Spandex & Wine
Spandex & Wine is a podcast for finding balance between being healthy & living a happy life. Hosted by Robin Hackney, a 23-year veteran in the fitness industry & wine consultant, this is a place to be our authentic selves as we have real conversations exploring wellness and all things wine! Subscribe now so you don’t miss an episode.
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Stacking Yahtzee Boxes and Dodging Storms: A Podcaster's Tale
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Ever peeked behind the curtain of your favorite podcast? The magic you hear through your earbuds often masks a chaotic reality of technical mishaps, awkward setups, and moments that test a host's composure to its limits.
Robin Hackney pulls back the curtain in this special episode featuring highlights from the first-ever Spandex and Wine VIP Lounge call. For those curious about the raw, unfiltered reality of podcast creation, Robin shares laugh-out-loud stories from her podcasting journey. From conducting a 45-minute interview while staring at a blank screen (when her very first guest unexpectedly turned off her camera) to spilling an entire glass of water over herself, her computer, and her floor mid-interview while pretending nothing was happening – these candid confessions reveal the humanity behind the microphone.
The podcast hosting adventures continue with tales of recording from her grandson's tiny chair (hello, hip pain!), setting up shop in hospital rooms and libraries when rural internet fails, stacking board games like Yahtzee and Cribbage to create makeshift equipment stands, and literally ducking for cover behind kitchen islands during severe weather – all while trying to maintain professional conversations about wellness. Between chicken squawks and rooster crows in the background, Robin's rural recording studio adds another layer of authenticity to her productions.
These stories offer more than just entertainment – they showcase the dedication and passion driving independent content creators who overcome countless obstacles to connect with their audiences. Want to join this vibrant community? The new Spandex and Wine VIP Lounge invites you behind the scenes with monthly calls, exclusive content, and direct access to Robin for just $12 monthly. Search "Spandex and Wine" on Facebook to find our private group or reach out directly – because balancing wellness and enjoyment is always better with friends who understand both the spandex and the wine sides of life.
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Hello and welcome to the Spandex and Wine podcast. I'm your host, robin Hackney, and I'm so happy that you're here. This podcast is a place for conversations about balancing a healthy lifestyle and being happy more specifically, happy hour. Together we'll explore all things wellness and wine. I hope you learn a little, laugh a lot and, along the way, know you're not alone on this balanced wellness journey. Ready to jump in or something in your glass that makes you happy, because it's time for spandex and wine. Hey friends, welcome back to the spandex and wine podcast. So about a month ago I had opened the spandex and wine VIP lounge and I had a handful of brave people sign up for the $12 a month membership and I am so grateful for all of those people. So today's episode is just a snippet of our very first monthly call and I mean it was so much fun to have the ladies that were on on. I know that all of them could make it and it doesn't have to be just ladies, just FYI, but I'm so grateful for them and I wanted to share just a little bit. I am a little disappointed because I gave them some opportunities to ask some questions and after I stopped recording they had some amazing things to say and ask about. But that's what the VIP lounge is about, right, it is that one-on-one time I guess it's not one-on-one, it's a group time but for them to get that personal information and that personal time with all of us just together. So I hope you enjoy just this little snippet and I would love for you to join our Spandex Wine VIP Lounge. Well, my goodness, this is the very first Spandex and Wine VIP lounge call and I am so excited that you both are here. I have a couple ladies on, a couple ladies that we're trying to get on. We will see what happens, but this is just a place that we are going to have so much fun.
Speaker 1:Tonight. I want to share a couple behind the scenes funny stories that have happened. Scenes, funny stories that have happened. But this afternoon, as I was preparing, my youngest son called me when I was at the dermatologist and he's like hey, what are you doing? And I'm like oh well, I'm at a doctor's appointment. And he's like well, do you want to hang out for a bit? I'm like sure, but I do have a call in just a little bit. So if we can make it fast but you guys know how you just drop everything for your adult children and you just do what you have to do, right, like there's nothing better than just hanging out with hanging out with your kids and nieces and nephews, and all of that. It's just amazing, um, but so, um, just a couple of funny things.
Speaker 1:My very first and I don't know if you guys want to put yourself on mute, just so there's no back noise that would be awesome. If you don't know how to do it, I can do it for you. Doop, I think I did that one, and boop, I already got it for you, both of you. Yay, did you hear the rooster? Okay, so anyway, so you guys have been labeled my VIPs and while I'm going to be sharing this on a podcast, I wanted you to number one, be the first ones to know some of these funny things, and then the ability to ask some questions that no one else can ask.
