In this episode, Faiza and Liam discuss the importance of having individual hobbies in a relationship. They share their own experiences with finding personal hobbies and how they have changed over time. They also talk about the significance of Valentine's Day and personal preferences when it comes to gifts. The couple emphasizes the importance of creating shared hobbies and finding activities that both partners can enjoy together. They also discuss the challenges and growth that come with supporting each other's passions. In this conversation, Faiza and Liam discuss the importance of encouraging each other's passions and finding alignment in their relationship. They share how fitness has become a shared hobby and a way to improve their physical and mental well-being. They also reflect on their personal growth and the journey of discovering their passions. The couple emphasizes the need to add layers to their relationship and constantly find new ways to connect and bond. They express their desire to be a positive force for good and share their stories to inspire others. Finally, they invite listeners to engage with them and provide feedback. (Audio did not record properly ðŸ˜)
Takeaways
Having individual hobbies is important for maintaining a healthy relationship.
Personal hobbies can change over time and it's important to adapt and support each other's interests.
Valentine's Day should be celebrated in a way that aligns with personal preferences and values.
Creating shared hobbies and activities can strengthen the bond between partners.
Understanding and respecting each other's personal preferences is crucial for a successful relationship. Encourage and support each other's passions and interests.
Find a shared hobby or activity that can strengthen your bond.
Embrace personal growth and be open to evolving as individuals and as a couple.
Add variety and new experiences to your relationship to keep it exciting and fulfilling.
Strive to be a positive force for good and share your stories to inspire others.
Chapters
00:00
Introduction and Topic Introduction
00:59
The Importance of Having Individual Hobbies
06:15
Gaming as a Hobby
08:01
Changing Hobbies Over Time
09:25
Changing Perspectives on Shopping
10:55
Appreciating Quality and Longevity in Hobbies
12:16
Valentine's Day and Personal Preferences
14:03
Surprising Each Other
20:31
The Story of Fake Flowers
25:06
Balancing Individual and Shared Hobbies
26:12
Discovering Hobbies Together
30:29
Supporting Each Other's Passions
33:00
Understanding and Respecting Personal Preferences
34:05
Encouraging Each Other's Passions
35:15
Finding Passion in Fitness
36:51
Building a Strong Foundation
38:06
Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Doubt
39:20
Supporting Each Other's Growth
41:14
Mindset Shift and Personal Growth
44:02
Taking the Relationship to the Next Level
46:45
Adding Layers to the Relationship
50:38
Being a Positive Force for Good
52:17
The Power of Sharing Stories
53:02
Creating a Balanced Relationship
55:05
Adding Variety to the Relationship
56:43
Reflecting on the Journey
57:35
Shifting Perspectives and Embracing Change
01:00:12
Building a Social Circle
01:03:38
Evolution of Interests and Hobbies
01:04:49
Engaging with Listeners and Seeking Feedback
Faiza and Liam Chase (00:01.646)
Welcome welcome to episode four of Chai and Apple Pie And in today's episode we've got some exciting stuff to be talking about Oh, just little stories. Little stories. Well, one of the little stories. I feel like it was definitely one for the books. Oh Yeah, oh because of this right here. Yes. Okay. No, but today now that we're kind of We're still in our intro episodes
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Faiza and Liam Chase (00:31.842)
Today we're going to be talking about something pretty exciting that I think, I don't know, I feel like I didn't, I didn't pioneer it, but like, I feel like I came up with it to a degree. He definitely, I mean, let me tell you, this is his first topic that he has done so Bravo. What do you mean my first topic? All the topics that we've talked about was, you know, my idea. All that stuff like this basic introductory stuff, like having the fundamentals. Yeah. This one's probably still.
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fundamental but I feel like I kind of yeah I mean just this whole concept yeah I mean have you really heard about any relationship gurus talking about this? You know what I don't listen to any of that because I already listen to myself but yeah today we're going to be talking about what I think is probably the most important thing to keeping a healthy relationship. So yeah we're gonna be talking about what
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Like really what I believe is the biggest thing that keeps a healthy relationship. Because when we started this relationship, one thing that I always told Faiza was like, hey, don't let me be your entire world. Yes. So. Yeah, no, I completely agree. I think Liam was like my first relationship. So like, I didn't know what's having a life outside of her relationship. Like my everything was Liam, you know, like I would go to work.
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home like you know basically everything was Liam like my friend and it's at one point we were even working together so it was just like you know 24-7 we were together and I feel like the thing we wanted to talk about can I just spoil it? You gotta keep the singers on the street being curious. Well the thing is that we I wanted to find my own things that I needed to do that were
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you know, that didn't include Liam. And I feel like for a long part of our relationship, I was like, you know, our friend groups were same, our working, you know, we work together. So it was just like, everything was together. And it just felt weird to even like, to be- Away. Away, yeah, and to be, yeah. And it was just, I don't know, and I feel like everybody goes through the moments, like, you know, when you're in a first-
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Faiza and Liam Chase (02:57.57)
your relationship, like you want to do everything with your bae, you know, you can't just like, you just can't. Yeah, like you have to do everything you want to spend I feel like you're still like in that honeymoon phase. And I feel like right now like I get to do my girly things and Liam's texting me and I was like, Oh, are you coming out? Yeah, so no, it's definitely important that, you know, one thing that we've implemented is that we just haven't, you know, made our entire world revolve around each other.
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I've always encouraged Fiza, definitely in the first couple of years that we were together, I was always encouraging you to go find a hobby, go make friends, go not in a mean way, but go be away from me, don't make me your entire world because that's... How do I explain it? I feel like that's just how relationships can get toxic.
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Because I feel like you definitely need a sense of separate, like you need to be away from your partner every now and then to, you know, really understand the value or like have gratitude for the relationship that you have with that person, right? Yeah. And so, yeah, Faisal was definitely, one was fun and she started off kind of always with me and I, you know, just encourage her to go.
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discover things for herself. Like, hey, what's, what's a hobby? That's what we were talking about, like hobbies. Like what's a hobby? And I think the first one that you really started was in LA when you started gardening. Oh, yeah. And I feel like it was also like the COVID phase. I feel like when the COVID happened, a lot of people were just like locked in their homes and they were like, we need plans. And then people were like, okay, we need to like garden. I'm not saying that I don't like to garden now. I love to garden. But the only thing is- Don't garden what you did.
