EP 189 Building a Strong Marriage: The Essential Keys That Your Marriage Needs
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Join hosts Ildiko Ferenczi and Dan Caldwell as they dive into the core elements that build a strong marriage, particularly for entrepreneurial couples juggling the demands of business and family life. In this episode, they share the three key principles that have been pivotal in their own relationship, emphasizing the importance of having a common purpose, aligning values, and cultivating shared interests.
They explore how a united vision, whether it's creating a legacy, setting goals, or raising a family, strengthens the bond between partners. They also discuss the significance of shared values and spiritual alignment, which lay the foundation for raising children with a unified moral compass.
Ildiko and Dan also talk about how having mutual hobbies and pastimes can bring couples closer together. Throughout the episode, they offer candid advice on overcoming the challenges that arise when couples are not aligned in these crucial areas, making this a must-listen for those looking to strengthen their relationship amidst the complexities of entrepreneurship and parenting.
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[00:00:00] It was our mindset that connected and a lot of the struggles and obstacles that we overcame
[00:00:07] They were in alignment, different.
[00:00:11] We both grew up in different countries.
[00:00:13] We had different lives but a lot of the mindset of what pulled us through those obstacles
[00:00:19] I feel like we connected.
[00:00:30] Uh... no.
[00:00:33] Ooh, that's better right babe?
[00:00:35] Yeah!
[00:00:37] Yeah.
[00:00:40] She founded an architectural concrete company.
[00:00:43] He founded a hundred million dollar clothing company.
[00:00:46] She ticked the World By Storm as a social media star.
[00:00:49] He took the World By Storm as a famous serial entrepreneur.
[00:00:53] Together we started the business and had babies.
[00:00:56] And now we're figuring out the best ways to do both.
[00:00:58] Join us as we learn from other entrepreneurs going through the same life struggle.
[00:01:03] As they share their life hacks about success, love, and kids.
[00:01:07] And everything in between.
[00:01:09] The meaning of life is to find your gift.
[00:01:13] The purpose of life is to give it away.
[00:01:18] Whoop by Pablo Picasso.
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[00:01:22] Whoop, right-egaddle?
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[00:01:26] Welcome to the Pretty Among Podcast.
[00:01:28] My name is Dan Caldwell.
[00:01:31] And you're supposed to say it.
[00:01:34] I'm waiting for you to call me beautiful.
[00:01:35] Um, and I'm here with my beautiful wife.
[00:01:38] You're the co-founder.
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[00:02:39] We're horrible at that part.
[00:02:41] Um, but yeah, it's a great podcast.
[00:02:43] I think we had some good discussions about this before we jumped on.
[00:02:46] Yeah, we had a talk.
[00:02:47] Dan and I.
[00:02:49] And we were just really thinking about our relationship.
[00:02:54] And we've had a lot of ups and downs.
[00:02:56] Let's be honest.
[00:02:58] But there are some key things.
[00:03:01] And not just three, but we wanted to pull three important things that bond us together like glue.
[00:03:08] And this mindset, these commonalities, these three pillars,
[00:03:13] were something that we saw each other from the beginning of our relationship when we became friends.
[00:03:20] Well, I think it's what attracted us to each other.
[00:03:22] Oh, yeah.
[00:03:23] So it's not necessarily what you do as a couple or the things that you incorporate in your marriage.
[00:03:31] It's more of those beliefs that I feel like you need going into marriage so that a marriage will work.
[00:03:37] So that it works because if, you know, you don't see it.
[00:03:41] I, on certain things on the beliefs that you stand on,
[00:03:45] I think you're going to have a really hard time in a long-term relationship.
[00:03:50] That's right.
[00:03:51] And what was the first thing that we?
[00:03:55] Well, I think the big thing was having a common purpose.
[00:03:59] Mm-hmm.
[00:03:59] I think that from the beginning, I mean obviously we were both entrepreneurs when we met.
[00:04:04] I think it's what attracted you were strong female entrepreneurs.
[00:04:09] You were way out of my league when I met you.
[00:04:12] Of course, you were chasing me around.
[00:04:15] And that's why I don't like it.
[00:04:18] And I just thought that, you know, like this is the type of person I want to be with.
