December 9, 2021 • 31 mins
FIRST THING: Amy sat down for a chat with actress, author, singer, dancer, and daughter of Candice Cameron Bure, Natasha Bure {@natashabure}. SECOND THING: Amy read two poems that she wanted to share with you after reading both earlier this week. She highly recommends purchasing Kelsea Ballerini’s ‘Feel Your Way Through’ poetry book and ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’ if you don’t already have a copy of that at home. THIRD THING: There are things to look forward to this year even though it’s almost over. Good TV and movies coming our way this last half of December. Heads up: ‘And Just Like That’ (Sex and the City) premieres on HBO Max TODAY (12/9). FOURTH THING: Our friends in Haiti need our help getting their son Nash from Haiti to Nashville. See the link below:
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Where the Sidewalk Ends:
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, cast up roth th little food for you so life.
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Oh it's pretty by it's pretty beautiful than beautiful with
that for a little moth. Kicking with four with Amy Brown.
First thing right, Happy Thursday. Welcome to the Four Things Podcast.
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Amy here, and you heard the little first Thing jingle,
which means, at least for this episode, we're going back
to the o G way of how we started doing
the four Things podcast for totally different, random, unrelated things
that I'm going to share with you now here in
this first thing that i'll get too in just a
second is a chat that I had with Natasha Beret,
Candice Cameron, Beret's daughter. And then after that the second thing,
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I'm going to share with you some poetry that I
think you will enjoy. Third thing will be things that
you have to look forward to in December. Now, today's
only the ninth, so there's plenty of time left in
the month, and there's TV shows and movies you may
need to know about in case you're trying to you know,
play your schedule, because hint one of them is Sex
in the City and if you don't know when that's
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coming back, well you need to know. And then in
the fourth thing, I have a call to action for you.
I have a request. We have some friends in Haiti
that desperately need your help, and it could be as
simple as you're sitting down at your computer for a
few minutes and you could really help a family out.
So that'll be in the fourth thing. So there you go,
little menu of today's episode, and now I'll go ahead
and get into my chat with Natasha. Okay, So Natasha,
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I'm looking over all that you do, and I gotta
know what do you do for yourself so that you
don't get totally overwhelmed. I honestly feel like I'm very
good at setting side time for myself every single day.
But just in like the grand scheme of like the year,
I feel like I definitely find pockets just to be
by myself and not overwork. I'm very like conscious of
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my energy and like my space. So if I feel
like I'm kind of low on energy, whether it be
socially or for work, like I definitely just take the
time to stay at home and relax and read books
and just unwind, paint or do crafts like those type
of things are so therapeutic and calming to me and
really take me out of this whole bubble that I'm in.
So I definitely am very conscious about that. So I
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feel like it's been pretty easy for me to know
when like my batteries running low, and then I just
take that time to like unlined. We're big on gratitude here,
and most guests that come on, I try to figure
out four things that they are currently thankful for in
the moment. I mean, it could be stuff that's from
the past or now, but you know today, if you
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had to jot down four things that you're thankful for,
big or small, what are they? My first one. I'm
always thankful for God and for Jesus. I'm thankful for
my family. I got to see them earlier this week,
and I haven't seen them in a while, and just
like spending time with them is always fun. So my family.
I'm very thankful for my working body and that I'm
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healthy and that I'm able to like go on walks
and work out and sing and like my body. Just
a million things, and I feel like I don't give
enough gratitude for it. And then I would say my
best friends, we just had a really fun girls Christmas
night two nights ago. We like watched a concert and
made food and work matching Christmas pajamas, and I just
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honestly have the best friends, and I feel like it's
taken me. I mean, I'm twenty three years old and
I didn't find most of them until maybe like a
year ago. So I just I'm feeling like so blessed
and grateful that I have those people in my life. Yeah,
I mean, I think it's important to realize. I mean,
I'm forty, so yeah, I've got some years on you.
But I mean I'm sure maybe you've even seen with
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your mom or or other people in your life that
are older than you, is that we all evolve and
youngships can evolve, and that's okay. I think sometimes by
a certain age you feel like you found your friend
group and that's kind of it, but it's not the
case exactly. And it's so interesting because in high school
and growing up, I was always playing sports where I
was very busy with like productions or things like that,
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so I didn't have like a million friends at school.
I never had these crazy friend groups. I kind of
always just had like one person at a time and
that was it. And you always got to think, when
you're younger, you'll probably make most of your friends when
you're in school. But I feel like I'm making more
friends like as an adult now, just in like my
work life and just meeting people through mutual friends and
it's so great. And it's like you said, you evolve
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as a human and then also with your friends. So
it's just been I don't know, it's been fun to
like meet new people and make new relationships. Did we
hit four God? Family friends and my body boom? I
love all of those and you know, mentioning your family
and actually getting to spend time with them. I mean,
y'all are very busy, So how do y'all make it
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a priority and what do you do to make it happen?
I mean, my whole life, we've always been kind of separated.
Everyone has insane jobs. And even with my brothers when
they were younger, they played sports that traveled all over
the US and um, so we have to be very
intentional about it. And I think now, especially because we
all live in different places, when we are in the
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same city or even when we're not, we have to
set aside time every single month to be like, hey,
this is gonna be like a weekend where we'll hang
out or we're gonna do dinner, We're going to do this,
And I love my family, so I feel like it's
easy for me to like find the time. I don't.
I'm not like bad with time management. I actually really
like enjoy spending time with my parents and my brothers
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and whatnot. So it's fun, but it's definitely something that's
more intentional now, and to maintain those relationships, you obviously
have to put an effort in time. So what about games.
Are you all big into games especially in holidays. Well,
we're big into games all year round. But my family
is so insanely competitive, so it gets a little crazy. Uh,
someone always ends up leaving the table crying and throws
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a fit because someone thinks someone was cheating. And then
it's just like the rules are crazy. So um, they're
really fun, but they honestly get really intensive. Sometimes my
mom is like, Okay, I don't even know if I'm
in the mood because I feel like there's gonna be
a lot of drama coming with the games. But like,
we love it. We play so many board games and
card games and whatnot. I would never have thought that
y'all would have like intense drama like that in your
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household over games. All of us are competitive, but I'm
a very harsh rule keeper when it comes to board games,
and like some people like to bend the rules and
then some people cheat and it's like a whole thing.
So anyways, there is definitely drama inswos well growing up
watching your mom do her thing. At what point did
you decide, Hey, okay, this is what I want to do.
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I mean, you're super You're like the you have the
triple Threat, you're like the j Low. You can see,
you can dance, you can act, And even if someone
did have a mom that was in the business, that
doesn't mean that they're able to actually go do it.
And you've you've done it, and you've done it well.