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I definitely don't garden like that. And I don't know if it was, it's not really gardening. It was just like house plants. It was house plants and I feel like it just made our home look so lively. Oh yeah, I loved it. You know, just unfortunately now in our home, like we live in, I feel like it's more of a north face. So we don't get much sunlight inside our house, like inside our home. This is Fiza's interior designer coming out. Oh my God. She is very specific. Like when we used to ask for apartments, she'd be like,
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Faiza and Liam Chase (05:19.198)
What would you say your first is it west side or south side? Yeah, I think it's southwest or west side. Because I love plants and I always wanted just to like, you know, have plants everywhere around the house. I feel like it just brings out the, you know, the livelyness inside your home and your apartment. So definitely that was always like a big thing for us to like whenever we were looking for apartments and stuff.
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We couldn't deal, we couldn't bargain that with this house. No, yeah, this is, we have a lot of windows, but we don't get too much natural light in the living room area. But no, I would say gardening, like this house plants was like kind of your first big hobby that you did. I definitely enjoyed it. Yes, for sure. Do you, can you remember anything else that you, obviously we used to watch anime together, without us together. My big hobby when I, when we first started dating was obviously gaming.
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So for anybody who doesn't know, and I think maybe we talked on this a little bit in one of the first two or three episodes, but yeah, when we met I was definitely a big gamer. Like even though I had started down my personal development in business and entrepreneurship stuff, I was still toting a line in the video gaming world. So there's probably two or three, what was it, probably the first one to three years.
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Probably. One, two, three. Probably less. Maybe one, two. And then I feel like you've taken a break where you kind of got serious with work and stuff so you were like, okay, you knew your limit. Even though it was a retreat for you, but you knew your limit. I'm not saying that. Sometimes you would go overnight and play and I understand that. If I have a book, if I'm enjoying my book, I can go to three in the morning reading it. So I completely understand that. But... I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that.
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But I feel like you've realized where it was kind of becoming an addiction and it was distracting you from your work. So you basically like, you know, reeled it back in and you were like, okay, I need to focus on my work now and I can't let this. Yeah, I mean, definitely feel like, you know, growing up, yeah, I'll throw out high school really heavy game right now. I feel like this has I got I got older and got more exposed to business entrepreneurship, sales, marketing, etc. I'm just like, okay, well.
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Faiza and Liam Chase (07:34.71)
big thing for me with video games it just it became a really social thing like it definitely is so like it to get away from like all that and like hey go hang out with my online friends and then you know like we've even had people like I've had people that I've met online like actually come and stay with us and like some cool experiences so it was definitely fun thing but it was definitely more of a social thing like when I was younger it was a lot more competitive I go I want to become diamond and League of Legends the year 90 we got I only got the gold
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But yeah, I just figured I'm a social thing after a while. So it's like, if my friends aren't playing, like I don't really want to play this on my own because I know that I can be allocating that time to building or learning something beyond just that. And at that point in my life, I knew I was gonna be like a professional video game player. So I was like, that was written off. So that was really my first. For me, for me, I mean, I feel like it's all, I mean, if I'm thinking back, back in the days.
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I mean, I love shopping and I feel like that's everybody's thing. I don't know if that really counts as a hobby. Well, I don't know. I loved it. Retail therapy? Yes, that's my thing. I love shopping. Well, at that moment, not in a different region. In a different region. I'll explain. So back then, I feel like I used to be so preppy. I used to like, you know, love getting clothes and stuff. And now I feel like my, like the dynamics have changed.
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Like being in Florida, obviously, like I love going to the gym. And I don't have that many friends. I only have my best friend, someone here. Our social circle compared to LA is very limited. Yeah, so I feel like in LA, like I like understood that I have to be out and with friends and girls night and stuff. So like I obviously like, you know, have to shop around and stuff. But now, like I don't, I don't care. I really don't care any about.
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about any of that, because obviously I don't have it. Second is that I love going to the gym, so I love just wearing and buying new gym outfits. Yeah, that's her. That's my retail therapy, and it really helps me. And I also, I think I'm at the age now where I am realizing, like I'm kind of losing, it's funny, because when I was younger, I used to be very...
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Faiza and Liam Chase (09:54.37)
fashion forward like I used to or I mean I just felt I felt like I could do my I had a fashion sense Not anymore. I'm like in Liam's Shirt with my leggings and that's just you know my style now like I just I feel like I've lost it You lately you've been more on the Sustainable higher quality like you're not just Obviously like I didn't know
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like what kind of clothes I need to, I mean I know you did, but I didn't. So I used to be like, oh that's cute, I need to get it, it needs to be in my closet. Now I'm more like, okay well, if I am buying clothes, it needs to be something that will last me long, it's a staple piece, and it's something that I can give to my kids. Like you know, so I'm okay to like spend more dollars on it, but I want like staple pieces, not something that's more trend forward.
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But yeah, so yeah. So how about my hobbies? Gaming, and then obviously just when you guys dive into the business, like obviously I was in sales for quite, you know, I've been in sales for most of our relationship. Over the last two years, I've gone more into business ownership, and that's definitely been a ride. Been making enough to, you know, pay the bills and, you know, stay ahead and make a little bit of money here and there, but it's definitely a roller coaster.
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But I wanted to circle back on the plant thing. Oh, god. Because you mentioned there was a fun and exciting... I can't believe this. You can. Alright, so if you're watching the video... Okay. Well, last week we didn't do our podcast. We just... Because it was so gloomy and I feel like we just wanted to be in bed. So... That was not it. I mean, that was not it. We were doing things. Were we? Well, I don't know. We were just... I think it was just too dark. And then we were trying to utilize natural light.
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and it was just too dark to record. But basically we wanted to talk about Valentine's Day. Okay, so Liam, so personally, as a person, as myself, I don't care for flowers. I don't care for real flowers, or I mean any flowers. How about Valentine's Day? Yeah, and I feel like even in our whole-
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Faiza and Liam Chase (12:16.326)
I've told you like I'm not like oh crazy about Valentine's Day I want you to treat me like you would do on Valentine's Day on any other day and I feel like as a Muslim You don't just say that to say that right? No no absolutely not But I'm just saying that as a Muslim I feel like I have learned
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There's a lot of Muslims that don't celebrate Valentine's Day and it's just because they say that, hey, you should be loving your wife or your husband. It should go both ways, OK? Valentine's Day should be celebrated both ways. Both ways. Sorry. But the thing is that what I learned is that in a relationship, it should be.
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Celebrated you should be appreciated you should be valued every single day of your relationship like it doesn't have to be like Oh, it's a Valentine's Day. I have to go get her roses or I have we have to go out and eat and just because I feel like I mean, it's definitely a way or a day to like make it important to appreciate your significant other But I just feel like it should be appreciated every single day, you know, I just don't want one day. I want 365 so
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In our whole life, in our whole relationship, I told him I don't care. And also, my hair flowers are panties. And just to say, I do treat her on Valentine's Day. Yes, you do. But I told you, I personally. I also treat you beyond that. Yes. And as I said, I want to be treated like that. Remember we had Carmelo? OK, so some more throwback stories. We were probably within the first two years of us dating.
