Work in Progress: Amanda Kloots
Drama Queens
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 23.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Amanda Kloots has lived many lives — Broadway dancer, Rockette, author, TV host, wife and now, single mom — and she’s still redefining what resilience looks like.
Amanda opens up about juggling loss and enduring grief with newfound joy and reinvention, She also shares hard-won insights on healing, creativity, and the quiet courage it takes to begin again.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Hi, everyone. It's Sophia. |
| 0:06.8 | Welcome to Work in Progress. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi, Wipsmarties. |
| 0:20.6 | I know we're all itching for some inspiration and perhaps a reminder that no matter |
| 0:28.6 | how hard things get, there's always an opportunity for healing, for reinvention, and for creation. |
| 0:36.7 | And today's guest is a shining example of all of those things. |
| 0:40.8 | We are joined today by none other than Amanda Kluz. |
| 0:44.1 | You might know her as an incredible former Broadway dancer and Radio City Rockette, |
| 0:49.5 | a fitness entrepreneur, a television host from CVS's The Talk to being a bestselling author. |
| 0:57.4 | Her memoir, Live Your Life, My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero, is centered on her story |
| 1:04.6 | of her life as a new mom and a wife in 2020, losing her partner to COVID in early days |
| 1:13.6 | and managing to be such an incredible advocate |
| 1:17.6 | who took so many of us along, |
| 1:20.6 | learning how to stay safe, |
| 1:22.6 | learning how to protect our families and communities, |
| 1:25.6 | and learning how to protect ourselves families and communities, and learning how to protect ourselves. |
| 1:29.1 | Her memoir about that time is truly a lifeline for readers |
| 1:34.3 | that are navigating grief. |
| 1:36.3 | And now as a single mom to her young son, Elvis, |
| 1:40.2 | Amanda has really continued to channel her loss |
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