FIRST THING: Amy’s dear friend @GracieMoakler came on for an encouraging little chat about how we are all doing things (big or small) that MAKE A DIFFERENCE for others…even though we may not realize it!
SECOND THING: Did you know a simple $30 ‘birth kit’ could be what saves a woman’s life during childbirth in rural parts of Haiti? Amy sat down with Stephanie Caro from ‘Project Medishare’ to talk about the lifesaving work they’re doing for pregnant women, new moms & babies (one in every 80 women in Haiti die from childbirth and pregnancy-related causes). Right now ALL @ShopEspwa items are supporting their efforts & our goal is to pay for as many birth kits as possible…so if you’re shopping for Mother’s Day…shop with purpose.
THIRD THING: We got an email update from a listener that started therapy after listening to Amy & Kat and she shared that it's changed her life…Amy is going to have her on an upcoming episode to tell us more about her experience! This led to a big life update on Amy’s end annnnnnd SHE IS GOING TO BE IN A MOVIE!!!! Did Amy manifest this???? (more details to come on this crazy plot twist in her life)
FOURTH THING: Amy shared something from @LisaHayim that really resonated with her about ditching the need to label the way we think/eat/move and more. We don’t have to fit neatly into boxes…we have permission to explore, to learn, to be, to think, to show up for ourselves without being afraid to leave our “designated box.” Thank you, Lisa, for this wisdom!
LINK TO SHOP FOR MOTHER’S + SUPPORT HAITI:
https://www.theshopforward.com/collections/espwa
LINK TO GRACIE’S WEBSITE:
https://www.elevate-mktg.com and she is @elevatemktg on Instagram if you need any help with your own website!!!
LINK TO LISA’S THE TRUTHIEST LIFE PODCAST:
https://thetruthiestlife.com/episodes/
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Okay, Cass, little food for you. So life, Oh it's
pretty Bay, It's pretty beautiful than that a little moth
(00:29):
kicking with four. Today's four things is like an o
G episode. Everything is very different from this first thing
coming up, where I talked to Gracie about just making
a difference, to the second thing, where we're gonna be
talking about the lives that you are helping save when
you shop for Mother's Day. The third thing, I reveal
(00:49):
that I'm going to be in a movie, which is
a crazy life update. I never thought I'd be saying
that here on the podcast. And then the fourth thing,
we'll be talking about how we don't all have to
fit neatly into a box. We don't need to label
things as we often think that we should, and that
is wisdom from a girl Lisa. So, without further ado,
we're going to get into today's episode. I hope you enjoy. First. Okay,
(01:17):
So for this thing, my friend Gracie is on Gracie
Mokeler shout Hey Grace. He has been on the podcast before,
so is her husband, Steve. Steve Mokler amazing singer songwriter
based out of Nashville. Check out his music. What what
shout out. We love Steve. Gracie. Just to give a
little backstory, she's my friend. That's a seven on the angiogram.
So she's always up for a good time. I always
(01:37):
trying to throw a party. She loves to connect people.
She hosts like a fun mom's group, what do you
call it? Like once a month she coordinated this just her.
She just wanted to gather mom So once a month
she sends out an email and always does something cool
and I can never go They'll come on. So that
is Gracie's vibe. She's just the sweetest, kind, thoughtful, looking
(02:01):
for fun friend. And I think it's funny because Steve
y'all are a little bit different and it's funny watching
them interact or and just knowing different stories from your
life and how sometimes Steve is doing something to you
and you're like, Steve, I need to have fun, Like
we're gonna have fun. We have to. This is not
fun right now and we need to change. But where's
the beat? I'm just curious. Yeah, So Gracie is on
(02:23):
right now because she encouraged me this week and I thought, Hey,
next time you ever at the house, let's just go
record real quick so that we can use this story
to encourage others. And then I have a follow up
story about another word of encouragement from my friend Megan.
So we've got a few little stories here for you
all that will hopefully remind you that whatever you're doing,
(02:44):
you're making a difference. And if you're having those days
where whatever your job is, or if you've got certain
relationships where you're working on things, just like, keep moving forward,
take one step in the right direction each day, keep
showing up, keep doing your best, and you'll make an impact,
even if it's on just one person. That's why I
say on the podcast all the time, no matter what,
(03:05):
if a story is told, if I would get vulnerable,
or maybe I happen to say something funny, like, if
it made one person laugh, feel something, not feel alone,
maybe even cry if they need to, then that's the impact.
That's why we're here, that's why we're talking. And before
we get into your story and how you encouraged me, Gracie,
I'll tell you the starfish story familiar I'm not okay.
(03:28):
As an old man walked to the beach, he saw
a boy picking up starfish and flinging them into the sea.
He asked the boy why. The boy answered that the
starfish would die if left stranded on the beach. Confused,
the old man said, but the beach goes on for
miles and there are thousands of starfish. You can't make
a difference. The boy looked at the starfish in his hand,
(03:51):
tossed it into the ocean, and said, made a difference
for that one and so one at a time. That
is what it's all about. So, Gracie, why don't you
share the little text that you sent me the other day? Yes, well,
I so I texted you to thank you because Amy
had me on the podcast probably maybe like a year ago,
and I've been doing digital marketing for about four years
(04:11):
and was just trying to expand like my offerings, and
so somebody heard me on the podcast and UM reached
out after that to see if I could build a
website for them, and I'm like, oh gosh, this feels
come out of my comfort zone, like I've done it
for myself. I've never like officially done that. And I
was like, you know what, I'm just trying to say
yes more things in life and be uncomfortable and grow
and so UM I was like, let's do it. Shout
(04:32):
out Alison Stewart if you're listening, she's amazing. She's a
logger and we built a website for her podcast, Women
in Law. Anyway, so I texted Amy because I just
finished my six website and I'm like, if you've never
had me on here and your listener had never heard it,
like I probably with me doing this now. This is
not what I thought i'd be doing, but I love
it and it's been so fulfilling for me. And so
I just did texting thanks, like thanks for you know,
(04:54):
bringing me on and sharing about my company and just
using your kind words to help in my business. Like
I really pre shoot that and that meant a lot
to me. Well, I love that a listener reached out
and then it challenged you and you were a little hesitant,
but you were like, you know what, I can do this.
I'm just gonna say yes and I'm gonna try. And
then it worked and it works, and yeah, now you've
got six websites that you've done. It's like my favorite
(05:14):
thing now. Okay, So I love that story very much
and also because you shared it with me, you took
the time to stop and remind me. Sometimes I'm having
those days where I just don't even know why I'm
talking into a microphone so many days a week, I'm
like why, I don't know. But again, that one person
and so for that day, you were that one person
(05:35):
and you were reminding me. But also you were that
one person for Allison. And then there's probably women that
have been impacted by Allison's website and podcast, and so
it's a chain reaction. And I even think of how
you and I were brought together and the impact you've
had on other women, and you kept going and you've
made a difference for women, Like basically your whole adult life,
(05:57):
you've always had a business where you're supporting others and
giving back and trying to make people either feel their
best look their best. And like we're started with Miriam
Designs because that's how I met you. Our friend Ali,
who runs the dry House, which is like a place
where you can go get your hair blown out. She
was like, you have to meet Gracey and Mary and
I were thinking about making jewelry for a Spua which
would support Haiti, and since you had a jewelry business,
(06:20):
I was like, okay, I'm in a text her we'll
meet you for coffee. So we did, and I learned
all about your company, which I want you to share
that because I feel like that's a story of impact
as well. It was called me Room Designs, and it
started when I met a woman who had come off
the streets who was trying to have a job. And
you know a lot of those women don't have like
they didn't graduate high school or even sometimes middle school,
so they're trying to figure out like how they can
(06:42):
you know, use their skills to get a job. And
so I was like, well, what can I do to help?
