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- 0:00Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on gadagal Land Always was, always
- 0:04Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal Land.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Payticks, I'm out and this is two broad chicks to
- 0:15Speaker 2: show that shares life lessons and tips to help make
- 0:17Speaker 2: you rich in life. And welcome to the start of
- 0:21Speaker 2: our little series, our midyear glow up series. Who doesn't
- 0:27Speaker 2: love a midyear blow up? Deli Rodney raisy hand. No
- 0:30Speaker 2: one raised their hand.
- 0:31Speaker 3: Everyone loves it.
- 0:32Speaker 2: Everyone loves it. And normally we do this episode as
- 0:36Speaker 2: like one episode in the middle of the year, but
- 0:39Speaker 2: there's always so many things that we want to kind
- 0:43Speaker 2: of encompass it. So rather than doing like one big,
- 0:46Speaker 2: giant long episode that you get halfway through and you're like, boring,
- 0:50Speaker 2: I've got places to be, people to see, we're doing
- 0:53Speaker 2: little mini pockets of basically a course, the mid you
- 0:57Speaker 2: glow Up course if you will.
- 1:00Speaker 3: Exactly like the media glow.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Up for your mind, body, and soul exactly.
- 1:03Speaker 2: We're going to be talking things relationships, skincare, money, all of.
- 1:08Speaker 1: The above, fashion and style of course.
- 1:11Speaker 2: And also emotional hygiene. Yeah, very which I'm very excited
- 1:15Speaker 2: for that one. And I'm like, I have dirty emotions.
- 1:19Speaker 3: I need mouthwash for my emotions.
- 1:21Speaker 2: I need mouthwash for my hot I actually do really
- 1:23Speaker 2: need mouthwash at the moment, but today not right right now,
- 1:27Speaker 2: just at like home, but I didn't have a coffee,
- 1:30Speaker 2: so maybe yeah, you know, but today we're going to
- 1:34Speaker 2: be talking the midia glow up to Your inner circle
- 1:38Speaker 2: very important, so friendships, relationships, and all of the above.
- 1:41Speaker 2: So why does your inner circle matter?
- 1:43Speaker 1: So you're inner circle includes the people that you spend
- 1:47Speaker 1: the most time with. Human beings are very very social.
- 1:50Speaker 1: We thrive in social situations, and well we've always thrived
- 1:54Speaker 1: in groups, and there are lots of benefits to having friends.
- 1:59Speaker 3: And that's even come from somebody who's like a little
- 2:01Speaker 3: bit more of a I don't know how to describe
- 2:03Speaker 3: it introverted.
- 2:04Speaker 1: It's like an extroverted interest introverted anyone.
- 2:08Speaker 2: But like the reason why it's like that is like
- 2:10Speaker 2: it's a spectrum, right, Like no one is, like, yes,
- 2:13Speaker 2: I like being around and loud to people one hundred
- 2:17Speaker 2: percent of the time, because bro, at some point in time.
- 2:19Speaker 3: You've got to go to sleep, right, So, like, I
- 2:22Speaker 3: do think we.
- 2:23Speaker 2: Have it the I have an issue with the amount
- 2:26Speaker 2: of labels we feel the need to give us anyway,
- 2:29Speaker 2: in terms of like, you know, and how maybe glorified
- 2:32Speaker 2: some of them are of the over others, whether it's
- 2:35Speaker 2: you know, extrovert over introvert or whatever you want to
- 2:39Speaker 2: look at in terms of labels that I don't think
- 2:42Speaker 2: you're in a circle, changes molds or is different depending
- 2:46Speaker 2: on where you align on that, because I think you're
- 2:48Speaker 2: in a circle and your support system works to whatever.
- 2:53Speaker 2: Your way to give love and be loved is, Like,
- 2:56Speaker 2: you don't just not have friends because you're an introvert.
