Jules Part II | Discussion Combustion Podcast | #250

[00:00:00] We'll have this discussion. Discussion, what discussion? This is a discussion

[00:00:04] Combustion coming to you from Denver, Colorado. This is Discussion Combustion Podcast

[00:00:12] with your hosts, Kevin Batstone and Arthur Rawe. So 250 here of Discussion

[00:00:17] Combustion. We got Jules and Pearl's back in the studio for a second appearance

[00:00:23] really excited to have you back. Kevin I like your sweater it's kind of

[00:00:28] matching the polarized logo change. Yeah kind of worked out that way we got a new logo as you can

[00:00:32] see here on the Discussion Combustion production YouTube channel. That's right we changed it

[00:00:36] from Discussion Combustion Podcast to Happy Friday America to Discussion Combustion Productions

[00:00:40] because there's a lot of great things going on. We got rotot coming out here. Great things

[00:00:43] happening. 250 and beyond guys were really excited about it. Keeping it the same, same awesome

[00:00:48] discussions, same awesome people. We're gonna keep moving. Yes, we're gonna keep moving and we're

[00:00:52] so excited to have Jules back in here. Your Instagram kind of blew up after the last time you're on

[00:01:00] actually. It did yeah I came on on February 22nd and it was that night that my first real hit

[00:01:07] a million plays. Wow. And then I basically went from at the beginning of last year 600 followers

[00:01:13] on Instagram to over 75,000 now and it's just been a wild year. So also thank you for having me

[00:01:22] back because I did go back and look at like my first podcast with you guys. Okay. And I feel so

[00:01:28] bad because I feel like I smiled maybe like twice during that entire episode and I was just

[00:01:36] my personality was at like a four out of 10 and I was just going through some stuff. So I

[00:01:42] appreciate you asking me back and sorry for kind of being a little bit of an ear the first time.

[00:01:48] I didn't notice that. Yeah, I don't remember you revives. I remember learning a lot about

[00:01:51] the process and other things. Well, I feel like I just smile more and when I looked back I was like oh

[00:01:57] she needs to eat a cookie. So here's the good thing about that is that you took some time

[00:02:02] for self-reflection and everybody's our own worst critic and what better place to criticize

[00:02:09] ourselves than like a live-action conversation. Yeah. And you stuck to it, you stayed creating

[00:02:15] and stayed active. I'm sure you've helped people with your content and that's why we had to get

[00:02:20] you back was for the momentum and we thought you had a great energy the first time. Oh great.

[00:02:24] Yeah. Yeah. First up was great. So yeah. Okay. For the folks that listen. I'll take your word for it.

[00:02:30] They obviously didn't see that so that's a reminder to the listeners. We appreciate your support on

[00:02:34] Spotify and all those great things but click that watch here links so you can see all the fun we're

[00:02:38] having here in the studio. Yeah. It's a little different on the video presence. It's different.

[00:02:42] It's different but I like that experience you know for people to be able to see what's going on.

[00:02:45] Some people don't have time for that they just want to drive and listen I get that but it's kind

[00:02:49] of fun to watch it. I will say I did cook a little bit more as we said in the last podcasts I hate

[00:02:55] cooking I do love to bake but while I cook I do like to throw on a podcast on the background

[00:03:00] and if it's just sound it's not as fun. Okay. So I do like to do it. So you prefer the visual yeah.

[00:03:05] It's been helpful for my cooking journey. How's that? Are you watching like cooking podcasts? No. Okay.

[00:03:11] Hard no one that one. Are they watching podcast? I watch like Netflix documentary like feeding

[00:03:17] Phil yeah and that one's kind of fun but it can only inspire you so much and then I look in my

[00:03:23] kitchen and I'm like I don't have any of the ingredients for this so throw on the towel order pizza.

[00:03:28] I mean that's always a good backup option for sure. I love it. I like just experiment with it.

[00:03:33] I think we touched on a little bit last time you're on but you know the cooking with kev that's

[00:03:36] come a long way of course. Art you're always doing a great job filming that. Yeah.

[00:03:39] Film me and on that have you gotten your apron that says cooking with kev yet?

[00:03:42] No well I don't have the cooking with kev apron but I do have one that says kevans backyard barbeque

[00:03:46] eaters beware right my parents got me that for my birthday last year so thanks mom and dad for that

[00:03:51] but yeah we have fun with it just just making some fun finger foods and you know kind of man-k

[00:03:55] foods if you will you know nothing too crazy but what I you know when I'm doing the social media

[00:03:59] scroll as we were talking about before we went on mic that's the stuff I get dialed into or which

[00:04:04] will grab my attention is these cooking videos like hey guys we're making this today you know it's

[00:04:08] five six minute video and then next thing you know I'm like okay an hour has gone by I'm looking

[00:04:12] at all these recipes yeah that's how I give most of my videos like to make these chicken cordon blues

[00:04:16] with like a lot of food like for cheese sauce and you know you're getting pretty efficient is it

[00:04:24] it's efficient in the kitchen yeah I mean just he's able to like go in there and like you know

[00:04:29] he puts on his his like black gloves and stuff and like he has like the apron all the towel over

[00:04:35] the shoulder that he's rocking you gotta go all in yeah he gets serious he gets dialed in a fun I

[00:04:40] have fun with it and you know I'm getting around you probably don't know this but I'm getting ready

[00:04:43] to give up alcohol in June okay for a year so I'm gonna need to put that energy somewhere else

[00:04:48] and I think cooking is going to be the spot for that I'm excited for that amongst other things I

[00:04:52] don't want to turn into a fat ass you know substitute the alcohol for eating all the time but like

[00:04:55] that energy has to go somewhere so that's kind of what I'm looking at doing what is inspiring you

[00:05:00] to do that to quit alcohol so I made a promise to myself when I was 28 years old so that's going

[00:05:05] to be seven years ago in June that when I turned 35 I needed to do some sobriety you know alcoholism

[00:05:11] long line of it my family and it's just time it's time to give it a pump the brakes you know

[00:05:16] our I watch art do it he's done tremendous gave up booze for a while and it's not one of those

[00:05:20] things I want to say I'm quitting drinking forever but I want a I want a year of sobriety to reset hit

[00:05:25] the reset button you know when you drink as much beer as I do it's it's time you know so it's a

[00:05:30] commitment I made seven years ago and I want to stick to that I'm very good at meeting deadlines

[00:05:34] and so that's kind of what motivated that I think that's great I mean I think any sort of goal to

[00:05:39] kind of help you do better is a good goal to have in the fact that you actively want to and it's

[00:05:44] been something in the back of your mind for a while I think you can find a lot of success when you

[00:05:47] do that so yeah well thank you yeah I'm excited for you man can be a journey so I like the last

[00:05:53] eight months I didn't drink for like six of those and there's like two months in between where I

[00:05:58] was drinking right so I like the two months off drink for two months did four months off

[00:06:03] and when I did the four month thing it really changed my mentality a lot and

[00:06:08] it's interesting how much fun you can have without alcohol right like it can be a major

[00:06:14] crush like look I'm I was still smoking weed and stuff so I was I can't claim that I was sober

[00:06:19] people say it's cowly sober I'm like no that's that's Colorado sober yeah yeah yeah they call it

[00:06:25] for me yeah why do they call it California sober that seems like much more of like a Colorado

[00:06:30] state but maybe Cali sober comes off the tongue better than Colorado sober that's like we were

[00:06:35] time was it dry oh sober I guess kind of sounds all right co-sob co-sob co-sob hashtag co-sob okay I don't

[00:06:42] know but California sober I mean there's been songs right about I think Willie Nelson did one with

[00:06:45] Billy Strings and yeah I think because California had medical use before Colorado did Colorado went

[00:06:51] wreck first but I think that's where that term comes from but the fact remains yeah you're still

[00:06:55] burning but you're not doing alcohol well yeah and you can have a lot of fun like not drinking

[00:07:00] and that's one thing that I really learned and like you can cheers any liquid in a cup like it doesn't

[00:07:06] have to be alcohol of course and if you feel like you might be kind of the board person at the party

[00:07:11] or like you know I'm not the life of this party everyone's having so much fun around me completely sober

[00:07:16] all you have to do is just throw one hand up and then and then like kind of start grooving and

