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that's okay cuz no one here is Teen Beat. Hello and welcome to another episode of Teen Beat. Today is a little bit of a special episode. I'm going to do it solo. I have so many things I want to update you guys on because I just got back from from the Dancing with the Stars Live tour and I was out for a month. I left on January 17th. I flew to Lititz, Pennsylvania where there is a fantastic rehearsal space for bands and companies that tour and I had a couple of days of tech rehearsal and then the very first show was in Akron on January 22nd and I flew home from New York. After two sold out shows at Radio City in New York on the 17th, I flew home on the 17th and I had the most amazing trip. Just truly the most amazing trip. Like I, you know, sleeping on a bus, sleeping in and out of random hotel rooms, being in super close quarters to people I've only known for six months. I feel bonded and connected to every single one of the dancers. I made incredible friends who were a part of the touring production. Some people I know already I'm gonna be friends with for the rest of my life. Like just truly Dancing with the Stars is somehow the people it has brought into my life are just some of the world's best people. And like true friendships and relationships I know I'll have forever. And it's wild. It's just wild. What an incredible trip I had. I was very sad when my time came to an end. I still have four more days that I'm gonna do in April. I'll go out April 9th through the 12th and I will be in Texas and then I'll be in Denver and Kansas City. So I have those 4D. But this really, even though I still have those to look forward to, this felt like, you know, when I was done on February 15th, after those two Radio City shows. It felt like the end of a big chapter because it is the first month of my tour is now over. And so I was very sad. I was super emotional leading into it. But I'll say that the most sad day for me was the last day of my solo hosting, which I think was like February 13th. Because then on February 14th, we were joined, I was joined, we were all joined by Andy Richter and Alex Earle. And having them there was incredible. Like, first of all, having new energy brought into the show, we had to change some things now that they were there, to incorporate their dances, to incorporate some of their host moments. All of that just made it feel fresh and alive and wonderful and new in a way that it hadn't since we started the show, you know, a month before. So my sadness kind of went out the window once they were there because it was great to reunite with them. It was so good to see Andy and Alex. I just couldn't love Alex more. I think she is just, I don't know, I just really. I love being around her. I think her energy's great. I can tell how much she loves to dance, which is something we share. Something we don't share is that she's significantly better at it than I am. But we share love for it. And just seeing her light up the stage again and to dance with Val again. The first night I watched her, that night of the 14th in New Jersey, her hometown, I cried. I cried sidestage. Just watching her, just seeing her so in her element and loving it so much, brought a tear to my eye. Because knowing that other people feel the same way about this experience that I did, I just know how special it is, what a wonderful feeling it is. And so to see her having it as well, I'm just so happy. It makes. It literally brings me so much joy. So that was really great. I have never been away from home for 30 days. I'm 44 years old and I've never been away from home for that long. I thought it was going to be harder than it was. I actually adjusted to life on the road really quickly, probably because I knew it was short lived. So I didn't have this feeling of like, oh my gosh, when will this ever be over? I knew one, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. And two, I knew it was just a month. And I am a firm believer that I could do probably almost anything for a month. So, you know, fill in the blank with any length of time. That's kind of what I say to myself to get myself through pretty much anything, just fill in the blank. It could be six months, it could be a year, it could be whatever. I could do anything for blank amount of time. And if I just tell myself that enough, then guess what? It's true. So I adjusted very well. I of course missed my kids, missed my husband, missed my family, missed my routine a little bit. But I really, I really adjusted significantly better than I thought I was going to. It helps that I was on a bus with Danny and Pasha and their daughter Kiki. For one thing, if you can't be with your family, be with the next best thing, which is a fantastic family you love as if they were your own. And so they welcomed me into their bus and into their little family. And every morning Danny would make scrambled eggs with spinach and Pasha would make buckwheat. And I basically just acted like I was their significantly older than them daughter and sat there and colored with Kiki at the dining table while they made breakfast. And I then ate it like a child. And we had a Nespresso machine on the bus, which is important to all three of us that we drink coffee that we love. And so we had good coffee and we had a milk