Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us.

I'm your host, Mandy Slezger. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you had a good week. Mine was a little bit tough. My community, as most of you who've been paying attention to the news, know experienced a hate crime. And we like to say in the Jewish community, there are zero degrees of separation, but it feels much closer to home than anything

I've previously kind of experienced or witnessed. So it's been a lot. I have been self-medicating

by going to synagogue and watching Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which is a fantastic

show. Just thank you all for encouraging me to watch it. I'm still on the first season,

but hope to be done with it by the end of the long weekend. Very much enjoying it,

and then I can go on to season two and finally know what everyone else is talking about.

So this week, I have Kate Jaboury on the podcast. She's a wedding planner. I'm connected with her

through my neighbor Aruna, who's now

giving me so many fantastic podcast guests. We discussed Summer House and the Valley, and I asked Kate

a little bit about being a wedding planner. And then I wanted to take some time during this section to just briefly talk about the

Real Housewives of Atlanta, because guys, I think it's really good.

And this coming week, we've got Fadra coming back to the Real Housewives of Atlanta.

And she is just so wildly entertaining and this show is

firing on all cylinders. I'm actually very bought in to what's going on. It's been pretty sad to

watch because Shemma and Portia, who have been friends for, I, since they were in high school, you know,

they're having this falling out. And this week we find out that their moms became very

close friends many, many years ago, decades ago when they were younger. And their moms had a

falling out as well. So that makes a little more sense as to why we saw

Portia's mom say some negative things about Shemia or imply negative things about her. I think

maybe she doesn't trust Shemia's family. Who knows? Portia's not doing great. I mean,

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