Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
Welcome back to Mallory's Weird World Adventures, the podcast. I'm your host, Mallory, and I'm here to show you just how weird and wonderful this world of ours really is.
And I'm very excited. I have Kyle Kittleson here on with me today to talk about his new endeavors. And I also want to talk to you about some of your animal behavior stuff too, by the way.
[00:00:23] Speaker B: Oh, no problem. I, I don't know if our listeners can see it, but I have my beautiful little parrot right here, little spire girl.
She came over to say hi. She was having a little bit of a mango.
[00:00:35] Speaker A: What's her name?
[00:00:36] Speaker B: Spire.
[00:00:37] Speaker A: Spire. Oh my gosh, she's so pretty.
[00:00:41] Speaker B: After Frank Lloyd writes towers that shoot up into the air.
Yeah, those are called spires. So I thought that'd be appropriate for a bird.
[00:00:50] Speaker A: That's amazing.
Yeah, I have my daughter running around here too. She might want to come over and say hi.
[00:00:57] Speaker B: Oh good. I would love that. Yeah. Awesome.
[00:00:59] Speaker A: Because she loves your show.
I know of you because of baba blast on YouTube. My daughter loves your show and I'd love to hear how that came to be. What inspired you to start Baba Blast?
[00:01:15] Speaker B: Well, my sister in law is in the other room so she's going to hear the story. So I have a nephew who was three years old at the time and I went over to their house and they were watching YouTube and she, they were watching this video of a family that bought groceries. Okay. They went to the grocery store and bought groceries. Then they bring the groceries home, they put them out on the street and then the mom and the kids sit on the corner and the dad runs over the groceries in their car and that's the video. And I'm sitting there going, what do you mean that's the video?
They're buying food and wasting it. And why? Like what is, what is it? And I go, well, I kind of, I kind of asked my nephew, I'm like, do you want to do a video? Like, should we make one? Because I think we can make a good one.
And he goes, yeah, let's do it. So he was in the first video, our first, we'll call it the pilot episode.
And it was just kind of us playing around with this idea that there would be this guy with a magic wand who would take you different places and teach you stuff.
And then it turned into what it is now and it's still morphing into what it hopefully will continue to, hopefully it'll continue to improve, but that was it. So we filmed that October of 2021.
I released it March of 2022. And then we've been cranking out episodes ever since.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: How long does it take you to put together an episode? Or does it depend on, I guess, where you're going and what you're doing?
[00:02:58] Speaker B: Yeah, it totally depends. So right now we're in a really interesting phase where I'm trying to create a mixture of what I consider what I call simple content, and then mix that with our big, high production content.
So if you're not familiar with Baba Blast, the high production content is lots of adventures. We've got to defeat the bad guy, we've got to save the dinosaurs. There's going to be lots of action, lots of magic, certainly educational components, and always our core mission of empathy and resilience. And everything we put out, regardless if it's simple or high production, always that. But it's, you know, it's entertainment, it's entertaining.
And then we have our simple episodes. I, I'm in Minnesota right now. I, I filmed all about two weeks ago. I filmed every day for about 10 days.
And we filmed a ton of episodes. And these are all less editing, less quote magic, less, you know, flash, less. It's, it's simple, it's simple stuff.
And it relies more on the main character, baa baa blast to kind of talk to the camera and move the story along rather than rely on post production. So these simple episodes, to answer your question, we want to be able to shoot them fast and edit them fast so we can do a lot of them as possible.
And it takes us just a couple hours to film one of those. For one of our big ones, it might be multiple days and then weeks and weeks of editing. I mean, the, really, the post, it's all the post production that takes the most amount of time.
[00:04:44] Speaker A: Yes.
I feel that we have 10 episodes we're delivering of our show for Amazon prime. And that's the part that's the most intimidating, is just the.
[00:04:53] Speaker B: And I think it's the part that takes the longest. It's the part that's most intimidating and it's the most important part of everything.
