Holiday Hotline: Santa, Parenting Guilt, and Christmas Advice

De-Influenced with Dani + Jordan

Dani Austin

Society & Culture

4.4 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Holiday sprint mode is in full effect: Dani’s juggling a Fredericksburg wedding weekend, then flying straight to Nashville for a school tour in actual cold weather, plus a last minute “festive casual” movie premiere invite that sent her into a spiral. Then it turns into a full Holiday Hotline on parenting guilt: what to do when your kid starts questioning Santa, why Elf on the Shelf pressure makes moms feel like they’re failing, and how the “Santa’s watching” Q4 threats might be doing more harm than good. We scored some great deals with a few of our favorite brands for our listeners: Own your health for $365 a year. That's a dollar a day. Learn more and join using our/my link. Visit www.functionhealth.com/DANI or use gift code DAN/25 for a $25 credit towards your membership. Visit evlofitness.com and use code DANI for 6 weeks free. You get a free two week trial, plus your first month at $0 For 55% off your order + FREE shipping, head to NurtureLife.com/DEINFLUENCED and use code DEINFLUENCED Modern-day makeup that's clean, strategic, and multifunctional for effortless routines. For a limited time our listeners are getting a free Cool Gloss on their first purchase when they use code DANI at checkout. Just head to Jonesroadbeauty.com and use code DANI at checkout Don't let financial opportunity slip through the cracks. Use code DANI at monarchmoney.com in your browser for half off your first year. Go to https://OmahaSteaks.com to get 50% off site wide during their Sizzle All the Way Sale. And use code DEINFLUENCED at checkout for an extra $35 off. Minimum purchase may apply. See site for details. A big thanks to our advertiser, Omaha Steaks! Make sure you’re subscribed to our official channel on YouTube, @deinfluencedpodcast, and follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your De-Influenced fix! Stay connected with us on Instagram and TikTok @deinfluencedpodcast, and as always thank you for being a part of this journey. Produced by Dear Media

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:10.7	Hello, and welcome back to your favorite podcast.
0:13.8	D-influence.
0:15.5	Guys, it feels so good to win.
0:17.9	Yeah, we just heard, because I don't read any comments or you you don't any comments, but apparently I really, I really lost the last fight. Yeah, so if you listen, if you haven't listened to our last episode, go listen to it because we start out the beginning of the episode with a good all fight. No, we weren't fighting. We were rehashing the fight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's usually what we do on this podcast.
0:38.2	Yeah, but we were kind of fighting a little bit. Arguing a little. Yeah, I was like poking your buttons a little bit. Which they say it's healthy to have like discord, like to have fights. You know, did you hear about how, who is it? It's not a Hugh Grant. It was a, Travis Kelsey was in an interview with, gosh, I can't remember who it was.
1:01.3	Anyway, they both talked about how they never, how Travis was like, oh, I've never fought with Taylor.
1:06.5	Like, we've never had an argument.
1:07.6	That's a lie.
1:08.9	I know.
1:09.4	But people were like, people have been going back and forth.
1:11.7	Like maybe it's true because like would you fight with like your billionaire sugar
1:17.0	mama?
1:18.0	Like, you know, would you fight with her?
1:21.0	And but then a lot of people are like, hey, it's healthy to have little arguments
1:25.2	in fights.
1:26.2	But they're like, what are they going to fight about like, you took the jet instead of me? Like, you know? Yeah. Yeah, no, I was really surprised that I lost that one so hardcore. I really thought people were going to sympathize with me. Yeah. Basically, it was just like a very common marriage fight, but it does feel good to win because apparently people were saying 95% of the time I agree
1:45.5	with Jordan but I'm with Danny on this one so I'm losing my grip we'll love to know y'all's
1:51.1	feedback on that um also coming in looking a little looking in a little and feeling a little crazy we
1:56.4	have a really busy day today we're going to the airport with all the children in like a couple
2:01.2	hours. And so I had to come like I did my workout from 730 to 830 and straight to the podcast and then
2:09.3	straight to getting ready and then straight to the airport. You know, we had a blessing the other day
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