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In this deeply personal episode, Dan and Ildiko share their reflections on the intricate dance of motherhood, entrepreneurship, and the pursuit of personal fulfillment. They dive into a discussions about the emotional and physical toll of motherhood, highlighted by Ildiko's passionate advocacy for recognizing the powerful, often overlooked work of stay-at-home moms and entrepreneurial mothers alike.
The conversation opens with a touching Mother's Day tribute from Dan to Ildiko and all mothers listening, setting the stage for an episode filled with gratitude and recognition of maternal strength. Ildiko shares stories of her own mother's resilience through adversity, underscoring the episode’s theme of the enduring strength of mothers. They discuss the societal challenges mothers face, such as balancing professional ambitions with the demanding, irreplaceable role of raising children.
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I don't care what anybody
says. Being a mother,
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being a mother is the most blessed yet
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challenging, blessing,
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journey, whatever you want
to call it in the world.
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And I feel like a lot
of moms take away the
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weight that's behind being a
mother by saying, I'm just a mom,
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I'm a stay at home mom. I do this, that,
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and the big career that
they're doing and a mom,
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and it just pains me
because it is the most
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important job in the world.
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No.
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Oh, that's better, right, babe?
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Yeah.
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Yeah. She founded an
architectural concrete company.
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He.
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Founded a hundred million
dollars clothing company.
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She took the world by storm
as a social media star.
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He took the world by storm as
a famous serial entrepreneur.
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Together we started a business.
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And had babies.
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Now we're figuring out
the best ways to do.
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Both. Join us as we learn from other
entrepreneurs going through the same life
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struggles.
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As they share their life,
hacks about success, love.
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Kids, and everything in between. All.
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That I am or ever hope to be.
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I owe to my angel mother,
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quote by Abraham Lincoln
Behind every successful woman
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Oh man is a mother who believe in from
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the.
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Welcome to this episode of
the Pretty Punk Podcast.
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My name is Dan Caldwell and I'm
here with my beautiful co-host.
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Happy Mother's Day, or
Late Mother's Day to you,
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my beautiful co-host and beautiful wife.
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And you can go anytime now.
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Well, on the last episode, I cut you
off, so I just really was waiting.
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Oh yeah, that's right. I forgot about
that. Okay, so welcome to this episode,
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the Pur Punk podcast.
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I just want to say happy late Mother's
Day to all the mothers out there.
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We were wanted to have a little bit
of conversation about moms out there,
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but we didn't know whether to do before
Mother's Day or after Mother's Day,
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because it would've been a long time
from the time that we did the episode to
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win it. She aired from Mother's Day,
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so we decided to do it just a
couple days after Mother's Day.
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Yeah,
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because everybody had an experience and
everybody went through something that
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was amazing, or maybe even some
mom struggled with some stuff.
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I don't care what anybody
says, being a mother,
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being a mother is the most blessed yet
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challenging,
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blessing journey,
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whatever you want to call it in the world.
And I feel like
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a lot of moms take away the weight that's
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behind being a mother by
saying, I'm just a mom.
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I'm a stay at home mom. I do this, that,
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and the big career that
they're doing and a mom.
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And it just pains me
because it is the most
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important job in the world.
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And I've said this before
and I want to say it again,
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and this is why I was really excited
that we were going to do a Mother's Day
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episode, not for myself,
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because I feel like every
mother out there is,
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especially the ones in the trenches,
but not just in the trenches.
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There is a type of struggle,
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a type of challenge in
every part of motherhood,
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but I just really want
those moms to get those
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flowers today. And we want to talk about.
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That. Yeah, mothers need more credit
for what they go through, what they do,
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the part that they play in
building their children. I mean,
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I've heard men are what
their mothers make them.
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And I dunno if it's a
quote by somebody, but I
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know I was a mama's
boy I think growing up,
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and I can feel that in
how I was brought up,
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that my mom shaped me.
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I learned from my dad to be who I am
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to be a man, but by watching him,
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but I became the person
that I am from my mom.
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Yeah, same. I can.
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Definitely, and I definitely
know you are your mother's child,
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100%. And our daughter
is her. Oh boy, somebody.
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I feel sorry for somebody. I mean,
no, I shouldn't say that. She's.
