March 29, 2025 • 48 mins
Happy weekend! Amy shared why she’s in a shedding season currently after getting off Botox, her ADHD meds, and lasering off her eyebrows. Plus, some more details about her upcoming birthday trip with her boyfriend. Morgan has been in puppy mode all week for her foster dog, and feels overwhelmed. Also, they both share their favorite perfumes & skincare routines at the request of listeners.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Part one, behind a scene with a member of the show.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Happy Saturday. Everybody joining me this weekend is Amy? Amy?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
How are you hello? Good?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
You feeling good? It's a Saturday morning. Apparently, according to Lunchbox,
we always record this on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We're recording it before the show, so I'm still waking up.
I have my Macha tea here with me.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Do you drink coffee at all?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah? Well, I alternate between the macha and the coffee,
but I am on a mushroom coffee and mushroom Macha
kick from this company Rise. I don't know. I just
order it on Amazon because it's winter. My friend who
also orders it from the company, She's like, I order
(00:49):
it from Amazon in the winter and the company in
the summer, because I don't trust the storage at Amazon
in the hotter months. If it's sitting in the warehouse
in the heat, I don't know. Who knows.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Okay, So, mushroom coffee. We've gotten rid of the extensions.
I know you've posted that you've gotten rid of botox.
You did the lasering of the eyebrows. What's going on?
I feel like, oh, I did transformation that's happening.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's like a yeah, just trying to figure out the baseline,
and I don't know. I can't explain it. I just
just over it all. Yeah, like for a minute, ready
for a change, kind of like a shedding of things,
and then we'll see what we like and want to
add back in. The only reason why I had to
have my eyebrows lasered off. So if y'all are not
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familiar with microblading, which I'm sure most of the women
listening are, but if you're a guy, because I was
trying to explain this to my boyfriend, he did not understand,
and I said, look, you'll start to notice it now
that I talk to you about it. But a lot
of women, especially my age, have it done. And I
just turned forty four. I know so many people, and
(01:58):
then I know what I'm looking for, so I can
spot it and people too, and I'm like, okay, yeah,
they have their eyes eyebrows microbladed, and it's just a
tiny stroke like a tattoo of sorts, but it's not
going as deep as a tattoo. So the artist I
go to Beauty by Megan in Nashville. She's amazing she's
the one that told me I needed to laser them off.
(02:19):
She's been on my podcasts multiple times. She also tattoos
areolas on like nipples for women that have had breast
cancer and they've had a mastectomy and then they have
their surgery, but then their nipples are gone and they
don't feel the same. So they have their reconstructed breasts
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and there's no nipples and they're like, oh, this just
doesn't I don't feel like me. But she can tattoo
it on in a three D way to where it
looks like the aerola, the nipple, everything's there. It's fascinating.
She's very talented. Her mom had breast cancer that so
she got into that. But anyway, she also is very
talented at brows. And it's like she gets a razor
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and does these tiny strokes and then fills it in
with ink and then ta dah, you've got brows.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
But so you laser off your previous brow completely.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That she did, yes, because I went to see her.
I'm like, these are the things nobody tells you about
when you're in your thirties and you're doing certain things,
So tell me right now to make sure we're aware.
So I went to see her while I was getting botox,
So my forehead was manipulated by the bowtox. So therefore,
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when you stop getting that and it dissolves, your forehead
takes on a different shape, like it's moving a little bit.
And I don't even know that it's that noticeable to people.
But then when your brows were tattooed on in a
specific spot and then your forehead shifts, my brows started
to shift, and I was like, what is happening. I
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don't know what to do, and it's either I was
going to have to go get botox to lift the
rows to make them even, or have them removed, and
she said I would go have them lasered off. And
she told me where to go. You want to Peko
laser to remove them, but she's like, I think it'll
take one time, you'll be fine. Well, when I got
to the laser place, they said, well, we don't know
(04:19):
once we laser off the brown color like the brown ink,
if it's going to be red, orange or blue or
green under there like the undertone. Yeah, and they said,
depending on what that's like, you're probably gonna have to
come back again in eight weeks and.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So I thought, what this is going to be a process,
meaning you'd have to go without eyebrows for eight weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well, so I have the hair, but the problem is
when the laser hits it, it removes some of the
hair sometimes because it's so hot where it blanches it,
so some of the hair is now white. So it's like,
my brows are a mess.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
You just forget how.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Important brows are to the shape of a face, which
is why we pencil them on. We you know, use
the like a brow mascara, like a yeah, do you
use that like a tinted That was new to me
in the last year, and I was like, where was what?
Where was this when I was safe?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Evolved a long way when it comes to eyebrow, like
just penciling instead of doing permanent things to it.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, there's all kinds of tools now and different things.
But I had on micropladed a long long time ago,
and I would go back for touchups, and then over
time that starts to bleed a little bit. So some
people just get the removed from time to time to
start fresh. And I'm like, this process. I can never
have this process again. It's exhausting. Uh So I had
(05:43):
red and orange undertones. So now like right now you're
looking at me, I'm gonna wear a hat.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
What today good? Right now?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Well, I put concealer entirely over my brow, like all
the way so the orange in the red you cannot
see it. And then I put the like the why
can't I think of what it's called, like a brow gel,
like a Tantae browjel over that to kind of give
the hair some color. And then I got my lift
(06:14):
and snatch, which is a NYX that brand or Nix,
I don't care how to say it. They have this
brow pin thing that's called lift and snatch. The lift
and snatch, well, I created strokes with my lift and
snatch pin, and somehow I've concocted brows on my face
(06:36):
that are not really there.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So you basically have to drawing your brows on right
now until this process is finished.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, and I can't go back to get them lasered
off for another well seven weeks to do round two
and then it starts all over. So hit me up
in August. We'll see where we are with things, and
I'll probably maybe have some hair back in by then
because I'm like, I think you know. It's they say,
(07:04):
if you do things in a two degree increments, you're
more likely to stick with it.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
All.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It's like, just give it two degrees and then you
can two degree two degree. Two degrees and two degrees
is a lot. Yeah, because I was talking to my
ex husband Ben about it. It was at this family
therapy thing where they really focused on the two degree thing,
and Ben and I were there and he's like, yeah,
there's a pilot. If you're flying somewhere and you are
off by two degrees, you're going to end up somewhere
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really far away, like nowhere near your destination. So I
like that analogy picturing it that way because it actually
is more than you think. Two degrees is more than
you think, So just give it two degrees and you'll
be awesome. Well, I went like, might even go a
full like I don't even know, I'm on like one
(07:52):
hundred degrees, like just shedding myself of things that help
with confidence and just have been a part of me
for a while. So might get some hair soon. You're like,
I don't know all that to say, I don't know,
and just I either want to chop it off again
and make it really short or grow it out. And
I don't know if I have the patience, so maybe
(08:13):
I'll have some extendings. I don't know. We have iHeart
Country Festival coming up, and I keep picturing myself interviewing
artists under the you know where we do it backstage
and the lights are so bright, and I'm like, I'm
gonna have to wear hat because they're gonna be like,
what is wrong with her brows?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Well, as of right now, I think you've learned at
least how to conceal and construct them so they look great.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, but if you're under some bright lights, Morgan, You're
gonna be like, does she have concealer? I feel like, uh,
you know in Hunger Games.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, the people at the Capitol, Yeah, how they look
all crazy and wild with their makeup.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, that's me when I'm getting ready in the morning.
I'm like, I'm hiring.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Also too, because you know what it looks like before.
If you wouldn't tell me, I couldn't tell right now,
you're honestly, I genuinely mean that I wouldn't tell you.
I'd be like, no, I mean like, we might need
to construct that a little differently. It looks good, so
just no, have some confidence that you've at least figured
out a natural way to make it look let's just snatch.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Hey, hey, I ordered that on Amazon. I've looked for
it at Oh actually CBS had it, so you can't
find it. Because I wanted to get a different color.
I ordered the burnette, ash brown, and blonde. And that's
this crabby thing is you don't know which shade is
going to look right on you, so you kind of
got to order them all to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah, because I'm blonde, but my eyebrows are more like
dirty blonde, a little bit light brownish.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You could do the blonde. I'm an expert now, so
I go, I'll color match you. You would be the
lift and snatch blonde.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You know. I just did this because I've been revamping,
Like I've been in the process of really like cleaning
up my home, meaning like really trying to swap everything
for glass and use clean products, cruelty free products, like
really trying to be aware of the things. And I'm
buying and consuming across all levels cleaning, food, make up
(10:04):
all of it.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That's another example of where if someone's trying to do that,
you got to go two degrees Yep, two degrees, cause
if you try to go all at once, it can
get overwhelming and you just quit.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It's so overwhelming. I feel like I've been in this
process gosh two and a half years now. It's just
i I've My theme. We've talked about this actually a
lot on my podcast recently was baby steps. So it's like,
very similar to what you're saying of the two degrees,
but it's like I was always like, if you just
take like a baby step, a baby step is better
than no step. So you take a baby step, we're
(10:36):
moving in the right direction. So same concept, just different terms.
And that's exactly what I've been doing with the clean
products and stuff. So I've been now I've gotten to
the place where I'm now focused on my makeup and
starting to swap out, which finding clean and cruelty free
brands that are also ones that you love is very difficult.
