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123. "hot girl summer" game changers & habits for becoming the *BEST* you · Hot Girl Energy Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello you guys, Welcome back to another episode of the
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Speaker 1: Hawkgirl Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Kaylie, 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 I for you become
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Speaker 1: the hawk Girl energy you want to attract. Hello you guys,
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Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday, Welcome back to another episode. I am actually
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Speaker 1: recording this episode today because I decided to do vlog
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Speaker 1: week this week for Instagram and TikTok and anyways, usually
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Speaker 1: when I decide to challenge myself when it comes to
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Speaker 1: like filming every day, sometimes I find it really difficult
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Speaker 1: to manage other parts of my job because it can
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Speaker 1: get a little overwhelming. But that's okay. We're still getting
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Speaker 1: an episode up, which is all that matters. I hope
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Speaker 1: you guys are having an amazing week so far. A
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Speaker 1: little bit of a house update, and I have talked
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Speaker 1: about it in the previous episodes, but we are currently
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Speaker 1: in the process of getting our backyard done and I'm
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Speaker 1: so obsessed with how things are turning out. We decided
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Speaker 1: to do a deck over patio stone just because financially,
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Speaker 1: the patiostones were just going to cost way too much.
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Speaker 1: We got quoted and it was just literally astronomical. I
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Speaker 1: think I talked about it in the last episode, to
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Speaker 1: be honest. So we have decided to do a deck,
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Speaker 1: and my dad and Zach started building it this weekend
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Speaker 1: and we just have the foundation done right now, so
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Speaker 1: hopefully this long weekend. I can't believe we're already on
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Speaker 1: May Long weekend, but looks like Zach is probably going
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Speaker 1: to focus on getting that done, hopefully this weekend. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if it'll be fully done, but I do
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Speaker 1: think majority of it will be done. I think the
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Speaker 1: only thing that we'll have to do is probably just
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Speaker 1: finish the final touches along with staining it. So I'm
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Speaker 1: really excited to have that part done because he's kind
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Speaker 1: of taking obviously control of this part because I am
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Speaker 1: not much help when it comes to building a deck,
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Speaker 1: but I know I'm going to be a huge part
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Speaker 1: when it comes to the decor and the decorating and
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Speaker 1: all that. So that's kind of like when I come
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Speaker 1: into play and I ordered some backyard furniture, which I'm
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Speaker 1: really excited about, just like a sectional, a fireplace, a barbecue.
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Speaker 1: I haven't found a dining set yet that I love,
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Speaker 1: so I'm still on the hunt for that. I feel
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Speaker 1: like I just want to start out with the couch,
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Speaker 1: the fireplace, and the barbecue and just kind of see
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Speaker 1: like the color scheme that we're going with, and then
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Speaker 1: from there I'll start trying to find something for a
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Speaker 1: dining set for the space. But I also just want
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Speaker 1: to get an idea of how much space the couch
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Speaker 1: and barbecue like take up on the deck before I
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Speaker 1: get a dining set, because obviously I could get a
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Speaker 1: small dining set, I could get a big dining set.
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Speaker 1: I just like need to kind of understand the spacing
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Speaker 1: of the deck once it's all done and we start
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Speaker 1: to add pieces to it. So that's kind of like
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Speaker 1: what's been on my main priority right now. I feel
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Speaker 1: like we've been definitely putting other projects to the side,
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Speaker 1: And Zach and I were like laughing about it last
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Speaker 1: night because I think just because we're both ADHD, I
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Speaker 1: have no idea, but we are that kind of people
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Speaker 1: where we start a project and then we don't ever
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Speaker 1: finish it. And one of them being obviously like our bedroom,
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Speaker 1: like we moved everything over to the window, which we
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Speaker 1: love and it looks so good, but we have like
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Speaker 1: a mirror that needs to be hung up, we have
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Speaker 1: a piece of artwork that still needs to be hung up,
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Speaker 1: we have some picture frames. So I'm just like, this
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Speaker 1: is just the reality, Like we do this, and obviously
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Speaker 1: going into summer, we really wanted the backyard done, so
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Speaker 1: we're like, okay, let's put the bedroom on pause, focus
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Speaker 1: on the backyard. And then obviously we wanted to work
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Speaker 1: on the podcast studio this year, which has been delayed
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Speaker 1: because of this company with the chairs, Like it's taken
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Speaker 1: way longer than it's you know, supposed to. So I've
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Speaker 1: been really just following up with them trying to figure out, Okay,
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Speaker 1: when is this going to get shipped, because like, obviously
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Speaker 1: like I need them, and I at this point, like
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Speaker 1: I want my bunny back if it's going to continue
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Speaker 1: to take this long. So anyways, I'm just basically waiting
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Speaker 1: for the chairs and then Zach and I can paint
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Speaker 1: the podcast room. So our goal is to have our
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Speaker 1: whole backyard done before the end of the month, which
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Speaker 1: I do think is realistic, but we shall see, and
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Speaker 1: then hopefully in June we can start up the podcast
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Speaker 1: room and then just finish the other touches in our bedroom,
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Speaker 1: and then the house I think is almost done, which
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Speaker 1: is quite exciting. The only other thing we have to
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Speaker 1: do is add shelves in our living room, which is
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Speaker 1: what we wanted to do. But other than that, I
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Speaker 1: feel like the house will definitely be close to being
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Speaker 1: fully done in this episode. This week, I really want
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Speaker 1: to talk about game changers for the summer season, because
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Speaker 1: obviously a lot of the episodes we've been talking about
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Speaker 1: has really been just prepping for summer. I personally think
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Speaker 1: that Spring is just not even existing at this point,
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Speaker 1: Like I feel like I just kind of jumped into summer, because,
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Speaker 1: in my opinion, as soon as May first starts, my
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Speaker 1: mindset is completely summer. Like I'm not thinking about spring.
