The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Scheana Shay & Brock Davies On What Reality TV Does To Your Personal Life, Vanderpump Rules, & On Vs. Offscreen Lives
Episode Date: April 18, 2022#453: On today's episode we are joined by Vanderpump Rules cast members, Scheana Shay & Brock Davies. Sheana & Brock join the show to discuss life on and off screen, where they stand with their cast, ...IVF, egg freezing, miscariages, and what it's like putting your life on television for the world to judge. To connect with Lauryn Evarts click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) This episode is brought to you by Sakara This year, turn your resolutions into reality. Whether you’re looking to try plant-based eating, build an empowered body, boost skin’s glow, or simply feel your very best, Sakara makes it easy to create rituals that last. Sakara is a wellness company rooted in the transformative power of plant-based food. Their menu of creative, chef-crafted breakfasts, lunches, and dinners changes weekly, so you’ll never get bored. And it’s delivered fresh, anywhere in the U.S. And right now, Sakara is offering our listeners 20% off their first order when they go to www.sakara.com/skinny and enter code SKINNY at checkout. To Get 2 Months Free of Obé Fitness click HERE or use code SKINNY2 at www.obefitness.com when signing up. Produced by Dear MediaÂ
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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. Whoever I'm dating, as we've seen on the past in the show, like I will
defend them to the death. Whereas Brock is like, you don't have to like have my back. I can stand up for
myself. So I took that, I think maybe too literal. And I'm like, all right, well, if I don't need to
fight your battles, then I'm going to work on this friendship because she was the only person
on the entire show who also had had a baby just in general, but so recently.
I think, I feel like to defend me, you don't need, I get the defense part. But like in time, it's going to come.
I'm new to the stage.
Everyone's going to talk about it.
Have that.
You can only judge somebody once you slowly.
If I keep doing the same stuff, then cool, go for it.
You know, I know that to the core.
So I feel like when I say to she and I'm like, she's done an amazing job being a mom.
Taylor, cue the Vanderpump Rules theme song.
Raise your glass.
And let me guess, you forgot to add it.
It's going to be real embarrassing if it doesn't happen and we're just sitting here
in our silent voices
yeah 100% forgot to add it
welcome back everybody
that clip was from
our guests of the show today
Sheena Shea
and Brock Davies
on this episode
we're talking all things
Vanderpump Rules
we're getting into it
we're getting the juice
I am a huge
Vanderpump Rules fan
I always have been
Michael acts like he's not
but he actually is
I've never acted like
I was not
I've always been into it okay you're going to say it go back to the archives you. I've never acted like I was not. Oh, okay. I've always been into it.
Okay, you're going to say it?
Go back to the archives.
You'll see.
I never acted like I wasn't.
We've been watching since the beginning.
So it was really cool to interview Sheena and Brock.
She's very multifaceted.
She's a mother.
She opens up about her journey with IVF in this episode,
miscarriages.
She talks about her entrepreneurial endeavors.
And so does Brock. He also has an app
called Homebodies, which I'm sure you've seen on the show. And I personally really wanted to
interview both of them because I feel like sometimes with reality TV, you get a certain
edit, but that's not how you are in real life, what I've found. And so to hear their perspective
without any producers or being edited was really cool.
I also think it's really cool to announce that Sheena Shenanigans, her podcast is now with Dear
Media. Yeah, she's doing a tour. Super excited to have the show over here with her. Super excited
to be working with her. And Brock and I, it was love at first sight with us. I met him when Dave
Meltzer was last on the show and we were like, hey, that's a cool guy.
So we, you know.
He could lift you up with his spanky.
Well, we can, you know, he gives some things, I gives other things.
That sounds a little weird, a little homoerotic, but whatever.
Sheena Marie is an American television personality, an actress, a mom, a podcast host, and a singer.
She is currently one of the stars on Bravo's reality television series,
Vanderpump Rules. Brock is a personal trainer. He owns the app Homebodies, and he is also a dad.
He frequents on her podcast, Shenanigans. We go all over the place in this episode. I think you're really, really going to like it. There's a lot of depth to it too. On that note,
let's introduce Sheena and Brock to the Skinny Confidential Him and Her podcast.
This is the Skinny Confidential Him and Her podcast. This is the Skinny Confidential Him and Her.
Tell Sheena is that she can ice roll her tits after she breastfeeds.
Oh my God.
I need this for when my right one gets clogged.
Yes.
I'm literally there.
So I get behind her and I have to massage her milk dots because otherwise she gets mastitis.
I grew up on a dairy farm, so I knew this.
No, you didn't.
I did.
Wait, so you're like milking her like a cow.
So I'm pumping and he's like massaging because my right one.
So my left produces so much milk.
My right, we just call that like the snack boob or dessert.
It's just like a little bit.
So now that she doesn't
latch anymore, I'm just pumping and I don't get that much out of it. So it'll get clogged. And
it's just a different like attachment, the way she sucks and the way the pump sucks.
How are you doing all this with filming a television show, doing a podcast,
running like a merch line, like all these different things? It's a lot to breastfeed too. Yeah. I mean, I felt like, honestly, when I think back to last year, I feel like I was just in a fog.
I mean, I had only been home from the hospital for literally three days before I had cameras in my
face. Three days I've been home. I'm trying to just figure this out. I got hospitalized for
five extra days in the high-risk ICU because I got diagnosed with HELP syndrome postpartum. I literally could have died in labor. My blood pressure was so high. I
didn't even know that it was as bad and scary as it was. They were trying to keep me calm. My heart
rate was really low. Then her heart rate was dripping. They're pumping me with magnesium.
She comes out as they call her a mag baby. She's not crying. It was just very traumatizing.
Then I'm put straight into a high-risk ICU room where I have-
Can I just jump in there real quick? Because you're saying this in front of a woman that's
pregnant right now. No, no, no. That's okay. That's okay.
Okay. I was just like- No, no, no. I asked her.
The hospital was so good. The hospital did a really good job while we were dealing with this.
We didn't know any of this was going on the hospital handled it so well they just were working around the room
it wasn't till after a baby came and we were in the next day they were like hey just so you know
this is what actually happened so i don't want you to be like it was horrific to go through but
just know that the hospital did such an amazing job getting us through that. I actually asked her because I told her as a viewer,
I feel like Vanderpump rules washed over the fact that she almost died.
It was kind of like, yeah, that's what we're talking about.
No, I asked her.
I didn't just say, hey, guess what?
Shit got bad.
As a mother, and I think there's a lot of mothers that will probably watch
the show it was like are we not going to talk about the fact that you literally almost died
and also the fact that your baby came out not crying i mean yeah i cannot imagine that that's
so much cortisol no it was literally traumatized yeah i can imagine yeah so then it's like i'm in
the hospital in the high-risk icu we have round-the-clock nurses like every, what was it, like every 30 minutes, every hour.
Like, I mean, they're checking on me constantly.
And then they're bringing her from the nursery into breastfeed every two, three hours on the dot.
I'm not really sleeping.
I'm just like there was so much going on.
I didn't get out of bed for three days.
I had a catheter.
