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Alona Mar
Let's dive on in, shall we?
Adriana Amar
Oh, we're diving it.
Olivia Mar
Breaststroke it.
Alona Mar
Like a doggy paddle.
Olivia Mar
Oh, yeah. Probably.
Alona Mar
We've never been the best swimmers. Welcome to House of Mar A Wave original presented by Samsung. I'm your host, Alona Mar, Olympic medalist rugby player. And no matter how old and mature I get, I will continue to add about two spoonfuls of sugar to my tea and coffee.
Olivia Mar
And I'm your host, Olivia Mar. A content creator. Creator of Girl Dinner and severely lacking.
Adriana Amar
Vitamin D. And I'm your host, Adran Amar, human rights advocate. And I still haven't stopped talking about my two study abroad experiences.
Alona Mar
Ooh, of em. Wow. There's so much you don't know about us. Let's do a little background. So a lot of people think that I am the eldest sister.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, a lot of people.
Alona Mar
I don't know if it's maturity, how beautiful I am, or whatever it is, the vibe I give off, but I am not. I am a classic middle child.
Olivia Mar
It's true.
Alona Mar
The oldest over here, we got Olivia coming in at a. A roaring 30 years old. See, that was disgusting. She's feeling it.
Adriana Amar
Why'd you have to bring that everywhere?
Olivia Mar
I. Everywhere in my writer. That. That wasn't supposed to be discussed.
Alona Mar
I love it.
Olivia Mar
Yeah. I am the oldest. Classic. I think I'm a classic oldest.
Adriana Amar
Yeah, absolutely. You hit every box.
Olivia Mar
Every box.
Alona Mar
She is our little mommy. When our mommy, she makes us food.
Olivia Mar
And like, she tucks us in.
Alona Mar
She tucks us in and she cleans up after us.
Olivia Mar
You see the kind of money alone is bringing in, and it's just, yes, I do the cooking. Yes, I do the cle.
Alona Mar
Yes. Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.
Olivia Mar
And then we have the baby over here.
Adriana Amar
The widdle baby.
Olivia Mar
The widdle, widdle baby.
Alona Mar
I would also say classic baby.
Olivia Mar
Classic baby. She got. I mean, you too, though. But being younger than me, you each got to do the things sooner than I got to do in my life. Especially you. When I got to do it, then you got to do it. I'm like, but I couldn't do it two years ago. And her especially, too.
Adriana Amar
Well, I was also really good at convincing our parents. I knew how to argue. You just had to know. We couldn't get our ears pierced until we were 13. But mom and Dad, it's basketball season, and so we have to get it before basketball season or else I'm have to take it out.
Olivia Mar
I got actually, I was 12. Business mindset, first and foremost.
Alona Mar
Olivia and I were always very close. In age, I say, like, when you got to watch the PG13 movies, I got to watch the PG13 movies. But you were. You're almost like two and a half years younger than me, but like three years younger than me in grade. So you kind of felt left out.
Adriana Amar
Yeah, it was tough because you guys were only one year apart in high school together, going through all the same sports teams, and I was still in middle school. And at that age, that just feels so huge, that, like, distance between us. Like, and, you know, I was still, like, beginning puberty, and you guys were kind of at the tail end. Of course we're not.
Alona Mar
We had our periods.
Adriana Amar
Yeah.
Alona Mar
We were getting blood, everybody. We were women.
Adriana Amar
I was jealous of everyone else in the hall with their periods.
Olivia Mar
Right, right, right. Wait to start bleeding.
Alona Mar
Cannot wait.
Adriana Amar
Every time I go, I was like.
Olivia Mar
Please, please, please let there be blood today.
Alona Mar
But we've. We have gotten over that. Because that was tough for you growing up being kind of not like an outcast, but it definitely was.
Olivia Mar
No.
Alona Mar
What's the word for it? We treat. In a way, we treated you like an outcast at times.
Olivia Mar
Yeah. Because it's four.
Alona Mar
Not that dramatic. You weren't that mean.
Olivia Mar
Four ish years between you and I. Whoa, five ish. Five ish.
Adriana Amar
You're four and a half.
Alona Mar
You'll learn. Livy's not the best with math.
Olivia Mar
All right.
Adriana Amar
It got so much better with age. And I think especially once I graduated high school, I personally noticed a huge difference in our relationships. Just like we were on the same level. You know, you could see me as an adult.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, absolutely. I see you as like a best friend. Like, oh, did you guys just see. I saw a tweet that was like, siblings are awesome. It's like best friends. You can be evil to.
Adriana Amar
I love to be mean to my best friends.
Alona Mar
You two are very similar, too. As you've gotten older, you've almost gotten, like, more similar. Same humor, same everything, same references. Sometimes they'll just have you having a conversation and I'm up to date on what's happening in the world too. But they. They'll be riffing off each other, ping ponging.
Olivia Mar
We do. We are close in that way. But it is funny because we. As close as we are. And as much on the references as you are up, you are also an old lady in many ways. Like, it's crazy that you have the most prolific social media presence when you were also the, like, least technologically. Like, right. Sound.
Alona Mar
Would you say right?
Adriana Amar
Yeah, I'd agree. Sometimes you do Something online. I'm like, lorna knows how to do that same.
Olivia Mar
It surprises us every time. And then other ways she's like, I don't really know what like a cloud is. Like, what's going on with that?
Alona Mar
What is, what's that?
Olivia Mar
What's going on? Yeah.
Alona Mar
But that has been really cool that we have grown so close over the years. But I think that did start younger. When we were growing up, one thing that our family's family always put in for us was every single night we had to sit down at the table and have family dinner. It didn't matter if our mom worked 12 hours. If our dad came from home, from a. A shift, he was, he was cooking chicken to the point where I was like, can you just order a box.
Olivia Mar
Of pizza and please, man on the TV and like a, like a normal family, please. But I think now, being an adult, looking back on that, how much of a foundation that built for us as a family and as people to have that, that amount of face to face time just with one another, with our parents, to tell them about our days and have people that cared and knew what happened the day before and what was coming, I think is just. It formed us into the people that we are.
Adriana Amar
And it's like an hour each night to like connect and bond, you know, And I'm so glad we had that. And I think, you know, that also attributes to like, how close we are now.
Olivia Mar
Yeah.
Alona Mar
Big, big family dinners.
Adriana Amar
Family dinners every night.
Olivia Mar
Sit down at the table and even.
Adriana Amar
If you're not making your own food, like we'll do it where we get takeout and we sit around the table still y.
Olivia Mar
And that's also turned like my ideal form of fun as an adult is a dinner party. Controlled environment, sitting down with friends. There's wine, there's food. We're not out in the world. I love going out in the world, but like, I just love doing that and having conversation around a table.
Alona Mar
I will say, and even when I go on like dates with people, it's like, how well can you hold the conversation? Because have you been on dates with men recently? No, they're not asking questions.
Olivia Mar
Really?
Alona Mar
No. It's very one sided. So like to me, at our table, it was like, I'll ask questions, you'll ask question. Like, that's how I was raised and I'm always interested, but sometimes it feels like I'm just interviewing, interviewing men for a job or something.
Olivia Mar
And then are they like, I had a great time. I was like, yeah, no, duh.
Adriana Amar
Can we do this again.
Olivia Mar
You talked about you the whole time.
Alona Mar
But that's something that we've grown up, we value so much.
Olivia Mar
And I think seeing our parents relationship and that they communicate and they have fun together till like, you know, at their age, I think that's important when you go on dates and they're not asking you questions back. Yeah, dad does talk a lot. But he's. Because he knows.
Alona Mar
Oh, that guy does talk.
Olivia Mar
He does. Yeah, but he knows a lot.
Alona Mar
He knows a lot.
Olivia Mar
Truly one of the smartest people I know.
Adriana Amar
Sometimes you just have to supply him with the questions. You want to be like, I love it. I'll call him up, I'll ask him. And then I'm like, okay, my turn.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, no, I'll see something going on in the world or I'll hear some kind of historical thing. I'll be like, God, I gotta ask dad about that. He's gonna love talking about it.
Alona Mar
He's gonna love talking about it.
Olivia Mar
He's gonna love it.
Alona Mar
He's gonna love it.
Olivia Mar
But, yeah, no, we were very close. We had very cool kind of birthday parties. We love. Our mom loved a theme birthday. But not a theme like you would expect. No, no. Like, I had one of my favorites growing up was this fairy themed party.
Alona Mar
I had it too.
Olivia Mar
You had it and you had it but in a separate location many years later. And she once again, she'd honed her craft. But she went in. Yeah, like, I'm pretty sure. Obviously, like not maybe not the best thing for the earth. Love the earth and everything. But it was like this nature walk that she brought my whole party through, but she had gone through beforehand and dropped marbles and sparkly things and little gems and like there were things along the way. There was like a pin the braid or pin the crown on a. On a princess like that she had nailed to a tree in the middle of the walk that nails there to this day.
Adriana Amar
Yeah, yeah, I went on that a few years ago. Mom found the nail.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, yeah. I walk by it every time I go, there's the nail from my like, what, sixth birthday party?
