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#HURDLEMOMENT: How to Own Your Morning Routine To Unlock Your Big Potential · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Core values.
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  Speaker 2: When we're living and breathing them every day in our lives,
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  Speaker 2: that's what makes us feel most fulfilled. So if you
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  Speaker 2: can begin your day like that, with filling yourself up
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  Speaker 2: with that stuff that makes you feel like an amazing
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  Speaker 2: human and makes your heart feel full, then like the rest.
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  Speaker 1: Of the day is yours for the taking.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, everyone, Emily a body here. You are listening to
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  Speaker 3: another installment of Hurdle. Moment from Hurdle, I am so
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  Speaker 3: so excited to bring you today's episode because I am
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  Speaker 3: chatting with my dear friend, editor in chief of Woman's
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  Speaker 3: Health magazine, Liz Plosser. Now, her name may sound familiar
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  Speaker 3: because she has been on the show before. Oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 3: what feels like forever ago now, back in twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 3: soon after Hurdle launched. I'm going to link to her
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  Speaker 3: original episode in the show notes. But Liz is coming
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  Speaker 3: in today to chat about something that is near and
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  Speaker 3: dear to my heart, and that is mornings. Liz is
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  Speaker 3: the author of a new book coming out on September
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  Speaker 3: seventh called Own Your Morning, or You Set Your AM
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  Speaker 3: Routine to Unlock your Potential, And so it was natural
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  Speaker 3: that she came in and gave us some of her
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  Speaker 3: expert backed tips on how to do just that. We
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  Speaker 3: talk about the importance of articulating what your values are
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  Speaker 3: to appropriately take full advantage of the early hours of
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  Speaker 3: the day, and she says something that I think is
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  Speaker 3: really important to reiterate here that you don't need to
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  Speaker 3: be a proper member of the dawn patrol setting four
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  Speaker 3: am alarms to quote unquote own your morning, but rather
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  Speaker 3: you need to home in on those values to really
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  Speaker 3: figure out what the best goldilocks ideal way for you
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  Speaker 3: to properly start your day and set yourself up for
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  Speaker 3: success in the hours to come.
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  Speaker 4: So so grateful for Liz for her time.
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  Speaker 3: As we say in today's episode, who's actually my first
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  Speaker 3: ever guest in the new Hurdle studios.
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  Speaker 4: So so so.
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  Speaker 3: Amped on that and just so excited to bring you
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  Speaker 3: these tips and tricks. Make sure you're following along with
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  Speaker 3: Hurdle over at Hurdle Podcast, I am over at Emily
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  Speaker 3: a Body and if you have an extra few seconds today,
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  Speaker 3: your podcasts and rate and review. The show means the
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  Speaker 3: world to me. And with that, let's get to Hurdling. Today,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sitting down with Liz Plosser. She's the editor in
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  Speaker 3: chief of Women's Health magazine, an old friend of mine,
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  Speaker 3: and you might see clips of this, but we're in
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  Speaker 3: the Hurdle studio.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it is beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: I wish everybody could see how sunny and happy and
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  Speaker 2: colorful and.
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  Speaker 1: Just Emily Vibes it is. I am loving sitting here with.
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  Speaker 4: You, Emily Vibes, it is. It's special to have you
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  Speaker 4: in here. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we were just wrapping before we started recording
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  Speaker 3: about how.
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  Speaker 4: Much has happened since the last time we recorded.
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  Speaker 3: You were one of my first guests back in twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I know.
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  Speaker 2: I literally have goosebumps thinking about it. I had only
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  Speaker 2: been in my job at Women's Health for like five
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  Speaker 2: months at that point. It was a big deal to
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  Speaker 2: do a podcast with you. It was so fun and exciting,
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  Speaker 2: and lots more came in after that. So I have
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  Speaker 2: a special place in my.
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  Speaker 1: Heart for you and for Hurdle.
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  Speaker 3: I was reflecting yesterday in wake of media layoffs. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like this is standard sentences these days, but in
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  Speaker 3: the wake of the media layoffs, like about my own
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  Speaker 3: personal career journey and thinking about like coming into your
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  Speaker 3: office and going into Joyce's office and like getting.
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  Speaker 4: My job itself. And it's so crazy in.
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  Speaker 3: Retrospect, just like all of the things that have happened
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  Speaker 3: since we first met. That was back in god twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: at the end of twenty sixteen, when I came in.
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  Speaker 3: I started in twenty seventeen. Jesus, I know, it is crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I vividly remember that day. I remember reaching out to
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  Speaker 3: you because we had an opening in the fitness department
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  Speaker 3: and you were so cute and amazingly on brand and
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  Speaker 3: just perfect because you were like, I can come to
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  Speaker 3: you immediately, but just just full disclosure.
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  Speaker 1: I'm wearing Athlesia right now. I'm like perfect, get in here.
