 I'm an everyday woman, woman, woman, in every way, yeah, yeah, I'm living my life, life, living day by day. Welcome to Every Way Woman. There are some major changes happening in the talk show world. Live from Los Angeles, here's Every Way Woman. Welcome back to Every Way Woman. So I was talking to our producer, Yolanda, the other day, and she was saying to me, it is so hard to be a woman. Yeah, I see it all over your face. But I mean, okay, so yeah, it might be hard to look like this. This is Yolanda's new cover. How many hours did it take you to look like this? Well, I did it and I did makeup so quick. But my whole, you know, opinion about it is look at my face. Women have to put on makeup. I mean, I don't know how long it takes. Sometimes it takes a woman to get ready in two hours. Well, for me, I'm just an eyeliner kind of person, so it takes me two minutes. But there's all these expectations of women generally in our culture to not only maintain our faces, in our hair, in our nails, in our skin. That's a lot of work and it's expensive. Yes. But I think, yes, you're absolutely right. And then there's on top of that, which is self-care, then there's care for the family. If you have kids and there's care for your parents. If, you know, if you have parents that need taking care of them, there's care for the husband or boyfriend if you're married or dating someone. See, that'd be the caretaker. And look good. Well, in fact, that's all the work, guys. And if you are caring for someone and they want you to look good while you're caring for them. Absolutely. I mean, I actually dated a young man once very briefly, I might add. Because briefly. That's intentional because he basically, after we've been dating a few months, he communicated what he was looking for in a wife. Now, one of the reasons he was attracted to me was because, you know, I'm educated, I'm intelligent, you know, I have multiple graduate degrees. That's something that drew him to me. And then when he turned around and told me what his expectations were for his wife, he basically wanted the madman treatment. I mean, he specifically said, I want her to greet me with a drink when I come home. We went to a function and his friend's wife brought the husband a plate. Wow. Look at such and such. It would be, it sure would be nice if I could get a plate. And so he wanted, and he let me know that his plan for housework included gardening and cars. Okay. I love the ground with the ring and the plate though. Well, you know what? I don't have a problem with it because quite frankly, I will fix my man a plate. No problem. But the way he was looking for, there was an expectation and it was the servitude, the level of servitude he was expecting because that built in with everything else. And I think that's part of what's happening now in society as well is that men want us to be everything because they're like, wow, wow, you can, you say you can be everyone or we'll be everything. Go out and work, get a career, be a mom. And by the way, you don't have any time to sleep because there's just no time in the day to do it all. And it's hard to do it all. Do you guys sleep? You don't. The mom. You know what? I tried to sleep. Like I got on my husband. I said, look, man, you want me to cook. You want me to clean, wash these kids and then do it to you. I mean, you know, I got a migrating that tonight, but you know what? And you got to do it with a smile on your face. Wait, I want to know. Yeah. Okay. Well, we're kind of on the topic. Is it true that married couples schedule sex? Yes. Yeah. Kids. Okay. Do you like to say Thursday? Thursday, you know it. You just hope something happens. I started dating someone regularly now and he has kids too. And I have kids. So we're only, we can only see each other every other weekend. You know what I do every other weekend. Right? I don't want to know. I don't want to know. I don't want to know. That's what you do. It takes a lot of work. I mean, you don't have kids and you even have to sleep. I don't sleep. You don't sleep at all. See, you don't sleep at all. That's how I was asking you. Do you guys sleep because, you know, the whole thing of perception is for me to have children and a family, I think being Latino, like one day I would want that now. But growing up, I never did. I never did. I mean, you can ask me the people that you met when I was eight years old. But like why, why even like, were you thinking no? Because it was just too much work. You know, I grew up in church. So I literally was a missionary. Oh, wow. So yeah. That's a lot of work. Not that much. My whole focus was, you know, just religion. Church, you know, stuff like just God, you know. And I'm not saying that I've lost God already. Like now. You can never lose. No. I think that you were being true to