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Bits of the Week with Morgan Part 1 Behind the Scenes with a member of the show.
Morgan
Happy weekend, friends. I'm really excited this weekend. Amy is joining me. How are you, Amy? I'm here.
Amy
I'm good. How are you?
Morgan
Thanks for being here.
Amy
Yeah, thanks for having me. We made it.
Morgan
We did make it. We're here to the weekend and I decided that we're gonna get into our three best and worst of life right now.
Amy
Okay.
Morgan
You know how you typically do like a today, the best thing about today and the worst thing about today, but we're gonna do three and three of just life right now.
Amy
Okay.
Morgan
And I'm gonna let you start. Should we start with worst or best?
Amy
Let's start with worst. Because my worst. I know my number one of the three is my sty.
Morgan
Okay. The stye in your eye.
Amy
The stye in my eye, which I've been able to keep at. I would say right now, my limited knowledge with styes, because I had one back in March, and this is now my second. So I don't. I'm not like, an expert or anything, but something I'm doing differently than I did in March is more warm compress, and that's keeping it at bay.
Morgan
Are you using eye drops or any kind of.
Amy
I got these dye eye drops. I have no idea if they're doing anything other than just offering me a little bit of relief. Yeah. And I'll take it. I'll take the relief. I am. I got this spray. I'll have to look up what it is. I want to. It's. It starts with an H, like, hypochlorous. This. It's a. It's a spray that you can put all over your body. Actually, it would help, like, if you've got acne, like, maybe on your chest or your back or your face. At least that's what the ad was saying. But an eye doctor on YouTube.
Morgan
I was going to say it's safe to put in your eyeball.
Amy
Yes. An eye doctor on YouTube. It has to be the right percentage of this ingredient, but you can. You spray it, and it helps clean that area around your eyelashes and your eyelid. Keeping it.
Morgan
Yeah, those are. Styes are annoying. I used to get them a lot, I tell you.
Amy
And that's what's. So one of my positives. I'll go positive now is that I really. And the least stressed that I have been. Things overall are in a good place. And my friend was telling me that styes come about for some people because of stress, and I'm like, that's not the case for me. And, you know, then Bobby said he looked up that hormonal changes can do it. So I've been meaning to reach out to my doctor since he said that, and I haven't, but I will in the next few days. Just out of curiosity, because as I'm doing the testosterone or my yam pellet for testosterone, I'm like, shoot, is this gonna keep happening or will it stop?
Morgan
What other things are gonna come?
Amy
And she never warned me about a stye or styes.
Morgan
But it also makes sense because when you're introducing things into your body that's new, your body's reacting, right. It's going through a new process at this moment in time. So.
Amy
So, hey, whatever.
Morgan
If a sty is the only thing, right. I'll take it. I think that' take it.
Amy
So I have that going for me. But shout out warm compress if you happen to get a stye. I just ordered this little patch on Amazon and you can wear it like a patch, like a pirate. Or you can just hold it to your eye and it says to put in the microwave for 15, 20 seconds. I do 30, but be careful because it really can be hot. But because I'm wrapping a paper towel around it so that I can reuse it and it doesn't, you know, you can get it dirty, you can wash them. But I only have one. So I need to be able to use it multiple times a day without having to wash it and I don't wanna contaminate it. So with the paper towel, I feel like 30 seconds is the good mark because the paper towel creates a barrier to the warmth and 30, 30 seconds gets it warm enough. So that's my tip on that really
Morgan
worked for me when I had stye.
Amy
So I'm hoping that just normal eye drops.
Morgan
No, there's a specific. I'll have to look at it. It's like stye is the brand.
Amy
Yes, that's what I got. I went to Walgreens and I bought stye eye drops.
Morgan
Okay.
Amy
This last time I bought the gel and I don't really. The stye gel from Walgreens and I don't really feel like that helped. So the drops have been soothing. Like I said, they give a little relief.
Morgan
Yeah.
Amy
And then. Yeah. So I did a negative and a positive. Are we going to go back and
Morgan
forth or however you want to do it. I was going to let you roll a few.
Amy
Another positive. I talked about this on my podcast this week. I think it was my feeling of the day. It was happy. But I just did it again last night and it's amazing. There's this 10 minute self tanner. 10 minutes.
Morgan
And it actually works well.
Amy
The brand is Loving Tan. I think. Yes. Loving Tan is the name of the brand and it. I've used their tanning products before, but like a mousse where you sleep in it and then you wake up and you rinse off. I kept seeing people post about the 10 minute tan and I thought, okay, well, I'm going to give it a try. So I ordered it and this is My third application, and I gotta say, I'm a. I'm a fan. So it goes on your skin like a mask. It feels really yummy. I don't know how to describe it, but it just feels really nice. And you keep it on for 10 minutes, and then you go rinse it off. No soap, no nothing that's important. I think the first time I used soap, because I was like, ah. And then I googled because I had already thrown away the box and I saw people sharing tips. Do not use soap. You rinse it off after the 10 minutes, and then you can go to bed without it transferring to your sheets or anything.
Morgan
But it actually feels like it gets you tan.
Amy
Well, it's developing over time, so you rinse it off. And then over the next 24 hours from the rinse, it's developing. But, like, look at my legs.
