The Quiet Distance Nobody Talks About in Marriage

After a seven-week break, Jeremiah and Savannah return to Cultivated for a candid conversation about where they’ve been and what life has looked like behind the scenes. Between business challenges, exhausting schedules, nonstop travel, raising two young boys, and major sleep deprivation, they open up about feeling like they may have slipped into the “roommate phase” of marriage.

They talk honestly about what it looks like to survive difficult seasons without resentment, how assuming the best in your spouse can change everything, and why not every hard season means something is broken. The episode also touches on parenting, summer rhythms, learning to slow down, and keeping priorities centered on faith, marriage, and family when life feels chaotic.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the pace of life, disconnected from your spouse, or stretched thin by work and parenting, this episode will remind you that hard seasons are often just that—a season.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

What's going on, everybody? Thank you so much for the intro episode today here on Cultivated. Uh man, that feels good. We are not dead. Believe it or not, we are not dead. Uh if anyone has missed the show, we've been just bombarded with all these messages. Where have you been? So many. Haven't gotten none. Haven't gotten any.

SPEAKER_00 0:19

So we had one person ask.

SPEAKER_01 0:21

That's right, one person. So uh we should feel good about ourselves. Somebody was missing our our content. Oh man, we are still alive, believe it or not. Uh it's been we took what who six weeks probably.

SPEAKER_00 0:34

It was a minute when he said how long it had been. I'd like I had to go triple check it. Yeah. I did not realize it'd been that long.

SPEAKER_01 0:41

Like I think it's been six weeks, six or seven weeks. Um, which is the longest I've we've ever taken off in four years of doing this thing.

SPEAKER_00 0:50

Yes, by far.

SPEAKER_01 0:51

Um kind of like a little sabbatical or something like that, I guess we could call it that.

SPEAKER_00 0:55

It was uh it was an unintentional sabbatical, so yeah, it wasn't planned, otherwise, we would have definitely talked about it.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

But uh I don't think we've we have not podcast since before Fairhope. That's how it's been before that, significantly before that.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

I think it was before that. I mean, I guess I could go and look what the left was.

SPEAKER_01 1:11

I think it was actually the week before that. That may have been when it was.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

So is that when we decided to take a pause? Which would be ironic because we were like the best, like we were in something. Yeah, I was just why would we not have recorded? Well, we came back on a Sunday and we that you know straight into something that night. That was it because we had that party and we were there so late. And I was like, there is no way. Yes, you know, we love the show. I feel like I'm trying to look at the camera that's not there. Um video this week. No video today, but um we baby steps, baby steps, and but a lot of times the way our life works is it happens to be on Sunday evenings for our Monday release that just exposed us a lot.

SPEAKER_01 1:56

We've talked about that before.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

Um but this Sunday night that we got back from our trip, we uh like literally came in on two wheels. I think I remember like we got to do it.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

We came in put kids down for an out and I left because we had it sometimes at church and part, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 2:12

And by the time we got home after cleanup and all that fun stuff, it was like after like 10 o'clock. I mean, it was late. Um, and we'd been out of town for days, and I was just like, I I cannot, I do not have it in me. Um and usually you're like, no, we gotta do it.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

We we we push through, but I think we were both just so yeah, and it's transparently been a crazy 10 weeks for me in business. Um just role changes and things like that. So that has been I I've been running nine to nothing there. Um daylight to dark, just about any free time we have, we're wrangling kids or going to a party or or going on a like we went to Chicago last week. Um that was actually the first two. We've not traveled much at all. Uh we had a I'm so happy. I had a great non-travel schedule for like 12 weeks.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

Um June 20th, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:10

Yeah, that was like seven weeks, something like that. So yeah. Um yeah, it's been a it's been a while, but I'm excited to be back. I really am.

SPEAKER_00 3:17

It has been I I was looking at the bio, sorry, and um all I could see from the top was some something, you know, from a late night scare. I was like, what is this talking about? We just wanted to talk about Carter coming to the front door. Oh my goodness, yeah, that's anyways.

