June 2, 2020 • 32 mins
This is Amy’s ‘5th Thing’ (a bonus episode) where she answers your questions every Tuesday! ‘4 Things With Amy Brown’ comes out every Thursday, but on Tuesdays Amy answers questions you’ve emailed in. On today’s episode Amy has listener Britley{@britleyann} on and she is the one asking Amy all the questions! Together they discuss: four things that Amy is thankful for, how she got into radio, what advice she would give to her younger self, how Amy and Ben knew it was the right time to pursue adoption and how she decided what to keep ‘private’ and what to share on air.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Okay, Happy Tuesday, everybody. It is Q and A Day,
but we're doing something different. I have a listener, Brittley
on the phone, and if you listen to last Thursday's episode,
I do an email shout out at the end of
every episode, and her email was my shout out, and
it was her asking if she could ask me some
(00:27):
questions kind of like shooting your shot, Brittley. If if
y'all listen to the Robin Roberts episode, or if you've
ever heard me and Chase talk about just sending that
email going for it, well that's what Brittley did and
I read it and I thought, okay, well, why don't
you come on and host the Q and A episode?
And you asked me the question do you want to
(00:48):
ask me? Right here? You have the whole show. So
I am Amy the host in case you're new to this,
but I'm throwing it over to listener Brittley and she's
going to handle today's Q name. I first and foremost,
thank you so much for this opportunity. Amy. I think
this is so fun and just like you said with
Robin Roberts, I think you know, we have all these
(01:10):
great ideas that come and go, but I can't believe
that I've actually put this one into action. And I'm
sitting here talking with you today because I'm a huge
fan of yours, so I'm super excited about this episode. Awesome. Well,
I'm happy to have you, so ye do your thing,
whatever questions you got, I'm ready. Okay, cool. Well, I thought,
you know, given the climate of everything that's kind of
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going on in the world today, we would start with
some positivity. America's facing a lot of hurt in adversity,
so I want to hear for things that you are
grateful for right now. Okay, Yeah, this is definitely something
I normally do to guests that are coming in, but
I also share them from time to time, and I
think that I guess, given the current climate right now,
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the first thing I'll be thankful for is the conversations
that are happening right now, because I hate the way
that we had to get here, but it definitely feels
different right now, and that change is on its way
to happening. And you know, I adopted to kids from
Haiti and I just want to protect them, but I
know that I also have to equip them, and so
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that means, you know, facing the fact that they will
not have the same privileges as me. Even though I'm
their mom, I'm white, and I will never understand what
it's like for others or what my kids may have
to face in the future. So yeah, right now, my
heart is heavy and conversations are hard, but they are real,
and they're happening in my house right now, and I
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hope in a lot of houses right now, because that's
where the change really starts, in our hearts and in
our homes. So the first thing I'm thankful for the
conversations that are happening. Uh. The second thing I'm thankful
for is it's gonna be daily Harvest. I don't know
if you've heard of them. And this is not an ad.
I got got by Instagram ads where I saw people
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posting about it. Then I started getting Instagram ads I
think or something, and yeah, buy all of their food
with my own money. But I gotta say it's it's
so good, like the smoothies and the harvest bowls that
they have come in clutch for me lately. And I
guess I'm probably pretty pumped about them right now because
I just ate this delicious, nutritious meal that took me like, yeah,
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four minutes to cook, so I make some pretty package
already or like ready to go, yeah I need to throw.
You get a box once a week and you pick
what you want in there, and then you get it
and it's you stick in the freezer and you just
heat it up on the stovetop or in the microwave
whenever you're ready. And convenient, Yeah, convenient quality ingredients that
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I think otherwise I would just either spend more at
the grocery store on or spend time like chopping everything
up right. So definitely thankful for that. Because I've only
learned about them or been ordering from them the last
three weeks, so it's still new to me. But I
think I'm finally to a place where I'm like, okay, yeah,
and you know what, I know what I like into this,
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I can be thankful for it. Third thing would be
I'm thankful for friends. I mean, obviously we haven't able
to see our friends a lot lately, but I guess
back to the first thing I was thankful for, which
is conversations. I'm thankful for friends that you can have
meaningful conversations with and not just about the current issues
that are going on right now, but about personal highs
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and lows that I think should be celebrated with your
friends or it's stuff that you need to mourn with
your friends on. I'm just thankful. There's just been some
stuff going on, and I'm thankful for the people that
I know I can call on and there's no judgment
and it's just special. And then fourth thing would be
my husband for many reasons. But right now, the latte
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that he made me this morning with this espresso machine
that we got last year, but we hadn't really been
using it that much because it seemed really complicated, but
he figured it out. So I'm thankful that, you know,
he went to YouTube and tried to learn how to
use it, and he's in so much trouble. You're like, yes,
I know, you know how to this. Now every morning,
thank you very well. Clemit my coffee just because I
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don't try to have it all of the time because
when I have too much, I don't feel my best.
But I have been having it about once a week
ever since you figured it out. And it's sort of
like our little treat time where he makes me a
latte and then we sit and have it and talk
and he's drinking his espresso, even even though he calls
it espresso, and it's annoying because I say espresso, you
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look past that time together exactly. So those are the
four things I'm thankful for. Well, thank you. I love that.
I love conversation. That was such a It's such a
cool way to look at it. Because you always talk
about getting really micro with the things you're grateful for,
and I think, you know, it's so easy to say
family and friends and shelter, but what about this good
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conversation with our kids and the ability to communicate with
one another. I mean it seems silly, right, but so awesome.
So thank you for sharing that. That was awesome. Okay,
I do have a quote today. I know you like
to start out or Tuesday Q and a's with that.
So I was looking everywhere for a quote this week,
trying to find the perfect one, and then this quote
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found me. Of course, I was just like grolling on
Instagram and I came across it and I loved it.
So it's by zig Ziggler Biggler. I think I'm saying
that right, but I thought it was really appropriate for this.
It says, if you aim at nothing, You'll hit it
every time. And I know that's really short, but we
kind of touched on it earlier. Just how cool this
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opportunity is something silly that crossed my mind and I'm
a huge fan and acted on it and now I'm
here right now with you. So just a little reminder
to everyone listening that it doesn't hurt to just take
your shot and give it a try. So that's what
my little quote was. But I guess we'll just dive
into the questions now. So the topics I have are
probably not new because you do talk for a living,
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so there's not a lot of topics that you haven't covered.
