The Viall Files - E60 Pregnancy Sex with Daniella Monet

Episode Date: November 13, 2019

Daniella Monet stops by the studio (with her newborn!) to talk about her experience as a new mother. But first, Nick addresses the rumors that he and Demi Burnett are dating. Then, Daniella shares her traumatic birth story, why she chose to have a baby before marriage, and how she keeps her sex life spicy.  Listen to Daniella’s Podcast - Adulting Like a Mother Father. Be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode! THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: MANSCAPED: https://www.manscaped.com CODE: VIALL PROACTIV: https://www.proactiv.com/nick NOOM: https://www.noom.com/viall See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

what is going on happy wednesday to you all thank you for tuning in to another episode of vile files so friendly how'd i do great uh last week was great kid the kaylin episode i thought so too people liked it people liked it she was great uh the Caitlin episode. I thought so too. People liked it. People liked it. She was great. Certainly it wasn't without its critics. I mean, but like so many more people. Yeah.

I think really felt like they got to know Caitlin in a different way. And if I have ever a hope, especially when we have bachelor alumni on is that it's a little bit more about them and i gotta say we did more research on kaylin afterwards and yes i feel like i missed some stuff uh her mom is the first uh grandma grandma first female director of the fbi in los angeles incredible yeah anyways okay you gotta tell us the story it's fucked up i'm gonna be honest i'm i'm pissed i feel

violated it's not it's not cool um reddit i uh i i live with someone who is spying on me and going on reddit apparently everyone thinks i'm dating demi right i've been notified this i thought that might be you why i don I don't understand. Well, you wore those matching bear costumes. That was honestly a coincidence. We went to a party and I was... There's no way that was a coincidence. I swear to... I don't really don't care if you or anyone else believes me.

I was asked to go to a Halloween party. I was already Pete the Pilot, so I wasn't planning on going to two Halloween parties. So listen, for all of you out there who need a last second gift, a onesie is super fucking easy i went on amazon i had the choice between a bear or a dinosaur last year i was a pink dinosaur okay i went with a bear oh i showed up at my friend danny's and demi's yeah we meet and we're both going to the party and danny's like oh and danny had a care bear total fucking

so whatever saw you and was like oh i. No, she was already planning on going. It was either that or I think Cleopatra and then her friends. So it was a coincidence. It was. Also, even if it wasn't, Demi is a close friend. She's a dear friend. We've become very close. I care very much about her.

How close? As close as platonic friends can be. Anyways, I mean, regardless. So based on this, apparently the Reddit world is abuzz. Yes. Both snarking and trying to figure out if we are dating. Demi has, in fact, been to my place. As sometimes friends do, go to each other's places.

Yes, yes, yes. And I was notified that there is a conversation on Reddit. And that conversation is by Venice Lurker. Hey, y'all. Oh, wait, her name is Venice Lurker? It's a screen name. I don't know how, they have an alias?

Yeah, she calls herself, they call herself Venice Lurker. I don't, I'm assuming it's a woman. Hey, y'all. I'm pretty frequent poster on here and I have debated posting this for a few days now, but decided I'm a coward, and I wanted a throwaway account.

So apparently they're on it, right? And they have a different name, but Venice Lurker is... Oh, because she doesn't want to be found out. But then she's also... But like, I live with... Yeah, but she's saying... I live in the same condo complex as Nick,

other than me catching him filming himself doing workouts or taking constant selfies walking up. So I'm like sleuthing here, right? I've never had any interesting tea to share until lately. I have seen him come and go with Demi a few times now. I know they are really close friends. So honestly, not sure if it's anything. But it could be, right? Anyways, figured whole mild you guys may share. So anyways, I was told about this.

So she didn't say anything, though. She just said she saw a demon. Someone I live with says they are spying on me. That is how I read it. Yeah. So anyways, I, the next day, I mean, someone I live with says they are spying on me. That is how I read it. Uh, so anyways, I, the next day being super first,

I thought like, I'm like, who is it? And I thought to myself, I fucking know who it is. You should tell your landlord. Uh, yeah, I'm going to,

but I don't really, you know, so at first I was like, I know who this is. Right. I thought it was girl and apartment number two, a girl in apartment number two. We have a history.

And that history is, she's kind of a total b b she's a dick she's a total she's married she's married uh so by history when i first when we all moved in we all moved in at relatively the same time it was a new building renovated so everyone kind of moved in and i was a little nervous about like, it's an intimate place. It's not, there's only six homes, if you will. And they were all having a get together. And so I'm like, you know what, I'm going to get to know my neighbors. And everyone's super cool.

And girl in number two was looking at me and you could, I could tell she was a Bachelor fan. She's just being fucking weird. And that one type of person who like is obsessed, but they don't want you to know. And they are an elitist and they think they're really great and and she just finally was like everyone knows who you are and just like would just she was just kind of a total bitch she just was and then her husband kind of almost equally terrible because you could tell he watched it came up to me and was just like that

kind of questions like so what do you even do now but also wouldn't shut up for the fact that he works for hulu and not like it. But he talked about how he works for Hulu as if he's like in the movie business. And like, I don't know. I think he's like a buyer for ads or some shit. I don't know, but shut up about it. So anyways, she does.

And for eight and everyone in the complex kind of like think she's a bitch. She's just not friendly. Every time she comes out, I'll say hi. And she just kind of awkwardly. We're getting sidetracked though. Is it her? I don't know. I'm just giving you the details what are you gonna do so i thought it was her and then i thought to myself i don't know for sure i put out a note

the next morning and the note said dear venice lurker where'd you put the note i put it on uh like kind of in the small we have like a gated air like it's a little community common area yeah and so i put I put two notes, one on the, below the mailbox. And now I, I was, two notes.

It said the same thing. It said, dear Venice lurker, please stop spying on me and invading, and violating my privacy. Yes. Yes.

And I didn't, I didn't sign it, but I figured like, I'm not, everyone's going to figure out it's me. Yeah. And so I put one in, and I kind of like,

on one side of the unit and the other one I put below on the mailbox. Yeah. And I put it deliberately between two and three because i was certain it's either between the girl who lives in two and the girl who lives in three and then there's a new girl who moved in to four how long has she been there like a month now last night last night i had drinks with some of the people i know it's not yeah and like a game of clue i was just gonna say this feels like clue it was like it was number two with the ipad in her living room like i'm super pissed and thank god my a lot of my neighbors who not like they're all like

everyone's figuring out it's like this little like uh drama in the community because and we're all like everyone knows it's like there's it's between three girls and I know these three girls they all assume that I think it might be them let's bring them all in

for interrogations and figure out last night we're all trying to figure out how do we how do we suss this out my neighbors are all fucking pissed

everyone feels like violated because it's like they in LA you should feel safe they sympathize with me but they also even to their point,

they're just like, now we just live with someone who's kind of a nosy spy. Yeah. And it's just like, it's where I live, you know? Like I have the right to like hang out with friends

or whatever. They're convinced it's the new girl. I'm not so convinced. What's her profile? What do you mean? Like give us a break. She's been nothing but pleasant to me. She's super nice. She has this weird living situation. She mean like what give us a break she she's been nothing but pleasant to me she's super she has this weird living situation she has like what i thought assumed as her boyfriend

her husband but no one really knows for sure and then the girl in three she has a bit of an accent little british accent and apparently there were some things in the note uh on a second note because the people i live with i told them about it So they went on and I guess there's more conversations from Venice Lurker. They did. They're like, deep diving. Like my,

like the guy in one and the guy in six. They're like, they're kind of like into this. They're probably like, oh my God, it's such a crazy story. By the way,

what apartment do you live in? So they went and they did some more recon and we're all like last night having drinks being like, okay, well they said this and this sounds like this person.