It was just like so much. And then finally my liver enzymes and my blood
platelets were leveling to the right way that they were able to release me like five, five,
six days later. And I get home and what? Nothing. Oh, I get home. And now, I mean, thankfully we
had my mom stay with us for that first week to just help out but I'm like now I'm going from around the clock nurses to just here's a baby you're at home you're on this
blood pressure medication you're not yourself I am dealing with body image issues like crazy knowing
that there's about to be cameras in my face and it's like it was it was a lot and you you don't
see any of that.
It was like it didn't let me tell you guys. You hear it at the end of the season.
You hear it at the end.
In the reunion.
Yeah, kind of.
When you guys think about the way that you're portrayed on the show,
are you happy with the portrayal?
Are you so par?
Like, how do you feel about it?
It's frustrating, to be honest.
But I understand when you're part of an ensemble cast,
you can't tell everyone's individual full story.
There's too many people.
There's too much going on.
There's too much story to tell.
I understand that.
And that is what I signed up for.
That's why I love having podcasts,
having YouTube to be able to tell the full story.
I tell everyone in your particular position,
meaning people that do television
where there's production,
that that is one of the most powerful reasons
to have something like this.
Yeah.
Because you control your narrative.
Absolutely.
They can say,
or they can portray something
and you can address it right away
as opposed to waiting for a tabloid to fill in for you.
Yeah, or six months for it to air
and then seeing the way that it's shown
when it's not really the full story.
So yeah, when we're watching back the first episode
and I see we're just talking about my birthday party,
I'm like,
because who thought that that was the most important thing watching back the first episode and I see we're just talking about my birthday party. I'm like,
because who thought that that was the most important thing to talk about in the first five minutes when there was a whole conversation about how I almost just died and it was
traumatizing. I mean, it honestly has made me pretty sure that I don't think I ever want to
get pregnant again because I'm at high risk for that
to happen. So now, you know, we're not ready anytime soon anyways, but you know, we talk
adoption, we talk surrogacy, like those are way more likely than let's try to have another baby
the natural way. I just, it was really scary. Is there any warning signs that led up to this
that you saw or was it just one day you didn't feel good?
So I had the best pregnancy.
We're 15 hours into labor.
And I'm like, I see why people do this multiple times.
It's not that bad, you know?
Like, this is why women carry the babies, because we can handle it.
So I was completely fine.
I didn't throw up a single day in my entire pregnancy.
It was great. And then
once they realized my blood pressure was high, my heart rate was dropping and all of that,
then that's when it got scary. And it turned into preeclampsia when I was in labor. And then
postpartum, it turned into help syndrome, which is an extremely rare condition in itself and even
more rare to get diagnosed with it postpartum.
So then my doctor's thinking like, what did we miss?
And the week of at my 40 week appointment,
there was protein in my urine and my blood pressure was really high.
But we just chalked that up to the protein smoothie
I had for breakfast.
And the fact that I'm 40 weeks
filming a television show in 10 days,
the baby still hasn't come.
I'm freaking out. You were filming. No, we were getting ready in 10 days the baby still hasn't come i'm freaking out you were
filming no we were getting ready 10 days later you were i didn't realize that 10 days afterwards
yeah we know what day filming starts we know what day i'm due there's 10 days in between for me to
have this baby hold on could you not tell the production like this is a lot i need a little i
need some space no we had just been off
for almost two years
and I think
Sheena was
Sheena is very like
intimidated on like
superiority
like when there's a
police officer in an area
with authority over her
she freaks out
I'm a rule follower
so she will follow it
I do my job
she won't say
hey listen
for my own health
I need this
she would troop it on
and she said
nah let's do this
speaking of filming
I gotta talk to you
for a second, Brock,
because I met you with David Meltzer when he came in.
Yeah.
And it was right before, I think, either before you were filming
or while you were getting ready.
I think it was before.
I think it was right before.
Yeah.
He was like, yeah, I think I'm about to do this thing.
I don't know what he was about to do.
I had no idea what he was getting himself into.
How are you feeling, brother?
How are you doing?
Do you know what?
I'm thriving. I'm happy where we are. And are you feeling, brother? How are you doing? You know what? I'm thriving.
I'm happy where we are and there's
worse things I could do.
The opportunity I got to have was be
at home with my daughter this time
and we got to have these amazing
experiences. So if it comes
to my background and that being brought up,
I just chalk it down to you're going
to meet who I am and my past
is what makes me who I am. And was I just chalk it down to you're going to meet who I am and knows my past is what makes me who I am.
And was I upset how it came out on camera?
Yeah.
But at the same time, no, because you know what?
Now you know who I am.
And force him to be accountable and deal with some things like child support, which recently was paid off in full.
Just want to say that.
But, you know, some things that he may have put off and just
kept making the small payments and just doing the minimum doing the minimum instead of really just
face because i was more embarrassed about my past than anything else and so it did it forced that
so when you talk about things you take the air out of it regardless and i'm not here to crucify
even past judgment but i think what i am here to point out is that and i always do this when i
talk to people like yourselves like like people don't understand.
I mean, it's an interesting experiment to go through
to put your life on that kind of platform out of nowhere.
Yeah.
And I'll tell you the difference.
Lauren and I do this and we control this.
And it's like, it comes out how we want it to come out
when we want it to come out.
And like, there's nobody in our ear saying,
hey, we're going to cut this or change this.
We're basically, what you hear right now is what you're going to hear later when it's like special editing i don't think people think about like when you give your life
up to a platform like this one you have a different type of person judging you right it's almost like
voyeuristic and it's a different type like the the audience members that chime in on you guys
maybe a lot of them listen to this but the way that they scrutinize reality people, personnel is completely different than just a regular, like, you know, somebody that's
creating content on the internet. How have you navigated that since you joined? Cause it's a
different, like I said, it's, you kind of from obscurity to here's the world watching.
Yeah. I mean, it was, I mean, I don't even know if I still have figured out how to do that,
but I'll just figure it out. I know that I'm comfortable in my own shoes.
I know my past.
I know my present.
I know where I want to go.
I know that.
And that's my truth.
And so all I just took on, I just went and said,
I'm going to do the best for my partner.
She's never had somebody as a lead role with her,
support her through this.
And it started off as, oh, it's just her plus one.
You have to film.
It's her reality, her world.
And as the season started to keep going,
production's like, hey, we want you to do more. I was like, okay, perfect. I'm her reality, her world. And as the season started to keep going, production's like,
hey, we want you to do more. I was like, okay, perfect. I'm going to do my best. And then it
leads to another season, hopefully, and then another opportunity. So that's all I took it as.
And I think for me to get through the season, I just took that filter that I have, be aware of
that filter and then remind myself, whatever I say is true. Because if I say it or I say it out
loud to anybody on this,
it's going to be recorded, it's truth.
So just make sure I'm aware of that
and know that I have to be responsible for my words.
And that's how I took the season.
And then, you know, it definitely didn't make me out
to be a knight in shining armor.
And I think there's like a thing going around Instagram
right now with all the men of the show.