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  Speaker 2: But I think we had met at a panel before
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  Speaker 2: that that you moderated, so like we had seen each
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  Speaker 2: other at events, and I knew you were really smart
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  Speaker 2: and beloved in the fitness and wellness community, so it
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  Speaker 2: was a no brainer. But I know we've been we've
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  Speaker 2: been in multiple brands and threw so many things together.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I know. And what a crazy year for publishing, huh.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, despite what I just said about the layoffs
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  Speaker 3: from other companies this week. I think it must have
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  Speaker 3: been a crazy time to be doing what you're doing
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  Speaker 3: at Woman's Self. But also, I mean, we're here to
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  Speaker 3: talk about owning your morning, your book that's coming out
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  Speaker 3: on September seventh.
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  Speaker 4: It is insane. It must have been insane time to
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  Speaker 4: write a book as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so I it's yes, it's been quite the year
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  Speaker 2: in publishing and every other industry. The Women's Health Team
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  Speaker 2: has been working remotely. Our office has been opened throughout
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  Speaker 2: the pandemic, and I have gone in as much as
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  Speaker 2: I can, just because I love the energy of being there,
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  Speaker 2: though I missed the magic of all the humans in.
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  Speaker 1: There with me.
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  Speaker 2: I agreed to write the book right before the world
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  Speaker 2: sort of shut down and the pandemic came into full force.
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  Speaker 2: So it was like mid February when I signed on
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  Speaker 2: to write it, and little did I know I would
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  Speaker 2: be doing it all from home, and like what a
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  Speaker 2: topsy turvy world it would be.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel, yeah, I will.
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  Speaker 2: We will all remember this past year, but I definitely
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  Speaker 2: will because there were many many mornings I was owning
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  Speaker 2: you know where I was at at like four am
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  Speaker 2: because that was.
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  Speaker 1: The only time to write and to get work done.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because the kids home all the time.
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  Speaker 3: You're a mother of three figuring out the whole like
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  Speaker 3: parenting situation with working situation. So yeah, I mean talk
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  Speaker 3: about a whole other level of owning your morning.
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  Speaker 1: It was. It was a lot all three of our kids.
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  Speaker 2: We have boy girl twins who are ten, and a
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  Speaker 2: little boy who's six, and they.
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  Speaker 1: Were doing school from home.
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  Speaker 2: Our nanny wasn't coming in obviously for safety reasons, and
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  Speaker 2: my husband was working from home.
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  Speaker 1: We got a puppy in the.
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  Speaker 2: Middle of it all, a Bernese Mountain dog, just to
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  Speaker 2: really like up the anty on the chaos level at
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  Speaker 2: home and Matt, my husband, our workspaces are literally like
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  Speaker 2: three feet apart from one another, so it was tight quarters.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't in any way glorify what has
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  Speaker 2: been happening in the world, and it's been so heartbreaking
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  Speaker 2: and devastating, but as a silver lining, I did, and
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  Speaker 2: I have gotten to enjoy so much of seeing my
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  Speaker 2: kids grow up and getting to know them even better.
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  Speaker 1: So that's been a bright spot.
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  Speaker 3: Slowing down really really special opportunity. It's appropriate. However, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you said you agreed to write this book in February,
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  Speaker 3: you have to start rethinking your mornings completely considering everything
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  Speaker 3: that was going on in the pandemic. So it's it's
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  Speaker 3: really special now that this is coming out, I'm sure,
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  Speaker 3: because it's like you're hoping to kind of get back
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  Speaker 3: to that like old school routine that we had, and
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  Speaker 3: now is as good of a time as any to
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  Speaker 3: get a jump start.
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  Speaker 4: On figuring out the best way to go about it
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  Speaker 4: for you.
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  Speaker 3: And so I wanted to have you come in here
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  Speaker 3: today obviously because I'm so happy to support your book
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  Speaker 3: that's coming out, but to share some of the wisdom
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  Speaker 3: that you've learned writing and reporting this thing, because I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know that I'm you know that I'm a big
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  Speaker 3: morning person.
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  Speaker 2: I know we definitely have that love in common. You
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  Speaker 2: are like the one other person I can count on
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  Speaker 2: seeing on Instagram, which was like ungodly, don you know,
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  Speaker 2: pre sunrise hours.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, we decided on the pub date.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, we've figured out the timeline and that
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  Speaker 2: I was going to write it. The book is being
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  Speaker 2: published by Hurst and distributed by Penguin Random House, but
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  Speaker 2: we had no idea that the timing would align this way.
