January 17, 2019 • 32 mins
Amy chats with Bobby Bones about being vulnerable on Dancing With The Stars. Miracle celery juice is the new cool thing. Amy shares self-tanner tips for a successful tan. Teaching kids to pick up trash and learns about #plogging.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Okay, cast up little food for you so life. Oh
it's pretty much. It's pretty beautiful than that a little
mouth you're kicking with? Four? Okay, here we are episode
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nine and Stevenson has been on the podcast a lot,
but Stuffira never has been. And she's sitting right here.
Can you say, hi? What are you eating? Chip? Okay?
So one of their favorite snacks ever is banana chips,
which they have a lot of those in Haiti. And
then y'all eat fried plantains. Those are really yummy. And
then what other snacks do you have? What are your
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favorite snacks? Popcorn? I? Okay, so tell everybody sorry for
for chewing into the microphone. Why because it's annoying when
you are we smacking? No, what's the role on smacking it? Good? No,
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if you smack your bubble gum, what do you have
to do with it? No? You have to spit it
out because what did I tell you about gum? If
you swallow it lives in your stomach for how many years? Old? Yeah?
So you're really old, like seven years, which I have
no idea if that's true. Obviously, if you're listening out, Okay,
(01:36):
my daughter is clarifying that the seven year gum role
in your stomach is not true. You pass it out
when you go to the bathroom. You should be a doctor.
You want to be a doctor too. I would be
so proud if y'all both grew up to be doctors.
So today I've got Bobby Bones coming on, which is
you know how I even got into radio. The likelihood
of anybody listening right now that doesn't know me through
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Bobby or the Bobby Roon Show is slim. I just
figure you'll know who he is. But yeah, Bobby Bones
is coming on. We're going to talk for a little
bit and then I'm going to share with you all
some self taining tips because some people ask about that
because I get spray tans and self tands. I try
to stay out of the sun as much as possible,
So I'll share some of that info with you. And
then Celery juice is such a thing right now. I
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don't know if y'all, I mean you on Instagram you
see people posting about it. But I mean, I want
to give you all a little bit more in depth
look into it and some research and how it's like
really helping people. And I don't know, let's just go
ahead and get started with today's episode because these kids
are getting aunty and I think I need to get
them home. You're all ready to go home. Can you
just say hope everybody enjoys the podcast. I hope you
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enjoy today. Good job, guys. Thank you. Now I have
on somebody that maybe ms with you because we've been
having a conversation of you for like hour. What do
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you want to talk I don't know you're gonna talk about.
Go ahead, I know, well there's some parts I want
to talk about, just like I feel maybe we could
give people some advice on good ways to communicate, because
I feel like you're learning, You're really becoming a better communicator.
Do you feel like you've improved your communication skills since
we started working together like years ago. Yeah, because I
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was just a kid and had terrible communication skills. I
think that for me, though, I just had to go
to people, had to go to people who knew how
to fix people like I didn't get better just by
doing it, or I would have stayed the same. I
went to like a lot of therapy. I went to
the entire like camp, I went to that that's pretty
good for me. And I went to this place called
on Site and I was recommended it by Dave Heywood
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from Lady and a Bellum and he was like, hey,
you should go. So I mean it was it's been
learning tools more so than figuring it out, because this
is Bobby Bones here. But also I think podcasts are
good too. I think books are good. I think in
any way, get a tool period is good. Right. Well,
one thing I wanted to dive into with you is
I've seen a transformation. So I thought there probably a
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lot of people out there listening to have trouble with
communicating or expressing feelings, and I've seen you grow in
that area, and I thought maybe you could share little
ways that that that you've done that and then you've
been able to share it with your books. And when
you're in front of a microphone, you have no issue
talking like you're it's easy. It just like comes naturally.
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That's where you're most comfortable. But when you take the
microphone away, or maybe you take the book away, or
like say you're writing a book, you're like giving advice.
Sometimes you're hard to to get into. Part of it
for me was I didn't want to be a hundred
years old and not have deeper relationships with people, because
when I was twenty five, who cares? Yeah who, I'll
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figured it out before I turned forty. That was always
kind of the mindset. Well, then I'm kind of approaching forty.
Now I'm thirty eight, so you know, the a pattern
of footsteps to forty years old and not the forties old,
because nothing's old now when you get close thirty Rember
being twenty nine and going, oh my god, I'm also
die tomorrow. I'm about to be thirty. This is crazy.
And now I'm thirty eight and I'm like, yeah, forty
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is not that bad. But for me, it was more of,
you know, we only have a short amount of time,
And I thought it was so cliche when people would
say we only have a short amount of time on earth.
But as you get older, you go, oh, like I've
done half of it already, like I'm on the probably
on the back side of it. And so it was
I'd like to have more meaningful relationships. And because I've
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spent a lot of my life focused on not so
much the relationship part, but the career part, and that
would always take my focus off of it because I
wasn't good at it and so what I would do
is I just started going to people that could help
me and see if from an outside perspective. And so
I started going to therapy and then I, um would
read books and listen to podcasts a little bit. I've
listened to Burnet Brown and read those books a little bit. Yeah,
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well she's here, John Vulnerabill. Yeah. And that's what I
struggle with the most the most. And then I went to, um,
you know this this camp, it's not even a camp.
I just call it that. But again, everybody doesn't have
those resources. One I'm single and how many kids and
have a good job where make a good living so
I can actually afford it and don't have to worry
about kids college fund or anything like that or so.
But I think that for me it was actually getting
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those tools and just leaning into really uncomfortable things. What
are some tools you now have in your tool? Well,
now it's just if it's uncomfortable, I I just go
into it and lean into it. Um. I think it's
that way for not only humans, but also in everything
that I do. Like if something's like, oh I don't
know if I can do this, I kind of just go, well,
let me push into an extra hard then I did
that on the TV show. Is that what you decided
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to do Dancing with the Stars? Do you think? No?
I did Dancing with the Stars. That's why I ended
up doing well at Dancing with the Stars. That's not
why I did it. I did it because ABC was like, hey,
do Dancing with the Stars? Well, I mean, but it
was something that that's a vulnerable situation for you because
you're you're normally at the top of what you do,
like you have put your good at what you do
when you're in radio, and you've got other skill sets,
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but you know, you're really awesome about it before I
think you get out there, or maybe you're just facing
practice it a lot until it's time to get out there.
But dancing, you just had to get out there and
do it, and you really had no previous experience. So
that was I feel like that was a vulnerable spot
for you. It was vulnerable once I decided I was
going to take it seriously. If I would have just
been like, I'm gonna go goof around and if I win,
who cares? If I lose, who cares? That would have
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been easy for me to do. But for me to
go I'm really going to try to win, and that
was vulnerable for me, but again it was it was
uncomfortable to do and there were times where I thought,
I'm never going to get this right. But all those
Dancing with the Stars things are, you know, very metaphor
for life type things, because at the beginning of the
week every week, I'll be like, I don't understand this.
That's like the beginning of a relationship or at the
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beginning of any new task, like I don't understand this.
I don't know how I'm gonna do it. And so
many times in relationships I'll be like, you know what,
I don't understand it, so I'm just gonna run away
from it. And so I didn't do that on the show.