So I taught myself how to make jewelry on YouTube
and then hired them to come make jewelry for me.
So we started in my attic. I was twenty three,
Stephen Ira Newly was we were completely broke, and we're
like we just had dreams, you know, that was like
our currency at the time. So we went on tour
with a camper and Steve will play music and I
will get up and talk about the jewelry, and so
(07:04):
it was really fun and yeah, just met some amazing
women along the way. And to your point about you know,
one person makes a difference. So I actually had a
call with a big company to be in their give
back market place when I was running Miriam and we
had the call. Was super excited, trying to grow so
I could hire more women, and basically they turned me
down because they said I wasn't making a big enough impact,
(07:24):
I wasn't helping enough women. And I was so devastated
because I was like, if one woman gets off the streets,
if one woman can put food on her table, if
one woman shows up for her family or knows that
she's loved, I mean, any of those things, that is
a success, you know. And so really a challenge to
me to be like, how am I defining success in
my business? You know, like it's not a numbers game.
We're humans, you know, Like that's not how it is.
And so I was super sad, but then, honestly, by
(07:46):
the Lord's grace, kept going and ended up partnering with
the company in Nashville called Able, and we merged with them,
and so now I had three women when I ran
the company, and now they have I believe, about twenty
and with goals to double in the next year or two.
So again, you never know how your impact is gonna change,
you know, and like you have to just keep going,
you know, and know that what you're doing, whether it's
(08:08):
one person, tend people a hundred, it's about making impact,
like just with a personal level, you know what I mean,
it's that one star vision a difference for that one
And speaking of stars and not fish necessarily, but stars
enable and you like through us meeting, I learned about
able and had contacts there for the Star necklace that
(08:28):
Mary and I have under a squaw, which gives back
to Haiti. And so the really cool impact there is
that it has one locally because of the women that
are making it here in Nashville, the women that started
out in my attic. You're at it and again yeah
now there's twenty with plans to double. I love hearing
that goose bumps. And then it also gives back to Haiti,
(08:48):
which right now for Mother's Day, it's giving back to
new moms and babies through Project Meta Share and their
maternity centers. So Star necklace shout out Mother's Day gift
idea or maybe just treat yourself if your mom, because
you definitely deserve to have a little something for yourself
and a good reminder of like maybe the star necklace
can be a reminder of the Starfish story and making
that difference and knowing that it's a win win purchase
(09:12):
that keeps giving back. And I never thought about the
time of the starfish story to the star necklace. But
Mother's Day is right around the corner, So I will
say if you are going to shop with anything a
Spoa which we have a whole cool Mom line which
shout out Gracie because she does the pictures and the
videos for all the shop Forward stuff that Mary has,
but also a Spoa which she was at my house
(09:32):
filming some cool mom stuff today and we have a
whole line up there shop spa dot com e s
p w A that gives back to those new moms
and babies and has an impact and it makes a difference.
So shopping for Mother's Day probably needs to happen, like
now you need to put in your order because you
want to get it in time for Mother's Day. And
then quickly, the Meghan story that I was going to
(09:54):
share with you is I had her on the podcast
and she micro blades my brows. But she also does
nipple tatto doing for breast cancer survivors that have had mostectomies,
and she recently had an appointment with one of my
listeners that heard about her because she came on and
I guess that listener had had a double mistectomy years
ago and maybe had had I'm just kind of paraphrasing
(10:17):
because she didn't give me all the details and it's
this person's private information. So if it's you listening, Hi, Sorry,
I'm not trying to put you on front Street. But
maybe she had uh, like the surgeon had done some
nipple tattooing like nine times and it just wasn't really
working out or it faded or whatever. But Megan is
very good at what she does. Beauty by Megan. She's
based out of near Nashville, like in Franklin, Tennessee, and
(10:41):
it's like her passion. She is so so good at it.
And I'm so thankful that's the person founder because she
was able to put the nipples on her boobs, her
new boobs or however long she's had them, like her
reconstructed I guess boobs is what I should say. So
that was a cool message to get from Megan, and
I literally got her note about that listener and the
(11:02):
note from you in the same week, so I was like, Lord,
are you trying to send me reminders? And maybe yeah,
because I think I was having a particular week where
I was like what am I even doing? And then
so that was my my answer. And so I feel
like I'm grateful and thankful to you and Vegan for
reaching out and saying that, and then we can all
have those full circle moments because Vegan's making an impact
(11:25):
one patient at a time, whether it's with their brows
or their boobs. And then you're making such an impact
for so many and just quickly, where can people find
you if they want to see some of your work
or maybe another listener might be interested in the website
of course, so it's Elevate Marketing is the company Elevated
MKTG dot com. Also there on Instagram as well. Awesome.
And then Gracie Bogler, is that just it's just Grace
(11:48):
Boler straight up, that's your personal page, lots of steam Bay. Okay, well, Gracie,
I love you, adore you, thank you for coming on
and keeping a seven, keep chasing the fun. I mentioned
in my chat with Gracie about SPA supporting project met
(12:09):
a Share for Mother's Day, So I wanted to have
someone on from Project met A Share for this thing
to talk about the impact that it makes when you
shop anything from our spa line. But before I do that,
I want to read a caption from an Instagram post
that I put up this last weekend that accompanied a
picture of me and my son Stevenson. As I was
(12:29):
looking at him in the photo and then me wearing
my cool mom sweatshirt, I just couldn't help but think
of his birth mom and of Stashira's birth mom. Because
my kids are not biological siblings, so I've got two
birth moms that I think about often that I would
love to know more about their story, and I hope
to one day, like maybe one day we'll all get
to meet. I hope my kids get to have a
(12:49):
relationship with their mom. But we'll just have to see
how that unfolds. All right. Here is the Instagram post
that I put up. This kid makes me a cool mom. Literally, firstly,
he's cool, and then I wouldn't even be a mom
without him and Stashira letting me come in and love
as a second mom. I do think about their first
(13:10):
moms often, especially as we get closer to Mother's Day.
And I wonder what it was like for them when
they were pregnant, what it was like for them after
they gave birth. Their stories are very different, but both
led to an orphanage, so I know support was minimal,
if any. I can't imagine being pregnant and giving birth
without much help or care from others. This cool mom
(13:31):
pull over that I'm wearing is super special for that
reason because right now it's supporting Project Meta Share and
the life saving work that they're doing at their maternity
centers for pregnant women, new moms and babies in rural
parts of Haiti. One in every eighty women in Haiti
die from childbirth and pregnancy related causes. If you have
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Mother's Day shopping to get done, consider something from our
spaw line. The moms in your life will love that
it's cute, thoughtful and helps other mom get the vital
support that they need. Just go to shop squad dot com.
Spua equals Hope in Haitian creol. And now that's my post.
