Afraid Of Adulting? Why (and How) Gen Z Can Handle Real-Life Responsibilities | S6 E9

Chris Alessi:

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the family business with the Alessis. My name is Chris Alessi, and I'm here with my unbelievable wife, Richelle Alessi.

Richelle Alessi:

Hello, everybody.

Chris Alessi:

It's nice to be here. I mean, I don't think we've ever done a podcast. Just us.

Richelle Alessi:

I don't think so.

Chris Alessi:

This is nice. First. This is nice. You look beautiful. Thank you.

Richelle Alessi:

You too.

Chris Alessi:

About to say I was waiting for mine. No. I'm kidding. Last time I was in this chair, we had some interesting fireworks Yes.

Chris Alessi:

Pulled Mhmm.

Chris Alessi:

As we tried to bring Marino on here. And, if you wanna know what happened, you gotta go see that episode. But, Alan, what episode would that have been? 6 episode 6. Yeah. That was, that was an interesting moment, but glad to be here today.

TikTok Speaker:

Yes.

Chris Alessi:

We got some fun things. We actually really don't know what we're gonna be discussing.

Richelle Alessi:

Yes.

Chris Alessi:

We're gonna be looking at something. Our our Fearless leader, AP, has, spent some time finding something for us to discuss today, so it's it's gonna be cool. But what's going on here?

Richelle Alessi:

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Chris Alessi:

I have to look at it. Right? Yeah. Okay. We have actually not really seen any of this.

Richelle Alessi:

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Chris Alessi:

Well, so this one this one's funny. Read it.

Richelle Alessi:

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Chris Alessi:

It's also synonymous with awesome. Yeah. So, the body is is definitely awesome. We seem like there's a tote bag there. Mhmm. Everyone's gonna see Rochelle's thinking of my, folding.


Richelle Alessi:

Yeah. We got Oh, we have a tote bag, but there is more things. So we'll link it on the video or somewhere, But there is more shirts, different, colors, hoodies and everything. No.

Chris Alessi:

So Marino can wear this today.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

So our boy, Marino, is 5 months old today, and he can wear size, like, 9 month clothes.

Richelle Alessi:

Yes. Yes. He can.

Chris Alessi:

The blessing of the Lord. It's it's it's rich. But, yeah, it's just cool, cool podcast merch. Of course, we got books and stuff, and this is all part of the family business. In fact, At some point, we may be interrupted by some family business that has to get done if I get a particular phone call that I must answer.

TikTok Speaker:

Mhmm.

Chris Alessi:

But so Alan Paul today has, given us something. Apparently, it was trending for a couple of weeks. Apparently, a lot of, different news stations picked it up and kinda looked at it because it's being looked at like Looked at like it's a representation of the the generations, the younger generations. So we're gonna watch it real quick.

Richelle Alessi:

Let's see.

Chris Alessi:

Alright. So it's a girl, and it says, question of the day in a 9 to 5, how do you have time for your life?

Richelle Alessi:

Okay.

Chris Alessi:

Okay. So, I know I'm probably

TikTok Speaker:

just being so dramatic and annoying, but this is my 1st job, like, my 1st 9 to 5 job after college. And I'm in person, And I'm commuting in the city, and it takes me forever Oh. To get there. There's no way I'm gonna be able to afford living in the city right now, so that's off the table, like, If I was able to walk to work and it would it'd be fine, but I'm not. So it literally takes me like, I leave here, like, I get on the train at 7:30, and I don't get home till like 6:15 earliest. And then like, I don't have time to do anything. I don't I want to shower, eat my dinner, and go to sleep. I don't have time or energy to Cooked by dinner either.

TikTok Speaker:

Like, I don't have energy to work out. Like, that's out the window. Like, I'm so upset. Oh my god. Nothing to do with my job at all, but just like the 9 to 5 schedule in general is crazy. Being in the office 9 to 5, like, if it was remote, you get off at 5, And you're home and everything's fine, but, like, I'm not home. It takes me long to get home and, like, like, people that drive to the office, like, it doesn't you don't get off at 5. And I know it could be worse.

TikTok Speaker:

I know I could be working longer, but, like, I literally get off. It's pitch black. Like, I don't have energy. How do you have friends? Like, how do you have time to, like, Meet, like, a guy. I don't know. Like, how do you have time for, like, dating? Like, I don't have time for anything, and I'm, like, so stressed out. Okay. Wow.

