The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - The LadyGang Pt. 3 - Relationship Advice, Therapy, & Quarantine Routines

Episode Date: June 9, 2020

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Starting point is 00:00:40 Fantastic. And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie and now lauren everts and michael bostick are bringing you along for the ride get ready for some major realness welcome to the skinny confidential him and her accidentally we kind of started sharing about our lives and being super like raw and honest about embarrassing things that happened during sex or like guys that we've dated or like bodily function kind of things. And I think just by sharing shit that people are too scared to talk about, it kind of made
Starting point is 00:01:17 other women around us feel less alone and felt like they were our friends because some of the stuff that we talk about, you're too scared to tell your doctor or your best friend. Welcome back to the Skinny Conf and her show happy tuesday today we have the lady gang they've been on the show before i know you guys are already acquainted with them i've also been on their show two times you'll have to check that out but today we are talking everything we go there we talk We talk beauty, we talk wellness, we talk health, and we talk about their new book, Act Like a Lady. So we recorded this three weeks ago and we just wanted to hop on here really quick to let you guys know that you can expect the same lifestyle content from us. As always, we're listening, we hear you. In saying that, we will
Starting point is 00:02:01 also make sure we're doing our due diligence to bring on some really badass creators that haven't had their voices heard enough. We are committed to that. We are looking and we hear you on that as well. Yeah. I think a lot of people are running into some trouble here where it's like, you know, for those that listen to this show, the show is not changing show. Same thing for same people. We're just going to do a better job of adding more inclusivity and more diverse voices. That's it. You know, it's not, we're not all of a sudden changing the format and changing the direction. Like it's just going to be more. It's the show on steroids. It's a show doing more. So if you've been a long time listener, expect to hear more of the same and more. And if you're a new listener, expect to
Starting point is 00:02:36 hear a lot more. And that's where we're at guys, you know, back to back to normal recording. And I also think it's important to say just as a brand with the skinny confidential, that the brand is constantly evolving. And in 10 years, it's probably going to be different than it is now. So with everything that's going on, we've opened our eyes. We are listening to the audience. We're reading DMs. And like we said, we are going to be really having more diverse guests on that brings something really cool and new to the table. With that, let's welcome the Lady Gang to the show. What happens when you mix a fun, girl-powered community with juicy pop culture commentary, a dash of unfiltered celebrity interviews, and three LA ladies with a killer sense of
Starting point is 00:03:15 humor? Well, that's the Lady Gang. Kelty Knight, Becca Tobin, Jack Vanek. They are badasses. They're hustlers. I am so excited to welcome them back to the show. We talk about it all. All right, let're hustlers. I am so excited to welcome them back to the show. We talk about it all. All right, let's go there. This is the Skinny Confidential, him and her.
Starting point is 00:03:32 Okay, we got all three of you guys. I feel like it's been forever since we've seen you guys. Has it been years? Well, you were growing a human, so that took some time. We were? Where? I don't't know he doesn't seem to think that pregnancy is a big deal he thinks that he thought when i delivered the baby that i was just going to be like over i'm like no there's another year oh god i didn't realize that like this is something you got to take care of for a really long fucking time michael did you have a blast during the pregnancy like were you having fun? Yeah, that's one way to put it. I almost got lost. No, he truly thought his dick was going to touch the baby's head. And I know every guy thinks that,
Starting point is 00:04:11 but he really thought his dick was going to touch the baby's head. Well, you have to go through that once or twice to figure out. It's a different dynamic. There's different parts. There's different things moving. It's not the same. You can't just go straight to town. At least I couldn't. I had to get comfortable with it for a while it's like a threesome yeah oh what's your daughter i started feeling really weird towards the end like when you see hands and stuff moving across and i'm like all right yeah slow down okay well anyways you guys wrote a fucking book all three three of you together. My first question is just like the productivity side in me. And I'm sure Kelty will answer this. How did you guys do
Starting point is 00:04:52 it with three of you guys? Writing a book is, I think it's one of the gnarliest things you can do. It's so much work. You know what, Lauren? I actually used a piece of advice that you gave us the first time we met you when you came on Lady Gang. And we were talking about how you run your day. And you said you do these blocks where you're like, okay, time blocking. You're like, okay, for the three hours here, I'm going to work only on podcasts. For three hours here, I'm going to work only on books. I personally have used that every day since you said it. It's amazing. But what we did with the book is once we decided, so the book's in four parts. It's your relationship with your lover your relationship with your career and your relationship with your friends
Starting point is 00:05:30 So once we kind of figured out exactly what we wanted to be in the book We did two things one side of it was we sat in our podcast studio and I just prepared all these questions Like what do we want girls to know about bridal parties? What do we want girls to know about asking for a raise? Yeah, exactly. And then we all just talked and then we transcribed that and that became the bulk of the book. And then we went off into our own corners and freely didn't tell anyone what we were planning, just wrote these heartfelt or funny, emotional, vulnerable, hilarious essays that fit into those chapters. So everything from when I was married, when I was 21 to Jack dating every guy in LA to, I mean, there's other stories. But so there's all these amazing essays in the book that read a lot, just a book that you would, a summer read. So that's how we
Starting point is 00:06:21 did it. And I also had a cork board that had a note card for like when Becca would say, hey, I'm going to write this story about when Sean McVeigh dumped me in the fifth grade and I was wearing white cargo pants. Bell bottoms. White bell bottoms. And I'd put that up under her name. And then when someone turned in an essay, I would put a gold star next to their name. So that it was micromanaging at its finest. It was my personal hell. Same. Why was it your personal hell?
Starting point is 00:06:52 Well, first of all, I didn't want to write this book at all. And I got outvoted two against one. And I begged and pleaded, please, please, please, I don't want to write a fucking book. I barely, barely got through high school. I lost. And then on top of that, we were shooting Lady Gang TV, recording our podcast in the closet on set of Lady Gang TV, and then adding in the book. And then I went to Palm Springs to shoot a movie for a month, which was the month that
Starting point is 00:07:23 my essays had to be turned in. So I was so livid and Kelty's constant micromanaging, it almost tore up the lady gang. It almost broke us. It almost broke us. It wasn't good. It wasn't good. They say if you want to get something done, ask a busy person though. So sometimes it's better to just eat the whole fucking cookie than take small bites. That's actually a very good point. Yeah, it is kind of true because it almost didn't give me time to state my case enough to really fight the battle. I just had to- This sounds like my whole relationship with Lauren. It's like, I'm never going to state my case and I just end up doing things I don't necessarily want to do. You just have to do it. No, especially being in quarantine and not having any sort of a schedule or anything, I can't, it's so hard for me to even do a fucking podcast,
Starting point is 00:08:08 let alone write an entire book. So I think that to your point, that is super true. That like, we're just go, go, go, go, go. And there's, you can't even think about taking a break because you have to get it done. Speaking of quarantine and podcasts, you know, this drives me fucking nuts here. I look like a freak.
