July 30, 2019 • 26 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.
You can send in questions directly to Amy here: 4thingswithAmybrown@gmail.com...maybe one week your question will be shared!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for the fifth Thing. This is the Q
and a episode for the four Things podcasts, so sort
a little bonus episode that comes out every Tuesday, where
I've gathered questions that you've emailed in, maybe after listening
to a Four Things episode and it kind of gets
you thinking about something and you want to answer. You
see me post something on Instagram or whatever drives you
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asking the question. I'm just super thankful that you take
the time to email and the questions and you never
know when your question might get addressed. Here, I thought
today that we would start out with, um, not a question,
but a super cool email that I got. I don't know,
just I thought is like a good tip for all
of us and something really neat that this girl Chloe
was doing, and so I thought, that's where we're gonna start.
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We're gonna start out with this awesome email from Chloe
that's gonna be like inspiration for us. So here's what
Chloe said, dar Amy love the show, love the four
Things podcast, and my wallet loves the shot forward. I
know you talk a lot about gratitude, and I thank
you for that because mentally it does keep us happier
and in check. Last night, I was going for a
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run outside and all of a sudden, I started giving
thanks to God for all the things I take for
granted each day. Although running isn't my favorite, this was
a whole new experience and it made me actually enjoy
my run and want to go on more runs. As
I began to run, I started saying things like this,
thank you God for my health. Thank you God for
my heartbeat. Thank you God for working legs and air
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in my lungs. Thank you God for the ability to run,
and on and on and on. You get it. On
the way home, I switched it up and said things like,
thank you God for the house I get to come
home to each each day. Thank you God for green,
soft grass and the growing flowers. Thank you God for
safety and my dogs. At any rate, I thought I
would share this with you since you're all about gratitude
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and it may help others enjoy running just a little
bit more. Keep being amazing best, Chloe Fletcher, So shout
out Chloe, thank you for that. And I too, have
started running in the last couple of months, and I
was like, yeah, this is probably a good little tip.
Maybe I'll start using it on my runs or any
part in your day or something. I think two that
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stands out here is like you're running, so you're using
your legs and the air and your lungs, and some
people don't. They can't run because their lungs don't allow them,
or maybe they don't have their legs. And you know,
a lot of times I get motivated to go out
and do things because I can do it. I'm gonna
do it for those they can't, because you know that
they wish that they could. And if you have the
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ability to get up and go do it, we should
just do it. So thank you, Chloe for the encouragement there. Now,
this next email is from Scott said, Hey me, my
family and I. Well, it's the email with a question.
This is the first question. Chloe's was just more of
a email, so questions from Scott, my family and I
(02:48):
just got back from vacation and Pagosa Springs. While there,
I visited your sister's coffee shop, shout Out, and I
had the energy Balls and bites. They were delicious and
was told by a friend that they were your recipe.
I was wondering if that resipe was out there, either
on your blog, social media, whatever, if not totally understand
respect that. Thanks Scott. Well, they're not my recipe, Scott,
but I did work in the kitchen one day and
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I made like four batches of those bad boys and
it was not easy work. But they are amazing. And
my sister's coffee shop in casehall are ever in Pagosa
Springs is called root House Coffee and it's right downtown
and Pagosa on the river. It's formerly known as the
river Front Coffee. They bought it a couple of months ago,
and I'm just over the moon, so proud of my
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sister and my brother in law, and my nieces and
nephews that work there, and all the other employees that
work there are super, super nice and amazing. But the
baker was about to hit over time and my so,
my sister she needs time off at the baker works
like really intense hours until they hire another baker, so
they try to like give her that time off. So
my sister and I before we got to go play
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for the day, we have a lot of baking to do.
So I was like, well, I'll come help you. Let's
do this together. So she my sister tackle the Keisha's
and hers Keisha is plural, would it just be keish
like keish could be multiple or is it just one? Anyway,
we had keish to bake and cinnamon rolls. And by
the way, the cinem role recipe that you all need
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in your life is the Pioneer Woman cinnamon roll recipe.
You can make it and you thank me later. It's amazing.
So then, uh, the energy ball bites. Those need to
be made. So that's what I was mostly in charge of.
So maybe someone saw me on Instagram making them and
thinking they were my recipe, but I cannot take credit
for it, and I don't know that I'll give away
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the exact recipe that my sister uses UM but I
found one um online that I've even used before and
it's very, very similar. So I'm going to tell it
to you real quick, because these are amazing and they're
great to kind of keep in your pantry or keep
in your fridge. On the go. You can grab them,
drink them with a macha latte. My favorite way to
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do it when I'm at root house, like I would
go in there, make them, watch a latte, eat an
energy ball. Well, actually, my sister calls them energy bites
because um, I think originally they were called energy balls.
But she's like, I just don't want anybody coming up
and ordering balls, so I get it. So here you go, quickly.
One cup of old fashioned notes. This will make you
about twenty balls or twenty bites. One cup of old
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fashioned notats, half a cup of almond butter, or you
can use any nut butter. You could use peanut butter
if that's more your jam, or you could use I
don't know, insert whatever nut butter is your favorite, but
I do almond butter, um, half a cup of ground
flax seed, half a cup of chocolate chips, a third
a cup of honey, a table spoon and maybe go
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even two tablespoons of chia seeds and a teaspoon of
vanilla extract. So boom, there's your ingredients. So you combine
the oats and the nut butter and the ground flax
seed and the chocolate chips and the honey and the
cheese seeds and the vanilla all together in a bowl
of vanilla extract. Cover and chill the dough in the
refrigerator like thirty minutes or so, and then remove it.
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I mean, it's not even necessary to really chill it.
That's what it's saying here. But then you can roll
into balls or energy bites. I'm like twelve years old.
I'm so immature. Um. And then you know, make them
one to my sister at the coffee shop. They make
there's two two. Well, I guess I don't know the diameter. Diameter.