[00:07:21] then just kind of all you have to do is just barely move your hips throw one hand up and then

[00:07:25] everyone thinks you're having the best time yeah and they're all like okay and then you start

[00:07:29] like bringing the hype yeah so I'm excited I'm gonna support you on that journey yeah I appreciate

[00:07:34] that um how how is your relationship with alcohol if if you don't mind me asking like do you

[00:07:39] is that something do you have like a glass of wine every once in a while or like how does

[00:07:42] jules and pearls do she doesn't really drink alcohol okay um honestly I think I tend to have maybe

[00:07:52] a drink or two if I'm celebrating like a fancy event and I get together and I'm with my friends or

[00:08:00] family and it's like once every six months or so or on vacation and I used to say like I usually

[00:08:07] only like to drink when I'm celebrating or on vacation but I also haven't had like a proper vacation

[00:08:12] since like 2018 so I don't know if that one's still true I feel like I could go anywhere and

[00:08:18] and enjoy it just like enjoy it and be um but yeah I'm not really a big a big drinker I think

[00:08:26] a lot of change over the past couple years and just really trying to take on my business and my career

[00:08:34] and just like have so you've noticed if you did have some beverages that you know your performance

[00:08:42] lacks the next day or like what were like the things that were obviously different for you

[00:08:47] like if you were to um I usually if I was at dinner I know that one drink isn't gonna really do

[00:08:57] anything so then I know that I'd have to drink two drinks and one that's expensive and then I'm like

[00:09:03] I'm gonna be full and then I don't want to like overeat or like feel gross and then if

[00:09:10] I like start drinking like what's my next day like honestly actually okay now that we talk about it um

[00:09:16] the pandemic and then starting to be an Annie working with kids like I had to wake up every day at six

[00:09:23] a.m. and I was like there's no there's no way I'm gonna wake up with a hangover

[00:09:29] and then be present and be alert and alive and like upbeat with these kids all the time like

[00:09:36] it would just not happen so that was like another huge deterrent the night before where I'm like if

[00:09:41] I know that I have to wake up early I'm gonna work out and then I'm gonna go to work and I'm

[00:09:45] around kids I just can't can't do it yeah that makes sense I do enjoy it every once in a while

[00:09:51] like I'm a good I love a good margarita there's not throwing with that you know that's that's

[00:09:55] social drinking yeah when the time calls for maybe a glass champagne on New Year's and whatever

[00:09:59] the case it be and you know the alcohol removed categories becoming pretty big too so a lot of like

[00:10:03] alcohol free spirits and alcohol removed for secos and things like that not alcoholic beers been

[00:10:08] on the market for a long time and you know a lot of people been like well what's the point of that

[00:10:11] it's like drinking decaf coffee or whatever which I would relate that to but you know it gives folks

[00:10:15] that same like there's silver bars here in Denver where the where you know the community can go out

[00:10:19] and still socialize and feel like they're having you know a beverage in that that environment which

[00:10:23] I support you know I don't know if I'll go do that but I'm glad that they offer those options

[00:10:28] I think a silver bar sounds fun you know like you go in there play pool yeah I mean just the same

[00:10:35] environment you just do all the normal things that you normally do um I was noticing because I feel like

[00:10:43] when I stopped drinking for a little bit I started like understanding a little bit more of how

[00:10:46] my thoughts worked and like this and that so I have been drinking since um the beginning of February

[00:10:54] mm-hmm like kind of off and on and I've noticed like I'm I feel more moody like my patience is not as good

[00:11:02] as it was for that period of time when I was off and then also like it's easier to get into the habit

[00:11:10] of continuing to do it right because you're like oh you know those couple glasses of wine like

[00:11:14] that felt good you know I could do that again tomorrow and then it's easy to start like slipping

[00:11:19] back into that like almost nightly uh pattern of you know enjoying a glass wine which there's

[00:11:26] nothing super wrong about that it's just maybe not for me right now but it's interesting that that

[00:11:31] whole thing um and how people interact with it how how it like changes the group or yeah I don't

[00:11:37] know yeah oh and of course here in Colorado we're all getting old too like we're not in our party

[00:11:40] no no it takes a lot longer to recover I was just having this conversation with some co-workers

[00:11:44] earlier today and it's like yeah it's a little tougher as you get older but then here in Colorado

[00:11:48] marijuana is also very uh well when say allowed it's it's a part of the social culture very much so

[00:11:55] and you know the argument so is made which I agree with it is better for you than alcohol no question

[00:11:59] about it however you know I've said this a few times it it's not a substitute though I don't feel

[00:12:04] like you should lean on one thing just as hard as you did the other right because I mean a lot of

[00:12:07] my buddies god bless them they've been sober for three four years calisover but now they use marijuana

[00:12:12] morning till night so it's like yeah yeah that you know on paper probably is better for your body

[00:12:18] right but you're still being completely chemical dependent on something else and so I think that's

[00:12:22] also a concern I think anything moderation at that point is probably you know fair yeah I mean

[00:12:28] you had mentioned that you think cooking is gonna take over like you're gonna have it replaced

[00:12:32] with cooking and trying these new recipes and stuff yeah which I think is great because often when

[00:12:37] we get rid of one of those habits like we fall back on something else so if you're planning that

[00:12:42] already that's going to work in your favor hopefully um art for you when you gave up alcohol did

[00:12:50] you have a habit that you turned to or did you notice like where did that energy go so

[00:12:56] with substance abuse I've been on a long journey which I'm very transparent about the biggest

[00:13:01] thing for me to give up was opiates and once I gave that up it changed that was where the big

[00:13:07] I call what you're talking about the void because just like if you give up alcohol like I gave up

[00:13:12] opiates I used to look forward to doing it out of plan my week around it I'll be spending money on

[00:13:16] it like it like there was a big mental gap once you remove that and I call that the void

[00:13:22] and a lot of good things went in there but alcohol was one of the things that was negative that

[00:13:28] slipped into my void so I didn't really have a problem with alcohol before but then I was over

[00:13:33] using that when I got off of opiates and then once I you know wanted to tackle that issue it was

[00:13:39] more like you know a weight journey where I wanted to be in the better shape because I got super heavy

[00:13:44] at the end of all that um so I mean I think it's just really cleaning and staying organized

[00:13:52] and being present and like those are the things that kind of keep me satisfied listening to music

[00:13:59] you know keeping my apartment dialed like you know swiffer the wet swiffer the floor like

[00:14:04] yeah you know if if you drop a piece of popcorn at my house and you don't eat the food off the floor

[00:14:10] like I'm a little insulted okay because it's that clean because I'm cleaning it frequently

[00:14:16] yeah you know and also I feel like people should test out their immune systems a little bit like you

[00:14:20] can't be so okay you can't be so you know I agree with that 100 do you are do you allow shoes in

[00:14:25] the house absolutely yes and you want to eat the dropped popcorn off the floor it's not a

[00:14:33] want thing it's more of like you know we can trust it so I have a dog do you believe the five-second

[00:14:39] roll for food on the floor I mean generally yes but also I mean so what's the difference you

[00:14:46] look at all the studies of like I take my dog out to the bathroom and I'm like walking outside

[00:14:50] and then I'm like how much dog pee am I walking in you know and then that's when I'm like I'm

[00:14:54] going to take off my shoes because I also roll around on the floor so yeah I will say my

[00:14:58] floors are very clean too you can probably drop some food and eat it it's fine but my dog I don't

[00:15:04] watch my dogs feet all the time and like who knows what he's stepping in like I don't know

[00:15:09] that's true but then you got you know kids who are super young they just put everything in their

[00:15:14] mouth that's what builds the immune system or like we're like cocktail nuts at a bar or like

[00:15:18] at a social event yeah you have a lot of folks that don't use the you know they don't wash their

[00:15:21] hands frequently so to speak and so you know they're contaminating the the checks mix or I haven't

[00:15:27] seen like a cocktail mix bowl at a bar in the long time well you know the COVID yeah I feel

[00:15:31] like I probably got rid of that yeah I kind of screwed all that up but even at like you know just

[00:15:35] a maybe a semi large gathering of people here here's a better example so like a like a

[00:15:41] popcorn maker at like a tavern or something did they still do that like where you know