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Speaker 1: The only time I'm thinking about spring is usually like
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Speaker 1: March April. So although it is technically still spring and
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Speaker 1: summer doesn't hit until June, I am mentally in the
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Speaker 1: summer mindset and I'm just focusing on things I can
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Speaker 1: do to really just have the best summer yet. So
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Speaker 1: we still have a lot of exciting episodes like the
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Speaker 1: Summer mood Board, the Summer bucket List, all that that
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Speaker 1: we're going to touch in the next few episodes. So anyways,
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Speaker 1: I think these game changers are going to be huge
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Speaker 1: for you. They have definitely impacted me, and it's something
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Speaker 1: that I've tried to include into my daily routine, and
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Speaker 1: it's new things that I've tried. It's things that I've
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Speaker 1: been doing for years that I swear by, and I
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Speaker 1: figured I would share it with you guys. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to share with one of the most recent things that
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Speaker 1: I've included into my routine that I truly think has
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Speaker 1: been a huge game changer, and that is investing in
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Speaker 1: Korean skincare. When I tell you that the Korean skincare
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Speaker 1: hype is worth it, it is one hundred percent worth it.
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Speaker 1: I've seen so many TikTokers rave about just certain brands
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Speaker 1: and certain products, and a lot of them are actually
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Speaker 1: found on Amazon. It's very easy to purchase them. You know.
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Speaker 1: I've definitely seen influencers who go to Korea or go
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Speaker 1: to Japan. They go to you know, the pharmacies there,
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Speaker 1: stock up on all the skincare products, face masks, you
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Speaker 1: name it, and bring it back. But a lot of
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Speaker 1: the Korean skincare brands you can actually find on Amazon,
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Speaker 1: which is very convenient. One brand that I recently came
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Speaker 1: across that I really really like is called Metacube, and
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Speaker 1: I recently just purchased the Toner pads and they have
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Speaker 1: literally changed my face. I'm not even over exaggerating like
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Speaker 1: I am obsessed with them. I think I talked about
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Speaker 1: this actually in the last episode about how there was
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Speaker 1: three things that I changed in my skincare routine, which was,
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Speaker 1: you know, being in the Infred SNA a bit more,
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Speaker 1: using the toner pads, and then getting a facial So
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Speaker 1: those three things I feel like really helped my skin
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Speaker 1: last week. But the toner pads I've been using now
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Speaker 1: for over a month, and what a difference it's made
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Speaker 1: to my face. It's definitely brightened my face, has definitely
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Speaker 1: reduced my pores, and all in all, it just really
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Speaker 1: gives that like glow that you see in the morning
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Speaker 1: that you may see some influencers you know, talk about
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Speaker 1: is just like how their skin looks really glowy and dewey.
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Speaker 1: And I think, honestly, I just needed to add a
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Speaker 1: toner into my skincare routine and that's what changed the game.
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Speaker 1: So the product I'm talking about, I will put an
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Speaker 1: LTK link that way you guys can see the product
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Speaker 1: that I'm referencing, but I'm obsessed with it. It has
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Speaker 1: completely changed my skin. I just ordered a oil cleanser
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Speaker 1: from a brand I think it's called I want to
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Speaker 1: say Aura, and again it's off Amazon. It's another Korean
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Speaker 1: skincare brand. This brand actually is recommended by a lot
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Speaker 1: of influencers, the Aura brand. They also have a toner
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Speaker 1: as well that you could try out, and then moisturizers
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Speaker 1: all that. But the brand's called Aura and I just
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Speaker 1: got the oil facial cleanser. I've actually used it a
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Speaker 1: few times and I really really like it and going
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Speaker 1: into the next game. Changer that I feel like has
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Speaker 1: made a huge difference is double cleansing. I was not
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Speaker 1: double cleansing. I'm not gonna lie. I was just cleansing once.
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Speaker 1: And the amount of makeup that I think was probably
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Speaker 1: still left on my face that was creating my breakouts,
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Speaker 1: probably the enlarge pores on my face all that. Like
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Speaker 1: my facialist that I went to a few weeks ago,
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Speaker 1: she's like, you need to be double cleansing, and I said, okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to add this into my routine. My sister
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Speaker 1: also was like very much into skincare and she was like, no,
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Speaker 1: you need to be double cleansing. I'm like, okay, So
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Speaker 1: I started to double cleanse, and I feel like that's
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Speaker 1: made a huge difference as well. So that's something that
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Speaker 1: I've kind of continued into my routine and I feel
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Speaker 1: like it's been really really beneficial for my skin. Another
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Speaker 1: game changer that I feel like has been a huge
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Speaker 1: impact into my daily routine that I've actually been doing
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Speaker 1: now for I want to say, like the past five
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Speaker 1: to six years is following the eighty twenty rule when
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Speaker 1: it comes to eating. I've been eating healthy foods now
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Speaker 1: for I want to say, five to six years. And
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Speaker 1: when you follow a healthy lifestyle for a long period
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Speaker 1: of time, eventually your body doesn't really crave those things
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Speaker 1: that you used to crave. So, you know, back in
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Speaker 1: the day, I would love to eat a bag of chips.
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Speaker 1: I'm not even kidding. Like my obsession was like sweet chili,
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Speaker 1: heat rbecue chips, you know, Doritos, free Doos, ruffles, you
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Speaker 1: name it. Like I had an addiction to just eating chips.
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Speaker 1: And over time, once I started to find like healthy
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Speaker 1: substitutes or just like finding ways to like cut that out,
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Speaker 1: of my lifestyle, it became a lot easier, and then
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Speaker 1: my body didn't crave for those foods anymore. So it's
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Speaker 1: important to just kind of really find ways to adapt
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Speaker 1: to changing into eating different things. And maybe that's finding
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Speaker 1: things that might be similar, So finding healthier alternatives to chips,
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Speaker 1: Like maybe a replacement could be popcorn. Like if you
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Speaker 1: really like to snack on things like popcorn is a
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Speaker 1: lower calorie option, it's a bit better for you, Like
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Speaker 1: you can find ingredients that are ten times better in
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Speaker 1: popcorn versus a beg of chips. So now there's been
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Speaker 1: so many great alternatives that have been offered to replace chips.
