Community Over Competition: Motherhood, Mental Health & Movement Haven with Libby Welch.

Hello, my friend, hello...

This week, Libby Welch joins me for a conversation that starts with wedding songs, curly hair, and dance moms… and somehow lands in grief, postpartum anxiety, mental health, identity, and building a business that actually gives a damn about people.

Libby opens up about losing her dad after years of overwork and an undiagnosed mental health condition, and how that experience changed the way she sees herself, motherhood, and emotional wellness. We talk honestly about postpartum anxiety symptoms that often get missed — the control, overstimulation, rigid routines, unexplained weight loss, the feeling that something is just… off. Not the cute Instagram version of motherhood. The real one.

We also get into:

• postpartum mental health + asking for help
• grief and generational patterns
• confidence, curls, and self-image
• building Movement Haven in Dublin, Ohio
• “community over competition” in youth dance
• raising emotionally healthy kids
• skincare, hydration, intermittent fasting, and random life tangents because obviously

Libby shares the mission behind Movement Haven and why she believes in “human first, artist second” — a philosophy that feels refreshing as hell in a hyper-competitive world.

If you’ve ever struggled with anxiety, grief, identity, motherhood, or trying to build a life that actually aligns with your values… this episode will hit home.

And if you came for Neil Diamond and stayed for emotional healing? Honestly, same.

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Transcript

Welcome And Curl Confidence

Keri Croft 0:00

Hey there, you beautiful bad and welcome to the Carrie Croft Show. Libby Welch, welcome to the Carrie Croft Show.

SPEAKER_03 0:14

Hey, thanks. I'm so happy to be here.

Keri Croft 0:16

You were brought to me by the one Mia Santiago. So you're any friend of Mia is a friend of mine.

SPEAKER_03 0:23

I know, I love it.

Keri Croft 0:24

I mean, so how long have you known Miss Mia? Let's talk about her for a minute.

SPEAKER_03 0:27

Oh gosh. Um, I have known her, oh, I can't even, I don't even know how long since we've found her uh four years, five years. Okay. So she's been doing your hair. She has been doing my hair, yes.

Keri Croft 0:40

You have a beautiful, let's talk speaking of coffs. Thank you. So natural curl. Yes. Like intense natural curl, which I we always want what we can't have.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Correct.

Keri Croft 0:53

One of the things I've always wished for was like that kind of natural curl where you could just like diffuse it and it would just be like boom.

SPEAKER_03 1:00

Yep.

Keri Croft 1:00

When you were little, did you like it?

SPEAKER_03 1:02

No.

Keri Croft 1:03

Were you just like devastated?

SPEAKER_03 1:04

Correct. So my dad had curly hair. My mom has stick straight hair. And she said she prayed that I would get curls. And I flat ironed it all the way through high school. And I remember my uh hairstylist being like, please just let the curls come out. And I was like, no, no, no, no, no. And then it wasn't until I went to college and I was like, oh, this is way easier.

Keri Croft 1:24

When did you finally look at yourself though and go, these are actually beautiful?

SPEAKER_03 1:29

Um probably in college. Yeah. In my like maybe t early twenties when I realized like it was me and I was doing something that felt like I should be doing it because everybody else was, right? That was like the time I went to school. I graduated high school in 2003. So I uh everyone was had stick straight hair. So I was doing what everybody else did, and then I was I think I realized, oh no, this is me. And now it feels if I straighten my hair ever, which is very um infrequently, I don't feel like myself anymore.

Keri Croft 2:08

It's so funny when you're given such a um specific physical trait. Rarely do we like it, rarely do we appreciate it, and it becomes like the vein of our existence. But if only we had just a little perspective though on the the beauty of it and like how we would feel about it when we come into our own.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

Absolutely.

Keri Croft 2:26

See, I'm gonna be dreaming again now of I used to get perms. Oh, I used to get the perm, like a big time perm to try to get that exact that exact look. Yeah. How long would it take for you to straighten it?