yourself. And sometimes women have pressure to have children and have a family. I agree that we can have that pressure put on us. You know, we'll get on my nerves though. We'll get on my nerves is the fact that I'm sleeping on the couch. And my kids, they know, like, because they come to work with me. They know mommy is sleeping. And they're like, ah, boom, boom. And I'm going to be like, oh, try to sleep. And then my husband can sleep on the couch. And they don't bother me. They don't bother me. He's just slobbing at the mouth. Nobody bothers him. But me, I get bothered with. I get told that I'm taking you to work. Ice cream. And then all of a sudden I'm still being harassed. But Cheryl, what about you? I mean, are you exhausted? Absolutely. I mean, yeah. The hours I work. Multiple degrees? Yeah. You know, I sleep now more than I'm finished with school, thankfully. But no, the hours I work, you know, I mean, I have to be at work at 7.30. And even though I leave at 5.30, you know, there's so much that I carry with me because a big part of what I do is solving people's problems. You know, that's not something you can just shut off at 5.30. And so that combined with, you know, life in general. You know, I think sometimes you can solve the world problems on a treadmill. That's what I try and do. We'll continue the conversation. We'll go back. Yeah, right. That's actually a good place to think. Very good place. We'll be back with everyday fitness. If you're enjoying this just as much as I am, then stay with us. We're going to be talking about morning yoga right here on Every Way Woman. Madison is here to help you get your morning started right with a perfect yoga routine. So what do I need to do? Because I definitely feel like I wake up and I'm go, go, go. And then I'm just like tired and stressed out. So what do I need to do to start my morning off right? Okay, well, we're going to start with a yoga chair. Having a seat. And you haven't quite moved your body just yet. Okay. All right. So we're going to sit again at the edge of the chair and engage the core. I started relaxing. You're already relaxing, meditating, breathing in through the nose out through the nose. So the first thing we're going to do is interlace the fingers. And as you inhale, look up. As you exhale, we're going to open up the hands and reach for the toes. No, not at all. I can reach for those toes. That's okay. You don't have to touch them. Just reach for them. Let your belly in. Let the head and arms hang and roll on up until your shoulders are really good. Yeah, until your shoulders are over your hips and fingertips up. Exhale, open up the hands. And again, reach for the toes. Let's go. Let's try to reach for those toes. Breathe in through the nose, out through the nose. Roll up. Reach up. How many times do we do this? Exhale, reach for the toes. About three or four times. Okay. Just enough to get your breath settled and getting into your body. Inhale, we're going to take the hands up and then the hands to the heart. So we always bring the hands to the heart and that kind of just reminds us to move the day with gratitude. So when you have gratitude in your heart, it really opens up your energy and brightens up your energy. That's beautiful. That really is. So we're going to take the right foot out and we're going to stick it out, toes up. Be careful of hyperextending the knee. So what you want to do is put a slight bend in the knee and you'll find that it opens up the lower back. Okay. And reach towards the toes or past the toes wherever it is that you go. You're going to find that. I'm close. I'm close. But some people really couldn't even do this bend. That's okay. You can use your hand on your knee. You can put your hand on the floor. But you want to think about reaching the top of the head towards the toes and keeping a slight bend in the back of the knee so that the lower back opens up. Okay. And are you keeping the back flat? Is that really important? No, it isn't. Okay. It's more natural. Okay. No, you're not really working something out really hard. So you want to focus about getting into your breath and thinking about lengthening. I'm going to be six feet tall any day now. Good. Roll it up. You're going to switch the other side just to make it even. Okay. But we're just going to take a couple of breaths here. Otherwise you'd be lap-sided. Yep. Okay. Tiny bend in the knee. Exhale. Go ahead and take that. Reach forward. Again, you can reach past the foot, towards the foot. You can use your hand on your knee for support. And you want to have just the tiniest bend. So you can lengthen your leg a little bit more. And you're probably going to feel that. Okay. Yeah. Where should I feel it? Most of the people will feel it here behind the back of the leg or into the calf. And if you have