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Welcome to I Choose Me.

This podcast is all about the choices we make.

And today I am joined by Ross Matthews, someone who built his entire

career on raising his hand and betting on himself. Ross has made bold choices in his personal life,

trusting his instincts even when people close to him didn't fully understand them at first.

Now he is happily married to an educator and together they've written the sweetest book, Tio and Tio, will get into how they met

and why this story mattered to them. I'm so excited to be joined by my good friend Ross Matthews.

Hello. Oh my gosh, when did we see each other last time? I think it was on the set of Drew Barrymore, right? I think it was a true Barrymore or do we do Pictionary? Was that after? Oh, my gosh. No, I think we did, I don't know. We were on Pictionary together and both of us sucked. No, truly terrible. But I will tell you this.

I was terrible about it, but every time I see you, every time I get to talk to you and you know who I am, it's always like not weird for me. Do you understand what I mean? Like you are kind, you aren't. But I still, I'm still like, I know who you are and you know who I am? Like, it's always weird. I hope we take it as a compliment.

I do, I do, but it's kind of like a weird Hollywood thing. Like when you, I feel like when you are somebody in the public eye and you meet somebody else in the public eye, it is as if we know each other. But we don't sometimes. We don't, but I've known you for like a really long time. We've been best friends since high school. But you didn't even know that. So yes, that's weird. I think we also were both on that hero. Remember 2020 before things went buck wild with the pandemic? We were both at the hero dog show. Do you remember that? I do remember that. Yeah, I love

doing the dog show. My dog is right over there watching us do this. So that's always so important to me.

Hi, Audrey. I know her name. That's weird. But hi Audrey. What's she doing over there? Just sleeping.

She's aging gracefully. And I've had her 12 years and she's like a rescue.

So I don't exactly know.

But she leaps. She runs. She cares. She eats. So she's happy. What a good life you've given her. Yeah. Well, she's had a lot of facial work because I won't. I won't allow wrinkles in the house. But other than that, she's perfectly fine. I'm so, so glad.

Oh my God.

Okay, I love your origin story into the business. But other than that, she's perfectly fine. I'm so, so glad. Oh, my God.

Okay, I love your origin story into the business.

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