Wild2Mild Podcast - Ep 21. Festive Magic, Vision Boards & Industry Tea

Episode Date: December 7, 2025

Email us 💕The girls kick off by sharing their Christmas traditions, from the cute to the chaotic. Nicole confesses she still pretends Santa is real for the sake of the magic, while Bethan explains why her family ditched the pressure of cooking altogether and is spending Christmas Day eating, laughing, and making memories at their favourite restaurant. They reflect on how these little traditions shape who they are, what they value and why the holiday season feels different as adults.With the new year creeping closer, the girls reveal they have been doing their 2026 vision boards - what they’re manifesting, the goals they’re boldly claiming and the shifts they want to make in their personal lives, careers, and friendships. Expect big dreams, bigger laughs and a few heartfelt moments as they talk about entering a new era with intention.But of course, it wouldn’t be Wild2Mild without a bit of real talk. Nicole and Bethan open up about an event they recently attended that left them absolutely gobsmacked. They dive into the sometimes messy reality of the influencer world, chatting about the bad reputations certain creators bring to the industry, the behaviour they witnessed that shocked them and why professionalism and kindness still matter.It’s a cosy, candid, feel-good episode - full of festive nostalgia, future planning, and honest conversations.Tune in for the laughs, stay for the warmth. 🎙️❤️

Welcome to the Wildemile podcast with your host, Beth and Kishol and your host, Nicole O'Brien. Oh my God, me, it's Merry Christmas. Mary Grizzly. What's Chrysler? Grizzler. Isn't it in a movie? I thought that was a call. Chrysler.

Is it not? I don't know. Everyone says Mary Chrysler. Is that an Irish thing? I don't know. I feel like it's from a movie or something. I think I've heard it, but I don't know if I've heard it. I don't know where I've heard it from.

Yeah, Mary Chrysler. Mary Chrysler. Wait, I need to figure out what movie that's from, because it is from a movie. yeah but we're in the very festive mood we got our pajamas on if you can see yeah we've got we are literally wife's like we were just sitting there the other night thinking about it right um they were full on wives no we're in a relationship like engaged yeah yesterday i came um i was in town and beth and texting me she's like right don't be alarmed but i've rejected the whole house yeah i've done everything and i was thinking i was a little

housewife as a little housemaid and I was like oh my god are you serious she was like yeah so everything is like in these drawers don't be alarmed I'm gonna send you a video and then she sent me the video and I actually had tears in my eyes I was like this woman do you know what she is my wife do you know what though I always used to think when I was when I was very very depressed right like a couple years ago I always used to think I just needed a little bit of help around the house and I know it's my mess and it was I live on my own so it was literally my mess but like it was just like it's just the overall running of a house like the collecting of dust and like hoovering every day and like when people are walking in and out in their shoes and stuff so i just fall you know what and also

i do like tidying other people's spaces which is crazy and then i was thinking like i was on the way back home yesterday and i was thinking like that is so fucking nice of you and then i was like it just shows how much of a giving person you are and how like nice you are to make other people happy i know and the thing is well i was also think sorry let's let's just kiss now but see you later guys I see later guys give us some space give us a room yeah but I was just thinking like I feel like people who are like naturally given at that core I think there should be around give us as well yeah because I just feel like I've spent so much time of my life given to people and they've been just taking it yeah like fully fully taking it yeah and then I've been left like

depleted and not like kind of in an equal balancing of energies do you know what i mean i feel like it's the same kind of vibe as when like a narcissist is attracted to an empath it's like that isn't it usually like givers will be attracted to takers i imagine or takers would be attracted to givers yeah yeah so then when you find two nice givers and oh beautiful relationship yeah i love it i'm so happy that i met you're fucking hell oh same what would i do without yeah i swear to god like literally saying like i think about that all the time all the time like i would be so lost yeah i'd be so lonely so lost and lone because even we went on like a brand trip recently yeah and basically obviously we had two hotel rooms but we slept in one night in