And they're like, who would you marry,
sleep with and knock off?
And I'm getting killed every single time.
Everyone's killing you?
Everyone's knocking me off.
I'm not killing you. I found you to be warm and endearing and I'm getting killed every single time. Everyone's killing you? Everyone's knocking me off. I know. I'm not killing you.
I found you to be warm and endearing and everyone that's judging too.
It's like, let's see your perfection.
Well, that's it.
Everyone has made mistakes.
There's something that's warm to me about people that come on a platform like that
and own up to it and talk about it.
No one is perfect.
It seems sometimes like the people's court think they're
perfect. Yeah. It's interesting. I can't get over something. I gained 55 pounds. So did I.
It was rough. Exactly 55. If you told me, Lauren, you have to go film a show 10 days after you gave
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I feel like I was just in such a daze, honestly.
Like I knew that I had two jobs,
to be a mom and keep this baby alive
and film a television show at the same time
because that's what provides the income for my baby.
So there's no choice. And you're just like, I'm going to wear the most flattering thing I can
wear and just go for it and show a real postpartum situation. I mean, I did get every shapewear on
the planet. I had skims. I had like all of that just so I felt more comfortable. But I also was
like, you know what? This is my reality. And I agreed to film a reality
show. So although I did wear the shapewear because I felt more comfortable just being more tucked in,
having so much extra loose skin on my stomach, I was like, you know what? I'm a size large now.
I'm usually an extra small. And right now I'm large. And then I'll be a medium and a small
and hopefully get back to the extra small. But at the time I just knew this is what it is.
And this is something that a lot of women
are going to be able to relate to.
Like no offense to Lala,
but girl snapped back the next day.
That's not normal.
So for me, I was like,
I can at least tell a normal story
and people will be able to relate.
And if anyone tries to judge me for that
or say I shouldn't be wearing that
like you're an asshole
and I did get some of those
speaking of Lala
I wonder about this
this is kind of about Lala
I think I would lose my shit
especially knowing you
I would lose my shit
if the world was chiming in
on my relationship
let alone people
I'm on a show with
like if people were chirping in
to me about my relationship
on a show
I think I'd be kicked off the show
and be going to jail
I wonder how you guys dealt with that and the strain it
put on the relationship while you're on a show the world's chiming in people like i mentioned
lala is chiming and like how did you guys both deal with that and stay in a solid relationship
it was also hard because i was trying to work on my friendship with her so then that's hard for us
because he's like how are you being friends
with this person
who's trying to destroy me?
But I'm like,
I just have a separate relationship
with her and like,
I'm trying to fix this,
but I'm trying to not fight with you.
And so, I mean,
God, how did we do it?
How did we do it?
That is destroying you
because it's for the show
versus destroying
because like she actually wants to.
Well, just because I'm a person
like whoever I'm dating
as we've seen on the past in the show, like I will defend them to the death.
Whereas Brock is like, you don't have to like have my back.
I can stand up for myself.
So I took that, I think, maybe too literal.
And I'm like, all right, well, if I don't need to fight your battles, then I'm going to work on this friendship.
Because she was the only person on the entire show who also had had a baby just in general but so recently so
we're both breastfeeding we both have babies we need to get home to we can only be gone for so
many hours before our boobs are literally screaming like we just found comfort in each other because
no one else understood what we were going through so I just was really gravitating towards her but
then at the same time,
she's doing her job so well
that she's really coming for him.
And I'm like, dude.
So it was kind of like mid-season.
I was like, I'm done with this.
Like I'm trying so hard,
but I can't pick you over him.
So it was definitely tough.
But I also think there's another element to it though too.
You said you weren't fighting his battles
because he said you couldn't.
You're also so...
So hormonal.
You're so, so drained postpartum.
You don't have the capacity to even fucking deal.
Like you can only do what you can do.
And so to have to also defend him and take care of him,
it's just a lot.
Yeah.
And I think, I feel like to defend me,
you don't need, I get the defense part,
but like in time, it's going to come.
I'm new to the stage.
Everyone's going to talk about it and have that.
You can only judge somebody once she's slowly,
if I keep doing the same stuff, then cool, go for it.
You know, so I know that to the core.
So I feel like when I say to Sheena,
like she's done an amazing job being a mom, you know?
Everything about it, she's still breast pumping,
everything about it.
She's done it all properly.
She was worried every single along the way.
She had doubts in herself the whole way through it.
So I was kind of like,
I don't have doubts on who I am
or what we are in our relationship.
What got us through that, bro, was just that.
The fact that we survived the pandemic together.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's hard.
Let me ask a delicate question here
because there's obviously a lot of known parties here.
I also think it's relevant
when you're getting criticism or advice.
I think it's important to think about
where that's coming from, right?
Like there's people in my life
that I seek advice from
or seek criticism from
based on what I'm doing.
If you're getting that advice
or criticism from people
and maybe the,
I'm going to be careful here,
the foundation of that house
isn't as solid
as people had thought, right?
How are you taking that
without kind of blowing up that world?
Well, I kind of already had my piece in that moment.
When it came out and all that stuff,
I kind of was kind of like, you know,
I had the same excuse about,
I was kind of like open about it publicly.
I was like, well, there you go, you know,
keep your house in order.
But at the same time, then I needed to be better.
And that was an opportunity for me to be, you know what?
I understand.
And I should have acted differently.
I acted like a 12-year-old.
And I went at her on the reunion.
Didn't age well and showed me who I was, but I was her.
I think since then, we've had some time down.
And the girls are working on their relationship with the kids and all that.
And Lala, honestly, what she has done now, I respect her so much more because before that,
it wasn't the fact that I had respect for that situation of who Lala was.
Now,
looking at what she's been doing,
she had,
she,
she left the money,
she left all the,
and she's doing it herself.
I respect that more.
And a hundred percent,
if I had,
if I had that light right now,
I would reframe to that and be like,
look,
I get where you're coming from.
I'll listen to your advice. But then I didn't want to listen to your advice, look, I get where you're coming from. I'll listen to your advice.
But then I didn't want to listen to your advice because-
Well, that's what I'm saying
because maybe it's hard to take advice.
Like if I told, I'll just use a stupid example.
If I'm telling somebody how to run a business,
I'm a terrible businessman.
It's like, shut the fuck up, dude, right?
Right.
And I'll just use that example.
So I imagine it's hard
because you're sitting there filming a show
and you're like-
I think it was just more-
She's just on her high horse judging us. It was just more hard because it was true. I think it was hard because you're sitting there filming a show and you're like I think it was just on her high horse judging us it was just more hard because it was true
I think it was the hardest part for me like the thing she was saying was true but it was it was
it was just frustrating because yes it was true about his past but it's not true of who he is
now as a person and who he is now as a father to summer so that was what was so hard for me is
because was he the best partner and father in the past?
Absolutely not.
But he's trying to be that now.
And he's trying to right those wrongs.
And so for her to not understand that at all was so frustrating for me.
Because I'm like, but that's not who he is now.
You know, he was 19 in this last relationship.
20, 21 when he had kids.
So he was just in such a different place now.
