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164. Leveling up for "Hot Girl Summer".... part 1 · 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: Hawkerel 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 hawkral energy you want to attract. We are currently
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Speaker 1: dealing with twenty eight degree weather. You guys just probably
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Speaker 1: know how ecstatic I am about the warm weather. Being
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Speaker 1: outside at seven o'clock in the morning walking my dog
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Speaker 1: and it being seventeen degrees already was truly the peak
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Speaker 1: moment of my day, Like I started off the day
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Speaker 1: in the best way possible, and I'm just super happy
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Speaker 1: that the warm weather is here, and I feel like
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Speaker 1: summer in my mind has officially started. And especially like
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Speaker 1: looking at the weather these next few days, it's all
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Speaker 1: above like twenty to twenty two and I'm like, you
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Speaker 1: know what, this is summer. It's officially summer. So I'm
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Speaker 1: truly feeling super great about going into the season. Now.
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Speaker 1: I know everybody is in different parts of the world.
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Speaker 1: I know people in Australia is currently dealing with fall,
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Speaker 1: and then obviously people like us who are in Canada
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Speaker 1: or the States or in Europe. We're finally dealing with
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Speaker 1: the warmer weather. So I'm pretty stoked about it, and
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys are feeling the exact same way
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Speaker 1: of just thinking about summer plans, thinking about just sunny days,
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Speaker 1: and yeah, just some excitement ahead. I really wanted to
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Speaker 1: make this episode about hawk Girl summer because obviously my
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Speaker 1: mind is on summer. I'm feeling great about the weather.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited about a new season. So I figured we
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Speaker 1: can kind of talk about things that we could do
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Speaker 1: this summer to make ourselves feel like our hottest self.
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Speaker 1: Things that we could do this summer to really just
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Speaker 1: make ourselves feel like our hottest self. What are we
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Speaker 1: doing self care wise, what are we investing in? What
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Speaker 1: are we doing this summer to just feel like we've
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Speaker 1: become a hotter version of ourselves. So I'm going to
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Speaker 1: share all the tips that I personally think are like
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Speaker 1: my non negotiables when it comes to things that I
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Speaker 1: do in the morning, things that I want to do
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Speaker 1: throughout the summer, things that I want to try throughout
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Speaker 1: the summer season, and yeah, just kind of share it
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Speaker 1: with you guys of how we can level up this
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Speaker 1: summer season before we get into today's episode, I do
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Speaker 1: want to do a little bit of a life update,
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Speaker 1: because you guys know I'm always giving little updates here
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Speaker 1: and there in the beginning of the episodes, and if
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Speaker 1: you guys may or may have not noticed, last week,
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Speaker 1: I did not post an episode, and that was purposely done.
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Speaker 1: To be honest, I never really gave an update in
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Speaker 1: the previous episode, just because I didn't really know I
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Speaker 1: was going to be taking a break from the podcast
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Speaker 1: until last week. So I have been working with a
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Speaker 1: specialist just with like my mental health. I have chronic stress,
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Speaker 1: which I will always be upfront and honest with you
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Speaker 1: guys of things that I'm currently going through. And I'm
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Speaker 1: currently going through chronic stress, like my body is just
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Speaker 1: kind of giving signals of yeah, just something that I
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Speaker 1: need to improve on. And I've been advised to kind
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Speaker 1: of take a step back from work a bit, and
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Speaker 1: of course I don't want to take a step back
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Speaker 1: from the BO but at the same time, I'm just
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Speaker 1: kind of doing what I've been advised to do just
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Speaker 1: to really help me out mentally. So I am going
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Speaker 1: to be only posting an episode once every two weeks
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Speaker 1: probably for the next six to eight weeks, so there
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Speaker 1: won't be a weekly episode. It'll just be like once
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Speaker 1: every two weeks. I had the decision of either taking
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Speaker 1: an entire month off from the podcast, which I really
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Speaker 1: did not want to do, or start posting once every
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Speaker 1: two weeks, which I thought that was a little bit easier.
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Speaker 1: And also I just feel like I can still connect
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Speaker 1: with you guys like and obviously not be off the
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Speaker 1: podcast too much. So I hope you guys can understand
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Speaker 1: that it's coming from a place where I really want
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Speaker 1: to be present and like chatting with you guys. But
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Speaker 1: at the same time, there's obviously other stuff with my
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Speaker 1: job that I have to make a priority, like filming tiktoks,
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Speaker 1: doing YouTube videos, doing stuff on Instagram, obviously doing brand
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Speaker 1: deals with my management team. Like, there's obviously other stuff
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Speaker 1: happening behind the scenes and not just podcast episodes. But
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Speaker 1: but I do, unfortunately have to take a bit of
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Speaker 1: a step back. So if you notice that there's only
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Speaker 1: episodes being uploaded every two weeks, that is why. But again,
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Speaker 1: this is all for short term and I hope you
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Speaker 1: guys can understand that it's just coming from a place
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Speaker 1: of me really wanting to work on myself and just
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Speaker 1: to let you guys know that, like, your health is
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Speaker 1: truly the most important thing. As much as work is
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Speaker 1: an important thing, health will always be number one in
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Speaker 1: my opinion when it comes to anything, I will always
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Speaker 1: always put my health first. And this is just something
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Speaker 1: that I need to do right now, even though it
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Speaker 1: is a really hard thing for me to do, because
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Speaker 1: I truly do love being here every single week chatting
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Speaker 1: with you guys, but we are focusing on our health
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Speaker 1: and that's okay, And I just wanted to give you
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Speaker 1: guys that little update of what's been going on. And honestly, guys,
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Speaker 1: I'm good, Like it's not like I'm like currently going
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Speaker 1: through anything like bad, Like, I'm feeling really good. It's just,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying to do this for my health
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Speaker 1: and just yeah, really focus on that. So I hope
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Speaker 1: you guys can understand that it's coming from that place
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Speaker 1: and we'll be back soon. We'll be back to the
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Speaker 1: weekly episodes, but for now, we're just going to be
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Speaker 1: doing bi weekly episodes. This weekend was a long weekend,
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Speaker 1: so I was actually at my best friend's cottage for
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Speaker 1: the weekends, celebrating my other best friend's thirtieth birthday, and
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Speaker 1: we literally had the most chill weekend ever. I really
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Speaker 1: wasn't planning on disconnecting from my phone for the weekend,
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Speaker 1: but it kind of just happened. I don't know, I
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Speaker 1: just kind of felt like I wanted to be off
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Speaker 1: my phone. I wanted to be like in the moment
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Speaker 1: with my friends, and honestly, we had the best time.
