The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Shut The Kale Up AKA Jeannette Aranda On Divorce, Infidelity, Healing Yourself, Moving Forward In Life, & Wellness Advice

Episode Date: November 3, 2022

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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. It's very liberating being able to share because I know many women go through this and they feel like they can't speak or can't get out. Find that little space within you to understand that when someone tells you and looks at you in the eyes and says, everything's fine, but you see that nothing is fine. You know, you know, you can trust yourself and say, no, actually, it's not.

You can say, no, I know that something's wrong here. And I would like to know the truth. Shut the Kale Up is on the podcast today. She is a very, very, very famous Instagrammer, blogger, entrepreneur. You've probably seen her everywhere. She has such a cute Instagram. Jeanette is absolutely amazing. She talks about recovering from an eating disorder, motherhood. She brings us through grocery hauls, yoga flows, healthy recipe ideas. And recently, she is going through something. And she has been quiet on social media with what she's going through, which I have massive respect for. It seemed like she needed to take a step back and wrap her head around what was going on. And in this episode, we get into it. She had a very chaotic childhood. And right now, she's going through something that

she has decided to open up about on our podcast. She's very honest. She's very raw. She's very vulnerable. What I respect most about Jeanette, though, is that a lot of people will show you their before and after, but no one shows the in-between, the nitty-gritty, what happened in it. When they're in it, they don't talk about it, right? And she's talking to you guys and to us when she's in it. She's in a very raw space right now. And for her to fly all the way out here and open up like this was incredible. I have massive respect for her. I hope that this episode helps anyone who is struggling right now in a marriage, in a relationship. I know that I'm just so impressed with how she continues to produce

content and be a mother to two boys with all she's going through. So who is Shut the Kale Up? She's an Orange County, California-based mother who encourages her hundreds of thousands of followers to find balance by openly and honestly sharing their journey. She does all different kinds of wellness tips, tricks, hacks on her Instagram. I've loved it forever. And she's been around forever. She is one of the OGs. She's a healthy living influencer who's partnered with brands like Adidas, Dyson, Thrive Market, and Skims. And most recently, she released a product collaboration with Coco Kind Skincare and Material Kitchen. She's a badass boss, and I could not be more

excited to help share her story. With that, let's welcome Jeanette to the Skinny Confidential Him and Her podcast. This is the Skinny Confidential Him and Her. I love you guys. You're so sweet. You guys talk about such amazing things on your podcast and also just not only your guests but you guys as a power couple working together and also parenting that's very difficult and you guys do it with so much grace and i love how open you are about just being who you are both of you i love that so much i'll take i mean i hope that we're recording so we can that is recorded that's gonna i want to play that at the front of every single show um thank you for saying that but i think we talked about this early on on the podcast and we're like listen it's it's

hard to create a show like this for as long as we have and not just kind of like be open and bear it all and kind of be unapologetically ourselves because when you do this for as long as we have and it's like if you were curating right like you can maybe in some other spaces eventually like that that's going to fall apart because you can't keep up with it so it's like if you're just going to bear it all and be who you are that's like really easy to continue doing over and over and over because you don't have to make anything up i want to talk about your whole story so i want to talk about before social story. So I want to talk about before social media, what your life was like before you launched, because you're kind of an OG blogger. Like I remember looking at your content. God, I want to say like 10 years ago on Instagram. So before all of this, what was your life like? Well, if you want to take it back to childhood, that was a very hard upbringing. So I basically come from two parents who weren't emotionally

or physically there. My mom was an alcoholic most of my life. My dad was always working and that was very difficult. I helped raised two, my two brothers, younger brothers. I got a job when I was 15, started working, started paying for my own stuff around that age. And then going into getting out of high school, I started working at Barney's New York when I was 18 years old and I was there for seven years. So it was very, I would wake up, get ready, go to work. There wasn't much to it. I was just trying to get by. It was very difficult living at home. I never moved out until I got married. So I briefly moved out to my aunt's, but I don't really consider that moving out because I was still with family. Do you think that you didn't move out of the house because you were scared what would happen to your brothers? Absolutely. But also, I felt like I didn't know where to go. I don't know if that makes any sense, but I just felt like I wasn't capable.

That makes a lot of sense. I was talking to my friend whose mother is an alcoholic, and he was saying he didn't have the tools or resources of how to be a human in society because, it just felt like I wasn't capable of doing that. And I didn't have the resources. When you say you had to take care of your brothers, is this a situation where you're waking up, making them lunch, taking them to school? Are they two? Are they five? Are they 13? When did that start? And what did it look like? So my older brother, quote unquote, I call him older because he's only two years younger, but he's like taller than me and all that. So I would always say he's my older brother. And then my youngest is, or sorry, seven years younger than I am. So I, I basically raised

the youngest one because my older one was, you know, he was capable of going to school, taking the bus, whatever. But yeah, there was times where I would have to make their lunches or I would have to pay for groceries because my dad would give my mom money for groceries and my mom would spend it on alcohol. So there was nothing in the fridge. That was my growing up, you know. What did your dad play in this role?

