No Princess Stands Alone: The Power of Sidekicks | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 64
After Hours With Amanda
After Hours With Amanda
5.0 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I’m sharing the very emotional story of taking the tiny queens to Disney World for World Princess Week, and why the message of “create your own world” hit me so deeply. This one is about Disney magic, motherhood, dreams, sidekicks, grief, gratitude, disappointment, and the reminder that we are not meant to do life in isolation.
If you have been feeling discouraged, unseen, or like your dream is taking the long way around, come sit with me. I hope this feels like a little pixie dust for your heart today.
00:00 Why I Have Tried to Record This 30 Times
02:18 I Took the Tiny Queens to Disney World
03:09 Red Eye Flights and BoardWalk Magic
05:35 The Pajamas That Brought My Family With Me
07:10 Princess Products, Legos, and Sidekick Magic
09:23 Animal Kingdom, Pixie Dust, and Starlight Tears
12:10 Create Your Own World Is More Than Disney
13:07 The Privilege of Being Their Sidekick
15:17 Your Sidekick Might Not Be Who You Expected
17:20 Parenting Means Preparing Them to Fly
20:24 Sidekicks in the Trenches of Growth
22:11 Tiana, Disappointment, and Digging Deeper
27:19 Your Dream Might Look Different
30:11 When the Door Does Not Open Yet
38:12 You Are Needed Exactly As You Are
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | if you couldn't tell, I'm a little excited. |
| 0:04.2 | I've tried to record this episode. |
| 0:05.6 | I want to say no less than 30 times. |
| 0:07.6 | Okay. |
| 0:08.2 | And when I tell you that every time I start to record it, I start to cry because I'm just so overwhelmed, you guys. |
| 0:15.9 | We're recording an episode. |
| 0:18.3 | And I get to talk about World Princess Week because we went to Disney World. Like, I just, I need to say that out loud to you. Like, and when I jumped on the call with them, I don't, I don't even know if I told you this, okay? And if this is your first experience of me, buckle up, baby, because this episode is about to be it. Okay, because not only am I going to |
| 0:37.9 | tell you all the amazing things we did, but I have something on my heart that I want to share |
| 0:40.9 | with you. And I really hope that it resonates with you today because I'm just so excited about the |
| 0:46.4 | DMs that I've been getting and stuff because I feel like me sharing this journey with you |
| 0:50.8 | is encouraging you guys to dream and dream big no matter what that looks like, |
| 0:55.9 | no matter what the daily steps look like, no matter what you get told no on. Like, when they |
| 1:02.6 | reached out to do this, I hopped on a call and they were like, would you love to share this on |
| 1:06.8 | your podcast? And I was like, say less. Say less. Are you kidding me? |
| 1:12.5 | This podcast has been such a labor of love. |
| 1:18.3 | And it's the thing that I love most in my content. |
| 1:20.6 | And we always, we've always said and we always joke, one day we're going to be in a studio |
| 1:25.1 | and we're going to be doing, let's just put this out there now. One day we're going to be in a Disney studio. Okay. One day. One day we're going to be in a studio and we're going to be doing. Let's just put this out there now. |
| 1:28.1 | One day we're going to be in a Disney studio. |
| 1:30.1 | Okay. |
| 1:30.8 | One day we're going to be a podcast host for Disney. |
| 1:33.5 | Okay. |
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