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Just really outspoken. But this is.
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What your mom was outspoken, but.
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She had to, was a leader.
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And I remember one of my
cousins talking about how she
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knew both sides of my mom. And
if you guys don't know the story,
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my mom had to make a very strong
decision at one point of her
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life. Sadly, my mom and my dad
didn't make it in marriage,
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which this is one of the
reasons why we have the podcast,
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because if they just had a
support system behind them,
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they'd probably be together.
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But the devil wants to seek and
destroy and kill and do all those
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things.
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And the relationship died because they
didn't have those kind of people behind
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them. So she was very soft,
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and my mom was very petite and tiny like
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myself, but after the divorce,
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she had to turn into a different person.
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And my cousin was saying how she's only
known her as the homemaker. She didn't
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really get to experience the
business woman until later.
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And then when my mom
had the little children
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to take care of, she morphed.
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She turned into this
superhero warrior lion,
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and that was one of our visuals for
our family. We were the Lion Pack,
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and she turned into this different person.
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And I had always admired that,
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but the more that I listened
to other people's stories
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and we're doing this podcast, I don't,
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I wish for no woman to
ever have to go there.
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I know it's possible that we are
all strong and have the ability to
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have multimillion dollar
careers and do all these
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things ourselves, but one,
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I don't think that's how God created us
to be because my mom ended up getting
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sick because she had to work so hard.
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She had to do all the things
that a stay at home mom would do.
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But women still, the women are
strong. I mean, don't get me,
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women will stand up and
fight for their family a.
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Hundred percent,
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but I don't like the
fact of doing it alone.
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She.
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Was always strong.
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The man is the first.
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Defense was in.
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Her feminine too. But if
he's got multiple attackers,
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the woman is definitely going
to stand up and fight for her.
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Family. I'm strong, I'm capable.
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I was raised by one of
the strongest, a warrior.
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It's the reason why I
believe that I am standing
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today when I got that diagnosis in
the office because of my mom as an
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example, but I wish she
didn't have to do it alone.
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And as women, we have to fight for
our families, fight for our children,
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and their yes is so much power in us,
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but I hate hearing anyone
have to go through a divorce
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because I know what's
behind it. I'm telling you,
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everybody gets something
either physically,
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emotionally, a lot of
people get the C word.
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My mom didn't until way later in her life,
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but she fought through that
too and she stuck up for.
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Herself. Well, mothers, I
think that the problem is,
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is that you hear so many people
talking about women being in their
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feminine and you have
with a 50% divorce rate,
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you have so many women having to step
up and become the man and the woman.
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Have.
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Masculine side and somewhat support the
family. Dads are out of their lives.
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And hopefully that even
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if you're a dad and you're separated,
be that man, be that person,
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step into that role and still play that
role for your family as much as you
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can. And so that she just doesn't have to.
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I could feel your mom.
Your mom was powerful,
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and I could feel how powerful she was
and that she never felt like she was able
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to be that to me. I never knew
her before, so I didn't know.
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I only knew her in that
role of being this man and
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woman, not for real,
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but stepping into that role,
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I would see that when she
went into some of her,
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when we went to the property
up north there, and you just,
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how she would just take over calling
the contractors and get 'em on the phone
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and tell him what a, I can't
even do what she did. I'm crying,
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but she would just really take
over and have to be that person.
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I remember up in, we had
this investment property.
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It was 21, 21,
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we bought an investment property together.
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It was my first commercial property.
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And I remember when there was
problems and she'd get so mad at
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the roofer, she climbed up on
the roof and fixed it herself.
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Oh my gosh. But these are the things
that you do when you become a single mom.
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But I just wish she didn't
have to, but I admire her.
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And I remember there was this
stubborn part when you and I
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were having that minute of,
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and of course it's the devil
trying to take us apart,
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but when you were at the,
you guys know the story.
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It's a long story and we're
not going to get into it,
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but I remember talking to my
mom and saying, I am just done.
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I'm done. And it was just
my emotions were high.
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I'm still nursing the baby,
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all this stuff going
through me. And she said,
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you guys need to work it out. And
she's telling me your perspective.
