You Don't Need to Convince Anyone | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 61

After Hours With Amanda

Kids & Family, Parenting

5.0 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m back on the closet floor talking about self worth, validation, motherhood, friendship, dating, and why you should not have to beg someone to pick you. I share some life updates about heading back to work, working mom content, and then we get into the way we sometimes feel like we have to prove our choices are worthy. From motherhood discourse online to a very younger Amanda high school story, this one is about knowing your value without pleading your case to be chosen.

00:00 Back on the Closet Floor
00:46 The Episode That Recorded Nothing
01:31 Chicken Pot Pie and Late Night Recording
03:19 The Coffee Trick That Backfired
04:16 Heading Back to Work
05:09 Work Clothes and Working Mom Content
06:21 You Should Not Have to Beg Someone to Pick You
07:20 Friendship, Dating, and Tiny Queens
08:09 The Motherhood Conversation Online
09:16 Proving the Worthiness of Your Choice
10:35 Younger Amanda and Wanting to Be Seen
12:47 The High School Pick Me Story
17:47 When Validation Turns Into a Pattern
19:35 Not Every Opinion Needs Your Defense
22:29 Motherhood, Joy, and the In Between
24:02 Teaching Girls to Question Authority
27:51 Your Experience Is Still Valid
30:32 You Can Defend Your Honor and Walk Away
34:22 Stop Begging for Agreement
36:33 You Are Worth More Than Convincing
37:42 If No One Has Told You Lately

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0:00.0	Well, welcome back to another episode of After Hours with Amanda. We're on episode 61 and we have decided to kick it old school because Blake cleaned up my computer or did whatever guys do when they're trying to make things run faster. And now my camera's not working. I got I thought I got it to work and he was on
0:26.0	a call earlier today and so I was like okay problem solved I am an independent queen okay
0:34.8	recorded a whole episode and I don't know what I did or what I didn't do,
0:41.6	but it recorded nothing. So we are sitting closet floor. And if you know, you know, if you've been
0:52.9	around since 2020, I think, yeah, we started this in 2020, 2021, you know you know if you've been around since 2020 i think yeah we started this in
0:56.2	2020 2021 you know that the closet floor is where i do my best thinking you know that the closet
1:01.8	is my space also an app that would never that we thought would never cease to exist however
1:09.6	okay but the the closet really is my happy place.
1:13.1	I come in here to do makeup. I would film absolutely everything in my little domain.
1:17.9	So it's kind of nostalgic being back in here. What's happening right now? Well, just so you know,
1:24.9	it's 914 on a Thursday night. And I am not going to let
1:29.5	this week go without our episode. So I said, okay, girl, you're going to stay up. But you know,
1:35.6	but you're not going to be hungry because at the last minute, I decided to throw a chicken pot pie
1:40.4	in the oven from Trader Joe's. I've been dying to try it, okay? I'm going to be so honest. My favorite type of frozen chicken pot pie in the oven? From Trader Joe's, I've been dying to try it, okay? I'm going to be so
1:45.5	honest. My favorite type of frozen chicken pot pie? Marie Callender's. Hands down. You cannot tell me
1:52.5	that those little pies do not bring joy when you just tap that crust. I grew up on those.
1:57.6	I definitely have not had one, and I want to say a good, I don't think I have had a
2:03.0	Marie Callender's chicken pot pie in almost a decade. I feel like I need to go buy one now just because
2:09.0	that feels obsessive to not have, like, what are we doing with ourselves if we're not eating
2:14.1	a chicken pop pie from Marie calendars? It's bad enough that there are no Marie calendars and there are no more Baker Squares, which
2:22.6	if you know, you know, I can't even get into the love I had for Baker Square.
2:28.9	Are you joking me?
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