This is the Pursuit of Wellness podcast, and I'm your host, Mari Llewellyn.
Hi guys, welcome back to the podcast. Today's episode is such a fun one with my favorite bestie and former assistant Fi.
You may know her, she's been on the show a whole bunch. We're having a girl chat and we have some big, fun life updates, including Fi's medical emergency.
don't worry she's fine it landed her in the er but it is one that all the girls should hear this episode is raw hilarious and not one to miss i wanted to let you guys know it is a two -part episode because we had so much to talk about so stay tuned for fee's medical emergency and let's get right into it welcome back to a girl chat episode with fee i'm gonna reintroduce fee for For anyone who's new or may not know the lure.
Lure. The lure of Fee.
The lure of Fee. The lure of Fee.
Can you just, can you say it?
I mean, I don't want to be like Fee was a fan of mine.
I was a fan. Because I sound like an asshole.
I was a fan. I DMed Mari back during COVID time.
What was it? 2020? 2021.
2021. Beginning of 2021.
February 2021. Yeah.
And long story short, her and Greg had moved to LA.
I asked to be their assistant.
She was like, no, thank you.
i don't make me sound rude no she was like i actually don't need an assistant but i appreciate it whatever and i was like well let me just send you my resume and i did and she was so impressed was blown away and then i had a call with her and greg and told them my whole life story they claim i probably did and yeah i had a couple more calls started part -time with them and then grew into full -time and then yeah the rest is kind of history we worked together for like three and a half years yeah and fee was like you if you saw me you saw fee like there was no we were connected we were connected and we
also look the same so everyone thought we were siblings yes and we've just like had a lot of life experiences together at this point we don't work together anymore but we're obviously still really close friends and we have a lot to catch up on and you guys love her here i am married and pregnant and boring and fee always has like the craziest stories so like she really does bring an element of like pizzazz to the show thank you thank you like sis anyway Anyway, we will talk about that.
We'll get there. But Fi joins me on the show pretty frequently to do girl chats.
So we have a lot to catch up on.
Last time you were on the show, I was not pregnant.
I think you were maybe about to do the transfer.
Yeah. Or something like that.
Wasn't pregnant. You were like casually maybe seeing someone.
Yes. But you didn't want to say anything.
I just started dating someone, yeah.
Because you were like, it wasn't really a thing yet.
And, yeah, I feel like a lot has changed.
Yeah. i have a boyfriend now i can officially say that i'm gonna say it but yeah so i have a new boyfriend he's awesome we are doing long distance for now um i haven't met him yet guys yeah mari hasn't met him yet i know i love him yeah he's the best i had been in a long -term relationship that was not healthy was not good for me but it was like all i knew yeah and it's scary to leave something that you kind of had going a certain way in your mind and you know i thought i was was gonna marry that guy thank goodness that all didn't work out and I just want to say like that that like next step or like
the step to the scary spot that you don't want to take is like so worth taking because I was thinking about the other day and I was like if I hadn't like left that I would have never met this guy and it like made me so sad immediately because I'm so happy I met him yeah and I'm like if I had allowed myself to stay in that like toxic not good relationship I would would have never had the probably would have never connected with this guy also like you're so much more confident now in yourself than you ever were before yeah not that he dictated all of that but like he definitely didn't help a man or anyone
you date shouldn't you know dictate your self -worth or anything like that but I also think being with someone that is I want to say like loving you correctly but like truly like is like giving you admiration and showing you affection and saying nice things to you about yourself like it's nice to hear that stuff and then vice versa when you're in a relationship that's like not giving you that at all if anything it's like bringing you down it really does a number on your self -confidence oh my god yeah yeah I feel I feel very different like I'm just in a much happier place with myself with my relationships
remember when you went to see that film what film was there oh yeah uh it ends with us and you were like you literally called me right off to it's new like I'm done yeah no I literally saw it ends with us which is so funny because that movie was so like dramatic with all the drama with Justin Baldoni yeah who even knows what's going on with that but I will thank them because it was like a little reality check for me and I was like that man is not gonna be my husband or the father of my children so I should probably yeah cut it off and from what I've heard and seen have you said he's like a baseball
coach I think I've said he's in baseball yeah so the new guy I'm dating is a baseball coach um yeah which i think is really cool it's like very different i really admire how like committed he is to it um and i met him through one of my best friends from college her husband plays major league baseball and they played in the minor leagues together yeah um and so last christmas i was like back home and they told me about him and it's funny guys mari always said well she was was saying this when I was in a relationship too which is probably not good but she was always like you need to meet a guy from Texas