Alona Mar
Yeah.
Olivia Mar
And then there was like a hidden treasure chest underneath that. Like, we were following a map to this treasure chest that was buried under the slide at the playground. Like incredibly. Just like intricate, magical stuff that like made our childhood magical in that way. She did that for you, right?
Alona Mar
Well, legend has it there is so glitter at Ethan Allen Homestead from those legendary parties. I had a. I've had a fairy birthday party. I had a mermaid birthday party. Oh, you remember that with the big mermaid sign with the cutout?
Olivia Mar
Like the.
Alona Mar
Like the cutout one. That was cute.
Adriana Amar
Oh, my God. That just, like, brought something out of me.
Alona Mar
My most favorite, though, is fun thing about me, I love a grocery store. You know that? I love roaming the halls of a grocery store.
Olivia Mar
Especially in a foreign country.
Alona Mar
Especially in a foreign country. I love an expensive grocery store so I can, you know, judge the prices and whatnot. See how fresh it is.
Adriana Amar
A general store.
Alona Mar
A general store. Oh, don't I love it.
Olivia Mar
What? I don't even eat tin fish. But I gotta look at the tin fish. The beautiful packaging.
Alona Mar
This cheese was made right down the road from the cow.
Olivia Mar
Bessie.
Adriana Amar
All the hens are named.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anywho.
Alona Mar
Okay, so my birthday party, our local shopping market at in Vermont was called the Hannafords.
Olivia Mar
Shout out.
Alona Mar
Shout out. Hannafords. New England.
Olivia Mar
New England comfort place.
Alona Mar
My mom went. I don't know why she thought of this idea. I had a birthday party at the supermarket. Me and a bunch of my little friends went to the deli counter. We went into the bakery. I think I was employee of the month. I think I got assigned being employee of the month.
Olivia Mar
You all got little name tags. I got Hannah for tags.
Alona Mar
We were walking through Hannaford's.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, I remember.
Alona Mar
I mean, that was awesome.
Olivia Mar
So the freezer.
Alona Mar
I wonder what happened when she was like, hey, I got a great idea for my kid's birthday party.
Adriana Amar
Who'd she know at Hannaford' who did.
Olivia Mar
She have to talk to?
Alona Mar
I've been. She probably knows some people.
Olivia Mar
She's been wheeling it.
Alona Mar
She's been in that town, crashing.
Adriana Amar
She'd be talking to the butchers and the people, slicing the ham. She loves to chat them up.
Olivia Mar
It does. That's like. And, like, who thinks of that? But she knew that you loved a grocery store, so she was like, let's make that.
Alona Mar
Even as a young kid. What a weirdo.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, I just love to grocery.
Alona Mar
I didn't even have money.
Olivia Mar
No. Yeah.
Alona Mar
What was I buying there?
Olivia Mar
Right, right, right. You just liked it.
Adriana Amar
You're there for the free cookies.
Olivia Mar
But dad does, too. Dad loves just to wander around a grocery store. He'll just, like, go. And I think also me, to this day, I don't buy lots of things at once to, like, stock up. I very fortunate to live close to some grocery stores that I just like, oh, I feel like this today. So I'll go gather those little supplies. So I'm always just like, gathering little by little. And that's what dad does as well. He goes and, like, buys a loaf of bread. He's like, oh, I'll go back to the store. He loves that.
Alona Mar
Being an adult is just. When is the next time you're gonna go to the grocery store?
Adriana Amar
I don't mind.
Alona Mar
That's just planning. Planning. When are you gonna head to the grocery store again? I go probably three times a day.
Olivia Mar
And you. You gotta. You gotta put a backpack on to get to New York City.
Adriana Amar
There's a hill when you come up to my apartment, and by the end of it, my shoulders. But I still go. I've got friends who get, like, groceries delivered, and I don't want to do that. I want to see what's there.
Olivia Mar
No thrill.
Adriana Amar
No thrill at all. Let me walk the halls, the hallowed halls and the aisles and see what calls to me. Do I spend way too much money by doing that? Yes. If it's on sale and it's a little something I've never tried before, I'm getting it.
Olivia Mar
I'm getting it.
Adriana Amar
I'm spending $40 and just weird stuff.
Alona Mar
Let's explain our mom a little bit.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, please.
Alona Mar
She is the best cook in the world.
Olivia Mar
Oh, my God.
Alona Mar
I'll put money on it.
Olivia Mar
Yeah.
Alona Mar
I say. That's how we got to be the size we are. That and pints of milk at dinner every night. Every night.
Olivia Mar
Like, glasses of milk.
Alona Mar
Chug, chug, chug.
Olivia Mar
Everyone's like, ew, milk. I'm like, okay, well, I'm from Vermont. What do you want me to drink? Water.
Alona Mar
Bagelies. Yup.
Olivia Mar
That is water.
Alona Mar
Amazing cook. She can, like. You can say, hey, Mom, I want, like, a chicken curry with a little bit of this and that. And she, like, just can create it.
Olivia Mar
She'll literally commune with the universe and be like, got it.
Alona Mar
And then she makes the most amazing soup from scratch, too.
Olivia Mar
Like, she's not buying anything. She's, like, putting the ingredients together. Like, if it starts with flour, it's starting with flour. She doesn't grow it herself.
Alona Mar
She's a homemaker. She loves bringing people in. Cooking for people. Olivia's really gotten that now. She loves to cook for people, loves to make people feel comfortable. And my mom cooks with butter, milk.
Adriana Amar
Or whenever you come back for, like, in between training and you're wanting to get greens, and she's like, well, I'll make you Brussels sprouts. And there. I watch her make it. I'm like, there's a lot of butter in that.
Alona Mar
I don't know if that's What Alona.
Olivia Mar
Meant when she wanted to breathe.
Alona Mar
No, she. She cooks with, like, love and full of salt, you know, it's absolutely amazing. She is our biggest supporter. Whenever people ask her a question about me, they're like, tell us a little bit about Alona. She's like, you know what? I actually have two. I have three daughters, and all of them are so amazing. Oh, my God.
Olivia Mar
She just won bronze. Like, what? Tell us about Alona. She's like, well, she is great, but Adriana, she has a windows room in New York City that she is so proud of. And Olivia, she's on the Internet, right? Like, she's so. And then she'll get to you. She's like, she needs the world to know there's three. She has three amazing babies to the.
Alona Mar
Point where you've had to be. We've had.
Adriana Amar
You can talk about Alona. It's fine.
Olivia Mar
Please. We're like, mom, don't mention us, please. It's about Alona. Like, if she's winning, we're all winning. So talk about Ilona, please.
Adriana Amar
Unless we're at a rugby tournament and, like, we're at a restaurant about to go in, and she sees an opening with the waiter, and she's like, we're actually here for the rugby. My daughter playing in it.
Alona Mar
My daughter. Yes.
Adriana Amar
You can find her online.
Alona Mar
Yeah, yeah. And then she gives him a sticker. I'm like, mom, that guy doesn't know who I am.
Olivia Mar
He's gonna throw that sticker out.
Alona Mar
She has my stickers. She'll give them out to anybody who recognizes me. So I'm there taking a picture, and then I walk away, and turns out she's back behind me, like, stickle.
Olivia Mar
You have to order them, like, special for her. I send them to the house. I mean, my favorite fact about our mom, though, is we grew up, nobody believes us. Quite socially awkward. Except for her. She was quite cool.
Alona Mar
I mean, how can I see?
Olivia Mar
No intervention?
Alona Mar
You were better than us. You got better than us, for sure. Yeah.
Adriana Amar
Now you guys are better than me.
Alona Mar
Friends easier than we do.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, I know. That's true. So we went to a very tiny Catholic school in Vermont from alone and I. Preschool to eighth grade.
Adriana Amar
Yeah.
Olivia Mar
So a large chunk of our, you know, young lives. Right. And growing up. And the school, the people we went to school with stayed the same, but, like, did get smaller and smaller as we went. So I graduated one of six people. How many did you have?
Alona Mar
Nine.
Olivia Mar
One of nine people. I graduated one of six with one boy in my class in eighth Grade.
Adriana Amar
Hate to beat you. One of five.
Olivia Mar
Wow.
Adriana Amar
And one year it was four because someone went to a different school, but then they came back.
Olivia Mar
But then the school, like, closed due to under attendance.
Alona Mar
Crazy.
Olivia Mar
What?
Adriana Amar
I don't understand that.
Olivia Mar
That's crazy. But it was so, like, these people were like our siblings growing up. Like, I had my sisters and we. They were in the other classrooms. But then the small core of people like those were our siblings growing up. So we only socialized with them. We really socialize outside. So when we did end up going to the public high school, it shook us to our core.
Alona Mar
Shook us to our core.
Olivia Mar
To our core. I mean, except for her. So she got to go to public middle school, though.
Adriana Amar
Yes. And I'm so glad for that.
Alona Mar
It was.
