The Johnjay Van Es Podcast
From the mastermind behind one of the most popular morning shows in the country, Johnjay Van Es brings his signature blend of curiosity, humor, and fearless honesty to the podcast world. If you’ve ever had a question on your mind but were too afraid to ask, don’t worry—Johnjay’s got you covered.
With hilarious, jaw-dropping conversations, amazing guests, and the inside scoop on everything you actually care about, this show is a wild ride through the stories you’ve never heard and the truths nobody else dares to say. Whether it’s celebrities, trendsetters, or just the most interesting people on the planet, nothing is off-limits, and no question is too bold.
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The Johnjay Van Es Podcast
The Motherhood Playbook Nobody Gave You
Modern motherhood, burnout, and building your village—Regina Steele says it’s time to stop doing it alone.
In this honest and empowering episode, Regina opens up about her journey from autoimmune struggles to becoming a nutrition coach and author of Mother Fcked: The Anti-Perfectionist Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the Chaos of Modern Motherhood*.
She shares no-BS health tips (think: real food, fewer ingredients, zero pressure), calls out the toxic myth of the “lone mom,” and reminds every mother that she was a person before kids.
If you're tired of pretending you've got it all together, this episode is your permission slip to ask for help, find your people, and finally put yourself back on the priority list.
Okay, so welcome to our podcast. This is a little bit different today, because this podcast is a spinoff of our radio show. This is my podcast. Right, this is the John J Van Ness podcast, and this is the first time, before I introduce our guests, that my wife Blake is going to co-host with me. Oh right, because we've got Regina and Rick Steele. You have a new book out and is it okay to cuss on this podcast? Yeah, it's your podcast.
Speaker 2:I wanted to ask that too.
Speaker 1:Because, I mean, the book is called.
Speaker 2:Mother ask that too, because I mean it's. The book is called mother fucked, mother fucked the anti-perfectionist guide to surviving and thriving in the chaos of modern motherhood. Wow, and it's not a parenting book it is not a parenting book, absolutely not, no. When?
Speaker 1:I read the whole thing, what your book was I was like, oh my god, she's gonna, she's gone through this stuff.
Speaker 2:She's gone through this stuff because you're a mother of three girls we have, uh, two girls and one boy, oh, and then my older stepdaughter, who's 24. She basically takes care of herself now, but and she is a mother of three boys oh yes, so I know the three.
Speaker 1:Thing and rick. So before we get like really get into the meat of the book and stuff, I think there's there's an interesting little connection the four of us have of stuff. I think there's there's an interesting little connection the four of us have. Right, I met you, rick, not that long ago because I was at jesse itzler's house in rome, georgia, and I was doing saunaing and I was doing and I met this great guy, and this great guy says to me you got to meet my friend rick, and so you and I are connected. Uh, you know, jesse, yeah, right, she just got back from jesse's house in Connecticut, just a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1:I did the mastermind.
Speaker 4:Oh, very cool it was the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 3:Like like I came back feeling like I expected it to be like kind of a networking thing, but it was so, not like that. We made relationships, we pushed ourselves. I did Hell on the Hill 15 times. Thank you very much. That was amazing. And yes, jesse has never met a stranger. He's the coolest guy. He's just genuine nice, smart. I enjoyed him so much.
Speaker 4:I call Jesse the best curator of people I've ever met. He is impeccable at just bringing the right people around him, but when you're you're, how many people were there? 20 or 30? It was like 40 people there, wow so but you felt like family when you left right, because that's the way it is with hell in the hill.
Speaker 4:Every year we go and there's 150 people, and all of these people we consider great friends, except for we see them most of them once a year. Yeah, once a year. But Matt, I think, is who connected yeah you know I've had, I've seen matt seven times in my life. Six have been at hell on the hill right yeah, but yeah, it was such a.
Speaker 1:She was telling me how you know it was at the house. He just let people in their house walk around oh you, he, there was no rules.
Speaker 3:I mean, he was like people were walking around his house and he's upstairs and people stayed there and he was, you know what, at the end of the day, like he doesn't have to do this, like he can run off into the sunset and go travel and do what he wants to do. But I think he genuinely loves connecting people, like you say, and I walked out of there like vibrating on a higher level, so I feel like, oh my gosh, I can go do my business now and I've met some wonderful people that I've been communicating with the last three days and yeah amazing.
Speaker 1:And then also with your book. Isn't he somehow tied to it? Or does his wife write something in your book?
Speaker 2:Well, no, so I just know Jesse through Rick, because when I went to hell on the hill the first time actually, I'll let you know the funny story that got edited from the social media platforms because of sarah thank god for her but um, the first time I succeeded in a hundred hills, I started getting sick in a trash can and they have it all on hd camera over me with his phone recording it and Sarah comes up to him and says you're going to take that off your phone right now, Jesse, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2:So yeah, but that, yeah, we all just know each other for hanging out and everything. I'm really good friends with Leslie, who's, I mean she was there. Oh, she's amazing.
Speaker 3:In fact, I was saying that he needs to have her on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Leslie's amazing Because.
Speaker 3:I want to eat so that I don't have to wear sunscreen. That's my big goal from Leslie.
Speaker 4:Yeah, leslie is the vegan chef.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I want to eat clean enough where I don't have to wear sunscreen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and she's so great and I've met so many amazing people through them as well just going to Hell on the Hill, and then people will just reach out to us because they know rick has done all the insane things with jesse insane dude.
Speaker 4:I know some they're crazy well, and jesse and i's relationship began the same way. Really, it's like the way jesse reaches out to people, or really the way I reach out to people as well, which is, like you know, kind of like a nerdy. Hey, do you want to hang out? Like you know you remember doing that as a kid but, we don't do that as adults right and you know, you, you, when you lock in on somebody you know you'll be friends with just go for the ask, you know. Say yes or no right.
Speaker 4:And it was a yes. And then you know, now I find myself every time the phone rings before I have an answer. If it says Jesse on it, I look at Regina and I'm like all right, get ready to clear the calendar for something.
Speaker 1:It's always something like that how long have you two been together?
Speaker 4:Four or five years.
Speaker 2:He said you been together five, four or five years. He said it right. The other I. I messed it up on our anniversary. That was totally my bad. I was a year off where we have been.
Speaker 4:We have been. We've been married since 2008, and so that's uh 17 years, and we've known each other now for 21 years yeah, wow, so tell us about mother fucked. Oh, what a great title by the way, can I say something real quick here?
Speaker 1:the title's okay.
Speaker 4:Because this morning I had breakfast with, I think, your friend, Kurt Warner.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 4:And he said tell John Jay. I said hey, but as I'm presenting this book to him, somebody across the table says hey, rick, tell Kurt about your book. And I'm like I don't think I can say this around Kurt, but we're going to go for it, I'm going for it, right? And he immediately locked in and was like I love it, my wife will love that She'll be, all over that I made him buy the book right at the table Did you really yeah, that's awesome, I'm going to get them on the podcast?