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Speaker 1: We went golfing, we had a lot of camp buyers,
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Speaker 1: we played some board games. Like literally the most chill weekend,
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Speaker 1: and I felt like I just like needed that detox
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Speaker 1: of like being off my phone, not being on social
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Speaker 1: media scrolling, Like it felt really really good. I did
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Speaker 1: kind of film here and their clips for YouTube because
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Speaker 1: I was vlogging throughout the week last week, so you
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Speaker 1: might see some clips from the cottage on my most
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Speaker 1: recent YouTube blog that'll be posting hopefully within the next
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Speaker 1: few days. So yeah, it was just a very chill
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Speaker 1: weekend and I really really enjoyed just being present and
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Speaker 1: not feeling the need to be on my phone. Twenty
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Speaker 1: four to seven, some of you guys commented on my
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Speaker 1: most recent TikTok saying like, oh my gosh, where were you,
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Speaker 1: Like we missed you, And honestly, yeah, like I missed
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Speaker 1: posting every single day. But at the same time, like
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Speaker 1: I do think it's super important to just like step
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Speaker 1: away from your phone sometimes and just like be present,
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Speaker 1: chilling in the moment, and that's exactly what I did
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Speaker 1: this weekend. It has been so hard to not show
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Speaker 1: you guys more stuff about our new house. I am
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Speaker 1: so excited. We literally move in less than three months,
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Speaker 1: which is so crazy. We've been going to the house
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Speaker 1: and obviously we can't go inside, but we've been like
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Speaker 1: looking in the windows just to see the progress every
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Speaker 1: single weekend. And we have drywall, we have doors they're painting,
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Speaker 1: we have hardwood floors. Like I wish I could just
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Speaker 1: like show you guys all this stuff, But at the
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Speaker 1: same time, like if I posted a picture, you guys
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Speaker 1: would literally see barely anything, because you know, when you
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Speaker 1: take a picture through a window of the exterior of
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Speaker 1: the house, like it's really hard to tell what's going on,
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Speaker 1: and like the quality of the images are never really great.
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Speaker 1: I feel like you have to be there in person
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Speaker 1: to like look through the window and see the progress.
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Speaker 1: So I really hate that I can't give you guys
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Speaker 1: updates just because it's such a fun process and I
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Speaker 1: truly do love like seeing the house come to life.
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Speaker 1: But just so you know, when I get the keys
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Speaker 1: to the house, I will be posting the crap out
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Speaker 1: of house content, don't you worry. I know so many
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Speaker 1: of you guys have been like wanting me to post
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Speaker 1: more like house inspo, stuff design all that, But it's
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Speaker 1: really hard obviously when I can't access the house and
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Speaker 1: like walk through it and film it for you guys,
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Speaker 1: or even like show you guys inspiration pictures all that.
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Speaker 1: Like I really want to do it the right way.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to just like randomly like throw stuff
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Speaker 1: up on my Instagram story and like not really make
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Speaker 1: the connection with you guys, if that makes sense. So
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Speaker 1: there's going to be so much house content you have
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Speaker 1: no idea as soon as we move into that house,
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Speaker 1: because not only are we like going to be showing
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Speaker 1: the whole process of the new build of like what
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Speaker 1: the builders did, but we're also technically renovating our house
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Speaker 1: when we when we move in, because we've hired a
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Speaker 1: general contractor, they're doing a bunch of stuff after close,
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Speaker 1: which is not typically what you would do with the
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Speaker 1: new build. Like obviously most new builds you just like
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Speaker 1: buy it and everything's done. We're literally not doing that
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Speaker 1: at all. We're doing most of the stuff with a GC,
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Speaker 1: just because we wanted to do it a different way
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Speaker 1: like the new builders. Obviously we could do certain things,
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Speaker 1: but we wanted to go more the extreme route of
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Speaker 1: like doing exactly what we want, So we decided to
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Speaker 1: do some of these upgrades after close by hiring a
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Speaker 1: GC and getting them to do it all after the fact.
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Speaker 1: So definitely going to be a lot of stuff going on.
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Speaker 1: So I'm telling you more how stuff will be updated
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Speaker 1: with you guys once we get the keys to our house,
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Speaker 1: which will be hopefully sometime in August, which is really exciting.
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Speaker 1: So basically we're just patiently waiting for the keys and
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Speaker 1: then I'll be posting all the house content, all the
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Speaker 1: design content, all that, which you guys know I love
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, so I'm very excited to take
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Speaker 1: you guys along. Anyways, enough talking about my personal life,
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Speaker 1: Let's get into this episode. Let's talk about summer non negotiables.
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Speaker 1: How we're going to level up for Hawkgirl summer and
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Speaker 1: become our hotest self this summer. Okay, So I've kind
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Speaker 1: of separated this into two different categories. We have self
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Speaker 1: care non negotiables, and then we have things that I
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Speaker 1: think are worth investing in when it comes to either
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Speaker 1: appointments or things to do throughout the summer season. So
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Speaker 1: I've kind of split it up in that sense. So
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about summer self care non negotiables first.
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Speaker 1: This is kind of things that I want to do
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Speaker 1: on a daily basis, whether it's in my morning routine
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Speaker 1: or just daily habits in general throughout the summer season.