Chris Alessi:

Alright.

Richelle Alessi:

When I get home at 6:15, I have the I feel like I have a full day. When I get home at that time, I'm like, I can't believe we're home that early. I can make dinner. I can clean. I can even do some more work. We can watch a movie. 6:15 is a great time to get home.

Chris Alessi:

But when our kid goes to bed at,

Chris Alessi:

like, 10:30 at night, we're like, we got the whole night ahead

TikTok Speaker:

of us.

Richelle Alessi:

Yes. Oh my gosh.

Chris Alessi:

Okay. So we we we wanna establish crowd rules. We don't wanna make fun of an individual. Yes. Definitely don't wanna make fun of our generation, But, it's very hard not to.

Richelle Alessi:

9 to 5.

Chris Alessi:

So I

Richelle Alessi:

mean, that's been, like, The regular or most normal thing, 9 to 5 jobs. Like, that's not a new thing.

Chris Alessi:

Well, let's okay. So so let's let's talk about it, I guess. So what what really stinks is that Some of the more senior generations do think that this is what our generation believes and thinks. And I actually think the bigger problem here is not that that's her takeaway from her 1st 9 to 5 job. I think the bigger problem is is that she's super emotional. She's crying. She's in some type of, like, quarter life crisis, Existential crisis, and she's filming herself and putting it on social media. Like, how does she win Doing that, what what why does our generation think it's okay to take those emotional moments And put them out there for the world.

Chris Alessi:

Like, what was she expecting people to do?

Richelle Alessi:

Also, you're saying you don't have time to do anything, And so, she had time to film that video and to post it and to write a caption for it.

Chris Alessi:

To run a social media page?

TikTok Speaker:

Yeah. Wow.

Richelle Alessi:

So, clearly, she has some time. We just know where the time is going.

Chris Alessi:

Well,

Chris Alessi:

so she said she's getting out of college. So let's assume she's 23. Mhmm. 1st job, you're 25. So in 2 years from where she's at, you've gotten to the you have a full time job

Richelle Alessi:

Yes.

Chris Alessi:

9 to 5 Mhmm. But we work, you know,

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

Hours we work a lot.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

You are married to me. Mhmm. You say that's the best aspect of your you're married to me. You have a kid. Yes. I mean, you take care of your home. We're not Uber Eats all the time. Like, you have found a way to balance All of life, and yet we actively talk about how the only way we're gonna get what we want in life is to expand our capacity and to be able to handle even more.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

So how do you think people get to young people, or I guess anybody.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

How do they even get to that place? Is this something we should make fun of? Is this something that we should have grace for? Is this something we should, like, train? What do you think?

Richelle Alessi:

I think that when you're young, You don't have the capacity that somebody that's 30 has because you haven't been through all that experience of life of Having a full time job, going to college, having a family. So anything that you step into naturally is gonna be a lot. It happens. When you and I became parents, we felt like It was a lot. We were like, how are we gonna do anything with a baby? But you get used to it, and so that's gonna be a normal reaction every single Time you're stepping into a new season. It's not normally if you stay there, though. And it's a it's a it's on you to manage your time And say, I have to do all these things. Well, how am I gonna make all these things happen? I just say, well, what am I gonna take off the table?

Chris Alessi:

Yeah.

Richelle Alessi:

And something that you and I have done or talked about is we're never gonna say no to more things, especially if they're good for us, If they're gonna bless us in the future or it's to expand our life, it's just about how we're gonna manage everything. And there's no Perfect plan. Life is not gonna be perfect, but this really comes down to managing time. And I think that the Younger generation, we've been hindered by social media and by just having everything instantly with Things we order with just our groceries get delivered to our home, and we don't have to wait. Yeah. That That kind of mentality of, like, I don't have to wait because I don't have the instant gratification of all these things, Then it makes it harder for in in some way, it makes your brain not practice delayed gratification, but also work.

Chris Alessi:

Yeah.

Richelle Alessi:

And so the she can have Uber Eats delivered to her house instantly, but it's she can't be from home to her job Instantly, she has to wait. She has to drive. She has to wait, and the waiting process for people now It's a lot harder to comprehend than it was before because we don't have all all this access to immediate things.

Chris Alessi:

Yeah. But I also think, like, on top of it, I think you see here an over glorification of work life balance Yeah. And an over glorification of rest.

Richelle Alessi:

Yes.

