The Window Is Always Smaller Than You Think

You don't lose the people you love in one dramatic moment. You lose them in small delays. "After this project. Next summer. When things slow down." The window closes quietly — and you don't notice it's closed until you reach for it.

In this episode, we cover...
- Freedom of Speech : “The Gap”
- The Full Story : “The Window Is Always Smaller Than You Think”
- From the Newsfeed: “She Doesn’t Want Breakfast in Bed. She Wants You at the Table.”
- Faith & Hope: “A Basket on the River”
- Father Time : "The Moment”
- Funny Factory : "The Mother’s Day Gift Hall of Fame”
- Fitness Minute :  “Walk While the Window Is Open”

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Transcript

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Hello, hello. My daughter Ella left for Juno, Alaska, 14 days ago. And she's spending the summer working at a store called Keraloha, which is one of the best brands in the world, and she loves it. They love her. I'm proud of her, and I also miss her more than I even expected, even though I knew I'd miss her. And a few weeks ago, I saw that the sphere in Las Vegas. Have you heard of that place? It's the most immersive entertainment venue in the world. It's incredible that it was showing the Wizard of Oz. And I thought about my mom, Marcia, and about Grandma Joan, her mother. My grandma, who was an amazing woman and who kept a Wizard of Oz collectible book on her table my entire youth. And we always watch the movie every time I visit her home in St. George, Utah during the summers. And so I thought about the fact that my mom is in her 70s and still incredibly healthy. Ella was leaving May 1st, and that the window was smaller than I thought. So I bought tickets, loaded my wife Tammy, my daughter Ella, and my sister Haley into the minivan. Yeah, we drove six hours to Las Vegas, because that's how far it is from my house in South Jordan, Utah. We had no radio going, it was just talking, laughing the whole way. We saw the Wizard of Oz at the sphere, Judy Garland saying, Somewhere over the rainbow, and I cried sitting next to my mom, thinking about her mother, thinking about my daughter who's about to leave, surrounded by the four most important women in my life, and I almost didn't make the trip. Tonight I want to talk to you about why I'm glad I did and why the window in your life is always smaller than you think. Yes, welcome to the Jason Hewlett Show where there's lots of F-words around here: faith, freedom, family, fitness, fatherhood, all that good stuff, including, we'll be doing some funny and farce too. But the window in your life is always smaller than you think. And tonight, coming up on the show, the longer you wait, the well, the more it quietly closes. And so we're going to talk first about the freedom of speech, the gap, the space between who you are out there and who you are at home, what it takes to start closing that gap. Then we'll talk about the full story. Why after this is the most expensive phrase in relationship and how presence becomes the promise. After that, from the news feed, Mother's Day, it just happened. And Mother's Day data says moms don't want breakfast in bed. They want you at the table. And Nicole Kidman brought her daughter to the Met Gala because the window was open. So then we'll go into Faith and Hope. A mother, a basket on the river, and a closing window that became a life. I love this story. It's going to be great. Then we'll hit into Father Time and we'll talk about that trip to Las Vegas with my family and the women in my life. We'll do the Funny Factory, the Mother's Day gift hall of fame, or we may even make fun of some things. Hall of Shame in its own way. We all tried our best. If you're a dad, you know what I'm talking about. And we wrap up with the fitness minute. We are sponsored by Cardio Miracle. Well, we are brought to you by the world's finest nitric oxide and vitamin D3 supplement. Nitric oxide comes uh just directly from when you drink some cardiomerical and some water. Next thing you know, you feel better, you look better. I've got some pretty cool stories of some people that have seen incredible results. So glad about that. And so we'll wrap with the fitness minute. Walk while the windows open. I want you to know walking is so important. And so you're ready when the moments that matter show up. My friends, the Jason Hewlett Show, welcome here. It starts right now. Don't go anywhere. Yeah, welcome to season two of the show. It's incredible to have a season. Think about it. I started this year not even knowing if I was gonna do a show. And now we're already into season two. So I'm so grateful for my team that has not only helped me and held me accountable to be here and do this, but have helped me so much with the production, the content. As we've worked out the bugs and figured out how to make this happen, I'm so grateful for them and grateful for you. Thanks for being here. I'm not sure if we're connected in terms of the comments that I can see this time. Sometimes I can see them, sometimes I can't. We're still working on that part. I would love to get some point where I'm I'm live on, I don't know, on on Instagram, if that's possible, or X. I guess we are on X. It looks like X, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook. I think we're just missing Instagram. We'll be there someday, someday soon, I think. But if you're here, let me know where you're at. And I will love to acknowledge you if I can see your comment pop up. But thank you for being here. If you're listening on the rebroadcast, which is the podcast later on in the week, thank you for listening. Let's talk about the freedom of speech. And I call it the gap. Most people have two reputations the one they've built out there, out there, and the one they have at home. So out there, you're capable, respected. Someone