- 2:59Speaker 2: Like in quotes again I'm saying I don't. I don't
- 3:02Speaker 2: think those exist. Like, I just think you are who
- 3:05Speaker 2: you are, and you have relationships and are yourself in
- 3:09Speaker 2: different ways because in some relationships I'm probably a little
- 3:12Speaker 2: bit more quieter, believe it or you know, and then
- 3:16Speaker 2: in others I'm like, oh, like doing a death drop.
- 3:19Speaker 2: So drag race reference just for the literals out there,
- 3:23Speaker 2: yeah likely okay, no, no, no drag race reference. It's a
- 3:28Speaker 2: dance move. But yeah, so I don't even think like
- 3:32Speaker 2: that term applies. I think potentially even with like life,
- 3:37Speaker 2: like you know, when you were twenty, you were probably
- 3:39Speaker 2: going out a lot more and you'd be like yeah
- 3:41Speaker 2: or even like your social circle can change, Yeah, you
- 3:45Speaker 2: would consider your inner circle does change over time.
- 3:48Speaker 3: But I think some of those core things.
- 3:49Speaker 1: That you need in your inner circle, whether it's a
- 3:52Speaker 1: group of ten people or two, is that they can
- 3:55Speaker 1: really help maintain your emotional stability and self esteem. They're
- 4:00Speaker 1: also the people that give you those reality checks and
- 4:03Speaker 1: pull you up on your ship when you need it.
- 4:07Speaker 1: And those pants do not match that top, yeah exactly, Yeah,
- 4:11Speaker 1: or you put down the blue jeans you have four pairs.
- 4:14Speaker 2: If you ever said that to me, I think I'd
- 4:15Speaker 2: start crying if you ever said that to me. Belate, okay.
- 4:19Speaker 1: And also to help in like romantic relationships as well, right,
- 4:22Speaker 1: because I think a lot of people do consider their
- 4:26Speaker 1: romantic partner to be a part of their inner.
- 4:28Speaker 3: Circle, and I think that's normal.
- 4:30Speaker 1: But you definitely need those third parties who you can
- 4:33Speaker 1: vent to and talk to and who can give you
- 4:35Speaker 1: that perspective.
- 4:36Speaker 3: Even if your partner is your best friend.
- 4:39Speaker 2: There's a very large conversation about, like, you know, your
- 4:42Speaker 2: partner shouldn't be your best friend, Like I asterix that
- 4:47Speaker 2: to you know, if you have a romantic partner, I
- 4:49Speaker 2: do think they should be your best friend. But I
- 4:52Speaker 2: don't think they should be your only best friend. I agree,
- 4:54Speaker 2: I like to have a partner that because as someone
- 4:57Speaker 2: who has dated guys that I think they love, but
- 5:00Speaker 2: I don't think they liked me. I very much value
- 5:04Speaker 2: at my inner circle to have a romantic partner in it.
- 5:07Speaker 2: But that isn't It's a circle for a reason. Otherwise,
- 5:09Speaker 2: if my partner was my best friend, to be a
- 5:11Speaker 2: line you now a to b I thought I was
- 5:15Speaker 2: going to get a laugh with that, But that's okay.
- 5:18Speaker 3: I thought you're being earnest.
- 5:19Speaker 2: No, if your boyfriend's only a partner, it's not a circle,
- 5:22Speaker 2: it's a line, bitch, thank you. I was like, come on,
- 5:26Speaker 2: tough crowd, tough crowd.
- 5:30Speaker 1: But also, your inner circle is literally important for your
- 5:34Speaker 1: health and your longevity in life. A twenty twenty three
- 5:37Speaker 1: studies showed that people with high friendship scores had their
- 5:40Speaker 1: chances of all cause mortality reduced by twenty four percent
- 5:44Speaker 1: and a nineteen percent reduction in the risk of stroke.
- 5:48Speaker 3: Your inner circle has like a quarter of an impact
- 5:51Speaker 3: on your mortality. That's wild.
- 5:53Speaker 2: And I think what's probably the most important part in
- 5:56Speaker 2: this as well is who you let into your inner circle.
- 5:59Speaker 3: And it's not.
