June 28, 2025 • 23 mins
Amy and Morgan answer listener questions! Listener shout outs to start, then Amy answers questions about her kids' futures, her niece & boyfriend's relationship, 4th of July PIMPINJOY, small things that make her day better, and the show meeting her boyfriend. Then some body dysmorphia advice, and top 3 favorite songs/artists right now.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The best bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's Listener Q and Daytime.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
We're Morgan in a show member answer almost all your questions.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Listener Q and a Time, Amy, thanks for joining me.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Happy to be here. We are. What are my hair?
What are my hairstreaks?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Your money pieces?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Oh, with my money pieces reflection and I'm like her
the Zoom video and I'm like, Okay, my money pieces showing.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Money pieces are a good thing. Okay, they're popular. Don't
let the guys talk you out of that. I get
money pieces all the time. They just never notice it
and they dole down very quickly. Okay, So okay, we
are on Zoom. You did hear us say that that's
a little crazy right now, but we're making things work.
We are going to start with some shout outs. Max
from Massachusetts loves to hear your morning corny Amy.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Oh thanks Max.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Rachel and Pennsylvania feels like she's been hearing a lot
more of us lately and she loves it. So that's awesome.
Tracy and Washington said, you two are just gorgeous and thriving.
That's very kind.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh, thank you. Then I don't know about the just
say hey, I do have money pieces, Yeah, they're having I.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Love your positivity and how you defend the lunchbox Christine
in Yorktown, Virginia.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, the guys and I don't always do it, but.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So what, Oh well, listen, it's a whole family dynamic
in there. It's like a lot of brothers sister energy
happening all the time. And sometimes you defend and sometimes
you fight. That's just what it is. So I know,
what do you think your kids jobs will be in
the future? Rooster in Utah.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I feel like Stevens in my work in music somehow,
but he's not really sure about that. He just doesn't
know it yet. But I signed him up for a
beat making camp. Is going to learn how to make beats.
He's very into music in that way, that side of music.
I think if he learned, like the production side, and
I think there's just stuff he needs to be exposed
(02:12):
to at least, and then we'll know if he's really interested.
That's his favorite part about songs, and like he hears
things that I don't always hear, and I think you
have to have a special ear for that. Stashira, I
don't know. She changes her mind all the time. We're
getting close to that. But she did put like what
(02:35):
did she put? She was filling out something the other
day and she put physician's assistant down, so she like
she wanted to go to PIA school. So I'm my god,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Okay, so we've gone from because I if I'm following
correctly at one point, I think she wanted to go
to beauty school. Another point, esthetician type.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But I think that the physician's assistant is still tied
into estheticians type stuff because she wants to own her
own like MEDSPA, and she wants to be able to
I guess, inject and do all the things, or like
administer or if you need to draw blood, like all
(03:18):
kinds of I don't know, she's very interested in all
of that sort of stuff, but she I guess people
she has talked to they have been a nurse and
like at a hospital and then they have transitioned over
to MEDSPA stuff, which that doesn't have to be your journey.
But I think that might be her thinking a little bit.
(03:40):
So that's how I can explain that. I do think
that esthetician type stuff is still on the table, But
we just now we're elevating things.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
So I love it. She's shooting put the stars. We
like to hear that. Are your niece and her boyfriends
still together? The ones that were writing letters last summer?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
So cute? They did break up wi my niece was
in Spain, which I feel like was necessary for her
Spain experience because she was studying abroad and he had
graduated college. So they did break up, but I know
they had been talking a little bit after they got
(04:23):
over the awkwardness of the breakup. At least I heard
that from my sister, and so I don't really know
what's going to happen now, but I don't think they're
back together by any means. But yeah, the love letter
thing was so cute, very just note bookie.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Well, I do love that for her Spain experience, her
Europe experience in general, that as she got to have
a single because I do think that is a cool
once in a lifetime moment, so supportive over here of
whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And she mostly spent time with girls, is not like
she was meeting guys like she was with all of
her girlfriends, and so I don't even think it was that,
you know, which I don't think that's what you're alluding
to either, But I guess I'm just clarifying that, like
she was able to just focus on that and not
although the breakup caused probably a week of heartache there
(05:16):
and processing that, but you're able to just be there
and be with your girlfriends and make all these memories
and yeah, maybe you meet somebody and then you don't
have to really think twice about certain things. But you know,
I think for her it allowed her to just be
there instead of like when am I going to hear
from him? Or I need to go find a phone,
(05:36):
or I need to call home, or I need to
get on socials, or I need to snap him or butt.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
You know, yes, that and that is very much what
I was alluding to. I mean, the rest of it
is a bonus, but definitely just in general not having
to check in all the time. Okay, loved buying the
Pim and Joy Fourth of July collection in the past.