So when did you know? Thank you? Honestly from such
a young age, and um, I feel like a lot
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of people would assume that because this is what my
mom did, Like I just saw her and wanted to
do the same thing. But I actually didn't even see
my mom work or be in like the entertainment world
till I was tent because she kind of took a
break from acting to raise us. And I grew up
watching my play hockey, like I watched him work, and
then she, you know, was like taking care of the
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three of us because she had us all at the
same time. So I don't know, I feel like I
just came out of the womb by being dramatic and
wanting to like act and sing. And I was in
every single you know production um in like my school,
and if there was like a public library that had
a play going on, I'd auditioned for it, and like
I wanted to be in commercials and model and all
that stuff. So I feel like I always have loved
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it and it's just such a passion of mine, so
I can't remember not wanting to do it. And then
obviously it's just so helpful to have like a role
model and someone in my family, I mean, especially close
to my mom who can help me navigate just all
of the trickiness is the entertainment industry, and that's been
so helpful and I'm very grateful for that. I've been
in radio for fifteen years, but doing morning radio is
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very different than any type of acting or modeling. And
I do have a fourteen year old daughter, Stashira. We
adopted her from Haiti four years ago. So she came
here at ten with lots of personality, and she's recently
expressed the desire to do some modeling, and she was
in a school play recently, So we're tipping our toes
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in the water there with that, I'm just hesitant. So
I don't know if you have any advice for a
fourteen year old girl that is possibly thinking about doing
some of that stuff. It's so fun, honestly, I mean,
I really enjoyed it. I started doing little commercials when
I was like nine or ten, and I would have
so much fun with it. But honestly, I don't know,
can be really hard, like on your mental health, like
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auditions and just there's a lot of rejection and there's
a lot of um judgment because you're being based off
your performance and your appearance and all that stuff. And
so I mean the number one thing that I would
say is just to be confident in who you are
as a person and just like pursue anything that you love.
And I feel like when people see that you're passionate
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about something, whether it be being a chef or an
actress or a model or like whatever it is, when
you're passionate about that that really exudes such bright energy,
and I feel like people will see that and want to,
you know, put you on projects or work with you
or whatever. And I just feel like the more confident
that you can be in just a light in general,
I feel like that is the best thing that you
can do, honestly in any like circumstance. And then something
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my parents always give me advice on, so that's something
I take and try to apply. I'm going to share
this with her for sure. And you know you mentioned
self esteem, and I feel like you grew up in
a time where social media came on the scene, probably
you when you were a teenager. It just really got
super popular. How do you handle that with boundaries and
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any advice for anybody that they might look at you
and be like, oh, it's so easy for her to
just be out there and this is her thing. You know.
I mentioned you can seeing dance acts. But you also
are an author, you write, You also are a social
media influencer, like you have a lot of hats, and
so what are your boundaries around socials? I'm so figuring
it out. I think every single day I'm trying to
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learn more about my boundaries and what makes me feel
comfortable and what makes me feel good online. I mean,
I got my social media when I was fifteen, which
now I feel like like so many kids are getting
it so much earlier than that. But I just got
on Instagram, like for fun, you know. I was probably
pictures of I don't know, my room or something when
I was like fifteen, and it was fun, and then
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it slowly became turned into like a business and a
career and just like sharing my life online with people,
whether it be on Instagram or on YouTube, and with
that comes the opinions of people, because you're putting yourself
out there, and it can be really toxic to see
negative comments or maybe not even necessarily all negative, but
just like comments and opinions in general, and if you
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don't know who you are as a person and you
don't stand confident and firm in that, it can be
so toxic to your self esteem because it can waver
and make you think differently about yourself and makes you
question a bunch of things. And honestly, like I feel
like this year especially, I struggled a lot with that
and just dealing with my own like personal anxiety and
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always feeling that there were eyes or judgment on me,
and I think that's something I've really had to work
through and put up those boundaries of not looking at
the comments as much anymore, and posting what makes me happy,
not what makes other people happy. And I think at
the end of the day, just to remember that everyone
is just behind the screen and we're all humans and
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it's honestly best to just look up from your phone
and see the world outside and focus on that. And
there's just so many I don't know, bigger issue us
then being behind a phone screen and seeing what's on there.
Although it is so fun and I love it, and
I obviously love sharing, but I just can't let it
become my entire world. And I don't even think that
goes through people with big platforms. I think that goes
for people with any sort of platform, and um, just
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like even sharing with your family and friends, like, don't
let the opinions of other people sway who you are
and who you know yourself to be. Well, you're definitely
an inspiration to a lot of people out there, and
I know your mom is too. You actually are around
a lot of people that are so inspiring. So many
people in your family in in in your close circle,
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But who is your inspiration and why? My inspiration is
both of my parents for the same but different reasons,
I think, in their respective fields, my dad being you know,
a retired professional hockey player, and then my mom being
in the entertainment world and an actress. I've just seen
their hard work and their dedication to their craft, and
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the way that both of them are so confident in
who they are. I don't know, like two more confident
people in what they believe in who they know themselves
to be, and nothing. I mean not that nothing faces them.
Of course, there's things that get you know, in the way,
our roadblocks or whatever, but in terms of just standing
firm in what they know and seeing how that's paid
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off in so many different ways, is really really inspirational.
And they do not quit it anything. They work hard
and are just so passionate, and I don't know, I
feel like that is so so telling of the kind
of people they are, and I'm sure I see it
more than anyone just because I grew up with them.
But like, I've really seen both of my parents career wise,
go and relationship wise, and uh, social wise, like any
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type of thing in their life I've seen them go
through really really difficult things and seeing them come out
so successful in the other end by being so firm
and confident in the person that they are and knowing
what they deserve and what they want. And i think
especially in like career wise, for me, it's very motivating
for me to like want to do the same and
very inspiring. So I'm very blessed that those are my
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role model to night have a close relationship with them
and we can call them and get their advice whenever
I need. Yeah, And speaking of your career, something you
have coming up in January is the Rama Drama Live,
So tell us about that. I'm really excited um to
be joining Rama Drama Live. It's January seventh to the
nine and Palm Beach, Flora, And there's gonna be a
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bunch of different authors and actors and actresses from j
C Family, Uh, Netflix, Hallmark, Lifetime, and it's just gonna
be fun time to connect with fans of people who
watch any of the movies um that are put on
by those networks, and it'll be just so fun. I'm
excited to connect. I love meeting new people and just
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creating relationships and like hearing stories and taking selfies and
pictures and whatever. So I'm really really excited. I also
love Florida. I actually grew up there for ten years,
so I'm excited to go back and just like be
in Florida. I'm just excited to make friends, honestly, and
to be around everybody. It's going to be really fun.
