Transitioning from the high-stakes world of defense manufacturing to the viral success of a home-kitchen culinary brand, Corre Larkin exemplifies what it looks like to pivot with purpose and relentless ambition. In this episode, we dive into the mindset of a serial entrepreneur who refuses to apologize for seeking profit and prioritizes efficiency over professional martyrdom. We explore the tactical realities of running a one-woman content operation, the absolute necessity of strategic delegation, and the delicate balance of parenting while scaling a business at full speed. Whether you are navigating your own professional transition or looking to turn a personal skill into a sustainable, authentic business, this conversation offers a refreshing, no-nonsense roadmap for betting on yourself without losing sight of the life you want to build.
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Betting On Yourself: The Serial Entrepreneur Blueprint With Corre Larkin
Our guest is in a league of her own. We are so excited to welcome Corre Larkin of Coco Larkin Cooks on social. She used to manufacture bulletproof glass for US Military vehicles. Now, she films French and Italian recipes from her home kitchen in Newport Beach for two million followers. The craziest part is that she only started posting because her friends kept asking for recipes.
In 2022, she reluctantly created a TikTok account to archive recipes for her friends, just a mom who could cook, posting what her family was eating for dinner. Within a few years, she’s filming 2 videos a day, 7 days a week, running a one-woman content operation, with a cookbook on the way and a travel show in her sights. What I love about Corre is that she is unapologetic about ambition, refreshingly direct about money, and allergic to doing anything that doesn’t feel authentic to who she is.
In this episode, we’re talking about what drives her, how she parents while building at full speed, why she’s never been shy about wanting to make money, what she’s willing to delegate, what she’ll never let go of, and the advice she’d give to any mom sitting on a skill she hasn’t turned into something yet. In her own words, Corre has shared that you either have to be educational or entertaining. If you’re good, you can do both, but you can’t be boring. I can assure you that this conversation will not be boring and will be entertaining and educational. Corre, let’s dive in.
Entrepreneurship & The Power Of Failure
The first piece I want to start is from the corporate professional perspective. You went from having a defense-based manufacturing company, and then transitioned into what I look at you as a serial entrepreneur. You’ve had so many businesses. This is your fourth, and there’s more coming. How did that develop for you as a professional woman from the get-go?
I think that is in your blood. Growing up, my parents owned their company, and they still do. They still work. Both grandparents on both sides were entrepreneurs. One was a farmer and then also became a landowner. The other started the glass business that my parents now own. Growing up, that was all I knew. I knew I would always own my own business. I saw the freedom my parents had to be able to come to a game, come to a school play, or things like that. It was in the blood.
I remember when I graduated, my mom was like, “You can’t just work. You have to work for someone. You can’t be the boss to me daily.” I was like, “Why?” Back then, there wasn’t Silicon Valley and all these young tech entrepreneurs. I remember thinking, “How long do I have to work for someone else until I don’t have to do that anymore?” I knew that it would never be that long.
That’s awesome. How long was it?
Five years. In London, I started my first business at 27.
How did that pan out?
Not well. It was a situation where I was in IT contract recruitment. They were like, “We’ll put all the money down. We’ll start the business. You own 50%, and we own 50%. We’ll provide the infrastructure.” Eight months later, Lehman Brothers fell. Even without that, I could use that as an excuse. It’s not.
Failure is an integral part of any success. Share on XI had come from this corporate environment where we had money, all this software, and all these things. I thought I should have those, too. Since I didn’t put any of my own money down, I didn’t realize the profit and loss and how expensive. You have to have skin in the game. This is what I realized for myself. I personally have to have skin in the game for me to care enough to want to put in that graph to make it successful.
You haven’t been shy about this. You said, “I love money.” A lot of women especially feel like they have to put purpose behind profit. I want to learn more about stepping out, knowing that you need to have your own money in the game for your businesses to succeed. To know that at 27 to 32 or whatever that was is critical. Where did that come from? Where did that comfort come from?
That was the learning lesson. I view my first business as a business school for me. That’s where I learned all the mistakes. That’s where I learned that if I don’t have my own money in, I’m not going to appreciate the value of the dollar of what it takes to have some of these more expensive things you might have in a larger corporate company. I learned it all there.
I also learned, and it took me a long time. That failure is an integral part of any success. I always say I failed spectacularly. If I hadn’t taken those lessons, then what would my next company look like? The next company, which I sold a couple of years ago, was successful. I did it for thirteen years. I don’t think I would have had that if I had not had that first stepping stone of what I view as a pretty big failure.
That’s amazing. The other thing that I do love about what you said is, “I always bet on myself.” That has to have some impact on your success. How did that come to fruition knowing that confidence of relying and depending on yourself? Where does that come from?
Athletic Mindset & Taking Ownership
It comes from sports. I was an athlete my whole life. I played at a very high level. I played all four years in college Division I. I’m in the Hall of Fame there. I took my sports more seriously than school. For me, that was my job. That’s where it comes from. I was the captain of the team. I was the setter for volleyball. To equate that to another sport, it is like the quarterback. You make every play. You touch the ball every time. If we won, I gave myself the most credit. If we lost, it was my fault. The knife cuts both ways.
I learned then the power I could have over winning or losing a game, and also the responsibility that came with that. I take that directly to business. If we succeed, it’s because of me. If we fail, it’s because of me. That’s in the little and the big wins. I never blame anyone. If you blame someone, what you’re saying is that you have no control over your destiny.
If you say, “This happened. Blame this. Blame the environment, a person, or an employee.” What you’re saying is that you personally don’t have any control over the outcome. I refuse. I always blame myself, and then I know I can change it. I can change the bad to good. I can look at the good, and we keep doing that. The buck ends with me, always.
How does that translate? It’s counterintuitive with my kids, for example. I tell them, “I’m not taking any credit or any blame for your choices.” How do you translate that into your role as a mom?
That’s hard. It’s the same. I look at my kids, and I’m like, “I can’t take any credit for your success and then not take any blame for when you F up. If I’m the one sitting here guiding you, leading you down these paths, and trying to shape you as a person. When you make me look good because you’re this kind child who succeeds, then great. Also, when you aren’t that kind child, and you’re a jerk, and you’re doing things that you’re not supposed to be doing. I can’t pretend that that doesn’t have anything to do with me.” It’s both.
It applies in both ways. I hear your children are super kind.
They are nice kids.
If you blame someone, what you're saying is that you have no control over your destiny. Share on XEveryone, take note if your kids aren’t nice. Maybe you can help us understand, knowing that you’re a very busy person. I’d love to check in on when you decided to bring kids into this. It must have been when you were running a major corporation.
