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117. SPRING REFRESH... monthly goals, seasonal glow up & prepping for a new season · Hot Girl Energy Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hello you guys. Welcome back to another episode of the
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Speaker 1: Hawkerel Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Kayleie, and this is
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Speaker 1: your weekly reminder that it's a new day, a new week,
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Speaker 1: a new mindset, and another day for you to become
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Speaker 1: the Hawrel Energy you want to attract. Hello you guys.
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Speaker 1: Happy April, Happy Spring, Happy Wednesday. I am so excited
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Speaker 1: to be entering a new month, my birthday month, it's
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Speaker 1: airy season. April is one of my favorite months, not
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Speaker 1: only because it is my birthday, but it's finally starting
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Speaker 1: to feel closer to summer and I don't know, my
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Speaker 1: mood's good, the vibes are good. I'm sure everyone's kind
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Speaker 1: of feeling the same way, knowing that summer's right around
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Speaker 1: the corner and just things are getting exciting. But obviously
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Speaker 1: I haven't been on the podcast in a week and
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Speaker 1: a bit. I was on vacation, as you guys know
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Speaker 1: if you follow me on Instagram and I mentioned it
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Speaker 1: on the last episode. I took some time off and
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Speaker 1: spent the week away with my husband for his birthday,
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Speaker 1: and guys, it was such a great trip. If you've
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Speaker 1: never been to Mexico or Tuloom, I highly recommend it.
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Speaker 1: It's truly such a beautiful place. The people are so kind,
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Speaker 1: and I just always have a good time. I think
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Speaker 1: I've been to Mexico honestly, I want to say like
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Speaker 1: eight times, which is so crazy because I've been a
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Speaker 1: lot with work, I've been a lot with just like
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Speaker 1: family trips or trips with Zach. We got engaged there,
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Speaker 1: so it's kind of a special spot for us. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: So when Zach and I were actually planning this trip
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Speaker 1: to go away in March, I asked him, like, where
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Speaker 1: do you want to go? Do we want to go
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Speaker 1: somewhere different? And he was like, honestly, I want to
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Speaker 1: go back to Mexico. I love Mexico. I really want
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Speaker 1: to go back there. So I was like, sure, let's
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Speaker 1: do it. So we booked up the same resort that
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Speaker 1: I went to this time last year with my parents,
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Speaker 1: the Hilton till and I cannot say enough amazing things
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Speaker 1: about this resort. I always get so many questions and
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Speaker 1: dms on like where I stay and all that and
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Speaker 1: if it's worth it, And in my honest opinion, the
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Speaker 1: Hilton's never do me wrong. But the Hilton Tuloom is
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Speaker 1: so good to the point that I probably will be
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Speaker 1: going back this time next year because the food's incredible.
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Speaker 1: I think the resort is absolutely sending, the service is amazing.
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Speaker 1: I was just in Poudhicanna, as you guys know, in January,
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Speaker 1: and if I were to compare the two resorts, I
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Speaker 1: would one hundred percent recommend the Hilton over the little
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Speaker 1: pis in that I stayed at in January. And again
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Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with the low pison. Pouda Canna is
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Speaker 1: just I don't know. I just felt like the Hilton
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Speaker 1: was like more of like a five star like luxury
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Speaker 1: feeling resort and all in all, just the best experience
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Speaker 1: in my opinions, So I will definitely be going back.
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Speaker 1: And for anyone that's looking to book a trip to Tuloom,
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Speaker 1: whether it's for your honeymoon or just a baby moon,
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Speaker 1: or just a trip away with your partner, I highly
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Speaker 1: highly recommend checking out Hilton to whom it's so good
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Speaker 1: and for those who ask. It is also an all inclusive,
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Speaker 1: so I know some people really like the all inclusive
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Speaker 1: vibe because who doesn't love that when you get to
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Speaker 1: a resort, you don't have to worry about paying for anything.
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Speaker 1: You already know exactly what you paid for before the trip,
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Speaker 1: so you know you're going into the week not feeling
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Speaker 1: stressed about money or whatever. It's just kind of nice
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Speaker 1: knowing that you've already paid for the entire trip before
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Speaker 1: you leave. I think more so it's beneficial for Zach
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Speaker 1: more so than for me when it comes to all
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Speaker 1: inclusives because I don't really eat that much or drink
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Speaker 1: that much, so I don't know if like it's fully
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Speaker 1: worth it for me. But for my husband, I feel
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Speaker 1: like he eats, he doesn't drink a lot, but you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like he drinks, so I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's more beneficial for him than for myself.
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Speaker 1: But again, the feeling of like not having to pay
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Speaker 1: for anything and knowing that everything's paid for already is
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Speaker 1: quite nice. So yeah, anyways, I just thought I would
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Speaker 1: share where we stayed because I did get a lot
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Speaker 1: of questions about that. It was very very good. It's
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Speaker 1: very family friendly, very couple friendly. I wouldn't exactly say
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Speaker 1: it's like a good bachelorette place or like party vibes
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Speaker 1: with your friends, like it's more couples and families, like
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Speaker 1: there was a lot of like new moms with their
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Speaker 1: newborns there, which was like very eye opening for Zach
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Speaker 1: and I just because like I feel like, obviously we're
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Speaker 1: at that phase in our life where we're talking about
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Speaker 1: kids and all that. Obviously we're not there yet. But
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Speaker 1: it was just nice to see and very refreshing to
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Speaker 1: see parents like still traveling with their newborn. And I
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Speaker 1: don't want to say like they made it look easy,
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Speaker 1: but it was just a nice feeling to see that, like,
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Speaker 1: your life doesn't stop when you have kids. And I
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Speaker 1: think a lot of people have that perception where it's like,
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Speaker 1: you know, you can't leave your house when you have
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Speaker 1: a newborn, and like you have to do everything at home,
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. So yeah, maybe I shouldn't say newborn.