my room and then the other night in mine i'm 30 years of age you're 31 i've literally just turned 31 last week like literally what the hell we were like oh I don't want to be alone I don't want to be alone yeah so we end up sleeping in each other's bed yeah I know it's actually hilarious when you come to mine you stay in my bed and when I come to yours ass in your bed yeah and we were like last night this is so fucking hilarious we were like last night good night and then I was like that's the last good night that we're going to say in 2025 because she's going back up to Newcastle today and then I'm traveling as well on uh I know she's going to the I'm going to Thailand yeah it hasn't been pooked yet and you know what I'm like sometimes I've changed my mind

but I want to go to Thailand with my friend on the 3rd of Jan so I'm going to be doing planning it it itinerary and stuff but yeah how sad I know like what the hell next time that we'll be together it'll be a while but but but listen that's fine because we're FaceTime every day anyways yeah we do we do and also and also obviously when the new year hits there's a lot of new changes for you anyways so it'll be good yeah it'll be good we've got we were doing a little vision boards last night for like 20 26 and i just love doing that just makes me so happy i mean i did get bored after like 20 minutes no yes i need to i need to stimulate it was that a lot i was trying to do an itinerary a vision

board and a Pinterest vision board so like i was doing like a list of things that i wanted to do so like writing it down then i was trying to visualize it then i was working out if it was the first quarter second quarter third quarter so i was like well hang on in it the first quarter is actually pretty busy because i'm not even in the country so like i feel like i'm overstimulated even just hearing that exactly that is wild no i'm so excited for 2026 so basically guys we're going to be taking a little break until the new year yeah we want to completely rejig the podcast we do um just make it better for you guys yeah visually yeah there's a few things that we want to add and just like like you know just basically yeah like

Nicole said make it better and just we're learning as we go yeah we're learning as we go again we don't have a big podcast team we don't have producers we are the small fry right literally where the small fries and the small fries that are trying to make I don't know small fry is that not just like a small

fish I've never heard that phrase a small fry yes I'm a small fry what the fuck I've never heard that like the small fry you're just a small fry is that not a thing or small fish I don't small fish in a big pond um small fish small fish small fry in a big pond okay i'm confused is that i've made that up maybe i don't copy right that that's a brief phrase yeah small fry small fry so anyways yeah we're gonna we're figuring it out and also we've got loads of new

gorgeous 2026 ideas ready for you yeah yeah i think you're gonna be very very very excited yeah yeah so we've got loads of ideas um but yeah i'm so sad that you'll be leaving now but I'm so excited for Christmas like yeah I want to like do you have any Christmas traditions in your family like I love when people have like specific Christmas traditions that they do yeah do you know what like I actually think we'll kind of do but like it's a very so my family obviously like I've got quite a big family yeah but it's like how do you explain it it's like distance like long distance like we're not in contact all of the time yeah so I've got like loads of fucking aunties and that right yeah yeah um and like stay

I don't know if it's a step-a-a-a-a-a-and-y, but like, yeah, anyways. So, but what we do normally is we spend it, like, it's a very intimate time with, like, me immediate family most of the time. We'll spend it with, like, me, grandma and grander some years as well. Yeah, so now it's just more bit, like, intimate, and also, like, we'll have, like, it's a very chill day. Yeah, yeah, I love that.

We don't really get dressed up, like, we don't... So we used to, when we were kids, like, we used to get dressed up in one new clothes, and obviously, when I was a teenage, I used to be, like, put me on my makeup on. be all cool and shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But now it's just really, really chill and it's like really relaxing.

And we'll have like, my dad normally cooks the dinner. So he's the, he? My dad's the dinner guy. No way, I don't think I've ever heard that. Really? Yeah. Well, obviously, like in this household while like breaking traditional norms. Okay, I love that girl.

No. Yeah. Gluck it. Gluck it, girl. No. But my dad, yeah, I think he likes to cook, to be honest. I think he likes making the dinner. Yeah.

I think he likes to see people's reactions to it. I feel like you're like that too. I am. Yeah. Yeah. I hate cooking food, but if it's for other people, I'm like...

Again, like, that's just you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I actually hate cooking food. Like, if I could not eat, I would just not eat, because I caught not. If it's cooking for others. But then again, I don't know,

even sometimes when I'm at teens, oh, I couldn't think of anything worse than doing them. Fucking gusto. Oh, the guistos. I'm all for the gusto. Yeah, the gusto. It's nice, but it's so long. Oh,

It's so long. It's an hour. So long-winded. Yeah. Anyways. So your dad does the cooking. Really? Yes. And yeah.

