September 8, 2020 • 16 mins
This is Amy’s ‘5th Thing’ (a bonus episode). ‘4 Things With Amy Brown’ comes out every Thursday, but on Tuesdays Amy shares emails from you guys and answers questions y’all have sent in. On today’s episode Amy addresses: an inspiring short story someone emailed in about gratitude, a couple of her favorite snacks (and some food freedom talk), a good retinol cream recommendation, and the app she uses to track her period cycle. P.S. heads up that @shopespwa’s #4things FALL pullover sweatshirts (2 premade options: burnt orange & maroon) will be released THIS Saturday (Sept. 12th). RadioAmy.com for links to shop the sweatshirts & more! Feel good knowing your purchases are currently supporting @myLIFEspeaks in Neply, Haiti.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Happy Tuesday, everybody. I hope you all had a great
Labor Day weekend. Amy here and I am the host
of this the Fifth Thing, which is the Q and
A and email episode for the Four Things podcast. So
you've send stuff into four Things with Amy Brown at
gmail dot com. And then I go through the emails
and I share questions and then I answer them, or
(00:27):
maybe I share an email that I think couldn't be
inspiring to you, which that's what I'm gonna start off
with today. I normally start Tuesday episodes off with a quote,
but the first email I'm going to share is a
little bit of a short story and itself so similar
to some of the quotes that I share, but longer,
and so I'm just gonna start with this one. It
(00:47):
comes from Brooke. She said to me, Hey, Amy, I
love how much you focus on gratitude. It is always
something I'm trying to get better at. I found this
story online and wanted to share it with you. Here's
the story. A blind boy sat on this ups of
a building with a hat by his feet. He held
up a sign which read I'm blind, Please help. There
were only a few coins in the hat, spare change
(01:09):
from folks who hurried past. As a man walked by,
he took a few coins from his pocket and dropped
them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned
it around and wrote some words. Then he put the
sign back in the boy's hand, so that everyone who
walked by would see the new words. Soon the hat
began to fill up a lot. More people were giving
money to the blind boy. That afternoon, the man who
(01:31):
had changed the sign returned to see how things were.
The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, were you the
one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?
The man said, I only wrote the truth. I said
what you said, but in a different way. I wrote,
today is a beautiful day, but I cannot see it.
Both signs spoke the truth, but the first sign simply
(01:53):
said the boy was blind, while the second sign conveyed
to everyone walking by how grateful they should be to
see when your life seems full of troubles. It seems
difficult to maintain an attitude of gratitude, doesn't it. All
we see are our problems like a black and storm
cloud casting a dark shadow over our lives, and the
(02:15):
times when everything seems to be going smoothly. We often
take these precious moments for granted too, don't we Caught
up in the bliss, comfort, and familiarity of it all,
we can simply forget to be thankful. So what then,
is gratitude? Simply put, gratitude is a habit. It's a
way of looking at the world and all the good
(02:35):
things in it with a feeling of appreciation, regardless of
whether or not your current situation is to your liking.
Gratitude is a heart centered approach to being at peace
with yourself and with all that you have. When you
practice this feeling of gratitude, it attracts even more things
into your life for which to be grateful. So, Brooke,
(02:56):
thank you so much for sharing this short little story
on gratitude that you found online with me. See, we
all were a community that can share inspiring things to
each other, because I had never heard that story before,
and I think it is a great way to remind
us to try to focus on the things we should
be grateful for. We're big on gratitude here at the
(03:17):
Four Things podcast. In case you're a new listener, we
have a four Things Gratitude journal that we put out
that supports project Meta Share in Haiti and education there.
So if maybe you're launching into your gratitude journey, uh,
you don't even have to have our four Things journal
to do it. You could just join us in trying
to practice it every day, jotting down on your phone
(03:39):
or an any all notebook, just four things that you're
grateful for. It could be big, could be small. But
if you do want a journal, we have those available
as well. Uh. Next question is from Marley. Oh, I
guess I should say to people have been asking before
I get into Marley's question when the second version of
our journal is going to be coming out, And Mary
(04:00):
and I have been working on Gratitude Journal to point
oh with a new cover design. The current one is
tied eye, super cute. We're obsessed with it. We still
have a few of those left. So again those are
four Things dot com. But you, I think will really
love our new design. But it's still going to be
a few months. It'll be this year, which I guess
(04:22):
we're already in September, so it'll be before Christmas shopping
in case you want to buy some as gifts for people. Um,
but we are actively working on trying to get it
done right now, and I think you'll love the cover.
