Hot Smart Rich with Maggie Sellers Reum - Morgan Riddle: Never Let A Man Pay For Your Lifestyle! The $1M Exit Strategy That Bought Back My Freedom

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

Morgan Riddle, lifestyle creator and co-founder of The 400 Club, joins Maggie Sellers Reum for an exclusive conversation about dating, breakups, financial freedom, and moving on from a high-profile re...lationship with a tennis star… Morgan opens up about going from a $75 TikTok brand deal to a seven-figure creator income, building her own money inside a life that looked perfect online, and why financial freedom can change whether you stay, leave, or lose yourself in a relationship! Get unselfish access to the insights that will help you own the room. Sign up now https://linkly.link/2jPXJ —------------------------- Timestamps: Intro (00:00:00)The Reality Of WAG Life (00:01:45)Building A Bigger Mission (00:02:37)Why Money Matters (00:03:53)From $75 To Millions (00:05:38)Powerful Woman In Tennis (00:07:05)Why Women Need Money (00:07:53)Financial Freedom In Love (00:10:09)F*ck You Money Number (00:11:37)Fear Of Losing Everything (00:14:44)Outgrowing A Relationship (00:17:35)Escaping The Golden Cage (00:19:37)Pipedrive Ad Read (00:20:13)Pique Ad Read (00:21:30)Did Anyone Say Stay? (00:22:27)Life After Leaving (00:25:19)World’s Best Ex-Girlfriend (00:27:09)New York Breakup Cure (00:28:03)Dating After Six Years (00:30:01)33 Dating Non-Negotiables (00:31:27)Growing Up Without Money (00:33:05)Money Changing Relationships (00:34:30)Why YouTube Went Quiet (00:36:41)From Brand Deals To Equity (00:40:06)Angel Investing Fears (00:42:05)How Morgan Makes Money (00:43:26)Standing Up Publicly (00:45:30)Bilt Ad Read (00:46:00)Lululemon Ad Read (00:47:00)Female Sports Opportunity (00:48:16)Building The 400 Club (00:50:06)Female-Friendly Sports Leagues (00:54:39)Dating In New York (00:59:57)Recent Credit Card Spend (01:01:48)Most Expensive Purchase (01:02:33)F1 Or ATP? (01:03:02)Olympics Or World Cup? (01:03:18)US Open Or Roland Garros (01:04:17)Wing Woman Or Best Friend (01:05:14)HSR Love Note (01:05:37)Joy Has A Habit (01:05:57)Where To Find Morgan (01:06:09) ⸻ Sponsors: Pipedrive - http://pipedrive.com/HSR Pique - https://piquelife.com/hsr for 15% off Bilt - Sign up at http://Joinbilt.com/HSR Lululemon - http://lululemon.com ⸻ Hot Smart Rich: Your Business & Culture Gossip For ambitious women wanting to own the room, gain power, and build wealth. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotsmartrich/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hotsmartrich Maggie Sellers Reum: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maggiesellersreum/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@maggiesellersreum LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sellersmaggie/ Locker: https://www.wantlocker.com/users/maggiesellers ShopMy: https://shopmy.us/maggiesellers Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/maggiesellers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 When you decided to obviously go off on your own and no longer the most powerful women in men's tennis. I think I still could be. Yeah. Okay, wait. Talk to me about what are the signs that you've outgrown a relationship? Were there people in your life that told you to stay? Not a single one. It ultimately came to the point of if I don't choose to do this, I'm going to end up paying for it.
Starting point is 00:00:22 Did you have fear around if you break off this relationship, all of this life that you have built can go away? Really, this is the first time that I'm publicly even, I'm still trying to process. I'm still figuring it out. Hi, Angels. Did you know that subscribing to our channel is free? And it's the simplest way that you can support our show and help us grow. If you do this, we can bring you even more of the content and the guests that you love. All you have to do is just hit the subscribe button below.
Starting point is 00:00:54 So please, if you wouldn't mind, subscribe to the channel. And thank you. In case you missed it, you're allowed to be hot, smart, and rich. So let's get into it. Morgan Riddle, are you ready to get hot, smart, rich? I'm so ready. You have been named the most powerful woman in men's tennis to now the world's best ex-girlfriend, reportedly earning $1 million a year.
Starting point is 00:01:26 For someone that's not familiar with Morgan Riddle, what would you tell them to get them to stay based on what we're going to talk about today? Ooh, if you are interested in fashion, sport, female fandom, If you want advice on a pivot, I think that's probably something that I'm pretty good at at this point. Okay, so you entered into sports as a wag. Yeah. Which a lot of girls want to be a wag. Can you describe what it is like to be a wag?
Starting point is 00:01:55 It's glamorous in a lot of ways and it's also really unglamorous in a lot of ways. And I think any wag would say this. It's a full-time job to be a partner of a professional athlete. It's highly emotional. you're tied to them in their career in a way that's not typical. You know, I think in everyday life, husband and wife, both work in nine to five. They say goodbye to each other in the morning. They get home at night and like it's quite separate in a traditional role.
Starting point is 00:02:21 And when you are the partner of an athlete, like you really are a part of the business. And it's so great and it's so fun and it's so hard in so many ways. So I give a lot of props to any woman who is a partner of an athlete because it's a lot. When you've then two years in started deciding like, I need to create a business or like have a mission or have a why. What was that? I was working a corporate job. I left said corporate job and pretty much I think it was actually the same day I posted a get ready with me TikTok, really just for fun. It was when I think this was in 2022 when like the get ready with me film style was sort of just picking up. And I'd always been super interested in fashion. And I'd always been super interested in
Starting point is 00:03:06 fashion and I was already getting dressed up for the matches because that was just super fun to me and made the whole experience more fun. So then I posted that initial video and it went viral overnight, started getting more traction, started doing more and more. And then it was a few months after that I made a like ATP tour explained in 90 seconds video that really sort of dumbed down the tennis tour. It was before the Netflix show came out. It was before tennis had the explosion that it's had in the U.S. last couple of years. So I did this explainer video and it got so much attraction and attention and from the tennis community. And people really liked sort of the, I guess, behind the scenes aspect of the twerks that had never been shown or done before and especially
Starting point is 00:03:52 not by a partner. Was there ever a moment that you realized it was a true business though? Like it wasn't just something fun that you were doing to like keep your brain stimulated as you're supporting a partner. My first ever brand deal that I did, I think Bloom Nutrition paid me like $75 for TikTok. And I was like, hell, yeah, I cannot believe I'm getting paid for this. $75, Morgan. $75 for a TikTok, yep. And I took it and I was so excited about it. But I didn't really start making money until probably like a year in, I would say.