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Speaker 1: So Number one, I think this is a non negotiable,
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Speaker 1: especially in the summer season, and that is morning sunlight
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Speaker 1: within the first hour of waking up. This is something
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Speaker 1: that I think is super easy for anyone that is
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Speaker 1: currently dealing with the summer season. Get outside, sit on
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Speaker 1: your deck or sit on your front porch, just being
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Speaker 1: outside and either reading a book, journaling, drinking your coffee.
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Speaker 1: It could be literally anything. It doesn't have to involve
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Speaker 1: doing something. You could literally just sit out there and
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Speaker 1: do nothing for ten minutes. But being outside within the
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Speaker 1: first hour of waking I think is the best way
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Speaker 1: to start the day. I feel like the sunlight on
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Speaker 1: your body just like really creates good energy. I feel
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Speaker 1: like it's the best way to kind of like distress,
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Speaker 1: not think about anything that might cause you any anxiety
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Speaker 1: or anything like that. Like the sunlight is so healing,
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Speaker 1: Like I can't even describe how healing the sun is.
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Speaker 1: I think I treat the sun as like a healing
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Speaker 1: power because I have such bad winters here that when
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Speaker 1: the sun is not out, I can truly notice a
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Speaker 1: difference in my mood and how I feel when I'm
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Speaker 1: dealing with the winter season. When I think of winter,
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Speaker 1: I think of it almost as a season of survival,
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Speaker 1: like we're truly just trying to survive throughout the next
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Speaker 1: three months of the dreading, cold winters that we experience,
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Speaker 1: Whereas the summer I see it as an opportunity of
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Speaker 1: enjoyment mode and we're healing and we're feeling good. And honestly,
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Speaker 1: just the feeling that you feel on your body with
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Speaker 1: the sunshine just is it a feeling that you can
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Speaker 1: even describe. It's just the best feeling. So that's like
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Speaker 1: something that I'm making a non negotiable every single morning,
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Speaker 1: is to be outside within the first hour of the day.
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Speaker 1: For me personally, I'm actually meditating outside. So I'm sitting
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Speaker 1: on my backyard couch and I'm sitting there for like
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Speaker 1: ten minutes and I'm just doing deep breathing exercises, And honestly,
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Speaker 1: it's been really nice because when I close my eyes,
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Speaker 1: I'm listening to a meditation on YouTube, but I'm also
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Speaker 1: listening to the birds chirping, I'm feeling the sun on
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Speaker 1: my face. Like i feel like it's actually a perfect
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Speaker 1: situation to meditate. And if you guys have been listening
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Speaker 1: to the podcast for a while, I've definitely talked about
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Speaker 1: always like wanting to include meditation into my routine, but
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Speaker 1: I've always had a really hard time getting into it.
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Speaker 1: And I think it's because I'm just inside my house,
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Speaker 1: sitting on a couch, like listening to a YouTube video.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm not really having a good environment
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Speaker 1: of doing meditation. So being able to like be outside
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Speaker 1: with the sun in the summer doing it within the
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Speaker 1: first ten minutes of my morning by just waking up,
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Speaker 1: walking outside, sitting on my couch playing a meditation while
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Speaker 1: listening to the birds and seeing the sunshine, I feel
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Speaker 1: like it just like sets the tone of the meditation
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Speaker 1: session and I feel really really good doing it. But again,
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Speaker 1: you don't have to do meditation. You could read a book,
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Speaker 1: you could do journaling outside. Journaling is also something that
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Speaker 1: I feel like I would love to do outside in
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Speaker 1: the mornings before starting my day, So that to me
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Speaker 1: is like a non negotiable for the summer season. Another
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Speaker 1: non negotiable is obviously just keeping up with hydration. I
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Speaker 1: know that's like an obvious one of like drinking more
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Speaker 1: water and all that, But here's the kicker. We can
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Speaker 1: obviously like jazz it up a bit that way. It's
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Speaker 1: not as boring. Obviously, with being in the heat in
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Speaker 1: the summer season, I feel like we're sweating more and
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Speaker 1: we're obviously dealing with a lot more hotter temperatures, So
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Speaker 1: adding electrolytes to your water is a great one. Adding
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Speaker 1: fruit to your water can kind of just like jazz
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Speaker 1: it up, change it up. I love to add like strawberries,
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Speaker 1: or sometimes I'll add like mint or lime to my water.
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Speaker 1: It kind of feels like a bit of a moheto situation,
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Speaker 1: but I kind of get sick and tired of water
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Speaker 1: by the afternoon, so I kind of like to change
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Speaker 1: it up a bit by doing those things. I also
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Speaker 1: recently lost my water bottle. I have no idea what
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Speaker 1: I did with it, but it gave me an excuse
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Speaker 1: to buy a new water bottle, buy a fun color
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Speaker 1: for the summer season. I got this hydroflask water bottle
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Speaker 1: from Amazon. I think it's called sea Foam. The color
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Speaker 1: that I got. It's like a mint green, which is
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Speaker 1: actually such a beautiful color and I love it and
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Speaker 1: I've been drinking it NonStop. I feel like whenever I
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Speaker 1: have a new water bottle, I'm always so motivated to
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Speaker 1: drink more. Of course, getting some movement in is a
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Speaker 1: non nego well, but one thing that I've been really
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Speaker 1: wanting to get back into this summer season is running.
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Speaker 1: I used to run so much when I was younger.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I always kind of go back to
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Speaker 1: it for maybe a few days in the summer, and
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Speaker 1: then I don't really stick to a routine to it.
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Speaker 1: But I really want to stick to a routine this
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Speaker 1: summer of getting outside and running once a week. Like
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Speaker 1: it doesn't even have to be like a you know,
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Speaker 1: two to three times a week. It just needs to
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Speaker 1: be a once a week thing for me. But it's
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Speaker 1: just something that I want to get back into because
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Speaker 1: I find walking is really healing, which I love to do.
