Feeling Things with Amy & Kat

Amy and Kat are back in the studio together again, and it felt so good to have her here! She’s sharing baby Zoey’s birth story, and it didn’t go the way she planned. Kat hoped for a natural birth, but after more than 20 hours of labor, the doctors made the tough call to have a C-section. She opens up about how scary it was, and about the emotions that came after, including the honest “what have we done?” moment once they were home. There were tears, and if you’re a new mom navigating the baby blues, we ho...

Award-winning songwriter Jessie Jo Dillon sits down with Bobby to count down his 10 favorite songs she’s written and share the stories behind some of the biggest hits in country music. Jessie Jo talks about writing with artists like Megan Moroney, Maren Morris, Old Dominion, Jon Pardi and more, including the songs that came together instantly, the ones that almost didn’t happen and the cuts she never expected to become massive. She also opens up about the pressure that comes with being a hit songwriter, how she knows when an idea is worth chasing, and why some of the...

Leanne is back to continue exploring this complex topic of worthiness, diving into the paradox of feeling worthy when you DON'T feel worthy. Once again Leanne talks about the 5 Blocks to God’s love, originally introduced as a 'Self-Imaging' formula, and how these blocks, if not addressed, can hinder your experience of love and worthiness.

This time however, the spotlight turns to the third ingredient and God Block: Self-Worth, as Leanne emphasizes the importance of understanding what you're "weighing and measuring" to define your own worth. She shares personal experiences of tying self-worth SOLELY to external factors li...

There is the story you want to tell with your life. And then there is the one that is asking to be told, through you. 

The one that’s asking to be told through you: 

And yet the story that’s trying to come through you is the reason you came here. 

Are you brave eno...

This week on Soul Sessions, Amanda Rieger Green explores how sensitive and intelligent our physical bodies are, and how the “rules of engagement” for health and healing have shifted in the years since COVID. She opens with reflective questions to help you set an honest baseline: What has your body been telling you lately? Do you push through exhaustion more often than not? When did you last give yourself real time to recover? Amanda shares her personal experience of how mind-body tools that once worked easily stopped working the same way, and why the dense physical body is often the...

We kick things off with an email from a husband who’s made it through the early stages of therapy and is facing something people rarely talk about: the guilt and regret that can come with new self-awareness. Amy and Kat walk through the emotional J-curve of growth, why feeling worse can actually be a sign you’re healing, and how to take responsibility without sinking into shame. Next up, a big-hearted mom dealing with a high-conflict co-parenting situation and the fear of heading back to court asks what so many of us quietly wonder: How do I stay comp...

Chase is filling in again while Kat soaks up more time with baby Zoey! Amy confesses to a little white lie: a self-proclaimed “tycoon” cornered her in a hotel shop while she was buying hairspray, and the only way out was a boyfriend she doesn’t have. So, is it okay to fake a significant other to escape a conversation?

Plus, the four phrases people with remarkable minds say all the time (and whether we’ve ever heard Lunchbox say any of them), Amy’s newest pet peeve (please stop taking 45 pictures when someone hands you their phone!), h...

In this powerful conversation, Angie Smith gets honest about the pressure so many of us feel to perform, prove, perfect, and become whoever we think the room needs us to be. And often, the identities we wear so confidently—“the achiever,” “the responsible one,” “the perfectionist,” “the strong one”—may have less to do with who we truly are and more to do with how we learned to feel safe, accepted, and enough.

As a bestselling author, Bible teacher, speaker, and developmental psychologist, Angie brings a unique perspective to the intersection of psychology, identity, and faith. In her new book, Into t...

There is the story you want to tell with your life. And then there is the one that is asking to be told, through you. 

The one that’s asking to be told through you: 

And yet the story that’s trying to come through you is the reason you came here. 

Are you brave enough to allow it to...

This week on Soul Sessions, Amanda Rieger Green explores insecurity and comparison — not as flaws to fix, but as data points showing where we've outsourced our sovereignty and energy. Why do we contract on social media, with siblings, even in spiritual communities? Amanda unpacks how these triggers show up, and offers a practical framework for noticing when your energy field is expanding versus contracting.

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A listener is feeling a little blah, so Amy and Kat are here to help. On paper, life looks great: the house, the kids, the routines. But something feels stuck. Is it an early midlife crisis, or just part of being in your 30s? The girls talk about how even a beautiful life can feel a bit flat sometimes, why that’s completely normal, and how to go out and create a spark instead of waiting for one to find you.

