In an exclusive interview with ‘Distractify,’ Gina Kirschenheiter of ‘RHOC’ opens up about her new podcast, ‘Orange Country’ and her non-public life.

Since she first graced Bravo fanatics’ TVs on The Real Housewives of Orange County, Gina Kirschenheiter has bravely shared her real estate career objectives, relations, and relationships with millions. Many of her fans relate to the New York native’s storylines, like her 2019 divorce from her ex-husband, Matt Kirschenheiter.

After several years within the highlight on RHOC, Gina is able to transfer on to a new platform — podcasting. In June 2023, the mum of six teamed up with Grammy-winning nation singer Shane McAnally to release their podcast, Orange Country.

Gina exclusively spoke to Distractify about making a new lane for herself and how she’s the use of it to discuss the more than a few changes in her life.

Gina Kirschenheiter says her podcast, ‘Orange Country,’ is a refreshing destroy from ‘RHOC’ drama.

RHOC fans can now get a double, weekly dose of Gina due to her podcast, Orange Country. On their pod, the “not likely duo,” Gina and Shane, “blend humor and heart as they dive into pop culture, the struggles and strife of parenting, and a lot more.”

The first episode of the podcast aired on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, and used to be titled, “Shane Gets Gina Canceled.”

The podcast’s episode aired two weeks after the RHOC Season 17 premiere and additionally airs on Wednesdays like RHOC. However, Gina told us the similarities between Orange Country and RHOC pretty much forestall at their titles and air dates.

Unlike some of her Bravo peers, including her co-star Tamra Judge, Gina stated she opted out of creating Orange Country only concerning the Housewives franchise. She mentioned that whilst RHOC is “a part of my lifestyles,” and she would love to have her BFF Emily Simpson in an episode, there are many other sides to her that she plans to show in the course of the podcast.

“A large number of it simply is focused around Shane and me, and conversations that we have got about parenting and real-life journeys, struggles, sobriety, mental health, relationships, just like the whole lot around the board,” Gina stated of Orange Country’s premise.

"And so like, when I have Emily on, it’s like, 'Yes, it’s Emily, [from] The Real Housewives of Orange County,' but I'm also just having on my friend and someone that I know has a lot of really good feedback and input and, you know, knowledge and can like to chime in and has stories about like parenting and real-life stuff,” she added.

Gina opens up about her relationship with her boyfriend Travis Mullen on her podcast.

While there won’t be too many conversations about yacht dinners gone awry on Orange Country, Gina promises there will be plenty of relationship tea on the podcast, including her current one with Travis Mullen.

The CaraGala co-founder and her financial planner beau started dating in 2019 and have been going strong ever since. In Season 17 of RHOC, Travis was incredibly supportive of Gina during her Montana trip drama with Heather Dubrow.

Gina and Travis are also partners in raising their children. Travis has three kids from his marriage to Meghan Mullen — Presley, 10, Bennett, 8, and Joseph, 5, while Gina has her three — Nicholas, Luca, and Sienna Rose, from her previous marriage. But Gina says their blended family doesn’t mean she’s ready to tie the knot for a second time.

Although she says she's “fully committed” to Travis and “happy” with the life they share, she said marriage isn’t either of their main priority. She said they prefer to focus on their “modern family” and “modern relationship” instead — which may or may not include a ring on her finger.

“The answer is, I don't know,” Gina told us when or if she will marry Travis. “It's not like I'm anti-marriage or anti a pretty ring. Definitely not. But like, also, I'm happy in my life. We're fully committed.”

We're both coming off of divorces; we're both still relatively young like we're both under 40. And we're rebuilding. And so like, we're just more focused on continuing to become financially stable,” she added.

And while she doesn’t know when the date will come, Gina said she and Travis would love to get married for their kids. Since each set of their kids knows what it’s like to be children of divorced parents, she said seeing them be officially a family would give them a “sense of permanence.”

“I just want them to feel like all the other kids feel, which is like, ‘this is forever.’ Because it will be forever,” she noted.

The ‘RHOC’ star and her podcast co-host also discuss Gina’s sobriety.

Marriage might not be the first thing on Gina’s mind, but the RHOC star’s physical and mental health certainly is. During Season 17 of RHOC, Gina revealed she is now “California sober.” For those who don’t know what that means, people who are California sober tend not to drink alcohol but have no problems partaking in cannabis.

Gina discusses her sobriety on her and Shane’s podcast in addition to the show. She told us she decided to get sober after feeling like drinking was “becoming too much” and that alcohol started having “a little too much control over me.”

“I just felt like I was drinking too much,” she said. “It wasn't serving me. Well, I felt like crap every day."

Once she realized alcohol had a more potent hold on her than she desired, Gina changed her health and conduct.

“I in reality wasn't atmosphere out after I first stopped consuming to love, forestall consuming without end,” she admitted. “But then I simply used to be liking what was going down in my lifestyles so a lot more.”

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