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  Speaker 2: So it comes out the day after Labor Day, September seventh,
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  Speaker 2: and fortunately so many most kids across the country are
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  Speaker 2: going back to school this year. So I just know,
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  Speaker 2: for me personally, knowing that I have to be at
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  Speaker 2: the bus stop at eight oh four when my three
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  Speaker 2: kids get picked up by the bus driver, that's going
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  Speaker 2: to change everything. When they used to be in school
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  Speaker 2: and I was commuting into Manhattan, I had a very
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  Speaker 2: you know, like my alarm goes off at five seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: my workoup begins by this time. I'm home waking them
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  Speaker 2: up and making them breakfast by this time, and that
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  Speaker 2: all got a little like fuzzy and blurry, and people
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  Speaker 2: were in pajamas much later than they should have been,
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  Speaker 2: and that sort of thing. But now it's like fall,
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  Speaker 2: the seasons are changing, schools reopening, a lot of folks
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  Speaker 2: are going back into their offices or hopefully will be
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  Speaker 2: very soon. So I agree with you, I think we
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  Speaker 2: could all use a little morning reset.
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  Speaker 3: So for the person that's listening to this right now
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  Speaker 3: that doesn't consider themselves or identify as a morning person,
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  Speaker 3: what's the first thing you tell them when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to establishing a morning routine.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first, I just want to put it out there
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  Speaker 2: that I also did not for most of my life
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  Speaker 2: identify as a morning person, and my parents think it
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  Speaker 2: is like just too funny and amazing that I've had
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  Speaker 2: this transformation, because when I was growing up, my dad
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  Speaker 2: was always an early riser. He always ran before work
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  Speaker 2: and would want to get up early on weekends and
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  Speaker 2: go running with me or play tennis with me, And
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  Speaker 2: he had to like knock on my door so many
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  Speaker 2: times to you know, I could not unglue my pillow
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  Speaker 2: my head from the pillow. So I totally get it,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, I think living proof that you can
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  Speaker 2: change over time. There are science that shows that we
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  Speaker 2: sort of change our chronotype throughout our lives. So even
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  Speaker 2: if you weren't one as a kid, or even more
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  Speaker 2: in a morning person yesterday, there's good news that, like
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  Speaker 2: your body is always changing. So I also just want
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  Speaker 2: to put it out there that this book is not
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  Speaker 2: about like you need to get up at five am
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  Speaker 2: like we do. You know, that doesn't work for everybody,
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  Speaker 2: and that doesn't that's not like a perfect wonderful morning
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of people, which is also completely fine.
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  Speaker 2: So what this book is really about is finding the
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  Speaker 2: things that make you happiest in your life. So it
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  Speaker 2: begins with an exploration of what your core values are,
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  Speaker 2: and then once you identify those, each chapter is sort
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  Speaker 2: of divvied up by topic area, so fitness, food, family, meditation, friends,
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  Speaker 2: things like that, and depending on what your core values
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  Speaker 2: are and what you want to add to your morning,
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  Speaker 2: I help you do that, but in like microdoses. So
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  Speaker 2: if family becomes something that you've identified that's really important
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  Speaker 2: to you, I'm not going to suggest in the book
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  Speaker 2: that you like have to call your mom and talk
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  Speaker 2: to her for at least an hour every morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about that.
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  Speaker 2: It can be like a really small nod to those
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  Speaker 2: things that are important to you, like maybe you send
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  Speaker 2: your sister a text message, or maybe you take that
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  Speaker 2: minute to make sure you like kiss and cuddle your
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  Speaker 2: child before you head out the door. But the whole
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  Speaker 2: key to this is that core values, when we're living
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  Speaker 2: and breathing them every day in our lives, that's what
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  Speaker 2: makes us feel most fulfilled. So if you can begin
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  Speaker 2: your day like that, with filling yourself up with that
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  Speaker 2: stuff that makes you feel like an amazing human and
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  Speaker 2: makes your heart feel full, then like the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the day is yours for the taking.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So it's not necessarily like own your morning aka
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  Speaker 3: like do as much as possible within like a three
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  Speaker 3: hour time span starting at four am, but rather owning
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  Speaker 3: your morning by giving you and yourself and your mental
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  Speaker 3: health and your soul what it needs so that it
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  Speaker 3: can thrive the other rest of your day.
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  Speaker 1: You nailed it.
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  Speaker 4: Love it, love it.
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  Speaker 3: You know that I'm on board for this. So okay,
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  Speaker 3: this person wants to be a part of this movement.
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  Speaker 3: Aside from identifying their core values, what would you say
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  Speaker 3: would be the next step in execution? Because I think
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  Speaker 3: that that's where a lot of us get super hung up. Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, yes, I okay, I've got my values. I
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  Speaker 3: know what's important to me. I wanna make use of
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  Speaker 3: this time in my morning, but I don't even know
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  Speaker 3: where to start, and it feels so overwhelming.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, great question.
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  Speaker 2: I actually begin in the book early on, after we
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  Speaker 2: go into the core values, talking about night time and
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  Speaker 2: sleep habits. So I know that sounds a little bit
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  Speaker 2: maybe unexpected in a book that's all about the mornings,
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  Speaker 2: but the truth is that it really does begin.
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  Speaker 1: The night before.
