Sept. 11, 2023

The Queen of Clean with Chantel Mila

The Queen of Clean with Chantel Mila
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The Queen of Clean with Chantel Mila
The Queen of Clean with Chantel Mila
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Season 10 Women's Health And Wellbeing Goals & Habits

Chantel Mila began sharing ideas for creating 'pockets of peace' in your home during pandemic lockdowns. Just three years later, her eco-friendly home cleaning and styling videos have attracted an audience of millions worldwide. She's just launched her own product line called 'Mama Mila Home' and published her first book.In this episode, Chantel tells the story of her success and shares some of her most popular tips for how to turn your home into a sanctuary.
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Transcript
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This is Crappita Happy and I am your host, Cas Stunn.

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I'm a clinical and coaching psychologist. I'm mindfulness meditation teacher

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and of course author of the Crappita Happy books. In

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this show, I bring you conversations with interesting, inspiring, intelligent

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people who are experts in their field and who have

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something of value to share that will help you feel

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less crappy and more happy. During the pandemic, Chantell Miller Ibtson,

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otherwise known as Mamma Miller, began sharing ideas on social

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media for eco friendly, budget friendly ways to clean your home.

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Little did she know that a few short years later

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she would have amassed millions of followers around the world,

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she'd be launching her own product line and publishing a book. Now.

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I'm not a massive fan of cleaning myself, but I

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am a fan of anyone who is willing to take

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a leap, pursue something that they're passionate about, and turn

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their dreams into a reality. Mama Milla has been a

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whirlwind success story so far, but according to Chantel, it

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is just the beginning. Chantell, Welcome to the Crappy to

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Happy Podcast. Hi, it is such a pleasure to meet you.

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I am a new fan. I have only recently come

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across your mega Instagram page and your incredible cleaning hacks,

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and I didn't think i'd become so obsessed so quickly,

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but I have. And obviously I'm a late comer because

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you've been You've been building this audience for a while, Chantelle.

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I would love to hear how did Mama Milla get

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started and also what were you doing before?

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So okay, Mama Milla started back in twenty twenty. It

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was around the time that we were confined to our

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houses in Lockdown, Melbourne, and I mean our house was

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just the most chaotic space. I was working full time

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in property management at the time, my husband was working

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full time at home. We had two kids under three

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at home and we live in a townhouse. It is

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not a lot of space, and it was just the

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most cluttered, chaotic environment ever of papers everywhere, toys everywhere,

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And so I started doing these little five minute things

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each day to make our house more of a beautiful space.

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So things that didn't take a lot of time, so

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things like softening your linen so you have a better

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night's rest, or rolling your towels to make your bathroom

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feel that little bit more spar like, and just to

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create these little pockets of peace in an otherwise cluttered

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space that we couldn't leave. And so I started sharing

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those videos. I was sharing to an audience of fourteen people,

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So I never intended it to turn into what it's

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turned into now. But I think a lot of people

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were going through the same thing at around the same time,

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and so they started following along, putting in their own requests,

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and it has grown into what it is now.

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And what it is now, My latest count was two

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million plus on Instagram and I are you on TikTok

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as well? Is that what you started on TikTok and

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what's happening.

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On TikTok about over a million similar?

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Yeah?

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Can I just start by saying I love that term

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pockets of peace. That just warms my heart. Just when

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you said that, I was said, oh, that's so lovely.

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And also, is it fair to assume, Chantelle, that you've

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always been a bit of a clean freak, like this

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is something that's kind of in your DNA?

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Yeah, yeah, I've always I mean even as a child,

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I was the kid who would like go and like

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rearrange my room every week and be like, look, mom,

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new room near me. My desk's over here, my beds

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over here. It's a whole new chantell, whole new space.

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So I was always that kid, and then yeah, I

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think that that's just kind of developed over time.

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Yeah, because you know, cleaning is not something that many

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people would put at the top of their list of

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things that they do for fun. We see it very

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much like a chure, which is why it's so interesting

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to me that your content is so compelling. I mean,

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we love to see it. What do you think it

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is that draws people in, that makes them love your

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content so much.