It was a small business. My defense business was like a three-man band. I outsourced everything.
That doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a large entity. I work in this space that wasn’t like a teeny tiny mom and pop shop. It was a significant industry business.
We did well.
Don’t minimize. We’re not minimizing. You also were having children.
I don’t come from this thing where I have 1,000 employees.
I get it, but still, it’s a huge thing to add to motherhood in the midst of that. Why did you decide to do that?
I always knew I would have kids. I always knew I wanted a family. There were people who were surprised by that. People who maybe thought I came off as someone who didn’t want children. The thing is, I don’t like kids who aren’t mine. I didn’t babysit growing up. I love my kids. I like nice, well-behaved kids, but I wasn’t the one who was cooing over a baby. I always knew I wanted a family. That was important to me.
How’d that go? Did you do it at the right time? Were you thoughtful about, “This is the right time to do it?”
I don’t think there is a right time. We were married, and then we tried. I had a number of miscarriages in a row, and I remember thinking, “I don’t want to do this anymore.” Not ever, but I was like, “Let’s take this off the table.” When we had Coco, I had bad postpartum depression with her. I remember I was drowning. I was like, “It’s time to bring in help. I need a nanny. I need help. I can’t do this anymore. I have to bring in a bottle,” and all these things. This was too much for me. I got through that.
Strategically Delegating Motherhood & Business
When I had Bear, it was my busy season. I had him Tuesday, and I went back to work Monday. I remember at that point, I was like, “I’m bringing in all the big guns. I am not going to even try to power through this.” We’re talking nanny, night nurse, everything. I was expecting to have postpartum again, but I didn’t have it. I got to experience that newborn phase without everything else going on, which is amazing, but I remember thinking, “I’m taking no risks. I’m putting myself first so that I can make it through this period, enjoy this time, and not feel like I’m drowning.”
That’s a solid callout, though. People suffer through it and think there’s martyrdom tied to it when, at the end of the day, it’s not good for anybody. Even being able to do that and also recognizing that is always interesting. In the first round, you’ll learn a lot about yourself and how hard it is, and then you can set it up for success. I’m in a place where I can do it. I always say we throw money at the problem.
That was a business expense for me.
If there’s a new mom and you want to know what to give her. A night nurse is the number one thing on my list. I did not have one, and it was a challenging experience to walk through that and then get up the next day.
To try to be a person is almost impossible. You’re already physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted. You have a toddler you’re taking care of as well. I viewed a night nurse as a business expense, and I never apologize for it. That is part of me running my business. I didn’t even take a week off from work. It was essential.
That makes sense. At the outset, bringing in and recruiting the right people to support your mothering, quite honestly, while you were working, within that, we can delegate a lot. I’m so curious. What did you hold? What were the experiences when your kids were young?
I always wanted to put them to bed at night. I always wanted to make sure I was there to feed them. I had a lot of flexibility at my job. I’d be home around 3:00 or 3:30. I was not someone who was coming home at 8:00 at night. I had a lot of flexibility. It was always important to me that I was there, spending hours with them, doing the bath, doing the nighttime routine, and all that when they were super little. When they got a little older, it was things like coaching one of their teams, taking them to all their practices, and things like that.
How my business was is that you might get a big order, and it might not be delivered for 3, 4, or 5 months. You would have these times of being very busy, but it’s not a highly transactional business, selling armor. I had a ton of flexibility in my job. That was another thing. I tried to set it up so that I could make the most amount of money working the least amount of hours, especially when the kids were young.
That’s such an important thing to factor in. As you’re starting a career, to know that if you want to be a mom, you have to create the lull. Work your butt off before the lull so that you can have the lull.
It’s so you can have that time with them. That’s what I did. Could I probably have not done that and grown the business during that time? Yes, but I didn’t. I was making plenty of money to be very comfortable and to provide the life I wanted for my family while probably only working 25 hours a week. I had a ton of flexibility. It got the stage, which is why I sold it a couple of years ago, and I got very comfortable doing that. It was either that I increase my workload, double it, hire, do all this, and grow this business, or I offload it and let someone else do it. That’s what I did.
It felt like a great move, as you’ve described it. Sometimes, I get bored over that long haul of a period. My business is set up so that I’m constantly working for new startups. That’s how I refresh. Was any part of your next business reaction to shaking off? Going from defense work to cooking is quite a jump. What triggered that, like, “I’m going to go to the opposite end.”
Finding Creativity In A Male-Dominated Industry
Back in 2018, I started a company called Corre Marie. I used to go to estate sales and sell vintage things solely out of the fact that I needed something creative in my life. I remember the time I was telling Matt, my husband, and he was like, “Do you think you need to take something else on? This seems like a lot.” I was like, “I’m unhappy. I’m feeling stagnant. I have no creativity. I work in this male-dominated industry. I’m never around any other females or anything like that. I’m feeling unfulfilled, so this is important to me.”
I did that, and it was so much fun and fulfilling. I loved it. It wasn’t a moneymaker, not how I was doing it, but it still brings me joy. That’s what was that stepping stone to where I am. It’s realizing that for my next career, I wanted it to be something creative, something I love, something I wanted to do anyway, and something around women, honestly. I was sick of being around all old White men. That’s what my industry is.
Sometimes, I sit in a similar room. Finding something, even like this, for me, is that aspect where I get to talk to women all the time, connect, and get deep with people. I can assure you, even with my daughter, that you’re drawing in beyond women. To my daughter, I was like, “We are not making champs potatoes until you finish your homework,” which is one of the most amazing recipes ever. You’ve affected a broader population. When I look at you as this influencer category, did you sit down and say, “I want to be an influencer?”
No. I did this for fun. I did the cooking for fun. It’s still on my personal Instagram, in my highlights. Those highlights are probably eight years old. They’re still there. That’s where my recipes were. My friends were like, “Could you put them all in one place?” I don’t know why I chose TikTok. I’ve never even been on TikTok.
I’ve never been on TikTok.
I love TikTok.
Why do you love TikTok?
Instead of watching TV, I watch TikTok as a consumer. I was like, “I’m going to learn how to do TikTok. This can’t be that hard. I can figure it out.” I watched some YouTube tutorials, and then I started TikTok. That was it. That was so we could have a place for my recipes. I was still working full-time. I did that for at least a year and a half years or 2 years. After I sold the business, I thought I was going to be kept on more in a full-time capacity. That didn’t end up happening. A year in, it was pretty much minimal hours, so I was like, “I need a job. I can’t do anything else in this industry. I have a non-compete.”