now that we live in Texas and she's like maybe not even in Austin like I bet they're in Dallas or like whatever she always said that and I was like how the heck am I gonna meet someone in Dallas but this guy is originally from Fort Worth which is right next to Dallas next to Dallas but that's where he's from and like that's where he is in the off season so when we got introduced he was still in Texas during the like that time so he came into Austin and took me out and then I thought that I think you are more of like a southern belle than like you even realize I and I think you have more traditional
values and I was like we need a guy who's like so polite and like worships his woman yeah and like wants to have kids and is a little more traditional yeah but I also always saw you with like someone in sports I feel like you've always been like you're such a wag I do love it like I'm obsessed I go to like a bunch of things when i visit i go to all the games i'm like yeah you just look cute you're like oh my god i have my cute little outfits yeah but yeah it's that's like i think that's so cool it's added like a whole other like element to my life which is fun you guys know greg and i love to
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going off into a little bit of a side topic but he like got me we started golfing together and he'd take me to the range you guys have probably if you follow me on instagram you've i'm like obsessed now and fees taken me twice i've taken mari and greg and greg yeah we've we've gone on a couple of different uh golf range outings but it's like a really fun activity yeah Yeah it's like you're outside you're enjoying the weather like it's exercise but it's not like you know so intense um and I love it like it's great networking I've literally already met so many people through it um it's great for like
real estate networking I've come to know and like the biggest takeaway from that for me was like I always was interested in golf funny enough like I always worked at golf courses growing up I worked the masters in college like Like I always loved golf culture, but I was not good.
And I never like had anyone kind of take any interest at all to show me how to golf.
And some of my ex -boyfriends were very good golfers.
But like whenever I would try to go on there, like go on the car, like, you know, go on whatever, go with them to play.
They would be like, you can sit in the cart.
Like you suck. You're not fun to play with.
And I'd be like, well, I'm never going to be fun if you ever don't like take a minute to teach me.
And oh my God, I almost just said his name, which is fine.
but my new boyfriend i don't like have you not tagged him or anything no i haven't you put him on your story yeah how many responses did you get i posted him in my dump but i did not tag him yet um a lot no way well you know what though because it wasn't like so obvious like a lot of people were like is this the man like is this a new man i had many girls like his hand on your hip i see that because it does look like just the kind of like he could be my cousin i don't know um who's putting that cousin like that in this story but uh but he took an interest and like he took me to the range and like
gave me a little bit and like he is very much a coach i will say like through and through i mean he's not a golf coach but he's a baseball coach and he like kind of showed me the form and everything and we were at the range for like an hour and he was like you're actually like he's like you like could be you are good good he's like if you actually put some time into it and he helped me find clubs like i ordered everything and i've been going like that was a couple months ago and i've been going to the range like two three times a week ever since then i've played him and i played when i was back
there a couple weeks ago um and yeah and he's just like it's so nice just to be with someone who like yeah motivates you and like helps you and he showed me like a little video of him like teaching her and he said something really cute i don't know could you just tell that he's like really sweet yeah yeah i yeah i put it i posted a tiktok yesterday it was to that taylor swift um oh my god well it's some trend like uh you seem happier no different one not the one screaming at your dog okay that's a good one um there's one that's like the i saw xandra posted it's like you seem happier and then you
say like why and i literally posted it it was like me laying in my bed and i was like you seem happier i was like yeah because because i'm dating someone who actually likes me now because your boyfriend should not hate you and i didn't know that no one advice of the day no one told me your boyfriend should not shouldn't hate you or resent you i'm so glad you finally realized that yeah so being with someone that actually is nice to me and like likes me and like tells me that he misses me so sweet refreshing yeah so but like what you deserve and it's like bare minimum not bare minimum he opened
the door bare minimum yeah you're like he said he missed me i'm like yeah bitch yeah you're like as he should yeah yeah yeah i was on your tiktok yesterday because i was trying to find our i don't know what i was doing i think i was looking up your tiktok because i wanted to do the dog thing that you did and i stumbled dude you have an old tiktok of a previous man's um um doing pilates and it's so bad yeah and eating ice cream that one all of them are bad all of them are bad well that's so cute we're so excited for you thank you are you gonna like like when are you gonna like bring him here well