- 6:01Speaker 2: There's so much weight on just having friendships that sometimes
- 6:06Speaker 2: it does mean that the bar two friendships is in hell.
- 6:10Speaker 1: You know.
- 6:11Speaker 2: I actually saw a post and it was of a
- 6:14Speaker 2: recent study, and it said that nearly one in three
- 6:17Speaker 2: people have someone in their life researchers would classify as
- 6:21Speaker 2: a hassler, So it's someone who regularly creates stress, conflict,
- 6:26Speaker 2: or emotional burden. And in one study, each hassler in
- 6:30Speaker 2: a person's social network was associated with a one point
- 6:35Speaker 2: five faster pace of biological aging, or nearly nine extra
- 6:39Speaker 2: months of biological age. So kind of like what you're
- 6:44Speaker 2: saying is like hassler's can literally age you. Yeah.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, I think I brought that
- 6:50Speaker 1: up as a life lesson a few months ago.
- 6:52Speaker 2: Yeah, And I like, toxic friendships are literally toxic to
- 6:56Speaker 2: your health. You get higher disease risk, more inflammation, reduce
- 7:00Speaker 2: immune functions. So like, really emphasizing and glowing up your
- 7:05Speaker 2: inner circle is protecting your peace and your health. Yeah, seriously,
- 7:10Speaker 2: it's crazy how much stress like affects your body. And
- 7:14Speaker 2: there was also research by social psychologists doctor David McClelland
- 7:19Speaker 2: from Harvard University found that the people you habitually associate
- 7:23Speaker 2: with determined as much as ninety five percent of your
- 7:26Speaker 2: success or failure in life.
- 7:29Speaker 3: That is a lot of pressure.
- 7:30Speaker 2: That is like girl, yeah, so yeah, if ever I
- 7:35Speaker 2: fail at anything else.
- 7:36Speaker 3: It's my faulty. No, but I think you don't flip it.
- 7:40Speaker 3: Let's flip that, Yeah, the success exactly.
- 7:43Speaker 2: So I think that's a nice way to look at
- 7:45Speaker 2: it as well, like all the success in your life.
- 7:48Speaker 2: And I think that's true. That can probably be you know,
- 7:51Speaker 2: put down to maybe the support you had as a
- 7:53Speaker 2: child or friendships you had while growing up and then
- 7:56Speaker 2: obviously later in life.
- 7:58Speaker 3: But have you heard of the mirror effect? No, So there's.
- 8:01Speaker 2: This phenomenon called phenomenon.
- 8:04Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know.
- 8:05Speaker 2: No, just one time we're growing out, my dad said
- 8:07Speaker 2: phenomenon and never let it and we never let it go.
- 8:10Speaker 2: And so basically that word to me now is phenomenon.
- 8:14Speaker 2: But it's called the mirror effect. So there's this phenomenon
- 8:17Speaker 2: called the mirror effect, and basically it means your friends
- 8:20Speaker 2: and who you choose to spend time with actually show
- 8:24Speaker 2: what you're willing to tolerate and celebrate on a daily basis.
- 8:27Speaker 2: So if you're in a circle, is flaky, avoids hard
- 8:30Speaker 2: or serious conversations when they need to happen, or isn't reliable,
- 8:35Speaker 2: you will subconsciously start to show those traits too, I
- 8:38Speaker 2: believe that. I believe that as well. So like if
- 8:41Speaker 2: you were in toxic friendships, you will start to display
- 8:43Speaker 2: those And like as someone who has had friendships that
- 8:47Speaker 2: you know, weren't necessarily the strongest and you know, nor
- 8:50Speaker 2: the nicest, I can absolutely say that that does rub off.
- 8:53Speaker 2: Like I think it's a reactive thing, you know, if
- 8:56Speaker 2: someone's growing up and in high school, like sometimes if
- 8:59Speaker 2: someone drops low, sometimes you do as well.
- 9:03Speaker 1: Well. I do think that saying you are the company
- 9:05Speaker 1: that you keep is partially true and definitely applies here.