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And one thing I love,
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I love about mothers is
that when not all moms don't
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take your child's side, but she was
just very honest. And she would say,
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try to put me in your
shoes and then try to put
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you in my shoes if she
ever got ahold of you.
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So she would talk sense into me
and then remind me of all the
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hard issues. Do you know how
hard it was having those little.
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Children by myself? I think
moms have a lot of wisdom,
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but they tend to, I think
that's kind of a male thing,
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that type of conversation.
Because I always felt like my mom,
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whether I was right or
wrong, she was on my side.
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I remember one time when I
was in elementary school,
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I think I was in second grade,
and this kid, she was a yard duty,
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like the ladies that stand
out there, and we didn't,
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she was like her second job.
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She got paid for a few hours
to come out and do these,
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carry a whistle and yell at
kids. And so she was out there,
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and it was always kind of weird because
your mom's out there and you kind of
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feel a little bit embarrassed,
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but he had kicked me in the privates and
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I'm crying. I'm a little
mama's boy and I'm crying,
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and I go over to my mom
and I'm like, this guy,
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I still remember his name is
Jonathan Smith. And he had kicked,
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and I told my mom what he did,
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and she grabbed him and held him in place
and told me to kick him back right in
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the privates. I was like, I
mean, my dad would've said,
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suck it up, keep walking. You'll be fine.
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And maybe you'll fight him after school
or something. But my mom literally,
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I mean, you imagine the
trouble she could have got in,
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she literally held this shit in place,
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held his legs open so I could kick him
in the, I mean, are you kidding me? No.
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Oh my goodness. And I also
have this great photo.
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I can still remember in kindergarten of
us in the newspaper where I ran up to my
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mom after my first day
of school and hugged her.
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And I always got that great
moment that made the newspaper,
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and I still have that cut
out, but I just, moms are,
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I feel so blessed that I have this
amazing mom and happy Mother's Day to you,
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mom, if you're listening.
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And I really feel blessed
to have an amazing mom.
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And I know you had an
amazing mom too. Yeah.
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Yeah. She was really.
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And that said,
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I have something very special for you
planned that I didn't tell you about.
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And so I guess in part of this episode,
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I questioned the kids.
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I asked them some questions
about you as a mother.
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And so I'm going to plug it into this
episode so the audience at home will
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hear it at some point. I'm going
to drop it into the episode,
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and then I'm not going to let you listen
to what they say until the episode
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airs.
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So you're going to have to hear what
they had to say about you in the episode
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airs.
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I love that. I love
that. And it was kind of,
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these last Mother's Day was a little
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bit challenging for me this year.
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It was beautiful,
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and I feel very blessed
that I have these children,
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but it's also hard for me,
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and I haven't really shared anything
about it on social media because
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I don't want to be the victim,
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but I know there must be other people
either struggling with the fact that their
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parents are getting older
or maybe they're sick.
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And you're watching all
these things on social
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media where people still have their mom
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and they're having these big extravagant
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Mother's Day.
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And it just brings back the
memories that I spent with my mom.
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And it's so hard because I just want
to pick up the phone and tell my
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mom that I appreciate her and I love her.
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And it's hard for the moms
that don't have their moms
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anymore.
And I know there's a lot of us out there,
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but it's like this weird thing where
it's supposed to be this happy day.
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And it is because I'm telling
you, and you guys know it,
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our children are the biggest blessings
that's ever happened to us in
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our lives.
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They really truly show
us what true love is.
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They fill in all the gaps of any kind of
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loss of love that we've had
through our lives. For me,
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I wish I had my dad there, but
they just filled in all the gaps.
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But for me,
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this Mother's Day was challenging.
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So I really don't feel like going
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out and having a big dinner.
Truly, I'm in the trenches.
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I've got the little ones. I'm
exhausted. I just, honestly,
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I just want to stay home
and rest and enjoy my kids,
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hug them as hard as I can, make
some great relaxed memories,
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and then on another day,
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go out and do the Mother's Day dinner.
Because a part of me,
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it's just days after Mother's
Day, that's when I lost to my mom.
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So it's been hard. So when the
babies are asleep, I'm thinking,
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I'm just wishing I could
just pick up the phone.
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So you guys have your moms
just, I know that you take,
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I took it for granted too. Just
those are the best memories.
