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HERself

304. Life Lessons We've Taken With Us

HERself

Abby and Amy

Grow, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Parenting, Kids & Family, Opportunity, Honest, Real, Vulnerable, Purpose, Best Self, Self-improvement, Future, Comparison

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever caught yourself sounding just like your parents? Today we reflect on the lessons—both spoken and unspoken—that our parents, coaches, and role models left with us, and how they’ve shaped the women and moms we are today. From confidence and community to money and independence, these life lessons are now the ones we’re passing down to our own kids. Amy shares how her mom’s approach to appearance built her confidence from the inside out, while Abby opens up about her mom’s influence...

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0:00.0

He's taught me to be so kind to the waitress, the barista, like you look at them in the eye,

0:06.2

you say their name, you put your phone down, that stuff has really stuck with me.

0:10.2

I feel like it's so important in this really fast-paced world to slow down and make those

0:16.7

human connections with everyone that you run into because it feels good on both ends.

0:26.4

I'm Amy. And I'm Abby. And as women, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others.

0:33.7

But your life isn't supposed to look like hers. Being your best self means standing firm in your decisions

0:39.8

and always being willing to grow with a purpose.

0:42.9

We get vulnerable and real with an honest look

0:45.9

into the challenges and triumphs we all face.

0:49.1

Every woman listening gets the opportunity

0:51.0

to choose what life looks like for herself.

0:59.5

Thank you. gets the opportunity to choose what life looks like for herself. So the idea for this episode really came when Abby and I were sitting around at the table.

1:06.0

I was telling her one thing that's interesting to think about is that we are the adults now and we are

1:12.1

leaving our imprint on our kids. So to think back about when we were growing up, what was imprinted

1:20.2

on us. And so today we're going to share a lot of positive examples of the things that our

1:25.8

parents or coaches or other people instilled in us.

1:29.7

But then we're also going to talk about sometimes the installation can go too far.

1:35.0

Like it can cross over to where they kind of made you nervous about something in a way where it's

1:42.5

interesting to think about it because like I said, now our kids are

1:47.3

very impressionable. They're at the age where they're getting a lot of lessons from us and

1:52.1

otherwise. So we thought that this would be a really good episode to just think about all of that.

1:57.6

Also, I forgot to do our little chit chat in the beginning. I know we said we wouldn't do that

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