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What a full circle moment!

AMQ's long time friend, Mercedes Burrowes, just launched the most size inclusive, ethically made, women owned swimwear line, Sonder Swim! The suits feel like butter and their mission is help us all strut and twerk our way into confidence while wear these amazing suits! (Hint: two words, leopard print!)

Those episode is filled with BIG feelings and full hearts! Tune in and get to know Mercedes Burrowes, a badass boss babe who doesn't settle for less than greatness and makes her dream a reality! When she didn't see a light at the end of the tunnel she lit it up herself!

12/10 recommend linking arms with humans that believe in you, push you to be your authentic selves, and dream big together! Becca and AMQ are beaming with excitement and everyone looks forward to a bright future together!

I Got You, Boo is proud to announce our partnership with Sonder Swim as our first sponsors beginning season 2! Our missions are aligned, our goals to make waves in the world of beauty standards is too notch and we could've be more excited for how bright the future looks!

Use code: BOOCREW for 15% off your order at check out and tag @igotyouboopod @sonderswim on Instagram as you werkkkkk (and if you're like Becca, possibly twerk ayyyeee) in your Sonder Swimwear!

Do you embrace change? Avoid it? We got to hear both Becca and AMQ's take on change in this week's episode.

You name it, we talked about it this week!

We laughed, we cried, we talked about everything from reality TV to the discomfort/feelings that come from changes in life, big or small!

Becca discusses the plot twist of feelings the end of school year has her working through, and reads her end of the year letter she wrote to her class. And Ms. DiCicco's top 10 list of lessons are not just for 10 year olds. We could all learn a little somethin' somethin' from those tips!

Are you a fan of change? Let us know! Tag us @igotyouboopod when you listen. Always happy to hear from you, Boo Crew.

This episode hits different.

This episode is real talk on another level.

This episode taught us lots. And we hope it does the same for you, Boo Crew!

We spoke with Kim Huynh, (pronounced “one” because, you know, she's a real one), about tokenism - what it is, how we can avoid it, and hono(u)ring diversity with equity.

Kim is a Vietnam born, Kentucky based creator, speaker, writer on all things self love, self discovery, and spirituality. She's also an entrepreneur & biz owner!

We were lucky enough to chat with Kim about all things spirituality, tokenism, embracing diversity, and all the ways we seek or give love in how we show up in the world.

We're also totally gonna link up with her spirit sister and make an episode of it. That'll be fun AF.

Love Kim as much as we do? Give her a follow on IG!

Defining your personal boundaries and setting them consistently can be tricky territory!

Boundaries are defined as a definite place where your responsibility ends and another person's begins. In this episode Becca & AMQ discuss their journeys in regards to building an understanding for boundaries, and how relationships (the ones meant to stay) will thrive when they're in place!

Sometimes the misunderstanding of boundaries has us thinking of them as a way to keep people out, but really they're intended to be a beautiful way people can be in a relationship made up of mutual understanding and respect!

The most important aspect of boundaries is communication; which is just what Becca & AMQ are here to do!

Just when you thought the blowie talk was over...AMQ shares a story on how she learned what it all means! Confusing HS times, are we right? The convo escalated quickly when Becca dropped her mic, literally, and turned the audio into a mixtape of realness (whoops!)

Press play on some girl talk about all things blowies, beat drops & boundaries! What a combo platter of a pod!

Find yourself struggling with boundaries of your own? Don't trip chocolate chip! Check out the references in this episode that will hopefully help you understand the power and peace boundaries bring your life!

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Intuitive eating. We've all heard it. It's become a buzzworthy term. But it's not as simple to implement as it may sound.

Emma aka on Instagram, is a clinical nutritionist, with a background in dietetics. You could say food is her thing. But even knowing the science behind much of it didn't change the fact that she's battled with her own forms of disordered eating too. *cue intuitive eating*

Emma did the work, got connected with her body and what it needed, applied her education, and now uses her anti-diet approach to nutrition to help other women feel comfortable in the skin they're in and worthy just how they are.

She talks to us about what prompted her weight gain journey, shares about how free she truly feels free in her body now, and gives some tips for how to start your own intuitive eating journey.

