Lynn & Tony Know
Lynn & Tony Know
Season Premier! Summer Recap and Where Do We Go From Here?
Can you find wellness amid chaos? That's the question we're tackling as we return after a long break, deeply affected by the ongoing conflict since October 7th. The heartbreaking news of six hostages killed by Hamas has left us grappling with overwhelming emotions, challenging our ability to maintain our wellness routines. We share our raw and honest reflections on trying to find some semblance of normalcy through small steps like meditation, even when the world feels like it's falling apart.
Imagine life as a grueling bike ride where celebrating small victories can keep you going. We discuss how focusing on resilience and gratitude has helped us navigate these difficult times. From maintaining a 10,000 steps a day streak to appreciating the moments with family and the basics of safety and shelter, we share the power of small wins and the importance of gratitude. It’s about finding joy and achievement in everyday habits, supported by family, prayer, and the little things that make a big difference.
Ever thought a family cruise could be a perfect bonding experience? We reflect on our recent trip, detailing the highs and lows of traveling with kids and how it became an unexpected source of joy. From exploring Morocco and Portugal to handling seasickness, the adventure fostered family unity and brought us closer. We also delve into the challenges of navigating anti-Semitism in Europe post-October 7th and share our strategies for maintaining wellness routines through it all. Stay tuned as we wrap up with tips for an enriching morning and evening routine, and tease our inspiring guest for the next episode.
Your hosts: @lynnhazan_ and @tonydoesknow
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Hey, welcome to the Lynn and Tony Know podcast. I'm your host, Lynn.
Speaker 2:And I'm Tony. We are both wellness coaches and married with kids.
Speaker 1:Join us as we talk about all things health, wellness, relationships, life hacks, parenting and everything in between unfiltered. Thanks for listening and let's get into it. Welcome back.
Speaker 2:Welcome back.
Speaker 1:It's been a very long time. Yeah, today is September a very long time yeah. Today is September 2nd, First September. No, it's September 2nd.
Speaker 2:Second.
Speaker 1:And we're end of summer, beginning of the school year, and we're excited to be back. We have a lot to catch up on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, where to start?
Speaker 1:Well, I want to start where we are now. In this period of time, I think yesterday was probably the hardest day since October 7th.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We woke up with the devastating news that they found six of our hostages that were brutally killed by Hamas, and it's hard to do anything else, it's hard to think about anything else. I feel like I'm a ghost. I feel like I'm a shell of myself most days, kind of moving through life, doing what I need to do, you know, working, taking care of the kids and the home and working out, but then there's just this other part of me that's somewhere else.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And and yesterday and I still feel it today and you know I was excited to work. We were planning on recording today. For a week or so we were planning it like excited to get back into the swing of things and um, and then this happened and it kind of just like puts puts us back, and I think this whole year has been a challenge to record because of everything that we're dealing with, not only from the war aspect and and what's you know, the subsequent things that are going on even in the U S and and, and you know being a Jew, and the diaspora, and not only that, but also just like life is really hard right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, there's no better way to put it and you know, when it comes to how that affects how we approach something like this, it's challenging because you know so much of what this podcast has been about is where we are, what we're doing, what we're typically what it was was what we're doing to improve our health and lives and wellness, and all that Starting out, you know, specifically to being pregnant and then postpartum, and then you know we had our cold plunge period and then, very shortly after that, within months, the wars started, and so it becomes this push-pull, even even with us, of how do we approach what's really going on in our lives?
Speaker 2:Uh, without it becoming entirely about, you know, the war, because we don't even we don't want our own lives to become entirely about the war, but we also feel compelled to speak out about it in a way that brings awareness to some corners of the universe that it might not get to, and so it's been a tightrope walk that's challenging and at times just doesn't feel doable, and that is why, in large part, why there hasn't been a lot of recording going on, because it's like how do we approach it, what do we do? How much of this are the people that tune into us, going to want to hear, and you know, part of me says it doesn't matter. That's what's real for us right now, and whoever wants to listen can listen. Whoever wants to check out can check out, and no hard feelings. But this is kind of where we are. So it's it's relevant to us and it's relevant to what we're going through, and it's also relevant to the the health and wellness aspect of of what we do, because how do you juggle both?
