Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
You were kind of a bad kid at times.
I was.
Chapter 2: How did Mia and Dr. Tyna meet?
But I was like a stellar.
Oh my gosh.
You were like in the gifted program. God sent you to me a long time ago to keep me alive because.
Well, same for you. Keep me alive. I've done a lot of stupid stuff and you're, you call me out.
We do call each other out.
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Chapter 3: What experiences shaped their lifelong friendship?
That's critical. Just like you call it my bullshit in a heartbeat or even just my mood. Like Tina, you're being a bitch. Stop it. And I'm like, okay. You are tuned into The Dr. Tina Show with Dr. Tina Moore. For more, visit drtina.com. All right, you guys. So for this episode, I have brought on a very special guest. This is my best friend in the entire world, Mia Fessmeyer.
I want to call you Mia Allerheim because that's your maiden name. And it's my birthday today and I'm 52. And so Mia came to visit me and we decided we were going to drink champagne and talk shit. Yes.
of course it's gonna be amazing thank you for coming oh well happy birthday thank you yes and you look fabulous thank you so do you thank you trying our best right so we can do we've been best friends since sixth grade that was 1986 so that was 40 years ago oh my gosh i know that's hard to say i know we're gonna cry 40 years and you've been my best friend all these years
I love you, like a sister, seriously. No, don't cry. You're gonna mess up my makeup if I start crying. Don't do it.
So I have to tell the story of how we became friends. This is where we're going to start. We don't actually have any script.
Can I grab my drink really quick? We're drinking champagne. I went to Cheers. Oh, okay, here. I was like, okay, Cheers.
This isn't my usual content, but I don't care because it's my podcast. I decided that you were going to be my first guest, that we publish the episode in my new space. So this will be the debut of this set.
Well, it's amazing, and I've never done a podcast, so this is... weird for me, but that's good. That's okay.
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Chapter 4: How do friendships evolve in midlife?
We're having a conversation. You're my friend, so I'll do whatever.
You actually helped me buy these chairs. We walked into our house and I was like, I need podcast chairs for the new studio. And we both sat down right away in these and we were like, this is them.
These chairs. Yeah. Yeah.
Chapter 5: What keeps long-term friendships strong?
They do have amazing furniture. So yeah, I took you down that hole. Plug for our house. Yes.
Okay. So how did we meet? We were in sixth grade.
Okay.
I had just moved to your elementary school. For the listeners who don't know, and probably nobody knows this, I moved a million times in my life. And my parents were not in the military, but they were both military-derived themselves. They were children of military parents. My dad was in the military, but not when I was a child. And I think I had like...
Gosh, by the time I got to you, I had moved, I wanna say like 10 times, by the time I'd gotten to that part of town, Mission Viejo.
Because you were in a different part of Mission Viejo and then you moved to my part of Mission Viejo.
Yeah, my parents liked to do that. They would move me to one part of a town and then we would move houses and they would move me to a whole new school. That's hard. Yeah. And so I'm in sixth grade. I know now, looking back, that I had hypothyroidism set in, and I started getting kind of chunky, you know, like when you turn into a little potato at that age.
I was in my little potato phase, and I was really depressed. Like, I was suicidally depressed in sixth grade.
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Chapter 6: Can friendships survive major life changes?
I was thinking about it in sixth grade. And I was so devastated that I had to move, and I had no friends, and I was so tired of moving. And... You live two streets away and my mom was a hairstylist and she did your mom's hair. Yes, she did. And our mom set us up. You were like the super popular, super pretty. You were a dancer.
You always had guest clothes and like really cute outfits that matched.
Oh.
That's not the version of me I remember, but, you know, other people have different versions, but thank you.
Yeah, you were always super cute and pretty, and my mom set us up on a date, a play date, and I was like, Mia's going to play, like, hang out with me? I just thought it was the craziest thing. I feel like your mom probably, like... probably had to threaten you to make you come.
No, no, not at all. She's like, you know, my hairstylist, her daughter, they just moved here. She doesn't have any friends. I'm like, yeah, of course.
And I didn't have any friends to the point where when I go, just a little pearl for the audience listening, because this is usually a health podcast. When you're hypothyroid, you become antisocial. That's a big symptom of hypothyroidism is you become very reclusive. And so that's how I usually know that my hypothyroidism is not well controlled is because I don't want to go out.
And that was the first time that I felt that way as a person, as a human. And I just remember not wanting to meet anybody. My mom's like, why don't you go out and play? Why don't you? And I would sit outside my house. And remember, we had Mike and all the kids on the street. Lots of kids. I would turn my back. Like, how weird was that?
I would go sit out there and turn my back to them and be out there because she forced me to go outside, but I refused to play. I was just a weird kid. And we had the best time. We walked down to the stores. Didn't we walk all that way?
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Chapter 7: How do you grow together without growing apart?
Always. From Newhart Junior High? We would, yeah. We'd walk down to the stores after school. That was our first play date that we walked. That was where the roller skating rink was. And we walked down there and we went to Burger King and then we went to Safeway.
Was there Burger King on one side and Carl's Jr.
on the other?
Yeah.
We bought those little, you put the quarter in and you get those little octopus that are sticky. Yes, and you throw them against the wall. But we were throwing them against the window of the grocery store. Yes, yes. And then I think we got in trouble. Probably.
Yeah, if you were with me, you probably got in trouble.
But my mom's salon was in that shopping center.
It was, it was right next to Ralph's.
Yes.
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Chapter 8: What are the challenges of navigating friendships through grief and change?
Do you remember what happened in the creek at outdoor school? We were walking across the creek.
And I fell.
Did you flip? Did you fall in? Like, I know we fell in. Your memory is better than mine. I slipped on the rock and fell in. And you started laughing hysterically and pointing at me. And then. And you were cracking up. And then you slipped and fell in. Yes. That's like instant. So we both were soaking wet. And then we were like best friends after that.
Yeah.
Because we trauma bonded.
Yes, that was so fun.
Yeah. And we went and saw, I think we went and saw Bon Jovi. Oh, yes.
That was my first. That was at Irvine Meadows. That was my first concert ever. And I wore, I remember what I wore because I planned out my outfit so bad. It was like this guest shirt, like T-shirt that was kind of tight. And it had like the, you know, the triangle right here that said guests and like red with my guest jeans.
I remember this outfit.
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