You Are Being Refined, Not Broken | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 41

After Hours With Amanda

Kids & Family, Parenting

5.0 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m talking about dreams, self worth, purpose in pain, and what it means to be refined, not broken. This is a long voicemail about the new podcast sign, dream journals, the Macy’s Day Parade, Disneyland, chronic pain, tiny queens growing up, Whitney Houston, and learning to kick other people’s voices out of your head. I’m not pretending hard seasons are easy, but I do believe future you may look back and say, “Look at us. We made it.” If your inner voice has been loud or your dream feels far away, sit with me for a bit.

00:00 Welcome Back and the New Sign
00:23 Academy Awards and Dreams
01:31 Life Does Not End at 40
02:09 Loving the Process
03:04 Dream Journals and Big Goals
04:02 Disneyland, Dissociation, and Looking Ahead
05:12 Changing Your Mind Is Allowed
07:41 Change Means Growth
08:17 Pain, Fire, and the Uncut Diamond
10:42 Testing, Faith, and Proving It to Yourself
12:04 There Is Purpose in Your Pain
13:32 Bitterness Does Not Heal You
14:09 Empathy After Physical Pain
16:11 You Are Stronger Than You Think
17:40 Whitney Houston and the Greatest Love
18:41 Who Is Living in Your Head?
19:16 Boundaries Are Not Always Simple
20:42 The Village Can Be One Person
22:41 Learning to Love Yourself
23:16 Getting to Know Your Kids Again
25:33 Getting to Know Yourself Again
27:25 The Last First Tooth
30:21 Raising Them to Leave You
32:27 Getting to Know Yourself in Every Stage
34:13 The Diamond Analogy
35:43 Your Best, Hottest Version
36:17 Ten Years Ago Amanda
38:01 The Hard Season Can Still Refine You
39:09 Sing Whitney in the Car
40:49 Shine Light on the Dream
41:55 Planning the Week and Fighting the Inner Voice
43:19 You Are Being Refined
44:02 Calling Out the Lies in Your Head
46:40 Becoming the Future You
47:26 Creating a Safe Space
48:27 Big Dreams for the Podcast
50:33 You Are a Diamond
51:35 One Day, a Live Tour
52:02 Final Encouragement

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0:00.0	Okay. All right. I would start recording and my nose would start to itch. I'm not picking it. I swear. Look, our sign. It's literally in our bedroom because that's where it is right now. I told Blake last night. Well, welcome back to another episode of After Hours with Amanda, the podcast where we're just sharing life together and life is a conversation. So we're back.
0:25.3	I have my own little setup that I'm super excited about. And we're doing it. We're doing it.
0:30.7	And we're going to keep doing it because I watched someone except an Academy Award.
0:36.2	And I'm going to massacre his name.
0:38.8	But he was from everything all at once, everything everywhere all at once.
0:43.5	And he originally, because I was looking at him when he was doing, I was like, I know that I have seen him before.
0:50.6	I know I've seen him before.
0:52.2	And so I went to IMBD and I'm like, I got to look this guy up.
0:55.8	He was the kid in Indiana Jones.
0:58.2	He played this young kid.
1:00.7	And I think it was Indiana Jones Temple of Doom, which I love Indiana Jones.
1:04.5	But it's been a hot minute since I've seen.
1:06.4	But they've said that they're remaking it again.
1:09.8	I was not a fan of the, I want to say fourth one that they did.
1:13.8	It was like, I mean, it was okay, but it was definitely not the Indiana Jones that I'm used to.
1:19.2	So I looked it up and he said that he like gave up on his dream a little while, went a different direction.
1:26.2	And then last night he like thanked his mom, I won an Oscar. And he's like in his 50s. And it just reminds me of
1:33.8	that when you see the little TikTok and it's on Instagram, it's one of those like motivational
1:38.5	ones. And it's like, so and so was a carpenter. And Vera Wing didn't design her first dress till 40 till 40 I have
1:46.9	three and a half years to go till then what will I do by the time I'm 40 okay um and so it just was
1:51.9	really refreshing because I was like yeah don't give up on your dreams right like don't don't do that
1:59.7	so I told Blake last night when he hung the sign that long-winded
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