A Candid Interview with Candace Cameron Bure on The Open Door Sisterhood Podcast with Alex & Krista.

hi Candace we are so so excited to have you on today thank you so tell us where you are are you in LA right now no I'm in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada and I'm shooting my new Christmas movie right now that'll be on Hallmark Channel on November 25th and what's that called it's called a shoe addicts Christmas oh so fun and most of hallmark is in Canada right like they feel in Canada we film the majority of the movies in Canada but they're not all done in in Canada some are done in the States and they've done some elsewhere in exotic places as well but yeah some of the just the affordability and the tax breaks that we get it kind of works out best so that's why they shoot a lot of them in Canada yeah it's so great well I follow when calls the heart I love and that's in Canada too okay so how do you do this logistically are you do they have an apartment for you there that you're at on a regular basis it's like how do you do the travel I'm in a hotel so I'm here for three weeks shooting this little over three weeks but no I'm just a hotel hopper I've learned to live out of a suitcase I actually don't spend much time in the hotel because I'm working 16 17 hours a day so I basically come to sleep and it's just part of my life I'm used to it and but of course I you know the only other place that actually had an apartment and was when I was on the view and in New York I was commuting full-time you know commuting every week from LA to New York so then I had an apartment in New York but when I do these movies even though I can be because I have a on hallmark movies and mysteries Channel I have my Aurora Teagarden mystery series and so I I will be in Vancouver for virtually for months and but I still just live out of a hotel yeah Cooper is an awesome to be though if you have to be somewhere yes it's very beautiful it rains a little too much for my liking fine yeah it's gorgeous and and the people are wonderful all of Canada is wonderful so I'm never unhappy being here mm-hmm now is your husband Canadian he's not he's a Russian oh so tell us about him and how you met because I obviously only know a little bit about him and it has to do with his previous job but how did the two of you meet we met at a charity hockey game I was 18 he was 20 years old he was this really handsome very blond-haired blue-eyed hockey player that had just come to North America and he was playing in a charity game that I was invited to by a mutual friend and we were introduced and and that was he you know the cute thing about it is that he and his brother Pavel who are very well known hockey players both retired right now but NHL players and they learned English by watching full house when they came to North America so he'd only been in the States for two years before he met me and I was a big part of his introduction to America or North America I should say and it's kind of it's a pretty cute story but he asked me out on a date and the very next day we went to lunch and the rest is history we've been married 22 years and we have three kids Natasha Levin max who are 20 18 and 16 years old but it's it's been a wild ride because you got married young right yeah I he was really my first boyfriend so I was 18 when I met him and I was married at 20 and then we started our family I was 22 when I had Natasha so are you a dual language family did your kids learn two languages growing up no unfortunately they didn't we tried but I don't speak Russian I tried to take lessons for about and it was so difficult we at the time we were living and just to make more excuses for myself we were living in Montreal that's where he was playing for the Canadians so it was a predominantly french-speaking city so I was trying to learn Russian from a French speaking russian sprut yes the teacher only spoke French and Russian no English so I didn't it was very difficult and I kind of gave up but when you don't have two parents that speak the same language that they're trying to teach their children that is very difficult so five years into it Val tried to only speak Russian to our kids and then he's like I'm over it I'm just I'm really way too frustrated and I couldn't help him because I didn't speak Russian so unfortunately my kids are not bilingual and Val gave it his best effort but couldn't hang so talk to us about what it's like because you're in the middle of the letting go years of parenting so what's that like for you how's that going it's going really well it's sad and heartbreaking at times I feel like we don't talk about the letting go that much or maybe it's not as exciting because when we're new parents we talked so much about all the new stuff and the baby stuff in the toddler and even the tween but but not as much of the letting go and I get it they're young adults but it's like it's hard it's hard I mean you do have some kids that you're like yes please please go please go and do it but it you've poured everything that you have into these people and then you just have to let them fly and it's like you know it's really sad so I'm we are in the middle of that I will probably be an empty-nester within two years and but it's already started that we have one that's out of the house now and but it's been wonderful I have to tell you as as a mom like the teen years really have been my favorite and I