Adriana Amar
It was a war. I. I think I may have lost. I lost many battles, maybe the war itself, but I came out and actually I am still friends with most of my. That's impressive to this day from middle school. And it was just like, I was so confident and ready in sixth grade. I was like, I'm going to make friends. I had my sights set high for the popular girls, which is why middle school was then so difficult. I think it would have been difficult no matter what, because middle school girls are brutal, especially in public school. I don't know what your experience was.
Olivia Mar
Oh, no. Yeah.
Alona Mar
But it was.
Adriana Amar
It was tough, but it made me stronger. And then going into high school, I had established friendships, and high school's kind of just fine.
Olivia Mar
Not us. Not us. No.
Alona Mar
Adriana was actually cool. I still remember the first time I talked to a boy in high school vividly. Shout out Alex. Walking in the hallway next to him. I was so tense, so nervous.
Olivia Mar
I was like, this is happening.
Alona Mar
Really cool.
Olivia Mar
And it was just a normal encounter.
Alona Mar
It was a normal encounter. We were just going from class to class, but I only had three boys in my class, and they were like my brothers. Like, the thought of any. Like, when I went to the public middle school for sports, they were like, oh, and then I kissed this boy. I was like, y'all are kissing boys. That's not me.
Olivia Mar
You guys are layering lacy tank tops and kissing boys. That's crazy. And there's push up bras involved.
Alona Mar
Whoa. Not me.
Olivia Mar
This is the other side. For real? Yeah. We gotta put our. We gotta put our little uniforms on. Get back to our six people in the classroom. Get back. Go to church once a week.
Alona Mar
Yeah, twice a week.
Adriana Amar
When they made us do it on the weekdays, too.
Olivia Mar
Oh, yeah.
Alona Mar
That was crazy.
Olivia Mar
Good lord.
Alona Mar
Amen. And we went to the Catholic school. Fun fact. Back to our mom. She was a sex educator at a Catholic school.
Olivia Mar
Yep. Yep. Very fun fact.
Alona Mar
I actually didn't mind it.
Olivia Mar
She was a school nurse, so. She was.
Alona Mar
School nurse. Yeah.
Adriana Amar
So she.
Alona Mar
She just came in to teach sex. Absolutely.
Olivia Mar
Some random. She was like, I'll do it.
Alona Mar
Oh, she. Yeah, she's doing it.
Olivia Mar
I know what I'm doing.
Alona Mar
I'll talk about it. But she was.
Olivia Mar
There were. Like, because it was a Catholic, there was restrictions on what she could talk about, but she did a good job with it anyway. There was a bit of a shock and awe factor about it. Absolutely. Didn't the girl faint in your class? Well, she.
Alona Mar
A couple girls fainted. Sorry, one. Just one girl fainted. Still friends with her to this day. And then my mom would walk in and just yell, penis.
Olivia Mar
Yeah.
Alona Mar
These Catholic school kids. Like, what is she about to talk about?
Olivia Mar
Yeah.
Alona Mar
And I thought she was cool. I feel like I don't remember ever being embarrassed by her doing that. No. I was like, that's my mom.
Olivia Mar
I remember feeling that I should, but then I didn't. And she'd already given us, like, the sex talk outside. And I remember, like, because she could only say certain things in this because it was, you know, abstinence. Like, that's what the teaching was. Whereas I'm like, that's not the tune you were singing. Like, you're singing safe sex and birth control, and I don't think you're ready now, but when you are, like, come to me and let's do it the right way. Yeah. And I think because of that, I never felt that pressure to be. Like, when we did get to high school and it seemed like everyone is having sex. Like, we. I was a virgin. We were. You know what I mean? Like, we didn't do that for a while, but because I had my mom, who, instead of going, don't do it, and us being like, well, what is it?
Adriana Amar
Why?
Olivia Mar
It was kind of, like, cool.
Alona Mar
I hear it made it less cool.
Olivia Mar
Made it less cool, like how? Kind of. Which maybe she tried to. Maybe that was.
Alona Mar
I think that's reverse psychology. Yeah, that's what worked. But I also don't know if I had the opportunity to do it. Yeah, I mean, you probably did. Ms. Hottie over here. My favorite story. Everyone in high school. Oh, my gosh. You and Olivia are twins. You guys look so much like, Tell me why I'm not getting any attention. Tell me why all the boys are barking up street. And I got Nothing. Stop telling me that. Then we're not twins. There's something wrong here.
Olivia Mar
Something.
Alona Mar
I don't know, sometimes a little different. Yeah, a little different.
Olivia Mar
You're doing the math. You're doing.
Alona Mar
Yeah, I was doing the math.
Olivia Mar
And I was like, right.
Alona Mar
Nobody's talking to me. Right.
Adriana Amar
Well, we were also. We saw her grow up first, and we're like, get boobs.
Olivia Mar
All right.
Adriana Amar
Boobs are coming.
Olivia Mar
I've been.
Alona Mar
I've been slow to say it, but it's because of her gorgeous boobs.
Olivia Mar
Thank you so much.
Alona Mar
Yes.
Adriana Amar
And I was waiting for that day. I was like, it's. It's in my jeans.
Olivia Mar
It's gonna happen to me.
Adriana Amar
It's gonna come.
Olivia Mar
And you got.
Alona Mar
You got some me on that hand.
Olivia Mar
You got luscious, gorgeous hair and locks.
Adriana Amar
Yeah. No, it's your brain, Alona.
Alona Mar
Yeah, my brain. My thighs. I. Olivia and I would make fun of each other because I. I got, like, boobs first. And I was like, sucker. Yeah, look at you over there. Flat jazz.
Olivia Mar
Loser.
Alona Mar
As soon as mine came, they stopped hers.
Olivia Mar
Boom. I said, kept growing.
Alona Mar
She's like, hold my.
Olivia Mar
Hold my. Hold my glass of milk.
Alona Mar
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Olivia Mar
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Adriana Amar
I don't know who I was before I had Now Brief, but I do know she was struggling. She was running late. She was forgetting things. She was taking two different apps just to figure out what day it was. Chaos. But now. Now Brief has entered my life, and I am suddenly a put together, thriving individual. I know when things are happening. I have knowledge, and knowledge is power.
Alona Mar
Long story short, Galaxy S25 Ultra makes my life easier so I can spend less time juggling Tasks and more time in the moment. And that's what really matters. Hang in there for the disclaimers. Now brief displays daily select information from select apps. Some apps may require Internet connection and or consent to access data. Personal data intelligence must be enabled. Galaxy AI features by Samsung are free through 2025 and require Samsung account login.
Olivia Mar
You know what?
Alona Mar
Let's give a little sex ed class now to our viewers that mom used to give us.
Adriana Amar
I have some really good ones, I think some special ones that you guys didn't get from her. She loved an analogy. I think she was workshopping for your guys talks. And when she got to me, she figured it out. She had two. To this day she doesn't remember them. She's like, I didn't say that. I'm like, yes, you did. This is a vivid memory. We were in the car to swim class. You said having your period, it's like making an apple pie. You know, you start by making the dough and you put that on the bottom, layered up the walls. Uterine lining. And then you add in the filling and you put it in the oven. And I think that's kind of where I got lost too because this one is just kind of. It was supposed to be about how a period happens. So then I guess it goes away by taking away slices.
Olivia Mar
Right.
Adriana Amar
But the better one, in my opinion.
Alona Mar
And then you make another pie.
Adriana Amar
Yeah, Then you make another pie. Each month you're making a pie and the pie is your uterine lining.
Olivia Mar
Wow.
Adriana Amar
Shedding.
Olivia Mar
And did you understand it or were you like every month? Like, God, womanhood is exhausting. I have to make a pie every month.
Alona Mar
Mine was a woman. Is to perform, to make.
Adriana Amar
Now do I have to be a good baker?
Alona Mar
What feeling are we talking about, Mom? Yeah, like why does it have to be apple? What is this?
Adriana Amar
Yeah, shouldn't it be cherry?
Olivia Mar
What about rhubarb? Can we have rhubarb in there? Something red? I don't know.
Adriana Amar
But my favorite was her hotel room because obviously our Oma and Opa had a motel growing up. So she worked and she would help make rooms and stuff. And so she told me a period is like. I don't know why I needed two analogies. A period is like a motel room. You know, you're expecting visitors and so you are changing the sheets, you are fluffing the pillows, you are getting the room ready. But the visitor doesn't come. So. But the sheets are now old. They need to be refreshed. This is a nice motel.
Olivia Mar
Oh, right.
Adriana Amar
So you have to take away all the sheets, and you have to wash them and get them out of the room, which is the period happening.
Olivia Mar
Wow.
Alona Mar
My hotel is, like, one of those cool, new, you know, hotels that are, like, made to look old.
Olivia Mar
Absolutely. They're talking about, like, artsy, actually. There's, like, a design everywhere.
Alona Mar
What are those called?
Olivia Mar
Boutique hotels.
Alona Mar
Boutique. My. My hotel is like a boutique hotel.
Olivia Mar
Right. Your uterus. My boutique hotel. You.
Adriana Amar
Anything else you want to add about that?