Starting point is 00:08:23 I'm down in this big. Look at all of us. I look beautiful. I don't know what you're talking about. We look like gamers. Yes. We've been degraded too. But you know what? You know we're the goats though because every single person right now has a serious professional
Starting point is 00:08:40 mic. We've been doing a lot of these and people are like, can I just use my AirPod? What? You can't? And I'm like, nope. You roll up to Skinny Confidential. They got two of those mics in one household. Okay. We're also hardwired into our internet right now. Yeah. I'm hardwired too because I started having, I can't stand it. I want to just cancel the interview and shut it down when someone's like skipping it. You know what I mean? Like I'm not skipping right now. That was just me doing that. But yeah, it drives me me fucking nuts Why do you guys think that you have resonated with so many women? I I mean, I know my own opinion just consuming your content
Starting point is 00:09:10 But why do you what do you guys think it is about you three together that so many people are so attracted to your brand? Well, I think that like when we first started the podcast first of all we thought it was going to be like a celebrity driven podcast and that was going to bring the followers in and hearing interviews with celebrities. But accidentally, we kind of started sharing about our lives and being super raw and honest about embarrassing things that happened during sex or guys that we've dated or bodily function kind of things. And I think just by sharing shit that people are too scared to talk about, it kind of made other women around us feel less alone and felt like they were our friends. Because some of the stuff that we talk about, you're too scared to tell your doctor or your best friend. I still am scarred from the first time we podcasted together. I learned more about
Starting point is 00:10:00 the female body. Becca, what were you going to say? It's so true. His face at that first podcast was really priceless. Shocked. I would say also that the three of us, even though visually we all look like the same fucking person, inside, we're all very, very, very different. And I think that
Starting point is 00:10:20 that's also why girls have connected. Because sometimes if they're a complete lunatic, they're a Kelty. And if they are a good time girl, it's Jack. And then if they just hate everyone and everything, it's me. So it's like a really great balance of everything, every flavor, if you will. Hold up, Michael. You know what sounds good right now? It sounds good all the time. I know what you're about to say. Four Sigmatic. Yes. Specifically, they're ground mushroom coffee with lion's mane.
Starting point is 00:10:47 So if you're trying to kick your coffee habit, I know I'm trying to cut down a little bit. This is a really, really great tool. Here's my thing. I'm going to have my morning cup of coffee. I love it. I love a latte. But then when it's teetering towards the afternoon and I start to get anxious, if I have another cup of coffee, I've replaced it with the ground mushroom coffee with lion's mane.
Starting point is 00:11:07 I know that I'm having something that tastes just like coffee. It's very satisfying. It also gives me energy because of the mushrooms and it has lion's mane in it, which we love. Lion's mane, if you're wondering, is my personal favorite functional mushroom. It's your brain's best friend. It supports focus, productivity, and creativity during the day. And don't forget the chaga, Lauren, the king of the mushrooms. Chaga, never been more important this year, guys, because chaga supports your immune system with antioxidant properties. And more than ever now, with everything going on,
Starting point is 00:11:34 we need to boost our immunities. And Michael, let's talk about the taste. So does this coffee taste like mushrooms? I can guarantee, like I said, it tastes like regular coffee, not mushrooms at all. So if you replace a cup with this, you will not be skimping on the taste. Okay. It's organic, fair trade, vegan, keto, sugar-free, dairy-free. Every Four Sigmatic product uses only proven superfoods and it's third-party lab tested. We have been talking about Four Sigmatic for the past, what is it? Three, four years now. We cannot scream it from the rooftops loud enough. I'm happy to say they ship to Canada, all the continental US. They're shipping everywhere. We've had the founder of Four Sigmatic on this show three times, and we rarely have people on three times. And as always, we have a special offer just for the Skinny Confidential podcast
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Starting point is 00:12:59 understand decade celebrations. If you make it 30, 40, for me, I understand that. That's good. But we're going to celebrate 33, 34, 37. Come on. I got to be honest, Michael. I really felt for you when I saw Lauren's Insta story the other day on her birthday. First of all, how much energy was spent on that extravaganza? It's too much. How much money was spent on that extravaganza? I have so many questions and I literally, I wanted right off the top to ask you about this and I'm so glad we had a conversation. Okay. So that was all imported into your kitchen? The balloons and the fucking feathers and the flamingo? And let me tell you what's been happening since we got a new baby and the
Starting point is 00:13:40 balloons are fucking huge. And so we'll be sleeping peacefully. You know, we go to bed early now in this household because we have a newborn. We're sleeping and everything's fine. It sounds like someone's firing off a firearm in our house because the balloons will randomly pop now, right? Oh my God. It's just a reminder of me being quarantined during my birthday.
Starting point is 00:13:59 Each balloon is like a Chinese torture. My resting heart rate is just like, it's spiking all the time because I just never know one of these things is going to go off. No, it's just, it's tooiking all the time because I just, you never know when one of these things is going to go off. No, it's just, it's too much. It's, I was telling her like she, what she does is she can't just do one day.
Starting point is 00:14:09 She stretches to the weekend and then I'm like, okay, it's done. It's over. It's Monday. And she's like, no, it goes to the month. I'm just honestly. Oh, Lauren. It's too much.
