In Her Prime

The Real Reason You’re Exhausted — How to Gain Control of Your Time and Get Out of a Rut

• House of Movement • Season 1 • Episode 16

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The real reason you’re exhausted—it’s not just about sleep. In this episode, we break down mental overload, emotional exhaustion, and why being busy isn’t the same as being productive. We dive into energy management vs. time management, Mel Robbins’ ‘3-Bucket Rule,’ and actionable steps to reset, gain control of your time, and get out of a rut.

SPEAKER_00:

Hi guys, welcome back to our podcast. I'm Elise. And I'm Dom. This week we're talking about just getting out of a rut, feeling very exhausted with work and life, and And just gaining control of the time that might be slipping away, and you're not able to just like get a grasp on everything that you need to do.

SPEAKER_01:

We start off every episode with peek and pit, so you go, you take the floor.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, my pit is my skin has been major acting up. I don't know what is going on. Not to be that person, but I have never been the person with like major acne. So all of a sudden, I feel like the past like two, two or three weeks, it started on my chin, and I was getting like these little under-the-skin like hormonal stuff, and I was like, okay, like uh, you know, fair, period. Fair enough, yeah. And they're not stopping. It's like one after the next.

SPEAKER_01:

Your skin looks good right now.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, it's covered, but um, like it came to a point where it started going down my neck and like just my chin. So I'm like, okay, it must be hormonal. And I texted my dad, and back when I was in like first or second year, I used to take something called Sporonolactone. I don't think it's like necessarily used specifically for acne. I think it's like a like a high blood pressure, like a cholesterol medication or something. But if you take like a certain dose of it, it can like cancel out hormonal breakouts.

SPEAKER_01:

So you're back on it, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

So I'm back on it. And getting better, getting worse, or no? I feel like getting better, but today I noticed like they were coming back, and that's just the worst. Like, it's just the worst, especially when like it's already winter and I'm like already not feeling myself. It's just not cute, not the vibe. I know. What's your pit?

SPEAKER_01:

Honestly, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed with House of Movement.

SPEAKER_00:

I know.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. It's just there's a lot that we want to get done, there's a lot that needs to get done, there's a lot that we want to see come to life in the next six months to a year. And I think it's just I I don't know. I think it kind of easily ties into this week's conversation of balancing our time and getting out of a rut and just making sure that the time that I'm allocating towards House of Movement is for House of Movement. So I'm really happy that we're talking about this today because I think some of the stuff and some of the insights that we'll share will be easily like it'll come from like a genuine place of like this is how I feel, and like I'm trying to relay that to everyone that's listening.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, I feel like everything always feels like more emphasized in the winter time, like especially, but I feel like the past two to three weeks, I have never been like more stressed in my life.

SPEAKER_01:

It's like the it's the it's the type of stress that's it's like anxiety, it's like that gut feeling where I don't know, like I want this to succeed so badly, but sometimes there's days where I have so much imposter syndrome where I'm like, what are we doing?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, like no, and I could too.

SPEAKER_01:

This doesn't I I feel like we're not serving a purpose, I feel like we're not, and then there's other days where we'll have like really small wins or we'll have like a really great event or we'll receive amazing feedback or just recognition from other people, and I'm like, okay, no, like we're on the right path.

SPEAKER_00:

That's what I'm saying. Like, I feel like sometimes after an event, I'm like, I feel on such a high. It's such a good thing where a brand will reach out to us and it's like such a high. But I feel like the past two to three weeks have had a lot of hard moments to the point where, like, I don't know, it's just it's been a hard month.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it can be a little bit discouraging, but I think that's with anyone that is an entrepreneur or trying to build something from scratch. Like, I think it's eps and flows, but I also think you feel things super heavy when something good is gonna come. Like when you're like when things get really tough, that's when you start to see the resilience of do I actually want this and do I want this bad enough? And then you can persevere and like push through to the other side. But on not a really sad note, let's talk about our peak.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, my peak is I started a new job. Yeah, I quit a job that I don't think anybody was expecting me to leave because it was like a company that like I really integrated into my personal brand, I would say. And like I really hyped up and I didn't leave on like bad terms or anything. I sort of just I feel like with my line of work, you have to check yourself every now and then and like make sure that you are continuing to like push yourself and continuing to grow. And like, obviously, at the end of the day, like house movement is my goal, but I still want to be learning different things on the side. So I decided to make the jump and go into like a route where I haven't done, which is like influencer partnerships, and very randomly, like the day I decided to leave this one job, I got presented the opportunity with another great company.