Okay. Because if you've got something great, a bad editor can ruin it. And if you've got something that's not so great, a good editor can save it. You know, I feel like that's where all the magic happens is actually when the cameras stop rolling.
[00:05:16] Speaker A: Definitely.
Oh, I love her so much. Let's talk about your history with animal behavior too. I saw on your website that you used to work with penguins. And I also work with penguins, so I wanted to. You did.
So I work on the South African Penguin foundation and with Sankob, where we would be on Robin island doing concerts, conservation, work with African penguins. So I lived on Robben island for part of the summer multiple times.
[00:05:43] Speaker B: That is unbelievable. Incredible. I would love to see pictures of that.
[00:05:50] Speaker A: Yes. I have tons. I'll have to send some over there.
[00:05:52] Speaker B: Yeah. I worked with Humboldt penguins.
[00:05:54] Speaker A: Okay. Yes, yes.
[00:05:56] Speaker B: Yeah. And I. I only worked with three intimately. Willie, Wingnut, and Eggie.
And Willie was my first true love in my life. You know, I just love that. That bird so much. And then I.
I stopped working with him, and then I came back years later, like a decade later, and he didn't even remember who I was. And I was heartbroken. So part of. Part of life, I guess. But, yeah, I love penguins. I've worked with a lot of different animals, from penguins to marine animals to obviously parrots.
And I, you know, that's. I think that's like.
That's like my real love is animals.
And that. That's why Baa Blast has so many animals in it. People are like, you do animals, huh? Because kids like animals. I go, kids happen to like animals. I love animals. And they also happen to like them because kids also like cars. And you don't see me putting a lot of cars on there, you know, because I. That's just not my thing. But animals are my thing. Thing. I just, I. I've learned more from animals than probably any. Anything else.
[00:07:05] Speaker A: I love that. And it. It shows. We. My daughter loves the one where the giant tortoise when you're at the farm.
[00:07:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:07:14] Speaker A: And, you know, we. We watched some. Some blippi in the past, and he. You can tell he's afraid of animals when he goes places. And it's hard for the parents to watch. Like, this man is afraid of that stingray or the penguins. He was with penguins at one point. I'm like, oh, there's penguins. And he looks great. And I. You just have such a chemistry with them, and it shows, and I think it makes it even more exciting and, you know, for children to see that. That confidence with them. Hello.
My daughter's coming to say hi. This is honest.
[00:07:45] Speaker B: It's so good to see you.
I brought a parrot with me today.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: Look at that.
[00:07:57] Speaker B: I just realized you probably can't hear me because I. Because you got your headphones on.
[00:08:00] Speaker A: You know what? I can hear it on both sides, so.
[00:08:03] Speaker B: Okay. Okay. Very good. I do meet a lot of Kids who are fearful of animals.
And I think that as long as we can be pushing curiosity over everything, I think it'll be better.
[00:08:18] Speaker A: You know, definitely that's so important. We're trying to get our daughter out to, into the field at some point with some penguins or some kind of animal experience because it does build that, just that confidence.
[00:08:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And I, you know, my first career was an animal training and we worked with so many kids and kids groups and what it really does is have these children start to care about the world they live in because has so many.
Because they see all these animals that they love and now they're in, they realize, all right, we're sharing this world with these things that I love. I gotta take care of it. You know, I don't just, I'm gonna look at recycling, I'm going to look at my waste. I'm going to, you know, care about the planet and the. Eventually these kids are going to be adults, you know, so.
[00:09:15] Speaker A: Right.
What a great message.
I wanted to ask you a little bit too about medcircle.
I know that's your new project you're working on. You want to tell us a little bit about that?
[00:09:27] Speaker B: Yeah, well, medcircle for me is not too new. I've been with MedCircle for seven years, almost eight years now, and I'm their host there. So my primary job is to interview psychologists and psychiatrists.
