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We’re back and ready to reconnect! In this special reintroduction episode, we’re diving into the life updates and reflections that led us to take a much-needed break. Lady Siza opens up about the importance of stepping back when you’re pouring from an empty cup, and Coach LJ shares the journey of trying to keep the podcast going solo—only to realize it’s just not the same without his partner by his side. This is Chilling With The Chaplins, after all, not Chilling With The Chaplin!
As we look ahead, we’re refocusing on the heart of this podcast: exploring the unique connection between South Africa and America, the cultures, the stories, and the lessons we’ve learned along the way. We’ll be releasing new episodes every Friday at 6:00 PM, and of course, bringing back “What’s Good In The Hood” for those hot topics from both countries that can’t wait.
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Now we are back! Back, ba ba ba ba! [LAUGHTER] South Africa, you know, my people. [SPEAKING SPANISH] OK. [SPEAKING SPANISH] [SPEAKING SPANISH] Like, [SPEAKING SPANISH] [SPEAKING SPANISH] Yes, yes, yes. Of what's happening in the two countries. [MUSIC PLAYING] Let's chill. Hello, chaplain chilis. What's good? What's good? Yes, we are back. [SPEAKING SPANISH] [LAUGHTER] We are back. That's how long we've been going. We've been going for solid four months. Yes, four months. Almost five. And so this video is our life update. Where have we been? As well as reintroduction of what we're going to be doing going forward. Because, wow, life has been-- Life has been-- Life has been life. Yes, life has been life. It's not life. It's not life. It's not life. And it was always life. Yes, yes, yes. But this madam here, I had a-- I just had-- I was just overwhelmed by-- Burnt out. That's the right word. Thank you. By just so many things that were just happening in my life. And I felt like I was now pouring from an empty cup. I was just not enjoying coming to sit in front of the camera. And I love the camera. And you could tell. I was just so exhausted. You could tell. I was being dragged by, you know, who? Like, we have to be loyal to our chillers. And like, yeah, I know we got to be loyal. But also loyalty goes with giving them solid, good, you know, content. And not feeling like you're just taking it from-- I was really pulling it from very far. Like, listen, those last couple of episodes were being pulled. So I made a decision before I even informed my husband. I made a very, you know, I'm trying to think of this English word and it's just running away from me. It is true. I don't even know what it is. It is true. Yeah, you know it is true. But it's right here. You know, the word is right here. Yeah, right here. But anyways, I made a decision to just take a break. And I told my husband, I said, if you force me to continue, then I was just gonna be staring at the screen because that's how I was feeling at the time. I just had nothing in me. And being a good wife, she was-- did it too. I did it. Until I felt-- That's a good woman, boy. I'm telling you. No, it's not a good woman. You're a good wife. I'm saying, you're doing it to help me. Yes. And in the last couple of episodes, I think two or three episodes he tried to do it on his own and he realized, hey, he needs his wife. Yes, I need my wife. This is turning with the chaplains. Yes, yes. Love with the chaplains. Yes. With the chaplains. Yes. So, yeah. So, I feel refreshed. And because-- and the reason why I feel so refreshed is because spiritually, I'm very balanced. I feel so-- like, I have got breakfast, lunch and dinner. That's how beautiful my relationship with God is right now. And I'm just so, so grateful that, you know, the Lord really is such a good God when he says he will never leave me, you know, for thank you. Yes. We are the ones who move away from God. That's so true. You know, and when we move away from God, life does overwhelm. Yes, it doesn't work. Because you don't have a support structure. You don't have-- you can have your family, your husband, your spouse, whatever, as a support structure. But if God is absent-- If you remove the sauce-- If you remove the-- you're practically moving yourself from the plug. The plug. You know, the power plug. You could fool yourself and be going to church and just attending. Because that's what I was doing, really. I was just marking the register at some point. You know, I was there in person, but spiritually I was out. And you know, we're against that marking the register. And so, that down was really-- it really hit me hard. As a result, I wanted out. I wanted out of everything. I wanted out of my marriage. I wanted out of God. I wanted out of life. Yes, I was even willing to unalive myself at some point because the pressure was just so much. And what causes the pressure? Just wanting to be like the Joneses, really. You know, not necessarily material wise, but also just having to be able to keep up, you know, balance work, businesses, ministry, life. I wanted to be balanced in everything. But you can't really be. Some things will get strained. And there was just so much happening. All lacking. Yeah, some things will lack. And that's okay, because we are human. We are not superhuman. And your journey is your journey. And your journey is your journey. So it's just the