Event Since COVID, I mean I haven't even been to
that many events or anything like that, so I've kind
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of just been in my own little bubble with my friends, which,
to be honest, I mostly in my bubble. I would
be in my bubble anyways. I'm like such a home
body and like to just chill um with my friends
and family. But it'll be so fun to just yeah,
I mean people want especially working on a few of
the projects that I have this year, making new relationships
and like being in social settings has been so nice
because I feel like I was deprived of it and
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we all work for so long. So I'm just excited
to hang out again and make friends. Well, it's a
boutique fan convention and that's January seventh through the ninth,
Hilton West Palm Beach, So maybe a girl's trip or
something like that if people want to go Rama Drama Live.
And Natasha bur thank you so much for chatting with
us a little bit today. And yeah, we hope you
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have a great holiday season and Merry Christmas. And I
hope you win some games. Thank you, thank you, I
want for having me on. All right now it is
poetry time. Yes, I'm going to read you two different
poems um from books that I definitely think you need
to add to your collection. These are books we've been
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reading in our house. I'm working my way through Kelsey
Ballerini's book of poetry called Feel Your Way Through. And
then my daughter and I are both reading at night,
you know, before she goes to bed. We've been going
through Where the Sidewalk Ends. And I have one that
just made her laugh so much. I thought, oh well,
I'm just gonna go ahead and share this when I
do a little poetry time on the podcast. Write these
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books down, add them to your collection, maybe make them
Christmas books for people. Kelsey Ballerini Feel Your Way Through,
and then Shell Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends. All right,
let's start with Kelsey's poem. It's one called Kangaroo and
it's where she opened up about having an eating disorder,
and I just thought this was so brave of her,
and it's going to help so many young women and
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men that follow Kelsey and I are a fan of
her music. So here it is Kangaroo. I can't remember
the exact moment I became aware of my body. When
the moments I used to spend daydreaming of what could
be turned into scanning for flaws seen and unseen. When
afternoons spent making friends on the playground became comparing my
appearance to everyone around. When Sunday morning blueberry waffles my
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mother made went cold on my plate as I'd convincingly
claim I wasn't hungry. A boy named Jackson called me
kangaroo when I was a freshman in high school. He
was on the basketball team and I was categorically uncool,
so you can imagine this comment made waves in my head.
He explained this new nickname because of my belly and
my little lex I had hated my body for years
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before that didn't need his help. I certainly didn't need
a team of the boys who only liked the cheerleaders
calling me kangaroo, but they did anyway. This coincided with
my home becoming divided, couldn't help feeling like I was
the only child slided too much, too deep, too real
to console, I begin to flail in search of control.
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I started taking diet pills, buying them like a pack
of gum, insisting to the mirror it wasn't wrong. Shuffling
around my plate of crumbs. There was a little less food,
with every little pill hidden in the back of my
bathroom cabinet, to an hour before every meal, my best
kept secret, my worst kept habit. After a few pounds
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gave way to the caffeine and the pills, I decided
that wasn't enough and I needed to steepen the hill.
So I began binging and purging, and that started working.
I'd make a generous order, consume the carbs, I told
my stomach I didn't deserve, Excuse myself like a performer,
locked the bathroom door, and purge. My five ft eight
lanky frame became a hundred and ten pounds. My sickness
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told me I looked amazing, devouring the compliments like I
should have devoured a meal. Addicted to the way the
boys looked at me and the way that made me feel,
I stopped trying to be invisible, and I started wearing heels.
But then I wanted more. I got a member up
to the y m c A, worked out a few
times a week, and then a few times a day.
Every second, every friendship, every good day, every party was
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overtaken by my obsession with my body. It took passing
out privately publicly several times, then coading each one in
embarrassed soaked lies, swearing it's the summer heat, or forget
about it, I'm fine for me to realize I had
crossed the line. My throat ached from the vomit, and
my hands shook from the pills, my legs sore from
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the extra mile I ran on the treadmill I stopped
when I was eighteen. The gem, the purging, the suppressants
with caffeine. I was starting to hate me, realizing those
things would never make me happy. I needed to show
myself some accountability. I needed to show my skin and
bones some humility. I wanted to get better. I wanted
to start healing me. My journey with my body has
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been littered with deceat and neglect sadly several years of
a lack of self respect. Yet my body has kept
me safe and healthy through it all, never thought to
quit on me, never saw itself as flawed. It just
patiently waited for my head to catch up what the
world told me and what it continues to that women
are not enough unless we are darn near see through.
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That our worth lies in the gap between our thighs,
or the structure of our face, or the number called
our size. These lies we are fed are meant to
keep us insecure, sad, and small, feeding us lies while
telling us to not feed ourselves at all. Now, it's
bold and brave to stand in our skin so tall
and not pick up when projected in security, start to call.
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It is a process to find self love. It is
ongoing and it is forever. So if you're on that journey,
know you're worthy and we are in this together. So
there you go. That's one of many many points that
Kelsey has in this book. It's called Feel your Way Through,
And just thought that was a really awesome one, but
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there's several that are amazing. Haven't finished the whole book yet,
but I will. And you know, if that poem resonated
with you in any way and you are looking to
not feel alone, don't forget, or maybe you're just now
listening and learning that. Lisa Ham and I have a
podcast called Outweigh that is centered around disordered eating and
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eating disorders and just offering up support and wisdom and conversations,
and a new episode uploads every Saturday and again. It's
called Outweigh and we named it that because of life
without disordered eating. Outweighs everything. All right, Now to the
poem that Stashira picked out. I told her I was
gonna be doing this, and we decided that sick is
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the name of the poem that she liked the most.
So that's what I'm going to read here again from
where the sidewalk ins. I cannot go to school today,
said Little Peggy and Mackay. I have the measles and
the mumps, a gash, a rash, and purple bumps. My
mouth is wet, my throat is dry. I'm going blind
in my right eye. My tonsils are as big as rocks.
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I've counted sixteen chicken pox and there's one more that's seventeen.
And don't you think my face looks green? My leg
is cut, my eyes are blue. It might be in
stematic flu. I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke.
I'm sure that my left leg is broke. My hip
hurts when I move my chin, my belly buttons taping
in my back is wrenched. My ankle sprained. My pindix
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pains each time it rains. My nose is cold, my
toes are numb. I have a silver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak. I hardly
whisper when I speak. My tongue is filling up my mouth.
I think my hair is falling out. My elbows bent,
my spine ain't straight. My temperature is one oh eight.
My brain is shrunk. I cannot hear. There is a
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hole inside my ear. I have a hangnail, and my
heart is what? What's that? What's that you say? You
say today is Saturday? Goodbye? I'm going out to play.
So you're laughed out loud at that, and then I
did too, of course, especially based on her sweet giggles.
So I just wanted to share some poetry with you all.
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I know they're totally random and different, but again also
mainly just to share them with you all as book
recommendations for you to add to your home Okay, I
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got things to look forward to in December, starting from
today through the rest of the month. Now, today is
Sex in the City Day, and just like that is
what it's called. And it hit HBO Max today, So
I know a lot of you might be excited about that.
