Ep. 16 -Amanda Morgan discusses her choice to distance herself from toxic familial relationships.

Wake Up With Weslie

Weslie Christensen

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🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses adolescent sexual abuse.

Amanda Morgan is a woman who wears many hats. She is a wife and mother, an amazing singer, an actress, a photographer, and an extraordinary chef. She really does do it all and does it well.

While balancing all this, just within the last year she has had to make the excruciating decision to distance her self from the extended members of their family due to alleged inappropriate behavior.

She tell us her excruciatingly painful, yet heroic story of choosing herself and her kids, and the lengths she would go to to protect them, and facilitate healing.

You can find Amanda at @freebirdandcompany on instagram, and look out for her new Indian taco food truck called, @basmatifoodtruck

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Woke with Wesley, I'm Wesley, and today I am
0:16.9	sitting across from Amanda Morgan. What's up Amanda? Hey Wes. I am so stoked you're here. The listeners have to know how we have
0:25.5	efforted for this one. It's been crazy getting me down here. It has been two
0:30.3	months but it's like what this is this is our real life like where
0:32.6	moms our kids get sick and I didn't know where you lived we're both terrible
0:37.4	we're far away with direction you know what we made it work and it's okay it's okay I
0:42.4	mean this is I wanted her I wanted her for you guys so badly because
0:47.1	Let's get into how I met you because we're not people we're not in each other's daily lives
0:52.3	No, and we've really only met each other's daily lives.
0:52.6	No, and we've really only met each other face to face like I think I saw you at Devon's
0:57.3	You were like at a lash appointment.
0:58.9	Yeah, it definitely when she gave birth to Gray right?
1:00.9	Yes.
1:01.9	So Amanda is a photographer and she, this is the day we met, it was my
1:06.1	cousin Devon's birth. There was 150 people there. It was basically a rager, a rave.
1:11.1	It was a party at a birth, like it was insane. And the birth went downhill.
1:15.9	Devon was sick she was like throwing up she had to have an emergency sea section but this left
1:20.4	Amanda and I a lot of time to get to know each other.
1:23.0	And I saw this woman, she was a complete stranger to me,
1:26.0	but she like captivated this audience that was just bored sitting in hospital hallways.
1:32.8	She was like, let's play games.
1:34.8	She was singing.
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