Goodness Blog
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Flawed and Fabulous
Read more →Guess what?! I've asked a few women to write guest posts for our Grounded Goodness blog, and they have responded with love and generosity! Over the next few months, you will see their answers to this question: "What is one thing you would like women to know, right now?" This week's post features Fay Thompson, my trusted coach and friend. Hooray! - Amanda Flawed and Fabulous by Fay Thompson A client once asked me if I had ever gone through tough times. She had a perception that my life was always perfectly joyous and wonderful. While that was flattering, it...
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Hell yeah! A new direction for Grounded Goodness.
Read more →There I was, wide awake at 3am, thinking about next steps for Grounded Goodness. Where should we go? What should we do? After the expansion, exposure, and joy of the road trip...what next? A word flickered in my brain. Community. It hit me with such clarity that I breathed in sharply and accidentally sucked in my sweaty sheets (which is why I woke up in the first place). Yum. Right. Community. Grounded Goodness is a company that builds community. Oh. I used to think we were a company that spread goodness through our products (decals, tshirts, sweaters). And we...
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Silver Linings
Read more →That damn silver lining. You know it’s always there, in any situation. But it only seems to become apparent with distance, space, and time - months or years down the road. When you’re in the thick of anything, it’s difficult to see the light. In the year and a half since the split from my ex-husband, I’ve gained distance, space, and time. I’ve gained clarity about what happened, about who I am, and about what I need/want moving forward. But occasionally, tendrils of anger, bitterness, and resentment pop up. “Can you help me?” I ask my friend. “I’m struggling with...
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Own Your Sh*t
Read more →“You’re kinda being a dick,” my friend said to me last week. Well, she didn’t use those exact words. She was much kinder. But that was the theme: Amanda, stop being a dick. Huh. I didn’t even realize I was being a dick, to be honest. I mean, I could see her point. I have had my head up my butt over the last couple years, in that I’m so focused on the split from my ex and moving through that and then road trip and then book. Lots of Amanda-focus. Which is fine. I needed to do all of...
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Announcing: Grounded Goodness Sweaters!
Read more →Yeah we are. We're doing it. We're branching out into sweaters. Why? Because winter's coming, and there's nothing like a cozy sweater to make a woman look hot during cold weather! (Seriously, these sweaters look great on women across the board. It's like the 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Sweater'-type magic. Mind. Blowing.) We're keeping our same philosophy on these sweaters as we have for our t-shirts: Canadian-made, high quality, and fun & feisty. Loved the softness of our t-shirts? These are like t-shirts x a gazillion. (Just don't tell the t-shirts that...we don't want to make them sad.) These Limited...
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Who are you?
Read more →Who are you? Now, I’m not asking about your roles: mother, wife, employee, boss, daughter, cat lover/hater. I’m asking who you really are, underneath all of the roles and masks. If you had to describe yourself in 3 words, what words would you use? Yes, I know that you - you brilliant being - cannot be captured in 3 words. Forgive me for implying this. But for simplicity’s sake, what if we could choose our 3 words...and simply live by them? I’ll give you an example. My three words, that I know I embody, are these: Kind Fun No bullshit...