Mahara Wayman [00:00:05]:
Welcome to the art of badassery where I explore what it takes to live life on your own terms. Break free from the status quo and unleash your inner badass. Whether you're a rebel at heart or simply seeking inspiration to step outside your comfort zone, this podcast is for you. I'm your host Mahara Wayman and each week I dive into the stories, insights, and strategies of those who've mastered the art of badassery and are living life to the fullest. They smile when no one is lucky. Welcome to the Art of Badassery podcast. I'm your host, Mahara Wayman, and I'm so excited today to have Amber Renee, a powerhouse in personal branding and digital business join us. Amber is a civil engineer turned serial entrepreneur and TV star who empowers women to discover their unique wow factor and create dream digital businesses.
Mahara Wayman [00:01:06]:
As one of Australia's leading voices in online business, Amber has educated thousands worldwide on being an entrepreneur, digital marketing, and influencer branding. She's also the star of Dream Life, a hit US reality TV show that captures her journey in launching her latest elearning venture. And she's the author of Dream Life, the book. No wonder she's on The Art of Badassery. Amber, welcome to the show.
Amber Renae [00:01:33]:
I'm so excited to be here and connect with all of your badasses.
Mahara Wayman [00:01:37]:
Whoop whoop. We're gonna have fun today. Okay. So first off, gotta say, and I said this earlier before I hit the record button, you look fantastic.
Amber Renae [00:01:44]:
Thank you so much.
Mahara Wayman [00:01:46]:
Just calling that up. A little badass.
Amber Renae [00:01:48]:
It's the red lippy. So a little life hack for everyone who, needs to jump on or or go to a meeting or appear important or intelligent in any room. The secret hack, which is so low maintenance and requires no effort, chuck on a red lipstick, and everyone just thinks that you're everything you say is more important. So I highly recommend everyone going, going to their local Mac shop or Mac or Sephora and figuring out which color red lippy suits them and having that as backup when you really don't wanna put in any effort. I'm not saying I didn't put an effort today, Mahara. Just letting you know I put in a lot of effort for the badasses, but that's the low low effort hack. Well, I love that, and thank you for sharing. Okay.
Mahara Wayman [00:02:24]:
I want to jump right in. Why are you badass?
Amber Renae [00:02:26]:
I think I'm a badass because I have overcome so much in my life. I've had a lot of hardship and trauma, which would keep a lot of people down. Like not a lot of people would get back up after a lot of the things that I've been through. And not only have I picked myself back up, I've done it with more brilliance and more shine and more badassery than the last time. And I feel like I've sort of reinvented myself, every single time at every step of the way.
Mahara Wayman [00:02:52]:
Well, of course, we're gonna get into some of those things. But really, if we go even if we sort of take a broader view on that, what do you think is the epitome of badassery? Is it just getting back up? Is it getting back up with a different view? Is it recognizing something about yourself? Like, let's get into the guts of of being a badass.
Amber Renae [00:03:12]:
Great question. I think it's, giving yourself compassion and empathy when you've gone through a hard time, recognizing that that's a part of life. That's what we signed up for. We all came here as part of the journey and knowing that rather than criticizing yourself and beating yourself up over, oh, you've gotten yourself into this trauma or this relationship or this negative down cycle in your business. Instead, you can choose to reframe that and look at it with a positive point of view, which is that it was put in your path for a reason to teach you some lessons and to give you some learning and understanding that you can hopefully then go on to help someone else who may also be going through something like that.
Mahara Wayman [00:03:51]:
Alright. So having a realistic understanding of what it means to be human, another way of putting that. Right? I think so many times we can be very unrealistic with ourselves. I want it. Therefore, I should get it the way I want it quicker than I'll even, you know, your order.
Amber Renae [00:04:08]:
Without any hurdles, without any obstacles, it should all just go very smoothly for me because I'm special. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. All joking aside, we smoothly for me because
Mahara Wayman [00:04:13]:
I'm special. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. All joking aside, we all are special. But to your point, life does happen even to special people. Right? Can you can you share with us one of the first times that you had to pick yourself up and brush
Amber Renae [00:04:26]:
So my first business was a fashion design label. It started with me on a sewing machine, and I made four shirts the first week, sold four shirts. The next week, I made eight shirts and sold eight shirts. And five years later, I had a 20 accounts around the world. We exported to Paris, Tokyo, LA, and South Africa. And we dressed some of the biggest celebrities of the time, which back in the day was Paris Hilton. And this was kind of before social media. So I was doing influencer marketing with the world's biggest influencer before their social media was even a thing.
