GIRL CHAT: No Filter w/ Fi: GLP-1s, Motherhood & the Hard Conversations

25 May 2026 · 1 h 1 min · 20 chapters

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In short

GLP-1s and weight regain, gut-health testing, motherhood pressures, and hard conversations in friendship/identity after leaving Bloom; plus personal updates on real estate, dating, and caring for baby Kai.

Guests

Fi (motherhood “aunt” figure; works/has a GLP-1 journey; has tummy issues; started compounded tirzepatide; does hair-health after prior hair loss; active in fitness with protein-focused eating; dating a baseball player boyfriend who texts daily and visits) and Mari Llewellyn (host; Pursuit of Wellness; real estate agent with a house under contract; close friend of Fi; new mom).

Key claims

Stopping Ozempic led to rapid “food noise” return and weight regain within ~2.5 months, despite workouts and meal prep. Obesity is framed as treatable disease (Oprah/Dr. Anya Jastreboff book Enough). Her doctor says GLP-1s are a lifelong tool, not a short-term fix. Motherhood reduces capacity for online comparison; internet “parenting police” is often unhelpful.

Notable examples

SIBO breath test negative; ultrasound pending. Viral “160” weight/“act your weight” video. Parenting debates over baby nipples/carriers/strollers. Real estate: clients with a newborn two weeks before Kai. Friendship: codependency after Bloom, then a breakup-like rebalancing.

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Chapters

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Fi's Ozempic Journey and Motherhood

0:45 to 3:43

Fi discusses her experience with Ozempic, the return of food noise, and her role in helping with Mari's baby, Kai.

“I have not watched the whole episode, but I have been tuning in on TikTok.”

Friendship and Support

3:43 to 5:24

The hosts reflect on their friendship and how it has evolved, especially in relation to motherhood and support.

“I'll like be at Mari's and she'll be like, like, and I'm like, no, I want to do it.”

Real Estate Adventures

5:24 to 7:30

Fi shares her experiences in real estate, including her recent house contract and the ups and downs of the industry.

“I'm like, Kai, we're in a bad mood today.”

GLP-1 Updates and Health Journey

7:30 to 10:26

Fi provides updates on her GLP-1 journey, discussing weight fluctuations, gut health, and insights into her health experiences.

“But a couple of things we're going to address with an amendment.”

Insights from Oprah's Book

10:26 to 14:01

Fi discusses insights from Oprah's book on weight and health, changing perspectives on obesity and willpower.

“which is insane yeah which also proved to me that like there's other stuff going on than just because I was working out more than I had been the whole time I was on it at this point I had gotten back into weightlifting.”

Struggles with Weight and Self-Perception

14:01 to 17:20

Discussion on personal struggles with weight management and self-image issues.

Exploring Weight Loss Solutions

17:21 to 20:04

Conversation about weight loss tools and personal experiences with prescriptions.

“thing i said to her i was like i was on a glp through like a not a med spa like a wellness practice here, but not my actual doctor.”

The Impact of Motherhood on Personal Identity

20:05 to 23:36

Exploration of how motherhood changes priorities and personal perspectives.

“Yeah, it's like, it's a, like maybe it's kind of like a dirty pre-workout.”

Reflections on Childhood and Parenting

23:37 to 28:03

Discussion on childhood experiences and the challenges of raising children.

“When me and Greg would go on a vacation and I was stressing out.”

Navigating Parenting Decisions

28:03 to 29:50

Discussion on balancing personal happiness and parenting responsibilities.

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The Pressure of Modern Parenting

29:50 to 31:44

Exploration of societal expectations and judgments faced by new parents.

“Like it scares me, but it also makes me really happy.”

Dating Insights and Relationship Growth

31:44 to 34:15

Sharing stories about dating experiences and the evolution of relationships.

“A lot of people are asking if you're still with the boyfriend.”

Reflections on Friendship and Career Changes

34:15 to 36:35

Discussing the impact of career transitions on personal relationships.

“And you kind of just, like, you never know who's going to come along.”

Navigating Changes in Life and Career

42:05 to 45:50

The hosts discuss personal transformations and the importance of identity after significant life changes.

“And one day we're not going to be working, but we're still going to be best friends.”

Friendship and Parenthood Dynamics

45:50 to 48:24

Exploring the evolving dynamics of friendship and support during motherhood.

“But just from then to now, honestly, I think having a Kai and you being like this aunt figure is like really crazy.”

Activities for Young Families

48:24 to 52:08

The hosts share experiences and tips on engaging activities for toddlers and young families.

“Oh, there was one time I like literally tried to put him down three separate times.”

Beauty Treatments and Personal Care

52:08 to 56:01

A discussion about beauty treatments, specifically laser procedures and their results.

“and it pops off in the summer and it has like a little stream around to hang out.”

Facial Treatments and Reactions

56:01 to 56:44

Discussion on personal experiences with facial treatments and public reactions.

“I still see like a little texture here in Dr.”

Social Media's Role in Medical Treatments

56:45 to 57:40

Exploration of how social media influences decisions on medical treatments.

“Like that's kind of what they do to you.”

Caution with Online Medical Information

57:41 to 58:10

Emphasizing the need for caution when sourcing medical information online.

“Like there are people that fully have just like, their whole TikTok is just like their experience.”
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Transcript

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0:00Okay Fi, welcome back to the show. Thank you. How's Fi's Ozempic journey going? I was feeling so good. And I was just like, I think I can go off of it. So I went off of it and oh my God. The food noise came back. Like I can't even describe. Have you seen that viral video of the girl that said the 160 thing? Act your weight. I'm over 160. 160, I look lean, dude. Fi came over to help me with Kai, which she's been doing so much and I'm so grateful. He's a very smiley baby. He smiles at everyone. I'm like, Kai, we're in a bad mood today. And he's like, he's just the joy of my whole life. Everyone's asking how our friendship has evolved since leaving Bloom and me becoming a mom.

0:40I'll be honest. This is the Pursuit of Wellness podcast, and I'm your host, Mari Llewellyn.

0:50Did you listen to Kylie yet? I have not watched the whole episode, but I have been tuning in on TikTok. I'm 15 minutes in. I'm obsessed with Kylie Jenner. I want to be her best friend. oh she's such a girl she needed to do this sooner i know because i think she's just been like like unapproachable yeah just from social and like the way she came off yeah and now i'm obsessed she is like this is what jake shane said on the interview he was like you are like the prettiest most popular girl in school that we're all kind of intimidated of but when we talk to you you're like i love your skirt yeah like you're like actually mean it not regina georgia sexy she I was like, you're a thirst trap.