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I think it's that ultimate transformation. It's that before and

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after that I think we all love. And that's why,

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like renovation shows are so popular, makeover shows, those kind

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of things, even if it's not home, if it's you know,

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like even fashion makeovers and stuff, people love the before

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and after, and I think that that process is so

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satisfying to watch. But also I think having things that

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are really practical, again, like I started the video, sharing

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really like quick, five minute things that you can do

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each day to create beautiful spaces. And that's exactly what

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I do now so trying to make it very easily

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replicatable in your own achievable Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is

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very true.

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And I'm I'm learning like I'm actually being inspired by

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not just how aesthetically kind of pleasing. It all is

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your page and your you know, everything is beautiful that

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you present and the hacks are really practical, like it's

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really good content. Chantelle started off sharing to fourteen people.

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What was the tipping point? Was there a video that

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went viral? Like when did it kind of explode?

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It wasn't just one video, but it started with, you know,

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a couple of videos that you know, started gaining traction.

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There was one about softening linen, so like how to

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deodorize your mattress and refresh your bedroom That had a

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lot of popularity, But I think it was more so

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the answering comments when people started putting in their own

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re quests and I started answering those requests, and then

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the audience kind of grew from there. And it actually

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wasn't in Lockdown that the biggest growth happened. It was

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completely out of Lockdown. I think now after post COVID,

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we're also appreciative we can have people to our house

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that we can entertain, that we can create those memories

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at home, and I think that's why people have become

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a lot more house proud, and they're very conscious of

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making those memories with their friends and family in the

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space that they live in.

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True, and probably a different kind of audience too, Like

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maybe during lockdown it kind of was more entertainment. People

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were just looking online for anything to kind of fill

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the space, whereas now it's really they're looking for those

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practical tools that they were actually going to go and

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use in their own home.

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Actually, exactly at what.

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Point did you realize that you're onto something here I

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could turn this into a full time gig.

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I think it was pretty quick. Actually, about six months in. Wow,

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I was like, I I love this, Like I am

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enjoying this. It makes like it makes my heart happy,

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like it really And that was kind of the point

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where I sat down with my husband and he was

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so supportive. He was like, you should have done it

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three months ago. I was like, do it sooner. So yeah,

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it was taking enough time to be able to do

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it full time, and I was partnering with brands that

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I really loved, so there was the ability to make

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it full time, and so I just kind of took

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the plunge and I love it.

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I love stories about anybody just doing what they love

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and being able to really create something worthwhile, like something

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that brings you joy and being able to turn that

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into your career really warms my heart. There are probably

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a lot of people who get on social media, they

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create posts, stuff goes viral, they grow a following, actually

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stepping up and running it as a business that takes

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a determination and a dedication and a discipline. I feel

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like you, Sdrrike me as the type of person correct

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me if I'm wrong that is kind of ambitious and

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had a vision early on in the piece where you

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wanted to take this.

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Yeah, so it wasn't really early on.

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It was more so.

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Again, like because all the posts that I posted on

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my page came from audience requests. The business kind of

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grew based on those requests as well. So when people

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started saying things like, Okay, we love your tips and tricks,

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they're fabulous. I just watched this bathroom hacks video, absolutely

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love it. But how do I use that in my home?

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If I have half an hour to clean my bathroom,

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what do I do? What's the checklist, what's the routine,

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how do I practically implement this? And that's kind of

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where the book came from. And then you know, people

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would put in other requests like laundry requests and stay

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and removal, you know, and that's where the product line

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came from. So it was all based on the audience's

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questions and DMS and yeah, just kind of progressed from there.

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Yeah, that's really great too, Like that's so important to

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listen and engage with what people want, you know, not

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just do what you want to do, as much as

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you love to do it, but really responding to what

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is what people are asking for exactly. So a book,

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which we will talk about, and a product line. Now,

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these two things have both happened fairly recently, is that correct.

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I was looking on your page and it seems like, wow,

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it's just all happened at once.