Chris Alessi:

Like, I don't think I got I remember times where you and I would talk about it, like, needing to protect our rest, needing to protect our rest. And then all of a sudden, We get called into a meeting, and it's a family meeting, and it's like, you all are over glorifying rest. And it's like, how dare you say that? No. We need our rest. Now meanwhile, All of a sudden, we have a kid, and we're like, I don't wanna go home. I don't wanna be sitting at home resting. I wanna do things. I wanna make memories for my my child.

Chris Alessi:

I I wanna go out even yesterday. We normally like, because we had rehearsal last night, would normally go out of our way to, like, get home as soon as you possibly can so we get as much time on the couch as possible before we come to rehearsal. Now with the baby, it's like, Let's go to the mall. Let's go do this. Let's go to the park. Let's go eat, and then let's come back because we found that we have a a capacity for it, and that rest is, like, Overrated. Yeah. I mean, maybe not in the, like, the long term, but I feel like this is just a problem.

Chris Alessi:

There's a problem here With, like, letting social media raise people. Because you know someone like this has seen videos of of doctors who are saying, You need your 8 hours every single night.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

And people don't realize when we hear that, sometimes maybe we'll get there at some point in our life, but it's just not realistic right now. When was the last time you and I got 8 hours?

Richelle Alessi:

Not since Marina was born.

Chris Alessi:

So You haven't gotten 8 hours since you were pregnant.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah. That's true.

Chris Alessi:

So we it's it's and you're doing fine.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

Now when we're empty nesters, we'll get our 8 hours. But right now, like, we can't. But we hear that on social media, and now it adds another thing that stresses us out. It's like another metric to judge our life. Am I getting enough here? And I don't know if that's healthy. And then you have other you know, especially with some of the, narratives out there about how women can get everything without a man. And you know what? Maybe that's absolutely true and accurate, but you see one of the things she says is she's like, living in this city, throw that out the window. Well, yeah, if you're trying to live in a city off of your only income, like, just by yourself.

Chris Alessi:

But this is why marriage is a thing. You come together. You pull resources. You create a life together, and things because we are together, there are things available to us That aren't available if I'm alone.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

So it's like there's also an over glorification of independence here where it's like, that that doesn't make any sense. Why are we trying to do everything fully independent? And then at the same time and I hate this. I hate this. There's a joke out there about boomers, whereas, like, boomer is a derogatory term now. We better remember that people 40, 50, 60, 70 survived.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

They found a way with families, with kids, with jobs to live in the cities we wanna live in, to raise the families we wish we could raise. They figured it out, And our generations are making fun of them. Like, you guys don't get it because they have a difference of opinion on how to handle, like, Things political issues

TikTok Speaker:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

That, in reality, Society's basically agreed on for 1000 of years. We're just now trying to make changes to them.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

So it's like there's an over glorification here all in this of independence, of rest, and I just I think it's it's like a cocktail of sick. It's just like In one you you kinda see in a girl who's 23, she's been raised by this social media world, and for whatever reason, just just my mind, It's like she'd been raised by Taylor Swift. You know? Like, we watched that documentary the other day. Raised by that type of thinking, and that's the fruit of it. Like, the fruit is I'm emotional. I'm crying, and I'm gonna post it.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

I'm apparently, I don't know how long this girl takes to shower, but you get home at 6:30, and, like,

Richelle Alessi:

What You can't cook.

TikTok Speaker:

You can't shower. What are

Richelle Alessi:

you doing? Workout.

Chris Alessi:

Like, I I don't get it. There We have more access to things now. There's meal plans where people literally send food to your house, and you all you gotta do is cook it. There's workout plans you can do In your home. Like, she could literally do everything, and I have more to say on the whole, like, I can't believe I have to go in person. It's like There's definitely a perspective thing here, but how do you as a girl like, as a as a as a woman Who has a family, who's taking care how how do you look at that?

Richelle Alessi:

I think it's just a mentality shift that you have to make because I very easily can see other people on social media and be like, how are they doing all these things? Or how do they get to do that one specific thing and I don't? And so I think any of us are very susceptible to falling into that if we're not very careful on our thoughts, how we're thinking, Because it's funny that you mentioned back that that family meeting that we had about time, and it was because we were all trying to protect our time, we you and I didn't even have a baby. We weren't even pregnant at that time, and we were trying to protect our time. So imagine that back then, how it would have Transformed to now with a baby. Yeah. And so now it's just like you have all these avenues To compare your life to, to see what other people are doing, you think that you can do it all, but you you can, but there's a way to balance And and get do the things that you really need to do and you should be doing. And I really do think it's about What I'm how I'm thinking. And it's like, am I gonna be tired sometimes? Yes. Am I gonna get all my hours of sleep? No.

