← The Carpool with Kelly and Lizz
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A
Welcome to the carpool podcast with Kelly. Well, that's what I'm always saying. Like, I'm sorry. As Americans, like, we just need better. We need to get more organized as a country on what our foods are.
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B
You're so right.
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A
Like, I was like, like, that's the best we can do.
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B
And, Liz, honestly, my life right now is so consumed about when the next time I'm going to eat is going to be that, like, I couldn't have been there.
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A
Your mom. Time off starts. Welcome back to the Carpool podcast with Kelly and Liz. And, boy, do we have a show for you.
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B
We really do, as we just had such a good interview. We have. We went through such a phase of, like, so many interviews. It's kind of been a minute, and we just, like, kind of came back with, like, a big one.
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A
Yeah. So on the second half of this episode, we have Madeline from Madeline Moves, and she is a fitness influencer. She also had three kids in three years. Her oldest is only four. Like, her youngest just turned one. So she's what you would call in the trenches, which I didn't.
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B
I didn't, I didn't, I didn't. I guess I didn't realize they were that close in age.
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A
Well, I think I thought I was, like, seeing, like, this. I think. I think her last two kids, I thought they were the same kid because they're literally, like, the same age.
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B
She had three C sections. Yeah. I mean, it is.
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A
It's a great interview. We cover it all. And after the episode, she offered to give us a code. So I'm gonna tell you the code now. The code is carpool, and we'll get you the first month free on the moves app. Obsessed.
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B
Obsessed. She gave us, like, Kelly works with the moves app on her personal Instagram, but Madeline gave us, like, this is an even bigger and better one because we were kind of like, we're all, like, so lathered up about just talking to each other.
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A
So we'll say, I don't even. I don't want to give away too much, but. And she brings an iconic dtd.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Okay.
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B
But before that, we've got a lot to talk about.
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C
Oh, my God.
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B
So much has happened.
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A
So much has happened. I went to the Chicago auto show, and, like, I'm back. I'm sorry. I know. I know. Liz, I'm sorry. I know that you're not. I. Tyler was a rock star with the kids. Tyler and his mom shout out like, thank you for just, like, handling it. They were amazing. The kids were Great. I had the best time at the Chicago Auto Show. I, like, sucked that well for all that there was, like, I got. I hit every experience. I did everything. It was the best trip ever.
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B
You went with Sam and went with.
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A
Sam from Mama Knows car seats. And me and Sam were just like such long lost soulmates. Like, so are you. Like, Sam is just. She is the fifth sister. Like, sixth sister. Like, she is just everything.
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B
Yeah. No, Sam is such a good. Just natural. Sam's amazing. I would say Sam's one of your best friends.
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A
Sam's one of my best friends, for sure.
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B
And you guys have been in the same room, like, five times, maybe, total.
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A
I know. And, like, Sam is such a. I feel like she's such an extension of my brain. Well, it's. It's not my brain. It's her brain. But, like, I feel more comfortable with her next to me because, like, one thing about, like, I know I'm really good. I have great delivery. I have great passion. I'm very good at, like, energizing people. And Sam is so smart.
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B
Yeah.
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A
So it's so fun when I'm like, well, you know, what about the head restraints? And, like, I hit Sam on the shoulder, and I'm like, cite that. Cite that legislation, you know, about. Like, it's just so fun.
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B
Yeah. And she's using, like, terminology.
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A
Yeah. We're borderline unlikable together because it's like, we're so there for the answers.
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B
Yeah.
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A
But we went to the Chicago Auto Show. There wasn't, like, a ton of crazy major reveals, but I went because Britax was making history by being the first car seat manufacturer to ever unveil a car seat at an auto show, which it's giving. Are you kidding? Like, no car seat manufacturer has ever thought to show up to an auto show. And we were there for one of the public days. The booth was slammed. I'm like, every car, every car seat manufacturer should be here.
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B
Yeah.
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A
It was such, like. It's like, duh.
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B
Well, especially now that it's hard to see all these things. Bye, bye, baby went away. It's like, it's hard to see all the car seats. Like, why don't they just go to the auto shows? There's auto shows in all the major cities. Why don't you guys pull up with a booth and see you?
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A
You know, one auto show you can find a ton of car seats. Is the car motto show. Get your tickets. That's in a couple of weeks.
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B
Yeah. That's kind of a big goal for us. This year is to, like, try and, you know, get more car seat brands involved so we can like.
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A
Well, and I will just say, like, off the record, like the auto show, the car motto show was kind of the name on everyone's lips. Like, I had a major car manufacturer come up to me and, like, ask me for the date because, like, they want to be involved.
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B
Wow, that's so.
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A
And I had multiple people, like, from Chicago come up to me and, like, tell me they will be making the trip. Like, at the rate we're going, we're gonna need to have our own media days.
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B
I don't know if the ice rink is gonna cut it.
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A
No. I also don't know if we can.
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C
Yeah.
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A
So anyway, it was just a great trip. I did post way too many reels, but. And I appreciate. Well, I appreciate all of you guys looking out for Elizabeth's. Well being. There probably were a few that could have been posted the following day, but I was just kind of like, in the moment. You know what I mean?
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B
Well, when you're in. When you're like, dressed up in the gala, like, it would have been weird to.
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A
You can't save those ones.
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B
You can't save those. And I get it. I actually. Six in one day was a lot. It was a lot. I. I do understand your rationale behind them all, though, and I'm just happy you were having fun and creating content because sometimes when you're having so much fun, it's really hard to remember to also capture it. And so I'm just thankful that you did capture the fun you were having because I know I personally was, like, refreshing my phone constantly to see if you or Sam were posting well.
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A
And it was just, you know, I didn't set out to. I didn't set out to post six times in one day, but I didn't know I was going to get such amazing content.
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B
Yeah. Yeah. So I. I'm actually, I. If. If it. If on a regular day when we're filming at the dealership, you can't post that many times. But it was a special event. It was timely. I approve. I had such fomo, but I'm so happy I wasn't there. So Maddie was gone this weekend for marine drill stuff, so I couldn' shouldn't go. But, like, honestly, my life right now is so consumed about when the next time I'm going to eat is going to be that like, I couldn't have been there because I'd have been like, I have to doordash me. Like, Portillo's right now. Like, how. And I would have had to leave. Like, I would have been really annoying.
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A
You would have brought us down.
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B
I would have brought you guys down. It's like, I had fomo. But, like, you're there, right? You're in that phase. I'm not in that phase. So I was happy.
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C
I had set out.
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A
I was hungover the next day. Like, I can't tell you. Last time I've been. I don't drink anymore. I can't tell you. This time I was hungover.
