The Wisdom in Your Voice
A Wisdom Conversation with Amie Breedlove
There’s a pretty good chance you’ve already heard Amie Breedlove’s voice. Today, you will hear her wisdom.
If you’ve used the self-checkout at Target, that’s Amie reminding you not to forget your receipt. Before voice-over became her full-time career, she spent years in radio in West Virginia and Alaska. Her work today spans commercials, corporate projects, e-learning, video games, character voices and voice coaching.
But this conversation goes well beyond the microphone.
Amie and I explore the wisdom of voice, attention and health—what it means to notice what your body is telling you, to make room for stillness, and to appreciate the ordinary things that are easy to overlook when life moves too fast.
Her stories range from a childhood cassette recorder and a career in broadcasting to tai chi, nature, family loss and a health journey that changed the way she experiences everyday life.
Why This Episode Matters
Sometimes the things worth hearing aren’t the loudest things.
Amie’s story invites us to pay closer attention—to our surroundings, to the people we love, and to the signals coming from within.
Her health experiences have even changed the language she uses around ordinary chores. Instead of “I have to,” she increasingly thinks, “I get to.” Grocery shopping. Cooking dinner. Even cleaning the toilet becomes evidence that today she is able to participate fully in life. That shift stayed with me.
A Memorable Quote
“It’s so funny because I didn’t really think about it. I just kind of moved through life.” — Amie Breedlove
What You’ll Discover – Wisdom, Stories and More
- How a childhood tape recorder foreshadowed a career Amie never really planned
- The unexpected path from Marshall University radio to professional voice-over
- What Amie has learned from making her voice her livelihood
- Why movement practices like tai chi and qigong work for those who struggles to sit still
- Why health challenges transformed “I have to” into “I get to”
- The value Amie places on continued learning, kindness and remembering that we rarely know what someone else is carrying
Wisdom Resources to Explore
Connect with Amie Breedlove on her website: https://www.amiebreedlove.com/
Universal Voice Talent
Amie is part of UVT’s coaching team, where students can learn performance, marketing, animation and studio technology. Learn more at their website: https://www.uvtcoaching.com/
Episode Chapters – Wisdom Awaits
03:34 — Meet Amie Breedlove
04:00 — The voice you hear at Target
05:17 — A seven-year-old with a tape recorder
07:38 — An unexpected path into radio
10:13 — Taking the leap into full-time voiceover
11:29 — Coaching aspiring voice talent
14:48 — The pivotal wisdom question
16:15 — Our Town, family and the moments we miss
20:15 — Making room to pause
22:37 — From “I have to” to “I get to”
25:46 — Listening to the body: Amie’s health journey
30:19 — Parting thoughts on learning and kindness
Keywords and Phrases from Our Wisdom Conversation
wisdom, Amie Breedlove, voiceover, voice talent, professional voice actor, Target voice, radio, Marshall University, Charleston West Virginia, mindfulness, observation, presence, gratitude, health journey, tai chi, qigong, self-care, healing, lifelong learning, kindness
Wisdom Episode Transcript
Transcript – Ep. 150 with Amie Breedlove
Announcer
(0:00 – 0:58) – Intro
Skip
(0:59) Welcome back to the main thing podcast coming to you as always from Parkwood Studios right here in almost heaven, West Virginia.
(1:08) Before we meet today’s wise guest, I’d like to ask you to do something. Set an intention right now that you’ll share this episode with one person who could use a special dose of wisdom. Maybe someone’s already coming to mind for you. By sharing this episode, you’ll be helping them, and you’ll be helping us too. You see, one listener recommending the main thing podcast to another continues to be one of the most powerful and effective ways our community grows.
(1:37) Now, today’s wise guest is someone I have the pleasure of knowing a little closer to home. Amie Breedlove is my friend and neighbor right here in the Parkwood Road Woodland Heights neighborhood of Charleston, West Virginia.
