Olympic Village Tea, The Butterfly Effect & How We’re Really Doing

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Speaker 3 A lot of people might think, oh, is Alona mad at me? No, she's just to the point. She's gotten what she said, what she needed to say, and she got out of there.
Alona texted, add that to my calendar.

Speaker 3 Who the hell does she think she is? Of course, I'm going to put it on her calendar. I already did.
She needs to be brought down a couple pegs.

Speaker 3 We brought it up to her and she was like, No, I said it like, shoo, add that to my calendar, too. And we were like,

Speaker 3 oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 Come on in. Welcome back to House of Marr, a wave original presented by the new Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.

Speaker 3 This is your host, Olivia Marr, creator of Girl Dinner, my manager, and an absolute artist when it comes to a grazing board. Wow, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 And this is your host, Audreyana Marr, a New York City girl, humanitarian, and pimple-popping video etiquette police. Okay.

Speaker 3 Why would you say that? Reddit for Phil.

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Speaker 3 Wow. I'm your host, Adriana Marr.
Maher, and that's Alona Marr, Olympic rugby medalist and chronic rereader of Vampire Academy. Okay.
And it's true. Good.
I think that's the best book series there is.

Speaker 3 You reread that like, not once a year, but maybe once every two years. I just read it.
I just read it every year, I feel like.

Speaker 3 That says a lot. It does.
Vampire Academy is in my veins. Yes.
It is. I'm very passionate about it.

Speaker 3 I think I should have been in that room when they were creating that movie and that show because I saw it. Like the back of my hand.
Anyway, though, don't get me started.

Speaker 3 I'm going to get angry thinking about the adaptations. Well, thank thank you for tuning back in.
Episode two. Very exciting.

Speaker 3 If you made it back here from episode one, I just want to say how happy we are to have you and to be welcoming you into our home in this way and opening this up and really giving a closer peek into what we have to say, what goes on in our brains, what we talk about with each other on our group video calls.

Speaker 3 I think it's going to be really special. And Alona talks a lot online, but she's got more to say.
Keep listening, we'll change live streams. Our favorite story is Alona texts very direct.
Like she

Speaker 3 wears wear exclamation marks and it's everything, but like no stress if not. Like that's how we communicate or how we go present in a professional world.

Speaker 3 And maybe it's because she's never had a desk job. You've just played sports.
I just say sounds good. She is, I used, I had to tell her, I was like, please stop sending emails.

Speaker 3 Stop sending professional emails. Like you don't do it right.
I'd actually cringe when I see it. You need to like open and like, I hope you're well.
Like I need to meet you.

Speaker 3 She would get, she'd get in there and be like, okay, BRB, talk about this later.

Speaker 3 T-T-Y-L. like to a big brand.
And I'd be like, you need to, you're cut off, actually. But she also just texts very direct.
So a lot of people might think, oh, is Alona mad at me?

Speaker 3 No, she's just to the point. She's gotten what she, she said what she needed to say and she got out of there.
You, you, the fact that you got a response should be celebrated in the first place.

Speaker 3 So one of our favorite things, we were on our sister group chat. And I was like, oh, we have this coming up.
That's crazy. Like, guys, remember, make sure to do that.

Speaker 3 And Alona texted, add that to my calendar.

Speaker 3 And Adriana and I were like, who the hell does she think she she is?

Speaker 3 Where does she get off? I get that she's getting, she's getting out there. She's big time now.
Who does she think talking to me? Of course I'm going to put it on her calendar. I already did.

Speaker 3 But like, what the hell, man? Like, put that on my calendar. I was like, we had like a side group.
We were chatting about this. We were too, I was like, add that to my calendar.

Speaker 3 She needs to be brought down a couple pegs. We got to talk to her.
But actually, we brought it up to her. And she was like, no, I said it like, shoot, add that to my calendar too.

Speaker 3 She was like,

Speaker 3 I wouldn't remember it. So who make that? Make sure sure you add that to my calendar.
And we were like, Oh, oh, God, it was like,

Speaker 3 I was just being funny about it, being funny, but we were like, too big for our britches. And to this day, we now say, add that to my calendar, too.
Yeah, add that to my calendar.

Speaker 3 Add that to my calendar. But that is good, though.
You guys are ready to like, not humble me in a way, but like bring me down to earth.

Speaker 3 Because I think, even with all the fame or whatever it is that's happened and all of this, I haven't changed too much. And I think that's a testament to you guys

Speaker 3 letting me know who I am. You know, I'm just your sister.
I'm just this girl. I'm not getting too big for my britches.
And even, and when that does happen, because there's moments when it does happen,

Speaker 3 but they always bring me back, you know, like remember who you are. And you're not good at it.
She recently sent an email that I was like, did I write that in my sleep? Did I send an email?

Speaker 3 And I was like, Alona, did you send this email? She was like, I did. I tried to make it sound like you.

Speaker 3 I literally bodied Olivia. I was going to say, sorry for delay.

Speaker 3 We can't do this. And then like, thanks.
And then I was like, wait a second. What would Olivia Olivia write? I said, hello, apologies for a delay.
Thank you so much for your interest.

Speaker 3 Alona is currently unavailable. And I was like, goodness.
Well, you wrote it for like, no, actually, you wrote it as if it was me or just like in general.

Speaker 3 Or maybe this one I wrote first person, I don't remember, but like, I wrote it so well because I was pretending to be Olivia. I thought I was possessed in my sleep and I must have written.

Speaker 3 Like, I woke up and I was like, I need to chill. That's crazy.

Speaker 3 I'm learning a lot from her as well because she, so Olivia, we can get into it more, but was like a personal assistant for a big showrunner in Hollywood. So she learned so much.

Speaker 3 And she's somebody who you can rely on for everything. And she knows how things are done.
She knows how it's best going to be perceived. So like for me, somebody who's just like, I just want to do it.