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It happened at once, but it's been in the works

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for a very long time. So it's been in the

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works for over a year now and it's just kind

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of come about at the same time. But they link together,

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like a lot of the DIY recipes that are in

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my book, for you know, the cleaning sprays and things

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like that. They require spray bottles and that's part of

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the line, so it all kind of links together at

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the end of the day. But yeah, it's been incredible

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to see them all kind of flourish into the world.

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And everything that you do and put out in the world.

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It's just so beautiful. There's obviously a lot of thought

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goes into the content that you present. You said that

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it was taking up enough time to become a full

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time job. How much time does it actually take you.

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It takes a lot of time. It takes a lot

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of time and between like the school pickups and drop off, yeah,

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everything as well. It is a juggle. But again, like

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I enjoy doing it. I really love it. Now my

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husband helps out with bits and pieces of content as

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well and he likes it too.

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And do you have a team, Chantelle or are you

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still doing this pretty much on your own?

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So I don't have a team for my channel. I

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have a team that manages kind of like things outside

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of the channel, things like brand partnerships. I've got a

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team that looks after that, and for the product line,

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I've got a team there, and then for the book,

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I've got a team there. But the channel is still

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pretty much just me and my husband creating content at home.

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So it's very personal too, Like people can write comments

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and get responses from you, they're not and you know

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from Team Chantelle, team Mama Miller.

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No, no, that's me sitting there before bet and scrolling

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through and answering everything and thinking of like, oh, okay,

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I'll answer that in next week's video.

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Yeah, So how do you manage that the work life balance.

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That's the thing with all of this online stuff, isn't

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it like you can be glued to it.

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You really can, And so we made a really conscious effort.

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Like I mean, particularly at the beginning, it became all

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consuming because you don't switch off. It's always there. And

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one of the best things about being a content creator

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is of flexibility, but one of the worst things is

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the inability to switch off it and kind of just

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put your phone down. So what we're trying to do

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as a family now is screen free Sunday, where we

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you know, try and put all devices down and go

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out as a family and spend that time together like

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no recording, no filming, and just spend that really quality

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one on one time together. And it's just important.

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It's hard though, Like it's hard then when you're having

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time with your family to keep your phone away, like

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it's so tempting to just you know, pull it out

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for everything.

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Yeah, yeah, it's challenging. Let's talk about some of those

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cleaning hacks. Now. You just told me that one of

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the first videos that went viral was softening your linen.

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I want to know the softening your linen tip, because

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I didn't see that video.

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this is my routine and it's it's such a good one,

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like it really it makes it makes your bedroom feel

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very different at the end of it. And I think

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that's what it's all about, is creating like that different

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feeling in your home. So I start off by so

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you striple your linen off your bed, open up the

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windows in your house if you have the ability to,

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and then I make a spray made of water and

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a little bit of baking soda and a couple of

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essential oils if you don't have pets, and spray that

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on your mattress and then just let your mattress air

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for the time that it takes to wash and dry

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your linen. So about two hours, spray this mix on

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your mattress and allow your mattress to air and you know,

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really deodorize. Vacuuming your mattress is also really important as well,

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So if you have you know, a hand vacuum cleaner,

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or even if you want to take a big vacuum

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cleaner and vacuuming your mattress to remove all of those

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dust mites. It makes such a big difference. And if

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you haven't vacuumed your mattress before, you really see a

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difference in your mattress as well.

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I don't think I have.

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Then when it comes to the linen, it's relative anyway,

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keep going, okay, fine, fine, And then when you are

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washing your linen, adding your.

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Usual detergent and your usual whatever you use. But take

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one cup of baking soda and add that to the

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drum of your wash and that just helps kind of

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neutralize the pH levels. It really softens your linen and

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makes it just so like it takes. It helps remove

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stains and everything as well, but just how soft your

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linen gets by the end of it. Then dried as usual,

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put all of your linen back on your bed and

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just get an amazing night sleep, which is so important.

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It is so important. That's really simple, just baking soda.

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I'm also fascinated at the many multitude of ways that

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you find to use everyday items. I think we all

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have heard, you know, use vinegar and baking soda for cleaning,

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and we think, well, does that really work? But you

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watch your videos and it's quite compelling, like it appears

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to really work very well. So I think that's another

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really appealing thing, isn't it. It's the natural, eco friendly

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kind of approach that you take to.

