Mallory Ervin
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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And I watch them like pull the snacks out of the backpack and unzip the things of carrots and pull the juice box out. And I can just tell that that is like her full time role. And that is her. She's so in it. And sometimes I envy that because my sister is also pretty much a full-time stay-at-home parent. And she's like, man, it's so fun what you're doing.
And I'm like, yeah, but like you just go to the park every day. Like that's also fun. Sometimes I'm just like, am I doing it wrong? Like I just question it sometimes.
Yeah. He was so amazing. So he lived in the center of our property. And I grew up seeing my grandpa every day. He was such a big part of my life. He was so amazing. He lived this beautiful, incredible life. He had the hardest life of anyone that I've ever heard. He watched his dad die in a fire in front of him when he was 12 years old.
his siblings, almost every single one of them, he watched pass away. Just so many terrible things happened to him. And he was the most joy-filled, incredible, amazing person that built the most beautiful family that I've ever seen in my entire life. So he was my first example of adversity can just make you stronger and better and brighter and more beautiful and
He, so my grandpa, like until the very last moment, he was 89 years old. I think 89 years old when he died. And Jamie, when you asked me to do the event, whenever I speak, I usually share my story of recovery and overcoming perfectionism and all this stuff. And I had this really, this just gut feeling that I needed to talk about my grandpa. And it was like four weeks after he had died.
And my whole team was like, are you sure you're ready to talk about this? And I just felt very compelled. And the piece that you're talking about that I talked about at the Worthy event was so powerful. Christmas Eve in our family is just this beautiful, big, amazing thing. And he was not doing well this past Christmas Eve. We knew that he was nearing the end. And it happened really fast.
He was on oxygen almost all the time. He was still in his home and everything, but Everybody kept saying, you know, maybe we should just come one family at a time to not put too much stress and strain on him. And he was like, absolutely not. We're having the party. Because he was still totally, like, with it, even though he was at the end of his life.
And it was just this really incredible Christmas Eve. And we sang and we danced. And he drank bourbon and chewed on his cigar in his same chair. And he watched his two generations. And you know what? This 23 thing. 23 keeps coming up with you, too. You have 23 chapters in your book. Yeah. He had 23 grandkids and 23 great grandkids when he died in 2023. And we had this incredible Christmas Eve.
And on Christmas Day, we went across the street. And it was the last time I saw him on Christmas Day. And, um, we, you know, we went over there and he was just talking about everything. He was asking me about my pajama margins and he was asking me the size of my warehouse. And he was telling me all these ideas that he had about these things that I should do with my pajama company.
Cause he was just the ultimate entrepreneur. And he looked at me and he was just still totally with it. He looked at me and he said, he said, Mel, he's like, gosh, I got so many ideas left in me. He's like, I just don't have any more time.
And, you know, that was such a—the 24 hours that we spent with him, I will never forget that because he was choosing to just live in the biggest way possible, having his whole family there partying. And even though he was in pain and, like, it was the end of his life, he wanted to celebrate and to just, like, do it so big. And even at the end of his life, he wasn't, like—
He was just sharing ideas with me. And like, he knew it was the end of his life. He died like hours later. And he still was just so full of life and full of ideas and sharing them. If you have ideas and you're listening to this podcast, like, and that's why I said it at your event. I was like, I want you to remember, you have the gift of time. Mm-hmm. You can change your life. Are you addicted?
Are you in a terrible relationship? Do you have this billion-dollar idea that you're like, oh, I can't do it because of what my high school friends are going to think? Oh, my gosh. You still have time, the gift of time, and you can do all these things. And that's something that my grandpa didn't have anymore, and he died with all these ideas still left in him.
And what a beautiful thing still to die with. left in you. And, you know, I didn't share this because I was like, this will fill two more, but he knew that it was the end for him. He stood up out of his chair, like this was, you know, hours after that. And he said, go get mom. And he knew that he was, he died five minutes later. He sat back down in his chair and died five minutes later. Wow.
I know. So it's just so, oh, how he imparted the message of living fully and to me, with his whole life, but especially in the last 24 hours of his life, was epic. And so I'm glad I got to share that on the stage at the Worthy event because it's something that I want people to have a fire under them. After you turn this podcast off or stop watching this, you know, if you're watching it,
You have the time. You have time. Oh, please change your life. Please like make the moves because like you're worthy of it.
And you have the time and the ability and like, just do it.
Sorry I cried so much during this. Oh, you just bring that out of me, Jamie. But this is just how I feel about these things. So thank you for having me.
This book literally will teach you how to actually feel worthy so that you can have the strength, you can have the confidence.
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