 Hello, I'm your host Alex Freeberg, and this is the Alex the Analyst Show. Thank you so much for joining me today I am bringing on my beautiful wife Christine I think I mentioned this in a post a while back that I was gonna be bringing her on I asked you to ask questions and so she is actually here now And so I'm gonna introduce her we're going to ask a lot of questions that you guys asked as well as some that I personally just want to know myself because As much as I know my wife when we talk I there are still things that I don't know And I wouldn't ask unless I had this opportunity or this platform to do so so With that being said, this is my wife Christine. She's amazing. She's beautiful. I would like to introduce her to all of you And so would you mind telling them a little bit about yourself? Your relation to me your relationship to me And then we'll start getting into the questions. Okay? Well, as he said I'm Christine. I am his wife I Have three beautiful children while we have three beautiful children together and I currently Work in the home as they say and have had a corporate career in the past but Stay at home with the kids now Wonderful fantastic So we're gonna get started. You know, this is basically just gonna be us chatting us talking asking questions I'm hoping to learn something about myself. I'm sure you will give me some insight into me as a person So this should be really interesting not just for everyone watching but for me as well So the first questions that we're gonna ask are the ones that were asked by a lot of you guys in the post that I made some really good ones I'm looking forward to it the very first one is What is it like to live with a data analyst? Is it I because I'm in the data analyst So I don't really know so from your perspective What's it like to live with the data analyst? Well, this is exciting. I like that you guys have asked questions. This is cool. Um, I Mean, it's not all that different from any other career really. I mean, I feel like, you know, I will say you're very Thought through and logical much more than I am and so It's been really neat to just kind of see how you think through things Because it's very very different than how my mind works I've talked about that on the channel before. Oh really? I've mentioned you In the way that we think about hopefully good things. Sure. Okay. Um, and so yeah So I would say because we're so different and I'm sure we'll get into that a little bit It's it's neat I like being married to a data analyst because I get a whole other way of thinking that Doesn't happen with me. So like when we were first married There were a lot of times that I would have to stop and go, huh, okay Well, I never thought about it like that and you would walk me through your way of thinking and how you were processing things And it was really really helpful. It really was because it was just something that I just never really thought of so And you research everything Everything is researched guys Not a decision goes on without research behind it. So that has its pluses and negatives. I'm glad you admitted that That the way I think is a good way to think yeah, so it never happens in the moment. It's typically in retrospect You saying Alex you're very you're smart. It never happens later on. Yeah. Yeah All right, let's move on to the next question There's there's several questions of this in one. So just kind of answer them as best you can You know, maybe not answer every single one exactly This one says We'd ask her how Alex became the analyst how much time was invested. What was his target? What was the stress level during that transformation period is a good day an analyst a good partner as well And how much of his hair did he lose in the process the people want to know How much hair did I start with during the beginning? Yeah? Well, let's start with that because that's obviously the most interesting part of the question. I Fell in love with this head as is that's true. I was already bald you were you were very handsome Thank you. You're still handsome, baby, but I were when when I first met him. He had a shaved head I mean, I think it's good to clarify that you have not lost your hair You in fact shave your head you still grow head. He still grows hair on this head. That's you just shave It's a good distinction. Yeah And so yeah, so when we first met This is the head that I fell in love with So he didn't lose any of his hair being a data analyst, which I think is important to note I don't think I would not say that it's that stressful of a career. It's not like Other careers like politicians where you see they all go gray or they lose their hair, you know, whatever So it's not like that Um So you got into the data analyst career field Kind of happenstance. Have you you've talked to them? No, they know that I think he was more asking how I became like the analyst online Oh, oh like Alex the analyst I think so and if I miss reading that question, I apologize How did he say it? Um How did he become Alex the analyst how much time was invested? What was his target? I think that's pertaining specifically to the channel I'm just gonna interpret that that way. Yeah, we'll do that So you so Alex is a bit of a renaissance man He he loves to dip his toes into everything That's true. It's true and I'm always joking about it at home like what's next like what are you gonna do next? And it's always like from out of left field like it's never something that I would anticipate you being really interested in Yeah, and so you'll like come on like what like give some examples is I Sometimes I think they're completely normal things to Like astronomy and like looking at the stars sure that's a good was one of them and I was like totally normal Okay, like