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99. lets be REAL... burnouts, new month motivation & healthier lifestyle changes · Hot Girl Energy Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello you guys, Welcome back to another episode of the
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Speaker 1: Hawkgirl Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Kayleie, and this is
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Speaker 1: your weekly reminder that it's a new day, a new week,
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Speaker 1: a new mindset, and another day for you to become
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Speaker 1: the hawkrel energy you want to attract. Hello you guys,
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Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday, Welcome back to another episode. I am definitely
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Speaker 1: feeling very fault today. It is the gloomiest day ever.
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Speaker 2: Today.
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Speaker 1: I'm literally curled up on my couch, which I never
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Speaker 1: record my episodes on my couch, Like usually I'm sitting
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Speaker 1: at a desk with my microphone setup all that today
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Speaker 1: was just not the day. I was like, I need
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Speaker 1: to be on the couch with my blankets, just like
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Speaker 1: cozied up and recording this episode because it's one of
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Speaker 1: those days. You guys know that whenever it's a gloomy day,
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Speaker 1: I feel like everyone can agree with this is just
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Speaker 1: cozying up on a couch by the fire with a
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Speaker 1: candlelight with your blanket is just.
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Speaker 2: Giving fall cozy vibes.
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Speaker 1: And just honestly, I could put on Harry Potter right
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Speaker 1: now or Twilight, like just some type of fall show
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Speaker 1: and it would completely just make my day or even
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Speaker 1: like a book, like just chilling on the couch reading
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Speaker 1: a book, listening to a podcast.
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Speaker 2: Whatever the case may be.
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Speaker 1: I'm just having one of those mornings where i need
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Speaker 1: to be on the couch, just chilling, and I'm loving
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Speaker 1: every second of it. I will say though, that this
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Speaker 1: is also kind of a downside to fall, is having
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Speaker 1: more gloomier days like this. I find having gloomy days
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Speaker 1: is okay, and I know some people love that and it,
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Speaker 1: you know, forces yourself to relax. And you know, don't
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Speaker 1: get me wrong, I'm okay with one gloomy day a week,
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Speaker 1: and you know, it forces myself to you know, relax,
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Speaker 1: rest enjoy, you know, not leaving the house and just
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Speaker 1: getting some stuff done in the house. But I do
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Speaker 1: also feel like when it is gloomy, I feel a
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Speaker 1: little lazy, and I feel like I don't allow myself
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Speaker 1: to be lazy. I feel like I'm always that kind
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Speaker 1: of person that needs to be productive and needs to
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Speaker 1: get stuff done when I know my body needs to
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Speaker 1: relax and needs the rest. So I don't know, I
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Speaker 1: just feel like sometimes I don't get stuff done when
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Speaker 1: the weather's like this, Like when it comes to work,
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Speaker 1: when it comes to personal things all that, and I'm
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Speaker 1: sure a lot of people can relate to that. So
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Speaker 1: when it's gloomy for too many days in a row,
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Speaker 1: it really impacts my mental health because sometimes I just
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Speaker 1: need a sunny day to get out of the house,
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Speaker 1: you know, get stuff done and be productive, where when
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Speaker 1: the weather's like this consistently, it's hard. So I think
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Speaker 1: that's a con to fall. And you guys know how
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Speaker 1: much you love the fall season. It's literally my favorite season.
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Speaker 1: But I would say that's one of the cons is
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Speaker 1: just having those gloomier times. And I think another one
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Speaker 1: too is the darker morning. So waking up at six thirty,
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Speaker 1: which is what I did this morning, and that's kind
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Speaker 1: of why I wanted to touch on it, and it
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Speaker 1: was very, very difficult to get out of bed. So
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Speaker 1: for you guys that are working those eight am shifts
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Speaker 1: or nine am shifts and have to wake up early,
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Speaker 1: or if you guys wake up early to get a
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Speaker 1: workout session and all that.
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Speaker 2: Go, you you are amazing.
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Speaker 1: That is truly a superhuman in my opinion, Like waking
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Speaker 1: up when it's that dark out is very difficult and
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Speaker 1: you definitely need that extra motivation to push yourself out
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Speaker 1: of bed to do it.
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Speaker 2: And you know, as you guys know.
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Speaker 1: I work for myself, so I have the flexibility, which
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Speaker 1: I'm very grateful for to kind of start work when
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Speaker 1: I want. But I will say, you know, having an
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Speaker 1: earlier start, I do feel the most productive on those days.
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Speaker 1: So today I knew I had a busy day, and
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Speaker 1: so I decided to book a six thirty workout class,
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Speaker 1: which don't get me wrong, I do not regret it.
