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You know what season's coming up is that festival season? Brie?

B (11:21)

Yes, it is. And Nikki and I, every year during festival season, always plan a girls trip.

A (11:29)

That is right. And so how I feel we plan the most perf festival trip is to get on Airbnb and first find the perfect house. Then we could decide which festival to go to.

B (11:39)

I mean, honestly. And I think the cool thing is, is that if we find some incredible house where all of us girls can stay, do a little cooking, a little swimming, then maybe I could put up my house and make a little money while I'm spending some money at these festivals.

A (11:59)

You know what that. See, now think about it. If you host while you're traveling, it's a great way to offset some of the cost of your own trip.

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Ding, ding, ding. And if you've got a big year of travel ahead of you, hosting is a pretty cool and unique way to make some money back, which I love.

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Because I don't want to ever put expectations on myself. I don't want these days I live in now not to feel perfect. Because honestly, let's be honest, any day we wake up breathing. I mean, it already starts off perfect because so many people don't get to wake up to see another day, so that's already starting the day off perfect. And sometimes there's things that will shock me in a day that make me so happy or one of the best surprises, and I never want to take that away because I do love being present, living in a moment. But I do think. And sometimes instead of writing down my goals and having resolutions and feeling like I got to stick to such a hard plan, I just kind of like. Like a daydreamer, like a hopeless romantic. Just think of my perfect day. And I do let myself know that sometimes perfect days will feel very far away, that they will still feel so far away and so out of reach. It's almost sad. But I remind myself that there has been other days that feel like I'm so close to that perfect day, and that there's times where I'm like, whoa, I'm. I'm living my perfect day. Maybe I didn't get the Walmart call, but everything else felt so perfect. And I rejoice those days. But I. You know, I. I think that sometimes I need the days that feel so out of reach because it helps me kind of understand what I was lacking. Like when there's days when I'm like, I'll be honest. When there's times we are tasting room. It's been. We've had a couple days where it's been, like, empty. No one's come in, and I'm like, okay, what am I not doing? And I'll be like, well, I haven't promoted it for a couple weeks. Okay. Start to promote it. Next thing you know, we're full of reservations. So it's actually nice to sometimes have those days where your perfect day feels so far away because, you know, it helps you kind of regroup. And we always need moments to regroup. And redirect. At least I do. It helps me to be. I feel like a better owner, but also, at times, be a better mother and wife. I mean, how many days have we had where it feels like nothing? Everyone woke up on, like, the wrong side of the bed, and nothing's going right. Right. Like, the hardest days ever. Like, you know, where Buddy, you know, I. I might say one thing wrong or I actually, I'll use this example. The other day, I only have one electric toothbrush because I won't get one that I can't reuse the top or because I told kids it's just wasteful. Like, I like wooden toothbrushes, but they really want an electric one. But I said I had to get the brand that makes the most sense for a sustainable lifestyle. And we. That's, you know, one thing I teach my children. Well, there was only one electric toothbrush left in this. And granted, there was a lot of electric toothbrushes in the aisle, but they just did not serve what I like for our planet. So the other day, something I tell Buddy is, ladies always first. I feel like, start him young to be a gentleman. He lost it that I let Birdie use the electric toothbrush before him, and I could not kick him out of it. And then Birdie started to get emotional. And I'm, like, already looking at the time like, we're already going to be running late for school. And then here it's freezing cold outside, but I'm breaking a sweat because all I'm trying to do is just, like, have everyone leave the house happy. And then I realized I forgot to make Birdie's lunch. So then within, like, we're already running late and I have to make a lunch, and she didn't know what she wanted to eat, and I'm just like, oh, my gosh. And then when she was seeing what I was putting in her lunchbox, she was like, I don't want that. And then everyone gets, like, emotional and hard. But it's funny because when I have days like, that, I'm like, what went wrong? I'm. And. And I will say this. I'm not going to be the type of mom to be like, well, then maybe I should just let Buddy brush his teeth first. No, what I need to do is maybe, like, have them go at different times where bed. Maybe Buddy doesn't realize it. So when Birdie's brushing her teeth, I'll have Buddy be taking his vitamins or, you know, it made me, like, realize, like, okay, like, I guess I just can't. I'm standing next to each other and having them wait. I don't know. Like, there was so much as a mom, like, I was thinking when I dropped him off at school, I literally had to go get a coffee and just go on the longest walk of my life to say, like, why did this morning feel so hard? And why Am I not recovering as quick as I usually do? And those moments which feel so far from a perfect day, especially like if you start your day off like that, you really feel like you're in doomsday. Like there's no way this day will turn around or be perfect. But it helped me just realize, like, okay, like, my kids and their personalities and how they are, like, you know, they're sensitive to different things. So how do I work with that? Because I don't need my kids to change. I don't need them to have different attitudes, and I never want them to feel like they have to. So it's. How do I adapt to them? And. But also with them understanding the rules in the house. But, you know, I. I just. I feel like the redirect part and sometimes getting thrown off and feeling really far from a perfect day helps us all grow and grow for me, a lot of times as a mom. But I will say this. I started to write down in my journal, and I. I feel like this is really helpful for all of you, especially after that really hard day I had with kids, because it got harder when they came home. It was just an