November 29, 2018 • 25 mins
Amy conquers her snoozing problem. We talk to Rachel Cruze about staying out of debt during the holidays. Dr. Oz explains why we love diet soda so much. Amy needs to stop talking!
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Cast up a little fool for you. So life, Oh,
it's pretty much. It's pretty beautiful. That's a little moth
you're kicking with? Four. Hey, okay, we're here. It's episode three,
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and my voice is awful, So I apologize in advance
for not really having one, but definitely was on vocal
rest yesterday. It's gotten a little bit better. But you
may notice in my doctor oz clip that I'm sharing today,
the Diet Cooke one coming up, I probably sound a
little bit different, and that's because that was recorded, um
like a month ago when I was in New York,
and so you may notice the audio and sound changes
(00:59):
and my voice is differ rent. But you know, just
kind of get a little inside scoop here. Not everything
is recorded all at once. We kind of mash it
all together because it's four different things. And I love
that y'all are listening and even writing into our email
account for things with Amy Brown at gmail dot com.
And I pulled this one particular note from Amanda. She
(01:19):
said that she loves the theme song. Shout out Walker
Hayes for writing and seeing that. But she asked what
they eat casserole things line is all about, and that
I clarify that. When I called Walker and asked him
to do it, he was like, yeah, no problem. So
what's the podcast about, Like, give me, give me some
stuff to go on and I said, well, it's just
gonna be about everything, all the things. He's like, well,
can you be more specific? I said, well, each episode
(01:40):
is going to cover four things, but I really don't
know what that will look like, but I'm sure we'll
cover health and fitness, some fashion stuff, mom and adoption things,
just things that are inspiring, encouraging, sometimes sad things, sometimes
happy things, all the things. And so he does talk
about life and being full of beautiful things, and that's
times we might talk eight cast role things, so that
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maybe has to do with like recipes. And then I
love the line he put in there where he said
tighten up your core things. I thought that was so
clever and it's my favorite line, and that's obviously for
when we talk health and fitness. So hopefully you all
enjoyed my little talk with Aaron last week on how
not to gain weight during the holidays. If you didn't
hear that one, you can go back to last week's
episode and check that out. This episode two, I mean y'all.
(02:26):
There's only three episodes to get through right now, so
if you haven't listened to them all, they're each like,
I don't know, twenty five minutes long, so if you've
got like a long drive coming up, or you've got
to walk your dog, or I listen to podcasts mostly
when I'm like cleaning my house or trying to do
things or walking the dogs. So I don't know when
you're listening to us, but hopefully you're enjoying it. And
I quickly wanted to also shout out some a note,
(02:48):
a very similar note I got from two different people.
Kirsten and Courtney both separately commented about unanswered prayers, a
little topic that I touched on, I think in the
first episode, and they said that it was just hearing
that was able to remind them to look ahead during
stressful times or when things are overwhelming and just seem
like they're not going according to plan, to just look
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ahead and know that there could be something beautiful at
the end, but you just need to kind of like
chill and believe whatever happens happens. And then they said
just do your best and don't get too ever wumped,
which I totally agree, And I think that's what I
touched on is sometimes you're just like, why this is
what's supposed to be happening for me, and I'm praying
for it. Why isn't happening now? But if you're patient,
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and for me, patients took like seven or eight years
to finally get an answer to my prayer. But I
now realize why I went through that, and you can
emerge from whatever the situation is a stronger better person
if you, you know, stay the course and if you
have that attitude. If you don't, then you can just
be miserable with whatever is happening. But who wants to
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live that way? Let's just go ahead and get into
today's episode, especially since my voice is a little wonky.
Here we go. Okay, let's talk snoozing here for a second,
because snoozing is bad. And I say this now as
a recovered chronic snoozer. So I used to go to
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bed at night and I would set my alarm earlier
than I needed to wake up so that I would
have time to snooze because it's snoozing just felt so
good to me, and up until a few months ago,
it felt good to me for years, I would snooze,
and my poor husband is not a snoozer, and I
would say, he can kind of get up and get
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the day going, and he's way more organized and way
more chill in the morning, whereas I would be frantic
and razzled and hurry and just didn't feel like my
life was together. Well, that's because I kept pressing snooze.
And I would look at other successful people that I know,
and none of them really pressed snooze. And I was like, okay,
taking note of that. And then on Bobby Bones Show,
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the morning show that I'm on, Bobby brought up this
article of like why you shouldn't be snoozing, and then
he gave me a challenge to not snooze for a
couple of days. And then he gave me an accountability partner,
which is a listener that just called in that I
stayed in touch with her on Instagram and we were
each other's accountability partner. I think we started with like
a few days, maybe it was a week, but we
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started small. And then y'all, I haven't gone back to
snooze to snoozing, and I think I don't know if
it's been a couple of months now, but I feel
so much better. So now I'm on that train of like, Okay, yes,
snoozing is bad, because here's what happens. I mean, you
let yourself fall back asleep, and you're basically tricking your
body into thinking that it's going back into sleep mode
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when it's really not. Now, a lot of sleep experts,
they know exactly what they're talking about, and of course
I was like reading into it, and really you confuse
your brain and your body when that alarm goes off
and you wake up and then you press snooze. Uh,
it's still so satisfied. I sort of miss it. I'm
not gonna lie, but I know how much better I
feel not snoozing, so I will not go back to
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that life. But you get that foggy feeling when you
press snows and you get that foggy feeling trying to
wake up every I mean I would press news like
once twice, sometimes three or four times, and sometimes that
foggy feeling would stay with me all day long. But
I didn't realize that was happening because I was pressing
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the snooze button. You follow me, Like I thought I
was just feeling sluggish or tired because maybe I hadn't
had enough caffeine, or maybe I was tired from the
day before, but really it was a result of my snoozing.