Was he enabling your mom's alcoholism? Yes, very much enabler was it like out of sight out of mind thing because he was working yes it was very much out of sight out of mind and it just felt like he didn't care for his family and i don't know if it's i mean i don't have a good relationship with him and it makes me sad to even like say that on air but it's reality and i'm here to share my growing up unapologetically i can't say that on air, but it's reality. And I'm here to share my growing up unapologetically. I can't say that. There we go. Yeah, it was tough.

And you don't have a good relationship with him because he was kind of checked out and wasn't paying attention or because he did things that you didn't like or it's just because he was just gone? No, he was just gone. And even now, he'll message me on instagram but he won't text me that's weird i think too as you get older and you don't have the space and you create boundaries with certain people they are uncomfortable with the boundaries that you create as you mature absolutely and so the boundaries like ruffle the feathers of the person they like want you to be subscribed to your bullshit and like when you're unsubscribed their feathers get ruffled no but the only reason i said it's weird i'm like he obviously has your

number and to message you on like a dm right and it's just emojis oh and i'm like hi dad miss you and you know and even now going through a divorce he's not he's not asked about it once wow and your mom is she still in the picture or no? Yeah, we have a restored relationship, which I'm very grateful for. And I constantly talk to her about things that I've shared on Instagram about her and our upbringing and even going on this podcast. She knows that I will share stories and the things that we've been through because she's now on the other side of it and she can take responsibility. And I just think that now, you know, we, we just share conversations that are uplifting rather than like, do you remember when you did

this? Cause it's not, it's not about that. It's about getting out of it together. That makes a lot of sense. And that's very emotionally mature of you to be able to get to the other side. Did she end up getting sober? She got sober 11 years ago. Good for her. Yeah. Mom, if you're listening, good for you. Yeah. I'm so proud of her. So at what point you're working at Barney's, you're there for seven years. Does Instagram come about? And what is like your first post when you decide to dip your toe into this career? During my Barney's years, I was struggling with disordered eating and working at a place like Barney's, you see all the women come through with their, you know, tiny little bodies. And mind you, I had just graduated from high school when I started that job. So I felt

like my body was totally changing. And after a few years of my body changing, I was just thinking, why doesn't my body look like it used to? And I started dipping my toes into dieting, which it wasn't in a healthy way. It was more so quick fixes. I didn't know about longevity or like, you know, true wellness. I just thought, oh, if I eat this, I'll be skinny. You know, that was my mentality. And I'll look like these people trying on the zeros and the Mind you, I'm small built, so it's just in the mind. Sure. But after that, I became very much aware that I was not a person to be working in retail. I wanted to do something that was going to fill up my soul. So I started taking up yoga classes and I really fell in love with it.

So I became a yoga instructor. And around that time, Barney's was going to be closing. So I got this huge severance check and got out. And around that time, I was about to get married. So I was lucky enough to pay for all of the debt that I had. And also, you and also this training. And so I started teaching yoga after I got laid off. And that kind of opened up the door for Shut the Kill Up. And at this point, you have no children.

No children. So you start posting on Instagram, and content is like really great. One thing I love about you, I don't know if people have told you this, but you show the brands to get. So like if you make a sandwich, you'll tell us like what the mayonnaise is, what the bread is. You know, sometimes like people will like post a recipe that's healthy and you're like, but what sourdough is that? You always have done that from the beginning. So you started sharing food and then you get married and you have your first boy. We got married. I started Shut the Kale Up. And then I got pregnant literally three months after we got married. So it was very, very quick.

And by the time I had Elliot, my first Shut the Kale Up was kind of a thing. And it was weird because I didn't know what I was doing. I just wanted to share with the world about healthy living and finding balance and happiness and, you know, joy of eating real whole foods and not necessarily being on a diet. Do you feel at this point your eating disorder was, I don't want to say fixed or cured, but you were on a different pathway with eating? Yeah, it wasn't want to say fixed or cured, but you were on a different pathway with eating? Yeah. It wasn't, my focus wasn't on food anymore. It was about my passions would shut the kill up. It was about Elliot. I had obviously never been a mom and being a wife, you know, all of those things just kind of, I guess. you got interested in something outside of yourself right so at this

point with the person that you're marrying are you seeing anything that is a red flag looking way back even now outside perspective bird's eye view there's nothing that you can point to and say and I didn't like that you know, yeah. Speaking to my therapist now once a week, you know, I now see that it wasn't just, oh, this happened overnight. He changed overnight. It was a lot of things. It was a lot of things. person now that has literally dissected this whole entire story and years of being married to this person who lied and had a double life, I totally see how I could have been blindsided by him. For context, how long were you guys together before you got married?

We were together for probably three years. And then you got married after the three years, or you were three years in total? No, three years. And then you got married after the three years or you were taking three years in total? No, three years. And then we got married. Okay. What's his personality like? Like, is he helping you with your business? Does he have his own thing going on? What is his energy?