SPEAKER_03 2:37

Um, because I'm a meticulous human and I have to get it completely straight, probably like 45 minutes.

Keri Croft 2:44

Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:45

I don't even blow dry it. This is just you woke up like deep put my product in it.

Keri Croft 2:50

And you got some great skin too. I mean, you got some good shit going on. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. I appreciate it that I'm not the only person that's told you that. Yes. Because it really is a glowy what's going on with your skin, by the way.

SPEAKER_03 3:01

Um, I go to Chloe Simon. Okay. Let me pump another look at uh aesthetician. She's amazing. Um, I don't really wear a lot of makeup. Uh I try to just take care of it. What do you have on here?

Keri Croft 3:15

A little light sun, little tinted sunscreen, a little a little bit

The Songs That Make Us Cry

Keri Croft 3:20

of eyeshadow, a little mascara, cheeks. Glow up. You got a little glow up, girl. So when I asked a question about music, yeah, and the song that makes you cry. So you have to know. Like the Neil Diamond. Hello, my friend. Hello. When I saw that, I just like I couldn't stop hearing it in my song. Like, it's good to need you so. It is such a good song. And yes, such a cry.

SPEAKER_03 3:49

Like, she's going in straight away. Get it out.

Keri Croft 3:51

Oh, I'm going in. I'm going in. I mean, your hype song was um damn it. I like that one too. I can't remember what your hype song. What was it?

SPEAKER_03 4:02

Jay-Z.

Keri Croft 4:02

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what was the what was a road trip one?

SPEAKER_03 4:05

Um, my road trip one. Oh gosh. Uh just the way you are.

Keri Croft 4:10

That okay. When uh see the put the windows down.

SPEAKER_03 4:13

Oh yeah.

Keri Croft 4:14

But but Neil Diamond is one of my like if I'm looking at like thinking about my memories with my dad and like in Lima, um, like Bob Seeger, Neil Diamond, and in like not just hello, but hello is like insane. What's it remind you of?

SPEAKER_03 4:29

Um, well, it was my parents' wedding song. Oh, really? Yep, it was my parents' wedding song. Um, and they were long distance for a long time. My husband and I were also long distance. Um, and I think I kind of I grew up having emotional feelings surrounding the song. And then when I was dating my husband, it kind of came back around in a in a different way because I think I understood it so much better um as someone who was actively going through it. Um and yeah, I made to, you know, dive right in. My my dad passed away. It'll be 15 years this fall. So that sentimentality of it is like a whole new level. So it just it hits on a bunch of different uh heart moments for me.

Grief, Heart Attacks, And Mental Health

Keri Croft 5:21

So your dad, you you mentioned he passed away. He had he had some mental health issues. So do you want to talk about how he passed away? Okay.

SPEAKER_03 5:29

Sure. Yeah, he um essentially was uh going back and forth. Um my parents were living in Pittsburgh at the time and he had gotten a new job back here in Columbus, was going back and forth, um, probably overworking himself, not taking care of himself. Uh obviously what we found out later was that he had an undiagnosed mental health condition that was um he wasn't actively taking care of uh until he ended up having a heart attack and then was able to kind of essentially come back to us. Like he um he was able to come back to us in a in a way that that we were able to repair um a lot of the hurt and especially between he and my mom, um, and then my brother and I. Uh and then he was actually working out um at the gym and had another heart attack, and that was what ultimately um, you know, took his life. But it feels like he was able to he was an amazing dad. And that was just a moment of time that was not who he was.

Keri Croft 6:42

So what was it like for you as a child knowing something was off? Because if they didn't know, you didn't know, but you knew something.

SPEAKER_03 6:50

Well, it wasn't until I mean my entire childhood, there wasn't really there weren't really any signs there. So it was it felt like, and obviously we won't ever know because we weren't there, but it felt like it was something that happened as a result of overworking, probably not sleeping, not taking care of himself physically, um, and it just kind of manifested from there, or it was something that he was dealing with his entire life, and it never kind of came to a point where he couldn't control it, right? Um, which is what mental health is, yeah, right.

