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The following podcast is a Dear Media Production. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to Sunday Sports Club Podcast, a podcast all about sports told by a woman. And that woman is me. You guys, we are going to be talking all about my house because if you haven't been following me on any other platforms of social media. I have been renovating the house that I'm now currently living in for almost the past two years. It had no. That's actually me being dramatic. We've been renovating for about a year and a half and we just recently moved in towards like the end of February. But not everything is 100% done. And I want to kind of dive in into the house renovations in general. But before we begin talking all about things house, I do want to reference the fact that I have not recorded a solo episode in months. When I first started this podcast, that was all that I did. I only did solo episodes. I, like, sat down, I planned out what I was gonna say about football and what rules and all of that. And somewhere along the way, I started to hate solo episodes. And I think it was because being postpartum, it made me like, sit down and think and like, actually talk through some of the things that I was feeling and like, all of that. So I, I ended up hating them. And my producer was so great with getting guests on people from so many different backgrounds in the sports community. Tennis, golf, basketball, mlb. Like, so many amazing guests. And I want to continue on having more amazing guests, especially as football is gearing up. But I do want to know, like, what you guys want to hear from this podcast in terms of sports, but, like, also outside of sports. I was recently a guest somebody else's podcast and they were talking about the fact that, like, I don't only talk about sports, but like, the name of the podcast is Sunday Sports Club. And like, this is a sports podcast. But then you'll have episodes like me sitting down talking about my house renovations. And at the end of the day, I. One, I think motherhood is a sport. Like breastfeeding, pumping, just being a mother or a caretaker in general. I think it is a sport or should be classified as one. And then in addition to that, I feel like there's also like the personal, personal side to this podcast where, like, this is my podcast and this is where I. This is the only place I give long form content as of right now. Like, I would love to start posting YouTube videos, but I, I do like giving you guys like an inside look to my life. And me and Isaac are very much still involved in the sports world with him. Sports commentating. I. We haven't even touched on any of that, so. So I do want you guys to head over to the Instagram and tell me what kind of episodes you like listening to, what you want to hear from our podcast in the future. Our podcast, it's like yours and mine. And then like, maybe what you don't like, because I don't mind a little. A little. What is it? Criticism, critiquing. Don't be too harsh because I'm fragile. But with that being said, I'm excited to film a solo podcast podcast episode because now I'm in a much healthier space where being inside my own head isn't as terrifying. So let's go ahead and jump into the Q and A. If you guys don't follow the Instagram Sunday Sports Club podcast on Instagram, I always go on. If I'm going to film a Q and A episode, I'll always, like, put up a question box on the Instagram stories or on my personal Instagram at Alison Cooch. So that's where I got a lot of these questions. And the first thing I have to say is, how long did it take to build the house and how long has it been since you moved in? I feel like I have to take it even one step further because Isaac and I bought this house when he was playing for the Cleveland Browns. So the first time I ever saw this house, I was solo. Dolo. We knew at that point we had. He had played for the Indianapolis Colts. And that was the first time that we ever had to move away from California. Because if you're not familiar with Isaac's career, it's crazy because I feel like he never played football at this point. Like, he very much did seven years, but somehow it just doesn't feel real. So we spent the first four years of his career in Southern California. We fell in love with it. We met so many friends and those friends became like family to us and this is like where our community is. Then when he signed to the Indianapolis Colts, we were like, oh, like we're going to buy a house there. We'll see if we want to spend year round there. We didn't know, like, what his career was going to look like. And we quickly realized that Southern California was the place that makes us really happy. And we love living here. We get so much joy from living here. And it was also a place that we really wanted to raise our children and like, grow old here. Now things happen and maybe we would move away from Southern California. But I don't foresee that happening for a very, very long time if it ever does happen. So when my husband signed with the Cleveland Browns, we made the decision that we were wasting a lot of money on rent here in Southern California. And also this was the first time that we weren't planning on moving all of our shit to the city that my husband was playing in. So we bought this house in 2022. And when I was going through the house hunting process, it was a