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TOPIC: 

Consider this your Am I 2021 Year in Review! We’ve learned a lot of facts and hacks from each other and our insightful guests, and we reflect on all of it in today’s episode. We dive into what we learned from our podcast and personal lives in terms of our careers, relationships, identity, and finances. Plus, we share our highlights and lowlights of this past year. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• Our favorite takeaways from this year’s podcast episodes 
• What we learned in our own personal lives
• Some of our favorite guests this year
• Helpful resources from certain episodes 
• How we’ve implemented tips and tricks from the podcasts in our everyday lives 
• Reflections on how we’ve grown this year 

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Episode 72

[00:00:08] Natalie McMillan: And I'm Natalie McMillan.

[00:00:20] Natalie McMillan: And each week we cover a new topic and we pop open a new bottle of wine.

And

Cause this is our last episode of 2021. It's a sham, it's a sham patch. And today we are talking our best lessons that we've learned in 2021. And what me and you are bringing with us into the new year. Y'all we're going to be talking about our favorite lessons from this year's episodes. We went through our episodes.

We were like, what did we actually learn? What have we learned a lot. We learned a lot, but you know, those things, little tidbits, you're like, I'm going to bring that in for this year. And also what we learned in our own personal lives that maybe we didn't talk about on the podcast, a highlight from some of our favorite guests this year.

So, and you only

[00:01:33] Corinne Foxx: It's made with so much love and doing it. So thank you guys for listening. Not explain the show-me pump. It's actually a champagne. It's actually a

This is the LaMarca Prosecco. This is just your standard sec. You can get this at cost plus world market. If you want. It's inexpensive and it's always.

[00:02:02] Natalie McMillan: Yeah. I love new year. I love a new year. I do two new year's is my favorite holiday.

It's definitely one of mine. If you guys also want to. And listen to our new year's Eve episode from last year, it was all about like how to have rituals for a new year. That's also a really good episode. If you really want to learn how to like welcome in the new year, there's a lot of fun, little tidbits and that one as well, before we get into it, I did want to talk about something that I realized this morning.

And I said, Back yo ass. Tell me, I was like, you know, we're, we're away for the holidays. Like I'm not working. I really, really trying to take work off.

[00:02:41] Corinne Foxx: And then I thought, okay, great. I'm going to organize my closet. I'm going to organize my makeup. I'm going to go to Goodwill.

I'm going to get my office put together the way. And I said, well, that's where. Toxic productivity. I thought, wow, Corrine, you can't even allow yourself to really relax and rest because I have all these. I was like, well, and then I, and then I was like, well, I won't have a successful break. If I don't accomplish all these things, all those little pending things, you're like, oh, I'm going to do it when I have time.

And I started catching myself, I was like, girlfriend, oh, I can try. But if you don't get any of that done, It's not a waste of your break. It's

[00:03:27] Corinne Foxx: And I'm like, still, obviously so good for you if you can. But I was like starting to make it, like I have to do these things.

Right. But the problem

[00:03:55] Corinne Foxx: Yeah. Well, you know what I mean? Yeah. I just wanted to say that to anyone who's listening right now, who also was like, okay, we're on break new year. I'm going to do this, this, this, this, this, this it's like, if you just want to chill out for the next week. And party celebrate the new year and you don't go through your closet and give every E D it's.

[00:04:19] Corinne Foxx: We're not sponsored, but we love to be,

[00:04:25] Corinne Foxx: resigned that we're guilty of that very guilty, but not. Should we get into this week's episode? So we

And we never missed, we literally never missed a single. We tried really hard to do that too. There were some times where we're like, oh shit, we always pulled it off. And we've learned a lot of facts. We've learned a lot of life hacks

[00:04:53] Natalie McMillan: thought it'd be fun to not only reflect on what we've learned, but also just like what we learned in our personal lives in general.

So that's a great episode at the beginning of the year about like finding your purpose in your career and your life. She also has a book called, am I doing this right? Which is why she was on the podcast. But yeah, we spoke to her about how she left her traditional nine to five to follow her dream of being an author.

[00:05:47] Corinne Foxx: Yes. I love Colleen Bordeaux and I feel like I took that episode and I really feel like I got a chance to expand myself this year outside of just being an actor.