[00:04:23] I want to be with somebody who I can have conversations at the dinner table with even though I don't know.
[00:04:29] I mean, we've tried to limit those as much as we can sometimes.
[00:04:33] You know, and have regular conversations too, but we, I love talking business with you.
[00:04:38] I think it was our mindset that connected.
[00:04:40] Yes.
[00:04:40] And a lot of the struggles and obstacles that we overcame, they were in alignment.
[00:04:49] Different, we both grew up in different countries.
[00:04:53] We had different lives, but a lot of the mindset of what pulled us through those
[00:04:58] obstacles, I feel like we connected very tightly.
[00:05:05] We became best friends.
[00:05:06] Best friends before anything.
[00:05:09] So I know he says that I was chasing him around.
[00:05:11] That's not true.
[00:05:12] He wanted to meet me for the longest time.
[00:05:15] But no, but listen, listen, listen.
[00:05:18] I'm, I was not going to go and jump into something that I wanted to take my time.
[00:05:27] And I feel like a lot of overachievers, high performance businessmen.
[00:05:33] They, I think they respect that in a woman.
[00:05:37] And that's, that's my mindset.
[00:05:40] I'm valuable.
[00:05:41] I'm not, I'm going to wait.
[00:05:43] I'm going to take it slow.
[00:05:44] I'm not going to jump in bed with anybody.
[00:05:46] I'm not going to be kissing nobody in the beginning.
[00:05:48] It's not going to happen overnight.
[00:05:50] I want to build a friendship before anything.
[00:05:53] So I thought you were just playing hard to get.
[00:05:55] No.
[00:05:55] I think we're actually boyfriend and girlfriend for like six months probably.
[00:06:00] Seven, seven somewhere out there.
[00:06:02] Well, I know our first real, our first real date is boyfriend and girlfriend was the super bowl.
[00:06:08] So that's like in what, gender, January or February or beginning of February there.
[00:06:13] So yes, and we met like July.
[00:06:14] But we took our time and you respected me as a woman, as a business woman,
[00:06:20] and my dreams, and my aspirations.
[00:06:23] And I did the same for you.
[00:06:25] So mindset was a huge part of that.
[00:06:28] Yeah, I can't, that common purpose.
[00:06:30] And I think having that same why, you know, that why that we had to get the why are we doing what we're doing.
[00:06:35] And a goal, our goals together.
[00:06:36] That was really important.
[00:06:39] Once we started dating, we realized that we wanted to build something together.
[00:06:43] We didn't know what it was, but we wanted to build something together.
[00:06:46] That was going to.
[00:06:48] And we talked about that all.
[00:06:49] Change that.
[00:06:50] That's what we had had your thing and I had my thing.
[00:06:54] And what was kind of, you know, we were in a weird way, in an area where we were both getting out of our things.
[00:07:04] And so it was almost like perfect timing.
[00:07:06] Like God's will that we had this perfect timing to meet each other.
[00:07:09] And because it was, we had the opportunity to have a common purpose together.
[00:07:16] Yeah, yeah.
[00:07:16] You're going to make me, what are you doing to me?
[00:07:19] But do it, they'll look at me like that.
[00:07:22] And you know, like, just make a good emotion too.
[00:07:25] You don't have to get it.
[00:07:25] Baseball team, football team.
[00:07:28] When you have a common purpose together, you're so much stronger.
[00:07:32] You were the analogy you had for the horses thing.
[00:07:35] You had like, we were talking about it last week.
[00:07:37] We were so strong on our own.
[00:07:40] And those race horses, they could pull a lot of weight by themselves.
[00:07:44] Don't get me wrong, they're powerful.
[00:07:46] But when you set them side by side and you give them that same weight, they could pull more than that.
[00:07:53] 10x that.
[00:07:55] Yeah, they can pull like seven, I think it's seven x their weight or seven x the weight that they can pull by themselves.
[00:08:01] But you and I together, we can ten it together.
[00:08:05] And I felt that and I knew that and everybody saw that within us.
[00:08:10] So we were looking for something to do together.
[00:08:13] So the goal that was so important and now with this podcast, it's crazy how it all came together.
[00:08:19] Like in the hardest part of our lives, it just boom.