you had talked about you wanted to buy a telescope. I still do and then When you were like, I want to try photography and I did do photography and I was like, okay I did I did a couple weddings and there was some sport you wanted to try. I forget what it was. Oh gosh. What was it? Oh Paddleboarding paddleboarding you wanted to try paddleboarding. Maybe anyway, we're getting sidetracked We're getting very sidetracked the point of it is It's not unusual for him to come to me and be like, hey, I want to try XYZ And so I feel like I'm a pretty supportive person you're very supportive most of the time I'm like, okay, whatever like just try to go for it. So This was one of those ideas where he was already obviously a data analyst and was you know You were you had your career and you were doing that really well And you wanted to start actually talking about watches. I know I did I started a YouTube channel on watches. Yes. Yeah, I'm getting there So anyway, so you wanted to talk about watches So you were like, I think you know instead of having like an Instagram account about it I want to do like a video blog or like a YouTube thing or whatever and I was like, okay great Go for it. So you did that and it was fairly successful and you were having a ton of fun I loved it and then you said I really think like I want to talk about data being a data analyst And then it just became like a beast from there Like it just started like growing and you started doing all of that. So yeah to make a long story short. I Think that's how this started Was that it was just kind of one of your just random ideas that popped into your head that you really wanted to do and we were like All right, go for it. That's true What what else did you say? How much time was invested in what was his target and then yeah, those they're really it was a lot of time Initial well not initially, but it is a lot of time So and honestly like I was just talking about this you guys will learn later I'm a therapist. So I was talking to a client about how to Keep your relationship healthy and that kind of thing and I was telling them listen You know, one of the important things is that you each have time to yourself That you're not especially right now with the pandemic that you're not, you know, like interwoven 24-7 you never get a break from each other. That's not healthy And so, you know at nighttime, I'll go up and read I'll kind of distress whatever like just have time to myself usually go to sleep Because we've got littles and then you're up kind of doing your thing We have a cat guys. You can't see it, but it's right there Doing your thing and You know, so there was like several hours where he'd be downstairs I really didn't know what he was doing. I didn't really care. It was his time to do with whatever And so, you know all that having said you would spend probably two or three hours at least a night Just kind of researching how to get it going What it would involve? I mean again the research side of him And so yeah, so you put in a lot of man hours at the beginning Just basically figuring out like what does this look like strategy? Yeah, how am I gonna make this happen? right and And it worked for us. I was happy because you were happy and we've had our time apart. So yeah So spend time apart guys. Yeah, I mean it really worked that way Well, you know people come because they wanted people are watching this and this this episode is not gonna be for everybody But people are watching this because they want to learn more about me But I think right there's gonna be a takeaway from this Well, no the take the take away that I'm getting from this is that they're walking away with some marriage advice as well I think that one's good, okay Let me check our time because I'm just I want to know where we're at, okay We're already at 10 minutes. So here's what I want to do. Okay. Let's try to keep these answers short Gotcha to the point so we can knock out as many of them as we can again. I can go on and on. I'm a therapist That is so true. So I would like to know if I wasn't a data analyst. What would be the best job for me? This one I'm curious about Because I think there's so many jobs Yeah, no not so many jobs for you I'm just trying to think of like What fits best with your personality? You have a lot of interests, but I don't think you would be good in certain career fields that you're interested in I think that means It just means I could see you I mean he was gonna be a rec therapist when I first met him But I could actually see you more Something to do with communication Like maybe a professor Speaker, I mean I kind of I could kind of see that. Yes I will say that is my goal in the future is to be Something I could definitely see you something in the like in the like speaking engagements Professor I can listen. I could definitely see him as a professor like a college professor Okay, we're short and sweet Okay I don't think I could be a professor All right, this one I'm really interested in it's what are you most impressed about your husband? What about me impresses you the most you have what accomplishment? Yeah, you Your drive and work ethic is amazing. Oh, thank you I mean honestly like if it weren't for your ability to just go to work get the work done like with your full-time job You never complain. He never complains That's not true. I can I don't complain to you. Oh, well, I don't hear it. So you never complain to me and You're you work hard. You're a hard worker and that means a lot to me like that's stability and that You know willingness to like go to work and like get it done for your family is everything Yeah, and so I really appreciate that about you. I think that's a wonderful quality In an impress to get to the question