[00:15:46] that you're like popcorn yeah I got free popcorn with the beer the only thing I haven't seen

[00:15:50] really come back is like like salad bars and shit you know like the wing bars I've seen like

[00:15:56] the old salad bars with the sneeze guard I've really seen those come back but there's still

[00:16:00] I mean you got Jason's deli they're still doing it do they have it I'm been in Jason's

[00:16:05] yeah I think Jason's deli is still doing it there's definitely like you know golden corral like

[00:16:08] the whole buffet thing like I know a lot of those clothes down around here though yeah

[00:16:12] hmm I do like the golden corral though whole foods has their salad bars still oh that's true

[00:16:17] do they I don't know that is true they reopen it right because it was shut down yeah yeah it's

[00:16:21] like like King Super's they had the mega salad bar which was one of my favorites you know

[00:16:24] I haven't seen that I don't know if yours has it in one deal might uh I think they have like

[00:16:28] an olive bar where do you like oh yeah right around the cheese and all those all are pretty good

[00:16:33] that kind of stuff yeah you guys are making me so hungry we talk a lot of food on yeah

[00:16:38] it's culinary and stuff um that's fun I mean like I don't know what my favorite thing to eat so

[00:16:44] I've been I haven't said this on area but I've been dating a wonderful one from

[00:16:49] Venezuela and I have oh well I'm gonna say it again then and now you're dropping this

[00:16:54] on the 200 right now we're getting inside school on arts love life yeah I was saying

[00:17:02] yeah that Venezuelan cooking is delicious and so I've been trying a bunch of new kind of this

[00:17:07] Venezuelan foods help them out yeah it's it's been a lot of fun and um if your girl's cooking for

[00:17:13] you in the kitchen jump in there and do the thing the right thing is a man and help her clean up

[00:17:18] that kitchen that's correct get in there and do some dishes while she's cooking mm-hmm be a man

[00:17:23] about it oh I can agree with that more that's that's how I feel about that yeah she uh man she

[00:17:27] does cook some good stuff it is yeah I mean came over to my place I had ceviche for the first time

[00:17:32] my life interesting how do you like it oh I thought it was tremendous I mean yeah it was fantastic

[00:17:37] never had it before you know and you know the amount of the amount of lines though and you actually

[00:17:42] you actually shafted my girl on that because I'm sorry he knows he knows exactly where I'm going with this

[00:17:47] yeah the chopper right now yeah the chopper so she's over there she's like chopping all this stuff up

[00:17:51] for like a good amount of time why didn't know what it was and she's like asking for me to help

[00:17:57] and I'm like yeah baby I'll chop that onion like no problem and then eventually I realized I'm like

[00:18:01] wait I have a chop yeah and then so I chop the onion in the chopper and I'm like down to two seconds

[00:18:05] she's like looking back she's like you're already done and I'm like yeah you know and she's like

[00:18:09] what is that why yeah yeah we should have busted that tool out when we took inventory I actually need

[00:18:14] to buy one of those do you have a chopper for your like like the slash I'm like cooking yeah also my

[00:18:19] kitchen is so small my kitchen is probably the size of this couch okay that's it yeah there's no space

[00:18:24] I mean my kitchen's pretty small as Arkansas it's like a shotgun galley kitchen yeah

[00:18:29] I don't even have like a drawer to put myself or where my silverware is you like a studio

[00:18:34] okay no it's a one bedroom I and like I have I honestly have plenty of space it's

[00:18:40] wonderful but the kitchen is a small part and then when I moved in I was like well I don't like

[00:18:44] to cook anyway so it's fine so what do you what do you like your go to because you're all right

[00:18:50] so you're diligent okay she's waking up early hitting fighting classes doing different workouts

[00:18:58] so you're burning a lot of calories you're doing the floor work so you're constantly moving like

[00:19:03] when you're when you start to get hungry like what are you craving to eat um is it the carbs

[00:19:14] I love carbs sugar love sugar ice cream I don't buy a lot of ice cream often I think it's because I

[00:19:22] would just like eat the whole thing yeah I can really I love a good peanut butter Nutella toast

[00:19:27] in the morning I love a good I don't get cereal but I apparently this is weird my friend says

[00:19:34] weird but I'll do like my milk and then granola uh-huh do I think it's fine you're always good

[00:19:41] I was seeing put the it's like a cereal but with granola inside yeah okay with milk

[00:19:47] cow's milk no I do cashew milk cashew milk yeah I guess there yeah you do have to specify

[00:19:52] well I mean there's a lot of milks yeah you know as I like to quote Sam Elliott I know I've said

[00:19:56] this few times how do you milk a night yeah no there yeah where's the tid on a nut yeah you know

[00:20:01] when it's nut juice I mean yeah that's why a lot of people get upset and say they shouldn't call

[00:20:07] it milk at all because you can't milk it but they call it like almond drink and that just does not sound

[00:20:11] almond drink almond drink yeah I mean where's the marketing gonna go about like get your almond drink

[00:20:16] no do you drink cow's milk um no no I never did though even as a kid like I couldn't drink it straight

[00:20:22] I okay chocolate milk okay and do chocolate milk chocolate cow's milk yeah okay I'm just

[00:20:28] gauge really like I'll go like hot chocolate yeah oh that's okay yeah that's you really get it

[00:20:32] making hot chocolate see desserts we're and we're back to dessert so that's what you're craving

[00:20:37] then when you like because for me because I'll do intermittent fasting yeah and like I always want

[00:20:43] a pasta so bad it could be it could be any type of tortellini it could be no no key it could

[00:20:48] be any type of pasta yum yum I want the pasta bad yeah so like what is is it the sugar for you

[00:20:55] are you craving that like Nutella peanut butter sweets yeah yeah in the morning I love a good

[00:21:01] Nutella sweet deliciousness and then honestly like sweet green they're salads or the bomb.com

[00:21:08] or I'll just do like chicken and a bunch of vegetables and sweet potato fries I love good sweet

[00:21:15] potato flex um yeah I don't know I kind of switched up but I'm not like turned off by many foods

[00:21:25] so you're pretty versatile and I'm like oh I don't eat meat or fish or poultry yeah I don't

[00:21:30] know a little bit better let's see that's good I think that's how it should be I mean some folks

[00:21:34] obviously have food allergies like I have a shelfish allergy so I have to stay away from crab

[00:21:38] and lobster and shrimp as much as I don't want to growing up in New England probably best yeah

[00:21:43] you know it's probably best but you know we've had a lot of folks on here that support like vegan

[00:21:46] diets and stuff like that and I think that's fine you know because some people meet doesn't treat

[00:21:50] them well no but I've tried you know I just had this conversation with your brother the other day when

[00:21:54] you look at some of these alternatives to like the vegan community have these fake chicken nuggets

[00:21:59] right you're eating ingredients on you're like what the hell is this you can't pronounce half of

[00:22:03] the stuff right so it's like how is that yeah how is that better for you I don't know I'm not sure

[00:22:08] and maybe like we don't know that it's worse for us because it hasn't been around that long for

[00:22:13] us to even know the long-term effects it's just like you know life addicted to your cell phone or

[00:22:18] something like that like do we really know the long-term effects of that like still learning like

[00:22:22] because when I was a kid like we didn't even have internet on our phones right you know so yeah

[00:22:29] at that like it hasn't even been around yeah color ID came out I remember when we first got

[00:22:35] colored like kids yeah yeah it was a big deal and it ran through a second party like it would come

[00:22:39] through the phone and then another device and you'd have to look at it it would take like three rings

[00:22:43] like wait we gotta see who it is yeah and and you're look you're not that far off from us

[00:22:48] jewels no I remember yeah yeah so yeah I think it was like 85 to 95 was like this group of people

[00:22:55] that were born with coming out of the industrial age and then to where tech is fully taken over

[00:23:02] there's like 85 to 95 or something like that would agree with that somewhere in there

[00:23:07] um we've seen a lot of innovation in advancements which is good right there's a good and bad

[00:23:11] to everything of course but you know even on the culinary side we type it with air friars

[00:23:17] insta pot so the air friars are good oh you know have you remestor out of those air friars

[00:23:21] or anything I can love my air friars but then I saw this meme on instagram and it was like 90s

