Momfuel & Mindset - Season 2 Kickoff - Join us for a chaos kickoff w/ some special guests!

We’re kicking off Season 2 of the Momfuel & Mindset Podcast in the sweetest, slightly chaotic way possible, with some very special little guests! In this fun, heartfelt, and sometimes hilarious episode, the girls join us to talk about emotions, friendship, moms, kindness and what makes people feel loved and supported.

Through the honest perspective of kids ages 11, 6, and 3, this episode reminds us that children often notice more than we think and that even the smallest voices can teach us powerful lessons about connection, mental health, and family.

Expect giggles, surprising wisdom, candid kid moments, talking over each other and a reminder that creating emotionally safe homes starts with simple conversations. This episode is the perfect mix of laughter, love, and real-life parenting moments as we launch an exciting new season together.

Season 2 is here, and we’re so glad you’re with us. 💛

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

We're back.

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It's your muscle. I'm Chrissy and I'm Jess. Way, you're not Chrissy. You're not Jess. We have some special guests with us today on this first episode of season two. We are officially launching season two of the Mom Fuel and Mindset podcast. And I wanted to take a second to say thank you to all of our listeners, subscribers. This first season has been incredible. And here we are with season two with a few special guests. Will you girls tell us who you actually are from New York?

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And I'm and I am the part of the Abling family.

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And how old are you?

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I am Briley. I'm 11, and I am part of the Nichols family, and I live in Idaho.

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Alright, what about you, sister? What's your name?

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My name is Rosie.

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How old are you?

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I am three.

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You're three? And are you excited to be on the podcast?

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I'm excited to be with you guys on the podcast.

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Do you guys love the podcast?

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Yeah.

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What do you love about the podcast?

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Love about the podcast is that we all gather together and we shout out to those mom friends. And we get to shout out our mom friends to support them by giving us days to them, and we do a lot of stuff for to support that.

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Do you love your mom? Mom, fuel, and mindset. I know it's a tongue twister.

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My favorite part about it is that struggling moms that just try to support their family but they feel like they can't do it can listen to this and it'll just push them through it.

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Help them. That's our goal is to help them. Yeah. We love that you love the podcast. And we're so we love that you want to be on the podcast. Maybe one day. Yes. Maybe one day when you guys are older, you'll have your own podcast for moms. Y'all are our first ever podcast. Well, I am. Well, you are. Who's ready to answer some questions? Me. Alright, Miss Chrissy's gonna take us away and ask one of you guys a question. Hey, Rosie. What do you love about your mom? Rosie, what do you love about mommy? What does she do with you that you love?

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So she takes me to Target and she takes me to pop box test, and she reads me, white. I'm a still being with dad dad. That sounds special, huh?

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Is your mom special? Awesome. Not sis up many jets. Yes, okay. Many jets. How can moms help kids when you're having a hard day? Or what is something that your mom does to help you when you're having a hard day?

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Slowly and gently and calmly get the problem with them, then just help them get through it. Like maybe give them solutions. Whenever I'm having a hard day, the first person I go to is mom because she's like my therapist. One thing you have to do is be very calm with them. If it's over something stupid, just go with it. Because they're little, they're not old enough to know that it's not a big deal. She is very right.

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Because you're learning, right? You're learning. Wise words.

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Very wise. I love it. I have a question for Addy. Addie, what is one thing you wish your mom knew?

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My mom knew that her courage and hope is always beside her, and she always has a best friend next to her. Like her best friend Allie likes her, and like she always supports Allie with because she just had a baby and she went there and she was like, it's okay. I idol that that hurts sometimes. I should help you. And our fa in her family is always by her side. My mom no matter what. I love her the most. I care.

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I love that.

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Okay, mom Hey Rosie, I have a question for you. Would you rather have ice cream or cookies when you're sad? Ice cream? What about you, sis? Yeah. Jess. Minnie Jess. Would you rather prefer ice cream or cookies when you're sad? Both. Both. What about you, Ads?

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I want my mom to like bake me, like them together. So it's like a cookie, ice cream. Like I know how I bake. Like those one knows that it's like the cookie and then has the ice cream on top. Yes. That's still Rosie. You love taking pictures of Chrissy, don't you?

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Okay, ladies, I'm gonna have you all answer this one too. Dance party or quiet cuddle time.

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Dance party.