So he was a very hard worker when we first got married. He had like three jobs working at a local church and playing in bands. And he worked at a little boutique store nearby where we lived. And yeah, he had his own thing. And then once Shut the Kill Up kind of picked up, I needed help because I am the worst at signing contracts and looking through contracts and asking brands for however amount of money I need to get paid for my work. And so he kind of took the role of managing Shut the Kill Up. Obviously having some similarities in the way you and your husband were operating. I'm big on women in particular learning this side of the business, especially

if they've built something and then their boyfriend or husband is diving into that business. Because it's really easy for somebody to come in and say that you understand finance or you understand contracts a little bit more than maybe your creative counterpart. It's really easy to derail or take advantage of somebody. And then I think because there's this dynamic sometimes, and Lauren and I go through it, and I'll be a little sexist here, but I'll just talk specifically about Lauren and I. Sometimes someone in a creative space, specifically a woman, will say, oh, I'm the creative and I specifically women to, even if it's not going to be the main thing you're excited about, to at least like understand it and get your legs under yourself and like understand basic finance and basic contracts and have a third party so that you don't have some guy come in that could potentially take advantage. Does that make sense? Absolutely.

Not saying he took advantage, but I think it's worth saying that because I think we get into the, especially with societal norms, you get into the same, it's like, okay, like he does the finance and he does the contracts and I run and I do the business and I do the creative, but like the most valuable thing is what you were doing, right? Like you can get other people to review contracts and do your books. Right. You know? Yeah. I'm learning so much now. And to be totally honest, I had no idea how much money I made till

last year. So I didn't know the backend stuff. This is not the main thing that excites you. Right. Yeah. Right. Even still, I kind of struggle with that, but now it's just all me with my manager, which she's amazing. But yeah. Michael read this book on finances that I tell everyone about that changed his life. What's it called? The Tony Robbins book. That's one of them. But I just, I think like the more... What is it called? Just if someone wants to read it. It's called Money Master the Game.

But the more that I learn and evolve and the more people that I speak to, it's like, I don't care who you are or what your proficiency is or whatever you're the most excited about. Like if you are going to be an individual that is running a business for yourself or an entity for yourself, you have to take the time to learn about money and finance because

you could make, like we just interviewed Rob Dyrdek and he had made millions, if not hundreds of millions all the way until he was 40 and ended up with basically broke at 40 and had to go figure out. And it wasn't until he learned, like it doesn't matter how much you make, it matters how much you keep and how much you understand so I think it's just really important for people to even if it's not the thing that excites you to learn it okay so so you guys start getting in business together and what is that something that you can point to that helped your relationship hurt it what was the the vibe there you, everything moved so quickly in our marriage. So we got married, his parents split up, you know, they got divorced. That really was something that we should have

processed together. Him obviously as an individual, but also together because we were just married. And then, you know, the baby and then shut the kale up. So it was so much. And the growth was a lot because we were living paycheck to paycheck. And then all of a sudden we have so much money and we're able to like go rent a bigger house and start saving for our own home. You know, it was so much. And I felt like we were still so young. I mean, I'm 34 now, but when I got married, I was 26. So it just happened so fast. And to be quite honest, we both never really learned how to manage money, how to both be in a committed relationship. It definitely took a toll on us. What is it like when you have all your followers that are following you and you're going through something like this that's this heavy on Instagram? I mean, I feel like that is a

lot. Yeah. Last year was awful. Me finding out about the affair and then him, obviously, I told him to leave our home and I could not show my face on Instagram. Because, first of all, you have your partner, ex-partner, saying, how did you not see that I was doing this? It was very gaslighting at the very end. Whoa, he blamed you? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, wait, let's back up for a second. What is the first time in your relationship

that you were like huh like can you remember the first time that you were like this this isn't good i was in denial that he would ever cheat on me i never imagined he would do that ever nobody did no like when i told our friends everyone's like there, there's no way you're, you're crazy, Jeanette. And then I showed them the papers. I showed them the actual, like it's, it's my story, his story. And then there's screenshots and actual papers. I got AT&T bills that, you know, phone calls and all of that. So I had all of these sheets of papers

of phone calls to this other woman. Why did you decide to look at this though in the first place? Because I've never like reached out to AT&T to get Michael's phone bills. Like what made you do that. So this is going to get weird. A month before I found out my ex-partner, basically, we had already been struggling and we were going to therapy for only three months. And it was maybe four therapy sessions. On April 1st, just to give you timelines, on April 1st just to give you timelines on April 1st we wake up and he's like hey I don't think I could do this anymore and I was like what do you what do you mean we're working on things like wait what do you mean what do you mean because we're a family you have kids I'm your wife what does this mean and he says oh janet i'm i'm done i'm done here and it just my mouth was open for minutes and i couldn't believe i was hearing this and i said okay it was just 2020 that was when we started really like

i was realizing oh we are actually having issues because before our relationship was quote unquote fine. But then the pandemic happened. But then the pandemic happened. So I assumed everyone was going through things because everyone was, you know, so I never imagined it was something that was an affair. Do you think that the reason he said we're done is because he could feel that you were about to catch him cheating on you and he wanted to get ahead of it? I don't think so. He actually, I'm pretty sure, I don't want to say I'm quoting this, but I'm pretty sure he never thought I would catch him. So why do you think looking back that he said we're done?