And I think I went into the show at the
right time because my mind was pretty good. My mind's
pretty good right now with you know, let me, let
me see what I can give myself into. And so, yeah,
I got into that show at a good time. Wasn't
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good and I'm not good at in a personal communication
so much. Um, well, that's interesting. That's the first time
I think you've I've heard you at least refer to
week to week on the show being a metaphor for life,
and like, how at the beginning of the week you
thought there was no way, then you worked at it
worked at it worked out, and I was with I
had to work with someone else, which was difficult for
me because and it was a partnership and I wasn't
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the boss, which normally you are, which in what the
things that I can control, I've made that way, um,
and so that was a thing to work. So at
the end of the week, how would you feel like
if it started off? Like so, how is that explained
to people? How you see that as a metaphor for life?
I mean I get it well, a metaphor for relationships,
a metaphor for any new sort of venture. That I
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understood nothing about it, and I was so uncomfortable that
I thought, there is no way I'm going to figure
this out. But after about the second or third time
that I figured it out, I went, I'm not going
to figure it out again, but I've got to trust
the process that I know I'm going to feel lost.
And so I knew the negative feelings I was gonna have.
And I actually wrote about this in my last book
where it was if you know yourself. You can actually
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play against yourself, meaning I know you usually gonna freak
out about something, and so when I do, I'm able
to go. You knew you were gonna freak out, you
knew you were gonna act like this, so just handle
it um and if you know yourself, you can do that.
And I started to know myself even in that show.
And in my last book, I wrote about how you know,
if you had to give a speech in front of
your office, and a week out you're kind of nervous,
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but you know to yourself you're gonna be really nervous
the day before, You're gonna be extremely nervous fifteen minutes before.
And it's not gonna mean you can't do it. But
since you know that, you can go ahead and write
it down. And so when you actually do have that
happened to you, you you go, oh, I knew this was
gonna happen. This is not crazy. I can go ahead
and and push through this. And so that's what happened
with the dancing, was that I'd freak out every Tuesday,
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but about the third or fourth week, I would still
freak out, but I would go, this is normal to
freak out, and It's okay that I freak out because
I'm supposed to freak out, and I could actually digest
a little easier. And then finally when thursdi or Friday
came around and I started to get it a little bit.
And then you get to the show again on Monday,
and you'll be like, Okay, I don't fully have it
because I don't think we haven't fully have anything, and
I don't think we ever figure anything out. We kind
of figured out the best we can, and then whenever
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the horn goes, we execute to the best of our ability.
But because there are so many factors that that that
jump in last minute or during we don't ever really
have it figured out. But I knew myself, so I
knew how to handle the situation. I feel like you're
someone that a lot of people look to that probably
think you have it all figured I have nothing figured out,
but I have it so figured out because I know
I have nothing figured out. I think the key to
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understanding anything is though you will never understand it. I mean,
that's really the key for me in my life so
far has been I don't know how to do anything,
and the fact that I know I don't know how
to do anything is the most that I can prepare myself.
And so I mean it was like I remember agreeing
in college and studying you know, Socrates and Aristotle and
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Plato and even the most basic I think in the
first day of class we learned about when Socrates went
out and searched the world for the smartest man, and
he went all over in the world. The world wasn't
the world then, it was a very much smaller area
um as to what we know the world is now.
But he searched the world for the smartest man. And
he went back and so many people that he went
to said no, yes, I'm the smartest man. Um I'm
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paraphrasing the stories we can get through, and he would
talk to them. He would go to someone else, no,
I am the smartest man. And once he got back
home he realized that he was actually the smartest man
because he knew that he didn't know anything, and everyone else,
all these scholars who claimed to know everything, they deemed
themselves the most intelligent being. But once he had spoken
to all of them and got back, I mean a
little arrogant him to go, I'm now the smartest man
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becausein but but really he had to figure out that
it was you know, it wasn't just about him, It
was that that that understanding of it was actually the
smartest you could be to understand that you really don't understand.
And I think we look at people and they go
and we look at people that we work with, and
you can even go to the social media aspect of
it and go, oh wow, they haven't figured out, like
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they know what they're doing and I don't. And I
think that's a very familiar feeling to all of us
when we see somebody who's good at something and it
looks like they've got it figured out, but they really don't.
Like I don't know anybody that does anything at a
high level that actually has it down. I mean there
are artists that I know that are a plus artists
that go like, I'm trying, but they you know, they
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get in their head about what songs to cut. I
know um speakers, I know people on radio, I know,
you know even people in the medical profession that go,
I've learned everything I can learn, But to act like
you know everything about everything would be wrong because you don't.
So I think the key to uh, whatever it is,
as you you grow is that it's okay that you
don't know everything, because no one does, even if it
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seems like they do, they don't. So a couple of
takeaways with you right now is vulnerability. UM, don't claim
to know everything, even if you think you know everything.
UM approach each thing in your life, whether it's a
relationship or something you might be scared of, or a
job opportunity or something with with okayness that it's it's
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okay to be scared about it, or to freak out
about it or be nervous, like, that's okay, live in
those moments. Right. It's actually even bigger than that, it's
okay to not do well at it, because I've only
gotten good at things when I've been bad at them
for a long time. Like I think that's part of
the process of actually making something be success. A success
is not being successed for a while because you have
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to you have to actually learn about it. I've never
done anything right and learned and been better from it.
Any time I've done anything the first time and it
went well, I've never learned anything from it, which is
why I think your book was such a success. Fail
until you don't, and then you brought a Renee Brown earlier,
and she says a lot of the same things about failure,
like you're you're not going to make it anywhere unless
you fail. It's fun for it to work out, It's
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like wow, but you don't learn anything from it and
there's no impact on you. If something just happened is
to work out actually put you in a hole. If
you were to actually do something right and it happened
and then you fail after that, Not only are you
failing at a higher spot, we didn't learn anything from
the time before you, So it's like you're back to notches.
So yeah, that's it. I like that. Well, I was
definitely going to dig in a little bit deeper with
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you and like your communication and growth that I've seen,
but I like where this went. Next time, whatever you want,
we can have you back a sort of a have
me back. I'm in my own studio. You're talking about
having me back like you've come into this. Sorry, Well
I'll I will have you on as a guest again,
and we can, you know, dive into that because I
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think I have seen growth and I have loved the
growth that I've seen in your communication, and some of
that is the vulnerability too, and you're you opening up
and you being wanting to be more intentional. Sure I
might agree with all of that. Awesome, Well, thank you
for your time. I know you're extremely busy correct sucking there.
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All right, let's talk celery celery juice in particular. But
I'll start with my feelings on celery. I used to
hate it. I actually taught myself to like it. So
when I started doing glowing green smoothies years ago by
Kimberly Snyder, it's her recipe and it called for celery,
and I didn't put it in there. I would make
the glowing green smoothie sand celery. I just didn't want
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to have anything to do with celery. I thought it
tasted gross, and then I realized I was missing out
on some of the benefits, the detoxifying benefits of celery,
and I thought, okay, I gotta start adding this sin.
So I slowly started to add it into the glowing
green smoothie. And then I realized I couldn't even really
taste it with all the other stuff, and then it
really started to not bother me. And now I can
eat celery. It's almost like I trained myself to like it,
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and it was really because of the benefits. Like you
may think celery has no calories, just full of water
and it does nothing for your body, but actually is
really really good for you and for your liver in particular,
again because it's for detoxifying. So right now, all celery
juices all the craze, Like I see it all over Instagram.
