Babies, Beliefs, and Ben Higgins! | Golden Hour

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Speaker 2: Great questions today with our special guests. You guys are going to love this.

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Speaker 1: Our guest today may be one of my favorite of all time. We are here welcoming a true fan favorite, Ben Higgins, how are you doing, Ben?

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Speaker 5: We know I got the email asking me to do this. This is I've told you for a long time.

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Speaker 6: This is a.

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Speaker 2: Dream you had us, so we need you.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a trade off. I hope.

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Speaker 5: I hope that I can give as good in entertainment as the two of you do. But We've had a lot of fun together and I've always enjoyed being around both of you.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: One thing though, one thing you taught us though, you told us very early on how to negotiate each other. And you know what I mean, balance that ball, you know when I'm in school.

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Speaker 1: And now I'll tell you what I remember. First of all, I think you give some of the best advice or I love listening to your podcast. But secondly, when we first started, you said to me, and I'll never forget it when you have a guest on, let the guests talk because people want to hear the guests.

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Speaker 3: And here we are, right okay.

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Speaker 1: And also I hear that you've got a little booboo on your hand that needs some attention.

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Speaker 3: What's going on?

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Speaker 5: I came on the day wanting advice from two mothers. I I woke up in the middle of night and my finger was just throbbing, and then I woke up and I have this like bump that kind of runs on the outside of my finger into my cuticle and it feels hot.

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Speaker 1: Can I tell you what, Doctor Schwartz, that would that would be I?

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Speaker 3: That would be me.

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Speaker 1: Uh, you have what is called paranikea, and in Leamen's terms, Lemon's terms, it is an infection in your cuticle.

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Speaker 2: There's just some us. It's hard to go to the doctor. I do them all, you know.

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Speaker 1: Susan and what you you can try to get us a needle, sterilized it and open it up and get the infection out. I did that, but I'm also on antibiotics. I had the same thing last week.

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Speaker 2: I think you're going to survive, but do try it.

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Speaker 1: You know what, I love Ben and I haven't. It is very painful, but you know we're going to get to this. Your wife, Jess is pregnant, and I mean a para Niki is like tea and crumpets compared to what she's going through.

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Speaker 5: Trust me, I've been witnessing it. She's a trooper. Let me tell you that she is like my wife has this uh this characteristic about her that I.

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Speaker 6: Don't have I know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's cool.

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Speaker 5: She doesn't want to make like she doesn't like to complain, and she doesn't want to make my life harder, which at times is frustrating some I'm like, we're partners, you can make my life harder. But she is right now, twenty three weeks pregnant, has kind of been through the ringer. She's a tiny human, so like this is a lot for her. Our baby as of to yesterday is the size of a game boy.

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Speaker 2: Jo, way do you love?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 1: My daughter had her first child like seventeen months ago, and she'd come home and say, today it's the size of a pee. You know, Now it's a pair, and now a watermelon. Now it's a game boy. I mean, do you love the the measuring sticks they use for pregnancy?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 6: I love it.

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Speaker 5: I love to see Jess get excited about it.

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Speaker 6: I if I'm honest and she knows this.

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Speaker 5: I am still in a phase of freak out in like a healthy way, like I'm ready to be a dad.

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Speaker 4: Until you hold that baby, you will be yeah, and then you'll freak out with.

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Speaker 2: How are you going to fe about two women in the house?

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Speaker 5: Uh, well, there's two men right now, myself and my dog.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, that will balance.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so we'll balance it out.

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Speaker 5: Being a girl dad is something I always grew up, I mean since I was little, saying I never want to be because I know that she's going to crush me.

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Speaker 6: I am a very sensitive human.

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Speaker 2: Oh god, you're doomed, babe, your dude, this is your daughter.

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Speaker 5: She can get very I have had to go to therapy. I've had I've had to work because I get easily hurt, like not offended, more than just like her.

