves and made ourselves small all our lives and we are. It's just like you know what. There comes a point where that gets old, and then the mask I talked about earlier, it gets heavy and you just are like whip off and along with your clothes, because we have hot flashes now and we're just sick of everybody's shit and we're just. You know, it's like this is our time. It's our time.

Michele Folan:

That the bullshit meter is. Well, mine is broken Finally. Well, it's mine's finally honed where I'm like oh you're bullshit.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

My, my give a damn meter is okay. The bullshit meter, yes, it is right on, it is, it is dialed in, but my give a damn is busted and, uh, I think a lot of us, that's you know, especially when you get for a lot of women when they hit midlife, unlike me, a lot of us. Take you, for example your kids are already gone, all right, they're out of the home. Your emptiness, you might end up. Some of us. You, for example, your kids are already gone, right, they're out of the home. You're empty nest. You might end up. Some of us.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

You know, a lot of divorce rates are ridiculous at this age, right, because a lot of women, when their kids leave, they're like I actually don't like you and they get divorced. Or they, you know, they're stuck in this marriage with a stranger because they've been raising kids for so long and suddenly you and your spouse are stuck with each other and you're like, do we even like each other anymore? Like you're just, you know, and so it's trying to figure out where you land right now for a lot of women at this age, and you know it's. I just want to empower women to believe that you're never too old for anything. You're never too old, like I said, to reinvent yourself.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I mean, for me, I of this was on my bingo card. Okay, yes, my businesses were on my bingo card, but none of this other stuff. This all came about from just being real, just being me. The whole social media world people think it's all trends, dance trends. I never followed that, because I'm not a trend girl, I'm just a truth girl, and so that's what I think people connect with is somebody who just speaks truth and I don't sugarcoat it. I'm not pretending to be something that I'm not, and I think that's refreshing for a lot of people. And that's the only reason I think this happened was just because I opened my big mouth and I was truthful.

Michele Folan:

Oh, I knew this conversation was going to be fun. This is so good. One last question With how busy you are, what is one of your self-care non-negotiables?

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I don't really have many. I have one big one and that's that at some point in my day, preferably in the morning, I like to be completely by myself with just a cup of coffee, maybe, if it's in the evening, maybe an alcoholic beverage, whatever, something that's just me and whatever I'm drinking, to just be with myself, to just be with my thoughts, to be alone, disconnected from anybody else's energy, and just be with me. And that's always. I like it because it allows me to clear my head, allows me to ground myself, and that's sort of that's a daily for me, and right now it won't.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

That's about to change for summer, because my kids, when they're in school, that's my, as soon as they're at school, that's my time. Like I take a little bit of time with just my cup of coffee in the morning and I'll sit and I just reflect. It's like I like to just reflect on my week, my day, what do I? You know, whatever, wherever I'm at energetically, and with the kids being with summer, they'll be up and be in my space and so I, I will be claiming my space, which is, like I said, sometimes it might be at night. You know, I don't get a chance to do it in the morning because I have somewhere to be.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

I will still take it, whether I go sit out on my back patio or I go sit in my massage chair just by myself, everybody. If people come in and say what are you doing, I'm like leave me alone, get out of my space. I need like 30 minutes, but I prefer like an hour. But that's my big. I don't need much beyond that. Self-care wise, that's like my big one. It allows me to really just ground myself and clear, like I said, all whatever I got. If I you know negative energy around me, I tend to clear that and then I can tackle whatever I have coming up.

Michele Folan:

So, ladies, if you're listening, I want you to hear what Sherri just said. It's okay for you to need your space, set those boundaries where, if you need that time, you want to be, that, be a loner for half hour, even if it's 20 minutes, it's okay. You know we gotta listen to the signals that you're giving yourself, right, and, uh, honor that.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

It is, it is okay, it's giving yourself. You know, as a mother especially a mom, I mean, I've raised three kids since anybody, that's right. You know that there's, there's, there's a. I did.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

There was a time I couldn't really have that cause you're, when your kids are little, they suck the life out of you, right, in every way. They need everything, and so when I finally got my kids were old enough where I could reclaim that time for me, it was so good for my mental health, so good for my physical health, and so they respect it, and so it is okay to set those boundaries. I think it's really important. A lot of women don't think that it's okay for them to take that time for themselves and because they either feel guilty because of their children or their spouse or whatever, it's more important. It's better for my family to allow me that time than it is to deny me that time, because I'm in a better place, better mindset, just a better place where I can give more of myself to them than I can if I'm drained, and so that's how I reset, that's my recharge.

Michele Folan:

Amen, yeah, love it. All right, Sherri Dindal, where can people follow you and find Wholesome Hippie? Well, they can find me.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

Actually, you can find all my links at TheRealSlimSherricom. All my social media is there, all my businesses are there. But wholesome hippie. You could just go to wholesome hippiecom. It's, it's h-i-p-p-y, wholesome hippie. And uh, yeah, all of our stuff is there and um, but if it went in doubt, you just go to real slim sherrycom and everything. All my links are there to my businesses, to my socials, because I I'm on TikTok, facebook, youtube, instagram threads, substack, I'm all over the place, she's everywhere.

Michele Folan:

I'm in too many places I can't even keep up, oh well, and just don't spread yourself too thin, you know. But I look forward to hearing about the book when it releases and I also look forward to seeing you in Cincinnati.

Sherri Dindal (The Real Slim Sherri):

Please do. Come up and make sure you come. Let me know you're going to be there so I can make sure that we get a chance to meet. I will, because it'll be a big venue and so I don't you know there'll be a lot of people there. So, yeah, definitely let me know if you're coming August 9th. Let me say that last thing Anybody that's wanting to find out where we're going to be with the tour, you can go to GenXTakeOver. com and all our tour dates are there. In any city that has tickets for sale now, it'll show up. You can go to tickets and see what. Not all the cities are available just yet, but right now St Louis, Cincinnati, Charleston, all up for the tickets are available. But yeah, when in doubt, go to genxtakeover. com and you can figure out where we're going to be.

Michele Folan:

Perfect, I'll put that in the show notes too. Sherri Dindal the Real slim Sherri, Thanks for being here today. Thank you so much. Thank you, hey. Thanks for tuning in. Please rate and review the show where you listen to the podcast. And did you know that Asking for a Friend is available now to listen on YouTube? You can subscribe to the podcast there as well. Your support is appreciated and it helps others find the show. Thank you.