Success, Struggles, and Sunshine with Mary Bonnet of “Selling Sunset”

Published Nov 11, 2024, 8:01 AM

Mary Bonnet is a cast member from the glamorous world of  “Selling Sunset” and the author of the new memoir “Selling Sunshine.” She opens up about her incredible journey — becoming a mother at 16, overcoming personal traumas, and more — and how it all fueled her determination to succeed in both her personal life and career. Mary also dives into her fertility journey and how her husband, Romain, has helped with her healing. Plus, we get the inside scoop on what it’s really like behind the scenes of “Selling Sunset” — from the drama to the real estate deals.

This episode includes mention of sexual assault and rape. Please take care while listening.

Hello Sunshine.

Today on the bright Side, we're joined by one of selling Sunsets standout stars, Mary Bonnet. She's giving us a peek behind the scenes at the magic that brings those incredible homes to life and sharing why she always looks for the bright side even when things get tough. It's Monday, November eleventh. I'm Danielle Robe.

And I'm Simone Voice, and this is The bright Side from Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we come together to share women's stories, laugh, learn and brighten your day.

All right, Simone, It's Monday, so I know you must have something on your mind.

What's going on?

Well, today I'm actually thinking about an experience that I had recently that changed the way that I think about hope. And this is a bit of a long story, but bear with me, Danielle. Think you'll see where I'm going here. So okay, So one day recently I was leaving work and I get a call from my friend. I knew that she was ecstatic to be pregnant with her second child, but that day I could hear this kind of quiet panic in her voice. Her voice was shaking. Something wasn't right with the baby. And she tells me that she just got out of a doctor's appointment and they told her she has to go to the er. So I said, tell me which er you're at. I'll meet either. I'll be there as soon as I can. So I go to the er with her. And hours later, you know, all this waiting, all this poking, prodding, after all these exams and ultrasounds, the uncertainty is eating us alive. Of course, because she's pregnant, she doesn't know what's going on with the baby. She just knows that something is wrong. So the doctor comes in and she has this look on her face that said everything. She tells us that the pregnancy wasn't viable. And I'm actually shaking as I tell you the story because it was such a profound moment. We both like broke down and just helled each other and cried for what felt like forever. But eventually we gather ourselves and the night wears on, the hospital shifts into its nighttime cadence, and two new residents come in, and of course we're bracing for more bad news, right, but they give us four words that felt like a lifeline. They said the baby was okay, The baby was actually okay.

Well.

They explained that the pregnancy was this rare type of ectopic where the fetus wasn't implanted where it should be. What they said there was a chance that it could move into a better position, and that was all we needed to hear. And in that moment, my friend looked at me with tears in her eyes and said, at least we have hope. We didn't leave the hospital that night with any promises that everything would be fine, not even any certainty that the pregnancy would continue, but it was enough to have hope. And that got me thinking about our understanding of hope, Like, what is it really? I don't know about you, but sometimes it feels like it's this elusive, abstract thing we're chasing, something we just feel when things are bad. What is your understanding of what hope is, Danielle? Do you feel like it's also abstract? Sometimes?

That's a really interesting question.

I don't feel like it's abstract.

I actually think.

Of the word hope quite often, because you know, I'm an etymology nerd, and I interviewed somebody years ago that just embodied this word hope, and I looked up where the root of the word came from, and it comes from Hopian, which means trust in God's word or confidence in the future. And after that, that's really how I thought about hope. It was trust in the universe, spirit, God, whatever you believe in, trust in the future. And so to me, that always means trust in self.

Well, here's how doctor chan Hellman, one of the leading researchers on hope, defines it. He says it's the belief that the future will be better than it is today and that you have the power to make it.

So.

He also tells us what hope isn't. He says, hope isn't an emotion, It isn't a wish, it isn't a feeling. It's a way of thinking. And the best part is, he says, hope is a skill that we.

Can all learn.

Oh yeah.