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Speaker 2: It was amazing. It was a great workout.
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Speaker 1: But I will say there there was a moment when
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Speaker 1: I woke up this morning where I almost just didn't
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Speaker 1: go to the workout class because I was so mentally
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Speaker 1: exhausted and I was like, I do not want to
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Speaker 1: get to bed right now. Plus on top of that,
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Speaker 1: as I said, it's a rainy day today. So waking
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Speaker 1: up leaving my house at six point fifteen with it
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Speaker 1: down pouring on me to go to this SPINCOA class
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Speaker 1: was very difficult, but we got through it. It was
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Speaker 1: great workout, it was great sweat. I feel good doing it.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I think that's one thing that's super hard
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Speaker 1: during the fall and winter season is just the dark
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Speaker 1: mornings and the dark night, so it's getting dark at
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Speaker 1: like I think six pm. Now in the winter it's
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Speaker 1: usually around five pm, which really sucks. And then you know,
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Speaker 1: with the mornings, as I said, it's getting light out,
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Speaker 1: I don't think till like seven seven thirty.
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Speaker 2: I think it's when it's starting to get light out.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, so I just feel like the early mornings
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Speaker 1: for me are definitely difficult, and I'm sure it's difficult
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Speaker 1: for a lot of people, but I feel like in
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Speaker 1: the summertime it's different. Like I want to be a
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Speaker 1: six thirty girl in the summer because I love watching
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Speaker 1: the sunrise. I find it very therapeutic. I find it
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Speaker 1: very motivating to get workouts done early in the morning
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Speaker 1: and being done by seven thirty and getting stuff done.
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Speaker 1: But in the fall, I don't think it's going to
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Speaker 1: be a daily thing for me. I think it might
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Speaker 1: be like a weekly thing or a bi weekly thing.
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Speaker 1: Like when I do have busier days, I will make,
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Speaker 1: you know, a six thirty workout class a priority, But
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel personally exhausted right now and
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Speaker 1: I feel like I need a coffee right now, and
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Speaker 1: I never have a coffee before breakfast. Like it's eight
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Speaker 1: am right now, and I usually don't have a coffee
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Speaker 1: until like ten ten thirty. I like to have it
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Speaker 1: after my breakfast just because I don't like having coffee
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Speaker 1: before eating, just because it spikes my anxiety and my stress.
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Speaker 1: But I usually have one later in the morning, but
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Speaker 1: because I'm so tired from waking up early, I'm like.
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Speaker 2: I feel like I need the caffeine now.
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Speaker 1: But anyways, all in all, I think there is some
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Speaker 1: to fall and that's, you know, something that we all
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Speaker 1: have to adjust to going into this new season, because
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Speaker 1: it is an adjustment. It's hard to remotivate yourself to
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Speaker 1: get outside to get those early morning workouts and later
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Speaker 1: night workouts in whatever the case may be, and you know,
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Speaker 1: push through those gloomy days and when you're feeling unmotivated, Like,
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Speaker 1: what are things that can prepare yourself for these changes?
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Speaker 1: Like how can you boost your motivation during these gloomy times?
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Speaker 1: How can you you know, boost your motivation to get
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Speaker 1: out of the house when it's dark. So thinking about
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Speaker 1: myself this morning, like I had a period of time
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Speaker 1: where I thought I was going to cancel the class,
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Speaker 1: but then I motivated myself because I think about the after,
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Speaker 1: I think about how good I feel after the fact
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Speaker 1: of doing that workout.
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Speaker 2: So I just push myself.
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Speaker 1: I just do it, and I feel so good after
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Speaker 1: the fact. I will say, also, you don't want to
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Speaker 1: lose that fifteen dollars that you're going to get charged,
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Speaker 1: like that's also a motivation, Like you don't want to
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Speaker 1: get charged to fee. So I don't know, I personally
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Speaker 1: think booking a workout class is a motivation right there,
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Speaker 1: because you don't want to lose your money, and it
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Speaker 1: pushes yourself to get out of the house and get
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Speaker 1: that workout done. And then you come home and you
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Speaker 1: feel good knowing that you got that sweat out, and yeah,
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Speaker 1: you just feel more productive and more motivated to continue
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Speaker 1: to do other things for yourself throughout the day. So definitely,
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Speaker 1: I think it's a huge change for a lot of people.
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Speaker 1: And you just have to prepare yourself and think of
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Speaker 1: ways to motivate yourself and continue to just push through
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Speaker 1: those gloomy.
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Speaker 2: Days and all that.