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Speaker 1: I should just say like a six to nine month
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Speaker 1: old baby, because when you're in the newborn phase, I
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Speaker 1: think it's only like for the first four months of
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Speaker 1: their life. But yeah, like six to nine month range
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Speaker 1: of you know, the babies and anyways, it was just
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Speaker 1: nice to see the parents being able to travel and yeah,
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Speaker 1: just seeing how chill the baby was and a lot
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Speaker 1: of the kids were very like well behaved. It was
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Speaker 1: just all in all, a very eye opening trip for
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Speaker 1: Zach and I. And yeah, we are not having babies yet,
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Speaker 1: I promise, but yeah, maybe soon. But anyways, it was
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Speaker 1: just a trip that we both wanted to have and
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Speaker 1: it was nice to spend the entire week together celebrating
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Speaker 1: Zach's twenty ninth birthday. And now that we're home, I
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Speaker 1: have gotten back into the swing of things. Unpacked my suitcase,
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Speaker 1: reset the house a bit, doing some laundry, getting back
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Speaker 1: into my workout routine. All that. We got back late Saturday,
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Speaker 1: so Monday was kind of like my first day of
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Speaker 1: getting back into the swing of things. And now we're
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Speaker 1: here today for Tuesday. Did a pilates class this morning,
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Speaker 1: and now I'm recording this episode. So let's talk about April,
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Speaker 1: because is a new month. It's new vibes, it's new energy,
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Speaker 1: it's new goals. So I thought we could talk about
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Speaker 1: some habits and goals that I'm personally doing for this month.
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Speaker 1: But this might inspire you to think of some goals
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Speaker 1: for yourself that you want to achieve this month. I
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Speaker 1: think one thing for me, I'm thinking of summer prep.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sure a lot of people think when it's summertime,
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Speaker 1: they think about obviously working out more, and I feel
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Speaker 1: like I'm in that mindset where I'm like, i feel
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Speaker 1: like i could be doing a little bit more than
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Speaker 1: what I'm doing currently. So I do plates every single morning.
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Speaker 1: As you guys know, I have been combining it with cardio,
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Speaker 1: which is spinning, but i haven't been spinning that much lately,
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Speaker 1: so I've been trying to like find different ways on
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Speaker 1: how i can include cardio every single day. So I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to do pilates in cardio, so almost not two workouts,
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Speaker 1: but almost two workouts every single day. So whether it's
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Speaker 1: walking or running or spin classes, whatever the case may be,
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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to find another source of movement that
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Speaker 1: I can do within my day to do that combo
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Speaker 1: of plates and cardios. So I've been doing pilates classes
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Speaker 1: in the morning and then I've been walking on my
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Speaker 1: treadmill for an hour and I've been doing that with
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Speaker 1: habit stacking. So whether I'm you know, doing some work
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Speaker 1: on my phone or reading. Reading has been a big
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Speaker 1: one for me, and I'm going to touch on that
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Speaker 1: in a second, but reading some morning pages while you're
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Speaker 1: walking on your treadmill in the morning, I think is
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Speaker 1: a great way to get extra movement in, but also
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Speaker 1: being able to habit stack is a game changer, and
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Speaker 1: then walking outside more. Obviously, trying to include some spinning
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Speaker 1: classes more into my routine is something that I'm really
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Speaker 1: trying to push myself to do every single day for
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Speaker 1: this month. So that's kind of like my little April
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Speaker 1: challenge for myself. When we were on vacation, I was
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Speaker 1: walking twelve to fifteen thousand steps a day. Okay, I
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Speaker 1: don't even do that here at home, so I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I can barely get to ten because obviously I work
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Speaker 1: from home, I'm not really walking, you know, constantly, Whereas
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Speaker 1: when we were at the resort, we were purposely walking
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Speaker 1: everywhere because you know, the casas, like each hotel room
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Speaker 1: h little casas, and we were in Costa five, so
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Speaker 1: we were really far from everything at the lobby, so
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Speaker 1: we would walk, but it was like a ten minute walk.
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Speaker 1: It's not like it was a long walk. But we'd
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Speaker 1: be doing that every single morning. So we'd be walking
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Speaker 1: to get breakfast, walking back to the hotel room if
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Speaker 1: we wanted to walk back to get a coffee, and
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Speaker 1: then walk back to the hotel room, like you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean, Like there was just constant movement and
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Speaker 1: I loved that. So I'm like, I need to keep
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Speaker 1: this up when I get home because I just feel
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Speaker 1: like walking is so underrated and it's truly one of
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Speaker 1: the best movements to be doing every single day. And
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Speaker 1: if you're walking ten thousand to fifteen thousand steps a day,
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, you will definitely notice a
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Speaker 1: difference in how you feel, how your body looks, all that.