But maybe you're new to the show and you didn't
even know we had the tied eye one, because I
think that one is super cute as well, and maybe
some of you will end up owning both of them
(04:43):
or gifting both of them or not. We're just it's
super fun for us to put out products that we
actually really like and use ourselves and then be able
to share with you guys, and then we all have
them and then they make a difference and an impact
down in Haiti as well. Okay, now to Marley's question
from Hartley, Hey, Amy, I found you after Bobby was
on Dancing with the Stars and I have been hooked
(05:04):
on the show and your podcast ever since. I remember
you and Caitlin or Bobby talking about a breakfast proteins
snack bar. Can you remind me what that was? I've
been looking for something I can eat on the go
that isn't just filled with sugar and fake things. So, Marley,
if you're talking about the bar that Bobby, Caitlin and
I both are all three eight, it's got to be
(05:24):
the go macro bars. I love those, but just f
y I they still have sugar, but it is all
ingredients that you can pronounce. And now that I'm thinking
about snacks that I like to recommend, I gotta share
with y'all that I'm obsessed with these Quinn pretzels. And
I would say in my disordered eating days, for sure,
I would not have been able to keep these around
(05:46):
for fear that I would eat the entire bag. But
it's like these stick ones with a hint of honey,
and they're so good, and I love that I can
keep on with my pantry now and I can eat
ten sticks or or fifty if I want to, it
doesn't matter. But there's no way I have the desire
to eat the whole bag or throw them away for
fear that I might. So I don't know, And some
(06:07):
of you, honestly might be wondering, wait, what's wrong with pretzels?
Why couldn't you just keep them in your house? And
all I can say is that if you understand how
eating disorders work, I have certain trigger foods who I
used to have, and they would have these pretzels would
have fallen into that category. And then you want to
talk about my orthorexia days where you just try to
eat very quote unquote clean, and you have a list
(06:29):
of good foods and bad foods. I wouldn't have let
myself eat these because of some of the ingredients. They
wouldn't have been on my approved list. So which leads
me back to ingredients, because I know in the email, UM,
you wanted a bar that doesn't have fake things, and
I have let go of my fear of eating ingredients.
(06:50):
I can't pronounce or fake things, but that's something I
had to let go of because of my orthorexia and
different things I was trying to control all the time.
Zero judgment here. If you're someone working through that and
you care about what you're putting in your body, I
think that that's important. But I was personally to the
point where it ruled my life and it affected me negatively. Um.
(07:11):
And then, of course, if you have to watch ingredients
because of an allergy or an illness or disease that
you're living with, that makes total sense. And you're living
a completely different story than I am. And I am
not speaking from that experience, but sorry, there's a really
long answer to the question about the bars and their
(07:32):
go macro, and I will say that I ate one
this morning I ate the blueberry protein one. I think
it's called like blueberry bliss. But I also love the
maple sea salt in case you and peanut butter chocolate
chip is really good. Which that's another thing I used
to I would allow myself to go Macrobars, but I
wouldn't allow myself certain flavors because I had read that
(07:54):
peanut butter or peanuts is bad, so I wouldn't, you know,
I mean, that was just me and my head. But
now I will eat all the flavors, it doesn't matter.
I would compare the grams of sugar back in my
disordered eating days, I would say, okay, well this one
has eleven grams of sugar and this one has fourteen,
So I'm going to choose the bar with eleven, even
though I like the way the one with the fourteen
(08:15):
grams tasted better, like I liked those flavors better. But
that is how ingredients and nutritional information was ruling and
dictating my life. And again I have since let that go. Oh,
which this also I'm just a rambling full today, but
you'll probably expect that for me. We have made a
(08:36):
decision on Outweigh and season two and what that's gonna
look like and I will have an announcement about that soon.