So if you happen to be a chronic snoozer, I'm
talking to you, and I just want to encourage you
to take a day to to not snooze, like tomorrow.
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Don't let yourself snooze. I know it's going to be
so hard. I know, girl, boy, whoever you are, I
feel you. I know it's going to be so hard,
but you just you just gotta do it. You gotta
not snooze. First of all, you need get enough sleep.
Like I used to be the person that tried to um,
focus on working out first and then eating okay, and
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then sleep wasn't even really on my radar. And now
this is how I live my life. Um and I
would work out all the time, and y'all, I wasn't
in the healthiest state of my life. Like I worked
out so much you would think I would. I was
doing triathlons and I was almost my unhealthiest, which is
so crazy. But I didn't know how to eat well.
And so now here's the order of importance I placed
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when it comes to a healthy lifestyle, sleep first, and
obviously I'm an adam, not snoozing like in parentheses. Uh.
And then I put eating healthy, and then I put
working out. If you do those things, I think you're
gonna feel your best. And I speak from experience, not
obviously I'm not a medical professional, so please don't go
take this somewhere, but in my personal experience, sleep first,
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then eating healthy, then working out. So if you get
enough sleep, which I think you should aim for seven
eight hours. There's like this rare breed of people where
they can function highly off of like three or four
hours of sleep. That's not me. I would recommend seven
to eight. So get enough sleep, don't snooze in that
alarm goes off, and then be consistent. The only way
that you're ever going to, like even get past this
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newzing is if you're consistent and you feel really good
about it. And you, guys, you know what I do
every day? Now? You know what I do. I make
my bed. I used to never make my bed, but
now I love coming home and seeing all my pillows
arranged nicely. And it's because I have the time. I
don't press news. My mornings are no longer hectic, and
I've been consistent with it enough to where I see
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like the benefits of not snoozing that I again, you
heard it here. I told you I'm not going back
to that lifestyle. If you're really tempted to press news,
then maybe place your alarm clock out of reach so
that you can't you know, get access to it. You
have to like physically get up and then maybe once
you're up, you'll be like, Okay, they do make those alarms,
like I don't know that like break into pieces, Like
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when the alarm goes off, it's like a puzzle, and
in order for the alarmed to stop, you have to
put the puzzle back together. So maybe you need to
invest in something like that. Um. But that's just my
little topic on snoozing, because I know a lot of
you out there might snooze, and I just feel like
you're missing out on having a more relaxed morning and
being more productive during the day and being less foggy
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and quite frankly, making your bed. And I used to
think my sister was crazy. She's someone that makes her
bed every day, Like if she's having a bad day, Um,
she would she would go home and she'd be like, oh, well,
my bed's not made. Well, that's why I was. So
she would instantly make her bed and her day would
get better. And I feel like there's something to that.
There's something about a clean bed and a clean room
and anyway, I don't know now that I don't snooze.
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I make my bed. So there you go, take it
or leave it. But I say, don't snooze, make sure
you focus on sleep, then eating good, then working out. Okay,
super excited to have it, Rachel Cruise here here. I mean,
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I feel everything is very You're in New York Times bestseller,
You've got all the things I might be intimidated to
talk to you about money, just kidding. You're like the
nicest human ever. But I love that you have this
wealth of knowledge. Do you like my wealth of well good?
But I didn't even pick up on that. I just
I didn't even out yes with money, And so I
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thought it would be awesome to bring you on and
maybe talk about something for the holidays and spending and
how I feel like that can get so out of control. Um.
I read something the other day that said people are
entering this Christmas season still paying off bills from last seasons.
Isn't that crazy? Yes, that's just gotta be so, I
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don't know, we're I'm just gonna let you just go
my welcome knowledge. No, it is hard. The Christmas season
is a tough one because everyone's heart is good for
the most part of like, oh, yeah, you know, I
want to be able to get of my kids, you know,
some great gifts, my family members, my friends. But you
have got to be intentional because what number one, first
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and foremost, do not go into debt for Christmas. Just
like you're talking about the average family is still paying
off credit cards from last Christmas. So like, don't let
the January you hate the December. You like, plan now
to be wise and not go into debt, which can
be hard because you know credit cards, you know within
stores like oh you can save off this purchase and
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all that, but you're at the fine print You're like, oh,
but the interests so like they're gonna win. So just
know that. Well, one of my friends was even saying
the other day that they had a friend that is
an adult like forty years old and didn't understand the
interest on a credit card, and I was like, okay,
but yeah, so when you read that fine print, like
interest is a really big deal. Yeah right, it's a thing. Yeah,
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just stay away in general, just don't go. Don't give
into the store temptation of save exactly because that's hard
I can get ye. So yeah, just just make a
rule this Christmas. I'm not going into debt because the
average family is goes into debt close to a thousand
dollars for Christmas. So don't be one of those people.
Because the truth of it is the things you're buying
stuff is probably get thrown away. Like for like my girls,
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for instance, I have two little girls, and like half
the Christma stuff they got last year we've already thrown
out because of all the clutter, Like it's just crap.
They're most of the things that we're buying, right, So,
like when it comes to that kind of stuff, like
when you're thinking about kids and you're thinking about toys,
you're thinking about gifts, just being wise with staying away
from debt. Number one number to create a budget. So
have the amount of cash that you want to spend.