And I actually, this was the first year that I produced something and I tried something outside of. Myself. So that was really exciting for me. And I mean, I'll talk about this later, but also what success means to me, I kind of had a chance to redefine that for myself. Yeah. And I definitely look back at this year and I see a lot of success.

Where there were some losses too. I know.

Yeah. So nobody likes to work with people who are downers and of course we all have. But you want to be that net positive and you want to keep people in your life that are the net positives as well.

[00:06:53] Natalie McMillan: be that person in the office. You guys know another gym we had on. D D Wong Wong, the entrepreneur and angel investor, her episode was on how to be bold and confidently advocate for yourself.

Yes, she is a super powerhouse and a master conversationalist. And I remember she said in terms of networking, it's not so much about what you say to people, but how you make. I feel, yes. People will always remember your energy more than your

And I feel like when I was networking this year, which like my business, I do a lot of like things called generals where you just like meet with someone from a studio or meet with a director, just so you guys know each other. And I also have to make a lot of small talk on set. And I was always aware after did that episode of like, okay, let me really focus on the other person.

People love to talk about them. Yeah. And let me make sure that I'm, you know, making sure they feel good because what we talk about, I mean, it's arbitrary anyways. I was like, where are you from? And, you know, whatever. But it's like, do they feel like I'm interested in them or did they feel good when we leave our conversation?

And I really took that and implemented that. Well, it is a

[00:08:12] Corinne Foxx: energy. And DME is unforgettable. If you mean D D wants are like, oh my

[00:08:20] Corinne Foxx: Okay. So should we talk about what we've learned in our own personal lives about our career?

Yes, let's get into it. I think for me, I got to say this year I learned to ask for help more. I recently just got an assistant and yell. Hello. Um, and she's going to be starting with me and the new year. And that was something that was really hard for me. I really didn't feel worthy of help or deserving.

Since, you know, I've talked to you a lot about this, but I feel like I really grew outside of that lack mentality. And I began to realize that the more, and you told me this, like the more help I have, the more opportunities they'll have to, to work, make money. Exactly. And I also biggest life-changing thing that helped me in my career.

As I got a life coach this year, she was in a total game changer in terms of my productivity, not in a toxic way, but also like planning it. You're going to not do anything after this. Opposite.

[00:09:16] Corinne Foxx: Yeah. And she just really helped me so much.

Or as a creative, if you're listening to this, organize my projects, set deadlines for myself and have accountability. And then every week going to someone like, Hey, where are you on this project? What are your next steps you got to do? How many hours is that going to take you to do? And like where in your schedule can we place it?

And I feel like I accomplished so many projects. Got to the finish line on so many things, because I had a life coach and she held you accountable

[00:09:47] Corinne Foxx: she doesn't like, there's still things. She really wants me to book my housekeeper monthly, like just every month to come and I can't do it.

I'm too afraid to ask her to just, can you just come the same day every month? So she's like, have you done that yet? I'm like, no, she's like, okay, we're going to put it on your schedule and I'm going to keep doing it until you just asked her to come me.

So yeah. Well, I took away from. Interviewing all these gals and just what gave me a lot of inspirational is that they all like, truly, truly loved their careers and were so authentically themselves in their careers. And I think about Didi Wong, that woman shows up. She is just herself. She is, you know, and a lot of these women it's.

Pure authenticity. And I think that it really helped me kind of like push through some of my fears because I know people won't believe this, but I am actually a shy person. You

[00:10:51] Natalie McMillan: strangers. I am a shy person. No, you're not shy.

True.

She was an, an early year episode. And I think that they just gave me like the strength to be like, okay, Like

[00:11:41] Natalie McMillan: I think that this year it became more and more and more and just will continue to, yes.

And we also talked about how friendships change over time and how our expectations for friendships should also change over time. Once you know, career motivations and adult responsibilities come into the picture. It's really only natural for the number of our must friends, which we'll get into to kind of Peter out.

And the ideal of people's expectations for friendship is always really intentioned with the reality of our lives. You know, like you want to have all these friends and see them all the time. And it's like, we really don't have time for that anymore. We truly do not. I mean, we basically created this podcast so we can just hang out pretty much, pretty much, but something that just stuck with me.