Starting point is 00:04:24 So was there ever a period of time where you were on tour being a supportive partner that you weren't earning an income? Maybe a few weeks. It was very brief. It was between my corporate job. And when I quit my corporate job, I started posting TikToks, but then I got freelance clients. So I had like a hair salon in L.A. and like a dermatologist in L.A. that I would run their social media. And that was sort of my income that I got in that first year while I was between working corporate and actually making money from socials. And was that something inside of you where you felt that anxiety of like I need to make my own money, even though it has only been a few weeks? Yeah. Yeah. It was stressful. And also, My corporate job before, I was working for a nonprofit. Like, I wasn't rolling in money, like, from the way that I, I guess, am now. So I didn't have, like, a stack of savings.
Starting point is 00:05:11 I'd never wanted my partner to, like, pay for my nails or pay for my hair or feel like I owed someone something in that sort of way. Like, I still wanted to have my own, like, financial autonomy, I guess. So you're building this fandom. You don't even really think of it as a business yet. You're making $75 for a bloom TikTok. where does it go from there? Because Forbes reported that your annual income was like between one and three million dollars at one point. How do you go for making $75 a TikTok to like bring in millions of dollars?
Starting point is 00:05:43 I mean, I guess it was just really growing my audience. I think also the amount of like press and attention that we were getting why tennis wags were getting in general. Brands started to like really pay attention. And like I said, brands were already investing so much money into tennis before that. And now there was this whole new set of eyes on tennis, like through social media and through the partners. But it was a slow build, I would say. And while you're doing that, like, are you still having to support your partner in the way where it's like a ton of time in that business? But you're now also being like, wait, what I'm doing is also a business.
Starting point is 00:06:21 Like, where was your time and attention being focused? That was difficult. It was hard. The better he did, the better I did. you know, like the farther he got in tournaments, the more attention and publicity I would get, I guess. So it was really important for me to not only support his career for him because I wanted him to be the best that he absolutely could be and, you know, accomplish his dreams of being top 10, top five. But also I was like, this is an important business for me. I want to make money.
Starting point is 00:06:57 want to be a dual income situation, and he was also very supportive of that, which was really great. At one point, you were named, like, the most powerful woman in men's tennis. What did that feel like? For me, it was more about, like, my audience and the girls that I was bringing in and, like, really creating a gateway into the sport because when I was first on tour, like, I didn't know anything about tennis when I first started on it. The more I learned about it, the more I fell in love with it, the more I was watching matches that weren't his, the more I was playing attention to the players. And I was like, this is so, this is such like a, I guess it was a hobby. It was such a fun hobby. And I wanted more girls to be introduced to it because the age
Starting point is 00:07:37 demographic for tennis was old. It was like 61 was like the average age of a tennis fan in 2019, I think. So it was really, that was a, I think the biggest part of it for me was bringing in like that female audience. What I find so fast, fascinating about you is just like you've balanced building a brand that was like tied to someone that you're no longer with as you're like getting your own financial freedom and something that you said in an article recently that really stuck with me and I think is really important for people and women specifically to hear is like had you not done that you would be living back in Minnesota because you wouldn't have the options that you have for yourself now. So for someone
Starting point is 00:08:19 that's listening to this like that feels like oh well you know maybe this would be easier to be like my partner's girlfriend or wife and like not be working like what would you say to that person oh my god it would have been so much easier it would be easier it would be easier in some ways and it would be really difficult in some ways i knew myself and i knew that in those couple weeks that i wasn't making money on tour i think that i could see that i would start to resent him because i was i was doing so much for him and working so much for not working so much for it but like doing the laundry and making sure he's up on time and, you know, like the things that you do in a partnership when you have a partner who's very, very busy and dealing with a lot. But for me, I just knew that I, like,
Starting point is 00:09:07 needed something to focus on that was outside of him and, like, we weren't married. Like, the money that he was making was not my money. I had no stake in it. I had no, you know, like nothing is a promise. And I knew that. So did you guys have conversations about that? There was early on in the relationship, there was one point where he was like, well, you should just like quit your corporate job. And I was like, I'm going to do that, but I need to figure out something else to you. And he's like, well, like, I can just, you know, like can't handle things. And I was like, I don't think that's the right idea because I'd seen other partners on tour in that situation. And you lose a sense of freedom. I also think you lose a sense of like equilibrium in a relationship. You know, I had Amy Lou on the show and one of the most powerful things that she said was like I didn't, like her husband is the most amazing person, never judged where she was spending, but she felt like she had to justify going and getting a manicure because that's not something that he valued.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Yeah. And she was like, that's when I realized like after doing and having our children like I needed to go back to work because I even just wanted pocket money. Yeah. To not have to like justify my spending. when you started really coming into that financial freedom and being like, I don't have to justify things or I don't have to do certain things. Like, what did that feel like as a woman to be able to have that freedom in a relationship with someone who, if you hadn't had, would have a totally different power dynamic with you?
Starting point is 00:10:38 Yeah, I mean, it was always really important to me to be independent. Like, I did so much without him when I was traveling on tour. I would go to museums. I would go out and go shopping. I'd go vintage shopping. I would go on girls trips all the time. I needed my own money to like go on a girl's trip to a visa. Like I wasn't going to ask him to do that.
Starting point is 00:10:57 And so if I wasn't making my own money, like what I have had all these amazing trips with friends, would I have been able to like give myself these experiences and never feel guilty about it for a second because it was my money? We talk a lot about fuck you money. And people often say like, what is that? And I'm like, honestly, I grew up with so many women around me that were controlled by money and had to have. have an allowance and it's not to buy bags and trips and go on whatever. It's literally to be able to leave any room that you are no longer respected in and be able to walk away, which is honestly like why I just respect you so much and like just the ability to like be able to provide for yourself. Did you have a number in your head that you were like, this is the number that
Starting point is 00:11:40 I will feel safe and secure that like I can take care of myself and I don't need anybody else in my life. I wanted to get to a place that no matter what happened, my lifestyle would not change. I can still travel wherever I want. I have a beautiful apartment in New York. My life has not changed at all. And that's in that article when it said, like, would I just be moving back to Minnesota? If I didn't have that money, like, that would be a really significant, very difficult lifestyle shift. and to choose to leave the relationship, like, just be honest, would have been much more difficult if that was my two options of moving back home at 28 years old, moving back in with my siblings and my mom, which I love my family, I adore them, but I didn't want to do that.