Outweigh is a series that we did here in the
Four Things podcasts that it's a four part series. Um,
there's episodes one through four, and Outweigh is about covering
the gray area of of eating disorders. So the reason
(08:58):
why we called it out way is because of life
with out disordered eating outweighs everything and guys who truly
does so. I just wanted to give you all that
quick update that we will have an announcement coming soon.
(09:20):
Next question is from Carrie Funk. Hello, Amy. Let me
just say I love your podcast. I love all things
Pimp and joy and a squaw. I can't wait to
order some customized pullovers for Christmas presents. I have a question.
Do you use and or recommend a specific retinal cream.
I'm on the Peloton Women's Facebook page and some women
are recommending it for their chest area. I use beauty
(09:43):
counter products normally, but I don't see it as a
product they carry. Any suggestions well carry I would say, yes,
I do have a retinal thing, but putting on your
chest is awesome. I'll just tell y'all to any of
my face stuff. Carrie is my face girl. She's at
the Nashville Beauty Girl on Instagram, and she tells me
(10:05):
to put everything from my forehead down to my boobs
so that covers my chest and neck area. And I
never used to treat my chest in my neck like
my face, and now I do, and I am seeing
a difference, So pretty sure you're good to go with that.
The only area I've had to avoid putting the retinal.
I do it on my chest in my face, but
(10:26):
is my neck like it's something got really irritated there
for me, So I don't do it on the neck area,
and maybe you don't have to just skip that part.
I put other products on my neck for sure, but
just not the retinal. But what I do recommend is
if you're starting out, there's a different gel that's d
I F F E R I in and it's a
(10:47):
great cheap place to start. You can find it at Target,
maybe even on Amazon. I just always grab it when
I'm at Target. But also zoe Zo, the skincare line
that I use from Carry, has some retinal products, definitely
more expensive. But if you've got questions about that and
maybe how to incorporate it even with the different from target.
(11:10):
Carrie will DM with you or you can set up
a virtual consultation with her. I think she's just started
doing those again at the Nashville Beauty Girl on Instagram
and she will help you out. And then also thanks
for the pimp and joy and a Spua support. And
we sold out of the black four Things customized pullovers,
y'all are awesome. I've gotten some notes asking when they're
(11:32):
coming back, and we sold out of the black blanks,
so we don't have them. But if you're wanting to
do customized pullovers for Christmas presents, we will be bringing
back the red pullovers. You can customize it with four
Things Christmas Eve, which is always fun because you can
give them as gifts and maybe give the gift with
a pair of flannel pajama pants and then it's like
a cute little Christmas outfit. Uh. We also have this weekend.
(11:55):
I'm very excited about this because I am pumped for
fall weather and we put out a burnt orange Fall
four Things sweatshirt pull over last year, but we have
added another one to the mix. It's maroon, so we're
bringing back the burnt orange one, which says, uh, sweaters,
fall leaves, pumpkin spice, and cozy nights. Those are four things.
(12:17):
And then on the Maroon one it's gonna say flannel,
Bonfire's apple cider, and crisp air. So again, those will
be available to Saturday. That's September twelve. In case you're
listening to this later and it's not actually this Saturday,
maybe we'll still have some left. Maybe we're sold out,
don't know. That's what's weird about podcasts. So many people
(12:38):
don't listen in real time. UM. But if you're excited
for fall like we are, be ready to shop. You
can go to again Radio amy dot com uh for
links to anything a squat or four things or four
things dot com. But feel good about your purchase with
this particular product because it's supporting my life speaks and
their efforts in Nepili Haiti. Okay. Next question is from
(12:58):
Becca Amy. I remember on the Bobby Bones show you
spoke about how you have an app that tracks when
your period is coming, etcetera. I was wondering which one
you use. I used to have pcos, so it can
be difficult to keep track of when my period has come.
I also have crazy p ms. So having something to
give me a heads up that I'm going to be
a raging ninny would be wonderful, which I don't know
(13:21):
what a ninny is, but I kind of like the
sound of that raging ninny. I mean, guys, I can
be arranging ninni at times if if ninny means what
I think it means. And the app that I use
to give me a heads up for all things and
I enter and all my symptoms and it pretty much
has me. It's pretty predictable. Now. It's called Clue. It's
(13:42):
the Clue app c l u E and I've used
it for years. I really like it, And I'm really
sorry about your crazy p M s. Becca, but know
that you're not alone, and it is pretty awesome to
get a reminder on your phone warning you that that
time is coming, because then it can help you explain
a lot, like if you're acting in a particular way.