I still work there, but in a very limited capacity. I had already experienced some success on TikTok, so I was like, “Maybe I’ll go full in.” There were rumblings that TikTok was going to leave. I was hesitant to go to Instagram because I felt the aesthetic over there was too curated and too perfect. There was music, lighting, and everyone was wearing makeup. It didn’t feel like they would get me, but I had two years’ worth of content sitting there, so I threw it over on Instagram, and it blew up.
That’s what I love about you. I can connect with you. I am not a dolled-up person. I want to get good food and enjoy the process of cooking. That caters to the masses. Granted, we live in a weird place, to be honest, where there are a lot of people who are utilizing that platform to look awesome. I feel like that’s such a differentiator as part of your brand.
It’s that. People can see themselves making the food. I don’t have makeup on. I make a lot of content.
You’re working your butt off.
I make a phenomenal amount of content.
It is a lot of work. This is the other part for those out there. I want to inspire people because you’ve done something that has taken a passion and a request from your friends. t has blown up because of who you are. You’ve treated this like a business.
A startup.
That’s not without a lot of work.
For anyone who has been through a startup, a startup is the hardest thing, the most exciting thing you’ll ever do. You live constantly on the edge.
You’re doing everything.
You wear every hat until you can afford not to. Someone was like, “Who does your editing? Who manages your socials?” I edit everything. I manage everything. When you hear from me, they come from me. I don’t have a single person who manages any of that. I hired an assistant part-time, who I think has changed my life. I didn’t realize how much I was drowning.
It’s a big impact.
In all of these projects, even bringing on a bookkeeper. Things I don’t want to do, I don’t do. They sit there in a pile. I don’t want to do them, and I’m probably not going to. Finally, I’m at a stage where I’m transitioning from startup to that building stage where I build. We are entrenching in. I’m coming out with a couple of products this year. The book launches in November 2026. Even hiring an assistant is a big deal.
It’s huge.
I was talking to my best friend. She lives in Australia. She’s like my therapist. I was like, “Why am I putting some of these tasks off, things that I should be excited about?” She was like, “You have too much on your plate. Make a strategic hire, and you will feel differently about all these things. All you want to do is create. That’s what you love. That’s what you like doing. You like engaging with your audience and creating. Get to a stage where everything else is then taken off.” My next hire is going to be some sort of director of operations, where I can hand over some of the tasks I don’t want to do.
They’re not in your realm. I always go back to this Dr. Oz example. Where he goes in for surgery, there are 200 procedures that take place. He goes in and does one thing. He does it for five minutes and leaves. That’s what I want to be. That’s what you want to be. You have an amazing ability to choose talent. That’s where you’re heading, but it’s not without a lot of work.
Especially when you’re this small, if you make a wrong hire at this stage, when there are only 2 or 3 people working in your business, it could be bad. I’ve always been good at delegating things that I’m not good at or don’t want to do. I’ve always outsourced. If I can’t do it in-house, we outsource. When you’re small, you have to have the time and capacity to bring that person up.
You then have to start managing people, and managing people is hard. There are some people out there who should never manage people. I was always the captain of a team. I do feel like I am not bad at managing people. Sometimes, it’s not what I love doing. You have to decide. Is that something you want to do, or do you hire someone and then you put the people under them, so you have one person maybe reporting to you? That’s going to be the model I go down. That’s what I’ve been chatting about with my close inner circle.
Authentic Storytelling & Viral Content Strategy
It’s exciting. There had to be a point when you exploded. Was there an earthquake of some sort that happened?
There was. I feel like it was last September 2025. It was not that long ago. I had three recipes go viral. This is what I always say to other content creators. One post can change your life. I genuinely believe in it. Three recipes around a three-week period of time went crazy viral. I went from what seemed to be 550,000 followers to 1 million, then my newsletter exploded. It went from growing this to quadrupling in growth.
It is an amazing newsletter. I appreciate that as a working parent because sometimes, I can’t get it all from Instagram. I wait for that, and then I print them out, and I can enjoy it. I am a recipe follower. I am a baker. I need that thing. I need it. I do it exactly as you tell me to do it.
For two years, I didn’t even have a newsletter. The newsletter is not even two years old. I remember people were like, “Will you ever write the recipe down?” I’m like, “I don’t know.” I was like, “I will start this newsletter, and I will write down three a week.” It’s always the three most popular from the week before. Now, I can’t even imagine not having any form of that.
I’m excited about your cookbook. I know that’s coming out.
The pre-sale is coming soon.
I was curious. You mentioned a cookbook that I wanted to ask you about. It was a friend of yours who went through Italy with grandmothers or something.
She’s not a friend of mine, but she’s someone I know. She went to the same school I did. I read about it in my alumni magazine. It’s called Cooking with Italian Grandmothers. It’s one of my favorite cookbooks. I don’t know if it’s still in print.
It’s on order. I ordered it.
You’ll love it.
I can’t wait.
It’s the stories in there, though, that get to me. It has this intro. She goes around Italy and spends 4 or 5 weeks with these ladies and gets to know them. I love the stories behind it. The recipes are there. I don’t follow recipes. There’s inspiration. I love the stories. I love learning about the different regions and why they cook with certain ingredients. I am curious about food and other cultures.
One post can change your life. Share on XI love that you layer that in, quite honestly. My daughter is obsessed and watching. She’s learning where these foods and these dishes come from. I feel like it’s multi-purpose. I am curious. You’re doing this in your home. Your kids are in the next room. What is their impression of this? They’re amazing because they’re good kids. With my kids, when I’m working, it’s like they’re having Army fights behind me. Maybe you should come parent my house. What is their experience with this? They have to be super proud of you.
They are.
What is their narrative around what their mom does or who you are?
Before, I honestly don’t think they knew what I did. This is funny because I am working at home, and it is public-facing. They’re obsessed with YouTube. This is the age they’re at. They’re not on TikTok. They’re not on Instagram. When I got the YouTube silver play button for 100,000 followers, which I have 1.7, you would have thought I was Mr. Beast. They were like, “Do you think you’ll hit 400 million like Mr. Beast?” I’m like, “I don’t know. It seems improbable.”
I wasn’t even there when they opened it. They couldn’t wait. They do get very excited. I’ll film them sometimes, not a ton, because I don’t want to have them all over the internet. They are in some of the content, and they love it. Bear tries everything. He is very much my foodie. Coco will try most things, but she’s pickier. She likes the things she likes.
She’s like, “Make my tomato pasta every day. I’d be happy.” Whereas Bear is willing to try anything. They’re very excited about it. Coco is twelve, so she’s in that preteen stage. I got a Summer Fridays PR package. You would have thought I was Taylor Swift. It was like, “Summer Fridays sent you something? What’d you get? Did you get the face mask?” I was like, “I did.” She’s like, “You got the sold-out lip balm.”