Some of you, if you're busy with the grind, you're
not paying attention. You may not even realize because it
kind of stuck up on me. I saw a trailer
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on Instagram and I was like, Oh, that's gonna be good.
But I always need someone to remind me when the
good stuff is coming out. So that's what I'm trying
to do for you. It's finally out today, so now
you know what you can do tonight. And then as
for movies, we got a ton on the way. Steven
Spielberg's West Side Story and Being the Ricardo's with Nicole
Kidman as luc sale Ball both hit theaters tomorrow. You
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might even be able to stream some either of those.
I'm not a hundred percent sure, but that'll be tomorrow
Friday the tenth. And also there's a comedy coming out
called Don't Look Up with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and
Meryl Streep. Then later this month, Spider Man No Way
Home is going to be out on the sevent My
kids definitely want to go see that. There's already text
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messages with all their little friends, I mean, including me
and the parents, and I think we're all taking a
bunch of kids and a bunch of parents on to
go see it. I know tickets are hard to come by,
but you can go ahead and order them now. But
just something maybe you could consider watching over the holiday season.
And then the fourth Matrix movie called Matrix Resurrections hits
theaters and HBO Max on the and then finally we
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got the holidays, Christmas obviously being the big one, but
National ice Cream Day is coming up. If you need
an extra reason to enjoy some ice cream. Ugly Sweater
Day is the seven. The first day of winter is
December twenty one, so just fun fact keep in your
back pocket. Best of Us is the twenty three Kwanza
starts on the and then obviously December thirty one is
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New Year's Eve. We finally say goodbye to one, and
I am hopeful, I am looking ahead. I am looking
forward to two, which next Thursday, I'm actually going to
have on motion from Instagram. He's a news correspondent journalist,
does an amazing job of keeping you update on what's
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going on in the world through his Instagram and other outlets.
I'm sure. I mean, he's been in journalism for a
long time, but I follow him on Instagram. So he's
coming on next Thursday, and we're gonna kind of put
a positive spin on the news. He came on Not
to You long ago and we talked about the four
biggest stories from this year so far, and they were
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all pretty negative. But we're gonna look to two and
he's going to tell us four things that we have
to look forward to that he knows about news wise.
And then also we're gonna be talking about the Epstein
Maxwell trial situation that's going down right now. I definitely
want his insight on that. So again, that will be
next Thursday, December six. All right, here's my request. It's
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a call to action. Mike Wilson. You probably heard Mary
and I talked about him a lot. He's come on
the podcast multiple times. He's one of the founders of
My Life Speaks and organization in Haiti. That ESPOA this
four Things podcast, all of our four Things line totes,
our Gratitude journal pullovers. Had I mean, for the last
few years now has gone to support this organization that's
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doing so many amazing, wonderful things in Nepli, Haiti. They
are in the middle of crisis and we have an
opportunity to help them. So if you've got a few
extra minutes today, I want you to go to My
life speaks dot com. Go to the little menu, pull
down the blog, click on the blog, and then scroll
down to a picture of this little boy. It's a
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side by side of a baby, and then what the
boy looks like now. His name is Nash, and it
says can you help? Hashtag Nash to Nashville And here
is what they wrote on their blogs. You have an
understanding of what is going on and how you can help.
We desperately need your help. On Monday, December six, the
Nash had an appointment for a travel visa to the US.
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He was denied. Without going into detail, Haiti is dangerous
and My Life Speaks has been forced to make the
request for all US staff working in Haiti to evacuate.
Missy and Nash are still behind because he cannot travel
legally to the US at this time. If you would
like to help us with the journey to get home,
here's how it is now going to require congressional help.
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We have people moving on our behalf, but the more voices,
the more urgency. Feel free to reach out if you
feel so inclined. Please consider calling or sending an email
on our behalf to both of your senators and your
member of Congress with the email we created below. We've
done all that we can do to make it as
simple as possible for you to do so. We keep
being told the best way to get things moving is
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to have congressional help. We need you. Thank you for
your help. Mike, Missy and Nash. So just to kind
of put a bow on this for y'all, I mentioned
Mike Wilson. Missy is his wife, and Nash is their
son that they have legally in Haiti been caring for
because they've lived in Haiti and he came to them
when he was just a baby and he's now their son.
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But he doesn't have the visa to come to America
and Mike and Missy are Americans, so they need to
get out of Haiti to be safe. And obviously Missy
does not want to leave Haiti without Nash being with her,
because I mean Missy and Mike, that's Nash's mom and dad.
So when you go to my life speaks dot com
and you click on the blog and you go to
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this particular post to you know, can you help Nash
to Nashville. Click on that. You'll see that letter that
I just read, and then you'll see step one step two.
You can click on things and they have the letter
ready to go. All you have to do when you're
on the website is copy and paste the email body
to whom it may concern. They have it all written out,
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and then sincerely, and then sign your name. Mary and
I were kind of joking about it on the phone
the other day that some people might copy and paste
and like forget to change your name part, and that
will go to the senator or the congressman or women.
But I guess as long as they're getting the note,
it's fine, but just don't forget maybe that little detail
to please say, sign your name. But this is one
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way if you're looking to just make a difference in
someone's life, especially this time of year when maybe you're
feeling a little bit extra nudge to just do some
thing to make a positive impact. You're in the holiday spirit,
this is a way you can do that. So it's Thursday. Now,
maybe you've got a little extra time this coming weekend,
but this is an easy way to help really good
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people that do a lot and bring a lot of
good to this world. So I'll say it one more time.
My life Speaks dot Com Click on blog and then
you'll see the blog post nash and Nashville. Click on
that and all the details are there. Uh and then yes,
speaking of My Life Speaks, they're one of the organizations
we're supporting for Christmas through all a spat items. The
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final day for shipping on anything if you want to
receive it in time for Christmas, if you want gifts
that give back from the shot forward, it's four So again,
today's the ninth. Maybe you're going to knock out some
Christmas shopping this weekend if you want to receive it
in time. This is the friendly warning that December fourteen
will be the cut off for that. We've already had
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some cut offs for customized items, but we still have
plenty of gifts available. We have our Four Things puzzle,
our Four Things Gratitude Journal, We've got I need a nap. Pullovers.
We have four things pullovers that say lots of different
things are most popular one this year. I'm fine, it's fine,
Everything is fine. We have cool Dad, cool uncle, Born,
your hats, Born your sweatshirts. We have all kinds of
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things under the spoaw line that are directly going to
be supporting My life Speaks and Project Meta Share another
amazing group in Haiti doing awesome work, so encourage you
to check that out if you are looking for gifts
that give back easy way to get their shop Spoa
dot com e s p W. A Spoa means hope
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in Haitian creole, and that's exactly what you'll be doing.