And I always kind of think about that. We learned in that episode was the different types of friends. So there's the must friend, which is you're a must. Okay. You are a must test buddy member of the inner circle, the closest of relationships. Like if something happens like a birth, a death winning the lotto, breakups, whatever these are the people that you call, but you could also have like a trust friend, which demonstrate a level of integrity.

You know, you can trust confiding in them, someone you're always really glad to see and perhaps want to be closer to if you had time. And I feel like I have a lot of those people. I just wish I trust them. I could tell them like really deep stuff, but I wish I could just see them more. one of them for me, like the first time I met her was talking about such deep stuff with her.

And then I was like, she lives in. They need to come out here, come out here. And then the next was a rest friend. So this is a person that you've known for a really long, long time. And you're probably not going to get any closer to that friend unless something changes, but they're part of your life, you know, they're there, they're always going to be there.

Right. And then lastly, having a, just friend. So that's a person you see at your schools at parties who is enjoyable and company, but you have no desire to socialize with outside of a specific contact. Right? They're just there learning that in that episode, it's like, it kind of helps you like categorize like expectations for people a

And we all might have a toxic friend. So from Coleen's episode, like we said about the whole net positive thing before. Apply this to your relationships. So ask yourself if you've got a friend that's a net positive in your life, you know, no friendships. Perfect. But if you're dreading being around them more than you are looking forward to it, then maybe IGA.

Look at

And I think. This episode really helps me make peace with the fact that relationships change over time. And no, I'm not running around in my sorority house with my girlfriends anymore. So of course I'm not going to meet as close as we were. And that doesn't necessarily mean that our friendship is bad.

It's just different.

[00:15:10] Corinne Foxx: I know actually just talked to my sorority sisters about celebrating our 10 year friendship first. Next in the new year,

[00:15:23] Corinne Foxx: exact, it's just like, I had to kind of more on that and kind of be like, okay.

And that doesn't mean we on bad terms. Right. It's just like, you know, some of them will have across the

[00:15:49] Corinne Foxx: seek.

And that's the only way we

By the media, of course, and by women, themselves,

[00:16:34] Natalie McMillan: Cause when, when we had her on, we were like, we don't know this. Isn't going to be like, kind of. No, she didn't. Oh my God. We were so comfy talking. Oh my God, I love, she was the best. She kind of talked about like how it's a myth that women have a lower sex drive than men. And she was like, women just get bored easier than men, which is true.

True. And she said, you know, if you told a man who was 20, that he'd be having. Exactly the same sex for the rest of his life, he would say great. But if you told a woman that she would be like, I am fucking bored. Absolutely not. And she says that women need novelty, excitement, adventure. And that we're the ones that live in our heads.

And so then he's also just really comfortable talking about sex, but I wanted to share how it kind of implemented into my own lives. And we actually had a conversation between the two of us. I also, you know, Talk to Joe about spreading this knowledge to his guy, friends. So he can be a part of breaking the cycle.

Yes. Because, you know, I'm sure there's not a, I mean, maybe we have a lot of heterosexual men that listened to this podcast with Joe might be the only one. I'd be the only one, you know, I was like, Hey, you know, you can share this with your friends and, you know, help give, also give women or their girlfriends can be like, oh, thank you for, oh, you know that great.

I don't have to pretend that feels good. You know what I mean?

[00:18:16] Corinne Foxx: Exactly. But in terms of relationships, things that we've learned in our own life outside of the podcast, um, not to want to talk about what you've learned.

Yes.

That was

[00:18:58] Natalie McMillan: but like, it was so powerful and like, I don't think I could have done that in 2020. I think it took 20, 21. And like all I have learned this year to be like, I can have this conversation, this can go in the way that I want it to.

[00:19:28] Corinne Foxx: me in terms of relationships, I really like you also learn. Speak up for my needs, better like needing space or needing connection.

And I do think Joe will agree with me that I've gotten a lot better at not bottling things up and asking for what I need in the moment, which is really, really hard. Like for example, we were in the car when Joe's brother and sister-in-law were here and I wanted to go in the grocery store to get something because I wanted a specific brand of whatever we were cooking, cooking something.

And I was like, no, no, no, like, I'll go in. Like I want to go in and I. No, I want to go in and he was like, well, I'll just do it. I'll just do it for you. So then I ended up going in and they just pulled him aside and said, Hey babe, you know what? Like, I really felt like you weren't listening to me then. And I really just didn't.

