Olivia Adriance

You cannot trust anything that's coming out of like my taste buds during pregnancy, which has been really interesting in developing a cookbook.

Olivia, welcome to the Pursuit of Wellness.

It's amazing to be here.

Thank you so much.

I am a pal girl, which I actually don't even know if I've told you this.

I had no idea.

So it's fun to be, you know, on the other side of the camera.

Thank you.

Yes, for context, I'm due in two days.

Kind of the most pregnant that you can be.

Like you look amazing.

I'm glad that we're recording in the morning because by the end of the day, I'm not sure if the heels were... Yeah, it's like a downward spiral.

What time are you in bed nowadays?

Last night, 9.30.

And I've been letting myself sleep until 7.30.

Yep, as you should.

And it's been amazing.

Like the last week I just committed to, you are not going to be an early riser.

You need to like...

sleep as much as you can now before this baby comes out and like completely wrecks your schedule.

I was definitely a lot more rigid in my habits and routines and everything was like

super systematized.

And I think one of the main takeaways from pregnancy is I'm building a lot more flexibility and less rigidity into my schedule.

It's like, okay, I need to give myself some margin.

I can't run at the same pace that I was running.

And I'm sure you can relate so well to this where you're like in the zone, in work mode for so many years that you start to operate like a machine and pregnancy does not work.

Like such a release of control.

Yes.

And realizing that part of that release is actually very liberating.

Yes.

At first I held tightly to like, no, I want to maintain like the same level of putting out content like I was.

And I want to be working out like I was before eating like I was before and realizing that I could release some of that rigidity and nothing would really change.

yes all that much like work kept going on at a normal pace and i felt really good i felt really strong it's just it's helped me be more flexible in my mindset about everything yeah which is a great learning lesson to bring into the rest of your life as well and i can't wait to talk about like workouts and pregnancy nutrition

I'm so glad that that is what comes through on my page, first of all.

It's been very intentional for me to create a space where food is fun, it's joyful, it's healthy, and it happens to be gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free.

It's not like, all right, we're starting with the rules and now we're trying to force it to be interesting.

I really want food to just be an enjoyable part of everyday life.

It started because, very similar to your story,

I have very acne prone skin and I battled it from the time that I was 10 years old until like my mid 20s when I was getting deep cystic acne that I just like could not figure out how to fix.

So I really made a lot of diet and lifestyle modifications.

And one of those was switching to a gluten free, dairy free, refined sugar free diet, really trying to limit inflammatory foods and diet.

but still eat joyfully.

Like I felt like a lot of the content that I was consuming at the time was, okay, if you're going to eat quote unquote healthy, it has to look a certain way.

Chicken and rice.

Chicken and rice.

Yep.

Like you're boiling things, you're steaming things.

Like that is the extent of the excitement that we're getting into.

And I was like, that is not enough for me.

So I started to share content around the time of like my mid twenties, um, started to get really into cooking, started sharing content and realize that there is this whole community of people who wanted to eat this way and experience joy and like eat healthy.

And maybe they were dealing with the same skin issues as me, or maybe it was just a desire to feel good or other health issues, but it started to reach so many people.

And it was really exciting.

And the last four years of really devoting myself to like building a business in the food content space has been incredible and very exciting.

Someone actually recently asked me if they like they were trying a bunch of different things with their content and they were saying like some of my lifestyle stuff as well.

But like my random recipes that I'll share do like really well.

Do you think I should dedicate more time to recipes?

And I was like, well, I am biased because that's just my preferred creative art form.

Like I love to cook.

That's a unique differentiator for me.

but that is by far the hardest type of content that I do.

And if I'm going to whip out every now and then I'll put like a day in the life or what I eat in a day or that type of content.

And I'm like, oh my gosh, this is so easy.

It's so great.

Like a collage.

I'm like, oh my.

I should really start incorporating more of this.

So it is definitely a heavier lift, but it has just happened to be the thing that I feel like is what I can offer uniquely to my platform.

