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The Wellness Hustle is your go-to podcast for quick, actionable health and wellness tips designed to fuel the ambitious in this modern world.
Hey, y'all. Welcome to the first episode of
Speaker 2:the Wellness Hustle. Yes. And these are your hostesses with the mostest . Yeah. My name is Sasha, and I'm a personal trainer, ex-pro athlete, and nutritional therapy practitioner.
Speaker 2:And I've been helping high achieving women to create their own sustainable wellness routine for so many years. Yeah. She's been helping people just like me. I needed her all these years ago. My name is Brit.
Speaker 2:I am a serial entrepreneur. I have been in sales. I've been in marketing. I've been
Speaker 1:in branding. I have been in fashion and styling for 20 years. That's a lot. That's crazy to me that that is actually a reality in my life. I also throughout that entire time, I was living with chronic levels of stress.
Speaker 1:So I kind of didn't realize that at the time. And eventually I ended up getting a divorce and moving home. And throughout that entire journey, I was finding a bunch of wellness tips and tricks like all on my own and having to do a ton of research. And trial
Speaker 2:and error. Trial and error.
Speaker 1:And Yeah. Now I have really figured out what works for me, and I know that Sasha and I connected because she believes on, like, the you call it bio what? Bio individuality. Bio individuality. And so together, we're here to really, like, redefine what it means to hustle in wellness and in life because both of us believe that the word hustle is not a bad word.
Speaker 2:No. It's a good word. Yeah. I I love hustle. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Me too. Yeah. Hustle is fun. Right? And we just didn't wanna make another podcast.
Speaker 2:Like, the wellness wellness hustle is not another wellness podcast. We wanted to bring the real conversation between clients and, like, me, a coach about all these things wellness. Yeah. It's gonna be unique perspective from 2 different Perspectives. Perspectives.
Speaker 2:Unique perspective from the different perspectives.
Speaker 1:Yeah. How are you doing here? We're doing great.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And we wanted to bring you plenty of motivation, make it small meaningful changes for you. So it's attainable. So you can do it. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:So if you're a high achieving woman or man for that matter, looking for clarity, energy, and confidence to grow in all areas of your life, this podcast is for you. If you are ready to join the wellness hustle, hit play.
Speaker 2:Sorry, mom is turning now. And if you're not watching the video, she pointed. She just pointed. So we wanted to redefine the wellness hustler for you, what it means, What it meant for both of us? And you've seen that girl in the gym.
Speaker 2:She's got her cute outfit. She's got her shit together. She knows what she's doing. She goes there consistently. Yes.
Speaker 2:If you're in the gym, she's there. Yeah. Oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm literally thinking of the girl
Speaker 2:in the gym right now. Okay? So it's a wellness hustler. Right? She puts wellness in the front of everything in her life, but it makes the rest of her life so much more empowered.
Speaker 2:She has the energy to go chase her dreams. Yeah. To be the best mom that she can be, to be the best business owner, or the best whatever she wants to be because that's fueling her life Right. Basically.
Speaker 1:We wanted to give you something like really high for high functioning people like that can help you be more high functioning. And as I was doing research and all the things I was going through, I really realized that like, there's these influencers on the internet, and we think like, they know all they end all they be all whatever. And they're doing like a 4 hour fitness routine or right, but like, that's all they do. It's all they do and I'm like that's just not real, like we're not all influencers. Okay?
Speaker 1:Like I'm not an influencer. I don't have all this time in my day, like I don't have time for a 4 hour wellness routine, like by the time I get my sleep and everything else, like I don't have that much more time
Speaker 2:in the day. Right. So we wanna get more bang for your buck, I gotta say. Like, we wanna tell you what works, what doesn't. Don't waste your time here.
Speaker 2:Put your energy into this. Right?
