- Our next guests are a special duo.
One of them is a lifestyle expert,
entrepreneur, and founder of "Women of Today"
as well as a great wife,
and an amazing mother, and a philanthropist.
And the other is a spunky spitfire,
who happens to be her mother-in-law.
Please welcome Camila Alvesz McConaughey
and Kay McConaughey.
(audience applauding and cheering)
- Hello, hello, hello.
- Hey how are you?
- Oh, I'm so good.
I'm so happy to see you.
Kay, it's very nice to see you.
- You remember the last time I saw you
was "Boys on the Side."
- Oh my gosh.
When your wonderful son
played the character of Abraham Lincoln, the police officer.
- Yes, but I remember that "Boys on the Side.
It was so exciting to be on the set.
You know, that's what I remember,
because I was kind of new to this, you know?
And so, I was so excited to meet you.
Anyway, and you don't look like you changed much,
so whatever you're doin', keep it up.
- Well thank you, Kay.
I so appreciate that.
And Camila, I really like and respect you.
And I was pouring through every corner
of the "Women of Today" website
and it's so beautifully put together.
- Thank you, thank you for sharing that, Drew.
It means it means a whole lot, thank you.
You know, it's a project
that we started just as a passion project,
and the community just kind of grew organically.
It's not you know, people joke all the time,
you know, what's the business plan?
I'm like, well, we don't have it.
The community's telling us what they wanna see,
what they wanna do, what they wanna learn about.
You know, the big difference
is that we're not talking to you, we're talking with you,
and we get to learn from each other.
Just like I learned from Ma Mac, quite a lot.
- You learn from each other.
(audience applauding)
That's what we do, yes.
- Well also too, I think you were doing "Lifestyle"
and you know, stuff with your kids,
and you were putting that all out there
far before it was on trend.
And I feel like you were a big pioneer,
with like kids, and cooking, and philanthropy,
and you know, design and lifestyle.
And I feel like you were very first
to the plate with all of that stuff.
- So we did start very early on, like we,
I was doing those things,
and it's kinda started by accident.
I was doing a business, and it was very business business.
And I was like, you know,
I just wanna share what I love.
That it's outside of keeping numbers,
keeping, you know, sales and all of that.
And it kind of started by accident.
And it was very, very early on.
And thank you for recognizing,
and saying that out loud.
Not a lot of people say that, so thank you.
- I love the fact that also, you know,
you and Kay now are on this journey,
and we get to go on that journey.
'Cause like let's face it,
there are movies made about in-law relationships.
- Yes, you're absolutely right.
And some of them are not very, very, very productive,
but we get along really well together.
- It took some work.
- We were testing each other.
- Well, I would say more, you were testing me.
- I was testing her.
(laughing)
I mean anybody that was gonna hang out with my son,
I wanted to know a little bit about, so yes.
- Yeah, so it was a lot of testing at first,
but you know what, you're like through all this time,
you know, she obviously we've have,
she's been staying with us.
So we were keeping everybody safe during this time.
And I was doing all the "Women of Today" stuff.
And I was like, you know, Ma Mac you're here you know,
you have so much knowledge, and do you wanna be part of it?
And you jumped right on it.
- And I did, I did.
- And it's a way that we get to really connect
and have fun together during this time, really.
(audience applauding)
- See, I love hearing you say that,
because I'm, you know, I'm really, really close
with my kid's family.
And we're really real with each other.
And there's so much humor.
- You know, the one thing that we've noticed
from a lot of people in the community,
that what they see when they see me and Ma Mac,
you know, we're very different.
We look very different.
- Yes, we do, you know what, we really do.
We look very different.
- She's pepper and I'm salt.
(audience laughing)
- Perfect.
- You know, we sound different.
We come from very different backgrounds.
You know, I was born and raised in Brazil.
Ma Mac, do you wanna say where you're from?
- New Jersey. - The real, she's.
Listen to this.
Nobody really knew where she was from until not long ago.
Okay, she was hiding this whole time.
Do you wanna say where you're really from?
- Well, I'm from New Jersey.
No Altoona, Pennsylvania,
but who wants to be born in Altoona, Pennsylvania?
(chuckles)
Nobody.
(audience laughs)
- You know what, you know we noticed that,
people really started to find our story inspiring
just to the fact that hey,
how can two worlds get along so well?
How you know, the age difference.
She's, Ma Mac is 88 now.
- Yes, yes.
(audience applauding)
- But you know, 'cause that is big between us,
and we come from very different backgrounds.
And we still have this really close bond
and close relationship,
and we're able to add a lot to each other's lives.
So I think-
- But the key is respect.
You must have respect.
I don't say you should or could,
but you must have respect for each other.
(audience applauding)
- You're absolutely right.
I think respect is a great definition of love.
And I think also you just, you make it work.
You find each other's ins,
you appreciate each other's differences.
You make it work.
You're honest, you're truthful.
There's humor, there's affection.
And by the way Kay, if I may come full circle
on the kind compliment you gave me.
88 and lookin' smokin' hot.
(audience applauding and cheering)
- Oh thank you, thank you.
- Well, I'm excited to be hanging out with you guys.
I thank you so much for coming on the show,
and I can't wait to promote everything
that you guys are doing.
WomenofToday.com will be up on our website,
so we can like sister out,
and you know, cross-pollinate all the goodness.
And thank you guys.
We'll do a follow up.
Thank you, Camila and Kay.
- Thank you, you too.
- Thank you.
(kissing)
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