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Speaker 1: But sometimes I'm like I could change it up. I
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Speaker 1: could do different routes. And we have this beautiful route
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Speaker 1: by my place that I could literally run on for
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Speaker 1: like an hour and actually enjoy it. So I think
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Speaker 1: I'm going to try and pick up running again. That's
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Speaker 1: like one of my goals this summer is to just
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Speaker 1: kind of try a new movement out and also again
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Speaker 1: enjoy being outside at the same time. I find it's
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Speaker 1: really beneficial to kind of change up your workout routine
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Speaker 1: when you go into a new season. So I've talked
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Speaker 1: about in the past when it's like the winter season,
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Speaker 1: I love to do heated workout because obviously it's freezing outside,
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Speaker 1: I want to do heated classes. Now I'm not really
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Speaker 1: craving heated workouts, I'm craving more workouts outside, so obviously
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Speaker 1: running and just being outside. So maybe just kind of
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Speaker 1: like reevaluate your workout routine, maybe try and keep it
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Speaker 1: the same, but obviously like add something into it that
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Speaker 1: might feel different, whether again it's working out outside or
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Speaker 1: adding strength workouts into your routine, pilates, whatever the case
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Speaker 1: may be like just adding one new thing in your
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Speaker 1: routine just to kind of change it up for a
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Speaker 1: new season. Sometimes feels really good. Another non negotiable is SPF.
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Speaker 1: I am a huge sunscreen girl. I do not leave
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Speaker 1: my house without putting SPF on. It's just a non
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Speaker 1: negotiable for me, specifically my face. I've made it a
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Speaker 1: non negotiable in my skincare routine to always put SPF on.
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Speaker 1: Two brands that I love when it comes to face
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Speaker 1: sunscreen is the brand Tatcha and Summer Fridays. Summer Fridays
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Speaker 1: actually just came out with a new one. They reform
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Speaker 1: They actually reformulated their previous sunscreen and I've been dying
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Speaker 1: to try it. So that's something that I can keep
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Speaker 1: you guys posted on. But some that I really want
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Speaker 1: to try is the new Summer Friday sunscreen. In terms
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Speaker 1: of body sunscreen, I love the brand Kapari. You can
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Speaker 1: find it off Revolve. I believe, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: it's at Sephora. It might be at Sephora, but it's
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Speaker 1: a really good body sunscreen that I've been using. It's
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Speaker 1: kind of got like a bit of a glow to it.
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Speaker 1: It's more of like a spray oil base, which I
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Speaker 1: love the spray sunscreens. It's just really easy to quickly
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Speaker 1: put on. And then I also love the brand Sunbum.
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Speaker 1: It's got cleaner ingredients and kind of like a lower
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Speaker 1: talks option, like not as toxic as what you'd get
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Speaker 1: from like A I don't remember the other sunscreen names,
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Speaker 1: but like the boat one is a banana boat, Hawaiian boat,
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Speaker 1: Hawaiian something, I have no idea Hawaiian tropics. I think
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Speaker 1: that's one of the sunscreens. But I always try and
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Speaker 1: like find ones with better ingredients, and sun Bumb is
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Speaker 1: one that has some pretty good ingredients. So yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: a non negotiable for me in the summer. Again, this
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Speaker 1: next one's really about being outside more, which is my
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Speaker 1: whole non negotiable throughout the summer season is just trying
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Speaker 1: to be outside as much as I can, but almost
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Speaker 1: like finding a hobby that you could do outside once
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Speaker 1: a week, whether it's you know, picking up a sport
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Speaker 1: like playing soccer or tennis, or picking up golf, or
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Speaker 1: maybe it's horseback riding, maybe it's playing soccer, Like there's
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Speaker 1: so many things that you could do on a weekly
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Speaker 1: basis that will get yourself outside. But I've been really
16:22
Speaker 1: inspired lately about some people that I've seen on TikTok
16:25
Speaker 1: that I actually follow, who are girls that are like
16:28
Speaker 1: in their thirties and they're picking up brand new hobbies
16:31
Speaker 1: that they've never done before. So there's this one girl
16:33
Speaker 1: that I follow. She's been taking ballet lessons, and I'm like,
16:37
Speaker 1: that's amazing, like something that you would probably do as
16:40
Speaker 1: a kid, right, but she's doing it in her thirties
16:42
Speaker 1: and I find it really inspiring. And then there's another
16:45
Speaker 1: girl I follow that's been taking adult gymnastic classes and
16:48
Speaker 1: trying to just again learn different things and moves, and
16:52
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just find it really really inspiring
16:54
Speaker 1: for girls who are trying new things in their thirties
16:57
Speaker 1: or in their late twenties that I don't know, you'd
17:00
Speaker 1: never think of doing because you feel like, oh, I'm older,
17:03
Speaker 1: I don't need to go to those things. But like
17:05
Speaker 1: trying new things, I think is such a great opportunity
17:08
Speaker 1: for growth. And I don't know, just something that has
17:11
Speaker 1: really inspired me. So I've been really wanting to pick
17:14
Speaker 1: up something this summer. I haven't figured out what yet,
17:16
Speaker 1: but I do want to try and take weekly lessons
17:19
Speaker 1: for something maybe like tennis or golf or horseback riding,
17:24
Speaker 1: Like those are three that I can think of right
17:25
Speaker 1: now that I've always wanted to learn and get better at.
17:29
Speaker 1: Like golf, I've definitely done a few times with my friends.