And before, when we even met,
like that's always been my goal
is to make up that relationship.
So before we even picked up filming,
before I even knew about Vanderpump Rules
and being on the show,
like I was already trying.
As of 2018, once I finally opened up my business
and I finally got something underneath me,
I wanted to be, I knew I could make that turn
to be like, no, I am a better person.
Let me work on that.
And I've been working on that relationship.
We were.
The show definitely just put fire onto that.
They just fast-tracked it.
Well, I put fire onto it on both sides.
It really made it a lot more difficult
because now we have a platform
and then my ex doesn't like to see that.
Yeah, we were asked to respect their privacy
and not speak about this publicly.
And then it's like, well, someone else is bringing it up on the show so we kind of have to address it yeah what about another misconception about you guys the whole i feel like there was also a little
bit of disjointedness with you guys going to get engaged or married at james's wedding oh my god
that was so annoying it was i'll I'll let you take this one.
Look, the reality is
we didn't know
if the show was coming back, period.
We still don't.
We never do.
We still don't.
It's coming back.
Every season...
You guys,
I'm going to tell you.
It's coming back.
But last season,
we didn't...
I didn't know
what was going on
and I took...
This was the one time
I really took advice
from somebody in the show
which was Ariana
and I love her still. She's like, don't quit on this because during one time I really took advice from somebody in the show, which was Ariana.
And I love her still.
She's like, don't quit on this.
Because during the season, I was like, I got a cool idea.
And I spoke to production.
I'm like, Sheena's been engaged with her on the show.
Like, you've got to be creative.
I was like, I got a creative thing.
I want to have a movie premiere night.
And then the movie premiere itself is going to be me and Sheena's kind of love story from YouTube.
We've recorded it.
And it will be our love story
highlight and then I would propose to her and then we
turn into a shotgun wedding because everyone's dressed up
and it'll just be short and simple. She's been married
I've been married, whatever. Have fun with it.
Because I thought that's what I wanted to do on the show
so she could have that fairy
story. What is it? Fairy tale.
Fairy tale ending. Turned into
a freaking nightmare because I get, once I
got onto that
and then that because of COVID
we couldn't film that
and permits, people forget about permits
you gotta pull permits for everywhere you film
we can't just say we're going to the beach tomorrow
so it didn't really work out too well
and then I was like I'm not gonna do this
you guys don't just gallivant around
and show up and there's cameras waiting
people think that, they really think that
they're like why couldn't you just do it at the beach?
I'm like,
because you have to get a permit.
You can't just go and film in Malibu tomorrow.
Yeah.
Like some permits for certain cities
take weeks to apply for.
So he was working with what he had
and we only filmed,
it was the shortest season we filmed
since like season two.
Don't you dare break the fourth wall for me.
No, I literally,
I was like,
I would like to do this.
We didn't have that much time.
But like,
we're all booked out,
except for this one weekend in the morning,
you could do something.
I was like,
okay,
we'll do that then.
But as,
and then as we got up there,
we weren't even allowed off site because of COVID rules and that we needed to be on the,
I'm permitting,
we needed to be on the location.
yeah.
So once we realized
that it was at sunstone i was like we're not i was still okay with it because here's here's my
theory on it i'll take a bullet for her everyone else in kick rocks then that's that was that was
literally the mindset i had i didn't know if the show was coming back i wanted to do this for her
and if you want to have a problem i'll take the but it was not what i wanted i was like first of
all i wanted his family to be
there for that moment if he would have done the surprise shotgun wedding thing i mean i had no
say in that because i didn't know what was happening but then when it got changed to oh
maybe we do this in solving my sister wasn't able to be there and i was like i would really want my
sister there and then i was like also your family can't be there but you know if we just do something
small and private,
no one finds out about it
until they watch the episodes
and like for the reunion,
then we can still do our like big wedding
with your family,
like back in Bali, Australia, New Zealand,
something like that.
So I was like, okay, I'm down.
And then when we found out,
oh no, it has to be at Sunstone
where everyone else is staying.
I was like, oh,
so we just have James and Raquel
come out on their terrace
and see a wedding going on
and then realize that's Brock and Sheena?
No.
Wait, it sounds like the producers
were sticking their fingers around in this one.
Well, especially when it comes down to like a timeline
and how can you get it done?
They're like, this is the only time you can get.
So they, look.
They knew.
They knew.
And I'm not saying the show is scripted
because it's not.
It's 100% real.
But what the producers get to see is they have everyone's conversations
and they know what's going on.
So they can really dive into a storyline and they just follow it like that.
And so it's not scripted.
We just get leaned into those situations.
James was harsh.
Oh, yeah.
You know what?
I'm surprised at the end.
Because you guys missed two days of him arguing with everybody beforehand.
Because of like.
Well, that morning from what I've heard, he was an absolute nightmare.
So I think he got all of his rage out that morning thinking his engagement party was going to get canceled.
Raquel should have canceled it.
That he had no rage maybe left.
I mean, she should have just in the middle of her speech
when she was out there just been like you know his accent and this and that and then you know
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Now that they're broken up,
does that affect the group?
Yes.
Yes.
There's a dynamic in there because you can't pick James or Raquel.
James feels that we're picking Raquel over James
because Raquel's actually living with us right now in our LA apartment.
We're down in San Diego full time.
She's here at our place in LA.
Oh, that's the Meltzer connection.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So he feels that we've automatically taken her side.
And I'm like, well, first of all, James, like you got back on your feet right away.
You had a new apartment lined up and like you were good to go.
If it was the other way around and Raquel already had everything good to go and you
were struggling and you needed a place to stay, I would have offered you the exact same
thing because we're down in San Diego, the apartment, we're just paying for it.
It's empty.
I wouldn't have only offered that to Raquel so like you're feeling we picked her side because she's living with us right now but it's that's not the case but James wasn't exactly butterflies
to Brock either though I mean I mean that he was he was hard on you and and and but here's the
thing sorry I'm not to cut you off but he was hard on him
because he was hurt and that's where i can understand that because james felt like him
and brock were establishing a really good friendship they were hanging out working out
together all the time doing ice baths i'm trying to help them but also james and raquel were two
of the only people out of all of our friends who made the effort to go to Palm Springs to visit us in the pandemic, to drive down to San Diego, spend time with us.
They were two of the only people who did that. So then when filming starts up and now we're back
in LA and he's getting close with Sandoval again, close with Schwartz again, James just felt like,
what about me? Like I thought we had this friendship that we've been building. So he was
hurt. So I understand that James
has a really shitty way
of expressing how he's truly feeling,
but that's where it came from
was he was just hurt.
Let me ask you guys this.
Lauren and I do this show together
as you see.
And like sometimes you do a show
like high five,
that was a good one.
Sometimes you're like,
oh, that was not so good.
When you guys have a poor day of filming
or something where you're like,
oh, fuck, that was like,
we didn't mean to say that.
I didn't want to do that. And know it's in the hand like what is
the conversation that takes there's no conversation oh no it goes in my head over and over i lose
sleep like i just replay it over oh i should have said this i shouldn't have said that and
seasons ago i would just smoke some weed and forget about it but i don't have that luxury
anymore so now it just goes through my head. They have the professionals.