people look to. You say the right things, you show up prepared, you perform well under pressure, you've earned what people think of you, but there is a gap between who you perform as and who the people closest to you actually live with. Your spouse knows it, your kids know it, the people who see you before the coffee and after the long day, they know the version of you that doesn't have an audience. And that version is the real one. I've talked about this in my book, The Promise to the One, that the promise is to be congruent on and off stage. It's really disappointing to meet a hero that you have looked up to your whole life that you're like, oh, they probably are this way, and then you meet them and you're like, oh, they're not who I thought they were. That's called incongruence, and that's a hard gap to fill. And so I I like to say integrity is your harmony. But the the gap isn't dramatic. I mean, it rarely is. It's not some hidden secret or double life. It's not what I'm saying, but it's smaller than that and more honest than that. It's the tone you use when you're tired, it's the patience you save for strangers that ran out before you got home, and the version of yourself you perform at work that somehow doesn't make it through the front door. So character is not what you do on stage, character is what you do when the stage is empty, and the only people watching are the ones who love you the most. The question for this episode and for this show is simple. How wide is the gap? And what are you willing to do to close it? So if the people who live with you are asked to describe you, would the words match what your colleagues would say? Yikes. I don't know if that's a good question even for me to think about. But what version of yourself do you become when you're exhausted, frustrated, or ignored? And is that the version you want to be remembered for? Where in your life are you performing character instead of actually having it? Ah There's a lot we could talk about with that. Uh maybe you know somebody like this. May well, yeah, I don't want to pick on anybody, but it's frustrating when you work with somebody that you know they're doing other things in their personal life that you just don't agree with, right? I mean, I've I've even been called out the in the last couple of weeks from people who have said, Hey, I don't like how you are in the public life because it appears that you're different. Well, ever since I was started performing many years ago, I've had people ask, why am I not always on when I'm off stage? Because they're like, wait a minute, you're not the same guy. Well, there's a difference between being a human being and jumping on stage and being at an 11, right? I mean, I'm amping it up to 11 with the energy. And so I would just say, but the is that the shift in character or is that just amount of energy? Is that amount of performance and what we feel like we need to give to somebody? So think about it that way as well. Hopefully, our character is on and off stage the same. That's an important piece, in my opinion. And what would it cost you to close the gap? And why haven't you paid it yet? If your legacy's been written right now, who's holding the pen? The version of you on stage or the one who comes home? So the full question is that we're gonna go into the full story in just one second. And I hope that you're uh starting to think for yourself about what is really the gap that I need to close in my life. And I I think it's important. Oh, I'm seeing my man, Randy McNeely is here, the Captain Kind Man, great subject, Jason lots of meat here. That's right, buddy. What a guy, Captain Kind Man, he's always around. You need to follow him on LinkedIn if you don't. He's he puts out probably some of my favorite content online these days. He goes into the kindness garden every day and shares these great thoughts about being kind, which is an absolute skill we need these days. And so I appreciate you. Welcome here, my friend, and welcome to the many more that are watching. And so you ready for the full story? Let's jump into it right after this. Yeah, so the window is always smaller than you think. You don't lose the people you love in one dramatic moment. Uh-huh. You lose them in small delays. And I was thinking about how I could illustrate this today. I usually save my music and songs for later in the episode. I thought, let's just try it in the first 10 or 12 minutes, see if it works. Every time I switch the camera, there could be something going wrong. So, first of all, I'm gonna go over there in just a moment, and I hope and pray this works. I mean, that's what's so funny. We rehearsed, and then sometimes it just doesn't work out. Sometimes the piano's too loud, my voice too loud, we're still figuring out how to make this work, and so I'll do my best. But I want to tell you about this window that's smaller than you think. You know, the the people that we love the most are our family. And I wrote a song a couple years back when it was my wife and my anniversary. And I have only played this a few times in public. This is one of my favorite songs I've written, and I thought it would be appropriate today because of what we're talking about. The window closes quick. And if we don't take advantage of the time, appreciate where they are at. Our children were once little tiny people. Now they're huge people. Look at there's the picture of the for those that are watching, that they're like growing up, flying away, moving on. Oh my gosh, they used to be so small, and and now they're they're becoming adults. I remember when they were little, we had four kids in five years. It was such a special time. And so I wrote this song called You Are My Wife about how much I love my wife. And I hope you enjoy it. Uh, let's see. I sure hope this works. Here we go. All right, here we are at the piano. I can see ya.