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Speaker 2: I question a lot of things feelings.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm I always worry. I don't know what March twenty thirty.

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Speaker 2: I'm a pipe to. We're piscis, that's why.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I just I'm always think, like my mind's always going about worst case scenario thinking and and so I was always like, I can't have a daughter. But now we're working on the nursery right now.

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Speaker 3: And I've been that color, what color we do in the nursery.

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Speaker 5: Like a light pink, it's really pretty. And then I did like a Wayne's coat.

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Speaker 3: Below sounds like my daughter's nursery.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's Winnie the Pooh themed. My wife and I love Winnie the Pooh.

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Speaker 4: Do you like doing these sort of things like the because that will only last a year?

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Speaker 2: If that okay? So I want to happen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, really, I want to ask you Ben like your dog Whalen. My daughter and her husband have a boxer, and my son in law sounds just like you. That's his first born. It's his son, I mean exactly. And I also have a daughter, so exactly the same scenario. And I said to my daughter, when you have this baby, this dog is going to become secondary.

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Speaker 3: No, mom, never never know.

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Speaker 1: Well, so what's happened is it's the dog is definitely secondary for her and my son in law, Johnny is like like he has he has two children.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it has not changed. You think it's going to happen to you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, whyl and I are like work buddies. He you know, this is my office. I work from home. I sit here all day. He's with me all day.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 5: I take a lot of meetings on walks with him like that.

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Speaker 4: That that won't change, right, Yeah, that won't change.

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Speaker 5: Now he takes up a lot of the bed at night, and so that might change a little bit over time.

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Speaker 1: I swear, I'm feeling like I'm talking to my daughter, same exact thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't see that.

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Speaker 3: You know what they've done.

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Speaker 1: They put a thing at the foot of the bed, his bed, and the minute they go to sleep or turn their eye, he's right back up in bed with them.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's my buddy, and he he also, I think, will be You know what I understand about baby stage is Jessica is going to have a lot more work to do than I am.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, she's going to try. That's her hope.

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Speaker 5: She really wants to, and so they'll be like the sweet relief of quiet on walks for me.

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Speaker 6: And I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 2: And you must have done a lot of reading.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, oh no, Look I have I literally.

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Speaker 1: What to expect when you're expecting your first child.

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Speaker 6: It's called The Birth Partner. It's so thick.

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Speaker 2: What page are you?

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Speaker 6: Jeez, I've read a lot of it.

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Speaker 3: Let me just tell you.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you something. What did you get out of it so far?

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Speaker 4: Give me like three things that you didn't know that that book told you.

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Speaker 5: Well, let me start with the things that I probably should have known that. Okay, So just gives me this book and I open it up and the first two chapters are about where to massage my wife during pregnancy. I'm like this, this is funny, this is I hope there's a whole chapter dedicated to the birth present, the push present.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you do not. There's a gift. Do not forget the ladies come on, no, no, no, we're dead.

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Speaker 3: It's called a push president. You think I'm kidding?

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Speaker 4: Can I tell a short story? My my son didn't think this was true? And she has the baby right and I'm like Christopher, He goes, Mom, are you serious?

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Speaker 2: I gave him diamonds. I'm serious that you've got to give her something. Yes, have that ready?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you do.

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Speaker 1: Just doesn't counts passing on this one.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what else have you learned?

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Speaker 6: I'll do it.

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Speaker 5: I've learned it's actually really cool the different exercises as we get closer to like to help her body get ready for pregnancy, like bounce on a ball and some of the stretches she can do, and then some of like the exercises.

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Speaker 1: I've learned that the book is more about the delivery. It's more about him helping our issue. Okay, is she working out then walking? Because that really will make delivery a lot easier.

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Speaker 5: She works out every day. She like I said, she's a trooper. I've also I'm in the chapter right now of what to expect in the delivery room.

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Speaker 4: And she curses you out. It's not planned. It justs you.

