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[0:01] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Today on Support for This Podcast.

[0:04] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: There was a specific moment I remember I was in the ladies' room and I had my phone open to Instagram. All of a sudden I press the wrong button and I'm staring at my own face.

[0:15] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah. And that look, that look, who am I? Who was I? Who was that person that I was looking back at? And that was the moment I said I have to step away.

[0:24] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: We speak to Mona Schultz-Loesser, a titan of the bodily function feminine undergarment industry. In a special episode of Support for This Podcast, we'll help Mona decide whether it's the right move for her to come back from her break from social media and share her recent exciting news with the world, or suffer the consequences of experiencing good fortune the old-fashioned way, all alone.

[0:48] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: She'll also reveal her latest entrepreneurial endeavor. Women can have their period in their pants.

[0:54] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah. They can pee in their pants. They can fart in their pants. Why can't they poop in their pants?

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[1:24] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Hi everybody, welcome to the podcast. I am joined by Mona Schultz-Loesser. Thank you so much for being a part of the program today.

[1:30] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Thank you so much for having me.

[1:33] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Now, just to let our listeners in a little, today's gonna be a little different than what we're used to. We're gonna talk openly and candidly to Mona about an issue that you've been grappling with, Mona.

[1:43] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Um, and hopefully through a thoughtful and constructive discourse, we can come to a conclusion as to a decision that needs to be made. Would you say that's correct?

[1:51] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Absolutely. I'm in need of, you know, help.

[1:54] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Beautiful. Before we get to the issue you're in the midst of, can you tell us what were the events that led up to this moment?

[2:01] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Sure, sure, sure. So, you know, I'm not unlike many women out there, you know, in my mid-thirties, living a relatively successful life, husband, two children, living out in Hastings, right?

[2:17] Mona Schultz-Loesser: I'd been working in advertising for a long time and eventually I ended up sort of stepping out on my own and starting my own business.

[2:26] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Wonderful.

[2:26] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Uh yeah, entrepreneurship was a calling that perhaps maybe has been a part of me all my life, but it sort of became awake inside of me later in life.

[2:35] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[2:35] Mona Schultz-Loesser: And long story short, I ended up launching a line of what I like to call inflatulation wear of panties.

[2:46] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Oh.

[2:46] Mona Schultz-Loesser: In fact, the brand is called inflatulation. I don't know if you're familiar.

[2:50] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: No.

[2:50] Mona Schultz-Loesser: No. Oh, that's interesting. So I'm sure you maybe have heard of such things as like a period panty.

[2:56] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yes, yes, right, right.

[2:57] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So the concept here, you know, when I decided to sort of step out on my own was what's personal to me, right? What is what am I going through on a daily basis?

[3:06] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Yeah. Um, and also I wanted to empower women, right?

[3:10] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Right. And find something, find a way to take something back for women, you know, that hasn't already been taken back. You know, feminism is in its prime right now.

[3:19] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Right.

[3:20] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So I thought, wow, yes, right? Flatulence.

[3:24] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[3:25] Mona Schultz-Loesser: It's not talked about. And we need to be talking about it.

[3:28] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Right.

[3:28] Mona Schultz-Loesser: And I think we should be just as comfortable as any other man out there to go ahead and, you know, express ourselves.

[3:36] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Sure.

[3:37] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Sort of south of the border.

[3:38] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[3:39] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um, without feeling shamed. And so ultimately I thought, okay, we'll get into garments, right? And we designed a patented material panty that contains different odors depending on which one you get that conceal the smell of gas for women and that really took off for a bit there and you know I had some issues at that point right my brand is growing brand identity versus my own identity on the internet you know who am I and who's inflatulation right where is that where's that line so ultimately um I decided to just sort of remove myself from from the brand yeah and and and with doing that my social media presence on my personal accounts it it it's it was overwhelming to me right trying to keep up keep them both going keep them both going you know it was too much for me to handle so I had to hire someone to sort of step in and take that on yeah and then I'm left you know to manage my own personal social media right yes yes and so it's about okay what am I doing on Mondays?

