Gene Lead this Episode on Wellness!
We talk about the 8 areas of Wellness, Physical, Intellectual, Social, Emotional, Financial, Occupational, Environmental, and Spiritual.
Today we had a fun discussion of the different areas we can all be working on! Good luck as you adult! And remember! YOU GOT THIS!
Find our website here.
Gene Lead this Episode on Wellness!
We talk about the 8 areas of Wellness, Physical, Intellectual, Social, Emotional, Financial, Occupational, Environmental, and Spiritual.
Today we had a fun discussion of the different areas we can all be working on! Good luck as you adult! And remember! YOU GOT THIS!
Find our website here.
Today we're gonna talk about wellness and what really wellness is, I wanna start with a question. When I say the word wellness. What
Dad:do you think of? Well, I have a question for you. Why did the guy fall in the, well, you didn't see
Gene:that well, because you can't see that well,
Dad:but that's probably not the wellness we're going for. The wellness that I think of is probably like physical, like, do I have a cold? Do I, you know, am I sick? Yeah. I think for
Gideon:sure. I think that I could go more to the emotional wellness, like social wellness and like, you know, feeling good about yourself. Wellness.
Ashton:I, yeah, I think of yoga.
Gene:That's fire. Yoga or yoga?
Ashton:Either one. Either one.
Welcome to Adulting Decrypted. We are your hosts. I'm Gene and I'm starting my first year of college. I'm Ashton. I'm a music performer, composer, and educator. I'm Gene a high school senior. I'm Roscoe the dad. Those are my three sons, and this is Adulting Decrypted where we discuss ways to become adults and the things we need to know to be successful at life.
Gene:The way that we're going to bounce off the definition of wellness is a state of optimal health that encompasses like all the dimensions of, well-being, and you touched on a couple of them, but I wanna touch on eight major components today, which are physical. Intellectual, social, emotional, financial, occupational, environmental, and spiritual. So there's a lot to cover, but it's, it's all pretty simple.
Dad:I like this because we're covering the whole gamut and I think all of us focus on whatever we feel like we're lacking the most. Ashton might feel like he's missing out on yoga. Sure. You know, I'm going, man, I'm kind of physically not feeling well the last week, you know, for whatever reason. So I think if when these eight, what you threw out there are out of balance, I think we have a maybe a checkoff sheet that you can go look at and say, Hey, how's my physical health? How's my mental health? So I like where you're going.
Gene:Starting out with the, probably the most simple, the one that comes to mind, at least for me when I first think of wellness and when I first introduced to it, is physical. That the health of our body, a healthy body weight, physical fitness, are we sick for any reason? Are we physically able to do a bunch of things? Why do you think it would be important to have physical
Dad:wellness?, I've shared with, with you guys and the listener a couple times that mine was mobility for 20 Twenty-three my word. Because I realized as I've been aging that I'm not as flexible and, and not as able to do things. That I used to. And so being physically unwell, it was limiting me. Some of the stuff I could do. I just noticed this morning playing pickle, or was it this morning or yesterday morning? I don't know. Maybe I'm mentally not well, I can't remember what, anyways, we were playing pickleball and I realized how much easier it was for me to just pick up the pickleball before I was leaning on my paddle or having to bend down and put my hand on the ground. I'm just bending, picking up the ball and going. I've noticed a difference. It's taken me a year and almost a year and two months to get there, but I've noticed a difference. Yeah, and
Gene:I love that you bring that up because one of the things that can discourage us from trying to seek wellness is not that immediate gratification of like, oh yeah, I lifted weights today, so now I can. Be as strong as the Rock. Like it's just not how that works. It's, it's a constant progressing
Dad:I'm bald like the rock. Maybe I'm Yeah. You're one step there. Yep. One. And then I need to get to Tan and that I'm golden.
Gideon:Yeah. And he steroids,
Gene:he's in. No, he's not. He's natural. He's 50 and looks like that.
Ashton:Yeah, it's'cause he's a beast.
Dad:You're just jealous.
Gideon:I am not because you're
Ashton:actually jealous. You're
Dad:15 and you don't look like that.
Ashton:True. Except
Gideon:it's not true.
Ashton:You're not that either. Nope.
Dad:I don't know what that is.
Gene:Anyway,
Ashton:you're just taking anabolic steroids.
Dad:You better, you better keep, keep control of this.