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Cleaning, definitely, So I mean it's natural, it's eco friendly,

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and it's also budget saving as well, so you know,

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and it makes such a big difference to your home.

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So there's so many benefits of making these is.

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I want to talk about shaving cream. Who knew? Who knew?

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So many yous? Oh my god. I was telling my

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husband last night. I was saying, do you know that

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we can use shaving cream like on the shower screens

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and on the oven door? And he actually said to me,

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and this is quite a valid point, he went, what's

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it doing to my face? Then?

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I know, Well, that's a whole nother thing. I posted

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a video recently about like how to get scuff marks

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off your white runners, and I was like, well, you

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can use a bit of toothpaste mixed with bacon soda.

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And someone was like, I put that in my mouth,

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Like what.

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Is in it?

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If you can remove scuff stains. But anyway, shaving cream incredible.

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So many uses around the house, so.

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Shower screens, oven doors and okay, you've got a mix, right,

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shaving cream and what.

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uses just on its own. So you can take a

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small amount of shaving cream. You can buffet into like

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the mirrors in your bathroom and that keeps them fingerprint free,

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which is great if you have a vanity like me

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and storage behind your mirrors. And it also prevents them

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from fogging up, so if you do have a shower,

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your mirrors won't fog up after your shower. You can

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use it around a toilet. It removes odors from around

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the bathroom floors, which is very useful. Yeah, in the

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front of your oven doors where it can get really streaky,

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buffet in there and it just makes it shine. So

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many uses for shaving cream unbelievable.

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And then there was the baby oil. Rub baby oil

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on your fridge. Who knew? Tell us about baby oil.

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Well, if you've got kids with sticky little fingerprints like

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I do, rubbing baby oil on stainless steel gets rid

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of fingerprints and it just makes your stainless steel shines,

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so you can use it on yeah, your fridge, dishwasher.

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Are there any stainless steel appliances that you have within

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your home? Buff baby oil on it and it keeps

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it shining.

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And I just want to say for listeners, it's not

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all cleaning either, Like you've got some really great hacks

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for food storage and you know, keeping food products fresher

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for longer. Like there's a lot of just really great,

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budget friendly hacks that are going to just help around

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the home exactly.

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So you know, you have to acknowledge not everyone has

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time to sit around and clean all day, and that

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makes perfect sense. So some of the hats that I

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share on my page are outside of cleaning. Like you know,

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you mentioned the food storage and you know it's fridge organization,

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but done right in a way that if you buy

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celery and you find it wilting, in the back of

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your fridge after a week. Here's a way to store

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it next time that will keep it fresh for two weeks.

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I love it. Chantel with growth also comes criticism. Anybody

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who grows a big following inevitably gets people on their

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page with negative I did a post about this, why

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people so bloody mean on the Internet? People go looking

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for fights. Do you get trolls and negative comments on

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your page? And how do you manage that?

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I do? I definitely do. I think you do have

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to remember, like you mentioned, sometimes it's what someone's going

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through personally and they're just kind of taking it out

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and what they feel is an anonymous platform, not realizing

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that there's a face behind the post who's actually scrolling

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and reading, and you know, spent the day making that post.

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A lot of the criticism that I get is about

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my Australian accent, which is really it's really funny to me.

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People are like, why are you putting on that fake accent?

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And I'm like, this is my voice, guy. So I

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think sometimes because it's it's shared worldwide, right, so maybe

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people are used to hearing American accents on you know,

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very popular pieces of content on the Internet. I'm not

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sure exactly what it is, but Australian accent is very

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polarizing to the rest of the world.

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How funny is that?

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Do you know?

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That's funny because I've seen a similar criticism on a

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margat Robbie video, somebody saying, why does she on that accent?

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It's like people, she's an Australian, like, get over it, Well,

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does not revolve around the USA.

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Oh, that's so funny that Marco Robbers goes that because

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she has her American accent in films.

