Dusty Nuts + Resiliency with Pam and Natalie (part 1)

Ever watched an adult throw a full tantrum at the airport over something nobody could control? Travel brings out intense emotions in all of us, but what if we told you the journey could be just as enjoyable as the destination?

Navigating family vacations, airport chaos, and travel disruptions requires more than just careful planning—it demands resilience. Drawing from our own hilarious mishaps and hard-earned wisdom, we dive into transformative strategies that make all the difference between travel disasters and cherished adventures.

Discover why setting clear expectations before departure prevents family friction when one person wants non-stop sightseeing while another craves poolside relaxation. Learn how services like Clear and Pre-check eliminate stressors within your control, giving you more bandwidth for the inevitable surprises. We share the embarrassing "dusty almond incident" that taught us why proper nourishment prevents travel meltdowns, and why that barefoot sprint through the airport (metal walkway and all!) could have been avoided with better preparation.

The most powerful travel tool? Your mindset. When delays happen, games in the customs line transform waiting from misery to memory-making. When plans collapse, flexibility turns disappointments into discoveries. Your reaction to travel's unpredictable nature determines whether you return home needing a vacation from your vacation or carrying stories you'll share for years.

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Transcript

Reigniting Passion and Resilience

Speaker 1 0:06

All of us reach a point in time where we are depleted and need to somehow find a way to reignite the fire within. But how do we spark that flame? Welcome to Reignite Resilience, where we will venture into the heart of the human spirit. Resilience where we will venture into the heart of the human spirit. We'll discuss the art of reigniting our passion and strategies to stoke our enthusiasm. And now here are your hosts, natalie Davis and Pamela Kass.

Speaker 2 0:42

Welcome back to another episode of Reignite Resilience. I am your co-host, natalie Davis, excited to be back, and Pam, how are you today?

Speaker 3 0:50

I am fantastic Once again, just the two of us.

Speaker 2 0:55

That's it. We should insert the song there, but we don't want to. Oh my gosh, is that Christopher Cross? No, who sings that? I?

Speaker 3 1:05

have no idea.

Speaker 2 1:08

And.

Speaker 3 1:08

I'm sorry that I sang that. People were probably like oh no, don't quit your job, you're so brave One thing that.

Speaker 2 1:16

I don't want to do is sing on a pod, but you go right ahead.

Speaker 3 1:19

I did it. I did the thing, and this guest had a great excuse. They had a great excuse, they had a client that ended up scheduling, and so we graciously just pushed it. But then we're like well, we got to get together and we got to record, and so we have spent the last 15 minutes trying to figure out what the heck we're going to talk about. So we have landed on something that was missing from our lives right now, which is travel for exactly exactly also.

Speaker 2 1:48

But before we go on, bill withers and grover washington jr, that okay, good, just the two of us, just so we can take that out of my mind, because now I'm like who sings that? That's not yacht rock.

Speaker 3 1:58

Who is? That anyway well, if people are going to want to now listen to it because they heard me sing it, they're like we really should hear how it's supposed to sound.

Speaker 2 2:09

I think you did well.

Speaker 1 2:10

That was great.

Speaker 2 2:12

On the spot. No rehearsal.

Speaker 3 2:14

Good on you. Okay, and this is why we're friends Lie to each other Exactly.

Speaker 2 2:21

No, you did great, you really did. I mean not even justifying, it was like for no practice, that was awesome.

Speaker 3 2:27

I mean that was just it, my I will say that my family, like years ago, there were two friends and myself. We had this wise idea to do like a summer camp during the summer, because I just had Dylan, brand new baby like an adult summer camp. No, no, no. Kids summer camps.

Speaker 2 2:43

Okay, okay.

Speaker 3 2:45

That would be weird. That would be weird. No, we all worked at a daycare together and we're like, well, why don't we take the summer off and see if any of the families would want us to watch their kids for the summer? And we'll come up with all these activities and blah, blah, blah. And I had a big old Yukon XL, had three rows of seats, so filled with car seats and everything, and we actually got parents to agree to it.