And then you should lay a trap. They're figuring out line of sight. Lay a trap that only one. The girl from one came up like I'm working out yesterday morning. The girl from one came out and she's like, hey, did you leave this note? And at first I'm like, is this she deflecting? It was an incredible performance. If it's if it is her incredible performance. If it is her, incredible performance.

It is L.A. She could be an actress. She's not. But if I was guilty and didn't want them to know, it's something I would probably do, being like, hey, how did you do this? What's going on? Great performance, but she is nosy. So it's between one of, it's between.

You have three options? There's three options. And at this point, it could be either. What's the girl in one like? The girl in one is, she's a little nosy, but she's a little nutty, but nice. Nutty? A little nice, but nosy, you know? Single?

Nope, she's married. Married? I want it to be. Age? I don't know. They're all probably in their late 20s early 30s i don't know my money's on the new girl why that's just my gut i feel like i didn't think it was the new girl because it implies in this note that they've been watching me for some time and like what i explained to my

neighbors is like well we've all been here for 18 months and nothing this hasn't happened yet and i said fair but this is the first time we've caught them because this tea was so... And everyone apparently recently, regardless if you've lived in this place for a while, recently people have been wondering if I'm dating Demi. And only recently Demi has come to my place for the first time.

So there was no tea to spill. And I don't have bachelor friends come over very often. Yes. I don't hang out. Well, the case of the Venice Lurker is still open. Please keep us updated. I feel violated. I'm sorry.

We want to figure it out. I'm sorry you felt that way. That's not fun. I deliberately told it on this podcast because now they're inevitably going to talk about it on Reddit, I'm sure. Well, we'll see. And I do know that whoever did it knows I know and wonders. And I just, I'm going to find out. Oh, I bet you will.

But our guest today is fabulous. Just had a baby, brought a newborn baby into the studio. I was like, that is a badass. Had a very fascinating birthing story. Crazy story. I had a lot of fun talking to her. I didn't know what to expect, to be honest. She's very down to earth.

Lovely, down to earth, very chill. You would think maybe given like she was like a Disney star. I didn't know what to expect, to be honest. She's very down to earth. Lovely, down to earth, very chill. Open. You would think maybe given like she was like a Disney star and friends with Ariana Grande. Yeah. And you kind of would like you might presume this person could be slightly not down to earth. Right. But totally down to earth. Yeah.

Sweet. Lovely partner. Not married yeah and you gotta just keep listening for this crazy birth story just a great just a great time another fun easy listen i hope you enjoy it uh thank you for coming thanks for having me this is a cool setup um i know uh it this it wasn't as easy for you to get here uh for those of you don't know uh daniella just had her first child um just not too long ago came on out of me um i will never know what that's like um but we do have a lot of of listeners here who are women um some of which are moms some of which uh may be hopeful to be moms and I thought it might just be a fun conversation to get the perspective of a newborn or a new someone who has a newborn.

I feel like a newborn myself. You do. I want to crawl into a fetal position and cry. I guess let's just start right into that and then we'll kind of backtrack. We'll do this like Pulp Fiction style in terms of but let's just get right into what has it been like to be able to say that and mean it because a lot of people in my life had, you know, just either complications or were sick or just didn't love being, you know, massive. And I just was like, this is cool.

And that can vary, right? Very. And it's all just, but you had a good experience. I had a great experience. I got really lucky. I worked out my entire pregnancy up until literally the day prior to giving birth. Wow. Yeah, I felt myself.

I got really lucky. I slept well. All the rules were broken in terms of my pregnancy. And so I thought, you know what? I want to do this the way that I want to do this. I want to have a natural birth. We were going to do it at home originally. And then in my like eighth month of pregnancy, we decided to renovate basically the entire house. Don't know why.

Oh, my God. I guess like, you know, I took that whole nesting thing to like the hundredth degree where I was like, rip it all out. Start fresh. The king is coming. And then realized, no, we can't have a baby in this house. We have two pit bulls and no bathroom. So, yeah. So then we decided to do it at a birth center.

Okay. With a midwife. Backtracking for a second. Yeah, sure. Just so I, because I'm a guy and I don't know. And for the women who don't, who haven't had babies, one's ability to work out when they're pregnant, that also just varies on how the pregnancy goes.

I mean, I know it's probably maybe recommended ideally, but like some people may not even have the luxury of doing that. Is that true? I don't know. Yeah, of course. If you're like a high risk pregnancy, a lot of those decisions are kind of made up for you and you have to be in a hospital for certain reasons. But I, because I had such a healthy, normal experience, I wanted to do it that way. I wanted to do it all natural, no drugs. I wanted to create the atmosphere. I was all excited about the candles and the music and the crystals and having this experience. And wow, it did not go that way.

So you had this big plan. And then at eight months into pregnancy, you guys decided to remodel. Sure did. Did you decide to remodel for the sake of the birth, which totally backfired? Or was it completely separate? And then you're like, what? Why did we do that? Yeah, completely separate.

It was more or less just us thinking ahead like, oh, well, once we have him, we're probably not going to want to do this then. So let's try and get it all done prior to the baby coming. You say we. My fiance. Your fiance. Okay. Yeah. Baby daddy. Baby, baby, baby daddy. Yeah. He's upgraded. You're not married.

Not married. Okay. We'll dive in. We're bouncing all over the place. All right. So you have birthing center. At what point were you like, okay, I guess what is a birthing center versus a hospital? What's the difference? In reality, it's basically like a hotel room. Essentially, there's a bed and a tub and that's about it. And then you have your midwife and she has some like nursing staff underneath her, but there's really nothing more to the birthing center that we were working with it was just a bed in a tub and you did you enjoy that experience i did not have that experience you didn't go to

the birthing center i never made it to what what happened were you like my friend jade who had a kid in her closet oh god did you hear about that of course i heard of course come on i'm i'm part of bachelor nation over here um what happened so So Friday, the 27th of September, I was in a little bit of a fender bender. While you're pregnant? Yeah, so I had just gotten back from the gym. I was going to get my smoothie, normal thing, whatever, pull into a parking lot,

and I'm stuck in between a couple cars looking for a spot to park, and this guy just backed right into my driver's side door. And so I look over and i see it coming towards me which is the most terrifying feelings you're just like there's a car coming right at my face and i screamed really loud and went into a little bit of shock afterwards and kind of just everything that happened after that happened very quickly i realized oh i'm supposed to give birth in a few days i need to get this car seat in a safe car. My door doesn't close. So I ran and got a

rental car, dropped my car off at the collision place, put in my claim. And then that night, my water broke. So he was, I mean, within reason, we were nine months pregnant at that time, but he was definitely a week or less early. My water broke and the color of the fluids, ready for this one? No, I don't want to know. I'm not going to get too disgusting. Go for it. Listen, I'm going to paint the picture because no one can really see us at this point. Can I guess?