Think of the amount of money. Okay, we have this
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as a family to spend on Christmas, and that's gonna
be it so you have that a total, write it down,
put it on the notes app on your iPhone. Put
that total top, and then list out all the people
you're gonna buy gifts for, including your kids, including family members, friends,
whatever it is. Make that list and then put dollar
amounts next to each everyone's name, each person's name, and
then the goal is for your amount of money minus
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all those dollar amounts is gonna equal zero. So every
dollar you have in the Christmas budget is going somewhere intentionally.
And this is great because it planned out and it
shows you, Okay, this is what I have to spend
on my mom, and here's the dollar amount, or here's
what I've spent on my best friends. You know, here's
the dollar amount. This is what I have and you
stick to it. And then you can go even a
further step, which is kind of nerdy amy but I
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love it. Go cash out your Christmas budget and get
an envelope and write everyone's name on that envelope and
put the cash in the envelope. So when you're out
shopping for your kids or your friends or your parents
or whoever, you have that envelope and when the money's
gone out of that envelope. You stop wrying and you stop.
It's like a great accountability partner, so you just end it.
So that's another great tip to do for this Christmas
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to stay on budget. Okay? And is there something like
if people are still paying off debt from last year
and then they're going into this Christmas season and you're
already encouraging okay, no more debt, let's pump the brakes
on that, Like what is I don't know, Can we
just offer encouragement to people, like it's okay to not
have to go all out for your family and friends,
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or how can we give people that that approval to
be like, you know what, I need to stop this.
So I have to either say like, hey guys, there's
not really going to be gifts this year, or maybe
I'm going to try to if you're can sew or
bake or do like something. We don't need to be,
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you know, scared to do something. And I think the
problem with that is that we put the expectations on ourselves,
like when you have younger kids, especially you know, if
you have younger kids at home, like their expectation isn't
very large, Like we put it as on ourselves as
parents think, oh I gotta get the best of the
best and oh the newest toilets out, like oh, I
just want to give them all this stuff, right, Like
that's the expectation on the parent. If you have a
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teenager that has probably real expectations of what Christmas is
going to be, right, have a conversation with them, communicates,
treat them like an adult, even though they're not always
emotionally an adult at times, but like sit down and
be like, hey, listen, this is kind of like the guardrails.
Here's here's kind of the boundaries we've set as a
family with Christmas, and just talk it out to them, yes,
and even your friends and family, like adult to adult.
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My husband his family, we even had the conversation this
year of like, because we exchange gifts like with the adults,
and we even had the conversation like should we just
stop because it ends up being just like trading gift
cards and like you know what I mean, Like it's
just there's no thought. Yeah that's right. Yeah, And a
lot of people, I think I feel like if you
like let other people off the hook, they're going to
be grateful to We're like, okay, listen, this year, were
not doing gifts for friends just f y. I you
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may get some great treat right, or I might make something,
but like, that's what it's going to be, honestly, your
friends probably Okay, that's nice. So I don't feel like
I have to go buy a gift either, because financially speaking,
a lot of people are not in a position to
go and just spend all this money for Christmas. Seventy
eight percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, so
the reality of a tight budget and not having it
is a reality for a lot of people. And so
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I would say, don't let that expectation drive your need
to spend other people's expectations. You have to put the
blinders on and say this is what's good for my
family this year, and have the conversations when they need
to be had with the certain people, if if those
if that needs to be verbalized, have those conversations. Yeah, okay,
I like and I like that we can give permission
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to kind of not to have to overperform and overgive
and it stops. Get Instagram, stop conforming your life to
everyone else's everyone else's Christmas. So just yeah, it's amazing
in our family. We draw names on both sides, on
my side and my husband's side, and it's it's great
love that because it limits to one right, totally. I
love that. That's another thing that people can do too,
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is maybe draw names, yes and simply for everyone. That's right.
And again, the people on the other side are probably thinking, oh,
that's so nice. Okay, good, I'm going to up. Yeah, seriously,
I'm my gosh, it's so crazy. Christmas is so great
and so fun. But also I would say to like
it's cheesy to say, but it's true, like the reason
for the season, like what is your heart and like
and finding ways to give outside of your immediate the
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people that you know, like people that really are in
need look to give the season, like a family that
that doesn't have anything, right, you know, what can you
provide them? Like the joy that comes from that and
that type of gift is far greater than like another
plastic Nicholas you buy on Amazon for your five year
old daughter, right, Like that's what I love it. Yeah, No,
Jesus is the reason for this is what this girl?
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That's right? Thank you, Rachel, Yeah, thanks say okay. Next,
we got to talk about diet coke. Um. One of
my best friends Mary, she's addicted to diet coke. I
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used to be I've drank probably like five a day,
I know, But I mean I thought I was being healthy.
I had I would like have fat free yogurt, diet coke,
and Pretzel's fat free of course, uh, and I would.
I mean, but I was probably about twenty pounds heavier
than I am now. But I thought that that's what
was healthy for me. And then I you know, learned
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some stuff and started to figure out how to feel
my body properly. But sometimes I have a craving still
for diet coke, and then if I end up having it,
it's like a downward spiral, it's like crack. And then
I like end up having all the cracks, like you know,
Reese's Cups and diet coke, like they just go together.
So anyway, back to my friend Mary, because this is
really about her problem. She is addicted to diet coke.
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Now she has cut it off too, and she'll do
like green tea for caffeine, but every once a while
she's like, I mean, it can't be bad. I'm just
gonna have it. So I'll just say she probably has
maybe one or two. Here's the issue with diets products
in general, but especially diets, So it's a bit of
a false promise. Okay, they're not dangerous in reasonable amounts
of you know, even five servings a day, five hands
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to day, which is more than I think you do
for most things, is actually not going to be a
dangerous amount of it. But it doesn't really work. You know,
the whole reason to drinking diet sodas just to lose
weight theory. Yet when the studies have been done, people
who drink diet sodas, they don't. They don't seem to
lose weight because of the as pertain well we think,
we think as pertaine sacking whatever, when you're you know
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you're you're using because there are different ones in different products.
