Ilona Maher

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738 appearances 9 recordings 8 series first heard Jul 2024 last heard 4 Jul

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

No thrill. No thrill. At all. Let me walk the halls.

Do I spend way too much money by doing that? Yes. If it's on sale and it's a little something I've never tried before, I'm getting it. I'm getting it. I'm spending $40 on just weird stuff. Let's explain our mom a little bit. She is... The best cook in the world. Oh my God. I'll put money on it. Yeah. I say that's how we got to be the size we are. That and pints of milk at dinner.

Every night, like two glasses of milk.

Chug, chug, chug. Everyone's like, ew, milk. I'm like, okay, well, I'm from Vermont. What do you want me to drink? She got two gallons of time. Yep. That is water.

amazing cook she can like you can say hey mom i want like a chicken curry with a little bit of this and that and she like just can create it she'll literally commune with the universe and be like got it and then she makes the most amazing stuff from scratch too like she's not buying anything she's like putting the ingredients together like if it starts with flour it's starting with flour she doesn't grow it herself

she's a homemaker. She loves bringing people in, cooking for people. Olivia's really gotten that now. She loves to cook for people, loves to make people feel comfortable. And my mom cooks with butter, milk. Or whenever you come back for like in between training and you're wanting to get greens and she's like, Well, I'll make you Brussels sprouts. And I watch her make it.

I'm like, there's a lot of butter in that. I don't know if that's what Alona meant when she wanted the greens. No, she cooks with love and full fat. It's absolutely amazing. She is our biggest supporter. Whenever people ask her a question about me, they're like, tell us a little bit about Alona. She's like, you know what? I actually have three daughters. And all of them are so amazing.

She just won bronze. Like, what? Tell us about Alona. She's like, well, she is great. But Adriana, she has a windowless room in New York City that she is so proud of. And Olivia, she's on the internet, right? Like, she's so... And then she'll get to you. She's like, she needs the world to know there's three. She has three amazing babies. To the point where you've had to be, like...

We've had to step in. You can talk about Alona. It's fine. Please. We're like, mom, don't mention us. Please. It's about Alona. Like, if she's winning, we're all winning. So talk about Alona, please. Unless we're at a rugby tournament and, like, we're at a restaurant about to go in. And she's season opening with the waiter. And she's like, we're actually here for, yeah, the rugby. My daughter.

You can find her online. And then she gives him a sticker. I'm like, mom, that guy doesn't know who I am.

She has my stickers. She'll give them out to anybody who recognizes me. So I'm there taking a picture and then I walk away. It turns out she's back behind me like... I have to order them like special for her. I mean, my favorite fact about our mom, though, is we grew up. Nobody believes us. Quite socially awkward, except for her. She was quite cool.

You got better than us for sure.

You make friends easier than we do.

yeah i know that's true so we went to a very tiny catholic school in vermont from alone and i preschool to eighth grade yeah so a large chunk of our you know young lives right and growing up and the school the people we went to school with stayed the same but like did get smaller and smaller as we went um so i graduated one of six people how many did you have nine one of nine people i graduated one of six with one boy in my class in eighth grade

Hate to beat you, one of five. Wow. And one year it was four because someone went to a different school. That's crazy. But then they came back. But then the school closed due to under attendance. Crazy. What? I don't understand that. That's crazy. But it was so like these people were like our siblings growing up. Like I had my sisters and they were in the other classrooms.

But then the small core of people, like those were our siblings growing up. So we only socialized with them. We didn't really socialize outside. So when we did end up going to the public high school, It shook us to our core. Shook us to our core. To our core. I mean, except for her, so she got to go to public middle school, though. Yes, and I'm so glad for that. It was... It was a war.

I think I may have lost. I lost many battles, maybe the war itself, but I came out and actually I am still friends with most of my to this day from middle school. And it was just like, I was so confident and ready in sixth grade. I was like, I'm going to make friends. I had my sights set high for the popular girls, which is why middle school wasn't so difficult.

I think it would have been difficult no matter what, because Middle school girls are brutal, especially in public school. I don't know what your experience was. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. But it was it was tough, but it made me stronger. And then going into high school, I had established friendships and high school is kind of just fine. Not us. Not us, no. Adriana was actually cool.

I still remember the first time I talked to a boy in high school, vividly. Shout out Alex, walking in the hallway next to him. I was so tense, so nervous. I was like, Really cool. And it was just a normal encounter. It was a normal encounter. We were just going from class to class, but I only had three boys in my class and they were like my brothers.

Like the thought of any, like when I went to public middle school for sports, they were like, oh, and then I kissed this boy. I was like, y'all are kissing boys. That's not me. You guys are layering lacy tank tops and kissing boys. That's crazy. And there's pushup bras involved. Whoa, not me. This is the other side. I gotta put my jumper on for real. Yeah, we gotta put our little uniforms on.

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