If you email on Mike and Missy's behalf, you'll be
spreading hope in Haiti to Nash and then if you
shop a Spoa you'll be spreading hope in Haiti as well.
All Right, Well, that's a wrap on today's episode and
I will see you all again on Tuesday for the
fifth Thing. By
Okay, cast up roth th little food for you so life.
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Oh it's pretty by it's pretty beautiful than beautiful with
that for a little moth. Kicking with four with Amy Brown.
First thing right, Happy Thursday. Welcome to the Four Things Podcast.
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Amy here, and you heard the little first Thing jingle,
which means, at least for this episode, we're going back
to the o G way of how we started doing
the four Things podcast for totally different, random, unrelated things
that I'm going to share with you now here in
this first thing that i'll get too in just a
second is a chat that I had with Natasha Beret,
Candice Cameron, Beret's daughter. And then after that the second thing,
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I'm going to share with you some poetry that I
think you will enjoy. Third thing will be things that
you have to look forward to in December. Now, today's
only the ninth, so there's plenty of time left in
the month, and there's TV shows and movies you may
need to know about in case you're trying to you know,
play your schedule, because hint one of them is Sex
in the City and if you don't know when that's
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coming back, well you need to know. And then in
the fourth thing, I have a call to action for you.
I have a request. We have some friends in Haiti
that desperately need your help, and it could be as
simple as you're sitting down at your computer for a
few minutes and you could really help a family out.
So that'll be in the fourth thing. So there you go,
little menu of today's episode, and now I'll go ahead
and get into my chat with Natasha. Okay, So Natasha,
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I'm looking over all that you do, and I gotta
know what do you do for yourself so that you
don't get totally overwhelmed. I honestly feel like I'm very
good at setting side time for myself every single day.
But just in like the grand scheme of like the year,
I feel like I definitely find pockets just to be
by myself and not overwork. I'm very like conscious of
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my energy and like my space. So if I feel
like I'm kind of low on energy, whether it be
socially or for work, like I definitely just take the
time to stay at home and relax and read books
and just unwind, paint or do crafts like those type
of things are so therapeutic and calming to me and
really take me out of this whole bubble that I'm in.
So I definitely am very conscious about that. So I
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feel like it's been pretty easy for me to know
when like my batteries running low, and then I just
take that time to like unlined. We're big on gratitude here,
and most guests that come on, I try to figure
out four things that they are currently thankful for in
the moment. I mean, it could be stuff that's from
the past or now, but you know today, if you
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had to jot down four things that you're thankful for,
big or small, what are they? My first one. I'm
always thankful for God and for Jesus. I'm thankful for
my family. I got to see them earlier this week,
and I haven't seen them in a while, and just
like spending time with them is always fun. So my family.
I'm very thankful for my working body and that I'm
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healthy and that I'm able to like go on walks
and work out and sing and like my body. Just
a million things, and I feel like I don't give
enough gratitude for it. And then I would say my
best friends, we just had a really fun girls Christmas
night two nights ago. We like watched a concert and
made food and work matching Christmas pajamas, and I just
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honestly have the best friends, and I feel like it's
taken me. I mean, I'm twenty three years old and
I didn't find most of them until maybe like a
year ago. So I just I'm feeling like so blessed
and grateful that I have those people in my life. Yeah,
I mean, I think it's important to realize. I mean,
I'm forty, so yeah, I've got some years on you.
But I mean I'm sure maybe you've even seen with
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your mom or or other people in your life that
are older than you, is that we all evolve and
youngships can evolve, and that's okay. I think sometimes by
a certain age you feel like you found your friend
group and that's kind of it, but it's not the
case exactly. And it's so interesting because in high school
and growing up, I was always playing sports where I
was very busy with like productions or things like that,
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so I didn't have like a million friends at school.
I never had these crazy friend groups. I kind of
always just had like one person at a time and
that was it. And you always got to think, when
you're younger, you'll probably make most of your friends when
you're in school. But I feel like I'm making more
friends like as an adult now, just in like my
work life and just meeting people through mutual friends and
it's so great. And it's like you said, you evolve
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as a human and then also with your friends. So
it's just been I don't know, it's been fun to
like meet new people and make new relationships. Did we
hit four God? Family friends and my body boom? I
love all of those and you know, mentioning your family
and actually getting to spend time with them. I mean,
y'all are very busy, So how do y'all make it
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a priority and what do you do to make it happen?
I mean, my whole life, we've always been kind of separated.
Everyone has insane jobs. And even with my brothers when
they were younger, they played sports that traveled all over
the US and um, so we have to be very
intentional about it. And I think now, especially because we
all live in different places, when we are in the
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same city or even when we're not, we have to
set aside time every single month to be like, hey,
this is gonna be like a weekend where we'll hang
out or we're gonna do dinner, We're going to do this,
And I love my family, so I feel like it's
easy for me to like find the time. I don't.
I'm not like bad with time management. I actually really
like enjoy spending time with my parents and my brothers
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and whatnot. So it's fun, but it's definitely something that's
more intentional now, and to maintain those relationships, you obviously
have to put an effort in time. So what about games.
Are you all big into games especially in holidays. Well,
we're big into games all year round. But my family
is so insanely competitive, so it gets a little crazy. Uh,
someone always ends up leaving the table crying and throws
(06:08):
a fit because someone thinks someone was cheating. And then
it's just like the rules are crazy. So um, they're
really fun, but they honestly get really intensive. Sometimes my
mom is like, Okay, I don't even know if I'm
in the mood because I feel like there's gonna be
a lot of drama coming with the games. But like,
we love it. We play so many board games and
card games and whatnot. I would never have thought that
y'all would have like intense drama like that in your
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household over games. All of us are competitive, but I'm
a very harsh rule keeper when it comes to board games,
and like some people like to bend the rules and
then some people cheat and it's like a whole thing.
So anyways, there is definitely drama inswos well growing up
watching your mom do her thing. At what point did
you decide, Hey, okay, this is what I want to do.
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I mean, you're super You're like the you have the
triple Threat, you're like the j Low. You can see,
you can dance, you can act, And even if someone
did have a mom that was in the business, that
doesn't mean that they're able to actually go do it.
And you've you've done it, and you've done it well.