a really tight lower back, sometimes you'll feel it here in the lower back. So what a lot of people don't know is the lower back and the hamstrings are like an old married couple. They're like, they go together everywhere, but they're always fighting with each other. There's a lot of grumpyness back there. Good. So we're going to come on up. Pull the lower belly in. And roll it up. Go ahead and bring that foot back in. So that's one way to go ahead and get the day started. Another thing you might want to do is get a nice rotation in the spine. So we're going to inhale. Take the arms up. Take that right hand behind the chair. Left hand just on the outside of that right thigh. Good. Lift the chest up. Okay. Just for a breath. I'm going to finish off with the other side. Now can you hurt your back doing this? You can if you take that chair and crank your spine around. It's really just there for support. And you want to think about lifting that chest up. So you're not like pulling yourself with this arm. No you're not. You're just supporting yourself. Okay. Good. We're going to release. Inhale. Reach up. Exhale. Come to that other side. Good. Lower belly pulled in. Lift your chest up. Relax your shoulders. Is this mostly to just get the blood going and flowing or what are you trying to accomplish? Yeah. You want to get the blood flowing. You want to move that breath through your body. Kind of feel where you are in that body. And then we're going to finish. Inhale. Take the hands to your chest. And we're going to remember to move through the day with gratitude. With gratitude. I am so thankful. There's so many things to be thankful for. Yes. There are. So you just do a little pause there and just, is it a good time to think about your day or is it better to like just clear your mind and not think about anything? No. It's a great time to go ahead and meditate and where are you going to take your day into? Okay. That is a perfect routine because I really, I felt a lot looser already. And that's the whole point of it, right? Yes, it is. So do you have anything in particular that you'd like to work on? Well, you know, I definitely find in the morning, I need to stretch this area out. And it's the hardest area for me to stretch out. What do I do? Okay. So there's a couple of things that you can do that's really simple. Really quick because I only got two minutes here, or two seconds here. We'll catch it on the next time. Okay. How about that? Because I really need to concentrate on that. Okay. But I think we have a great routine here where you can wake up in the morning. It's not too strenuous, but you can really just relax and think about your day. And I loved how you were like, but thinking about what to be grateful for. And we're grateful for you watching from Every Way Woman. There's more to come with Every Way Woman. Tequila for breakfast. Mangy Rios is coming up next with her favorite French toast recipe. We're bringing the bar home. We have Mangy here from ADE Tequila. That's going to show us some simple, I'm so excited button. But, okay. ADE Tequila here with orange juice. Girl, I know there has to be a story. Yeah. You want to know how we went from tequila to breakfast? Yes, I do. Okay. So from all the different types of tequila, and Yeho has the most flavor. We wanted to make sure that we took that and incorporated some other flavors into it that people could enjoy that's different from your typical lime and salt. Everybody does lime and salt, but why not play around with breakfast? Who doesn't enjoy breakfast? It's the most important meal of the day. True. But the question is, do you actually drink this for breakfast? Can you? I would, but I'm just saying. You could? You could to eat your own. Definitely. Please, show us how. Okay. So there's two different ways you can do the French toast. One is as a shot and one is as a cocktail. So the shot is a shot of the Yeho. So we can pour one more here if you like. Okay. That's how good it smells. It doesn't matter how much or do you actually fill it up? I would go with the full shot. Why not? Okay. Okay. So you've got your shot. Then you're going to grab a wedge of orange. Do I do one too? Yes. A wedge of orange. But does it matter what kind of orange it is? Not really. We've actually done it with regular oranges. We've done it with blood oranges. So you can pretty much do it with whatever you prefer, but these are probably the best to go with. These are the ones that are in our recipes. So you can dip one side in the sugar. Okay girl. What is that? The whole thing. What is this? It's more for rimming glasses for different bars, setups and things like that. This one you can pick up at Total Wine and More. Anywhere. Okay. But it's great for getting different things on the rim of your glass or doing things like