Amber Renae [00:04:55]:
And that was a business that I dreamed of having ever since I was a little girl. I used to watch fashion TV when I was a child. Like, I drew dresses. I used to make my own clothes in primary school. Like, this was all I ever dreamed of doing, and it was something that I thought I would do for the rest of my life, because that's all my little ego had plans for me. But the universe had bigger plans, thankfully. I, that my manufacturer ended up going out of business, which caused me to go out of business. And the structure of that business model, because it is a very faulty business model, is that you pay for everything upfront.
Amber Renae [00:05:27]:
Let's say you pay for your materials and you're manufacturing everything. And then six months later, hopefully, your manufacturer will deliver the product that you've prepurchased, and then hopefully you can go and deliver it to store. So already, it's a faulty business model. But anyway, my manufacturer went out of business. That caused me to go out of business because we had spent every dollar that we had on this manufacturing run. And as a result, I had nothing left. I'd lost everything, and my ego and identity was wrapped up in that business. I was it was called the Amber Renee Experiment.
Amber Renae [00:05:58]:
I was ARX, so the initials were ARX. I used to walk into boutiques and events and people go, ARX is here. So I had so much identity wrapped up in that. And obviously, you know, everyone loved that I had a fashion label like that was it was a big deal back then. And when I lost that, I had a nervous breakdown on the side of the Highway. I had to be taken into hospital. And whilst I was there, I realized I had cancer, stomach ulcers, and I had to go on anti anxiety and antidepressant tablets. So I had literally worked myself to death.
Amber Renae [00:06:31]:
And, the universe had sort of delivered a break for me as as it as it will. I was never going to take a break for myself. And the universe stepped in and said, yes, you will be having a break whether you like one or not. And so that was sort of the end of the first business. And I was, you know, incredibly depressed, incredibly, physically sick, mentally sick. I thought that the universe had really done me dirty because what I believed was that if you work really hard and you're doing something that you really love, then it's supposed to work out for you. And so it didn't work out for me. And so then I had to really reaffirm what I believed about the universe because I was like, you guys have done me in.
Amber Renae [00:07:12]:
You know? This is it wasn't supposed to be this way.
Mahara Wayman [00:07:15]:
You know what? You bring up a really good point because I I I totally understand that feeling. It's like, look it. I'm a good girl. I'm a nice person. I treat people well. I'm a great mom. I'm a good friend. All of these things that I feel I deserve.
Mahara Wayman [00:07:30]:
And I got caught up in that loop of how come things aren't working out my way. And it's like, what do I need to do? Because I I would see people that in my opinion I'm very judgmental or I was more so before I am now, but in the past, I would see people that I felt weren't very honest or very trustworthy or very spiritual or very loving, and they were making it. You know? And so there was this real fight inside me, like, what is the answer? And not that I wanna jump down a spiritual hole, but I think it's important to recognize that sometimes well, often for me, I was my own worst enemy because I just didn't believe in myself enough. And that was a big learning lesson for me. What was the biggest thing you learned about yourself once you realized that you had to separate from that identity, that you were more than the fashion label? Yeah. That I could,
Amber Renae [00:08:25]:
I guess, recreate myself again, recreate a new identity, rebirth myself, if you will. And also, you know, if we want to go down the the self worth route, I realized during that time that I really hated myself. I remember having the moment where I looked in the mirror and not only did I not like the person looking back at me, I actually hated myself. And that was shocking. Like, I just couldn't believe. I still remember it. I just think, oh, that's so heartbreaking to think that, you know, by this point, I was in my thirties and I'd lived all of this life, and I still hadn't figured out how to love myself. And so that became sort of my main focus in life of you need to sort this out because it doesn't matter how big a business you build or how hard you work.
Amber Renae [00:09:09]:
If you're looking in the mirror and actually hating yourself, you're not gonna be successful at anything, at life, at relationships, at love, at anything. So that was a really hard moment for me.
