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Commemorating One Year of 'Time for bRUNch': Favorite Moments, Powerful Conversations, and Future Plans
Can you believe that it's been a year already? Time sure flies when you're having fun, and fun is exactly what we've had since launching Time for bRUNch. In this celebratory episode, we take a nostalgic stroll down memory lane, reminiscing about the highlights of the past year.
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From riveting roulette runs to enlightening interviews with guests like Jeff Galloway and Brittany Charboneau, we've been privileged to share some truly inspiring stories and unforgettable moments with you, our listeners.
One of the most significant reflection points in this episode is a look back at some of the more impactful conversations we've had.
We pay tribute to those episodes that touched on important topics, such as staying safe on your run with Nicole Snell of 'Girls Fight Back' and the work that still needs to be done to make running truly inclusive with Alison Mariella Desir 'Running While Black'; these discussions were not only powerful, but they've also broadened our perspectives on the world of running.
And, who could forget the sentimental Mother's Day episode where Coach Shelby had the cherished opportunity to share the mic with her mother.
Looking ahead, we're brimming with excitement about the potential guests and conversations that await us.
We discuss personalities such as Aliphine Tuliamuk, whose tenacity is ardently admired, and Serena Lyn of Living by Disney, whose craft is undeniably value-adding. We also share our dream of hosting Molly Seidel, a fervent advocate for mental health.
As we anticipate the coming year, we want to hear from you, our listeners. What were your favorite parts of the past year, and what do you hope to see in future episodes? Join us for this special celebration, and let's continue this amazing journey together.
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Hey friends, coach Shelby and Coach Christine, welcoming you in and letting you know it's time for French, where here there is always an open table, a hot cup of coffee and endless running fun to keep you moving and grooving. So, whatever you're doing today, it is a special day At least it is here at French because it marks our one year pot-aversary and we're celebrating all month long, not just today with my kooky dances, before we record Coach Christine telling all of her I love that stories and, of course, lots and lots of coffee, christine, it's our one year pot-aversary.
Speaker 2:I'm so excited, so officially, our very first episode that was aired an entire. I can't believe it feels like a lifetime ago. And it feels like it was just yesterday at all.
Speaker 1:at the same time, I was so young and sprightly back then.
Speaker 2:You're a whole whopping years older, so our very first trailer that we recorded was August 4th, the first official long brunch that was aired at the welcome. We're here. We are excited to share brunch with everybody. It was on August the 6th, so we're going to celebrate the entire month of August, which I think it makes oh my gosh, it makes a lot of sense if we're going to use a little bit of horoscope. It makes our podcast officially a little bit of a Leo system, with that Ride energy, which I love you know, I love my lionesses I could talk about them all the time and, I believe, a little bit of Virgo energy too which I love how we're like making our podcast like a full blown human.
Speaker 1:It goes back to like marketing one on one, like make your avatar. It's like our podcast has a life of its own.
Speaker 2:I mean actually, like the Leo, virgo cusp makes a lot of sense for our podcasts and our personalities and how we like tackle all of these episodes. I think the Leo, I mean I feel a little bit of that lion energy here. So we are super excited. We have had so much stuff in the works. We have been talking about this pod anniversary for quite some time. We knew that we want to do something special.
Speaker 2:So, friends, you have likely maybe seen when you pull up your podcast yet through Apple or Spotify, that we have added the time for brunch plus the monthly supporter level, and we are beyond stoked and I think it's fair to say, coach, that we did some research.
Speaker 2:We talked to other people in the podcasting industry. We looked at other premiums and like, what can we possibly bring to the table to make sure that we are expressing our gratitude for everybody who's willing to listen to us, who takes us along for their long runs, who's been there for us this entire year and who may choose to come on and support us monthly with a contribution. I can't tell you how stoked I am about the brunch bundle that has been kind of played out, but we've decided that we want to thank everyone. So, at every single level, if you become a supporter for the month of our pod anniversary, you're going to get a special gift in the mail, which I think is always a lot of fun. Don't you love just actually going to the mailbox and getting something that isn't just bills or junk mail?
Speaker 1:Yes, I actually love going to get the mail. I always think I secretly hope there's going to be a check from some relative. I didn't know. They're like, hey, we haven't talked in a while but here's like a million dollars. I don't think that's going to happen, but you know, putting it out into the universe just in case. But we are getting a little head of ourselves because there are going to be four levels and we have the espresso bruncher, the latte brunch lover, the caffeine crusaders and the VIP coffee connoisseurs. All of that information is going to be in episode notes. But yes, everybody who comes on and supports us during our pod anniversary month is going to get a special, special little something, something in the mail. I don't know, should we make that like a full blown surprise? It's going to be a limited edition, so I mean this only going to be for a month anyway.
Speaker 2:I think we, just to kind of tease and tantalize a little bit, we're going to make it a surprise surprise for the podcast. If you guys want more details, then it is definitely time for you to have joined the time for brunch community on Facebook, because we'll drop in a little bit more details there. But, yes, every single level will have its own special perk, if we should say a little coffee perk there, since we're playing off of the coffee that we both know and love. Whether we're team sweet or team savory captains, we're always going to love our coffee. But we also love every single listener, every single supporter who has helped us get to this part of the of our journey.
Speaker 2:So I can't wait though, coach. I mean, I'm super stoked about this. I'm also super stoked that in this conversation, we're going to have a little bit of a retrospective and we're going to talk a little bit about all the plans that we have for the future I shouldn't say all plans, but some of the fun plans that we would love to have in the future. We're also wanting to hear from everybody who's rolling through here and who's been with us Some of your favorite memories. So we're going to share some of our favorite memories from our Pot of Restory this last year, but we really want to hear some of your favorite memories. So, coach I know you put this together, you have that out in the newsletter Want to give some details about what we are hoping folks will share with us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we want to share, because we're going to be sharing a lot of our highlights in this episode, a lot of what we've learned, what we've really enjoyed over this past year and we know that this has been a year for you all as well. We want to hear did you get a new PR? Did you get back into running? Did you have one of the funnest runs you've ever had? All of that is what we want to know. So, while it may be hard to pick three, we're looking for you to pick three. We don't have to be in any specific order. I'm not going to be that mean and make you pick one, two and three, but bonus points if we maybe get a picture with it too, because, as we know, we're trying to still make shoofy happen and selfies are happening. So, you know, share a little bit of love. Tag us. We want to see your smiling faces, because you guys get to see our mugs being posted everywhere, and we want to share in the goofy, sweaty selfies with you.
Speaker 2:Yep, absolutely so. Hashtag TFFrench it's still the go to for us, but it'll find you, if you're not sharing it in the community page, so we can make sure that we reshare all over the places. With that said, coach kind of alluded a little bit to not being mean. You don't have to pick your three in order. We are. However, I was that mean, so starting it off right out of the gate. Coach, bring in. We're going to talk about our top five favorite episodes, which is so incredibly hard, I think, because it is like picking your favorite running shoe or your favorite child. There's so much loving care that goes into each of these episodes, but I am going to make you rank them, so I'm going to kick it off with you. Start with your number five.