[3:40] Mona Schultz-Loesser: What am I doing on Tuesdays?

[4:57] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Right.

[4:57] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Right? What's what's feminist Friday for me?

[5:00] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Uh-huh.

[5:00] Mona Schultz-Loesser: The aches in your hand from just looking at everyone else's life through a screen.

[5:05] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[5:06] Mona Schultz-Loesser: It was starting to weigh on me. There was a specific moment I remember I was in the ladies room.

[5:11] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Yeah and I had my phone open to Instagram and uh maybe you've experienced this too, but all of a sudden I press the wrong button and I'm staring at my own face.

[5:22] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Yeah. In an Instagram story. You know?

[5:25] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Yeah. And that look, that look, who am I? Who was I? Who was that person that I was looking back at?

[5:31] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Yeah. And that was the moment I said, I have to step away.

[5:34] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Yeah. This is too much.

[5:35] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[5:36] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So, you know, it's uh it was a tough decision, but that's really how it all came to be.

[5:42] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah. Now, did you take a break from all social media accounts, or was there one in particular that you were interested in freeing yourself from?

[5:48] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Well, you know, I'd say it was just it was overall. Every platform I found it was overwhelming to strategize across all of them.

[5:58] Mona Schultz-Loesser: You know, what belongs on LinkedIn versus my Instagram, right?

[6:02] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[6:03] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Do I put my the wedding that I was at, you know, on last Saturday in Montauk on my LinkedIn account? I don't know.

[6:09] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah, I probably not.

[6:12] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Probably not.

[6:12] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Probably not.

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[7:14] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: So you've decided you decided it was best to take a break from all your social media accounts.

[7:19] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Right.

[7:20] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: And once you finally made the tough decision to take a break, did you deactivate without posting to your friends and followers that you were going to do so or did you make one last epic post explaining your move away?

[7:31] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Oh no yes it actually wasn't even just one.

[7:34] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Oh yeah there was a whole strategy behind it. You know, I had cultivated quite a following, you know, some of which was through my own personal family, friends, followers, the FFFs, right?

[7:50] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Yeah. Um and then of course, you know, you ride the coattails of your partner and pick up a whole nother network.

[7:56] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah, yeah.

[7:56] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So I'm looking at what, like four or five hundred followers that I have to, you know, answer to.

[8:02] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Yeah, yeah.

[8:03] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Uh on my personal account. And um I didn't want to disrespect them by not giving them the notice that they deserved and giving them an opportunity to say their piece.

[8:16] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[8:17] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um so you know the original post was tough it was I'd say maybe like a three minute read and a comment just detailing why I was doing what I was doing.

[8:28] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[8:29] Mona Schultz-Loesser: You know, living my life through a screen, not through my own eyes.

[8:32] Mona Schultz-Loesser: You know I did my research, found some inspiration from other celebrities out there who have taken their breaks, you know the Ed Sheerans, sure.

[8:41] Mona Schultz-Loesser: The Chrissy Teigens.

[8:42] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[8:43] Mona Schultz-Loesser: The Megan Markle, Markle, Knuckles, however you say that.

[8:46] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[8:47] Mona Schultz-Loesser: And I, you know, it was really hard to press that button and post.

[8:52] Mona Schultz-Loesser: But I did it.

[8:53] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[8:53] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um, I also accompanied that first post just with a black photo.

[8:57] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Right.

[8:58] Mona Schultz-Loesser: A black screen. Nothing on it.

[8:59] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[9:00] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Now, once you put the post up, did you deactivate immediately or did you wait a few days for the post to be seen thoroughly?

[9:05] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: It would make your post kind of a moot point because no one would have seen it if you deactivated immediately. So did you kind of linger to see the feedback from people after you posted?

[9:13] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So smart. I did. Originally I planned to deactivate in 72 hours.

[9:17] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[9:18] Mona Schultz-Loesser: But after seeing the response, I thought, okay, people must uh not be the algorithms must be, you know, holding things up.