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Speaker 1: It's all about just motivating yourself and changing your mindset,
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Speaker 1: and it will take some time, but it will feel
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Speaker 1: good once you're fully adjusted to this new routine. Like
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Speaker 1: we talked about in the last episode of just creating
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Speaker 1: a new fall and winter routine for yourself and just
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Speaker 1: knowing that it's going to be a bit different than
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Speaker 1: the summer and that's okay, and it will take some
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Speaker 1: time to adjust to it, but all in all, it
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Speaker 1: will all work out and it will feel good. I
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Speaker 1: now know why I never record on my couch because
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Speaker 1: my leg is literally a sleep right now and it's numb,
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Speaker 1: so I'm like trying to stretch it out while talking.
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Speaker 1: But anyways, I want to talk about stress for a second,
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Speaker 1: because I do think some people feel a bit more
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Speaker 1: stressed entering a new season. I personally have been dealing
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Speaker 1: with a lot of stress recently, just a lot of
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Speaker 1: things going on with work, and yeah, it's hard to
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Speaker 1: sometimes manage that, Like I feel like this week. I
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Speaker 1: had a bit of a burnout the first few days
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Speaker 1: of this week, just from feeling overly exhausted from almost
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Speaker 1: pushing myself to do too much. And so I had
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Speaker 1: to reach out to my manager and said, listen, like
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Speaker 1: this next month, I need to take a bit of
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Speaker 1: a step back because I feel like I was doing
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Speaker 1: too much. In September. I was basically doing August and
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Speaker 1: September work for one month, so two months worth of
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Speaker 1: work in one month, which was honestly mentally exhausting. So
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Speaker 1: going into October, I'm like, I need to vocally say
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Speaker 1: something and say that listen, I need to take a
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Speaker 1: bit of a step back this month for my mental
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Speaker 1: health and just you know, focus on things that I
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Speaker 1: want to focus on and not just accept anything that
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Speaker 1: comes at me. Which I'm really proud of myself for
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Speaker 1: doing that, because I think a lot of people can
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Speaker 1: relate to this, where of course, you you know, want
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Speaker 1: to work super hard and get that promotion or whatever
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Speaker 1: the case you may be for your job, and there's
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Speaker 1: certain times where you need to really step back and realize,
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Speaker 1: like are you doing okay? Is your mental health doing
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Speaker 1: okay during these harder times at work? And you need
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Speaker 1: to listen to your body. I tell you guys all
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Speaker 1: the time that that is super crucial for your mental health.
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Speaker 1: And I knew going into October that I had to
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Speaker 1: make some change. I just knew that I had to
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Speaker 1: take a step back for my mental health. And Zach
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Speaker 1: was even telling me like, hey, I think you're taking
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Speaker 1: on too much, Like you're constantly working like you really
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Speaker 1: need to just manage your time better and also just
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Speaker 1: taking a step back from certain things. So that's what
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Speaker 1: I decided to do, and I'm really proud of myself
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Speaker 1: for doing that because obviously you need to be able
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Speaker 1: to balance your work life and your personal life, and
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Speaker 1: sometimes I have a hard time doing that because I
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Speaker 1: love what I do.
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Speaker 2: I truly, truly have an addiction to my job.
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Speaker 1: I will be open about that, but there needs to
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Speaker 1: be a balance with that, and I feel like I
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Speaker 1: was in a period of time where I wasn't able
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Speaker 1: to balance that out. So this month, I'm really trying
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Speaker 1: to take a break, take a step back. But if
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Speaker 1: you don't have the flexibility to, you know, take a
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Speaker 1: step back from your job, and you need to find
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Speaker 1: ways to reduce stress and just yeah, figure out ways
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Speaker 1: to you know, continuing working through it. I think the
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Speaker 1: best way to do it is taking a lot of
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Speaker 1: breaks throughout the day. Maybe it's ten minute breaks, fifteen
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Speaker 1: minute breaks, twenty minute breaks. I think finding time to
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Speaker 1: go outside, you know, go get a coffee or literally
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Speaker 1: just go outside and just sit in silence is a
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Speaker 1: nice break. There's something about just being in fresh air
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Speaker 1: that I find very therapeutic, and whenever I feel like
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Speaker 1: I need a break from my computer or just a
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Speaker 1: break from work, I find stepping outside walking for ten minutes,
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Speaker 1: or just as I said, just stepping outside and just
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Speaker 1: breathing in the fresh air and just completely zoning out
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Speaker 1: is a nice way to take a break. But you
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Speaker 1: could also go to a coffee shop, grab a coffee,
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Speaker 1: or sometimes I love to just put on a YouTube video,
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Speaker 1: distract myself by tiding up the house a bit, or
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Speaker 1: making a snack, or grabbing my favorite drink, you know,
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Speaker 1: a poppy or an electrolyte or whatever the case. I
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Speaker 1: be like just taking that time to step aside in
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Speaker 1: destress from what you're doing, and then having that ten
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Speaker 1: to fifteen minute break, come back to what you were doing,
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Speaker 1: and then you will be ten times more productive. I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you right now, just from taking that ten minute
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Speaker 1: break to step aside, take time for yourself, come back
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Speaker 1: focus on what you were doing, You're gonna feel a
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Speaker 1: million times better. So that's something that really works for
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Speaker 1: me during stressful times. And sometimes I also find if
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Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, I have been, you know,
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Speaker 1: overly stressed lately, I will resort to decaf so I'll
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Speaker 1: either have a decaf coffee or just not have caffeine
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Speaker 1: at all throughout the day. I know some people have
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Speaker 1: honestly switched from car to Macha for their anxiety or
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Speaker 1: their stress. I have had macha. It's not terrible. I
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Speaker 1: will say, it's not my favorite thing in the world.