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Speaker 1: So walking is truly a game changer. And yeah, just
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Speaker 1: something that I'm really trying to increase this month. And again,
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Speaker 1: if it's not walking, it's going to be spinning, or
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Speaker 1: it's going to be running, or you can also do
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Speaker 1: like biking, rollerblading. We're getting to that season where we
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Speaker 1: can actually get outside more and do more outdoor activities,
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Speaker 1: which is so fun. So yeah, another goal for me
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Speaker 1: is reading more. When I was on my trip, I
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Speaker 1: was reading The Housemaid. If you guys haven't read that book,
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Speaker 1: I highly recommend it. They're actually releasing a movie. I
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Speaker 1: believe they just wrapped up the filming in February and
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Speaker 1: the movie is supposed to be launching at the end
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Speaker 1: of this year. I think it's actually supposed to launch
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Speaker 1: on Christmas Day. But anyways, the book was absolutely amazing.
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Speaker 1: When I was in Poudicuana, I read the book every
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Speaker 1: summer after by Carly Fourtune I believe she's a Canadian author.
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Speaker 1: But anyways, the book was good. I really liked it.
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Speaker 1: It was really really good. But this book, wow, The Housemaid,
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Speaker 1: it just kind of like made me love thriller books,
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Speaker 1: Like I never thought I would love a thriller so much. Wow.
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Speaker 1: My anxiety reading those chapters was insane. I don't think
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Speaker 1: I've ever been so invested in a book in my life.
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Speaker 1: Like I truly like couldn't stop reading. I would be
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Speaker 1: outside tanning and Zach would be like, Okay, can we
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Speaker 1: go to the room, and I'm like, okay, one more chapter,
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Speaker 1: Like I just want to read one more chapter. And
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Speaker 1: then we'd get back into the room and I would
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Speaker 1: read more and Zach was like, hey, we should probably
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Speaker 1: get ready for dinner, Like you need to go put
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Speaker 1: your makeup on and get your hair ready. I'm like, okay,
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Speaker 1: just one more chapter. Like I was so addicted to
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Speaker 1: this book. I would say it's like a romantic thriller,
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Speaker 1: I guess, and it's so good, so it's a series.
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Speaker 1: So I already bought the second book on my mom's kindle.
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Speaker 1: My mom has a kindle and she's letting me use
10:22
Speaker 1: it just because I've been obsessed with it, and my
10:24
Speaker 1: mom doesn't really use it that much. My mom prefers
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Speaker 1: hard copy books because I bought the kindle for her
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Speaker 1: for Christmas, and I just find it funny how I
10:30
Speaker 1: bought it for her, but now she's basically letting me
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Speaker 1: use it for the time being, and she's just been
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Speaker 1: reading her books through hardcovers. But I don't really have
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Speaker 1: like a preference. I think having like the hard copy
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Speaker 1: versus the kindle, I don't really notice a big difference.
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Speaker 1: But the kindle is nice. Just it's smaller and it's
10:48
Speaker 1: just like easier to bring around, especially for traveling. But anyways,
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Speaker 1: I bought the second book and I haven't started it yet.
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Speaker 1: But one of my goals for April is to do
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Speaker 1: morning pages. So as I said, walking on the treadmill
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Speaker 1: while reading, even if it's just like a chapter, or
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Speaker 1: you could read two chapters, I like to walk on
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Speaker 1: the treadmill for an hour or so I can kind
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Speaker 1: of combine that with work as well, so I can
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Speaker 1: work off my phone obviously editing stuff and submitting stuff
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Speaker 1: in for work, and then also read my morning pages.
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Speaker 1: So that's what I've been trying to do, and this
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Speaker 1: could be another goal for April that I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: hit is having less screen time, so having a screen
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Speaker 1: free time in the morning and night by replacing it
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Speaker 1: with reading a book. So I think screen free time
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Speaker 1: is really important to include into your routine because I think,
11:37
Speaker 1: you know, everyone is a victim to doom scrolling through Instagram,
11:40
Speaker 1: through TikTok, and obviously with my job, I feel like
11:43
Speaker 1: I have to do some doom scrolling, but I do
11:45
Speaker 1: think I can choose different times to do that. So
11:48
Speaker 1: really kind of just setting more time aside in the
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Speaker 1: morning and at night to just have screen free time
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Speaker 1: and really just dedicate that to reading more is yeah,
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Speaker 1: something that's really important to me. I think overall, reading
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Speaker 1: was definitely a big goal for mine this year, because
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Speaker 1: I think I've mentioned it in previous episodes. But I'm
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Speaker 1: not the biggest reader. So if you're someone like me
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Speaker 1: that was never a big reader, like myself, I just
12:16
Speaker 1: could never find interest in like just reading in general.
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Speaker 1: I just always had a hard time imagining the characters,
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Speaker 1: imagining the you know, the situation in your head, and
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Speaker 1: it just was like hard for me to get into
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Speaker 1: a book. But I think it's because I wasn't reading
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Speaker 1: the right books. So I do truly appreciate people's recommendations
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Speaker 1: and opinions. So my mom actually recommended me The Housemaids.
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Speaker 1: She said, I feel like you would really like it,
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Speaker 1: and that's why I read it, and I was obsessed
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Speaker 1: with it. So I think having recommendations is super helpful.
