Purpose & People over Productivity & | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 37

After Hours With Amanda

Kids & Family, Parenting

5.0 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m talking about people over productivity and the way we measure ourselves and each other by what gets done, what gets missed, and which balls get dropped. After months of pain and recovery, I started thinking about how quickly we take things personally instead of asking what might be going on. This is a long voicemail about motherhood, friendship, mental health, hot lunch, tiny queens, boundaries, empathy, and remembering that we are all more than our checkboxes. If you have felt behind, quiet, overwhelmed, or not enough, sit with me for a bit.

00:00 Trying a New Video Podcast Setup
00:44 Mall Walker Energy and Sephora Chaos
02:46 Welcome to After Hours With Amanda
03:28 Feeling the Love After Last Week
04:08 Starting Somatic Therapy
04:35 Why Do I Go on the Defense?
06:21 The Stress of “Can We Talk?”
07:03 Where My Value Comes From
08:34 When the Balls Start Dropping
10:23 Asking What Happened First
12:24 Seeing Our Tiny People More Clearly
13:38 Why Are They Dropping the Ball?
16:10 Chronic Pain and People Over Productivity
18:28 Noticing When Someone Seems Off
21:00 When a Tiny Queen Finally Says the Week Was Hard
23:21 The Village Does Not Have to Be Large
25:07 When People Show Up in the Dark
26:17 Boundaries, Peace, and Collaboration
30:25 Hot Lunch and Letting Go of Mom Rules
33:43 Asking Why Before Moving On
36:03 The Frozen Lake Analogy
38:00 Mental Health Should Not Be Whispered About
41:24 You Are More Than Your Productivity
43:05 Do Something Kind for Someone Else
45:04 People Over Productivity
46:10 Final Encouragement

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0:00.0	Okay. Hello, gorgeous. Okay, for those of you who are listening, y'all, we're doing this new
0:07.5	program that I'm trying this week that is supposedly going to help me with my video podcast.
0:13.5	And I have to tell you the jitters that I get staring at myself. It's not like making a podcast,
0:19.9	it's not, well, like recording it without the video. It's not like making a podcast, y'all. It's not, well, like recording it
0:22.3	without the video. It's not like a TikTok where it's a quick video. It's like just, hi.
0:28.3	So I have to tell you, though. First off, we went to the mall this weekend. I've been to the
0:32.4	mall in forever. I have a Mickey blanket on my chair. I I've been to the mall in like a real hot minute.
0:39.5	Okay. I think I went right before Christmas and I was in so much pain. I was like, let's not make
0:45.5	this truck again, but it was pretty empty because if I'm going to a mall, I'm going on a go at 9 a.m. I would, y'all. I am that mall walker. Okay. I worked in a mall for a hot
0:56.6	minute. And by that, I mean like a decade. And if I could pick the person, I'm going to be that 9 a.m.
1:04.3	Mall walker when nobody is there, there's no lines. There's nothing going on. That's what I'm doing.
1:09.9	But, um, so we went on a Saturday, like in the evening.
1:14.0	And I had been hearing about the viral foundation, like makeup with Mario.
1:18.0	And like, I'm not changing my foundation.
1:19.8	I just wanted to see what the hubbub was all about.
1:22.7	Okay.
1:23.0	Everybody was like so excited, this and that.
1:26.5	And so I'm like, okay, okay, I'm going to, I'm going to go check this out.
1:31.0	So we roll up into Sephora and it is, I, I should you not.
1:36.7	It looked like pretzel day on the episode of the office.
1:39.2	There was a line.
1:40.5	And here's the thing.
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