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119. hot girls make "small changes"... lifestyle tips with a BIGGER impact · 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: Hockrel 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 Hockrel Energy you want to attract. Hello you guys,
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  Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday. I'm really excited about today's episode because I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you guys have been looking at my
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  Speaker 1: social media, but your girl has been making some changes.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what has been in the air, but
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  Speaker 1: I think spring and just also the mindset of going
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  Speaker 1: into summer next month. Essentially, I see May as summer
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion. But I've just been like seeking change
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to so many things, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: in this episode we could really just talk about changes
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  Speaker 1: and small changes that you could do going into a
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  Speaker 1: new season. And one little update that we did this
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  Speaker 1: past weekend that has been something that I've been wanting
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  Speaker 1: to change for so long was my bedroom. And I
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  Speaker 1: think I probably talked about this either in a YouTube
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  Speaker 1: blog or a few podcasts episodes back, but definitely have
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  Speaker 1: been seeking some change in certain areas in my home.
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  Speaker 1: My main floor. I have no issues with like, my
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  Speaker 1: living area is perfect, my kitchen's perfect, My dining room
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  Speaker 1: I would like to get a new dining table for
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  Speaker 1: my podcast room is in the works. Obviously, we're just
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the two chairs to come in and then
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  Speaker 1: our bedroom. So the bedroom was probably the biggest thing
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  Speaker 1: that I just wasn't in love with. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why. I just felt like there was something that
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  Speaker 1: was missing or just something that had to change. And
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  Speaker 1: I think what I've realized is that as I age,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I have different design choices or just
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  Speaker 1: a different esthetic in general when it comes to home decor.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the more I'm on Pinterest and the
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  Speaker 1: more I see like different styles of course, like kind
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  Speaker 1: of like fashion, like we evolve and we like change
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  Speaker 1: different things when it comes to our clothing, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like as we get older, there's certain things that
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  Speaker 1: we prefer. Like I would say, for me, if I
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  Speaker 1: look at myself like five years ago when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to fashion, for an example, I feel like I was
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  Speaker 1: so into crop tops and like showing off my stomach
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  Speaker 1: and all that, and now I feel like I'm more
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  Speaker 1: like wanting to be modest, where I wear longer tank
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  Speaker 1: tops and you know, I want to wear just like
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  Speaker 1: long sleeves, and I love the look of long sleeve dresses,
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  Speaker 1: Like I like that modest look. Obviously, occasionally it's nice to, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, wear a crop top moment or if you're
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  Speaker 1: going out and you just like want to look really
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  Speaker 1: put together. I totally hear that. But I used to
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  Speaker 1: be a crop top girly every single summer. That's all
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  Speaker 1: I would wear all day, every day, and I feel
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  Speaker 1: like lately that's just not the case for me. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm always going towards just that more covered
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  Speaker 1: up look where it's you know, I love wearing jeans.
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  Speaker 1: I love the capri look as I talked about in
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  Speaker 1: the last episode. Just like fitted tank tops, fitted tops
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  Speaker 1: in general, I just find it looks more she of course,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to like sports brawls and all that
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  Speaker 1: and plates, I feel like that's a different story because
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  Speaker 1: you're in a workout class. It's not fashion. It's not
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  Speaker 1: a runway in my opinion, even though I like to
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  Speaker 1: look fashionable when it comes to my workout sets, but
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  Speaker 1: when we're talking like outfits that I want to wear
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  Speaker 1: on a daily basis, I don't want to wear crop top,
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  Speaker 1: like I want to wear something that's just a bit
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  Speaker 1: more chic, so to put it in the grand scheme
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  Speaker 1: of things. When it came to the design of our bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: I was always drawn to white and beige and cream,
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  Speaker 1: as you guys can probably tell by that, and lately
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  Speaker 1: I just have had this shift of wanting to go
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  Speaker 1: more for that darker, earthy tone. So I recently just
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  Speaker 1: ordered new bedding. I ordered dark brown betting, which I
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  Speaker 1: feel like is so different for me and out of
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  Speaker 1: my comfort zone. But I think that's the whole point
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  Speaker 1: is I want it to be very different, and I
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  Speaker 1: love how we're going into summer and I'm going for
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  Speaker 1: a fall color, but I just love how it's still
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  Speaker 1: a neutral color. And I've mentioned it I think in
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  Speaker 1: the past that brown has been one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: colors lately, and I just think it's so beautiful. So
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  Speaker 1: that's one thing I did. I ordered some new bedding.