Sure. Blue. I'm just kidding. Well, I would either guess first red because that obviously blood. Only red. Right? Or green? Oh my gosh, you're dead on. green no no it was green it's not

good it's not good apparently i sat in my closet well i was thinking worst case what would green mean like shit is like rotten or dying or diseased so my water broke and believe it or not, I knew it, got out of bed. My fiance woke up and I said, don't worry, my water broke, go back to bed. I went into the closet and I got on my phone and I Googled, what does this green fluid mean? You're giving birth to an alien. Not a lot of information, which is shocking because I was thinking, well, who am I to have green fluid? No one else seems to relate. So I texted my midwife and she was worried very quickly

and basically said you need to naturally induce yourself. So as morning came... Wait. This is a big problem. You need to play doctor. Yes. Well, because we were still trying to take this natural approach. I mean, that's sort of like the midwife's job essentially you're paying for her to like stay

on track with your plan but question in a moment of concern sure what was the concern the concern was and she didn't really explain this to me um full out but she basically alluded to the fact that the baby was under stress and that something happened that triggered him to poop in his womb which is real bad yeah which is not good like toxic i didn't realize how bad that was um but it was bad it's really bad yeah and i've heard since then how what could have happened um anyway so the next morning we went and got castor oil. I'm chugging castor oil, which literally tastes like lip gloss. No. Uh-huh. But why not, just out of curiosity, not like, let's go to the hospital.

It wasn't, I literally would have had it been like recommended at the time, but she was like, we're going to get through this. You're going to have this baby. We're good're good my mom's a neonatal nurse practitioner so this is like hard for me to hear oh i turns out i realized that there's so many opinions that's why i asked my my i for those i have 10 siblings my mom uh her last three kids she had at home with a midwife and and truly loved the experience uh compared to like the intimacy of being at home etc etc at the same time there's sometimes a reason why we do need to go to the hospital but so all right at the time just let's like well you got you you're you're chugging castro yes all right and now go from there. Nothing happened. And she said, you know, it's going to take like two, three, maybe even four hours before you start like major contractions. And so I'm like, okay, I'm going to go for a walk.

I did the whole curbing thing. If nobody knows what curbing is, it's like you go up and down the stair at an angle. So I'm walking through the neighborhood like one foot up on the stair. I would have guessed that it was some sort of sexual reference if we weren't talking about giving birth. But anyway, so you're literally curbing. I'm curbing. You're doing exactly as if it sounds. Sure.

And nothing is happening. I'm on a birthing ball. Nothing's happening. So eventually I send her more pictures of the fluid and she's like, it's getting greener. You need to go to a hospital right now. And that's when things got a little more exciting because we had two choices we could go to cedars where she doesn't have um delivery rights or we could go to whittier and have her deliver the baby very far

whittier she's dying over here it's far i. I don't know where Whittier is. I didn't either, Nick. And now I do. And you went there because? Because she has delivery rights there. She'd seen me like the majority of my pregnancy. And I just felt like from what I've heard about Cedars, great hospital, but just there's a lot of people, a lot of doctors and a lot of births on the regular. And I just thought no one's going to have a relationship with me. I'm going to walk in. They're going to be like, cool, put her in a room we're gonna pop that kid out and there's gonna be no like I don't know okay I have a question I have to ask I want to be respectful of listening everyone in the room yes there's a people are cringing right no I mean clearly I can only imagine the

people listening litany of opinions yeah at the time at what point is there uh if you need to go to the hospital uh why aren't we going to the quickest hospital versus hindsight being 2020 yeah where you sit now yeah would you have done anything differently so i mean everything's fine right okay yeah we'll get there thank god but no i mean yeah i would have loved to have done something a little more convenient because that ride was a little traumatic. I couldn't really feel him moving in me, which is a very bad sign. And I was just trying to be patient. I think like, you know, we're just trying to be smart.

But did you hear she wanted the midwife to deliver the baby? No, I get that. That's what I mean to ask. And so she's like, I don't have birthing rights there. And I'm thinking, what's the priority here? I know i know but i know you can't i'm just asking no no but it's a fair question because knowing what i know now about how extreme the situation was i don't think we would have driven to that would have done things we would have done differently um and again my mom loved the experience. Yeah. She didn't have green coming out of her. Yeah, thanks a lot.

And so I think it's an interesting, and so you ended up having a C-section as you. So yeah, so we get to the hospital and I go into extreme labor because the castor oil kicked in. So I'm laying there. What's extreme labor? It was just like,

it was like zero to a hundred real quick like we started with some contractions they're like you're having them and i was like really oh i felt like i'm having a period this is nothing and this is because you very quickly yeah i chugged so much castor oil it hit me like a ton of bricks i am oily from the inside out i mean casserole is good for your hair apparently and other things if you ever have issues going to the restroom apparently oh no yeah so so you're regular no actually but this is another fun story with c-sections um god almighty it's great you guys honestly babies are incredible miracles so yeah i'm in extreme labor for four hours. No one could handle it.

My family and my fiance were just like, really in agony watching me. And I didn't want to do drugs. And that was, you know, my ego got in the way for a little while. I thought like, what meant to be strong was to do it, you know, as naturally and as safely for the baby as possible. And in reality, like, I kind of had to give up control. They didn't like that my heart rate was skyrocketing, his heart rate was dropping, he was had the cord wrapped around his neck. So that was a little much as well. And so eventually, they gave me an epidural to calm me down, in hopes that I would open up, nothing happened. And then they said, if nothing happens in the next like 30 minutes,

you have to have an emergency C-section. And that's exactly what happened. The doctor was there like on the 30 to be, he literally walked in and was like, here's your hat and here's your gown and rolled me in within like seconds. And I think in the next like 15 minutes, he was born.

How are you feeling at that? It was, you know what? I felt so safe. And let me tell you, I'm someone, I've been vegan for 20 years, okay? I don't think I've ever ingested medication. I've never really done drugs. I don't really drink. Like I'm pretty much as natural as it gets.

I walked into that hospital like someone who hasn't been to church in their entire life and just was like, I'm not supposed to be here. You guys don't like me. And I really want you to take care of me and my baby. Can you help? Why do you feel that way? What does it mean in terms of like, I mean, I don't know what it means to be vegan. I know, again, my sister is a holistic nutritionist and I don't want to get into the whole Western medicine versus Eastern medicine,

but does it have to be mutually exclusive in terms of trying to be as all natural as possible and not thinking as doctors in hospitals as some sort of like negative thing in a way that can't help? No, I think that I was lucky and fortunate enough that i've been healthy and i've never had to like you know utilize those resources um but i by all means look at it completely differently now i really feel like i they saved you know my baby's life and i'm indebted

to and i i had a great experience in terms of a hospital experience. Granted, I'm terrified of needles and I have a little bit of nerve damage in my hand. But aside from that, you know, in reality, all of it was a relatively quick and easy experience. And they took really good care of us and they acted incredibly fast. And that's all that mattered. I mean, I'm very happy to hear that. And I'm glad you're able to now talk about it. And it's interesting because I think a lot can, it's such an interesting story is so much can be taken from that experience in

terms of expectations versus reality, being able to adjust your expectations given circumstances, having a different perspective about things, especially if it's counter to literally your entire adult life. And even before that, I mean, what did you say, you're 30? 30, yeah. So since you were 10, you were a vegan?

You're literally entire life. Yeah. And yeah, that's so much can be taken away from that. Next time you get pregnant, if you decide do you want to get pregnant? What do you think? Would you still want to go back to the original plan and hope that you don't get in a car accident day before?

Or are you just going to go full hospital? What, what, uh, some things, what would you do as you sit here now? Yeah. Um, I think where I stand now is I would probably go through with a C-section again. Is it a first option? Yeah. Really? Yeah.

And do some people do that? I honestly don't know that. It's kind of, they say that if you've had a C-section once, like it's pretty hard to give a natural birth afterwards. It's possible, but not. I'm not a doctor.

They just say, yeah, it's kind of like you can but i feel like given the the experience i had and the fact that i didn't dilate with the castor oil and epidural and everything else it just to me i i don't even want to risk it you know i want a healthy baby and i think i have to just put my agenda aside and rely on medicine. When you say agenda, I thought that's interesting. What do you mean by that? Well, I mean, like I said, I wanted this experience. I thought that we could do it exactly as I had planned, and I was open to the idea of

things going wrong, but based on my pregnancy being as healthy and easy as it was, I just didn't think that I was gonna veer off so quickly and so extreme. Like, I mean, some people say, well, yeah, my baby's cord was wrapped around their head. You know, you kind of don't get it all. I had the meconium, I had, you know, his heart rate almost nearly flat lining at one point, like the cord wrapped around the head and then to end up in a C-section. So it was kind of all of it at once. I think at this point,

I would just probably skip to the end. Interesting. Do you think this whole, I mean, this is such a traumatic and defining experience. And I feel like there's so many layers of things that could change you as a person. Oh, changed forever. traumatic and defining experience and i feel like there's so many layers of of things you sure that could change you as a person oh changed how do you think you will be as a mother now having to have this happen versus what type of mother you would have been i'm sure a great

mother regardless had it gone the way you had planned originally i feel like i well we my partner and i like really earned him it was a an experience that brought us so close together and it made me it makes me look at him and my baby in a totally different light like we are so present and um i don't know it's yeah i think it is different i think it is different do I think it is different. Because you strike me as someone prior to this experience as someone who's very goal-oriented, knows what she wants, is able to go after it, has an identity in some of the things that you do. You're very proud of it.

I love when you do this, by the way. When I listen to his show and he like starts to diagnose people makes me so excited. I'm like wow you are so dead on. Is that how accurate? Yeah. Yeah very.

And I feel like this experience would loosen all that up so to speak. If you were like a person who is like this kind of very put together everything

and it looks really good and just really nice. I feel like this experience is kind of like put it all in a bag and shook it up a little bit and then you almost kind of have to put it back together somewhat yeah and and it might it's not going to go back together exactly the way it was before and that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad thing i mean the first week i i was like don't worry about the dishes not like me okay i know that's a small

example but i was like don't even worry about the dishes don't even look at them let them pile up i don't care and then another thing is like we always wipe the shower doors when we're done no i'm not gonna wipe the shower doors you could leave those water spots all day long little things like that laundry piled up i just was so focused on like being present and not caring about the things that I thought mattered. The first thing I said was like, my priorities have shifted so much. You know, I used to be the kind of person that woke up and set my own schedule. I'm kind of like self-employed right now. So it's like, I really had to be on my game and, you know, get my emails done, make my phone calls calls like it's a different world now like

it is a completely different world and things that i thought mattered just don't as much anymore i mean that's really fascinating how this one experience well and then thank god obviously everything worked out um but uh yeah i mean you know how people joke about like helicopter moms or soccer moms or the overbearing and again being like my parents talk about, you know how people joke about like helicopter moms or soccer moms or the overbearing. And again, being like, my parents talk about how, you know, they have 11 kids and how they parent versus like the first couple versus now, like every parent. And then I get it, right? It's your first kid. It's like, oh my God, I gave life to this thing. I don't want to fuck it up. And you're just like, oh, everything is so so intense and meaningful and you're just so hands-on.

And yet this even experience, having being a first-time mother, that alone has made me like, does this moment matter? Like in this moment, are we fine? Like, is everybody fine? Because you've already faced literally a potential life or death situation with your child. And thank God everything worked out.

And it really comes down to like, is this life or death and are we fine and it's such a fascinating thing to to uh to experience you know it sure is and it didn't just change me it changed um andrew my fiance like we had to look at things so differently for so many years he's worked so hard in industries that just didn't like feed his soul and um i don't relate to that because i've always been lucky enough to like follow my own dreams and and kind of like run my own show essentially and it forced us to like have those bigger conversations like what is life like we are grownups and we have responsibilities, but in reality, like who are we living for and why are we doing the things that we do

and can we do it differently? That's really interesting. So now let's backtrack. Let's do it. We've talked about the past. So you are engaged. Yeah. And you have a child.

Yeah. So you're not married. Not married. That's something who, someone who is the planner that you were and you strike me as someone who at an early age, young 16 year old Danielle, had like sheep, I bet you there's a book out there

that you've made about how my life's gonna play out. Did you imagine- There's a list or two. Did you imagine you'd get pregnant from someone you weren't married by? Absolutely. You thought you would? Yeah from someone you weren't married by? Absolutely. You thought you would?

Yeah. That was part of your plan? That was part of my plan. Great. Did I surprise you? Yes. I think that's great. But I'm curious as to why. I don't think it's fine either way.

Why? What made you go, I want to do this? Yeah. Well, I always knew that I wanted kids. I never, in a weird way, I always saw myself with kids. I didn't know that I was going to ever be with someone. Oh, interesting. Yeah, it's interesting.