We would weigh them and we would try to make
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them two ounces. Is that right? I can't really remember.
It doesn't matter. You can make them whatever size you want.
But they're an awesome snack, So Scott, hope that that
helps you will enjoy them. They are amazing. Next question
is from Macy. Hey, Amy, you're such a role model
for living your life in your own story. I don't
know about that, but that's me talking there. But back
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to the email from Macy. It surprises me so much
when you get hateful messages. It doesn't surprise me because
I mean, people are just haters out there. I was
wondering how you deal with this and not let it
affect how you view yourself. Um. Honestly, over the years, Macy,
I've had to grow incredibly thick skin. When I first
got into this business of like people knowing your life
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and feeling like they have an opinion about your life
and wanting to share it, whether it's positive or negative. UM,
which I think the positive ones are great, Like we
need that positivity, we need that affirmation. My love language
is affirmation, so I definitely need that. And so it
would really really hurt me when I would get like
a negative note and I used to think about it
all day. I would cry. I would craft some really
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thoughtful response and I would send it because I felt
like that person um was making a judgment about me,
that didn't really know me anyway. Now I don't I
just delete it. I don't even take the time. I
don't think about it. Maybe now in my life, like yeah,
I've gotten tougher skin, but also I just don't have
the time and I don't have the space for that
negative energy. I can be negative enough on my own
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sometimes I don't need to bring somebody else's negativity inside
my circle when I'm trying to like not be negative myself,
and negativity breeds more negativity, and it's just so I
just ignore it. I delete it, don't even really reply.
It's not worth my time. Um. Sometimes on Instagram, I
do comment like a reply to comments because it's so quick, like,
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but I don't craft like a long one. But I'll
be like, what are you talking about? Or why would
you say that? Or are you serious? Stuff like that.
But I was listening to Bobby's podcast with Thomas Rhett
and his podcasts The Bobby Cast in case you don't
know it, but um, I'm sure a lot of you do.
He recently had on Thomas Rhett and they were talking
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about this exact thing, and Thomas Rhett told a story
about how him and his wife were at lunch with
Bob Goff. And if y'all don't know who Bob Golf is,
he's an author and an amazing guy philanthropists, like just
super cool and really really inspiring. And I guess Bob
told Thomas Rhett that he on every pair of pants
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that he gets, he cuts out the left pocket and
that's a reminder to him, like anytime he like puts
his hand in there, it's like he knows, like, oh,
the left pocket, it's falling through. And so anytime he
gets haters, what he does mentally is puts him in
his left pocket and they're just gonna fall right through,
like boom, God, don't even have to worry about it,
(09:20):
and but cutting out the left pocket is a way
for him to remember that's what he needs to do
with the haters, just throw him away, not worth it,
just put them in that left pocket, never to be
seen again. So keep the negativity out. So I'm not
saying that you know, you need to cut you know,
pockets out of all your clothes or anything, whether it's
the right side or the left side. But I just
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thought that was a really good analogy and example of, like,
you know, a way you can remind yourself it's not
worth your time and to just like brush it off.
And really, honestly, if you're someone that is choosing to
be negative online, like uh, just think about it, like
the about why you're doing it and is there something
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wrong Or if you've caught yourself like about to maybe
write something that really isn't adding anything, like it's really
adding nothing positive, then you know, ask yourself, should I
really post this? And then maybe maybe you'll maybe you'll
stop because maybe you don't realize that it's negative. Maybe
you're not really stopping to think about what you're writing
and how that could impact a person and really affect
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their day, Like what do you want to affect somebody's
day negatively or positively, So really think about the comment
or the email or whatever before you hit sinned, and
that maybe will help, and maybe we can create a
different culture, a culture of positivity and um and not
breeding the negative. So may see. I hope that helps.
(10:45):
I definitely it took me a long time to get
to this point where I can ignore it now. I
mean I got a negative, Nancy like sort of rude
comment the other day and I reposted it in my stories,
but I didn't want to give that person send the
you know, attention, so I scratched out their Instagram handle.
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I mean, I guess someone could go back into the
comments and find it and read it and know who
it was. But I still wanted to post it, and
I was able to laugh about it, and I kind
of sarcastically put like I love when people send really
nice messages, and it just was like not a nice message.
But um, you know, that's what I'm able to do
with it now is kind of laugh them off. It's
comical and maybe even reposting my stories and laugh about
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it a little more. But you can do like Bob
Goff and just stick it in that left pocket and
say bye bye peace out. Next email is from Anonymous.
I don't know that we've ever gotten an anonymous before.
Hey Amy, I'm a twenty four year old guy living
in l A and love your podcast. Shout out all
the guys listening right now. I feel like I in
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my head, I'm always speaking to women, but I forget,
and this is a good reminder guys are listening. I
want to see if you had any advice when it
comes to getting through your first heartbreak. I recently went
through my heartbreak and finally feel like I'm on the
growing and recovery stages, but wanted to hear your experience
and advice on heartbreak. Thank you for all that you
do and the positive impact you've had in my life.
(12:10):
So thank you, Anonymous, twenty four year old guy living
in l A. Uh Oh, it's so hard. I my
two boyfriends, serious boyfriends that I had before my husband.
Both of my thought I would marry because I was young,
and like when you date somebody, it's like could I
marry them? Yes, I'm gonna I'm dating them to marry them.
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I don't know if they thought they were marrying me,
but I mean sort of we would kind of like
talk about it, but I don't know how serious we were. Um,
it was hard, Like when we broke up, it was
so hard, like I did not experience heartbreak well, like
I would cry and it was so dramatic. Um, But
I found what was really helpful to me. And my
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mom was still alive during those times, so she was
definitely someone that was always there for me. And I
found like with girlfriends or my mom or my sister,
like talking about it, like talking about your breakup can
be therapeutic as long as it's constructive, like you don't
want to again focus on the negative or like you
don't want to just drag on and on and on
about the relationship. But like if you find yourself in
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like victim mode, then you're going to have trouble moving on.