Speaker 3 I'm an athlete. I do this.
She's like, no, here's the best way to do something.

Speaker 3 And so it comes across even better to brands, to people when I have somebody like that using kind of being my voice there. Absolutely.
I run every important email past Olivia.

Speaker 3 Like the amount of shared notes that we have together, because I'm like, can you just take a look at that before I send that?

Speaker 3 Like I'll run it through grammarly, then I'll run it to Olivia and then I'll send it. Many a time our dad, Olivia will read an email and our dad will be like, that was, that's really good.

Speaker 3 That's good. That was really complimentative of my professional writing.
Because it's also your writing skill, but it's then like you understand tone really well and how to like convince people.

Speaker 3 Be like, no, you got to put that. I was talking about an email.
She's like, you don't have a call to action at the end. And I was like, frick, got to have a call to action.
I need to work on that.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I was like, you're coming across like a little accusatory.

Speaker 3 i think we need to like reign that in but there's a good way to get it back like get to that absolutely we need to yeah i am accusing them of something that's good you'd be a great ap lit teacher oh wow wow wow this doesn't work out no yeah this is ap literature for sure and i mean as we said math isn't my thing but if you want me to compose an email to your boss like a message to an ex i'm i'm here i'm taking clients actually so i'm open so

Speaker 3 We haven't really lived in the same place for a while. Idrana has been living in New York City for a couple of years.

Speaker 3 I've been living in San Diego for the past six years, Olivia in New York City and then LA. So we've always been apart, but one thing that we always do prioritize is coming together.

Speaker 3 And this was your first time living together since childhood in Bristol.

Speaker 3 Were you worried going into it of how you would live together now as adults? And how did it go? Well, I spent a lot of time in Olivia's place, so I knew that she'll cook for me.

Speaker 3 And she would help me out and make me coffee. So I wasn't too worried about it, like knowing that I have spent so much time with her.
So

Speaker 3 we've been doing fine, honestly. I think we thought we would be getting like

Speaker 3 more visitors. We were like, What are we going to do if somebody has a visitor? We got to set up a system.
I'll put it. Should I put a sock on the door? What do you think?

Speaker 3 Like, what sort of system have we got going on?

Speaker 3 Nothing. Nothing.
It's been her and I in there. Right.
Nobody's running through those doors, man. Yeah.
We're really like, that's going to be interesting. Like, sister, like, what are we going to do?

Speaker 3 As adult women, as adult women, we lived together for 18 years of our lives growing up. And now here we are.
It's just us. It's just.
And this is the visitor. That's our only visitor.

Speaker 3 That's the one there. So, no, we get together.
We get along really well. I mean, she's somebody who's also a homemaker.
She loves to cook and like make people feel really comfortable and welcome.

Speaker 3 So, it works out for me. I come home and she's got pasta for me.
And I say, I want a smash burger. And she'll make, you know, a smash burger.
So that's just how she shows love.

Speaker 3 I think there is times where I do need like a break. We both need breaks at times, but that's she goes on long walks.
I go to practice. So there's all sorts of moments where we can take that pause.

Speaker 3 And it's also about being more honest with somebody who's like, hey, I need you to get out of my face. Yeah.
And we have that. We've learned over the years.
But it has been special.

Speaker 3 It's been cool to do. And I like taking care of people and making a home, but you are quite good at it as well.
When I want to be, but then I'll revert back to being like, I'm a child. I don't know.

Speaker 3 I don't need to do anything. No, but you're good when you apply yourself.
Same thing, like gift giving. She thinks she's a terrible gift giver.

Speaker 3 She's actually unbelievable at it when she applies herself. That stuff where you're like, wow, how do you, how did you know? How did you look into my soul like that?

Speaker 3 They all say that. You're a good gift giver.
It's true, though. But she is also a very good caregiver.
She is a nurse. Her bedside, your bedside care is impeccable.

Speaker 3 I had violent food poisoning recently, and she was right there with the British form of Gatorade, which is delicious, the blue one. I love it.
Look that up.

Speaker 3 And taking care of me, making tea, getting food ready for me. It was really, it was really great.
Good on you. Thank you.
I might have talked about this, but

Speaker 3 she once gave us the necklace that started our mom giving us all the jewelry. You bought at like some boutique in Australia when you were there on the sevens tour, little plated gold.

Speaker 3 A's and O's. A, O, and I, little tiny initials that our mom then was like, oh, because they started tarnishing really quickly.

Speaker 3 Cheap. And no.
And so our mom got a made-in gold. And so that started the whole jewelry kind of trend.
And that was you. Like, you did that.
You saw them and you thought that was cute.

Speaker 3 She doesn't even remember it. She doesn't even remember it to this day.
Like it meant nothing to her. Unbelievable.
But we kept joking though, like, because I do obviously work for her now.

Speaker 3 And we work together. that any gift is like an employee.

Speaker 3 I'd keep my employees. But if we were in place, it's a four-satisfaction package.
Yeah, yeah. Employee satisfaction.
End of the year bonus. Yeah.

Speaker 3 She got me a purse this year, which was really, really fun because I don't spend money on stuff like that for myself.

Speaker 3 And so that was kind of a nice like touch to, I don't know, where we're at and what we're building and moving towards. Yeah.
What'd she get you?

Speaker 3 She also got me a purse this year, but we had decided no presents. And then all of a sudden here, she comes down the stairs unwrapped because that's a loan.
She'll be mad. I'm a last gift.

Speaker 3 She won't wrap it. Why would I wrap it? No, it's easier to get it.
Waste paper. What's the point of that? Wow.
Just go.

Speaker 3 You're going to see it.

Speaker 3 Or I'll leave it at the cardboard box it came in. Yeah.
The Amazon key.