lot, but also the economy was like, it. It wasn't a terrible time to buy a house, but it also wasn't the best time to buy a house. So that made things a little bit more complic. And also at the time, like, we, we knew that, like, the house, the dream house we wanted just wasn't in our price range. So we were looking primarily for a fixer upper. When I walked into this house, that obviously, spoiler alert, we ended up buying it. But when I walked into this house, I. I saw so much potential. But I also loved the house as it was. I mean, it had, like, the gray laminate floor. Nothing against anything I'm about to say, okay? Everybody has their own style preference. But when I walked into the house, it was very, very much a fixer upper. So somebody lived in this house for, I don't know when this house was built. That's too much information for me to come to remember. But when this house, this house was old, okay? I feel like all houses in Southern California, unless you, like, bulldoze, which this house wasn't. So when I came to the open house, I was so in love with the spatial layout and I saw so much potential. But I knew that if we were going to live in it before we started renovations, I also was totally okay with that. I think it was cute. It didn't really have any character, though, because somebody had lived in this house since it was built and they sold it. And I. I hate these companies. A company bought it and did the lipstick on a pig renovations, right? The paint, every wall white. Let's throw in the same laminate floor in every single room. Throw in IKEA cabinets. Again, nothing wrong with any of this, but they removed all of the original character that this house once had. And I knew that I love character and texture, and I like houses that tell stories. And so I was okay, like, living here. There was nothing wrong with it. We immediately started talking to an interior design team, and that process ended up being a lot longer than I expected. Our first Meeting with an interior design team was in when we were living in Cleveland, and we didn't start renovations all the way until I was about to give birth. So quite a long period. I think that's like two years. Two years of just designing the house. But with the interesting thing about Southern California is that there are so many fucking codes. Grateful for them, because obviously it's like, the safety of us, but so many codes, and the city is just, like, overwhelmed with everybody trying to get things, like, not certified. You know what I'm saying? So there was like, a long wait period to even get our plans to be approved, to even start the renovations. And I have my degree in interior design, but with Isaac's career and us moving all the time, and that just seemed like a lot for me to sit down and design a house and manage a construction team. And I was like, absolutely not. So we ended up finding an interior design team here in Southern California. They are called Pure Salt, and they handled everything from interior design meetings, handling the management of a construction team, and kind of keeping the project going. So we started planning back in 2022 when we immediately bought the house, and we didn't start planning or we didn't start renovating until January 2024, and now it is May 2025. So quite a long period of time. This is not the first house we've ever renovated. We renovated our Airbnbs in Scottsdale, Arizona. Scottsdale, Arizona has a lot, like, different codes when it comes to houses. So those were about six months. Granted, we didn't take the houses down to the studs, but, like, it would. It was a much easier process just because the codes there aren't as strict as they are here in California. So I didn't know really what we were expecting. We worked with a contractor. Contractors. I have a love hate relationship with them because obviously they're great and they, like, are going to help get your house renovated. But contractors are either really expensive, do a great job, and stay in a timeline, or they're a little bit less expensive and they don't stay in their timeline. And they can be a little sketchy. Now you might be thinking, like, where were you guys living during the renovation process? Because when we originally bought the house, Isaac was still very much playing in the NFL, and we had the idea, like, oh, we have to move away for football season at least six or seven months out of the year. It'll be really easy. We can start renovations when we move back here. We can, like, move into a temporary, like, Airbnb. Or vrbo or anything. And then we'll just move back in this house. No, things do not go to plan, like ever in life in general. Literally ever. Didn't even, didn't even give birth in the place that I was expecting to. So things just like, honestly took a long time and we obviously just moved into our house this past February and like we are still getting work done to this day. Like, if you guys are watching the YouTube video of this podcast, you might notice my face like has shadows sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. And that's because people are literally outside my window just trying to get work done. So many things are still happening, but I, I am very grateful that we are living here. One and two, I'm so in love with this house. I am 30 years old and the past 10 years have been kind of wild with like moving to so many houses and apartments and