Speaker 1:And we've been. We've been struggling Like the the pat. It's interesting that, like post baby, we were so on point with our health and wellness routines and meditating and walking and eating well, and you know recording regularly and we were we're on track. And then, you know, october 7th happened and it completely threw us off of everything and I think in the past year has been a real struggle, like it's been a real and and I think anybody who's on a wellness it's a called a journey for a reason, like it's it's just going, it's it's getting back on the bike, it's getting, it's just you fall off and you get back on. And, um, this past year has been a true uh challenge for both of us because it and and I think the podcast has been kind of a testament to where we are just like not having the capacity to do it. And you know we made a commitment and it's something that we really genuinely enjoy doing.
Speaker 1:And last week we were like just like okay, like it's been a year. You know we recorded last year but not so consistently. And last week we were like excited, you know, with the direction of the podcast, kind of fusing the health and wellness that we're passionate about and also what's going on in the world and the people that we've met and the people that we know. Their stories will have an impact in not only our lives but your lives. And then yesterday happened and it's just like, oh, you know, like knock me off my feet. Like knock me off my feet. And, um, I woke up this morning. I'm like, okay, I need to do something for me.
Speaker 1:And it started with a 10 minute meditation and it's just like it's baby steps and it's it's it's just doing whatever you can and, and regardless of whether this war is effect, if you know, if you're just listening and this war doesn't affect you in any way life happens and I think you know this has been a hard year for a lot of people, not just people experiencing what's going on on the outside world. I think, like you know, there's an article that, um, I saw, you know, circling around last week, uh, the surgeon warning that parents are so stressed out that they can't function, that four out of 10 parents are so stressed out that they can't function. And when I saw that, I felt almost relieved because I was like, you know, this has been the hardest, I think the hardest year of my life in terms of everything, everything, finances, wellness, parenting, my business. You know, even our marriage has been hard, like, not hard in a bad way, like we're not fighting and like at each other's throats, but it, this year has definitely put, you know, some challenges in our, in our marriage.
Speaker 1:I would say, you know, and and knock, knock this off our, our, our kind of like, our, how things like were before, and seeing that article, it was like, okay, like I'm not alone, like you know, a lot of people are going through this, where you know the the life that we're living is not like sustainable. You know we're expected to do everything, we're expected to work and make a ton of money and everything is just so expensive and it's just like impossible to keep up with the Joneses and childcare and you know, when do we have time to work out and have date night and be social and all these things? And we don't have. There's no village and there's no support and there's no family nearby and and it just you feel like you're suffocating.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, listen, um, it's all the. All the things that any one of them would be hard to deal with, not impossible, but when they all come at you at the same time, it feels it feels like a lot. And, all of that being said, there's so much room for being appreciative of the things that we don't have to deal with right now, which you know, in our case, would be the health of our family. We don't have to deal with any health challenges for any one of us right now, knock on wood. But you know there are a lot of complications to life that we aren't facing that we can also be grateful for.
Speaker 2:It's just, you know, even where we are, which both of us very actively work on ourselves and pursue growth aggressively. There are there are just going to be times where you hit your new ceiling and haven't broken through it yet to get to the new floor, and that's where it feels like we've been for a little bit, but we are making a concerted effort to refocus and and get those parts of us back online that are required to take on all the challenges that we're currently facing. Just like, but when you say like, we fall off the bike and get back on it. Right now it feels like you get back on the bike and the chain falls off yeah, there's always something breaks, go out, yeah you're like I'm fucking back on the bike though that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's exactly the analogy analogy gets run over a piece of glass.
Speaker 1:That's literally life right now. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So is what it is, and we can't afford a new bike. So we got to fix the bike. We have to keep it. Keep it moving or we walk.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Speaking of walking, one of the things we can celebrate is your current 10,000 steps a day streak, yeah, so like the one, thing, the one. Thing yeah, this is important.