Although my husband is kind of my radar two he knows.
(14:05):
He'll even say to me before my Clue app, are
you about to start your period? And I will adamantly
say no, no, I'm not. I am being totally rational, Rightale,
this is me. This is me normal? And if you
think this is crazy, then I guess you don't like me.
And the next thing you know, I'll start my period.
So he get yourself up a husband or a partner,
(14:27):
spouse or a friend or something that might be able
to know when you're crazy times are coming before you do.
All right, Well, that concludes today's Q and A and
Email episode. Thank you all for listening to the Fifth Thing,
and check out Thursday's episode. Uh. I will have Jamie
Ivy on for all four Things. She's got a book
coming out called You Be You, and we're just gonna
(14:51):
go through some stuff that she has in there that
might be inspiring and encouraging to you guys. So it
will be this Thursday's episode, and in the meantime you
can catch me on Instagram at Radio Amy. And then
I also run the splat account which is at shop
as splaw if you want to follow both of those,
And then if you haven't rated and reviewed the podcast,
(15:13):
you can do that too and make sure you subscribe,
screenshot it, throw it on Instagram. I think we're gonna
do a giveaway soon where maybe we give away a
customizable four Things tote if you subscribe to the podcast
or show that you've subscribed and take a screenshot and
(15:33):
then tag me and I'll know it. And then I'm
just gonna randomly from that pool of people that have
posted it online and shared it in their stories and
told others about it, We'll pick someone that can win
a four Things to and you can put whatever your
favorite four things on there you know that you want
on there, and then we'll mail it to you. So
(15:54):
that might be something fun we're going to do soon
to look out for just to help out with ratings
and reviews, or maybe we'll do it if you're subscribed.
Maybe it's if you rate and review, but I don't
want people to falsely rate and review. I mean, I
would love for you to subscribe, but I don't want
someone to just give five stars just because they might
get a tote, Like I genuinely want to know your
opinion on the show. So I guess that's me putting
(16:17):
myself out there for if you want to give it
two stars, and hey, you may get a two stars
and you could still win a tote, because I'm just
going to randomly select somebody, but I hope that you'll
have an amazing week and we'll see you back here
on Thursday.
Happy Tuesday, everybody. I hope you all had a great
Labor Day weekend. Amy here and I am the host
of this the Fifth Thing, which is the Q and
A and email episode for the Four Things podcast. So
you've send stuff into four Things with Amy Brown at
gmail dot com. And then I go through the emails
and I share questions and then I answer them, or
(00:27):
maybe I share an email that I think couldn't be
inspiring to you, which that's what I'm gonna start off
with today. I normally start Tuesday episodes off with a quote,
but the first email I'm going to share is a
little bit of a short story and itself so similar
to some of the quotes that I share, but longer,
and so I'm just gonna start with this one. It
(00:47):
comes from Brooke. She said to me, Hey, Amy, I
love how much you focus on gratitude. It is always
something I'm trying to get better at. I found this
story online and wanted to share it with you. Here's
the story. A blind boy sat on this ups of
a building with a hat by his feet. He held
up a sign which read I'm blind, Please help. There
were only a few coins in the hat, spare change
(01:09):
from folks who hurried past. As a man walked by,
he took a few coins from his pocket and dropped
them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned
it around and wrote some words. Then he put the
sign back in the boy's hand, so that everyone who
walked by would see the new words. Soon the hat
began to fill up a lot. More people were giving
money to the blind boy. That afternoon, the man who
(01:31):
had changed the sign returned to see how things were.
The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, were you the
one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?
The man said, I only wrote the truth. I said
what you said, but in a different way. I wrote,
today is a beautiful day, but I cannot see it.
