December 29, 2020 • 32 mins
This is Amy’s ‘5th Thing’ (a bonus episode) where she answers your questions every Tuesday! ‘4 Things With Amy Brown’ comes out every Thursday, but on Tuesdays Amy answers questions you’ve emailed in. On today’s episode Amy has listener Britley {@britleyann} on and she is the one asking Amy all the questions! Together they discuss: four things that Amy is thankful for, how she got into radio, what advice she would give to her younger self, how Amy and Ben knew it was the right time to pursue adoption and how she decided what to keep ‘private’ and what to share on air.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Okay, Happy Tuesday, everybody. It is Q and A Day,
but we're doing something different. I have a listener, Brittley
on the phone, and if you listen to last Thursday's episode,
I do an email shout out at the end of
every episode, and her email was my shout out, and
it was her asking if she could ask me some
(00:27):
questions kind of like shooting your shot, Brittley. If if
y'all listen to the Robin Roberts episode, or if you've
ever heard me and Chase talk about just sending that
email going for it, well that's what Brittley did and
I read it and I thought, okay, well, why don't
you come on and host the Q and A episode?
And you asked me the question do you want to
(00:48):
ask me? Right here? You have the whole show. So
I am Amy the host in case you're new to this,
but I'm throwing it over to listener Brittley and she's
going to handle today's Q name. I first and foremost,
thank you so much for this opportunity. Amy. I think
this is so fun and just like you said with
Robin Roberts, I think you know, we have all these
(01:10):
great ideas that come and go, but I can't believe
that I've actually put this one into action. And I'm
sitting here talking with you today because I'm a huge
fan of yours, so I'm super excited about this episode. Awesome. Well,
I'm happy to have you. So, yeah, do your thing,
whatever questions you got, I'm ready. Okay, cool. Well, I thought,
you know, given the climate of everything that's kind of
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going on in the world today, we would start with
some positivity. Ummer icas facing a lot of hurt in adversity,
So I want to hear for things that you are
grateful for right now. Okay, Yeah, This is definitely something
I normally do to guests that are coming on, but
I also share them from time to time, and I
think that I guess, given the current climate right now,
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the first thing I'll be thankful for is the conversations
that are happening right now, because I hate the way
that we had to get here, but it definitely feels
different right now, and that change is on its way
to happening. And you know, I adopted to kids from
Haiti and I just want to protect them, but I
know that I also have to equip them, and so
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that means, you know, facing the fact that they will
not have the same privileges as me, even though I'm
their mom, I'm white, and I will never understand what
it's like for others or what my kids may have
to face in the future. So yeah, right now, my
heart is heavy and conversations are hard, but they are real,
and they're happening in my house right now, and I
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hope in a lot of houses right now, because that's
where the change really starts, in our hearts and in
our homes. So the first thing I'm thankful for are
the conversations that are happening. The second thing I'm thankful
for is it's gonna be daily Harvest. I don't know
if you've heard of them. And this is not an ad.
I got got by Instagram ads where I saw people
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posting about it. Then I started getting Instagram ads I
think or something, and yeah, buy all of their food
with my own money. But I gotta say it's it's
so good, like the smoothies and the harvest bowls that
they have come in clutch for me lately. And I
guess I'm probably pretty pumped about them right now because
I just ate this delicious, nutritious meal that took me like, yeah,
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four minutes to cook. So I make some pretty package
already or like ready to go. Yeah, I throw you
get a box once a week and you pick what
you want in there, and then you get it and
it's you stick in the freezer and you just heat
it up on the stovetop or in the microwave whenever
you're ready. And convenient, Yeah, convenient quality ingredients that I
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think otherwise I would just either spend more at the
grocery store on or spend time like chopping everything up.
So definitely thankful for that because I've only learned about
them or been bordering from them the last three weeks,
so it's still new to me. But I think I'm
finally to a place where I'm like, okay, yeah, and
you know what you like, I know what I like.
I went to this, I can be thankful for it.
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Third thing would be I'm thankful for friends. I mean,
obviously we haven't been able to see our friends a
lot lately, but I guess back to the first thing
I was thankful for, which is conversations. I'm thankful for
friends that you can have meaningful conversations with and not
just about the current issues that are going on right now,
but about personal highs and lows that I think should
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be celebrated with your friends or it's stuff that you
need to mourn with your friends on. I'm just thankful.
There's just been some stuff going on, and I'm thankful
for the people that I know I can call on
and there's no judgment and it's just special. And then
fourth thing would be my husband for many reasons. But
right now, the latte that he made me this morning
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with this espresso machine that we got last year, but
we hadn't really been using it that much because it
seemed really complicated, but he figured it out. So I'm
thankful that, you know, he went to YouTube and tried
to learn how to use it, and he's in so
much trouble. You're like, yes, I know you know how
to this. Now every morning, thank you very well. Clemit
my coffee just because I don't try to have it
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all of the time because when I have too much,
I don't feel my best. But I have been having
it about once a week ever since you figured it out.
And it's sort of like our little treat time where
he makes me a latte and then we sit and
have it and talk and he's drinking his espresso, even
even though he calls it espresso, and it's annoying because
I say espresso, you look past that time together exactly.
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So those are the four things I'm thankful for. Well,
thank you. I love that, I love conversation. That was
such a such a cool way to look at it.
Because you always talk about getting really micro with the
things you're grateful for, and I think, you know, it's
so easy to say family and friends and shelter, but
what about this good conversation with our kids and the
ability to communicate with one another. I mean it seems silly, right,
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but so awesome. So thank you for sharing that. That
was awesome. Okay, I do have a quote today. I
know you like to start out or Tuesday Q and
A's with that. So I was looking everywhere for a
quote this week, trying to find the perfect one, and
then this quote found me. Of course, I was just
like growing on Instagram and I came across it and
I loved it. So it's by zig Ziggler Biggler. I
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think I'm saying that right, but I thought it was
really appropriate for this. It says, if you aim at nothing,
You'll hit it every time. And I know that's really short,
but we kind of touched on it earlier, just how
cool this opportunity is something silly that crossed my mind
and I'm a huge fan and acted on it and
now I'm here right now with you. So just a
little reminder to everyone listening that it doesn't hurt to
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just take your shot and give it a try. So
that's what my little quote was. But I guess we'll
just dive into the questions now. So the topics I
have are probably not new because you do talk for
a living, so there's not a lot of topics that
you haven't covered. But maybe today I'm hoping we can
shed some new light on the subjects. But your listeners
me included because I think these questions really make you
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who you are, which is who we all love in
a door. So with that question one, I would love
to know exactly how you took the plunge into the
public speaking and radio world, especially from going from I
think you were selling granted before, so I think a
lot of people get stuck at that bridge between maybe
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like security and passion, so they're in a job that
is familiar and stable, all the while, maybe their hearts
are pulling them in a different direction. To tell me
how you decided to cross that bridge and trust yourself
into taking that leak. Well, my bio on Twitter for
a long time was say hi to people because it
could change your life. And that's what happened to me
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by saying hi to Bobby. About a year after meeting him.