Speaker 1:This is a funny segue, but this is important, it's celebrating the small wins and I think and I want to just go back to like your point like you know, things are kind of sucky right now, but the sucky things are illuminating the good things.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And and I really like try to focus on my gratitude every day and, like you know, I'll have moments where Noah is like ransacking the living room, like there's shit everywhere and there's like toys everywhere, and I try to take a breath and enjoy this moment and enjoy her and and she's just this happy kid that doesn't know anything that's going on outside of, like her playing with her toys, and I try to be in that moment with her and and you know the moments, like you know we were, we had a wonderful weekend with friends and and it really does like the hard, the hard years really illuminate the good times and I'm really hold, I really hold onto those moments and um, and it's about, yeah, and and going back to gratitude, of just being grateful that I'm safe and that I have a roof over my head and that there's food in the fridge, which is that's being rich in life that I'm.
Speaker 1:And I think, as humans, we tend to to focus on, like what we don't have and how things can be better, and there's always something to to have anxiety about, especially when we live in this like world where everything you know like you, you know bill, like there's bills coming at you and and you know you have kids that you need to support and and the school years and I'm I'm sure a lot of parents are feeling the stress of like this impending school year. Like summer is all nice and dandy and you can kind of live in like the Lulu land, and then September hits and you have soccer practice and this and running around and, um, school drop off and all that stuff. So I'm really trying to focus on, like my gratitude right now, like this is where like and prayer and and I'm I'm praying. I'm praying a lot more because I feel like I, I my soul needs it you know, yeah, I'm going to reel you back towards the point you were about to make, which was going to be a good one.
Speaker 1:Yes, so we're focusing on the small wins. And I, for the past 45 days, I've been walking 10,000 steps a day. Uh, it started on the crew and we'll talk about the crews, but it started on the crews. We were in on our 16 day cruise in Europe and we were walking a lot and you know, every day I got like 10, 15,000 steps and it felt really good. It felt like I accomplished something every single day while on like it felt productive, Like even though I'm on vacation, I'm still getting my steps in. And it felt good and it helped me keep, like you know, the all you can eat buffets in check and and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:And so when we came back, I was like I'm going to continue this streak. So I've been intentionally walking more, like like yesterday, at like six, 7pm, I was only at like 8,000. I was like, okay, I'm going to go take a nice walk around the block. So I'm intentionally taking time out of my day, even if it's really busy, to go walk. And yeah, I hit 45 days yesterday, a streak which is, I think, pretty remarkable. And if it feels good, it feels like like I'm accomplishing something, even though it's kind of it's just an app that like throws confetti on your on your phone, when it's.
Speaker 1:It is fun, but it's like something that I like, I'm, I'm sticking to and I'm accomplishing every day go ahead and tell us what app, so that when, so the app is called pacer. Okay, um and yeah, I just like it counts your steps and then I hold my phone and we have it.
Speaker 2:The only difference here is that it throws confetti it celebrates and it tracks your your stretch, your streak.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like, so like, and I I think with habits, making it some sort of like, any habit that you want to like start and you want to sustain.
Speaker 1:I think making it into a game, cause we're, you know, we're human beings. We like to play games and we need rewards. And my reward is like seeing the 45 days, or like the, you know, once the confetti hits, I'm like I did it, yay, and like, and it's also become like a thing in my home, like all my friends know and like my family knows and people like and my, like my kid, you know Mia, will be like oh, what, how many steps are you at, you know? And like I'm walking, like like before bed, you know I have like 300 steps left and I'm walking in the living room back and forth and it's so funny and like, and like tony and mia are like cheering me, they're like, okay, you could do it like 100 more and it's kind of been this thing and it's nice, and like I'm encouraging everybody in the family to walk more, like tony started walking more started walking to work.
Speaker 1:I started walking to the journal station and I'm sure people want to ask, okay, like, what is the steps doing for you? Like, what is you know? Are you seeing? Like people want results. Like, what are you seeing right? Like, are there any?
Speaker 2:like so I mean.
Speaker 1:I mean so multiple things, like the fact that I didn't gain any weight on the cruise is remarkable.
Speaker 1:That is a true remarkable and we'll talk about the cruise and like what we ate and all that stuff. But I came back and I was like you know nothing, no weight gain, which to me is kind of cool, you know. I didn't have to worry about that. And then, um, I also noticed that I'm calmer and especially, you know, as a I work from home and I run my own business.