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Speaker 1: But that's just a very like vague example. So what
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Speaker 1: the eighty twenty rule means is that eighty percent of
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Speaker 1: the meals that I eat are healthy and then twenty
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Speaker 1: percent of it is indulging in other snacks or sweet
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Speaker 1: So every single morning I usually have a pretty stalked
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Speaker 1: up breakfast. I usually have greek yogurt or turkey bacon
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Speaker 1: or bagels, and I always make sure there's a protein,
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Speaker 1: a carb in some type of fiber. So you know
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Speaker 1: the fruits I'm getting, my fiber in the protein is
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Speaker 1: usually either Greek yogurt or turkey bacon, and then the
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Speaker 1: carb is either gonna be you know, the bagels or
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Speaker 1: sour doughe bread, whatever. The carb is. Same thing with lunch,
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Speaker 1: you know, chicken, sweet potato, vegetables. I'm getting my protein in,
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Speaker 1: I'm getting my carbs in, I'm getting my vegetables or
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Speaker 1: fiber in. So that's kind of how I structure out
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Speaker 1: each meal. And then of course I have a sweet tooth,
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Speaker 1: so every night I always end my night off with
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Speaker 1: some chocolate. And that is kind of like how I
10:41
Speaker 1: follow the eighty twenty rule. And as I said, like
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Speaker 1: you're still allowed to indulge in the things that like
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Speaker 1: you love and that brings you happiness. And maybe one
10:51
Speaker 1: night I'm gonna go to Dairy Queen and get an
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Speaker 1: ice cream cone because I'm craving one and I'm wanting
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Speaker 1: that sweet tooth and i want to indulge and have
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Speaker 1: a night myself and just enjoy a Dairy Queen ice cream.
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Speaker 1: So that's kind of why I followed the eighty twenty rule,
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Speaker 1: because you know, I can still treat myself, but it's
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Speaker 1: not something that I'm always creaming all the time, where
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Speaker 1: I'm eating unhealthy all the time, and I think it's
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Speaker 1: like a very easy rule to implement into your daily routine.
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Speaker 1: So if you're not following the eighty twenty rule, I
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Speaker 1: highly recommend it because it's changed my life and it's
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Speaker 1: made eating healthy a lot more enjoyable knowing that you
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Speaker 1: can still indulge in treat yourself. Another thing that's been
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Speaker 1: a game changer for my routine is habit stacking. I've
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Speaker 1: talked about this a lot on the podcast, but that's
11:35
Speaker 1: being able to do two things at once. So whether
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Speaker 1: it's going on a hawk Girl walk listening to a
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Speaker 1: podcast at the same time, it could also be going
11:43
Speaker 1: on a hawk Girl walk and listening to like a meditation.
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Speaker 1: If you want to be able to practice your breathing
11:48
Speaker 1: and doing breathing exercises, you could do both of those
11:50
Speaker 1: things at the same time. You can also work while
11:53
Speaker 1: walking on your treadmill, so you're able to track your
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Speaker 1: steps on top of getting work done at the same time,
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Speaker 1: So you're doing two things at once and personally, habit
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Speaker 1: stacking has been a game changer for me. This is
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Speaker 1: actually something that I introduced to Zach because Zach has
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Speaker 1: been struggling to like just get two things done at once,
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Speaker 1: and I said, hey, let's try and do this, implement
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Speaker 1: this into your work lifestyle. And he's like, okay, like
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Speaker 1: this is really like really inspiring to listen to from you,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like perfect. So he just he never really
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Speaker 1: understood what habit stacking meant. So I explained it to him,
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Speaker 1: and now he's implemented it into his work environment. So
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Speaker 1: that's probably one thing that I feel like has really
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Speaker 1: changed the game, you know, especially right now for me
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Speaker 1: because I am trying to track my steps this month,
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Speaker 1: which has been so amazing. I feel like I've been
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Speaker 1: really good at getting over ten thousand steps a day,
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Speaker 1: but it has been very difficult to get to fifteen
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Speaker 1: thousand every single day. But I'm not trying to push
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Speaker 1: myself or not trying to like be too hard on
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Speaker 1: myself in the days where I don't because I am
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Speaker 1: tracking on my iPhone and it's not exactly the most
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Speaker 1: accurate way of tracking your steps. I do want to
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Speaker 1: get some type of like a I might honestly just
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Speaker 1: get the fit bit to be honest, which I don't
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Speaker 1: like the way the watches look like no one take
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Speaker 1: that offense. I just like don't really like the idea
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Speaker 1: of wearing a watch constantly. I love the orr ring,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of you guys said that because I
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Speaker 1: do have anxiety when it comes to just certain things.
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Speaker 1: They said it might trigger it because you're so like
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Speaker 1: hyper focused on everything when it comes to the or ring,
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Speaker 1: because it really does show everything, your heart rate, you know,
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Speaker 1: the calories, everything. So everyone's like it might not be
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Speaker 1: for you because you see so much information. So that
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Speaker 1: kind of makes me steer away from the orr ring
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Speaker 1: because it might be too detailed. However, I do want
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Speaker 1: something that's going to track my cycle because I don't
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Speaker 1: have anything currently, and eventually, like when Zach and I
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Speaker 1: do want to start trying, I'm like, I want to
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Speaker 1: be able to know when I'm ovulating, when I'm in
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Speaker 1: my luteal phase, when I'm getting my period, all that.
