Life By Design

Welcome back to Rock Stars! We get asked all the time how we manage the chaos of our lives, so today, we’re sharing how we stay motivated, happy, and fulfilled. Between the kids' activities, our entrepreneurial ventures, and traveling for curling, it takes a solid team to keep everything in our lives running smoothly. Our secret? A little bit of flexibility, a lot of communication, and the help of some incredible family members (shout out to Grandma Carol!). 

The key to our full life is living it by design, with intention and a clear focus on what truly matters: family, passion, and always striving to be better. We know there’s always room for growth and adventure ahead, and we can’t wait to see where it takes us. If you resonate with what we’re creating here, make sure to subscribe and leave us a comment with your questions and thoughts. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to Rockstars, the podcast where high performance meets real life.

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I'm Brent Lang, joined by my wife, Jennifer Jones, and this is where we talk about rocks, rings, and everything in between.

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It's about chasing dreams and asking, why not me?

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And figuring out how to keep going when things get hard or hilarious.

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Sometimes it's just us talking curling, business, family, and parenting.

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Sometimes it's bigger conversations about success, pressure, and believing that anything is possible.

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We keep it honest, uplifting, and fun.

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We might even make you laugh.

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Because this is about the wins, the losses, and real life in between. Rocks, rings, real life.

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This is Rockstars.

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Welcome back to Rockstars, Rocks, Rings, and Real Life. The podcast where a couple of dream chasers open up about chasing big goals, living in the moment, navigating life's highs and lows, and figuring out what comes next together. I'm Olympic champion Jennifer Jones, and as always, I'm joined by my husband and Olympian, Brent Lang. Brent, what are we diving into on today's episode?

SPEAKER_00 1:07

Well, I think first we should address before that where we're at. I think we're uh at a pretty cool spot. I mean, it's been a long time since the Mape Leafs won a Stanley Cup, but it happened right behind us. We're at Mapleaf Gardens, the Matamy Center for the Ronch, the Ronch, the launch of the first ever Rock League. And we're about halfway through, and we thought uh we'd take advantage of being in a cool curling location and a historic uh hockey place, but this is gonna be uh historic curling place down the road, as this is where professional curling have officially started. So you can see the uh the venue behind us. So pretty excited to be here, and uh we're just kind of ramping up for I think it's day four today, but yeah, I think or day five? I don't know. It's yeah, it's once you're here, it's uh it's all a bit of a blur, but everything's going great so far. So, but back to the podcast today. It's kind of like a full-on Rockstar rapid fire episode without being that because we've received one question a million different ways, and the the basis of it is how do we manage it all? How do we balance it all? What does a day in your life or a week in your life look like? So that's what we're gonna be answering today. But of course, we want to thank everybody for listening first. A shout out to our listeners. If you're loving the show, hit that subscribe button on YouTube, leave us a review, follow us on our socials at Rockstars Curl on Instagram and on X, and at BLang99 on X and at J Jones Curl on Insta. We are really enjoying doing this so far. So hopefully somebody's liking it. I mean, we do get some likes and some good comments, so when we try to get to the comments, we'll try and continue to do that. But uh come at us with questions, comments, rockstar rapid fire questions, and of course, topics you want to hear us talk about. So keep all of that coming. So now back to uh the question at hand, Jen. How do we do it all in in quotations? And first of all, do we even do it all?

SPEAKER_01 2:51

Yeah, I guess that is a question. I think we do everything that we want to do. So I think that's all.

SPEAKER_00 2:55

Well, I would hope that's how we you know organize our life.

SPEAKER_01 2:59

What is all? And for us, it's about spending family time, obviously doing the things that we loved, trying to find jobs and things outside of well, I don't want a job, do I? Well, just work in general. That yeah, that we that we love to do. So I think we do do it all. We we do have family time, we spend a lot of time with our kids. We love watching them do what they love to do in their activities, and then we uh get to be involved in curling, which is another passion of ours. And then we have our own business. We have the the weed man mosquito hero franchise, and we get to be involved in that as entrepreneurs. We love to travel. So I think we do do it all.