Keri Croft 7:29

So has it made you so much more aware of your own mental health?

SPEAKER_03 7:34

Absolutely.

Keri Croft 7:35

And how do you how's that changed like the way that you experience the world?

SPEAKER_03 7:40

Well, um, immediately following that, so my brother, excuse me, started a nonprofit called I Don't Mind, which is about getting people to talk about their mental health. And this was kind of, he was kind of at the cut at the forefront of that before everyone really started talking about it. Um and so that experience obviously made it made me that much more aware of what my emotions were doing, how my mind was working. Um and then when I had my daughter, um, and she came early. So she came six weeks early in New York City, unintentionally.

Keri Croft 8:23

So um there's some stuff to unpack there.

SPEAKER_03 8:26

Sure. That um all of that, I think I definitely had some, you know, I don't know if I would say it was PTSD, but definitely the entire situation and scenario was really scary in a lot of different ways. Um, and then I had uh because of my dad, I would think I was able to understand that I was going through postpartum anxiety um because I just knew something didn't feel right. I was like, I know that you know, as a new mom within the first year, within the first two years, right? You're supposed to feel all of these different things or supposed to, but right? You do feel all of these different things. But I think because of everything that happened with my dad, I was able to recognize it

Postpartum Anxiety Signs And Support

SPEAKER_03 9:10

and seek help.

Keri Croft 9:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:12

And if that hadn't happened, I don't know that I would have been able to like conceptualize it in that way.

Keri Croft 9:19

When you had when you say you had postpartum anxiety, was it crippling? Like were you just like constantly thinking of something bad happening? Or like do you think it w how how did that sort of show up for you?

SPEAKER_03 9:30

Um I think it manifested in um like I'm a very organized person, but it was over the top. It was I her nap schedule had to be her not only her nap schedule, everything, food. Um going out of the house, like who was watching her. Um I I know that there were times where I felt like I just needed to go and sit in a closet by myself because I was so completely overstimulated. Um and I lost a lot of weight. And then and this was almost to a year, I just was like, I don't, I'm not feeling right. And I told my husband, he was like, Well, maybe you should go talk to somebody. So I went to my PCP and yeah.

Keri Croft 10:12

Yeah. And you know, the husbands too, they tread lightly. You know, was he was he know he probably know I was like, what the hell?

SPEAKER_03 10:19

This is Yeah, he knew and he um was he obviously he so we got back together. So we dated in high school and then got back together when I was living in New York. Okay. Um, and that was right before everything happened with my dad. So I also know that that was such a blessing of a reconnection because I we got back together and immediately everything happened. Um, but he was there for a lot of that and helping me to understand emotionally and mentally what was going on. So I think when he saw me struggling, he was like, Okay, this is what's going on here.

Keri Croft 10:54

It is it is kind of interesting like to think about the male um side of it all because I too, when I had Dane, I had the wildest, and I never even really said it out loud that it was postpartum anxiety, but like the shit that I was thinking, because it took so long to have him, and we went through so much and we had child loss and like all kinds of crazy stuff. When I finally had this baby, I was having like, I mean, wild thoughts um about something happening to him, or it was it was definitely some kind of wild shit.

SPEAKER_01 11:30

Yeah.

Keri Croft 11:31

And, you know, the men, they love the baby, but they're not going through all this, like, you know, they're just watching you and they're like, holy shit. Yeah, she's a she's turned into some kind of batshit animal and they can't say anything. So it is, I do kind of feel for y'all out there a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 11:48

I think it's just a little bit.

Keri Croft 11:50

Let me emphasize.

SPEAKER_03 11:51

Yeah, sure. I think that it's also like they feel probably feel helpless to because they can't understand.

SPEAKER_02 11:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:00

Because they aren't physically in our bodies to understand what is happening mentally, emotionally, physically, right? Um, but they also don't process all of the same emotions, right? That we're processing in that moment. So it's it's pretty wild. But he he's he has and has always been incredible and such a support for what's his name?