frother. So we'd make our little coffees the way we like them and eat breakfast together as a little family. And that helped give me the sense of like normalcy that I would have had had I been home with my own family. So special. Thank you to them for welcoming me with such open arms and making me feel so good. I also, before I left, I was worried about the kids missing me because, you know, I've never been away from them for longer than five days. Five days is the longest I had ever been away from them. And I had been away from them for five days when we did the Pod meets World Live tour. Sometimes we would leave on a Wednesday and then do a show on a Thursday, Friday and a Saturday and then fly home on Sunday. So that's like the longest I had ever been away. And this was going to be before they got to come visit me. It was going to be about 17 days away from me. And I was very nervous about it. I bought, I ended up finding on Etsy a 30 day. I'm going to call it an Advent calendar, but I really do think Advent calendars are very specifically for Christmas. So this is like a 30 day countdown calendar that had a little prize inside of it every day like a sticker or a bouncy ball or some bubbles or pens. It had like A little treat inside. And I bought one for each of my kids. And because total time of me being gone was about 30 days, they got to come visit me for a full week in that time. So I guess away from them about 23 days. But I wanted them to have a little countdown thing so that every day tied to me being gone, they had some sort of treat that worked even better than I thought it was going to. They were very excited about these little calendars and they loved the little treats that were inside of them. Even though they were just kind of, like I said, just small insignificant little gifts. But they loved them and they would. They were always very excited to, to show me what they got in their little advent calendar countdown box thingy. And the time change helped. I was on all east coast states for that first month. The kids were obviously still here in California on the west coast. So that time change really helped me because they get up every day at 6:30 on the West coast, which for me is 9:30 on the east coast. And I was not usually. One thing that definitely changed for me on tour was that I was not able to go to sleep much before 1am we would wrap the shows somewhere between 9:30 and 10. Then we're showering and washing our face and getting ready for bed at the venues. Some people ice bath after, you know, we have our own little like decompress rituals that we do at the venue. And then you know, you have to pack up your bag and then you have to head back out to the bus. And then you get on the bus, you're usually hungry, you have post show food, you eat. I would sit with Danny and Pasha and Kiki and you know, we would color or we would just talk or we would sit side silently and scroll our phones, whatever we needed to do in order to just kind of come down from the adrenaline rush of performing. And for me, I would notice that I really could not fall asleep before 1am. I know most people are surprised to learn what OCD really is because pop culture has spread the idea that it's just about being super neat and organized. But that's not accurate at all. My husband has OCD and I can tell you it is so much more than that. Real OCD is a serious condition where you get unwanted distressing thoughts called intrusive thoughts. They're stuck on repeat in your mind, often focusing on people or things we care about like relationships, identity or character, making them hard to ignore. And then you feel driven to do certain behaviors called compulsions to try to make the anxiety stop. This obsession and undying desire to make it go away can completely derail you. For decades. Jensen ruined his own life and the happiness of those around him purely because he couldn't make the repeated worry go away. But he'd eventually learn it doesn't have to be that way, because OCD is one of the most treatable mental health conditions. 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So I was sleeping in in California I get up seven days a week without fail somewhere between 5:30 and 6:00am and that's because my kids get up at 6:30 and I like to have at least 30 minutes of silence and meditation slash coffee time to myself in the morning before I have to kickstart my day with children and all the responsibilities that come with my life. And on tour I was going to sleep at 1 and sleeping until like 9 or 9:30. So the time change really worked to my advantage because they would get up at 6:30 in the morning, 9:30 my time and most days I'd be able to talk to them within the first 30 minutes of them being awake and I would, you know WhatsApp message call the kids and I'd get to talk to them. I'd sing them their little good morning song and I'd get to see their faces, they'd get to see my face. We'd talk about how they slept, what they were excited about for the day, and then that they'd show me what they got in their little Advent calendar box thing. And we would talk then. And then it worked out well because my kids go to sleep around 7:30 to 8pm California time, which on the East coast was 10:30 to 11. So I was always done with the shows by then. I was able to, you know, talk to them again on