The Certainty of Being Uncertain | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 29
After Hours With Amanda
After Hours With Amanda
5.0 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week, I’m talking about what it feels like to be a mom, wife, friend, and human who does not always know what she is doing. From protecting my kids’ privacy to making uncertain parenting decisions, advocating for my tiny humans, and learning not to go straight into defense mode, this episode is about being certainly uncertain. I’m sharing the six words that have helped me in relationships, parenting, and conflict: “What do you mean by that?” If you feel unsure, overwhelmed, or like everyone else got the manual, come sit with me. We’re doing our best and giving God the rest.
00:00 Second Week in a Row
01:24 The Podcast Intro Goal
02:12 Protecting My Kids’ Privacy
03:29 Topics Y’all Asked For
04:42 I’m Not an Authority
05:32 Feeling Ill Equipped as a Parent
07:05 The Identities We Step Into
09:23 Learning Means Making Mistakes
10:35 Making Big Decisions for Tiny Humans
18:38 Giving Yourself Grace to Change Your Mind
19:05 Advocating for Corey
20:28 The Finger Scale for Big Feelings
22:28 Who Made the Rule?
23:19 The One Thing I’m Certain Of
25:21 Why We Go on Defense
27:19 Asking Before Reacting
31:50 Six Words That Change Conversations
34:08 Wait, Assess, Then Decide
38:11 It’s Okay to Be Certainly Uncertain
42:09 You Matter
Transcript
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| 0:00.6 | Hello and welcome back to our second week in a row. |
| 0:04.1 | You guys, who are we? |
| 0:05.2 | Excuse me. |
| 0:06.8 | Dare I say this is going to be consistent. |
| 0:10.4 | No, I wouldn't dare put that pressure on myself. |
| 0:12.4 | And if you know, you know, but I truly honestly do want to be consistent. |
| 0:20.6 | I also, on the flip side of things have been listening to crime junkie case files and my |
| 0:29.4 | absolute favorite morbid. |
| 0:31.0 | And I want to find, I'm going to figure out something because I love to kind of like |
| 0:35.5 | dig in and do things myself. |
| 0:37.4 | I probably should get better at asking for help. But I just kind of like dig in and do things myself. I probably should get |
| 0:37.9 | better at asking for help. But I just kind of want to, you know, find a cute little musical |
| 0:45.0 | intro that's simple. Why will I create that myself? Because your girl's on a budget with |
| 0:51.3 | these types of things. And although I love doing this for a living, not the podcast, |
| 0:58.9 | oh my God, doing the podcast for a living would be righteous. |
| 1:01.3 | But doing social media, which is cool too for a living. |
| 1:04.9 | I don't quite have that extended budget for hiring of photographers, |
| 1:10.2 | for hiring of like audio people and for hiring of photographers, for hiring of, like, audio people and for hiring |
| 1:12.9 | of all that stuff. So I am like a do it yourself kind of girl. I'm like, all right, all right. |
| 1:19.9 | We're going to YouTube this. We're going to figure it out. And we're going to do it. |
| 1:24.2 | So who knows when that is coming. But I promised myself this year, okay, because we're going to |
| 1:28.6 | go ourselves a timeline that's realistic. |
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