don't hear as many people say that I loved when they were younger and there are a lot of days that I wish I could have a do-over with their younger years but I think being such a young mom myself I was frazzled and as well as many of us are but there is a difference if you're a mom in your 30s or 40s having your children versus having them in your early 20s I was still fit trying to figure out who I was so it was the harder years were the younger years were a little it's not that they were so hard but I didn't have the ability to enjoy it as much because I didn't have the patience that I do now and so I loved the teen years because I feel like I just I haven't I'm in a relationship with these three people and I get to help them and then hear their hearts and listen to their thoughts and opinions and they give me perspective and I just love the dialogue that we have and there are lots of ups and downs in teen years but man they've been so enjoyable for me well that is encouraging I think for moms to hear and it also sounds like you are letting go in the relationship and that's part of what makes the relationship enjoyable because you're not trying to control you are moving from parent to peer although probably it will never feel like peer but you're allowing them to be the right yeah well agreed I'm trying I'm trying my best and I have loved seeing that development over the years and that has been a lot of my mindset in my parenting that it's not I mean I I want to teach them everything I know and that's valuable but in the effort that knowing that they're gonna leave and take it away and hopefully gain from that whether it's their confidence or their talent their families whatever I just want to give them the best foundation to and tools so that they they will serve themselves well when they leave me and so in that sense I feel good about the parenting that I've done not that it's been perfect it certainly hasn't and I've you know there's lots of things that I could have one have wanted to do over but I do feel confident because my perspective is always like this is for you to take away because I know you're not gonna be with me forever talk to us about some of the things you've done to create just family unity and family strength do you feel like um yeah I guess I mean just open it in a question in that way I mean it could just be you know late-night talks or whatever nothing like formal but I think a lot of people see you as in what you do and is a really full-time working mom but you also maintain this really amazing family and family dynamic how how have you done that intentionally well parenting has been so important for for me and my husband and so I don't like I give him so much credit because of course you know every every person in every marriage or relationship is different but he is such a such a glue holder in our family and family means as much to him as it does to me so we have been so intentional about spending time with our children and doing everything that we can as a family and supporting one another so if one child is doing something the other kids are a part of it whether they want to be or not because they don't but it's like this is what family is we support one another and we've continually done that and made it a priority in our life and at the same time it's not about being a cool parent so don't get me wrong but I feel like we've given our children enough flexibility and understanding that we're always going to be a parent first and we're always going to teach them but their opinions and their thoughts and their dreams are never to be discounted and they're not necessarily wrong if even if they don't line up with ours but hey let's have a conversation about it and let's talk it through so we've tried to create as much openness with our kids so that they feel they feel comfortable and confident enough within themselves to be able to say hey mom and dad like I don't I don't think that's right or I don't agree with you and it's like okay well let's talk about it and it's not about being right or wrong but I want we've always wanted to have this open discussion and and I feel like that's created an environment for my kids that it's not that we're cool parents but they want to be around us because we respect them as people not and it's not about who's right and who's wrong and I'm gonna rule over you because I'm your parent and you're the child but at the same time yes I'm going to parent you when something is absolutely not right or wrong or I'm going to direct you morally you know but at the end of the day it's still your decision so that requires a lot of listening which just sounds like you do a lot of we do we try to sometimes I admit I do way too much talking my kids are like lalala fingers and ears going mom you've repeated that ten times I'm like well I just want to make sure you know it yeah well this idea of confidence is reflected in your new children's book that is coming out can you talk to us about this book and why you decided to right it and why you decided on this message well it has always been a dream of mine to write a children's book for 20 years this is my seventh published book but it's my first children's book and it's the first one I ever wanted to write not that I didn't want to write the other six that I did but it's just I am so giddy over writing a children's book it means has made me so happy it truly is a dream come true