Margs and Mindset

Life In Review

• Barlyssa Lopez • Season 1 • Episode 117

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The pause finally arrived—and with it, clarity. After a relentless run of projects, we sat down with our margs, looked honestly at the past year, and turned a messy pile of effort into something simple and strong: intention, consistency, and proof. That proof showed up in the best way possible when our accountant confirmed what we’d been grinding toward all year—we ran a profitable business. Not vibes. Not almost. Real profit that changes how we plan, spend, and dream.

We pull back the curtain on what shifted, from tightening operations and pricing to leaning on coaches and staying painfully consistent when motivation dipped. The win sparked something bigger than numbers: once your brain sees evidence, you stop apologizing for wanting more. That confidence spills into life at home, too. We talk about cohabitation as a shared project, planning with kids in mind, and the unexpected growth that comes from doing renovations and relationships the same way we do strategy—step by step, with rest built in.

Of course, we celebrate. This time it involved a next-level burger and a milkshake that could power a small city, followed by a hilarious sugar crash and a humbling reminder that bodies keep the score. We unpack what smarter celebrations might look like, why frequent recognition beats year-end blowouts, and how to keep momentum without sacrificing health. There’s also a detour through a surprise eye scare, a telemedicine shrug, and the ongoing practice of meeting chaos with humor and gratitude.

If you’re hungry for a practical, heart-forward roadmap—set a clear intention, do the work even when it’s boring, collect evidence, and then aim higher—you’ll feel seen here. Hit play, then tell us: what’s the intention you’re willing to back with action this year? Subscribe, share with a friend who needs the nudge, and leave a review to help this community grow.


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Barb:

Episode one hundred and seventeen.

Lyssa:

I'm loving this. These hundreds have been so much fun. I feel like we've just done, we've had more fun with them. They've been more intentional. I think the margs help. The margs definitely help. So speaking of what's in your cup. A margarine. Yes. And it's gonna help, I can tell. Um but I think it is. I think there's just been so much intention behind these last 17 episodes. And I I'm loving, I'm loving the journey that we're on. It's a lot of fun. And I feel like it's very uh on we're right on time, I guess. Yes, is definitely how it feels.

Barb:

Are about to enter a new year. Yes, a new number. Happy new year, a new animal, right? Last year was the year of the snake. And then I don't know what this year's was a new animal, so like new energy, and we're we've been living in that. I think for the last couple of weeks, we finally slowed down. Yeah. And we're finally resting and we're finally doing all the things that we've kind of been kicking down the line because you know, you girls have been busy, and we've looked back and it has been a beautiful year. Yeah. And that just makes me so much more excited for next year. Because if this year was this beautiful, yeah, next year just I can't.

Lyssa:

I'm not, I'm honestly not ready, and I'm so ready. I've never been more ready. Um, but I couldn't agree more. I feel like these last few weeks have felt like a wrap-up, like just like a true wrap-up of of life, of so many different things that we've been doing and chasing um throughout the whole year. And it's just kind of like all here where we're like, oh yeah, it's December, right? Like right now, we have finally taken that pause, taken that break. Those cutie little girls on the podcast that were talking about taking breaks back in November, you know, that was so cute. I appreciate them and their eagerness to rest. Yeah, that's what it was. It didn't happen in November. It really didn't. So I feel like when December, yeah, just looped right around, I was just like, okay, we're here. We're we're at the end. It's now time to cross all the T's and dot all the I's, finish all the projects, right? What are the things that I don't want to take with me into 2026? And, you know, what are the things that I'm looking forward to in 2026? And I think our our year in review, because we're just business focused all the time. Um, our year in review for me was really like the the start of like, okay, life in review. Like, do the whole reflection, not just for the business, but do it for your life because the business was so great. Like it was, I loved it. I loved doing the review. I loved seeing all of the goals that we, you know, met. And it was fun to make our new goals and you know, set those. Um, and it did, it kind of lit that fire to be like, okay, so now what does this look like for Elisa, not just for homemade events? Um, and that part's been really cool too. So I have been on a journey for the last few weeks of intentionally planning a full move-in with my partner. So we are moving into our stage of cohabitation. Um I love that you call it that. Oh, yeah, definitely. It's cohabitation all the time. Um, but yeah, so we're moving into that phase of life. And, you know, again, we we've been setting intentions for ourselves um for a couple of years now, and I didn't want this to be any different. I didn't want it to be something that we just rushed into. I didn't want it to be something that we just said, hey, let's do this, and then next week you move in. Um, I needed there to be a plan in place, and it was really, very you can't tell me. That is so annoying. Ugh. At least if I was a few sips in, this can be explained. This is just me. Sometimes that makes it worse. Sometimes that makes it better. I don't know. Haven't figured it out yet. We'll see what 2026 brings us. Um, but it was important for the both of us that that this was really thought out and planned. You know, we each have a child. Um, and so again, I'm not gonna make just, you know, any step or um rush the steps or anything like that. So that's kind of been where we've been at. And in order for this cohabitation to to go the way that we want it, some renovations to the house had to be made. And this is the first time that I have ever done that. I've never- What fun is it? No, for real. Like so much fun. I've never gone through home reno. Um, and HGTV definitely, you know, prepped me for this, and then at the same time didn't because they like put it on TV and they made it look so fun. And this is so nice. And, you know, when I've spend six out of seven nights a week at Home Depot, I'm out. I am all the way out. We visit. It's really not, you know, and um I've been spending a lot of time there. Uh, and I just I guess I didn't know, you know, you don't know what you don't know. This is my first time, so it's just been a new experience. And while it has been very fun, it's also been so many things that I just haven't thought about before. Um, which is another reason why I'm also grateful for the rest, because I also think that that's why we had this plan in place for like a few months now, and I genuinely just couldn't get started. And I think that was a part of it. Like I just didn't have the capacity, like things, so many things were happening with homemade still. And since that was able to kind of like calm down, I've been able to uh kind of focus more on the home and on moving that forward, and it does. It feels it feels really cool to know that there is this plan in place that if we stick to the plan, that my next year is just gonna be completely different. I'm gonna end 2025 in one fashion and start 2026 in a completely different one. And that awareness is like a bit of a mind fuck. Like just to know and see the shift that's going to happen. And like you're not there yet, but you can see when it's gonna happen and you can feel it now. Um and there's eagerness to get there.

Barb:

Beautiful though, because last year we moving into 2025, right? We had intention, we set intention, we planned, we built, we did all of this for the business, and the business flourished. Yeah. Now you're taking that same time, that same energy, that same thought process, that same planning that we do for our business, and you have done that for your life, and now you have the awareness. You know that if you make a plan like this, yeah, what is waiting for you on the other side?

Lyssa:

Yeah.

Barb:

And I am so grateful to those girls who started this business because it has changed all facets of our lives. In 2025, in the beginning on New Year's Eve, 2024. Do you did you think that this was gonna be your life? Not at all. And here you are, one year later, 365 days with the most beautiful last 365 days, and knowing that you're about to walk into this next year, and it is gonna be unknown, and it is gonna be so beautiful and uh intentionally curated, just like our lives are. Yeah, that's beautiful. Not a lot of people have that, and that is actually what you want because that's what makes a full life. Yeah, that's what makes the life that you want, because you are taking the power into your hands and you're crafting that life, you're not letting the world tell you what's gonna happen in your life. How beautiful.

