Ilona Maher

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House of Maher · Our Teen Years, Ilona’s Rugby Journey & Sex Ed Lessons From Mom · 25 Mar 2025 podcast

But I was in college. So I was like, OK. Come on. But now she gives us sister jewelry every Christmas. It's a new thing. She started with these initial necklaces because you actually started it. You bought us those little initial necklaces at some gift store in Australia or somewhere on tour. But they got green really fast. They were not good metal. But we loved them. You started something.

You started something. Remember, you got those little tiny... I still have it. See, I don't... That sounds, I think it's coming back. What the hell, man? It's coming back.

But you started and mom saw those and she's like, I'll get them like real ones that they can have for life because like actual pieces of jewelry is something that we can carry with us for the rest of our lives and we use and not just be like, oh, whatever. It's just another, you know, gift. So she got us those in real gold.

And then every Christmas from there, she makes us a piece of sister jewelry. And so we each like we're kind of we're blinged out currently. Like this is all the necklaces you see us wearing.

are what she had made for us and they're each in our own metals like i don't know what what's your metal i'm a yellow gold because i was wearing a lot of yellow gold a lot of gold um i am nervous of like what if i don't think i look good in gold one day no this is my assigned metal forever you're good you're good with your coloring you'll be like one of those color matches and they say never wear gold again

Why are you wearing gold? You're a spring. You're a spring. Throw out all your gold. Turquoise only. And so then mine is white gold because I wore a lot of silver jewelry anyway, and yours is titanium gold? Titanium. Something like that, because Ilona would wear this one titanium ring that our mom got for her 30th nursing anniversary, basically.

So now she makes all of our jewelry in those color schemes. But we're kind of being like, hey, we're kind of running out of jewelry space here. What, are we going to go on to brooches? I got almost every finger with a ring on it. Yeah, she also has a lot of Olympic rings, and she has national championship rings. So her hands are quite heavy. Pimpin'. Wade.

But our latest one is this one here, and it says coffee, tea, wine, which is the flow when we're home in Vermont. We start the day with coffee, and we go into tea later in the afternoon, and then wine as we wind down our day. That's just how we like to live our lives, and I think we're also going to do this show in much the same way.

Start with a jolt of energy, bit of caffeine, the coffee to start. We'll have a bit of tea time.

later on and then we'll wind things down which i just think is i love that the perfect way to welcome people into our house because that's how we do things the house of mar the house of mar as you all know we are very online so i thought we'd kick things off with us out in the wild touching grass being real what's been going on Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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Thank you. Thank you. you know, posted the videos and it just showed the power I guess I have and made me want to keep doing it. I think it was like interesting at times. It's always interesting. It's a weird battle I have to kind of deal with of like play rugby or do things outside that would make me so much more money. Like if I could, I would just be an athlete.

But I've said it so many times before, I'm just not going to make, you know, money being an athlete. So as as a rugby player, as a female player, I have to do so much more off the field. And it gets to the point where it's almost like rugby you have to do it more for passion. Whereas I could be making this and this and doing this outside, yet I love this game.

The stuff that you've had to build on the outside. Yeah. Whereas I think what you're saying is like, male athletes, if you play in the NFL, you make a certain type of paycheck where you can just play the sport that you love. Whereas you've played the sport that you love while building stuff on the outside and now you're at that

not a crossroads because rugby is your love and your passion but the money that you make in rugby versus the money that you could make to help set yourself up for the future you know instead of playing a sport that is just so brutal it's tough on the body but at the same time like i think it is so tough on the body that it is right now it's like you're playing it now and these are the years to be doing it so i think your head's in the right place to be continuing on

It is hard though. And we, you know, you and I were chatting about it a lot this season. Like I'm putting my body on the line for something that is giving me a lot, but at times I feel like I'm giving it much more. Like I'm going out there every day with the possibility of, you know, getting injury as happens with any sport, but there's that possibility every time.

And I'm like, gosh, why am I doing this to myself? Like, you know, I could be, I could be,

just living and and making a living doing you know media now yet i get tackled every day and i sit for him and i tackle other people and it's a lot on the body for i guess for a lot of my teammates they're putting their whole bodies on the line for very little reward for a lot of them it's semi-professional a lot of them aren't getting paid if they're getting paid it's very little a lot of them are working full-time jobs we have doctors and nurses on our team and teachers so like

we're in rugby doing this for passion but at what time can it be like for as a job as a career because nobody calls rugby their career or they say it but it's really not a career you do it for this kind of fleeting moment and then i have teammates from sevens who have gone back to desk jobs who are you know back into the workforce like it never happened like we never traveled the world playing rugby together but i think this was the best option for me i've met so many great people one of my favorites is sarah byrne who's

you know, one of the best players, my personal best player in the world, I think. And I want other people to know that as well. But I think What was so great about the Bears is we have so many amazing players on there. Abby Ward, Jazz Joyce from all sorts of countries. I got to learn so much from all of them. And it just set me up for success.

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