Welcome to the Unspeak Easy podcast. I'm your host, Megan Down. This episode is a slight departure from our usual terrain. First of all, it is audio only because someone forgot to turn the camera on during recording.

Oops.

Second, it's a little shorter than usual.

And part of the reason is that my guest has devoted her career to busy people, especially

busy women who might not have the time to listen to hours of podcasts.

She is Amanda Gertz Herdy, and she is the author

of The Curiosity Workbook, How to Stand in Your Truth, Sit in Your Intention, and Kick

As by Cultivating Curiosity. She is also a life coach, a certified yoga instructor, a mom to

not only twins, but one very mischievous golden doodle,

and in her words, a lifelong learner and badass in progress. Amanda, welcome to the podcast.

Yeah, thank you so much for having me, Megan. This is a huge thrill.

So let's dive right in. You do so many things, in addition to being an author.

You are a life coach with a focus on radical curiosity. You've built this practice on a very

interesting foundation. Can you walk us through your story? Yeah. Well, so my story is a little bit

different. Before I became my own boss, I worked in

corporate for almost 10 years, which is crazy. I never thought I would be that person. I had, like,

traveled all over the world after college, hiked through South America, Nepal, did the whole meditation thing, did the whole

youth hostel thing. I was kind of like a wild child. Like if you had asked anybody back then

what I would be doing 10 years later, they would not have said working in marketing and the

beauty and personal care industry. But fast forward, I ended up coming back, getting a job in marketing.

I ran big campaigns, positioned major brands in social, was like totally killing it,

had my own condo, all the things.

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