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Speaker 1: So I haven't made that switch personally because I just
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Speaker 1: love the taste of coffee. It's not even the caffeine.
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Speaker 1: I just truly love it. So I can drink a
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Speaker 1: decab coffee and I personally find it tastes the same.
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Speaker 2: It tastes great.
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Speaker 1: So I try and definitely avoid caffeine when I can
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Speaker 1: when I'm feeling overly stressed or anxious. But yeah, some
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Speaker 1: of those things I feel like really helped me out
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Speaker 1: when I feel like I'm going through stressful times. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: sometimes it is just stressful going into a new season, right,
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Speaker 1: Like there's some people that are starting at school. So
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Speaker 1: if you're in college or if you're in high school
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Speaker 1: and you're going into the new year, obviously sometimes it's
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Speaker 1: an adjustment.
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Speaker 2: It's stressful.
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Speaker 1: Or if you've got a promotion with work and you're
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Speaker 1: adjusting to a brand new you know, routine and all that. Like,
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Speaker 1: no matter what, it's definitely something to adjust to and
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Speaker 1: it's never easy. So finding ways to de stress yourself
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Speaker 1: and just yeah, find ways to cope with the hard
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Speaker 1: times is normal and it's relatable, and yeah, those are
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Speaker 1: just some things that help me out when I'm feeling
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Speaker 1: overly stressed. I think another thing that I really wanted
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Speaker 1: to touch on, because this is something that I've been
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Speaker 1: seeing a lot on social media about is the female
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Speaker 1: time of the month. And I'm currently on my time
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Speaker 1: of the month, and you guys know that the first
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Speaker 1: week is never fun, and I think that's also why
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Speaker 1: I've just been like stressed, exhausted, lazy, Like it's because
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Speaker 1: I'm on the time of the month, and I just know,
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Speaker 1: like that's normal.
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Speaker 2: And I feel like I've been just being so negative.
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Speaker 2: And you guys know, I hate being negative.
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Speaker 1: I'm usually very positive always, you know, just chatting with
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Speaker 1: you guys and being a positive individual. But I've been
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Speaker 1: so negative on myself, like body image wise and all that,
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Speaker 1: and like, again, very relatable, women get it, we get bloated.
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Speaker 1: It's our time of the month. Like why am I
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Speaker 1: being so hard on myself? Like I just try and
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Speaker 1: talk to myself and say positive things, saying this is normal.
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Speaker 2: You are a female.
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Speaker 1: This shit happens, like, move on, it's your time.
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Speaker 2: End of the month.
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Speaker 1: Next week will be better. It's going to be a
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Speaker 1: better week. So I am all about daily affirmations and
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Speaker 1: saying positive things, and I feel like that helps me
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Speaker 1: get out of that negative headspace. But going into the
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Speaker 1: fact about the time of the month, I quickly just
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Speaker 1: want to chat on how you guys feel about the
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Speaker 1: tampons and pad situation. Have you guys heard about this?
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Speaker 1: I've seen all over my TikTok for you page about
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Speaker 1: how toxic some of these brands are, which is majority
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Speaker 1: of the tampon brands and majority of the pad brands.
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Speaker 2: So tampas play texts? Is it co texts? I think
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Speaker 2: that's what it is.
