Life Lately: Dominican Recap, My Mom The Influencer, and Charleston
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
EP597: This week’s solo episode is a little life lately catch-up, and honestly, it’s a good one.
I’m recapping our trip to Club Med Miches Playa Esmeralda where we podcasted, pickle-balled our little hearts out, and fully leaned into vacation mode. It was one of those trips that just hits.
I also have to talk about my mom, because she absolutely thrived in the Dominican. Like… living her best life, no notes. It inspired her to start sharing more of her life, travels, and this next chapter, and I’m so excited about it.
You can follow along with her at @lifewithsusieq (you’re going to love her).
We also get into:
- What I’ve been reading lately (book recs you’ll want to add to your list ASAP)
- My very humbling return to running… hello sore ankles and groin muscles??
- And my upcoming trip to Charleston (!!), a place I’ve wanted to visit forever
It’s chatty, it’s real, it’s a little all over the place, in the best way.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:05.1 | Welcome to Thursday's solo episode. |
| 0:08.6 | I am about to go somewhere I have never been before. |
| 0:11.8 | I feel like I just recently said this because I was going to play pickleball or something. |
| 0:15.5 | Anyways, I'm going to St. Anne Spa. |
| 0:18.2 | My friend invited me to go a while back because she was finished doing her |
| 0:24.0 | school stuff around this time in April. So we picked a date and I was like, oh my God, I can't believe |
| 0:29.9 | it's here. Like it's always been so far ahead. I've never been there, which is crazy, because I love |
| 0:36.2 | spas. And I know this is a really popular spa. I guess just |
| 0:41.5 | because I lived in Ottawa for so long and Nordic spa is in the Quebec side, like right over the border |
| 0:48.6 | of Quebec and Ontario. So I would always go to Nordic spa. Then most recently I went to the, so Nordic is the main company. I'm not |
| 1:00.9 | explaining this well. But anyways, they opened a new spot in Whitby, Ontario, which is like an hour |
| 1:06.3 | from where we are right now, or like an hour and a half. And that's the one that I went to for Ariana's |
| 1:11.6 | birthday. So I'm really excited to experience a new spa and give you guys an update on how it goes. |
| 1:17.3 | I was actually debating because my dream and this never happens. But I'm always like, |
| 1:22.6 | I want to go to a resort or a spa and literally just sit and read. But I have a hard time not keeping |
| 1:30.7 | busy during the day. And it could be like sitting in a steam room, sitting at the sauna, |
| 1:37.6 | listening to a podcast. Like it's very difficult for me to just sit and read for extended periods of |
| 1:43.3 | time. Especially this is a quick trip to the spa. |
| 1:47.6 | So we're going to be there for like 24 hours. So we have some treatments booked. I want to do, |
| 1:54.5 | they have like a meditative sound bath thing that I want to try and do. Hopefully I don't end up |
| 1:59.1 | crying because I don't know if you guys |
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