temporary living spaces that like this house genuinely feels like a breath of fresh air. And I'm so incredibly grateful to live here. I mean, granted, I did work my ass off and so is Isaac to get to the place that we're at today. But I also have to acknowledge the fact that like Isaac's first job, he was making six figures. So when people are like, oh, like you, I feel like people, people say that I'm out of touch for posting in my house. I know that we are in a different life trajectory because my husband played in the NFL and that put us in a very different state, gra, like financial state. Granted, if he didn't ever play in the NFL because what 22 year old is making six figures? Not a lot. So I'm very grateful, Very, very, very grateful. And I never want people to think that I feel anything but grateful to live here. So that was kind of my spiel about like how we got to where we're at today. Still not 100% done with house, but we are in the best place mentally, organizationally and like physically in this house right now. And I am so incredibly grateful to feel this way. Sunday Sports Club podcast is presented by Dry bar's all inclusive 8 in 1 multi styler and blowout defense collection. An all in one game changing tool and liquids that together deliver blowouts that last up to 96 hours. You guys, I am a type of person who, I like to do a blowout at home, okay? I don't want to waste time going into the salon, sitting there, driving there, coming home, it's so much easier and a little bit more relaxing when I can do it from home. But it's very key to have the products that will make sure your hair actually holds. 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Like, even today, like, I feel like you could meet me on the street and be like, oh, I'm a huge fan of your content. I didn't know you live here. No, nobody actually knows where I live because, honestly, I don't blame you. It's a little bit complicated. So we moved last year in June from Texas back to California into a rental house in Southern California. I think it was actually a great decision, primarily for my mental health because I was struggling in Texas and I needed to be somewhere familiar and around friends and family. I don't know why I ever moving on. So when we moved here, we were a lot closer to the renovation process. And very quickly we realized, like, this house that we're. That we renovated, that we're currently living in our dream house. Right. It is not that big. It's under 2, 000 square feet. And a lot of people are like, oh, you're gonna out there grow that house very quickly. Yeah, we probably are. But I feel like in Southern California, it's very common to. Well, everything's expensive here. It's like, I. You want me to get a 6, 000 square foot home? Like, I. That is like $8 million. Absolutely not. You think I can afford that? Hello. So I love the house that we're living in, but it definitely doesn't have a ton of space. And when we're coming back and forth and seeing the renovations and like, how small the closets are here and like, how much space we actually really don't have because our rental house was bigger than our house that we moved into, like the renovated house. So we purged the out of every single room. I had clothes still from high school, I had so acquired so much from so many moves. We had like three sets of pots and pans. That is very out of touch, right? Every time we moved, we had to get a new set of this, a new set of that. Like, so much shit. So over the course of two months, as we were realizing the move in date to this house was getting quicker and quicker or like closing in, we sat down and went through every drawer, every room, and to this day, we are still trying to purge items. I feel like we're. We're going through so many different, like, like, okay, here's. Here's a layer of stuff we have to go through. Here's another layer. Here's another layer. And then your child is like growing out of clothes overnight. You're like, what? What? Is she in 2T? Is she in 3T? What's going on? So, like, it's just a never ending process. But I actually kind of love it. I love getting rid of stuff. I love donating it to people who actually need it instead of it sitting in my closet and me not wearing it. So in terms. So like, one word to describe how the move to the new house went is purge. We purged so much stuff, and I really feel like we came into this house like a clean slate. And it feels so good to feel organized, because when you're moving every six months, it does not feel organized. Question number two. What were your feelings seeing everything done for the first time? I was so emotional. Walking into our newly renovated house, I feel like I had a little bit of an imposter syndrome. Like, how do I live here? I'm so grateful. I feel like this is feeling fake. Do I even deserve this? There were so many thoughts and feelings running through my mind, but the word I can describe is just grateful I walked in here. So grateful and emotional because at the end of the day, like, this is the place where we are going to create so many memories as a family. We brought home our newborn to this house. It looked a little different because that was pre renovations, but I'm so excited to build so many memories and the core memories that, that I'm gonna remember for my entire life. And so is Scotty and Isaac. And just like, I'm so excited that this is like the backdrop for