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Speaker 1: So if there's influencers who are big readers, I think
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Speaker 1: those are really important influencers to follow if you're a
12:51
Speaker 1: big reader yourself, to get a lot of recommendations and
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Speaker 1: just yeah, reading different types of books that you might
12:56
Speaker 1: be interested in. So I will be fully transparent that
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Speaker 1: I'm definitely new to that and I've read two books
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Speaker 1: this year, and I'm already really proud of that. To
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Speaker 1: be honest, I think my goal this year was to
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Speaker 1: read twelve and I do actually think that could be
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Speaker 1: pretty achievable. So yeah, I don't know. I'm just trying
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Speaker 1: to make it a goal of mine to read more,
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Speaker 1: and I'm realizing how much I actually enjoy it and
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Speaker 1: how it's important to also, you know, read as much
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Speaker 1: as you can, because I think it's good for our
13:21
Speaker 1: minds to consume that versus consuming unnecessary content that we
13:25
Speaker 1: see on social media sometimes. So yeah, if you're someone
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Speaker 1: like me that isn't a big reader, I highly recommend
13:31
Speaker 1: trying out the two books that I recommended. One is
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Speaker 1: The Housemaid. I definitely think you need to read that
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Speaker 1: because it's amazing. And now I'm even more excited because
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Speaker 1: there's a movie coming out, and yeah, I really want
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Speaker 1: to do that. The other book that I know is
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Speaker 1: releasing a movie I think next year early next year
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Speaker 1: is Verity. Is that what it's called. I think they
13:51
Speaker 1: were filming in New York City. I saw a bunch
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Speaker 1: of like Instagram reels and tiktoks about the filming and
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Speaker 1: apparently that book's amazing. So that's another book that I've
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Speaker 1: been wanting to read. I don't know if that's a series,
14:03
Speaker 1: to be honest, it might be as well. But anyways,
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Speaker 1: there's so many good books out there that we could
14:09
Speaker 1: all yeah, get into. But that's something I'm working on
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Speaker 1: and I'm really proud of myself. For getting into it,
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Speaker 1: because it was definitely something that I felt like I
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Speaker 1: just never thought I could get back into. And like
14:21
Speaker 1: I used to read in high school. Obviously I think
14:23
Speaker 1: all of us did, but like, yeah, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I just had a hard time getting back into it,
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Speaker 1: and I feel like now I've fallen in love with it.
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Speaker 1: And I'm really really proud of myself for yeah, doing
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Speaker 1: something that I thought would I wouldn't enjoy, but I
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Speaker 1: actually do enjoy. And yeah, so highly recommend that book
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Speaker 1: that I read, and I was addicted the entire time.
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Speaker 1: I actually had a hard time vlogging because I was
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Speaker 1: so focused on the book. So you'll see in my
14:49
Speaker 1: YouTube video that will be posted hopefully tomorrow. Well, I
14:52
Speaker 1: guess today for you guys because it's Wednesday, but you
14:55
Speaker 1: guys will see like how invested I was in the
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Speaker 1: book and yeah, it's just super funny. But anyways, so
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Speaker 1: that's another goal of mine. Another one for April is
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Speaker 1: morning sunlight. So I really want to get back into
15:09
Speaker 1: just that, like walking in the mornings with the fresh air,
15:12
Speaker 1: or even just like stepping outside on my patio drinking
15:16
Speaker 1: my coffee with my book. Maybe, like I really try
15:19
Speaker 1: and prioritize that in the summers of me stepping outside
15:23
Speaker 1: immediately after my workout. So for me, like if I
15:26
Speaker 1: were to describe the perfect day for me, it would
15:28
Speaker 1: be waking up early, going to a workout class, coming home,
15:32
Speaker 1: eating my breakfast, making my coffee, and stepping outside and
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Speaker 1: either journaling or planning or reading while sipping my coffee.
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Speaker 1: I think everyone can agree that would be the perfect
15:43
Speaker 1: morning routine. So that is something that I'm trying to
15:46
Speaker 1: do is just really enjoy the fresh air. And I
15:50
Speaker 1: love in the summer running in the trails like that
15:53
Speaker 1: to me is so therapeutic. So when it's actually nice outside,
15:56
Speaker 1: being able to run outside and just get some fresh
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Speaker 1: air as soon as they wake up literally so key.
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Speaker 1: I also love to use my parents' backyard. My parents
16:05
Speaker 1: have a really nice setup in the backyard and I
16:07
Speaker 1: love visiting them in the summer and just sitting outside,
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Speaker 1: working outside, just bringing my laptop and getting some editing
16:14
Speaker 1: and like just podcast stuff done well in there. So
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Speaker 1: I currently don't have like a backyard setup. That's something
16:20
Speaker 1: that Zach and I are trying to figure out if
16:22
Speaker 1: we want to do this year or not. Of course,
16:24
Speaker 1: owning a house is not cheap. Like furniture is expensive.
16:27
Speaker 1: Backyard furniture is expensive. You know, we did invest in
16:31
Speaker 1: getting a fence last year, which was quite costly. So
16:34
Speaker 1: I'm like, do we want to put some patio furniture
16:36
Speaker 1: out this year, like get a couch, an umbrella all
16:39
Speaker 1: that we might? We may not. Anyways, the last goal
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Speaker 1: for April that I've been wanting to hit is experimenting
16:47
Speaker 1: with different recipes. So I have been really on food
16:51
Speaker 1: Pinterest right now, Like I've been really just trying to
16:53
Speaker 1: find different recipes because I think over time, when you're
16:56
Speaker 1: eating the same meals and this same food for an
17:01
Speaker 1: extended period of time, you kind of get sick and
17:04
Speaker 1: tired of things. Right Like, I've been eating kind of
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Speaker 1: like the same rotation of certain recipes that we've been
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Speaker 1: making for a pretty long time, and I'm like kind
17:11
Speaker 1: of getting sick and tired of them. I'm like, Okay,
17:13
Speaker 1: we need to change it up. And I also think
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Speaker 1: for me, it's something that I you know, I love cooking.