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Exactly that that was the whole point. They were saying, Well,

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she puts she you know, she uses an American accent

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in Hollywood, so why isn't it good enough when she's

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in an interview like, well, because that's who she It's

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so funny. The success of Mama Mila feels like it

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has just been a whirlwind. Like you said, you started

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posting in twenty twenty, Like we're only twenty twenty three.

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You've got millions of followers, a product line, you've got

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a book. Has it all been smooth sailing or have

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there been challenges and sent backs? And you know what

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have you learned from those?

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There definitely has been like anything that looks you know,

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Instagram is obviously a highlight highlights reel, and everything looks

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like green and shiny on the front. But there's been

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a lot of learnings and a lot of work that's

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gone into the back, especially in the last year leading

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up to the product launchers, just kind of getting everything right,

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even writing the manuscript for the book. You know, I

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was writing it during Christmas last year, and that's already

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a busy enough period and adding that on top. I

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think what's really made a big difference is kind of

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sharing that mental load within their household, working as a team,

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making sure that things don't fall on one person and

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then the other person can kind of pick up if

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things do get busy. So one thing that's worked really

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well for our household with me and my husband is

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a shared calendar on our phones. So we have a

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calendar that if I add to the calendar and say,

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you know, I've got this meeting at this time, it

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automatically pops up on his phone. He knows exactly what's

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going on. So yeah, I think communications really key.

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Yeah, for sure, we've implemented that in our house too,

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with a teenage daughter, as well, and gosh, it's a

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game changer having a shared calendar where everybody knows who's traveling,

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who's here, what somebody else has booked in, so that

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you don't double book. Amazing. Does your husband you said

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that he helps out in the business, but is he

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still working or is he full time in the business

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as well?

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No, he still works as well, So he works full time.

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He's in digital marketing, so he definitely understands, right what

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I do. Yeah, that's a help Yeah, it's definitely. I

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think particularly at the beginning when no one kind of

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understood what I was doing and they were like, oh,

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Chantel makes funny little videos on the internet.

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Yeah, so that's helpful having that support. That's interesting too,

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right when there are some people and probably certain family

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members who really don't understand online business or you know,

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this whole kind of scene of digital marketing, and they

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do they kind of trivialize it. Did you get a

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bit of that in the beginning, like.

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Oh, she's got this cute little thing where you just

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kind of definitely I still get it now. Yeah, I

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think like it's a new industry, so a lot of

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people don't kind of understand it. Completely. But I'm enjoying it,

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so that's the main thing.

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It's working for you, Like, you really have got to

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just run your own race, don't you.

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Like.

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It's such a great example. And I guess that's why

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I'm asking you so much about your process and the

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evolution of your business, because I think so many people

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still to this day kind of puts it on this

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idea of being an influencer or you know that it's

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not a real job. Go get a real job, and

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who do you But this is a job. You have

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just created, like quite a successful business from sharing a

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little videos online. And it's legitimate. I think if there's

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got some substance to back it up, and if you've

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got that driving determination and a vision, then it's very legitimate.

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I like to share that Chantell denture cleaning tablets again

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another I just want to throw out some of these

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cleaning hacks so that people know to go get the

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book or you know, follow the page if they're not already,

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tell me about denture cleaning tablets.

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Okay, so this actually started because I wear retainers, so

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I have a lot of denture cleaning tablets in my

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home for that reason. I mean, I think a lot

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of households have them, and denter cleaning tablets have really

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great whitening capabilities, so I started placing them with like grubby,

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you know, stained clothing, like to whiten it, and that

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worked amazing inside your toilets to whiten it. Amazing. Again,

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if you like, plug your sink in, fill it up

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with water, put in a couple of denty tablets in

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your bathroom sink, and it whitens the porcelain of your

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bathroom sink and it's completely scrub free as well, which

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is always a win.

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Absolutely. Obviously, you're making a lot of content on this

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topic of cleaning, so you're demonstrating cleaning hacks and cleaning

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processes and tools and things that you use in your

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own life. How much of your time do you spend cleaning?

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Actually a lot a lot of oh I do. But

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outside of content, we try and we try and do

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like keep a routine of fifteen minutes a day, so

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we're not kind of spending our whole weekends scrubbing because

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no one likes that and it can just get too much.