Starting point is 00:12:34 So that's when I say, like, having your own money that your lifestyle is not going to change, whether or not you're in the relationship, I think, is really important. And I think that a lot of women in these high profile relationships stay in it because their lifestyle would change so much if they don't have their own. I also have ended a relationship and engagement, actually. I actually have to tell you, I listened to you on Felix's podcast. I had a note that I would just like refer to just when I was going through it of like self-assurance, you know. and I have it in the note with like a link to like the timestamp of the podcast of like I think it says like really good advice or something. So I have to say thank you for that. It was so helpful
Starting point is 00:13:21 to listen to women like you to help encourage me to leave my relationship. I like literally have chills because I think, you know, it's funny. I recently just changed the bio on my Instagram. And when I think about like my life's purpose with hot, smart rich is like to help women build fuck you money. And it's a lot of like investing tips and like business acumen and like talking you with the money side of things. But then when I actually like distilled down like what is like my life's purpose? Like what do I feel like people come up to me on the street and say it's usually like you tell me to never settle like that it always gets better. And I think like me humanizing, you know, this life of like being this investor or whatever when I left that relationship. I had like no
Starting point is 00:14:05 fucking idea what I was going to do. I was literally like, okay. my ego is so bruised. I have to like publicly talk about this. I'm going to put all my stuff in storage, move to Calabasas. My business is like starting to grow, but like there's like, it's not where it is today. And I think for people to see me like very happily married, build this amazing business, like it is the proof that if you are in that type of a situation where you feel like, oh God, this is not it, but like I am so scared to get off of this hamster wheel because I don't know what it's out there for me. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:38 I think I am living proof and I think you are living proof that like it gets better. Yeah. And like it is so much better not to stay in something that is not for you. And I think that's why I was so excited to have you on the show, not because of what you've built only as as someone that's really built the strongest personal brand and made millions of dollars as a lag. But like, I think what I was so curious to really dig into was like, was there. there that fear that if you break off this relationship, like all of this life that you have have built can go away? A hundred percent. A hundred percent. Yeah. I mean, how could I not really? And I think I think it was so hard because I have thick skin and I try to not let what people say
Starting point is 00:15:24 either positive or negative, like really penetrate, like how I think about myself and think about my life. But I think that so many wags and like women in high profile relationships really live in this, like prison of public perception. And that doesn't go away when you're out of the relationship. But for years and years and years, I've had so many people coming me from every angle of like, you have the dream life. Like everyone wants to be a tennis wag. Everyone wants to be traveling the world. Like, oh, like the luxury of this. Like you live like the most incredible life. And I was hearing that. And I was so sad. And I was so not happy. But I felt so guilty because I had so many people like telling me that I was living the dream life. When I was leaving,
Starting point is 00:16:10 I was like, is this the best it's going to get? Because that's what everyone was telling me for years and years and years. And ultimately came to the point of like, if I don't choose to do this, I'm going to end up like paying for it in a lot of ways. When you decided like I can't do this, talk to me about like the money side of being like all these. brand deals are based on me being like building this persona and fandom and like were you nervous about that part going away necessarily? Yeah, I think that people think that I care more about social media and money than I actually do. What really was important to me was just like being happy and living my life the way that I wanted to live. I wanted to be with my friends. I wanted to get back
Starting point is 00:17:02 into a routine. So of course it crossed my mind and I had meetings with my team of like, you know, these big brain deals that I get for U.S. Open, like, that's not going to happen. We're going to have to pivot. But I was, that was not ever really a factor in my actual decision making. Like, of course, it crossed my mind. Of course, I was like, you know, am I going going to fall off? Am I going to become irrelevant? Our brand's not going to want to work with me anymore. But that was never when I like really like brought it down to like, am I going to stay in this? like, is this what I really want? Like, that was not a factor into it.
Starting point is 00:17:35 If someone's listening to this, that, like, might be going through that same decision, right? How would you tell someone that are the signs that you've outgrown a relationship? I think for me, it really was that thing in the back of my mind that I just, like, I just knew it wasn't my life. But, like, I almost felt like I was, like, observing my life in a way that I wasn't, like, truly living in it. Like I felt like sometimes the world was like spinning around me and I would always try to like reach out and grasp and feel like myself and like feel at home in my own body and like in my own life. And I think for the last probably year and a half, I just couldn't feel that. And every time I would like step out of this, I went to a psychic and she said to me something that I was just like, oh my God, she was like a golden cage. just still a cage. And I feel like over the last year and a half before I ended it, I would sort of,
Starting point is 00:18:37 like, sometimes I would like step out of the cage and then somehow I would just always end up back in. I don't know if that makes sense. But it didn't feel, I didn't feel like I was living my life. It makes sense to me because I've been there. I think what I get this question, and I'm sure you will now, too, because you've ended such a public thing. And people are always like, I just feel, like I don't know and I'm trying to like have a sign. And my answer is kind of similar to yours where it's like you just have a feeling. And I said this on Felix's podcast. It's a fuck yes or it is a fuck no. But I think what I have to give you so much kudos for is like I didn't have to make the decision of like my livelihood being tied to a person or at least that's what I thought. And I think that like it takes so much courage and like risk taking to step off of that hamster wheel. and be like, I'm going to go and do something different. For someone that feels that way, whether it's like a job or a partner or something that's like, it's the golden handcuffs and it might be a golden cage in your scenario.
Starting point is 00:19:46 Like, what are the things that you did even? Like, obviously you said that you just went to a psychic. But like, what are the experiences or things that you went through to be like, I'm either going to cut off these handcuffs or I'm going to get out of this cage and, like, find this right decision for me. Talking to people in my life, talking to my best friend, talking to my mom, talking to my therapist, unfortunately talking to psychic sometimes, because that's just the type of person that I am. It was just kind of one day I woke up and I just knew. It was not long ago that Katie and I first started Hot Smart Rich, and it was literally
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Starting point is 00:23:02 just because on a day to day basis, I just was like not myself. Because I felt like I was living this. I was on the hamster wheel, you know, and it was very obvious to my friends. And I, so I also am very private. Like I didn't. There was maybe three people in my life who, I told about like what was going on. My best friend, my mom, my therapist. Like I kept things really close to the chest. Not only because I knew that things could get out and get public, but also I still cared about him and respected him.
Starting point is 00:23:35 And like, I think when you're in a relationship, like, you should stay in the box of your relationship. Like, I never wanted to not be a united front as long as I was in it. So no one really knew what was going on, but people were bringing up like, what's going on with you? And it was, they didn't know it was about the relationship or whatever, which it wasn't entirely. It was like, it was a lot of stuff going on. But like hearing that from friends of like, where's Morgan? Can I give you the best piece of a dating advice as you go into being single Morgan and single max? Sure. Because that was the exact same advice that I got from my friends when I was with my ex-fiance.