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Speaker 1: It's something that I enjoy and one thing that I
17:20
Speaker 1: always talk about here on the podcast is always trying
17:23
Speaker 1: new hobbies out all that, and I feel like for
17:25
Speaker 1: me I've always felt like a good cook, but I've
17:27
Speaker 1: never really you know, put the effort in actually experimenting
17:30
Speaker 1: and cooking more foods that I'm not you know, used to, right,
17:34
Speaker 1: like just experimenting with cooking a salmon properly or cooking
17:38
Speaker 1: a steak properly. Like I don't usually try to experiment
17:40
Speaker 1: with different things, Like I just kind of cook what
17:42
Speaker 1: I know. I'm good at cooking, and that's it. So
17:45
Speaker 1: one of my goals this month is to definitely experiment
17:47
Speaker 1: and try different recipes out, different meals out. It's definitely
17:51
Speaker 1: something I want to share through social media as well,
17:53
Speaker 1: like through TikTok and YouTube and all that of me
17:56
Speaker 1: trying different recipes out, seeing if it's a fail or
18:00
Speaker 1: seeing if it's, you know, the best meal ever. So yeah,
18:02
Speaker 1: I just feel like April's gonna be my month of
18:05
Speaker 1: discovering new recipes, trying out new desserts. We have a
18:08
Speaker 1: ninja creamy that we got for Christmas that we honestly
18:10
Speaker 1: haven't used much because we couldn't really find a good
18:13
Speaker 1: protein powder that was working for our ninja creamy. We
18:17
Speaker 1: just got a new one recently, so I'm hoping we
18:19
Speaker 1: can try a recipe out this week or next week.
18:22
Speaker 1: And then another thing I've been wanting to try is
18:26
Speaker 1: there's like a viral dates dessert. It's gone viral like
18:30
Speaker 1: I think a few years ago. To be honest, it's
18:31
Speaker 1: not like it's a new thing, but I've seen people
18:33
Speaker 1: do it where it's like dates butter, sea salt and
18:38
Speaker 1: chocolate chips, and then I think you can also drizzle
18:41
Speaker 1: almond butter as well. So I think I'm actually gonna
18:42
Speaker 1: try that tonight because I did buy all the ingredients
18:44
Speaker 1: for that, so I have that all in my pantry,
18:47
Speaker 1: so I think I'm gona attempt that tonight. But that's
18:48
Speaker 1: something that's, Yeah, I don't know how that's gonna be
18:51
Speaker 1: butter in a date. It's quite interesting. But anyways, just
18:54
Speaker 1: trying things like that that's completely different and new. Like
18:57
Speaker 1: I've been eating the same dessert for five years. I'm like, okay,
19:00
Speaker 1: it's literally just dark chocolate and chocolate grab crackers, and
19:04
Speaker 1: I'm like, we need to change us up, Like why
19:06
Speaker 1: am I still doing this after six years? So just
19:08
Speaker 1: making like little changes like that and healthier swaps and yeah,
19:12
Speaker 1: just finding ways to include new recipes into our weekly rotation.
19:17
Speaker 1: So those are my four or five goals that I
19:20
Speaker 1: just listed for April, just you know, trying out the
19:23
Speaker 1: pilates and cardio every single day. I'm also going to
19:27
Speaker 1: try and combine different workout classes, so I think I
19:29
Speaker 1: mentioned trying out agreed that was something I wanted to
19:31
Speaker 1: do coming back from Mexico, as well as some hot
19:35
Speaker 1: pilates classes. So it's a hot mat plates class and
19:38
Speaker 1: bar classes. So I'm gonna try those two out this
19:41
Speaker 1: month and then experimenting with different recipes, morning sunlight, screen
19:46
Speaker 1: free time, reading, more all that. So if you haven't
19:50
Speaker 1: set goals for yourself this month, I highly recommend it.
19:53
Speaker 1: It's a great way to motivate yourself to obviously just
19:56
Speaker 1: better yourself and just you know, stick within your healthy habits.
20:00
Speaker 1: I always recommend doing that, and I feel like we
20:02
Speaker 1: used to do this all the time entering a new month,
20:04
Speaker 1: and I figured I would bring it back when we
20:06
Speaker 1: start going into a new month. So those are my goals,
20:09
Speaker 1: and I'm going to hold myself accountable and make sure
20:12
Speaker 1: to hit those goals so we can go into April
20:15
Speaker 1: with a good mindset. Now we're going to get into
20:18
Speaker 1: the Spring refresh checklist, so things that you can do
20:22
Speaker 1: in your home or just for yourself to feel refresh
20:25
Speaker 1: going into a new season. We've kind of touched on
20:28
Speaker 1: a few things when it comes to spring, but I
20:30
Speaker 1: feel like I haven't really talked about like things that
20:32
Speaker 1: you could do kind of around your home when it
20:34
Speaker 1: comes to cleaning or just like refreshing your home and
20:38
Speaker 1: just going into a new season. I think everyone can
20:40
Speaker 1: kind of feel a little more refresh changing up certain things.