Speaker 1:Really bring it back to basics too because, like, I think, like, she talks about bio individuality is a is a major factor in this, and I found that along the way, like, I have certain allergies and things like that, and that I, like, kind of developed over time that made it hard. But when I really got down to the foundation of things like my nutrition and my fitness, that was when and I wish I would have had something like the wellness hustle back then where it was like, just wait 20 minutes, 30 minutes of like, this is what works and someone who's actually a professional in it, and someone who has experience looking into it and has, like, I can ask you questions about what you're about to talk about, which I would just love to jump into, like, one of our first key points. Right. So do you wanna start us off
Speaker 2:on that? Sure. The first key point really is to fuel your body, not to deprive. So if you think about that girl in the gym that we just described, she's not thinking about, I cannot have this or she's digging herself up because she had that. She's focusing on what she can put on her plate and what is gonna make her feel good.
Speaker 2:Yeah. But she's gonna get the energy throughout the day and not just for the next hour. So there's no cravings, there's no time going to the fridge picking things. Like she ate, she fueled her body, she's ready to go to the next thing.
Speaker 1:Next thing.
Speaker 2:Right? So we wanna talk first about the nutrition, like, because that's what comes to mind, right, when you fuel in your body. And there's 4 aspects we wanna touch on, things that go on your way. And we wanna view them as, I think everybody knows now what protein is. I think everybody knows what good fat is, what is complex carbohydrate Yeah.
Speaker 2:And what is fiber. Right? So those 4 key ingredients should be
Speaker 1:on your plate at all times. Absolutely. And I love how you talk about it too from a perspective of because I obviously love art and design. So I Sasha, when she was first talking to me about it was like, it's an art. Like, your plate is artwork.
Speaker 1:Like, it should be so she talks about it as, like, art. This isn't is is art. And when you look at your plate, and like, my mom always talks about, like, the rainbow on your plate. Talk to us a little bit about why is protein so important in your diet? What does it do for you?
Speaker 2:Protein is getting a lot of, a lot of focus now. Right? A lot of people talk about protein, and before it was just bros in the gym. Right? Yeah.
Speaker 2:How much protein you got? So you know, like, today. But now woman talking about protein, I think it's really cool to see, But why is it so important? Protein is building block for our muscle. Muscle more muscle in your body, the faster your metabolism is, the more food you can eat when you win.
Speaker 2:But also, it's low in calories. Even though I don't believe nutrition should be math, it should be art, like I said, but we still have to be mindful of how much we're eating. Right? So if you're making a meal, you should be focusing first on protein. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Make it the main worse. As you would say of your point, like the main Main character. This main character. Yeah. And everybody is just helping out and that's gonna fuel you the fastest.
Speaker 2:It's gonna slow down your digestion. It's gonna build your body. Right? So protein is very sexy. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Another sexy thing is good fat. And people have been really, really scared of good fat. And I think now people people starting to differentiate from good fat and bad fat. That's why they call it good fat. Right?
Speaker 2:So think of olive oil, of avocado, of raw nuts. Yeah. Things like that that you can add to your food. And what does that do? It makes your food taste delicious.
Speaker 2:Because lean protein in itself is not very tasty. No. Right? So, you need to make it more palatable and good fat makes it more palatable. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And you're gonna love your food because that's why a lot of people get addicted to fast food because there's a lot of oils and that's greasy, you know, and they're yeah. So Yeah. We wanna make it palatable. So you put little bit of good fat in there, little goes a long way, and then you're gonna start adding some fiber. Fiber, we're gonna make fiber sexy.
Speaker 1:I feel like fiber is gonna have a full comeback. Like, I feel like fiber is gonna be the protein of 2025. Right. It's no longer for seniors.
Speaker 2:No. You know what I mean? Like, I think fiber fiber is sexy and we need it in many different ways. Yeah. So there's soluble white fiber and there's non soluble fiber.
Speaker 2:Soluble fiber that you digest. Yeah. So you need that because it's gonna bring those good soldiers, good prebiotics into your gut, and it's gonna help you to diversify your gut. Mhmm. It's gonna make you healthier.