Starting point is 00:14:16 I only, hold on. I only do it to him though. I don't expect anything from anyone else. It's only him. You can torture him with that. I'm not, I'm not the person that, no, I'm not the person that invites 30 people to dinner and then expects them all to split the chat for me. You had four birthday posts to a million people to your social. You put four birthday posts up. No, no, no. Well, I have two more I'm posting too. No, I mean, I'm not the
Starting point is 00:14:37 person that is inviting everyone to celebrate my birthday and then making everyone else pay for me. That is not my vibe at all. I haven't had a birthday party since I was 21 years old. And I think every time I'm like, okay, I'm just not going to do anything. I'm not going to make anyone do anything for me. I don't want any gifts because I'm thinking that when their birthdays come around, they're not going to do it. But they, for whatever reason, I'm target number one. They're like, this guy's got to put the birthday party together. I don't know how much more clear I could be about it. I don't, I don't, even my wife, I don't give a shit about your birthday could be about it. I don't, I don't, even my wife,
Starting point is 00:15:05 I don't give a shit about your birthday anymore. If it's 34, 35, whatever it is, it's too much. I have a question about this. So for your birthday, Lauren,
Starting point is 00:15:12 Michael, did you plan all this stuff or did you like, did you order it yourself or did you, how does this happen? It's a medley. It's a medley. I start, I start getting,
Starting point is 00:15:22 I have a fucking cork board. It's a medley. It's a medley. I will be like, Hey, I'll get a a couple balloons and i'll get some nice flowers and i told him to go wait downstairs and the next thing i know there's all these other people showing up i'm like wait i don't think i ordered all this and there's more people and i'm like i had one set of balloons and a couple sets of flowers and the next thing i know it's like willie wonka's chocolate factory in this house it's too much okay so i. So I want to know what the most... So many cakes.
Starting point is 00:15:48 So many cakes. So many cakes. I want to know the most embarrassing story that you guys shared in the book. You could maybe pick the most embarrassing out of all them. What are we in for? I talk about my sexual tryst with a pseudo actor who turned out to be a sex addict, but I was like fully along for the ride and committed in my new role as like sex goddess to a sex addict. And the chapter is called Bedroom Baptism. So there's red wine. It ends with red wine.
Starting point is 00:16:28 I'm in white undergarments. The whole, use your imagination. So I really go there. Where do you hold that red wine when you don't have a cup? Listen, you know what? You're going to have to act like a lady. It's out where books are sold, bitch. So yes. What about Kelty and what are what are some embarrassing stories we can expect the really great thing for me is that my whole life is one big embarrassment so i don't have
Starting point is 00:16:55 a particular like farty bodily fluid story but just like in general my being like i realized after i like threw down these essays i was like oh, oh my God, I am so pathetic. Like the level of like Keltiness inside the energy. It's the energy that like goes through the entire book is the important part of Keltiness. Desperate idiot. Yeah. Desperate idiot. I wrote a story, an essay about when I was online dating on match.com and I was like, I'd just been cheated on. And it was like, the most important thing to me was honesty. And like, you got to be truthful. I got to be able to trust you. But then I had a fake name and kept lying about what city I lived in. And it was, yeah. So I'm Sally Prescott, my fake online dating name. It was so, I'm so into that. Okay. So I would love to know again, each of you separately, what your morning routine is in
Starting point is 00:17:47 quarantine. I love a morning routine. And maybe you don't have one. Maybe you just wake up and roll over and fart. And that's your morning routine. But I want to just know exactly what it is if you do have one. I'll start. I'm very...
Starting point is 00:17:59 A good day is very different from a bad day. And it's usually... And by bad, I mean worthless and unproductive. And I'm usually leaning into the bad morning. So the bad one looks like I wake up, I turn over, and I get on my phone for about 30 minutes to an hour. I get really worked up about an email or a text message or a DM or something. So I get out of bed hating the world. It's a good start. I make coffee. I usually will sit down and sort of get back on my phone with my coffee in my pajamas. And I'll do a little bit like version of that with like broken up into a few, like say hello to my husband, maybe put a dish in the dishwasher, but that happens till about 1 p.m.
Starting point is 00:18:47 And then I brush my teeth and I put on some workout clothes and I'll go for a walk around the neighborhood. But that's my morning routine. It's called wasting time and it goes into the abyss and I don't fucking know what happens. I black out and then it's one o'clock. My good morning is I wake up. I do 30 minutes of yoga. I don't change. I don't touch anything. I do it in my pajamas. I like sit for a moment. I don't look at my phone right away.
Starting point is 00:19:11 I have my coffee. I like wash my face and I feel like I can take on the world by like 9 a.m. So yeah, that's it. Wow. Well, my morning routine is kind of the same, kind of different. I wake up, immediately make a cup of coffee, sit in bed. My boyfriend starts annoying the fuck out of me because for some reason I've realized that he wants to have chats and stuff in the morning and I cannot talk to anybody for a good 45 minutes until my coffee has made its way through my body. By the way, don't fucking chat in the morning. I hate a morning chat. Don't fucking chat.
Starting point is 00:19:47 I don't want to chat. I like a good morning chat. Go ahead. I just like, no one wants to chat. You can talk to my boyfriend if you want. I'll give him your number. Yeah, you guys should talk. Okay, go on.
Starting point is 00:19:55 Dude, he's so fucking chatty. I'm like, dude, I can, I would love and cuddle. Oh God, he loves you so much. Can't wait to connect. He loves me so much. It's so annoying. Like he wants to touch me. See, these are your girl's problems.
Starting point is 00:20:05 Let me tell you something. You find a dream guy. He's here. He wants to chat with you. He wants to love you in the morning. And then you shut him down. And you wonder why we get so confused. What are we supposed to do, right?
Starting point is 00:20:14 Wait one hour. Wait one hour. Let me coach you through this. Let him chat a little bit. Wait till I poop at least. This is what I was going for. No, I have to have my morning poop and it has to be perfect if one little thing is off like if the time of my coffee or if I move from a sitting
Starting point is 00:20:32 position in my bed it won't happen so if he's climbing all over me and I have to move around a lot it really slows the process down and then I'm constipated throughout the day and then my whole day is thrown so this is what I'm realizing in my new morning routine is just trying to like push him the fuck off of me and find him a chat buddy michael i told lauren all the time one day you're gonna miss these chats when i'm dead and gone so you're not gonna miss your fucking 8 a.m chats about finances and how much i spent on venmo i don't give a fuck kelty what's yours wow i don't know what you're doing on Venmo. I don't give a fuck. Kelty, what's yours? Wow. I don't know what you're doing on Venmo, by the way. It's stupid. You're going to turn that... Dude, the privacy issues on Venmo, I don't... That is the weirdest
Starting point is 00:21:14 way to stalk somebody, by the way. Venmo is surviving because of Lauren Everts. That's the only reason that company... She's paying the balloon handlers. What are you paying? I don't use a credit card. I don't use a checkbook and I don't use cash. I use Venmo. So get over it. On online purchases, you can buy on Venmo? It does make sense that the balloon vendor would only accept Venmo though. What the hell else? Kelsey, I'm going to think that you have an anal morning routine like me. Of course.
