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Join Jenand Tirralan Watkins, the renowned Tinseltown Mom, as she delves into the inspiring lives of high-profile moms from all walks of life. Through candid interviews, Tirralan takes you on an engaging journey, revealing the challenges, triumphs, and relentless pursuit of success that these remarkable women have faced. So, kick back and relax as Tirralan offers you a delightful timeout from the daily grind and offers a glimpse into the lives of those who have conquered it all while being extraordinary moms. Tune in and get ready to be entertained and empowered!

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Transcript:
Jen:   Welcome to MomCave LIVE where we may have lost our minds, but we haven't lost our sense of humor. Hi, I'm Jen, and I'm here with Tirralan Watkins, who is the Tinseltown mom. Hi, we're going to go live on all the platforms. So give me one second. Let's see if it goes live on Instagram as well. Maybe we're... Oh, wow. Okay, there we are. So, Hi, tell everybody how you became Tinseltown Mom.

Tirralan Watkins:   Well, it started when I was just a child, of course, a daughter. So growing up, I was always pursuing acting. I'm from the Bay Area. So in the Bay Area, I was doing theater and commercials and everything that I could do in the Bay Area. But we all know that the capital of the entertainment industry is Hollywood. Totally. Yeah. So after I got my undergrad degree in communications, I decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue my acting career further. So as I was pursuing my acting career, I, and I'm not telling the full story because it's so long. So, of course, you know, as you're pursuing a career, you do dabble into other things. So at the time, I started my own talk show, a local talk show called "Impact." It was on a cable access station, yes.

Jen:   The internet's, yes, cable access.

Tirralan Watkins:   Yes, your cable access. Yeah, yeah. So I was doing my show on cable access 20-plus years ago, and actually, my first Tinseltown mom before I became Tinseltown mom was Sherri Shepherd. It was before she was a mom as well, but she was my first guest, yeah, for my show. So I did the show, and I interviewed an Olympian and some other actresses, comedians, etc. While I was still pursuing my acting career, eventually, at my church, I decided to join a small writing group called..

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Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

Welcome to MomCave LIVE where we may have lost our minds, but we haven't lost our sense of humor. Hi, I'm Jen and I'm here with Tirralan Watkins who is Tinseltown mom. And hi, we're going to I'm going to go live on all the platforms. So give me one second. Let's see if it goes live on the Instagram as well. Maybe we're Oh, wow. Okay, there we are. So, Hi, tell everybody how you became Tinseltown. Mom?

Tirralan Watkins:

Well, it started when I was just a child, of course, daughter. So growing up, I was always pursuing acting. I'm from the Bay Area. So in the Bay Area, I was doing theater and commercials and everything that I could do in the Bay Area. But we all know that the capital of the entertainment industry is Hollywood. Totally. Yeah. So after I got my undergrad degree, in communications, I decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue my acting career further. So as I was pursuing my acting career, I, and I'm not telling the full full story, because it's so long. So as of course, you know, as you're pursuing a career, you do dabble into other things. So at the time, I started my own talk show a local talk show called like, impact. It was like on a cable access station. Yes.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

The internet's Yes. cable access.

Tirralan Watkins:

Yes. Your cable access. Yeah, yeah. So I was doing my show on cable access. 20 plus years ago, and actually my first Tinseltown mom before I became Tinseltown mom was Sherri Shepherd. It was before she was a mom as well, but she was my first your first guest. Yeah, for my show. So I did the show. And I interviewed like an Olympian, another some other actresses, comedians, etc. While I was still pursuing my acting career, but eventually, in I at my church, I decided to join a small writing group called write on in there is where I met my husband, who was pursuing a directing career. So anyhow, long story short, we eventually got married, I went back to school, USC got a master's in professional writing. And that is where I started writing, blogging and eventually I started my own blog, which my husband came up with a name Tinseltown mom, because I wasn't mom at the time. We lived in Lala Land he's pursuing his entertainment career and mine. You were right. All of that? Yes. So that's how I became Tinseltown. Mom.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

Awesome. Well, if you're just joining us, this is Tirralan Watkins, known as Tinseltown mom. And she has interviewed so many celebrities and high profile moms successful in anything from business to medicine to of course, the acting world. And so that's what I kind of want to ask you about. Okay. Okay. And everybody who's watching, feel free to jump in ask anything in the comments. This is all just for us to hang out and, and get the dirt really?

Tirralan Watkins:

Yeah. So

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

What? Is there any common thread you saw? What made all all of the successful women that you interviewed? Alike, in some way? Yeah. something in common?