Lyssa:

It is definitely a a privilege that I am I'm not taking for granted. I'm journaling about it a lot. Um, I recognize it as a privilege. Um, and I also, like you said, I know that there are a lot of people who have the ability to do it and choose not to. So, you know, just being grateful that I am who I am and that my partner sees that as an equal and, you know, wants to kind of move forward in the in the same manner that I want to move forward. And, you know, it's again, it's something when you do it for yourself. It's another thing when there's a partnership, right? Our business is completely different because it's a partnership, and my life now is gonna be moving completely different because I'm in a partnership and I've never had that before, right? We've we've had relationships, and you know, there's exes. I got a baby daddy, right? Like there's all these people in my past that I've been with, but I've only, you know, had one partner that I've claimed, and that's always been you. So to have someone else see me and love me and and want to move forward and creating a life together, like that's that is beautiful. And and I'm very, very grateful for that. And I'm excited for for the unknown and at the same time for the known, right? Because I I know that we're doing this the right way, and I know that we're making the best decisions and crafting the best life for us and our children, and it's just gonna continue to be the best year.

Barb:

Salute! And now we drink because that's been waiting for this part, and that's delicious. That's so good. You know, ever since switching to not letting them expire, it has been a game changer for my taste buds. I'm gonna be honest. I will say, I can taste the difference. I can taste the difference, Adrian. Understand what you meant, and I promise to never let that like since then, again, yeah. Scheduling has tightened up. So tangent, large tangent of the episode.

unknown:

Exactly.

Lyssa:

I'm also excited because we're going out tonight. Um, and I am gonna get a margarita, obviously.

Barb:

So I wanna I wanna talk about it because you you brought up the year in review and all of the wonderful things that are coming for you this year personally. And uh I wanna switch it to business because you know, duh, what we do is what we do. Uh, we did our year in review and it was amazing. We have had our meetings with our coaches. So after that meeting, we we understood what has happened, we've we do what we do best, and we called on the people that are here to help us, to support us, and take us to the next level. Yeah. Um, so we met with Miet.

Lyssa:

Miet now. I don't know what's going on with this.

Barb:

One sip.

Lyssa:

But at least you have a margarita excuse.

Barb:

We met with Lisa, our accountant, and got some of the best news that we've ever gotten. And I want to share it. I want to sing it out from a mountaintop so that everyone can everyone can hear it. Homemade Events LLC is in fact a profitable business this beautiful year of 2025. And we celebrated. We went out and we had our celebration. And you know, we ate. We went to a new restaurant and that's the tangent that's coming. But we actually celebrated because wow. We're a fucking prof. We made money this year.

Lyssa:

So we can't tell me nothing. I think she had it, she had mentioned that we made like a little bit of money. And when I mean a little, I mean like it could fit in your wallet, you know? So like it's a little bit. You want a briefcase, you know? Exactly. Ain't nobody making money until it goes in the briefcase. Everybody knows that. Everybody's seen the movies. You're right. We know that's how it works. Until we knew the briefcase was next. We know that's how it works. So that's really what it was. Is we did though. We went from being able to fit it in your wallet sexy to fitting in a fucking briefcase, bitch. We took a briefcase this year, and like that just felt so fucking good. And to tie it back, it was the intention setting. We set the intention at the end of last year in December of 2024. When we were looking at our numbers, when we were looking at our business, when we were actually a little bit sad, right? A lot. Because there were so many things that had transpired that we were just like, oh my God, I can't believe this is like what we're doing at the end of the year. Like, this is how we're ending our year. There was definitely some blues that were being sang. And we did all of those things to set that intention and to say, 2025 is the year that we're gonna fucking make money. It's not an option. It wasn't an option for us. It was we make money this year, or we have to start questioning whether or not this is gonna be a business, if we're gonna keep this going. That's like a real fucking question. That was like the first time that we had to be like, oh, so we have to be business owners. Like, we gotta do the day.

Barb:

I had to make money, or I was gonna have to go back to a job that I left. So, like that, it was everything.

Lyssa:

It was do or die. It were, it really was. And and I think that's really why her news hit us so hard. That's why it was so important. That's why the briefcase matters because I had one year to prove that I could make this business a real fucking business, that it could be profitable, that I could pay myself and still make money and be on paper what a business, quote unquote, is defined as.

unknown:

And then I did it.