And I've got Stephanie carl On right now from Project
(14:14):
Meta Share And definitely let's start with why it's cool
when people shop SPOA for Mother's Day like, what kind
of hope are they spreading down there in Haiti? For y'all,
the partnership with SPA has just been fundamental because last
year we really needed a new land cruiser ambulance. The
roads that we are on in Haiti are very rural,
(14:35):
you know if they're not paved, and so women were
going to great lengths to get to our clinic. I
heard of a story of a woman who was flour
demeters dilated. She'd walk to two hours to get to
our clinic, which is just insane. I can't believe that.
So these ambulances now can transform into our clinics, so
they can, you know, have a little more comfort, you know,
during their their moments to deliver. Well, Stephanie, it makes
(14:56):
me think of a recent post that you'll put up
on Project Meta Share Instagram, and I just pulled it
up so I want to read it for listeners. And
it was a picture of the ambulance and then magnets
on it that say sponsored by the shop Forward and
a Squaw And here's what y'all wrote. Last year, we
launched a campaign in hopes of raising funds to purchase
a much needed land cruiser ambulance. We were slowly reaching
(15:20):
our goal when the ladies from the Shop Forward and
Shop a Spua and their community of supporters stepped in
and made a contribution. Thanks to their generosity, we raised
enough to purchase not one, but two ambulances. And I
just think that that is that is so cool, and
it is our community, like they step up every single time.
(15:40):
And it's crazy to think that Haiti is so close
to America yet way of life and medical care is
just so different. Something that's sort of difficult drop our
heads around is the fact that, you know, Haiti is
just a two hour flight from Miami, where I'm based.
It's really not far, and so you fly to hours
and get to a country like Haiti, or women are
dying from something as simple as not having you know,
(16:01):
a sterile blade for their deliveries. A lot of these
maternal health deaths and Haiti are easily preventable. So it's
just crazy, you know, you hear things like this from
places that are far off, and the Haiti is just
around the corner from the United States. I mean, I
just can't even imagine how many lives you all have
saved having these maternity centers. A lot of women who
come for premio appointments don't necessarily deliver at our centers
(16:24):
because there's just they're so far when it comes to
that moment like where their water breaks, we're talking like
hours walking. But that's when we have the matron's trained
who are in their communities, they can still have, you know,
a safe delivery experience. Would a matron be a midwife exactly? Yes,
that's that's the term these matron. We would use birth attendant,
but a midwife would be like the easiest thing to
(16:45):
a reference that. Yeah, what are some specific needs that
you know that you have this year? Like last year
was the ambulance? Is there specific stuff that you're looking for.
We're always pushing for more matron training so we can
expand and decentralized or health get want to reach more women.
Um so something as simple as a birth kit can
really mean the difference between life or death for a
(17:06):
woman giving birth and Haiti and these births kids are
provided to the matrons who go out into their communities
and offer these services to their own communities. So that's
also part of our capacity building programs. We want to
empower Haitians themselves as all of our clinics are staffed
by Haitian doctors, nurses, medical aids, and midwives, So we're
empowering Haitians to then in turn, you know, give back
(17:28):
to their own communities. How much is a birth kit
thirty dollars? You think the fact that like a three
dollar birth kit essentially can save the life. That means
differencetween life or death for a woman in Haiti. It's
something that's so small, so simple, and has such a
huge impact. And how many babies were born last year,
Some twenty four were just in our clinics, you know what,
Our doctors are nurses, and then there's so many babies
(17:50):
are delivered outside. But thanks to our training and our equipment,
let's just say five hundred are delivered outside of the
clinic times thirty So that would be and dollars that
you need for birth kits. So yeah, and that could
be a life or death situation having that thirty dollar kits.
Absolutely yes. Our goal is going to be to try
(18:10):
to get as many birth kits for y'all as possible.
So just would encourage anyone listening if they're shopping for
Mother's day shop spua dot com. There's so many different
options from cool mom pullovers to four things tease to
customize totes and pouches that all go towards supporting Project
Meta Share, this Mother's Day and the critical work that
(18:34):
y'all are doing. Yes, thank you, and we want to
extend our heart folk gratitude. We're so so so thankful
for everything that you guys do. It has made such
a difference. And I'm sure I know that you guys know,
but this is just a reminder you really are saving
hundreds of lives and Haitiou it's incredible. It's the listeners
of this podcast, it's the followers of the shop Forward
in a Squaw and people just wanting to shop with
(18:54):
purpose when you're making that purchase online, like it really
is having a huge impact. Well, y'all are the one
is doing the hard work. And I'll just say the
website one last time, it's Shop a squaw dot com
e s p w A and I just want to
encourage people to to check out Project meta Share on
Instagram at meta share for Haiti and for is the
(19:15):
number four that's the handle. And thank you Stephanie so
much for taking the time, Thank you so much, Thank
you all right, for this thing. I have an email
(19:35):
to share with you that's an update from a listener
that's also going to lead into some personal updates for me.
But before I do that, I want to share a
text that I just got from Jenna, whose dad is
the doctor that founded project Meta Share in Haiti, and
her text shares some more details about the birth kits
that Stephanie mentioned and the last thing, so I just
want to read it quickly. Hey, Amy, steph shared that
(19:57):
y'all want to support clean birth kits, which is wonderful
news as they make a huge difference. I'm attaching a
picture of the contents of a single birth kit. We
give them to the matrons, which again is the midwives
from each community at our education sessions. The birthkits contain
supplies for three safe deliveries within them, so everything you
(20:17):
see in the picture is times three sterile razor blades,
betadine gloves, nasal bulbs, yringe, blue pads, et cetera. And
there are thirty dollars for the kit, and again that
includes three deliveries. That way the midwives have a good
supply from when they're out in the field to be
able to handle multiple deliveries and I'm so glad Jenna
just sent me that text before I recorded this, so
(20:39):
that way I could include the contents of the birth
kits here because it shows it's such simple things that
are life saving. And I'm going to post the picture
that she sent me on my Instagram so that y'all
can see. At Radio Amy is my handle, and again,
birth kits are only thirty dollars and there are hundreds
and hundreds of birth in Central Plateau each year. That's
(21:00):
where Project meta Share is located. So let's rally together
and shop with a purpose for Mother's Day again. You
can go to shop spat dot com to find a
really cute, thoughtful gift for any mom in your life.
And the money is not going to me. It's going
towards keeping women safe as they give birth and remote
parts of Haiti. So thank you so much in advance
(21:20):
for your support. You'll always come through and it's just
really awesome. Okay, now I want to get to the
email that I got from a listener named Audrey. Hey, Amy,
if you ever need someone to join you on a
listener Q and H chat and in the future, I
would be honored you shared my email that I sent
in about your October nineteenth podcast called Tools for Changing
the Narrative, and in that email I spoke about wanting
(21:43):
to start therapy and how much your podcast, the Outweigh podcast,
and the Uned Therapy podcast have influenced that. I had
two additional months of being on a waitlist, but I
have started. I have officially completed ten weeks of therapy.
If you're interested, I'd be happy to share my experience
and an update on where I'm at, what therapy is
(22:04):
like for someone who's never been, and how it has
changed my life. Please let me know if this is
something you would ever be interested in. If not, totally
okay to still a huge fan of what y'all are
putting out into the world. It has literally been life
changing for me. Smiley face your friend, Audrey. Well, Audrey,
thank you so much for this update. I would absolutely
(22:26):
love to have you on the podcast to talk about
This would be either on a four Things episode or
like a Listener Q and A, which you suggested, and
that's what I have a quick update on. Really well,
the reason why I haven't been able to do Listener,
Q and A episodes is because of the movie situation.
