185. Permission to Pause - Why Rest Isn’t Weak: A Special Episode with Lori

FINE is a 4-Letter Word · Apr 10, 2025 · 27m

We’ve been conditioned to believe that rest is optional—like guacamole on your burrito.

You can have it, but you’ll have to pay extra.

Let’s zoom out for a second and look at where this belief came from.

The hustle mindset didn’t just show up one day because Gary Vee started yelling about it. It’s deeply rooted in industrial-age values—when your productivity on the factory line was literally tied to your worth and your wages. The more you produced, the more valuable you were. Full stop.

Then came the Protestant work ethic, remember the Puritans from history class? They believed hard work was…