The Group Chat Goes Live... Slightly Salty Edition

From Group Chat Chaos To Real Talk: Three Friends Go Live With Stories, Sass, And Unfiltered Opinions

• Leanna DeBellevue • Season 1 • Episode 1

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The group chat finally hit record, and it’s gloriously unfiltered. We open with real introductions—who we are at home and at work—then dive straight into the messy, funny, and heartfelt parts of midlife that rarely make it onto a highlight reel. Leanna shares why she sold a 15-year digital marketing agency and what “starting over” looks like in consulting. Kerri Ann talks about building a senior placement and advocacy company alongside an in-home care business designed to put people first. Adrianne brings the Arizona heat with a real estate team focused on veterans and seniors, plus a foster-to-adopt story that reframes what family can be.

The chemistry is the point. Our favorite memories aren’t one-offs; they’re a rhythm—laughing in texts, showing up at events, and that dinner where our husbands clicked instantly. Then we spin through a lightning round that says more than small talk ever could: prosecco in a wine glass, iced tea loyalty, espresso martinis without apology; reggae joy, country nostalgia, and 90s rap with worship; guilty pleasures from dark mafia romance audiobooks to reality TV marathons. We name our life states—growth, transition, perimenopausal—and say the quiet part about boundaries: no space for two-faced behavior, no energy for advice from lives we wouldn’t trade for.

This debut is warm, salty, and grounded in what matters: friendship that holds the hard moments and celebrates the good ones. You’ll get practical wisdom for choosing your circle, setting clean boundaries, and finding rituals that reset your day—whether that’s a mountain fire, a paddleboard on the river, or dogs on the couch with your person. Hit play, laugh with us, and bring your slightly salty stories to the DMs. If this made you nod, smile, or text your bestie, follow the show, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs a fearless, funny reminder that real life is better lived out loud.

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Voice Over:

Welcome to the Group Chat Goes Live Slightly Salty Edition, where your three favorite troublemakers turn the chaos of the group text into a full-blown weekly show. We're talking real life, real opinions, and just enough sass to keep things interesting. No filters, no perfection. Just three women with big personalities, bold stories, and a habit of saying the quiet parts out loud. So grab your drink, brace yourself, and join us. Because the group chat didn't just spill the tea, it went live.

Adrianne:

All right, I am so excited for us to kick off our first episode of the Group Chat Goes Live, the slightly salty edition. So we're gonna go around and introduce ourselves so you get to know a little more about us. Lianna, let's kick it off. Awesome.

Leanna:

Super excited. Can't wait to do this with you, ladies. Um, my name is Liana DeBellevue. I wear, I feel like a million different hats. I'm a mom, a lolly, which some people would call grandma, but I'm definitely not old enough to be a grandma, so I'm a lolly. We have five kids. My husband, Jeff, and I have five kids blended, all mostly adults, aging uh ranging in age from like 28 down to 16. I'm originally from California, so every once in a while you'll hear the valley girl come out in me. Business owner, I help business owners get out of their own way. A lot of times we are our biggest bottlenecks in business, so I help businesses succeed. I don't know, is there anything I'm missing? You sold a business. I did. Yes. My husband and I, in August of this year, 2025, sold a business that I started 15 years ago. It was a digital marketing agency, and we grew it, and it was time to let it go. And so starting on a new adventure in the consulting space. Am I missing? I think that's it. Awesome. It is good, perfect. Carrie Ann, what about you?