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Sitting on the front porch, drinking lemonade, watching the children play with us.

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Hopefully that worked and you could hear it. If you didn't, maybe we could re-record it sometime. But the song is about sitting on the front porch drinking lemonade, watching the children play, Where is the time gone, my love? And Oh how you make my life so much better. The song's in place of another love letter. You give your days, your time, your whole life, and I thank the Lord every day you are my wife. And so think about the window as it's closing. You don't lose people you love in one dramatic moment, you lose them in small delays, and after this quarter, when things settle down, these are some of the words we usually say. After this quarter is over, or when things settle down, next summer for sure. Nobody walks out. They just slowly stop expecting you to show up. And you don't notice it happening because every individual delay feels reasonable. I mean the project is real, the schedule's real. You're busy, the timing is really bad. But the delays stack. The window gets smaller. And you don't notice it smaller. You only notice it when it's closed. The trip I almost didn't take. Let me just tell you, our schedules were full in April. The timing was not perfect. We had this idea of six hours each way for a 36-hour trip with a show that's only 70 minutes to see. I'll tell you more about that in our Father Time section. But by every rational calculation, the trip wasn't worth it, and yet six hours in a minivan, no radio, my daughter and my sister talking the whole way. Oh man, amazing. My mom walking a mile and a half through Las Vegas in her 70s without a word of complaint. Judy Garland somewhere over the rainbow. Come on, tears I wasn't expecting. No. The timing though is never perfect, is it? That's that's what every I mean, that's what everybody and nobody will ever tell you. Like you're waiting for a window that opens automatically. It doesn't. You have to put your hand through one that's open right now before it isn't. And so my question for you is what window in your life is currently open that you keep telling yourself you'll step through later? Don't put it off. It's important to do that today. Um oh, I appreciate it. Randy, you have some nice, nice things to say about my song. Thank you very much. I I appreciate it. That was totally awesome, Jace. Thank you very much. It's it's fun to try to play a song. I'm still trying to figure out how to do that right and well, but thank you. So as you think about what your window in your life is currently open that you keep telling yourself you'll step through later, or when did you last create a memory on purpose? Not for a holiday, but because you saw the window and decided to go through it. Who shaped you the most? And when did you last tell them? What does too busy actually cost in your most important relationships? I know that because of the way that my family is growing up, growing older, and leaving the nest, the window is closing. I don't want to lose that opportunity. And so we do all we can to make these types of memories. There is not too busy right now. If the person you love most called tomorrow with news you weren't expecting, would you wish you had made a different choice this month? I hope that as you listen to me and andor watch, that you think for yourself about the power of your promise, the power of presence, the importance of being that person they can rely on, the one that creates the memories, the one that's truly leaving a legacy and living a legacy. The window's open right now, and two stories from this week prove that most people still don't see it. From the newsfeed right after this. Thank you for the important message. Thank you, brother, for watching. What a what a hero of mine you are. I love you, man. Thank you. You know, being being a dad, being a husband, being uh having these opportunities, we don't want to let the window close. And and so as we jump into the news feed, it here's what's interesting about Mother's Day, if if we can go there, because we just celebrated it. Hopefully, you celebrate it. I know some people hate Mother's Day because they've had a challenge in their life with somebody or they've lost somebody. I'm so sorry if you're going through that. I can say that Mother's Day around here, I try to do my best to not have it be just a one-time thing. Like, let's celebrate Mothers always. But this is kind of the idea. The the the monologue, if you will, within this is that she doesn't want breakfast in bed, she wants you at the table. So let's talk about story one with the data. Open Tables 2026 Mother's Day report asked mothers what they actually want for Mother's Day. I found this really interesting. The answer was clear. Only 4% prefer breakfast in bed. Who knew? Not flowers, not a gift card, not a spa day, book six weeks out, a table, their family, nowhere else to be. We decided to do this this Mother's Day. We gathered my mother's uh or my my wife's mother and her her family all together at Red Lobster. Hey, let's support a company that's struggling. And there it's it was great food. I don't know how Red Lobsters had such a hard time, but let me tell you, those cheese biscuits will make you fall off your diet fast. But it was an awesome Mother's Day to hang out. Obviously, I could have attempted to make a