Speaker 3 But came downstairs with the thing and it was really wonderful and sweet. But then I was like, I didn't get her anything.
She was panicking. I was.

Speaker 3 And Olivia and I also didn't give each other anything. And I was like, that's fair.
No. Oh, no.
But you've been really wonderful with like supporting my travel. Like one year, I

Speaker 3 did not use up all my PTO days. Like I still had like a week left.
And I was like, I'm not, I have to use these. This is, you know, my

Speaker 3 payment, essentially. And I was like, I'm going to go to Scotland.
And you're like, yeah, you go to Scotland. Here's some money.
Get that bus tour. And it just made it so much.

Speaker 3 you know, easier for me to do so of like, okay, I was going to do this bus tour, but then I was like, okay, with flights and then I'll stay in a hostel, yada, yada.

Speaker 3 Like, you know, I'm very careful with my money.

Speaker 3 And so knowing that the bus tour is covered was really wonderful and allowed me to be like and i can have a sit-down dinner tonight you're crazy what a girl i keep a running note um in my phone of if somebody says something even a little bit i'm like oh oh and i'll write it down it's like a potential idea and then they sometimes come to fruition actually so like when mom came to town I think from two years ago, I had written on my notepad for her Discovery of Witches tour because she loves that, those books and the TV show.

Speaker 3 And I was like, gosh, we're ever in England together I would love like to bring her to some of those filming locations and then I ended up doing that because I'd always had that I wrote it down I saw it I would see it occasionally when I would go through this notepad and be like oh my gosh we're going to be in England let's go see discovery of witches places because I know my mom would love that so it wasn't a gift it was just like something we did but it was nice to do it with her so we went to Oxford and we toured some places because I remembered that that would be something to cool like an idea I had two years ago she was so giddy she loved it she loved it it's the simplest things that can make people so happy you know just showing that you notice them You should

Speaker 3 take note. What's that thing that's like to be loved is to be known or to be known is to be loved or something.

Speaker 3 To be seen. Something like that.
Something like that. Coming up on today's episode of House of Mar, our tea time, we wanted it to have a bit of a theme.
So we were thinking crossroads.

Speaker 3 Alona can give us a peek behind the curtain into what really goes down at the Olympics. Adriana will talk navigating an identity shift.

Speaker 3 And I can talk maybe a bit about my time and what I did before coming to work for Alona full-time.

Speaker 3 And then with our wind down, we will receive a special message from one of our favorite people, an unofficial fourth Mar sister. Let's see behind that curtain, Alona.

Speaker 3 What happened at the village that you maybe didn't share online? Because you already put so much on TikTok and you wanted everyone to know. I think the first day in the village, I had a full day off.

Speaker 3 So I posted about seven videos a day. Like I knew that this was a way that I could keep getting message out there.
I think it started in Tokyo with like, I knew Olympics is where people are made.

Speaker 3 You know, Michael Phelps, Moan Bowes, they're made because they're the best in their sport and they're objectively the best right like it's it's not it's not just subjective it's a numbers game where they're the best i knew that i probably wouldn't be that in a sport like rugby i was not just going to be the best um but i knew i had like a personality that was a little different so even in tokyo i kind of decided like oh this app is you know social media is really powerful and can really take you places so i did it in tokyo Then I kept doing it after Tokyo because I we always talk about like sponsorships like girls are always like we want to get more sponsors I want to be able to make more money, but there's no clear way to do it.

Speaker 3 And I saw, like, okay, social media is how you do it because you make yourself, you know, look good to a brand. They want to have a return of investment on you.

Speaker 3 So, if you can be giving them something that'll help them. And I think I thought building my profile on social media was just the way to do it.
Is it stressful to have shared share a lot of myself?

Speaker 3 I think there was a crossroads when it came to like how much am I willing to share? What's the sort of persona I want to give out there?

Speaker 3 Um, but I've just found like sharing more and being relatable is what really people connect to. So I think my thing is all about relatability.

Speaker 3 Like if I'm having a bad body image day, there's so many other people who are having that same thing. So I've just tried to be relatable.
And I think at the Tokyo Olympics, I did the same thing.

Speaker 3 Or at the Paris Olympics, I did the same thing, just being relatable and having fun with it too. Like I'm not afraid to, you know, have a joke about with myself.

Speaker 3 I think the big thing was like being single in the village because people always talk about, you know, the singleness, the athletes going crazy dating each other.

Speaker 3 And I just like played on that because i knew people love to see it they love watching love island they love watching all these shows where single people are going crazy and i just knew there's there was something to be done there did i get any action in the olympic village no right no i also because at that point everyone was knowing me so if i talked to even one person i'd people would be like what's happening but i was so focused in the on the village of like kind of making a name for myself in a way and posting these videos and afterwards we were so busy after our games are done i was barely in the village i barely got to meet people but it's like uh it was such an amazing time for me.

Speaker 3 It really changed, I guess, the trajectory I was going on. But I was never surprised with the change.
Like I knew that this is what I wanted to do. And everyone always asked me, like, oh, is it crazy?

Speaker 3 Has your life completely changed? I was like, no, this was what I was aiming for for three years now. Absolutely.

Speaker 3 And I feel like because you put out that content being like, dating, single life, the village, like people then assume, like, oh, you're putting it out there. It must be happening for you.

Speaker 3 So everyone just expected that you were having all of these dates and these crazy experiences. And I remember you being like, yeah, but these are also like the world's best athletes.

Speaker 3 They're focused on what they're doing. There's not really time for that until the end.

Speaker 3 I imagine that there are for sure people who are, you know, getting their rocks off, I think as it's called, having fun in there. But also we're here to get a medal.

Speaker 3 Like we're not here to really mess around too much. We're here to, you know, compete for our country, something that we've been dreaming about our whole lives.