Speaker 2 3:09

Which of course you did.

Speaker 3 3:12

Hey, are you kidding? And what's funny is the other two gals. They're teachers and they're very well-respected teachers, been teachers for years. So anyway, I would drive my big old Yukon XL with everybody in the car, and I for years. So, anyway, I would drive my big old Yukon XL with all everybody in the car and I would always sing kids songs. And so one of the gap my friends was like you're like the fricking Von Trapp family, so, and when my grandson is at my house and I'm watching him, I am known to break into some of the old songs from nursery rhymes, nursery rhyme songs.

Speaker 2 3:45

Yeah, he's probably so entertained. There's so much with this experience, pam, like first of all, I would never. Let's just be, this is how we differ and I would definitely be the parent that's like yes, you may take my children. And you guys have such an amazing time. It's lovely. I will take the 30 minute three hour break, or what have you?

Speaker 3 4:06

Oh no, they were there all day, all day, breakfast, lunch, afternoon, snack. Good on you, yeah, good on you. We knew everything that was going on in the town. We took them to the library that had when they had puppet shows and readings. We went to the park, we went to the pool. We I mean, we did all the things with these kids. It was probably their best summer ever and I still run into those parents today and it's kind of fun, yeah.

Speaker 2 4:32

Summer was the time that gave me the most anxiety. I would say like summer was an emotional roller coaster. So when school let out in May, I would have this moment of anxiety of wondering what the heck am I going to do with the children for the entire summer, because it seems like forever. I am a big fan of the school system, that we have the education system, so I would have this moment of anxiety of what the heck are we going to do. And then end of summer would roll around and in August, like I go into this little bit of depression like oh wait, we've been together all summer. Now what, like now what?

Speaker 1 5:02

Now we have to be on a schedule.

Speaker 2 5:04

Yeah, get back onto a different schedule.

Speaker 3 5:06

Yeah, so good on you for doing it all summer. You know it was one and done, it was great. It was great because, you know, dylan was a baby and I was able to just hang out with him and we did have I mean, we had a lot of laughs. Oh sure, the three, three of us. So, yeah, the things that you do. So we just went down in complete rabbit hole.

Speaker 2 5:25

No, it applies here. We are in the summer, I don't know. Yeah.

Speaker 3 5:36

We have officially started summer because kids school is out, which I love when school is out now that my kids are grown, because I don't have to worry about the traffic because I live by three schools and so, depending on when you leave in the morning, it could be a situation.

Speaker 2 5:46

Yes, and one school that doesn't have a bus service, so everyone is parent pickup.

Speaker 3 5:50

Everyone is every single person, and sometimes I feel like they drive three cars. Yes, exactly.

Speaker 2 5:57

Exactly. That is something I actually completely blocked out of memory. And Elizabeth and I did literally a drive down memory lane when she was in town a few weeks ago and we stopped at all of her schools and we did pictures of her near her signs, because she's going into her senior year of college and she goes, as we were pulling up to her middle school. I said, oh my gosh, I remember like pinpointing the spot of where I would start the parent pickup line. I'm'm like, oh, this is where the parent pickup line would pick up and this is where I'd get in line. And she goes because there was not a bus service, there was no bus or transportation for kids, and I thought that's right. How did we even get away? It's like this fairy tale life that we lived at that moment.

Speaker 3 6:41

But anyway. Well, this is why, where I live, all three schools are walkable and my kids, they would get so mad at me when it'd be the dead of winter and be freezing outside and they're like mom, take it. I'm like I'm not taking you. By the time I get in the car and drive literally across the street, it's going to take twice as long.

Speaker 2 7:06

And I don't want to go outside and get cold. Your 10 minute walk turns into a one hour car ride One hour thing.