But I imagine
that's a source of anxiety,
especially in the real world.
Confessionals are hard.
Why?
Because, I mean,
this is me.
You're a pro.
I'm really good
at confessionals.
I'm bad at all of this, right?
I'm really,
I think I really,
I enjoy the live component.
You just put a camera on us
and we'll live our best life.
But then you have to go in
three months later
and now pin together the storyline for people. It's not on the day, like not that week you go have a
confession. It's not like The Bachelor when they pull you out of your own day and you're
That would be easy because you'll get better content if they did that because people will
be pissed. They'll be really emotional. But what happens is now they've put the storyline together,
then you have to go in and fill in the gaps in those interviews. And so they're like,
hey, remember this time? And you remember it. You remember what you said, but now they get that, then you have to go in and fill in the gaps in those interviews. And so they're like, hey, remember this time? And you remember it.
You remember what you said,
but now they're like,
yeah, we want you to respond to that.
For me, that was very difficult.
Because it's not fresh.
Because it's not fresh,
that's not my makeup.
I'm a farmer boy and a plumber.
Like I didn't think
I was going to sit in front of a camera
and tell them how I feel.
You know what I think is also strange there
is you got like probably
like if it's three months later,
the relationship has also changed.
It's different.
Exactly. And that was what was hard for me, especially lala is like a better place we've come so far and then we go back but then and then i see the
shit she says yeah and then the finale happened where her and i get in a huge explosive fight and
then we ended up leaving together that day and charlie was like i don't understand how you got
in a car and left with her after that fight you got. And I was like, well, she was my sober driver and I
wasn't sober. So I still needed a ride home that night. And then we ended up talking. I was like,
look, I understand why you did what you did. I understand why you told James, you know,
we all have a job to do. You were doing your job. I can get past it. But like,
let's not do that to each other anymore. And we've gotten through so much and we're in such
a good place
but then you know three months later i still have that interview where i'm like i'm done with her
that seems like that would cause fights off air yeah that hence his uh reaction to the end of
the season at the reunion then three months later we've aired it because we were so good
and lala came over to our house and she explained everything that was going on in her relationship
and was just looking to us as a support system to be there for her.
And then a couple weeks later, we filmed the reunion.
He's just coming at her, and she's like,
whoa, whoa, whoa.
This is way different energy than you were putting off at your house two weeks ago.
This is not like normal life.
There's no like textbook on how to handle this.
No, there's nothing normal about our life.
I mean, it's cool.
It's just not normal.
I mean, lesson learned.
I'm not going to like binge five,
the last five episodes two days before the reunion
and just sit there and steam up on it.
I'm telling you, if she was in person,
I would have been a bigger,
I would have done so much.
I had so many things in my head.
If she was in person and gave me some feedback,
I was trying to argue with someone on a TV.
Yeah, that's true.
She didn't come across too well.
So Lisa Vanderpump, what is the relationship to her now? Is everything smoothed over?
Are you guys good?
You guys kind of got into it on the show, I felt like.
I mean, I felt like Lisa gave me her respect.
After that, she was like,
I don't approve of what you've done,
but thank you for speaking to me honestly. And then I, i since then we've always had a respect for each other i even
called her up the other day because i'm trying to do some events out here in la and i wanted to get
her feedback so i think my role with lisa is just kind of like i'm very thankful for the opportunity
that as a family and what she's done for sheena and all that and that's that me and ken get along
like a house on fire i run into him at tom tom and we buy a beer together and we sit down and he gives me shit and I give him shit
back. He's fun. And Lisa kind of, kind of like this checks in and keeps everyone on the toes.
Yeah. Lisa is someone I have so much respect for. And I look up to so much. She's like
the second mom who you want her approval when you're dating someone like you need your mom's
approval. Otherwise it's just, it's going to be frustrating. So I was very nervous that now Lisa has this skewed perception
of who he is based on what Lala has brought up at a tea party. So I was really nervous about that
because I'm like, I know my past. I always say, you know, this is the one. Oh, my God, I'm so
happy. I've never been happier in my entire life. And they've heard this time and time again on the
show. So when it comes to my actual forever and happiness, I'm like, no one's going to believe
me. They're just going to think I'm full of shit. Like Sheena said this about everyone.
I've watched the show from the beginning. I believed you. It was different. It was different.
Because he's my person. Yeah. And I think also that with the other ones, I feel like they also edited like looks and-
100%.
Because when I looked back,
Rob and I are friends again now,
but when I watched that season back
when I was heartbroken,
it was just like more just like knives in the back.
I don't know.
They almost like play into like the cringe.
Yeah, because I'm like,
I don't remember the relationship like that. cringe yeah because i'm like i don't
remember the relationship like that was it really like then he's like no he's like because now we've
had these conversations and he was like sheena i was so uncomfortable on camera like i just closed
off and i wasn't the way i was you know in private with you and i'm like yeah because when i watched
it back i'm like shit that guy really didn't love me. Yeah, but honey, it's not easy. In Rob's defense, he hung a TV in seven minutes.
But it's hard to walk into that room.
What else could he do in seven minutes?
Nothing.
That was about it.
You know, I would not.
I know this about myself.
I would struggle doing what you did.
Going into an established group on an established show out of nowhere.
And again, you're talking to somebody who's very comfortable voicing being out there but that is a difficult
situation that i don't think people can appreciate unless they're in it yeah it was intimidating i'll
tell you that but and and then but in i think the fun part about it was we had these cool things we
got we went to coachella when the thing was shut down we yeah like i was just like this is like
this is an opportunity this is an opportunity.
This is great.
And so that's the fun part. And it provides so many opportunities outside of filming, you know?
So it's like, yeah, there's some shit we have to go through.
But at the end of the day, like, it is ultimately so worth it to me because we are so blessed,
you know, I was just saying on my podcast earlier, we get to live in three different
cities, you know, like we're so very fortunate
and these opportunities
have all come from the show.
So if I have to,
you know,
deal with some shit
and get yelled at
at a tea party
to live the life
that we live,
then, you know,
so be it.
I understand that this show,
I absolutely will be
clapping back more next season
because I got my mojo back.
Yeah, you don't feel postpartum.
Exactly.
You don't have a piece of fog in front of your face. Yeah, you don't feel postpartum. You don't have a piece of fog
in front of your face.
People don't realize postpartum.
I didn't even get it
until after we watched it.
I started watching.
I was like, wait, what?
Because I didn't see the transformation.
It feels like there's a piece of fog
over your eyes
and you can't see straight
and you can't snap out of it.
I wanted to just reach
through the TV and shake myself when I'm sitting down with Charlie at TomTom and I'm like,
I'm sorry. You're right. I'll be better. I'm sorry. I wasn't a good friend. And I'm like,
Sheena, shut up. You just had a baby. You just almost died. Like, oh my God,
why are you apologizing? I can't with high maintenance, friends. Sorry. I can't.
I can't. That's a whole different podcast.
That's a podcast right there itself.