But if you just talk about your feelings and what
you're experiencing and then maybe you have some older, wiser
or more experienced people in your life that can like
speak truth into you and just be like you know what,
like there there could be in the sounds so cliche,
but there is something better. If if you broke up,
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then that wasn't the right relationship and you have to
hold out hope, and you have to have that hope
that if you want that there is something better for
you and there's a better match for you. Um, and
you've got to get out of the house, Like don't
bury yourself in your room. Sometimes. I remember actually to
a day, it wasn't even two days. I think it
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was next day after my boyfriend broke up with me,
the one that I had before I got married. Um,
my friends were all going to the lake and I
was supposed to go, and I decided not to go.
And that was a big mistake because I just stayed
home and I was miserable, and then I was, you know,
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jealous of my friends on the lake and they were
having a good time. Um, and I should have gone,
like that was That's something I learned. I learned later
from that, like when I experienced heartache like that, I
did not need to sit at home and wallow. I
should have gone to the lake that day. So, you know,
and maybe it's not a lake opportunity or anything, but
maybe one of those friends that you're confiding in, or
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your mom or your sister or your dad or whoever
it is, or your brother, Like if you need to
get out of the house and make sure that they
know they can take you out and socialize. Um, nowadays
you have to worry about social media. I mean that's
where like you know you back then, I didn't have
to worry about seeing my ex is on social media
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and what they were doing, or like if I ran
into an X, it wasn't on line or Instagram or Facebook,
like it was actually out and that the X that
I had before I got married. I did run into
him out like after we broke up, and I did
not handle it well. I guess I had probably been
drinking because we were downtown and I saw him and
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I cried at the bar. Uh huh yeah. So imagine
like you see your ex on Instagram, maybe out with
somebody else, and you cry at home. That's fine. No,
we didn't have that. So I just saw him alive
and in person, and I just remember I even remember
what triggered me crying because he was wearing this shirt
that like didn't really look like him, Like I knew
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he didn't buy that shirt, and that's how I found
out he was dating somebody else. And he said, I said,
this shirt, like it doesn't seem like you, and he said, oh, well,
so and so bought it for me, and I was like,
huh andrewest sting, So I just lose it. I start crying.
I think we did end up um spending the majority
(16:07):
of the night together, not like that, but but he
was having to console me and like just basically remind me,
like it's over, Like you need to let it go,
like get yourself together. You're a hot mess. So anyway,
that's my live version of like maybe what it would
be like now to see an Instagram post of your
X with a new girl. UM, so maybe you know,
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unfriend them all together on social media or uh at
least block them so you don't have to see things
until you're over the heartache, and then maybe you can
start to see posts, you know, um, And then I think, yeah,
practice gratitude when in doubt. Gratitude, that's what That's what
we're big on on this podcast. So work on being happy.
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And as I say, like I'm a broken record here
with that Burnet Brown quote, but there you know, there
is no joy without gratitude. So if you want that happiness,
you have to think of the things that you are
thankful for and practice that and make that your mantra
and over and over, because it is your choice to
be happy, and it is your choice to wallow in
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the heartache and the pain. So what you're gonna choose? Like,
I'm gonna go ahead and choose to be happy. So
think of the people in your life that you love,
that you have in your life, think of the things
you're thankful for, grateful for, um, all of that. Just
like Chloe's email at the beginning, that was from Chloe, right, yeah,
so she was sharing how she doesn't really like to run,
Like maybe you need to also think of hobbies like
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get out there and do things like to help you
get over a break up. Like sorry, something new, whether
it's running or yoga or a new workout class or
whatever the case may be. Anyway, got it? Okay? Sorry
Mr Anonymous. I'm sorry experiencing a breakup, but hopefully those
things help. Next question is from Samantha. I was curious
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about what your favorite part of running companies like a
Squaw and Pimp and Joy is. I think it has
to be such interesting and fulfilling work. And Samantha, I
will say, like the coolest part is seeing y'all respond.
Now a spa as a company that I have with
Mary and Pimp and Joy is a movement that we have.
We built on the Bobby Bones Show, but the shot
forward um sells. Uh. The merchant makes it happen. But
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Pimp and Joy is more than just the merch and
like the coming up with things to put out there
for y'all so you can like help spread it. Like
you don't even have to buy anything to be a
part of Pimp and Joy or a spua for that matter.
Sometimes it's just like, what are you gonna do to
choose joy? What are you going to do to spread hope?
And I think that's the most um uh. That's my
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favorite part about being a part of these things is
seeing you get on board with what we're doing. Like
we put up these sunglasses the other day, super them
into edition. We didn't even have that many. Honestly, I
don't even know if there's any left, but I am
obsessed with them and I love that they're like, I
love that it's a really cool product that we genuinely love.
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Like Mary and I wear the stuff. We love it,
and then we get to share it and passed along
to you guys, and then you get to buy it.
And you get to have the super cool product and
then feel good about it knowing that it went towards
um I exams or giving glasses to kids in Haiti
that need it, so Squaw sunglasses. That's that's my favorite part.
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It's coming up with super cool things that we love.
Like the star necklace I'm obsessed with and I recently
gave it to a bunch of my girlfriends and it's
been so fun for me to like see them all
wearing it lately, Like only a couple of weeks ago,
I kind of handed it out to um various girls
and now they're all like two girls. I saw one
last night and one today to my friends, and I
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was like, you're wear are your star necklace? Like it
just warms my heart and it means so much that
my friends genuinely love the product we're putting out. We
genuinely love it, and then when you love it, it's
it's just that's the that's that's the fulfillment. Like that's cool,
like product development and plus coming up and designing things
that it's never what I thought I would be doing
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in a million years, But to be able to have
a platform to create things um that give back like
that's that's the win win recipe for me, Like that's
the cool, Like I don't want to do this if
we're not all trying to work together to give back
to me, it's a waste of the platform, Like I'm
not just here to just talk and entertain and like,
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to me, collectively, we can all do really cool things.