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  Speaker 2: So part of that is making sure that you are
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  Speaker 2: tucking yourself into bed and getting a really solid night
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  Speaker 2: of sleep, so that whatever time you want your alarm
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  Speaker 2: to go off or you want to wake up, you
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  Speaker 2: are actually like rested and ready to tackle the day.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot emphasize enough what a difference that will make.
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  Speaker 2: If you are staying up really late, or not sleeping soundly,
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  Speaker 2: or you know, like checking your devices throughout the night,
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  Speaker 2: then it doesn't matter how amazing your intentions are and
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  Speaker 2: what you have planned for the morning, Like you're just
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  Speaker 2: going to be going on fumes and it's not going
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  Speaker 2: to be fun or feel good. The second piece of
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  Speaker 2: the night before is prepping for the morning. So I
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  Speaker 2: know people have heard this forever, but it really is
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  Speaker 2: like the most crucial part to getting out of bed
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  Speaker 2: and kicking ass as quickly as you can. So say
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  Speaker 2: you're a person like us who loves to sweat first
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  Speaker 2: thing in the morning, I make it a priority to
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm going to do in that workout, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm not like, yeah, I'm gonna like wander into the
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  Speaker 2: gym and let's see what happens tomorrow morning. Having a
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  Speaker 2: plan really makes a big difference setting out your sneakers,
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  Speaker 2: knowing what outfit you're going to wear, like actually glancing
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  Speaker 2: at your phone and checking what is the weather going
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  Speaker 2: to be, Like if I'm going on an outdoor run,
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  Speaker 2: do I need a fleece? These are all things that
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  Speaker 2: sound so obvious, But when it's early that morning and
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  Speaker 2: the coffee hasn't kicked in yet and you're on the
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  Speaker 2: fence about whether you've got it in you, those.
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  Speaker 1: Are like the deal breakers.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm using fitness as an example, but it
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  Speaker 2: could be anything like if you want to get up
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  Speaker 2: and write a book, or you know you're working on
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  Speaker 2: a business, or you have a project you want to
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  Speaker 2: tackle with your family, or take your kids to the museum,
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  Speaker 2: or it could be anything. Without some prep work the
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  Speaker 2: night before and a really good night of rest, that
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  Speaker 2: morning is going to not go as well as it could.
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  Speaker 3: A few things to double click on. The First thing,
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  Speaker 3: You've got to be honest with me. Where is your
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  Speaker 3: phone when you sleep?
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  Speaker 2: So I would love to talk about phones because I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I've had even an evolution this summer since
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  Speaker 2: I put the book to bed.
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  Speaker 1: But my phone is on my bedside table.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Having said that, I do not look at it
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  Speaker 2: at night, and I have even begun.
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  Speaker 1: And this is different than when I wrote the book.
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  Speaker 2: I no longer scroll through Apple News or Instagram or
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  Speaker 2: check Google Analytics one more time before bed, I read
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  Speaker 2: a paper book and I dim the light, and then
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  Speaker 2: when it's time to go to bed, I put the
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  Speaker 2: book down and I don't look at my phone again,
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  Speaker 2: and I do not look at my phone again until
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  Speaker 2: my chime's alarm goes off.
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  Speaker 4: And I love that. I love this.
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  Speaker 1: Where is your phone?
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  Speaker 4: So my phone is plugged in on my dresser in.
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  Speaker 1: My bedroom, so it's distant.
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  Speaker 3: It's not much distance, if I'm being honest, It's about
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  Speaker 3: like three feet perhaps, but that feels like enough distance.
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  Speaker 3: Because I realized that I was getting I was drifting
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  Speaker 3: from my journaling habit, which, like I was so religious
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  Speaker 3: on throughout the whole pandemic. And then I realized that
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  Speaker 3: instead of my journaling, I was like picking up my
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  Speaker 3: phone again, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Was like, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Don't do this.
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  Speaker 3: So in order to persuade myself to get back into
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  Speaker 3: my journaling habit, which I really want to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: keep steady, I was like, all right, we got to
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  Speaker 3: move the phone away. So now the phone charges on
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  Speaker 3: the dresser, which is again a few extra feet farther
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  Speaker 3: from the bed, and I try not to reach for
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  Speaker 3: it until I'm going to do the signature lace up.