Mahara Wayman [00:09:19]:
Thank you for sharing that. And I'm sure that that really resonated with a lot of our listeners because this this lack of worth is so common with my clients, and I felt it too. And I didn't understand truthfully, full disclosure, I didn't have the language to explain what I was feeling. Because for me, anyway, this is all fairly new. Right? I've I've been a I've been a coach for years in the weight loss industry. And but it's only been the last four years that I've done coaching on myself or myself and studied it and and have, you know, certifications in it. And I realized that, wow, I'm gonna be 59 in a few weeks and only have had this language for three years out of 59. It's pretty sad.
Mahara Wayman [00:10:04]:
Well, for the first three years, I didn't need the language because I thought I was perfect. Right? When I was little, life was great. But it it is, I think, very challenging for some of us to just put words to what we're feeling. So would you say then that part of your badassery came from well, first of all, I've heard you say recognizing your word. What was what came after that?
Amber Renae [00:10:26]:
In terms of my personal growth journey, I guess it was all I mean, my my personal growth journey was not pretty. I'm sure we all think about how it's supposed to look, and it's all supposed to be, you know, healing and meditation and self love and, you know, candles and bathtubs. And mine was not that at all. Mine was, you know, crying and releasing grief and going through, you know, expressing all the trapped emotions that I haven't been able to express for the last thirty something years, forty something years. So the healing journey itself was, you know, ugly and painful and, difficult and felt like peeling layer after layer after layer. And every day I'd wake up and I'd be like, Oh, he did it yesterday was a big one. And then I'd oh, no. What about today's one? So it was like a really extensive and deep journey that I went on with many healing practitioners, both, you know, traditional psychologists and then all every vibe of woo woo that you can imagine.
Amber Renae [00:11:21]:
Love love a bit of healing magic. So I guess that was sort of the journey that I went on.
Mahara Wayman [00:11:27]:
Okay. Well, thank you for sharing that. And it is ugly and messy. And I think that's one of the things that becomes is a surprise to some people when I speak to them. And they kinda shy away when they ask what I do for a living. I said, well, I'm a podcaster, but I'm also a coach. I help people, you know, feel better about their lives. And they're like, what are you talking about? I'm like, oh, blah blah blah.
Mahara Wayman [00:11:47]:
And they're like, oh, yeah. No. And I'm like, you know, it's okay to sit in discomfort. It's one of the things that we learn is that when you can sit with your feelings, good, bad, ugly, or indifferent or downright ugly, then you have a chance to navigate them. If you don't acknowledge them and learn how to sit in discomfort, it'll never go away. Because to your point, the universe will keep throwing shit at you. You haven't learned it yet, Mahara. Stop hiding stop hiding your head in the sand.
Mahara Wayman [00:12:16]:
Like, you know, you gotta figure this this stuff out. So
Amber Renae [00:12:19]:
I think that's one of the greatest lessons that any human can learn is to sit in their own discomfort. Because then once you know how to sit in your own discomfort, you can hold space for everyone else's discomfort. And, also, then when there are, you know, traumatic relationships or drama happening in relationships, you don't then take that on board and let it mean something to you because you haven't healed your own trauma. It's just something that that other person is going through and they have to deal with it. And so then you're much more able to hold space for the people in your life when they're going through their own things.
Mahara Wayman [00:12:48]:
Another example of badassery, learning to hold space for yourself and for others. Alright. Let's jump into some of the work that you have are now doing. So I don't even know where to start. Do we wanna start with the book, the hit reality show, or anything else? You tell me.
Amber Renae [00:13:09]:
Well, the reality show came first, I guess. So that was sort of like a a girlfriend of mine here in Australia decided that she was gonna go and create it. We we were creating a business together, and then she was like, well, I'm gonna get us on TV. And we created this whole reality show following the launch of our business that we created, which was an online, training program. And that show was called Dream Life, which is on Hulu at the moment. And then off the back of that, I wrote Dream Life, the book. So this book was written during the pandemic, and it's sort of a combination of all of my work, all of the different online courses that I've created that help women create an online business. Business.