You'd be surprised how many things aren't cruelty free or
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they aren't clean, or vice versa. Like finding both and
the whole thing is just really difficult.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
You would think if they have an emphasis on clean,
they'd have an emphasis on well.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So here's what I've also learned cruelty free, so if
they sell in places like China. China requires animal testing,
so if a brand sells there, they're not considered cruelty free,
which is wild. But like most products sell in China,
so then they can't be considered like a completely cruelty
(11:26):
free brand. But there are some like Fini is one,
Makeup by Mario is one, Like they're endorsed by Peda.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But then are they clean?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, so they have clean products too, So I've done both,
Like trust me, when I've been I'm doing so much research,
I'm like, they have to have both. And those are
two that I've found safely so far. Those are two
that there's like fifty thousand makeup brands and those are two,
so it tells you how difficult it is. But all
that to say, I had gone to Sophora and I
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was testing my like face color and trying to match
it for Finity, like the new product I'm wearing, and
the girl there, like I had makeup on, and she
just like straight up like swiped a like an entire
piece of my cheek off of my makeup and then
like started matching me that way. She's like, Okay, Well,
here's your color. I was like, what I supposed to
(12:18):
go on in the world looking like this, what are
we doing? She just let me go.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Oh she didn't like, you know, patch you up.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Nope, she didn't at all. She was just like, you're fine.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Well I do see though that she does want your
makeup off to properly color match you.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
That makes sense, that's we needed that. But like you
could have just taken the whole thing off or like,
you know, not just like a It was such a
funny situation and I had like three other errands to
run after, so I was just like covering my face
and like, don't look at my cheek.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
See, that's how I feel. With my brow I'm like
covering them, like, don't look out my brows.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
That's your time where you get things.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I'm sure people did not notice your chunk of makeup, miss.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Oh they did it. It was me and we always
know things more than other people, for sure about ourselves.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Not a bad idea about the bangs thing, because I
have thought about it. However, I just sink with my
curly hair, it would be a mess. I will regret
it and I will just that would be like taking
another one hundred degree step.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
That would be a big step. Yeah, but I do
think they'd look cute on you. I loved my bank face.
I had so much fun. I'll look at pictures of
I'm like, dang, I really liked those, or like I
got used to styling them and they started to look
really good. But it was for sure a process. The
banks is adding another layer to things.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, and things are about to get humid around here.
It would be a mess.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
They would be very curly. Okay, well what about we're
gonna take a quick break and then boyfriend birthday things? Yeah, okay,
won't be right back. Are you just celebrated a birthday?
Which how are you feeling like? You feel good?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I feel good.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I feel the same. I mean, I'm excited for my forties.
I'm entering mid forties, I guess now turning forty four.
I think this is going to be a good season
of life. So not scared of it at all. One bit.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I'm really excited for you too, because you're also going
to Charleston, which I've been and I love.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
But that came from a guess from that was my
birthday present. I got a little gift bag from him.
And opened it up and there was a card inside
with a note which is just had my name on it.
It was really sweet. And then there were two other
envelopes in there, option one and option two. So I
opened up Option one and it was this itinerary, like
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a Southwest printed itinerary for a specific weekend to Charleston,
and I thought, oh, okay, well, what's option two going
to be? So I opened that up and it's a
Southwest itinerary for the same exact weekend, but to Jacksonville, Florida,
where you fly into there. And then I guess, go
to Amelia Island, which I've never been there. I never
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even heard of it, but I googled it and I
heard it either it looks adorable.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Where is it by in Florida?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Jacksonville?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Because that yeah, I think it's maybe a thirty forty
minute drive. I think that's what he said. I guess
he has gone there before and he loved it. But
he knew I had mentioned Charleston too, just in conversation
at times, like the place I really want to go.
So I got to pick because those tickets were the
same weekends on Southwest, so he could just He's like,
(15:25):
both of those are booked, and I'll just cancel the
one that doesn't because he has points and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
So also, we love a planner, I know. I mean,
can we acknowledge that for a second, the fact that
he went and booked like it's done, sign heealed, delivered,
you just have to pick one.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, that was one of the things out of the
gate that I was very attracted to that he surprised
me on. I didn't know he would be that way.
But when we first started dating, I would just get
a text message to it from you know, Rezie or
one of the apps. What's the other one? Yeah, like, uh,
(16:00):
open table, thank you? Yeah, I get a thick of it.
It's early in the morning. So I would get a
text and it's a accept or decline and it would
be the restaurant the time, and like he didn't even
say anything to me, and then I'd be like okay,
and then he would text and be like cool, glad
you can go. But he would just throw things out
(16:24):
there and plan and obviously if that didn't work, he'd
be like, oh fine, I was just shooting my shot
with it, and it would just.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Be done attractive, like Yeah, to just take the initiative
to just do things. That is one of the most
attractive things. When a man has that ability and executes it,
it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, And there were always great restaurants and the ones
that I'd been wanting to go to that I don't
really get out and do that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So, which obviously also means he was listening to you.
I'm assuming you would talk about these things, and he
would early on.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I mean, this is when we were first starting to date.
We weren't talk looking all the time, but like.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
When you hang out, would you bring up these places,
like just even in passing like kinda Yeah. He definitely
pays attention, and that's why.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, the gift was so special because I know at
some point I mentioned Charleston and he had meant said
at some point that I was hard to shop for,
which it's probably true, and I couldn't really give anything.
He's like, do you have anything that you want? I'm like, no, Like,
don't worry about a gift. It's fine. He's like, well,
we got to do something and art. We don't get
(17:33):
a lot of one on one time together because between
my kids, his kids, and he has his kids all
the time, so I don't, and he's got three of them,
so it's it's difficult for him to get away, especially
with sports. They're very active. And there was one particular
weekend coming up where he knew I didn't have my kids,
(17:56):
and then his kids didn't have stuff going on the
one weekend in the next several months, I had to
have it. He was like, that's it. We're going on
a trip and this will be her birthday present.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Will this be your guys' first trip together?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
No, we went to Canyon Ranch. My friends.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Oh, my college.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Sorority sister got a job recently with Kenyon Ranch. We
were roommates together for a little while after college. Her
name's Lauren for She's amazing, and she hit me up
and she was like, Hey, I would love I just
started working for Kanye Ranch. I would love if you
want to go. Let me know. We have one in
Arizona and one in the Berkshire's and they're opening one
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in Austin, and I wanted to go to the Arizona
one really bad because that one's supposed to be epic.
And this is on her like, She's like, I just
want to send you and I'm like, okay, wow, and
I could take a friend or whatever. And I told her, well,
I just started dating somebody. And because Caitlin and I
(19:05):
actually we were talking about going to the Arizona one
if we could work that out, and then between my
schedule and kaitlan schedule, we weren't. And then Arizona was
just more difficult to get to because it's a longer flight,
more planning and a yeah, and we didn't have much time.
I think when we went, we were there for less
than forty eight hours. And I highly recommend if you
(19:25):
can go to a place like that, you at least
go for two full days. And we didn't have that.
But we were like, well, we'll just give it a shot.
And the Berkshires is closer on the east coast. We
flew into New Hampshire, Okay, and then you drive. Have
you seen like on Real Housewives of New York they
have houses in the Berkshires.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I would say, I recognize that name, but I just
don't even know where it is. It's like kind of
like the Hampton's, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
But it's it's a little different than that. It's in
the mountains, Like it's not like the Hampton's and this
didn't feel uppity at all.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
This is I feel like.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
The burks Sure's Canyon Ranch. They're both wellness places, but
this one was definitely an emphasis on wellness, not luxury,
but it was. It was awesome, just different than what
I had in my mind for Arizona. Got it and
I asked him if he wanted to go, because he
actually could get away, and that was I think a
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big test and what it would be like to really
be together and travel. I mean, it was just so easy.
It couldn't have been more smooth. And he's into that
type of stuff very much so, and so he was like, yes,
hands down, I'm there. So we went and that was
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our first little getaway, but it was we weren't as comfortable.
It was easy, but you know, it's still news.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
So you're like, Okay, this one will be a different
experience and much more especially now you guys are dating.
It's it's different, But I do feel like going on
a trip early on in the relationship, even if it's
a quick one like that, can be very telling of
a lot of science. It's very it helps you understand
that person a little bit better. Because travel can create
stress in seeing someone in potentially stressful situations helps you
(21:15):
understand their character and who they are better, very sh
I have noticed. No, I agree with that, So I'm glad.
I'm excited for you guys. Thank you okay, and the
kids have they met? Do you want to say yet? Ah? Well, well,
you guys, I have pleaded the fifth. We do that sometimes.
(21:36):
I plead the fifth.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Okay, in case we talk about it elsewhere, I've pleaded
the fifth.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
All right, deal well. Also, speaking of really exciting kids
in a way is I have a foster puppy right now, which,
by this point that people are hearing this, she will
be in her new home in a marty sad about that.
I only had her for a week oh so, which
was a very short time, but also reminded me, oh
my gosh, I've got about the puppy stage. I forgot
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so much. She has been a great little cuddler and
sleeps through the night with me, but oh my gosh,
as soon as she wakes up in the morning, it
is like out of a rocket. I'm like, where are
you and what are you doing? Pulling off my clothes
off of the hager. She's messing with Christmas lights, like,
I'm like, what is happening? What's going on? It was
like a culture shock for a second, because Remy's about
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to be ten this year, so I have not had
the puppy fades for almost a decade, and I was like,
I'm not sure I'm prepared for this situation for a week,
I'm not sure how this is gonna go. But it's
been really fun and she's super cute.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
And now you don't want her to go?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, a little bit, I think Remy does.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
So yeah, He's like, get this dog out of here.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
She Uh, Remy's like, so so chill. I call Remy
an your dog. She likes very chill, just like moving
slowly life and this dog is the polar opposite of that,
and will runs her close around Remy and she's just like,
what is happening? Why are you here? So I do
think Remy is ready, but I'm gonna miss her. She's
a little keuty. Her name is Belle.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I love that name, like Belle from Beating the Beast,
And she's a little mourky mix. She was an owner
surrender at five months old, which is super sad, and
I think she had quite a little bit of neglect
in a way because she was skittish of everything. Like
I tried to have friends to come over to meet
her she's a little puppy to see how she did,
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and she would cower behind me and just be very
afraid of everything. And at five months old, that shouldn't
be happening, right, you know, that's not enough time on
this earth to have those experiences. So I do think
it was not great. But I'm really excited for her
new family. That's the latest update. And I don't have
any kids, but I have lots of animal situations happening.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, and I'm thinking about an owner surrender, and I
know that that's probably like oh man, but at least
they took her somewhere where she could get cared for,
because if people if it's not a good fitter situation,
they may just throw them mounta into the street.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yes, I will always commend people for surrendering and doing
it responsibly if they have to. But there is also
the other side of it where you see the surrenders
and you're just like that, like they don't play enough,
or they don't bark enough, or they they sleep all
the time. Like the reasons that I've seen are so so,
so bad. But if you are going to do it,
(24:28):
doing it responsibly is always a better way, especially right
now with the way shelters and rescues are so full
that like dumping them on the streets is only going
to put them in a quicker situation for the potential
of youth in Asia, which is not good for anybody
if you ever cared about the animal. So it is
for sure that, but it's been a it's been a
(24:48):
good little eye opening to if I ever decide to
get another dog or bring another dog in. I f puppy, Yeah, yeah,
I like fostering. Fostering is really good timber situations because
Hazel and Remy really both like the situation that they
already have, adding to it would not quite work. How
are your animals, They're great, They're really good.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Car is doing better than ever, which is so awesome
because it was getting rough there for a little bit.