Maybe longer was when I had the opportunity to become
his co host, and I really wasn't sure if I
should leave my secure sales job for such unknown territory.
But my mom told me that if there was ever
a time for me to do something like go beyond
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a radio show and try to figure out if it's
something that I wanted to do, then that was the
time for me to do it. And you know, I
think she said that because I was in my early
twenties and the risk was low, and I totally agreed.
So I did it. I quit my sales job, I
joined the show, and at the time, the show was
in one market, and in my mind that was the potential.
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That's what it would always be and we would always
live in Austin and keep doing our show. And I
didn't know that Bobby had figure dreams that he was chasing.
So I think my mom had good advice and it
was perfect for me at four years old. But I
think even if I was forty four years old, she
still would have told me to go for it, to
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try something new, because it was more than just assessing
the risk. I think it was about doing something that
I was a little scared of, like scared of putting
myself out there every morning and ailing. And she's really
the one that pushed me and gave me the confidence
that I needed to do it. But she also showed
me too, was like, no matter the risk, it's better
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to see what happens than to know that you never
tried and have that regret. And so she's the one
that nudged me. So when it comes to taking that
plunge to public speaking and sharing my life and being
on the radio without any aspirations to do so before
meeting Bobby or having any training or education in it,
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I don't think I would have been able to do
it without my mom's encouragements. So for anybody else looking
for that, and I know it's different, and I and
I did have a supportive family, so I know everybody's
story is different. If there's a way you can figure
out to dip your toe into where you want to go,
just so that you know you gave it a try
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and not look back twenty years and have regret. Or
if you're looking back now and there's still a shot
for you to go do it, maybe you try now.
Nobody that says you can't try again, even if you
missed your first opportunity, you know, yeah, absolutely, And it's
whatever gives you energy, you know. So if you find
something that's giving you energy but you're you know, focused
(10:10):
on what you're currently doing, maybe tap into that and then,
like you said, it's never too late to reach out.
I was so I was going to ask you what
advice you'd give your younger self, but I feel like
kind of covered that, So maybe I'll get a little
specific and maybe even a little selfish and ask a
relationship question. I'm currently living with my boyfriend and we've
had to talk about marriage and are planning for it.
(10:32):
But I am in my twenties. I'm going to be
twenty four next week, and it's so important for me
to only be married once in my lifetime and I
really value obviously the principle of marriage. So what's one
relational tip you would give to maybe your younger listeners
or listeners in general. Believe in yourself and your wants
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and desires and goals, and surround yourself with others that
believe in you, whether it's friends or your boyfriend slash
future husband, and really know what what you want and
that's going to evolve as you evolve as a person.
But don't conform to like what other say your life
should be like. I feel like I did that way
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too much in my younger years. And my husband would
agree to a lot of what we did early in
our marriage and ways we tried to mimic our relationship
was what we thought was right and what we thought
others would want from us, And this is how we're
supposed to be because this is how we grew up.
And I know that's very vague because I'm not going
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to go way into detail, but because for everybody it's
going to be different. But have those tough conversations with
your boyfriend or whoever you're starting this relationship with, and
know that as a couple, you're going to evolve and
there's going to be challenges. So communication is key, but
you're always going to have to do what feels right
in your heart and do the work to old that,
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not mold to what you think others want from you
or your relationships. Depending on how you grew up, that
image may be very different and who you enter a
relationship with for the rest of your life, then y'all
are joined in that together and when you're joining two
separate things depending on how you all grew up. Like
my husband and I are families, we grew up very
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very similar, so expectations were very very similar, and I
think we would get so stuck in that and how
we were going to parent and things we were going
to believe and stuff we were going to do, and
it was always like, oh, well, this is what our
parents would want from us, But we were becoming our
own people and we're starting a life together. So you
have to be open to discovering that yourself and follow
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what what you want to believe in together. That's that
sounds faith based, which which it could be if you
want to take it that way, but really your core
values what you believe how you want your relationship to be,
or you could come from the sit ins like my husband,
I grew up. I say, we grew up the same,
but that was on my mother's end. Now his parents
are still married, mine were divorced. He has ideals like
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his family had dinner together every single night mom his
mom cooked dinner, his dad got home, they sat around
the table like very very traditional. While my dad left
when I was nine, and then my mom had to
get a job and she worked a ton and we
got drive through or I didn't even see her at dinner,
or we tried to hang out and we could, but
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we didn't have dinner around the table every night as
a family. By the time I was in ninth grade,
my sister was in college, and just it was very
me and my mom just trying to do our thing.
So sometimes we were joining up like okay, what how
do we want our kids to be Again, that's a
very small example, but meal times are important to my
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husband and I didn't have them, but we worked together
and communicate to know that, like, hey, yeah, if you
want that, we're going to make that happen every once
a while, and be honest, when we do do it,
that's when we have the best conversations with our kids,
and that is when we really bond around the table
as a family, So I do find them important. Do
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I think that I need to be at home cooking
dinner every night and we need to do it at
the same time every night? No, did my husband think
that's how his life would be? Yes? Have we had
to communicate about it and then mold the way we
want our family to be, which looks a little different
than the what his ideal was. Yes, So it seems
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like it is a very little example, and I get that.
But that's what I mean by taking whatever thoughts you
had about what you think your relationship is supposed to
look like, and then do what you want to do
right and just like you said, being true to you
because you can come from, like you said, similar or
very very different backgrounds. But at the end of the day,
your morals and you know what's true, do you will
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always align as long as you stay in tune with it,
I think, and your about it. I think that's a
great example. It's just as simple as eating dinner because
the same I came from a family where we sat
down an eight and he did it, and so I
know for my family I want that Now. Well, I
have to compromise and bend and be flexible. Absolutely, But
is that something that's kind of staple to my future ideal?
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If you will, like your husband, you know he has
to work to make that happen too. So I think
that's awesome that well, And I'll just be honest, there's
gonna be way bigger issues than whether just to keep it.