(1:51) And here’s something fun. There’s a pretty good chance you’ve already heard Amie’s voice. If you’ve used the self checkout at Target, that’s Amie reminding you to not forget your receipt.
(2:04) Amie is a graduate of Marshall University who spent sixteen years on the air at radio stations in Charleston and also in Anchorage, Alaska in 1999. She began her voice-over career, one that has grown to include national and regional commercials, corporate work, e-learning, video games, character voices, and voice coaching.
(2:29) But her resume only tells you so much about Amie. She’s genuine. She’s observant. She’s deeply connected to her family, her heritage, and the place she comes from. And despite her success, there’s a humility about Amie that I think you’ll notice pretty quickly. Our conversation today takes us into two fascinating areas of wisdom, the wisdom of voice and the wisdom of health.
(2:57) We’ll talk about what happens when your voice becomes your livelihood, how Amie found her own distinctive place in a highly competitive creative field, and we’ll get personal as she shares part of her health journey and what she’s discovered along the way.
(3:13) I found this conversation joyful, refreshingly real, and wonderfully uncomplicated. I think you will too. So settle in and remember that person you thought about a moment ago. And now, here’s my friend and neighbor and today’s wise guest, Amie Breedlove. Enjoy!
Skip
(3:34) Amie Breedlove, welcome to The Main Thing Podcast. Great to be with you.
Amie Breedlove
(3:38) Thank you, Skip. I’m so glad to be here. Thank you for having me.
Skip
(3:42) Amie, everyone knows from the intro and from the way that we’ll be promoting this show that you are an acclaimed voice talent, voice artist, and you are also the voice of Target. What do you often tell, people like me when we’re in Target? Can I hear what you tell us?
Amie Breedlove
(4:00) Sure. “Don’t forget your receipt. Thanks. See you again soon!”
Skip
(4:04) There it is. Gosh, that’s super cool! Amie, how did you get the Target gig?
Amie Breedlove
(4:10) That was through my agent, AB2 Talent in Los Angeles. And, yeah, I was, you know, just auditioning, and I didn’t realize that it was a national gig until I got the contract. And I’m like, wait a minute. This is Puerto Rico …. This is is this everywhere? Had no idea.
Skip
(4:29) What are the adjectives that people use to describe your voice that might lead someone to choose you for a role?
Amie Breedlove
(4:35) Right. Well, for the Target job, she specifically wanted very conversational, very friendly, very mom-like.
(4:44) So Yeah. That’s what I got with that. And then I get, you know, warm, kind, caring. Informative, always real person, always conversational.
(4:57) Conversational, of course, the big buzzword in voice over the past several years.
Skip
(5:03) Well, we’re having a conversation right now.
Amie Breedlove
(5:05) Yeah. So this is voice over.
Skip
(5:10) Take us way back. When did you first think, maybe I’ve got something here … my voice could be really good or exceptional.
Amie Breedlove
(5:17) Let’s see. I didn’t—to be honest. It’s so funny because I didn’t really think about it. I just kind of moved through life.
(5:27) Seven years old, I my parents bought me this little tape recorder, which I still have, this little Sanyo tape recorder. You put a cassette in and you hit record. It picks up, you know, everything around you. I carried that thing with me everywhere, but especially right in front of the stereo. So I would sit in front of the stereo, record songs, hated when the DJs would talk over the song. I’m like, “Shush! I’m trying to get the song.”
(5:51) And I just I wanted to be a singer. My dad had a little band, and that was my that was my goal. I love to sing. So I would record the songs, and I would sing.
(6:01) But I also going back through these cassettes, which I still have, and they still have not broken down amazingly … I found that there I am reading stories or teaching my class or just making stories up.
(6:20) So I was behind that microphone since I was seven years old, and it just kind of continued that way. I mean, I didn’t keep my same little tape recorder, you know, when I was a teenager, but I actually had a microphone. My dad bought me a little microphone, and I was just you know, I’m gonna be a singer. By the time I’m 25 years old, I’m gonna have a tour bus. I’m gonna be on the road and have an album. That didn’t happen.