Speaker 2:Yes, you do.
Speaker 1:He's a great people, great human being. I'm so glad he liked the name of the book. Didn't say it, brenda will say it. Yeah, he was fun. Yeah, so what inspired you to write?
Speaker 2:this book and what's the general consensus. So for me it actually was a bunch of nudging from a lot of people, in particular this guy. So I've been a health blogger for about five years and that actually started because I went to an integrative health school, got certified, only to help myself with my health issues, because after I had kids, most of us don't really know what the heck is going on inside our bodies. We're just told by doctors oh, you need these prescriptions to make yourself more balanced and you know, figure this out. And I witnessed my mom and a lot of other women go through like the ups and downs of doses on antidepressants and I was just not really having that. So I literally threw a prescription, slip away, went to an integrative naturopathic doctor and I sat in the office with that one person for an hour and 15 minutes and my mind was blown and I said there's a whole other world I had no idea existed. So that's kind of where it started. And then I got introduced to IIN, which is where I went for school. My cousin sent me a link because she knew I was getting really into the research of it and I went through that just to heal my complications, which were a lot of autoimmune conditions and a lot of health issues. So it started helping me. But then I noticed a lot of autoimmune conditions and a lot of health issues. So it started helping me.
Speaker 2:But then I noticed a lot of my family and friends were asking me for advice, which most people don't come to me for advice. So I was like, okay, there must be something here. So I started, like you know, giving a lot of people advice, helping them out, creating plans for them, and I was like, okay, maybe I should become a coach, cause I didn't want to become a coach. I'm like, nope, totally not me Not going to be a coach, not at all. But, um, I I eventually became a coach and once I started writing the blog and everything, he was like you have enough blogs to write a book? He's like why don't you write a book? And I'm like because I don't write books. She doesn't have blogs to write.
Speaker 2:I don't write books, ten books.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and is it all based off of your own like was it gut issues, is it? It's everything, it's everything.
Speaker 2:It's everything. And it was interesting because the amount of moms I discovered I was helping, that's where I was like oh, maybe there is a void here, because I have so many moms asking me for help that you know they're actually coming to someone who's not a doctor, who's not considered an expert in any way, shape or form. They just want something simple, something basic, because their life is already full of crazy chaos. They don't want a 50,000 step plan. You know that's going to cost them ridiculous amounts of supplements. They just want something so simple and it's like that's kind of what I've created.
Speaker 1:Something simple so simple. What's a? What's a? A resolution or an answer for somebody that has a problem?
Speaker 2:Well, if they, especially autoimmune conditions. I help with a lot of autoimmune conditions. We start with nutrition and a lot of BS is thrown out there about nutrition and it's all false. It's completely false, like you know. Even listening to Leslie talking about food, it's individual, Like. The very first thing I learned is bio-individuality is we are all completely different people, like. Not any two of us are going to be identical on what our needs and wants are, so you have to figure it out for yourself. So I kind of put women through somewhat of an elimination diet, but it's not really an elimination diet, it's just removing processed food from your diet and eating real food. It's that simple. It's like what is a whole food? It's something that doesn't have to have a label, that's a food, that's food, food. Try eating that instead of all the stuff that comes in a box or a bag and a lot of people don't believe it because they're like.
Speaker 2:It's so simple, like this too simple it's like no, that's, that's how it is. Like try it, and then people expect it to be overnight because we're brainwashed into thinking, oh well, well, pills help you automatically. So if this doesn't help me automatically, then whatever, I'm not going to do it anymore. But it's like it's taking you how many years to destroy your body. Give it six weeks.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:See what happens.
Speaker 1:And it's amazing what happens in six weeks. You know my son who's over there he will not put anything bad in his body, Thank God.
Speaker 3:So we just over the weekend.
Speaker 1:He drinks raw milk, right, and he gets it. So we found this place that sells raw milk and then I was talking about it on my radio show and so this woman messaged me and she's like did you guys ever get a hold of the raw milk? And I said what's up, what do you got? And she tells me about a all in and she goes and I can deliver tea for 25. I'll do it. So saturday morning and I stay away from bread. I'm trying to, because you know, bread's the enemy, my sister's always told me, and I'm trying to stay in shape, lose weight. But they brought uh, we bought this bread bagels and english muffins that were made that morning with just the basic raw ingredients, like starter and whatever I don't know how to make five ingredients.
Speaker 1:Yeah, whatever, yeah and and they brought the milk raw milk in bottles, like from like back in the old days, oh yeah and uh, and some yogurt and some cheeses and some jellies and peanut butter homemade peanut butter. So it's 8 am and I usually fast, I don't eat till one but I was scarfing down this bread and I was just ready for the bloat and to feel terrible and I didn't. It was bizarre. Then we went to a wedding that night and I ate bread and I felt that book. I was like I've been eating bread like crazy, I'm gonna feel good and but you know the difference.
Speaker 1:It was a totally different experience and I didn't get congested like when I drink normal milk. I can't breathe.
Speaker 2:This raw milk stuff was just fine well and it's funny like it's like when people go to europe I eat all the bread and eat all the cheese that I want and I don't feel horrible at all. And it's like if I eat it here, forget about it. Because you look at the ingredients list and it's completely bonkers. Like I always tell people rule of thumb when there's a label under seven ingredients and if they have ingredients on there that look like it came from a chemistry lab, chances are it was made in a lab, so don't eat it. Like it has to be a whole food ingredient. So it's like if you know where the flour is sourced, that's even better. It's like we buy local noble bread.
Speaker 4:Like he loves the sourdough.
Speaker 3:They're so good, so good. Same thing those are farmer's markets Same thing. Yeah, same farmer's market, same thing same thing.
Speaker 2:It's a few ingredients, very few ingredients. They're on. They have like a simple ingredient list on their packaging and it's, they tell you exactly what's in it and it's funny. That's why, like, so many people are like homemade is better, it's like yeah, because you know exactly what's going to go bad in like four or five days which is what you want to do, right?
Speaker 1:yeah such a good point yeah well it.
Speaker 3:It's funny because John Jay's dad came over from Holland and he said one of the biggest surprises for him when he came from Holland was that you go to a supermarket and you buy groceries, because his family would buy groceries every two to three days, exactly what they needed for those days. So they had. The eggs weren't ever in the refrigerator and the bread and everything we're talking about it was just fresh, yeah, easy.
Speaker 1:So did you cure your problems.
Speaker 2:Almost all of them. The only one I still have to work on is Hashimoto's, and that one's pretty tough.
Speaker 1:That's thyroid right.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, actually, no, hashimoto's is just autoimmune, so it attacks your thyroid, but it is part of your immune system. Autoimmune, so it attacks your thyroid, but it is part of your immune system. It does impact your thyroid to where it can trigger hypothyroidism, which a lot of women don't. Just they don't know about that. Um, so I actually figured that one out because I did my own research on it you diagnosed yourself I.