camera, read them a story. One of the other things I did to help us stay connected while we were gone is I bought us two copies of the same book. One for them to have and one for me to have so that we could read together every night. I always read them stories before bed I have since the day they were born. And so we had the same book and we would say, okay, where'd we leave off? You know, turn to page 27, mommy's gonna start another chapter. And they'd have the book in front of. I'd have the book in front of me and I'd get to read to them. And that was really special. We got to do that almost every single night. So between the twice a day FaceTime calls and I mean actual face to face time on the call, that helped us stay connected. Me being able to read to them helped them stay connected. Then if there was a time when I wasn't able to read to them for whatever reason. One of the things that I loved so much, we have Tony boxes. Our kids love Tony boxes. This is not an ad. They're not paying me. We just have them. We've purchased them and I love them. And the Tony box, if you don't know what it is, it's a box that you can put a little character on and it reads a story. So they make tons of Tonys for all different types of story character. Like all different types of books. There's Peter Rabbit. We have some Sesame street ones from the, when the kids were younger. There are Cars, the movie cars, Pixar. It's a Disney. It's a Disney thing. So most of them are Disney licensed characters. So we have all the Marvel characters, all the Marvel Tonys. Some of them have songs on there, some of them just have stories. Some have both songs and stories. Anyway, they have something called a creative Tony and you can record 90 minutes of your own content on the Tony. So before I left, I got a creative Tony and I recorded me reading different books that they have that I know they like. And then they were able to, if I wasn't able to read to them for whatever reason, say I only had a few minutes before I had to go pack and get onto the bus. Or something. And if I wasn't able to fully read, they could just put the Tony, the creative Tony on the Tony and they could hear my voice reading them books they have in their rooms. So Jensen would hand them the book that I was reading to them and he'd put on the Tony box and it would hit. They'd hear my voice. I also got to record little things that I know they love. Like I sing them. You've heard me mention it now a couple of times. They have a good morning song that I made up when they were born and I sing them their good morning song every morning. So I sang that for them in case they missed me or they wanted to hear it, or in case I wasn't able to talk to them in the morning for whatever reason. So those are things that I did that helped us stay connected. And they made it through those 17 days without me really well. They also knew that they were going to get to come and visit, which also helped because they were counting down till the days that they got to get on a plane to come visit me. And that helped. Sure enough, they. Well, I need to talk about Jensen. Jensen flew across the country with two kids aged four and six by himself. Now, people do that all the time, but neither Jensen nor I have ever done that. We have only flown as a family of four or as a family of three. We flew, you know, once would before we had Keaton, just with Adler. So this was a big undertaking. Jensen was ready, willing and able to take it on. He loves challenges. Me being as busy as I have been since I started this Dancing with the Stars journey has been really good for his confidence as a parent. He has really learned that he's very capable. He is a very good dad, he's very hands on. And when he goes places with both of them, like basketball games and baseball games and other parents see him, they always compliment him on how good he is at managing both of them by himself. And so he was excited. He was excited for the challenge. And the kids were great. They had their own little backpacks packed with their Amazon fire tablets and their headphones. So in Jensen made sure they were packed with movies and things they like to watch. They had some snacks in their backpack. They had some coloring items in their backpack. They had playing cards because they like to play cards. They had wrestling figures. So their little backpacks were packed with things that they could use to entertain themselves. And they were great. They did really, really well. They didn't ask him incessantly, how much longer till we're there. How much longer till we're there? They great. And it was a really long day of travel. It's like a five and a half hour flight to Hershey, Pennsylvania. They flew to. They actually flew to Philly, and then they had to make a two and a half hour drive to Hershey, Pennsylvania, which is where they were meeting up with me. And so they did that. And they did a great job. They arrived, they were thrilled. My kids have only been to the snow still in California, where we. They haven't been skiing yet, but we have taken them to go tubing. And so they've only seen snow like that, which man made snow. And when they landed in Philly, guess what? There was lots of real snow on the ground. And they were so excited. They had their puffy coats, they had their gloves, they had their snow