Other researchers have couched it as an active process. There's one name John Parsi who says, optimistic people see the glasses half full, but hopeful people ask how they can fill the glass full.

I love that. It's like a verb. Is there something that you do to flex your hope muscle? Well.

In researching the scientific perspective on hope, I have been encouraged by a few tools that I've come across. So the Hope Research Center at the University of Oklahoma says that in order to have hope, you have to have a few ingredients first, starting with goals. Goals are the cornerstone of hope, and it's a two way street. Researchers found that our level of hope directly influences the goals that we set, so hopeful youth and adults set goals that are more likely to stretch them and challenge them. These researchers found two more components to hope, pathways and willpower. Pathways really speak to our ability to identify how we're going to reach our goals, you know, our ability to get from point A to point B. And willpower, they say, really refers to the mental energy or motivation in order to accomplish that goal. And these researchers say that these are levers that can be dialed up or down depending on the situation.

Sometimes you only have one or the other.

Sometimes you know the pathways but you don't have the willpower, or you've got the willpower but you've got to figure out the pathways. And they also found that difficult circumstances like being around violence or oppression, or having a chronic illness do impact people's hope. It's much lower who have lived through trauma, which I don't know might be surprising.

That's interesting because I always feel like people.

That have been through the most have the most to give an offer like that, that they've been through so many experiences that they have a depth of understanding that other people don't.

I'm surprised to hear that.

Actually, I think that's true.

And look, the reality is there's not a ton of research on hope itself. This is a topic that scientists continue to be interested in. So maybe you're onto something, Danielle. Maybe as they continue to investigate this sensation, that they'll learn more about how people with traumatic backgrounds can you know, generate hope. But one other thing that really stood out to me from all this research is the importance of fostering and being in community. When we support the people around us and accept support, it creates a more hopeful environment that helps us generate momentum and helps generate momentum in the broadlem community too.

Yeah, I think hope is contagious. Absolutely, I think hope is contagious. So, like one of the things that I do personally when I feel hopeless or like you know, you get in a mode where you're like kind of depressive, I read women's stories or I listen to inspirational YouTube videos, and I find that experiencing other people's hope amps me up.

It gives me.

Hope, which is I think, honestly a cornerstone of our podcast.

One thousand percent. There's one more child'slike activity that I think is important to keep in mind when we're thinking about ways to be more hopeful, and that is imagination. Doctor chan Hellman says that imagination is an instrument of hope. So that's going to be something that I'm going to lean on. I don't know that I've ever really thought about imagination in that context, that it can be this this bridge builder whenever we need to get in touch with our more hopeful self.

That makes sense, Like you're imagining a brighter future, a different tomorrow.

Yeah, one thousand percent.

Yeah, I like that a lot.

Well, our guest today has really had to hold on to that word tightly because she has been through quite a lot and she's very resilient and very hopeful. She's one of Selling Sunset stars. Mary Bonnet is here to talk with us about her memoir Selling Sunshine, where she opens up about some of the less sunny parts of her life, but how she made it through to the other side.

We'll be back with our conversation with Mary Bonet in just a moment.

Stay with us.

We're back and today we're delighted to welcome Mary Bonnet to the bright Side. She is one of the longest running cast members of Selling Sunset, and she just published a memoir that reveals how she got her sart in real estate and all the hustle that landed her at the Open Hu group.

Mary Bonett, Welcome to the bright Side. Thank you.

We're so happy to have you here. Thank you for bringing the sunshine, your beautiful smile. We're here because you've just published a new memoir called Selling Sunshine, which is so on brand. And I saw that you posted on Instagram this quote you said, I'm done staying silent.

I'm ready to tell my story.

Yeah.

When a woman says that, like you better watch outs. But it was really important for you to tell your own story in your own words.

Because I've been through a lot of ups and downs and there's just a lot of things in my life that i want to be able to tell my way because I'm very sensitive to the way my family feels about things, the way my sun feels about it. I wanted to make sure it didn't get chopped and edited and twisted around by telling it like on Selling Sunset. I wanted to tell my way so the actual truth gets out and it can help people.