Speaker 1:I do have to laugh when anybody tells me to pick my favorite child. It's like, oh, I only have one child, so it's really easy.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's, a little easier.
Speaker 1:Yes, I would probably say my number five would be our Dr Google episode. I had a lot of fun with that.
Speaker 2:That is so funny. Okay, so tell me why you felt like that was like just tickled you. Is it just because you had a lot of fun?
Speaker 1:or I think in all honesty, like once I had the idea for the Dr Google episode. It just took on a life of its own and ever since we did that, I probably say, well, let me ask Dr Google at least 30 times a day, and it just always brings me back to that episode, and it does. It makes me giggle and I like the fact that we're telling people not to Google and then at the same time on our show all the randomisms were like huh, let me Google it. So it's just, it's very, it's very funny that it's like part of our personality, like Google everything except for running stuff. For running stuff, come to us, for if you want to know the definition of gritty or something like that, then you can turn to Google.
Speaker 2:I do love Google, so I'm not. I could see where there would be some some appreciation for that. It didn't make my top five, to be honest, but I will tell you what made my top five, and this was. I don't even know that I can really actually say that this is the number five spot. It should maybe rank higher because I loved it so much and this was one of, I would say, a quirky idea. That was your brainchild and it was when you first told me it. I was like there is no way that's going to work, like literally zero way that we're going to make that happen. But ending up making it happen, even if we weren't necessarily successful, made me giggle so much and that was our one word answer only workout. It was a quick bite and we obviously we only tried it for a quick bite, but I think we were recording it for the record.
Speaker 2:We were also preparing for a hurricane that time of year we were. There's a lot of times that we bash record because we need to put things into the hopper. We've got the things going on. This particular time we're preparing for not maybe potentially having electricity for a few days if we were lucky. So we wanted to make sure yeah, no big deal, we're planning evacuation, trying to, you know, keep everybody's nice and safe. Also, make sure that we get these episodes out into the world. And you brought forward hey, let's try to do a one word answer and I'm like, yeah, that's going to be lame. Oh, because it's going to be a lot of dead air. Where did I think it was going to be so much fun? So number five, right out of the gate, and it maybe even should rank a little higher for me.
Speaker 1:I think that's hilarious because again it's like we thought that we only had the brain power for one word and then our word vomit just kind of came out. But again we were. We were trying new things.
Speaker 2:We were so bad at it, but it was so much fun being so bad at it.
Speaker 1:to be honest, as you were just describing it, I'm like, listen, I have a lot of weird hair braid ideas that sometimes don't make a lot of sense until we fully bake them. So I was like I don't know which one this is going to be and I don't know where it's going. But yeah, that was a good one. That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:Okay, so that was my number five. Let's take it up to our number four slot.
Speaker 1:What would that be for you, coach. I think when I interviewed you for Tokyo when I did not give you like any heads up, I think just because you were so nervous with it and it was so much fun to put you in the hot seat and get to interview you because, again, we talk a lot but there's still things like I don't know about you or didn't know about your running and I liked being able to kind of play with the fact like welcoming you to the brunch table, like you had never even heard about the show.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I think, just because it's quirky, like us and then again, being able to talk to you as a runner, versus necessarily as a coach, is always a really fun, a fun thing that not everybody else gets to see that we do behind the scenes, and I think it just went to reminder by like, we are runners at heart. And then I felt really bad after the episode aired because then you did break your toe and I'm like why on earth did I even ask anything?
Speaker 2:And I honestly I felt really guilty for like two weeks after you shouldn't have had nothing to do with you. Um, you know, it's just that suitcases fault and actually mine for being just a little too harried.
Speaker 1:But have you thrown it out yet? I don't think so. I don't think so.
Speaker 2:actually, it isn't time out, though it's not in the house Like it's like in time out and we're like we have way too many luggage and suitcases because whatever, but that's not a hint of there.
Speaker 1:Did you bring that one to Tokyo?
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, I was out of that. Yeah, yeah, I hated it.
Speaker 1:It's still got to make the trip.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it had to. Wow, you're a good luggage mom.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was definitely it was a weird one for sure. So that one was tough for me because it is like you said, and I think there's a lot of, when we talk, while we want to make sure that we're authentically us, we want to make sure that we're also engaging the individuals that are listening. So it was that one was a tough one for me, but I did enjoy it. I think he did a great job. I didn't make my top list either, but I'm sure you won't be surprised that for me, number four on my list it is hard to rank them, for the record was our.
Speaker 2:It was a long run episode where we had our favorite running podcast books. I think that was so much fun Music for you and movie recommendations. So for me, again, I feel like it's so much fun when we have an opportunity to blend our personalities. So I am a podcast junkie. I probably have 5,000 subscriptions to podcasts and, as you know, like books, like all orphan books, have a home with me for the rest of our lives. So I love my books, I love my podcasts and you are the music and movie pop culture queen. So that was such a great time for us to like, blend our personalities and our points of references.
Speaker 1:That one almost made my list and for the record I don't know if he actually said this beforehand Our list. We did not share each other with our list, like we have our shared document. We purposely did not put it in. So but yeah, that one, I had it in my top five and it got moved.
Speaker 1:So it's really funny that that one made it to yours, but that is a really good one, and I do have to laugh, though, like you say, I'm the music and movie connoisseur. But yet in our summer training group we are talking about Christmas movies and I saw one out of like the 15 that were mentioned and I felt like a fraud.
Speaker 2:I had to be honest. I think you need to do your homework, because I was shocked because I assumed that you had seen them all. I think I've seen two that were mentioned. I remember, for Christmas of course, my favorite ever and one of our athletes in big shout out because it made me giggle was die hard. Am I going to sell that one?
Speaker 1:I've never seen that one. The only one I saw that was listed was elf, because we did for reference in our summer training group. So it was a Christmas in July episode, so it wasn't as random as it sounds.
Speaker 2:But it doesn't pretty random when you put it that way.
Speaker 1:But no, that was a really good one. So my third this is really really difficult, I feel like as we get closer to the top, I'm going to say my third is our running roulette, one that just came out.
Speaker 2:That one like oh my God, seriously, how many times have you actually run it? Because I don't tend to run things like I don't. There's people who tend to like like to repeat things from a comfort level and they call it like comfort TV or comfort movie watching or whatever it is. I'm not a huge on repeat person. This one was so much fun that I demand we bring it back. Like I'd love to see it be like a monthly kind of experience, either for our premium workout group or the podcast. I don't know, but I love it so much.
Speaker 1:I think too, for me, hearing everybody's feedback like I would probably say this was one of, if not the top, episode that I've gotten so many messages on, and just the pure joy it brought people and because, again, we shared it with our one on one athletes before it went out to the world, and I think it's because we get so much more FaceTime with them and they get to know us differently as coaches. I think the fact that it still tickled them so much was even better, and the fact that everybody was trying to figure out what vegetable they were like this was hard hitting stuff. So I think just all of it like not only was just a great episode, but just seeing how much joy it brought everybody else, it really it was like the epitome of what we do here at brunch.