It comes up in conversations with people, like people that
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I didn't even know would be into celery juice. Somehow
it just comes up, and I'm like, you're doing it too.
So if you haven't heard of celery juice, I bet
after you listen to this podcast, you're gonna start noticing
at places because like Karen Fairchild from a little big town,
she posted something on her Instagram stories and it was
a picture of green celery juice and she's like, okay,
diving in or whatever, and so I immediately dimmed her
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and I was like, you're doing this too, because it's
like everywhere, and she's like, yeah, I guess you read
the same Goop article as I did. And I did
read a Goop article, which is Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle blog.
If you'll haven't ever checked that out. It's full of
like really interesting stuff, but celery juice is being deemed
the new miracle juice. I also follow the balance Blonde
on Instagram, and she has lyme disease, and she because
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of her disease, she does all kinds of things for
her body, but one thing in particular is every morning,
on an empty stomach, she has I don't know, maybe
twenty four thirty ounces. I can't remember the exact amount
she does of straight celery juice. Now, obviously that's not
a breakfast. So if you do this, I think like
thirty minutes after you've drinken it, you can have something
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for breakfast. To having it on an empty stomach is
apparently imperative, and not mixing anything else with it is
also something you can't do. Like don't even throw lemons
or limes or anything else healthy and apple, no nothing.
It has to be straight up celery juice, and again
on an empty stomach. So y'all, I've tried it, and
coming from someone who used to hate celery, it was fine.
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Like I drank it, no problem. Now if you have
major issues with it, they say start small, like maybe
start with a ounces because it may even mess with
your stomach, Like if you have a really crazy things
going on with your gut, what it's doing is it's
healing certain things, and you may have some bathroom issues,
but if your gut's pretty healthy, it may not affect
you as bad, and you can go ahead and drink
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the sixteen ounce right away, which is the recommended amount. Now,
the girl I mentioned the balance blond that has slime disease,
she does a higher amount because she's fighting an illness.
But if you're just doing a day to day they
recommend sixty announces every morning. Make sure that it's fresh,
plain celery juice again, no other ingredients, organic if possible.
If it's not organic, make sure you're washing it thoroughly.
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I mean, obviously you have to have a juicer to
do this sort of thing, but maybe you have a
local juice tree in your neighborhood or somewhere you could
go where if you really wanted to try this out,
they could make it for you, um and then you
could drink it and see how you feel. And again,
you kind of got to be careful with it because
you could see something going on if you have a
high level of toxins in your body, and your body
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is trying to eliminate the toxins, so the celler juice
might start moving some things around to be aware of that. Now,
I do have a friend. His name's Adam Bobo, and
he is doing a thirty days celery experiment because he
also read about it. He follows on Instagram, which this
is also on the Gwyneth Paltrow article based on the
same person. But his Instagram handle is at medical medium,
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so if you want to check that out, there's more
info there too. But he saw it there first, and
he is kind of a guy Adam is that likes
to like test things out on his body and see
how he feels. So Adam Bobo is doing that for
thirty days, and I might get him to come on
and give a full report on how he has felt
once the thirty days is up, because as of right now,
I think he's only on day five or so, and
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then I've only done it a couple of times, so
I can't sit here and say that I feel so
amazing and it's a life changing thing. But I just
felt like we needed to address it here as one
of the things because it really is wildly popular right now.
As we enter twenty nineteen and there's different health praises,
but I see everyday people talking about it, and I
see the health benefits. Maybe if you even have something
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going on with you might want to look into this.
And then the guy's book medical medium. What is his
real name? Let me hold on. He's got a book
called Liver Rescue. I know that. Oh, Anthony William that's
his name. Check him out and I keep you all
posted on how I feel, and then I will bring
Bobo in to give an update on how he feels.
And okay, all right, well there you go. Celery Celery
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juice again. It is called the Miracle Juice, something that
has been out of stock but is now back in stock.
I just want to tell you all about. And it's
our joy Seeker little zipper pouches there for accessories, and
they're so cute. They say four things says, be kind,
choose joy, laugh a lot, eat cake. So if you
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would like another reminder to seek that joy in these
fun ways, then you should check this out. I use
mine inside my four Things tot or any other bag
that I carry to hold little accessories like right now,
it's got my phone charger, my computer, charger and some
pins and a couple other things to keep it all
and there are stuff that used to just float around
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check it out. I'm someone that definitely has to stay
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out of the sun. Like I don't have that pretty
olive skin. I get really pink if I'm in the
sun if I don't have on like SPF hundred if
that even exists. But I also have a lot of
freckles and white spots, and I can really see my
skin aging from when I was in the sun as
a kid, because I mean there were times where I
would just lay outside with baby oil on. I know
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that's like a way old person thing, but I definitely
did that in junior high and I put lemon juice
in my hair or sun in is that what we
called it is that is called where you could like
spray it in your hair or just put lemon juice
in your hair and it would give you natural sun
kiss highlights, except for my hair turned kind of orange.
But anyway, long story short, I have to say out
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of the sun. So I do self tanning. I either
get a spray tan, but that's not always easy to do,
especially now that I have kids. I just it's easier
to just self tan at home. And I know a
lot of you may not have someone that can give
you a spray tan, So I thought I would tell
you what I do at home to self tan if
you're looking for that winter glow, because right now, I mean,
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you're probably pretty pale like I am, but you may
want to feel a little more confident, and I feel
like self tanner does that for me. San Trope is
my favorite brand. This isn't a commercial or anything. This
is just honestly, I've tried a ton of self tanners
and this is the best one. And how you spell
that is s T t r O p e Z
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san Trope and it comes with a MIT. Well, I
think you have to buy the mit, but you can
get it at Sephora. A couple of other places have it.
You could order it online, but if you can't find
it near you, I don't I think Alta has it too.
Most of the time. I just if I'm at the mall,
I run into Sephora and grab it. But it's the
best one, and I have friends that swear by this
brand too, so I would not steer you wrong. I
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just give the Santo pa original foam. They have a
lot of different ones, but original is the way to go.
And then you buy the little mitt that they recommend
and you put it on. But I'll give you some
tips as well in case this is something that's new
to you and you want the best results. So what
you want to do is exfoliate your skin, for sure,
but try to do it twenty four hours before you tan,
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because that way it'll get your skin nice and ready,
but then your pores aren't all open. So that being said,
if you're shaving or waxing or any of that, do
it twenty four hours before you put on yourself tan,
and then you could even the day before moisturize really good.
Because I think whenever my tans, my self tands turn
out really bad. It's because I have super dry skin
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and it just doesn't end up as even. So I'll exfoliate,
I'll moisturize, and then right before I tan, I shower.
But then I make sure I'm really really dry. I
do it at night before I go to bed, and
I get out of shower again I'm all dry. Make
sure that I have no wet spots on me whatsoever.