[00:08:24] So easily, God was like, here you go.
[00:08:27] This is it.
[00:08:28] This is the thing that you guys can do together.
[00:08:30] Absolutely.
[00:08:31] Other than the businesses we did together.
[00:08:33] But I feel like both of us, we really enjoy sparking something in our audience in our,
[00:08:39] all around the world.
[00:08:41] We love touching people all around the world, bringing people together, saving marriages.
[00:08:48] I don't even know how to put it into words.
[00:08:50] I think that every marriage needs some version of that.
[00:08:54] It doesn't have to be a podcast but you guys kind of find that thing, that thing, that thing, whatever it is.
[00:09:01] It took us years to figure it out.
[00:09:03] Also what about health?
[00:09:05] I mean we had that in common as well.
[00:09:07] That's true.
[00:09:08] I think that's a common part of us.
[00:09:08] I'm both wanted to eat and I think you kind of, you know, it's even in some ways someone can pull you over to their side.
[00:09:15] Maybe I didn't.
[00:09:17] I always wanted to be healthy and eat healthy and work out.
[00:09:22] But I don't, I think you brought me into that world even deeper.
[00:09:26] And which is a good thing.
[00:09:27] You know, it's like we can have, you can have those things where your purposes are aligned.
[00:09:32] But you may be deeper down that rabbit hole than I was.
[00:09:38] And I find my way over there because I want to be there.
[00:09:41] I want to be there with you.
[00:09:43] We want to have our purposes aligned together.
[00:09:45] Yeah, that was exciting building our health journey together.
[00:09:49] And then the other thing that is important for us now.
[00:09:52] Now we're in a different part of our lives where we pour into our children.
[00:09:56] And I feel we have a very same vision for our family, for our children.
[00:10:04] And including them on that health journey being very, I mean they don't see it as strict.
[00:10:11] But it's how we brought them up.
[00:10:13] And I'm no slipping.
[00:10:17] I just want whole foods, healthy and especially dealing with my health.
[00:10:23] Yes.
[00:10:23] Struggle when I was on the cover of magazines and you know, you were looking the best.
[00:10:29] And just out of, it could have been any one of us down.
[00:10:32] It could have been any one of us.
[00:10:34] And I see happening to our friends.
[00:10:36] But I happen to get, you know, sick.
[00:10:40] I don't know.
[00:10:41] I don't even like to talk about it.
[00:10:43] But it's an eye opener.
[00:10:45] And you learn from it.
[00:10:47] And it just made me want to pour into my children and my family that much more.
[00:10:52] Like I will literally spend so much more time in the kitchen knowing that everybody is going to benefit from the food that goes, you know, the body.
[00:11:03] It's our temple.
[00:11:04] Yeah.
[00:11:04] Yeah.
[00:11:06] And I think that's important that you and I appreciate it.
[00:11:10] And I think I tell you, and I told you today, I appreciate when you make food like that because it not only does it taste great,
[00:11:17] but it really, I think we feel better when you eat better.
[00:11:22] And that's always, you've always done that.
[00:11:25] Right.
[00:11:25] And our audience can study it a little.
[00:11:27] I love it.
[00:11:29] I love it.
[00:11:30] I love studying how just cooking from scratch everything that you can do as naturally as possible.
[00:11:39] I want to go back to my grandmother's ways.
[00:11:42] She, they had a farm and they had a business together with my grandfather.
[00:11:47] And if you can just study a little bit about what clean whole food does for you and your body, you can literally heal so many things that are going on that you may be dealing with.
[00:12:00] I don't know.
[00:12:00] That's another podcast in its phone.
[00:12:02] Phone, bra, bone marrow.
[00:12:04] I'd never had this stuff before when I first time I ever saw you scooping that stuff out of the middle of a bone.
[00:12:10] I almost lost my mind, but I just never seen anything like that before.
[00:12:15] But I get it now and going down that rabbit hole and studying and looking at some of the things you're looking at watching some of the videos together.
[00:12:23] I know that we're aligned in our purpose there.
[00:12:26] And you look so much younger.
[00:12:28] I made you young.
[00:12:29] I'll take that.
[00:12:31] I'll take that.