SPEAKER_01:

You got hired within 36 hours, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and which is great. It was like I just started this week, I took like a week just to myself to recollect. It has been a lot of work and like adjusting to learn like how I'm gonna sort of incorporate this into my life because at the end of the day, like I still have two clients full-time client and then house of movement. Well, I have three full-time clients, like one of them is this new one and house of movement, and I still I I sort of consider house and movement a full-time client because it requires honestly more of my time in a week than like my paying clients. So it's been a balance for sure. It's been a it's it's a learning curve.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, well, no, we're all super proud of you. Thanks. What's your peak? Okay, my peak is I've talked about it before on the podcast, but I am finally at a place where my sister and I are on not perfect terms, but way better than what where we were a couple weeks ago. So I'm just like super happy about that. Honestly, I'm happy about that. Yeah, like we talk a lot more, like we went from like literally being roommates for like three months, like not saying a single word, and I speaking to friends and people that have younger siblings or older siblings, like it's super common, and not saying that that should be the norm, but like you have bad relationships with your sibling, but we're just past all of that, and I think we're just mature, like I'm 24, she's 22. Like, I think we're both just coming to terms with like you're the only sister I'm gonna have, like, we should just stop. Like, let's just squash it, like whatever we are fighting about, whatever bullshit I said, she said my feelings were hurt, your feelings were hurt. Like, let's just move past it.

SPEAKER_00:

So honestly, I feel like because you guys are so close in age, there's more room for like bickering and stuff. I look back to when because my sisters are five and six years older than me, and obviously, like when I was in high school, like we weren't really friends. It was only until like I sort of went to university and they were older that we became close. And I know that they used to bicker, they used to live together at university, so it was just like it has its pros and cons.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it's a lot, and I think that it's taken a huge stress off my shoulder from the family dynamic at home. Like, I would get stressed out being at home because I'm like, oh, I'm not on good terms with someone, but not necessarily we're on perfect terms now, but we're at a point where I'm like, okay, like we can coexist and we're not like jumping down each other's throats, and like I don't want to stab you like when you leave the room. Honestly, that is progress. Yeah, it is progress.

SPEAKER_00:

So we're getting somewhere. Okay, this week we are just talking about sort of being in a rut. I feel like the past few weeks I mentioned that I have been like under the most amount of stress I have been under, probably in I don't know, I can't even remember one. But I don't know if it was because like leaving an old job caused me a lot of stress, and there were a few reasons just why I decided to exit, but it felt like very stressful at the time, and then feeling like I'm losing that stream of income and I have to basically replace it, and then moving into house and movement, house and movement has required so much more of my time than it used to, and being like the creative side of house and movement, sometimes I feel like exhausted with creativity because when you're trying to be creative for like three brands every single day, and then a fourth being your own, yeah, it can feel exhausting.

SPEAKER_01:

For lack of better words, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

It's just like it comes to a point where at the end of the day, I'm like, I do not want to do this right now. Like my brain is fried. And I feel like the past few weeks I just I've just been low mentally, and it's like the winter and everything, and I'm feeling I'm finally sort of coming around.