Amber Renae [00:13:43]:
So it's all the sort of things that we go through as females when we're trying to get our business online. So we start off with, d, which is define a mindset. So a lot of, when I speak to women, they have a really hard time with imposter syndrome, getting over the fear of being seen and heard, showing up as you are doing right now, Mahara, and speaking publicly and, you know, putting our faces out there. So that's the first thing we focus on. R is personal branding, which was what I was doing offline. So a lot of, I used to be a celebrity stylist TV presenter, so this is what I help people with, to get themselves online now. E is estate content. So that is the online real estate that we create such as coaching programs, such as, digital products, anything that we own that the government can't take away that has, means that we get paid for our knowledge instead of our time.
Amber Renae [00:14:30]:
So that's what I'm super passionate about helping people do is get paid for their knowledge because we are wise women. We are bad ass asses. We should be paid for our knowledge, not for the number of hours that we are showing up each day. This is my big passion in life. And then that, a is automation and m is traffic. So once you've got your estate built, let's bring all the people into you. So that's sort of been a culmination of my life life's work. And I wanted to make a lot of my biggest lessons really affordable for people during the pandemic when I realized, like, you guys, we all need to have something that we own, that we control, that, you know, can't be taken away from us.
Amber Renae [00:15:03]:
So that's why I wrote the book back then.
Mahara Wayman [00:15:06]:
And so first of all, holy hell. Not quite sure you've done enough and you're still quite young. So I'm kind of, like, still shaking on that, but celebrating you at the same time. And I I couldn't help but think when you shared that you a friend of yours wanted to do this and you guys were working together on something, the power of girlfriends. Just a little segue. There is nothing more powerful than another woman by your side. Whether it's business or friendships or support, I don't care. Hands down, I've been blessed with amazing friends, and I don't know why this is a meme somewhere or if my girlfriend, kitty cat, said it to me.
Mahara Wayman [00:15:46]:
But I know if I'm ever going to get arrested, it's gonna be because of her. And I say that with a smile on my face. Not that she's not a criminal, but she just her she energizes me to step one step outside my comfort zone, and we have so much fun. It's like she just brings me along. When we were in our twenties, we lived in Japan, and we went to a George Michael concert. We both we loved George Michael. And she she said to the group of us, we're gonna meet George Michael. And I said, don't be ridiculous.
Mahara Wayman [00:16:16]:
Like, we're just little, you know, 20 year olds from Canada. We're not meeting George Michael. She's like, hello. We are the only people that speak English. We are meeting George. You just watch me. And sure enough, with because of her efforts, we met him and partied with him all night. And it was one of the best memories of my life.
Mahara Wayman [00:16:32]:
And I'm like, I just remember her looking at me going, we are doing it. And I'm like, okay. So a little bit of a duck hunt there, but she's a That's the kind of friend everyone needs. Everybody needs a friend like them For sure. Alrighty. So what are you up to today?
Amber Renae [00:16:48]:
So today, I've launched a world's a world class, online course creation agency. So we help time poor experts to create world class courses. So for instance, anyone that has a skill, a lesson, ability, a genius zone, and I'd love to help people identify their genius zone if you wanted to go down that path. But I really believe, especially all the badass women out there, that we all have something that we can teach to someone who's one or two steps behind us. So whether that means that we are the expert in the thing or whether it just means that we've acquired life lessons, skills, abilities, something that can help someone a couple of steps behind us. So one of my courses, my third online course, is a course about mindset. I am not a mindset expert. I'm not Deepak Chopra.
Amber Renae [00:17:32]:
I have no qualifications. I've not studied anything in mindset, but we've heard already today. I've been through quite a few things in my life that helped me to develop some rituals that I personally do to make sure that I have a positive mindset. So I taught those rituals in a course. And so I encourage all the badasses who are listening today. Think about all the things that someone will come to you for advice on. So all the things that someone's like, hey, can I grab a coffee with you? I need to ask you about this. Or like, hey, you know, all your friends always text you text you about that one particular topic.
Amber Renae [00:18:04]:
There is a course or a digital product or a coaching program. There's something in that that you can turn into some sort of online business that you can help people who are a couple of steps behind you in the journey.