[9:26] Mona Schultz-Loesser: I should probably extend this.

[9:28] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[9:29] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So that's what I ended up doing.

[9:30] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Yeah. And um it was three months later to the day that I ended up actually deactivating.

[9:36] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah, yeah.

[9:37] Mona Schultz-Loesser: I, you know, I had to listen to the people and I wasn't hearing anything.

[9:41] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Oh.

[9:41] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So uh then I knew that there was something that I had to do to get them to listen.

[9:48] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[9:49] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So uh I ended up just making it more of a countdown.

[9:52] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Uh-huh.

[9:53] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Having calls to action, you know, feel free to leave your thoughts below the heart.

[9:59] Mona Schultz-Loesser: The heart was clicked.

[10:00] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[10:00] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Uh and you know, I was getting the likes or whatever.

[10:03] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um, but other than that, you know, it was I think I think people were it was a solemn experience for people, and I think it was tough for them to articulate.

[10:12] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[10:12] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Mm-hmm. Now, in your post, did you leave a way for people to get in touch with you if they needed you?

[10:18] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Yeah, I left them my direct phone number.

[10:19] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Oh, okay.

[10:21] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um, now how did it feel those first few days after the three month period where you actually did finally deactivate? How did that feel?

[10:28] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um, it sort of felt I don't want to be dramatic, but it felt a little bit like someone ripped my face off.

[10:39] Mona Schultz-Loesser: You know, like I had no identity.

[10:41] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[10:42] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So, you know, it was tough.

[10:43] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[10:44] Mona Schultz-Loesser: You know, there are mirrors in my home, but it felt like I looked in them and saw nothing. Like I was a ghost.

[10:49] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[10:50] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um, and what really stung was, you know, shortly thereafter, which this is my fault.

[10:57] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um, but I went ahead and I got bangs.

[11:00] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Oh my goodness.

[11:02] Mona Schultz-Loesser: And uh, you know, running into people I knew with this, you know, totally different look.

[11:10] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[11:10] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Was really, really jarring to them and often people didn't recognize me.

[11:15] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Right.

[11:15] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Right.

[11:16] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: So you've left social media, but it seems like maybe um something else has come up and there's a dilemma. What is it?

[11:23] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So, you know, as I mentioned, you know, there's the entrepreneur inside of me that just cannot be put to sleep.

[11:32] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[11:33] Mona Schultz-Loesser: And uh the ideating began shortly after my leave.

[11:37] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[11:38] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um, so I thought to myself, okay, what's next?

[11:43] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[11:43] Mona Schultz-Loesser: What's next for Mona?

[11:45] Mona Schultz-Loesser: And so, you know, through the consultation of some very trusted partners and colleagues, I am on the brink of uh potentially having a new product.

[11:56] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Wow.

[11:57] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Uh and it's a new line of underwear.

[12:02] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Oh.

[12:03] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um, and it's called face-ease.

[12:08] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Go on.

[12:09] Mona Schultz-Loesser: The idea behind face-ease.

[12:11] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um, it tickles me. Ease.

[12:14] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Right? With ease.

[12:16] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Is, you know, women can have their period in their pants.

[12:20] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[12:21] Mona Schultz-Loesser: They can pee in their pants.

[12:23] Mona Schultz-Loesser: They can fart in their pants.

[12:25] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Why can't they poop in their pants?

[12:27] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[12:28] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Fashion forward underwear.

[12:30] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Oh.

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[12:33] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Oh.

[12:34] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Okay. What if I could eliminate one of these things off my list in the morning and just get right in the car with my son?

[12:42] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[12:42] Mona Schultz-Loesser: You know, or you know, and then I found myself in other places, right? I'm at a meeting and I'm in the bathroom and I'm doing what, of course, I'm sure we all do, which is, you know, you're holding it all together.

[12:52] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Right.

[12:52] Mona Schultz-Loesser: You know, just waiting for the last person to leave the room.

[12:56] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Right.

[12:57] Mona Schultz-Loesser: And then the anxiety sets in, and you say, wait, did they really leave?