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She always wanted a Mini Cooper. Or that was like her dream car at the time when we were younger. So guess what I got? A Mini Cooper. We named it Carmelo because it was a yellow Mini Cooper. And then that diamond necklace. Oh my god, we don't use that. What was that from? This was business. Why did I get that? What was that? But we don't even say it all out. But I'm just saying in general, in our lifestyle, basically personally in a relationship, I say that we.
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Faiza and Liam Chase (14:31.302)
you know I don't I just personally don't like real flowers I would rather he take me on a sushi day like give me food I'm down for that you know uh but basically this it's past valentine's day yes um you know I'll tell my side of the story well can I just share first one okay yeah well but I feel like it starts with me and then it goes to you okay all right so I went to went to lunch with my dad as valentine's day we were just talking and I just asked him what he was getting for his
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girlfriend and then I was like, oh crap, I haven't gotten anything for Fiza. And it is Valentine's day. So I was like, okay. And then obviously her I know her favorite flowers are peonies. And like we've been together almost eight years. Like this is a damaging admission and I feel so terrible for it. But like we've been together almost eight years and I've like never gotten her favorite flowers. And I'm like, I'm a piece of crap. I felt like really bad. Right.
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They're just so expensive. I would literally, he'll be like, oh, let me buy them. We'll be at Trader Joe's and stuff and I'll see them. And I'm like, baby, I'd rather like. I've never seen them in the store. I've seen them at Trader Joe's. Right? Yeah, but I'm just saying that. I mean, even when we were making good money, that was not a concern. I just feel like I've never actually seen them and I've never really gone out of my way to get them. So yeah, I was at, and I was like, man, I should get some. So I was like, man, let me just look up Peonies and then I look it up. On Instagram.
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No, I just Google it. I Google it and I was like, oh, P&E's. I'm like, okay, cool, Instacart. I'm like, oh, this is relatively inexpensive. It was like 25 bucks. I'm like, okay, cool. And then the second thing I'm like, okay, I know how to get them. Seems pretty simple. I went to the checkout process. Where do you want to deliver this? They had a thing and it was like, okay, what's suite number? I don't know the suite number. So I hit up her best friend. I was like, hey, can you hit up Fiza to get her suite number? And she's like, wait, nevermind because you're like.
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local, like she's gonna know like this is a Valentine's Day thing. So then I had one of our friends from LA, I was like hey I wanted to have you ask her because it would be like a little more discreet and she might not be able to guess it as well. So she does some ninja stuff, very spyful stuff. That was amazing. She'll tell you the story. Yeah. And she gets her sweet number and then I placed the order. It was like less than 30 bucks. I was like wow this was quite inexpensive.
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Faiza and Liam Chase (16:49.034)
I really feel bad now. If I gave them really this inexpensive the whole time and I've never done this in almost eight years, like what kind of man am I? But on the flip side, it's like this is the first time in almost eight years. And that's something that I think is really cool about our relationship is like five years in, we went to the movies for the first time together, like to the movie theater. Like we didn't start our relationship off on a more traditional route. Like most people start their relationship, oh, let's go to the movies. We did not do that. We went to the movies together in the theater for the first time after like five years together.
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And that was like on purpose. We were never big movies people, but a movie that came out caught our eye. I don't know, let's go to the movie. All right, so that's the plus side of sometimes delaying things. Whereas you're always discovering new things. It's a pretty cool accomplishment. Even down our relationship. Yeah, it's like a pretty cool accomplishment to say we didn't go to a movie theater by ourselves. Oh my God. It's five years later. Now, the flower part, I do feel pretty bad. It's okay, I mean he has semi flowers and stuff. Yeah, yeah. I think I'm definitely a good surprise. Then I'm not gonna lie, but I'm just more like, you know.
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So yeah, Instacart, I'm like, cool, got the sweet number, send them off. So now you can get them. Okay, so basically. She's gonna love me, she's gonna adore me, like I'm gonna get it all. Okay, so I was, this was like four, I get off at five, and basically some like, too many knocks on my office door. That's not where it started. Are you gonna circle back to her? Uh, yeah, okay.
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You gotta start where it started. So basically midday at my lunch, my friend from LA calls me and was like, hey Fiza, I have a business, like an account or something and looks like they're in Lake Mary. And I'm like, I'm in Lake Mary. They're like, hey, so they're in Lake Mary, Florida and they want to like do business with us and I don't know if we should trust them. I'm like, girl, I got you, like send me the address. And like, she's like.
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And she gives me the address, which is identical to where my office is. So I was like, Oh my God, girl, it's the same. It's like my office. Like, you know, I can go. I mean, there's multiple offices and companies within that, you know, within the, within my office buildings. I was like, Oh my God, I got you. I'll look for it. And then she's like, yeah, so what's your suite? She basically was like, there's a suite number comes up like deep something. And I'm like,
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Faiza and Liam Chase (19:05.494)
D something that's weird my suite is like all numbers and then she goes that's so weird She's like I'm like, I don't trust that I'll go check it for you I'm like and she's like and I'm like you can just look up my company's address on Google Oh, I bet we'll tell you the you know My address like so that company that you're inquiring about should have their address on Google And she's just like you are right and obviously
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Yeah, so it was funny and then basically I gave her the thing. I have no idea what's happening, right? And basically I was going to get back to the office. I was going to go check the suite number that she told me. I just didn't have a chance, right? I got back to the office after lunch and I started working and then around four somebody knocks on my office door and then they walk in and they're like, hey, I have an order for Liam. I'm like, Liam, that's my husband. And then he goes, I have an order for Liam from Michaels. I'm like,
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And I'm like, thank you? No, because I said, oh, that's my husband. And he was like, oh, then these are for you. For my clothes. I'm like, well, thank you. And he just walks in and gives me these flowers in a plastic bag. And I'm like, cool. And I don't know what happened. And I think it was just the appreciation. I started crying.
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Yeah, I was busy and she sent me a video of like sobbing. I'm like, oh my god, like I'm utterly confused. I'm like did she hate like what happened? Like I thought I got her favorite flowers And then like now she's having like a mental breakdown. I'm literally sobbing I'm sobbing in the middle of call. So I'm like, let me like I can't talk to you Yeah, because you were in the yeah, because you were in the meeting and I just wanted to talk to somebody and it just like
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I'm sobbing, right? And it's just all the emotion. That's funny too, because sometimes I think I'm not a crier, but I'm definitely a big crier. But basically, when I saw these flowers, I'm crying in a good way, just because I'm like, oh my God, Liam knows that my favorite flowers are peonies and they're not in the season, so he got me fake flowers, like fake peonies.