emotional day for everyone. But I started to write down the things that I feel like, trigger me to kind of feel like a perfect day just feels too far away. So I started to write things, like things that get triggered on social media or things that make me feel like, for example, social media. When I go on, sometimes all of a sudden when I think I know what I want in life, I'll go to social media and I'll start to make me think, well, I don't know. Is it what I want in life? Because other people want me to be this, and I kind of, like, see this and I feel something and I kind of get thrown. And I'll be honest, I get a little overwhelmed. And I also am like, wait, maybe I'm concentrating on the wrong things and I should be concentrating on something else because maybe my talents are more over here. I don't know. I can. Honestly, you guys, my brain can explode. Like that emoji where the brain is exploding. I feel like I've sent that to Brian a lot because sometimes there's things I do in my life that I'll admit. I'm like, am I. Am I doing the right thing? Like, yeah, this brings me happiness, but am I. Am I meant to do it? Like, you know, and there's times, even with our wine brand, I definitely. We've been in the wine business almost nine years. I have made some big mistakes that I've learned from, but there's times when I don't see things working. I am like, is this not working for a reason? But then I'll get these, like, what we call in wrestling as hope spots, and I'll use that in my, like, business and even personal life, But I'll get these hope spots. And I'm like, no, no, no. This is what I'm supposed to be doing. And, like, this makes me feel happy. Even though it's not exactly where I want it to be yet, it does show me signs that we're slowly getting there. But I have to write this all in my journal because if I don't know the things that can throw me from perfect day, and then the things that give me those hope spots towards my perfect day, then I feel like I actually have no sense of direction. So I have my perfect day written, then I have the things that trigger me, and then I have the things that give me my hope spots. So obviously, the things that trigger me can be social media, which I feel like that's for a lot of us, right? And you know what I wrote in my journal after I wrote things that can trigger me to make me feel off or confused, I wrote this. And I feel like this could help a lot of you. I, in five seconds, can delete all the apps off my phone, and those worlds don't exist anymore. I could delete my Bri account on Instagram, and that just doesn't exist anymore. I don't have, well, I, I, I don't run TikTok and I don't have the Twitter app, so I don't have those worlds on my phone. But even, like, Pinterest, Pinterest can throw me too. Cause I, I can go in a deep dive in Pinterest and feel like I should look this way or be this house should look this way or I should be living this style life or I should be homemaking. All of this, like, you know, like, Pinterest makes me feel like I should be Betty Crocker on steroids. But I was like, if I got rid of all those apps, those worlds disappear. But guess what? I'm still living in this one world that truly exists. This world that every morning I wake up and it will never leave, like, where I truly am present and truly am living. And I literally wrote that. And this is, I mean, I kind of told you I wrote, but this is exactly what I wrote in my journal. You can delete apps on your phone and those worlds End. But the one we live in, truly live in, still exist. Take it all away. And here I am with my family, my gardens, my chickens, my tasting room, and with my dreams and hopes. And so I wrote that in my journal. You know, after my perfect day, things that trigger me is on another page. And then I wrote that to remind myself that the moments breathe. Because I'm on Instagram a lot. I mean, there's. I all met, like, I definitely, like, three times a day scroll, which I'm trying to be better. Like, and even if I scroll for two minutes or 20 minutes, I'm. I'm getting lost in this. This place, right? So I have to go back to my journal a lot and remind myself those things. And I feel like then when you. After that, when you write your hope spots, that's what I call it. The things that have made me feel that I'm on the right path. The things like what my children say to me, how my husband treats me, the happiness in my marriage, the stability I have, you know, just in motherhood, and the confidence and the parts, you know, of even my taste genome, they. They all give me these hope spots that I'm. I'm in the right path. I'm going the right direction. And even though there's days where I feel like I have to redirect, I feel like it's not like, oh, my gosh, rock bottom redirect. I feel like, step. It's normal, right? I might have made a bad left turn when I should have went great, you know, so no big deal. We'll just make that U turn and get right back on the back. And I just want that for all of you because, you know, January brings that type of energy of just, let's go energy, right? And we feel it, but I want you to keep feeling it in the next 11 months. And sometimes, you know, we are easy to just get off course. And not that we need to be hard on ourselves. It's okay to go off course, but just to redirect yourselves. And that's why journaling is so great and to really write down your perfect day and write down all the other things we talked about. And I honestly feel that you will really have clarity in what you feel like your purpose is, or at least just clarity of what you want out of life, which is such a beautiful thing. You know, Nikki and I, we always love for you to use the hotline. We're always listening. And I would love it if you called our hotline and just even said, like, bri, I had my perfect day. Or even like Bri, I felt like it was almost my perfect day. Whatever. I would love to know. And even if you want to tell me what your perfect day is, I would love to hear it. Because sometimes it feels good to just say it out loud. And if you have no one to say it out loud to say to someone like me who loves this kind of stuff, because not everyone does, I get it. You can go to some of your family members and say exactly what I said on this episode and they will look at you like you are batshit crazy. That's okay, you know. So you have me to not think you're bat shit crazy. Maybe it's that one corner of the living room or the entire basement, but whatever it is, we all know that one spot in the house where WI FI coverage gets a bit spotty.

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