Richelle Alessi:

But is this worth it to do for my family right now? A 100%.

Chris Alessi:

Yeah.

Richelle Alessi:

It is good for me to go home and cook and spend Time with us and not having to buy food and create time for all of those things even if I'm tired because tomorrow, well, we didn't spend that money or We spend that time as a family together, and we made a memory. And good things are not gonna be easy all the time.

Chris Alessi:

No.

Richelle Alessi:

It's gonna it's gonna take work. I mean, if I want a good life, I'm gonna have to work. And Even the idea of work. I don't know if this happened, like, after COVID. I don't really know when this, like, shift happened where people stopped Thinking that work is important or, like, it's what you need to do to survive. Yeah. Because you were from home or you were getting help the meantime and everybody just kinda got used to it. Yeah.

Richelle Alessi:

And you saw the easier avenues, and that was just a moment to survive what happened back then. And if we're not careful, is kind of what we're saying, if we don't step out of that from what that was back then, Then we're gonna stay there, and it's we're not gonna have a good life. I mean, we've noticed that the the service, the quality of service, everything has just

Chris Alessi:

Shifted.

Richelle Alessi:

Shifted completely because it's like people don't even have the actual social skills anymore when it comes to interacting with people and And all these things. And I do think it's a product of measuring your life on We're looking at your life based on social media and what it it and living your life through, like, if it was a social media. Like, that's your real life.

Chris Alessi:

Well, there's an entitlement issue For sure. But when people think they deserve things without the work Yeah. And to be honest, you and I kinda gave into that before that conversation where I deserve to protect my time outside of work because I put in the time at work. Like, because I did the 9 to 5, I deserve

Stephanie Muiña:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

To protect the rest. And truth is, you know, my parents basically looked at us and, like, that my that mentality doesn't have good fruit long term. Yeah. You don't create a good life. You don't create kids you actually that feel like they had good life experiences. Like, you don't you don't like that, And what you see here is, like, entitlement. Like, she she's entitled to work from home and when in reality, like, you have the the major CEOs right now. They're all coming out saying, everybody come back to work because this digital thing doesn't work.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

This doesn't work. And It's it's hilarious because she's like, well, then that that shouldn't be my problem. Right? Like, because oh, whatever. Tell my problem. Well, then you don't get the results.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

And part of this is kind of Just what happens when people believe they're entitled to things.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

Like, they're entitled to a paycheck. They're entitled to a good tip. They're they they are entitled to it should be easy to live in whatever city I want. And so when I look at this, I'm like, man, this girl's just robbed of perspective. And if if if I am speaking to anybody that is, an adult working with young adults, I would hope that you would not let this scare you off. You would let this be the fire that you're the 1st responder responding to.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

That you look at this as something That's like I have to provide perspective to them because once we had that conversation with my parents, I it's never been an issue.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

Now it's like, Oh, we found out we had rehearsal at 3 o'clock yesterday, so now we have to change our whole plan for the whole day. That would've made me mad for weeks A year and a half ago. Now I'm like, oh, okay.

Richelle Alessi:

Okay. So we just we shift. We just stay here. We do something else, but We change it up. Do it.

Chris Alessi:

I remember a particular leadership guru that I'm really not the biggest fan of because of some of the things he's been getting into lately, but one of the things that he made a comment about is that businesses need to start running their businesses like families and seeing themselves as parents, not necessarily bosses, because There's a basic layer of understanding of work that these younger generations just don't have. They just don't have it. And maybe it started with online classes where now you didn't have to go be in class to get the degree, and maybe it started with then now people could work from home And digitized age. And now I could make money on social media when we don't even really know if you can over the long haul in a way that's stable. Like, we don't know. And that's one of the things about a social media world where everybody's an influencer. Maybe they're able to share things that make sense and sound good, but we still don't know what the fruit of that over a Time is. Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

Like, all these oh my god. You could find different health gurus that completely contradict each other, and they both have large followings.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

And so it's almost like, man, all you see is that this is there's a part of this that's normal. We all got our 1st job and realized, Oh my gosh. The adults around me, they've made a lot work, and I I I didn't realize how much they made work.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

I was complaining about school.