I always thought it was challenging. I worked as a child actor, you know, teen actor, adult actor. And I didn't really always have like the same experiences people my age did. I didn't go to high school, college, things like that, where you kind of like mold into that person who has experiences, dates and so on and so forth. And so it wasn't really a priority of mine. I was really focused on like working. And so I kind of always put dating and stuff like that to the side, dabbled, but not enough for me to like really, you know, have too many experiences. So for me, I was me i was like i'm gonna be a mom but i don't know about the rest and um when yeah interesting i think i mean i'm

kind of like that now yeah but like yeah you were like that as an editor yeah an early age yeah but yeah i'm more like that it's like i'm open to it but like i just want to have a kid yeah i want not a kid but sure i mean and again ideally i will have like the with a partner but it's more about prioritizing we've talked about this before like that's the one and before like when i was younger it was like now i want to have a date and then getting married and then have a wedding in a church and then we'll have kids so you've kind of changed your tune a little bit. Because I feel like I've heard you talk about like how in your family or it's more traditional. Yes.

My family is traditional. We've become less traditional. But that's, I mean, it's still traditional. Yeah. I mean, there's 11 kids. I grew up around priests and nuns. And we said the rosary as a family. You know, we had priests come to our house for confession.

Oh my goodness. And again, I've talked about this before, but within that very dogmatic and very strict Catholic household, my parents were also chill and open-minded and understanding and they've become far more progressive. Awesome.

I mean, if you look at, again, my brothers and sisters and their life choices, if you would have told my parents what their kids would be, nothing's fine. It's all, no one's been married by a Catholic priest. You know, my brother's divorced, et cetera. All these things that would be like, oh my God, our kids are going to burn in hell. It's all fine. Yeah.

Everyone's fine. But that's interesting that at an early age that you... Yeah. And do you think that's as a result of growing up? You grew up in LA? Yeah, I did. And certainly less traditional than the kind of Midwest upbringing I had. Do you think that played a role into it?

Not necessarily because my family was a little similar to yours. Okay. Yeah. Catholic, Italian, you know. Oh, your town. Yeah. Okay, yeah. So you know how it is.

Like my grandma was... Italians are very traditional. Very traditional. I was in H1. And still to still to this day okay so you get it yes yes you were yes you were uh very very traditional yes and i so hear her on a lot of those things because i'm like i i get it my family was always very not necessarily pushy but definitely instilled those values and reinforced them throughout the years but they weren't strong enough did you feel a lot of guilt from your family growing up if you didn't abide by tradition i i don't know what is wrong with me i feel like i sound like quite the

rebel but it didn't really like land with me too much it just didn't i i knew in my heart like i was a good person and that i was going gonna make good choices and i didn't need to follow the their rules or you know whatever i felt like they lived by wow so okay you didn't you didn't need to be married and then you met yeah i met andrew yeah this was about almost nine years nine years ago yeah uh you've been dating for nine years yeah when did you get engaged um about two and a half years ago almost three years ago and is this length of time because who is it just mutual you guys just kind of slow a slow burn not in a rush like it's it's unique that you guys for so long but at the same time you could argue argue, well, yeah, we love each other. We met at such an early age. Why are we in a rush? You could argue it's a very

healthy approach to meeting young. Sure. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I didn't realize how young I was at the time. Now looking back, I'm like, wow, this is right. You're like, wow, the oldest I've ever been. Yeah, this is the oldest I've ever been. Turns out. Yeah. Every age. Yeah. I'm super old. I've never been 21 before. No one realizes they're young. Yeah, that's so true. And I thought I had it all figured out. I am so different than I was even just two years ago, let alone nine years ago. So, no, I mean, we both came from, you know, broken families, actually.

So we had very similar situations, family dynamics. And I think when we both spoke about what the future looked like for us, marriage didn't need to be a part of it. And it wasn't something we put pressure on because we didn't really see a really good example of a healthy marriage. And I didn't think that that was what made you a successful relationship. Interesting. What made you guys want to get engaged then? I mean, why'd you go from,

we love each other, we don't need this. And again, like if you asked me right now, do I want to get married? I'd say sure. Right. But it's not like- It's not a hard yes or no. I have to.

It's more about meeting the right person. And if she really wants to, great. But if she also was like, for some reason, didn't want to, I'd be like, but do you want to be like, are we committed to each other? Yeah. What changed though?

Something, you know, you guys were in this, like we don't need to be married, but we love each other. You know, I hate to say this cause it's not usually who I am, but I did have a social pressure put on me by other people and family and

friends. And the people in my circle of friends were all sort of accelerating very quickly. And we were actually, and even to be in LA in our young or late 20s, early 30s to not have kids, my friends actually were already on that track, like first kid, second kid, now some of them are on their third kids. kid second kid now some of them are on their third kids so we were feeling a little bit of those pressures and i knew for a fact that marriage wasn't totally on the table and not like like i said no pressure put on that but being that i've grown up a role model for a lot of kids i thought that making a commitment that sort of met those like social standards was important. So much pressure. It is a lot of pressure. And also like you have a large following.

Yeah. Do you, did you feel pressure from them? I did. And the responsibility you maybe felt like you had or, or being not judged or judged by them? Yeah, I did. I'm not going to lie. I did. being not judged or judged yeah them yeah i did i'm not gonna lie i did i i really care about

being like what i call like a big sister figure because i've played a big sister on tv for so many years and i felt like people looked up to to me and also to our relationship and i've been pretty transparent throughout everything i mean thicker, highs and lows. So, getting engaged in a weird way, like it was so exciting. I'm not going to lie. I did not think that I was going to feel the way that I felt when it happened. I didn't see it coming, but it had been something we talked about. But I think a very, yeah, like a good percentage of that did come from a little bit of like the social pressures yeah it's interesting hearing your story because first you explain why maybe you didn't want to be traditional and get engaged

and one could argue maybe it was a projection of your upbringing and kind of like well i experienced this kind of broken home and so you're kind of going against the grain there only to like feel the pressure from another side to do it. As it turns out, it felt right. And it was a great experience. It was magical. Did you learn from that in terms of like, not projecting one way or the other and maybe just doing what feels right in the moment

it seemed to has so far all worked out but it's very honest of you to admit maybe what the genesis of the decision making skill that the decisions were yeah i think i've definitely become more open to all of it i mean i'm someone who is a complete hopeless romantic i go to weddings and before anyone even speaks i'm crying crying. So I am 100% in love with the idea of love. I just try to loosely define that. So if at some point we decide that we want to just get hitched and have this experience, like by all means, I'm not going to stand in my own way, but it's just not something we put a lot of pressure on. I want everything to feel very like fluid and organic.