Speaker 2:I kind of diagnosed myself, because even my first naturopath didn't directly diagnose it. She found my thyroid issues but I was like, yeah, there's something else going on here. So I actually picked up the book by Isabella Weintz which was Hashimoto's protocol, and I was like this is exactly what I have. I knew it like right when I started reading it and once I started in like integrating her protocols, I started to feel way better. So I only had to do hormone therapy for probably two years and then I weaned off of it and then I haven't gone on it since. I had my explant surgery, which was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1:Wait. So hormone therapy, is that testosterone, estrogen?
Speaker 2:No, I just did HRTs, so it was just the replacement therapies. So I was doing armor thyroid.
Speaker 1:Oh, armor thyroid.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, besides the food, what other things do you suggest for women to do? Like I, I, I, um, I feel like we're exhausted all the time. Yeah, like from when the kids were really little, even now, like they're older and they're self-sufficient, but I feel like I'm so tired from the things that they require of me now at their age.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, the biggest problem I would say that women don't really want to confront is that we are alone, and that's one of the biggest problems that so many women hate to confront about themselves is that when we are alone, we don't have those communities. Like. I grew up in a multi-generational house, so my mom had the help of my grandmother. She was part of a church, so the church helped out. We were part of a youth group. We were doing things to where my mom was not the organizer of my entertainment, my sports, my like. My mom did not take care of a lot of that stuff. She was there, but she had the help of so many women that were also helping her. They were her village.
Speaker 2:And that's one of the biggest things I talk about in my book is that we are such a neglected and isolated demographic of moms in today's society because we have this brainwash effect that we have to do it all alone. And if you don't do it alone, you're a weak mom. And that's kind of what I've gained from just talking to a lot of moms is it's like you have to show this macho-ness about yourself as a mother that you can handle it. You can handle the pressure. You can handle the stress, even though what kids do nowadays. When I think back to what we used to do as kids, it's like my parents were hardly involved in any of my extracurricular activities.
Speaker 4:And now it's like and you come home and it gets dark. Yeah, we weren't allowed to come in until it got dark.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there was no, and they never knew where we were Like, where we were like, we have that 360 app.
Speaker 1:We're tracking our kids all the time. Right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Like I know when they they're in college and I know when they go to bed at night because I can see oh kemp's on emerson, oh jake's in his apartment.
Speaker 4:It's so terrible, but I'm like I have peace when I know that they're yeah, same for me with our kids ride their bikes and, like our kids, we're gonna go to target and I'm like they'll ride their bikes. You know, go through four intersections and bikes and everything, but I'm always on, like my fine mile, like right, they made it. They made it to target we're not in the news.
Speaker 1:I love it when you say you're multi-gen. What nationality are you? Italian okay, see, I'm half also half mexican. Yeah, it's very mexican very family, yeah, yeah, hey, I I'm gonna make a a weird statement, but I feel that I can cure your autoimmune issues.
Speaker 2:Give it to me, let's go. It's going to be today, let's go. You know what?
Speaker 1:I'm going to give you the key to it and I'm going to say it's the stem cells that I was telling you about, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:So autoimmunity. There's many autoimmune diseases and a friend of mine he's 34 years old he has had pancreatitis and ulcer colitis, which I think are autoimmunes, since he was 16. Every year that dude would go in the hospital for two weeks and be almost dead Every year since he was 16. He's 34 years old. I talked him into spending the money to go with us to Cancun to get stem cells. It was two years ago. He got stem cells and, having what he has, he could not have spicy food. It's terrible, I don't want't you know it, just it's terrible. It's. I don't get graphic but it's terrible. So he went got stem cells. That afternoon after stem cells the doctor said let's go to this mexican food restaurant and go eat some food. And chris says I can't, I can't eat that stuff. Doctor said you'll be fine. He went ate that mexican food. Never had a problem. It's been two years he's been off meds, hasn't gone back back to the hospital and I'm getting goosebumps telling you this. He's been completely changed from one stem cell treatment for autoimmune issues.
Speaker 4:Wow. So I've heard there's a difference between the stem cells here and the ones you can get like maybe in Mexico.
Speaker 1:the embryonic Explain that maybe they're from the placenta of a newborn, yeah Right, and they don't really know what they are just yet. Umbilical cord, umbilical cord, umbilical cord or placenta.
Speaker 3:Yeah, not placenta, Sorry umbilical cord.
Speaker 1:Sorry, wait a minute, hold on, what are you getting? I'm like, what are you getting over there? No, and it's just a game changer what it goes.
Speaker 4:We're going to cabo in a few months. Maybe we'll go down. They have.
Speaker 3:They have one in cabo, but interestingly enough, we were at a seminar. John jay was hosting a stem cell seminar down in cabo um in january and there were several doctors was it dr x which that had an autoimmune? Do you follow him on instagram? I know?
Speaker 1:um, yeah yeah that had an autoimmune. Do you follow him on Instagram? I know, yeah, yeah, he had an autoimmune. He was with it. He wouldn't got stem cells with us.
Speaker 3:Issue and he he like, cleared it. He's good.
Speaker 4:I've seen Gary. Gary was there. Oh, Gary.
Speaker 1:That's amazing. That's why I had to agree to MC. I don't want to.
Speaker 3:That's why I did.
Speaker 1:Greedy MC.
Speaker 3:I don't want to be greedy, yeah, but wait, I want to go back to the women thing, because, being exhausted, what is your suggestion? When you're exhausted? I go to yoga. That's my me hour. I do meditation every morning for 20 minutes just so that I start off the day with peace and serenity. What are some of the things that you suggest for those? Of us that are still exhausted.
Speaker 2:The funny part is you can do all the meditation you want, you can go and seclude yourself all you want. You could go on a full week vacation by yourself and you'll still come back and feel exhausted and overwhelmed. So the reason I say we have to build a village and create that trust is we were literally just talking about how we are basically stalking our own children because we want to make sure they're safe. When you have a community of, it doesn't have to be just women, but like Rick is my community. That's how I kind of find my peace and calm, because if I didn't have somebody helping me out, a I wouldn't entrust my kids being safe anywhere Like our kids right now currently. Our kids rode their bikes down to a mall that's about three and a half miles from our house on their bikes. I haven't once checked in on them. They just know to send me messages when they're leaving a spot and getting to a spot, but that's more so to just make sure they don't get hit by cars. But it's like it's a gilbert too.
Speaker 4:You know that's a rough community.
Speaker 2:You've heard of the gilbert goons, right, but it's rough but still but still I don't feel like we have to harass, like stalk my kids, because once I have built this community just around my kids and knowing that there are other people out there that are looking out for my kids, I'm less stressed. So if it's not just me having to, like, keep on top of my kids' entertainment, trust me, I suck at it. Still, I'm horrible at like not being able to de-stress myself. I'm pretty bad at it. Our lives are chaotic, but if we don't have enough people around us that are helping us feel like, don pretty bad at it. Our lives are chaotic, but if we don't have enough people around us that are helping us feel like, don't worry about it, we got it covered. We're going to be there for your kids If something happens to your kids, I got you. Like if you're out of town, that's fine. Like you have to build that community because it does create less stress for you.