I have been asked to be a part of a movie.
I don't know all the details that I can share,
(22:48):
but it is kind of crazy because it's a bucket
list item for me, but it's not anything I've ever
really prepared for, so I'm very nervous. If any of
you have acting tips, please send them my way four
Things of the Amy Brown and Gmail dot com. I'll
take any tips that I can get because I actually
do have lines. Even though I'm playing myself. I'm playing
Amy Brown from the Bobby Bones Show with My Heart Radio.
(23:10):
I don't know exactly how they're teeing it up. I
don't really know what details I can give away at
this moment, or share for that matter. But I'm even
sweating as I say this because I've been incredibly nervous
about it. But once I realized that it might be
a possibility, didn't know for sure for sure if it
was going to happen. Looked at the schedule, saw the
(23:32):
listener Q and A interviews that I had lined up,
and some a lot of stuff in my schedule had
to get cleared. Quite honestly, it wasn't just that so
had to move all of those And I'll be doing
them in mid May, so therefore we were kind of
on a roll. We had four listener Q and A
episodes in a row every Sunday, Boom boom boom. They
were loading. It was fun. I love connecting with y'all
in that way. And then we had to stop. I
(23:55):
was going to take a little bit of a break anyway,
to reset and figure out exactly how I wanted to
do it. But then moving forward, we had interviews booked,
we had a plan, we have all on the calendar,
and just had to just press pause, which sometimes we
have to do that in life because now I'm working
around some other people's schedules and again bucket list items,
so some of this stuff is just moving down the
(24:17):
line on the calendar, but still will happen. And another
interview that I had to move for the same reason
was my sitting down with Donald Miller, which I was
incredibly bummed about because a lot of you have been
excited about that chat again, so am I kind of
freaking out Cats actually going to do that one with
me because she's so excited to talk to him as well.
We're all doing an in person sit down, but I
had to cancel original date, and we weren't able to
(24:40):
sync up and find a date that worked together until June,
so we'll have to wait a little bit longer for
that one, but it definitely is going to be worth it.
And before we get out of this thing real quick,
I thought it'd be fun to just share a recent
clip of something I said on the Bobby Bones Show,
where I shared that my bucket list wishes to be
and a Hallmark Christmas movie, which I will say this
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isn't a Hallmark movie, but possibly Christmas. I don't want
to give away what I don't know. Again, I don't
want to get in trouble for saying too much and
then get cut from the movie. But I really feel
like later in this year come that time where we
all like to just lay on the couch and watch
these types of movies. I don't know. I hope that
you will be watching this one that I'm going to
be in and yeah, see I'm nervous and sweating. But
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here's the clip of me saying that on the Bobby
Bones Show. Okay, so I have a bucket list item
which would be I don't know, being a Hallmark Christmas movie. Somehow,
even if just an extra, and I saw that her
She's is teamed up with the Hallmark Channel and they
have a baking contest going on and a lucky winner
is going to get a walk on role as a
baker and the Hallmark Movie Channel. And I have said
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it way more times than just in that clip, y'all.
So it's stuff I've put out there. I've even put
it on one of my vision board things. I've said
it to friends often. I've also said I want to
play the voice of an animated fish. So I'm gonna
keep saying that and maybe one day that dream will
come true. So anyway, keep putting things out there. You
never know what's going to come your way, what's gonna happen,
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or if it ever even will happen. Quite honestly, I
might not ever be the fish, but I'm going to
keep saying it. All right. For this thing, I am
highlighting my girl, Lisa Hame. She's one of my favorite
friends that I have made through Instagram and I'm so
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thankful for her, And she recently put up a post
that's stuck with me. You know, like sometimes someone just
shares something that you're like, oh, that's good. So I've
been saving it, and I'm going to read it to
you now and hopefully it will resonate with you. And
then I'm going to share with you a really cool
podcast episode that she had on her very own podcast recently,
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and then the guests from that episode ended up coming
on to our Outweigh podcast, which is the one that
we co host together about eating disorders and disordered eating
and body image and stuff. So kind of a little
a Lisa highlight here for the fourth thing, but here
is what she put up on Instagram. Unpopular opinion. We
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don't have to fit neatly into boxes. We don't need
to label the way we think, eat, move, We don't
need to choose concrete sides. We can just be from
our own thoughts, honor our own needs, and stay true
to who we are. People struggle to understand me because
I'm hard to define, categorize, find a place in their mind.
(27:31):
I'm okay with that because this allows me to live
from my heart, free of fear, and make choices that
fit me best in the moment without noise impacting my
ability to think or serve myself. I had an unmedicated
birth by choice, and I take medication for PPD. I
love alternative and Eastern medicine, but I deeply respect Western
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medicine too. I'm a nutritionist per my degree, but I
talk a lot about other topics as they are relevant.
I believe we as women can love ourselves and also
wear makeup, have cosmetic procedures and enhancements as we please.
I have lots of food that's technically vegan, but I
am not vegan. I was born Jewish, but I have
interests and other religions, and appropriately love to take part
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in other traditions when invited or there's opportunity to learn.
I think food can be medicine, and yet I don't
think that makes most junk food poison. I believe this
is what the world is missing. Permission to not be defined,
permission to explore, permission to learn, to be, to think,
to show up for ourselves that day without being afraid
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to leave our designated box. Tell me, how do you
live outside the box that the world wants to put
you in? Question Mark and I'm seyn That is Lisa's post.
If you want to follow her on Instagram, she's great.
Her handle is at Lisa hame H a y I am.
And then if you want to check out Lisa's podcast.
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It's called The Truth, Fust Life, and Full Disclosure. It
is a part of my podcast network, but even if
it wasn't, I would be a fan. Lisa pours her
heart and soul into this podcast and the conversations that
she has with people. One that I listened to recently
that I really enjoyed was with Kathleen Cameron, and I'm
just gonna read to the description that she put up
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in the podcast episode again. This is from The Truthiust Life.
The title of this episode is at fifteen plus million
in two years Here's How featuring Kathleen Cameron. This episode
isn't really about how much money Kathleen has made. It's
about her impact on changing women's beliefs about themselves, money,
and their ability to help others. In just two years,
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Kathleen took on a second career, quit dieting, trying to conform,
and became a self made millionaire, helping thousands of women
claim their freedom through her manifestation coaching programs. In this episode,
we learn the science of manifestation and what a manifestation
coach is, why success can be found Niece size, the
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importance of raising up other women and how to bow
out of gossip, why affirmations, if not done right, can
actually hold us back, and how our lens of life
changes when we let go of our limiting beliefs and
act in accord with the universe. So go to the
Truthious Life to find that episode and many other amazing
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episodes that Lisa has up there. Again. Podcast is called
The Truthius Life, and on Instagram she's at Lisa hame
h a y I am Lisa. If you're listening to this,
adore you keep up the great work and then remember
y'all can also check out Kathleen Cameron. She did a
sit down with Lisa for our Outweigh podcast because after
Lisa talked with her on here, she was like, WHOA,
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Like you did this whole quick dieting thing, had to
make this shift, Like I would love to hear your
story and more about that on Outweigh. So go over
to the Outweigh podcast to listen to that episode. So
not that you already don't have a lot going on,
a lot to do in your life and TV shows
to watch and books to read and kids to parents,
work to do, and relationships to to nourish, but hey,
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just a few more podcasts, listen to Never Hurts, and
with that we are done with two days episode. Thank
you for hanging out for all four Things, thank you
for the continued support through SPA for Mother's Day, and
then yeah, well this crazy new movie thing that I
have going on, so again, you can send me emails
four Things with Amy Brown at gmail dot com. On Instagram,
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you can find me at Radio Amy. If you want
to write and review the podcast, we love that too,
Just go to wherever you listen put five stars. If
you're one of those people that have one star, we'll
just send me an email. No need to put it public.
