The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Naomie Olindo & Helen Hall On Cheating, Infidelity, & How To Move Forward After A Bad Break Up

Episode Date: February 7, 2022

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The following podcast is a Dear Media production. She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to The Skinny Confidential, him and her.

I said, I know you've been cheating on me. Like, this is your one chance to be honest with me. Like, of course, in my head, I'm rationalizing still us working it out. Even though I should have known immediately to go. And he's like, everything, we're going to work this out. It's fine, it's fine. I was like, tell me the name right now. He wouldn't tell me the name.

And I was like, there's a 0% chance we're getting back together unless you tell me the name right fucking now. And he told me the wrong name. So there was a second girl he had been cheating on me with. Welcome back to the Skinny Confidential, him and her show. Hell Has No Fury Like a Woman Scorned should be the title of this episode. We have two of our favorite people returning for their second appearance on the show, Naomi Olindo and Helen Hall.

And this episode, I think it's pretty juicy. Are you scared? I was kind of scared during the episode. Why were you scared? I mean, listen, like I said, they're spilling the tea here. And I was the only male counterpart on the show. Let me give a fun fact about Michael Bostic. Michael Bostic wants no part of drama. He wants solitude on a mountain with a goat. He wants to be left alone with his books and he's good. He's like Ichabod Crane. However, Michael Bostick loves a little juice. I like the juice. You like a little juice. Everyone likes a little juice. No, when I'm watching Southern Charm, your peripheral is on the computer sometimes. I'm not trying to hide it. Yeah. You love Patricia and a caftan.

I mean... I love Patricia. And you love watching Juicy Tea. You do, honey. Yeah. I like hearing it. I like watching it. I like seeing it.

It's all for it. I just don't want to be part of it. Right. You don't want to be part of it. You just want a little taste, a little lick. In this episode, speaking of licks, we are talking about cheating. A lot about cheating.

We're talking about breaking up. We're talking about knowing your worth. And in my opinion, we're talking about not settling for less than you deserve. I personally am really big on this message, especially for women. I think that if you start settling for less in any area of your life, it's going to seep into other areas. So I was really excited to get Naomi and Helen on this podcast to discuss their experiences

with cheating. And I think that it's really cool to see these powerful, strong, beautiful, smart business women on the podcast discussing this subject. You don't get this a lot. No. I mean, it's not an easy subject to talk about, obviously. And there's some pretty wild stories in this one, which you're going to hear. So yeah, I'm happy to go to talk about it. I mean, it's a lot. You were really passionate in this episode, though. You had a really strong opinion

as well. Well, yeah. And you'll hear that too. I mean, I think like, listen, it's going to be, it'll be interesting to see how people receive this episode, but you know, I like it. There's some juice in it. And Helen and Naomi, I think like, listen, it's going to be, it'll be interesting to see how people receive this episode, but you know, I like it. There's some juice in it. And Helen and Naomi, by the way, deserve the best of the best of the best. So don't slide into their DMs unless you're a 10 out of 10, because we're guarding, we're like a moat. Okay. There's a moat around Helen and Naomi and Michael and I are the alligators in it with

like a gate. Also, if you want to hear Naomi and Helen on their first appearance on the Skinny Confidential Him and Her Show, go back to episode 283. On that note, let's meet these two entrepreneurs, Naomi and Helen.

This is the Skinny Confidential Him and Her. What, do I need to go like beat up these guys or what? We need to go like call me up? Oh, we're hopping right into it.

Coming in hot. I actually wanted them to stand in San Diego now. Really? I want them relocated. Yeah. Michael's going to beat ass. Please do. Michael, do you fight? There was a time.

Now I'm a father. I'm responsible. I'm a business owner. But no, no. Those days are done. When I first met him, he tried. I might come out of retirement for these guys, right? Yeah, I've been seeing you work out a lot.

Yeah. Might have to get these knuckleheads in control. Might as well put it to use on some humans. Yeah, yeah. We had you guys on the podcast the first time to talk entrepreneurship and hustle and all those things. And I felt like you guys were both in such a good place with both of your relationships.

Since I've seen you, I have to say as someone like on the outside, I'm shocked at the stupidity. I'm just going to say it. You can just say it. After knowing both of you, I just said off air, you're both tens.

But I think the reason I wanted to have you on the show is that there's so many tens that are out there that are listening that are either single or have been fucked over or duped. I'm going to use the word duped into thinking that they're dating

or marrying or engaged to someone that they're dating or marrying or engaged to someone that they're not. Manipulated. Brainwashed. Literally brainwashed. We're like love bombing narcissists. Sociopath. Sociopath. Okay. They've been with the sociopath. So I wanted to have both of you guys on to just talk through that. And maybe you could each give a little like a blurb of your story to give context to the audience. I think, yeah, we should probably tell the stories. I'll let you lead the way. All right. Yeah. So I was dating my ex-fiance for about five years. After three years, or I think three years, we bought a house together. I was so young, like I didn't have any

credit. He was a co-signer for me. So I paid for the house, but his name was on the deed. That was a stupid mistake because we weren't engaged at the time or married. A few months after that, we got engaged and then COVID hit. So we didn't have our engagement party until like May of 2021. And so we had just gone on like a four month RV trip. You know, we were taking the RV around town. So I ran into you guys in Austin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Also, I can't wait to hear what your impression of him

or what your vibe was from him when you met him. A little bit of a wet noodle, but… Can you kind of… Just real quick, just tell me what your impression was. Guys, guys, guys. We're not here to trash. Well, I don't know. I mean, listen.

I meant it briefly. Truth, truth. Yeah. I mean, I was just like… I think you'd do better. Thank you. Yeah. You were like the 10th person to give me an intervention then. Anyway, so. Is he going to listen to this? Now,

am I really going to have to fight? No, zero percent chance he will listen to this. He does not care enough about me to listen. With that guy creeping up on me. Right. No. Michael's like, if I do have to fight. So I was, I was home in Charleston for like a brief period. I'd rented my house out for those months. And I was living with Naomi in for like a brief period. I'd rented my house out for those months. And I was living with Naomi in between like renters being at my house because I was home for a wedding. So I was living at her house. I didn't have a car. She dropped me off to go get a blowout, my weekly blowout.

Our most productive hour of the week, right? And I call her an hour later. I'm bawling hysterically on the curb crying because my employee had just told me that he'd been cheating on me. And I called and it was true. I was like, hey, you know, you'd been cheating on me. And I called and it was true. I was like, hey, you know,

you've been cheating on me. Tell me the name of the girl right now. And I knew the girl's name. Hold on, hold on. How does the employee know that he's cheating on you? How long did the employee

know that information? Like, he just comes to work and says... A week's not that long. Yeah, she waited until he went out of town.

But also, you should know the dynamic, the way that Helen runs her teams, it's all very much a family. So they felt responsible. It's not just an employee boss dynamic. It's also, they look up to her a lot and their friends.

That worked for me. Yeah, that's another- He was my employee. So you called him. You didn't go in person. He was in California. Oh, so you call him and what do you say? I said, I know you've been cheating on me. Like, this is your one chance to be honest with me.

Like, of course, in my head, I'm rationalizing still us working it out, even though I should have known immediately to go. And he's like, everything, we're going to work this out. It's fine. It's fine. I was like, tell me the name right now. He wouldn't tell me the name. And I was like, there's a 0% chance we're getting back together unless he told me the name right fucking now. And he told me the wrong name. So there was a second girl he had been cheating on me with. Hold.