I wanted to go in because I wanted to look whatever, get the specific brand and that didn't make me feel good. And he was like, oh my God, thank you for telling me. And I just did it in the moment so that I didn't build it up for later. And sometimes what I used to do is like, okay, I remember this. Um, whip that out two weeks later, it'd be like, well, I'll be telling you all the things that have pissed me off that time in the grocery store.

That time I need to be like shit while I was saving it for right

[00:20:42] Corinne Foxx: very proud of myself and, and Joe actually complimented me on it. He was like, wow, they've done such a good job at doing that. And I want to do better at doing it for myself. Yeah. Because it's so much better when it's just

Yes. And it's just the communication and it's not like I'm trying to pick a fight with you. I'm just telling you, like, this is how I felt.

Yeah. Okay. Nobody knows Joe. So Joe, I hope he doesn't get mad that I'm saying this. He does this thing sometimes where he wants to do it for me though. Kind of like in this situation, like if I'm struggling with something, he would like grab it out of my hand and then like open the jar and be like, here you go.

And I'd be like, yeah, Take things out of my hand or do it for me or ask, you know, and he was, uh, oh my God, I didn't even realize I was doing that. You know, and it's kind of a little bit of like a, not a patriarchal, but just like, I'm the man, I'll just do it. Right. And he's really caught himself. What was the other day like I was trying to, and he almost went.

I'm sorry. No, you do it. And you just kind of fought that like urge to just go in and do it for me and fits in and I can do it faster snaps for Joe to get a job about that. And he's really, really paid attention to doing that. And thank you. Thank you, Joe,

[00:22:00] Corinne Foxx: you. Okay. So let's talk about, we've talked about career relationships.

Talk about ourselves, sell. Yes. What we've learned through our podcasts about being our best selves.

And both of those episodes really pointed out that consistency in the morning and night routine.

That usually was pretty carb heavy and. And they did some form of movement or spiritual practice in the morning. Yeah. It seems like mornings for successful people are very sacred. They seem very

[00:23:10] Corinne Foxx: morning practice. Yes. And then for nighttime routines, we really focus on the importance of taking the time to wind down and starting basically right when you're done with work and taking baths and reading and changing into your comfy clothes, et cetera.

All the things you should start doing earlier in the night, rather than later. And another huge aspect of night routines was keeping electronics off and making your room a sanctuary for sleep only. It was sleeping sex only. So like no

And that's it. And that was a cool episode too. Like, we kind of talked about how to like optimize it. Like the temperature sounds everything. And from those two episodes, something I found so fascinating and Kerryn had already been on. It was the concept of criminal types and how we can work optimally based on when we best sleep and wake

And you kind of made your whole work schedule around your chronotype. I did, after

[00:24:22] Corinne Foxx: Circadian rhythm is, oh, for sure. I mean, I work out in the morning because I'm a dolphin and I, it takes me longer to wake up.

I'm very tired in the morning. I'm not operating, so I have to get my endorphins going, but like Joe, he gets tired or early. So he works, you know, it's just like he has to work out later. The endorphins later. Yes. Interesting. Thanks an

[00:24:45] Corinne Foxx: Yeah. And another episode we did about like ourselves and self love was how to overcome failure, which was one of my personal favorites, because I feel like we both got super vulnerable about our own perceived failures and like.

Yeah. Nice. So I talked

[00:25:13] Corinne Foxx: And little, did you know that you had to go to that college because of the jewelry?

And I realized actually I. Smart. You are incredibly smart. They just can't really do. Math is the thing same here. But if you put me in my. I will get straight A's

[00:25:40] Natalie McMillan: just had happened to the best of us, but I don't think that that's what happened to them that happened to the

But I think what I learned was that. Nobody else has really perceiving your failure. Cause I thought, oh, this is going to be national headline. Right. There was one dude on Twitter that BR like literally one, one

[00:26:00] Corinne Foxx: Nobody else noticed at all. So,

Yeah. So we learned that the perception of failure is often just the self fulfilling prophecy and it hinders your performance ability actually causing you to fail more later. And we learned in one study monkeys who made a mistake in a trial even after mastering the task on par with other monkeys later performed worse than the monkeys

It's like, if you hold onto the failure, it actually, you're so nervous about failing that you do it more. You get in your head about it, and then it actually becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, and then you don't do it well, and this whole thing. Right. Cause

[00:26:41] Corinne Foxx: after that. Yes.

