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WhenMina Starsiak Hawklaunched her podcast,Mina AF,last December, she aimed to share the “non-pretty parts” of her life.
“The issue of my Instagram page is a lot of people are like, ‘My 15-year-old daughter follows you. I don’t want you talking about plastic surgery, or I don’t want you talking about fill-in-the-blank,” she explains. “So I tried to create this place that people have to seek out. You have to actively find my podcast to want to know more, and it kind of weeds out all the Karens that follow just because of the show, but don’t necessarily want any of that other stuff.”
On one recent episode ofMina AF,Mina and husband Steve Hawkopened upabout their decision to give up alcohol.
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While they received an overwhelmingly positive response, with listeners thanking them for talking about the sensitive topic, there was one rude comment.
“Someone was like, ‘Oh, this makes so much sense why he’s so weird in all the episodes, he had a drinking problem,” she says. “I’m like, ‘What the f— is wrong with you?’ So there’s definitely some dumb people like that, but the vast majority of the episodes, as well as that one, are just people saying, ‘Thank you for saying the thing. I experienced the thing and it made it easier for me to talk about the thing.' And the sobriety one, I think, really did that.”
On the Aug. 28 episode, Minashared a dilemmaover whether to address conflicts with her mom andGood Bonesco-star, Karen E. Laine, and brothers, Tad and William, ahead of her 5-year-old son Jack’s birthday party. (She and Steve are also parents to a 2-year-old daughter, Charlie.)
She ultimately decided not to invite some family members.
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Starsiak Hawk started her home renovation business, Two Chicks and a Hammer, with Laine in 2007. While Laineretiredfrom the company in 2019, she still appears on the show alongside her daughter and their team.
She went on to reflect on what the show has meant to her.
“Something I’m super, super proud of, and really grateful to the network for, is making a show for the last eight years that, for the huge majority of the time, has been super representative of who I am, who the boys are, what we’re doing, and it was really important to me from the beginning to do that.”
source: people.com