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Speaker 1: But all these popular tampon brands have been I mean
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Speaker 1: it's not recent studies, but I feel it's been recent
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Speaker 1: in the social media I about how essentially toxic these
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Speaker 1: products are that we're using in our bodies. And I
15:11
Speaker 1: came from a health and wellness company, Like I came
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Speaker 1: from a very clean and green workspace, so a lot
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Speaker 1: of the employees that I worked with were like hardcore
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Speaker 1: green people, and I would always say, I've never been
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Speaker 1: a hardcore green person. That's just you know, my family
15:32
Speaker 1: never was really like that. Like I feel like over time,
15:35
Speaker 1: once I started to work at this company, I really
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Speaker 1: started to discover certain brands and certain things to avoid.
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Speaker 1: And I've known about this whole tampon situation for many
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Speaker 1: years because of this company that I worked for, but
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Speaker 1: I guess a lot of other people didn't know, and
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Speaker 1: so seeing it all blow up on social media right
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Speaker 1: now is definitely like an opening experience for everybody. And
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Speaker 1: I'm happy that these brands are finally like getting recognition
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Speaker 1: for what they're doing to women's bodies and all that.
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Speaker 1: But I know there's other resources besides tampons in pads,
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Speaker 1: Like I don't know if you guys have heard of
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Speaker 1: the Diva cup. I personally have tried it. I did
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Speaker 1: not love it. From my own personal experience. There is
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Speaker 1: always a love hate relationship for a lot of things.
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Speaker 1: I personally prefer just normal tampons, and I don't use
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Speaker 1: any of the brands that you see Shoppers or Walmart
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Speaker 1: or your typical drug store. I usually order mine off.
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Speaker 1: What is the website called Oh I remember the website
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Speaker 1: that I use is called HERB and I order natural
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Speaker 1: tampons by the brand Honey and Pot, and the tampons
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Speaker 1: have much cleaner ingredients. They're a little bit more on
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Speaker 1: the price to your side, but I personally would rather
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Speaker 1: pay an extra seven dollars knowing that the brand that
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Speaker 1: I'm using is non toxic, no chemicals in it anything
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Speaker 1: like that. So I wanted to briefly chat about that.
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Speaker 1: I know that's like a topic that some people, you know,
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Speaker 1: don't really talk about.
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Speaker 2: But if you are not aware.
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Speaker 1: Of the tampon situation, do your own research of course,
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Speaker 1: Like you know, my mom, for an example, has been
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Speaker 1: using tampacs or whatever for years, Like it's a normal
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Speaker 1: thing that women have been using for such a long
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Speaker 1: period of time, and obviously they're fine, there's nothing wrong
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Speaker 1: with them. So if we've been living this life with
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Speaker 1: these brands for the past forty to fifty years, obviously
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Speaker 1: it's fine. However, like if I can make changes myself
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Speaker 1: and create a healthier lifestyle for myself by making those
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Speaker 1: small changes, I personally would like to do that for myself.
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Speaker 2: I know I'm not.
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Speaker 1: The healthiest individual in the world. And I don't strive
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Speaker 1: to be the healthiest person in the world, but I
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Speaker 1: do try to be some type of healthy. And I
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Speaker 1: want to emphasize that for a second because when I
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Speaker 1: worked at this health and wellness company before becoming a
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Speaker 1: full time content creator, one thing we always highlighted at
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Speaker 1: our workspace was everybody is a different shade of green.
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Speaker 2: Everybody is a different type.
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Speaker 1: Of healthy, whether you're the healthiest individual or the darkest
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Speaker 1: shade of green, meaning that you've completely converted everything in
18:19
Speaker 1: your home when it comes to makeup, skincare, you know,
18:22
Speaker 1: cleaning products, whatever the case may be, or if you're
18:25
Speaker 1: the lightest shade of green, where you've only switched your
18:28
Speaker 1: cleaning products in your house, and that's it doesn't matter.