Speaker 3 7:09

I have no time for that, no time for that. And so my kids will be the kids that tell their children that, oh, when I was young, I had to walk uphill both ways in the middle of the winter. You were tortured. Such a cruel mom, such a cruel mom, a cruel mom. But I was like I didn't want to waste the gas and I didn't want to have to get dressed. Because here's what happens you don't get dressed, you wear your pajamas and then you get a flat tire across and you run into somebody that you know.

Speaker 2 7:34

Yeah, because you have the person that wants to go to the club chat absolutely, of course everybody not happening. It feels character. I feel like they turned out fine. It's okay, I wouldn't worry about it.

Speaker 3 7:44

My favorite, favorite, favorite was when Dylan was doing. It was junior high and he decided to do wrestling and I don't know how many of you know what the wrestling uniforms look like.

Speaker 3 7:55

They're not good at all Wrestling leotards, yes, and they had to wear those little helmets that kept him from getting cauliflower ear. Yes, and so imagine the helmet. The onesie and Dylan was going through this whole cowboy thing at the time and he was wearing cowboy boots. He would walk home, bless his heart. He didn't care. Oh, and I see him coming down the street.

Speaker 2 8:24

I'm like, oh, that's my son yeah, his onesie, his boots, and, and he didn't take off his helmet, okay, oh, because why would you take that off?

Speaker 3 8:34

wait, then you got, you know, helmet head what a hair he's like my hair is messed up, I can't take it off. My hair is messed up, I'm leaving it, I'm embracing it, I'm owning it. Everyone else changed out of their uniforms to come home, but not dylan. He just, you know distance owned it, he owned it. I'm just like, oh, that's my son.

Speaker 2 8:53

Basically the entire neighborhood became his backyard and he's like I'm home, I'm just going to walk, I'm here, this is my house. Absolutely. I knew I was coming to get him.

Speaker 3 9:03

So there was no chance of that. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 9:08

Okay.

Family Vacation Planning and Setting Expectations

Speaker 3 9:08

We're going to talk about vacations, because this is the time of year that we're doing family vacations along with everyone else in the world, and so a lot of things come along with vacations not only the planning for it, packing, and then the actual traveling to get to the vacation, and then the coming home and blah, blah, blah. There's a lot of stuff and you and I have had the pleasure of traveling together many times, yes, and there's always some hilarious adventure. And I think what I love traveling with you is, you know most people would get upset and like start cursing and a lot. You and I always make it the funniest, funnest, best ever, and when our kids get to travel with us, they get to experience that and it's so much fun to see them watch us like okay that we're going to roll with this.

Speaker 1 10:05

This is what we're doing.

Speaker 3 10:08

So I would love let's go down some of the memory lanes of some of our vacations and maybe we can give people some I don't know strategies or tips for when they travel, because it is stressful. It's stressful to get to the airport when you have kids that you're traveling with and other people that you're trying to navigate, and how you show up and react to things that happen is going to really predict the whole outcome of the trip.

Speaker 2 10:35

Absolutely, absolutely, and it's. I travel for work quite a bit, and actually I was just at the airport today. I flew back from California to Colorado just moments ago, and it's interesting because the airport is made up of a whole different set of avatars and personalities right now, because families are traveling and grandparents are traveling to see the grandkids. I was sitting next to a lady that is heading to Steamboat Springs and there's not a Trader Joe's there, and so her granddaughter sent her very strict instructions of what chips to pick up from Trader Joe's, and so we had to save room in our row to make sure that the chips had a space, because she was.

Speaker 2 11:16

I mean, it's a whole different you know, compared to like the rest of the year, there's myself and then other people that travel for business right like that's the majority. I don't talk.

Speaker 3 11:24

You're traveling for business, you got airpods in, you're doing work. You're not talking to anybody no, no, like people that aren't normally doing it, and so exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 11:32

The anxiety level is out the roof.

Speaker 2 11:35

I will have to say, like I'm going to say this and then kind of come back to your question in terms of, like, how I prep and how I found it helpful, and it's something that I still do. But one thing, like coming into the airport and I saw this little boy just standing on the conveyor belt by himself. He was probably six and he's just, he was probably six. And so here I come, you know, with my luggage, and I'm walking by and I'm slowing down as I walk closer to him and I'm looking around and I'm like where are your people? Who's?

