How has the year been for you personally?
Had so many things on my to do list.
I thought that hunkering down and being at home.
I've done only one thing that I kind of kept the promise
to myself, I've taken Italian lessons via Zoom.
Even the week my house burned down, I kept it.
But I haven't been able to keep up
with anything else that I thought I was gonna get done.
How about you?
Did you do anything that was for you?
Yeah, we had, you know we were filming a movie
that my husband and I are financing
and he's directing in Oklahoma City when the pandemic hit,
and we only had five days left to shoot
and we had to shut down.
And we have not been able to get back there to finish it.
And then my show was canceled
and then my deal was not renewed,
and so we just thought I'm gonna learn Spanish.
That's what I'm gonna do.
So like you, I'm on like 145 days in a row
of Duolingo Spanish.
Now I can't really speak it yet,
but I can read- Me too, me too!
(both laughing)
I can read it- I'm very good,
right, I'm the same.
I'm very good at the visual.
Like I get the gist of what I'm reading,
but I'm still too self-conscious to like just bust out,
you know what I mean? Oh yeah.
Well, if you give, if you,
like I'm pretty good at accents, I'm an actor.
So I could say a sentence and it could sound really good,
like I really know what I'm saying,
but the minute you do that people will assume
that you can speak the language and then they just go off
and they're like (trilling tongue).
You know- (Rachael trilling tongue)
And you're like, whoa!
(laughs) Yeah, exactly.
You have to be very careful at how you wield that sword.
That's right.
As I said, "Your Second Act," you know,
I find it so weird that I've, you know,
I was telling you privately right before we did this.
I was recently talking to Michael J. Fox about his book.
And again, with your book and the content of it,
these are the types of things we need to read
in a year like this and a time like this, right?
It was so weirdly timely,
because it was supposed to come out earlier
and then it was put off because of the pandemic.
And then I thought it's actually perfect for the pandemic,
so it finally came out.
Because so many people have had to pivot in their lives now,
either because they've lost their job
and it's not coming back or they've had time
to be with their family and calm down
and get off the hamster wheel
and look at how their lives have been lived.
And a lot of people are thinking, I'm not sure I want
or need to go back to that.
So "Your Second Act" is a book about people
who have been forced to pivot in their lives
because there's financial circumstances,
family circumstances, whatever,
and just their stories and how they did it.
Now we have to talk about the second cover
that I'm holding and our necklaces.
You know, I said to Patty privately,
and now I'll share with you guys.
I just shot what I hope will be the cover
of the book I'm working on.
And it was, it's an emotional time in our lives this year.
And to make myself feel better,
I use this as like a, almost like a security blanket.
It's because World Vision, when we support World Vision,
it's not about the necklace or the stuff,
it's about little faces like this
and giving a community a chance to move forward.
Literally a whole community, not just one child
at a time, but whole communities,
the opportunity to move forward.
Can you speak to that for me, my friend?
Yes, and, you know, I've been working with World Vision
since about 2015, and that's been kind of my second act
is becoming a celebrity ambassador for them.
And I've traveled to many different countries.
And most recently was in Rwanda where we're committed
to bringing that entire country clean water by 2022.
And it's amazing.
And it's, you know, we've all been struggling here
with this pandemic, but imagine going through a pandemic
and not having running water,
how difficult that would be to try to keep things clean,
to strive, to try to stay healthy.
So it's super important.
And World Vision is the leader in the world,
the biggest provider of clean water in the world.
And just for very little contribution on our part,
you can find all different ways to do it in the catalog
to contribute and get some great gifts for yourself
and for other families.
You can really save people's lives.
And you and your viewers, Rachael, have been instrumental
in being a part of saving people's lives.
You've saved thousands and thousands of lives,
and it gives me chills to say it, but it's true.
And why else are we here on this earth
but to be there for each other
and also eat really good food.
(gentle chiming)