Both signs spoke the truth, but the first sign simply
(01:53):
said the boy was blind, while the second sign conveyed
to everyone walking by how grateful they should be to
see when your life seems full of troubles. It seems
difficult to maintain an attitude of gratitude, doesn't it. All
we see are our problems like a black and storm
cloud casting a dark shadow over our lives, and the
(02:15):
times when everything seems to be going smoothly. We often
take these precious moments for granted too, don't we Caught
up in the bliss, comfort, and familiarity of it all,
we can simply forget to be thankful. So what then,
is gratitude? Simply put, gratitude is a habit. It's a
way of looking at the world and all the good
(02:35):
things in it with a feeling of appreciation, regardless of
whether or not your current situation is to your liking.
Gratitude is a heart centered approach to being at peace
with yourself and with all that you have. When you
practice this feeling of gratitude, it attracts even more things
into your life for which to be grateful. So, Brooke,
(02:56):
thank you so much for sharing this short little story
on gratitude that you found online with me. See, we
all were a community that can share inspiring things to
each other, because I had never heard that story before,
and I think it is a great way to remind
us to try to focus on the things we should
be grateful for. We're big on gratitude here at the
(03:17):
Four Things podcast. In case you're a new listener, we
have a four Things Gratitude journal that we put out
that supports project Meta Share in Haiti and education there.
So if maybe you're launching into your gratitude journey, uh,
you don't even have to have our four Things journal
to do it. You could just join us in trying
to practice it every day, jotting down on your phone
(03:39):
or an any all notebook, just four things that you're
grateful for. It could be big, could be small. But
if you do want a journal, we have those available
as well. Uh. Next question is from Marley. Oh, I
guess I should say to people have been asking before
I get into Marley's question when the second version of
our journal is going to be coming out, And Mary
(04:00):
and I have been working on Gratitude Journal to point
oh with a new cover design. The current one is
tied eye, super cute. We're obsessed with it. We still
have a few of those left. So again those are
four Things dot com. But you, I think will really
love our new design. But it's still going to be
a few months. It'll be this year, which I guess
(04:22):
we're already in September, so it'll be before Christmas shopping
in case you want to buy some as gifts for people. Um,
but we are actively working on trying to get it
done right now, and I think you'll love the cover.
But maybe you're new to the show and you didn't
even know we had the tied eye one, because I
think that one is super cute as well, and maybe
some of you will end up owning both of them
(04:43):
or gifting both of them or not. We're just it's
super fun for us to put out products that we
actually really like and use ourselves and then be able
to share with you guys, and then we all have
them and then they make a difference and an impact
down in Haiti as well. Okay, now to Marley's question
from Hartley, Hey, Amy, I found you after Bobby was
on Dancing with the Stars and I have been hooked
(05:04):
on the show and your podcast ever since. I remember
you and Caitlin or Bobby talking about a breakfast proteins
snack bar. Can you remind me what that was? I've
been looking for something I can eat on the go
that isn't just filled with sugar and fake things. So, Marley,
if you're talking about the bar that Bobby, Caitlin and
I both are all three eight, it's got to be
(05:24):
the go macro bars. I love those, but just f
y I they still have sugar, but it is all
ingredients that you can pronounce. And now that I'm thinking
about snacks that I like to recommend, I gotta share
with y'all that I'm obsessed with these Quinn pretzels. And
I would say in my disordered eating days, for sure,
I would not have been able to keep these around
(05:46):
for fear that I would eat the entire bag. But
it's like these stick ones with a hint of honey,
and they're so good, and I love that I can
keep on with my pantry now and I can eat
ten sticks or or fifty if I want to, it
doesn't matter. But there's no way I have the desire
to eat the whole bag or throw them away for
fear that I might. So I don't know, And some
(06:07):
of you, honestly might be wondering, wait, what's wrong with pretzels?
Why couldn't you just keep them in your house? And
all I can say is that if you understand how
eating disorders work, I have certain trigger foods who I
used to have, and they would have these pretzels would
have fallen into that category. And then you want to
talk about my orthorexia days where you just try to
eat very quote unquote clean, and you have a list
(06:29):
of good foods and bad foods. I wouldn't have let
myself eat these because of some of the ingredients. They
wouldn't have been on my approved list. So which leads
me back to ingredients, because I know in the email, UM,
you wanted a bar that doesn't have fake things, and
I have let go of my fear of eating ingredients.