They trick the body, but they can't trick the brain.
The brain is too smart. So let's go through this experiment.
You put the soft drink on your lips, right that
that artificial sweeter in the beverage get your tongue going.
Now it's it's three hundred times sweeter than sugar, so
it really gets your tongue going. And then you tongue
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to the message to the brain says, high five, high five,
We got lots of sugar coming down. The brain weights
in the background says, you know what, I'm waiting for
the sugar, but it hasn't hit me. There's no sugar
coming into the body. My blood sugar is not going
up by I'm not feeling like the sugar is here.
Sugar hits the brain like crack cocaine. It's very specific.
So that's why it's so addictive. That's also why it
tastes so good to drink, and that's why manufacturers added
because they know that it will make us drink more
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of it. So when you have an artificial screeener, you
don't get all that. So the brain says that you
tried to trick me, Amy, you tried to trick me,
So I'm gonna make you go back and get real sugar,
almost reminding you to get stuff to want. The races
after I drink the diet code. That's what we think
that it's hard. It's hard to prove this because no
one's gonna let you take the brain out and experiment
on it. But it does seem to happen most of
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orly just but does what is Actually, a truth will
statement with any question is that there are no studies
showing that diet so does help you go on a diet.
So if you're not gonna lose weight with the artificial product,
you know, why would you bother putting in your body?
Because your body don't know what it is. It's in
a way game, you know, play whole games, see foods,
your body recognizing the eat food that comes out of
the ground, looking the way it looks, you eat it.
That's the best way to lose weight. That's why things
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like the Keto diet, which I happen to like a lot,
makes sense for a lot of people because you can
stay on it. It takes your cravings down. Keto died
again mostly fat and protein, not much carbs. And if
you need to be in a diet, at least you
won't crave a lot of the wrong foods because the
diet tends to take that desire out of you if
you're not trying to lose a lot of weight. Some
of the Mediterranean diet, which is what I generally eat.
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I'm Turkish originally in Turkey. The eighth the Mediterranean diet,
I mean you can eat it your whole life. You
never feel like you're depriving yourself. You're not lonely because
so many diets. I don't know what if you think
the same, but you're by yourself, right, they're out there
having a good time. You can't do all those things
because you're in a diet, and so to using tactics
that allow you to love the food you're eating so
much you don't want to have too much of it,
and you just happened to be eating healthy food as
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a side benefit. That's the best way to lose weight. Yeah,
I agree. Once I adopted, I went from the what
I thought was healthy and then adopted more of what
you're talking about, eating whole foods. I saw my body
completely transition. And I only did it because I was
trying to get pregnant. I couldn't get pregnant, and I
read somewhere if I went vegan and ate from the
ground that i'd get you know, I'd get pregnant. It
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didn't work, but I lost weight and felt better. I
didn't really saw crappy. I felt I felt like crap,
but I didn't even know it until I woke. Until
I started eating better, and I was like this feels good.
I want to keep eating this way. That's the thing
that's the insight that makes me most confident about a
healthy diet. These people will say, I didn't you know,
I did this live longer just to get pregnant. But
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it turns out side benefit was I just felt better immediately. Okay,
calling an audible for my fourth thing, because I had
a segment planned out where I'd probably be walking to
y'all for maybe seven minutes or so, and my voice
is just not feeling it at all. So I'm gonna
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go ahead and just share with you all something I
literally just typed into Google what to do when you're
losing your voice, because I thought, well, if I'm going
through this, maybe some other people are. And here's the
five things that popped up right away. First is rest
rest your voice as much as possible, So I need
to go do that. To seek out quiet places, avoid
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loud environments. Number three, stay hydrated, drink plenty of water.
Number four, use a humidifier if you can. And number
five medicaid. Like with ibuprofen, it will help bring down
your inflamed vocal courts. So if you're in a situation
like me or maybe you know you get into this situation,
you can refer back to this podcast, or you can
just type into Google like I did, what to do
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when you're losing your voice. I'm not a doctor. Take
away from this, which you will, but I gotta go rest.
I just want to say thanks for coming to listen
to episode three. Shout out to Dr Oz for giving
us insight into diet sodas and why they're not necessarily
good for us. And if you're a chronic snooze are
like me, I just want to encourage you to go
to bed tonight, set your alarm for exactly when you
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need to wake up, and don't press news. Trust me,
you'll be better for it. And then a big thank
you to Rachel Cruz, Dave Ramsey's daughter, who is just
so wise. She's awesome, and she's trying to keep us
in line this holiday season with our budgets, so I'm
thankful that she was able to come on. So I
really appreciate you guys listening. I hope that you come
back next week for four new awesome things and that
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you know by then I should sound back to normal.
So with that said, let's go ahead and just say
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Cast up a little fool for you. So life, Oh,
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you're kicking with? Four. Hey, okay, we're here. It's episode three,
(00:35):
and my voice is awful, So I apologize in advance
for not really having one, but definitely was on vocal
rest yesterday. It's gotten a little bit better. But you
may notice in my doctor oz clip that I'm sharing today,
the Diet Cooke one coming up, I probably sound a
little bit different, and that's because that was recorded, um
like a month ago when I was in New York,
and so you may notice the audio and sound changes
(00:59):
and my voice is differ rent. But you know, just
kind of get a little inside scoop here. Not everything
is recorded all at once. We kind of mash it
all together because it's four different things. And I love
that y'all are listening and even writing into our email
account for things with Amy Brown at gmail dot com.