It is pretty serious. It's just kidding. I just think
that it's a good example of what communication looks like
and then forming that mold of what y'all want, not
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what you find others want from you. I think that's perfect. Okay. Next,
I do want to ask you about adoption. I know
that I really have a deep pool in my heart
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any time the subject comes up, you know, whether it's
in church for a movie. I'm just so altered emotionally
by the response of adoption. It kind of has always
been something that has resonated with me and I've always
thought about So. I know that you struggled with infertility,
and I'm sure that that was a huge factor in
leading your heart towards adoption, But when did you decide
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it was the right time. I really feel like I
knew early on it was really getting my husband to
sign on to the whole thing, and not that he
wasn't for adoption by any means, but you know, he
thought that could be great for us, but he wanted
biological kids first. And so I think for me it
was after tons of failed pregnancy tests and visiting fertility
doctors and then knowing the money that we would have
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to pour into possibly getting pregnant, and that's just possibly
wasn't even a guarantee. I just knew in my heart
that the money that we would spend on that should
go towards a sure thing, and to me, the sure
thing was giving a home to kids that were already born.
And I say that with zero judgment towards anyone that
spends their money on getting pregnant. I know plenty of
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people that do when it works out beautifully, and it's amazing,
and I'm so thankful for science and doctors that make
that possible. But I just knew that it wasn't the
route for me. So again back to the second question
that you had, it wasn't our ideal mold. Ideal mold like.
We didn't think that's what our family would look like like.
We thought when we got married, we'd have no trouble
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getting pregnant, and we were going to have kids biologically,
and this was what was expected and that's how life
works and that's how it is. Well, that wasn't happening
for us. So then that's when that other part of
advice I was talking about where communication comes in, Like
things are going to be different for you than they
are for other people, so you have to communicate how
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do we want to handle this? And I remember the
day I went to him and said, we were living
in Southern Pines, North Carolina, and I knew we had
a little sun room in our house. And I sat
him down and I said, I know that adoption this
for us. It took him a little bit to get there,
and I've said this a million times, but it was
after he read a book called Adopted for Life that
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he he really started to shift. And I'm pretty sure
it's like after chapter one that he has something switched
and he was like, I'm in whatever we need to do,
let's adopt without even knowing if we'll ever have biological children,
Let's do this. And so that's when we started to
pursue that and knew that that was our new journey.
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And you know, I think for me, you know, we
prayed for so long to get pregnant, and it was
one of those unanswered prayers situations where I look at
Stevenson and Stashire in our house right now, and the
journey that we've been on, and how I was able
to go to Africa and do some work there, which
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made me want to go to Haiti and do some
work there. And my husband traveled the world because he
was in the military, and just we started to just
open our hearts and see that there's different needs and
where were we going to fill that void? Where were
we going to be parents to somebody? And we started
off domestically but that wasn't working out, and then we
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ended up going to Haiti and that worked out. But
it was we we got if I think of the
failed pregnancy tests and how our domestic adoption just was
not working out, and I think of all the prayers
I had that I wanted those things to work, all
of them, and when they wouldn't, I would get so frustrated.
But then when you get to the other side, you're like, Okay, God,
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I get it, Like you had something, yeah, you had
something else in store, so another thing too, is just
whatever you believe in. You have to be patient because
the right thing will work out for you in the end.
It just may not be what you wanted at the
exact time, might be the exact opposite of what you
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thought was going to happen at a totally different time,
but be super amazing, right. And I guess this is
kind of a follow up question to this question. I
hope that's okay. But for people that maybe are, you know,
on the fence about whether that's something they can emotionally
commit to, did you still like the process of international
adopting kind of reassured you and helped you along the
way or it kind of emphasized that. And I think
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if I understand your question correctly, I think actually the
process had me question multiple times is this we're supposed
to be doing? Because it was so hard. Really, there
was so many hurdles and times that I wanted to quit, uh,
and times that I was sitting on the floor and
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my house, well two different houses, because we moved in
the process, but there was so many so much paperwork
and so many ridiculous things That all makes sense, yes,
but just a little archaic in the way that even
in the United States, of course in Haiti, but in
the United States that we went about stuff that just
seemed to make the process so much longer than it
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needed to be, because it took us, you know, about
five years, and when we decided we wanted to adopt
to actually bringing kids home. And I remember our dining
room being a nice size I mean normal sized dining room.
But imagine I want you to picture paper covering your
entire dining room table, all the way down to the floor,
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papers everywhere, trying to organize them, and I just remember
one night looking at them and I just wanted to
go and just mess them all up and be like,
forget this the mind. But imagine or while I was
sitting there organizing them because maybe my dog would mess
them up and then I would get frustrated and I
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would be crying putting them back together, was that this
is this is going to be worth it, And oh
my gosh, if this is what they do to weed
out the people that are not serious, well I'm going
to show you that I am serious and my husband's
serious and we're going to do this. So what was testing,
or I guess should have been a test, really, you know,
kind of, like you said, it without who is capable
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of doing that and m and has the determination to
go through with it. So I did answer my question
that I don't I don't want to come off as
like I'm the super determined like special persons went through it.
There's so many people that do that every single day
and do it and if you were, if you did
give up or you were weeded out, it doesn't make
you any less of a person. Like it's it's hard,
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and it just means that that wasn't the right thing
for you. There's something else for you that is going
to work out. And I don't think that we're better
because we were able to handle all of the hurdles,
But I just wanted to make sure I clarify that
that I'm not that we're not better than you because
we we were to accomplish every task that was through
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our way, because it definitely was just not easy. But
I'm super thankful that you know, we got through it
and all the people that supported us along the way.
For sure, Yeah, support is huge and it definitely paid off.
Because your kids are adorable. I love when they show
up on your Instagram. I like, stop everything and turn
it up so I can hear Stevenson's little voice. I'm
sure you get that a lot, but it's my favorite thing. Okay,
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first question, I think I speak on all of your
listeners right now. I think we love you so much
and have so much respect for you as a person
because you are so transparent and authentic, both on the
podcast and on the Bobby Bones Show. But how did
your mentality kind of evolve from the start of your
career to decipher what's private versus what everyone in the
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world could potentially know, Like, how do you keep your
personal life sacred when the public is kind of demanding
to know everything about you. I feel like I was
really really open right out of the gate, probably too open,
not asking certain people in my life what was okay
to share and then what was not okay to share.
I just shared so many stories in the early years
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because I didn't realize the damage that could be done.
