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Welcome to Life with Amy, a podcast for women who want to lead well, build meaningful businesses, and live a life of wholeness rooted in faith.Hosted by Amy Poepping, entrepreneur, leader, and very real life mom. This show dives into honest conversations behind leadership, entrepreneurship, faith and wellness that shape who we become. From stepping into the unknown and building businesses, to navigating hard seasons, strengthening your mindset and becoming the woman God created you to be.Each episode is honest, encouraging & grounded in real life. If you're looking for perfection, you won't find it here!Join Amy for real conversations about growing as a leader, creating freedom as an entrepreneur, and not losing yourself in it all.If you are a faith driven woman who knows she is called to more, and is ready to step outside her comfort zone, grab a seat and hit play. You are in the right room!
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- 2 days ago10 min
Encouraging Words: Why Your Words Matter More Than You Think
TakeawaysWhen something someone said or did impacts you, tell them, because you have no idea how far your encouragement will carry them.Being bold with your words can open the door to real conversations, including conversations about faith.Words can lift a person up or tear them down, and people tend to hold onto the bad far longer than the good.Consuming good content is helpful, but putting what you learn into action is what makes the difference.Summary of the EpisodeIn this episode of Life with Amy, Amy Poepping shares a short, sweet reminder that our words matter, especially when we are bold enough to say them out loud to someone else. She opens with two powerful messages she received in the same week from two women she has known for years, from completely different parts of her life.The first friend told Amy she had inspired her by moving across the country. Amy had no idea, because inspiring people was never the goal. She and her family were following the nudges they felt from God. That message gave Amy a chance to talk about how good God is, and it shows what can happen when someone takes the time to say thank you.The second message came from a friend who simply said she enjoys tuning in to the podcast. Amy explains that she does not make the show to collect compliments, but hearing that was real validation to keep going. From there she widens the lens: thank a teacher, thank the person who serves your coffee, hold the door, say good morning. Small words can have a big impact, in person, in a text message, or on social media.Amy also reminds listeners that the same power cuts both ways. We tend to forget the good and hold onto the bad, so she asks you to choose your words wisely. She closes with a challenge to pass it on: take what you learn here and put it into action, because action beats consumption ten to one.Key Topics CoveredWhy being bold with our words mattersTwo encouraging messages from friends in different areas of Amy's lifeMoving from Minnesota to Texas and following the nudges of GodWhy people rarely say "you inspired me" out loudAmy's goal to be an outpouring of love and lightTurning a thank-you into a conversation about faithWhy Amy makes the podcast and what she hopes it does for youNot knowing who you are impacting, and being okay with thatEveryday encouragement: teachers, baristas, holding the doorWhy we remember the bad more than the goodChoosing words that lift people upWords in text messages and on social mediaBeing real without being degrading or meanPassing it on and putting lessons into actionConsuming with open hands and an open heart
- 1 weeks ago14 min
Life Is Short: What Really Matters Most
TakeawaysLife is short for everyone, so the thing you keep postponing deserves a start date of today, not someday.You will never feel completely ready, and waiting for "when I'm ready" is one of the most common ways we limit ourselves.What matters most in life is people and how you spend your time with them, not houses, cars, or wardrobes.You do not have to go through hardship and loss to make powerful shifts in how you live. You can choose intention now.Summary of the EpisodeIn this episode of Life with Amy, Amy Poepping shares two big life lessons she learned through the grief and loss of the last few years. She explains that hard seasons are when we learn the most, because we are searching, leaning in, and exploring the most. Her hope is that you can learn these lessons without having to go through loss yourself.The first lesson is that life is short. We all say it, but Amy asks whether we actually live like we believe it. She shares how her family's plan to move south was always tied to her husband's retirement, and how losing her father-in-law at 61, before he ever got to retire, hit her in every ounce of her being. She challenges listeners to stop saying "I'll do it when I'm ready" and to stop waiting for January 1st to start the idea, goal, or dream that has been on their heart.The second lesson