Keri Croft 12:23

Kyle. Kyle. Is he from Dublin too?

SPEAKER_03 12:26

He is.

Keri Croft 12:27

Kyle. You're so cute. My daughter's name's Kyle.

SPEAKER_03 12:31

I love that. I love that. Everyone thinks she's a man. I love that for a girl's name.

Keri Croft 12:35

I know, I do too. But everyone's like, how's he doing? I'm like, well, he's fabulous. You just go with it. Well, because you can't name your kid something like that and then get like, you know, precious about it. Sure.

SPEAKER_03 12:45

You know, it's you know that something crap.

Keri Croft 12:48

Yeah, I mean, of course they're gonna think it's a boy. Like, hello, don't do it. Yeah. If you don't, you know you gotta be then. Name the child, you know, Wilhelmina. Correct. And then you understand. My God. Back to your brother. What's your brother's name? Chris. Chris. Where's he?

SPEAKER_03 13:01

He's in LA.

Keri Croft 13:02

Oh, is he L L? Okay. Yeah. Does he still have his nonprofit? Yes. And how is it going? Like give him give me a little bit of a great.

SPEAKER_03 13:09

I think he would say that they've transitioned a lot as the world and the mental health aspect of what we're doing and how we're understanding and how we're talking about it. Um, they do a lot of like ask a therapist stuff um and some journaling stuff now. Um it started and it was really more of a um apparel kind of not company, but an apparel nonprofit that it just it was very strictly I don't mind across the chest, just to get people to say, hey, what's that? And then you say, I don't mind talking about my mental health, right? Yeah. Um and now it's kind of I think he he would say that it's transferred more into the interview aspect and like I mentioned, the therapist, uh ask a therapist and journaling and stuff like that.

Keri Croft 13:52

So LA, I mean that's gotta be a a wild place to live. Yeah. You know, do you get out there and visit him?

SPEAKER_03 13:59

We try to, yes.

Keri Croft 14:00

Because he lives in a whole different world than you.

SPEAKER_03 14:02

He does.

Why She Opened Movement Haven

SPEAKER_03 14:03

Yes.

Keri Croft 14:03

We're in a um so you decided you were gonna open up a dance studio. Yes. You're a dancer.

SPEAKER_03 14:11

I am.

Keri Croft 14:12

Can you do hip hop?

SPEAKER_03 14:14

Yes.

Keri Croft 14:14

Could you do hip hop choreography? I'm gonna bring this all away from you and all about my wants and needs. Yes. Do you would you like a hip-hop solo? Uh yes. Okay. So my dream has been to be in a rap video. I love it. Ever since I've been like 18. It still hasn't happened yet. Now, again, I don't want to be a dancer. Okay. I want to be like in this, I want to be in the passenger side, sure. Slow motion, rolling the window down, maybe one gold tooth, and just kind of going like this. Just challenge. Just what's up?

SPEAKER_02 14:41

I got you.

Keri Croft 14:42

And I it's probably not gonna happen, but I'm still hanging on. But anyway, I love hip-hop.

SPEAKER_02 14:46

Okay.

Keri Croft 14:47

I in my mind really want to learn these hip-hop dances. I love it. But I never so right now you could stand up and you could do like a hip hop. I could. That is so crazy to me. What are your other so n name your like if I said to you, get up and dance, what would be your go-to like modality or or dance my my kind of style.

SPEAKER_03 15:08

I would go musical theater. Okay. As my top. And then I'd probably go tap after that.

Keri Croft 15:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 15:12

Which um, yeah, and then probably jazz. Yeah. Those would be my own. So hip-hop would be like dancing. Not super low. I just didn't I didn't grow up training in it, but then when I so I lived in New York and I was dancing there um for a while and I w went into a ton of hip hop, like that was when In the Heights was on Broadway. Um so I went in for that a ton of times, and so that's all very hip-hop jazz influenced choreography. Um, so I like I said, I didn't grow up training in it, but I love it. And I love the cultural aspect of it. Um, I think it's a really fascinating day style.