SPEAKER_00 3:34

I think that's fair. I think we I would never say we do everything we want to do. There's always more things that uh that come up, and I would say, and I've said this on an earlier podcast, that our our calendar, our schedule is is congruent with our goals. I mean, we do a lot right now so that it allows us to do the things that we want to do from time to time, and eventually, you know, we're getting to the point where we're starting to look at retirement, not right now.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

I mean I don't like that word.

SPEAKER_00 3:59

Okay, so we're starting to look at the the point where we have total freedom of time. How about that?

SPEAKER_01 4:02

I still feel like I'm in my 30s.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

That's fine. It's not an age, it's a number. It's not it's not an you know, one of the other things I've learned in financial education is retirement is not a number of age, it's a number of kind of net worth where you get to decide what you do every day you wake up. And that's what I'm saying we're thinking about. What does that look like? How long is that gonna take? It's gonna take longer than we thought. We spent a lot of time curling, it turns out, and uh until now it didn't really pay very well. And even now, I mean they're getting paid, but it's uh it's just getting started. So yeah, I would say we do a a lot. I think we're I'm not sure that efficient is the right word. Our calendar is is is pretty full, but with that in mind, what does a regular day look like, Jen? Run us through because it our day-to-day at home is a lot different than our day-to-day at an event like this where it feels selfish to say, but here there's really one focus, and yes, you do a great job of keeping up with the kids and everything else at home. I can only focus on one thing at a time. So when I'm here, my focus is on the commentating or you know, the event or curling or whatever it happens to be. But what does a regular day at home look like? And I know you are you're the rock, you're the organized one in terms of I have to ask you every day, hey, what do the girls do today now, or what's our schedule today, or where am I going?

SPEAKER_01 5:11

Did you drive them to the wrong location?

SPEAKER_00 5:13

It's happened twice in the last couple of weeks.

SPEAKER_01 5:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:15

Not like the wrong city, just like gymnastics instead of dance, and they they think it's hilarious. So maybe I'm doing it for entertainment purposes. You're not like how do you know you're not even there? If I'm driving, that means you're not there. So I can't hide behind that. We'll see.

SPEAKER_01 5:27

But so when we're not on the road, um, I guess when we are on the road, my mom would do all of this. But yeah, we are we drive our kids to school. It's too far to walk, and there's no bus. So we drive them every day to school. So we get up around 6 30, get their lunches, which is not my favorite. So Brent actually usually when you're home, yes. You pack all the lunches. Um, we get them ready, we get out the door, we try to leave around uh like 7 30.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

7 45. Closer to 8 usually.

SPEAKER_01 5:57

And so they're they're in school all day. And then so after I usually drop them off. So after I drop them off, then uh I come home and I work, and I work from home and I try to get as much done. But I have to say, the school day is just not long enough.

SPEAKER_00 6:13

No, it's it's not. And I especially now that it's we're getting into spring and weed man's going and Mosquito Heroes starting up. We've luckily have a great staff there that helps out, but I don't drive them to school much anymore because I go to the office and make sure things are going. But no, the school day is not long enough to get everything that you want to get done, and I think any parent that's listening knows that. I mean, a lot of places we drop them off by you know 8 20, and then you have to be back there by 3 30.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

Well, that that's sometimes they have to stop after yeah, it depends on activities, and they can stay after school for some certain activities and stuff, but typically we would pick them up, they usually have to be at dance or gymnastics for four or four thirty. So we either pick them up at three thirty or closer to four o'clock. And then every day, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, they have an activity after school. Uh, they're in competitive uh dance and competitive gymnastics, so it keeps us busy there there at their dance or their gymnastics. So usually we'll drop off one and then go in whether we have to drop somebody else off somewhere else or figure it out. So we always have to bring snacks, dinner, when we pick up from school, or or we hit the drive-thru.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

There's a lot of yeah, a lot of food on the fly.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

There's a lot of takeout food and different different ways to manage become a restaurant.