(06:50):
I can't pronounce or fake things, but that's something I
had to let go of because of my orthorexia and
different things I was trying to control all the time.
Zero judgment here. If you're someone working through that and
you care about what you're putting in your body, I
think that that's important. But I was personally to the
point where it ruled my life and it affected me negatively. Um.
(07:11):
And then, of course, if you have to watch ingredients
because of an allergy or an illness or disease that
you're living with, that makes total sense. And you're living
a completely different story than I am. And I am
not speaking from that experience, but sorry, there's a really
long answer to the question about the bars and their
(07:32):
go macro, and I will say that I ate one
this morning I ate the blueberry protein one. I think
it's called like blueberry bliss. But I also love the
maple sea salt in case you and peanut butter chocolate
chip is really good. Which that's another thing I used
to I would allow myself to go Macrobars, but I
wouldn't allow myself certain flavors because I had read that
(07:54):
peanut butter or peanuts is bad, so I wouldn't, you know,
I mean, that was just me and my head. But
now I will eat all the flavors, it doesn't matter.
I would compare the grams of sugar back in my
disordered eating days, I would say, okay, well this one
has eleven grams of sugar and this one has fourteen,
So I'm going to choose the bar with eleven, even
though I like the way the one with the fourteen
(08:15):
grams tasted better, like I liked those flavors better. But
that is how ingredients and nutritional information was ruling and
dictating my life. And again I have since let that go. Oh,
which this also I'm just a rambling full today, but
you'll probably expect that for me. We have made a
(08:36):
decision on Outweigh and season two and what that's gonna
look like and I will have an announcement about that soon.
Outweigh is a series that we did here in the
Four Things podcasts that it's a four part series. Um,
there's episodes one through four, and Outweigh is about covering
the gray area of of eating disorders. So the reason
(08:58):
why we called it out way is because of life
with out disordered eating outweighs everything and guys who truly
does so. I just wanted to give you all that
quick update that we will have an announcement coming soon.
(09:20):
Next question is from Carrie Funk. Hello, Amy. Let me
just say I love your podcast. I love all things
Pimp and joy and a squaw. I can't wait to
order some customized pullovers for Christmas presents. I have a question.
Do you use and or recommend a specific retinal cream.
I'm on the Peloton Women's Facebook page and some women
are recommending it for their chest area. I use beauty
(09:43):
counter products normally, but I don't see it as a
product they carry. Any suggestions well carry I would say, yes,
I do have a retinal thing, but putting on your
chest is awesome. I'll just tell y'all to any of
my face stuff. Carrie is my face girl. She's at
the Nashville Beauty Girl on Instagram, and she tells me
(10:05):
to put everything from my forehead down to my boobs
so that covers my chest and neck area. And I
never used to treat my chest in my neck like
my face, and now I do, and I am seeing
a difference, So pretty sure you're good to go with that.
The only area I've had to avoid putting the retinal.
I do it on my chest in my face, but
(10:26):
is my neck like it's something got really irritated there
for me, So I don't do it on the neck area,
and maybe you don't have to just skip that part.
I put other products on my neck for sure, but
just not the retinal. But what I do recommend is
if you're starting out, there's a different gel that's d
I F F E R I in and it's a
(10:47):
great cheap place to start. You can find it at Target,
maybe even on Amazon. I just always grab it when
I'm at Target. But also zoe Zo, the skincare line
that I use from Carry, has some retinal products, definitely
more expensive. But if you've got questions about that and
maybe how to incorporate it even with the different from target.
(11:10):
Carrie will DM with you or you can set up
a virtual consultation with her. I think she's just started
doing those again at the Nashville Beauty Girl on Instagram
and she will help you out. And then also thanks
for the pimp and joy and a Spua support. And
we sold out of the black four Things customized pullovers,
y'all are awesome. I've gotten some notes asking when they're
(11:32):
coming back, and we sold out of the black blanks,
so we don't have them. But if you're wanting to
do customized pullovers for Christmas presents, we will be bringing
back the red pullovers. You can customize it with four
Things Christmas Eve, which is always fun because you can
give them as gifts and maybe give the gift with
a pair of flannel pajama pants and then it's like
a cute little Christmas outfit. Uh. We also have this weekend.