And I pulled this one particular note from Amanda. She
(01:19):
said that she loves the theme song. Shout out Walker
Hayes for writing and seeing that. But she asked what
they eat casserole things line is all about, and that
I clarify that. When I called Walker and asked him
to do it, he was like, yeah, no problem. So
what's the podcast about, Like, give me, give me some
stuff to go on and I said, well, it's just
gonna be about everything, all the things. He's like, well,
can you be more specific? I said, well, each episode
(01:40):
is going to cover four things, but I really don't
know what that will look like, but I'm sure we'll
cover health and fitness, some fashion stuff, mom and adoption things,
just things that are inspiring, encouraging, sometimes sad things, sometimes
happy things, all the things. And so he does talk
about life and being full of beautiful things, and that's
times we might talk eight cast role things, so that
(02:03):
maybe has to do with like recipes. And then I
love the line he put in there where he said
tighten up your core things. I thought that was so
clever and it's my favorite line, and that's obviously for
when we talk health and fitness. So hopefully you all
enjoyed my little talk with Aaron last week on how
not to gain weight during the holidays. If you didn't
hear that one, you can go back to last week's
episode and check that out. This episode two, I mean y'all.
(02:26):
There's only three episodes to get through right now, so
if you haven't listened to them all, they're each like,
I don't know, twenty five minutes long, so if you've
got like a long drive coming up, or you've got
to walk your dog, or I listen to podcasts mostly
when I'm like cleaning my house or trying to do
things or walking the dogs. So I don't know when
you're listening to us, but hopefully you're enjoying it. And
I quickly wanted to also shout out some a note,
(02:48):
a very similar note I got from two different people.
Kirsten and Courtney both separately commented about unanswered prayers, a
little topic that I touched on, I think in the
first episode, and they said that it was just hearing
that was able to remind them to look ahead during
stressful times or when things are overwhelming and just seem
like they're not going according to plan, to just look
(03:11):
ahead and know that there could be something beautiful at
the end, but you just need to kind of like
chill and believe whatever happens happens. And then they said
just do your best and don't get too ever wumped,
which I totally agree, And I think that's what I
touched on is sometimes you're just like, why this is
what's supposed to be happening for me, and I'm praying
for it. Why isn't happening now? But if you're patient,
(03:32):
and for me, patients took like seven or eight years
to finally get an answer to my prayer. But I
now realize why I went through that, and you can
emerge from whatever the situation is a stronger better person
if you, you know, stay the course and if you
have that attitude. If you don't, then you can just
be miserable with whatever is happening. But who wants to
(03:53):
live that way? Let's just go ahead and get into
today's episode, especially since my voice is a little wonky.
Here we go. Okay, let's talk snoozing here for a second,
because snoozing is bad. And I say this now as
a recovered chronic snoozer. So I used to go to
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bed at night and I would set my alarm earlier
than I needed to wake up so that I would
have time to snooze because it's snoozing just felt so
good to me, and up until a few months ago,
it felt good to me for years, I would snooze,
and my poor husband is not a snoozer, and I
would say, he can kind of get up and get
(04:38):
the day going, and he's way more organized and way
more chill in the morning, whereas I would be frantic
and razzled and hurry and just didn't feel like my
life was together. Well, that's because I kept pressing snooze.
And I would look at other successful people that I know,
and none of them really pressed snooze. And I was like, okay,
taking note of that. And then on Bobby Bones Show,
(05:00):
the morning show that I'm on, Bobby brought up this
article of like why you shouldn't be snoozing, and then
he gave me a challenge to not snooze for a
couple of days. And then he gave me an accountability partner,
which is a listener that just called in that I
stayed in touch with her on Instagram and we were
each other's accountability partner. I think we started with like
a few days, maybe it was a week, but we
(05:23):
started small. And then y'all, I haven't gone back to
snooze to snoozing, and I think I don't know if
it's been a couple of months now, but I feel
so much better. So now I'm on that train of like, Okay, yes,
snoozing is bad, because here's what happens. I mean, you
let yourself fall back asleep, and you're basically tricking your
body into thinking that it's going back into sleep mode
(05:44):
when it's really not. Now, a lot of sleep experts,
they know exactly what they're talking about, and of course
I was like reading into it, and really you confuse
your brain and your body when that alarm goes off
and you wake up and then you press snooze. Uh,
it's still so satisfied. I sort of miss it. I'm
not gonna lie, but I know how much better I
feel not snoozing, so I will not go back to
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that life. But you get that foggy feeling when you
press snows and you get that foggy feeling trying to
wake up every I mean I would press news like
once twice, sometimes three or four times, and sometimes that
foggy feeling would stay with me all day long. But
I didn't realize that was happening because I was pressing
(06:26):
the snooze button. You follow me, Like I thought I
was just feeling sluggish or tired because maybe I hadn't
had enough caffeine, or maybe I was tired from the
day before, but really it was a result of my snoozing.
So if you happen to be a chronic snoozer, I'm
talking to you, and I just want to encourage you
to take a day to to not snooze, like tomorrow.
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Don't let yourself snooze. I know it's going to be
so hard. I know, girl, boy, whoever you are, I
feel you. I know it's going to be so hard,
but you just you just gotta do it. You gotta
not snooze. First of all, you need get enough sleep.
Like I used to be the person that tried to um,
focus on working out first and then eating okay, and
(07:09):
then sleep wasn't even really on my radar. And now
this is how I live my life. Um and I
would work out all the time, and y'all, I wasn't
in the healthiest state of my life. Like I worked
out so much you would think I would. I was
doing triathlons and I was almost my unhealthiest, which is
so crazy. But I didn't know how to eat well.