I ye, stuff that I would never share today for
the sake of the people that were also involved. And
while I didn't say their names necessarily, and I was
a part of the story too, So really I have
every right to share some things. I still have a
few stories that I put out there that I wish
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I could have would have either communicated with the other
parties beforehand or just decided not to say them at all.
Out of respect. So yeah, out of respect for people.
I now try to make sure that they know if
I'm telling a story that involves them. And I'm married
to someone that is extremely private and in the early
years of our marriage, is definitely caused a lot of issues.
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I mean, the early years of the show got a
little rough. I mean there was definitely times where I thought, Okay,
I should just quit. This is too much, just too stressful. Obviously,
I'm glad I did never follow through with quitting, although
I didn't walk out on the show live on the
air once maybe twice, I'm not sure. Really naid something
and you're like, wait, I know that. I mean, well,
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there was just stuff that was just like came up
on the show that we were talking about that I
just was not comfortable with, and it made me so upset,
and I couldn't believe that Bobby and lunch Box were
talking about it and that they were going to do
that to me and everybody's listening, and I was so
furious that. Yeah, I don't remember the other one was
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live on the air, but I did walk out of
the studio, but for sure one time live on the air,
like I left and I was like, I I'm done,
and I went to the bathroom and I was crying.
And then there was another time that I was quitting
the show because my husband was in the Air Force
and we were having to move and something was going
on that was crazy. But anyway, I was gonna leave
and Bobby was searching for replacement for me, and I
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just remember yelling, I don't know who's taking over my job,
but whoever they are, I hope they are prepared, like
freaking prepared. So if you ever, like every once in
a while, they'll bring that back up, but we don't
really reference where it is or why. But if you
ever hear lunch Box or Bobby randomly say like freaking
prepared or that's what that's from, is from my little outburst,
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because it got it got hard sometimes putting all that
out there and then having even the backlash from listeners
or people that disagree with you and they're rude about it.
I don't mind people disagreeing with me. I don't think
that I'm for everybody. In fact, I was even talking
about that about this podcast that I went and read
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the negative one star reviews. I had never done that before,
but I did it like last week, and it was
hard to take in. But I have thick enough skin
now to where I can can I can take it constructively.
But it still blows my mind sometimes how people have
to go out of their way to be really rude
about it. For me, if it's something you want to
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share with someone that you think they can approve upon
to make their content better, which is how I received
some of it, so thank you and I'll work on it.
But then there's also just the rude comments to be rude,
and they're unnecessary. They don't do anything, they don't add
any value to anything. There's nothing I can take away
from it other than just feeling like crap. So I
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don't know. For me, if I don't like something, I
just don't listen to it and I don't talk about
it and I don't make a big deal about it.
But I do appreciate all like the five star reviews
to the one star reviews, because again I can take
from that, But if you're not going to be constructive
with it, then my encouragement would be to just not
say it anything at all. Yeah, but back to sharing life,
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and you know private versus not private? How do I
decide all that I do share most all of my life?
You know, my mom was battling cancer. I would talk
to her before I would say things and make sure
she was comfortable with whatever I was going to share.
Or my dad's journey. You know, there's a lot of
things that are going on though in my life that
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people will never know about, and that to protect my husband,
my kids, my family, my friends. But what I do
choose to share, I do so with the hopes that
someone will need to hear what I'm saying and they
will not feel alone and whatever they're going through, even
if it's just one person. Then I feel like my
job's done. Yeah, well, now, I think you do such
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a good job at that because as a listener who
I listened to everything from the Bobby bun Show to
that weigh, I listened to everything that you do, and
it does it feels like you're I said in my email,
I think you were friends. Like I feel like your friend.
I feel like you share with me the important stuff
and I'm always like, well, let's less, you know, and
I'm sure there's a lot less, and I get it.
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It's just it's probably been trial and air of what
to share and about who and when is the appropriate
time to share it. So I can only imagine that battle,
and I think it's like everything else, right to trial
and air and a learning experience like how things work.
So I think that's really cool. And I've never really
thought and I never even thought about it, how maybe
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you are more careful about what you share, but maybe
Bobby or lunch Box doesn't think about, you know, some
of the things they say. So there's how many of y'all,
six of you guys talking on the show, so you
guys all have to be mindful of each other as well.
I didn't think about that. Well, we have matured a lot,
so this some of that stuff was from the early years.
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I haven't threatened to quit in you know, at least
twelve years. So, but we've grown and matured and respect
each other enough to not surprise each other with things
or take low blows, which we used to do because
honestly it was like, well, you know, it makes a
good radio. But luckily we're we're a little more thoughtful
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now and you can still have a good show without
any of that stuff. So yeah, I'm very cool. Well,
thank you so much again for having me on. This
has been that's so fun. And I hope that I
touched on some questions maybe some other listeners who are
interested in hearing about but again, just questions that make
you you, and anyone who listens probably has the same
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amount of respect for you that I do, so this
truly is one of the closet things I've been able
to do. So just thank you for that and reading
our emails and giving back and giving space for us
to talk to you. I think it's really cool. Britley.
You did an amazing job. If I ever need a
fill in host, I will keep you in mind. I
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don't know. Maybe I could do this as a thing
for a few other people if they wanted to email
and had questions. It changes things us a little bit.
Like I said, I've just one a walk when I
even thought of this, because I thought it'd be even
cool to get a question answered. And then you know,
I was thinking, well, there's not just one. I have
way too many, and of course I have a million more,
but I narrowed it down, But I've always thought about
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doing a podcast or things like that, so this has
been really good practice. I've never done anything like this,
so it excites me. It's fun, and if I could
ever be even a small amount of influence like you have,
I think that would be so cool. Well, why don't
you tell people what your Instagram is? Because I'm sure
there's yeah, maybe somebody that I can't guarantee it for sure,
but I mean, if I was listening, I'd be like, oh,
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I want to send Brittley a message and tell her
she did so good. Oh my gosh, I would love that. Yeah,
it's just Brittley and b r I t l e
y a n N and I would love it. I'd
love to communicate. I feel like all your listeners are
all people that I would get along with, so I'd
love to chat with anyone. I think that's awesome. Okay,
So b r I t l e y a n
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n y, Brittley and Okay, awesome. Well, thank you you
did amazing and I'm glad you you thought of this.