Gene:Yeah. So we, we mentioned a couple things to help improve physical health, like playing sports, like pickleball going to the gym. Sometimes it's just going for walks can really help improve like physical health and physical fitness. And like eating right, all that kind of stuff kind of ties into physical wellness, you know? Then the
Ashton:next step. Oh, sorry. Go for it. Ashton. I was gonna say, I've been thinking a lot about the the walking thing. I haven't done it, but I was like, that might be good. Because the weather's been super good, the past couple days. It's been like fifties, sixties, and it's just been really pretty and nice outside. So every time I'm outside I walk a little slower.
Gene:Yeah. And all that helps improve that physical and. It kinda ties into the next step, which is intellectual that aspect of lifelong learning, like a couple things that we could do, like listening to audiobooks, keeping up with the current events that are going on. So you're, you're intellectually there and being engaged in wonderful, thoughtful discussions like this one. Good job guys. We're being intellectually well, that's
Ashton:crazy. And you can do it too. Oh man. On adultindecrypted.com.
Dad:Wow. Sounds like an ad. If I, yeah, you guys are being a little bit sarcastic, but I think Gene's got a very valid point. Is, is dialogue is helpful. Laughing is helpful. Right. But to go specifically to intellectual, I listen to podcasts, I just listen. I just geeked out on the whole pirates. We've talked a lot about pirates and, and, and like the Pirates of the Caribbean and all this, well, listening to all these guys' stories and it's happened in less than a 30 year period. It's just wild to me. I learned a lot. So I think you're right, gene listening to good audio books that help us stimulate our thought. It doesn't always mean self-help. Yeah,
Gideon:I like that point a lot, dad. And something that I just started doing like two days ago. So as background, I've spent a whole bunch of time on social media and just like on my phone the past couple days compared to just normal life.'cause I've you know, I've lost motivation at times. So whenever I get the urge to just get back on my phone, I just be Try and take 30 seconds of nothing because I'm I want that instant dopamine hit of social media where it's just like exactly that instant dopamine. And so 30 seconds of just breathing helps me regain my thoughts a little bit, think more intellectually, and maybe make a different decision. And that's just a little, little thing that I've done that has helped me a bit.
Gene:Yeah.
Dad:Thank you for sharing.
Gene:And it's all about learning. So it could just be anything that helps us learn whether it is about some information that could actually be vital to learning about just something that happened back in the 17 hundreds. It doesn't, doesn't matter. Like it, it's all learning. It all helps us. Keep us. Intellectually fit. And then the, the next section I wanna talk about is emotional. That's more of like how we feel about others and ourselves, our social skills, our relationship with others, kinda that self-esteem and coping with the routine stress
Ashton:that we have to deal with. Half of me expected dad to respond first, but that's not gonna happen. I do think it's an important skillset and I think it's probably one of the more neglected and harder to train skill sets while it is rising in popularity. I think it's. Also one that we know less about because there's like weightlifting gyms, but there's not like mental wellness, like community gyms. Like there's there, I mean, you have therapy and you have like clubs and stuff that you can go to. And maybe there is, maybe I'm just not privy to that. But I dunno, there's just a, there's a aspect about. Mental social wellness that is still almost a little taboo.
Gideon:Like, just as an example, another way to state that is like a way to exercise your emotional wellness. Is that kinda what you mean?
Ashton:Yeah. Or like yeah, or just like, because a lot of times competition drives innovation and there's not really any sort of competition you do the weight whole weightlifting thing and you're always trying to break, you know, your PR or you're trying to maybe you have fun competitions with your buddies about who's got the strongest muscles or whatever or best looking muscles or whatever. You don't hear people going around and be like, Hey man, I'm mentally stable. I got you beat I 110 mentally stable and you're only at eighty-five. You know what I mean? Like Yeah, I totally get that. There's just like a a mystery
Gideon:aspect to it, I think. And sometimes we even fight for who is least mentally stable. Like how much sleep did you get last night? I got six hours. Ah, sucker. I only got four, so That's fine.
Ashton:Yeah.
Dad:Yeah. So just a quick question. Have we talked about how to help ourselves in the emotional it, the, it's emotional wellness? Is that what we're talking about? Social or emotional? Emotional
Gene:emotional.