But maybe today I'm hoping we can shed some new
light on the subjects. But your listeners me included because
I think these questions really make you who you are,
which is who we all love in a door. So
with that question one, I would love to know exactly
how you took the plunge into the public speaking and
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radio world, especially from going from my cons you were
selling granted before, so I think a lot of people
get stuck at that bridge between maybe like security and passion,
so they're in a job that is familiar and stable,
all the while, maybe their hearts are pulling them in
a different direction. To tell me how you decided to
cross that bridge and trust yourself into taking that leak. Well,
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my bio on Twitter for a long time was say
hi to people because it could change your life. And
that's what happened to me by saying hi to Bobby.
About a year after meeting him. Maybe longer was when
I had the opportunity to become his co host, and
I really wasn't sure if I should leave my secure
sales job for such unknown territory. But my mom told
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me that if there was ever a time for me
to do something like go beyond our radio show and
try to figure out if it's something that I wanted
to do, then that was the time for me to
do it. And you know, I think she said that
because I was in my early twenties and the risk
was low, and I totally agreed. So I did it.
I quit my sales job, I joined the show, and
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at the time, the show was in one market, and
in my mind that was the potential. That's what it
would always be and we would always live in Austin
and keep doing our show. And I didn't know that
Bobby had figure dreams that he was chasing. So I
think my mom had good advice and it was perfect
for me at four years old. But I think even
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if I was forty four years old, she still would
have told me to go for it, to try something new,
because it was more than just assessing the risk. I
think it was about doing something that I was a
little scared of, like scared of putting myself out there
every morning and ailing. And she's really the one that
pushed me and gave me the confidence that I needed
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to do it. But she also showed me too, was like,
no matter the risk, it's better to see what happens
than to know that you never tried and have that regret.
And so she's the one that nudged me. So when
it comes to taking that plunge to public speaking and
sharing my life and being on the radio without any
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aspirations to do so before meeting Bobby or having any
training or education in it, I don't think I would
have been able to do it without my mom's encouragements.
So for anybody else looking for that, and I know
it's different, and I and I did have a supportive family,
so I know everybody's story is different. If there's a
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way you can figure out to dip your toe into
where you want to go, just so that you know
you gave it a try and not look back twenty
years and have regret. Or if you're looking back now
and there's still a shot for you to go do it,
maybe you try now. Nobody that says you can't try again,
even if you missed your first opportunity, you know, yeah, absolutely,
And it's whatever gives you energy, you know. So if
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you find something that's giving you energy but you're you know,
focused on what you're currently doing, maybe tap into that
and then, like you said, it's never too late to
reach out. I was so I was going to ask
you what advice you'd give your younger self, but I
feel like kind of covered that, So maybe I'll get
a little specific and maybe even a little selfish and
ask a relationship question. I'm currently living with my boyfriend
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and we've had to talk about marriage and are planning
for it. But I am in my twenties. I'm going
to be twenty four next week, and it's so important
for me to only be married once in my lifetime
and I really value obviously the principle of marriage. So
what's one relational tip you would give to maybe your
younger listeners or listeners in general. Believe in yourself and
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your wants and desires and goals, and surround yourself with
others that believe in you, whether it's friends or your
boyfriend slash future husband, and really know what what you
want and that's going to evolve as you evolve as
a person. But don't conform to like what other say
your life should be like. I feel like I did
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that way too much in my younger years. And my
husband would agree to a lot of what we did
early in our marriage and ways we tried to mimic
our relationship was what we thought was right and what
we thought others would want from us, And this is
how we're supposed to be because this is how we
grew up. And I know that's very vague because I'm
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not going to go way into detail, but because for
everybody it's going to be different. But have those tough
conversations with your boyfriend or whoever you're starting this relationship with,
and know that as a couple, you're going to evolve
and there's going to be challenges. So communication is key,
but you're always going to have to do what feels
right in your heart and do the work to old that,
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not mold to what you think others want from you
or your relationships. Depending on how you grew up, that
image may be very different and who you enter a
relationship with for the rest of your life, then y'all
are joined in that together and when you're joining two
separate things depending on how you all grew up. Like
my husband and I are families, we grew up very
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very similar, so expectations were very very similar, and I
think we would get so stuck in that and how
we were going to parent and things we were going
to believe and stuff we were going to do, and
it was always like, oh, well, this is what our
parents would want from us, But we were becoming our
own people and we're starting a life together. So you
have to be open to discovering that yourself and follow
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what what you want to believe in together. That's that
sounds faith based, which which it could be if you
want to take it that way, but really your core
values what you believe how you want your relationship to be,
or you could come from b sit ins like my husband,
I grew up. I say, we grew up the same,
but that was on my mother's end. Now his parents
are still married, mine were divorced. He has ideals like
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his family had dinner together every single night mom his
mom cooked dinner, his dad got home, they sat around
the table like very very traditional. While my dad left
when I was nine, and then my mom had to
get a job and she worked a ton and we
got drive through or I didn't even see her at dinner,
or we tried to hang out and we could, but
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we didn't have dinner around the table every night as
a family. By the time I was in ninth grade,
my sister was in college and just it was very
me and my mom just trying to do our thing.
So sometimes we were joining up like okay, well, what
how do we want our kids to be Again, that's
a very small example, but meal times are important to
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my husband and I didn't have them, but we worked
together and communicate to know they're like, hey, yeah, if
you want that, we're going to make that happen every
once in a while, And to be honest, when we
do do it, that's when we have the best conversations
with our kids. And that is when we really bond
around the table as a family. So I do find
them important. Do I think that I need to be
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at home cooking dinner every night and we need to
do it at the same time every night? No, did
my husband think that's how his life would be? Yes?
Have we had to communicate about it and then mold
the way we want our family to be, which looks
a little different than what his ideal was. Yes, so
it seems like it is a very little example, and
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I get that. But that's what I mean by taking
whatever thoughts you had about what you think your relationship
is supposed to look like, and then do what you
want to do right and just like you said, being
true to you because you can come from, like you said,
similar or very very different backgrounds. But at the end
of the day, your morals and you know what's true
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to you will always align as long as you stay
in tune with it, I think, and your hon about it.
I think that's a great example. It's just as simple
as eating dinner because the same I came from a
family where we sat down an eight and he did it,
and so I know for my family I want that. Now,
will I have to compromise and bend and be flexible. Absolutely,
But is that something that's kind of staple to my
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future ideal? If you will like your husband, you know
he has to work to make that happen too. So
I think that's awesome that well, And I'll just be honest,
there's gonna be way bigger issues than whether just to
keep it real. It is pretty serious. It's just kidding.