It’s a big deal. I have a twelve-year-old as well. This is serious stuff. You’re the best mom ever.
Yes, because I got the Summer Fridays marshmallow lip balm that is sold out everywhere. I probably could do nothing else.
That’s so fun that they get to see all the hard work.
The Content Creator Grind: Work-Life Balance & Self-Competition
I work every day. I work seven days a week. When you own a company, you always work every day. If there’s an email that comes Saturday morning, it ruins your weekend. That’s how it works. Now, I work every day. I have been transitioning on the weekends, especially on Sunday, trying to take a period of time where I do not. That is what I’m going to be trying to do going forward, getting a little more work-life balance, because I don’t have any right now. I used to have a very healthy amount, and now, I don’t have any.
It’s so different with the skin in the game and what you’re trying to grow. You’re on a great roll. You can’t pause. There’s no opportunity to say, “I’m going to take a little break.”
We keep going. Also, I’m so competitive with myself. This is straight-up competing with myself. I do not look at another creator and be like, “You have this.” It is me. Every day, I’m competing with myself.
You said something. I don’t know where, but I thought it was awesome. You go back and look at your own film. I love that. You don’t look at anyone else’s. You’re like, “I’m going to go back, check on myself, and improve myself.” Especially in this world of so much content and information, not trying to be like anyone but you, that’s what I see it as.
There are times when I’m like, “Something’s changing. My content’s not hitting.” I will go and look at the FYP page and see what’s hitting, but it doesn’t work for me. I have to go back to the roots. I have to go back, look at my content, see what my audience wants to see, and give them more of that. That’s what you’re doing. You’re studying your own film to see what your audience wants, not what Joe Blank’s down the street wants, who is different from you.
I sometimes still need to be reminded of that. Go back and see what your followers want. That’s what your content tells you. It’s what they react to and what they want, not what everyone else is clicking over here. It’s different. I still do that, and I think it’s important. The algorithm changes. Your content that hit a year ago is not going to hit now. You go back maybe six months.
That’s what I love. You’ve taken something, mastered it, and treated it as it should be treated as a serious business. Your brand, you’re pushing it. I know you mentioned you’re going to Italy on a trip. Is that part of this experience, or is that an offshoot?
It’s part of. I’m hosting a trip with a company called Via Rosa. They do food tours all over Italy. It’s a mother-daughter company. They’re amazing. What they’ve started doing, which I think is genius, is they partner with food creators. Before, when I looked at a business model, it was limited to the two women, the mother-daughter, being on each of these trips.
Maybe you could each work two weeks a month. Now, you hire someone like me to host that food tour. A) It sells out because you’re pulling in people with millions of followers. B) You don’t have to be there. You took your business and multiplied it by as many creators as you can work with. It’s brilliant. I was like, “Kudos. Great idea.”
That’s awesome. You’re headed out.
I’m headed out to Puglia. I’m so excited.
I love this. How does that work at home? That’s the question.
My husband will be at home. I have full-time help, so even though my kids are well beyond the stage for a nanny, she makes sure everything in my house runs smoothly. I do not exist without her. I don’t want to exist without her. If anyone is like, “How do you do it?” I’m like, “I don’t do anything at the house. I don’t do laundry. I don’t make my bed. I don’t do anything if I don’t want to do any of it.”
I’m making my bed, thinking of you. I don’t want to do this either.
Don’t do it. She has been with us since Bear was two. I always say I don’t like my life without Rosa. She is part of our family. I don’t want to live without her.
It’s the way you love those people. She’s been with you forever. Even with your new executive assistant, those relationships, especially as a mom trying to make a difference, cannot be more important, and fostering them.
I can’t imagine if I were working the hours I’m working right now. Also, laundry for four people is insane. My children change three times a day. During COVID, I remember thinking about existing life without Rosa. I was like, “I don’t want to do this. I’m drowning, and I’m still working full-time.”
What about projects at school? You’re like, “I screwed up. My son needed a bulletin board that wasn’t the right size.” Is that not your problem?
Household Operations & Partnership Balance
I try to. What I’m doing more is putting more of the kid stuff onto my husband’s plate. As a woman, even if you’re the breadwinner and even if you’re the full-time working mom, and my husband works full-time too, still, more parenting falls onto the woman. That’s how it is. I organize the household. I plan the trips, everything.
I am trying to put more onto my husband’s plate when it comes to the kids, and he has always taken more of that on. It could be a book report. If it needs a poster board like that, I am sending that email to him because it’s not going to be in my capacity. It could be a doctor’s appointment or getting the kids to the dentist. I need him to do that.
Do you talk about this?
We started talking about it not long ago. I’m like, “I want you to take this. You be on the text chain. You do that. You have the capacity now. I’m stretched too thin. You have more capacity to take this on. I want it to be one of us doing it. I don’t want it to be my nanny doing it.” It’s a conversation we had not long ago, where I was like, “I want you to be in charge of the dentist, the orthodontist, and the regular check-up doctors.”
It’s so important to sit down and do that. If it doesn’t happen in this way, where you’re being clear, I don’t think it happens.
With men, you have to tell them what to do. They’re not going to be like, “You seem a little stressed over there. What can I take off your plate today?” That’s not going to happen with men. You have to sit them down and be like, “Here is what I want you to do. Here’s the list.”
They’ll do it. It’s so true.
Sometimes, I feel like as women, we’re like, “How come you don’t know this? Why aren’t you seeing me and being like, ‘You look stressed. What can I take off your plate?’” Men don’t do that.
It’s so true. Stop fighting it
That’s most men. Maybe some man out there does, but mine doesn’t.
I’m learning this as well. I have a fifteen-year-old. We’ve never had a woman who has come in on this show, sat down before they had the baby, and said, “Here’s how it’s going to work.” That blows my mind.
That’s not impressive.
I’m here, fifteen years later, going, “Could you do that?” You’re right. It has to be very clear and direct. That’s something that’s special about you. I do have guilt in the ask. I know that’s something that you do not struggle with. I would love for you to share. When you see other women struggling with guilt, what does that bring up in you?
I try not to compare myself to other women because I do feel this town is tricky. You know that. I don’t have tons in common with a lot of people in this town. I never have, and I grew up here. I’ve always been somewhat of an outlier, and that’s fine with me. I do feel, though, that the guilt thing is fundamental. We were talking about this before we started. You said you grew up Italian Catholic. I think guilt is built into that culture. There are a lot of other cultures that are similar to that.