so this is the complicated thing it's a long distance relationship because he like if you guys know anything about baseball season it is long as hell they play like 160 games or something they play six times a week um so he cannot travel during season yeah yeah i'm pretty sure so you go to him yeah so i've been going to him um which i don't mind like we've worked out a little system it works good works well and yeah but he'll be done beginning of september and so then he'll come back to texas off season so i'm hoping like he'll probably bounce between austin and forworth yeah i'm excited to like
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where i'm like i really hope he's still in there but i know that sounds crazy yeah but like i don't really have many symptoms i feel great so i'm like i pray that i'm still pregnant and then when they do so now i do over the belly over the i've graduated from the yeah vaginas the cooch up the cooch that's a good transition for later um so we did over the belly and he's just in there like chilling you don't feel him yet right no he's too small and I found out I have well actually in the next week I would start feeling like little butterfly but I have an anterior placenta which means it's in the front
I found that out so it is harder to feel because it's like a cushion between between the baby and yeah but I still you'll still feel it at some point where is it usually up higher and the baby's heads down there yes yes actually remember at the beginning how my placenta was blocking my cervix yes they thought i had placenta privia which means you'd need a c -section it actually already drifted because it yeah it drifted away i have a question when you're pregnant like through the nine months the baby's like flipping and moving and stuff it's just at the end of the baby's like head down or like
yeah should be head down by then ideally okay i actually he was head down yesterday but he's always just like doing backflips and stuff like he's insane oh my gosh he's insane like every time I see him he's going crazy childbirth is just like so insane to me and I could see his brain I could see the centricles or whatever of his brain I could see his whole rib cage like his elbows and knees oh and a pee pee they got out of no context Mario goes I saw his pee pee I'm like who Greg I was like I hope so it was like really small and cute it's so weird don't say that i have like a penis in me isn't
that weird it's so weird it's so bizarre for when your child's grown and your mom's like it was so small and tiny yeah he's gonna be like stop it's just so weird that i just still can't get over that it's a boy like yeah that is that is i just can't like the fact that even we grow babies in our is i'll never get over blows my mind it's crazy it's the coolest thing ever so they said he's in the 64th percentile which is is like pretty normal but his belly circumference is in the 75th percentile what he's got a big belly i love when babies have me too you know when they have their after they're milky
and they're just like yeah yeah it's so cute and even on the ultrasound it's like a little round like it's so cute oh my gosh it's so cute but yeah i feel really relieved i like wanted to see him before i went to europe because obviously are you happy you can like say it's a boy now yeah yeah so annoying it actually still like i'm like oh yeah i can say it's a boy i knew mari found out yeah and so i was nearby her house this was a while ago yeah yeah this was like months ago yeah she i forget why maybe we were texting or something i don't know i knew you knew at that point yeah oh because you
you yes you and greg had done your reveal together and so i knew she know like knew and i was like nearby doing i think i was doing like a like a of showing or something in the neighborhood and so I popped by and I was just like chatting up with her and he was she was like he and I was like and she's like I knew you were here yeah but you were I'm guys I'm so bad like I'm I cannot keep a secret well I can I can keep other people's secrets but when you have exciting news to share you just want to share no yeah I went about that That's like literally half of the people that my little gender reveal
knew already. We've been talking for like 30 minutes though and she didn't tell me, she didn't say it.
She's like, I want it to be a surprise.
I want to get your reaction.
And then she accidentally said he.
You know, I was so sad.
I was like, oh, pretend.
Cause I also, so I did a little intimate gender reveal for my friends and I knew I wanted Fi to be the one.
So I got all these cupcakes and only one of them had blue on the inside.
I actually haven't even posted about it.
I need to make a video about it.
And I knew I wanted Fi to be the one to bite the cupcake and I wanted you to be genuinely surprised and I bleeped it up I feel like I knew though really yeah I feel like I mean I knew yeah I feel like I don't know like the blue j thing you said and just everyone keeps saying that and also just the fact that before you even got pregnant you were so certain you were like gonna have a girl I feel like that's just like how it works you know what I mean so my whole life I never even came up with boy names because Because I was always like, not because I, it wasn't that I wanted a girl.
I actually was so open to either.
Yeah. But because Greg's, like, a bodybuilder.
Yeah. And most bodybuilders have girls.
They say, like, higher testosterone men have, whatever the theory is.
Yeah. A lot of other bodybuilders that have had kids recently, like, all have little girls.
All have girls. So I was like, yeah, I'm for sure having a girl.
Like, it just never.
Also, like, he has a sister.
I know. I have a sister.
It's like a lot of, yeah.
A lot of female energy.
So it is kind of freaking crazy.
Wow. I can't wait. I know.
On TV. On TV. I'm so excited.
You guys like little baby clothes.