18:30
Speaker 1: As long as you're making the effort by investing in
18:33
Speaker 1: yourself and you know, getting healthier products for yourself to
18:37
Speaker 1: better yourself, that's all that matters. So personally, for me
18:41
Speaker 1: making the switch to you know, organic and non toxic tampons,
18:46
Speaker 1: and I use all green cleaning products in my home. However,
18:50
Speaker 1: I don't use green skincare or makeup because it doesn't
18:54
Speaker 1: work for my skin. I break out my skin just
18:57
Speaker 1: doesn't react well to it. I had had an actual
18:59
Speaker 1: lurge reaction to a lot of the products that I
19:01
Speaker 1: did try. And yeah, so I also just don't think
19:05
Speaker 1: there's been a brand out there that personally has worked
19:09
Speaker 1: well enough for me. Like there's a lot of clean
19:12
Speaker 1: beauty at Sephora, for an example, I wouldn't say a
19:15
Speaker 1: lot of that is fully green or clean from like
19:19
Speaker 1: the standards of where I used to work. We just
19:23
Speaker 1: always knew that Sephora wasn't one hundred percent clean with
19:26
Speaker 1: their products. However, it is still a better alternative than
19:29
Speaker 1: most brands that are sold at Sephora. So again, just
19:33
Speaker 1: taking the effort of doing your own research and making
19:35
Speaker 1: the switch to certain things in your home or for yourself,
19:39
Speaker 1: I think is crucial. So yeah, I use all green
19:42
Speaker 1: cleaning products in my home. I think people don't realize
19:44
Speaker 1: how toxic cleaning products are because it's the air you
19:48
Speaker 1: breathe in. And anyways, if you guys want me to
19:52
Speaker 1: talk about that in the next episode, I could. But
19:54
Speaker 1: I've learned so much at my previous job, and I
19:57
Speaker 1: think that's why I have such a strong passion for
19:59
Speaker 1: health wellness is because what I've learned from my previous
20:03
Speaker 1: job is crazy, And yeah, I think it's just really
20:06
Speaker 1: important to invest in yourself and invest in the products
20:10
Speaker 1: that you're using. So yeah, I just kind of wanted
20:12
Speaker 1: to talk about the tampon situation because that recently came
20:16
Speaker 1: to my knowledge about everyone talking about it, and it's
20:20
Speaker 1: good that people are becoming more aware of it and
20:23
Speaker 1: speaking about like times of the month and all that.
20:27
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here and I'm like, I need to get
20:30
Speaker 1: on the Aura ring trend. And the Aura ring has
20:33
Speaker 1: been around for a while, but it is a big investment.
20:35
Speaker 2: I'm aware of that.
20:36
Speaker 1: It's like, I think it's like five hundred dollars for
20:38
Speaker 1: the ring, and then you have to pay for a subscription.
20:41
Speaker 1: So it's like, if I'm paying five hundred dollars for
20:43
Speaker 1: this ring, I'd better be getting everything that I need,
20:47
Speaker 1: all the info all that. If you have an Aura
20:49
Speaker 1: ring and you want to sell me on it, please
20:51
Speaker 1: send me a message and tell me everything you love
20:53
Speaker 1: about it. I do love the idea about tracking my sleep.
20:56
Speaker 1: I do love the idea of being able to have
21:00
Speaker 1: I think it's called natural cycles where you can sync
21:03
Speaker 1: that up to the Aura ring and you can track
21:05
Speaker 1: your entire cycle, So I will be fully honest. I
21:08
Speaker 1: am not on birth control. I do not have an IUD.
21:11
Speaker 1: I am on nothing. I'm strictly just making sure I
21:15
Speaker 1: don't get pregnant, So be fully honest.
21:18
Speaker 2: I'm not at that time of my life.
21:20
Speaker 1: If you guys follow me on Instagram, you guys know
21:22
Speaker 1: that I mentioned that I'm not ready to have kids
21:24
Speaker 1: in this exact moment. However, obviously we'd like to have
21:27
Speaker 1: kids soon, just not that soon. But I have no
21:32
Speaker 1: way of tracking my period except for me knowing that
21:37
Speaker 1: it usually happens in the beginning of the month. So
21:39
Speaker 1: I want to be better at tracking because obviously Zach
21:43
Speaker 1: and I we want to eventually start trying and all that,
21:46
Speaker 1: so I want to be ahead of the schedule and
21:49
Speaker 1: be able to have something that I can resort to.
21:52
Speaker 1: But there's also a lot of other amazing things that
21:55
Speaker 1: the Aura Ring does that I hear amazing things about,
21:58
Speaker 1: and just benefits and all that, So I don't know,
22:01
Speaker 1: I really want to get it for Christmas, to be honest,
22:03
Speaker 1: I feel like that'd be a really good Christmas gift idea,
22:06
Speaker 1: And yeah, I want to hear your thoughts. I do
22:08
Speaker 1: also hear though that the Gold ring turnishes. Please tell
22:12
Speaker 1: me if that has happened for you or not, because
22:14
Speaker 1: bumping five hundred dollars for a ring and it turnishes,
22:17
Speaker 1: I feel like that's kind of upsetting because obviously I
22:20
Speaker 1: want the ring to be in good condition. I have
22:23
Speaker 1: also seen an influencer briefly chat about the Amazon dupe
22:28
Speaker 1: to the Aura Ring that apparently does a lot of
22:32
Speaker 1: similar things. I don't know if it does everything the same,
22:35
Speaker 1: but apparently it's like not even one hundred bucks, and
22:38
Speaker 1: it has an app and it has an entire system
22:40
Speaker 1: of tracking your sleep, your cycles and all that, but
22:42
Speaker 1: you don't have to pay a subscription, which almost seems
22:45
Speaker 1: too good to be true. I just don't know if
22:47
Speaker 1: I should cave into that dupe effect, Like I don't
22:50
Speaker 1: think dupes are always the greatest, like sometimes they are.
22:53
Speaker 1: I will agree to that, but for the Aura Ring,
22:56
Speaker 1: I feel like I will be shocked if it's as
22:59
Speaker 1: good as the Aura Ring. But anyways, would love to
23:01
Speaker 1: hear your thoughts on that because that's something I really
23:04
Speaker 1: really want to get, and I think I've mentioned it
23:06
Speaker 1: in a previous podcast episode that I want to get it.
23:09
Speaker 1: It just wasn't the right time to get it because
23:11
Speaker 1: it was before the wedding, and obviously five hundred dollars
23:13
Speaker 1: is a lot of money, so I just didn't want
23:15
Speaker 1: to drop that on a ring if I didn't need
23:18
Speaker 1: it in that exact moment. Now that the wedding's over,
23:20
Speaker 1: I want to be able to track my cycle that
23:21
Speaker 1: way Zach and I can eventually down the road we
23:25
Speaker 1: can start trying and all that. I keep emphasizing that
23:28
Speaker 1: it's like not anytime soon, but I just want to
23:31
Speaker 1: be on top of it and being able to track
23:33
Speaker 1: my cycle and know also just my sleeping habits and
23:36
Speaker 1: all that, I feel like I could be better at
23:39
Speaker 1: just yeah, improving my sleep. So yeah, that's something that
23:43
Speaker 1: recently came across my mind and would love to hear
23:46
Speaker 1: your input if you have any for the or a
23:49
Speaker 1: ring if.
23:49
Speaker 2: You own it.
23:50
Speaker 1: The last thing I wanted to briefly chat about. I
23:52
Speaker 1: feel like this is honestly just a hawkgirl chat episode
23:55
Speaker 1: because there's just been a lot of things that I've
23:56
Speaker 1: been seeing on social media that have came across my
23:59
Speaker 1: mind and felt the need to talk about it. But
24:02
Speaker 1: have you guys seen the winter arc trend?
24:05
Speaker 2: Right now.
24:05
Speaker 1: So if you don't know what the Winter arc trend is,
24:09
Speaker 1: it is essentially setting goals for yourself. And I know
24:11
Speaker 1: we've chatted about goals for like the past few episodes.
24:14
Speaker 2: About going into a new season.
24:15
Speaker 1: But it starts October first, and what's more motivating than
24:18
Speaker 1: going into a new month. October first is the perfect
24:21
Speaker 1: time to set goals for yourself, or even the first
24:23
Speaker 1: week of October writing three things that you want to
24:25
Speaker 1: achieve for the next three months. So Winter Arc essentially
24:29
Speaker 1: means that you have three months to finish anything you
24:32
Speaker 1: want to do before twenty twenty four. So there's always
24:35
Speaker 1: this mindset that people have about, Okay, well we're three
24:39
Speaker 1: months away from twenty twenty five, like I'll just wait
24:43
Speaker 1: to you know, start my health and wellness journey. Then
24:46
Speaker 1: why are we waiting? Just jump on it. It's October first,
24:50
Speaker 1: jump into starting the health and wellness journey and becoming
24:53
Speaker 1: the healthier version of yourself. So the Winter Arc is
24:56
Speaker 1: essentially a way of motivation for you to complete your
24:58
Speaker 1: goals within the next ninety day. So obviously new season
25:02
Speaker 1: is motivating, but if there's three things that you have
25:05
Speaker 1: not completed on your vision board, that you wanted to
25:07
Speaker 1: complete before the end of the year. This is your
25:09
Speaker 1: time now to review your vision board make sure that
25:13
Speaker 1: the big goals that you set for yourself are achievable
25:16
Speaker 1: within the next ninety days. So I'm looking at mine currently.
25:20
Speaker 1: I've definitely achieved a lot for myself. There is one
25:24
Speaker 1: thing that I'm looking at and I'm like, I really
25:27
Speaker 1: wanted to achieve that this year, and I definitely didn't.
25:30
Speaker 1: So I'm making it a goal within these next ninety
25:32
Speaker 1: days for me to focus on that goal and to
25:35
Speaker 1: take every step that I have to get to that goal.
25:38
Speaker 1: That way, starting in the new year. I've already took
25:41
Speaker 1: the steps ahead by starting within these past ninety days
25:44
Speaker 1: of getting this stuff done because this goal is a
25:47
Speaker 1: very big goal. It's starting a brand. I'll just say
25:51
Speaker 1: that now. I'm not going to say any details about
25:54
Speaker 1: what brand I'm starting, but I am starting a brand.
