Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 2: It is just me myself, Laura, Brittany Hockley's in the
Speaker 2: Army of Celebrity again, Roll Jungle.
Speaker 1: Mitch Jerry Check, Laura man Check, Amy Girard, Kimmy.
Speaker 2: Girard, Jack Jack, Amy Girard's joining us.
Speaker 1: Sheers brilliant. You know we're on social media. She's got
Speaker 1: a brand new book coming out. Welcome to the show, Amy,
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 3: Thank you? I'm good, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: It's so good to have you. Listen Amy, You'll know
Speaker 1: Amy have listened to.
Speaker 2: This is my favorite, one of my favorite videos Amy's
Speaker 2: ever posted to social media.
Speaker 1: Have a listened funny story. Today was an absolute show.
Speaker 4: And see brought in.
Speaker 3: Some washing following it, and I'm putting it back in
Speaker 3: the in my bedroom.
Speaker 1: I can hear like Kobe screaming.
Speaker 3: So I've right into the bathroom and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: my movie poop pulled him over and I looked down
Speaker 3: into the toilet.
Speaker 1: In his turd was a butterfly clip. How did he
Speaker 1: eat a butterfly clip? And how has he pushed it
Speaker 1: out his arm? How did he swallow a butterfly clip?
Speaker 1: Which is so funny. You would have seen her socials online.
Speaker 4: I love following Amy online, and I think for me
Speaker 4: as a mum who has two kids, Amy's got three kids.
Speaker 4: And I think one of the things is is that
Speaker 4: so often on online, on in social media, people make
Speaker 4: parenting look perfect and easy and everybody has the like
Speaker 4: everyone has the best case and the right way to
Speaker 4: do sleep training and this and that, and Amy just
Speaker 4: says it exactly as it is. Also, Like, Amy, at
Speaker 4: what point when you started your social media and you
Speaker 4: started this kind of like journey on Instagram and sharing
Speaker 4: parts of your life and sharing motherhood, when did you
Speaker 4: just kind of flip the script and go, you know what,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna share it with exactly as it is, which
Speaker 4: is what's and all.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: I don't even think I ever flipped a script. I
Speaker 3: just feel like I kind of entered social media as
Speaker 3: myself and as a person who has just grown up
Speaker 3: completely unfiltered and maybe slightly rogue. I just kind of
Speaker 3: took to the platform and just kind of shared it
Speaker 3: exactly how it was playing out in my life. And
Speaker 3: that is just you know, the warts and all kind
Speaker 3: of highs and lows of pregnancy and parenting and marriage
Speaker 3: and life and stuff. And so I kind of just
Speaker 3: gave it my own genuine personality and I interjected a
Speaker 3: little bit of humor into this.
Speaker 1: It's so funny. I saw you. I think you were
Speaker 1: on the Morning show last week.
Speaker 2: I was waking up and watching and Laura, you might
Speaker 2: relate to this, but you and you beautifully said and
Speaker 2: almost Shakespearean and quite poetic. You said that having relations
Speaker 2: with your husband at this point in time after having
Speaker 2: three kids was like feeding a tic tac to a whale.
Speaker 4: Is that what was? Oh that's beautiful, Yeah, shakespeare.
Speaker 3: Cool, right, so gorgeous, poetic almost, Yeah, I feel like
Speaker 3: it's quite a descriptive way to just get people on
Speaker 3: the journey with me. That's kind of what it felt
Speaker 3: like when I had three kids under four years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, yeah, okay, no, don't say you poor thing.
Speaker 4: Three kids, three kids under four years. It's rough and
Speaker 4: it's hard, and I feel like there's so much that
Speaker 4: goes on. But I think one of the things that
Speaker 4: people don't talk about enough is there the impact that has.
Speaker 1: On your relationship.
Speaker 4: Even though you're very honest online, I would say for
Speaker 4: a lot of people who follow your socials, you guys
Speaker 4: look like you have the perfect relationship.
Speaker 3: Oh god, it's far from the perfect relationship. It's definitely
Speaker 3: it's a consistently evolving work in progress, which I think
Speaker 3: all marriages. We're constantly working at it to keep it afloat.
Speaker 3: But I think you're right, like when you have children,
Speaker 3: it's not just about them kind of dropping in the
Speaker 3: priority number, Like you've got young babies who are so
Speaker 3: dependent on you, but you're also just so touched out.
Speaker 3: So by the end of a long last day which
Speaker 3: we all know goes for at least eighty five hours,
Speaker 3: by the time the husband, you know, gets into bed
Speaker 3: and wants to throw a leg over at you could
Speaker 3: literally throw an upper cut. Not because you don't love
Speaker 3: him or anything like that, but because you're just you're
Speaker 3: at capacity, you're touched at, You've exhausted all of the
Speaker 3: energy levels. And sometimes for me, I didn't prioritize, you know,
Speaker 3: intimacy and that connection at the very start of our relationship.
Speaker 3: Now we're better. We're making like we kind of do
Speaker 3: blocks and we try and do like a date night
Speaker 3: once a month, and you know, more often than not,
Speaker 3: I will cancel on him, but we're still trying. And
Speaker 3: I think that's the whole thing about marriages is just
Speaker 3: you're constantly something. It's constantly something that you.
Speaker 1: Have to got it. You get your tig TACs.
Speaker 4: Amy, Amy, your new book, Strap Yourself In, what made
Speaker 4: you want to write it? And what can people expect?
Speaker 3: The whole information it's kind of like a bit of
Speaker 3: a play on the whole insta versus reality, And I
Speaker 3: think the whole entire book, overarching idea is about like
Speaker 3: what expectations. Obviously it's a memoir, so it's written from
Speaker 3: my own personal lives in experiences, but it's what certain
Speaker 3: expectations I had growing up through life. So it's not
Speaker 3: just a parenting book. It's not just for moms and dads.
Speaker 3: I mean it's mainly mainly for women, but it's it's
Speaker 3: about like what I thought, you know, my career was
Speaker 3: going to look like, and what I thought warranting was
Speaker 3: going to look like, and what I thought marriage was
Speaker 3: going to look like, and then it's versus what it
Speaker 3: actually looks like.
Speaker 2: It is a pleasure to have you on Amy Gerridge
Speaker 2: Blood Hilarious. You can get her on a two podcast
Speaker 2: as well. Beyond my Likes, Beyond the Chaos, Strap Yourselfie
Speaker 2: and available now, Amy Gerard, thanks for coming on the.
Speaker 4: Show, Thanks Amy for having you guys.
Speaker 1: All right, that is us done for the week. To
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