Holiday Hoovers and the Joy They Steal | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 57
After Hours With Amanda
After Hours With Amanda
5.0 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m back, baby, and we are talking about holiday Hoovers, boundaries, self criticism, and three Bob Goff reminders I could not keep to myself. This one is for the besties heading into December already bracing for comments, family dynamics, joy stealers, or the internal voice that keeps beating them up. You are not a piñata. Some people think they are being helpful. And somewhere, someone else may be praying for different rain, but that does not make your prayer less important.
00:00 We Are Back, Baby
00:40 Why I Let the Podcast Fall Through the Cracks
01:28 Wicked, Lego, and the Little Shelf Update
02:25 Bob Goff and the Holiday Hoover Conversation
03:43 Christmas Movies, True Crime, and Memes
04:40 Instagram Subscription and Cameo Updates
06:19 Disneyland, Nationals, and Holiday Plans
06:47 What Is a Hoover?
08:08 Being Okay When Not Everyone Likes You
09:27 They Don’t Know They Have Horns
12:10 Boundaries When You Still Have to Interact
13:39 In One Ear, Keep What You Need
16:15 Stop Hitting Yourself
21:43 When Other People Treat You Like a Piñata
23:40 The Bride, the Farmer, and the Rain
25:38 When Someone Undervalues Your Gift
29:05 Praying for a Different Kind of Rain
31:09 Three Reminders for December
32:33 If No One Has Told You Lately
Transcript
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| 0:00.9 | We are back, baby. |
| 0:03.0 | Hi. |
| 0:03.7 | Oh my gosh. |
| 0:04.8 | I am so, it is so good to be back. |
| 0:08.2 | It is so good to be back. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm so happy to be here with you. |
| 0:12.8 | What have you been up to? |
| 0:14.0 | It has been months on months on months. |
| 0:15.8 | And I know we have this relationship, right? |
| 0:18.5 | Where we have an episode and we don't and then we do and then we |
| 0:21.4 | don't. And the thing of it is, if I'm completely honest and accountable to myself, is even though |
| 0:26.2 | the podcast is literally not even low key, just top notch my favorite thing to do, talk to you |
| 0:32.0 | because it's longer form and I can chat and you can listen or we can look at each other because |
| 0:37.1 | you're gorgeous and I love you. |
| 0:40.2 | That's my favorite thing to do, but I do not set aside the time. |
| 0:43.2 | I let other things creep in. |
| 0:44.7 | And even though it's the thing I love the most, it's the thing I let get down, push down to the least on the list. |
| 0:51.2 | No more. |
| 0:52.4 | I have some loving friends, a friend, Cindy, and Blake, who were like, |
| 0:56.6 | if you love it so much, why do you let it fall in the cracks, girl? Do it. Because you know what? |
| 1:01.3 | It's not about the listener size. It's not about what. It's about the fact that I love spending |
| 1:07.1 | time with you and I get more DMs about when the podcast is going to come back than any request I have. |
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