From my perspective, he wanted to get out without anyone knowing about this affair because when i caught him he was already a year and a half in with this other so he just didn't want all the chaos to ensue after you want to be painted as a bad guy probably so once he says that what happens next so after that i'm like i kick it into full gear start changing the things that he's been wanting me to change, start going to therapy alone. And obviously he didn't he did not want to go anymore to therapy. And my therapist was kind of our therapist was kind of shocked because we had only gone to her four times prior to the, I'm done, you know, my friend started noticing that he wasn't around anymore and that he was doing things by himself with the kids. And I was going to be in a wedding for our best friends and he was supposed to initiate the wedding and he backed out just a week before. You mean officiate it? Yeah. He was going to officiate it. And he backed out a

week before and everyone started kind of like asking questions like, hey, what's going on with you and this person? Pretty aggressive to back out of officiating a wedding a week before. I'm sure the bride was not so happy about that. Yeah. Our friends were pretty shocked. And everyone was just kind of like, you work it out. You're married. This is commitment. This is what adults do. And so he didn't go to the wedding. He just did not go. And I went. I felt like I needed to be there for one of my best friends. And when I came back, he left on a two-day little retreat

so that he can lay low and be in a hotel and have kind of collect his thoughts and i kept thinking this is very strange that's when the antenna goes up you're not going on a fucking retreat so a retreat to hell well he says he has to go on a retreat a retreat where i want to know details about this i'm just retreating in general he needed he needed to go stay you know a couple nights at this hotel that we really like in Laguna so that he can kind of have clarity and this and that. And I kept thinking, why does he keep doing this? Because in the month of April, he kept saying, I'm going to be staying at so-and-so's house. So that's when I said, is there somebody else?

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Download the Match app today to get into something serious and find your match. I think it's hard when you're in the situation because for something as important as your marriage, you're trying to give yourself any reason to hang on, right? And like any reason to see it through. I think, you know, we all say like you can easily give somebody else the right advice, but it's really difficult to take your own. But I think all of us know deep down what the right answer is. Yeah. And I knew, but again, I fought so hard for our marriage. You know, I fought hard because of our boys, but because I actually really loved him. I wanted to make my marriage work.

It was never about me getting with somebody and then getting divorced. There's no divorce. I mean, I just didn't. I prioritize family. That is my number one. And yeah, absolutely. And so after that, one of my friends said, hey, I really think you should see my friend who does Reiki.

I think that would really benefit you. And you could work on your inner child because you have so much trauma. And my ex-partner was saying that the reason why he felt like he needed to go was because I wasn't giving him the right intimacy and wasn't fully the best wife because I was too involved with my kids and shut the kill up. So that was the reason why he did what he did. This is my problem with this, though. I feel like even if you were giving him the quote unquote right intimacy, which I have no idea what that means, that could mean a billion things. I still feel like he would have done this. Well, only a certain type of person

can do something like this, live a double life for that long. Our son was three months when he started talking to her. So imagine being postpartum. Elliot or your second son? My second, Cole. I have a real problem with men that cheat on a woman when they're pregnant or postpartum. Elliot or your second son? My second, Cole. I have a real problem with men that cheat on a woman when they're pregnant or postpartum. Because that is the most vulnerable time. Like, if you're going to cheat, at least do us a little bit of a favor and wait like a year after. Three months postpartum is the most vulnerable time of a woman's life. That's tragic that he did that to you three months postpartum.

Whether about the intimacy or not, you go through ebbs and flows with intimacy. Like I don't want to be fucking and doggy style 10 months pregnant. It's like, give me a minute, you know? Absolutely. But the way I think about, this is hard because listen,

I'm of the mind that like if someone desires to be with someone else, then like, it is what it is. Like, I don't think that there's a lot that, how do I say this? I don't think that there's a lot individuals can do to change someone's mind about not wanting to be with someone else. Right. Like, and I don't think that people should take personal blame for that. Like people's tastes, people's preferences, people's love, like that stuff changes. I take issue with people being dishonest so for example if something happened in my marriage i was like i want to be with another woman one would probably kill me but

if i did killing i would hope that i'm the type of person that would voice that and say that and yes it would suck and yes it would be uncomfortable but to me that's like what being an adult and a man is or even in being what a woman is like especially if you're going to co-parent with someone or be in that kind of relationship like you should have the decency to be honest and say like listen my preferences change or I don't want to be here but to sneak around and then blame other people especially when they're postpartum like that's what I take issue with not the fact that somebody actually left to go be with someone else but that they're that they can't own up to that yeah after he After he said, I don't want to be with

