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Episode #117: It's Okay To Not Be Okay | A Solo Episode

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So many of you have been sharing with me that you’ve been having a global case of the “meh”s. Feeling constantly exhausted and not sure how to be/do/behave and beyond.

I had another episode planned for today but after so many of you responded that you were also feeling this way, I decided to hop on the podcast and share a quickie episode about why it’s never been more normal for these feelings to exist — for us to not be okay.

And yeah — I get candid AF about my own experience with this shit and into it with my nerdery around neuroscience. You know I can’t help myself.

Want twenty minutes of feeling better about why you’re feeling the way you’re feeling (or not feeling much of anything these days) and it’s exhausting? This episode is for you.

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Episode #109: Looking Back on My Three Year Journey With BRCA | A Solo Episode

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When I saw that December 3rd 2020 fell on a Thursday — the same day a podcast has dropped into your earbuds almost every day barring season breaks for the last (almost) 3 years, I knew that the Universe knew what was up.

This date will forever go down in history as a reminder of me navigating my preventative double mastectomy for two reasons:

1) On December 3rd, 2018, I went under the knife and had my surgery.

2) On December 3rd, 2019, I released my book I Chopped Off My Tits into the world.

So when I was thinking about how to honor what this day means to me, and, really, what the last almost 3 years of sifting through the fears and feels around all things BRCA — I thought it would be pretty epic to go back to when it all began: February 6th, 2018, two days after my 27th birthday, when I got the call from my doctor that I was, in fact, positive for the BRCA 1 gene and travel through time together via the podcast and my book and current real time expressions.

Fear? Working through the feels? Sifting through anything that impacts our mental health, physical health, relationships, work, sex lives and beyond? It can feel OVERWHELMING AF. Especially because we’re endlessly taught that we need to have our shit together through the mess. The shoulds can be so f*cking suffocating. I know because I was there, love.

And I hope this episode reminds you that no matter what you’re facing, you’re not alone in the mess. I’ve got you. The Live Your F*ck yes community has you. So curl up and let’s go on this journey together.

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Episode #104: Five Years Ago I Hit Rock Bottom And Now I'm Here | A Solo Episode

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I had planned an entirely different episode for today and in true Amanda following the gut tugs fashion, I needed to share from the depths of my heart around what this move has shown me about the power of conscious thought shifts, inner work and small simple shifts that brought me from rock bottom to here.

5 years ago, I was:

  • in the depths of a cycle of eating disorders and body dysmorphia

  • having panic attacks weekly

  • working 7 part time jobs and just barely paying my bills

  • just coming off of a move (my last one) that was FILLED with breakdowns and fights with my husband

  • burnt out, overwhelmed and in a perpetual exhaustion cycle

On Saturday, I moved into my dream home. A home that 5 years ago, I never imagined I could possibly have no matter where my life took me. This move — something that had it been the me of 5 years ago navigating it — would have brought me to my knees with stress, overwhelm and exhaustion. And instead, I moved through it with ease and light.

And on todays episode, I share all about my journey to help illuminate for you how to get unstuck on your own.

Episode #94: The Transformative Magic of Breathwork And Meditation with MB Mannino

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I poo-poo’d meditation for the longest time. It was something I didn’t get. I was incredibly intimidated by it. It felt so foreign to me. And the idea of having a meditation practice was (and sometimes still is), something I feel so resistant to.

And if there’s anything I’ve learned, it’s that where we face resistance, is where we need to place our energy and time because THAT is where the massive growth and transformation takes place. And I couldn’t have imagined a more amazing human to bring on the podcast to deep dive into the magic that is all things meditation & breathwork.

MB is a certified breathwork facilitator, meditation guide and holistic wellness coach based in Metro Detroit. She helps you clear through feelings of stress and anxiety using your breath and body to realign you with your highest, most vibrant self. 

Things we talk about in today’s episode:

  • Her journey from working in ad sales and living a life of burnout to the world of breathwork and meditation

  • What meditation really is — it’s probably not what you think, love.

  • How mindfulness and stillness is the path to healing

  • The discomfort of slowing down

  • Why these modalities are more important than ever amidst this time

  • Facing the “feelings explosion” with intention

  • Finding new ways to express ourselves in quarantine, her Corgi Cooper, supportive feminine practices and beyond

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MB’s Website: www.mbmannino.com

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Episode #87: The Fuck Yes Threesome | A Solo Episode

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Get your head out of the gutter — or don't. Who am I kidding. You KNOW threesomes and anything taboo are welcome here! Ha.

In today’s episode, I’m sharing a quick mindset tool to help you navigate all of the stress, fear and anxiety you’re facing right now — something I’ve coined the Fuck Yes Threesome.

Why are positive coping mechanisms more important than ever right now? I bring ya some science nerdery on how our brains and bodies are wired and what you can do to help avoid chronic stress burnout and debilitating health impacts from this pandemic with these three simple steps.