- 9:09Speaker 1: I don't think that you're always responsible for your friends' actions.
- 9:13Speaker 2: No, but you are responsible for your reactions.
- 9:16Speaker 3: Yeah, and how much you tolerate your situations as well.
- 9:38Speaker 3: It also reminds me of.
- 9:39Speaker 1: Something called the five friend theory.
- 9:42Speaker 3: Have you heard of that?
- 9:43Speaker 1: So it's also referred to as the average five And
- 9:48Speaker 1: it's the idea that you're the product of the five
- 9:50Speaker 1: people that you.
- 9:51Speaker 3: Spend the most time with.
- 9:53Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's so true though, because if you're around
- 9:56Speaker 2: like let's say you're friends and they're always bitching about
- 9:59Speaker 2: someone or they're all always moaning about something, you just
- 10:02Speaker 2: end up bitching and moaning as well.
- 10:05Speaker 1: Yeah, Or if you have that one friend who on
- 10:07Speaker 1: the flip side, when you're having a moan or a
- 10:09Speaker 1: bitch about something or a bit of gossip, and then
- 10:12Speaker 1: you have that one friend that's like, come on, guys,
- 10:14Speaker 1: like it's none of our business or whatever, you're like, damn,
- 10:17Speaker 1: they're right.
- 10:18Speaker 3: So I do.
- 10:21Speaker 1: That's true, but I just never really thought of it
- 10:23Speaker 1: that way. So it's an idea that was popularized by
- 10:26Speaker 1: motivational speaker Jim Ron. So it's things like your habits,
- 10:30Speaker 1: your income, your mindset, and success are greatly influenced by
- 10:34Speaker 1: the five closest people.
- 10:36Speaker 3: In your life.
- 10:37Speaker 1: So I think we were talking about it more so
- 10:40Speaker 1: in terms of like behaviors or attitudes, but that it
- 10:43Speaker 1: could impact even career and income, which I think is
- 10:46Speaker 1: true as well, because if you're surrounded by people who
- 10:49Speaker 1: are really career oriented or really motivated and productive people,
- 10:53Speaker 1: I do think.
- 10:53Speaker 3: That definitely rubs off.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Your friendships aren't responsible completely for your action.
- 11:00Speaker 2: But they definitely do influence them.
- 11:02Speaker 1: The things that we do, or how we perceive things,
- 11:05Speaker 1: or how we react to things. And I do think
- 11:08Speaker 1: it's important to acknowledge that and take stock of your friendships,
- 11:13Speaker 1: all the five closest people around you, and how they
- 11:15Speaker 1: could potentially be influencing.
- 11:18Speaker 2: Or even just like zooming out a little bit and
- 11:20Speaker 2: going like, do these relationships and friendships make me the
- 11:25Speaker 2: best version of myself?
- 11:26Speaker 1: Like?
- 11:27Speaker 2: Do these relationships and friendships actually bring me joy? And
- 11:31Speaker 2: would I be like proud to look back on this
- 11:34Speaker 2: time and be happy with how like I've spent my
- 11:37Speaker 2: life and who I've spent my life with?
- 11:39Speaker 1: Yeah, And are these friendships or relationships in your life
- 11:43Speaker 1: helping you reach where you want to be and reach
- 11:46Speaker 1: the success that you want? Because I saw a post
- 11:48Speaker 1: as well, which I'll link in the show notes, but
- 11:51Speaker 1: somebody was talking about this five friend theory and they
- 11:55Speaker 1: pointed out that you absorb what's around you.
- 11:58Speaker 3: So even when it comes.
- 11:58Speaker 1: To ceilings that you put on yourself, So whether it's
- 12:01Speaker 1: a ceiling for.
- 12:02Speaker 3: What you think that you could achieve or you could.
- 12:04Speaker 1: Do with your career, or really anything, if the people
- 12:08Speaker 1: are around you are like you can't do that, or
- 12:11Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen.
- 12:12Speaker 3: Then you start to believe that when you see like people.