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Speaker 1: Know what I'm telling you, it's not gonna go the way you think it's gonna go. It never does. Yeah, it just just you know, just roll with it. It'll be fine. Babies are worn every day. They don't come with manuals. You've heard it all before. You're gonna make a ton of mistakes, and you're gonna love her and she's gonna love you.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes it's really quick too, from you know, like she's four centimeters, Oh we have a while in boom, she's at nine.

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Speaker 2: Let's go put.

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Speaker 6: Our hospitals thirty.

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Speaker 5: She wanted to go to the like the best delivery hospital here in Denver, and it's a good forty minutes from our house. And so like, I'm hoping we have like some warning and some.

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Speaker 1: Ben On my first one, I had twenty three hours of warning.

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Speaker 4: You'll have plenty of Hopefully she'll take more after me. My water broke at two am and the baby was here at six.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's not gonna it would be very rare on a first baby to go into labor and you know, not be able to get to the hospital. But you know, like I said, I have a question. I think you are a remarkable human and I've met your wife and therefore she is a remarkable human. But I want to know, and you've always said that, how did you know she was the one?

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Speaker 6: You know? I think?

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Speaker 5: So we met on Instagram. I messaged her my buddies actually from the show. Uh, there's three of them, Dean and Wells and Nick. We're all Vegas for like a concert. And they said you got to start messaging girls on Instagram. And I didn't necessarily like feel great about that at the time. I think it's more common now. Back then it was like kind of like a taboo kind of creepy thing to do. And then I saw her picture, and that's shortening up the story. I messaged her and it was really Uh, my first FaceTime with her was after I went to a church service. And my faith is very important to me and it's something that I my fate tradition and my like learning more about it is very valuable to me, and I had an issue with the service, Like I was like, I just I don't love how this was presented, or I have questions about it. And I was facetiming with her for the first time ever, and I brought it up like just kind of in passing, and she sat through that conversation with me, and she gave her input.

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Speaker 2: Did she have an opinion?

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Speaker 1: You?

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Speaker 6: Her input?

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Speaker 5: But she also listened really well. And that was the first time I was like, goodness, this feels different than a lot of the relationships I've had in the past. Like she's not jumping on me, she's not telling me I'm right or wrong. She's just listening. And then we had our first date out here in Denver. It was the night of my very first restaurant opening. Uh ever, so it was the very first restaurant ever opened up.

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Speaker 2: We had first date nights.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, she wanted to support me because she knew it meant a lot to me.

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Speaker 2: So long did you wait?

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Speaker 3: How long did you know her at that point?

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Speaker 6: Three weeks?

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's the opening and the chemistry. Had you had to know? I mean, that's just too he felt a certain way.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you had or we sat down at dinner and I remember just talking to her in person then and I said, this is either going to be the best thing that ever happened to me, or it's going to break me. And it ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me. And so I think it was more for for us because we did long distance, because we were talking on the phone and facetiming, It wasn't this immediate like euphoric, Oh my gosh, I'm marrying this girl. Really was our first couple interactions together for me to be like, yeah, this is like what I've always dreamed of in a partner.

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Speaker 4: She is And for people out there listening, long distance can work very much.

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Speaker 5: So we had a couple of rules in our long distance dating that I think was really valuable. One the biggest one was we never met up with each other in person without having another time plan that we're going to see each other again, and so.

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Speaker 6: We never like, never hear me fly to see her? And where did she live?

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Speaker 3: Where did she live at Nashville? That's right, that's right. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And then the second one, which I highly recommend, and this was based on another buddy of mine who married somebody he was dating long distance was their relationship. What he witnessed and what I witnessed was every time they would leave each other, there'd be so much sadness around the goodbye. So like the last day, all that would be talked about was I'm going to miss.

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Speaker 2: You with kids Stan this, Yeah, I can't.

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Speaker 5: Stand it, And yes, that's an obvious feeling when you love somebody.