SPEAKER_01 3:33

Crazy. Anyway, um, we're back. It's been good. Uh we have had a lot of time. I had a non-travel schedule, that's where I was going.

unknown 3:41

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 3:42

I went to Cape Coral in March, Florida for a leanscaper event. And I didn't we did not travel again until I did not travel again until last week, uh Chicago. For work, which correct. Yeah, we went to on a little bit of virtue trip for like three nights, which was good. But I didn't have a work trip for from March till middle of June. So that was great. Um it came at a very needed time in business. If I would have had a heavy travel schedule, it would have not have been uh it would have been a worse ten weeks than it's already been. So that would have been rough. But we've been uh we've been good. And I would say like I don't even know on our on the on the marriage front. Yeah, like I don't know what we haven't even talked about this. Somebody was like, Are are y'all in the roommate phase? Yeah, I was like, I don't think we are. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 4:28

They were like, Yeah, it's okay. We've been there.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

They like pulled it out of us.

SPEAKER_00 4:32

Um yeah, we were like, Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_01 4:34

I guess you just don't know what you don't know or something.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

We don't realize it.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

Yeah, yeah, it it was been, it's just been, and it's just been.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

Yeah. It's just life is life.

SPEAKER_01 4:45

Yeah, life is life for sure. Uh everybody's happy, everybody's healthy, which is good. Like, but we've like we've gone back on sleep. Tate's cutting teeth. Yes, we well, and we've in this seven-week period, Tate started walking. Yes, that's big.

SPEAKER_00 5:00

Yes, he's had some. We're on the fast track to potty training now. Oh my gosh, get out of here. Um, developmental things happen, which always messes with sleep. And he was sick for a while, and then we went out of town. Like, all of those things impact sleep. It always throws it, and now we're back home and he's teething, so it's just all back up in the air. It's like they don't ever let you get comfortable in any way, shape, form, or fashion. So just when we thought we were good, the sickness came, and then the travel came, and then the teething came, and we'll sleep when we're dead, I guess. But um, I just feel like what you're saying is what you're getting at is, you know, that's just like the first thing. I feel like when sleep starts to go.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

Yeah, when sleep goes, you're in trouble. Yeah. Um that that was it never it's never helped. I was talking to somebody in Chicago and they're like, I'm having my first kid in three weeks.

SPEAKER_00 5:48

I was like sleep, just sleep.

SPEAKER_01 5:49

I was like, you don't I was like, there's no way for me to adequately prepare you, but I wish I could for the lack of sleep.

SPEAKER_00 5:56

That's okay. It's always worth it.

SPEAKER_01 5:58

Because the thing is that you don't realize is like, you know, a lot of times people are like, Oh, I stay up late and I grind, like I work and work at night and stuff. Like, that's totally different. Me grinding, working until 12, 1 a.m., like, totally different ballgame. I'm voluntarily doing that.

SPEAKER_00 6:12

I'm voluntarily like I think what people the other thing that you don't like that's not the same as that is the uninterrupted sleep that you can get, you know.

SPEAKER_01 6:22

Yeah, when you decide to go to bed, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:23

Right, you know, like this is against my will. It's against your will and up at whatever hour.

SPEAKER_01 6:28

You can potentially be up every couple hours, and you could be up for every thirty minutes. Yeah, it's not it's so which we need to literally thank God for that like up to now.

SPEAKER_00 6:37

Hey, why we have not why do we have to talk about it? Because tonight he's gonna be up for hours.

SPEAKER_01 6:41

Well, I'm just saying we haven't had to go through that between either kid. Like they we've not had kids that stayed up. They would get up.

SPEAKER_00 6:47

Well, he's sent some of that.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

Thirty minutes. That's not three. I mean, we have people we know people that have been out for hours.

SPEAKER_00 6:53

Yes, yes. Well, anyways, we can move on. But sleep is um not a thing in our house if you cannot tell at the moment. So um yeah, we have just been you have been I don't know if you've talked about this on your other podcast, just business has been crazy and you're working a lot more now than I think you had maybe anticipated doing.

SPEAKER_01 7:18

It's just a different kind of work that I I'm having to work in the field a lot.

SPEAKER_00 7:21

That's what I mean.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

Like your physically from other aspects of the business that need to be done.

SPEAKER_00 7:27

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

It's essentially back to like ground ground roots of growing a business. Like you get back in the field and you're like, I cannot stay in the field, nothing gets done if I do. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

So which inevitably, like it or not, I mean it is what it is, it's back to like that kind of affects home, you know. Yeah, for sure. You're out working in the field, that means you know, the other stuff ha still has to get done, you know. Which gets pushed into evenings and mornings, which gets pushed into evenings and past bed times and mornings, and um I feel like as we're sitting here thinking about talking about the last few weeks and we joke about roommate, I feel like that's probably why we feel this way a little bit. It's just been a lot more, you know, your home, but there's there's still a lot of work that has to get done. And so it still feels like we're we're kind of in this survival function mode of getting getting all of our things done and you know I's dotted, T's crossed.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

