The Amy Plus Podcast

He holds a Guinness World Record for making 2,200 vegan tacos in one hour. He cooked alongside Daniel Boulud at Pelican Hill. And he catered my Christmas party right here in this room. For exclusive discount codes on my favorite luxury brands, visit www.amyplusjoe.com/discounts 💕

Brandon Hall is a luxury event chef who, alongside his wife Angela, runs Time Well Spent, creating incredible culinary experiences throughout Southern California. He’s cooked for celebrities like Shailene Woodley, companies like Porsche and Aston Martin, and been selected alongside Michelin-starred chefs at the Nobleman event at Pelican Hill Resort. And people said his bite was one of the best of the night.

We get into the 15-year aged parmesan wheel from Italy that they torch tableside (they’ve done it 50 times and counting), his best way to cook a filet (sous vide, then cast iron, salt right before, never straight from the fridge), the three things you can do at home to instantly elevate your dinner (taste as you go, make your own dressings, and think about color on the plate), chicken parm the right way (thin cutlet, double breaded, fresh mozzarella, homemade sauce), why his favorite cuisine is Mexican food (not French, not Japanese, Mexican), the taco stand in Laguna that might serve the best taco Joe and I have ever had, starting his career at 32, imposter syndrome at the Nobleman event, Angela running the front while he runs the kitchen, the power going out at my Christmas party (I didn’t even know), and his five-year dream of building a luxury wedding compound in Napa Valley.

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"The drama with me and the other cast members was all real. None of it was made up." But production still had their own agenda. For exclusive discount codes on my favorite luxury brands, visit www.amyplusjoe.com/discounts 💕

Alexandra Rose is a former Selling the OC cast member, luxury realtor still at the Oppenheim Group, and a proud new mom to a baby boy who just discovered ice cream. She sat down at my Laguna Beach home (the same house Netflix filmed at during the show) and told me everything. Her $20 million sale on the very first episode. How Netflix cut the budget and replaced the original cast with cheaper newcomers. How she barely broke even after paying for hair, makeup, and wardrobe (she resold her Dolce Gabbana dresses on The RealReal). Why clients take her more seriously now that the cameras stopped. The real story behind the 45-minute argument with Jarvis in my courtyard that got edited down to 30 seconds. What Google and ChatGPT actually say about her (we read it live). And how she sold a $15 million house while nine months pregnant after a company tried to push her out.

But the part that changed me was her childhood. Alexandra was in and out of foster care from ages one to four. Her biological parents were heavy drug addicts. She was taken away in the back of a police car at three years old. She was adopted with her brother, then two more siblings from the same biological mom. Her adoptive dad was found dead in his car on Christmas Day 2003. Her mom, a single mother of four adopted children, sold the house and moved them to Grand Prairie, Texas, where she bought a five-bedroom home for $140,000 and gave them a better life. Alexandra doesn't let any of it define her. And that's the most powerful part.

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What would your life look like if you grew up under communism? Today's guest knows exactly what that's like, and now she's living in Beverly Hills wearing head-to-toe Fendi. For exclusive discount codes on my favorite luxury brands, visit www.amyplusjoe.com/discounts 💕

Elizabeth Rovens is an LA-based fashion blogger, influencer, and the woman the internet calls "the Fendi girl." 90% of her wardrobe is Fendi. She showed up to my Laguna Beach home in the latest Fendi collection head to toe, and I matched her with my Fendi hat because you don't invite the Fendi queen over and not represent.

But her story goes so much deeper than fashion. Elizabeth grew up in Slovakia under a communist regime. As a teenager, she watched Beverly Hills 90210 and dreamed about what life beyond those borders might look like. The day she graduated high school, she had two suitcases packed. She left with a man she'd known for six months to Gran Canaria, Spain, and eventually made her way to America. She could have been walking into anything. Instead, she walked into the life she'd been dreaming about since she was a kid watching American TV.

We talk about her journey to America, the gratitude she carries every single day, how she built her relationship with Fendi and became one of their most recognizable faces on social media, fashion influencing advice, how to pose sexy without looking at the camera (think about Jude Bellingham, she says), the Givenchy strategy, her bangs secret, and why she panicked the night before the podcast trying to pick a Fendi outfit from a closet that's 90% Fendi.

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The producers kept pressuring her to go to sushi with Tyler. She said no. Then they told her "your computer is dead, Brandi, you're obviously not working." She still said no. For exclusive discount codes on my favorite luxury brands, visit www.amyplusjoe.com/discounts 💕

Brandi Marshall is a former Selling the OC cast member, luxury real estate agent, and someone who managed to get through a Netflix show seen in over 190 countries without compromising who she is. She sat down with me and got incredibly honest about everything: moving to Orange County kicking and screaming, her husband Sean pushing her to audition for the show even though she's a self-described introvert, watching one episode and her hand literally shaking during a confrontation, the constant producer pressure to create drama, why she refused to film a scene that could've been edited to look bad, how it affected her mental health, the moment the show got "put on pause" and she exhaled with relief, Christine Quinn coming back and probably eating everyone's budget, what Google and ChatGPT really say about her (she read it live on camera), her $7 million listing in Truckee, Jason Oppenheim's brilliant strategy of avoiding the drama himself, and her number one piece of advice for anyone trying to break into luxury real estate: know your numbers and be okay with rejection.

Oh, and our house was on the show. That's how we met Jason. That's how we started watching. And that's how Brandi ended up in my living room ringing my bar bell.