I would love to hear from you and your thoughts,
but you don't have to put me on blast publicly,
which don't even have to worry about that one Nope, nope, nope.
And then shop USPA dot com. One last time for
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the people in the back that maybe I haven't heard
it the fifteen other times I have mentioned it this episode,
But as you can tell, Haiti is just always going
to be important to me, so I'm gonna keep talking
about it. A spat means hope in Haitian creole. Shop
Squad dot com, e s p w A and Mothers
Day's coming up May eight, Mothersday's May eighth. It's right
around the corner, so get your shopping done and feel
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good about it.
Okay, Cass, little food for you. So life, Oh it's
pretty Bay, It's pretty beautiful than that a little moth
(00:29):
kicking with four. Today's four things is like an o
G episode. Everything is very different from this first thing
coming up, where I talked to Gracie about just making
a difference, to the second thing, where we're gonna be
talking about the lives that you are helping save when
you shop for Mother's Day. The third thing, I reveal
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that I'm going to be in a movie, which is
a crazy life update. I never thought I'd be saying
that here on the podcast. And then the fourth thing,
we'll be talking about how we don't all have to
fit neatly into a box. We don't need to label
things as we often think that we should, and that
is wisdom from a girl Lisa. So, without further ado,
we're going to get into today's episode. I hope you enjoy. First. Okay,
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So for this thing, my friend Gracie is on Gracie
Mokeler shout Hey Grace. He has been on the podcast before,
so is her husband, Steve. Steve Mokler amazing singer songwriter
based out of Nashville. Check out his music. What what
shout out. We love Steve. Gracie. Just to give a
little backstory, she's my friend. That's a seven on the angiogram.
So she's always up for a good time. I always
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trying to throw a party. She loves to connect people.
She hosts like a fun mom's group, what do you
call it? Like once a month she coordinated this just her.
She just wanted to gather mom So once a month
she sends out an email and always does something cool
and I can never go They'll come on. So that
is Gracie's vibe. She's just the sweetest, kind, thoughtful, looking
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for fun friend. And I think it's funny because Steve
y'all are a little bit different and it's funny watching
them interact or and just knowing different stories from your
life and how sometimes Steve is doing something to you
and you're like, Steve, I need to have fun, Like
we're gonna have fun. We have to. This is not
fun right now and we need to change. But where's
the beat? I'm just curious. Yeah, So Gracie is on
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right now because she encouraged me this week and I thought, Hey,
next time you ever at the house, let's just go
record real quick so that we can use this story
to encourage others. And then I have a follow up
story about another word of encouragement from my friend Megan.
So we've got a few little stories here for you
all that will hopefully remind you that whatever you're doing,
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you're making a difference. And if you're having those days
where whatever your job is, or if you've got certain
relationships where you're working on things, just like, keep moving forward,
take one step in the right direction each day, keep
showing up, keep doing your best, and you'll make an impact,
even if it's on just one person. That's why I
say on the podcast all the time, no matter what,
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if a story is told, if I would get vulnerable,
or maybe I happen to say something funny, like, if
it made one person laugh, feel something, not feel alone,
maybe even cry if they need to, then that's the impact.
That's why we're here, that's why we're talking. And before
we get into your story and how you encouraged me, Gracie,
I'll tell you the starfish story familiar I'm not okay.
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As an old man walked to the beach, he saw
a boy picking up starfish and flinging them into the sea.
He asked the boy why. The boy answered that the
starfish would die if left stranded on the beach. Confused,
the old man said, but the beach goes on for
miles and there are thousands of starfish. You can't make
a difference. The boy looked at the starfish in his hand,
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tossed it into the ocean, and said, made a difference
for that one and so one at a time. That
is what it's all about. So, Gracie, why don't you
share the little text that you sent me the other day? Yes, well,
I so I texted you to thank you because Amy
had me on the podcast probably maybe like a year ago,
and I've been doing digital marketing for about four years
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and was just trying to expand like my offerings, and
so somebody heard me on the podcast and UM reached
out after that to see if I could build a
website for them, and I'm like, oh gosh, this feels
come out of my comfort zone, like I've done it
for myself. I've never like officially done that. And I
was like, you know what, I'm just trying to say
yes more things in life and be uncomfortable and grow
and so UM I was like, let's do it. Shout
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out Alison Stewart if you're listening, she's amazing. She's a
logger and we built a website for her podcast, Women
in Law. Anyway, so I texted Amy because I just
finished my six website and I'm like, if you've never
had me on here and your listener had never heard it,
like I probably with me doing this now. This is
not what I thought i'd be doing, but I love
it and it's been so fulfilling for me. And so
I just did texting thanks, like thanks for you know,
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bringing me on and sharing about my company and just
using your kind words to help in my business. Like
I really pre shoot that and that meant a lot
to me. Well, I love that a listener reached out
and then it challenged you and you were a little hesitant,
but you were like, you know what, I can do this.
I'm just gonna say yes and I'm gonna try. And
then it worked and it works, and yeah, now you've
got six websites that you've done. It's like my favorite
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thing now. Okay, So I love that story very much
and also because you shared it with me, you took
the time to stop and remind me. Sometimes I'm having
those days where I just don't even know why I'm
talking into a microphone so many days a week, I'm
like why, I don't know. But again, that one person
and so for that day, you were that one person
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and you were reminding me. But also you were that
one person for Allison. And then there's probably women that
have been impacted by Allison's website and podcast, and so
it's a chain reaction. And I even think of how
you and I were brought together and the impact you've
had on other women, and you kept going and you've
made a difference for women, Like basically your whole adult life,
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you've always had a business where you're supporting others and
giving back and trying to make people either feel their
best look their best. And like we're started with Miriam
Designs because that's how I met you. Our friend Ali,
who runs the dry House, which is like a place
where you can go get your hair blown out. She
was like, you have to meet Gracey and Mary and
I were thinking about making jewelry for a Spua which
would support Haiti, and since you had a jewelry business,
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I was like, okay, I'm in a text her we'll
meet you for coffee. So we did, and I learned
all about your company, which I want you to share
that because I feel like that's a story of impact
as well. It was called me Room Designs, and it
started when I met a woman who had come off
the streets who was trying to have a job. And
you know a lot of those women don't have like
they didn't graduate high school or even sometimes middle school,
so they're trying to figure out like how they can
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you know, use their skills to get a job. And
so I was like, well, what can I do to help?
So I taught myself how to make jewelry on YouTube
and then hired them to come make jewelry for me.