this where you can incorporate fruit and seasonings to your drinks. Okay. Okay. So you got sugar on one side and then you want some cinnamon on the other side and just shake it off because I don't think you want too much or it's going to get a little spicy. Try it. Try it too. So like one side like this and then one side like this. Oh, this is interesting. And you can also pre-mix the sugar with the cinnamon. Okay. So I'm going to go with the orange. Completely up to you. I just did it this way because it was simpler. So what you're going to do is you're going to take the shot. Oh no. You're in his way. I have Cheryl here with me. So you take the shot and then you try the orange. And it's going to give you a special flavor with the cake. How is it? Not good. So different from the lime and salt. I have a question though. Is there something that you can separate? Something that you can separate to the cinnamon with if you don't like cinnamon because I'm not a big cinnamon person, but is that what makes it like right? The cinnamon is kind of what makes it the French toast, but you can definitely incorporate other things. We do a lot of different things with fruit. Let's say if you want to spice it up, you could do the orange slice with some sardines. Sardines is really big right now. Exactly. And sardines got so many flavors. You could do that and you can do a shot. Who thought of this? I did. I have never been big on drinking straight liquor. I'll do it because it's in the moment. Yeah. Exactly. And so I needed something else. And I'm still not a fan of like a tangy lime. I needed something sweet. So the orange was throughout for me. Okay. So then that's the first one. Okay. So let's do the second one. So now we're going to make it as a drink. So we're going to rim our glass first. So we have some lime juice in here. You're just going to dip a little bit. Does it have to be lime juice? Or is it real lime juice? It is real lime juice. It's just, you could squeeze an actual lime into it. Yeah, like on the, okay. Or you can buy it pre-concentrated. And then you're just going to kind of twist it around here to get some sugar. And then you're going to twist in here a little bit. Just dab it because you've got a lot of cinnamon in there. Now you've got your friend. Wait for me. Go ahead. And then you dip it. And then you dip it. You did better than I did. Okay. So then we're going to get a little bit of ice. And then we're going to get some orange juice. I'm just guesstimating, but you probably want to go with about like three ounces depending on the size of your glass. And then we're going to take a shot. Pour that in there. And slice of orange for extra flavor. And you thought of this too, right? Well, it was another way to incorporate it, yes. I love it. I love it. All right. Your taster? I will remember my lines after. Well, girl, tier two will be back. Coming up next, more Every Way Woman. Are you an Every Way Woman? Being an Every Way Woman is being able to do it yourself. We got our favorite DIY expert here with us today. Yelena is showing us a few great tips on how to pretty up our houses. Well, simple ideas. Again, you could go to the OOPS department at Home Detail. What's the OOPS department? It's where people try to customize the color that they want, and it doesn't come out quite right. So they have to, instead of throwing it away, they put it off to the side to where it is just that color. So you can add some tins to it or just buy as is for whatever that price point is, which is a lot less than what typically the gallons go for. Perfect. I like to do things on the cheap. Yeah. So simple things you can do, things laying around the house. You have clear bottles. You could just fill it here with some paint, swish it around. You could fill it to where it's like a nice solid paint color. So this was clear. This was clear. And then all I did in here is just... Looks like you just bought it. Right off the shelf. Exactly. And it gives that nice sheen. The reason you want to do it on the inside versus the outside because it still gives that glass this nice sheen without making it dull-licky. Like you've done on this vase as well. Exactly. Tell us about these flowers. These flowers are just simple flowers that, you know, I found over at a Goodwill. Nothing too fancy, nothing too expensive. And you just toss it into the freshly made vase. But much cheaper than keeping fresh florals in the house. Exactly. Much cheaper. You do have to dust them every now and again, but you could switch them from vase to vase and it creates a nice floral impact. Thanks for keeping us chic and on the DIY for more great tips, check out www.everywaywoman.com. We'll be right back. The Horyway Woman gives back to the community. 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