Keri Croft 15:55

I would love to know what you would like, what would your first thing would be that you would do?

SPEAKER_03 15:58

Like, would it be like if I was doing hip hop? Yeah, like what would be your first like um it depends on if I'm being serious or if I'm not being serious. If you're not being serious. Yeah, if I'm yeah. Um maybe like the runny man if I'm just like or like the Dougie being silly. Yeah.

Keri Croft 16:13

That's one I've always am mad that I don't know how to do.

SPEAKER_02 16:15

Teach me how to Dougie.

Keri Croft 16:16

I remember my friend Nettie and I were like trying to learn at my house, and my husband was like, You're uh, I think at the time I was God, maybe 36. You're a 36-year-old woman trying to learn the Dougie. Yeah. You should never listen to him.

SPEAKER_03 16:31

Never too old.

Keri Croft 16:32

And now here I am.

SPEAKER_03 16:34

We have adult classes.

Keri Croft 16:35

Yeah, but here's the problem with that. So Beats Fitness, I you know, we go to Beats Fitness and Pow. Angie. It really, yeah, she's great. Yeah, it just really highlights what a horrible dancer I am. And so it's like, you know, it really makes me mad.

SPEAKER_03 16:50

And so you don't want to feel like that. No, like you want to feel like that's I mean, taking it back to the studio, a place where you can go and you can just let loose and be yourself and you're supported and encouraged and seen.

Keri Croft 17:03

Do you have adult hip-hop classes there?

SPEAKER_03 17:05

I don't have adult hip hop, I have adult tap. That is like incredible.

Keri Croft 17:10

Is it mostly adolescence?

SPEAKER_03 17:13

At the studio, yeah.

Keri Croft 17:14

Yes, yeah. Um, so give me a little bit more, like what when were you like, okay, this is it. I wanna, I wanna own a business. This all makes sense. Like what was the like what was the precipice for starting this?

SPEAKER_03 17:26

So when I I moved back to the um from New York to because of my now husband, right? Um Kyle. Yeah, Kyle. And I um was teaching at another studio. I mean, I've been teaching you know since I was in high school. Um and it just I I knew that I wanted to continue to teach, but that there felt like there was something more for me. Um and I wanted to create a space in the studio world that I didn't feel like existed. Um a place where the kids could really come and learn and grow. And I always value the human first and the artist second. That's just how I teach. That's how I want to show up in the world. Um the things that you learn in a dance studio go on to shape you for the rest of your life. I feel that, and that's how I feel like I've grown up. Um yeah, I think that in the competitive, because so we have a children's division program and we have a a competition company. Um, and that space can get really, really crazy.

Keri Croft 18:49

Oh, I can imagine I didn't realize you had a competition side.

SPEAKER_03 18:52

Yes, yeah. So that's really the side that that's how I started the the studio is kind of thinking about that and then building from the ground up. Um so we started age three. Um, and like I said, go all the way up until our adult tap class. Um, I wanted to create a space where kids could come and really focus on their training and dig deep and become better people in addition to better um artists, but also in a safe environment, in an environment that was healthy and an environment that recognized the physical toll that dance takes on your body in addition to the mental and emotional side of being a competitive dancer, much less a competitive anything, right? Yeah. Um, because the sports world, which I include dance in the sports world, is competitive and it is hard. Um, and I wanted to make a space where we could do both of those things.

Keri Croft 19:46

How are the moms? Great. They're great, but they ha those competitive dance moms, come on, there's gotta be some like wild or do they behave themselves for the most part?

SPEAKER_03 19:58

I think that it's all about how you approach how you want your families. I say your, my families, our community to show up, right? So we talk a lot about that from the dancers, we talk a lot about it with the parents and the families and how we show up and what movement haven is to our community, and that's encompassing everybody, right? So they know what my standards are, what our standards are. Um, I've had to call some people out when they're not living in alignment with what we believe and what who we want to be, right?