So we started in my attic. I was twenty three,
Stephen Ira Newly was we were completely broke, and we're
like we just had dreams, you know, that was like
our currency at the time. So we went on tour
with a camper and Steve will play music and I
will get up and talk about the jewelry, and so
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it was really fun and yeah, just met some amazing
women along the way. And to your point about you know,
one person makes a difference. So I actually had a
call with a big company to be in their give
back market place when I was running Miriam and we
had the call. Was super excited, trying to grow so
I could hire more women, and basically they turned me
down because they said I wasn't making a big enough impact,
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I wasn't helping enough women. And I was so devastated
because I was like, if one woman gets off the streets,
if one woman can put food on her table, if
one woman shows up for her family or knows that
she's loved, I mean, any of those things, that is
a success, you know. And so really a challenge to
me to be like, how am I defining success in
my business? You know, like it's not a numbers game.
We're humans, you know, Like that's not how it is.
And so I was super sad, but then, honestly, by
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the Lord's grace, kept going and ended up partnering with
the company in Nashville called Able, and we merged with them,
and so now I had three women when I ran
the company, and now they have I believe, about twenty
and with goals to double in the next year or two.
So again, you never know how your impact is gonna change,
you know, and like you have to just keep going,
you know, and know that what you're doing, whether it's
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one person, tend people a hundred, it's about making impact,
like just with a personal level, you know what I mean,
it's that one star vision a difference for that one
And speaking of stars and not fish necessarily, but stars
enable and you like through us meeting, I learned about
able and had contacts there for the Star necklace that
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Mary and I have under a squaw, which gives back
to Haiti. And so the really cool impact there is
that it has one locally because of the women that
are making it here in Nashville, the women that started
out in my attic. You're at it and again yeah
now there's twenty with plans to double. I love hearing
that goose bumps. And then it also gives back to Haiti,
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which right now for Mother's Day, it's giving back to
new moms and babies through Project Meta Share and their
maternity centers. So Star necklace shout out Mother's Day gift
idea or maybe just treat yourself if your mom, because
you definitely deserve to have a little something for yourself
and a good reminder of like maybe the star necklace
can be a reminder of the Starfish story and making
that difference and knowing that it's a win win purchase
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that keeps giving back. And I never thought about the
time of the starfish story to the star necklace. But
Mother's Day is right around the corner, So I will
say if you are going to shop with anything a
Spoa which we have a whole cool Mom line which
shout out Gracie because she does the pictures and the
videos for all the shop Forward stuff that Mary has,
but also a Spoa which she was at my house
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filming some cool mom stuff today and we have a
whole line up there shop spa dot com e s
p w A that gives back to those new moms
and babies and has an impact and it makes a difference.
So shopping for Mother's Day probably needs to happen, like
now you need to put in your order because you
want to get it in time for Mother's Day. And
then quickly, the Meghan story that I was going to
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share with you is I had her on the podcast
and she micro blades my brows. But she also does
nipple tatto doing for breast cancer survivors that have had mostectomies,
and she recently had an appointment with one of my
listeners that heard about her because she came on and
I guess that listener had had a double mistectomy years
ago and maybe had had I'm just kind of paraphrasing
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because she didn't give me all the details and it's
this person's private information. So if it's you listening, Hi, Sorry,
I'm not trying to put you on front Street. But
maybe she had uh, like the surgeon had done some
nipple tattooing like nine times and it just wasn't really
working out or it faded or whatever. But Megan is
very good at what she does. Beauty by Megan. She's
based out of near Nashville, like in Franklin, Tennessee, and
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it's like her passion. She is so so good at it.
And I'm so thankful that's the person founder because she
was able to put the nipples on her boobs, her
new boobs or however long she's had them, like her
reconstructed I guess boobs is what I should say. So
that was a cool message to get from Megan, and
I literally got her note about that listener and the
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note from you in the same week, so I was like, Lord,
are you trying to send me reminders? And maybe yeah,
because I think I was having a particular week where
I was like what am I even doing? And then
so that was my my answer. And so I feel
like I'm grateful and thankful to you and Vegan for
reaching out and saying that, and then we can all
have those full circle moments because Vegan's making an impact
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one patient at a time, whether it's with their brows
or their boobs. And then you're making such an impact
for so many and just quickly, where can people find
you if they want to see some of your work
or maybe another listener might be interested in the website
of course, so it's Elevate Marketing is the company Elevated
MKTG dot com. Also there on Instagram as well. Awesome.
And then Gracie Bogler, is that just it's just Grace
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Boler straight up, that's your personal page, lots of steam Bay. Okay, well, Gracie,
I love you, adore you, thank you for coming on
and keeping a seven, keep chasing the fun. I mentioned
in my chat with Gracie about SPA supporting project met
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a Share for Mother's Day, So I wanted to have
someone on from Project met A Share for this thing
to talk about the impact that it makes when you
shop anything from our spa line. But before I do that,
I want to read a caption from an Instagram post
that I put up this last weekend that accompanied a
picture of me and my son Stevenson. As I was
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looking at him in the photo and then me wearing
my cool mom sweatshirt, I just couldn't help but think
of his birth mom and of Stashira's birth mom. Because
my kids are not biological siblings, so I've got two
birth moms that I think about often that I would
love to know more about their story, and I hope
to one day, like maybe one day we'll all get
to meet. I hope my kids get to have a
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relationship with their mom. But we'll just have to see
how that unfolds. All right. Here is the Instagram post
that I put up. This kid makes me a cool mom. Literally, firstly,
he's cool, and then I wouldn't even be a mom
without him and Stashira letting me come in and love
as a second mom. I do think about their first
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moms often, especially as we get closer to Mother's Day.
And I wonder what it was like for them when
they were pregnant, what it was like for them after
they gave birth. Their stories are very different, but both
led to an orphanage, so I know support was minimal,
if any. I can't imagine being pregnant and giving birth
without much help or care from others. This cool mom
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pull over that I'm wearing is super special for that
reason because right now it's supporting Project Meta Share and
the life saving work that they're doing at their maternity
centers for pregnant women, new moms and babies in rural
parts of Haiti. One in every eighty women in Haiti
die from childbirth and pregnancy related causes. If you have
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Mother's Day shopping to get done, consider something from our
spaw line. The moms in your life will love that
it's cute, thoughtful and helps other mom get the vital
support that they need. Just go to shop squad dot com.
Spua equals Hope in Haitian creol. And now that's my post.
And I've got Stephanie carl On right now from Project
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Meta Share And definitely let's start with why it's cool
when people shop SPOA for Mother's Day like, what kind
of hope are they spreading down there in Haiti? For y'all,
the partnership with SPA has just been fundamental because last
year we really needed a new land cruiser ambulance. The
roads that we are on in Haiti are very rural,
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you know if they're not paved, and so women were
going to great lengths to get to our clinic. I
heard of a story of a woman who was flour
demeters dilated. She'd walk to two hours to get to
our clinic, which is just insane. I can't believe that.
So these ambulances now can transform into our clinics, so
they can, you know, have a little more comfort, you know,
during their their moments to deliver. Well, Stephanie, it makes
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me think of a recent post that you'll put up
on Project Meta Share Instagram, and I just pulled it
up so I want to read it for listeners. And
it was a picture of the ambulance and then magnets
on it that say sponsored by the shop Forward and
a Squaw And here's what y'all wrote. Last year, we
launched a campaign in hopes of raising funds to purchase
a much needed land cruiser ambulance. We were slowly reaching
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our goal when the ladies from the Shop Forward and
Shop a Spua and their community of supporters stepped in
and made a contribution. Thanks to their generosity, we raised
enough to purchase not one, but two ambulances. And I
just think that that is that is so cool, and
it is our community, like they step up every single time.
