Welcome to the first episode of Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas . We're going to take a second out to mention our sponsor , the Pink Paisley in Lafayette . They have your favorite candles , including Tyler and Sweet Grace , a huge selection of pure fragrances , jewelry by Kendra Scott and E Newton , bath and body products , home decor and more .
Speaker 2That's right , y'all . They really are your one-stop shop for all gift-giving and home decor needs . They even gift wrap for free . So if y'all in the market for a gift for somebody sweet or for yourself , y'all go hit up the Pink Paisley Arnold Boulevard in Lafayette or thepinkpaisleycom . Yes , ma'am , all right . So today's episode y'all this is so exciting . We are so excited to finally be doing this . We have some guidelines , can y'all believe ? We were kind of prepared for this A little bit . We tried to be prepared , but we'll see how that goes . So today we want to just tell y'all a little bit about ourselves . We're going to call this the intro , the introduction episode . Meet the Cajun Mamas .
Speaker 1Meet the .
Speaker 2Cajun Mamas . Okay , if you hear listening , you probably already know who we are , but this will be a recap , and if you don't know who we are at all , this will be very informative for you .
Speaker 1Yeah , we get this question a lot how did we meet ? We're going to answer that for you today and let's just get started . My name is Sarah O'Prior . I'm from Church Point , louisiana , born and bred baby . Born and raised , born and raised . And what's your name ?
Speaker 2Oh , my name . Well , it's Koa . Everybody always asks me how to say it . It's spelled K-O-A and it's pronounced Koa . My last name Okay , first name , not Cajun at all . Last name very Cajun , and we was both Gidrys .
Speaker 1We were both Gidrys . Our maiden name is Gidry , that's another Cajun . We are not related , but probably are somewhere along the line .
Speaker 2It's possible . You know sisters from another mister somewhere down the line . So I'm not from here , where you grew up in Church Point . I'm from Gaydon , that's even a smaller town , and I married a Church Pointian man Church Pointian , church Pointian , church Pointian . Oh okay , I have to get that right . I've been here since 2010 . I should know . Churchpuncion .
Speaker 1Churchpuncion . I don't know , I don't know , that's what I say .
Speaker 2Okay , well , but yeah , no , I married somebody from here and been here since 2010 . And it's funny kind of how we met . It's probably not what you would think we weren't lifelong best friends ?
Speaker 1No , and blessed for that for sure , because sometimes you know you have friends for the seasons and you really don't know it's for the seasons , but they're lifelong friends anyway .
Speaker 2But this girl here I tell you what . Okay , so it wasn't like besties at first sight . Honestly , it wasn't .
Speaker 1No , and it wasn't anything really .
Speaker 2It was just , we met at the gym and our gym was much smaller at the time .
Speaker 1Honestly , it wasn't no and it wasn't anything really . It was just we were at , we met at the gym and our gym was much smaller at the time . Yeah .
Speaker 2It was just a little bootcamp .
Speaker 1She was coming back from having her second baby .
Speaker 2Yeah , so my , my second born was uh , let's see , about three months old at the time and I was ready to get back , get back in a little shape here . So I joined this boot camp not knowing anybody . So I knew maybe a handful of people in Church Point and I had been married to my husband since 2010 . This would have been 2018 . So I didn't really know anybody .
Speaker 1I just wonder , though , what you was doing all that time with no friends in Church Point . I don't know what were you doing .
Speaker 2I was being a wife , being a mama , I guess . I mean we had a few friends . You know , my husband had a few friends growing up here .
Speaker 1Yeah , and y'all have y'all friends in Lake Arthur too . Yes , Like the friends from Lake Arthur .
Speaker 2Yes , we would do a lot with them we would .
Speaker 1I take up a lot of your time now . So I mean , so I just don't know . I just don't know what I did before I met you , honestly . Well , anyway , she walks in the gym and I was a grand kill order at the time , okay , and I was me and my friend was talking . We was like she don't even need to be here .
Speaker 2She don't even need to be here , she's so skinny but then I mean , I was not which you would say but I was very fluffy underneath them clothes and I just you know I just wanted to tone up and get . My idea was to get back in gym shape so that I could go to the gym . Like why do people do that ? Like just go go to the gym when you're not in shape ?
Speaker 1So often you know where people are . Like I want to . I need to work out before I go to the gym . No , what does that even mean ? And it's probably because of people like me who's gym snobs and judging the people whether or not they should be at the gym . What the heck .
Speaker 2So I mean , I remember you and our friend Amy , which we like . We're all best friends now . Oh yeah , all best . We're in a group chat and we just anyway .
Speaker 1And we were never ugly . No , y'all were not ugly , but we were just like . This is what we said about you when we first met you , and now it's like we don't . We can't imagine our lives without each other , Right ?