There is no real success without the struggle. Share on XI did not grow up in a guilt culture. My parents both worked. My mom worked full-time. I was the one who was being picked up by someone else, not my mom. I never saw my parents have guilt for that. I would come home and go to our next-door neighbors because they had a stay-at-home mom. I never saw any guilt about that. I never saw any, “Poor you. I’m not the one picking you up.” I did not grow up with that.
Coming down generationally, my grandma on my father’s side was a principal in the LA school district back in the ‘40s. It was a long time ago when women were teachers. You were not a principal. She wanted to go on and get her doctorate. She had her Master’s. My grandpa was like, “No.” He was an entrepreneur. He had come over from Norway. He started this glass company that my parents still have. He wanted a more traditional wife.
My dad was raised by a live-in nanny. He didn’t want that for his kids. At the same time, I didn’t have a nanny. Maybe my mom, when I was very young, didn’t work. They were living in Sun Valley, Idaho, at the time. We moved back here to Newport when I was two. I don’t have any memory of my mother being a stay-at-home mom. I remember in kindergarten, my grandmas would switch off picking me up because it was a half-day back then.
She must have been working.
She was working. Even though my dad thought in his head he wanted this childhood, maybe he didn’t have it with the stay-at-home mom. That did not happen. Generationally, I was not raised with guilt. I was not raised thinking that I had to apologize for being successful.
Also, even serve any role. With your kids, did they ever make fun comments about your presence or non-presence, or that this is who you are and you show up when you need to be there?
I work from home. I’m there when they get home from school. They see the opportunities that come with the life they lead. They lead a very different life even than I led growing up. They realize where all this comes from. Sometimes, they have to be reminded. I’m like, “Do you have any idea how hard I work so you can have X, Y, and Z, or so you have this experience?” There are times when they’ll get a little bratty, and I’ll be like, “Let me bring you back. None of this is free. None of this is handed to me. This is all provided by blood, sweat, and tears. You see that.”
It’s important for me, though, for my daughter in particular to see that. I want her to be bigger than me, more successful, everything. I want her to have more. Girls and boys are different. Girls are always going to have, especially if you’re a strong female, a harder time, depending on what industry you go into. I want her to be better than me. I’m tougher on her.
It’s so hard, though. I’m the same way. When my daughter came along, it shifted a lot of things for me about what I was doing professionally and how much farther I needed to go, trajectory-wise, to show her how much further she can go. This one therapist, whom we’re no longer going to, said that I was too tough on my daughter.
He said, “The next time she has an emotional need, I want you to go in and say, ‘Do you need more love?’” My husband’s sitting next to me. He goes, “She threw up in her mouth.” I was like, “What?” It’s a real struggle because the world is tough on women. You have to know what you want to say in advance. The expectations are higher. It’s true.
If you want something, you have to go grab it. No one is offering it to you. That’s a lesson I learned very young. If you want it, you go get it. No one will offer it to you.
We’re raising them in an environment where they are supported. I will support her goals and dreams, but even at this young age of twelve, teaching them that it is the blood, sweat, and tears, and that it is your own volition that’s going to drive your success. That message, especially where we live, is very convoluted and confusing.
That’s because a lot of people will have “success” without ever lifting a finger in this town. That’s the norm. My kids will have an easier route to success than I did. The key for a lot of parents, and where a lot of parents have fallen down in this town. If you have a child who’s never going to have to struggle for money, how do you give them enough to support them without chopping them off at the knees because they’re never going to know struggle? There is no real success without the struggle. I look around, and there are cautionary tales in this town, a lot of them, in my generation and my parents’ generation. I can already see in the kids the cautionary tales.
Overcoming Guilt & Public Criticism
Your kids have to struggle. There’s no success without failure. They need to fail. We need to let them fail and not save them every five minutes. I lost my mind a little bit. When I was looking online in preparation, the people out there who are criticizing and take the time to be so unkind. I’ve dealt with criticism in my own way. I’m a lawyer. No one’s doing this online. When I see that, and you know that’s out there, I don’t know if you even give it two cents of looking at it. You shouldn’t. I almost started writing back to these people. I’m Sicilian, so I was like, “I’m not having this.” How do you manage that?
You manage it better with time. At the beginning, I was like, “You’re so mean.” Do you know what I used to do? I did this before. The mean comments, I would pin them to the top and let my followers roast them. I realized it was giving negativity, so I stopped doing that. I did that for a period of time.
I like that, honestly.
There was a pettiness about me. I was like, “I’m going to let everyone else come for you.”
It’s not petty. My sister used to write an article in San Francisco or something. She’d post these articles. She was a cancer survivor with two children. She was sharing the experience. They would write negative things on it. I’m like, “Who are these people?”
You have to remember there’s the good, the bad, and the ugly. No matter what you do, there are going to be people out there who love you, who hate you, who don’t understand you, or who don’t care about you. I always think the entire experience on social media cuts both ways. The knife cuts both ways. You cannot take all the adulation and the people who are like, “Queen, you’re beautiful.”
Remember there's the good, the bad, and the ugly. No matter what you do, there are going to be people out there who love you, hate you, don't understand you, or don't care about you. Share on XYou can’t take all of that seriously, as you can’t take the negative seriously. Think about it. It’s inconceivable for me to take time out of my day to watch someone’s content and then post something troll-y and mean. Inconceivable. I will post nice comments when I want to. Most of the time, if I don’t like something, I scroll on.
Let it go.
You have to imagine whatever mind space that person is in, that is going to take the time out of their day to send you something so atrocious. You look at them, and you’re like, “That sucks. I feel bad for you.” Are you going to get any time? No. It’s much easier to do this now than it was at the beginning. It’s a sad part of the job that you have to deal with. You should see the Reddit threads.
I have.
I don’t look at them anymore.
Do not. I was incensed. That’s what was holding me back. How you manage that shows your character. It shows being authentic also by calling it out, like, “This is not productive in the world.”
You’re also never going to be for everyone. It is the risk you take when you put content out. I’m 46. I’m a very self-aware, self-possessed, confident 46-year-old. I look at the younger girls doing this who are doing so well, like the Forbes 30 under 30. I am like, “I hope you have a therapist.” If this were 26-year-old Corre, it would consume me. It would have a negative effect on me. I do appreciate that I’ve come into this so late in the game that I have a very strong sense of self. I look at the younger girls, and I’m like, “Oh my God.”
What do you say to them? They have to go through their own coming into knowing. I’m a little bit older than you. I can withstand any criticism, but I don’t know if it was years ago, especially the mom criticism. People come in and say these things. Even things they said to me years ago were crushing.