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And it's crazy to think that Haiti is so close
to America yet way of life and medical care is
just so different. Something that's sort of difficult drop our
heads around is the fact that, you know, Haiti is
just a two hour flight from Miami, where I'm based.
It's really not far, and so you fly to hours
and get to a country like Haiti, or women are
dying from something as simple as not having you know,
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a sterile blade for their deliveries. A lot of these
maternal health deaths and Haiti are easily preventable. So it's
just crazy, you know, you hear things like this from
places that are far off, and the Haiti is just
around the corner from the United States. I mean, I
just can't even imagine how many lives you all have
saved having these maternity centers. A lot of women who
come for premio appointments don't necessarily deliver at our centers
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because there's just they're so far when it comes to
that moment like where their water breaks, we're talking like
hours walking. But that's when we have the matron's trained
who are in their communities, they can still have, you know,
a safe delivery experience. Would a matron be a midwife exactly? Yes,
that's that's the term these matron. We would use birth attendant,
but a midwife would be like the easiest thing to
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a reference that. Yeah, what are some specific needs that
you know that you have this year? Like last year
was the ambulance? Is there specific stuff that you're looking for.
We're always pushing for more matron training so we can
expand and decentralized or health get want to reach more women.
Um so something as simple as a birth kit can
really mean the difference between life or death for a
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woman giving birth and Haiti and these births kids are
provided to the matrons who go out into their communities
and offer these services to their own communities. So that's
also part of our capacity building programs. We want to
empower Haitians themselves as all of our clinics are staffed
by Haitian doctors, nurses, medical aids, and midwives, So we're
empowering Haitians to then in turn, you know, give back
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to their own communities. How much is a birth kit
thirty dollars? You think the fact that like a three
dollar birth kit essentially can save the life. That means
differencetween life or death for a woman in Haiti. It's
something that's so small, so simple, and has such a
huge impact. And how many babies were born last year,
Some twenty four were just in our clinics, you know what,
Our doctors are nurses, and then there's so many babies
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are delivered outside. But thanks to our training and our equipment,
let's just say five hundred are delivered outside of the
clinic times thirty So that would be and dollars that
you need for birth kits. So yeah, and that could
be a life or death situation having that thirty dollar kits.
Absolutely yes. Our goal is going to be to try
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to get as many birth kits for y'all as possible.
So just would encourage anyone listening if they're shopping for
Mother's day shop spua dot com. There's so many different
options from cool mom pullovers to four things tease to
customize totes and pouches that all go towards supporting Project
Meta Share, this Mother's Day and the critical work that
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y'all are doing. Yes, thank you, and we want to
extend our heart folk gratitude. We're so so so thankful
for everything that you guys do. It has made such
a difference. And I'm sure I know that you guys know,
but this is just a reminder you really are saving
hundreds of lives and Haitiou it's incredible. It's the listeners
of this podcast, it's the followers of the shop Forward
in a Squaw and people just wanting to shop with
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purpose when you're making that purchase online, like it really
is having a huge impact. Well, y'all are the one
is doing the hard work. And I'll just say the
website one last time, it's Shop a squaw dot com
e s p w A and I just want to
encourage people to to check out Project meta Share on
Instagram at meta share for Haiti and for is the
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number four that's the handle. And thank you Stephanie so
much for taking the time, Thank you so much, Thank
you all right, for this thing. I have an email
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to share with you that's an update from a listener
that's also going to lead into some personal updates for me.
But before I do that, I want to share a
text that I just got from Jenna, whose dad is
the doctor that founded project Meta Share in Haiti, and
her text shares some more details about the birth kits
that Stephanie mentioned and the last thing, so I just
want to read it quickly. Hey, Amy, steph shared that
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y'all want to support clean birth kits, which is wonderful
news as they make a huge difference. I'm attaching a
picture of the contents of a single birth kit. We
give them to the matrons, which again is the midwives
from each community at our education sessions. The birthkits contain
supplies for three safe deliveries within them, so everything you
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see in the picture is times three sterile razor blades,
betadine gloves, nasal bulbs, yringe, blue pads, et cetera. And
there are thirty dollars for the kit, and again that
includes three deliveries. That way the midwives have a good
supply from when they're out in the field to be
able to handle multiple deliveries and I'm so glad Jenna
just sent me that text before I recorded this, so
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that way I could include the contents of the birth
kits here because it shows it's such simple things that
are life saving. And I'm going to post the picture
that she sent me on my Instagram so that y'all
can see. At Radio Amy is my handle, and again,
birth kits are only thirty dollars and there are hundreds
and hundreds of birth in Central Plateau each year. That's
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where Project meta Share is located. So let's rally together
and shop with a purpose for Mother's Day again. You
can go to shop spat dot com to find a
really cute, thoughtful gift for any mom in your life.
And the money is not going to me. It's going
towards keeping women safe as they give birth and remote
parts of Haiti. So thank you so much in advance
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for your support. You'll always come through and it's just
really awesome. Okay, now I want to get to the
email that I got from a listener named Audrey. Hey, Amy,
if you ever need someone to join you on a
listener Q and H chat and in the future, I
would be honored you shared my email that I sent
in about your October nineteenth podcast called Tools for Changing
the Narrative, and in that email I spoke about wanting
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to start therapy and how much your podcast, the Outweigh podcast,
and the Uned Therapy podcast have influenced that. I had
two additional months of being on a waitlist, but I
have started. I have officially completed ten weeks of therapy.
If you're interested, I'd be happy to share my experience
and an update on where I'm at, what therapy is
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like for someone who's never been, and how it has
changed my life. Please let me know if this is
something you would ever be interested in. If not, totally
okay to still a huge fan of what y'all are
putting out into the world. It has literally been life
changing for me. Smiley face your friend, Audrey. Well, Audrey,
thank you so much for this update. I would absolutely
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love to have you on the podcast to talk about
This would be either on a four Things episode or
like a Listener Q and A, which you suggested, and
that's what I have a quick update on. Really well,
the reason why I haven't been able to do Listener,
Q and A episodes is because of the movie situation.
I have been asked to be a part of a movie.
I don't know all the details that I can share,
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but it is kind of crazy because it's a bucket
list item for me, but it's not anything I've ever
really prepared for, so I'm very nervous. If any of
you have acting tips, please send them my way four
Things of the Amy Brown and Gmail dot com. I'll
take any tips that I can get because I actually
do have lines. Even though I'm playing myself. I'm playing
Amy Brown from the Bobby Bones Show with My Heart Radio.