Speaker 2 12:05

watching you right now that leads into like one of the stressors of traveling with kids. It's like just wrangling all of the people involved. Like is everyone with us and that's at any age not just six.

Speaker 2 12:16

One thing that I found really helpful my parents did not do this with me when I traveled, because I really didn't have input or insight into our travel and what that looks like, but it was something that was important to our kids when we were growing up and that was setting expectations for the trip before we actually started the trip, and so we would always have like that expectations conversation, like what do you want to do? What is the feeling that you want to have after this trip is over? What are some things that you want to see? And so that was always helpful, because going into the trip like if one person wants to have a jam-packed schedule and the other person wants to sit by the pool and not do anything all day then you can, before you're in the emotion of it all, because you know there's frustration or angst or what have you you can figure out okay, well, here's the agenda to do everything, or you do everything and we're going to sit by the pool, and then we'll come together and at least we'll have lunch or dinner or whatever it is, so that everybody understands and has an enjoyable experience. Right and I think that's the biggest piece is that people get so frustrated. They go go through all of the planning, like you said, the planning, the traveling, the getting there and you can't get anywhere quickly anymore.

Speaker 2 14:19

And so you go through all of that, you go through the multiple days of the actual trip itself, and then you get home and you're like I think I need a vacation from the vacation. Yeah, we've all felt that we felt it.

Speaker 3 14:27

Yeah, we've all felt that. We've all felt that. We felt it, we felt it, yeah. So I love that.

Speaker 3 14:37

And I forgot that you guys did that because when I was newly divorced, my daughter and I went on a trip with you guys to Spain and that was one thing you guys did. You're like what are your expectations? And it was so funny to see my daughter's reaction to that trip versus our family trips, because that was that trip versus our family trips, because that was not part of our family trips. There was one person that made all the decisions. This is what we're doing, and blah, blah, blah, and so it was never fun and this was so fun. And she's like I wish all vacations were like this. I'm like, yeah, it would make it much more fun, because what I like to do is different from what you like to do. And if everybody knows that, hey, I really want to do this, who wants to do this with me? And I really want to do this. That way, everyone, even the kids, have a say in what's going to happen on the vacation. You're going to alleviate so many tantrums, and I mean the adult tantrums, all of those things.

Speaker 3 15:29

Yes, Do we want to talk about adult tantrums, and and I mean the adult tantrums, all of those things.

Speaker 1 15:33

Yes, do you want to talk about adult?

Airport Stress and Adult Tantrums

Speaker 3 15:33

tantrums Because I'm a little embarrassed by adults sometimes, oh, sometimes I mean like the full-blown adult meltdowns in the middle of the airport, especially when traveling, and you're just like wow, I'm sure that that attendant behind the desk has no control over the weather and the plane not being able to take off, Absolutely, Absolutely.

Speaker 2 15:54

Yeah, we are. I am not going to get on that soapbox and this is the thing. There are certain things that are uncontrollables when you travel right Delays I shared with Pam before we hopped on. To record my flight was delayed multiple times this morning. I was supposed to be in Denver three hours ago and it was delayed by three hours, which throws everything off in my world and I could choose to get upset about it, frantically, try to book something else, but I've just learned to like settle in and I'm like okay, it is what it is and I will get there as long as I get there safely. That's my number one priority, right.

Speaker 2 16:25

Like getting there, but I've seen people lose it over things that are out of their control and out of everyone else's control and the tantrum helps no one except for those that are looking for entertainment value, if you want yeah, if you want everyone else to be entertained by your you, go right ahead, do that? Yeah, exactly, I'm usually a headphone person, so if you see me like slowly take my headphone out, oh, I just, I, just I have the noise canceling.