Speaker 2:To me, yeah, I would agree. It was again one of the weirder, quirkier kind of things that you worked really a long time on again from when we interviewed Jeff Galloway which actually brings me to my next one on the list is actually talking to Jeff Galloway Now. We've seen him out run Disney. We know he always has a line of folks waiting for him. We hear him in the mornings at run Disney.
Speaker 2:We're lucky enough to be able to coach with him back in the day, but bringing him onto the podcast that specific day and just hearing him talk about his love obviously too, you know I'm a geek, so I love all of the fact that he has all this incredible knowledge in his noggin that he is so willing to share with folks.
Speaker 2:I think that's what it comes down to. He's not gatekeeping his information. While he has a plethora of ways for you to gain this information that would produce revenue for him, like books or whatever you know his training programs he's not gatekeeping it Like. He will absolutely share this knowledge with folks in every capacity possible, and I honestly feel like I left that conversation wanting to go out for a run and wanting to really just go the distance, and sometimes we lose our love of running and having him just remind me of why it's such a beautiful gift that we have to give to ourselves. So that was definitely next on my list and, very hard for the record, I was hesitant to pick a guest for any of the top five because, again, how do you pick? We've had such incredible guests come on, I mean all of them and wonderful.
Speaker 1:I almost had Jeff in my top five too, it was. This was really difficult. Mm, hmm, mm hmm, Because I don't think I will say, even though in one of my picks I do have a guest. It's not that I loved our guests and need less, but it's actually the next one on my list.
Speaker 2:Okay, so which one is it? Brittany Charvino, how could she not be on your list, girl, I look?
Speaker 1:again, I love all of our guests, but I think, for me, having Brittany on, I followed her for so long and I think she was one of the first pro runners that I felt a true kinship with, like back before the podcast, before we coached on an app or any of that, she was one. I watched her documentary by Rob Stanger and it just it spoke to me. So being able to meet her and to interview her and she's so she's even better than you can imagine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I think wholeheartedly.
Speaker 1:I think for me, like, given all of that backstory, I couldn't. I couldn't not have her on my list and it was really hard not to put her in my number one, to be honest. So she is number two, but my number one will be self-explanatory. Why.
Speaker 2:Okay, so she's number two on your list. Let's explain to you a little bit more about how fabulous it was because, again, when we first started as a podcast reaching out to guests, there was a huge chance that most people would leave us on red, or more us, because we had really. Everybody's time is valuable and they want to come onto a podcast that has a little bit more polished proof of a community. All of that jazz, and I don't think she gave like it was just an automatic. Yeah, I'll do it. Like that was it. She told me what time. It was super easy. I think, too, that we may have originally like her reply email may have gotten lost somewhere.
Speaker 2:It got eaten like goblins like the email goblin and it was like super embarrassing, like oh my God, like of course we wouldn't be leaving you on red. There was so much to that, and how sweet she was because afterwards we both received a care package.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, I have those cookies. I just couldn't eat them. I just could not eat them. So I still have them in their perfect, pristine packaging, with her no, and I just, yeah, I'm going to shiv, it's over here.
Speaker 2:So for the record, I put a pull out to my like group girl my girl group I guess I should say and they said eat the cookie. Like you can't, you cannot, you can't preserve those kind of memories. The memory is there. You formed a connection with this person. Eat the damn cookie, and I did, because her husband I mean, well, it was a little bit of playoff of her cookie and of course, sugar tats cookie, Just absolutely amazing. But so so, so, so, so sweet, and I think the cookie or the thought process A little penumpthum. Yeah, I just thought she absolutely exceptional human being, her and her husband, and exceptional in how they were allowing themselves to kind of just not take even this aspect, not even like the promotional aspect of their job, because it is a promotional aspect of their job. It's really hard. She's still added levity to it and joy, which I absolutely loved.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it really. It just, and I will have to say we have been very fortunate that.
Speaker 1:I would say our percentage of people who we asked to come on have said yes, and even the ones that maybe have been not right now, is just too more just scheduling versus unwillingness to come on. So I do have to take a moment, even if all of our guests couldn't make our top five. All of our guests thank you for coming on, for being part of the brunch table, because, seriously, I mean it's, it's pretty humbling in the best way possible.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, I would 100% agree. Okay, so in my top two, number two spot oh my gosh, this is now you're right, it's getting really it's getting hella hard. Not having running roulette on it is very difficult, because I did love that so much.
Speaker 1:It didn't make yours.
Speaker 2:It just it definitely did. But I, because it's also on your list, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to bump it just just for a second and just again, I'm going to take it back to our first episode of this calendar year and I'm going to tell you why I have such a strong connection to this one. Ok, first of all, it was multiple guests where we were able to chat with folks on. It was. It was literally our go big or go home episode, so it was over two hours long. We had we brought in several different guests with several different types of goals, from Trisha tackling her 10 years of perfectly dopey to marathon maniacs. I mean, it was just it was packed with people.
Speaker 2:But this was the first time that I ever attempted to edit in this capacity, having this multiple amount of guests with that amount of tracks, audio tracks that I had to clean up, rejoin then, like, look at how to like, join them in with our transitions and lay under the music bed. This to me, I think, has it. It was quite literally, from a professional standpoint, go big or go home. Just in reaching out to as many people, jostling it around, trying to figure out what order it sounded most compelling for folks that were listening to it, what would be the most inspiring for people to listen to, and then the actual technical aspect of producing it and putting it into the world.
Speaker 2:So for me, this is like when you hear mothers talking about. They went into like 12 hours of labor. This, this is this is the 12 hour of labor of love that I really, really, really enjoyed, and after that we kind of have had those opportunities where we've brought in multiple guests for one episode and it does add quite a bit more of love, let's say, or labor of love on the editing side. But has been so great because I feel like it allows folks that are rolling through to find someone that they really connect with or a goal that they really align with, and that, I think, is a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:It's like your ultra. It was basically like an ultra. I like how my mind goes to alters.
Speaker 2:Yours goes to child labor or like I'm a child, not child labor. I think that laboring a child is scarier to me than an ultra.
Speaker 1:I mean fair enough. But yeah, that was an experience and a half which we are not going to have to delve into, because I, at this point, I honestly, I think I've locked out like 98 percent of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I bet you did, but I have yet not blocked out the labor of love from some of these monster long episodes. But that was definitely my first experience doing it. So, yeah, it hits number two. Now I'm ready for number one. I feel like we should do like a drum roll. I'm super excited though.
Speaker 1:OK, All right. So I'm wondering if this is going to be a surprise or if everybody's going to go with. Oh, that makes sense.
Speaker 2:So wait, oh, is it also? Can I guess? Can I guess a few things. Is it a more recent episode? Is it in the like the last calendar year, or was it from the first six months of us doing it? This calendar year it's going to be nearly.