A lot of people. Oh my God, I ordered the cutest. It's actually, I'll just say it, my most ridiculous purchase.
Greg's so mad at me.
Oh my God. What is it?
A Moncler. Mari. Teddy onesie with ears and it's fuzzy.
Oh, for the winter time.
Yes, he's going to be cold in the stroller.
Greg was like, he's going to throw up all over it.
And I was like, yeah.
He's going to shit on it.
Shit on it. he's gonna but he's gonna flex on him with his montclair he's like period oh my god speaking of throwing out like my friend's baby that i hang out with all the time now taylor's baby oh my god yes taylor she spits up on like i stay being spit up on because i love like giving her the bottle and then like playing with her and taylor's like she's gonna throw up on you i'm like holding her i'm like no she's not like literally like stop is it just like projectile yeah but it's just like it stinks it's like it's like formula like milky smell yeah but it's honestly like still cute like She's
thrown up on me numerous times and I'm like, I've told you about my formula spiral, right?
Yeah, I know. I mean, formulas are tough.
I'm sure it's controversial.
I've actually never really talked about it on here, but I went on like a full formula spiral with Greg the other day because we were researching and I thought like, oh, the European ones are great.
And then I looked at the ingredients of the European ones and even they are sus.
Like, it's so crazy.
I want to have like a formula expert on the show because like, you know, I don't have a baby yet.
and also i think women should do whatever yeah like if if you can't breastfeed like whatever what do they say fed is better i was just gonna say yeah at the end at the end of the day like a baby needs to eat what matters yes like formula like yes it would be nice to have one that you know has like clean ingredients and doesn't you know isn't full of crap but at the end of the day it's like zero judgment need your baby to zero judgment i'm just very into this topic and i i think it's very interesting so i was going on a spiral and i was talking to allison evans the founder of branch basics like
i got her on the phone and i'm asking her all these questions and really all the formulas out there are kind of sus because the fda in america requires infant formula to have vegetable oil in it to like um like shelf safety like yes shelf stable you can't put like tallow or cream because it's not shelf stable yeah but also i found out the reason that they do that in the u .s and even in europe is because they're trying to closely mimic the average mother's diet to mimic the breast milk and the average mother's diet they eat a lot of seed oils that's interesting nuts so i mean in a way like i get
that because they want it to be as similar they can like like if you're breastfeeding and the mother's you know consuming seed oils like that would be in that too there's a brand called serenity kids which is technically for toddlers okay but you you can give it to an infant but the fda says you have to say it's for toddlers because they don't put seed oils in it interesting do you get what i'm saying yeah weird right yeah so anyway i was just on this spiral and i still haven't figured out i mean i'm hoping to breastfeed but also i want to have a formula to supplement with just in case but there
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We should talk about your recent medical emergency.
Oh yes I had to do with my vagina so all to do the vagina which is a nice segue segue yeah see what we did there yeah transition we actually kind of jumped backwards but it's fine that's okay um girls listen up yes i know this is a psa and i it is psa pussy psa pussy psa literally literally pussy psa oh my god i don't even know where to start with this and okay this is like a health wellness show so like we're gonna be you know if If the female anatomy makes you uncomfortable, if intimacy makes you uncomfortable.
Skip this section. Skip this section.
Exactly. No, everyone's probably so curious right now.
Yeah, this is crazy.
Okay, little anatomy.
Women have glands down there near your cooch called Bartholin glands.
Bartholin glands. glands um they are what secrete liquid to moisten the air i don't know why he's so lubricate the area what is the liquid it's like wetness i don't know yeah but like i don't know okay i don't i haven't gotten that okay well we're not scientists so mucus mucus so it's saying moist i'm like i said moist muke okay whatever it is a like these glands down there that when you are intimate with someone it secretes mucus mucus to keep the air you know yeah okay we know what i'm talking about yeah um and sometimes those glands can get backed up or like the i don't even quite understand but they
can get the glands can get clogged basically basically and you can develop a cyst so bartholin i don't know if it's bartholin bartholin or bartholin whatever bartholin cysts you can get cysts down there um and i've had one actually like a couple years ago when i lived in la and i felt like it was from and this is a thing you can get it from like spinning and i spin i cycle oh yeah it's like a lot of sounds like you're like rubbing the seat and you're sweaty you're standing up and you're sitting down yeah and you're sweaty and you're in tight pants and I it's just known to like aggravate that area so I
got one when I lived in LA a couple years ago and went to the gyno he like drained it with a syringe or whatever and that was that and it went away and it was all fine and dandy and since then like I kind of noticed it here and there but nothing like debilitating like I was fine or if anything I would like take a bath and it would go away like nothing ever really got crazy until a few weeks ago i had just left um seeing my boyfriend for the week and like i said we do long distance so we don't see each other for like six weeks and then we're together for like a week so you know what you were with that information we
were you know having a great time together and i noticed after i was leaving that like i kind of had a like a cyst forming down there and i was like okay Okay, that's weird. It didn't hurt or anything at this time.