boots. And when they arrived, they wanted to go outside and play in the snow. So Jensen said, all right, Mom's on her way. I had finished a show that night in Philly and then hopped in a car and made it to Hershey, Pennsylvania. Got there, they were playing in the snow. It was such a sweet reunion to see them. Got them inside. Immediately slept in bed. Like, we were exhausted. Immediately slept in bed with them. Was so happy to see them, and they were thrilled. They were so good. The next day we woke up early. We got to go visit the little downtown of Hershey, Pennsylvania. We went to Hershey Chocolate World, I think it's called. They have a cute little ride. They have every single type of merch and toy and stuffy and everything you can think of for every Hershey brand candy. So Jolly Rancher, all the chocolates, Reese's peanut butter cups. Just tons and tons and tons and tons of stuff. Huge fun store. We got to walk around there. And then that night, the kids came to see the show for the first time. And one of my most favorite memories that I know I will have for the rest of my life with my kids is two things. One, seeing how good and how much my kids love other kids. They were so excited to hang out with Rome, which is Jenna and val's son, who's 3, and Kiki, Danny and Pasha's daughter, who's almost 3. They were stoked. They were such good, you know, older kids. Keaton's only four, so he's not significantly older than them. He's four and a half, I guess. But boy, they were just so sweet with Roman, Kiki, and they loved them and they had so much fun playing with them. And again, to the Dancing with the Stars family. You know, meaning the production family and faculty, the production company that puts on the Dancing with the Stars live tour. To their enormous credit. They make it as easy to have your family there as possible. And of course they do that because they know it adds to the happiness and the well being of the dancers who have kids and for me, the celebrity who has kids that have to come and visit if I'm going to be able to be out on the road for a month. I know most people are surprised to learn what OCD really is because pop culture has spread the idea that it's just about being super neat and organized. But that's not accurate at all. My husband has OCD and I can tell you it is so much more than that. Real OCD is a serious condition where you get unwanted, distressing thoughts called intrusive thoughts. They're stuck on repeat in your mind, often focusing on people or things we care about like relationships, identity or character, making them hard to ignore. And then you feel driven to do certain behaviors called compulsions to try to make the anxiety stop. This obsession and undying desire to make it go away can completely derail you for decades. 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Part of what they do is that they win. Possible at the venues. They have a family room, which is one of the many dressing rooms or spaces that has some privacy where we can bring in toys and the kids can be loud and they can run around and they can color and they can play with each other and they can kick a soccer ball. And so we had an amazing family room. Adler and Keaton were teaching Rome how to play soccer, and they were. And Adler was trying to show him how to throw a spiral football with an American football. And Kiki was a little like, wow. Lots of boy energy. But she was participating. And they all had their own little trucks, and they just all got along so, so well, and it was. It was truly amazing. So that was. That's one memory I'm gonna remember for the rest of my life. I have so many cute pictures of all of them holding hands and helping each other, you know, nowhere to go, and just cute little moments. The other moment that's gonna stick with me for sure for the rest of my life is that Keaton saw during our VIP meet and greet that the people who come and take pictures with us and that we get to see for a few minutes leave with a bag that has a program in it. And Keaton saw it, and he was like, what is that book? He was calling the program a book. And I was like, oh, that's a program. Do you want one? And Adler and Keaton were both like, yeah, we want a program. And I was like, okay. So I got them programs. And Keaton would not put his down. He called it his book. Where's my book? Where's my Dancing with the Stars book? And he carried it around with him everywhere. And then he saw that people were asking to have them autographed. So before the VIP meet and greets, we sign a bunch of programs. And he's like, what's that? And I was like, those are called autographs. People sign them with a pen. Like the dancers sign them, and then people take them home. Do you want yours signed? And he was like, no, because then it will be wet. And I was like, no, the pen will dry. It doesn't stay wet forever. And he was like, oh, no, no, I don't. I don't want it signed. I just want it like this. And I said, okay. And then later that day, he asked me again, so the pen dries. It doesn't stay wet. And I said, no, it doesn't stay wet. And he was like, okay, I think I want a pen. I want to ask them to sign it. And I said, okay. So I got him a Sharpie, and little Keaton took his book into the dressing rooms of the dancers, and he asked them to sign his book. Everyone signed it. And