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  Speaker 1: I also ordered some wall sconces, and I've been trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out my bedroom layout in terms of how
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  Speaker 1: I want the bedroom to look, since I want to
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  Speaker 1: seek some change and see a bit of a difference
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  Speaker 1: in our room. And we did flip the furniture this
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  Speaker 1: weekend and we just basically reversed everything, so everything that
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  Speaker 1: was on the previous wall we put on the wall
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  Speaker 1: across from it. But today I had this urge of
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  Speaker 1: doing everything myself, like moving all the furniture around again,
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  Speaker 1: but except not in the before spot that it was originally,
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  Speaker 1: but in a different spot. So I thought of something.
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  Speaker 1: This morning. I woke up and I was on Pinterest
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  Speaker 1: again and I found this one image and it was
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  Speaker 1: the same bedframe that we have, and similar nightstands and
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  Speaker 1: kind of a similar layout to our bedroom. And their
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  Speaker 1: bed was against the window, which I never thought about doing.
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  Speaker 1: But when I thought about it, I'm like, growing up,
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  Speaker 1: my parents did that in the guest bedroom. They did
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  Speaker 1: that in their master one time, and I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so this is a thing. And if you guys saw,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Obviously I enjoy having Zach's help when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to moving furniture around, but the last thing I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do was to tell them to change the
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  Speaker 1: furniture again. So for some reason today I just said,
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  Speaker 1: fuck it, I'm going to do it myself. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how this energy came to be, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how this strength was there, but I moved
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  Speaker 1: everything in our bedroom, and I'm so proud of myself
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  Speaker 1: because I don't think I realized how strong I actually
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  Speaker 1: was until I moved everything myself. And you guys will
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  Speaker 1: see in the videos that I post this week of
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  Speaker 1: just this whole process of changing our room up. But
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  Speaker 1: I think this layout looks so good. I'm actually currently
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  Speaker 1: sitting at it now because I didn't want to record
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  Speaker 1: the podcast in my podcast studio just because I love
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  Speaker 1: how our bedroom looks right now and I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to come sit in the view while talking to you guys.
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  Speaker 1: So anyways, definitely follow along if you guys want to
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  Speaker 1: see the bedroom journey. But I just love Home to
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  Speaker 1: Course so much and I'm always just feeling so inspired.
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  Speaker 1: And as I said going into this episode, I really
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about small changes that you can do,
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  Speaker 1: and I think this is a prime example of doing
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  Speaker 1: small little changes that you know, don't require any money
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that, and it just kind of like
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  Speaker 1: reinspires you to get in like a better mood. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for me, I just felt like, you know, I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: overly obsessed with how our bedroom was before, and don't
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  Speaker 1: get me wrong. I loved it when I first moved in,
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  Speaker 1: but we've been here for three years now and I
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  Speaker 1: was just like, you know what, I kind of want
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  Speaker 1: something that's a bit different, that's going to make me
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  Speaker 1: feel more comfortable coming into a room, more inspired, Like
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  Speaker 1: having a new setup feels new, right, feels good, it
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  Speaker 1: feels motivational. Like there's so many things you can say
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  Speaker 1: about small changes, and yeah, so just flipping our bedroom around,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to invest in little things, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not necessary. So if you're the kind of person that's
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  Speaker 1: seeking a small change and looking to do something a
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  Speaker 1: bit different. Or for an example, my sister, she you know,
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  Speaker 1: has been wanting to move out, but financially she hasn't
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  Speaker 1: saved enough money to do so. So I said to her,
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  Speaker 1: in order to do a small change for yourself, either
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  Speaker 1: change your bedroom furniture around in your room or change bedrooms.