I just think that it's a good example of what
communication looks like and then forming that mold of what
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y'all want, not what you find others want from you. Yeah,
I think that's perfect. Okay. Next, I do want to
ask you about adoption. I know that I personally have
a deep pole in my heart any time the subject
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comes up, you know, whether it's in church for a movie.
I'm just so altered emotionally by the response of adoption.
It kind of has always been something that has resonated
with me and I've always thought about So. I know
that you struggled with infertility, and I'm sure that that
was a huge factor in leading your heart towards adoption,
But when did you decide it was the right time.
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I really feel like I knew early on it was
really getting my husband to sign on to the whole thing,
and not that he wasn't for adoption by any means,
but you know, he thought that that could be great
for us, but he wanted biological kids first. And so
I think for me it was after tons of failed
pregnancy tests and visiting fertility doctors and then knowing the
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money that we would have to pour into possibly getting pregnant,
and that's just possibly wasn't even guarantee. I just knew
in my heart that the money that we would spend
on that should go towards a sure thing, and to me,
the sure thing was giving a home to kids that
were already born. And I say that with zero judgment
towards anyone that spends their money on getting pregnant. I
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know plenty of people that do when it works out beautifully,
and it's amazing, and I'm so thankful for science and
doctors that make that possible. But I just knew that
it wasn't the route for me. So again back to
the second question that you had, it wasn't our ideal mold.
Ideal mold like. We didn't think that's what our family
would look like like we thought when we got married,
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we'd have no trouble getting pregnant, and we were going
to have kids biologically, and this was what was expected
and that's how life works and that's how it is. Well,
that wasn't happening for us. So then that's when that
other part of advice I was talking about where communication
comes in, Like things are going to be different for
you than they are for other people, so you have
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to communicate how do we want to handle this? And
I remember the day I went to him and said,
we were living in Southern Pines, North Carolina, and I
knew we had a little sun room in our house.
And I sat him down and I said, I know
that adoption is for us. It took him a little
bit to get there, and I've said this a million times,
but it was after he read a book called Adopted
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for Life that he really started to shift. And I'm
pretty sure it's like after chapter one that he has
something switched and he was like, I'm in whatever we
need to do, let's adopt without even knowing if we'll
ever have biological children, Let's do this. And so that's
when we started to pursue that and knew that that
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was our new journey, and you know, I think for me,
you know, we prayed for so long to get pregnant,
and it was one of those unanswered prayer situations where
I look at Stevenson and stuff here in our house
right now, and the journey that we've been on, and
how I was able to go to Africa and do
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some work there, which made me want to go to
Haiti and do some work there. And my husband traveled
the world because he was in the military, and just
we started to open our hearts and see that there's
different needs and where were we going to fill that void?
Where were we going to be parents to somebody? And
we started off domestically but that wasn't working out, and
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then we ended up going to Haiti and that worked out.
But it was we we got if I think of
the failed pregnancy tests and how our domestic adoption just
was not working out, and I think of all the
prayers I had that I wanted those things to work,
all of them, and when they wouldn't, I would get
so frustrated. But then when you get to the other side,
you're like, Okay, God, I get it, Like you had something, yeah,
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you had something else in store. So another thing too,
is just whatever you believe in, you have to be
patient because the right thing will work out for you
in the end. It just may not be what you
wanted at the exact time, might be the exact opposite
of what you thought was going to happen at a
totally different time, but be super amazing, right. And I
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guess this is kind of a follow up question to
this question. I hope that's okay. But for people that
maybe are, you know, on the fence about whether that's
something they can emotionally commit to, did you still like
the process of international adopting kind of reassured you and
helped you along the way or it kind of emphasized that.
And I think if I understand your question correctly, I
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think actually the process had me question multiple times is
this we're supposed to be doing? Because it was so hard. Really,
there was so many hurdles and times that I wanted
to quit in times that I was sitting on the
floor and my house, well two different houses, because we
moved in the process, but there was so many so
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much paperwork and so many ridiculous things That all makes sense, yes,
but just a little archaic in the way that even
in the United States. Of course in Haiti, but in
the United States that we went about stuff that just
seemed to make the process so much longer than it
needed to be because it took us, you know, about
five years when we decided we wanted to adopt to
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actually bringing kids home. And I remember our dining room
being a nice size I mean, normal sized dining room.
But imagine I want you to picture paper covering your
entire dining room table, all the way down to the floor,
papers everywhere, trying to organize them, and I just remember
one night looking at them and I just wanted to
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go and just mess them all up and be like,
forget this mind. But imagine or while I was sitting
there organizing them, because maybe my dog would mess them
up and then I would get frustrated and I would
be crying putting them back together, was that this is
this is going to be worth it, And oh my gosh,
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if this is what they do to weed out the
people that are not serious, well I'm going to show
you that I am serious and my husband serious and
we're going to do this. So what was testing, or
I guess should have been a test, really, you know,
kind of like you said, it without who is capable
of doing that and and has the determination to go
through with it. So that did answer my question, that
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wasn't I don't want to come off as like I'm
the super determined like special persons went through it. There's
so many people that do that every single day and
do it and if you were, if you did give
up or you were weeded out, it doesn't make you
any less of a person. Like it's it's hard, and
it just means that that wasn't the right thing for you.
There's something else for you that is going to work out.
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And I don't think that we're better because we were
able to handle all of the hurdles, But I just
wanted to make sure I clarify that that I'm not
that we're not better than you because we were to
accomplish every task that was thrown our way, because it
definitely was just not easy. But I'm super thankful that,
you know, we got through it and all the people
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that supported us along the way. For sure, Yeah, support
is huge and it definitely paid off. Because your kids
are a door of all I love when they show
up on your Instagram, I like, stop everything and turn
it up so I can hear Stevenson's little voice. I'm
sure you get that a lot, but it's my favorite thing. Okay,
first question, I think I speak on all of your
listeners right now. I think we love you so much
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and have so much respect for you as a person
because you are so transparent and authentic, both on the
podcast and on the Bobby Bones Show. But how did
your mentality kind of evolve from the start of your
career to decipher what's private versus what everyone in the
world could potentially know, Like, how do you keep your
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personal life sacred when the public is kind of demanding
to know everything about you. I feel like I was
really really open right out of the gate, probably too open,
not asking certain people in my life what was okay
to share and then what was not okay to share.
I just shared so many stories in the early years
because I didn't realize the damage that could be done.