Sophia Donner
Do you see?
Amy
Okay, yeah.
Morgan
You got some color on there, right?
Amy
That's from. It's still developing. So I did it last night, and we are in the process of development. And then I'll, you know, after work or today before I have a thing tonight, I'm gonna use soap.
Morgan
Question, because I was talking about this with a friend. I've noticed with all of my self tanners that I do, my shins and calves never stay dark. Like, I don't know what it is about the shin calf area. Does this happen to you?
Amy
Yes, it does. And I will say I've started to apply a little bit more down there because that's the case.
Morgan
And it's still. But it's still. Even if I do, like, a dou triple go over, it's still whatever happens on the shin and thigh area or the shin and, like, calf area, it's always gone. My tan always leaves there first.
Amy
Well, and it's funny you bring that up, because my feeling of the day earlier this week on Feeling Things podcast was happy because I had done the tan, I don't know, on maybe Saturday or something. And on to, like, Monday when we recorded. Still there. So anyway, I still feel like my upper body is fine. And I use a spray on my face, which I will say that brand is. And why can't I ever remember? Salty. Salty water. Salty Face or Salty Face. Yes. Okay.
Morgan
I've looked up them and I've never used it, though.
Amy
Okay. And here's my thing. This is going to be a negative. I got an email from Salty Face saying they came out with this new moisturizer, gradual tan. So I ordered that, and it's a cream and it feel again, it feels really nice. And it goes on and it feels like you're getting moisture. Because self tanner can be very drying. I'm sure people that are not into self tans are so bored right now,
Morgan
but the guys are like googling products are like, what is this?
Amy
I tried it twice. Nothing. And I know it's gradual, but if I put it on one night, I don't want to use a self tanner every night to gradually build. No. Because I want some of my other skincare products to have time during the week to do their thing. So not a fan. And I feel like I want to email them and say, hi, I'm a big fan of your spray. So I gave this moisturizer a try and it's done nothing for me. So last night I did the spray and I feel like I woke up with color. And that's what I want. I want to wake up with color. And the thing that I love about their spray is they want you to do your entire nighttime routine and then you just spray that on top when you go to bed. And I still wake up with color. Other self tanners, I feel like it's the only thing I can put on my face.
Morgan
Yeah, they often say that you can't. You need to have a completely clean body doing things.
Amy
Yeah, well, that's. This is for the, the salty face. That's what I do for my face. Now I will say for the 10 minute tan. Yeah. There's nothing else on my skin. But what I was going to share with you is that last night I only did my legs because my upper body probably cause I walk more. I just have more. Or I'm walking with like a sleeveless shirt. I'm getting more color on my arms to where I don't feel like I need the self tanner. So I felt like my arms and my chin, calf area, my leg area was looking a little weird. And since I have this event tonight, I have a dress that's gonna show my ankles and feet and chin area. And I thought, well, I better just do the quick 10 minute thing and then rinse off. And it was so easy. That's why I'm celebrating it. And all I did was my lower body. I didn't do because my dress doesn't show anything.
Morgan
And so we're hoping by tonight though.
Amy
Well, it's already developed.
Morgan
It is developed, but doesn't. Didn't you say it developed over like 24 hours?
Amy
Yeah, but I mean there's a point where it might get a little More color. But I think that there's a point. They just probably say 24 hours to cover themselves. But I think at some point, your body's done what it's going to do.
Morgan
Can I just also point out all the things that we have to go through to, like, feel ready for things?
Amy
Well, that's why my feeling of the day when I was talking about it was happy, because a tan just makes me happier. I like it. And I don't know that that's something that I'll ever change.
Morgan
No, I'm the same way, honestly. And I've been trying really hard to love my skin more, my natural skin color. It's a really hard battle. I don't. I'm so. I often say that I am Edward Cullen. I sparkle in the sunlight. If I don't have a tan, like, I am pale as can be. And I'm trying really hard to love.
Amy
Yes, yes.
Morgan
But it is so hard every time I'm like, well, if I wear this outfit, it'll look really good with the tan. And I just. That's the thought process I have. It's. It's been hard to get into a place where I just feel very comfortable with the natural pigment of my skin color. And that's just also because I've been trained since I was. Gosh, in high school to go in a tanning bed and have a tan and wear a tan. You can't be pale. You can't be, you know, your normal skin pigment. That's what we were taught.
Amy
I saw that some young people now are doing tanning meds again and smoking cigarettes. And I don't know what's behind bringing those two things back, but it was a Elder Millennial talking about it, and she was like, look, I get it. Like, welcome. That was my life. I did that. And we're all just trying to feel better. And if that helps you, fine. But just that tanning bed is not your friend. Neither are the cigarettes. So cut it out and they'll come
Morgan
back to haunt you. It will in 10 years.
Amy
Yes, I. I cringe at the thought of me climbing into a tanning bed. But sure. Sure enough, I. I had a membership.
Morgan
Oh, so did I. Suntan City or
Amy
whatever it was called.
Morgan
I was there every day. I was. I didn't even need to. You know how people have to go and, like, gradually, I would do the full max. That's how much I tanned.
Amy
And.