Speaker 2:And then non soluble fiber is the fiber that slows down the digestion and cleans out your gut. So get rid of the gunk in your gut. Right. So then so what it does, it's helping you to get rid of the cravings because you're you're digesting slower. And, also, you're gonna go to the bathroom in the morning.
Speaker 2:I When I do, I'm pretty happy camper. I wanna do my zoomie. No. For real.
Speaker 1:I do too. And I have recently been, like, making fiber more of a focus on my plate because I was really getting I'm a meat and potatoes kind of girl, like, I could eat meat and potatoes all day long.
Speaker 2:Yeah. There's no fiber there.
Speaker 1:There's no fiber there. And it's good and fine. But like, I started adding more fiber into my diet. And I'm noticing because the gut is connected directly to your brain. So I'm noticing, like, my mental clarity is better.
Speaker 1:And if you get embarrassed by talking about poop, then this This is not the show for you. For you. Girl.
Speaker 2:I Sasha and I have
Speaker 1:had this conversation before, but, like, the combination of healthy fats and even as you were just talking about it, I was, like, triggered Mhmm. By, like, I go to fast food and you have all those bad fats for you Right. I get sick. I get sick. I get not, by the way.
Speaker 1:Not like a fun sick. Not fun sick. I mean, it's never fun to be sick, but, like, it's not good. Now, when I'm eating healthy fats, like, my digestion is so good, and I, like Right. Feel really good about myself, and I'm like, oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:I my my schedule is regular. Like, I'm I wake up, I go to the bathroom. It's like totally normal. And yes, by adding that so like, I kinda want you to talk about because you've talked about like how fat and I'm gonna just like I'm gonna mess this up. So like, you've talked about like fat creating bile, which then Right.
Speaker 1:Create, like, and then with the fiber included in it, can you talk to us about that a
Speaker 2:little bit? Absolutely. So you need fat in your diet to create bile. So for all those girls like me back in the day, not gonna date myself. Oh, I can't.
Speaker 2:In 2000, right, we were running our brains out and we were eating fat free and then we weren't pooping for, like, months. Yeah. Yeah. No. I was one of them.
Speaker 2:It was it was it was a thing.
Speaker 1:I know girls. Like, that's a conversation I'm having with my girlfriends right now. I'm like, you eat fats
Speaker 2:and you eat fat. And why? I mean, well, I went to school and I've learned that currently, you need good fat to make bile. Yeah. And if you don't eat good fat, you don't have bile.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And then you can't poop. Yeah. So that's why if you have bad fat and you have bile, then you have bad poop. Bad poop.
Speaker 2:Nobody no, girl. Nobody Yeah. Nobody wants to be around that. Nobody wants to be around that. And then also so if we add fiber, so fiber and good fat together, they're like this dream team.
Speaker 2:Right? Yeah. 1 is making bile and the other one is cleaning out your gut. Yeah. So we are pooping and also cleaning all
Speaker 1:of the bad stuff out. Your body is like a machine. Machine. And I love that. Like, it gets me really excited to think about, like, what you can do for your body in order to get it to operate at its, like, optimal levels.
Speaker 1:And I just get like I get super excited about that. We need to talk about complex carbs. Okay. So short story,
Speaker 2:I used to do bodybuilding. Okay. And I did the bodybuilding well, I didn't do the muscle mini. I did the bikini, so it's like the intro where you have muscle, but not like overly. Like, I could still put my shirts on, like, they didn't rip.
Speaker 2:I love that. That's good. That's good. So that was good. So, yeah.
Speaker 2:So you learned that body building diet. Basically, it's lean protein and it's green beans. Yeah. Yum. Not fun.
Speaker 1:No. And Not for me.