SPEAKER_00 7:29

It's everything. It's a restaurant, it's a games room, it's a a nap room, a change room. Yeah, the kids learned how to get changed in the from their school uniform to their gymnastics or their dance, and that's where they love dad's truck. The F-150 is a winner in this case. And if Ford's listening, we should uh probably be sponsored by Ford F-150 because they think it's great. It is a full-on change room in that back seat.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

Oh, yeah, and they have like they even bring blankets and a pillow so they can, you know, if they want to have a rest, we have keep that in the back and and we we have it down to a science, actually. It really is.

SPEAKER_00 8:01

I would hope that science is more organized, but we we have it figured out so that it it works for us. But and then they have activities really till a lot of nights, 8 30, and then we get home and try and give them a snack if they're still hungry and they got some homework to do, and that's kind of their responsibility. And by the time they're ready for bed, I'm ready for bed.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

Usually I'm ready for bed before they want to go to bed. But yeah, like the with the homework, they'll you either do it in the car on the way there, or if they have a break in their activity, they try to do their homework, or when we get home, and Skyla is a snack monster, so every time we get home, she wants to have a snack, so we have to do that usually around nine o'clock at night, and then they they do their homework, they go to bed, and that would be a typical kind of weekday for us. So it's Friday nights are a night that we don't have anything as a family, so we typically try to do something family-oriented on Friday, whether that is cottage in the summer. Well, cottage for sure in the summer. Movie night, our family loves family movie night. The kids will make a snack tray, we get blankets, and we kind of all get together on the floor or on the couch.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

Um I feel like family movie nights got a bit out of control in terms of I don't have any votes of what we watch, and it's not always it's not always a Jason Statham action movie, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_01 9:15

It's never a Jason States math action movie.

SPEAKER_00 9:17

Okay, that's what I'm getting at.

SPEAKER_01 9:19

It's usually yeah, a rom movie. Rom com. Yeah. The kids Skyla actually doesn't love cartoon movies. She finds most of them scary. They always have a scary part. So she loves a good rom-com, always has a happy ending. Um, we watch a lot of around Christmas the holidays, we watch a lot of those Christmas movies.

SPEAKER_00 9:36

What's the one right now that Bella loves that I'm so excited to watch that show?

SPEAKER_01 9:40

She doesn't love it's Exo Kitty. She doesn't love it, but it's just kind of the she loves like a summer I turn pretty and um oh uh my life with the Walter Boys. Those were we're waiting for those to come out.

SPEAKER_00 9:51

That's I'm waiting. Oh, with bated breath. I can't, I cannot wait.

SPEAKER_01 9:55

You like them secretly.

SPEAKER_00 9:57

And does do things change for us? You know, obviously we travel a lot, and when we do travel for, especially for curling for commentating, sometimes it's uh a week long. You know, this year we both did uh a bunch of commentating, you on SportsNet and me for Rock Channel at the Grand Slams. I left earlier. I had to leave usually Sundays because it starts Mondays on Rock Channel because they don't miss a game, which is pretty cool. And then you usually have to start, well, you have to start by Thursday, so you usually fly in on Wednesday. Does anything change as we're getting ready, other than we're you know, pumping up Grandma Carol saying you're the best? Thanks for doing this. Without you, we can't do any of this, and uh good luck.

SPEAKER_01 10:30

Uh yeah, I think we always try to spend some family time before we leave. And um, so like our weekends, there's more activities on the on Saturday and Sunday, but that's usually in the morning. So we'll try to the weekend before, really try to kind of spend some time together, make sure that they're all caught up on their school. I always try to make sure all the laundry is done so that when my mom flies in, even though I know she would do it because she's a superstar, uh, that she has one less thing to worry about. But she does like so Grandma Carol does fly in from Winnipeg. So she flies in every event that we're away, and sometimes she'll stay in between events if they're back to back. Um, but she really is she's the true rock star, actually.

SPEAKER_00 11:10

Yeah, no question. Back to the laundry. Did anybody get in trouble this week for stealing your laundry machines?