[13:00] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Right.

[13:01] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Do they pretend to close the door? Are they still inside and are they recording this?

[13:04] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Oh, yeah.

[13:05] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Right?

[13:05] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[13:05] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So I'm sure we all feel that way.

[13:07] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[13:07] Mona Schultz-Loesser: And uh, and I thought, let's rid ourselves of this anxiety, this burden.

[13:12] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[13:12] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So um, we're currently doing some testing right now on a pair of women's underwear that would feature a very subtle, let's call it a pocket.

[13:26] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Okay.

[13:26] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Like think of a pita, but in your underpants.

[13:29] Mona Schultz-Loesser: The way it's designed and the shape of it is it allows for full capture of whatever is released.

[13:36] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Okay.

[13:37] Mona Schultz-Loesser: And the design itself, um, the material responds to that moisture and immediately conceals it.

[13:45] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Great.

[13:45] Mona Schultz-Loesser: But also flattens it out.

[13:48] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Okay.

[13:48] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So you don't feel it.

[13:49] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Well, thank goodness.

[13:51] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Yeah.

[13:52] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So that's what I'm trying to do is get us back to our, you know, our infant selves.

[13:57] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[13:58] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Right?

[13:58] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[13:59] Mona Schultz-Loesser: In that sense.

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[15:03] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: So you have this breakthrough product, and is that what's I so I'm I'm just I'm worried.

[15:09] Mona Schultz-Loesser: I'm concerned about making that come back.

[15:12] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[15:13] Mona Schultz-Loesser: As I said, you know, leaving social media was a long, arduous process, you know, for myself and for my network.

[15:21] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[15:22] Mona Schultz-Loesser: I do feel that it's important for me to come back in order to represent this new product.

[15:27] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[15:28] Mona Schultz-Loesser: And um, I just don't know if I have it in me, to be honest.

[15:33] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[15:33] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um, that is the theme, isn't it? What's inside of you?

[15:37] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yes, right.

[15:38] Mona Schultz-Loesser: And like, and how and when do I expose that to the world?

[15:42] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: It feels like how much longer can I do this without you know alerting the masses.

[15:47] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Right, right.

[15:48] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: So maybe we can walk through um a pro and con list of for this decision.

[15:52] Mona Schultz-Loesser: You know, what would be the benefits of reactivating and spreading the good news and what would be the detriments?

[15:58] Mona Schultz-Loesser: That's uh that's a great a great call.

[16:00] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So first on the con list, you know, first thing that comes to mind, you know, I it brings me back to my childhood days.

[16:06] Mona Schultz-Loesser: I uh putting this out, am I am I am I sort of soliciting the the people in my life or other people I don't even know to come back with, you know, shitty Schultz.

[16:17] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: That's what they called me in in middle school and high school.

[16:20] Mona Schultz-Loesser: And you know, can I really go there again?

[16:22] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[16:23] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Okay, what are what would be the pros?

[16:25] Mona Schultz-Loesser: I mean the pros would be the storytelling.

[16:29] Mona Schultz-Loesser: You know, the the inspiration that I know that I would be for so many other women out there.

[16:36] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[16:36] Mona Schultz-Loesser: You know, I I know I'm not alone.

[16:39] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Right.

[16:39] Mona Schultz-Loesser: In um in having been clenched for so long.

[16:42] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Right.

[16:43] Mona Schultz-Loesser: And why shouldn't I be the person to to head up this new frontier.

[16:49] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[16:50] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Now is there a part of you that um just a part of you that wants to possibly incite jealousy in people by sharing the news that I mean that would be understandable.

[16:58] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Oh my gosh, there Mona goes again another brilliant product.

[17:01] Mona Schultz-Loesser: I'm so jealous.

[17:01] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Look at her I mean inevitably.

[17:04] Mona Schultz-Loesser: I I mean you know I I've become a bit of an icon.

[17:06] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: That's what I'll say.

[17:07] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Right, right, right.

[17:08] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Right.

