Hello, everyone and welcome to the Evolved Emily Show.

I'm your host, Emily Heiden.

And today, I'm interviewing Amanda Drake.

She's from Augusta, Georgia. She's a wife,

a mom of two, or a mom of two small kids, a five-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl.

She's a business owner of a small chain automotive repair shop in Georgia and South Carolina.

And she is heavily involved with several organizations in her community and also in her

industry. Her hobbies include motorcross, which I think is super badass and also camping. So

everybody please welcome Amanda to the show. Welcome. Hello. We're so, hi. Yeah,

hi. We're so excited to have you today. You know, I think it's really important to share people's journeys of evolving, right? Because evolving is not easy and oftentimes it's not pretty. And I think it's important also to show the person that is a mom and a wife and a business owner, right? That's not necessarily in the social

media world because a lot of the people that I will interview on my show, they will be people

who either have their own podcast or they do YouTube. And I think sometimes it's more relatable and

more realistic for the listeners who might be a mom at home with their kids or, you know,

somebody pursuing their own business for them to hear somebody that has really walked in their shoes

and is currently walking in their shoes and just kind of hear from you like your actual experience

of evolving. So I want to take it back to you beginning your journey of evolving. Tell me about

how you decided to first start a journey of personal development, personal growth, and kind of what

led to you making this decision for yourself that you were going to pursue something more or

better than what it was that you had?

Well, first of all, I've always been pretty into, I would read a lot of personal development books.

I would be heavily involved in a lot of that.

And I definitely was getting a lot of that from your podcast, from your YouTube videos,

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