Did I miss it this year? Was there anything about
doing one this year? I don't think there was. No.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We at least are just taking a break. I don't
know what will happen next year, but that was just
the consensus. Bobby and I met with scuba and just
decided to pause on it this year. I feel like
it all just snuck up on us quickly. There's a
lot of planning that has to go into that as well.
So the conversation was a pause for twenty twenty five
(06:26):
and then reassess next year.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Hey, sometimes we need That's how you come back bigger
and better. That's what happens. What is something small that
makes your day instantly better? Laura in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
My coffee. I look forward to it every day with
my almond mill and I add a little bit of
way protein in there. Now, Chris, I'm trying to so
I guess we'll call it my protein coffee, which you
don't have to do, but I'm trying to increase my protein.
And I get unflavored with and I mix that in
(07:01):
and so it adds a little bit of a milky
or texture, and I do it. It's so hot outside and
I'm doing it ice right now. I go back and
forth between hot and ice, but right now it's straight
my ice. I bring it every morning, you see me.
I go buy the kitchen and I get a cup
of ice and I have it in my little shaker
and then I sit down at my desk and I
(07:22):
pour it. Do you see me?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I do see you do that every morning?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
That moment when I sit down at my desk and
I pour it into my cup. That is a little
thing that just brings me so much joy. Like I
wait for that, Like I'm like, I cannot wait to
get to work and sit down and pour my coffee
over my ice.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Oh that's a good one. I think mine would be.
Every time I immediately come home, Remy and Hazel are
waiting right by the door like, oh, she's home, and
something about them greeting me, like so excited to see me.
I'm like, okay, well, if I had a crap day,
at least you guys want to hang out with me,
you know what I mean? Like that feeling. And they
instantly both come to the door. It's not just like
(08:03):
one of them or they they're both sitting by the door.
As soon as like they hear the garage open. It's like, oh,
Mom's home and they're sitting right there and it is
the cutest thing. Okay, and we're gonna take okay, yeah,
that's our other low break. So for Abby, Abby, Amy,
why is my brain not functioning at this moment in time.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Ording at the day, and they normally do like, literally,
it's six pm, okay, Amy and I so you heard it.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Amy loves her coffee, I love green being greeted by
my pets. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be
right back. Andy wants to know. Have Bobby and Kayln
hung out with your boyfriend yet or gotten to meet
him yet?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Not yet. Caitlin and I have been trying to figure
out a time, and honestly, it's like between my two kids,
which I have to find that he is dad of
twenty four to seven because you know, they lost their mom.
If anybody's knew he's a widower, and like us, finding
time for us to just even do something like its
(09:10):
really difficult. We went and played pickle ball with my
friend Gracie and her husband the other night, and that
was even sort of almost didn't happen because it was
started pouring down rain and we're like, shoot, and we
had to plan that way out and we were all
dressed in our pickle ball and we didn't have dinner
reservations anywhere, so we're like, well, shoot, what do we
do now? So we were just gonna maybe come over
(09:32):
to my house and like hang out for a little bit.
But even that night, like one of his kids had
to be picked up somewhere at like nine o'clock, so
we had like a seven to nine window, and the
rain stopped, so we ended up going to play the
pickle ball. So it worked. But it's that, like Gracie
(09:55):
and I had been talking about trying to do that
for so long, like, and so I think just what
I'm learning with him in our relationship, in me meeting
some of his friends as well, is we just have
to plan stuff far out and we just still need
(10:16):
to do that. I mean, Caitlin and I have definitely
talked about doing something. I mean, I would like him
to meet all of you, Like I was even thinking
maybe he should just stop by the studio and meet
everybody or something like maybe we go to lunch, not
all of us, but if he comes and picks me
up like we could, he can meet y'all and then
we go to lunch and that way everybody's met. And
(10:37):
then if there's like a work thing, like he could
come and it's not it's.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Not weird, you know, mm hmm. And we haven't had
any workoutings way, so that's been hard, I know, and.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Like I would like to meet your boyfriend too. I want,
you know, I'd like for everybody to do something and
just feel like it was a lot easier before all
of us had kids. And I will say it's his
circumstance does make it a little bit difficult at times.
(11:07):
His kids are very active in sports and they have
a lot of games, and he tries to be very present,
and some of them are out of town, like this
summer there's you know, been travel ball and they'll go
to you know, like last weekend and he was in
Ohio with this first son's basketball game for three to
four days, Like they left on Thursday, came back on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And I had my lot. That's a lot to vantage.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
But if I didn't have my kids that time frame,
I probably would have gone to Ohio and that would
have been fun. But it's it's just finding free time.