Kerri Ann:

Hi, well, I'm excited also. This is gonna be fun. I'm Carrie Ann Ronquist, and I own two companies. All about you placement and senior resources is on its ninth year, and I started that for a very special reason. And I'm sure as we go along and this we'll share reasons and whys and all those things. But both of the companies help seniors live their very best lives, and we want to empower them and we want them to have people that are boots on the ground, that have loving hearts, that really are in it with them to walk the journeys that they are going to walk through, whether it's temporary or permanent, whether they choose it or not. So All About You is a placement and advocacy company. And then seniors helping seniors, I co-own with one of my best friends, Sandy. Also, we are known as Wilma and Betty, and that is in-home non-medical home care. So we really just kind of we say umbrella seniors from whatever their needs are to help support them. So outside of that, which is a lot every day, I get to be the wife of Mr. Brian Ronquist, which we went to high school together, but we did not date each other in high school. We stayed far away from each other and then found each other later. And we are a blended family, also. Two girls and two boys all are in their 20s, and I'm a nana, and I love being a nana. She's eight years old, and she is the most precious thing in the world. And I also try to be a good friend, I try to be a good daughter, I try to be a good everything because it feels like every day I am on an apology tour for all the things that I feel like I'm missing out on. But I'm from New Jersey. I was born in New Jersey and came out here when I was seven. So pretty much at 56, Arizona is home. But New Jersey is still in my heart and a big part of my growing up and background. So I think for now that's yeah, about it. So Adrienne. I love it.

Adrianne:

Adrienne Lynch. I run the Lynch team at Real Broker with my husband, who is a veteran. So we do a lot of specialty in real estate of buying, selling, investing, and like to target veterans and seniors and help them as well. I'm wife, we've been married 26 years, together, almost 30. Uh, met tubing down the salt river. So I always like to tell people that because you can meet someone anywhere. And uh being an Arizona native, that's just classic for me. That I love being able to say that we met on the Salt River. Hobby-wise, love paddling down the salt river or hiking. Anything that has to do with Arizona, I love the heat. So I'm one of those rare ones that I'm okay to live here year-round. Mother of two boys that are 20 and 21. We did a foster program and then adopted our boys. So we have a lot of advocacy and uh volunteer when it comes to foster kids that has a big heart for us for that. And Christian as well, been going to church for over 30 years and like to get involved in that sometimes when uh when we have time to get involved there. What else? Am I forgetting anything? I feel like that's it.

Kerri Ann:

I think that's I talk fast. I mean, I'm I'm sure we will expand on everything through time. It is not like us to keep things secret.

Adrianne:

Yes. Well, let's do some fun, kind of lightning round questions. Yes. And see what are some of your favorite things that people might not know about you.

Leanna:

I have a list. I think because as similar as we are, we're also extremely different. So it'll be fun. Let's start with you, Carrie, and then we'll just go around in a circle. Okay. Right? First question What's your favorite memory of us? Our friends, our friendship.

Kerri Ann:

Oh my favorite memory. Oh my gosh. There's you know what? I I don't know. I this is gonna sound weird. Like, I don't I have so many, but my favorite is the fact that like in everything I do every day, you guys like sit in my heart. Like, like it's I know that's not the answer that I'm supposed to give. Every time we get together, we laugh, we cry, we do it in text, we do it in person, we do it wherever we are. I just think that we make amazing memories every every day. The events we go to, I don't know. I I I didn't prepare.

Adrianne:

I'd agree with that though. I feel like I couldn't think of a favorite memory. I feel like we go and do lots of stuff. I can picture events we all go together and support each other, whoever is sponsored. I picture our personal stuff like we're out with happy hours, or we go get massages, or yeah. I feel like we do such a variety together.

Leanna:

Yeah. I feel like every time, which I know this is the slightly salty edition, but it's gonna get sweet for just a second, obviously, with these answers. But every time we hang out is like a new favorite memory. Like there's just one more thing that just kind of solidifies.

Kerri Ann:

Well, I did love, and now that I'm thinking, I loved when we all got together with our husbands and went to dinner. Oh my god. For the very kind of like first-ish, like, hey, let's all let's like show them what we really mean to each other. And then they kind of started their own little threesome of conversation. That's okay. And they all thought I'm gonna get in trouble for that one. They didn't really start their own threesome, but you know, as it's gonna be like, what do we do? Okay. But they got together and it was like they had been together forever, also. Yeah. Like they just kind of, I think because of us through us and everything we say to them and they see with us when we're together, when we're at events or whatever, but when we all got together, they just kind of picked up in a place that's way further than it I think we all even expected. Yeah, and it was a great night.