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  Speaker 3: Like thirty minutes after I've woken up. I even have
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  Speaker 3: started playing the podcast that I listened to. Either I
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  Speaker 3: will cue them via Alexa. Now I've like sorted that out, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: or I'll play them through my iPad, so I don't
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  Speaker 3: have any of the text messages and stuff like sync
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  Speaker 3: to the iPad. It literally it has internet, but none
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  Speaker 3: of that shows up. So I can just open the
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  Speaker 3: podcast app and like stream them to my so NOO's devices,
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: and I don't have to worry about like something that
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: somebody else's need, somebody else needed throughout the night, because
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: their urgency at that time is not my problem.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: I love that. Thank you so much for sharing that.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: It's so interesting because I've had like a parallel experience
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: with you. I was also a person who first thing
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: in the morning.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: I.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Not in a bad way, but I didn't even feel
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: that it was becoming unhealthy. I would as I was
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: brewing the coffee and like pulling on my leggings and
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: all that stuff. I was checking app after app on
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: my phone, grabbing a cute picture of like what does
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: my morning look like today, which became sort of a
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: franchise on my Instagram stories. And it was really through
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: the experience of writing this book and learning more about
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: journaling like you, which is a new thing for me,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: and making a gratitude list, which is now a every
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: single morning has to happen part of my morning routine.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I needed to have that space where because I would
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: go down the rabbit hole of like what happened overnight?
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Or who's dming me and needs something? Or like what
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: is that great story idea? And then you know, then
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: I like missed out on something else that was even
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: more important to me because the we're still going to
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: be there thirty minutes later.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: It will be, It will be.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: And I would argue also that you can give the
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: things that might need your attention better attention once you've
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: poured into your cup, right, So, like we're talking about
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: a fulfilling morning giving back to yourself. If you take
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: that time to figure out how you can better show
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: up throughout the rest of your day through the things
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: that you're doing first thing in the morning, then that's
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: going to set you up.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: For the way.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: I completely agree and that you just like nailed the
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: ethos of the book, which is when you take care
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: of yourself first, you can then go into the world
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: and embrace whatever twists and turns are going to happen
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: that day, because they undoubtedly will and be a better
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: not only human, but employee, boss, team leader, creator, mom,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: like everything else gets better when you take care of
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: yourself first. It's I know that's like silly put on
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: your own oxygen mask first saying, but it really, it
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: really is true. There's literally like so many studies about
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: this in different ways. It's been researched and time and
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: time again it's proven.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: I just think that if you're someone's gonna get hung
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: up on the fact that like something sounds silly or cliche,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: I'm like, don't knock it till you try it, Like honestly,
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: just I get it again. And we say, we can't
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: say this enough, like you don't need to get up
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: at four am to have a successful morning, but figuring
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: out the right way to start your day whenever it's
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: starting is just like so integral to the whole thing.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: So for someone now who is starting to figure out
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: like what their habits might be as a part of
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: their successful morning. What advice would you give to them
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: when it comes to setting up these habits in a
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: way that is attainable and something that they can stick
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: with totally.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Again, it begins with core values.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: And once you figured that out, and so say food,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: like having a healthy breakfast or fueling yourself is important
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: to you. Say connection or collaboration with your friends is
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: important to you. Now is the time to start thinking
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: about how to create microdosis of that. And you just
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: have to look at your own morning and know, Like
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, for some people, it might be three hours
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: before the workday begins. For others, depending on when your
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: alarm goes off, it might be much smaller than that,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: and it's forty five minutes. So you have to have
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: you know, if food and healthy living in that way
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: is important to you, it might just mean that like
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: you've got a bowl of green apples on your kitchen
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: countertop and you're you took the time over the weekend
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: to pick really awesome ones at the farmer's market and
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: you're going to eat that while you're walking out the
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: door to work, and so that still counts.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: That's a check mark. It doesn't mean like you have
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: to make a beautiful avocado toast.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: And like you know what I mean, or the world's
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: best smoothie, though if you have more time for that,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: then by all means do it.
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  Speaker 3: seems like right like it's it's not like all of
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: a sudden, you're gonna be able to quote unquote own
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: your morning and like make that decision on Wednesday when
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: you get out of bed and.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: It's like, okay, I'm here to own my morning.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: It's like no preparation goes into this so that you
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: can figure out how to show the best for you.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: So I love that example of like going to the
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: farmer's market and getting apples. It's just like you have
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: to think about, like, how can I prepare to take
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: better care of myself?