[00:12:32] Okay.
[00:12:32] Now we're going to talk about the next one.
[00:12:33] Okay.
[00:12:34] So number two guys is aligned principles.
[00:12:37] And this is also something that has to come up in the beginning.
[00:12:42] I mean, what about your faith?
[00:12:46] You guys have to have somewhat of a parallel faith.
[00:12:50] I mean, it has to be.
[00:12:51] If you believe in God, it's just going to be easier if you both believe in God.
[00:12:57] Yes.
[00:12:57] Right?
[00:12:58] If you have a faith in your on that journey together.
[00:13:01] Oh yeah.
[00:13:02] If you're going different directions, there's no way that, I mean, how are you guys going to stay together if you're going in different ways?
[00:13:07] You're going to be in different directions and as far as faith goes.
[00:13:10] And there's probably so many, I mean even in, you know, if one person's a crook and the other person's not, one person's doing drugs and the other person's not, you know, it's exactly all those principles that you hold dear to you.
[00:13:21] If you guys are not aligned in your.
[00:13:22] You need to identify that in the very beginning.
[00:13:25] It's not work.
[00:13:26] I mean, it could but it's going to be hard with someone's an alcoholic and the other one's not.
[00:13:32] That's going to be a hard road.
[00:13:34] I can't, I can't see it working.
[00:13:37] I know for us.
[00:13:39] Thank God.
[00:13:40] Thank God that we don't have any of those things but when you or I are struggling with something,
[00:13:46] it's easier to get back up here.
[00:13:49] I mean, I see relationships.
[00:13:51] There's a lot of relationships out there where one of the partners is trying to fix the other side.
[00:13:57] You know, maybe there's a drug problem or whatever the problem might be or they think,
[00:14:02] you know, I know they're not religious but I'm going to try to make them religious.
[00:14:06] I mean, that's a really hard thing to tackle in a relationship and not to say that it can't work.
[00:14:13] But they have to be willing.
[00:14:14] But it's absolutely, if they're not, you're basically gambling whether it's going to work or not.
[00:14:20] Bye, beautiful.
[00:14:21] Thank you, Mama.
[00:14:23] And you're kind of gambling whether that's going to work or not.
[00:14:27] You're hoping it's going to work.
[00:14:28] And you think because you love each other, I mean maybe it's worth trying.
[00:14:33] But it's a, I would try to work those things out before you get married because once you get married
[00:14:38] it's really hard to unravel those that I mean it's like I know people just now divorce is like they just check in.
[00:14:45] You know, go file the paperwork call it turning and get it divorced but still, you know, there's if you have kids,
[00:14:51] there's other people involved, there's things involved, there's money involved, there's all kinds of things that are involved.
[00:14:57] And it's just better working that out before you get married.
[00:15:02] Yeah, a thousand percent and work ethic too, right? Don't you think?
[00:15:06] Yeah, I mean, yeah, if one person, it just, you know, so if one side is loved watch,
[00:15:12] you know, isn't going to be, you know, talked out of football every single game and isn't going to be talked up.
[00:15:18] And the other side is, you know, hungry and can't.
[00:15:21] And doesn't watch.
[00:15:22] I don't think I can't be with a leads to imagine if I was, if I was a TV watcher all the time.
[00:15:27] You know, gosh, no, no. I mean, you definitely, you'd be all over me for sure.
[00:15:33] You could have my head.
[00:15:34] But I think that's just the way that I grew up. My mom was just so go, go, go.
[00:15:42] And it has its downsides, right? Because you can overwork yourself but I definitely need someone very driven and you too.
[00:15:50] Yeah, I mean, I'd be the same way. If you weren't, you know, if you didn't, I mean, not that I don't, so don't take this wrong.
[00:15:59] I don't think that you need to take care of the house.
[00:16:02] But you do take care of the house and you take care of the kids.
[00:16:07] And I helped too. I do that stuff too.
[00:16:09] But I would say that you could take on more.
[00:16:11] But I do, this is something I want to say there.
[00:16:15] I want to take this on myself because I am such a perfectionist that I've hired so many people and I clean way better.
[00:16:27] Like, I do the white glove test and I'm like, you got to be kidding me.