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Episode #86: A Conversation Around How To Navigate Life Amidst The Corona Pandemic with Rachel Wright

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Today’s episode is different than anything I’ve ever shared on the podcast.

This past week has been tumultuous for all of us. We’re experiencing a pandemic. Something we’ve never had to navigate in our lifetime and it’s impacted ALL of us. Deeply.

So today, I brought on my dear friend and go-to source on all things mental health, psychotherapist Rachel Wright, to have a transparent and support-filled conversation In hopes that for even just one of you, you can feel less alone. Heard. Or maybe, just maybe, share a perspective with you that isn’t yours. That causes you to think outside of what you know and experience. And grow.

This is not a training, although we do share tools to help support you amidst all of this discomfort, fear, anxiety, loss, grief and beyond.

This is an invitation to a conversation around what you’re feeling amidst all of this. I hope you’ll join in.

Episode #82: Breaking the Highlight Reel & Normalizing Conversations Around Mental Health with Sophie Gray

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Sophie Gray is the founder of DiveThru, a guided journaling app that features guided journaling exercises that help you DiveThru what you go thru. She is also the host of the SophieThinksThoughts podcast and reaches an audience of 400,000 across her social media channels.

Sophie has been named Greatist’s 100 Most Influential People in Health & Wellness three years in a row. Her work has been featured in Cosmopolitan, People, Refinery29, Marie Claire, Self, and many more.

Things we talk about in today’s episode:

  • Sophie’s story around going viral in her past life as a fitness influencer on Instagram

  • Her big mental health breakdown that changed everything

  • Showing up authentically online

  • Journaling as a tool for self awareness and accessing your true self

  • How to move away from debilitating anxiety

  • Her company DiveThru and how you can use the app for your life every day

  • Thin privilege, our feelings around the word influencer, our Canadian pride and CEO vibes and beyond!

Episode #81: Twenty Nine Lessons I Learned in This Past Year | A Solo Birthday Edition Episode

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Happy start to season 4 of the podcast!!

Before I deep dove into all the juicy content coming your way this season (AND BREAKING OPEN SOME TOPICS THAT WE HAVE NEVER COVERED ON THE POD), I wanted to share my heart with all of you and go back to my annual birthday tradition of sharing all of the lessons I’ve learned in the past year! 2019 was a BIG one my friends.

Spoiler alert: I get super emotional on today’s episode. What’s new.

Welcome to the mess, the shifts, the joy and all the in-between!

Things I cover in today’s episode:

  • The intense awakening I’ve had in the last 3 months and what I’ve been up to since the end of season three

  • 29 lessons I learned in my 29 years on this earth

  • We cover things from relationships to identity to personal growth to health and beyond!

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Episode #78: I Chopped Off My Tits | A Solo Episode

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This week marks the year anniversary of my preventative double mastectomy.

And it also marks the launch of my new book, I Chopped Off My Tits.

It’s been a pretty surreal time in my life and I’ve been spending so much of it in reflection, and I wanted to share my heart with you all this week around what the last year has meant to me, where I’m at now and what I’ve learned most around fear, trauma, hard AF decisions and vulnerability.

Warning: I get super teary eyed on this one.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for taking this journey with me.

I love you all more than I can say.

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#74: The F*CK it Method & My Recent Navigation of Trauma and Anxiety | A Solo Episode

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The last month and a half have burst me open with so much “stuff”. I’ve been doing some deep healing work and am coming out of the other side feeling so compelled to share because I have a feeling you will resonate deeply with what I’ve been navigating.

Holy balls here we go.

Things I share in today’s episode:

  • The aha moment I had around my own traumas and triggers through therapy

  • My personal journey lately of navigating anxiety and going through the overwhelm

  • Learning to love all parts of my self — the shadow parts, the light and beyond.

  • My personal belief around the words “good” and “bad”

  • The one tool that I use and teach that has changed the MF game for navigating tough shit

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Episode #69: LYFYL Pep Talk Series | The #1 Thing You Can Do To Live Your F*ck Yes Life {What My Trip to Europe Taught Me}

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To close out our LYFYL Pep Talk Series of season 3, I’m sharing the NUMBER ONE tool I deep dive into with all of my clients around stepping into living their f*ck yes lives — so buckle up!

And how fitting that my Euro trip was the biggest reminder of this exact thing…

In today’s episode, I share:

  • a word for word journal entry from my trip that I knew needed to get into your earbuds

  • the exact path I took that took me from rock bottom (knee deep in a binge eating disorder, working 7 jobs, living paycheck to paycheck and having weekly panic attacks) to living MY f*ck yes life

  • The #1 tool that you can start implementing TODAY in your own life

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Episode #68: LYFYL Pep Talk Series | 5 Simple Mindset Tools I Used to 3.4 x my income in 6 Months

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You read that right — in the last six months I 3.4 x my income in my business.