So when did you know? Thank you? Honestly from such
a young age, and um, I feel like a lot
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of people would assume that because this is what my
mom did, Like I just saw her and wanted to
do the same thing. But I actually didn't even see
my mom work or be in like the entertainment world
till I was tent because she kind of took a
break from acting to raise us. And I grew up
watching my play hockey, like I watched him work, and
then she, you know, was like taking care of the
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three of us because she had us all at the
same time. So I don't know, I feel like I
just came out of the womb by being dramatic and
wanting to like act and sing. And I was in
every single you know production um in like my school,
and if there was like a public library that had
a play going on, I'd auditioned for it, and like
I wanted to be in commercials and model and all
that stuff. So I feel like I always have loved
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it and it's just such a passion of mine, so
I can't remember not wanting to do it. And then
obviously it's just so helpful to have like a role
model and someone in my family, I mean, especially close
to my mom who can help me navigate just all
of the trickiness is the entertainment industry, and that's been
so helpful and I'm very grateful for that. I've been
in radio for fifteen years, but doing morning radio is
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very different than any type of acting or modeling. And
I do have a fourteen year old daughter, Stashira. We
adopted her from Haiti four years ago. So she came
here at ten with lots of personality, and she's recently
expressed the desire to do some modeling, and she was
in a school play recently, So we're tipping our toes
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in the water there with that, I'm just hesitant. So
I don't know if you have any advice for a
fourteen year old girl that is possibly thinking about doing
some of that stuff. It's so fun, honestly, I mean,
I really enjoyed it. I started doing little commercials when
I was like nine or ten, and I would have
so much fun with it. But honestly, I don't know,
can be really hard, like on your mental health, like
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auditions and just there's a lot of rejection and there's
a lot of um judgment because you're being based off
your performance and your appearance and all that stuff. And
so I mean the number one thing that I would
say is just to be confident in who you are
as a person and just like pursue anything that you love.
And I feel like when people see that you're passionate
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about something, whether it be being a chef or an
actress or a model or like whatever it is, when
you're passionate about that that really exudes such bright energy,
and I feel like people will see that and want to,
you know, put you on projects or work with you
or whatever. And I just feel like the more confident
that you can be in just a light in general,
I feel like that is the best thing that you
can do, honestly in any like circumstance. And then something
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my parents always give me advice on, so that's something
I take and try to apply. I'm going to share
this with her for sure. And you know you mentioned
self esteem, and I feel like you grew up in
a time where social media came on the scene, probably
you when you were a teenager. It just really got
super popular. How do you handle that with boundaries and
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any advice for anybody that they might look at you
and be like, oh, it's so easy for her to
just be out there and this is her thing. You know.
I mentioned you can seeing dance acts. But you also
are an author, you write, You also are a social
media influencer, like you have a lot of hats, and
so what are your boundaries around socials? I'm so figuring
it out. I think every single day I'm trying to
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learn more about my boundaries and what makes me feel
comfortable and what makes me feel good online. I mean,
I got my social media when I was fifteen, which
now I feel like like so many kids are getting
it so much earlier than that. But I just got
on Instagram, like for fun, you know. I was probably
pictures of I don't know, my room or something when
I was like fifteen, and it was fun, and then
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it slowly became turned into like a business and a
career and just like sharing my life online with people,
whether it be on Instagram or on YouTube, and with
that comes the opinions of people, because you're putting yourself
out there, and it can be really toxic to see
negative comments or maybe not even necessarily all negative, but
just like comments and opinions in general, and if you
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don't know who you are as a person and you
don't stand confident and firm in that, it can be
so toxic to your self esteem because it can waver
and make you think differently about yourself and makes you
question a bunch of things. And honestly, like I feel
like this year especially, I struggled a lot with that
and just dealing with my own like personal anxiety and
(11:31):
always feeling that there were eyes or judgment on me,
and I think that's something I've really had to work
through and put up those boundaries of not looking at
the comments as much anymore, and posting what makes me happy,
not what makes other people happy. And I think at
the end of the day, just to remember that everyone
is just behind the screen and we're all humans and
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it's honestly best to just look up from your phone
and see the world outside and focus on that. And
there's just so many I don't know, bigger issue us
then being behind a phone screen and seeing what's on there.
Although it is so fun and I love it, and
I obviously love sharing, but I just can't let it
become my entire world. And I don't even think that
goes through people with big platforms. I think that goes
for people with any sort of platform, and um, just
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like even sharing with your family and friends, like, don't
let the opinions of other people sway who you are
and who you know yourself to be. Well, you're definitely
an inspiration to a lot of people out there, and
I know your mom is too. You actually are around
a lot of people that are so inspiring. So many
people in your family in in in your close circle,
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But who is your inspiration and why? My inspiration is
both of my parents for the same but different reasons,
I think, in their respective fields, my dad being you know,
a retired professional hockey player, and then my mom being
in the entertainment world and an actress. I've just seen
their hard work and their dedication to their craft, and
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the way that both of them are so confident in
who they are. I don't know, like two more confident
people in what they believe in who they know themselves
to be, and nothing. I mean not that nothing faces them.
Of course, there's things that get you know, in the way,
our roadblocks or whatever, but in terms of just standing
firm in what they know and seeing how that's paid
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off in so many different ways, is really really inspirational.
And they do not quit it anything. They work hard
and are just so passionate, and I don't know, I
feel like that is so so telling of the kind
of people they are, and I'm sure I see it
more than anyone just because I grew up with them.
But like, I've really seen both of my parents career wise,
go and relationship wise, and uh, social wise, like any
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type of thing in their life I've seen them go
through really really difficult things and seeing them come out
so successful in the other end by being so firm
and confident in the person that they are and knowing
what they deserve and what they want. And i think
especially in like career wise, for me, it's very motivating
for me to like want to do the same and
very inspiring. So I'm very blessed that those are my
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role model to night have a close relationship with them
and we can call them and get their advice whenever
I need. Yeah, And speaking of your career, something you
have coming up in January is the Rama Drama Live,
So tell us about that. I'm really excited um to
be joining Rama Drama Live. It's January seventh to the
nine and Palm Beach, Flora, And there's gonna be a
(14:28):
bunch of different authors and actors and actresses from j
C Family, Uh, Netflix, Hallmark, Lifetime, and it's just gonna
be fun time to connect with fans of people who
watch any of the movies um that are put on
by those networks, and it'll be just so fun. I'm
excited to connect. I love meeting new people and just
(14:48):
creating relationships and like hearing stories and taking selfies and
pictures and whatever. So I'm really really excited. I also
love Florida. I actually grew up there for ten years,
so I'm excited to go back and just like be
in Florida. I'm just excited to make friends, honestly, and
to be around everybody. It's going to be really fun.
Event Since COVID, I mean I haven't even been to
that many events or anything like that, so I've kind
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of just been in my own little bubble with my friends, which,
to be honest, I mostly in my bubble. I would
be in my bubble anyways. I'm like such a home
body and like to just chill um with my friends
and family. But it'll be so fun to just yeah,
I mean people want especially working on a few of
the projects that I have this year, making new relationships
and like being in social settings has been so nice
because I feel like I was deprived of it and
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we all work for so long. So I'm just excited
to hang out again and make friends. Well, it's a
boutique fan convention and that's January seventh through the ninth,
Hilton West Palm Beach, So maybe a girl's trip or
something like that if people want to go Rama Drama Live.