Speaker 2So we met through the at the gym and I guess we talked I mean friendly a little bit . But then COVID hit 2020 , and you was a teacher and so you were out of work and back up a little further than that . I joined Lime Life , a skincare makeup company , and I had a little party at my house and of course it was makeup and margaritas and I went for the margaritas .
Speaker 1I'm sure you did . No , I lied . I went to visit with everybody , though , you know , because I like to visit and drink , yeah , oh well yeah , free margaritas and a mom's and a night out . Yeah , that was nice , it was nice .
Speaker 2That was probably my funnest party , but anyway , I only invited my gym friends because that's , I mean , that's the only people I knew from Church , point . So all the gym , all gym friends were all there and you bought some stuff from me and got you hooked on that lime life I got hooked .
Speaker 1Yes , yeah , I mean it all kind of started . Our social media presence really started with COVID , you know .
Speaker 2All right , y'all , we're going to take a second to mention one of our sponsors . We got Pizzaville Pizzaville , usa in Church Point . Adam and Haley Duplichan have really just made a fine establishment over there . You can bring your whole family , you can sit inside or outside . There's games for the kids , there's even games for the adults , like on Monday nights .
Speaker 1And sometimes they have live music . You know it's just , you can bring the whole family and that's what I love about going to PizzaVille , usa it's true , it's true , you don't have to get that babysitter Correct , uh-huh .
Speaker 2They do bingo every Monday night , and they're giving away some pretty big prizes too , like in in September , some LSU football tickets . Well , what ? What I'll talk about Every Tuesday is Bogo pizzas too .
Speaker 1Buy one , get one pizza . Did you know that ? How did I not know this ?
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Speaker 1about . We mention Renewed Vitality .
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Speaker 2I love that I love that too , and I love that she's a more natural , holistic way of yeah , for it's for women and men , isn't it ? It's for anybody , huh , specializing in women .
Speaker 1I know specialized in women's health and hormone hormone therapy , all right so how we got started on social media , that's an interesting story .
Speaker 2So let me back up one step . Go for it . Okay , covid hit . You were a teacher , you were not working , you were using all the limelight and I remember offering this to you like you should just join and do this business with me . And what you thought .
Speaker 1Well , the thing of it is was I really was still working because they made us teach virtually .
Speaker 1And that was horrible and I was like you know what I'm going to make this fun ? And so I got in front of the camera for my students and I really had some fun with that , you know , even though it was such a horrible time and I absolutely did not love that . But when she asked me to join Lime Life , I was like you are crazy , I cannot do that . And then I talked to my husband about it was it was barely anything to join and get your kit and kind of invest whatever . And so I did . And the next day I was buying a bunch of stuff to make parties and samples and all the things .
Speaker 2I was like I guess I'm really doing this . Well , you remember our first social media post together . I had taken my Subaru Stop . Yes , oh my God , it was so good , I said she done , jumped on the glam wagon .
Speaker 1And .
Speaker 2I took my Subaru , we opened up the back hatch and I printed out a Lime Life logo . And I taped it to the window on a piece of paper taped it to the window and I took a video of you running in the back and like jumping in the back of my Subaru . That was so funny and I said she jumped on the glam wagon that was .
Speaker 1We had so many people laughing and we did it like a , a boomerang , so you were like running in , running out yes , jumping out , it was so good .
Speaker 2And when ?
Speaker 1she , when she sees it every year , she always reposts it , or you ? Know , it's so like a time hop or whatever it's so funny it's so funny because from then on we have been making silly videos together . They used to just be longer and they were always about what we were trying to yeah you know , sell products that we'd have a mosquito bite .
Speaker 1When we did , uh , what you could put on your mosquito bite , it was like we have and we used . You remember that tiger tiger king when I did it and I was , uh , carol baskin and I was like it was with me or by yourself .
Speaker 2It was by myself and I don't remember that oh girl , it was so silly and like .
Speaker 1When I look back at it I'm like oh my god , we use snapchat filters .
Speaker 2We would use snapchat filters to make ourselves look crazy and we'd go back and forth . And in case you was wondering , how did we get where we are right now , well , it started with silly videos about limelight products it did and a lot of people probably think , oh , now that she's got a little following , she's gonna start trying to sell this .
Speaker 1But honestly , it was limelight that started all this . You know what I'm saying ?
Speaker 2yeah , it's hard for us to talk about how we started , without mentioning that , because we bonded over it and we did and like now . I mean , we run our businesses , we run our teams together and it's so much fun . It's so much fun , but let me ask , ask you this Okay , what for you in your mind was like it sealed the deal on our friendship ? I have something in mind and I want you to think of something you don't have nothing Like .
Speaker 2When you look back and you , like I , knew we were going to be friends for life .
Speaker 1Oh , I have so many of them that I don't want to mention , but I guess it was just I don't know Whenever , whenever we , when we made those videos and we would one was just as funny as the other , and we laughed so hard .