So and of course I wouldn't want to have to,
you know, find another home for her. It would probably
have been with a friend or something, but we were
getting to that point, like it was, there's so much
(25:33):
anxiety with her, and it was impacting the kids and
our well being, and so I think we finally got
her and us like the right training and care and
figuring out how to meet her needs and she's more calm,
and oh, it's been amazing. I know it's you know,
so sometimes it just takes the right resources and not
(25:55):
everybody has that. Like I had to spend some money
to figure this out, and not everybody can do that.
So I have a soft spot, I think probably for
people that realize I'm in over my head and I
don't want to do I don't know what to do,
and I know this dog deserves better and whatever its
needs are, I can't meet them. So that's almost where
(26:18):
we were with Kara, and even some of my close
friends that would come over, they'd be like, one of
my friends is anti ree homing, Like she like judges
people left right. She'll even admit it, and then she's like, honestly,
no judgment here, Like I get it. It's it's exhausting,
and you know, we got it figured out and she's
(26:39):
doing so much better. And now I just look into
her eyes and I'm like, oh, I'm glad because she's
more at peace. And so that's been a beautiful transition.
You know, just two degrees at a time.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, and it's.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Because it's been a process because we rescued her and.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
And she's had quite a fluctuation of behavior.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
And she's been through a lot too of like dogs
experience the stress of Okay, we've moved, I've she's been
in three different homes. And then also if you count
when she was going back and forth to Bins, that's
a fourth home. And we ultimately made the decision of
just keeping her at my house because the back and forth,
we were like, this is not helping. And Stevenson really
(27:23):
wanted her though, because he's like, well, when i'm a
dad's I want her. And then finally Stevenson understood that
it's probably best that we just keep her in one place.
So she's doing good. Maggie's great. Maggie's chill. She's a cat.
She's unbothered.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, if you're like, I really want to bed, but
get a cat, there's so much, so much easier. For sure,
they will chill about.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
She ignores me pretty much all day long and then
at night sleeps right by me.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
So is it funny? So weird, very cat like behavior.
Oh well, I'm glad to hear that things are better though.
That makes me happy, and I'm proud of you for
like having the patience to do it too, though, because
it's also another thing. It gets frustrating and hard, and
nobody really also acknowledges that process where you went through
(28:12):
the experience to make sure she could stay with you. Guys,
you know what I mean, Like you were finding every
way impossible solution you could, right, and that's what you're doing.
I think that's another step that is often missed in
the surrendering world, as people will just it's like an
automatic okay discard where you're like, I've tried everything.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
But I bet I can also see where if you
don't have the bandwidth or the resources, that automatic surrender
might be your option because you're like, shoot, what have
I done? And we can mess up and we can
think we're ready for something and then we're like, realize
we're not, or the dog's just not a good fit.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
But yes. This is also why I always tell anybody
if you ever ever want to get an animal, before
you do it, foster, because if foster is not a
permanent situation, and then you can decide, hey, if this
is right for me, we can continue and we'll adopt.
But if you have them in your home and you decide,
oh gosh, this is not going to work out, then
you don't. There's no you didn't do anything wrong. All
you did was help an animal. I always tell people that,
(29:11):
like first especially first time, never had pets, and like,
just foster, give it, try, like do trial runs, and
you're helping animals at the same time, and it gives
you a better idea of what to expect and what's
going to happen. You can also find a perfect fit
for you that way, versus thinking, oh, well, I really
want a German shepherd and then you get a German
Jeopardy or like, oh I am not built for this breed,
(29:32):
you know, like we all think and we kind of
fantasize certain breeds and stuff, and then you get them.
It's a completely different experience.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
So I always I was curious about this, you know,
because I loved my Rottwiler Josie. I love that which
she was a surrender, but not to a a dog
rescue place, to our church, like a family. They didn't
know where to go, but they could no longer care
for her, and they just showed up at our church
(30:00):
in Austin and walked inside with the dog and they
barely spoke English, and they just said they were able
to get out, that they couldn't care for the dog,
and they had like her crate and her food and
all her things, and they just dropped her at the church.
And then my pastor called and he's like, are you
looking for a dog? And I was like yeah, So
my mom and I went over and looked at her,
(30:21):
and I was like, she's perfect. Because I was newly
married to Ben at the time. We were moving to
North Carolina into our first home together, and he was
going to be in Afghanistan a lot, and so I
was going to be loan. So I thought, oh, a
Rothleiler will be awesome. So anyway, I ugh was obsessed
with her. But she shed a lot, and I love
(30:42):
that Kara is a doodle. She doesn't shed. So do
they make roddy doodles? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I don't know if there's roddy doodles out there?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Okay, well, people were like, oh, you want to rescue
a labbordoodle, They're probably those are really hard to find.
And then sure enough, Kathy we work with call me
one day, she's like, I got a laboratory to rescue.
I'm like perfect, and so she doesn't shed in. It's amazing.
So I keep thinking like maybe one day they'll be
a Roddy Doodle rescue.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
There's her linkould be. I've beeing some interesting mixes in
the shelter. I've seen like Chihuahua bulldogs and like you'd
be surprised what comes through. And some of them are
really cute. It's something you're like, oh, you're a little mutt.
That's okay, and I that is true, Like you can
truly find gosh and you breathe. My cat is a
full blown, full blood Siamese and she came straight from
(31:32):
a shelter. Like you just you can find anything. It's
just all back to patient patient time and fostering. Genuinely,
that's how you find just situations. Like everybody always asks,
how do you get all these little dogs? I'm like, well,
I'm literally on the foster list, So they come to
me as soon as they come in, like they're in
my home before they're ever up for adoption. And then
(31:54):
you kind of have a first ride of refusal if
you decide you really love them and it's a great
fit for your family. So it's a perfect way to
have like all the things running in the right direction
and setting you up for success. I talked to Wags
and Walks founder Catherine about that. She come on my podcast,
and that's we kind of talked about that.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yeah, Wax and Walks is great.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Okay, we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back.
We have a few more things. I'm gonna do some
fun little things here because we had lots of questions,
but I feel like this is more fun stuff for
part one. So what is your current favorite perfume? And
this is coming from Megan and Iowa, do you have
(32:35):
a current which also I had a huge revelation that like,
if I'm gonna have a clean home, I can't really
have perfume anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I have been wearing it see, to be honest, I
was wearing last year. I'm obsessed with l Labohm.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
You had got me some of that and I loved it.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It's so good. So probably that, but I ran out
and I haven't been wearing it. Probably similar things of
hormone disruptors. You just hear all this stuff and you're like, shoot,
what am I supposed to put on my body when
you're trying to pay attention to that sort of stuff.
So I haven't really replaced it yet. But anything Lei
(33:13):
Labo is always good.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I know. And that's where I'm at right now, because
I was talking to somebody and she's like, well, if
it has fragrance, it's not technically clean, and I'm like,
are you kidding me? So perfume? I can't have perfume.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Well, I could have an essential oil in it, I know.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
But perfumes don't those perfumes are They've got fragrance for days.
I don't think you can replace that in like the
perfumes we're talking about, like Ley Labo or tom Ford
or on those like caliber. So I'm kind of bummed.
This has been a new I know.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I'm like, well, let me recommend vanilla essential oil.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Just dab a little so dash of peppermint. Maybe I
don't know, smell like Christmas because I had bobwe when
I was in Paris. That was like my souvenir from
coming from Paris. Because I don't like buying things that
are like just like a little trinket to half that
doesn't do it for me. I like bringing something that'll
continue to bring me a memory in a way, like
I brought a scarf, and when we were in Berlin,
(34:14):
and then when we went to Paris we were I
got the perfume. And then when we were in Barcelona,
I bought back this like handmade pottery vase of from
a bar where we all they the drinks that they
had were out of these pottery things that they handmade,
and so I was like all things that I could
continue using. And then I had this moment where I
(34:36):
was cleaning my bathroom and my perfume front Paris shattered
all the floor. No, I was like, this is not
happening right now. I was so sad, like devastated because
it was so it was like my and I wanted
to keep the bottle even when it was over, because
it was gonna be the we're just have to go back.
I am gonna have to go back.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Well what was it?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
But so I will admit I did go online and
I bought another one, but I had to buy it
from Paris because it's the brand dipty Q, which we
have here. But there was specialty since for each city.
So when we were in Paris, it was it was
certain to Paris, so I had to buy it from
Diptyq Paris to get another one.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
How do you spell that?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Like dipty dip t y and then q ue dip
dyq dip q. It's a brand. Okay, we have one
in the Green Hills mall here.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Okay, I'll google it. I want to take a look.
And then I don't know if the requirements of how
they formulate it, is it different in Paris than America
because of different regulations or is it all the same.
I have a.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Feeling it's all the same. It's just different. They use
different fragrances for different cities to have, like.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Because I know that certain things aren't allowed in Europe
that are allowed here.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
That's true, so we're gonna believe it maybe better, yeah, hopefully,
but that The kind that I got is EO rose.
I don't know how to say that word, and I
speak French. It's eau and then rose. But that's my favorite,
all right. Then we also had Lindsey from which Shaw,
who is like, you both have great skin, so she
(36:09):
really wants to know our skincare routine.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Well, I just use a foaming facial wash. Survey from
like CBS. You just that's my cleanser is just it's gentle.
I love something that foams, and then everything else that.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Films for a reason or just you like it, it's
just fun.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Well, I don't like not foaming helps me feel like
I'm getting it cleaned, so I like seeing the bubbles
when I sometimes use a cleanser that has no foam
to it, and like it is anything really happening. Okay,
So I like that for that reason. I guess foaming
cleanser because they have other ones like a hydrating one
and it doesn't foam, okay.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
So it's part fun, part yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
And then everything else I use is Biopel now, which
is the snail serum company. I them originally through their
snail stuff that I was putting on my face for
the glow, and then I started using some of their
other products, and I really, I really really like them.
