Simple Soul - Creating You, Love Your Simple Soul

What are you doing to stay productive and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic? One week in and we are sharing our thoughts and encouraging you to share back!

Do you find yourself saying you are stressed? Busy? Exhausted? Because we both do. Amy and Tasha reflect on life and how to stop saying phrases that drag you down.    

Finally, Amy shares her newfound love of Yoga and Chakras. Listen in to learn more. 

Already 2020! Amy and Tasha update listeners after the holidays and share their new year goals - What are yours? Listen it to join them in the goals for the new year!

What do you do during the holidays? Family gatherings, traditions and hear about Amy's yoga adventure and chakras. Be advised...we talk about Santa. 

Someone once asked, how do you keep it all together. Wait, what? Me? Umm...my life is a hot mess. Amy and Tasha take a few minutes to let you in on the reality behind the voices.    Tune it! We are sure you can relate to this one!    

Amy and Tasha are BACK! After a needed break for both of us to focus on major changes happening in our lives, we are back and tackling a never-ending challenge of eating right, finding balance, gratitude, and fitness. 

Do you find yourself comparing your life to those around you? Have you ever thought, if I had what she had, I would be happy too? Who have you compared yourself to lately? As you are scrolling through social media - what has made you a bit envious or made you feel bad about yourself? What has made you feel smug? Comparison is the sister to jealousy and as Theodore Roosevelt says, “Comparison is the thief of joy.”

Let's explore conditional love versus unconditional love. Gary Chapman's books “The 5 love languages” focuses on the unique ways we feel loved. What is your primary love language: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service or Physical Touch? How do you like to receive love and how do you give love back? Find out how this can be beneficial to your relationships with others.

Why do people work so hard? What does your work life and home life have to do with the way we interact with others? Learn more about the feedback that makes us thrive and what to do during the times that feedback is not very fulfilling. Change the lens you look through by adding more of the unexpected versus the expected.

Wow, what a year! Thank you to all the loyal listeners of Simple Soul, we have more than doubled our goal in downloads and hope you will continue to listen to our podcasts. Join us for our uncensored podcasts as we share a few bloopers from this past year. We are excited to announce our goals for next year - but we need your help to continue to grow - please rate and review us, this is what will make us better.

The beauty of aging has become more appealing over the last decade. Women have more freedoms now than they ever have before. Along with these freedoms, the world has offered us so much more in self-care and beauty. With that being said, these opportunities can also come with a burden. Learn how to age gracefully and connect to meaningful tribe members.

We are excited that we had the special privilege of interviewing Katie Headrick. Katie has been a successful side hustler. If you had a chance to side hustle, what would it be? Although Amy has side hustled in many different businesses, Tasha has only side hustled once unknowingly. Listen in to learn more about side hustling and the benefits of finding your tribe in whatever side hustling you partake in.

If you had to name your insecurities - what would they be? Women have many insecurities from their looks, their weight, how desirable they are, the size of their girls (yes breasts), to what they eat and even their intelligence. Accept that you will not be flawless, embrace yourself the way you are currently created, especially in the areas that you cannot change. Most importantly - don’t let those insecurities define you.

Judgement - what is it and do you judge (of course you do - everybody does)! Judgement happens quickly - as quick as 7 seconds or less. Why do we judge?  As much as you hate to admit it we all do. Judging with other people can be a way to bond with one another - this can include put-downs, but it is most hurtful when people question your character, intelligence, beliefs and personal preferences. Positive judgement requires maturity, emotional intelligence and self-control. Listen in to learn more about ways to stop judging.

Do you feel like you have a lack of engagement with human beings because your electronic devices have overtaken your life? Well if so, you are not alone. In this episode, we will explore the difficulties with having the opportunity to connect and also the advantages of being able to connect 24/7. Tasha and Amy share personal examples of how easy it is to disengage in your personal life and also how to take control of your life back. How do you make sure you have balance between the real world and the snippets of people lives that they share. We also peaked into Amy’s thoughts on judging others and how easy it is to slip into that mindset if you are not careful.

Social Media: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Join us for another episode of real conversation around the use of technology, in particular, social media. Social media/media has a lot of the same offerings that have existed in the past, we are just using a different platform to meet our needs. This includes online shopping, playing games electronically, listening to music, reading digital books, and reviewing research - something that use to be done in a library. Technology and social media also can elicit an additive response and trigger addictive-like behaviors. FOMO (feeling of missing out) is a real feeling that often times can leave the viewer feeling socially isolated and sometimes causing a fear of rejection. FOMO also pulls us away from embracing the moments we are currently having with other people, and sometimes those people are actually more important to you than what you are viewing. Multitasking isn’t physically possible and the belief that it is - is robbing us of emotionally fulfilling connectio