So anyway, Um, hopefully that answers your question, Samantha. And
especially with Pimp and Joy, I mean, that's always gonna
be near and dear to my heart because it started
with my mom. But I mean, yeah, seeing a Pim
and Joy shirt or seeing the pim and Joy hashtag
anywhere online, whether it's you went out and did something
nice for someone and you were like hashtag him enjoy.
That's not bragging. That's encouraging others and inspiring other us
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to go out and do the same thing. So remember that.
Remember that when you're trying to and I mean obviously
if you say it in a really braggy, braggy way
like look at me, but it shouldn't be about you.
It should just be about contributing to the movement. So
any of you that have done that with Pimp and
Joy or a squaw like thank you super cool. Next
question is from Michelle. Uh, I have a question about
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shaving your face. She says, what happens when you can't
shave weekly due to unforeseen circumstances? Is it rough? Is
it noticeable to others? I wanted to start, but I'm scared,
and Michelle, yeah, I mean once you start, it starts
to go back through. So mine is like peach fuzz.
So sometimes I'll go, yeah, two weeks, I'll miss a week.
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I try to do it once a week, but I'll miss.
And yeah, it can be. I guess if you're in
the right sunlight. I guess people could start to see
it coming through. But I mean I used to have
full on peach fuzz all the time, so it's better
than that. If it's just going through a little bit,
you just gotta I think you're scared, so you just
need to go for it. You just gotta jump right in.
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Don't even dip your toes in the water. Go to
my Amazon page, radio amy dot com, which radiomy dot
com f y I I feel like I say stuff
a lot, but people miss things and they're like, wait,
what's your website again? And I'm like, well, I feel
like it's pretty easy to remember because but maybe you
don't follow me on Instagram. But my Instagram and Twitter
handles are Radio Amy, So radio amy dot com made sense.
(22:28):
But you can find links to pimp and joy stuff,
a squaw stuff, any shot Forward thing um that we
have going on if you want to go there to
check that out or blog stuff for this podcast um.
But also my favorite things on Amazon at Radio Amy
and I have my tinkle razors on there. And I
don't know why you should be able to shave weekly
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if you've got a tinkle rasor they're so tiny they
fit in your makeup bag, they fit in your purse. Like,
just take that bad boy with you. You don't always
have to have soap to even use the tinkle rais.
You can do it on dry skin. So like maybe
if you even get into a bathroom mirror and you
keep your tinkle razor in your purse, Like if you're
out and you notice like a little hair coming through
on the upper lip or like the side of your
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face or whatever, like little blonde, peach fuzzy things, or
maybe you have darker hair, Like, just take that bad
boy to your face. Right there and then put a
little makeup on over at Boom. You're good to go.
Your makeup will go on so much better if you
shave your face, Like all women just need to know,
you're going to have better skin if you shave your face.
I mean, I think I don't know unless you have
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other things going on. I guess I can't speak to
all skin types. But in my case, my skin is
just smoother. I feel like I'm it's giving me that
exfoliation I need once a week. Oh, I just tried,
speaking of I just tried. Maybe I'll do a thing
about this once I know more. But I follow Drew
Barrymore on Instagram and she was talking about Drunk Elephant,
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which is a face brand, and she did this baby
facial and it was so awesome. I mean I ordered
it and I did it once and it was so awesome,
and I want to do it maybe a few more times,
but you only have to do it like once a week,
so I'll have to like do it a few more
before I can give him, like my official official review,
and maybe I'll make it a thing in the in
like a Thursday episode. But that so far, I'm obsessed.
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So thank you Drew Barrymore for posting that on Instagram.
And I'm pretty I'm sure Drew Barrymore shapes her face.
I don't know, maybe she doesn't, but a lot of
people are doing it. There is nothing to be scared of, Michelle.
I know that it is terrifying because the first time,
before I was about to do it, I was so
nervous and freaking out. But dang, I am so glad
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I did it so okay. Well that that kind of
puts a rap on the Q and A for today.
So I hope that that was helpful for any of
you and go make yourself some Let's just recap real quick.
First of all, get a tinkle razer. They're amazing. Radiommy
dot com a SPA and phim enjoy are both amazing
things that are very fulfilling, and I love working on
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that stuff, especially with Mary and Bobby and the Bobby
Bones Show and listeners and y'all podcast listeners and even
other people that have just come to know a squaw
and pim enjoy, maybe not even from from me, but
from Mary or the Shot Forward or various organizations that
we've worked with, like just thank you. Also, if you're
going through a breakup, my heart goes out. But hopefully
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some of my tips helped. You need to cut the
left pocket out of all your shorts. Just getting but
definitely don't cling to negativity or hateful messages. It's not
worth your time. People. In case anybody's commenting negatively on
anything you're putting out there, who cares forget about them.
Make yourself some energy bites or energy balls, whatever you
want to call them. That recipe is clutch. And then
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if you hate running, try to practice gratitude while you run. Okay,
that's a recap of what we covered here today, and
I hope you all have an amazing Tuesday and you listen.
On Thursday, I've got Jessica Hanagher on, founder of Noonday Collection.
She's also adopted. She recently took her son home. He
is from Rwanda and they recently went back there for
(26:16):
a trip and pretty amazing experience um for him. Uh.
And she talks a little bit about that and other
ways UM that you can be a part of making
the world a better place. So I hope you listen
to that and the other three things that we will
have for you. So talk to you later.
It's time for the fifth Thing. This is the Q
and a episode for the four Things podcasts, so sort
a little bonus episode that comes out every Tuesday, where
I've gathered questions that you've emailed in, maybe after listening
to a Four Things episode and it kind of gets
you thinking about something and you want to answer. You
see me post something on Instagram or whatever drives you
(00:20):
asking the question. I'm just super thankful that you take
the time to email and the questions and you never
know when your question might get addressed. Here, I thought
today that we would start out with, um, not a question,
but a super cool email that I got. I don't know,
just I thought is like a good tip for all
of us and something really neat that this girl Chloe
was doing, and so I thought, that's where we're gonna start.