When you say sensitive subject, are you able to share some of the things that you're covering.

So I have all kinds of issues basically.

So I had my son when I was sixteen, got pregnant when I was fifteen, and he doesn't know a lot of things that I went.

Through when I was just growing up.

I was a child raising a child, and then I went through domestic violence. My ex husband was terrible, my first ex husband passed away, and then I was raped. I have very very bad ADHD and it's taken a lot for me. I get like just ridiculed all the time because my mannerisms and stuff. I'm like, yeah, I'm pretty quirky, but I've had to put a lot of things in place to be able just to function and be successful, and so there's so many things. And fertility, I mean, that's one that I think that a lot of people watching the show knows that I'm battling, and so I think it was very important for me to tell everything in my way so other people weren't affected, but I can help people.

At the same time, you say in the book when you had your son at sixteen, it felt like it was a scarlet letter. I'm sure we could sit here and talk about all the ways that it was challenging, but I'm actually really curious about how being a young parent steered your purpose.

Well.

I had to just prioritize what had to be done in this moment. I didn't really have the luxury of being like, oh, what do I want to do when I grow up and stuff. I was like, what do I need to do right now to keep my son alive? And that was kind of my goal every day, just keep them alive. So I just had to do what it took every day to just make it to have food on the table. And then you know, as time went on, and I would take every opportunity as it would come, like nothing, I would not say no to anything, and I would just work myself like to the bone really just to make sure I could survive.

You know, the body doesn't know whether you're reliving something or whether an event as actually happening to you. You know, as you're writing a book, as you're thinking about these experiences again, right and reflecting.

On them, what did what did it bring up for you? Oh?

God? It was hard.

It's still hard for me to like talk about stuff, but it's important. I had to go to therapy a lot, like after after every time when in certain chapters, I would have to just stop and I'm like, okay, hang on, and I'd have to process. I went through emdr But yeah, I kind of noticed with Remain actually that it was not fair to him because my reactions they were just you know, they were involuntary and I had no control over it. But if I wasn't expecting him to like touch me, we're in and I'd like freak out and he's like, babe, why do you always pull away? I'm like, it's I promise it's not you. It's just an initial reaction, and it kept hurting his feelings and I was like, I swear you.

I just it's just a response.

Romayne is your husband.

Romayne is my husband. He's my amazing husband.

Yeah. How do you think his love has healed you or helped heal you?

Oh?

God, he has healed me in so many ways. He is so patient, so loving, just unconditional love. There's not a chance he would ever do anything to disrespects me. Ever, from all the bad relationships that I've been in, just God, I chose.

Very poorly in my life.

I was like, I think I just chose about every asshole that there is out there, and he has just renewed my faith and men faith.

Uh yeah, faith in men and in humanity.

So many of us know you as a top agent at the Oppenheim Group, but I was actually very interested to learn you had many careers before getting into real estate. Oh yeah, you have a degree in medical imaging. You spent years working in hospitals. What was appealing about getting into real estate? Initially?

I have always.

Loved real estate in the architecture, but I would move constantly because and they were just apartments. But I love in La there's so many different neighborhoods and everything has a different vibe and all the different architectural styles like I just love finding like that one like the perfect place, and so I would move every year and I hardly had any money, but I would move myself in Austin every year because I loved it that much.

Wow.

And so yeah, I decided finally to just stop spending money and do it for other people instead.

Best decision I've ever made, clearly.

As I'm listening to you, like you're sharing all this with a smile, but you've really been through quite a bit.

Yeah, And.

Did you like lay in bed at night and think that your life would look like this?

No, I never thought it was going to be like this, Like you can always change it whatever it is. Just you're in control of your life. Everybody gets down, everybody gets upset and has a bad day, but okay, get dressed back up and have a new day tomorrow.