Speaker 1:So my very first episode, if you remember, it was Aubrey, and she was the one that had lost 200 pounds, and so I had already done my trailer, I'd already done my fitness and I'd already done my wine episode, but she was released the same day and she was just amazing, except that we hopped on the call and we had a little chit chat beforehand and then, as I clicked record and we started to roll everything, this was my again my very first episode live with someone. She shut her camera off and I'm like, okay, so we're already in this. I know nothing about editing at this point. This is my very first episode and I'm like I do not want to have to edit anything. So I just sat here and I stared at a blank screen. Her name was across the screen and I just pretended that I was talking to her. She didn't even have a picture up. You know, some people have the picture up on Zoom. It was just her name and I looked at the screen and I think that episode was 45 minutes long as I was just looking at a screen. It is so much easier when you are looking at the person's face and you can read their body language. You can just see what's going on in the background, everything in their world, and I'm like, okay, this is a great start to the podcast.
Speaker 1:And then last week, if you heard Elizabeth on gut health, she was absolutely adorable and our episode was so short, mostly on my part, because, as we're talking, I have worried about this in. She was probably my 166th episode or something like that, and I've worried about it ever since, because I always have a little bit of water right there, because I always want to have something I can mute myself, I can take a drink of water just in case I get a dry throat or something like that, and you've heard it before. It's happened. So we're sitting there and we're chit-chatting and I reach for my I think it was my notepad and I bumped my water and my water spilled all over the countertop, all over my computer, and I tried to act like nothing was happening. But it was a full water. It was running down my leg and the earbuds that I have like I can hear everything. I can hear the air conditioner, I can hear a cricket, I can hear whatever, and I hear it drip, drip, drip, drip, drip down the floor Like, oh my gosh, if people knew what was going on right now.
Speaker 1:And I tried to just hold my composure, I felt like I did a pretty good job. I mean, I did edit a lot of it out, but I saved it. So if I need to use that as a blooper, I can totally do that. Oh my gosh, you guys. Yes, and what was the other thing I was going to tell you? Oh, it'll come to me. But the other thing I was going to say, too, is just all the places that I have done episodes. So right now I'm on my screened, in which I don't do very often because of all the background, but I have sat so many times in the living room in my three and a half year old grandson's chair, so then by the end of it my hips were killing me. Last week I set up in the hospital because I thought I was going to be doing a podcast episode there while I was there, and that's something else later that we can talk about.
Speaker 1:I have been at the library because my internet goes out. So many times now that we're in the country, I have, like, held my phone out. I have just put things in weird different places multiple times. Like right now, you guys, my computer is stacked on a nice little wooden box, but typically it is Yahtzee and Cribbage, and what is the other game that I have in there? I think Trouble that I stack my computer on so that it's high enough and I have my microphone. And I am just telling you. There have been so many different crazy things that have happened with the podcast during the episodes.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh, the other thing I was going to tell you and you guys heard this because I shared a little bit a couple of weeks ago. I was talking to Christina Hathaway and I told her ahead of time I'm like my internet's probably going to go out. I said we are forecasted severe storms, so just a heads up. And so we're talking, and we're talking and I was in my kitchen and behind me there were the windows and I could hear wind, and then I could hear a lot of rain, and then I heard hail and I'm like I don't think this is really good. And then it just like came in all of a sudden and I just grabbed my computer and I ducked down behind the island and I'm like Christina, I think we have to call this short, which I edited that out and I'm like, just give me one and a half minutes, christina, just wrap it up. Let's just see if we can, you know, tie this in. And she was so wonderful, oh my gosh, she was adorable. But we got it in, oh my gosh. And then all the chickens and the roosters and all of that, but it has been so much fun and such a blessing and I absolutely love doing this and I love that you want to be a part of the VIP experience.
Speaker 1:I hope that you received your mobility exercises and if you did not, let me know. I'm also going to be sending you some stability and some flexibility. I want this to be a place that you guys are able to thrive and just learn a little bit more. And after I hit record, I want to do a little introduction, but I want to know if you guys have any questions and things that you would like to ask me. So if you know how to unmute yourself, great. If you don't, I can unmute you and you can just do a little wave and I will. Okay, yeah, I gotcha, I gotcha, I am. Let's see. I think you might have to unmute yourself now. Ask to unmute. See technology, I'm going to ask you to unmute. Do you see the little? Um, I see the little. Oh, there you are, yay if you want to introduce yourself.