Speaker 3 So there is that, you know, you are in a village with the hottest people in the world, the hottest, fierce people in the world. Of course, things like that are going to happen.

Speaker 3 but also some people are still competing. Some people have just competed.
They're doing this and that. So it's definitely a cool village.
It's like amazing that all these countries come together.

Speaker 3 Some are at war, some are this, and they yet sport brings us all in under one thing that just unites us. And it's really a cool time.

Speaker 3 I mean, I've met people from all over the world and got pins from all over. I think it's like really

Speaker 3 a special thing because not many people get to experience an Olympic village.

Speaker 3 I mean, only Olympians and coaches and whatnot, but that's something that is really a place where we can all come together. What was the nichest pin you got? Like country?

Speaker 3 I got, well, I saw a video of a girl who was like, I see you all trading pins, but I haven't seen my pin from my country, which is Kazakhstan. And so I was like, I'm going to find this pin.

Speaker 3 So I found the Kazakhstan pin, but I wasn't on my pin game as much as the others. Like there are some people who are really loving the pin thing.

Speaker 3 You actually made me personal pins, which is like what Simone Biles did.

Speaker 3 It was fun to have. And you switched with Simone too, right? I did.
I traded with Simone, but I just didn't realize, like, I never knew that about pins.

Speaker 3 A lot of people make personal pins, but now I think that's so special to do, to do like a personal pin and to train with people because people loved it.

Speaker 3 And to have that connection between two athletes. Yeah.
To just have that face-to-face. And that's that, I can imagine that's so cool.

Speaker 3 I got a pin from Coco Goff, Simone Biles, a couple pins from like the other rugby teams around. It's a lot of times you don't notice, you don't have the same language.
So you just kind of go. Pin?

Speaker 3 And then they give you a pin. And then you like, just kind of connect in that way.
It doesn't have to even be through language, through words. Pins are universal.

Speaker 3 Pins are universal universal language that's what i've always said but you got to let loose a little bit at the very end there right it was your birthday like your birthday struck at like midnight during the closing ceremony right yes yes yes yes um i my birthday is august 12th i'm a leo a classic leo escheer

Speaker 3 and that was the the closing ceremony started on the you know evening of the 11th and then you were there until you know midnight so into the 12th And we were just, you're not supposed to drink in the village, but we were all getting vodka somehow and like bringing it in like water bottles because you've just completed the Olympics.

Speaker 3 You can finally feel like you can relax and reset. And so I was just in my kit drinking, and then I was chatting to everybody.
And whoever would recognize me, I'd be like, hey, what's up?

Speaker 3 And chat to them. And we got to the

Speaker 3 closing ceremony. It was in the big stadium, actually, that I played.
And it was crazy to be back there, like knowing what happened and the feelings that had been into it.

Speaker 3 It struck midnight, so that meant it was my birthday. And I made everybody around me sing.
And it was beautiful. There's a video of it, just like me standing, like listening to everybody.
And then

Speaker 3 they played this song called My Way by Isalt. And I just remember like listening to it.
And then I or two others have also a video of me like watching it.

Speaker 3 Like, it's about, you know, the song My Way, which I think is Frank Sinatra, but like, I did it my way. And I was like, oh, I really did the Olympics my way.

Speaker 3 Like, my teammates and I did the Olympics our way.

Speaker 3 And it was just a really like a special moment. I was super drunk.
Super drunk, but I still remember it. You had a good time.

Speaker 3 But like, and you feel how fun your energy is, like, in those moments, too.

Speaker 3 But I think the energy I feel in those videos off of everyone around you as well is that like release of, oh my gosh, no matter how this went, like, we did this, and here we are, we can be together and finally celebrate it.

Speaker 3 But you've been kind of on the go since you still haven't been able to like party with your team that you made this historic moment with, right? Because you also

Speaker 3 haven't even been home to San Diego before, except for like one night, I think you spent there, but you've just been on the go since. How has that been? Like, are you, I imagine, sad?

Speaker 3 No, I'm not really sad.

Speaker 3 Um, I've been on the go since july i think july 14th i went out over to france and we're we were there for a week in a in a village before we went to paris and then we were in paris for a week before we played and then i stayed there for two weeks after the olympics then for a week i was kind of like in between i say was at home for a week and then i came back to san diego for two nights had one full day there but i was packing up because i had to take my my ass on up to la and do dance with the stars so i had no time and then haven't been back i I was going to go back before I moved over to England, but it just wasn't matching up.

Speaker 3 I was going to here and then going back. And so we decided to go from England to, I mean, from LA right to England.
So I haven't, it's been

Speaker 3 more than a half a year since I've been home. And then I think I'm going to get home for maybe less than a week and be on the road again.
I would ask if your plans are dead, but you don't keep plans.

Speaker 3 I don't keep plans. No.
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Speaker 3 You made it to LA and you started your dancing with the stars journey, which you were a bit hesitant of,

Speaker 3 but just knowing like that's you know nerve-wracking.

Speaker 3 You're putting even more of yourself out there on TV every single night to be judged, literally, and to do something that you don't do, which is dancing.

Speaker 3 But like, how did that, how did you come around? Like, what,

Speaker 3 when did the kind of, like, the clouds part for you? Well, I think it was just having a partner like Alan who

Speaker 3 knew the power of social media as well. Like, we went into it not knowing, like, okay, well, I'll post my videos.
I don't know how he'll be about it. Like, it'll be okay.

Speaker 3 Cause I'd never watched a show. I didn't know what he was like.
You made me watch the first episode. Like, I think the night before I met Alan or something like that.
And just to get a feel for it.

Speaker 3 And I remember watching it like, oh, God, I don't know.