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What about you? Dance party. What about you, Minnie?

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If it's during the day, dance party. If it's at night, I'm grabbing these two and going on the couch. Cuddle time? Dance party for me.

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I'm always done for a dance party.

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It actually puts it like all together at the same time.

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You do look like sisters. Blondie.

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I don't care about my world and then in my career in my world. I don't care about who's being mean to who's being mean to everybody in the movie. Who's being encouraged to everybody and who's being protective to everybody? That's what I care about. That's why I care about everything that I know about.

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That you can control.

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But that's why because if my family gets hurt about I will literally say, What do you need? What do you need? I will help you.

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What do you need? 'Cause because what does being a good friend look like?

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Like you you care about your family, like you care about everything, you care about your family, you care about your your dogs, you care about your cats, you care about your friends, you care about everything.

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So it sounds like being kind, right? Yeah. Is that important? Yes.

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And all our mom friends out there, I'm giving a shout out to them. If they don't get a podcast, they can digest and give them a shout out if they want to do that.

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Yeah. Because everybody has right? Everybody needs space to be able to show.

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Everybody needs courage. Everybody can call everything.

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Everybody are you singing for a girlfriend?

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Amazing. Alright, can we ask Riley a question? Many jest what is your favorite way to relax? Not everyone feels like this, but to me, reading.

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You love to read. You do love to read.

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I want to relax and I just don't I have like I'm just like jumping in circles because I have too much energy. Something to do. One thing to do is grab a book off the shelf and it'll take you into this world of fantasies, adventures. Just huddle up in a small corner and it's amazing.

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Do you think that that's something because that's something that you love to do? Is that something that could help you maybe if you were upset or frustrated?

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Yes, of course. Definitely. Yeah. One way to forget about something that deep into you is to go into a book with a world of fantasies.

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Getting lost in a good book. It's funny that you say that, Briley, because I go to bed early every night so I can spend time reading before I go to bed. Because I love getting lost in a good book too.

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Okay, let's see. Hey Rosie. It's Chrissy's turn.

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Oh, it's Chrissy's turn. My turn. How about okay? Is it Rosie's turn for a question? Rosie, you ready for a question?

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Hey, Rosie, show me your happy face. What's your happy face look like? What's your happy face? We do a big cheese. Big cheese? What's this? What about a sad face? What's your sand face? Too much. What's your sad face? No? No. Let's see your happy faces. What about your sad faces? What about your silly faces? What about your mad face? Mm-hmm. All right. Brian, Minnie Jeffs, who gives the best hugs, mom or dad?

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Honestly, it kind of depends because when I get picked up from school, sometimes it's mom, sometimes it's dad. Whoever's home when I get home gives me the first hug. But the person who gives me the most hugs? Mom. Mom does. Dad's like, how's your dad? Mom's like, how's your dad?

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Squeezes you daddy.

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Okay, ready? What about you, Ads? Who gives the best hugs? This one that's holding me right now. Who does it?

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Your turn.

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My turn. What is one word to describe your mom? It's like 70.

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So, like, my thing to describe my mom. Normally, when I'm in school, I draw a picture on my math paper on the back, and I and it's a tell I love your mom. You're the best mom in the whole wide world. 80. And over me holding her hand. There's not really one word to describe my mom because it's like 70. Hopefully they're good. She's really, really kind. And whenever you need someone to talk to, half the time, whenever my friends are upset, I'll ask what's wrong, and they'll a lot of them say, My mom is not happy, is not be doing great right now. So much moms out there, and you can't do there's seven words that I say. All I say is go to the mom fuel and mindset podcast.

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I love it. Because we want to help her. Yeah.

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Oh no, I there's one word that I say, Jessica.

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Well, there's two words. Jessica and Chrissy. Jessica, I love it. That's us. Because we want to just help moms, right? We want to be kind and helping.

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We want to help mom feel great. We want to help mom to feel great about the homes.

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Yeah, we can we can solve them.

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Wow, that was amazing. Okay, girls, let's see here. We just got one more question for Ichi, okay?

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I have one thing I want you guys to say.

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What do you want to say? Sure.

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I know you're reading my list of questions, but I want you to think of a question you asked for your kids.

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Think of a question I actually have for you. Like us come up with okay. Yes, Eddie.

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I support last year.

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It's gonna be Chrissy's turn. Hang on one second. Moms get scared too. Not just kids. Yeah, we do.