very nice dinner burning some steaks, but we decided to let the pros do it, and it was a wonderful meal. Just think about that though. Just hanging out, having dinner, talking around the table. That's the ultimate Mother's Day gift that the mother wants. The data isn't saying mothers don't appreciate gifts. No, don't get me wrong. Hey, if you want to give her a gift, give her a gift. You know what I got my wife? I should have shared a picture of this, but I bought her one of those massage table head things where you put your face in. It looks like a looks like I mean it looks like a donut, or it even looks like something you have to sit on if you have butt surgery. But you stick your face in there. You know what I'm talking about? That little pillow cushion. Yeah. I didn't buy the whole massage bed. We already have one of those. It's sitting in the basement that just there's no room for it. It's so huge. So what this has is these little rods that go and and they're not permanent. You can just move this in and out of your bed. So it sits under your mattress, and then you just flick it up, and your wife can lay there and give her a back rub. I mean, she was ecstatic with this very simple thing that I found on Instagram. So remember, they still like gifts, and it's it's saying the gift they want most can't be purchased, wrapped, or shipped in two days. It's your presence. Phones down, nowhere else to be, just you at the table in the same room all the way there. Before we jump into story two, let me see. Did I see that Steven at Personality Poker? I love Red Lobster. Yeah, man. I I don't know why it gets such a bad rap. They're an Orlando-based company, gotta support local economy. LOL. Agreed. Uh go to Red Lobster. It was it was a great meal, and I'm sad that they're having such a struggle, it seems, and and they're closing down a lot. But Randy also says something great. Love the focus on appreciating the moments and time we have now and going through the windows when they are open. Yeah, that you. Know what I'm talking about, brother. You've got kids that are flying away and doing their lives, and I mean, hey man, that's what it's about. Take advantage of this time. Story two. You ready? Nicole Kidman. You know who she is, right? My favorite movie she did was Moulin Rouge. Amazing if you haven't seen it. Nicole Kidman and Sunday Rose at the gala. Let's talk about it. Nicole Kidman co-chaired the 2026 Met Gala on May 4th. She's 58 years old. Her daughter, Sydney Sunday Rose, that's her name, Sunday Rose, is 17. And when Nicole needed a date for the biggest night in fashion, she brought her daughter. I love that. Sunday Rose told El Australia that childhood visits to her mom's photo shoots are what sparked her interest in modeling and film. It wasn't a lecture, it wasn't a structured lesson. Nicole Kidman just brought her along. I love that. She let the window be open and she put her daughter through it. Sunday Rose is now launching her own career and she knows exactly where it started. So, two stories. Same lesson, right? The moms in that open table survey, they don't want the breakfast in bed. They want the person who's usually half there to be fully there. Sunday Rose didn't get a career from a master class. She got it from a mom who brought her along when the window is open. I've posted a lot about this through the years. I've taken my kids on solo trips andor combined with certain variations of our children, because we have four, I've taken them on trips to see what I do for a living for a long time, mostly to spend time with them, but also for them to understand what I do for work, because most of the time they just see that I'm gone. So to bring them along is such a great gift. And the window in your most important relationships is open right now. Not tomorrow, not after this project right now. So, are you going through it? I hope that you'll consider that. And equally, as Randy says right here, great reminder, presence is what matters. Yes, it is. Presence is where it's at, presence is the promise. Every single chance you get to be present. I'm just telling you, if I wasn't fully present right now, if I was answering the phone and doing something else while I'm online, it would be ridiculous, right? But I'm fully present in this moment. This is how it can be with our relationships at home, and it's the most important thing we can do. So every culture, every generation, every faith tradition has told this story I'm about to tell you. There's one that started all of it, faith and hope, right after this. The story of Moses, all of the children of Israel being led out of the desert or out of Egypt into the desert, facing the Red Sea, all of the craziness that are those epic tales that are so wonderful, and they teach me quite a bit. And so we're gonna stay here for a moment with Exodus 2. We're gonna go before the Red Sea, we're gonna go before the burning bush, we're before any of it. The Pharaoh, if you remember this story, the Pharaoh had decreed that every Hebrew baby boy be thrown into the Nile and murdered. Well, a woman named Yacobed gives birth to a son. What a name, right? Yaqobed. That's usually how it's said, meaning Yahweh is glory. Do you know what the name Yahweh means? Yahweh is God's name. So God is glory. Yahweh is glory, Yacobed. That's her name. What a cool name. She looks at her baby, sees that he is good, and she decides she will not let the window close without a fight. Mama