My maintenance.
I want to know what you guys have learned watching yourselves back.
Because there's some kind of self-awareness in all of this.
For sure.
When you watch yourself back and you're like,
oh my God, besides what you just said, like, why did I do that?
Why did I say that?
Am I really like that?
Because that's a trip too.
Yeah. I think,
I mean, I've learned that I do need to be just more open about my feelings and I need to not
always apologize for everything, but at the same time, own up to everything. And I feel like that's
why I apologize so much now is because in the past, I've watched me just try to make excuses
and crawl out of a hole without like using my words that now I'm like, you know what? Yeah, I fucked up. I'm sorry. But now I've gotten
so good at the apologizing that I'm not really even saying how I feel. So after watching this
season back, I'm like, I should have asked more questions. Like, why? Why am I not being a good
friend, Charlie? What exactly have I done? Because once I finally asked her that off camera, she was like, well, you just like,
you know, you weren't around as much.
I'm like, cause I had a baby.
I just, like, there was not one specific thing
where she's like, well, you know what?
On Monday when you said this and that,
like that really hurt me.
She had no direct examples.
It was just that she was jealous.
I was rebuilding my friendship with Lala
because she felt like I liked Lala more than her. She said her and her boyfriend sat at home and said,
do Sheena and Brock like Randall and Lala more than us now? So that's where it came from. And
I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? Guys, I would take a dull knife and jab it into my jugular
if I had to go through something like that. I don't know how high maintenance. I mean, again,
it's another podcast,
but people are living their lives.
Yeah.
It's not that serious.
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If I have a friend, let me just put this out there,
a little side note.
If I have a friend that expects a text message back
within the hour, I can't.
I cannot deliver that.
The expectation up front, I cannot.
Sometimes it takes me a week to get back to someone.
It's nothing against them.
It's that you have to be able to live your life in the present.
And if you're just sitting there returning every single thing, you're not even like...
And people that don't understand that, I'm just like, I feel like they need to get busy.
Yeah.
And with Charlie, she's a decade younger than me.
You know, she hasn't been through, and I hope she never goes through a miscarriage.
You know, having the baby, the postpartum and all of that.
I'm like, we are in such different places, but I'm still trying to be your friend and
like your big sis and like have a good summer with you.
The show also doesn't help.
You know, being in that show, like being on a show, you and like have a good summer with you. The show also doesn't help. But you have to understand. You know, being in that show,
like being on a show,
you have to have a problem.
Like you have to voice an opinion.
Yeah, but it didn't have to be with me.
Her issues were with Lala, not with me.
But maybe what it is, is that they look almost for the weakest link.
And I'm not saying you're weak.
I'm just saying at that moment.
But I'm the nicest.
But you were also postpartum.
And that's, you're in a weakened state.
She's always been taken advantage of
on that show. Always. I haven't gone back
and watched it, but like I see how
people, I mean, I see how she gets
how she feels when production calls her
phone. I literally had to talk to production.
I was like, oh my God, my blood pressure is through
the roof when I see his name on my phone.
Every time you call, I thought him up. I was like, every time you call her, she freaks out.
Because it's always bad news.
So do me a favor.
Call her up and let her know she's done a good season this season.
Like do something to build that relationship up.
Otherwise, you feel like you're the show's punching bag at times.
Yeah.
She allows it.
Because I'm just.
But she was also pregnant with me for this season.
I allow it, I think think because I am so strong
that I can take it
and I don't think
some of these girls
that come off so tough
and strong
are actually that way
I think it's a front
and they can't actually take it
and that's why
I just take the beating
because I'm like
I'm going to be okay
if this happened to you
you wouldn't be okay
well let's put it out there
in the ether
that this next season that I think is going to happen, that you're not the punching bag. No,
I'm not because I'm just so done with that. Like I came into the reunion just like guns blazing,
ready to go. And now, I mean, I just, I feel like me again. I genuinely feel like the best version of myself.
And that wasn't last year.
Before everything you dealt with with your pregnancy,
you just mentioned that you had a miscarriage
and you froze your eggs.
That's, first of all, that's a lot of hormones.
Yeah.
How was that going through that in front of everyone?
Because you went through it kind of on YouTube.
Yeah.
I mean, and then I had froze my eggs the season before.
So I was also that past season. So you froze your eggs first. Yeah. I mean, and then I had froze my eggs the season before. So I was also
that past season. So you froze your eggs first. Yeah. I froze my eggs twice. And then I was
getting ready to do a third round and we were just going to, we were talking about maybe just
freezing embryos. And that's when I found out I was pregnant the first time because I missed my
period and I was waiting for my period. So you have to go in and get that first test done when
you're on your period. And I was like, um, I'm a couple of days late. This is weird. And were you
filming at the time? No, this was we thought we were going to be ready to start filming at any
moment. But that was like May 2020. And we thought things were going to start opening back up,
would probably be filming by June. And then, you know, a whole other year passed. You were so open,
though. I think that that probably one normalized it.
Yeah.
Not normalized it, but it just,
it talked about a taboo that we don't get to talk about a lot.
And you also like shared exactly how you were feeling.
Yeah. And he was against that in the beginning.
I was.
Because I said, you know, this miscarriage.
I said, I do weekly podcasts and weekly vlogs.
I cannot continue with my weekly life.
Just put a smile on my face and act like the most devastating thing in my life didn't just happen. Like I have to talk about
this. I have to address it, even if it's just one podcast and one vlog, and then we go back.
But I cannot go through life not addressing this. And I said, so I, at that point, honestly,
didn't care if he broke up with me I was going to tell my
story publicly because I knew he would understand one day but I'm like this isn't a discussion I'm
doing this because I have chosen a public life and I know by telling this story it's going to help
even one person if it's just one person that they say wow now I don't feel so alone and it helped
thousands I got so many messages.
And he saw that and realized, you know, okay, I get why he did this.
I think that was the first like kind of exposure I had to what her platform can do.
Yeah.
You know, because before that, we met in San Diego.
The world shut down.
Like I didn't really kind of understand the world that she lived in.
Now I kind of have a full grasp of it.
But at that point in time, yeah, I was like, look, honey, like that's something we got.
I didn't even talk to my mom.
My mom found out through the papers.
She, no, she found out because she listened to my podcast.
That was how his mom found out.
Because that was how I was processing.
Well, I was also dealing with our miscarriage my way as well.
I know, but you knew the podcast was coming out Friday
and then Australia time, you know,
they're a whole day ahead of us.
And at 4 a.m. when my podcast came out, his, they're a whole day ahead of us. And at 4am when
my podcast came out, his mom listened to it as she did every week. And that's how she found out.