SPEAKER_01:

But I don't know, I feel like people don't really talk about people talk about like seasonal depression and stuff, but but I think overall you're just like I hearing you, and I think the best way to describe it is just you're exhausted. And the way that I think of it is like my exhaustion will will funnel out into like three different things. Like my mindset is I'm exhausted, my time is the fact that I'm exhausted, and like my energy, like I don't have any more energy to give, which causes me to be exhausted. So, what would you say right now is like the biggest, like if we were to talk about three three separate categories like time, what consumes the most amount of your time? Like, yes, house of movement, but what else?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I feel like my mental overload is just consumed in general, being like from work. Yeah, because I sort of live a life where work is like my life, and my boyfriend is like operate similarly, and it's I think it stems from a place where we both love what we do for work, so you always want to talk about work or you always want to talk about advancing house to movement. Like we were at our Valentine's Day lunch talking about house to movement because that's what I like to talk about. And I think I don't really realize how much I do work throughout the day. Like, I don't work a typical nine to five, so I feel like most days I work more than five o'clock, or I'll work until seven o'clock, and I have set like boundaries for myself where I try and shut down by like a 7 p.m. But definitely like mental overload in that space, and then just like exhaustion when it comes to like my social life. I feel like I'm not the type of person that my cup is filled by being around people, my cup is filled by being around like you or my boyfriend or like my family in like a quiet setting. And I think with the line of work that we do, we are constantly stimulated by people, and it might just be over the phone or it might be over like a Zoom call, but don't you feel like you're on calls all day long and by the end of the day you're just like I'm exhausted, like nobody talked to me.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. I feel yeah, like I I'll I'll finish work or I'll get off. And like mine's a little bit different. Like our structure and like our routine is like I'm corporate nine to five, you're traditional, like I set my I set my own hours, but I get the feeling of being so drained, like you're just emotionally, physically everything drained. But I my thing is is like I'm I try and be so hyper aware of like myself like falling down kind of that hill that I'll do anything that I can in order to prevent myself feeling drained. So like me feeling drained is like I need to like sounds so silly, but like I need to go out. Like I need to see friends, I need to feel like emotionally like physically not physically, emotionally stimulated, like I want to go out, I want to go to dinner, I wanna have fun, I need to let loose, like I need that aspect of myself, I need to work out, like I need to release tension, I need to release stress, like I need to spend time time outdoors, like I need to go on a walk. Because if I I feel like if I'm just I'll go through a day and I'm like in a rut and then I don't do anything about it, and then I just go to bed and I wake up the next day, I'm like, holy, like I'm just it's the same cycle, like it is the same thing. And like sometimes it is like I don't know, like I'll be the first to say, like, yeah, there's probably stuff that I could be doing on a Friday night, but like it makes me feel good to go out and socialize and to just like let go of things that stress me out because then I know I'm like, okay, Saturday comes and I'm like, okay, I need to do things for House of Movement, or there's things that I didn't get done for my job, but like at least I like got that fix out.

SPEAKER_00:

Like, at least I I feel like people talk about like their quote unquote dopamine menu. Yeah, and I guess that is yours. I need to go out. Like at the end of the day, if you were to think of like three things that just boost your dopamine, going out is one of them.

SPEAKER_01:

Going out is for sure one of them. Another one is being outside with my dog. Like, okay, right now in the dead of winter, it's like a little bit hard, but like I could spend three hours with her outside and it just it makes me feel so good. And then my last would be honestly working out. I've talked about it so much on this podcast about how working out is like ingrained into who I am. But those are like the three things, and like if I don't get to achieve those three things in a week, something's going wrong. Something's going on. Like, if I don't not even like go out like, oh my god, crazy, but like a dinner or go over to a friend's house, or like come over here, or like do something where I can get out of the house and centralize my thoughts around something that isn't work, or like working out, like I need to do that. Yeah. What about you? Three things that like make you feel whole that just like okay.

SPEAKER_00:

I feel much better. I mean, I go through ups and flows with working out. I might not want to go and do the workout, but when I'm done, I always feel good. And I've been getting back into berries, and like berries is like it's like a mental sucks, it's sucks when you're there. Yeah, and it is like you were fighting your for your life.

SPEAKER_01:

Demons, demons.

SPEAKER_00:

Like this morning I went at eight o'clock and like I was on the verge of canceling 50 times and I didn't do it, and then when you leave, like you did it, yeah, and you're productive and you got it done. And I have noticed that like there have been weeks where I have been so busy with work that like I can't I don't even go for a walk outside. And the past week I have really tried to, even if it's at seven in the morning, if that's the only time I have, yeah, I I try and do something, and I'm normally not like a morning workout person, but I've been doing it that 8 a.m.