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My $8,000 Birkin is fake. I found out on camera. And I need champagne. For exclusive discount codes on my favorite luxury brands, visit www.amyplusjoe.com/discounts 💕

Today I'm laying out my entire luxury handbag collection and walking you through every single bag, what I love, what I regret, and the advice I wish someone had given me before my first purchase. We're talking my painted Chanel clutch (yes, I hired someone to paint butterflies on my Chanel and my husband almost fainted), my orange Birkin that a luxury expert just told me is NOT authentic on camera, my Fendi crossbody from San Francisco that doesn't match anything, my Himalayan crocodile Birkin that Joe surprised me with for our 10-year anniversary, a black Chanel bucket bag, a white Bottega I wore every day at New York Fashion Week, and my black Kelly 22 that I can't stop wearing.

The biggest lesson? Your first luxury bag should ALWAYS be a neutral black, white, tan. Save the fun colors for bag number three or four. I learned that the hard way.

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You might be doing everything right for your gut and still getting it wrong. For exclusive discount codes on my favorite luxury brands, visit www.amyplusjoe.com/discounts 💕

Dr. Kum Kum Patel was the most shared guest in the history of this podcast, and Part 2 goes even deeper. We're covering acid reflux, fart walks (they actually work), fermented foods and how many servings you really need, why colon cancer is now the #1 cancer killer of people under 50, the colonoscopy guidelines that just changed (45 is the new 50), a story about a 36-year-old Pilates instructor with a six pack who did everything right and still had colon cancer nearly blocking her colon, my Toto Neorest bidet moment she will never let me live down, perimenopause and histamine issues, and her IBS Harmony Method, 12 modules of her entire brain available online. Comment "COACH" and she'll DM you the link.

If you missed Part 1, go watch it first. Then come right here.

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The ranch she featured on her show was 6,500 acres, priced between $50 and $60 million, and that's just one listing. For exclusive discount codes on my favorite luxury brands, visit www.amyplusjoe.com/discounts 💕

I found out I was podcasting Ashton Theiss less than 24 hours before we sat down. I met her 10 minutes before we hit record. And it turned into one of the most authentic, inspiring conversations I've had on this podcast. Ashton is a former Miss Texas USA competitor, three-time reality TV personality (Amazing Race Season 29, Ranch Land Listings, HGTV), and the founder of one of the fastest-growing luxury real estate agencies in Texas, specializing in ranches up to $200 million.

She showed up in Wranglers, trusty boots, a blazer, and her late grandfather's Texas belt buckle. She didn't find out until years later that he also had his real estate license, from 1979, and his certificate is now framed in her office. We get into 13 years in the pageant world (it's NOT just about beauty, it's self-confidence and public speaking), the Amazing Race experience on zero sleep and airplane food, how she markets ranch properties using wildlife footage across multiple seasons, her TCU marketing degree she puts to work daily, her faith, her dream ranch (live water, big views, rocky terrain, and a gas fireplace because she smoked out her house at 23 and never got over it), and why ranching is a lifestyle — not a business.

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A 140-year-old brand with that kind of growth rate,  that's a unicorn." For exclusive discount codes on my favorite luxury brands, visit www.amyplusjoe.com/discounts 💕

Today I'm sitting down with a true power couple in the Western luxury world, Tim, CFO of Lucchese, one of the most iconic boot brands in the country, and his wife Alana Kay, a designer, artist, and color evangelist known for her stunning wearable art. Tim showed up in a custom sport coat lined with one of Alana's original paintings on the inside, finance guy on the outside, artist on the inside. That's their whole marriage in one jacket.

We get into what makes Lucchese different from every other boot brand, why Western fashion is a movement not a moment, the Yellowstone and Beyoncé effect, how Lucchese showed up at the Breeders Cup and the National Cowboy Museum, Alana's rainbow cowgirl aesthetic and her Atlantic dress line, their custom jacket tradition (Joe does the same thing), the comfort revolution that came out of COVID, and the exciting luxury event we're co-hosting at my Fort Worth home this summer, where guests will leave head to toe in custom boots, wearable art, hats, jewelry, live music, and styled from the ground up. Plus we play the cutest couples rapid-fire game at the end.

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For exclusive discount codes on my favorite luxury brands, visit www.amyplusjoe.com/discounts 💕 What really goes on behind the salon chair? My hairstylist Jessica Berry has spent 25 years finding out, and today she's telling you everything.

Jess is a seasoned hairstylist, certified health coach, devoted mom, and wife of Frank Berry, the luxury designer who did our Laguna Beach home and was featured on Netflix's Selling OC. We get into the REAL drama behind the chair, how she can spot a problem client by the third appointment (and how she "fires" them with love), gray blending and why it changed my life, hair extensions, the right way vs the damaging way, why ashy blond ages you, why women want bangs after a breakup (and why she won't cut them), perimenopause and thinning hair, why she makes as much as attorneys in Orange County, the yin-and-yang marriage with Frank, and her final answer on beach waves vs a sleek blowout.

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What's the most expensive home you've been involved with in Orange County? "$100 million." That's our architect, Chris Light, one of the most sought-after residential architects in all of Southern California, and the man behind our oceanfront home here in Laguna Beach. I sat him down the morning after we celebrated our Ocean Boulevard build going to market and he told me everything.

Chris shares the real story of how he walked through our property, looked Joe and me in the eye, and said "all of it" when we asked what needed to change. We get into how he evaluates a property in under five minutes, the daylight basement technique he pioneered at the Montage, the origin story of the open concept floor plan (a 100-person Christmas party in 1994), his honest take on AI in architecture, why remodeling can cost more than tearing down, the $100 million Emerald Bay project, his dream team with interior designer Frank Barry, the Selling OC feature Jason Oppenheim called the finest finishes he's ever seen, and his rapid-fire advice for anyone thinking about building or remodeling in Southern California. Spoiler: triple your budget and double your timeline.

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