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Speaker 1: Like I kind of know when I get my period
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Speaker 1: based off of just like you know, oh, it's the
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Speaker 1: second week of every month or whatever it is, right,
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Speaker 1: So anyways, I'm pretty good at remembering. It's just more
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Speaker 1: so it would be beneficial to track like the other
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Speaker 1: things when it comes to like trying to conceive, so Anyways,
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Speaker 1: right now, I might just get like the I think
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Speaker 1: it's like sixty bucks off Amazon. It's just a fitbit
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Speaker 1: just to track, and I'm gonna be honest, I think
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Speaker 1: I might wear it on my ankle versus my wrist
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Speaker 1: because I just don't like the way it looks, and
14:20
Speaker 1: because I wear workout clothes all the time, I feel
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Speaker 1: like it's gonna be like very subtle just to kind
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Speaker 1: of like wear it around the ankle. So if you
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Speaker 1: see a fitbit on my ankle next week, you know why.
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Speaker 1: As I said, like being able to work while walking
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Speaker 1: on the treadmill has been a game changer, and just
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Speaker 1: like habit stacking in general has really been the key
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Speaker 1: thing for me when it comes to including it into
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Speaker 1: my daily routine. Another thing is, I feel like I've
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Speaker 1: never actually talked about this before, but because I have
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Speaker 1: so much hair, I don't always love doing a big
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Speaker 1: hair wash day every single week. Like sometimes it can
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Speaker 1: be a lot, and sometimes I also don't have the
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Speaker 1: time to wash my hair and blow dry it for
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Speaker 1: like an hour and a half. And you know, sometimes
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Speaker 1: I've been doing it at night, which has been a
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Speaker 1: little bit easier, and it doesn't like impact my day.
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Speaker 1: But if I want my hair to look good and
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Speaker 1: I don't want to go through the effort of washing
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Speaker 1: my entire head, I will literally just wash the top
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Speaker 1: of my head, like I'll just wash the roots, and
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Speaker 1: I'll put my hair in the sink. I'll get my shampoo,
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Speaker 1: I'll wash the roots, I'll wash my bangs. Usually it's
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Speaker 1: like the halfway part. I would say, so like you know,
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Speaker 1: when you put your hair up, like half up, half down,
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Speaker 1: I would say, like half of it would go in
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Speaker 1: the sink and I would wash it, and then literally
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Speaker 1: just the bottom part stays out. It reduces the time
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Speaker 1: by half underneath. I don't really care what my hair
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Speaker 1: looks like, nobody can really see it. And then by
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Speaker 1: only washing my roots, my hair literally looks amazing for
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Speaker 1: at least an additional two days and I can get
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Speaker 1: away with it and then wash my entire head on
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Speaker 1: the weekend. So that's kind of what I've been doing,
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Speaker 1: especially for like people who you know who work out
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Speaker 1: lots and you know, might get sweaty a lot, and
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Speaker 1: they don't want to go through the effort of washing
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Speaker 1: their entire head. That's just like something that I do
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Speaker 1: that's a quick game change or that you can do.
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Speaker 1: I've also been doing my natural hair more, as you
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Speaker 1: guys know, which has sped up the process a lot
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Speaker 1: by not having to blow out my hair every single week.
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Speaker 1: So just washing it using you know, a curl cream
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Speaker 1: and then some moose and I just let it air
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Speaker 1: dry and then it comes out really naturally wavy and curly.
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Speaker 1: And as you guys know, I've been really trying to
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Speaker 1: embrace my natural hair, so it's been nice to like
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Speaker 1: save time by not having to go through a whole
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Speaker 1: blowout routine. Now, I have been doing heated workouts lately,
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Speaker 1: which has definitely played an impact in my hair washing routine.
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Speaker 1: So now I've been starting to book my workout classes
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Speaker 1: around my hair wash schedule. So I'm like, Okay, if
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Speaker 1: I do a heated matt class on Monday, I can
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Speaker 1: wash my hair, you know, that night or Tuesday morning,
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Speaker 1: and then if I do a heated workout class on Thursday,
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Speaker 1: I can wash my hair either Thursday night or Friday morning,
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Speaker 1: and then it's good for the weekend. So I'm now
16:52
Speaker 1: starting to base my heated workout classes around that. But
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Speaker 1: for example, like my sister, she's been doing it a
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Speaker 1: lot more than me, just because you know, I do Soma,
17:01
Speaker 1: which is the reformer plates, and then Madison she doesn't,
17:04
Speaker 1: so she just does oxygen. So my sister has been
17:06
Speaker 1: trying to research ways on how to, you know, maintain
17:10
Speaker 1: your hair during a heated class, and there was two
17:13
Speaker 1: things they recommended. Obviously, there's dry shampoo, which works for
17:16
Speaker 1: some people. But there's a new thing that came out.
17:19
Speaker 1: I think it's by the brand Bumble Bumble, and it's
17:22
Speaker 1: like a hair mist that essentially just like removes the
17:26
Speaker 1: oil from the roots. And it's essentially like dry shampoo,
17:29
Speaker 1: but it doesn't give that like white residue. You know,
17:33
Speaker 1: like when you spray dry shampoo and it's like white
17:35
Speaker 1: everywhere and you have to like absorb it in all that.
17:38
Speaker 1: This is like a clear spray and you blow dry
17:41
Speaker 1: it and it literally looks like you just gave yourself
17:43
Speaker 1: a blowout, so it looks really good. I've been wanting
17:46
Speaker 1: to try it. I don't have it currently, but the
17:49
Speaker 1: reviews that I've seen on TikTok have been really good.
17:50
Speaker 1: It's from Sephora, and as I said, I think it's
17:53
Speaker 1: called the Bumble Bumble like dry shampoo missed or something
17:58
Speaker 1: like that. I'll try and the exact one on my LTK.
18:01
Speaker 1: But anyways, I hear amazing things about it and I've
18:03
Speaker 1: been wanting to try it out. So if you're that
18:05
Speaker 1: kind of person that loves heated workouts but you're having
18:07
Speaker 1: a hard time managing your hair wash schedule, that might
18:10
Speaker 1: be something worth looking into and it might be a
18:13
Speaker 1: game changer for your hair wash routine. Another thing when
18:16
Speaker 1: it comes to hair that I will say as a
18:18
Speaker 1: game changer is knowing that we have the slick back looks,
18:21
Speaker 1: So doing slick back ponytails, slick back buns. I'll also
18:24
Speaker 1: do like slick back half up, half down if I
18:26
Speaker 1: want to. If I'm having a greasy hair day, I'm
18:29
Speaker 1: gonna be doing my hair in a slick back ponytail,
18:31
Speaker 1: not gonna lie Like I feel so put together with
18:33
Speaker 1: a high pony tail. I feel like it's just giving
18:35
Speaker 1: myself a facelift, honestly, Like it's like one of my
18:39
Speaker 1: favorite hairstyles on me, and I feel like that's just
18:42
Speaker 1: something I always resort to. And I also love using
18:46
Speaker 1: the like hair wax stick. So there's a brand called
18:49
Speaker 1: Nexus that has a good one that I've been using
18:51
Speaker 1: Emmy j called their Angel stick. I use that all
18:54
Speaker 1: the time for my slick back looks. I find that
18:56
Speaker 1: just really like finishes off the ponytail and it just
18:59
Speaker 1: kind of fixes any like baby hairs or any bumps
19:02
Speaker 1: that you might have in your hair from doing a
19:05
Speaker 1: slick back look. So that to me has always been
19:08
Speaker 1: a game changer in my routine and I will forever
19:11
Speaker 1: stick to it. I do not care if it's going
19:13
Speaker 1: to create bald spots and my scalp. I will figure
19:16
Speaker 1: out a way to grow the hair back, but no
19:18
Speaker 1: slickback looks I will never stop doing, just because I
19:21
Speaker 1: do find it looks very put together and it's just
19:23
Speaker 1: such an easy way to, you know, make yourself look
19:26
Speaker 1: good when you're having you know, dirty hair and want
19:28
Speaker 1: to look put together. Another thing when it comes to
19:31
Speaker 1: healthy meals, when it comes to just a game changer
19:35
Speaker 1: is homemade meals. So I feel like prepping has been
19:38
Speaker 1: a game changer for me, and I've been prepping food
19:41
Speaker 1: either on Sunday or Monday. And one thing that I've
19:44
Speaker 1: been making consistently lately has been the high protein bagels.
19:47
Speaker 1: Oh my god, guys, you need to try these. It
19:49
Speaker 1: is literally so good. I've heard a lot of you
19:52
Speaker 1: guys actually try it with cottage cheese versus Greek yogurt,
19:56
Speaker 1: So I'm going to try that maybe next week in
19:58
Speaker 1: the recipe versus Greek yogurt. But I person I love
20:00
Speaker 1: the Greek yogurt. It's a great way to get protein in.
20:03
Speaker 1: It tastes literally so good. It literally tastes like bread.
20:06
Speaker 1: And I've been trying different toppings out, so I've done
20:08
Speaker 1: everything bagel seasoning. I recently just tried the Jlapino cheddar, which,
20:12
Speaker 1: oh my god, guys, you need to try the Jilipino
20:15
Speaker 1: cheddar insane. If you like spice, you're gonna love it.
20:18
Speaker 1: And it's literally a little bit of cheese, which again
20:20
Speaker 1: you're getting extra protein in, and then chopping up your
20:23
Speaker 1: jilapino very very thin and just putting a layer of
20:26
Speaker 1: it on top. I just put it in my toaster
20:28
Speaker 1: and add a little bit of butter on top, and
20:30
Speaker 1: it's literally perfect every single time. And I think this
20:34
Speaker 1: week I'm gonna make cinnamon raisin bagels. I'm gonna try
20:37
Speaker 1: that out, and probably more Helipino cheddar, just because it
20:40
Speaker 1: turned out so good. But this is my new era
20:42
Speaker 1: and I'm obsessed with it. I love these bagels. This
20:44
Speaker 1: has been around for I don't know, like a few years.
20:47
Speaker 1: I think people started to really talk about it last year.
20:51
Speaker 1: But this is new to me and I'm obsessed with
20:53
Speaker 1: it and I don't want to stop making them. So
20:55
Speaker 1: it's been my new favorite thing. And it's so easy.
20:58
Speaker 1: I am not a baker guy. It is literally the
21:01
Speaker 1: easiest thing to do, and I just love having them
21:03
Speaker 1: already prepped and then in the morning it's just been
21:06
Speaker 1: really easy to figure out what I'm going to have
21:07
Speaker 1: for breakfast. And I like that I can either, you know,
21:10
Speaker 1: pair it with something sweet, like you know, a Greek
21:13
Speaker 1: yogroup bowl or just a side of fruit, or I
21:15
Speaker 1: could make a bagel sandwich out of it, or you know,
21:18
Speaker 1: I don't know. You have the option of doing savory
21:20
Speaker 1: or sweet with having the bagels. And if you want
21:23
Speaker 1: to do you know, a sweet bagel, as I said,
21:25
Speaker 1: you could do cinnamon raisin, you could do blueberry, and
21:27
Speaker 1: if you wanted to do it savory, you could do
21:28
Speaker 1: the everything bagel seasoning or the halopino cheddar like. It
21:32
Speaker 1: really just depends on what you want to do. But anyways,
21:35
Speaker 1: the bagels are a game changer and I love it.
21:37
Speaker 1: And then I've also been getting back into juicing, which
21:39
Speaker 1: was one of my goals for May, and I just
21:42
Speaker 1: love juicing so much. And I made my green juice
21:45
Speaker 1: this week. Tastes amazing. It lasts up to like four
21:48
Speaker 1: to five days, I believe. And yeah, I've been just
21:51
Speaker 1: trying to stay consistent with making bagels and green juices
21:55
Speaker 1: every single week. And another thing I've been wanting to
21:57
Speaker 1: do is be better at making homemade desserve. So we
22:01
Speaker 1: tried out the Ninja creamy. It worked out really well,
22:03
Speaker 1: to be honest. We tried out a new protein powder
22:06
Speaker 1: and we use the fair Life chocolate milk and the
22:10
Speaker 1: I think it's the Jello chocolate mix in order to
22:14
Speaker 1: make it thick. Turned out amazing. The only thing is
22:17
Speaker 1: is that I personally find it's a lot of ice
22:19
Speaker 1: cream for one serving, Like I couldn't finish it, Like
22:23
Speaker 1: I put it in the freezer and I have it
22:24
Speaker 1: the next day, which is fine, But I don't know,
22:27
Speaker 1: I have this weird thing with ice cream, Like I
22:29
Speaker 1: don't know if it's just because I have yogurt in
22:31
Speaker 1: the morning, but I don't crave ice cream every single night.