impressing Is just you love your family? Well, I don't think a lot of your people probably know that all they know That you love your family. Well, oh, they know Anyways, he's he's an excellent father excellent husband. I mean his priorities are right. You're just a great guy Oh, thank you. Yeah, I don't complain to you much. I have co-workers Who much more closely understand the plight of being in the in the in the well data field Yeah, and so I don't come home to complain to you. I just go and talk to them And so it's working baby. It does work in it does work Let's go on to this is a one from Patreon subscriber and he says does Alex enjoy eating vegetables in real life on his videos He always goes on about vegetables like this favorite thing on earth I think that's more just your humor. He's a really funny guy They probably can see that in the videos but also like in real life. That's one of the reasons I fell in love with him It's just so dang funny but Yeah, I think that's just the more humorous side of you However, I will say he will eat anything I put in front of him like it could be awful I don't think I'm a bad cook, but it could be awful and he would still eat it and be fine So he there's probably not a vegetable you won't eat. I've not ever seen you turn something down So I'll just say that That yeah, yeah, you eat well, baby. I do eat I eat very well and a lot of you don't know this but I used to be trim and fit and More more so than that must somewhat believe it or not somewhat muscular and Ever since I married you it's gone to the wayside. I I am I am what I am. I've accepted it Okay, so those are all questions that People ask. Okay. I had a bunch of questions that I had personally because Again, this is a once a once in a lifetime opportunity for me to ask questions without If you're married, you know, when you ask when you ask your wife a question or your spouse a question It can be Awkward or you know, you don't ask it for certain reasons. I this is an open platform and be asked whatever I want Yeah, so I will do that because I want an honest answer and you don't have a choice because you have a camera on you That's right. So I can't lie some of these are more interesting than others to me But um, do I talk too much about data analytics because I know I talk about all these skills And I feel like I talked too much about it But sometimes I can't control myself and I just keep talking about it and keep asking you like I keep talking about these Like technical things. I feel like I talk about too much What do you think? No, so short answer. No Though I will say I do not have a technical mind. So if he like I want to know Like high-level stuff like he'll talk to me and I'll be like, all right Give me the give me the points like the bullet points and then I don't care So like I don't want to know the details of it. So so no, you don't talk too much about it But if you do get into the details of it, I will always say to you and yeah, and you see me do this Stop I don't understand it. I don't get that. Okay, and then I just it's too much. Yeah, and you won't go it to it Yeah, exactly. I feel like um, especially when I'm learning a new skill like I was you know, maybe like couple Maybe like a year ago I started learning cloud platforms starting in getting into Azure and I kept I kept coming back to her and I'd be like I just learned how this cool new product. I'm like inside of Azure. It's called Azure Data Factory Let me tell you about how it works and I go into the details of it and and then I can tell you're just like glazed over And then you literally just tell me like Alex. I don't this doesn't pertain to me Yeah, and you're like just up. Yeah, and I know somewhat play way sometimes I think someone had asked if I was in the same field or maybe that was a question I think someone did ask that it didn't I didn't put it on here But I think someone did ask if you were data. Clearly I am not no not even not even close Okay, next question. Do I talk too much about my YouTube channel? No Listen, it's a passion of yours So like he talks about it a proportionate amount of what I would think that somebody who's who really cares about what they're doing Talks about like, you know, I mean, it's like any hobby. So like I love to cook I'm always talking to him about recipes. I'm always asking him if something tastes good I'm always testing things and feeding him feeding them to him. Yeah, so like One could argue all Christine. You're always talking about it's a good food all the time. It's like no It's one of my passions. I love it. Yeah, so I don't look at it like Here goes Alex again talking about data analyst YouTube channel. I don't look at it like that I look at it like it's a passion of his like he cares about it He has fun with it and I want to support that so and I genuinely doesn't bother me when you talk about it all that much So I don't see it that way. No, it's really sweet. I didn't know that It's a good way to think about it I like that because you're right you do talk about food a lot But I actually like that you talk about food because that's the food I get to eat so, okay Someone kind of hits it on this a little bit. What would I do? Let's say but this question is a little different says what career and I want to know this what career should I have later in life? So say I continue to be a data analyst. Maybe I make it high level. I'm talking C-suite executive You're right in that money train to the end. What should I do after that? What would be a good like in retirement? I'm not in retirement. I'm talking maybe like 50s Six let's say 50s like like early 50s. I get out of the career. I'm like look I've made so much money I'm so incredibly wealthy. We have three vacation homes