pressure, really, that got to me. And I was at a point where I felt really, really sad. And I would say I hit a bit of depression because I just didn't want to interact. You know, I didn't want to interact. I stopped going to church for a while. And just having found God again feels beautiful. Or I'm able just to have a relationship with me and him. Me and him. And it's just so beautiful just to have that moment in the morning. Good morning, Holy Spirit. How are you doing today? Oh, my. I had a beautiful night sleep. That's how me and God communicate nowadays. Yes. You know, it's so beautiful. And so that's my part. And I'm so grateful that my husband was very understanding when you realize that I was not myself anymore and we pulled away. He tried to hold the fort, but the fort was a bit too heavy for one chaplain. And he decided, you know what? We had promised the viewers that it's going to be chilling with the chaplains. And if it's just one chaplain, it's not complete. Yes, yes. So he paused with me. But we are back. Back, boom, boom, boom, boom. Back better than ever. Yes. So we are chaplain to lose 2.0. 2.0, yes. 2.0. We're going to be doing in the next couple of weeks. So right now we're going to be uploading. Probably one week. One episode a week, probably. Until we're really, really back on our feeds and able to give you two episodes. Previously. Taking it slow. Taking it slow. Because we don't want to be overwhelmed. Because remember, we were at a point where we were doing our own editing as well. Because financially we weren't able to give it to our editor. So we're going to continue with editing our own videos. Until we are able to give it to an external party. So editing takes time. Yes. Above the businesses that we're trying to push. To build. Above our daily 9 to 5 that we have. And above marriage. Because marriage is work. Yes, marriage is work. Yeah, above marriage and maneuvering with family and everything. So, yeah. Yeah. So once a week we're going to be Fridays. Fridays. Yes. Fridays. And we want to go back to how it was started. How the visions started. Yes. Two individuals from different perspectives husband and wife. Two different continents. Two different continents. Speaking about their particular country. You know, bringing to you different topics from South Africa and from America. So that those that's in American can learn about South Africa. And those that's in South Africa can learn about America. And vice versa. Yeah. Even like with those outside as well. Yeah. And people outside of those countries can learn about the two countries. Because I feel like, you know, I don't like it. South Africa. You know, my people. You know, when I say new corner, the comment section, no, no, no. We need corner. And just telling me the comment section, if you need corner. And by lying. So, need corner basically means are you there? Okay. You know, and we do this with most social media. When people are putting their own videos, it could be from whatever country. And when you want to comment, somebody will just say need corner in the comment section. And we'll all go up there and like and speak in our own native language. We don't care if you can't use the content creator's English or whatever. We don't care. We don't have your own family meeting in your context. That's our Africans for you. I love my country so much. We'll just walk you through like our journeys here in America as well. We will do a bit of vlogging. We'll do sometimes my husband gets camera shy. So he doesn't really like to vlog when we go out and eat. And I think that's a bit of nice just to show you guys who have not been to that place. Even the Americans like, you know, the places, the kind of places that we like to go to eat at, but hopefully we'll be doing a lot more of that. We'll be doing even like with interviews where the plan is to have people who are coming into America or from from South Africa or whatever. Or Americans who are in South Africa or visit South Africa. You know, going to tell us why they're here and they're. In the perspective of South Africa and even American South Africans were in this country. It can share on how what's been happening with their lives, you know, lives and stuff like that. So those are the kinds of interviews we'll be having ever so often as part of our podcasting. So if you're interested to be interviewed inbox us, we will be happy to interview you if you fall in that category. So if you're South African and you're in America, we'd love to interview you. You can tell us what's happening with your life, what brought you here. And just share because people are curious what takes us from our countries. What makes us really just, you know, like leave your country and your people and your culture and go to another country. And even Americans who have been to South Africa who are maybe back home or even live in South Africa would love to interview you. And find out what's the difference between living in America and now that you're living in South Africa. Please, Richard to us would love to interview you. Yes. And then so we've spoken about flogging or talking about interviews. And every now and then we still do the what's good in the hood. What's good in the hood. We talk about hard trending topics. In the two countries. In the two countries. Yeah, it's coming from the two countries. Yeah. And