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I shared stuff that I would ever share today for
the sake of the people that were also involved, and
while I didn't say their names necessarily, and I was
a part of the story too, So really I have
every right to share some things. I still have a
few stories that I put out there that I wish
I could have would have either communicated with the other
parties beforehand or just decided not to say them at all.
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Out of respect. So yeah, out of respect for people.
I now try to make sure that they know if
I'm telling a story that involves them. And I'm married
to someone that is extremely private and in the early
years of our marriage, is definitely caused a lot of issues.
I mean, the early years of the show got a
little rough. I mean there was definitely times where I thought, Okay,
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I should just quit. This is too much, just too stressful. Obviously,
I'm glad I did never follow through with quitting, although
I didn't walk out on the show live on the
air once maybe twice. I'm not sure I really knew
about something, and you're like, wait, I know that. I mean, well,
there was just stuff that was just like came up
on the show that we were talking about that I
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just was not comfortable with, and it made me so upset,
and I couldn't believe that Bobby and lunch Box were
talking about it and that they were going to do
that to me and everybody's listening, and I was so
furious that, Yeah, I don't remember the other one was
live on the air, but I did walk out of
the studio, but for sure one time live on the air,
like I left and I was like, I I'm done,
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and I went to the bathroom and I was crying.
And then there was another time that I was quitting
the show because my husband was in the Air Force
and we were having to move and something was going
on that was crazy. But anyway, I was gonna leave
and Bobby was searching for replacement for me, and I
just remember yelling, I don't know who's taking over my job,
but whoever they are, I hope they are prepared, like
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freaking prepared. So if you ever, like every once in
a while, they'll bring that back up, but we don't
really reference where it is or why. But if you
ever hear lunch Box or Bobby randomly say like freaking
pre paired or that's what that's from, is from my
little outburst, because it got it got hard sometimes putting
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all that out there and then having even the backlash
from listeners or people that disagree with you and they're
rude about it. I don't mind people disagreeing with me.
I don't think that I'm for everybody. In fact, I
was even talking about that about this podcast that I
went and read the negative one star reviews. I had
never done that before, but I did it like last week,
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and it was hard to take in. But I have
thick enough skin now to where I can can I
can take it constructively. But it still blows my mind
sometimes how people have to go out of their way
to be really rude about it. For me, if it's
something you want to share with someone that you think
they can approve upon to make their content better, which
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is how I received some of it, so thank you
and I'll work on it. But then there's also just
the rude comments to be rude and are unnecessary. They
don't do anything, they don't add any value to anything.
There's nothing I can take away from it other than
just feeling like crap. So I don't know. For me,
if I don't like something, I just don't listen to
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it and I don't talk about it and I don't
make a big deal about it. But I do appreciate
all like the five star reviews to the one star reviews,
because again I can take from that, But if you're
not going to be constructive with it, then my encouragement
would be to just not say it anything at all,
the first rule. Yeah, but back to sharing life, and
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you know, private versus not private? How do I decide
all that I do share? Most all of my life?
You know, my mom was battling cancer. I would talk
to her before I would say things and make sure
she was comfortable with whatever I was going to share.
Or my dad's journey. You know, there's a lot of
things that are going on though in my life that
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people will never know about, and that's to protect my
husband and my kids, my family, my friends. But what
I do choose to share, I do so with the
hopes that someone will need to hear what I'm saying
and they will not feel alone and whatever they're going through,
even if it's just one person. Then I feel like
my job it's done. Yeah, well, I think you do
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such a good job at that because as a listener
who I listened to everything from the Bobby bun Show
to Outweigh, I listened to everything that you do, and
it does it feels like you're I said it in
my email, I think you we're friends. Like I feel
like your friend. I feel like you share with me
the important stuff, and I'm always like, well, let's less,
you know, and I'm sure there's a lot less, and
(28:39):
I get it. It's just it's probably been trial and
air of what to share and about who and when
is the appropriate time to share it. So I can
only imagine that battle, and I think it's like everything else,
right to trial and air and a learning experience, like
how things work. So I think that's really cool. And
I've never really thought and I never even thought about it,
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how maybe you are more careful about what you share.
But maybe Bobby or lunch Box doesn't think about, you know,
some of the things they say. So there's how many
of y'all, six of you guys talking on the show,
so you guys all have to be mindful of each
other as well. I didn't think about that. Well, we
have matured a lot, so this some of that stuff
(29:21):
was from the early years. I haven't threatened to quit
in you know, at least twelve years, so, but we've
grown and matured and respect each other enough to not
surprise each other with things or take low blows, which
we used to do because honestly it was like, well,
you know, it makes good radio. But luckily we're we're
(29:47):
a little more thoughtful now and you can still have
a good show without any of that stuff. So yeah,
very cool. Well, thank you so much again for having
me on. This has been so fun, and I that
I touched on some questions maybe some other listeners who
are interested in hearing about but again just questions that
make you you and anyone who listens probably has the
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same amount of respect for you that I do, so
just truly is one of the book those things I've
been able to do. So just thank you for that
and reading our emails and giving back and giving space
for us to talk to you. I think it's really cool. Brentley,
you did an amazing job. If I ever need a
fill in host, I will keep you in mind. I
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don't know, maybe I could do this as a thing
for a few other people if they wanted to email
and had questions. It changes things us a little bit.
Like I said, I've had just done a walk when
I even thought of this, because I thought it would
be even cool to get a question answered. And then
you know, I was thinking, well, there's not just one.
I have way too many, and of course I have
a million more, but I narrowed it down. But I've
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always thought about doing a podcast or things like that,
so this has been really good practice. I've never done
anything like this, so it excites me. It's fun, and
if I could ever be even a small amount of
influence like you have, I think that would be so cool. Well,
why don't you tell people what your Instagram is? Because
I'm sure there's yeah, maybe somebody that I can't guarantee
(31:13):
it for sure, but I mean, if I was listening,
I'd be like, oh, I want to send Brittley a
message and tell her she did so good. Oh my gosh,
I would love that. Yeah, it's just Brittley and b
r I t l e y A n N and
I would love it. I'd love to communicate. I feel
like all your listeners are all people that I would
get along with, so I'd love to chat with anyone.
