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You’re Making Money. But What Is It Costing Your Health? · Health, Life & What’s Next

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  Welcome to Health, Life and What's Next.
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  with Dr.
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  Jennifer Ginty.
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  This is the podcast where we explore what it really means to live well through honest conversations about health, life, business, and everything in between.
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  Because remember, healing is about more than medicine.
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  I'm so glad you are here.
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  Let's get into today's conversation Some of you are making more money than you ever had made in your life.
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  You got the promotion, the title, the business, the house.
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  Maybe you finally reached the income you used to pray for, and everybody looking at you thinks,"Oh my God, look at her.
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  She's doing well." But guess what?
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  You are exhausted.
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  You're not sleeping the way you should.
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  You keep saying you're going to make the doctor's appointment.
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  You eat whatever's convenient because you have another meeting, and you have no time to meal prep.
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  You answer emails when everybody else in the house is sleeping.
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  You wake up already thinking about what needs to be done.
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  And whenever your body asks you for something, your answer is,"Da da.
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  Not now.
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  Not now, I have a deadline.
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  Not now, my children need me.
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  Not now, the business needs me.
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  Not now, I'm trying to get promoted.
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  I have bills.
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  I'm trying to build something.
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  Not now.
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  Not now.
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  Not now." So I want to ask you a question that I think a lot of successful people, women, don't ask themselves until something forces them to.
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  And I will put myself in this category, so I'm not here to judge, to blame, because I was a"not now" lady.
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  Okay?
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  When I was going to school, building my career, becoming this doctor that I am today, like I'm s- I started from the bottom all the way up, I had no time.
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  It was all about all of the things.
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  When I had a c- a child, my first child, my son, it was all about him.
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  I didn't have time to take care of myself, so I can understand the"not now" situation.
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  But the question I want you to ask is this: what if the life you are working so hard to afford is becoming the life you are too exhausted to enjoy?
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  That used to be me.
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  Three jobs.
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  I am moonlighting in urgent care.
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  I'm going to the emergency room.
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  I am making money, paying my bills, but guess what?
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  Exhausted.
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  Because we talk a lot about how much success costs financially.
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  We don't talk nearly enough about what it costs physically.
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  And I don't think women realize how often we use our bodies to subsidize our ambition.
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  We borrow from sleep.
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  We borrow from recovery.
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  We borrow from our mental health.
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  We borrow from time with the people we love.
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  We borrow from ourselves, and we keep telling ourselves,"I'll pay it back later.
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  Maybe I'll get more rest after this quarter.
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  Maybe I'll just go on a vacation after this promotion.
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  Maybe I'll afford to take a day off," right?
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  You know you have PTOs, but I'm not gonna take it because I cannot afford to.
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  But you can take a day off.
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  I'll go on vacation when I make more money.
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  I'll do the things that I wanna do in my life and enjoy my life after my children get older.
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  Okay, it's everything after I make more money, the business grows, after things calm down.
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  But what if later keeps moving?
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  What if later never comes?
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  I know something about this.
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  Before I opened Wellness Corner NJ, I worked in the emergency room, and one of the very attractive things about that career was that the money was predictable.
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  If I wanted to make more money, guess what?
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  I would take another shift.
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  I work another weekend.
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  I pick up more nights.
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  There was a direct relationship between I give more of myself and I make more money, and that was very seductive, let me tell you.
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  Specifically when you are ambitious, specifically when you are supporting a family, you're a single mom, especially when you worked hard to get somewhere professionally, you can justify almost anything because the reward is measurable.
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  But eventually, I had to ask myself, what is this actually costing me?
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  I was barely home.
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  My schedule was exhausting.
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  I was on my feet all day long.
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  I didn't feel fulfilled anymore, and I had built a life that looked very successful on paper and also at the bank, while privately feeling like something was missing.
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  That is one of the reasons I left.
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  That's the interesting part.
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  I left that schedule, opened my own business, and eventually created some of that same pattern and behavior, building different businesses Having a different job, same woman.
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  Now, nobody was forcing me to work at night, but I was the boss making myself work at night.
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  Nobody told me to wake up thinking about work.
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  Nobody told me to check everything.
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  Nobody told me I had to carry the business at home mentally.
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  I had changed careers.
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  I hadn't completely changed my operating system, and that taught me something very important.
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  Sometimes the problem isn't only the job.
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  Sometimes we have learned to measure our value by how much we can carry.
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  Now, think about what we praise in women, okay?
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  She's dependable.
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  She never misses anything.
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  She handles everything.
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  Everybody can count on her.
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  She works hard.
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  She takes care of the children, the spouse, the parents, the husband, the business.
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  She gets the promotion.
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  She answers the phone.
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  She figures it out.