Speaker 2:Because I do look back to my household growing up, my mom didn't seem that stressed. I know she was, but that was a whole other story because she had a lot of mental issues. But it was like she had less stress because my grandfather would drive us places, my grandmother would cook us food Like we had. We had multifaceted adults taking care of us all at the same time. It wasn't just my mom, and I feel like so many moms like you and me in today's society, we're like wearing 50,000 hats at the same time and we're forgetting that. Oh yeah, you can go do something for me.
Speaker 4:Let me ask you, because I ask her all the time. I'm like what can I do to help you? You have a way harder job than me and I feel like I'm constantly on. But I'm like I look at what she does and I'm like I couldn't do that job. And so every now and then I'll kind of tap in, you know, like the WWE, and be like hey can I come in?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and it's like you have to do that. And that's the hardest thing for moms in today's society is because we feel like we have to do everything, not to mention, you know, I felt this as a mom, not like really earning my place in society, because no workforce looks at moms as if we are worth a penny, like that's the sad part is, it's because you don't earn a paycheck, so you're not that big of a deal and that's all. And it's not to say that that's what society like is like that's not what it, but that's how it does present itself a lot, because there are still men not these guys, I would definitely say not these guys, but there are still men in our society that look at a stay-at-home wife and just sit there and go. What do you do all day? Like you know, there are those men that still exist out there and it is sad because there's women out there that do the same thing too. Well, it must be nice being a stay-at-home mom. Yeah, you want to switch lives per day.
Speaker 1:There are days during, when my kids were younger, where I, let's say, I had the day off or she did something. One day we even switched jobs.
Speaker 3:We did, we switched jobs and I would never, ever, ever, ever, ever, in a million years ever want to do that.
Speaker 4:We should do that I want to do that we did.
Speaker 3:It was wild, he was terrible at it. I wanted my job back really badly Because I was terrible at his job Doing a morning show.
Speaker 1:I missed a lot in the mornings of my kids getting ready for school. I never got to really do that. Occasionally throughout the 18 years of them growing up, I would be able to do that and it was extremely stressful Getting up, getting them ready for school, making breakfast, taking dogs for a walk, making sure they get to school, make sure they have their backpacks, make sure and I was just like once every couple months I can do it every day, no freaking.
Speaker 4:Like eight phone calls, like eight important phone calls you took and had to process that right there just every day. I was mother fucked.
Speaker 1:Yeah, mother fuck. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I was like no freaking way, okay, so wait. So build a community to help raise your kids. Eat food that has seven ingredients or less, right, and what else? What else is the key to being a woman after kids and having a healthy life?
Speaker 4:I think she was going to say lots of sex.
Speaker 2:That is actually very important. I mean, I'm not going to lie, that's actually very important.
Speaker 4:See, you guys got that on camera right, we got that.
Speaker 2:Okay, hold it to it but it is your relationship with your spouse or anyone that you are bringing into your community. Like your relationship needs to be a strong community, like relationship you have sex with the community.
Speaker 4:No, not that level.
Speaker 2:Not that level, that level but no, like relationships, like creating strong bonds with other people and they're like with your spouse, especially if you have kids, is important because your kids are going to learn firsthand how to be in a good, loyal, trusting relationship from what they see on a daily basis. You can pound in your kid's head verbally you can't be in this relationship. This person's a jerk, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, guess what. But if you're in that same kind of relationship with their dad, they're not gonna listen to you. They're gonna be like whatever you're in this crazy abusive relationship, why should I learn any different? So it's like you have to really work on the relationship you're in, not just for yourself but for your kids. You have to make sure it's a supportive relationship because, guess what? It takes more than one person to raise a kid.
Speaker 2:Don't know if you're getting that theme right now, but it's like it's it's relationships, but it's also, I feel moms can't forget who they are, because you were a person before you had children and that's the biggest purpose driven thing in life is moms lose who they are. Absolutely Like women become a mom and then they completely drift away from who they were before that and it's like it took me probably six years to finally be like okay, I'm getting back into my groove of being who I was supposed to be. It took me, I had to take a long pause, but it's like it's okay to be a mom for a segment of life. Do you enjoy being a mom field every day, but it is one of the best jobs I would say I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 2:It sucks at times, don't get me wrong. It's not all like rainbows and butterflies, it's. It's really hard, especially now. We have two teenage girls and a pre-teen boy, so we're in that battlefield right now, but it's. You know I wouldn't pick anything else in my life right now are girls harder than boys?
Speaker 1:boys, yes, that's what I hear A little bit. I feel so blessed that we had three boys.
Speaker 4:There were some days I walk into my daughter's room and I'm like, okay, I'm just walking straight out, yeah.
Speaker 3:But you know what? It's nice, though, like I feel I grew up with three girls, um, and so I have three boys. But my boys and I have such a great relationship I mean I talk to them every day. This one calls me every day at 4.15 his time, 7.15 my time, so I can always count on hearing from him. Like Jake, this morning he's in Vegas and I'm like I need a pulse check. Just let me know that you're alive and everything's okay. So I love that about having boys.
Speaker 1:What about their dating life? What's your take on that? How do you feel about that?
Speaker 3:Well, I love that. Well, we only have one child that has a girlfriend right now, and she's amazing.
Speaker 1:She's sweet and young.
Speaker 3:The little guy's a little bit of a player and he's off to college in August.
Speaker 1:Ohust, oh boy he was sneaking out of our doggy door in the middle of the night to go to girls houses.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was a little much to find them on security cameras that's a problem when you have big dogs, right? Big exits for kids.
Speaker 3:Oh, and the dog the retriever rats him out every time. Every time he, that kid, does something wrong in our house, the retriever is barking like crazy and I come down and I and I'm like, oh my God, he's gone, and then he's smart enough to leave the phone so that we can't track him.
Speaker 1:The phone says he's home. The phone says he's home. The dogs in the bed say he's not home. That's hilarious.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you know, also back to your, I learned this early on and that values are caught, not taught. So that's I love that because that's important to us, like we try really hard to be loving parents and loving to each other and work hard at that so that hopefully they'll go off into the sunset with those values Show, don't tell.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's what we say.
Speaker 4:Values caught, not taught, all of that. But show, don't tell. I tell people your kids will do everything they see you doing and they'll do almost zero of what you tell them to do.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:So let them see you doing epic shit right.
Speaker 3:At the end of the day, cool stuff, exactly yeah.
Speaker 2:So, Right now, pre-sales are on Amazon On.
Speaker 1:Amazon.
Speaker 2:So it's only available through Amazon, but you can go to my website, which is pretty easy. It's thereginasteelcom and you can order on that. There's a lot of fun little bonuses that we worked our tails off to get.