- 12:17Speaker 2: You know, like online telling stories about how they like
- 12:20Speaker 2: told their friends they like wanted to start making content
- 12:23Speaker 2: online or something, and their friends like laugh at them.
- 12:25Speaker 2: I'm like disgusting, it was fucking one of yours.
- 12:30Speaker 3: Yes, but exactly, yeah, I just I.
- 12:32Speaker 2: Just think when you look at it, and again the
- 12:36Speaker 2: term in a circle, I do think we very easily
- 12:41Speaker 2: kind of conjure up the idea of like friends or
- 12:46Speaker 2: like the show Friends, or Sex and the City, and
- 12:49Speaker 2: we immediately want to blink and create this like friendship
- 12:52Speaker 2: group that constantly sees each other without having to make effort,
- 12:57Speaker 2: like doesn't really have like crazy arguments or disagreements. And
- 13:02Speaker 2: you know, we conjure up these ideas of like the
- 13:04Speaker 2: friendship group, right, And a lot of people in adulthood
- 13:09Speaker 2: feel bad about themselves because they might not necessarily have
- 13:13Speaker 2: that friendship group. But having an inner circle does not
- 13:16Speaker 2: mean you need to have a big, giant friendship group.
- 13:19Speaker 2: Your in a circle can be two people, yeah, you know,
- 13:22Speaker 2: like you're in a circle can be your two best friends.
- 13:25Speaker 2: You don't need a million friendships. You just need people
- 13:28Speaker 2: that fill your cup, make you shine and support you,
- 13:32Speaker 2: and like again, that's sometimes going to have hiccups. Like
- 13:36Speaker 2: radical honesty is a really big part of friendships, as
- 13:38Speaker 2: we've spoken about recently. But I know, you know growing
- 13:43Speaker 2: up that that was one thing that I was always like, hmm, like,
- 13:47Speaker 2: you know, having enough friends, But you really don't need,
- 13:51Speaker 2: you know, a huge amount of friends to have an
- 13:55Speaker 2: inner circle. You just need to actually support yourself by
- 13:59Speaker 2: who you're too using to support yourself with.
- 14:02Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree, And you're in a circle. And
- 14:06Speaker 1: those friendships that are closest to you also don't have
- 14:08Speaker 1: to be perfect, just like you're not perfect as well
- 14:13Speaker 1: within yourself.
- 14:14Speaker 3: Like that also doesn't mean that you have to put
- 14:16Speaker 3: up with their shit.
- 14:18Speaker 1: I think you want, you want all the relationships in
- 14:21Speaker 1: your life to be that positive.
- 14:23Speaker 3: Agreed.
- 14:24Speaker 2: I think you can. If you're feeling like you want
- 14:26Speaker 2: to have a little bit of a reflection on you know,
- 14:29Speaker 2: your friendships and you're in a circle, you can ask yourself.
- 14:32Speaker 2: You can ask yourself three questions about them. One, after
- 14:36Speaker 2: I'm with this person, do I feel expanded or diminished?
- 14:40Speaker 1: Two?
- 14:41Speaker 2: Does this person talk about dreams or just problems? Big one?
- 14:46Speaker 2: And would I want my children to turn out like
- 14:48Speaker 2: this person's by see that one is a spicy, spicy
- 14:54Speaker 2: mean boll. How often do you take stock of who's
- 14:56Speaker 2: in your life. I don't know if I do it
- 14:59Speaker 2: that regularly, to be honest. I do think that when
- 15:02Speaker 2: we wrote our book Finding of People, we were talking
- 15:05Speaker 2: about this study that found that people typically sort of
- 15:10Speaker 2: like refresh their friendships every seven years. And I do
- 15:13Speaker 2: think that that's true, and it happens kind of naturally.
- 15:15Speaker 3: Yeah, so every seven years.