Bear comes out. She hides him for three months. When she can no longer hide him, she doesn't collapse. She builds a waterproof basket from papyrus reeds, sells it with tar and pitch, seals it with tar and pitch, excuse me, and places her son in it among the reeds at the edge of the Nile. She stations his sister, Miriam, at a distance to watch what will happen. And what happened next is not an accident. Pharaoh's daughter, you know this story, comes to bathe in the river. She sees the basket, she opens it, baby crying, she feels compassion, she says, This is one of the Hebrews' children. Miriam steps forward. Shall I find a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby for you? Pharaoh's daughter says, Yes. Miriam goes and gets Yacobed. The baby's own mother. Hired in Pharaoh's palace to nurse her own son. What a cool story. Making it so it works, keeping the promise at the ultimate expense, perhaps, and or possible uh, you know, something bad happening in her life. Randy says, this is such a great topic. I have a window open to me right now. I'm hat I'm hanging out with my grandkids and they want to play. I'm going to walk through that window. Love you, brother. Very nice. I agree. If the kids want to play and you're watching a podcast, turn off the podcast. Even if it's, hey, even if it's me. Come on. I'm with you, man. So when Yaqob, when the child was old enough, Yacobed brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and became her son. She named him Moses. And Yaqabed never appears by name again in the story, but she turned the smallest possible window into one of the greatest leadership stories ever told. She had three months, a waterproof basket, a daughter standing watch, no power, no army, no plan that should have worked. Just a mother who refused to let the window close without using every inch of it. That's a cool mom. I think that's what most moms do andor want to do. And the woman who kept the promise to Moses before Moses could know her name. Um, what a special story. The mothers in your life have been making baskets out of the windows for years. Working with that and with what they have in the time that they have, through the small openings that were available to them, most of the time you'll never know how many. Think about the people that have helped you, given you a second chance, um put you in front of the opportunities that you never could have had otherwise. Who are those people? Celebrate them, thank them, send them this podcast and say, hey, thank you for being that kind of person in my life. As we transition, Yaqabed's window was three months. Yours is still open. Father Time, right after this. Yes, as we jump into Father Time, I want to acknowledge in the comments here, I see Ralph M, thank you for joining us. So true, the promise is the ultimate sacrifice. It absolutely is, right? There are very few convenient promises to be kept. And yet it makes us better for doing so. And that's what I'd like to transition into with this story. For Father Time, as we talk about this Vegas trip with mother and the girls. I mentioned it already at the beginning of the broadcast, but let me just tell you what the story became. I I heard that the sphere in Las Vegas, if you haven't been there, it's unbelievable, is playing The Wizard of Oz when they're not having a huge concert like U2 or Fish or Coldplay. And so they have the Wizard of Oz playing a couple times per day. It's quite expensive for a ticket to see a movie that's 70 minutes long. And but it was my mom's birthday a few months ago. Mother's Day was coming up. I thought, you know, I should probably take my mom to this movie. I don't think she's gonna do that on her own. Uh in fact, I know she won't. But we love this movie. Historically, in our family, the Wizard of Oz, my gosh. I mean, the very first set of material that I created as a performer that was like a bit that that brought characters together was me doing the Wizard of Oz, the entire movie in three minutes. I did every character. And if I only had some courage, oh and I only had a brain. I mean, I'm plowing through all these things. So I'm doing that as the beginning of my career. That's how much I like the Wizard of Oz. I also like it because my grandma, Joan Redford, she used to host me in the summer in St. George, Utah. If you know St. George, you know going there in the summer's probably not fun because it's so hot. It's a lot like Las Vegas, but it's beautiful and red rock everywhere. And yet we'd be inside and we would watch The Wizard of Oz every time I went to her house. She had a coffee table book, Wizard of Oz. Okay, so as you can tell, I'm a fan. But I never thought I'd drive six hours to see it until it started to be promoted at the sphere. Now, if you don't know the sphere, you need to check this out. It's the coolest venue I've ever seen, absolutely by far. I don't know how much it costs to build, but I'm assuming billions. I think that it's also one of the craziest, most impressive places I've ever seen. In fact, when you walk in, uh the I mean, the escalators go up into the sky. Uh, there's there's this ambiance where they're playing really soft, nice music and sounds of birds and things. Like as you're walking in, it like settles down the crowd to being crazy. Like you would probably be entering a venue like this. And then when you walk in and you actually see the theater, if you will, but it's this it's an arena. I mean, it's 