(11:55):
I'm very excited about this because I am pumped for
fall weather and we put out a burnt orange Fall
four Things sweatshirt pull over last year, but we have
added another one to the mix. It's maroon, so we're
bringing back the burnt orange one, which says, uh, sweaters,
fall leaves, pumpkin spice, and cozy nights. Those are four things.
(12:17):
And then on the Maroon one it's gonna say flannel,
Bonfire's apple cider, and crisp air. So again, those will
be available to Saturday. That's September twelve. In case you're
listening to this later and it's not actually this Saturday,
maybe we'll still have some left. Maybe we're sold out,
don't know. That's what's weird about podcasts. So many people
(12:38):
don't listen in real time. UM. But if you're excited
for fall like we are, be ready to shop. You
can go to again Radio amy dot com uh for
links to anything a squat or four things or four
things dot com. But feel good about your purchase with
this particular product because it's supporting my life speaks and
their efforts in Nepili Haiti. Okay. Next question is from
(12:58):
Becca Amy. I remember on the Bobby Bones show you
spoke about how you have an app that tracks when
your period is coming, etcetera. I was wondering which one
you use. I used to have pcos, so it can
be difficult to keep track of when my period has come.
I also have crazy p ms. So having something to
give me a heads up that I'm going to be
a raging ninny would be wonderful, which I don't know
(13:21):
what a ninny is, but I kind of like the
sound of that raging ninny. I mean, guys, I can
be arranging ninni at times if if ninny means what
I think it means. And the app that I use
to give me a heads up for all things and
I enter and all my symptoms and it pretty much
has me. It's pretty predictable. Now. It's called Clue. It's
(13:42):
the Clue app c l u E and I've used
it for years. I really like it, And I'm really
sorry about your crazy p M s. Becca, but know
that you're not alone, and it is pretty awesome to
get a reminder on your phone warning you that that
time is coming, because then it can help you explain
a lot, like if you're acting in a particular way.
Although my husband is kind of my radar two he knows.
(14:05):
He'll even say to me before my Clue app, are
you about to start your period? And I will adamantly
say no, no, I'm not. I am being totally rational, Rightale,
this is me. This is me normal? And if you
think this is crazy, then I guess you don't like me.
And the next thing you know, I'll start my period.
So he get yourself up a husband or a partner,
(14:27):
spouse or a friend or something that might be able
to know when you're crazy times are coming before you do.
All right, Well, that concludes today's Q and A and
Email episode. Thank you all for listening to the Fifth Thing,
and check out Thursday's episode. Uh. I will have Jamie
Ivy on for all four Things. She's got a book
coming out called You Be You, and we're just gonna
(14:51):
go through some stuff that she has in there that
might be inspiring and encouraging to you guys. So it
will be this Thursday's episode, and in the meantime you
can catch me on Instagram at Radio Amy. And then
I also run the splat account which is at shop
as splaw if you want to follow both of those,
And then if you haven't rated and reviewed the podcast,
(15:13):
you can do that too and make sure you subscribe,
screenshot it, throw it on Instagram. I think we're gonna
do a giveaway soon where maybe we give away a
customizable four Things tote if you subscribe to the podcast
or show that you've subscribed and take a screenshot and
(15:33):
then tag me and I'll know it. And then I'm
just gonna randomly from that pool of people that have
posted it online and shared it in their stories and
told others about it, We'll pick someone that can win
a four Things to and you can put whatever your
favorite four things on there you know that you want
on there, and then we'll mail it to you. So
(15:54):
that might be something fun we're going to do soon
to look out for just to help out with ratings
and reviews, or maybe we'll do it if you're subscribed.
Maybe it's if you rate and review, but I don't
want people to falsely rate and review. I mean, I
would love for you to subscribe, but I don't want
someone to just give five stars just because they might
get a tote, Like I genuinely want to know your
opinion on the show. So I guess that's me putting
(16:17):
myself out there for if you want to give it
two stars, and hey, you may get a two stars
and you could still win a tote, because I'm just
going to randomly select somebody, but I hope that you'll
have an amazing week and we'll see you back here
on Thursday.
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