I think that's awesome. Okay, So b r I T
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l e y A n n Y, Brittley and Okay, awesome. Well,
thank you you did amazing and I'm glad you you
thought of this. It's been really fun, and thank you
so much for having me on Amy. You're awesome. Okay, Well, no,
you did great and I hope you have a great
rest of your day. You too, Okay, thank you Brittley
by
Okay, Happy Tuesday, everybody. It is Q and A Day,
but we're doing something different. I have a listener, Brittley
on the phone, and if you listen to last Thursday's episode,
I do an email shout out at the end of
every episode, and her email was my shout out, and
it was her asking if she could ask me some
(00:27):
questions kind of like shooting your shot, Brittley. If if
y'all listen to the Robin Roberts episode, or if you've
ever heard me and Chase talk about just sending that
email going for it, well that's what Brittley did and
I read it and I thought, okay, well, why don't
you come on and host the Q and A episode?
And you asked me the question do you want to
(00:48):
ask me? Right here? You have the whole show. So
I am Amy the host in case you're new to this,
but I'm throwing it over to listener Brittley and she's
going to handle today's Q name. I first and foremost,
thank you so much for this opportunity. Amy. I think
this is so fun and just like you said with
Robin Roberts, I think you know, we have all these
(01:10):
great ideas that come and go, but I can't believe
that I've actually put this one into action. And I'm
sitting here talking with you today because I'm a huge
fan of yours, so I'm super excited about this episode. Awesome. Well,
I'm happy to have you, so ye do your thing,
whatever questions you got, I'm ready. Okay, cool. Well, I thought,
you know, given the climate of everything that's kind of
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going on in the world today, we would start with
some positivity. America's facing a lot of hurt in adversity,
so I want to hear for things that you are
grateful for right now. Okay, Yeah, this is definitely something
I normally do to guests that are coming in, but
I also share them from time to time, and I
think that I guess, given the current climate right now,
(01:55):
the first thing I'll be thankful for is the conversations
that are happening right now, because I hate the way
that we had to get here, but it definitely feels
different right now, and that change is on its way
to happening. And you know, I adopted to kids from
Haiti and I just want to protect them, but I
know that I also have to equip them, and so
(02:15):
that means, you know, facing the fact that they will
not have the same privileges as me. Even though I'm
their mom, I'm white, and I will never understand what
it's like for others or what my kids may have
to face in the future. So yeah, right now, my
heart is heavy and conversations are hard, but they are real,
and they're happening in my house right now, and I
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hope in a lot of houses right now, because that's
where the change really starts, in our hearts and in
our homes. So the first thing I'm thankful for the
conversations that are happening. Uh. The second thing I'm thankful
for is it's gonna be daily Harvest. I don't know
if you've heard of them. And this is not an ad.
I got got by Instagram ads where I saw people
(02:56):
posting about it. Then I started getting Instagram ads I
think or something, and yeah, buy all of their food
with my own money. But I gotta say it's it's
so good, like the smoothies and the harvest bowls that
they have come in clutch for me lately. And I
guess I'm probably pretty pumped about them right now because
I just ate this delicious, nutritious meal that took me like, yeah,
(03:16):
four minutes to cook, so I make some pretty package
already or like ready to go, yeah I need to throw.
You get a box once a week and you pick
what you want in there, and then you get it
and it's you stick in the freezer and you just
heat it up on the stovetop or in the microwave
whenever you're ready. And convenient, Yeah, convenient quality ingredients that
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I think otherwise I would just either spend more at
the grocery store on or spend time like chopping everything
up right. So definitely thankful for that. Because I've only
learned about them or been ordering from them the last
three weeks, so it's still new to me. But I
think I'm finally to a place where I'm like, okay, yeah,
and you know what, I know what I like into this,
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I can be thankful for it. Third thing would be
I'm thankful for friends. I mean, obviously we haven't able
to see our friends a lot lately, but I guess
back to the first thing I was thankful for, which
is conversations. I'm thankful for friends that you can have
meaningful conversations with and not just about the current issues
that are going on right now, but about personal highs
(04:19):
and lows that I think should be celebrated with your
friends or it's stuff that you need to mourn with
your friends on. I'm just thankful. There's just been some
stuff going on, and I'm thankful for the people that
I know I can call on and there's no judgment
and it's just special. And then fourth thing would be
my husband for many reasons. But right now, the latte
(04:41):
that he made me this morning with this espresso machine
that we got last year, but we hadn't really been
using it that much because it seemed really complicated, but
he figured it out. So I'm thankful that, you know,
he went to YouTube and tried to learn how to
use it, and he's in so much trouble. You're like, yes,
I know, you know how to this. Now every morning,
thank you very well. Clemit my coffee just because I
(05:04):
don't try to have it all of the time because
when I have too much, I don't feel my best.
But I have been having it about once a week
ever since you figured it out. And it's sort of
like our little treat time where he makes me a
latte and then we sit and have it and talk
and he's drinking his espresso, even even though he calls
it espresso, and it's annoying because I say espresso, you
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look past that time together exactly. So those are the
four things I'm thankful for. Well, thank you. I love that.
I love conversation. That was such a It's such a
cool way to look at it. Because you always talk
about getting really micro with the things you're grateful for,
and I think, you know, it's so easy to say
family and friends and shelter, but what about this good
(05:47):
conversation with our kids and the ability to communicate with
one another. I mean it seems silly, right, but so awesome.
So thank you for sharing that. That was awesome. Okay,
I do have a quote today. I know you like
to start out or Tuesday Q and a's with that.
So I was looking everywhere for a quote this week,
trying to find the perfect one, and then this quote
(06:07):
found me. Of course, I was just like grolling on
Instagram and I came across it and I loved it.
So it's by zig Ziggler Biggler. I think I'm saying
that right, but I thought it was really appropriate for this.
It says, if you aim at nothing, You'll hit it
every time. And I know that's really short, but we
kind of touched on it earlier. Just how cool this
(06:27):
opportunity is something silly that crossed my mind and I'm
a huge fan and acted on it and now I'm
here right now with you. So just a little reminder
to everyone listening that it doesn't hurt to just take
your shot and give it a try. So that's what
my little quote was. But I guess we'll just dive
into the questions now. So the topics I have are
probably not new because you do talk for a living,
(06:50):
so there's not a lot of topics that you haven't covered.
But maybe today I'm hoping we can shed some new
light on the subjects. But your listeners me included because
I think these questions really make you who you are,
which is who we all love in a door. So
with that question one, I would love to know exactly
how you took the plunge into the public speaking and
(07:13):
radio world, especially from going from my cons you were
selling granted before, so I think a lot of people
get stuck at that bridge between maybe like security and passion,
so they're in a job that is familiar and stable,
all the while, maybe their hearts are pulling them in
a different direction. To tell me how you decided to
cross that bridge and trust yourself into taking that leak. Well,
(07:36):
my bio on Twitter for a long time was say
hi to people because it could change your life. And
that's what happened to me by saying hi to Bobby.