[00:23:26] kids are like millennials when they realize that their easy bake oven is just their air friars now

[00:23:30] and I was like oh fuck that's me I let a light bulb cook my my cakes when I was five and now I

[00:23:39] just do the same thing so I do not have an air friar but but you also don't have to talk

[00:23:45] I don't have I don't have to talk and that's that's a good thing we're on different

[00:23:49] we're on different pages different book yeah that's true I get yeah the air friar in the

[00:23:52] tiktok I guess go hand in hand I'm not quite there I mean I don't really use tiktok though

[00:23:56] you know yeah so what do you what do you talk about yeah what is that I post it and then I close

[00:24:01] it because I know I can't post it close yeah most enclosed my mom will send me tiktoks and

[00:24:05] like mom don't do that please I am not gonna watch it posting close you're like don't want to see it

[00:24:09] now yeah I had one viral on there and I was like cool what now what he can what is considered a viral

[00:24:15] yeah what's that in threshold like what is it 10,000 um it got a million views in like three days I

[00:24:21] think and so I think it was like some consider viral if it's a million over a million in 24 hours

[00:24:27] okay I'm not that cool so three days in a million I'm like sure I'm gonna count that

[00:24:31] mm-hmm and then none of the other ones have it that high so a million and three days that's still

[00:24:36] pretty I mean that's not like oh that's nothing no it's freaking fantastic for those three days

[00:24:43] yeah and what do you think did it was it was it the content was it the hashtags was it the algorithm

[00:24:47] I still don't understand tiktok uh I think a little bit of everything but honestly the song that I used

[00:24:53] um everyone loved the song and then just the hook for the first three seconds people see

[00:24:58] the floorwork dance and stuff and they're like oh I can do that and that's exactly what I thought

[00:25:02] when I found those and so people watch it they try it and they're like just kidding uh so I think

[00:25:07] it was just kind of like a nice mix of music hook and then people thinking that they can also

[00:25:13] recreate it and then trying it and then commenting so then it continues to then it just grows

[00:25:17] in there the algorithm okay I'm trying well and the content like because I can speak from as a viewer

[00:25:21] if you haven't seen jewels uh stuff won't clue that down the show notes below is the videos that you

[00:25:27] do are they're kind of direct-sized at the point they look great they sound good you'll show like

[00:25:31] what you're trying to do and then you doing it which I like because it's like you're getting a side

[00:25:34] by side comparison and I'm like I said before when I hear I'm like I got there's no way I could

[00:25:38] fucking do that yeah so I'll say here what jewels do it and you make it look easy which I think

[00:25:42] the viewers go oh yeah I can do that right and that's the idea is capturing the viewership of course

[00:25:47] and creating that great content with great sound great looks whatever the the quality of the content

[00:25:52] I think is what matters yes and we had a great speaker on recently John Bates and what he does

[00:26:00] is helps major companies their vice presidents and like whoever with speech and how to be a great

[00:26:09] speaker and he helps out with like NASA and all these all these huge companies right so epic guy

[00:26:15] and one piece of advice that he told me or Kevin and I on that episode that really last week

[00:26:21] yeah it's gonna keep is keep bringing in my head is that people don't relate to your message

[00:26:26] they relate to your message and that's what I feel is like one great thing about what you're

[00:26:32] doing is that you are also sharing the learning process of actually learning this floorwork

[00:26:39] and messing up a little bit along the way and so it's the message that people relate to the most

[00:26:45] opposed to the message and I thought that was really cool kind of a different way of looking at it

[00:26:49] so you're kind of doing that as well yeah I mean I would agree with you completely because if

[00:26:53] you look at my very first viral the one that we talked about the last time I was on the podcast

[00:26:59] it was me seeing a yoga girl do some sort of backward roll to a headstand thing and I'm like

[00:27:05] I work out I do gymnastics like I can do that and I try to and like humbled you know it's like

[00:27:12] I fall over 15 times I can't get it you know it's a lot harder than I actually thought it was

[00:27:18] but it's still fun to try and so then I posted that and and that's kind of what people

[00:27:24] enjoy seeing and that's like what I enjoy seeing too it's like you you find somebody on the

[00:27:28] internet who's like inspired by someone else and they go out and try and learn a new skill

[00:27:34] and I feel like this last year I've just been learning a lot of new skills so it's kind of fun

[00:27:38] to share that and then just continue to find other people doing the same thing in a way

[00:27:45] and just like making social media a nicer place to be I like that because I mean we talk a lot

[00:27:51] about where social media is at what it's done and kind of the negative impact so it's always kind

[00:27:54] of fun and dissect what that looks like and so when it comes to your creative process like finding

[00:28:00] you know whatever floorwork you're gonna do how you put that video together like what's the timeline

[00:28:05] on that how much thought goes into it how much editing goes into it you know how many attempts as

[00:28:09] it usually take on average just generally speaking like it's Monday morning like okay I'm planning

[00:28:13] out with videos I'm gonna drop this week what does that process look like for the floorwork dance I

[00:28:18] would say now I've been doing it consistently since July so it's been like nine months or so

[00:28:25] and now I've actually gotten better to where it takes me maybe an hour to an hour and a half

[00:28:32] to learn like a longer combination and then filming it is like another thing so maybe filming will

[00:28:38] take 30 minutes editing will take about an hour hour and a half depending and then all of it all day

[00:28:47] maybe like four hours if I were to plan it out and I usually like to be very intentional about how

[00:28:52] I do use my social media since it is a part of my job and I know like the doom scroll is bound to

[00:28:57] happen so I like to go in I will search my tags or look up the people that I'm inspired by

[00:29:04] I'll save maybe two or three posts and then I close it and work on my own stuff just to make

[00:29:09] sure that I'm not getting lost in social media and I try to stick to that which works out pretty well

[00:29:20] and that's like for the floorwork stuff if I find other like random acrobatic like weird gym fitness

[00:29:28] challenges that can take anywhere from five minutes to all day depending on how hard it is

[00:29:35] and whether or not I can actually achieve the skill so yeah I try to have fun with it though

[00:29:40] so that's good you're enjoying your time what you're doing yeah right I mean that's that's

[00:29:44] the big thing but it's I think it's also important to because people just see the final product right

[00:29:49] they just see this viral video that's on jewels and pearls social media going wow that's easy

[00:29:54] right but they don't see what went into it the planning preparation the filming the editing all

[00:29:58] that kind of stuff so I was like to kind of dive into the nuts and bolts of how all that comes together

[00:30:02] yeah because everyone thinks that they keep going do it but why aren't you doing it then right

[00:30:08] right you know we've heard a lot of things we've heard a lot of that in this business

[00:30:11] but you guys should do it this way it's like okay what are you doing this is America so good thing

[00:30:16] go start your own go start your own stuff it's fun to talk about but it's good to have that

[00:30:22] active challenge you know um so it sounds like you're firing on a lot of cylinders here you know

[00:30:28] you're you're being independent you're you're being an entrepreneur you're staying active

[00:30:34] um when you hit a lull right because we can't always maintain like the high the high octave like

[00:30:41] we have to plateau at some point and go back down for a little bit and then come back up that's

[00:30:45] just how the cycles go so yeah so how do you um relax or like come down like come down off of

[00:30:54] that or like what are your signs that it's like I need to slow down a little bit have some more

[00:30:58] me time or refocus my energy oh that's a great question as far as knowing when to slow down take time

[00:31:10] and restore my energy I would say in this last year I've been very bad at doing that and the only

[00:31:16] way that I've been able to actually take time to chill is that I would just get sick like every

[00:31:23] two months and I would try and I mean I was putting out content making reels and doing these dances maybe

[00:31:30] five to seven reels per week and I was also in the middle of building a course because people were

[00:31:39] asking me like how do you do the stance how do you learn this um and I looked it up and I couldn't

[00:31:45] really find anything so I asked if they would be interested if I created a course so I was putting

[00:31:50] this all together and I knew that I just had to like keep grinding right like it's the hustle

[00:31:54] it's the grind it's starting your own business like no days off uh but I just got like so sick in

[00:32:00] October to the point where I needed to just like sit and and do nothing and feel better but also

[00:32:08] understand that I'm still going to be able to finish my product the world continues turning like

