Birthday Recap + Cruz Updates + Your Questions Answered
When Reality Hits with Brittany Cartwright
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4.1 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Brittany is fresh off a dreamy birthday trip to Cabo complete with whale watching, mini-yacht vibes, and a little much-needed alone time. She shares why “me time” is essential for her anxiety, gives a sweet update on Cruz and their autism journey, and opens up about why she’s proud of the growing awareness happening right now. Plus, Brittany answers listener questions about her favorite binge-worthy shows, her surgery results, her divorce timeline, dating, friendships, and stepping fully into her “yes era.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome back to another episode of When Reality Hits. |
| 0:18.6 | It is your girl, Brittany Cart right here, and I am a year older. |
| 0:24.1 | I can't believe it. |
| 0:25.2 | I just had my birthday. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm 37, which sounds crazy, but I feel so young. |
| 0:32.5 | Recently, there was a study out that said that millennials are looking younger than Gen Z. So I'm not feeling |
| 0:40.0 | too, too bad right now. I'm just trying to lead on that. But yeah, it feels crazy. I'm |
| 0:47.6 | getting up there, y'all. I'm getting up there. But I had an amazing birthday. We were in |
| 0:53.3 | Cabo. I had La La Janet and La La Janet and Michelle on last week, |
| 1:02.5 | and we did like a little girl's trip, like a recap and like little tips and things like |
| 1:07.9 | that. But the trip was awesome. We went on a boat one day and the whales are |
| 1:14.6 | migrating right now and it is so beautiful we got to see the wells every single day even whenever |
| 1:20.6 | we were having breakfast they were just like passing by and it was absolutely magical you know la la loves |
| 1:26.3 | the whales and we all do of course and she was like very emotional it was very magical. You know, La La La Loves the Whales, and we all do, of course. |
| 1:28.3 | And she was, like, very emotional. |
| 1:29.8 | It was very beautiful to see. |
| 1:31.1 | But it was just a great day. |
| 1:33.2 | We rented, like, a little mini yacht, not like a big yacht, but it had like a little |
| 1:38.6 | bedroom and a bathroom below. |
| 1:41.3 | We had a bartender and some snacks and all that stuff on there. |
| 1:44.5 | And we took the boat out for about like three or four hours. And we got to follow the |
| 1:49.6 | wells safely from a far distance music off, all that stuff. And it was just so beautiful. I actually |
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