Rebecca Zamolo

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The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby · Why I chose surrogacy w/ Rebecca Zamolo · 7 May 2025 podcast

Well, we have a big production team. We've found that they're like smaller is actually better. So we're trying to figure out what that number is where it's not too big, but it's like big enough where people can do their job and not feel overwhelmed. And then we have two warehouses. We have one that has a pickleball court in it, and we use that for basketball sets.

And then we have what we call HQ, and that has sets. So we have a white psych room. We have a classroom, a diner, a flex space, which we create. Yeah, so we have spaces, but we still, you know, film everything. It just depends on the video. Like last week or two weeks ago, we were filming in a mall and we built a secret room in a mall.

So we're filming in the middle of a mall and we found a place to build. We got cleared to film there and build a secret room. That's amazing.

I'm definitely the more creative one, but he has been on YouTube a lot, so he knows. I think he's the voice of like – he challenges me. And then we have a team of like three or four people that are constantly like pitching ideas and brainstorming because I really think that the more we have – the better the video is. So I like people to question it. I don't like yes men or yes women.

I want to like be questioned because all of a sudden I'll just do a whole video. And it's like, why did we even do that? And it's like, so I don't want that. So I always want people questioning. I want data backing it up. We, you know, we look at our...

YouTube analytics to study what our audience likes, what did well, what other people in our cluster are doing, how we can do our own version of that, just studying the data.

I think it was just this year, all of a sudden, when people were like, how many people do you have? And we were like, we have a lot of people right now. I was like, when did this happen? It's a lot. But I did see, back in 2017, I did see...

youtube as a future i did see it as a business i started youtube as an adult so you know we're like the v1 youtubers just did it made home videos they never thought of it like that i strategically went to youtube because i had an ostomy bag i quit acting um because of my surgeries yeah um and i i specifically was like

this is what I have to do I don't know if I'm going to have an ostomy bag forever I can't act anymore so I'm just going to do YouTube videos and I'll produce and like I had no other in my mind I had no other option you can't act with an ostomy bag well I was nervous they have this law where you can't act with an ostomy bag no that is not true it wasn't about that if you have

You can definitely... There are actually actors that do have ostomy bags. The issue for me at that time was I was... It was nine months and I had three surgeries in nine months. So it wasn't necessarily that I couldn't act. It was that it took about a month for each for recovery. Think of a C-section and times that by...

a little, like, I don't know, I don't want to say how much more, but it was just a very serious surgery. So like times that by three surgeries in nine months and a month recovery at least. And so I just didn't know like where I would be, if I'd be able to go, if I could audition, if you can audition the timing of everything.

So I just thought this is now my reality, at least for the next nine months.

Austin-ee.

You go to the bathroom in a bag. For solids. No way. Yeah.

My body needed rest because of the inflammation. So they... Instead of being able to reconnect it, it wasn't in good condition. So they... basically took where you go and put it to the side. So I would go in a bag and let, and then I had to heal for six months before they could go in and with my small intestines form a pseudo colon.

And then that had to sit for another three months and they had to test it to make sure it didn't leak. And then they could reconnect.

So I have a J pouch, which is a pseudo colon made out of my small intestines and

That's pretty incredible. You get used to it. It's interesting and you don't feel like the urgency that you have to go to the bathroom. It's the weirdest thing.

That was before when I had ulcerative colitis. Once I had a bag, I was fine unless you have like soda, it like bloats it or you have broccoli. There's certain like gassy foods that would put air in it.

Yeah, I definitely did go through that. But I always had hope that it would get better. Because I just think you have to. So there were definitely bad days. But, I mean... Now I look back and I think that that is my superpower. Like you guys are like, you have so much energy.

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