SPEAKER_01:

So something that just that I just thought about when you were saying, like, I'm so busy, and this isn't to like contradict that you aren't busy, but do you sometimes feel when you say you're like I am so busy, but do you do you feel like you're using up like every single hour of like every because I'll say to myself, I'm like, I'm so busy, like I work in nine to five. Okay, cool, but like if I really like sat in the mirror or like sat down and looked at myself in the mirror, like, am I utilizing all eight hours to its fullest potential? Like, I feel like sometimes no.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, and I say I think being busy is not the same thing as being productive.

SPEAKER_01:

No, because I'll say that I'm busy. Like, I'll I'll create a task, like I I write in my agenda religiously, and I and I'll start off every single Monday. I literally do BP, which is like my job, and then I do HOM. So I'm like, this is everything that I need to do. Because every Monday morning we have a house of movement meeting. Yeah, and then me and you, we always read off our tasks to each other, and I'm like, okay, I'm doing this, Elise is doing this, and then I have my task, and then I have this, but I'm like my eight hours a day, and like if we're like breaking it down, like I take a lunch break and I take my dog out, and I probably just sit around and do nothing for like 20 minutes. Like, am I really productive for eight hours? And I think that's like the biggest thing that I need to like come to terms with, is like I know I can be doing more. Like, I know that like today for work, for example, like I was writing two newsletters and like I could have for sure done like three or four, but like I don't know, I I like my mom will come home and I'll like fool around and then like and I'm like okay, if I know that I'm gonna get so overwhelmed at the end of the day, like why don't I just like suck it up and like stop being a bitch and like just do it, like and just be as productive as I can.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, I think for me it ebbs and flows, yeah. And I will say I'm the type of person who will sit there and like hyper focus on whatever I'm doing, and like I am a productive person when it comes to work. I might not be productive when it comes to things like cleaning, yeah, but like when it comes to work, I get shit done. And because like my boyfriend's working all day and I'm just sort of sitting here solo. Um once I sit down, I pretty much don't move until dinner time. I might take like a 30-minute walk and I might just walk around the living room. But like if I'm on my phone, unless I'm on FaceTime with you and we'll just like sit and work on FaceTime, I'm I'm working. Like I'm not watching a show throughout the day or I'm not like really talking to anybody. And I think it's just because realistically, I have taken on too much on my plate, but I'm sort of at a phase in my life where I'm okay doing that right now because I know that it will benefit me in the near future, and I'm okay with it.

SPEAKER_01:

That's one thing though that I will say that you're like really good at is my and I actually don't know if it's like the ADHD that like or I just can't seem to focus, but I get pulled into so many little like side quests during the day. Like I'll start work in the morning, and like this is not an excuse, but like it's just a reality, and my mom will need something, or my dog is like just bust like just needs attention, and then I do this, and then like I get like I I get pulled into so many other different avenues that I and then I look back and like okay, I only probably worked for like three hours, but it it it stresses me out because then at the end of the day I'm like, what did I do for eight hours? And I don't want to say that like having I don't know for me, like even just saying it out loud, like having distractions is not an excuse to not get work done. It just I get really frustrated at myself when a full eight-hour workday will go by and I'm like, how did I not get 50% of these things done? But then like I I am like easy on myself and I look back and I'm like, okay, I did I did do this, and like I went to a midday class, or like I I had other stuff to do, or like we have a one-hour call with House of Movement, so like that takes a portion out of my day, or like whatever weed is, or like you and I will hop on a call because there's like actual things that we're doing or we're planning.

SPEAKER_00:

But I mean, I will say, like, there are certain days of the week that are just busier for everybody.

SPEAKER_01:

Like for me, it's a Monday because I Oh my god, my Mondays and Tuesdays are so busy, just like meetings. Like I have three meetings each day. That's like three hours out of my day, just like cut automatically.

