Carrie Russo, welcome to seeing other people. Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. You have like

shaped my life for like four years. That's crazy to say. How long have you been in the upper reside for?

I've been up here for probably, not probably five years. Oh wow. Okay. Yeah. Since September of 2021. That's so funny. Okay, that's probably

like when I really started like posting pretty consistently. So like that timing really adds up.

Yeah. Okay. So do you could do you refer to it as uppery side things or UES things? Both.

Kind of interchangeably. Um, it really depends on like how I'm talking about or like whom I'm talking to. Okay. Well, for those who don't know, Kerry is the brains behind UES things, every side things. In my head, it's UES. Yeah, that's totally fine. And first of all, thank you for your service. I have such a good time doing it. Like, no one needs to thank me. It's like truly such a fun passion project. you're so good at it and I feel like I have such a good time doing it. Like no one used to thank me. It's like truly such a fun passion project. You're so good at it. And I feel like I have fallen in love with the Upper East Side, partly because of you who has shown me so many things to do around here and so many things I never would have known, like restaurants, bars, activities. Like it's just become so much more of a community. And I really do think so much of that is because of you. Thank you. And I also feel like it's like trending in such like an interesting direction now. Like it used to be like so like old, witsy kind of like weird mindset. And now we have like these downtown spots like coming up here. So people are realizing it's like a little bit cooler than they might have thought well it's funny hearing people say like oh like the Upper East Side is the new West Village and like things like that it's so funny because I know my eyes I'm like it's not that cool guys yeah it's really it's a really wonderful place to live I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the city and like if people want to move here great if people don't want to move here, like great. You And like, if people want to move here, great.

If people don't want to move here, like, great.

You know, but it's never going to be the West Village, nor should it.

Like, it doesn't belong to be the West Village.

Yeah, exactly.

It's the every side.

Yeah.

It's amazing.

Okay. I'm so excited to have you. First of all, because like, this is years overdue. Yeah. Years overdo. Oh my gosh. I started following you like probably honestly around probably like 2021, 22. When did you, when did you start? When did you leave? You were a hinge. I was at hinge until November of 2020. Okay. And I started

seeing other people January of 2021. Okay. Wow. Like literally very similar timing for us. Yeah,

exactly. And so I've like, we've both been like doing this thing, like growing this thing.

You were doing it alongside your corporate job for a while. And you at some point decided like, let me go all in on this. Yeah. We're going to talk about that. We are going to talk about all of the things you do as somebody who you're a explorer. Yeah, that's a explorer. I like that. Yeah. And I feel like that's something that brings so much to your life in terms of meeting people,

pushing yourself out of your comfort zone, going to new places, trying new things.

We're going to talk about how you met your husband.

We're going to talk about what your life has been like since becoming a mom.

There's so much I'm really, really excited to talk to you about.

And like when we were talking before we started recording earlier today, I was like,

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