It's difficult. But we've got to be more intentional about it.
So that's sort of on both of us. But we'll
kind of look at each other and be like, when
is the last time we like went on like a date,
like do you.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Know life kind of life together? How do you both
balance yummy food working out in a positive body. And
this is from Gretchen. And you know, I'm just gonna
say before it gets into this that I don't This
is the honest truth. Like it may look that way,
(12:10):
I have to work out. I don't have like great geens.
If I don't work out, I will gain a lot
of weight pretty instantly. That's just not in my genetics.
So eating yummy food sometimes cousins at a cost of that,
and I have major body dyspormia. This more. Why are
words so hard for me? Morphia? You knew what I
was saying, so it's not.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Well. Right now, I'm looking at my cat sitting on
I had picked up a great American cookie cake and
the icing was like pretty perfect, but my cat just
laid on top of the box and so now and
it has a message on there, and now I'm like
looking at her and I'm thinking I'm going to lift
up that box and the message is going to be smushed.
(12:54):
So like the icing that said happy birthday to my friend,
but I'll just send her picture of the cat and
I'll be like it said happy birthday, Jill, And now
it says happy birthday you know. I bring that up though,
because there was a time where I couldn't have that
(13:15):
cake in my house right because I would overthink that
I can't have it, or if I have it, I'll
eat too much of it. And it took a lot,
a lot, a lot of work. So I don't say
this lightly, but I do acknowledge and I'm very happy
and proud of myself and the work that, like, I
(13:37):
can have this cake here and it's not causing me
stress and anxiety. So if you were having that, I
encourage you to talk to somebody, to get into therapy
if you can, to try to work through some of
your thoughts and feelings around food and your body, because
(13:57):
it's so free to get to a place where you
can have a cookie cake in your kitchen and trust
yourself with it. Because one hundred percent, there is a
time where there's no way I would have either eaten
it all or just been like, oh, I'm not going
to get her a cookie cake. I'll figure that out later.
I can't have it. So if you're struggling with that,
(14:20):
and Morgan even hearing that you're struggling with body dysmorphia,
like I hope you're you're talking, You're actively talking to
somebody because you are beautiful, and I think you're I
say beautiful. I'm not even commenting about your body, but like,
I know how much you care about health and your insides,
right like you you want to feel good, and I
think that I spent so many years trying to do
(14:43):
xyz so that I, on the outer would feel a
certain way. And now that I'm older, it's like, I know, yes,
there's that cookie cake there, but I know I'm going
to feel so much better if if I were to
just have a little bit. That's fine. I know, fight
eat too much of it, but I'm not going to
feel that great. But I have that separation now. I
(15:05):
used to not have that clarity because there was just
so much food noise, food and body noise. And now
I want to eat nourishing foods because I want to
feel good, Like I want to wake up and feel good.
But it takes a lot of work to get there.
I don't say that lightly, and there's a lot of resources.
(15:28):
Outweigh is still a resource. I'm not actively on Outlaigh anymore.
It's a podcast that I started in twenty twenty at
the start of my healing Journey with Lisa Haying, who's
a registered dietician that had a whole program called Fork
the Noise, and I literally took her program and that's
what it does. It like sticks a fork in the noise,
like all my noise that I had with my eating disorder.
(15:50):
And she had to step back because she became a mom. Anyway,
now Leahn Ellington is hosting it, and she has a
whole program called Stressless Eating and she's the host of
that now and Outweigh is still going on. She has
great guests. I just had to take a step back.
Like it was you know, when something's like part of
(16:11):
your journey and it feels good. And when I started
out WAGH, it was like I'm so passionate about it
and now I'm like, Okay, this season has come to
an end. And I'm not an expert in it by
any means at all. I just have my experience, and
so it was hard to bring that to the table
every week of like I don't but I know what
it's like to want a resource and to feel like
(16:33):
you're not alone in some of your thoughts and feelings.
And I will say whatever you're thinking about your body
or food.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You're not alone.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
If it's crazy, I think the craziest thought ever, and
you're not alone do the craziest thing. You are not alone.
You're not the only person that's done it, thought it,
felt it, whatever. And so Outweigh is a place where
stories are shared and resources are given. So that's the
name of the podcast. It's Outweigh. It's still available and
episodes are still going up every Saturday.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah, and I listen. I will say, like, I've definitely
entered an interesting area of my life where my health
is just kind of all over the board, and it's
caused a lot of mental struggles for me because I
was super active and dealing with a lot of stuff.
So I personally might be going to check out that podcast.
I mean there's moments where like I'll say something out
loud and my boyfriend hears me. He's like, why are
(17:25):
you talking to my girlfriend like that? Like are you
for real right now? And I'm like, okay, I need that.
