252. The Family Holidays One ft. Mama J

Finding Mr. Height: The Podcast

Ali Jackson

Relationships, Society & Culture

3.9 • 712 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Ali is joined by her mom (aka Mama J) from their girls trip to Costa Rica for a real, funny, and super practical convo about holiday logistics when you’re dating someone. They start with trip updates (a crab in the hallway, a fully gluten-free resort, and the upcoming “48-hour travel day + cats” marathon), then dive into what listeners said in IG polls about where they’re spending the holidays, when people talk about plans, and what stresses everyone out most.

Ali and Mama J unpack how holiday decisions actually get made, why spending holidays apart isn’t automatically a red flag, and how to communicate with your partner and your family without resentment. They talk about merging traditions, the difference between “the actual day” vs “the feeling,” and why being in your partner’s family space can feel like performing. Plus: a legendary Akavit story, Norwegian Christmas customs, and the surprisingly emotional power of something as small as a stocking with your name on it.

P.S. The two Costa Rica hotels are Occidental Papagayo and Hotel Hacienda Guachipelin

Timestamps: Topic talk begins at around minute 13.

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0:00.0	We definitely looked like we had planted a crab in their room.
0:02.3	We did, yes.
0:04.2	Yes.
0:05.8	We've been caught crab-handed.
0:08.1	That's right.
0:08.4	Just lurking outside their room being like,
0:11.9	yes.
0:12.9	I think there's a crab in there.
0:14.7	He-heed.
0:15.7	Yeah. Hello and welcome to their episode of Finding Mr. Hyde the podcast.
0:30.5	I'm your host, Allie Jackson.
0:32.1	I'm bringing you positive and practical advice about dating, relationships, and a whole lot
0:36.7	else about life from my life
0:38.3	experience and somebody who gave me a lot of that life experience is here with me in studio
0:44.1	and by that I mean in our bed in Costa Rica my mom. Hey everybody. Mama Jay. How was it going? Sorry,
0:52.4	this is new for me. You're doing great. Thanks. You're crushing it. We are literally in bed under the covers, mostly because otherwise you can see our feet in the video. I'm excited to record with you today. I'm excited to. A little nervous. I'll admit. You're a little nervous. What are you nervous about? I don't know. You do this all the time. I don't. Yeah.
1:11.2	You've been on the pub before. You crushed it. Oh, well, thank you. But we'll see. Yeah. We'll see. Yeah. So we are on our mother-daughter girl's trip to Costa Rica. A little bit of a mix, though, mothers and daughters and also solo gals who are here. right what are your thoughts so far we're we're past the early burrowed section we're about to start the main
1:30.7	portion of the trip. We're going to get more gals tomorrow. It's been fun. It's been small, small group so far, which is kind of nice. You kind of get used to a certain amount of people. Yeah. So adding a little by little, it's not as overwhelming, I don't think.
1:44.4	Learning names like two, three at a time versus 12 at a time. Correct. Yeah. Yes. I was saying on the Patreon that I intentionally kept this group a little bit smaller because I wanted it to be more of like an intimate experience, especially with the resort that we're staying at. It's more of like a small group kind of vibe. like can you imagine having like 20 people in this resort?
2:03.9	No, it would be.
2:04.8	It would be. that we're staying at. It's more of like a small group kind of vibe. Like can you imagine having like
2:02.3	20 people in this resort? No, it would be it would be difficult. It would be a lot. Yeah. So and fun fact,
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