I don't like extra large and extra extra large? What the hell? Why do we have to have extra large for sizes for limit at this point? Like why is that still? Why can't it be uh lean or spelt and curvy and voluptuous or sexy or why can't we assign words to sizes we have? Makeup doesn't say beige, it's or or pink. It says you go girl, like whatever it is. It could be you go girl for a size twelve and you know, bad bitch for a
size sixtyed? Like why do we still have the extra large that that's a good way to fund people up? Kids who are overweight don't want to have an extra large T shirt or a large? Can that? Like you'll cancel someone for saying something they do realize they said, Can we just cancel brands to have large and extra large? Myself included? Can we just like not have large and next shorge? I want to like buxom, bodacious, Like what do we need that we need to change their sizes?
I'm going to talk about it. If I launched more clothing lines, like if I launched the Bethany clothing line, we will not we will not say excel, maybe plus or heart. You have to find a way for people to know that it's larger. And I get that, but there's a way we can educate people. We've educated people in other ways. There's no reason that we should have extra large and large size. And people need to feel
a certain way. Men may not want to feel small either, by the way, a man, a grown man doesn't need to feel like he's a small in underwear. Particularly, why is black China, Why is Black China's mother trying to raise four hundred thousand dollars that you can go back to court? What is rabbit hole? Like when you go into the casino and you fucking bet it all on red and you lose all your money, you walk the funk out. That's it. You do not press your bets.
This is psychotic, it's crazy. It's almost stalking like. Court cases don't get thrown out of court that easily. Okay, it's not that easy to get a case thrown out. You have to be fucking delusional and not talking about anything it's based in reality, or you just have to have a really shitty case that's not going to succeed. So you've got to know one's in business and in life, you need to know when to hold them and when
to fold them. I honestly cannot imagine unless it's just for pure publicity, for Black China to continue to embarrass herself and her family and keep trying to take the Kardashians to court. It's outrageous and ridiculous. And you lost it happened. Take your choys and go. Hey, guys, it's Cheryl Burke. You know me from Dancing with the Stars. But guess what. I have a new podcast called Burke
in the Game. It may look like that my life is full of costumes and whatever, but at the end of the day, you probably don't know the Cheryl behind the Mirrorball trophy. I've been really curious about how and why a lot of my relationships or every single one really has not worked out, and I can only point
the finger at myself. One of the things that I want to work on is not being so controlling, Like I'm so tired of thinking that I can control everything around me when there isn't enough hours in the day even if there were. In order for me to really practice what I'm preaching, I have to turn my life over to someone else. And what better way than to turn it over to you guys. I have to be able to take accountability, and that's what I'm doing here.
Listen to Burke in the Game starting May tenth, the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So I want to talk about workplace culture because because I want to talk about workplace culture because um, it's something that you really have to work at and you have to make choices in your life based on the things that you want to do, but you also have to make choices of the people around you. Just like someone takes a job, it affects their whole family.
Like we're going on a ride. Now we're I'm gonna go be traveling a lot. It's gonna stress us all out. Or we're doing this. It's gonna be challenging for all of us. So we're all on board. And I think it's interesting too with workplace culture because I now have a more balanced workplace culture than I've ever had. People have time off on the weekends, free nights, like they can live a life. It used to be way more intense with my schedule and with the craziness with me,
like the shift flows downwards. So I'd be on these crazy book tours which would go on forever, and you never knew how intense it was going to be, so you just sort of were in it and you couldn't get out. And there were people were because I came up, and if I came up in a culture where you just worked your ass off, and the Jeffrey Katzenberg saying if you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming
in on Sunday, that's really how I came up. That's truly, and I don't think there's anything wrong with him having said that. People got mad at him for that. That was back then. That was the way that people, you know, didn't know that certain things were wrong to say. But so I've created this different culture now by really thinking about it. You have to plan the way that you organize anything else. You organize your closet, you organize your schedule, everything,
you have to sort of be think about it. Just don't reach out all the time. Stack the things you say, prepare everybody so you don't just get jammed up. And you're in that twenty city book tour. Before and after there's downtime for people, so there's like a balance and it does work and keeping people happy it's effort, and it means you're establishing a culture. Like now I understand Google having private chefs there or nobody can be there
past a certain hour or all these different things. You know, it's all designed for that reason. Well, you wanted one to be happy. Um, because someone's gonna be in a better mood, and just you just wanted one to be happy. It's great. Related to that, I'm just so proud of myself that I really can honestly say there is no amount of money to do something that you don't love.
This has now become a theme. I'm now that person that can actually say I've really taken so many things off the board to focus on what makes me happy and not do the things that don't And in Housewives coming back and then reaching out to me and me just saying like no, you know, just no, I don't want to be on the Housewives. I don't want to go back to Housewives. I just don't want to do that.