I appreciate it. But also it's not like intentional. I
just like I think after years of kind of like
shoving a lot of stuff down, not intentionally, just never
realizing that this was a thing as I've dealt with
a lot of health stuff, it's kind of come to
a head that I just never even put to kind
(17:48):
of pin to paper, if you will. So it's been
an interesting time in my life. So I'll be checking
out outwaigh, sounds like I might need this thing. I
don't have many things.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Things can come and go like for me, you know it,
I hope certain things don't come back. I have more
tools in my toolbox. You know. As cheesy as that sounds,
that's exactly what it is. So I feel more armored
and equipped to like fight the thoughts if they come in,
and to want to, you know, do my best to
(18:19):
not get back down into this hold of hell that
I thought I was in. Actually I wasn't in it.
Like it's it's no, it's not a fun place to be.
And a lot of men and women we we get there,
and Morgan, you're not alone, and I could see where, yes,
if you're not able to do the things that you
used to do because of your health issues, and that's
(18:41):
changing like your your mood, your brain function, your your body,
you're like your clothing like things are gonna fit different.
But also you know, okay, if I have to switch
this so that I don't have an episode that's way worse.
Then you have to come to terms with Okay, you know,
maybe this is changing about me and I'm just like
(19:04):
spitballing stuff that could be for anybody. They're not even
really specific to you, Morgan, but that's just what happens.
Like whether you lose weight or gain weight because of
a health issue, something is still changing about you, which
feels weird and unfamiliar, and it's getting comfortable with that
and wanting to lean into what's going to be healthy
for me versus you know, my clothes. Thank Yeah, And
(19:27):
that's it's hard and you're not the only one navigating it.
And I do encourage you to check out Outweight because
there's definitely some episodes that touch on that.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I love that well, we definitely will and I'm we're
going to end on this to a little happy note.
So just kind of straight to your mind, Leilani would
like to know our top three songs we are listening
to these days. So first three things that just kind
of come to mind. I can give you a second
to think. I guys, Okay, So first one that comes
to mind for me and just listen. I don't know why,
(19:56):
I just I'm obsessed with Jesse Murph. But she has
a song out called touch Me Like a Gangster. It's
just really good. Don't don't judge me. And then I'm
a big fan of Max McNown who Amy and I
gotta announce at Cuma Fest and he has one out
right now that's.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Really good a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I'm googling it really quick. That I've been listening to
the Side of Heaven. It's a new EP release, so
I've been kind of listening to that. And then who's
the other one? Big fan of Randall King. I've been
jamming to his stuff when my Babies and boots Hey, Cowgirl,
just all of it. So those are kind of where
I'm at right now.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Amy, Well, we listen to a lot of Brandon Lake.
Like I'm thinking my son is normally controlling the music
around here. There's a lot of Brandon Lake. So he's
got great music. I'm more gonna do like the artist thing. Uh.
And we listen to a lot of crab Please stop
car I think is ready to go on a walk.
(20:54):
I'm listening to the Morgan Wallen album the New One
Love that I love a lot of.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
His stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
And then I guess since I did one for Stevens
and one for me Stashira, we listened to a lot
of Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Big Family.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I've heard the those are the artists that we have
going in the house because you know, his music is
just playing. I don't even feel like I always know
the songs. But my one of my favorite Brandon Lake
songs ever is called Gratitude. So if you're not familiar
with him, he's a Christian artist, but I love his
song Gratitude. He has another one called Tear off the Roof,
(21:30):
so if you're looking for a new Christian artist to
check out. Oh, speaking of I also have been really
digging on Forrest Frank. He's another Christian artist that Stevenson
listens to a lot. And now he pops up on
my TikTok and Instagram and he's a vibe.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Okay, see, hey, we got good things and we ended
out of good things, and I'm yeah, I'll be checking
out outway sometimes. So maybe have my road trip coming up,
I'm gonna make my boyfriend and I listen for a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, and hey, hats off to your boyfriend. I love
that he called you out on it and said, hey,
are you talking my girlfriend like that? And that's exactly
how we should look at it, Morgan. Is like, when
you're starting to have any kind of self talk that's
negative like that, it's like, would I say this to
my best friend? Would I say this to my daughter?
And the answer is no.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You went, so, why are.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
You going to allow yourself to talk to you? Talk
to yourself that way? Because then those thoughts become how
we see ourselves, and the more repetition we have, which
you're having those thoughts over and over, then the more
difficult it is to break. So start unlearning. Un learning
that talk. No more not allowed, friend, I'm with your boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I'm working on that, all right. Any thanks for joining me,
Thanks for hanging out, even on zoom. We did it.
