Maybe You’re Allowed to Need Things Too | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 65
After Hours With Amanda
After Hours With Amanda
5.0 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I’m sitting on my closet floor after a very full week and talking through a realization that stopped me in my tracks: sometimes we do not make ourselves small because someone else is being negative. Sometimes we make ourselves small because we keep choosing everyone else, even when we love doing it.
I’m talking about motherhood, marriage, anxiety, asking for help, taking up space, and why the oxygen mask is not just so we can help everybody else. It is so we can breathe too.
If you have been showing up for everyone but yourself, come sit with me for this one.
00:00 Surprise, We’re Doing an Episode
00:47 Friday, Baby Jesus, and Imperfect Progress
02:17 Life Update: Cheer, School, and Denim and Diamonds
04:11 Tiny Queens and Student Council Inauguration
05:20 Acid Reflux, Alo Jackets, and Disney Holiday Hopes
07:35 Almost Getting a Dog
08:04 Missing the Footsie Pajama Stage
09:16 Continuing the Dreamer and Sidekick Conversation
10:26 The Gift of Being a Constant Friend
12:21 Taking Up Space
14:24 Marriage, Partnership, and Switching Roles
16:50 Movement, Anxiety, and Needing Time for Myself
19:16 Choosing Others Until You Disappear
22:14 The Cape, the Outfit, and Being Loud Again
24:15 Skipping Lunch to Create Peace at Home
26:11 The Oxygen Mask Is for You Too
32:17 Don’t Let Yourself Make You Small
34:53 Letting People Help You
37:25 Why Asking for Help Feels So Hard
38:36 Closet Floor Wrap Up
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | surprise, I bet you weren't expecting an episode. I just decided, here's the tea. Here's the tea of it all. |
| 0:07.2 | It is 9-10 on a Thursday night. We just got home from cheer. And between work, cheerleading, coaching, |
| 0:14.8 | school, trying to create content, I just decided that I would rather talk to you than not talk to you at all. |
| 0:21.8 | And if that means that I can't video record and edit every time I want to do a podcast, |
| 0:27.6 | well, then you know what? We're going to go back to the way we kicked things off in the |
| 0:31.2 | beginning four years ago because a podcast is meant to be listened to anyway. So as much as I |
| 0:37.4 | would love to show you my smile, and I always like to think of seeing your beautiful faces, here's where we're at. |
| 0:45.2 | And we're going to spend some time together. |
| 0:47.4 | Okay, first off, can we just celebrate that if you're listening to this when this drops, it's Friday? |
| 0:53.0 | It is Friday. You have made it through another week. |
| 0:56.9 | Literally praise baby Jesus. Praise sweet baby Jesus. And whenever I say that, I can't not think about |
| 1:01.6 | Teledega Nights. Okay. Still one of my favorite movie lines to quote, dear, six pound, eight ounce, baby Jesus. |
| 1:12.3 | I like to picture Jesus at a Leonard, Skinner, concert. |
| 1:15.9 | Like, that movie, there's never not a line that I don't quote from that movie. |
| 1:20.7 | It's one of my favorites. |
| 1:22.3 | But I'm just so excited to be talking to you in reality. |
| 1:25.2 | I'm just so excited to be spending time with you. |
| 1:28.2 | And this just thought and thought process that came to me this week was too important not to share. |
| 1:35.1 | And I've had so many. But I had analysis paralysis in terms of wanting to record the video |
| 1:41.3 | so I could ensure it was edited. And imperfect progress is better than perfected non-movement. |
| 1:50.1 | Like, let's be so real and honest right now. |
| 1:53.8 | Just a really busy week. |
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