10. Friendship Breakups and Rebirth: The Story of Whiskey & Lace

Whiskey and Lace

Erika Altes

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Relationships

2.5 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

"How did you come up with the name Whiskey & Lace?"

Erika opens up about the brand's origins, what happened, and the eventual rebirth into what it is today. She shares the story of her partnership with her ex-best friend and the difficult decision to part ways. You'll hear vulnerable reflections on the personal growth and closure she found along the way.

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In this episode, we cover the following:

The origins of Whiskey & Lace
The stresses of being a new mother
Breaking up with a best friend
Starting the Whiskey & Lace blog
An unexpected encounter
Taking accountability and reflecting on past experiences
Finding closure
Advice for friendship breakups
What Whiskey & Lace means to Erika today

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Instagram: @WhiskeyAndLace

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Website: WhiskeyAndLaceBlog

Transcript

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0:00.0	Are you someone who doesn't take life too seriously? Do you sometimes find that a shot of whiskey
0:08.1	isn't only deserved but needed? If you said yes to either of those, welcome to the Whiskey and Lace
0:13.2	podcast, where we have honest chats with everyday people, shit shows, and all. I'm your host, Erica
0:18.8	Altus, and I'm here to empower you to be the best version of
0:22.1	yourself and perhaps share in a shot of whiskey. Now pour yourself a glass of wine and let's go.
0:30.1	Okay, welcome back to another episode of the Whiskey and Laced podcast. Today I'm flying solo. I'm
0:34.8	actually in my bedroom. My children are out in the living room. So if by chance,
0:40.0	they interrupt me, I apologize from the gecko. Today's episode is probably going to arguably be
0:46.6	the hardest one for me to record. If you've followed me on Instagram, I've shared this story there.
0:56.3	And that's actually what set off on my podcast journey. When I shared this story, so many people were like, Erica, you got to start a
1:01.9	podcast. And I was like, really? And I wasn't going to turn this story into a podcast. But, you know,
1:08.5	a lot of my friends and family and people that I'm working with are like,
1:11.5	Erica, do it because not everybody's, you know, that follows you on Instagram is going to
1:15.2	listen, be the same listener that listened to your podcast. So I was like, okay, fine. So here I am.
1:21.2	If you're new here, oftentimes people will wonder, where did the name whiskey and lace come from?
1:30.6	And it took me eight years to share that story on my Instagram account. I would get asked every single time I put up a Q&A
1:36.5	box, like, why the name whiskey and lace? Like, what, why not wine and lace, you know, because I share a lot
1:41.4	about wine. And every time that somebody would ask me that
1:44.4	question, it was like a dagger to my side. Like, oh, you know, I just like, it was like an elephant in
1:50.1	the room almost, but like I just would avoid it so nobody really knew. But I knew people were curious.
1:55.4	And some people have followed me since the beginning of whiskey and lace 1.0, for lack of a better, like, term.
2:04.5	And they knew this.
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