1:26I'm obsessed. Yeah, he was like, you saw that? Like, that would have been my reaction. It makes me wonder what else Kylie Jenner sees on Instagram. You know? I'm wondering if she's had a bloom. She definitely has. She has definitely seen a photo of you. That's crazy. Like, I can confirm that, like, for sure. But I feel like she's, I feel like she's had an energy drink. Yeah, probably. Or elite, because we've worked with stars. Right. And she definitely drinks them, I'm sure. Yeah. I'm obsessed. She is like, if I could... give someone a bloom she would be my first choice i said this in a meeting the other day i was like i need kylie i think you could get her i think she just crossed the boundary from untouchable celebrity to like a girl's girl influencer who we can all kind of like like we feel like we're friends with her yeah that's why i felt listening even to the little clips i love her i really want to be her friend okay fee welcome back to the show thank you i don't think i've been on in like a year no i mean i've barely been on in a year like the last was the last time i came on my issue your vagina issue yeah that was last june that was literally almost a year ago that was we are fully recovered from guys if you haven't listened to that episode please go back that was the craziest thing that's ever happened to you yeah bartholin sis is no joke but she's gone she never came back but let it be known I actually did my first spin class again last weekend because I kind of thought I read that spin can kind of like irritate things down there do you think that was the reason you got it no I think there were other reasons we don't have to go into this but I think there were other reasons but I do think the spin like irritated it a little bit and I was doing it a lot but I spun the other day and I was totally fun I spun okay and the whole impetus of fee being on the show today is so classic of where I'm at in my life right now because I'm just kind of in a disarray in general but Fee came over to help me with Kai which she's been doing so much and I'm so grateful like obsessed with her baby Fee is loves babies ever since I met Fee she's been like I'm ready to be pregnant immediately like she loves babies she's so good with him she is quite literally the only person that I like this is horrible for me to say but like the only person And I really trust other than my nanny.

3:42Thank you. To have Kai. I'm honored. Like Fee puts him down for naps. She gives him bottles. She burps him. Like you do the hug. Well, I ask. I'll like be at Mari's and she'll be like, like, and I'm like, no, I want to do it. She's a grief share. I'm like, no, I want to do it. She does the stuff that isn't fun. And I'm like, are you sure? I told her I'm like, Kai's playing as a mom right now. Until I can be a mom. She has Kai on her hip and is like walking around. But it's really cute because you and I have like spoken about Kai in a way forever. like since we met it's crazy i still look at him and i can't believe can't believe he came out of you can't believe like i can't fathom that but he also looks just like me now yeah he's getting more and more like me also wait guys look if you're watching on video my friend taylor made this this morning taylor made it it is so spot on can we like zoom in on this kai is daniel craig if you really okay so he really is my dad use when he was younger like looked like daniel craig times Colin Firth.

4:39I think he still resembles him. Yeah. I see it. I definitely see it. Because I always say Kai looks a lot like your dad when he like smirks and smiles. I'm like, oh my God, Mari, I see your dad. I know. Don't tell him that. I mean, he'll never listen to this, so we don't have to worry about that. My favorite thing Kai does, you guys. I don't think I've said this to you. Tell me. What? He will have his Patsy in and he smiles like around his Patsy. I know. And it makes my ovaries explode. I see it in my head. And then like sometimes he falls out because he smiles so big. And it's the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life.

5:11He's a very smiley baby. He smiles at everyone. Everyone. We went to an art gallery the other day, literally smiling at all the women, like just like a little ham at the coffee shop. Yeah. He's a flirt. Yeah. And I like wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone. And he's like. And then he smiles at everyone. And Mari's like. I'm like, Kai, we're in a bad mood today. And he's like. Not the vibe. And Kai's like me. You'd think he was like a Leo or something. He's so. What is his sign? Sagittarius. Oh. They're very go with the flow. I don't know much about sags. Like go with the flow, easygoing, like not uptight, which is good for me.

5:46I know I've only seen portions of it, but from what I've been around, he is a very happy baby. Super happy. He does escalate very quickly. Like if he's hungry, you're going to freaking know about it. There's going to be some screaming. He's just the joy of my whole life. I mean. But I've just, I don't know. I know some babies can be like really like have colic, like, you know, be like really colicky. He was colic, remember? When he was like, oh, oh, what's his little tongue thing? tongue thing and he was like the gas was pretty extreme in there i know but like once we got past that i was like wow this is amazing but now he's so happy i'm honestly blessed that we went through that at the beginning because it has made everything feel so much easier from there by the oh my god fee the nap yesterday that we screwed up oopsie the worst night of his life really it just went to bed at six no fee we fucked everything up oh no it's okay yummy was so he didn't go to sleep that late so because we were this is how crazy why did he wake up when he woke up from that nap because we were late on the nap he should have been asleep at 2 30 oh and it was like three yeah so we fucked that up he woke up early wouldn't nap he was supposed to nap for two hours and then the whole night was destroyed i was like what are we gonna do in europe first you texted me and you were like he's great he went to bed at six i was like oh perfect oh okay well no oops our bad i know we put him down and then we went back in and like he was just literally smiling We both tried for 20 minutes.

7:05And like I was like bouncing him and he's just smiling at me. And I'm like trying not to make eye contact with him. So he like doesn't engage, but he's just smiling. It's OK. We tried our best. So what's the update with you? Like we literally walked in the office and fees like wheeling and dealing on the phone. I was on a call with a mortgage lender. What? Oh, my God. I have a house under contract right now. And I just had the inspection yesterday and it all came back very good. Probably one of the shortest inspections I've ever had, which is like the best. But a couple of things we're going to address with an amendment.

7:35and hopefully get out of option and you're such a natural it's been so fun yeah like real estate it's definitely like a roller coaster lots of ups and downs um there are periods where like i feel like i have nothing going on and i'm doubting myself and like why did i think this was a good idea and then there's times where like i have a million people like reaching out and things happening so you kind of just have to ride the waves and know that like when you're at a low yeah it'll come back um but it's just been so fun like getting to know all my clients and meet new people and like I mean you know me but like I've literally become friends with all my clients I'm sure but that I like have movie nights with them and like hang out with them and go to coffee and workouts with them but that's kind of the tea I think it's so fun with real estate yeah you just and like you get to meet people that like normally maybe you would never come in contact with and I don't know I just it's so fulfilling to me like the family right now that we have under contract they just had a baby kind of the same time as Kai like two weeks before and they're just the sweetest couple and like getting to help them find a home that like they get to raise their baby in for the next couple years it's just like but that's like your talent is like being this super friendly like thank you you're warm you make friends easily you're good at networking and connecting like it really is all your talents in one yeah i mean it's crazy i had never considered real estate like really ever and then once i got into it it's like been like well i can't believe I didn't do this sooner kind of thing it's fun to watch you doing it it really is you're crushing it you're so sweet yeah but yeah it's been fun so I've been doing that um what else have I been doing oh my gosh I have some GLP updates I want to know like what were they asking about because you did a little Q &A box do you want me to pull up the Q &A yeah let's just dive in let's just see and I'm sure updates will come but yeah I have had a whole experience with GLPs since I was on last.

9:25Let's talk about that for sure. Because that's been interesting. Oh yeah. How's Fi's Ozempic journey going? Okay. That was like the top question. Dive in. Yeah. I actually have gotten a bunch of DMs like in the last couple months being like are you still on it? What are you doing? So I had been on it for like a year and a half up until December of last year and then I was feeling so good. I was like I feel like I've like gotten in a rhythm. I had maintained a certain weight for months like for like a year and I was just like I think I can go off of it like in my head I was like I feel like my food noise is gone I feel like probably like my stomach shrunk so I probably won't be like binging and overeating so I went off of it and oh my god the food noise came back with a vengeance like I can't even describe that's so interesting that I felt um and just to be like I don't want to get into like numbers necessarily but like I basically gained back what I had lost over like a year and a half in two and a half months yeah which is insane yeah which also proved to me that like there's other stuff going on than just because I was working out more than I had been the whole time I was on it at this point I had gotten back into weightlifting.