And I thought it was really cool on the, how to overcome failure we learned was that you can reframe and re-imagine your failure. So research suggests you can edit out previous failures by visualizing them getting smaller and dimmer or infusing your memories of them with funny or improbable details.

Yeah. Just revisualize.

[00:27:07] Corinne Foxx: benefits.

Very freeing,

We, I produce a show called dad, stop embarrassing me. We didn't get a second season. And I really look back on that entire experience with such admiration. And even though we didn't get picked up, well, I will say at the time I really thought I was never going to work again as a producer. I thought, oh my God, this is my first thing.

It doesn't get a second season. I'm never going to work as a producer. Again. I remember this

[00:28:10] Corinne Foxx: Yeah. And talking about it. And the absolutely didn't happen. And since then, I've already sold another TV show. I'm developing five other television and film projects as we speak.

And I look back at dad, stop embarrassing me as this learning lesson. Yes. That I got to learn how to be a producer in the safe environment with family. Netflix was so great to me. And so it was just like, oh, this was just my little training. Right. It was just a little training course.

I was like, what if we think of this as. This not being on your schedule then opens up all this time for you to do different

I know.

Who were raised in like the nineties and early two thousands. We were very inundated with messaging around our bodies around dieting. And it was so much of, it was so predatory and psychological and kind of having to unlearn that and be like, wait, that's not normal. Very hard to do. And I think something that.

Cool that she pointed out was that the body positivity quote, unquote, that moment really got taken over. And then the message got completely lost. And she was talking about how she found herself posting photos on Instagram with like really long captions, like explaining why, like, I love my body and like why, you know, people will post like pictures of like their stretch marks.

And like, I love my stretch marks, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We don't have to be explaining ourselves. We can simply exist as a human being in a body and just be like, here I am. Nope. I'm just here.

[00:30:26] Natalie McMillan: listen, if you don't love your stretch marks.

Yeah. Don't have to, yeah, you can just be like,

[00:30:35] Natalie McMillan: They exist here. We are. We're just vibing on planet

Well, mine really is a lot

And then I was reflecting when we were talking about this episode and I was like, I think. If it weren't for this year, like if last year there was some sort of like health trend, I probably would have jumped on it. You know what I mean? Like if they were like, oh, you gotta drink celery juice every fucking morning or whatever, whatever I would have been like, oh, let me try this.

But now. I just am going to eat and work out in a way that feels very good to my, my own body and myself. And I'm just gonna do that for me.

[00:31:39] Natalie McMillan: healthier, honestly. Yeah. So it's all made up and I just, whatever group tells me, I'm like, no, thanks. I don't need. I remembered what

I mean, my chronotype and like my internal clock, but also learning to speak up on things that don't work for me. So like, for example, I work at this company right now and we had like 90 meaning can we all make this. Nope. Good for you. It was scary. That was to be like, I didn't say why just said, oh, that doesn't work for me because I know my chronotype, my brain is not going to be turned on at 9:00 AM for writing.

[00:32:31] Natalie McMillan: and it all ends because after you've learned more about my

So I'm going to say no. So I'm catching

[00:32:48] Corinne Foxx: same. No. So don't try to

[00:32:53] Corinne Foxx: category? Yeah. Financial financials. What did we learn from our podcast financially? And we had one of my dream guests.

I was so nervous when she got on here. I was like, Fuck out

[00:33:07] Corinne Foxx: Um, we had Erin Lowry on the podcast who is an author and a personal finance expert. And Aaron gave us so many amazing tips on how to talk about money with the people in our lives. Be it friends, family, and especially in partnership, we talked about being financially naked with people in our lives to take the stigma out of money.

Because it can feel really unromantic to ask your partner if they have a ton of debt before getting more serious with them. But it is a very practical question and she suggested framing up conversations in ways of goals. So instead you would ask, what is a financial goal you have in the next five years, and what is stopping you from getting there?

That's the stopping you is the like Andy, I got debt.

[00:33:55] Corinne Foxx: Exactly. And their answers should really. Reveal what you need to know. Exactly. Yeah.