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B
I know. I FaceTime Kelly the next day, like, 7am Because I'm like, why haven't I heard from her at 7:00am like, and.
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A
I'm such a riser.
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B
She should be awake with her coffee by now. And, like, you look like a train wreck.
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I know. Like, did I even wash my face? Like, I don't even know. Like, me and Sam had a blast.
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B
I'm so happy.
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A
Yeah. So anyway, that was the auto show. Speaking of shows, we watched the super bowl last night. First of all, it was the worst super bowl game I've ever seen in my life.
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B
It was like, I already don't think football is fun to watch. And that was like watching paint dry. And I only watched the first half, so I didn't.
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A
I didn't enjoy a lot of my experience watching the game commercials. The best one was the Pepsi commercial. Like, I don't think that's a hot take that.
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B
I don't think I saw that. I need to go and re. Watch. I was like, we had friends over. I was talking. I, like, didn't really watch.
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A
Okay, let me just tell you what happened with the Pepsi commercial.
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C
It.
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A
Two polar bears were at a concert.
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B
Uhhuh.
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A
Polar bears are formally drink.
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B
Oh, they formally drink Coke.
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A
And then a camera, like a KISS camera, caught the polar bears at a concert, like the Coldplay concert, drinking Pepsi. It was just funny. It was, like, very. It was. It was funny. It was a good one.
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Okay.
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A
I didn't. Yeah. I just. I wasn't. The game was so boring, and that was sad. And I had been into football, and, like, I was ready to watch, and I was cheering for the Patriots, but I'm happy for the Seahawks. And I'm also happy that, like, the Seahawks kind of, like, kept their tradition of whenever a new pope is elected, whenever there's a conclave, the Seahawks win the Super Bowl. If I'm a Seahawks fan, like, I just do want you to know, like, I do believe poplio is only 65. So, like, it will Be a while.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Until you guys have another Super Bowl. But that's something of note. But, I mean, the best part was the halftime show. Now, let me tell you something. I was. I was excited. I was excited. I was blown away by was. It felt like a Broadway show.
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B
It was. It was like, a lot of. Like, I liked all the sets. Like, it was a lot of production. I feel like the last couple ones haven't been so, like. Like, you were really transported to a different. To a different place.
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A
It was a music video.
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B
Yeah, it was a music video. Yeah.
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A
I mean, like. Because I've seen, like, people's POVs from the stadium, and, like, it looked like a snooze fest of a show from the stadium.
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B
Totally. Okay. I could see that because it was. It was like a maze.
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A
Yeah, it was like. It was a maze, so. And, like, why were the bushes people? Why weren't they just props? Like, I thought that was so funny. I kept waiting for the bushes to start dancing, and they never did.
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B
I'm like, wait, I don't think. I don't think I noticed that. I need to re Watch it.
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A
The bushes are all people.
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B
Really?
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D
Yeah.
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B
It feels expensive to hire that many people to stand there.
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A
Well, I guess. But maybe it's like. It's like, maybe they could only, like. Maybe the cleanup was easier because instead of, like, then someone having to come and, like, walk in, walk out as a bush.
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C
I don't know.
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A
I. I just would, like. I would have liked the bushes. Or maybe the bushes were moving, and we just didn't see that. Like, maybe they were moving to, like, different backgrounds. The bushes are people. It's insane.
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B
I need to go rewatch it. His outfit was amazing.
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A
His outfit was per. I'm. I'm always so. I always love seeing, like, people's take on the uniform because I think that's what they try to do a lot. No notes. The outfit was perfect.
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B
I actually felt like this was the first one in a really long time where, like, any nod to football has been made. Like, he was carrying a football. He had a football jersey on. Like, I love the monochromatic. Like, it was so. Such a good outfit.
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A
Such a good outfit. Lady Gaga.
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B
I was like, has Lady Gaga ever done the Super Bowl?
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A
No. And, like, she could. Like, Lady Gaga is of the same. I mean, she is. She is easily a Super bowl artist.
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Could easily be one, I would agree.
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And she's just, like, there for the vibes. Like, obsessed. She looked amazing. I love when she doesn't go weird because she's like. I love that. She was, like, singing. I loved the wedding scene. I found out it was a real wedding.
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B
I did. Really? That was the wedding scene I really liked. You know, because the. The first. I don't like all the. It's like, you know, kids are watching. I don't like all the booty bumping that was, like, in the first part of it. But then the wedding scene, I was like, oh, this is really sweet.
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C
I like this.
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B
There's kids there. There's a flower girl. Like, it's very cute and family friendly.
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A
Yeah, it felt like. It felt like a wedding. Ricky Martin was there. Is that also.
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B
Can I just say something? One more thing about the wedding scene is. It's like, anyone who sees, like, a wedding cake and, like, a wedding, like, everyone. Like, that makes everyone happy. So, like, just seeing people dancing at a wedding, even though it's fake, made me happy.
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A
Like, I. But it wasn't.
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B
I know they actually got married, but it was not a real wedding. Like, reception is what I'm saying things I don't relate to wedding receptions. Like, I just.
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A
Yeah. No, and like, I loved. Like, the kid, like, was asleep on the chair. And, like, then Bad Bunny, like, woke up the kid. Like, that's so funny.
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B
It was just, like.
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A
It was just.
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It was just relatable.
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Yeah, it was just great. And I really enjoyed the music. I've. All morning, I've been like, this vip. Vip. I mean, I'm into it. I'm. I'm gonna listen to Bad Bunny on my way to the dealership today. I'm here for it. I loved it.
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B
You know, I wish I kind of. If I could make a critique on parts when he was just, like, speaking and saying things, I could have used sub titles. I would have liked to have known what he was saying. Well, and that is Spanish.
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A
But no, that is true. Because it was also. And he was saying amazing. Because now I've seen it. Like, when he was looking at the camera, he was like, I never stopped believing in myself. And you shouldn't either. Like, that's what I'm saying.
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B
I could tell he was saying very positive and uplifting things. I don't think would have been too much to ask to just, like, put that on the screen so everyone would know.
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C
Okay.
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I think that's a fair critique.
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B
I don't think you need it for all the. The lyrics and everything. Because I understand, like, lyrics don't always translate exactly. But I would have liked subtitles for the speaking words.
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A
But see, now I've kind of gone on, like, a bad bunny rabbit hole, and no pun intended. That's hysterical. Am I the first one to make that joke?
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B
Probably not.
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A
That's so funny. And he was saying, like, no, a lot of, like, people who speak Spanish can't understand him because I guess Puerto Ricans, like, have a specific accent, and a lot of his music has, like, a lot of Puerto Rican slang in it.