Starting point is 00:24:12 They were like, where are you? Like, what's going on with you? Like, regardless of this relationship, like, you are not the same bright light that you once were. And when I started dating my husband, I saw all this dating advice on TikTok that was like, don't ask if he likes you, ask if you like him. And I was like, no, you need to ask whether you like yourself with that person because you only have yourself for the rest of your life. And so literally I could show you journals when I was dating my husband and we would be traveling together.
Starting point is 00:24:40 I would literally ask myself, like, did I feel confident when I was with him? Did I laugh a lot this date? Did I feel like I had to like exaggerate who I was or like almost dumb down that I'm, kind of a nerd and like that I like these different types of nerdy activities. And all of the questions were all about myself. And it had literally nothing to do with my husband. And after, because I was dating a few people at the beginning and after I would look back at my journal pages and I was like, hmm, my husband who I initially said no to dating is like the best version of myself is being brought out. Yeah. And to this day, it's like I don't love my husband for who he is.
Starting point is 00:25:16 Of course I do. But I love myself when I'm with him. Yeah. Like I am. am the best version of myself and I think that's what's hard about and there's a lot of women listening to this this is the number one thing that I get they're like there's nothing wrong with him he didn't do something to me yeah but like I don't feel good in this relationship yeah so from someone who just recently stepped off the hamster wheel yeah how did it feel so good I said it's how much I mean, obviously, like, I spent weeks in bed, like, crying, devastated. Like, it was, it was the most heartbreaking, like, horrible thing I've ever gone through. Like, I loved him. I still, I'll always love him. But I now have had so many friends. And, like, my manager say, like, I've never seen you,
Starting point is 00:26:03 like, smile this much before. Like, I'm just, I'm doing what I want to do. I'm spending time around people who love and support me. I started taking adult ballet classes. I'm, like, going to the museum in the city, like I'm doing, I'm doing things that make me feel like me and like really like learning more about myself and coming back into myself. And I think what I would say is like there's always, no matter what you think, like there's always a better life. There's always a better partner. There's always a better you that is coming, even if everything seems to be. I mean, literally in the same 10 days, I ended a six year relationship, moved across the country and launched a business, which I think are statistically the three most stressful things in life that you can go through.
Starting point is 00:26:49 Like I wasn't sleeping. I wasn't eating. Like it was it was absolutely horrific. And then I'm like posting on Instagram like, you know, but you get through it. You get through it and you come out on the other side of it. And I think I'm still going through it. Like it is very fresh. But I already know that I will never regret it for a second. How long did it take from like when we saw the single maxing post of like world's best what is it world's best ex-girlfriend
Starting point is 00:27:18 yeah from like when you decided you guys broke up like how long did it take for you to tell the public
Starting point is 00:27:23 it actually got like leaked to some like it was like some random like old like tennis podcaster and I'm like
Starting point is 00:27:31 how the hell does this guy it was so it was so bizarre but that that went like public and then the rumor mill
Starting point is 00:27:39 like started it was so new we hadn't even told our families yet and then it got posted on Twitter. And like that's just a perfect example of like how difficult it is to be in a very public relationship like that is that like your shit will get aired out before you even like
Starting point is 00:27:55 my dad didn't know. You know, so when I had to call my dad because he was like, what's going on here? You know, that sucks. So you decide to move to New York. Yeah. What is it about New York that you would tell every single girl that it's the place to go if you're going through a breakup? Oh my God. Well, here's one of my mottoes is I've never seen a girl's like. I'm a girl's like, life get worse after a breakup. And that is especially so if you move to New York. Like it's just, I don't know, I knew, I knew that if I stayed in L.A. after the breakup, like, I just would not be able to come into myself, like the way that I have in New York. I think the energy, the people there, even the last 10 days in New York have been some of the best 10 days of my life between I got to go to a
Starting point is 00:28:39 World Cup game, the Knicks game, the night. I've never. I've never. seen New York City like that in my entire life and I don't think I ever will again. Like it was just the most magical thing and there's no other city in the world that I think like has that magic that I feel like I'm living alone for the first time in my entire life. I never have had my own space and now I have my own apartment. My friends call it the Barbie Dream House because it's pink and it's the most like girly girl apartment that you've ever seen. There's like animal print rugs everywhere. So I've really gotten to make a home and make a home that, like, feels like me and really is like an extension of who I am. And that's been very healing to have a home of my own that maybe I thought I never would have.
Starting point is 00:29:25 I really, I feel like you're living my life. But I was in L.A. three years ago. And I remember just having this beautiful apartment and just being like, it's so mine. And I think that, like, this is why stories like this, although it is like a little. different work. We'll get into your business stuff in a bit, but like I do feel like women today, especially ambitious women, that like want their own financial freedom, want their businesses, want it all. Which I believe you can have. And I think I am living proof that you can really have it all. They hear this like dating sucks and like it's so hard and
Starting point is 00:30:03 these men aren't good enough for us. And I'm so curious because I did not have that experience. Like I loved being single. I thought it was such an amazing growth opportunity, just like entrepreneurship. It's almost like a self-discovery experience where you learn things about yourself. Yeah. So for you, as someone who hasn't been single in six years, like, what is it like being single today? I mean, I love dating. Like, I always enjoyed going on first dates.
Starting point is 00:30:31 I like meeting people. I like talking to people. I'm like, I've never had a bad date before because it's like a talk show and like you just talk about yourself. I mentioned in the article that went up a couple weeks ago that I have a 33 point non-negotiables list, which I've gotten a lot of flack for online. Of people who are like, okay, she's going to be single forever, you know, like loser guys. But I'm so sure that I like being alone. I enjoy being alone that unless someone literally checks off every single box and is not making my life so significantly better, I just wouldn't do it. And I know I'm so confident in myself now because I can leave what ultimately was a great relationship because I just wanted better for myself that I trust myself not to go down same patterns that I've done in previous relationship and like throughout my life.