Starting point is 00:21:40 Okay. I wake up in the morning. The coffee is pre-programmed the night before to already be filling my favorite Dunkin' Donuts cup. I take my medicine and do a three to four step skincare routine. Then I'll go and do about 20 minutes of radio in my closet. I have to do radio every morning. And then lately at 8.30 every morning during the week, I've been taking a half hour Spanish lesson, Espanol. And then after that, I'll start checking my emails. And then around 10 o'clock is when I have to start working, working for my real job, J-O-B.
Starting point is 00:22:19 But I'm doing full face of makeup and hair and like I'm living. But I will say the thing that's changed, well, that's not a morning routine, but I am of the opposite of Becca around 3 PM. I'm like, I'm a midday crash. Are you ready to actually work? Are you ready for a nap? Like Becca's like, Hey, good. Got my leggings on. All right. What should we do today for lady gang? And I was like, I'm asleep. I've already been working for 10 hours. It's night, nighttime for me. It's 4 PM. What time do you guys go to sleep? Nine. I go to bed at... What time do you go to bed? Like 11.
Starting point is 00:22:51 With a baby? Bullshit, Lauren. Bullshit. And that's all the way to go to bed. Aren't you tired, Lauren? I go to bed at 11. No, you go downstairs. You're out cold.
Starting point is 00:23:00 Last night, you were out cold by like 9 o'clock. Okay, but that's a Sunday. You looked at me the other day and it was like 6.30 PM. You're like, well, better call it a night. What time did you go to bed free baby? 11 or 12.
Starting point is 00:23:11 I think Lauren forgets that there's like this, we have a baby now. It averages 11, definitely. No, no. Wow, 11, so late. I like having you girls on. I can call her out. It's a safe space.
Starting point is 00:23:22 I don't get hit. I don't get attacked. I'm down in the basement. Well, you're in different rooms, okay? Yeah, yeah. You will after. What advice would you give to millennials right now in quarantine that want to get something done like write a book or I don't... What are your tips and tricks? Because you guys are still maintaining your podcast healthy. I cannot believe that you do a full face of makeup. Is it five days a week?
Starting point is 00:23:51 Now more than ever, it might be very, very helpful to talk to somebody. I know that whenever I've experienced any kind of adversity in my life, it does help to talk it out. So we recently partnered with Talkspace. We've talked about this before on the podcast, but I think, again, like I said, now more than ever, a lot of us are dealing with stress. There's a lot going on in the world. I mean, this year has been absolutely insane with everything going on. I don't remember a time throughout my entire life that the world's been in so much pain. And also with that pain comes all the isolation we've all experienced this year as a world. And so it's more important than ever if you feel that and you feel that anxiety and you're stressed and you're feeling depressed and you're feeling anxious to talk to someone.
Starting point is 00:24:26 So basically Talkspace is an online therapy that can match you with a licensed therapist right away. So the second you sign up, you can match with a licensed therapist, which is awesome. And you get all the comfort on your phone or your computer from your home. You can talk to your therapist every day. You can talk to them once a month, whatever you want to do. This could even be, by the way, that you want to consume less social media, less coffee, or do more exercise. You could even find a therapist that could sort of help you coach you through little things. So it could be big things or little things. What we like about Talkspace is it's affordable. One month on Talkspace costs about the same amount as a single in-person
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Starting point is 00:25:45 and then Sundays. Also, you don't realize how much Kelty needs her job. The first two weeks of this whole thing, she wasn't working. And I mean, we haven't seen each other since mid-March, but we, I've never felt so stressed out by somebody else's energy that's like 50 miles away from me as I did in those two weeks. She needs a routine. She needs the validation of working. She needs to be busy. She wouldn't do well sitting around like Becca and I do. No. I called Jack twice in those first two weeks and I was like, I think this is the end. I don't know what to do right now. And if she ever doesn't work for entertainment tonight, we need to find her another job. Yeah. It can't just be lady gang.
Starting point is 00:26:28 Can't just be lady gang. A job outside of this job. Yeah. What are your guys' advice to keep productive? If someone's out there and they're feeling really uninspired and maybe depressed? Well, I actually went on an ayahuasca trip a couple of weeks ago. And that was really, really, it really opened up my creativity. And yeah, I mean, not everybody can do that. Mushrooms, mushrooms are a great way, a great little tonic to open up your creative neuropathway situation. But I have to say, I was really unproductive in those first couple months and I was okay with it. Like I embraced it because it just, it is what it is. But then that journey really, really-
Starting point is 00:27:12 Can we talk about it? Because I want to, I'm curious, we're familiar with mushrooms. Lauren had lots about that. But so where did you go and do this ayahuasca? So it's actually, you're guided with a shaman. And it's sort of like eight years of therapy in one experience. And it's mixed with mushrooms. So there's no, no like darkness that ayahuasca can sometimes bring where you're taking on this. How long is the trip last? About six to eight hours. Did you not do the, you didn't purge because they mixed it with mushrooms or do you still purge? I still did have like an episode towards the end of the evening where I did throw up a few times. It's not as common, but it wasn't that bad. Do you know what I mean? Because I hadn't really,
Starting point is 00:27:57 you don't eat going into it. But it was mixed. I think it's mixed with mushrooms so that you're sort of, it's a lighter journey and you are more in control. You're not like just taken. So you're, you can kind of like have an intention and go into it thinking about what you want to achieve from it. Can you just do this alone? Do you think about us while you were there? No, not even once to be honest. It was my husband and I. I have, I have a couple of questions about this. Okay. So before, like two weeks before you went into this, is there things that you should do? Like don't eat, like maybe don't eat carbs, like don't drink alcohol. Like what is the pre-rex before you go
Starting point is 00:28:36 into an ayahuasca trip? Well, this one in particular, it's really just a couple of days before you want to cut out like any drugs, no weed, not a couple of days before you want to cut out any drugs, no weed, not a ton of alcohol. We didn't do any alcohol the week before. Some people say that you shouldn't eat red meat before. So we kind of minimized that. That was kind of it. I think it was pretty- What was the main intention of doing this? Something specific you wanted to work? You don't have to tell it specifically, but what was the main intention of doing this? Was there something specific you wanted to work? You don't have to tell it specifically, but what was the main reason or just like, hey, we want to try this?