in that sense and so I wanted to just write fun stories for all children and their parents grandparents aunts and uncles whoever to read together because it really was one of the most one of the most pleasures I took in as a mother was to read to my children when they were younger I have loved books I've loved illustrations I've loved the world a book can create and it helps our children use their imagination and that's why I've always wanted to be a part of that of the book world and then writing specifically to children and I think as parents it if you're maybe not a performer or as confident it is a place that maybe your child could see a little different exposed part of you that maybe you wouldn't want a necessary necessarily show your friends or it's just it's not as comfortable but you can always do that with your child because your child's not gonna judge you a four-year-old isn't gonna say like I mean they might but they're really if you're just reading them a story and you use a silly voice or you actually in the inflection of your reading like it's something special so even as a parent you you just get something out of reading with your children and this little this book is about Candice and you know she's not necessarily me exactly but a combination of parts of me in my childhood but also the experiences that I have learned with my own children and as a mother and she's a very she's a confident little girl that is a little strong-willed and and yet she doesn't know everything that she thinks she knows so well so this book is teaching her to work hard and not be afraid to try something new but when the going gets rough you keep working at it and it's okay to fail but at the end of the day we're always going to be kind to one another and and and be confident and not let fear hold us back so there's all these themes in this very simple beautifully illustrated book but I just I love it that she's really her own individual person and yet there are times when we don't ever want to take that away from ourselves or take that away from our children but but at the same time we might have to fit into a mold in the sense that we're taking a ballet class so we have to all learn how to do it together we need to learn how to work together and we have to respect people that maybe have a different process in the way that they learn it and even if it's hard you're gonna keep you're gonna follow through till the end and you don't have to be the best in everything but you got to try that's what the books all about well it certainly is an engaging story in the illustrations as you said are adorable so for Christmas coming up and any mom of girls and boys to would like this book but as a mom of four girls I thought it was just the most adorable thing ever and I have a dancer in my house oh good the dancing portion of the story just really was very relatable and I think you're right it has these lessons that can be transferred to life and so I'm excited for our listeners to get their hands on it thank you me too Candace this seems like this book takes all the themes of your life and it's all into a children's book like you know about who you are in your story like the things that you said that exactly how I see you and your journey so that is amazing and so fun to get it in like a different way than your other books I love that this is like a new medium but I also think it just reflects who you are and I would love to talk about the concept of doing hard things because that is something I see in you that I personally am very inspired by I mean you went on the view which was a very really hostile environment for someone who maintains some different views than the other hosts you recently directed at fuller house and you know you just continued you went on Dancing with the Stars and those are all hard things so my first question would be how do you discern what to say yes to and how do you kind of push through fear well there's I'm a really big dreamer I have been dreaming my whole life but writing it all down of the things I would love to do and I know that as I've gotten older especially fears creep up because you get into your own habits you know what works for you you decide on how what you think you can and can't do so it gets harder to push through the fear the older you get but I I think I'm an adventurer into an extent because I really do love the thrill of a new challenge but one of the biggest lessons I've learned in my life is to not be afraid to fail I'm so grateful for that lesson and it's just been a hard one over to learn over the years and it's only been because of time that I've been able to learn it so knowing that I've you know having supportive people that have encouraged me and pushed me through my life has also been a really huge a huge help and step in being able to you know get out of my comfort zone but because I've taken a few risks and some have worked out really well some happened it's shown me that I'm capable of more than I can really imagine and yet I have all confidence - that if God is opening up different doors I don't walk through every single one of them because there's different measures that I will line it up against to see and discern whether that's an opportunity for me to take or walk through and sometimes may not necessarily be a bad one but maybe the timing or season of my life I feel is not right so I'll close that door oh gosh I hate when