[00:16:30] I'll just, I'll do this myself.
[00:16:32] Like, what is it?
[00:16:33] Eight nine hundred dollars.
[00:16:34] I can't seem to keep all due to my soul.
[00:16:36] I'll do myself.
[00:16:37] This is not, no, I'm perfectionist.
[00:16:41] I'll do it myself.
[00:16:41] I enjoyed doing it.
[00:16:42] I'm going to do it myself.
[00:16:43] But my mom, what did she do?
[00:16:45] What was her first job when she came to Canada?
[00:16:47] She was a housekeeper for very wealthy people.
[00:16:52] I want to put their names out there, but I can because she worked for very wealthy people.
[00:16:57] She got beautiful gifts and she did a macula work.
[00:17:02] And she taught me how to clean things.
[00:17:04] I don't cross contaminated.
[00:17:05] I do everything perfect.
[00:17:07] And when you're dealing with that kind of client, they watch everything.
[00:17:11] And I think that's why we were so good with the architectural concrete company.
[00:17:16] Even little things like our crew, I would say do not lean on the walls.
[00:17:23] You know how guys like to lean on the walls?
[00:17:26] And the women, the housewives would be like, he's leaning on my wall.
[00:17:32] His dirty hand is on my wall.
[00:17:34] I would have these discussions, they're like, really do they care?
[00:17:37] I'm like, yes, they care.
[00:17:39] All these little things.
[00:17:41] Anyway, the totally different topic, but I love that just those little things made us the top of the pick, top of the pick and that is.
[00:17:53] And I think in principles too, there's other things that we don't have a problem with or anything.
[00:17:57] But like, you know, I'm not going out to the club or I'm not, you know, I don't, you know,
[00:18:02] I'm not going to strip clubs or anything like that.
[00:18:05] And I think that there's people out there that could be dealing with that in there.
[00:18:09] You know, it's like, you know, the husband thinks it's okay to, right?
[00:18:12] I'm going to go to the bar, be Friday and Saturday night or, you know,
[00:18:16] or the wife thinks that she wants to go out with her friends.
[00:18:19] And, you know, we don't have that problem because we're definitely see eye to eye on those things.
[00:18:23] Yeah, or when we do events, I feel like we have this agreement where it's,
[00:18:33] we don't have the people will do the red carpet.
[00:18:35] We'll stay for a certain amount of time, 30 minutes an hour, but we're not here to party and get crazy.
[00:18:41] We don't, we don't drink.
[00:18:43] Yeah.
[00:18:44] We'll switch out the drinks for water.
[00:18:48] Yeah.
[00:18:48] Especially after the baby, I haven't had it drink.
[00:18:53] And since Daniel was born, that's so crazy.
[00:18:55] Yeah, I mean, I'm guilty of a glass of wine here and there, but.
[00:18:59] No, but you're not a drinker.
[00:19:01] You're not like, oh, I gotta stay.
[00:19:02] I gotta talk to everybody.
[00:19:03] Gotta know.
[00:19:04] No, no, no.
[00:19:05] Yeah, no, no.
[00:19:05] And that's, those are all aligned principles and that's why I think when you have aligned principles,
[00:19:11] it's an unspoken word.
[00:19:12] You don't have to say it to each other.
[00:19:15] No, we don't.
[00:19:15] We just give each other that look like let's go.
[00:19:18] Time to go.
[00:19:19] Yeah, let's get out of here.
[00:19:21] And, and I think with our kid, I mean, there's not much that we don't.
[00:19:25] I mean, I may, there may be some things where I am a little stricter about and there's things that you're a little stricter about.
[00:19:33] But we're on the same page.
[00:19:34] We're on the same page.
[00:19:36] Yeah, I feel that's important.
[00:19:37] So what was the last thing we came up with?
[00:19:39] The very last thing.
[00:19:42] And I feel like for me, I feel this is very important.
[00:19:44] Was there another thing because it's a two pretty important thing?
[00:19:47] It's like it's our lifestyle having shared lifestyle in hobbies.
[00:19:53] And I feel that that's something that we enjoy doing things together.
[00:19:59] I feel like it's you can do.
[00:20:01] I definitely do.