And so now here's the order of importance I placed
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when it comes to a healthy lifestyle, sleep first, and
obviously I'm an adam, not snoozing like in parentheses. Uh.
And then I put eating healthy, and then I put
working out. If you do those things, I think you're
gonna feel your best. And I speak from experience, not
obviously I'm not a medical professional, so please don't go
take this somewhere, but in my personal experience, sleep first,
(07:51):
then eating healthy, then working out. So if you get
enough sleep, which I think you should aim for seven
eight hours. There's like this rare breed of people where
they can function highly off of like three or four
hours of sleep. That's not me. I would recommend seven
to eight. So get enough sleep, don't snooze in that
alarm goes off, and then be consistent. The only way
that you're ever going to, like even get past this
(08:13):
newzing is if you're consistent and you feel really good
about it. And you, guys, you know what I do
every day? Now? You know what I do. I make
my bed. I used to never make my bed, but
now I love coming home and seeing all my pillows
arranged nicely. And it's because I have the time. I
don't press news. My mornings are no longer hectic, and
I've been consistent with it enough to where I see
(08:34):
like the benefits of not snoozing that I again, you
heard it here. I told you I'm not going back
to that lifestyle. If you're really tempted to press news,
then maybe place your alarm clock out of reach so
that you can't you know, get access to it. You
have to like physically get up and then maybe once
you're up, you'll be like, Okay, they do make those alarms,
like I don't know that like break into pieces, Like
(08:56):
when the alarm goes off, it's like a puzzle, and
in order for the alarmed to stop, you have to
put the puzzle back together. So maybe you need to
invest in something like that. Um. But that's just my
little topic on snoozing, because I know a lot of
you out there might snooze, and I just feel like
you're missing out on having a more relaxed morning and
being more productive during the day and being less foggy
(09:17):
and quite frankly, making your bed. And I used to
think my sister was crazy. She's someone that makes her
bed every day, Like if she's having a bad day, Um,
she would she would go home and she'd be like, oh, well,
my bed's not made. Well, that's why I was. So
she would instantly make her bed and her day would
get better. And I feel like there's something to that.
There's something about a clean bed and a clean room
and anyway, I don't know now that I don't snooze.
(09:38):
I make my bed. So there you go, take it
or leave it. But I say, don't snooze, make sure
you focus on sleep, then eating good, then working out. Okay,
super excited to have it, Rachel Cruise here here. I mean,
(10:01):
I feel everything is very You're in New York Times bestseller,
You've got all the things I might be intimidated to
talk to you about money, just kidding. You're like the
nicest human ever. But I love that you have this
wealth of knowledge. Do you like my wealth of well good?
But I didn't even pick up on that. I just
I didn't even out yes with money, And so I
(10:24):
thought it would be awesome to bring you on and
maybe talk about something for the holidays and spending and
how I feel like that can get so out of control. Um.
I read something the other day that said people are
entering this Christmas season still paying off bills from last seasons.
Isn't that crazy? Yes, that's just gotta be so, I
(10:47):
don't know, we're I'm just gonna let you just go
my welcome knowledge. No, it is hard. The Christmas season
is a tough one because everyone's heart is good for
the most part of like, oh, yeah, you know, I
want to be able to get of my kids, you know,
some great gifts, my family members, my friends. But you
have got to be intentional because what number one, first
(11:07):
and foremost, do not go into debt for Christmas. Just
like you're talking about the average family is still paying
off credit cards from last Christmas. So like, don't let
the January you hate the December. You like, plan now
to be wise and not go into debt, which can
be hard because you know credit cards, you know within
stores like oh you can save off this purchase and
(11:28):
all that, but you're at the fine print You're like, oh,
but the interests so like they're gonna win. So just
know that. Well, one of my friends was even saying
the other day that they had a friend that is
an adult like forty years old and didn't understand the
interest on a credit card, and I was like, okay,
but yeah, so when you read that fine print, like
interest is a really big deal. Yeah right, it's a thing. Yeah,
(11:49):
just stay away in general, just don't go. Don't give
into the store temptation of save exactly because that's hard
I can get ye. So yeah, just just make a
rule this Christmas. I'm not going into debt because the
average family is goes into debt close to a thousand
dollars for Christmas. So don't be one of those people.
Because the truth of it is the things you're buying
stuff is probably get thrown away. Like for like my girls,
(12:09):
for instance, I have two little girls, and like half
the Christma stuff they got last year we've already thrown
out because of all the clutter, Like it's just crap.
They're most of the things that we're buying, right, So,
like when it comes to that kind of stuff, like
when you're thinking about kids and you're thinking about toys,
you're thinking about gifts, just being wise with staying away
from debt. Number one number to create a budget. So
have the amount of cash that you want to spend.
Think of the amount of money. Okay, we have this
(12:31):
as a family to spend on Christmas, and that's gonna
be it so you have that a total, write it down,
put it on the notes app on your iPhone. Put
that total top, and then list out all the people
you're gonna buy gifts for, including your kids, including family members, friends,
whatever it is. Make that list and then put dollar
amounts next to each everyone's name, each person's name, and
then the goal is for your amount of money minus
(12:52):
all those dollar amounts is gonna equal zero. So every
dollar you have in the Christmas budget is going somewhere intentionally.