Morgan
And I'm now paying the price with a yearly dermatology appointment with a whole lot of freckles. That I should have never had, but I have them.
Amy
And freckles are cute, though. I think it's more the. If you've got something growing that you need to pay attention to, for sure.
Morgan
But a lot of those freckles developed because I just. I was in the sun a lot. I was in tanning beds. I was. And I have developed things that. I remember walking into a dermatology office when I quit the tanning bed, and she was like, I'm going to see you in 15 years. And I was just like, I don't need that warning. But she. I mean, she was right. Thankfully, I haven't had anything because I quit cold turkey and I haven't been back since. But, I mean, she's not wrong. My skin is definitely paying the price for. For all of that that I did.
Amy
You know what popped up in my algorithm the other day was a girl that had gotten freckles tattooed on her face. And they looked so cute. But why? Like, I don't know, she got little teeny tiny dots, like she just thought they were precious. And they honestly really were. And of course, in the comments section, some people were tearing her apart. And that brings me to another negative.
Morgan
Is.
Amy
Is this my third negative or my second?
Morgan
I think you're on your third negative.
Amy
Good. Because, see, I'm. I'm happy to be in a place where I'm struggling to come up with negatives. However, it's. I guess it's pretty easy when you think of the Internet to think of something negative because people are so mean. I posted a review this week on my social media of someone left on our podcast. And they were like, I'll only listen to Kat. I'm not going to listen to Amy. Amy's just here trying to sell things and I wonder if they know that a podcast has commercials. It's just we've been doing radio commercials for 20 years and now sometimes those things are roll into social media as well. But I don't think that's what they were referring to. They were just talking about the ads for the podcast. Okay. This free content that is there for you to take in should you want. But she was saying. I assume it was a she, you know, because the comment handle, it didn't say like Sally. It said like, dun, dun, duh, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Morgan
You know?
Amy
Yeah, I couldn't comment. It was on the Apple podcast reviews and she gave it. It was like three out of five stars, which I guess the three stars were for Kat. She was like, I'll only listen to what Kat says. Plus, I'm not gonna buy anything from Amy because she has a gazillionaire boyfriend. And I thought, well, does it help to know that we broke up?
Morgan
You're like, nah, by the way, we're not together anymore.
Amy
But it just made me think of the negative comments or taking the time to actually sit down and write that as a review on a pod. Send that to me in an email, I guess, if you want. But you want to bring down our five star rating because of your judgment on my job. Like, it is my job to put this content out. And we work for a company that has a whole sales team. We partner with brands, we put out free content. And yes, there's commercials for products mixed in. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. And I like to think that those
Morgan
people who do that though, because I have some where I swear, there's just one person who really dislikes me for some reason. And they will just dislike every single thing that I do. Like, genuinely go and dislike on purpose. I don't know where they are. I don't know what corner of the Internet they're coming from, but I just have to think that those are the same people who also leave bad reviews on everything constantly. And it's not just a us thing, you know, like, this is not just happening to our things. They're also leaving it on reviews for a T shirt on a clothing company or for a fast food restaurant. That made them angry. That that is just the way that they handle life.
Amy
Well, that makes me think of my final happy. Or this is like, this is my third positive was this post that the Grand Canyon put up. There's a Grand Canyon account. Yeah. On Instagram. And it made me laugh and also made me feel a little better. And so maybe other people need this as a little happy in their life. But they said the next time you feel judged. And it was like these. It was a real. And it was beautiful shots of the Grand Canyon. And the text overlay was, next time you feel judged, just know the Grand Canyon also gets.
Morgan
I saw poor reviews. Yes.
Amy
And it's just so. It just, it made me laugh. Which that's. We have to celebrate good humor out there because whoever's in charge of that account, that was a genius post. And then they pulled some of the negative reviews of people being disappointed in the Grand Canyon. And so it's like, yeah, to your point, some people just have negative things to say about everything. And people leaving one star for the Grand Canyon. They're like, ah, I was underwhelmed or could have been better. It's like okay people. But also just shout out to people who are creative and funny online because that is a positive for me and that's a happy because I'm thankful. And it's not just the Grand Canyon account and that post. There's actually with all the negative that's out there online. There are so many hilarious people online and I'm thankful that they share their gift because it definitely entertains me. And as much as you want to give social media a bad rep, it also gives you a space to go laugh.
Morgan
Oh yeah, there's so many positives, but sometimes you do have to go a little searching for them instead of right in front of your face sometimes. And that's okay. Okay, well those are good threes. We got good ones there. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. I'll share my threes.
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Morgan
Alright, so I'm gonna start with a negative and I'll kind of go in the same way you did. I threw away my Oura ring.
Amy
What?
Morgan
It's on me now you're seeing it. So he had done like a huge deep clean of the house, like it needed it. We were cleaning baseboards, we were cleaning under ovens. I mean, we were like, the house needed a full deep clean. And so I had taken off my Oura ring while we were cleaning. And for seven hours I could not find my ring and I had not left the house. I'd only been in the house. And I'm searching everywhere, up and down, looking for this freaking ring. And I'm just like, it has to be here, but I don't know where it is. It's not in any usual place. We just clean the house. It would be just sitting there if it were anywhere. And so I like start tracing back my steps. I was like, well, when I went under the oven, I had taken it off to try and get my hand back into a little area. But where did I put it after that happened? And so I'm thinking, and I was like, well, I put it on the counter and then I cleaned off the counter and I was like, oh my gosh, I think it's in the trash. I had to go through three trash bags of so many paper towels. And finally, like in the last, when I was about to give up looking because it was so gross going through all this, I just see this little shimmer of gold and I was like, oh my gosh, it's in the trash.