Speaker 1:Once the pre-sale's over and it's out, it'll be on Amazon.
Speaker 2:Yep, amazon, we're going to try to get it on some shelves for sure, barnes, noble, some of them, some book signings and stuff.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, well, when you do book signings, let me know. I'll promote it any way I can.
Speaker 4:That would be awesome, that would be fun If you buy 10 more copies too. Anybody that buys 10 more copies gets direct access to our OnlyFans.
Speaker 1:OnlyFans.
Speaker 4:Stop it. No, we're making a one. We're making a one, no, right, hey, this is capitalistic society. We've got to make money on this. Now, what about you?
Speaker 1:The product you and I were talking about, that you were going to launch. Is that talkable? Can you talk about that? Yeah, sure, I was trying to tell my son about it and I forgot. I know it was four products. Right, You've got the thing for dudes.
Speaker 4:That's awesome, this came out a little bit of boredom. When I sold blinds, my blinds company, I thought I was just going to be like, okay, no more businesses. A second one, like I'm just and you know my archetype doesn't allow for that way of like just pulling back. What really fulfills me is creating, right. So, and especially going in and creating in areas I know nothing about having blinders on and saying I know nothing about this. I'm not a chemist, I'm not a formulator, but I want to change this for men, right so? Yeah, so it's the four products every man uses every day. It's your deodorant, it's your toothpaste, it's your soap you know, hair, face, body soap in the shower, and daily moisturizer, and built to 100% standards at EWG, the Environmental Working Group no toxic chemicals, nothing that will mess with your testosterone.
Speaker 4:My view on the men's personal care space is that it's gotten a little bit wacky and out of control. Everything's triple berry, bergamot flavor or this superhero thing that you see Overly marketed, sensational, when I believe most men are just like get out of my way, like I'm not in the shower to have a spa day. I'm in the shower to just get clean so I can go do the stuff I want to do Right and building this in a real masculine way, right. So in a way it says we're gonna ship it to you every 60 days, you don't have to ever think about it, but doing it in a way a little bit absurdist kind of what? How liquid death is done with water, right, saying there's a fun way to do this. That grabs attention with the marketing, but also the heart of it is it's clean product and it doesn't mess with you. And is it available now. The soap's done. We will be full launch in about eight weeks with our full kit and what's the name of it?
Speaker 4:Regimen RGMN.
Speaker 1:RGMN, so you can go get a target, you can sign up for?
Speaker 4:no, we're direct-to-consumer right now. We've entertained some retail opportunities, but I think my expertise is in direct-to-consumer. That's what I've been doing for the last 25 years. Yeah, I believe you have better control of your marketing and your voice to the customer when you are directly talking to them, as opposed to when you go on shelves and stuff. Now Walmart's talking to them, as opposed to when you go on shelves and stuff. You know, now Walmart's talking to my customer and I want them to see my voice.
Speaker 1:That's smart yeah.
Speaker 4:Man, that's a congratulations.
Speaker 1:You know it just reminded me of something when you were talking about I remember I went to your Instagram and I saw a video of a guy that I met a couple years ago, and then you just met him last week, devin.
Speaker 4:Devin oh yeah, how did you guys ask him? Levesque, Levesque, levesque, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I saw him and he was like opening up one of your safes and pulling out the craziest collectibles that you have, yeah, and I think one of them was in Michael Jackson's.
Speaker 2:Moon man, it was something right.
Speaker 4:You know, I mean when you don't like money. I mean at the end of the day, I love what money does? I love vacations and fun, doing fun, shit like that, but I just don't like money. So what do you do? You end up buying batman number one and michael jackson's moon man and like I, I mean I'm the most eclectic collector you've ever met between. It started with baseball cards when I was a kid. I still have a lot of cards, um but it turned into like oh you know, keanu Reeves, guns from the Matrix are for sale, let's add those, you know, but it's a collection from that and it's all in your safe, or is it prominently displayed somewhere?
Speaker 4:I have multiple safes, safe rooms, triple biometric lock, bam cameras. It's like Mission Impossible so how do you? Enjoy them oh, they're out. I display a lot of it out, yeah and they're out. I display a lot of it out, yeah, and they're always readily available to me right there. So we've got the video is.
Speaker 1:Devin opens the safe and he's like holding his moon man. By the way, what's interesting about the moon man is I work for iHeartMedia. That's my boss. The guy who's the CEO is also the guy that invented MTV. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:Well, this is the very first Moon man from the very first MTV Music Awards in 1984. And this is the so Michael Jackson's Moon man. This was for the for Thriller, for Song of the Year, so this is like the main award. This is like the Oscar for Best Picture, right.
Speaker 1:Right as it relates to music. Wow, I gotta get a picture of that.
Speaker 4:So Bob.
Speaker 3:Pippin would be crazy over that. Bob P, you'd freak out probably.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean, it's like so when Michael Jackson died, his estate sold all of his stuff and I mean everything. So we've got a pair of his tap shoes and I've got his hats Really From tour. But yeah, I mean, so the Moon man was just one of those unique items that came up and said you know, it was the intersection of hmm, I don't like money, that costs money.
Speaker 1:Let's add I don't love money. Yeah, it's the most bizarre thing yeah. Jeez man.
Speaker 3:That's awesome.
Speaker 2:What about?
Speaker 1:you, Regina? Do you collect anything that you put in the safe?
Speaker 2:It doesn't fit. No, I collect a lot of old dance shoes. That's about it. They're my dance shoes. He actually he's gone out of his way because he knows I'm a huge old movie like movie musical buff he's. He's found a few of fred astaire, gene kelly. He actually found my uncle hermy's pan signature and bought it in an auction, which is kind of cool because those don't exist so her great uncle was a choreographer in hollywood.
Speaker 4:He choreographed uh, if you've heard of fred astaire and ginger rogers, and he doubled for fred astaire. A lot in a lot of movies you see fred astaire and it's not fred astaire, it's hermes pan right. So that's where her choreography background came from, her love for that. You know her upcoming in school and going to school for that yeah, but it's, that's what he collects for me.
Speaker 2:He'll find like these old, like ran I don't even know how to look at these auction house.
Speaker 4:I don't know where to find them oh, and I, I know all too well he knows them very well so our house is fun because boxes show up and I'm like what'd you get this time?
Speaker 1:yeah, what's your favorite musical of all time?
Speaker 2:my favorite musical, oh my gosh. Well, with the new ones coming out, it's really hard because there's so many good new ones, like hamilton is amazing, wicked was awesome. But my, if I were to go back in time in an old movie musical, I would say I love Top Hat. That's probably one of my favorites because that was one that he worked on with Fred Astaire. But there's old movie clips that a lot of people don't know exist, like Me. And the Ghost Upstairs was one that he did with Fred Astaire, which is one of the very only times you'll see them dancing together.
Speaker 1:He's your uncle.
Speaker 2:He's my uncle.