Olivia Mar
We having visitors?
Alona Mar
No, I keep it ready for visitors, for sure. You're changing the sheets? Yeah, I'm changing the sheets.
Olivia Mar
Yeah. Fluffing the pillows.
Alona Mar
Fluffing the pillows on there.
Olivia Mar
Right, Right.
Alona Mar
It's like.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, it's like luxury.
Alona Mar
It's a luxury.
Olivia Mar
It's a luxury experience. Absolutely.
Alona Mar
Yours? A rundown CD motel. That's.
Olivia Mar
That's a Motel 6.
Alona Mar
She's. She's prepping a Motel 6. I'm prepping a Motel 6.
Olivia Mar
It's smoking a cigarette. There's water stains, black mold on the tiles.
Alona Mar
Just be clear. Olivia is perfect just to be clear. Well, somebody watches this. Hey. I saw you describing your vagina.
Olivia Mar
I'm so excited about this date. Yes.
Alona Mar
Could you let me know if anything's happening?
Adriana Amar
Is there, like, a Google Maps link?
Olivia Mar
I can see, like, where this Motel 6 is? I don't know. No, it's actually. It's beautiful. It's really beautiful. What the hell?
Alona Mar
No, yours is good. It's fine.
Olivia Mar
Funny. Those are analogies, though. She's like, I'm proud of that.
Alona Mar
We get that was a period analogy. Yeah, like water your garden to bloom.
Adriana Amar
No, I think she knew that. That needed to be really clear. Oh, don't mess around. Of like, I do remember the first time again. This was the same car ride to swim practice, and she was busy, and she was telling me. She was like, so, you know a penis can actually fit into a vagina? And I remember at that age, I was like. And like, why would it do that?
Olivia Mar
I was like, cool.
Adriana Amar
Fun fact. Why? I didn't understand what she was saying. I was like, just a unique coincidence. Like, what's going on? Why are you telling me?
Olivia Mar
Did she open the conversation with that? I think maybe.
Adriana Amar
Cause it was silence in the car.
Olivia Mar
She was like, did you know that this.
Adriana Amar
And I was like, I'm in my swimsuit, ready to go. I'm just trying to swim some laps more. Can we talk about this another time?
Olivia Mar
Yeah. You said we could go to the dining hall at the cool college afterwards.
Adriana Amar
You can make your own creamy, soft Serve creamy.
Olivia Mar
We're from Vermont. It's called a creamy. It's not soft serve. We.
Alona Mar
I don't remember if we got any analogies, but we loved those American Girl books.
Olivia Mar
The care and keeping of you.
Alona Mar
The care and keeping of you.
Olivia Mar
They've changed them.
Alona Mar
I actually loved reading those.
Olivia Mar
I loved those books.
Alona Mar
I just sit there and just read. I'm like, we shared the same one.
Adriana Amar
Went down through hands and it's still.
Olivia Mar
In my room to this day. My daughter is getting that book because they've changed it. They. They. I think they took out, like, the pier or the. The tampon insertion.
Alona Mar
I was just thinking about that how. But I can't.
Olivia Mar
Like, how many girls did that book help? Like, I can only imagine, you know what I mean, who didn't have a mom that was like, as helpful as ours or, you know, as informational. Like, that must be so, like. Like how to check your, like, breasts for. For cancer. For things that I like stuck with me to this day that I'm like, oh, yeah, I should check my breasts because the Karen Keeping of you American Girl doll book told me the Illustrated guide taught me how to do it. I do remember looking at the. Maybe I manifested my. My. My rack because there was like, images in it.
Alona Mar
We got. We got to pull this session.
Olivia Mar
We need. We need the care and keeping of you available right here where it was the bra fitting. But it was also like that breasts come in all shapes and sizes and like, it was like girl. Different girls looking in the mirror. And I've been being like, I want that one, as if it was a toy catalog.
Alona Mar
I think I did this too.
Olivia Mar
And yeah, didn't manage as hard as I did.
Alona Mar
Yeah, I guess not.
Olivia Mar
Yeah. Yeah. Circling it.
Alona Mar
Stars. Gold stars.
Olivia Mar
It would be great.
Alona Mar
But we've always been open about talking about that. Talking about our love lives with each other and how that all works. Even with our mom. I think she's gone to a place where she always wanted to be. A place for us to. To share things like that without judgment so that we would come to her. So I think even those talks with us, she made it so that it was like, this is something you're going.
Olivia Mar
To do, it's okay to do.
Alona Mar
By doing that, we were more open to sharing with her, knowing she's not going to judge us. Like, that was really important for us. And even to this day, I mean, I call her.
Olivia Mar
She probably regrets that now. The things you tell her.
Alona Mar
I call her. I'm like, mom, you're never going to get you're never going to believe.
Olivia Mar
You're never going to believe what happened.
Alona Mar
She's probably like, I tell the story. I. I called mom the day after I lost my virginity.
Olivia Mar
He had your sexual debut.
Alona Mar
Sorry, my sexual date.
Olivia Mar
You didn't lose anything.
Alona Mar
I first of wrong you up with the girls.
Olivia Mar
Oh, yeah. Told you the whole story. I was in a parking lot, too.
Alona Mar
I remember it vividly. And then mom was at. We had family over. I was like, mom, I gotta talk to you. She's like, all right, I'll go upstairs. She goes upstairs to the bathroom, and I'm like, mom, I lost my virginity. And she was like, okay. Oh, wow.
Olivia Mar
And mind you, she's an adult woman.
Alona Mar
Yeah. This was in my 20s. And I was like, so you're probably gonna need to schedule a guy off me right now. I imagine I'll be pretty busy from now on. Yeah, Motel is open. Motel is open. I'm changing the sheets.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alona Mar
Constantly. You know, like, I just think that's probably the way it is. So we'll get that in. Get some stuff, you know, I'm going to be busy.
Olivia Mar
So she.
Alona Mar
She accepted the news, was like, of, okay, you know, be safe and blah, blah, blah, blah. And I will get that scheduled for you, I guess. I don't know. She goes back down to sit at the table with, like, the family friends there. And she's silent.
Olivia Mar
She's silent, like, just like catatonic tonic.
Alona Mar
Doesn't sleep a wink that night. Whereas I'm like that, look at world. Legs first, woman's here. Legs first. First. I am here. But, yeah, she's always been that. We can all talk to her about pretty much anything. To the point where I'm like, I probably shouldn't have shared that. But no, that's good. I continue to.
Olivia Mar
But then she did. She stepped up and helped. And she got you the appointment, got the gyno, got the birth control. Making sure your daughter is healthy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alona Mar
It's special to have that sort of relationship with your mom.
Olivia Mar
But I think, yeah, she was very comfortable talking to us about it. And she was also. I mean, people, your whole thing is body positivity, body appreciation, and living in the body that you're in. And you're always, you know, pushing that messaging, which is so important. But it's like we also did. We were raised with a naked mom. She was naked around us, right? Like, she would get changed in front of us. We would see what a woman's body looks like in all of its forms and you know, having. Being pregnant and then giving birth and moles and stretch marks. And to us, that was so beautiful. And we got to experience, like, what a woman's body is. And now being in a woman's body, I love and appreciate it because I saw it in all of its forms. Whereas I have friends who you can sometimes just tell they weren't raised with a naked mom. They are not comfortable in their skin. They're not comfortable with other women in that way at all. But I. So I think we're very lucky to have been raised with a mom who even if maybe she wasn't feeling as like, you can't be body positive all the time, but she didn't ever put that on us. And she still, like, just was. She just existed. And she never, never talked about our bodies in any type of way. She never talked about her body in any type of way when we were growing up. And I think that sticks with you.
Adriana Amar
Absolutely. All of our features were made to feel the most beautiful. Yeah. Our height, our shoulders, our athleticism was always spotlighted as this amazing trait that we have. And I remember, you know, obviously I have fairer skin and freckles and. Well, you have freckles, too. But mom and dad would always be like, and those are so beautiful. You really shine. And I always felt so beautiful. And I'm so glad I had that basis, because I know other people who have freckles that constantly cover them with foundation. For me, that is a wild sentiment. I'm like, why are you covering them up? That's your face. It's beautiful. So they really made me appreciate who I was at a young age.
Alona Mar
I saw this thing online where it's, like, start to compliment girls more about, like, their smarts and whatnot instead of how they look. I thought that was interesting. I think there's a balance there, like, because I see so many girls, and I also like, oh, you're so pretty and whatnot. But I started to say, like, oh, you look so strong, or you look so, you know, you look so smart or something like that. So I've seen that that. That's, like, kind of a change that can be done because we focus so much on beauty at times that there's so much more to.
Olivia Mar
To a person that's so simple.
Alona Mar
Yeah, simple. I think mom did a good job. Was like, well, your. Your shoulders are doing so well. Like, you get to. You're doing amazing in sports because of these big shoulders, or, oh, you're so smart. You should do this. So I think there's, like, a.
Olivia Mar
A balance.