SPEAKER_00:

For example, Monday, I have a 9:30 to 10:30 with client number one, 10:30 to 11:30 with client number two, 11:30 to 12:30 with client number three, and then 2:30 to 3:30 with house movement. Yeah, so it's just a busy day of like organizing my week. Like some people organize their week on a Sunday, I do it on a Monday, and that might make mean that I work on a Sunday, and I think everybody's routine is just different, but just finding what works for you and for me, for example, last week I just did not have a productive week. I've just been like in a mood and just having a low week, but that meant that I had to work on the weekend, and that means that like I know she at least messaged me yesterday on family day.

SPEAKER_01:

She was like, um, fuck, what did you say? You were like, something I was like, I need you to call me. Yeah, you're like, I need you to call me. I'm like, bitch, I'm in bed. It's family day. I was like, I'm not working today, but then like I I can't.

SPEAKER_00:

But they're like, oh yeah, I forgot.

SPEAKER_01:

And then she was like, oh yeah, I forgot, like, you don't work. And I was like, it's my day off. Like I will be ready to go. I know.

SPEAKER_00:

Like, I think I forget sometimes that like people don't work seven days a week. I know, I know.

SPEAKER_01:

But but I want the both of us though, and this is like my manifestation, and like I'm putting this out there. I want us to get to the point with within this year for House of Movement where it's like a well-oiled machine. It's a well-oiled machine, and okay, let me like reword that so it doesn't sound I want to get to the point this year this year with House of Movement where we are not killing ourselves and just becoming so consumed by everything that needs to get done, and it is such a well-oiled machine where I do this, you do this. And it's hard though, because you and I both have full-time jobs completely outside of the scope. Like you are self- self-employed and you have your three clients, and I work in corporate, which deser or like demands a lot from me. So my point is though, it's like I just want us to get to the point where it's just like a cycle of like, yeah, I got you, you got the like and we just like tag team each other.

SPEAKER_00:

I think what people don't realize is like working not only just with your friend, working with anybody is never sunshine and rainbows. Yeah. Because at the end of the day, everybody is different, everybody has different personalities, everybody has different work ethics, everybody has different brains, meaning everybody operates differently day to day, and I think really working on finding a middle ground that works for everybody, but still advances the company. And I think that's where we're figuring out.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. But I will say, I think we've gotten to a point where we flow really well, and we like, and I have no problem now like getting to a point like I I I don't have time, or like you'll say, like, Dom, I need you to do this, and it's like, okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Like then that that's just that is one thing I will say is like just saying it. Like if you have something to say and you need somebody to do something, just just open it and say it. And like, look, sorry if it hurt your feelings, but just do it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I need I need it to get it.

SPEAKER_00:

Or like if I if I'm tired or something, like just say it. Just just stop. And I think that's where that's where we've run into problems, not only with us, but like with our back-end team and stuff, is just just saying it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, I was listening to a Mel Robbins podcast, and she was talking about the three bucket rule, basically choosing like the main priorities in your career, personal life, and just like well-being, and being able to like categorize your life into these three things and then split your day basically accordingly, of like what fills your cup and what you think can like just go on the back burner. Okay. So if you were to put your little three-bucket role for your main priorities, what would it be for career, personal life, and just like well-being?

SPEAKER_01:

I guess like my biggest bucket career-wise, right now, I'm gonna separate career into house of movement and my corporate job. House of movement, okay. This is gonna this is gonna sound a little stupid saying it this out loud. House of movement, I want it to become our full-time thing in a year. Corporate, I want a promotion. So I don't know, I don't know how that makes sense. But when like I've talked to my job about house of movement, they know that I do it. So, like, when the time comes, and if I have the opportunity where house of movement presents itself to being my full-time income, then like that's just what it is, and I know that they would be happy and support me if I decide to make that move. But I'm working now, like, if I'm talking about my corporate job, I had a conversation with my boss. I think I think I told you I had a conversation with my boss last week where I or two weeks ago, where I basically told him, and I was like, Hey, I feel as though I've kind of outlived all of the responsibilities and tasks that you've given me. So I started in sip, no, I started in October, and I had a list of things that they're like, this is what you're responsible for. And about a month ago, I kind of felt like I was like, okay, I'm like, I need the speed to like pick up a little bit, like I need more. And he was like, Great, that's awesome. Like, and gave me more. So I'm just like, I want to keep building onto that, and I want to eventually get to the point where I'm becoming like a coordinator or a manager.