(00:41):
We're gonna start out with this awesome email from Chloe
that's gonna be like inspiration for us. So here's what
Chloe said, dar Amy love the show, love the four
Things podcast, and my wallet loves the shot forward. I
know you talk a lot about gratitude, and I thank
you for that because mentally it does keep us happier
and in check. Last night, I was going for a
(01:01):
run outside and all of a sudden, I started giving
thanks to God for all the things I take for
granted each day. Although running isn't my favorite, this was
a whole new experience and it made me actually enjoy
my run and want to go on more runs. As
I began to run, I started saying things like this,
thank you God for my health. Thank you God for
my heartbeat. Thank you God for working legs and air
(01:24):
in my lungs. Thank you God for the ability to run,
and on and on and on. You get it. On
the way home, I switched it up and said things like,
thank you God for the house I get to come
home to each each day. Thank you God for green,
soft grass and the growing flowers. Thank you God for
safety and my dogs. At any rate, I thought I
would share this with you since you're all about gratitude
(01:45):
and it may help others enjoy running just a little
bit more. Keep being amazing best, Chloe Fletcher, So shout
out Chloe, thank you for that. And I too, have
started running in the last couple of months, and I
was like, yeah, this is probably a good little tip.
Maybe I'll start using it on my runs or any
part in your day or something. I think two that
(02:05):
stands out here is like you're running, so you're using
your legs and the air and your lungs, and some
people don't. They can't run because their lungs don't allow them,
or maybe they don't have their legs. And you know,
a lot of times I get motivated to go out
and do things because I can do it. I'm gonna
do it for those they can't, because you know that
they wish that they could. And if you have the
(02:27):
ability to get up and go do it, we should
just do it. So thank you, Chloe for the encouragement there. Now,
this next email is from Scott said, Hey me, my
family and I. Well, it's the email with a question.
This is the first question. Chloe's was just more of
a email, so questions from Scott, my family and I
(02:48):
just got back from vacation and Pagosa Springs. While there,
I visited your sister's coffee shop, shout Out, and I
had the energy Balls and bites. They were delicious and
was told by a friend that they were your recipe.
I was wondering if that resipe was out there, either
on your blog, social media, whatever, if not totally understand
respect that. Thanks Scott. Well, they're not my recipe, Scott,
but I did work in the kitchen one day and
(03:11):
I made like four batches of those bad boys and
it was not easy work. But they are amazing. And
my sister's coffee shop in casehall are ever in Pagosa
Springs is called root House Coffee and it's right downtown
and Pagosa on the river. It's formerly known as the
river Front Coffee. They bought it a couple of months ago,
and I'm just over the moon, so proud of my
(03:32):
sister and my brother in law, and my nieces and
nephews that work there, and all the other employees that
work there are super, super nice and amazing. But the
baker was about to hit over time and my so,
my sister she needs time off at the baker works
like really intense hours until they hire another baker, so
they try to like give her that time off. So
my sister and I before we got to go play
(03:54):
for the day, we have a lot of baking to do.
So I was like, well, I'll come help you. Let's
do this together. So she my sister tackle the Keisha's
and hers Keisha is plural, would it just be keish
like keish could be multiple or is it just one? Anyway,
we had keish to bake and cinnamon rolls. And by
the way, the cinem role recipe that you all need
(04:14):
in your life is the Pioneer Woman cinnamon roll recipe.
You can make it and you thank me later. It's amazing.
So then, uh, the energy ball bites. Those need to
be made. So that's what I was mostly in charge of.
So maybe someone saw me on Instagram making them and
thinking they were my recipe, but I cannot take credit
for it, and I don't know that I'll give away
(04:34):
the exact recipe that my sister uses UM but I
found one um online that I've even used before and
it's very, very similar. So I'm going to tell it
to you real quick, because these are amazing and they're
great to kind of keep in your pantry or keep
in your fridge. On the go. You can grab them,
drink them with a macha latte. My favorite way to
(04:57):
do it when I'm at root house, like I would
go in there, make them, watch a latte, eat an
energy ball. Well, actually, my sister calls them energy bites
because um, I think originally they were called energy balls.
But she's like, I just don't want anybody coming up
and ordering balls, so I get it. So here you go, quickly.
One cup of old fashioned notes. This will make you
about twenty balls or twenty bites. One cup of old
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fashioned notats, half a cup of almond butter, or you
can use any nut butter. You could use peanut butter
if that's more your jam, or you could use I
don't know, insert whatever nut butter is your favorite, but
I do almond butter, um, half a cup of ground
flax seed, half a cup of chocolate chips, a third
a cup of honey, a table spoon and maybe go
(05:43):
even two tablespoons of chia seeds and a teaspoon of
vanilla extract. So boom, there's your ingredients. So you combine
the oats and the nut butter and the ground flax
seed and the chocolate chips and the honey and the
cheese seeds and the vanilla all together in a bowl
of vanilla extract. Cover and chill the dough in the
refrigerator like thirty minutes or so, and then remove it.
(06:06):
I mean, it's not even necessary to really chill it.
That's what it's saying here. But then you can roll
into balls or energy bites. I'm like twelve years old.
I'm so immature. Um. And then you know, make them
one to my sister at the coffee shop. They make
there's two two. Well, I guess I don't know the diameter. Diameter.
We would weigh them and we would try to make
(06:27):
them two ounces. Is that right? I can't really remember.
It doesn't matter. You can make them whatever size you want.