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  She doesn't complain.
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  And at some point, being needed becomes part of their identity So now resting doesn't simply feel like resting, it feels irresponsible.
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  Saying no feels selfish.
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  Leaving work on time feels like you are not ambitious enough.
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  Delegating feels like you are dropping the ball.
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  And if you're making good enough money while doing all of this, now you got evidence that the sacrifices is working, and that's the trap because money can hide dysfunction for a very long time.
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  You can pay for a beautiful vacation, and you are too exhausted to enjoy it.
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  You can buy the biggest house, but you are barely there to spend any waking hours inside of it.
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  You can build the business you've always wanted and be mentally unavailable to everybody you built it for.
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  You can make enough money to eat at a very fancy restaurant you want, but while eating lunch over your laptop most days.
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  You can afford the spa and still live in a body that never actually relaxes.
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  So what exactly are we calling wealthy?
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  That's the conversation I want us to have because I am absolutely not going to sit here and tell you your money doesn't matter.
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  Okay?
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  Money matters.
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  We like money.
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  As a matter of fact, we love money.
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  We can create choices with money.
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  We can, donate with money.
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  We can take care of other issues with money.
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  Money can create security.
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  It can support your family, your life, your parents.
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  Money give us, plenty to work with.
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  We can travel with money.
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  You get my drift.
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  You can invest in your health with money, but leave situations you no longer need to tolerate.
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  That's what money can also afford you.
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  I want women financially successful.
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  What I don't want is for us to build financial security by continuously withdrawing from our physical health.
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  Your body should not be the silent investor funding every other part of your life.
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  And there's an actual research behind why working patterns deserve our attention.
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  Now, the International Labour Organization did a research study.
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  They look at long working hours and health outcomes, comparing with working 35 to 40 hours per week.
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  People that work 55 hours in one week or more, was associated with an estimated 35% higher risk of stroke and heart disease.
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  Now, I have nurses listening to this, I have doctors listening to this, and they can attest to that.
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  And I know with our nurses, we love to pick up extra shift, but we're doing so exhausted.
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  Okay?
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  We think we're like Energizer bunny, but we are not.
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  So there was a study done, they stated that people that work at night, people that work more that the body can, Compensate for or the body deserve always ended up having with health issues.
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  It is high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, because they are not taking care of themselves, they don't have time to take care of themselves, and they are neglecting what the body needs.
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  Okay?
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  So this is what I want us to really focus on, and I want to be very careful here because wellness culture can become incredibly tone-deaf around this conversation.
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  Not everybody can just work less.
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  Some people are working two jobs because rent is due.
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  Some are single mothers.
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  Some are supporting, parents.
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  We have bills to pay.
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  We have debts.
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  We have medical bills.
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  Some are in the building phase of the business, temporarily like I was.
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  So working less is not something that's realistic when you're building.
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  But I'm not going to say to that woman,"Just protect your peace." That's not useful.
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  Sometimes the season that we are in requires more of you.
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  But what I want you to know is that you should never stay in that season.
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  Things should be temporary in your life, right?
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  So I lived two seasons myself.
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  The question becomes, what part of the load is necessary, and what part have you added because you're becoming accustomed to carrying everything?
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  And now that's the distinction I want you to make.
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  Maybe you cannot reduce your work hours right now, which is fine, but do you also have the answer everybody needs immediately?
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  Do you have to attend everything?
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  Do you have to solve every problem?
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  Do you have to be a perfectionist?
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  Do you have to be available to everyone who has access to your phone?
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  Do you know how to say no?
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  Do you have to say yes?
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  Do you have to go, answer everything, do everything?
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  Do you have to commit to everything?
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  Could somebody else do some of the things that you're carrying right now?
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  Can you delegate?
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  Are you earning more money while refusing to use any of that money to make your life easier?
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  That's when I really want you to think about,'cause for me, I spend money, and to me I feel like, okay, by me hiring someone, delegating is making my life easier, but I'm also putting money in somebody else's pocket.
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  We are exchanging.
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  So I am never guilty for having a housekeeper.
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  I am never feeling guilty for having childcare.
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  I'm not gonna be guilty for having someone in the front desk answering the phone, and someone doing my medical IV, someone helping tackling cases for the patients.
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  So delegating is something that I look forward to doing in the business and also in my life.
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  Because it is appropriate and helps me to focus on something else that can bring more money, but not at the expense of my health.
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  So the thing I want you to consider when it comes to increasing your workload, what is the point of earning more if every raise simply finances a more expensive version of exhaustion?
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  That's the question.
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  Like, why do I have to earn more if I'm not sleeping at night?
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  Why do I have to pick up extra shift and work forty hours a week for a long period of time if that, if my health has to suffer, and I'm not gonna have time to enjoy it?