What's your favorite moment at a wedding? Oh, gosh. I mean, obviously, I love to look at the guy's face when the woman walks down or the guy walks down or the woman walks down and the woman standing there. Definitely for me when the doors open and the bride, the big reveal. You look at the bride? You look back? If I'm being honest, the weddings I've been to, that's a very emotional moment. It sure is. I always get choked up. And I'm not at him i'm looking at her and i get walked out and i'm

like every time it's like oh fuck she's like biting my lot in my inner lip i'm like don't be a pussy um i guess you're usually on the groomsmen so you're you can see her yeah yeah you've been a lot of you've been a lot of grooms yeah or i mean i've been a i'm i've also just been in the pews yeah and stuff but do you ever look back at the guy after or does it not register to look back uh because that part is pretty special i mean depending on the human but i i always remember that like i if i had to pick a favorite moment for a wedding it would be that that you know that everyone walks in the people in the ready party and then like it's just that moment that people stand up and it's just like yeah she's really doing it um oh no not in a bad way it's just like it's a really heartfelt moment

and it's kind of like i've the assumption is everyone's happy in that moment the lead up to that um so i guess they're pretty magical weddings are just something that you can't really put your finger on have you guys set a date no after that whole conversation no we haven't you haven't do you feel pressure that you haven't you don't no not at all in fact i actually feel so much more confident where we are do you get asked that a lot yeah i've been engaged twice and one before the show, one obviously with Vanessa that people know about. I never, you know, Vanessa's was obviously so unique because obviously it was from the

show and obviously the, listen, the feelings were always real. But I think Vanessa and I would both agree that had we not met in the show, we wouldn't have been engaged in eight weeks. I mean, I'm fine with saying that. And the first one was, again, very immature. I've never set a date. I've been engaged twice. I've never planned a wedding.

You get asked, if you're engaged, have you set a date? And it's always like, every time someone asks me if I've set a date in the brief times I was engaged, I was like, no, why should I? I felt so judged. And I'm curious if you get asked that a lot, not only by your friends and family, but the people who follow you. Oh, yeah. And it's so funny because I feel like my friends and family get it finally, like it's been long enough and I've had to say it a few times, but they get it. It's actually the people who follow me that I want to set the record straight for,

that I want to be really like clear and concise about, like, this is not a reflection of our relationship. You know, we are so in this and more than ever, you know, and feel so proud of what we've accomplished and who we are together. But the marriage piece is a separate thought that I feel like a lot of people, they want to almost like discount what you have based on the fact that you're not like a complete entity together, like you're not married. So that piece is, it's kind of just like rebuilding the stigma, but I have no problem, you know, speaking up about it. That can be tough to do. I mean i mean again sometimes even when we give advice on the show people will act well i've been together with a guy for four years and if someone asked me why i

would be like well well explain the situation to me you know and everyone is different for you you guys are saying mutually that's not a huge deal for us so that's not a problem um and so it's kind of interesting in that situation everything everything's different yeah i mean you guys have been together for so long i always get asked questions in terms of for young couples who have met early they've met in their early 20s they stay together did you guys ever break up no you've never broken up all right so you've never broken up um we've had moments that have been hard or challenging. You seem, I don't know you very well. I met Andrew briefly.

Andrew's here. Being the watchful, holding the child. You seem like a young, hot, fun couple. So the spice is still there. How have you guys been able to do that in what has been a very long relationship? Oh my gosh. I don't know, but I am the kind of person that when I did date i was very quick to get in and out of things i never boyfriended anyone ever i was always the person that dated for maybe you never wanted to define it never i was i was so much more of like

i'll go out on a date and you know we can we can like maybe hook up, but I'm like not in this. When you say maybe hook up. Yeah, whatever. Okay. My fiance's in the other room. I'll have a good time, but no one was ever like on that level for me, at least. And I hate to even admit this because I feel really guilty about it, but I wasn't the best person to date back then. I just felt like I just kind of like got in, got out,

was like, sorry, it's not you, it's me. Why do you think you weren't? I mean, you're like 21, 22 at this point. Why do you mean that you weren't the best person to date? I don't know. I just wasn't like, you know. Maybe you weren't the best person to be in a relationship with.

Sure, more or less that, yeah. I think I just was more concerned with, you know, my lifestyle and work and didn't consider people's feelings as much. I'm a much better communicator now. When you say don't consider people's feelings. So take me back to the people you were dating and then maybe you were intimate, maybe you weren't. Would you lie about your feelings about? No, no. I just was, I was like the kind of person, you know, when it's like new, you're flirty, you're dating, you're cute. It's all fun and dandy. You're back and forth.

And then out of nowhere, I just ghost. Oh, you would ghost? Yeah, I would usually just ghost. That was my go-to. You were ghosting before it was even. I was a ghoster before it was a thing. Yeah, eight years ago. I don't know if ghosting was as possible.

Yep, I just ghosted. You would just, and they would be like, as possible yep i just ghosted you would just and they would be like hey what's up and yeah oh yeah i know i know but that was then i mean listen it's good that you know yeah yeah that you know what was so special about andrew that made you go this is the guy i'm not gonna ghost i want i wanted to find kind of the relationship so we were set up by a friend um a friend who i was yeah like close with but wasn't as nearly close as you would think i mean she nailed it when she introduced us but um he was just different he's very smart and logical he's not from la he's from up north and i swear to you people yeah northern california

pretty much anywhere outside of la there's a different breed of human out there. That's really awesome. And I just was so attracted to like his personality and his like calming demeanor and not trying to be the life of the party or the person that stood out in the room. And that's not as common out here. A lot of people are trying to prove themselves. And, you know, yeah, I'm like one foot in the entertainment industry and one foot very much out. So for me, he spoke to like my roots and like my core and just that realism.

That's awesome. Was he someone who also didn't feel the stress of defining a relationship? Yeah, and I don't think we really knew that until we were a little further in and realized like, I'm not really putting pressure on anything. You're not really putting pressure on anything. Like, where do we lie? Like, what is important to us? I just feel like, yeah, just hearing your story, it would make sense to me that you were maybe the first one to even bring it up versus him. And before it was every other guy was like,

what are we? We're hot. You know, I like you. And he was like what are we you're hot you know i like you and he was like yeah yeah i think it was a different take for him what's going on yeah he actually had that conversation a couple times where i was like are you is this a reflection of me like is there something wrong and i'm like absolutely not this is me saying let's not like taint what we have this is so great well i that's the thing. You find someone who kind of balances you out and helps you not feel the need to kind of project some of your insecurities

and it seems like you guys have a good match that way. Yeah. That's fun. What are some of the, like again, just keeping it spicy and hot for long-term relationships.

Some people, I know we give a lot of people who are young who are in relationships that keeping it fresh and hot is a know we give a lot of people who are young, who are in relationships that keeping it fresh and hot is a question we get a lot and that I get a lot in terms of people in relationships, whether it's their sex life, whether it's on a day-to-day basis, what are the things that you guys do?