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B
Okay.
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A
And I think he's just maybe a little hard to understand.
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B
Okay.
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A
Oh, and then, like, Jessica Alba was, like, underneath all the people, there was, like, that area of all the stars, and it was like, Alex Earl Cardi, B. Pedro Pascal. Oh, and Jessica Alba. It just made me realize, like, I need more Jessica Alba in my life. She's stunning, and she needs to be coming across my desk more.
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B
Yeah, she has to not want to come across her desk. I feel like Jessica Alba probably is just, like, I'm good.
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A
She found the honest company.
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B
Oh, I think you're right.
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A
Like, yes. I think she's fine. Like, she's. She's. She's a retailer.
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B
No, that's what I'm saying. Like, I think she's, like, so okay that she's like, I don't need to come across your desk.
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Yeah, she's too rich to come across my desk anyway. I really. I thought the vibes were high. I loved it.
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B
Yeah.
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Like, I can't stop smiling just talking about it. I thought it was so fun.
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B
I know. Yeah, it was. It was really fun. It was. And I agree, the beginning was a little.
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A
The beginning was a little booty popping. But I've seen worse at a Super Bowl.
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B
I. I agree. I have seen worse. It was just, like, the juxtaposition of, like, I was like, oh, this is a lot of booty popping. And then the wedding scene, like, almost. I mean, to be fair, they had something for everyone, because some people prefer that kind of choreography. But I. And I think in previous Super Bowls, they haven't had a. A sweet, innocent, wholesome moment. So much so that we're talking about it. It's like, they had this very sweet wedding scene with a flower girl. Like, that is so unique. Never been done before. And it just. It made. It brought me joy.
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A
I didn't let my kids watch it because I just, like, you never know, like, anything live. I'm just, like, not sure I'm ready for it. But I would say. And I don't think, like, they need to watch it. I just think it's fine. But I've seen way worse on the super bowl stage, so. I agree. I thought it was great. I thought it was. I mean, the only thing more powerful than love is hate is love. Like great.
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B
Obsessed, positive message. Let me see. I wrote notes. Did I have anything else to say?
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A
Yeah, I did like his outfit. Do you think when he fell into the house that was pre recorded? You think that was live?
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B
No, that was definitely pre recorded. I liked that too.
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A
Yeah, I liked that it was a music video. Like, just upload the whole. It was a music video.
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B
You know, I rewatched it this morning on YouTube and there were ads in the middle of it, which there were multiple ad breaks in the middle of it, which was so annoying.
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A
Yeah, I mean, YouTube. Tyler's a YouTube plus member. Because Tyler only listens to music on YouTube.
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B
Yeah.
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Like he makes his playlist on YouTube. Like he's such a grandpa. He's insane. Like he has playlists on his YouTube. So he pays for now.
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B
Okay. Yeah, well, I need your login. Okay. Anyway, let's move on.
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C
Okay.
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A
We kind of like need to get to our interview because then we kind of have some things to do. But there's just like one. Oh, you. You go ahead.
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B
Well, I would just say, like, I can say this for another episode. I do have some low lift luxuries. But like, if there was something else you wanted to say or like get to.
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A
Well, I can say my thing for other episodes too.
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B
Okay. I don't know what your thing is. Mine are just lowlife luxuries.
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A
Okay, well, let's hear. I would love to tear them apart.
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B
Okay. Number one. The other lately, like in the morning I have to have something to eat and like kind of sweet carbs have been what I've been gravitating towards because they're like easy and they're just there. So I bought muffins from Trader Joe's, like from a proper muffin thing. And I have a cake stand that I keep on my counter. And I understand that sometimes you don't always have space for a cake stand on your counter, but if you do, I just like put the muffins in my cake stand.
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A
No, I hate to admit that's such a good one.
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B
And it was like such a. Like every morning I would go and I would open my cake stand and I would grab my muffin and like the other day I made chocolate chip cookies and I just like threw my chocolate chip cookies in there. I keep it out because when I do make sourdough, I keep it in there cuz it just like Keeps the sourdough fresh. Because it, like, is a proper cake stand. It was. It was a luxury experience. Pulling my. My raspberry muffin out of my cake stand.
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A
No, I'm really trying because, you know, you always make fun of mine. I'd love to tear that apart. That's actually a really good one.
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B
Now, Will, you know, if you put something too good in there, like, my kids weren't interested in these muffins. They could see them. There's kind of that risky run, um, that, like, people can see them, especially kids. But it was a luxury experience for me. Okay. My next one. This one you might make fun of me for, but it has really elevated my life. We eat every meal in our dining room. Like, we don't have a kitchen table. We have our kitchen tables in our. In, like, our formal dining room. So not that my kitchen. My kitchen is right there, but, like, I'm not physically in my kitchen when we're eating. So I have just put a paper towel holder on my dining room table and it lives there.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Because you always need paper towels. And I've actually even upgraded. And I also, I have. I have a lazy Susan in the middle, so I have salt, pepper, my paper towel holder. And I also keep baby wipes in there because you always need a baby wipe to clean something up. Wipe. Hands off really quick. And I haven't done this yet, but I could go as far to like, put a little silver tray thing on there and have my. And have some silverware on my dining table too.
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A
Well, you should just get like a hutch or something because you need some more furniture in that room. You should just like, put something in there. Like.
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B
Yeah, I don't have. I like, you know, I'm such like a consignment shop girl. It's just like finding the hutch.
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C
Yeah.
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A
It needs to come across.
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B
That could be nice. But the paper towels was a big game changer. Even more so just having baby wipes on my dining table full time. Because my kids also, like, will do, like, play with. Play doh. And like, play with kinetic sand and stuff. Like, it just. It comes in handy throughout the day.
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Yeah, those are really good ones. So I just.
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B
I.
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Don'T have a low lift luxury, but I just wanted to, like. I'm just trying to keep everyone's like, finger on the pulse that lent as a week from today. Good Friday. Sorry. Ash Wednesday's a week from today, and I am going to be giving up the sugar for 40 days.
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B
Okay.
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A
And Elizabeth sent me a Reel of someone who, like, was also doing it. And they read this book called the 40 Day Sugar Fast. It's giving. Made for Lent. It's giving. I'm not the only one to think of this idea. So it's on Amazon. I just bought it for $9. And it's a 40 day spiritual and physical journey combining a sugar detox with a faith based transformation. Okay. Faith based transformation.
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B
Okay. Faith based transformation. It sounds perfect. That's what you're like. That's what you're after. That's why you're doing it.
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A
I know. Yeah. It said, would you give up sugar to experience the sweet presence of God? That's a little kidding.