25:57
Speaker 1: So I think I have had this mindset up. Oh,
26:00
Speaker 1: I think I'm just gonna start it in the new year,
26:02
Speaker 1: because obviously the wedding took up such a big chunk
26:04
Speaker 1: of my time this year that I didn't have time
26:06
Speaker 1: to do it. But I think this is my sign
26:08
Speaker 1: looking at my vision board that Okay, there's a lot
26:11
Speaker 1: of steps to starting a brand. I think starting now
26:14
Speaker 1: is the perfect opportunity to do so that way, going
26:17
Speaker 1: into the new year, I have a huge head start,
26:20
Speaker 1: and I think I'll feel less stressed knowing that I
26:23
Speaker 1: got some stuff done now versus waiting till the new year.
26:27
Speaker 1: So I cannot wait for the New year episodes. Those
26:30
Speaker 1: are always my favorite to you know, talk about goal
26:33
Speaker 1: setting and vision boards and all that. But I think
26:35
Speaker 1: what also feels so good is looking at my year
26:38
Speaker 1: end of what did I complete on my vision board
26:41
Speaker 1: and like chatting with you guys about everything that is
26:44
Speaker 1: on my vision board and completing it for the year
26:46
Speaker 1: is just things that I didn't anticipate. Like there's images
26:51
Speaker 1: that I put on my vision board that I strictly
26:53
Speaker 1: think I just put for like not exact things, if
26:58
Speaker 1: that makes sense.
26:59
Speaker 2: So for an example, I'll share one.
27:01
Speaker 1: So I wanted to be consistently working out and doing
27:04
Speaker 1: pilates classes and all that, so I put an image
27:07
Speaker 1: here of a pilates studio, like a reformer plate studio.
27:12
Speaker 1: I had no idea that there was a plate studio,
27:14
Speaker 1: a reformer plate studio opening up not even ten minutes
27:18
Speaker 1: away from my house. The studio of where I go,
27:23
Speaker 1: and the image that I have on my vision board
27:25
Speaker 1: is almost exact when I put that image in January
27:29
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. My initial reasoning as to putting
27:32
Speaker 1: that image there was definitely not becoming a Reformer Plates
27:35
Speaker 1: girl one hundred percent.
27:37
Speaker 2: That was not the intention.
27:38
Speaker 1: The intention was to just be consistent with a Pilates
27:42
Speaker 1: workout when I travel or whatever. I don't think I
27:45
Speaker 1: put that there knowing that there was a studio opening
27:47
Speaker 1: up near my house and that I would be consistent
27:50
Speaker 1: with it, you know, three times a week. So that
27:53
Speaker 1: is the most shocking to me. And the fact that
27:56
Speaker 1: this image looks identical to the student that I go
28:00
Speaker 1: to is even creepier. Like I had no idea because
28:02
Speaker 1: the studio didn't open up till March. So anyways, that
28:06
Speaker 1: is the most mind blowing one to me. And so
28:08
Speaker 1: that's why I always love going through my vision board
28:11
Speaker 1: and constantly checking up on it every few months, because
28:14
Speaker 1: you will be shocked to see how much you actually
28:16
Speaker 1: achieve on it. So anyways, I just wanted to end
28:18
Speaker 1: that off there because the winter arc is here, and
28:22
Speaker 1: if you need a motivation to start stuff. This is
28:25
Speaker 1: your time now to really just take these next ninety
28:27
Speaker 1: days to just get back into habits that you want
28:30
Speaker 1: to get into or start new habits, like let's not
28:32
Speaker 1: wait till January first.
28:33
Speaker 2: Just do it.
28:34
Speaker 1: And this is your time or you're signed to go
28:37
Speaker 1: through your vision board and see things that you haven't
28:39
Speaker 1: completed that you wanted to complete it before the end
28:42
Speaker 1: of the year, and it's your time to do it now.
28:45
Speaker 1: So that is your episode for this week. I love
28:48
Speaker 1: you all so much. Thank you guys for tuning in.
28:50
Speaker 1: If you're new, definitely make sure to follow me your
28:52
Speaker 1: host Kaylei at the Hawkrel Energy podcast. You can also
28:56
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28:59
Speaker 1: But I love you all so much. Definitely make sure
29:01
Speaker 1: to check out my YouTube, my TikTok. I am always
29:04
Speaker 1: active on those platforms. But I love you all so
29:06
Speaker 1: much and I hope you guys have the most amazing week.