And this is great because it planned out and it
shows you, Okay, this is what I have to spend
on my mom, and here's the dollar amount, or here's
what I've spent on my best friends. You know, here's
the dollar amount. This is what I have and you
stick to it. And then you can go even a
further step, which is kind of nerdy amy but I
(13:12):
love it. Go cash out your Christmas budget and get
an envelope and write everyone's name on that envelope and
put the cash in the envelope. So when you're out
shopping for your kids or your friends or your parents
or whoever, you have that envelope and when the money's
gone out of that envelope. You stop wrying and you stop.
It's like a great accountability partner, so you just end it.
So that's another great tip to do for this Christmas
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to stay on budget. Okay? And is there something like
if people are still paying off debt from last year
and then they're going into this Christmas season and you're
already encouraging okay, no more debt, let's pump the brakes
on that, Like what is I don't know, Can we
just offer encouragement to people, like it's okay to not
have to go all out for your family and friends,
(13:55):
or how can we give people that that approval to
be like, you know what, I need to stop this.
So I have to either say like, hey guys, there's
not really going to be gifts this year, or maybe
I'm going to try to if you're can sew or
bake or do like something. We don't need to be,
(14:16):
you know, scared to do something. And I think the
problem with that is that we put the expectations on ourselves,
like when you have younger kids, especially you know, if
you have younger kids at home, like their expectation isn't
very large, Like we put it as on ourselves as
parents think, oh I gotta get the best of the
best and oh the newest toilets out, like oh, I
just want to give them all this stuff, right, Like
that's the expectation on the parent. If you have a
(14:36):
teenager that has probably real expectations of what Christmas is
going to be, right, have a conversation with them, communicates,
treat them like an adult, even though they're not always
emotionally an adult at times, but like sit down and
be like, hey, listen, this is kind of like the guardrails.
Here's here's kind of the boundaries we've set as a
family with Christmas, and just talk it out to them, yes,
and even your friends and family, like adult to adult.
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My husband his family, we even had the conversation this
year of like, because we exchange gifts like with the adults,
and we even had the conversation like should we just
stop because it ends up being just like trading gift
cards and like you know what I mean, Like it's
just there's no thought. Yeah that's right. Yeah, And a
lot of people, I think I feel like if you
like let other people off the hook, they're going to
be grateful to We're like, okay, listen, this year, were
not doing gifts for friends just f y. I you
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may get some great treat right, or I might make something,
but like, that's what it's going to be, honestly, your
friends probably Okay, that's nice. So I don't feel like
I have to go buy a gift either, because financially speaking,
a lot of people are not in a position to
go and just spend all this money for Christmas. Seventy
eight percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, so
the reality of a tight budget and not having it
is a reality for a lot of people. And so
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I would say, don't let that expectation drive your need
to spend other people's expectations. You have to put the
blinders on and say this is what's good for my
family this year, and have the conversations when they need
to be had with the certain people, if if those
if that needs to be verbalized, have those conversations. Yeah, okay,
I like and I like that we can give permission
(16:01):
to kind of not to have to overperform and overgive
and it stops. Get Instagram, stop conforming your life to
everyone else's everyone else's Christmas. So just yeah, it's amazing
in our family. We draw names on both sides, on
my side and my husband's side, and it's it's great
love that because it limits to one right, totally. I
love that. That's another thing that people can do too,
(16:23):
is maybe draw names, yes and simply for everyone. That's right.
And again, the people on the other side are probably thinking, oh,
that's so nice. Okay, good, I'm going to up. Yeah, seriously,
I'm my gosh, it's so crazy. Christmas is so great
and so fun. But also I would say to like
it's cheesy to say, but it's true, like the reason
for the season, like what is your heart and like
and finding ways to give outside of your immediate the
(16:46):
people that you know, like people that really are in
need look to give the season, like a family that
that doesn't have anything, right, you know, what can you
provide them? Like the joy that comes from that and
that type of gift is far greater than like another
plastic Nicholas you buy on Amazon for your five year
old daughter, right, Like that's what I love it. Yeah, No,
Jesus is the reason for this is what this girl?
(17:07):
That's right? Thank you, Rachel, Yeah, thanks say okay. Next,
we got to talk about diet coke. Um. One of
my best friends Mary, she's addicted to diet coke. I
(17:27):
used to be I've drank probably like five a day,
I know, But I mean I thought I was being healthy.
I had I would like have fat free yogurt, diet coke,
and Pretzel's fat free of course, uh, and I would.
I mean, but I was probably about twenty pounds heavier
than I am now. But I thought that that's what
was healthy for me. And then I you know, learned
(17:50):
some stuff and started to figure out how to feel
my body properly. But sometimes I have a craving still
for diet coke, and then if I end up having it,
it's like a downward spiral, it's like crack. And then
I like end up having all the cracks, like you know,
Reese's Cups and diet coke, like they just go together.
So anyway, back to my friend Mary, because this is
really about her problem. She is addicted to diet coke.
(18:13):
Now she has cut it off too, and she'll do
like green tea for caffeine, but every once a while
she's like, I mean, it can't be bad. I'm just
gonna have it. So I'll just say she probably has
maybe one or two. Here's the issue with diets products
in general, but especially diets, So it's a bit of
a false promise. Okay, they're not dangerous in reasonable amounts
of you know, even five servings a day, five hands
(18:35):
to day, which is more than I think you do
for most things, is actually not going to be a
dangerous amount of it. But it doesn't really work. You know,
the whole reason to drinking diet sodas just to lose
weight theory. Yet when the studies have been done, people
who drink diet sodas, they don't. They don't seem to
lose weight because of the as pertain well we think,
we think as pertaine sacking whatever, when you're you know
(18:56):
you're you're using because there are different ones in different products.
They trick the body, but they can't trick the brain.