Okay, what what what I and then I I don't retire, but I want to keep engaged. What should I do after that? What should I do after my career? My main career, I mean, I that's a hard question for me because you have so many interests in 30 years Who knows at all? I mean for real. That's true You it's that's really hard for me to answer. What would you what would you think? Net from now not in 30 years like what would you what do you what would you say right now? um, I Mean I would say Gosh, I don't know. I mean you're so happy doing your your YouTube channel and that's not true I'm miserable. So, you know, I mean I I genuinely think you would be continuing with this. I could see you for 30 years. I Mean some kind of platform Longest-running YouTube channel. No on YouTube. I mean, yeah, something something to do with this kind of thing Okay, I'm not sure that's a hard one for me. Yeah. Yeah, you didn't I didn't give you wish Next question, I think I'm not gonna actually answer this one The next question I had written was do you think this channel takes up too much of my time? You kind of already hinted on that yeah that because I'm passionate about it and it's kind of like a hobby to me It doesn't really take up too much of my time Um Another question that was already answered is what do you do for a living? Actually, let's talk about that a little bit What do you do for a living? Do you enjoy it? Do you wish you were like me and we're in data analysts that one of the best careers you can get? One of the most promising Careers that anyone out of college can make the most money. It's just yes. So I will say this my career field So I am a therapist by trade mental health therapy I Still I still see clients even though I work from home. I am transitioned from an in-person office Managerial role took a step back from that And I'm doing telehealth right now. And so I really like it. I've always liked it I love my field And I will get back into it. I think once the kids are a little bit older, maybe school age You know, I have dreams of doing lots of things with my degree again, but And and I've worked all kinds of different places like you can't even imagine like a prison and mental health hospitals This cat is going crazy Children's homes, you know, you name it. I've worked there But I will say I love my field and I would want to stick with my field. It does not pay So if you're looking and this will be helpful for your viewers if you're looking You know to get into a field. That's lucrative Then definitely, you know, his is where is that not mine It's but it is funny. We joke about it that when we first met I was making much more than he was like significantly more You were paying the you I was paying all the bills. No, no, not the bills when we for first dating Yeah, we're picking up the tab for the meals because I couldn't afford it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, like That's how I that's how I know that you One are not a gold digger in the slightest To you were making anything that you really likes me for my personality because that's really about all I had it To my name was my personality. Yes. Well, you have a great personality. It's very sweet. So, yeah So his field is much more lucrative But I would hate it. I mean just being frank like that's again. That's not how my mind works I am not good with numbers. I am horrible with math I mean, it's a running joke in the house. So And he's a basic basic basic math guys like yeah, send me back to like Middle school keep talking So, yeah, so, I mean, it's just I think if you're looking for a lucrative field if you're into data analytics Then for sure for sure. It's a good field to get into fantastic. It's just not for me And that's okay because there are different fields for different people. That's true And you know, it takes all kinds but what's what's interesting is when we when I first met you I was still on the path to being like a therapist and that's how we kind of connected, right? And then I realized that that field was not for me. Yeah. Well, actually kind of funny story I'm not gonna go on to a tangent, but I think this is kind of funny that Correct when we first met you were in that field in the same field as me Right. And so we were talking one night after we'd been kind of hanging out with some friends And we talked for quite some time like two or three hours and he was asking me lots and lots of questions about my career field And like what do you do and do you like it and like just picking my brain? And I was like I kind of get the vibe that this guy is into me But he really seems like he just wants to know about my career. So maybe he's just much more interested in like knowing about therapy and we so we just like left that night and I was like Huh, I guess my intuition was wrong because you thought I was really good intuition Yeah, and I was like but it seems like he's into me But you didn't ask for my number I didn't I was I was to be honest though in you guys may not know I'm very Introverted I'm not an extrovert. So I can't I don't I wouldn't just walk up to you and ask your number. I would Think of 10 other things to think about and talk to you about before I built up the courage to do that, right? And so that's not that's not my it's not that's not my style. It's just not who I am I can't just walk up to you be like you're pretty Can I have your number? I'm like, okay What do we have in common? Let me let me think about how I can how I can work this so that I can talk to you Well, whatever it worked out because here we are three kids later. Yeah on a YouTube channel. Yep That happened Alright, so this is a good one. Um, do you think That we'll stay married for sure without a doubt. Why are you so confident? I