Hold on. Bible. So you call someone who you're engaged to and you accuse. Wait, wait, wait. No, so you knew the name. I knew the name.

She was holding the name. But then another name popped up. And he said a different girl. He thought you knew about the one, the other one. He thought I knew about the most recent one. He got confused. How the fuck do these people think they're going to get away with this in 2022 with social media? Honestly?

How the fuck did it take four years for me to find out? Why didn't this girl tell me before is the question. But I thought you said girls. Girls. Girls. There was one consistent one and then he told me about the one-off. Okay. So when he says the wrong name,

what do you say? I don't even know. I blacked out. I think I just started bawling, crying, and called Naomi to come pick me up. I mean,

I don't even have like the words for what to do. My heart is racing thinking about this. I had so many friends text me for the podcast today being like,

I know it's going to be really hard for you guys to talk about this. Like, it's going to be okay today being like, I know it's going to be really hard for you guys to talk about this. Like, it's going to be okay. But it's also, it's going to be okay. We'll make it easy. It's going to be okay.

And also like, I think that this is a theme that's not discussed enough about being a strong, powerful, masculine energy kind of woman that has her own shit going on

that gets cheated on or duped or manipulated. So I think that it's an important subject to talk about. Oh yeah. We have a lot to talk about. So after he says the wrong name for you, is it over? In my head, it's over. But as time goes on, actually what really helped when I was in the car with Naomi right after she picked me up, I got the girl's number. I'd even having a consistent, you know, he had consistently cheated on me with. And I called her and I asked for every detail. I wanted to see every text message. And it took me finding out like, this is what did it to me. Because at first I'm rationalizing,

okay, I can say this to my friends like, so that we can stay together and they won't hate me like, oh, there's an excuse for this, like this., like trying to make excuses for him for cheating on me. And then there was one part where the night that my mom had like a seizure stroke, we're still not sure what it was. And I had to fly to Atlanta. She's okay. Yeah. She's totally fine. It's one of the nights that he like cheated on me is when I'm in Atlanta, like with my mom who was in the hospital and he flew back from Atlanta to Charleston and like asked her to pick him up from the airport and slept with her that night. Like, well, my mom's in the hospital. I mean, that's malicious.

Yeah, so reading that, that was the seal the deal thing. But if I hadn't have gone into detail and really put myself in the situation and seen the details, I probably would have rationalized getting, staying with him. So what do you even say to him?

Like, is there anything- A lot of mean things. So what do you even say to him? Like, is there anything? A lot of mean things. So you say what you want to say? Oh yeah. I mean, I'm not saying that this is the right thing to do, but I just text, text, text, text, text, text, text. Like it's called machine gun texting. Machine gun, just cursing him out, saying how horrible he was.

And like. Is he lying at this point? Like, I want to know how deep the narcissism is. Like, do they, are they still trying to justify the fact that he did this yes no he did admit to doing it finally it took like three times he did lie about it took him several times to be honest with me i still don't know crumbs of truth he never said it was always like okay okay this is the whole truth and then she would find out something else and he'd be like okay yes but that's it and then she would find out something else so it was always a little bit more he never fully divulged anything yeah and then he's like sending me all

these podcasts that he's listening to and books that he's reading like his personal development he's working on himself like you know i'm throwing up i know i'm sorry i'm throwing up yeah i i i have to be really honest i have like no capacity for this kind of person. I just don't. Like I always tell Michael, like if you're going to cheat on me, like fine, but bye. Like there's like, it's not,

to me, it's like not even a conversation because there's so many things that it proves to me. It proves to me that you don't have self-respect, integrity. It honestly, now that my don't have self-respect, integrity. Honestly, now that my husband has a daughter too, like what kind of example? She's going to go find someone that is then going to cheat on. Like, it's just like, I just, I have a very visceral reaction. And I'm also the type of person that if you don't want to be in a relationship, just say it. But I didn't want to be in that relationship and I still stayed in it. That's how deep it was. I never knew cheating. That never crossed my mind at all. Zero percent chance. I knew it was not

a good relationship for me, but I stayed in it because I was so fulfilled in every other aspect of my life that I felt like I didn't need my relationship to be perfect because I was still super happy. And also like a sunk cost fallacy sort of thing. Like you had already been together for a while. You'd put in so much to this. So you might as well stay. I think a lot of people think that way. Yeah, just totally accepted it.

Was it hard with your dynamic of you being this very gnarly entrepreneur and then having, you said earlier that he was working for you. I mean, that's like- It wasn't hard for me. It was very hard for him. Yeah. Well, it's hard enough to be, I think a lot of men have a struggle wrapping their head around not being the breadwinner in a relationship, right? Like the power dynamic is a little bit

different. And it's like a new... At least it's a fresher concept, right? And then you extrapolate that and you say, okay, you're also my subordinate. Yes. And I never made him feel that way. But he was. Until he was doing things that made me lose trust in him. If I fully trusted him with my business, it wouldn't have been an issue, but I didn't, which is why I was controlling. And if you don't trust him with your business,

why was I going to marry him? I think about a lot of this stuff with men and cheating and power. Obviously, my wife's my business partner and I founded this business with a woman. So like I thought about like my mom was always that person. And so like I've always been comfortable, but a lot of guys aren't and I don't blame them for it. It's just the way I think society was set up.

But when you look at cheating and you look at some of this behavior, like you grow up in a culture where a lot of times like other guys, like they give you that rah-rah and they like kind of put on a pedestal and act like it's a cool thing. But really like most of the guys that do that are the most insecure men. They're the ones that can't look women in the eyes or the ones that they get outside validation

from getting other women to be attracted. It's usually because they're insecure with themselves. So there's like, not saying I'm empathetic towards these guys because it sounds like they did some scummy things. But when you look at it through that lens, you can see like it's really not like the manly cool thing. It's a very like insecure individual seeking validation because they're not fulfilled. Drop the mic, big daddy. Yeah, exactly. Hit the nail on the head.

That is it. I mean, it was true insecurity. Same with her man was insecurity too. Like my survivorship for the business was Naomi. It was not him. We're each other's survivorship. That's okay though. But that's how I didn't, much I didn't trust him. Me, oh my, I am as bloated as ever. Nice and pregnant.

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Hell yeah. Okay, so also a side note. I have to say this part. this is a blessing in disguise. Hell yeah. Okay, so also a side note. I have to say this part. Give us a side note. I was a week away from giving him 20% of the business. I had the document drafted because our relationship

the first six months was wonderful. And then when we said, I love you, it changed. It's like he just started withdrawing. But why did you feel you needed to get, like, so that's, I mean, I don't want to grill you here. That's what I'm going to tell you.

It almost feels like from an outside, like why would you, like why I need to give this guy 20% of your business, which is a substantial business. I'll tell you. So he started withdrawing like emotionally after six months, right? And then we started working together.