Alona Mar
And I'm learning every day, too, how to, like, handle, you know, young fans, how to talk to myself and whatnot.
Olivia Mar
I think you do a great job with your young fans.
Alona Mar
Thank you.
Olivia Mar
You love. You love seeking them out. Like, no matter how tired you are, you're there. You're, like, crouching down with them, like, telling them how cool they look and, like, how strong they look and what they can do, asking if they play sports. Like, that's got to be so.
Alona Mar
But I think that's how mom would have acted.
Olivia Mar
Yeah.
Alona Mar
You know, that's how Mom. If she was like that, she would have said all those things as well. So for all our listeners, you are strong, you are smart, and you are important.
Adriana Amar
You are beautiful.
Alona Mar
I don't know if we can use that.
Olivia Mar
We just came up with that, actually. Yeah. Is more original. So. Yeah. And her. Her thing for us the past couple of years, which I love, and it connects all of us, is we are adult women. And I think she started to be like, where. What do I get them for Christmas? What do I. What do I get? You know, I got. I got pots and pans from Costco. At 22 years old, I was like, well, that's. That's a wrap on fun birthdays, huh?
Alona Mar
Oh, yeah.
Olivia Mar
So it was adulthood from here on out. Great pots and pans. I have them to this day.
Alona Mar
I was like, you'd actually be really excited to get that, wouldn't you?
Olivia Mar
Stoked. But I was, like, in college, so I was like, okay. But now she gives us sister jewelry every Christmas. It's a new thing. She started with these initial necklaces because you. You actually started it. You bought us those little initial necklaces at some, like, gift store in, like, Australia or somewhere on tour.
Adriana Amar
But they got green. Really?
Olivia Mar
They got. They were, like, not good metal, but we still.
Adriana Amar
We loved them. You started something.
Olivia Mar
You started something.
Adriana Amar
Remember?
Olivia Mar
You got those little, like, tiny. I still have it.
Alona Mar
See, I don't. It sounds. I think it's coming back.
Olivia Mar
What the hell, man? It's coming back. But you started. And mom saw those, and she's like, I'll get them, like, ones that they can have for life. Because, like, actual pieces of jewelry is something that we can carry with us for the rest of our lives. And we use and not just be like, oh, whatever. It's just another, you know, gift. So she got us those in real gold. And then every Christmas from there, she makes us a piece of sister jewelry. And so we each, like, we're Kind of. We're blinged out currently. Like, this is all the. The necklaces you see us wearing are what she had made for us, and they're each in our own metals. Like, I don't know. What. What's your metal?
Adriana Amar
I'm a yellow gold because I was wearing a lot of yellow gold. A lot of gold. I am nervous of, like, what if I don't think I look good in gold one day? No, this is my assigned metal forever.
Olivia Mar
I think you're good. You're good with your coloring.
Alona Mar
You'll be like, one of those color matches. And they say, never wear gold again.
Olivia Mar
You look like a spring. Yeah.
Adriana Amar
Why are you wearing gold? You're a spring.
Olivia Mar
Spring.
Alona Mar
Throw it. Throw out all your gold.
Olivia Mar
Turquoise only. And so then you are. Mine is white gold because I wore a lot of silver jewelry anyway. And yours is titanium gold. Yeah, something like that. Because Ilona would wear this one titanium ring that our mom got for her 30th nursing, like, anniversary, basically. So now she makes all of our jewelry in those color schemes. But we're kind of being like, hey, we're kind of running out of jewelry space here. Like, we. What are we gonna go on to? Like, brooches.
Alona Mar
And I got almost every finger with a.
Olivia Mar
Well, yeah.
Alona Mar
She also has a lot of Olympic.
Olivia Mar
Rings, and she has national championship rings, so her hands are quite heavy. Pimpin'wade but our latest one was. Is this one here, and it says coffee, tea, wine, which is the flow. When we're home in Vermont, we start the day with coffee, and we go into tea later in the afternoon, and then wine as we wind down our day. That's just how we like to live our lives. And I think we're also gonna do this show in much the same way. Start with a jolt of energy, bit of caffeine, the coffee to start. We'll have a bit of tea time later on, and then we'll wind things down, which I just think is. I love that. The perfect way to welcome people into our house, because that's how we do things.
Adriana Amar
The House of Mar.
Olivia Mar
The House of Mar. As you all know, we are very online. So I thought we'd kick things off with us out in the wild, touching grass, being real. What's been going on?
Adriana Amar
Not touching grass, but touching the coldest water possible. You guys made me do a cold plunge, right? Which I thought I'd done them before. Um, no, not that cold.
Olivia Mar
That's why I kept asking, and I felt like I was being annoying because.
Alona Mar
I was like, but has she?
Olivia Mar
Because I feel like there would be a stronger reaction, like, to her answers if she had.
Adriana Amar
So. I was so confident going in. I was like, cold plunged, done that.
Olivia Mar
You did so good.
Adriana Amar
Well, the first one I did decent, and then I kept getting worse. I just.
Alona Mar
Which is interesting. Cause you usually get better.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alona Mar
Not you.
Adriana Amar
I'm unique like that.
Alona Mar
Not you.
Adriana Amar
My calves were freezing off. It started to get painful.
Olivia Mar
Yeah.
Adriana Amar
But I'm proud of myself.
Olivia Mar
I mean, it's kind of cool because you actually did it the hardest way. You got in and then you tried to get out, which was like. And then you got yourself under the water, which is incredible. Like, the fight or flight. You could see it happening on your face. And you. You pushed through. It was great.
Adriana Amar
It was the pressure of you guys in the pool. I was like, they're in it. I gotta do it. I can't back out. That's embarrassing. It was tough. It was cold. And I can't imagine how often you do that.
Alona Mar
I don't ice bath have as much as I. As people would think for athletes, just because I find it uncomfortable. But I have gotten into sauna ing. I mean, pisana seems to be the thing everybody's doing. So I do sauna. Get them out. So we went to this place here in Bristol called Siva Wellness. And it's like a wood fire sauna. You. You throw wood in there and you're sitting there.
Olivia Mar
It's like out in nature, the birds are chirping. When we were there, the sun is out. Like, talk about touching grass.
Alona Mar
I do love the sauna too, because it's like, you can't take your phone in there. You just have to kind of be present. And then the cold tub. I was. I was impressed by both of you, I think. I don't. I don't really like to do it. I started to get into it because I did it more during Dance with the Stars. But we just got to be there together and recover.
Adriana Amar
Yeah.
Olivia Mar
From what? For us.
Alona Mar
For you guys.
Adriana Amar
I don't know my plan.
Olivia Mar
Red. The long winter here.
Alona Mar
Yeah.
Olivia Mar
No, I loved it, though. I've gotten more and more into it, and I do sleep like a baby after. Afterwards, I don't know if that's.
Alona Mar
We all took a nap. I took a nap immediately afterwards, passed.
Olivia Mar
Out on the couch. She was snoring on the couch.
Alona Mar
You made us pasta. And I was like, done.
Olivia Mar
Yeah. Yeah. But it was fun to do. And it was because I just. I had. For some reason, I had a feeling you hadn't actually really done like a cold plunge. Cold plunge. So I was excited to get it on camera and that was. It was just a good time, good thing to do all together.
Adriana Amar
Good thing to do. Also. Very brave of me. You recorded it, posted it, and now it's got a like 2 million views.
Alona Mar
I wonder if it's because you could kind of see the bottom of my feet.
Olivia Mar
I blurted out. She blurted out, okay, I was working at it.
Alona Mar
Cause I saw the views on that and I was like, what the heck?
Olivia Mar
I know these foot freaks. Foot feet freaks. For real.
Alona Mar
She blurted out. But I do feel like somebody's puzzling that together.
Olivia Mar
The thing is, I waited. I was like, either I blur out the dogs or I keep them in. And like, if you don't, people will be like, oh, free feet. Oh, that's on wiki feet. And that's on wiki feet. And you. But instead I blurred them so everyone was like, oh, the blurred feet. So it's like six and a half dozen of another. I mean, I think it helped actually, like people commenting on that.
Alona Mar
Yeah, engagement.
Olivia Mar
Whereas I wanted people to focus on how funny her faces were that entire time.
Adriana Amar
But no, that was almost an out of body experience.
Olivia Mar
Oh, and then because we do it again, like you do the contrast therapy. And she was like, I don't know if I need to do it again. We're like, you're doing it again because.
Adriana Amar
Like you first go into the sauna for like 10 minutes and I'm having a great time. I'm with my sisters, we're chatting and then, oh, cold plunge. And then as I'm in that cold plunge, I'm only in there for a minute. I'm like, how many more times do I have to do this today? So when he got back to the sauna, I was now dreading it. I was like, I've got 10 minutes of peace. Then I have to do that again. Almost ruined it. But it didn't.
Olivia Mar
Okay, I'll be real with you. My Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is basically my true AI companion at this point. It's packed with AI features, which means it doesn't just help me, it actually thinks ahead for me. And honestly, I'm never going back. You know what? I don't have time for doing everything myself. Texting, searching, scheduling. It's too much. But you know what's not too much? AI on my S25 Ultra. Because it literally does things for me.