Amy
Oh, I'm so happy for you because you have the gold one. That's more expensive. I have the silver one. I initially ordered the gold. I thought they were all the same price because I knew I wanted the gold. So I just looked at the gold and ordered it. Well then when I got the gold in, I didn't like the way it looked on my skin. I thought, well, I think the silver might be better. So when I went to go order the silk, order the silver. That's when I saw it was way cheaper, like, way so. And you have. You have the gold one.
Morgan
Yeah.
Amy
And that's sort of a negative and a positive.
Morgan
Yeah, that positive came, like, last glimmer of hope. I mean, I'm telling you, when I saw the shimmer of gold, like, my heart stopped coming. Which was also funny because the whole time my fiance thought I had lost my engagement ring, because I just kept saying ring. And he was not panicked at all. He was like, we'll find it. It'll be fine. And when I finally found it in trash, he was like, this whole time, I thought it was your engagement ring. I was like, you didn't freak out more that I was concerned that I had lost the ring? And he was like, I don't know.
Amy
It's just, well, hey, gotta love the positive attitude.
Morgan
Yes. But I was like, it was in the trash, so we really could have lost it for. For good. But there it was. And so that was a wild ride for about eight hours that I just didn't know where my ring was.
Amy
So.
Morgan
Yes, also kind of a positive. But then also, I am really excited because we made the first steps to plan our honeymoon, which is going to be in Africa.
Amy
Oh, where are y' all going?
Morgan
We're going to go. The plan is to go to, like, Cape Town, Africa, and then go on safaris.
Amy
Okay.
Morgan
That's kind of the dream. Do, like a mix of beach vacation while also going on adventures. And we, like, made some, like, calls are in place to talk with advisors, travel advisors, because I love planning trips, but a trip to Africa is very much overwhelming me. The idea.
Amy
Do you want some insight of people that know where to go, what to do?
Martha Stewart
No.
Morgan
And I know nothing. And if you need certain vaccinations and stuff to go, because there's certain areas where they have different things. So it was really overwhelming me. But it's the one of, like, for both of us, it's a dream trip. And so I was like, we have to make it happen. I just don't. I'm very overwhelmed trying to figure out how to make it happen. And we finally found a website, and they're like a. You know, they've been in the business for, like, 20 years, so we got a 6am call with them over the weekend to. Cause they're on like, a completely different time zone. And we're gonna talk through our whole trip and stuff. So I'm really excited about that.
Amy
Oh, y' all are gonna Love it. That's awesome.
Morgan
Yes. So that's. That's, like, on my. And that'll be next year sometime. We're kind of planning it away from everything. But it's. It's been really exciting to get things in place for that. So that was a bonus. And then. But on the flip side of that, decision fatigue is really real. Like, you think it's really hard to choose somewhere you want to eat on a weekend. I've learned that, like, between planning a wedding and making decisions for honeymoons and all things, there are endless options for everything. There's not just one or two. It's not like black or white. It's the whole rainbow. Are your options of things that you can do for different stuff. And I have never felt so just decision fatigue down. Like any small decision. It's like, hey, do you want to go on a walk? I was like, I don't know. I don't know. Because I feel so overwhelmed by things to decide. You know what I mean? Like, and I don't know if you've ever felt that, like, decision fatigue, but it.
Amy
Oh, yes. I'm a mother.
Morgan
So you're like, yes.
Amy
Well, yeah. I think mine can pop up at times when it's dinner and I don't. At the end of the day, I wish it is left up to me, but I sometimes just don't want to even think about making a decision of what to cook. And you just have to power through.
Morgan
Yeah. And I never have felt it.
Amy
Or go to Chipotle.
Morgan
Yeah. Like, I've never felt it in this capacity. This has been the first time where I've really felt overwhelmed by making. Normally, I feel very like I can narrow it down to two or three and I can get somewhere. But now it's just, like, even the easiest things, and I'll. I'll, like, look at my fiance and I'm like, I don't want to make any more decisions. So if it is up to me, we're doing absolutely nothing.
Amy
Yeah. At this rate, I get it.
Morgan
So that's been a. Like, a low for me is learning a lot of that and how to just sit with that. I'm not good at it. I'm not good at sitting with not having answers or not being able to cross things off to do lists. It's just like, it just all sits there. You know what I mean? And it's been a big learning lesson for me, an adjustment. So that's been really tough. But then we did make a decision to finally go for Memorial Day when we were off, we went up to Kentucky and went to Mammoth Cave.
Amy
Oh, I saw that. Was it amazing?
Morgan
Oh, my gosh, it was so cool.
Amy
I mean, it looked cool.
