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On this week’s episode, we’re on a mission! It can’t be just us left confused when interacting with the bros. Whether it’s our significant others, our friends, or even our brothers, we are perplexed. The guys are something else so we’re sitting down with an expert. Husband, father, artist, and to date one of only two men to sit down for an interview on our show! As one of Amber’s best friends, Izzy is here to give us an inside look on guy code and how the journey through self-reflection and leaning into vulnerability helps us become better partners, better friends, and better people. But don’t worry we also talk about the mess that is dating these days and advice on how to navigate that whole ghetto scene. -- See what we’re reading on the TYFA Bookshelf If you prefer to listen to your books Libro.fm has you covered! You can get a free audiobook when you start a new membership. Receive 2 audiobook credits for $14.99 USD with your first month of membership. Credits can be used on your choice of more than 250,000 audiobooks on Libro.fm using the CODE: TYFA! -- Keep up with Guest: Insta: @izzyor_izzynot Website: Vizzual Media -- Keep up with Thank You For Asking & Amber Insta: @tyfapodcast Website: www.tyfapodcast.com Amber’s Instagram: @byamberburns Have questions? Want to comment on today’s episode? Send us all your thoughts to [email protected] -- Certain products and links to products in these show notes are affiliate links. We will earn a small commission for any affiliate purchases you make at no cost to you! Thank you for supporting TYFA and allowing us to continue to bring these conversations to you.

This week we have a very special episode of Thank you for Asking! In this new season of the show, we wanted to rethink how we’re engaging with you all on our no guests episodes. Today, then, is the very first time that in addition to having Amber share her thoughts and experiences on a topic we’ll get to hear from all of you! So, a big thank you to everyone who called in and left voicemails! In this episode, we’ll be diving into how we feel and don’t feel about living alone. Amber shares her own experiences so far with different living situations and what living alone has meant for her. We’ll also get to hear from our TYFA community and what the idea or reality of living alone has been for many of you. If you currently live alone, have thought about it, or know it’s in your future Amber also shares the lessons she’s learned and her advice on how to live your best when you’re living alone. -- Catch up on what we’ve been reading on the TYFA Bookshelf If you prefer to listen to your books Libro.fm has you covered! You can get a free audiobook when you start a new membership. Receive 2 audiobook credits for $14.99 USD with your first month of membership. Credits can be used on your choice of more than 250,000 audiobooks on Libro.fm using the CODE: TYFA! -- Keep up with Thank You For Asking & Amber Insta: @tyfapodcast Website: www.tyfapodcast.com Amber’s Instagram: @byamberburns Have questions? Want to comment on today’s episode? Send us all your thoughts to [email protected] -- Certain products and links to products in these show notes are affiliate links. We will earn a small commission for any affiliate purchases you make at no cost to you! Thank you for supporting TYFA and allowing us to continue to bring these conversations to you.

On this week’s episode, we have a guest we’ve been wanting to introduce to you all for far too long! Hitha Palepu is a master class on how to be a multi-hyphenate! She likes to say she is a pharmaceutical executive by day, but we call her “Our Inspiration!” Adding to that, she is also a mom, an author, a content creator, and a bona fide nerd and romance novel aficionado! Hitha has had such a big impact in Amber’s life and we can’t wait to share this conversation with you. They talk through career, the joy in never mastering but always learning, and how being smart and informed can be less overwhelming than you think! -- Hitha’s Books We’re Speaking How to Pack Reading List: Hope and Glory by Jendella Benson Sapphire Flames: A Hidden Legacy Novel by Ilona Andrews Atomic Habits by James Clear Be a Triangle by Lily Singh Protect and Defend by Richard Patterson Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon Atlas Six by Olivie Blake See what else we’re reading on the TYFA Bookshelf If you prefer to listen to your books Libro.fm has you covered! You can get a free audiobook when you start a new membership. Receive 2 audiobook credits for $14.99 USD with your first month of membership. Credits can be used on your choice of more than 250,000 audiobooks on Libro.fm using the CODE: TYFA! -- Keep up with Guest: Insta: @hithapalepu tik tok: @hithapalepu Twitter: @hithapalepu -- Keep up with Thank You For Asking & Amber Insta: @tyfapodcast Website: www.tyfapodcast.com Amber’s Instagram: @byamberburns Have questions? Want to comment on today’s episode? Send us all your thoughts to [email protected] -- Certain products and links to products in these show notes are affiliate links. We will earn a small commission for any affiliate purchases you make at no cost to you! Thank you for supporting TYFA and allowing us to continue to bring these conversations to you.