[00:32:15] the days are the sun is still gonna rise like I can take a moment and just be a human and not

[00:32:23] be hustling all the time and then pick it up when I need to pick it up and know that I'm still going

[00:32:27] to deliver like a quality product and if it's a different timeline than I'm working with then that's

[00:32:32] just the timeline that I'm gonna be on so I think having those things happen over and over and then

[00:32:39] now starting to understand looking back on those events like okay I notice a pattern in my life

[00:32:45] right now maybe I'm overdoing it a little too much so I'm gonna take a day and actually I would

[00:32:51] take Saturdays Saturday would be my day off from social media it would be my day that I would take

[00:32:56] myself on a date and I would go to the movies and I just had kind of like some space to

[00:33:02] really remove myself from everything that's in my phone and then open myself up to just kind of

[00:33:10] like what is around me and like try and make a little bit of separation yeah yeah yeah it's important

[00:33:18] the phone definitely is like this obviously and look broken record here talking about this again

[00:33:25] but it's it's such a critical useful tool like just GPS alone the fact like there's so many

[00:33:31] applications that are awesome I was trying to hang a picture the other day I didn't have a level on

[00:33:35] me oh the bubble yeah yeah I did a bubble level at oh yeah I got one got the bubble level my fish tank

[00:33:39] bubble level at and then all of a sudden things level it works you know so there's all these

[00:33:43] cool things yeah but there's all this fake stuff too and I'm just gonna dive in slightly on numbers

[00:33:49] and what I think those mean and kind of what that is right and why not focus on numbers like

[00:33:56] why numbers actually really don't matter is because they don't like people and creators want to

[00:34:03] go and create to hit these numbers thresholds and things like this you know does that ever really

[00:34:08] truly pay out it depends you know on your sponsorships and this and that but really at the end of

[00:34:14] the day and we've said this a bunch of times if you're not enjoying what you're doing then you're

[00:34:18] not going to be in for a long term and like for creators like you almost have to have like a passion

[00:34:24] for what you're doing like this project in order to continue going forward with it or also

[00:34:29] you're gonna get burnt out and you're gonna want to stop creating and if you're too focused on

[00:34:32] the numbers all time and social media then you're diving in you're comparing yourself to other

[00:34:36] channels like what are they doing that and then you lose like your own authenticity by paying

[00:34:41] too much attention to the numbers so I almost feel like success will come and everyone has their

[00:34:47] own definition of success yeah like for me it's enjoying my time right and so like I feel extremely

[00:34:52] successful but in other people's eyes I might not have hit their thresholds of success so that's

[00:34:59] kind of like my little rant on being a creator the numbers that come with it where you're focusing

[00:35:05] your energy it's a good conversation to have with creators in the room of course I mean we sat

[00:35:10] across say with our musicians and you know tick tockers youtubers you know you name it everyone

[00:35:14] kind of has their own opinion on it and it looks different for everybody of course and what that

[00:35:18] journey is I mean some people get that you know everyone's kind of chasing that that quick hit right

[00:35:22] that overnight success so to speak especially in the younger community they see these videos go I can

[00:35:27] just make a ton you know just sitting at home and not doing anything and creating content and that

[00:35:31] is true there is a pathway to do that we've seen it with only fans we've seen it with a lot of

[00:35:35] different platforms for people to do that and that's fair you know that's just kind of the world

[00:35:39] we live in now and you can use it as a tool and as well as a resource but to echo your point I

[00:35:45] think you got to do it because you love it yes right I mean that's the biggest thing we can be kind

[00:35:50] of open coming up on episode 250 we didn't really know what discussion combustion looked like

[00:35:54] on Ford you and I were kind of going back and forth a little bit on we we didn't know we just we

[00:35:58] kind of hit a wall we're like what are we doing what's the vision should we keep it the same should

[00:36:02] we change it should we change the logo should we change it up should we pull it back should we do

[00:36:05] more and it's good to have those kind of conversations at least you know between you and I as

[00:36:11] business partners and doing what we do here on the podcast and just kind of it's good to check in

[00:36:15] where am I at where am I going what do I want to keep doing right well then you say that like we

[00:36:19] have each other to lean on you're going solo you're a solo creator so it's your decision of course

[00:36:25] so that that of course can add some complications as well right I mean you're getting

[00:36:30] approached from I'm sure brand sponsorships and and you know brand ambassadors stuff that want

[00:36:34] to partner with you and that's your decision to make right so you got to weigh the pros and cons

[00:36:39] with all that yeah it is very interesting because people often ask me how's business going

[00:36:45] and I want to just be like fucking phenomenal because I don't really know like

[00:36:52] I guess it's going well I also have the definition of success for me it's like I'm enjoying what I'm

[00:36:59] doing I have everything I need I have a roof over my head I have people who love me I have friends

[00:37:05] I have freedom of my time for the most part and I'm doing something that I I love to do I love to

[00:37:13] dance and I'm I'm being presented with opportunities that open themselves up to me as I continue to

[00:37:20] to do this so like business is good but like what is it supposed to be like right

[00:37:26] uh but it's been nice because I do have a really good friend of mine that I grew up with

[00:37:33] and he is also an entrepreneur and he started he does more artwork and so what he does is he'll

[00:37:42] travel like across the world and find different animal tracks and then he'll make molds of these

[00:37:47] different tracks for different animals like whether they're extinct like you know on the

[00:37:51] verge of extinction or just like a rare uh find um he takes these molds and then makes giant canvas

[00:37:58] art and he calls it walks of life and I think he's also like in the middle of rebranding too so it

[00:38:03] might not be called that forever yeah but he's been really great to lean on because he started his

[00:38:10] journey with that business maybe four years ago and I could be wrong with that uh but a while ago

[00:38:17] before me right so it's been nice to be able to kind of call him up and like when I LLC my business

[00:38:22] in August of last year like he was the one that I called and I was like I don't know what I'm doing

[00:38:26] how do I do this uh what's the right way to look at my taxes when it comes to having my own

[00:38:35] business just because I'm kind of like in this in between of I'm not where my friends are who are

[00:38:40] working nine to fives and then the people who are actually in my industry or like the creators that

[00:38:45] are crushing it are so far ahead of me that I don't like fit in there yet some in this weird

[00:38:52] like middle spot where I'm just trying to figure it out yeah I mean you're liking that

[00:38:56] and that uh hair growth phase where like a guy goes from like or gal too whoever um and you have

[00:39:03] short hair and like a bowl cut I'm in a bowl cut phase yeah and you want to grow out the long

[00:39:08] hair you know there's like that awkward hair phase I mean that that's a fair comparison honestly

[00:39:14] the itchy phase that checks out yeah when it comes up it's good it's good to get uncomfortable

[00:39:20] and so talking about getting uncomfortable with something a little more personal to me I started

[00:39:25] a new project it releases Monday it's what it's called raw talk and it's like a quick um

[00:39:34] five to fifteen minute long subject focused my opinion on whatever it is

[00:39:39] and I was so nervous to record this first episode which I recorded yesterday um and it ended up

[00:39:44] going a little bit above it was like eighteen minutes because better I couldn't fit it all in that

[00:39:49] quick but I was like overthinking it for weeks I obviously have a lot of experience in front of

[00:39:54] cameras and mics and all this other stuff and like I've wrapped and like done music and all this but

[00:39:59] like I was so nervous to come in and just like go loose on the subject of you know what my purposes

[00:40:07] and how to find your purpose and how I found my purpose is what I got into and I was just so

[00:40:13] I was excited and nervous and like anxious all at once good feelings and yeah it was good feeling

[00:40:19] because it's like yeah yeah and so it's like one of those things where it's like you know you have

[00:40:23] to feel a little uncomfortable to to like start that real journey that means something so the

[00:40:31] fact that you are where you're at and then that you stuck to it since the last time you were on

[00:40:35] the podcast it shows that you're resilient because a lot of people quit after like a couple

[00:40:39] months good point right like a lot of people will go in I'm gonna do this thing I'm gonna do this

[00:40:43] thing and like two or two weeks four weeks in they're like you know they're like

[00:40:49] class and pan yeah like they don't do it and so you stay to end it

[00:40:53] it's a seat so yeah it's good the CQC CQC this is important that's what you've been following