And then we all just sit and just get what in our and open the presents. Oh, cute. We normally stay at my mom's house the night before. So like Cameron and me sister Gabrielle. And yeah, we'll just have a little see-over. Oh my God, love that. And we'll watch a Christmas movie the night before. So yeah, nice little Christmas traditions.

But this year, listen to this. So this year we're actually going out for our dinner and we'll never. we've never ever done that I find that crazy yeah we've never done that like nowhere in Ireland would ever be open Christmas day but I think like obviously

we're more holy aren't we like as a country we're Catholic yeah yeah yeah yeah so like Christmas day like nowhere would be open yeah it's very very traditional is that the same for Sunday as well then I actually my mom was over this week

and I actually said to her I was like you know like as to down the road there now like that's closed at 4pm on a Sunday and I was like what time does this shop closed by ours back home she was like nine she was like that's so weird so weird how they close actually earlier

here that they do in Ireland which is strange yeah that's so weird but yeah that's so mad that you're going out for dinner what the hell I know literally and do you know what I've ought had oh my goodness I've ordered I think I've ordered a patty to start from me start at and normally I would have a prone

cocktail oh my god I have prawns as well no way I have the battered prawn no I have the battered prawns over lettuce. Okay. With Pousand Island dressing. What's, is that the pink dressing? The pink dress. Yes. Oh my God, see, that's what we always used to have. That's so funny, isn't it?

All paties, so in stuff, like, we'll have like a selection of different Christmas meals. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so it's going to be a patty. I'm going to be doing a patty for start. Yum. And then I'm going to have duck instead of turkey. Interesting. I find turkey really dry.

It is dry. It is just a dry meat, even if you cook it well. I bet you're happy you didn't go vegan before Christmas I bet you're happy about that though can you actually imagine if you went vegan like two weeks before Christmas though come on now it's going to be after something I'm going to build up to I think I might start off pescatarian

because I reckon I could do that you could do that I love a salmon I love a salmon I love prones I love cod I love white fish I love yellow tail I love all the other colour fishes Yeah I think you could do that enough to not eat them yeah yeah

I think you could do that wait pescatarian is where you only fish no yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so just just fish just fish

no or that meets got you got you got you got you got you got you got you got you got you don't have milk and cheese either I couldn't tell you we need to look into that oh honestly I'm sick of getting too much information on

I know I'm actually done it's like if you actually eat anything you're gonna get I know you're gonna die you're gonna do this yeah but that's a cute little Christmas Day. Yeah, I love that. What about you? I need to know yours. Oh, we are like, um,

like our household is very like, we keep the traditions from when we are young. So, mom and dad would wake me at like 6 a.m. pretend Santa's downstairs still. No, I think. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so sorry about what. I know. We still keep, we still do the Christmas traditions of when we are younger. that's like that's me and my sisters they'll wake us and then be like right let's go downstairs

I'm going down the stairs and dad will still be recording being like is this weird dad will still be recording being like is Santa still downstairs and then we're like

oh my God and then we go in and then what so you're actually pretend that you're like yeah yeah yeah yeah so we still pretend

this is insane wait this is crazy into all Irish families I hope you're still in shot I know I know I'll probably just push myself out I'm starting to get restless. Oh, no.

We just woke up we woke up 20 minutes ago. We're still in their pajamas. Yeah. But yeah, so I don't know of all Christmas

I don't think Irish family is like it's just a thing in ours I feel like we're very nostalgic like as a family anyway. I love that though because imagine that. Yeah.

In fact, I'm texting my mom right now. To say what? So you better fucking pretend Santa's there. Santa's real. I swear to God. Wait there, let's voice note her. Oh my God.