And Natasha bur thank you so much for chatting with
us a little bit today. And yeah, we hope you
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have a great holiday season and Merry Christmas. And I
hope you win some games. Thank you, thank you, I
want for having me on. All right now it is
poetry time. Yes, I'm going to read you two different
poems um from books that I definitely think you need
to add to your collection. These are books we've been
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reading in our house. I'm working my way through Kelsey
Ballerini's book of poetry called Feel Your Way Through. And
then my daughter and I are both reading at night,
you know, before she goes to bed. We've been going
through Where the Sidewalk Ends. And I have one that
just made her laugh so much. I thought, oh well,
I'm just gonna go ahead and share this when I
do a little poetry time on the podcast. Write these
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books down, add them to your collection, maybe make them
Christmas books for people. Kelsey Ballerini Feel Your Way Through,
and then Shell Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends. All right,
let's start with Kelsey's poem. It's one called Kangaroo and
it's where she opened up about having an eating disorder,
and I just thought this was so brave of her,
and it's going to help so many young women and
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men that follow Kelsey and I are a fan of
her music. So here it is Kangaroo. I can't remember
the exact moment I became aware of my body. When
the moments I used to spend daydreaming of what could
be turned into scanning for flaws seen and unseen. When
afternoons spent making friends on the playground became comparing my
appearance to everyone around. When Sunday morning blueberry waffles my
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mother made went cold on my plate as I'd convincingly
claim I wasn't hungry. A boy named Jackson called me
kangaroo when I was a freshman in high school. He
was on the basketball team and I was categorically uncool,
so you can imagine this comment made waves in my head.
He explained this new nickname because of my belly and
my little lex I had hated my body for years
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before that didn't need his help. I certainly didn't need
a team of the boys who only liked the cheerleaders
calling me kangaroo, but they did anyway. This coincided with
my home becoming divided, couldn't help feeling like I was
the only child slided too much, too deep, too real
to console, I begin to flail in search of control.
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I started taking diet pills, buying them like a pack
of gum, insisting to the mirror it wasn't wrong. Shuffling
around my plate of crumbs. There was a little less food,
with every little pill hidden in the back of my
bathroom cabinet, to an hour before every meal, my best
kept secret, my worst kept habit. After a few pounds
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gave way to the caffeine and the pills, I decided
that wasn't enough and I needed to steepen the hill.
So I began binging and purging, and that started working.
I'd make a generous order, consume the carbs, I told
my stomach I didn't deserve, Excuse myself like a performer,
locked the bathroom door, and purge. My five ft eight
lanky frame became a hundred and ten pounds. My sickness
(18:45):
told me I looked amazing, devouring the compliments like I
should have devoured a meal. Addicted to the way the
boys looked at me and the way that made me feel,
I stopped trying to be invisible, and I started wearing heels.
But then I wanted more. I got a member up
to the y m c A, worked out a few
times a week, and then a few times a day.
Every second, every friendship, every good day, every party was
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overtaken by my obsession with my body. It took passing
out privately publicly several times, then coading each one in
embarrassed soaked lies, swearing it's the summer heat, or forget
about it, I'm fine for me to realize I had
crossed the line. My throat ached from the vomit, and
my hands shook from the pills, my legs sore from
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the extra mile I ran on the treadmill I stopped
when I was eighteen. The gem, the purging, the suppressants
with caffeine. I was starting to hate me, realizing those
things would never make me happy. I needed to show
myself some accountability. I needed to show my skin and
bones some humility. I wanted to get better. I wanted
to start healing me. My journey with my body has
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been littered with deceat and neglect sadly several years of
a lack of self respect. Yet my body has kept
me safe and healthy through it all, never thought to
quit on me, never saw itself as flawed. It just
patiently waited for my head to catch up what the
world told me and what it continues to that women
are not enough unless we are darn near see through.
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That our worth lies in the gap between our thighs,
or the structure of our face, or the number called
our size. These lies we are fed are meant to
keep us insecure, sad, and small, feeding us lies while
telling us to not feed ourselves at all. Now, it's
bold and brave to stand in our skin so tall
and not pick up when projected in security, start to call.
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It is a process to find self love. It is
ongoing and it is forever. So if you're on that journey,
know you're worthy and we are in this together. So
there you go. That's one of many many points that
Kelsey has in this book. It's called Feel your Way Through,
And just thought that was a really awesome one, but
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there's several that are amazing. Haven't finished the whole book yet,
but I will. And you know, if that poem resonated
with you in any way and you are looking to
not feel alone, don't forget, or maybe you're just now
listening and learning that. Lisa Ham and I have a
podcast called Outweigh that is centered around disordered eating and
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eating disorders and just offering up support and wisdom and conversations,
and a new episode uploads every Saturday and again. It's
called Outweigh and we named it that because of life
without disordered eating. Outweighs everything. All right, Now to the
poem that Stashira picked out. I told her I was
gonna be doing this, and we decided that sick is
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the name of the poem that she liked the most.
So that's what I'm going to read here again from
where the sidewalk ins. I cannot go to school today,
said Little Peggy and Mackay. I have the measles and
the mumps, a gash, a rash, and purple bumps. My
mouth is wet, my throat is dry. I'm going blind
in my right eye. My tonsils are as big as rocks.
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I've counted sixteen chicken pox and there's one more that's seventeen.
And don't you think my face looks green? My leg
is cut, my eyes are blue. It might be in
stematic flu. I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke.
I'm sure that my left leg is broke. My hip
hurts when I move my chin, my belly buttons taping
in my back is wrenched. My ankle sprained. My pindix
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pains each time it rains. My nose is cold, my
toes are numb. I have a silver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak. I hardly
whisper when I speak. My tongue is filling up my mouth.
I think my hair is falling out. My elbows bent,
my spine ain't straight. My temperature is one oh eight.
My brain is shrunk. I cannot hear. There is a
(22:45):
hole inside my ear. I have a hangnail, and my
heart is what? What's that? What's that you say? You
say today is Saturday? Goodbye? I'm going out to play.
So you're laughed out loud at that, and then I
did too, of course, especially based on her sweet giggles.
So I just wanted to share some poetry with you all.
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I know they're totally random and different, but again also
mainly just to share them with you all as book
recommendations for you to add to your home Okay, I
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got things to look forward to in December, starting from
today through the rest of the month. Now, today is
Sex in the City Day, and just like that is
what it's called. And it hit HBO Max today, So
I know a lot of you might be excited about that.
Some of you, if you're busy with the grind, you're
not paying attention. You may not even realize because it
kind of stuck up on me. I saw a trailer
(23:50):
on Instagram and I was like, Oh, that's gonna be good.