is about what actually matters. In the hardest years, what mattered was spending time together and slowing down. Amy talks about not being too busy to notice, to be there, to have the family dinner, or to go to the doctor's appointment. She calls out how easily we put brands, cars, and appearances ahead of people, and asks why we wait for hardship to remind us of our real priorities.Amy closes with a loving challenge. She shares her grandma's 97 years and how even that felt like it went so fast, and she clarifies that this message is not about guilt or giving up your goals. It is about living with intention, focusing on what matters most to you, and letting go of the rest. Listen to Life with Amy wherever you get your podcasts.Chapters00:00 Welcome and Purpose00:43 Hard Seasons Grow Us01:16 Lesson One Life Is Short03:37 Stop Waiting Start Now05:46 Lesson Two What Matters07:14 Time People Over Things09:05 Living With Intention11:54 Faith Eternity Focus13:40 Final Challenge and Wrap
- 2 weeks ago30 min
Honoring the Life We've Lost Shouldn't Keep Us from Living the Life We Still Have
TakeawaysRelief and heartbreak can exist side by side in grief, and feeling both does not mean you loved someone any less.God does not promise an easy life, but He promises to walk with you, weep with you, and carry you through the hard seasons.When doors close one after another, getting curious about what God is doing can open you up to a future you never planned.Choosing to look for goodness and gratitude changes your perspective on loss, even though grief never fully goes away.Summary of the EpisodeIn this episode of Life with Amy, Amy Poepping continues last week's conversation about "395 Days of Hard" as her family marks the two-year anniversary of her father-in-law's death from cancer. She is clear that nothing was good about losing him, but she shares the goodness she has seen come from the last two years and how she holds onto God's promise to work all things out for His good and His glory.Amy walks through the day Dale died, which she describes as hard, beautiful, and relieving, and the funeral, where friends told old stories about him. She shares a sweet moment with her three kids, who ate ice cream to remember Papa and pictured him farming in heaven. She also talks honestly about the angry prayers she prayed, and how she and her husband, Casey, chose every day to let God and other people into their lives.From there, Amy lays out the timeline of loss that followed: the end of living on the family farm, the death of her 97-year-old grandma, and the sale of her flower shop. She explains why she and Casey did not ignore those closed doors, how a long-term dream of moving south turned into a leap of faith to Texas, and what she means by "God-fidence" when you are not feeling confident but you know God is.She closes by challenging listeners to find the goodness and gratitude in their own hard seasons, to avoid staying stuck in grief, and to remember that life does not end at loss. Whether your grief is the loss of a person, a job, a relationship, or something else, this episode offers faith-filled encouragement for living after loss.
- 3 weeks ago20 min
A Beautifully Hard Season: 395 Days of Grief Before the Loss
TakeawaysGrief does not mean moving on. It means learning to move forward while carrying the love and the loss.You can start grieving before a loss happens, and naming that grief is part of walking through a hard diagnosis well.Receiving help is hard, but letting people carry your burdens is a gift to you and to them.A hard season can also be a good one if you look for the good, and the good is often what you remember most.Summary of the EpisodeIn this episode of Life with Amy, Amy Poepping shares a story that has been on her heart as the two-year anniversary of her father-in-law's passing approaches. It is part healing for her and part encouragement for anyone struggling with loss, grief, or the work of moving forward.Amy takes us back to the family farm where she and her husband, Casey, moved seven and a half years ago, and to the ordinary September day in 2023 when a small bus accident led to a brain bleed and then a stage four lung cancer diagnosis for her father-in-law, Dale. She walks through the shock, the anger, and the disbelief, and what it was like to be a caretaker with a background in medicine while parenting and supporting her husband.From there, Amy talks about grieving the loss before it happens, the hard conversations she was honored to have with Dale, and the lesson of learning to receive after a lifetime of giving. She shares how her church family and friends showed up with meals, rides, babysitting, and help with bills, and what it meant to see the body of Christ in action.Amy also holds the joy alongside the hard: ice cream dates after treatment, ringing the bell after his final radiation, and Dale teasing the nurses. She closes with the day Dale died at home, why she chooses gratitude, and a preview of a follow-up episode about how her family has moved forward over the last two years.