Speaker 2We would laugh so hard , it's true .
Speaker 1Well , what is your specific one ?
Speaker 2I can't wait to hear our Hanson concert . How could I forget ? That was our first excursion big trip . As friends me and Sarah and her sister Lainey we went to New Orleans to see Hanson . And first of all we didn't even know each other , was Hanson fans , but back in our childhood they were the deal , the big deal , and we loved them so much . And when I found out you were a Hanson fan I said this is my soul sister right here . We had to .
Speaker 1We had to , we had to go together and it was like I don't think , I don't think we had we started . We had just started in limelight together .
Speaker 2If anything , it would I don't know if you had started yet . It was before COVID , it was before okay .
Speaker 1So we really we really didn't know each other that well , but we liked you so much that me and my sister were like , come on , we have to invite COVID . She loves Hanson and her friend that you had asked didn't go .
Speaker 2We didn't want to come . So I mean I was so happy that y'all had asked me . I can still remember I was leaving the gym and y'all pulled up and rolled the window down and I was like , oh , what , like , what do they want ? That's so funny .
Speaker 1And when you said , why don't you come to Hanson with us ? I was like , for real , you have to make that happen . Yes , but you had already been to a Hanson concert when I was 12 years old . I never saw Hanson until I was a grown-ass woman . So it was like I we me and my sister had gone by ourselves to New Orleans , and then we went the second time with you , and that was so fun .
Speaker 2It just sealed the deal for me . That is it . Was it ? Yeah , that was the best trip . That was fun .
Speaker 1Oh , yeah , y'all but then the big thing that started cajun mamas was we went to palooza and we made a video .
Speaker 2I made a video about when you travel when you're from louisiana and you travel and none of the food tastes good . It's like nothing seasoned . Yeah , that was your big video .
Speaker 1And that started going viral on TikTok and honestly , yo , I never really would post on TikTok . It was just I took a shot in the dark and then all of a sudden it blew up overnight , and then I was like I checked my TikTok I was like I got like 10,000 more followers . I kept kind of updating her . I'm like this is insane . And then I didn't even have one . Then she didn't have a TikTok , she didn't want one , I'm not , and was like I'm never getting one . I said , oh you , this is going well .
Speaker 2Yeah , if this is going well , I said so , you're going to drag . You said , you coming with me , I'm going to drag you down with me . You did say that and we started making videos together one day , and then you passed me up in followers .
Speaker 1Oh well , still on TikTok . She's got more followers than me . Come on , tiktok .
Speaker 2The number of followers . That don't mean it's a lot of views .
Speaker 1Honestly it really doesn't , and together like we , just we ran with it and we still running with it we do I know we riding this as long as it's there . The blessings , the blessings that keep coming from it . That's right . So that's how it all started .
Speaker 2Y'all , that's it . Let's take a second and mention one of our sponsors for September . Y'all , it's Pizzaville USA . They got a Pizzaville pizza ville in church point , and y'all , let me tell you , everything we've had there has been delicious . They got food , they got pizzas , they got hamburgers , muffaladas , salads it's not just wings all the wings , that's right . And it's a good , family friendly atmosphere . You can bring your kids . They have a little game room even for the kids to play games in . So bring your quarters and your dollars . That's right . That's right , and every cajun I know of will appreciate this fact . They got the coldest beer you're ever going to put to your lips over there and the frostiest mugs .
Speaker 1They'll keep bringing them to you as long as you're buying beer , baby , c'est bon .
Speaker 2That's what I'm talking about . So visit PizzaVille USA in Church Point , louisiana . You can also follow them on Facebook and TikTok and they have a little calendar where it tells you , like , what kind of events they're going to have during the week and stuff . They always have a little fun things happening over there .
Speaker 1Yes , ma'am , all right , I feel like we have really introduced ourselves to the max . Yes , we did not even mention our husbands or our kids , so we're going to have to do that on the next one that will have to be the next episode .
Speaker 2We'll talk about our families a little bit more .
Speaker 1Correct .
Speaker 2For all those who always , often , ask how did y'all meet ? Have y'all been friends your whole lives ? There you go Now . You have your answer now .
Speaker 1There you go . Well , with the end of our very first episode , we're going to go ahead and mention our big Grand Café sponsor . It is the Pink Paisley in Lafayette on Arnold Boulevard . They have your favorite candles , jewelry , bath and body products , home decor and more .
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Speaker 1Kids too , kids clothing too . Yeah , babies , they got stuff for all ages . There's a whole kids toy section .
Speaker 2My girls just love going browsing there .
Speaker 1So you can bring the kids .
Speaker 2I was going to say bring the kids and you say don't bring the kids .
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Speaker 1Thank y'all so much for listening and we'll see y'all .