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And you guys are so lucky
if you have it still,
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but being a mom while
your mom is alive as a
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woman,
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because your mother just looks
at you in such a different way.
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They're so proud of you being a
mother and so proud of you looking
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after those kids.
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Those were the best Mother's Day,
obviously. I loved the Mother's Days,
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and I always spoiled.
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My mom took her on some crazy
extravagant holiday and just spoiled her
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because I didn't have kids yet. So she
was like, my baby, she was your kid.
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I would spoil her and take
her on all these holidays and
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just her friends would be so
jealous. And it was just so awesome.
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But then when I had kids,
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she was happier than all
those mother's days that I
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spoiled her.
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She was just so happy to just
watch the kids and obviously
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relive her life as a
mother to me when I was a
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little infant and toddler
through the babies.
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So it was just a hard, it's still hard.
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And I wonder, I mean, does it get easier?
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The grief comes and it comes in waves
and whoever's going through this,
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I'm sure you get it,
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but Mother's Day is one of
those days when it really hits.
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My mom was amazing, so I miss her so much.
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Yeah, I understand. But
I mean, I wish I wanted,
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that's why I felt like I didn't really
know what to do because we haven't,
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I didn't know what to do because
I wanted to take you to dinner.
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I have this big dinner plan, don't want
to go for dinner. And then what if I.
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Get all.
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Emotional? You were like, no,
I don't want to go. I was like,
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you don't want to go to dinner? I'm just
so tired. Well, I just wanted you to,
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I want you to not have
that on your mind as much.
00:19:51
I know it was always
going to be on your mind.
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It was going to come out at certain times
and it just, it's part of it. Holiday.
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I came out, now that I'm talking
about it, I'm talking about her.
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And I just so.
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Don't cry it. The
butterflies me cry. Now, is.
00:20:07
It the butterflies or
there's this little bird?
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I was thinking of my mom a lot for
the buildup up to Mother's Day,
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and I know it sounds so
stupid, but when she passed,
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she passed suddenly and unexpectedly.
But she left this letter for me,
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and it was all these
prayers that she wrote down,
00:20:29
and she wanted to make
sure that I found it
00:20:34
someday. So she put it somewhere safe,
00:20:36
but there was this little butterfly on it,
00:20:38
and I didn't really think much of it.
00:20:41
But then after I got the
letter when I was taking,
00:20:46
because she made it very clear, she
didn't want anybody else in the house.
00:20:49
Only me, only you, El Dakota.
00:20:51
I don't want anybody else in the house
if anything ever happens to me, just you.
00:20:55
So she left this letter there
and the little butterfly about,
00:20:59
I think a day later I started
seeing this little white butterfly.
00:21:03
That white butterfly, everywhere.
00:21:04
Everywhere, everywhere. And this
sounds so nuts, but this year,
00:21:09
the buildup to Mother's
Day, because as I said,
00:21:12
it was just so suddenly after
Mother's Day that she passed,
00:21:15
I got her a bouquet of flowers
that she was so happy about.
00:21:19
And then I said, I'm going to
really blow the socks off of her.
00:21:22
And I sent her this other
amazing bouquet that
00:21:27
she didn't even get. But I was
thinking about Mother's Day. Anyway,
00:21:31
let's get back to the subject I.
00:21:33
Sent. And I sent her one too.
00:21:35
Yeah. And she never got
them. So I was like,
00:21:39
is she going to come as a butterfly?
00:21:41
Is she going to come as
something else, A bird,
00:21:46
maybe a bird, a bird.
00:21:48
So we have this beautiful wreath
always wreaths on our front
00:21:53
door, and there's a bird
that sat in that wreath.
00:21:57
It's living every single day. And
when I think about my mom, I'm like,
00:22:02
are you going to be here today?
I don't know, it's just crazy.
00:22:07
I don't know if you can relate
to this unless you lose someone.
00:22:12
And I remember with my brother
too. It was Roses and Doves,
00:22:16
and it's just that happy thing.
00:22:20
It's just something that
literally lifts your soul.
00:22:23
And if you have some kind
of experience like this,
00:22:26
share it because it
makes me happy. Anyway.