Morgan
I've been wanting to go for so long now. I just love national parks, but that cave makes you feel just so small. That's what I love about national parks in general. You just feel so small. The world feels so much bigger. Like, in that cave were thousands of years of history. And they turned the lights off on us at one point and it's just pitch, pitch black. That. Not even like a shimmer of light. And you just realize just how crazy the world feels. You know what I mean? In that moment, it was quiet. There was 50 people in a room. It was dead quiet. It was pitch black in a cave.
Amy
50 cave. Yeah.
Morgan
It was just a weird, weird feeling. And when they turned the lights back on, I was like, I don't know what I just experienced, but that was a weird feeling. And cool to see the. The history of it. And even what was even more wild was obviously, we know at one point everything was underwater. You know, the states and all the different continents and stuff. And this particular area was definitely underwater. There is bones of sharks and coral in the walls that you can see.
Amy
Oh, wow.
Morgan
And you're in the middle of Kentucky where there's no water besides lakes. You know what I mean?
Amy
Yeah.
Morgan
This is ocean. Animals that were once there. So I. I geeked out over that whole, like, cave system. It was really cool.
Amy
How far is the drive?
Morgan
Like an hour, 30 minutes.
Amy
Okay, that's not bad. From Nashville to. What's the name of the park?
Morgan
Mammoth Cave.
Amy
Mammoth Cave. Okay, I. I need to maybe take the kids to something.
Morgan
I think they would love that. And it's.
Amy
It.
Morgan
You definitely feel claustrophobic in moments because there's. What's also crazy is like thinking about the people who went in and installed the stairs and stuff that are in there. You're going down 300ft and it. You can see how far down you're going to. And I cannot imagine somebody having gone in there and constructed the stairs that people are now walking on that were like, once in there, they didn't have light to do that. They were using, like, lamps and candles and like, all of that was just crazy to me. I always walk away from those moments really just feeling like, okay, all of my problems aren't that big of a deal, and I'm just like this small little person, like, huge planet.
Amy
Does it help you with your wedding planning?
Morgan
It does.
Sophia Donner
A little bit.
Morgan
Yeah. Like, I needed that, like, reset to remind me to be of. Yeah. What's important, what matters. All of those things. Because when you get caught up on it and you're just in the busy world for so long and in those moments, it makes it hard to remember. Okay.
Amy
It's not.
Morgan
It's not that big of a deal. You're gonna be okay.
Amy
It's not that big of a deal if your shins and ankles aren't tan.
Morgan
Exactly. Yes. If I could just remember that more often, that would help me a whole lot. So those are kind of the big things right now. And. Yeah, just life, like, I very much feel that reset is what was needed in general. I just feel a lot of overwhelm a lot lately. And I think it's from planning so many things and doing so much, which you also probably feel like between being a mom and having a job, I'm
Amy
not planning a wedding. And I do remember all the decisions that have to be made around that. Even though for me, it was 20 years ago, but it's still a lot of decisions.
Morgan
Still a lot.
Amy
Yeah.
Morgan
And, yeah, I have realized that more comes with, like, wedding planning. A lot of your. You're kind of faced with a lot of your insecurities in the process of wedding planning, like, even just looking for dresses, I was facing a lot of my body image problems when I was trying to make decisions on who to invite. It was looking at the family dynamics. It was. There's just so many things that come up that you're really not anticipating. You're just like, I'm planning a wedding. I'm getting married. This is the most exciting time of my life. Well, also, crap. There's a lot of big things that are gonna be put on the spotlight in this situation. So it's just all been a, Like, a lot of. A lot of lessons, while also a lot of overwhelm combined into, like, one beautiful hurricane.
Amy
It'll all be worth it.
Morgan
It will be. So I am really excited. Like, at the end of the day, I'm so excited. I'm excited to marry him. I'm excited to, like, go where we're gonna go. My dress is beautiful. I got Remy and Hazel's little outfits figure figured out, which I'm so excited about. So it's like, all the good things are there. It's just all the other little, little things try and creep in and overshadow all the big stuff. So that's where we're at right now.
Amy
Whenever you get overwhelmed, you can Close your eyes and go back to the cave. Right? The pitch reset.
Morgan
I wish I could, like, bottle that pitch blackness. You know, when you, like, really want. You have blackout curtains, and you really want just pure darkness, go sleep in a cave. I have learned that is the only place where you can get pure darkness.
Amy
I need to get more blackout for my room. I think that. Speaking of oura rings, I think that that's impacting my sleep more than I realize. Sometimes if my neighbors have certain lights on, they don't always leave them on, but when they do, I think I feel like I'm like, oh, they have these string lights in their backyard. And I think when they keep those on more not. I think I know more light is coming through one of my windows, and it's disruptive to my sleep. I wish I had every time they've left it on, and I could compare it to my sleep score and see if that. If there's a correlation.
Morgan
Are you very focused on your sleep score now that you have the aura?
