What's up? Hey there! Welcome to this edition of the Shalene Show. Kind of a different type of

episode when I haven't done before, but based on popular demand based on your request, here it is,

my top 20 picks for documentaries. Welcome to the Shalene Show. Shalene is a New York Times best-selling

author, celebrity fitness trainer, and obsessed with helping you live your dream life. People are

always surprised when I talk about the number of audiobooks, podcasts, and documentaries that I

watch. They're like, don't you have a business to run or things to do? Like, how are you consuming

all this information? Well, it's just part of what I do. Like, my evening routine with my husband,

with my daughter Sierra, with Brockwynne's home, we watch documentaries. We don't watch any scripted

TV whatsoever. We freaking love documentaries. It's something that we have done with our kids

since they were in middle school, and we've loved it. And I think documentaries are awesome.

Just remember that most documentaries, they have a bias. I think originally, when documentaries were

first created, there was kind of this belief that a true documentary is just showing you the facts,

kind of like a news report, and it was supposed to be unbiased. But clearly today, we know that any

documentary, you're looking at it through the lens of the filmmaker, and they have natural biases,

is that a word, biases, biases, whatever, they have their own perspective, and you're catching a

piece of that as well. But so many of them are just a really great way to start conversations,

to expose your family and your kids to real life. And it's really cool. So if you have a difficult

time, this is just a family thing right now, like a parenting thing. If you have a difficult time

connecting with your kids on something, on some level, maybe they're all caught up in their

video games, or they spend a lot of time in their bedrooms, have them pick the documentary and watch

it as a family. That was like a rule in our household. Nobody went to their room to like get away

from the family or play video games, or even to do their homework. Our kids watched TV, watched

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