just know it Like, you know how you know stuff like in your bones. You just know it Just one of those things maybe like 10 years down the road. Do you think things will be good though between us? Of course Yeah, listen marriage is hard. So like, you know, there are ups and downs, but that's honest We'll be married and we'll love each other. Let's have a wonderful family. That's sweet. I kind of already answered that This is a good one. And I think this might be one of our last questions What do you actually know about the work that I do like what do you do a good one Do you know what I do for a living like at work the kind of things that I do Okay, well, if you'd asked me that before the pandemic when you were working at home I would have been like I have no clue what my husband goes off and does all day Like he could be have like a whole second life And I wouldn't know it because I just have no clue speaking up. I have a second family three other children, right? but But I will say now, you know post pandemic when you work at home Mm-hmm. I have a little bit more of a clue into what you do because I hear your meetings And you know that kind of thing, right? Um, what do I do then? Yeah, so I would say Clearly you work with numbers. Okay In what capacity what how do I write? So There's a lot of healthcare involved. Correct. I work. Yeah, very good in healthcare want to know the data behind Who's getting procedures and what kind of procedures and like that kind of thing And so you guys do as I imagine they're like, you know The the like person behind the curtain and Oz like doing all the like number crunching. It's a terrible metaphor There's a terrible way to like imagine it. That's not yeah Like you guys are like behind there like doing your number crunching and then sending it back Sure Out there and then people use that information for all kinds of things On a very on a very very small scale that is accurate Yeah, so I mean you kind of you you kind of understand a little bit about what I do. I I can tell yeah You understand I work in healthcare I work with number eight and I I take that information. I send it back to them in some way shape or form It's a lot of detail oriented stuff though I will say and that's probably why I've like glossed over a lot of that Yeah, um because again, I don't care about the details of that But I know that you guys work will you work within a team? Let's you know, let's clarify that you have a team that you work with Um, and you guys work with a lot of detailed information lots of spreadsheets and uh systems sure why not System all the systems Sequel what's important about sequel sequel is important sequel is very important guys If I have gathered any information it's that sequel is important You watched some of my videos, haven't you? No, I don't watch any of your videos, babe Are you for real? I've watched like one or two, but I see you make them so I don't need to watch them any I legitimately have been telling people that you've watched my videos. So I thought you did No, I've watched like one or two of them I am hurt I legitimately thought you watched I listen to you make them So I don't feel like because I know what you're saying Okay, all right. Well, I've watched a couple of them. Well, um Let's wrap it up there before my feelings get get too hurts Um, we're at the very end. I'm looking at the time. I don't have much time. Okay. So what I want to say is You've been my you're my first guest ever on the show. That's exciting. So thank you. Yeah Thank you for joining me for being willing to do this to putting yourself out there as the the wife to This person that people watch online Give a little bit more humanity to me instead of just that robot or that clone as one person wrote In the comments and out. So now I feel like they know me better. And that's a good thing At the end of the I normally have a question of the week and I I didn't I didn't do that because I wanted to focus mostly on this At the end of each show though, and I can't I can't gloss over this part at the end of every show I choose Um a keyword that they can comment below a vegetable Could be a vegetable could be a shape a place. Um, it has thus far all even vegetables And so I would like you to choose Preferably a vegetable. It doesn't have to be I mean, I feel like I should stick with that You could it has been in like seven episodes straight a vegetable that they can type below To show that they watched all the way to here now They care about me as a person and as a human not just as someone who can give them information Um and make their careers better, which I can But I I have a life. I am a person and I I have feelings as one I want them the people who watched to this point It proves to me that those specific people care about me as a human and not just as someone to boost their career So what what should they comment below? Well, then I think this is good. I'll give them a little taste of uh, What we we have like one minute. Okay I don't know if you're gonna have to go on a tangent. No, I'm not. We are wrapping up. Okay We have a garden in our yard. Correct. And we just recently grew a whole batch of carrots Good one. Good for your eyesight. Good for the channel and um That's gonna if you Comment below carrots and also comment below the best Thing that you liked about my having my wife on the channel Comments about the most interesting thing you learned about me. I'm curious because you know, maybe something that I found Interesting was not interesting to you something you found interesting about me that you know my The people who watched my videos have never seen So Thank you for watching. Thank you for joining me. You guys have been amazing and I'll see you next week. Goodbye