I start rambling and then I lose track of what else I feel like senior moment but I just I've had enough people you know push me along the way and then learn that I would so much rather take these risks and fail at it than never know what I'm capable of or being able to go back into my prayer journal and mark a check like oh my goodness I've been praying about this for 10 years or 20 years and like God just brought this opportunity to me and doesn't even matter if it works out I've it's something I've dreamt about and I prayed about and here it is I can do it and I'm gonna try it or go for it and that to me is amazing and it's not to say that God's a magical genie that makes our dreams come true it's not that's not what I'm talking about but I loved I loved being able to put the focus back on him of like God you knew my heart you've heard my prayers for so long and the fact that you are opening a door right now and it might look really scary because I prayed for that 10 years ago and I'm 10 years older and I'm just more scared about it now I'm like but you're just faithful and knowing that you hear me and you love me and I just I want my life to be meaningful and it's not just about the things that I do but being able to bring it back to the glory of God and just I don't know he's just so much bigger than I am so if I'm not willing to take the risk I don't think that I can see the totality of his greatness hmm you know it's interesting no that's great I was waiting to see if alex is gonna jump in so I paused there but so when you talk about that 10 years I know you had 10 years where you kind of stepped away from your career and you focused on your family and your husband was playing professional hockey at that time and do you feel like that God has taken you into seasons of rest and no young parenting years is not rest but in a different way you know what I'm saying it's like absolutely just a time off from your career and then taught you things in that time in order to kind of propel you into a different season and that you're in now how do you feel like that time shaped where you are I guess is my question when I decided to put my career aside and be a full-time stay-at-home mom which was at 22 years old right when I had Natasha that time was quite scary in in that I've always had so many dreams and I've wanted to work I love what I do for a living but also knew that I wanted to stay at home and raise my children and as hard as those years were and coming to the point of surrendering to motherhood I mean that took several years just to surrender to motherhood like this is what I want to do and feel okay and and that I was still a worthy person even though I wasn't out working I mean there's so many different phases of that that I could talk about but I'll jump ahead in saying God literally molded me into the woman I am today and prepared me to where I'm at in the workplace by staying home not only with my children but really with him for those 10 years and not that I'm not with him anymore I'm here like God's with me every single day but he just changed and I I would not have spent the time with God that I did had I not put my career aside and decided to be a stay-at-home mom because I could probably have always found accolades in my job I could pry I could have depended on other people within my job I could have always found someone else aside from God to keep pushing me career eyes as a mother and as a family there were days where God was the only one I could rely on the only one I could talk to the only one I could have a conversation with the only one that I could find my my heart or or even to be reprimanded in the most loving way as a as a woman or a wife or a monk or whatever I needed and I never had that kind of relationship until I had the time to invest it in which was during those years I decided to stop working and be full-time stay-at-home mom and so I clearly I know that once I decided to go back to work I was a woman very much changed and had a completely different outlook going back into the work field with eyes set on my work as a mission field not about long list of resume credentials or awards or money not that those aren't all wonderful things I'll tell you I enjoy all of those things and I'm super proud of those things and I love providing for my family in that way but that's not the goal totally right totally I mean it's it's all in perspective right and really glorifying God and putting him first and then whatever else comes is great but as long as it's in that order right so talk to us about so I feel like your voice in the world is really different and really unique one of the things I think when maybe a person doesn't feel like they hold similar viewpoints okay so let's let's take the example of you on the view okay obviously you have really different viewpoints and the other hosts on there a lot of people they say yes I can be kind I can be I can sit in this and listen but they then wouldn't have a voice in it you know what I'm saying how have you found your voice both in your work and in the world and yet maintained this kindness and this gentleness and as patience in the midst of it well I really believe that practice that kindness is practiced and I think the more we practice it the easier it is I don't think that we by nature are kind people I think some of us have softer more pliable hearts were more sensitive than others they're all up