Speaker 1:No, it's not. It's not. Ok, I'm ready, I'm going for the heartstrings here. It's our Mother's Day episode.
Speaker 2:I love that because you get to talk to your mom.
Speaker 1:Yes, and now I love talking to Rachel and Rebecca and I really do believe both of those stories and both those perspectives were invaluable but unbiased. My favorite guest you've ever had on is my mom.
Speaker 1:Just because it's one of those things where I don't get to share the physical act of running with her. So being able to have her on the show and she's been honestly, my number one supporter through everything and being able to just have her on was something that was really special and I do thank you a lot for letting me have her on and it just oh my gosh, of course, being able to share with, being able to share the mic with her, and just how fun it was. And we're recording side by side, which we also had never done, and that brought in a whole other technical side of figuring out how on earth that was going to work.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I think hands down it'll always be my favorite, just because that was a special opportunity that not everybody gets.
Speaker 2:Oh, I do love that. You know I will say that was going to make my list as well. Actually, all of the ones with multiple guests have been really special. They have they're probably all the episodes to that have a record numbers of me saying I love it or I love that because it's so fun to talk to individuals in here, so much about them or what makes them tick. So I will 100 percent agree. There is something super duper, duper special about that. For the record, this is so hard for me to do a number one, oh my God, like is almost impossible, but if I have to do it, what you do.
Speaker 2:Oh God like. So for the record, I just want to put it out there. I'm having a hard time with Nicole not making it from Girls Fight Back, not making my number one spot, for a couple of reasons. We had just started podcasting, we had just unfortunately lost a member of the running community and we both felt powerless and wanted to empower people at a time where there was a lot of grief, fear, sadness, all of those emotions. And we reached out to the community and one of our who ended up becoming one of our guests, nikki told us about Nicole with Girls Fight Back. We reached out to Nicole. She was an immediate yes.
Speaker 2:Also, when you look at Nicole's personal list of her media experience, it was probably the one and only time I felt 100 percent intimidated because she has been interviewed by some of what I consider podcast royalty, so I feel like she definitely means a lot. That episode meant a lot to me personally because I'm all about action. So, like for me it's like we had something horrible happen. How can make something beautiful happen? So having that opportunity to have her on and kind of helping folks, like with education and empowering them, definitely it's very close to why I love that one.
Speaker 1:But we'll give it like an. I mean, everybody gets honorable mention, but we'll, we'll include that link with the other links it was like a personalized honorable mention there, because that what I will say. That was another one. Look again, neely's was hard. Nicole Randy, alison, mariela DeSir I mean all of them. Yeah, so many.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, Seriously, like reading, running while black and having her on. That was such a heavy, heavy read, a heavy conversation, a lot of fear of do we say the right things? Because again, two white girls talking about race like what could go wrong? Everything Seriously. So there's, there was a lot to that one as well. Yeah, it was, it's hard.
Speaker 2:But my number one again, there must be something about the hurricane systems or whatever was chicken soup for the runner's soul, and I think why I love that one was because not only was it super, super, super, super sweet was the fact that we were able to. It was after like the hurricane season when we recorded it. There may have been like a late storm, but that's not what really came to mind with it. It was the fact that we were looking for a bit of comfort in our own lives, I think, and relating it back to running and seeing this as an opportunity to really how do we relate that need of comfort that comes along with that chicken soup philosophy, with running, and I think for me it was just exactly what I needed, because we had had quite a few like things happen in progression and we were looking to. We made some really quick actions and we moved really quickly.
Speaker 2:I think that it takes me a little bit longer to process it. So we had hit a point where we were. I was allowing, like we were off that high and it was OK. Now I can process this and I think that for me, this particular episode allowed me like really a lot, like lean into that comfort that I find with running and relating it back to chicken soup tenants the top 10. I just loved it. It was a lot of fun, it was very, very sweet. It did provide a bit of extra levity and yet a lot of extra love to for like when I actually went on to run with it.
Speaker 1:So that was definitely a fan favorite too, it was just so.
Speaker 2:it was perfect. It really was perfect. Perfect timing, I mean, even when you just go back to the most basic principle of, like, the tenet of chicken soup is taking it one small, small step at a time with everything that you do in life, but specifically with running, I think, was exactly what I needed, because I think actually I was on the fence whether or not I was going to train for Tokyo when we recorded that and I wasn't really sure. And I think that that episode kind of helped to see, yeah, you know what, just take one step at a time, christine, and figure it out Like it. There's no reason to say absolutely yes or absolutely no, but make that commitment and see how it feels, as long as you're going through it.
Speaker 1:I think I did the same at that time when I was trying to figure out if I was really going to run New York or not. Wow, Wow, God, yeah. Again it feels like a lifetime ago and you did run Tokyo and I am not running New York. So I mean we got a 50 50. Well, you're not running New.
Speaker 2:York this year, but you also did come to a realization that you needed something very different in your life at this time. Yes, so, with that said, we've got our top five. We can't wait to hear from you guys on your top three running memories of the past year or, you know, we break the rules around here if it's maybe not in the past year, but it's still a favorite memory of yours, it touches your heart, feel free to share it. We can't wait to celebrate with you. I think now is the time, though, where we talk about our next top five list, as we look forward to many, many, hopefully very many recordings in the future.
Speaker 2:We're going to talk about guests. You've heard us talk a little bit about how hard it is to choose guests in terms of our favorites, because everybody brought so much specialness to it, but there is no doubt that we want to continue reaching out and opening the door and talking to guests, and I'm curious about your top five. I we again don't know who's like. Where is your top five? And I'm not going to make you pick it in order at this point. I think at this point it would be. It would be super hard.
Speaker 1:I do have to laugh, though I don't have five, but I think three things that we need to stop saying in the next year is we both say I love that, no, I say so, yeah, and then you. With that being said, so we have one each and then a joint one. I realized I was listening to a recording the other day. I'm like we said so much.
Speaker 2:We should probably have that as our top five, the top five things that we say the most. Neither here nor there is definitely something I think I've said since I was six, so I'm pretty sure that's going to be hard to take out.
Speaker 1:I started taking the let's unpack that.
Speaker 2:I really do want to unpack that, though, so let's go tell me your, your list. Who do you have on?
Speaker 1:it. Ok, one of my dream guests be Alaphine Tilema. I love her and it shouldn't surprise you that I open up with an elite. But I hadn't known about her until the 2020 Olympic trials. And she's freaking amazing. Like, even if you haven't followed her, you don't know her. If you go on her social media account, she is so full of life, she's so open and the tenacity that she has is, I mean, just it's quite breathtaking, to be honest, and seeing how she is so proud to be here in the US while being so proud of her roots, and how she's bringing that into her running and to her parenting and for day to day life. I just I love Alaphine so much OK.
Speaker 2:so now my curiosity is your top five, or the, I would say, the five people that you would love to have on the show. Will they all be elites?
Speaker 1:They're not all elites, they're not.
Speaker 2:OK.
Speaker 1:They're not all elites.
