Itās time to discover your boldest self. Stephen ātWitchā Boss, 34, has teamed up with Listerine for the brandās new Unlock Your Bold campaign. HollywoodLife.com was at the Listerine event on May 9 and got the chance to talk EXCLUSIVELY with tWitch and his wife Allison Holker, 29. The adorable couple revealed that taking small moments for themselves has helped them as individuals and as a family. Check out our interview with them below!
Your partnership with Listerine is all about taking the time for those small moments to refocus and recharge. Are you focusing more on that as individuals, and are you bringing those small moments over to your marriage?
Stephen ātWitchā Boss: I feel like itās a little bit of both, because we have to have those moments where we connect with each other, but itās also essential for moments we have individually as well. As much as we are parents and husband and wife, weāre also still individuals and kind of have to take that mind space and just that personal space to just kind of be with yourself for just a second. I forget who said it out there, but thereās a lot of roles you have to play. I think it was Sophia [Bush]. She said, like, especially for women, itās so easy to put it on yourself to care for everybody else as opposed to yourself. Itās that same notion of, yes, we do take time together, but we are also really good about taking time for ourselves, too, because thatās very, very necessary.
Allison Holker: I really am a person that tries to take care of everyone before I take care of myself, so itās actually a new thing in my life that Iām really trying to take time for myself. Iām finding that itās helping so much to be a better person individually, but also a better wife and mother. I now step away to go take a yoga class by myself or go to the beach, read my books. Oh my goodness, I love reading so much, but as a mother itās hard to find time for that. So Iām kind of trying to reel that back in to my pattern. We find that if we really schedule our lives and schedule out like an hour a day for personal time, being with my husband, being with my kids individually, finding those times and scheduling that out is really important, and itās really helped with clarity of mind.
Is this something youāre trying to teach your daughter? To take time for herself, too?
Allison Holker: Yes, I think itās really important at a young age to start teaching them about creating good habits. I know a lot of people are like, āOh, theyāre just kids.ā If you create these amazing eating and physically active habits and meditation as a habit at a young age, it becomes easier for them at an older age. It becomes second nature to them. Itās not something new when theyāre like 30 or 40 and trying to figure it out. Itās like theyāve done it their whole lives and see the importance from a very young age. I find that my daughter eats so well, and sheās very, very physically active, but then sheās also very patient and aware of her surroundings. I give a lot of credit to the fact that she follows our example of taking time, being an individual, being strong in her own two shoes. Sheās very intuitive to the people around her and what her life is.
My roommate danced at Tisch. For her, dancing is a release. Is it the same for you guys?
Stephen ātWitchā Boss: Absolutely. Dancing is still, for me, one of those things that no matter when I do it and it sounds corny and cliche, but time stands still. I could literally dance for hours and hours on end and not realize that Iāve been dancing for hours and hours on end. In the right setting, I could literally dance all day and have a blast. It seems like one moment to me. Thereās nothing else going on, and itās the ultimate release.
Allison Holker: I know it might sound cliche, like what you [tWitch] said, but dance to me is my home. I say dance is my home, because in a home, you want love, creativity, respect, all these things, and to me thatās everything that encompasses dance. So I feel at my best when Iām dancing. It helps me to be strong and to release so many of my emotions and be in tune with myself. I connect a lot with people. I find being a dancer that some of our strongest moments together are when weāre dancing together. As a pro on Dancing With the Stars or So You Think You Can Dance, I found some of my strongest relationships, because dance is a way of connecting and finding a moment with someone. It really is something special and unique that you donāt find in any other physical activity, you know? Because itās you with another person, and you guys dive in together with these characters. So dance, to me, has been really special to create amazing bonds with people.
When you were dancing out there, I was just amazed. You guys had such a connection. From across the room, you two were electric. I love a good dance performance soā¦
Allison Holker: Can I just sayā¦ We talk about this story I feel like a lot, but we never went on a first date. Never had a conversation longer than āhelloā and āhow are you?ā We shared a dance together and have been together ever since.
Stephen ātWitchā Boss: Yep. Itās true. Absolutely.
Allison Holker: Dance is really special to us and our family. We dance when weāre cooking in the kitchenā¦
Stephen ātWitchā Boss: Yeah, music is playing constantly. Dance was our connecting factor. It really was. We were on a show together, and it was from the first dance that it happened.
Is the little one going to grow up to be a dancer you think?
tWitch: Weāll see!
Allison Holker: Heās really moved by music. He doesnāt, you know, get down on the dance floor at all yet, but he is very in tune with music. If a song comes on, he is listening to it and looking for the speaker and where the amazement is coming from. Heās very, very triggered and moved by music. I think thatās something that we know really centers him and relaxes him.
tWitch, you were on Famous In Love this season, would you consider coming back for season 2?
tWitch: Um, yeah! Absolutely. I had a blast. It was a lot of fun.
Allison, would you ever return to DWTS & SYTYCD?
Allison: Oh yeah! Iāll definitely be going back to those shows. I had a little bit of a crossover with some scheduling things for this summer, so I do have a couple of things coming up that are very, very exciting. I canāt say what they are right now, but I start filming this next week, and Iām very excited about this new journey and this new project Iām working on. Itās very, very exciting. Iām nervous but excited. I love to challenge myself and try new things and push myself in new directions. Sometimes itās the most nerve-wracking thing because you donāt really know what youāre doing because youāre new to it. But then you always learn the most those ways. I love trying new things, and so Iām going to be doing a new show, and itās going to be an exciting new journey for us all.
The āBe Boldā guided meditation series is now available on the Inscape app. For more information on the Unlock Your Bold campaign or the āBe Boldā collection please visit Listerine.com/UnlockYourBold.
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