This is an I-Heart podcast. Hold on. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. You're all finished or y'all done? Morning everybody. It's DJ, NV, Jess Hilary, and Sholam and the guy. We are the breakfast club, Long of the Roses, here as well. And we got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed.

We have Laura Coates.

Welcome. Hey. Thank you. Happy to be here, y'all. Welcome, welcome. What time do you wake up at midnight, right? I go to bed. I go to bed probably by 2 a.m. Up by 6. Wow. Nice. I have babies. I call them baby because that's why I have baby weight.

So it's 11 and 12 year olds.

Okay.

Therefore, I'm up with them, getting them ready. I have babies. I call them baby because that's why I have baby weight. So it's 11 and 12 year olds.

Okay. Therefore, I'm up with them, getting them ready or trying to or, you know, piddling like an old person, trying to figure out how I start my day. But I can't sleep the long any longer. I can't. It just ended. Is it because your brain is always wired to be a part of like the news cycle? I'm constantly thinking.

Like last night, I think I got an hour and a half

asleep because my

mind could not, you could, you can't really come down. Because you, for me, I'm always navigating

minefields. You all know how it is. And so when you're constantly sort of being your own champion,

being a businesswoman, navigating minefields,, then I'm trying to educate and inform, your mind can't shut off very well. And so I'm always battling with how to do my go-to-bed routine. I mean, I'll do like the bath. I'll watch some golden girls. But it still take some time. You take naps at least? I do. No, I can like, like, knock is he alive.

Oh, my God.

If I, if you're talking right now,

you have an hour,

I'd be knocked out right now. Like, I can do that quick. I'm like, I can fall asleep immediately like. Yes. Airplanes, I have not seen one of those safety things on the plane in like years.

Damn.

You're asleep before they even do that much.

I haven't had a pretzel.

No spray without ice. Doesn't matter. I just, I can't have it. I can't help it. I do it. How you turn it off and on with your kids, though? Because like sometimes they just want mom. That's just about to chill. Go to the beach, whatever. My kids don't care at all about the work. For me, I'm very intentional because, look, I want, I wanted to be a mom. I really wanted to be a mother, and I wanted to be their mother in particular. And so I have to be present. And really, if you don't sort of leave work, when I'm not working, my mind might be racing, but if I'm with my babies or with my man, that's it. Like, I'm with them. That's all there is to it. And so they try to come with me a lot, though. That's how I try to incorporate. My daughter comes every Friday night to the show because of my producer. She's 11. She's taller than me now. My son, he plays basketball. And so he's always, I'm always trying to be with him when he's on the... Your daughter's 11 and taller than you? I'm 5'3 and a half. Okay. What are you judging? Daddy might be tall. I was asking 11. He's 5.4. Oh, wow, wow, wow. My nickname as a kid was baby Huey. I'm the top of my dad.

And ain't even that baby girl.

Baby Hewling.

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