20:44
Speaker 1: So one thing that I'm doing this month is organizing
20:48
Speaker 1: my entire closet, so you know, taking away my winter clothes,
20:52
Speaker 1: bringing back my summer clothes, you know, getting rid of
20:54
Speaker 1: things that either I'm not wearing or doesn't fit me,
20:59
Speaker 1: or donating some things, selling some things, et cetera. So
21:03
Speaker 1: I definitely need to go through a lot of my
21:05
Speaker 1: workout sets. I have so many workoutsets that I don't
21:08
Speaker 1: even wear, to be honest, that I bought years ago
21:10
Speaker 1: that either just like don't fit me properly, or you know,
21:14
Speaker 1: when like workout sets just kind of get kind of
21:17
Speaker 1: like bulled up. Is that the word I'm looking for?
21:19
Speaker 1: You know, it just kind of like looks ratty. That's
21:21
Speaker 1: definitely not the right word, but you guys know what
21:23
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. It looks old, right, So I'm
21:26
Speaker 1: like I could get rid of these, and you know,
21:29
Speaker 1: just things that I can donate that don't fit me well.
21:31
Speaker 1: So that's something that I'm making a priority. Is just
21:34
Speaker 1: kind of like a closet refresh of just going through
21:36
Speaker 1: everything and yeah, getting rid of some things along with
21:40
Speaker 1: my makeup vanity, Like I have so much makeup that
21:43
Speaker 1: is either you know, probably expired or things that I
21:47
Speaker 1: don't use that just kind of like reacted with my
21:49
Speaker 1: skin that I could get rid of. So just finding
21:52
Speaker 1: areas in your home that you can completely refresh by
21:54
Speaker 1: getting rid of some things, so like your makeup vanity,
21:57
Speaker 1: your closet, bathroom cabinets, cabinets in your kitchen, your office,
22:02
Speaker 1: Like just find areas that you could declutter and just organize,
22:06
Speaker 1: because I think that's the key when you're going into
22:09
Speaker 1: a new season, is just kind of refreshing your space.
22:11
Speaker 1: Another big thing is the cleaning of your home, so
22:14
Speaker 1: cleaning out your fridge, cleaning your couch, cleaning your furniture.
22:17
Speaker 1: Like I just did a huge couch reset. I cleaned
22:20
Speaker 1: my entire couch. I put all the cushions in the wash,
22:23
Speaker 1: bleach them, let them air dry, and the couch looks
22:27
Speaker 1: so white after doing that. I usually try to do
22:30
Speaker 1: that once every three months, is cleaning the couch. But
22:34
Speaker 1: also just like deep cleaning your furniture, Like obviously dust
22:36
Speaker 1: builds up. Not everyone dusts every single weekend because that
22:39
Speaker 1: would be a lot, but your baseboards get really dusty,
22:42
Speaker 1: your furniture gets really dusty, your bed frame, like just
22:45
Speaker 1: like areas that you don't really think about. I think
22:47
Speaker 1: it's important to just kind of like look at all
22:49
Speaker 1: services and get rid of any dust, any mess, vacuuming,
22:54
Speaker 1: et cetera. Just kind of doing a good clean. Another
22:56
Speaker 1: thing that something that my sister actually pointed out to
22:59
Speaker 1: me that she's like, you should do this as your
23:00
Speaker 1: spring like refresh or spring cleaning, because I feel like
23:03
Speaker 1: this is something that a lot of people can do.
23:05
Speaker 1: But going through like your camera roll on your phone,
23:08
Speaker 1: Like guys, I have eighty five thousand photos and videos
23:11
Speaker 1: on my phone. Yeah, that's absolute craziness. I definitely need
23:17
Speaker 1: to go through it. Of Course, with my job, I'm
23:20
Speaker 1: filming constantly and I'm taking photos constantly, so that's just
23:24
Speaker 1: like gonna happen. I pay for like a lot of
23:28
Speaker 1: iCloud storage and all that with iPhone, but because it's
23:30
Speaker 1: my job, like it's just something that I have to do,
23:33
Speaker 1: but I do need to go through it because I
23:35
Speaker 1: do think I could probably take it down by least
23:38
Speaker 1: twenty thousand for sure, because there's a lot of videos
23:41
Speaker 1: and photos on there that I'm like have no purpose,
23:43
Speaker 1: to be honest, because let's be honest, if you're taking
23:46
Speaker 1: photos for Instagram, you're probably taking at least three hundred
23:49
Speaker 1: photos for that one good pick, so you know times
23:52
Speaker 1: that by however much. I got on vacation with my
23:55
Speaker 1: sister and Pudicana and then my trip was ZAC. So anyways,
23:58
Speaker 1: there's a lot of content that I need to go
23:59
Speaker 1: through and get rid of. So definitely need to do
24:02
Speaker 1: that is a camera roll clean and just like an
24:03
Speaker 1: iPhone cleanup. Also, just like if there's apps that you
24:06
Speaker 1: downloaded that you don't ever use, like that's something that
24:10
Speaker 1: you could just delete and get rid of. I know,
24:12
Speaker 1: I definitely have useless apps that I do not need
24:14
Speaker 1: on my phone, So doing kind of like an iPhone
24:16
Speaker 1: clean and then you know, going through your laptop any
24:20
Speaker 1: like screenshots or like your emails is something that I
24:24
Speaker 1: should go through as well, your files, just kind of
24:27
Speaker 1: like tiding up your screensaver and deleting anything that's just
24:30
Speaker 1: not necessary. But yeah, so just kind of like a
24:34
Speaker 1: digital cleanup or a digital declutter, I guess you could say,
24:38
Speaker 1: so going through it and just yeah, decluttering everything off
24:42
Speaker 1: your iPhone and your laptop would be essential for going
24:45
Speaker 1: into a new season. Things that you could do also
24:48
Speaker 1: within your home to make it feel like more spring
24:50
Speaker 1: and going into a new season is thinking about the
24:53
Speaker 1: sense in your home. So I'm a big candle girl.