Have a question for us? Send it our way and we might answer it on the sh...

Kat is out on maternity leave with her sweet new baby, Zoey, so Chase is filling in! Amy shares why she’s grateful for Chase, and Chase opens up about his own feeling of the day, while admitting he wasn’t even sure feelings were real. Turns out they are; they just aren’t facts. Let them ride shotgun, but don’t put them in the driver’s seat… ya know??

This one is a totally free-flowing conversation, and it goes everywhere: what it was like sitting next to Nicole Kidman during a movie, the great no-shoes-in-the-house debate (Chas...

I watched my two young kids have their first experience with monetizing their art and I walked away with one conclusion. 

Art deserves to be celebrated, sold and reciprocated (financially).

I haven’t always felt this way. 

I’ve wrestled with the question of what art is worth. Or rather, I’ve felt a strange need to keep my creativity and capitalism separated. 

But in today’s episode, I’ll share why I think it matters that you not just see your art as valuable in general — but as worth actual dollars.

A listener asked us to talk about something so many women quietly carry: the weight of the household, especially the financial responsibility and the pressure that comes with it. Plus, a few of our favorite financial voices to follow on IG. We're also answering a question from a 38-year-old mom who has lots of friends but no "best friend." Is that normal? And should she have one? Kat shares a book recommendation that might change how you think about your people. And we have an update that made us so proud: a listener who was nervous about leaving her...

Ever been in a terrible mood and couldn't figure out why? Amy was falling apart until she remembered a simple check-in she learned for her kids years ago: H.A.L.T. Are you hungry, angry, lonely, or tired? Twenty minutes and one snack later, she was a new woman. Plus, what to say instead of "it's OK" when it really isn't, the texts to send this week if you're craving more community, and five brilliant people-handling tricks from a grandma who ran a psych ward for 35 years. We're also talking pineapple peel tea, the old-school curb walking trick...

If you’ve been doing everything you know how to do to make a change, and nothing is changing, consider this: 

Maybe LESS is actually more. 

Maybe making progress is less about how much you can add and more about how much you can subtract. 

There is a time for trying harder and doing more.

There is also a time for subtracting what no longer fits. 

So today’s episode comes with a challenge: what can you take away that might move the needle infinitely more than anything you could ad...

This week on Soul Sessions, Amanda Rieger Green teaches a powerful, practical technique for shifting the unconscious programs running beneath your conscious mind — using activities you already do every day. Brushing your teeth, showering, folding laundry, doing your skincare routine, or driving a familiar route are all low cognitive load moments where your subconscious is free to run its usual script: worry, rehearsal, criticism, future tripping. Amanda walks through her own process for catching these patterns without judgment, using a simple smile or breath to interrupt the loop, then consciously introducing a new dialogue through questions, intentions, or her go...

A listener wants to know: what's the viral eyeshadow Amy talked about a while ago? Plus, another listener pitches a Feeling Things book club, raves about The Calamity Club (and asks the big question: what would you do for your child?), and recommends My Friends. A new listener has a word choice note for us, and our skydiving listener checks back in with an emergency parachute update and what it was like to jump in Iceland during an eclipse. And Kelli, a postpartum mom of two, explains why not wanting to leave your new baby is completely normal, plus...

Amy just found out her dove tattoo might actually be a hummingbird, and honestly, it might be exactly what she needed. Amy and Kat dig into what each bird symbolizes, then kick off with their feelings of the day!

Plus, three simple swaps to break your over-apologizing habit (hint: "thank you" goes a long way), what to say to someone who just won't stop complaining, and the everyday words and phrases that could be quietly undermining you at work.

We're also playing your voicemails, including a listener who finally named the '90s rap song...

Colleen was a pastor. She was teaching God's word, leading others, preaching identity in Christ. But behind closed doors, she felt like a hypocrite.

She knew what God said about her. She could teach it. She believed it was true... for everyone else. But for her, it felt like words on a page that wouldn't land in her heart.

And on top of that, she was carrying a lifetime of shame about her body. Since she was eight years old, shopping in the "chubby girls" section, she'd been told she had a problem to fix...

Bobby kicks off a new year-by-year series counting down the top 10 moments that defined country music in the ’90s, starting with 1990. In this episode, he looks back at Garth, Reba, Alan Jackson, Clint Black, The Highwaymen, The Chicks, Tim McGraw, Lorrie Morgan, Travis Tritt, and more — while also sharing conversations with some of the artists decades later about the songs, albums, and decisions that shaped the year. Plus, Bobby mixes in the movies, TV shows, and pop culture that made 1990 feel like the start of something huge.

