About this episode

Emily and Matt Hyland discuss their journey as restaurateurs, their personal relationship, and the challenges they faced in both love and business.

Emily & Matt Hyland (Emily, Pizza Loves Emily, Emmy Squared Pizza) are restaurateurs and authors, with Matt a Michelin-recognized chef and culinary creator, and Emily an educator, poet, and mindful movement teacher. Emily and Matt join the Armchair Expert to discuss meeting when Emily was Matt’s college RA, how yoga has been one of the biggest through lines in Emily’s life, and their favorite pizza’s favorite pizza. Matt, Emily, and Dax talk about when THE burger entered the scene, how a difficulty to compartmentalize working together caused their relationship to break down, and the underlying friction that resulted from conflating her identity with his food. Emily and Matt explain getting divorced after opening a restaurant based on their love story, how through therapeutic work healing their dynamic as partners after each remarrying, and the clarity that came from an arrest and a restraining order during a really dark moment. Take printer ink off your to-do list with HP Smart Tank | hp.com/SmartTank Check Allstate first for a quote that could save you hundreds: https://www.allstate.com/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at…

People in this episode

Host: Dax Shepard

Guests: Emily Hyland, Matt Hyland

Topics covered

• restaurant industry
• personal relationships
• yoga
• divorce
• culinary arts
• mental health

Keywords

• Emily Hyland
• Matt Hyland
• pizza
• restaurant
• divorce
• yoga
• culinary
• mental health

Sponsors

HP Smart Tank, Allstate

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pizza Loves Emily, Emmy Squared Pizza

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