About a year after meeting him. Maybe longer was when
I had the opportunity to become his co host, and
I really wasn't sure if I should leave my secure
sales job for such unknown territory. But my mom told
(08:00):
me that if there was ever a time for me
to do something like go beyond our radio show and
try to figure out if it's something that I wanted
to do, then that was the time for me to
do it. And you know, I think she said that
because I was in my early twenties and the risk
was low, and I totally agreed. So I did it.
I quit my sales job, I joined the show, and
(08:21):
at the time, the show was in one market, and
in my mind that was the potential. That's what it
would always be and we would always live in Austin
and keep doing our show. And I didn't know that
Bobby had figure dreams that he was chasing. So I
think my mom had good advice and it was perfect
for me at four years old. But I think even
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if I was forty four years old, she still would
have told me to go for it, to try something new,
because it was more than just assessing the risk. I
think it was about doing something that I was a
little scared of, like scared of putting myself out there
every morning and ailing. And she's really the one that
pushed me and gave me the confidence that I needed
(09:04):
to do it. But she also showed me too, was like,
no matter the risk, it's better to see what happens
than to know that you never tried and have that regret.
And so she's the one that nudged me. So when
it comes to taking that plunge to public speaking and
sharing my life and being on the radio without any
(09:24):
aspirations to do so before meeting Bobby or having any
training or education in it, I don't think I would
have been able to do it without my mom's encouragements.
So for anybody else looking for that, and I know
it's different, and I and I did have a supportive family,
so I know everybody's story is different. If there's a
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way you can figure out to dip your toe into
where you want to go, just so that you know
you gave it a try and not look back twenty
years and have regret. Or if you're looking back now
and there's still a shot for you to go do it,
maybe you try now. Nobody that says you can't try again,
even if you missed your first opportunity, you know, yeah, absolutely,
And it's whatever gives you energy, you know. So if
(10:06):
you find something that's giving you energy but you're you know,
focused on what you're currently doing, maybe tap into that
and then, like you said, it's never too late to
reach out. I was so I was going to ask
you what advice you'd give your younger self, but I
feel like kind of covered that, So maybe I'll get
a little specific and maybe even a little selfish and
ask a relationship question. I'm currently living with my boyfriend
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and we've had to talk about marriage and are planning
for it. But I am in my twenties. I'm going
to be twenty four next week, and it's so important
for me to only be married once in my lifetime
and I really value obviously the principle of marriage. So
what's one relational tip you would give to maybe your
younger listeners or listeners in general. Believe in yourself and
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your wants and desires and goals, and surround yourself with
others that believe in you, whether it's friends or your
boyfriend slash future husband, and really know what what you
want and that's going to evolve as you evolve as
a person. But don't conform to like what other say
your life should be like. I feel like I did
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that way too much in my younger years. And my
husband would agree to a lot of what we did
early in our marriage and ways we tried to mimic
our relationship was what we thought was right and what
we thought others would want from us, And this is
how we're supposed to be because this is how we
grew up. And I know that's very vague because I'm
(11:37):
not going to go way into detail, but because for
everybody it's going to be different. But have those tough
conversations with your boyfriend or whoever you're starting this relationship with,
and know that as a couple, you're going to evolve
and there's going to be challenges. So communication is key,
but you're always going to have to do what feels
right in your heart and do the work to old that,
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not mold to what you think others want from you
or your relationships. Depending on how you grew up, that
image may be very different and who you enter a
relationship with for the rest of your life, then y'all
are joined in that together and when you're joining two
separate things depending on how you all grew up. Like
my husband and I are families, we grew up very
(12:23):
very similar, so expectations were very very similar, and I
think we would get so stuck in that and how
we were going to parent and things we were going
to believe and stuff we were going to do, and
it was always like, oh, well, this is what our
parents would want from us, But we were becoming our
own people and we're starting a life together. So you
have to be open to discovering that yourself and follow
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what what you want to believe in together. That's that
sounds faith based, which which it could be if you
want to take it that way, but really your core
values what you believe how you want your relationship to be,
or you could come from b sit ins like my husband,
I grew up. I say, we grew up the same,
but that was on my mother's end. Now his parents
are still married, mine were divorced. He has ideals like
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his family had dinner together every single night mom his
mom cooked dinner, his dad got home, they sat around
the table like very very traditional. While my dad left
when I was nine, and then my mom had to
get a job and she worked a ton and we
got drive through or I didn't even see her at dinner,
or we tried to hang out and we could, but
(13:29):
we didn't have dinner around the table every night as
a family. By the time I was in ninth grade,
my sister was in college and just it was very
me and my mom just trying to do our thing.
So sometimes we were joining up like okay, well, what
how do we want our kids to be Again, that's
a very small example, but meal times are important to
(13:50):
my husband and I didn't have them, but we worked
together and communicate to know they're like, hey, yeah, if
you want that, we're going to make that happen every
once in a while, And to be honest, when we
do do it, that's when we have the best conversations
with our kids. And that is when we really bond
around the table as a family. So I do find
them important. Do I think that I need to be
(14:13):
at home cooking dinner every night and we need to
do it at the same time every night? No, did
my husband think that's how his life would be? Yes?
Have we had to communicate about it and then mold
the way we want our family to be, which looks
a little different than what his ideal was. Yes, so
it seems like it is a very little example, and
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I get that. But that's what I mean by taking
whatever thoughts you had about what you think your relationship
is supposed to look like, and then do what you
want to do right and just like you said, being
true to you because you can come from, like you said,
similar or very very different backgrounds. But at the end
of the day, your morals and you know what's true
(14:55):
to you will always align as long as you stay
in tune with it, I think, and your hon about it.
I think that's a great example. It's just as simple
as eating dinner because the same I came from a
family where we sat down an eight and he did it,
and so I know for my family I want that. Now,
will I have to compromise and bend and be flexible. Absolutely,
But is that something that's kind of staple to my
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future ideal? If you will like your husband, you know
he has to work to make that happen too. So
I think that's awesome that well, And I'll just be honest,
there's gonna be way bigger issues than whether just to
keep it real. It is pretty serious. It's just kidding.
I just think that it's a good example of what
communication looks like and then forming that mold of what
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y'all want, not what you find others want from you. Yeah,
I think that's perfect. Okay. Next, I do want to
ask you about adoption. I know that I personally have
a deep pole in my heart any time the subject
(16:02):
comes up, you know, whether it's in church for a movie.