But they're an awesome snack, So Scott, hope that that
helps you will enjoy them. They are amazing. Next question
is from Macy. Hey, Amy, you're such a role model
for living your life in your own story. I don't
know about that, but that's me talking there. But back
(06:50):
to the email from Macy. It surprises me so much
when you get hateful messages. It doesn't surprise me because
I mean, people are just haters out there. I was
wondering how you deal with this and not let it
affect how you view yourself. Um. Honestly, over the years, Macy,
I've had to grow incredibly thick skin. When I first
got into this business of like people knowing your life
(07:11):
and feeling like they have an opinion about your life
and wanting to share it, whether it's positive or negative. UM,
which I think the positive ones are great, Like we
need that positivity, we need that affirmation. My love language
is affirmation, so I definitely need that. And so it
would really really hurt me when I would get like
a negative note and I used to think about it
all day. I would cry. I would craft some really
(07:32):
thoughtful response and I would send it because I felt
like that person um was making a judgment about me,
that didn't really know me anyway. Now I don't I
just delete it. I don't even take the time. I
don't think about it. Maybe now in my life, like yeah,
I've gotten tougher skin, but also I just don't have
the time and I don't have the space for that
negative energy. I can be negative enough on my own
(07:53):
sometimes I don't need to bring somebody else's negativity inside
my circle when I'm trying to like not be negative myself,
and negativity breeds more negativity, and it's just so I
just ignore it. I delete it, don't even really reply.
It's not worth my time. Um. Sometimes on Instagram, I
do comment like a reply to comments because it's so quick, like,
(08:15):
but I don't craft like a long one. But I'll
be like, what are you talking about? Or why would
you say that? Or are you serious? Stuff like that.
But I was listening to Bobby's podcast with Thomas Rhett
and his podcasts The Bobby Cast in case you don't
know it, but um, I'm sure a lot of you do.
He recently had on Thomas Rhett and they were talking
(08:36):
about this exact thing, and Thomas Rhett told a story
about how him and his wife were at lunch with
Bob Goff. And if y'all don't know who Bob Golf is,
he's an author and an amazing guy philanthropists, like just
super cool and really really inspiring. And I guess Bob
told Thomas Rhett that he on every pair of pants
(08:59):
that he gets, he cuts out the left pocket and
that's a reminder to him, like anytime he like puts
his hand in there, it's like he knows, like, oh,
the left pocket, it's falling through. And so anytime he
gets haters, what he does mentally is puts him in
his left pocket and they're just gonna fall right through,
like boom, God, don't even have to worry about it,
(09:20):
and but cutting out the left pocket is a way
for him to remember that's what he needs to do
with the haters, just throw him away, not worth it,
just put them in that left pocket, never to be
seen again. So keep the negativity out. So I'm not
saying that you know, you need to cut you know,
pockets out of all your clothes or anything, whether it's
the right side or the left side. But I just
(09:41):
thought that was a really good analogy and example of, like,
you know, a way you can remind yourself it's not
worth your time and to just like brush it off.
And really, honestly, if you're someone that is choosing to
be negative online, like uh, just think about it, like
the about why you're doing it and is there something
(10:02):
wrong Or if you've caught yourself like about to maybe
write something that really isn't adding anything, like it's really
adding nothing positive, then you know, ask yourself, should I
really post this? And then maybe maybe you'll maybe you'll
stop because maybe you don't realize that it's negative. Maybe
you're not really stopping to think about what you're writing
and how that could impact a person and really affect
(10:24):
their day, Like what do you want to affect somebody's
day negatively or positively, So really think about the comment
or the email or whatever before you hit sinned, and
that maybe will help, and maybe we can create a
different culture, a culture of positivity and um and not
breeding the negative. So may see. I hope that helps.
(10:45):
I definitely it took me a long time to get
to this point where I can ignore it now. I
mean I got a negative, Nancy like sort of rude
comment the other day and I reposted it in my stories,
but I didn't want to give that person send the
you know, attention, so I scratched out their Instagram handle.
(11:06):
I mean, I guess someone could go back into the
comments and find it and read it and know who
it was. But I still wanted to post it, and
I was able to laugh about it, and I kind
of sarcastically put like I love when people send really
nice messages, and it just was like not a nice message.
But um, you know, that's what I'm able to do
with it now is kind of laugh them off. It's
comical and maybe even reposting my stories and laugh about
(11:28):
it a little more. But you can do like Bob
Goff and just stick it in that left pocket and
say bye bye peace out. Next email is from Anonymous.
I don't know that we've ever gotten an anonymous before.
Hey Amy, I'm a twenty four year old guy living
in l A and love your podcast. Shout out all
the guys listening right now. I feel like I in
(11:48):
my head, I'm always speaking to women, but I forget,
and this is a good reminder guys are listening. I
want to see if you had any advice when it
comes to getting through your first heartbreak. I recently went
through my heartbreak and finally feel like I'm on the
growing and recovery stages, but wanted to hear your experience
and advice on heartbreak. Thank you for all that you
do and the positive impact you've had in my life.
(12:10):
So thank you, Anonymous, twenty four year old guy living
in l A. Uh Oh, it's so hard. I my
two boyfriends, serious boyfriends that I had before my husband.
Both of my thought I would marry because I was young,
and like when you date somebody, it's like could I
marry them? Yes, I'm gonna I'm dating them to marry them.
(12:32):
I don't know if they thought they were marrying me,
but I mean sort of we would kind of like
talk about it, but I don't know how serious we were. Um,
it was hard, Like when we broke up, it was
so hard, like I did not experience heartbreak well, like
I would cry and it was so dramatic. Um, But
I found what was really helpful to me. And my
(12:53):
mom was still alive during those times, so she was
definitely someone that was always there for me. And I
found like with girlfriends or my mom or my sister,
like talking about it, like talking about your breakup can
be therapeutic as long as it's constructive, like you don't
want to again focus on the negative or like you
don't want to just drag on and on and on
about the relationship. But like if you find yourself in
(13:17):
like victim mode, then you're going to have trouble moving on.
