Hi everyone. So this episode originally ran in 2022, and it's just an iconic pop apologist episode. It's about a very ill-fated afternoon where I tried to be a domestic goddess and make a beautiful meal for Kagan, my husband, and all things went awry. Also, there's just some fun pop apologist lore in this episode. I talked about a business i tried to create actually two businesses

one called fresh homemade cookies a business that was a truly an ingenious startup idea that failed

early on and then another business which is actually still running it's called retain finance so

so anyway i just wanted to provide that context in case anyone was

confused i hope you all have an amazing christmas week merry christmas we love you guys thank you for

giving us the grace to take a breather ourselves this week and we will be back next week with a

brand new freshosh episode. Love you guys.

Hello and welcome to the 2022 Pop Apologist podcast. Everything's about to change.

Literally, everything's about to change. This is now going to become a full-time podcast for retain finance, okay? All you're going to hear about all day long is the financial services

offered to you by retained finance. We are re-branding the podcast. It's become 100% devoted to how you can provide payments to your clients. Easy, low payments,

monthly payments. I'm honestly waiting for the worlds to collide when my actual clients,

I realize that I have this totally trashy other life. And they like listen to this podcast and I lose all credibility

in the eyes of the true. No. You're never going to lose. You're only going to gain credibility

and, you know, the wide breadth of subjects you, uh, you know about. I actually have to tell you,

dad paid you a very sweet compliment, false, but nice compliment last night. Oh God.

Um, Just kidding.

He was saying that when you guys were first kind of starting routine, that you would talk to,

you know, financial people or, you know, men at banks, women don't work at banks.

Accurate.

He would just be talking to people in the industry, right? And he said, you know, I could not believe how articulate. She was like the most articulate person, so polished when she was speaking to these people. And I'd like, you know, dad was kind of acting like, he didn't really know totally what you were talking about. But I mean, I'm sure he did to some degree. But like I just, I feel like I'm butchering this compliment to you, but he was just talking about how, you know, how wonderful and how proud he was of you when you were, like, getting the business up off the ground and how just polished and articulate you were. That is so nice. That is very, very kind of. Yeah, it was like, We were like talking about me. all a sudden he was just like, you know, Lauren, I got to say, when we started retained with Lauren, I was just like, what? Like, we're literally, you know, okay, I have a few stories about mom and dad. Like, we can save that for later on in the episode. But I just had to tell you that before I forgot. Wait, that is so cute

and so nice. So thank you. That makes me feel really good. Well, I just want you to know that the

reason why I sound so chipper, thanks for asking, is because I have had about three quarters of my

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