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Faiza and Liam Chase (21:22.834)
And basically I couldn't get a hold of Liam and I just really wanted to send him that I appreciate these flowers so I sent him a video and I'm literally sobbing up in that video. So basically Liam doesn't pick up, my best friend doesn't pick up and I'm just like oh my god. So I just went back to work and the funny thing my boss calls me on like Teams and we're talking and she can tell like something is wrong with me.
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Faiza and Liam Chase (21:52.288)
And I'm like, we've just got these fake peonies. And because they're not in the season, I'm just so in awe. I love it.
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you know and then she goes she just starts laughing and But basically she's like, oh my god, you guys should go you should go home It's valentine's day so I get to leave early and then basically I got home I brought in some like pushpick cream donuts, but basically I got home I didn't get to I can I didn't get to talk to you because you're so busy in the meeting and stuff So basically like an hour or two hours later We get to meet on the couch and you know, just kind of like go over our day And I was like, oh my god, so let me tell you what happened. I basically
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you know went over the whole thing and I said my boss called me and like she noticed something was wrong so she was just like hey like is everything okay and I was like and I told her I was like oh my god Liam got me um you know my Liam got me fake flowers because he couldn't get the real ones so powerful of him like you know and he literally jumped out of couch and he's like he was like fake flowers I'm like uh yeah you didn't know and he
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fake no way. I'm like, yup, they're fake. And the funny thing is I have them on the
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table so he literally came here to like smell them to feel them to realize that these were actually fake but yeah they were fake and I mean I'm like oh that's why they were so inexpensive to what I was anticipating but to be honest like I'm happy he did that because I literally like I would be I would be livid if you do it actually I mean when I went to grab the Krispy Kreme donuts from Publix I just see like all men shopping at
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Faiza and Liam Chase (23:36.96)
even that but just trying to like maybe come home like what if they don't come home with flowers and stuff and I just feel like it was just with the prices I'm sorry like um no just take me on a sushi date and I think I would I would actually enjoy that but it was just crazy like I really personally I just don't I mean they're beautiful. To be fair to be fair I did show her the entire process that I went through and there is zero indication that these were fake.
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I was on Instacart, the first thing I looked up peonies. Come on, if you're a shawty, tell Michaels. Michaels, do you think that's gonna, I would assume they have real flowers. Oh my god, Leo. I go to Michaels, it says peonies, it doesn't say anything about a fake flower. It's an arts and crafts.
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But it doesn't matter. Does that mean I've got the face? I'm just saying, there was no indication to me as a man that those were fake. I had to scroll way down in the depths of the description to find that. Which I'm not sure. It should have said artificial peonies or like peonies, parentheses, artificial. It doesn't matter. But I'm just happy because I have these flowers for the rest of my life to talk about these. And that was a nice background for our, and we have a great story to tell about it. For now, I mean, you know, I like to change it. But first, definitely for spring, I think it's beautiful.
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Yes, that was our story and that was our Valentine's Day special. Yeah. So going back to the whole hobby thing, because obviously we see people around us. Yeah. That, you know, one party might have a hobby. The other party might have a hobby that.
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is not inclusive of the other party. And I think that's the really big important thing is like obviously both parties wanna have their own life. Like, you know, I will go out and do guy things, business related things. You're obviously not as involved or interested in that. No, obviously you gotta do your girl days, girl nights. Yeah, I will go hang out with my sisters and stuff. Well, we do that together. But you sometimes do it up yourself, yeah. Yeah, but I'm just saying like personally, yes,
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that in a relationship like especially the first few years you think that every you're a significant other is your whole your everything and you want to spend like every hour with them but or every minute of the day definitely encourage you guys based on our like get out there go live your own lives like
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You know, make the time that you have together special because if you're always together, like it becomes mundane and unspecializing. That's why you need time away from each other. But the next evolution over that even is, okay, well now that you guys have established like hobbies outside of each other.
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what can you do as a hobby together? Right? Because I noticed like one thing, it's like she has her things. I have my thing. But like, what's, like obviously there's like Netflixing, like, but that's like, not, that's not very engaging. That's not very like interactive. Right. And I remember when you're in LA, like obviously you would have a friend group and know where we took the four love language test. Oh, highly recommend that. I mean, I feel like everybody knows this, but I definitely take your love languages so you can understand what you like to, um, you know, what you.
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Well, I feel like you know the reason we did all that because it's like okay It's like we have our relationship like what's an extra layer on top of that Like how can we interact and engage with each other? Beyond this being together all the time. I remember we took the four love languages and we started a pink chess Okay, so I don't know I come from a family where we watch TV while eating Not ideal, but I feel like we still do that now
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I don't know why, but it's kind of sometimes awkward as, you know, just coming home and eating together and be like, oh, so how was your day? And you still have these same questions that you ask, right? So I love like- Yeah, because I've been with somebody for so long. It's like, you can't always strike up a- Yeah, with an icebreaker. Yeah, it won't always be like our first conversation. And obviously we have a regular routine where I work eight to five, nine to five a lot.
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who's been working on his business.
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It's just, I mean, not saying that it's boring, but I'm just saying sometimes it can get repetitive. So we love to like watch TV. But in the start, in LA, what we started doing was that we had a smaller dining table and while we were having dinner. Oh yeah, we would have date nights in house. Yeah, but we would all having dinner, we would play chess at the same time. Or we would just do candles and have like a dinner. Yeah. We started playing chess.
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So Yu-Gi-Oh! I was a Yu-Gi-Oh player when I was younger. I'm a little bit of a nerd inside like you said in previous episodes. So, she... And maybe we can revisit that because I feel like you're more... Absolutely not. Absolutely not. No, they definitely made that game way more complicated. It's so complicated. They literally put now like two paragraphs of text on the card. Like when I was younger...
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be like a two three sentences maybe it's like oh this is pretty simple to understand but now it's like two pair of f-lines like yeah no thanks and then you know even before we left out and he still buys them sometimes I know okay well in LA in LA like he literally went out with his brother they hit every target and like probably in like
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Target stores probably within like 30-40 minutes just to like find Google Cards it was ridiculous. We didn't go out of our way. Yes you did. Yes we drove 30-40 minutes out to every Target and Walmart and like whenever we I mean there is no Walmart in LA. I mean there is one. It's a little far. But still like we would go to every Target to find Google Cards. It was ridiculous.
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in the end of minute. But then definitely I feel like the last year and a half definitely been working out together. Like I said in the last, our last episode we talked about how like she's definitely, she's taken the spark of health and like working out. Like I don't have to like encourage or push her to like come to me with ideas and talk to me about ideas and things like that.