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And what we speak about early about like cleaning becoming

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this like tedious and arduous task by doing a little

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amount per day. That has really helped us cut down

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on the amount of cleaning that we have to do

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at the end of the week because it reduces the workload. Really,

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so getting the whole family involved is really important and

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doing it in small increments is what really works for us.

468
00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:52.480
I think that's such a great tip. I'm the worst.

469
00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:55.720
Like I sometimes get so mad at my family, Like, God,

470
00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:58.279
you guys, look at this house. It's a mess. And

471
00:24:58.319 --> 00:25:00.359
then I walk around and I think, oh, hang on,

472
00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:04.400
that's mine, that's mine, that's mine. Oh it's me. I

473
00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:12.160
I'm the problem that just every day doing a little bit.

474
00:25:12.279 --> 00:25:14.960
You're right, it makes it makes such a difference, and

475
00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:18.400
it's it's it's just the discipline of doing it. So

476
00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:20.319
tell me about the book, because I know that you

477
00:25:20.359 --> 00:25:23.079
have got this covered, like there's fifteen minutes, and so

478
00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:25.680
share with us how the process of you know what

479
00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:26.640
you've outlined in the book.

480
00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:30.839
So before I wrote the book, I sat down and

481
00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:35.079
read through every single comment, every single DM on all

482
00:25:35.079 --> 00:25:38.920
my social media channels and wrote them all down. Then

483
00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:41.799
I went through and categorized them and filled in the

484
00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:44.480
blanks and categorized them room by room and said, okay,

485
00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:46.880
this is all of the bathroom cleaning tips, all of

486
00:25:46.920 --> 00:25:49.799
the kitchen cleaning tips, and that's each of the chapters

487
00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:52.519
of the book is room by room all of my

488
00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:56.960
tips and tricks. Then, obviously every household is different and

489
00:25:57.039 --> 00:25:59.559
everyone's got a different amount of time that they can

490
00:25:59.599 --> 00:26:03.599
dedicate towards cleaning. Some people have fifteen minutes, some people

491
00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:06.119
have a bit more time. Other people like to do

492
00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:10.640
really deep cleans throughout the year. So then underneath each

493
00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:15.680
of the room by room breakdowns, there's cleaning levels. So

494
00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:18.079
there's you know, cleaning fifteen if you've just got that

495
00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:21.920
fifteen minutes for the quick speed clean. Then there's the

496
00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:24.359
more you know, the next level of clean, which you

497
00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:26.279
can do less frequently, but it's a bit of a

498
00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:29.200
deeper clean. And then the really deep clean when it's

499
00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:31.960
you know, New Year's Eve and you want everything spotless

500
00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:33.880
before the start of the new year to start the

501
00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:36.359
new year, breash that really deep clean or your spring clean,

502
00:26:36.759 --> 00:26:40.039
that's the time you would refer to the deep clean area.

503
00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:43.640
So very structured, very structured, And oh my god, you're

504
00:26:43.640 --> 00:26:46.039
saying to me, you went through when you categorized and

505
00:26:46.079 --> 00:26:48.079
you listed out room by room. I thought that sounds

506
00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:49.960
like such a chantel thing to do. Like you have

507
00:26:50.079 --> 00:26:52.759
just a brain that is just like organized and structured,

508
00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:55.079
don't you? Like you are a routine kind of person.

509
00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:59.039
I am a routine and those of us who are

510
00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:01.519
not routine kind of pop. But we can really benefit

511
00:27:01.599 --> 00:27:03.720
from people like you who lay this out for us

512
00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:06.319
step by step, like this is all you need to do,

513
00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:08.880
because we love to just follow a list when our

514
00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:10.039
brains don't work like that.

515
00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:13.680
And having those three categories as well, it kind of

516
00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:17.880
makes it more accessible to different households as well, because

517
00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:20.240
no matter how much time you have to spend on

518
00:27:20.359 --> 00:27:23.240
cleaning or organizing or styling your home, there's a kind

519
00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:26.559
of a solution for you know, it's successful to everyone.