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B
Hey, hey. That's cute.
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A
I am going to do it in.
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B
The presence of the Lord.
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A
So I'm giving up any artificial. What is the word that you said told me earlier?
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B
Refined and processed.
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A
I'm giving up any refined and processed sugar in every capacity. And I am going to switch. I'm not even going to do iced honey lattes. I'm just gonna. Because I just think, like, that's. Part of me thinks, like, if I have too much, like, sweetened with things, it will not. It will be harder to cut it. I feel like when you give up sugar, I'm not saying I'm not gonna have any honey, so I don't want to say that. But my goal is to not have sweet things. Because, like, to me, I think that's the problem. I think, like, I think when I have a little bit, then I want more. I think that's how you kind of get, like, a sugar addiction.
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B
Yeah.
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A
So anyway, I need to be. So I need to figure out how I'm gonna celebrate Fat Tuesday because, like, it's got to be kind of major.
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B
Mm.
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A
Mm.
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B
We need a better Fat Tuesday food. Because, like, as much as I would love to, like, buy a king cake, like, king cake is so gross.
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A
Well, that's what I'm always saying. Like, I'm sorry. As Americans, like, we just need better. We need to get more organized as a country on what our foods are.
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B
You're so right.
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A
Like, I mean, that's the best we can do.
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B
Maybe we could be a little bit more united in that way.
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A
Like, I'm just saying, like, Thanksgiving, I think, is good. I like our Thanksgiving food. Christmas, we've talked about this. Has no identity. What. What else was I talking about?
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B
Super bowl has good identity.
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A
Super bowl has great identity. Like, buffalo chicken dip is an American classic. And, like, we're. I don't like that we people are. We're not even people.
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C
Us.
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A
We're always hating on that. That is a delicious food. That is the best food ever. Oh, I was talking about New Year's Eve, how we have nothing on New Year's Eve. Like, our big thing on New Year's Eve is black eyed peas. Like, we need help.
- [22:16]
B
No, our biggest thing on. On New Year's Eve is alcohol. Like, please, come on.
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C
Please.
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A
Like, where are. Like, why don't we have these, like, traditional recipes that the other. I'm mad about it. And like, we have good American food is good. Like, for example, I love a meatloaf. I love a chili. I love all these foods. I'm just saying, like, we need to, like, be more united as a country where it's like, oh, on Fat Tuesday. Well, you know, we should have. On Fat Tuesday, you know, we should deliver to the rest of the country.
- [22:43]
B
Huh?
- [22:44]
A
Gooey butter cake.
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B
Gooey butter cake. That's a good Fat Tuesday. That's a Good Fat Tuesday 1.
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A
Hear me, hear me. The new Fat Tuesday food is gooey butter cake. That's a St. Louis specialty. You know what, St. Louis, we have a good food scene. We have food. We have St. Louis only food. I just would like our country to be more unified, and I'd like us to all eat gooey butter cake next Tuesday.
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B
Okay, I agree. That's a good one. I. I don't. I don't eat gooey butter cake enough. And if you. You can make it. So I don't know what the recipe is. I never made it.
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A
But I can't imagine I won't be making it. I'll be buying it.
- [23:16]
B
I will be buying it because I can. But if you don't live in St. Louis and you want gooey butter cake, it is worth your time to get a recipe and make it. Just trust me.
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A
Just trust.
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B
Just trust.
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A
We need to try to find. I'd love to have, like, a St. Louis, like, bites at the auto show. Maybe we'll do that for the VIP night. I think we did do that for the VIP night.
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B
We did.
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A
That sounds like us.
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C
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B
Okay, the last thing I want to cover before we get into our interview if you don't mind.
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C
Sure.
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B
There was a Carpool thread. And I want to briefly answer this question in vague terms. It. There is a question of wondering how our salary. How my salary is set up. And so many people were curious. And I get that. It's like, please, I'm sorry. So curious about I. What people's things are.
- [26:54]
A
I know it's taboo, but, like, I would love to know what everyone in my life makes. Like, I'm just.
- [26:58]
C
I know.
- [26:59]
B
I get it. Like, I totally understand. So I'm gonna, like, kind of briefly divulge kind of what our setup is, and it's because it's actually kind of hilarious. So when Kelly started the Car Mom, I was, like, kind of, like, helping her with it because, like, we're sisters and whatever, we talk. And then there kind of came a moment where it's like, I was hating my job. I was loving the Car Mom. We were so energized on it, and it was like a. I want to do this full time with you. And with that comes a conversation about finances. And Kelly and I always said, we're going to. If money ever becomes an issue with us, if it ever. If it ever causes any friction in our relationship, I am stepping away from the Car Mom. Like, I will not. I will not do it. Because no amount of money, no amount of fame, you know, nothing is worth losing mine and Kelly's relationship or putting a bad. Anything harming our relationship was not worth it. So we always said that from the beginning because, you know, when you work with family, sometimes things can get sticky. So basically, like, Kelly and I were like, I don't own any of the car mom. It was very important to Kelly to fully own the Car mom, which I don't care. That's great. I agree. It's your. You know, I love the Car mom, but that's fine if you want full ownership of. Was your idea. But we. We said, okay, you can. I, Liz, can have this percentage of everything. And everything when we started was nothing. When we came up with this, it was. There was no money to be talked about. And.
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A
Well, and originally. But originally you asked for, like, you wanted just a higher percentage of, like, the more direct things you were involved in.
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B
Yeah, I was like, give me 50 or give me X amount percent of YouTube because I'm so involved in that, and I don't need this because I'm not working on that.
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A
But I said no. And that was actually Tyler's idea. He's like, no. I just feel like the way you guys are conversing, like, even if she's not directly doing it. She's indirectly doing it. So also say is Liz gets a percentage of everything.
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B
And we have never once revisited that percentage. We've never talked about it. We've literally never brought up up the money again since 2021.
- [29:24]
C
Yeah.
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A
No. And like, every month when I. Every month we close out, and when I close up the month and I give Elizabeth her a percentage, I'm like, no, that feels right. Yeah, it's always felt right. So it was always grown and it's been more. And it's always felt right and we've.
- [29:36]
B
Never had an argument over it. And actually, Tyler's always been, like, my biggest supporter because Tyler does, like, he's very good with spreadsheets and finances. So Tyler does close out the month and everything. And Tyler has always been, like, the biggest supporter of mine and making that, you know, we're get. It's all fair and everything.
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A
No, like, if I accidentally, like, were to buy something on the Karmound card, like, for our house, like, if, like, he would, like, then trans. If I bought, like, something for like a hundred dollars, he would. Then he would make me pay the car mom back. So, like, I wouldn't be shorting Elizabeth even a cent. Like, he's so passionate about that.