Starting point is 00:29:09 So for me, I just am somebody that struggles with being present and also with being expressive about my feelings. And so things just kind of fester inside of me. I'm sure I'm going to get cancer from it because it's like, you can't even imagine what's going on. But it's like all that toxicity, I don't ever let it out. So I'm not great at vulnerability. And so I was like, I don't want to become like Brene Brown out of this fucking trip, but I'd also really like to be able to communicate when I feel like I need to and not harbor all this shit inside of me. So some of it was that and releasing a lot of that
Starting point is 00:29:50 resentment that I had that caused me to be so pent up. And then a lot of it was creatively, I was just sort of bored with my career and not lady gang stuff, obviously, because there's no time to be bored with that. But yeah, I was just sort of like, I want to be... Those were my three sort of main intentions and it really did kind of work. So the end result is you feel like you had a breakthrough with that type of stuff? Majorly. And I feel like I can tap into those feelings I was having during it, where normally you can go on a mushroom trip or smoke a bunch of weed and you can have an incredible experience, but then you come out of it and you're still the same fucking person and you're like,
Starting point is 00:30:28 bummer, it's still me. With this, I was able to redirect some neuro pathways, I guess. So I can tap into those moments where I'm like, oh, you're not being present right now. Oh, you're actually not being true to yourself and you need to speak up right now. Or like, I don't know. It's just sort of, it was weird. Wait, from a micro level, you arrive, just kind of just walk us through like what, do they just give it to you right there? Do you have a conversation? Tell me the specifics of it. So you have a call the week before and you talk about your intention and it's a husband and wife and they kind of talk, they work under a shaman who's actually a medical doctor. So he has these crazy formulations and they're all customized for you in particular. So they get, they get to know you
Starting point is 00:31:15 a little bit and then, um, they come to the house and they give you a few different formulations of different plant-based drugs. And that's a couple hours. And it's like heart openers and things like that. Like sassafras is this natural sort of like heart opener they give you. So then by the time you actually eat the chocolate that is infused with ayahuasca and mushrooms, you're really open. You're not anxious. You're like, I'm so ready for this. So then you have that towards the end of the night. And then it's a couple hours of just
Starting point is 00:31:51 experiencing that thing. And then you wake up. Are you talking to your husband and them about things or are you in your own head? Both. So they're like, wherever this takes you, sometimes you might have an hour of just introspection and you just might go inward and they just feel it out where you are. And then sometimes you're talking to each other and working through stuff in your relationship, which was also really major, like in a crazy way. We like broke through like eight years of couples therapy. And then sometimes it's like you go off on your own with the wife and you have like your moment of you're talking about whatever it is that you're dealing with. So it's like kind of customized to whatever you think you're needing and whatever they think you need.
Starting point is 00:32:32 And you did. Did you hallucinate or anything during it? Because a lot of people that have taken ayahuasca have been like, I went into the universe and I talked to God and like. I mean, what's crazy is that this is so different from like going to peru and doing iowa and you're not drinking tea right it's like the way that they mix it and i guess they they this is i don't know for sure but it's like they cook it past the point of it being like really really really toxic and like people shit themselves all night in peru like when they do the real thing so this is like a really mild kind of like, it sort of feels like a really intense mushroom trip. And who recommended this person to you?
Starting point is 00:33:10 A friend of mine. And I actually know several people who have had these journeys with these people. So it's like an underground little community that's kind of cool. Well, it's interesting. People are starting to talk about this a lot more. It's like for a while, I mean, there's books been written on it. There's no Netflix specials, but for a long time, you know, psychedelics, they got that reputation of like, Hey, if you take this, you're going to rip your face off and like want to kill yourself. Like, and I, and I think like for when they, you know,
Starting point is 00:33:36 when LSD was first discovered, it was, it was used as a medicine and it was used to heal PTSD and all of the depression and anxiety and all these things. But, you know, then you got into the 60s, 70s and people started abusing it and the politicians came in and said, oh, this is going to make you rip your face off. So I think our generation grew up being like, holy shit, if you do psychedelics or mushrooms or like that, that's what's going to happen. You're going to come out of this with your face ripped off. But my experience is personally, I think Lawrence has been nothing but good. We've talked about psilocybin and stuff. I've never done ayahuasca, which is why I was curious. I think it'd be interesting to do.
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Starting point is 00:35:53 and enter promo code skinny for 25% off your first order. Drinkhydrant.com slash skinny and enter promo code skinny. Okay, back to the show. I have one more question just selfishly. When you're talking to your spouse and you're having like this therapy that you said in eight hours, is the person that's doing the ceremony, walking you through it like a therapist or do they leave you alone? They'll do both. So like there were moments where if he and I kind of hit a point where we couldn't really get past it, They'd come in and sort of like work through it
Starting point is 00:36:25 with us. But the thing that's crazy and the reason it works so well with couples is because it's almost like your ego is so stripped away. It doesn't exist in that space. So it's just really the most genuine conversation with no subtext. It's a clear way of communicating the clearest possible. So yeah, it's like, I don't know. Sometimes they come in and sometimes they don't. It depends. Speaking of relationships, you guys are all in relationships. Kelty and Becca are married. I would love to know what your quarantine tips are when it comes to relationships because there's been about six or seven that I've wanted
Starting point is 00:37:05 to kill my in quarantine well probably don't throw a fucking birthday that takes over the whole house for you know with 50 people coming with balloons whatever the people came in I don't even know every year one don't have don't have a quarantine birthday because that really just like rude how dare you be born rude I had one too Lauren yeah it's like I mean I feel like we should celebrate again at the end of the year for me one more month one more birthday month what what are you guys's tips for not going crazy your hack your husband boyfriend hack I have uh been living by the mantra be gentle to yourself and be gentle to others and um that's all I have. And honestly, I'm the worst because I'm like loving my husband right now. I will tell you one of the most annoying things
Starting point is 00:37:51 about him is that he is a person who cooks a meal and puts everything out while he's cooking and then eats the meal and then lets everything sit for like four or five hours while he has after dinner activities and then cleans up before he goes to bed. That drives me fucking nuts. It could be so much worse of somebody not cleaning for days. while he has after dinner activities and then cleans up before he goes to bed. That drives me fucking nuts. It could be so much worse of somebody not cleaning for days. No, I know. It's not that bad. I know.