Speaker 2:I think it'll be interesting if I have any elites on my list for the record I'm going to be fair.
Speaker 1:Only one's not in the lead.
Speaker 2:OK, I was going to say uh-huh, uh-huh, ok. So for me, a dream guest is Serena Lin, by Living by Disney. So, friends, if you guys are coming to Disney, if you're planning on a Disney trip in the future. She is not a run Disney blogger at all, so she doesn't run, but she has what I consider one of the most positive blogs regarding run Disney or regarding Disney, specifically Disney World. So she's not Disneyland, she's Disney World.
Speaker 2:And the reason why I love Serena Lin is because she's dedicated to her craft, and I know people think you're going to Disney every day. How is that dedicated to your craft? But she churns out her content with such beautiful consistency, professionalism, poshness, she's there, she takes it super seriously. So even though she does it with a smile, even though she's having lots of fun, she still always remembers that there's somebody on the other side of it. She wants to make sure that it's something that she's bringing them a lot of value to, what it ever it is that she's bringing to the table. So, from a business perspective, I respect her greatly.
Speaker 2:From what she provides, I love it, but I also just love how she does it with a smile. She's just got this really warm personality and she recently just started her own podcast. So congratulations to her. And I don't fan girl very much, but I do think that if I was to see her at the parks I would probably not go up to her, but it would be hard to not be like, oh my God, there's Serena, because I'm sure I would do that. But yeah, I would love to have her on because I do believe that she brings again for folks who are thinking of coming to Disney World, tons and tons of great information. So Serena, with Living by Disney, is definitely on my list.
Speaker 1:Oh, she's a good one. I'd love to have her on.
Speaker 2:Isn't she adorable.
Speaker 1:Oh, I think we, I think we just love, we just love people who are putting fun and good out.
Speaker 2:Yes, I think it's what it is and then also from the other perspective of it, looks really outwardly fun, and that's what her business is is to make it look enjoyable. What we're not seeing is the fact that she's there with the in parks for, you know, eight hours when it's 108 to freeze, and having to deal with that, still come back home and turn out a content with her newsletter and editing and the amount of video editing that she has to do. So I think that we literally only see the highlight rails, which is her finished product, and it's a gorgeous product and for me, from a business perspective, I just value so much of what hard work goes into it.
Speaker 1:I think that's kind of like what we said about like on the quick fights. But our hundredth episode, quick fights, it's one of those where it's like, well, we have a ton of fun, yeah, but then you don't see all the iceberg below of like a hunched over a computer, looking like a gremlin, like trying to edit things. And I'm doing this like hunched over with like gremlin nails.
Speaker 2:Well, she's definitely one of the guests that I would love to have on, so tell me, who else do you have on your list? Molly Seidel.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I love Molly Seidel.
Speaker 2:Girl it's going to be. This is yet another one of those wonderful opportunities where our differences are definitely going to shine through. Okay, so Molly is on your list. Molly's fabulous yes, but tell me more, why? Like, why does she tick off? Like what would you want to ask her?
Speaker 1:I think I want to ask her all of the fun things that she doesn't get asked to interview. So she she's a great proponent of mental health. She's been very honest about her struggles with mental health, eating disorders and kind of all of the the not so great parts of the journey she's had to go through and the struggles. But I'd like to just talk like a normal brunch, like she's a, she loves beer. She's a beer connoisseur. I'd love to talk about her favorite beer. I've loved to talk about her doing her costumes. If she'd ever do run Disney because she does do her turkey trot and her thing, I think all of the fun parts that we love. I'd love to just sit down and talk to her as a runner, not as Molly Seidel, the elite athlete and having to be on that pedestal. I think it'd be a really fun conversation to just get to know her versus again trying to make her that elite and, even though she's done amazing work running and for opening up conversations, just kind of letting her have an interview just to be her.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, as you're talking about that, I'm curious who the listeners would like to see us have on the show, cause it's interesting that when I tend to ask folks like, hey, give me your feedback or constructive criticism, what do you like, what don't you like I don't have them call out our guests as much. So I love you guys. Let us know who should we be trying to get onto the show. Who really would make you like? I'm like yeah, I need to download this, I want to listen, I can't wait to like share my miles with them because, at the end of the day like especially with running, why I feel like relationships are so like solidified through running, is because there's something about that shared. It's a very intimate experience. You get to hear this person, you're running side by side with them, and that's kind of what I hope that we gain from the podcast is that folks feel like they're feeling like they're running with their friends. So who would you want to hear? I'd love to. I'd love folks to let us know. I'm not going to lie. This person on my list is somebody that I guarantee you would not have guessed. But now that I say this, you're going to understand why our Instagram algorithm is a little weirder.
Speaker 2:I love Oprah. I would so love to have Oprah. I love everything about this woman. I love her scrappiness, I love her history, I love how hard she works, I love her relationship and how she handles her relationship and how she talks about her relationship. And I love that she's a media mogul. I love that to this day.
Speaker 2:This may mean that she has a bit of control issues. Yes, oprah, I'm saying it, she still knows where her finances are in terms of she did not turn over like check writing to an accountant. She still, like, actually signs each check, even if it's a huge stack, because she wants to know where money is going. What is she valuing with her money? What is she investing in? She's an incredible philanthropist, which is something that I would only hope to be able to be at some point in my life. So, yeah, I would love love. I mean, she ran the Marine Corps Marathon. There is a whole hashtag of be Oprah's time and she did it in a really respectable time. So I would love to talk to her about all things that make her an increase, like not just a brand and an empire, but just make her tick.
Speaker 1:It doesn't surprise me, as funny as it is Like I wouldn't have thought it. But now that you do say Oprah, of course she'd want Oprah. Yeah for sure, I mean ever Like I literally love her so much I still remember watching the episode when I was younger, when she gave away everybody, like having a car.
Speaker 2:I would love to do that one day, like Oprah, like if I could ever follow somebody's path, not just because of her success, but because of how she's pursued her success in giving back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think she's brilliant. So would we give away cars or running shoes?
Speaker 2:I think everybody who's rolling through here would prefer running shoes.
Speaker 1:Like if the running shoes were in a car. Hold on, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2:I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. Full of running shoes, I would probably take a lifetime of running shoes over a car. Okay now you gotta let us know too Would you take a car or a lifetime of running shoes?
Speaker 2:I mean it depends if, like what are like the dotted line kind of contract, can you sell the cars, you can buy a lifetime of running shoes and race fees, because that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1:No, you can't find the loopholes. Christine Gosh, I'm always gonna look for loopholes.
Speaker 2:I'm always gonna look for loopholes. Okay, so who else is on your list? You've had two elites.
Speaker 1:Okay, I actually think I might swap one out, okay, cause now you went with Oprah, so I feel like-.
Speaker 2:I literally went big, like I'm like going home, I'm gonna go big here, I'm gonna swap out one of my elites for Lizzo.
Speaker 1:Yes, who wouldn't want Lizzo? On.
Speaker 2:I have loved Lizzo for like she had me at hello or she had me at hello.