[17:08] Mona Schultz-Loesser: There there are haters out there.

[17:09] Mona Schultz-Loesser: There are people that who who are gonna look up to me and look down at me.

[17:14] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[17:14] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um just just a lot of attention.

[17:16] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[17:17] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Now have you considered a temporary reactivation to tell the news, let it spread, you know, not respond to any comments um but and then deactivate again once the news has sufficiently permeated everyone's feed.

[17:29] Mona Schultz-Loesser: You know, I have thought about that.

[17:32] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um but being off social media has really been again, I don't want to be too dramatic, but a near death experience for me.

[17:45] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um and just real torture, just a lot of like yeah, you know, dark days, dark nights, yeah.

[17:52] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um not talking to many people.

[17:55] Mona Schultz-Loesser: My marriage has suffered quite a bit.

[17:58] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[17:58] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Not enough to to call it quits, but you know, thank God for feces, let's put it that way.

[18:05] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: So um, you know, I I don't think that I I once I feed that monster, yeah, I don't think I would be I would be turning back.

[18:14] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[18:15] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Right.

[18:15] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[18:15] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So so now that we've looked at the pros and the cons, um, it seems to me like you kind of have made a decision.

[18:22] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: But what it's like we're on house hunters or something. Which house are you buying right now?

[18:24] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um do you what what what is your decision?

[18:30] Mona Schultz-Loesser: You know, uh just talking through it with you.

[18:32] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Yeah, right.

[18:33] Mona Schultz-Loesser: It to me, it feels like I have to do it.

[18:36] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Right.

[18:37] Mona Schultz-Loesser: I have to go back.

[18:38] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Because it's what the people want.

[18:41] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[18:41] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Again.

[18:42] Mona Schultz-Loesser: And I I haven't talked to the people.

[18:43] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Right, right.

[18:44] Mona Schultz-Loesser: In in a quite a long time.

[18:46] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Yeah.

[18:46] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um, but I have a sense for these things.

[18:49] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[18:50] Mona Schultz-Loesser: And the the passion I have for this product and for m you know, providing these solutions to to women, it feels like a no-brainer to me.

[18:59] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: I just I g I have to get back out there.

[19:01] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Yeah.

[19:02] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Um, especially, you know, in the era we're in.

[19:05] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Right.

[19:06] Mona Schultz-Loesser: You know, uh, you know, there's a space for yeah, for all kinds of movements.

[19:06] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: All kinds of movements.

[19:12] Mona Schultz-Loesser: That's exactly right.

[19:13] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: And now, and so now when you come back, you'll have well, you have three accounts.

[19:16] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Will feces be a separate account than um in flactuation?

[19:21] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Uh it yes, it will.

[19:22] Mona Schultz-Loesser: It will.

[19:23] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Mm-hmm.

[19:23] Mona Schultz-Loesser: So I'll I'll be taking on a new a new manager for that as well.

[19:27] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Yeah.

[19:27] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Um and yeah, it's I'm gonna be a busy busy lady.

[19:31] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: You will be yeah but you won't have to stop to uh use the bathroom.

[19:35] Mona Schultz-Loesser: That's exactly right.

[19:37] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: And and one last question.

[19:39] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Are you are you wearing either product now either other pair?

[19:45] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Well let's put it this way I had chili for dinner and a cheddar cheese omelette for breakfast so you tell me I'm buying it as soon as we're done customer number one well Mona thank you so much for joining us it's a real pleasure

[19:45] Mona Schultz-Loesser: Thank you so much for having me I I feel so confident in the choices that I've made today and I don't think I could have done it without you.

[20:08] Emily Amy Lauren Becca: Oh my goodness that's beautiful yeah thank you so much for joining us thank you so much for having me I bought a pair of inflatulation panties shortly after my conversation with Mona and I'm proud to say that her panties can take a lot I went online recently to see if Mona had reactivated her social media accounts but I wasn't able to find any presence of her anywhere online perhaps she blocked me huh I'm Emily Amy Lauren Becca thanks for listening and as always for supporting support for this podcast.