Starting point is 00:38:15 But I'm like, right now we are about to do this podcast and I'm on my kitchen island and Chris made a sandwich for lunch. And before I set up, I had to put all his sandwich shit away because he will leave it there for now five more hours. And what a monster. Divorce him. It could be, it could be worse. And Jack,
Starting point is 00:38:29 what about you with your boyfriend? Um, I mean, mine's, I guess more on his end. He's like the most even keeled, calm, like he can handle everything type of a person.
Starting point is 00:38:40 And I'm the more like emotional erratic, especially now just like crazy bitch so um I mean I feel like if people are having problems that they don't normally have during a non-quarantine situation it's like don't take things personally when they're not personal because like I said it's like I've like screamed at him for the dumbest shit and it has nothing to do with what he's actually doing I'm just going fucking insane because i haven't seen another human being in three months but i'm taking it out on him but he in his his cute little heart knows i don't mean it so i don't know michael said to me like uh four weeks after i gave birth when i was on my period he goes
Starting point is 00:39:22 what's wrong with you? What's wrong with me? Well, what the fuck? I mean, you were, you were being wacky. You know what I mean? I get it. Like now I've learned a few things. I'm not listening. I was being wacky when all my hormones are stripped from like what? I didn't. He is nice. That's a, that's a euphemism. I'm sure. I hadn't met this person, right? So I didn't know what was going on. They don't prepare us for this. It's true. Men will never, ever, ever, ever understand the hormone thing because it's like body snatchers. We know. We are aware. We are looking from above and we see ourselves being taken by the hormones, but we cannot stop it. We can't escape. We've been taken. And you need to lash out to feel better. You can't just hold, fester it inside of you. It's actually like blue balls, blue balls.
Starting point is 00:40:18 It is. It's the semen in your ball sack that has to come out. It's like that. We have emotional blue balls. Yeah. But you know, we go It's like that. We have emotional blue balls. Yeah, but you know, like we go take care of that. You just kind of, you just don't and let it go. But you can't, but you can't do anything. You could sit me down with the foremost expert on doctor therapy hormones in the middle of an episode of where a hormone and they could be like, you need to get it together
Starting point is 00:40:41 or we're going to light your house on fire. And I'd be like, I can't get it together. Like you get it together. You're powerless. It's like Voldemort. It's so true. When Zach will say to me, he's like, well, if you know that it's hormones making you crazy, then can't you just adjust? Like, hello, this is a crazy thought because it's hormones. I'm like, no, you don't understand. And you know what? I'm going to fucking double down. You have to just be gentle. I've tried to teach my husband in this time. I'm like, you don't have to jump in and fix anything. You don't have, I go, you have to hold space.
Starting point is 00:41:18 And he goes, I don't know how to do that. I don't know how to do that either. I told him, I said, I don't get it. I don't know. I'm just going to, I'm giving up. I don't know. It is what it is. I just like, you said, I don't get it. I don't know. I'm just going to, I'm giving up. I don't know. It is what it is. I just like, you know, I'm not going to pretend I understand.
Starting point is 00:41:28 I also am not going to pretend that I'm happy dealing with it. Okay. So I have to lose 25 pounds. What are your tips for tightening up in quarantine? Like, what are you guys eating? What are you snacking on? What are your, I know, Becca, you said you do yoga, but like, what are you guys doing to keep things tight?
Starting point is 00:41:45 Well, first of all, Lauren, you don't have to lose 25 pounds. No, she's too hard on herself. I would like to lose 25 pounds. You would enjoy to have your body be back to where it was prior to your pregnancy because you have a beautiful body then, beautiful body now. But just remember, the baby's three months? She's four. Almost four. Four months. Okay. So you were pregnant for 10 months. So you have another six months. So go easy on yourself.
Starting point is 00:42:11 And I think you should just take my quarantine advice and be gentle with yourself. Because what you just went through was so much, so much. And it's new. Even though you feel like you're in your routine, like what you just did with your body and your hormones and your every cell in your body is like so traumatic. So I think you just need to be nice to yourself. I would agree. The conversations that I have with myself about 25 pounds is, is pretty dark. I'm not, that's what I'm right. Of course. I gained 55 pounds when I got pregnant which they tell you to gain 25 to 35 but I don't believe that for a second because every one of my friends is like
Starting point is 00:42:51 oh my god I gained 55 I gained 50 pounds and they told me 25 like who is this 25 is that including the the weight of the baby and the placenta and all that shit it's everything I was I just like nothing are they trust me there's a lot, I just like, 25 pounds is nothing. They, trust me, there's a lot of women that have gained 25 pounds. To try to make people like, scared not to go too far.
Starting point is 00:43:11 That's what I think. But I think also, I agree, 25 is like not realistic. Well, 25 is realistic for me. I'm a troll. I'm like a small,
Starting point is 00:43:18 like, like if I gained any more than 25, I wouldn't be able to walk. I'd be in a wheelchair. So like, if you're five foot three, 25 seems like still pretty I'd be in a wheelchair. If you're 5'3", 25 seems still pretty low, but you're a tall, normal-sized
Starting point is 00:43:29 woman. 25 is not enough weight. Right. It doesn't even include your boobs. How much your boobs grow and fill. That's another 10 pounds. They were like fucking watermelons during the same. Huge. It was like having two giant basketballs in the bed with us.
Starting point is 00:43:46 How did your nipples get so big? Your nipples stretch, your nipples stretch so big. Like I have like, I have like normally very little nipples. I've had a boob job and they stretch. They get like,
Starting point is 00:44:00 they get big. Listen, I like a healthy chest, but these things were, you couldn't even get both arms around them. See this gesture? It was wild. I looked like this trying to hug you. Listen, I like a healthy chest, but these things were... You couldn't even get both arms around them. See this? It was wild. I looked like this trying to hug you. Wait, what is it like?
Starting point is 00:44:10 I've always wondered this. When you've had your boobs done and then you get pregnant because they get bigger, but then can you tell? Do they go back? Yeah, they go back to normal, but the thing is, is what's weird is that they don't look as big because you've gained weight in your stomach. So they actually look smaller even though they've grown. It's bizarre.
Starting point is 00:44:32 Weird. It's bizarre. Pregnancy. I like never thought about being pregnant until I was pregnant. Like I've never, like there's no pinboard. Like I've never looked into it. I'd never read a book. So I got pregnant and it was like, it was like a completely very crazy experience for me because I never thought about it. I think had I taken time to sit back and like think about it a little more and like, you know, maybe go through Pinterest and plan and read, I would have been more prepared. But I think I was unprepared on what was happening to my body.