And so because you don't have a choice, really, what are you going to do? Tomorrow will be a new day.

It's like that you have control, And I think I think that it takes longer to actually change circumstances than people like, but you have control over it and just keep powering through. So that's kind of why I wrote it. To show, Like, I think that you can have these bad things. They don't have to define you. You can move on, you can change your life, you can rambent yourself. You can and you can do it with a smile, because what's the alternative being pissed?

It's not very fun.

And we know you've been through a lot, a lot of ups and downs. But I think what you just crystallize right there, this idea of action and like living this proactive life where you are in control.

Yeah.

I mean when you say that, it's so clear why you're successful, because I think that is the common theme among people who are successful.

It's so important.

Yeah. Yeah, I just don't know any other way. Really.

I mean I'm human, like you know, I come home from the show and the girls are acted up.

I have rants and everything.

Too, But I just have to talk to myself and get myself back on track.

Okay, we have questions about this get into the show. Yeah, here's the thing.

Simone and I actually individually watch different reality TV shows, but not that many.

Okay, we both watch Selling Sunset.

Yeah, we've got some hard many questions for you.

Okay, Okay.

In this last season, there's like a bajillionaire who is selling their fifty million dollar house or twenty million dollar house. Okay, and you and two other agents go and pitch this couple to get the house, okay, and they like you the best. They choose you, okay because you are selling Sunshine.

Yeah.

When things like that happen on the show, is that set up for production or are you really trying to sell that house?

We're really selling the house, Like, I mean, it's so funny when people think that we're not agents.

I was like, it's public, it's public knowledge, Like here's the thing, here's the thing we know you are.

I think the internet has questions about some of the other agents.

Maybe Okay, well that's true.

It's not been questioning.

It's just TV magic, like like you could be selling houses that are not that house that I see.

Well, okay, so for instance, our buyer goes and puts an off friend on the house. Yeah. They don't want people to know where they're living, right, and so they will swap clients with houses sometimes, so if to protect their privacy, that's smart, but exactly, and so everything is real. It's just like sometimes it's not that person. I will swap things around just to make sure it protects everyone's privacy, because otherwise they won't be on the show.

It seems like being on the show is a real test of one's capacity for female friendship. Seems like you're being tested on that level. Yes, all the time.

I would agree with that, I guess.

I mean, my biggest question is like, how much of the drama is real?

All of it really?

More?

No, Oh, Mary, you're kidding.

I can show you my text messages like it is. Okay, it's we're not even filming right now, we're getting ready to, but yeah.

It's in full force.

It's worse like sometimes we're not, you would think. I mean, that's why I'm not normally fighting. I'm like, I'm like, what is wrong with you people?

It's a real life off of the show, even when the cameras aren't rolling.

Yeah, it's it's a mess. Really, I just don't get it. And I think a lot of the girls go on emotion. I go on logic, and so I'm always trying to figure it out. I'm like, Okay, why would people be doing this, why would they act this way? Why would they fight about this? Because to me, I'm like, just you know it doesn't make you look good, So why would you do it? And what and who cares? Like about certain issues. But everyone's concerned about their reputation the way they look. And I think that tensions are high and everyone's fighting to get attention to have more screen time and they don't know they're doing it.

And it don't strike me as doing that though. You could sent me fight more for friendships. Like when I watch you, I feel like a little sad almost watching because I'm like, you and Krishelle were best friends and now it seems like that's sort of shifted.

Like does that hurt you in real life?

No? Because I know the real reason that we're not hanging out and I say it to all the time. But the reason why we're not really hanging out that much now, I mean we're both in relationships, like and she travels a lot with G.

Yeah, and I love G. We're just busy.

We just have our lives, you know, have any of them ever heard of? Like conflict resolution? Like where you you just you're like, hey, here's how I'm feeling about this thing that you said. Can we work through that?

I think like Chrischelle does that.

Yeah, Krishelle's better.

Yeah, it's pretty good at that.