Lyssa:

So good. I fucking did it. So good. Like, woohoo! Oh my god. So yeah, I'm definitely gonna go celebrate with a burger and like the most amazing shake I've ever had in my life because like I earned that shit. I worked really hard, I set that intention. I said, no, this year I'm gonna do this, and then I did it. And we didn't even know it until December. That's the part, and that yes, like it's that part, right? Like, we spent this whole year just grinding and grinding and pushing ourselves, pushing ourselves almost to the point of burnout, right? Like, we have all these past few episodes where we have said that we're exhausted at least three times per episode because things were getting so hard at the end. We were dragging ourselves to the finish line, dragging ourselves to December. So to have that meeting and her be like, yep, you did what you came to do, I would drop this mic if it didn't cost so much mandana. If this freaking thing wasn't so expensive, I would drop it right now because that's it. I did what I was supposed to do. And like you said, now that I I can do that, now that I know I have evidence, I have proof. My brain now has the evidence. So I'm gonna go into this next year with whatever I want. And I'm gonna make it come true because I know that's how it works. And I don't want to apply it to just my business. I'm gonna apply it to my life, I'm gonna apply it to everything because I figured out how it works. You say you want it, you do the work, and then you get it. It really is that simple, and it's like not because in the middle is really hard, but the steps are that simple, right?

Barb:

And then consistency followed with those steps is what gets you here. Yeah. It's it's all of it, and it's so simple and so hard, and so worth it. Yeah, it's so worth it. We celebrated, we went to a new restaurant, so we're highly motivated by food. If you obviously you know that. Um and what was beautiful about that, we knew we needed to celebrate. So we had scheduled the celebration, and we had a teeny event um at the end of November November, and they tipped us, and we, you know, so freaking grateful that you paid a service and then to leave an extra. So grateful.

Lyssa:

Yeah, always appreciated.

Barb:

In that moment, I knew like, okay, we're gonna use this for our celebration. Now the universe is so abundant, right? That not only did I bring home a briefcase, she also gave me a little extra cycle. Ease. Thank you, thank you, client, thank you, universe, thank you, you, thank you, me. Thank you, White Glove Service from homemade events, right? All the thank yous because how fucking abundant are we? We are overfloweth with abundance. And I don't want people to just sit here and hear two girls boasting and like celebrate, not celebrating is where I am celebrating. Um, but I'm not boasting. Yeah, I'm doing this because at one point in my life, shit was not like this. No, shit was paycheck to paycheck, abundance was very minimal. Mindset was I'm just never gonna have these things because I my family didn't have these things, people around me. I can't have these things. These are for other people to have. And we have changed. We have changed every fiber of our body to let all of those limiting beliefs go, to let all that past history, trauma, drama, all the amas, exactly, all those amas go so that we could step fully into this because I see that you can't be one foot in and one foot out on this. You have to be all the way in for this to work. And I feel like we've walked through that threshold. I am all the way in. I do know how this works, and I'm gonna continue living this life this way. And some people might not agree with it, and some people might not like it, but this is the right thing for me. Yeah. And I'm gonna own that, and that's okay. Yeah, your thing might look different. Yeah. But this is my thing.

unknown:

Yeah.

Lyssa:

And I don't I I don't think it's boastful at all, you know, because like you said, there are there was a period of time in our lives where we couldn't even fathom what we're what we're doing right now. We do still like right now, still can't fathom. Exactly. Like right now I'm not fathoming. What I'm doing. I'm holding a mic, I'm on a podcast, there's people who listen to me. Like they're it goes over my head now. And I couldn't imagine what 2015, 2016, Elisa would even think. Those poor babies were struggling to just survive if I told her what our life was gonna be like in 2026. I I couldn't even imagine. And so much has happened, just even if in this last four and a half years of starting this business, that you you can't tell me it's boastful. You can't take anything away from me because I worked really hard to get here. My life is literally a 180 from what it used to be. I had to change almost everything about me. I got to stay funny. So thank God that part trauma really went in for good. You know, so that one's not going anywhere. But otherwise, you know, like I am a different person. I'm a completely different person. I I walk differently, I speak differently, I think differently, and therefore I am different. And that deserves to be acknowledged. And even in this business, right, where there's many episodes where we're little crybabies and talking about how hard it is and moving forward and all the years of not being a profitable business, you know, underneath us, right? Like, no, I'm gonna scream this from the mountaintops because that's what this has been. This has been a climb, this has been a stretch. I have been working towards this for four and a half years, and now that I'm here, can nobody tell me nothing? I know that's right. Started from the bottom now. Yeah. And like I'm just I'm never gonna be sorry about that. I I never wanna apologize for that. I don't want to feel bad about it, and I am at the same time extremely humbled and blessed, right? I started in the beginning talking about I understand that all the things that I'm talking about are a privilege, but I worked for this privilege. I wasn't given it, I wasn't entitled, right? Like I am the reason that I am here right now in this spot. And you have to own that sometimes. And especially when you are trying to to transcend, when you're trying to grow after you've already had so much growth, because again, 2016 to 2026 are two vastly different versions of who we were. I I have to be proud of me. I have to have confidence in me. I have to tell myself that I can do it. I have to remind myself of the last 10 years of everything that I've done if I want to keep going for the next 10 years. So I can't I can't shame it, I can't hide it, I can't not talk about it because other people might feel this way or that way. This is my story, this is who I am, and I think that is something that is gonna move into 2026, especially with the podcast. I think like we're just going to be telling our story more because I think in order for you to understand why we are on top of the mountain screaming, maybe you need to know what we were doing at the bottom of the mountain.

Barb:

Yeah, that iceberg that goes down lower in the ocean than you can ever see. Exactly.

Lyssa:

That's that's kind of what I feel like this is at. So that way people are like, oh yeah, no, I know. I see you on Instagram, killing it, doing this, doing that. You're always uh here and there doing this and doing that. And it's like, yeah, that's what you see today. But like what you don't see, what you haven't seen, like that is what brings me to today. And I feel like that is something that we're we're gonna be bringing into this next year. Sexy.

Barb:

I know sexy. Um, so we went and we celebrated. Mood burger. I'm gonna shout them out because everything was delicious. All of it, everything was amazing from start to finish. We'd never gone there before, but they've kind of been crawling the algorithm, and I've been seeing those crazy ass shakes where there's like cookies and brownies and cosmic brownies and ice cream sandwiches on top of a milkshake. A milkshake that's the topping, and then there's a milkshake underneath. So I'm like, fuck yeah, I want to fuck that up. So we go and we had a beautiful time. We had an amazing burger each because we we shared, we did the thing. Um, and then we shared a shake that was so good. Robert Brownie Jr. And he was worth it. Yeah. What was he worth? Let me let me tell you. The sugars. We got the sugars. The sugars. I had the sugars after. I know I'm old now because after eating that shake, and I have no regrets. No, but I would do it again. This time I know what I'm gonna get myself into, though. I had never felt my heart race as fast. I don't drink coffee. I've never been a coffee drinker, right? So, like I've seen people on the coffee sugars, on the coffee, the caffeine, like jitters. I felt like that. Like, if I drank coffee, that's what would happen to me. Holy shit. Holy shit, people out here eating a whole one by themselves because I don't think that's okay.

Lyssa:

I thought that part was crazy. We actually saw a couple people that were like also there. And like we ordered one for the both of us. We're like, yeah, obviously. We debated. We did, we looked at the menu, we saw them, and there was just no way in hell that we were gonna be able to do two of these. So we were just like, no, obviously, we will just have one, we will share it. And then we were watching other people that were there like get multiples. Like, there were three people, there were three shakes, like there are two people, two shakes, and I'm like, yo, this is crazy. I cannot believe these people are like eating their own. Um, and then we got ours, and I was like, I don't want to share. I understand why. Dead. You did not tell me that. Just kidding.

unknown:

Just kidding.