Starting point is 00:45:08 I think I was very unprepared for that. Well, and people don't talk about that either. Like that's, you know, everybody says that pregnancy is so beautiful and amazing. You're going to love it. And then nobody really talks about the fact that your body changes so fucking much. And it's like a nightmare. It's a mindfuck. It is a mindfuck. I'm telling you like someone inside you it is a mind fuck i'm telling you for me it was a mind fuck i mean yes it's beautiful and there's so
Starting point is 00:45:30 many pros about it and like you know i'm so grateful but it's also it's really crazy how your body changes i mean it's wild can i also just add something your daughter is so pretty thank you that's like i know you're not supposed to like you're not supposed to like judge a baby but like i saw the pictures on your instagram and i was like this is not fucking real like how does this bitch get off having a baby that looks like a goddamn doll the eyes are like the oh my God, she's gorgeous. I'm so glad. I hate babies.
Starting point is 00:46:08 So this is like, she gives me hope. I know. I'm so glad too, because I actually had a conversation with a friend of mine. I was like, this is an example of someone who should be plastering their baby on social media because it's adorable. And not one person, not one hater can turn around and say, that's not one of the cutest babies on planet earth. But I said to my friend, I go, when I have a baby, I need you to give me some tough fucking love. I need you to tell me if I'm going
Starting point is 00:46:34 to post a picture of a baby and it is ugly, I need you to say to me, this baby is not ready for the world. The world is not ready for this baby. No, especially newborns. They look like little wrinkly aliens. I have seen some ugly babies. They're so ugly. I had to get after a friend last week. I have so many babies right now in my friend group. And someone posted a picture of a baby.
Starting point is 00:46:55 And they had had an accident or something. And I was like, the poop diaper is where I draw the line. Absolutely not. I'm already in dated with your baby stuff. Like, you better pull this fucking back. I need a cute baby in a Snuggie. That's it. Nobody wants to see anybody else's baby's poop.
Starting point is 00:47:12 Because I, like, listen, if it's your own baby, you're like, okay, it's kind of like part of me. Like, you deal with it. But I, you know, like Lauren's sister had her baby come over one time and he shit himself and I didn't know what to do. She's probably getting in trouble for saying this. And I didn't, I just kind of started hosing the kid down because I was like, this is not, I don't know what to do just by getting in trouble for saying this and I just kind of started hosing the kid down because I was like,
Starting point is 00:47:25 this is not, I don't know what to do with this but it's your own baby. I had barely ever held a baby before I've had a baby and I have to tell you this is like messed up but I thought all babies
Starting point is 00:47:35 looked the same until I had a baby. What does that mean? They kind of do. I thought they all looked the same. They do but yours is different. You have this new profit of babies.
Starting point is 00:47:44 No, I think that when it's your baby, you're like, you think the baby's like amazing, but I think everyone feels like that. You know what I mean? But that's why Becca was saying that somebody needs to give her tough love when she has a kid, just in case it's fucking not yours.
Starting point is 00:47:59 I mean, I just- Your baby's gonna be very cute. I just feel, you never know. You never know. Really, it's like really- It's a crap show. No, your baby will be perfect. So tell us your tell us your how to tighten up advice.
Starting point is 00:48:10 Please give us give us snacks. Give us. Are you intermittent fasting? Like, what do you have in your coffee? You know how detailed I like to get. So I am like not. And oh, go ahead. Kelty.
Starting point is 00:48:22 Didn't you already answer? I mean, I just said she should be nice to herself. That wasn't my real answer, but it's fine. I have a, you'll love this, Lauren. I have a Bujo page in my Bujo. I don't think this is healthy. I don't think this is healthy. Definitely not healthy.
Starting point is 00:48:37 Whole year. And this is how I track my workouts to keep myself motivated. Okay, well, that's my opinion. I think that moderation is the key because I think that if you start getting crazy and tracking your workouts and tracking your fasting and tracking your food and tracking your bullshit, it just gets to a point where your body is freaked out and your cortisol levels are through the roof and it holds onto the fat
Starting point is 00:48:57 because it knows that it's in for a rude awakening. So it's like, just be moderate. If you can't bring yourself to do a full-blown workout, just go for a walk. I've been walking around my neighborhood listening to podcasts for hours on end. And I think that it's like the only reason that I haven't gained a million pounds because I'm also eating whatever I want to eat.
Starting point is 00:49:16 But it's like, just be conscious of better choices. But don't deprive yourself because I think your body knows when you're doing that. Well, and I'll bring this back to our book too because I have a chapter about this because I used to be a diet exercise fucking freak. My whole life revolved around food and exercise. And I was just so desperate around that whole subject. And it was the most miserable I've ever been in my entire life. So now, like Becca said, it's like everything I do is in moderation. When I deprive myself of food, all I do is think
Starting point is 00:49:51 about it 24 hours a day. I think about that one hamburger, that fucking In-N-Out hamburger I want so bad for weeks on end. And then it just makes me miserable. So I found as I've gotten older, it's just to be kind to myself, like Kelty, not like get myself down if I don't work out. But then, I mean, I've been doing like a shit ton of walks too, because there's literally nothing else to do. But I found a lot of like peace within that. And I've found like joy and being able to go and see what the hell is right outside my door. And it's a nice low impact workout for me. I don't like any super sweaty things. I agree with you on low impact.
Starting point is 00:50:31 I'm really about the low impact. Plus I feel like I noticed like with running too, I feel like it sags your knees. It sags your face. It's hard on your body. Elbows. Like I would way rather walk than run. That's my own opinion.
Starting point is 00:50:44 Jack, you've talked a lot on Instagram about showing Instagram versus reality. How has that resonated with your audience? Because people seem to really appreciate you doing that. Yeah. I mean, I, again, I have another chapter in the book about that as well, because I have a lot of insecurity when it comes to body image and what I look like and i'd always just compare myself to everybody on instagram and as we know most people use photoshop or facetune or you know, even if they're not you're taking 100 pictures and Posting the one best one out of them all. It's not what anybody looks like
Starting point is 00:51:19 So then as i'm like getting down on myself about that, I'm also doing the same fucking thing myself. And we had a conversation about it on our podcast one day. And Becca's like, you know, you do the same thing as everybody else does. And you might be that person that they're looking on Instagram and being jealous of that they don't look like. So I didn't really ever think about that before. And ever since we had that conversation, I'm like, you know what? I have cellulite in this picture. But then i took five seconds later i look fucking bomb but they're both me and neither of them is better than the other they're both my body so i think everybody should see that because everything that you're seeing on instagram isn't this perfect smooth beautiful like pristine
Starting point is 00:52:00 thing that you're seeing on your screen so i've gotten like the best response out of it. I think people just like to see some sort of like a reality when everything is so fucking curated and bullshitty and it's not even what anybody looks like. So before we go, what is the best piece of advice that I'd love to hear individually that you guys have gotten from your podcast? And if you could say who gave it, like what is the one gem that out of all the podcasts that you guys have done that you could share with our audience?