(37:13):
But if I sometimes if I have a glow, I
may have some of the snail serum on, like the
actual snail serrum, which I don't know that I would
categories categorize them under cruelty cruelty free. I know that
it's an animal, but the snails are living a good
life on a snail farm like in Brazil. So they
say they live in a little greenhouse and they eat
(37:37):
organic lettuce and carrots. Well it says I got a
video of the snails because I was concerned.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Okay, you would be happy to know at least like
a quick Google search. Yes, Biopel products are cruelty free
and not tested on animals, although some of their products
contain snail secretion in eggs, but they are sourced in
a responsible, non harmful inner.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Boom, Thank you very much. Yeah, fact checked me there.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Yeah, just get you.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Yeah, because I was like, shoot, I know this is
coming from an animal, but I don't think it's tesla
and the secretion in their eggs, yes, and I think
they're living the good life to get the secretion out.
So I'm just putting a bunch of snail eggs on
my face. Which have you heard that salmon sperm is?
(38:26):
Right now? No, salmon's salmon sperm facials?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Stop?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah, it's right.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Have you done? No? But I will like, I'm not
about this. I think if you just don't tell me
that's what it is, I'll do it. But now that
I know, I don't know that I can do it
feels weird?
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Yeah, you just just be like, just call it the
salmon facial.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Yeah, don't don't tell me exactly. Like even talking about
like the snail, it's like the snail secretion in the eggs.
I'm like, I there's a lot of information that I
didn't necessarily needed. Just tell me you weren't harming them
and you're good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Yeah, for whatever reason, it doesn't bother me. I'll sign
me up. Okay, snail sperm, salmon sperm, tuna.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Sperm, like something about whatever. But I think we have
learned this though. Fish have a lot of important properties
that are very helpful for us. That's why a lot
of people take fish oil. That's why I like, my
cat has fish oil and it has made her fur
just beautiful. Like fish oil and oils and things that
come from fish. And like, I don't know what kind
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of animal a snail is. Is it?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
It's not a fish, I know, But.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Is it a mammal?
Speaker 2 (39:42):
No, I don't think so. I don't think it's.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Ma'am s cargo. Oh, they're in their own They're part of.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
The oh malusca and typically within the class gastro yes.
That class. I love that class.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I don't exactly know what that means, but yeah, oh
they go with clams and oysters and muscles are really squid.
That's what mollusca is. And then in the even smaller
family's slugs sneeze sea snails. It's hard sea snails and
other shell than shell less gastropods. So they are there,
(40:21):
but like, you know what we need? Like is it
part of this is such a random tangent, but like,
is it a man? You know when we think about
animals and we put them in like mammals.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Or amphibians, it's not a man. They're just it's definitely not.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
I know it's not a mammal. But do you see
what I'm saying, Like we have the overarching I'm trying
to figure out.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
I don't know what umbrella it's under. It's not. Yeah,
I'll research my snails and circle back, but yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Definitely not think I I go on weird loopholes. Okay,
we are done here. I think I had other things,
but the snails totally threw me off.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
So well, you didn't share your skin?
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Oh yeah, okay, so I've been using skin better, which
has like changed my life. It has there's this, so
I'll I wash my face every night with bicellular water.
That's how I get my makeup off. And then I
use an Elemis cleanser, which I think I'm gonna have
to swap out because I'm learning that one is not
cruelty fue. Oh, I have some of that.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
The are you using the the little oil stuff?
Speaker 1 (41:26):
It's like a yeah, but are you talking about Almis?
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Yeah, the cleansing bomb, yes, where you it doesn't foam,
it does not, but that one, I like, I have
some of that. I think they sent me some and
I had it in my drawer forever and I wasn't
using it, and then I saw more and more people
posting about it and I was like, Oh, I might
give this stuff a try. That stuff's nice.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Oh it makes my skin like truly glow.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
But I just don't use it all the time.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Yeah. I use it every night, like after I wash
off my makeup. It's like my cleanser that I put
on and kind of like get it ready and then
I put on on skin better. This like it was
helping with like any acting or stuff that was popping up.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
And I feel like I've used skin Better's sunscreen.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Before I did get a sample of that, so I'm
going to try and because skin Better is clean and
cruelty free, so I really like that brand. It's just
more on the expensive end, which I don't love. But
so there is a skin Better product in there that
like has been helping with just like hormone stuff that
kind of keeps popping up in my face. And then
I also put on like a hydrating SPF floation on
(42:33):
top of that at night and I sleep in it
and then I wake up in the morning. It's it's
really more because it's also hydrating, so it's just a duel. Yeah,
I don't really need the SBF at night, but I
need the I love It's laroche Pose, which is also
like another one that I think, So they have.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
That at like some like they don't have Elemis at
CBS or whatever, but Larch or however you say.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
It that where So that that's one that I have
from like hydrating and I love and then wash that
off in the morning and I put on a vitamin
C serum from Younger and then I put on that
hydrating SBF and that's.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
It from Younger. Is that a brand?
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Yeah, and it's so it's a clean, cruelty free brand,
and it's it's super cheap on the like more cheap side,
Like the serum is only twenty five dollars, which is
insane for a vitamin C serum and super clean, high
high volume of vitamin C is what I was looking for,
and this one has it. It feels really good. The
(43:33):
one thing my like my skincare lady back home. Her
name is Sissy, and she's she loves by the way
she loves you. She's like very vag into clean stuff
and she's just really great. She's like I believe she's
in her fifties, and she looks insane. Whatever she's doing.
I'm like, yeah, just tell me, just tell me to
do it. And one of the things she said, she's like,
I don't care if you don't do anything else but
(43:53):
put vitamin C in your skincare routine. It's the only
thing that matters, honestly, And I was like, Okay, She's like,
more matters, but this is rant for you right now.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
I think sometimes when I'm frustrated with my skin, I
look at my water intake and I'm like, I'm not hydrating. Obviously,
my skin is going to have a reaction. It's the
largest organ in my body. It's not just my skin
on my face, it's like my skin everywhere. And so
also make sure you're hydrating, because sometimes you don't need
to go spend a bunch of money on stuff. Maybe
(44:24):
you naturally like my friend, not therapy Cat, but I
have another friend named Cat, a cryo cat, and her
skin's she does nothing. Her skin's amazing. She she drinks
a lot of water, but she does nothing. She doesn't
she's like a boy. She doesn't water vase, she doesn't
really wear a makeup, she'd barely its lotion on. And
I'm like, oh, so you may look at her and
be like, well, I want to know whatever it is
(44:45):
you do, and so sometimes there's just a genetic thing happening.
Or also if you eat a certain way and drink,
you know, plenty of water, which she does, which I
do not want to drink water like her, but she's
it's like it's like her job, and I just I
can't seem to drink enough. But I know I need
to drink more because it's so important. And sometimes just
(45:06):
to shift like that will change everything. It really is,
even in your cognitive thinking because right now I'm like,
wake up, Like why can't I think of words this morning?
But I know I'm dehydrated.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
I'm telling you, like, if you if you want to
do basis like nothing that like actually costs like so
so much money. Like if you get like truly just
eating really good foods for your body, like I'm talking
like stay in the produce aisle and focus on cooking
foods and sourcing your food that way and water. It
changes the game for almost every single part of things
(45:37):
that are going wrong or things that you want to
change in your body.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
I know, but sometimes that's just not as much fun.
It's not absolutely like fine, I'll take the pimple.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
I trust me. I know I am right there with you.
But if there's one thing I've learned across this entire
thing is like it always comes back to that on everything.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Every even mood. Yeah, just taking care of yourself, nourishing
yourself in a way Like sometimes I look at like
my dead plant in my kitchen and I'm like, well,
I haven't given it water nourished it properly, And I'm like,
that's exactly what's happening inside my body.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
A great representation of it.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Yeah, this sad little dead plant really sad, You're not
a sad Now. I'm trying to do better at taking
better care of myself. But I feel like in this
transition because I know earlier we mentioned like, okay, I'm
shedding a photogs and lays it off my brows and hair.
And but I also stopped adderall. I got off my
(46:29):
well butrin, which was my antipresent, which it was time
to get off that a while ago. And then begetting
off of adderall, that's been a journey too, and I'm
so thankful to have it out of my system. But
there's days where I'm like, gosh, I know right now,
if I just like popped an adderall, I would get
some stuff done and I think about it and I'll
(46:52):
want it, but then I don't do it because I'm like,
look at all this hard work you've put into not
having it. And it's a journey shedding of all the
things and trying to take better care of yourself. And
I didn't realize when I was on adderall how much
I was neglecting my nutrition because you're just so go,
go go. And so thankfully I've started to put on
a little bit more weight being off of that. But
(47:14):
then it's like, Okay, what foods am I putting in
my body? And just you know, making sure I'm taking
care of myself. So it is, we're all trying to
figure it out two degrees at a time.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Guys, it absolutely is. It's a whole process. Well, Amy,
thank you for being here. Thanks for hanging out with me.
Do you want to tell people where they can find
you hear you all that good stuff?
Speaker 2 (47:34):
Yeah, at Radio Amy is where I'm on Instagram. And
then my podcast is getting a makeover. It'll be official
on Tuesday, April first. It will be the very first episode.
It'll be on the four Things with Amy Brown Feeds.
So if you've been subscribed or you're following there, you
are good to go. But if you aren't subscribed or
following yet, you could go do that. And then we're
(47:55):
flipping it to Feeling Things. It's just a name makeover.
And then my friend that's also a therapist, Kat van Buren,
she's joining me as a full time co host and
so we'll have episodes every Tuesday and every Thursday. And
I'm very excited for that and the Instagram handle for that.
Is Feeling Things podcast, so you can go to that
(48:16):
handle and we'll be posting like videos and all the
Things and episodes should be up yep for the foreseeable
future Tuesdays and Thursdays, and you.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Can follow the show at Bobby Bone Show and All
the Things and I am at webcol Morgan. Bye, everybody.