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But it's obviously about finding that hobby together. And that's how we created this podcast because obviously I have a lot of business interests and you know, like entrepreneurial business focused ventures and whereas Faisal is not as much like that. She's more of a traditional, she likes safety. She likes what? Yeah, I like safe, safety, stability. And I also like to, I'm more of a routine person and Liam's more on like, he likes to take challenges.
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at a risk and stuff but I'm more of like you know a nine to five girl there's nothing wrong with that I just Liam's more on a leader personality and more of a follower. That's why we get along so well because we're good. And obviously this is something that I struggled with for a long time in our relationship because I've always even when we were younger like I would say when we were younger like it was like I wasn't fully the way I am now.
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I think, because when we first started, I was serving. I had like a little inclination to be like, oh, I wanna own a business, I wanna do sales, I wanna make money. But even like growing up in high school, I just wanted, I thought college was the only way to be successful, I just wanted to work with my dad, be happy, didn't care about success, didn't care about money, didn't care about.
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fame or anything like that. And then yeah, I think I slowly throughout, you know, you met me relatively young, I was just and I feel like when we met to like, obviously you were growing into becoming more of an entrepreneur, you basically had that entrepreneurial mindset. And I feel like you definitely pushed a lot on me because my the way my personality is like I'm very bubbly. I used to be very outspoken, but basically still is. Okay. But basically, I used to be
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very lovely person and Liam is like you're happy. She is, you are a very lovely person. Well okay I'm still a lovely person. You are like the sunshine of every room you walk into. Because you say you're happy. Everybody says that. Okay, okay. But basically. What did your best friend say when you went out with him? He said you have to come because why? I don't remember. You texted me. She said you're the life of the get together. Okay. Well sure, but basically, uh.
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in the start, like Liam had this, you know, an entrepreneurial mindset and he basically saw that in me where he was just like, you're a star and then you were just like, you've got to shine. And I'm like, Liam, like I'm more of a kind of like under the wraps kind of girl. Like I don't want to do that. And it was just, it took some time, I feel like in our relationship to understand that.
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It definitely took a long time, yes. Because Liam was just like, he felt like I was missing out on a lot of things and not giving the opportunity and part of me, like his telling me to do things was kind of like getting overwhelming. Because I mean everybody used to tell you like you can be a model, you can be a YouTuber. Yes, and I feel like I...
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I feel like my anxiety and whenever sometimes people would say that and I should have, like I'm telling you, I should have taken it, the opportunity, but I just would, anything, a little small change would make me feel uncomfortable because I personally like stability. So that's why I was like, okay, well I'm not.
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I can't do this. And I feel like now in our relationship where you have realized that, you know, what kind of, how I am. So, and I feel like you have like loosened, you know, loosened the reins completely where you're like, okay, like I want you to try it out. I want you to.
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And I don't think you force me at all now anymore. Yeah. So earlier in our relationship, like, yeah, I would just be like, you got to do this. You got to do this. And like this forcing it down and throw the same way you used to force food down. Like, it's a Pakistani thing. It's a Pakistani thing. And you realize that now. Yes. Getting back home. Going back to home. Oh, my God. It's like a Pakistani thing. They're just like, you got to try this. Oh, my God. You got to try this. You got to try this. You try it. Oh, my God. Yeah. Like the first couple of years, me and Matt Fizer was always like, anytime you had a fish.
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I'm like, no, I'm good, I'm good. So like, but I was like that to her in other senses, not with food, just like trying to encourage her to like start doing YouTube videos, like, you know, go apply for modeling. And now for the fellows out there, like I was always like cautious of like, I didn't want her to turn into a full, I didn't want you to go like beyond the limit of like.
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the LA influencer lifestyle, right? Like obviously I wanted to keep you guys a nice... I mean, you never know. Like, I feel like all those things like start out with the passion. Like if somebody is passionate about something they want to share, like, you know, and I feel like that's how they're able to, you know, gain fame and stuff. Like for me, I feel like, I mean, I mean... We met a couple of people that are very... Yeah, but I'm just saying like mostly what I see, you know, the people who get sometimes, I mean, it just anything.
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Those are more value driven influencers. I'm talking about like vanity driven influencers. Yeah, I agree. I agree. But they are passionate about their looks. I'm just saying like there is things that's a thing. But I'm just saying that I didn't have that.
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Yeah, I didn't have that reasoning, like what I wanted to, like if I do want it to grow into, like they call the influencer or anything, like a model or anything, I just feel like I didn't have the, like the correct, like the passion. Like what is my passion? It didn't really align with your values, right? That was a big thing too. Yeah, I agree. It didn't align with my values either. So I just was like, okay, this is not me.
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not what I wanted to do so that's why I really never went that route but
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What was it? I feel like since now coming into Florida and obviously like not having that social circle that I did in LA I've definitely taken my gym as like my passion Like I love it And I love the way that has made my body change or the way and the way it makes me feel because I remember like In la like we started working out, but I didn't have like a routine. It was just more like oh whatever videos
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Things I would see online I would try it and add it to my routine that week But I definitely was not very structured now. It's been structured and we've been working out for a year and a half now It's freaking awesome consistently. Yeah, this is definitely like it's almost like building blocks. I say like, okay Like obviously your relationship like that's block one. I just spend a lot of time together. You see family together You know the dinner together you watch movies together whatever you go on adventures together, but it's like what's that thing? You can do consistently like part of your part of your life, right?
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was like the first layer to that. I mean as I said like in previous episodes I think I shared is that my family like genetically I like they have diabetes and they have
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you know, blood pressure and stuff like that. So I was prone to get it. Yeah, I think it was just so sexy to see people like really like late in their lives and they'll be able to do like a perfect squat without any pain and stuff like that. And I just was like, OK, well, I want to I want to be that person like, you know, I want to be able to play with my kids. I want to be able to play with my grandkids and stuff. But so that was my whole goal.
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I'm just saying in general why I personally started with the gym thing and it became like my hobby, my passion. But yeah, just like working out was just more like, it was not for a short term because I feel like previously I've always worked out and it was just like, oh I'm going for those abs for the summer or I'm going for that butt or I'm going for those arms. It's not for externally because obviously we are going together.
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We aren't getting a good body. We're building our bodies for ourselves and for each other, obviously. So yeah, the gym was definitely like our first, I feel like our real building block of like, oh yeah, here's a hobby that we have together. Yeah. But I feel like even though we have it together, like we go to the gym together, we don't work out at all. Like we have different goals. Like he's more like he wants to grow like chest and stuff. I like it's a one, once it wants a week thing for me, but our time's a week, but I'm just saying like. And the reason I had brought up.