SPEAKER_01 11:15

Yes. Who was it? So I do 90% of the laundry, and I'll even do your laundry. Like you don't, you'll do your own, but if I'm doing laundry, but I have a plan, I have a system. I was going away, and then all of a sudden, you throw your load of laundry in and you take up all the hanging space.

SPEAKER_00 11:30

Well, the magic stopped. Normally I have this magic basket where I just put my stuff in there and then the stuff ends up folded on my bed, but it wasn't working, and I needed some stuff, so I had to go figure it out.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

Oh, yeah, the laundry fairy. I don't I actually don't mind doing laundry, so I'm not complaining about it, but I was a little irritated.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

I even put it and I knew, so I put it on like the I didn't know there was a 15-minute wash cycle. I'm like, I don't even care how clean these are, they just they need a little spruce. So 15 minutes, but you walked in, it had been on for a minute, and it's like, oh, I was just gonna do laundry. Why didn't why didn't you mention you need laundry?

SPEAKER_01 11:59

And I'm like, Wow, I'm well and it's more you hang all the stuff, and we have limited hanging space, and all the stuff I need to do is hang. So then it put me in a laundry bind. So, you know, I have a system and I have a plan, and then I ended up having to hang laundry all over the house because you took all the prime location for your laundry. You had just told me I could have made a plan.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

Leading into packing, right? And packing day morning. Sometimes it's 20 minutes, sometimes it's a two-day process where you have other stuff going on, and this was getting down to it. We're packing for Rock League, the launch of Professional Curling, and you know, you're in the booth and need some fancy stuff. And I wasn't sure what I was in for with this week. I'm uh we're calling it a play coordinator because I don't want to be an official.

SPEAKER_01 12:40

I know you don't.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

I don't love that. They made me wear a referee shirt this week. I I hear we're getting an upgrade though. Thank God. Looked like a Foot Locker guy. Never wanted to work at Foot Locker, no offense to people at Foot Locker, just wasn't in my uh wasn't on my my dreams and goals list, believe it or not.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

No well, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:55

Things change though, things change. But another question that always comes in or comes up, even just talking to friends, you know, how do you manage the business while also traveling for curling and other things? And I think it's this the the same answer for everything. You know, everybody talks about it takes a village. You need good people in your life that are willing to to help out. And you know, Grandma Carol does that at home. We have great staff at at Weedman in the office. Amanda's probably the one who does the most. And then as we predicted when we bought the business from mom and dad, dad still shows up and he's which is amazing. He says he's happy to do it, and then every now and again he just reminds me how much he's doing, just just to remind me. And it's like, yeah, I know, thank you, Dad, and we're super appreciative. But he does keep the lights on, and I mean, after whatever it's been, 1982 till two years ago when they sold us the business. That's that's a tough habit to break. So George still shows up and pays the bills, you know, and keeps the lights on, and and is a good sounding board for us and for Amanda and the and the rest of the staff. But it it is, and we've we plan our life that way too. We've told all of our staff at work when we came in that our main goal was to make ourselves obsolete, make you train you so well, give you all of the you know decision-making authority that you need so that you don't need us, especially day to day. And that's that's what we've been building towards ever since. And that requires a whole bunch of really good systems and training. And we have an awesome support staff from head office as well, where if we're not there and Amanda has questions, she knows I don't know the answer to a lot of the system questions that we have experts for that. I don't want to learn things where there's already people we have uh instant access to. So it's a uh yeah, it takes a village, and that includes we also do work a lot on the road.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

Like I, you know, depending on when we're on air or what other obligations we have, we'll either work before, during, or not during, sorry, before in between.