Alona Mar
Let's say I want to grab dinner after practice. I don't need to Stop what I'm doing. I just say, find an Italian restaurant nearby and text it to my friends.
Olivia Mar
Boom.
Alona Mar
Done. Like I have a true AI companion. My sisters and I recently went to an Italian restaurant recommended by my Galaxy S25 Ultra and it was legitimately delicious. It's like having a superpower, but without the secret identity struggles.
Adriana Amar
Meanwhile, I get to live my life undistracted, less time with my face and my phone, AKA no technic. And honestly, I feel like a boss, which technically I'm not. But thanks to Galaxy S25 Ultra, I kind of live like one. So, yeah, the S25 Ultra isn't just a phone. It's an AI powered life upgrade. And I'm here for it. Disclaimers compatible with select apps. Requires Google Gemini account. Results may vary based on input. Check responses for accuracy. Google and Gemini are trademarks of Google llc.
Olivia Mar
Something else we've done out in the.
Alona Mar
Wild recently was Magic Mike XXL Live. I've been wanting to do this for a while. I've seen the videos constantly. So I saw one video recently and I commented, I would like to go to there. So then they followed me, I followed them. We started chatting. We were in London a couple weekends ago and we decided to go. Brought myself, my agent, Olivia, and then one teammate, her girlfriend, and then another rugby player. And it was a magical experience. This show, Magic Mike and they're doing it. This show was designed for women that you. You get a little nervous when you first get there. You think it's gonna be like a show a classic misogynistic.
Olivia Mar
They give you the old bait and switch, old main switch. They do. And it was scary at first. They like, they. We don't want to obviously give away the show because you should see it. It was really fun. Yeah. But I also do now need to go see every show around the world. I want to collect them like Pokemon. And they start. They open in such a way where Alona was like, I messed up. Like, I. What did I do? Oh, my gosh. I dragged some friends here. This is so embarrassing. Like, what the hell? But thankfully, like, we were like, what the hell? We need to get out of here. But we switched it. They switched it. Sorry.
Alona Mar
I fell in love.
Olivia Mar
Yeah. Yeah.
Adriana Amar
Did you find love too?
Alona Mar
I found love. I don't think he found love right in me. I would, per se.
Olivia Mar
Yeah.
Alona Mar
Like, I was like, oh, my God. He looked at me and then I'm like, he just looked at her too.
Olivia Mar
What the hell, Rick?
Alona Mar
But it was. It was like, there's Dancing. There's so much going on. The music's so fun. I got danced on at one point and all. I was just like, thank you so much. Thank you so much. And then he would, like, take my hands and place them on him. And I was like, yep.
Olivia Mar
And she was like. When he first got there, she was like, it's happening to me.
Alona Mar
It was awesome. So different than, like, I think maybe other ship goes where men would just be kind of like trying to touch the woman and then pushing it. Like, they were like, literally. I was like, sorry. Women are being respectful of your space here, man. Do your thing.
Olivia Mar
Dress as hard as you can.
Alona Mar
And then he's, like, pointing my hands like, okay, Is this okay? Is this a safe zone to touch?
Olivia Mar
Yeah.
Alona Mar
It was awesome. You were like, we had a ball of a time, too.
Olivia Mar
They make the show so fun. It's for women to enjoy. There's like a slow dance portion and a guy sings and plays piano.
Alona Mar
Yeah, he was singing.
Olivia Mar
There's acrobatics.
Alona Mar
It's.
Olivia Mar
It's really something.
Alona Mar
They're jumping on the banisters.
Olivia Mar
Yeah. Yeah.
Adriana Amar
I gotta get boosh.
Olivia Mar
I know. And you wanted to be one of the people that got to go, like, on stage.
Alona Mar
I want to be one of people on the stage. But then I realized they then have to, like, they pick the girls up. They pick the girls up and, like, around their waist, I'm like, not that we aren't petite. Not that I'm not, you know, able.
Olivia Mar
To be flung around. Yeah.
Alona Mar
But the size of these guys. Beautiful old Mike down there wouldn't be able to lift me up. If anything, he'd fall. So for the best, I wasn't down there.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alona Mar
But it's honestly great to take your girls to. Wow.
Olivia Mar
It's a good time.
Alona Mar
It's a good time. I think that I'll be going again.
Olivia Mar
You could find me in Vegas.
Alona Mar
I got it. You'll find us in Vegas. On a Magic Man.
Olivia Mar
We'll take you. You gotta see this.
Adriana Amar
Please.
Olivia Mar
I think if I went again, I would sit alone. So they had to dance on me. Ew.
Alona Mar
Because a woman.
Olivia Mar
And so, like, they didn't come dance on me.
Alona Mar
So they're gonna dance on. The weird lonely girl came by herself.
Olivia Mar
Who came by herself sitting like this.
Alona Mar
That's not mysterious. On a Magic Mike show. That was weird. She's front row. Just sit on the end.
Olivia Mar
At least it's me and the XXL margarita.
Alona Mar
Yeah. Come here.
Olivia Mar
Come to mama.
Alona Mar
Come to mama, big boy.
Olivia Mar
I'm sat like this the whole time.
Alona Mar
I think you just had to sit on the end.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, no, it's true. And I noticed that because I was close. I was taking notes the whole time of who was getting danced on. And it was the girls on the end. I was trapped, but she was in.
Alona Mar
The middle, so she would have gotten dance on.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, you just missed it.
Adriana Amar
They definitely wanted to dance.
Olivia Mar
No, they wanted to.
Alona Mar
They wanted to. The way they were.
Olivia Mar
For sure. The way they were looking at me was like, yo, he sees me. And he sees everybody else in this.
Alona Mar
Auditorium because he was also seeing me. But.
Olivia Mar
So, Lana, you have gone from the Olympics, winning medals, doing the whole thing, into Dancing with the Stars, into being over here in England, you know, how are you feeling about it all?
Alona Mar
I'm tired a lot, but I also am so excited for everything I'm doing. Like, I posted a video. I think Taylor Swift said, I get tired a lot, but I don't get tired of it. It's been amazing. I think I was unsure about doing Dance with the Stars because I knew how hard it would be. And it was during a time where I was still kind of coming off of the Olympics and I was the talk of the town, and I didn't want. I wanted to use all these opportunities to go here and there. And so I was like, oh, if I go to Dancing with the Stars, not that I thought it was like an. An old show, but people were like, oh, it's a show where, you know, if you're at the end of your career, you go on until you can get a verse of fame. And so I got nervous about that because that's what people were telling me when I said I was going to dance with Stars. They're like, oh, are you sure about that? So I got nervous. But you and my agent were. So, you know, I think this will be the best for you. And it was the best decision for me because what it did was like, I was in the Olympic mind. Everyone thought of me as the Olympian. But then being on Dancing with Stars, being on people's TV screens every Tuesday, posting out videos constantly, I was in their minds continuously again for another three months. And so I think it just did wonders for my career as well in media and in the US to show who I was.
Olivia Mar
You showed that you're an entertainer. Like, you're an Olympian, but you also are an entertainer. That's why you do so well on social. Absolutely. And I think like, like, Dancer the Stars has. It's like anything. It's ebbed and flowed But I think throughout all of that, it's always meant something different to Olympians and to the athletes that are on it. And I was so excited for you to have that experience and that, you know, in the beginning there, it was like, it's gonna be good. I swear, I'm like, oh, my gosh, what if I'm, like, pushing in the wrong direction? What if it's not good? But then it was so, so fabulous. And you'll have those memories for life.
Alona Mar
It was amazing, moment in time, and I'm so happy I did it. But it was a lot of work. It was seven days a week. Like, we trained every day, and something that's so not natural for me. I've always done things that I'm good at. And then here I was doing something completely natural. But while we were doing that, I got an email or I got a DM from one of my teammates, Abby Ward, and she was at the Bristol Bears. Was like, hey, you know, the coaches from the Bristol Bears would love to chat with you. And I told her, well, I can't. I'm doing it with stars. I wouldn't be free until January, but I'll still take a call with them. And we took a call with them. They were. They were late on it. I remember that. And I was like, how are they gonna start off with.
Olivia Mar
By being late?
Alona Mar
But now, my God, now my coaches, Dave and Tom, that. I think it's funny, we hopped on a call with them and they're like, you know, we. Even if it's just for those last. Those first three months of the year, we want you for that time. And we think we can put in appeals. We think you can get. Get you over, because it was that I wasn't eligible to play because I hadn't played for my national 15s team in a while, because this would be 15's rugby, which in the Olympics, I played sevens rugby. So this is like a completely different form. But I wanted to play this form because there's a World cup coming up this year in 2025. And so I wanted to get into 15s a little more. So we kind of made just like that decision from, right, from Dance With Stars to go out to England and start playing rugby here. And it's been amazing because it's also now set me up in the rugby space to show what I am, who I am as a figure in rugby. And I was, you know, got to play and really get into it. But the impact that I think I've had has been really Cool to see. I mean, records were set and people were so excited because of this girl who, you know, post the videos and it just showed the power, I guess, I have and made me want to keep doing it. I think it was, like, interesting at times. It's always interesting. It's a. It's a weird battle I have to kind of deal with of like play rugby or do things outside that would make me so much more money. Like, if I could, I would just be an athlete. But I've said it so many times before, I'm just not going to make, you know, money being an athlete. So as. As a rugby player, as a female rugby player, I have to do so much more off the field. And it gets to the point where it's almost like rugby. You have to do it more for passion. Whereas I could be making this and this and doing this outside. Yet I. I love this game.