Scottie's childhood and for more kids to come in the future. Question number three. Out of all of the moves you've done, would you say this one is your favorite and which is your least favorite? My favorite move is definitely moving into this House because there is not an end date to this house. And this is the first time in my adult life, literally since I lived with my parents that this is, I moved back into this house knowing that I don't have an end date. There is no move out date. There's no end of the lease. Like when we move out of this house, it will be because we very much outgrew this house. It's going to be because we have more kids or we, we see a need for a bigger space or we want to build our forever and our dream home or you know, whatever life changes come and that is crazy to think about. Like the idea, I almost like miss the chaos a little bit. But then I'm like, no, I, I, my cortisol was really high when the chaos was happening. So moving into this house was definitely my favorite. My least favorite, My least favorite move has nothing to do with the NFL. My least favorite move was moving to Texas at eight weeks postpartum to a house that felt huge, but it was so empty and it just, we, we moved away from all of our friends and family during the most important time where you need friends and family, literally postpartum. And I remember getting to that house in the first week. I felt so lonely and icky and also remember that like Isaac wasn't on an NFL team and this was the first time we had moved somewhere that was brand new. We didn't know anybody, we didn't have a community. And I quickly realized, like, home is where you have a sense of community. It's where you have friends. It's, it's familiarity. It's going to a coffee shop and then knowing your name or your order, like, how are you doing? Oh my gosh, how are the dogs? How's the baby? It's like I, Yeah, so moving to Texas was my least favorite move because of how unfamiliar and lonely it felt. And that is, I think, the only real regret I have in my life. I don't like the idea of like having regrets in life because it's a slippery slope to go down. But I do regret that. And I could honestly acknowledge that probably is a little out of touch for me to feel ungrateful to move to this beautiful big house. But at the end of the day, it's also like very much what I felt. I felt lonely. I felt so isolated. And yeah, least favorite move, nothing against Texas, because I feel like everybody loves Texas. It just was not for me. And also I moved into the middle of nowhere. That was my fault. Question number four. Who took charge during the move? Oh, me and Isaac have moved, I think, 11 or 12 times in our life. So a lot of moves, and a lot of it had to do with the NFL. The moving into our new, newly renovated house was, like, totally. Isaac's in control of this stuff, and Ali's in control of this stuff. I am so grateful to have a husband who is genuinely a 5050 partner and a 5050 parent, which I know. And I have to acknowledge that, like, not everybody gets that in the first place, because me and Isaac, both temporarily or right now in this time, we both work from home, and we are both home all the time. So, like, when Isaac's a 5050 parent, it's like, if your husband's going to work eight hours a day, nine hours a day, 10 hours a day, or you are. It's really hard to be a 5050 parent. Granted, you, like, can still. You can still, you know, insert yourself there. But during the move, Isaac and I had very different roles. He is very much the planner, the scheduler, like, thinking, okay, like, let's get rid of this. Let's go donate that. Like, he is very much, like, doing the heavy lifting and making the phone calls and schedul. I am very much organizing, taking control of, like, the baby and making sure that she's all good and making it an easy, not stressful process. Isaac gets so stressed out during moves. I look at it as a new clean slate. So it's kind of great that we balance each other in that way. And I'm also very grateful that he. He picks up the area in the areas that I don't want to do. I'm scared to call people on the phone. I don't know when I'm gonna get over that. Probably when I start anxiety medication again. I don't. I don't like making phone calls and scheduling and, like, if I have to cancel something, this is so bad, I'm gonna pay the 20, like, fee and just not call, which is so rude. But that's why Isaac kind of handles that stuff. So that's very, very different roles. Question number five. What is your favorite part of living in the new house? Everything. I love everything about this house. I love the changes that we've made to make this house feel more us. I love all the different areas. We have truly utilized every single square inch of our property. Not our. Not our house, our property. And I'm so, like, in love with everything that we've done. The things like having a nugget ice machine. Is it Necessary? No. Did I want it? Yes. And have I used it every single day? Yeah. Every single time I drink a drink, I'm like, nugget ice. And those are the things that, like, Isaac has worked his ass off. I've worked my ass off. I have to say that, too. So we've both been working so hard, and it's so nice to finally treat ourselves on something that we really, really love and we're really gonna use. And also, we're gonn so many years to come. It's. Renovating this house has been an