(6:45) But fast forward to college and walking around all of the tables to see what am I going to do because dad said, you have to get the best education possible. hat was his mantra my entire life.
Skip
(7:01) Good parenting.
Amie Breedlove
(7:02) So I’m like, alright. Fine. I’ll go to college. So Marshall University is the college that I chose. And standing in front of the broadcasting table, I’m like, this could be fun because I liked my broadcasting class at George Washington, so let’s go with that.
(7:19) And then they told me there’s a radio station on campus, and I’m like, a radio station? That means I could learn more songs, and I could talk to music people.
Amie Breedlove
(7:28) That’s kind of how I entered.
Skip
(7:34) Amie, I know you worked early in your career. You worked in radio. You were a DJ.
Amie Breedlove
(7:38) I was. And that, again, did not plan on that because I was …. It was even though I love to sing, I was still kind of shy. And, two weeks after arriving at Marshall University, I received a phone call. “Where are you? You need to come to the radio station. You need to pick a shift and get your on-air time. And I’m like, “On-air what? What?” I had no idea that I was going to talk on the radio.
Skip
(8:05) So that got real. That just got real.
Amie Breedlove
(8:08) That got so real. Holy moly.
Amie Breedlove
(8:12) So, yeah, learned how to do that. Still didn’t quite feel like it’s not really you know, doesn’t feel what I’m supposed to be doing, but I was having fun with it. It was a blast.
(8:27) And after graduation, worked four jobs here in our local mall, the Charleston Town Center, and mainly the music stores, of course. Then while applying for radio and while working in, I believe it was Camelot, met Matt Goodwin, he is still in … is he still in radio here in town?
(8:52) I’m not sure. But he was in Camelot. He was chatting with someone. He goes, “Yeah, I’m still at V100.” And my ears just perked up. I went right over to him, and I said, “Excuse me … you said V100? I just graduated with broadcasting degree. I’d really like to work at V100, because I’ve listened to it since I was seven years old.”
(9:09) So he introduced me to Rick Johnson. And within a week or so, I was in for an interview.
Skip
(9:15) Love Rick.
Amie Breedlove
(9:16) Yes.
Skip
(9:17) Yeah well, that was a good pitch you gave.
Amie Breedlove
(9:20) Thank you.
Skip
(9:21) So your career in radio somehow took you to Alaska, didn’t it?
Amie Breedlove
(9:28) It sure did. I worked several years here on the air behind the scenes as production director, which is where I actually found my love for voice over.
(9:38) But, yeah, I met my husband a year after my parents had passed and whirlwind, little dating romance thing, and got married, moved to Alaska, and immediately got a job on the air there at K Bear 104.1.
Skip
(9:56) Oh, cool. Twists and turns. Wow.
Amie Breedlove
(10:01) I know.
Skip
(10:04) So you’re DJ-ing. You’re working for radio. You said you were a producer. When did you make the shift to become full-time, voice talent?
Amie Breedlove
(10:13) That was in 2011. May 2011, to be exact. I can’t remember the exact date. But I finally realized that my client base was growing. I would be on the air, and I would have clients reach out to me and say, “Can you have this over to us at such and such a time?”
(10:29) And I’m like, “Well, I’m on the air right now.”
(10:30) And I had wonderful bosses in radio both here in West Virginia and Alaska, and they said, you know, if you need to use the production room for any of your voice over stuff, that’s totally fine, as long as you get everything else done.
(10:42) So, yeah, once I just became super busy, my husband said, “You know what? Let’s do it. Let’s build the studio. Go full time. Give it a whirl.”
(10:54) And this studio … he built this. He pushed in with his fingers. Oops. That one’s falling out a little bit. The thumbtacks with his thumb, and his thumb was numb for, like, a month afterwards. I’m like, couldn’t you have just hammered it in? But, anyway, he built this here in the second bedroom, and this was my very first studio. And here we are 15 years later.
Skip
(11:16) That’s so cool.