then he became obsessed with having everyone who was in the book sign it. So he asked Alan if Jeff, his dog, could sign the book because Jeff is in the program. And Alan took a pen and put the pen under Jeff's little dog paw and drew a dog paw as his little signature. Keaton got to see Mandy Moore on Super Bowl Sunday. And he was like, mom, where's my book? And I didn't have his book with me. It was back at the hotel, and he was like, I need you to go get my book. So I bundled up in my coat, and I walked the three blocks to my hotel, and I grabbed his book and I brought it back. And Keaton walked up to spectacular choreographer, director extraordinaire, Mandy Moore and asked for her autograph. He got our tour manager's autograph. He just. Everyone who was there, he got the executive producers, Nicole, Jordan. He got everyone to sign his little book. And then I told him. I said, you know, Keaton, when you. When you leave, Jordan and Alex are going to be coming within a few days. If you want to leave me your book, I will get Alex and Andy to sign your book for you. And he was like, no, I need my book with me. And I was like, oh, okay, but I could get you more signatures. And he's like, no, no, I want my book. And I was like, okay. And so, sure enough, then, as we're packing to get them ready to leave, I said to Jensen, do you think I should just keep it here and try to get more. And maybe he won't notice that we didn't send it home. And he goes, absolutely not. If he asks me for that on the way home and we don't have it, it's going to be World War iii. And I was like, all right. Right, That's. You're probably right. So I put it in his backpack. Sure enough, about halfway through the flight home, he asked Jensen. Keaton said, where's my book? And Jensen said, it's in your backpack. And Keaton said, show it to me. Jensen had to pull his book out of his backpack. And then Keaton was like, okay, I just wanted to make sure we did have it. So he just wanted to make sure. Sure Enough. He brought it to school the next day and showed off his Dancing with the Stars but book. It's so cute. The fact that he was so into it. I just love so much. I also thought the kids were gonna see the show. Love it. And then the next day we had a two show day. We had a matinee and an evening show. And I was like, guys, I'm sure, you know, you just saw the show last night. I'm sure you're tired. Why don't you guys rest or go do something fun for the afternoon show and then you'll come and watch the nighttime show. Nope. Both my kids wanted to sit and watch both the matinee and the next evening show. So they saw three full shows while they were there. Loved every single second of it. Had just the time of their lives. And then we had two days off, which was really nice. We got to take them to New York for our days off, which is when we were there for Super Bowl Sunday and the next day. So we took them to FAO Schwarz. My dad and his wife flew out to meet us. And so that was really fun. We had the extra help with them. They, of course, spoiled Adler and Keaton at FAO Schwartz bought them a couple toys that they really wanted. Again, Adler and Keaton could not get over the snow. They thought the snow was great. Even though the snow was filthy on the sidewalk. My kids were insisting on jumping on it. They just, they really had a great time. We did some real New York official stuff, like eating a hot dog on the side of the street. It was freezing. It was like, like 7 degrees or something. And so trying to eat a hot dog without our gloves. Keaton took like two bites and was like, I'm freezing. We took him on the subway, which was really fun. I just, I got to have such amazing memory making moments on the tour, both by myself and with my family. And I'm so, so grateful to the Dancing with the Stars family for having me. I'm so grateful to faculty and for having me and to Mandy Moore for incorporating me the way that she did. I am so grateful for all of the fans who came out and met us and saw the shows. It really is a show unlike any other. If you have never seen Dancing with the Stars live on tour, I highly, highly recommend that you do it.

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It, it's one of the best shows I've ever seen live. And I have seen a lot of spectacular shows in my day. It's just the best. My mom got to see it this past weekend, she came to the Radio City show in New York and she flat out said, that is the best live production of anything I have ever seen in my life ever. And she said, and I know you're gonna say that I'm biased, but it is not because I'm biased. She said, it's just normally in a two hour show, I would get bored, I would be tired. And she said, never once was I bored. Never once was I tired. It went by so fast. She also saw two shows in one day. She went to the matinee and she went to the evening. And she said the second show flew by even faster than the first show. And she said, and I didn't think that was possible because the first one flew by so fast, but it is. To see these dancers and the way they shine and their athleticism and their talent and their skills and their personalities, they're just, they're incredible. And you are missing out if you don't see it. So I highly recommend you go check it out. I cannot wait to get back to my days in April. I'm already counting