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  Speaker 1: Because she's still living at my parents' place, and my
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  Speaker 1: parents have two additional rooms that are guest bedrooms. It's
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  Speaker 1: a four bedroom house, and obviously because I don't live
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  Speaker 1: there anymore, they have the extra space to do so,
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  Speaker 1: so Madison switched from her bedroom to my bedroom. So
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  Speaker 1: my old one, and she put her furniture in there,
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  Speaker 1: laid it all out, and it literally looks like a
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  Speaker 1: brand new room and she's obsessed with it, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like her mood has been so much better, and
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  Speaker 1: just she feels like it's new, right. It's just that
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  Speaker 1: small change that really just motivates herself and feels good
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  Speaker 1: going into that space. It's her comfort space all that.
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  Speaker 1: So those are just some changes that I'm currently doing
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  Speaker 1: that I feel like has really helped my mood, and
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  Speaker 1: just things that I'm doing to go into a new
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  Speaker 1: season as like a fresh start. And another thing we
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  Speaker 1: talked about in a previous episode is talking about new
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  Speaker 1: workouts because once again, I have been seeking some change
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to my routine, and I think it's
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  Speaker 1: important to do that ever so often. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: after you're in a routine for like like four to
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  Speaker 1: six months, I would say you kind of are seeking change.
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  Speaker 1: I would say when you're in a good routine for
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  Speaker 1: like four to six months, I think there's a point
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  Speaker 1: where you feel like things are getting a bit repetitive,
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  Speaker 1: and you might also just be seeking change because of
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  Speaker 1: going into a new season. So you know, the weather's
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  Speaker 1: getting warmer, and for me, I'm like, oh, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: craving like heated mat Pilate's Like, I'm just like craving
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  Speaker 1: that kind of workout. So i joined a studio that
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  Speaker 1: provides that, and I've been loving the what it's in
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  Speaker 1: Fred's Sauna, which I highly highly recommend finding in your
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  Speaker 1: area because there's so many benefits to Infred Sauna. But
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  Speaker 1: maybe we'll get into that topic in a bit. But anyways,
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  Speaker 1: I've just been seeking change because of course I love
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  Speaker 1: reformer pilates and I don't want to stop doing it,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to create a new balance in my
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  Speaker 1: routine when it comes to strength, when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: a cardio, when it comes to maybe the hot matt
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  Speaker 1: room all that. So I've been trying to break it
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  Speaker 1: down where it's like three to four reformer classes a week,
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  Speaker 1: two mat pilates, and then one to two spin COO
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  Speaker 1: classes and then trying to walk every single day. That
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  Speaker 1: alone sounds like a full time job, but anyways, that's
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  Speaker 1: just something that works for me, moving my body every
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  Speaker 1: single day. And yesterday I ended up doing two workouts
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  Speaker 1: in one day, and that was a lot, but I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to just see and test it out for my
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  Speaker 1: own self, just to see if I could actually get
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  Speaker 1: through two workouts and be physically okay, and of course
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  Speaker 1: I was. It definitely made me feel really exhausted by
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon, which isn't the ideal situation when we all
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  Speaker 1: have a job and we have to get work done.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, I don't think I'll probably do that again.
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  Speaker 1: I did Reformer in the morning and then I did
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  Speaker 1: a hot matted pilates in the afternoon. I got lunchtime,
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  Speaker 1: just an express class. And it's not like I'll never
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  Speaker 1: do it again. Maybe that's something that I just do
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  Speaker 1: once in a while. But it definitely was a really
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  Speaker 1: good workout day, let's just say that. And I felt good.
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  Speaker 1: I just felt really sore, like in the afternoon tired,
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  Speaker 1: and then this morning going into a workout class, I
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  Speaker 1: was feeling pretty sore just from I feel like overworking
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  Speaker 1: myself a bit. So Yeah, but let's talk about some
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  Speaker 1: changes that you can incorporate into your lifestyle, some small
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  Speaker 1: changes just going into a new season. So we talked
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  Speaker 1: about how small changes can boost your mood. It can
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  Speaker 1: give you that motivation, it can make your life seem
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  Speaker 1: a little less boring. But another thing that I can
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  Speaker 1: do is that it can help you break bad habits.