17:33
Speaker 1: Would I say I'm great, No, But golf is also
17:35
Speaker 1: a really hard sport, So that's definitely something that I'd
17:40
Speaker 1: consider taking lessons in kenness. I used to play as
17:42
Speaker 1: a kid, but I feel like whenever I'm on vacation
17:45
Speaker 1: and I'm at resorts, I see a lot of tennis
17:47
Speaker 1: courts and I always like want to play tennis, but
17:50
Speaker 1: I'm like, I suck, Like why would I go attempt
17:52
Speaker 1: to play when I'm not good at it? So I'm like,
17:53
Speaker 1: it would be really nice to get lessons and actually
17:57
Speaker 1: like learn how to play, because I feel like I
17:59
Speaker 1: would love to do that when I'm vacation or just
18:01
Speaker 1: like something to do on like Sunday mornings with my husband.
18:04
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, I love the idea of playing tennis.
18:06
Speaker 1: I have played pick a ball a few times, which
18:08
Speaker 1: I do love. It's obviously a little bit easier than tennis,
18:11
Speaker 1: but yeah, something that is really fun that I enjoy.
18:14
Speaker 1: I also love the idea of horseback riding. I think
18:17
Speaker 1: that's so fun, and there's a few spots that are
18:20
Speaker 1: nearby to me that actually offer horseback riding lessons. I
18:24
Speaker 1: think the only reason why I'm not sure about it,
18:27
Speaker 1: for like my summer weekly thing is because it's not
18:29
Speaker 1: really active and I'm not really moving. I feel like
18:31
Speaker 1: I really just want to dive into something that gets
18:33
Speaker 1: me moving as well. And I feel like tennis or
18:36
Speaker 1: golf gets me going and gets me moving throughout the night.
18:39
Speaker 1: So I feel like that's why I kind of want
18:41
Speaker 1: to lean more towards those versus the horseback riding. But
18:44
Speaker 1: who knows. Definitely want to pick up something and pick
18:46
Speaker 1: up a hobby and just kind of focus on that
18:48
Speaker 1: for the summer season. So I think that's really inspiring
18:52
Speaker 1: when people try out new things at a later age,
18:55
Speaker 1: I think it's something that's worth trying. Another non negotiable
18:57
Speaker 1: that I'm making my self care habit through the summer
19:00
Speaker 1: season is not doing my hair as much. I don't
19:04
Speaker 1: want to constantly be blow drying my hair. I really
19:07
Speaker 1: want to try and take advantage of doing my hair
19:09
Speaker 1: more natural. I feel like I always want to do
19:13
Speaker 1: my hair like blowout style and all that which we
19:15
Speaker 1: all love. Obviously, a blowout's amazing, but in the summer season,
19:19
Speaker 1: I do feel more gravitated towards doing my natural hair.
19:22
Speaker 1: I feel like it's very much a summer hairstyle to
19:24
Speaker 1: just pull out the hair moves, pull out the curl cream,
19:27
Speaker 1: scrunch out your hair, let it air dry, And I
19:30
Speaker 1: don't know, I just really like the way my natural
19:32
Speaker 1: hair looks when I actually put the effort in styling it,
19:34
Speaker 1: and it's so much less damage on my hair when
19:38
Speaker 1: I do it natural. So I'm trying to make it
19:40
Speaker 1: a natural girl hair summer, trying to be more natural
19:44
Speaker 1: and just yeah, not put too much heat on my hair.
19:46
Speaker 1: Going back to the point where I was talking about
19:48
Speaker 1: kind of like changing things around to match the season,
19:51
Speaker 1: So changing up your workouts, changing up your morning routine
19:54
Speaker 1: by you know, going outside more, maybe walking more, trying
19:58
Speaker 1: out different workouts, right, But other things that you could
20:01
Speaker 1: do to also kind of like match the season is
20:04
Speaker 1: changing up your daily things. So maybe your phone case
20:07
Speaker 1: you want to change it to a fun summary color,
20:10
Speaker 1: or your iPhone wallpaper or your laptop desk green, or
20:14
Speaker 1: it could be you know, things throughout your house, like
20:16
Speaker 1: adding more color in your house by changing out some
20:19
Speaker 1: of your florals maybe to something more fun and bright,
20:22
Speaker 1: like you know, just like pink flowers or you know,
20:26
Speaker 1: floral pillows. Like just adding color into your house in
20:30
Speaker 1: the summer season I find very refreshing and exciting. You
20:33
Speaker 1: could also change up your beddings, so you could do
20:35
Speaker 1: fun colors like pink bed sheets or floral bed sheets.
20:39
Speaker 1: I also just like love white linen bedding in the summer.
20:43
Speaker 1: I find that always really nice and just feels very
20:46
Speaker 1: fresh for the summer season. So just kind of like
20:48
Speaker 1: making the effort of changing things around in your home
20:51
Speaker 1: and your environment. And it could be as small as
20:54
Speaker 1: changing your phone case as I said, or changing things
20:57
Speaker 1: around your house just to kind of make it feel
20:59
Speaker 1: more summary. I also love to buy candles that reflect
21:02
Speaker 1: the season, so you could buy candles that have more
21:05
Speaker 1: of like a floral scent or a beachy scent to
21:08
Speaker 1: again kind of just like match the summer season. And
21:10
Speaker 1: then the last self care non negotiable for the summer
21:13
Speaker 1: is just like that feeling of taking everything showers in
21:16
Speaker 1: the summer when you've been outside for a long period
21:19
Speaker 1: of time. I find doing bodycare in the summer is
21:25
Speaker 1: so essential. I'll be fully transparent. I am not the
21:28
Speaker 1: kind of girl that takes in everything shower and then
21:30
Speaker 1: like spends like twenty minutes after her shower routine to
21:32
Speaker 1: do like body lotion, body oil, exfoliate whatever, like. I
21:37
Speaker 1: honestly am not very good with my body care. I
21:39
Speaker 1: feel like I'm good with everything else when it comes
21:41
Speaker 1: to like hair mass, face mass, you know, doing my everything,
21:45
Speaker 1: shower routine, all that, but when it comes to like
21:48
Speaker 1: after my shower routine, I'm not very good at that.