Leanna:

Yeah. That's gotta be one of the top ten. Yeah, like just to watch them laughing and comparing notes and talking, and you're like, hey, we're gonna. And it showed our lives blended together. Yeah.

Kerri Ann:

All of us. Yeah, for sure. That's important.

Leanna:

Very good. Okay, let's see. Drink of choice.

Kerri Ann:

Oh my goodness. Okay, if everyone in the state of Arizona doesn't know this one, prosecco in a wine glass. Yes. Not in a champagne glass.

unknown:

Nope.

Adrianne:

Very good. I love that. Mine is obviously AJ's iced tea. I could drink that every single day. I will stand in line for 10 minutes to get that iced tea. Anytime I'm near an AJ's. Yes.

unknown:

Yep.

Leanna:

And I'm an espresso martini. Yes. Every time. If there's one, I'm gonna order it. Doesn't matter if it's nine in the morning or nine in the morning.

Kerri Ann:

And I think somebody is not telling the full truth because any sangria made on the face of the side. Oh, yeah.

Adrianne:

I will drink sangria, but like my favorite drink. Okay. If it's my favorite alcoholic drink, I will try sangria at any restaurant just to see what it tastes like. Yes. Yeah. I am a sangria snob. Yes. Making it tomorrow.

Leanna:

Awesome. We'll be there, even if we're not invited. One word to describe our current state of life.

Kerri Ann:

Are you looking at me? One word. Of our or each of our current state of where we state.

Adrianne:

Growth. I would have picked that for you too. That was the first thing I thought of for you. Yeah. Growth. For me, on one word, transition. My kids are growing. You know, my kids are now grown. Terry and I have freedom. Like, where do we transition to do next in life in personal and in business?

Leanna:

Mine is paramenopausal. Like, y'all, no one talks about what happens. Thank goodness I have you two because I would not know. Yes. Yes. But if I didn't have you two, I would be losing my mind thinking that I was going crazy.

Kerri Ann:

Well, you slightly are. I know. All of us do a little bit more than. Yeah. But we have nobody else. Yes. Yeah. It's a coping mechanism. That's awesome. That and espresso martinis.

Leanna:

That's how I keep it. Keep a smile on my face. Okay. Biggest pet peeve. We're going to go this way now.

Adrianne:

Oh, my biggest pet peeve is. You know what? My biggest pet peeve are two-faced people, if I can say that. Is I that I know I can be in a group and they're talking, all it's nice, and then as soon as they leave, they say like crap behind the person's back. Immediately I don't want to do business with you, and I know you're not in my group. Yeah. I think it's different as girlfriends if you're like, you know, joking around or we're being salty with each other, but like actually seeing that in an atmosphere is my biggest pain.

Kerri Ann:

Yeah, for sure. What's yours? I'm gonna I I was thinking the same exact thing. I mean, I I think you get to a certain age and you go through certain things in life that you just don't want to be in a space where you I mean, you're gonna be with people that you don't know that don't know you, and maybe they'll say things, but yes, when people are one way to your face and another way behind your back, or those people that are always looking for a weakness in you to feel better about themselves or to, you know, like it, yes, I mean, in every way, shape, or form, that is, and I think it always has been, but as I'm getting older, it's more and more one of those things that just like you said makes me say, if I hear that and see that, like we have always said to each other, people show you who you who they are, so believe them. Yeah, I don't need you in my world or life. I don't have to be mean to you, I don't have to say harsh words, I'm not putting that in my world, but you're definitely not gonna be in it.

Leanna:

Yeah. You guys have such good answers. What's yours? I hate when people are late, but I'm always late.

Adrianne:

You both are always late.

Leanna:

I am.

Kerri Ann:

I'm I'm okay with me being late. She's kind of late. I'm skidding in on two wheels 99% of the time.