520
00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:29.079
Yeah, one thing that I really wanted to ask you

521
00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:31.640
was who taught you all this? Like I'm reading these

522
00:27:31.680 --> 00:27:34.079
hacks going, oh my god, how does she know this?

523
00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:37.200
Was some of it just experimental or was it taught

524
00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:39.039
to you somehow.

525
00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:41.039
A mix of both. So a lot of the tips

526
00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:44.519
and tricks are passed down from my mum and my grandma,

527
00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:46.279
And a lot of the comments you'll see it on

528
00:27:46.319 --> 00:27:48.799
my page say things like, oh my gosh, my grandma

529
00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:51.799
used to do this, and you've just reminded me that,

530
00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:54.160
you know, my grandma used to have newspaper on the

531
00:27:54.160 --> 00:27:56.839
top of her cupboards to collect dust, and now I'm

532
00:27:56.839 --> 00:27:58.960
watching it in your video all these years later, and

533
00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:01.640
there's a nostalgia kind of moment that people get from that.

534
00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:06.400
And then all of my DIY sprays and DIY recipes

535
00:28:06.599 --> 00:28:10.440
are what I started experimenting with well before the page,

536
00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:13.359
a few years before the page, when my daughter was

537
00:28:13.400 --> 00:28:17.880
diagnosed with asthma. So that's when we made the switch

538
00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:22.400
over to more eco friendly cleaners and DIY cleaners, and

539
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:26.079
so we started kind of safely experimenting with, Okay, what

540
00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:28.839
can we make that will work really well to clean

541
00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:30.920
the fridge and what can we make to you know,

542
00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:35.720
switch out our kitchen bench shop cleaner. And so we

543
00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:40.000
made that switch many years before the page, and we

544
00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:43.440
absolutely loved it. It had great impact on our home.

545
00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:46.759
The actual like effectiveness of the cleaners were really great,

546
00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:50.920
but they were also really cost effect as well. It

547
00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:53.119
was kind of the double win and then also great

548
00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:56.240
to use in front of the kids as well. And

549
00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:00.599
so then I started sharing those diys that I created

550
00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:03.240
on my page as well, and they've been really popular.

551
00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:08.039
It's just so fresh. I just love seeing those videos

552
00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:11.319
of like a boiling pot of water and with the

553
00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.240
lemon and the rosemary, and it's just so like, oh,

554
00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:17.119
it just makes you feel like I want that. I

555
00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:19.440
want that in my home. I can almost smell it,

556
00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:20.519
you know, through the.

557
00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:25.039
Comments, but I can smell this video, and that's what

558
00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:25.759
I love that.

559
00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:27.160
Yeah.

560
00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:31.240
Yeah, Now you mentioned before, back with the freshening linen,

561
00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:34.640
you said essential oils if you don't have pets. Now

562
00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:36.759
I've got two dogs. Are there certain essential oils that

563
00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:39.839
I should be avoiding because I've got dogs in the house.

564
00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:44.960
Yeah, I yes, I don't exactly know which ones for

565
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:46.839
different tips and everything like that, but some of the

566
00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:50.279
comments that I've received on my page have been things like, oh,

567
00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:53.279
don't use peppermine in front of cats, things like that,

568
00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:56.000
so I always kind of give the option. Essential oil

569
00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:58.720
is just for fragrance. So the baking soda by itself

570
00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:01.039
will do an amazing job anyway.

571
00:30:01.119 --> 00:30:04.160
Yeah, and like you, I just you know, things like

572
00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:07.880
fresh lemon and roseberry and you know, herbs and things,

573
00:30:07.960 --> 00:30:10.720
they all have the same effect. I used yours last night.

574
00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:14.720
I've had this pack of tea light candles sitting around

575
00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:17.319
since last Christmas. There's these little scented tea light candles,

576
00:30:17.319 --> 00:30:19.440
and I didn't have I don't have any tea light holders.

577
00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:22.759
And then I saw put them in some coffee beans

578
00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:26.160
and it freshens up the smell, and so I run.