- [30:09]
B
Yeah. So he's.
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A
That's.
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B
That's it. That's the story. Yep. Yeah. And okay, so with that, we still have a whole interview to get to.
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A
So it was just like, such a good episode.
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B
Like, I know I. And, like, I have more to say, but I'm gonna save it because we still have a great interview.
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A
All right, well, we will talk to you guys on Friday.
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B
We're gonna talk to Madeline. Moves Reminder. Use code Carpool. Get your first month free off of the Moves app. Welcome to the Carpool podcast. Madeline.
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A
Madeline, welcome to the Carpool podcast.
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D
Thank you. I'm so excited to be here.
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A
Honestly, this is, like, such a long time coming. I've been following you. I think you've gotten me through two pregnancies and two postpartum journeys.
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D
We've been bonded. For sure.
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A
Yeah. No, for sure. So if you guys don't follow at Madeline underscore Moves on Instagram. She has got to be by far my favorite fitness influencer out there. She's a mom of three. Three? Did you have three in three years? You did something crazy like that, didn't you?
- [31:21]
D
Yeah, don't do the math. It barely, barely works out. But I have a four year old now, so she just turned four. I can no longer say three kids. Three and under, but we cranked them out pretty quick.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So you're still in the thick of it, though.
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D
Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure.
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B
All right, what's the breakdown of your kids ages?
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D
My daughter just turned 4. My son just turned 2. My other son just turned 1. So we have three birthdays in three weeks. So all of that just changed. But it was 3:1 and infant for the past year. Yeah.
- [31:54]
B
Oh, my gosh.
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D
It's wild times. But honestly, it's been so fun. Like, I would never have put myself in this scenario. Our third was a complete surprise. I got pregnant at four months postpartum. But I'm, like, seeing the little silver linings, like, every day.
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A
Totally.
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D
Yeah.
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A
What car do you drive?
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D
Oh, okay. We have a Lexus. Oh, my gosh, my husband's gonna kill me. It's a GX.
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A
Okay.
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B
LX.
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D
It's the LX.
- [32:23]
A
Okay.
- [32:23]
D
470. Is that right?
- [32:26]
A
Sure. Maybe. Depending on the year, that'll work.
- [32:29]
D
Okay. It's relatively new. It's green. I can find it in any parking lot. It's like, it very much stands out to me. But it also is a little bit tricky with our current configuration. I think I texted you. Having a small identity crisis. But we have my son in the third row, my youngest son, and then we have two kids in the middle because it's a bench, and it just requires putting my son and his car seat in through the trunk, which is. Keeps you limber. You know, it's all part of.
- [32:58]
A
All part of the. So that's why you work out, is what you're saying.
- [33:00]
D
Honestly, yes. Loading my kids in and out of my car is the finisher of every workout.
- [33:05]
A
It is funny. Like, sometimes when I do consultations, people will be like, but isn't that going to be, like, really hard to get them in there? And I'm like, no, you're like, three kids is really hard. Like, that's just kind of easy button there.
- [33:15]
D
There is no easy button, so.
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A
No.
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B
Putting three kids in car seats is never easy. Madeline, I wanna hear your entire backstory. Madeline has an app that we use to work out. No, you're kind of like you're a woman in tech.
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A
Yeah.
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B
It's incredible.
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D
Yes and no. I have, like, two other apps on my phone. I am a grandma posing as a woman in tech because I love workouts and I love sharing them, and this is how you have to do it. But don't be too fooled by, like, my ability to talk code or anything like that. We have a team that has really made the app what it is. But I do have an app. We have spent quite a bit of time working on it. We built it from the ground up in the past two and a half years, so it's a completely custom experience. But my passion is, for sure, the women in the workouts. The app is the mode of which I get to share those for sure.
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B
Sounds like four kids, really. I mean, yeah.
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A
And also that's fine. You're underselling it, though, because it is. I've used a lot of these workout apps, and this one is so user friendly. I appreciate, and I'm sure we're going to get into it, but there's so many different variations that you can use, and you really prioritize. Like, you. I feel like no matter where you're at in your fitness journey, like, your workouts are perfect because it is from, like, okay, what do you have in your living room all the way up to, like, okay, like, are you ready to, like, you know, take it up a notch?
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C
And it's.
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A
It's such. I mean, I've used it for years. It's such a good app.
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D
Thank you. That really means a lot. And you're exactly right. Like, our goal is progressions, but if we don't allow you a starting place, how can you expect someone to do that? So we've really customized the journey to support women at different phases of life at different fitness levels. And we're really proud of what we're doing day in and day out. So it's.
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B
It's.
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D
It's super special to know that it's touching your lives.
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A
And I, like. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No, I need to shut up. Let's go.
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B
I just. I think. I think we. You might be getting ahead of yourself a little bit, Kyle. I want to go back. Madeline has 700,000 plus Instagram followers. She has an app. You've been clearly doing this for years. I want to hear your story, how you got started, how you've kind of ended up where you are. I want to hear all of it.
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A
Okay.
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D
Yeah, I'd love to share. It probably starts, you know, even before college. I played sports in high school, mostly soccer. I went to college in Florida. I studied exercise physiology, kinesiology. I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do with it, but I knew I loved movement. I loved helping people. I didn't know exactly where it would take me. I ended up graduating after playing collegiate soccer and teaching physical education for four years and coaching soccer. And I Loved it. I taught K through eighth grade at a private school, and I did some personal training on the side, but it was really like education and movement and kids, and I absolutely adored it. And during that time, I sort of lost myself personally coming out of college, like, super involved in competitive sports, always surrounded by women, that team camaraderie, and then, like, it all changes. And I had a hard time replacing that or finding that. I dove headfirst into marathon training because the running community was super strong where I live. But it was sort of just a way to keep going with what I knew and loved from college. And I sort of burned myself out in running post college, and I just needed to, like, strip it back to my roots of what I knew, what I'd been trained in. And that was adding more strength training to my routine. And that journey kind of allowed me to share as I transitioned from a ton of running and kind of wearing myself into the ground to supporting it with strength training and then kind of transitioning more and more into that and letting running take much more of a backseat because I felt so much better. I was recovering so much better. My energy day to day, my attitude towards my husband, like, everything was better when I sort of balance things out a bit. And I shared that journey online. I started posting on Instagram. My husband bought me a domain for a blog. He was like, I love hearing about this from you, but can you, like, tell some other people too? I kind of need you to, like, get this message, not just me, every day. And I started writing and blogging about nutrition and workouts, and it slowly turned into a PDF that he helped me with. Again, I'm very not technical. So he did all the filming, all of the editing, all of the creation of the website in the back end, and we started selling it. And pretty quickly I realized that my teaching could. The salary that I was making teaching could be replaced or matched with this online business. And I would never have believed it, but my husband was like, no, this has legitimacy. You should keep taking it where it goes. And for a year and a half, I did both. I did both the online and teaching. And then I was able to transition full time. When we launched the app, which started off as a SaaS platform, you basically kind of use the same technology as other people, but make it look your own. And then we did that for a few years. We really grew a strong organic following and a base of enough people that we could invest into ourselves and create a custom app. That process was a big learning experience. It took us A year and a half to build, and we've been on it for about a year and a half now, so we own it all.