Starting point is 00:52:29 That's a hard question. Like guys, that's a lot of podcasts. You guys have done a lot of episodes. Go ahead, Kelty. Well, I was going to say, I always think about RuPaul because first of all, I like love Drag Race
Starting point is 00:52:41 more than most things in my life. But when he came on, he said one of his famous lines when he came on, he, he said one of his famous lines that he says all the time, but he said it to us and it was like taking us to church. And he said something along the lines of if those bees ain't paying your bills, then pay those bees no mind. And that like always,
Starting point is 00:53:02 cause I'm someone that in, because I am a competitive person, I can look around and be like, oh, well, this person's doing this and this person's doing this. And I really do me to do. I think about who's paying me, and then I use those people's opinions matter, and then everyone else can fuck off. It's true. Yeah. My favorite piece of advice we got was from Sophia Maruso from Nasty Gal, and then she has Girlboss. She said, and I don't even know if she came up with this quote or if somebody had told it to her, but it was, don't compare your hustle to their highlight reel. And it goes back to what I was just talking about, body image and Instagram curated bullshit. But it's also just everybody's putting the best version of themselves out on social media. And it always looks like everything is so easy and work is amazing. And you're the only one struggling because you're comparing
Starting point is 00:54:03 what is going on in your internal heart with everything that you're the only one struggling because you're comparing what is going on in your internal heart with everything that you're seeing online. And it's just a good thing to remember that everybody is struggling in their own way and everybody's going through a lot of shit. And it's just like the great equalizer when you take that out of the equation. For me, I would say it's just an overall theme of this podcast world that I've gotten into. And it's the supporting other women and knowing that there are enough seats at the table because having a background in acting for so many years, there usually really is only one seat at that table. And so I was used to, it's like a one woman fight and you're the
Starting point is 00:54:46 warrior and you have to beat out all these other bitches. And it's like a very competitive, kind of toxic place to live. And so when we started this podcast, I was programmed to be that way. So in the beginning, it was like, we have to be the best and nobody can do what we're doing or we're going to bring them down. But then I started to realize from all the guests that we had on the podcast and all these successful women that came on, it's like, actually, that's totally not the way that it works. Because the more of us that are out there and thriving, the more powerful this entire industry can be and the more powerful women themselves can be in it. And so by having people like Tanya Rad, who is like the ultimate girls, girls cheerleader, and you, Lauren, you're such a cheerleader for
Starting point is 00:55:32 other women. I think that that has been infused into me to the point where my acting career is now in the dumpster because I am not competitive enough. You fucked yourself. It's a dumpster fire of like positivity and support for other women. Terrell Owens said that he was driving down Hollywood Boulevard once many years ago and he looked up and saw a poster for Mission Impossible and Tom Cruise was on it. And he was-
Starting point is 00:55:58 No, Terry Crews, Terry Crews. Terry Crews, excuse me, not Terrell Owens. And leave it to you to correct me. And he looked up at the billboard and he was really angry for a minute. And then he realized, wait, if he's booking these movies, it opens up more space for other people like me to book the movies. And I think that's so true about podcasting. I love what you guys, the advice you guys just said. Now, before we go, tell us where we can stock your book,
Starting point is 00:56:25 where we can find it. Maybe we can do a giveaway at the very end. I'll add it. Oh my God, yes. Tell us all about where we can find it. So the book, Act Like a Lady, is sold anywhere you get your books. So Barnes & Noble has it. Amazon, you can prime it to yourself.
Starting point is 00:56:39 Books A Million has it. You can go to our website, theladygang.com slash book. And on there, we have little little click through links for everyone. There's even a really cool one called bookshop.org, which helps all the indie booksellers. So you literally order it from that. It's as fast as Amazon and it supports the indie booksellers. They split the profit across all the Indies in the U S.
Starting point is 00:56:58 So that's so exciting. And then if you're an audio book kind of bitch, we're on audible and you can order the audio audiobook on amazon as well so and it's on apple books i mean it's everywhere it's all the places books are sold but not in a store because we're in a quarantine that's okay about the quarantine i think i'm i think i'm pretty much done with it i think i'm i think my favorite thing about quarantine is people were just like oh i think we're done with it i saw so many people at fucking barbecues this weekend without a mask on on instagram. And I was like,
Starting point is 00:57:25 nobody said it's okay yet. Put your fucking mask on, Michael. I think I'm just, no, I don't mind the mask. I just think I'm done in quarantine. That's not for us to decide. Michael, sorry. I think I'm deciding.
Starting point is 00:57:38 He's deciding. It's over. Yeah, you're still underground in your creepy masturbation room with your jukebox. Listen, a couple more fights from my wife and I might go risk coronavirus. Quickly, where can everyone find you guys on Instagram?
Starting point is 00:57:49 At the Lady Gang. At the Lady Gang. That's it. And at Kelty. At Kelty. At Becca. At Jack Vanek. I was so proud of Kelty for not promoting herself.
Starting point is 00:57:58 And then, you know what? She did. It was hard. She was prompted by Lauren. Thank you guys for coming on. We love you, Mama. We love you. I bought your book and I'm going to continue to support. I love it. she was prompted by lauren thank you guys for coming on we love you mama we love you i bought
Starting point is 00:58:05 your book and um i'm going to continue to support i love it and anytime you guys want to come back on the podcast thank you guys always it's been way too long we didn't talk about enough vaginas oh we'll talk well you guys will come back on we'll talk about we'll do a whole episode on vaginas bye bye bye guys guys quick giveaway for the book act like a lady all you have to do to win the lady gang's new book is let me know on my latest instagram at the skinny confidential your favorite part of this episode and one person will win their book it is so good and juicy you will love it and with that we'll see you on friday this episode was brought to you by four sigmatic guys did you know mushrooms can prevent and treat many diseases and boost overall health?
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