to all of those things but by nature we're we're selfish people if that's that's our human condition so kindness must be taught and then practice but it gets easy and easier the more that you do it and it eventually really does become natural to each and every one of us and so I can I can say that I that I am the way I am and respond the way I do because I've intentionally thought about it and continue to think about it and practice those decisions even when it's difficult and I I even talk about very simple steps in my book kind as the new class II like I will take a deep breath before I respond to someone especially when it's heated I need to take a minute sometimes I need I need to just pray right there and I'm not talking about going into a corner and like leaving the situation to go pray but to literally just whether it's in my mind of saying god I need you to give me words right now and tell me and give me words to respond in a way that would be honoring and pleasing to you and so that's all been practiced and now I'm forgetting like okay so we're talking about you finding your voice and be like losing your voice but still maintaining kindness yes so again right it's still the point of that was that you you practice kindness and it becomes easier the more you do it but being kind never means that that you're not strong it doesn't mean that you have to sit back in and and take it or you become a doormat that you don't have a voice you can be strong and kind and strong and respectful and strong and I'm sorry I'm saying strong you can be kind and strong and kind and respectful and kind and confident and be kind and still know what you want and ask for it kindness doesn't mean that you have to be a pushover and I've learned that too and I know that I mean God says ask and you shall receive so I asked God I asked God for whatever it is that I need and it's not necessarily tangible things but it's god I need patience I'm asking for it I need a kind word to give to this person I need a softer heart because I'm angry right now and I've learned to ask in that God wants us to do that and that can in turn become kind back to other people and kindness has a ripple effect but overall in general I want to be able to have conversations with people that are I really want to hear other people and like you said it can be easy to listen to other people but not be brave enough to use your voice but I guess I've just tried over the years and continue to try to find that balance and really being on the view gave me that opportunity because I had to speak up I had no choice that was my job but I never wanted to become angry passionate yes angry no and I wanted to really hear other people and say well you know it if I don't have that life experience I want to listen to you so you can shed some light under why I don't understand your point of view or I have a such a different point of view and that may allow me to then have empathy or compassion for a circumstance or situation that I just don't understand because that's not how I grew up or I'm not in that's not my reality of life that's somebody else's but I've just I've just learned that it's a better way I want to I want the glass half-full I want to be positive and I enjoy being around people who are and if the person I'm around isn't that way then I want to be the one who is I always even tell my children this if someone isn't kind to you be the person you would have hoped they would have been to you you be that person cuz if not you then who and that's kind of what my outlook is so we have to keep using our voice but it never ever has to be disrespectful and so part of that is controlling our own emotion in it right and really grabbing on to the fruit of the Spirit right which is self-control and kindness and patience and gentleness you know all of those things that we need when we are in a heated discussion I mean we have a hard enough time being at the dinner table in the hot seat you know let alone on national TV like you were not seeds and so I just think it is something we have to go into knowing that on our own we're going to resort to the negative right so we have to be prayed up and really come with humility and ask God to give us those things in those moments right it's kind of that grace or the moment yeah so do you feel like you did that every day before the show I tried my best to I mean prayed up yes I would not leave my apartment without having been flat on my face on the floor praying to God I would pray the armour of God every single morning I mean I still do but that's that was so specific to me during that time on the view because I I genuinely felt like I needed like my battle gear on to go to work every day as much as I loved I truly genuinely loved the people I work with not only at the table and I I genuinely loved them and but but all the other people that were behind the scenes all the producers all the writers all the like I loved them but that show in itself just felt like a war zone because it it didn't end at the show it continued on through social media and media and news outlets taking every word that you said and in my opinion twisted a lot of them into what they wanted to write or how they wanted to portray me and so it just felt like a daily fight but yes prayed up a hundred percent and having continually continual talks throughout the day with God like that's what I do I get called out all the time