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  There was a time when I thought the goal was to become capable enough to handle everything, like I'll do it myself.
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  Now, I don't think like that anymore.
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  Now I think one of the privileges of success should be I don't have to carry everything anymore.
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  I can ask someone to help me.
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  All right, so there's another lie underneath all of this.
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  I'll enjoy myself later.
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  That one concerns me the most because later never comes.
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  If you say to yourself,"I'll travel later,""I'll exercise later,""I'll deal with this situation later,""I'll deal with the symptoms later,""I'll make the appointment later,""I'll spend more time with my husband, with my children later,""I'll finally start living life after I hit this number." What number?
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  When are you gonna hit this number?
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  Because the finish line has a very interesting habit of moving.
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  Sometimes you wanna make$10,000 to find that$10,000 was never enough, so you reach 100K, you get the promotion.
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  Now you need the next title.
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  The business reaches one level.
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  Now there's another level.
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  You buy the house.
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  Now there's another goal.
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  Ambition doesn't naturally come with an off switch.
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  You have to decide what enough means somewhere along the way.
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  Otherwise, you can spend your entire life preparing to live, and then you never get to live the life that you so desire.
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  And this is where health gets pushed into the future because I see women come into my clinic, and they will say Dr.
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  Jay, I know I need to deal with this.
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  I know my body hasn't felt right for a while now.
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  I know my sleep is terrible.
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  I know something has changed, but this isn't a good time.
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  I understand, but sometimes I want to ask them, when exactly is your life planning to become convenient enough for you to have your body back?
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  When exactly is it gonna be a good time to get to eliminate the symptoms, to work on you feeling better?
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  Because that perfect window may never come.
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  The health has to exist inside of your actual life.
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  You have to create time for this to happen, not the life you hope to have once everything settles down, because things might not settle down.
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  Life will always throw circumstances at you And no, that does not mean you have to suddenly become a wellness influencer who wakes up at 5:00 in the morning, meditate for an hour, drink something green, exercise for 90 minutes, journal for 100 minutes, dry brushing, cold plunging, all of the thing.
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  Eat organic breakfast before your children wakes up.
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  Most people don't live that life.
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  I don't live that life.
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  You know what I do?
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  I wake up in the morning, I spend maybe 30 minutes with myself, and then I read a passage from my book, and then by 6:30, I'm taking care of my daughter, getting her ready for school.
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  That's how my day starts.
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  But yes, I do create time where I spend time with myself, that I do.
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  I always take care of me first, but I'm not spending hours doing that first thing in the morning.
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  So we don't have the life where we can spend three hours on, self-care in the morning, specifically if you're a working mom.
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  But you still can create the life that you want by exploring opportunities to do things for you first before you throw yourself at the world and taking care of the people that needs you.
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  If you're in a season where you are generally cannot do less, ask yourself a more useful question: What can I stop making harder than it already is?
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  Maybe you can't change jobs.
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  Okay, we're not asking you to quit your job.
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  Maybe you can't change the availability.
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  Maybe you can't change the responsibilities.
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  Can you stop adding unnecessary commitments?
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  Maybe you can take a month off.
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  Maybe you cannot take a month off, but can you take a day off?
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  Can you protect actual recovery somewhere inside of the week?
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  Can you when you go home, turn off everything and focus?
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  Can you look at your PTOs and schedule a vacation, a staycation if you don't have money to travel?
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  Make your environment conducive for, happiness, right?
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  Can you stop volunteering for every additional burden maybe you can't fix everything today.
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  Can you stop ignoring something in your health that has been asking for attention for six months?
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  That's where I want the conversation to go,'cause there's always something you can do.
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  You just have to look at the life you live now, look at your schedule, and then choose the opportunity, create the time, do the things that you need to do I also think high-achieving women need to create different relationship with productivity because some of us don't know when we are done.
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  There's always more work.
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  There's another patient, another idea, another project, another thing you could improve.
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  If your definition rest is when everything is finished, you will never rest.
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  Everything is never finished.
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  I own a business.
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  There's always something I could do.
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  There's always a funnel I can work on.
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  There's always the website I can tweak.
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  There's always something we can do.
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  At some point, I had to decide the existence of more work is not evidence that I should still be working, and that was huge for me when I realized that.
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  So when 4:30 comes, I close up my laptop, I go home.
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  And sometimes if I'm building, a funnel, if I am promoting a specific event, I might have to work on the weekends, but this is not every weekend I'm working.
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  I'm spending my weekend with my family.
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  That's why sometimes you see me at the spa, sometimes you see me traveling with my mom or with my husband.
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  I take the kids out.
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  I'm always doing some things because I need a balance.
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  I know when to go hard, and I know when to rest.