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Speaker 2: So just like I'm seeing two weeks you know, yeah, well Jess.

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Speaker 6: And I said, I do is do that? Say?

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Speaker 5: Hey?

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Speaker 6: Two weeks? And we never and this was hard.

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Speaker 5: It was uh we never showed emotion or set out loud that we were sad we were leaving when we were together.

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Speaker 3: I love that well.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I could do it well.

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Speaker 6: What it did was it kept our times together uplifted.

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Speaker 1: And all exact, and it kept you in the moment, enjoyed the moment and then looking forward to the next moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Tire.

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Speaker 4: When I kissed you goodbyes, I headed for the plane. It'll be a big crocodile tear coming down out two weeks.

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Speaker 5: Her mom last, She's like, because she knew this, and she she knew that our rules and her Mom's like, yeah, guess who took the bra of all of it.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm gonna say she she took the high road and walked away with her head high and then crumpled with So she got your mom.

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Speaker 4: Well, you guys are going on a three year anniversary.

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Speaker 6: Correct, yeah, next month.

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Speaker 3: Happy, it's going to change.

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Speaker 1: But you know what your life is about to change in the most remarkable way that it really does defy description. You'll just you just aren't believing, going to believe the journey you're about.

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Speaker 4: To Yeah, it's totally different than any bachelor.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait. I want to ask you. So I saw on socials that you were seeing the mom con. I want to know how you got into that. What was it like, the whole bit?

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Speaker 3: I want to know.

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Speaker 5: That's such a good question. So it is my target demographic.

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Speaker 6: It is.

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Speaker 5: It is a place that if I want to feel cool about myself again, I go back to momcom. Okay, So mom con comes from mom Co, which was formerly MOPS. MOPS is really a nonprofit that does support for moms within church systems or within community systems. So their focus is really getting into like helping moms connecting community through you know, studies, et cetera. So mops is what they're you know, they were known for for forty nine years. That's really popular and it's in one hundred and twenty six different countries.

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Speaker 6: Mom Co is their new brand, so.

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Speaker 4: That like mother's mourning out where they take the kids in a couple of hours, you.

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Speaker 2: Could pitch up. We had that in Texas.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's similar. So like what like what they do is like if you go to a church or if you are a part of a school system, moms will come in and say, Okay, we're going to give you the material.

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Speaker 6: This is what you can talk about this week. Here's some activities you should do.

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Speaker 1: So it's a way to build women, empower women, and build community within a a town or a church community or whatever.

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Speaker 4: Or women that are depressed or have issues after having maybe there's people to reach out to.

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Speaker 6: There's people to reach out to.

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Speaker 5: And then they also help share like the most recent cool mom trip right like here's what we're learning about baby nutrition or here's what we're learning about you know, young childcare. So once a year, mom Con is where all the moms up that are part of these groups. Again across the undred twenty six different countries come to a conference, and there's five thousand of these moms in this room.

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Speaker 1: And I just had a genius idea, Susan, Okay, we're gonna have single man con and we're going to have a conference with we're gonna get from one hundred and twenty six countries, all you know who's gonna seances you and me?

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Speaker 2: Okay, I mean why not?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Why what?

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Speaker 6: And so yeah.

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Speaker 5: So they asked me this year if generous so generous coffee, the company I operate did a mom com like coffee bag, so the profits.

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Speaker 6: From that bag will go to mom co.

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Speaker 5: And then they asked if I would m see the event and and it was hilarious.

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Speaker 2: I could imagine I was one of.

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Speaker 5: Like four dudes in the whole room of five thousand women, which.

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Speaker 2: Brings me back.

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Speaker 4: And they were women without children there, so they were.

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Speaker 5: It is a it is a uniquely different experience when you see moms on the loose.

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Speaker 3: With oh no, we know we were. We have been moms on the loose no kids.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of experiences and takeaways, if you will, what have you learned or took away before meeting your wife, like after leaving bachelor, What lesson could you share with someone, maybe even to save them the aggravation or the heartache if you.

