Feeling Things with Amy & Kat

Welcome to the '5th Thing' with Amy & Kat!! Today’s quote is from Maya Angelou: “You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.” Speaking of Christmas - @TheNashvilleBeautyGirl wants to do a skincare giveaway…a consultation + ZO Skin products…listen for the details!!  Amy and Kat both do ‘4 Things Gratitude’ (...

OUTWEIGH: Self-Love Coach, Aubree Henderson is our expert today! She talks with Amy about befriending your inner critic...recognizing and more deeply understanding your inner critic voice, where it comes from, and how to engage with it more compassionately.   About Aubree: Aubree Henderson is a self-love coach, author, and pleasure activist. Aubree works with clients and students to increase their...

Matt Smallbone ( @matt.smallbone ) is Amy's guest today. If you want to transition into different seasons of life with grace and increase your 'window of tolerance' - this chat is for you! You'll also hear how you can make an impact in the foster care world (even if you're not called to be a foster parent) because there is a deep need for help in this area across the country. Matt specifically sha...

When a Brazilian prodigy discovers a wild new strain of cacao, she can’t tame the flavor, until a mysterious fixer shows up at her door with a plan. Want some of this god-level chocolate? Kaleidoscope has joined forces with Luisa Abram and Stettler Chocolate to make a special box to go along with this very podcast. Just visit: www.stettler-chocolate.com to order your wild chocolate today. Like wha...

Welcome to the '5th Thing' with Amy & Kat!! Amy starts off asking Kat about her family giving the gift of experiences instead of things this year-her family just took a trip over Thanksgiving, but that was everyone’s Christmas gift! Kat shares why she loved it!! Today’s quote is “listening to sad songs can actually boost your mood!” - @UberFacts . Kat shares that she has a playlist titled: “So...

OUTWEIGH: Singer/Song-writer Maura Streppa   is Amy's guest today! Maura battled with an eating disorder for most of her life, but didn’t realize it until she was a freshman in college. She started recovery over COVID and really used songwriting to help get through it. She wrote a song called “Skinnier” that comes out December 2nd and hopes it will help others feel less alone + encourage them to N...

There’s more to sleep than being a good sleeper. So many factors—from overall health to our environments—impact our experience of sleep and how our brains and bodies behave while sleeping. From restless leg syndrome to sleepwalking to narcolepsy, researching and diagnosing sleep uncovers myriad solutions for getting the quality sleep that helps us live our best lives. In this epi...

Happy Thanksgiving!! Today's the day that Amy's Christmas movie is available to stream on HBO Max. It's a romantic drama called 'Holiday Harmony' and we are freaking out. Amy tells Kat about the eyebrow mistake she made just days before filming. Brooke Shields is in the movie, so maybe Amy was inspired by her brows?? Big mistake, huge. In honor of thanksgiving, Kat & Amy do a special "4 things...

On the edges of one of the world’s most stunning nature preserves, an ancient Mayan secret has been hiding in plain sight. Want some of this god-level chocolate? Kaleidoscope has joined forces with Luisa Abram and Stettler Chocolate to make a special box to go along with this very podcast. Just visit: www.stettler-chocolate.com to order your wild chocolate today. Like what you hear? Follow us @ksc...

Welcome to the '5th Thing' with Amy & Kat!! Today’s quote is: "I've learned to hold on to me. My favorite version of myself. Don't lose yours, okay?" - Amy in Holiday Harmony (the Christmas movie that she is in...it comes out on HBO Max in 2 days...eeeeeekkk!!!!) That line isn't exactly what Amy ended up saying in the movie, but that was the original script and we love that it's a reminder to...

OUTWEIGH: Emily Riley is Amy's guest today and she's sharing her own journey living with an eating disorder, and then cancer. About Emily: Emily Riley is a people-lover, sunshine addict, and latte-obsessed human being with the painful experience of choosing eating disorder recovery in 2014 and then simultaneously walking through an unexpected journey with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma cancer treat...

Most of us take sunset as the cue to start winding down our day, but what if the sun never sets? The remote city of Inuvik, Canada is so deep in the Northern Hemisphere that it experiences months of non-stop sunlight in the summer, followed by months of fulltime darkness in the winter. Host Anahad O’Connor sits down with Inuvik resident  Adi Scott  who details what it’s like...

FIRST THING - Give Fear Space: Amy's friend @LisaHayim put up a post on Instagram recently about giving fear space! Everything she shared about fear is so spot on, including the things we can do instead of pushing through fear (thank you Lisa for the tips!) We second Lisa's plea to normalize being afraid, have healthy skepticism, and give fear some breathing space. Such a good IG post!!! Speaking...

Remember the Mast Brothers scandal? Think you are eating sustainable, small batch chocolate? It's way more complicated than that. Plus: when three idealists try to tackle the evils of Big Chocolate, they realize treacherous roads, nails and bullets are just the beginning of their problems.   Want some of this truly bean to bar chocolate? Kaleidoscope has joined forces with Luisa Abram and Stettler...

Welcome to the '5th Thing' with Amy & Kat!! Today’s quote is: "I used to sneak out of my house to go to parties, now I do the opposite!" (from the @elarroyo_atx sign) Hopefully not too many people snuck out of our Wichita LIVE party...Lol. At the beginning of the evening (before everyone attending took their seats) some people wrote down their expectations for the night. You'll hear Kat share...

OUTWEIGH: Riley Laster (dietician + big fan of intuitive eating) is our expert guest this week with Amy. In this episode (3 of 3) they talk about how raising your kids in a diet-free buffer zone has been going (what you’ve found to work for you and your family, why you’ve felt the need to do this) and this episode is your permission slip to like food!!!!!!!!   Riley's Instagram:  @rileylaster To c...

Astronauts undergo rigorous training to prepare their bodies and minds for space, but once they arrive, the experience of being weightless thousands of miles above Earth is like nothing they’ve ever felt before. Join host Anahad O’Connor as he learns from former NASA astronaut and International Space Station commander Leroy Chiao about what it’s like to work and sleep in space, i...

Our first ever LIVE podcast taping went down in Wichita and we had the best time!! It was so awesome to have listeners from all over Kansas join us and even cooler that some traveled from Texas, California, Oklahoma, Colorado, and West Virginia to be a part of this special evening! Amy is on a journey to really LIVE LIFE, to GET UNSTUCK, to MAKE A MOVE, and assess how she wants to SHOW UP in the w...

No one should be murdered over some cacao beans. But as the world gets a taste for wild chocolate, competition becomes cutthroat.  Want some of this god-level chocolate? Kaleidoscope has joined forces with Luisa Abram and Stettler Chocolate to make a special box to go along with this very podcast. Just visit: www.stettler-chocolate.com to order your wild chocolate today. Like what you hear? Follow...

Welcome to the '5th Thing' with Amy & Kat!! Today’s quote is from Taylor Swift’s song Anti-Hero: “It’s me. Hi. I’m the problem, it's me.” Amy has been singing that song a lot lately and is obsessed with the video. This led to a conversation between Amy, Kat, and Amy’s BFF from high school, Andrea. This episode is recorded from Amy’s hotel room in Kansas just hours before her first LIVE podcast...

OUTWEIGH: Riley Laster (dietician + big fan of intuitive eating) is our expert guest for the next 2 weeks with Amy. In this episode (2 of 3) they talk about wading through influence culture (as Riley has gained a following on Instagram in the last year!), how annoying it is when people post "what I eat in a day" posts/videos, and how a cucumber simply cannot replace a cupcake.    Riley's Instagram...

When you’re a wildlife documentarian, you camp in the most remote parts of the world, ready at a moment’s notice to record elusive subjects. You also have to sleep when you can, where you can, often in extreme, uncomfortable, sometimes sub-zero conditions. Chris Morgan is a renowned filmmaker, ecologist and conservationist who’s journeyed the world, including deep into the Siberi...

Amy sat down with her friend, Meredith Lile, to talk about the benefits of float therapy. Meredith first started floating to help with her anxiety and she loved it so much that she decided to open two studios of her own in the Nashville area: Pure Sweat + Float Brentwood and Pure Sweat + Float Cool Springs.   Meredith explains what float therapy is and the benefits (sleep being one of them because...

Cacao hunter Volker Lehman has spent 20 years ruining his life to chase the perfect flavor. But he just can’t quit the Amazon.  Want some of this god-level chocolate? Kaleidoscope has joined forces with Luisa Abram and Stettler Chocolate to make a special box to go along with this very podcast. Just visit: www.stettler-chocolate.com to order your wild chocolate today. Like what you hear? Follow us...

Welcome to the '5th Thing' with Amy & Kat!! Today’s quote is from @YouNeedTherapyPodcast : "It's not hard to be who you are, what's hard is trying to stop being who you think others want you to be." Kat then shares her thoughts on “magical thinking” and how much energy we put into who we “really are as a person” when maybe we just need to strip it down to the facts of who we are. Email topics...