[00:20:01] I like straw wars and if I couldn't, if you didn't like straw wars, you just wouldn't be marriage material.
[00:20:07] But if, right, exactly.
[00:20:09] So if we can do things and like things and be passionate about things together,
[00:20:15] that bonds you like glue.
[00:20:18] Yeah, I mean, I think we're, I can't think of anything that we're,
[00:20:21] I mean, you, I think there's things that I curved you into a little bit.
[00:20:27] Like you liked going, I think you loved Comic Con.
[00:20:30] Yeah.
[00:20:31] But I dragged you to Comic Con.
[00:20:32] But I like it, we have to go to Comic Con.
[00:20:34] I like experiencing new things because that's what life is about.
[00:20:38] Trying different things, trying different foods, trying different cultures,
[00:20:42] learning about different people and things.
[00:20:44] So I'm very open mind something that I do that you don't like.
[00:20:52] Well, you don't like chess.
[00:20:54] No, I do like chess.
[00:20:56] I do like chess.
[00:20:56] Yeah, but you're not like, I'm not up to go play chess with me.
[00:20:59] I'm not obsessed with it.
[00:21:00] But I like it.
[00:21:02] It's challenging.
[00:21:03] I like it for you.
[00:21:04] I just don't have as much time to do it.
[00:21:07] Fighting.
[00:21:09] Gigiitsu?
[00:21:10] I just don't, I just don't want you to see me.
[00:21:13] I'm watching it.
[00:21:14] I just don't want you humming home with fungus toes and all that.
[00:21:18] Like it.
[00:21:18] That just kind of grosses me out.
[00:21:20] Well, let me check out the gym.
[00:21:21] Make sure it's top of the line and then we're okay.
[00:21:25] But I don't like going to.
[00:21:27] I don't want you to go with it.
[00:21:30] We don't know.
[00:21:30] We don't know.
[00:21:31] He doesn't have that, but that would be that would be my worst
[00:21:36] nightmare if he went to a dodgy gym and practice there.
[00:21:40] Like that would that would not find that would not be in my alignment.
[00:21:44] So, but in those times things watching, I like to look at it.
[00:21:48] I didn't even know what a tap out was.
[00:21:53] So, you kind of showed me that world and it was weird because there's this elegant,
[00:21:57] classy woman coming in with you and I remember Dana White going,
[00:22:01] who is this chick with?
[00:22:04] What a target.
[00:22:05] Like a belly, a belly, all the way back.
[00:22:07] Come on, let's be honest.
[00:22:08] Okay, anyway, his past life is his past life.
[00:22:11] So, so here's the thing.
[00:22:13] So, but you've been to UFC before.
[00:22:15] I have.
[00:22:16] I have a lot of ways to get to the gym at you.
[00:22:17] So, so I would say like in a lot of ways we're always the first thing I took when we went to the Super Bowl.
[00:22:24] You enjoyed that when we went to right out the gate.
[00:22:27] I took you to Tony Robbins and you were super excited about that.
[00:22:31] You, I think you liked it more than I did.
[00:22:32] Oh, I loved it.
[00:22:33] I loved it.
[00:22:34] That's second Tony Robbins you went to.
[00:22:36] I had to leave and you didn't want to leave.
[00:22:38] You stayed.
[00:22:39] I stayed by myself.
[00:22:40] There's a three day event.
[00:22:41] I went, I think I went for two day or four day event.
[00:22:44] And I went for two days and then I had to go to Afghanistan for military thing that we were doing out there.
[00:22:52] Like, you know, we're bringing fighters out to Afghanistan.
[00:22:56] I was actually really upset that you laughed because I feel like that was such a huge, I wish you would have stayed.
[00:23:04] I mean, we get you that out in this case.
[00:23:06] I wanted to go to Afghanistan with you but this was, I feel it was more important for what I needed in my life.
[00:23:14] I was going through such a hard time and it was so incredible.
[00:23:20] And people there were amazing.
[00:23:22] We were, you know, forever we're a VIP.
[00:23:25] You saw where we were sleeping.
[00:23:27] You probably would not have viewed it very happy you stayed.
[00:23:30] We were a VIP.
[00:23:31] Forever VIP because Dan did an infomercial with Tony Robbins.