Gosh, that's a great question. Cause yeah, on paper, well that, yeah, which is, oh is oh god or even now that was another thing i didn't really pay attention to in the hospital they're like you can't drive and you also can't have sex for six weeks i didn't hear either of those two things you were trying the next day of those what about during the pregnancy were you guys still hooking up yeah we were it was so annoying towards the end i'm not gonna lie it was just like annoying like who initiated it more i don't know i feel like i was doing that just to feel like a human being again but then i can still do this but like my goodness let me be real that was not it was not what i envisioned in my

head i'm like shoot now we're midway through gotta finish the job is it like sex in the shower the idea is actually better than the actual practice of it million percent and then you just feel like you accomplish so much after you're just like wow we're good for like a solid week let's like ride that one out it's like we did that but to be honest it wasn't that great in the moment the best part is is you know towards the end of your pregnancy they'll say like well you should have sex like have a lot of sex and i'm like for real like how it does that work so yeah it's been a minute how does it work yeah it's you know when a man and a woman he's like get me out of here i know poor guy that is great all right but no in terms of keeping it spicy like it it's funny. You, you evolve as human beings. Like what would have been like hot and fresh and cool,

like four years ago is now like, let's watch BIP and like, you know, get a little frisky after, like, it's so exciting to have some strawberries dipped in chocolate, make some pasta. Like it's a good night.

So you guys have, is it safe to say you've grown with each other? You're both different people. Absolutely. I mean, both different people. Absolutely. I mean, tremendously different people. Some people don't, they're afraid of changing. And then one person grows, the other person feels like, well, if you grow, then we're different and that's not okay.

I think we've done that like kind of like at different levels, but we've always sort of met and it's always meshed somehow. I don't know. I literally looked at him the other day and was like, I'm just so glad I still still like you like that matters so much to me because that's always been a fear of mine you know when you're dating and you're just like oh i loved like texting them and i couldn't wait to see them yesterday and today it's a little different he's a good looking guy i mean you know he's hot um so yeah i get it he's good well before we let you go we're gonna play our little game do you know me yes which I know you are familiar with

yes so I won't have to explain to you yeah so I love it she listens to our podcast and now she's a guest no I feel like we could talk to you

for like 10 more hours oh I love that I want to know about you being an entrepreneur too before we go because it's really impressive that was a whole nother door all right

do you know me everyone knows what do you Know Me is all about. Our fun little game. I picked out the questions. Nick's not a creep. That your friend made. It's on Amazon. She really listens to the end.

Little questions go a long way. Rochelle did pick out these questions. I don't know what they are. So for those listening, don't judge me. Question number one. Does Daniela believe in zodiac signs? Oh, yeah. Yeah, she mentioned crystals earlier.

Yeah. Strong yes. Okay, can I answer? Born in LA. She knows her rising and her setting are blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Nope, don't follow them at all. Really? Wow.

Not at all in fact when geo was born they were like oh did you wait he's a libra oh man i don't even remember now but they were like did you know you like you yeah what day was he born the 28th of september we have the same birthday no me and your child oh my gosh apparently you guys are like good peeps yeah it's like a balance everyone says oh my gosh you're you're very like good peeps. It's like a balance. Everyone says, oh my gosh, you're very balanced. There is a horoscope one. It's like four birthdays. It's specific to the day you were born.

Yeah. And I gotta say. It's a good one. Very specific. And I was like, wow, interesting. Wow, I'm gonna have to read it. I'll send it to you. That's so cool.

Wow, this is good. We have the same birthday. I love that. I mean, his life will be pretty good it won't be amazing don't get me wrong he'll probably overthink if everyone listening could see where Nick's sitting there's literally the entire view of LA

behind him and he's sitting in a throne with like a coffee the size of my head he'll have nothing to complain about but he still will okay perfect okay that's fair me too and that's what perpetuates things the size of my head. He'll have nothing to complain about, but he still will. Okay, perfect. Okay, that's fair. Me too. And that's what perpetuates

things forward, right? You gotta find a problem with something. There won't be a reason why he might be miserable at any given moment, but you know what? Sometimes.

What's so funny is he grunts on the daily. This kid is two weeks old. He cannot speak, but he literally is audible all day long. He's like, ugh. We just die. We we're like what is

that so anyway i mean i can't explain that okay can daniella play an instrument i don't know this because i i did look at some of your tubes but i know you know erina grande and i know that you were a nickelodeon you were a nickelodeon so at minimum you can sing that much i know and i think a voice is a musical instrument so i'm gonna say yes to that regard and also i'm guessing you can play something i'm saying no i'm saying she did not have time she was working every minute of her childhood she can sing though do you agree there or saying that it's not an instrument i'm gonna say yeah i'm gonna say she can sing but she doesn't play okay what is it you guys are both wrong um i can't sing at all

how'd you get a nickelodeon what's kind of special you're gonna die i had to sing for the i had to sing for every i tested for hannah montana had to sing for that i don't know how i got that far then victoria's came along had to sing for that don't know how i got that far but then they ended up making my character someone who could not sing what was your like special trick you know like what was your thing what was your story with my personality great no i still don't know to this day that's amazing great but yeah no no fun talents for me it's actually more of a talent to be cast in a nickelodeon or being a disney without being able to sing is like the best was signing the record deal and i knew that i could not offer anything i would get into the recording studio and everyone would look at me like oh poor girl and i just was like this is it uh just a reminder i didn't pick these questions

has daniella ever played strip poker oh that's a good question i feel like you know she's in the la scene growing up a lot of crazy things probably happened yes that's a great guess and i want to agree with you she's non-traditional but she likes the idea of things especially when she was younger i think she would have taken great pride in not being the LA girl who plays strip poker. So I'm gonna say no. You are correct. Is my reasoning correct?

Your reasoning's dead on. That's why your life's so great now. You didn't blow it all up when you were a baby. I saw a lot of things happening around me. I just was like. I bet you've seen Titanic, but I bet like you're kind of the person who had they not would take great pride

in reminding people they've never seen Titanic. Oh, interesting. You know what I'm saying? That person who has, yeah, sure, sure. No, I've never done that. Yeah, that's pretty much me.

I'm different. No, Nick, don't be so good at things. Oh, yeah. Anyways. Does Daniela have a GoPro? interesting she is a an influencer she's a youtube star she has a following she has does he have a gopro yeah you gotta have a lot of tools in your toolkit true when you're making videos i'm gonna say no for the fun of it because it could go either way yeah i'm gonna no. It kind of goes either way.

I went and bought one and then lent it to someone and never got it back. See, that's what I would... I mean, I've used a GoPro. I don't have a GoPro. Yeah. And I feel like GoPro is more of like she's the surfer adventurous person who's outdoorsy. Yeah. It's the person I want to be, but it wasn't the person I was.

I should have said that. Yeah. It's all right. Next time. Does Daniela, final question, currently have flight booked somewhere? Oh, I would say normally, yes. But she just had a child. Oh, that's good.

I'm going to say no. But typically, I would say more often. I feel like she has a flight booked for like next summer. Good question. That's a good point. I'm thinking for myself, who doesn't book flights more than a week in advance and you definitely are a planner.