interesting process because, like, on one hand, it's like, okay, like, is this house, like, beautiful? And then I get ice machine. Like, are. It's. It's a weird place because, like, I feel guilty talking about some of that stuff because I know, like, it is, like, I. I'm very grateful to have some. See how I'm, like, so scared I'm gonna get hate. I'm so grateful to have these things. And, like, we've worked our asses off to get to where we're at today. It's like, I want. I want to, like, not show some of this stuff because I feel bad, and, like, I don't want to feel like I'm putting in everybody's face, like I'm bragging, like, here's this, here's that. But I. I'm so grateful. And at the same time, it's like, I've worked my ass off to get here. It's not like. It's not like I'm like, oh, somebody handed me a check or somebody. You know what I'm saying? I don't even know if I'm. If I want to put this part in, but whatever, we'll just leave it. So it's like, part of my favorite part of living in this house is like, we've made. We've picked out things that we love as a couple and that we genuinely enjoy. Like, Isaac got a smoker, like, built into our barbecue area, and he loves that thing he grills out every single night. And I feel like those are our favorite parts of the house that, like, are so simple but that go a long way. Like, we have a fire pit right outside of our bedroom, and Isaac and I just find so much peace at the end of a night or in the start of the day to, like, go out there, turn on the fire, and just sit down and, like, talk as a couple. And that's my favorite part. This house feels so peaceful and so us. So, I mean, that's what happens when you renovate a house for a year and a half. You guys know I've talked a lot about my mental health on social media and I'm so glad that I have because so many people struggle with mental health and therapy is so important. The one thing I'll say about therapy is I wish it was more accessible. So let's take a second to talk about Rula. Affordable and accessible mental health care shouldn't be out of reach, and too often it is. Finding a therapist is hard enough, but finding one who actually takes your insurance. 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Somebody said, what was it like having the Stanley cup in your house if you guys haven't seen on social media, Isaac and I have both, both posted videos with the Stanley cup, which is like the NHL trophy. They the NHL came to Isaac and gave him the opportunity to like film content with it. And it's crazy because they Brought the Stanley cup into our house. And there is a guy who. His sole job is to look after the Stanley cup, and he doesn't let anybody else carry it. Unless, obviously, you win the Stanley cup, then you're allowed to carry it. But he came into her house. He's, like, wearing white gloves. The Stanley cup had its own car seat. Essentially, it had its own suitcase. Super cool. I. Sometimes I. I stop and think, like, what the is my life? Like, the Stanley cup was in my house. Like, Scotty was hanging out with the Stanley cup and, like, playing with it. She tried to stick my Octa buddy on my phone to Stanley Cup. Like, what. What a childhood. Scotty, do you have a favorite room in the house? My running joke on TikTok whenever I post a video is I start out the video by saying, this is my favorite part of my house. And I've said that for every single house video I have recorded and uploaded, because, genuinely, every single area of this house is my favorite, for obviously very different reasons. This is the first time Isaac and I have ever had, like, a official, like, master bedroom and bathroom, which you're not supposed to call the master bedroom. Sorry, I shouldn't have said that. Primary bedroom and bathroom. So I went into your design school, and that's what they taught us. So it's just, like second nature to say that. But it's so peaceful. And then I think about our. Our pantry where we have our ice machine and, like, where we have, like, baskets of all of our supplements. And it. The house is just so peaceful that I don't have a favorite spot, because if our friends come over, I would say my favorite spot is our backyard. But if I'm playing with Scotty, I would say our favorite part of the house is her playroom. So it's. I'm like, I feel very grateful to love every single square inch of my house in my yard. Does Isaac have a man cave? Yes, my husband does have a man cave. I feel like it's crucial because I didn't let him make any decisions when it came to renovating our house. Like, obviously, he was a part of it. It's kind of like the wedding process. Like, he wanted to be a part of the renovations and the interior design aspect of the house. So I gave him, like, oh, do you like this or this? But obviously I narrowed it down from, like, this, this, this, this, this, this, or this. So he got. He got to give us two cents. And when I had decision paralysis, he very much stepped in. But his man cave is our Garage. We are slowly. This is what I said. Like, our house is not 100 done being renovated, so we have been slowly but surely, like, trying to, like, perfect the other areas that the interior design didn't touch, like Scotty's bedroom, Scotty's playroom, and then the garage. And the garage is very much Isaac's man cave, because he loves. Wait. My husband's man cave is our. What am I saying? My husband's man cave is our outdoor