I do not understand when I see comments and stuff like that on how people take the show, and it's so crazy what people take from it. But Chrishelle is very very sweet and very just logical about things, and.

She's a good communicator.

Yeah.

Yeah, she's a girls girl. And but don't don't do anything messed up. I mean, if you do, I mean that girl will dig her heels in and you will.

She will not let up.

But I think on season eight though, I think she did a great job, a great job like being back and showing people who she really is because she is very forgiving and she's very loving, and I think a couple of seasons before with Nicole, that is just who she is. But I think she's a very good communicator and she always hears people out. I know, like what is going to be said about me? Some people are going to support, some people aren't. But coming out with her sexuality.

It's not easy to be vulnerable in a public share things, but also keep some things private. I think she balances that really nicely. Yeah. So you said after season six that you were considering leaving the show.

Yes, why did you decide to stay.

I wasn't going to let the frustrations and certain people's negativity and stupid responses. I was going to take control of my emotions. Like I talked about earlier, I want to do real estate, and I was finding that that I was actually starting to lose clients because I didn't have enough time for them. I didn't have the emotional bandwidth like to handle some of the problematic clients, so I would just avoid it. And I was like, Okay, wait, I'm not doing this anymore. It's not making me happy, it's not making like my life any better. So I was like, I can still be on the show. I can still do real estate and make more money just focusing on that, and I can stay out of the girls drama. So I just quit being a manager instead of quitting the show.

Yeah.

Smart, Yeah, Well, I'm so.

Glad that you stayed. I mean for a lot of reasons.

I think you're one of the more grounded voices on the show, so it helps to have that presence in there. But I've also learned a lot about fertility through your own journey, Like you recently revealed that you discovered a septum in your uterus. I didn't even know that this was a condition. And I'm a mom, and I feel like I'm so informed about, you know, the female body.

What was it like to finally get that diagnosis? Bittersweet?

Really, you know, it made sense why I've had so many miscarriages. So I was happy that I knew what to do at this point because I was actually sitting with my good friend ex boyfriend but now good friend.

He's in oegyn and I was sitting with them.

I love that you're friends with all your exes, including your boss.

Yeah, no, all of them.

Okay.

So I was sitting with him and I did the pernuvo scant and they found it. They were like, hey, so we actually want to talk to you about this, and he saw it right away.

I've been through IBF, I've had a son.

I have gone through fertility treatments and egg freezing and trying to do all these things you're telling me about. One doctor and forty four years has found this, Like, how is that possible? And if they did, I would have been able to handle this, get it removed, and have been able to be in control of my fertility. A long time ago, when I still had eggs. I could have handled it back then and my life would have been completely different.

So that was frustrating.

But at least now I can educate people and show them this is a thing. And if you are having pumps, you are in control of your health. And no one's going to fight for women's health except you. And that's why I'm on the board of directors for a women's health organization now because of it. Like eight out of ten women are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed with endometriosis, like that is insane.

Out of ten is quite a lot.

Eight out of ten.

Like that is absolutely insane. And I'm not saying doctors are about We need doctors. We love doctors, but there is a gap.

Yes, in.

Women's health, and so we need to fix that.

There's a gap in medical research when it comes to understanding women's bodies. There's a gap in diagnoses. Can I ask you where are you at on your fertility journey now? Like getting this diagnosis, as you mentioned, is bittersweet. Yeah, I can only imagine how painful it was to kind of accept and process that news.

Yeah, we are, We're unsure. I have to have the surgery. I haven't had it yet, and then plus the recovery time for the surgery and everything like that. The quality of my eggs aren't very good from what it was, and then the number isn't very good, so the chances of it happening are just very, very slim. So I think we've just come to terms with that and we're still gonna try. But we're both happy with our little fur baby right now. Or he's takes a lot of time too. He's so cute, just living life and loving each other and stuff. If we decide to do something, if we decide to do like some other form, if I can't carry the baby, if I don't have.