Speaker 2:I was finding myself, and this is coming from an athlete who didn't deprive that much herself, and now I'm depriving. And I remember having dinner with my husband. We're sitting in across from each other. And we're probably, like, 3rd year in our marriage, so we're still, like, you know, kinda, you know, new. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I started to cry. And he's looking at me and he's like, what's wrong with you? And I go, I don't know. So this is what happens. Like, when you don't get carbs, you're a walk a doodle doo.
Speaker 2:No. For real. Like, your hormones go crazy, then you put in your keys for your car in a freezer, and then you can't find them, and then you literally I pointed at my door with the car key trying to lock it. Like, things like that.
Speaker 1:Oh, I I've been there. In fact, when I first started this about 3, 4 years ago, I it was really 3 years ago. I was starting to like strength train. Yeah. And I would do it first thing in the morning.
Speaker 1:And then I would be exhausted by like, I would work out at 7 and I'd be crashed by 10. Like, I could not function. I could not figure things out. I was super distracted with everything in life, like, seriously swirling everywhere. And yet forgetting things and like, not feeling as sharp as I wanted to not feeling like I could, I could hold my own in a conversation.
Speaker 1:Definitely feeling more emotional. Yep.
Speaker 2:Kind of depressed, honestly. Right. Right. They need that good carb. So when people beating up, people get a villain.
Speaker 2:They like to get a villain, and they like to say, okay. We're not doing this anymore. But it's fine and dandy, but our body needs all four things. Where bio individuality bio individuality comes in is how much of each things you need. But we basically, all humans need protein, carbs, fiber, and fat.
Speaker 2:Yeah. But it's just how much of each you need, that's where it becomes bio individual.
Speaker 1:And I love that so much. Our next topic is make movement a priority. Wow. I said that so silly. Make movement a priority.
Speaker 1:Sasha is a personal trainer. So I'm gonna let you kinda surround
Speaker 2:with it. Yeah. Well, I just wanna go back to that girl. I feel like we should name her. The girl in the gym that we see every time we go, oh my god.
Speaker 2:What would be her name?
Speaker 1:I feel like her name is like Sarah.
Speaker 2:Sarah? Okay. You will all wanna be like Sarah. So Sarah is there. She's making movement priority.
Speaker 2:She's there. Yeah. She probably scheduled that. I'm thinking she scheduled that because if I did not schedule that, yeah, I'm not gonna show up. Even me, I do this for living, but I'm gonna find something else to do.
Speaker 2:There's always something else. I work from home and there's always something else. Yeah. And when you schedule it, you have to make it realistic. And I I love to share this story with people because
Speaker 1:when I first started this journey, I started out with Pilates. It was something that I couldn't really afford at the time. I was doing it like maybe 2 times a week. And it was That's where we met. That's where we met.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah. And so I was going to Sunday Pilates. And I, you know, if I didn't show up, then I got a fee like they charged me for. Right.
Speaker 1:So I was I couldn't afford the extra fee, like, I was already paying. So I was like, I have to be there at 7. I would go in, like, freezing storms. I mean, it was it was crazy time and I was just like, I have to get there. It didn't matter.
Speaker 1:I would get to the class and I would work out. And through that, I eventually started to get stronger and stronger and started craving more and started wanting to, like, work out more. So then I had already built that small schedule for myself where it was, like, very realistic at that time and it was, like, okay, now I want something a little bit more. That was when I started boxing. That was when I learned I have a bit of an aggression thing.
Speaker 1:But, you know, yeah, and you've talked about, like, the zoomies. Right? Yeah.
Speaker 2:So, like, like, dogs to get to the zoomies. Yeah. Yeah. Dogs to the zoomies. Yo.
Speaker 2:Let's need to get their zoomies out. Yeah. I mean, you if you're sitting at the desk for 8 hours and you did not move, all that energy is tucked in. That may come out. If you don't do your zoomies, it's gonna come somewhere else.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. And, like, I'll notice that I start
Speaker 1:to lose steam. My ideas, my creativity all starts to go out the window. And so when I started boxing, it was really fun for me. I was, like, really getting excited. It was also kind of like something I had done when I was younger with my dad, so it was a little bit nostalgic for me.