Ashton:We haven't talked about, like right now, we've talked about it in past podcasts, but we haven't talked about like
Dad:solving it. Yeah, I would, I'd really challenge us to go back and listen to like Jerem Ball's episode. We talked a lot about emotional health, but there is a, an aspect of emotional resilience, So I I like that you said it was taboo action. At first, I was like, oh, I'm, I'm really offended by that. You know, as an, as an older adult who's going, yeah, well, sometimes you just have to cowboy up like the song I was talking about. And then there's other times that. Life's hard and trying to figure out socks. And so to find that way to step back and go, okay, what works for me? I think your thing you're talking about just a second ago, get in with your intellectual where you said, I need to take 30 seconds quiet time before I click on Don scroll to my next video, decide do I really need that dopamine hitter? Is there another way to do it? So I think emotional wellness and emotional health is stepping back and, and looking for that help and, and tearing down some of those taboos behind it because. We're in a whole different environment than we were 10 years ago, eight 20 years ago, 30 years ago, back when I was starting to Doing some of your intellectual health wellness that you talked about, doing some of your physical tonight. I was very stressed when I first got home from work and I was like, oh, my brain is just. Mush. Well, I went and worked out and I felt much better. You know, so that's not the answer for everybody. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying that looking at this balance of these eight different areas might help us. I think they're really related. To your point, I think we know the science of building muscle mass, even though I probably get 18 videos a day that pop up in my Facebook feed, how to lose belly fat with. 18 different ways to do it. I think that our mental health is, is probably similar, is that we don't have all the studies and all the science behind it. And then once we do, once we know that there's some, there's some facts, I think it's still gonna be debatable. What might work for me, what work for Ashton, what works for Ashton, might not work for Gideon. You know, there's just a lot of that. Like you today, Ashton mentioned going out in the sun, walking. Looking at the sun, not literally don't do the sun stare. But getting the sun on you is good for your soul. It feeds your soul. Right? And so it's not, it's an emotional wellness as well, not just physical.
Gene:It's both. Yeah. Yeah. And, and that's the point I'm getting to get to later, but they all are completely interconnected, which is, is really wonderful. And it kind of takes us to the next point, which is social. The developing and maintaining of those meaningful interpersonal relationships. So how could someone go about improving their social wellness?
Gideon:A way is to not be rejection. Because I know that like a lot of times your mind will give you a whole bunch of excuses not to do something in a social sense, not to go talk to that person or not to start that conversation with somebody. You might know their name but haven't really said hi to a lot. And a lot of those excuses aren't
Dad:rational, you know, GIDE. I appreciate that. One other thing is. If we can share with the listener you were having. You've had a rough couple days. Life's life's been hard right now. And, and that's not fun. It's not great. But you did something tonight. You went and served a group of people that are less fortunate, right. That have different disabilities. And when you came back from that, you were in a whole different headspace. I don't know if you noticed that. Yeah. That in the gym really helped me out. Yeah. So you noticed that. Well, and even last night when you're in it, you did your a hundred pull-ups and you're like, okay, I did something, I accomplished something. And I was like, this kid's nuts. It's 10 30 at night, go to bed. But, but you did something that that checked that off your bucket list. But tonight you came home in a whole different head space and it was very social. Yeah. Just
Gideon:not thinking about yourself.
Dad:Yeah. You went out and served. And I think that sometimes when we get in our headspace. A social experiment is to go find a volunteer group, go dish up food at a homeless shelter, go, you know, go work at a food pantry. Those things are free and they're always looking for help. But just another, just another idea. It's not always having to break outta your comfort zone and going, okay, I'm gonna go talk to that girl over there. I'm gonna go talk to that guy. Sometimes it's just going, okay, I'm scared, but I'm still gonna go volunteer. It's also reaching out to old friends. You know, it was great. I saw a high school buddy Scott Bill, who we've had on we went over to his house and had dinner and, and visited with his family is super good for my emotional, my social soul.