And we've and we've had a busy at-home schedule too.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

Oh, 100%. Summer is great. Vacation Bible school. Yes. Oh gosh, I forgot that even happened. Yeah. And we we have a very busy, fun summer. I feel like that's just how it goes, but it doesn't hell that that's also like your most chaotic time, and you're in the field the majority of the time right now.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

Yeah, we pulled a night shift in our time off. Um that was the first time doing that. We worked from like 8 30 to 12 30 at night one night to beat deadline on a project, which was I wouldn't say fun, but it was it wasn't bad. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't bad. We didn't get interrupted, we got all of the we got all of it done.

SPEAKER_00 9:12

Exactly. What's that like exactly?

SPEAKER_01 9:14

Yeah, we could just go out there and and it wasn't a hundred degrees. Yeah, it was dark, so sun was not beaten down. It was in a parking lot, so like we didn't have the asphalt uh beating back on us, but yeah, I don't know. Church has been good. I mean, we're rocking and rolling there. Um we've been going through the Beatitudes, we well, we went through the Beatitudes and Sermon on the Mount in our Sunday school class, which has been good. Uh aside from that I mean, just relationally, I think that I don't know. I I think that roommate phase is like I don't know. It hasn't been we haven't been like fighting. We haven't been like mad at each other. It's just been like not as lovey-dovey as you would want. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's been more or less like get through the day type stuff.

SPEAKER_00 10:13

It's been more of like survival logistics of you know, the ins and outs of our days. Um and I think that is circumstantial. Like I I don't know that it's like it's not that we're we're not trying. It's not that we're like, you know, we this just is what it is and whatever. But I think it's also the reality of the circumstance that we're in right now, of the time of year, of where the business is. Like it's not that we're I think we both know and I have been in a season of it before. Like, I mean, we haven't been married for 15 years, but we haven't been married for five minutes, like we've been married for now over six years. And so I think that it's I don't think it scares us because I think that we know like we have been through this before and we'll likely go through it again to some degree, and so it's like, okay, we we have to get through this season. And that's not to say that you just like let it happen, but it doesn't have to be the end of the world, you know, because it's like we to a degree can't change the situation that we're in, we can make the most of it. And I think that we have done a better job maybe this season of the roommate phase of not like becoming like resentful or like snippy at the other. I think we just not bad no not like it has in the past, I don't think. Um we we're I mean, I think that another thing that I have to remind myself of very often is that it's it's not profound, it's very silly. Like you're you're literally just doing your best. I tell Jack this all the time, you know, I I'm just doing my best. Yeah, everybody is you're just reminding yourself that of the other. Like this comes back to marriage conference advice when you know that goes back to when you approach something with your spouse, like always assume they have good intentions.

SPEAKER_01 12:10

Like I because most of the time you do.

SPEAKER_00 12:13

Yeah, I I have to always assume that like you're doing your best. I have to always assume that you have good intentions behind what you're doing. Um and so I I think that's just kind of maybe why it hasn't we haven't realized that we're in this phase is because we're just kind of like you kind of put your head down and and you do your best, you know, and you know that it's not forever. It's it's literally physically a season that we're in.

SPEAKER_01 12:40

Correct. And how are we gonna get out of this? We're gonna go to uh Arizona in four weeks.

SPEAKER_00 12:44

Oh my gosh, yeah, we have four weeks, by the way. Did you hear that?

SPEAKER_01 12:47

Four weeks.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

That is scary. I actually did look at the calendar yesterday and I thought about that because we have that in four weeks, and then I think it's maybe five weeks.

SPEAKER_01 13:00

Six.

SPEAKER_00 13:01

Six weeks. We have our family beach trip. Um that I am we're already through summer. Uh that's what I said today.

SPEAKER_01 13:11

I mean, like I'm sitting there scrolling through the calendar, and it's Father's Day today, also.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

We haven't even touched on that yet, which we will, but I mean, we're like almost through June.