If you get invited to a birthday party that will cost you an arm and a leg

[00:34:19] Natalie McMillan: good with them and let them know it's not in your budget. And, you know, instead say like, I would like to do something one-on-one with you is within

Same, definitely in the new year, in the new year. And another episode we did about financials was decoding crypto. You guys remember that episode? Episode 58 and this was another one we put off for months for so long. We want it off because it was so far out of our element. And we spent hours researching just to come up with literally, it was like, what was it called?

It was like, perfect over baby preschoolers

[00:35:01] Corinne Foxx: and we did feel a lot more knowledgeable on crypto and we also had some. Uh, reach out to us and was like, Hey, like who is in he's in

And he was like, you actually were completely. Right. That's so proud of us. We watched so many, but it was a lot. Yeah. So much, I'm going to do a really very brief breakdown here. If you missed that episode, I just feel like we all need to know this was the year of crypto. You get a cryptocurrency wallet address, very similar to a bank account, but there's no card that goes along with it.

It's just an account number. You don't provide any personal information to start a wallet. So your identity is not even attached to the account. Any cryptocurrency held in your wallet is owned by you and not a bank, which means that nobody can shut down that account. But the problem is if you lose access to your account, or if you don't write down that recovery phrase, you're done all that crypto it's gone forever.

So, you know, it's definitely got its pros and its cons, but knowing how it works fundamentally. Very big for us, for sure. And you can listen to that whole episode and you can hear Kerryn explain blockchains as if she is a literal genius. And like we said, no factual errors. We

And in terms of our own lives, what we learned. Personal finance. I feel like I did a lot better this year about splitting my business and personal expenses. I really struggled with that last year. My mom is my accountant. This woman is on. Okay. This woman is on hot on my trail. And so I, I was really, I'm proud of myself and I got a separate business account and now I do that.

And also now I have my assistant in yellow and she's got personal and business. It's all, it's all aligned and it's all clean and it's well, save my asset tax

So I made one account just for like having fun money basically. So I separated all my finances into categories and percentages. And then when I get paid out from my business, I put the money into the categories. So for example, let's say I made a thousand dollars. I would dedicate 20% of my income to retirement investments.

So I put 200 in there. Another 20% goes into the fun accounts, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Fun account. Yeah, because then it's like, when you look at your checking, you're like, well, all this is for like my life and bills and health, but then I have my fun again. Where I can, you know, go and try it or whatever.

[00:37:55] Natalie McMillan: Yes, we do. Like the health insurance episode. I'm so proud of us. Oh my God. We were dreading that one. So. Yes. And we put it off for so long. Cause we just didn't want to get into the abyss. That is health insurance here in the United States of America.

But I think we both felt really empowered after researching and doing that episode, including the difference between HMO's PPS and. Oh,

So if you have to see a specialist or get tests done, like an x-ray, you have to. from your primary care doctor. Now at PPO, you can visit any provider without referral, both inside and outside your network, which gives you flexibility. However, the overall cost of a PPO are usually higher and out of network care while an out of network care will always be more expensive.

And then lastly, the POS really kind of like a little mix of an HMO or PPO, like a PPO. They cover out of network healthcare, but like HMO's, they sent her a. A primary care physician. So there are less expensive than PPIs, but more expensive than nature mouse. And that, on that,

And I think that having that knowledge made me a lot more comfortable with. Yeah. It's so

Which is a goal of mine, which was, I think the title of the episode is how to not call your parents. Yes. And ask, which I

[00:39:51] Corinne Foxx: it. No, I did it this year. And I was like, there

[00:39:57] Corinne Foxx: we had chef Meghan made

That was the title on that. And we asked her what the top five spices you should have in your kitchen, excluding salt and pepper. Yeah. And she said, you need cinnamon. Curry powder, garlic powder, turmeric and red chili flakes.

And also a big takeaway from that episode for me was meal prepping and how much time that saves in my life. That was something I started this year that I really loved. I actually kind of stopped, but yeah, I need to start that, but you can also just do what Meg does, which is ingredient. Not the whole meal, but just like chopping all your veggies up.

Like that is what I need to

[00:40:44] Corinne Foxx: hacks, there we go. Yeah. And then in our real lives, some little life hacks we came up with outside of the podcast was my life coach got me to start doing notebooks, which I shared with Natalie's genius. Project. I have great. I just said I'm producing like five to six different TV and film projects.