But in terms of process, my process has gotten much more expansive as...

I feel like there's more pressure and more eyeballs on my page.

Like in the beginning, it was easy to just, this is what I'm having for dinner tonight.

Like I'm just kind of throwing things together, pulling things out of my pantry.

It's delicious.

It's fun.

But now I do feel this pressure that everything needs to be tested.

So it's like, I'm going through the process, making the recipe multiple times.

And then I have a recipe tester who tests the recipes and

Before you film.

Before I film.

To make sure it's actually good.

Make sure it's good and like poke at it a little.

Yeah.

Ask me questions like, okay, if someone is going to substitute this type of flower, what's going to be the outcome?

Like you need to be specific about...

And those were things that were very much a learn as I went because I am a home cook.

I'm self-taught.

I didn't go to culinary school.

I didn't learn about like the chemistry of different flours.

And it's been a really good learning process as people have given me feedback that like

I tried this and it was terrible.

And I'm like, oh, well, what did you change about it?

And they're like, roughly everything.

Sounds like a you probably.

I'm like, okay, that's a little bit of user error here.

But it's good for me because now when I have my blog posts written, I can be a lot more specific about like, okay, if you're going to make this substitution, it's going to be cakey or

or it's not going to have the same rise or whatever it is.

So yeah, it's a lot of like me personally making the recipes, getting them tested and then shooting them.

And it's like a whole process.

It's so hard.

Yes.

Because the food looks good for about two minutes.

You're like, OK, it has to have the perfect sheen on it.

And I have so much respect for food photographers.

Yes.

And for projects that I work on, like my e-books and a future cookbook, there is no way I am shooting those photos because it is an art form.

It's so hard to make food look good for like a long period of time.

My last ebook shoot, we had like a basic matcha latte in it.

Yeah.

And I'm holding the matcha and the food stylist is like, don't accidentally drink it because we put Windex on the glass.

To make it like really, really vibrant and clean.

Yeah.

That day was the day that I found out that I was pregnant.

Like, I can't even imagine.

I'm like sipping on Windex.

And that has been one of the biggest learnings I feel like in my content creation, because I am not someone who is naturally driven by the aesthetic.

I don't really have like a great eye for food styling.

I always say like, if you come over to our house and you think it looks nice, it's because of Kyle.

Kyle has much more of like an interior design eye.

Does he?

He does.

He's like very much into the aesthetic.

And I'm so grateful for that.

No, I love having help in that regard.

Yeah.

Even like Kyle will help with like what I'm going to wear.

He loves having a little bit of a say in like my outfit.

Montrose.

It's this little town in Northeast Pennsylvania.

Okay.

Eugene, Oregon.

I grew up not really around horses, but like out in the country.

So some of our neighbors had horses, but it was like a lot of cows, chickens, sheep.

It was very cute and wholesome.

Oregon looks gorgeous.

It's gorgeous.

We're actually going to go this summer-

after baby's with the baby with the baby have her meet the family and spend a little time away from the texas heat which will be nice i was kind of like thinking about having a baby in this heat and i feel like it would be really tough because it's not like you're going outside at 3 p.m it's insane i'm a little bit worried about being like freshly postpartum in the 100 degree weather yeah

Because, yeah, I think you want to be taking them outside.

You want them to get vitamin D and that light in their eyes in the morning.

But like, my gosh, I'm going to be a hormonal mess and just like sweating.

I've been talking to a lot of women who I, who have businesses.

I'm trying to educate myself on like what they're doing, what they wish they would have done differently with their babies in the

overwhelmingly what it sounds like is it's really hard to go back to work no matter like how late into it you phase back in it's just really hard and I do feel grateful that I work from home yeah

So like going back to work is going to look very different.

That is such a privilege.

It's been a balance of like baking in that flexibility.

Like we talked about, like I'm not giving myself a super rigid, okay, after eight weeks or after three months, I'm like gonna be fully back in the swing.