And when I started at Med Circle, I knew nothing about mental health. And look, I was in therapy when I was nine years old. Okay. It's not like I haven't been around the mental health world. I just didn't know anything about it. I don't think they teach you about mental health and therapy half the time, which is such a shame. But anyway, I, So that's my full time job. That's, that's like what I really do. And then Baba Blast is my, you know, part time job.
My thing that I try to get done on the weekends and at night. So I've asked all these experts in mental health the same question, which is what should we be teaching our kids? And I get the same two answers over and over again. Number one answer, first answer, do you have any guesses on what it is?
[00:10:27] Speaker A: You're a mom, it's okay to not be okay.
[00:10:30] Speaker B: Oh, that's a good one.
[00:10:31] Speaker A: When you get help.
[00:10:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
Oh my God. This. Talk to someone when you need help is a huge one because sometimes. So you're, you're jumping ahead. My. That's the second one. So the first one Number one answer I get is empathy. We have to teach our kids empathy. They have to learn. And that's hard for a lot of children because for children, their world is themselves. They are. It is all revolving around them. And so to start to introduce these concepts where they can start to daydream what it might be like to be in someone else's shoes, to start to think about what they're going through and what that might be. Like, that's such a. That's such a. Like, that's such a win.
And then the second one is resilience.
And where people get stuck on resilience is they think that means you can't ask for help.
Like, you shouldn't ask for help, because that's not resilient. You're not resilient. If you go, you know, ask somebody to help you. No, literally, that's like, one of the best ways to be resilient is go, can you help me with this? I need help.
And so in Baba Blast, you'll often hear me say, you know, what do we say when things get tough? I can do this. I can do this.
And it's okay to ask for help. Now let's go do it. Let's go ask for some help. Because especially for this, for the age group that watches ba Ba blast, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, what, are we expecting them to do it all by themselves? Are you kidding me? Like, they're just learning to do everything, so everything.
[00:12:05] Speaker A: They need help.
[00:12:06] Speaker B: So I think those are the. Those are the two things. So when I started with Medcircle and I had all this mental health education background, and then I started Baba Blast, it obviously got all infused together. And so our primary mission at Baa Bablast isn't to teach the kids the colors or the numbers or what sound a cow makes or how cool dinosaurs are. We include that all because kids want to know that, too. The primary objective is to teach kids to care about others and remember that they can do it. That's. That's the objective.
[00:12:43] Speaker A: I love that. And I think that's why it stands out, too. It's meaningful.
[00:12:47] Speaker B: Thank you. Yeah. I don't hear a lot of parents like, no, no. Parent emails me and goes, I'm so worried that my child isn't going to learn the colors. You know, like, they're.
I'm worried that they're not going to count to 10. I go, we're going to get there. What they're worried about is, are they prepared to be emotionally, well, emotionally resilient and Emotionally in tun.
When they're adults, those are the concerns that parents are having. And I want Baba Blast to be part of that solution.
[00:13:21] Speaker A: I think that's, it's so important to expose them young too because I've watched a lot of old, I love shows from the 60s like Bewitched for instance. And mental health was so not acceptable back then. And you, they have a therapist character and it's a quack. Right. Like it's a joke and I don't need this. And it's something that was a negative in television and it wasn't until recently that we kind of made that normalized it. Well, this is a good thing and they're doing the right thing to help themselves. And it's, it's interesting to see the astigma, I guess some of the older generations have on mental health because of what they saw on tv.
[00:13:58] Speaker B: Oh yeah. I mean I got, I have some, my neighbors and where I live they skew older. Okay.
And one of them learned that I was on antidepressant. I take Prozac and he comes up to me and he, I guess half jokingly he goes, well you got to get off of that. You, you shouldn't be on, on that. And I go, that is such a generational thing, you know.
[00:14:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:29] Speaker B: My, my friends would never say that. You talk to, you know, young adults, they would never, they have a whole different perspective on the matter.
[00:14:37] Speaker A: It's true. My, I took anti anxiety medicine. My mom finds out and like you can't do that.
