So Gisele, hi.
Hi.
You were here in 2006.
You were single.
You had no kids.
Nothing.
All of a sudden, your whole life has changed.
And it happened--
Well, 12 years, right?
Yeah.
I know.
But it was right after you were here, you met--
I went on a blind date.
Yes.
And I met my husband.
So I think you might have been my lucky good luck charm.
I think so.
Thank you.
Yeah, you're welcome.
12 years later, I think, I'm very happy with how
things turned out.
So I appreciate it.
Yeah.
Well, you're welcome.
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Oh, yeah.
Isn't he sweet?
Look.
Who comes with that shirt?
He is a sweet, sweet man.
And talented.
Both of you.
You're easy on the eyes, both of you.
All right.
I think he wore that shirt because my dad likes to say
a happy life is a happy wife.
So I think he took that very seriously.
Right.
Well, he's right.
All right.
So you have a wonderful family.
Your career is great.
And I heard, is this true?
That you're thinking of retiring?
I think I'm the farthest I've ever been from retiring.
It doesn't seem like it.
I've never worked so hard in my life, actually.
Yeah.
But I think I retire only the day I die,
because I love working.
I love creating.
I think that's why we're here, to keep creating and expanding
and learning.
I agree.
So good.
So you're not retiring.
What I'd like to know is--
Are you?
No, I'm not.
I'd like to know if your husband is.
Because I'm a Saints fan, and it would help
me tremendously if your husband would retire.
You know, I think you should talk with him about that.
I haven't been very successful.
No.
Do you want him to retire?
I want him to do whatever makes him happy.
But maybe if you have a conversation with him.
Explain that you love the Saints.
Yeah.
He might have--
And I love them, too.
I really do.
He's incredible.
Is there anything that he's not good at?
Because he just seems like he's good at everything.
He's not a multi-tasker.
He can just do one thing at a time.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
He's good at one thing at time.
He's an amazing waffle maker.
Oh.
Yeah.
That's great.
He makes great waffles.
That's right.
The kind that you just literally push that thing down,
and it's--?
Well, he actually makes the batter.
And he jokes with me.
He says, I can't give you the secret.
Otherwise you won't need me anymore.
Oh.
He has a secret recipe, which I'm
sure there's some package thing involved.
But there's other secret recipes.
I have never seen him making it because he literally
won't let me see it.
Because he literally says, you won't need me.
And then who is going to--?
Yeah.
So I say, OK.
That's fine.
It tastes delicious.
I'll keep eating them.
Now do you get nervous?
I mean, I would just think--
you hear so much about everyone, and you see those hits,
and they're so hard.
And he's the quarterback, so they're going after him.
Do you worry about that?
I definitely wouldn't want to have his job.
That's for sure.
Yeah.
I stay happy with my job.
That's, I think, is definitely something
that you get concerned.
But he loves it so much.
And you gotta let him do what he loves.
Well, he's definitely very talented.
I'm so glad you wrote this book.
And I think it's important for so many people,
because you look at someone, and you're beautiful,
and you've got an amazing marriage and kids,
and your family life is great, and career life is great.
And people don't know.
We just tend to judge just from what we see,
and we just assume we know somebody.
And I think it's so important that you share with everyone
what you've gone through.
Yeah.
So explain some of the things that you share,
and why you decided to.
So there was lots of different people that I
knew well, and also acquaintances,
that would come to me and share stories of people
that they knew that were struggling
with various different things.
And I started writing letters to people that I've never met,
just by sharing something.
I just didn't want them to feel alone, because it was--
I feel like I'm very sensitive.
So when people are telling the stories, I was feeling better.
And I just wanted to make them feel better.
So I start sharing, writing letters to people,
and sharing some of the challenges that I face,
and just being very vulnerable and saying
there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
Because I know when you're in the middle of the storm,
sometimes you don't see there is a light
in the end of the tunnel.
You identify with that, and that kind of
gets you down deeper into the space
where it's hard to sometimes feel like there's a way out.
So it was very helpful, the feedback I got,
that it was really helpful to those people.
And I thought, I just want to be able to share.
And maybe other people out there might find it helpful.
So that was really the intention of the book.
It's a beautiful book.
And for you to share that you almost took your life, there
a lot of people that are going to relate to that
and say, wow, if she was at that place
that you thought about ending your life, then, you know--
And there were so many different things
that I found that were helpful throughout my journey.
And I just wanted to share that with people.
It is.
It's very helpful.
It's called Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life.
It's available in bookstores and on Amazon Now.
We'll be right back.