24:55
Speaker 1: I love my candles, So for me, I kind of
24:59
Speaker 1: like buying candles based off the season. So usually for Fall,
25:02
Speaker 1: I'm doing more of like a kind of like mahogany
25:06
Speaker 1: wood scent. I really like that, those deep tones of that.
25:10
Speaker 1: For Christmas I'm doing more like cedar vibes, and then
25:13
Speaker 1: I feel like for spring, I'm very much into like
25:15
Speaker 1: that floral vanilla scent. So whenever I go to home
25:19
Speaker 1: sense or if you have like a home goods or
25:21
Speaker 1: anything like that, I'm always looking for sense that I
25:22
Speaker 1: feel like reflects the season, and you know, when you
25:26
Speaker 1: light it and it's in your home, it like makes
25:27
Speaker 1: you think of spring, or it makes you think of
25:29
Speaker 1: that season. I also love like room sprays or like
25:33
Speaker 1: bedroom sprays, like keep your house smelling fresh again, going
25:37
Speaker 1: with the floral scent for the spring season. So just
25:42
Speaker 1: doing little things like that I talked about in the
25:43
Speaker 1: last episode two of like finding ways to like decorate
25:46
Speaker 1: your home for spring, like getting dish towels or you know,
25:50
Speaker 1: kitchen towels in the colors that like really reflect springs,
25:53
Speaker 1: so like baby blue, baby pink, all that that's something
25:56
Speaker 1: that I actually want to do. I should be going
25:58
Speaker 1: to Home Sense maybe next weekend, just because this weekend
26:01
Speaker 1: is my birthday and it's just too crazy of a
26:04
Speaker 1: weekend planning a birthday party, and I never really talked
26:07
Speaker 1: about that with you guys. I'll talk about that at
26:09
Speaker 1: the end of this episode. But I have my birthday
26:11
Speaker 1: party this weekend, so it's kind of just been a
26:13
Speaker 1: crazy week of planning some things for that. So maybe
26:15
Speaker 1: next week I will do a little spring refresh flog
26:18
Speaker 1: and we'll go to Home Sence. We'll pick out some
26:20
Speaker 1: things to the house just to make it feel a
26:22
Speaker 1: bit more spring. We talked about this as April goals,
26:25
Speaker 1: but getting outside more and doing some activities outside is
26:28
Speaker 1: really important. So you know, maybe getting into some hobbies
26:31
Speaker 1: that you've been wanting to get back into, Like golfing
26:34
Speaker 1: is something that I've been wanting to get back into.
26:37
Speaker 1: Zach's obviously a big golfer, so just going to the
26:40
Speaker 1: driving range with him playing you know, a nine hole
26:43
Speaker 1: would be super fun. I love playing pickleball, So getting
26:46
Speaker 1: back into that, biking, rollerblading, you guys get the gist,
26:51
Speaker 1: But like getting outside more and just really starting to
26:54
Speaker 1: enjoy the warmer weather. And again it's kind of benefiting
26:58
Speaker 1: with getting more sunlight by being outside more and moving
27:02
Speaker 1: our bodies by doing something active all that. Another thing
27:06
Speaker 1: you can do for spring refresh is getting a haircut
27:09
Speaker 1: or getting your nails done, like doing any kind of
27:12
Speaker 1: appointment that makes you feel good. I'm getting a haircut
27:16
Speaker 1: actually next week. I haven't gotten one since December, I think,
27:19
Speaker 1: so for me, like, that's going to feel so nice
27:22
Speaker 1: just having my hair freshly done. It's a huge mood booster,
27:27
Speaker 1: it's a huge confidence booster. So maybe you haven't gotten
27:30
Speaker 1: your nails done in a while, get your nails done,
27:32
Speaker 1: maybe get them, you know, in a color that reflects
27:34
Speaker 1: the spring season, like a baby pink or a baby blue,
27:38
Speaker 1: or like something with florals on it. So I don't know,
27:41
Speaker 1: just like find things that maybe you haven't done in
27:43
Speaker 1: a while that makes you feel good and makes you
27:45
Speaker 1: feel refreshed. Like I always love having a pedicure on.