10:41I was working out. I was doing Pilates twice a week. I was meal prepping. And yet all this weight came back on that. I was doing the exact same thing on it, if not less, and was not getting weight. And now you're addressing the gut issues that you think you have. Yes. I finally got looked into, I finally went to a gastro, which I've been talking to Mari about literally ever since I met you that I have tummy issues. So finally did that, got a ultrasound the other day waiting for those results i did a SIBO test yeah i did a SIBO test that all came back negative which is good glad i like don't have SIBO i always thought you had SIBO me too but no SIBO you should like drink this gross drink and sit and breathe it was like a SIBO breath test i don't know that's like the preliminary test of it but that came back negative so did you feel like okay yeah when you were on the GLP one before you were i feel like you're doing this journey differently like what did you realize from that to now and what are you doing differently definitely um that first time around I think I it was just like the first time I had really experienced not having food noise and I think I may have dug into that a little too strong yeah was definitely not eating enough um wasn't working out enough I definitely lost quite a bit of muscle I experienced a bunch of hair loss which like that is so common I see it everywhere wear now girls just like like i had hair coming out in clumps which speaking of i am wearing extensions for the first time they're so beautiful they're clippins you guys no one would have known my mormon wives clippins you look like a utah girly but i'm trying to i've really been on like a hair health journey since all that um using like serums and like just really trying to take better care of my hair i'm on that journey too you know like my hair was like a big part of my identity.

12:30Yeah. And I was like, how is it like, of course, like I like, you know, lose weight and like finally feel like I'm like, you know, fitting better in my clothes and stuff. And then like, I'm going bald. I'm like, OK, you can't have both. But to be fair. Yeah. I think you just weren't eating enough. Yeah. I was definitely not eating enough in general. I think if you were eating more, that would have happened. And protein and all that. So learned my lesson that time around. All this to say, I actually met with my doctor this time around and talked to her and And in between this, I read this book and I actually have this little excerpt from it because I was like, I need to share about this.

13:04So in between when I went off of it and was trying for like the two and a half months to just get it under control myself, I listened to this audio book. I actually saw it on the shelf at Target and I was like, what's that? It's called Enough, Your Health, Your Weight and What It Is Like to Be Free. And it's by Oprah and it's co-authored by this Yale obesity expert, Dr. Anya. Because Oprah's an advocate for GLP-1. Yes. Well, like, if you look at Oprah over the last 30 years, her whole, like, on magazine covers, it was like, she's losing 60. She's gained it. She's losing. And she, like, addresses that in the book.

13:39And she's like, my whole life has just been, like, for the world to see, like, weight losses and weight gains. And it has felt so out of my control. Yeah. But this Dr. Anya, I don't want to say her name wrong, but Jastraboff. And the book frames obesity as a treatable disease rather than a personal failure or lack of willpower. and it explains how modern medicine medications can reduce intrusive food noise and lower your brain's set point to achieve lasting health yeah which the whole book basically it like gave me the knowledge and also just like less i think it was like willpower i always thought it was willpower and i always thought i just wasn't strong enough and that i was like weak and that i couldn't stick to something long enough meanwhile i'm very type a yeah you are like if i say i'm gonna do something i will do it that's true but this was the one area of my life that like i felt so out of control and it was so frustrating and it makes you anyone that's dealt with like weight gain and stuff through their life like or whatever just dealing with food you know food noise and image issues it is so consuming yes all consuming but it also just really makes you like doubt yourself you like start to feel like you're going crazy yeah and you're like what am i doing wrong when you're working hard yeah i feel like i'm doing everything right yeah and i had times where i worked with trainers and got super drastic and like macro counted everything and did hours remember when i used to go to the gym twice a day yeah when we lived in la i was at gold's i was lifting in the morning I was doing 45 minutes of stair stepper a night and yeah I saw results but like I was killing myself in the gym and that's not sustainable like at least for me and so all that to say this book kind of just gave me like it took a weight off my shoulders yeah and I was like oh like it's not in my control yeah yeah which is hard for me because I do feel like I like to take responsibility for myself and my actions you do and I see you know I've seen other kind of like wellness people online or tiktoks and stuff and they're just like you want to lose weight just like put down the fork like you're just eating too much and like hit the gym like have you seen that viral video the girl yes that's the 160 thing act your weight i'm over 160 i'm over 160 160 i look lean dude like yeah that's lean for me 160 is actually my like really that's my goal weight right now i look great and i'm healthy and i have hair on my head so same to you that was crazy by the way oh it's good that we say that yeah i don't think people realize yeah i'm 5 10 yeah you're what 5 9 yeah like we're tall we're not like itsy bitsy gals and we're women is a body like we're not little teenage girls anymore that way like and no shame again if you weigh that much like if you have muscle and you lift weights you weigh more yeah but having muscle body's just different and like i love how i look at 160 that's actually currently the goal i love it yeah i love it and that girl said you you know should hit the treadmill just like get back on the treadmill i was like this effing idiot seriously i should i should do a stitch to that i know i saw kendall in one i've seen a bunch kelly matthews i've seen a bunch of people respond what should i i should be like i should just post a video of myself and be like i'm you should do like you should bring it back like an old transformation photo and be like that's me at 160 yes like the one where you're in the pink bikini on the beach in hawaii i was 160 and you're in that photo yeah and i'm jacked i'm a six pack yeah or cabo they keep cabo picking like the purple and orange bikini bikini not me knowing like every item maria owns because i picked it all

17:12and we were at gold's gym for oh my god yeah so yeah so that that has been my whole journey with that so what are you doing now okay different so yes so i met with my doctor and actually the first thing i said to her i was like i was on a glp through like a not a med spa like a wellness practice here, but not my actual doctor. And then I had gotten one online. And I said, look, like, what is your philosophy around weight loss and like using these? And I didn't say anything how I felt. I was just like, what do you think? And she was like, it's like a lifelong tool. Like you can't just get on it and get like, lose the weight and then get off of it.

17:51Like you have to stay on it. And I was like, thank you. Because I felt like everyone else I had met with was like, you'll lose the weight and use that as a tool and then make healthier life choices. and then keep it off which for some people that might be the case but like you you were i've watched you work your face off yeah to get lean and it was still a struggle for you yeah yeah and like you know i have friends who dabbled in it and lost seven to ten pounds like before their wedding yeah and they naturally just are leaner people yeah and yeah i get it and like when i would talk about food noise to them and they're like what do you mean i'm like you don't wake up thinking about what you're gonna eat and then your next meal your next meal go to sleep thinking about what you're gonna eat like what do you mean and they're like the only time i ever felt like that was when i was dieting too much and i when you're restricting yes but i i'm one of those people that i don't think has yeah food noise and but i can relate in some ways yeah yes for sure yeah like when you when you restrict too much you're obviously gonna have food your body's like screaming for food it's because it's hungry you know but i think beyond that like my you know it definitely runs in my family like it's just a thing it's been my whole life my whole life i've fixated on food.

18:58It's been like a crutch for me. And I'm lucky, you know, I've never really like gotten an issue with drinking or anything like that. But food for me is a drug. And unfortunately, you can't not eat food to live. You have to eat food. So I met with my doctor, went through it all. I got back on. I'm actually trying trisepatide, a compounded trisepatide this time. You know, have to pay out of pocket. But to me, it's worth it. And less. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes, I started. Yeah, I've started really low. I just upped my dose for the first time that I'm like kind of actually starting to feel it again.

