The Amy Edwards Show

I’ve done a lot of work on myself over the years, but my inner critic still has a way of showing up when I least expect it. In this vlog, I’m talking about what happened when that voice came back, sent me into a shame spiral, and had me judging myself, questioning my self-worth, and slipping back into negative thoughts and negative self talk.

It’s amazing how quickly old patterns can make you forget everything you know about yourself.I’m sharing how I try to catch that self judgement before it takes over, reframe the thoughts that are making me feel small, and remind myself that one hard moment does not define my identity or my worth.

If you’re wondering how to silence your inner critic, stop judging yourself, get out of a shame spiral, or stop being so hard on yourself, I hope this feels like a reminder that healing isn’t about never having negative thoughts again. It’s about learning how to recognize them, reframe them, and come back to yourself.

Timestamps:

00:00 – Inner Critic Resurfaces

03:13 – Driving Violation

05:54 – Cop’s Basic Advice

07:07 – Our Inner Critic

09:25 – Basic Self-Care Tools

12:15 – Lighting Palo Santo

15:06 – Daily Positive Affirmations

16:32 – Embracing Human Experience

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Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@realamyedwards

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⁠⁠⁠#innercritic #selfjudgment #shame

If you've ever wondered how to create your best life in your 40s or 50s, this video is for you.

Many people believe life slows down with age—but what if your happiest, healthiest, and most authentic years are still ahead? In this episode, Amy shares the 5 powerful mindset shifts and daily habits that transformed her life after divorce and helped her build her best life in her 50s. These simple practices don't require expensive products or a complete life overhaul—just a willingness to choose yourself every day.

Whether you're navigating midlife, rediscovering yourself after a major life change, or simply looking for practical life advice that leads to lasting happiness, these lessons will help you cultivate more joy, confidence, peace, and purpose.In this video, you'll learn how to:

• Create your best life in your 40s and 50s

• Build genuine happiness from within

• Practice self-love and self-compassion

• Find joy even when you're alone

• Discover your personal values and live authentically

• Develop happiness habits that improve your everyday life

• Build confidence and emotional resilience during midlife

• Create a fulfilling life regardless of your relationship status

• Stop waiting for happiness and start creating it today

These are the kinds of life lessons many women wish they had learned sooner. If you're looking for honest life advice, midlife motivation, or a practical guide to your 40s and 50s, Amy's heartfelt insights offer encouragement for every stage of life....this conversation is filled with practical wisdom to help you embrace your next chapter with confidence.Your best years aren't behind you—they're waiting for the version of you who's willing to show up authentically, love yourself deeply, and create a life you genuinely enjoy.

What has been the biggest lesson you've learned in your 40s or 50s? We'd love to hear your story in the comments.

Timestamps:

00:00 Best Life

00:50 Why Change

01:20 What If

03:50 Happiness Secret

05:10 Self-love

08:30 Values Work

11:00 Authenticity

15:30 Inner Peace

15:57 5 Habits

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#BestLifeAt50 #midlife #lifeadvice #lifelessons #happiness

In this solo episode, I share four powerful truths I wish had understood in my 30s—lessons about people-pleasing, self-worth, self-abandonment, and living authentically. Through personal stories from marriage, motherhood, loss, and personal growth, I explore how letting go of external expectations can lead to a more fulfilling, confident life.

Whether you're in your 30s, 40s, 50s, or beyond, these reflections offer gentle reminders that growth happens in its own time—and that becoming more of yourself is always worth it.

In this episode, you'll learn:

- Why it's okay to take up more space and stop shrinking yourself for others

- How people-pleasing often disguises itself as being "a lady"

- Why your worth isn't determined by what you "bring to the table"

- What self-abandonment really looks like in everyday life- How to recognize when you're compromising your authentic self- Why trusting yourself is essential for personal growth- The importance of giving yourself grace throughout every season of life

Timestamps

00:00 – Introduction

01:20 – It's Okay to Be More

08:10 – There Is No Table

15:05 – Understanding Self-Abandonment

24:45 – Learning to Trust Yourself

35:40 – Don't Compromise Who You Are

44:30 – Giving Yourself Grace

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Yes, you can survive divorce. I did- not once, but twice. Healing after divorce is hard enough the first time, but I was 45 when I filed the second time, and here I share the full emotional truth of what that was like: throwing the papers across the table at the attorney's office, feeling ashamed, financially scared, and invisible as a woman. It's about that shame of feeling like the family black sheep, the guilt of raising kids through divorce, the darkness that followed, and the moment I looked at a photo of myself out with friends, not smiling in a single shot!, and decided that was not who I was going to become.

This episode is also about what turns the corner on healing after divorce. I walk us through exactly how I started to crawl out: saying yes to things outside of my comfort zone. It's about honest, radical responsibility and the truth I had to face about not loving myself and not speaking up for myself, both in marriage and in life.