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, absolutely. It doesn't just magically happen when you
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: pop out of bed. So there is a little pre work,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: but then it's all set and ready for you. And
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: like the world is your oyster.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I think something else that we're touching on here is like,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: don't set ridiculous, unattainable goals when it comes to what
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: you want to accomplish during this time for yourself, because,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: for example, if you feel the pressure that may come
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: hand in hand from social media and you're opening up
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: your Instagram, you're spending time there and you're like, well,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: I need this perfect avocado toast, or I need this
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: perfect smoothie or whatnot. Like maybe that's not really the
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: move for you, and that's okay, Like you don't need
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: to should yourself into these better habits. Instead, you can
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: really kind of home in Again, we're talking values, we're
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: talking what works for you on the practices that you
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: can maintain as a part of your every.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Day one hundred percent. I love that you mentioned the
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: word goal though, because I actually I think that can
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: be a game changer for people, and we can talk
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: about it in a fitness sense. You know, you're training
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: for multiple marathons right now, so that one hundred percent
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: gets you out of bed when you're zonked and not
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: feeling it. But you know you've got the New York
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: City Marathon coming up. And you've got to bank that
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: twenty mile run. You will get up with your alarm
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: and you will do it. And to your point, it
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: doesn't have to be running a marathon Emily style. I
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: talk about in the book a goal that I set
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: for myself in the fitness zone, which was getting a
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: full pull up, which is something I thought about as
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: a kid and then kind of was like had tried
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: throughout my life and like, I can't even tell you
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: how wonky and weak I felt, though I love to
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: lift weights, and when I set that goal and actually
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: gave myself a timeline, there were so many mornings when
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: it was like cold and dark, or you know, I
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, I could just run or do some
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: other thing later. I could squeeze it in later. But
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: having that goal and knowing like, nope, I've got my
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: plan and if I want to get my pull up,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: that can be a motivating.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Factor to get you out of bed.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I really would encourage people to set a goal that
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: makes them happy and like lights them up for some
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: people that might be running their first marathon, but it
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: could also be like learning a dance cardio routine, which
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: actually sounds like a nightmare to mean that like.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Not a dream of mine. And then I knows this
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: because you've seen me.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: I will tell you that the biggest lesson one I've
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: learned so many lessons when we work together itself. But
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: I learned to never try to write exercise copy for
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: a dance workout.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I remember that story.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: God.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Oh it's so complicated, sidestep a haiku.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Amount of space to explain, like a very complicated choreography routine.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Oh man.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: But I think also here in this goal setting is
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: again keeping it manageable and like setting this timeline for yourself,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: which is so important in the scheme of things, because
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: you don't again we're talking about owning your morning. You
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: don't just roll over one day and start owning your morning.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: You just don't roll over one day. And I mean
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: you gave the example of running a marathon, and run
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: a marathon. So make sure that whatever goal you set,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: you do set sort of some sort of a timeline
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: so that you can take care of yourself, your body,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: your mind, and you're not like feeling this unnecessary pressure
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: because this is again something that you want to do.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, I love that. I completely co sign on that.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I will share another goal I set, which is less
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: like a destination goal and more a goal to have
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: a regular practice of journaling, like we were talking about.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: And this is a perfect example of it not needing
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: to be this like lengthy thing that consumes your whole
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: morning and hangs over you. I give myself the freedom
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: to write two sentences and call it a day if
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: nothing else comes out and I'm not feeling it, and
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: taking that pressure off means that I actually do it
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: every single day. And chances are much like a workout
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: that you didn't want to do, and once you get started,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: you just like you bang it out. I end up
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: writing a full page, you know, but knowing okay, Liz,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: just two sentences they can be like three words each
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: that gets me.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Going perfect, perfect, okay.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: So what in all of your research would you say
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: was something that perhaps really supprise you about individuals that
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: are going to take advantage of that morning time.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe what surprised and delighted me most, and it became
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: very much a theme of the book is that everybody's perfect.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Morning looks so different.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: And this so the Own Your Morning franchise actually began,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: as you know, as a column in our print magazine
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: years back when I first started at Women's Health, and
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: our readers just loved it, and it sort of took
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: on a life of its own in videos and digital
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: pieces and all sorts of different channels. And I think
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: there's something so fun and voyeuristic about hearing how.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Other people start the day, Like what time do you
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: get up?
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Are do you drink green tea or hot water and
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: lemon or do you drink gobs of coffee like I do?
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: And it's just fun and exciting to hear about.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: That, And like everybody's morning looks different and that's the
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: beauty of mornings, Like you get to make them magical
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: for you.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: So there's no there's no perfect way to do it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean you have to work out, it doesn't
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: mean you can't have pancakes, Like please do all the
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: things and it will change too, and so you've got
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: to continue checking in with yourself. But I think I
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: think that's like a bigger theme and wellness overall is
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: that I'm I'm constantly surprised when readers or friends want
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: like the magic bullet answer, and I feel like this
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: is something you and I have been educating people on
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: for our entire careers and will continue to. But the
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: truth is that, like, there are a lot of different
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: ways to do it, and it's really it's about exploring, experimenting,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: seeing what resonates with you and makes you feel good,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: and then implementing it, making it an action plan.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: In outlining the different ways to go about incorporating different
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: habits into your routine. In the book, I know you
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: talked and consulted with a lot of experts in these conversations.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Let's say, like maybe even about nutrition or something like
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: is there anything that these visuals outlined in terms of
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: like that was just so surprising, or I mean, like
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: you just threw a pancakes example out, like did someone
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: tell you like pancakes actually are the secret to the
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: perfect morning?