19:30But, you know, I was with Mari yesterday and I was saying like, I know I need to be eating. And like I packed hard boiled eggs to her house and like anytime I can just try to get protein, like if I am slightly hungry, like I'm going to go for protein first. Yeah. Even if it's like a literally like a bowl of ground beef or turkey or something, I'm just trying to do that versus. You're being very intentional. I would be like, eat a piece of sourdough bread. yeah be like foam an uncrustable i do still love my uncrustables and i really need to work on that because that has been i've never had an uncrustable and i don't understand what they are it's an addiction at this point i'm like fully addicted where do you buy those fee agb amazon agb or target anywhere like a grocery store they have high protein versions now and my favorite one me and my boyfriend are hooked on them it's called like up an apple and it's peanut butter and like honey and like cinnamon apple butter or something that does sound good it is crack but they're literally like 320 calories what is the ingredients they're actually it's literally bread and peanut butter i mean i'm sure yeah i'm sure there's like additives to make them last in your freezer but you know what i will say the fact that you have to keep them frozen yeah and that's interesting and then eat that's that makes me feel a little better that's true if it was a pb and j that just sat on the counter all day and you could grab for it i would not eat that you could be waking up and doing crack yes and instead i'm just addicted to uncrustables i saw this crazy statistic though that the nfl goes through like me comparing myself to an nfl athlete but that the nfl goes through like 50 000 of them a season they do pre-game literally i actually okay so all that to say i've been eating them as a pre-workout snack like i eat them 30 minutes before i go and lift and it has helped my lifts tremendously because i used to lift fast you know what people do that before they eat like a little Snickers bar or something.

21:20Yeah, it's like, it's a, like maybe it's kind of like a dirty pre-workout. Like I used to watch these gym bros. I'd be like, yeah, I eat a Rice Krispie Treat and like a handful of Sour Patch and I have like the best pump. What? Everyone's asking about life as Auntie Fee and like your relationship with Kai and me. It's been so fun. Like truly he is just the cutest little baby. He really is the cutest. And I love seeing you be a mom. Oh. It has been really special. It's like it has been interesting to see like you've I don't say you've changed like you've changed. I know. I'm a different person.

21:57And not to say it's like for the better. I agree. Like, I think I think especially working in social like the realm we're in. Yeah. We're like there's so much comparison or wasn't there's so much comparison and you're posting your life online. I think it's so easy to get caught up in that and like what matters. I know. And what's important and like what things used to frustrate you or irritate you. And now it's like I feel like you're so unbothered with stuff because you're just like I literally don't have the capacity nor care about that anymore. I'm so because like I have like I'm a mom and like that's my priority and like my top my stress tolerance is much higher now.

22:37Yeah. Like I feel like especially when you and I were working together I would get so stressed about things that didn't matter. And like you know what. Yeah. We both did. We both did. We were just like so wrapped up in it when you get that wrapped up in it. And like we also were grinding. Yeah. And when you put so much time and effort and are just like go go go go go. I did it to myself, which is such a funny. You know what? I have moments in my life now that hit me. Like I traveled alone the other day for my face laser, which we should talk about. I haven't talked about it. Oh, yeah, yeah. It was just me and Greg with one little suitcase going to the airport.

23:12And I was like, the fact that I used to get stressed out to travel. This is a spa day. Yeah. I was like, I have one bag and I'm only responsible for me. Kai isn't here. Like, I was just like, this is a freaking spa. Put stuff in perspective for sure. I'm just sitting there like. Yeah. Yeah. Which like you're obsessed with Kai and Kai is like the best thing ever. Yeah. But suddenly you're like, oh, what was I worrying about before? Literally. When me and Greg would go on a vacation and I was stressing out. It makes me feel like it's just before you have kids, you're so.

23:47You're not like this. You're an anomaly. But it's almost a selfishness that you don't realize. You're self-involved. You're self-involved. Because all you have to think about is yourself. And you also think everyone's thinking about you and no one is. And I think after you have a baby, you look back and you're like, dude. Yeah. You're, no. And all I care about now is how he thinks of me, how he feels. Like, it's just such a different, like, my eyes are just, it's a crazy realization to have. And I kind of, okay, I had a bit of a spiral yesterday and thank God I had Fee with me. I was going through it and I want to talk about it because I do think other moms probably have experienced this.

24:32But when you first have your child, you have and, you know, I don't really talk about my childhood in detail on the show. I never have, but I've touched on it. Like in a way, there's elements of my childhood that I love and I got to travel a lot and see different things. But there's for sure things about it that I would change. And when I had Kai, I had a level of empathy because I was like, wow, this is really hard. And I don't know how my parents did this at the beginning when I didn't have as much help. I was like, this is crazy. I can't believe they pulled this off. But then you also have moments where you feel a lot of emotion because you're looking at this like perfect child.

25:22and Kai is to me perfect and he's smiling and he's he just appreciates life and he's so happy all the time and just like innocent and I just had this overwhelming like anger yesterday of like how could you ever take a child and ruin their innocence or make them upset or just not want to be involved in their life it it makes you like think about your childhood and your parents differently and you you get angry yeah you get angry yeah there's like empathy and anger i think motherhood is like the duality of so many things like i can see how it brings up so much stuff from your own childhood that makes you question and wonder and you know resent and get your yeah i could totally and it's like this mama bear instinct of like yeah anyone who spends time with kai should deserve to spend time with kai like i believe that i want everyone around him to be positive and love him and give him the best energy possible yeah and if anyone's coming around him with anything negative i'm like i'll punch you like get back up you know what i'm saying yeah or like you just don't get to be around him yeah well you realize i mean he is so young currently but like as babies get older like you don't realize how much well now you'd probably do like as a grown adult you kind of think back and yeah you were like a child and like i remember vibes yes and anger and like feelings you know i come from a divorced house too and like i remember at you know like my six seven eight years old being like something's wrong something's not great right now yeah like the energy in my house feels not good and what can i do as a child to fix it and you're so out of the loop and you're a kid and like you know as your parents don't want to involve you in that which like you know if you're lucky you maybe don't see a lot of fights or whatnot but like i'm sure a lot of kids that have gone through that did i did and And like it really like I think I know I've like blocked out a lot of it.

27:41But sometimes I almost get like visions of it and it's like what? Well, that's probably why you and I don't like conflict. Yes. And I'm terrified of telling people how I feel because I'm scared of what will happen next. I'm scared they're going to leave. I'm scared they're going to leave. And I'm like the fact that anyone would ever make a child feel that way. I know. I feel like when you have a child, you just are like, whoa. I know. on the on the flip side though it is so like you know i think back to my parents and you know you can look at it one way like when you have a kid and you're like oh that's so selfish of them to like do to their kid which i think i've had feelings like that they're just humans and also i'm like i love my parents and they get along fine now but like thank god they're not together yeah like i'm so happy for both of them that they're not together because i don't think they were right for each other and i'm like it would make my heart break even more if up till this day they were together just for me and they were miserable and they like weren't sleeping in the same bedroom whatever like you know what I mean like that would hurt me and I don't think that's a great example either so it is weird like it's a weird level of being selfish for you and making decisions for you versus your child which it sounds like you're saying like right now you just feel like everything like you want to do everything for Kai which I get I am maybe to a fault like obsessed with him having a perfect life to compensate for like what I didn't have yeah but that's also not healthy and like I'll never be perfect yeah and I have to wrap my head around that and also to a certain extent like I need to be able to suck up my personal feelings for him to have the type of life that I want him to have yeah it's crazy I think also just also just like practicing like being present yeah and practicing like being grateful for stuff yeah like we were talking about some stuff yesterday about him and i'm like if you just like sat with that for 10 minutes and we're like he is so lucky yeah like kai is he's healthy gonna have a incredible life yeah and like we'll have a roof over his head and that little boy like no matter what like and you know that that's like i know already such a blessing that a lot of people can't say his life is going to be so different yeah than mine was and honestly i could do a whole episode about this but Like it scares me, but it also makes me really happy.

