Amanda Kloots Lost the Life She Planned. Then Built One She Never Expected
Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff

Amanda Kloots Lost the Life She Planned. Then Built One She Never Expected

B1IntermediateJuly 23, 202651 min
  • Interview

What happens when life forces you to become someone you never planned to be? Amanda Kloots has reinvented herself more times than most people ever will. From Broadway performer to television host, entrepreneur, wellness founder, widow, and single mother. But this conversation of Superwomen isn't about career pivots. It's about the identity shifts that made every next chapter possible. Amanda and Rebecca explore grief, ambition, failure, resilience, and why the version of yourself that builds one season of life often isn't the version that carries you into the next...

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We were training products for training because I couldn't afford her. Amanda Clutes is a world

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mother to the cutest little boy ever. And I'm happy to call her a friend. Nothing I've done

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I would be in the bathroom at the hospital in the ICU, squeeze expressing into the sink all of the milk. And then I would be going back and sitting next to my husband in a coma. Welcome back to Superwomen. Today's guest is someone who used to train me in my home gym. We were training products for training because I couldn't afford her. Amanda Clutes is a world

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renowned, not only trainer, but entrepreneur, founder of Proper. She has a TV show. She is a mother to the cutest little boy ever. And I'm happy to call her a friend. Nothing I've done has been like an immediate worldwide success. How do you do this? Because you're an entrepreneur, you have all these successful businesses, and then you have motherhood. It's crazy how much we take

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on as mothers. And so sometimes you think I don't have enough support. You have to like find that grid again and you have to like humble yourself and take yourself down back to like the bolts and nuts of building a business and why and your story and finding that new community you're constantly competing with people that are just as talented as you just as beautiful as you working harder than

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