any or I don't want to be with you. And then you start talking to friends, you get Reiki done. At what point do you call AT&T and why did you decide to do that? So I had this session with this incredible woman who does Reiki channeling, energy channeling. I don't know if you know what that is. I don't even know what that is. I don't know how to explain it. Just a Reiki specialist flipped my baby in my stomach. So I totally believe in Reiki. Okay. So this woman immediately was just like, we're going to do channeling. And I said, no, no, no. I don't like, like, I don't, I don't want to go to a psychic. I don't want to ask questions. I don't like, I'm not here for that. And she said, no, no, no, I'm not a psychic. I don't want to ask questions. I'm not here for that. And she said, no, no, no, I'm not a psychic. I just want to channel your energy because it's clearly frazzled and you need clarity. And I said, okay, I'm open to that. And immediately she just said, your husband

is with another woman. There is a relationship happening and it's like he's leaking information about your marriage. And I said, do I know this woman? Do I not? What's going on? And she said, you have to find proof. And immediately I thought, I'm going to go look at our phone bills. And I remember him asking me, hey, what's your password for AT&T? I'm just going to go look at our phone bills. And I remember him asking me, hey, what's your password for AT&T? I'm just going to move everything with my passwords and my username because he handled all of that. So I was never going to find out. And so when I called AT&T, I moved everything back to my email. And that's when I saw everything. this woman it was married has two boys as well and so I was just shocked I was very very shocked is this someone you know or just a random person

that he met somewhere like how does one meet these are we meeting on like what's the grinder oh like how how does someone meet someone to cheat he knew her from like college. They knew each other. They like, I guess, dated at one point, but it never worked out. And we would see her around. She followed me. So when I looked her up, it said follow back. And I immediately was like, oh, this is the type of person that she is.

And this is the type of person that you are. And it just, it really rocked me. And I had to pick up Elliot from school literally 20 minutes after that. How do you hold that together for your son? Everyone asked, are you okay? Because you look like you're going to pass out. I look like I was a ghost. It was the most excruciating moment of my life to be able to look at my son my oldest and hide that from him and pretend like mom's okay was very difficult I think the thing with cheating if you're out there and you're listening and you're gonna cheat is that it's not just about you and the partner it's about the children too I don't think they ever thought about that because I think about her boys, too.

I mean, at this point, I don't want anything to do with that family. But I think about, did you not think about the repercussions? And even now, co-parenting, it's rough co-parenting with a person who hasn't owned up to anything hasn't apologized a sincere apology and i'm not talking about uh i'm sorry that this happened you know like and and it's it's on honestly been so up and down what did you say yesterday the devil comes for what what did you say i said the devil always takes his pound of flesh. I'm not a religious person, but I'm saying the reason that this is a bad strategy for anyone is all this stuff comes back to roost at some point, whether it's in another relationship with your children. 40 years later. With a business partner, with whatever. Compounds.

At some point in life, you have to pay for the mistakes you make. And no one's perfect. No one's perfect. No. Before we get into how you approached him with this information, I would love to just tell everyone that's listening. If you feel like your spouse is cheating on you, go get Reiki. I think that's actually a great tip because they are.

It's not a psychic. I don't even know what it's an energy healer. Or just check the phone bills. No healer or to check the phone bills simultaneously check the phone bills and get reiki i think that i just i'm i'm the type of person who's very trusting who's very much like i'm not if i'm dating somebody i'm not gonna go in on your phone and look and see where you're where your whereabouts are. I'm very trusting. And I want to be with a person who's going to be exactly the same. Like, you know, like we don't have to worry about it because we're committed. We've made that choice.

It's a choice. You're going to manifest that for your next relationship, though. You are. I can tell. Manifest someone. It's like you don't have the energy with two children running a huge business to have to worry about what your spouse is doing. Get it together or move.

You know what I mean? You don't want to have to check everything. It's just like it's exhausting, especially as a mother. It's like we don't have the time. No, we don't have the time. And I'm also wanting to raise two men, you know, two boys that will one day become good men to women and being respectful and living in integrity. I think the living in integrity is my number one because I want them to be honest. I want them to own up to their mistakes and grow from them. Every time Elliot

says, oh, I can't do this. I'm like, you can't talk like that to yourself because then you're going to start believing it. And then if you fail at something, do you not see that that's how you learn? So I say, when you fail, that's when you learn the most. Because if you continue to get all these wins or do it right, when are you going to learn something valuable? Yeah. And I don't want people to... When we have these conversations on this show, inevitably there's people like... I don't think Lauren and I are trying to sit on this side in a relationship that's working and like profess what we think is a healthy relationship. But I think like one thing I do try to profess is that I ended up marrying somebody that I believe above all else has integrity. Like Lauren's a lot of things, right?