29:53Yeah. But it's good to appreciate it and like, you know, like acknowledge it and sit with it and like be aware of it. Because like I said, it's so easy to get caught up in just like wanting his life to be perfect. And like, well, what next? Like, what can I do next to make his life more perfect? And like, just realize like. Like every day I'm like, oh, my God, he didn't do enough stimulation exercises today. I think he's great. We didn't practice sitting enough today. He's doing great. No, I know. You know what I mean? But all that to say, like what you just said, it's like the pressure on the Internet now and the pressure like from other moms.

30:22I can't even begin to imagine when I have a child one day trying to just like, I swear, like pick the right nipple for a bottle. Oh. And there's people on the Internet being like, that is a bad nipple. Your child's going to have a weird mouth deformity or like that's going to give them gas or like that's a bad material. Like you should not be putting microplastics in. And like, holy shit. can I just feed my baby? You can't get it right. No, you'll never do it right. Or, you know, the right stroller. God forbid you get a stroller and they're like, you're bad if you have help. You're bad if you don't have help.

30:57You're bad if you work. You're bad if you don't work. You're bad if there's nothing you can do. And also, most of those people don't even have kids. Like literally when people were commenting about my mother effing carrier, like how I, sorry, I just had a baby for the first time. I used my carrier wrong. I see a million people do it every day. The carrier police came for me. I'm like, do any of you actually have kids? Which is one thing. Like, I get, like, if someone was saying it's dangerous, that's different. But even, like, I can't, I'm sorry, I can't imagine getting on someone's, like, a stranger's video.

31:30No. And being like, hey, you're like, what the fuck? Also, don't you think I'm the most concerned? And don't you think someone in, like, someone in her life that she, like, knows and cares would, like, say, like, I just, ugh. The audacity of people on the internet these days just, like, blows my actual mind. I can promise you the mom parenting their kid cares way more about their kid's well-being than you do. Yeah. You know? And also, like, it's your first time. Yeah. You're going to make mistakes. My God. At least, you know. But, like, he's fed. He's sleeping. He's happy. Yes. He's great. Yes, ma 'am.

32:00You know? Yes, ma 'am. Yeah, I, that, that's a whole. A lot of people are asking if you're still with the boyfriend. Oh, yes. I asked him, I was like, can I talk about us? and he was like yeah. He said yeah? Well I'm not going to go into like detail detail but we're great. I'm going to go visit him next week. Yeah we've just been like great. I'm obsessed with him. He's obsessed with you too. I've told him that. I was like should I? He's a sweetie. He's the best. He's a sweetie. Guys he's like a he's a gentleman. He's just a man. Country accent. Like a real man. I love the accent. And I love it.

32:35Yeah. He calls me darling. And I about die. But what did he used to call you that you told me that was so funny? Oh, Playgirl? When we first met, he started calling me Playgirl. And like, he sent me flowers for my birthday. They said, happy birthday, Playgirl. And I was like, what does Playgirl mean? He says it's endearing. I was like, that sounds like a side piece. Like, that sounds like you're like side. He was like, oh, no, no, no. I'm like, Playgirl? He's interesting. But no, I prefer Darling over Playgirl. That's cute. Yeah. And they like love playing golf together, which is just I mean it's I'm gonna bring my clubs on this trip yeah he like got me into golf and actually cared to like teach me stuff um which was so fun and like great I'm like oh and it just the the difference from dating someone that wants you to be around versus someone that finds every excuse to not spend time with you like the fact that he golfed and he was like oh like instead You know, I mean, again, I let him go golf with his men and do his guy time.

33:38Cool. Great. I don't want to be in on that. But the fact that I'm like a lot of men who are like, oh, thank God my wife doesn't golf like fine. I can spend eight hours with the boys and get like wasted like on the golf course, whatever. He's like, oh, my gosh, like that'd be so fun for us to do together. Like that we can spend more time together on my off days and like you can come golf with me. That's how it should be. You want me? No, it's so funny thinking about your life previously. He's just, yeah. It's not funny, obviously. It is. It's funny. Yeah. But, I don't know, I was talking to one of my girlfriends who's, like, been struggling with dating here in Austin.

34:12And it's tough, but I just, like, keep trying to remind her you will not have to settle for the right person. And you kind of just, like, you never know who's going to come along. And you just got to keep trucking forward. You never know. And I never thought I'd meet Jade. Like, the fact that we met is, like, kind of crazy. How did you meet again? My friends introduced us. But like he doesn't even live here most of the year, but he's from Texas. And like it just just like all the layers and things that had to happen the way they did. And like his previous relationship in life and my like the fact that everything happened the way it did and timed out the way it did is like kind of crazy.

34:49It is crazy. We've ended up together. But I saw Emma Leger talking about this. She's like an influencer. She just got engaged. She just got engaged. Like Central Park. And she had just gone through this horrific breakup and like hated the guy and then met this guy way too early. And she was like, I'm not, you know, ready. Yeah. Now they're engaged a year later. Pretty amazing. Girlies. Take notes. Take notes. I'm kidding. Yeah. No, he knows. I like tell him every day. Her ring is, did you see it? No. It's gorgeous. Champagne and yellow diamond, trois mois together. Oh, yes. I did see a little bit.

35:20She like designed it with him though. I found out. Like he didn't, I was like, that's incredible taste if the guy pitched that. But yeah, you can tell. I'm like into, now I'm into like cushion. Cushion. I love cushion. Or even old mine. What's that? It's kind of like almost like an elongated cushion. Like I like the longer cushion cut. We should just go try them all. Like, I know I'm obsessed. We could go to Corman. You were telling me about them. The prices are a little bananas, but the jewelry's style. But just like for vibes. Yeah. For vibes. For vibes. Yeah. I mean, really what we need to do is go to the New York Diamond District.

35:53Yeah. Or like the LA Diamond District. Yeah. I want a new ring too. Mari. I know. Let me get one before you get another one. You're right. Sorry. I'll wait back to her. Hold your horses. I want to be like, I want to be Victoria Beckham where I get a new one. I'm a freak. The saddest part, when Mari got her last engagement ring, I was like fully in the trenches of my last relationship, like begging this man to propose to me. Never happened. Thank God. Well, I bought my own. But yeah. But like, I remember shopping for years and I was just like, well, you tried on a bunch too. I know. But I just think I was, it was like a hard time for me.