If I've taken a hot shower, I maybe let my
body cool off a little bit and then that way
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I'm not sweating or something, because then that will mess
up your tin as well. But get your mitt and
get your sandro Pe classic original foam or whatever. I
think I said it's original, but now that I think
about it might be called classic, so I don't want
to steer you guys wrong. But it's a white bottle
with a blue cap. Then you put a few pumps
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on and you start to just do circular motions all
over your body until it's blended in. And I like
that it's tinted so you can actually see where you're
putting it. And then the sponge helps you make it
really really even, and then or the mit and that
helps you not get it all over your hand and
look all funky. But circular motions are definitely key, and
then make sure that you're covered all over. If it's
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really hard to get your back, if you've got a
husband or a roommate or maybe if your guy listening,
you've got a wife, a boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever, somebody that
can come help you do your back. A kid ello,
I don't know if I trust them as much, but
my husband, I'll definitely hopefully he's okay with admitting this,
but he puts on my mitt and he will do
(25:06):
my back for me in circular emotions and he makes
sure that it's really even. And then you can check
yourself out in the mirror and make sure you're good
to go. And then if you feel like you've got
some of it on your hands in some way, shape
or form, don't wash your I I do kind of
do circular motions on the top of my hands so
that way it looks like blended, but not too much
because then your hands look really orange. But if you
want to wash the palm of your hands at all,
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you can get like a baby wipe or something and
then wipe it clean. That way you can control where
you're wiping, you're not putting your hands underwater. And then
after you put it on, have some loose fitting clothes
to throw on. I have this pair of pajamas, it's
a black top and black bottoms that I wear every
time my self tand because they just fit really good
and loose, and it's it's just like a great way
(25:50):
to keep the tan from getting all messy if you
put on anything tight, definitely don't recommend that. So loose fitted,
dark clothing and then you crawl in bed and then boom,
you wake up with a tan, and you definitely rins
off because you're gonna kind of smell. I haven't been
able to find a self tainer that doesn't eventually end
up smelling. Some claim to not smell, but they just do.
(26:13):
But wake up, take a shower if you really want
it to last, rinse off with a cold shower. Um,
and then if you want to get it darker, you
can do it like sometimes I'll do it two nights
in a row and I'll end up with a really
natural looking kind of bronze e tan, And that way
I don't have to put on too much or one
thick layer the night before, because then it gets really messy.
So you can do it a couple of nights in
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a row and then that will last you the rest
of the week, and then you just kind of the
next week repeat and that way you can keep a tan.
So I hope that that helps. And this wasn't too
boring for anybody that's you know, already got tan skin,
but for us really pale folks, maybe this could be
really really helpful for you. Okay, when we first got
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our kids, my husband bought trash pick or uppers, like, yeah,
the things with the stick and the little claw that
picks up trash, because he thought whenever we go and
walks as a family, would be a really good thing
to teach our kids about picking up trash. Because our
kids they liked litter, and it's not their fault. Um,
I shouldn't say they like to litter, I would say,
(27:17):
let me explain. So they grew up in Haiti and
they were used to being able to just throw trash
in the streets. And now not everybody in Haiti is
like that, but when you have a culture that that's
what they tend to do. When you come to America,
we're littering is illegal at times. I'm pretty sure, isn't
it everywhere? I don't know state to state, I'm sure
(27:38):
it varies, but you can get fined for littering, and
we try to teach our kids about it. So we
bought these trash picker uppers and it's like this whole thing,
like we'll walk the dog and we've got this little
stick and it's good. We feel like we're helping contribute
to cleaning up our neighborhood as well. Then I saw
this article about plogging, and I don't know if you've
ever heard of plogging, but it's a fitness trend that
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is going on and Eden and they're really into it.
I guess they've been doing it for a couple of
years now. And it's where you go out for a
jog or run or whatever, but you take a little
trash bag with you and you pick up trash while
you do it. And you can go to Instagram and
search the hashtag plogging p L O G G I
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n G, and you'll see thousands of photos of joggers
alongside their bags of trash, and it's kind of like
they're they're really proud of it, and it's awesome. So
if you want to get into this, maybe try it
with your family. I had no idea. My husband and
I were already participating in plogging. Now we're not jogging
while we do it, but we are out on family
walks and we're picking up trash. So maybe you could
(28:42):
try it out. I haven't hashtag anything yet, but maybe
next time we go on on a walk, we'll do it. Yeah,
check out plogging pick up trash while you're on about
It's kind of the new fitness trend that will also
help the environment. You never know what you're gonna learn
here on this podcast. Okay, that's wrap on episode nine.
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Big thank you to my friend Bobby Bones for coming on.
Hopefully you'll enjoyed our little chat and the other three
things that went along with today's episode. We always do
four things, and sometimes I get ideas about what's going
to be a thing from emails that you'll send me,
So make sure that you're emailing it's four things with
Amy Brown at gmail dot com. And then I also
(29:25):
always do an email shout out at the end of
each podcast. I'm about to get to that, but this
kind of leading in what's to come next week is
Olivia emailed me last week and gave me a recommendation
of something to watch, and I'm turning it into a
thing because it's something that made me cry and I
want to share it with you all. But I don't
think the crying is bad. I really think I needed
(29:47):
to cry. And then I want to talk about the
benefits of crying and why my mother in law even
gave me advice sometimes to where if you really really
know you need to cry, then you might need to
make an appointment cry. So if you need to make
an appoint cry, I'm going to tell you the movie
to watch that's gonna allow you to cry, and you
can basically build your day around it and it'd be
amazing and hopefully you'll feel better. So all that to say,
(30:08):
we love it when you email. So let's transition now
into my email shout out, which today comes from Sarah,
and here's what she wrote. I found it to be
really interesting and maybe something that we could all think about. Amy.
So yesterday I drove home from a trip and I
binged a few episodes and it gave me the opportunity
to hear the song over and over, which by the way,
is so cute go Walker Hayes. But here's what I
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hear when the line says tighten up your core things.
I know this can be a literal tightening up of
your core, like on your body, But what I thought
of it was tightening up the core parts of me,
like what are my beliefs, what is important to me?
And do I live my life reflecting those things? What
are my goals for this coming year? And do my
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core beliefs or core behaviors help me achieve them? Or
do I need to tighten up some things? Looking at
the lyrics this way has really made me reflect and
really think about what I want to be different in
my life this year, and to really consider how I
can tighten some things up where I'm lacking so that
I can be more successful. And then she signed her
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name Sarah. She wrote a couple of other things, but
then signed her name Sarah. And I thought this was
a really interesting perspective, so I wanted to share it
with you all because it's challenging me to now when
I hear that lyric to think of my life that
way and what things do I need to tighten up?
And I know when Walker wrote the song, he definitely
was doing it because I told him I was going
(31:33):
to have health and fitness tips from time to time.
So of course he's a genius and put in the
lyric like tighten up your core things, and I was
going to have recipes, so he put cast of role things.
He's really clever. But I sent this note to Walker
too so that I could tell him that people are
taking on new meaning to his lyrics. And so, Sarah,
thank you so much for sharing this. It's super awesome. Okay,
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I guess all that said my usual shoutouts. I guess
we've already shouted out Walker has for the song. I
really want to thank him every time because I'm just
so grateful for it. And then thank you to Elizabeth
and Mike d for putting this podcast up and making
it possible for all you to hear. All right, see
you next time, joy never lie. Okay, cast up broth
(32:29):
little food for yourself life, ain't Oh it's pretty much.
It's pretty beautiful. Thanks beautiful, laugh for a little mouth
because said he can you Kicking with four with Amy
Brown
Okay, cast up little food for you so life. Oh
it's pretty much. It's pretty beautiful than that a little
mouth you're kicking with? Four? Okay, here we are episode
(00:33):
nine and Stevenson has been on the podcast a lot,
but Stuffira never has been. And she's sitting right here.