from people they're like who you talking to Candace are you talking to because I just talk to myself all the time sometimes out loud it's really embarrassing but really I'm just talking to God but they're like oh yeah I was doing that the other day and I'm like okay this couple probably thinks I'm crazy I better go silent on this one brain I was literally like talking to God about something I also being an actress I have a lot of lines to learn so sometimes script is going through my head and sometimes I'm literally just I'm sitting there but I'm running over my lines and my whole entire life my children always like mom are you doing lines right now we're talking to God like which one I'm just sitting there looking like a crazy person mumbling out loud to myself but they know it's one or the other that's cute that's a very unique to you probably yes well I will say Candace as someone who doesn't watch the view regularly but I saw some of the backlash that you received and would watch clips and then how people responded to it I think it was really inspiring to so many women around the country that you were speaking a message that was different then maybe other voices around the table that particular day or just other voices that we hear culturally and you did such a great job I thought of really articulating a different viewpoint with thoughtfulness and with kindness and that you represented a segment of the population that maybe doesn't feel like they have a lot of people speaking on their behalf and so I think a lot of our listeners would really identify as that and so I'm just saying thank you on their behalf and I might be thank you I appreciate that very much you said something interesting Candace you said you talked about earlier in our interview just a support system and that's one thing we really cheer like here on the sisterhood we're kind of all about let's cheer lead each other let's let's support each other let's before each other and then you go and do amazing things cuz we're we're gonna be your like section behind you saying go do this you're awesome and that's so much a part of the heart of the open door sisterhood and I'm wondering is your extended family a part of that for you who is who are those people for you yeah so I I mean I have my core family obviously which when my family includes my parents who are incredibly supportive in some and in people that I talk to every day that are well not every day but really get to knowing that they have they have wisdom and people I can count on to speak truth in love to me but then I also have I have a really great core group of friends that we are accountable to one another and speak wisdom into each other's lives and encouragement and those are Bible study friends and my best friend and you know people that just I know our will be honest and truthful but also not necessarily emotional in the sense that if it's a hard truth they will come from a good and right perspective and not just based on feelings at the moment because it's sometimes really easy especially as friends to just we want to feel compassionate and understand the situation but in that there often times when sometimes you just hear advice that we know isn't the right advice because we want to have more sympathy than be truthful about what we could or should encourage our friends to do and then I'll really I have such a great small group of people that I work with that I have been with for 20 years so I know especially in the entertainment industry people are like oh I want to thank my managers of my agents and it just sounds like such this obscure whatever but I have found people that I've literally been working with for 20 years because we trust one another and we really are a team and I don't know that career-wise I would be where I am without them because they are in the same way those people behind the scenes that understand me and and the bigger picture of things and are willing to tell me like it's okay or take or you don't need to do this it's not worth it we're not after the money or the recognition for you we care about you first that's why those relationships have worked for so long and I haven't needed to find other ones because they're the real deal people I work with I imagine that's rare in that industry it's very rare and the coolest part is I so often hear from people that I work with that are other producers or press agents the owee they tell me so often you're people and I'm sorry for that like a just obscure phrase of saying you're people but it's like your people are so nice and so kind and so good at what they do they represent you so well and that is the best compliment I can hear is that my my team we all we all regard one another or with so much respect and you you want to you want to hear that like it makes me so proud to be a part of them it's awesome okay so I do want to hear about this 50 push-ups a day thing we can't end the interview without talking about that because this is awesome and I'm joining you from this point forward so fantastic that's exciting well I love working out and I love fitness and so I have a trainer Kira Stokes she's in New York I don't really get to train with her in person very often anymore but we talk almost every day and sometimes FaceTime trained but we started at in January this year 2018 to do 50 pushups a day and if you do that for 360 days you will have done 18,000 push-ups in 2018 so