- 15:17Speaker 1: I don't sit down with a notepad and pen and
- 15:20Speaker 1: be like cross cross cross tick tick tick. But I
- 15:22Speaker 1: do think that when I look back, I do think
- 15:25Speaker 1: that just naturally, through school and UNI and going through
- 15:29Speaker 1: different stages in my career and also just different stages
- 15:32Speaker 1: in life, as people move away or prioritize their career
- 15:36Speaker 1: or family or whatever it is, like, your friendships do change.
- 15:39Speaker 1: So I think that that's probably how often that would
- 15:42Speaker 1: happen for me. But I definitely do every time I
- 15:45Speaker 1: leave like a social situation, I definitely pay attention to
- 15:49Speaker 1: how I feel after it.
- 15:51Speaker 3: So maybe there's a little micro stock takes yeah.
- 15:54Speaker 1: And then so next time, if I'm invited to a
- 15:56Speaker 1: situation or to a like an outing or whatever a party.
- 16:01Speaker 3: Then I really am like, how did I feel last time?
- 16:03Speaker 1: Do I feel like, you know, I'm ready to go
- 16:06Speaker 1: out and be like a social butterfly, or did I
- 16:07Speaker 1: feel a little bit drained or you know, I try
- 16:10Speaker 1: and think about those things before I go and spend
- 16:12Speaker 1: time with somebody as well. What about you?
- 16:15Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for me, I kind of imagine it
- 16:19Speaker 2: like my inner circle is like a room and there's
- 16:21Speaker 2: just like an open door essentially, and so it's like
- 16:27Speaker 2: some people will be in the room for a while
- 16:30Speaker 2: and then maybe they'll duck out for a bit, and
- 16:32Speaker 2: then maybe they'll come back in the room, or maybe
- 16:34Speaker 2: they won't. And that's kind of how I see my
- 16:37Speaker 2: inner circle because I've definitely found now in my later
- 16:41Speaker 2: twenties and now thirties that I don't think showing up
- 16:46Speaker 2: and being there for friends. I also don't have kids,
- 16:48Speaker 2: so like, I'm sure this perspective would change once or
- 16:52Speaker 2: when or if you know, I have kids or more
- 16:54Speaker 2: of my friends have kids. But I think, you know,
- 16:57Speaker 2: for a lot of the close friendships and people I
- 16:59Speaker 2: consider in my inner circle, it's just easy to be
- 17:02Speaker 2: there for them and it's easy for them to be
- 17:04Speaker 2: there for me, and so it's like they're just in
- 17:06Speaker 2: the room and they're just there. And then there are
- 17:09Speaker 2: definitely people that I still love and have so much
- 17:12Speaker 2: care for, but maybe they've moved away, maybe we haven't
- 17:15Speaker 2: spoken as much. Maybe you know, they've gotten a new
- 17:17Speaker 2: partner and they're like ducking out.
- 17:20Speaker 3: But the doors still open.
- 17:21Speaker 2: And there are some people that I'm like, they probably
- 17:23Speaker 2: won't be coming back through that door, and that's okay, yeah,
- 17:25Speaker 2: you know, like it's not I wouldn't sit here and
- 17:29Speaker 2: be like these are the three people that are in it.
- 17:32Speaker 2: It's kind of more just like a yeah, I don't.
- 17:36Speaker 2: But that also comes a lot more from the fact
- 17:39Speaker 2: that I felt like I was chasing friendship a lot
- 17:43Speaker 2: at a certain point in my life and that I
- 17:45Speaker 2: wasn't good enough for friendships for a very strong period
- 17:47Speaker 2: of my life, whereas now I think it's very valued
- 17:51Speaker 2: to me for people who willingly show up and that's
- 17:54Speaker 2: like what I like to do for them as well.
- 17:56Speaker 1: I like that it's not like a hard and fast
- 17:58Speaker 1: from no, yeah, having a open door theory exactly.
- 18:03Speaker 3: I like it.
- 18:04Speaker 2: Well, that's a wrap for our first little episode.
- 18:07Speaker 3: We'll see for episode two.
- 18:08Speaker 1: Chickies, thanks for having us in the emails.
- 18:10Speaker 3: We love to be here.
- 18:12Speaker 2: Bye bye