Can you say, hi? What are you eating? Chip? Okay?
So one of their favorite snacks ever is banana chips,
which they have a lot of those in Haiti. And
then y'all eat fried plantains. Those are really yummy. And
then what other snacks do you have? What are your
(00:54):
favorite snacks? Popcorn? I? Okay, so tell everybody sorry for
for chewing into the microphone. Why because it's annoying when
you are we smacking? No, what's the role on smacking it? Good? No,
(01:14):
if you smack your bubble gum, what do you have
to do with it? No? You have to spit it
out because what did I tell you about gum? If
you swallow it lives in your stomach for how many years? Old? Yeah?
So you're really old, like seven years, which I have
no idea if that's true. Obviously, if you're listening out, Okay,
(01:36):
my daughter is clarifying that the seven year gum role
in your stomach is not true. You pass it out
when you go to the bathroom. You should be a doctor.
You want to be a doctor too. I would be
so proud if y'all both grew up to be doctors.
So today I've got Bobby Bones coming on, which is
you know how I even got into radio. The likelihood
of anybody listening right now that doesn't know me through
(01:58):
Bobby or the Bobby Roon Show is slim. I just
figure you'll know who he is. But yeah, Bobby Bones
is coming on. We're going to talk for a little
bit and then I'm going to share with you all
some self taining tips because some people ask about that
because I get spray tans and self tands. I try
to stay out of the sun as much as possible,
So I'll share some of that info with you. And
then Celery juice is such a thing right now. I
(02:19):
don't know if y'all, I mean you on Instagram you
see people posting about it. But I mean, I want
to give you all a little bit more in depth
look into it and some research and how it's like
really helping people. And I don't know, let's just go
ahead and get started with today's episode because these kids
are getting aunty and I think I need to get
them home. You're all ready to go home. Can you
just say hope everybody enjoys the podcast. I hope you
(02:41):
enjoy today. Good job, guys. Thank you. Now I have
on somebody that maybe ms with you because we've been
having a conversation of you for like hour. What do
(03:02):
you want to talk I don't know you're gonna talk about.
Go ahead, I know, well there's some parts I want
to talk about, just like I feel maybe we could
give people some advice on good ways to communicate, because
I feel like you're learning, You're really becoming a better communicator.
Do you feel like you've improved your communication skills since
we started working together like years ago. Yeah, because I
(03:23):
was just a kid and had terrible communication skills. I
think that for me, though, I just had to go
to people, had to go to people who knew how
to fix people like I didn't get better just by
doing it, or I would have stayed the same. I
went to like a lot of therapy. I went to
the entire like camp, I went to that that's pretty
good for me. And I went to this place called
on Site and I was recommended it by Dave Heywood
(03:47):
from Lady and a Bellum and he was like, hey,
you should go. So I mean it was it's been
learning tools more so than figuring it out, because this
is Bobby Bones here. But also I think podcasts are
good too. I think books are good. I think in
any way, get a tool period is good. Right. Well,
one thing I wanted to dive into with you is
I've seen a transformation. So I thought there probably a
(04:08):
lot of people out there listening to have trouble with
communicating or expressing feelings, and I've seen you grow in
that area, and I thought maybe you could share little
ways that that that you've done that and then you've
been able to share it with your books. And when
you're in front of a microphone, you have no issue
talking like you're it's easy. It just like comes naturally.
(04:30):
That's where you're most comfortable. But when you take the
microphone away, or maybe you take the book away, or
like say you're writing a book, you're like giving advice.
Sometimes you're hard to to get into. Part of it
for me was I didn't want to be a hundred
years old and not have deeper relationships with people, because
when I was twenty five, who cares? Yeah who, I'll
(04:53):
figured it out before I turned forty. That was always
kind of the mindset. Well, then I'm kind of approaching forty.
Now I'm thirty eight, so you know, the a pattern
of footsteps to forty years old and not the forties old,
because nothing's old now when you get close thirty Rember
being twenty nine and going, oh my god, I'm also
die tomorrow. I'm about to be thirty. This is crazy.
And now I'm thirty eight and I'm like, yeah, forty
(05:15):
is not that bad. But for me, it was more of,
you know, we only have a short amount of time,
And I thought it was so cliche when people would
say we only have a short amount of time on earth.
But as you get older, you go, oh, like I've
done half of it already, like I'm on the probably
on the back side of it. And so it was
I'd like to have more meaningful relationships. And because I've
(05:36):
spent a lot of my life focused on not so
much the relationship part, but the career part, and that
would always take my focus off of it because I
wasn't good at it and so what I would do
is I just started going to people that could help
me and see if from an outside perspective. And so
I started going to therapy and then I, um would
read books and listen to podcasts a little bit. I've
listened to Burnet Brown and read those books a little bit. Yeah,
(05:58):
well she's here, John Vulnerabill. Yeah. And that's what I
struggle with the most the most. And then I went to, um,
you know this this camp, it's not even a camp.
I just call it that. But again, everybody doesn't have
those resources. One I'm single and how many kids and
have a good job where make a good living so
I can actually afford it and don't have to worry
about kids college fund or anything like that or so.
But I think that for me it was actually getting
(06:20):
those tools and just leaning into really uncomfortable things. What
are some tools you now have in your tool? Well,
now it's just if it's uncomfortable, I I just go
into it and lean into it. Um. I think it's
that way for not only humans, but also in everything
that I do. Like if something's like, oh I don't
know if I can do this, I kind of just go, well,
let me push into an extra hard then I did
that on the TV show. Is that what you decided
(06:41):
to do Dancing with the Stars? Do you think? No?
I did Dancing with the Stars. That's why I ended
up doing well at Dancing with the Stars. That's not
why I did it. I did it because ABC was like, hey,
do Dancing with the Stars? Well, I mean, but it
was something that that's a vulnerable situation for you because
you're you're normally at the top of what you do,
like you have put your good at what you do
when you're in radio, and you've got other skill sets,
(07:02):
but you know, you're really awesome about it before I
think you get out there, or maybe you're just facing
practice it a lot until it's time to get out there.
But dancing, you just had to get out there and
do it, and you really had no previous experience. So
that was I feel like that was a vulnerable spot
for you. It was vulnerable once I decided I was
going to take it seriously. If I would have just
been like, I'm gonna go goof around and if I win,
who cares? If I lose, who cares? That would have
(07:24):
been easy for me to do. But for me to
go I'm really going to try to win, and that
was vulnerable for me, but again it was it was
uncomfortable to do and there were times where I thought,
I'm never going to get this right. But all those
Dancing with the Stars things are, you know, very metaphor
for life type things, because at the beginning of the
week every week, I'll be like, I don't understand this.
That's like the beginning of a relationship or at the
(07:45):
beginning of any new task, like I don't understand this.
I don't know how I'm gonna do it. And so
many times in relationships I'll be like, you know what,
I don't understand it, so I'm just gonna run away
from it. And so I didn't do that on the show.
And I think I went into the show at the
right time because my mind was pretty good. My mind's
pretty good right now with you know, let me, let
me see what I can give myself into. And so, yeah,
I got into that show at a good time. Wasn't
(08:06):
good and I'm not good at in a personal communication
so much. Um, well, that's interesting. That's the first time
I think you've I've heard you at least refer to
week to week on the show being a metaphor for life,
and like, how at the beginning of the week you
thought there was no way, then you worked at it
worked at it worked out, and I was with I
had to work with someone else, which was difficult for
me because and it was a partnership and I wasn't
(08:28):
the boss, which normally you are, which in what the
things that I can control, I've made that way, um,
and so that was a thing to work. So at
the end of the week, how would you feel like
if it started off? Like so, how is that explained
to people? How you see that as a metaphor for life?