For some of these women, they’re going to get married. There are going to be comments about the cake at their wedding. Then, maybe they have kids. People are like, “You didn’t hold the head right.” I feel like the pressure on a younger content creator versus someone my age is greater. I do have empathy. I always think, “I hope these women are supported. I hope that they have a therapist.” That would be like a business expense to me if I were 26, 27, or in my early 30s, making content. A therapist to me would be a business expense because I feel like it is so much harder when you’re younger. When I was that age, I would have been a wreck.
Let’s say you had your daughter and were experiencing postpartum on social media.
I can’t.
That’s a different kind of disaster.
It would be so difficult. I do look at some of these other younger women who are in different industries than mine, but are huge content creators. The abuse they get. The level of comfort people have in abusing them is wild.
How can we stop that?
It’s not going to stop. Unfortunately, I look at it and think it’s the price you pay for the career you want. It’s not fair, but life isn’t fair. Believe me. These people are doing very well. They’re not going to stop anytime soon. They are raking it in. Good for them.
There’s a cost.
It’s the cost of becoming a public person on social media. It’s a cost that everyone will have to pay, whether you’re big or little. You could have a small following and get tons of abuse. It’s not right. It’s a humanity thing.
You mentioned that when you first had your kids, you didn’t maybe gun your business as much. For women who are contemplating, who are very successful women with no kids yet, living that life and deciding whether to have a child or not. What are the other costs that we would want to make sure they’re aware of as they’re going into the experience of motherhood?
Real Talk On Fertility & Modern Motherhood
It’s like anything. How do you explain motherhood to someone who’s never experienced it? You can’t. The older you get, the harder it is. I know a lot of people want to have their career first and then have their kids. People are having kids a lot later. I feel like I had kids late at 34 and 36. People are going way later than that.
When I would go to those baby classes, I was smack dab in the middle. I remember being like, “I thought I was on the older side.” What people do have to remember is the longer you put it off, the harder it is to get pregnant, or the harder it is to have a successful pregnancy. Going through those two miscarriages in a row, I remember being like, “I may not have kids.”
Doesn’t that take you down? I had one.
I could cry.
It’s so sad. It takes a while to recover, and then they’ll tell you to keep trying.
I remember after the two in a row, I was like, “I can’t do this anymore.” When I got pregnant with Coco, I would go in every week to the thingy to see if there was a heartbeat. Every Tuesday, I would clear my desk off because there was a chance I wasn’t coming back to the office that day. I could cry thinking about it.
I’m going to tear up. It’s so difficult. No one talks about it, and I don’t know why. Most women I know have had a miscarriage. Especially because we all had kids so much later in life, either there was a miscarriage, or they had a hard time getting pregnant. Whether they had to do IVF. I can’t remember the pill that they would take.
Clomids.
People were having an extraordinary amount of twins. How hard, too. I do feel like the level of exhaustion and things that happen when you get older, not including the fact that we’re meant to be having children at eighteen. Evolution is such that our bodies are in these reproductive areas. I remember on my husband’s birth certificate, his mom had him at 25 in England, and she’s labeled as a geriatric mother at 25.
I was called that at 36.
I was called it at 36, too. She was 25. On his birth certificate, it says geriatric mother.
To whoever’s reading, we need to stop doing that. It’s so rude.
It makes you realize that our bodies are meant to have children younger. We, as a society, don’t do that. If there’s any advice, whether you’re freezing your eggs or doing something. You have to remember it is harder. It is harder physically. It is harder, exhaustion-wise. If you want multiple, it’s just as hard.
The trauma of losing in the miscarriage zone can set you back. I’ve never been as depressed and mad as I was when I couldn’t get pregnant.
You feel like a failure.
Everything else in my life I could control, and then here’s this thing. Unfortunately, it happens to a lot of professional women. The emotional toll is so huge because it’s the first thing.
Maybe it’s the first thing you failed at.
You're never going to be for everyone. It is the risk you take when you put content out. Share on XPeople were getting drunk in Vegas and getting babies.
You spent your whole life trying to not get pregnant.
It’s so confusing.
I didn’t even know how to get pregnant. I didn’t even know there was an ovulation period. My friend was like, “You can only get pregnant at a certain time.” I’m like, “I didn’t know this.” When I was younger, you could get pregnant any time.
The entirety of my parents talk about this. My mom says, “If you ever get pregnant, you’re having the baby.” That was it. It’s good to back up and talk through that. When you’re trying to do it and it’s not happening, it’s devastating.
I don’t know why I did not have this knowledge. I did not have the knowledge that there was an ovulation period. I was 34.
You did spend a lot of time trying not to.
I did not know. Also, the older you are, the harder it is. You’re more set in your ways. You’re used to traveling. Maybe you’re financially independent and have a lot of excess money that you’re able to spend on things you enjoy, like handbags and trips. You realize, “Kids are very expensive.”
The one cure, I feel like, is when you said you can’t be boring. Kids do cure some level of boredom in certain ways, but they are rather expensive. It’s very hard to marry up the excitement when, financially, you have to reorganize things in order to make it work.
I was at a stage where we were going out a ton. I went out a lot in my twenties. I partied a lot. I lived life. I remember looking at Matt and being like, “We’ve been together since 23. We had done all of this partying together. What’s next? Are we bored with this now? I’m hungover all the time.” It’s fun, but I was like, “What’s next?”
Could you imagine having a kid at 25? You would have missed a lot of fun.
I had no business having a child at 25. I would not have. I would have said, “Goodbye. It’s not happening for me.” I don’t feel bad about that. For us, the time was right. We had miscarriages, and then we took a break. Instead of having a kid maybe at 31 or 32, I had my first kid at 34. It all works out. I love having my children. I can’t imagine not. I don’t think I’ve met anyone who is a career woman who regrets it. I read articles out there that there are, but I don’t know anyone personally.
They’re not publicly disclosing that.
I don’t know anyone who’s like, “I wish it didn’t go down this road.” It’s important to have the number of kids you can manage. Having two kids is a very different world from having 3 and 4. It’s not like having a dog, where you have one, and you’re feeding that one, and you could feed the second. When you get past two, and my friends have 3 and 4, it’s a very different game. It’s not divide and conquer anymore.
It’s a lot of grandparents’ help, drivers, or someone else, because you can’t be in multiple places if the children are playing multiple sports or they go to different schools. There’s a lot. When I look at it and think if I were going to be planning children or this life, I would plan how many my family and I could manage. For me, that was two. I didn’t want more than two.
Beyond The Athlete Identity: Redefining Self & Parenting
With your son, I know he skis. They’re athletically inclined. Are you encouraging them down that path? It taught you a lot of important lessons.