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I don't know exactly how they're teeing it up. I
don't really know what details I can give away at
this moment, or share for that matter. But I'm even
sweating as I say this because I've been incredibly nervous
about it. But once I realized that it might be
a possibility, didn't know for sure for sure if it
was going to happen. Looked at the schedule, saw the
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listener Q and A interviews that I had lined up,
and some a lot of stuff in my schedule had
to get cleared. Quite honestly, it wasn't just that so
had to move all of those And I'll be doing
them in mid May, so therefore we were kind of
on a roll. We had four listener Q and A
episodes in a row every Sunday, Boom boom boom. They
were loading. It was fun. I love connecting with y'all
in that way. And then we had to stop. I
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was going to take a little bit of a break anyway,
to reset and figure out exactly how I wanted to
do it. But then moving forward, we had interviews booked,
we had a plan, we have all on the calendar,
and just had to just press pause, which sometimes we
have to do that in life because now I'm working
around some other people's schedules and again bucket list items,
so some of this stuff is just moving down the
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line on the calendar, but still will happen. And another
interview that I had to move for the same reason
was my sitting down with Donald Miller, which I was
incredibly bummed about because a lot of you have been
excited about that chat again, so am I kind of
freaking out Cats actually going to do that one with
me because she's so excited to talk to him as well.
We're all doing an in person sit down, but I
had to cancel original date, and we weren't able to
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sync up and find a date that worked together until June,
so we'll have to wait a little bit longer for
that one, but it definitely is going to be worth it.
And before we get out of this thing real quick,
I thought it'd be fun to just share a recent
clip of something I said on the Bobby Bones Show,
where I shared that my bucket list wishes to be
and a Hallmark Christmas movie, which I will say this
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isn't a Hallmark movie, but possibly Christmas. I don't want
to give away what I don't know. Again, I don't
want to get in trouble for saying too much and
then get cut from the movie. But I really feel
like later in this year come that time where we
all like to just lay on the couch and watch
these types of movies. I don't know. I hope that
you will be watching this one that I'm going to
be in and yeah, see I'm nervous and sweating. But
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here's the clip of me saying that on the Bobby
Bones Show. Okay, so I have a bucket list item
which would be I don't know, being a Hallmark Christmas movie. Somehow,
even if just an extra, and I saw that her
She's is teamed up with the Hallmark Channel and they
have a baking contest going on and a lucky winner
is going to get a walk on role as a
baker and the Hallmark Movie Channel. And I have said
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it way more times than just in that clip, y'all.
So it's stuff I've put out there. I've even put
it on one of my vision board things. I've said
it to friends often. I've also said I want to
play the voice of an animated fish. So I'm gonna
keep saying that and maybe one day that dream will
come true. So anyway, keep putting things out there. You
never know what's going to come your way, what's gonna happen,
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or if it ever even will happen. Quite honestly, I
might not ever be the fish, but I'm going to
keep saying it. All right. For this thing, I am
highlighting my girl, Lisa Hame. She's one of my favorite
friends that I have made through Instagram and I'm so
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thankful for her, And she recently put up a post
that's stuck with me. You know, like sometimes someone just
shares something that you're like, oh, that's good. So I've
been saving it, and I'm going to read it to
you now and hopefully it will resonate with you. And
then I'm going to share with you a really cool
podcast episode that she had on her very own podcast recently,
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and then the guests from that episode ended up coming
on to our Outweigh podcast, which is the one that
we co host together about eating disorders and disordered eating
and body image and stuff. So kind of a little
a Lisa highlight here for the fourth thing, but here
is what she put up on Instagram. Unpopular opinion. We
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don't have to fit neatly into boxes. We don't need
to label the way we think, eat, move, We don't
need to choose concrete sides. We can just be from
our own thoughts, honor our own needs, and stay true
to who we are. People struggle to understand me because
I'm hard to define, categorize, find a place in their mind.
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I'm okay with that because this allows me to live
from my heart, free of fear, and make choices that
fit me best in the moment without noise impacting my
ability to think or serve myself. I had an unmedicated
birth by choice, and I take medication for PPD. I
love alternative and Eastern medicine, but I deeply respect Western
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medicine too. I'm a nutritionist per my degree, but I
talk a lot about other topics as they are relevant.
I believe we as women can love ourselves and also
wear makeup, have cosmetic procedures and enhancements as we please.
I have lots of food that's technically vegan, but I
am not vegan. I was born Jewish, but I have
interests and other religions, and appropriately love to take part
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in other traditions when invited or there's opportunity to learn.
I think food can be medicine, and yet I don't
think that makes most junk food poison. I believe this
is what the world is missing. Permission to not be defined,
permission to explore, permission to learn, to be, to think,
to show up for ourselves that day without being afraid
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to leave our designated box. Tell me, how do you
live outside the box that the world wants to put
you in? Question Mark and I'm seyn That is Lisa's post.
If you want to follow her on Instagram, she's great.
Her handle is at Lisa hame H a y I am.
And then if you want to check out Lisa's podcast.
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It's called The Truth, Fust Life, and Full Disclosure. It
is a part of my podcast network, but even if
it wasn't, I would be a fan. Lisa pours her
heart and soul into this podcast and the conversations that
she has with people. One that I listened to recently
that I really enjoyed was with Kathleen Cameron, and I'm
just gonna read to the description that she put up
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in the podcast episode again. This is from The Truthiust Life.
The title of this episode is at fifteen plus million
in two years Here's How featuring Kathleen Cameron. This episode
isn't really about how much money Kathleen has made. It's
about her impact on changing women's beliefs about themselves, money,
and their ability to help others. In just two years,
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Kathleen took on a second career, quit dieting, trying to conform,
and became a self made millionaire, helping thousands of women
claim their freedom through her manifestation coaching programs. In this episode,
we learn the science of manifestation and what a manifestation
coach is, why success can be found Niece size, the
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importance of raising up other women and how to bow
out of gossip, why affirmations, if not done right, can
actually hold us back, and how our lens of life
changes when we let go of our limiting beliefs and
act in accord with the universe. So go to the
Truthious Life to find that episode and many other amazing
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episodes that Lisa has up there. Again. Podcast is called
The Truthius Life, and on Instagram she's at Lisa hame
h a y I am Lisa. If you're listening to this,
adore you keep up the great work and then remember
y'all can also check out Kathleen Cameron. She did a
sit down with Lisa for our Outweigh podcast because after
Lisa talked with her on here, she was like, WHOA,
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Like you did this whole quick dieting thing, had to
make this shift, Like I would love to hear your
story and more about that on Outweigh. So go over
to the Outweigh podcast to listen to that episode. So
not that you already don't have a lot going on,
a lot to do in your life and TV shows
to watch and books to read and kids to parents,
work to do, and relationships to to nourish, but hey,
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just a few more podcasts, listen to Never Hurts, and
with that we are done with two days episode. Thank
you for hanging out for all four Things, thank you
for the continued support through SPA for Mother's Day, and
then yeah, well this crazy new movie thing that I
have going on, so again, you can send me emails
four Things with Amy Brown at gmail dot com. On Instagram,
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you can find me at Radio Amy. If you want
to write and review the podcast, we love that too,
Just go to wherever you listen put five stars. If
you're one of those people that have one star, we'll
just send me an email. No need to put it public.
I would love to hear from you and your thoughts,
but you don't have to put me on blast publicly,
which don't even have to worry about that one Nope, nope, nope.
And then shop USPA dot com. One last time for
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the people in the back that maybe I haven't heard
it the fifteen other times I have mentioned it this episode,
But as you can tell, Haiti is just always going
to be important to me, so I'm gonna keep talking
about it. A spat means hope in Haitian creole. Shop
Squad dot com, e s p w A and Mothers
Day's coming up May eight, Mothersday's May eighth. It's right
around the corner, so get your shopping done and feel
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good about it.
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