Amie Breedlove
(11:18) I know.
Skip
(11:19) So you produce work for clients, commercials, narration, script reads.
Amie Breedlove
(11:25) Yes. Lots of corporate videos.
Skip
(11:27) And you also offer some coaching, don’t you?
Amie Breedlove
(11:29) I do. I coach on my own, and I also coach with UVT, Universal Voice Talent. There’s six of us on the team, which gives students a good variety of everything they need to get started with marketing, tech. So you get your studio set up with one of the coaches. There’s an animation coach, and then pretty much all of us teach performance.
(11:54) And that’s the one thing that I really can’t give teaching on my own is just the tech side of things, because that’s more of my husband’s wheelhouse of getting things all set up. He knows where all the cords need to go, and I’m just here to read, perform. Marketing, of course, I do have a marketing class with teaching on my own, but, yeah, that that tech side.
Skip
(12:16) Yeah, and speaking of marketing, I love your when you take us behind the scenes, you’re doing, you’re putting together a voice track, and you’re you’re showing us on a short Instagram clip or, a social reel how it’s done. And I love the ones where you show us the flub-ups. Like, oh, what did I just say? That’s not what I meant to say. That didn’t come out right. Let’s do that again. Those are fun.
Amie Breedlove
(12:41) I need to do more of those. Those are … that happens a lot, so I should just record myself.
Skip
(12:46) So that might have sparked someone’s idea that they want to reach out for coaching or they want to learn more about your voice talent service. Maybe they wanna hire you for commercial work. Where would they go to find that?
Amie Breedlove
(12:56) That would be my website or email. Website is amiebreedlove.com. It’s Amie, just like Mamie, without the m, which was my grandmother’s name. And, breed love. Breed and love, all one word, dot com. Email is amie.breedlove@gmail.
Skip
(13:15) Perfect. I’ll put a link to both of those, in the Show Notes. I’ll tuck those in there for folks to conveniently just click and and reach out.
Amie Breedlove
(13:23) Why thank you!
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Skip
(14:29) Amie Breedlove, that brings us to the pivotal moment in the show where I’m gonna ask you that familiar question that I’ve asked each and every wise guest that’s graced our microphones before you more than 150.
(14:41) Amie Breedlove, what’s the main thing you’ve learned in your lifetime so far?
Amie Breedlove
(14:48) Skip, the main thing that I’ve learned in my lifetime so far is to slow down and observe and really look, really see things. Maybe even as for the first time, things that you’ve seen or see every day.
Skip
(15:09) I really resonates with me. I love your main thing: slow down and observe. Slow down and observe.
(15:17) I had an experience. Lisa, my wife, and I, we took a trip two weeks ago. We went down to the Carolina Coast. We were at the southern tail of the Outer Banks, charming little town called Beaufort, North Carolina.
(15:31) And I got about the second day, maybe, you know, it takes a day of travel and you’re tired, but then that second day, I got relaxed. And I started seeing things, and I was taking pictures of beautiful things that were a little ordinary. But if you’re going through life at a fast pace and your your brain is occupied with your to do list and your worries and your cares and your troubles, you’re just not gonna see those things. And I, was sending one of my best friends a couple pictures, and he’s like, I can tell you’re relaxed, Skip, because you’re you’re seeing the beauty in things. And that was what … you know, he said it perfectly.
(16:09) Amie, I’d like to invite you to just go deeper into the nuance and tell us more about your main thing, wisdom nugget.
Amie Breedlove
(16:15) Yeah. Of course. So if you’re familiar with the the play “Our Town?”
Skip
(16:21) Yeah. Thornton Wilder.
Amie Breedlove
(16:22) Yeah. That’s what really … it grabbed me during high school. I remember because, you know, at the end, she she’s like, I wish I would have just looked more. And savored those moments. And it didn’t really come back around again until after my parents passed. My dad passed in 2001. My mom passed in 2003.
Skip
(16:51) Oh, I’m so sorry.