sauna, our outdoor cold plunge, and the outdoor shower. That is his man cave. That's a great man cave. I actually. I want my own man cave. In fact, I'll share Isaac's man cave with me. But the. The garage is also very much Isaac's man cave. He likes organizing and making it feel very clean and, like, organized in there. Love that. But we have, like, a bunch of gym equipment, and he loves working out, and that's, like, his passion. So we are trying to turn our garage into, like, an official gym. But, like, right now, it has, like, a treadmill and, like, weights and one of those weight machines that. It's, like a computer, essentially. I don't know what it's called, but I love it. So, yeah, that Isaac does have a man cave, but, like, it's the bougiest man cave I've ever seen. It's a cold plunge, and it's on outside. Okay. How is Scotty feeling about the move? I think Scotty loves living here because this house, again, we've truly renovated to be for us, and we've made decisions, and during the renovation process, we. I gave birth to Scottie. So she has very much been in the back of our head with every single decision. This or that, this or that. Is that gonna be friendly to throw in the washer, Even decisions like that? So Scottie loves a house. I think her favorite part has to be the yard and, like, the backyard as well. She loves this house so much. She. She's an outdoor girly. Like, if she's ever upset or fussy if we go outside, she's, like, instantly better. We recently also got her this car from a yard sale. Spent $20 on it, and it's her favorite thing ever, But I think she just likes all the different areas. She likes helping out, like, doing certain things, like with the dogs. Like, she loves helping feed the dogs. And that has nothing to do with house, but it kind of does because we're, like. We're organized. And all of the drawers in our house, like, we. We opted for no cabinets with shelves. We only have cabinet drawers and we made it so that all of the bottom drawers have nothing unsafe. So she could pull out every single thing in those drawers and just play with it. And I think that's another thing that she probably loves about the house is like, we're not constantly being like, no, don't open that. No, no, no. It's just more of like a. Oh, yeah, like that's our pots and pans. She can play with that. I'm thinking about moving next year with a newborn. Any tips for managing moving with babies? My biggest moving tip, and this has been before I had children and after I've had one child, I only have one. My biggest moving tip is get a box and anything that you can think of that you would need for a 24 hour trip, pack it into that box. Plates, bowls, utensils, scissors, a razor or a box cutter. Because you're going to need that to unbox your entire house. A cup, maybe your coffee machine, know where that is. So all of the essential things. My second tip is if you're moving with children or a baby, act as if you're going on a trip. What would you pack for a seven day long trip? If you're going and staying in a hotel and pack that into a suitcase, Your baby can get a suitcase. Any of your children, they can get their own suitcase. You can get your own suitcase and essentially pack as if you're going on vacation. Because everything you need for a vacation, you will need while you're moving and unpacking and settling into your house. That saved me when moving into this house because I acted as if I was going and staying in a hotel. But like, really I'm going and staying at a house, it just doesn't have anything else house. And it was so, it felt so organized and it felt so like relieving. Act as if you're going and staying in an Airbnb when you make a move or actually stay at an Airbnb or a hotel while you're making a move. Because that can also be a huge sense of relief. Like, okay, we don't have to unpack every single thing today. If the sheets aren't clean or we don't know where the sheets are, it's okay. So if you have the financial means to get a rental house and for even 48 hours, I would recommend doing that. But the box of stuff and a suitcase for what you would need for a vacation, highly, highly, highly recommend. I think that's like my biggest hack. Also, I have to mention this beforehand. If you're moving with kids or moving in general the month before, make a point to, like, have. Okay, this week I'm going to go through my bedroom and my closet. Next week I'm going to go through all the kitchen stuff and purging before you make the move makes a moving way less stressful. Next question. Have you learned any hacks to making moving easier or less expensive? To make moving less expensive, definitely utilize friends, family, anybody to help out. When we moved into our newly renovated house, we did not get any movers or any moving company. I think maybe we hired somebody to, like, come and, like, get junk and, like, remove, like, junk or, like, extra mattress that we didn't need. So that was it in terms of, like, hiring. We also hired our babysitter to more so help with the house than to help with our child. So there were a few days out of a week. And she loves doing this stuff. Like, I. I love, like, giving her any extra, like, ways she can, like, make money if I'm. If I'm not gonna utilize her in terms of, like, watching over my daughter. So there was a week where I ended up taking Scotty and, like, I was, like, the main watcher of Scotty, and she was