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Speaker 5: Are of dating, Yes, I would say I wish, you know. I think the best advice I had when I was single was day often. And you know, I think that gets a little weirder today. But if you date often, like it doesn't put as much stress. And I think dating is a little bit like exercising a muscles. It always made me very anxious. It always made me like a head of a lot of anxiety. I always hated dates because if the date didn't go well, then at some point, you're, like many breaking up with somebody or telling him I don't want to see him again. And so I think as I got off the show, I kind of hit out.

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Speaker 4: As a man because you ask people for dates as a woman. I mean, I know today we can ask as well, but not as much as a man would, right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's always a little awkward after show, I think because one, my ego is big, but I also was still like I still had the understanding of who I was as a person, so like I wasn't really figuring myself out a lot. I just I think dating Austin would be the best because you get used to dates not working out. You also get familiar with what you're into and what you're not into. I think dating Austin also allows you to maybe become attracted to things that you maybe didn't grow up thinking you were attracted to because you were.

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Speaker 3: Exposed to their experiences.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's cool.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well we you know, we fund some advice, we give advice to, and you, who I think are the master of advice, We're going to read some questions and help.

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Speaker 3: You'll help us.

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Speaker 6: Weigh in on the internet.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Kathy and Susan. I could really use your advice. I've been with my boyfriend for about two years now, and everything between us is great. He's honestly my best friend, and we started talking more seriously about our future together. The only sticking point is that we come from different religious backgrounds. He's very active in his faith, which I totally respect, and I've even started looking into converting because it's important to him and I feel like it's something I could really embrace to the big issue is his parents. They've made it very clear that they're not thrilled about him dating someone who wasn't born into their religion. Even though I'm willing to convert. It's like, no matter how open I am, they don't think I'll ever fully be one of them. It's frustrating because I want to have a good relationship with his family, and I know how much their opinion matters to him, but I'm starting to feel like I'm never going to be enough in their eyes. He's been supportive, but I can tell he's caught in the middle trying to balance our relationship with what his parents want. So here's the thing. How much say should his parents have in our relationship? Should I be worried that their opinion might hold him back from fully committing to me? Would love any advice, thank you? Okay, Ben, what do you think?

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Speaker 6: So my advice is this, I think faith is.

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Speaker 5: When I read this, you know, I think one of the things that would be helpful would be know what kind of like faith tradition we're talking about, what type of religious background we're talking about?

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Speaker 4: Because the convert gives me a Jewish, right, Yeah, that's women convert.

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Speaker 5: That's my That was kind of my assumption was that we were talking about Judaism and uh. And typically, like with the Jewish community that I surround myself with, converting is a very respectable and fair and accepted you know, and most people will say, hey, thank you for to take for doing this for the family. Now I can speak to this because of my Christian faith and say that, you know, I think and what I know about my faith is it's a genuine and authentic transformation for me. And I think that's getting into a lot of the nitty gritty of my faith. But I'm I'm a Christian for multiple reasons, one of which being that I've had experiences in my life where I feel like that is the fate tradition that leads me in the best direction, that is true to the world around me, that helps me love people better.

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Speaker 6: And so I think that would be hard is if you.

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Speaker 5: Are looking at that going well, I just want to convert to find acceptance. Well, I would say that's not really what I'd be looking for as as a partner.

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Speaker 6: I would want you.

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Speaker 5: To have a genuine experience with the divine that makes sure life.

