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Girls Gotta Eat

Breakup Bootcamp with Amy Chan (re-release)

Girls Gotta Eat

Ashley Hesseltine

Relationships, Society & Culture, Dating, Comedy, Sex, 977170

4.629.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

We're rereleasing a classic episode that's been known to change lives, and we hope you enjoy relistening or listening for the first time!

Amy Chan, founder of Renew Breakup Bootcamp, joins us to map out the path from heartbroken to happy. We discuss actions to take in the first weeks post-breakup when you feel like you're gonna die, recognizing your dating patterns and changing them, how to stop toxic relationship fantasizing, and more. Enjoy! 

Follow Amy on Instagram at @MissAmyChan and check out her Breakup Bootcamp.

Follow us @GirlsGottaEatPodcast, Rayna @Rayna.Greenberg, and Ashley @AshHess. Visit girlsgottaeat.com for more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everything clicked and I shifted and reframed my relationship with what had happened.

0:07.1

And I went from being a victim to being empowered. This podcast is a dear media production.

0:28.2

Hi guys.

0:30.5

Welcome back to sort of another episode of Girls Gotta Eat.

0:35.0

Yeah.

0:35.3

So it is Labor Day that this drops. And typically we would take it off,

0:39.7

but we thought, let's just release an old classic. So we dipped into the archives and found

0:46.3

one of our absolute favorites and is the very first time we had Amy Chan on to talk about

0:51.1

how to get over and heal after a breakup. And this was before COVID, it was like

0:57.9

2019. And her book, Breakup Boot Camp was about to come out. And she was doing her retreats.

1:03.0

And she shared her whole story. And it's just, it's such a good episode right now. Like I was

1:07.1

like listening back today and was like, we were like just so enthralled by her like crying

1:12.1

and just blown away. I still remember the first email I got from Amy. We got and then she called

1:19.4

and we talked and I was like, gosh, you're going to love her so much. Yeah. It's probably one of the

1:23.5

episodes that people reference the most even to this day when they're like, I love

1:28.7

this girl's got an episode. And I just, I think everybody can relate to the extreme pain of a breakup

1:33.4

and the way she speaks of it, writes about it, has researched it, dead retreats, all the things.

1:39.0

I mean, she is just incredible. It has been on the show many times since, but this episode was

1:43.6

she's been on twice

1:46.1

since. But this was the first time we recorded with her in person. And this will be audio only today.

1:51.6

This was prior to our video era. So you guys could just listen to it. And it's just she really

1:58.4

walks through like the way it feels in your body to go through heartbreak

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