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A
It's.
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D
It's what we want it to be. We can invest in it and create the outcomes that we think are most impactful to our community. So it feels really right. But it was definitely a big learning process and investment. Yeah, it's.
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B
It's. It's so impressive. And I love how involved your husband has been because, like, hearing you talk about it, I can just tell that, like, you're just so in it for the fitness and the feel good and the people, and, like, you're just, like, letting other people help you with the business because, like, that's what you love, is the fitness aspect.
- [39:29]
D
That's truly the only reason that I am still, like, literally sharing the workouts on Instagram every day and still, like, DM people back every day. Because I love it, and because of my husband and the team we've built, I've been able to protect it and not get too pulled into the areas that. That I don't have a background in, I don't have enough experience in. But, like, they've supported me in ways that I love what I do, and. And I hope it shines through, but I truly love it.
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B
Yeah, Kelly and I always say that too. We always say, like, you know, we have to surround ourselves with people who are smarter than us in other areas, because if we're not thriving in the areas that Kelly especially that, like, she's great at, then, like, there's nothing to post about. Like, there's nothing to share. Like, you have to, like, be smart enough to surround yourself with people who are gonna excel in those different areas.
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A
Totally.
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D
Some of the best advice and some of the women on our team are also moms, so they really get it, but they just encouraged me to, like, remember what you're irreplaceable for and, like, hone in on that and then let other people, like, you're saying, support what you're really kind of less needed. And we can take this all so much further if you're able to harness your energy in the things that only you can do or. Or you love to do.
- [40:49]
B
So how has your content and your. Your stuff on your app and everything, how has that changed since you've become a mom?
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D
Yeah, everything about my life has changed since I've become a mom. And so I think. I think it just, like, has naturally spilled over. If I had tried to not include that in my journey, it Just wouldn't have been authentic to me. So I didn't come out with a prenatal program until I had actually been pregnant. And we got asked and asked and asked for that and I just was honest. I was that I think other people can do it better right now. So I've really allowed the journey to kind of reflect my own, but in ways that are also really professionally backed. So it's not just because I was pregnant, but we worked along multiple pelvic floor pts to make sure it's just as accessible for different people. But yeah, the postpartum program after I had kids, it's just I recognize the constraints of being a busy mom and I don't think you fully can until you are one. And so, you know, recognizing that the alternatives in the app are so important because you literally might just have dumbbells in your living room and that should be okay. That should not be a source of frustration for you.
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A
Totally.
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D
If you have enough of those or just different durations, like I literally have maybe 30 minutes while this week baby naps, odds are it might get cut short. But to see an only 60 minute workout version, that's defeating. So making totally there are woven in abilities for people to modify and continue to get great workouts in is just like a. It's a non negotiable. Like we have to do it and we want to do it because that's the only way I've been able to stay consistent with it.
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A
And can you tell us about the different programs that are on the app? Because, and I, I love the postpartum. The postpartum program. And I think we were dming about it, but I. I was so like, I was feeling like really good after one of my kids, I guess it was Libby. And I wasn't like ready to like totally like, you know, bounce back or get the body back, but I wanted just to move. And I felt like your program was so gentle and encouraging. It's just like you would do one of your postpartum workouts and you'd be like, okay, like, things I did that like you did it versus like sometimes when you're freshly postpartum, you start a workout and you quit halfway through because it' too hard.
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D
Totally.
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A
And it was like almost more important mentally for me to like complete a workout successfully than like get a sweat on or something. Like, I was just trying to like do something for myself. So tell us about your different programs.
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D
Yeah, I agree with the postpartum one. It's probably the one that's been most personally transformative, and it's just about building back that confidence with yourself, and that translates and trickles into movement and, you know, patterns of movement. But it starts with just the ability to follow through on something when so many areas of your life are in just total disarray. So I love that it felt accessible to you and built. But yeah, we have foundation programs if you're just new to lifting or have taken a long time off, but it doesn't necessarily mean you just had a baby. We have a weekly ongoing program that's our most popular. It's weekly moves. It progresses in ways that make it really easy to get stronger, but there's also enough novelty and difference week to week that I think people are just so itching to see what the workouts are and to do something new and to be mentally stimulated that they come back for a really long time. We have people who have done that program on repeat for, like, five years in a row, and they've just never felt the need to do anything else because it changes enough, but it's feels familiar enough. We have some hybrid running programs that are relatively new. A lot of people are wanting to get into running, but they know the importance of strength. And instead of, like, trying to fuse multiple programs together, we lay it all out in one, which is cool. There's a 5K program, a half marathon training program. Those are kind of our most popular, I would say, the weekly, the foundations, the pregnancy and postpartum. We have both. Those are very, very popular too. Yeah.
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B
Madeline, how are you getting your meeting your goals, getting your workouts, and doing all the things? With three very young kids.
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C
I've become.
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D
A lot more flexible on parts of my day that can flex. I really like to wake up early and to have that as kind of like a protected time. To the degree that it can be, It's a worth the sacrifice for me to get up a little bit earlier. When my son was newer to the world, I would just bring him down with me. I didn't try to, like, assume that I would get 30 minutes of unbroken time. I would just literally bring him down with me. And if he needed to be held while I did some lunges, whatever. But as sleeping patterns have become a little bit more consistent, I will wake up pretty early to do it. But then if it just doesn't happen, I'm like, okay, how can I play with my kids throughout the day? How can I bring dumbbells out to our driveway? And, like, we'll just get this going. We'll go to the park. Like I'll do some push ups on this park bench. Like that happens too. Getting out of the mindset that if you miss that perfect window of your day, it just can no longer happen, but just sort of seeing pockets of times as like possibilities. We're doing a Heart month initiative right now and I didn't get to do. We're just challenging people to run a mile a few times a week. And I didn't get to do it when I wanted to do it, whatever. But like later I just had never changed out of my workout clothes. I had 20 minutes that all my kids naps were overlapping. I just went down and did it on the treadmill. So just kind of like screwing a perfect schedule and being more open minded to like letting things compound and letting little things be worth doing instead of diminishing them in our mind, I think is important.