But I think like, and I mean, this is a compliment at the top of the list. Like I've known, like my wife has a lot of integrity. So that was like, that was checkbox number one before I can get to like anything else before, like, are you hot? Are you creative? Are you like going to be a good, all these things, like, do you have integrity? And I, and I try to, at least for myself, like I i have flaws but i try to at least be like you know what you see is what you get what i say to you is what you can believe and what you can

trust and i think like if you can any in any relationship if you can come to a relationship with two people having those things and like really that's the foundation then you can make the rest of the stuff work right absolutely but if you're entering i think if you ever cheat i'm just gonna like go back through each podcast where you talk about integrity and put a minute clip together of all the places where you talked about it and put it together in a reel but what i'm saying is like you know like we've all been in relationships even us and then we've been together for a long but we all get in relationships where you maybe start dating someone or get with someone you're like they're out of integrity and if they're out of integrity in a little area they're lying to

their friends they're kind of cheating on other like they're doing like they're going to be or their business or taking advantage whatever they're probably out of integrity in place in the relationship too so how did you confront him with the information that you found or did you not confront him and did you wait no i couldn't wait i literally just asked so how is this and then I added her name I said so how is she and he said what are you talking about oh yikes I knew immediately like oh he's gonna actually try to hide like this is insane but at that point I had seen him change so much within that month you know that I just didn't even know who he was. I don't even think he knows who he is, to be totally honest. And just to clarify, everything that I'm speaking

about today, I know my boys will one day listen to this podcast. And the only thing I ever want them to say is I respect mom and her decisions on how she spoke about this season in our lives because that is who I care about the most are my boys and I want them to be so proud of mom that's literally the only thing that I care about at this point I think you're doing a beautiful job about speak like you're being very respectful to the situation i think one one of the worst things that you could do would be one to like overshare details which you're not and the other thing would be to not say anything see i do not want to stay quiet anymore and i'm not saying it in a oh i'm gonna share everything i just for myself this is freeing it's not your burden to carry no it's not and it's it's not it

really isn't and also there are so many women and I haven't even shared this is the most that I've shared and it's going to come out when when in a few months I think a couple weeks I think we bumped you up wow okay yeah we'll figure out. I think that from hearing your story so far, it sounds like as a child, you couldn't be free with saying what you really thought. It's almost like a chokehold on sharing your truth. And as you've gotten older, the reason it feels liberating is because you haven't been able to do it in the past that is so crazy that you say that because my last therapy session my therapist said do you realize that as a child you were taught to lie you were taught to hold cover up cover up yeah and i said what do you what are you talking about and then you know she brought up the fact that i have shared that my mom would always tell me don don't tell anybody, but she was drunk and she couldn't take me to school. So she would be like, I'm just telling him that I'm sick or I can't get to the phone. So I'm sick. Oh, tell your dad that that money was spent on, you know, baseball, whatever. Or your dad taught you to avoid the

situation. So you're with an example of someone who's telling you to be quiet and avoid. Exactly. And you're basically covering for other people's bad behavior and carrying the guilt yourself. And I carry so much guilt that my marriage failed because to a certain extent, I believed a lot of what he was telling me about being a bad wife. And I will own up to anything. And did I care about my kids way more than anything? Yes, absolutely. But I feel like in a marriage and having young kids, you know that that's your number one priority, not having sex or going on dates. Mind you, we did travel so much. If you've been following Shut the Kale Up, you know that we were traveling without Elliot for work, for pleasure, so much without our children. And so it's very liberating being able to share because I know many women go through this

and they feel like they can't speak or can't get out. And he didn't give me a choice. Well, then I think when you lie for another person, man or woman, especially when you have children, and I've seen this happen with some of my friends that I grew up with, is the kids end up resenting the parent who actually didn't do the wrong. Meaning like, I've seen people lie and be like, oh, it wasn't his fault or it wasn't her fault. And they put the blame on themselves. And then the kids have no context of what actually happened. And they grow up resenting the wrong parent. Not that they should resent anyone, but you know what I mean?

Then you've hurt yourself even more because your kids don't have the full understanding. And kids are smarter than people give them credit for. Oh, I constantly say how our kids are super intuitive, how they just know. They know. And especially my oldest, Elliot, he is just so in tune with his intuition and his gut. And I'm constantly treading lightly with him because he knows a lot of what's happened. I feel like he and I have gone through this together as a little team and it's been very hard. But I always tell him, hey, I just want you to continue to find that little space within you to understand that when someone tells you and looks at you in the eyes and says, everything's

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tons of therapy sessions and breath work and reiki sessions and all of these things. And he's still not admitting it. No, he did admit it. He did. He said that it was an emotional affair. And I. Oh, my God, we got to get more creative, guys. An emotional affair. Yeah. At a place in Laguna or at a hotel in Laguna Niguel. No, no, no. I don't know if they were together then you don't know I just know that the phone call records were insane okay and then after that we obviously were trying to work it out but you know later I found out that and this is awful and I hate that I have to say this but it's the story he wrote because it's all true and you, I found that he had a burner phone that he had gotten from her. Apparently she bought him a burner phone so that they could speak.