[00:23:36] So Tony Robbins keeps him very dear to his heart.
[00:23:39] So we could go to any event and we were in the IPI met Jim Quick who is a wonderful person.
[00:23:44] Wonderful friend of ours and just so many.
[00:23:47] It's just, I mean, I don't know how to explain it other than there was just so many amazing people there.
[00:23:55] And it really did change my life and it challenged me to pray and wish for something that was impossible.
[00:24:05] And they told me I wasn't ever going to have a baby and that it would cost me maybe even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
[00:24:12] And I challenged God and I wrote this letter to the unborn child, the child that I wished for,
[00:24:23] the child that was going to become a part of my life, change the world.
[00:24:29] It's so crazy.
[00:24:30] And then now, no, yeah.
[00:24:34] I participated in that whole thing too.
[00:24:38] I don't believe it how that played out.
[00:24:40] But I mean, I would say that we both love doing those types of things together.
[00:24:45] And I can't really think of anything that specifically, I mean,
[00:24:49] I like sports.
[00:24:51] I like any sport because they're the mindset that people that are pushing that are fighting for what they believe in,
[00:24:58] the fighters, the football players.
[00:25:02] And then in Tony Robbins, I just, I was brought up to push myself to surround myself with people.
[00:25:12] I want to learn from people that are better than me.
[00:25:16] Always and forever.
[00:25:18] I'm never going to say, oh, no, that's not how it is.
[00:25:21] Let me learn what you have to teach me.
[00:25:24] I want to learn as much as I can and whatever works for,
[00:25:29] and you're like that too, whatever works for us will keep that.
[00:25:32] What doesn't work?
[00:25:33] I respect that it works for you but I will forever, forever, be learning forever.
[00:25:38] I think you too. We love to learn.
[00:25:42] And that said, we're going to go to a fight soon and we're going to the BKFCs.
[00:25:48] We're, um, we're, see how do we say this?
[00:25:51] We can't say too much with their reality show and all that.
[00:25:54] Well, we're owners in the BKFC so.
[00:25:57] But that said, we're just really enjoying it.
[00:26:01] I'm so excited for you. I'm all the stuff.
[00:26:03] It's been working on together.
[00:26:05] But can I just say it's crazy how the stars aligned and brought us to that journey.
[00:26:13] Well, here you are. And here we are.
[00:26:16] And here we are. And here we are. We're married and we're, and it's, we're chugging along.
[00:26:21] Everything is, I mean, it's not always perfect.
[00:26:24] No. Please, let me, let me be very clear.
[00:26:27] But we're fighting for the same goal. We're fighting for the same purpose.
[00:26:30] That's what we are.
[00:26:31] We love together. I love to say that whenever we have a disagreement,
[00:26:36] that one of us are going to say that we're on the same team and that usually kind of puts us on the same page together.
[00:26:45] Right. And if you're not, how do you build an empire together?
[00:26:48] How do you build a beautiful legacy?
[00:26:50] And how do you teach your little ones to just live the best life ever?
[00:26:57] Well, that's not your legacy dream.
[00:26:59] Because little ones are your legacy.
[00:27:02] Anyways, guys, thank you for joining us for the Prettyimpunk podcast.
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[00:27:31] So anything else before we jump out?
[00:27:33] I think that was a great podcast.
[00:27:35] I hope that that touched someone out there and just sparked something within them.
[00:27:41] I love talking these things out.
[00:27:42] I mean, this is, I mean, we talk about it in other terms.
[00:27:45] I think we really get a little deeper together when we sit down here and talk about it.
[00:27:49] I feel like it connects us.
[00:27:50] And this is, this is our thing.
[00:27:52] This is our thing and I encourage you guys to find your thing.
[00:27:56] Whatever that is that gets you getting inside that brings you closer together
[00:28:00] that just creates this warmness and changes the world in some way.
[00:28:06] Maybe it's a charity.
[00:28:07] Maybe I don't know what it is.
[00:28:09] Pray for it.
[00:28:10] It's going to come to you guys.
[00:28:12] God bless you and we will see you next week.
[00:28:14] See you on the next one.
[00:28:16] Thank you for listening.
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