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I think I wish that was true. There's no like
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: pancakes are great. I make them every single Saturday morning
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: with my kids. I will say, And maybe this is
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: occurring to me because I'm in your Beautiful Sunny recording studio.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I had some interesting conversations with researchers about light and
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: I'm sure many of your listeners have heard that when
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: you expose yourself to digital devices at night, So that's
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: the blue light that that can disrupt your sleep. So
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: that's something that I go into in the Sleep in
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: the Sleep chapter. But the flip side of that coin
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: is that exposing yourself to light and it could be
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: with your device, or it could be a bulb that
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: has that blue color tone to it early after waking
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: is a great way to naturally wake up your body.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: And then even better than that is to actually expose
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: yourself to sunlight. So whether it's opening up your window
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: shade or stepping outside of your house or your apartment
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: or wherever you live and getting some sunlight. And it
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: like the amount of cool research about light. Not only
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: does it it's like caffeine for your body. Literally totally
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: understood that because I'm like, I always feel better when
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: I go get some fresh air in the morning. But
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: like this has been studied in all sorts of different
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: ways and it's really cool. And then the other neat
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: thing about sunlight is just there's there's something called color
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: rendering that happens as the sun is shining and hitting
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: different objects in nature, which is probably why we're all
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: obsessed with taking those like sunrise pictures, and like I
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: find myself when I'm jogging in the morning's like stopping
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: and just sort of like gasping at like the pink
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: wisps of clouds and that stuff. But that is like
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: so good for your body. It's literally organically energizing you.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: So if you can get yourself some some blue light,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: and even better, get yourself some sunlight as soon as you.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: Can, I'll never forget.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: An ex boyfriend of mine, I remember we went for
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: we went one of them any runs together, but at
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: one point I had like grabbed a pair of sunglasses
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: to take with us because we were gonna be out
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: there for a while, and he threw some like statistic
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: at me, which was like, you really shouldn't be bringing
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: your sunglasses on your morning run because of YadA YadA YadA,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: your body, the light all this better man, And I'm like,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: can I put them on?
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Like ten minutes in, Like what's what's the problem here.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I'm with you on the sunglasses, big fan of them,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: and I might be like squinting on a really beautiful
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: morning if I didn't have those.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: But that's really funny. Yes, there's just a fascinating light.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: Just so chidbit a light tidbit.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Okay, So we've talked about nutrition, we've talked about sleep,
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: or we've talked about moving your body in the morning.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Something we haven't touched on yet.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: You mentioned family before and like connectivity and how your
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: relationships are important to you, So anything you can shed
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: on that when it comes to like better ways perhaps
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: to connect first thing in the day.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so some really quickie ways are literally send a
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: text to somebody you love.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: And again, this is like such a theme of the book.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: This does not mean you're like opening the conversation to
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: like set up dinner or like go back and forth
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: a million times. You can literally just send someone a
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: text that's like I'm thinking about you with a heart emoji,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: and that makes them feel awesome whenever they get it,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: and it makes you feel better for sending it. That's
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: and there's also research backing that. So that's a very
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: shorthand way to have connectivity. I think something else that's interesting,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: especially during these times when we've all been remote and
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: like separated from our families more than we want to be,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: is the power of actually doing screen time with people,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: like video chatting rather than a phone call. So if
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: you're ready to level it up and have sort of
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: a richer, more nuanced interaction with people. Then do like
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: actually get out FaceTime. We joke on the Women's Health
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: team because we're like on Slack and zoom calls with
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: one another all the time, so like, you know, we
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: know each other as these squares. But you can pick
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: up people's energy through that, yeah, and their body language,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: and it's not as it's not the same as when
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: you're in person with somebody and you can you know,
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: see the posture and like how they're moving their feet
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: and all of that, but maintaining that eye contact, watching
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: what their facial expression is doing when they're when they're
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: saying what they're saying. So apply that, like literally to
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: various relationships in your life. Whether that's an early morning
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  Speaker 2: call with your colleagues or a client, or connecting with
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  Speaker 2: a child who's away at college, or a family or
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  Speaker 2: just a friend.
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  Speaker 1: It makes a big difference. It makes a big difference.
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  Speaker 3: So I meant to ask you before, when did your
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  Speaker 3: mornings shift? Like when did you make the turn from
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  Speaker 3: being a non morning person or a morning person?
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  Speaker 1: So they for me shifted after college.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was when I first moved to New York
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  Speaker 2: City and I had my first job, you know, something
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  Speaker 2: about having to be at your desk at a certain hour,
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  Speaker 2: and I learned very quickly that as much as I
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  Speaker 2: used to look forward to workouts at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, I couldn't bank on actually being able to
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  Speaker 2: get into the gym and getting that workout in. So honestly,
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  Speaker 2: for me personally, I think it's I feel so awesome
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  Speaker 2: after I sweat that I am changed forever, Like I
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  Speaker 2: can't imagine going about my day unless I've had a
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  Speaker 2: workout and moved my body. But I wouldn't be doing
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  Speaker 2: it unless, as an early, you know, twenty year old,
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  Speaker 2: I was at a workplace where I couldn't get in
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  Speaker 2: a workout at the end of the day or couldn't
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  Speaker 2: depend upon having that outlet and release. So you know,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: life circumstances can sometimes affect our mornings in various ways.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I was out to dinner with some girlfriends a couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks ago, and we were talking about they were
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: all going to like keep going out. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I'm super late and I'm like incapable of being awake
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  Speaker 3: past ten thirty at night. I was like, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to head home after dinner, but have fun and they
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  Speaker 3: were like, well, you're such a morning person, and I
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: was like, hey, am. I was like, but like I
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: naturally wake up without an alarm on the weekend, like
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  Speaker 3: by I don't know, seven fifteen. Yeah, and like during
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  Speaker 3: the week I'm like naturally waking up by six thirty.