He started withdrawing more. So like all of my emotional needs were not being met with him at all. And he said he would say constantly, and he's an attorney. So keep in mind, like he's very smart and like can be a little manipulative, but he was like, I do not, I can't give you emotional like satisfaction. I can't like love on you and hug you and be intimate with you the way that you need, because I don't feel like you're equal. Like I feel like, like you are my boss. And he's like, the only way I'll

ever feel that way is if I own part of this company. And he asked, he wanted more than 20%. And we was like attorneys back and forth trying to whittle him down. I am also going to guess, tell me if I'm wrong, that there was a part of you that felt guilty and needing to compensate for his inadequacy. Oh yeah. And I can understand that as like, as a powerful woman, you know, if I was dating someone that wasn't Michael,

that was different, I would feel the need to overcompensate for them feeling insecure. Yeah. You're so lucky that Michael's not insecure. I am lucky.

Michael has other things. Michael has other things. Michael can refine his delivery and I'd really like him to work on serving my leveling, which every single day, but Michael's great. 80-20.

80-20. As long as you check off 80% of the fucks. I mean, but I do think I'm a product of my environment where like what I knew was my parents worked together. My mom always had it. Like I never saw anything different than,

you know. His mom's a boss. Right? Oh yeah. Masculine energy boss. So I'm fortunate that I grew up in an upbringing where it wasn't like the man was the breadwinner and the woman didn't.

Both my parents worked. Sometimes one was higher than the other, but they both worked. And so it's not that I'm just not insecure with women. It's just that was my example. I think a lot of guys grew up with a different example where maybe they don't have a mother that works like that. Both of our exes' parents were like that i mean the analogy of helen and

which was similar to my situation it's you know helen is a she's a paver she's like a leader she just does without fear or anything so she was constantly leading and doing stuff and always having to sort of turn around and be like you okay you good okay all right do i need to select she was like making herself go slower for him making herself smaller for him dulling her shine for him because yeah he couldn't handle it and it's what initially attracted him to you i think was you know all of these great qualities about you but that ended up being what made him the most insecure when he realized he could not keep up at all. So as this is happening to you, at what point do you decide this isn't going to work for me?

I'm actually going to stop machine firing, texting and just walk away from this. This is how like deep it was. Like when I was talking to therapists, I think it was two weeks after I found out about the cheating and I was like, hey, look, I'll try and work this out with you if you think you can provide me XYZ.

And like, I want like crazy psycho person. Like I want full access to your Facebook and your text messages like like really trying to rationalize making it work is equity off the table at this point oh yeah yeah hell yeah and he was like I don't think I can give you that so I was so it was really him being like no that's how manipulated like the, the narcissism goes so deep in our relationship, you know? And now I can see clearly everything that was happening while it was happening. But while I was in it, I didn't see it. So when Helen comes to you, had you already gone through everything you had gone through? I was about three weeks away from my day. You guys, just to give context to the audience

maybe can you explain you you're both of your relationships so they can understand why that was important that you were both going through this at the same time yeah so Helen and I have been best friends for years and years we've known each other I don't even know how long since college we're aging we live next door to each other we work together we play together we just do a lot of things together basically we've been extremely consistent yeah we've been extremely consistent like points in each other's lives for a long time through several boyfriends through a lot of shit actually yeah yeah and so Helen was living with me because she just needed a place to stay for a few weeks so she also didn't have a car

so I was also her uber uber driver which I didn't mind because it was on the way to my office. So I drop her off for her weekly blowout as we did. And she calls me earlier than she should have to get picked up and is just hyperventilating, like cannot speak. She's on the side of the road and she's bawling, like blow out halfway done, just not well. So I drive her home and we're sitting in the driveway and I'm freaking out. So I'm like, what am I going to do to help my friend? How can I comfort you right now? What do I do? And Helen is getting the information of one of the girls getting her phone number and just calls her from the car, automatically connects to the Bluetooth. So I'm sitting here listening to this and helen the girl picks up the phone and helen goes hi you know i don't even remember her name this is helen hall super calm creepy calm this is helen hall i just want you to know that i found out what uh happened between you and i want you to know i'm not mad at you uh i place the blame on him and i just want to know all the details of everything that happened

and the girl was like how did you get this number you had no idea what she said yeah how'd you get this number yeah and then matool came over to your house all of our friends came over they helped me through it like so i was holding me telling me how great everything's gonna be one day like god the foreshadowing of this is brutal saying what what a piece of shit. And your mom is there. Your mom is there coaching me in front of everyone, in front of Matul, coaching me through this and how it's inexcusable to cheat. Yeah. You can have the floor now.

I mean, that is really, really foreshadowing to be looking back on that and seeing that. Like you guys have been through, this is, you guys should write a book together. We have a lot to do. Okay, okay. We're working on some things, yeah. Also, a foreshadow

that I need to mention before Naomi goes into the rest of her story is before I was packing up the RV for the road trip, it was like six o'clock on a Friday night. Stuart was over.

And together, her and I were packing the RV. It's a 34-foot long RV. We're getting rid of our house. We're not gonna be in our house for four months. And S*** was so pissed. He was not helping us pack up at all.

I was crying to her. And I was like, should I marry him? Like, I don't think I can do it. Like, he's not helping me pack now. You know what's weird? Was he pissed because he had to get in an RV for four months? No, he just didn't want to pack it.

He didn't lift a finger. You have mentioned a lot of red flags other than cheating about him before this. And I want to, maybe we get into this after naomi's story but it's interesting to me that one of the red flags like i'll give you what i'm saying when before michael and i got married i never said should i marry this person it was always like this is the person there was no hesitation we broke up several times so looking back if you were to give yourself advice on that would you say like just fucking listen to the red flags yeah get the fuck out of the relationship

so three weeks later what happens with you and is Helen with you when this happens how is that working out out of town yeah you were in you were in California maybe I don't even know um so Matul got a job in New York and we always knew he was going to do a fellowship in in New. So we, I had been looking for apartments, which is if anyone's tried to rent an apartment in New York, it's a nightmare. Like it's a lot of paperwork. It's very hard. Inventory was super low at the time. So it was just very stressful. He really didn't do anything to help. So that, that was not sign one. There were many before that, but one weekend we were going to stay temporarily at one of my friend's apartments until we found a more permanent place just a couple weeks and there was no furniture in there

so I was like okay well we need to go get at least our furniture drive it up here move it in we'll have our stuff and he's like okay I'm thinking I'm going to stay here this weekend though so you just go and drive up the furniture and I was like yeah sure no problem literally packed the u-haul by yourself I was like yeah for sure so I go our friend you know what happened to me if I said Lauren you take the u-haul and I'll just show you that's how much that's how used to doing everything myself I was that's how he used to know I was used to zero contribution on his end just completely self-sufficient like yeah sure I'll fly down I'll go get this like giant truck and drive it to New York by myself. Okay. After I gave birth to Zaza, my hair, it's not like it was falling out in clumps,

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have called me i know you should have we probably wouldn't have because we probably deep down we were enablers yeah we enabled each other so she bought a house i bought a car i feel like i got out of that relatively unscathed compared to you i'm still in it i have your engagement ring still my god so anyway so the you it was a lot to pack, you know, it was an entire house. So there were some things that were too heavy for me to put in there by myself. So I was waiting on some of our guy friends and I was with another one of our girlfriends, just waiting for them to get to the house to help me unload or to help me pack the last of the last. The only thing that was left inside the house was his computer monitor because I'd gotten

him a laptop because he used to study I don't know for like med school stuff he would study on a monitor not a laptop what do you call those huge monitor screen yeah a huge monitor screen and that was the only thing that was left and he had put it because he had been living at my house for a few weeks before and he had put it on my dad's old desk and right behind the computer was like a giant picture of my dad who had passed away two years before. So I were inside, we're waiting on the guys to get to the house. And we were about to go to France, like a big group trip to France to stay at my house that Helen and we're supposed to go on. And then Alan came. Yeah. And I'm trying to show them this restaurant, La Garite in, in Cannes. I was like, I love this place. It's so beautiful. Let me show you this view. I'm trying to share the view on my phone. I'm like, oh,

