Where It All Began: Meet the Sisters Behind Unfiltered Treble

This is the one that started it all. In our very first official episode of Unfiltered Treble, we’re pulling back the curtain and introducing you to who we really are three biological sisters with shared roots, different paths, and a whole lot of life in between.

We dive into our personalities, childhood memories, family dynamics, and the real-life experiences that shaped us both the heavy and the hilarious. From trauma and growth to laughter and sisterhood, this episode lays the foundation for what this podcast is all about: raw, honest, unfiltered conversations.

We also share why we created this space for women who feel unheard, unseen, or like they’ve lost themselves somewhere along the way. This isn’t about perfection. It’s about truth, healing, and finding your voice again.

If you’ve ever needed a place to feel understood, this is it. Welcome to the beginning.

Transcript

Personalities, Roles, And Surprises

Childhood Memories And Sister Dynamics

Why Start This Podcast

What Unfiltered Trouble Means

Topics We Will Tackle

Future Episodes We Want Most

Taboo Topics Women Avoid

Advice To Our Younger Selves

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Welcome to the very first official episode of Unfiltered Trouble. We are so glad you're here. If this is your first time tuning in, we are three real life biological sisters just trying to keep it real. Yep, same parents, same house growing up, and a whole lot of stories to tell. In this episode, we just wanted to sit down, introduce ourselves, and share a little backstory, who we are, what shaped us, and why we decided to start this podcast. We've had some real life stuff go down, some heavy, some hilarious, and we knew we weren't the only ones who needed a space for honest, unfiltered conversation. So think of this as the beginning of something real. We're not experts, we're not polished. We're just sisters who love hard, laugh loud, and believe in the truth over perfection. This is who we are. I'm Amanda, I'm Stephanie, and I'm Laura. Now, who are we? I'm going to share some personalities about each one of us. For me, I am compassionate, adventurous, and ambitious. I would say for me, I am caring, sensitive, and adventurous, and I'm funny, loyal, and charismatic. Okay, our second one we are gonna do is what role did each of us play in our family growing up? So that's a complex question. It really is a very freaking complex. I am the oldest and I am the fourth. I am the baby in a certain order because with mom I'm fourth. With dad, I'm seventh. And I'm the third and sixth. Pretty basic there. Well, what more do you want? Okay. Growing up as sisters, what is something you love? So, something about me. I love making sourdough bread and riding motorcycles with my husband. I would say for me, I love fashion cars and shoes and riding motorcycles too. That's pretty fun too. Okay, I like cars and I really love fashion too. Yeah. It's uh no, don't call me no fashion guru. Okay, so what do you think? Well, we know this. I like singing. I like helping people. Do you like it or do you love it? I love it. Or else I wouldn't be doing my job correctly, probably. Yes. What is one thing people would not expect about you? So I've heard this a lot in my life when I tell people about this part of me and they never believe me. But I have a really bad temper for this. So that's funny because so do I. But I also think I'm freaking hilarious. Like I think I'm one of the funniest people I know. She also says me. Would other people say that? But no, but I think I'm funny. Okay, I'll go with it. Probably half stage, right? I love singing, but I can't sing in front of people. Not even at karaoke. She can do karaoke. No, not very often. Not very often. She used to do it. Depends on how big the crowd is at the bar. And she used to have a lot of fun. I mean, if it's full of old people, yeah, she'll sing. But if she was strong, she would do it. But they don't drink no more. Yeah. I mean, she'll have an occasional drink, but not very often. So growing up as sisters, we have many childhood memories. And I'll start with mine today. I remember going to yours and your husband's house when we were little and getting to play PlayStation, and you guys would order us pizza. I do not remember that. I don't remember. I remember playing PlayStation, but I don't remember. Oh, you know what? I remember ordering pizza. It was from the little place at next to AMPM, and I'd get pizza from that place. I remember now. Or there was another place. Her making us like mac and cheese out of the box. What the heck? No, you don't remember. It was tuna and like pizza. God, I mean, dude, do you know how I crave that show when I was pregnant? And I never ate that. But okay, so what is one of your good childhood memories? Going to Aunt Bev's house and swimming in the pool, like family barbecues and all the family and cousins being over there and everybody just swimming and having fun. Yes. I miss big family get-togethers. Well, I don't know why everybody's a childhood memory had to resolve around you today, but mine was busting into yours in your husband's room, boyfriend at the time, and telling you that all these crazy jokes when I was like nine years old. And I thought it was hilarious, and you guys would laugh at me to make me feel better. Hoping I would go to sleep. Probably not. So for our next question, we're gonna go with how are we like and how are we different? So I think we are like by our attitudes and what we want to be in our life. And we're different by our choice of husbands. That's very good. I feel like we all strive to become the best version of ourselves. It's something we've all been working on. And what was the second half? How are we different? Yeah. That's hard for me because I see myself being the oldest, I see myself in each of you, like different characteristics of each of you. Hmm. We're different based on there's not a lot of different