Speaker 3 16:48

So if you see me like, slowly take my headphone out, I'm people watching, I have the noise canceling. So if you just click it, if you click it, then you can hear everything clear as day. It's not even have to take them out, I can just listen to your little tantrum and be like, oh, that's fun, oh my gosh, and we always have those. And actually I think about when we were in London at the airport and we had to go through the customs line to get on a bus to get to the other airport for our next flight, and it was a long customs line. So what did we do? We took out our phones and we played heads up, heads up. We played heads up in line looks and we were laughing and having the glares. The people in the custom lines, because they're all cranky, like why is it going so slow? And we're having a blast? Yes, so it's what you choose to make of the situation.

Speaker 3 17:36

And it can flip, because I remember I was traveling in the fall, uh, home from france and when I booked our flights there wasn't a huge layover between our flight in that landed in frankfurt and then was heading to denver and we had to go through customs again. And when I say the line was ginormous. It was so big that it was outside of you know how you have the. The line where you have to go through. It was like hundreds of people, just a swarm like filter into this. And of course we had our flight was five minutes from boarding. There were two custom agents and everyone is like the same spot. So I asked somebody and I was like, yeah, our flight is boarding in 10 minutes and she goes. Well, you can ask people if you can cut ahead. And so when I started and I was getting anxious because I was like I need to get home and so I get, I started asking people and they're like, no, our flight leaves in 10 minutes.

Speaker 3 18:30

And I was getting anxious because I was like I need to get home and so I get, I started asking people and they're like no, our flight leaves in 10 minutes. And I was like you know what, we're all in the same boat. And so then I started just making conversations with this couple that was in front of us as we kind of laughed at the people that were coming up trying to cut in, and then people screaming at them go to the back of the line. We're all in the same boat. It to say about it was like watching a circus. It was quite amusing. But then I was like we were talking and laughing and having fun and we got through it and we got to our plane and it was just fine and it was completely fine.

Speaker 2 18:57

It was fine. As you talked about the queue. It reminded me of the trip that you and I took to Oregon last year.

Speaker 3 19:03

Oh, that just gave me anxiety again. For you, as you're texting me, I'm already on the plane. I'm like thanks, I'm still in line.

Speaker 2 19:13

I did not, I did not. I didn't leave her this time, like I, of course, she was on the flight, so technically the plane didn't leave.

Speaker 3 19:22

But if it had, she would have left me, I would have left.

Speaker 2 19:25

So here's the thing If you travel with me, I have the expectation that you will have clear and pre-checked. That's just kind of the expectation.

Speaker 3 19:32

Now I have global, which is clear, pre-checked. It's all the things. I'm just shy of being the pilot.

Speaker 2 19:38

Yes, well, pam did not on this one trip that we had, and this was a business trip that we had taken to Oregon, and the regular line for TSA was queued up. I mean, it was snaked back and forth and so I went through pre-check Was it clear? And pre-check so?

Speaker 3 19:55

whatever that line was, girl, you just walked right past, waved at me.

Speaker 2 19:59

And I said I'll wait at the gate Because we had kind of close because of traffic. No, you, all I want you to hear and feel the level of anxiety that I had because here I'm thinking I can't leave her, and so my boarding group was called and I waited and I was texting Pam and she wasn't responding, which made me even more stressed out people.

Speaker 3 20:24

So, everyone knows that did not call me in any way at all.

Speaker 2 20:29

No, and I'm like they're starting to board.

Speaker 3 20:31

Okay, group one is going.

Speaker 1 20:33

Okay, group two is going. How?

Speaker 2 20:34

far are you Exactly? And so she stopped responding. And then I'm having anxiety because I'm like she's been detained, they're searching her and now I'm not going to be able to wait, for I create this whole narrative in my mind and so I'm having anxiety. I didn't get on until like the last five or six people, that we were just lingering, and so I get on and I'm just like every person that gets on the plane after me my head like pops out in the aisle and I'm like is she coming? Is she?

Speaker 3 21:06

coming. Still no text message. I called you as well and you, pam, was like decline. I don't want to hear that. I didn't even have time to get the phone out to even answer. I literally put your shoes on. I didn't put my shoes on.