I'm looking for an iPad or something, something to show you a bigger picture of this so you get the full experience. And the only thing that was left was his monitor. So I'm like, oh, I'll just pull this up. I watched him study and log onto that thing every single day for three years. So I call him because I didn't know the passcode to it. I'm like, hey, hey, Madison's here. We're waiting on Stone to help us load the truck. What's your computer password? I'm trying to share this picture. And he's like, I don't remember. I don't remember it. I'm like, what do you mean you don't remember it? Okay. Anyway, still not putting anything together. Like, what do you mean? Okay. It's going to let me reset. You're going to get a code. What's the code? Tells me the code. I get in the computer. I type in the restaurant name and the time it took for the, for the picture of the restaurant to come up,

his iMessage thing, like previously opened window popped up. I didn't even open it. I wouldn't have thought to look. And it was like a year's worth of texts with his ex and explicit pictures and, you know, the whole nine yards. so i read through them for a little bit our friend stone gets there he is crying on the couch because he's so upset madison is also in shop he was cheating too at the same time yeah well we won't get into that but so i call him going on in charleston something in the water like it six of our friends all broke up within only two months two month period so I called him back because I could tell he sounded panicky on the phone but I didn't understand why I didn't realize it's because

he knew I was probably about to see what was on his iMessage and because I never looked through his stuff I would never I'm just not that way and I called him and I was like hey I just want you to know I saw the messages with Sophie and this is done and hung up the phone and he tried to call me you know a hundred times and then the process afterwards was really difficult because when somebody is that narcissistic and they try to come back into your life they'll say all the right things they know exactly what they've been withholding from you in like previously in the relationship what you crave because I would express my needs but they would just not get met I I was like, well, maybe this is a trade off. You know, he's not he doesn't scream at me. He doesn't call me names. So I'm all right. You know,

I'll take it. What were some of those needs that he could tap into? Like, for instance, like, did you want him to talk about kids? Did you want him to say something about the way you look? Like what were the needs that he was meeting that he knew you needed it was honestly I just wanted to have like a like deeper conversation I like to talk you know before bed and stuff like that and I just remember I would try to talk to him and he'd be like okay stop talking I want to go to sleep just stop talking and so I now I'm just used to I would get used to going to bed and being quiet and that takes away so much intimacy over time and I think I just wanted to feel loved. I don't think that he ever truly loved and accepted me. It was always what he thought I

could offer him or what he thought he could gain. It was never about who I was. And I think similar for you. It's almost like acts of service is such a great love language to have because you feel the consistency. You can't really describe it it's just like an energy of like being consistent and being there and it sounds like you wanted more in-depth conversation from him maybe you wanted more from him in general yeah yeah i think so and there were a lot of signs about him just not having the right priorities you know the way that he just wouldn't really care if i was talking about, I don't know, a problem with a friend or something, but would perk up if I started talking about anything financial and he'd be like, how much did you make on this? You know, things like that. Or would his, when he wanted something, like if he wanted to, he wanted these Saint Laurent

boots once I remember. And instead of being like, Hey, will you buy me these boots? He'd be like, look, they, they make them for men and women. We could match hey will you buy me these boots he'd be like look they they make them for men and women we could match we should get them and I'd be like oh yeah we should get them all right I'm gonna introduce you guys to my friends I don't know where the fuck you guys are finding these weirdos yeah I mean you guys I have I have friends that like in-depth conversations that you're dating okay we're so happy. No red flags. Okay. Monogamous. Like, yeah, I got some friends.

Okay. This is, it's St. Laurent boots. You know what I would have said to him? Then you fucking buy them for me and we can twin. Yeah. But he was in residency. So he,

when you're in your medical residency, you don't make any money and you work crazy hours. So I felt bad that, you know, I was making all this money and he was working way more than me and making nothing. The theme is that you guys felt bad for your success. For all the, like if there's guys listening to you, when you're in medical residency and you're

putting in the time, stop looking at the fucking St. Laurent boots and fucking put in the time and hustle and go get some goddamn cowboy boots for a hundred bucks and shut the fuck up about it. Yeah, shut the fuck up. Oh my God. He used to wear brands on all his shirts. But again, I don't want to be, you know, shit talking him because I don't even think it's worth it. But Helen and I had a moment in her kitchen a couple weeks ago where we were just talking about all the new stuff we're doing and how happy we feel and relieved.

And Helen looks at me and goes, thank God they did that. Like, thank God. And I feel like our healing process was the same too. Like we couldn't eat for two, three weeks weeks like i couldn't even think about putting and i'm i'm an eater like adderall makes me eat a ton and like uh just when i'm stressed i eat more so for me not to eat that was bad you you had the same thing like well this is shitty obviously for both of you but like it's another layer when you for especially for you because of the show right like? Like you get the world chirping in and you're going through it. I mean,

thank God for them. Cause they kept us accountable. That's true. That's true. The, the worst part about that. And I forgot this was the, the world.

It's not, you know, I'm not Beyonce. But you know what I mean? There's like shitty, the media was, was on it, but they knew

i don't know who i still to this day don't know who told because it was really only our good friends at my house that day and it was already out there before i even had time to wrap my brain around it like within 12 hours it was on all these sites and i had no idea i was still trying to process what had just happened that you know infidelity is the thief of reality so i was like what is my life what am i doing what have i been doing who is just happened that, you know, infidelity is the thief of reality. So I was like, what is my life? What am I doing? What have I been doing? Who is this questioning my judgment? You know, how did I not see all this? And yeah, everybody knew. And then, you know, people are commenting on the situation and people were, which is hilarious, like cruel to him. I mean, so mean to him. And then I felt bad for him again. And I was like, guys, please stop being mean to him. This is not the answer. You know what I mean? Like still defending

him at that point, even though he had done essentially the worst thing you can do to somebody that trusts you the way that I trusted him. You need to set Kardashian traps. The Kardashians will tell a bunch. This is what I heard. Allegedly, I'll tell a bunch this is what i heard allegedly i'll tell a bunch of their friends allegedly different things like kylie had the baby kylie had a boy kylie i'm just making this up i like this and then like whatever story comes out and the stories are fake you know right away yeah i set traps all the time for michael like different traps but a think that's needed. But a trap, I love a good trap. Okay, so after, right after. What?

That's brilliant. Like actually brilliant. I was like, Michael's saying what? I just laughed because everyone else was laughing and I thought about it. So you, I feel like you both went through everyone finding out on different scales because Charleston is a small town, Helen,

and that travels quickly too. And you have a very big business in Charleston and you have a social media presence. So when people start finding out like whether it's people in your town or the media, do you guys just turn off your social media notifications? Do you not text back? How do you handle all of these people chirping in on what you shouldn't do? That's, yeah. I mean, I'm already a baseline. I don't, I already have notifications turned off. I posted something and I rarely read through my DMs.