SPEAKER_00:

I will say that's like such the the tricky part for like corporate versus freelance because for me, you just do it all. Well, if if I'm gonna add something on, I charge extra for every task added on. Yeah. Whereas in corporate, you just add on, basically prove your worth and hope that you pay me.

SPEAKER_01:

And hope and hope that like eventually I get a promotion. But um, I'm lucky because I work for a startup, so there is no one higher than me. Like eventually, where we get to a point where we're scaling the company and we're getting bigger and bigger, like I will, in hopes, move up and then someone will take my job. So, like right now, we don't have like a marketing department, like it's really just me, which I'm like a marketing and communications like assistant, but I kind of just do everything. And then we have my boss, like like literally the CEO. But he had told me like right when we started, he was like, if all goes well, and like I, you know, like if all just presents it's if you are presenting yourself in a way that you want to grow here, like you can easily move up into a coordinator or manager role. For sure. And that's that's my plan. So that is like my personal, or what is it? That was career, and then other career, I want house and movement and become our full-time thing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

So like I don't really know the movement. That's like if I were to say, I don't know my like career aspirations outside of House of Movement, if I'm being honest. Like every client I have, I do something different for. One, I do social media management and content, one I do brand strategy and consulting, and then one I do influencer partnerships.

SPEAKER_01:

And well, I think that is like teaching you to just become a very well-oiled machine. For sure. Like you'd know how to do content, you know how to work a camera, you also know how you also know how to film, and you know how to edit, and you and now I know how to do these like platforms. And now you know how to and now you know how to use all of these different platforms. Like you're well versed in TikTok, Instagram, um, you know how to edit, you know how to use Canva, um like Shopify, Airtable, yeah. You know how to do all of it. So I think that just career-wise, without you even realizing, is just teaching you to have a roster of skills that you can now bring to House of Movement and bring to just anything that you do moving forward.

SPEAKER_00:

And I think that's something that needs to be like more normalized, is like you don't need to know what you're doing in a year or like a five-year plan or any of that. Like, I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just doing this now because I want to learn all of these different things. And that's just what my plan is. I'm like a a present plan. But with house movement, it would be like a similar goal. Like, obviously, I have goals specifically for like the podcast and specifically for brands and expanding and all of these things, but realistically, like tunneling it all down at the end of the day, it's the same.

SPEAKER_01:

It's our full-time gig. That's like the goal.

SPEAKER_00:

What is your personal life main priorities?

SPEAKER_01:

Personal life I would say really solidify my rel like my family relationships. Like I think in my personal life, I think I've had just a lot of rocky times with mom, with dad, with my sister, which I mentioned before. And like my and like I will, okay, every other relationship in my life, like literally knock on wood, is perfect. Like I have four close friends around me, a great boyfriend, but then I look at my home life and I'm like, okay, this needs to be worked on. And I think that is like my biggest, my biggest goal for 2025 is to just get to a point where and like you don't perfectly get along with mom all the time, and you won't perfectly get along with dad or your sister, and like you have two sisters and you understand the dynamic of it, but getting to a point where now being as a grown adult where I like uh 1000% all the time respect my parents, no matter our disagreements, or like no matter our disagreements, or no matter our differences, even just my younger sister, like we're very different people, like we think very differently. I'm very hard-headed, and like I'm just like I have a very strong personality, and my sister can be very just a little bit more quiet than me and more emotional. And sometimes I'm like, you're you're a pussy, and like that's not like I shouldn't think like that, but yeah, just getting along better with my sister. I feel like that's a good goal.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I feel like for me, um I mean, I think I could learn better communication just like with everybody in my life because I think I sometimes forget that like people can't don't think like me, or like they don't like they can't read my brain. And my family's like a feisty family, like we get kind of rowdy, like we're all the feisty bunch. We're we are, and then you kind of are too and my boyfriend. So I sometimes find myself getting a little bit aggressive and just with the way I talk, and like sometimes I'm joking and I'm just being silly, and then I'm not. So I think I need to just work on being more calm and just just go with the flow, and like I will say I I'm go with the flow unless 50 other things in in the day are bothered. I'm not going with the flow. Then it is like, then, then there's gonna be a problem. So I do need to work on that.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, and what was the last?

