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Monday Mini: Post-Pandemic Confidence · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to STEPHMO
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Speaker 1: never told you production of I Heart Radio. All right,
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Speaker 1: I have a question for you. Okay, what is something
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Speaker 1: that you did before the pandemic that you probably will
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Speaker 1: not do now? Yes? Now I was in right now,
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Speaker 1: or now I was in moving forward, moving forward, moving forward?
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Speaker 1: I probably I know we've talked about this some and
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Speaker 1: we're very fortunate and that this is an option. I
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Speaker 1: probably won't go into the office as much as I
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Speaker 1: did because I used to be like, pretty much every
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Speaker 1: day of the week, even if it wasn't necessary, I
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Speaker 1: went in to the office and outside of that. I'm
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Speaker 1: curious to see if this changes. But right now, I
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Speaker 1: don't think I'm going to have as many back to
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Speaker 1: back plans as many days of the week. Where it
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Speaker 1: used to be like I would be like, you're going
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Speaker 1: to this museum from this time to this time, and
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Speaker 1: then you're gonna go here from this time this time,
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Speaker 1: and every day was like that. I don't think that's
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Speaker 1: gonna be the case anymore, right Yeah, I think for me,
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Speaker 1: some things will be and I didn't do it too
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Speaker 1: much beforehand, but like food bars and I would go
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Speaker 1: to the Whole Foods and they have that food bar,
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Speaker 1: and I would I would go to town on that
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Speaker 1: side bar because they I love. They have chicken fried tofu,
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Speaker 1: probably one of my favorite things ever. As now, like,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll ever do this again, because
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Speaker 1: it wasn't great to begin with. I mean, the little
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Speaker 1: sneeze guards that seemed like a great idea, but people
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Speaker 1: purposely go underneath that to get to things and I'm like, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: And the one accepted was Whole Foods. And now I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think I'll be doing that anymore.
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Speaker 1: The automatic hugs that will be less likely, as well
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Speaker 1: as sharing drinks with strangers. And I say this and
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Speaker 1: like if I got to know you, maybe the first
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Speaker 1: time I got to know you, but about an hour
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Speaker 1: and a half later, I'm like, oh you want to
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Speaker 1: try this? I didn't think much of it, but now
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Speaker 1: I'm like, huh yeah, no, yeah. And the reason I
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Speaker 1: was thinking about all of these things, of course, there
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Speaker 1: are other things that we're gonna do that I'm not
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Speaker 1: we're not doing right now, Like right now, I won't
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Speaker 1: dine indoors. Eventually will I absolutely, But the preference is
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Speaker 1: that I will be eating on the patio at all times,
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Speaker 1: and I'm very excited about that because you know, in
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Speaker 1: Georgia we only have like a month of where that
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Speaker 1: is actually not too hot, not too cold, not to
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Speaker 1: poliny right, that we can do that, but just the
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Speaker 1: overall idea of going out and being a part of
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Speaker 1: society again has me really really anxious. And I know
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Speaker 1: we talked about this before, and that made me think
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Speaker 1: about how our confidence or lack thereof, how has changed
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Speaker 1: since after the pandemic. And again I don't know about
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Speaker 1: anybody else, and yeah, like I said, I've talked about
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Speaker 1: this before, but as we're preparing to meet up with
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Speaker 1: people and mingle with pool, I've started to have a
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Speaker 1: lot of second thoughts on whether or not I even
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Speaker 1: want to go out in the first place, and whether
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Speaker 1: I have the emotional motivation or strength to actually do it.
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Speaker 1: And of course this has everything to do with not
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Speaker 1: just being a part of society again and just interacting
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Speaker 1: with people and just socializing, but also my confidence in
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Speaker 1: my job and then what we're doing it has really waned,
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Speaker 1: I feel like during the pandemic, which is hilarious because
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Speaker 1: we've upped our amount of episodes that we do on
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Speaker 1: a constant basis. I'm finally getting to the point of this,
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Speaker 1: like year three, yo, I can't remember right, year three
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Speaker 1: of me finally, you know, me kind of getting adjusted
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Speaker 1: to this new job. But I'm still having a lot
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Speaker 1: of anxiety. Of course, it didn't help that I clicked
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Speaker 1: onto some reviews the other day and it was not pretty.