Amy
Right. I've chilled out a little bit. I got way, way, way too into it. And then I thought, okay, I don't need this to ruin how I'm gonna live my life. Like, if I'm gonna hang out longer with friends or if I am gonna have a glass of wine, because all of that impacts it. I started to notice, like, if I don't go to bed early enough or if I did have wine, you know, my heart rate would be different when I slept. And then my readiness score for the next day wasn't as good. And I thought, well, is it worth it to me to keep having. Not break my streak of amazing nights of sleep? Like, is that better for me? Or sitting on my back porch with a girlfriend, having a glass of wine and staying up a little later? And I determined that sitting on my back porch with my girlfriend is worth it more worth it. So I'm not. I think I found a balance. But I've only had the ring for, what, a month and a half or maybe two months? I'm not quite sure. But my ring. I know it's had enough time to get to know me, and I. I'm glad that my phase of being super obsessed with it was short, because it probably could have lasted longer.
Morgan
Well, and it's hard. I noticed in the ring, like, I could get 10 hours of sleep, but if I go to sleep at midnight, it's like, oh, you need to pay attention to your timing. I was like, I got 10 hours of sleep. Can we not Focus on the positive.
Amy
I know, but they do that. That's a. That's a whole thing. Aside from the ring, they talk about the type of sleep your body will get, like, the quality if you don't go to bed in that.
Morgan
Yep.
Amy
Before 10pm Time frame, like 8 to 9. And it's like Holly.
Morgan
But that doesn't really, like, give you enough time to live some life. Like, you're saying, well, you just got
Amy
to start living life earlier in the
Morgan
day, which most people cannot do. You know, most people are getting off work at, like, 5pm so you have, what, 5pm Till 8pm until you have to start winding down.
Amy
Well, I guess on the weekend if you. But yeah, some people work on the weekends, too. So it's. It's. It's. It's information. It's data. But I'm not gonna live by it. Like, live and die by it.
Morgan
Well, I'm glad you had you found your balance.
Amy
Yes.
Morgan
You got there. I went through the same thing. And I'm telling you, the first time that I saw all of my friends have the triple crown, and I was sitting there with my one half of a crown, I was like, oh, that's okay. I need to work on some things, but. And then I, like, went really hard, and I was like, I could. I could accomplish the triple crown, but that was all I could focus on. I couldn't do all the other things that I needed to do, or I couldn't live my life in a way that I needed to. So I had to not pay attention to the triple crown anymore. I was like, you guys enjoy your triple crown. I'll be over here with my one crown. It'll be fine.
Amy
Yeah, I think you can just aim for triple crown a couple times a week and then see what happens with the rest.
Morgan
Yeah, that's the goal if I can ever get there. So we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be back with some listener questions.
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All right. Any new hobbies you or Amy have picked up lately? Kaylin from California, I'd like to know the panic in your face.
Amy
I'm trying to keep an orchid alive. Is that a hobby?
Morgan
I mean planting is a hobby. And gardening?
Amy
Well, I haven't really gardened. I know I would like to my orchid I thought was dying and I will say thanks to a lot of listeners after I posted on Instagram, including my sister. Shout out. They're like, it's not dead. Don't give up on it. Because I was about to. And then there was a lot of encouragement to do the soak method. So if you have an orchid and you put it in the sink and like soak it, like really saturate it, you can Google how to do it, but you just do that every once in a while. Once a week or so. Google whatever you think is best. I don't know. I'm new to this. Literally the soak method was introduced to me this week, so now I'm gonna follow whatever protocol for the soaking that I need to do and get it a little more sunlight and then let it do its thing. So that's a hobby.
Morgan
That is a hobby. And honestly, it's impressive. I cannot keep any plants alive. I. My fiance brought in, gosh, I want to say, like, 10 plants when he moved in. I think I've killed all of them. Like, I don't know.
Amy
So that's your hobby?
Morgan
Yeah, and not intentionally. And I also. My house doesn't get a lot of natural light, which is, I think, majority of the problem. I joke that it's me, but I do think the natural light is a huge factor with plants. But more than that, watering them and watering them on the right way in the right capacity. Some need ice cubes. Some need.
Amy
Oh, yeah, the orchids. Like an ice cube every now and
Morgan
all the different things.
Amy
And a spritzer. My sister ordered me a cute little brass spritzer thing that I just missed it. And it just gives it the right amount of moisture.
Morgan
But at this exact moment, it hasn't worked so far. So you're hoping.
Amy
Yeah, well, it was working. Like, I kept it alive for a couple months, but then it just, like a leave, started turning yellow, and then all the little pretty white petals were falling off. But apparently that's the thing. Like, it does that they fall and then it will regrow. So they're like, don't give up on it. Because I was like, well, this is looking pretty sad right about now. But, no, I don't. I don't have any other hobby. I was gonna start sewing, but I haven't done that.
Morgan
Didn't you order one? You ordered a sewing.
Amy
Sewing machine? Yep.
Morgan
And it's there. You just haven't done anything with it?
Amy
Yeah, I mean, I did some curtains. Like, I just hemmed the bottom, but that was easy. You just fold it over, iron it, and then sew a straight line. This is very easy.
Morgan
Did you back in school? Because I got. I don't even remember fax classes, maybe what it was called. But I have so many quilts that I made in that class from high school.
Amy
No, you didn't. No, I took home EC in middle school, but not high school.
Morgan
Okay. Yeah, there was.
Amy
We didn't. We didn't make. I don't. I don't have anything I made. And I don't remember really we did.
