Sep 17, 2026 · 11 min · 5 segments
Send us Fan Mail What does it look like to really shake sh\*t up in your life? Especially after coming out of a toxic divorce, when suddenly the…
Karen PortnoyHost
I wanted to start off by asking, what does it look like to you to shake shit up in your life? Meaning, you know, you go along your life doing the same things, being with the same people, being at the same job, all kinds of, like, you can predict exactly how your life is going.

And what are you doing with that life? Are you repeating what was? Or are you going to embark on something new and try new things and have new adventures and all that stuff? So I wanted to talk about what I did recently to shake shit up in my world.

I'm not an impulsive person, but once I make a decision, it doesn't take long to execute that decision at all.

So for the last year, my daughter and I have been sending each other pictures of cute puppies, right? Who doesn't love a cute puppy? And for, I would say, a little over a year, I've really been thinking about getting a second dog.

She sent me the last picture and she said, can we get him? Mind you, we don't live together.

So this is like a whole other way of doing, you know, having a puppy and having her be involved and all that stuff.



And when my daughter goes home and it's just me with a young puppy and my dog, Holy shit, my entire world just turned upside down.

So, you know, brought me back to when my daughter was a newborn and all that goes with that and the exhaustion and the mental exhaustion and just all the things, you know, pee and poop everywhere I turn.

I wanted to start off by asking, what does it look like to you to shake shit up in your life? Meaning, you know, you go along your life doing the same things, being with the same people, being at the same job, all kinds of, like, you can predict exactly how your life is going.

And what are you doing with that life? Are you repeating what was? Or are you going to embark on something new and try new things and have new adventures and all that stuff? So I wanted to talk about what I did recently to shake shit up in my world.

I'm not an impulsive person, but once I make a decision, it doesn't take long to execute that decision at all.

So for the last year, my daughter and I have been sending each other pictures of cute puppies, right? Who doesn't love a cute puppy? And for, I would say, a little over a year, I've really been thinking about getting a second dog.

She sent me the last picture and she said, can we get him? Mind you, we don't live together.

So this is like a whole other way of doing, you know, having a puppy and having her be involved and all that stuff.



And when my daughter goes home and it's just me with a young puppy and my dog, Holy shit, my entire world just turned upside down.

So, you know, brought me back to when my daughter was a newborn and all that goes with that and the exhaustion and the mental exhaustion and just all the things, you know, pee and poop everywhere I turn.
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