Speaker 3 Um, and so I met Alan, and the first right after we were done, the cameras were done rolling, and we were just kind of like, you know, catching up. He was like, We gotta, we gotta shoot TikToks.

Speaker 3 Like, that's what, how we're gonna, you know, make the fans love us and really connect with them. And so, I was like, oh, okay, like, this guy actually wants to do it.

Speaker 3 And I wasn't sure if he'd want to collab with me or if he was a certain image he was trying to uphold. But what was so great about him is he was so prepared to just be himself.

Speaker 3 Like, I am prepared to be myself, whether that's look stupid,

Speaker 3 look girly, whatever it is. Like, he'd put on the skirt and do the dance or whatnot, too.
But he was so secure in himself and the image he was putting out.

Speaker 3 So, we worked really well together in that way. And I mean, he was always like, We got to make a tick-tock today.
We got to make a tick-tock today. Tomorrow, I was like, shut up.

Speaker 3 Um, you've pissed me off all training.

Speaker 3 But we've developed like a you know, really strong friendship because of that. And I think people really loved that connecting with us online.

Speaker 3 And I think they loved seeing Alan in that sort of way as well. Because I think he was always known as a very like hard coach, a tough coach, which is tough.

Speaker 3 But I also, for me, I was like, You're right. I'd be mad at me too for not understanding that.
I like, you've told it to be 50 times and I still can't get this dance. So I totally understand.

Speaker 3 Andrew used to be coached. I'm used to being coached.
So for him, it was actually a really great, like, the way that he, the way that he coached me, I was like, no, you're right. I can do better.

Speaker 3 Like, he knew I can do better. And that's how I've always been coaches.
Like, they, they expect me to do better. And so, like, no, you're so red.
I can do better. It was a relationship like any other.

Speaker 3 We were, we were building and learning and posting these fun videos. And people just love to see, I think, two people really get along in just a fun way and interact and show all the emotions.

Speaker 3 Like we cried, we were sometimes annoyed at each other. We were this and that.
But I think we just kind of were very real in what was going on. Yeah.

Speaker 3 What are some of the things that maybe weren't shown in like the package before you danced? Was there a lot more of you being pissed off or him being like, do it again? Or what?

Speaker 3 What did we miss out on? No, I think like it was a lot of, I just got very silent at times because I didn't know what was going on. And like, or I just couldn't, could not get it right.

Speaker 3 Like it was so out of bounds for me.

Speaker 3 And he, he knew it as well it was like something trying to trying to learn how to to get me out of that funk because i could not figure it he'd like tell me to do one thing with my hand and i couldn't do it and then i would like try to do the thing that he was telling me with my foot and i could not it would not link up for me and so i would get silent because like i always want to be good at things i've always played sports and i've always been very good at every sport that i've played doesn't matter what sport i pick up i'm usually pretty good at it and so here i am picking up a sport that i just cannot figure out and that i've never been good at and it's like you're a team right alan and i are a team but also he's the coach i'm the the player and when we get out there on the dance floor yes they're looking at both of us but i'm the one who doesn't know what the heck she's doing so i think they could have actually showed more of like the the us coaching because i never had a problem with it i loved him like knowing that i i did i you just did it do it now which i was like you're so right and i knew i could and i think i got silent because i knew i could do better for him but we had a i mean a great relationship we did get those moments where it was like you know we were both a little annoyed but then we would just be making a tick tock afterwards which i think is almost almost like a brother-sister, like friend type.

Speaker 3 We're like,

Speaker 3 but then like, well, you know, the first person I've ever met. Do you want to go to the sauna? I mean, you can, you can, you were there a lot, practices, you can kind of describe our relationship.

Speaker 3 But it was very much like, yeah, you would get your silent moments because you're like, you want the, you want to do amazing. That's how you work.

Speaker 3 And him being like, she can do amazing, but also is she okay? Yeah, he was always so cautious with me. Very cautious.
Always want to make sure you're okay.

Speaker 3 But it was those things that, you know, we talk about that's like, okay, but if alone is feeling alone, you can't, she needs to get herself out of it. Eventually, you can't do it.

Speaker 3 But he's very much like, but is she going to be okay? And what do we think? What can I do? Like, how do I help? And he's like texting me. I'm like, what are you helping?

Speaker 3 Like, King, I like, I hear you. I wish I could also instruct you on how to make her feel better.
Like, just, she'll come around. It's all good.
Like, it's all good.

Speaker 3 But he just cared so much, you know, because he also didn't want to make you mad, but he also wanted the best, like you say. So it was funny in those moments.

Speaker 3 And being like, okay, Olivia, like, what do we do? Also, do you have a TikTok idea? I'm like, okay, Ellen.

Speaker 3 Him and I still chat a lot. I'm really excited to do tour.

Speaker 3 I want to do, you know, some more stops. I just think that I want to be back with him.
We have so much fun together, just kind of hanging out, even when we're just practicing.

Speaker 3 So I am excited for that because it was such a special moment in time. So I hopefully we'll have a friend for life.
I don't even know if I can watch next season, though. I'll be so jealous.

Speaker 3 I'd be like, that's my partner. That's my partner.

Speaker 3 Oh, my gosh. If he says that his next partner is his favorite partner, I'm blocking him on all social.

Speaker 3 That is a warning. That is a warning.
That's threat, Alan.

Speaker 3 If somebody else becomes your next favorite favorite partner, I'm blocking you.

Speaker 3 Never say it again. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Right. You know what? I'm just kidding.
She's really cool, really chill. She's a little bit too cool.
Really chill girl. No, very aloof.
It's fine.

Speaker 3 It's all, it's all good. Love you, Alan.
Speaking of crossroads, yours was kind of your transition from traditional work to content creation. What was that like?

Speaker 3 Becoming your own boss outside of Alona.

Speaker 3 That crossroads for you. Being a girl boss, right.
I went to a really small university, which was great.