Starting point is 00:31:26 I love the 33 non-negotiables list. I think every girl should make a non-negotiables list. What are the three most important? to you on that list? I would say like emotional intimacy. Like I really want someone who I can like talk about my feelings with and like they're open about their feelings. And also I want to say that this list is not curated because it's the opposite of my last relationship. Like something on the list is like no gambling or sports betting. But that comes from the fact that when I was dating my last partner, I would get so many death threats and horrific messages from sports bettors. Like I truly think
Starting point is 00:32:01 sports butters are like low, low, like scum of the earth because I've gotten such hateful things from them. I think someone who is not going to be, I mean, at this point, like, intimidated by me and like my money. Like I don't, there's not a lot of single men in New York under the age of 30 who are making more money than me right now. And so I think that there's going to be some pretty serious, I don't know, due diligence and like figuring out like, is this good. going to be intimidated, like, what's his potential? Like, does he see my potential? Does he support my potential is going to be really important? I think just aligned, like, values, political values, how they care about, like, their friends and family, how they care about my friends
Starting point is 00:32:46 and family is really important to me. Like, my girlfriends are so important to me. My gay best friend Colton is so important to me. They have to get past Colton first before they can get to me. So, I mean, yeah, it's an extensive list, but, like, I am so confident. unless a guy literally checks every single box. Like, I'm just not going to do it. When you were growing up, what was money like for you? I've actually never talked about this before because I've never, like, been asked. But I was primarily raised by a single mom.
Starting point is 00:33:15 When she was pregnant with me, she was working at McDonald's. So, like, I came from nothing. My first crib was a laundry basket. And I think a lot of people have assumptions of, like, a lot of influencers do grow up in wealth. And that's why they're able to have that. career and like go straight into influencing and like maybe not go to school or go into influencing right after school is because they have that support system and they have that backup option. And I think one of the reasons I've always been so ambitious is because I knew
Starting point is 00:33:43 I didn't have that. So I mean, from the time I was like 13 years old, I started working. My first job was at the nut stand at the Minnesota State Fair where I'd work like 12 hours a day because I wanted to get like closed for school or whatever. But yeah, my mom had me when she was really young and now she's wildly successful like C-suite out of media company. So throughout the trajectory of my life, like I've gotten to see her be like a fucking boss and just like work her way up the corporate ladder. That's been like really incredible for me. But yeah, there was times like when I were when I was younger where we didn't have money. Like I never had that. So I always knew that I wanted my goal in life was to get to a point where I never had to like have those sort of
Starting point is 00:34:28 stresses. Did any of your relationships change when you started coming into money? It can even be friends. It could be people that were like part of your partner's life. Like I think that it's such an interesting question to ask because I've also seen this with a lot of founders when they like build this business and people think like, oh, they have all this money now. The relationships in their life change quite significantly. For me, I don't think it was about money. I think it was more about like the social currency and like followers. And when I was saying, still working in corporate. When I first moved to L.A., I had, I had girlfriends who were in social media who had like millions, millions of followers who would always talk about it of like, you need to be
Starting point is 00:35:08 careful, like, don't trust people in L.A. And I was like, that's such a weird thing to think to, like, be like cautious around people. And that was so naive of me because now I've gotten to see firsthand, like some girls I've had in my life have done some weird shit. And I think it's, it goes back to like social media and the bizariness of like the currency of it. I don't think that money has ever really affected it. And I think part of that is like I am like so generous with my friends. One thing that I would say is like it's lonely at the top if you don't send the elevator back down. I've never heard that. Yeah. So I was like my my biggest goal in life is that like everyone in my life and everyone who I love and everyone who's close to me is like on the up and up with me. And I'll do
Starting point is 00:35:57 everything to try to get them there. When you decided to obviously go off on your own and just be Morgan Riddle no longer like the most powerful women in men's tennis. I think I still could be. Yeah. Okay. Wait. Explain that. I still am going to go to tournaments. I would still love to make concert around tennis. I already have deals for U.S. Open. Like I'm going to U.S. Open. It's not like I'm like a race from that world. Obviously I'm going to enter into it in a different way. But I've had a lot of girls like reach out and be like please like don't leave the tennis world like we still want this sort of like content and commentary around it so I'm still going to be there just in a different way I'm not like in tennis because of that you know like him and I are still friends I also saw a lot of
Starting point is 00:36:42 people there was like a little girl who made a TikTok this morning being like I just really want Morgan Riddle to bring back her vlogs like where is YouTube I know I know where is YouTube Morgan I'm dying to get back on YouTube like I when I first started YouTube, I was posting every single week. It was my favorite platform. I, to this day, do not think that I would have the business and, like, the following that I do. Because if someone's going to sit and, like, listen to you on YouTube for, like, 20 minutes a week, like, that creates a connection with your audience. I stopped posting on YouTube, mostly because whenever I was on that platform, like, I really was, like, showing up as myself.
Starting point is 00:37:24 and I think I felt so not like myself the last year and a half that every time I would like pull out the camera and like start talking and like I'm doing this. I'm doing this is how I'm feeling. I'm like none of this is true. Like I can't. But what I was going through at the time, I couldn't speak about publicly. So I think there's so many influencers who can like put on a face and like pull out the camera and like do their thing no matter what they're going through. And I was just not one of those people who could like put on a mask for it. So I just kind of like. stopped YouTube and did stop being consistent on it because I just felt like a liar. And then now I have the pressure of like I feel like my first YouTube video, I'm going to have to address like what's going on. And I haven't necessarily felt ready to do that. Like I haven't like spoken directly to like my girls about it yet. And I don't even know what I want to say or like how to say it while I'm still going through it. When I do talk about like what's going on, I want it to be like helpful and valuable. And so I want to get to the place where I can like fully come out on the other side and be like,
Starting point is 00:38:30 okay, this is it. This is what I've learned. This is what happened. I mean, like, really, this is the first time that I'm like publicly even, I'm still like trying to process what I even want to say and like what I actually think about all of it. But I'm still, I'm still figuring it out. Honestly, thank you. I think like, like I said, it's been so hard to figure out like exactly what I want the impact of Hot Smart Rich to be because it was so focused on business and like investing. And I think that's like a huge part of genuinely what brings me joy. But if I really distill down and I was talking to a partner that, you know, spend six figures with HSR and she's a woman executive and she was like, what is it that like fuels you?
Starting point is 00:39:11 And I said, honestly, it is the fact that I want every single woman to be able to have fuck you money to leave any room that they are no longer respected in. And like, I think in our society, we, we do glamour. like the Hermes on boxings and the trips out and like the lifestyle that like of course I would be lying if I said I didn't want to live that and do live that. But it really distills down to that like I want women to be able to have that financial freedom and like live out their best life. Yeah. In every single thing that they're doing. Yeah. I think a huge way that women are able to do that especially especially when you do have a complicated life partner and maybe
Starting point is 00:39:53 your next boyfriend will be a finance bro and it'll be a crazy like cycle of life for him too. Content creation is the ability for women to be able to do that no matter the situation that they're in. And I think a huge trend is going to be creators that build generational wealth through investing, through equity ownership. Where is your attention in terms of like going from the brand deals to now moving into this like equity ownership so that you have. have these opportunities to make generational wealth. I mean, I think starting in business is a really
Starting point is 00:40:27 big part of it. I started investing pretty much a student as I started making seven figures. My dream in life is to have NEPA babies. I don't say that. You know our saying, but are saying I'll give you a sticker. It's feature a nepo baby parent. Oh, I need one of those. That's literally on our t-shirts. Wait, I will give you one. Okay. I, yeah, I want to have no, I want to get to a place where I can have like little very, very respectful nice nepo babies that are raised really well. Obviously, I care about money, but I've always been way more intrinsically motivated. Like, I think how you were saying, like, your goal is to get women to a place where they're making fuck you money and then they can have this autonomy to be able to choose the life that they want to live and the life that they want to have.
