1KHO 517: From Dental Scrubs to 20 Million Followers, How Life Can Change Overnight | Kay and Tay Dudley

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What happens when you mix home videos, a 12-second TikTok, and a New Year’s resolution? For Kay and Tay Dudley, it sparked a whirlwind transformation from dental assistant and engineering student to full-time content creators with over 20 million followers. In this surprising and heartfelt conversation, Ginny Yurich sits down with the couple behind the viral sensation to unpack how a simple idea—filming their everyday moments—evolved into a life-changing career, all while navigating health struggles, parenting, and staying grounded in the process. This episode is an honest look at the power of consistency, creative freedom, and how quickly everything can shift when you lean into your passion. Kay and Tay share the highs and lows of public life, the behind-the-scenes reality of influencer culture, and how their unexpected journey is deeply rooted in love, humor, and intentional family life. Listen in to hear why sometimes the most extraordinary paths begin with the smallest steps. Follow Kay & Tay everywhere: @KandTOfficial | YouTube | TikTok | Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Rated T for Teen.
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0:22.3	Hit the new Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4 and show the world that the shred's not dead.
0:26.4	Pre-order Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4 and play the Foundry demo.
0:30.3	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast.
0:32.5	My name is Ginny Urich.
0:33.4	I'm the founder of 1,000 Hours Outside, and I have a very, very interesting couple today.
0:41.3	K and Tay. Would you guys say Tay and Kay or Kay and Tay? Kay and Tay is fine. But at the end of the day, it doesn't really happen.
0:45.3	The handles are K and Tay and Tay. But we're good with either.
0:48.3	You're good with either. Okay. K and Tay Dudley. Welcome. Thank you for being here.
0:52.3	Yeah. Thank you for being here. Yeah, thank you for having us.
0:55.0	Okay, so you have the story that like everyone's like, oh, it'd be kind of cool to have that story,
0:59.4	where you took social media and you have turned this into a family business. So give us the back story.
1:04.6	What were you doing before and what's what changed? Yeah, so I think we kind of have a fun,
1:09.5	a fun beginning story. So Kay and I, we always go to her
1:14.0	family for holidays. Well, we rotate, you know, back and forth this winter families, but when we
1:19.0	go to her families for the holidays, we would always meet up with her siblings and, and her older
1:25.2	daughter would be there as well. And we would always make these home movies.
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