Speaker 3 Got my education, got out of there, moved to New York City very quickly afterwards because I just knew I wanted, I always knew I wanted to try living in New York City and Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 I think I was going to love both. And I did.
I loved New York City while I was there.

Speaker 3 And I moved to New York City while I'm working for, I'm very lucky to have had incredible female mentors throughout my career. Like I seek out cool, creative, wonderful women.

Speaker 3 and just try to soak up as much as I can from them while like helping like in any way that I can on their journey. Cause I know that I would learn from that a lot.
So I moved to the city.

Speaker 3 I worked for an unbelievable creator, actress, author, Roslyn Hart. And I worked on some of her shows and activations around New York City.
She has a show called Never Sleep Alone. It's a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 It's like a dating and sex and

Speaker 3 kind of a, it's story told like through her character and also just like helps people with confidence.

Speaker 3 getting out there and being who you are.

Speaker 3 And what a great thing to be a part of at that age. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Just straight out of school.

Speaker 3 Great for the mental. Absolutely.
It was very fun. It was very cool to see those sides of New York and with her and to learn from her and her creative approach.

Speaker 3 And also then being the girl behind some of the social and like the Excel spreadsheets and whatever. So from there, I went and worked on the Apple TV show Dickinson.

Speaker 3 And Apple TV was launching at that time when I was in New York City. And they launched with a couple of shows, one of them being Dickinson.
And I worked in post-production there.

Speaker 3 And I've met some of the most incredible people and editors and producers some of whom i am still very close to to this day and again learned so much from them which then led me to the creator and showrunner elena smith who is the next wonderful powerful cool creative woman that i got to uh learn from and work with so i got to see like a tv show season get made from the like the very beginning to the bitter end it was very cool to be a part of these conversations and listening in on these meetings and the stuff i got to learn and you worked in all of the rooms, starting to post, going to set, like you got experience

Speaker 3 all the way through.

Speaker 3 It's like I got to be a part of these conversations and literally see how the sausage gets made and to see different approaches to the creative process and to have been in that position for so many years is.

Speaker 3 So special. Did that for a joint before heading over to Los Angeles and I continued doing some development work with Elena Smith and then the strikes happened in Hollywood.

Speaker 3 It was in that window of time that I leaned more into my social media because I had the time to do it and And I was always building it.

Speaker 3 I was always posting what I was doing and getting better at making videos and seeing what I was comfortable saying or showing or my little adventures around New York City.

Speaker 3 I think I was also in New York, like in the peak time of like 2018, 2019, where it was like my good friend and I would be like, we should, do you want to just have like a Saturday where we go and take fun pictures for Instagram?

Speaker 3 It's like, absolutely. That sounds like a dream.
Great.

Speaker 3 And then we'll go watch, you know, we'll listen to Charlie XCX and have a time about it. Absolutely.

Speaker 3 And so

Speaker 3 I leaned way more into that. I got more and more comfortable over the years.
And it was pretty soon after the strikes had started that I posted my Girl Dinner video.

Speaker 3 And then, so I was doing my content creation stuff.

Speaker 3 It's when I've always worked for Alona and building her brand and helping on the business side of stuff that between Tokyo and Paris, like I was leaning more and more into it.

Speaker 3 But then once the strikes happened, I put my whole self into it and really, really ran with it. And we got to build a very solid foundation going into Paris.

Speaker 3 So to be a part of that and to have taken everything that I've learned from my journey to that point and to help in the everyday and the flow and how this happens and how this works.

Speaker 3 And, oh, we should go about it this way. And oh, we're working with brands like this.
It's all, it's all been for a reason. My direction was correct.

Speaker 3 I was putting my energy where I, where it felt good, women. And now I get to do what I love.
And it's my dream job working here, working with you.

Speaker 3 you know, being all together on this, this gorgeous couch and making my content, make my silly little videos.

Speaker 3 There's that thing that's like, everything happens in your favor, but even if you don't know what it is, and like the burnt toast theory and the butterfly effect, which I think is a big thing we talk about a lot is the butterfly effect and how much it is, it changes.

Speaker 3 You're a big believer in the button. You're a big believer in the butterfly effect.
She loves that.

Speaker 3 I think the butterfly effect is like that thousands of millions of years ago, the flap of a butterfly's wings could have moved one

Speaker 3 seed to this place and this happened here.

Speaker 3 And then that so it's like the littlest movement can shift the whole world because then you would have had a tree planted there, then maybe a river would have formed around or whatever it was.

Speaker 3 I could be wrong. Somebody could totally

Speaker 3 imagine it. Let us, but it's just not like one little change can

Speaker 3 you might not realize it completely change the whole trajectory of your life. Yeah.

Speaker 3 So I think my butterfly effect was when I decided not to play, stop playing softball and just went to the local neighboring high school to play rugby. And my whole life changed.

Speaker 3 Your butterfly effect has been, you know, jobs that I've decided weren't fit for me and it was tough and it seemed, you know, unprofessional, but I made the hard decision. And now here I am.

Speaker 3 And it didn't feel good then, but you know, it all worked out.

Speaker 3 What has been, what's been you was actually thinking about this the other day.

Speaker 3 I don't know why because I've always struggled when Alona asks because I'm like, well, it's always a choice, you know, and I felt like so much of my life has just been like, well, that choice.

Speaker 3 Maybe I'm so like realistic about it that I'm like, I don't know if that's a butterfly effect. But I think a good one for me is.

Speaker 3 In high school, I went on exchange. Okay.

Speaker 3 But I was that year prior. I was researching so much.
I so wanted to do it, but it's very expensive. Like it's $60,000 sometimes.
And like, we don't, you know, we don't have that money.

Speaker 3 And so I was searching everywhere for scholars, for scholarships for this and that. And the one I'd heard about was Rotary Youth Exchange.