20,000 seats, uh, depending on the configuration. It's crazy huge. And yet it's 20,000 seats right here, like straight down. And the whole front of you is the sphere and it and it and the the lights, the sound. It's indescribable. You need to check it out. I mean, whatever you can do to go there, I hope that you would try. And and even if it's for the Wizard of Oz or a concert or something. So here's what we did. I said to my mom, I called her up and I said, Hey, I want to take you to this thing for your birthday for Mother's Day. Ella, my daughter is leaving to Alaska on May 1st. So what do you think if we go on this little trip? She said, Are you kidding? That would be great. And so I invited my sister Haley, who is my daughter's best friend or her aunt. Uh, she has another wonderful aunt, Heather, who's actually wasn't able to attend just because of schedules and things. And so she could have come, but couldn't make it. And then Tammy, my beautiful wife. So I'm driving with my four best pals, my my girls of my life, my mother, who's in her 70s, my wife, my sister, and then my daughter. It was very special. We didn't even turn on the radio, they just laughed the whole way down. We drove six hours. We stopped all kinds of places. I think I took some pictures here of what we did. Here, here's us at Jersey Mike's. Yeah, that's always a nice photo in the wind. But they looked happy. They love Jersey Mics, and so do I. And then we went, uh, and when we got to Vegas, we went to our favorite place, which is called Din Tai Feng. Oh my gosh, if you've never had Din Tai Feng, this is unbelievable. They have just some of the best dumplings in the whole world. It was so good. They call it the Bao. And then we found a couple of neat things like scenic decorations, the Wizard of Oz flowers here. My my wife, my daughter, my sister at one end, and my mother at the other. And this is just so fun to see them happy, walking around, having a good time. Here's the video I took in a very windy experience because we had to walk from the Venetian about a mile and a half. Uh, it seemed like it at least, in the wind. Here's the video of the sphere from outside. Let's see if the if the audio comes through, too. It's amazing. Here's the inside of it. Isn't that crazy? I mean, it looks like something out of the Hunger Games or an Avatar movie. It was over the top. And then after they had this cool lighting and everyone was sitting down, there are thousands of people there to see a movie, people at the popcorn and having a good time, and all of a sudden, ba-da-da-da! The movie came on and it was spectacular. Uh, Ralph says he loves jersey mics too. Yes, sir, that's the best. I love Jersey mics. Yeah, thank you. And you know, Wizard of Oz at the sphere is spectacular. It's we tried to take a selfie and did our best to fit in the picture. But here's the thing: the reason I'm telling you all about this is because it was so special. It was a it was a trip to remember with my beautiful girls that I love so much. I was really proud of my mom. Like she walked all a lot after a six-hour ride in the car. And as as the movie began, somewhere over the rainbow, blue birds fly. I'm crying. Oh man, I looked over. Uh there were tears shed. It's a beautiful thing. Celebrate your mother, celebrate your wife, celebrate your sister, celebrate your daughter, celebrate the important women in your life as much as possible. And I know for me, I didn't have time to do this trip. We cranked it out in 36 hours. I mean, we slept overnight, raced back, uh, had a great, had a great quick blast to Las Vegas. And it was a totally amazing experience. That's what father time is about, in my opinion. Father time is a play on words, right? Father time means the time is closing, and equally, father time is about being a dad. And so having this chance with my beautiful daughter to take her with some of her favorite people as well. It was just a wonderful experience. And so what happened next was really sad because then we had to take Ella to the airport. Ella decided to get a job in Alaska, in Juneau, Alaska. So if you go on a cruise this summer and you go to Juneau, go say hi to her. She's at the Caraloha shop, which is next to Del Seoul, and it's a Utah company. I love this company, it's amazing. Here we are at the airport with Ella. Of course, her favorite Hayley, my sister, came and saw us off. This is Romney and Royal, her little brothers there to say goodbye. We lots of tears shed. I will not share the video of me crying in her arms while she's trying to comfort me as she left. Here's the picture I took after we walked out of the airport. I I didn't want to show my full face because I was crying so much. And these are the boys like, yep, it's just us now, Dad. Our life is changing, my friends, and everybody's windows closing. Here was what I did all the rest of the evening. My daughter, it took her all day to fly to Juneau, Alaska. Here's the GPS. Have you ever done the Find My Friend? Where's my daughter and my child? Yeah, that's what we did on this one. And here's a snapshot of her in Juneau. It was two in the morning when I took this photo. To me, these are the most important times of life. And to see my beautiful daughter who's on the bench there on our family picture, to see her going off into the wild and becoming a most spectacular woman. In fact, even the owner of the company reached out and said, We love your daughter. She is unbelievably