Gene:And, and I love that you bring that up in social. It's not just those people that we immediately think of and we're like, oh yeah, my little social circle. It's. It's all those that we interact with, those people that we can serve and show love in, in these different ways. And so the next one is a little bit more monetary, the financial side of wellness. And it put simply, it's just the ability to live comfortably on what you're getting and being able to save for emergencies. That is what it's defined as is physical. Well, financial wellness. It's not considered being like, oh yeah, I'm superbly over the successful, it's, Hey, I, right now I'm, I can live comfortably. I don't have to be stressed about my financial side like that. That part's Well, what are your thoughts
Dad:on that? We talked about how to ask better questions, spend a little bit of time. Because one of the things I've noticed, listeners, I say right when I'm asking a question, right? And I had to take out 48 rights. Actually, I had to take out 43 of them because the other five of them were, were done correctly. Directional. Well, not, not necessarily, but I would be agreeing with you, I'd say. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, but not right. Anyways, great question. Jean. Financial. Well wellness is very specific to the individual, just like mental and emotional health. I would imagine if in Ashton's shoes you're starting out a career financially, there's times, you know, if I am not too bold to share, but, but you're like, I'm all over the place. I'm just trying to get enough food, money to food to eat and car rent and or, well, you don't have a car payment. You've paid it off, but. You're going, there's so much and it's coming at me so fast versus me. I'm at a different stage and yeah, do I have emotional stress about money? Sure, sometimes. But I, Jean, I think it's trying to define what your definition of success and then live within those means.'cause I know people that are making a lot of money are not financially well. In the sense that it keeps'em up at night going, how do I balance my checkbooks? How do I, how do I live off of this and I don't make enough, or my wife and I are fighting about it. So I like that you said it's comfortable, it's what, what matters to me the significant other I choose to go through life with. So I think that's a, that every one of these gene is tough. None of this, none of this wellness is easy.
Gideon:And like you said, it's really individual and so I guess the reason why we're talking about it is to try and get people to think about what they can do for themselves. Not necessarily just broad, think about the topic while that is included, but also just how to improve their
Ashton:wellness.
Gene:And I feel like it's with all these points of, hey, like what? Like social state are you good at? Because some people, they could be friends with a hundred people and be texting 30 of them daily and they're like, you know what, that's not, I'm not, I don't feel socially well at this other people. If they had that, like, wow. Yeah, I would be, I'd be overwhelmed. Like, I, I don't know if that's my spot. And you gotta find what's well for you. The next one it, it feels kind of connected to financial, but it is slightly different. It's occupational and that's the satisfaction that you have at your job or that you're doing for work. Like are like, are your career goals consistent with your personal values and your personal like aspirations in life? What does that make you think of?
Gideon:Well, I know that we've definitely had an episode on this with Johnny Hulse, so I know that a lot of insight can come from that episode as well, as well as most of these topics that we bring up, if not all of them, have episodes tied along. So for the listener, that's a resource you could turn to if you have any more questions. I can't remember what I was gonna say other than
Dad:that I, I liked Jason Hewlett asked to solve what we wanted to do, and Ashton's like, oh, I want, you know, I'm, I, I'm composing and getting into the time was BMX and then social media influencer and Gene went, yeah, I don't know man. I'm, I'm just getting ready to go on my mission. I'm not really thinking about it. And Jason goes, well, what don't you wanna do? And I thought that was pretty powerful. So for your, or, or occupational wellness. I'll be honest, I think there's times that you just have to go to work and not necessarily find fulfillment in it. You just have to work because you're, you gotta take care of your financial wellness and, and some of your other stuff. And then I think there's times that you can go to work and you're like, yes, I'm really adding value. For me, that's a big one, is adding value. Helping others see where they fit in a company. I think that's really big for me and I get really juiced by it, but I can't always do that. Sometimes I have to go to work and do spreadsheets and get lost in numbers and it sucks, you know? So, but I know that there's enough of my occupation that that brings me success and, and that feeling of I'm doing something good. I'd imagine with your career right now in the high schools. You're like, yeah, there's parts of this that are just freaking awesome. And then there's other parts of this that if I never had to do it again, it would be too soon. So, and I think that's fair for all. I know that we, that you've written some, a blog post about this on how to find the job you love. Any insight on that? Yeah. Thanks dad.
Gideon:I wonder how you knew about that.
Ashton:He's just that good.
Gideon:I actually have it open already. That's kind of crazy. But just along with wellness, it's. The first point that he even talks about in the blog is self-discovery and self-assessment. It's like, what is gonna work for you? Not what's gonna pay the most, what's gonna make your parents happy. But it's like, look at yourself. That man in the mirror, like along with what dad said as well, what makes you feel like you have a purpose,
Dad:and then my other advice is. Don't get stuck in one area as you're going through college. If you realize now, Gene, you're a sophomore. No, you're, are you even a sophomore, freshman? You just started. Yep. So, so as a freshman, if you were like, oh, I'm really committed to this, and then in two years you change, that's okay. You know, I'm still a fan of getting the degree I don't almost said it right. I'm a fan of getting the degree. It doesn't matter what it's in, finish the degree and. Right now in our current environment, you can reinvent yourself multiple times in your career and your desire might change. Your reason for doing something might change. Your job might go away. So be willing to look at what you enjoy or what you could enjoy.