Hi, ma'am. I'm currently just filming a podcast and we're talking about Christmas traditions Nicole's family still pretends that Santa's real they are 30 years old so if I come over on Christmas Day and Santa's not there I'm going to have a fucking meltdown

Okay we pretend for like about 10 seconds I don't know I'll just say better at that and then we basically go downstairs and then take a photo oh yeah telling me ma'am

why is it taking a million yes to load oh my god oh my god i look awful um but yeah we go downstairs and then we like have our like big christmas bags with our names on them that are like filled with the presents yeah and then we have the stockings like from like when we were younger so we still have the stockings from when i was one years old i still use the same stocking is how is it not ripped to death my mom like puts it in a big bag and like yeah yeah that's which is cute and then I'm not that well to be fair

my mom do stockings but we'll get different stockings every year oh that's nice though yeah so like different ones but what a waste ah yeah but still and then yeah and then we all do the Christmas presents in the morning pretending like so ones are from like Santa and then ones are from like mom and dad now that I'm saying out louder we fucking crazy

as a family I don't know I feel like that is the most wholesome and nostalgia thing ever and you know what why are we not all doing that because I was sitting there thinking the other day, right? Ne wonder, adults are depressed. The minute you're born, you need a fuss out of. You've got the whole family coming around to see you, constantly checking up on you, constantly checking in.

Do you want some pocket money? Do you want some dinner, love? Do you want this? You want these brand new pair of shoes. And then, and then what happens is the older you get, the less you start to get. Yeah, so true. The more that's actually getting taken from you.

Yeah. Taken from, well, not taken, because it's like basically, you're not being gifts and fucking every pain you know what I mean Corporation tax why I just had to pay a fucking business tax bill

a month before that is vile I'm gonna liquidate the company no I can't do this anymore right I feel like you're getting stressed let's go back to Christmas

let's go back to the happy times yeah I feel like that is the most nostalgic thing and I feel like everyone should be doing that it's cute and then we go to mass and mom sings in the choir Lauren sings in the choir

mom plays the child sorry mom plays the cello so and then um they bring up all the kids who are under five to sing away away to sing away away so all the kids come up in the church and then everyone's like and then the priest was like so what did santa get everyone in the church i know and then we come home i actually i'm getting tears to me yeah it's really cute it's the best day it's the best day i can feel the energy i can literally cry and then we go home and we get into our matching pajamas and we take a family photo by the tree. Cute.

And then we have our dinner that mom's cooked. And then we just watch Christmas movies. That's and play board games. So cute. And last year at Christmas on Christmas Day

dad reproposed to mom. They'd be married 35 years but we were at the dinner table and he was like, well you renew the vows with me and let's go to Vegas next week as a family. Oh my God.

I remember that. That was epic. Yeah, that was epic. That is so wholesome. Yeah. See, that is just the dream, isn't it? That is literally just the dream.

dream. I feel like yeah, I just, but that's like why. And I feel like your brain's kind of like that as well. Like we watch Princess and the Frog last night. Like I love watching nostalgic, even though I didn't see that movie ever, which is, I know it's insane. Just there's a couple of movies that that she has seen girls and we are going to have to knuckle down and get our eyes glued on them. Yeah, I need to watch all these old movies. But yeah, like nostalgic bits and pieces, you and me just love all that. We do. We do. Traditions. Do you know what's mad as well? Like I keep saying loads of Instagram reels and stuff of like nostalgia. you know when you're a kid and like you've got them taught and um carpets and the fucking

patterned wallpaper and then all the trees got like tinsel thrown on it like we when we were younger and see like if we went to me grannies because obviously like for um family tradition like i'm sure we did used to have a few Christmases like at me grannies as well like we used to travel up to me grannies um and then we'd get the tinsel and would throw it on the tree are so cute and then remember those tiny little like presents that have got like that kind of wrapped up and wrapping paper and it's like a shiny like metallicy wrapping paper yeah yeah yeah oh like I just yeah I want a nostalgic tree like that again but then again but then again hang on my Christmas tree at home I haven't set it up this year um but because I've

been travelling so much but it's unbelievable it's like wood woodland have you shown me a photo of it last year yeah yeah yeah it's like woodland you show me last year of it from the year previous I think yeah yeah and made me friend wait we went to um because he's just got a new house and he's got a um he's put his Christmas tree up right and we're trying to look for woodland themed um Christmas decorations because it's very woodland themed like it's very like cottage core vibes the house yeah modern day cottage core yeah um so we're looking for woodland do you know there's nout really now but we've done a cracking job it looks unreal i'll post the real fires this week and you can see the tree that we've done a lot