I mean I get it well, a metaphor for relationships,
a metaphor for any new sort of venture. That I
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understood nothing about it, and I was so uncomfortable that
I thought, there is no way I'm going to figure
this out. But after about the second or third time
that I figured it out, I went, I'm not going
to figure it out again, but I've got to trust
the process that I know I'm going to feel lost.
And so I knew the negative feelings I was gonna have.
And I actually wrote about this in my last book
where it was if you know yourself. You can actually
(09:12):
play against yourself, meaning I know you usually gonna freak
out about something, and so when I do, I'm able
to go. You knew you were gonna freak out, you
knew you were gonna act like this, so just handle
it um and if you know yourself, you can do that.
And I started to know myself even in that show.
And in my last book, I wrote about how you know,
if you had to give a speech in front of
your office, and a week out you're kind of nervous,
(09:34):
but you know to yourself you're gonna be really nervous
the day before, You're gonna be extremely nervous fifteen minutes before.
And it's not gonna mean you can't do it. But
since you know that, you can go ahead and write
it down. And so when you actually do have that
happened to you, you you go, oh, I knew this was
gonna happen. This is not crazy. I can go ahead
and and push through this. And so that's what happened
with the dancing, was that I'd freak out every Tuesday,
(09:55):
but about the third or fourth week, I would still
freak out, but I would go, this is normal to
freak out, and It's okay that I freak out because
I'm supposed to freak out, and I could actually digest
a little easier. And then finally when thursdi or Friday
came around and I started to get it a little bit.
And then you get to the show again on Monday,
and you'll be like, Okay, I don't fully have it
because I don't think we haven't fully have anything, and
I don't think we ever figure anything out. We kind
of figured out the best we can, and then whenever
(10:17):
the horn goes, we execute to the best of our ability.
But because there are so many factors that that that
jump in last minute or during we don't ever really
have it figured out. But I knew myself, so I
knew how to handle the situation. I feel like you're
someone that a lot of people look to that probably
think you have it all figured I have nothing figured out,
but I have it so figured out because I know
I have nothing figured out. I think the key to
(10:39):
understanding anything is though you will never understand it. I mean,
that's really the key for me in my life so
far has been I don't know how to do anything,
and the fact that I know I don't know how
to do anything is the most that I can prepare myself.
And so I mean it was like I remember agreeing
in college and studying you know, Socrates and Aristotle and
(11:03):
Plato and even the most basic I think in the
first day of class we learned about when Socrates went
out and searched the world for the smartest man, and
he went all over in the world. The world wasn't
the world then, it was a very much smaller area
um as to what we know the world is now.
But he searched the world for the smartest man. And
he went back and so many people that he went
to said no, yes, I'm the smartest man. Um I'm
(11:25):
paraphrasing the stories we can get through, and he would
talk to them. He would go to someone else, no,
I am the smartest man. And once he got back
home he realized that he was actually the smartest man
because he knew that he didn't know anything, and everyone else,
all these scholars who claimed to know everything, they deemed
themselves the most intelligent being. But once he had spoken
to all of them and got back, I mean a
little arrogant him to go, I'm now the smartest man
(11:46):
becausein but but really he had to figure out that
it was you know, it wasn't just about him, It
was that that that understanding of it was actually the
smartest you could be to understand that you really don't understand.
And I think we look at people and they go
and we look at people that we work with, and
you can even go to the social media aspect of
it and go, oh wow, they haven't figured out, like
(12:07):
they know what they're doing and I don't. And I
think that's a very familiar feeling to all of us
when we see somebody who's good at something and it
looks like they've got it figured out, but they really don't.
Like I don't know anybody that does anything at a
high level that actually has it down. I mean there
are artists that I know that are a plus artists
that go like, I'm trying, but they you know, they
(12:29):
get in their head about what songs to cut. I
know um speakers, I know people on radio, I know,
you know even people in the medical profession that go,
I've learned everything I can learn, But to act like
you know everything about everything would be wrong because you don't.
So I think the key to uh, whatever it is,
as you you grow is that it's okay that you
don't know everything, because no one does, even if it
(12:50):
seems like they do, they don't. So a couple of
takeaways with you right now is vulnerability. UM, don't claim
to know everything, even if you think you know everything.
UM approach each thing in your life, whether it's a
relationship or something you might be scared of, or a
job opportunity or something with with okayness that it's it's
(13:12):
okay to be scared about it, or to freak out
about it or be nervous, like, that's okay, live in
those moments. Right. It's actually even bigger than that, it's
okay to not do well at it, because I've only
gotten good at things when I've been bad at them
for a long time. Like I think that's part of
the process of actually making something be success. A success
is not being successed for a while because you have
(13:32):
to you have to actually learn about it. I've never
done anything right and learned and been better from it.
Any time I've done anything the first time and it
went well, I've never learned anything from it, which is
why I think your book was such a success. Fail
until you don't, and then you brought a Renee Brown earlier,
and she says a lot of the same things about failure,
like you're you're not going to make it anywhere unless
you fail. It's fun for it to work out, It's
(13:54):
like wow, but you don't learn anything from it and
there's no impact on you. If something just happened is
to work out actually put you in a hole. If
you were to actually do something right and it happened
and then you fail after that, Not only are you
failing at a higher spot, we didn't learn anything from
the time before you, So it's like you're back to notches.
So yeah, that's it. I like that. Well, I was
definitely going to dig in a little bit deeper with
(14:15):
you and like your communication and growth that I've seen,
but I like where this went. Next time, whatever you want,
we can have you back a sort of a have
me back. I'm in my own studio. You're talking about
having me back like you've come into this. Sorry, Well
I'll I will have you on as a guest again,
and we can, you know, dive into that because I
(14:37):
think I have seen growth and I have loved the
growth that I've seen in your communication, and some of
that is the vulnerability too, and you're you opening up
and you being wanting to be more intentional. Sure I
might agree with all of that. Awesome, Well, thank you
for your time. I know you're extremely busy correct sucking there.
(15:01):
All right, let's talk celery celery juice in particular. But
I'll start with my feelings on celery. I used to
hate it. I actually taught myself to like it. So
when I started doing glowing green smoothies years ago by
Kimberly Snyder, it's her recipe and it called for celery,
and I didn't put it in there. I would make
the glowing green smoothie sand celery. I just didn't want
(15:23):
to have anything to do with celery. I thought it
tasted gross, and then I realized I was missing out
on some of the benefits, the detoxifying benefits of celery,
and I thought, okay, I gotta start adding this sin.
So I slowly started to add it into the glowing
green smoothie. And then I realized I couldn't even really
taste it with all the other stuff, and then it
really started to not bother me. And now I can
eat celery. It's almost like I trained myself to like it,
(15:45):
and it was really because of the benefits. Like you
may think celery has no calories, just full of water
and it does nothing for your body, but actually is
really really good for you and for your liver in particular,
again because it's for detoxifying. So right now, all celery
juices all the craze, Like I see it all over Instagram.
