Episode 40: A Tiny Thanksgiving (From Our Hearts to Yours)

Episode Description:

Today’s episode is short and sweet — a tiny Thanksgiving moment between the two of us. No outline, no deep dive, and no Pink Spotlight this week. Just a real conversation about what we’re grateful for both personally and professionally.

We talked about how this year has pushed us, grounded us, and connected us in ways we never imagined. And most of all, we talked about you — this growing, warm, funny, supportive community that has become the heartbeat of Pretty in Pink Again. And while we didn’t say this on air, we want to make sure our show notes reflect how thankful we are for the people behind the scenes too — especially Angela, who helps us create the magic you see online, from our clips to the little moments that carry this show.

This episode is our small, heartfelt “thank you.”

💌 A Love Letter to Our Pipas

Dear Pipas,

You are the reason this show feels like so much more than a podcast. You’ve turned an idea into a gathering place — one where we can laugh, vent, think out loud, and feel understood.

Thank you for welcoming us into your routines, your homes, and your days. Thank you for listening on walks, during commutes, during nap-time cleanups, and in those little pockets of time you carve out for yourself. Thank you for every message, every share, every moment where you let us know an episode met you right where you were.

We’re grateful for your trust, your humor, your hearts, and the way you make this space feel safe and alive. We’re grateful that you let us be part of your life, and we’re grateful for all the moments ahead.

You help us find our pink again — every single week.