36:26I think I was in like the dark. And again, like you bought your own, but whatever. I was just like, God, like Mari's getting this like gorgeous ring and I'm over here like begging my ex to just like care about me. Text you back. That was, yeah, he was really. Yeah. It's okay. We don't have to talk about him. We don't. Definitely don't. We wish him the best. We'll go try on rings. Yeah. I would love to do that. Jacob's going to be like, you're fucking crazy. No, you're definitely not crazy. No, no, no. He likes to tease me. You guys are like actively talking about it. We talk about it all the time.

36:55But like honestly, I'm going to be so for real. I've talked about it from day one, which I don't know if that's toxic. But I also think you should talk about that. When you know, you know. Yeah. Truly, that is such a feeling. And I was telling him the other day, like I can't imagine a day without him in it. And him and I have talked. I actually said this to him and he was like, yeah, you're right. Him and I have talked every single day since the day we met. Oh my God. Every single day. He has never spent one day. He has never ghosted me. We do long distance. This man is away. This man, we did long distance from two weeks of knowing each other.

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37:26Also, he's in, can I say what he's in? Yeah. He's in baseball. Yeah. Which means he works every single day. He's on the go. And this man, so for all you girls who's the, you know, they're like, ugh, making excuses for a man being like, well, he's just busy with work. And like, you know, he's got a lot on his plate. Like, my man literally found time to text me, good morning. I hope you have a great day. Checked in with me during the day. Hey, I'm eating lunch. Like, how's your day? How was your showing? Yeah. telling me good night like it's that simple but like they have time and if they're saying they don't have time move on we were talking about this yesterday i can't wait for fee to have a baby one day because my experience with having a husband that works a lot and is like a ceo and a co-founder and travels a ton can be very lonely and difficult and i'm like still managing that and i just think Like you're going to relate to me probably.

38:22Totally. And I can't wait to have a gal pal in mom life. I mean, I've made some good mom friends. Hopefully sooner than later. I know. It'll happen. I'm excited. Everyone's asking how our friendship has evolved since leaving Bloom and me becoming a mom. I mean, whenever I see you, I'm like, it feels the same. The same. It feels like we've picked up. I think it feels better. Me too. I'll be honest. oh no i'll give some tea well it's not really tea but marie's face is like shut up because you know they're gonna get me in trouble no no no no but you're always on your side yeah that also needs to stop you guys like me and marie are best friends and like never peg us against each other we're always but but like when we when i left i don't even know now a year and a half ago like whatever marie and i had been okay like you know when you and your best friends spend every waking moment together for like you're on a trip for a week and by the end you're like i want to fucking yeah like anyone like you and your like that's like childhood growing up you go on a trip with your friend by the end you're like oh my god like whatever but we don't ever talk to each other like that no no we don't know whatever but like we spent every waking minute together basically for like four years and i think we can both say this now like we had kind of developed like a codependency with each other for sure that's valid maybe not the healthiest that's valid Yeah.

39:48And I think we both just were so caught up in it. And, you know, I had said to Mari and you this was like kind of why, you know, people like, why do you stop working there? Like when Mari and I ultimately decided to part ways, I had said to her, like, you know, I would have never left. Yeah, I know. I would have never been the one to be. But that was part of the reason. Yeah, which I am so grateful that you had the hard conversation with me and like were the one to kind of like instigate it because it was time. I know. And I was ready to like kind of move on and do something myself. I know. But I would have never left because that's just me.

40:25I know. Which is something I know I need to like work on. Like I do it in romantic relationships too. I stick around way too long because I'm just like scared and like I'd rather be in something that maybe isn't like right for then like the unknown because the unknown is scary. But that was like the worst day of my life. Honestly, I hated that so much. And I think at the time I was like in such a weird transition for myself. I was like, I want to. You weren't even you weren't pregnant yet. And you were really struggling with all that. Really struggling. And I was like, I know when I do get pregnant, I don't want to work as much.

41:00And I'm worried about Fi's career and what she's going to do with me. Yeah. Which I really appreciated because like we were going full force on this podcast. Like I was booking Mari like crazy. Like we were, it was insane. It was dope, honestly. It was. And like we were traveling into London and New York and like all over doing all these interviews. It was so cool. Yeah. But I appreciated that you kind of realized you were ready. That you were about to take a step back and you didn't want me to be like, well, what the fuck? Like, I'm here. I'm grinding and you like just are ready to break. Like, what do you mean?

41:33So, but like it was a little. It was hard. Weird for a bit. It was hard. You know, like I think when you're as close as we are, it's hard to not mix. Yeah. Personal and work. And it was like refiguring out our dynamic. Yes. Because we'd always, we'd never been friends without working together. Which people always ask. We worked together before we were best friends. We weren't best friends first. Yeah. But I always knew, like, even when we were working together, I'm like, this is my soul sister. Oh, yeah. And one day we're not going to be working, but we're still going to be best friends. But we had to go through this, like, hard.

42:12But that's how we got so close. It was like a breakup. It was like a breakup. It is. But that's how we got so close. And so, like, no regrets. Like, I, you know, when it was happening, it was tough. Yeah, it was. And it was hard because I was like, well, shit, I moved to Austin. And I'm like, and I was like, what am I going to do now? And like, you know, I knew I like didn't really want to do like pursue like podcast, like, like, I don't know. I was just kind of like, I also and you again, I think saw this. I couldn't even see for myself. I was like kind of lost of like who I was and my identity.

42:43Yeah. I had just gone through a breakup. Yeah. that like i had moved here with him and like it was kind of like the final piece of my life that like hadn't changed and i i saw it fine like once it all happened i was like it was like if i had continued if those things had changed and i had continued working with marian bloom like i think i would have never been able to really like move on and like work on my identity and like figure out who i was so you're so confident and independent now and like you're running a fucking real estate business and you have a yeah which i really struggled with that before like i and i do think all of that had to kind of end and i had to like really take a break and like reset yeah and my life is like totally 180 from then i'm with a you know new partner i'm very happy yeah i have a job that i really enjoy that like i would have never even thought about getting into if I had you know stayed working and I remember you were thinking of being an assistant again and I was like I just think you yeah are yeah not that yeah that's a bad job I just you have so many talents and skills and like I don't know I think you yeah you've really but I think I gained a lot of that confidence and knowledge and all that stuff from working with you and bloom and podcast and yeah you were handling like a team of people I know I like it's crazy I think back to when I first started at bloom and like just with Mari and I was just such a different person like I was like a party girl LA like 25 year old like not taking care of myself like yeah binge drinking every weekend yeah and yeah like so much change and my life reflected that you know what I mean and like the people I surrounded myself with who I was dating like it all reflected that and I am like tenfold happier now yeah with my life now and it all kind of happened because I met you and I worked for Bloom I know I literally was talking to my personal trainer this morning I was like me and Fee were like Paris and Nicole like I there's no word for what we were like we would walk every room you were there with me yeah and we were like everything together We were doing the D-Tweedledum.

44:57Literally, we did everything. Running around L.A. Yeah. Doing crazy things that we probably should not have been doing. Like, why are we interviewing this person? Like, you know what I mean? Yeah. Like, the opportunities. Yeah, it was. But to be fair, we were really a powerful duo. Yeah. Like, I think people think it was me and Greg. It was just really you and me the whole time. Tea. Like, two women. Greg's handling shit with, like, a lot of Bloom stuff. I know. Sorry. We were. No, but we were. We really were. Respect to Greg. Yeah. Especially the podcast-wise. Like we were freaking. No, I mean, the reason this show became what it was.