things. I don't, I can't think of and I say that anything different. And when I yeah, and because when I said we're different by our husbands, our husbands are alike, but they are very different. So well, I guess we're different in our car choices. So I'm a huge Ford girl. I'm G and C. I'm anything that gets me down the road. I used to have, I used to be strictly Chevies, but then I grew living with my sister for a little bit while I was a teenager and I became in love with Mustangs and Ford life. So I've owned Fords, I've owned Chevies. I own a Dodge now. It really, if it gets me from point A to point B, I'm good. But what do you drive now for? A dodge. A dodge foot. We're not saying what I drive. Because I never in my life thought I would drive one, but now I do. So there we go. We're still going in that topic later. Okay. So how are we different and how are we the same to you? We're supportive of each other, our family. It's like that's like one of our biggest things is that we'll always like have each other's backs and take care of each other. Percent. We're funny, obviously. And we're unfiltered. We have no filter. It just, if we want to say it, it comes out. And even if it hurts one of our feelings, the other one will get over it eventually. How I think we're different is our clothing styles. Yeah, I feel like it's the same, but it's it's different because you got Miss Prissy over here or bougie, whatever you're doing. But y'all act like I'm so bougie, but you are. But you are. Listen, my fashion goes from edgy to prissy to just I'm like leggings and blue jeans and a t-shirt kind of person. I'm literally in leggings and t-shirt and tennis shoes today. I I'm not bougie. I'm a little mixed. I think you are. You're more edgy. I love to be edgy, but like I could see you rocking some Jenkos sometime soon. Because I never got to have a pair when I was over. Listen, whatever. Me and Johnny were talking about that the other day, and I said something about Jenkos, and he's like, Yeah, he's like, I had a pair. It's like I remember my mom sent so much money on them, and she was so shocked on how much they were. I was like, How much did she pay for them back in the end of the day? He's like, I think she paid like$75 for them. So I looked them up. They're like$200. They're like$200 now. He's like, the fuck? I was like, yeah. Yeah, they're expensive. Ridiculous. Enough about jeans. Yeah. What's something you've learned from one of your sisters? Okay, we're gonna let Laura go first on this one. And how to never give up and keep fighting for myself. That's a really good one. And which sister taught you that? Well, there's a few of them. Okay. What is yours, Amanda? I'm going last on this one. To always have fun. To always have fun. When there's one sister that comes to mind, Michelle. Michelle. Yes. Because she was the one we always if you wanted to drive around the car and sing your heart out, if you wanted to go over there and just have fun. That was just my sister that she had. Michelle it was just fun. She was the fun sister. 100%. Okay, so mine is so funny, but it's something that stuck with me for a very long time. And it was I learned from all of them not to sleep around. Well, there's your unfiltered. Can we tell which one's the most unfiltered? So on that note, why this podcast? What moment made you think we need to start this? Want a change for women and give them a platform to share their stories on. I see so many times that there's podcasts or platforms for women to speak, but only if they have a following or if they have some type of you know platform themselves. Go on any podcast if you've got a following. If you don't have a following, you're voiceless. Yeah, you're voiceless. So I want to give the voiceless a voice. That's good. That's deep. It's very honest. Yeah. For me, I would say I wanted to start the podcast because we've been talking about it for years, probably since 2020. And that's because we have so much in our family that we've experienced trauma and just childhood differences in the household we grew up in and things that people don't talk about that shape you into the person you are as you grow older. Having something that other women can relate to, because I feel like we're gonna speak on things that nobody talks about. Absolutely. Like not just trauma, like you could have so many things that other women are going through, just from like you could say, I had a bad day because of this, and some other lady could have that same exact experience that day. Yeah. I absolutely agree. I agree. That'd be me. Yeah. Why the name Unfiltered Trouble? What does it mean to you? The meaning behind the word trouble. Something that's trouble has three parts understanding and relatable. That's really good. How do you how do you all that? To me, I would say that it means we are in harmony. That's good. That's really good. And just a little back note before we finish on this, we have had to name change. And that's because we were unfiltered sisterhood. So we have found another word instead of unfiltered sisterhood. So that is why there is a name change from the first trailer episode. Yeah, definitely. I mean, we didn't really have we didn't want any infringement issues or anything like that because the name was just too close to other platforms out there that can relate to the same name-ish. So we wanted something completely different. And unique. Yeah, it is unique. For me, unfiltered trouble. What it means to me is unfiltered is because we say it how it is. We're not afraid to talk about the deep, dark, ugly truths of being a woman. Trouble because we have three sisters trying to get our voices back to be more than just a mom, more than just a wife. Trying to get us back. Yeah, because who we are. We feel as mothers and as wives, we lose ourselves. Yeah. You start to identify yourself as I'm a mom. I'm a wife. I'm a wife. And you guys know the about the flamingos, right? Yeah. They the flamingos lose their color because they while they're being a parent. Yeah. And then once they're, I don't know if they call them kid or whatever the baby of a flamingo is, once it's gone, it gets this bright vibrant pink back. So that really shows you what motherhood is like because you lose a like yourself because you're a mom, you're a wife. Those are your first priorities. You forget, hey, who's Laura? Yeah. Yeah. Totally agree. What made you who you are? Yeah. What do you hope women feel when they listen? I hope they feel free, excited, and ready to share with us. That's good. I hope they feel heard and seen. And I hope they feel empowerment, motivation to do the unimaginable. Absolutely. So today give girl. What listeners can expect from us? What type of topics do we want to dive into? Self-empowerment is like a big one for me. I think we need to. I know we've kind of said it a few different times, but self-love, you have to have that. Mental health discussions and girl power. Girl power is a very strong one. Because Ice Girls told us all about that. Nothing is off the table. That's kind of where I stand on that. I agree. Nothing is off the table, and we'll talk about anything and everything from we've already kind of discussed this. Spiritual and all those types of things are gonna be on the table as well. What are we not afraid to talk about? Nothing. Not afraid to talk about anything. I feel if it's related to well, okay. So I there's one issue I would like to keep off of our podcast as much as possible, and that is politics. Yeah. I feel politics. Politics is not a discussion we want to bring to this. No politics and everybody's free to have their own beliefs, and we don't need that to cloud anybody. I I don't want any type of clash or anything like that. I feel that is something that is a very hard no topic on podcasts. Yeah, definitely no, because that creates drama sometimes. Just intention and misunderstanding would like to leave that off the table. And I think we're able to do that. Yeah. It's our podcast. We can leave whatever off the table. Yeah. What's one future episode you're most excited about? I would say talking about how motherhood can be overstimulating and overwhelming to just the different aspects of motherhood because some people don't experience that until their kids are later in life. Some kid people, it's when they're newborns and it's different for everybody when they feel stressed and overwhelmed. And it's different for every child. Each one of your children is a different yes. I'm looking forward to talking about that. I think when you say every child's different, like you're at a different stage of life with every one of your kids. Absolutely. And we can honestly foolheartily say that because there's an eight-year age gap between me and Amanda. Where me and you, there's eight eighteen months apart. Yeah. So where our mom was when she had Amanda, she was completely different when she had us because she was older, she was more mature, she was, you know, yeah, in the mom routine already. So it just kind of goes along with where you're at in life. Yeah. I was 16 with my first one, 21 with the second one, and 30, almost 31 with the third one. Okay, if I'm being real honest, I was 20 and 21. No, 21. 20 and 22 with my first two and then 27. Right? Was I 27 when I had Hemi? Or was it 25? You were 25. I was 25. I was thinking so. I was apparently I suck at math. Okay. I suck at math. 15, 21, and 23. Mine are all kind of back up. But we were all like each one of my kids had a different mom. My boys have the same mom. They're 16 months old. Who's reading it now? What episode are you excited about? For me, having a guest on, and I have a specific guest that I'm looking forward to interviewing her and getting her life, her story, and letting her voice be heard. Because it is mighty and it's juicy. It's gonna be the most epic episode ever. And let's just say we just all love her. Yeah, we all I love her. She's the most amazing human, definitely. What about you? Oh, where am I? I'm behind, guys. The episode I'm the most excited about is talking about grief and how to handle it when your world comes crashing down. That's deep. That is very deep. But I I feel that as well. Because that is a very hard topic that we've gone through twice in the last four years. Sister questions. What's something that shaped you, Laura, in the last few years? That's a good one. Learning to love me, no matter what others say, buy it for myself. I'm going next. Okay. Yep. I would say something that has shaped me is learning how to cope after losing people that I love and learning how to move forward. That's good. How about you? Mine's a lot of trauma. Death, accidents. Yeah. So just trauma. Yes. It's pretty simple. What's a taboo topic you wish more women talked about? Living with an alcoholic from the family's point perspective. Nobody talks about it. No. We talked about what the wife or the kids go through. No. Or it could be husband and kids go through. It's not talked about. It's always the recovery, the addict, the addict, the addict. But you don't know what it does to the family at home. Yeah, absolutely. What is yours? Mine is menopause and pre-menopause. I don't it's a little talked about right now, but not as heavily as it should be. There's a lot of things you go through. I mean, that's not why I can't remember things half the time. So it's something you struggle with. So I've yeah, that's just a good topic. I'm gonna kind of go back to what I said and kind of like what I said when for my most excited topic I want to talk about, and it's being stressful and overstimulated as a mother. Because in this last year, I I can say I've struggled with that with my children at the stages that they're at now. I get overwhelmed, I get overstimulated, and sometimes you're like, how do I put that into words, or how do I do this, or how do I do that? I making you feel like you're in fight or fight flight mode. And that's stressful. What would you tell your younger self? Okay, I'm gonna go first.