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Speaker 1: I know everybody got onto me, including Holly from Stuff
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Speaker 1: You Miss in History Class and Caroline from Unladylike and
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Speaker 1: Tracy of Missing History Clouds. They're all like, stop doing that,
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Speaker 1: And I didn't mean to. I was actually trying to
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Speaker 1: do it for work and I just ended up clicking
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Speaker 1: on it, and of course a word caught my eyes,
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Speaker 1: so I was like, let me, let me see what
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Speaker 1: this is, son of It was a huge mistake. But
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Speaker 1: I'm not the only one. So I feel a little
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Speaker 1: bit better about this and a little sad about this.
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Speaker 1: And according to one research I Think Tank, they found
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Speaker 1: over seventy of women struggling with self esteem or self
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Speaker 1: love issues and it ranged from different reasons such as
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Speaker 1: financial reasons, um and yeah, we talked about this before,
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Speaker 1: especially when it comes to black women and Latino women,
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Speaker 1: they've been hit hardest when it comes to the job
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Speaker 1: crisis during the pandemic, and that same study found over
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Speaker 1: felt financially insecure and seventy one have had their financial
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Speaker 1: plans being completely affected due to the pandemic, and it
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Speaker 1: is not all because of finance, but also due to
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Speaker 1: not surprisingly the state of the world, things like politics,
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Speaker 1: the pandemic, and for some feeling like they have move
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Speaker 1: forward in their lives, whether it's personal or professional. And
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Speaker 1: according it to one statistic, the lowest ranking and self
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Speaker 1: esteem or self love is in South Korea, Saudi Arabia,
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Speaker 1: and surprisingly France, while Denmark, Australia, and the United States
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Speaker 1: break the highest, which could be more about who was
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Speaker 1: asked more than anything else. Always get the question those
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Speaker 1: kinds of studies and again not such a shock. It
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Speaker 1: has shown that people who are frequent users of social
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Speaker 1: media are more likely to have lower self esteem, but
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Speaker 1: it's also worth noting that many of the same people
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Speaker 1: have said they get more emotional support they need, and
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Speaker 1: there have been many different reports talking about the overall
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Speaker 1: effect of social media, especially in teenagers, when it comes
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Speaker 1: to them using these platforms, and that's not adding the
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Speaker 1: overall pressures of the dreaded Zoom meetings. According to study
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Speaker 1: done by Washington University in St. Louis, they didn't find
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Speaker 1: a decrease in self esteem, which I thought was surprising
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Speaker 1: because I every time I opened it up by dial
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Speaker 1: ittle inside. They said, quote counter to expectations, daily video
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Speaker 1: chatting hours was unassociated with appearance satisfaction, which aligns with
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Speaker 1: some work that suggests the specific social media activities, rather
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Speaker 1: than the total spent using it, predicts body dissatisfaction. And
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Speaker 1: the research continues Furthermore, daily video chatting hours was not
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Speaker 1: associated with self objectification or video chatting appearance comparisons, though
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Speaker 1: self objectifications moderated the relationship between total video chatting hours
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Speaker 1: and both satisfaction measures. So essentially, what they're saying is
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Speaker 1: they expected that to be a problem. They saying that
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Speaker 1: they felt that their self esteem was hit and all
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Speaker 1: these things, but they really didn't care. It didn't really change.
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Speaker 1: It just kind of was like, huh, okay, it happens,
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Speaker 1: moving on and again. Like I said, Hey, I don't
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Speaker 1: know about you, but I'm definitely not one of those
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Speaker 1: who feel fine with all the Zoom and Skye and
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Speaker 1: any of these things. Because when I pop up the
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Speaker 1: video and shows me how I look at that day,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, yeah, I haven't looked in the mirror today.