Adrianne:

Yeah. And then there's me, who's always early. Yes. On time. I don't like to be early, okay, but I like to be on time.

Leanna:

But when you're in our world, you're always early. Even if you're on time. I mean, if we say we're gonna be here at one.

Kerri Ann:

Now one more then. Your pet peeve is lateness, but we all have been together. I know. What is what is the thing? I'm okay with me being late.

Leanna:

I don't like it when I'm not. Because nobody else can be late. I love that. Yes, that was perfect sense to me. Yeah, because it's me. Okay. And let's see, favorite type of music.

Kerri Ann:

Reggae. I mean, I love all kinds of I do. I love if you listen to see the, I mean, Andrew Bucelli, hard rock, country, whatever it all is. But at the end of the day, like if I'm out at the pool having a drink or in my house and I just like if you cannot be happy with reggae music and Bob Marley or whatever in the back, like you don't have a soul. If you just can't, if you don't listen to it and you're not happy, there. I cannot be around anybody that's like that.

Adrianne:

I love that. I can't say that I have a favorite because one, I never remember an artist name or name of a song. I will I will give Terry an entire description and then he'll tell me what the song is and who played it. Because I can't tell you. Well, we saw that in that textbook. Right. I have no idea. But I will click around on music. So it depends on my mood. But lately I've been back to country, which I used to listen to a lot when I was younger. Really, my mom only allowed us to listen to country when I was younger. And so I feel like I've gone back to that, which is odd. I haven't listened to country in probably 15 years, but I'm back to country now.

Leanna:

Nice.

Kerri Ann:

We know.

Leanna:

I know it's coming. So we know. We know I kind of like a little gangster rap. A little 90s gangster. I don't understand any of the things that they're saying now. Yes. But mix that in with Christian music.

Kerri Ann:

A little snoop and a little Jesus. Yes.

Leanna:

Together. Together. Okay. Let's see. What is your favorite quote?

Kerri Ann:

Oh, very simple. Show me who you go with, and I'll show you who you are. My parents used to say that to us all the time, and it is absolutely 1 million percent the truth.

Adrianne:

Um mine is gonna be for I know the plans for you through the Bible of Jeremiah. So I just anytime stuff's stressful, I'm always like, I know the plans for you to prosper you and not harm you. So I always just repeat that all the time. Yeah.

Leanna:

Love that. Mine is don't take advice from anyone whose life you would not want to live.

Kerri Ann:

That's a good one. Oh yeah. Right? Especially in business. We do that sometimes. Like we we give them space. Yeah.

Leanna:

Not anymore. We're working on it. Yeah. Okay. Guilty pleasure.

Adrianne:

Oh my gosh. Honestly, and I know people will be shocked. My guilty pleasures, I love dark mafia romance books. They are dark and they, yes, and they have murder in them and how they cover it up. And I don't know why, but when I'm stressed, I love to listen to those books. Like it's just a weird guilty pleasure of mine that no one would ever guess that that's what I would listen to.

Kerri Ann:

Mine is macaroni and cheese. Isn't it baked? Any kind of ma I will eat my body weight in it as much as I can get on my face. It's the thing I think of. Well, that and my mom's pastina, which is like a Italian like chicken brothy thing, like that is like I will eat that till I die. Wow. I don't even know, but I was just thinking of that. Maybe I need to have some of that.

Adrianne:

Mac and cheese.

Kerri Ann:

Yeah. Yeah. Look at leave it to me to make guilty pleasure is food.

Leanna:

Now I'm hungry.

Kerri Ann:

I know. Because I could do some good mac and cheese.

Leanna:

Okay, mine would be reality TV.

Kerri Ann:

Yeah.

Leanna:

90-day anything that is just Sister Wives. If Jeff had let me, I would have gone up to Flagstaff and tried to stock them and find them and he wouldn't. Go to the land. Yeah. We're not driving four hours in hopes that you run into someone in a grocery store. But that's mine. Okay. We'll do a couple more and then we're done. If you were famous, what would you be famous for?