The eggs, we'll figure it out.

But we're not putting pressure on ourselves because we just kind of know what it's going to be.

But you know, miracles can happen, so you never know.

About Staying busy really helps.

It does.

It helps a lot, and knowing I can try to help other people avoid going through this is very helpful. And then I love traveling too, so I try to look at the bright side on things. I'm like, well, it's harder with a baby too, so hey, we can travel more, and so I just try to always find the bright side of things, like if you can't do anything about it, Well, you came to.

The thing too that it was so good.

I didn't even mean to do that.

I could tell it felt natural.

That's going in our promo now, So thank you for that. Okay, I think we have to take a hard left turn now and talk about real estate. We have a little bit of like lightning round real estate questions for you.

Because you are a real real estate agent.

I'm a real real estate agent.

Let the record show y.

So a question that a lot of listeners have right now is regarding lowered interest rates. Yes, talk to me about how that affects the work that you do as a real estate agent.

Oh well, say someone wants to sell their house, they have a lower interest rate at the moment on that house. It's very very hard to get people to change and get a higher interest rate just to move home. So everything holds when when the interest rates go up and they're starting to come down. So it does help pick up the real estate market in LA right now. We're battling a lot of things, though it's not just interest rates.

Okay, So would you consider now to be a buyer's market.

I think it's a shitty market. What's I'm sorry, that's okay.

You know what.

When we started filming this show, though, we really thought like we got in fights with production like all of like constantly we would battle them on no, we have to tell all of this stuff, and we wanted to tell all the details to educate people. They're like nobody cares, okay, and so ap pieces and they're like okay, okay, okay, say it, and they would see they're not even the camera wasn't even honest. They're like okay, yeah, go ahead, go ahead. And then we're like they weren't filming us, they weren't doing anything. They were just But now we get it. People have very short attention spans.

Yeah, I'm really curious about like young Mary selling homes to powerful men and what that dynamic was, Like do you ever feel like, I guess I'll ask you this, what is the biggest misconception that people have about you?

Then I'm weak because I don't fight. I think I work with like very powerful men because I'm extremely honest. I don't bullsh it. I'm not short sighted where I'm like, oh, just it's okay, like, I'm just going to try to.

Get this one deal done. I look long term.

If something's I'm right and I think it's a bad thing, I tell them it's up to them if they want to to move forward anyway. And I think powerful men are very wealthy people, Like they get taken advantage of a lot, and they value honesty, and so they know I will always have their back, and so I don't need to be forceful. We both have a common goal, and so I just know how to get a deal done because I'm like, it doesn't help you in a real estate transaction by being mean to the other person, just trying to show I'm tougher than you. It's like, you both have the same goal to get that home sold. Let's work together, Like what can we do to get it done? Like both of our clients both want to sew or want this transaction to close. Let's let's make it happen. And I think a lot of people don't look at it that way.

And so Mary's been in her bag, she will stay in her bag. The reason why I'm so curious about that is because we have a lot of conversations with women on our show about how they've been underestimated early on in their careers, either because they're a woman, or because of their appearance, or because of you know, feminine traits that they choose to embrace in the workplace.

Did that dynamic ever.

Play out for you in the real estate world, like being underestimated as a woman.

Yeah, I think so.

It's always been a male dominated industry. I think the show's helping with that for sure. Yeah, the show's helped. But I've definitely been underestimated. If I am and people are like brush past me or whatever, then I'm like, well that's okay. I'll prove it and I'm just not going to let someone else tell me who I am or let them get to me.

Mary, I think you got a lot of gusts too.

Well, thank you, and a lot of sunshine too.

Yeah, thank you, thank you for joining us.

Thank you.

Mary Bonnet is the author of Selling Sunshine and a cast member on Selling Sunset.

We're taking one more short break, but when we come back, we're getting into the holiday spirit with missus Myers. Welcome back, Bestie's.

Welcome back, y'all.