cool. I'm so grateful to have a family such as this. You know, the window is real. Sometimes the best way to talk about something real is to laugh at it first. I've taken a bit of time on Father Time. Thanks for letting me share that cool story about my trip to Vegas. We're gonna jump into the funny factory right after this. Okay, let's lean into the Mother's Day gift hall of fame. The breakfast in bed investigation. Obviously, I already read the stats. Most moms don't need the breakfast in bed or require it or expect it, but we do that. We think that's their big thing. So every year, somewhere in America, a well-meaning family decides this is the year we're doing breakfast in bed. We're going to be the family that does this right, and the children are deputized, the kitchen becomes a crime scene, the egg is on the ceiling. Someone burned the toast in a way that activates the smoke detector, and the orange juice is mostly pulp. I've been there done that. Mom receives it with a smile that could power a small city. Oh, this is wonderful. I love it. All of it, including the ceiling eggs. She means it. That's the part we miss. She doesn't love the toast. She loves the fact that you tried. She loves the window you opened for her. But also remember, 42% of her would really prefer the restaurant. But then there's the card from the seven-year-old. If you have a kid that writes the card, that's very important. I don't care if they're seven or seventeen or twenty seven or forty-seven. Write the card. Somewhere in a drawer in your childhood home is a Mother's Day card made from construction paper. Crayon. Misspelled. Maybe if you're my age, I think that we even did ashtrays, which is so bizarre to think. Hey, make an ashtray for your mom for Mother's Day. Okay, thank you, kindergarten teacher. That's a wise choice. My mother who doesn't smoke, here's your ashtray for Mother's Day. It says something like, I love you to the moon, right? This little card that you made. I love you to the moon, and you're the best mom in the world. Yeah. That card says more than any Hallmark movie ever could. Because a seven-year-old has no strategy, no angle, no gift budget, just the truth and crown with a drawing of a flower that looks like a sun that looks like a spider, and your mom kept it and she still has it. That's the window. She loves it. A special acknowledgement to every mother who's ever received a gift, looked at it and said, I love it, with full sincerity, and then quietly calculated the return window. This is not ingratitude, this is grace. This is a woman who spent years making baskets out of whatever was available, and she's not about to let a candle that smells like ocean rain wreck the moment she loves you. She keeps the card. She might return the candle, but that's the promise. When I think about the best gifts my kids have given my wife, uh, there are some epic ones. My sons made a video about Mother's Day, and they made a video of them recreating the the uh music video, Take on Me by Aha. Do you remember that song? Take on Me. Take me on, I'll be good. Right? That guy remember how they the girl climbs into the comic book and becomes an illustrated character, and then these guys are chasing him with wrenches. And I mean, it's a kind of a violent ending. But my sons decided to recreate this in a movie. They're just so creative. I mean, it'll live on forever. I remember in COVID when everything was shut down. We're looking around, like, where did the boys go? And then a few hours later, they showed back up. We figured they must be out playing. No, they took a scooter, they were like too young to really do anything like driving a car. They took a scooter all the way to the store, which is a mile and a half away, found some flowers, bought them for their mother, and barely made it back because the wind, I mean, this flowers were pretty beat up, but it was an epic moment. I I mean, I'm I just love the way my kids have done their best to honor their mother. And uh as we go into the wrap-up of this episode, I'm gonna do one more segment and then we'll be done. But remember the window is open. And as much as it's important to love and share and your mind be energized, your body needs to be ready as well when the window is open. And so we're gonna jump into the fitness minute right after this. Okay, let me just tell you about fitness as we wrap up, and thank you for joining me this week. We try to keep this to 45 minutes. I've gone a little long, but I'll do this one quick. My my mom walked a mile and a half in Las Vegas in a windy hurricane level wind to the sphere. She's in her 70s. It was over uneven Las Vegas pavement, grass, whatever, or maybe it was not real grass, but you know, it looked like it was supposed to. It's Vegas, you know. After a six-hour car ride, she did this, and she was going up escalators that reached into the ceiling, but she had to climb stairs to get there. I mean, no complaints, no drama. She was ready when the window opened because she has been showing up for her body the way she's been showing up for her family. Steady, daily, without fanfare. I tell you this story because you don't exercise for the mirror. You exercise so you're still in the game when the windows open. So you can take the trip. So you can walk the mile and a half. So when your daughter calls from Alaska and says, Come see me, you can say yes without hesitation. So you can get on the ground with your grandchildren, or