But I always need someone to remind me when the
good stuff is coming out. So that's what I'm trying
to do for you. It's finally out today, so now
you know what you can do tonight. And then as
for movies, we got a ton on the way. Steven
Spielberg's West Side Story and Being the Ricardo's with Nicole
Kidman as luc sale Ball both hit theaters tomorrow. You
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might even be able to stream some either of those.
I'm not a hundred percent sure, but that'll be tomorrow
Friday the tenth. And also there's a comedy coming out
called Don't Look Up with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and
Meryl Streep. Then later this month, Spider Man No Way
Home is going to be out on the sevent My
kids definitely want to go see that. There's already text
(24:34):
messages with all their little friends, I mean, including me
and the parents, and I think we're all taking a
bunch of kids and a bunch of parents on to
go see it. I know tickets are hard to come by,
but you can go ahead and order them now. But
just something maybe you could consider watching over the holiday season.
And then the fourth Matrix movie called Matrix Resurrections hits
theaters and HBO Max on the and then finally we
(25:00):
got the holidays, Christmas obviously being the big one, but
National ice Cream Day is coming up. If you need
an extra reason to enjoy some ice cream. Ugly Sweater
Day is the seven. The first day of winter is
December twenty one, so just fun fact keep in your
back pocket. Best of Us is the twenty three Kwanza
starts on the and then obviously December thirty one is
(25:23):
New Year's Eve. We finally say goodbye to one, and
I am hopeful, I am looking ahead. I am looking
forward to two, which next Thursday, I'm actually going to
have on motion from Instagram. He's a news correspondent journalist,
does an amazing job of keeping you update on what's
(25:44):
going on in the world through his Instagram and other outlets.
I'm sure. I mean, he's been in journalism for a
long time, but I follow him on Instagram. So he's
coming on next Thursday, and we're gonna kind of put
a positive spin on the news. He came on Not
to You long ago and we talked about the four
biggest stories from this year so far, and they were
(26:05):
all pretty negative. But we're gonna look to two and
he's going to tell us four things that we have
to look forward to that he knows about news wise.
And then also we're gonna be talking about the Epstein
Maxwell trial situation that's going down right now. I definitely
want his insight on that. So again, that will be
next Thursday, December six. All right, here's my request. It's
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a call to action. Mike Wilson. You probably heard Mary
and I talked about him a lot. He's come on
the podcast multiple times. He's one of the founders of
My Life Speaks and organization in Haiti. That ESPOA this
four Things podcast, all of our four Things line totes,
our Gratitude journal pullovers. Had I mean, for the last
few years now has gone to support this organization that's
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doing so many amazing, wonderful things in Nepli, Haiti. They
are in the middle of crisis and we have an
opportunity to help them. So if you've got a few
extra minutes today, I want you to go to My
life speaks dot com. Go to the little menu, pull
down the blog, click on the blog, and then scroll
down to a picture of this little boy. It's a
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side by side of a baby, and then what the
boy looks like now. His name is Nash, and it
says can you help? Hashtag Nash to Nashville And here
is what they wrote on their blogs. You have an
understanding of what is going on and how you can help.
We desperately need your help. On Monday, December six, the
Nash had an appointment for a travel visa to the US.
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He was denied. Without going into detail, Haiti is dangerous
and My Life Speaks has been forced to make the
request for all US staff working in Haiti to evacuate.
Missy and Nash are still behind because he cannot travel
legally to the US at this time. If you would
like to help us with the journey to get home,
here's how it is now going to require congressional help.
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We have people moving on our behalf, but the more voices,
the more urgency. Feel free to reach out if you
feel so inclined. Please consider calling or sending an email
on our behalf to both of your senators and your
member of Congress with the email we created below. We've
done all that we can do to make it as
simple as possible for you to do so. We keep
being told the best way to get things moving is
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to have congressional help. We need you. Thank you for
your help. Mike, Missy and Nash. So just to kind
of put a bow on this for y'all, I mentioned
Mike Wilson. Missy is his wife, and Nash is their
son that they have legally in Haiti been caring for
because they've lived in Haiti and he came to them
when he was just a baby and he's now their son.
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But he doesn't have the visa to come to America
and Mike and Missy are Americans, so they need to
get out of Haiti to be safe. And obviously Missy
does not want to leave Haiti without Nash being with her,
because I mean Missy and Mike, that's Nash's mom and dad.
So when you go to my life speaks dot com
and you click on the blog and you go to
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this particular post to you know, can you help Nash
to Nashville. Click on that. You'll see that letter that
I just read, and then you'll see step one step two.
You can click on things and they have the letter
ready to go. All you have to do when you're
on the website is copy and paste the email body
to whom it may concern. They have it all written out,
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and then sincerely, and then sign your name. Mary and
I were kind of joking about it on the phone
the other day that some people might copy and paste
and like forget to change your name part, and that
will go to the senator or the congressman or women.
But I guess as long as they're getting the note,
it's fine, but just don't forget maybe that little detail
to please say, sign your name. But this is one
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way if you're looking to just make a difference in
someone's life, especially this time of year when maybe you're
feeling a little bit extra nudge to just do some
thing to make a positive impact. You're in the holiday spirit,
this is a way you can do that. So it's Thursday. Now,
maybe you've got a little extra time this coming weekend,
but this is an easy way to help really good
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people that do a lot and bring a lot of
good to this world. So I'll say it one more time.
My life Speaks dot Com Click on blog and then
you'll see the blog post nash and Nashville. Click on
that and all the details are there. Uh and then yes,
speaking of My Life Speaks, they're one of the organizations
we're supporting for Christmas through all a spat items. The
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final day for shipping on anything if you want to
receive it in time for Christmas, if you want gifts
that give back from the shot forward, it's four So again,
today's the ninth. Maybe you're going to knock out some
Christmas shopping this weekend if you want to receive it
in time. This is the friendly warning that December fourteen
will be the cut off for that. We've already had
(30:52):
some cut offs for customized items, but we still have
plenty of gifts available. We have our Four Things puzzle,
our Four Things Gratitude Journal, We've got I need a nap. Pullovers.
We have four things pullovers that say lots of different
things are most popular one this year. I'm fine, it's fine,
Everything is fine. We have cool Dad, cool uncle, Born,
your hats, Born your sweatshirts. We have all kinds of
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things under the spoaw line that are directly going to
be supporting My life Speaks and Project Meta Share another
amazing group in Haiti doing awesome work, so encourage you
to check that out if you are looking for gifts
that give back easy way to get their shop Spoa
dot com e s p W. A Spoa means hope
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in Haitian creole, and that's exactly what you'll be doing.
If you email on Mike and Missy's behalf, you'll be
spreading hope in Haiti to Nash and then if you
shop a Spoa you'll be spreading hope in Haiti as well.
All Right, Well, that's a wrap on today's episode and
I will see you all again on Tuesday for the
fifth Thing. By
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