Speaker 2:She literally did, or it's gosh I'm trying to think of, I think, the song that really made me fall madly in love with Lizzo. I will never forget actually hearing it like the first time. It was juice, of course, but it's great. But truth hurts, oh yeah, as good as hell was great and that's what made me go Google her. But truth hurts was like the first one, where I'm like and I actually remember singing it in a car with my girlfriend one time when we were driving through a mountain road, cause I'm scared of driving through mountain roads, and I think that was like the only thing that kind of made me calm down a little bit, cause I felt a little sassiness with it. So, yeah, it was. I love Lizzo, so, yeah, I approve that message.
Speaker 1:I just even like her love. Like I guess there was recently somebody at her concert like said that I came here versus Taylor Swift and she made it a point to say that she loved Taylor Swift too and like make it like this was in a competition.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I really appreciated her. One of my favorite songs is about damn time yeah it's a phenomenal song.
Speaker 2:It really really, really, really, really, really really.
Speaker 1:It's not even just like the dance, which I can't do, Like I'm trying to like pop the chest doing this, but no, yeah, I would. Okay, we're going pie in the sky. I'm putting Lizzo on my list. I didn't realize this list was all about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's our go-pick or go-home kind of list and to be loved for the record is like the cutest little bop, like I can't just help, like I want to do because the dance is kind of like Charlie Brownish and it just is adorable. And I'll never forget trying to practice that tick-tock dance for like three hours. That counts for cardio and cross training.
Speaker 1:So I'm pretty sure too, this is like the one musical reference that we both could talk about together for a while. Like anybody else, I'd be like yeah, they're fine, but it's like, lizzo, your eyes lit up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think you fell in love with me all over again.
Speaker 2:I did. I did Both you and her. You guys had me at hello for sure. It's about damn time, oh man like that. So that makes it tough, okay. So I am going to bring it to the running world a little bit. And again, this isn't going to surprise you.
Speaker 2:I feel like I don't know if it's because I'm older or if it's just how I'm programmed, but I would love Catherine Switzer, just because, again, talk about Trailblazer, talk about somebody who has such a fascinating story.
Speaker 2:Reading her autobiography was phenomenal. I still quote it when I'm talking to women that are starting to come into their own power through running, because I don't think that women only can come into their own power through running. I just feel like it's what I've seen, especially since we work with women that are, you know, learning like their boundaries, learning how to assert their boundaries, learning how to be empowered, and usually it's because they feel more confident due to their running. So she talks so poignantly about how coming into her power while being a female caused so many relationship issues in her life, and I love that, I guess. I love the fact that it feels very relatable and it also feels like something that we have to at some point really kind of unearth a little bit, how, when you start to assert yourself, when you become more confident, not everybody's going to love you. You can't be everybody's bestie and you have to be OK with that.
Speaker 1:So like yeah, I do love her for her and, like there's been a lot of misconceptions on her story, she has not been shy about setting the record straight. Where it would have been a lot easier to let other people control, like painting the picture and the narrative and she's like no, no, no, like right, she doesn't have to oversell her story. She's like no, this is what happened and I, I respect the heck out of that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think she's amazing, Seriously. Ok, oh, that's a good one. I know we've got. We've got a great list, let's. I mean, it could only be amazing if we could get like all of them.
Speaker 1:Yes, all of them. If you're listening here, our people, us are trying to get a hold of your people, meaning you All right, next on my list. This is not going to be a surprise to you. I would love to have fellow podcaster Ali Feller on the show.
Speaker 2:I could see that for you.
Speaker 1:Yes, I love Ali. I've followed her for years, I've had the opportunity to have some conversations with her via DM, and she's so sweet, so kind. I know right now she's going through a whole heck of a lot. She just got some great news, though, about her breast cancer journey that everything is a better case scenario than originally thought. But even listening back to some of her beginning episodes, she started not too far off from where we are, and you know just seeing what she's grown, and she's doing it by herself in the fact that she doesn't have a partner like we do, right.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:And she is one of the OGs.
Speaker 2:Without a doubt.
Speaker 1:And again, she's one of those people that I really do believe is as nice as she seems, and I think, not only in the general world, but especially in the running world, I always worry that people aren't going to be as nice as they outwardly have their persona, and she's one of those that I believe is, and we've been fortunate enough to have a lot of guests who are genuinely as nice as they seem. So I think she would be a great addition to the brunch table and I honestly, just in general, again, a cup of coffee. It doesn't have to be recorded, I just think she'd be really fun to talk to.
Speaker 2:I mean, I would love to have her actually recorded though, of course. But yes. I think what's fascinating about her not only has she been doing it forever and, like you said, she is one of the original OGs and not only has she tackled it on her own, but I also love specifically when it comes to her is that she kind of helps to minimize that belief that you have to run a marathon. I mean, I believe she's officially only run two, right?
Speaker 1:Marathon.
Speaker 2:So she's not like running marathons every weekend and that doesn't make her any less a runner. It doesn't make her any less plugged into the industry, and I love that, because I can't tell you how many people I actually run with and they'll be like, well, I'll never do a marathon. So I don't really consider myself a runner and I'm thinking that. So I know that that's something that I'm consciously trying to make sure that I do. You do not have to run any races to still be considered a runner. There are people who just love running and they love it for their mental health and there's just so much value in that, even if you've never decided to go up to a start line. So I think that that's one of my favorite aspects of her, because I don't feel like she concentrates or focuses so much on the finish line, but more along the running and her business as a full journey, and she is a phenomenal interviewer as well.
Speaker 1:She turns and again just ugh. I think all of my people especially, even though some of them are elites and everything. I think, again, my want to have them on isn't because they're elites or, like Ali, the fact that she's well known in the podcasting and the running world, it's just these people really speak to me and I don't care if you have one follower, if you have 10 million followers, like if I connect with you. That's why I want you.
Speaker 2:So what I find interesting about Ali is that in her bio she calls herself a peanut M&M super enthusiast. I know your team's savory, but if you had to take any specific food or a specific candy treat or something of that sort that you would want, that you love so much that you would put it in your bio, what would it be?
Speaker 1:Oh gosh, OK. I went from cookie to croissant to that. I got stuck on the M&Ms and I thought about the pretzel M&Ms, which those are really, really good. I, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I have no idea, it's sweet's hard for me.
Speaker 2:Like savory, I would go pizza, so would you consider yourself in your bio You'd be. You're like I love pizza so much that it's going in my bio? Yeah, probably. I have like a little weird account that I'm following on Instagram where this individual goes to Headstones and I guess that there are women who choose to like leave behind their favorite recipe. It's usually a baked good on their Headstone as like a commemoration of their life and like what they left behind.
Speaker 1:What do you follow? You're messing up our algorithm.
Speaker 2:I love this account so much because now she's like she's going home and she's writing it down and she's going home and she's making these base goods and she brings it back and I just it's really kind of cute. It's very, very sweet and also a little, a little quirky and a little dark, and I love all of that, but anyway, that seems like a, like a Dia de los.