That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks
for listening. Be sure to check out the other two
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The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Part one, behind a scene with a member of the show.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Happy Saturday. Everybody joining me this weekend is Amy? Amy?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
How are you hello? Good?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
You feeling good? It's a Saturday morning. Apparently, according to Lunchbox,
we always record this on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We're recording it before the show, so I'm still waking up.
I have my Macha tea here with me.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Do you drink coffee at all?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah? Well, I alternate between the macha and the coffee,
but I am on a mushroom coffee and mushroom Macha
kick from this company Rise. I don't know. I just
order it on Amazon because it's winter. My friend who
also orders it from the company, She's like, I order
(00:49):
it from Amazon in the winter and the company in
the summer, because I don't trust the storage at Amazon
in the hotter months. If it's sitting in the warehouse
in the heat, I don't know. Who knows.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Okay, So, mushroom coffee. We've gotten rid of the extensions.
I know you've posted that you've gotten rid of botox.
You did the lasering of the eyebrows. What's going on?
I feel like, oh, I did transformation that's happening.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's like a yeah, just trying to figure out the baseline,
and I don't know. I can't explain it. I just
just over it all. Yeah, like for a minute, ready
for a change, kind of like a shedding of things,
and then we'll see what we like and want to
add back in. The only reason why I had to
have my eyebrows lasered off. So if y'all are not
(01:36):
familiar with microblading, which I'm sure most of the women
listening are, but if you're a guy, because I was
trying to explain this to my boyfriend, he did not understand,
and I said, look, you'll start to notice it now
that I talk to you about it. But a lot
of women, especially my age, have it done. And I
just turned forty four. I know so many people, and
(01:58):
then I know what I'm looking for, so I can
spot it and people too, and I'm like, okay, yeah,
they have their eyes eyebrows microbladed, and it's just a
tiny stroke like a tattoo of sorts, but it's not
going as deep as a tattoo. So the artist I
go to Beauty by Megan in Nashville. She's amazing she's
the one that told me I needed to laser them off.
(02:19):
She's been on my podcasts multiple times. She also tattoos
areolas on like nipples for women that have had breast
cancer and they've had a mastectomy and then they have
their surgery, but then their nipples are gone and they
don't feel the same. So they have their reconstructed breasts
(02:40):
and there's no nipples and they're like, oh, this just
doesn't I don't feel like me. But she can tattoo
it on in a three D way to where it
looks like the aerola, the nipple, everything's there. It's fascinating.
She's very talented. Her mom had breast cancer that so
she got into that. But anyway, she also is very
talented at brows. And it's like she gets a razor
(03:02):
and does these tiny strokes and then fills it in
with ink and then ta dah, you've got brows.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
But so you laser off your previous brow completely.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
That she did, yes, because I went to see her.
I'm like, these are the things nobody tells you about
when you're in your thirties and you're doing certain things,
So tell me right now to make sure we're aware.
So I went to see her while I was getting botox,
So my forehead was manipulated by the bowtox. So therefore,
(03:34):
when you stop getting that and it dissolves, your forehead
takes on a different shape, like it's moving a little bit.
And I don't even know that it's that noticeable to people.
But then when your brows were tattooed on in a
specific spot and then your forehead shifts, my brows started
to shift, and I was like, what is happening. I
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don't know what to do, and it's either I was
going to have to go get botox to lift the
rows to make them even, or have them removed, and
she said I would go have them lasered off. And
she told me where to go. You want to Peko
laser to remove them, but she's like, I think it'll
take one time, you'll be fine. Well, when I got
to the laser place, they said, well, we don't know
(04:19):
once we laser off the brown color like the brown ink,
if it's going to be red, orange or blue or
green under there like the undertone. Yeah, and they said,
depending on what that's like, you're probably gonna have to
come back again in eight weeks and.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So I thought, what this is going to be a process,
meaning you'd have to go without eyebrows for eight weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well, so I have the hair, but the problem is
when the laser hits it, it removes some of the
hair sometimes because it's so hot where it blanches it,
so some of the hair is now white. So it's like,
my brows are a mess.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
You just forget how.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Important brows are to the shape of a face, which
is why we pencil them on. We you know, use
the like a brow mascara, like a yeah, do you
use that like a tinted That was new to me
in the last year, and I was like, where was what?
Where was this when I was safe?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Evolved a long way when it comes to eyebrow, like
just penciling instead of doing permanent things to it.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, there's all kinds of tools now and different things.
But I had on micropladed a long long time ago,
and I would go back for touchups, and then over
time that starts to bleed a little bit. So some
people just get the removed from time to time to
start fresh. And I'm like, this process. I can never
have this process again. It's exhausting. Uh So I had
(05:43):
red and orange undertones. So now like right now you're
looking at me, I'm gonna wear a hat.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
What today good? Right now?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Well, I put concealer entirely over my brow, like all
the way so the orange in the red you cannot
see it. And then I put the like the why
can't I think of what it's called, like a brow gel,
like a Tantae browjel over that to kind of give
the hair some color. And then I got my lift
(06:14):
and snatch, which is a NYX that brand or Nix,
I don't care how to say it. They have this
brow pin thing that's called lift and snatch. The lift
and snatch, well, I created strokes with my lift and
snatch pin, and somehow I've concocted brows on my face
(06:36):
that are not really there.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So you basically have to drawing your brows on right
now until this process is finished.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, and I can't go back to get them lasered
off for another well seven weeks to do round two
and then it starts all over. So hit me up
in August. We'll see where we are with things, and
I'll probably maybe have some hair back in by then
because I'm like, I think you know. It's they say,
(07:04):
if you do things in a two degree increments, you're
more likely to stick with it.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
All.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It's like, just give it two degrees and then you
can two degree two degree. Two degrees and two degrees
is a lot. Yeah, because I was talking to my
ex husband Ben about it. It was at this family
therapy thing where they really focused on the two degree thing,
and Ben and I were there and he's like, yeah,
there's a pilot. If you're flying somewhere and you are
off by two degrees, you're going to end up somewhere
(07:31):
really far away, like nowhere near your destination. So I
like that analogy picturing it that way because it actually
is more than you think. Two degrees is more than
you think, So just give it two degrees and you'll
be awesome. Well, I went like, might even go a
full like I don't even know, I'm on like one
(07:52):
hundred degrees, like just shedding myself of things that help
with confidence and just have been a part of me
for a while. So might get some hair soon. You're like,
I don't know all that to say, I don't know,
and just I either want to chop it off again
and make it really short or grow it out. And
I don't know if I have the patience, so maybe
(08:13):
I'll have some extendings. I don't know. We have iHeart
Country Festival coming up, and I keep picturing myself interviewing
artists under the you know where we do it backstage
and the lights are so bright, and I'm like, I'm
gonna have to wear hat because they're gonna be like,
what is wrong with her brows?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Well, as of right now, I think you've learned at
least how to conceal and construct them so they look great.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, but if you're under some bright lights, Morgan, You're
gonna be like, does she have concealer? I feel like, uh,
you know in Hunger Games.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, the people at the Capitol, Yeah, how they look
all crazy and wild with their makeup.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, that's me when I'm getting ready in the morning.
I'm like, I'm hiring.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Also too, because you know what it looks like before.
If you wouldn't tell me, I couldn't tell right now,
you're honestly, I genuinely mean that I wouldn't tell you.
I'd be like, no, I mean like, we might need
to construct that a little differently. It looks good, so
just no, have some confidence that you've at least figured
out a natural way to make it look let's just snatch.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Hey, hey, I ordered that on Amazon. I've looked for
it at Oh actually CBS had it, so you can't
find it. Because I wanted to get a different color.
I ordered the burnette, ash brown, and blonde. And that's
this crabby thing is you don't know which shade is
going to look right on you, so you kind of
got to order them all to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah, because I'm blonde, but my eyebrows are more like
dirty blonde, a little bit light brownish.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You could do the blonde. I'm an expert now, so
I go, I'll color match you. You would be the
lift and snatch blonde.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You know. I just did this because I've been revamping,
Like I've been in the process of really like cleaning
up my home, meaning like really trying to swap everything
for glass and use clean products, cruelty free products, like
really trying to be aware of the things. And I'm
buying and consuming across all levels cleaning, food, make up
(10:04):
all of it.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That's another example of where if someone's trying to do that,
you got to go two degrees Yep, two degrees, cause
if you try to go all at once, it can
get overwhelming and you just quit.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It's so overwhelming. I feel like I've been in this
process gosh two and a half years now. It's just
i I've My theme. We've talked about this actually a
lot on my podcast recently was baby steps. So it's like,
very similar to what you're saying of the two degrees,
but it's like I was always like, if you just
take like a baby step, a baby step is better
than no step. So you take a baby step, we're
(10:36):
moving in the right direction. So same concept, just different terms.
And that's exactly what I've been doing with the clean
products and stuff. So I've been now I've gotten to
the place where I'm now focused on my makeup and
starting to swap out, which finding clean and cruelty free
brands that are also ones that you love is very difficult.
You'd be surprised how many things aren't cruelty free or
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they aren't clean, or vice versa. Like finding both and
the whole thing is just really difficult.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
You would think if they have an emphasis on clean,
they'd have an emphasis on well.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So here's what I've also learned cruelty free, so if
they sell in places like China. China requires animal testing,
so if a brand sells there, they're not considered cruelty free,
which is wild. But like most products sell in China,
so then they can't be considered like a completely cruelty
(11:26):
free brand. But there are some like Fini is one,
Makeup by Mario is one, Like they're endorsed by Peda.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But then are they clean?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, so they have clean products too, So I've done both,
Like trust me, when I've been I'm doing so much research,
I'm like, they have to have both. And those are
two that I've found safely so far. Those are two
that there's like fifty thousand makeup brands and those are two,
so it tells you how difficult it is. But all
that to say, I had gone to Sophora and I
(11:55):
was testing my like face color and trying to match
it for Finity, like the new product I'm wearing, and
the girl there, like I had makeup on, and she
just like straight up like swiped a like an entire
piece of my cheek off of my makeup and then
like started matching me that way. She's like, Okay, Well,
here's your color. I was like, what I supposed to
(12:18):
go on in the world looking like this, what are
we doing? She just let me go.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Oh she didn't like, you know, patch you up.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Nope, she didn't at all. She was just like, you're fine.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Well I do see though that she does want your
makeup off to properly color match you.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
That makes sense, that's we needed that. But like you
could have just taken the whole thing off or like,
you know, not just like a It was such a
funny situation and I had like three other errands to
run after, so I was just like covering my face
and like, don't look at my cheek.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
See, that's how I feel. With my brow I'm like
covering them, like, don't look out my brows.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
That's your time where you get things.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I'm sure people did not notice your chunk of makeup, miss.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Oh they did it. It was me and we always
know things more than other people, for sure about ourselves.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Not a bad idea about the bangs thing, because I
have thought about it. However, I just sink with my
curly hair, it would be a mess. I will regret
it and I will just that would be like taking
another one hundred degree step.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
That would be a big step. Yeah, but I do
think they'd look cute on you. I loved my bank face.