Kerri Ann:

What would you be famous for? Why don't you start it?

Leanna:

I would be famous for something that would make me wear orange for the rest of my life. I would we know which one's a salty one out of all of us.

Adrianne:

I'm trying to think of what I would be famous for. I don't know. That one stumps me of what I'd be famous for doing.

Leanna:

It would have to be some Miss HGTV, Miss I'm all over social media. Yeah. Do something.

Adrianne:

Be famous for. I mean, if you're kind of already famous, if I could have honestly, if Terry and I could have our own show of doing flips, I think it'd be a mix of us like one of us ending up in orange and kissing each other and being all happy by the end of it. Like it never happened that we lost our, you know, shit down each other. If you can say that on we could say whatever we wanted. But um, yeah, I think we would be one of those where people be like, oh my gosh, they're getting divorced, and the next thing you know, we'd be like, that's why they're married for so long. Yeah.

Kerri Ann:

I have no clue at all.

unknown:

Okay.

Kerri Ann:

I I have no clue.

Leanna:

I don't, I mean I'm just gonna tell you right now, if we if the two of us end up in orange, there's a strong possibility you're gonna be. Yeah, you'll be with us.

Kerri Ann:

I know. It's fine. But I would just be I Or you're the alibi that to get us out of the orange.

Leanna:

Yes.

Adrianne:

Yes.

Leanna:

Very true. Okay, last one, favorite way to spend a lazy day.

Kerri Ann:

I oh favorite way to well, first of all, it would either be in the mountains next to a fire or in the beach with my feet in the sand. But if we had to be in reality of just every day at home. I love when my husband puts on the fire in the back and we sit on the couch and just have drinks and watch movies and the kids are with like I just that kind of is a a great thing for me.

Voice Over:

Yeah.

Kerri Ann:

Yeah.

Voice Over:

What about you?

Adrianne:

Favorite, like if I have time off, will be me on a paddleboard on the river. I could do that any day with the horses and just the mountains. I have my drink, radio, and then me. Yeah. That's nice.

Leanna:

Yes. I wish we knew what it was like to go on the river.

Adrianne:

But she's not allowed to take both of us at the same time.

Leanna:

Yes, because apparently we're a lot.

Adrianne:

I think it'll be on our bucket list this year, and we're just gonna, you know, yoga. Why can't you just get in the three of us? Oh no, I think we're just gonna be the three of us and we're just gonna go.

Leanna:

Okay. Well, she I'm the one that would end up overboard or lost at sea in the river.

Kerri Ann:

Well, I wouldn't even make it down because I'd fall and kill myself on the way down. That's more of what she's worried about.

Leanna:

Okay. Lazy day, Liana. Lazy day. Honestly, in my sweats, hanging out with the dogs, and anything that I get to do with Jeff. He's my best friend, my person. He is, and I will watch paint dry with him. Like there's nothing I wouldn't do. So if I get to spend the day and we get to just hang out, that's perfect. So okay, well, that ends our lightning round. Is there anything that we need to add before we sign off for the

Adrianne:

I don't think so. I'm just excited to do this with you ladies.

Leanna:

I know.

Adrianne:

And hopefully other people enjoy our humor or understand our humor.

Leanna:

We did decide that we're gonna have, we know for sure, at least seven listeners because of our husbands and our parents and people that we can force to listen to this. So outside of the seven listeners, I hope that other people find this helpful and just really kind of gain something from it. Because without you two, I don't know where I would be in orange already.

Kerri Ann:

Uh-huh.

Leanna:

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. All right, signing off.

Voice Over:

To the next episode. And that's a wrap on today's episode of the Group Chat Goes Live, Slightly Salty Edition. If you laughed, cringed, nodded along, or mentally texted your bestie, good. That means we did our job. Make sure you follow, subscribe, and slide into our DMs with your own slightly salty stories. You know we love the chaos. Until next time, keep your group chat spicy and the real world slightly saltier.

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