I'm just so altered emotionally by the response of adoption.
It kind of has always been something that has resonated
with me and I've always thought about So. I know
that you struggled with infertility, and I'm sure that that
was a huge factor in leading your heart towards adoption,
But when did you decide it was the right time.
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I really feel like I knew early on it was
really getting my husband to sign on to the whole thing,
and not that he wasn't for adoption by any means,
but you know, he thought that that could be great
for us, but he wanted biological kids first. And so
I think for me it was after tons of failed
pregnancy tests and visiting fertility doctors and then knowing the
(16:42):
money that we would have to pour into possibly getting pregnant,
and that's just possibly wasn't even guarantee. I just knew
in my heart that the money that we would spend
on that should go towards a sure thing, and to me,
the sure thing was giving a home to kids that
were already born. And I say that with zero judgment
towards anyone that spends their money on getting pregnant. I
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know plenty of people that do when it works out beautifully,
and it's amazing, and I'm so thankful for science and
doctors that make that possible. But I just knew that
it wasn't the route for me. So again back to
the second question that you had, it wasn't our ideal mold.
Ideal mold like. We didn't think that's what our family
would look like like we thought when we got married,
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we'd have no trouble getting pregnant, and we were going
to have kids biologically, and this was what was expected
and that's how life works and that's how it is. Well,
that wasn't happening for us. So then that's when that
other part of advice I was talking about where communication
comes in, Like things are going to be different for
you than they are for other people, so you have
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to communicate how do we want to handle this? And
I remember the day I went to him and said,
we were living in Southern Pines, North Carolina, and I
knew we had a little sun room in our house.
And I sat him down and I said, I know
that adoption is for us. It took him a little
bit to get there, and I've said this a million times,
but it was after he read a book called Adopted
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for Life that he really started to shift. And I'm
pretty sure it's like after chapter one that he has
something switched and he was like, I'm in whatever we
need to do, let's adopt without even knowing if we'll
ever have biological children, Let's do this. And so that's
when we started to pursue that and knew that that
(18:29):
was our new journey, and you know, I think for me,
you know, we prayed for so long to get pregnant,
and it was one of those unanswered prayer situations where
I look at Stevenson and stuff here in our house
right now, and the journey that we've been on, and
how I was able to go to Africa and do
(18:50):
some work there, which made me want to go to
Haiti and do some work there. And my husband traveled
the world because he was in the military, and just
we started to open our hearts and see that there's
different needs and where were we going to fill that void?
Where were we going to be parents to somebody? And
we started off domestically but that wasn't working out, and
(19:13):
then we ended up going to Haiti and that worked out.
But it was we we got if I think of
the failed pregnancy tests and how our domestic adoption just
was not working out, and I think of all the
prayers I had that I wanted those things to work,
all of them, and when they wouldn't, I would get
so frustrated. But then when you get to the other side,
you're like, Okay, God, I get it, Like you had something, yeah,
(19:38):
you had something else in store. So another thing too,
is just whatever you believe in, you have to be
patient because the right thing will work out for you
in the end. It just may not be what you
wanted at the exact time, might be the exact opposite
of what you thought was going to happen at a
totally different time, but be super amazing, right. And I
(20:00):
guess this is kind of a follow up question to
this question. I hope that's okay. But for people that
maybe are, you know, on the fence about whether that's
something they can emotionally commit to, did you still like
the process of international adopting kind of reassured you and
helped you along the way or it kind of emphasized that.
And I think if I understand your question correctly, I
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think actually the process had me question multiple times is
this we're supposed to be doing? Because it was so hard. Really,
there was so many hurdles and times that I wanted
to quit in times that I was sitting on the
floor and my house, well two different houses, because we
moved in the process, but there was so many so
(20:45):
much paperwork and so many ridiculous things That all makes sense, yes,
but just a little archaic in the way that even
in the United States. Of course in Haiti, but in
the United States that we went about stuff that just
seemed to make the process so much longer than it
needed to be because it took us, you know, about
five years when we decided we wanted to adopt to
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actually bringing kids home. And I remember our dining room
being a nice size I mean, normal sized dining room.
But imagine I want you to picture paper covering your
entire dining room table, all the way down to the floor,
papers everywhere, trying to organize them, and I just remember
one night looking at them and I just wanted to
(21:28):
go and just mess them all up and be like,
forget this mind. But imagine or while I was sitting
there organizing them, because maybe my dog would mess them
up and then I would get frustrated and I would
be crying putting them back together, was that this is
this is going to be worth it, And oh my gosh,
(21:48):
if this is what they do to weed out the
people that are not serious, well I'm going to show
you that I am serious and my husband serious and
we're going to do this. So what was testing, or
I guess should have been a test, really, you know,
kind of like you said, it without who is capable
of doing that and and has the determination to go
through with it. So that did answer my question, that
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wasn't I don't want to come off as like I'm
the super determined like special persons went through it. There's
so many people that do that every single day and
do it and if you were, if you did give
up or you were weeded out, it doesn't make you
any less of a person. Like it's it's hard, and
it just means that that wasn't the right thing for you.
There's something else for you that is going to work out.
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And I don't think that we're better because we were
able to handle all of the hurdles, But I just
wanted to make sure I clarify that that I'm not
that we're not better than you because we were to
accomplish every task that was thrown our way, because it
definitely was just not easy. But I'm super thankful that,
you know, we got through it and all the people
(22:54):
that supported us along the way. For sure, Yeah, support
is huge and it definitely paid off. Because your kids
are a door of all I love when they show
up on your Instagram, I like, stop everything and turn
it up so I can hear Stevenson's little voice. I'm
sure you get that a lot, but it's my favorite thing. Okay,
first question, I think I speak on all of your
listeners right now. I think we love you so much
(23:15):
and have so much respect for you as a person
because you are so transparent and authentic, both on the
podcast and on the Bobby Bones Show. But how did
your mentality kind of evolve from the start of your
career to decipher what's private versus what everyone in the
world could potentially know, Like, how do you keep your
(23:36):
personal life sacred when the public is kind of demanding
to know everything about you. I feel like I was
really really open right out of the gate, probably too open,
not asking certain people in my life what was okay
to share and then what was not okay to share.
I just shared so many stories in the early years
because I didn't realize the damage that could be done.
(23:58):
I shared stuff that I would ever share today for
the sake of the people that were also involved, and
while I didn't say their names necessarily, and I was
a part of the story too, So really I have
every right to share some things. I still have a
few stories that I put out there that I wish
I could have would have either communicated with the other
parties beforehand or just decided not to say them at all.
