Let's Take A Breth

Welcome to 2024! We sure missed you all.

In this first episode of the new year, we’ll catch you up on our crazy apartment move right before the holidays and why the perfect air fryer makes all the difference. Several major life events happen, and if you can make it through a shit show of a move with your partner, then you can make it through anything together.

We share what we’re leaving behind in 2023 and taking with us in 2024. If you haven’t guessed it yet, yup, we are giving zero fucks in 2024! What are you leaving behind and taking with you into the new year?

We’re also introducing our first guest, an exceptional guest; Brandy’s mom is here to talk with us! She tells us how she feels great at age 80 and why her best advice about the person you love the most is to “Love them the most when they are least lovable.”

Happy Listening!

Why celebrate AAPI Heritage Month? What is AAPI? What is Intergenerational trauma and what does that have to do with spanking kids? So many questions and we have some answers, well at least we have our own experiences to share and make sense of these topics. AAPI stands for Asian American and Pacific Islander. We talk about the important contributions these communities has had on our country and why it’s important to keep AAPI representation and traditions alive and well. Brandy shares little bit about her Filipino upbringing especially growing up in the Philippine Performing Arts Company of Tampa Bay (PPAC). Both Brian and Brandy share how they were spanked by the slipper or wooden spoon and why that generational curse ends with them and their kids. Happy Listening!

How did we start this conversation with laughing about how we met to celebrating 10 years of marriage to making sense of gun violence? By being open and honest. Let's be real, it's been a tough couple weeks with all the shootings happening in our country because someone simply knocked on the wrong door or drove up the wrong drive way. It's been hard kissing our son off to school but we still muster up the strength in front of him and hide the tears behind our eyes. Can you relate?
In this episode we try and do our part to honor the victims of these senseless gun acts from these past couple weeks by saying their names. Reminding ourselves that their lives mattered and that their deaths and traumatic injuries will not go in vain. We also bring up special memories of how we met to also remind ourselves of the sweet side of life. Remember when that special someone had a twinkle in their eye or when your heart fluttered when they walked in the room? Let us all be reminded of the best parts of humanity and what's possible when we fight for one another to live freely in our society; once we go back to 'Loving Thy Neighbor'. Happy Listening!
As shared in the episode, to be a part of the solution check out these organizations:
Moms Demand Action
https://momsdemandaction.org/
Everytown:
https://www.everytown.org/
https://studentsdemandaction.org/

In this first episode we're thrilled to introduce ourselves as your hosts.
We briefly talk about what it's like to be in a mix-race marriage with two beautiful mix kids who at one time Brian tried to 'activate the black gene'. You have to hear it to believe it. And if you're just as frustrated as we are about the state of our world, at least our country, then you definitely have to listen in. We join you vent with us, laugh with us, connect with us and at the same time take a step back, take a deep breath so we can all figure out how to move forward together. Happy Listening!

Summer is under way and we hope you're remembering to take deep breaths as our children are running around the home. We had to take a short break but we hope you enjoyed our previous episodes that we RE-introduced to ya’ll.
We've been excited to share this episode because we're doing our first-ever giveaway. We’re giving away a book and it’s not just any book, it’s one of the banned books in the state of Florida: Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb”. Amanda made history as the youngest Poet Laureate to recite her poem at President Joe Biden’s Inauguration. We go into why restricting access to a book about hope and unity is absurd and why we chose it as our first-ever giveaway on our show. Brandy shares how doing a book report about Malcolm X was inspiring and gives a shout our to her 8th grade teacher, Ms. Brinsko for not banning not only a controversial book but a controversial public figure. Perhaps most teachers knows best in the classroom.
Happy Listening!