Where do we begin? | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 1

After Hours With Amanda

Kids & Family, Parenting

5.0 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this first episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m sharing the heart behind the podcast: parenting tiny humans with empathy, humor, curiosity, and a lot of “we are doing our best” energy.

I talk about why I started the show, how motherhood shifted the way I see kids, and why my parenting style is less about a label and more about humanizing children.

This is not expert advice. It’s lived experience from a mom learning out loud about big feelings, giving kids a voice, and becoming the kind of parent who repairs, reflects, and keeps trying.

00:00 Welcome to After Hours With Amanda

02:42 Recording From the Closet

03:39 Meet Amanda’s Tiny Humans

04:02 No Parenting Books Prepared Me

06:02 Bringing Home a Real Baby

07:00 I Wasn’t Always This Parent

09:02 The Night Everything Shifted

11:06 Learning From Daniel Tiger

12:32 Realizing Something Had to Change

14:27 Humanizing Kids

16:04 Giving Kids a Voice

17:13 The Starbucks Bagel Story

20:47 Parenting Without the Hierarchy

23:43 Raising Tiny World Changers

25:02 Motherhood and Identity

28:22 Giving Kids Tools for Big Feelings

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, y'all, here we are. Welcome to episode one of After Hours with Amanda podcast.
0:07.5	You know, it's so funny, I never dreamt of starting a podcast, but y'all inspired me.
0:12.6	And frankly, I would like longer than a minute to talk to y'all. So here we are. What would I
0:18.3	entitle this episode? Oh my gosh. Can we just call it like everything?
0:22.8	We're going to call it like the grab bag, right? Episode one, grab bag of parenting. It's going to be
0:27.5	so many different things. A couple of the questions you guys wanted me to start out with.
0:31.9	And just like introducing the podcast, what can you expect? Ooh, I got to get my 30 second hook.
0:36.4	I already passed that. You can expect a? Ooh, I got to get my 30 second hook in. Already passed that.
0:44.3	You can expect a podcast dedicated to changing your perspective on parenting and frankly, just like sharing my life. I am not an authority. I am not 100% foolproof. I do not know
0:50.4	at all. I have no degree in psychology. I only have my learnings with my three kids,
0:58.0	my growing up experience, and my desire to share with you all. And the fact that I have no
1:05.2	pride or shame in that, I think that that really helps. Because I'm not here to impress anyone.
1:12.6	I'm here to share because the most important thing for me as a parent that I can do is like, is like share the message.
1:22.2	What have I learned? Because it's so funny when you become a parent, everyone talks about
1:27.3	community. And let me tell you it is, oh, it is,
1:31.2	it is so in need, right? You need community. But let me also tell you something in the midst of vast
1:37.2	community, when stuff goes down or on bad days, the loneliness that creeps in is bone chilling.
1:46.6	Like, it's incredible.
1:47.5	Like, and I think that goes with people, too.
1:49.3	Like, this podcast is not just for parenting.
1:51.5	This podcast is for people because treating people as human beings is a universal thing that we need to practice. Am I going to be singing for this
2:03.1	whole podcast? Gosh, I hope not. Someone called Simon Cowell. Am I right? But am I going to be
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