Well, this is what I was kind of alluding to earlier. And I think like,
I'm big on talking about like being kind to people on the internet. And listen,
like I'm critical of people, but I've never, I am, I pride Lauren and I's platform to be in
a position where we're never tearing anybody down. I try to lift people up. And I remind people when it comes to what you guys do, that at the end of the day,
you're both humans and you've chosen to put yourself on a public platform that many people
get entertainment and enjoyment and relief from tearing down. But there is a kind of violent,
visceral side of people that's cruel on the internet. It's like where they forget that
there's two humans at the other end of
that screen and like listen yeah you might like you and lala get in a fight or you and whoever
get in a fight it's like it's not the biggest deal in the world there's other things going on
like like allow a little bit of grace and like still be excited and enthusiastic about the show
but like remember there's humans involved it sounds like though when you talked about your
miscarriage that people were not going at you. It sounds like.
It doesn't sound like they were like being mean.
They weren't.
But I also did feel that certain people were judging.
How could she get pregnant only being with this guy for six months?
Like she doesn't know him.
Oh my God, you can't win.
Even I remember.
Listen, look at him.
I can see how it could happen.
Yeah, you know.
What a stud.
Or do you want to get pregnant with him right now?
But I even remember when Lisa was like on watch,
what happens live?
And they asked like,
whose pregnancy were you most surprised about?
And she's like,
well,
Sheena,
you know,
like they've barely started dating and like now she's pregnant.
And I'm like,
why does it matter if we've been together a month or 10 years?
Like,
I do know this is my person.
I understand.
I've said that before.
We also need to highlight the fact that like you did do two years of like preparing to try and have a kid because you didn't know if you actually could.
And that's like, that's that.
And so when we found out that she was pregnant, not going to lie, we're like, wait, what?
And then, and then we had the miscarriage.
And then that was a conversation to actually have at that point.
It's like, I'm from my ex.
I have my relationship with my past kids. And I'm like,
that was a tough one for me. And I went golfing and it turned into a whole story because I went
golfing, whatever. But also we just had someone on our podcast that was talking about meditation.
This is a little tangent. And he said that when you meditate and you go inward and you have
self-reflection, it doesn't have to be just closing your eyes in a room.
Golfing, he actually brought that up, is a meditation.
Surfing is a meditation.
Walking on the beach, maybe that's the way that you were meditating
through the process and processing it.
I just think that everyone needs to just see other people's shoes
before they pass judgment right away.
It's like, take a little time to like, just think how you would feel and
what you would do. Maybe golfing is your way of dealing with things. And I understood that
shortly after I had just already vented to Lala. And so then she took that and was like, well,
Brock should have been there for her. And he was out golfing. And it came across as if I was
actively miscarrying, bleeding out at home. And he left and said, I'm going to go do the back nine.
I'm sinking some birdies.
You know, and it wasn't that at all.
We found out we were having a miscarriage.
The doctor said, we'll give you a week
to see if you can naturally pass it.
If not, then we'll do the DNC procedure.
So it was this in-between time
when he was coming back to Palm Springs
to spend the night with me,
to only turn around and drive back to San Diego
to be at the gym first thing the next morning.
He was still driving up to be there for me. He just was late and I was freaking out that he
wasn't going to be there at the time he said he was going to be there. But once he explained that
that was what he needed to do to deal with it on his own, I understood that. But then me trying to
explain that to Lala was just making an excuse. I think like the best lesson to learn from reality,
this is me in my young years of it,
is just like,
there's always going to be an opinion about it.
And then as you grow,
there's going to be more opinions.
And so that's that, you know?
You sure do build mental toughness, huh?
Yeah.
I feel like you have to.
For me, I've never cared
because I've never had to deal with it.
The pressure this season was a little bit.
And I think halfway through it,
when I realized like,
this is still going to get talked about,
when I left the room, storming out of the fulfillment, I was like, you guys don't pay me through it when I realized like, this is still going to get talked about when I left the room storming out of filming.
I was like,
you guys didn't pay me for this.
See you later, bro.
Yeah.
And it wasn't even about the money.
It was just about the respect
out of all of it.
And that's what happened this season.
Like at the end of it,
I was like,
look, you know what?
You were going to give me
a little bit of,
keep your money.
I don't care about that.
You want to talk to us next season?
Talk to me.
Oh, like a negotiator.
Well, I was just like, look, honestly,
we had a good opportunity to do it.
And that was how I felt like going into that next season.
If we get another season, I'd love to talk to you guys
about how to make money from this
because fuck, that was hard.
I bled.
Yeah, yeah, you did bleed.
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freezing your eggs twice? Was it in a row? No. So it was in January and then again in June.
Was it with Dr. Gadeer? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We've had him on our podcast twice. We love him. So was the process gnarlier than you thought?
Or was it less gnarly?
Is it something that you would recommend to people?
Like, what was your experience?
So this is something I also got shit for
because I said it was painless and easy
because for me, it honestly was.
That's why I did it again.
And I was getting ready to do it again.
I'm like, I could just keep doing this
to make sure I get enough eggs or embryos,
you know, once I had the right person to fertilize them.
Because for me, I think it's also a big mental thing.
I mean, also, if you have a fear of needles,
then that could be something that is just next level.
But for me, I have been injecting needles in my face
for over a decade.
I have 27 tattoos.
Well, I haven't for
two years, but the needle part didn't bother me. And the mental part, just knowing that I was doing
this as the best insurance policy for my future, I had such an easy time doing it. It wasn't a hard
decision when I only got nine eggs the first time to do it again. So when I did it the second time,
and then I only got
seven, Dr. Udere was like, well, you might want to consider doing it a third time. He's like,
you know, 16 is good. It's not great. It's not a ton because those are just eggs. They're not
fertilized embryos that have been genetically tested. So for me, it was something that I
would never regret doing. It's money I would never regret spending.
And we still have them there.
I do.
I highly recommend it to anyone.
They say around 29 is like a good time to think about it.
They have so many payment plans that you can do.
And there's just so much good that could come out of this
that I would never regret it.
So I highly recommend it.
Here's the problem.
I know what you're going to say.
I know exactly what you're going to say. Listen, I don't have nearly the platform you have, especially on social, but I was doing this health
routine and it involved like IVs and supplements and all this stuff. And there is some costs
involved with what I was doing, but I was like, I'm going to lay out exactly what I'm doing.
Because people were asking. I was like, I'm not going to sugarcoat. I'm going to tell you exactly
what I'm doing, where it is. You can look up the cause. And I said, obviously some of these things
come with some financial resource, but I want to be completely transparent in everything that I'm
doing because that was the question. And inevitably, there's a segment of people that'll
chime in and say, well, this is unattainable. There's a cost. It's expensive. I was like,
listen, do you want me to be fucking transparent or do you want me to tell you I drink lemon water?
Because this is the problem. And if that was your experience where you went through it relatively easily,
like you should share that.
It shouldn't alter your experience
and lie to people to soothe a certain demographic
that wants that soothing, right?
Like it's like, you want the truth
or do you want me to just lie like everybody else does?
And I'm like, why wouldn't people want to know
that this can be easy?
It can be painless.
You know, it doesn't have for some.
Yeah. Whereas my best
friend Ariana had a slightly different experience when she froze her eggs. And she got so many that
she ended up getting like, I forget what it's called exactly, but like overstimulation, whatever.