Timestamps:

00:00 – Surviving divorce twice

02:00 – Filing at 45

05:00 – Family shame and pressure

07:00 – You're not broken

08:30 – Being the common denominator

10:00 – Not loving yourself

11:30 – The photo that changed everything

12:30 – Saying yes to growth15:00 – Speaking up for yourself

17:30 – What actually went wrong

19:00 – Life falling apart = stepping in

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Lucy Samkian is a money coach for women, a former corporate finance leader with 28 years of experience, and the creator of the Money Mirror Archetypes — a framework that reveals how your childhood, culture, and lineage shape your relationship with wealth and the quiet financial blocks running your life.If you have ever felt shame, guilt, or fear around your finances — or a nagging sense that no matter how much you earn it will never be enough — this episode is for you.

Lucy grew up watching her mom raise three girls on very little, and she decided as a young girl she would become one of the wealthy ones. She built a corporate career, hit her first million through investing, and then had the reckoning that changed everything: the wealth was there, but the anxiety wasn't gone. That launched her real work — helping women rewrite their money story, heal their money identity, and build both external and internal safety.

Lucy walks us through:- Why money is a mirror to everything, why it can actually be a healing modality- Why so many women stay stuck in "manufactured scarcity" even when the resources are objectively there. - Five Money Mirror Archetypes - Why keeping too much sitting in a savings account is actually a scarcity move - The order of operations if you're starting from zero- How to stop letting fear-based news run your investing decisions.- The shame of sharing your net worth- Why normalizing these conversations changes everything for women in midlife.Connect with Lucy:Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lucrativelifelucy⁠Website: ⁠https://lucrativelifewithlucy.com/⁠

Hannah Hembree is a family law attorney, divorce coach, and the CEO and Founder of Henry Bell Law, a multimillion-dollar family law firm ranked #6 nationwide for growth. By her mid-20s, Hannah was a mother of three in pure survival mode — she went on to earn her MBA from Liberty University and her law degree from St. Mary's University while raising her kids, and is now a Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star and host of the podcast *Not Saving It for Later*, now in its second season.

In this episode, Hannah joins Amy to talk about why so many women save their joy, their desire, and their best life for "later" — and how to stop. Hannah breaks down the worthiness wounds and fear-of-joy patterns behind not saving it for later, shares her own divorce story and the moment she decided to bet on herself, and offers practical, real-world tools for building self-trust, capacity for joy, and a life you don't have to wait to enjoy. Hannah Hembree Bell's perspective on not saving it for later, worthiness, and divorce recovery makes this an episode for any woman ready to stop postponing her own joy.

In this episode, we cover:

- The "not saving it for later" mindset, where it comes from, and how to break it

- Worthiness, fear of joy, and building self-trust after divorce

- Hannah's own divorce story and practical joy-building tools for any season of life

If this episode encouraged you to stop saving it for later and start allowing yourself to enjoy the little things, subscribe to The Amy Edwards Show and share it with someone who is finding themselves after divorce or working on building self-trust. Every conversation is designed to support your journey of getting to know yourself and creating a life you don't have to put off until someday. 

Connect with Hannah Hembree Bell:

Instagram & TikTok: @HannahHembreeBell

Podcast: Not Saving It for Later (Season 2)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ1Ab4ukSG7RY5CPguevLUxlPE_pCO7KO&si=_7SfX9nUSStwrA6J

Timestamps:

00:00:00 Intro

00:03:25 Not saving it for later

00:08:01 Worthiness explained

00:14:44 How to not save it for later

00:28:43 Hannah’s breakthrough moment

00:38:05 The link between your past and who you are today 

00:41:29 Joy-building tools

00:52:01 The Zen zone

00:53:07 Final thoughts & outro

Faith Ashenden is a neurohacking coach, trauma-informed practitioner, and subconscious healing expert who helps women overcome chronic stress, anxiety, nervous system dysregulation, and chronic illness through subconscious pattern healing. After reversing her own diagnoses of Graves' disease, IBS, and POTS, Faith has helped over 30,000 women transform their health by addressing the root cause of symptoms through nervous system regulation and identity-based healing.In this powerful episode, Faith reveals how subconscious patterns, chronic stress, and limiting beliefs impact physical health, autoimmune conditions, and emotional wellbeing. Learn how subconscious healing, nervous system regulation, trauma recovery, and identity transformation can create lasting change beyond traditional wellness approaches.Topics include subconscious rewiring, chronic illness recovery, nervous system healing, trauma healing, autoimmune disease, stress management, mind-body connection, identity shifts, neuroplasticity, and holistic healing.Connect with FaithInstagram: @thathealingfeeling - https://www.google.com/search?q=https://www.instagram.com/thathealingfeelingThreads: @thathealingfeeling https://www.threads.com/@thathealingfeeling?xmt=AQG0jr7HPlA2ztkQHML7N98RHIua7bQN_UkS3Svxk3Ur1DkMasterclass: https://thathealingfeeling.faithashenden.com/experience-masterclass-page?utm_source=Link+In+BioPlease remember to rate, review, and follow the show – and share with a friend!Subscribe to the newsletter:https://mailchi.mp/amyedwards/sign-up-to-amys-newsletterCheck out our new Comedy Wellness Podcast: Anything But Mid, cohosted with Whitney Stropp:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anything-but-mid/id1849386215https://www.youtube.com/@AnythingButMidFind Amy’s affiliates and discount codes: https://amyedwards.info/affiliatepageAll links: ⁠⁠⁠amyedwards.info⁠⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@realamyedwards⁠⁠⁠Fight For Her: ⁠⁠⁠fightforher.net⁠⁠⁠TikTok:⁠⁠⁠ @themagicbabe⁠⁠⁠YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠Podcast: ⁠⁠⁠The Amy Edwards Show Podcast⁠⁠⁠Free Course:⁠⁠⁠ The Ageless Mindset⁠⁠⁠Full Course: ⁠⁠⁠The Youthfulness Hack⁠⁠⁠Amy’s hair by ⁠https://www.thecollectiveatx.com⁠Podcast editing by https://podcastmagician.com/Get my FREE course "The Ageless Mindset: The Ultimate Guide to Look Younger and Feel Happier!" HERE: ⁠https://best-you-life.teachable.com/p/the-ageless-mindset-the-ultimate-guide-to-look-younger-feel-happier⁠Get the full course “The Youthfulness Hack: The Secret System to Reverse Aging Fast and Create a New, Radiant You!” Out now! ⁠https://best-you-life.teachable.com/p/the-youthfulness-hack⁠

Zoey Greco is a spiritual teacher, intuitive guide, numerology expert, "delusional in the best way" queen, and the host of the highly-rated podcast The Higher Self Hotline. For over a decade, she has supported thousands of clients across the globe through periods of deep personal redirection and expansion. She is the creator of the *Already Are* philosophy — which teaches that true transformation isn't about becoming someone new, but rather remembering the person you have always been.

In this episode, we cover:
- The *Already Are* philosophy and why the caterpillar already is the butterfly on a cellular level

- Why we are drawn to numbers — frequency, resonance, and how humans make sense of the world

- The four numerology numbers Zoey uses for any reading: Life Path, Birthday Number, Attitude Number, and Personal Year

- Amy's full live numerology read — Life Path 8, Birthday 8, Personal Year 8, Attitude 7 — and what concentrated eight energy actually means

- The eight as the number of power, abundance, leadership, money, and the karmic loop of infinity

- Why every number has a light and a shadow — and how to use the shadow for your own shadow work- Angel numbers, license plates, and how the universe uses the external world as a mirror to speak to you

- Why "delusion" is your number one resource for manifestation and timeline jumping

- The 10X list exercise Zoey runs in her container for clients calling in a partner

- Why being it before you see it begins with releasing what other people think of you — "what anybody thinks about me is none of my fucking business"

- The four intuitive gifts explained: claircognizance, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience — and why knowing your type changes everything

Connect with Zoey:

Website (and the free intuitive gifts quiz): https://zoegreco.com

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheZoeyGreco

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoeygrecoFree weekly live open coaching with Zoey and her friend Brittany — starting in June

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Podcast: ⁠⁠⁠The Amy Edwards Show Podcast⁠⁠⁠ - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amy-edwards-show/id1543432633

Free Course:⁠⁠⁠ The Ageless Mindset⁠⁠⁠ - https://best-you-life.teachable.com/p/the-ageless-mindset-the-ultimate-guide-to-look-younger-feel-happier

Full Course: ⁠⁠⁠The Youthfulness Hack⁠⁠⁠ - https://best-you-life.teachable.com/p/the-youthfulness-hack

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Podcast editing by https://podcastmagician.com/

Get my FREE course "The Ageless Mindset: The Ultimate Guide to Look Younger and Feel Happier!" HERE: ⁠https://best-you-life.teachable.com/p/the-ageless-mindset-the-ultimate-guide-to-look-younger-feel-happier⁠

Get the full course “The Youthfulness Hack: The Secret System to Reverse Aging Fast and Create a New, Radiant You!” Out now! ⁠https://best-you-life.teachable.com/p/the-youthfulness-hack⁠

Dan Stachofsky spent years at the top of the tech world, helping giants like Microsoft and Amazon build the digital infrastructure we use every single day. But a deeply personal family health crisis led him to leave Big Tech and pivot toward a different kind of innovation. He is a frequency researcher, chemistry expert, and the founder of the nonprofit Essential Energy, pioneering EMF conditioning tools to help people and ecosystems thrive in today's electromagnetic chaos. His solutions are backed by peer-reviewed research, used by leading integrative doctors, and trusted by thousands of leaders in biohacking, energy work, and anyone seeking energetic balance.