Richelle Alessi:

Yes. Oh my god. I have a part time job, and then I have 4 classes that I have to prepare for. And I felt like my plate was super full, and I can't do anything else.

Chris Alessi:

Yeah. Now we'd wish, like, can I go back to college? Yes.

TikTok Speaker:

Can I

Chris Alessi:

go back to where I can walk into an environment, go learn, step outside, hang with my friends, Go to a sports game, then come inside and get the subway that's right oh my god? This is amazing.

Richelle Alessi:

Yes. It was easier back then, and you don't think It was because you don't have any other life experience. And so because you don't have any other life experience, you think this is the harder hardest that it's ever been for me. But as you grow older, you start to realize, no. It was easier back then. But you choose to say, yeah. It was easier back then, and it's harder now, but it will be harder later.

Chris Alessi:

It's gonna get harder.

Richelle Alessi:

And I I was talking to Stephanie the other day, and we were just with the kids. And I realized This is the easiest that is ever gonna be for me with 1 baby because Marino was a little, like, grumpy, and and it's because his teeth are coming out.

TikTok Speaker:

So got

Chris Alessi:

a tooth.

Richelle Alessi:

He has a tooth. And

Chris Alessi:

I like to say tooth.

Richelle Alessi:

And so I just that's my first time experiencing Moreno that way. And so it did get a little difficult because I did not know how to help him, but I'm thinking it's I'm not gonna give him a phone. I'm not gonna give him a tablet, And you're tempted to because you see it kinda works for a little bit. But I realized that's instant gratification for me Because I don't wanna hear my baby cry, but what I needed to do was find a way to help my baby, but that's more work. Yeah. And so We have an iPhone that's instant and that can help me immediately, or I could walk him around. I can push through the cries and the grumpiness And just find what helps him and then help him do that because they realized if I give that phone to my 1 baby Who's had a bad day? He's a great baby. It was just one day.

Richelle Alessi:

Whatever. Do that, then when I have 2 doing the same 3 the same thing or 3 doing the same thing, Then I am not gonna have the endurance that I had with 1.

Chris Alessi:

They're gonna walk around with those, like, Facebook glasses where they just play games all the time. You know?

Richelle Alessi:

Because I did not I was not intentional about my capacity and what I could handle.

Chris Alessi:

Yeah.

Richelle Alessi:

And so I need to push part of those hard moments, the sack the sacrifice that we have to make. It's It's life. You know? It's part of life. And I had to say no. Even when we were driving that day, He's gonna have to cry for a little bit, and I'm gonna have to play with him the entire time. Yes. That's my job. That's not just

Chris Alessi:

On a day off where you're not working, You you won't arrest, but you can't.

Richelle Alessi:

But you can't because this is my responsibility. Marino's my responsibility, and I can't just give him a phone So he can stop crying, and we can have a silent night because part of our life now is gonna be We don't have silent nights anymore. No. We have babies, and that's gonna be this is the season that we are in, And we have to make sure that we are good steward of the season that we're in.

Chris Alessi:

Yeah. A 100%.

Richelle Alessi:

We can't just say, well, let's Get him to stop and give him a phone. Right? But we have to build that endurance for ourselves.

Chris Alessi:

So you

Richelle Alessi:

right now is the easiest it's ever gonna be for us.

Chris Alessi:

You're talking about a mindset that comes after you realize

Richelle Alessi:

Yes.

Chris Alessi:

This is actually the easiest it's ever gonna be.

Richelle Alessi:

It's not the hardest.

Chris Alessi:

So, you know, she actually posed on the on the thing she said, like, question of the day. Do you manage your life with a 9 to 5 job? Right? So even though it's comical, the truth is there are people that are asking that question.

TikTok Speaker:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

And I think if we were gonna answer it, number 1, I think perspective changes everything.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

There are generations alive today that lived through 2 world wars and the plague. Yeah. Like, there are women that shipped their husbands off to war having no idea Whether they were coming home.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

There was an evil going on in Europe that people thought at any point was gonna was gonna grace our shores. There are women that, while their husbands were away, had to take over the job the husband was doing to provide for the family, and that's why we have public schools because kids needed to go somewhere while mom had to work because dad was at war. Yes. This happened twice, Actually and then you get and you involve, you know, Vietnam and other thing. I mean, there are generations there are families right now who are living their life here, Doing their thing. Get a call that it's going crazy over in Israel, and their boy has to get shipped over, or their dad has to get shipped over to take care of business. They have no idea if they're gonna come home. Pretty sure in you know, if you reflect on that a little bit, Finding a time to work out in the day is not really the biggest problem. So recognizing perspective is huge, that there are moms That remember, you you had to take a trip the other day, and it was you and Stephanie traveling. And you had to bring the kids, and you were by yourself because Chris and I were in another state.