It's usually, there's just not like anything that interesting in there. But the amount of support that people had and then incredibly kind messages were overwhelming and it was really helpful in that time because you know I felt isolated I was like alone not alone I mean my friends were there but at night people would go home or even if they did spend the night and they were asleep and I just felt sad I could just read through these messages of encouragement and you know people being like I've

been there this has happened to me you're gonna be fine you don't know it right now but blah blah blah and I got similar messages when my dad died so I knew that that was gonna be true it was gonna get better but I mean we were both completely brokenhearted for weeks I didn't wash my hair for I don't know 11 12 days it was disgusting I shut everyone out that sounds like me on a regular basis same at this point so you shut everyone out. That sounds like me on a regular basis. Same at this point. So you shut everyone out. You dealt with it differently because Naomi said she had people. She had no choice because the media.

Which no, but you went to Atlanta and you isolated for two weeks. I went to Atlanta and I isolated. Like I didn't talk to anyone. All right, turn this up for everyone who needs a reminder that it's Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is around the corner. You guys, everyone needs to get their shit together.

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Standard exclusions apply. Get your shit together for Valentine's Day. Don't forget. Well, the reason I ask is like we get all these notifications here, you know, running a company like Dear Media and it like always shows press. And we did that episode. So when was the last time we did the episode with you guys? It was like 2020. Yeah, it was a while. And like even that old article, like you get the notifications,

like people trying to like figure out what you said on even our show for that and you're chirping about this. And I'm like, that was... Nuh-uh, that's funny. Well, and it's because like, that's why I asked you about the media hailstorm because like they just go at everything

and try to find anything you've ever said anywhere so I imagine like it's it's tougher because you know if that happens and you're not on television it's not as

it's not as crazy right like it's just and you don't have you don't have like media outlets writing about it yeah but it the pain is still the same

you know so it's like okay I mean at least for me if people are going to write about it I don, okay, I mean, at least for me, if people are going to write about it, I don't really think I care that much. I cared more about the fact that my life was quite literally flipped upside down. But part of me wonders, like, again,

this theme that we've learned since all this is that timing is everything. When she found out this was the day she was moving to New York, she was uplifting her career, her family's restaurants, her friends, her house. Naomi was moving to New York. She was uplifting her career, her family's restaurants, her friends, her house. Naomi was moving to New York on this day. I was a week away from giving away my business. Timing's everything. I know that we don't know who told the media about what happened with Mithul, but

part of me still wonders if the media hadn't been there to keep you accountable, would you have gotten back with him? I don't know. No, I don't think so. But I think it would have been a lot harder because I'm not going to lie, especially in the beginning. And this is something that's important for anybody going through a breakup. Early on, you've got to set clear boundaries because if somebody truly does want to get back with you or truly loves and respects you, they'll respect those boundaries. And when you're begging somebody, I was begging him on the phone, sobbing, being like, please stop trying to call call me i need time to think and figure out what's going on and be like okay okay hold on but can i just call you tonight and i'd be like no you can't and he would

call me over and over and over again so you got his family involved yeah if somebody just can't respect your boundaries that is the number one sign they don't need to be in your life it's it's true about them i mean lauren and i I, when we, like, you know, we dated when we were kids and then we like separated, but we got back together and like finally after all that shit, when we got back together,

it was like both of us mutually were like, listen, there's any fucking around, any infidelity, anytime you want to step out, like just say it and leave. Cause like if that ever happens on either part, like it's done, it's over, right? Like there's no,

and I believe that. I think she believes that. Like there's no coming back from it. I'd rather, like, I always tell her like, her like if for some reason this is not how I feel but wanted to step out I would just be I would just say listen like that's what I'm thinking and that's what I'm feeling as opposed to just like going off and vice versa like yeah and I think setting that boundary and just having that known in the relationship ahead of time and like really understanding that that is a consequence of that is important.

I would like to hear about both of your mindsets after you guys broke up with these people. Was there things that you thought, maybe I will get back together? Like, was there weak moments? Because I'm sure there's people listening that have broke up and they've had these weak moments

where they want to get back together and they're justifying the behavior and they're making excuses. That's why we're here to talk to those people. Yeah, like what are those moments and how did you guys get through it to be who you are right now? Honestly, if I didn't have my friends keeping me accountable, like, I don't know what would have happened. I could have gotten, would have maybe gotten back together with him, but I have harsh friends. Love them, but they are harsh and they keep me in check, which we all need. I did so much personal development during that time when I isolated myself. I listened to every relationship book you could put your hands on on Audible.

And a lot of it's bullshit. 80% of it's bullshit. But I took a lot of very important pieces from those relationship books and that really resonated with me. And I was like in my head, making mental notes. This is what I want to remember for my next relationship. This is what I want to learn from. And now the relationship that I'm in, like, I know.

Like, you know, you know, when you know, you know, like it's the first time I've ever felt that way. And there's nothing but green flags. Like it's such a completely different feeling than I felt with Scott. And it's only because I took the time to do the personal development. And after my relationship that we met through,

I also took time to do personal development after that. And that changed me completely as a person. This last breakup changed me completely as a person. There's a really cool quote. I'll let you talk about it because it was in that podcast about the 99% Google thing. it basically, they took a bunch of people in this study and they asked them, okay, what is the most traumatic, worst thing that has ever happened to you in your life? And so the people would say, okay, well, this happened to me, this, you know, these terrible things. And he said, okay, so what

if I told you that I could give you a magic eraser that could erase this horrible event from your life? But the caveat is if you erase this event, you also lose all of the growth that you got from it, all of the people you met, all of the things that you learned, all of the positives that came from it. So here's the eraser. Would you erase it? Nobody erased it. Everybody kept it. So the point of that is, and anyone that's listening to this, if you're right now going through something really difficult like a breakup the loss of a parent just a difficult situation in the future like your future self will not want to erase this from your life. And that was test was you need this. Thousands of people. Yeah yeah. And no one erased it. I wouldn't erase it.

Would you? No no. Wow cheers to us guys. Yeah cheers to not erasing anything yeah I don't know why you're not drinking tipsy you should be drinking tipsy I'll tell you later I love tipsy oh okay yeah no we love it we love it so we're just doing dry January so so when you were healing through this process what are other tangible things that you did that people can do who are healing from a breakup what are some little things it could be honestly like self-care like what tangible things that you did that people can do who are healing from a breakup? What are some little things? It could be honestly like self-care. Like what are things that you had in your toolbox? So something, this is a very basic, but you know, you have to start somewhere like eat an elephant.

This is the first bite kind of thing. Something that resonated with me, people told me to write a pros and cons list and then just throw out the cons, look at the pros and ask myself what was so special about the pros that I couldn't find that in literally anyone else. And I looked at it and I was like, huh, yep, that's true. There's not really much that's special about this person. It's you make them special. You put them on the pedestal. Your love for them makes them, gives them the magic, you magic. So the pros and cons list helped. Then this is kind of a sidebar, but somebody that really, really helped me was my friend Benji. And I call him sort of my guru, but he and I had dated when we were 20, 21, but very briefly,

just like a fling, nothing really. And he was in New York. I was coming home from France and had a layover. I was like, hey, okay, Mitchell and I are broken up. I know you. You're a safe person. I know your family. Let's get a drink. And that'll be sort of like my introduction into dating again. So we go.

