Ep. 30 The Toxicity of Achievement Culture

After Hours With Amanda

Education, Self-improvement

5 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 30 we dive into the idea of Achievement culture and the toxicity it creates in the cycle of life. It starts from the womb and follows us to the tomb whether it's in early developmental skills like walking, talking, or school even as young as reading, and follows us to college, jobs, careers, etc. The idea is that we have to always be doing more, being more, and attaining more. We talk about how this hinders us not only as parents but as individuals as well. Come join us for the whole episode and also hear all about Trader Joe's new pineapple juice discovery! As always I'm happy you're here and thank you for listening.

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0:00.0	All right, y'all, we are going to dive right into the fact that it is Thursday night,
0:05.6	but I refuse to let another week go by without getting to talk to you.
0:11.2	And one of these days, y'all, I dream of this podcast being recorded in some fun little studio,
0:19.5	not like a big studio, but just like a cool little space where we
0:23.3	get to chat it out.
0:25.6	And I get to consistently upload every week.
0:29.2	And I, you know, for those of you that are new here, welcome to the After Hours with Amanda
0:33.6	podcast, the podcast that shares about parenting, but literally just takes from life on the
0:40.5	journey that we're all living together. It's a community. It's a coffee chat. It is time together.
0:46.7	So if you are new around here, buckle up for the most relaxed, unprofess. More along the lines of, I don't even know what to call it, just
0:58.6	the podcast that is not sponsored, produced, or anything.
1:06.0	And who knows, honestly, one day what it'll look like.
1:09.4	But today, it looks like us sitting in a closet.
1:12.7	I'm recording myself on an online website, which I will then upload to Anchor,
1:18.5	which is the host site that I do this on.
1:21.7	And we're just going to kind of dive in.
1:23.8	I know it's been a couple weeks.
1:25.0	And honestly, I'm sitting here with some pineapple
1:31.9	juice and some cookie dough bites. And my tiny people are going to sleep watching Sing 2. We started
1:40.9	swim this week. Eating cookie dough before I started talking was not the, it was not the choice here.
1:46.8	Okay. Hold on. We started swim this week. And I just need to be honest with you on a real level when I tell you that as a parent, there are certain things that people thrive at and certain things that I just learned very early on were not going to be for me.
2:02.4	And that was doing any type of organized sport that took up our weeknights and our weekends before my kids were able to kind of verbalize something.
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