Life with Amy

About Life with Amy

Welcome to Life with Amy, a podcast for women who want to lead well, build meaningful businesses, and live a life of wholeness rooted in faith. Hosted by Amy Poepping, entrepreneur, leader, and very real life mom. This show dives into honest conversations behind leadership, entrepreneurship, faith and wellness that shape who we become. From stepping into the unknown and building businesses, to navigating hard seasons, strengthening your mindset and becoming the woman God created you to be. Each episode is honest, encouraging & grounded in real life. If you're looking for perfection, you won't find it here! Join Amy for real conversations about growing as a leader, creating freedom as an entrepreneur, and not losing yourself in it all. If you are a faith driven woman who knows she is called to more, and is ready to step outside her comfort zone, grab a seat and hit play. You are in the right room!

Publisher

Amy Poepping

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Mar 2026

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026

   A Beautifully Hard Season: 395 Days of Grief Before the Loss

   Takeaways Grief does not mean moving on. It means learning to move forward while carrying the love and the loss. You can start grieving before a loss happens, and naming that grief is part of walking through a hard diagnosis well. Receiving help is hard, but letting people carry your burdens is a gift to you and to them. A hard season can also be a good one if you look for the good, and the good is often what you remember most. Summary of the Episode In this episode of Life with Amy, Amy Poepping shares a story that has been on her heart as the two-year anniversary of her father-in-law's passing approaches. It is part healing for her and part encouragement for anyone struggling with loss, grief, or the work of moving forward. Amy takes us back to the family farm where she and her husband, Casey, moved seven and a half years ago, and to the ordinary September day in 2023 when a small bus accident led to a brain bleed and then a stage four lung cancer diagnosis for her father-in-law, Dale. She walks through the shock, the anger, and the disbelief, and what it was like to be a caretaker with a background in medicine while parenting and supporting her husband. From there, Amy talks about grieving the loss before it happens, the hard conversations she was honored to have with Dale, and the lesson of learning to receive after a lifetime of giving. She shares how her church family and friends showed up with meals, rides, babysitting, and help with bills, and what it meant to see the body of Christ in action. Amy also holds the joy alongside the hard: ice cream dates after treatment, ringing the bell after his final radiation, and Dale teasing the nurses. She closes with the day Dale died at home, why she chooses gratitude, and a preview of a follow-up episode about how her family has moved forward over the last two years.

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Are You a Faucet or a Drain in Your Relationships?

   You can think you're a positive person and still be the drain in the room. In this episode, Amy shares two simple visuals: the faucet and the drain, and the stadium of people in your life. You'll learn how to spot who fills you up, who empties you out, and how to honestly check which one you are. Amy also explains why you can't (and shouldn't) kick every drain out of your life, but you can move them to the nosebleed seats and bring faucets to the front row. Plus: why healthy faucets turn off, what Jesus modeled in Luke 5:16, and why your front row only needs three to five people. Key takeaways A faucet adds value to the room. A drain takes it away. It is not about positive versus negative; it is about what you leave behind. Drains are easy to spot in others and hard to spot in yourself. Turn the lesson inward. You can't always remove people, but you can choose who gets a front row seat to your life, business, leadership, motherhood, and home. Healthy faucets turn off. Rest is not selfish, and if being a faucet exhausts you, it is probably people pleasing. Your front row needs only three to five faucets. Try this this week Name the faucets in your life and what they do that fills you up. Ask yourself in one specific place: "What can I add here?" Decide who needs to move a few rows back, and whether you need to move back for someone else. Hit the unfollow button on social media drains. It's the easiest practice round there is.

3. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Don't Discount Yourself Because of Your Past: How to Start Over With God at Any Age

   Takeaways Amy shares how saying yes to God ten years ago turned a season she calls a train wreck into a life she never believed was possible. Real change comes from a thousand little yeses, and the hard nos that come with each one. God has a long track record of using people with messy pasts, from Paul to Rahab, and your story is not a disqualifier. In this episode of Life With Amy, Amy Poepping reflects on the last 10 years of her life and says the things she wishes someone had told her in her 20s. She opens up about a season of derailed decisions, drinking, and a deep longing for more that she kept looking for in all the wrong places. She also shares how one decision to say yes to Jesus, made ten years ago in May, changed the direction of everything that followed, including the businesses she has built and the stages she has spoken on. From there, Amy walks through three reminders for anyone who feels too far gone. First, stop using your past as evidence against your future. Second, your life changes through a thousand little yeses and the hard nos that come with them. Third, do not discount what God can do with a willing person. She talks about the difference between guilt and conviction, why forgiveness does not mean forgetting, and the image of walking through a door to your future with no baggage. She also gets honest about learning to say no to friends and to the next drink, and why she still has to choose growth every single day. The conversation closes with a reminder that you do not need your Ts crossed and your Is dotted to begin. You just need to show up willing and wanting, and trust that your coming days can be greater than your former days.

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings