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Wellness Check for February 4th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, let's say I get right too.
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  Speaker 2: It's time to talk to Elena Wood from Nightingale College.
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  Speaker 2: She claims to be able to infuse more joy into
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  Speaker 2: our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck with that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you need to play a part in
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  Speaker 3: it too, accommodate a bit more joy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I'm I'm gonna If anybody needs more joy
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  Speaker 1: in their life, it's Bill alread, so show them how
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  Speaker 1: to do it. Here, I'm all ears.
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  Speaker 3: Alrighty. The first step is to celebrate your little winds.
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  Speaker 3: And we talk about this kind of a lot in
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  Speaker 3: our goal setting and things like that. And we're going
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  Speaker 3: to get a little more specific today. So each night
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  Speaker 3: before bed right down or simply reflect on three themes
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  Speaker 3: that went your way that day. These can be little
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  Speaker 3: things like you got green lights on the way to work,
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  Speaker 3: or they can be big things like you had a
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  Speaker 3: really special moment with your significant other. Whatever they are.
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  Speaker 2: Take notes, but personal things, not keep track, Yeah, personal things, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right?
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  Speaker 3: Next, all right, Next, we're going to schedule something fun
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  Speaker 3: for the future. We need look for that, y, yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Having something to look forward to can bring just little
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  Speaker 3: pieces of joy into every day building up to that
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  Speaker 3: specific thing. So, whether it's a trip or just a
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  Speaker 3: special dinner with somebody that you care about, schedul do
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  Speaker 3: something in the future so you can look.
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  Speaker 1: Forward to it tomorrow. I'm going to have a piece
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  Speaker 1: of pie. Well do it?
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  Speaker 3: That sounds good?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I heard Okay, well there's only one piece. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: that's for me.
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  Speaker 3: Oh watch, it's fine, okay, all right.
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  Speaker 1: What's next?
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  Speaker 3: Next is to try something new. Our brains are hard
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  Speaker 3: wired to experience joy when we're experiencing novelty, something like
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  Speaker 3: a new hobby, reading a new book, even just listening
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  Speaker 3: to a new style of music can really help us
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  Speaker 3: to just bring that little bit of extra joy into
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  Speaker 3: our day.
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  Speaker 1: What if you've done it all, you do all. I've
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  Speaker 1: done it all solid.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to think of something new because I've done
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  Speaker 2: it all.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna be an influencer, Bill, remember.
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  Speaker 2: It is?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right? Probably something new? Next?
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  Speaker 3: Next is to do something that you loved as a child,
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  Speaker 3: Playing with some toy, singing a silly song, dancing in
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  Speaker 3: the rain, whatever it was that brought you to life
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  Speaker 3: when you were a little kid. Try doing just a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of that in your day.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna get I would like to
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  Speaker 2: have a cowboy outfit again.
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  Speaker 1: Oh boy, I had a cowboy Do you.
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  Speaker 3: Really need side by side pictures?
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  Speaker 1: It was it was black and it had pink piping
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  Speaker 1: on it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, too cute it was.
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  Speaker 1: And I had a cap gun. Okay. Next next is to.
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  Speaker 3: Take a mental break and not just like zoning out
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  Speaker 3: and not paying attention to what's going on in the world,
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  Speaker 3: but being a little bit more intentional about this. So
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  Speaker 3: giving yourself permission to pause for just a moment and
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  Speaker 3: really imagine something that you love, maybe a place that
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  Speaker 3: you visited before, maybe a dear friend that you haven't
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  Speaker 3: seen for a while, and just allowing yourself to pause
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  Speaker 3: for a few minutes and thinking about that scene or that.
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  Speaker 2: Person, that piece of pie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, where'd you go? We lost you? Sorry, I was
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  Speaker 1: just thinking about that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's good.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it is so is that all of them. That's
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  Speaker 1: actually those are very those are very nice.
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  Speaker 2: Health If you can do those things, it can be
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  Speaker 2: it could be very helpful. This one, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think this one I'm going to write it down
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  Speaker 2: or copy it and put it in my notebook. I
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  Speaker 2: love that I look at it.
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  Speaker 3: Every time, reference it when you're feeling low exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, now, if you want to find out more
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  Speaker 2: about this kind of stuff and Lena, what do we do?
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  Speaker 3: You can learn more about this as well as Nightingale's
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  Speaker 3: great programs by visiting Nightingale dot edu.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll we'll think about the wonderful time we have
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  Speaker 2: when we speak to you again.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that is so nice.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, You're welcome. It's always fun. It's something to
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  Speaker 1: look forward. Thanks Elena, all right, thank you, thank you,