On this week’s episode, we sit down with Azanique Rawl an OG blogger, and Austin-based life and style content creator. We talk about her early days as a blogger and how she has channeled her passion for style and interior decor into helping others find theirs. We talk about living alone and how to plan for and make wherever you live work for you. Not only does Azanique seem to do everything at once, but she does it with grace and humility! She talks with Amber about how she has always sought to center advocacy in her work and how helping others starts with taking care of yourself. She also has all the book recommendations for us so get your notepads ready! -- From the Shelves Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson Black Girls Must be Magic by Jayne Allen Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams It’s Not all Downhill From Here by Terry McMillan Cultish by Amanda Montell 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware Final Girls by Riley Sager Lock Every Door by Riley Sager See what else we’re reading on the TYFA Bookshelf If you prefer to listen to your books Libro.fm has you covered! You can get a free audiobook when you start a new membership. Receive 2 audiobook credits for $14.99 USD with your first month of membership. Credits can be used on your choice of more than 250,000 audiobooks on Libro.fm using the CODE: TYFA! -- Keep up with Guest: Insta: @lotsofsassblog Website: www.lotsofsass.com -- Keep up with Thank You For Asking & Amber Insta: @tyfapodcast Website: www.tyfapodcast.com Amber’s Instagram: @byamberburns Have questions? Want to comment on today’s episode? Send us all your thoughts to [email protected] -- Certain products and links to products in these show notes are affiliate links. We will earn a small commission for any affiliate purchases you make at no cost to you! Thank you for supporting TYFA and allowing us to continue to bring these conversations to you.

On this week’s episode, we sit down with Karen Spears a designer, strategist, and a mind mapping extraordinaire. During this talk, Karen is here to teach us how to make the visions and goals we have for our lives a reality. Karen walks us through the early start of her career as a creative and the deep family entrepreneurial roots that continue to inform how she works today. Amber and Karen break down the process of putting thoughts and big ideas to paper and how to mind map and strategize your way out of inaction. It’s time to take those big dreams and bring them to life! If you are someone who comes up with ALL the ideas, but sometimes struggles with where to start or how to work through them this episode is for you! And if you need ideas on the best kind of paper and pen to get your creative juices flowing, we’ve got you covered with a couple of our favorites! -- Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur Make Your Mark: The Creative's Guide to Building a Business with Impact by Jocelyn K. Glei Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything by Aaron James Draplin See what else we’re reading on the TYFA Bookshelf If you prefer to listen to your books Libro.fm has you covered! You can get a free audiobook when you start a new membership. Receive 2 audiobook credits for $14.99 USD with your first month of membership. Credits can be used on your choice of more than 250,000 audiobooks on Libro.fm using the CODE: TYFA! -- Keep up with Guest: Insta: @karennichole Insta: @kareracter Website: www.kareracter.com -- Keep up with Thank You For Asking & Amber Insta: @tyfapodcast Website: www.tyfapodcast.com Amber’s Instagram: @byamberburns Have questions? Want to comment on today’s episode? Send us all your thoughts to [email protected]

On this week’s episode, we sit down with Ivana Robinson. She is a life and leadership coach who helps mid-career professionals ditch the "shoulds” and design a life on their own terms. From First-Gen college graduate to Big 4 consultant turned certified life coach, her own non-linear journey fuels her passion for empowering others to connect with their why! Amber and Ivana talk through the mindset blocks that deter us from stepping out into something new. Giving you insight and advice on how to get over your own mental hurdles and re-imagine life on your own terms. The reasons we so often get stuck in careers that aren’t suited for us seem endless. Sometimes it’s because we don’t know it’s possible or because our life circumstances make change seem impossible, but just as often we’re simply standing in our own way. We refuse to believe in our own power to make our dream career happen. Ivana takes us through her own career journey from a more traditional path to finally making that leap to go after her passion and how you can do it too. -- How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks See what else we’re reading on the TYFA Bookshelf If you prefer to listen to your books Libro.fm has you covered! You can get a free audiobook when you start a new membership. Receive 2 audiobook credits for $14.99 USD with your first month of membership. Credits can be used on your choice of more than 250,000 audiobooks on Libro.fm using the CODE: TYFA! -- Keep up with Guest: Insta: @ivanarundaworld Website: ivanarobinson.com -- Keep up with Thank You For Asking & Amber Insta: @tyfapodcast Website: www.tyfapodcast.com Amber’s Instagram: @byamberburns Have questions? Want to comment on today’s episode? Send us all your thoughts to [email protected]