Speaker 1:And it's Hermes.
Speaker 2:Hermes Pan together.
Speaker 1:he's your uncle, he's my uncle and it's her me, her me's, pan, her me's, her me's pan, just like peter pan.
Speaker 2:Okay, her me's, uh, mine is west side story. The original west side story my favorite story is a good one.
Speaker 1:There was also an old one, I think it was called ships ahoy where he's dancing with with that jerry from tom and jerry. I remember that when I was one of my favorite movies too.
Speaker 4:Oh, I love it. That is old school right, that is so you found a hermy pan it was you know, listen, we're in enough of these auctions, like they'll have these, you know, secondary and tertiary items that show up that aren't high priced, but they just they're there, right. They came out in the state and it was like it's mixed in with other stuff and I found one and I was like, okay, we got to buy it right. So her uncle won an Oscar. He's won a couple Oscars, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he had Oscar, emmy, Joffrey Bellay and those are floating around there too.
Speaker 4:I'm on the look for that, by the way. So if anybody knows where Hermes Pan Oscar is, let me know In top dollar.
Speaker 1:Do you know what the cast for right now? The cast, the cast.
Speaker 4:I've got a few things. What do they?
Speaker 1:need. It was all over the news. Last week I got Biff's hoverboard.
Speaker 4:I own that one. They're looking for the guitar.
Speaker 1:Oh, that he ripped with. They can't find it anywhere. And the whole cast, michael J Fox freaking Doc. They're all making videos going, if anyone knows.
Speaker 4:We can find.
Speaker 1:Well, I can't believe that you actually have stuff from Back to the Future.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, I've got one of the actor's scripts. I've got that. We've got a few things I've got a Will and Grace script.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's the most expensive collectible you've purchased? Probably Batman. I would say that's got to be.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean Action Comics number one, which is Superman number one.
Speaker 1:You have that one. I have that one is 23 surviving units or something on planet earth. Did you go to phoenix fan fusion?
Speaker 4:I have no no, you're not, you're. So next level, yeah, yeah, obviously the most valuable is um, the only remaining prototype of the um apple macintosh computer signed by steve wozniak, so the original apple mac. What happened was they would build these and um steve jobs was a fanatic about just destroying these before they went to production because he didn't want any of the technology getting out. But Jobs kept one, steve Wozniak kept one and a couple of other engineers kept one. So one of these came up for auction five or six years ago maybe, and I was like that's a one-of-one, like that's a collectible. Is it big? Yeah, I mean it's got its own little carry bag. I mean it's got like. And the way it's distinguished by being prototype is it had the original five and a quarter floppy before they went to three and a half hard disks. So it's the only Apple Mac that exists with the, or vice versa, maybe it's a hard floppy versus hard, but yeah, signed by Wozniak on the top.
Speaker 1:That's nuts.
Speaker 4:Is that the only piece of technology you have? No, I original iphones from 2000s, that's five, six, whenever that year was unopened. Um, there's maybe 20 examples of those that exist that is so interesting but space and exploration too, is another thing I collect.
Speaker 4:I've got, you know, a lot of neil armstrong's original moon landing stuff, so his baseball, his patch where he went to the moon with, I've got his coolest thing I think I have, which I may be able to either prove that the moon landing was real or not that would be, because that that is his handwritten notes on the lunar space module for all the azimuth, and you know math that they did to get that module to land on the moon.
Speaker 4:So I'm gonna get that with somebody that knows what the hell to look at one day and be like. Is this real? Yeah, so it's his training guide that you flip through, and he's got his own handwritten notes in there too of it. So did you. Both are so fast like what the heck? We don't like money. She likes money.
Speaker 2:I don't yeah, I love money yeah, no, no.
Speaker 4:She likes preserving money.
Speaker 1:I liked it's preserving money, because you also collect cars.
Speaker 4:I have, yes, a lot of cars. How many?
Speaker 1:cars do you have?
Speaker 4:I used to have 52, I think.
Speaker 1:Now I'm down to, I think, 30. Have you seen, rob?
Speaker 4:Walton's garage. Oh God, yes, and I got a Rob Walton story for you. Oh Jesus, I was just there weeks ago. We're at a political fundraiser um, I won't say who for, because this isn't a political you know thing, but it was for nikki haley. So, um, we so we're friends with craig and carolyn jackson we're at this political fundraising thing. I go up to rob walton he's got rob, you know, everybody has their name tags. He just says rob, right, and I go up. I start talking to a rob. I'm like hey, what did you say to him? You went up and what was your comment? I don't even remember. I just remember she said hi, I'm Regina, nice to meet you. She said what do you do for a living? And Rob's response was I'm in retail.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I asked.
Speaker 4:That's what I do, and I looked at her and I said honey, he is retail, he's not in retail. He's like the OG retail in retail. Oh gee, retail. Right, rob's not in retail, he is retail and she goes.
Speaker 2:What I said wall, she goes.
Speaker 4:I said walmart yeah, I was like oh, walmart, yeah, walmart yeah, I'm the least.
Speaker 2:I don't recognize famous people. I don't know any like I could literally be. We were at dinner with nick jonas, one of our friends. We were talking to him after his play and it was hilarious because I don't know much about the jonas brothers. I don't stalk people on the internet, it's just not what I do. So I asked him at the table I'm like, how long have you and priyanka been married? I was like I jokingly said I could google this, but I don't like to internet stalk people.
Speaker 4:So can you just tell me how long have you guys been married? Yeah, I was their first interview. No, no way. Oh, wow, really, I'm in their movie. That doesn't age you at all. Oh, you are. It doesn't age you at all. They've been singing since they were three, I know.
Speaker 1:I was their first radio interview. I think they were 16.
Speaker 4:Wow 16.
Speaker 1:And we've done a lot of stuff with them, a lot of stuff. I actually told her I begged their parents, kevin Sr, because we had three boys and they have four boys. I was like you need to write a book on parenting.
Speaker 3:I said please. That's what she said.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, she said the same thing to her mom. Yeah, nicest people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they were all homeschooled and everything I'm like I need to learn from you.
Speaker 1:Please tell me your ways. Well for me like to have these three boys. I was always curious to like. Hopefully, you know like they would grow up and be friends, but they also beat the hell out of each other every day. So I remember talking to Jonas Brothers at one point. I was like so when you're you guys, now that you're as old as you are, do you guys fight? And I'll never forget Joe Jonas said that Nick Jonas took a pencil and stabbed it all the way in his quad and it went all the way through his quad. And I was like okay, I don't think my kids have done that. Then we interviewed Ryan Reynolds he's one of four boys too and he said his brother shoved his head through the drywall and poked a hole in it. I was like okay, that hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 4:Thank God, so far We've got to egg.
Speaker 1:We don't have the violence, yeah so I feel like we've done a good job as far as keeping the peace in that department.