[00:40:58] Jules you just don't even realize it consistent quality content yes thank you the CQC is a huge piece

[00:41:08] to success in this industry a lot of people then they can just step in like we talked about kind

[00:41:11] of in the opening oh I can do a podcast oh I could start an Instagram channel doing this

[00:41:14] that and the other great do it well four or five weeks and well it's not doing what I want it

[00:41:18] to do so I give up well are you checking the box are you doing the CQC are you doing it for the

[00:41:22] right reasons are you doing it because you love it are you doing it because it brings you a sense

[00:41:24] of fulfillment and joy if the answer to any of those questions was no then you're not gonna find

[00:41:28] success in my opinion some people do find you know where they say a blind squirrel can find a nut

[00:41:33] every now and again but some have to work a little harder for it and I'd rather work hard for it

[00:41:37] than have it handed to me personally how many blind squirrels are out there actually run around

[00:41:41] there's got to be some sort of they're out there the red squirrels gray squirrels

[00:41:46] and then I also another quote I heard was you know the sunshine on a dog's ass hole every now and

[00:41:50] again I mean kind of red neck I guess it depends like is this an outdoor dog like I mean it does

[00:41:56] though I mean think about it do that does the owner just let this dog out like during the sun

[00:42:01] rises the analogy is that it's rare yeah that's not the point I mean look you own a dog does the sun

[00:42:09] shine on your dog's booty from time to time I mean we're outside and you like stretches sure

[00:42:15] yeah it's rare so from time to time sure it's weird it's rare maybe I think there's also another one

[00:42:21] it's like once in a blue moon I mean something rare too blue moons yeah yes but the fact remains

[00:42:28] yeah you know it's uh it goes back to what we said so the CQC CQC something I'm saying QBC we're

[00:42:34] not trying to sell anything here no consistent quality content what that means consistent is your

[00:42:40] is your dropping multiple times a week we do a one episode a week cadence at DCPC initial yeah

[00:42:46] so one episode a week for discussion the quality is the cameras that we buy all the you know

[00:42:52] the post editing all that stuff yep and the studio space yeah that's quality and then the content

[00:42:59] is having amazing people like you on the couch to give this great content to be the star of the show

[00:43:06] so that's that's our CQC to secure yeah and that looks different for every business but you

[00:43:12] could apply the CQC you can you know you just come up with your own unique like things for it

[00:43:17] gotta be dedicated you gotta enjoy what you do you gotta know what they're I feel like right when

[00:43:20] it shows you guys have had a lot of great growth and it seems like you're progressing your brand

[00:43:25] like rebranding into something new which is really exciting as well but I think you know we are

[00:43:31] human so I am curious to know what is like your guys' self talk like what happens when you do have

[00:43:38] really low numbers or you have a low in your viewership what do you tell yourself in those moments

[00:43:45] and like how do you kind of recover from those lows I love that this is turning into you know some

[00:43:51] questions back at us are we don't get this all the time so it's always fun to have the gas fire

[00:43:54] at us a little bit because these are good good questions you know yeah for people who have been

[00:43:59] follows a long time yeah we went from 30 40 50 K a week you know on YouTube you can see our numbers

[00:44:04] they've suffered a bit that's due to you know algorithm rebrands and you name it you know we've

[00:44:09] been working with these guys a while so yeah morale can be low you know at times if we focus on the

[00:44:14] numbers kind of like you know you brought up sometimes the numbers don't necessarily mean it and

[00:44:17] you know art and I have to kind of go man we're doing it because we love it we're doing it because

[00:44:20] if it helps one person yeah or one person gets a laugh out of there one person gets inspired by it

[00:44:25] then we did something and that's that's really what matters to me personally well and look I've

[00:44:30] thought about quitting all this multiple times and that's a good thing all the most successful people

[00:44:36] that I've talked to through the podcast of course is how I met most these people but they all tell

[00:44:42] stories about how they wanted to quit how it was getting really tough and then instead of quitting

[00:44:48] they put their heels down and really focused and that's also kind of like what that inspired me

[00:44:52] to actually do raw talk because I've been sitting on that show for like a year and then I just

[00:44:57] I need that space to do that so like the numbers to me they play a role in the beginning but when

[00:45:05] you're a weathered creator and you're really like about this like I'm not just going to step in

[00:45:11] and do it a little bit like you don't really care about the numbers anymore because it's like what

[00:45:16] kept said like sitting here once I finished recording this I'm gonna be like man that was so much fun

[00:45:22] I had a great time of course after I finished doing happy Friday America man that was so much fun I

[00:45:26] had a great time after you know and the story goes on and that's that's what I focus on when

[00:45:32] the numbers get low when the opportunities aren't there like we would want them to be like we feel

[00:45:37] like we've earned some opportunities that don't happen and like that's just how it goes but we still

[00:45:42] still are like showing up and having fun with it and ultimately like right now is life like this moment

[00:45:49] and I'm enjoying my time and it's because of this project so if it wasn't for this then this

[00:45:55] like moment wouldn't even exist yeah and so it's things like that that keep me going and I probably

[00:46:00] for you it's like you know your physical health like you know helping other people find their

[00:46:05] physical health like those are the things I would lean back if I was doing your stuff and like I

[00:46:10] hit a low yeah but how about you let's turn that question back at you when I hit a wall

[00:46:19] I for some reason what I think of first is okay let's say I posted a real three days ago and it's

[00:46:28] got like 30,000 views plays and I'm like cool that one is doing well for my page

[00:46:36] and then I posted one yesterday and it might have like 2000 plays and I'm like

[00:46:43] can't all be winners you know and I think about like think about your favorite music artist like

[00:46:48] every time they drop the song do you love every single song that that artist put out

[00:46:54] probably not do you listen to the same four songs over and over 400 million times probably

[00:47:02] and so one I think about that right like they can't all be winners like whatever the second thing is

[00:47:09] like you had said you know if it makes one person laugh if it makes one person smile like I know

[00:47:14] when I see my creators that I follow and I'm inspired by like I might be the second like on their

[00:47:20] post or the second save but I'm like please don't archive that even if it's just you know

[00:47:25] five of us that like it like I saved it because I want to try you know I want to try the

[00:47:31] meal that you're making and I want to try the dance that you're doing or the weird flippy thing

[00:47:37] that looks crazy and I think it's important that when you are putting that stuff out there it's really

[00:47:43] not about the numbers although it like I do enjoy watching that like it's fun yeah no there is a

[00:47:50] highlight comes with the numbers like we can't deny that when you start you're like oh shit it's

[00:47:55] you for it yeah like that's exciting it is um but at the same time it's like I just know I have to

[00:48:01] like put my ego aside right because I'm like okay if this one is not getting a lot like

[00:48:07] whatever tools like it's not the end of the world you can go out and like do something different

[00:48:12] and at the end of the day who cares yeah because like when you scroll through your real page like

[00:48:18] how often are you gonna watch something and then think about it the entire day you're not right so

[00:48:23] I assume that's kind of how people look at my page too it's like oh cool like a like or a save

[00:48:28] or maybe they just scroll past it and like who cares whatever the who cares movement but you're

[00:48:33] always gonna have that one y'all yeah or second y'all who or even a third y'all who that's gonna stop

[00:48:38] by to leave a negative comment you're always gonna have those guys they're out there guys and gals

[00:48:43] whatever they're gonna come by and say you know what you suck we don't like what you do I don't

[00:48:48] like how you sound we don't like how you look the hates out there and the hates always been a

[00:48:52] motivate you know for me personally I love it because spillbellic check used to say ignore the

[00:48:58] noise do your job the noise is always gonna be there's always gonna be noise right and that's

[00:49:02] kind of when you're a creator and you put yourself out there you're opening yourself up to hate

[00:49:06] and especially now more than ever here in 2024 you know living online social media everyone

[00:49:12] likes to air out their opinion on what other people are doing when they're not doing anything right so

[00:49:16] I don't know if you've experienced that I know we have on this side when you're out there and

[00:49:20] you're creating you're putting yourself out there you're always gonna have a couple of y'all who's

[00:49:24] and that's just part of it I mean I feel like you that you have to accept that you know with

[00:49:28] with being as a creator Joe Rogan would say the same thing right gotta get 12 million views a week