So I was like. And you used a new product.
Okay. Yes. I did introduce a, I'm not going to name any names, but there is a coconut oil -based lube brand that, like, says it's, like, a clean, like, all natural.
If you listen to other podcasts, you've probably heard of it.
Yeah, you've probably heard of it.
Like, technically, it's, like, a clean ingredient one because it's coconut oil and all that stuff.
But coconut oil is very pore -clogging, you guys.
Like. Yeah. that's like people you can't use on your face if you have acne like and so again i'm not saying this is what caused it but like that is the only thing that was introduced in the last couple months that could have i would say it affected it so whatever i think i also another tmi i get sugared down there instead it's not like waxing is sugaring which like i also read that excessive excessive grooming down there can like can aggravate the skin and stuff so like it could have been a combination of things but so i leave i get back home to austin and i kind of notice it's getting bigger
and like it hurts like it starts to hurt like a zit size no like a golf ball period but like a large grape like under the skin yes in my labia insane like it's like in the side actually it's not even there it's like down lower because the glands are kind of of at the bottom of your vagina um and yeah like started to get bigger and it was probably the size of like a grape and like you feel that like ow like that's and it started to ache like really bad um so actually at this point it hadn't hurt that bad so i make a emergency appointment with my gyno i go in she checks me out she's like yep it's
a you know bartholomew cyst she's like we can't she's like it's actually not that bad that i can like do anything about it today she was like Like I've seen ones the size of grapefruits or baseballs.
I go, how? That's like this.
Yeah. Some people have like, so this is the thing, they're like chronic, whatever.
So she was just like, it's not severe enough.
She was like, it's not impressive enough.
Okay. I was like, you're like, sorry.
I'll take it. Yeah.
I was like, sorry. My cooch is not impressive to you.
But so she gives me an antibiotic and is like, you know, do sits baths where you just like like sit in like warm water to like kind of with like epsom salt yeah so i take the antibiotics they do that this shit just gets worse like within a couple days i am like in excruciating pain and i now have one on the other side that has formed as well i didn't know that yes i had both sides my coochie did not look like my coochie it was so traumatizing could you see it yeah no with a mirror just like everything down there was just not how it's supposed to look oh god it was swollen i didn't know you got
a second one i could not walk i could not walk yeah we had plans to work out no i literally i'm gonna have to sit this out i couldn't walk i couldn't stand up like this sounds it's so so tmi you guys but like the pressure that was down there yeah because they want to pop jeez no it was so fucking painful later that week i'm calling a guy i'm like they're like we have no appointments and we're closed on the weekends i'm like this was like one of the the most painful things i've probably the most painful thing i've ever experienced in my life so that weekend i was bedridden i quite literally stayed
in bed the entire weekend i just took baths and stayed in bed and took ibuprofen oh my god like walking my dog i was crying i was literally crying it hurt so bad so finally monday morning i text one of my friends and i'm like can you take me to the emergency room well i tried to go to the gyno they're like we still don't have any openings and i'm like i'm done the gynos are all so booked they're so booked it's crazy i get it because like a lot of them see pregnant people yeah which like they have certain timelines like I totally get it but I was like f this but then I'm reading on reddit and like
all online about going to the er with these cysts and they're like they are not sensitive like they just slice that shit up whatever I was terrified I was like I feel like I should go to a professional like I mean they are professionals but I was like I feel like I should go to a vagina specialist yeah a coochie doctor and but I was in so much pain at this point I was like I'm over it I'm over it so yeah my My friend drops me at the ER.
I'm like literally there by myself.
I like waddle in to the front desk.
I'm like in tears at the front desk and I'm like checking in.
And the girl goes, I like tell her what's going on.
And she's like, okay, you can take a seat.
She's like, actually, I couldn't even sit.
I could not sit. I was going to say, could you even sit?
I couldn't even sit.
Like in the car. Oh my god, so painful.
I felt like I had balls.
I looked like I had testicles.
I'm not kidding. Were you like sitting like this?
Mari, I was literally like, stop.
Oh, it hurts so bad.
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