We got it done, even in the chaos.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yes, all right, by y'all.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks
for listening. Be sure to check out the other two
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week's episode.
The best bits of the week with Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's Listener Q and Daytime.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
We're Morgan in a show member answer almost all your questions.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Listener Q and a Time, Amy, thanks for joining me.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Happy to be here. We are. What are my hair?
What are my hairstreaks?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Your money pieces?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Oh, with my money pieces reflection and I'm like her
the Zoom video and I'm like, Okay, my money pieces showing.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Money pieces are a good thing. Okay, they're popular. Don't
let the guys talk you out of that. I get
money pieces all the time. They just never notice it
and they dole down very quickly. Okay, So okay, we
are on Zoom. You did hear us say that that's
a little crazy right now, but we're making things work.
We are going to start with some shout outs. Max
from Massachusetts loves to hear your morning corny Amy.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Oh thanks Max.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Rachel and Pennsylvania feels like she's been hearing a lot
more of us lately and she loves it. So that's awesome.
Tracy and Washington said, you two are just gorgeous and thriving.
That's very kind.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Oh, thank you. Then I don't know about the just
say hey, I do have money pieces, Yeah, they're having I.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Love your positivity and how you defend the lunchbox Christine
in Yorktown, Virginia.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, the guys and I don't always do it, but.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
So what, Oh well, listen, it's a whole family dynamic
in there. It's like a lot of brothers sister energy
happening all the time. And sometimes you defend and sometimes
you fight. That's just what it is. So I know,
what do you think your kids jobs will be in
the future? Rooster in Utah.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I feel like Stevens in my work in music somehow,
but he's not really sure about that. He just doesn't
know it yet. But I signed him up for a
beat making camp. Is going to learn how to make beats.
He's very into music in that way, that side of music.
I think if he learned, like the production side, and
I think there's just stuff he needs to be exposed
(02:12):
to at least, and then we'll know if he's really interested.
That's his favorite part about songs, and like he hears
things that I don't always hear, and I think you
have to have a special ear for that. Stashira, I
don't know. She changes her mind all the time. We're
getting close to that. But she did put like what
(02:35):
did she put? She was filling out something the other
day and she put physician's assistant down, so she like
she wanted to go to PIA school. So I'm my god,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Okay, so we've gone from because I if I'm following
correctly at one point, I think she wanted to go
to beauty school. Another point, esthetician type.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But I think that the physician's assistant is still tied
into estheticians type stuff because she wants to own her
own like MEDSPA, and she wants to be able to
I guess, inject and do all the things, or like
administer or if you need to draw blood, like all
(03:18):
kinds of I don't know, she's very interested in all
of that sort of stuff, but she I guess people
she has talked to they have been a nurse and
like at a hospital and then they have transitioned over
to MEDSPA stuff, which that doesn't have to be your journey.
But I think that might be her thinking a little bit.
(03:40):
So that's how I can explain that. I do think
that esthetician type stuff is still on the table, But
we just now we're elevating things.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
So I love it. She's shooting put the stars. We
like to hear that. Are your niece and her boyfriends
still together? The ones that were writing letters last summer?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
So cute? They did break up wi my niece was
in Spain, which I feel like was necessary for her
Spain experience because she was studying abroad and he had
graduated college. So they did break up, but I know
they had been talking a little bit after they got
(04:23):
over the awkwardness of the breakup. At least I heard
that from my sister, and so I don't really know
what's going to happen now, but I don't think they're
back together by any means. But yeah, the love letter
thing was so cute, very just note bookie.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Well, I do love that for her Spain experience, her
Europe experience in general, that as she got to have
a single because I do think that is a cool
once in a lifetime moment, so supportive over here of
whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And she mostly spent time with girls, is not like
she was meeting guys like she was with all of
her girlfriends, and so I don't even think it was that,
you know, which I don't think that's what you're alluding
to either, But I guess I'm just clarifying that, like
she was able to just focus on that and not
although the breakup caused probably a week of heartache there
(05:16):
and processing that, but you're able to just be there
and be with your girlfriends and make all these memories
and yeah, maybe you meet somebody and then you don't
have to really think twice about certain things. But you know,
I think for her it allowed her to just be
there instead of like when am I going to hear
from him? Or I need to go find a phone,
(05:36):
or I need to call home, or I need to
get on socials, or I need to snap him or butt.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
You know, yes, that and that is very much what
I was alluding to. I mean, the rest of it
is a bonus, but definitely just in general not having
to check in all the time. Okay, loved buying the
Pim and Joy Fourth of July collection in the past.