Speaker 1:With boxing, I went to redirect and Yo, the trainer there, he built in strength training program for me as well. So I was I was strength training. And then as I was strength training, I was realizing like, I could do things I was never able to do before and that made me really proud of myself. So then I was going there 2 times a week. And then I was going there 3 times a week.
Speaker 1:And then I was going there 4 times a week. And I just kept like building myself. I became like, really addicted to it. And then I wanted to go like, I wanted to be there was joy for me. It became organic because you had
Speaker 2:pushed it. You started to feel like, oh, this is making me feel good and I want more of this. That's how you become more more consistent, yeah, with your wellness. Don't try to jump in and schedule 5 workouts in a week because, girl, if you never worked out or, like, on and off, yeah, the 5 times might be not really set. Like, 2.
Speaker 2:The 2. Right? Yeah. And then if you want more, you can always schedule more. But once you've glaze over your schedule and not respecting it and not showing up, it's much harder to fix it later.
Speaker 1:A 100%. And I think too, like, it could be a 15 minute walk. Like, you don't need to do that much. Like, studies have literally shown that it can improve just a 15 minute walk. It can improve, like, cardiovascular health, mental health, so many different things, your sleep, everything.
Speaker 1:So, like, if you're just doing that 15 minutes, and let's say you take 15 minutes out of your day, which don't tell me you don't have 15 minutes for yourself in the day, we need to really reevaluate if you don't. Right? Like, if you can take that 15 minutes and do it, you finish it, you check it off, you come back inside, and you're like, wow, I already feel better. And you do that twice a week. Then you already know, like, you're already building that good habit for yourself.
Speaker 1:Yes. That movement. Yeah. And it's giving you like, the other thing I don't think we do in life enough is like take accountability. Like Right.
Speaker 1:And whether you need to get like an accountability partner, and this is really like our next piece of this is, like, be accountable for yourself, for your body, for the way that you feel, for all of that. Like, get yourself a buddy, get yourself a personal trainer. Right. Those are different ways. And if you can't afford
Speaker 2:a personal trainer and if you don't have a buddy, then you need to set up maybe something on your phone. Everybody's got smartphone. Yep. So schedule it. You're already done scheduling.
Speaker 2:So then now you have on your phone, it has to ring and remind you. Girl, you're out the door. You're doing it. Go. Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's where I've at.
Speaker 1:So I've kinda fallen out of this year has been my hard year because I my work was really busy and I I was like, oh, I need to work to pay the bills. So like Right. I won't work out. And then I use an app called Ladder, which shows me each time I complete a workout, like, just has, like, a little circle, and so it's visual for me. I'm a very visual person.
Speaker 1:And that's the
Speaker 2:the the upper man. Like, I did it. Yeah. Like, you like to see those dots. I like to see the dots.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh. Me too. If you follow me
Speaker 1:on Instagram, you saw me start to post, like, November. I worked out 6 whole times in November, which like I normally work out 4 to 5 times a week, and I was starting to feel depressed, anxious. My ADHD was kicking into high gear, like things were not good for me. And then I started, I looked at the app, saw the 6 times in the whole month of November, and I worked out 3 days in a row, the 1st week of December, and I immediately felt better. So it was like, already I got the natural feeling in my body of feeling better.
Speaker 1:But then I got to see that, like, in just 1 week, I was able to do more almost than I did in all of November. Right. I'm sure everybody heard
Speaker 2:the saying, if you wanna get shit done, give it to a busy person. Yes. Right? By putting work out first, you're giving yourself energy and also you just create more schedule that is it gives you more discipline. Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's how I feel about that.
Speaker 1:My neighbor is really good at that. She has 2 boys and she always schedules time like she finds a way to make it work. She works out in 2 at 2 different gyms Mhmm. Because sometimes she has her kids and sometimes she doesn't. So she's like, I she drives we live in Carson City, Nevada and she drives all the way to Reno.