Okay, before we wrap up the show, we do have one more thing that's on our minds that we want to share with you.

Yeah, we do.

We've got a little holiday themed experiment brought to you by Missus Myers.

Ooh, I'm so excited for this.

Okay, So, Danielle, you've probably heard about the link between smells and memory, right.

Oh yeah, I have so many that I can think of. It's so strong.

Mm hmm.

It's fascinating how it works.

So science actually shows us that our brain processes sense differently than our other senses because onlike sites and sounds, smells go directly to the amygdala and the hippocampus. So researchers think that might actually explain why memories triggered by smells are often more emotional and tend to go back further into our childhood than memories that are triggered by something else that we might, let's say, see or hear, And those emotional memories can have a big impact on our mental health. Studies have even shown that smell induced memories can reduce stress and improve your mood.

Okay, you want to hear something weird.

Tell me my grandfather who passed away had a really distinct smell, and when I smell it, I get so overcome with joy and like I could smile.

And I know how strong that link is.

I have family members like that too, where certain certain sense just take me back into their arms. Yeah yeah, yeah, it's a beautiful thing. Okay, So with all of this in mind, we're going to smell this limited edition line of holiday scented cleaning products from Missus Myers yep, and share what they remind us of.

Okay, Well, in thinking about that strong link, Missus Myers has a line of holiday sense that are great for getting you into the holiday mood. So their line includes snowdrop, Peppermint, Iowa Pine, and gingerbread.

So curious, I want to just smell them right now.

Let's just try them.

Okay, let's do it.

Okay, We're going to start with snowdrop, which smells super clean.

I get why it's called snowdrop.

It reminds me of the very first snow in winter I was growing up in Chicago.

The snow would come early morning.

My brother and I would look outside the window and see all the trees covered, are driveway covered, and we would beg our mom to make snowmen before we went to school. And now that I'm thinking about that, memory. They should have been called snow women.

Well, I trust you because growing up in Chicago, you know a thing or two about snow.

Oh yeah, oh yeah, you're right.

It does take me back to like playing in that first fresh snow with my cousins in Maryland.

There's nothing like that fresh white powder.

Okay, up next, we have a peppermint scented room freshener.

I get this one to spray. Oh you know what this reminds me of.

This reminds me of peppermint bark, which is one of my favorite holiday snacks.

I love peppermint bark.

I love a peppermint bark.

I dated someone that hated chocolate and peppermint together, and I just felt like I couldn't trust them.

No, you had to break up with them. Right, you're done, You're out of here.

I love peppermint and chocolate together, all right.

Next up, we have the Iowa Pine multisurface everyday cleaner. HM. That reminds me of Christmas trees. I love having a real Christmas tree in my house. I know that most people do the artificial trees, but there's something about that scent of just having those pine needles in your house. All the time. Oh, just makes me feel right at home. It's so comforting.

Okay, next step, did you save this one for me? Because you know I love gingerbread. This is the gingerbread scent hand soap made with olive oil and alovera. Okay, that smells exactly like gingerbread. And I have so many memories making gingerbread men, gingerbread women, gingerbread houses. Do you remember you would like try and make a gingerbread mansion. Oh?

Yeah, we used to do this in school.

I would beg my mom to do this out of school too, I love. Okay, Simone, what part of the gingerbread do you eat first?

Says a lot about you.

I want to say, I start with the feet and move up from there.

Okay, you're a humane person. You can't start with the head. It's not nice.

I just think of the gingerbread character and Shrek.

Yes, exactly.

Wow.

I feel like I just took a sensory induced trip straight to the holidays.

Yes, this is getting me really excited for the holidays.

I need to do a little shopping. I even want to do a holiday deep clean.

I think we're ready to make some wonderful new scented Memories this year.

Thanks to our partners missus Myers.

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That's it for today's show.

Tomorrow, we're joined by negotiation expert Mari to Harrapoor, author of Bring Yourself, How to Harness the Power of Connection to negotiate fearlessly.

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