I've prepped enough content to give myself like a couple months of time off.

Yeah, so I'm planning on

at least two months of like stepping away amazing which will be really nice and just bonding and soaking in cuddles and us learning each other and how to breastfeed and all of that stuff all the things all the things that you have to start learning um so i'm definitely looking forward to taking my first ever break from content in four years i was thinking over the weekend i haven't not posted like the most i've ever gone without posting is four days yeah

So what is that going to look like?

I think I'll still have it.

I will still be posting like all the content that I prepped.

And then every week my sub stack is going to go out.

So I will be like promoting my sub stack.

But that's one of those things that like I have assets that I have built so that I can put posts out on my story and I don't have to be like recording something live.

You're prepped.

I feel really prepped and it's been a lot of work to like, my assistant Chelsea is here and she has been so helpful in like editing videos and making sure I have time to review them before.

The editing is a lot.

It's a lot.

Do you still edit your own videos?

I do love the editing and that was hard for me to turn over because I felt like, oh, this is where I'm like, part of my creativity comes in.

But in the first trimester...

when I was a horizontal person, it was hard for me to like keep my head up.

And I was like sitting down in between filming different recipe clips.

Like I was so tired.

I finally released that.

I was like holding so tightly to it before I finally released it and had Chelsea start helping with editing.

And she's like such a whiz at it.

She's so good.

I'm like, why did I hold onto this for so long?

September.

It was like a wedding weekend from one of our friends, which was really cute.

We were.

Yeah.

We had decided like, okay, I think that we're ready to do this.

I had just come from an ebook photo shoot and I was like, gosh, I'm so tired.

I don't, maybe it was just, cause being on camera all day, it's a lot.

So you're tired.

And I was kind of poo-pooing this idea that maybe I was pregnant and I was supposed to get my period that day.

And I was like, oh, maybe like the stress of building up to this photo shoot and launching this e-book.

Like I'm just – you know, maybe I won't start today.

I should have been clued in by the fact that my boobs were insanely sore.

Like way more than normal PMS symptoms.

But I was having all of those normal PMS symptoms.

I was like a little crampy.

It was like –

a little in my soft girl era, a little crying.

I got home from the shoot and I told Kyle, oh, I was supposed to start my period today, but I didn't.

And he was like, I think you should take a test just so we feel like, I don't know, just so we know for sure.

I had these little flimsy paper Amazon tests.

Oh, I don't know.

I forget what they're called.

Yes.

I've used those.

You're like, I'm a pro at these tests.

Yeah.

I took that little flimsy guy.

peed on it and only like one line developed which was negative yeah and so i was like okay well now i have this flimsy little stick that's covered in pee what do i do with it so i just like set it in my sink and then popped in the shower yeah got out of the shower and a second small line had developed and it was like not enough for me to be fully convinced those tasks take a minute

Okay, I didn't know that.

So I was like, oh, negative, like moving on with my life.

But I sent a photo to my sister because she, for context, she gave birth three months ago.

So we're three months apart in our pregnancies.

It's really cute.

So every trimester that she was just popping out of, I was just entering into.

It was really nice.

It's like such a good resource.

But I texted her and I was like, is this positive?

And she goes, very positive.

Oh my gosh.

Oh!

Very positive.

So I ran into the laundry room where Kyle was and I was like, babe, it was positive.

And he goes, take another.

Like, so just we need to prove this.

Like, you need to take another.

So I took another one of like the flimsy little paper ones.

It was also positive.

And so I was like, okay, now it's time to bring out the big guns.

I need to like make sure that this is solid.

So I had one clear blue test that had been in my drawer for like five years from right after Kyle and I got married.

I had a little, oh, am I pregnant?

And like bought a pack of two.