[00:49:33] you think everybody's like Joe's the best no people hate Joe Rogan yeah it's just part of it

[00:49:38] and that's okay that's okay because um I don't really consider what they think you know it's like

[00:49:45] it's like it's like okay that's that's fine thank you for you know bringing that here but one

[00:49:50] thing I do find extremely consider it is you brought us a box for discussion combustion part two

[00:50:00] and so like I'm here we've been having such a great conversation I almost forgot we had this

[00:50:04] thing over here I got it on four I got it on four I got it on four okay I wouldn't tilt it

[00:50:10] that okay it says discussion discussion combustion part two put it in between us okay um you might need

[00:50:18] a pocket knife pocket knife it's not maybe we can slide these I mean yeah maybe we could hit it

[00:50:24] with a slide grab the scissors like this oh perfect no we're we're good at this art it's called

[00:50:30] the slide and then you could even save this you could save this I mean hopefully it still looks nice

[00:50:34] inside if not I did take a picture before because Kevin's manhandling of it just now I mean also

[00:50:40] like in the corner it could have been okay look at that oh are these homemade homemade cookies

[00:50:46] okay yeah so they're cookie butter cookies here we go I did a blueberry pie cookie because like

[00:50:53] tomorrow's pie day okay and I bake and my retirement plan is that I'm gonna own a bakery

[00:50:59] that's fun so I'm gonna hold one of these up so people can see yeah I'm gonna do it on

[00:51:05] on your camera so it's gonna be on you then this little bunny's gonna pop up here how cute

[00:51:10] so here is the blueberry muffin it's a it's a blueberry pie blueberry pie and then we got

[00:51:16] mini pie I don't know and then yeah it's a cookie butter cookie cookie butter yum so hopefully

[00:51:22] you're not allergic to I didn't put any seafood in there no shrimp or lobster in there no

[00:51:27] sure as long as there's no nut milk I'm okay no nut milk yeah no I'm joking I'm not

[00:51:34] because I have nut milk but I'm messing around I'm messing around no there is no

[00:51:39] I deserve it made in a facility that has nut milk in the facility that's fine that's fine no

[00:51:44] it was a joke it was a joke we'll be okay no these look great thank you for doing yeah

[00:51:48] that is so sweet and enjoy this a little bit later after I have my supper they look tremendous

[00:51:53] I'm gonna try one right now oh he's going in right yeah I got it I'm gonna try the blueberry

[00:51:58] muffin right now yeah I gotta try this I'll do a follow up video later on our social media

[00:52:02] me munching on this yeah that's fine I do yeah I would like all the look at it that looks good

[00:52:10] it is good delicious yum yum get you so that's delicious so when you're saying you like cooking

[00:52:16] and you talk about baking I understand why it's fantastic oh it looks great thank you for bringing

[00:52:22] us out that was very thoughtful yeah for 250 that's tremendous yeah episode 250 so five years we've

[00:52:29] been doing this can we expect to see the jewels and pearls movement continuing long into the future

[00:52:36] are you already asking for me to come back oh you know that you're in the wheelhouse

[00:52:41] you're in the wheelhouse your part of our network but are you are you saying driven and pushing on

[00:52:47] all this because you've been standing for the whole year and you're like in it right now yeah

[00:52:52] definitively um yes as far as like being a content creator yeah yes um it's a lot of redirection

[00:53:02] so I think I kind of asked where you guys stand like during those lows and what happens and I think

[00:53:06] in those lows it's a great moment to just kind of say okay that's what worked for a little while now

[00:53:11] I have to kind of think of what's next and that's basically what I've been doing a lot of so it's

[00:53:16] been exciting because as as great as it is to like have some friends on Instagram and some people

[00:53:23] that watch my videos that's not gonna pay the bills um I mean I'll be transparent like I make pennies

[00:53:30] off of some of my rules like Instagram is not where I make my money but I think it's amazing because

[00:53:36] it's free advertisement you know and it's fully available for me to use uh I got very lucky in

[00:53:46] finding this kind of like floorwork style of dance and the people that I learn from are mostly in

[00:53:52] Russia okay so they do offer classes online but not in English so I was able to create my own

[00:54:00] online course and teach some of my floorwork moves for beginners and I did that and I launched it

[00:54:06] and hosted my first eight week course um January through February so it kind of just wrapped

[00:54:14] that was really exciting and I'm in the middle of just like creating individual classes that people

[00:54:20] can buy and take online and then I actually had a studio reach out to me here in Colorado asking if

[00:54:27] I would like to teach my floorwork at their studio so I'm now teaching in person online and just kind

[00:54:33] of figuring out what's next and I although I don't know in the grand scheme of like where I'm going

[00:54:40] when I'm doing I trust that like each step that I take yeah it's gonna like open up the door to

[00:54:45] something new um I mean ideally I would like to be able to go into more podcasts and like talk about

[00:54:53] how I was able to build my business how I was able to kind of like find this and grow this and

[00:54:59] um you know and help people who are also in that same journey and doing that same thing so

[00:55:06] that's terrific yeah now that's epic yeah definitely motivating for sure do you ever do any

[00:55:09] ballroom dancing you ever you ever get in that world no okay I had it offered at my high school we

[00:55:15] had ballroom dance but I never took it because it was after school we had we had some some ballroom

[00:55:19] dancers on our program they own resolute ballrooms I was just saying you know thinking about the

[00:55:23] network in the wheelhouse you know how I mean I do try new things often so that could be a place

[00:55:28] that I could try that's great though so you got a studio in Colorado you're working with now

[00:55:31] you got your content growing I mean this thing is on an upward trajectory my like it keep riding

[00:55:36] that way yeah just just keep at it and we should be doing things that make us question if we want to

[00:55:43] continue doing them yes or like you know we should be challenging ourselves like can we actually

[00:55:48] like accomplish these things and the end goal is always important it's good to have something to

[00:55:54] work toward and just another one of these cliches popping out you know but like it's not about

[00:56:00] the end goal it's about how you getting there and like really enjoying that experience and trying to

[00:56:05] be present in that because if you think about since you were on last time compared to now you know all

[00:56:10] the things that you've had to overcome that you did and it's like okay I did all that so we're all

[00:56:17] too quick to forget our own successes and it's like okay yeah I accomplished that well it's my next

[00:56:22] thing like we completely forget how we just completely demolish this other obstacle and that's

[00:56:28] free success energy so that's that's one area that I always need a reminder to like I have to

[00:56:33] remind myself of this you know if I'm in a lull then I really got a focus on the fact that I've

[00:56:41] succeeded all in all these other areas already and that's just free energy sitting there that I

[00:56:46] could tap into it any moment so not my advice I've just I'm just a vessel of information I've heard

[00:56:55] it's funny that you say that like it's not your advice you're just a vessel because you do often

[00:56:59] share a lot of very like wise words um where do you get this information like where who are you inspired

[00:57:07] by what do you listen to where do you or you just like born with it you know like maybe it's

[00:57:11] Maybelline or maybe it's so no and that's thank you that's that's a that's a nice compliment um

[00:57:18] I would like to give credit to my parents for raising me with an open mind

[00:57:23] and being able to like think about my thoughts I think that's one of the most important things is

[00:57:31] thinking about my own thoughts and being cognizant and trying to be aware of how I am

[00:57:37] projecting my energy because everyone brings an energy into a room right

[00:57:42] and everyone has their own um and you can control what energy you bring into a room

[00:57:47] and with that being open minded and optimistic I've always been willing to be critical about my

[00:57:54] own ways of doing things and you know getting off of pills and stuff like that was a long journey

[00:58:01] really long journey that I learned a lot on that whole path and I guess it's just staying in this

[00:58:06] mentality of like I might not always know the best way to do something there might be another way

[00:58:13] to do to get to the same and goal that I want to get to there might be more than one way to get

[00:58:18] to the same finish line my way isn't always the right way and you know you just want to listen to

[00:58:24] people I guess that's one thing that podcasting has really taught me too is to listen better

[00:58:30] and um and you know when people are saying something that they're passionate about

[00:58:35] you try to apply it to your own life and I mean I'm coming up on 37 too so it's not like I'm