No, it wasn’t because of any business shifts or growing my audience or building an email list or anything that every business coach on the planet tells you you need to do to be successful.

All I shifted was MY MINDSET.

We’re always looking for the shiny penny external thing that’s going to change the game and allow us to see changes in our income, jobs, relationships, health, mental health, when, in reality, it’s the inner work that shifts EVERYTHING.

Even as a mindset coach, I wasn’t embodying the practices I needed to in order to fully create space to receive everything I was desiring — and, let me tell ya, it’s not just been in my income.

So today, I’m sharing my 5 Simple Mindset tools that can help YOU make the shift you’re craving.

If you can start doing these 5 things in your life, or even start implementing a couple of them, you will experience MASSIVE transformation in whatever area of your life you’re craving shifts.

You ready? Let’s go.

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Episode #67: LYFYL Pep Talk Series | How Morning Rituals Can Transform Your Life

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To kick off this month’s edition of our LYFYL Pep Talk Series, I’m sharing with you my current morning ritual system that has been changing the GAME for my mindset, anxiety, health, self care, business, relationships and beyond.

This month, I’ll be sharing tangible actionable tools to be able to implement in your life that will allow you to show up for your life with a shit ton more intention and get you one step closer to truly living your f*ck yes life.

And that starts with the foundation of my day and what I teach all of my clients: fostering a morning ritual that FUELS YOUR MF SOUL.

Let’s do the damn thing.

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Episode #59: Trusting the Timing of the Universe with Nina & Liz of Finding Your Shine

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Nina and Liz make up the dynamic duo behind the Finding Your Shine Podcast. A weekly show that focuses on helping women bust through their fears and live a life that truly lights them up. Each week, they bring on leading experts in the field of health/wellness, career, spirituality, and personal growth to help inspire you to take aligned action towards a life you love. 

Both Nina and Liz have gone through their own transitions from struggling with body image and hormone imbalance, to some intense anxiety. Through resources like podcasts, blogs, and some amazing professionals in the field, they have taken the necessary baby steps towards overcoming these challenges and busting through their negative self-talk. Nina is a full-time hormones and anxiety coach, while Liz works full-time in marketing and is currently getting her coaching certificate in intuitive eating. They can’t wait to share their story and all they have have learned along the way with you!

Things we talk about in todays episode:

  • How to pivot in the entrepreneurial space

  • What it’s like starting a business with your best friend

  • The difference between spirituality and religion

  • My first time reiki experience tell all

  • Using the strategic and intuitive parts of our brain

  • The link between music/creativity and entrepreneurship

  • The details of their Empowered Voice event

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www.findingyourshinepodcast.com 

insta: @findingyourshinepodcast // @noruishedwithnina // @lizgarster
The podcast: Finding Your Shine Podcast on iTunes, Spotify and everywhere podcasts are found

The event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/empowered-voice-tickets-53343855909?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

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Episode #58: What the f*ck to do after a breakup with Jessica Smith

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I am so excited to have Jessica back on the podcast to talk about BREAKUPS.

Let’s be honest — the dating world these days is tough as nails. And while Cosmo may be full of dating tips, relationship tips and sex tips, the thing we never hear about is how to navigate a breakup. Which feels SO backwards because I’d bet that 95% of you have been through one in your lives — I know I have.

And it’s gut wrenching. Heartbreaking. And there’s no support attached to that. So as always, I brought the MF support with this incredibly open and vulnerable conversation.

As a reminder, Jessica Smith is the author of YOUR TWENTIES, a book about change and how to take good care of yourself as a 20-something navigating the “real world.” Jess is the host of two podcasts, THAT VALLEY VIBE, a show about wellness and CAREER COACHING WITH JESSNESS, a show about doing your best work in the world, landing job interviews and how to build a personal brand. When she’s not writing or recording podcasts you can find her meeting with people 1:1 about how Doterra Essential Oils can positively impact their health and hosting events with her oil community, The Wellness Squad.

In today’s episode we cover topics like:

  • Her story of getting broken up with the man she thought she was going to marry

  • The 5 stages of a breakup

  • What to do when you feel like you can’t function

  • The journey back to yourself post breakup

  • Body work as a powerful positive coping mechanism

  • The answers you’re looking for? They are within you.

  • Finding closure in the most unexpected way

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Episode 16 with Jess Smith

Jess’s website | Instagram

Jess’s book Your Twenties

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Episode #46: Gut Health Matters: Heal Your Anxiety Naturally, Live Happier & Feel Your MF Best | A Solo Episode

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“The food you’re ingesting and is being absorbed by the gut directly impacts your mental health/anxiety in profound ways.”

ANXIETY. OVEREATING.