Speaker 4:I have a brother. We didn't always fight, but you know, we lived in a trailer and he was on this side of the room and I was on this side of the room. We lived in the same bedroom but we had our twin beds on each side. But it was a battle, like and he's bigger than me, but we would, you know but we love each other. I mean like there's no animosity. I think it's just what you do when your brothers and your kids wait, so you grew up in a trailer grew up in a 14 by 70 trailer in ohio yeah and now you own michael jackson's moon man
Speaker 3:you need to write a book. We're in ohio dayton cincinnati.
Speaker 4:So on the Ohio River area.
Speaker 3:That's where he started his career WKRQ.
Speaker 4:Q102, cincinnati. Yeah, so, living in this little maybe we talked about this, but I lived in this little town 30 miles east oh, yes, called Shiloh. Yes, because you went back there. 60 people was our population of our town. Like my dad ran for mayor one year and he was a landslide loss. He lost by four votes. Population of our town. Like my dad ran for mayor one year and he was a landslide loss. He lost like four votes, you know. So it was like 30%. But yeah, we grew up there. My dad worked at power plants so he would go in and when a power plant was built we would move right. So kind of. You know these power plants are built on rivers, right, so you move up and down rivers essentially. So we live in Indiana and Ohio. Pretty much most of my, I would say, kid teen up until when I went off to my briefs in college life.
Speaker 1:Wow, we love Cincinnati. Yeah, we do I got so fat in Cincinnati. Yeah, Gold Star Chili, Gold Star Chili no.
Speaker 4:Grater's.
Speaker 3:Grater's ice cream was the best in the whole world. We still order it. The Rose's Pizza I still can't find a pizza.
Speaker 2:The closest I see out here is espinados. Yeah, I still try to find that. Uh, the roses, I don't know what it sounds like cinnamon, cinnamon, something. Yeah, it's just so funny because your dad gave us a whole case of the sauce one year. I'm like, oh yeah, so much sauce well, you know what's funny is?
Speaker 3:we went on when we first got there because we had just gotten married. We went there like three weeks after we got married and we'd never been really away from home. And so they took us on a tour of food in Cincinnati and they took us to Skyline and they're like, oh, it's chili, but it's kind of a different take on chili. And we're like, okay, I mean, it was the biggest plate of spaghetti with this chili on top of it yeah and like four bags of cheese on top I was was like what is happening here?
Speaker 4:What's that do Like the three-way, the four-way, the five-way, the car right when it's different stuff.
Speaker 1:It was insane and then you eat it all and then you don't work out ever.
Speaker 4:No, that's what we did, that's true. No, we never worked out. I never saw anybody work out in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1:I think it's like I think about it. I don't think at all in my 30s that I ever exercise, or my late 20s, early 30s, because we were moving. We're in cincinnati, we're in houston, and I see how important it is now.
Speaker 4:I mean, you've run marathons, you do crazy stuff, right so you've always been in I mean, I was athletic as a kid and then, much like, I think, a lot of guys stories as you get in your 20s you don't do anything right and same for me.
Speaker 4:Like I probably didn't do much from mid or late 20s to right in my early 40s, I would say I, I mean like the. The road to like Ironman literally started 12 years ago where I got back out and did another 5k and I'm like, okay, I can do a 5k and it was a 10k. And then it just, you know, when you're hard charging, when you start getting you know kind of latched on to something that's important to you, you're like, okay, I can do more, I can do more, I can do more. And then it, you know, turned into iron man triathlons and running marathons around the world.
Speaker 2:So yeah, am I allowed to tell him what your nickname was? What?
Speaker 4:was my nickname.
Speaker 2:Our buddy jay gave him a nickname yeah, go and tell him I forget chunky rick.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, that's hard.
Speaker 2:I'm 170 now, but I think I was 205 or 210.
Speaker 4:So. I have a little neck and you know pudgy.
Speaker 2:Which was funny, because when I met him I was dancing about eight hours a day.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I was still going to dance school. She's ripped, she's super fit.
Speaker 2:I don't know a while, but my cousin just yelled at me a couple weeks ago saying you need to set up your dance floor and get out there for at least an hour a day.
Speaker 4:I was like fine she's incredible Ballet, jazz, tapping, she does it all. Do your kids dance too.
Speaker 2:We do. Well, our oldest was a gymnast and then our second daughter she's actually a theater girl, so she, her tap is crazy to watch because she didn't start tapping until two or three years two years ago, maybe, yeah and she's 13 now or 14, yeah, but yeah, she's 14 now. But it's so funny to watch her tap because I'm like man you dance just like hermes too like it's so crazy because she picks it up so quickly and it's not all of our kids do actually. What do you do for exercise?
Speaker 1:if you're eating, do you do for exercise? If you're eating right, you have to exercise right, and you did hell on the hill.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, a majority of my exercise is the neat, like most moms, is the non-exercise activity, whatever that last word is I can't ever remember it. No, it's like tech, blah, blah, blah. But it's like tech, but it's like, literally, I'm never sitting down. I don't sit down during the day. I am constantly moving around, I'm picking up stuff, I'm cleaning the backyard. We've got chickens.
Speaker 4:I take care of the chickens she still goes for a little run. Yeah, hikes, and yeah, because I see your runs, you post them.
Speaker 1:Sometimes they're like no freaking way like yeah, he's crazy.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not at that level. No, no, do you?
Speaker 1:drink coffee yes, you do, because I just read an article about how great it is for women to drink coffee it is.
Speaker 2:It's actually good for your brain too what do you like?
Speaker 1:what a cup of? What do you make it yourself? Where do you get?
Speaker 2:it I, so I literally start my day off. Every morning I get rice coffee, my mushroom coffee I drink first thing in the morning after my cup of water, and then I have um purity. I order purity it whole beans, we just grind them in our coffee grinder. But I get it on Amazon because it's a clean, organic, third-party tested, because I actually started noticing I would get headaches from coffee and we were drinking the Nespresso pods.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and you heard about what these Nespresso pods can get Like they can get mold in them, and you don't even know that there's mold inside your pods, depending on the climate they're sitting in or whatever. But you've got ground coffee in a pod. It's air sealed, but if it's setting in the climate, same as a Keurig. Right, yeah, same as Keurig.
Speaker 2:And the coffee beans they use are full of pesticides and gross chemicals which I have found I'm extremely sensitive to them. I've noticed that with my wine, because I'll drink red red wine, not like all the time, but when I do, I always drink that's the secret. That's how you keep afloat.
Speaker 4:Right came in last night, like after like we came back from sedona last night and like she was in the house for like five minutes and there's a glass of wine, I'm like. I mean it was long drive home.
Speaker 2:We're on. I want to watch. You know, I was like, yeah, she's driving back and I drove back or I flew back with my son and I'm like I mean, it was a long drive home, the Tony's were on.
Speaker 4:I want to watch. You know, yeah, she's driving back and I flew back with my son and I'm like we'll beat you guys home and the flight is 26 minutes from Sedona and we're at home and they're still at, like Berry Divine getting acai bowls.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was a long drive home.