[00:14:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:45] Speaker A: No one can do that.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Or if you're going to do it, don't tell anybody. You know, Goodness gracious. Yeah. Keep it hidden a little secret. Yeah.
[00:14:56] Speaker A: So for your, your med circle videos for them as well. Right. What can people expect when they watch your videos? You cover a range of topics.
[00:15:07] Speaker B: Mallory. We have, we have every mental health topic you can think of. Okay. So the dsm, which is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health. We're on our fifth edition right now. Soon they will come out with DM DSM 6.
But DSM 5 is all the lists of every disorder that's recognized by the governing bodies. And MedCircle does a very good job at nearly covering everything in the dsm. Now there are some obscure ones that we just don't cover and there's. I don't know if you could ever really go and cover it all the way it needs to be covered, but we do a really good job. So it is a, a one stop shop for somebody who wants to find the two most critical things in their mental health journey? In my opinion, those are one, Psychoeducation.
It does not happen. People get depressed, they go to a therapist, they talk out their feelings, maybe they get put on a med, and that's the end of it. They never learned that they were actually participating in cognitive behavioral therapy. They never learned that the medication they're on is an SSRI and what that means.
They never learned why. They might not even have learned a coping strategy, but they don't even know why the coping strategy is working in the first place. So this psychoeducation is like lighter fluid to therapy. It's lighter fluid to your.
Your progress, your journey. Because, you know, it sounds so cliche, but knowledge is power. And if you want to really tackle your mental health, you better get knowledgeable on it. And AI ing it and googling it is only going to cause you mental health issues, okay? It's only going to make it worse because it's so bad. It's just awful if you ever tried to do that. It's just a terrible experience and it's not reliable. And so MedCircle provides reliable mental health psychoeducation. That's number one. And I will also say that they're going to the interview. The doctors I interview are not your, you know, these are people who are at the top of their game. They're doing, they're. They're researching their pioneers in their field. They're nearly impossible to get appointments with, and they cost a lot of money, and there's a reason they cost a lot of money. So if, if you want to get, you know, I speak to Dr. Ramany on narcissism. She's certainly, in my opinion, the last word on narcissism. And many people would agree with me on that. And if you want her insight on what you should do because you're married to a narcissist, you can get that at Medcircle. And that's super powerful. So that psychoeducation, really big. The other part is that we've developed a community around all of our med circle members.
And I did a series of interviews years ago during Mental Health Month where I interviewed people with lived experiences. Anything from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, suicidal ideation, you name, you name it. I probably interviewed them about that topic.
And I asked them, what was the one thing that helped you get through this? You could only pick one.
And I go, it wasn't the psychoeducation. It wasn't the therapy. It wasn't the med. It was the support.
It was the support, it was the community I was around, my friends, my family. My support system is the thing that got me through that. And when you're struggling with mental health, it's easy to move away from your support system because you're depressed or you have anxiety or you don't want to be a burden or any number of reasons and people need to lean into it, be greedy, take them for everything they're worth. I mean, just use your support system as hard as you can. And so we have given these people at MedCircle, our members, an incredible support system.
I think it's so much better than a lot of other support communities or online communities because you're dealing with members who are really educated on mental health. There aren't very many Med Circle members who aren't educated on mental health. It's the Nate, it's the, it's the natural tendency of the membership.
So, you know, MedCircle is a great alternative for.
It's a great addition for anyone on their mental health journey. And it is a modern approach to mental health care because you're still getting access to our doctors, you're getting that community support, you're getting reliable, up to date mental health psychoeducation, and you can do a lot with that trifecta. A lot. And if people, people might go, okay, well, I don't want to join a community, but I would like to learn a little bit more about, you know, avoidant personality disorder or whatever it is you want to learn about. We've got a YouTube channel with hundreds of videos, 1.7 million subscribers, millions of views a month. So go check that out and see if any of it resonates with you. And then if that resonates, then maybe, you know, you go try a membership. But it's been a privilege to be a part of because we are, you know, like sometimes we all try to do good. We all try to do good.