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  Speaker 1: For an example, I've been actually trying to cut my
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  Speaker 1: sugar intake a bit during the day because i have
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  Speaker 1: the biggest sweet tooth ever, and I'm not saying that
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  Speaker 1: I want to cut it out completely. Of course, everyone
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  Speaker 1: deserves a little sweet treat after dinner, but I always
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  Speaker 1: crave something sweet after every meal. So breakfast, I usually
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  Speaker 1: have fruits, so I'm good, but for lunch and dinner,
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  Speaker 1: I'm always craving something after that meal that just kind
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  Speaker 1: of like satisfies my sweet tooth. So I usually have
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  Speaker 1: either like a granola bar or some type of chocolate
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  Speaker 1: after lunch, and I'm trying to cut that out by
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  Speaker 1: substituting it with other fruits. So I actually bought grapes
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  Speaker 1: this week, and I've been having grapes with taheen. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you guys know what tahen is, but
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  Speaker 1: it's so good grapes and that is like the best combo.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of a weird comboke. It's got a limey
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  Speaker 1: chili taste to it, but I saw it on TikTok
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  Speaker 1: and it's so good and I highly recommend trying it out.
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  Speaker 1: But anyways, grapes has been like my substitution for like
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  Speaker 1: artificial sugar, so it's a natural sugar. I know grapes
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  Speaker 1: are pretty high in sugar, but I'm like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: at least it's not artificial, it's natural, and that's just
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  Speaker 1: something I'm trying to cut down, right, So I'm hoping
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  Speaker 1: eventually my body might not crave anything sweet after eating
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  Speaker 1: lunch and then after dinner. I'm just trying to find
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  Speaker 1: like healthier swaps that I can do. Like dark chocolate
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  Speaker 1: is probably a bit better than milk chocolate, so I've
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  Speaker 1: been trying to do that. I've also been trying to
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  Speaker 1: make healthier desserts, which I've talked about. I've been really
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  Speaker 1: wanting to try the date recipe, which I haven't done
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  Speaker 1: so yet. I have all the ingredients. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why I haven't tried doing it yet, but that's something
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  Speaker 1: I've been wanting to do. I've been wanting to make
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  Speaker 1: banana bread. I've been wanting to make homemade ninja creamies.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many things that I just want to try
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  Speaker 1: to incorporate into my current lifestyle. So that's just an
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  Speaker 1: example of how you can help break your bad habits
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  Speaker 1: is just by starting small. Think of different ideas and
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  Speaker 1: how you can break this bad habit that can hopefully
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  Speaker 1: help change your life. I know I already named a
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  Speaker 1: few examples of small changes, but I wanted to name
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  Speaker 1: a few more. So, as I mentioned, if you're wanting
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  Speaker 1: to change up your workout routine, I highly recommend trying
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  Speaker 1: out new workouts. Other workouts I've been wanting to try
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  Speaker 1: is lagree, as well as boxing, maybe even doing like
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  Speaker 1: personal training all that. But what I love about the
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  Speaker 1: hop pilates is how there's the infred sauna, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: and the benefits to that are insane. Like I'll name
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  Speaker 1: some of the benefits right now. It flushes out toxins,
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  Speaker 1: It reduces joint pain, relieves stiffness, proves skin tone, sleep quality,
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  Speaker 1: and reduces signs of aging. Alhelujah. We love reducing signs
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  Speaker 1: of aging. It's great for your skin, which is so great.
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  Speaker 1: And I also just love the feeling after the class
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  Speaker 1: of just feeling like you sweat everything out of your body.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm really trying to make that a priority to
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  Speaker 1: do twice a week. And I've mentioned in the past
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  Speaker 1: that I've been really wanting a sauna in my home,
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  Speaker 1: but since I don't have that, I've been using this
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  Speaker 1: workout class as my way of using a sauna. So
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  Speaker 1: using the Infred heat with the workout classes. I know
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  Speaker 1: it's not the same obviously, but there is some relaxing
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  Speaker 1: moments in the class as well, which is kind of nice.