45:32Yeah. Slash, you know. I picked out these chairs. You did pick out. And this coffee table. And that bookshelf. Yo, you did it by yourself. And I had no idea what I was doing. So you would just do it by yourself. I would walk in one day and you just did the studio. I was like, oh, cool. Okay. No, you're a very. You're out. She's a very capable human, you guys. Thank you. But just from then to now, honestly, I think having a Kai and you being like this aunt figure is like really crazy. I know it is. It's also amazing. Original question. Because like the beautiful thing about Fi is that I know she is going to be happy to hang out no matter what we're doing.

46:14Like on the couch, changing a diaper, putting him down for a nap. Like in some ways, like I feel like I can't just ask anyone to come do that with me because not everyone wants to do that. And that's fair. Yeah. But you're so like accepting of my new life and you don't make me feel bad about it. And you're like, yeah, I want to do that with you. Like bring Kai. Like I'm like, OK, well, I have to leave in 20 minutes to get his nap time. You're like, great. I'll come with you. Yeah. I'll put him down. I'm like, what? Yeah. I have a couple friends who, like, my friend Taylor, who is in North Carolina, and I visited her a ton last season when me and Jacob first started dating.

46:50And she had a baby girl who's, like, one and a half now. And that was, like, literally our dynamic. Like, I'd go hang out there all day, and she'd be like, okay, like, want to go, like, walk to a park and get coffee? And then we have to go put her down for a nap, and then you and I can hang out and talk for an hour while she's napping. And then we have to do, like, an hour she's like, okay, yeah. And I'm like, great. Like that's like what true friendship. I always say like true friends are the ones when you guys are sitting on the ends of the couch and like you're both scrolling on your phone and you're like sharing.

47:17You're like sending each other stuff. And then like that's how I want to hang out. Yeah. Like if I ask you to come over and hang out, I want to sit on the couch with you and like scroll and laugh at things and like show each other things. Yeah. And then talk for a little bit. That was us. And then like go back to our phone. Like that's hanging out. Yeah. If I feel like I need to be like engaged in a conversation and like. I'm tired. Absolutely not. I'm exhausted. I probably don't like you that much if I'm doing that, honestly. My social battery, especially, I mean, you obviously do all this, but in real estate and stuff, I'm with clients and at inspections and showing houses.

47:49When I'm not doing that now, I'm like couch. I literally want to sit with my dog on the couch. But when Sophie comes over every Sunday, my nanny called Fee my Sunday friend. Her Domingo friend. Amiga Domingo. It makes me think of, remember that Sabrina Carpenter and Marcelo? Yes. Domingo. Yeah, that's me. Oh, my God. But Irina has no idea how deep our friendship goes. So the fact that you're my Sunday friend is so funny. But when Fi comes over on Sunday, it's like we're two mommies just momming. Like she comes out from putting him down and we high five each other. And we're like, wow, that was a tough one.

48:24Yeah. Oh, there was one time I like literally tried to put him down three separate times. He's dead asleep in my arms. I go to put him down like right as I like pull my arm out from behind his head cries. Kai does not want to sleep. I come out and then finally I'm asleep. She's like, isn't that the best feeling? Like the most rewarding feeling when he's asleep. And I'm like, oh, no, it's like the best. Life changing. But it's a battle. Like that kid does not want to sleep. He's pissed. He wants to play. He wants to hang out. He's yeah, that's his personality for sure. But it's fun. I like I can't wait till I get to do it one day.

48:51But honestly, this has been such a good coping mechanism for me. Even Jacob was like, I'm really glad you're like doing that because like getting your like baby time in without like actually having your own baby i am yeah it's good no it's really fun is fee gonna move to charlotte oh yeah people keep thinking because like with my man's in north carolina you know i my boyfriend is from texas and he would love to keep his like roots in texas he likes to be here in the off season and like this is where i'm building my business and i've kind of we've come to the conclusion again we are not married yet we don't have kids yet like this will probably all change in the next couple years but like while I am building my career like I need to be here in Austin at least in Texas but like in Austin um and yeah like I visit as much as I can and also with his career this is the thing like he could go to another team next year and be in a completely different state yeah so like why would I at least in my mindset I'm like why would I pick my entire life yeah and go live somewhere which like literally could change next year and so kind of the plan is to just like keep our roots here always and then like i said like once we have kids and like that happens like we'll see i will say it's a great place to have a baby yeah i think in my head i always was like maybe we'll move back to the east coast at some point like connecticut or i don't even know but then when i had kai and there's like a great new mom community here oh yeah great schools i think austin is an incredible place for young families there's like so much to do like most part i mean it gets really hot in the summers but like very great weather you can walk the trail like you said and oh my gosh i feel like i'm not even a mom yet and i i can already see like the groups of moms that do stuff and just like it's crazy little parks it's great it's a great place to raise kids so i told you i signed kai up for gymnastics gymnastics did i not I'll tell you.

50:50Ah! Oh, wait. Should we talk about our baby class that we're going to do? Yeah, we'll talk about the baby class. Okay. Yeah, I need to hear about gymnastics. There's a place near Tarrytown that has, like, baby slash toddler gymnastics classes. And it teaches them, like, it's good for their bodies. Yeah, they, like, learn how to hang and, like, tumble. Grip string. And Kai's going to do it in September. Yep. The baby cannot even crawl yet. I know. I know. Well, he's already trying to crawl, though. You see him, right? Like, he's using... Yes, he can tripod. So the thing with Kai is when you put him on his stomach and he's something he wants, he's like swimming or he'll use his head as leverage, which really is concerning for me.

51:34Like, I'll look over at him and he's face-planting. When is crawling, like, they say at like eight months to ten months, I think. Okay. But I think based on... He might be a little sooner. I think he's a little sooner. so by the time I'm back from Colorado I think he will be crawling regardless he'll probably be like the youngest in the class I'm going to visit Mari in Aspen I've never been to Aspen you guys ever I'm very excited we're going to hike, we're going to go out for dinner we're going to go I mean it's going to be a lot of Kai things too which is so fun, we're going to go to the library the Aspen library is so cute, it's so beautiful and it pops off in the summer and it has like a little stream around to hang out.

52:14That's cute. I love that. Gardens. I used to go to the library growing up. Yeah. That was like my dad's activity. He would bring us to the public library next to my old high school. Maybe a month ago, I was desperate for activities to do with Kai because I was like, I want to go do things with him. Took him to a library down the street. We walked in. He pooped his pants and then we left. Yeah, he wasn't good at Freddy. Yeah, he was... I was like, okay. Something about a library, like the books. It's kind of like a Ross. Just makes you have to use the restroom. Have you seen that? Oh, I must be on like IBS constipated TikTok because girls are like, oh, I haven't pooped in like a week.

52:48And they're like, girl, get yourself a Starbucks and go walk around Marshall's. And you will shut up. That's like a thing. Really? Yeah. Something about the light and the colors. Yeah. Yes. I just immediately. And we had to leave. It's funny you say that. Activities. And random. Taylor Hasselhoff. She sold me my house in L.A. She lives in Nashville now, I think. So weird. But I know. So weird. I still follow her. Yeah. And she's great. And she's about to have a second baby, if not already had it. But I saw her saying the other day, she is a little girl. And she was saying, like, the way to get through, like, that age and, like, toddler years is, she's like, activities.