Speaker 1:Mhmm. Today she has her sons so that they can go to the daycare there. Mhmm. And then she works out at my gym in Carson. It's her name is Sarah.
Speaker 1:Her name is Sarah. She's so badass, and I wanna be like her. Yeah. And we're the same age,
Speaker 2:but I'm like, when I grow up, it's just like Sarah.
Speaker 1:I'm kidding. Damn it, Sarah. So so yeah. But that's, like, really it. And then you, like, look at that person and you're like, you put yourself first.
Speaker 1:Like, you put your oxygen mask on first. You took care of yourself first, and I, like, see her throughout the day, like, you know, and she plays outside with her sons and, like, it's just you want to be the person that you aspire to be and it's not as hard as you think it is. And all you have to do is schedule it, make it realistic and simplify it. Right. And have accountability.
Speaker 1:And have accountability. That's the biggest thing. Okay. So our next little key tip for you of the wellness hustler is my personal favorite, and that is to stack it. And we like to do that 2 different ways.
Speaker 1:So one is that like, there's habit stacking. And if you haven't read Atomic Habits, you should go get that book. It's fantastic. I actually need to reread it, but I've read it twice already. And essentially, it's the concept of for me, I have to have a trigger.
Speaker 1:So essentially, I'll start one habit will create a trigger that kind of domino affects the rest of my routine.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 1:So when I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do and I do sleep with my I wasn't sleeping with my phone by my bed for a while, now I am doing that again. And the reason for that is because when I wake up in the morning, I turn on like, kind of motivational meditational track. I love that. Yeah. And that then like gets me excited to get into bed because I'm laying there and I'm like, okay, but she's like talking about all these things about being great.
Speaker 1:I'm like, yeah, that'll be great. Let's go do that. Yeah. Yeah. And then I'm like, okay, so that's my first thing that I do.
Speaker 1:And then once I'm out of bed, I'm right at my sink. I brush my teeth. I do the face and I put my workout clothes on.
Speaker 2:Right. Because if you're in the lounge wear, that could last for a while. I've noticed that myself. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:If I'm in my pajamas, I'll stay in my pajamas.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'll stay. Girl, I'm so cozy. Girl, I will be
Speaker 1:in my cozies all day long. So, yeah. It really does trigger your brain to say like, okay, this is like the process that I'm gonna go through. And you do it without thinking. I have this theory that like, the less I have to think about something, and I think that's why you see people like Steve Jobs, they wear the same clothes every single day.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Because they don't have to think about it.
Speaker 2:They don't want the last thing.
Speaker 1:Yep. That's a high functioning individual. Sarah probably also puts her workout clothes on right now. Black on black. Black.
Speaker 1:I can see that. I'm same way. I get I'm partial, Sarah. I'm almost there. I can only wear black because I'm a mess of a person.
Speaker 1:I'm constantly stealing things on myself. So yeah. So that's like the trigger habit aspect of it. And then like, you know, I can get through my routine. And again, that routine then leads me to 6:45 when I'm packing my shit and getting in the truck to then drive to the gym.
Speaker 1:Once I walk in the doors of the gym Yep. My app the ladder app is up and going. I hit play and the it's just done. Like, it's done for me.
Speaker 2:And did you ever felt like I shouldn't have done it? I never leave the gym. Isn't that hysterical? Like, whoever leaves the gym
Speaker 1:and is like, I paid it in.
Speaker 2:It's waste of my time. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, I shouldn't have never done it. Right. Never. I never feel that way. Also, you guys, there's really beautiful people in the gym.
Speaker 1:Yeah. There's there's a lot of there's a lot of pianists. I don't know. Jack. I don't know.
Speaker 1:I just named him Jack. Yeah. I don't know. I'm single. So, you know, we just whatever.