Speaker 1:Like a lot of times the day can just get like really crazy and I can, I can sit up my desk, like and just work through the whole day and not take like a second like a breather. So it forces me to go outside and walk the dogs and I've been listening to like these spiritual podcasts and that's been really nice and giving making me feel good. Um, it definitely helps my sleep. Like I pass out. I pass out like at nine, 30, I'm like I'm done and being more active, you know, and like just be just being in motion and and not being sedentary. I think it'll be important in the long run. So we'll see how long I can keep this streak going.
Speaker 2:It's a good streak and my next.
Speaker 1:my next goal for my next streak is meditation, is getting back to a meditation streak, so that's like kind of my next adding on you know, yeah, the, the.
Speaker 2:The difference here is and I think it's important that we talk about when we stumble, like we are not going to nail it every time. We're going to go through seasons of challenge where the, the habits slowly start to fall away. And then you know, especially when you build something in, like the month of July, that we had where it was, we were gone for almost an entire month and we're, you know, in multiple different places. We go home with my to see my parents were, you know, in Barcelona for four days and we're on a boat and you change all these venues and if your habits aren't absolutely locked in, they will go away, like you will. You will stop, and if you stop for over a month, it's going to be something I mean, we haven't like this this year at all.
Speaker 1:We haven't stuck to our habits like, yeah, we cold plunged and and again we try, like we try and and these, this thing. This is what I tell people think. Like we lead these, like perfect, like healthy lifestyle, we eat super healthy. It's not, it's not the case at all. Like we, we try we try.
Speaker 2:Growth is very much not a straight line.
Speaker 1:We try, like we're going to. We're trying it. You know, september. We're going to try again tomorrow. We're going to start waking up early. I'm going to try to again. It's it's. This year has been a challenge in itself Cause, like, what we're dealing with on a global aspect is not normal. No, and I am Jewish and I'm Israeli and you know it affects me directly and things like these happen in life, like if you're you know whether or not the war affects you, but you could be dealing with, like a you know a sick parent or you know like, or a death in the family and there's stuff there's stuff, there's stuff and everyone has stuff and it's weighs on you and it's so hard to pour back into yourself when there's just so much to think about and so much heaviness and just in general, what's going on in the world is not normal.
Speaker 1:Since the pandemic we've been dealing with unprecedented times like our. I'm tired. I'm a millennial, I'm fucking tired of unprecedented times yeah you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:like I'm tired of it yeah, I'm looking forward to some precedent in time whenever that happens yeah, I don't know what that looks like, but I welcome it so let's talk the summer, let's talk the cruise, let's talk cruising Cruise traveling with kids. The cruise was awesome, loved it and we shared a room, a small interior room with no windows, with a toddler and an 11-year-old. Yeah, and it went great. It went great. There were moments. There were hard moments. There were hard moments. Uh, the flight to Barcelona was hard with Noah, not going to lie the flights are hard.
Speaker 1:The flights are hard with a toddler, like you know babies are easy in a way, cause they just like kind of lay there, right. But toddlers need to move, they need to be entertained. You know they're used to sleeping in a crib, so like sleeping on a like I can't even sleep on the plane. I'm going to expect a toddler to be able to sleep like comfortably on the plane Not really. And they want to interact and they like want to interact and like you're in this confined space and toddlers need to like run around.
Speaker 2:Especially ours.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God, Our toddler. Yes, she is, yes.
Speaker 2:I genuinely believe that she is above average in activeness.
Speaker 1:She's very active. She needs constant stimuli.
Speaker 2:She requires stimuli, tom's hand of all throwback not everyone's gonna know the reference.
Speaker 2:That's all I have to put the video in um, but other than that, I think you know it went well so it went very well and one of the biggest reasons that it went very well is because we truly anticipated our, our bar, our bar for success was so low that all of like the challenging moments, we had prepared ourselves for the entire thing to be that level of challenging. So then, when it wasn't, when it was only a couple of moments, we weren't disappointed, we weren't like mad about it. When things did pop off with her or she had a bad day or she had a bad night's sleep.
Speaker 2:It was like, okay, this is kind of what we expected to happen and that's fine, we can deal with it. We weren't expecting easy breezy thing to take place, and so she was a little bit of a handful a couple times and that's it. And overall it was really good. She was amazing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, we had a great time Like couldn't have gone?
Speaker 2:What Favorite parts?