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Speaker 1: But the one thing I do love is that I
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Speaker 1: can actually just turn off the hand run. So being
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Speaker 1: at a meeting without being at a meeting has been
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Speaker 1: really nice. And which, by the way, the study does
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Speaker 1: point out that many of those who participate in these
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Speaker 1: types of surveys did highlight that they really liked the
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Speaker 1: edit feature or that they could turn it off, and
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Speaker 1: that's part of the reasons. They're like, yeah, I can
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Speaker 1: change it if I want to. Yeah, I remember the
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Speaker 1: first time for I don't know the first time I
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Speaker 1: use zoom and I was just messing around with the
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Speaker 1: like edit my appearance feature. It's like, whoa, this is
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Speaker 1: why I'm not savvy enough, and I'm just like, just
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Speaker 1: turn it off, just turn it off. Well, I mean
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Speaker 1: it does reach a certain point. I mean, you gotta
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Speaker 1: have a light touch unless you want people to know like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: she's got that edit my appearance function creak to the top.
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Speaker 1: And I'm guessing I didn't look into this that the
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Speaker 1: purchasing has increased for things like the ring light, which
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Speaker 1: a lot of people have now I have noticed to that.
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Speaker 1: I have noticed to that, and I actually have one
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Speaker 1: in here. I did not purchase it specifically for Zoom,
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Speaker 1: but I did move it from where it was into
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Speaker 1: here because I was like, well, if I'm gonna be
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Speaker 1: on camera all the time, ms, get the ring light out. However,
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Speaker 1: it's facing my wall more than my face, so not great.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, issues of body image have been a prevailing
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Speaker 1: theme throughout the pandemic as well. And honestly, yeah, I've
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Speaker 1: been uh stocking up a lot on ponchos and that
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Speaker 1: this is part of my now normal clothes closet because
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm preparing for the vast girl woman summer.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, new fashions cover up as much as I
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Speaker 1: can with as much material, but that doesn't make me
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Speaker 1: too hot. And ponchos they give you the options of
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Speaker 1: not having too long with sleeves. I should get out
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Speaker 1: of my Luke Skywalker pots. Are you haven't see me
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Speaker 1: in it yet? Samantha super cute. I love how people
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Speaker 1: always say it so ugly and I'm like, oh, I
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Speaker 1: think it looks so cute. Yeah, that's actually I haven't
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Speaker 1: had the chance to tell you this because it kind
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Speaker 1: of just happened, Samantha. But the other night a friend
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Speaker 1: of mine, a really good friend of mine, texted me
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Speaker 1: like nine pm and said, do you want to come
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Speaker 1: hang out at a bar that's near me? I'm here,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, what is this last minute plan?
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Speaker 1: And it's like, I know, I'm bringing them back and
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Speaker 1: I felt too gross and ugly to go outside. And
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Speaker 1: I couldn't say that because then he'd be like, come
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Speaker 1: on and being ridiculous. But that's what that was my
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Speaker 1: immediate like, And I know a lot of friends, women,
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Speaker 1: particularly in my group, that have said similar things. Right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: One scientific journal found that stress and anxiety has increased
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Speaker 1: due to people's ideas around body image. There is this
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Speaker 1: defeat his attitude about what they should and should not
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Speaker 1: have accomplished while in quarantine. And again we see social
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Speaker 1: media and a lot of fat phobic content that feed
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Speaker 1: into this narrative that that's been a big conversation throughout
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Speaker 1: this whole thing. Right And according to the National Eating
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Speaker 1: Disorders Association, quote, people with negative body image have a
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Speaker 1: greater likelihood of developing and eating disorder. They are also
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Speaker 1: more likely to suffer from the feelings of depression, isolation,
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Speaker 1: low self esteem, and obsession with weight. And that's again
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Speaker 1: to say that this is this horror level of it's
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Speaker 1: not actually what your body looks like, but it's how
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Speaker 1: you're thinking on it and what is making you think
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Speaker 1: on it and a yeain and part of that is
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Speaker 1: this whole narrative that we've been talking about throughout our episodes.
