286: Amanda Batula: Overcoming Depression & Summer House Confessions

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I sit down with Amanda Batula from Summer House to talk about what we can expect for this upcoming season of the show, what her experience has been as a public figure on reality television, and what it’s like watching herself onscreen. Amanda shares her journey with depression and how going on medication changed her life, creating her new swimsuit line, and the outside pressure she feels to have kids and start a family. We also chat about what it feels like to constantly have the cameras around on Summer House, whether she rewatches the episodes, and play a game of “Truth or Sip” where Amanda spills more about Summer House.

Key Takeaway / Points:

On what we can expect for this upcoming season of Summer House
On the Summer House gender divide
On having a publicly scrutinized relationship
Amanda’s journey with depression and anxiety
On having honest conversations with her friends about her depression
On rewatching Ciara talk to her about her relationship on Summer House
On building her swim suit line with South Moon Under
How a spouse can help when their partner is struggling with their mental health
On the outside pressure to have kids and start a family
On Amanda’s experience with being filmed on Summer House and being vulnerable with cameras around
On watching yourself onscreen
What it’s like having her husband fight with her friends
On listener questions: Amanda’s style inspiration, how being on reality tv has affected her self esteem, favorite munchies snack
Playing Truth or Sip

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.1	Hello everyone.
0:05.1	Welcome back to Conversations with Cam.
0:07.5	I am so excited about today's episode because A, I just fucking love Amanda Petula.
0:14.0	I think she is truly the greatest and such a sweetheart and honestly like the ultimate cool girl in my opinion.
0:40.6	I have been blessed to know Amanda for how old am I now? Like almost 20 years through mutual friends, which we get into in the beginning of the episode. And it's been so fun to watch her flourish and grow and like truly become a celebrity. I'm like Amanda, you're famous. And as someone who never watched Summer House until this past year when I
0:45.8	binged all the seasons, I now have like 10,000 questions for her. And I would text her mutual friends
0:52.9	every episode I watched being like, wait, now I need to
0:55.6	know this. I need the news on this. What happened? What is going on? So it was so fun to sit down with
1:00.6	Amanda and get to ask some of those questions. I feel like there's a chance, I assume. There's
1:06.1	some new listeners on here because I know Amanda will pull an audience because the people love her as well.
1:12.7	So hi, I'm Cameron Rogers. I'm the host of Conversations with Cam. I am a content creator,
1:18.7	podcast host, mental health advocate and mom of two boys. And honestly, the show is just a place
1:24.0	for me to connect with other people, to share about my experiences, to hear about
1:29.5	theirs, to have some fun, to learn some things, maybe cry sometimes. I've been doing it now for
1:35.0	six years, which is insane. And it's my favorite part of my job. So if you like this episode,
1:40.6	come back for more. We have new episodes every Wednesday morning. And of course,
1:46.5	feel free to share, rate, review, subscribe, do all of the things because I know other people
1:52.6	are going to want to hear from our girl Amanda. Just for context, we recorded this episode
1:58.0	before the premiere came out. And after watching the premiere, I'm so excited
2:02.7	for this season. And I have so many thoughts. And you better believe I was so pumped to see that they
2:07.0	did, in fact, pick back up cameras to go over all of the questions we have around Paige and Greg.
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