Speaker 3 21:13

I had to go through security. I didn't have time to put them back on. I ran through the airport and, on one of those little magic carpets that is like these metal teeth, I ran through that on my bare feet. Thank god, the gate was like one of those little magic carpets that is like these metal teeth. I ran through that on my bare feet. Thank god, the gate was like one of the first ones.

Speaker 2 21:29

It was it was very.

Speaker 3 21:29

I literally got on the plane and I was full of sweat my feet, bottom of my feet it was. It was one of those things. And it was so funny because, as I was in the line, I was literally just doing like these deep breaths because I'm like it, it's out of my control, there isn't a thing I can do. And the lady in front of me asked me she goes do you have a flight? I was like, yeah, they're already boarded. And she goes well, why don't you cut in front? Why don't you just ask everybody? I'm like I don't want'm just gonna trust that it's gonna work out. And I and she goes well, you're going in front of me. And so she let me go in front of her.

Speaker 3 22:07

And then I ran to the and she made it, and the moral of the story is that she made it and get clear and pre-check as soon as we got home, I now have global, which is like clear plea check all the things, everything, yes, everything, and yes, absolutely as we talk. All the things. It gives you everything. Yes, it gives you everything.

Packing Smart: Water and Snacks

Speaker 2 22:25

Yes, absolutely, as we talk about the things that are within our control, just plan those things that you like. For me, it gives me anxiety to get there and the security line is so long or out the door, and there are some airports in this country and international that there's no way around it and I think I went down that path because I stood in line at an airport and it was three hours to get through.

Speaker 3 22:49

We've had a couple of times coming back through the Denver airport from Mexico where we were in line for hours. And it's so funny because when I came back from France I was traveling with somebody and they do not have global and I was like, see, just so you know, I'll see you at the luggage. I was not going to wait After the ordeal in Frankfurt, there was no way I was going to wait in a line in Denver at customs.

Speaker 2 23:20

So I was like bye. We're done. We're done with this.

Speaker 3 23:24

Because you literally just walk and I don't know, somehow they magically see your face and they're like welcome home.

Speaker 2 23:29

Mrs Cash, yes, but it's good to be home. I know you kind of look back and wave. You're like I'll get back, it's fine, it's fine. Yeah, it makes a big difference and it's it's one of those things. I look at it as a way to control the stress right. So for me it's like I'm gonna remove the stressor and it is worth the investment in that service so that I don't have to have that level of stress and tension or the unknown variable. I think that's the biggest piece.

Speaker 3 23:58

It's like the unknown and that's why and I'm definitely a big proponent and always being at the airport like way early I would rather, I am not and you are not. I'm the person that's like I want to be there an hour or two early. I would rather just sit and wait.

Speaker 2 24:13

So anyway another and I do not. I would rather walk in and walk directly to my seat without pausing yeah, because anything goes wrong, I know you got no not an inch to square.

Speaker 2 24:25

I've had this with coworkers that have traveled with me as well, tyrone, and for trips that we had taken, and he didn't send a text or anything, cause again, he's like she's an adult, she'll get there and the plane is literally boarding and I just walked straight into the line and scan my ticket and he looked at me. He goes. I was wondering if you were going to make the flight or not. I was like, of course I'm going to be here.

Speaker 2 24:48

I just don't want to hang out. Let me knock on wood with all of that.

Speaker 3 24:54

Anyway, please knock on wood so that we know that you're actually going to make it. Yeah, the other thing that for me when I travel is having water, and you introduced me to these water bottles, these uv bright water bottles. Yeah, and most of the airports anymore have the ability to fill up your water bottles. I was really pleasantly surprised in Denver when I filled it up and I pressed the button so it filters your water when I press the button. It didn't need to do it.