579
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:28.160
My husband's like, what are you doing. I'm filling up

580
00:30:28.200 --> 00:30:30.880
a little glass with coffee beans, and I said, Chandel said,

581
00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:33.640
this is a great way to light a tea light

582
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:36.039
and I did, and it actually looked so beautiful sitting

583
00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:39.119
on the on the bench, just a clear glass with

584
00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:42.519
coffee beans in it, and a little.

585
00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:45.039
Looks so pretty. And it's got so many benefits because

586
00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:48.640
coffee naturally absorbs odors, and then your tea light candle

587
00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:51.319
is also, you know, letting out the fragrance. It's warming

588
00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:53.680
the coffee beans, which is also giving out a fragrance.

589
00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:55.759
It's one of my favorites. I love that one.

590
00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:59.480
That is going to be my regular now, the coffee beans.

591
00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:01.960
And I noticed you said about coffee beans, sor I

592
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:05.160
shouldn't be giving like all the cleaning hacks, mind you,

593
00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:08.400
they're all on your channel, But coffee beans in the fridge.

594
00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:12.799
Yes, yeah, you can put used coffee grounds like after

595
00:31:12.839 --> 00:31:16.839
you after you've made your coffee. Instead of putting the

596
00:31:16.920 --> 00:31:19.039
used grounds into the bin, you can just put them

597
00:31:19.079 --> 00:31:20.559
in a little bowl and just place it at the

598
00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:23.119
back of your fridge. And again, because it absorbs odor,

599
00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:25.160
you can put it wherever you want in the house

600
00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:26.319
to kind of absorb oder.

601
00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:31.039
Gosh, in my shoes, yeah, exactly, Well where if you

602
00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:34.119
need it. Chantelle, like I said, you strike me as

603
00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:36.880
somebody who is quite the visionary. You're an ambitious woman.

604
00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:38.880
What's next for Mama Milla?

605
00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:42.400
Well, like, look, I started the channel three years ago,

606
00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:46.799
and although it's been such a journey, it's still feels

607
00:31:46.839 --> 00:31:49.960
so new. So I think there's so much more that

608
00:31:50.599 --> 00:31:53.960
I want to share. My husband's a really great cook,

609
00:31:54.119 --> 00:31:56.400
so I want to bring more. I'm not a great cook.

610
00:31:56.559 --> 00:31:59.319
Here's a great cook, so I want to bring more,

611
00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:02.759
maybe cooking content to the channel. I think there's so

612
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:05.240
much more. There's so much more that we can share,

613
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:08.920
and maybe more books in the future. Well, we'll see.

614
00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:13.759
I'm saying a skincare line with you, I don't know, Yeah,

615
00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:16.000
because we're all into that too. Anything on our body.

616
00:32:16.039 --> 00:32:21.240
We want those natural, non toxic solutions as well, and

617
00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:24.400
like you'd be the person who could bring us that. Chantelle.

618
00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:27.400
Congratulations on the book. It really is. I mean it's

619
00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:30.759
like everything. It's beautiful. Tell people where they can find

620
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:32.119
you if they haven't found you already.

621
00:32:32.440 --> 00:32:35.759
Yeah. So, my channel's name is Mama m A m

622
00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:39.599
A Underscore Miller m I l a Underscore Au on

623
00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:46.000
Instagram and yeah, the books available on bo Yeah.

624
00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:48.480
Yeah, yeah. I will put the link to your all

625
00:32:48.559 --> 00:32:50.680
of your channels in the show notes as well. Thank

626
00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:52.240
you so much for making the time today. I have

627
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:54.960
loved talking to you, and congratulations on everything.

628
00:32:55.160 --> 00:32:57.799
Thank you so much, it's been so lovely chatting.

629
00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:01.400
With you, Chantelle. This book is out now and you

630
00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:05.599
can find her product line at mamamillahome dot com dot U.

631
00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:07.759
Thank you to everybody who has followed the brand new

632
00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:10.599
Crappy to Happy Instagram account. Expect to see lots more

633
00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:14.759
content over there, obviously, connect with me. Cast done dot

634
00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:18.359
com is my website. Hellowotcast done dot com is my email.

635
00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:21.680
I cannot wait to catch you next week for another

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episode of Crappy to Happy