SPEAKER_00 14:44

While we're on air, I do sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

In between or after. So we do have that ability. I always check in uh with the girls in the morning. I try to check in before they go to school, and uh I usually try to call right when they're driving to their activity after school uh just to see how their day went. That's actually my favorite time of day. I love picking up um because you can hear about their day and you can kind of so I I try to check in then and I usually try to check in uh around bedtime to see just to say goodnight and to see how things are going. So we do manage it all. It it uh I find when we're away, it feels very, very busy just trying to work uh in what we're doing, trying to manage all of our outside stuff outside of work and then also parent as well while we're away. Even though my mom is incredible and does everything that the girls need, they're they get so excited when Grandma Carol's coming that it actually makes it feel a lot easier when we go away. Um, she does always bring them a little something when she comes. That helps. Which does help.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

Bribery goes a long way in our house with girls for sure. And you talk about calling home, and you do it more often than I do. I'm more of texts and I get a lot of Instagram messages and funny reels from both girls. And but I'll tell you, when I'm home and you're away, those calls are great, but I'm always a little bit nervous when you call because I know that I'm maybe not as good at the homework stuff and keeping the girls really on track.

SPEAKER_01 16:07

And that's you don't care if they do their homework, which it is.

SPEAKER_00 16:10

Care is a strong word. Care is a strong word. I I uh don't really want to help them with their homework all that much, and that's not true. I I don't mind some of it, but some of it, like the book reports and stuff, it's like, well, mom sits down and helps us, you know, and gives us a few ideas and helps us, you know, brainstorm. And I'm like, oh, I'm just not I'm done school. Like I I math is fine.

SPEAKER_01 16:30

I I don't really do very much with their homework. Well, you you kind of facilitate, you don't?

SPEAKER_00 16:34

No. You just sit there to avoid me?

SPEAKER_01 16:36

Yeah. Oh no, I don't. They actually take care of most of that themselves. So I don't really that's one thing that they're they're amazing at. I don't even have to follow up. I they just kind of stay on top of it. Um, but I will ask them if they have homework.

SPEAKER_00 16:50

Yeah, maybe that's what I don't do.

SPEAKER_01 16:52

Yeah, that's that's where you're following.

SPEAKER_00 16:54

My qu your question is, do you have homework? My question is you don't have homework, right?

SPEAKER_01 16:58

Right. See, it's phrased different. So I I think there's a lot of it, it's a it is busier when we're away for sure, but then when you're at home, you're more in you're more into it, and it's just just just your full attention on everything you have to do. But we kind of do the same things from here as we would do at home minus the driving, which is a lot. The driving is a lot.

SPEAKER_00 17:19

Driving's a lot. Yeah, with the school's 25 minutes away, and then from school to activities is 15, 20 minutes. And yeah, the we just live in a place, and I know this was a big adjustment for you. We live just outside of Barrie, and before that we lived in Horseshoe Valley, and I've always grown up in a place where driving is just part of it, and it doesn't matter, distance is measured in time when you're a small town boy. I don't know if that's the same around the world, but it's not, oh, it's 25 kilometers. It's like, no, no, how long does it take to get there? And we drive, I think, farther than you're used to in Winnipeg, but I can tell you it doesn't take any longer. Everything in Winnipeg was 20, 25 minutes, too. It could be five kilometers, it takes you 25 minutes at certain times of the day. Whoever is gonna be the first to bring highways to Manitoba is gonna be rich. There's really no highways.

SPEAKER_01 18:04

There's highways, they don't work. There's the perimeter highway.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

Yeah, but that doesn't go anywhere, it goes around the city. What about when you gotta get in the city?

SPEAKER_01 18:10

There's highways, you have to do that.

SPEAKER_00 18:12

That's where the people are parked on the side of the street. But anyway, that's uh that's just part and parcel of I think living where we live is it's it's an automobile-dependent place. We don't have there's buses and stuff in town, but there's not really reliable public transit, and our our the school our kids go to doesn't have bus.

SPEAKER_01 18:29

No, so it's it is a lot of driving.

SPEAKER_00 18:30

I remember when I first moved to Ontario, you told me your parents live close, and I was thinking they live down the street, and it was well from Horseshoe Valley, they're like 25 minutes, but it's probably I don't know, 50 kilometers, 40 kilometers, something like that. Yeah, it's highway driving, but it's it's easy. You're north of the city, and that's the other thing is there's not a lot of traffic where we live, but to get to the other end of Barrie, Barrie's getting busier and busier. So I haven't mentioned this, I'm gonna mention it now. I think we need to get out of there. It's too busy.