The brain is too smart. So let's go through this experiment.
You put the soft drink on your lips, right that
that artificial sweeter in the beverage get your tongue going.
Now it's it's three hundred times sweeter than sugar, so
it really gets your tongue going. And then you tongue
(19:17):
to the message to the brain says, high five, high five,
We got lots of sugar coming down. The brain weights
in the background says, you know what, I'm waiting for
the sugar, but it hasn't hit me. There's no sugar
coming into the body. My blood sugar is not going
up by I'm not feeling like the sugar is here.
Sugar hits the brain like crack cocaine. It's very specific.
So that's why it's so addictive. That's also why it
tastes so good to drink, and that's why manufacturers added
because they know that it will make us drink more
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of it. So when you have an artificial screeener, you
don't get all that. So the brain says that you
tried to trick me, Amy, you tried to trick me,
So I'm gonna make you go back and get real sugar,
almost reminding you to get stuff to want. The races
after I drink the diet code. That's what we think
that it's hard. It's hard to prove this because no
one's gonna let you take the brain out and experiment
on it. But it does seem to happen most of
(20:00):
orly just but does what is Actually, a truth will
statement with any question is that there are no studies
showing that diet so does help you go on a diet.
So if you're not gonna lose weight with the artificial product,
you know, why would you bother putting in your body?
Because your body don't know what it is. It's in
a way game, you know, play whole games, see foods,
your body recognizing the eat food that comes out of
the ground, looking the way it looks, you eat it.
That's the best way to lose weight. That's why things
(20:20):
like the Keto diet, which I happen to like a lot,
makes sense for a lot of people because you can
stay on it. It takes your cravings down. Keto died
again mostly fat and protein, not much carbs. And if
you need to be in a diet, at least you
won't crave a lot of the wrong foods because the
diet tends to take that desire out of you if
you're not trying to lose a lot of weight. Some
of the Mediterranean diet, which is what I generally eat.
(20:41):
I'm Turkish originally in Turkey. The eighth the Mediterranean diet,
I mean you can eat it your whole life. You
never feel like you're depriving yourself. You're not lonely because
so many diets. I don't know what if you think
the same, but you're by yourself, right, they're out there
having a good time. You can't do all those things
because you're in a diet, and so to using tactics
that allow you to love the food you're eating so
much you don't want to have too much of it,
and you just happened to be eating healthy food as
(21:02):
a side benefit. That's the best way to lose weight. Yeah,
I agree. Once I adopted, I went from the what
I thought was healthy and then adopted more of what
you're talking about, eating whole foods. I saw my body
completely transition. And I only did it because I was
trying to get pregnant. I couldn't get pregnant, and I
read somewhere if I went vegan and ate from the
ground that i'd get you know, I'd get pregnant. It
(21:23):
didn't work, but I lost weight and felt better. I
didn't really saw crappy. I felt I felt like crap,
but I didn't even know it until I woke. Until
I started eating better, and I was like this feels good.
I want to keep eating this way. That's the thing
that's the insight that makes me most confident about a
healthy diet. These people will say, I didn't you know,
I did this live longer just to get pregnant. But
(21:44):
it turns out side benefit was I just felt better immediately. Okay,
calling an audible for my fourth thing, because I had
a segment planned out where I'd probably be walking to
y'all for maybe seven minutes or so, and my voice
is just not feeling it at all. So I'm gonna
(22:07):
go ahead and just share with you all something I
literally just typed into Google what to do when you're
losing your voice, because I thought, well, if I'm going
through this, maybe some other people are. And here's the
five things that popped up right away. First is rest
rest your voice as much as possible, So I need
to go do that. To seek out quiet places, avoid
(22:28):
loud environments. Number three, stay hydrated, drink plenty of water.
Number four, use a humidifier if you can. And number
five medicaid. Like with ibuprofen, it will help bring down
your inflamed vocal courts. So if you're in a situation
like me or maybe you know you get into this situation,
you can refer back to this podcast, or you can
just type into Google like I did, what to do
(22:49):
when you're losing your voice. I'm not a doctor. Take
away from this, which you will, but I gotta go rest.
I just want to say thanks for coming to listen
to episode three. Shout out to Dr Oz for giving
us insight into diet sodas and why they're not necessarily
good for us. And if you're a chronic snooze are
like me, I just want to encourage you to go
to bed tonight, set your alarm for exactly when you
(23:12):
need to wake up, and don't press news. Trust me,
you'll be better for it. And then a big thank
you to Rachel Cruz, Dave Ramsey's daughter, who is just
so wise. She's awesome, and she's trying to keep us
in line this holiday season with our budgets, so I'm
thankful that she was able to come on. So I
really appreciate you guys listening. I hope that you come
back next week for four new awesome things and that
(23:35):
you know by then I should sound back to normal.
So with that said, let's go ahead and just say
our goodbyes, Thank you for listening over and out. One
of my favorite sweatshirts and shirts that the Shot Forward
has is there Choose Joy line. It's really simple, it
just says choose Joy. So it's a great reminder for
(23:56):
you can be an awesome gift. And also what I
love is that all proceeds from each Choose Joy item
benefit the Shot Forwards Cancer Care Fund, which goes towards
supporting those and their fight against cancer. Pretty much, the
goal is to ease the financial burden that cancer can
put on those when it comes to treatment and recovery,
and also it can encourage them at the same time
(24:18):
and their loved ones to choose joy because it's just
definitely zero percent fun when you're going through the whole
cancer battle, especially when it comes to the financial side.
So I love that this shirt reminds people to choose
joy and then also goes towards lifting some of that
financial burden. So check it out the shop forward dot com.
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Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.