I don’t regret my path. I don’t know if I want my kids to follow that path. It’s a different experience. You play your sport for 40 to 50 hours a week. It’s a full-time job. You have a very different college experience. I remember my second semester in my senior year, my final semester in college, when I didn’t play a sport because I was in a fall sport. I was like, “This is what you guys have been doing the whole time?”
It was so easy. I had so much time. It felt so light that I would not be sad if my kids didn’t follow in my footsteps. It is having that college experience where you don’t have so much pressure on you, and you can be a student. Maybe you pursue your interests rather than getting surgery or lifting weights. It is an extreme amount of time.
I look at how you’ve been able to work so hard and absorb so much, knowing that you spent that much time doing that.
You learn time management like no one’s business.
It had a direct reflection.
It’s a direct correlation. There’s a reason why there are a lot of women who are in C-Suite positions who are former athletes. There’s a phenomenal amount. I do think there are other ways to skin a cat. Would I be happy if my kids got to be college students? Absolutely. If they wanted to, I would support that, but I’m not pushing it. I feel like I was pushed very hard in sports. When I finished playing, it was a long time for me to have to come to Jesus with myself. If I’m not Corre Myer, my maiden name at the time, star athlete, this, that, and the other. Who am I? I was no one. You need therapy for that.
You’ve created someone out of that.
I had an identity crisis.
How did you get out of that?
Therapy. I had to go to therapy. I’ve been in therapy since I was fourteen, on and off my whole life. It was a real identity crisis for me. It took me years. It’s probably one of the reasons I moved to London. I was like, “I need to be someone new. I’m not Corre Myers. I’m not an athlete anymore. I’m going to go and live a new life.” I moved to London, and that’s me. Corre, crazy, moved to London on a whim, and has made a life over there. I needed a new identity, and I do think it’s one of the reasons why I moved.
That’s amazing. You came back, found your identity, and it has exploded. Everyone else likes your identity, too. That worked out for you. There’s another way to skin a cat. Your own children, as you’re seeing their path to success, will find their way.
I’m going to let them find their way. Everyone’s like, “Does Coco play volleyball?” I’m like, “No. She has no interest.” Maybe Bear will. If he wants to, he can. I don’t have any need. I’m not living vicariously through my children. They can do what they want.
I feel like we could talk for another hour here, but there are two things I want to make sure we get in. One is I do want to give you the direct mic on any advice for that young mom who is struggling, maybe even postpartum, who wants to go back to work and wants to go back on the Monday after the Tuesday. There are people like us out there who are ready to do that. How do you navigate the path as a mom and a gunner professional?
Advice For Aspiring Professional Moms
I know we hear it. You can’t do it on your own. Most of the women who are very successful at that age, at the young 30s or late 20s, are probably used to taking a lot on. You’re in the driver’s seat, and you probably lead the way. It’s very difficult for that personality to say, “I need help. I’m not okay.” You have to try to get to a place where you do not view that as a weakness. That is a strength.
It is knowing that your mental well-being is the most important thing. It’s the most important thing for the family. If the mom is not okay, no one else is okay. It is putting yourself first and making sure you’re okay. If that means you need help, that means you need a lactation consultant, a night nurse, or whatever it is. The tricky thing is when people can’t afford that. I look at that and think I was so fortunate to be in a position where I could afford the help I needed.
What is happening with some women who may be single moms is that they still have to go back to work. They’re still having to work that many hours, but they don’t have that financial backing to access some of these things. That’s where I think, where else can we support women in a more impactful way? There are a lot of women out there who don’t have the luxuries I had and still have to go back to a job. Maybe it’s not a corporate job. Maybe they’re on their feet all day. They’re going out there, having to make a living. It’s a hard path.
I was talking to my husband. I was like, “We get the crappy end of the stick. You have your period your whole life. Then, you have to have the baby. Hormonally, I didn’t balance out until years after. Now, I’m in perimenopause for a decade, and then menopause. You have nothing.” It is so unfair, but I’m always like, “Life’s not fair.” Sometimes, I’m like, “Screw you. You guys breeze on through.”
I’m always like, “What am I getting for that?” I do love being a mom. I love my kids in a different way than my husband or their dad gets to love them. I get that, but not that much. I feel like they should get a little bit of the hormonal flux right. Let’s balance this out a little.
You think your childbearing years are over. I knew there was a thing called menopause, but I didn’t realize there was the whole peri. You might lose your hair. All of a sudden, I got cystic acne one time, and I was like, “What is that?” I’m like, “This is insane.” No one tells me about my forties. No one warns you about your forties.
No one warns about any of it. If anyone had told me a couple of things, like how hard marriage was going to be, how hard childbirth was going to be, and how hard motherhood was going to be, would I have changed it? I would have done it differently. No one tells you that.
No one tells you how hard your forties are. You’re probably at the peak of your career if you’re a career person. Your kids are at the peak of needing you, especially because we had them later. There are multiple sports, and this, that, and the other. Your parents are either dying or sick. You’re very lucky if you have two healthy parents. For a lot of my friends, their parents are in full-time care or transitioning to care. I’m only 6 years into my 40s, and I’m like, “This decade is something.” It’s a wild decade. I do wish that someone had warned me to mentally strap in.
I also look at what you’re trying to do professionally in your 40s. It’s like a resurrection of some sort. You’re doing another thing. In my mind, that’s for us. This period of growth, even though all that stuff is true, that stuff’s not going to change. If you’re doing something meaningful with your life professionally, that does help you through that insanity, honestly.
I do feel like you have to have something to fear. This is what I always want to show my daughter. There’s a lot of divorce in this town. I look at a lot of women who went from a very comfortable life, maybe, and were encouraged to give up their career or not pursue a career. It was like, “You’re going to be home. You’re going to be taking care of them.”
Either the husband does something where their financial situation changes, or they get divorced. You go from this home that you built and shared to having to rely on either alimony or child support, or you’re in a different financial situation. That scares me. I never wanted to be in that situation. I never wanted to rely on anyone for money. I don’t want my daughter to. It’s wonderful if you guys both can do whatever, but for me, I’m too controlling. What if my husband died? What if he made a bad financial decision and we lose our home?
Your mental well-being is the most important thing for the family. If the mom is not okay, no one else is okay. Share on XIt is security and also being intellectually engaged financially with your family system. For a lot of women, what I’ve noticed is they’re like, “It’s taken care of.” How do you know? You get in there. I want you to know where the bank account is. I ask those questions to women, and they don’t know the answers to those. I have created a life to be independent, have financial security, and get to the vision for our daughters to have this. You can pick a kind person, create a great life, and know that you’re always going to be taking care of yourself.