Dan walks us through what non-native EMFs (NNEMFs) actually are, why our cells are essentially antennas trying to pick up a clear signal in a world full of static, and how that static shows up in our bodies as brain fog, poor sleep, anxiety, memory issues, digestive problems, and chronic inflammation.

In this episode, we cover:

- What non-native EMFs (NNEMFs) actually are and why your cells perceive them as static interrupting a clear radio signal

- How mitochondria function as antennas and frequency receivers — and why their disruption is upstream of so many chronic conditions

- Quantum biophotonics explained: how biophotons carry information to the electrons in your cells, and what happens when that signaling gets distorted

- The symptoms most people don't connect to EMF exposure — brain fog, headaches, short-term memory loss, anxiety, poor sleep, electro-hypersensitivity

- Dan's personal story: losing his daughter Jane and the questions that launched a decade of frequency research

- Why "dis-ease" is a more accurate word than "disease" — and how EMF stress creates the upstream conditions for it

- Dr. Klinghardt's work on EMF and digestion, and why your stomach acid pH is actually electromagnetically signaled before any chemistry happens

- John Ott, "malillumination," and why we are living in the light equivalent of malnutrition

- The truth about LED lights, flicker rates, and astigmatism

Connect with Dan:

Website: https://essentialenergy.solutions

Essential Energy (nonprofit): https://essentialenergy.solutions

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Gabrielle Dolan — also known as Raoul — is a global thought leader, pioneer of story intelligence, and member of the Australian Speakers Hall of Fame. She holds a master's degree in management and leadership and is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Executive Education. Over the past 21 years she has consulted for some of the world's most recognized brands — Amazon, Visa, Ernst & Young and more — helping leaders and teams humanize their communication and eliminate corporate jargon. She is the author of seven bestselling books, including her most recent, Story Intelligence: The Craft of Authentic Storytelling Made Smarter with AI, and hosts the podcast Keeping It Real with Jack and Raoul.

This is one of those episodes that immediately changes how you communicate — whether you're leading a team, parenting, selling, speaking, posting on social media, or just trying to get a point across more clearly. Strategic storytelling is a skill. And this conversation shows you exactly how to build it.

In this episode, we cover:

• What strategic storytelling actually means — and why it's different from just "telling a story"

• Why every single person already has stories — and why the ones you think are too small or too boring are the most powerful ones to use

• Why stories work on the brain differently — and what that means for anyone trying to communicate a message that actually sticks

• The biggest mistake people make: waiting for a "big" story

• How to find your stories — the blank piece of paper exercise, starting with your earliest memory, and asking "what was that about?"

• Why you should start with the message and work backwards to find the story — and how to get into the habit of noticing story material in everyday life

• The eye drops in the wine story — a masterclass in how a ridiculous everyday moment becomes a sharp business point

• Story intelligence and AI — how to use AI as a storytelling coach to pull stories out of you, not to write stories for you 

Get the Book

Story Intelligence: The Craft of Authentic Storytelling Made Smarter with AI — https://gabrielledolan.com/resources/story-intelligence/

Connect with Gabrielle

Website: gabrielledolan.com

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@gabrielledolanconsulting
Spotify: Keeping It Real with Jac and Ral - https://open.spotify.com/show/5yIs5ncJGvJyXhI55Js0if

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Podcast: ⁠⁠⁠The Amy Edwards Show Podcast⁠⁠⁠ - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amy-edwards-show/id1543432633

Free Course:⁠⁠⁠ The Ageless Mindset⁠⁠⁠ - https://best-you-life.teachable.com/p/the-ageless-mindset-the-ultimate-guide-to-look-younger-feel-happier

Full Course: ⁠⁠⁠The Youthfulness Hack⁠⁠⁠ - https://best-you-life.teachable.com/p/the-youthfulness-hack

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Podcast editing by https://podcastmagician.com/

Get my FREE course "The Ageless Mindset: The Ultimate Guide to Look Younger and Feel Happier!" HERE: ⁠https://best-you-life.teachable.com/p/the-ageless-mindset-the-ultimate-guide-to-look-younger-feel-happier⁠
Get the full course “The Youthfulness Hack: The Secret System to Reverse Aging Fast and Create a New, Radiant You!” Out now! ⁠https://best-you-life.teachable.com/p/the-youthfulness-hack⁠