also. And that when we go live, we will go live on what's good in the hood. Yeah, maybe, maybe not. We'll see. We'll play. We can prerecord. We'll see how that goes. Yes. But we'll be doing what's good. It's just whatever pop it. It could be any day. It could be any day. Anyway, whatever pop and we just come out with it with our take from that particular country. So it could be Friday. It could be Tuesday. It could be Wednesday. Yeah. News pop anytime. Yeah. News pop anytime. When the president, former president Trump, was being almost, you know, you know what I mean, unalived. We wanted to do what's good in the hood so badly. But I was just not up to it mentally at this time. So it's things like that. Because it can be something like that can happen. Mm-hmm. And the instance. You know, during the week. It could be in the middle of 12 o'clock. Right. At night in the morning. Yeah, we just come on. You know, no time frame. No particular day in what's good in the hood. Yeah. That's it. That's it. You know, uncocy. You know, uncocy. You got it. Yes. Yes. That's what's happening in the two countries. And like right now, the DD case is really coming nicely. Yes. So that's something that we can talk about too. And so we can hear our perspective and what's been happening to be updated. And still have like, you know, probably what we can learn from different things. Yeah. And also, I know some other things that we're going to be talking about is we're going to be doing some reactions. Yes. I mean, right now. We're still trying to figure out how. Yeah. Right now, I'm actually watching. I love it first sight season. I believe it's season seven. I would love to do a reaction on that because there's just so much happening. Yes. But my husband is not watching it. So it's going to be hard to do a reaction on something. He's not watching. So something maybe we're watching together. Maybe we can do a reaction on and just give you guys our maybe a movie or whatever. We'll see. But I'd love to do reactions because I just think they fun. Or documentary. No. What's wrong with that? Documentary. That's boring. What's wrong with that? No. I might be wearing glasses, but hey. It depends. I'm no nerd. It's a lesson. And everything. What else? I like that. We come to YouTube to distress. I love that to me. I come to learn. So what's going to be different is that for now, we're not going to be uploading twice a week. And also, we're going to take it a little notch down with our Friday episodes because we're going too much into business and stuff like that. And we realized even with the views, they were not viewing you guys were not viewing it. So we know with a Sunday fund day, which was more interactive, you guys were viewing it more. So we're going to stick more to the destination where initially planned on and then my husband obviously took a youth hen, wanted to like, let's do business. And I'm like, no, people will go to a business portal for that. And that's something that got comfortable. So if you wanted marketing, I do have coming up with the marketing podcast. So, you know, so that I can stick, we can stick to what the purpose for this channel and then for the business. Because you're coming to chill with us. We're not coming to you to stress you out. We want you to really chill with us. We're going to be, we are actually expecting new iPhones. So we're going to be as soon as they come, we're going to unbox that for you guys in front of you. And it's just a lot. You know, everything that's happening that we feel is necessary or is nice for us to share with you guys. We'll be sharing with you guys. First of all, or not first of all, lastly, we just want to thank you. Thank you. Yes. Not giving up on us. Yes. Thank you. Yes. Come in, not unsubscribing. Thank you. We appreciate you. Thank you. Yes. I hope you've been watching the old videos. Yeah. You're going to be catching up. Catch up. Yes. Share those videos and my comments because that will help get us back in the algorithmic because we've been really on the downer with that because we haven't been uploading. Like we said, it's been almost five months now, but we're happy to be back. We started with a new focus. We started this channel for a reason. We wanted to share a bit of our lives, a glimpse of our lives with you guys and a glimpse of our experiences in life with in terms of the two countries. Yes. Now, you know, a couple from two different continents. Black love. One. No, just love. Okay. I'm all for love. Black love. Yes. We're navigating. Yes. Because, you know, the cultures really do. Culture really does matter. Yes. And, yeah. So we really share on how we are able to make it work. Yes. Yeah. So on that note, if there's nothing else we'd like to add, we'd like to say thank you for tuning in. Thank you. See you soon. See you in the next video. You take care. See you soon.
Send us a text We’re back and ready to reconnect! In this special reintroduction episode, we’re diving into the life updates and reflections that led us to take a much-needed break. Lady Siza opens up about the importance of stepping back when you’re pouring from an empty cup, and Coach LJ shares the journey of trying to keep the podcast going solo—only to realize it’s just not the same without his partner by his side. This is Chilling With The Chaplins, after all, not Chilling With The Chap...