21:50
Speaker 1: So this summer I'm trying to make it a non
21:52
Speaker 1: negotible to be better at putting body lotion on, putting
21:55
Speaker 1: body oil on. In the summer, I feel like my
21:58
Speaker 1: skin gets so dry, especially when I'm you know, outside
22:01
Speaker 1: in the sun all the time. I just really need
22:04
Speaker 1: to hydrate my body. So I've been using the body
22:06
Speaker 1: oil by Lacutainte. I could be pronouncing it wrong, but
22:12
Speaker 1: the body oil is so good. It smells incredible and
22:16
Speaker 1: it's really really hydrating. And then I've been using the
22:19
Speaker 1: brand Necessary for the body lotion, which I think you
22:23
Speaker 1: can get those two products from Sephora. But that's been
22:26
Speaker 1: like my combo lately because I have been outside these
22:28
Speaker 1: past few weeks and I've noticed my skin getting really dry.
22:32
Speaker 1: So I'm like, Okay, this is something I need to
22:34
Speaker 1: make a non negotible this summer. Is just being really
22:36
Speaker 1: good at just keeping up with my body care. So
22:39
Speaker 1: those are kind of like my self care non negotiables
22:41
Speaker 1: when it comes to the summer season. Now. Appointments are
22:45
Speaker 1: self care. Things that I think are worth investing in
22:47
Speaker 1: are number one, obviously getting your nails done. For me,
22:51
Speaker 1: I feel so much hotter when I actually put the
22:53
Speaker 1: effort in myself. And I know getting your nails done
22:56
Speaker 1: could be costly, but I do think it's worth it.
22:58
Speaker 1: I feel really really good when I have a fresh
23:00
Speaker 1: set on. I love to do fun summer colors, usually,
23:04
Speaker 1: so you could do fun colors like baby blue, you know,
23:07
Speaker 1: peachy orange, baby pink. I usually love to do like
23:09
Speaker 1: pestel colors in the summer. I also usually love to
23:12
Speaker 1: do like a bright red or sometimes a nice chrome
23:15
Speaker 1: with like a neutral pink color, or just like a
23:17
Speaker 1: neutral nail color. In general. All in all, I just
23:20
Speaker 1: like feel like having your nails done, especially in the summer.
23:23
Speaker 1: I feel like it's like a non negotiable. And then
23:25
Speaker 1: another thing is obviously getting a pedicure. It's flip flop season.
23:29
Speaker 1: Obviously my toes are going to be shown. If there's
23:31
Speaker 1: one thing that I will never expose is my toenails
23:35
Speaker 1: without nail polish. I'm sorry. That for me is like
23:38
Speaker 1: a non negotiable. I just like I need to put
23:40
Speaker 1: nail polish on my toes, so I try and get
23:43
Speaker 1: pedicures done. I think it's usually once every five to
23:46
Speaker 1: six weeks. And yeah, that's a non negotible for me
23:49
Speaker 1: when it comes to like summer season, just because I
23:51
Speaker 1: am wearing flip flops all the time, or just like
23:54
Speaker 1: open toe shoes in general. So it's just something that
23:56
Speaker 1: I feel like I need to upkeep and always do.
23:58
Speaker 1: But I do think it's worth the investment. Another thing
24:01
Speaker 1: that I think is worth the investment is facials. I
24:04
Speaker 1: love a good facial. I actually got one last week,
24:06
Speaker 1: and my skin was thanking me so much because I
24:09
Speaker 1: feel like I haven't gotten one done since last January.
24:13
Speaker 1: I want to say, so five or six months ago.
24:16
Speaker 1: January was the last one. Yeah, it was the last
24:17
Speaker 1: time I went. So getting it done felt so good,
24:20
Speaker 1: and again, I feel like my skin has been obviously better.
24:23
Speaker 1: Winter it gets really dry. Summer it's a bit better,
24:25
Speaker 1: but it's still obviously dry. So just kind of like
24:28
Speaker 1: keeping up with facials is great. Like I used to
24:31
Speaker 1: do facials once every six to eight weeks when I
24:33
Speaker 1: was getting ready for my wedding, and obviously it was
24:37
Speaker 1: quite costly, but my skin was the best it ever
24:40
Speaker 1: looked because I feel like I put so much effort
24:42
Speaker 1: in my skincare routine. I put so much effort in
24:44
Speaker 1: like making facials a non negotiable throughout, you know, every
24:49
Speaker 1: six to eight weeks. So I want to try and
24:51
Speaker 1: get back into that, just because I feel like my
24:53
Speaker 1: skin has been kind of going through it and I
24:55
Speaker 1: feel like when I do facials, my face is like glowing,
24:58
Speaker 1: Like I feel so much better after a facial. It's wild.
25:02
Speaker 1: And also just like keeping up with like face mass
25:04
Speaker 1: from home or eye patches. One face mask brand that
25:07
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with is Medicube. I think I've talked about
25:10
Speaker 1: them in the past. It's a Korean skincare brand. Their
25:13
Speaker 1: face masks are so good. I like that it comes
25:16
Speaker 1: in like two separate parts, so you can kind of
25:18
Speaker 1: like adjust it for your face, because I'm sure if
25:21
Speaker 1: you guys have done face masks, you guys know that
25:23
Speaker 1: sometimes the face mask doesn't fit properly with your face,
25:25
Speaker 1: and I feel like sometimes I have to like cut
25:28
Speaker 1: the face masks to kind of fit my face. But
25:31
Speaker 1: the Metacube ones, I feel like it fits at least
25:33
Speaker 1: my face perfectly, and I feel like I don't really
25:35
Speaker 1: have to cut anything, so it's like easier to adjust,
25:38
Speaker 1: if that makes sense, So try that out. And then
25:41
Speaker 1: another one is for eyemass. I love the brand Lux
25:45
Speaker 1: Unfiltered Summer Fridays and Road. Their eye patches are so good.