00:22:29
So Happy Mother's Day, mother's Day,
00:22:32
all you amazing mothers out
there who are changing the world,
00:22:35
shaping the world with
building these great children.
00:22:41
Let's all give credit where credit's
due here. You do amazing things.
00:22:47
And I know one day your sons and
daughters will stand up and thank you,
00:22:51
whether that be in a
podium, in graduation,
00:22:54
or at a speech. Who knows where that's
going to be. But they will stand up.
00:22:59
And thank you for the hard.
00:23:00
Work that you put in. Yeah,
you are behind greatness.
00:23:03
You are the one that is
responsible for the greatness.
00:23:06
You are responsible.
00:23:08
You are the one that is pouring
into those beautiful babies
00:23:13
and giving them such an
incredible opportunity
00:23:18
in life to fulfill their God-given
destiny, their assignment.
00:23:22
And I have so much love for all
of you and all the moms that are
00:23:27
going through the trenches.
00:23:29
And maybe you may have elderly
parents that are going through it or
00:23:34
sick parents. I'm also
giving you guys your flowers.
00:23:38
I didn't talk about it
because my mom said,
00:23:40
don't want to tell anybody that I'm
going through this, that and the other.
00:23:45
And I had to deal with
it behind closed doors.
00:23:48
And she was very happy,
but she was very proud.
00:23:51
She never wanted anyone to know
that she was starting to lose. Well,
00:23:56
you guys know the people
that can relate. You get it.
00:24:01
There's something hard
about getting older.
00:24:05
When you're Wonder Woman, your superhero,
00:24:08
their legs start to break down or
their body starts to break down.
00:24:13
That's not something they
it hard to deal with,
00:24:15
want you to brag about or they don't
want to brag about it. That's a hard.
00:24:19
Thing. Get And they don't to be seen
in that condition. That's right.
00:24:22
I remember your mom fighting,
not wanting to use the walker,
00:24:25
that she had to use it
towards the end there. She.
00:24:28
Wouldn't Wouldn't use
it. She would not use it.
00:24:31
And the beautiful part was that she said,
00:24:35
everybody wants to put me in a home.
00:24:37
And I promised her when I was
eight years old, I will never,
00:24:41
whatever you want, I will
make that happen. And we did.
00:24:45
And she stayed at home. She had nurses.
00:24:51
She was so strong-willed. And if she
didn't like a nurse, she would fire one.
00:24:55
And we were blessed.
00:24:57
I'm telling you that the
divine interventions that
she just had the perfect
00:25:02
people around her that could,
if she was in an old home,
00:25:07
they would probably drug
her up and medicate her.
00:25:09
But she was just with these people
that understood her European
00:25:14
flare and her,
00:25:16
she would smack the nurses on the butt
or the hand or whatever she would.
00:25:21
It was just her personality loved.
00:25:24
Her. If remember Right, we had to
talk to her about that a little.
00:25:26
Bit. We did.
00:25:27
But they loved her and they would call
her all the things that they would
00:25:32
call her beautiful and baby girl.
00:25:34
And I think everybody deserves
to live out what she worked
00:25:39
so dang hard for us that she
deserved to be treated like a queen.
00:25:44
And I said, treat her like
a queen. And they loved her.
00:25:47
It was like all these girls were,
the nurses were her daughters,
00:25:52
and some of them she
didn't get along with.
00:25:54
So if you don't get along with
someone, then you move past it.
00:25:59
You get someone that
you're happy being around.
00:26:02
Don't stay with someone
that you're unhappy.
00:26:04
You guys have two different
personalities and don't deal with it.
00:26:11
Life is precious. Hug
your moms. Love your moms.
00:26:15
Hug your mamas out there. Yeah.
00:26:16
Because you just never
know things happen. So.
00:26:19
D, happy, heavenly Mother's Day. Etti.
00:26:24
Say that like.
00:26:24
Mama. Yes.
00:26:26
He throwing out the
Hungarian there and I think,
00:26:32
oh, there you go. And so without
further ado, I'd like to,
00:26:36
so I'm going to drop it in right
here. So you good to do that? Yes.
00:26:40
I'm so excited. So you're not going to
hear it until it airs, but for is best.
00:26:43
Present.
00:26:44
Here we.
