Faith & Four Letter Words: Recent Episodes
Faith&FourLetterWords
Faith & Four Letter Words is an unapologetically real look at surviving the boys’ club, Perfect Polly and motherhood all while living in a glass fishbowl.
Amanda and Tara want to lean into God and His plan for their lives. They detail the struggles they're walking through trying to suspend control--including how social media is still a blessing and a curse.
Don't take anything for granted--especially your or your family's health. Both Amanda and Tara have faced incredibly challenging health scares. They share details about both, including Tara's daughter's recent hospitalization where they experienced "The Wave" as a family in one of the hospital rooms overlooking Kinnick Stadium.
At times we were severely underweight but we were told to be skinnier. It’s time to get rid of the weight of opinions.
The ladies lash out about everything from the Kardashians to Amanda's new life without alcohol.
The health scare that landed Amanda in the hospital for days and changed her life instantly.
We were very fortunate to work in the news industry when we did because it’s changed so much. And not for the better.
When good anchors go bad. Amanda and Tara react to former network anchor Katie Couric's new tell-all where she burns every bridge she can find.
Just because we pay for our kids to play sports doesn’t mean it’s a guarantee that they’ll play. That feeling of entitlement has to stop with us.
As youth sports kick off a new season, parents need to know what they should and shouldn’t do.
We’ve talked about parents behaving badly on the sidelines over and over. Tara is on a hiatus but Amanda sits down with two pro coaches to dig into what every parent really needs to know to help their kid succeed on the field
Everyone makes mistakes, but in television news, it’s good to always keep your eyes wide open.
Why we only have so much time and energy to devote to building & maintaining meaningful relationships.
Stop pretending your kid is doing this for fun, if you’re secretly pushing your children in sports to get a college scholarship that will likely never come.
How TV news has morphed into a place where aspiring actors and models go to play journalists.
Amanda & Tara discuss the harsh reality that comes with being a recognizable public figure.
The life-changing close calls that can and will happen, especially when you have children.
Why women have to eventually walk away from a job that no longer aligns with their values; like we did when we left TV.
How we are using Facebook and other social media platforms to act as a junior high lunch table.
Zip your lip before you start getting judgy about how others are doing life in this prolonged Covid-19 pandemic.
Why Gen Xers to Baby Boomers may be better off when it comes to coping with life in the real world.
Stop making false promises to yourself and others. Make 2021 the year you drop the haters and embrace what really counts.
Why we are lifetime dieters who are fed up with weight loss and workout plans that are too extreme to stick with long term.
How moms are always under pressure to bring the magic at Christmas. Why you’re not alone in feeling especially overwhelmed this holiday season.
How the challenging experiences of being working women can hopefully be channeled for good when it comes to how we raise our daughters.
No need to apologize for putting your tree up early or saying Merry Christmas this holiday season.
How the working world has changed not necessarily for the better, especially when it comes to gender relations.
Election nights were our favorite nights as journalists because we could flex our intelligence. But at the end of the day, it was only really about the size of our hips.
The only thing more obvious than our spray tans and extensions is the amount of media bias. The only way to change is it to hit them where it hurts...their pockets.
A reaction to the new documentary The Social Dilemma and what we are doing about our own addiction.
An incident on the national stage reinforced our annoyance that women are not allowed to show emotion without coming under fire.
Why women tend to be targeted by other women just for taking a risk and putting themselves out there.
Our worth was placed solely on our appearance and if we didn’t obey, we wee quickly replaced
One woman was fed up with the bias in news so she lit the match. And we are here for it!
Sometimes you gotta burn bridges to the ground to let people know you’re done and to remind yourself, you’re never going back.
Amanda and Tara learned quickly that if you have to worry if you're the topic of conversation when you leave the room, you're in the wrong room.
Two young girls never came home from a summer bike ride...it's time to rattle some cages and demand answers and justice
What happened to Jodi? She was a rising TV anchor...and daily we feared, what happened to her, could happen to us.
Some have the audacity to justify the deaths of innocent black people. Amanda and Tara aren’t having any of that.
Like most people, Amanda & Tara are entering week 6 of all things quarantine. While the hair is different shades, the lashes are gone and the nails are ripped off...there’s one thing that they refuse to lose: their identity.
When you’re working from home and you get interrupted 1000 times...like during this episode
The fat shamers came out of the woodwork when we were pregnant on TV. But it just made us eat more.
If we learned one thing, it’s the importance of owning your truth. But buckle up, the torches and pitchforks are coming.
If only we knew then, what we know now...we may have thrown up the deuces a lot sooner.
If there is one thing we were forced to learn early in our careers, it's keep your friends close and enemies closer. We can't even count how many times female colleagues who we thought were "friends" smiled at us like the Cheshire Cat...because they were plotting.
If there’s one question we get asked all the time, it’s “how do we achieve work-life balance?” Well when we worked in news, we didn’t. So the two most important things you need to do: learn to say no and walk away
There is a quote that resonates with Amanda & Tara. It reads: "October is about trees revealing colors they've hidden all year. People have an October as well."
Nothing revealed who people were more than when A & T left the world of news. They learned that there were people in their circle who were faker than their hair and lashes.
After this podcast launched, Amanda & Tara were criticized by some for "complaining." They were told they were lucky to work in the glamorous world of TV. Luck had nothing to do with it.
Like the city of Oz, not everything in the TV news business is always as it appears. Tara & Amanda go in-depth about a show that everyone is talking about and say it’s portrayal of tv life is spot on
They were both accomplished, award-winning journalists but on most days, that didn't matter. Amanda & Tara repeatedly found themselves in front of a firing squad of critics over superficial things. Sadly, not much has changed now. They lump their critics into one person who they affectionately refer to as "Perfect Polly."
Holidays were never holidays until their news days were over. Amanda & Tara's children all started asking for the same things for the holidays: their presence over presents. The ladies take a sharp left and get vocal about the mainstream media and the tweet that had their blood boiling