Speaker 1:Just being with my family, you know, spending just all this time with my parents and, you know, my sister and her kids, and it was just nice and a bonding experience. And I don't know bonding experience and, um, I don't know, that's just like I'm like, you know I'm for. You know I turned 41 on the cruise and spending it with my, my family, like you kind of turn a corner and you're just like, yeah, this is what's so, this is what's the most important to me in my life is being with my family, like everything else like doesn't fucking matter.
Speaker 2:And we got into some just some very nice routines on the cruise, like we adapted to cruise life very quickly. You know, we obviously we all have dinner together, we all have breakfast together, lunch probably going to have together if we're on or off the boat, because we all ended up on like the same buffet schedule essentially. So we had the buffet available at all times pretty much, and then we also had the the more formal dinners that were something that we did pretty much every night, unless we just wanted to bail and go to the buffet and then post dinner, we we all got on the same like post-dinner snack routine where, even if we didn't say anything to each other, like hey, we're going to meet, we would walk in and her whole family would be ready to snack.
Speaker 1:And there's literally 3,000 people on this boat 3,000 people and we'd always run into each other. It was crazy. We'd run into her family on the same feeding schedule. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it was just this nice routine that just unfolded.
Speaker 1:And I used to be anti-cruise. I don't even want to go into why I was anti-cruise, but this has definitely made me a believer.
Speaker 1:I'm a believer because it's not a ufo but I'm a believer in cruises for kids, like it's awesome for kids especially you have you've like you know, like for mia say, she's like 11 and she had she was able to like walk around the boat independently, like where is she gonna go? You know what I mean. Like she's stuck on this boat so like she can like be independent and go and go to the arcade and go play pickleball, and there's like tons of fun stuff for the kids to do. You know, and, um, you know, the nursery was not like the best on the boat that we were on, but I know that, like most cruises have a better like club, like toddler club and like like nannies and and that sort of thing. It could have been better on our boat but, like you know, we made it work we didn't get to.
Speaker 2:We didn't get to do much with the nursery, simply because their schedule for right for taking babies just didn't work for us it didn't, didn't help, but I think
Speaker 1:other boats have. Like you know, if you're planning on going on a cruise with your kids, definitely look, look into that, um, but it's great and you know you, you go, you know you stop at different locations every day and you can decide to like go as far as you want to go, like we were like I think our favorite stops were morocco and when we went to casablanca because my father was born in casablanca, so that was like really, really nice to be there with him and to see him speak arabic with like the cab drivers and and show us like where he grew up, and that like that was really nice. That was like a bucket list, like moment um. And then we went to the market and had like our fried donuts, which were amazing and I'm oh, I could totally eat one now, um, and then portugal was just like my favorite like need to go.
Speaker 1:Lisbon and porto, like just the most gorgeous places, and and you just go back on the boat and you have all your stuff and and and it's nice and yeah, we there was, like you know, headphone parties.
Speaker 1:We never made it to the nightclub because I'm an old bitch and there's no way I can stay up past 11.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, the nightclub didn't happen, but that's okay, because there was plenty of other things to do and there's so much comfort in the routine of like, oh, we can go explore this different country today. We can do it for as short or as long as we feel like, and then we can go back to the boat. The boat is home base and we know everything about the boat and we don't have to guess or yeah, or think about what to feed the baby.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's the best part. Yeah, because traveling is so hard with kids, because you have to think about what to feed them three times a day.
Speaker 2:No, you just put them up to the buffet and say go nuts, it's great, really well she she like a champ. Yeah, she had fun. Yeah, it was wonderful. I didn't gain any weight.
Speaker 1:We didn't gain any weight. Remarkable we walked a lot we walked a lot, and also the cruise ship.
Speaker 2:You're walking a lot like, yeah, just on the cruise ship. Yeah, you, you know, front to back, yeah, a long way we worked out.
Speaker 1:We did work out like the first week and how I was also sick, like that. That was a whole other thing. Yeah, I like bronchitis and that I had to deal with. So I like was not, I had no energy to work out, but then, after feeling better, like we went to the gym a few times and, like you know, a few people ask me like, oh, how do you like stay healthy on on vacation? The thing is, I'm healthy every every single day, like I I make, I try to make good choices every single day. That, like if I go on a cruise, like I'm not, like we're so worried.