I had so much fun. I'll look at pictures of
I'm like, dang, I really liked those, or like I
got used to styling them and they started to look
really good. But it was for sure a process. The
banks is adding another layer to things.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, and things are about to get humid around here.
It would be a mess.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
They would be very curly. Okay, well what about we're
gonna take a quick break and then boyfriend birthday things? Yeah, okay,
won't be right back. Are you just celebrated a birthday?
Which how are you feeling like? You feel good?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I feel good.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I feel the same. I mean, I'm excited for my forties.
I'm entering mid forties, I guess now turning forty four.
I think this is going to be a good season
of life. So not scared of it at all. One bit.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I'm really excited for you too, because you're also going
to Charleston, which I've been and I love.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
But that came from a guess from that was my
birthday present. I got a little gift bag from him.
And opened it up and there was a card inside
with a note which is just had my name on it.
It was really sweet. And then there were two other
envelopes in there, option one and option two. So I
opened up Option one and it was this itinerary, like
(14:36):
a Southwest printed itinerary for a specific weekend to Charleston,
and I thought, oh, okay, well, what's option two going
to be? So I opened that up and it's a
Southwest itinerary for the same exact weekend, but to Jacksonville, Florida,
where you fly into there. And then I guess, go
to Amelia Island, which I've never been there. I never
(14:56):
even heard of it, but I googled it and I
heard it either it looks adorable.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Where is it by in Florida?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Jacksonville?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Because that yeah, I think it's maybe a thirty forty
minute drive. I think that's what he said. I guess
he has gone there before and he loved it. But
he knew I had mentioned Charleston too, just in conversation
at times, like the place I really want to go.
So I got to pick because those tickets were the
same weekends on Southwest, so he could just He's like,
(15:25):
both of those are booked, and I'll just cancel the
one that doesn't because he has points and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
So also, we love a planner, I know. I mean,
can we acknowledge that for a second, the fact that
he went and booked like it's done, sign heealed, delivered,
you just have to pick one.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, that was one of the things out of the
gate that I was very attracted to that he surprised
me on. I didn't know he would be that way.
But when we first started dating, I would just get
a text message to it from you know, Rezie or
one of the apps. What's the other one? Yeah, like, uh,
(16:00):
open table, thank you? Yeah, I get a thick of it.
It's early in the morning. So I would get a
text and it's a accept or decline and it would
be the restaurant the time, and like he didn't even
say anything to me, and then I'd be like okay,
and then he would text and be like cool, glad
you can go. But he would just throw things out
(16:24):
there and plan and obviously if that didn't work, he'd
be like, oh fine, I was just shooting my shot
with it, and it would just.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Be done attractive, like Yeah, to just take the initiative
to just do things. That is one of the most
attractive things. When a man has that ability and executes it,
it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, And there were always great restaurants and the ones
that I'd been wanting to go to that I don't
really get out and do that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So, which obviously also means he was listening to you.
I'm assuming you would talk about these things, and he
would early on.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I mean, this is when we were first starting to date.
We weren't talk looking all the time, but like.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
When you hang out, would you bring up these places,
like just even in passing like kinda Yeah. He definitely
pays attention, and that's why.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, the gift was so special because I know at
some point I mentioned Charleston and he had meant said
at some point that I was hard to shop for,
which it's probably true, and I couldn't really give anything.
He's like, do you have anything that you want? I'm like, no, Like,
don't worry about a gift. It's fine. He's like, well,
we got to do something and art. We don't get
(17:33):
a lot of one on one time together because between
my kids, his kids, and he has his kids all
the time, so I don't, and he's got three of them,
so it's it's difficult for him to get away, especially
with sports. They're very active. And there was one particular
weekend coming up where he knew I didn't have my kids,
(17:56):
and then his kids didn't have stuff going on the
one weekend in the next several months, I had to
have it. He was like, that's it. We're going on
a trip and this will be her birthday present.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Will this be your guys' first trip together?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
No, we went to Canyon Ranch. My friends.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Oh, my college.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Sorority sister got a job recently with Kenyon Ranch. We
were roommates together for a little while after college. Her
name's Lauren for She's amazing, and she hit me up
and she was like, Hey, I would love I just
started working for Kanye Ranch. I would love if you
want to go. Let me know. We have one in
Arizona and one in the Berkshire's and they're opening one
(18:42):
in Austin, and I wanted to go to the Arizona
one really bad because that one's supposed to be epic.
And this is on her like, She's like, I just
want to send you and I'm like, okay, wow, and
I could take a friend or whatever. And I told her, well,
I just started dating somebody. And because Caitlin and I
(19:05):
actually we were talking about going to the Arizona one
if we could work that out, and then between my
schedule and kaitlan schedule, we weren't. And then Arizona was
just more difficult to get to because it's a longer flight,
more planning and a yeah, and we didn't have much time.
I think when we went, we were there for less
than forty eight hours. And I highly recommend if you
(19:25):
can go to a place like that, you at least
go for two full days. And we didn't have that.
But we were like, well, we'll just give it a shot.
And the Berkshires is closer on the east coast. We
flew into New Hampshire, Okay, and then you drive. Have
you seen like on Real Housewives of New York they
have houses in the Berkshires.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I would say, I recognize that name, but I just
don't even know where it is. It's like kind of
like the Hampton's, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
But it's it's a little different than that. It's in
the mountains, Like it's not like the Hampton's and this
didn't feel uppity at all.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
This is I feel like.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
The burks Sure's Canyon Ranch. They're both wellness places, but
this one was definitely an emphasis on wellness, not luxury,
but it was. It was awesome, just different than what
I had in my mind for Arizona. Got it and
I asked him if he wanted to go, because he
actually could get away, and that was I think a
(20:21):
big test and what it would be like to really
be together and travel. I mean, it was just so easy.
It couldn't have been more smooth. And he's into that
type of stuff very much so, and so he was like, yes,
hands down, I'm there. So we went and that was
(20:43):
our first little getaway, but it was we weren't as comfortable.
It was easy, but you know, it's still news.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
So you're like, Okay, this one will be a different
experience and much more especially now you guys are dating.
It's it's different, But I do feel like going on
a trip early on in the relationship, even if it's
a quick one like that, can be very telling of
a lot of science. It's very it helps you understand
that person a little bit better. Because travel can create
stress in seeing someone in potentially stressful situations helps you
(21:15):
understand their character and who they are better, very sh
I have noticed. No, I agree with that, So I'm glad.
I'm excited for you guys. Thank you okay, and the
kids have they met? Do you want to say yet? Ah? Well, well,
you guys, I have pleaded the fifth. We do that sometimes.
(21:36):
I plead the fifth.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Okay, in case we talk about it elsewhere, I've pleaded
the fifth.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
All right, deal well. Also, speaking of really exciting kids
in a way is I have a foster puppy right now, which,
by this point that people are hearing this, she will
be in her new home in a marty sad about that.
I only had her for a week oh so, which
was a very short time, but also reminded me, oh
my gosh, I've got about the puppy stage. I forgot
(22:02):
so much. She has been a great little cuddler and
sleeps through the night with me, but oh my gosh,
as soon as she wakes up in the morning, it
is like out of a rocket. I'm like, where are
you and what are you doing? Pulling off my clothes
off of the hager. She's messing with Christmas lights, like,
I'm like, what is happening? What's going on? It was
like a culture shock for a second, because Remy's about
(22:24):
to be ten this year, so I have not had
the puppy fades for almost a decade, and I was like,
I'm not sure I'm prepared for this situation for a week,
I'm not sure how this is gonna go. But it's
been really fun and she's super cute.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
And now you don't want her to go?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, a little bit, I think Remy does.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
So yeah, He's like, get this dog out of here.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
She Uh, Remy's like, so so chill. I call Remy
an your dog. She likes very chill, just like moving
slowly life and this dog is the polar opposite of that,
and will runs her close around Remy and she's just like,
what is happening? Why are you here? So I do
think Remy is ready, but I'm gonna miss her. She's
a little keuty. Her name is Belle.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I love that name, like Belle from Beating the Beast,
And she's a little mourky mix. She was an owner
surrender at five months old, which is super sad, and
I think she had quite a little bit of neglect
in a way because she was skittish of everything. Like
I tried to have friends to come over to meet
her she's a little puppy to see how she did,
(23:28):
and she would cower behind me and just be very
afraid of everything. And at five months old, that shouldn't
be happening, right, you know, that's not enough time on
this earth to have those experiences. So I do think
it was not great. But I'm really excited for her
new family. That's the latest update. And I don't have
any kids, but I have lots of animal situations happening.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, and I'm thinking about an owner surrender, and I
know that that's probably like oh man, but at least
they took her somewhere where she could get cared for,
because if people if it's not a good fitter situation,
they may just throw them mounta into the street.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yes, I will always commend people for surrendering and doing
it responsibly if they have to. But there is also
the other side of it where you see the surrenders
and you're just like that, like they don't play enough,
or they don't bark enough, or they they sleep all
the time. Like the reasons that I've seen are so so,
so bad. But if you are going to do it,
(24:28):
doing it responsibly is always a better way, especially right
now with the way shelters and rescues are so full
that like dumping them on the streets is only going
to put them in a quicker situation for the potential
of youth in Asia, which is not good for anybody
if you ever cared about the animal. So it is
for sure that, but it's been a it's been a
(24:48):
good little eye opening to if I ever decide to
get another dog or bring another dog in. I f puppy, Yeah, yeah,
I like fostering. Fostering is really good timber situations because
Hazel and Remy really both like the situation that they
already have, adding to it would not quite work. How
are your animals, They're great, They're really good.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Car is doing better than ever, which is so awesome
because it was getting rough there for a little bit.