Keri Croft 20:36

Yeah, because you're setting the tone, right? I mean, you other other companies, dance companies can ha can behave however, but you're like movement haveman. You've got the values, the mission, and the the way that you guys move through the world. Right, absolutely. And you seem like a very inclusive, kind, patient.

SPEAKER_03 20:52

I try to be. I really do. I mean, I think that that's what other there's no other way to show up, really.

Keri Croft 20:59

Are you giving Rachel McAdams vibes? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 21:02

I've heard that one.

Keri Croft 21:03

Yeah, you're giving Rachel McAdams. You're welcome. What a compliment. I was just watching Notebook again the other night. One of my all-time, I cannot incredible. It wasn't over. It still isn't over. You know, go on the dock and then throw me against the wall with the blue dress.

SPEAKER_02 21:18

I was just like, damn. Such a good movie.

Keri Croft 21:21

Such a good movie.

SPEAKER_02 21:23

Yeah, that's such a compliment.

Keri Croft 21:25

Yeah, you're totally I you know, it hit me just now. I'm like, Rachel McAdams a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 21:29

Who are you?

Keri Croft 21:31

Yeah, with your skin and everything you got going on. Now I'm getting a little angry. Getting a little angry. Questions are about to get oh, we're gonna go into some choppy water. Oh my god. Um so speaking of your values, culture, and everything, what is your mission?

Community Over Competition In Dance

SPEAKER_03 21:49

Um, to create a safe space to create dance magics. We say our three C's are creativity, collaboration, and community. Um, and we mean that in every That we do, um, the way that we teach, right? The creative aspect of technique classes, choreography, um, collaboration. Uh, we host what we call our industry artist series classes with an open invite to all dancers in our community. Um, we don't, I I have a lot of connections within the industry and continue to to build those connections. And we bring those people in, and I want everyone to have that experience. I don't want to just save it for my kids. Um, you know, I think it's really important, especially if they're going off into this world on the professional uh space. You're dancing with the same people that you're auditioning with, right? Um, and that doesn't typically happen a lot in the studio world. Um, so it's been a slow burn, but I've also had a lot of really fabulous conversations with a lot of studio owners in the area and outside of Columbus um to really bring that together, right? So it's the community over the competition.

Keri Croft 22:57

Yeah. Right. I like that.

SPEAKER_03 22:59

Um and then the community aspect, um, you know, we do uh various community outreaches throughout this the year um as a company and also as a studio because I don't think it's ever too early for people to learn how to give back um to those who are less fortunate and need it.

Keri Croft 23:19

I love that. Is the competition side the bigger side? Like is it is it like when you look at the whole business, sure, is that most of what you're doing, or how does that line up with like the cla like the dance classes? Sure.

SPEAKER_03 23:31

Yeah, it started that way. Um now our children's division doubled in the past year.

Keri Croft 23:36

So you're packing them in there.

SPEAKER_03 23:38

We are.

Keri Croft 23:38

So are you full like are you on wait lists and stuff for these kids?

SPEAKER_03 23:41

Um, not wait lists. Uh we do have we have a couple full classes. We are doubling our children's division offerings for next year going into next season.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 23:51

Um, and our company started with um just our like teen and senior company. Now we have a mini and a junior company, and so we're just continuing to grow.

Keri Croft 24:02

That's so great. We need to get you on, we need to get this shit waitlisted. Let's blow it, let's blow it up. LFG. Where are you located?

SPEAKER_03 24:10

Dublin.

Keri Croft 24:11

But what what specifically?

SPEAKER_03 24:13

Um, Warner Temple. So if you know where a lot of people know where Tide Ginger is, I'm gonna shout out the fabulous Tide Ginger restaurant. A lot of people know where that is. We're in the same shopping center as Tide Ginger.

SPEAKER_01 24:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 24:25

Um, if you know where the bunnies are, no?