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  I want you to make money, I want you to build some things, ask for the promotion, go after your goals, go after your dreams, invest, create health, support your family, do ambitious things.
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  This is not the podcast about becoming less ambitious.
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  It is about becoming more honest about what ambition is costing you, because sometimes we measure the return, but we never calculate the expense.
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  And maybe that's the question you need to ask yourself,"What does my success cost me right now?" Not someday, right now.
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  Is it costing you sleep?
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  Is it costing you your health?
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  Is it costing you your energy, time with your children, your marriage, your relationship, your moods, your health, your ability to enjoy anything without thinking about work?
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  And then ask another question,"Does it have to cost this much?" That's the difference.
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  Should I quit?
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  No.
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  Should I stay in my career?
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  Should I stop building the business?
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  No.
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  Should I stop being ambitious?
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  No.
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  You don't need to destroy the life you have now.
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  You just have to reassess and evaluate and build a better one, right?
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  Take the things that are serving you in the life that you have now, and then improve it and have more of it.
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  One of the biggest things I learned while building my own business was that more money did not automatically create more peace.
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  I had to create the conditions for peace.
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  Simplify.
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  I have to stop chasing.
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  I have to work differently.
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  I have to say no.
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  I have to use support, allow things to happen without believing I need to control all of them, and start asking,"What am I building all of this for?" That question changes everything.
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  I'm not building a business for me to be exhausted at the end of the day and not have juice for my children.
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  I'm not building a business for me to be in financial burden, and I'm thinking about money all the time.
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  I'm not building a business where I cannot buy a gift for my family, I cannot donate to my family, I cannot purchase a plane ticket for my aunt to come and visit No, I don't wanna reach the end of life with a beautiful financial statement and very little memory of actually living it.
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  I want you to think about something else.
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  What do you believe money's supposed to give you?
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  That's the question I ask.
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  You might say Dr.
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  Gentil, money's supposed to give me security, freedom, time, experiences, the ability to care for the people you love." Then at some point, your life should contain some of those things, not only the promise of them later.
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  If the money's increasing but your freedom is disappearing, I want you to pay attention to that.
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  If you don't have the security, I want you to pay attention to that.
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  If you're not spending time with your family and you're making money, I want you to pay attention to that.
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  If everybody else is impressed with your life and you are privately too tired to enjoy it, that is not success, right?
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  That's not success because you're supposed to be alive inside of your own success, and this is where I want to leave you.
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  There are women listening to me right now who cannot change everything, and I know that, but start with what you can influence.
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  Maybe the goal isn't to work dramatically less tomorrow.
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  Maybe it's to stop giving every available piece of yourself away.
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  Maybe it's to financially make the appointment.
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  Maybe it's to use some of the money you are working so hard for to create support and hire someone to help you.
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  Maybe it's to set an actual stopping point instead of waiting until your body forces you.
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  Maybe it's to stop calling constant exhaustion ambition.
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  Maybe it's to simply admit,"I don't want to keep living this life." That was me.
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  I'm like,"This sucks.
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  I'm making money, and I'm miserable." I'm like,"I don't wanna live this life anymore.
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  I don't want this career anymore.
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  I don't want to work here anymore." I'm literally frustrated.
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  I'm like,"I am not happy.
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  I'm not fulfilled, and it's not worth no amount of money in this world for me to feel this way Your career matters, your business matters, your family matters, your financial future matters, but the body you're using to build all of it matters, too.
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  So go make your money, build the thing, be ambitious, create the life you want, but every once in a while, stop and ask yourself,"Am I building a life that supports my health, or am I using my health to finance a life that I barely have time to enjoy?" Because those are two very different in definition of success, and I know which one I want for you.
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  Go after your goals, but not at the expense of your health.
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  Okay?
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  Thank you so much for listening if you ever wanted to identify the root causes behind your symptoms, uncover what's truly causing the symptoms, I would invite you to book a root cause intensive consultation with me, which is two office visit, 60 minutes we spend, and we look at your lived experience.
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  We look at everything that involves you, and I will prescribe the appropriate testing, and then you come back for the second visit where we go over the results and strategies and my recommendation.
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  If that sounds good to you and you want to know why you have these symptoms, why you cannot get rid of them, I am telling you, until you dig deeper, you investigate, it is gonna be very challenging for you to bounce back and have the body, the life, and the health that you so desire.
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  You see all the links below, and I can't wait to support you.
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  Until then, have a great rest of your week That is fantastic.
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  You completed another episode.
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  So thank you for spending this time with me.
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  If today's conversation gave you a new perspective, I hope you carry it with you into the rest of your week.
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  If someone you love needs to hear this today, share this episode with them.
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  Until next time, take good care of yourself.