22:35
Speaker 1: So I like the Ninja creamy. It's just like, I
22:37
Speaker 1: don't know, some nights, I'm just like not really craving it.
22:39
Speaker 1: I'd rather like a piece of chocolate versus eating chocolate
22:42
Speaker 1: ice cream. So another thing that I've been wanting to
22:45
Speaker 1: try that creates that like piece of chocolate kind of
22:49
Speaker 1: like substitution would be the date squares. I'm not sure
22:54
Speaker 1: if you guys have seen this. It's a bunch of dates,
22:56
Speaker 1: you roll them out, you then spread almond butter on top,
22:59
Speaker 1: and you melt either semi sweet or milk or dark
23:03
Speaker 1: chocolate and you put it on top. You put it
23:05
Speaker 1: in the freezer, and you add sea salt on top,
23:08
Speaker 1: and apparently it's really really good. So that's something that
23:11
Speaker 1: I've been wanting to try out. But I'm all about
23:14
Speaker 1: trying different things when it comes to anything, to be honest,
23:18
Speaker 1: and desserts is just something that I've been wanting to
23:20
Speaker 1: prep as well. So anyways, making your homemade meals is
23:24
Speaker 1: definitely a game changer and makes it a little bit
23:26
Speaker 1: easier going into the week, especially if you're that kind
23:28
Speaker 1: of person that loves to meal prep. So if you
23:30
Speaker 1: like to, you know, cook chicken, or beef or sweet
23:33
Speaker 1: potato for your lunch. That way, it's easy for you
23:35
Speaker 1: to bring to work, like highly highly recommend doing that.
23:38
Speaker 1: I'm the kind of person where I don't like eating
23:40
Speaker 1: the same thing every single day. But you know, I
23:43
Speaker 1: could prep chicken breasts on the Monday and then have
23:46
Speaker 1: it for the rest of the week by you know,
23:48
Speaker 1: doing different recipes. So I could do chicken salads, I
23:50
Speaker 1: could do chicken wraps, you know, just chicken with rice.
23:54
Speaker 1: So just prepping your proteins is also a huge game
23:58
Speaker 1: changer by including it into different restles for your lunches
24:01
Speaker 1: or dinners for the week. Another thing that I saw,
24:04
Speaker 1: actually someone talk about on TikTok was using your leftover
24:07
Speaker 1: coffee from the day before and turning it into ice
24:11
Speaker 1: cubes for the following day. So let's say you don't
24:13
Speaker 1: drink all of your coffee on the Monday, you put
24:16
Speaker 1: it in an ice tray, leave it overnight in the freezer,
24:19
Speaker 1: and then on Tuesday when you wake up, if you
24:21
Speaker 1: don't want your coffee to get watery, if you do
24:24
Speaker 1: an iced coffee every single morning, you just take the
24:26
Speaker 1: coffee ice cubes that you made and you put it
24:30
Speaker 1: into your coffee and then your coffee tastes less watery.
24:34
Speaker 1: I thought that was a game changer. I haven't tried
24:36
Speaker 1: it yet, but that's something that I've been wanting to try,
24:39
Speaker 1: and I recently came across it on TikTok and I'm like,
24:41
Speaker 1: that makes so much sense because that's the one thing
24:44
Speaker 1: I hate when I'm drinking my coffee and then by
24:46
Speaker 1: the end it's like a watery coffee. Well, it's going
24:49
Speaker 1: to taste better at an ice cube the next morning,
24:52
Speaker 1: knowing that it's not just water, there's a bit of
24:54
Speaker 1: coffee in it. So anyways, I think that's a game
24:57
Speaker 1: changer for your coffee routine. Another thing when it comes
25:00
Speaker 1: to gut health is talking about what you're putting inside
25:04
Speaker 1: your body. So of course, you know, I've talked a
25:07
Speaker 1: lot about my skin and just how I feel like
25:10
Speaker 1: investing in different skincare has been a really huge factor,
25:13
Speaker 1: along with you know, getting a facial. One thing that
25:15
Speaker 1: I also think plays a huge impact is my gut
25:18
Speaker 1: So what am I putting inside to help my skin?
25:20
Speaker 1: So one thing I've been really wanting to do is
25:23
Speaker 1: get into taking magnesium consistently along with taking collagen. Those
25:27
Speaker 1: are two supplements that I'm not currently taking, but I
25:31
Speaker 1: hear amazing things when you're actually consistent with it. So
25:35
Speaker 1: collagen is something that I think is so easy to
25:38
Speaker 1: include in your coffee recipe or maybe your daily smoothie recipe.