Did I miss it this year? Was there anything about
doing one this year? I don't think there was. No.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We at least are just taking a break. I don't
know what will happen next year, but that was just
the consensus. Bobby and I met with scuba and just
decided to pause on it this year. I feel like
it all just snuck up on us quickly. There's a
lot of planning that has to go into that as well.
So the conversation was a pause for twenty twenty five
(06:26):
and then reassess next year.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Hey, sometimes we need That's how you come back bigger
and better. That's what happens. What is something small that
makes your day instantly better? Laura in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
My coffee. I look forward to it every day with
my almond mill and I add a little bit of
way protein in there. Now, Chris, I'm trying to so
I guess we'll call it my protein coffee, which you
don't have to do, but I'm trying to increase my protein.
And I get unflavored with and I mix that in
(07:01):
and so it adds a little bit of a milky
or texture, and I do it. It's so hot outside and
I'm doing it ice right now. I go back and
forth between hot and ice, but right now it's straight
my ice. I bring it every morning, you see me.
I go buy the kitchen and I get a cup
of ice and I have it in my little shaker
and then I sit down at my desk and I
(07:22):
pour it. Do you see me?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I do see you do that every morning?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
That moment when I sit down at my desk and
I pour it into my cup. That is a little
thing that just brings me so much joy. Like I
wait for that, Like I'm like, I cannot wait to
get to work and sit down and pour my coffee
over my ice.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Oh that's a good one. I think mine would be.
Every time I immediately come home, Remy and Hazel are
waiting right by the door like, oh, she's home, and
something about them greeting me, like so excited to see me.
I'm like, okay, well, if I had a crap day,
at least you guys want to hang out with me,
you know what I mean? Like that feeling. And they
instantly both come to the door. It's not just like
(08:03):
one of them or they they're both sitting by the door.
As soon as like they hear the garage open. It's like, oh,
Mom's home and they're sitting right there and it is
the cutest thing. Okay, and we're gonna take okay, yeah,
that's our other low break. So for Abby, Abby, Amy,
why is my brain not functioning at this moment in time.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Ording at the day, and they normally do like, literally,
it's six pm, okay, Amy and I so you heard it.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Amy loves her coffee, I love green being greeted by
my pets. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be
right back. Andy wants to know. Have Bobby and Kayln
hung out with your boyfriend yet or gotten to meet
him yet?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Not yet. Caitlin and I have been trying to figure
out a time, and honestly, it's like between my two kids,
which I have to find that he is dad of
twenty four to seven because you know, they lost their mom.
If anybody's knew he's a widower, and like us, finding
time for us to just even do something like its
(09:10):
really difficult. We went and played pickle ball with my
friend Gracie and her husband the other night, and that
was even sort of almost didn't happen because it was
started pouring down rain and we're like, shoot, and we
had to plan that way out and we were all
dressed in our pickle ball and we didn't have dinner
reservations anywhere, so we're like, well, shoot, what do we
do now? So we were just gonna maybe come over
(09:32):
to my house and like hang out for a little bit.
But even that night, like one of his kids had
to be picked up somewhere at like nine o'clock, so
we had like a seven to nine window, and the
rain stopped, so we ended up going to play the
pickle ball. So it worked. But it's that, like Gracie
(09:55):
and I had been talking about trying to do that
for so long, like, and so I think just what
I'm learning with him in our relationship, in me meeting
some of his friends as well, is we just have
to plan stuff far out and we just still need
(10:16):
to do that. I mean, Caitlin and I have definitely
talked about doing something. I mean, I would like him
to meet all of you, Like I was even thinking
maybe he should just stop by the studio and meet
everybody or something like maybe we go to lunch, not
all of us, but if he comes and picks me
up like we could, he can meet y'all and then
we go to lunch and that way everybody's met. And
(10:37):
then if there's like a work thing, like he could
come and it's not it's.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Not weird, you know, mm hmm. And we haven't had
any workoutings way, so that's been hard, I know, and.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Like I would like to meet your boyfriend too. I want,
you know, I'd like for everybody to do something and
just feel like it was a lot easier before all
of us had kids. And I will say it's his
circumstance does make it a little bit difficult at times.
(11:07):
His kids are very active in sports and they have
a lot of games, and he tries to be very present,
and some of them are out of town, like this
summer there's you know, been travel ball and they'll go
to you know, like last weekend and he was in
Ohio with this first son's basketball game for three to
four days, Like they left on Thursday, came back on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And I had my lot. That's a lot to vantage.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
But if I didn't have my kids that time frame,
I probably would have gone to Ohio and that would
have been fun. But it's it's just finding free time.
It's difficult. But we've got to be more intentional about it.