Olivia Mar
The stuff that you've had to build on the outside.
Alona Mar
Yeah.
Olivia Mar
Whereas I think what you're saying is, like, male athletes, if you play in the NFL, you are, you know, you make a certain type of paycheck where you can just play the sport that you love, whereas you've played the sport that you love while building stuff on the outside. And now you're at that, at. Not a crossroads, because rugby is your love and your passion, but the money that you make in rugby versus the money that you could make to help set yourself up for the future, you know, instead of playing a sport that is just so brutal, it's tough on the body, but at the same time, like, I think it is so tough on the body that it is right now. It's like you're playing it now and these are the years to be doing it. So I think your head's in the right place to be continuing on it.
Alona Mar
It is hard, though. And we, you know, you and I were chatting about it a lot this season, like. Like, I'm putting my body on the line for something that is giving me a lot. But at times I feel like I'm giving it much more. Like I'm going out there every day with the possibility of, you know, getting injury, as happens with any sport, but there's that possibility every time. And I'm like, gosh, why am I doing this to myself? Like, you know, I could be. I could be just living and, and making a living doing, you know, media now, yet I get tackled every day and I sit for them and I tackle other people and it's. It's a lot on the Body for, I guess for a lot of my teammates, they're putting their whole bodies on the line for very little reward. For a lot of them, it's semi professional. A lot of them aren't getting paid. If they're getting paid, it's very little. A lot of them are working full time jobs. We have doctors and nurses on our team and teachers. So like we're in rugby doing this for passion. But at what time can it be like for as a job, as a career? Because nobody calls rugby their career or they say it, but it's really not a career. You do it for this kind of fleeting moment. And then I have teammates from Sevens who have gone back to desk jobs who are, you know, back into the workforce like it never happened. Like we never traveled the world playing rugby together. But I think this was the best option for me. I've met so many great people. One of my favorites is Sarah Byrne, who's, you know, one of the best player, my personal best player in the world, I think. And I want other people to know that as well. But I think what was so great about the Bears, we have so many amazing players on there. Abby Ward, Jazz Joyce from all sorts of countries. I got to learn so much from all of them and it just set me up for success. And I think also they were really happy that I was there for what I could bring.
Adriana Amar
It sounds like you found a really wonderful new team, culture and community on the fifteens team. And I wonder, you're gonna go back to the Sevens team maybe one day and it's gonna be a whole group of girls. Are you ever nervous to go into a new team again with this amazing experience you've had here?
Alona Mar
Yeah, I think this experience was like unlike any other. I felt so much a part of the team from the moment I was there. And when I go back to, I don't know if I'll go play for Bristol Bears again. I think it was a lot to move over here to England, to be two hours away from London and whatnot, because my livelihood, everything is over in America, in New York or la, where I do shoots and deals. So it's like was very hard to manage that because we had to pass up on so many things while I was here in Bristol. But I think this was again, like Dancing with Stars was a moment in time. This was a moment in time for me that I'll always remember. And when I go back to Sevens, I think again, I'll just be learning a whole new group of people and seeing how I guess I fit in, seeing where I fit in.
Adriana Amar
I know you talk a lot about that rugby, you're doing it almost for a passion and that, you know, you're not making. You can't really make a livelihood out of just rugby and you can go into entertainment at this point. Do you ever worry about no longer having that rugby current rugby player title attached with it?
Alona Mar
I think that's one of the reasons why I came here to Bristol to play, because I don't want to be just known as a content creator influencer. I'd always, I hate when people just say that about me. Oh, she's just an Instagrammer. Oh, she's like. One guy commented on a video of me on a video of Bristol Bears, like, oh, are you going there to see the Instagrammer or are you going to, you know, watch the team? First of all, I'm an Olympic medalist. First of all, I'm a great rugby player, but people sometimes forget about that and just put me in that box.
Adriana Amar
Yeah.
Alona Mar
And I think it's important to be known as an athlete, especially in America. Like we love athletes, we think athletes are the top of the top.
Olivia Mar
We love a winner.
Alona Mar
I'm proud to be, yeah, I'm proud to be an athlete. I, I something that I've always kind of really associated with my sense of self and I want other people to know that. So I think this was, for me, solidifying myself as a rugby player in what is the traditional form of rugby.
Adriana Amar
It's almost like a double edged sword of like, you love rugby so much, but you have to put your body on, like on the line for it. But it's still rewarding to have that.
Olivia Mar
Title of rugby player, which is crazy that you're like an Olympic medalist in a sport. But it's Rugby sevens. So it's like the people like over here are like, okay, well that's that, whatever like this is. Everyone kept being like, welcome to England English rugby. When you broke your nose and stuff, it's like, okay, yeah.
Adriana Amar
It also kills me because you won three national championships as a 15s player.
Olivia Mar
The game has changed a lot in college.
Alona Mar
Yeah, you've got some exciting things going on. You've also been really trying to up your personal game, your, you know, personal brand. And I think it's really paid off for you.
Olivia Mar
I'm trying. I kind of, I had sort of like a, like a moment of like coming into the light where it's like, yeah, if I want to, if I want to make content and I want to Travel the world doing that. I need to make content and travel the world. It's not just going to happen. You got to do it to do it. But I've always made silly little videos on YouTube, you know, terrible edits if you watch my stuff from over 10 years ago. But, like, I did that, and I put that out there and then slowly but surely. But I think, like, anyone posting is a very daunting thing. And I always credit you and how. How much. I mean, you're very different. The way you approach things, it's kind of like, hey, I got something to say. I'm gonna say it, I'm gonna post it. And that's that. And that's why people relate to you, and that's why you feel so authentic to people, is you just are like, you know what? Post it, post it, post it. And that's how I came up with girl dinner was. I had a thought. I was realizing, and I was like, I can't be the only person that does this. You know, my one friend was like, hey, I do that too. And I was like, like, yeah, I think a lot of women people probably do that. And I looked a mess, recorded myself making that video. And I remember having this moment was like, oh, I don't look good. Normally I'd edit. I don't think I'll post it. And then I was like, if Alona were here right now, she'd say, post it. So I posted it. And it obviously, like, it's just what it is today. It's in the dictionary. It's so exciting. I get to make food content.
Alona Mar
What did you just tell us? You're something I learned.
Olivia Mar
I'm a. Maybe I'm gonna pronounce it wrong, though. That's dumb. But I'm a neologist. Neologist.
Adriana Amar
Yeah.
Olivia Mar
Neologist.
Alona Mar
How do you spell it? Big word. Birdie over there.
Olivia Mar
Yeah, big word over here.
Adriana Amar
Okay, what about master's degree over there?
Olivia Mar
E O, L O. Neologist. Neologist, yeah. Yeah.
Alona Mar
So.
Olivia Mar
And that's someone that invents or creates new words or phrases. And you're especially that if it is then in the dictionary, which I'm putting.
Alona Mar
That in dating profiles.
Olivia Mar
That's up there. It's on my resume for sure. I mean, I have a resume right now.
Alona Mar
Sorry.
Olivia Mar
Take you for me if I did.
Alona Mar
For those that don't know, Olivia is my manager as well.
Olivia Mar
Right.
Alona Mar
So she is my top employee.
Olivia Mar
Employee of the month.
Alona Mar
Employee of the month every month for the past year. Now, my Christmas gift, I kept saying.
Olivia Mar
Was an Employee appreciation. Like, it's part of my benefits package.
Alona Mar
She does that for me, and she handles, like, all my emails, and she does so much for me, allowing me to do my best on the pitch and whatever. But now she's gotten, like, offers to go. I think you possibly got an offer to go to Hong Kong Sevens.
Olivia Mar
Hong Kong Sevens, which is so exciting because that's just for me and the. The audience that I've built and the content that I make. It's not, you know, I obviously have a large rugby following. I mean, that is because I travel the world watching you play, but it's not attached to you. It's just me. It's an offer for me to go and experience and capture the weekend. And I'm like, I would love that. I've never been to Hong Kong, so hopefully that works out. I've done a lot of work with Cherry Bomb magazine, which we all just were the COVID stars for covergirls, which is our first ever magazine cover together, which is so special that it's at home at Cherry Bomb, which is also.
Adriana Amar
My first magazine ever that I've been a part of. So really went from 0 to 100.
Alona Mar
Thank you, guys to the COVID And.