And so literally it was like so old and it was positive.

yeah i really should have been like more in tune with like obviously this is because it's hard to believe it is very hard to believe that you dream about and then it happens and you're like how is this real and then you like keep taking tests oh to like prove to yourself that you're still pregnant i took one every day i think for three weeks i'm sure yeah because it's like and then you schedule like your first appointment yeah

And you really want to be pregnant at this appointment.

So I was like, okay, I'm just going to keep taking tests.

I think I was 22 weeks pregnant when I finally announced.

Oh my God, so you really held that in.

I held it in for a long time.

And I was so used to having a platform that was very focused on food and less focused on my lifestyle that I didn't really know how to talk about something this big and personal.

And it felt so sacred to me that I wanted to keep it...

just close to my heart for a while.

Kyle and I got married before I ever had a platform.

So it was just like, I had never had any sort of big moment happen personally publicly.

And I wasn't sure how I was going to react to that and also how my audience would react to it because like they're very much here for recipes.

And I think that was reflected in, you know, it was obviously like a moment when I finally did announce where there was a lot of support and it was so sweet, but I also lost 7,000 followers that day.

So it's like, clearly there's an audience that was very much 7,000 with a lot.

And it's like odd that I even know that, but I was very curious how my audience was going to react.

I definitely talk more in my stories about lifestyle.

Yeah.

I had always woven those elements in, but it was like what we're eating on date night.

And it was still like food adjacent.

And then now I'm much more open about talking about pregnancy and things that are definitely more personal.

And the response has been incredible in stories.

I just think once things hit my feed, people are a little bit resistant.

It's like the cons of anything going viral.

I stopped reading comments on viral videos so long ago because they were the most heinous.

And like the least reflective of my audience or of myself.

So I was like, you know what?

Yeah.

Viral videos.

I don't look at them.

I guess I expected it a little only because I have a friend who she was doing fashion content and then she got pregnant.

And she was like, the meanest comments you will ever get are like mom shaming type comments and just a lot of unsolicited advice on what to do with yourself, with your body, with your baby, with what you're eating.

And like everything becomes a moral decision suddenly when you're pregnant.

And

So the unsolicited advice has been interesting.

I was definitely very particular a couple months after I got pregnant.

Like I started to notice that everything was affecting me so much more.

I was like really soft.

Oh my gosh.

Everything was making me cry.

Every like piece of advice that felt triggering was like really upsetting me.

Yeah.

So I've been very intentional about stepping away from my DMs, which has felt really strange because for the longest time, I loved being like so connected with my audience.

And I still definitely pop in there pretty frequently, but I'm not like looking at that request folder as much.

Yes.

Like if someone has moved out of the request folder and like they've, you know, they're contributing to conversation in a positive way, then I'll engage with that.

But yeah, the request folder is like a little bit scary.

It's crazy.

What are they even possibly saying about your dogs?

Oh my gosh, I went through and this was around like 16, 17 weeks.

I got pregnancy rage.

I can't imagine you with pregnancy rage.

Everyone I tell, they're like, no.

You're so sweet.

That sounds funny.

I was like so easily irked by everything.

And I remember one day I told Kyle, you are not doing anything, but I am so mad at you.

like you're being so wonderful everything about you is making me angry right now the way you're breathing the way like you're walking when you put your hand on my back that one time like sometimes that gets me too i'm like don't touch me don't go near my hair like whatever other times i'm like please touch me yes oh i just want cuddles

I feel, like, truly bad.

Yeah.

And it can be a little hard to not like let resentment like bloom a little bit, but I've tried to be very aware at least of like where I'm

feeling annoyed that you know he's able to carry on his normal life and he doesn't have these like oppressive emotions sometimes yeah where i will i'll be in church and i'll literally just start like sobbing yeah out of nowhere and i mean i guess it's emotional you know they're like they're

Are you okay?

And then after one service, we were leaving and I was still crying.

And he was like, so where do you want to go for lunch?

And I'm like, I'm not even hungry.

I can't believe that you're not sad.

You should be sad too.

And he's like, about.