53:24She's like, we have a morning activity and an afternoon activity out of the house. And she's like, it keeps me sane. I probably sound so creepy talking about her. But, like, I saw her right there. She posted this video. And she was just like, it's like, we have nap time and whatever in the middle. And I have a morning activity and afternoon. She's like, if I stay in the house. She's like, first of all, the house turns into a literal, like, tornado. Yes. And she's like, and second of all, I just can't sit in the house all night. No. And I was like, my friend Taylor's like that too. She like always takes Beckett out.

53:49I will say. Gotta get out of the house. That's I think why the, like right now Kai's at a really fun age actually to take him out. Like you and I went out for coffee. We went to an art gallery yesterday. That was so fun. He loved it. I'm trying to go out more because when I have him for a full day and we don't leave the house, I'm struggling. Like I feel like I'm in that show that like repeats itself the whole day. Groundhog Day. You have to. Oh, my gosh. You have to go out. Yeah. You have to. Yeah. Or we like, I'll like do a swimming activity with him. Yeah. But I cannot wait for activity age.

54:20Yeah. Hence the gymnastics. It's almost there. Soccer when he's two. And baby needs to class. Oh, my gosh. Halloween. I'm so excited for Halloween. You gotta sign him up for baseball. Yeah. No, we're doing baseball for sure. I just like, my friend Taylor's having a boy next and I got him little baseball outfits with like little baseballs all over it that's like, let's play ball. And I, let's play ball. I was showing them to Jacob and I was like, I cannot handle this. He's like, you need to calm down. Dude, I mean. I was like, look at the little baseball shirt. Even seeing Kai, imagine like seeing him smile like freak out.

54:51Imagine seeing him like running around with other kids. I know. And his little hair, the way it's parted to the side. Oh, yes. So cute, you guys. Also, like I was telling Marlies the other day, I was changing him and I was like, I am so in love and obsessed with this baby and he is not even mine. I was like I it like literally makes me sick to think about when I have a child she's like oh no you're like never you're gonna be sick I'm gonna be yeah you're gonna be sick yeah it's a crazy I can't even describe it the fact that I feel that way about other people's children I just cannot fathom how I'm gonna feel about my own it just makes me that much more excited I know you're gonna be a freak like me I really am yeah we're gonna be freaks it's okay I love it it's fun to hang out with other freak mommies I mean I think we're all probably freaks I mean everyone's obsessed with their child I know.

55:36I know. It's to a degree I can't even describe. Okay. We should probably wrap it here. I feel like we've been talking for probably longer than it feels. Our 20 minute segment about oncrestables. Did we miss anything? Oh, I got a laser done. I got CO2 laser. It looks, your face looks like it's pretty much almost healed now. I know you probably have makeup on, but like. Yeah. It takes, so it is technically like healed, but you don't see the real full results for two to three months. Because it like stimulates collagen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I still see like a little texture here in Dr. Chestnut. He's coming on the show next week.

56:07You look very glowy. Thanks. Oh, he is? Yes. He's coming back on for part two. Oh, I love that. And he was like, that texture will get better and better and better because of like collagen and cell turnover. Yeah. But I'm really excited. I mean, guys, my face. You look very glowy. Very glowy. I looked absolutely bananas crazy. Like, my gosh. My mom saw a video and was like, I like, I guess I mean, I didn't tell my mom you got that done. She was like, what the fuck happened to Mari? People were messaging me like did an accident happen. Yeah, you looked like a burn victim. I know. Or like someone threw acid on your face.

56:43You basically are. Yeah. Like that's kind of what they do to you. Burn your face off. Yeah. And I was making like TikTok videos. I documented the whole thing if you want to go watch. Also just like the swelling. Oh, my face was out to you. My face was out. People were commenting, didn't know this was you until you started talking. I had some people, friends of mine send this to me and we're like, oh, my God, this is Mari. But, you know, I had more views than I've had in a long time. I think people get a sick fascination of stuff like that. I mean, other people that might be interested in the treatment like want to know.

57:10Like, this is so toxic and this is the last place you should go look for anything like that. But like whenever I have like a medical thing or anything, I am like I get a new medication. TikTok. TikTok immediately. I know. I want to see people talking about it, their experience, which I know this is like probably bad. And I should be like listening to my doctor and not like strangers on the Internet. But it's like real life reviews. And like, I want to hear all the tea. I want to know, you know, I was typing in CO2 laser day by day. Like I wanted to see what was going on. I feel like people on the internet have like, that's like, especially on TikTok, like the GLPs.

57:41Like there are people that fully have just like, their whole TikTok is just like their experience. And like their injection day every day or like every week. There's like peptide talk. Yeah. I'm on peptide talk, but they aren't really allowed to talk about them. Yeah, because they're, yeah. But there are, a lot of them are selling it. Yeah. Which is like a suck. Don't buy peptides from people on TikTok. Yeah. That's sus. Yeah. I do think there's a little bit of sketchy shit happening. Yes. Definitely happening over there. So try to go through your doctor. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Fi. We're so fun. Love you so much.

58:12Love you too. I missed this. Thanks for coming on. We have the best chats. I have to come on again. Guys, make sure you subscribe. Make sure you leave a comment. Follow me on Instagram. Follow Fi. And if you're looking to buy, sell, or lease in Austin, give me a call. Oh, my God. is that your slogan no i'm obsessed but you should wait what's a good thing with the word fee you know what i do like my last name's addicts yeah like a t i x and my boyfriend literally thought my instagram was like fiona a t x like austin oh which i was like that is a good play yeah but the only thing is if i do like logo or brand myself that way then like i'm austin based you might want to sell in other places but so i'll probably just keep like my name is like but yeah if you're moving to austin and you're looking for a rental or you want to buy fee knows what she's doing your girl holler at your girl i'll leave her link in the description thanks to buy a house

59:15thank you for joining us on the pursuit of wellness podcast to support this show please rate and review and share with your loved ones. If you want to be reminded of new episodes, click the subscribe button on your preferred podcast or video player. You can sign up for my newsletter to receive my favorites at marilowellan.com. It will be linked in the show notes. This podcast is a Pursuit Network production. Love you, pal girls and pal boys. I will see you next time. The content of this show is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not a substitute for individual medical and mental health advice and does not constitute a provider-patient relationship.

59:53As always, talk to your doctor or health team.

From the publisher

Fi is back for the first time in nearly a year, and this episode feels like the best kind of best-friend catch-up — nothing off limits. Fi gets fully honest about going off her GLP-1 medication, thinking she'd cracked the code, only to have the food noise come back full force and gain everything back in two months flat. She breaks down what she did wrong the first time, what Oprah's book Enough shifted for her, and how she's approaching round two differently. Mari opens up about an emotional spiral she had the day before recording — staring at Cai and being blindsided by grief and anger about her own childhood — and the two get into one of the most raw conversations the show has had about parenthood, the past, and what it means to protect your kid the way you wished someone had protected you. They also finally tell the real story of their friendship — the codependency, the hard conversation, the awkward in-between — plus Fi's booming real estate career, her baseball player boyfriend who actually shows up, CO2 laser updates, internet mom-shamers, and one nap they catastrophically destroyed together.

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