Speaker 1:You can. You do not have to. I'm ready.
Speaker 2:I'm ready for you, come on on the, on the mobility, I do have a question, sure? Um, I've been doing the first one only, so do I rotate and do one, two, three and then go back and do one?
Speaker 1:I would do in any order that you possibly want. Like those are just meant for you to be able to move better and feel better, so there's no right or wrong with that. And even if you're putting it with an exercise routine or if that is your exercise routine, you're good. You're good. It's not like you're lifting crazy heavy and you need to rotate muscle groups. You're good. You can do them in any order. You can do all three of them, whatever works for you.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. Any other questions? Anything you want to know about the podcast, how I got started, um my just start in the fitness industry, anything at all do you still have a studio and do a lot of classes in the studio, or are you more virtual now?
Speaker 1:Okay, that's a great question. So, um, before COVID, I had a studio at 162nd and Medcalf and I shared space with a trainer and then, after COVID, we flip. I mean I was leasing and subleasing to him. After COVID, we flip-flopped, I was subleasing from him and so now I've scaled back even more and I'm doing a 6 am, I'm doing some personal training and then I have classes here. I'll turn it right there in that building, right there. I have classes out here at my house, and then I'm just focusing now on more of my Plexus business, my podcast, and then just my little bit of training and classes.
Speaker 1:I know that I can't teach classes forever. I hope that I can continue to do that for as long as I possibly can. I think it's only going to help me and it's going to help other people. But I wanted to also have a place where I could help people in a different way and really get to some root causes of issues, whether it be inflammation or hormones or blood sugar balance, you know, whatever it might be related to their gut health. So that has been my burning focus right now and I know that that is something that's going to really help me and I'm going to be able to do for a long time. Good question.
Speaker 2:Is that the building we see in some of the videos you send?
Speaker 1:With the rooster picture? Yes, okay, so that building back there in some of the videos you send With the rooster picture? Yes, okay, so that building back there. When you see the rooster or you just see the garage door or you just see the little bit of equipment, then, yes, that's exactly that. So my videos, that's where I am. Yeah, I do have some really old videos which are, I mean, you can see, you can tell by my hair what stage it is Like. I don't know.
Speaker 1:You both follow me on Facebook and it was so funny I think it was last week someone had commented on our anniversary pictures from 2019. And once one person commented, then it went to everybody and so many people are like, happy 30th, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah dah. And I'm like, okay, first of all, can't you tell by my hair that this was so long ago, right? But they kept commenting and I was like, okay, I'm just going to give up and I started to copy and paste, copy and paste. This was two. You know, this is six years ago. Blah, blah, blah, blah. So people are going to be really, really confused next week when I post that it's our 36th wedding anniversary, not our 30th Yep, and again, we were talking about technology before.
Speaker 1:That's one of those technology pieces that you're like, okay.
Speaker 2:I couldn't figure out how to get this on my computer, so you're on my phone.
Speaker 1:I can tell that you're on your phone. That's okay. It's okay.
Speaker 2:I get it on my computer. I went into my computer and you weren't there.
Speaker 1:You know what? I probably wasn't there yet because let me tell you I was rolling up and I will. I'm going to post the picture in my stories. I was rolling up at six I think I took a picture at 626 and I'm on the off ramp at 311th and 69 highway and I'm like holy cow, I've got my first call. I've got to get there After my mole mapping, of course, because your dermatology appointments are really important people. What else? What else do you want to know what's burning?
Speaker 2:I can't think of one right now.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, well, that is awesome. So I'm going to go ahead and just wrap up just the recording part of this and I'm going to unrecord and then we're just going to get a little more real, all right. So thank you so much for doing this portion of the call with me and look forward to hearing that on the podcast. Look forward to hearing that on the podcast. All right, there you have it.
Speaker 1:We were missing some members tonight, but we had such a nice time. You heard a little bit of the conversation after I stopped recording. We had a fabulous little connect with each other and just shared a little bit more about what we're looking for, what we need in life and just getting to know each other, and that's what we all want in life, right? We want that connection, we want that interaction, we want to just be heard and seen, and that's what the membership is about. I just want to make sure that everyone feels connected and is getting what they need to be healthier and happier.
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