Mahara Wayman [00:18:16]:
So needed. So first of all, thank you for bringing that because, you know, I'm pretty new to this this journey as well, and I knew nothing. And I've said this before on the show. I was told, you know, you have to have an Instagram account. And I messaged my daughter at the time. I said, what's Instagram? She messaged me back. You're an embarrassment, mother. I'm like, oh,
Amber Renae [00:18:36]:
that's harsh.
Mahara Wayman [00:18:37]:
Oh, very harsh, but she I mean, it was she's helped me. But there's such a learning curve, especially for being in the digital space. %, what you're what you're offering is definitely something that's needed. I wanna go way, way, way back, though. Love all the stuff that you do now, but let's let's go back. What were you like as a child? Were you what was what was the world like then?
Amber Renae [00:18:59]:
So I have three brothers, and I was raised in a really, like, lower class, like, suburban area. So I was sort of it was like survival of the fittest. So school was like Lord of the Flies. So, you know, you had to, like, be competing with everyone and everything at all times. Otherwise, you were gonna get bullied and beaten up. So, my school life was a little bit tough. But having said that, I was, you know, I was gifted with a lot of brains thanks to my dad. So I was always good at school and, I was always very entrepreneurial.
Amber Renae [00:19:26]:
If you think back to some of the little side hustles that I had as a kid, like, I was constantly either making stuff on a sewing machine and selling things to my friends. Like, we all had, like, matching crop tops at one point, and I was selling them for, like, $5, which is crazy. And then other little just random little side hustles that I found I could write off to, like, you know, Quicksilver and Billabong. And if you write off to them and ask for a packet of stickers, they would give you, like, 10 stickers. And then I would take the stickers to school and sell them for, like, 50¢, you know, because that's what you used to do. You put, Billabong and Quicksilver stickers on your school books. That's what we used to do back then. So I was just always a little hustler, like straight from way back in the day.
Mahara Wayman [00:20:04]:
And what did you learn about that?
Amber Renae [00:20:07]:
I learned that I need to earn my own money and that I need to be, and that I can, you know, that I can, that there are opportunities for me if I look at externally outside of the box, there are ways for me to, I guess it was always a passion for me. Like, I wasn't like money hungry as such. I was just like, what is this thing that I can, you know, what's commercialization? What's business? So I was always just really fascinated with that.
Mahara Wayman [00:20:32]:
How do you find and maybe this is something that you teach on, but how do you help women especially understand that it's okay to want money? Because, you know and I don't even know where that came from, but it just obviously, I need it need it's been on my mind because it came out. And personally, it was really, really hard for me to put one of my dreams out there. I wrote a book. I included it. Because in the dream, I said, I wanna be I wanna be rich. Like, I wanna have a home in The Caribbean. I wanna have a home here. I wanna, you know, do all of these amazing things.
Mahara Wayman [00:21:09]:
And I struggled with putting that dream out there because I thought, that's the hell am I to say that? And I'm getting better with it. But I'm wondering how did you approach that if it was ever a consideration for you? And if so, how did you navigate it?
Amber Renae [00:21:27]:
I think I used to say all the time, I think I've had every single money block that ever existed. So I literally have repelled money for a large part of my life. Like, I've been on billboards here in Australia and not been able to pay rent. That's sort of the extent of, like, the level of success that I've always had and the lack of money that I've always had. So money is probably my relationship with money has probably been one of the biggest things that I've ever had to overcome. The way that I did that is by studying every single money loving technique in the, you know, in the world. I think, you know, from, tapping has been very useful for me. So tapping EFT, tapping for money.
Amber Renae [00:22:06]:
I've studied every single money course. I've read every single money book. And what I found is the same way that you reprogram your self worth and your self love is the same way that you reprogram your relationship with money. So the way that I started loving myself after that day when I looked in the mirror and realized that I didn't love myself was that I took baby steps. So I reduced it right back to, today, I'm just gonna love one tiny little thing. Like, my nails, that's all it is. Just my nails. I'm just gonna love my nails.
Amber Renae [00:22:34]:
And then each day, I would work up gradually until I eventually loved my whole self. But I just took baby steps and knew that it was gonna be a process. It was a process that was going to take time, and I was very, generous with that knowledge. So I wasn't, upset that today I still didn't love myself. You know, I knew it was gonna be a journey. And that's really how I have dedicated my life to sorting out my money issues as well. So, daily diligent practices, rituals, every single day that I do every day from meditations, visualizations. I've got a little checklist that I have to check off every morning that I've, you know one of the exercises I do is, I wanted to get used to managing lots of money, millions of dollars.