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  Speaker 1: It's more of like a yoga flow in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: and then it gets really intense for like the last
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  Speaker 1: thirty minutes, and I kind of like the combination of
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  Speaker 1: those two. And I was so surprised to see how
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  Speaker 1: many of you, at least you follow me on my
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  Speaker 1: TikTok who said that they were like huge Oxygen girls
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  Speaker 1: that like live and breathe. It's the best thing they've
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  Speaker 1: ever done for themselves all that. So I love the
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  Speaker 1: community that it created through my social media of people
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  Speaker 1: going there, sharing their experience, sharing classes that I should take.
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  Speaker 1: All that. So if you want to check out Oxygen,
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  Speaker 1: I highly recommend it. It was a very fun class
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  Speaker 1: and I've been going to it consistently and yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: hoping to make this a continuous thing for the summer season.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that I will say made going to a
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  Speaker 1: new workout studio easier is bringing a friend because I
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  Speaker 1: know it can be scary going to a new gym
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  Speaker 1: or just a new workout class that you've never been to.
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  Speaker 1: But I find the easiest way to jump into a
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  Speaker 1: new class or just a new routine is asking a
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  Speaker 1: friend or your sister to do it. So, for an example,
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  Speaker 1: my sister and I ended up doing Oxygen together because
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  Speaker 1: we both have never done it. She wanted to do it,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do it. I'm like, well, let's do
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  Speaker 1: together because it's easier to, like, you know, be able
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  Speaker 1: to go together, do it together, talk about the class
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  Speaker 1: after in terms of what you both thought of it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's I don't know, there's just something that
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  Speaker 1: feels a little less scary and less nerve wracking when
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  Speaker 1: you do it with a friend or a sister. So
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  Speaker 1: if you've been wanting to change it up and try
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  Speaker 1: a different studio out, I highly recommend bringing a friend
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  Speaker 1: because I think you're going to be more inclined to
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  Speaker 1: go and try out the new workout class with a
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  Speaker 1: friend or your sister versus going alone. And yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: just find it makes a difference. Another small change is
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  Speaker 1: a new scenery. So, as I said, maybe changing some
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  Speaker 1: rooms up in your home, maybe going on a little
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  Speaker 1: road trip on the weekend, just kind of like getting
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  Speaker 1: out of a repetitive routine. Like I think sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: don't realize, like when we're in a red or when
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  Speaker 1: we're feeling low and you know, you're just seeking something
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  Speaker 1: different and you don't know what's going on. Sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: nice to do these small changes by going out of
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  Speaker 1: your way to make changes in your home or find
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  Speaker 1: time to you know, go away on the weekend and
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  Speaker 1: do a little road trip. Just like changing your routine
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  Speaker 1: and breaking out of it by changing different scenerings up
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: and just changing different things that you could do on
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  Speaker 1: your weekend, I think is essential and important. Like I've
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: only traveled once or twice this year so far, and
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: I'm lucky that I've gotten those opportunities because I do
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  Speaker 1: think breaking me out of my own routine, for an example,
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: and getting out and doing something different for a week
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  Speaker 1: and then coming home, you look forward to that routine
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: that you had before leaving, and you feel reinspired and
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: just that change of scenery of like leaving and having
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: that little trip to yourself was needed. So anyways, I'm
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: not saying go spend money on a trip, but I'm saying,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: you know, even if you have a cottage, like go
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: away for the weekend and just kind of change it
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: up for the weekend and then come back, or as
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: I said, like find spaces in your home to change
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: up that you might be kind of sick and tarrative
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: and you don't really realize it until you do it.