And when I left, I left millions of dollars on the table, millions of dollars, multiple millions, not to not multiple millions of dollars on the table to walk away for a better life for myself. And most people can't say that because the people who are doing it are not doing it because they just love it. Because everyone thinks in the meantime it's absolutely excruciating and stressful and massive anxiety. And people are doing it for either the money or the relevance or the fame or the street
cred or what it can do for them. But most people aren't doing it just because it makes them feel that. No one's doing because it makes them feel good and it's healthy. No one's doing it because it's healthy, and I've chose to live a healthier life. I don't mean wheat grass, I mean just to be like I don't want to. You can't pay me enough money to do something that I don't think is healthy and that I don't want to do. And it happened with a production deal.
I walked away, and with a production deal that was a lot of money, high six figures, I didn't want to do it. I've walked away recently from another deal that would be multiple millions of dollars to work with a partner that I didn't like working with. I mean, I'm just getting stricter and stricter, so as I create
a healthier workplace culture for myself. I'm just it's really liberating to just say, I mean, now I have the proof I've done all this philanthropy and I've turned down I mean, the whole what it would have equalled altogether easily. I've walked away from ten million dollars of money to not do something that I don't want to do that I don't feel as healthy for me mentally, physically, emotionally. And I'm proud of myself. I'm actually proud of myself.
And to this day and housewives coming back and asking is there a chance and me saying no, I'm proud of myself. That means you're walking away. That means no means yes. Saying no means saying yes to yourself. So I am quite proud of myself. There's no amount of money to do what you don't love, if I have to say, there's no amount of money to do what
you don't love if you don't have to. I have worked and had a five dollar car with a cracked windshield and worked twenty three hours out of twenty four days, being in disgusting buildings, shrink wrapping cookies, delivering them exhausted. I've killed myself. I have had bounced after bounce after bounce, checks, insufficient funds, Ikia Furniture, can't pay my rent. I've done it all. But when you don't have to, there is no price to do something that you don't love. So
I want to talk to people. I want to talk to people about eggs and flows and relationships and also particularly like in the earlier stage, sometimes it's the honeymoon phase when it's amazing, you're in that Courtney Kardashian, Travis Barker, amazing, you know, Pete David, Sam Kim Kardashian, Megan Fox, the Stallion, Megan Fox, that what's his name? The machine Gun Kelly phase, the j back j lob up with Ben Faith. You
know that that's the honeymoon phase. Then you get into the settling phase, like are we doing this and it's great and we're partners, and then you get into kind of it can be almost like a malaise, like we're in a relationship, we're not in the honeymoon phase. We love each other, it's solid, it's consistent, but sometimes there's sort of like they call it that seven year itch. I want to say, it's really nice these ebbs and flows.
You something when you really calm down and you don't worry about what everything means, because in the beginning everything is amazing, and then if it's not amazing, you're worried that it's not amazing like it was, or and then if you're not having sex the same that you're comparing it to before, or then you get the high of a wedding, an engagement or a wedding, and then you get the afterwards and the honeymoon in the presence, and then what happens next, Then you move into a house,
then you have a kid. These are all these highs, but when you're in just the regular day to day of a relationship, it can sometimes seem blah. And then that if not, if you don't get worked up about that and you don't read into that and you don't think about that and you don't like make meaning out of that, you get into like a really good, solid,
peaceful phase. And I think it's really important because that's where the trust comes in and the comfort and the not questioning and they're not asking all the time, is it right? Is it wrong? Is it right? It was this, It was that, it's gonna be this, It's gonna be that. Am I doing this? You're just you're just you're just solid and you're sure, and you're in that phase. I
just think that that's an incredible, amazing, amazing phase. So my daughter brought a report card and she did the best in science, and she told me she loves her teacher the most in that class, and the teachers so supportive and so kind to her and so nice to her. And it made me realize how important teachers are, how underpaid they are, are, how underpaid they are, how undervalue
they are. My daughter is not interested in science. She's interested in art and dancing and being free, and you know, like she's like a she's like a Penny Lane character, and she's into science and doing all science because she loves her teacher and her teachers so nice to her. And you know, you've had dick bitchy teachers, right and they make you hate it. And she has one teacher she doesn't love and she's not doing that well on
that subject. And it just makes me take a minute and say, we need to value and elevate these teachers. Because they're literally helping our children to thrive but also be open to areas of education that they might not even be open to thrive in, areas they might not even thrive in. My daughter is good at science. Like science, to me, it was torture and like it was just not a real subject. In high school, you were just
taking science because you had to check the box. But you know, you just waited for the day you got to dissect the frog and that was it, you know. But she's loving science and I'm just so happy. But it's because of a teacher, which means we have to inspire these teachers, value them, appreciate them, treat them well because they're inspiring these kids. It just made me really want to like shout out to teachers.