Richelle Alessi:

Yes.

Chris Alessi:

Chris and I had to keep saying, there are moms that do this with 4 kids.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

They can do it with a baby that they can hold. Yeah. They could do this for they could figure it out.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

We had to say that. We had to let you do that. We couldn't even protect you from it. We had to be like, you know what? They'll figure it out just like we'll figure out our stuff. The other day, you had to take care of things, and I had to get Marina ready for bed completely by myself, and the kid has not really enjoyed baths lately. I figured it out. Yes. So part of that is like, hey.

Chris Alessi:

Understand perspective. But the other thing is, like, there's a there's a 20 mile march idea, And the 20 mile march idea is, like, you all you can really do is take your 20 miles today can't try to do a 100. So it's the the idea of these 2 excavators, These groups of excavators that were trying to figure out how to get to the North Pole

Stephanie Muiña:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

Or how to find the South Pole, something like that. I wanted to give him another shot here In the podcast to see how he's doing. So here's little Moreno because last time it did not go well, but you're gonna chill here while daddy finishes his point. So the 20 mile march, one excavator said, hey. Our group, we're only gonna do 20 miles every day. If there's a storm, we're doing 20 miles. If it's beautiful, we're stopping at 20 miles. Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

Another group was like, we'll go as far as the weather allows. If it if it's storming, we're not gonna do anything. If it's beautiful, we'll go 50, 60. We'll go as far as we can. Sure enough, man. Over time, the 2nd group Who went as far as the weather allowed, they finally showed up only to find that group a got there a month before. Wow. And the story gets kinda ugly because they Stopped because there was a blizzard, and that group actually passed away because they would only go as far as the weather allowed, And the weather turned on them.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

So in reality, there's a good life point there where we can really only go as far sorry. We have to think no matter what I'm doing today, I gotta do my 20 miles. You know, I like reading. I gotta read 5, 10 pages a day. Yeah. Are there some days I'm exhausted? Absolutely, but I'm gonna put in my 20 miles. I'll can I can I fix everything that my kids need in one day? No. But I can just do my 20 miles today.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

Can I work out every single day Like, the way that I used to when I didn't have a job? No. But I can do my 20 miles. I could eat healthier today. I could take a walk. I could take a run. I can do these things, and suddenly your capacity grows.

TikTok Speaker:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

So now this is our boy, Marino. He's got this little thing. There's a little hair on this. Got this little thing to help him with his teething, but Marino is here. Your last time on the show, buddy, you, you had an interesting response when I kissed you. I'm scared. What if I give you again? What's gonna happen? What if I give you

Chris Alessi:

we're good. We're good.

Chris Alessi:

So that's been our podcast today.

Richelle Alessi:

Yeah. And, Marino, is doing great. I mean, he's a hard worker. He's already putting, 12 hour days

Chris Alessi:

Yes. He is.

Richelle Alessi:

Here at the office, and he's not complaining.

Chris Alessi:

He's not.

Richelle Alessi:

So we shouldn't complain either.

Chris Alessi:

He's doing great.

Richelle Alessi:

Yes. All

Chris Alessi:

this spit going everywhere. Yes.

Chris Alessi:

You wanna say anything? He's been so talkative lately

TikTok Speaker:

Yeah.

Chris Alessi:

That this would be the perfect time for him to kinda Talk a little bit. That's what that's what he sounds like. Well, this has been another episode Yes. The family business with the Alessis. We wanna thank you for joining, and, we wanna just tell you, hey. If you like the you like the content, subscribe, All that good stuff, share this with somebody who needs it. Maybe somebody who believes like that young girl that we watched. Hopefully, this has been a blessing to you. Bye, Marino.

Richelle Alessi:

Yes. And don't forget to get your

Chris Alessi:

Your merch.

Richelle Alessi:

Podcast merch. Yeah. We'll put the link and make sure you get it and share it with your family.

Chris Alessi:

Be blessed, guys.