Gene:The next one, I don't think we've talked about. I was, I was gone for two years, but the next one I wanna talk about is environmental wellness. And how that's like how we affect the environment around us and how the environment around us affects us. Like, are we throwing our trash just in the middle of the road, or are we making sure it's getting taken care of and put in the right spot? Are we. Do we like the environment that we're around? Like is it affecting us in a negative way? Like, do we able to see a lot of bad things and it puts us in a bad attitude? Or is it, you know what? I walk around like, man, sunshine's great. I, I love, like looking at the mountains around me
Dad:yeah. I like that you pointed out that it's sometimes our physical surroundings outside, but I think it also can be the environment that What state is your car in or your bedroom in, or your, huh. Don't tell anybody, but our garage is in. Right. That's the environment that you're around does it, does it elicit the feeling that you want in it?
Gideon:I think an interesting point that you brought up Gene, is how we affect our environment around us. Like you said, throwing trash in the middle of the street, I think it could kind of tie back to. Social aspect that we've talked about of not just thinking about yourself but also thinking about those around us and how that trash might affect somebody around us where they're like, oh, well now I have to pick it up. cause you throwing away your trash is a way of showing that you're not just thinking about yourself, you're thinking about the environments around you and the people around you. And I think that could, could tie into wellness very well.
Ashton:Thanks
Gene:the next one I wanna talk about is spiritual wellness. Now, at first when I say this, you might get a little taken aback and be like, oh yeah, well we don't wanna really wanna talk about religion and because like everyone will believe differently. But spiritual wellness is the sense of purpose in our life, we can find that purpose in many different ways. It, it can include religion also includes like helping others like service altruism and enjoying the nature. Just something that can spiritually uplift us. It may not be in the typical
Dad:spiritual way. Yeah, I'm probably not, I I, I struggle with this concept a little bit of between spiritualism and church and, if I understand the, the statement Jean correctly is, you know, do I take time for my soul? Right? Do I, do I take time for the deeper me? I think that's, I, yeah, there's definitely, that's important, is one of the, one of the eight points are of this to keep up my wellness roof for me it's prayer, right? Is one of the things that I, I realize when I'm not doing and asking for help because that, that feeds my soul.
Gene:Ashton, what's one thing that, that you feel like helps you grow spiritually? I.
Ashton:I think it's kind of cliche because it's kind of what I say a lot, but I think, I think of music as a thing as just kind of like, and it's gotta be the right type. It's gotta be the right genre, it's gotta be the right thing.'cause like there's, there's music out there that's just like, party hard and you can enjoy it. There's also music out there that's been created by people that's meant to be an uplifting thing, an uplifting moment. And I I, I, I do produce songs and stuff, and I generally wouldn't consider my music uplifting necessarily, at least the most recent batch of stuff that I've done. However, I was recording like a couple nights ago and and I got something that I was listening to and I was like, this is interesting. This is a side of music that hasn't come out of, my production before. But I'd also been spending a lot of time listening to artists who I think share spiritual messages and uplifting messages. Listening to those sorts of things. I can just kinda give you a state of almost like meditation as well. Like that's kind of what I use those things for sometimes is just kind of like a, like an unwind moment. And I've used that like walking around and I've used that just like laying on my floor, just, you know, listening to music and just kind of taking in the energy that an artist is trying to share. It's just one way.
Gene:Thank you. And Dad, did you have something that you wanted to
Dad:say? Wow, that's awesome.
Gene:Sweet. And so that, that's all eight points and one thing that we kind of talked about in the middle, but I wanna readjust again, is. The more properly we have addressed all eight of these points, the more well we are in our general wellness and we can have certain ones that are at higher spots than others. Some people can be super physically and socially well, but they may not be doing well as in their occupational or or spiritual wellness, and that's just. Everyone's at different spots, and so we never really know, but as long as we focus on continuing to grow our wellness, we can get better. And how do you feel like they work together? Because some of them are pretty different in most people's mind, like spiritual and financial wellness, but how, how do you feel like those work
Ashton:together? I think it's all slices of the same pie, really. There's also a concept that we've talked about before in like relationships where it's the relationships slider. I don't remember what the episode's titled or who hosted it. But basically the principle is, is like when you get deeper into a relationship with someone like I. There's different levels that these sliders should be, so like you should be more comfortable talking to a person than you should be sharing like intimate moments with them. Like you have to build a relationship in order for it to be a strong and stable relationship. And I don't know if there's, I see a progression in, in these wellness steps, so to speak. Like you want this one so high before you work on this one. But I feel like the overall term of wellness can be derived from working on different wellness points at different times and increasing the strength of those and kind of balancing them. Because there will be times where physical wellness is more important to you than environmental wellness. But if you go on an environmental wellness streak, all of a sudden you're on a financial wellness and you can kind of like build them up from different spots. So I think, I think they're all the same thing and I think some lead better to others than others, but I think, I think they can all work together.