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And we I learned about courage. Wait, and how mom steal. And we're this podcast is for you, mom, so I hope you like it.

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Hey, Chrissy, your daughter is like my best friend, so can you just do a question that maybe she would ask Emily to prepare you for teeny, tweenie? A question that I would ask Emily. Yeah. Or maybe some advice that you would now that because Briley's just a little bit behind Emily. So something maybe that Emily has learned.

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You can ask me questions about so one thing that I would say Emily is slowly learning when is not worrying about what other people think. I think often times kids struggle with being liked, or what are people gonna think about what I'm wearing or my hair, all the things, or if you play a sport and you miss the basket, then you don't want to try again because you failed the first time. You know, being embarrassed when you miss a shot or being embarrassed about what you're wearing, and she's slowly learning that it doesn't matter what other people think, she's gonna love herself.

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She wants you to learn that from Emily because Emily's going through it now. Oh yeah, it's it's hard to be and do you know that us as moms struggle with confidence too. We're learning that we grow so that we can help you learn as you grow. Do you so what's tomorrow? Who knows what tomorrow is? Mother's Day, Thursday.

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So they know they should listen to a podcast so they feel careable about about yourself.

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So they could take care. So do you think that it's important for moms to take care of themselves? Yes. Okay, do you think it's important for moms to have time for themselves? Yes. Okay, so if a mom says, Okay, girls, I'm gonna go to I'm gonna take some time for myself and go, I'm gonna go to do something for me, just me. Would you be okay?

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Yeah.

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But do you know that it's important for moms to take time for themselves, right?

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Yes.

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Because we want them to be okay, we want them to be healthy and we want them to be happy.

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One one here, you go first. It was Mother's Day, uh, mommy's and I'm going with somebody. I don't know who's present. And I was like, and I was like, and she's like, I'm not telling you. And I'll I got disappointed and I was like, please tell me. I just want to hear what's going on. I want to hear what who are you going with? Do kids oh sometimes kids always feel like they're isolated or separated when their parents don't tell them so. And guess what? It's her best friend, Hillary, and she did not tell me. I was like, tell me, tell me before you go somewhere. Tell me where you're going.

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Would you feel better if you knew where she was going, or would you still be upset? Maybe she was trying to shield you so that you wouldn't get upset.

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I would feel better if she told me because then it would I would feel like if she didn't tell me, I would feel like that she was doing something that she knew I loved without me. I would rather her tell me. It was my fault. What did I do to her? What did I what?

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Oh really good point because moms don't try to we're not trying to get away from you. We're not trying to, it's not that we don't want to be with you. It's that moms, guess what? You know that moms are people too? Yeah. So we are moms and we're wives and we're workers and we're we do all those things too, right? And we support moms. And so by supporting moms, you can support moms by being not being upset with them if we do something just for ourselves.

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Like well, mommy for I can probably dress up and you can still have fun. Guess what? My my dad took me outside, and guess what he did? He teaches me how to do a back book of my trampoline. There you go, and you got to um yeah, yeah. And also he took me on the snowmobile, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:54

Amazing. What do you have to say about this?

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One thing that a lot of people struggle with, not just kids, not just parents, all of them do, is self-love. A lot of people think they don't look great. You don't have do you love yourself? That's all you need to know. Do other people love yourself? That does not matter. If you love yourself and you then you are okay.

SPEAKER_01 15:17

Right. We have to love ourselves.

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Yeah.

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Yes, thank you. We have to love ourselves first, right? Right, Rosie? Do you want to love yourself or do you want oh I don't even think it's do you do you want to? I think that you need to. You have to love yourself. You need courage and hope.

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Like, if you're about to like struggle. Oh, question.

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If they get angry, is something that we can do to help them relax.

SPEAKER_02 15:48

Take a deep breath. Because whenever you're angry and then I try and talk to you, you just yell at me to leave.

SPEAKER_01 15:54

Well, you know what that is? That's asking for space. Is it okay to ask for space?

SPEAKER_02 15:58

Yeah, you can say, Can I please have some space now get up? That is so fun. What is you doing? Not like you get out now. I need some space. Right. Not like we have to say it like kinda.

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Kinda.

SPEAKER_02 16:11

Right. Can you please give me some space on anger?

SPEAKER_01 16:15

Right. We talk about what we need. Awesome. All right.