Yeah, no, you've changed my mind. I'm going to say- Like she's got an assistant that's booked a flight for her. There's a flight. Yes, there's a flight booked. Yes. Oh my gosh, there's almost a flight booked. It's almost.

You should have stuck to your guns. The hotel is booked. Oh, where at? Mexico. a flight booked. It's almost. You should have stuck to your guns. The hotel is booked. Oh, where at? Mexico. Fun, fun. I know. It was the one place that I wanted to go my entire pregnancy and you're not allowed to.

You're not. Yeah, Zika, right? Yeah. So it's the first place I want to visit. Fun. Yeah. Did you go on a baby moon? We did, yeah.

We actually just went local to Palm Springs. Cute. Yeah. Wonderful. We have a few minutes. Let's talk about what you're currently doing now. You being the successful entrepreneur that you are. Thank you. What is that? Wow.

And let's give us a little insight into who you are and what you're doing. doing? Okay. So, you know, I've acted for a long time and, you know, with some of that money that I made, I wanted to be smart and make ethical choices. And so I invested in a few different companies. The first one was Outstanding Foods and we came out with pig out chips that are plant based bacon chips. We're in a thousand stores nationwide, over a thousand stores as of now. Yeah. So that one's killing it. So delicious. Ching, ching. Yeah. What do you mean by plant-based bacon? So they're actually derived from mushrooms.

And- Why do they call it bacon? Because they taste like bacon. Yum. And there's no pigs harmed in the making. Fair enough. Yeah. And then, so that one's been really cool.

We've got so many amazing investors involved. We've got Rob Dyrdek and all kinds of incredible, really strategic people. What are they called again? They're called Outstanding Foods is the company. And then the chips are Pig Out Chips. They're called Pig Out Chips. And there's a new chip coming out that are pork rinds that are insane. And they have a ton of protein as well,

which I know a lot of people are going to care about. And the flavors are just insane. There's one that's very spicy. Have you tried these in Incredible Burger or the- Impossible Burger. Impossible Burger. Yeah. You're a big fan?

You know what? For the longest time, I wasn't into fake meats because I just didn't need them. But yeah, I actually really dig the Impossible Burger. I did a blind taste test. Yeah. I'm a big meat eater. I'm just going to put it up. I've heard taste test. Yeah. I'm a big meat eater. I'm just gonna put it up.

Okay, I've heard you before, yep. I'm feeling judged, but. I took a blind taste test. I did guess correctly, but I gotta say, it was impressive. It is, right? It wasn't, the texture and like, it tasted like, and even the texture, like an incredibly seasoned burger.

But I could tell. You could tell. But it was still very impressive. Would you go for it if it was on the menu? Or would you go for the alternative animal one? I would probably disappoint you. Okay. Fair enough.

You know what? I appreciate the honesty. Yeah. What else? That was like my first real dive into investing in a company and then having some success which was really um lucky and then uh shortly after that i invested in a restaurant called sugar taco on melrose jessica hall who was yeah yeah yeah it's like a really cool group of just women in the sort of like entrepreneurial, but also

influencer space that are trying to do good with their name and likeness. And that restaurant's killing it and delicious. If you haven't been, we will hook you up. It's so good. It's right down the street. We should go. Yeah. And it's vegan.

All vegan. Yeah. And it's so awesome. Gives me anxiety. No, Nick, I'm telling you, it's not. It's so good. I have taken many meat eaters that are blown away. I'm not just saying that.

And so, you know, I would say that one's like everyone is going to love it. It's a crowd pleaser. And then the one that kind of takes up the most of my time is Kinder Beauty, which is a vegan beauty subscription box, which is a monthly subscription box of all vegan, crueltyfree clean products for 24 a month and we give at least 72 we've had boxes that are 160 worth of products so we curate these luxury boxes and we do it at a discount because our whole goal and my whole goal moving forward is just making a plant-based lifestyle more accessible and trying to make that cost efficient and easy to access and fun, delicious. That's really awesome. And then finally, I know you still are on YouTube and you have your

Instagram presence and you make these videos. Why would someone want to tune in and check out what you have and learn from some of the things that you're doing? Thank you. I don't know. I just feel like I'm a real person. And a lot of people have grown up sort of watching me. And even if they haven't, I'm always open to sharing my life experiences. I try to learn from them.

And I try to sort of like, you know, shed light on things as I go. You know, Andrew and i are going to be doing this podcast called adulting like a mother mother father um and we're trying to figure out this really awesome new chapter together in our most tired state so that's going to be interesting i've never actually worked with andrew and so this should be a fun little good luck with that thank you uh and sure it'll be fine uh and that's coming out in january yeah actually no we're gonna be launching in november now in november yeah i guess that's a fun little push that i just found out about oh cool

congratulations on that and then i would be remissed if i didn't ask you being the giant bachelor fan that you are thoughts on peter Peter as a bachelor? Oh, gosh. I wish you didn't ask me that. Disappointed. No, we expect full honesty and transparency. Yeah. I don't know you guys. Sweetest little thing.

Yeah. Sweetest little doll face. I don't think it's as sweet in a good way as people think. I hope so. Listen, I've always been blown away by choices in the past that I wasn't like a complete excited about. So, you know what? I'm all for it.

I just think like I want to know more and I want him to be. Hopefully we'll find out. Yeah. Who would have been your choice? Gosh, you know, I wasn't like I wasn't pulling for anyone. I think at first I thought Mike would have been cool. But after he's asking out everyone on TV, maybe not so much. No, he's not.

But he's a cutie. You know what? Let him have his moment. Let them all have their moment. It was a strong moment. It was a strong moment. He went for it. I was impressed.

I love Kiki, by the way. I think she's a doll. I think they should, you know what? Go on a date. Yeah, but maybe like ask her. I'll swear. He said he was just kidding around. That's what you say when they don't respond.

I'm totally joking. Unless you want to, then I'm dead serious. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But yeah, no, I'm down. Let's watch. It'll be fun. Yes.

I think it's going to be great. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for coming. It's been a lot of fun. Very interesting. Best of luck to you and your family and your ongoing endeavors and your podcast coming up it sounds like a very interesting topic where can people just find you specifically yeah my name daniella monet on on pretty much everything pretty much everything yeah instagram mostly is where i spend more of my time awesome

yeah well thanks again it's been a ton of fun. Once again, best of luck. Listeners, as always, thanks for tuning in. We appreciate it. Don't forget to send us in your questions for Monday's Ask Nick at asknickatcastmedia.com.

And give him five stars. Yes. Thank you. Wow. She's a real listener. A real stan. Yeah. Wow.

I'm impressed. I really appreciate it. Give us five stars because Daniela said so. Yeah. Not because I really appreciate it. Give us five stars because Daniela said so. Yeah. Not because I pandered and begged for your validation. It's been a lot of fun.

I really appreciate it. Yeah. Good time. Thanks for tuning in, guys. Have a great day. We will see you on Monday.