It's been really fun, and thank you so much for
having me on Amy. You're awesome. Okay, Well, no, you
did great and I hope you have a great rest
of your day. You too, Okay, thank you brittley by
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beat
Okay, Happy Tuesday, everybody. It is Q and A Day,
but we're doing something different. I have a listener, Brittley
on the phone, and if you listen to last Thursday's episode,
I do an email shout out at the end of
every episode, and her email was my shout out, and
it was her asking if she could ask me some
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questions kind of like shooting your shot, Brittley. If if
y'all listen to the Robin Roberts episode, or if you've
ever heard me and Chase talk about just sending that
email going for it, well that's what Brittley did and
I read it and I thought, okay, well, why don't
you come on and host the Q and A episode?
And you asked me the question do you want to
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ask me? Right here? You have the whole show. So
I am Amy the host in case you're new to this,
but I'm throwing it over to listener Brittley and she's
going to handle today's Q name. I first and foremost,
thank you so much for this opportunity. Amy. I think
this is so fun and just like you said with
Robin Roberts, I think you know, we have all these
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great ideas that come and go, but I can't believe
that I've actually put this one into action. And I'm
sitting here talking with you today because I'm a huge
fan of yours, so I'm super excited about this episode. Awesome. Well,
I'm happy to have you. So, yeah, do your thing,
whatever questions you got, I'm ready. Okay, cool. Well, I thought,
you know, given the climate of everything that's kind of
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going on in the world today, we would start with
some positivity. Ummer icas facing a lot of hurt in adversity,
So I want to hear for things that you are
grateful for right now. Okay, Yeah, This is definitely something
I normally do to guests that are coming on, but
I also share them from time to time, and I
think that I guess, given the current climate right now,
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the first thing I'll be thankful for is the conversations
that are happening right now, because I hate the way
that we had to get here, but it definitely feels
different right now, and that change is on its way
to happening. And you know, I adopted to kids from
Haiti and I just want to protect them, but I
know that I also have to equip them, and so
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that means, you know, facing the fact that they will
not have the same privileges as me, even though I'm
their mom, I'm white, and I will never understand what
it's like for others or what my kids may have
to face in the future. So yeah, right now, my
heart is heavy and conversations are hard, but they are real,
and they're happening in my house right now, and I
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hope in a lot of houses right now, because that's
where the change really starts, in our hearts and in
our homes. So the first thing I'm thankful for are
the conversations that are happening. The second thing I'm thankful
for is it's gonna be daily Harvest. I don't know
if you've heard of them. And this is not an ad.
I got got by Instagram ads where I saw people
(02:56):
posting about it. Then I started getting Instagram ads I
think or something, and yeah, buy all of their food
with my own money. But I gotta say it's it's
so good, like the smoothies and the harvest bowls that
they have come in clutch for me lately. And I
guess I'm probably pretty pumped about them right now because
I just ate this delicious, nutritious meal that took me like, yeah,
(03:16):
four minutes to cook. So I make some pretty package
already or like ready to go. Yeah, I throw you
get a box once a week and you pick what
you want in there, and then you get it and
it's you stick in the freezer and you just heat
it up on the stovetop or in the microwave whenever
you're ready. And convenient, Yeah, convenient quality ingredients that I
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think otherwise I would just either spend more at the
grocery store on or spend time like chopping everything up.
So definitely thankful for that because I've only learned about
them or been bordering from them the last three weeks,
so it's still new to me. But I think I'm
finally to a place where I'm like, okay, yeah, and
you know what you like, I know what I like.
I went to this, I can be thankful for it.
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Third thing would be I'm thankful for friends. I mean,
obviously we haven't been able to see our friends a
lot lately, but I guess back to the first thing
I was thankful for, which is conversations. I'm thankful for
friends that you can have meaningful conversations with and not
just about the current issues that are going on right now,
but about personal highs and lows that I think should
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be celebrated with your friends or it's stuff that you
need to mourn with your friends on. I'm just thankful.
There's just been some stuff going on, and I'm thankful
for the people that I know I can call on
and there's no judgment and it's just special. And then
fourth thing would be my husband for many reasons. But
right now, the latte that he made me this morning
(04:43):
with this espresso machine that we got last year, but
we hadn't really been using it that much because it
seemed really complicated, but he figured it out. So I'm
thankful that, you know, he went to YouTube and tried
to learn how to use it, and he's in so
much trouble. You're like, yes, I know you know how
to this. Now every morning, thank you very well. Clemit
my coffee just because I don't try to have it
(05:06):
all of the time because when I have too much,
I don't feel my best. But I have been having
it about once a week ever since you figured it out.
And it's sort of like our little treat time where
he makes me a latte and then we sit and
have it and talk and he's drinking his espresso, even
even though he calls it espresso, and it's annoying because
I say espresso, you look past that time together exactly.
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So those are the four things I'm thankful for. Well,
thank you. I love that, I love conversation. That was
such a such a cool way to look at it.
Because you always talk about getting really micro with the
things you're grateful for, and I think, you know, it's
so easy to say family and friends and shelter, but
what about this good conversation with our kids and the
ability to communicate with one another. I mean it seems silly, right,
(05:53):
but so awesome. So thank you for sharing that. That
was awesome. Okay, I do have a quote today. I
know you like to start out or Tuesday Q and
A's with that. So I was looking everywhere for a
quote this week, trying to find the perfect one, and
then this quote found me. Of course, I was just
like growing on Instagram and I came across it and
I loved it. So it's by zig Ziggler Biggler. I
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think I'm saying that right, but I thought it was
really appropriate for this. It says, if you aim at nothing,
You'll hit it every time. And I know that's really short,
but we kind of touched on it earlier, just how
cool this opportunity is something silly that crossed my mind
and I'm a huge fan and acted on it and
now I'm here right now with you. So just a
little reminder to everyone listening that it doesn't hurt to
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just take your shot and give it a try. So
that's what my little quote was. But I guess we'll
just dive into the questions now. So the topics I
have are probably not new because you do talk for
a living, so there's not a lot of topics that
you haven't covered. But maybe today I'm hoping we can
shed some new light on the subjects. But your listeners
me included because I think these questions really make you
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who you are, which is who we all love in
a door. So with that question one, I would love
to know exactly how you took the plunge into the
public speaking and radio world, especially from going from I
think you were selling granted before, so I think a
lot of people get stuck at that bridge between maybe
(07:21):
like security and passion, so they're in a job that
is familiar and stable, all the while, maybe their hearts
are pulling them in a different direction. To tell me
how you decided to cross that bridge and trust yourself
into taking that leak. Well, my bio on Twitter for
a long time was say hi to people because it
could change your life. And that's what happened to me
(07:43):
by saying hi to Bobby. About a year after meeting him.