The waterworks.

Were you there on Mother's Day?

That was, it was like last month, but oh, I knew that Mother's Day was going to be like very sobby for me.

So it was, it was very much a no makeup day.

I was like, we're going in bare.

Tissues, no makeup.

Seriously.

So I had just taken up running right around the time when I got pregnant.

That quickly fell off.

No more running.

And it wasn't like doctor prescribed, like, I don't want you running anymore.

I just quite physically could not run.

I was so fatigued that I could hardly go on our normal walks.

So I'm like very impressed by pregnant women who continue to run.

And I think that's, it's very empowering.

It's very cool to watch.

It just wasn't my journey.

So in the beginning I was...

Walking, doing Legree, and doing strength training.

So Legree I was doing like twice a week, strength training twice a week, and then like daily walks.

And I would say things started to change for me with Legree around 13 weeks.

I started to feel like, oh, I'm not able to engage my abs in the same way, which was so much earlier than I expected to kind of lose that control.

So 13 weeks, I, um, I was still going, but I started meeting with the instructor before every class.

And like, she was telling me all the modifications that I needed to make that day.

It was funny.

Cause by the end of pregnancy, I was modifying the whole fricking class.

I'm like taking my own class.

Like why am I here?

I ended up stopping at around like 33, 34 weeks because I was so heavily modifying the ab series.

And it was like I was doing the same three moves.

You know, they're moving everyone through like this series of nine moves.

And I'm like, I'm just going to be over here doing like bear the whole time.

And like barely lifting my knees off of the platform.

So around 20 weeks, I had to stop walking.

And that was so hard on me because I love walks.

It was like the way I was getting outside, the way I was clearing my head.

It was really good for my mental health.

But I developed SPD, symphysis pubis dysfunction.

Oh, I haven't heard of that.

That one's a fun one.

What is that?

Basically, the relaxin that's flooding your system makes your pelvic area very loose.

So the muscles are under constant stress.

And I was just so incredibly sore in that area.

And when I describe the pain, it feels like a strained hip flexor, but like across your whole pelvis.

So that was really hard.

And I started seeing a pelvic floor physical therapist and she was like, unfortunately, walking is one of those exercises where it's like very passive shearing of that area.

So it's kind of one of those things that pregnant women have to give up if they develop this.

So it's like a little bit heartbreaking, but I was like, okay.

how can I figure out another way to move that's going to be compatible with this change in my body?

So Kyle and I bought bikes and that was so fun.

We started like biking around the neighborhood at night in exchange for walking.

Just regular, like beach cruisers.

Well, you do have bikes.

No, that was like totally fine for me.

Around 26 weeks, I started doing Evlo, Shannon Ritchie's program.

Yeah.

So she has a prenatal specific part of her Evlo program.

So I started like really getting more into strength training and I love Evlo.

I like overnight became an Evlo girl.

Like, oh my gosh, this is the best thing.

It made me feel really strong, but it was like movements that felt so safe for my current season, which I started to lose that feeling about Legree.

I was like, okay.

I got to modify so much of this.

Whereas Evlo, I wasn't modifying anything.

It was specifically for like that week of pregnancy that I was in.

prenatal program because i'm doing things that feel safe but sometimes i'm like chat gpt like is it okay if i do this is it okay if i do that you know as part of shannon's program she is currently pregnant when she's doing it and she's recording the class in the week of you know gestation that she's teaching for and she's a doctor of physical therapy so there's so much information given about like how to safely do the exercises and i feel like i learned so much about

My body, not just my pregnant body, but how to operate in like a strength training setting through her program.

And you come with so much more knowledge about strength training.

Whatever you're doing is clearly working.

Thank you.

Yeah, it was very empowering to just be like, oh, I'm like actually getting stronger.

Yes.

Throughout pregnancy, which is not really –

the rhetoric of working out during pregnancy, you kind of feel like, all right, I'm just going to progressively lose muscle.