Amie Breedlove
(16:52) And I was, you know, in my thirties at the time, and I’m an only child. So I was very close with my parents. And it was after that that I realized: wow, I mean, you really …. Now at 55, there are still things that I was like, why didn’t I think of this to ask my mom or ask my dad? Or just notice more when you’re in a moment of just laughter or concern? Or just even just hanging out, being in each other’s presence. So I do that now with my husband.
(17:29) I’m just, like, very observant of everything and knowing that life is short. Enjoy it.
Skip
(17:39) Yeah. Those are wise words and exactly why I wanted to have you on this program. That’s a wonderful addition to our our library, our collection of wisdom. Yours is slow down and observe. You can’t do one without the other, can you?
Amie Breedlove
(17:52) No. Definitely not. And on days when I’m, you know, maybe having a bad day or I just have a lot of work in front of me, I just have to and nature is so healing for me as you can see from my front porch. And that’s normally where I’ll go. It’s just to to grab in that moment of let me realize who I am, where I am, and what I am because I’m on this big blue ball floating in space.
(18:21) Here’s all of this wildlife just kinda hanging out and enjoying their day. And a tree. You know, I’ve been doing a lot of tai chi, so I’m really into this whole thing of of just relaxation and just noticing nature and how nature just kind of is. So that brings me back to my center.
Skip
(18:43) Absolutely. You and I have a a shared commitment to those self-care practices that help us quiet the mind and center the body.
(18:54) And I did mine. I call it my morning flow. It’s a mix of tai chi and stretching and yoga. I do it every day, and it takes about twenty minutes. I can do it faster if I need to. Or I can easily extend it out to an hour if I have that luxury. That that tends to be like a Saturday morning, for example.
Amie Breedlove
(19:14) Right.
Skip
(19:15) But I’m better I’m better when I do it. And when I miss it, I can tell.
Amie Breedlove
(19:21) Same. Absolutely. My body feels it.
Skip
(19:24) When I miss it, I’m more irritable. I’m … I’m in a hurry.
Amie Breedlove
(19:28) Yes.
Skip
(19:29) Yeah, and I don’t like that.
Amie Breedlove
(19:31) I don’t either. I don’t either.
Skip
(19:34) When I when I can slow this engine down, I can slow down, and then I can observe. Per your wisdom.
(19:43) Amie, if someone listening has never thought about this, they just go through life and they’re they don’t think about their velocity, the speed they’re moving at. And they they’re like, okay … I see things. I use my eyes all the time. They’re not really focused on observing for the purpose of appreciating the beauty that’s around us. How how might they get started into that? How could they start down that path of your main thing, slow down and observe?
Amie Breedlove
(20:15) For me, it was just taking the time. And I do still have days—because this job is such a hustle—where I’ll push it to the side. And like you said, you feel it. So I think it’s just a matter of making yourself really take the time even if you say, “Okay, I’m gonna give myself fifteen minutes or five minutes.” To just choose something that really makes you happy, makes you light up inside. Even if it’s just a thought, that can be immensely healing on its own. You know, when you’re planning on going on vacation; you’re like, “Oh, I’m so excited to go on this vacation!” So even if it’s just five minutes of really thinking of something that just lights you up inside, that will do wonders of getting you to that space, I believe, of good. Of wanting to … of wanting to pause.
Skip
(21:15) That’s a great tip. So commit to a time. You could start with five minutes. You could start with ten. And I’ll add to that if you don’t know where to start … you know nothing about yoga, and you don’t have the … you don’t really wanna take the time to learn yoga or tai chi. Not that it takes a long time to learn, but during that that five or ten minute period that you’ve carved out and then you say, “Okay, I’m gonna be disciplined about this.” You could even close your eyes and listen to music.
Amie Breedlove
(21:38) Sure. Absolutely.
Skip
(21:42) And there are tons of guided meditations out there if you want to quiet your mind.
