A Season of Cinching | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 54
After Hours With Amanda
After Hours With Amanda
5.0 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m talking about rejection, slow seasons, faith, boundaries, work changes, and the reminder I keep coming back to: no means new opportunity. I share what it has felt like to be in a season where things are shifting, content creation is slower, relationships are changing, and therapy is helping me learn that being strong is not the same as being brave. Sometimes the brave thing is saying no, blocking the number, circling the wagons, and trusting that the path is being cleared even when it feels confusing.
00:00 Welcome to the New Shelf Corner
01:00 Thank You for Being Here
02:07 When Life Feels Uprooted
03:08 Sharing Without Owning Everyone’s Reaction
04:16 A Season of Cinching
06:12 When Work Gets Slow
07:08 Scarcity Mindset and Closed Doors
09:28 When the Plan Changes
12:04 A Path Being Cleared
13:29 No Means New Opportunity
14:46 Relationships Have Seasons
16:25 Strong Is Not the Same as Brave
20:18 Growing Into a New Season
23:05 When Slow Feels Like Something Is Being Taken
26:33 Your Yes Is Coming
29:17 Saying No So a Better Yes Can Come
34:40 You Are Not Alone in the Waiting
36:39 Being Brave Enough to Block
38:56 JOMO and Circling the Wagons
40:31 Slow Growth Is Still Growth
41:48 If No One Has Told You Lately
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi. Do you like my corner? I literally installed. I installed hold that I'm going to bring this |
| 0:06.7 | closer. So I installed the shelves all by myself. I told like I was like I want to put these shelves |
| 0:12.6 | in. He's like I have a meeting and I kept putting it off and putting it off. And so finally I was |
| 0:16.8 | like, I'm going to install the shelves. I'm doing it. I'm putting in the shelves. And I can't tell you |
| 0:21.7 | the like Tim the toolman. If you know, you know him improvement vibes I had when I put these in and they |
| 0:28.8 | went up. That was, I didn't, I didn't make any holes in the wall. I did that all by myself. Okay. |
| 0:34.8 | So first off, welcome to the after hours with Amanda podcast. I'm recording this now |
| 0:40.6 | with the hopes I can add my intro music this week. Okay. I played it for you last time and |
| 0:47.0 | no one heard anything because I didn't have it plugged it. So that was a little bit like a little, |
| 0:53.6 | what do they call it? What is it when something happens and then it doesn't have it plugged it. So that was a little bit like a little, what do they call it? |
| 0:55.0 | What is it when something happened and then it doesn't have? |
| 0:58.1 | Anticlimatic. |
| 0:58.7 | It was anti-climatic though. |
| 1:00.1 | Okay. |
| 1:01.0 | So I have so much to share and catch up on. |
| 1:04.3 | But first, can I just say thank you? |
| 1:06.4 | Thank you for always giving me the space. |
| 1:08.3 | Thank you for being here through the lack of episodes |
| 1:11.7 | and just the general overall vibe. We have a lot to talk about. We've been doing a lot of work |
| 1:19.4 | in therapy. Also, it's summertime, boo. So if kids, dogs, it is what it is. Okay. But is this |
| 1:27.1 | not the cutest? Okay. Right? Like, I could have moved |
| 1:29.7 | the chair. I'll figure this out for next time with like the setting of making this look more like |
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