I'm going to progressively feel like less strong, less empowered to move my body.

But that hasn't been the case for me.

Yes.

There's a lot of opinions about how you should be moving or not moving during pregnancy.

And I think this has helped me tap into intuition.

It's like a balance of being informed and intuitive about the movement.

Like, okay, where can I go to get good, solid resources around how to safely move?

And also like what feels good for me?

Yes.

How do I just like listen to, oh, you know what?

This one, this doesn't feel good anymore.

This feels awesome.

no, but I've heard you talk about it.

And I'm like, is it too late to read it?

There's this morning tonic that I am obsessed with from Alchemy Juice.

And it has butterfly pea powder in it.

And someone was like, that can send you into labor.

Like it, it made me have contractions and I'm thinking, oh gosh, maybe I shouldn't be drinking this, but it's also like the smallest amount.

It's literally for color.

Exactly.

Um, so I'm like, okay, let's, let's be realistic.

I'm drinking it like two days a week and I've been drinking it throughout my whole pregnancy.

Clearly, the baby's still in there.

We're doing fine.

She's nice and snug.

I will occasionally get comments like that.

And these ones I find really helpful.

I'm doing this postpartum series of this is what I'm prepping.

This is what I'm filling my freezer with.

Oh, love that.

That's been really fun.

There are certain things like parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme that you're not supposed to be introducing during breastfeeding.

And like I made this really delicious like Tuscan chicken bake and I put thyme in it.

And so it is helpful every now and then when people are like, you know, maybe you don't actually want to be eating that in postpartum.

And again, it's like such small.

It's like a teaspoon of thyme.

It can reduce your milk supply.

So it has there's something in those herbs that like can possibly negatively.

No, I don't want to feel like fear mongering anyone like, oh, my gosh, we're just talking.

This is this is just the feedback that I'm getting in my pants.

Yes.

So I actually recently made some like lactation support cookies.

And this was another thing that people were like, literally anything you post about pregnancy, and I'm sure we'll find this about motherhood as well.

People are like, that's ridiculous.

Like you're clearly anti-science or something.

I don't know.

I'm like, I just posted a lactation cookie.

It's literally an excuse for me to eat cookies during postpartum.

Yeah, exactly.

And it has like oats, flax, coconut oil and brewer's yeast.

And all of those are supposed to help like with milk production.

Make it a cookie.

Like, oh, it sounds delicious.

Yeah.

I'm like so looking forward to that.

Like definitely having some options available.

But recently I had a friend ask like, what's something that I can do for you in postpartum?

And he has always been like a very generous gift giver.

And one of the ideas from my assistant actually was

why don't you have like a chef prepare her a few days worth of meals so I actually reached out to Taylor your friend yes and I was like I know that you were doing this last year I don't know if that's still an offering of yours to do like mommy meals did she say yes she did oh I hope she's by the way she loves you and she's 100% listening to this episode right now we love you Taylor

I love her so much.

She has been part of my cookbook recipe testing team.

So cool.

And I'm like, I am one of those people that falls in love with everyone that I work with.

It's like, I should probably be better.

Such good feedback.

My writer and he's like helping edit some recipes too.

He said that the two testers we have, he was like, this is the dream team of testers.

Like I'm so impressed by them.

He's been so, so impressed by Taylor.

I'm like, oh, I love her so much.

Not until March of 27, which feels like a million years away.

I know.

Traditional publishing, like it is a long haul, but.

All of next year, which I'm kind of grateful for because I will have by that point like an almost two year old.

Wow.

I know it's crazy.

That's crazy to think about.

So we'll have like maybe a little bit of terrible twos on the cookbook tour.

Cravings are always like such a fun one to talk about.

I feel like I had kind of boring cravings in the beginning.

Yeah.

I really craved herb salads.

No way.

Like so random.

It wanted herbs so bad.

So I there's this salad that I have on my blog.

It's like an herby quinoa salad.

I made that literally every day.