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Speaker 1: And I know a lot of women in general are
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Speaker 1: talking about the fact that there's this feeling a failure
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Speaker 1: because we didn't We had all this time, and why
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Speaker 1: didn't you do this? And you could have done this
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Speaker 1: while you're there, and because we didn't or may not
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Speaker 1: have done it, we feel like we haven't met those expectations,
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Speaker 1: as well as that it becomes a moment of obsession
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Speaker 1: to it, like why didn't I do this? And all
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Speaker 1: this is my fault that I did this and all
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Speaker 1: these things. And I think we would definitely want to
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Speaker 1: add negative body image can affect anyone, so it doesn't
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Speaker 1: matter what you look like at all. Again, just the
10:49
Speaker 1: preface that this is not about what you actually look like.
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Speaker 1: It's what you actually think in process and what's being
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Speaker 1: fed to you. Right and as we talked about earlier.
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Speaker 1: Financial issues have made many and insecure due to the pandemic,
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Speaker 1: but so has the overall level of job skill, which
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Speaker 1: can lead to burnout. According to CNBC and Survey Monkey
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Speaker 1: Women at Work survey that was conducted um February through
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Speaker 1: March of this year, just in case you're listening to
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Speaker 1: this in the future, at least fifty women said they
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Speaker 1: were suffering from burnout due to their jobs, and many
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Speaker 1: experts report it's the usual level of bias and lack
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Speaker 1: of fairness that many women have been dealing with for years,
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Speaker 1: added to the pandemic that is causing this increase of burnout.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, this isn't even talking about the unequal responsibility
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Speaker 1: laid on women in the household, which one report estimated
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Speaker 1: at least twenty additional hours of extra work was added
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Speaker 1: because of that household responsibility. Yeah, any how many hours
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Speaker 1: do you think a week you average for this job?
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Speaker 1: I will say it heavily depends on the week, but
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Speaker 1: it can go up to the fifty or sixty. And
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Speaker 1: in fact, I have a friend who uses an app.
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Speaker 1: We're almost like you're clocking and clocking out because we
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Speaker 1: do traditionally do that with our job, but just to
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Speaker 1: keep tracks so I know how many hours I am
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Speaker 1: putting in. Some weeks it's much less, for sure, but
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Speaker 1: because of the way our jobs are structured, and now
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Speaker 1: you're doing that at home, and these lines are blurred
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Speaker 1: between like home life and office life, and depending on
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Speaker 1: your state of mind, you might be working, you might
12:20
Speaker 1: be working really early in the morning or at off hours,
12:22
Speaker 1: so you're not thinking of it in that way, and
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Speaker 1: so it's really difficult to get a clear idea of
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Speaker 1: how much it is. Especially I don't know if you've
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Speaker 1: experienced this, but I feel like the hours just bleed
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Speaker 1: together and somehow, like I don't know if it's the
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Speaker 1: pandemic or stress, I feel like things are taking me
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Speaker 1: much longer than they used to take me. And I
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Speaker 1: can't really say what that is. I don't maybe it's
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Speaker 1: not even true, but it feels like I used to
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Speaker 1: be able to get all my work done and pretty
12:51
Speaker 1: standard work time hours, and now it's like working weekends
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Speaker 1: isn't out of the that's pretty regular, right, And I
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Speaker 1: think that's part of the problem, and that we are
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Speaker 1: not addressing enough, especially when we talk about working from home,
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Speaker 1: especially when we're talking about salary jobs and why it
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Speaker 1: can be problematic because when you start dwindling down how
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Speaker 1: many hours you truly work, you're like, oh, I'm getting
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Speaker 1: paid five dollars an hour. That's right, that's not worth it.