SPEAKER_01 18:57

Too busy for you?

SPEAKER_00 18:58

Yeah, it's starting to make me nervous.

SPEAKER_01 19:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 19:00

I don't really like that many people around if I'm being honest, but all of that to say, you know, it takes a lot of scheduling. We still use a paper calendar. I was talking to a friend yesterday and saying we still use paper calendars. We write it out, we want to see the full month, and he said, Yeah, me too. It was it was Craig, same age, same generation, same era. I just like to see it. I use my phone calendar probably a little bit more than you do for some things, especially meetings, but in terms of our life, it still goes on a paper calendar.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Well, yeah, and then I've had a major issue with my phone this week. Like it wouldn't turn on issue, and I thought, what if I just had all of my stuff in my phone?

SPEAKER_00 19:37

Yeah, it's in the cloud. I don't know what the cloud is, but it's in there.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

It was I had to, it was an emergency. I had to get a new phone because you realize how much of your life is in your phone, and we're on the road, the kids text me, they message me, and I my phone didn't work. So what do you do?

SPEAKER_00 19:55

You have to go get a new phone, and that's what I was encouraging you to do because it was, yeah, it's it's too much. We're we're super relying on those, but yeah, we with the paper calendar, it seems to work for us. We do get a lot in in a week. I know for me, and I don't like the word busy, we've been over that, but when I do have some free time at home, it feels kind of strange.

SPEAKER_01 20:15

Yeah, we don't have a lot of downtime, and I think we're but in the summer we do. We in the summer we try not to book too many things, and we really try to like have that quiet time. We love spending time with friends. That's not too many things, that's what we love to do. It's just try not to have too many commitments where the kids have to be certain places on certain days too many times. We do try to take a little bit of a breath because we don't have that much free time. But when we're sitting at home on a Sunday afternoon, it feels weird.

SPEAKER_00 20:42

It does. It feels like I should be doing something to accomplish something, and yeah. And especially when if you're away and the girls are at say gymnastics or something, and I feel like I'm semi-caught up on the things I need to be caught up on. I'm like, like, what do what do I do now?

SPEAKER_01 20:56

We usually have a nap.

SPEAKER_00 20:58

I don't nap at home very often.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

Oh, I don't know. I think we disagree. You might fall asleep, not on purpose.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

That's a night. That's different. That's not a nap, that's bedtime. But no, it's yeah, it's kind of strange. But I I think and it's not chaos. I guess at times it feels like it's a little bit of chaos. But the the next question that we often get is, you know, would you change it if you could?

SPEAKER_01 21:19

Never. I I love it. I I love all the experience the kids are getting in their life. I I I love that they're passionate and committed and they're finding ways to be a part of a team and working together together. I feel like they become very good at time management. They even Skyla, she was very busy, and so she asked her teacher if she could stay in at recess to make sure she could get catch up on her or to get ahead on her work because she knew she was gonna have a busy weekend and she took the initiative to do that. And I thought she's grade four. That's pretty it's a pretty great thing because she loves her dance, she loves all of those things, and she doesn't want to lose that. So she's found ways. Uh-huh. And because of our life and because of all of our travel, I love Love that they're in activities, it gets them those opportunities. They they they can experience things even when we're away. And it's kind of the whole evening, so it it allows when my mom's watching them, she can drop them off at their activity and do grocery shopping or just have a a minute again without having to to parent the children. But so I I I wouldn't change anything. I love how full our life is. I love all the experiences. Maybe the only thing I would change is we have moved a lot, and we talk about this. I and now we're we're trying to find a home. And I I miss my parents never moved. I never moved my entire life until I moved out of their home. I had my same bedroom, my same everything my whole life. And that's one thing. I mean, our our kids are pretty versatile, but that's the only thing that I I would just want to be grounded a little bit more.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