No way.

My poor assistant was probably so tired of eating this salad.

But I was like, Chelsea, we're having the salad again tonight.

I am now too.

Third trimester, I don't want a vegetable.

It's very annoying.

Yeah.

But like first trimester, I wanted herb salads, berries and citrus.

Healthy queen.

Obsessed with oranges.

I was going through bags of oranges.

Like I was so obsessed with oranges and orange juice.

And one of my things I didn't want was like a flavored beverage except for if it was orange juice.

Yeah.

Like I wasn't drinking electrolytes anymore because I just couldn't.

It's got to be the vitamin C because I wasn't like a big juice drinker before.

Yeah.

Like maybe on vacation, Cabo would have like orange juice at brunch.

Oh, we love a rebrand.

I'm so happy for them.

I know.

I know.

They deserve better PR.

Oh, yeah.

Like in the fall, I wanted like crisp apple juice.

Yeah.

But other like food fixations...

I read the book Real Food for Pregnancy.

Oh, I should look at that.

That was a good book.

It very much just solidified that the way that I was already eating was very healthy for pregnancy.

So I didn't really feel like I had to change much.

You know, I've always been like very conscientious of protein intake and trying to eat variety and trying to

Have a lot of like micronutrients from herbs and vegetables and fruits.

And so in a way it was like, oh, the things I have been doing are like good for building a little baby inside of you.

So that was good.

There were some specific things like I tried to incorporate some liver once a week into like a ground beef taco bowl or something like that.

I was buying force of nature ancestral blend.

And then mixing it with ground beef.

So it's like, I don't really know how much liver I'm getting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If I had come off of years of eating raw liver, then I would feel the same way.

I had never gotten into that thing.

Like Kyle got into it and I was like, babe, it's really hard for me to watch you choke this down.

Like it's clearly so unenjoyable.

I did that in like the second trimester.

Suddenly sardines sounded really good to me.

Shannon Ritchie actually turned me on to their like boneless, skinless sardines, which boneless was like a huge priority for me.

I want to say it's like Crown Prince and they sell it at Costco.

Well, I actually found them to be very palatable, especially if we're comparing it to liver.

Okay, yeah.

Like so much better.

I guess you could like mash it up and like- Yeah, and like kind of make it like a little tuna salad-esque vibe.

I was just eating them straight out of the can.

Because I was like, these are actually kind of good.

Yeah.

You cannot trust anything that's coming out of like my taste buds during pregnancy, which has been really interesting in developing a cookbook.

Because I'm like, okay, thank God I have like recipe testers because like this tastes really good to me.

And people are like, cut down on the herbs.

My gosh.

sardines because apparently it's really good for them i know my friend rachel has been doing like liver and i'm not sure if she's been doing sardines but her kid eats so well i'm like rachel you're doing a great job like come feed my baby i gotta go check that out because i actually love watching like baby nutrition

Oh, you're going to like, she has, I think a whole highlight on like what she's been feeding her baby ever since she introduced solids at six months.

And I'm like, oh, thank you for doing the Lord's work.

It's so interesting.

Yes.

She's amazing.

Yeah.

I'm really excited for that phase of motherhood, like starting to do solids and introduce little foods.

And I'm so excited to think about.

I know, unfortunately, I thought we were going to have like a really fun moment.

Like a really dramatic, like, I'm going for social.

Would be iconic.

I am at Olivia.Adriance on Instagram and then just at Olivia Adriance everywhere else.

Hardest to get an Instagram name.

And then my Substack is called Extra Scoop.

You can also just search Olivia Adriance on Substack.

And it is surprisingly devoid of food content on Substack.

I talk a lot about like the behind the scenes of building a content business and transitioning out of corporate America into working for myself.

So a little bit of a different taste.

Everything is linked in my bio on Instagram.

That's where you can find me.

I love that.

And good luck with giving birth.

Yes, so soon, hopefully.

Bye.

Bye.