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Speaker 1: And as in fact what you were talking about, why
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Speaker 1: it takes you longer. One of the workplace experts, Jennifer Moss,
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Speaker 1: actually stated that yes, burnout, which you may not even
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Speaker 1: realize you have, often leads to brain fog, fatigue, and
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Speaker 1: chronic stress and has made even small task like folding
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Speaker 1: laundry or unloading a dishwasher really exhausting, which means it
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Speaker 1: takes you a lot longer and it seems really hard
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Speaker 1: when it's like I've done this for so many years.
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Speaker 1: Why is this a problem now? And especially again when
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Speaker 1: we can't differentiate our regular hours versus work hours. And
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Speaker 1: you're better at getting on top of things than I am,
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Speaker 1: but you're not better at stopping. You don't limit yourself
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Speaker 1: and that is problematic for you. Um Me, I'll give
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Speaker 1: up sometimes, but it bleeds into my hour stretch. Over
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Speaker 1: a twelve hour I would work day, but I and
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Speaker 1: it maybe eight hours, but it may take me three
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Speaker 1: hours to do one of the tasks that should have
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Speaker 1: taken me thirty minutes, like I actually measured like this
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Speaker 1: should take me this long. It take me this long?
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Speaker 1: What did I just do? And part of that, especially
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Speaker 1: when I this kind of job to me is so
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Speaker 1: different because research seems so like college like that I
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Speaker 1: can't quite grasp professional versus research, which is again very
14:31
Speaker 1: different from me from what I used to do, which
14:33
Speaker 1: I would go in and have conference calls and you know,
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Speaker 1: different things like that. That was obviously like a different
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Speaker 1: level professional bits where I would do a documentation of interviews.
14:42
Speaker 1: When I would do investigations, it was different. This researching things,
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Speaker 1: it seems like it's almost against school like, which meant
14:49
Speaker 1: I would wait till the last minute, but do it
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Speaker 1: ham it within six hours. So my ideal discipline has
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Speaker 1: gone out the window and I have regressed to really
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Speaker 1: bad college habits for this job. So it's really weird.
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Speaker 1: But on top of that, again my confidence I feel
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Speaker 1: like it's shot because this is something that this kind
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Speaker 1: of job allows for a lot of people to critique it.
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Speaker 1: Outside of just your boss and ourselves. You have so
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Speaker 1: many people who have so many opinions that it makes
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Speaker 1: me so shell shocked that I feel like I can't
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Speaker 1: do my job properly and I don't have the confidence
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Speaker 1: to say that I have. Yeah, if that makes sense.
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Speaker 1: So it's a whole different thing, which again brings back
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Speaker 1: the whole like burnout stress where I get I quit. Yeah. Well,
15:33
Speaker 1: and there's a lot we could unpack there, and I'm
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Speaker 1: sure we will in a future episode of just when
15:38
Speaker 1: we have the conversation of you know, being feminist enough
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Speaker 1: or am I like is my voice worth hearing? And
15:43
Speaker 1: then you get the critiques and then you get in
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Speaker 1: your head and then you doubt everything about yourself and
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Speaker 1: what you're doing, and then you have a pandemic and
15:49
Speaker 1: you're like, I know I could do better, but I'm
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Speaker 1: so stressed right like this all this stuff, and I
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Speaker 1: will say for me also for the long work hours.