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Speaker 1: So this is an interesting question for me. My father was Jewish and my mother was a member of every Christian church depending on who she was married to at the time. And so I grew up really between two worlds and the I'm sure people have comments on this, but for me, the biggest difference and I grew up in almost totally Jewish neighborhood and we were the ones that you know, I was a shick set was, you know, because my father was only Jewish. And again in the in the Hebrew tradition, the mother's religion is no in the Jewish religion, the mother's religion is what you are. In other words, my father was Jewish, but I would have to convert to Judaism if if you know, I was dating someone Jewish. And here's the thing for me. If you're a Christian, you believe that Jesus is Savior and died on the cross for your sins. If you're a Jew, you believe that Jesus existed. He was a prophet, but he is not the Son of God. And in fact that is still yet to come. You know, he was a prophet. So it's so completely what's what I'm looking for, Completely opposite sides of the of the coins. So I think as someone grew up in a Christian tradition, it would be hard to convert unless you are like me who really didn't up with the tradition.

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Speaker 4: What I see here is she's worried about his parents. A lot of women that are in love with their spouse and they want to convert. They are better practicing in the synagogue than people that are brought up Jewish and you know, by Mitzvah and so on, so they I think they're very strong when they convert. But it's your choice choice. But like you just said, Kathy, it's the woman that the one that's going to raise the children and bring them and teach them Judaism. Do you know That's what is important.

00:26:41
Speaker 5: I also, I think here in this question I want to give a little shout out to the writer or to the because there's a lot of understanding in the language of this. She's obviously witnessed the concerns by the parents, also accepted how much her partner right now, her boyfriend and is caring for, you know, kind of holding the way to both situations. And that's where I think the advice would come in, is in the way to both situations. I think this is only going to get increasingly difficult, and I do think having the family and support is very valuable in a marriage. Do I think it makes a break in marriage. No, But I think it's very valuable and I think it makes the marriage a lot more fruitful. Yes, when everybody involved is excited and celebrating and giving their support behind this union. And so what I would say here is, you know, breakup and all that. That's not good advice. What I would say here is, I think the advice I would have was take a big leap of faith in your own experience and sit down with them all together. You at this point have to lead this conversation because it feels like a lot of words are being thrown around, either behind your back and a lack of support, or to your boyfriend where he's having to carry the weight of both. So I think, if you're seeing this and you're experiencing it, and I'm all down together and say, hey, I want to do what I can to be a part of this family because I love your son and I want to be with your son, and I understand there's concerns and I want to do what I can to alleviate those concerns. But if I can't, in your eyes, if that's never going to be an option for you. I need to know that now so that we don't continue down this path of dating and falling more in love.

00:28:22
Speaker 1: And that's that's exactly That last line to me speaks directly to what you're saying. It's not, in my mind just about the religion. You know, this person says, how much, say, should his parents have in our relationship? And so I think your advice is really sound.

00:28:39
Speaker 3: It's not.

00:28:41
Speaker 1: Potentially this is not just a conversation about religion, but other lifestyle chill, you know, all kinds of things that she may feel the parents are going to in her mind overstep.

00:28:52
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think she shares.

00:28:54
Speaker 4: She he's very active in his face faith and she respects it.

00:28:59
Speaker 3: Right.

00:28:59
Speaker 1: So I think sitting down and communicating is always the best path.

00:29:06
Speaker 5: In these situations especially, and it's not going to be easy.

00:29:10
Speaker 6: And I know that feels like there's better there.

00:29:12
Speaker 5: I know when you write this, there could be it feels like there's better advice out there that might not have to confront it. But I think in this situation you have to confront it because I can't imagine. I love my in lungs and they love me, and we have a great relationship. I understand that's not the case for everybody in nor do I think it's like that, you know, the make or break. But I do think if they are going to continue to overstep, if they're going to continue to whisper words of resentment into your partner's ears the over time, that we'll eat at him and that's unfair to him.

00:29:43
Speaker 2: Got it, got it?

00:29:45
Speaker 3: You know what?

00:29:46
Speaker 2: We wish them a lot of luck and be true to yourself.

00:29:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well I gotta say that's doing it for this episode.

00:29:56
Speaker 6: That boy.

00:29:58
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00:30:11
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00:30:15
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00:30:31
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00:30:34
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00:30:53
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