Speaker 1:I did try to like eat. You know, some days I was like you know what I'm going to, just eat a salad, or I'm like not like I listened to my. I listened to, kind of like, what my body wants, you know, and I, after years of really working at it, I've become like an intuitive eater where I can like be like you know what I'm, I'm full now. I'm not gonna uh, or I'll, maybe I'll go to the. I'll go back to the buffet later for dessert, you know. Okay, let's ask, uh. So I got a few questions. Uh, somebody asked if, uh, any, if any of us got seasick. So there was one bad day it's. We had one day at sea and it was super rocky and I did not feel well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you and Mia were both not enthused by it, and it was literally one day.
Speaker 1:It was only one day, yeah, we heard stories from a couple of people.
Speaker 2:So so for context, this particular ship is the one that was doing, is still doing, the nine month around the world tour. So our section of this uh tour was just the the barcelona to england section of the whole around the world tour and we were talking to some of the couples that were on the boat for the full thing and and they hit like rough seas, like rough where it was, like flooding, parts of like the second floor they said second and third floor which we were on. So it was a little bit. We got a little bit lucky, I think, in terms of how rocky it was, because it was just that one night, but like it felt like we were rocking yeah, it was.
Speaker 1:It was intense. I stayed in bed the whole like most of the day, I think because like there was nothing to do yeah, it was.
Speaker 2:It wasn't the best day, but seasick overall. No, not just from being on the boat, but like motion sickness, I would say, from that one day you you probably dealt with.
Speaker 1:Somebody asked I like this question how was your family dynamic on the whole trip? Does Tony speak Yivrit really well? Yivrit means Hebrew. How was our family dynamic? How is?
Speaker 2:our family dynamic. Family dynamic is great, and it typically is. We have a great time together.
Speaker 1:My parents and my sister love Tony Like everyone loves him Like I'm very lucky.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm part of the family, so they have to.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:No, I don't met a bear very well, but I understand a lot and it gets better every time that I'm around your family for a long stretch, because you know I'm listening to it constantly. The Hebrew still got a ways to go before I would consider myself good at it, but we'll get there.
Speaker 1:Somebody asked how uneasy was it wearing your Magenta Veed in some places.
Speaker 2:In actuality, not at all, really, not at all really. But there were places where we had to have the conversation and talk about it, whether or not that it was going to be a thing anywhere that we actually did. For me it was whatever, it was no big deal, but there it had to be part of the conversation.
Speaker 1:When we go to places, um, you know that, have either experienced, you know, recent events that were tumultuous or you know, I don't know how to elaborate on that, but there were times where we talked about it yeah, I think paris was one where we heard that we should be careful, but really like I don't know, I feel like maybe in my head it feels like it's much worse on social media than it is in real life, like nobody's like looking at you, like no, he's no. I feel like the people who are most at risk are people who are visibly jewish that are dressed religious.
Speaker 1:Jews I think have are most at risk. I think if I were to do it again, I would have worn my Star of David like loud and proud, like I don't think we should be hiding ourselves. You know, like it's the same as New York City, exactly Like people might give you like a dirty look, but like they can't do anything. And if they do that, you know like come at me.
Speaker 2:No, no, do not come at me. No, don't come at me. Do not come at me, I mean I have.
Speaker 1:I have a pepper spray.
Speaker 2:I was going to say, you took like one Krav Maga class.
Speaker 1:So I'm pretty strong though.
Speaker 2:You're very strong for your size.
Speaker 1:Um, but let's talk about like that aspect of the traveling, because that definitely was a concern going into this cruise and going to europe with the whole family and the kids like how bad is anti-semitism in europe? And I would say it's the same, it's as bad as it is in, like, new york city. Yeah, there are protests and there are signs and there are stickers and there are, you know, you see it everywhere, like there was no escaping it, it was in every, which is interesting. But I think the most Jewish friendly stop was Morocco, was Casablanca, yeah, yes, but I also think there's a reason for that.
Speaker 2:It's because there's not a large Jewish population there to be anti-Semitic too. It's not like you're going to go around posting anti-Semitic stuff in Morocco.
Speaker 1:But people were really nice to us. No, they were wonderful to us.