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B
It's almost like, like a game. Like, oh, when do I have a. When do I have a game? Oh, I have it now. Like, this is exciting. This is awesome.
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D
Yeah. I think there will be times in the future I can work out alongside my kids a little bit better. It's a little on the verge of dangerous and sometimes I feel like in our gym setting. So I've kind of tried to protect the time versus like weaving them into it a ton. But I see moms on Instagram who are doing our workouts with kids that are slightly older and I'm like, oh, that, that that day will come, you know?
- [47:11]
A
Totally, totally.
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B
It's all the hard. I mean I'm. I have two kids, toddlers, and I just like total. And I'm pregnant. Totally feel in the thick of it and I'm like, I used to be the girl that would work out every seven days a week for an hour and it's like, it's such a. It's so weird. And when it's like I haven't been to the gym my entire first trimester because it's just, it's so. It is so hard to do and like the expectations. I think I need to do a better job of like you said, like letting go of what the expectations of what my workouts used to look like because it's going to be years and years and years and years until I'm working out seven days a week for an hour. Probably never again. Yeah, I need to change my expectations.
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D
And I think that's okay. I think being slightly frustrated but also action oriented is like a pretty decent place to.
- [48:02]
A
Yeah, I love that it Is it is okay to be slightly frustrated? Like, let's. You know, you don't have to find, like, so. So much acceptance that you give up, if you will. Like, I think it is okay to want those things. And yeah, I. I like the idea of just, like, you're finding the pockets. You're. You're doing the best, the best that you can. And I think when you become a mom, at least for me, like, my reasons for working out really changed because, like, prior it was. I mean, when you're 22, I'm sorry, you're working out to look good. Like, I'm like, if there's. It's just, like, you're not.
- [48:36]
B
You don't have kids that much at 20.
- [48:39]
D
Everything's working in your. Your favorite.
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A
Like, when I was 22, like, my mental health was great. I had all this time, like, I was working out. Now I'm working out. I'm well rested. Like, now I'm working out. Like, because if you just. If your only goal is to, like, look better, well, like, that's. That's going to take a long time. So, like, you have to, like, find, and you have to find workouts. To me, like, the biggest thing was, like, I had to find workouts that gave me the satisfaction of, okay, that felt good for my head, that felt good for my body, that feels good for my kids to see that, like, I'm healthier for my kids, like, and I had to find workouts that did that for me. And I felt like the. The Moves app, it's just. It's. It's very approachable. And I can't tell you, like, if you guys can't conceptualize it, like, basically, like, you'll have your workouts, and then you'll, like, look at the workout, and then it has, like, alternatives underneath it. And I also really enjoyed, like, there was one move that I was. Was pretty postpartum. I don't remember what it was. And I looked at that move, and I'm like, there's no way. I literally can't do that. So I, like, looked at the easier one. I'm like, okay. I think I, like, went on my knees, but I was also like, oh, that's so interesting. Like, that's something I want to be able to do. Like, I want to get there. And, like, that was so much more motivating than seeing, like, I'm sorry, like, a perfect supermodel's abs that I'm never gonna have.
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C
Yeah.
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A
But I was like, I could maybe get off my knees by the end of the year, like that's, that's a fun, tangible goal.
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D
You, you nailed it. I think where people don't realize is so much power is in modifying versus skipping, scaling something versus skipping it. Because if you're only presented with one option and you're not there yet, number one, slightly defeating. And if that keeps recurring in your fitness journey, guess what, that is going to be the first reason that you don't show up. But if you see the path to get there, because we present two to three alternatives. These are physical therapist alternatives. You swap it. Maybe next time you don't have to swap it. Maybe it's three weeks and then you try the standard version. But you have the path laid out for you to get stronger and to progress versus like I don't know what a solution, a good solution to train these same muscles. I don't know what the modification should be. Therefore I'm skipping it.
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A
So it's like, it's like people always talk about like no scale victories like when they're on like their health journey. And like to me like that's, that's like the biggest one when you're able to do something that you weren't able to do before. So I really love that you offered that. I also love, I haven't done it a ton because I'm not, I'm not always the person who works out when they travel. But you do have like a hotel moves or something. And I think that's also like, that's also one thing about Madeline is she's not going to give you a lot of excuses.
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D
Like, I mean respectfully, no, we're all about listening to your body. But if you, if you have that desire on any given day, we don't want, want the mental load to be the deterrent. Like we would way rather be that bridge where you have some energy, you've got some equipment. We'll provide you a plan to make sure that the time you have is used the best way that it could versus kind of like making you overcome a few things to be able to, to get a quality workout in.
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A
Yeah, it's so fun. Okay. And then so you, I know you also guys do include like some recipes. So I feel like you are one of the perfect people to bring a ditch the drive thru to us. And Ditch the drive thru is an easy dinner recipe to mix it up to get us out of our dinner rut.
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D
I do have to just say I've been in a big old dinner rut. In fact, I challenged Myself probably like, well, at the beginning of this year to not hate dinner as much because I really started to loathe the time at the end of last year. Both the mental, like, coming up with stuff, the kids at my feet, it was just like, it was not a happy time of my day. So I created a little chart. I got my kids on board. I was like, how can me not hate this time of the day? And it's been neat to see sort of some shifts happen. But part of that has been prepping the protein sources for the three recipes that I use. I kind of have this like, like, it's called Meals Made simple. And it's really helped me approach the week with less of a scrambled mindset. So I am going to share a recipe from this resource that I've been using. But it's. I'm about comfort food these days. The more, the more that my kids, like, appreciate food versus, like, you know, we're getting out all the purees. Like, everybody's kind of eating the same thing when they have like a positive dinner experience.
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A
Totally.
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D
Like, it's amazing.
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A
It's like I'm. I say I'm always chasing the high of like everyone liking the dinner I made. Like, it is.
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B
Yeah.
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A
I'm addicted to that feeling.
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D
It is few and far between, but when it happens, it is. I am with you.
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A
Yeah.
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B
I've cried. I've cried before when everyone was like eating something that I made and like it was healthy and they liked it.
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A
Yeah.
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D
If you, if you get like a two minute stretch that everybody's butts are in their seat and eating food.
- [53:37]
A
Yes.
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B
You won, you won, you won.
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A
Yes.
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D
Okay, so the recipe is a lasagna soup. I make it really thick. It only gets better the next two or three days. It's like all the goodness and comfort of lasagna, but so much easier. So you just saute some vegetables, you add some ground beef, you add cottage cheese, actually, which melts down and just makes it really rich and creamy. You break up the lasagna.