It comes up in conversations with people, like people that
(16:07):
I didn't even know would be into celery juice. Somehow
it just comes up, and I'm like, you're doing it too.
So if you haven't heard of celery juice, I bet
after you listen to this podcast, you're gonna start noticing
at places because like Karen Fairchild from a little big town,
she posted something on her Instagram stories and it was
a picture of green celery juice and she's like, okay,
diving in or whatever, and so I immediately dimmed her
(16:28):
and I was like, you're doing this too, because it's
like everywhere, and she's like, yeah, I guess you read
the same Goop article as I did. And I did
read a Goop article, which is Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle blog.
If you'll haven't ever checked that out. It's full of
like really interesting stuff, but celery juice is being deemed
the new miracle juice. I also follow the balance Blonde
on Instagram, and she has lyme disease, and she because
(16:51):
of her disease, she does all kinds of things for
her body, but one thing in particular is every morning,
on an empty stomach, she has I don't know, maybe
twenty four thirty ounces. I can't remember the exact amount
she does of straight celery juice. Now, obviously that's not
a breakfast. So if you do this, I think like
thirty minutes after you've drinken it, you can have something
(17:13):
for breakfast. To having it on an empty stomach is
apparently imperative, and not mixing anything else with it is
also something you can't do. Like don't even throw lemons
or limes or anything else healthy and apple, no nothing.
It has to be straight up celery juice, and again
on an empty stomach. So y'all, I've tried it, and
coming from someone who used to hate celery, it was fine.
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Like I drank it, no problem. Now if you have
major issues with it, they say start small, like maybe
start with a ounces because it may even mess with
your stomach, Like if you have a really crazy things
going on with your gut, what it's doing is it's
healing certain things, and you may have some bathroom issues,
but if your gut's pretty healthy, it may not affect
you as bad, and you can go ahead and drink
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the sixteen ounce right away, which is the recommended amount. Now,
the girl I mentioned the balance blond that has slime disease,
she does a higher amount because she's fighting an illness.
But if you're just doing a day to day they
recommend sixty announces every morning. Make sure that it's fresh,
plain celery juice again, no other ingredients, organic if possible.
If it's not organic, make sure you're washing it thoroughly.
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I mean, obviously you have to have a juicer to
do this sort of thing, but maybe you have a
local juice tree in your neighborhood or somewhere you could
go where if you really wanted to try this out,
they could make it for you, um and then you
could drink it and see how you feel. And again,
you kind of got to be careful with it because
you could see something going on if you have a
high level of toxins in your body, and your body
(18:39):
is trying to eliminate the toxins, so the celler juice
might start moving some things around to be aware of that. Now,
I do have a friend. His name's Adam Bobo, and
he is doing a thirty days celery experiment because he
also read about it. He follows on Instagram, which this
is also on the Gwyneth Paltrow article based on the
same person. But his Instagram handle is at medical medium,
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so if you want to check that out, there's more
info there too. But he saw it there first, and
he is kind of a guy Adam is that likes
to like test things out on his body and see
how he feels. So Adam Bobo is doing that for
thirty days, and I might get him to come on
and give a full report on how he has felt
once the thirty days is up, because as of right now,
I think he's only on day five or so, and
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then I've only done it a couple of times, so
I can't sit here and say that I feel so
amazing and it's a life changing thing. But I just
felt like we needed to address it here as one
of the things because it really is wildly popular right now.
As we enter twenty nineteen and there's different health praises,
but I see everyday people talking about it, and I
see the health benefits. Maybe if you even have something
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going on with you might want to look into this.
And then the guy's book medical medium. What is his
real name? Let me hold on. He's got a book
called Liver Rescue. I know that. Oh, Anthony William that's
his name. Check him out and I keep you all
posted on how I feel, and then I will bring
Bobo in to give an update on how he feels.
And okay, all right, well there you go. Celery Celery
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juice again. It is called the Miracle Juice, something that
has been out of stock but is now back in stock.
I just want to tell you all about. And it's
our joy Seeker little zipper pouches there for accessories, and
they're so cute. They say four things says, be kind,
choose joy, laugh a lot, eat cake. So if you
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would like another reminder to seek that joy in these
fun ways, then you should check this out. I use
mine inside my four Things tot or any other bag
that I carry to hold little accessories like right now,
it's got my phone charger, my computer, charger and some
pins and a couple other things to keep it all
and there are stuff that used to just float around
in my bag. But anyway, these are back in stock
under a squaw over at the shop for dot com,
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which a spaw means hope in Haitian creole, and everything
under a squaw goes towards spreading hope in Haiti And
we're just grateful for your support. So if you want
to go check it out and see if a joy
Seeker little zipper pouch is something that you're into, there
now back in stock, so the shop forward dot com
check it out. I'm someone that definitely has to stay
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out of the sun. Like I don't have that pretty
olive skin. I get really pink if I'm in the
sun if I don't have on like SPF hundred if
that even exists. But I also have a lot of
freckles and white spots, and I can really see my
skin aging from when I was in the sun as
a kid, because I mean there were times where I
would just lay outside with baby oil on. I know
(21:38):
that's like a way old person thing, but I definitely
did that in junior high and I put lemon juice
in my hair or sun in is that what we
called it is that is called where you could like
spray it in your hair or just put lemon juice
in your hair and it would give you natural sun
kiss highlights, except for my hair turned kind of orange.
But anyway, long story short, I have to say out
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of the sun. So I do self tanning. I either
get a spray tan, but that's not always easy to do,
especially now that I have kids. I just it's easier
to just self tan at home. And I know a
lot of you may not have someone that can give
you a spray tan, So I thought I would tell
you what I do at home to self tan if
you're looking for that winter glow, because right now, I mean,
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you're probably pretty pale like I am, but you may
want to feel a little more confident, and I feel
like self tanner does that for me. San Trope is
my favorite brand. This isn't a commercial or anything. This
is just honestly, I've tried a ton of self tanners
and this is the best one. And how you spell
that is s T t r O p e Z
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san Trope and it comes with a MIT. Well, I
think you have to buy the mit, but you can
get it at Sephora. A couple of other places have it.
You could order it online, but if you can't find
it near you, I don't I think Alta has it too.
Most of the time. I just if I'm at the mall,
I run into Sephora and grab it. But it's the
best one, and I have friends that swear by this
brand too, so I would not steer you wrong. I
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just give the Santo pa original foam. They have a
lot of different ones, but original is the way to go.
And then you buy the little mitt that they recommend
and you put it on. But I'll give you some
tips as well in case this is something that's new
to you and you want the best results. So what
you want to do is exfoliate your skin, for sure,
but try to do it twenty four hours before you tan,
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because that way it'll get your skin nice and ready,
but then your pores aren't all open. So that being said,
if you're shaving or waxing or any of that, do
it twenty four hours before you put on yourself tan,
and then you could even the day before moisturize really good.
Because I think whenever my tans, my self tands turn
out really bad. It's because I have super dry skin
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and it just doesn't end up as even. So I'll exfoliate,
I'll moisturize, and then right before I tan, I shower.
But then I make sure I'm really really dry. I
do it at night before I go to bed, and
I get out of shower again I'm all dry. Make
sure that I have no wet spots on me whatsoever.
