Feeling Things with Amy & Kat

New York Times Best Selling Author, Donald Miller, is our guest and Kat Defatta joins in on the conversation too, as she is a big Donald Miller fan! Amy recently read Donald's latest book, Hero On A Mission: A Path to a Meaningful Life, and asked him to come on the podcast as soon as she finished it! Amy's sister, Cristi, also loved the book, so she chimes in with a question (via text) f...

Welcome to the ‘5th Thing’ with Amy & Kat! Our quote for today is from our producer Houston! He sent us a quote saying: “it’s just a bad day, not a bad life” but he couldn't remember where he heard it…so we searched it up and it seems as though it’s a Johnny Depp quote…Lol.  - Amy & Kat spend this episode answering rapid-ish (nothing r...

Bonus Episode!! As part of a listener-led series, Amy sat down with podcast listener, Emma Bailey, and answered a list of questions she came up with! Hope you enjoy this little Q&A whether you listen to it on a ‘Sunday Stroll’ {shout out ‘The Walk Thing’ — iykyk!!} or not! :)  4ThingsWithAmyBrown@gmail.com if you would like to lead a Q&A episode...

OUTWEIGH: Samantha Skelly, Pause Breathwork CEO & Founder, is our guest today. She shares with us her eating disorder journey and how breathwork led to healing & recovery. Samantha had been on 50 different diets in 4 years, she was always excited about going to bed so that she wouldn't think about dieting & anxiety…not a fun place to be…but so many of us can relate! She t...

Amy’s guest today is a dear friend from the music business: Lesly Simon! We are so thankful to have Lesly on sharing her breast cancer journey and the motto she adopted for herself the day her world changed: "This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before." - Maya Angelou  Lesly also spoke candidly about what it's like working for Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood and ended t...

Welcome to the '5th Thing' with Amy & Kat!! Today’s quote: "Stop saying yes to sh*t that you hate.” (from a picture hanging in Kat's office). This episode shares several listener emails from: Katie (about gratitude), Amanda (about a God hug), Aimee (jeans question), and Janet (about an Instagram DM Amy shared on the podcast a few episodes ago)! The last listener email leads to Kat...

Bonus Episode!! As part of a listener-led series, Amy sat down with podcast listener, Erika Gandy, and answered a list of questions she came up with! Hope you enjoy this little Q&A whether you listen to it on a ‘Sunday Stroll’ {shout out ‘The Walk Thing’ — iykyk!!} or not! :)  4ThingsWithAmyBrown@gmail.com if you would like to lead a Q&A episode!! Be...

OUTWEIGH: Week 3 with Crystal Lunenschloss (MS, RDN, LDN, CEDRD) is all about addressing this listener email that Amy recently received: Amy, I have a good friend who, pretty clearly, is battling an eating disorder. When we go out to eat somewhere, she often asks the server many questions about what’s in the food and then orders something and doesn’t eat any of it. She makes excuses sa...

CEO + Founder of Pause Breathwork, Samantha Skelly, is Amy's '4 Things' guest today and she's here to enlighten us on what it would look like to incorporate breathwork into our daily routines. After a life-changing trip to Bali, where she was introduced to breathwork, she made it her life's mission to teach the world to breathe...and she says that breathwork will be bigger than meditation &am...

Welcome to the '5th Thing' with Amy & Kat!! Today’s quote: “Power of empathy: I’m in it with you. I’m not here to fix you. I’m not here to feel it for you. I’m here to feel with you and let you know you’re not alone.” -Brene Brown    Amy reads a few listener emails: one about connection & sharing things, one about a co-worker confli...

OUTWEIGH: What is normal eating? Well, week 2 with Crystal Lunenschloss (MS, RDN, LDN, CEDRD) helps us answer that very question. Amy and Crystal also talk about habits to normal eating, how you don’t have to earn your food, exercise addiction, and the best thing to do after a binge. Crystal became a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian to help people reconnect and heal their relat...

We’re revisiting our conversation with Walker and Laney after having such a special conversation with Walker earlier this week!   Singer/song-writer, Walker Hayes (who wrote our theme song! + the #PIMPINJOY song 'Joy Like Judy') and his wife Laney join Amy for all 4 things this episode. You might laugh. You might cry. The parents of 6 kids let us in on a lot and we are so thankful that...