We hang out. I'm thinking, okay, I'm going to go back to Charleston. We won't probably talk for a while and it's fine. And I get back to Charleston. He's like, hey, first off, nothing happens. He's like, you're not well. I'm like, you're right. I'm not well, but why do you care? He's like, listen, I can see that you have a really good heart and I want to help you. And I just went through something similar. So here's a blueprint that I created

to get through my own heartbreak. And when I say this thing, it includes every single detail, like what kind of earplugs to buy to sleep well at night, what kind of bath salts to soak in and how many times a week, podcasts to listen to, books, poems that we all want to put together and call it like Benji's blueprint probably

because it changed the course of my life. It really did. Yeah, I think so. I think so. I think so. Maybe you guys should call your book The Breakup Blueprint. So we actually, we are going to, by the time this podcast airs, we have blueprintforbreakup.com and we'll have a PDF, just a soup, not Benji's because he needs to do that, but like a simple little PDF that'll have a link to a few of the podcasts that helped us and like audio books.

So when this podcast is live, go to blueprintforbreakup.com and download that. It'll be simple. I love a content market. I really do love a content market. And you know what? Always taking opportunity. Capture that traffic.

Finding the opportunity. No, that's so, so smart. And that's really sweet that he gave that to you. So he gave you all these little tips. Yeah. And this is clearly something, you know that to you. So he gave you all these little tips. Yeah. And this is clearly something, you know, he spent months and months working on himself. What vitamins to take? I'm saying everything.

And... What the hell did that girl do to him? Damn, is that right? I think he's just a really enlightened person. And I think that... I don't know exactly what happened, but it took him down a path of doing work on himself, which he then sort of condensed for me and passed on to me. And I passed it on to so many other people. Yeah. He was like, we're not like hooking up. You're not well. I need to help you.

You know, was there a moment that each of you guys thought for one second that you would go back with the person that had hurt you so bad? Yeah. Yeah. I had the first two weeks were awful. Like I had so many weak moments. But where I was like, God, I just want my old life back. And maybe I could just try not to think about this and go back to where I was comfortable before. What are your mother saying? My mom never liked him. She was not, would not have let me go back together with him.

He just sounds like he was wearing a shirt with a red flag on it. Yeah, he was. And I just, you know, walked right by it. But when you're so close to something, you don't see it. I get it. You don't see it. I mean, but it's weird to like look back in retrospect and see you say all these things. Oh, no.

Like don't, like now you're telling me that the new person you're dating is just a green flag. Oh, so unlimited green flags. It's the most awesome thing. We love you, Alan. We love you, Alan. And before— We love you, Alan. Does Alan have a big brain?

He does. He has a huge brain. Yes, he does. Neurovascular sales. Oh, and he has his own job. And he is so supportive of me. He, like, spends a lot of his free time learning about things that will help my business. And he goes and drops product off at different wholesale accounts. And he brings

me coffee in bed every morning. And he's watching my cat right now. He sends me videos of my cat. Chill, chill. Chill, yeah, yeah. Don't give her. I know the coffee in bed. Could you do that? I don't know. Lauren's got this look in her eyes. Keep moving on. Let's get to the next subject. Yeah. And he's so sensitive. I love it. Everyone on Instagram when you were going

through this was commenting Craig. Oh my God. I think I know you guys are just friends. Yes. And he's he's dating someone who I really

like. Paige is great and adorable. Yeah. Yeah. So there's everyone who's listening. She's not going to

date Craig. I hate to break everyone's heart. Definitely. Sorry guys date Craig I hate to break everyone's heart definitely not sorry guys everyone I saw on your Instagram was like

Craig has a chance nice get the press clipping is there a line is that a press clipping we got the press clipping when you saw him after you broke up

was there any thought was the chemistry back at all I mean I don't know how to answer this you'll just have to watch the show I guess

okay I aired it all out I have a question first of all wait hold on she's back on the show oh I didn't know that so you

okay hold on because of the breakup you were gonna quit the show to go to New York with this guy and it's you want me yeah

but then now that you're not now you're back. Oh. Yeah, I had to, I had to like beg my way back. I was like, guys, please. I know I quit and I know I told everybody to fuck off,

but please, I'm very depressed and I really want to come back. I don't know what I'm going to do if I'm back in Charleston. They're like, all right. Did you stop the show because you were overcompensating with him being jealous you were on it

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Very important. I am so excited to see your thoughts on Scorch. Follow me, message me, say hello. Details and links in the show notes. So it was a half and half because I thought, I mean, nobody can have a healthy relationship while filming a reality show with somebody that doesn't film. And he wasn't going to film because he's a doctor. You know, those two things don't really go hand in hand. And he was a resident and he

needed to apply for fellowship. So a lot of things played into that. But I was totally willing to give up the show for a healthy what I thought to be a healthy and loving relationship, because that's what I would prioritize over a reality show, obviously. And so I had no problem doing that. But then when it ended up not being a healthy and loving relationship, I was like, okay, well, I'm single. The show opens doors for so many opportunities business-wise and stuff. I know that. And I don't really have a problem sharing. Everybody already knows what happened. I don't really have a problem sharing it. So yeah, I was like, why not? Just tail tucked between my legs. I was like, hey.

This is the million dollar question that I've been waiting to have you guys on for. You got to go back to on there. No, Michael, don't interrupt. Who's making these decisions? That's a con that you interrupt. The million dollar question. What advice did Patricia give you guys? Oh, God, she gives such good advice.

I know, especially about this. You guys need to go over to her house and have gin martinis and ask her. Actually, we should. What? Why haven't we done that? You guys, that's like the first person you should call. I feel like she knows how to lay down the law.

If I lived over there, that'd be like my second stop home. She taught me about the Nancy Reagan stare. The what? The Nancy Reagan stare. So basically when your husband or boyfriend is talking about something for the 888th time and you've heard the story 5 billion times.

Who does that? You have to look at them like they are the most interesting, capable, amazing person. Start talking about the scumbags again, quick. I will look at Michael. I have it perfected. I will be meditating or thinking about what I have to do tomorrow. Tell the story about what these have to do tomorrow tell the story about what these guys

did to you again you guys have to go to Patricia's house and eat spicy nuts and drink gin and martini do you want to come yes come with us

she would give good advice maybe she'll write the book for us she's given me great advice over a little caviar which I was very grateful for but Patricia to Patricia

men are just like disposable you know we all call ourselves we all say that we're Patricia's little play things because she just kind of runs the world and is like I would like for you to do this and you're like okay I'm doing it I'm going like I'll do it but she yeah she basically was just like fuck them just you know go date other people go do go do your thing

dating apps really helped me they did yeah because it made me realize like oh like there are a lot of guys who are attracted to me and like because you know

at the same time made me feel so insecure and weak and like unlovable and he made you feel gross yeah I remember that what do you mean

he used to tell people I had a messy house like my house is so clean my house is very clean tell these more stories like this to Lauren yeah and then he would...

It's a roller coaster. Yeah. But going back on dating apps, like I would... Don't bring up Alan. We'll just talk about it. Let's come back down. I'll send Alan to give you an email with some tips.