Emma, like us, advocates for health at every size. She also speaks about how humans with eating disorders don't have a certain “look.”

As soon as these borders up, AMQ is heading to Fire Island to join Becca and Emma!

And here's the book Emma mentioned!

As always Becca & AMQ loving hearing your feedback and takeaways slide into their DM on IG or email at

How do you show yo'self love? How do you show others love? How do you know receive love? You can learn a lot about YOU when you learn about what love language(s) you speak! Do you know your love language? We're gonna help you find out! Or at least give you a good ol' prompt to head over to the Google machine and figure it out for yo'self!

Becca got to celebrate this spin around the sun having patio drinks outside with humans IRL... sans a mask! *gasp*

And how did we get on the topic of blowies? Welp, let's just say AMQ is missing her pedicures and she's v blessed to have a hubby who's brave enough to to go battle with a pumice stone and her heels. God bless.

The next birthday(s), we'll be spending ‘em together... Glitter crowns, big balloons and all the twerks!

Body fluctuations, feeling comfortable and confident in cultural clothing, and quarantine lessons, oh my!

Brynta Ponn, a body confidence advocate, storyteller, amateur writer, and self proclaimed “all around awkward human being,” shares with us how it has taken her quite some time to feel comfortable in cultural clothing, walks us through how she navigates “bad body image days” and gets raw and honest with us about lessons learned in quarantine.

We get into what she wished she had known in her earlier years with respect to building a relationship with her body, and she discusses how she's working hard to ensure there is more representation of women who look like her - on social media and the world. And we think she's doing a dang good job at it.

We vibe with her sense of humo(u)r too (thank gawd with Becca's potentially uncomfortable would you rather question) She even giggled at AMQ's dad joke. So that was fun.

Let's show Brynta the love she deserves!

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During this (let's call it a) panini, we've all had to learn how to have long distance relationships. Literally.

Relationships of all kinds have been shifted, including the relationships we have with ourselves.

If you're feeling all over the place regarding the way you're adjusting to friendships during this time, just know you're not alone!

Becca & AMQ discuss their personal experiences this year and how communication, although at times uncomfortable, have been necessary.

If you could spend a day with any human of notoriety, dead or alive... Who would that be?! And how would you spend your time with them? Becca has a fun response to this! Please share yours with us! DM us on instagram @igotyouboopod OR email us on !

Becca learns a lot about figs and how AMQ (in an alternate reality) could have chosen to be the heiress of a fig fortune!

This episode, Becca and AMQ chat with Carly Compton!

What a pleasure treasure!

Carly is the Queen of her castle. She's a self love and HAES (health at every size) educator, currently completing her Master's in social work, model, biz owner, content creator... aforementioned, she's a queen.

This beach lover's confident content makes waves. She uses her platforms to speak out against fatphobia and social media censorship, as well as spread messages self love and making peace with your body. And the best part? She does all of this work in real life too!

During this conversation, we laughed, we cried, and we learned. A lot.

Carly gets candid about her history with disordered eating, shares her experiences with fatphobia on social media, and lets us know what we all can do to stop this censorship that is so evidently happening on social media.

We can't wait to see how many humans she impacts in so many more ways!

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One episode could never do justice to allllllll that we learned and how much grew by attending the ROSE Retreats, It was virtual, of course, but ooooh are we excited for the IRL experience soonsies!

We are so grateful to have had the opportunity to attend. In this episode we reflect, and dive into some of our favo(u)rite takeaways from day 1!

But don't trip, chocolate chip, we have guests coming on the pod who were actually speakers to talk about the other powerful panels from the weekend!

You can most def expect us to refer back to this beautiful weekend in episodes to come! THAT is how impactful this event was!

PSA: We recorded this episode at night on a week day and we're always a little extra silly when we do that. We hope you enjoy our story time re: a pair of ripped pants, tanning drops, space bear holes, and cell phone outages.

And of course... Gotta give credit where credit is due, boo! slaaayed this event.

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And Boo Crew, if you wanna join us for the Dear Body Virtual Retreat, click for tickets!