Morgan
That's crazy. And I don't know if it was, like, an option. You could do cooking or sewing or whatever, but I have, like, three different quilts that I made from that time, but I could not tell you how I made them. Now I Wish I could. Yeah, that would be a great skill. But it was there in my brain at one point.
Amy
Well, I'm sure it'll come right back. You just gotta give it a go if you want to make some. You know, a listener made me a T shirt quilt once, and I still have it. In fact, I used it the other day when I was watching a movie. They. I sent her a bunch of. She made it out of my dad's T shirts, so I sent her all of them, and then she mailed it back to me in blanket form or quilt form.
Morgan
Oh, that's cute.
Amy
I think.
Morgan
I think two of them I made were for my mom. They have, like, different, like, things of us on them. One for it was for Mother's Day. And then I think another one I did was a T shirt quilt. So I didn't know how to make them. And they looked really cool. You gotta, like, go and pick out your own fabric, and you bring it back, you put it together. I'd work on it for an entire semester, and then I'd have my project. But I just. I wish there was some things that I kept, you know what I mean? Like, retained from that time of my life. But then you get older and they're just all gone.
Amy
No, I don't think it's gone. I do think that you. You could pick it back up if you like. One quick recap and you'd probably.
Morgan
Oh, I thought that about rollerblading. And then when I did pick it up in the first five minutes, I broke my tailbone.
Sophia Donner
So.
Amy
Okay. Well, yeah, our bodies are just different. I mean, I think, like, a skill that requires your brain. Like, your brain, you can remember, you think, you unlock it. But then, yeah, our bodies, it's a
Morgan
little different, not the same. But I have been playing sand volleyball again, which has been fun. I used to play volleyball a lot growing up, but, yeah, that's a good hobby. It's fun. And I feel very exhausted after, which has been good for me because getting back into the gym has been very hard for me ever since I took my break for all my health stuff. Like, something about getting back into the gym is just not the same as
Amy
it used to be.
Morgan
So that process has been harder. And so sand volleyball has kind of filled that gap for being a exercise. It's fun, and it's like tricking my brain to move and do things that I need to do.
Amy
But I'm still. Stretching. Is that a hobby?
Morgan
Stretching is a hobby when you're older.
Amy
Yeah.
Morgan
Is that an easy Thing to do. Are you doing yoga? I do hot yoga every week. I do.
Amy
I've been doing Pilates, so that's a hobby. Oh, it is.
Sophia Donner
Okay.
Morgan
Yeah.
Amy
It's my. You're like, I don't know, checking it off my to do list of, like, trying to do something to be more active than walking. I walk a lot.
Morgan
Yeah, you're good at walking. You walk a lot. I wish I had that side. Sometimes I just have to, like, get off my computer and be like, you have to go outside for 20 minutes. I'm not good at that, though. I'm learning a lot of lessons. How is your daughter doing? That's from Janice in Florida.
Amy
She is great. We're working on her summer plans. She's gonna get a job. She was working at a smoothie place last summer, so I think she's gonna try to go back there again and do that, which I love.
Morgan
You get free smoothies?
Amy
No, I go and I pay. I mean, she'll bring stuff home, and sometimes we will. That way, like, other food items they have at the end of the night, she'll get to come home with. Yeah. Energy bites or protein balls or.
Morgan
That's awesome.
Amy
And then I think she might get one smoothie while she's working, and then anything else, if she wants to buy extra is like 50% off or something, and.
Morgan
Because that's the fun benefit of working at any restaurant.
Amy
Yes. So job. And then we're working on her school plan. She had a zoom call yesterday with the community college, where she's going to take some of her core classes while she figures out trade school and what she's going to do. She really wants to be an esthetician, so.
Morgan
Oh, so she's sticking with that. I know there was at one point
Amy
where she started, we didn't know if she was going to, but she is. And so that's where we're. That's where we're headed. But we'll see. There's no rush. Like, she can start. We kind of want her to get some of the basics and just some more life skills, executive function, get that going. But with teenagers and kids, it's actually quite crazy to me that at 18, we all went off and lived our life that young. And they're like, now we know. It's like, oh, the brain doesn't fully develop till 25.
Morgan
Yeah. There's like, seven more years that have to happen. Yeah.
Amy
There's a lot that we learned during developmental years still.
Morgan
And they put us into college with a bunch of Other kids that are the same age.
Amy
Alcohol. Yeah.
Morgan
Yeah.
Amy
So her experience isn't going to be quite like that, which she's fine with and we're okay with. You know, I thought for a minute she might go the four year university route and maybe even try to add, be in a sorority. Some of her girlfriends are doing that and that's. It's interesting to see how she's navigating. Like her friends going off to do that and she's not, but I'm proud of her.
Morgan
Oh, good.
Amy
She's doing the path that's best for her. So I love that.
Morgan
I can't wait to see what happens.
Amy
As supportive as possible.
Morgan
Yeah, I'm excited. And I can't wait to follow her journey of esthetician. That's what she ends up deciding to get.
Amy
She just got a. A sew in in her hair. She does braided extensions a lot, but just this week she got a sew in which is like a. We had never done it before, so I wasn't as familiar. But similar to a wig or extensions like mine. Like, I have some in my hair, but it's. It's human hair. That's a hairpiece. Anyway, let me show you a picture because I can't really explain it, but it look, I've never seen her hair like this, of course, unless it's been one of her wigs. But even this is a little bit more sassy and grown up. Like, I'm like, oh, my gosh, you look like such an adult.