Maybe longer was when I had the opportunity to become
his co host, and I really wasn't sure if I
should leave my secure sales job for such unknown territory.
But my mom told me that if there was ever
a time for me to do something like go beyond
(08:05):
a radio show and try to figure out if it's
something that I wanted to do, then that was the
time for me to do it. And you know, I
think she said that because I was in my early
twenties and the risk was low, and I totally agreed.
So I did it. I quit my sales job, I
joined the show, and at the time, the show was
in one market, and in my mind that was the potential.
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That's what it would always be and we would always
live in Austin and keep doing our show. And I
didn't know that Bobby had figure dreams that he was chasing.
So I think my mom had good advice and it
was perfect for me at four years old. But I
think even if I was forty four years old, she
still would have told me to go for it, to
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try something new, because it was more than just assessing
the risk. I think it was about doing something that
I was a little scared of, like scared of putting
myself out there every morning and ailing. And she's really
the one that pushed me and gave me the confidence
that I needed to do it. But she also showed
me too, was like, no matter the risk, it's better
(09:08):
to see what happens than to know that you never
tried and have that regret. And so she's the one
that nudged me. So when it comes to taking that
plunge to public speaking and sharing my life and being
on the radio without any aspirations to do so before
meeting Bobby or having any training or education in it,
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I don't think I would have been able to do
it without my mom's encouragements. So for anybody else looking
for that, and I know it's different, and I and
I did have a supportive family, so I know everybody's
story is different. If there's a way you can figure
out to dip your toe into where you want to go,
just so that you know you gave it a try
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and not look back twenty years and have regret. Or
if you're looking back now and there's still a shot
for you to go do it, maybe you try now.
Nobody that says you can't try again, even if you
missed your first opportunity, you know, yeah, absolutely, And it's
whatever gives you energy, you know. So if you find
something that's giving you energy but you're you know, focused
(10:10):
on what you're currently doing, maybe tap into that and then,
like you said, it's never too late to reach out.
I was so I was going to ask you what
advice you'd give your younger self, but I feel like
kind of covered that, So maybe I'll get a little
specific and maybe even a little selfish and ask a
relationship question. I'm currently living with my boyfriend and we've
had to talk about marriage and are planning for it.
(10:32):
But I am in my twenties. I'm going to be
twenty four next week, and it's so important for me
to only be married once in my lifetime and I
really value obviously the principle of marriage. So what's one
relational tip you would give to maybe your younger listeners
or listeners in general. Believe in yourself and your wants
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and desires and goals, and surround yourself with others that
believe in you, whether it's friends or your boyfriend slash
future husband, and really know what what you want and
that's going to evolve as you evolve as a person.
But don't conform to like what other say your life
should be like. I feel like I did that way
(11:15):
too much in my younger years. And my husband would
agree to a lot of what we did early in
our marriage and ways we tried to mimic our relationship
was what we thought was right and what we thought
others would want from us, And this is how we're
supposed to be because this is how we grew up.
And I know that's very vague because I'm not going
(11:37):
to go way into detail, but because for everybody it's
going to be different. But have those tough conversations with
your boyfriend or whoever you're starting this relationship with, and
know that as a couple, you're going to evolve and
there's going to be challenges. So communication is key, but
you're always going to have to do what feels right
in your heart and do the work to old that,
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not mold to what you think others want from you
or your relationships. Depending on how you grew up, that
image may be very different and who you enter a
relationship with for the rest of your life, then y'all
are joined in that together and when you're joining two
separate things depending on how you all grew up. Like
my husband and I are families, we grew up very
(12:23):
very similar, so expectations were very very similar, and I
think we would get so stuck in that and how
we were going to parent and things we were going
to believe and stuff we were going to do, and
it was always like, oh, well, this is what our
parents would want from us, But we were becoming our
own people and we're starting a life together. So you
have to be open to discovering that yourself and follow
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what what you want to believe in together. That's that
sounds faith based, which which it could be if you
want to take it that way, but really your core
values what you believe how you want your relationship to be,
or you could come from the sit ins like my husband,
I grew up. I say, we grew up the same,
but that was on my mother's end. Now his parents
are still married, mine were divorced. He has ideals like
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his family had dinner together every single night mom his
mom cooked dinner, his dad got home, they sat around
the table like very very traditional. While my dad left
when I was nine, and then my mom had to
get a job and she worked a ton and we
got drive through or I didn't even see her at dinner,
or we tried to hang out and we could, but
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we didn't have dinner around the table every night as
a family. By the time I was in ninth grade,
my sister was in college, and just it was very
me and my mom just trying to do our thing.
So sometimes we were joining up like okay, what how
do we want our kids to be Again, that's a
very small example, but meal times are important to my
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husband and I didn't have them, but we worked together
and communicate to know that, like, hey, yeah, if you
want that, we're going to make that happen every once
a while, and be honest, when we do do it,
that's when we have the best conversations with our kids,
and that is when we really bond around the table
as a family, So I do find them important. Do
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I think that I need to be at home cooking
dinner every night and we need to do it at
the same time every night? No, did my husband think
that's how his life would be? Yes? Have we had
to communicate about it and then mold the way we
want our family to be, which looks a little different
than the what his ideal was. Yes, So it seems
(14:33):
like it is a very little example, and I get that.
But that's what I mean by taking whatever thoughts you
had about what you think your relationship is supposed to
look like, and then do what you want to do
right and just like you said, being true to you
because you can come from, like you said, similar or
very very different backgrounds. But at the end of the day,
your morals and you know what's true, do you will
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always align as long as you stay in tune with it,
I think, and your about it. I think that's a
great example. It's just as simple as eating dinner because
the same I came from a family where we sat
down an eight and he did it, and so I
know for my family I want that Now. Well, I
have to compromise and bend and be flexible. Absolutely, But
is that something that's kind of staple to my future ideal?
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If you will, like your husband, you know he has
to work to make that happen too. So I think
that's awesome that well, And I'll just be honest, there's
gonna be way bigger issues than whether just to keep it.