Speaker 3 And I remember like, cause I was watching all the YouTube vlogs and I was like, okay, this seems like cost effective. Like I can do this.
And I remember I googled Rotary Youth Exchange.

Speaker 3 And I think for some reason, like our Wi-Fi wasn't working. And so it only loaded like eight clubs in the US and it was all in the Midwest.
And I was like, oh, there's no Rotary in like Vermont.

Speaker 3 I can't do this. And then like a few weeks later, I was like, let me look at Rotary again.
And I had like full bars. And so it completely loaded.

Speaker 3 And I saw that Rotary, there were clubs, there's two clubs in Burlington. And so I was able to then reach out.
And if I hadn't looked it up again and just decided, hell, why not?

Speaker 3 I wouldn't have ever found this option because Rotary is the only way I would have ever gone abroad because the other ones are way too expensive. And this was in high school.
This was in high school.

Speaker 3 And like now that leads me to like that year abroad was

Speaker 3 very life-changing. And I think it really altered my sense of the world and like who I was and what I wanted to do.

Speaker 3 You know, I always knew I was interested in like, you know, travel and politics, but I was like, no, I want to have a career in this. And so when I came back, I was a senior in high school.

Speaker 3 So I was applying for colleges. And even at that point, I was like, I don't know if I want to go to college.
But my dad was like, go to college for one year and then we'll decide.

Speaker 3 And I decided to do global studies. And and I was like, there's a path forward in this.
And if I maybe I would have found that without like going abroad, but that definitely ensured it.

Speaker 3 Well, you were at a crossroads recently and I think we talked about it, but you just quit your job. Yes.

Speaker 3 Which I think was also like depending on that, how that could probably now change whatever's going to happen and like coming to that decision.

Speaker 3 I'm in the midst of it. So I don't know what it's going to look like.

Speaker 3 I think the last crossroads I had was going into this job of I had graduated college and just that transition from, you know, a structured college life to then fully in the workforce, working 40 hours a week, you know, not having the summers off and breaks off.

Speaker 3 Like that was a really

Speaker 3 like hard transition. Like I remember I'd be like in the middle of the work day and I was like, I have to do this tomorrow and I have to do it the day after.

Speaker 3 And then I get two days off, but then I'm doing it five days again.

Speaker 3 Like, and I think a lot of people struggle with that because that is, you know, it's hard on us as like humans to just be like locked in for that long, especially after years of schooling.

Speaker 3 And then, like, that's you have responsibilities with that, but it's a different sort.

Speaker 3 Knowing that you just have to work every day, that was, I eventually got over it because I was like, you have to, or else you're going to like constantly struggle with it.

Speaker 3 I think every young person has to have that, like,

Speaker 3 come to the light about it as well. I remember sitting down my first day at that desktop being like, oh, you know, is this it? Yes.
Interesting. And like, I think, you know,

Speaker 3 that feeling might not have lasted also because, you know, you just have to get over what you used to have and just adjust. And that adjustment period is tough.

Speaker 3 But you got to work with some cool people, though, too. Absolutely.
So, like, when you did get to go in and hang out with them, yeah, I've loved my coworkers.

Speaker 3 Like, again, I worked for a women's organization. So, it was mostly women who worked there.
Women. Women.
We're in the business of women. Olivia tells a quote of like my first day at work.

Speaker 3 You want to say it? She, like, her first day on the job, I like called her. I was like, how was it? Like, how was your big girl job in New York City? And she was like, oh my gosh, it was so good.

Speaker 3 I was like, wow. Okay.
Yeah. She was like, no, it was so good.
Literally, it's all women. I didn't talk to one.
I only, I talked to one man and he was gay. Like that.

Speaker 3 I was like, hell yeah. What a place to be.
I remember I also like cried on my first day too. Not because it was just women, but.

Speaker 3 I was onboarding and I was just like having to learn everything about the organization, what it's currently doing, what it has done.

Speaker 3 And so I was just reading all these articles and internal pieces and I was, I had this moment, I was like, this is what I've studied for and like, I'm finally doing it. And that was just, you know,

Speaker 3 like a dream come true almost of like, just seeing it come to fruition was really amazing. I will probably be looking at the job boards.
For sure. That feels like.
Still a good step for me to do.

Speaker 3 Just give me like two more weeks, please. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then I'll be on the job boards.

Speaker 3 Dad, I promise. Dad, she's gone ice wear.
When I told him, I was like, Dad, I'm sending in my resignation. He's like, all right.
So it's easier to get a job when you have a job.

Speaker 3 So this week is really important. Dad thing to say.
Heard

Speaker 3 not doing that right now. I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry. Sorry.
Sorry.

Speaker 3 This is your job now. Appreciate you though.
So a little bit of that. I know we talked about like maybe grad school, but that

Speaker 3 feels like more of just grad school, do grad school.

Speaker 3 I remember once I was talking with my roommate because she wants to get like her doctorate one day, and I was like, Oh, yeah, I thought about that. And she's like, Oh, for what?

Speaker 3 And I was like, I don't know, it'd be really more to call myself a doctor, which doesn't feel like the reason why you should go to post-grad. But I also hear, and I don't judge you for that.

Speaker 3 No, that'd be a big reason. Dr.
Marr,

Speaker 3 Dr. Marr.

Speaker 3 One day, guys, maybe that'd be cool. Well, you're one day, you think be so real.

Speaker 3 You're going back to honorary, honorary. That's what I'm waiting for: is for people coming to ask me to speak at commencements.
And I'm like, only if I get that honorary doctorate.

Speaker 3 Can you call yourself like Dr. Marr then if it's the honorary one? I will be.
Probably not. She will.
But I will be. She'll add that to the bio.