But you don't feel like you're actually doing any good at Med Circle. I feel like I'm doing good. And I think. And I think we are. You know what I mean?
[00:20:38] Speaker A: Definitely. That's amazing. And so is it all.
Is the community digital? Is there ever any in person or.
[00:20:46] Speaker B: Like, we've never had an official in person meetup. We've had unofficial in person meetups. Literally, you sound like one of our members. They're like, why don't you guys just do it? Like, just. We'll all fly out somewhere and we have members all over the world. And so when we, when we. Where are we going to do this? It's not even like what city, it's like, do we even do it in America? Do we. Or do we do one in America and one in Europe and one in Australia or whatever? So I don't know. I'm sure that will happen. And my guess is it will happen fairly soon because people are hungry for that in person stuff. That's why I'm doing the Baba Blast Summer tour this summer for 2025, because I.
I have all these millions of kids watching me, Mallory.
And I don't get to see any of their faces. You know, I get to see some that they get posted on Instagram. But I want to meet the kids. And honestly, more than that, I want to meet the parents and I want to go, I want to meet these people like you.
And so that's why I wanted. That's. I think the in person events, I think they're going to be a hot thing because that's what people are wanting.
[00:21:53] Speaker A: That's amazing. So tell us a little bit more about the tour then and what people can expect when they attend.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: Well, it started in New York.
[00:22:04] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:22:05] Speaker B: And I had the best experience in New York because I got there, I was, it was. I was the only person putting it on.
And we had all these people who bought tickets. Well, they're free tickets, but they, they got their tickets.
And then I'm there and people showed up an hour early. And I'm like. But I'm not set up for anything. I mean, I'm not even dressed. I don't have everything out. The space isn't set up.
And this mom walks in, she sees, oh, my gosh, we're early and this guy needs help. And she goes, all right, I'm going to unpack these coloring books. You go do that table. Da, da da. I was like, oh, my gosh. So to see the parents just go into mom and dad mode, I'm like, this is what I needed. Thank you. Thank you, mom. Thank you, Mom. And I talked to every parent, I probably talked to every parent for five to 10 minutes.
A lot of great feedback, a lot of kind words.
We had people drive in from neighboring states.
I got an email yesterday that someone's flying in from another state to our next New York meet and greet. And that's been really heartwarming. Amazing. But what people can expect at the meet and greet is to meet Ba Ba Blast. Meet the Blaster, get some free Ba Ba Blast swag. We'll have the music playing.
Our next one is in Minnesota, and that one is a field day at Maple Grove Park. And so we'll have outdoor games and activities and crafts for the kids. The one after that is in Long Beach. That's at Shoreline Village, and that will.
We're going to have dinosaurs there. We're going to have a place to take pictures.
And, you know, we're not. Every kid has to do it. But when we were giving away all of our free toys and merch and stuff, I just. I tell the kid, I go, now, now tell me, can you do this? And they'll go, yeah, I can do it. I go, all right. And then they get their, you know, coloring book.
So that's been really fun. And then after Long Beach, California, our next one is another one in New York. Since the first one was good, we're going back to New York, and then we will do another one in Arizona. And I have some meetings this week about doing one in Las Vegas.
Yeah, it's just a chance for fans of the show to come meet Baba Blast.
[00:24:32] Speaker A: Wow. Let me know if you're ever in the D.C. area.
[00:24:35] Speaker B: Yes, D.C. okay. So D.C. is a big one. Florida is a really big one. I've gotten that one a lot.
And then Texas is a big one. So I think there's more. If they're. If they're. If they continue to be successful and people show up, we will do more of them. I'll do. I'll do them all the time. Yeah. So I just need people to show up. And so far they are. And it's really great.
[00:24:56] Speaker A: That's amazing.
I have to ask, too, because you've gone to many places or bottle glass, what's your favorite place that you've filmed at thus far?