Speaker 1:My sister went to a Starbucks and the woman asked oh, where are you guys from? And she said Israel. Then the woman gave my sister a bunch of free bottle bottle of water and the thing is like, yes, there was antisemitism, but there was also a lot of positivity, and I shared on my Instagram like a recap video of like all the positivity and the love that we received when people you know heard that we were, you know, from Israel, cause you know my family's from Israel and and it was nice and I feel like the positive like outweighed the negative in a way. Like, yeah, you see all the signs and it sucks and, like you know, you're just trying to travel and have a good time with your, your family, and then you get like slapped in the face with free Palestine signs and, and you know, all kinds of propaganda at the same time, it's like at this point it's like you're kind of used to it, yeah it's like whatever, all right, par for the course.
Speaker 2:The the good thing is we didn't like literally run into any anti-semitism. We didn't run into any demonstrations, we didn't run into any protests. We, we, we steered clear of all that.
Speaker 1:It was just like a sign or graffiti or whatever yeah, same same, speaking of like in my question, because I asked like, oh, ask me questions about, like, the crews, of course I got a free palestine. You did it um, dork, I don't know, I don't, I don't get it um, at least frame it in the in the question format yeah, then I mean, I got another like a lot of seasick questions.
Speaker 1:And then one more question Do you think Europe and the Middle East are worse than before, or just slightly less bad in Latin America? I think he's talking about anti-Semitism. Oh yeah, like the same.
Speaker 2:No way worse than before. What?
Speaker 1:Before October 7th. Yes, yeah. Definitely's definitely all over the place. Way worse.
Speaker 2:Definitely worse. Yeah, I mean statistically it's. It's not even a, it's not even an opinion, the statistical fact that it's worse.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, yeah. So what, what can people look forward to for the next season? So what can people?
Speaker 2:look forward to. Oh man, they can, they can look forward to us, uh, feeling our way through this season of difficulty, um, which we're going to keep it real, like it's. It's so hard to get on camera and create, sometimes when you're in a season where you don't feel like, you just don't feel good necessarily, like today, I didn't like, I didn't feel like, oh hell, yeah, let's record a podcast. But we committed to it and, like we discussed the other day, it's, it's important for us to be honest about it and if we're going to put ourselves out there in this way, then we got to give them the good and the bad at the same time.
Speaker 1:And yeah, we're taking you on this journey of getting back to us you know, like, even, like, even our sex life is not where it needs to be. Like you know, we still have sex like weekly, but like, I think, like a good, like, when things are really good between us, we have sex like three, four times, and and these are all aspects of things that we think are important and we're not even doing it. You know, like, like we're, you know, we're all about practicing what you, what you preach and what we preach in the first two seasons. We're not currently really staying on track.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, like I said, with that bike analogy, the most recent chain falling off the bike was our, our chiller for our cold plunge. Uh yeah, crapped out after a year, which is fine. You know, you buy it from china and that's what happens yeah, so that's why we haven't been cold plunging we've been cold plunging, which is a uh, not great, right, don't love that.
Speaker 2:But you know this is this is just going to be a season of getting back up on on the horse and and keeping it moving.
Speaker 2:But right now we're just like, where do we move to?
Speaker 2:Like, what are we moving forward to? So we are still in the inquiry of some of this and are going to bring anybody that's interested in seeing what that looks like along, because, uh, that's where we are and we're going to be anybody that's interested in seeing what that looks like along, because that's where we are, and we're going to be bringing on some super interesting guests that I'm very excited about, that are going to bridge the gap between, you know, the all of the things that are affecting us right now, including the war. We're going to have guests on that have, in very similar fashion to us, you know, been compelled to put down some of the things that they cared about very passionately before October 7th and pick up the, pick up the sword and do their thing. And you know that's that's going to be something that that we'll talk about a lot and it won't become the focus, but it will become a big piece of what we talk about here, so and also how they, you know, stay healthy and keep their mental health in focus.
Speaker 1:And yeah, I think the this podcast is a direct reflection of everything we're going through and we're always going to keep it real with you guys. So, yeah, this week we're going to try to get on our habits.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we got to stop saying try, we're doing it, eliminate, we are committed.
Speaker 1:We are committed to. Do you want to like walk through like some of our more? We've discussed this in previous episodes, but do you want to walk us through like our morning and night, like routines that?