But if you just talk about your feelings and what
you're experiencing and then maybe you have some older, wiser
or more experienced people in your life that can like
speak truth into you and just be like you know what,
like there there could be in the sounds so cliche,
but there is something better. If if you broke up,
(13:39):
then that wasn't the right relationship and you have to
hold out hope, and you have to have that hope
that if you want that there is something better for
you and there's a better match for you. Um, and
you've got to get out of the house, Like don't
bury yourself in your room. Sometimes. I remember actually to
a day, it wasn't even two days. I think it
(13:59):
was next day after my boyfriend broke up with me,
the one that I had before I got married. Um,
my friends were all going to the lake and I
was supposed to go, and I decided not to go.
And that was a big mistake because I just stayed
home and I was miserable, and then I was, you know,
(14:20):
jealous of my friends on the lake and they were
having a good time. Um, and I should have gone,
like that was That's something I learned. I learned later
from that, like when I experienced heartache like that, I
did not need to sit at home and wallow. I
should have gone to the lake that day. So, you know,
and maybe it's not a lake opportunity or anything, but
maybe one of those friends that you're confiding in, or
(14:41):
your mom or your sister or your dad or whoever
it is, or your brother, Like if you need to
get out of the house and make sure that they
know they can take you out and socialize. Um, nowadays
you have to worry about social media. I mean that's
where like you know you back then, I didn't have
to worry about seeing my ex is on social media
(15:02):
and what they were doing, or like if I ran
into an X, it wasn't on line or Instagram or Facebook,
like it was actually out and that the X that
I had before I got married. I did run into
him out like after we broke up, and I did
not handle it well. I guess I had probably been
drinking because we were downtown and I saw him and
(15:23):
I cried at the bar. Uh huh yeah. So imagine
like you see your ex on Instagram, maybe out with
somebody else, and you cry at home. That's fine. No,
we didn't have that. So I just saw him alive
and in person, and I just remember I even remember
what triggered me crying because he was wearing this shirt
that like didn't really look like him, Like I knew
(15:46):
he didn't buy that shirt, and that's how I found
out he was dating somebody else. And he said, I said,
this shirt, like it doesn't seem like you, and he said, oh, well,
so and so bought it for me, and I was like,
huh andrewest sting, So I just lose it. I start crying.
I think we did end up um spending the majority
(16:07):
of the night together, not like that, but but he
was having to console me and like just basically remind me,
like it's over, Like you need to let it go,
like get yourself together. You're a hot mess. So anyway,
that's my live version of like maybe what it would
be like now to see an Instagram post of your
X with a new girl. UM, so maybe you know,
(16:29):
unfriend them all together on social media or uh at
least block them so you don't have to see things
until you're over the heartache, and then maybe you can
start to see posts, you know, um, And then I think, yeah,
practice gratitude when in doubt. Gratitude, that's what That's what
we're big on on this podcast. So work on being happy.
(16:51):
And as I say, like I'm a broken record here
with that Burnet Brown quote, but there you know, there
is no joy without gratitude. So if you want that happiness,
you have to think of the things that you are
thankful for and practice that and make that your mantra
and over and over, because it is your choice to
be happy, and it is your choice to wallow in
(17:12):
the heartache and the pain. So what you're gonna choose? Like,
I'm gonna go ahead and choose to be happy. So
think of the people in your life that you love,
that you have in your life, think of the things
you're thankful for, grateful for, um, all of that. Just
like Chloe's email at the beginning, that was from Chloe, right, yeah,
so she was sharing how she doesn't really like to run,
Like maybe you need to also think of hobbies like
(17:34):
get out there and do things like to help you
get over a break up. Like sorry, something new, whether
it's running or yoga or a new workout class or
whatever the case may be. Anyway, got it? Okay? Sorry
Mr Anonymous. I'm sorry experiencing a breakup, but hopefully those
things help. Next question is from Samantha. I was curious
(18:06):
about what your favorite part of running companies like a
Squaw and Pimp and Joy is. I think it has
to be such interesting and fulfilling work. And Samantha, I
will say, like the coolest part is seeing y'all respond.
Now a spa as a company that I have with
Mary and Pimp and Joy is a movement that we have.
We built on the Bobby Bones Show, but the shot
forward um sells. Uh. The merchant makes it happen. But
(18:28):
Pimp and Joy is more than just the merch and
like the coming up with things to put out there
for y'all so you can like help spread it. Like
you don't even have to buy anything to be a
part of Pimp and Joy or a spua for that matter.
Sometimes it's just like, what are you gonna do to
choose joy? What are you going to do to spread hope?
And I think that's the most um uh. That's my
(18:49):
favorite part about being a part of these things is
seeing you get on board with what we're doing. Like
we put up these sunglasses the other day, super them
into edition. We didn't even have that many. Honestly, I
don't even know if there's any left, but I am
obsessed with them and I love that they're like, I
love that it's a really cool product that we genuinely love.
(19:10):
Like Mary and I wear the stuff. We love it,
and then we get to share it and passed along
to you guys, and then you get to buy it.
And you get to have the super cool product and
then feel good about it knowing that it went towards
um I exams or giving glasses to kids in Haiti
that need it, so Squaw sunglasses. That's that's my favorite part.
(19:31):
It's coming up with super cool things that we love.
Like the star necklace I'm obsessed with and I recently
gave it to a bunch of my girlfriends and it's
been so fun for me to like see them all
wearing it lately, Like only a couple of weeks ago,
I kind of handed it out to um various girls
and now they're all like two girls. I saw one
last night and one today to my friends, and I
(19:52):
was like, you're wear are your star necklace? Like it
just warms my heart and it means so much that
my friends genuinely love the product we're putting out. We
genuinely love it, and then when you love it, it's
it's just that's the that's that's the fulfillment. Like that's cool,
like product development and plus coming up and designing things
that it's never what I thought I would be doing
(20:13):
in a million years, But to be able to have
a platform to create things um that give back like
that's that's the win win recipe for me, Like that's
the cool, Like I don't want to do this if
we're not all trying to work together to give back
to me, it's a waste of the platform, Like I'm
not just here to just talk and entertain and like,
(20:35):
to me, collectively, we can all do really cool things.