25:42
Speaker 1: I could probably honestly even add it to my yogurt
25:45
Speaker 1: bowls in the morning, but I'm not gonna lie. I
25:48
Speaker 1: haven't found a brand that I've been sticking to because
25:51
Speaker 1: I feel like the ones that I've tried you can
25:54
Speaker 1: actually taste the collagen, which I don't want. So I'm
25:57
Speaker 1: calling all my girlies out here. If you are someone
26:00
Speaker 1: that takes collagen consistently, please send us a DM. I
26:03
Speaker 1: would love to know what brand you're using or one
26:05
Speaker 1: that you swear by, because it's something that I've been
26:07
Speaker 1: really wanting to get into and potentially just add to
26:11
Speaker 1: my coffees in the morning or my Greek yogurt bulls,
26:13
Speaker 1: because I do think taking supplements for your skin is
26:18
Speaker 1: definitely going to be beneficial. So collagen is something that
26:21
Speaker 1: I've been wanting to consistently get into. Magnesium is something
26:24
Speaker 1: that I've been wanting to get into, but also I
26:27
Speaker 1: take a probiotic and prebiotic by the brand Array, which
26:31
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys have heard. I also think I
26:33
Speaker 1: talked about their bloating pills that I took that I'm
26:35
Speaker 1: obsessed with. Oh my god, that bloating pill has changed
26:40
Speaker 1: my life. I'm not even overexaggerating. It just helps so
26:43
Speaker 1: much with any inflammation that you might have from eating
26:46
Speaker 1: certain foods. So for me, my body does not like dairy,
26:50
Speaker 1: and I know that, but I continuously eat dairy, even
26:54
Speaker 1: lactose free. My body doesn't like it, So when I
26:57
Speaker 1: eat too much dairy, I will have one of the
27:00
Speaker 1: deep bloat pills. The supplements, I'll take it at night,
27:03
Speaker 1: I'll wake up the next morning and literally it changes
27:06
Speaker 1: my body. I'm not even over exaggerating, like it is
27:08
Speaker 1: such a good supplement. You don't need to take it
27:11
Speaker 1: every single day, but whenever you are having you know,
27:14
Speaker 1: either if your body is not used to gluten and
27:18
Speaker 1: you kind of get inflammation from eating gluten, then you
27:21
Speaker 1: know you can resort to using these supplements. But I
27:24
Speaker 1: love it. Again, always talk to your doctor. I don't
27:26
Speaker 1: want to tell you guys to buy these things. Obviously,
27:29
Speaker 1: do your own research as well, but I've done my
27:31
Speaker 1: own research. I personally love it and I find it's
27:34
Speaker 1: been a game changer. But taking up prebiotic and probiotic
27:38
Speaker 1: is also great for your overall gut health and yeah,
27:41
Speaker 1: definitely helps with how your skin looks, how you feel
27:45
Speaker 1: energy wise. All that, the last two things that I'll
27:47
Speaker 1: talk about when it comes to game changers, one of
27:49
Speaker 1: them being the multitask motivation. I've talked about this before,
27:54
Speaker 1: but I have a very hard time focusing when it
27:56
Speaker 1: comes to getting certain tasks done when it comes to
27:59
Speaker 1: work or things in my house, and one thing that
28:02
Speaker 1: I find always helps me is I create distractions, like
28:05
Speaker 1: outside distractions of when I'm trying to stay focused on something.
28:08
Speaker 1: I know that kind of sounds crazy, but I feel
28:11
Speaker 1: like I'm more productive when there's background noise. So, you know,
28:14
Speaker 1: when I'm cleaning my house, I like to put a
28:16
Speaker 1: podcast on or listen to music. When I'm getting work done,
28:19
Speaker 1: I like to put a YouTube video on. And I
28:21
Speaker 1: don't know, I just feel like it's something that motivates
28:25
Speaker 1: me to stay focused but also makes it fun in
28:28
Speaker 1: a way by still being able to have that like
28:30
Speaker 1: outdoor noise. And I don't know, it's kind of like
28:34
Speaker 1: when I talked about habit stacking. If you don't like running,
28:38
Speaker 1: then creating a fun playlist or listening to a good
28:40
Speaker 1: podcast might motivate you to actually get out and go
28:44
Speaker 1: for that run. Or if you hate walking on a treadmill,
28:48
Speaker 1: then maybe putting on a YouTube video or again watching
28:51
Speaker 1: a podcast could be beneficial for you to get that
28:54
Speaker 1: task done that you wanted to get done. But it
28:56
Speaker 1: allows something fun at the same time. So it kind
28:59
Speaker 1: of goes with the habits stagging in a way. But
29:01
Speaker 1: it really does help me stay focused. To be honest,
29:04
Speaker 1: and this might not work for everyone, but if you're
29:06
Speaker 1: the kind of person like me that might have a
29:08
Speaker 1: hard time focusing, I feel like multitasking has been a
29:12
Speaker 1: game changer. Sorry I lied, Now we have two more.
29:15
Speaker 1: Another game changer has been my six am morning routine.
29:18
Speaker 1: So actually consistently waking up at six am every single
29:21
Speaker 1: morning has completely changed my life. I'm more productive, I
29:24
Speaker 1: get way more done in the day. I feel like
29:27
Speaker 1: the Hatch alarm clock has a lot to do with that.
29:30
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys have heard of it. Hatch is
29:32
Speaker 1: an amazing brand. The alarm clock is pricey. I'm not
29:35
Speaker 1: gonna lie, but what I love about it is the
29:37
Speaker 1: sunrise aspect of how there's a light that beams essentially
29:42
Speaker 1: in your face and it allows you to wake up
29:44
Speaker 1: easier because it essentially reflects what the sunrise would be
29:49
Speaker 1: in your room. And then the alarm clock noise is
29:52
Speaker 1: way more calming than what you would hear from an iPhone.
29:56
Speaker 1: I absolutely hate the iPhone alarm clock. It is awful.
30:00
Speaker 1: I do not recommend it for anyone. Whereas the Hatch,
30:03
Speaker 1: I feel like it's a lot more soothing, a lot
30:05
Speaker 1: more enjoyable. And I recently discovered the new feature on
30:10
Speaker 1: the Hatch alarm clock, which is the night light. So
30:13
Speaker 1: I will put on like the light in my room
30:16
Speaker 1: at night, and I'll usually I'll switch it to like
30:18
Speaker 1: the red, which it allows it to be a bit
30:20
Speaker 1: more calming. I also never used to be a white
30:23
Speaker 1: noise kind of person, and now I listen to white
30:26
Speaker 1: noise every single night, and I actually like can't go
30:28
Speaker 1: to bed without it, Like it's literally something that Zach
30:31
Speaker 1: and I swear by. So I don't know, I feel
30:34
Speaker 1: like the alarm clock definitely played a huge impact in
30:37
Speaker 1: helping me stay consistent with waking up early. But I
30:41
Speaker 1: also just find, you know, going into the summer season,
30:44
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to create an early morning routine.