Lyssa:

Um, you know, so I'm like, okay, like let's let's do this, right? We went in. Like, dude, let's do this. We were in it, it was delicious. I loved every second of it. I didn't want to stop. I definitely had to make myself. Had to make myself stop, yes. Um, because I wanted to keep going, but like I just couldn't, especially after the burger and fries. Yes. Um, but it was almost uh instantaneous, I'd say. Like those sugars, they they kicked in real quick. And I I did. I felt the heart racing. I was definitely a little jittery, like I felt myself kind of just up, and I knew I was like, you're a little hyper right now. Like you're hyper, the sugar has kicked in. Um, we left there. I dropped you off. I had to go get Oliver from school. I went home, complete crash out. Like, I was like, I must lay down. Like this is not an option, not an option for me. I need a minute. Um, that minute turned into 45 individual minutes in a row. One line. I had to just lay there to try and get over this. Um so I did. I gave myself a little 45-minute nap. Um, I came back to it and he asked me what was for dinner, and I almost puked. I was like, well, um, I don't know. I was like, we'll figure it out. We'll we'll see. Uh I drank a minimum of 100 to 150 ounces of water. 100% sleep between the hours of like 5 p.m. when I woke up and like 8 p.m. when I went to sleep. Back to sleep. Exactly. Back to sleep because I I woke up at 5 p.m. Um from my sugar crash out. Um, yeah, and I was just like, there was no way I couldn't eat anything. Like I felt like I should have. Um, but there was just no way in hell that I was gonna be able to eat anything else um that night. So I ended up just doing like dinner for him. It was, and then I went to bed early, like I had to. Um, and then the next day I just I didn't feel great. No, you know, those sugars really they grabbed. They stayed until the next day because I woke up and I still was like, wow. That's what happens when you eat sugar like that. Yeah. So we're old. The awareness was just so high. This was the first time that I had so much awareness of what sucrose was doing in my body. Glucose, fructose, whatever all the toases were. They were they were in there, they were manipulating. I used to pick up. And it was crazy.

Barb:

King size cat bars. That part, right? Like ponds with a soda on the side, even the sugar. Where's the liquid sugar, please? I'm so thirsty. Water, no. Ew. That's the iceberg. That's one layer of the iceberg underwater that you don't even know because all I drink now is water and or a margarita. Yeah, yeah. But I came back, you know, I I I leveled up to be here. I it is just so obvious that we're old. It is just so because I remember when that didn't happen and that would give me like energy. Allegedly, allegedly that it gave me energy. Right. And I did it. I did the 12-hour shift. I would come home, I'd do the baby thing. Now I would do it again, but I don't think I'm gonna eat as much next time. Yes, like now I know that the limit is actually way less.

Lyssa:

Way before. I was proud of myself that I stopped, and yet I should have stopped sooner. So exactly. So we celebrated, we learned lessons.

Barb:

Man, this is what life is all about. It is just learning lessons and you know, having a good time. That's what we did to celebrate this amazing year. And we are committing, we're setting the intention for 2026 to do this more because we are high achievers, we are overachievers. We love ourselves of breaking a good goal. Yeah. And I love that about me. Yeah. I don't want to change that. Yeah. What I do want to change is I do want to celebrate more. I shouldn't wait 365 days to say, wow, look what I did all that whole time. Um, and we're gonna do that more. And hopefully not with sugars. Yeah, not with the sugars every time. We gotta, we gotta switch our mindset.

Lyssa:

You know, 180s, you know.

Barb:

There's still works to be done. I'm not perfect. Get out of here. Speaking of not being perfect, I'm turning into quasi moments.