I also don’t want to ask anyone before I buy something. I am never asking someone. I’m going to buy a handbag. I’m going to buy a car. No one is going to be informed or asked. I never wanted that. This goes back to how we were raised. From a young age, I had a very expensive taste. My mom would always be like, “You better make a lot of money one day,” and I was always like, “I will. I’m going to. What are you even talking about?” I am materialistic.
That’s innate within you.
I like nice things.
You can afford your taste. You’ve grown and created a career. That is an important differentiator. What I struggle with is buying things you cannot afford.
We’ve all been there. Everyone’s been there at some time in their life. I do well when my back is against the wall. This is not great financial advice, but sometimes, I will put myself in a situation where I have to perform. I never do better than when my back is against the wall. I know I do it to myself. I’ve watched myself do it. It’s risky. I don’t tell anyone about it because if I were to confide in this, they’d be like, “What are you doing?”
That’s when you’re betting on yourself.
When my back is against the wall, I’m never better. Someone’s like, “What about this?” I’m like, “I will make more money.” What you’re telling me is that I have to make more money? Done. I will go do that. It’s a challenge for me. I don’t do it often anymore, but I still do it. I’ve done it not long ago.
It happened to me. I was like, “Bring it. Let’s go. I will figure this out.” The thing is, the quality of a person is what I want in my kid. It’s that ability to be in that position and know, “I can map this out and solve it.” That resilience and belief in yourself are what are so appealing about who you are on the planet. That does come through, not just in this interview, but even when I’ve learned about you. It was like, “This is an awesome person. You were able to do that.”
It’s experience. Someone’s like, “How do you gain self-confidence?” I was like, “Put yourself in situations where you can achieve something. Start small. Maybe it’s tiny. Let yourself achieve something. Let yourself work for something, achieve it, and then remember what that feels like.” I did that. It’s either, “I saved for this or I worked for this or I got that promotion.” It could be whatever it is, and then remember that feeling. That will give you a stepping stone of confidence to get to the next stage. It doesn’t come with one fell sweep. It comes in tiny little steps.
I know, in my back against the wall, that I’m going to succeed because I’ve done it again and again in my life. That’s what you do. You have to put yourself out there. You have to get uncomfortable. I look at people staying in friendships, marriages, work relationships, or anything because it’s more comfortable to be miserable than it is to take a chance, go out, and see if you’re going to succeed. You might fail, and it’s scary, but you’re never going to get anywhere being comfortable. You will slide along. Especially when someone’s unhappy, at one point, you’ll get to a stage where your misery will outweigh your fear of the unknown.
That’s when change happens. You have to wait for that moment.
For some people, it takes longer than for others. I’ve been in therapy most of my life. You can recognize that early, like what I did with Corre Marie. I was unhappy. I wanted some sort of creative fulfillment. I could have slogged on and done nothing. Instead, I created a business flipping vintage goods. It couldn’t be more random, but it made me happy. It’s recognizing certain things in yourself and then going out and making those changes.
It was successful, and that built to what you have now.
To be honest, that built what I am now. I used to sell it in front of the camera. I used to make content. I used to sell these on Instagram stories. I got very used to being in front of a camera and talking to the audience, so when I started doing the food, it was natural to me. I always say there are so many things and experiences in your life that are already preparing you for whatever’s next. You just have to recognize them as stepping stones. Go and get what you want.
At one point, you'll get to a stage where your misery will outweigh your fear of the unknown. Share on XI have one final question on motherhood overall. What do you find most fulfilling? What do you see as the success of being a mom?
At this stage, it is that if I have happy kids. I don’t look at it and think, “You got straight As.” I have one kid who’s a straight-A student and one kid who struggles. I don’t view it as that. Are my kids happy? Do my kids still want to hang out with me? If they don’t, that’s not a cursor, but I do view it as like, “Are they still talking to me? Do they still come to me?” If your kids are still talking to you, it means you’re a safe space.
I feel like we grew up in an environment, raised by Boomers, where everything you say can and will be held against you, like in a court of law. I learned young that anything I shared was going to be used against me sometime. I know that’s a generalization. I try not to do that. I try to be in a place where I’m not going to judge them.
Two years from now, I’m not going to be like, “Remember when you did that? That didn’t work out so well for you.” It’s like, “That was two years ago.” It was a lifetime ago in the age of a child. I try to be a safe space for them so that they still want to talk to me and still want to tell me things, good and bad, and then I’m not going to use it against them. I’ll fail at it, but I try not to because I want to be a safe space for my kids. That, to me, means I’m doing something right if they’re still talking to me.
Even in your busy schedule, do you have a way to create that safe space? Does it come naturally when you’re able to connect? Do they come to you to share?
We hang out. We’ll pick a show that we watch together. Now, it’s Gossip Girl. We’ll pick a show together, one that ran a while. It was Gilmore Girls before. We’ll watch it together. Maybe we’ll do it three times a week for an hour after the homework is done or after dinner. It’s providing this like bonding time.
You never know when it works. I always ask because it works so differently for every family. That’s a beautiful and relaxing way for everybody. It also creates conversations.
Bear will be like, “Is it time to go watch Gossip Girl?” My husband’s like, “Bear, how do you like watching Gossip Girl?” I’m like, “Do not shame him for what he likes. He’s with two girls.” I don’t even know what it’s going to be, but it will be something like Gilmore Girls or Gossip Girl.
If your kids are still talking to you, it means you're a safe space. Share on XIt’s like, “He was fine with it until you came in.”
He’s like, “I like Gossip Girl, Daddy. Who cares?”
You’re raising a good man. I love it. Thank you so much for taking the time to be here.
Thank you for having me.
This has been so much fun. It has not been boring at all. You are so awesome. I hope everybody takes to heart a lot of the things you shared.
Thank you for having me.
Thanks so much.
Important Links
- Coco Larkin Cooks
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- Corre Larkin on Instagram
- Cooking with Italian Grandmothers: Recipes and Stories from Tuscany to Sicily
About Corre Larkin
Corre Larkin is the creator behind @cocolarkincooks, a wildly popular food and lifestyle platform with more than 1.5 million followers across social media. A mother of two, Corre has built a thriving content empire from her home kitchen by sharing approachable recipes, family-focused meals, and authentic glimpses into motherhood and entrepreneurship.
Known for her warmth, humor, and relatable storytelling, Corre has inspired millions through her successful career pivot from running a business in the defense industry into digital content creation.
On this episode of The Mothers in Law, Corre opens up about motherhood, reinvention, building a brand from scratch, and what it really takes to grow a successful business while raising a family. She also shares practical advice for women considering a career pivot, the realities of social media entrepreneurship, and the lessons she’s learned along the way.