Starting point is 00:41:15 and I have a note or a photo album in my phone that has screenshots of messages that girls have sent me over the years. And whenever I'm feeling not super confident about my content or like the work I'm doing or like feeling like I'm like being shitty at Instagram or whatever, I always go back and refer to this album and be like, okay, like even if even if you made one of these girls' lives better, you taught one of them something or you encourage. one girl to like leave the relationship she didn't want to be in like all of that is worth the work that you're doing so I do as much as I think like building the generational wealth is important I think being able to have girls learn from my life experiences is always going to be the thing that like drives me the most let's talk a little bit about angel investing okay have you done it yet no have you been approached to do it yet yes why have you not done it I think that I still have some like financial fear because I know what it's like to be so poor. And not even like I'm talking
Starting point is 00:42:22 about childhood. I'm talking about like I don't think there was ever a time in college where I had more than $200 in my bank account. And like I know what that feels like. And so I think I still have a little bit of that fear in the back of my mind. So I've been a very, very, very safe investor up until this point. Have you seen this trend though of like Alex Earle obviously with what she's doing? And then like Fia just raised with all of these creators, has there been a category or a company that you've gotten close with and you're like, I could get behind something like this? What I would love to do is like invest in like a sports team or a new league or something. I've been I've been approached about like pickleball and paddle leagues and stuff and nothing's
Starting point is 00:43:01 really sparked my interest. But I think if someone approached me about like starting like a women's sports team or like something like that, that's probably what I would be more interested in and aligned with. No. Products have never really been. Like, I'm not the type who's, like, linking products all day on my stories. I think it's going to be something that's more community, female fandom, sport, female engagement focused. Okay, so if you don't like a ton of products, one of the things I was fascinated by when I was doing some research on you was Google.
Starting point is 00:43:29 I had Google, like, what do people search about this person? And a lot of people were like, how does Morgan Riddle make money? By the way, the same is search for me. It's like, how does Maggie Sellers Ring make money? So if you don't like a ton of products, where does it? does most of the revenue come from for the personal brand? Personal brand is like brand deals and sponsorships and something that my team has really works towards is I have like very long term partnerships. Right now I have two like year long partnerships that honestly I wouldn't have to do any other brand
Starting point is 00:44:00 deals outside of them because they're with like really, really amazing partners. I do like multiple like deals and posts and event appearances for them. So those are kind of what I focus on and I encourage other like content creators to try to get those long-term like partnerships and brands that you really like establish a relationship with. So if we go through the different iterations like 2023, 2024, 25, 26, where has it roughly landed for you in terms of like the big growth spikes? I think 2024 was really my big, like that's when I started making seven figures a year. And yeah, it's just continued to grow since then. But it was like it was like my, I think I was making maybe 60K at my nonprofit job, which I was so happy to do because I loved the work so
Starting point is 00:44:50 much. And then, yeah, it jumped from like 60K to seven figures and maybe a year and a half. Is that like, isn't that just crazy to think about? This is what I'm talking about with content creators having this unique ability. Like I truly feel like we are in this era of like women having more influence and more power and more status in society, not only from the money. Obviously, the great wealth transfer is happening, but also in status, like in that cultural currency that you're talking about. That power dynamic is so needed. We still live in the patriarchy. And I think that you are so, you really stand up for what you believe in and you do put things on the line. Where does that come from? I'm always the person that will like say the
Starting point is 00:45:37 thing that like other people won't say. And I think that's where I get honestly a lot of my confidence from is because I really try to like stand true about the things that I care about. And like, you know, I started posting political things pretty much from the get go. And I always got hate and I'll lose every time I post something political, I'll lose thousands of followers. And I'm absolutely a okay with that. Every now and then I hear something and my reaction is pure shock. Wait, people aren't already doing this. If you make a rent or a mortgage payment every single month and there's a way for you to get rewards back for that payment, why would you not be doing that?
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Starting point is 00:47:53 Head to Lululemon.com to get your hands on their flow-wide tank in so many different colors. Sports. And being opinionated, so Laney was just on the show. And she said, like, sports is really the only place that women are taught to be loud and to be aggressive. And it's no coincidence that, like, 98% of C-suite executives that are women played sports when they were growing up. I think that the craziest debt that I've even seen is, like, 46 billion minutes of women's sports were consumed in the U.S. alone in 2025. And even in male-dominated sports, like F-1 went from 8% of female viewers in 2017 to now it's 42% in 2020. 25. This is a moment for women in sports, both in the male-dominated sports and for female sports. You obviously saw this very early and you decided to co-found a business in it. What did you see that people are now just starting to catch up to? I mean, from doing content in sport and seeing the interest in the community that you can build through it in maybe a place that I think before, like, female fans didn't necessarily feel. welcome in, but now between media, I mean, like challengers was huge for tennis, a drive to
Starting point is 00:49:10 survive was huge for F1, now at hockey between heated rivalry and off campus. Like I think that pop culture and media and brands investing in the sport, like have just continued to grow and blossom with it. And I really fell in love with like that aspect of it and the community aspect of it and being able to work towards a goal of me. making sports a place that like women feel valued in and seen in and are, I mean, what we're working towards is that they're not going to be like an afterthought in the world of like sport and marketing and that teams and leagues are really seeing the value of female fandom. And so that's what 400 Club is, is really the bridge between female fandom and commercial
Starting point is 00:49:59 opportunity. Okay, because I was going to be the next question. Like when Olivia from Travel with Libby was on the show. show, I was like, you have these hilarious skits of like billionaires yelling at you, but like, what is the business that you actually run? And she described it like so well. She's like, people pay us $100,000 to literally book their travel. They have to spend over a million dollars. And I was like, I get it. With the 400 club, how are you guys currently making money? Yeah. So I met Cherry, my co-founder. She's based in London two years ago at a like I was a tennis exhibition event in London. We stayed in contact. But she's a she started the 400 club in London, sort of as like a members club that was female athletes, female founders, and creatives that she was bringing together on the platform of sports. So whether that's like VIP boxes or exclusive dinners and that really snowballed into something so much bigger. So she reached out to me at the end of 2025 because we stayed in contact.