SPEAKER_01 13:20

We have a we have something every other week, by the way. Fourth of July is in two weeks.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

It's not this weekend, it's next.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

This travel schedule's got to get lightened up a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 13:29

I know. You think I don't know that? I tried to have that discussion with you a couple weeks ago. Yeah. Because it is nuts. Fourth of July is in two weeks. And I'm like, oh, it's like, you know, we're just kind of getting our feet wet with summer. Like, oh, it's summer. No, no, no. We're in summer. Yeah. And it is so crazy. And I'm like trying so hard to like sit and just like enjoy it and just be in it. Um because this is a very fun stage with the kiss now that Tay is walking and they're playing together, like um for Father's Day. We, you know, obviously I told Jeremiah we would do whatever, and he just wanted to like grow burgers and let the boys play outside, and we have this like this little kitty pool and water table and all this fun stuff for them, and they like play together and they like splash in the pool, and it's so fun. So I'm trying so hard um to just enjoy it and watch them be together and enjoy the time that we can together as a family because you know, I don't know what it is about summers. I guess it's like summers and holidays and stuff. You really realize like they change so much, you know, because you look back at the last year.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

Yeah, you never have a kid the same.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

Yeah. Um, and so this is their only summer that they'll be like this together. And so I just remember thinking last year, oh, next summer will be so different. Like, you know, I was inside with Tate a lot with the heat.

SPEAKER_01 14:50

Next summer, like Tate will be splashing a pool, they'll be like chasing each other around.

SPEAKER_00 14:54

Yeah, it's like he will have a puddle jumper or a life jacket on and be like running around. Like he'll be two, two and a half, which is just nuts. Like, that's how old Jack was when he was born.

SPEAKER_01 15:03

You'll probably have popped another one out by then.

SPEAKER_00 15:05

Hey, hey, settled.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

That's what we've been doing, folks, on our six-week hiatus sabbatical.

SPEAKER_00 15:12

Um, so anyways, that's I've I'm trying to just enjoy it, but if I'm enjoying it, it's flying by. And I'm like, it's about to be over.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

Not really, but so we're going to get in the trades. That's where we're going in Arizona. Yes. Together.com is where you can get your tickets. There are about tickets. Can you still get tickets? You can still get tickets for like one more week. Uh you can there's only about 15 spots left. So don't miss it. Uh, this is the last one the way that it is. There's gonna be some meetups and things, I think. Down the road is the goal, but this is the last.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

We haven't even talked about that on the show either.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Yeah, that's been a it's been a big thing. So if you did not know that, you should make plans to be here. Williams, Arizona, I believe. Or is it Williamsburg or meets Williams?

SPEAKER_00 15:58

Rented out that whole place.

SPEAKER_01 16:00

Rent out a hotel, yep. It's gonna be great. Uh great speakers, great agenda. It's gonna be beautiful. I'm excited. I can't wait to go out west. I love going out west. Uh huh. Probably gonna be pretty good. It's gonna be hot, yep. But dry heat, right? Dry heat.

SPEAKER_00 16:13

So nothing on this Alabama humidity. Exactly. No, we did a job especially like the past couple weeks with intermittent.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

It's been rain every day. Uh it's so hot.

SPEAKER_00 16:26

You look at the radar just storms.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

I went outside the other day. It actually set like the weather actually set 100% humidity. Like there was I'm not making that up. Like on the app. Should have screenshot it. 100% humidity, which was, I mean, it walks outside, you instantly start sweating. Yeah, everything's just wet. But this is the last one, so don't miss it. You can go to togetherenttrades.com and get your tickets there. Uh, it is going to be a fantastic event, and I would love to see you all there.

SPEAKER_00 16:52

We're excited.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

We are excited. Uh Kevin, Calvin Brittany Allman, Brian, and Liz Floerton put a ton of time and effort into these events. This is the sixth one, I believe. Yep. And so it's been a good run. Uh, it's been a really good run. It's been a it's been very fun. Uh, if you haven't gotten to go to one, I would seriously say this is the one to go to. Last one. Say the best one for last. That's right. Last one, best one.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

So yeah. What who are we down to? We talked about this all the time. Us and the Suttons.

SPEAKER_01 17:20

Us and the Suttons, I think that's it. So besides the four of them. Yeah. They don't count. Yeah. So Brad and Tammy. Brad and Tammy. Brad and Tammy almost, I don't think they didn't come the first year. That it was the his his uh was that his needs, her needs? Was it that guy that came?