It is pretty serious. It's just kidding. I just think
that it's a good example of what communication looks like
and then forming that mold of what y'all want, not
(15:41):
what you find others want from you. I think that's perfect. Okay. Next,
I do want to ask you about adoption. I know
that I really have a deep pool in my heart
(16:01):
any time the subject comes up, you know, whether it's
in church for a movie. I'm just so altered emotionally
by the response of adoption. It kind of has always
been something that has resonated with me and I've always
thought about So. I know that you struggled with infertility,
and I'm sure that that was a huge factor in
leading your heart towards adoption, But when did you decide
(16:21):
it was the right time. I really feel like I
knew early on it was really getting my husband to
sign on to the whole thing, and not that he
wasn't for adoption by any means, but you know, he
thought that could be great for us, but he wanted
biological kids first. And so I think for me it
was after tons of failed pregnancy tests and visiting fertility
doctors and then knowing the money that we would have
(16:45):
to pour into possibly getting pregnant, and that's just possibly
wasn't even a guarantee. I just knew in my heart
that the money that we would spend on that should
go towards a sure thing, and to me, the sure
thing was giving a home to kids that were already born.
And I say that with zero judgment towards anyone that
spends their money on getting pregnant. I know plenty of
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people that do when it works out beautifully, and it's amazing,
and I'm so thankful for science and doctors that make
that possible. But I just knew that it wasn't the
route for me. So again back to the second question
that you had, it wasn't our ideal mold. Ideal mold like.
We didn't think that's what our family would look like like.
We thought when we got married, we'd have no trouble
(17:27):
getting pregnant, and we were going to have kids biologically,
and this was what was expected and that's how life
works and that's how it is. Well, that wasn't happening
for us. So then that's when that other part of
advice I was talking about where communication comes in, Like
things are going to be different for you than they
are for other people, so you have to communicate how
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do we want to handle this? And I remember the
day I went to him and said, we were living
in Southern Pines, North Carolina, and I knew we had
a little sun room in our house. And I sat
him down and I said, I know that adoption this
for us. It took him a little bit to get there,
and I've said this a million times, but it was
after he read a book called Adopted for Life that
(18:09):
he he really started to shift. And I'm pretty sure
it's like after chapter one that he has something switched
and he was like, I'm in whatever we need to do,
let's adopt without even knowing if we'll ever have biological children,
Let's do this. And so that's when we started to
pursue that and knew that that was our new journey.
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And you know, I think for me, you know, we
prayed for so long to get pregnant, and it was
one of those unanswered prayers situations where I look at
Stevenson and Stashire in our house right now, and the
journey that we've been on, and how I was able
to go to Africa and do some work there, which
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made me want to go to Haiti and do some
work there. And my husband traveled the world because he
was in the military, and just we started to just
open our hearts and see that there's different needs and
where were we going to fill that void? Where were
we going to be parents to somebody? And we started
off domestically but that wasn't working out, and then we
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ended up going to Haiti and that worked out. But
it was we we got if I think of the
failed pregnancy tests and how our domestic adoption just was
not working out, and I think of all the prayers
I had that I wanted those things to work, all
of them, and when they wouldn't, I would get so frustrated.
But then when you get to the other side, you're like, Okay, God,
(19:35):
I get it, Like you had something, yeah, you had
something else in store, so another thing too, is just
whatever you believe in. You have to be patient because
the right thing will work out for you in the end.
It just may not be what you wanted at the
exact time, might be the exact opposite of what you
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thought was going to happen at a totally different time,
but be super amazing, right. And I guess this is
kind of a follow up question to this question. I
hope that's okay. But for people that maybe are, you know,
on the fence about whether that's something they can emotionally
commit to, did you still like the process of international
adopting kind of reassured you and helped you along the
way or it kind of emphasized that. And I think
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if I understand your question correctly, I think actually the
process had me question multiple times is this we're supposed
to be doing? Because it was so hard. Really, there
was so many hurdles and times that I wanted to quit, uh,
and times that I was sitting on the floor and
(20:42):
my house, well two different houses, because we moved in
the process, but there was so many so much paperwork
and so many ridiculous things That all makes sense, yes,
but just a little archaic in the way that even
in the United States, of course in Haiti, but in
the United States that we went about stuff that just
seemed to make the process so much longer than it
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needed to be, because it took us, you know, about
five years, and when we decided we wanted to adopt
to actually bringing kids home. And I remember our dining
room being a nice size I mean normal sized dining room.
But imagine I want you to picture paper covering your
entire dining room table, all the way down to the floor,
(21:23):
papers everywhere, trying to organize them, and I just remember
one night looking at them and I just wanted to
go and just mess them all up and be like,
forget this the mind. But imagine or while I was
sitting there organizing them because maybe my dog would mess
them up and then I would get frustrated and I
(21:44):
would be crying putting them back together, was that this
is this is going to be worth it, And oh
my gosh, if this is what they do to weed
out the people that are not serious, well I'm going
to show you that I am serious and my husband's
serious and we're going to do this. So what was testing,
or I guess should have been a test, really, you know,
kind of, like you said, it without who is capable
(22:05):
of doing that and m and has the determination to
go through with it. So I did answer my question
that I don't I don't want to come off as
like I'm the super determined like special persons went through it.
There's so many people that do that every single day
and do it and if you were, if you did
give up or you were weeded out, it doesn't make
you any less of a person. Like it's it's hard,
(22:27):
and it just means that that wasn't the right thing
for you. There's something else for you that is going
to work out. And I don't think that we're better
because we were able to handle all of the hurdles,
But I just wanted to make sure I clarify that
that I'm not that we're not better than you because
we we were to accomplish every task that was through
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our way, because it definitely was just not easy. But
I'm super thankful that you know, we got through it
and all the people that supported us along the way.
For sure, Yeah, support is huge and it definitely paid off.
Because your kids are adorable. I love when they show
up on your Instagram. I like, stop everything and turn
it up so I can hear Stevenson's little voice. I'm
sure you get that a lot, but it's my favorite thing. Okay,
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first question, I think I speak on all of your
listeners right now. I think we love you so much
and have so much respect for you as a person
because you are so transparent and authentic, both on the
podcast and on the Bobby Bones Show. But how did
your mentality kind of evolve from the start of your
career to decipher what's private versus what everyone in the
(23:33):
world could potentially know, Like, how do you keep your
personal life sacred when the public is kind of demanding
to know everything about you. I feel like I was
really really open right out of the gate, probably too open,
not asking certain people in my life what was okay
to share and then what was not okay to share.
I just shared so many stories in the early years
(23:54):
because I didn't realize the damage that could be done.
I ye, stuff that I would never share today for
the sake of the people that were also involved. And
while I didn't say their names necessarily, and I was
a part of the story too, So really I have
every right to share some things. I still have a
few stories that I put out there that I wish
(24:15):
I could have would have either communicated with the other
parties beforehand or just decided not to say them at all.