we're like that's just fun just fun numbers something fun to do it strengthens eyes it keeps us healthy you can do it anywhere all you need is the floor or a table if you can't do them on the floor you know what I mean you can do push-ups in a variety of different ways but we just thought it was a fun little challenge so we have the Candace and Kiera 18k push-up challenge I love it so awesome how do you make time for exercise and what do you do for exercise I know how much exercise makes how much better it makes me feel so it's really become it's it's a priority in my life so I make time because it's important to me it also is incredibly important for my mental health so more than the physical of my body and staying lean or in shape and athletic which I really do love those things but I've actually found that I love them much later in my life I didn't really love them as a teen or even in my 20s I didn't really start enjoying Fitness until my 30s but from a mental as mental health aspect it is my biggest stress reliever and I know that sometimes I can't get through my day unless I I get all that I'm shaking me or my head right now yet the endorphins but like all the crazy out of my husband crazy yeah yeah I need the crazy out and it really is what exercise does releasing the endorphins but it can give you a calmness so I've learned that instead of going to whatever other coping mechanisms that some people can go to exercise is what helps me the best and and I can do that anywhere so anyway it's it's just become important for many many reasons and I enjoy it cuz I feel better when I do that and so my workouts everything it's very different depending on where I'm working and what my schedule is so there's nothing consistent about it except for the sense that I do it you know it looks different almost every day certainly every week and every month because if I'm shooting fuller house then I'm living at home in LA I'm working at Warner Brothers Studios I have a great gym to go workout in and I can do all kinds of strength training weight training cardio all of that I can take classes I like taking Pilates and spin classes and and Barre classes and I like being around other people that motivates me too I love having a buddy to workout with and if I don't have a buddy I still go out and do it and that's what classes come in but when I'm on the road like I am now I there is a gym at the hotel but it's very small so I bring my own equipment that I know is the basics so I have my jump rope with me I have some of my small stretchy bands that if you follow me on Instagram or Facebook I posted those videos but they're little you know they cost $2 for these stretchy bands and I can get an incredible workout from them right in my hotel room and I always talked about working in my workout it's not about working out it's about working it in so even if it's ten minutes here or 10 minutes there I do this set it's I promise you it's not obsessive work it in because I don't have that I don't have time to workout while I'm shooting these movies I'm working 16 to 17 hour days every day and so I can't even get I'm too exhausted to have 30 minutes or an hour at the gym so every morning shooting this movie while I'm brushing my teeth and I have an electronic toothbrush that brushes for 2 minutes so for 2 minutes I'm doing squats I'm working it in tears that and then it's like I get my 10 little push-ups here 10 push-ups there and that's maybe what I do through for the whole day and that might last one month of that kind of exercise plan but that's how I worked it in and then when I have the time and can go for an hour at the gym I will but anyway that's awesome like to do it I love it and I subscribe to the motto that something is better than nothing so that fits that fits with one of my life motto is there yes and I here let me say this though because as much as I love it and I'm an encourage are of health and fitness and taking care of your body oh I have so many moms that ask me they're like well how did you do it when your kids are little and I don't have time and it's so hard and and I just I'm like if you have little little little x' at home I'm like don't worry about working out go walk with your baby take your baby in the stroller go walk go to the park go down the slides with them I'm like get activity in with your children but please like don't don't worry about getting an hour in at the gym unless that is that important to you by all means please do it but like don't let just the media or you looking at some other mom I'm like I'm 42 and I have grown children that drive all right like I'm not worrying about putting them in a daycare or finding a babysitter so that I can go work out just remember what season of life you're in and that's okay your fitness doesn't have to be your priority when you have little little little invest your time in your littles that is a good word Candace it's very very encouraging I think yeah okay well we're going to end our interview on just a few fun questions that we want to know about you so Candace what are some things you could not live without I've said this before but my micro bleeding I'm micro bladed eyebrows okay talk to us about that okay so I don't have many eyebrows I don't have many hairs on my eyebrows and it's not because I over pluck them I am really a blonde and I have very thin almost non-existent eyebrows so I would have to paint them on