Two things so many of us struggle with on the daily (I know I’m raising my hands), but they’re treated as SEPARATE issues.

The reality?

The two are SO freaking linked and nobody EVER talks about it. I know I have personally struggled with anxiety for YEARS and it was something that perpetuated my binge eating. I would feel anxiety coming on and I’d turn to pints of Ben & Jerry’s and all the MF chips and dips this gal could stuff in her face to numb my feelings, only to make my anxiety worse...

And the cycle continued.

Can you relate?

Maybe you struggle with both. Maybe you are living with anxiety and it’s taking over your life and you feel constantly overwhelmed, exhausted and burnt out. Maybe you’ve tried every diet under the sun and are TIRED of feeling like food is controlling you and you just want to be able to FEEL ENERGIZED and HEALTHY. 

Well, YOU CAN. And it starts here.

Here are a few things I touch on in todays episode:

  • The 5 major symptoms you might have that can tell you if you’re gut is healthy

  • What healthy poops look like

  • The path out of brain fog/exhaustion

  • How I healed my eczema

  • How to overhaul your gut in just 3 days

  • 3 simple steps to support your gut health you can implement today

Episode #42: Owning Your Full Potential and Facing Your Upper Limits | A Solo Episode

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“It could envision myself having these dreams and hitting these goals, and really embodying my full potential as a human being. I could see her and she felt so freaking close. And then I got scared. And I immediately pulled back into my hole and thought 'I can’t do that. I can’t be that person.’”

Have you ever been afraid of being successful?

Of standing in your unapologetic truth?

It can be so terrifying to rise up into our full potential. And so often, we let that fear hold us back from taking any action and instead, we tell ourselves why we’re not good enough and self sabotage from moving in that direction.

I had an unexpected experience with this this week that threw me for a loop in ways I didn’t anticipate. And holy shiz balls did I hit that upper limit ceiling around the prospect of owning my full potential — because I finally had clarity around what that could look like this weekend and it scared the living crap out of me.

More in this week’s episode my loves.

Episode #37: The Truth About Anxiety with Rachel Wright

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If it’s impairing your life and hurting you, it’s enough.

Psychotherapist and Therapeutic Relationship Coach, Rachel Wright is recognized as one of the freshest voices on modern and millennial relationships. She is the co-founder of Wright Wellness Center where, together with her husband and team, she is on a mission to help people have better sex, relationships, and mental health, through a growing catalog of masterclasses, online programs, resources, and a supportive online community. She’s been referred to as someone “bridging the gap between a self-help book and a therapist’s couch.” Rachel is also a sex educator, speaker, and writer, and the co-host of the popular WWC Podcast, that hosts a weekly discussion about the things that matter in life and aren’t talked about enough. She has been featured widely in the media, including Women’s Health, PsychologyToday, MindBodyGreen, Bustle, and dozens of other outlets.

Things we discuss in today’s episode:

  • How to identify anxiety in your day to day life

  • The full story of when she had a panic attack on her wedding day

  • The rampant should-ing all over ourselves we do

  • My own journey with anxiety and something I’ve never shared on the pod before

  • The differences between anxiety and stress

  • The physiological signs of anxiety

  • Anxiety attacks vs. panic attacks (and how they greatly differ)

  • How to thrive alongside anxiety and create a self care plan of action

  • The beauty of curiosity

  • How to navigate anxiety that’s been brought on by trauma

LINKS MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

TEAMI BLENDS TEAS — use code LYFYL for 15% off your purchase

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Wright Wellness Center

Yoga Nidra meditations

Episode 9: How to communicate effectively with your partner and rekindle the spark in your relationship with Rachel & Kyle Wright

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Episode #4: Embracing the mess and the power of sharing your story with Lauren Frontiera

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"Even if you don't feel ready to share that part of your story, allow hearing other peoples' stories to give you more empathy." 

Lauren Frontiera is the founder + visionary of the badass online platform + sisterhood, The Real Female Entrepreneur. Her podcast reaches thousands of women at all stages of business through real, honest, inspiring conversations with both high-profile and newly emerging female entrepreneurs. And when she’s not in front of her computer, you can probably find her pretending to be the next contestant on The Great British Baking Show (or some other food-related tv contest)!

Here are a few other things we discussed in today’s episode:

  • Her journey to entrepreneurship
  • The post college what the hell am I doing with my life ness
  • Perfectionism & how to navigate the world as an adult
  • Why she's so dang burnt out on granola
  • Her obsession with storytelling and sharing your truth
  • Insecurities, self doubt and how to navigate the mess
  • Our bouts of road rage
  • Her thoughts on therapy and doing the inner work
  • Our experiences with anxiety
  • How the idea for The Real Female Entrepreneur came to her and what it's all about
  • Why I say the word penis on the pod (HA.)

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