Lyssa:

Oh my god, don't start with it. I'm gonna tell the whole world. No, it's ridiculous. So tell the whole world.

Barb:

We had a cutie uh market with slate. It was adorable. And it was adorable. We were here pretty much all day. Um glorified cleaners, but pretty much.

Lyssa:

I didn't realize that that's what I was gonna be that day. But when the mob didn't leave my hand for more than two minutes, I was like, okay, this is who you are today. Thank you, Rochester.

Barb:

Um, but yeah, so you ended up having to go. I stayed, you know, we we had a lot of things going on in true Bar Lisa style. Um so I finally got home and my eye started to hurt. Like my corner of my eye started to hurt, and all of a sudden it was swelling. I had to take Benadryl. It was crazy. Yeah.

Lyssa:

And Jeff just kept saying, You should go to the doctors, you should go to the doctors.

Barb:

And I'm like, leave me alone, dude. Maybe it'll go away. You don't know, right? So you're not a doctor. It's not that I don't like doctors. I don't want to say that. It's just like it's not my go-to, right? When something's wrong, I, you know, your body's like a working machine. It's fixed some time to do its job. Um, so I woke up Sunday morning and I, in fact, needed to call the doctor. I'm just like, call the doctor, call the doctor. Shit did not work itself out, shit got worse. So my eye was like pop, like almost as though someone punched me in the face. And I almost feel like I wish I got punched in the face rather than if you asked me what happened, go ahead, ask me what happened. I don't know. I called the doctor, and the doctor said she also didn't know. She didn't know what happened, she didn't know what was wrong. But here are the antibiotics, steroids, all the things that doctors give you. Yeah. And slowly getting better. And then I woke up this morning with a fucking bump on my lip. The actual fuck is happening inside of me right now. Is this like the sugars excreting my body and like clogging my pores in these ways? What the hell? There's like a waiting period, like an incubation period inside of your body, and like now it's just the weird shit. I am freaking out because I don't want to look like Quasimodo.

Lyssa:

The I think was the I think was crazy. That was crazy. The bump on your lip, you can't even see. I've never had a bump on my lip before.

Barb:

I've never had a bump on my lip before.

Lyssa:

But I think it's related. So, you know. Exactly. She doesn't know away. But I feel like this is gonna make me go on my tangent about telemedicine because, like, you know, of course you can't. I don't even know how I would expect you to know what's wrong with my phone. I definitely brought the camera of the phone. Right.

Barb:

I called her on my phone and I brought it all the way up to my eye. I was like, look, can you see it? Do you need me to move the camera a little? Can you see? And she was like, No, I don't really see anything.

Lyssa:

I said, No shit. Let me move it a tiny bit. What is happening to my fucking face?

Barb:

Oh so yeah, the funnies are still here. All of that to say, the funnies are still here. So freaking out about my face. You're still beautiful. We have a very beautiful business and life. Yeah. So that if I do have to be ugly for a little bit, at least I have a beautiful life.

Lyssa:

I I you know what? I'm gonna take the fact that you said ugly for a little bit and you didn't like put this into like I just really hope it doesn't stay.

Barb:

It's I hope I didn't catch the ugly.

Lyssa:

You know. I'm so scared. You don't stink. You're just ugly. If you know you that I feel like there, that's it. It was beautiful. I think this is a beautiful place to love and leave, my friends. I hope that you guys have uh a wonderful new year and that 2026 is everything that you want it to be. Yeah, set that intention for what you want, and then go get that shit. Amen. All right, this is the part where you guys are gonna do all the things. You're gonna like and follow and subscribe. You can follow us on Instagram and YouTube at Marks and Mindset Podcast. And if you are local to the ROC and you want to party with us at HomeMade Events ROC. Until next time, bye.

Barb:

Get cute. Now everyone knows I'm ugly.

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Alyssa Lopez

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Barbara DeSantis

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