Speaker 3 25:20

The water in Denver in those water fountains are obviously they're very good quality water nice so having water with me and I also travel with uh liquid iv, which is kind of like a gatorade, because we, if you don't drink enough water when you travel, your feet get swollen, you get headaches and you just and that will dictate how you feel and how you react to things as well if you're not feeling good, and so that's, that's a big one is having water with you, and I just don't love carrying plastic.

Speaker 2 25:47

I don't like the plastic water bottles, so if you can have one that you can take with you, one that's refillable yeah, I mean I think it's funny that you went to that nourishment side, because that was the other thing that I was thinking about is that if you travel with Pam and I, we are going to have snacks. We will have snacks.

Speaker 3 26:04

Oh my gosh, that just made me think. So when we, when we've traveled to Mexico, we take the I mean, if you saw the crap that's in our bags like I don't, cannot believe we've made it through customs into Mexico like pancake mix, syrup, peanut butter coffee crackers. And it's hilarious because it's like I'll have two full suitcase and one is full of food. And here's the thing, guys when you're traveling with teenagers, they eat a lot all the time all the time so I think our first time to Mexico.

Speaker 2 26:40

Um, you had packed all the snacks that you could ever imagine. Yes, licorice. Dylan was like no, but I'm really and he, but he was hungry for anything other than the snacks that you're getting exactly, and I was like no.

Speaker 3 26:52

No, unless you're buying it.

Speaker 2 26:54

No exactly no, we do, those were and that's all of like the hearty stuff, that doesn't like we have protein bars. Protein bars granola bars, Gummy bears, Twizzlers we have them all, everything, everything, because that's what you do.

Speaker 3 27:11

Because, as a mom and I think we've talked about this on our podcast before you and I have traveled together where we had no food with us yes, and we had to eat a dusty almond out of the bottom of my purse.

Speaker 2 27:22

She's not exaggerating we brushed it off. We were traveling and sitting in a meeting and Pam and I sat down. I mean, our schedule was stopped and we sat down and we looked at each other and we were like I'm so hungry and she goes I think I've got a protein bar in here somewhere and some nuts and she starts digging down into her Mary Poppins bag and pulls out a Lara bar which was completely flattened like a piece of paper correct, like a rolling pin had been taken to it.

Speaker 3 27:55

It was so thin it was, but it was something, and a couple of almonds and a couple of almonds, and she's not exaggerating.

Speaker 2 28:01

They were dusty almonds and we were loose, we loosen the but from that.

Speaker 2 28:10

That is why we pack snacks, because we learn and, yes, not everyone packs snacks like this pam. So because I'll tell you like I have snacks, typically I'll have snacks in my hotel room wherever I'm traveling. Because, getting back, and it's the protein bars, I have the liquid iv. Or gatorade has the portable gator, I have the liquid IV. Or Gatorade has the portable Gatorade sticks. Now, sometimes I'll do Gatorade, but I have all of those. And I've talked to other people and they're like, oh, why do you carry that? And I'm like I used to say because I have kids. And then I'm like no, it's just for me, it's just for me, it's just for me.

Speaker 3 28:45

I've made protein balls before and packed those and brought them. And especially you're at a conference and it's not great food that you're eating and you're out of your routine and it's like if I can have a cup of coffee in the hotel room and grab a protein ball, then I'm going to be golden and a liquid IV before the end of the day. So you know, doing smart things like that and there's so much, so many great healthy snacks that you can get now so that you're not eating, that you don't have hangry kids or hangry significant others or you're not hangry, because when I'm hangry I'm not attractive.

Speaker 2 29:09

I get hangry and I know that about myself and that is exactly why I have the snacks, because I don't want to get into that place and that energetic space, because it impacts the decisions that you make. It impacts how you're going to show up. It definitely impacts how you're communicating and having conversation with people. Yeah, or lack thereof. How much side eye is given? Yes, just on my blood sugar level.

Episode Closing and Final Thoughts

Speaker 3 29:31

Ask our kids, ask our children yes, angry or tired, like those, are the two that you're just like, just oh, stay out of mom's way thank you for joining us today on the reignite resilience podcast.

Speaker 1 29:46

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