Speaker 1:And then the next one that we love
Speaker 2:to do is to multitask cure. So the way I teach my clients, and to me, that was the easiest. If I already have a habit, like, say, I love my cup of coffee in the morning, but I wanted to incorporate collagen somewhere. And when I was trying to force collagen somewhere, like, in the middle of it, it was just, like, not happening. Right.
Speaker 2:Now I'm like, what if I put collagen into coffee? So then, boom. Now I don't even know. It's been 5 months. I'm not skipping my collagen Yep.
Speaker 2:Because I know coffee goes in, collagen's going in. I whip it up. I'm good to go. So what other things can you combine? Like, you're brushing teeth, maybe you can say your affirmation.
Speaker 2:Yes. Yes. Right? Or you can do your cough phrases. Oh my god.
Speaker 2:Maybe not. Right? Or what I've been doing is when I'm getting ready, I have, like, a short little podcast I like to listen, and it's motivational. So I turned it on through my phone in the bathroom, and I just do my thing and I listen. So you get that positive kind of affirmation Yeah.
Speaker 2:Throughout, you know, throughout your when you're getting ready. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And sometimes I find even when I'm doing, like, my getting ready and I have that, like, meditation thing I was talking about in the background. I have found that like, sometimes I'm not even really listening to all of it. Like, I'll listen to it one morning and hear things and I'll listen to it the next morning and hear different things. And I'm like, I just take that as like, I'm subconsciously hearing this. And it's like a positive way to start my day.
Speaker 1:Like, I think we intensify things and we're like, we have to be laser beam focused on this, like, one thing and it's like, no, like, how can you make everything work for you and not like, make it like you're saying, like, put collagen in your coffee. Because I have found that when I have coffee after I've had bone broth in the morning, I feel better. I hate the taste of bone broth. I don't want a savory thing in the morning. I want my yummy coffee or I want now I have like the paleo valley chocolate broth, and I love that.
Speaker 1:Every morning, it's like a happy little joy that
Speaker 2:I'm like, I can't wait to
Speaker 1:get downstairs and have it. Yep. And then after I have that, I have my cup of coffee.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So that works for you. Yeah. And I think it's fun to see it as a little game and explore and see, like, what you can stop together. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right? And just, yeah, just wait. Play with your day. Yeah. Don't be so serious and don't be so, like, oh, this work's finished or coming out.
Speaker 2:Or maybe it's not working anymore. Maybe we need to reassess this.
Speaker 1:And also make it work for Sarah and it's not gonna work for you. Right. So that's an important thing to keep in mind. Okay. So then our last one kind of is like a great feed off of what we just said is like, prioritize progress over perfection.
Speaker 1:I am a chronic perfectionist.
Speaker 2:Me too. And I think we kinda get along on that. Yeah. Yeah. If we can maybe record this podcast 20 times over, we would.
Speaker 2:I think we almost have. We almost have. We're being honest. Like, I think we almost have. But at the end of the day, it's done is always better than perfect.
Speaker 2:There's no such a thing perfect. So let's just have to let
Speaker 1:it go. I have to give you guys a story on this because I this week, I was on my period and I was like, I don't wanna go to
Speaker 2:the gym. I don't wanna go to
Speaker 1:the gym. And I was running out of time. I had, like, pushed it off. I was now in the 8 AM category and I was like, oh my god. My whole work day and I was like, just go.
Speaker 1:15 minutes, just go into the gym for 15 minutes. If all you do is squat, fine. Just go in. Right. I went in, I did 30 minutes, I was out by 9.
Speaker 1:It messed up my day like a little bit. But at the end of the day, I was actually more productive with the amount of time that I had because, like, I had that mental clarity from working out. And I had that, like, I can do anything. I think we get so hooked on, like, the expectation of what exactly it's supposed to look like. When in reality, just go and get that tiny little dopamine hit like, right, just go in and like do that one thing for yourself, even if it is only 15 minutes or whatever it can be.