down the days, even though, you know, I just left. And in the meantime, now I'm home and I will be continuing to podcast. I'm excited to see Ryder and Will. As a matter of fact, Will and Susan sent me a. A beautiful bouquet of flowers today to welcome me home, which is so sweet. Yeah, so I'm gonna be here, I'm gonna be busy with podcasts and. But I'm also just excited to jump back into my normal life and be busy with my kids again. And, yeah, it's really been just such a remarkable experience. And I don't know how I'm gonna now fill my day with trying to get two hours of physical activity the way I did every single night on tour. And I'm excited to get back into some sort of normal sleep pattern. Your girl's gonna be back to sleep between 9 and 10 and up between 5:30 and 6 every day. And my aura ring, by the way, my aura ring that I love very much. Again, not an ad. I. I bought it. They don't pay me. I bought it myself. I just love it. I had it with me on the road. And the only downside to the Oura ring on tour for me was that it did not. Not recognize me as sleeping when I was on the bus, because the bus was moving so much, it thought I was awake. So there were several days that my sleep should have been recorded as being like, decent sleep. Like, I went to sleep at 1 and I slept until 9:30 and be like, wow, okay. Even if I was a little restless during that time, it's still like plenty of sleep. But no, it would, it would show me as sleeping from like say 5am when maybe the bus stopped, maybe the bus arrived at our next location at 5am and then it would think I had slept from 4 to 9 or something and it'd be like, okay, you only had four hours of sleep. You, you're gonna make it though today. And I'd be like, no, I had eight hours. So that was the one downside I did. If you have an aura ring, you know what this means. If not, pay no attention. But I did end up creating a tag that said like slept on the bus just for myself. So that if I ever wanted to go back and look back through my records, I'd be like, why would I only sleeping four hours at this time? And then be like, oh right, I was on the bus. So I was asleep for. But that's my only, that was really my only complaint otherwise. It was very interesting to see my metrics. We all did get sick on tour. It's definitely one of those things where, you know, for the two hour show you're touching everybody's hand at some point, you're grabbing onto everyone's different hands. You are also sharing a bus with people. You are sharing all your common spaces, a dressing room where you're getting ready. And so once one person gets get sick, it's pretty much just a domino effect of how it ends up taking everybody down. I did get a cold. I feel like I am mostly recovered from it now. I was like the last one to get it. Also, I think my body has a tendency to get sick when something's about ready to end. I got sick toward the very end of Dancing with the Stars too. So I think it's my way of. My body's way of processing. But anyway, I'm home. I'm excited to be back home. I miss everybody so much. And if they asked me to go back for whatever reason, I'd be there in a heartbeat and I'd probably just find a way to bring my kids. It was something we discussed early on, Jensen and I, that what if I do the whole tour and we just hire a tutor and bring them along with me and we all go as a family and they have a tutor who, you know, keeps up with their first and pre K schoolwork and. And we had, you know, it felt like kind of a crazy decision to make and it also felt like wild to even think of it when we didn't really know what we were experiencing because you don't know until you've done it once. In hindsight, I do kind of wish we had done that. I think it would have been a really great lifetime memory for them. I would have loved to have done the whole tour and, and I think they would have really enjoyed it. I think they would have had a good time. But you don't know what you don't know. So I have no regrets. But I do look forward to getting back out there in April and seeing more of you. Then the weather will be warmer, which will also make bus life and hotel life a little easier because, man, having to bundle up and put your gloves on because you have to go out into the sometimes feels like negative degrees or very low degree weather. And then, you know, opening the bus doors, like the underground doors to grab your heavy suitcases and pulling them through and windchill and all that, like the weather does not make that any easier. So I'll be, when I'm back in April, I'll be in dates where the temperature is going to be normal. It'll be spring. I'm looking forward to that too. So anyway, thank you guys for listening to this episode of Teen Beat. I appreciate your support all the time. I'm looking forward to bringing you lots more wonderful fun episodes, interview episodes, and yeah, stay tuned for more of that as well. All right, thanks everyone for listening. I will talk to you next time. Teen Beat is an iHeart podcast produced and hosted by Danielle Fishel, executive producers Jensen Karp and Amy Sugarman, executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo, producer and editor Tara Sudbaksh. The theme song is by Mark Hoppus. Yes, that Marcompus. Follow us on instagrameenbeatpod.

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