- Oct 7, 202620 min
Are You a Faucet or a Drain in Your Relationships?
You can think you're a positive person and still be the drain in the room. In this episode, Amy shares two simple visuals: the faucet and the drain, and the stadium of people in your life. You'll learn how to spot who fills you up, who empties you out, and how to honestly check which one you are. Amy also explains why you can't (and shouldn't) kick every drain out of your life, but you can move them to the nosebleed seats and bring faucets to the front row. Plus: why healthy faucets turn off, what Jesus modeled in Luke 5:16, and why your front row only needs three to five people.Key takeawaysA faucet adds value to the room. A drain takes it away. It is not about positive versus negative; it is about what you leave behind.Drains are easy to spot in others and hard to spot in yourself. Turn the lesson inward.You can't always remove people, but you can choose who gets a front row seat to your life, business, leadership, motherhood, and home.Healthy faucets turn off. Rest is not selfish, and if being a faucet exhausts you, it is probably people pleasing.Your front row needs only three to five faucets.Try this this weekName the faucets in your life and what they do that fills you up.Ask yourself in one specific place: "What can I add here?"Decide who needs to move a few rows back, and whether you need to move back for someone else.Hit the unfollow button on social media drains. It's the easiest practice round there is.
- Sep 30, 202618 min
Don't Discount Yourself Because of Your Past: How to Start Over With God at Any Age
TakeawaysAmy shares how saying yes to God ten years ago turned a season she calls a train wreck into a life she never believed was possible.Real change comes from a thousand little yeses, and the hard nos that come with each one.God has a long track record of using people with messy pasts, from Paul to Rahab, and your story is not a disqualifier.In this episode of Life With Amy, Amy Poepping reflects on the last 10 years of her life and says the things she wishes someone had told her in her 20s. She opens up about a season of derailed decisions, drinking, and a deep longing for more that she kept looking for in all the wrong places. She also shares how one decision to say yes to Jesus, made ten years ago in May, changed the direction of everything that followed, including the businesses she has built and the stages she has spoken on. From there, Amy walks through three reminders for anyone who feels too far gone. First, stop using your past as evidence against your future. Second, your life changes through a thousand little yeses and the hard nos that come with them. Third, do not discount what God can do with a willing person. She talks about the difference between guilt and conviction, why forgiveness does not mean forgetting, and the image of walking through a door to your future with no baggage. She also gets honest about learning to say no to friends and to the next drink, and why she still has to choose growth every single day. The conversation closes with a reminder that you do not need your Ts crossed and your Is dotted to begin. You just need to show up willing and wanting, and trust that your coming days can be greater than your former days.