Out of respect. So yeah, out of respect for people.
I now try to make sure that they know if
I'm telling a story that involves them. And I'm married
to someone that is extremely private and in the early
years of our marriage, is definitely caused a lot of issues.
(24:38):
I mean, the early years of the show got a
little rough. I mean there was definitely times where I thought, Okay,
I should just quit. This is too much, just too stressful. Obviously,
I'm glad I did never follow through with quitting, although
I didn't walk out on the show live on the
air once maybe twice, I'm not sure. Really naid something
and you're like, wait, I know that. I mean, well,
(24:58):
there was just stuff that was just like came up
on the show that we were talking about that I
just was not comfortable with, and it made me so upset,
and I couldn't believe that Bobby and lunch Box were
talking about it and that they were going to do
that to me and everybody's listening, and I was so
furious that. Yeah, I don't remember the other one was
(25:20):
live on the air, but I did walk out of
the studio, but for sure one time live on the air,
like I left and I was like, I I'm done,
and I went to the bathroom and I was crying.
And then there was another time that I was quitting
the show because my husband was in the Air Force
and we were having to move and something was going
on that was crazy. But anyway, I was gonna leave
and Bobby was searching for replacement for me, and I
(25:40):
just remember yelling, I don't know who's taking over my job,
but whoever they are, I hope they are prepared, like
freaking prepared. So if you ever, like every once in
a while, they'll bring that back up, but we don't
really reference where it is or why. But if you
ever hear lunch Box or Bobby randomly say like freaking
prepared or that's what that's from, is from my little outburst,
(26:07):
because it got it got hard sometimes putting all that
out there and then having even the backlash from listeners
or people that disagree with you and they're rude about it.
I don't mind people disagreeing with me. I don't think
that I'm for everybody. In fact, I was even talking
about that about this podcast that I went and read
(26:27):
the negative one star reviews. I had never done that before,
but I did it like last week, and it was
hard to take in. But I have thick enough skin
now to where I can can I can take it constructively.
But it still blows my mind sometimes how people have
to go out of their way to be really rude
about it. For me, if it's something you want to
(26:48):
share with someone that you think they can approve upon
to make their content better, which is how I received
some of it, so thank you and I'll work on it.
But then there's also just the rude comments to be rude,
and they're unnecessary. They don't do anything, they don't add
any value to anything. There's nothing I can take away
from it other than just feeling like crap. So I
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don't know. For me, if I don't like something, I
just don't listen to it and I don't talk about
it and I don't make a big deal about it.
But I do appreciate all like the five star reviews
to the one star reviews, because again I can take
from that, But if you're not going to be constructive
with it, then my encouragement would be to just not
say it anything at all. Yeah, but back to sharing life,
(27:37):
and you know private versus not private? How do I
decide all that I do share most all of my life?
You know, my mom was battling cancer. I would talk
to her before I would say things and make sure
she was comfortable with whatever I was going to share.
Or my dad's journey. You know, there's a lot of
things that are going on though in my life that
(27:58):
people will never know about, and that to protect my husband,
my kids, my family, my friends. But what I do
choose to share, I do so with the hopes that
someone will need to hear what I'm saying and they
will not feel alone and whatever they're going through, even
if it's just one person. Then I feel like my
job's done. Yeah, well, now, I think you do such
(28:20):
a good job at that because as a listener who
I listened to everything from the Bobby bun Show to
that weigh, I listened to everything that you do, and
it does it feels like you're I said in my email,
I think you were friends. Like I feel like your friend.
I feel like you share with me the important stuff
and I'm always like, well, let's less, you know, and
I'm sure there's a lot less, and I get it.
(28:40):
It's just it's probably been trial and air of what
to share and about who and when is the appropriate
time to share it. So I can only imagine that battle,
and I think it's like everything else, right to trial
and air and a learning experience like how things work.
So I think that's really cool. And I've never really
thought and I never even thought about it, how maybe
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you are more careful about what you share, but maybe
Bobby or lunch Box doesn't think about, you know, some
of the things they say. So there's how many of y'all,
six of you guys talking on the show, so you
guys all have to be mindful of each other as well.
I didn't think about that. Well, we have matured a lot,
so this some of that stuff was from the early years.
(29:23):
I haven't threatened to quit in you know, at least
twelve years. So, but we've grown and matured and respect
each other enough to not surprise each other with things
or take low blows, which we used to do because
honestly it was like, well, you know, it makes a
good radio. But luckily we're we're a little more thoughtful
(29:49):
now and you can still have a good show without
any of that stuff. So yeah, I'm very cool. Well,
thank you so much again for having me on. This
has been that's so fun. And I hope that I
touched on some questions maybe some other listeners who are
interested in hearing about but again, just questions that make
you you, and anyone who listens probably has the same
(30:11):
amount of respect for you that I do, so this
truly is one of the closet things I've been able
to do. So just thank you for that and reading
our emails and giving back and giving space for us
to talk to you. I think it's really cool. Britley.
You did an amazing job. If I ever need a
fill in host, I will keep you in mind. I
(30:32):
don't know. Maybe I could do this as a thing
for a few other people if they wanted to email
and had questions. It changes things us a little bit.
Like I said, I've just one a walk when I
even thought of this, because I thought it'd be even
cool to get a question answered. And then you know,
I was thinking, well, there's not just one. I have
way too many, and of course I have a million more,
but I narrowed it down, But I've always thought about
(30:55):
doing a podcast or things like that, so this has
been really good practice. I've never done anything like this,
so it excites me. It's fun, and if I could
ever be even a small amount of influence like you have,
I think that would be so cool. Well, why don't
you tell people what your Instagram is? Because I'm sure
there's yeah, maybe somebody that I can't guarantee it for sure,
but I mean, if I was listening, I'd be like, oh,
(31:16):
I want to send Brittley a message and tell her
she did so good. Oh my gosh, I would love that. Yeah,
it's just Brittley and b r I t l e
y a n N and I would love it. I'd
love to communicate. I feel like all your listeners are
all people that I would get along with, so I'd
love to chat with anyone. I think that's awesome. Okay,
So b r I t l e y a n
(31:40):
n y, Brittley and Okay, awesome. Well, thank you you
did amazing and I'm glad you you thought of this.
It's been really fun, and thank you so much for
having me on Amy. You're awesome. Okay, Well, no, you
did great and I hope you have a great rest
of your day. You too, Okay, thank you brittley by
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