SPEAKER_00:

The last one was just well-being.

SPEAKER_01:

My biggest focus for my well-being is to never, ever, ever, ever in my entire life stop like moving and like working out and prioritizing my um my like physical health. This was so sad, but I was out to lunch with um my mom and she was telling me this story about how this is like really sad, but someone that she knew, her husband, anyways, long story short, husband cheated on the wife, and then when the wife confronted um when the wife confronted the husband on like why did you cheat? He was like, Oh, you just like completely let yourself go and like you just think and not because like I'm doing all of this for like someone else. I just I always want to be viewed as someone that takes care of how they look and they prioritize the way that they present themselves and not even for other people, just for you, for me. Like, I think we I think I mentioned it before, but there was this girl I saw on TikTok and she was basically explaining how being unhealthy, apart from like the health effects that it has on you, it trickles into every single aspect of your life. Like sure when you're unhealthy, you're not motivated. When you're not motivated, you're depressed, and when you're depressed, you don't want to clean your house, and you don't want to cook, and you don't want to um take a shower and you don't want to get ready. And like I always just want to be someone that carries themselves and has such a high standard for myself.

SPEAKER_00:

Honestly, I have the perfect example. Last Monday, I went to Berries at 8 a.m. Okay, came back from berries, I killed that shit. I had a great class, and like I'm not a Monday or Monday morning workout girl, so like shocking. Came back, cleaned the kitchen, made the bed, did the laundry, got all my work done for the day, felt very productive, had like great calls, everything went well. Tuesday, I just had a shitty sleep, and I was just feeling overwhelmed with work, and I ended up ordering food and it didn't work out, and I was just in a terrible mood the whole day. And I think it's just like what I've started trying to do is even if I don't have time to go to the gym or go to a workout class, what I've started doing is I'm fortunate enough to have a sauna in my building. Go turn the sauna on, bring a yoga mat in there, and I've been following this girl, I think her name is Izzy Samuels. And what you'll do like 35 minutes in there on YouTube, and she's doing this 30-day Pilates challenge, and she does um weighted Pilates, like with like 10-pound weights, which I like. So I've started doing it in the sauna.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I just think that that is like my personal and will always be my personal goal till forever. Like my mom's um not gonna say how old she is, but she's in great shape, and she is always telling me like the older you get, like you can't stop working out, you can't stop moving, you can't stop taking care of yourself, and you have to eat clean and and like I see her and she's so active, and she it's just like a it's just an inspiration.

SPEAKER_00:

So Well, I think it's like the whole mindset that future you needs present you.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and health is wealth.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you guys so much for listening to this week's episode.

SPEAKER_01:

We hope that you I don't know, resonated with something that we talked about today. I I know being, I don't know, we're 23 and 24, and I think majority of our life is just go, go, go, go, go, and we're so like we want to succeed so badly, but I think also the downfall to that can be that you exhaust yourself physically, your mental health is shot, your f your physical health is shot, and I think it's important to just take a step back and understand why and just prioritize the little things in life that I don't know, make you feel a little bit better.

SPEAKER_00:

I think even if you aren't exhausted with something like work like us, it could be school, it could be family, it could be exhausted of just like life.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and you're drained. So I don't know. We hope that you gain something that from today's episode. Maybe you haven't heard about that three bucket Mel Robbins um theory and you can apply it to your own life. But yeah, we'll talk we'll talk to you. Okay, bye. See ya.