Yeah, that that's a topic that comes up. Yeah. And we know we don't always fix the problem. Sometimes we fix the blame. We've definitely fixed where the blame lies. It's the guy in the blue shirt. If you're not watching on YouTube, that's that's me. And but it's it goes back to that old, I don't know, I'm sure the girls, I'm sure Skylar sent you it as well. Somebody, you know, on Instagram it says, Where's your favorite place? And it says, Well, I don't have a favorite place. My favorite place is where wherever I am with my favorite people, and that's to me, that's what home is wherever we go. And I know we don't, you know, we're currently renting, and I don't know, kind of luckily, you know, real estate seems to be going the wrong direction, but that's something that we're it's it's on the yeah, it's on the radar. It's on the radar, and you know, with everything else going on, it's maybe I wouldn't say it's on the back burner, but it's not on the front one either.

SPEAKER_01 23:35

But then you buy certain things and it doesn't work in a different house. And I just really Hey Zeus.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

I mean, that's these are the problems we have. So we're asking if we want to change things. These are the big problems we deal with.

SPEAKER_01 23:46

That's the only thing. Other than that, I wouldn't change a thing. And yeah, I'm with my favorite people, and our kids always talk about our next adventure and they feel like they've lived the best life. So how can you really want to change that? And I and I personally love watching them do their activities. I know you do too, and just watching them shine, it's just it's fun. So that is kind of our life. And you, you know, you come here and we're we we didn't we actually mean to do this podcast in the arena, but we had no Wi-Fi in the hotel, so we had to, you know, adjust. And I think that's really what we've learned with our life and the way the decisions that we've made is you have to make decisions on the fly, you have to be flexible, you have to be willing to evolve and to change. And so as a result, I think it's allowed us to max out on life and and really see different perspectives. So I wouldn't long story or a long answer, I wouldn't change anything except for the house.

SPEAKER_00 24:39

Yeah, and that's I I mean, short answer from me, it's pretty typical. We've designed this life this way on purpose. Like, I don't think that anybody's coven coming to save us to tell us this is how this is how you have to live your life and this is what you have to do. I I still believe that it's up to you, you know, and whatever you want in life, you can get it, but that doesn't mean it's easy. So our our life, is it perfect? No, but it it's on purpose, I think. And and you laugh, but if you surveyed all the people, you know, if you went out and walked the street, you know, out here on Carlton Street in Toronto and you said, Are you living the life you want to live? I think a lot of people would say no. And I feel fortunate that that we are, and some of that's luck, but some of that's decisions, and the decisions we've made have got us to where we're at. And I think we live a life by design. It's not perfect. There's still things we're trying to accomplish and things we're trying to get to, mostly freedom of time, because that's the thing that that's the only thing that really matters when you run out of it. So we're we're trying to get to a place where we get to do the things we want, and you know, we get to travel a lot, already get to do a lot of those great things. But would I change a thing? Yeah, there's some little things, but I wouldn't change the direction, I wouldn't change the overall lifestyle that that we uh we get to live and that that we've shown our kids. So but I think that kind of covers a day in the life, a week in the life. It's uh it's action-packed, but it's it's doable. We make it we make it work the best we can. And so now it's time for some rock star rapid fire questions. This one came in for Jennifer. It's uh I think it kind of affects me, but uh, what does the future hold for Team Jones Lang and Mixed Doubles? This must be coming in from Vancouver. I the name didn't make sense on social media, so I didn't even want to guess. It was one of those weird handles, but yeah, what does the future hold for team Jones Lang and Mixed Doubles? And follow-up, is there any chance of a curling comeback in the women's game for Jennifer?

SPEAKER_01 26:25

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

Good question.

SPEAKER_01 26:26

Um, mixed doubles. I it's kind of probably different for both of us. When I'm on the ice, I think you're the same that way. When I'm on the ice, I like I love it, and I love that we get to do it together. It's something that we can go away and have some just us time. As much as we travel and work together a lot, we don't have a lot of time, just the two of us. So I that's one thing I love about mixed doubles. I still feel like we can play at the top level. Um, but I feel like we may be taking a little bit of a break from that. I I feel like it's You don't take a break at our age.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

No, I know. It's called something different.