So that's sort of on both of us. But we'll
kind of look at each other and be like, when
is the last time we like went on like a date,
like do you.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Know life kind of life together? How do you both
balance yummy food working out in a positive body. And
this is from Gretchen. And you know, I'm just gonna
say before it gets into this that I don't This
is the honest truth. Like it may look that way,
(12:10):
I have to work out. I don't have like great geens.
If I don't work out, I will gain a lot
of weight pretty instantly. That's just not in my genetics.
So eating yummy food sometimes cousins at a cost of that,
and I have major body dyspormia. This more. Why are
words so hard for me? Morphia? You knew what I
was saying, so it's not.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Well. Right now, I'm looking at my cat sitting on
I had picked up a great American cookie cake and
the icing was like pretty perfect, but my cat just
laid on top of the box and so now and
it has a message on there, and now I'm like
looking at her and I'm thinking I'm going to lift
up that box and the message is going to be smushed.
(12:54):
So like the icing that said happy birthday to my friend,
but I'll just send her picture of the cat and
I'll be like it said happy birthday, Jill, And now
it says happy birthday you know. I bring that up though,
because there was a time where I couldn't have that
(13:15):
cake in my house right because I would overthink that
I can't have it, or if I have it, I'll
eat too much of it. And it took a lot,
a lot, a lot of work. So I don't say
this lightly, but I do acknowledge and I'm very happy
and proud of myself and the work that, like, I
(13:37):
can have this cake here and it's not causing me
stress and anxiety. So if you were having that, I
encourage you to talk to somebody, to get into therapy
if you can, to try to work through some of
your thoughts and feelings around food and your body, because
(13:57):
it's so free to get to a place where you
can have a cookie cake in your kitchen and trust
yourself with it. Because one hundred percent, there is a
time where there's no way I would have either eaten
it all or just been like, oh, I'm not going
to get her a cookie cake. I'll figure that out later.
I can't have it. So if you're struggling with that,
(14:20):
and Morgan even hearing that you're struggling with body dysmorphia,
like I hope you're you're talking, You're actively talking to
somebody because you are beautiful, and I think you're I
say beautiful. I'm not even commenting about your body, but like,
I know how much you care about health and your insides,
right like you you want to feel good, and I
think that I spent so many years trying to do
(14:43):
xyz so that I, on the outer would feel a
certain way. And now that I'm older, it's like, I know, yes,
there's that cookie cake there, but I know I'm going
to feel so much better if if I were to
just have a little bit. That's fine. I know, fight
eat too much of it, but I'm not going to
feel that great. But I have that separation now. I
(15:05):
used to not have that clarity because there was just
so much food noise, food and body noise. And now
I want to eat nourishing foods because I want to
feel good, Like I want to wake up and feel good.
But it takes a lot of work to get there.
I don't say that lightly, and there's a lot of resources.
(15:28):
Outweigh is still a resource. I'm not actively on Outlaigh anymore.
It's a podcast that I started in twenty twenty at
the start of my healing Journey with Lisa Haying, who's
a registered dietician that had a whole program called Fork
the Noise, and I literally took her program and that's
what it does. It like sticks a fork in the noise,
like all my noise that I had with my eating disorder.
(15:50):
And she had to step back because she became a mom. Anyway,
now Leahn Ellington is hosting it, and she has a
whole program called Stressless Eating and she's the host of
that now and Outweigh is still going on. She has
great guests. I just had to take a step back.
Like it was you know, when something's like part of
(16:11):
your journey and it feels good. And when I started
out WAGH, it was like I'm so passionate about it
and now I'm like, Okay, this season has come to
an end. And I'm not an expert in it by
any means at all. I just have my experience, and
so it was hard to bring that to the table
every week of like I don't but I know what
it's like to want a resource and to feel like
(16:33):
you're not alone in some of your thoughts and feelings.
And I will say whatever you're thinking about your body
or food.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You're not alone.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
If it's crazy, I think the craziest thought ever, and
you're not alone do the craziest thing. You are not alone.
You're not the only person that's done it, thought it,
felt it, whatever. And so Outweigh is a place where
stories are shared and resources are given. So that's the
name of the podcast. It's Outweigh. It's still available and
episodes are still going up every Saturday.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah, and I listen. I will say, like, I've definitely
entered an interesting area of my life where my health
is just kind of all over the board, and it's
caused a lot of mental struggles for me because I
was super active and dealing with a lot of stuff.
So I personally might be going to check out that podcast.
I mean there's moments where like I'll say something out
loud and my boyfriend hears me. He's like, why are
(17:25):
you talking to my girlfriend like that? Like are you
for real right now? And I'm like, okay, I need that.