So anyway, Um, hopefully that answers your question, Samantha. And
especially with Pimp and Joy, I mean, that's always gonna
be near and dear to my heart because it started
with my mom. But I mean, yeah, seeing a Pim
and Joy shirt or seeing the pim and Joy hashtag
anywhere online, whether it's you went out and did something
nice for someone and you were like hashtag him enjoy.
That's not bragging. That's encouraging others and inspiring other us
(21:00):
to go out and do the same thing. So remember that.
Remember that when you're trying to and I mean obviously
if you say it in a really braggy, braggy way
like look at me, but it shouldn't be about you.
It should just be about contributing to the movement. So
any of you that have done that with Pimp and
Joy or a squaw like thank you super cool. Next
question is from Michelle. Uh, I have a question about
(21:23):
shaving your face. She says, what happens when you can't
shave weekly due to unforeseen circumstances? Is it rough? Is
it noticeable to others? I wanted to start, but I'm scared,
and Michelle, yeah, I mean once you start, it starts
to go back through. So mine is like peach fuzz.
So sometimes I'll go, yeah, two weeks, I'll miss a week.
(21:43):
I try to do it once a week, but I'll miss.
And yeah, it can be. I guess if you're in
the right sunlight. I guess people could start to see
it coming through. But I mean I used to have
full on peach fuzz all the time, so it's better
than that. If it's just going through a little bit,
you just gotta I think you're scared, so you just
need to go for it. You just gotta jump right in.
(22:06):
Don't even dip your toes in the water. Go to
my Amazon page, radio amy dot com, which radiomy dot
com f y I I feel like I say stuff
a lot, but people miss things and they're like, wait,
what's your website again? And I'm like, well, I feel
like it's pretty easy to remember because but maybe you
don't follow me on Instagram. But my Instagram and Twitter
handles are Radio Amy, So radio amy dot com made sense.
(22:28):
But you can find links to pimp and joy stuff,
a squaw stuff, any shot Forward thing um that we
have going on if you want to go there to
check that out or blog stuff for this podcast um.
But also my favorite things on Amazon at Radio Amy
and I have my tinkle razors on there. And I
don't know why you should be able to shave weekly
(22:51):
if you've got a tinkle rasor they're so tiny they
fit in your makeup bag, they fit in your purse. Like,
just take that bad boy with you. You don't always
have to have soap to even use the tinkle rais.
You can do it on dry skin. So like maybe
if you even get into a bathroom mirror and you
keep your tinkle razor in your purse, Like if you're
out and you notice like a little hair coming through
on the upper lip or like the side of your
(23:12):
face or whatever, like little blonde, peach fuzzy things, or
maybe you have darker hair, Like, just take that bad
boy to your face. Right there and then put a
little makeup on over at Boom. You're good to go.
Your makeup will go on so much better if you
shave your face, Like all women just need to know,
you're going to have better skin if you shave your face.
I mean, I think I don't know unless you have
(23:34):
other things going on. I guess I can't speak to
all skin types. But in my case, my skin is
just smoother. I feel like I'm it's giving me that
exfoliation I need once a week. Oh, I just tried,
speaking of I just tried. Maybe I'll do a thing
about this once I know more. But I follow Drew
Barrymore on Instagram and she was talking about Drunk Elephant,
(23:57):
which is a face brand, and she did this baby
facial and it was so awesome. I mean I ordered
it and I did it once and it was so awesome,
and I want to do it maybe a few more times,
but you only have to do it like once a week,
so I'll have to like do it a few more
before I can give him, like my official official review,
and maybe I'll make it a thing in the in
like a Thursday episode. But that so far, I'm obsessed.
(24:22):
So thank you Drew Barrymore for posting that on Instagram.
And I'm pretty I'm sure Drew Barrymore shapes her face.
I don't know, maybe she doesn't, but a lot of
people are doing it. There is nothing to be scared of, Michelle.
I know that it is terrifying because the first time,
before I was about to do it, I was so
nervous and freaking out. But dang, I am so glad
(24:45):
I did it so okay. Well that that kind of
puts a rap on the Q and A for today.
So I hope that that was helpful for any of
you and go make yourself some Let's just recap real quick.
First of all, get a tinkle razer. They're amazing. Radiommy
dot com a SPA and phim enjoy are both amazing
things that are very fulfilling, and I love working on
(25:07):
that stuff, especially with Mary and Bobby and the Bobby
Bones Show and listeners and y'all podcast listeners and even
other people that have just come to know a squaw
and pim enjoy, maybe not even from from me, but
from Mary or the Shot Forward or various organizations that
we've worked with, like just thank you. Also, if you're
going through a breakup, my heart goes out. But hopefully
(25:30):
some of my tips helped. You need to cut the
left pocket out of all your shorts. Just getting but
definitely don't cling to negativity or hateful messages. It's not
worth your time. People. In case anybody's commenting negatively on
anything you're putting out there, who cares forget about them.
Make yourself some energy bites or energy balls, whatever you
want to call them. That recipe is clutch. And then
(25:53):
if you hate running, try to practice gratitude while you run. Okay,
that's a recap of what we covered here today, and
I hope you all have an amazing Tuesday and you listen.
On Thursday, I've got Jessica Hanagher on, founder of Noonday Collection.
She's also adopted. She recently took her son home. He
is from Rwanda and they recently went back there for
(26:16):
a trip and pretty amazing experience um for him. Uh.
And she talks a little bit about that and other
ways UM that you can be a part of making
the world a better place. So I hope you listen
to that and the other three things that we will
have for you. So talk to you later.
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Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.