25:50
Speaker 1: I really want to get the new Road eye patches
25:52
Speaker 1: with like the yellow and brown pattern. I think they're
25:54
Speaker 1: so cute. I've been seeing so many girls on TikTok
25:57
Speaker 1: where them, and I'm like, I need these. Another point
26:00
Speaker 1: that I think is a non negotiable is just going
26:02
Speaker 1: to the dentist. I know that's an appointment that I
26:04
Speaker 1: feel like a lot of people either avoid or don't
26:06
Speaker 1: love doing, and trust me, I do not like going
26:08
Speaker 1: to the dentist at all. I pricking hate it. But
26:11
Speaker 1: seeing my teeth white and just like having a fresh,
26:14
Speaker 1: clean smile makes me feel really really good. And again,
26:17
Speaker 1: just we're trying to make yourself feel hotter this summer.
26:19
Speaker 1: So I'm just trying to give like advice of like
26:21
Speaker 1: things that I like to do when I feel really
26:22
Speaker 1: good about myself, and getting my teeth cleaned and just
26:26
Speaker 1: like freshly done always makes me feel really good. I
26:28
Speaker 1: don't know if I ever told you guys this, but
26:30
Speaker 1: I actually have composite bonding. So my two front teeth
26:34
Speaker 1: have bonding on them, just because when I was a kid,
26:36
Speaker 1: I actually had two teeth that didn't grow out properly,
26:39
Speaker 1: so I had to do composent bonding on them. They're
26:41
Speaker 1: called peg teeth and they actually need to be completely redone.
26:45
Speaker 1: The last time I did composite bonding was I want
26:48
Speaker 1: to say, like seven years ago when they touched it up,
26:51
Speaker 1: so I haven't gotten them touched up in a really
26:53
Speaker 1: long time. And they basically told me that they had
26:55
Speaker 1: to start from scratch, like they'll have to take it
26:57
Speaker 1: all off and redo it all. So it's definitely going
27:01
Speaker 1: to be an investment and going to take a lot
27:03
Speaker 1: of time to do, but I think it's worth doing,
27:06
Speaker 1: so I'm hoping to get that done this summer or
27:09
Speaker 1: this fall. That's like one thing that I need to
27:11
Speaker 1: make it non negocible this year is just getting them
27:13
Speaker 1: redone since it's been so long. But your smile does
27:17
Speaker 1: make a huge difference. I think for me, I care
27:19
Speaker 1: so much about my teeth and I feel good when
27:21
Speaker 1: my teeth are whitened or when they just look good,
27:23
Speaker 1: so that to me is a non negotiable. Another one
27:27
Speaker 1: is investing in some summer pieces. So obviously we want
27:30
Speaker 1: to shop when we go into a new season, which
27:32
Speaker 1: I'm a victim to doing that myself. I obviously love
27:35
Speaker 1: buying new things, especially for a new season. I have
27:39
Speaker 1: been loving stripe anything like stripe pants, stripe tops. I've
27:43
Speaker 1: been loving a lot of white linen. I also think
27:46
Speaker 1: it's worth investing in a good pair of denim shorts.
27:49
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm always wearing denim shorts whenever I
27:51
Speaker 1: want to, like go to a coffee shop or just
27:53
Speaker 1: you know, go to do a casual err and I'm like,
27:56
Speaker 1: what do I wear? Okay, denim shorts on a tank top?
27:58
Speaker 1: Like you know what I mean? Like, thinking of good
28:00
Speaker 1: staple things to invest in, I think is worth it
28:02
Speaker 1: and denim shorts is definitely one of them, or a
28:05
Speaker 1: good pair of flip flops. I invested in a good
28:08
Speaker 1: pair of flip flops last year and I love them.
28:11
Speaker 1: I literally wear them all the time. They're so comfortable,
28:13
Speaker 1: especially throughout the summer season. I just feel like you
28:16
Speaker 1: need a comfortable pair of flip flops. One brand that
28:18
Speaker 1: I really love is Havianas that I think you can
28:22
Speaker 1: get off Revolve. They're like, I think maybe between fifty
28:25
Speaker 1: to seventy dollars, which could be kind of high. I
28:28
Speaker 1: get it, but I feel like when they're comfortable, it's
28:30
Speaker 1: worth investing in. I also have gotten myself a pair
28:33
Speaker 1: of Teaks. I think that's the brand. It's like a
28:35
Speaker 1: leather patent leather flip flop brand. I've got a pair
28:39
Speaker 1: of red ones. I love red in the summer. I
28:42
Speaker 1: feel like it's a nice, fun pop of color. So
28:44
Speaker 1: you wear like red flip flops with like a white
28:46
Speaker 1: linen top and denim shorts, and like the shoes obviously
28:49
Speaker 1: pop with the red, so you could like dress really neutral,
28:52
Speaker 1: but like having fun colors for accessories when it comes
28:54
Speaker 1: to like your bags or your shoes, I think is
28:57
Speaker 1: really fun for the summer, so obviously, investing in summer
29:00
Speaker 1: pieces I think is nice and like treating yourself to
29:03
Speaker 1: a few new things going into a new season is
29:05
Speaker 1: always fun. And of course I always feel really good
29:08
Speaker 1: when I purchase a few new things for myself and
29:10
Speaker 1: being able to wear it out and yeah, just feel
29:12
Speaker 1: like really stylish and cute. I don't know, it's just
29:15
Speaker 1: like the best feeling when you invest in some summer
29:19
Speaker 1: pieces for the new season. Another thing is getting your
29:22
Speaker 1: hair done, whether it's getting a haircut or freshly coloring
29:26
Speaker 1: your hair. I've had this urge to go lighter. I
29:29
Speaker 1: don't know why. I usually always go dark, but lately
29:32
Speaker 1: I'm like, do I lighten my hair? Do I do?