Speaker 1:And like, I was so proud of myself for doing that. Yeah. Again, we're going back to, like, you didn't think that time was wasted. Right?
Speaker 2:No. Right. So I think what we're trying to say here is just even little bit of effort towards your wellness daily will go a long way over time. It's just building stacking habits, including movement, being mindful of what you're putting on your plate. All this will actually pay off in a big way.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And that's really like, you know, it's not so hard once you start and you take those tiny steps and kind of like what we talked about with me going to Pilates Right. 2 times a week. The next thing I knew, like, my body was changing in different ways. I was feeling stronger.
Speaker 1:I felt like I could do more. And
Speaker 2:Mhmm. All of a
Speaker 1:sudden I completed way more than I had ever expected that I could. And you get like, at the end, like, it's so great to feel proud of yourself, like, I think so. And that's where the confidence comes from is that leave the gym. I when I walk away from a plate of food that I've eaten, that I've eaten, I'm like, yeah, girl, you did that. Like, you took care of yourself.
Speaker 1:And eventually, as I've been on this for the last 3 years, like, you know, everybody's like, oh, I don't drink anymore. I do still drink, but I just drink less because I'm like, I wanna make sure that I can wake up the next morning and go to the gym because I value that part of myself and it really makes me feel proud and I wanna make sure that like, all the food that I just put into my body like is doing what it needs to do in my body and like functioning the way that it's supposed to. And then of course, like my little ego and I'm a little vain sometimes and who's not, so don't judge me. But, like, then your body starts to change and your jeans start to fit better. And, like, that's a thing nobody talks about with strength training either.
Speaker 1:Like, strength training made my denim fit, like, totally different on
Speaker 2:my body. Oh, absolutely. Because you got some glutes. Yeah. You got some glutes to back into that jeans.
Speaker 1:And like my hips are doing better things. Uh-huh. Yeah. I think like all that is your end to end. Right?
Speaker 1:Like, but that is the last thing I noticed. It was like how I was feeling in the moment was the most important thing to me at the time. And again, like little little progress over perfection.
Speaker 2:Right. Because we're not gonna lose £100 overnight. If that's your journey, you have to focus on how you feel that day. You have to get the tangibles. Right?
Speaker 2:Because the £100 off is gonna be not tangible at that time Right. After one workout. I mean, you've seen this funny post people do. Like, I eat salad. Why am I, like, you know, one time?
Speaker 2:Why am I not lost, like, £10 yet? Like, everybody's expectation. Yeah. Everybody's expectation. So I think you need to flip your focus on how you feel.
Speaker 2:Like, how you feel that day, how much energy you had, how your sleep was. And that's where, like, we're gonna explore all of that in the future podcast and give you even more information on how you can track that, how you can implement different things. But those are the basics that we really wanted to cover today in our first episode. In our first episode. Our next episode, we are going to talk about the holidays.
Speaker 2:The holidays. The Christmas.
Speaker 1:So Yes. We'll give you guys some tips and around that too because I believe in balance in the theory that, like, balance isn't real, but also, like, where how can we find it where we can, if
Speaker 2:that makes
Speaker 1:any sense. Like
Speaker 2:I know. If balance is a funny thing Yeah. I think people have different opinions about it. But to me, I almost always see, like, the basics. You still keep your basics, but maybe they're not as like, the workout is gonna get smaller.
Speaker 2:Yeah. You're gonna have more room for maybe yummy or sweeter things, but your basics, like your breakfast is gonna be solid. Right? You're gonna have movement every day. Like, those are the things.
Speaker 2:So that's how you create balance in your unbalanced life. Like, there's a nonnegotiables. Yeah. Yes. The nonnegotiables.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I guess this is where we say goodbye, which is so sad. We will see you guys. We're gonna be releasing episodes on Mondays and Wednesdays. So we will talk to you about the holidays on, on Wednesday.
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