- Sep 23, 202626 min
How to Read the Bible When You Have No Idea Where to Start
Download the bible app: https://www.youversion.com/bible-appTakeawaysYou don't need to know anything before you start growing in your faith. Curiosity is enough to take the first step.Skip Genesis. Start reading the Bible in the Gospel of John, using an easy to read translation like the NLT.Faith grows through small, consistent habits, not big all or nothing efforts. Five minutes with your Bible open matters more than waiting for a perfect hour.Prayer doesn't require memorized words or fancy language. It's simply conversation with God, exactly as you are.Your relationship with God isn't a to-do list to check off. It's built the same way any relationship is: through consistent time and attention.In this episode, Amy opens up about what it actually looked like to start building a relationship with God from zero. She shares her own story, growing up without a regular faith practice, a season of curiosity in her late twenties, and the unexpectedly scary first step of walking into church without knowing what she was doing.From there, Amy gets practical. She walks through exactly where to start reading the Bible (hint: not page one), which translation makes it easiest to actually understand what you're reading, and how to use tools like the Bible app's Compare feature and Plans library to go deeper without feeling overwhelmed. She also breaks down what prayer really is, why it doesn't require special language, and why comparing your faith journey to someone further along only gets in your way.The episode closes with a simple, doable challenge: read one chapter of the Gospel of John every day for the next 30 days. Amy explains why this specific book, and this specific timeframe, sets beginners up to actually build a lasting habit instead of one more thing that falls off the to-do list.Key Topics Covered:Starting a faith journey when you feel behind or intimidatedWhere to begin reading the Bible (and why it isn't Genesis)Choosing a Bible translation that's actually easy to understandBuilding a consistent, low pressure Bible reading habitUsing the Bible app's Compare and Plans featuresWhat prayer actually is and why it doesn't need to sound "spiritual"Why comparing your faith to someone else's slows you downThe 30 day Bible reading challenge (starting in the Gospel of John)
- Sep 16, 202629 min
The Kind of Rest Sleep Can't Fix
TakeawaysRest is not the reward you earn after the to-do list is finished. It is part of how you were designed to function, and it comes before the work, not after it.True rest has three layers: physical rest for the body, mental rest for the mind, and soul rest for what you are carrying emotionally and spiritually. Most people only address the first one.Scrolling, bingeing a show, or zoning out are forms of distraction, not rest. Real mental rest means creating space where your mind is not managing, deciding, solving, or consuming anything at all.Summary of the episodeIn this solo episode, Amy makes the case that most of us are practicing physical rest while our minds and souls are still running a marathon. We take the day off, but we are already thinking about tomorrow. We watch football and fold laundry on Sunday, then jump right back into the exact pace that exhausted us in the first place.Amy grounds the conversation in scripture, starting with creation. God rested on the seventh day, not because He was exhausted, but to establish a healthy rhythm. Adam, the first human, was created on day six, which means his first full day was a day of rest. He did not work to earn rest. He rested first, then worked from that place. Amy builds her entire framework on this idea: rest is not the reward for work, it is part of how we were made to work in the first place.From there, she breaks rest into three categories. Physical rest covers sleep, nourishment, and movement, and she shares her own history of running on empty during a season of burnout. Mental rest is about clearing the "open tabs" in your brain through practices like writing things down, taking silent drives, and a five-minute quieting exercise she walks through in detail. Soul rest, drawn from Matthew 11, is about identifying what you are carrying that was never yours to carry, and surrendering it, not once, but continually.Amy closes with a clear, repeatable framework: physical rest says you have limits and you can honor them, mental rest says you do not have to process everything, and soul rest says you do not have to carry everything alone. That, she says, is purposeful rest.Key Topics Covered:Why rest is not something you earn after the work is doneThe creation story and what Adam's first day teaches about rest before workPhysical rest: sleep, nourishment, and movement without overhauling your entire routineJesus and the disciples in Mark 6, and Elijah in 1 Kings 19, as biblical examples of forced restMental rest and clearing the "open tabs" in your mindWhy scrolling and bingeing shows are distraction, not restA five-minute practice for quieting your mind, step by stepSoul rest from Matthew 11: naming what you are carrying and surrendering itThe difference between being busy and being rushedA closing framework for physical, mental, and soul rest
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About Life with Amy
Welcome to Life with Amy, a podcast for women who want to lead well, build meaningful businesses, and live a life of wholeness rooted in faith.Hosted by Amy Poepping, entrepreneur, leader, and very real life mom. This show dives into honest conversations behind leadership, entrepreneurship, faith and wellness that shape who we become. From stepping into the unknown and building businesses, to navigating hard seasons, strengthening your mindset and becoming the woman God created you to be.Each episode is honest, encouraging & grounded in real life. If you're looking for perfection, you won't find it here!Join Amy for real conversations about growing as a leader, creating freedom as an entrepreneur, and not losing yourself in it all.If you are a faith driven woman who knows she is called to more, and is ready to step outside her comfort zone, grab a seat and hit play. You are in the right room!
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