Speaker 1:Muertos type of it does. Yeah, type of tradition, but like spreading it all. I actually kind of like that. I don't usually go that style, but yeah it's actually really cute. So our tangents, man? We go from peanut M&Ms to Headstones.
Speaker 2:It's all about food at the end of the day, right, clearly, at the end of the day, for these women that are leaving that behind on their Headstone, it was all about the food, but Allie would be a phenomenal one. I totally think that's a great, great guess. So are we up to three for you on your?
Speaker 1:top five. I think that was my fourth. Was it your fourth? Okay, that was my fourth.
Speaker 2:Okay For me. Probably this one's hard for me to decide now, because now we're getting into the territory of where I would want to have every single individual on and it's authors, oh gosh, and every single author that writes a book about running as somebody that I love and would love to talk to. But I'm probably going to have to go to my very first book that I read about running, that I wore little thin pages on, and you guys have heard me talk about it, but Dean Karnazes never even know if I pronounced his name correctly, but he writes about running in a way that I have never been able to have captured for me in the written word any other way. It is so beautiful, it's so eloquent, it's so beautiful of imagery that you can't explain to people when you go off from a run and you come back and you feel that glow. Somehow this man I'm sure he does it on 300 mile runs is able to think of these words and capture them and put them on the written page to where it literally creates comfort for me.
Speaker 2:Actually, just last year I was reading his latest book when my dad was having a heart procedure. Was it last year or the year before? Maybe in the year before, I don't even remember and that's usually something that creates a lot of anxiety for me, and having that book and having him be able to encapsulate those beautiful words was although I couldn't physically be on a run, I was in the lobby by myself waiting for you know, to hear what's going on my dad's procedure. It was able to create that comfort. So this is somebody I would love to talk to. I'd love to know how he is able to encapsulate so eloquently. I also want to talk to his wife, because I think it's a little quirky and I think he may be a little difficult to live with and I want to know how she does it.
Speaker 1:I mean, we could just interview your partner and probably could get similar feedback.
Speaker 2:And he's super quirky too, so I'm thinking that's probably it. So maybe she's quirky as well. So, yeah, I just love everything about his writing style and also think he's super cool and learned a lot about running from him in a way that I don't again. I have never done an ultra, I don't know if I. I think I would definitely will, but love the way that he describes running and I think it makes it really beautiful.
Speaker 1:This is really hard. I feel like I've put down my top, I've put five in 15 different ways and then I'm like, oh, what about this person? What about that person? So again, I know we're not doing this in any particular order, but this is also one that if I had to put in the top spot, I think she might be it Okay. I want to know, are you sure Are?
Speaker 2:you ready.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Hold on, I'm thinking I'm going to shock you. It's an elite, but she's retired, so it's okay.
Speaker 2:I'm hoping that if it's an elite, that it's an elite that I would love on my list too, so that you can, so we can like divvy up the work. Go ahead, allison Felix. Okay, I'm not surprised. This is somebody that I think you would have to have on the podcast.
Speaker 1:She's again. Not only is she an accomplished runner, she's the goat in so many ways, shapes and forms. But what she's done for the movement in that sector of just the maternal care and the maternal needs and I mean she's gone on to have a shoe brand.
Speaker 1:She's literally breaking the mold on so many factors on and off the roads and I think, especially for elites, we put them in a box of okay. After they retire they're going to be coaches and that's going to be the pathway where there's nothing wrong with that. But I think she's gone on to create such a brand and has really driven the point home of what it looks like after the cameras are gone, after the races are done, and I still. One of my fondest memories is seeing her and her daughter in a commercial and I got really excited and my daughter asked me who she was and explained everything and I'm like she fought for other women. And then it was like three weeks later and the commercial came on again and my daughter got really excited and was like mommy, that's Allison, she fought for other women and it just like it made my heart melt, because it's like those are the people I want my daughter to see.
Speaker 1:Those are who I want her to look up to and see as somebody who cares not just about themselves but about others. And while she is an amazing runner, she is and, and and.
Speaker 2:And Ampersand, which we both love.
Speaker 1:Yes. So, I'm going to. I'm going to gush and that's going to be my gush, but Allison feelings.
Speaker 2:She is phenomenal. I do love as well where she's really connected to her faith and it feels to me like she's very, she's open, of every aspect of who she is. So sometimes I feel like we have, we feel compelled to shy away from certain conversations and it feels like with her she's very bold and not necessarily like she just is who she is and she's going to state who she feels and what she feels, and I do love that about her. So, yes, I agree, that would be absolutely an amazing guest to have on. Oh my God, I can't believe. There's no way that we can relate 100% to our final. Are we really down to our final final? Yes, I mean that it doesn't. That it's fun. I'm struggling between believe it or not. An elite and an author, so why not just pick both with Jez, yeah. So Christopher McDougal definitely again. Another book, two, a few books that I love. Great author, would love to have him on. But when I think of a book that has come out recently that I absolutely and loved every aspect of it, and somebody that I still want to just drink bourbon with, it would be Des Linden, so yeah, I think I'd love to have her on.
Speaker 2:I love, for I don't have the same love of elites like you do. Again, I'm always going to be something gravitate towards like an ordinary runner, but I do feel like she's very down to earth and very bold with how she approaches things. But I also love that she's not just a badass, but that she also doesn't seem to mince words Like I don't think she's. She's the kind of person and I feel like I have two people that I gravitate towards. I have the people who like like it's okay, you can just pick yourself up and keep moving forward, but until then, you know, feel your feels, and she's the kind of person that I feel like I would call when I need to be like girl, get your ass up and get to work.
Speaker 2:Like I love that, like I like gravitate towards that aspect and that personality as well. So, yeah, she gives me a lot of that. Again, I think it's fascinating especially when we read our read these types of books that she talks a lot about her own health struggles and talks a lot about her own mental health journey with running and how scary it has to be with that is little your job. So, yeah, I think it's. It's quite interesting.
Speaker 1:It is really interesting, though, that she made your list and I didn't put her on mine, which, as I you're rubbing off on me as I. Well, as I'm looking into it, I think I know the reason why she didn't go on my list.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm curious why.
Speaker 1:Because it scares the hell out of me, because I I hold her in such high regard that I not that I wouldn't be- money for all the other ones, but I think for me, like even more than Lizzo, I would be so free and nervous to interview dads.
Speaker 2:It's funny. That is how I feel about Oprah, but on the other hand, I still think Oprah would be super easy to talk to and actually I think Oprah could interview herself. She would help us walk her through the interview. But yeah, I could see what you're saying. That would be. I think you might. I think you would be super excited to talk to Ally, but I wonder if she would give you a little bit of nerves too.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I think I think for Dez, because she is so dry-witted, which I love. I just, yeah, I don't know. I think she doesn't scare me, but yeah, no, that's intimidating.
Speaker 2:Really she does kind of scare me.