On this week’s episode, we sit down with Christine Platt. An award-winning author, lifestyle strategist, storyteller, and minimalist. You could just say she is a modern-day renaissance woman! If the idea of minimalism brings up visions of almost empty rooms, a neutral palette, and throwing away 95% of the things you own, then Christine is here to make you revisit that vision! She believes in a radical re-envisioning of what minimalism can be and do for our lives. Amber and Christine talk through the inner work of resetting our value priorities and the intersections of mental health, well-being, and sustainability. Intersections that inform both our relationship to consumption and how we design the spaces we inhabit. Christine’s focus is on giving you real strategies to live full intentional authentic lives that go beyond the aesthetics of minimalism. -- The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less by Christine Platt See what else we’re reading on the TYFA Bookshelf If you prefer to listen to your books Libro.fm has you covered! You can get a free audiobook when you start a new membership. Receive 2 audiobook credits for $14.99 USD with your first month of membership. Credits can be used on your choice of more than 250,000 audiobooks on Libro.fm using the CODE: TYFA! -- Keep up with Guest: Insta: @afrominimalist Website: afrominimalist -- Keep up with Thank You For Asking & Amber Insta: @tyfapodcast Website: www.tyfapodcast.com Amber’s Instagram: @byamberburns Have questions? Want to comment on today’s episode? Send us all your thoughts to [email protected]

Content Warning: We talk about many heavy topics during this episode. Please remember to put yourself and your well-being first in deciding what to engage with and consume. Topics covered: Postpartum Depression, Postpartum Psychosis, General Depression, and Anxiety. During this episode, we sit down with Sasha Nicole. A mom, an entrepreneur, and a non-profit founder who has made it her mission to help women who feel stuck, unseen, and undervalued live more courageous vibrant, and authentic lives! Having been in the trenches of postpartum depression herself, Sasha knows what it’s like to feel alone during one of the most transformative and often overwhelming period of many people’s life - bringing children into the world. She has dedicated her time to bringing awareness around mental health and the journey to parenthood and providing resources so that others have the support that she would have wanted. Sasha bravely tells her story, bringing some much-needed visibility into the realities of new motherhood that often get buried. Whether or not you are you are a mother, are thinking about it, or undecided it’s a discourse we desperately need to bring out into the open. -- Reading List: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz See what else we’re reading on the TYFA Bookshelf If you prefer to listen to your books Libro.fm has you covered! You can get a free audiobook when you start a new membership. Receive 2 audiobook credits for $14.99 USD with your first month of membership. Credits can be used on your choice of more than 250,000 audiobooks on Libro.fm using the CODE: TYFA! -- Keep up with Sasha and Fearless Nfluence: Insta: @therealsashanicole Tik Tok: @therealsashanicole Website: Fearless Nfluence Website: Partum Evolution -- Keep up with Thank You For Asking & Amber Insta: @tyfapodcast Website: www.tyfapodcast.com Amber’s Instagram: @byamberburns Have questions? Want to comment on today’s episode? Send us all your thoughts to [email protected]

This week we sit down with Amanda Goetz. She is the Founder of House of Wise a CBD company committed to putting women at the forefront from the culture to the products they sell. Amanda shares her journey to entrepreneurship and the balancing act of business and motherhood. You’ll be inspired by her drive to always center her values in everything she does from the advocacy work that is embedded in the make up of her company to the authenticity and vulnerability she brings to her relationships and online presence! Amanda’s transparency and willingness to share what she knows is a welcome perspective in a landscape that has too often valued winning over connection. Her story is an important one not only for other women or those thinking of founding their own business but for anyone who has wondered how to show up openly and share with others without sacrificing their boundaries. -- Reading List: The All or Nothing Marriage by Eli J Finkel See what else we’re reading on the TYFA Bookshelf If you prefer to listen to your books Libro.fm has you covered! You can get a free audiobook when you start a new membership. Receive 2 audiobook credits for $14.99 USD with your first month of membership. Credits can be used on your choice of more than 250,000 audiobooks on Libro.fm using the CODE: TYFA! Podcasts Mentioned: Create the Love with Mark Groves Making Sense with Sam Harris -- Keep up with Amanda and House of Wise: Insta: @goetzam Twitter: @amandamgoetz Website: House of Wise -- Keep up with Thank You For Asking & Amber Insta: @tyfapodcast Website: www.tyfapodcast.com Amber’s Instagram: @byamberburns Have questions? Want to comment on today’s episode? Send us all your thoughts to [email protected]

