The Jill Cruz Podcast

We’ve all got crazy lives. As a working mom, I couldn’t imagine piling more on my plate. Lauren Hooper’s plate was overflowing and spilling everywhere. Besides being a wife and mom of two, she’s a performer. Singing, acting, dancing - she can do it all. How long can you do it all before your well-oiled machine begins to break down?

Show Notes

✨ Getting back to herself and self-care: being a mom of two small kids and navigating so many things. 02:18
👩🏽‍🎤 Lauren is a performer in musicals, film, and TV: building back the strength and stamina to be able to do the things she loves. 03:47
🧘🏽‍♀️ Anatomy associated with singing benefits from yoga and running. After pregnancy, she needs to work daily on her abs just to be able to sing and perform. 06:05
🤰🏽 Diastasis recti and postpartum recovery: you don’t have to lose weight, but you have to re-knit abs together. 09:37
😍 Settling and grounding for mental health: meditation, connecting with family, tracking her time, and having an accountability friend. 11:45
⏰ How tracking time is helping Lauren: the process of tracking time and tracking emotions on a daily basis to get structure and create a more realistic schedule. 14:07
❗ Try to apply time audits in your life. 20:42
🎭 Moments of a performer’s job can be glamorous, but most of the time it is hard work and unpaid preparation for auditions. 21:33
😫 Being a recovering perfectionist and having issues with procrastinating: getting burned out and tired. 23:06
👉 Thinking about what are the things that are giving the greatest impact in the least amount of time is the perfect baseline to change your patterns of behavior and life. 26:30
🦾 Think about your body as a beautiful machine: choreographing life to run smoothly, but we are humans with emotions, not machines. 27:21
😇 Therapy has been amazing for Lauren: rationalize how to work through the problem and chase your base emotion to see what is lacking in your life. 30:33
🤩 Emotions are helpful guides of where to go and acknowledge that: trust your intuition. 35:41
🗣️ We have been trained over time to be disconnected from our body and internal wisdom: nine out of ten times, intuition is your body trying to speak to you. 37:25

Links
 👉 Connect with Lauren: www.laurenhooper.com
 🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com
 ✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss
 🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

What is The Jill Cruz Podcast?

If you are a woman in leadership and/or aspiring for greater leadership and you are looking to have it all; success in your career, personal life, and health, you're going to love this podcast season.

I am incredibly passionate about this topic because I believe that as women leaders we can have it all! We don't have to settle for being successful in just one area of life such as our careers. We can orchestrate a life that is fulfilling, pleasurable, and healthy in all areas. We are all a "work-in-progress" but it's important to BELIEVE we can have it all or we surely won't get that.

We will be speaking about what it takes to be a successful leader AND have a thriving personal life. Topics include passion, purpose, grit, compassion, self-awareness, thought leadership, self-care, wellness, visionary thinking, and strategic leadership.
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