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Speaker 1: This is something I thought about when I was going
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Speaker 1: on a mental experiment of like what would happen if
16:03
Speaker 1: I got fired today? And I was just thinking that
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Speaker 1: I do rely on work a lot um too as
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Speaker 1: a stress Like as stressful as it is, it also
16:14
Speaker 1: distracts me from other like politics, or it gives me
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Speaker 1: something to do, so I use it in that way also,
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Speaker 1: So that that's another aspect of this whole thing. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: as we get back to whatever normal is, and many
16:29
Speaker 1: would argue there is no real getting back to what
16:32
Speaker 1: we assumed to be normal before the pandemic, it is
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Speaker 1: important to measure how you see yourself as in taking
16:38
Speaker 1: care to not fall under the pressures and lies of
16:42
Speaker 1: unrealistic expectations. We do have some advice on how to
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Speaker 1: care for yourself as we ease back into society and
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Speaker 1: as many of us have discussed, did the pressures of returning,
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Speaker 1: how to deal with those um the pressures returning to
16:56
Speaker 1: putting the job first in a capitalistic society, so here
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Speaker 1: one letting things go. Prioritize what you need and the
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Speaker 1: best way for you to be productive. So most times
17:07
Speaker 1: you can't do it all. That's unrealistic, unhealthy to think
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Speaker 1: that you have do and you you that's something that
17:12
Speaker 1: you can do, and we have to prioritize in order
17:15
Speaker 1: to be able to be productive. So that includes saying
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Speaker 1: no when you don't have the time to do it,
17:21
Speaker 1: or just if you don't want to. So if they're
17:22
Speaker 1: asking you to volunteer, don't say yes if you don't
17:25
Speaker 1: want to. If you don't enjoy it. Why learn compassionate detachment,
17:29
Speaker 1: which is defined as the quote manner in which we
17:32
Speaker 1: relate to others when we allow them to deal with
17:35
Speaker 1: their own problems, and therefore they're free to choose to
17:38
Speaker 1: become responsible for their own issues. Also, you can say
17:41
Speaker 1: it as you can observe but not absorb, so not
17:46
Speaker 1: taking on those responsibilities. And here's a few ways to
17:48
Speaker 1: do that. One retreat, remove yourself from that situation, if
17:52
Speaker 1: it's not a situation you would be a part of,
17:54
Speaker 1: or if it's not giving you good vibes, put down
17:56
Speaker 1: that phone, walk away from that conversation, Go with high
17:58
Speaker 1: in the closet if you need hiding is great. I
18:01
Speaker 1: love doing that. Restore, whether it's going in a quiet
18:04
Speaker 1: space like we talked about, taking some deep breaths, maybe
18:07
Speaker 1: showering to wash off that negativity literally, or even a
18:11
Speaker 1: much needed fifteen minute power nap. Who knows? What do
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Speaker 1: you evaluate? Is this person someone who is there for
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Speaker 1: you as much as you are there for them. You
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Speaker 1: need to really consider what this friendship is. Is it toxic?
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Speaker 1: Even this work relationship? Is it uplifting? In same as
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Speaker 1: any situation. Listen to your body, Listen to your instincts,
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Speaker 1: which is sometimes easier said than done. And I'm actually
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Speaker 1: really working on that. Taking time for yourself, so that
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Speaker 1: could be things like going outside, turning off your phone.
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Speaker 1: I just lost my phone, so I'm kind of dealing
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Speaker 1: with this right now, even though she's been out twice
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Speaker 1: since she's been vaccinated and lost her phone on the
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Speaker 1: second time the first time. That's true. That's true. Give
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Speaker 1: yourself breaks throughout the day, even if you are working
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Speaker 1: from home. Step away from your workspace and stay connected.
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Speaker 1: Find your people, stay connected with them, whether it's just
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Speaker 1: a quick text, exchange your chat. Restore yourself with the
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Speaker 1: people who know you and love you for who you are.
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Speaker 1: Ponchos and all, And yes, Samantha, even though your poncho
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Speaker 1: scared the crap out of me that one time because
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Speaker 1: it was hanging on a closet wall, you're still a
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Speaker 1: great friend of mine. It was my wearable comforter. That
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Speaker 1: is a giant poncho. But it's the size of a tent. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because it's also very very thick. It looks like a
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Speaker 1: person just staring at you. It's true, that's what I thought,
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Speaker 1: and it's scared me. But to be fair, I am
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Speaker 1: easily scared so well. Listeners, please let us know if
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