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Does Miss Chrissy have one more question? Yeah. I do. One thing that came up for me while you guys were just talking is when you're upset and a parent wants to come in and help. Would it be helpful for us to say, do you need me to listen and be here for you? Or do you need me to help you solve a problem? What do you need? Do you think that would be helpful?

SPEAKER_02 16:37

Yes. Because like mom, when moms get angry, they're like, what should I do for my cat? If they need anything, I shouldn't be mad, I help them out. I shouldn't be like, it's the matter, if we just go away right now.

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Well that yeah, and I I think sometimes we need space and we don't need to solve a problem, right? So if if a mom thinks they need to solve a problem and they're running in to solve a problem, but you really just need space or someone to listen.

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I very, very care about my mom because like one time this will happen. She was like this, and I was like, What's wrong? And she said, Uh, I asked I asked your father to come home because I need I need somebody to support me. I'm like, I'm here and she's like, No, I need your father. And I wish that she would be like, Yeah, you can help me, sure. Instead of like that, she was like, No, your father's gonna ask me. Okay, so one thing that moms need to know is a lot of the times when they're in a relationship, when they have a I don't know, if they have a boyfriend, they're engaged, they're married, anything like that. They always go to their man for help. Like mom, sometimes she'll go to dad if she needs help. And um, she whenever a mom needs to talk to the dad and the kid wants to help, you can't just say, No, I need your father. You would kids would rather you say something like, I don't know, just something. Do you want to feel like you can be a help to us? Like just something like it's not age appropriate. I need someone who's older who can help me out.

SPEAKER_01 18:19

Like so you want to be able to be a help to us, is what you're saying? Yes. Okay, but Chrissy asked you, do when you need help, do you need us to come in and fix it for you, or do you just need space in us to just sit there and maybe be quiet or listen?

SPEAKER_02 18:35

Listen.

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You want us to listen?

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I agree because when my when my mom was like, Can I please have some space? I I don't I don't want you to hear this. I really want you to be I want it to be a surprise for you.

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Can you please go with your rubber something? And I was like, shit.

SPEAKER_02 18:57

I think when parents try to help their kids through hard times, always are like they just go through it how they see it. They don't think through how the kids would see it. Like apparently I tell my two best friends who I have a crush on, and then apparently the next day he finds out, and then I tell them, Well, they're 10.

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It's gonna make me feel better. Yeah, okay, so this is a s hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. So this is a situation that we should get a crucible and make it happy.

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Like your heart needs to be happy to make it bloom. Your your heart is a flower. It should bloom when you're happy.

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It needs to Okay, and you know what we need to be able to bloom? We need water, we need good food, we need sleep, we need sunshine, right? We're like flowers.

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Yes, we're like flowers that are.

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Okay, so I'm gonna ask you. Do you like to drink water? Yes. Okay, do you like to eat good food? Yes, yes. Do you like to get good sleep? Yes, yes, yes, do you like to go outside and play in the sun? Those are all really good things that you can do every day to help you bloom. And when we do those things and we bloom, our hearts are happy, right? Our hearts are blushing. They're back. They're blushing. Yes, they are.

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One thing um my coach, if you're watching this, Miss Cute, or the best PE teacher there is. No, not yesterday, a long time ago, about what it is. It's a scientific proven fact. That if a kid goes outside every day for two hours in rain, in snow, in sleet, in sun, even 25 um and eat at least one vegetable a day. It's scientifically proved developed a better developed child and a like they're more aware of their surroundings.

SPEAKER_03 21:14

They're honestly just better children. Do you guys like vegetables? Do you like veggies? Do you like veggies?

SPEAKER_02 21:26

So I like laminants and I like laminges. And oranges. I was just reading a book about that. So scientifically, vegetables help your body grow. They help your body blossom. They help your body feel better. They help your body feel like you're supportable. And they help your body like feel happy. You don't want your body to be like, I feel like garbage. I want your body to feel like I want you to feel like clean garbage. I want your your guys to feel like blossoming, like bloom blossoming. I don't want

SPEAKER_01 22:00

It's to be like So moms should moms need to take care of themselves too, right? Because they're blossoming. Alright, what do you guys say to Miss Chrissy for letting you hang out on the podcast today?

SPEAKER_02 22:08

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 22:09

Thank you for being here.

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