00:26:44
Go. Oh wait, one more thing.
If you can just start,
00:26:48
I don't know where your wife is and moms,
00:26:53
tell your husbands to take photos of you.
00:26:56
Take photos of me. That
is the best gift. Husband.
00:27:00
Gift for us. I can't be the only person
that gets yelled at for this. So yes,
00:27:03
more pictures. You guys get
out there, step up. Photo.
00:27:06
Shoots, more pictures. I think I got.
00:27:07
Emotional about, I've been doing a
pretty good job lately. Yes, you have.
00:27:11
Okay. Anyway, I'm so excited.
00:27:12
To during this interview.
Happy Mother's Day.
00:27:14
Happy Mother's Day. I love you guys.
00:27:16
There we go. Hey guys.
00:27:19
So we're here at the Pretty Punk podcast.
00:27:21
I'm about to interview our
son Daniel and Daughter
00:27:26
Destiny, about their mother.
00:27:29
And I wanted to do this something
special for Mother's Day.
00:27:33
And so she doesn't know this,
00:27:34
but this is going to air on the podcast
about the Mother's Day. It's going to,
00:27:37
I believe the podcast is going
to air right after Mother's Day.
00:27:41
So Daniel Destiny, are you guys ready to
do this? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Here we go.
00:27:46
So I'm going to ask you guys a few
questions about your mom and just be,
00:27:51
tell me how you feel and
use your words and just
00:27:55
explain how you feel about Mama.
Okay. So the first question is,
00:27:58
that sounds good. I know. Whatever sounds
good, you tell me what you feel. Okay.
00:28:03
Okay, here we go. What is your
favorite thing about mommy?
00:28:10
She's always nice.
00:28:12
She's always nice. Yeah.
And what about you, destiny?
00:28:15
What's your favorite thing about mommy?
00:28:17
She needs to practice their
splits. She just needs to.
00:28:22
Put one speak in the mic.
00:28:23
She just needs to put one
straight at the back and one
00:28:29
on the ground,
00:28:32
but not straight.
00:28:34
You like when mommy practices the
splits with you? Yeah. Yeah. Daniel,
00:28:39
what do you like,
especially about my luck.
00:28:41
What does she do that you
really love about her?
00:28:46
She loves me in a way that I can't resist,
00:28:49
and I don't know how to show how much
00:28:54
I love her back.
00:28:55
Oh, buddy. That's such a great answer. Oh,
00:28:59
I don't know if I could have
said it that well. Okay.
00:29:01
Make sure you guys speak
right into the mic. Okay.
00:29:04
If you guys could give mommy a superpower,
00:29:08
any superpower in the world,
what would that superpower like?
00:29:12
An actual superpower? Yeah, like
an actual superpower. What's.
00:29:16
What I mean is an actual
superpower or just a superpower of
00:29:21
being like a great mom?
00:29:23
Yeah, no, like any
superpower in the world.
00:29:25
Okay. Well,
00:29:26
I think C said have the
split superpower so she
00:29:31
doesn't need to practice.
00:29:33
Okay. Daniel,
00:29:34
what is your superpower that you want
to give your mom speaking the mic?
00:29:38
I wish she could be,
00:29:42
I wish she could either
be super big or fly or
00:29:47
have laser wise or be really strong.
00:29:50
Laser wise. I think I should. I
think your mom is pretty strong.
00:29:53
Though. I think I want her to be
super strong so that she can lift a
00:29:58
thousand pounds with old Pinky.
00:30:00
Oh my gosh. Then she'd be
able to beat up daddy. Yeah.
00:30:05
That's good. I wanted
to beat you up. Oh yes,
00:30:09
that would be good. Blogging.
00:30:11
Okay. Okay. So great answers, both of you.
00:30:15
What is the funniest
thing mommy has ever done?
00:30:19
Think about it for a second.
00:30:21
What is the funniest thing that you
can remember that mommy has ever
00:30:25
done? You can take a minute to
think about it. If you need to.
00:30:29
Tickle us.
00:30:30
Tickle you. When she tickles you,
is that make you laugh? Yeah.
00:30:36
I think there was one time where she,
00:30:38
I think it was a few times
she was jumping around and she
00:30:43
was being like a monkey
and waving arms like a U
00:30:47
shape.