So and of course I wouldn't want to have to,
you know, find another home for her. It would probably
have been with a friend or something, but we were
getting to that point, like it was, there's so much
(25:33):
anxiety with her, and it was impacting the kids and
our well being, and so I think we finally got
her and us like the right training and care and
figuring out how to meet her needs and she's more calm,
and oh, it's been amazing. I know it's you know,
so sometimes it just takes the right resources and not
(25:55):
everybody has that. Like I had to spend some money
to figure this out, and not everybody can do that.
So I have a soft spot, I think probably for
people that realize I'm in over my head and I
don't want to do I don't know what to do,
and I know this dog deserves better and whatever its
needs are, I can't meet them. So that's almost where
(26:18):
we were with Kara, and even some of my close
friends that would come over, they'd be like, one of
my friends is anti ree homing, Like she like judges
people left right. She'll even admit it, and then she's like, honestly,
no judgment here, Like I get it. It's it's exhausting,
and you know, we got it figured out and she's
(26:39):
doing so much better. And now I just look into
her eyes and I'm like, oh, I'm glad because she's
more at peace. And so that's been a beautiful transition.
You know, just two degrees at a time.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah, and it's.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Because it's been a process because we rescued her and.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
And she's had quite a fluctuation of behavior.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
And she's been through a lot too of like dogs
experience the stress of Okay, we've moved, I've she's been
in three different homes. And then also if you count
when she was going back and forth to Bins, that's
a fourth home. And we ultimately made the decision of
just keeping her at my house because the back and forth,
we were like, this is not helping. And Stevenson really
(27:23):
wanted her though, because he's like, well, when i'm a
dad's I want her. And then finally Stevenson understood that
it's probably best that we just keep her in one place.
So she's doing good. Maggie's great. Maggie's chill. She's a cat.
She's unbothered.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, if you're like, I really want to bed, but
get a cat, there's so much, so much easier. For sure,
they will chill about.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
She ignores me pretty much all day long and then
at night sleeps right by me.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
So is it funny? So weird, very cat like behavior.
Oh well, I'm glad to hear that things are better though.
That makes me happy, and I'm proud of you for
like having the patience to do it too, though, because
it's also another thing. It gets frustrating and hard, and
nobody really also acknowledges that process where you went through
(28:12):
the experience to make sure she could stay with you. Guys,
you know what I mean, Like you were finding every
way impossible solution you could, right, and that's what you're doing.
I think that's another step that is often missed in
the surrendering world, as people will just it's like an
automatic okay discard where you're like, I've tried everything.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
But I bet I can also see where if you
don't have the bandwidth or the resources, that automatic surrender
might be your option because you're like, shoot, what have
I done? And we can mess up and we can
think we're ready for something and then we're like, realize
we're not, or the dog's just not a good fit.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
But yes. This is also why I always tell anybody
if you ever ever want to get an animal, before
you do it, foster, because if foster is not a
permanent situation, and then you can decide, hey, if this
is right for me, we can continue and we'll adopt.
But if you have them in your home and you decide,
oh gosh, this is not going to work out, then
you don't. There's no you didn't do anything wrong. All
you did was help an animal. I always tell people that,
(29:11):
like first especially first time, never had pets, and like,
just foster, give it, try, like do trial runs, and
you're helping animals at the same time, and it gives
you a better idea of what to expect and what's
going to happen. You can also find a perfect fit
for you that way, versus thinking, oh, well, I really
want a German shepherd and then you get a German
Jeopardy or like, oh I am not built for this breed,
(29:32):
you know, like we all think and we kind of
fantasize certain breeds and stuff, and then you get them.
It's a completely different experience.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
So I always I was curious about this, you know,
because I loved my Rottwiler Josie. I love that which
she was a surrender, but not to a a dog
rescue place, to our church, like a family. They didn't
know where to go, but they could no longer care
for her, and they just showed up at our church
(30:00):
in Austin and walked inside with the dog and they
barely spoke English, and they just said they were able
to get out, that they couldn't care for the dog,
and they had like her crate and her food and
all her things, and they just dropped her at the church.
And then my pastor called and he's like, are you
looking for a dog? And I was like yeah, So
my mom and I went over and looked at her,
(30:21):
and I was like, she's perfect. Because I was newly
married to Ben at the time. We were moving to
North Carolina into our first home together, and he was
going to be in Afghanistan a lot, and so I
was going to be loan. So I thought, oh, a
Rothleiler will be awesome. So anyway, I ugh was obsessed
with her. But she shed a lot, and I love
(30:42):
that Kara is a doodle. She doesn't shed. So do
they make roddy doodles? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I don't know if there's roddy doodles out there?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Okay, well, people were like, oh, you want to rescue
a labbordoodle, They're probably those are really hard to find.
And then sure enough, Kathy we work with call me
one day, she's like, I got a laboratory to rescue.
I'm like perfect, and so she doesn't shed in. It's amazing.
So I keep thinking like maybe one day they'll be
a Roddy Doodle rescue.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
There's her linkould be. I've beeing some interesting mixes in
the shelter. I've seen like Chihuahua bulldogs and like you'd
be surprised what comes through. And some of them are
really cute. It's something you're like, oh, you're a little mutt.
That's okay, and I that is true, Like you can
truly find gosh and you breathe. My cat is a
full blown, full blood Siamese and she came straight from
(31:32):
a shelter. Like you just you can find anything. It's
just all back to patient patient time and fostering. Genuinely,
that's how you find just situations. Like everybody always asks,
how do you get all these little dogs? I'm like, well,
I'm literally on the foster list, So they come to
me as soon as they come in, like they're in
my home before they're ever up for adoption. And then
(31:54):
you kind of have a first ride of refusal if
you decide you really love them and it's a great
fit for your family. So it's a perfect way to
have like all the things running in the right direction
and setting you up for success. I talked to Wags
and Walks founder Catherine about that. She come on my podcast,
and that's we kind of talked about that.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yeah, Wax and Walks is great.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Okay, we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back.
We have a few more things. I'm gonna do some
fun little things here because we had lots of questions,
but I feel like this is more fun stuff for
part one. So what is your current favorite perfume? And
this is coming from Megan and Iowa, do you have
(32:35):
a current which also I had a huge revelation that like,
if I'm gonna have a clean home, I can't really
have perfume anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I have been wearing it see, to be honest, I
was wearing last year. I'm obsessed with l Labohm.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
You had got me some of that and I loved it.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It's so good. So probably that, but I ran out
and I haven't been wearing it. Probably similar things of
hormone disruptors. You just hear all this stuff and you're like, shoot,
what am I supposed to put on my body when
you're trying to pay attention to that sort of stuff.
So I haven't really replaced it yet. But anything Lei
(33:13):
Labo is always good.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I know. And that's where I'm at right now, because
I was talking to somebody and she's like, well, if
it has fragrance, it's not technically clean, and I'm like,
are you kidding me? So perfume? I can't have perfume.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Well, I could have an essential oil in it, I know.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
But perfumes don't those perfumes are They've got fragrance for days.
I don't think you can replace that in like the
perfumes we're talking about, like Ley Labo or tom Ford
or on those like caliber. So I'm kind of bummed.
This has been a new I know.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I'm like, well, let me recommend vanilla essential oil.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Just dab a little so dash of peppermint. Maybe I
don't know, smell like Christmas because I had bobwe when
I was in Paris. That was like my souvenir from
coming from Paris. Because I don't like buying things that
are like just like a little trinket to half that
doesn't do it for me. I like bringing something that'll
continue to bring me a memory in a way, like
I brought a scarf, and when we were in Berlin,
(34:14):
and then when we went to Paris we were I
got the perfume. And then when we were in Barcelona,
I bought back this like handmade pottery vase of from
a bar where we all they the drinks that they
had were out of these pottery things that they handmade,
and so I was like all things that I could
continue using. And then I had this moment where I
(34:36):
was cleaning my bathroom and my perfume front Paris shattered
all the floor. No, I was like, this is not
happening right now. I was so sad, like devastated because
it was so it was like my and I wanted
to keep the bottle even when it was over, because
it was gonna be the we're just have to go back.
I am gonna have to go back.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Well what was it?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
But so I will admit I did go online and
I bought another one, but I had to buy it
from Paris because it's the brand dipty Q, which we
have here. But there was specialty since for each city.
So when we were in Paris, it was it was
certain to Paris, so I had to buy it from
Diptyq Paris to get another one.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
How do you spell that?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Like dipty dip t y and then q ue dip
dyq dip q. It's a brand. Okay, we have one
in the Green Hills mall here.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Okay, I'll google it. I want to take a look.
And then I don't know if the requirements of how
they formulate it, is it different in Paris than America
because of different regulations or is it all the same.
I have a.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Feeling it's all the same. It's just different. They use
different fragrances for different cities to have, like.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Because I know that certain things aren't allowed in Europe
that are allowed here.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
That's true, so we're gonna believe it maybe better, yeah, hopefully,
but that The kind that I got is EO rose.
I don't know how to say that word, and I
speak French. It's eau and then rose. But that's my favorite,
all right. Then we also had Lindsey from which Shaw,
who is like, you both have great skin, so she
(36:09):
really wants to know our skincare routine.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Well, I just use a foaming facial wash. Survey from
like CBS. You just that's my cleanser is just it's gentle.
I love something that foams, and then everything else that.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Films for a reason or just you like it, it's
just fun.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Well, I don't like not foaming helps me feel like
I'm getting it cleaned, so I like seeing the bubbles
when I sometimes use a cleanser that has no foam
to it, and like it is anything really happening. Okay,
So I like that for that reason. I guess foaming
cleanser because they have other ones like a hydrating one
and it doesn't foam, okay.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
So it's part fun, part yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
And then everything else I use is Biopel now, which
is the snail serum company. I them originally through their
snail stuff that I was putting on my face for
the glow, and then I started using some of their
other products, and I really, I really really like them.