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kind of the past is just because like again you have such an amazing personality and i've always seen that in you and you i mean i know i definitely know like i feel like as a partner you were like she's missing out on
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this personality people need to see this. Even in the last year because, I mean even the last year you've made a lot of progress and growth because when we initially moved to Florida you weren't really on this, hey let me put myself out there. It started once you started working out, you started working with some other people. And I think obviously it goes back to where I said I didn't have that passion and now I'm more like getting comfortable with gym. As I said I've been working out for the last year. But I remember.
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the big day and it's been so amazing to see you grow because like the first four or five years I was like hey like you should put yourself out there you should build a brand you should do this you should do that and she was like she would like just shut down like it's just I don't know why it was just so overwhelming sorry sir Pat just destroying our couch you know yeah the one that we just paid off and it's already destroyed but that's what's gonna
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It's crazy. But yeah, so she would, she would not to speak for you, but like just my experience, four to five years, I would always try to encourage her and push her. And like, yeah, really remember that. And I have a conversation with my mom, she like, yeah, patience with her, like let her grow into it, this, that, and the other thing. So eventually I was like, okay, like, you know what? I'm done. Like not done in the sense of like, just like I'm not gonna try and force it down and throw it, I'm not like gonna be super encouraging of her. I'm just kinda gonna kinda let her.
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to it yeah and I remember there was a time in LA where like you were starting to yeah like you did go out for a couple photo shoots you when your best friend came in time you guys went and did some stuff there like when your friends come to town you just go and take your photos you started sitting there towing and then when we moved back to Florida probably like six you would know the time frame better like I want to say I don't know the exact time frame but when you're driving she's like Liam like I think
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But she's basically, like we were just driving, doing our errands one day, she's like, Haley, I'm like, I don't know if you exactly what we said. You basically said something like, hey, I've been thinking about everything you've been telling me, like our entire relationship, and you're like, I think you're right, I should, like I do want to start putting myself out there more, and I want to do, want to like become something bigger than just my nine to five, and this corporate thing, and the other. And is that what happened?
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Yes, yes. So the key points were, I feel like, as I said, personally, I love stability. I love the nine to five thing. Yeah, tell us about this mindset shift that you've gone through over the last eight years almost. Yeah, I mean, I loved it and I feel like in LA I had friends. Like my whole social circle were the girls that I used to work with. So they had the same nine to five as me, you know? And so that was like my life.
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I didn't need to go out and create another life. Because my girls, my... You had a good life, I was making good money. Yeah, and I... You're comfortable, satisfied. Correct. So, as I said...
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which actually is clicking in now, that I didn't have the passion to, like, you know, when I would, my friend would came, my best friend came from Florida, we just went out to take pictures, cause I was like, oh, I'll just post those pictures, and you know, it's more for my gram and stuff, but I don't have a passion. Like, I don't have something that I'm like, oh, look.
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like look at me kind of like hey this is what I've been doing and um yeah this is what I've been doing and it's amazing or anything and I mean yes I love like skincare like I would I could have talked about skincare I could there's so many things but personally I just wasn't comfortable like I really wasn't comfortable and as a person myself I feel like coming from a Pakistani household my parents have always sheltered me so like it was more like we had no like
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outdoor I mean in Pakistan we had like a PE class and stuff and it was more like I used to play outside. I mean it was more like you would just go talk to your friends kind of. I mean you would do like little like jumping jacks and I just kind of remember that but it wasn't like a full like you know workout or anything like you know like health related or anything like that but I remember
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basically in LA like I had my friends and stuff and then moving coming to Florida and realizing so I work by myself I don't have anybody to talk to and
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Faiza and Liam Chase (43:32.942)
So yeah, I think that's where it kind of clicked in me, where I was, it clicked for me, where I was like, okay, I need to do something for myself, you know? And obviously, we started working out, and that was my way to get out of the house and be able to just move my body. And this time around, when we started working out, we were like, hey, we're not here for short-term goals,
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like we want to work out for the rest of our lives, technically, we want to do this for sustainability, we want to do this for us. So yeah, so when I started working out, I completely fell in love with it, like I have structured workout and stuff, I started following a program, definitely helped me stick to my goals and stuff, and just to see the changes, my body.
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has made throughout the year, it was just mind blowing. And the way it makes me feel, like I loved it. And that's where I think where it was kind of like this, like a light bulb moment for me when we were driving and.
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I was just like, I understand where you're coming from. Like now I have this passion. I have this, like my why or my goal, like, you know, what I like doing. And I want to share, share with the world. And that's why like I created another Instagram page. It's called Fiza Chase, Life of Fiza.
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And just to like, kind of like document my journey with working out. And as I said, I'm pretty brand new. I'm like a year and a half and I just wanted to document it. Because from eight years from now, I just want to look back at it and be like, oh, wow, that was you. That was that girl who started working out. It's crazy. Yeah, it's always fun to see this. And you already had a transformation that you made a post recently. Oh, yeah. But when we like when we first started being together, we went to the gym. You were so scrawny.
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I was like a skeleton. I saw the potential. But it's crazy to me because I grew up like my mom is a very skinny person, skinny woman. So like I kind of got that skinniness from her. And I remember...
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when we would like being in Pakistan and being this like little girl and people would tell me like did your parents not feed you and stuff like it was like always like a comment that I would ever get like an event like family events and stuff like that and it just never made sense because I was an elephant you know and I love food and yeah so when people like you know said comments like that I remember
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I had this picture of me that we took when we were together. With Amela? Yeah, in the start of our relationship. That picture we took, I'm just mind blown to see my arms. And it's crazy, my body has changed. And that's why I wanted to share my journey with fitness. And that's how I think we feel. Yeah, so that was a really big moment for me. And like, okay, this is an opportunity for us to go next.
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to another level with our relationship because it seems like we're finally getting alignment. Now I was skeptical because a lot of people talk, but it's a completely different thing for people to actually exit. I mean, and I feel like I have talked a lot like where Leo would be like, hey, Faiza, like you gotta do this. And I think I would cave in and I'll be like, oh yeah, let me just like do something. And as I said, I didn't have my wife.
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I didn't have that passion. I didn't know what the hell to talk about. And so like when I would go record a video or something, I would just be so nervous. Like my anxiety would kick in and I would just like give up. And I think it would happen throughout the year. And yeah, it just made me nervous. Yeah, so when she told me that, I'm like, baby, like that's really great. And like, I'm here to support you. Like, you know that already. Like I 100%.