If I've taken a hot shower, I maybe let my
body cool off a little bit and then that way
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I'm not sweating or something, because then that will mess
up your tin as well. But get your mitt and
get your sandro Pe classic original foam or whatever. I
think I said it's original, but now that I think
about it might be called classic, so I don't want
to steer you guys wrong. But it's a white bottle
with a blue cap. Then you put a few pumps
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on and you start to just do circular motions all
over your body until it's blended in. And I like
that it's tinted so you can actually see where you're
putting it. And then the sponge helps you make it
really really even, and then or the mit and that
helps you not get it all over your hand and
look all funky. But circular motions are definitely key, and
then make sure that you're covered all over. If it's
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really hard to get your back, if you've got a
husband or a roommate or maybe if your guy listening,
you've got a wife, a boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever, somebody that
can come help you do your back. A kid ello,
I don't know if I trust them as much, but
my husband, I'll definitely hopefully he's okay with admitting this,
but he puts on my mitt and he will do
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my back for me in circular emotions and he makes
sure that it's really even. And then you can check
yourself out in the mirror and make sure you're good
to go. And then if you feel like you've got
some of it on your hands in some way, shape
or form, don't wash your I I do kind of
do circular motions on the top of my hands so
that way it looks like blended, but not too much
because then your hands look really orange. But if you
want to wash the palm of your hands at all,
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you can get like a baby wipe or something and
then wipe it clean. That way you can control where
you're wiping, you're not putting your hands underwater. And then
after you put it on, have some loose fitting clothes
to throw on. I have this pair of pajamas, it's
a black top and black bottoms that I wear every
time my self tand because they just fit really good
and loose, and it's it's just like a great way
(25:50):
to keep the tan from getting all messy if you
put on anything tight, definitely don't recommend that. So loose fitted,
dark clothing and then you crawl in bed and then boom,
you wake up with a tan, and you definitely rins
off because you're gonna kind of smell. I haven't been
able to find a self tainer that doesn't eventually end
up smelling. Some claim to not smell, but they just do.
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But wake up, take a shower if you really want
it to last, rinse off with a cold shower. Um,
and then if you want to get it darker, you
can do it like sometimes I'll do it two nights
in a row and I'll end up with a really
natural looking kind of bronze e tan, And that way
I don't have to put on too much or one
thick layer the night before, because then it gets really messy.
So you can do it a couple of nights in
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a row and then that will last you the rest
of the week, and then you just kind of the
next week repeat and that way you can keep a tan.
So I hope that that helps. And this wasn't too
boring for anybody that's you know, already got tan skin,
but for us really pale folks, maybe this could be
really really helpful for you. Okay, when we first got
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our kids, my husband bought trash pick or uppers, like, yeah,
the things with the stick and the little claw that
picks up trash, because he thought whenever we go and
walks as a family, would be a really good thing
to teach our kids about picking up trash. Because our
kids they liked litter, and it's not their fault. Um,
I shouldn't say they like to litter, I would say,
(27:17):
let me explain. So they grew up in Haiti and
they were used to being able to just throw trash
in the streets. And now not everybody in Haiti is
like that, but when you have a culture that that's
what they tend to do. When you come to America,
we're littering is illegal at times. I'm pretty sure, isn't
it everywhere? I don't know state to state, I'm sure
(27:38):
it varies, but you can get fined for littering, and
we try to teach our kids about it. So we
bought these trash picker uppers and it's like this whole thing,
like we'll walk the dog and we've got this little
stick and it's good. We feel like we're helping contribute
to cleaning up our neighborhood as well. Then I saw
this article about plogging, and I don't know if you've
ever heard of plogging, but it's a fitness trend that
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is going on and Eden and they're really into it.
I guess they've been doing it for a couple of
years now. And it's where you go out for a
jog or run or whatever, but you take a little
trash bag with you and you pick up trash while
you do it. And you can go to Instagram and
search the hashtag plogging p L O G G I
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n G, and you'll see thousands of photos of joggers
alongside their bags of trash, and it's kind of like
they're they're really proud of it, and it's awesome. So
if you want to get into this, maybe try it
with your family. I had no idea. My husband and
I were already participating in plogging. Now we're not jogging
while we do it, but we are out on family
walks and we're picking up trash. So maybe you could
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try it out. I haven't hashtag anything yet, but maybe
next time we go on on a walk, we'll do it. Yeah,
check out plogging pick up trash while you're on about
It's kind of the new fitness trend that will also
help the environment. You never know what you're gonna learn
here on this podcast. Okay, that's wrap on episode nine.
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Big thank you to my friend Bobby Bones for coming on.
Hopefully you'll enjoyed our little chat and the other three
things that went along with today's episode. We always do
four things, and sometimes I get ideas about what's going
to be a thing from emails that you'll send me,
So make sure that you're emailing it's four things with
Amy Brown at gmail dot com. And then I also
(29:25):
always do an email shout out at the end of
each podcast. I'm about to get to that, but this
kind of leading in what's to come next week is
Olivia emailed me last week and gave me a recommendation
of something to watch, and I'm turning it into a
thing because it's something that made me cry and I
want to share it with you all. But I don't
think the crying is bad. I really think I needed
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to cry. And then I want to talk about the
benefits of crying and why my mother in law even
gave me advice sometimes to where if you really really
know you need to cry, then you might need to
make an appointment cry. So if you need to make
an appoint cry, I'm going to tell you the movie
to watch that's gonna allow you to cry, and you
can basically build your day around it and it'd be
amazing and hopefully you'll feel better. So all that to say,
(30:08):
we love it when you email. So let's transition now
into my email shout out, which today comes from Sarah,
and here's what she wrote. I found it to be
really interesting and maybe something that we could all think about. Amy.
So yesterday I drove home from a trip and I
binged a few episodes and it gave me the opportunity
to hear the song over and over, which by the way,
is so cute go Walker Hayes. But here's what I
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hear when the line says tighten up your core things.
I know this can be a literal tightening up of
your core, like on your body, But what I thought
of it was tightening up the core parts of me,
like what are my beliefs, what is important to me?
And do I live my life reflecting those things? What
are my goals for this coming year? And do my
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core beliefs or core behaviors help me achieve them? Or
do I need to tighten up some things? Looking at
the lyrics this way has really made me reflect and
really think about what I want to be different in
my life this year, and to really consider how I
can tighten some things up where I'm lacking so that
I can be more successful. And then she signed her
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name Sarah. She wrote a couple of other things, but
then signed her name Sarah. And I thought this was
a really interesting perspective, so I wanted to share it
with you all because it's challenging me to now when
I hear that lyric to think of my life that
way and what things do I need to tighten up?
And I know when Walker wrote the song, he definitely
was doing it because I told him I was going
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to have health and fitness tips from time to time.
So of course he's a genius and put in the
lyric like tighten up your core things, and I was
going to have recipes, so he put cast of role things.
He's really clever. But I sent this note to Walker
too so that I could tell him that people are
taking on new meaning to his lyrics. And so, Sarah,
thank you so much for sharing this. It's super awesome. Okay,
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I guess all that said my usual shoutouts. I guess
we've already shouted out Walker has for the song. I
really want to thank him every time because I'm just
so grateful for it. And then thank you to Elizabeth
and Mike d for putting this podcast up and making
it possible for all you to hear. All right, see
you next time, joy never lie. Okay, cast up broth
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little food for yourself life, ain't Oh it's pretty much.
It's pretty beautiful. Thanks beautiful, laugh for a little mouth
because said he can you Kicking with four with Amy
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