And it just it. Yeah. And that's when you were done. Yeah. I mean, he was the one that said, I want a divorce. And I said, OK, but can you please hire somebody? Because you keep saying you want a divorce divorce but you don't divorce me and so at that point you know we hired somebody I got a mediator and we did the thing how long ago was this this was March and you've been going through this I've watched on Instagram you've alluded to it but you you haven't. Like she said things, you know, I'm going through something, bear with me kind of thing. Yeah. And it's hard when you have like an audience of people kind of like wondering what's happening

because you want to be respectful to everyone. How are you managing that up until this point? Why did you decide to come out with it on this podcast? Where are you at with that? Yeah, because I know this is the direction we're taking. Like I'm looking at the brief here and it said, like, one of the questions is what's her favorite dish to cook? We're going to get to that. We're going to get to her favorite dish. That feels like the wrong question now. We're going to, we're going to get to her favorite

dish. She has great health tips. This brief needs to be thrown out. This has gone to a much different direction. I didn't know Lauren started it. I just want to be able to tell her story so she can say it in her voice. Not, I don't want her to tell her story. I would have prepared differently, but we'll get to this. Yeah. I honestly, I came on this podcast thinking, okay, like whatever is said is meant to be said. Well, I could speak for this audience. I think I'm saying like, this is a very nonjudgmental space and audience.

And I think also very supportive, right? Like I think we've cultivated a, like if Lauren and I have done anything right here, it's like we've cultivated a space and an audience that is open to so many different perspectives and very supportive of people kind of living in their truth. Right. I'm glad that you are where you're at now. You seem to me, and you can tell me if I'm wrong, that you feel free. You seem in a good place. You know, it's it's very it's an emotional roller coaster only because. I am with all of my might and power, I'm trying my best to protect our boys from all of this because it feels very dark. It's not normal, in my opinion,

to to go about it like this. Well, the thing also that's not normal, in my opinion, to go about it like this. Well, the thing also that's not normal, and I keep bringing this up, is it's not normal to go through this in front of millions of followers. That's a different element that you have to navigate. So I can imagine. Are you just trying to keep on your normal routine? You live a very healthy lifestyle. Well, I didn't for all of that time. I mean, I lost so much weight. I couldn't eat. That was the last thing on my mind. The stress was killing me. I was crying. I wasn't sleeping. I couldn't eat anything. What are some tools that you've used to start eating again, start sleeping again? What are some things that have

made you feel better? I would wake up at 3 a.m. just thinking about what happened? What happened to the guy that I married? And how is he not fighting for his family? This is bizarre. Those were the things that were replaying in my mind. And how would this woman with kids not have respect for her own children, not have respect for herself to do something like that to another woman? You know, all of these things. But I'm not big of a drinker or anything like that. So it wasn't like I was drinking wine or anything like that. But I was deep in prayer. I feel like meditation and prayer, like I've become very spiritual. And I feel like my whole entire life, when I've gone through the darkest days, which I have definitely gone through some hardships in my life, I feel like God has always been there for me. God can mean so many different things, but for me, I feel like I can sit with myself and be in deep prayer, meditation, whatever. And God always gives me a way. And he's given me the strength to be able to pull myself together and fight for my boys

because that is my family. I'm excited to have you back on the podcast another time in like two years or something and hear where you're at because I feel like this is this your life is like gonna just be crazy from every you're letting in all this goodness you feel liberated I think it's gonna be a really great story I think it's probably hard right now but it sounds like this person wasn't right for you so goodbye yeah no it wasn't for me and i i feel like that needed to go so that the goodness like the real substantial like good foundational stuff can come in i think your audience and our audience would kill me if i didn't ask you a couple of wellness questions because you're so known for that what are what are some things all the people that tuned in early for that are like, whoa, we just went on a ride. No, we went on a ride and she was so open and honest. But I think

if I didn't ask you a few wellness questions, they would freak out because you're so known for wellness. Let's do it. Okay. So what are three wellness tips that you do that help ground you? Could be eating, could be anything on a daily basis. You seem to me when I watch you very routine. It's routine. It's literally, I don't want to do this, but I'm going to do this. Meaning for me, I wake up in the morning. I go to my Pilates class. I come back.

I now have a cold plunge. So I like cold plunge. And then I start my day. It's literally getting up and doing something that isn't always fun because it sets you up for such a great day. And also anyone who I've listened to who's like amazing or whatever, has podcasts, all that, they have good routines and good habits. So eliminate one bad habit for one good habit. So give us an example. So instead of sleeping in, wake up an hour earlier. Whether you go work out or you write on your journal or sip your coffee and just look outside

or go outside and look at the sun or get some fresh air. That's one thing that's easy. I love the swap it out. What's a food that you think can be swapped out? Because you're so into healthy, thick, plentiful foods. What's a food that you see people eating that they can swap out easy? Lately, it's been cheese for me. I absolutely love cheese now. It was never a thing. But I swap out the usual tons of ingredient, I guess, cheese and just swap it out for raw cheddar. Like that organic pastures raw cheddar is so delicious.

The raw, are you talking about like the raw goat cheese? Raw farms. I think I have that. Yeah. Is it like a little cow on the front? Yes. Okay. That brand.