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wants you to do this and pursue it. I'm like, however, we're gonna have to see what happens, because there's other people in my life that have, I mean, there's a lot of people in my life that talk about what they wanna do, but they just never follow through on it. Or if they do, they just, I don't know. I mean, I was definitely that person, 100% for over the years. But I mean, obviously- I feel like you didn't talk about wanting to do anything, right? That's how I kind of-
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That's how I kind of, this is like differentiate people. It's like, because there's people that don't even talk about wanting to do something bigger, and that's totally fine. Like, that's cool. Like, keep living your life, you're not talking about wanting to do the X, Y, Z, that's fine, whatever. But then there's the people that talk about wanting to achieve X, Y, Z, and then their action doesn't align with their words. And that's the most frustrating part because it's like.
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do you like, you know, your actions and your words tell me different things, like which one is it? And obviously with you finally coming around, I'm like, okay, good. She's finally starting to proclaim it. Yeah. However, let's see if the action follows and it definitely did not follow quickly. No, it definitely not. And as I said, I think that was my anxiety part of it. I did not like, I felt uncomfortable and stuff. And obviously everybody goes through that and you know, how the more
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And I agree to that. But it's just definitely like everybody has their pace, you know, and I'm definitely making that change in my lifestyle. And I've created this other Instagram page just so like I can post about fitness and just I can spam about fitness. I love it. I love, I love fitness and I think I'll probably start adding skincare to them. I love it.
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I love me skincare videos. And that's funny that you brought that because that was part of the conversation when we're
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when I was encouraging you to find your own hobby, where I was like, why don't you just go be an esthetician or a beautician or this or that or a real estate agent. Like, remember we talked about you becoming a real estate agent when you came. And so like, yeah, we're just like always brainstorming, like figuring out like what's the best thing. And so although you didn't do any of those, you've obviously now come around to fitness and like sharing your fitness journey. And then you finally, we're doing this podcast because we found something that aligns in our hobbies and interests that we can do together.
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that's going to obviously take our relationship to the next level and have an opportunity to share our stories with other people and hopefully encourage some healthier and I think a big thing I think hopefully I feel like a thing that really you know had some impact or influence or encouragement for you and for me internally even though I said it was like hey look like obviously we are very principled valued moral like people you know just like we have to
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you know, we have to put our side of the story out. Like we can't just like let negativity dominate or like.
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Faiza and Liam Chase (50:44.85)
You know what I mean. You know what I mean. How do I say it? Just like, we gotta put a positive force out there. You know, like, encourage people. Help create. Because obviously drama is what sells. Like, drama, attention. Drama gets attention, right? It's like, are we ever gonna be like, you know, massive like, maybe one day? I really, I don't hear about that. That's not what we're, yeah, we're not here for. Personally, like, um, yeah, cause I- We're not here for that. I feel like what you like to think about is more like, short term.
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picture always and I feel like for me at the way as a person like I said he's entrepreneurial I'm more of like a follower and there is nothing wrong with that but just personally I'm more of just like okay like every day is like a new step that you're doing and yeah those little steps like for me I do this videos just so are these this podcast just so like I want to look back at it like four years from now and be like oh wow that was
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us you know things like that.
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I will see like where this takes, but I personally just enjoy like, you know, just another way for us to talk. Yeah. It's another layer in our relationship. Like we're just stacking these experiences and this and that and that. So it's like the gym, the podcast, we did three weeks in a row. We missed one week. Now we're right back. It's like, we just, we've obviously talked about wanting to integrate this into part of our lifestyle. Yeah. It's definitely a way where we're just, it's just us.
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talking about us. And so I feel like for me, and like I said, I hope it had some kind of positive encouragement like, hey, we're gonna put our voice out there and be a force for good. And you know, in a time where I feel like drama, negativity, and just people clout chasing this, that and the other thing is so prevalent in the whole influencer world, you know, so just being that positive force for good. And who knows where this will take us. And you know, whether what other.
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layers that we can add. So that's what we would encourage everybody listening like if you are in a relationship like number one. So our takeaway, let's talk about our takeaway. For me, first of all, don't let your partner become your world. Like don't make your life revolve around...
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whether you're a woman or a man, you both should have, what's worked for us is that we just both have our own separate lives. And it's not like we're like, not literally, I wouldn't say our own separate lives, but we take time away from each other to go enjoy things outside of each other, right? Yeah. Then we come together, but then we have a layer that allows us to take our relationship to another level as well, whether it's the gym and now it's the podcast, we're having these deep conversations. Or like, headball.
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Faiza and Liam Chase (53:31.479)
I feel like in LA, or even now, we used to throw a ball. Yeah, we would go out, like, chess, we would go to chess, sometimes we would go outside and just throw a baseball back and forth, something that I liked, something that she picked up really quickly. Oh, yes. Which I'm surprised, your first pickleball, you were not so odd.
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Because, okay, I grew up playing badminton and you know you kind of like have to hit high and like with a little bit of force. Like I feel like with pickleball it's like you have to hit it on the ground and it has to bounce. It's just like a whole, I never grew up playing ping pong. I feel like it's more of a ping pong. Yeah, but for me it was like badminton so I was just, we started playing on the, on the cruise.
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ball was like going everywhere. I told the guys in the crew, yeah it's your first time. You guys want us to leave? I understand. So yeah they had patience, you had patience. But it's okay, I'll learn and I'll master it one day and you know I'll be good. Yeah, it's just another opportunity for us to bond with each other.
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Just watching TV, going out to dinner, sleeping together, spending time with family. Those are also important things. No, they are, but I feel like... I feel like people don't need to add extra layers. It's like an onion. It's just that you gotta add... Yeah, it's your curricular activities. I mean, yeah, it could be anything. It could be like painting, or you could just like have a date, a date night, candlelight dinners. Just change it up. Like, add things to your routine.
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You know, some little changes. Shutter as the ordinary. Yeah, like getting fake flowers. Come on, that's amazing. What a story. Yeah, what a story. But yeah, definitely like adding small little things in a relationship, like changing it up a little bit here and there. Like trying to redo our living room and find out that was not going to work.
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Yeah, we literally swapped the whole living room and we were just like, wow, that was, that's ugly. And we recently like we started adding Well, obviously something that you've wanted to do for a couple years if you like is adding pictures of us because like we've never Had that so like we have like I think we got all these within the last year Yes in a relationship like you guys should people should or even like as a person people should go take pictures because I feel like
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You want to go back and look at yourself from like, oh my god, that was me 22 years ago. So whenever my friend came to LA, I remember we would just go out and have a photo shoot session. We personally haven't gotten any professional pictures. Something that we intend to do. We're still young, but if... No, but yeah, definitely I want to look back at it.