Tirralan Watkins:

Yeah, that's a good question. Um, I feel like they all had something in their background that they had to overcome in some way. Because like to get to the status that these high profile moms get to, it's not just a walk in the park, like, you have to overcome some things, you have to develop grit, and all these other things that you have to develop to get to the status level that they're at. So I feel like all of these women, these moms, went through something challenging for them to be able to actually break through and get to that next level. You know, sometimes people go through things, whether it's, you know, traumatic, or just just a challenge in their career, and they stop, and they don't keep pursuing that thing. But if you can actually go through it, and just keep going and keep your eye on, you know, the thing, that passion or whatever, like, I feel like you can break through, and then you can help someone else along the way because you went through something that they might be going through.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

Yeah, well, when Yeah. Yeah, that's a good answer. When you look at these people in magazines, and such, you know, they just look so happy and perfect and well rested. And all the things that we don't feel, yeah, but right now It's easy to forget that human every human being has their story, right? Yeah.

Tirralan Watkins:

Yeah. I mean, I've interviewed people who, like, for example, I mentioned Sherry, she's been homeless. Plus some other things that she went through. I've interview moms, they've gone through infertility, just sexual trauma, and having to overcome that and still pursuing, you know, their passions, just all kinds of things. But they didn't even let that stop them from you know, going ahead in life and doing the thing that they feel that they were called to do.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

Right? Well, even in your story, I think it's interesting, you often start out feeling called to do one thing, and for some reason or other, you pivot in life. Yes. What what was for you like the deciding factor when you decided I'm gonna go back to school and be a writer. I'm gonna, I'm gonna pivot as they say.

Tirralan Watkins:

Um, so honestly, I don't want to sound like a prude. And I might fail. It's okay.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

That's okay. We have people of all sorts here. Yes.

Tirralan Watkins:

So because of my background, you know, being a Christian and just having a certain standard and things that I wouldn't would not do. Like, I came to find that there were too many things on the screen that I didn't want to do. Interesting. Yeah. So I was like, you know, what, I should just write about the things that I want to do. So even when I went back to school, like I double majored in screenwriting, and also fiction. So I thought I was going to pursue the screenwriting, which I still would like to pursue one day, but I have so many things on my plate. You know, I started thinking, you know, let me just write things that I would want to be in I would want to promote and things like that. So that's what kind of got me interested in the writing aspect of it. And then, you know, just being in that small writing group, like with my husband, because he's like a very proficient, he's an excellent writer. He's just kind of made that passion grow in me. Okay. Yeah, it just kept going from there.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

I think that's a good lesson in sometimes you start out in something, and you don't know all the ins and outs of it, or what, what lines, you might have to cross that maybe you're not comfortable crossing, you know, things that just don't align with you whether it's for religious reason, or moral reason, or whatever. Yeah. Like, do I change everything now? Is that Is that okay? And like, yeah,

Tirralan Watkins:

right. Yeah,

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

that's rough. But you did it. That's awesome. Now I have to ask, do you ever work with your husband? Do you ever write together?

Tirralan Watkins:

Um, we would like to write together one day, one day. But as far as working Oh, yeah. You know what, actually, we did produce a clean comedy. Several years ago. Yeah, I was a producer. He wrote it. Yeah, I'm just thinking about it. Yeah, we did work together, actually. And you're still married. And we're still married? Yeah. It wasn't challenging, though. It was challenging first because you have to learn how that person works. And incorporate your personality with theirs.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

Oh, my gosh. Yeah. And also

Tirralan Watkins:

his thesis because he has a master's in film at USC. So I helped him on the thesis with his final project. I was a producer on the project. Right. So yeah, okay. Right back in my brain. Yeah, we have worked together. But we would like to, like do some more projects in the future.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

Right. My husband and I have worked together in several different capacities. Oh, we were we've been actors and films together. We've attempted to write things together. We were real estate agents together and let me Wow, it was a disaster.

Tirralan Watkins:

Wait did you guys pursue the same careers at the same time?

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

Yeah. Well, we met in acting school in college, and then we were actors. And then of course, we needed money because we were actors. Yeah. We both decided to go and become real estate agents. And then we got hired at the same office. And then they said, Oh, you're married, you should be a team. And man, that was challenging. Because to be 24/7, working with the person that you know, you it's nice to go home to someone who wasn't with you working all day. And yes, to talk to you about something else. Right? Yeah.

Tirralan Watkins:

You guys are still actors at the time to during real estate during Yeah, yeah. Wow.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

That was always back. So we don't do that anymore. But

Tirralan Watkins:

it's so funny. I got my real estate license to Yeah. When I was doing the acting thing. Yeah, cuz you're thinking what can I do that's flexible. I can still go on auditions and things like that.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

Yeah. Kind of brings us also to the life of motherhood. So when you're a kid, you have to find a way to make a living that fits in around the all encompassing ness of being a mom. Right? Do you when you interview all These really successful moms, how do they make it work? How do they be a good mom, but still work?