Dad:Yeah. You know one of the things I think for spiritual, very specific, I, I, I liked where you went there, Ashton with it, you know, and they're all slices of the same pie and, and how you do the slider First I sink in a hamburger. I guess I'm hungry. Hmm. Not necessarily like a dial slide. Right. Where you slide those up. Well
Ashton:my music brains, yeah. Mixing boards, right.
Dad:Is that where you were at Gideon?
Gideon:I know exactly what he is talking about because I think I hosted this episode. I don't
Ashton:know what it is though. Also, I just thought of another thing. Obviously you can't focus on all points of wellness at the same time, I think trying to focus on all of them at the same time is probably more detrimental than helpful. But going back to me thinking like a, like a musician there's only so much space of stuff that we can hear. And sometimes the melody is more important. Sometimes the piano is more important sometimes. Drum set and, and if you slid them all up to a hundred percent, it would just be chaotic, loud sound. But there's a balancing effect where you can say, well, I want this one down here and this one down here. And those little pieces all can equal a hundred percent. So for someone, physical wellness might be more important, but for someone else it's like, Hey, I've gotta have my mental wellness in check. And that's just their different mix of, of wellness,
Dad:I think. Yeah, so what I like about those two that you just mentioned is your physical, you mentioned physical wellness and, and mental wellness. Sometimes they're intertwined with me. So for example, your example of going out for a walk and being in the sun. For me, if I'm going out pedaling my bike, like if you say, Hey, let's go exercise, and I go pedal a bike in a gym, or I can go pedal my bike down the mountain, I, I promise I'm going to get more. Wellness from being outside, riding my bike, even though on my calculator of how many calories I've burned, they might be exactly the same, right? My heart rate might be the same, but I'm able to double dip in it, and it feeds, not just, I'll be honest, it probably even feeds my soul, right? There might be some spiritual aspect of being up in the mountains, you know, so, so there's times that, and I might be in the right environment, you know, so. It might all actually kinda all blend together except maybe financial,'cause I'm spending money on a bike or I'm excited'cause I'm like, Hey, I've used this bike now for Three-hundred-and-fifty rides. And so it really might, all eight of'em might come into play. But to your point, Ashton, they're in the right volume set that it makes music for me. Right? Yeah. It's not all drum or all, all loud or all but it, but it plays well with each other. And there's other times that I know when I'm physically ill, like when I don't feel good and I'm tired and I've got a cold in my mental, I'm going, man, I just want to quit. You know? And, and then sometimes even my spiritual suffers from that, you know? So I think, I think sometimes when you're having these, these moments of doubt and concern, can I make it as an adult that you need to step back and go, okay, what's missing out of these eight? What do I need to spend a little bit more time on that I might be lacking?'cause you're right, Ashley, you can't focus when you focus on everything, you focus on nothing. So you've gotta take a step back and say, I wanna focus on this one for the next week and that's gonna help me improve the other seven.
Gene:Thank you for that comment, dad. I really love it.'cause they, they really are interconnected. They really all do affect each other. Because the more we are physically well in the other areas, the more we're able to focus on those other areas that we're not as strong at. And so we're not more in that, the fight or flight, we can really feel well in all
Ashton:that we do.
Gideon:Thank you, Gene. And just as a callback, a lot of these topics. Have episodes correlated with them. So if you wanted to ever go back our episode finder is super nice on that episode search, I guess is what it's called on our website. You can just control f find different topics that you might be looking for or scroll through by season or category. And we would love to hear your thoughts as well. If you wanted to add to our Reddit. DM S on any of our social medias. We'd love to hear what you think
Gene:all right. I'll start recording then your background, then I'll pop on over to the other spot.
Ashton:And sorry, does it add any value for you to like have your screen shared? Oh wait. No, don't do that. I lied to that. Have a choice. It wouldn't matter and it would
Gene:mess up everything else.
Ashton:Yep. I realized.