basically every morning and now I got the micro blade in which it lasts about a year and it's like they it's like semi-permanent they draw in little eyebrows and but it's not tattooed right it's like a semi-permanent form like a tattoo in the sense but it's like a little blade that they use and then there is ink on it so I it is like saved my life I won't live without this forever and ever because I it saves me time in the morning because I don't have to paint eyebrows on because I don't feel like a human being without my eyebrows I love this and what else could I not live without I feel like there's a million things but I I I don't know I couldn't live without my like rosebud chapstick cuz I need my lips to always be moist what are what's a rosebud chapstick I know chap sticks actually a brand it's rosebud lip balm or Sal but okay it's in the little tin like a little pretty to open it up and I just like it but I need moist lips I love it okay what about a family tradition favorite family tradition so we go to the farmers market every Sunday as long as we're in town but we've been doing that with our kids and we go for breakfast before church since they were born so the same farmers market in Santa Monica for 20 years and I actually recently had posted a picture I have them when my kids were probably two four and six or three five and seven something like that sitting and then took a picture of them just this last year they kind of recreated the photo sitting at the same spot but that's how long we've been going there and it probably is one of my favorite family traditions because it's if that's just what we do and go go have breakfast at the farmers market and gather our groceries for that day of what Sunday's just always been a big family day for us and my husband is an incredible chef and cooks so well so we get all the food for the day and then whatever friends and family are gonna come over sometimes people don't come over on Sunday but that's like always our stay at home and it starts with the farmers market oh that's so great and the teenagers actually get up for it yes well it's good food they want the breakfast boys you can tempt them with I mean food wins always that's my point that's a good point Candace okay what about you that's like good mom advice if you have teens to like you and their friends to like you be the mom to always have a full fridge or go buy whatever food they want like pay for the pump or the football team or the baseball team or the cheerleading squad or the whatever it is just be like up food at my house foot at my house only theirs will run to your house uh-huh there's just words of wisdom spoken right here okay last question and this goes along with the farmers market and food favorite family recipe or just a couple that you love well see we have a favorite recipe but I can't share it just mention it though mention what it is it's my mom's they're my mom's chocolate chip lace cookies oh and there are only four of us and the family that make them so uh my mom still makes them quite often she actually brings them every other week to fuller house she bakes them for the entire crew and she yeah she did for a full house when I was on it back in the day and she did it for my brother show growing pains back in the day and now that we're on fuller house my mom is still baking the cookies but it went down to every other week because she's like I'm just too tired to be every week she said I'm gonna bake them once a month and I was like mom do not come to my show if you don't show up with cookies I was like you can't this is wrong I will okay every other week mom but not once a month I can't handle that I love that she's so she's so cute and it's so awesome she does those but I also bake those cookies and my kids love them and and then I would say that the other I guess family recipe which is kind of really cool but we have a pizza oven in our backyard because my husband's a really good chef and he so we make pizzas by scratch and cook them in that oven but they're just yummy and kind of those gourmet and it's whatever you want it to be but it's one of our favorites as a family because my husband's Russian and this is actually more Georgian but it's uh it's called Hachi Pootie and it's bred with an egg like almost a very soft yolk inside and cheese all around so you kind of tear off the bread and then dip it into that egg with the cheese so we it's Hachi booty in our pizza oven or kind of like a pizza but my goodness it's so good and my kids go crazy over it and that's what is that a breakfast lunch or dinner pretty much I mean I don't know in the Russian culture or Georgian culture which when they eat it more for but I've certainly had it at dinnertime but I mean egg and bread and cheese yeah that's in any time of the day doesn't what time of day you can eat that so great well Candace this has been absolutely delightful to have you on today thank you so much it's an honor oh you're so welcome thanks for having me and thanks for not caring what I look like either you are beautiful inside and out and truly I mean we mean that from the bottom of our hearts you are a beautiful woman who is reflecting Christ in the world and we're all cheering you on so keep going appreciate it thank you you guys were lovely this was really fun so ok bye Candace I have a great day you too bye

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Published: Fri Jun 12 2020