I appreciate it. But also it's not like intentional. I
just like I think after years of kind of like
shoving a lot of stuff down, not intentionally, just never
realizing that this was a thing as I've dealt with
a lot of health stuff, it's kind of come to
a head that I just never even put to kind
(17:48):
of pin to paper, if you will. So it's been
an interesting time in my life. So I'll be checking
out outwaigh, sounds like I might need this thing. I
don't have many things.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Things can come and go like for me, you know it,
I hope certain things don't come back. I have more
tools in my toolbox. You know. As cheesy as that sounds,
that's exactly what it is. So I feel more armored
and equipped to like fight the thoughts if they come in,
and to want to, you know, do my best to
(18:19):
not get back down into this hold of hell that
I thought I was in. Actually I wasn't in it.
Like it's it's no, it's not a fun place to be.
And a lot of men and women we we get there,
and Morgan, you're not alone, and I could see where, yes,
if you're not able to do the things that you
used to do because of your health issues, and that's
(18:41):
changing like your your mood, your brain function, your your body,
you're like your clothing like things are gonna fit different.
But also you know, okay, if I have to switch
this so that I don't have an episode that's way worse.
Then you have to come to terms with Okay, you know,
maybe this is changing about me and I'm just like
(19:04):
spitballing stuff that could be for anybody. They're not even
really specific to you, Morgan, but that's just what happens.
Like whether you lose weight or gain weight because of
a health issue, something is still changing about you, which
feels weird and unfamiliar, and it's getting comfortable with that
and wanting to lean into what's going to be healthy
for me versus you know, my clothes. Thank Yeah, And
(19:27):
that's it's hard and you're not the only one navigating it.
And I do encourage you to check out Outweight because
there's definitely some episodes that touch on that.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I love that well, we definitely will and I'm we're
going to end on this to a little happy note.
So just kind of straight to your mind, Leilani would
like to know our top three songs we are listening
to these days. So first three things that just kind
of come to mind. I can give you a second
to think. I guys, Okay, So first one that comes
to mind for me and just listen. I don't know why,
(19:56):
I just I'm obsessed with Jesse Murph. But she has
a song out called touch Me Like a Gangster. It's
just really good. Don't don't judge me. And then I'm
a big fan of Max McNown who Amy and I
gotta announce at Cuma Fest and he has one out
right now that's.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Really good a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I'm googling it really quick. That I've been listening to
the Side of Heaven. It's a new EP release, so
I've been kind of listening to that. And then who's
the other one? Big fan of Randall King. I've been
jamming to his stuff when my Babies and boots Hey, Cowgirl,
just all of it. So those are kind of where
I'm at right now.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Amy, Well, we listen to a lot of Brandon Lake.
Like I'm thinking my son is normally controlling the music
around here. There's a lot of Brandon Lake. So he's
got great music. I'm more gonna do like the artist thing. Uh.
And we listen to a lot of crab Please stop
car I think is ready to go on a walk.
(20:54):
I'm listening to the Morgan Wallen album the New One
Love that I love a lot of.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
His stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
And then I guess since I did one for Stevens
and one for me Stashira, we listened to a lot
of Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Big Family.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I've heard the those are the artists that we have
going in the house because you know, his music is
just playing. I don't even feel like I always know
the songs. But my one of my favorite Brandon Lake
songs ever is called Gratitude. So if you're not familiar
with him, he's a Christian artist, but I love his
song Gratitude. He has another one called Tear off the Roof,
(21:30):
so if you're looking for a new Christian artist to
check out. Oh, speaking of I also have been really
digging on Forrest Frank. He's another Christian artist that Stevenson
listens to a lot. And now he pops up on
my TikTok and Instagram and he's a vibe.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Okay, see, hey, we got good things and we ended
out of good things, and I'm yeah, I'll be checking
out outway sometimes. So maybe have my road trip coming up,
I'm gonna make my boyfriend and I listen for a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, and hey, hats off to your boyfriend. I love
that he called you out on it and said, hey,
are you talking my girlfriend like that? And that's exactly
how we should look at it, Morgan. Is like, when
you're starting to have any kind of self talk that's
negative like that, it's like, would I say this to
my best friend? Would I say this to my daughter?
And the answer is no.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You went, so, why are.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
You going to allow yourself to talk to you? Talk
to yourself that way? Because then those thoughts become how
we see ourselves, and the more repetition we have, which
you're having those thoughts over and over, then the more
difficult it is to break. So start unlearning. Un learning
that talk. No more not allowed, friend, I'm with your boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I'm working on that, all right. Any thanks for joining me,
Thanks for hanging out, even on zoom. We did it.
We got it done, even in the chaos.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yes, all right, by y'all.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks
for listening. Be sure to check out the other two
parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all social platforms,
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