With so much love,
 Christina & Kristina
 Pretty in Pink Again 🎀

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Transcript

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I'm Christina and I'm t, and this is the Pretty and Pink Again podcast for Motherhood Meets Rediscovery. Hello. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving. Oh my goodness. It's our first holiday season as Pippa's. We started our podcast in February, actually on Valentine's. It was like right around Valentine's Day. It was, but it was just so crazy. Right around last year at this exact time. That this whole thing was manifested and was brewing. Mm-hmm. I know, it's wild. It really is. Because I vividly remember sitting across from you. It was at the Sabrina Carpenter concert, and we went out for. A little dirty martini. 7:00 PM drinks. Yeah. 7:00 PM I know. In bed by 10. I know. And we started talking about this. Mm-hmm. And so that was, either in September or October. That was like our first conversation and then we started to have meetings about this Yeah. Around the holiday season. So I vividly yeah. I have the holidays in my head. So much and I feel like it's been bringing back a lot of like nostalgia about starting this with you. Right. And so it's crazy that we're here. It feels like this is almost like approaching the year. Which is amazing. So Thanksgiving is about gratitude and what you're thankful for. And I want us to both share professionally what we're thankful for and personally what we're thankful for. Oh, I love that this year. Because this is our profession. Yes. This is one of your professions. Yes. And. I wanted us to just share that with our listeners. I know what we're thankful for. What would you go first? What? Let's start, do we wanna start professionally? Sure. We live in a small town. When you live in a small town, you get to see some of the same people. And even though I'm a nobody, I'm a somebody because we live in a small town. Yeah. And lately I've been running into people, listeners at the hair salon, the nail salon, CVS, bounce town, wherever the hell I am. And they overhear my voice and they say, I'm a young mom and I listen to your podcast. And it means so much to me. And it's always like the young moms, like the ones that have a one or a 2-year-old. Yeah. And this girl said to me the other day, we were getting our hair washed at Sam, so if you're listening now you know who you are. And she was like. Are you tea? And I said, yeah. Why? She was like, I listen to your podcast every week. I love listening to you and Christina thank you for doing this. So I'm grateful because I've been able to just share my life honestly with you. Mm-hmm. And with our listeners. Mm-hmm. And have other people who have had. Spiraling thoughts or ruminating thoughts. I've been able to maybe validate some of those. Yeah. Or just share that. Like you're not alone. Yep. So I am grateful for that opportunity this year. I am. So it makes me like so teary and I'm obviously gonna piggyback off of that be because I totally agree. I feel like this podcast, I've been in this space, I've said this for 15 years. Yeah. And I'm new here. You are not. Yeah. But I'm new here, if that makes sense. Yeah. So I'm new here with you because what I shared was so much different back then, and it's evolved so much over the years and I really felt like if you asked me a year ago, I really didn't know the direction of anything in my life. Like I, I knew, obviously I had come into this role as a mom. I. I knew that I had been a content creator. I didn't even know if I wanted to still be one. I was struggling so much with my identity and what I liked and what brought me joy and things like outside of my household. Like I knew, like in my household what was making me happy, but it was like I needed more than that and I felt shame even admitting that I needed more than that. And shame is probably one of the worst feelings you can have, and I felt so lost. And I wasn't even sure what I wanted to do. I literally spent a big chunk of my year at the beginning of the year being like, what else do I wanna do with my life? I almost felt like I was at a crossroads with my career. What do I wanna do? Do I even wanna stay in this space anymore? Because we had talked at length so much about you have to love what you're doing. You have to love what you do. You have to love being here. You have to love showing up. And I felt like at that time I wasn't loving anything. It's just, it was, and it was a me thing. It wasn't a community thing. It was just hard for me to show up as the best version of myself when I was struggling so much. Yeah. You didn't, you weren't sure what yourself was anymore. You weren't. So how can you show up as the best version of yourself when No, you're questioning yourself? No, and honestly, I think if I didn't, I. Have part in starting this podcast that I probably would've quit being a content creator. I really do, because I felt like I needed so much more. I needed connection. I was craving, like seeing people every day. I needed to get outta my house. I needed to do, I needed a routine. You needed a hug. I needed a hug. I needed, I just needed so much more than being behind a screen and I was blaming, being behind the screen. And we had this idea to start the podcast and I was like, I need a passion project again, because it brought me back to starting my blog. Mm-hmm. And my career as a content creator. And I needed that passion project. And I ended up with you rebuilding a community that ended up. Resparking my own business and my side of things as well. So this was like a double. Like a beautiful like double thing. I don't know what the word I'm looking for is, but it like, it helped us create a new business and it helped me revive the love for my own business. And like it revived my business in turn and also created such a beautiful community of people that follow Pippa, but then follow both of us. Mm-hmm. And I just feel like we have built like such a wonderful group of people and I feel the same way. Like I'm having people come up to me now and they're not like, oh, I follow Christina Reishi on Instagram. They're like, I know you from Pippa. I am listen to you. They follow, followed you from Christina Te she but didn't really know you. Yes. And now they know you and I, so I, we were away. When Raja and I took a trip, like people were coming up to me and saying I listened to your podcast. Oh, that's so cool. And like I, that was just to me, I know we made the right choice. Yeah. Obviously for so many reasons. But we've created such a beautiful community of people. I hope we can do so much more with that. I feel like we're just at the beginning, I really do. So professionally obviously I feel, what about personal? What are you grateful for this year? Personally? I have a lot to be grateful for. I think that my nuclear family is growing. And I know we just did an episode last week about how the six of us like create chaos. Yeah. And how, I know when we're together it is pure chaos. But since we're on the holiday season, I was looking back at all of the family photos that everybody hates taking. Yeah, of course. But I've just been looking at how fast every time is everybody is growing and how fast time is going. And I am just very grateful that I still have this like small nuclear family. That everybody is home. And everybody is tight and that's mostly what I'm grateful for. I love that is my nuclear family. I love that. Yeah. I love that so much. Mine is going to be a shout out to my husband because I feel like parenthood has rocked us and I'm sure it rocks everybody. But we've been together for 15 years before we had Leo. And so I really thought that we were, we got this right like this, it's, it can't rock us'cause we have so much foundation under us and it really still did. And we've talked really the last couple of months just now that we're coming up for air, just about how I don't think that either one of us expected it to rock us as hard as it did because you were so solid.'cause we were so solid and we had been together and we'd gone through so much together. And so we really, I don't wanna say we were cocky going into it, but we really just didn't think that it was gonna be as big of a deal as it ended up being. And I'm sure a lot of people can relate to that. And I'm just grateful that he not only stuck by me through the hardest year of my entire life, but was really just. A huge support and kind of just a I'm not going anywhere type of energy for me. And it just allowed me to grow and find myself outside of obviously like our marriage and outside of our house. Like he knew how important it was for me to have an identity outside of those things. And was like comfortable with that and knew that it wasn't a threat to him, it was just that. She needs this for herself. Yeah. And was like encouraging and held down the fort while I was off, building two separate businesses back up. And I'm just really appreciative of that. And I'm so grateful obviously for him and then the family we've been able to create because of that. Yeah. So that's so special. Yeah. We gotta give. Gotta give a love. Gotta give the love. I know. You have to choose your, you have to choose your spouse. You chose each other way back when. But you have to continue to choose your spouse. It's true now. Yep. On Friday night, Nick and I were gonna go out to dinner with friends. We were like all teed up and ready to go dressed and ready to go with a group of friends and I. And we hadn't been talking at all during the week.'cause it was such a stressful week. And just so much was going on. The kids were acting up, we were at each other's throats and the two of us canceled on our friends. And we went to Maximas, sat at the bar you just needed at the time. And we had a date night, just the two of us. And I felt bad like canceling because I don't love to do that. That's but that's what you needed. But I just felt bad for a second. And then I said to him like, I'm so happy we chose each other. Yes. Because, yes, that is so important. And then we went into the rest of the weekend better because we chose each other. I'll piggyback on that too, that I'm grateful Yes. That Nick and I still choose each other. Yep. You have to. And I love that you said that you have to choose each other every single day. Really? It's really hard. Some days are easier than others. Yep. But. Anyways, so happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving. We're not gonna do a pink spotlight today, but we, you're our pink spotlight. Yes. You guys are our pink spotlight. We just love you so much. We're so grateful for you Continue to share the love. We are so appreciative. I feel like this podcast is growing because of you guys. Like you guys are sharing our reels, you're sharing us with your friends. Yeah. And this is growing. I, I am such a huge believer that like the best things grow slow and steady. And this is like another example of this is growing organically, slow and steady. We have such a wonderful group. Everybody is so intentional with wanting to be here and be part of this community. And we're just so grateful and we hope that. All things will continue to build for all of us. We hope we could have events later on. We're gonna be, we're gonna celebrating. We're the one year of us and we're gonna have giveaways. There's just gonna be so much coming up and so we're just so grateful and we love y'all so much and so we appreciate that so much. Yes. We will see you all in December. Yes. Happy Thanksgiving. Bye. Enjoy the crazy holiday weekend. Bye bye.