Speaker 3 Well, I always wanted to be a doctor, so that's why I'm going to use it that way.

Speaker 3 Put that on your Instagram name. Dr.

Speaker 3 Marr. Dr.
Alonamar Ollie. Olympian.
The only way I'm coming to speak at your graduation. That's what it means.

Speaker 3 That's what Ollie means. I just figured that out.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 There you go. Okay.

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Speaker 3 You guys, I heard we received a very special message from a friend of Miss Alona's that I think some people at home may want to hear.

Speaker 2 Hello, Marr Sisters. Kylie Kelsey here.
I am just tapping in to congratulate you guys on the new show.

Speaker 2 I cannot wait to tune into House of Marr. I came from a house of only me and my sister.
It was all sisterhood up in there. And now I live in a house of more sisters.

Speaker 2 Our two-year-old, this morning, I asked her if she was a baby and she told me no, I'm a sister. Wow, that's beautiful.

Speaker 3 Bars.

Speaker 2 We are obviously cheering you on in everything that you do and i cannot wait to laugh along with you guys because i know that my biggest laughs in my life have probably come with my sister cheering you guys on cannot wait to listen and good luck

Speaker 3 thank you so much kylie

Speaker 3 that's really sweet that means a world coming from her her podcast hours i'm just not gonna lie herself i'm not gonna lie not gonna lie women supporting women yep she's and they have they're bringing they have a new baby another girl coming into the house right i think so i I think it's now going to be just four daughters.

Speaker 3 Four daughters. There's going to be some tough years in there.
Oh, for sure. But it's going to be so beautiful.
No, I think that's awesome. I wonder how we would have done with another sister.

Speaker 3 Front, middle, back. I don't feel right knowing that you would have been a middle child.
I'm a middle child. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 You're a little baby. I think I could have been a middle sister.
You know, I've had like host sisters and like, I think also, you know, younger friends.

Speaker 3 Like, you guys often just see me in the role as a younger sister, but like, I'm self-sufficient and i think i could have been a middle sister you eldest sister little middle if there was one behind you the little middle middle middle sister which is funny actually because i call what is it that you get mad about when i call alona my little sister yeah i call alona my little sister because she is these are both my little sisters but adriana's like that's my title i'm your little sister

Speaker 3 your middle sister you're the littlest sister for sure but alona is still technically my little sister she doesn't like that

Speaker 3 so i think that because you're already so territorial about that i don't think you would do well with another. No, I think maybe it was that you called the loan of your baby sister.

Speaker 3 I think I don't know.

Speaker 3 Maybe. I think it was the video where I called her my stinky little sister.
You were like, I'm actually your real sister.

Speaker 3 And I can't see you anything else than an older sister. Yeah.
You are built. That's what I'd be doing.
It's been an older sister. Yeah.
I don't know. It's in your bones.

Speaker 3 Maybe if I was a middle sister, I'd be like really good at a sport. But our parents always say, though, I mean, yeah, that's what they're saying.

Speaker 3 Our parents always say, though, like, my dad, my mom, you know, gave our dad three daughters and he was like she wanted another one and he was like you know i think i'm gonna be a great dad to these three girls i just don't know if i can do another one and like he's been just the best to three daughters i think the thing was he's never treated us any differently being daughters versus sons like he always told us to be the strongest to pitch it the fastest and didn't matter so and i imagine that's going to be the same with jason to like do the same for his daughters he's a football player i hope he knows you know like these girls are going to be just as athletic and fun as any sons would be and i mean to to my dad who goes oh the people go to our dad you know oh you had all daughters oh sucks for him he's got an olympian he's got amazing daughters anyway they he has daughters who we can chat to he gets along with so well he's the man's fine no he's off he is okay they'll be good do not worry all those girls being raised by jason and and uh kylie what a what a fantastic position for them yeah like the things that they are going to do with the guidance of them i mean and you was that the first time you met them was at the olympics Kylie and I like followed each other.

Speaker 3 Right. And then we were chatting a little bit over like DMs.
And then she came to the game. And all these people I remember kept being like, oh my God, what's it like to meet celebrities like Jason?

Speaker 3 I was like, I don't even, I didn't care about him. Kylie was there.
Kylie was there. I got to meet Kylie.
Yeah. And it was awesome.
She's awesome. And like, she's the one.

Speaker 3 She brought him to all sorts of games. They went to gymnastics.
They went to rugby.

Speaker 3 And like for her to be there, they came to, I think it was my Brazil game and then they came back to our semifinal game as well. So they came came for two different days.

Speaker 3 They were wearing, like, they met you guys, wore the jerseys and whatnot. And I had these insane Hawaiian shirts made for the Olympics for us to wear, and we gifted our.
With Alona's face everywhere.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. Like, it was obnoxious and American in the best way.
We gifted those to them. And Jason wore the jersey that you guys gifted him.
Yep. That you guys all saw.

Speaker 3 The jersey and the Hawaiian shirt. Jersey, Hawaiian shirt, and then he wore it to gymnastics because that's why they weren't at the final.

Speaker 3 They had to get to the gymnastics events, but they brought the rugby spirit with them. That was fun to meet them as well.
dad and jason threw around a rugby ball together um

Speaker 3 it was just good they were just like solid people and like the kind of people that like yeah they deserve to be famous like those are the kind of people we need in the world like there was um a little girl two little girls there i can't remember and they went up to kylie her coach's daughters what are their names oh yes

Speaker 3 ollie and gigi

Speaker 3 ollie and gigi went up to kylie and she just crouched down and you could just see her in mom mode yeah like the world didn't exist but these two little girls it was the sweetest she truly just like when those girls came in the picture, like Kylie was doing, was there.

Speaker 3 She was with them. I was like, period.
Get after it. That's our future right there.
That's our future. She sees that.
God, what a saint.

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