Our next guest is a best selling author, a mom,
and now she has her own lifestyle magazine
called Sweet July.
Please welcome Ayesha Curry.
Hi.
Hello.
Thanks so much for being here on our Mother's Day show.
You're a mother of three.
I am a mother of three-- a proud mother of three.
A tired mother of three.
So brace yourselves, all the ladies.
I told you.
I warned them.
It's too late though, but yeah, look at those beautiful babies.
First of all, what advice do you have-- because what was it
like for you with your first?
With my first--
I mean, it was a whole new world.
You can never be prepared, so that's the first thing.
Don't worry it's just going to happen naturally,
and there's nothing you can really do about it.
So just let it happen.
Don't be afraid.
I mean, it's really hard for you to mess this up.
Babies are resilient.
And I think like the best piece of advice I ever got was just
to-- and it took me three babies to figure this out--
but to sleep when the baby's sleeping.
So if I could go back in time, I would have done that.
Yeah, well good.
Because I would think that's the hardest thing
is the lack of sleep.
I mean, we just showed a woman rocking a rocker,
and the baby was on her lap.
She didn't know the baby was not in the rocker.
That's tired.
That may have happened to me a time or twenty.
And do you get used to just standing and doing that?
Do you just rock with no baby in your hand?
100%.
Even now.
So my youngest is about to turn three in July,
and I still find myself like rocking my knee--
like just shaking it.
Randomly.
And they're like why are you shaking?
And I'm like, oh sorry.
Yeah.
I'm sure that happens to everybody.
And the kids are-- how old are your kids now?
Oh, well, they are 8, 5, and 2.
But they'll be 9, 6, and 3 in July,
just in a couple of months.
Wow.
So the youngest looks just like Stef.
I think so.
I feel like he has my face shape, but he's his daddy.
Yeah.
And what's your son into?
He is into-- he's such a boy's boy.
So chucking toys at me, bullying his sisters,
playing basketball of course.
It's really cool, actually.
For the longest time, he thought his dad was
a golfer because of the pandemic,
and there was no basketball in season.
So he's just now realizing that his dad and his uncles
play basketball, so that's been new and exciting for us.
Yeah, well, I mean, he's bouncing a ball
pretty well for two years old.
I mean, that's hard to do, so that was impressive.
It's pretty cool.
Yeah
He learned it from me.
Yeah, of course.
Everything good he learned from you.
And what will you be doing this Mother's Day?
So, strangely enough, it's one of the first Mother's Day that
I'm not spending at a basketball game,
but my sister actually recently just had a baby--
my new little niece Lily--
and I didn't get to see her through her entire pregnancy,
having the baby, and so for my Mother's Day gift,
Stefan actually surprised me.
Well, not surprised me, but he made
it happen so that they'll be out here for the first time.
So it's the first time I'm seeing her in like 18 months,
and my niece is five months old now,
so I just can't wait to squeeze her little neck.
That's great.
Yeah, it is.
That's so great.
And yeah, and to meet their cousins.
That'll be fun.
Yeah, it'll be so nice.
Chaotic, but amazing.
Yeah, well, but amazing.
And your husband is doing-- man-- he is breaking records
this season.
He's in the running for MVP.
He's doing so well.
It's insane.
It is so insane, and he's one of the older guys
out there now, believe it or not.
And so, it's just been really cool to watch
him break all these records, and do it with such humility
and humbleness.
It's like, he comes home, and it's like it never happened.
He just wants some popcorn and some candy.
Y'all are just such a great couple.
He is so cool.
I mean, he is so down to Earth.
I love him so much.
I love you as well.
You're just both such a great down-to-Earth couple.
And since the pandemic, you started this foundation,
and it served 16 million meals to families in Oakland.
Congratulations.
It's a nonprofit, Eat Learn Play,
and we work in the Oakland community
to make sure that children have access
to quality education, quality nutrition, and safe places
to play.
And so it's been a blessing to see the community come together
to help all of these families during this time.
So great that you could do that.
And this magazine is fantastic, and you look stunning
on the cover.
Sweet July, tell everybody about it.
This is fantastic.
Yeah, so Sweet July magazine, my new baby--
this is our fourth issue that's going to be coming out soon.
And it's just been great to shed light on a new voice
and perspective, and to-- oh, there's the cover!--
and to just lend a voice to people
to be able to tell their stories that otherwise may have never
had that opportunity.
So we really like to focus on small business and local
stories, and it's been really nice to be able to do that.
And then you also opened a store, brick and mortar,
in Oakland.
We did.
So we opened our first Sweet July flagship store in Oakland.
And we really see it more as a community space,
so while you can come in and buy things,
we just see it as this safe, beautiful space for people
to come in.
They hang out and work, enjoy themselves, and pick up
something if they want to.
So it's been such a blessing.
Would you please open one in Montecito?
I would love to.
Gosh, we'll see how the first one goes.
All right, let's-- please do that.
I would hang out in there.
All right, Ayesha, we're going to go to break.
When we come back, we're going to play a game with you, OK?
Sounds great, I love games.
All right, we'll be back.