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  Speaker 4: It's just like how I am these days.
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  Speaker 3: But one of them was like, well, I feel like
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  Speaker 3: because I'm not interested in working out first thing in
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  Speaker 3: the morning, that like I don't really have a reason
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  Speaker 3: so to speak, or like the motivation to get my
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  Speaker 3: day started extra early, because like I can kind of
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  Speaker 3: do like what I need to do to get to
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  Speaker 3: my computer on time, so to speak. And I said
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: to her, I was like, but do you feel good
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: showing up to your computer without taking some time for
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: yourself in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: And she like took a step back and she said,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not all that sure, actually.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's so interesting and I love that you
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: shared that example. I too, am the like grandma who's
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: like good night nine thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Second for Liz over here, and your kids are probably
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: like wanting to bop around later than you are some nights.
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  Speaker 1: That is true. I'm like, okay, guys, you can stay
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  Speaker 1: up with Daddy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah no, but no, it's it's also we talk in
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: the book about self care, and self care means so
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  Speaker 2: many things, but literally like your skincare routine, your shower routine,
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  Speaker 2: your makeup routine in the morning, if you had built
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: in a little extra time or sort of set that
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  Speaker 2: up for yourself. There's awesome science about like the power
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: of touch and how good that makes you feel. So
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: even something as simple as like taking the extra minute
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  Speaker 2: to like use I cream and really rub it on,
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  Speaker 2: I would say suggest that to your friend, Like, see
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  Speaker 2: how she feels when she sits down at her desk
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  Speaker 2: if she built that into her morning or tried that
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  Speaker 2: little moment for herself.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: I need an I cream moment. We all, I need
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: some schooling and skincare. But aside from that, I mean,
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: I'm so excited for you. It sounds like there's so
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: many actionable, helpful tips in this book and I can't
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: wait to like properly, properly dive in now that I
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: have my copy. Is there anything else that we haven't
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: touched on that you feel like is like really important
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: to bring to the hurdlers before we kind of wrap
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  Speaker 3: this up.
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  Speaker 2: With a bow, I would just ask, and I hope
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  Speaker 2: you'll help me on this mission. I would love to
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  Speaker 2: see how people are owning their morning. As we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about earlier. The cool thing is how unique and
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: different they look for everybody, and that is what delights
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  Speaker 2: me most. Honestly, I'll get dms on Instagram with the
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: hashtag own your Morning, and it will be adorable things
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  Speaker 2: like a friend in bed snuggling with her dog and.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, amen, like that is so owner your morning.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Or it could be the avocado toast we were talking about,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe that happens on a Sunday when you have
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: a little more time, or maybe you are like a
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: rooster and you're up at four am and you truly
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: are making like beautiful avocado toasts. But so for any
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  Speaker 2: hurdlers out there who are trying to become mourning people
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  Speaker 2: or just making more magic in their mornings, I would
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  Speaker 2: be so honored if you would tag Emily and me
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  Speaker 2: and hashtag it own your Morning, so that we can
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: share and get excited and inspired by all the different
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: ways you're making your morning magical.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: I love it and feel free to make this a
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: double a dual effort, so if you happen to be
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: doing the lace up and you want to also own
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: your morning, you can tag us in all of them
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  Speaker 3: and we'll both I'm sure be more than happy to
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  Speaker 3: reshare your awesomeness into the world.
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  Speaker 1: I love them.
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  Speaker 2: Lace up and all of your followers, and I love
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: seeing everybody's kicked.
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  Speaker 4: They're so I know, I know, well, thank you. I
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: appreciate you. Liz.
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  Speaker 3: How do the hurdlers follow along with you? How do
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: they support you? Give us all the details?
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  Speaker 1: Amazing?
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  Speaker 2: So the book comes out on September seven. It's available
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  Speaker 2: on Amazon right now. You can follow me on Instagram
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: at Liz Plosser. That's l I Z P l O
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  Speaker 2: S s e R. And you can follow Women's health
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: at Women's Health Mag on Instagram and also visit us
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: online at Women's healthmag dot com.
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  Speaker 4: She's obviously never said that before.
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  Speaker 3: I'm over at Emily Abody and at Hurdle Podcast Another
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  Speaker 3: Hurdle Conquered.
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  Speaker 4: Catch you guys next time.