you can keep up with your children at the gym, or you can still play basketball, or you can still go out and have fun and run around and be that person. My friends, my mom continues to move. That's what I'm talking about. Just don't stop moving. The more people that I see retire, they slowly wither away because they stop moving. So get up, get dressed, go outside, take a walk, feel the joy of being out on a walk and feel the health and the sun and the movement. It's so important. I want to tell you something that's interesting that I didn't know I'd even go into, but I think I should. My mom takes a product every day called Cardiomerical. Now, I usually talk about Cardiomerical in the sense of let me tell you the science of this, but you can check out the science of it anywhere. You can go to cardiomiracle.com forward slash studies. You can go check it out. I mean, it's amazing what it does. It creates nitric oxide in your body, which helps you feel younger. It gives you more energy. If you want to check it out, if you want to get some at a discount, here's a QR code. All right. Now, here's the story I want to tell you. My dad is the formulator and the owner of this company. So you might already know that if you followed me. I am the president of the company. He's a it's a family legacy business. I'm very proud of my dad. Let me tell you though, he and my mom, their marriage um ended 22 years ago. Why would I share that? Well, it's public knowledge, but also this is interesting. Uh, it wasn't a very great experience for any of us, and it's taken years for them to get back to where they could, you know, talk and be cordial. And it was I'm grateful for that. Let me tell you though, when I asked my mom the other day, hey, what do you think it is that is making it so that you're so youthful still? Like, what is your secret truly? And she goes, Son, it's cardio miracle. And I was like, Oh, come on, that's nice of you to say. She goes, No, it's not nice. She said, You know, your father made that product, and I didn't I didn't know if I would like it at first because we didn't see eye to eye at the time. And I I just started drinking it and I've seen that big of a difference. Now, if that's not a crazy cool testimonial from my mother, who's not married anymore to my father who created this product, that's how important this product is to my mom. I think that's a really cool testimonial. And she swears by it. She drinks it every day. In fact, on our trip, she was just sipping it as we drove. I thought that's a really interesting story. I'm so grateful that she's fit enough and healthy enough and feeling great with the nitric oxide flowing through her veins, the vitamin D3 coming from the fat cells that naturally happens when we drink cardiomerical that stays in your body for 24 to 36 hours. It will make you feel better. That's a cool story from my mom. I thought I'd share it with you, but the fitness question for this week isn't about a program or a goal. It's simpler. What does your body need today? That's it. Not the transformation plan you'll abandon by week three. Today's portion, real movement, real rest, real food, get outside. You can't hoard health. You can practice it daily. The walk without an agenda, just go for a walk. At least once this week, walk without a podcast, even if it means turning this off and going for your walk without the playlist, without the productivity, just move. My mom's the example to me of that. She just doesn't stop moving. In fact, she has stairs to go up to her home. And I asked her, I said, What's the other secret do you think, other than cardiomerical? She said, The stairs. I have to climb stairs and down them in order to go in and out of my house. It's if I had had an elevator, I don't think I'd be this strong. Wow. Good point. Just move. Think about the windows in your life. Think about who you want to be ready for. That's not a mindfulness exercise, that's a leadership one. And so, my friends, as we wrap this up today, thank you for listening and watching and being a part of it. Thank you to the many that shared ideas and thoughts. Even it looks like personality poker. My man Steven he even said, Hey, thank you for the story. Uh, thank you for thank you for a great story. Thanks for sharing it. I appreciate it, brother. And thank you to all that watch and listen. And I I love you all. And I I have to just say that the window is smaller than you think. It's not closed, it's just smaller. Ella's in Alaska now. My mom's in her 70s, walking around Vegas. It's amazing to me. I almost didn't make that trip. So, what's the point? Make the trip. Make the call, send the text, get in the car, book the table, bring the person who shaped you and the person you are shaping while both windows are still open. The promise to show up is the only promise that can't be rescheduled, extended, or renegotiated. Every other promise has a grace period. This one doesn't. You don't need a holiday to step through that window. You need this Tuesday afternoon when you almost talked yourself out of it. That's when you do it. You need the six-hour drive that felt too long until it was over and you realized that was the whole point. The window is open right now. Go through it. Keep your word, keep the promise. I'm Jason Hewlett. Thank you for joining the Jason Hewlett Show today, season two. Here we roll. Happy Mother's Day to everybody, and I'll see you next Thursday. Have a great day.