Identity After Kids: The Caterpillar or the Butterfly | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 2
After Hours With Amanda
After Hours With Amanda
5.0 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m talking about motherhood, identity, and the fear that you somehow lose yourself after having kids. After my third baby, I felt underwater, overwhelmed, and unsure which way was up. But over time, I started wondering if motherhood was not erasing me, but growing me.
This is not expert advice. It’s just me learning out loud about tiny people, personal growth, marriage, friendship, and the messy, beautiful way kids add color to who we already are.
If you’ve felt lost in the middle of becoming, this one is for you.
00:00 Welcome Back to After Hours With Amanda
01:05 My Delilah Radio Voice Moment
01:34 McDonald’s Coke and the Disclaimer
02:18 Fly by the Seat of My Pants
03:04 Identity, Motherhood, and Change
04:15 When My Third Baby Rocked My World
05:28 Feeling Underwater
06:39 Finding Which Way Is Up
07:05 Motherhood as Rebirth
08:28 You Are Still Growing
09:16 Caterpillar, Cocoon, Butterfly
10:02 Marriage Changes You Too
11:19 Your Cup Is Refillable
12:12 Kids Don’t Cancel You Out
14:34 Kids Make Us More Intentional
16:33 The Ten More Minutes at Bedtime
19:37 Kids Add Color to Your Life
21:15 Kids Expose Our Selfishness
23:08 Becoming Someone’s Everyday Hero
26:40 There Is a Season for Everything
29:34 Parenting and the Tower of Terror
31:46 One Small Thing a Day
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Welcome to episode two of After Hours with Amanda because I'm not going to change it to |
| 0:06.1 | anything else. It's the easiest thing to search. And since I can barely remember my internet |
| 0:10.4 | passwords, as I've said before, making up another name for something is just not in the playbook |
| 0:16.0 | for me. First, I want to start by saying thank you to everyone who listened, who subscribed. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm so glad y'all are enjoying this. Um, I have to admit, I did not know how I would feel about a podcast, |
| 0:26.6 | but I really like this form of sharing my content and getting to interact with you all. It's |
| 0:32.6 | actually really, really fun for me. Also, I'm going to be totally honest. When I started talking into this mic, I had this |
| 0:41.2 | like flashback of my favorite radio DJ growing up. I don't know if any of y'all knew who |
| 0:46.5 | Delilah was. Okay, so growing up, I moved a lot. And I would, mostly though, we settled between |
| 0:53.0 | California, Northern and Southern, right? |
| 0:55.1 | And we would commute a lot, okay? |
| 0:57.0 | And every time it would be really late at night, there was this DJ Delilah. |
| 1:01.8 | And she'd come on and she'd be like, hi, this is Delilah. |
| 1:05.8 | And her voice was so soothing. |
| 1:07.9 | And she played music like you'd find on like mix 96 like the police Brian |
| 1:13.4 | Adams like all of that stuff so when I started filming this I was like hi welcome to after and I |
| 1:21.6 | mildly couldn't take myself seriously also upon the insurmountable well not insurmountable I guess |
| 1:27.3 | that's not a word, but |
| 1:28.0 | the excessive feedback that I should have a McDonald's Coke if I felt led to, there's the |
| 1:35.0 | ice. |
| 1:36.0 | I currently have my McDonald's Coke. |
| 1:38.2 | Mm-hmm. |
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