We have that. Zaza loves that. If you're going to eat cheese, the raw- Zaza's so cute. The raw goat cheese. She has to meet Elliot one day. Oh yeah, they do. They do have to meet. Okay. Nutrition. I got to talk about nutrition. What is a day in the life of eating

and something that you feel really good about when you eat? So right now I'm really loving a good smoothie because I didn't for so long that now I'm starting to get all my nutrients back in. And it just helps me feel regular. Like I can use the restroom and feel good. Tell us your smoothie. You got to tell us your smoothie. Okay. So my favorite right now is banana, peanut butter, chia seeds, hemp seeds, raw milk, vanilla powder, like protein powder, and a date. That to me is so simple, so easy, and so delicious. And then what are you eating for lunch and dinner?

So for lunch lately, it's been, I don't know, like a chicken sandwich. I'll make, you know, I'll toast up some sourdough, put some avocado mayo, add a little lettuce chicken or turkey and then add tomato sprouts and then slice it up and it is just it's such a classic michael's drooling maybe i need to make that i didn't eat it i only had a little bit today before you go can you leave our audience with a breakup tip if someone's going through a breakup right now and they're really in it, and if you could go back and give yourself a tip, what would it be? Give yourself grace. It's very difficult in the beginning, but you won't understand why this happened until later. And I'm still hoping for that day that I wake up and I'm like, this is why. This is why it happened. It's hard as shit.

I think it's going to happen for you very soon. I think even talking about it like this, can everyone who's listening go support Jeanette? I think it's going to happen soon. I think there's going to be a silver lining. You're very sweet. And I think it's brave for you to fly all the way to Austin with two children and talk about this.

I can't imagine, I know I keep saying this, but having this audience and also having your friends and your family and your kids, it's a lot of pressure. Yeah, it's hard. I'm still in the thick of it. So I hope that listening to this, nobody thinks, oh my gosh, she's out of it. She's so strong because I'm not. I feel very vulnerable. I feel very weak at times, but I know I'm doing this for my greater good. And I know God has a better plan for me because that wasn't it. And I want my boys, like I keep saying, to grow up to be not that. What I think is really cool about what you're doing is so many times on Instagram and TikTok, it'll show the before and after. You see a

transformation of a body or you see someone being like, I used to be so depressed. I even did this when I was going through postpartum depression after Zaza. I didn't talk about it until I was after. I think it's interesting and cool and amazing of you to talk about when you're in the mud. It's a very different kind of thing. Usually people are like, here's my before and here's my after. And I think that to actually document the process is different. It really is. But the reason why I started Shut the Kale Up was because I wanted to see a little bit of everything. And things that I wasn't seeing on Instagram, I was posting. And so in this season in my life, I wish I could have heard or listened or seen somebody go through what I was going through and been like, okay, there is hope.

There is something better. And I still, I haven't heard or seen someone that I look up to saying like, hey, it's going to get better. And I hope I can be that for somebody. Cause this sucks. Well, that's why I'm always, when I was, I was trying to be like delicate for multiple reasons on this conversation. But I think that for people that like, I don't want to say that, like, you know, this is not, this is your experience is unique to you, but you're not the only person who's gone through something like this or is going through something like this. And I think for people to your point, to hear another individual and like have that individual still be strong and solve their life together. And also maybe

to realize that there are more people out there that are good people with integrity. I think that's the North Star that people should look to. You feel so in it and you feel so stuck in it. This is like, I'm never going to find anyone. Like my life's, there's nobody else. Nobody has integrity. All it's like, and that's just not true. Like there's a lot of people that do. Just when you're going through something like this,

you kind of feel like this is all that there's ever going to be. Yeah. It's a very lonely place. And I feel like I've been in a very, very lonely place, but this is where I've grown the most. Your boys are going to be proud of you with this interview. Where can everyone find you? Pimp yourself out. Tell us if you have anything we can buy, how we can support. Give us all the things. You're very sweet. So you can find

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All the guys listening, you got to catch out here. She's building an empire, right? You know, got it all together. No, no, no. Jeanette, you're amazing. Thank you so much. I can't wait to talk to you

in like two years. I'm excited for it. Thank you guys so much for having me. Thank you for coming on. Jeanette, you're amazing. Thank you so much. I can't wait to talk to you in like two years. I'm excited for it. Thank you guys so much for having me. Thank you for coming on. Thank you for doing the show. I appreciate it. Wait, don't go. Do you want to win some of Jeanette's collaborations?

We're going to give away a Coco Kind skincare mask and some of her products from Material Kitchen. All you have to do is go send some support to Jeanette on my latest Instagram and make sure you rate it and review the podcast on iTunes. It takes like two seconds. I hope you guys love this episode as much as I did. Jeanette is truly incredible. All right. So everyone who has listened to this podcast knows that the probiotic that Michael and I take is Just Thrive Probiotics. I take two every single morning. I used to take them before I ate. And then after interviewing the founder, Tina, and a microbiologist on our podcast,

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