Speaker 2:ideal, like the ideals.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the ideals.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So morning routine for me, I mean, I'll speak for me. It's similar to yours, but I'll speak for mine specifically. It would be, you know, downstairs in the gym by five, 15 or so, uh doing, breathing, doing the exercises like working out and stretching, meditating, so in a perfect world that takes all of that can take 45 minutes to an hour and just depends on you know how much of of each uh goes into it. So for me that's what the morning routine looks like.
Speaker 2:And then post, that would be cold plunging, and then that's that's the perfect morning. You know, hitting all of those notes for wind down, it would be. It would be the journaling, at least 15 minutes of reading, and uh, that's a. What else am I missing at night? It's the journaling and the reading. The gratitude journals and the reading are the big things at night. I mean, if you wanted to really ramp it up, do a nighttime meditation as well, like that would be top tier. But we've never gotten into that routine fully. It's mostly been meditate, kind of get in where you fit in on that one. But that would be the two, the two things, and I and I think especially for you right now it feels like one of us has to have our phone so we can monitor the baby when we need to, but shutting down the phones um before getting into bed is ideal as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean for me, I need better boundaries with the phone. Um, for the last year since October, like before that, I was like leave my phone downstairs, I wouldn't scroll in the morning. But since October 7th it's just like I need to know what's going on all the time and it's really bad for my mental health, waking up and just like being consumed with just images of war and protests and just news and it doesn't, it's not good for me and I know this. Um, and I have to separate. I have to I think I have to like physically separate myself from my device. It doesn't help that my job is social media, like people are like oh, why don't you just take like a break, take a month break? It's literally my job. Like I need to know everything that's going on.
Speaker 1:You know I need to know the trends, I need to know the news, Like I also work with some Jewish nonprofits, so I do need to know what's going on. And also, you know, I'm, my family lives in Israel. Like I can't, I'm not, I can't be the Lulu you know.
Speaker 2:I can't, I can't. The boundaries are, but I need to create better boundaries. And, but I need to create better boundaries. Maybe we'll get. Travis to talk about social media. Yeah, mental health, that would be good.
Speaker 1:So I'm working on creating some better boundaries and you know, ideally my morning starts with morning prayer. I want to bring more, you know, prayer into my life. You know prayer into my life, uh, and meditate. You know morning prayer, meditation, um affirmations, writing. You know gratitude journal in the morning. Um, what else in the morning? You know, obviously my uh walk the dogs. You know cold plunge when we get that fixed, uh, I usually have my workout a little later. Um, yeah, that's like kind of what the hit in my morning and then during the day, getting my 10 K steps. Um evening, yeah, everything that you shared for the evening, making sure the kitchen is clean.
Speaker 1:I feel like waking up to a clean kitchen is like it's key. Yeah, I mean, there's a more of a, there's a longer list. Like I'd like to like actually, the past year I haven't been able to even have time to shower and get dressed Like I'm in my workout clothes all day. I make a conscious choice, like I prefer to have time to work out than have time to shower and get glammed for the day, like that's like my choice. I am like I'm making a choice, but I would love to be able to like look good and feel good.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean For like zoom calls and and things and things like that. Like I only shower and get dressed when I have to go somewhere. So I would like to maybe try to fit that in, but it is what it is. It's not going to be perfect. Like you know, I I juggle a lot for one person and taking care, you know, picking I try to pick up Noah at three and that limits my day from like nine to three to get all my work done and and sometimes cook, even if there's things going on. So yeah, I'm just trying to also show myself grace that I'm doing whatever I can. I'm doing the best that I can, you know. Yeah, so yeah, do the best that you can.
Speaker 2:Do your best.
Speaker 1:Do your best. That's the motivating soundbite. Just do your best, honestly, that would be great.
Speaker 2:Just do your best. Honestly, that would be great. Just do your best and walk around assuming that everyone else is doing their best, and life would be at least 10% to 15% better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's hard, that's hard, yeah. On that note, we're very excited for our first guest of the season. Yeah, super excited, yeah, super excited. She's a boss as bitch, and I'm really inspired by her and her energy, um so stay, stay tuned.
Speaker 2:Look out next week, for we're just I mean, we're just going to leave it at that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, leave it at that.
Speaker 2:Okay, later.
Speaker 1:Bye, okay, later bye.