00:30:48
Like a monkey? Yeah. And.
00:30:51
She was going.
00:30:52
Mommy gets a little cuckoo
sometimes, huh? I dunno.
00:30:55
Her arms were like that, but
she was jumping around crazy.
00:30:58
Oh yeah. She has so much fun with
you guys sometimes, right? Yeah.
00:31:03
Do you like when she has
fun with you guys? Yeah.
00:31:05
Yeah. But she only jumps
around crazy sometimes.
00:31:08
Sometimes, right?
00:31:09
I haven't seen her jump
around in a long time until I
00:31:14
got my very first viral
post, which was today,
00:31:18
and she jumped around crazy today.
00:31:20
What? Oh really? Okay guys. Speaking
of the mic, speaking of the mic.
00:31:23
Sarah? Yeah, while she was holding.
00:31:24
Me. Oh, I remember. I
saw that. I saw that.
00:31:29
But when I sometimes a
piece of wood by myself,
00:31:34
she jumped when I was in my chair eating.
00:31:39
Okay. Did she scare you? No. Oh, okay.
00:31:43
Onto the next question.
00:31:44
What is the best adventure
you had with mommy?
00:31:48
What's the best adventure that you can
remember having with mommy that you
00:31:52
liked? Where you guys went
on a little adventure,
00:31:56
or it could have been all of us,
but what was the best adventure?
00:31:58
Your favorite time with mommy?
Even back when you were little,
00:32:02
all the way back to you, you can
remember when you were little.
00:32:05
What is your favorite adventure
with mommy? I know we've had a lot,
00:32:09
so sometimes it gets overwhelming. I know
you have fun with mommy all the time.
00:32:14
So what is the one thing
though that really stands out?
00:32:19
There's only one memory I
had when I was really young.
00:32:23
I was one or two.
00:32:26
I got to take a picture with mommy,
00:32:31
daddy and me. But Destiny wasn't born yet,
00:32:35
and I was with Mickey Mouse and
I was like, who is this dude?
00:32:41
You didn't know who Mickey Mouse
was? I remember that moment.
00:32:44
I knew him, I knew him, but
I was like, he's creeping me.
00:32:48
Out. I think that was your,
you were two years old.
00:32:51
That was your 2-year-old birthday that
we took you to Disneyland and because I
00:32:55
can remember we took a picture with
Mickey Mouse in his Mickey Mouse land or
00:32:59
whatever they call that. It's.
00:33:01
Disneyland.
00:33:03
Yeah. But there was a special
part of his land where he lived.
00:33:06
I wish my birthday was those
prank birthday where you go on
00:33:11
crazy heights where you
just drop and you are
00:33:15
screaming. Oh my gosh.
00:33:19
I think she means free falling.
00:33:21
I think she means that guy that Free
falls people and makes 'em scream on the
00:33:24
way down. That's a good one.
00:33:28
Well, my favorite memory
with mommy is when
00:33:35
we were at that hotel,
00:33:39
you know the Ritz Carlton? Yeah.
00:33:43
That place where we had the
pool that we went to. Oh yeah.
00:33:46
A few days ago on our trip. Yes.
00:33:49
My favorite part was when we went to
00:33:54
the pool and I met that
00:33:58
viol litter girl who was like one.
00:34:03
And that was your
favorite part with mommy.
00:34:05
But what about the time you
were flying the kite with mommy?
00:34:07
I remember one time you saying that
was your favorite time when we were out
00:34:12
there. You said, this is
my favorite time ever.
00:34:14
Well, mommy, wait, was it when
we were at that parent hole?
00:34:19
Tell that I like to go all the way
up to the tippy top of the stairs.
00:34:24
I think.
00:34:25
So.
00:34:25
Well my, so a very long time ago,
00:34:29
mommy showed me a peek of our new kites
00:34:34
yesterday and I was like this,
00:34:38
I felt Sea Manville going
on height to jump off
00:34:43
a clip.
00:34:45
We're not doing no clip jumping yet. Okay,
I got one last question for you guys.
00:34:50
Are you guys ready? Yep. Okay.
Okay, so here's the last question.
