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Hi guys, it's Mari and you're listening to the pursuit of wellness.

Okay guys, welcome to part two interview with my assistant slash manager slash executive

assistant slash bestie. I was waiting for the bestie part. Oh, you were like, come on girl.

Imagine if I left that out.

Ruth. Anyway, this is part two of my interview with Fiona addicts because we just have so much to say

we couldn't put it in one episode. So this is part two. Our last episode, if you haven't

listened yet, was all about Hollywood, body image, food, childhood, fitness, very much a health

and wellness episode, I would say and fee really opened up in that episode. So if you haven't

listened, I would highly recommend going back because that will give you a better understanding

of who she is as a human. Now we're going to hop into the present day because obviously

you and I worked together very closely. I mean, you were really the first Mari team member.

I've always had a bloom team, right? Like for those listening, I have a supplement company with

my husband Greg and we have a 30 person team with that company. But I have my own brand too,

and I handle a lot outside of bloom and I've never really had help other than you. So let's hop

into that. Let's talk about our relationship, can't we? How did we meet? So I slid in Mari's DMs.

Quite frankly, actually, Saul and Mari was, I started following Mari right. I think it was like

right when she moved to LA, it is crazy to algorithm thing how that works. Like when Mari was in

New York, I don't think I ever saw her stuff because I don't know, my feed was just not any New York

stuff. The moment she moved to LA, she was like on my feet and I started following her and was

during the pandemic. And so I was doing workouts at home. I was doing a different workout and then

she like I found her PDF, like her OG PDF guides and I bought those. I think it was like a two for

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