I have a notebook for each one. And then when I have a meeting on, let's say one of these TV shows, I bring out my little notebook and I'm taking notes during the meeting. I say who I am. What we said and what are the next steps? Because a lot of the times I'd go to my life coach, be like, okay, I'm working on this project.

What's what are you guys doing next? And I go, I

[00:41:27] Corinne Foxx: And they're color coordinated, color coordinated. And so now when she's like, Hey, what'd you talk? Oh, we spoke on this day with this person. And actually the next thing I'm supposed to do is this.

[00:41:43] Corinne Foxx: Got one notebook with everything. It was like

[00:41:52] Corinne Foxx: And I have your own little color coordinated notebooks for each thing in your life.

Yes.

[00:42:03] Corinne Foxx: it. That's where it's at is Natalie and I were

[00:42:13] Corinne Foxx: was dirt cheap. We went to Puerto Vallarta and all our food drinks, everything was free, including alcohol.

Yeah.

[00:42:36] Corinne Foxx: hack. Yeah. Yeah. You, you got me on it.

I think like, are you at least when I'm feeling really stressed out, you're like just Instacart.

[00:42:52] Corinne Foxx: No, it's great. And that's the end of our recapping 2021 lessons episode. We hope you guys picked up a fact or a hack or two.

We're going to be bringing this into the new year. Okay. Now, should we circle back on this? Perseco we've been

[00:43:14] Corinne Foxx: I want you to introduce the hot

[00:43:23] Corinne Foxx: Hey baby. And I actually went back. So episode 11 is when you said that I don't

You said, did you find.

Yes. Where she saw French dispatch and dune. And she was like, all right, I get it.

[00:44:07] Corinne Foxx: it was credit card points. You can go back and listen to that. That was

But anyways, so one to Timo tech,

[00:44:17] Natalie McMillan: like you just can't it's just. Your standard. It just good. I'd give it a nine. I'm going

Should we? Yes. Also I'm really nervous. I'm going to meet them in real life. And I'm going to say Timothy, that's not his name, right? It's Timothy.

I watched an interview where he was like, yeah, it's Timothy. Oh, Thomas.

[00:44:57] Natalie McMillan: eat.

[00:45:21] Natalie McMillan: I'll start with my roses, which was, I was able to go to. And Mexico, which were true vacations, like actual, just like sitting around doing nothing, which is hard.

I never do that. I'm going to Salem big highlight for me, that was so much fun. I painted a lot more this year. My

[00:45:49] Natalie McMillan: Looking cute. And I bought

[00:45:52] Natalie McMillan: big surprise for me. I was like, holy shit. So yeah, those were my roses.

Should I do thorns? Or do you want to do your roses?

I got to buy my first home, which was something I think a craving for, for like five years. I got my little baby, she and I got to go on a lot of fun trips. One of which was going to Tahoe for 4th of July, which is literally my least favorite holiday. I hate the 4th of July more than anything. And I have.

The best time with Joe and his family. Like I've never enjoyed that holiday. And I had such a fun time in Tahoe and I just hit a lot of financial milestones that I've been really trying to get to. I sold the TV show, which I've been working on for five years, which is a huge highlight of my life. And also Joe came to Hawaii with my family and I really just feel like there was a big shift in like no longer him being an outsider, but him being part of our family there, like there just something happened where like, Yeah.

He just felt like he was parked. He was like, yeah, he's in the gang. He's he's officially been

[00:47:08] Corinne Foxx: that for thorns it's I don't want to end

Yeah. I also had a. Good year. I really got to know myself very much and I really did love this year, but there's definitely been some big pain

[00:47:47] Natalie McMillan: 2021 where this is the big thorn, the big thorn in my ass.

So. Cause I got COVID and then also I missed one of my best friend's weddings because I had COVID. So his birthday was on a Sunday. Her wedding was on a Saturday, the following Saturday. I couldn't go to either. Yeah. And I just,

It's in

[00:48:46] Natalie McMillan: And also your symptoms.

Weren't horrible. Cause

I can't wait and we will be back next week. Y'all we're here every week, every single week.

[00:49:23] Corinne Foxx: All right. We love you guys so much. We'll see you next year, a next week.