Olivia Mar
I mean, they have their event up in April, their annual jubilee celebration, which I'll be going to in New York City. And it's just so exciting to be in spaces full of women in that way. I mean, always on my vision. I make a vision board at the beginning of every year, and it's the background on my laptop and it's the background on my. My phone. So you're always, like, seeing what you're working towards. And I always have, like, a little portion that's about events, and I want to go to more things and meet people and, you know, I guess networking, but also just, like, making connections. And the Cherry Bomb events, like Jubilee is unbelievably cool. Powerful, incredible. Women in the culinary and media space in one room, talking, just being themselves. And yet it's so inspirational. It's just women. It's, again, it's a. It's a space of female enjoyment and just being like, look at it, like, how much farther we can all get when we work together. I'm emotional. Like, I'm on the edge of tears the entire time. And it's essentially a conference, you know, with delicious food and Bev in New York City. So I have that coming up, and I'm just loving it. I just.
Alona Mar
Just.
Olivia Mar
I'm. I'm proud of myself for putting myself more out there. It wasn't a quick process. I learned from you, but I'm still getting better about it and just putting it out there, but truly just realizing you can't do it unless you do it. So do do what you got to do. It's like everything you want is maybe it's on the other side of like being cringe or embarrassment. Right. And the only people that are going to judge me are the ones that are wish they could be doing what I'm doing and don't have the. The.
Alona Mar
The balls to the massive cojones on your case.
Adriana Amar
I still have that little voice in my mind of always, like someone from high school could see this and I'm.
Olivia Mar
Like, right, who cares? Who cares?
Adriana Amar
I don't see them.
Olivia Mar
Right.
Alona Mar
You're fine.
Adriana Amar
It doesn't matter. Yeah, get past that because it's holding you back.
Olivia Mar
What's that thing that's like the people that matter won't mind and the people that mind don't matter. Boom.
Alona Mar
Mars, stay there.
Olivia Mar
1. Write that down.
Alona Mar
Write that down, folks.
Olivia Mar
Mar House of Mar original thanks so.
Alona Mar
Much for coming over and watching our first episode of House of Mar A Wave original sponsored by Samsung.
Adriana Amar
Be sure to watch and subscribe on YouTube and listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Olivia Mar
Plus follow the show on social media HouseOfMar to keep up with the best clips throughout the week. See you next time. Bye.
Adriana Amar
Bye.
Olivia Mar
Bye. See you right back here. Close the door on your way out.
Alona Mar
On the way out. Thanks.
Olivia Mar
Bye. That.
House of Mar Podcast Summary: Episode - Our Teen Years, Ilona’s Rugby Journey & Sex Ed Lessons From Mom
Released: March 25, 2025 | Presented by Samsung Galaxy
In this engaging episode of House of Mar, hosted by the dynamic trio—Olympic rugby player Alona Mar, content creator Olivia Mar, and human rights advocate Adriana Amar—listeners are invited into the intimate world of the Mar sisters. The conversation delves deep into their formative years, the complexities of sibling relationships, Alona's dedication to rugby, and the impactful sex education provided by their mother. Throughout the episode, the sisters blend humor, heartfelt anecdotes, and valuable insights, offering a comprehensive narrative that resonates with a broad audience.
The episode kicks off with the sisters playfully discussing their swimming abilities, setting a lighthearted tone. Alona introduces herself as the host, humorously noting her penchant for adding “two spoonfuls of sugar” to her beverages (00:05). Olivia and Adriana follow suit, introducing their own identities and roles within the family and their respective careers.
Notable Quote:
Alona Mar [00:05]: "No matter how old and mature I get, I will continue to add about two spoonfuls of sugar to my tea and coffee."
The sisters clarify their birth order, debunking the misconception that Alona is the eldest. Instead, Alona reveals she is the middle child, with Olivia being the oldest and Adriana the youngest.
Notable Quote:
Olivia Mar [01:13]: "She is our little mommy. When our mommy, she makes us food."
The conversation transitions to their schooling years, highlighting the challenges and dynamics of being siblings in different educational environments. Alona and Olivia attended a small Catholic school together from preschool to eighth grade, fostering close bonds while Adriana navigated middle school separately.
Notable Quote:
Adriana Amar [02:22]: "Like, and, you know, I was still, like, beginning puberty, and you guys were kind of at the tail end."
As they progressed to public high school, the sisters discuss the cultural and social shifts they experienced, emphasizing how these transitions strengthened their relationships.
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to the importance of family dinners instilled by their mother. Regardless of hectic schedules, the family prioritized sitting together each night, fostering open communication and bonding.
Notable Quote:
Olivia Mar [05:33]: "Sit down at the table and even if you're not making your own food, like we'll do it where we get takeout and we sit around the table still."
Olivia elaborates on how these dinners laid the foundation for their strong familial ties and encouraged open dialogues about their daily lives and challenges.
One of the most poignant segments involves the sisters reminiscing about the sex education lessons their mother provided. Alona and Olivia share vivid memories of their mother’s creative analogies to explain complex topics like menstruation and sexual health within the constraints of a Catholic school environment.
Notable Quotes:
Adriana Amar [21:28]: "She used to say, 'A period is like a motel room...'"
Alona Mar [21:37]: "She was busy, and she was telling me, 'So, you know a penis can actually fit into a vagina?'"
The sisters discuss how their mother's approach, combining honesty with relatable metaphors, demystified these subjects and fostered a healthy understanding of their bodies.
As a Wave Original sponsored by Samsung Galaxy, the sisters seamlessly incorporate discussions about the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra into their narrative. They highlight how the device’s AI features, such as Now Brief with Galaxy AI, assist them in managing their busy lives, from scheduling to enhancing their content creation.
Notable Quote:
Olivia Mar [19:37]: "It's like my phone is a crystal ball that can tell the future and the present. But don't worry, it can't actually tell the future."
This partnership not only serves as a modern touchpoint but also showcases how technology integrates into their daily routines, enhancing productivity and connectivity.
The sisters share memorable personal experiences, including attempting cold plunges and attending Magic Mike XXL Live. These stories are filled with humor and candid reflections on overcoming challenges and stepping out of comfort zones.
Notable Quote:
Adriana Amar [35:36]: "I just wanna see what's there. Do I spend way too much money by doing that? Yes. If it's on sale and it's a little something I've never tried before, I'm getting it."
Their enthusiasm for new experiences underscores their adventurous spirits and commitment to personal growth.
A significant focus is Alona’s journey as an Olympic rugby player and her efforts to balance her athletic career with media engagements. She discusses her participation in Dancing with the Stars and playing 15s rugby in England, emphasizing the challenges of maintaining athletic prowess while expanding her presence in the media.
Notable Quote:
Alona Mar [44:12]: "I'm putting my body on the line for something that is giving me a lot. But at times I feel like I'm giving it much more."
Alona candidly addresses the financial and physical demands of being a female athlete, highlighting the passion that drives her despite the sacrifices.
Olivia shares her journey as a content creator, discussing how she coined the term “Girl Dinner” and the importance of authenticity in her content. The sisters emphasize the power of being genuine and proactive in building personal brands.
Notable Quote:
Olivia Mar [53:05]: "If I want to make content and I want to Travel the world doing that, I need to make content and travel the world. It's not just going to happen. You got to do it to do it."
This segment underscores the sisters' dedication to their crafts and their proactive approach to leveraging opportunities.
As the episode wraps up, the sisters deliver empowering messages to their listeners, reinforcing themes of strength, intelligence, and beauty. They encourage embracing one's individuality and pursuing passions despite societal pressures.
Notable Quotes:
Alona Mar [31:49]: "For all our listeners, you are strong, you are smart, and you are important."
Adriana Amar [31:59]: "You are beautiful."
These affirmations serve as a heartfelt conclusion, leaving listeners inspired and uplifted.
Sibling Bonds: The Mar sisters’ close-knit relationships have been pivotal in their personal and professional lives, providing a support system that fosters growth and resilience.
Parental Influence: Their mother's dedication to family dinners and open communication significantly shaped their upbringing, instilling values of honesty, transparency, and mutual support.
Balancing Careers: Alona's journey highlights the challenges faced by female athletes in balancing sports with media and personal branding, emphasizing the need for passion-driven pursuits.
Authenticity in Content Creation: Olivia’s success story underscores the importance of authenticity and proactive engagement in building a personal brand, inspiring aspiring content creators.
Empowerment and Self-Love: The sisters advocate for body positivity, self-acceptance, and empowerment, drawing from their own experiences to encourage listeners to embrace their true selves.
Final Thoughts
This episode of House of Mar offers a multifaceted exploration of the Mar sisters' lives, blending personal anecdotes with broader themes of family, career, and self-empowerment. Through their candid conversations and shared experiences, listeners gain valuable insights into the challenges and triumphs that shape their identities. Whether discussing the intricacies of sex education, the demands of athletic and media careers, or the significance of familial bonds, the Mar sisters deliver a rich and engaging narrative that is both relatable and inspiring.
Stay Tuned: For more heartfelt conversations and inspiring stories, catch the next episode of House of Mar, releasing every Tuesday on your favorite podcast platforms.