No, but going on the dating apps helped because I was able to have conversations with new people and realize like, wow, I do have a connection with this person or I do have a spark with this person. I could see myself with someone like this. I like these qualities. Wow, there's other men out there with really good qualities. Like who knew? And they're just from dating apps, which I didn't want to date anyone that I knew. Like I want a fresh, like fresh man, fresh me who I could learn

and trust myself again. I wanted to be able to trust my decisions. That's a huge point. I think after you're betrayed and your judgment betrays you, you wonder, can I trust myself again to see somebody's real intentions, to see the way somebody really is? Am I going to be love-bombed again and gaslit and manipulated and then discarded after a few months? Because that's essentially what happened. It's hard to learn to trust yourself and to... Yeah. Then your friends... Now, my friends have to approve. Looking back on both of your relationships,

what are things that now you have the wisdom that you would do differently? I would not buy a house with someone unless I was married to them. And I'd sure as hell not let them be on the deed. Okay. And what about you? You moved or you were going to move.

Were you looking back or do you think it's all situational? I think that in general, throughout the entire relationship, I would, something I would do differently in a new relationship is I would never give so much to somebody that reciprocated nothing in return. And the way that I would somehow rationalize it was by giving more and he would just take and take and take. And this is not just, I'm not just talking financially, I'm talking, you know, emotionally or even a small thing like cooking dinner. He never one time cooked me a meal in three and a half years, not once.

Did he help you clean them yeah yeah i mean we would do it we would do it together we would clean it together yeah he would never be like i got it you know can i ask you with everything you've been through with your father i mean i lost my mother and i know how hard that is and i can't even imagine being in a relationship with someone that's a taker when i was going through that. Was that hard when you were going through everything? Was he taking or was he, can you like look back and be like, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt he was actually giving? So that, that is actually something that kept me with him probably longer, even before the cheating and stuff, because there were other issues. It was the

bond. Like he had met my dad and he, he was was really he was there for me when my dad was sick and that was really important he was there for my mom a lot not in a complete way where I didn't feel like I you know could just talk to him about my dad or cry about him whenever there's sort of like a time for it but he he was there and he spent a lot of time with me and he you know flew to France and missed work and stuff like that but now in hindsight I'm like that's just kind of a basic human thing to be there for somebody it shouldn't be something that yeah it shouldn't be glorified but I I mean I don't want to rewrite history and say that he never did anything because he he did show up and he spent a lot of time um with my family but yeah you know I I also hung on to him because I'm like my dad thought I was going to be with this person

and I want whoever I'm with to remember my dad. It's where I don't have to describe my, you probably know that feeling. And yeah. I guarantee you, your dad would want you to be with someone that you were empowered by. That's why he waited till the, he gave us so many red flags to notice. And it was like the last day that you were moving. And that picture was, of him was above the monitor. He's probably right listen crazy final hour that is crazy that his picture and it was his desk what are some things that are amazing about being free of these relationships let's talk about the good things like what what do you guys notice that you've implemented into your day or your week or your life that are just the show you're back on show. It sounds like you're doing some cool business shit. Like what has come out of this

that's good? Ew. Actually, I remember like, cause Tipsy Spritzers I've been working on for three years. And I remember him saying he deserved equity in Tipsy Spritzers because he was like emotionally there for me while I was trying to start it. I'm going to throw up. What? Who? Like Helen, come on. Yeah. No, but. I mean, listen, if you're just throwing equity around. I know, right? You? Helen, come on. Yeah, no, but I'm… Listen, if you're just throwing equity around. I know, right? You need an emotional friend. Let me get some more. Come on.

I'm here emotionally for you. Yeah, I know. You're my survivorship. Just kill me now. No, but what was the question again real quick? I think the answer is the same for both of us. And it's that we feel so alive. I feel so alive and I'm so creative again.

So, what made Blender Bombs like magical when it first launched was that it had such a personal touch to it. And I lost that along the last couple of years because I was keeping my head above water, like I was supposed to be running the business. He was not taking any stress off of me. The girl who replaced, like he was so replaceable. Gosh. But now that I have some people who are helping me really grow the business that I found, you know, they say when the student is ready, the teachers come. So getting rid of Scott, like teachers have come since then. And they're like male teachers that probably wouldn't actually one of them was friend, but he's helped me so much ever since I left. I tried to hook up with his girlfriend, like a long story. Yeah. And so I'm creative again. And you'll, when you get back to Austin,

you'll see this PR box that we made, but I'm really—I actually have one for Zaza for a birthday offering tonight. But it's like this piece of art. And we have gotten more followers from this PR box in the last two weeks because I'm finally able to use my magic again and be creative and put thought into things like the beginning, which is what made Blender Moms even grow a little bit. And so having that creative freedom has been so, it makes me really happy to have it back. Ew, s*** would have told me it was the ugliest box ever and like not to send it out. Then I wouldn't have sent it out. I'm going to look at the box and I'm going to put it on my Instagram story and show everyone. Yeah, you are. I know it's great.

And what are some good things that have come out of this? It could be like little, it doesn't have to be big. Like you take walks in the morning, anything. Yeah. I think it's actually big. It changed my mindset and made me realize I never manifested before. I never did stuff like that. And I realized just a little bit, you give like a little inch of gratitude, a little inch of positivity. And what comes back to you is just so overwhelming. Like I've met some of the most incredible people and gotten to talk with like the most interesting minds and learn so much. And it's just brought out this curiosity in me about life that I had sort of dulled down before because Mithul wasn't interested in that stuff. So I was just trying to, you know, appease him and always what did he want to do and stuff like

that. And now that I feel like i'm just running free a little bit buck wild i would say yeah we all go through it but it's just so amazing i mean for a few years i didn't listen to music because i didn't really feel anything inside and so music didn't do anything for me and now i can't go from the car to my front door without music still playing on my phone from my bluetooth and helen's the same way. We would drive in the car for hours in silence. We didn't even notice. Yeah. I think that this episode is so important because I think if you're settling in any area of your life for mediocrity, it's going to seep over to other areas. It just is. So if you're listening and you're in a relationship where you're settling for someone who isn't up to the standard that you should be with, you should question where else it's going

in your life because it does seep over. It's so much easier to have a partner and so much more effective and so many more things to have a partner that's helping you press the boulder up the same hill, it just makes life, life is already hard. Matul one time looked at me and said, why do you spend so much time doing personal development? You should be learning about stocks, something that will actually help you. Well, there you go. If you guys were to say something before we go to each of these guys, would it be nothing or is there anything you would say? Can you be friends? Or is there just nothing to say? No, I don't think there's anything.

And I definitely don't hold any like hatred for him. You know, I really wish him the best. I think maybe home's in a different place, but I just don't think he's even really worth me having any negative feelings or any feelings at all at this point, you know, I'm six months out. So if you're listening to this and you know you're struggling through your breakup you don't know what to do promise you it gets better and the usually the

signs that the reasons that you're that caused your breakup were there within the first like you know in your gut you know I knew I just didn't want to face it Helen knew she didn't want to face it so if you're having doubts, this is me telling you, you know, and listen to yourself because nobody knows better than you. The intuition is underrated. With everything we've gone through

in the last three years, your intuition is underrated. Hey, just one more time for everyone. Intuition is fucking underrated. I want to learn more about that. Like how to hone in. I'm reading a book called The Gift of Fear right now

that talks about your intuition and survival and stuff like that. But I want to, like the female intuition is strong. Strong. Yeah. Strong. It's strong.