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Okay.

Being Unfiltered Without Apology

Where We Feel Powerful

Building The Show With You

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So when I was younger, I didn't have a backbone. I kind of let people walk all over me. I would say have a backbone, which I feel that I have now. Yeah. Kind of sometimes a little bit too bitchy, but that's okay. That's all right. After me, don't be afraid. And she would know why. And save your money. That's a good one. We were not taught to save. I would tell myself not to listen to the girls who told you that you were unpretty or not skinny enough or not good enough. That's really good. Why are girls so like girls are mean? Girls are mean, especially younger girls. Like Chelsea goes through some of that right now. Can I just talk about how like boys are mean too? Because Hemi gets told all the time her outfits aren't cute. I'm like, oh well, they're probably just jealous little girls. And she's always like mom their boys. Yeah, I don't kids are just mean. The kids are mean. What does being unfiltered mean to you personally? Being real, raw, and honest. Yeah, like just being myself and not caring what anybody thinks. Because for a long time I have cared about what people think about me. And as I've gotten older and I've gotten into this point in my life, I'm like, fuck you. If you don't like me, go the fuck away. Because I don't care. I don't need you in my life. I feel that. I felt like I always tried to be a people pleaser. That's exhausting because I was always afraid of what people would think of me. Yeah, because you don't want, you know, I never wanted to be perceived as the bitchy one or like the non-caracter one that I always cared. Like I didn't I did not want people to think I was a bitch. I didn't want people to look down on me. And now I just give two flying fucks what anybody thinks about me. Yeah, I think like just our how am I trying to word it? I'm trying to think of the word. In our family, you were judged. Yes. Whether people not our family outside of, you know, not our sisters, but like as a whole big family, we have a lot of extended family. And I feel like you always felt judged. Always. So that's okay. When do you feel most powerful and most hurt? Come on, Stephanie. Go through so come on, be raw, real, and unfiltered here. We're in the bedroom with my husband, and I am being aggressive. Aggressive. You should become like a madame or something. Fuck yeah. I would rock my body. Maybe in your past life. Maybe in my past life I was. You ran like I'm very, I don't know. I feel the most powerful. You like to be dominant. Yes, but no. Oh so you like to be submissive sometimes too? Yes. But I like being in control. And I feel like when we are in the bedroom, I'm in control, and I'm I'm the one that's like dictating what I want. Dictating the dick, I get it. Yes, pretty much. All right, Amanda. Being behind a bar, and I don't mean like a bar, but like behind a bar where you get drinks at. Being a bartender. Yeah, being a bartender. Yes. Yes, being a bartender is and can I just say very powerful. Yeah. Especially if you're working it alone and a big crowd comes in. It like you feel like a bad you feel like a badass. You do. I mean, I'm not nowhere near as good as you, but I feel like when I did do it, it is that it's a pretty awesome feeling. Can't relate. And being on a motorcycle. Yes. I don't know. Something about it. Well, to me, I don't feel like that's powerful. To me, I think being on a motorcycle is free. But it's freeing, but if there's a power to it, it'll also, if you really think about it. I mean, for me, I want to be on my own motorcycle and I feel like that'd be more powerful for me. Because let's be honest, I really want my own motorcycle. Johnny Taylor, I want my own motorcycle. Or maybe it's when I'm singing, because I can find a song and I can just belt it out, which kind of