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C
Noodles.
- [54:06]
D
Noodles right in. It's. It's so beyond easy. And I usually just strain out some of the broth and feed it to my kids as like a little bit more of a stew consistency.
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A
Yeah, yeah.
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D
Dribbling everywhere. And I mean, it just makes your whole, your whole house smell good. You serve it with some bread. It is like comfort food, but it also has a ton of protein in it. It's got like 30 grams of protein per serving because the cottage cheese and the ground beef so you really. It's like a can't lose situation.
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A
And Madeline did say before she would get us the exact measurements. And we will put those. We can put those in the show notes.
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B
Yeah, we can put those in the show notes. I love. I love a recipe that has, like, high protein but isn't like, a chicken breast. You know, it's like. But you're so eating, like, a noodle with it. Like, so. Yeah.
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D
Actually, there's even protein noodles now. They're like chickpea based. If you wanted to go crazy and add, like, a lasagna or even a different kind of pasta that's even higher protein. And then I eat it for lunches the next, like, few days. It just totally better and better with.
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A
Soup is good for that. Yeah, that's it. That's a great one. And I love lasagna. But the drama, like, to layer, like. And like you said, when you're a mom of young kids, like, I. Dinner is the biggest kick you while you're down kind of scenario. Because at least in my experience, like, my kids, especially when they were younger, like, babies, okay, they were the worst between the hours of four to six, like, the kid my big kids are coming home from, like, meltdowns from back to school. My little kids, you know, like, just woke up from their nap. Or like, the baby, like, might need to go down for a nap. Like, everything's happening all at once. I just got off work. Like, heaven forbid I try to, like, have a minute. And I agree. I would loathe dinner. And I think I love prepping proteins. And I also would say, like, if there's a season. Because, like, we always hear that, like, prep the proteins. Like, if there's a season of your life where you can't even prep the protein just to buy prepped proteins. Because, like, I've done that before where it's like, okay, I'm just gonna buy the, like, pulled rotisserie chicken. Okay, I'm just gonna buy, like, one of my favorite hacks is call your barbecue restaurant and just order 2 pounds of pulled pork for the week.
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D
So smart.
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A
Don't do anything with it. Put it in your fridge. Like, if you have to, just outsource. Because it was. It's not always the combining or, like, the quick meals that's hard. It's the cooking of the protein.
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D
You're exactly right. We do that with a restaurant down the street. They. They serve, like, Cuban bowls, and they'll do. Do pork or chicken. And I will just buy, like, £2 pounds of that and it's like it's just done and it. Yeah, it's not the most cost effective thing. But that's not the purpose of that easy button. And you.
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A
And we always say but you're ditch and you're ditching the drive through. So like if it's more. Sometimes it's just more cost effective. If it's more cost effective than something else.
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B
There you go.
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A
That's sometimes that's enough for me.
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D
Yeah. I will say one other dinner time thing that has. Has really helped. I, I made a little chart for my kids. I encourage them to help me to try a new food and we all try to get outside before dinner time. So recipes that I can start and have it simmering on the stove while we go outside versus them just asking me when is it going to be done? When is it done? It's cooking while we're doing something else. And then we come back in and we plate and it doesn't take forever. That has been a big sort of feel small, big impact, big ripple practice that we've started.
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A
Where do you live?
- [57:24]
D
We're in Greenville, South Carolina. We've gotten like snow the past two weekends, so that's been wild. But generally it's not freezing, freezing cold here.
- [57:32]
B
Yeah. My kids always sleep better too when they get outside. Like closer to bedtime.
- [57:37]
D
Yeah. Nap time to bedtime.
- [57:39]
C
Get.
- [57:39]
D
Not getting outside creates for a rough second half of the day.
- [57:43]
B
Madeline, I'm so inspired by you. I just appreciate you being a mom of so of. Of three killing it physically on the Internet, supporting other women. I find it very hard to follow some other influence, fitness influencers at this point in my life who don't have kids because we're just, we're in different phases of life. There's nothing wrong with them. It's not for me. So I just appreciate you not only supporting other people, but like being an example to like do it. And your app is amazing and I just love the way that you're making it accessible for everyone.
- [58:14]
D
Thanks.
- [58:15]
B
You are wonderful. Thank you so much.
- [58:17]
D
You're very kind. I, I have to say, like, the moments get gritty and, and anybody who's sharing their life online, like you just can't possibly accurately reflect all the gritty. Some people choose to share different amounts but like it. The past year has been hard and I've tried to accurately represent that to the degree that's appropriate on the Internet. But yeah, like no mom that you look at is feeling like she's crushing it in all the areas 100%. The camaraderie of, like, sharing some of that, Sharing a win, sharing some of the things that are making dinner time less horrific. Like, those things kind of make the Internet feel like a place that is so fun to show up to.
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A
Well, in your diversity, which I know it's not easy to diversify your content in a personal way, but I do think it's really nice when you do share. I mean, you've built. I really. I look at your community kind of similar to our community. Like, it's. They're not just followers. Like, people are here for the journey. And I. I appreciate the vulnerability and just. And just the diversity in that content. It's just, like, fun to know, like, the girl on the app is like, the same girl making lasagna soup. Like, that's just. That's fun. Yeah.
- [59:28]
D
Yeah, I'm with you. I think some of the most fun things have nothing to do with fitness. And the most meaningful interactions I've had over the Internet are. Yeah, very rarely about workouts. And there's value to that, to opening up your life to people. And I think our communities are similar. It's so hard to navigate children on the Internet and what is appropriate. And I think it's probably changing by the day, but to feel like my kids have only been. They don't know it, but loved and had kind things said about them. And almost like the. This Internet ant community, like, whether they ever know it, it's. It's meant the world to me.
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C
And.
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D
And yeah, Mom's like, you're a part of it for sure.
- [60:11]
C
For sure.
- [60:12]
A
So people can follow Madeline at Madeline Moves. You can also follow Moves app on Instagram and you can download the moves. It's called Moves app.
- [60:21]
D
You nailed it. Got all of it.
- [60:23]
B
Look at me.
- [60:24]
A
Look at me. Well, Madeline, thank you so much for joining the Carpool Podcast. You are such a delight. Everyone, go give Madeline a follow.
- [60:31]
D
This was so fun. Thank you, girls.
- [60:33]
A
Thank you for listening to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly and Liz.
- [60:37]
D
Make sure you're subscribed so you never miss an episode.
- [60:40]
A
And if you enjoyed riding with us, tell everybody you know there's room in the car for everyone.