[00:58:43] like this you know immature kid who's selfish anymore so it's like okay I've learned these lessons like

[00:58:48] I don't know it just life is a whole like lessons are always there for all of us you might meet

[00:58:54] somebody random and like a elevator and like have like a profound you know 30-second interaction

[00:59:00] with this person and then all of a sudden like that's how we met and I was like hey well actually

[00:59:04] you have a good energy you should come on the podcast and then that's how that started because I was

[00:59:10] open and then I told you you should have my ex instead because I didn't know what I was doing exactly

[00:59:16] and we did and he yeah and he was great too he was great too awesome energy that lad

[00:59:20] but that's that's the side point it's just about allowing opportunities to come into your life and

[00:59:27] not pigeonhole hauling yourself yeah no I'd agree with that that's a great compliment I appreciate

[00:59:31] I appreciate that but I'll thank my parents that's really the thing my parents you do have some

[00:59:36] amazing parents shout out to Captain Lee and Luis over there take care of the bees and the

[00:59:42] Prairie Dog Advocate she does some amazing of course you got some great folks of course my folks are

[00:59:47] great supporters of this program as well we're very we're very fortunate to have great support

[00:59:49] yeah I think that goes a long way but man it's kind of almost feels like a little bit reflective as

[00:59:54] we're at 250 here it kind of became what we thought it was with like what we planned to do without

[00:59:58] even planning it you know which has been great you know kind of reminiscing a bit and you know talking

[01:00:03] about success energy what that looks like and moving forward and how we stay motivated and things

[01:00:08] and that's constantly changing you know we live in a you know a society now where things are

[01:00:12] constantly evolving very rapidly right we have new technology coming out we talked about TikTok which

[01:00:17] is now what's that going to look like right now the the house representative said that they've

[01:00:21] moved to ban that you know things are changing right Facebook is not what it once was Instagram

[01:00:27] what does that look like with the next big social media thing that's coming like this isn't

[01:00:30] evolving entertainment universe I feel like I know we worked with YouTube now for what do we have

[01:00:36] four years on YouTube yeah 2020 went on to YouTube right before pandemic shut us down that was fun

[01:00:43] we spent all this money on this equipment and shut down for months yeah yeah that's how it goes but

[01:00:47] that's the challenges man that's that's just that's just the way this business goes so speaking about

[01:00:51] how things changed we are going to ask you the same question that we did on the first time you're on

[01:00:56] do you remember it do you remember the question like the ending question yeah like what advice would

[01:01:01] I yes yeah so we want to ask you that only 20% of our guests remember that question so kudos to

[01:01:06] you because they're always like what was it again you remembered so I mean I did also just rewatch

[01:01:12] the podcast what would uh what would you do your advice is it going to stay relatively the same has

[01:01:18] changed like what's evolved there uh I mean last time I said take care of yourself and be kind which

[01:01:24] I always think is something to keep in your back pocket um and I was thinking about this earlier my advice

[01:01:38] trust your gut keep your ego and check and do the self work that needs to be done

[01:01:47] um and I think if you kind of take some time to work on those things then you will naturally

[01:01:58] become a better person you are taking care of yourself and I firmly believe that the better you

[01:02:03] take care of yourself the better you'll show up in life the better you'll show up for your friends

[01:02:08] your family your job and so it's just something that is going to blossom and and I think that that's

[01:02:18] what the world needs right like kind compassionate humans uh but don't get walked all over so

[01:02:26] solid advice yeah because you're right there there's always that opportunity for people to take

[01:02:30] advantage give an inch they'll take a mile so you always got to watch your back a little bit of course

[01:02:33] when you're being kind and offering people opportunities or you know even just sitting down with them

[01:02:37] for a cup of coffee always going to be mindful of what's going on or you definitely taught me that as

[01:02:41] we got into this business you know don't take every opportunity consider it with a calculated

[01:02:45] perspective for sure because there's a lot of snakes littering yeah honestly I like most people

[01:02:50] and like fuck these people until I get to know them you know um but I like where you started that

[01:02:56] and and that would be to trust your gut and that's a difficult thing to do intuition um a lot of times

[01:03:02] yeah our intuition is going to tell us the right thing to do and it's not always going to be the

[01:03:06] easiest thing to do and then people will second guess their gut feeling and then they miss out on

[01:03:11] opportunities in life because they're over here over complicate overthinking what their gut told them

[01:03:17] to do and um I've been overthinking not having another bite of this because it it was so it was so

[01:03:24] good I feel like I had a big second bite of guy like I like stuff on my face that's what you got

[01:03:29] to get in there I feel like I cleaned it off but great advice for humanity and eat my baked goods

[01:03:35] when I open my bakery that's nice looks even nice notes on their xo xo jewels so nice the jewels

[01:03:42] and pearls bakery items looking forward to diving into that delicious sweet treat uh here on the

[01:03:49] eve of a blizzard Denver Colorado yes yeah what better way to spend a little snowmageddon

[01:03:54] then with some baked goods let's go yeah so where can everybody see what you're doing where do

[01:04:00] you want to plug my instagram is jewels underscore and pearls if you are interested in learning

[01:04:08] floorwork and if you are in Denver Colorado you can look up studio 360 and I teach there um one

[01:04:16] night a week right now Tuesday nights or if you are not in Denver Colorado but you do want to

[01:04:22] learn floorwork or just check out anything else that I have to offer you can go to julesandproves.com

[01:04:28] perfect sweet we'll include that in the show notes down below you know keep it keep it

[01:04:32] keep it tradition as we always done here with our guests give them opportunity to you know talk

[01:04:37] hang out have fun you know really reflecting here on 250 you know having jewels on it's great

[01:04:42] that this this worked out this way um you know going all the way back man we've been doing this five

[01:04:46] years yeah you know I love you and I love you too man I wouldn't want to do this with anybody else

[01:04:52] you know I don't want to get emotional on this but you know it's been a hell of a journey it's

[01:04:56] tested us on a lot of ways and it's just tremendous that we get to continue to do this and I'm so

[01:05:00] excited to keep this going hey man um I'll cheer us to that you can get on this to to continued

[01:05:05] success and creating through adversity absolutely and all the noise let's go cheers

[01:05:11] of course jules thank you for coming down hanging out with us again take a time out here busy

[01:05:16] schedule you know you know we're all we got a lot of things going on and and so we appreciate

[01:05:20] you come down bring us some tremendous treats that I can't wait to taste letting me bomb our

[01:05:25] your 250th like that's pretty cool that's awesome so I'm gonna come back for like 500 right

[01:05:31] I'd probably back for them I guess it took us five years yeah you know five years uh huh okay well

[01:05:36] I want another milestone then she's like I want to be on 255 we know we're eating number

[01:05:42] okay 333 that episode is mine okay 33 yes okay so yeah that would be 53 weeks from now so just

[01:05:49] over a year that's fine no it won't happen any terrible math guys I'm sorry no that's like two years

[01:05:54] that's a hundred and three weeks from now okay no wait a minute forget that scratch that

[01:06:00] just episode three three three yeah whatever that is let's see 250 53 83 episodes from now

[01:06:06] okay so that's like a year and a half okay somewhere in that right that's good it gives me some

[01:06:12] time to like grow you know come back with some substance see on 333 yeah and we're gonna we're

[01:06:16] gonna stay in touch we're gonna keep keep networking pushing content um oh I know you guys are

[01:06:21] going to call me after me like yeah more go those cookies no those are so good what's on

[01:06:27] the next week money once had a face and the other one had a bunny butt yeah that's kind of cute

[01:06:31] saw the sun that's that's true that works things come full circle look at that that is too good

[01:06:39] so we're gonna keep this moving we'll see you back on episode 33 year and a half thank you so much

[01:06:45] everybody for tuning in to discussion combustion staying with us on this journey what a journey

[01:06:50] it's been and we're gonna keep it coming at you um next time so on that note oh man it's time

[01:06:56] to shut her down we're gonna get out of here we got a blizzard in Denver Colorado of course hopefully

[01:07:00] it's beautiful wherever you're at wherever you're tuning in from uh thanks for your continued support

[01:07:04] we ain't going anywhere guys we'll be back for more fun jewels thanks again for being here

[01:07:08] we'll see you soon

[01:07:12] is that fun yeah