Morgan
Oh, my gosh, she does.
Amy
I know this is a podcast and now they can't see, but, like, isn't that so pretty and beachy and, like wavy?
Morgan
She looks gorgeous. And she does look like she's, like, ready to be in college. And that feels crazy to me.
Amy
I know it's weird.
Morgan
I can't imagine being the mom in that scenario. It feels weird for me. Okay, we're gonna ask our last question here. This is from Kinra in Ontario. You both have my dream job. Who do you envy for their jobs?
Amy
Oh, interesting. Who do I envy?
Morgan
And I can let you think about it because there's somebody that comes to mind for me.
Amy
Well, I have some that are popping into my head, but you can go ahead and go because mine aren't. I don't know if I'd be answering the question correctly, so I want to see how you answer and then I'll probably stick with what answer I have. But we'll see.
Morgan
My. Mine lately, and she's been just all over my feed and watching her make, like, a really solid music comeback has been fun. But Hilary Duff, I love.
Amy
Are you kidding? She's amazing. That'd be so cool. She can act, sing, she does it all. So fun.
Morgan
She just. I don't know, something about watching her having grown up. Like, I watched her on Disney and then seeing her now and her music come back has been really cool. So I totally envy her job and just what she's done with her life. And she's such a cool human. I feel like she would be fun to hang out with. So I think I would go. Hilary Duff.
Amy
Yeah. I just pulled up my phone to try to find the account of this person because, yeah, I see a lot of Hilary Duff online too, so that's a great. If you could do that job, that would be so fun. Right?
Morgan
Like, let me just switch bodies really quick. Very Lizzie McGuire esque.
Amy
Yeah. If you did that, you would need to bring back another season of Younger. Thank you.
Morgan
Yes.
Amy
I love that show. I would appreciate that. So there's this doctor, and I can't. I don't. I know. I started following her because she popped up enough and I liked her content, but I love how she explains things. And that's why I didn't know if I was going to answer this correctly, because I. I would never be able to be a doctor.
Morgan
But you can. But I envy things.
Amy
Yeah. I envy how her what she gets to do for a living and the impact she makes on her patients, and then also how she's brought that to others through social media and explaining things in such a caring, thoughtful way.
Morgan
And.
Amy
And she's great at finding different trends and things that are out there. Articles or misinformation. And then kind of doing the green screen where she goes over it and she's like, look, okay, in theory, this sounds. But in actuality, this is what's happening and I need you to not do this then. I've seen my patients coming in wanting to do this, and then she explains. Yeah, I guess layman's terms is the best way to put it, but she just has an amazing bedside manner. I can tell, even though I've never seen her as. As a patient myself.
Morgan
Bedside manner, Instagram, great.
Amy
I'm sure her bedside manner. Unless she's just the total opposite person that she is online. I'm sure maybe some patients that see her online, they're like, wait, what the. That's not how she is. But overall, she just seems like a great human that's really impacting the world. In or her world, her patients and then her reach beyond that because of social media, because she's able to do more. I just, just am thankful for her, her work. Even though she's not my doctor. Yeah, I remember. Yes. And like I can tell she's developed relationships with other people, other Doctors online. Like Dr. Beachman. I think it's Beachman 10. Have you seen she's gone completely viral. She has millions of followers too. Now her, I do know her handle and I don't even think that's her real last name. For a while I thought that was her name, but that was just, just that's just her handle. And she's an ER doctor and I love the way she explains things as well. And I've seen them interact online even though I don't think they know each other in real life. But they've become Internet doctor friends.
Morgan
So I think a real life Grey's Anatomy is what you're saying.
Amy
Have Internet doctor friends.
Morgan
I love that.
Amy
So I want that job.
Morgan
Yeah, that's a good one. Okay. Good place for us to in on Amy. Tell the people where they can find you and hear you on all the good stuff.
Amy
Radio Amy on socials and feeling things. Podcast is my podcast and social handle for that. And we have new episodes out every Tuesday and Thursday.
Morgan
Love that. And you can follow the show obbyboneshow. You can subscribe on YouTube for all the content @bobbyboneshow. Otherwise, this is where we're gonna leave you guys. Have a great weekend. Amy, thanks for joining.
Amy
Thank you for having me.
Morgan
Bye everybody.
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In this episode, Amy and Morgan get candid and relatable as they each share their current “Top 3 Best and Worst Things About Life.” The duo dives into everything from annoying eye styes and lost jewelry to the satisfaction of self-tanning breakthroughs and the overwhelming realities of wedding planning. Throughout the conversation, both hosts offer practical tips, personal stories, and a dose of heartfelt humor, making this episode a comforting check-in on real life’s highs and lows. They round out the episode by answering listener questions about hobbies, parenting updates, and dream jobs.
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This episode offers a warm, accessible look into real-life ups and downs—whether you’re battling lost jewelry, internet trolls, or just learning how to love your own skin. Amy and Morgan’s candor, practical advice, and supportive banter make it a feel-good listen packed with relatable moments and handy tips.