27:48
Speaker 1: I find having a matching pedicure and manicure always makes
27:50
Speaker 1: me feel really refreshed and just more confident. So yeah,
27:55
Speaker 1: just like doing little things like that where you can
27:57
Speaker 1: book an appointment that makes you feel good going into
28:01
Speaker 1: a new season that you feel like you might need
28:03
Speaker 1: a little refresh on, Like I said, your hair, your eyebrows, anything. Really,
28:07
Speaker 1: the last thing I'm god to recommend when it comes
28:09
Speaker 1: to your spring checklist is prioritizing tasks that they've been
28:11
Speaker 1: putting aside. So I don't know, I feel like there's
28:14
Speaker 1: always things that people are doing in their homes or
28:18
Speaker 1: work wise that they want to complete before the summer,
28:21
Speaker 1: because let's be honest, I feel like everyone's summer is
28:23
Speaker 1: usually pretty busy with plans, whether it's with friends, family,
28:26
Speaker 1: or booking vacations with like your boyfriend or your husband.
28:30
Speaker 1: So there's definitely a lot of tasks that like Zach
28:32
Speaker 1: and I have put aside that we always, you know,
28:35
Speaker 1: say we're going to do in the winter, but then
28:36
Speaker 1: things get busy, you know with work or you know, travel,
28:39
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. So for us, like my
28:42
Speaker 1: office slash podcast studio is something that we're going to
28:44
Speaker 1: start getting back into next weekend. We need to paint it,
28:47
Speaker 1: We have to pick up the chairs and just like
28:50
Speaker 1: add little details like a TV all that. And then
28:54
Speaker 1: another thing we've been wanting to do is in my
28:56
Speaker 1: living room, we have like little indents between our fireplace,
29:01
Speaker 1: like little knooks, and we've been wanting to add floating
29:03
Speaker 1: shelves there. So that's another thing that we've been wanting
29:06
Speaker 1: to do, potentially getting some backyard furniture, as I said,
29:09
Speaker 1: so getting lawn chairs, getting couches, setting up like a
29:12
Speaker 1: little kind of like backyard patio situation. So yeah, So
29:16
Speaker 1: just like little things that you guys have been putting aside,
29:19
Speaker 1: is definitely important to take on during the spring season because,
29:22
Speaker 1: as I said, let's be honest, summer's busy. You're not
29:25
Speaker 1: going to have the time to probably do those things
29:27
Speaker 1: on a weekend. Another thing for us is, like Zach's
29:30
Speaker 1: a huge sports guy, So he plays a lot of
29:33
Speaker 1: sports on the summer, like golfing and softball and baseball anyways,
29:37
Speaker 1: So I feel like a lot of the weekends that
29:39
Speaker 1: I want to get stuff done in the backyard. He's
29:41
Speaker 1: not always free to do so because he's usually in
29:43
Speaker 1: tournaments or you know, doing stuff with the guys. So
29:46
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, what we should prioritize April and
29:49
Speaker 1: May as like the two months of just getting everything
29:52
Speaker 1: that we need to get done around the house and
29:54
Speaker 1: just things that we've been you know, kind of putting
29:56
Speaker 1: on the back burner and not doing. I'm like, I
29:58
Speaker 1: really want to finish it that way going into the summer.
30:01
Speaker 1: Everything's done and we can just focus on enjoying the outdoors,
30:05
Speaker 1: enjoying time with you know, family, friends, doing activities outside
30:08
Speaker 1: all that. I just really want to prioritize this summer
30:11
Speaker 1: with not doing things around the house. I just want
30:13
Speaker 1: to be outside and enjoy the time that we do
30:15
Speaker 1: have for the summer season. So making those tasks a
30:18
Speaker 1: priority in the spring season I think is crucial for
30:21
Speaker 1: not just for myself, but for you guys, and something
30:24
Speaker 1: to think about. And it could be things that are
30:26
Speaker 1: not related to a house, could be things that you know,
30:28
Speaker 1: I said that it could be related to work, Like
30:30
Speaker 1: there could be stuff that you've been really wanting to
30:31
Speaker 1: work on, whether it's things for your own brand or
30:34
Speaker 1: just things that you have at the office that you're like, Okay,
30:37
Speaker 1: I should probably get this done. Like you're gonna want
30:40
Speaker 1: to take some time off realistically in the summer, So
30:42
Speaker 1: just really prioritize everything now for saving it for the summer,
30:46
Speaker 1: and then that way you have the summer to not
30:48
Speaker 1: stress about it knowing that you did all those tasks
30:51
Speaker 1: in the spring. So that's everything that I compiled together
30:54
Speaker 1: for a little spring refresh checklist, along with my goals
30:58
Speaker 1: and habits that I'm hoping to take into April this month.
31:02
Speaker 1: But I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. As I said,
31:05
Speaker 1: I am celebrating my birthday this weekend, so I'm actually
31:08
Speaker 1: hosting Bresso Martini themed birthday. I'm so excited. Last year
31:12
Speaker 1: I did host something here at my house, but this year,
31:15
Speaker 1: I'm actually hosting something at a restaurant. It's kind of
31:18
Speaker 1: like a private event that I'm hosting with a restaurant,
31:21
Speaker 1: and I'm super excited. There's gonna be a lot of
31:24
Speaker 1: express martinis. Obviously, I'm doing a lot of things that
31:27
Speaker 1: are like all brown theme all that, and I've been
31:30
Speaker 1: super into brown lately, so I'm so excited. It should
31:34
Speaker 1: be so fun and I can't wait to share with
31:36
Speaker 1: you guys all the content in regards to it, So
31:38
Speaker 1: stay tuned for some fun content these next few days
31:42
Speaker 1: through my social media. But I love you guys allso much.
31:45
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31:47
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31:54
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31:57
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32:00
Speaker 1: thank you all so much. Thank you guys for listening,
32:02
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