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Yes, it was. I think it was. Yeah, um, yeah, yeah. That was awesome.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

Yeah, that was in Waco, Waco, Texas. So what we're talking about, uh Father's Day. Yeah, Father's Day's been good. Um, shout out to all the dads out there. Yeah. Chill day. Yeah, been a great day. Pretty chill. So that's what you're talking about. And I do think we do need to realize sometimes you're talking about the kids playing, and that's what we did tonight. Like, that's part of why this why it's been so crazy the last 10 weeks is because we've just been like go, go, go. We are we are both not homebodies. We both like to get out and go. I can be gone all day working. I get home and take a shower, and I'm like, all right, let's go again. Like, let's get out again. Yeah. So I do not like sitting in one place for a very long time, and that's typically what we do to our own detriment a lot of times. Is it's good things. We fill our schedule with good things, but still, like those are things that lead into the roommate phase, like at the end of the day. Right. Like, because you're so busy doing good things, you get home and you're like, I'm going to bed. Like, there's no time for anything else. So that is part of it. Um, so I I think today was very good doing what we did. Um just sitting and letting the kids play. Like, that's what Jack wanted. He'd asked for that like since yesterday. Yeah. Went to bed last night asking if we could have a picnic outside and uh play in the water. So that's what we did. A charcoaled for the first time. I thought it would turn out pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

They were delicious.

SPEAKER_01 19:07

They're actually pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 19:08

I was I was full dad mode.

SPEAKER_01 19:10

Yeah, full dad. Full dad mode. So had the Milwaukee fan on the table.

SPEAKER_00 19:14

Um hey, it did its job too.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

Yeah, it did. It was good. So anyway, it has been uh that's kind of life. Chicago was great. Chicago was a lean skate of people intensive while we were there. So much. You got to come and Jack went. Jack came, yes.

SPEAKER_00 19:28

Um we did we did some fun um exploring and like kid things while you know you worked and had fun doing your thing. Um and it got to spend some fun time with Jack. She went to a Cubs game. That was very fun. Yeah, that was fun.

SPEAKER_01 19:44

That was cool to see. Second oldest uh second oldest stadium in the MLB.

SPEAKER_00 19:48

Yeah. It was fun to get to take him and see him like see you, you know.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

Yeah, I think that's a good like you've never done that before. I could see us doing like that that like every other year. I don't know if I would do it like once a year. I think every other year would be good.

SPEAKER_00 20:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

To take him. And like as Tay gets older, same.

SPEAKER_00 20:06

Truthfully, like he's never seen you in that environment with other people. No. He um there was one night, what would you say that we were doing? We were outside.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

It was just like the at the social afterwards after the event. Um rented a boat and had drinks and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

Yes, and he actually had one of my best friends come. Uh, she had some time off work, and so just worked out that I had somebody to run around the city with and hang out with Jack. And so she took him to dinner one night. And so we went to that, and when they got back to the hotel, we were all still out there, and so I told her, I was like, Y'all can come out here and hang out or whatever. And um, Jack still like almost daily says, Thank you so much for letting me join y'all at your party. Like he And that's how he words it too. Yes, thank you so much for I'm so ha he'll say, I'm so happy I got to join you at your party. Um he had the he had the best time walking around out there meeting some people and oh right, yeah, he's a sour patch kid. Until he's an animal for sure. Uh but yeah, so it was I just said that it was funny.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

Did you just call him a sour patch kid?

SPEAKER_00 21:10

Yeah, he's sour and he's sweet.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

I've never heard that in my entire life. You've never heard I've never heard somebody called a sour patch kid, no.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

He is a sour patch kid, the definition of one. He is sour and then he's sweet.

SPEAKER_01 21:25

Very much so, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

Um anyways, I said all that because he got to see you, like you know, talking and networking and tell the podcast stuff, and you gotta take a look at the case.

SPEAKER_01 21:36

Yeah, and I was talking to guys from John Deere in that conversation too when y'all came up.

SPEAKER_00 21:40

We should have uh We should have made the him. He's a big John Deere fan.

SPEAKER_01 21:45

Yeah, he would have just called him the John Deere guys forever.

SPEAKER_00 21:47

He would have. Oh my gosh, we missed an opportunity there.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

Uh shout out to Chase too and Luke Gribble. Yeah. Um Chase we could do a podcast with Chase too coming out soon, probably this week, on the Growing Green Podcast.

SPEAKER_00 22:02

Yeah. Jack uh Jack loved the the party. Loved getting to see you do your thing. Um Yeah, we could we could make that a thing until he Oh my gosh. There's gonna be a day he's big enough to go to a clip with you.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

Yeah, that's a long time. I know to get on the floor or something.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

I know it is, but still, isn't that like nuts?

SPEAKER_01 22:20

Let's see, what year will that be? He's three now. He'll be four by that time. So ten years.

SPEAKER_00 22:26

Four No Eight. Eight. Sorry, I'll be right back.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

So twenty-six to be thirty-four.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

Oh yeah. We'll be we'll have gone through a major depression by then. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 22:35

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

Guys, I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

Can we not take it there?