Speaker 1:Which maybe, maybe that's what I need to leave behind next year. Like I say, I shoot my shot a lot, but maybe I need to leave behind that fear, Okay Well let's talk about that as we wrap up this conversation for our official hot anniversary.
Speaker 2:Again, we cannot thank you all enough. Oh my gosh, seriously, I'm so happy being on this journey with us. We're so excited. But let's talk a little bit about what you're going to leave behind. Maybe is that what you're leaning towards, coach.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe, maybe. Okay, I wasn't planning on this, but let's, let's get a little retrospective. It's kind of like a New Year's intention but a pot-aversary intention.
Speaker 2:Okay, what is your pot-aversary intention for time for brunch for TFB specifically?
Speaker 1:or for you or both. The answer is yes. I think this year I'm going to try to be bolder. I feel like I have been bold, but I think there's still room. Like again shooting my shot with Dez and actually formally asking her to come on. Maybe that's something that I need to do. Is those big scary interviews instead of really, because I haven't feared no's, dez, I think is one that I'd fear, a no, oh really yeah.
Speaker 2:I think that she's like somebody who I would be surprised if she said yes, so it doesn't cause me fear at all.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, maybe I need to be a little bit bolder this year and maybe I'll do that. I definitely learned intentions are. They hold a lot of weight. I chose resilience as my word of the year. Yeah, and that that was a big no-no, like don't do that one, because it the world tests you. So I'm going to play it safe with bolder.
Speaker 2:I don't know if you ever want to say that you're playing it safe by the way, as you're beating bolder. I'm playing safe by being bolder.
Speaker 1:I don't know if that works yet, so there's not a lot of interpretation to be had in the universe. Resilience came back and bit me on the butt.
Speaker 2:No, there is much more than you would think. Just wait Um intention, personal and professional. It sounds like that's what you're deciding on, that one right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's beautiful. You couldn't say I love that. You tried not to, didn't you?
Speaker 2:No, actually I didn't even think of it. I really thought how beautiful up it is, just because I love words. So what would my intention be for the new year? Um gosh, like, I keep thinking of just next level. Like I just I'm ready to like level it up, like take everything to the next level, be it personal, professional. I tend to look upward and onward, anyway, but I feel like I'm ready for that next level. So, leveling up, which we're already doing with our continuing education, we're loving up our continuing education so we can continue to serve our athletes more leveling up and the guests that we're hoping to bring for the podcast. Leveling up our big and bold aspect of what we do in our personal running lives. So, yeah, I think that that's it. Like I know that's not one word, but my intention is just to continue to like really get to that next level.
Speaker 1:I feel like ours are basically synonyms of each other.
Speaker 2:They're very similar. I think you have to be bolder to level up, for sure.
Speaker 1:Well, and I definitely think professionally I'm getting better and we're gonna work on this year at loving all of your calendars and spreadsheets, but I do have to say you're embracing a little bit more of my go with the flow, so together we're helping each other Again going hilarious.
Speaker 2:Going back to that Leo Virgo baby, where the Virgo has to plan every aspect of every like single day, like 60 minutes. All 60 minutes have to be full. That'd be a Virgo personality and Leo is just like bold and roaring. So we'll have to continue that through. We're gonna be bold, we're gonna plan some, we're gonna take, tackle things on our own and be prideful. So I think, yeah, that's perfect. So let's take that. Now let's talk about our recipes. Surprise me with it's our one year anniversary. You're bringing me brunch in bed. What am I getting from Team Savory?
Speaker 1:I'm like, are you afraid like that? Like what are you serving up? And it better be good. I'm gonna bring you breakfast tacos.
Speaker 2:Cause I feel like we've talked. You can't talk about food. I mean, I say I love that We've talked about tacos.
Speaker 1:So much on the regular podcast, on the premium podcast. We need tacos in our life.
Speaker 2:I literally think that every premium podcast talks about tacos, because and I quite literally have more comments from the athletes on the taco aspect because we talk about it when we're it's usually in the middle of a really hard workout we talk about tacos. So, yeah, I like that. Bring me tacos, thank you.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna bring you tacos and really I wonder if it's cause a lot of our recording does happen on taco Tuesday. I just thought about that.
Speaker 2:It totally is because of that, without a shadow of a doubt.
Speaker 1:So if anybody has a taco business that wants to sponsor us, I mean, apparently we are taco-bouting that love. Ha ha, ha, ha ha.
Speaker 2:I feel like it's harder to give you something that you might like because you are so not team sweet, I'm quirky, I mean. So what I'm going to do, without a shadow of a doubt, is something Mickey shaped, and I'm going to bring you some of those Mickey goodies and a Mickey shaped waffle with some really lovely toppings. So a little bit of Nutella, a little bit of some sliced strawberries and bananas, and yeah, so-.
Speaker 1:Can I have it on the side?
Speaker 2:Of your breakfast, tacos or the Nutella on the side. No, I want the Nutella on the side. Wait, like so. I'm giving you a gift and I'm making you breakfast. At that, you're going to say no Welcome to my marriage. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Uh-uh, I know you're eating Nutella.
Speaker 1:Ha ha, ha, ha ha. I do laugh, though. We did go back into the archives of our very first recipe shared and I did have to laugh that I picked this one. It was a vegan apple cider donut, yeah, and we realized that our team sweet and our team savory battle didn't start for a while and yeah, so maybe I am secretly team sweet. Just again, I have guidelines.
Speaker 2:I think you're fairly team sweet as long as we Mickey shape it. So I feel like I could sell you anything with a Mickey shape and you'll be down like a Mickey shaped donut and Mickey shaped. As long as it's Mickey shaped, I can get you to agree which Mickey shaped beignets I mean that would be another great one too.
Speaker 1:Those are. Okay, I'm gonna, after we're done recording this, I'm gonna hop in my car and I'm coming up and we're gonna get cappuccinos and beignets. Okay, then we'll do breakfast.
Speaker 2:Tacos tomorrow Okay, perfect deal, all right. Well, all about that. Coffee. Love guys, we do love you all and we appreciate all the love that you keep coming back our way. Do celebrate the Pottery with us this year. We can't wait to see some of your favorite memories.
Speaker 2:If you have some of the guests that you would like to see here, or maybe some of the things that you'd like to see us discuss, or you wanna share some of your favorite episodes, we'd love to hear all about it.
Speaker 2:And then time for brunch community. So go ahead and join it, if you haven't already, and if you're looking for more info and you're thinking you know what I'd like to support them and what they do, then, yeah, just use that link in our episode notes so you can learn all about all of the great perks that you get at each support level. Until then, friends, we have so much fun planned for you in this Potiversary month. It is gonna be jam packed. You're definitely gonna wanna subscribe so that they're just automatically downloaded to your cell phone and you're ready to go for your run, or maybe when you're doing that monster marathon of laundry, whatever it takes to be able to get through that day or those miles. Until then, we wanna thank you so very much. Join us for quick bites it comes in dropping on Wednesdays with our new series and, of course, for long brunch on Friday again, friends, we're gonna continue for the next year, serving up more miles with a side of smiles.