SPEAKER_01 24:27

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:28

Ballantray Ballantray, yeah. Yep. And to come straight down from there. Okay. Just on the corner. Okay, awesome.

Keri Croft 24:33

Well, you are just lovely.

SPEAKER_03 24:35

Thank you.

Keri Croft 24:35

You're very lovely. I appreciate you coming in. I appreciate you telling me about this. And I I just want to um, where I can help you and help improve the atmosphere with this thing you've got going on and blow it the fuck up.

SPEAKER_03 24:46

Let's go.

Keri Croft 24:47

So if you haven't, if you're in Dublin and you don't know about this, you need to know about this. Because not only is she a great dancer, she's a even better human. No, can't you tell by just this, you know, interaction?

Skincare Routine, Hydration, And Fasting

Keri Croft 24:58

Let's talk about your skincare routine.

SPEAKER_03 25:00

Oh, sure. We can talk about that.

Keri Croft 25:01

Can we?

SPEAKER_03 25:02

Yeah.

Keri Croft 25:02

What is it?

SPEAKER_03 25:03

Absolutely. I use a couple different. Do you want me to tell you what brands are? I want to know everything. Um face reality are my face washes. Um, I use Circadia. Um that, like I said, Chloe Simon. She's she's booked and busy all the time, but she's the best. Um, what else do I use? Supergoop is my tinted SPF.

Keri Croft 25:26

What's giving you the dewy glow? Probably the super goop. Super goop?

SPEAKER_03 25:30

Yeah, super goop. Yeah. Unseen.

Keri Croft 25:33

I feel like if I did super goop, it wouldn't have the same.

unknown 25:36

I don't know.

Keri Croft 25:37

You have great skin. It's okay. Yeah. It's just not like a baby's ass like yours.

SPEAKER_03 25:42

Well, thank you. I drink a lot of water.

Keri Croft 25:44

How much water? Because I'm gonna do exactly what you're doing.

SPEAKER_03 25:46

A lot. Essentia water is my favorite, but then I do a lot of electrolytes too.

Keri Croft 25:52

You do?

SPEAKER_03 25:52

Yeah.

Keri Croft 25:53

So you do like the powder?

SPEAKER_03 25:55

Like the element, yeah.

Keri Croft 25:56

Are you a super like clean eater?

SPEAKER_03 25:58

I try to be, yes.

Keri Croft 25:59

So are you like a I eat the same thing every single day?

SPEAKER_03 26:02

Um kind of gal. Uh some of it, yes. But I I have like my go-tos, my mainstays that I Which are what?

Keri Croft 26:10

I want to know what those are.

SPEAKER_03 26:11

Um I eat oatmeal uh every day with berries and flax and chia.

Keri Croft 26:18

For breakfast?

SPEAKER_03 26:18

For yeah. What time do you eat that? At noon.

Keri Croft 26:21

So you're an intermittent fasting. You are yeah, I am. When did you start fasting?

SPEAKER_03 26:26

Um consistently, probably for about three years. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I tried it, stopped it, tried it, stopped it multiple different times.

Keri Croft 26:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 26:37

Um, but then what will you eat after this?

Keri Croft 26:39

Like what will you eat next?

SPEAKER_03 26:41

So I'll have my oatmeal when I'm done. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, I'll have my oatmeal. And then um lots of vegetables. Um, I like barley and lentils. I love brown rice.

Keri Croft 26:53

You're a high fiber girl, too.

SPEAKER_03 26:55

Yeah, yeah. You know that's like the trend, right? High fiber. It is the trend.

Keri Croft 26:59

Have you tried flora bars? No. Jenny's flora.

SPEAKER_03 27:02

But I know are they delicious?

Keri Croft 27:04

Yeah, I mean, anything Jenny touches is delicious. She's got her brownie batter now. I mean, it's yeah, you gotta go.

SPEAKER_03 27:09

Your interview with her was so good.

Keri Croft 27:10

She's she's just good. You she could talk to the wall and be good.