Starting point is 00:50:55 And she was like, I really want to bring this to the U.S. Like it's become so much more. You're the only person that I can think to do this with because you were. right now that is really just like the culture up and I think especially New York between fashion and sport and culture. So now we are growing this community of women, mostly between the ages of 18 and 30, who want to be involved in sport and who want to have these community events and want to be a part of something that traditionally, you know, these rights holders and teams and leagues have not necessarily, I don't want to, I don't want to say like catering.
Starting point is 00:51:33 to, but have really like paid attention to the value of them. So now we've created this sort of closed loop commercial engine of we have this community of girls. And then we work with rights holders and different teams and leagues to sort of build out their female fan strategy. So we did the first female fan strategy for F1 for the Williams team. We've worked with Chelsea FC with Nike, with Apple. And we pull the data from this community of girls that we have. about what they want, whether it's community events or merch or really like what they're looking for and like being like a female sports fan and bring that into the strategy for the team. So I'm a huge sports fan and I grew up like playing sports.
Starting point is 00:52:20 And it's funny because my husband like our dream Sunday during NFL is like legitimately watching NFL. Like we watch almost every single game of US soccer and he's like, oh, you're like the first woman who like genuinely I've dated that like loves sports. almost as much as I do, if not maybe even a little bit more. Yeah. But I always still feel like that when I meet a guy and they're like maybe a friend of my husbands and I like try to share like how much I love sports, it's almost like they think I'm doing it to like performatively. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:52:51 Do you feel that? I mean, yeah. Like if you go to, it's so, I mean, it comes back to like the stereotypical like name three players sort of thing. Yeah. And I think that. something that Ivo is stood by with, especially with tennis, is like you can experience sports in any way that you want to. I loved to dress up for matches and like come in my little dresses and
Starting point is 00:53:16 come in whatever. People would be like, well, do you think that's like really important for going to matches? I'm like, no. Like if you're a girl and you want to come in a t-shirt and shorts and sneakers and just go and watch the match, like, do that too. But if it's more fun to dress up and like experience the sport in a different way and like not know the. the names of the players, that's fine too. Like, it can be like a welcoming space for everybody. And yeah, I mean, it's frustrating. And I think that was a big thing about 400 Club is like, right now, if you want to go to watch live sports, some like really popular sports bars in New York are like Rockos and Dew West, like you're going in there, you're getting beer spilled on you,
Starting point is 00:53:55 everything sounds like chicken fingers. So we kind of wanted to create a place where people or women can come and experience a sport in sort of a different way. So we hosted the first official F1 sponsored watch party for the Miami Grand Prix. We had 150 girls in London come to Soho House. And we didn't even say like, you know, wear this or like rep your favorite team. They all showed up in like the Ferrari jackets and like the orange pants for McLaren. And a lot of them came alone. And they just wanted to come and have a space to watch this sport that they really, really loved with other girls and feel comfortable and feel safe and experience it in a different way than traditionally you go and experience live sporting events. What makes me laugh is I'm like,
Starting point is 00:54:41 these men think it's performative, but I'm like, we are the same level of like competition and like drive and ambition. And I think the world is just waking up to that. And this goes back to what I was even trying to say before of like, what are those leagues that like lend themselves to like the female consumer better than others? So from your. perspective, having hosted watch parties or like been with the Knicks, like watching even just the streets of New York. Yeah. Being on the ATP tour, like what leagues are the most inviting for a female consumer that's listening right now that's like, I don't really like sports, but I love what they're talking about. Yeah. And I would love to watch a game with like Maggie and
Starting point is 00:55:18 Morgan. What's the most inviting for them? I mean, I think the two rights holders that are doing the best job at that are the WNBA and the PWHL. women's hockey league. My family in Minnesota are big, big hockey fans. They have season tickets to the PWHL team in Minnesota, go to every single game. Like the split is 50-50. And between the team and like the social team that they have there, like they're just doing such a good job. I went to the New York Liberty game this past Sunday. And it was super like family friendly, female friendly, like Vagicill is a sponsor. There are teams. and leagues that are catching up, and they're ones that established from the start, like, we are here for female fans and they're not going to be an afterthought.
Starting point is 00:56:08 They're actually going to be, I would say, the priority. Like, even for our own data, when we post something in a dump and it has something to do with female in sports, it is the highest performing post. Really? Yeah. Interesting. So even, like, when we did consumer trends, this is like a few weeks ago, we posted that, like, 98% of females and see executive roles are former athletes. that was the most shared post. Interesting. Even like looking at the data very quickly from Laney's episode recently, like for sure
Starting point is 00:56:36 the most shared post, all of it has to do with either the Knicks or like executives being former athletes. Yeah. How genius was that Nick sponsorship that she did? I mean, but it makes sense. And I think this is again going back to like women watching sports is not performative. Like whatever reason that brought you to the arena, like 40% of the arena is a female consumer and not one person is speaking about that. speaking to that person. And I even feel that as someone who like genuinely loves the game, grew up going to the Leafs, the Raptors, even actually every single MLB Blue Jays, we would like run the bases on Sundays. Like literally I went to every single game as I was growing up.
Starting point is 00:57:13 And I never had even thought about it that like no marketing in the stadium was directed towards me. Yeah. And then when it seems so obvious now that Laney should have made that decision. and you're like, but it was not the norm. So like it wasn't obvious. I mean, that's what Cherry and I are like talking about to these brands and right holders is that when we talk about like the commercial opportunity of female fandom, it's really the gap between this massive, highly engaged audience, like real, real audience and the events and partnerships and sponsorships and content that historically rights holders and brands have been leaving so much money on the table by ignoring. And so we really are trying to sort of bridge that gap and be like, okay, here, here's the female audience, this is why they matter. This is what we can do to like work and build with them and monetize with it. I live my life with data and science and hypothesis. Yeah. And one of my hypothesis
Starting point is 00:58:13 right now is like women want financial freedom and they want these types of conversations. But sometimes it's so much easier for the female consumer that's scrolling TikTok to like watch a video about like fashion or beauty and not necessarily like the things that will actually empower their lives to be a better version of themselves from your data from like watching your YouTube or your videos or like things that you post. What is your audience telling you like they are just obsessed with watching and consuming right now? I think content that has purpose behind it. And I don't think it's necessarily, I mean like the niches is highly personal. But when I talk about, like I just did a video about this New York Times article that went up that was about,
Starting point is 00:58:58 you know, women and dating and the dating experience. And I was stating how much I disagreed with like the hypothesis of this article and why it was so important that things like this are not like published and that's not what we're, you know, putting out into the world and saying to women. And I think that because there's not a lot of mainstream lifestyle creators, that get into like the grit of that and like the issues with the patriarchy and like talk so openly about money the way that you do that when we do like people really care about that and they're like this is what we need to be talking about. That being said, I also love to watch fashion videos on TikTok and like, you know, do that sort of thing shut off my brain
Starting point is 00:59:46 sometimes. But I think that people are really, like, yearning for, for meaning and purpose behind content and, like, education and, like, talking about real things. Okay. My team would kill me if they, if I didn't ask this stuff. Okay. A lot of them are single. And they were, like, where is Morgan going out? Where is she spending her time? Where's her favorite drink? And what is it? I hate myself because I go to, like, the same five places in New York. I've been going to the members clubs a lot, like Zero Bond and Chemardgo, because that's where my friends tend to go, but I do love a sports bar. I went to watch the next game that Rocko's, um, yesterday's one for one are like my favorite sports bars in New York right now, like just such a fun place to go with your girlfriends.