Amber Renae [00:23:18]:
So I created a spreadsheet, and each day I would pretend that I'd made that much money. So today I made $100,000 Okay. What are you going to do with that, Amber? Because that's a scary amount of money to come into your bank account every day. So then every day I would have to manually put the hundred thousand dollars into the Excel spreadsheet boxes. I'm gonna invest this, and then I'm gonna put this in here and and then I would, self regulate to looking at those boxes and seeing how I feel. Am I okay with having that amount of money in an investment account? That's a scary amount of money. And then thinking about those thoughts. What if you lose that money? What if the bank account goes you know, all the crazy things that you think about that you don't even realize that you think about money with money or the or then like, okay, you've got this amount of money.
Amber Renae [00:24:02]:
You're gonna buy a house. How do you feel about buying a house? Is it okay for a female to go and buy a house by herself without a man? Is it okay for a female to have a big mortgage? Like, how do you feel about that? And just really paying attention to all the programing and all the questioning that's going on in my subconscious around managing millions of dollars. So all of these little practices, I think, is just to help you regulate with, the feeling of that amount of money because that amount of money has always been very scary for me. And then these days, I'm at the level now that, I think it's my responsibility to model what it looks like to have a really luxurious, rich, abundant life. And I've now looked at it as though it's my responsibility to do this because I've come from a long line of very poor women, and it's my responsibility to do it for my children, my niece and nephew, and all of the other women coming behind me. I'll take that burden on. And so now I reprogram it to be like, it's my burden. It's my responsibility, and I'm very good at managing burdens and responsibility.
Amber Renae [00:25:07]:
That's something that my brain associates very well with. So now I reprogram my brain to think, well, you have to do this for the women behind you, Amber. So you're just going to have to be super rich and super luxurious and have a very, very wealthy life and you have to do this. So I sort of like reprogram myself to think of it that way, which is a really good way for my particular brain to think.
Mahara Wayman [00:25:26]:
That's so cool. And, you know, as you were saying, I'm I'm very visual. And I thought, oh, that's kinda sounds like what I do, except I've kept it in my head as a daydream. And I wanna call out that I'm excited about trying this because it's almost like it's great to have a dream. Of course it is. But when you when you do the work and you, you know, you see something in front of you like a spreadsheet, the key that I what I got from you was this idea of regulating how you feel physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually when you see it. It's one thing to daydream the end result. Oh, look at me in my beautiful home in The Caribbean.
Mahara Wayman [00:26:02]:
But to actually picture yourself and feel your body sinking into the reality of, well, x y z, this amount of money, that amount of money, international exchange, taxes, all of those things that come into it, that's when we can sort of have our fears can sort of come up. So what a great tip, and we didn't even have to wait till the end of the show to hear it. What what other tips do you have for for my audience today on just feeling badass on a regular basis?
Amber Renae [00:26:32]:
Well, as we started at the start of the show, I genuinely believe I mean, my background is fashion. And then from fashion, I was a celebrity stylist, fashion editor, TV presenter for six or seven years after the label. And in that time, I really understood the power of showing up looking like a badass. So this is something that I used to teach her, you know, to all of my ladies is that we know the power of how we feel when we've got that thing on that makes us feel amazing. So for you, it might be the great shoes. It might be the sexy underwear. It might be the beautiful jewelry that's kept away, tucked, hidden away that you only wear on special occasions. I do really encourage everyone to wear all those special occasion things as often as possible because it makes us feel special.
Amber Renae [00:27:16]:
And when we're feeling special, we know how we leave the house. You know, you leave the house with a spring in your step, and you're walking down the street, and you're saying hi to everyone, and you're happy to talk to people versus how you feel when you've run out of the house, you haven't brushed your hair, you've thrown on yesterday's outfit, and you're like, Oh, God, I don't want to talk to anyone. And if the barista is trying to talk to you, you're like, I can't talk to you today. I look like shit. So, you know, I really encourage people to just do whatever the thing is that makes you feel good. And it doesn't have to be something that other people can see. It could be something under the clothes. It could be the special moisturizer even.