SPEAKER_01 27:00

Well, I just I like to call it a break because I don't like retirement. So I feel like you don't want to do it anymore.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

This is a question for you. You don't have to tell people what you think I think. You could just ask me.

SPEAKER_01 27:12

Yeah. So I uh yeah, what do you want to do?

SPEAKER_00 27:14

Yeah, I'm done.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

Yeah, that's what I figured.

SPEAKER_00 27:15

So no, I there's too many other things. It's not that I'm done with curling. I st everything you said I agree with. I still love it.

SPEAKER_01 27:21

You don't like sweeping anymore.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

I never liked sweeping. I mean, it's fun to sweep, uh, you know, have a great sweep and make a great shot. That's still fun, but I don't prepare myself to sweep anymore. So yeah, it's worse than it's ever been. It turns out getting older and not working out it makes a difference.

SPEAKER_01 27:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:36

Imagine.

SPEAKER_01 27:36

And as far as a comeback in the four-person game, no, I don't believe so.

SPEAKER_00 27:40

Oh, I wasn't sure of that answer actually when I read that.

SPEAKER_01 27:42

Well, I had a couple of moments, especially here actually at Rock League. I was like, oh, I'd really love to be on the ice. And you know, I mean if if I had I never like to say no, like never. I'm never I don't believe in you never it's not impossible. It's never impossible, but I don't believe I I'm very satisfied with where I left the game and what I'm doing now.

SPEAKER_00 28:04

But so there's no plans in place right now.

SPEAKER_01 28:06

No, but never say never, but I really don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 28:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

I think that's that's accurate.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

Okay. So now a question for you. What's your favorite part of Rock League so far?

SPEAKER_00 28:17

That's a good question. There's there's been a lot, but to me, I've always loved team dynamics, and I was really excited to come in and see, you know, six GMs, six franchises. How do you handle all of these personalities? Some are stronger than others. I don't have to necessarily name names. I think people know what you know, skips in general, and not all of them, but you know, especially really well established skips have their own ideas, and they're used to really, in a lot of cases, running their own team, and that's different here. And curling in general is not one that, especially in Canada, where the coach has had a lot of power, and this week, I think it's interesting. I think the GM was role was designed to have that decision-making ability, but I think it still feels uncomfortable for the GMs because it's not normal. And because of that, watching some of how the teams are interacting has been really interesting because I think it's it needs some fine tuning, and and expectations are are a big part of that. I don't think that people came in knowing what to expect. I think a lot of the players came in to think, you know, hey, this is gonna just be pretty easy. And and here's what the other thing, the second that that's one and one A is I love how much they still hate losing. And and you know, you can pretend like they don't care, but we're behind the scenes. I'm I've been on the ice for every game, every shot with Craig. People are getting angry that they're not getting the results they want, and that's fun to see because it's competitive, and it this is this is not life or death, but it's it's real competitive curling like you would see anywhere else, and it's only ramping up as we get closer to crowning the first first ever event champion. So that's what I've loved so far.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

Yeah, and I and I love that too. You can really see, I think in the future you're gonna see the GMs take a bigger role, and some of them are, uh, and and see how that works. But what I love, I guess it wasn't really my question. It doesn't say Jennifer. But I love is the fast pace. I feel like the games, I love the time. It feels like the games are going really quick, and then with the no touching of the guards, there's been so many rocks in play, so many interesting ends, big scoring ends, back and forth. You never know until it's over. So I I just love how quick it is and how entertaining it is. I'm it's again, like I said, I this is one of the first weeks where I just want to be out on the ice. It looks like so much better.

SPEAKER_00 30:31

It does look this week. I'm a little envious for a lot. Yeah, yeah, that's fair, fair to say.

SPEAKER_01 30:36

But I think that's kind of wraps it up. So thank you everyone for tuning in. Keep rocking the chaos, chasing adventures, loving the ride, and never stop dreaming. We will see you next time on Rockstars.