The Text Thread Heard Round the World | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 47
After Hours With Amanda
After Hours With Amanda
5.0 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m finally sitting back down with y’all and talking about why the podcast paused, what judgment and comparison did to my heart, and why I’m choosing to come back anyway. This one is about ordinary life, social media consumption, grief, motherhood, therapy, boundaries, and the kind of steady season that can feel boring until you realize the house is not on fire anymore. If your normal life has started to feel small next to everyone else’s, I hope this feels like a reminder that you are not behind. You are in your chapter.
00:00 Welcome Back to the Podcast
01:06 Why the Podcast Paused
02:43 What This Season Will Hold
04:15 Saying Dreams Out Loud
05:22 Purpose, Pain, and Still Being Here
07:01 Finding Joy in the Ordinary
08:16 When Life Changes Overnight
10:30 Social Media and Community
12:03 Gratitude Without Toxic Positivity
13:18 What We Choose to Consume
14:41 When Comparison Becomes the Dictator
16:15 Other People’s Opinions
18:10 Coming Back in the Most Me Way
19:29 You Are in Your Chapter
20:45 When the House Is Not on Fire
22:26 Existing Is Extraordinary
24:10 Relationships, Gifts, and Expectations
26:14 Raising Tiny Kind Humans
28:34 What Is Coming This Season
29:32 Ordinary and Normal Can Be the Goal
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. I feel like it's seeing a long lost friend that I haven't seen in forever. And we haven't spent time together. And I didn't even look at the last episode of the podcast. You can totally see my laundry here in the mirror, but we're doing things. And so we're not going to judge ourselves for the fact that there's laundry there. Welcome to my podcast studio. |
| 0:25.7 | Okay. Hey, look, if you're new here, welcome to After Hours with Amanda, the podcast that's for everyone and anyone. And the excitement that I feel and the journey that we're going to go on |
| 0:31.0 | this year is just one that I am so excited about because we've dedicated 24, not just to this |
| 0:36.7 | podcast and spending time together, but to the fact |
| 0:39.6 | that we are not going to allow the voices of other people to become our inner voice, because |
| 0:44.7 | that's what stopped this podcast. So let's just also, I do have intro music that I'll be |
| 0:50.4 | dropping on our next episode. I just have to figure out how to add it, |
| 0:54.7 | but I had someone create a little like intro and outro for me. |
| 0:58.8 | And she was the kindest human through I met through another human. |
| 1:02.0 | And she was so generous with her time. |
| 1:03.9 | So I can't wait for you to experience with that. |
| 1:06.3 | But grab your cup of something, whatever it is, juice, kombacho, water, coffee, tea, and settle in because let's rip off the band-aid first of the reason that the podcast stopped. |
| 1:17.2 | Besides scheduling, it was the fear of the judgment that we found from other people that we knew was there, but we were a little bit unaware of it. |
| 1:27.0 | We were a little unaware of it. Like Like you know how you know something's happening, |
| 1:30.5 | but when it's not right in front of your face, you can kind of just ignore it. |
| 1:34.0 | You can dissociate from it. You don't have to really encounter it, right? |
| 1:37.8 | And it wasn't until hearing these things, seeing them for myself, that it really was like a gut punch. |
| 1:49.0 | And it was something that I'm grateful for because it reminded me that we, the minute we get |
| 1:57.0 | focused on ourselves, okay, which is what happened. |
| 1:59.6 | I was focused on how this was making |
| 2:01.2 | me, making me feel, which is allowed. You're allowed. Okay, you're allowed to have hurt feelings, |
| 2:05.5 | but it stopped me from doing what was always what I feel, my mission and my calling, which is |
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