SPEAKER_01 22:39

2030. Be on the lookout.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

We are not taking it there. That's nuts.

SPEAKER_01 22:43

Um it's only four years away, by the way. Yeah. Three and a half.

SPEAKER_00 22:46

Okay, well, we're kind of up to speed on our life.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

Yeah, I think we are caught up. Um, I think that's a good intro show. Welcome back.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

Welcome back. We took a much needed break, but we're we're ready to rock and roll.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

Yeah, and I really am. I'm I am rejuvenated. I am re- I'm tired. I sound tired of this conversation. I'm re-energized. I'm refocused. Like the last little bit has just thrown me for a loop in the business space. And so like going through all of that day in and day out, just like restructuring, rehiring, doing things like just it's just mentally draining. And doing that as well as still the physically draining work uh of it, yeah, that's been a challenge. And so I I'm I'm breaking through some of that, and we're getting to where we're like, okay, we're about to start making some real progress. So that's exciting. I have a new life, I'm repurposed, and I'm like, all right, here we go, let's let's get after it. So I do feel good.

SPEAKER_00 23:43

To a degree, I mean, a what it has been, I mean, it's just been discouraging in some senses, right? I mean, it's a lot of not where you thought you'd be, like trying to trying to get to where you want to be and and you know, just doing all the things to try and do that and it not not really paying out. I mean, you just have to be patient.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 24:05

And sometimes it's hard.

SPEAKER_01 24:06

It is a virtue.

SPEAKER_00 24:07

It's hard to to see to have that be happening in one area and still be so motivated in another. It's just real life.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

So very much so. So it it kind of turns into like priorities, right? Like just continue being a present dad and a present husband. Like if those those are the two baseline things that we have to hit every day. And so everything else kind of has to go on hold sometimes. And that's this is the first time that's ever actually happened too. It's like 'cause like I've I haven't podcasted regularly on Growing Green. Um, just because again, like there there's times where it's like, I we gotta hit priorities hard. And so Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

And I actually think we haven't even talked about this really um until right now, but I actually think that's like incredible growth for you because two years ago, like come hell or hot water, the show is coming out. And I don't think that that's always a bad thing.

SPEAKER_01 24:59

But it wouldn't have been worth anything though, right?

SPEAKER_00 25:02

And I think you have now y'all's time is too valuable, I wouldn't do that to you. Perspective, like you understand that, you know? Like if it's not valuable content and if your heart's not in it, then and your priorities aren't where they need to be, then it's not worth it, you know.

SPEAKER_01 25:22

Yes, ma'am, very much so.

SPEAKER_00 25:24

But here we are.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

Here we are, together in trades.com. Two weeks, guys, three weeks. Four weeks?

SPEAKER_00 25:31

Four.

SPEAKER_01 25:32

Did I say four?

SPEAKER_00 25:32

You said four.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Yeah, something like that. Four weeks, Together in Trades. We'll see you there. Go get your tickets. I'm pretty sure they're about to run a special, so don't miss out on that as well. Keep an eye out. Keep an eye out. Going to Together in Trades on Instagram. You can see their stuff there. Shoot a message, Almond Brittany, Almond Landscape, Brian's Lawn Maintenance, all on Instagram. I think it's three weeks. Three weeks. No, it's it's the fourth week. We have three full weeks here.

SPEAKER_00 26:00

This week, one, two, three, and then three and a half weeks. Correct, yes. So exciting.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

Anyway, you guys, thank you for tuning in. Thank you for your support. Uh let's continue to grow this show. It again is a new spinoff. Uh, we we just decided to take a sabbatical after starting a brand new show. That's really not a good look, but it is what it is.

SPEAKER_00 26:19

But for us, exactly, yeah, it feels so different because this is just the continuation of something we've been doing for years. For sure. Is it so it is new, but it's not, you know.

SPEAKER_01 26:28

Yeah. It's the first time we've got to do it. Tell your friends about it coming out. If you want to do, if you want to join the show, let me know. Uh, we'd love to do an interview. We have not done interviews in a long time. It's been a minute. That could be um long time. So if you're interested in doing an interview, let me know. And we'll try to get something scheduled to Zoom or something and knock out a show. Talk all things, life, business, parenting, marriage, marriage, bible, all of it. So, anyway, guys, thank you for tuning in. Without any further ado, I was gonna wrap this one up and we'll catch you here on the next one. See ya.