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  Speaker 1: So at least for me, I'm really happy with making
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: the changes in our room already, and I'm feeling more
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: inspired and my mood's just a bit better. Another small
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: change you could do is changing up your shower routine.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm a hot shower girl, and I think a
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: lot of girls I think tend to have hot showers.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I know Zach does not have a hot shower. He
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: hates hot showers, and I feel like, I don't know
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: that might be a guy thing, but I love taking
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: like a burning hot shower after any kind of workout
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: in the morning for like five to ten minutes, and
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: then I switched to cold for like the last minute
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: or two. I don't overly love cold plunges or cold water,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: but I know there's a lot of benefits to doing
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: cold showers like for focus, it boosts your mood, it
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: helps reduce anxiety all that. So doing that combination of
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: both is obviously really good for your health. You guys
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: know me, I'm all about trying those health and wellness
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: things that will benefit your health. So yeah, so that's
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: something that you haven't tried. I highly recommend trying it.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Another one is shopping at a new grocery store or
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: maybe even like a specialty store. Lately, I've been trying
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: to go to a bakery for all of our bread
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: here at home. So just like sour dough bagels, they
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: do scones there, they do dinner rolls, like literally everything
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: is fresh at this bakery and that's what I love,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: and I think another great thing about it is that
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the ingredients are ten times better. You do pay a
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: bit more for those things, but it's been a nice
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: change to support a bakery versus always supporting a grocery store.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Another thing I've been wanting to do, to be honest,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: is go to a butcher to get our meat moving
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: forward versus the grocery store. Because I don't know if
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: you guys live in Canada or not, but the prices
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: of Anyways, food at the grocery store is ridiculous, so
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: finding ways to yeah, maybe support other businesses, or again,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: just making the small change of like having a different
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: routine by changing up your grocery stores, I think is important.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Another thing we'd love to do is go to farmers' markets.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Right now, it's currently not open, but I do think
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: it starts in the beginning of May, which I'm very
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: excited about because I think the season for farmers' markets
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: here is from like the beginning of May to end
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: of October, so I'm really excited for that to start
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  Speaker 1: up again because I love getting our fresh produce from there.
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  Speaker 1: And again, it's a lot of small businesses, so just
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: discovering new businesses is always fun as well. And I
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: just find everything at a farmer's market just tastes better
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, because everything is beyond fresh and we
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: love fresh things. I think another thing you could do
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: as a small change is create something that you can
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: enjoy on the weekend, and maybe it's a little routine
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: that you have for yourself with your partner or a friend,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe trying out different coffee shops or getting
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: into a hobby together. We talk about that a lot.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Zach and I have been wanting to find a hobby.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: A lot of you guys actually messaged me after, which
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: was so sweet, and you guys recommended like biking, rollerblading, tennis, pickleball,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: all that. So we're trying to find something active to
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: do together. And I loved the idea of rollerblading, to
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: be honest, because I used to do that all the time,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: and I think it could be fun, like on the
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: weekends to go rollerblading to a coffee shop and going
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: to get a coffee together, or biking or whatever, right,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: just to like get out of the house, you know,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: be off your phone, enjoy the fresh air, be active.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Like I don't know, Zach's not a big runner. I
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: would love to run with him, but he definitely doesn't
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: like it. Freddy loves to run, but yeah, so that's
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: just gonna have to be something that I do by myself.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: But that would be another good idea to do with
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: your partner on the weekends, is just doing that and
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: trying different coffee shops together, or like going to get
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: different smoothies at different smoothie spots. Again, just like trying
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: those new things is always so refreshing. Other ideas you
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: could do is changing up your tea and coffee routine,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: so trying out different coffee recipes or again trying different
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: drinks out at home. I've been trying out different teas
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: in the morning. Instead of just having green tea, I've
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: been drinking like Dandelion tea or Camo meal tea. Coffee routine,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I've been kind of changing it up. I used to
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: add brown sugar, cinnamon, and honey before my espresso shot,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: but now I've been cutting out the sugars and i
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: just add honey in sea salt. Adding the sea salt
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: in my coffee has been a complete game changer. You
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: guys need to try the honey in sea salt before
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: you brew your espresso shot. If you are an espresso
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: lover or if you just have an espresso maker, please
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: add this before you pour your shot, and then mix
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: it with the spoon and then add it to your milk.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: If you're like a lote girl or a cappuccino girl,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how this has changed the coffee
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: game for me. I find the sea salt basically just
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: like activates the coffee flavor even more than what it
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: already is, and it just tastes ten times better. So
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know, and sea salt's good for you. I
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: put it with the grinder. I don't use that much.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: It's just like two little grinds with like a tablespoon