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Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to join us for The River Within, the new program I’m hosting with my friend Ruthie Lindsey.

In this episode, we’ll awaken your creative gifts and activate your life force!

One of the ways we’ll do this is through the topic of today’s episode: aligned, messy action. 

If you’re a thoughtful, deliberate, intentional person, you likely struggle with aligned, messy action. You probably prefer precise, perfect, effective action.

And yet what you need most might be permission to try and fail. 

Permis...

This week on Soul Sessions, Amanda Rieger Green maps out the energetic terrain of October — a month she describes as a curious and wild ride. She opens with an oracle card pull, "Relax the Hold of Darkness and Be at Cause," setting the tone for a month that asks for courage, trust, and a loving, courageous heart leading the way. 

Amanda breaks down the astrology at play: Venus retrograde in Scorpio backing into Libra, Pluto stationing direct in Aquarius after months of internal transformation, Mercury retrograde arriving late in the month, plus a Libra new moon and Tau...

What do you do when all the bad things are happening at once? This week, a listener shares that her husband is recovering from open heart surgery while three of her siblings have been diagnosed with serious cancers. She's always been the positive one, but now she feels numb and can't even cry. Should she force herself to feel it, push it away, or just be grateful she's okay? We talk through grief, worry, and how to hold it all when life gets really hard.

Then, a listener finds herself stuck in the middle after her mom...

In this powerful conversation, Dr. Alison Cook gets honest about something many of us don't realize: we can know all the right things about God, healing, and ourselves—and still have parts of us that don't feel safe, connected, or secure.

As a psychologist of religion, licensed therapist, and bestselling author, Alison has spent decades exploring the intersection of psychology, faith, and spiritual formation. But in her new book, The Secure Soul: Finding Inner Strength and Connection When Trust Doesn't Come Easy, she takes us beyond simply understanding our patterns and into the deeper work of tending to...

Why is letting go of something so hard? Kat explains. Also, A guy online says women fear the "R" word: receiving and it's not attractive to men. We break down his viral matcha story and whether we agree with him. We also share "defaults" that can help you support yourself when you're overwhelmed, the Yale study that found regular readers lived nearly two years longer, and some low-effort date night ideas for tired couples. Plus, our Hasbro Moment! We're honoring Chloe Corley, a Teacher of the Year from Village Green Environmental Studies School in Port St. Lucie, Florida, who...

Comedian & actress Heather McMahan joins Bobby to talk about building a comedy career by trusting her instincts, finding material in real life, and why her husband has become one of her best sources of inspiration. She shares the story of sending a DVD to Jeff Foxworthy, what it was like meeting her hero Joan Rivers, and how those early comedy moments helped shape the performer she is now. Heather also opens up about the chaos of doing IVF wrong twice, talking about fertility on stage, life on tour, comedy cruises, and learning when to finally take a break.

Amy responds to a listener asking about her weight training and Kat shares a simple 4-minute Tabata workout you can do today, no gym or overwhelm required. We also dig into a real parenting dilemma, should kids be forced to hug relatives, or is it okay to let them say no? Plus, an important, gently delivered clarification from a pediatrician about a health organization that sounds official but isn't the source you think it is (good to know before you trust the next parenting headline you see online). And of course, some fun with listeners who relate to Patrick...

Working for or with a narcissit can seriously damage your mental and physical health. Today we're breaking down what narcissism actually looks like at work, from the loud, degrading "overt" boss everyone can spot, to the sneakier "communal narcissist" who love-bombs you, plays the hero, and quietly discards you once they've gotten what they need. We talk about why these people rise to the top, how toxic teams end up mirroring dysfunctional families with everyone playing a role, and what to actually do if you're stuck in a workplace like this, including documenting everything, setting boundaries, and being honest...

In this powerful conversation, Lysa TerKeurst gets honest about something most of us don't want to admit: we all have control issues. And often, what we call "being responsible" or "planning ahead" is actually fear disguised as strength.

As the founder of Proverbs 31 Ministries and a #1 New York Times bestselling author, Lysa has spent years helping women navigate boundaries, forgiveness, and faith. But in her new book, Making Peace With What I Can't Control, she reveals her own struggle with trying to change people who don't want to change, prevent outcomes she feared, and manage things that w...

I used to think celebrating myself was self-centered. Self-aggrandizing. 

A waste of time at best. 

An overextension of the ego at worst. If someone else wanted to celebrate me, I would let it happen. But letting it in was a whole different story.