(37:13):
But if I sometimes if I have a glow, I
may have some of the snail serum on, like the
actual snail serrum, which I don't know that I would
categories categorize them under cruelty cruelty free. I know that
it's an animal, but the snails are living a good
life on a snail farm like in Brazil. So they
say they live in a little greenhouse and they eat
(37:37):
organic lettuce and carrots. Well it says I got a
video of the snails because I was concerned.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Okay, you would be happy to know at least like
a quick Google search. Yes, Biopel products are cruelty free
and not tested on animals, although some of their products
contain snail secretion in eggs, but they are sourced in
a responsible, non harmful inner.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Boom, Thank you very much. Yeah, fact checked me there.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Yeah, just get you.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Yeah, because I was like, shoot, I know this is
coming from an animal, but I don't think it's tesla
and the secretion in their eggs, yes, and I think
they're living the good life to get the secretion out.
So I'm just putting a bunch of snail eggs on
my face. Which have you heard that salmon sperm is?
(38:26):
Right now? No, salmon's salmon sperm facials?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Stop?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah, it's right.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Have you done? No? But I will like, I'm not
about this. I think if you just don't tell me
that's what it is, I'll do it. But now that
I know, I don't know that I can do it
feels weird?
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Yeah, you just just be like, just call it the
salmon facial.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Yeah, don't don't tell me exactly. Like even talking about
like the snail, it's like the snail secretion in the eggs.
I'm like, I there's a lot of information that I
didn't necessarily needed. Just tell me you weren't harming them
and you're good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Yeah, for whatever reason, it doesn't bother me. I'll sign
me up. Okay, snail sperm, salmon sperm, tuna.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Sperm, like something about whatever. But I think we have
learned this though. Fish have a lot of important properties
that are very helpful for us. That's why a lot
of people take fish oil. That's why I like, my
cat has fish oil and it has made her fur
just beautiful. Like fish oil and oils and things that
come from fish. And like, I don't know what kind
(39:32):
of animal a snail is. Is it?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
It's not a fish, I know, But.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Is it a mammal?
Speaker 2 (39:42):
No, I don't think so. I don't think it's.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Ma'am s cargo. Oh, they're in their own They're part of.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
The oh malusca and typically within the class gastro yes.
That class. I love that class.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I don't exactly know what that means, but yeah, oh
they go with clams and oysters and muscles are really squid.
That's what mollusca is. And then in the even smaller
family's slugs sneeze sea snails. It's hard sea snails and
other shell than shell less gastropods. So they are there,
(40:21):
but like, you know what we need? Like is it
part of this is such a random tangent, but like,
is it a man? You know when we think about
animals and we put them in like mammals.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Or amphibians, it's not a man. They're just it's definitely not.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
I know it's not a mammal. But do you see
what I'm saying, Like we have the overarching I'm trying
to figure out.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
I don't know what umbrella it's under. It's not. Yeah,
I'll research my snails and circle back, but yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Definitely not think I I go on weird loopholes. Okay,
we are done here. I think I had other things,
but the snails totally threw me off.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
So well, you didn't share your skin?
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Oh yeah, okay, so I've been using skin better, which
has like changed my life. It has there's this, so
I'll I wash my face every night with bicellular water.
That's how I get my makeup off. And then I
use an Elemis cleanser, which I think I'm gonna have
to swap out because I'm learning that one is not
cruelty fue. Oh, I have some of that.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
The are you using the the little oil stuff?
Speaker 1 (41:26):
It's like a yeah, but are you talking about Almis?
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Yeah, the cleansing bomb, yes, where you it doesn't foam,
it does not, but that one, I like, I have
some of that. I think they sent me some and
I had it in my drawer forever and I wasn't
using it, and then I saw more and more people
posting about it and I was like, Oh, I might
give this stuff a try. That stuff's nice.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Oh it makes my skin like truly glow.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
But I just don't use it all the time.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Yeah. I use it every night, like after I wash
off my makeup. It's like my cleanser that I put
on and kind of like get it ready and then
I put on on skin better. This like it was
helping with like any acting or stuff that was popping up.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
And I feel like I've used skin Better's sunscreen.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Before I did get a sample of that, so I'm
going to try and because skin Better is clean and
cruelty free, so I really like that brand. It's just
more on the expensive end, which I don't love. But
so there is a skin Better product in there that
like has been helping with just like hormone stuff that
kind of keeps popping up in my face. And then
I also put on like a hydrating SPF floation on
(42:33):
top of that at night and I sleep in it
and then I wake up in the morning. It's it's
really more because it's also hydrating, so it's just a duel. Yeah,
I don't really need the SBF at night, but I
need the I love It's laroche Pose, which is also
like another one that I think, So they have.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
That at like some like they don't have Elemis at
CBS or whatever, but Larch or however you say.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
It that where So that that's one that I have
from like hydrating and I love and then wash that
off in the morning and I put on a vitamin
C serum from Younger and then I put on that
hydrating SBF and that's.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
It from Younger. Is that a brand?
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Yeah, and it's so it's a clean, cruelty free brand,
and it's it's super cheap on the like more cheap side,
Like the serum is only twenty five dollars, which is
insane for a vitamin C serum and super clean, high
high volume of vitamin C is what I was looking for,
and this one has it. It feels really good. The
(43:33):
one thing my like my skincare lady back home. Her
name is Sissy, and she's she loves by the way
she loves you. She's like very vag into clean stuff
and she's just really great. She's like I believe she's
in her fifties, and she looks insane. Whatever she's doing.
I'm like, yeah, just tell me, just tell me to
do it. And one of the things she said, she's like,
I don't care if you don't do anything else but
(43:53):
put vitamin C in your skincare routine. It's the only
thing that matters, honestly, And I was like, Okay, She's like,
more matters, but this is rant for you right now.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
I think sometimes when I'm frustrated with my skin, I
look at my water intake and I'm like, I'm not hydrating. Obviously,
my skin is going to have a reaction. It's the
largest organ in my body. It's not just my skin
on my face, it's like my skin everywhere. And so
also make sure you're hydrating, because sometimes you don't need
to go spend a bunch of money on stuff. Maybe
(44:24):
you naturally like my friend, not therapy Cat, but I
have another friend named Cat, a cryo cat, and her
skin's she does nothing. Her skin's amazing. She she drinks
a lot of water, but she does nothing. She doesn't
she's like a boy. She doesn't water vase, she doesn't
really wear a makeup, she'd barely its lotion on. And
I'm like, oh, so you may look at her and
be like, well, I want to know whatever it is
(44:45):
you do, and so sometimes there's just a genetic thing happening.
Or also if you eat a certain way and drink,
you know, plenty of water, which she does, which I
do not want to drink water like her, but she's
it's like it's like her job, and I just I
can't seem to drink enough. But I know I need
to drink more because it's so important. And sometimes just
(45:06):
to shift like that will change everything. It really is,
even in your cognitive thinking because right now I'm like,
wake up, Like why can't I think of words this morning?
But I know I'm dehydrated.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
I'm telling you, like, if you if you want to
do basis like nothing that like actually costs like so
so much money. Like if you get like truly just
eating really good foods for your body, like I'm talking
like stay in the produce aisle and focus on cooking
foods and sourcing your food that way and water. It
changes the game for almost every single part of things
(45:37):
that are going wrong or things that you want to
change in your body.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
I know, but sometimes that's just not as much fun.
It's not absolutely like fine, I'll take the pimple.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
I trust me. I know I am right there with you.
But if there's one thing I've learned across this entire
thing is like it always comes back to that on everything.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Every even mood. Yeah, just taking care of yourself, nourishing
yourself in a way Like sometimes I look at like
my dead plant in my kitchen and I'm like, well,
I haven't given it water nourished it properly, And I'm like,
that's exactly what's happening inside my body.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
A great representation of it.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Yeah, this sad little dead plant really sad, You're not
a sad Now. I'm trying to do better at taking
better care of myself. But I feel like in this
transition because I know earlier we mentioned like, okay, I'm
shedding a photogs and lays it off my brows and hair.
And but I also stopped adderall. I got off my
(46:29):
well butrin, which was my antipresent, which it was time
to get off that a while ago. And then begetting
off of adderall, that's been a journey too, and I'm
so thankful to have it out of my system. But
there's days where I'm like, gosh, I know right now,
if I just like popped an adderall, I would get
some stuff done and I think about it and I'll
(46:52):
want it, but then I don't do it because I'm like,
look at all this hard work you've put into not
having it. And it's a journey shedding of all the
things and trying to take better care of yourself. And
I didn't realize when I was on adderall how much
I was neglecting my nutrition because you're just so go,
go go. And so thankfully I've started to put on
a little bit more weight being off of that. But
(47:14):
then it's like, Okay, what foods am I putting in
my body? And just you know, making sure I'm taking
care of myself. So it is, we're all trying to
figure it out two degrees at a time.
Speaker 1 (47:26):
Guys, it absolutely is. It's a whole process. Well, Amy,
thank you for being here. Thanks for hanging out with me.
Do you want to tell people where they can find
you hear you all that good stuff?
Speaker 2 (47:34):
Yeah, at Radio Amy is where I'm on Instagram. And
then my podcast is getting a makeover. It'll be official
on Tuesday, April first. It will be the very first episode.
It'll be on the four Things with Amy Brown Feeds.
So if you've been subscribed or you're following there, you
are good to go. But if you aren't subscribed or
following yet, you could go do that. And then we're
(47:55):
flipping it to Feeling Things. It's just a name makeover.
And then my friend that's also a therapist, Kat van Buren,
she's joining me as a full time co host and
so we'll have episodes every Tuesday and every Thursday. And
I'm very excited for that and the Instagram handle for that.
Is Feeling Things podcast, so you can go to that
(48:16):
handle and we'll be posting like videos and all the
Things and episodes should be up yep for the foreseeable
future Tuesdays and Thursdays, and you.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Can follow the show at Bobby Bone Show and All
the Things and I am at webcol Morgan. Bye, everybody.
That's the best bits of the week with Morgan. Thanks
for listening. Be sure to check out the other two
parts this weekend. Go follow the show on all social platforms.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
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