30:47
Speaker 1: So I feel the kind of person that has been
30:48
Speaker 1: wanting to get into a morning routine, this is the
30:51
Speaker 1: time to do so. Because the sun is up at
30:54
Speaker 1: like five p forty five, so you can definitely push
30:57
Speaker 1: yourself to wake up at six. I do it every
30:58
Speaker 1: single morning. The sun is up. It's literally in my
31:02
Speaker 1: eyes in the morning, and it's like the best thing
31:04
Speaker 1: to wake up to. I love waking up, you know,
31:07
Speaker 1: to the sun or with the sun. It's like truly
31:10
Speaker 1: the most rewarding thing. And being able to like get outside,
31:13
Speaker 1: get a workout in, or you know, get a walk
31:15
Speaker 1: in before eight am is so rewarding. So if you're
31:18
Speaker 1: the kind of person that wants to become a morning person,
31:21
Speaker 1: I think this is your sign to do so. And
31:23
Speaker 1: the summer season is here, so you better get to it.
31:27
Speaker 1: The last thing that I wanted to say when it
31:29
Speaker 1: comes to a game changer for just yourself in general,
31:34
Speaker 1: is getting yourself set up for a savings account. If
31:37
Speaker 1: you do not have a savings account, I highly highly
31:40
Speaker 1: recommend setting one up. I've actually had a lot of
31:43
Speaker 1: recent hate on Reddit, which I don't read. To be honest,
31:47
Speaker 1: I avoid Reddit because you know, people say what they
31:50
Speaker 1: want to say. But my mom, I guess, decided to
31:53
Speaker 1: read Reddit about me, and she didn't really tell me everything,
31:57
Speaker 1: but she did say that apparently a lot of people
31:59
Speaker 1: said that I rely a lot on my parents' money,
32:03
Speaker 1: and anything that has came in my life has all
32:07
Speaker 1: been because of my parents. I'm going to tell you
32:09
Speaker 1: this right now. My parents did not help me pay
32:12
Speaker 1: for a single thing. I saved all my money up.
32:15
Speaker 1: My parents taught me how to save money. Every single
32:18
Speaker 1: paycheck that I ever got from when I was sixteen on,
32:21
Speaker 1: I took a chunk of that money and I would
32:23
Speaker 1: put it into a savings account. So, you know, everyone
32:26
Speaker 1: can kind of do it differently. But if you make
32:29
Speaker 1: xyz amount in two weeks, take a portion of it
32:32
Speaker 1: and put it into your savings account every two weeks,
32:34
Speaker 1: and then by the end of the year, you'll see
32:35
Speaker 1: how much money you actually saved by doing that. So
32:39
Speaker 1: I find creating a separate account allows you to like
32:43
Speaker 1: really just not focus on the big number, and you know, think, oh,
32:47
Speaker 1: I have all this money, I could go shopping, I
32:48
Speaker 1: could spend all my money on this stuff, I could
32:51
Speaker 1: go travel blah blah blah. Like I think by taking
32:53
Speaker 1: it out immediately and not seeing it makes me think
32:55
Speaker 1: that it doesn't exist. And then you know, when I
32:58
Speaker 1: see my account, I'm a bit more managedab when it
33:00
Speaker 1: comes to shopping or spending money on trips or whatever.
33:03
Speaker 1: So anything that I've bought in my house, my car,
33:06
Speaker 1: my wedding, I paid for it all myself. I had
33:09
Speaker 1: no help from anybody, And I'm very grateful that I
33:12
Speaker 1: was able to do that all because I was able
33:14
Speaker 1: to put money aside and not you know, have it
33:17
Speaker 1: in my close vicinity. Like just having it in a
33:20
Speaker 1: separate account allowed me to like really just separate it,
33:23
Speaker 1: and I was allowed to just invest in things that
33:26
Speaker 1: I think was worth it, like buying a house, buying
33:28
Speaker 1: a car, all that because I was able to save
33:31
Speaker 1: that money and put it aside. So this is just
33:33
Speaker 1: kind of like an ending to this game changer as
33:35
Speaker 1: like a motivational side where it's like you can do
33:37
Speaker 1: anything you set your mind to. And I think it
33:39
Speaker 1: does play a huge impact when you do create a
33:42
Speaker 1: savings account and you do set money aside, and you
33:45
Speaker 1: know it could take a few months, It could take
33:47
Speaker 1: a few years, but over time, if there's a big
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Speaker 1: goal that you've been wanting to achieve that costs a
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Speaker 1: lot of money, you'll see at that point how much
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Speaker 1: money you've actually saved and how much you could actually
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Speaker 1: put towards whatever your dream is, whether it's going to
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Speaker 1: Greece or buying your dream car, whatever it is. So anyways,
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Speaker 1: trust me, if you don't have a savings account, you
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Speaker 1: need to get one and maybe ask your parents if
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Speaker 1: you're younger and you don't know how to do so,
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Speaker 1: or if you know someone. If you're older and you
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Speaker 1: want to figure out how to do it, just go
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Speaker 1: to the bank. They're you know, super respectful and will
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Speaker 1: always like help you out and tell you how to
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Speaker 1: set it all up. So anyways, that's kind of like
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Speaker 1: the end to this episode. But I hope these game
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Speaker 1: changers were inspiring for you or things that you may
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Speaker 1: have never tried that you're excited to try this summer.
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Speaker 1: But I love you guys also much thank you guys
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Speaker 1: for listening to another episode. If you guys are new,
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Speaker 1: You can also follow me Kaylee on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
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Speaker 1: But I love you guys allso much. Thank you guys
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Speaker 1: for listening to another episode, and I will see you
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Speaker 1: guys in next week's episode.