Amie Breedlove
(21:47) Yes. And that is one thing that I found, because I would try the meditation thing, and I’m like, this is not working because I’m such a scatterbrain. And I like to be moving around. I’m not even a big movie person. My husband, it drives him crazy because I’m like, I I just can’t sit. You know, I’ve gotta be doing something like crocheting or reading or something.
(22:08) And so meditating was not working for me. That’s where tai chi and qigong came in handy for me, because you’re meditating as you’re moving slowly, and it works.
Skip
(22:24) Can you think of a recent example, Amie, where you you were in that mindset, you were in that headspace, you had slowed down, and and you observed something beautiful. When did that happen for you, and what was it recently?
Amie Breedlove
(22:37) Wow. That happens every day. It really, really does because, you know, I’ve chatted with you before about my health journey, and every day that I feel good, that’s a beautiful thing for me. If I’m able to just walk, you know, to I get …. And it’s not “I have to go to the grocery store. I have to clean the toilet.”
(23:07) It’s “I get to go to the grocery store. I get to clean the toilet.” I get excited about cleaning the toilet. Whatever it is that I’m doing that I’m like, “Ugh, okay … I have to cook dinner again.”
(23:19) No. No. No. I get to cook dinner because someday, I won’t get to cook dinner. Someday, won’t get to clean the toilet. Someday, I won’t be able to walk, maybe, you know, on the trail. So I’m just happy that I’m able to get to do things.
Skip
(23:37) What you led me to just now was something very ordinary, and I’ll just share a very brief observation. When I when I reflect on your main thing, which is to slow down and observe, we have a, we have a coffee pot. It’s the one we’ve had for four or five years. My wife and I both love coffee, and so we carefully and thoughtfully selected this coffee pot. And the point is not the features of the coffee pot, or what brand it is. But we use it every morning, and there’s you know, when you’re in a hurry, you’re filling that coffee in there as fast as you can. You put in the water and you hit go, and you just want it to be ready. Come on!
(24:15) But when I slow down and observe, I notice out the top comes these amazing steam shapes. And when I’m … when I’m just sitting there … and I’m slowed down … and I’m observing, you see these amazing sculptures in the air of steam. It’s like, oh my gosh. Wow!
(24:31) And I guess for me, the big insight is that’s always there. It happens every time we make coffee, but I don’t often take the time to sit and notice it.
Amie Breedlove
(24:43) It’s the little things.
Skip
(24:45) So thank you. You just led me to a rich recollection and insight.
Amie Breedlove
(24:51) I love that.
Skip
(24:56) Amie, a few moments ago, you mentioned, health in the context of how we appreciate the ordinary daily beautiful things. And it’s, powerful when we can stop and say, “Gosh, I’m healthy today. I feel great. And I’m blessed. What a what a beautiful thing this is to feel how I feel today!”
(25:13) But I know that’s not always been the case with you, and we’ve had some really meaningful conversations because in our family, my son had a four and a half year battle, a journey through an autoimmune illness, and he’s come out the other side. Fortunately, he’s completely healthy.
(25:32) And I know you have somewhat of a similar experience. I wondered if you would share a little bit about that with our audience in the hopes that wisdom of health and how we take care of ourselves might help someone who’s listening right now.
Amie Breedlove
(25:46) Absolutely. Glad to hear Sherman is on the other side and and thriving. I love that.
(25:52) So let me start first with, when I was seven, my mother had a brain tumor, and it was benign, thankfully. She came through surgery. But she ended up with facial paralysis, had to learn how to eat, drink, talk, walk. She had double vision for the rest of her life, although prescriptions, eyeglasses helped. She had a cousin who was an eye doctor, which was a blessing. But that was a very rough time for me at six years old, seven years old.
Skip
(26:26) Traumatic. I’m sure.
Amie Breedlove
(26:27) Traumatic. So stressful. So going through my life, any other what could be traumatic stressful event kind of, you know, leaned back toward that, and my body would feel it without me even realizing. What am I feeling? And it’s it’s just that trauma that’s still stuck in my body. So that is what … that is what has caused, I think, a lot of these things that five, ten, fifteen years ago have, started becoming a problem with food sensitivities.