Tirralan Watkins:

Yeah, I feel like a lot of them have, they all have different stories? Because I, you know, I asked that question, you know, as far as the proverbial work life balance, and I feel like there's no one answer or no common thread. Yeah, like some people, they make it work like some women who, let's say they're traveling, they may not see their child for a couple of months, but it works for them, because they see them during some of the off months. Right. And some of them, they may take their children with them when they're on set, and they're there with them. So I feel like there's a lot of different answers with that one. Yeah. Yeah, especially I feel like when you have a high profile position, I mean, honestly, you know, most of them, you know, they have like, nannies and, you know, people that's going to help them right, balance it all. Because, you know, when you get to that level, they I mean, you can afford to have that and they hire help to help them. But I know like the everyday mom, a lot of them, they're just doing it on their own, and they can't afford, you know, a nanny or someone else. So it's a little different.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

Well, going back to like the everyday mom, all of us here, watch these moms. And when we think Wow, she's doing so great. We have to remember that. She might have a lot of help. Yeah, yeah. So So that's, that's good. And there someday we will do.

Tirralan Watkins:

Yeah, it's still hard even though you know, it's still hard, but

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

different. Different, different things that are difficult

Tirralan Watkins:

when you're right. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

Um, do you have a favorite celebrity that you've interviewed? Um,

Tirralan Watkins:

I've been asked this before, I think it's Sherry. Yeah. I've interviewed her twice. Yeah. She's actually a longtime friend from back in the day too. But when I interview her, I feel like she's so authentic and real and funny. Like, even the last time I interviewed her, like, our interview went so long, like, way over and out. Like we I had to, like, call her back, because we were just like, she can just talk and just be transparent. And, like, in my mind, I'm like, Oh, I'm definitely not going to put that there. But she'll, you know, she's so honest. Like, she just says, what she wants to say. And I'm like, I'm definitely not going to put this in the piece. Like, I don't want to go here.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

How far are we're gonna go here, right? Yeah, yeah. So,

Tirralan Watkins:

yeah, but um, you know, I started off initially just focusing on Celebrity moms, but I've expanded it to just high profile moms, you know, moms at the top of their game and their career. So

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

well, there's so much crossover to, um, in our world today. It's not like movie stars, other people now it's that start businesses and business people that get reality shows. And yes,

Tirralan Watkins:

I know. Right? Yeah. Like, I feel like a lot of businesses. There's high profile businesses even like you can be a celebrity designer, a celebrity chef, a great a celebrity shoe shiner. Do you know what I'm saying? Like? Yeah, like in any field, like you can elevate it to that level?

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

I think that the internet and social media sort of gave us that but you might not have Yes. Yeah. Okay. And tell me about your your kids. How old are they? And?

Tirralan Watkins:

Yes, my kids are? I have two boys. They're 13 and 14 soon to be 15. Oh, wow. Two teenagers. Yes. Going into eighth and 10th grade?

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

Wow. Well, not only do you look too young for that, but I know I look like a teenager.

Tirralan Watkins:

I know. I get that all the time. So

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

I My oldest is about to turn 13. So we bought this is one of yours. Yeah. The teen years are going to be a quite a ride. I can tell already.

Tirralan Watkins:

Yeah, I can't. I mean, can't you tell that you feel like it's gone by too fast? What they hit hit the teen years?

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

Of course, I know.I know it's a cliche, but it's totally cliche, because it's true.

Tirralan Watkins:

Yeah. I start thinking about how many more years you have at home with them. Right? Like, I feel like, you know,

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

and then what will you do when they're not at home? Like you'll have we have a whole life ahead of us. Yes. after that. So that's its whole the whole challenge in and of itself? Well, I

Tirralan Watkins:

think that's why it's good for moms to have passions outside their kids, too. Of course, some moms when their kids graduate or go off. They feel like they don't have anything for themselves. Right.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

Right. You know, lost all the things you were interested in in the meantime.

Tirralan Watkins:

Yeah.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

That's really good stuff. Can you tell everybody where they can find you on all the social media platforms, etc?

Tirralan Watkins:

Yes, so you can find me at Tinseltown. mom.com I also have a podcast timeout with Tinseltown mom, you You can find that on all the platforms. And I have an online shop accessories for women that I sell. Yeah. Like accessory as well like tote bags. Okay, cases on air pod cases, things like that.

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

Very fun because you know, your kid is going to steal half of those things. So you're gonna Yeah, exactly, exactly. And if you get one that's mom themed, maybe they won't steal it.

Tirralan Watkins:

Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, I have a lot of mom things themed stuff on there. So

Jennifer Weedon Palazzo:

that's great. Well, thank you so much for talking with me and sharing a little bit of what it's like to talk to all of these high profile women. And I hope we can do this again soon.

Tirralan Watkins:

Yes, I hope so. Thank you, Jen. Thanks.