When it came to celebrating myself, it used to be a non-starter. 

But I changed my mind and I want to tell you about it. 

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This week on Soul Sessions, Amanda Rieger Green explores the space between what we know deep down and what we're actually willing to do about it. Why do we stay in relationships, jobs, and patterns that felt "off" from the very beginning? Amanda breaks down how fear disguises itself as pride, loyalty, people-pleasing, and rationalization — and walks through the shift many of us are feeling between third, fourth, and fifth-dimensional consciousness (and why the "fourth dimension" can feel like walking against ocean waves). She shares a personal pattern she's tracked in herself for years — the quick slide from sensitivity into...

We're answering two emails that hit close to home for a lot of listeners. First, Sarah, 32, writes in feeling like a stranger to herself after a lifetime of being whoever everyone else needed her to be, and asks how to actually start figuring out who she is. We talk through some real starting points, from noticing what energizes you to practicing choosing for yourself in small ways. Then Mary, 47, shares a vulnerable question about a long, complicated relationship with food and her body, and asks how you know if something is "serious enough" to get help for, even when...

Amy's feeling proud, while Kat's feeling sad! We confess all the ways we've settled into getting older, from sensible shoes to loving vacuums to not wanting to go to concerts that start too late. Kat takes us through the realization that millennials are no longer "the future" (or the problem child) as Gen Z has officially taken over that title. Plus: a story about the time Amy's mom showed up at school and walked her to class, a mom who told her kids the TV "broke" four months ago, taking a cruise to Antarctica, and this week's Hasbro Moment...

In this episode of the "God Pod", Leanne invites you to redefine "surrender" and actively shift from self-reliance to God's guidance. Diving into the first ingredient AND the first "God Block", the focus is on Self-Acceptance as both an ingredient for a loving Self-Image and a potential block to receiving God's love.

Consider this episode a roadmap to recognizing and addressing your own "God Blocks", fostering self-acceptance, and taking practical steps to actually break through the "Paradox of Acceptance"...and how to accept yourself (even with all the messy bits) when you DON'T accept yourself.

The dominant cultural narrative says that truth lies in data, rational thinking and logic. 

And so when we set out to heal, we think we need to alter the thoughts, reframe the story, and get the mind under control (and for a while this may even work). 

But then there comes a point where the body begins to disagree with the mind. 

The body doesn’t care about “right” answers.

The body doesn’t care how you’re “supposed” to feel. 

The body is unconvinced and unconcerned with positive affirmations. 

This week on Soul Sessions, Amanda Rieger-Green welcomes a very special guest: her cousin Amy Brown, co-host of The Bobby Bones Show and Feeling Things with Amy and Kat, who traveled all the way to Cuenca, Ecuador to visit her. Amanda and Amy dive deep into what it means to be truly intentional in friendship, how the loss of both of their mothers deepened their bond, and why "front-loading" your schedule to protect time with the people you love is worth it. They talk through calling an audible, coping mechanisms disguised as chores (hello, aggressive counter-wiping), book recommendations for...

We're diving into your voicemails and emails…starting with Samantha's story about how a job she "didn't get" ended up leading her to her best friend, her fiancé, and a promotion (proof that maybe you didn't get what you wanted because you deserve more). We're also unpacking a body language expert's claim that carrying two bags to work makes you look "chaotic" and unprofessional, answering a listener's question about LENS neurofeedback therapy, and Kat's tackling a great question from Mary (a fellow therapist-in-training) about how to balance hosting a podcast with keeping client boundaries intact.

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Amy's feeling disappointed, envious, and curious while Kat is just feeling conflicted. Plus: Amy shares an important PSA about Instagram reposts (go check your page, you never know what's on there), Kat tells us why one etiquette expert says "congratulations" on an engagement is actually a faux pas, TSA-approved airport hammocks for your next long layover, a genius gift idea involving printed group texts, and a 70-year-old's texting code cheat sheet that will have you dying laughing (BYOT = Bring Your Own Teeth). Also, this week's Hasbro Moment honors a school counselor whose office full of games has become a...

Megan Moroney joins Bobby for Episode 601 to share why meeting Taylor Swift is still on her wishlist, how she handles the nonstop demands of touring, and why sad songs always hit the hardest for her. She opens up about pushing through burnout and writer’s block, the physical prep that goes into life on the road, and how she stays connected to fans along the way. Plus, she gets into reading internet comments, the wild pace of touring, and some of the personal moments that keep her grounded through it all.

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