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kids to look back at it and be like oh wow that was that was our parents oh that was our I know I'm so excited to be like when our kids get older and like hey did you know we lived in LA for four years and hey who knows we might be back there oh god Liam like loves LA it's funny because before we even knew there we went to Anaheim and Liam like has such a as a Florida
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What if we lived in California? Because we were in Anaheim at that time. Because I fell in love with the weather. The weather was just amazing. So I remember I told Leon, Leon was like, absolutely not. Me, never. A year later, we were there, living there. But yes, it's crazy. And yes, like, well, you can talk about how I went.
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So you want to go back to LA? Yes, it's crazy because I remember in LA, we made the decision to move to Florida. And I remember, I know you did that part for me. So I can be close to my family and stuff. And I remember, so I really, really appreciate that. And I remember you made the decision in LA. There was a lot of things that contributed in my...
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Yeah, so he left the 3 to 5 year target, we were in the middle of that. So there's a lot of things that transpired that contributed to that. Yeah, because I think since the start when we moved to LA, it was our goal that we were just going to be there for 3 to 5 years. And we were at 4 year mark. So we were just like, okay, like...
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we've accomplished what we need we needed to do here let's move back because basically our family's here and we're getting to the age not now but maybe like a couple years a couple years but we wanted to like have we want to have kids and we want the kids to be close to the family and stuff um so that's why we were like okay this is the time to like you know move and I um I remember
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Yeah, so you made the decision to move and I was like, okay, like if you want to move, like I'm down and stuff and we moved and it's so funny. Liam hated it completely. Like Liam was just like, I want to go back to LA. Like I don't like this. I hate it. I like being around my family. Yes. And I definitely like, I love being around the family and I think that's a plus. And I feel like for me, it was funny because- I don't get that balance. Like-
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If you're my family member and you're watching this, I love you. Like I don't want to be around you all the time. Oh god. No, so personally, like I, for me, I was like... I have goals that I haven't hit yet. Yeah, for me, I think it was the move.
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turned out way better for me than for you I would say. I feel like you hated in the start. I was like... I mean I don't remember. You just were like, oh my god I hated it. And I think it was just more like, I think you still like miss LA. And like the way you have... Our social life. The food options they have over there and stuff. So I think you missed that. And I was like... I...
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Yes, sorry, I might tell you to scrub. I'm starving. But, um, I actually was, as I said, I'm a person... Even though you're lonely, like you work by yourself. Yeah, not even that. At that time I didn't get a job. Like, you know, I...
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I saved up enough just so I can have a break and stuff. So for me, it was more like just connecting to myself. I feel like I needed a little bit of break from my previous job and once I was ready to get a job, I found my current job, which I love, and where I just kind of worked by myself in one location. And I remember, what was it?
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But basically, I think for me, this move was... Yeah, it's been a big shift in your perspective. Correct, yeah. Because I feel like I realized what you've been trying to tell me over throughout the year and I feel like... Throughout the years. Because previously I had people, my friends, and basically my social circle doing the same thing as what I was doing. This time I didn't. I worked by myself, so I didn't have... I don't have a social circle.
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I didn't have, you know, the world is all my friends, I do the same thing. I hope we're fine friends. I do. I know. Yes, yes you guys. But basically, you know, I didn't have the friends, the social circle that I needed, that I had in LA. Yeah, so I'm like, what am I gonna do? And I think that's where Jen came in because we wanted to definitely look after her health.
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And we were like, okay, we need to start. We need to.
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And once we started doing the gym, I was like, okay, I need to start recording it. I think after a year later, I was like, I'm going to start recording, documenting my journey because this is something that's amazing. Something we do here that we didn't do in LA. We hang out with friends in LA, but we also hang out with family a lot in Florida now. Like we are building our social circle. You're expanding your friends. You've gone to a couple of meetups. I've gone to a couple of things. I went to one yesterday.
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I'm just a person, I think I've become a person where I just, I get, I'm just shy. If I don't know the people. I mean I'm a person who's like...
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like the like we talk but I think once my social battery dies down I'm just like I am like ready to head home yeah kind of thing um and I'm working on getting a event going I definitely want to start hosting events and networking and I just wish that we can like find friends like what we did like back in high school and stuff you know just kind of like have you know a way to do that to get yourself out there I just I can't I mean one day we'll
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Faiza and Liam Chase (01:02:20.466)
Well, this was a really awesome episode. I trust that people listening will get some value out of it and I'm excited to see what further Topics we discussed so for those of you who don't know we do at some point We're not exactly sure when that's gonna happen, but we would like to Because obviously value tain it was a big inspiration for us So we might start talking about some current events and news topics and just giving our more about
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and full thing perspectives yeah and yeah just start doing that next episode I don't know should we we'll see if we can obviously I mean I don't want this thing to be like a whole relationship I mean we're just eight years in a relationship and I'm not saying that's brands thinking new but it's also not like
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50 years and our relationship. We're also learning, but I definitely think that we'll sprinkle. We're just going to talk about our life. Absolutely. I definitely think like current events and stuff like that. Cause that's something it's so funny. Before we end the episode, that's something that we kind of bonded over to is like, I attainment I followed them for a very long time and they made a shift more towards like current events and you know, political and have all kinds of opinions and they obviously lean one way,
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I remember Fiza coming to me and she was like, oh, I've been watching that guy, I'm like, wait, what? So we obviously started bonding over that and I feel like that's another kind of layer that we started, you know. I think definitely we need to start talking about it. Yeah, so we can talk about that, like kind of the evolution of our.
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Yes, so I think that's philosophy. I feel like next episode we need to yeah evolution of I would say me. I've been very steadfast. Yes, I think I think well I know that I've evolved certainly. I think I've held my foundations very strongly but I've reverted converted like you know I'm not
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Faiza and Liam Chase (01:04:19.542)
There's an interesting dynamic. We're both, we're just an interesting dynamic in general, right? And that's why we wanted to start this podcast because, we have a very interesting dynamic relationship and experience and cultures and class and all that. So we just want to die like that. And we just want to blabber. Yeah. And we just want to like, you know, Something to build our relationship. Yeah, this is just so like Liam and I can talk to each other. Alright guys, we'll stop blabbering to you. Shasta got some money out of it. Thank you. And you're welcome. I'm talking to the listeners. Yeah, thanks for the listeners. We'll see you.
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next week we're gonna start talking more about our... Well before the...I mean I don't know if anybody's listening or anything like that if they can leave comments and stuff Oh yeah, leave a review, we want to hear from you Can I speak? Sorry I think Liam's pre-workout's kicking in My pre-workout's beating in pretty late But I just want to say like if there is any...
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Anything that you guys like to do personally or as a group or with your spouse, please let us know. Because I feel like we're always looking for ideas and stuff to do. But yeah, if you're still listening, you made it this far and you hear this message. It's up. Yes. Thank you. Thank you.
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