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: of honey and that's it and it's so good. Thank
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: me later. But you guys need to try it, especially
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: if you've been wanting to change up your coffee routine.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: It's my go to recipe and I've been loving it.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Other things you could do is like changing your wallpaper
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: on your phone or on your computer, finding things that
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: might be more inspiring for the new season. So it
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: could be like putting a spring background from Pinterest or
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: summer season. You could also, you know, put your vision
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: board up. If you haven't put that up on your
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: phone or your laptop. Minds my vision board. I constantly
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: look at it and it kind of just always reminds
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: me of things that I want to achieve for the year,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: or things that I want to achieve for the season
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: coming up. So things that I want to achieve for
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: the summer, like traveling a bit more, you know, doing
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: some things to the home. All that. The last one
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: is trying new recipes out. So I've talked about this
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: a lot, but I've been really wanting to change up
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: my dinner recipes at home because I'm pretty sure it's
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: really common for people to have like the same meals
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: in their household, like if they have the same dinner
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: rotation for you know, Monday to Friday, with different recipes
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: that they just always resort to. And I've just been
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: really sick and tired of the ones that we always
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: go back to. And for an example, last night, it
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: was Monday night and I decided to try out a
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: new recipe and I made stuffed peppers. It was so good, guys.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: It's just a pepper that you cut in half, you
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: take out the seeds, you rinse it out, and then
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: you add some stuffing into it, which I used extra
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: lean ground beef with some corn onion, and then I
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: added taco seasoning on top. Mix that up, heat it
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: up in a skillet, and then all you have to
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: do is just scoop it up, put it in the pepper,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: add some cheese on top, throw it in the oven
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: for like twenty minutes, and then I usually put some
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: guacamole on top. I'll make homemade guak and then if
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: you want, you can have a little bit of tortilla
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: chips on the side. Anyways, it was a huge game
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: changer because I feel like I usually have tacos, but
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I'm over that, Like I'm over having tacos every week.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, Okay, what's different. That's kind of similar,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: that's easy to make, And I saw the stuffed peppers
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: on Pinterest, and I'm like, this is perfect, it's easy,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: it's good. I also had a few extra for the
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: day before, so I was able to have it for lunch. Anyways,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: it was so good, so I highly recommend trying that out.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Another new recipe that we tried on Sunday was chicken
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: pot pie stew. We've been trying to make Sundays are
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: crockpot nights, especially because we can have again meal prep
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: for the week when we use it the crockpot, because
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I think it's usually about six to eat servings whenever
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: we make a recipe with the crockpot. And the chicken
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: pot pie was basically potatoes, carrots, peas, chicken, and then
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: just a bunch of seasoning. That was really good and
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I thought it was easy just to throw everything in
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the crockpot. I've also been loving my Greek raps, which
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: is essentially just a peeda rap with taziki or hummus
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: as your base, and then you can add like a
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Greek salad mix with a bit of Greek dressing. I
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: add chicken, I add a bit of feat of cheese, cucumbers, olives,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: what else, tomatoes, I don't know. It's just really good
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: and I just create like a little rap and I
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: have that for lunch. So just trying new things out
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: because I'm getting the eggch I've been sick and tired
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: of eating the same things that I usually do. So
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I think it's important to incorporate these new recipes you're
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: exposing yourself to because it allows you to fall in
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: love with new foods, new recipes and maybe your new
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: you know, dinner rotation or lunch rotation. By trying these
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: new things, it allows you to get excited, it allows
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: you to experiment with new things, and yeah, it's just
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: nice to incorporate new meals and they just become your
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: new go tos. So those are just some small changes
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: that I would recommend going into a new season. And
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I know this can sometimes be a little repetitive, but
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: it's more so just to like make you guys aware
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: that you can always make changes at any point in
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: your life, and that they don't always have to be
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: so big. They could be small things that you can
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: do in your home that could really just lift your
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: mood and kind of get you out of that rut
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: that you might be feeling, or just kind of get
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: your spark back, because you know, I personally feel like
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: when you go into a new season, it feels really
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: refreshing because it almost feels like a new start, And
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: these are just ways to really lift your mood and
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: just get you excited about going into a new season.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. We
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: are starting very exciting episode next week which I really
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: want you guys to be involved in. So next week
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: We're going to be starting an advice episode where I
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: would love for you guys to ask me questions and
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I'm going to answer them on the podcast next week.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I'm also going to include my sister into it because
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I think it would be fun to get two different
• 26:15
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• 26:19
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• 26:25
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• 26:32
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• 26:36
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• 26:38
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