SPEAKER_03 27:13

Oh my gosh.

Keri Croft 27:13

You know, try the try you shout out flora.

SPEAKER_01 27:16

Yeah, I'm I'm gonna go with it.

Keri Croft 27:18

Jenny's out there flourishing right now.

SPEAKER_01 27:20

Go, Jenny. That was good. Go, Jenny. See what I did there? Yeah.

Keri Croft 27:24

Um, okay, so give us some, let's give some shine to some spots in Dublin

Dublin Spots Shoutouts And Farewell

Keri Croft 27:30

too. So you already gave Ty Ginger. We've already shout out Chloe. Yep. Um, but from what it sounds like, Chloe's just she ain't got time for no new people.

SPEAKER_03 27:39

No, she just hired a she actually just hired somebody, so go see Sydney.

Keri Croft 27:43

Okay. Yeah. Sydney. Yeah. What else is in Dublin that we need to like the people have to know about? What's your workout? Do you go anywhere?

SPEAKER_03 27:51

Like um, I work out at home. Okay. I do Peloton. Okay. I love Peloton.

Keri Croft 27:56

You do the Peloton bike?

SPEAKER_03 27:57

No. The tread?

Keri Croft 27:58

No. Do you have the tread plus? The rower?

SPEAKER_03 28:01

No. I just do I do the phone. Oh, you just do the random stuff. Got it. Okay. So you do all the things that they do. I do that. I run a little bit. I kind of do a bunch of everything. So I used to teach pure bar. Okay. Um, and that kind of I think got me really into like working out outside of dance, because dance was always my workout, especially when I was doing it professionally. Um, and then I, as I've gotten older, right? Strength training, I fell in love with that. So I do a little bit of everything, but I don't go anywhere. I used to, and obviously I taught group fitness for a really long time. Um but I'm a self-motivator. So as much as I love taking class with other people, I also can just like go in my basement and do my thing. Were you an A student? Um, I probably should have been, but I don't think I applied myself until college.

Keri Croft 28:55

Are you a rule follower?

SPEAKER_03 28:56

Yeah. Big time.

Keri Croft 28:59

Yeah. Um, so n nothing else in Dublin. Nothing that you can think of that's like worth like restaurants, um boutiques.

SPEAKER_03 29:09

Well, I love we love Pearl. Uh of course Cameron.

Keri Croft 29:13

I mean Cameron, you're just he's always crushed in a club, isn't he?

SPEAKER_03 29:16

Always, always. Uh Kitchen Social, delicious. Um for past. I think they're technically in Dublin.

Keri Croft 29:25

Um Are you so happy about Bridge Park? Yes. I mean, just well done out there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:30

If I was 20 years old, I would live there.

Keri Croft 29:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:33

Yeah. So it's like a little mini city. Yeah. It's perfect. No, it's I'm trying to think of like the like some of the mom and pops that have probably Meretti's.

Keri Croft 29:44

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:44

For pasta. Delicious.

Keri Croft 29:46

Yeah. I want to mine for some some gems in Dublin. Yeah. We need to, we need to Oscar is closed.

SPEAKER_03 29:52

Oh, so sad.

Keri Croft 29:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:54

That was one of our favorites. Tucci's, great.

Keri Croft 29:57

Yeah. It's it's a it's a tough time for some of these restaurants, you know.

SPEAKER_03 30:01

It is really tough.

Keri Croft 30:02

Unbelievable. But not for dance studios. Good time to be in dance studio.

SPEAKER_03 30:06

I mean, we're trying.

Keri Croft 30:08

That's right. Fill those classes up. Well, thank you so much. Thank you, Vivi. This has been an absolute pleasure. Thank you. And I wish you all the success in the world. Thank you. Even though I'm mad at you. Sorry. And you have dimples. And on that note, if you're still out there following your girl, follow me on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. And until next time, go look at Movement Haven. And if you have a kid out there, sign them up and keep moving, baby.