Starting point is 01:00:30 I am pretty much beholden to a dirty martini, gray goose, dirty martini, blue cheese olives is like my go-to. And then the other drink that I would hire, are you a tequila girl? Yeah. You like tequila? Yeah. Okay. So me. and my best friend Sophie started drinking this maybe like a year ago, and it's the best thing ever. It's a blanco tequila, shaken with lime juice, served up in a martini glass. And there's something about, like, the acidity of the lime juice that just, like, takes out the tequila, like, the, I don't know, like a, the shocking taste of tequila. I'm going to be doing that all the summer in your ass because I'm an operable spritz girl. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:08 And then the hangover is killing. Not amazing. Yeah. Would you ever do a sober date in New York? Yeah. maybe like as long as there's like an activity or something to do you know like I would like go to like a museum I love a movie date I love going to the movies when I was picking my the place that I wanted to live in New York like one of the top things was like okay elevator doorman movie
Starting point is 01:01:29 theater walking distance because I love love love going to the movies I'll go to the movies at like 10 am on a Tuesday by myself if I just like need a mental break so I'll go on I'll go on a sober movie date. But I also like the fancy movie theaters where they serve martinis. Like I pick. I love I pick. Love it. Okay, Morgan Riddle. We're going to do some rapid fire. Okay. Okay. What's the most recent thing you just put on your credit card? It actually was a water at the airport. Which one? I got smart water. Are you obsessed with this Loonen water bottle that everyone's drinking? I did get sent in PR and it's great. And Loon is also my state bird in Minnesota. So I feel very emotionally attached to them. Yeah, I like it. I mean, I know glass water bottles are like what
Starting point is 01:02:11 you're supposed to be drinking out of. I actually do think that the water tastes a lot better. Does it? I actually do. And my husband, the one thing that I think is so funny about him is he's so value-oriented. Like, for him, the idea of buying a water bottle expensive as Lunan, he almost like rolled his eyes. Yeah. He tried the water. And he was like, Maggie, this is such a better water. We have to order Lunan for the house. What is the last most expensive thing you put on your credit card? My rent. But I have it set up through built. So I get like rewards. I was going to say, so Bilt, I've been a partner of for like three years. I was part of the original, like the original originals program. And when they explained it to me, I was like, why would people not do this? It is the smartest thing to make money back on your rent. What could you buy with your rent money if you didn't have to pay rent every single month? A Chanel medium flap. I love that for you. Yeah. Okay, you can only attend one for the rest of your life. F1 or ATP? Well, now I'll say F1. I've, I've done. I've done. I've, I've, I've gone to a lot of tennis matches. So you're in the F1 train.
Starting point is 01:03:14 Yeah. I like it. I mean, have you been to a race before? Yeah, I love it. So fun. You can only pick one for the rest of your life. An Olympics game or World Cup game? Olympics.
Starting point is 01:03:24 I did just go to my first World Cup match, which was incredible. I saw Brazil, Morocco. So fun. I've never seen anything like that in my life. But I did the Paris Olympics. And that was just like magical. Like the beach, I did beach volleyball. I did tennis.
Starting point is 01:03:41 I did a swim meet and seeing like all of the countries together as opposed to when you go to a World Cup match. It's just like 1V1 was crazy, just like the coolest Amber. So I really want to come to, I mean, my dream is to work with LA 28 and definitely be here for that. WNBA or the National Women's Soccer League. WMBA because I haven't been to a women's soccer match yet. But I want that to change. I really want to go to a Gotham FC match. They're playing at City Field.
Starting point is 01:04:17 You can only pick one for the rest of your life. U.S. Open or Ruling Garros? U.S. Open. I hate it rolling Garros. I can say that now. I hated that tournament. Why? I think that they oversell the tickets.
Starting point is 01:04:28 It was always just like so, so, so busy. There's like there's food options, but there's just not a lot of places to like comfortably sit or just like hang out and watch. Like I think the grounds are too small for how popular and how big it's gotten. I just like clay is so dirty. Like I have bad associations with clay because whenever we were in Paris, like my ex would like stomp in and there'd be clay all over the carpet and there'd be clay on my clothes and his clothes.
Starting point is 01:04:59 It would just drive me absolutely insane. What is the best hotel you've ever stayed at? Maybe the four seasons in Hong Kong. Okay. And specifically because they had these like pork bun bow things at breakfast every single morning that I still think about. Wing woman or gay best friend? Gay best friend. Well, he's a little, I think he's a little intimidating.
Starting point is 01:05:22 Like I said, like they got to like get past him before they can like if if Colton says that he doesn't like someone, like they're off the table. Okay. Because he will make both of our lives miserable otherwise. Okay. note to your future boyfriends. Okay, if you could only tell yourself one HSR love note for the rest of your life, which is basically an affirmation, what would it be? My bounce back game is absolutely lethal.
Starting point is 01:05:49 I actually had that an affirmation in my notes. That's cringe, but just being honest. Love it. Morgan Riddle, if you could title this season of your life, what would it be called? Joy has a habit of returning. Love that. Okay, Morgan Riddle, where can people find you? And how can H-SR help you?
Starting point is 01:06:14 My handle on everything is M-O-O-R-G-S. Made it when I was 14. Can't change it now. Stuck with it. So that's me on Instagram, TikTok. And then you can follow the 400 Club on Instagram. And if you sign up for our newsletters, we send links for events a day before we post on Instagram.
Starting point is 01:06:34 And they sell out really quick. So I would recommend doing that. And yeah. How can HsR help you? I would say bring your girlfriends to a sporting event with you. Love that. Thank you so much for coming on. Thank you.

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