00:34:53
If you could say anything
to Mommy that would make her
00:34:57
really happy for Mother's
Day, what would it be?
00:35:02
And think of something from
the heart, not just anything.
00:35:06
Think of something from the heart.
00:35:07
If you could think of anything you could
say to mommy how you feel about mommy.
00:35:12
My.
00:35:12
Gosh, this one's very,
this one's impossible.
00:35:14
Do you remember how I
answered the first question?
00:35:17
Yes. This one's.
00:35:18
Too impossible. Just speak.
00:35:21
From the heart. It doesn't have
to be that you can't say, but.
00:35:24
I think I could say, I'm
going to give you a present,
00:35:29
but I didn't tell her that it
was a candy cane and wrapping
00:35:34
paper. No, I dunno. That.
00:35:37
You did give her, I remember you
wrapped up a present for her.
00:35:40
I dunno if that was.
00:35:42
But what's the one thing you would
tell mommy if you could say anything?
00:35:46
Just to make her happy. If you
wanted to make mommy happy,
00:35:49
what would you tell her?
00:35:50
That I would give her flippers.
00:35:53
Flippers.
00:35:54
Flowers.
00:35:55
Flowers. Flowers. Okay.
Not What about you,
00:36:00
Daniel? What about you, Daniel?
00:36:01
What would you tell Mommy
to make her happy and smile?
00:36:04
Oh my gosh, this one's very hard.
00:36:09
Yeah,
00:36:11
but you are always so I love when
you know something that I am jealous
00:36:15
of that I love. I saw you. Was
it, I dunno, a few days ago,
00:36:20
a week ago when you were
crossing mommy's face,
00:36:23
you were running your fingers along
Mommy's face on Mother's Day and just
00:36:27
telling her how much. No, no, on,
no, it's not Mother's Day yet.
00:36:31
But you were just, I think we were just,
00:36:34
maybe we were downstairs or something.
I can't remember what it was,
00:36:37
but she wasn't feeling
well. That's what it was.
00:36:40
I mean, last Mother's day.
00:36:42
No, no, no. It was like
a couple weeks ago.
00:36:44
She wasn't feeling well and you wanted
to make her feel better and you were
00:36:48
running your hands on her face
and it was just so cute to me.
00:36:53
And I think Mommy talked about it for
like a week. She loved it so much.
00:36:58
Wait, I forgot it was a week
ago, so I said Mother's Day.
00:37:02
Yeah. Okay, so tell me why you did that.
00:37:07
Why did you want to do that for mommy?
00:37:10
I just don't know how to
represent how much I'd love.
00:37:15
I would do anything for her. So
that's the best I could come up with.
00:37:21
A ring wouldn't be $1 trillion,
00:37:24
so I had to make it $1 billion.
00:37:28
Okay. You guys are so awesome.
00:37:33
We made Mommy some beautiful Mommy's
Day cards that we're going to give her
00:37:39
and I can't wait to give her those. And
if we can't wait to give her flowers,
00:37:42
we can't wait to take her out for
dinner. We're going to have so much fun,
00:37:45
right?
00:37:47
Yes.
00:37:48
Can you just do me a favor and say,
happy Mother's Day in the microphone.
00:37:54
Happy Mother's Day. Mommy's Apus.
00:37:58
Angel baby.
00:38:00
Thank you guys for listening to this
episode of the Pretty Punk Podcast.
00:38:06
Well, that wasn't Corey.
Sorry I jumped over you.
00:38:08
That's okay. Thank you for listening
this week. God bless you all.
00:38:12
God bless the mamas that are living
their best life. Mother's Day,
00:38:16
the mommies that are
just going through the
00:38:21
trenches, all the mommies,
00:38:23
whatever moment you
are in your motherhood,
00:38:28
God bless you guys.
00:38:29
You're doing an incredible job
and you are chosen for this.
00:38:34
You really were. God bless you. I love
you guys so much. You guys are amazing.
00:38:38
And I'll see you guys next week.
00:38:41
Thank you for listening to this
special episode of the Pretty Punk
00:38:46
Podcasts. Make sure that I can
subscribe and leave a review.
00:38:50
God bless, love.
00:38:51
You. Thank you for listening.
00:38:54
I hope that change your life God. See.
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