Walker Hayes and Craig Allen Cooper join ‘4 Things’ this week to chat with Amy about their new book: ‘Glad You’re Here.’ Walker talks about being an alcoholic atheist when he first met Craig, and how the things he's experienced over the last few years have completely changed his life. The unlikely friends and next-door neighbors turned BFFs, Walker and Craig, are now...

Welcome to the '5th Thing' with Amy & Kat!! You should listen to today’s episode for the quotes/memes alone…they share a few good ones for sure (some funny, but also some that lead to a conversation about emotions and managing feelings.) They also address a few listener emails…one specifically about trying to start working out in a healthy way after getting over some disord...

OUTWEIGH: Amy’s guest for the next 3 weeks is Crystal Lunenschloss (MS, RDN, LDN, CEDRD). Crystal became a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian to help people reconnect and heal their relationship with food and their bodies. In this episode, Crystal helps us understand how body image is more about our brains than what we look like and she gives us a few things we can do to immediat...

Author & Expert Writing Coach, Allison Fallon ( @AllyFallon ), joins Amy for a conversation about working on yourself (and fighting for what matters) + outgrowing things + writing for your mental health (and the science behind it) + 4 things she is currently thankful for. Ally also shares a powerful writing prompt (for us writing amateurs to use!) and talks about what it’s like working w...

Welcome to the '5th Thing' with Amy & Kat!! Today’s quote is: “Never suppress a generous thought!” (thank you to listener Sara for sending that). After discussing how we can all ignore simple gestures that come to mind at times…Amy shares emails from listeners: Melissa (about baking with kids + an awesome cake recipe!) and Samantha (about how she did her dissertation o...

Amy and Lisa discuss the dangers of Kim K’s recent comment at the met gala and how to F*RK THE NOISE in all areas of life. Plus, a bittersweet announcement about the future of Outweigh and the direction Lisa is going in!     Ruthie Friedlander’s article on Elle HERE .   Follow the hosts on instagram @lisahayim @radioamy   SUBSCRIBE and follow so you never miss...

Amy's guest today is Brooke Rozzie, an expert in Cycle Syncing and understanding how hormones fluctuate throughout the different seasons of our monthly cycle. If women can understand their cycle and why we feel the way we do during different times of the month, everything makes so much more sense! (It is NOT in our head and we aren't going crazy!) - This is literally our very own superpower that i...

Welcome to the '5th Thing' with Amy & Kat!! Today’s quote gives us a reminder of things we need to never feel guilty about (but yet we somehow do at times). Then we get into personal boundaries and answer some emails about: eye patches/pimple patches, bird seed recommendation, how to deal with all the things, and supporting loved ones/staying connected with those that are in the military...

Our guest today is @BrookeRozzie (nutritional and fitness coach + expert in women’s hormones). Amy asked Brooke to start off with a little bit of her eating disorder story from her childhood and how she got into recovery. Brooke is a hormone expert…so she also shared why it’s important to not restrict when you’re leading up to your cycle…you need the calories! If yo...

Kailey Dickerson sits down with Amy to talk about all the things: what it’s like being married to Russell Dickerson (who is about to go on tour with Tim McGraw), gratitude, different seasons of life (getting cozy with carbs in the winter + taking long walks in the summer + experiencing anguish after a miscarriage + articulating emotions + helping build Russell’s country music career)....

Welcome to the '5th Thing' with Amy & Kat!! Instead of just one quote today…we got all kinds of fun quotes shared at the top of this episode that led to coversation! Then Amy & Kat chatted multiple emails from listeners..shout out: Donnetta, Emily & Miranda!!!  Thank you licensed therapist, Kat Defatta, for joining us with her wisdom. You can find her on Instagram: @Kat. De...

Amy shared a rundown of things she saw online this week that were an encouragement to her and good reminders for us all to keep in our back pockets!  Reminders like: Social media is not a dietitian. Eat like you won't binge later. Food is not something that has to be earned. Compliments that have nothing to do with weight. Some diet behaviors start off innocent.   Follow the hosts on ins...

FIRST THING: Amy’s dear friend @GracieMoakler came on for an encouraging little chat about how we are all doing things (big or small) that MAKE A DIFFERENCE for others…even though we may not realize it!  SECOND THING: Did you know a simple $30 ‘birth kit’ could be what saves a woman’s life during childbirth in rural parts of Haiti? Amy sat down with Stephanie Ca...