contradicts me with my stage right. But if I'm in the car and I can just turn on the radio and put on the song that I am feeling my emotions in right then and there, and I can just belt it out and it's ringing, especially if people that I want to hear me in the car with me, and I kind of like look at them when I'm singing it and be like, this is to you. Yeah. Get it. And like, okay, so the new Jesse Murphy song, like so many women are like singing it to their husbands. Can we just talk about like how powerful we feel, like telling people we're throwing blue strips at bear tits and we're singing it to our husbands? Because I'd be singing that song to my husband. Like he's done something wrong. He ain't done shit. Well, we hope that you guys have enjoyed hearing all of our stories and about us and all the unfilteredness about our lives. It will get messy. It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be a wild ride. For real. It's gonna be an amazing ride that it's gonna be a learning curve as we figure out episodes, navigate it, navigate it. But I I guarantee by season two, we're gonna be pros. I wouldn't say a pro. I'm not even meaning to like know Joe Rogan or anything over here. Just saying. We'd love to be like Joe Rogan, right? Anyways, I think we'll do good. I think so. I think we'll go somewhere, and that's all that matters at the end of the day. And we're gonna help believing in yourself. Believe in I mean, I didn't expect to throw a trailer out there, and I did, and I mean it kind of pushed me over the hump of like starting was always like, I gotta have this ready first, I gotta do this first, I gotta do that first. And now like we're just making do with what we got, we're just in my kitchen dining room. Put a sheet up and put my title and just again we say we look like hot messes. Yeah, like I've done softball practices did not do their work today. We did softball practice and I cleaned a house today. We had all kinds of things going on. You worked, you worked to did you work today? I worked. No, you haven't got your hair done today. Well, no, I got I got a haircut and then I cut some hair. I did one haircut today. So you didn't work today, so no. I mean, no, I worked and I did, but I didn't. You didn't work.

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I did one haircut.

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It's on my books that I worked. Okay. That's cute. Did you work eight hours? No, but I worked 12 and a half on Wednesday. I worked two hours today and made good money. And 10 on Monday. So and then went to two doubleheaders this week and baseball game. Tournament tomorrow. Yeah. You know what's going to be a good topic we can talk about? What? How people in the medical field are underpaid. Absolutely. Yeah. We will get an email going so this way everybody can message and send us a topic they would like to talk about. Their story or their story. And you can stay anonymous or you can give us your name. It's all about you. We will allow guests on too, and we can do guests over like a Zoom. Yep. Yeah. We could do Zoom because we are in Missouri. So sometimes, you know, we're gonna have people all over the world. Hopefully. What are you talking about? Yes, manifesting that. Yes, I know. We will be all over the world. Everybody will know who we are. Not, I mean, yeah, everybody. Tim Buck too. That's something dad would say. That's my soul was think thinking that. Like that is straight out of it. But you know, I gotta I gotta throw some of dad in there. So of course. All right. So we're gonna sign off for the night. We hope you have enjoyed this episode. And we will see you back next Tuesday for another episode and great topic. I have not even figured out yet, but we'll get it figured out before then. I'll maybe post some teasers on our Facebook page. And I will link that in the bio down below. All right, that sounds great. Unfiltered treble. And we are signing off. Bye.