[00:25:05] Speaker B: Oh, my favorite place is filming in Arizona.
Here's why.
I grew up in Arizona, so I thought the whole world was a desert. You know, I just assumed that's what it was. But really, most of the country is, like, trees and green and, you know, like, lush landscapes. And so to have this Arizona desert backdrop in our videos, it. I think it resonates with kids because they're seeing something novel and new, and there is a prehistoric element of being, like, out in the desert, you know, feels a little prehistoric. But like I said, we just finished filming in Minnesota. We did a lot of forest filming, a lot of filming out in the water.
So I think that's really good. I'm very committed to filming the majority of our content outside.
I. I don't. I'm not a personal fan of children's content that's done exclusively on a green screen.
The, the animation and all of that, in my opinion, does not incite excitement about exploring our natural world. It does not encourage outdoor play.
And Baa Ba Blast does both of those things.
And so we, I want the episodes of Baa Baa Blast to be the catalyst of them grabbing their blaster and going outside and doing their own dino hunt. If I do that on a green screen, that's hard for them to do. But if I can show them how to turn their backyard into a wonderland or a park into a prehistoric, you know, fantasy world, then they can go do those things or at least be inspired to do those things. So I'm a big, I'm a big. We got to get outside to these episodes. We're not going to a studio, we're not doing it inside. We're not showing someone's bedroom or living room, blah, blah, blah. We're going outside. So that's what we're doing.
[00:27:03] Speaker A: I love that. Well, you know, we have the travel show and me and my husband are members of the Explorers Club, so we're all about.
[00:27:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm preaching to the choir.
[00:27:12] Speaker A: The world, yes.
Especially great for children. I feel like a lot of kids grow up in very closed off communities and don't get to experience the world or see new things until they're much older. And I think in submerging them in that when they're young is very important.
[00:27:31] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's, it's a privilege to be able to do that, you know, for kids and adults. And I know that I'm, I'm in love with the ocean. That's my, that's my favorite.
[00:27:45] Speaker A: Right.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: And I grew up in the desert. And I think that's because the reason I love the ocean is because when you grow up in the desert, the ocean is this, like, you can't believe that there's just that much water when you, when you're looking around and there's only dirt and sand and so many kids like myself, you can't go see that. That's not where you live. And so to bring some of those new places like a lake, like a forest, like a dune, like a desert landscape through the show, you know, that's, that's one way they can see it. It's not the, it's not them doing it, which would be even better. But maybe at five they go, wait, a desert's a thing. The forest is a thing. The lake is a thing. The Ocean is a thing. These things are things I, I. Okay, the world is big and I want to go see it. I think that's a great message.
[00:28:39] Speaker A: It teaches them I can.
[00:28:41] Speaker B: It teaches them what I can.
[00:28:43] Speaker A: These are things I can do. It's possible. It's, it's not something that, you know, it's just the new dream of. It's something you can get out and do and see.
[00:28:52] Speaker B: Did you, did you see the Meghan Markle podcast? I don't know who she was interviewed with, but it went viral, probably for all the wrong reasons.
But they were talking about the word yet yet.
[00:29:04] Speaker A: No, I haven't.
[00:29:05] Speaker B: So there.
So in Baba Blast, I incorporate the word yet because I think it's a good message for kids because so many young kids can't do stuff yet. They can't tie their shoe yet. They can't go on the ride yet. They can't do the things their older siblings do yet. You bring in that word yet. It acknowledges the reality, which is very important. But it also gives them that I can attitude, like you're saying that it will happen one day and that future really builds resilience.
Well, I was really proud of myself because I was like, I'm, I'm throwing all these little hidden gems in the episodes and kids are gonna learn them. And it was on the Meghan Markle podcast and they, they just ripped her up. She was like, I use the word yet. I go, well, I do too, for the four year olds and the five year olds, everybody, not just the kids.
[00:30:00] Speaker A: You know, it's such a good message. That's so funny. Yeah. I remember being, being an adult well into adulthood and working at one of my jobs. We were signing cards, a bunch of girls and they, everyone was in awe because I had booked one of those glass in Finland. I'm like, this is a dream. I'm gonna do this. And people kept saying, oh, I didn't know that was something that was actually accessible. I just thought that's something you dream of or you put on your bucket list. And, and just the wall, the disconnect between I can do that and all I have to do is, is, you know, you can, if it's important, save up, book it, put in the steps to do it rather than just, oh, well, that's not accessible. That's out of my wheelhouse. That seems too hard. So I think the yet translates well into any. Almost anything is possible if you commit to it and, you know, work towards it.
[00:30:56] Speaker B: And yeah, and it's okay if you can't do it right then, because most people, like, they. They would hear you and go, oh, Mallory gets to go to this awesome country and do this awesome experience. Good for her. That'll never be me.
And that's a lot of. That's a default thinking process that, please. I do it all the time. And it.
By just changing a little bit of the vocabulary, it turns it into a plan rather than a never.
[00:31:25] Speaker A: Yeah, right. And having details, too, because people, I feel like, use a lot of people that do these things. I mean, when I did that, you're working hard for it. You're putting in the time. You're planning it out years in advance. You're saving. You know, there's. There's a lot that doesn't get seen until people see the end result and go, oh, my gosh, I can't believe that. But they don't see the work that goes and to getting there.
[00:31:47] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. You know how many people probably look at Baba Blast and go, oh, he has 25 million views on this video, and all he did was this, this, and this. I go, yeah, right.
Yeah, right.
I wish it was that easy.
[00:32:04] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely. Well, thank you so much. Is there anything else you would like to tell our listeners about today? And also where can they find you to make sure you promote all the things you have going on?
[00:32:18] Speaker B: Well, if you want to reach out to me, my KyleBabLast.com is a great email. I get a lot of emails from parents there, and I always love hearing from parents.
And if you're interested in Med Circle, you can email me kyle medcircle.com. you see a theme here, it's whatever, and I'm happy to talk there as well.
And I think the message for the parents listening, because out of all the different people who email me at medcircle, the ones who beat themselves up the most are the parents. The ones that feel they're doing the worst are the. Are the parents.
And some of them, I get why they feel that way because things are really hard. The kid is sick. The kid's dealing with something big. You're dealing with something big. There can be so many things that make us feel like we're not doing good as parents.
And let me just tell you, I. I honor that feeling and have that feeling, but there you're. You're doing so much better than you think you are. You're doing so much better than you think you are. And also, kids are resilient. They're gonna be okay. You're allowed to screw up, you will screw up and the kid will be fine. Okay?
One mistake does not screw any kid up.
So go easy on yourself. And, and not to make this too long, but you do have to start prioritizing yourself, even over your child, and people will go, no, I could never do that. Kid number one, okay? You do your thing. I'm saying, out of all the mental health experts, all the parenting experts I've talked to, unless you have got your life game, your emotional well being on lock and ready to go, you can't even be, you know, the best parent possible for your child. So tell that kid to go play in his room and you go take your bubble bath because you need it and you deserve it. You know, that's what I think.
[00:34:29] Speaker A: You got to take care of you to be there for your kids. I agree.
[00:34:32] Speaker B: Yeah, but you really got to do it. You can't just, like, wear a face mask on a Thursday and go, I did it. That's not. You gotta. You gotta really prioritize yourself. You really do.
[00:34:45] Speaker A: That's amazing. Where can people find you online at Kyle Kittleson?
[00:34:50] Speaker B: Pretty much everywhere. You know, I'm not huge on social media, so if you really want to get to get to me, one of those emails will work. Great.
[00:34:58] Speaker A: Fantastic. Thank you so much for joining me today.
[00:35:01] Speaker B: Thanks, Mallory.
[00:35:02] Speaker A: You're welcome. And until next time, everybody stay weird.