(24:21):
Out of respect. So yeah, out of respect for people.
I now try to make sure that they know if
I'm telling a story that involves them. And I'm married
to someone that is extremely private and in the early
years of our marriage, is definitely caused a lot of issues.
I mean, the early years of the show got a
little rough. I mean there was definitely times where I thought, Okay,
(24:42):
I should just quit. This is too much, just too stressful. Obviously,
I'm glad I did never follow through with quitting, although
I didn't walk out on the show live on the
air once maybe twice. I'm not sure I really knew
about something, and you're like, wait, I know that. I mean, well,
there was just stuff that was just like came up
on the show that we were talking about that I
(25:02):
just was not comfortable with, and it made me so upset,
and I couldn't believe that Bobby and lunch Box were
talking about it and that they were going to do
that to me and everybody's listening, and I was so
furious that, Yeah, I don't remember the other one was
live on the air, but I did walk out of
the studio, but for sure one time live on the air,
like I left and I was like, I I'm done,
(25:25):
and I went to the bathroom and I was crying.
And then there was another time that I was quitting
the show because my husband was in the Air Force
and we were having to move and something was going
on that was crazy. But anyway, I was gonna leave
and Bobby was searching for replacement for me, and I
just remember yelling, I don't know who's taking over my job,
but whoever they are, I hope they are prepared, like
(25:46):
freaking prepared. So if you ever, like every once in
a while, they'll bring that back up, but we don't
really reference where it is or why. But if you
ever hear lunch Box or Bobby randomly say like freaking
pre paired or that's what that's from, is from my
little outburst, because it got it got hard sometimes putting
(26:09):
all that out there and then having even the backlash
from listeners or people that disagree with you and they're
rude about it. I don't mind people disagreeing with me.
I don't think that I'm for everybody. In fact, I
was even talking about that about this podcast that I
went and read the negative one star reviews. I had
never done that before, but I did it like last week,
(26:31):
and it was hard to take in. But I have
thick enough skin now to where I can can I
can take it constructively. But it still blows my mind
sometimes how people have to go out of their way
to be really rude about it. For me, if it's
something you want to share with someone that you think
they can approve upon to make their content better, which
(26:51):
is how I received some of it, so thank you
and I'll work on it. But then there's also just
the rude comments to be rude and are unnecessary. They
don't do anything, they don't add any value to anything.
There's nothing I can take away from it other than
just feeling like crap. So I don't know. For me,
if I don't like something, I just don't listen to
(27:13):
it and I don't talk about it and I don't
make a big deal about it. But I do appreciate
all like the five star reviews to the one star reviews,
because again I can take from that, But if you're
not going to be constructive with it, then my encouragement
would be to just not say it anything at all,
the first rule. Yeah, but back to sharing life, and
(27:36):
you know, private versus not private? How do I decide
all that I do share? Most all of my life?
You know, my mom was battling cancer. I would talk
to her before I would say things and make sure
she was comfortable with whatever I was going to share.
Or my dad's journey. You know, there's a lot of
things that are going on though in my life that
(27:57):
people will never know about, and that's to protect my
husband and my kids, my family, my friends. But what
I do choose to share, I do so with the
hopes that someone will need to hear what I'm saying
and they will not feel alone and whatever they're going through,
even if it's just one person. Then I feel like
my job it's done. Yeah, well, I think you do
(28:18):
such a good job at that because as a listener
who I listened to everything from the Bobby bun Show
to Outweigh, I listened to everything that you do, and
it does it feels like you're I said it in
my email, I think you we're friends. Like I feel
like your friend. I feel like you share with me
the important stuff, and I'm always like, well, let's less,
you know, and I'm sure there's a lot less, and
(28:39):
I get it. It's just it's probably been trial and
air of what to share and about who and when
is the appropriate time to share it. So I can
only imagine that battle, and I think it's like everything else,
right to trial and air and a learning experience, like
how things work. So I think that's really cool. And
I've never really thought and I never even thought about it,
(28:59):
how maybe you are more careful about what you share.
But maybe Bobby or lunch Box doesn't think about, you know,
some of the things they say. So there's how many
of y'all, six of you guys talking on the show,
so you guys all have to be mindful of each
other as well. I didn't think about that. Well, we
have matured a lot, so this some of that stuff
(29:21):
was from the early years. I haven't threatened to quit
in you know, at least twelve years, so, but we've
grown and matured and respect each other enough to not
surprise each other with things or take low blows, which
we used to do because honestly it was like, well,
you know, it makes good radio. But luckily we're we're
(29:47):
a little more thoughtful now and you can still have
a good show without any of that stuff. So yeah,
very cool. Well, thank you so much again for having
me on. This has been so fun, and I that
I touched on some questions maybe some other listeners who
are interested in hearing about but again just questions that
make you you and anyone who listens probably has the
(30:10):
same amount of respect for you that I do, so
just truly is one of the book those things I've
been able to do. So just thank you for that
and reading our emails and giving back and giving space
for us to talk to you. I think it's really cool. Brentley,
you did an amazing job. If I ever need a
fill in host, I will keep you in mind. I
(30:31):
don't know, maybe I could do this as a thing
for a few other people if they wanted to email
and had questions. It changes things us a little bit.
Like I said, I've had just done a walk when
I even thought of this, because I thought it would
be even cool to get a question answered. And then
you know, I was thinking, well, there's not just one.
I have way too many, and of course I have
a million more, but I narrowed it down. But I've
(30:53):
always thought about doing a podcast or things like that,
so this has been really good practice. I've never done
anything like this, so it excites me. It's fun, and
if I could ever be even a small amount of
influence like you have, I think that would be so cool. Well,
why don't you tell people what your Instagram is? Because
I'm sure there's yeah, maybe somebody that I can't guarantee
(31:13):
it for sure, but I mean, if I was listening,
I'd be like, oh, I want to send Brittley a
message and tell her she did so good. Oh my gosh,
I would love that. Yeah, it's just Brittley and b
r I t l e y A n N and
I would love it. I'd love to communicate. I feel
like all your listeners are all people that I would
get along with, so I'd love to chat with anyone.
I think that's awesome. Okay, So b r I T
(31:37):
l e y A n n Y, Brittley and Okay, awesome. Well,
thank you you did amazing and I'm glad you you
thought of this. It's been really fun, and thank you
so much for having me on Amy. You're awesome. Okay, Well, no,
you did great and I hope you have a great
rest of your day. You too, Okay, thank you Brittley
by
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