(27:00) Many, many foods I react to. Red meat gives me migraine auras. Didn’t used to. Eggs give me migraine auras. Didn’t used to.
Skip
(27:08) Oh gosh.
Amie Breedlove
(27:09) Fermented foods. Can’t do those anymore. Oh, how I miss my peanut butter and pickles. So I’m working through food sensitivities, also a possible autoimmune, like your son, and I’m working with a nutritionist. I’ve been working with her for three years. We’re coming coming around the bend and making progress.
(27:28) There are supplements that have really helped me. here’s a genetic health test that I took that has really, really helped and shown what my body needs.
Skip
(27:35) Amazing.
Amie Breedlove
(27:36) Yeah, so I can’t say enough good things about my nutritionist, and I’ve worked with several functional medicine doctors. I just tend to have more side effects with a lot of the medications. I want to get to the root root cause of what’s going on, so that I can thrive without having to take a ton of medications.
Skip
(28:05) Yeah. That’s that point of transformation that you’re looking for. I completely relate to that. And that’s a different way of looking … a radically different way of looking at things, isn’t it?
Amie Breedlove
(28:13) Oh, absolutely. Yes. So whatever you put into your body, it needs to be, what your body needs, which is why I do a green drink every single day. And you have to make sure that you’re keeping your your liver, your pancreas, your kidneys healthy. You know, these medicines are all filtered through that. So they have to be in good working order. And my methylation, I found, was or is still off. So we’re working on my pathways to get those moving along.
(28:46) If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything. And I’ve realized that too … because I don’t know if I’ve told you this, but I had so many ER visits within the past five years. It’s almost like an every six month thing, where I’ll dehydrate on a dime. Even though I drink water, I use my mineral salts. I also have an ATG gene, which is salt-sensitive. So I have to be careful with my salts, but I need to get that potassium chloride and magnesium in there. So it is a puzzle under the works.
(29:23) But knowing the—like I was saying earlier—just being able to you know … I get to clean the toilet. I’m so happy about that because you know what? I’m not laying in a hospital bed.
Skip
(29:34) Amie, thanks for sharing about your health journey, and that’s just meaningful story and learning that we’re sharing in the hopes that it might help at least one listener find a different pathway to health.
Amie Breedlove
(29:47) Yes, I would love to be able to get this all fixed and share.
Skip
(29:59) Amie, I’ve enjoyed immensely our conversation today. You’ve shared such wonderful stories and wisdom, and I want to invite you to take a minute here to share a parting thought or an idea with our audience of about a thousand wisdom-seekers, folks who are keenly interested in in personal development, growth, and getting better at life.
Amie Breedlove
(30:19) That is me. I’m a sponge. I just wanna soak up all the wisdom.
(30:23) And that would probably be the first thing that I would say, which is what I heard my entire life growing up, was to continue educating yourself, learn all that you can about everything. But especially once you start getting older, since we’ve chatted about health, learn about the best way to take care of yourself healthfully, but also to do better, to be better, feel better.
(30:48) Be that change that you wanna see in the world. Kindness. Share a smile. Even on your rough days, go to that pause … five moments … and realize that whatever you’re going through, it too shall pass.
(31:03) And let’s spread good energy and those smiles to everyone even if you’re in traffic and having a bad day. Just know that that person in front of you, they’re traveling somewhere too, and they’re they’re trying to get through their day. We don’t know what they’re going through. So maybe have that top of mind – all the time.
Skip
(31:24) That’s great advice. Amie, I can’t thank you enough. Thanks for coming on and sharing your wisdom, your stories. This has just been … just been a joy.
Amie Breedlove
(31:33) It has been. This has been absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much, Skip.
Skip
(31:38) My pleasure, Amie. I know I’ll see you soon, but so long for now.
Amie Breedlove
(31:43) So long.
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