29:35
Speaker 1: I not? I have no idea. I feel like all
29:37
Speaker 1: the girls are lightening your hair for the summer season.
29:40
Speaker 1: I need to know if you're a dark hair brown
29:42
Speaker 1: girl like me, if you've ever dyed your hair light brown,
29:46
Speaker 1: how is your experience. Was it the worst mistake that
29:48
Speaker 1: you've ever done, or was it the best decision you've
29:50
Speaker 1: ever made. I'm currently waiting for my hair appointment. I
29:53
Speaker 1: think it's in June, end of June. I think end
29:56
Speaker 1: of June or beginning of July one of the two,
29:58
Speaker 1: and I'm like, do I go lighter? I don't know.
30:01
Speaker 1: That could be a mistake. It could be a mistake.
30:03
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to bleach my hair
30:05
Speaker 1: because obviously, like you'd have to bleach it. I've tried
30:08
Speaker 1: to tone my hair lighter and it turned my hair red,
30:11
Speaker 1: so we're not doing that. But I'm like, do I
30:13
Speaker 1: bleach it? But then again, I also don't want to
30:15
Speaker 1: damage my hair, So I'm kind of in this like
30:17
Speaker 1: light hair era right now. I'm loving the girls with
30:20
Speaker 1: the highlights as well, and also I'm like, do I
30:22
Speaker 1: do highlights and just kind of like bring some low
30:25
Speaker 1: lights into my hair so it kind of feels lighter.
30:27
Speaker 1: I've also been debating that, but when I think of highlights,
30:30
Speaker 1: I look at photos of myself from high school and
30:32
Speaker 1: I'm like, ooh, I did highlights and it looked awful.
30:36
Speaker 1: So now I'm like, I'm knowing to do, but I
30:38
Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like getting your hair done before
30:41
Speaker 1: the summer season, or just like in the beginning of
30:44
Speaker 1: the summer season always feels so good. I feel fresh,
30:47
Speaker 1: I feel good, feel like booking a hair appointment in
30:49
Speaker 1: the beginning of a new season is a non negotiable
30:53
Speaker 1: and truly one of the best feelings. Another thing is
30:55
Speaker 1: doing solo dates once a week, whether it's going to
30:59
Speaker 1: a coffee shop, going on a lunch date, going on
31:02
Speaker 1: a picnic, maybe going to the bookstore. Like really again,
31:05
Speaker 1: just forcing yourself out of the house. And it doesn't
31:07
Speaker 1: have to be with a friend. It could be with
31:08
Speaker 1: a friend, but you could also do it by yourself,
31:10
Speaker 1: but just kind of like buying something for yourself by
31:13
Speaker 1: getting yourself out of the house. I think solo dates
31:15
Speaker 1: are so important, but also it just kind of makes
31:17
Speaker 1: you feel good. And again, changing up the environment is
31:20
Speaker 1: always nice and also just like finding a new place
31:22
Speaker 1: with a cute patio is always fun. So just like, yeah,
31:26
Speaker 1: taking advantage of doing solo dates once a week throughout
31:29
Speaker 1: the summer season, I think is a fun non negotiable.
31:32
Speaker 1: And the last one is really just trying new things
31:35
Speaker 1: out this summer, whether it's trying a new restaurant out,
31:38
Speaker 1: trying a new hobby, trying different things in your city,
31:41
Speaker 1: you know, making the investment of like maybe booking yourself
31:44
Speaker 1: a weekend trip with your girlfriends or maybe a solo
31:47
Speaker 1: trip out of the city. I feel like this is
31:50
Speaker 1: the time now to make fun summer plans and also
31:52
Speaker 1: maybe making the opportunity of creating a summer bucket list.
31:55
Speaker 1: I've always talked about creating bucket lists, which is something
31:58
Speaker 1: that I do literally every single year, as you guys know.
32:00
Speaker 1: So something that I need to work on is creating
32:03
Speaker 1: a summer bucket list and how I kind of envision
32:05
Speaker 1: my summer looking for myself. What are things that I
32:08
Speaker 1: want to do, What are things that are going to
32:09
Speaker 1: get me out of the house and do fun things
32:11
Speaker 1: with my friends, or things that I want to do myself,
32:14
Speaker 1: trying new hobbies all that. So if you haven't made
32:16
Speaker 1: a summer bucket list, I feel like now is the
32:18
Speaker 1: time to do so, because obviously we're at the end
32:20
Speaker 1: of May. I feel like June first is really like
32:22
Speaker 1: the start of summer, which is literally less than two
32:25
Speaker 1: weeks away, which is so crazy. So that is part
32:27
Speaker 1: one of leveling up for Hawkgirl summer. We really wanted
32:30
Speaker 1: to focus on self care, non negotiables that I personally
32:33
Speaker 1: find make me feel hotter or feel like I've leveled
32:36
Speaker 1: up for hawt Girl summer. Thank you guys so much
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Speaker 1: for listening to another episode. I hope you guys enjoyed it.
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Speaker 1: I really want to make this a series just because
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Speaker 1: I think Hawkgirl Summer has so many fun things look
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Speaker 1: forward to, whether it's leveling up, becoming hotter, becoming more chic,
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Speaker 1: things that we're buying, summer, essential summer bucket lists, you
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Speaker 1: name it. I really just want to make this a
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Speaker 1: whole series of us leveling up for this new season.
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Speaker 1: So definitely make sure to stick around because there'll be
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Speaker 1: more hawk Girl Summer episodes coming for the summer season. Anyways,
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Speaker 1: I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. If you're new,
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Speaker 1: definitely make sure to follow me on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
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Speaker 1: As you guys know, and as I said, I will
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Speaker 1: only be posting bi weekly for the next few weeks,
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Speaker 1: so there will not be an episode next week, but
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Speaker 1: the following week there will be. So I hope you
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Speaker 1: guys enjoyed this episode. I love you guys allso much
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Speaker 1: and I will see you guys in two weeks.