And her recovery was much harder because she got so many eggs. I had to do it two times and I still
got 10 less eggs than she got in one time. So everyone's
experience is different, but I was just talking about mine. So I'm like, why are you guys,
why would you want me to have a painful, bad experience? Because that's welcome to the human
race. People should celebrate people that are telling the truth, even if it's not a truth that
they agree with or that's popular. And if your experience was that it was relatively easy and
painless for you,
you should share that.
You shouldn't go and be like,
oh my God, it was miserable.
And I mean, if you didn't, right?
And same in the case.
But same as the case
if it was miserable,
share your experience.
But yeah, it's just people
would like to always,
I feel like half of the following
on the show that you get
and that we get now
is half of them are there for you.
The other half are there
just to pick at you.
And you just got to be able to navigate that
and have the confidence that you're doing the right thing.
And we don't need to look for other people's opinion
or their approval
for whatever we're doing.
The problem is you might as well tell
your truth because if you lie, you're going to get crucified just the same.
And you'll get caught.
Of course. You guys are a great couple.
It's really nice to meet you both in person.
I know I've met Brock before,
but both of you together.
And I also think like,
for me, when I watch these shows
and then I meet the person in person,
it's always, I've always noticed,
you end up,
I've always liked you guys on the show,
but you like them even more,
which is, it's again,
that shows though,
that the producers are not showing the whole story.
It's tough. Like she just said, they got to tell everyone's input, you showing the whole story. It's tough.
Like she just said, they got to tell everyone's input.
You know, how to explain everyone's start to finish.
And the show is for entertainment.
It's not to tell our entire life story.
So I understand that.
Come follow us on YouTube.
Yeah, YouTube.
Okay.
So you guys have a podcast with Dear Media.
Yes.
You have home bodies.
Tell us all about what you're working on,
what you're working on together,
how everything's jointed, not disjointed. So yeah, the podcast, new episodes every Friday. My vlog is out every
Wednesday. We do some bonus things for Patreon, little exclusives here and there. And that with
the baby keeps me pretty busy. She helps me out a lot with my influencer outreach with Homebody.
So we've built out a platform, live streaming platform. Been doing that for like the last year and a half and we really got some good traction coming up. So a couple of big thing and then have like some actual live fitness classes throughout the day
and do like a eight-hour challenge.
You know, you get creators in there on the treadmills going live
and raising some money for awareness.
I think we're going to call it Walk for Pride.
Oh, Pride in Our Stride.
That's what it's going to be called.
Nice.
Michael will run.
I'll volunteer him.
And then you guys can go ice bath.
Michael's getting good at the ice bath.
How good?
Look, I love, on the show, I tried to take James there
because for me, ice
bath is, there's no negatives to it.
There's zero negatives to it. And it's
all, and then it's, if you want to feel accomplished,
jump in it, get out. Perfect. You accomplished
that one of, if you want to get the health benefits,
get in there, better sleep, better
heart, all of it, you know, there's no negatives
to it. How are you finding it then? No, I love it.
I mean, I think it's a whole, I mean, I think I'm addicted to it now, right? You become addicted to it. What are you no negatives to it how are you finding it then no I love it I mean I think it's a it's a whole
I mean I think I'm addicted to it now
right
you become addicted to it
what are you doing in your
what are you using for an ice bath
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there's this one called the plunge
and then there's another one called
it's called the cold plunge
and you guys would love it
it's the one that you can like
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I'm going to send it to you
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I'm going to send you my setup picture
you guys should collaborate with this
I would love to.
You can get it in your house.
It looks like a really cute,
a chic bathtub.
My rinky-dink setup
is I have a deep freezer
from the gym
that I took home
and I just mopped it
and then I put water in it
and it's a free.
I mean, that works too.
After this,
I'm going to connect you
with the guy.
Okay, yeah,
because I love it.
Actually,
I don't even fit in mine.
Mine's like a seven.
Yeah, how do you fit in yours?
It's the funny thing.
I don't have that same problem.
I sit in there
and she's like,
babe,
I was like,
look,
she's like,
can I get a big one, honey?
She's like,
if you go in that every day
for 14 days straight.
So I was five days straight
and I'm going away tonight.
But when I come back,
not more days in there,
we're going to upgrade.
I'm going to text you
a podcast on some protocols on it
and I'm also going to connect you
with this company.
This company would be a bunch of dumb shits
not to send you something.
You're on there all the time.
Oh my God, I love it.
Yeah, the cold plunge too.
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Before we go though,
I have to ask you both this question.
Okay.
You look amazing.
Thank you.
Post baby.
And you obviously look amazing Brock too.
Thank you.
Can you give our audience
a couple tips and tricks
like to tighten up,
lose weight,
feel their best?
I'd love to.
Go, honey.
My biggest one is now that I'm able to lift weights again.
That's my favorite thing to do in the gym.
I hate doing cardio.
I also hate getting on specific diets.
So if I still want to eat what I want to eat, then I know I need to get in the gym and I need to lift some weights.
That's a good tip.
Weightlifting really helped me too.
Yeah.
And he makes me lift heavier than I would want to.
I also have a trainer, but when I work out with him,
it's so funny because when I'm with my trainer,
like I do so many exercises, I don't complain.
We get through it.
He says I'm his client who complains the least.
When I work out with Brock, I'm like,
why are you putting 20 more pounds on that?
It's too heavy.
But then I do it.
You look amazing.
Thank you. You look amazing. Thank you.
You look good, honey.
I think when it comes to fitness and get people to change,
there's a lot to it.
So let's keep it simple and just try and pick one thing
and be consistent with that one thing.
If it's walking, if it's something you don't do,
just do one thing every day and that's it.
And you can build up on that slowly.
What do you do?
You got a routine going on.
I got an oversized t-shirt on. That's what I got on right now.
No, but you take summer running almost every
morning. Okay.
My new thing is, because I used
to be an athlete, but then the last two years, very
comfortable. And I think I got to my heaviest
even on the show. I was like, oh, damn.
Cameras do make you look real big.
And so, you know,
perfect. Yeah, I was like, perfect. But no, for me,
I have my daily to-dos
and one of them's a nice bath.
One of them's two mile jog.
It's a jog.
I just got a complete two miles without stopping.
That's my accomplishment.
And then if I can get into a lift, I just go to,
I just lift everything always.
Like how many days a week?
Like three or four if I can.
Okay, so you guys are lifting the same.
You gotta get the rest days in.
It's it, you know.
You gotta do your two mile run. Look, bro, we're working on our father figure. It's not the rest days in. It's it, you know? You got to do your two mile run.
Look, bro, we're working on our father figure.
It's not a dad bod now.
It's a father figure.
That's what we're working on.
Well, you guys both look great.
I'm going to message you after I give birth for some tips.
Yeah.
We'll be in LA.
We'll be up here for you.
I will not be filming 10 days after I give birth.
That is, you deserve a fucking medal.
Thank you.
Where's your Instagram handle?
Pimp yourself out.
Everything is at Sheena,
S-C-H-E-A-N-A.
And it's Brock underscore,
underscore Davies.
Yep.
Thank you both.
Thank you guys.
Double underscore.
Thank you both.
Thanks guys.
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