Speaker 1:It's the best right, acai bowls are good for you, right? Is it healthy? I don't know. I know it's a sugar bomb.
Speaker 4:I think it's sugary right, but every time I have one I'm just like this is the cleanest I can be eating, because I'm trying to.
Speaker 1:There's a place that opened up by us.
Speaker 3:It's called Playa Bowls and they have. Yeah, izzy loves them.
Speaker 1:And then they got coconut base and then I got a bowl and I thought it tasted so sugary. I thought this can't be good for you and I haven't been back since.
Speaker 2:But if you tell me it's good for you, I'm going to go back. It's good once in a while. It's kind of like ice cream. I'm not going to tell people to swear off ice cream, but once in a while it's a good treat, right?
Speaker 1:Playable is one of the sponsors of the podcast.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Leslie calls those things, because there was a truck that came to Jesse's event that had a banana base and she calls it nice cream, yeah.
Speaker 4:Nice cream.
Speaker 3:Nice cream.
Speaker 2:Those are actually really good. I actually love banana ice cream.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I thought it was really good. I've never had the banana base before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's easy too. You just cut up a banana, freeze it for 30 minutes and then blend it up. Yeah Boom, did you?
Speaker 4:just play wiffle ball at Jesse's. Did he do that in the side yard? Mm-mm, we always have this wiffle ball game before Hell in the Hill and it's 100 guys will step up to the plate and it's just. I don't know how you eliminate. You get to keep rolling back around and getting hits.
Speaker 2:You hit until people trying to catch your ball essentially like it's getting hits hard right and then it'll rotate through and and the kids usually crush the adults, of course, at it, but it's fine, yeah well, I want to say thank you guys for coming and being on our podcast.
Speaker 1:I mean the first time. Her and I did it.
Speaker 4:I think you were awesome this is the first one that's amazing it's the first one that we've done as a couple.
Speaker 1:Yeah, as a couple we've done um you know you've never been on the podcast with me before. Have you Interviewing somebody? No, not interviewing somebody I've interviewed you before, but I'm not sure when we're going to drop this, but if it comes out, Amazon search for MotherFuck.
Speaker 4:MotherFuck, motherfuck With the star.
Speaker 1:Yeah, with you. Yeah, because I know trying to sell, oh my god. My job for the next, however long it is, is going to be I'm a bookseller. I'm building a men's personal care line there you go.
Speaker 4:That's what we're doing. Well, I want to help you sell the books. Yeah, I think. Honestly, I will say you know, I wrote a really bad book and let's say that, compared to what she wrote, this is incredible. But this she, this needs to be in a million women's hands like it's that good, it's incredible, like she did an amazing job. So your book is out. You have a book out. I've had a book out for a while. It's called 30 days to launch.
Speaker 4:Um, it's been out for five or six years now about building a business 30 day, basically war plan to going from like I just have an idea to help me have a really shitty business in 30 days, which is what it will be.
Speaker 3:She's starting a business, yeah yeah, do you guys have a dog?
Speaker 3:oh, we do yeah, so we have love pup foundation oh, I know yeah dog shelter and over the last 11 years I have figured out that we can spay, neuter and we can microchip all day long. But what's happening is people are still turning in their dogs after they um, after they adopt them, and the problem is is they're confused. So they go to the internet, they try to figure out what to do with their dogs and they can't figure it out because there's 45 different.
Speaker 3:You know responses to what they what they're asking, and so they turn the dogs back in and we have a dog that's coming in tomorrow because it it nipped at an eight-year-old. They've had the dog for eight years. I'm like what? Somebody wasn't watching the dog. Something happened, and if you weren't watching what's happening, maybe you could have gone to Love Pup Plus and figured out. This is what you can do.
Speaker 1:So it's Love Pup Foundation. She started Love Pup Plus, which is an app.
Speaker 3:It's going to be an app.
Speaker 2:Right now it's a website, but it's gonna be like anything to do with your dog.
Speaker 1:How old is your dog? Oh, nine. So if you're like, hey, it'll give you updates. Right, your dog right. We start at gotcha day we start at gotcha day.
Speaker 3:We go through the life of your dog. It has a personalized experience. It has content, um, ai, component and um, and then we have recommendations for product oh, that's amazing.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's gonna be cool and it's at its beginning stages now.
Speaker 3:so if you go to lovepupppluscom, if you wouldn't mind signing up as a love pupper it's, it's free then we're going to be asking questions and doing beta testing and all that's very cool.
Speaker 4:That's very cool. That's so cool. Yeah, so you're just matching dogs with foods and temperament and what to expect, because you're right, like after 80 years, something weird doesn't show up with a dog in a family.
Speaker 3:Right what to expect when you're expecting.
Speaker 4:Right or the bump.
Speaker 3:It's exactly that for dogs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for dogs, which is awesome, but then there's also the content and and all kinds of videos and cool stuff too, right, yeah, well.
Speaker 4:I think I might have told you, but I've got a 25-year-old. She's rescued dogs here in the Valley since she was before she could drive 16. She's rescued 4,000 dogs on her own. She's been held at gunpoint. She's been everything that's awesome. I've been almost held at gunpoint with her rescuing dogs, but she's a champion for rescue.
Speaker 1:That champion for rescue. That's what she does. Our dog, every dog we've ever had, has been from Kylie. Did you say she specializes in the Malinois? Now she's trained in Malinois.
Speaker 4:So she trains Malinois for basically secret service.
Speaker 1:Those are the most amazing dogs. No, no, we have a boxer bulldog.
Speaker 3:A boxer bulldog mix yeah, 90% boxer.
Speaker 4:and 10% bulldog Wow.
Speaker 2:He's a baby. That's awesome. He was a little rescue. Yep, we have six dogs, it's too much. It's a chaos of my house. Yeah, Kylie's pro Six is a lot.
Speaker 4:My daughter has like 14 personal dogs. Oh my God, she's got a lot. Yeah, Because she will like. It's impossible, it just becomes her dog.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah because she yeah, Dude, we've got to get her to the shelter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know We've got to get her over to the shelter. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:That would be so cool. Oh yeah, That'd be so great. Because she's still, she'll still rescue. She's a dog magnet. I mean like is like walking to a random Walmart in Oklahoma. It's like there's a.
Speaker 1:How about her? In Vegas, there's a rescue.
Speaker 3:It happens to me all the time. It happened in California. It has never happened to me. I'm pretty observant of my surroundings, right, I know I was watching my son play and I ran into a lady that was the dog radar right.
Speaker 1:Dogs and people come to her all the time she called me down. I was like no, you can't like, can we take in their dog? Can she live with us? No, I know I was gonna take this lady's dog in.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, I'm still working on that and he's like she cannot live with us, but you're well, because she's in a domestic abuse situation. I was like, oh, I feel so bad for her and blah, blah unbelievable anyway, okay.
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