Amber Renae [00:27:51]:
Whatever it is that makes you feel good, I encourage you to do it every day just to give yourself that self love and self confidence so that you're walking out of the house with a spring in your step.
Mahara Wayman [00:28:00]:
So, so good. I'm thinking self care, whatever that looks like. Because very I remember being young in high school. The the joy that my friends and I would get when, you know, bootlegger had a sale on their jeans and we could buy our favorite pairs of jeans and we could afford to you know, we put so much thought into feeling good and looking good. And it wasn't about spending a lot of money. It was just, I love red jeans. I can't wait. And I would remember just daydreaming about when I got those jeans and how great it was gonna feel.
Mahara Wayman [00:28:33]:
So, yes, I love that tip to your point. Do what you need to do to feel like you're totally yourself. You're total badass.
Amber Renae [00:28:41]:
Yeah. And we've all got those things that we own already. Like, go and look in your wardrobe. You already have the things that you love, that you've been saving, that you don't wanna wear. But, like, if you're having a bad day, go and put them on and walk around your house in them. You know, there's nothing stopping you from wearing all the beautiful things today.
Mahara Wayman [00:28:57]:
One thing that I I don't do that too much, but what I do do is I listen to my favorite music. I'm I'm always listening to music. And when I've gone a long time without doing that and I start again, I'm like, why did I ever stop? I am so freaking happy right now. Like, I know this album from beginning to end. I can sing it from beginning to end, and it's little things like that. But that that's a really great tip. So how can our listeners today reach out to you?
Amber Renae [00:29:26]:
Come and find me on Instagram and send me a DM and let me know that you found me on the Art of Badassery podcast. I would love to connect with everyone.
Mahara Wayman [00:29:33]:
And is it your your first and last name?
Amber Renae [00:29:36]:
Yeah. It's the Amber Renee. So t h e Amber Renee.
Mahara Wayman [00:29:40]:
So, so good. Before you leave, what else would you like to share with us?
Amber Renae [00:29:43]:
I guess if you have found this podcast out of all the podcasts that you could have found out of all of Mahara's episodes that you could be listening to, out of every other YouTube and everything that's out there, if you found this one, I do really think that that's the divinity in the universe that's encouraging you to explore what we've spoken about today further. Maybe there was some money stuff that you were interested in, so I encourage you to go and find some money books and follow some money experts. Maybe it was the self love stuff. We covered off so many beautiful topics today, and I encourage you to have a think about what really stood out for you. And the fact that you found this in the first place tells me that there's something in this for you, and you should go and explore it a little bit further.
Mahara Wayman [00:30:23]:
Oh my god. I love that advice. Well, folks, I think we're just gonna leave it there. But I wanna say, Amber, first of all, thank you for the work that you do. Right? It's exactly what we need, what the world needs right now. There's so many of us working hard to build businesses online, and it's not always easy. And it's it's definitely needed. So I wanna say thank you, and thank you for bringing your beautiful, gorgeous, badass self onto the show today.
Mahara Wayman [00:30:48]:
I've really loved chatting with you, and I can't wait to follow and see what else you bring up you bring to us in the world. My name is Mahara. This has been the Art of Badassery. And, again, remember that you're that you're worth it. Right? You may not feel like a badass, but it doesn't take much to join the club of badassery. All it takes is hand on heart. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and say, I matter, right, today. I really I reckon I own it.
Mahara Wayman [00:31:17]:
I I matter. And that's step one onto the art of feeling like a badass on a regular basis. I will see you next week, folks, on the art of badassery. Thanks again. Thanks for tuning in to another badass episode. Your support means the world to me. So if you enjoyed what you heard today, don't forget to like, share, and rate the episode on your favorite podcast platform. Your feedback keeps the badassery flowing.
Mahara Wayman [00:31:49]:
And, hey, if you're ready to unleash your inner badass and conquer whatever life throws your way, why not book a complimentary badass breakthrough session? Just click the link in the show notes to schedule your session, and let's kick some serious butt together. Until next time, stay fearless, stay fabulous, and of course, stay badass. This is Mahara signing off.