This week on the podcast we have Keri Shahidi. A model, wife, mom, producer, and principal of the company 7th Sun Productions, but more importantly an absolute delight of a human being! Keri has a lifetime in the media and creative space and this week she is giving us insights into everything she’s learned from motherhood to building your career, and not only finding but staying grounded in your truth and purpose. Balancing being a mom and raising a grounded united family, Keri exemplifies what it means to build a brand around what she was put on this earth to do. Keri gave so much during this episode and every moment felt like a powerful take away giving us permission to honor ourselves and stay open to the abundance that is our right! -- Reading List: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran See what else we’re reading on the TYFA Bookshelf If you prefer to listen to your books Libro.fm has you covered! You can get a free audiobook when you start a new membership. Receive 2 audiobook credits for $14.99 USD with your first month of membership. Credits can be used on your choice of more than 250,000 audiobooks on Libro.fm using the CODE: TYFA! -- Keep up with Keri: Insta: @chocolatemommyluv -- Keep up with Thank You For Asking & Amber Insta: @tyfapodcast Website: www.tyfapodcast.com Amber’s Instagram: @byamberburns Have questions? Want to comment on today’s episode? Send us all your thoughts to [email protected] Certain products and links to products in these show notes are affiliate links. We will earn a small commission for any affiliate purchases you make at no cost to you! Thank you for supporting TYFA and allowing us to continue to bring these conversations to you.

This week Amber is on the mic to talk through the feeling of being an imposter. Our self-worth and value doesn’t lie in how much or how fast we can achieve things, but it often feels that way. Amber digs into why we often feel like imposters and gives us insight into how to navigate those feelings. Self-doubt is normal but you can’t let it stop you from putting your name in the hat. She shares actionable steps we can take to work through our fears and feelings of inferiority. Most importantly this episode is a reminder that it doesn’t have to be a competition- you deserve to show up no matter where you are on your journey. -- Reading List: Imposter Syndrome Study See what else we’re reading on the TYFA Bookshelf To check out what Amber has been reading check out her page on GoodReads TYFA Episodes Mentioned: Episode 204: Joy in Togetherness with Stephanie Harrison -- Keep up with Thank You For Asking & Amber Insta: @tyfapodcast Website: www.tyfapodcast.com Amber’s Instagram: @byamberburns Amber’s YT Channel: byamberburns Have questions? Want to comment on today’s episode? Send us all your thoughts to [email protected]

This week Amber is on the mic reflecting on another revolution around the sun. Turning 29 often feels like an in-between space. You don’t really feel like you’re in your 20s anymore but you’re not quite yet 30. Obvious milestones elicit reflections, but what about those in-between years? What do we learn, value, and embrace while we are on the way? Amber talks through many of the topics that were top of mind for you all and reflects on what 29 means for her. She’s digging into her career, the milestones reached and the milestones missed and how building a vision has helped her realize that life is always better when lived in community. -- Reading List: The Mothers by Britt Bennett Dating You/Hating You by Christina Lauren Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes Arc of Scythe Book 1: Scythe by Neal Shusterman Arc of Scythe Book 2: Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman Arc of Scythe Book 3: The Toll by Neal Shusterman See what else we’re reading on the TYFA Bookshelf To check out what Amber has been reading check out her page on GoodReads TYFA Episodes Mentioned: Episode 204: Joy in Togetherness with Stephanie Harrison -- Keep up with Thank You For Asking & Amber Insta: @tyfapodcast Website: www.tyfapodcast.com Amber’s Instagram: @byamberburns Amber’s YT Channel: byamberburns Have questions? Want to comment on today’s episode? Send us all your thoughts to [email protected]