more so there to, like, help me clean out my closet and help me purge a few things or sell some stuff on Facebook Marketplace. And they say it takes a village. I think it also takes a village to move, even if it's just down the street. Don't even get me started on moves, like, across the country. But I think that you can save money by not hiring people like that. If you're selling something on Facebook Marketplace, have the people come and get it and. And say, like, you. You need to, like, hire somebody if you need to get this dresser downstairs, like, you need to hire that help or things like that. But the other thing I would say is, like, to make it less expensive, just purge. Like, don't move a bunch of shit and then purge in your new house because you're going to move a bunch of unorganized shit, and then you're going to be overwhel, overwhelmed. Purge before. Next question is, what was your inspiration when accessorizing your home? So our interior design team was very much a part of accessorizing. They actually came in and staged the home. I didn't keep everything that they staged, but in terms of, like, what I wanted my house to feel, because I feel like your. Your interior design of your home can be very, like, okay, wood cabinets, wood floors, like, this and that like your furniture can be aesthetic, but I feel like the most important layer of a house is the final staging and accessorizing. And I wanted this house to feel like an escape. I wanted it to feel very peaceful. And can you tell that my life has been chaotic up until this point? So I wanted things to feel like I wanted. I wanted it to touch on all five senses. I wanted it to smell clean. We're always lighting incense in here. I wanted to see a bunch of texture and be able to feel the texture. I like, I don't really have like a taste of my house, but all of the things have been like, character or repurposed, reclaimed, like from vintage shops or second, secondhand. Like, there's a lot of texture in our home and a lot of different, like, life plans. It feels very, like, worldly in a way. I feel like we tried to incorporate a lot of different design styles as like the accessorizing and final layer of this house because we, we love traveling and like, we love, we like having things feel not clean. Is that weird to say? Like, I want my house to feel clean, but to have character and feel homey? That's what I'm trying to say because so many homes that are being renovated these days, guys don't feel homey. Like, that's way too modern. Like, please, I don't want to feel sterile when I'm sitting in my kitchen. I want it to feel like, wow, we can sit here and laugh and like, oh, yeah, like that, that's there. And I don't know. You know what I'm saying? I feel like this can turn into a two part episode. So I'm gonna only answer one more question. And then next House Q A, we'll get Isaac on the podcast as well. So this is gonna be the last question. How are you liking the new neighborhood? So granted, we did move into this house before we renovated. So we've lived in this neighborhood for a while, like a few years. But I don't know what's going on. Our. Our neighborhood has truly developed over the past few years. There are so many strollers and young families and people buying houses, fixing them up a little bit, living in them. And I feel I love our neighborhood so much. And it truly changes the way that you feel about your house. Me sitting out my front yard and like waving hi to neighbors. Hell, my husband, I have to tell this story. My husband met some new friends that live in our neighborhood. And the way that he met them as he was cleaning out our garage and the Woman was leaning over our trash can. Not sanitary. You probably need to clean that. Leaning over our trash can because she was having a contraction, and her husband was trying to have the conversation with Isaac because Isaac's. He's a talker. He can talk to a wall. He was talking to the husband, and she was going through a contraction. He was like, oh, is she. Is she okay? And he was like, yeah, she's in labor. And that's how we met some of our friends here in our neighborhood. And that just goes to show, like, there are so many young families and so many families in the same space of life that we're in, and I love it so, so much. And I'm so grateful that I love our neighborhood because. Not gonna say where, but we lived in a neighborhood once in Isaac's NFL career, and there were so. There were a lot. Having good neighbors I will forever be grateful for because I don't know it. You can't. You can't move away from your house because you have a bad neighbors. Although I guess you could if you really wanted to. So, with that being said, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode again, if you have any episodes you want to hear or things you like or things you don't like from this podcast in general, head over to the Instagram, send us a DM and let us know. Criticism. Yikes. Be okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm just a little fragile. But thank you guys so much for tuning in. I hope you enjoyed this episode, and I hope you like hearing solo episodes like this from me, because I feel like there's a little bit more to come this year than what I've been doing. So I hope you guys enjoyed. I hope you have a great week, and I hope to see you next Sunday. Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.