Anything that you would say? I would like for him to respond to my attorney so he can figure the house situation out. I love Helen. Helen is fucking funny. I'm going to say Helen. But yes,

and there is a quote I'd like to say, and it's the happiness thing. Can you repeat it? Because you say it better. I like have squirrel brain right now. Yeah. One of our favorite quotes is, happiness is knowing that you're striving

towards your true potential. And I feel like that's where we're at right now. Yeah. Like I'm so happy. Yeah. I'm excited for both of you. Next time you guys come on the podcast, I'm sure it'll be a totally different chapter for both of you and next time you guys come on the podcast I'm sure it'll

be a totally different chapter for both of you you guys are welcome back anytime thank you for coming from Charleston yeah or yeah I'm diving back in Southern Charm I learned I'm diving back in Southern Charm is so good it's gonna be wild the best yeah but I always need a connection I always like if I'd like to be connected with somebody I like to get the insider access right Michael loves the juice yeah like Michael like he loves the juice but he like doesn was like, if I'd like to be connected with somebody, I like to get the insider access, right? Michael loves the juice. Like Michael, he loves the juice, but he like, doesn't like drama, if that makes sense. I want to be sitting on the couch with my fucking peasant family and be like, hey, I actually know that person. I went to their house. I'm just kidding, family. I love you. It's so funny because everyone in Charleston

is always like, do I don't watch the show? Yeah. I want to turn around and be like. Everyone in Charleston is like the first thing they say to Naomi. The show is so good. Like there's so many different layers and be like the show is so good like there's so many different layers and dynamics of that show to unpack like it's so good

I'm like a reality show like okay I'll give you an example the best Real Housewives what do you think I'm going to say out of all the seasons I've never seen

I've actually never seen it I've never watched that because there are so many different layers and dynamic that you bite into it and you just don't know what you're going to get.

The best reality shows have all the different dynamics. Like yours is so great because there's like Patricia who's like in her like mansion with the caftan and the caviar. And then you've got like Craig and Austin, which is a dynamic. And then Catherine and then you. Like it's craig and austin which is a dynamic and then catherine and then you like it's just there's so many different dynamics i know you're gonna lose your mind

people actually look up to as naomi yeah you guys have a special person that people actually look up to on the show like actually admire and would want to be like is you no i i disagree i think that there are like several others people do love you though people do love you though I saw on you know after all the outpour of support that you got after everything went there was pretty amazing no that was really amazing it was that was like very humbling like whoa damn this is very nice you guys have a very sweet friendship I think there's big things in store pimp yourself out tell Tell us about Tipsy. Tell us about what you're both working on,

your Instagrams, Blender Bomb, everything. You go first. Yeah, so blueprintforbreakup.com. We're going to sort of consolidate all these tools that we've learned and gathered in the last few months. Yeah, thanks to Benji. Thank you, Benji. And if you need help, you know, just go on the website,

take a look, share it with a friend, whatever. Still for a clothing brand is Labey, shop Labey, L-A-B-E-Y-E. That's what I'm wearing today. And Helen packed this exact same outfit and was going to wear it today. I'm like, you can't wear that. Oh, what you're wearing is from your line. Yeah. Yeah. Cute, you guys. I both commented when you walked in. You both look adorable. Yeah, we love Labey. And discount code for Labey. Oh, yeah. Discount code. We'll do skinny15.

Perfect. Skinny15, you guys. And yeah, then Blender Bombs, 8020 Market, Tipsy Spritzers. Helen, take it away. So Tipsy Spritzers is the newest thing. You're going to love this fact because I don't think you know it because I have not heard you guys talk about it. Are you familiar with Belcron?

So Belcron is in like 99% of anything in a can. It's a carcinogen, right? But they spray it in 99% of anything in a can and they don't disclose it on the ingredient label. Come on. They say it dissipates. Did you just fuck cans for me? Did you just like fuck that up for me

so I can't have cans anymore? We got to add that to us. This is another thing though. No more naughty lights for you, right? It's been a while since I've been drinking naughty lights. God, those are the days. Those are the fighting days. I used to, my entire arm used to be covered in eczema and I ate so healthy, ate so clean,

didn't know what it was. Like I gave up alcohol, still didn't go away. And it turns out that it was, it was like a LaCroix because they put something in these canned drinks that was triggering my eczema. The because they put something in these canned drinks that was triggering my eczema. The week I got rid of all canned drinks, it went away. That's kind of what took us on the pathway. My business partner is like very an ingredient like snob. So she called some manufacturing companies being like, what are you putting in these cans? Like, you know, from Spendrift to LaCroix. I don't want to call out brands because I don't know which ones are

which. But anyway, they put Belcron in them. And we do not have Belcron in this. So it's tunnel pasteurized. So they drop it in, you know, hot water, cold water, hot water, cold water. And that's how they preserve it. And so it's just a wine spritzer. It's low calorie, low sugar.

And it's actually really delicious, but it uses real juice. And then for, that's Tipsy Spritzers. It's available on the East Coast now. How much time do we have while Helen goes through all the businesses? I know. And then Blender Bombs,

obviously my baby. We just launched bars. Delicious. I'm going to actually eat that bar. I just have the grapefruit flavor. Delicious. The orange is my favorite. I love the grapefruit.

Yeah, BlenderBombs.com. And we can use a discount code for that. What is the discount code for Blender Bombs? Skinny 15. Okay, Blender Bombs in my smoothie. They're so good. It's such a quick tip to just add to your smoothie.

I got the tip from Naomi when I saw her weight loss post. It was like this little bomb that you just throw in your smoothie. I put it in with like greens, berries. You could throw some water, cheese. Controls your blood sugar. So amazing. Yeah. And so it is for if people are trying to lose weight,

it does control your blood sugar. The bars are fire like I can't wait for you to try the lemon because I'm getting hypoglycemia because I haven't eaten all day eat both of them on our plane

that was hypoglycemia my favorite is the peanut butter jelly bar they're so good but yeah if you are doing intermittent fasting like trying to lose weight and you break your fast

with a Linderbaum smoothie you're good to go skinny 15 baby skinny 15 for both brands yeah and then at Helen Hall Like you're fast with a Linderbaum smoothie. You're good to go. Skinny 15, baby. Skinny 15 for both brands. And then at Helen Hall and she's at Naomi with an E underscore Lindo. I love it. That is amazing PR.

That should have held on for equity. You're going to think this is really crazy before I have to say one thing. I swear to God, I actually taste the difference with a beverage in a can without that in it. I know you're going to not believe me that I say that. I believe you. There's something that now that you mentioned that

that I can taste in cans that tastes weird. I will not drink alcohol now except for tipsy. I will not like, I will not do it. And she has zero eczema now. Yeah, I'm like perfect now.

I'm perfect. She's perfect. Let's end it on that. Naomi and Helen are perfect. We love you guys. Thank you for having us back. Thank you for coming back on. This wasn't so painful, no?

No. And maybe I'll talk to them. We can do a giveaway with both of your products. Yeah. If you guys follow them, I will leave it at the end of this episode. Come back anytime. You're the best.

Yay. This is one of our biggest giveaways yet. We've teamed up with Naomi's brand, Shop La Bay, and Helen's brand, Blender Bombs, and we are doing a huge giveaway together. So it's like a skinny confidential favorites with Shop La Bay and Blender Bomb in like a whole gift bag for you.

All you have to do is tell us your favorite part of this episode on my latest Instagram, at Lauren Bostick, and make sure you're following Naomi and Helen on Instagram. And on that note, we'll see you on Thursday.