years already seen it already you posted it i've done stories oh yeah i've done a reel for my birthday anyways why did you just not say happy birthday anyways and if you did say happy birthday thank you love you love you good it's you i'm a sagittarius and i got a leoman as well so i need attention i want attention do you know i actually feel do you know that i posted like my birthday three times i know i know you did i was like you love it yeah fucking dead right it's one day a year but it's so funny how like women like are all about their birthday and men usually aren't i know i find that so weird um but i want to touch on something so this week was the british fashion awards oh yes and so many people looked unbelievable do you know i didn't really say oh my god no i watched i looked at everyone's out for

yeah more i'd say i never really kept up with like stuff more higgins was like she fucking blew it out of the water and then she always does make maclachlan who was on the brand trip with us. Yeah. Meg McLaughlin was on the brand trip with us and she was sending me her dresses. Oh my god, yes. And she was like, oh, will you help me choose which one I should wear? Because I told her I had been like a few years ago. And I was like, she sent them to me and I was gagged. I was like they're all fucking unbelievable. And she looked insane. She looked so good. She looked so, so good. But I was telling Beth in this story, basically, about two to three years ago, I went to the British Fashion Awards with Coca-Cola and usually I would never go to an event by myself but obviously you can't bring

a plus one to this because it's like the fucking Metgala like they won't of the UK so anyway I guess so let's ignore me I'll figure it out it's so funny how like pop culture is just so not your thing not my thing but yeah so basically I got a stylist and I got this gorgeous dress which was like beads see-through and then I had like a nude body suit underneath the morning of I was doing like meal prep from this company and there was like a little pot, a rice pot that you heat in the microwave and I was so hungry in the morning I didn't heat it fully. It was still like kind of cold in the middle. Not realizing rice. Salmonella. And it was in the freezers. Salmonell. So anyway, I get to the British fashion awards.

Get inside. We're in like this little booth and they're serving us like pies and stuff like the three course meal. I sit down anyway. I wasn't drinking. Didn't want to drink. I don't like drinking at those kind of things because like I want to be so coherent yeah take a bite and I'm like my stomach is really rumbling and not an hungry way in a I'm gonna shit myself oh and I'm buying myself I don't know anyone else in the booth I think who else was there like fucking I think I can see was there and but I'd never met her before and there was like five of us I run to the bathroom guys I project her vomited but I missed the bowl and it splattered back onto my dress this is an hour into the event by the way and it went and because it's like a see through beaded dress with like loads of

stitching it went it seeped into it I know Mank seeped and then I kept vomiting yeah I kept I know sorry and it just kept yeah and you could smell me from a mile away that is it was the worst experience And then I was like, oh my God, what am I going to do? Coca-Cola are going to think that, like, I'm drunk. When I actually have food poisoning, this is awful. So I then had to, like, make an excuse and say that I had to leave because I had a shoot in the morning. I know.

Oh. I don't know why I just didn't tell them I had food poisoning, but I just thought that they would think that I was drunk. Right. So I was like, I need to think of something fucking completely different here. Right. So anyway, it was, I had no jacket because the stylist was like, you can't wear a jacket. It doesn't go with the outfit.

I had no coat. and it was minus three degrees and I'm nothing on me but a bodysuit essentially and beads over me so then I'm like going outside trying to get a taxi tell me why

it took me an hour and a half I didn't tell you this part an hour and a half outside to get a taxi I was crying because I was trying to like hold in my vomit and I couldn't get a taxi anywhere I was fucking bawling

crying outside of it was the worst experience of my life couldn't you get a taxi though because they were was so busy and it was a one-way street and all the taxis kept canceling because people were leaving because I well yeah I left probably about half an hour before the thing ended when they had like a performance and people were still leaving oh okay it was honestly it was it was horrible the event itself was unbelievable yeah with the experience I had with the sickness I'm trying to

get a taxi I know I was like this was the biggest event of my career yeah I was like this is so typical and then I was bed-bound for three days shitting myself I'm fucking I'm not even joking And projectile vomiting in bed. It was the worst experience. Did you really shit yourself? Because I actually have to shoot yourself. You know, I fought it and shit. I couldn't believe it.

Pushed a fart out and it wasn't far. Was the food poisoning that you had? I don't know. It was definitely water. So maybe I don't know. Yeah. Anyways, Cabriette, Gabrielle, why? She said, my sister's meme.

Why have I done that? Anyways, we'll stop talking about really awesome things. This is the second podcast. Yeah, we're going to stop. We're going to rain a day now. I don't know what's going on, sorry. But everyone looked unreal at the British Fashion Awards. Yes, I'm very jealous.

It's a great event. I didn't see, but I'm going to agree because she said that they did. Yeah, everyone did, everyone did. But yeah, and what else? Talking about events. Oh my God, do you remember that event? I don't know why this has just popped in my head, but remember that? Remember that event?

We went to like a few months back and it was the bad one. Guys. Do you know what? I've got goosebumps because I'm. actually enrages me this event that we went to yeah the event itself was gorgeous these events are always gorge like the brands put so much effort and time and just so much eye for detail yeah and then it's the clientele and and i for the first time in my whole career right where i've actually physically came first-hand contact with influencers yeah who gave the influencers a bad fucking rep yeah and i'm

thinking you now I never understood the hate for influence as I really didn't I was like I don't get it why are people so bothered that someone else is taking a photo or like it doesn't it doesn't register my mind why that would be a problem yeah but when these people are so rude

that they stand in the middle of walkways and they don't give a fuck about who's around and who's you know moving you have to say excuse me excuse me yeah you've just said a few times for them actually fucking move out the way ignorant or like I remember um this event like obviously we had a cue for photos and we were cue I mean the cues were mad they were just ridiculous so we were queuing anyways and then some girls

came over who were like new knew in the industry and we're having a little chat oh did someone just walk straight past us right would wait there for 20 minutes sat down started taking photos for I swear to God 20 minutes 20 minutes and Every time she was taking a photo, she'd come back off the photo and she'd go and she'd be, like, sat in the place where everyone gets that photos, by the way, and she'll be like, looking, look and looking, look and looking, look and we're just standing there like that. Yeah, I was gobsmacked and then she got up after 20 minutes and said, oh, sorry, and then her manager turned to her and said, don't apologize, don't say sorry, don't apologize. Can you fucking believe that? Are you fucking ridiculous? You barred in front of us. We're queuing for about 15 minutes. You barred in front of us, and then you spent 20 minutes taking photos? it's so, it's just so inconsiderate, it's just so inconseil, it's so rude, but they were part of the same group, weren't there? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they were part of the same group, these, these girls. Anyway, so I haven't followed them. Yeah, and I've blocked one of them.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna block them as well. Yeah, because I literally was like, fuck you. And you know what? I, honestly, I really, really, like, loved them as well, like, I love them, like, mm-hmm, nah. I know, it's, it's fucking ridiculous. Nah. But it is, like, well, don't. We went home. just lost a follow-up. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like, when it's up one says to us, I'm following you, I'm like, see you.

I know, I know, I know. But, like, I just find it mad that people act like that and it actually does give, like, also bad name. Because I'm thinking, people don't act like that. Honestly, I have never felt rage in my life because I just thought you are so, so inconsiderate. Like, I'm not being funny, right, but if you're in a queue, this is just my logic.

This is just where I think. If you're in a queue, you've took your photos, and, like, if you want of their, check your phone to see if you've got the photos you get back in the queue. Yeah. You get back in the queue. You don't fucking sit there and spend another 10 minutes trying to get the photos when

the whole of that venue, every single individual that was, because it's an influencer event, right? Everyone's doing the same thing. Everyone's doing the same job. Everyone. I know. Anyway. But you think that you better. Anyways, let's... We have two minutes before my alarm goes off on my phone. Okay. Okay. Listen, thank you

so much. We're going to be taking a break and we're going to see you in the new year. We're going to be better. We're going to be better. we're going to be lush and you better tune in and I hope that you've enjoyed this season. Please give us some feedback and we've got one minute and we love you and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Did we get it all? Yeah we got it all. Merry Christmas. Have the best new year. We'll see you in the new year. We appreciate you. Thank you for all the support and we're just sending you lots and lots and lots of love. Hope you get what time. That gives you. Yeah. Get what you want. Get what you want girls. Bye. Bye.