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Well, hello there, welcome back to the Happy Healthy Hustle podcast where we explore the

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intersection of health, happiness and productivity.

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I'm your host Christiane and I'm super excited to be here with you today.

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Today we are actually having a wonderful guest on the show.

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So I'm going to first introduce my guest and then we're going to jump right in and figuring

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out the importance of taking care of ourselves.

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So today's guest is Julie Marxsen.

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She's a workplace financial consultant with a large financial services firm and has been

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in the industry for 10 years.

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She provides educational workshops and individual consultations for four or three B clients

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and their employees to help them understand their retirement and investment needs.

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Julie is a certified financial planner, certificate.

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She is an investment advisor representative, registered securities representative and licensed

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insurance representative.

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And I'm super excited she's here.

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Welcome Julie.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Christiane.

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I'm so happy to be here and just really honored.

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So thank you.

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Well, of course, now we know a lot about how busy you are with work and the focus of this

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show is really emphasizing women in wellness.

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So let's maybe kind of like jump in and hear a little bit about you.

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What do you feel is your superpower to staying well?

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Because it certainly sounds like you have a super busy job.

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Yes, I do have a super busy job.

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However, a huge advantage of my job is that I get to work from home and I get to utilize

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wonderful technology to meet and work with many different people, participants, employees,

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investors.

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So that's a wonderful thing.

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I think if we are going to call it a superpower, I'm going to call it a superpower is that

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I am extremely organized and I do write everything down and I really do try and make sure that

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my day is planned out well in advance just so that I can make sure to carve out time

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for myself amongst all of the different various things that I have to do for work as well

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as being a mom.

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I have two daughters, a four year old and an almost two year old.

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So the job doesn't stop when I shut my computer, then it's in the mom mode.

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But I keep my day extremely organized.

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And one thing that I do in particular, and I'm pretty religious about it, and of course,

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there's times where I may not be able to do it, but I do run very early in the morning.

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Usually I try and run at about 530 a.m. before the girls are awake, before my husband's awake.

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And running is just such a release for me.

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It gives me confidence in myself.

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It allows me to think more clearly.

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It gives me more energy throughout the day.

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And that's highly needed when you're working full time and then having to pivot to be a

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mom to toddlers.

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So running is just, it's, I don't know, it's like my guiding light.

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I've been running for decades.

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So it's something that I really appreciate.

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And I have to make sure that I integrate into my schedule and I keep it organized.

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And I put that in to my daily schedule, and luckily my husband's extremely supportive

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and allows me to have that me time.

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So that sounds amazing.

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So you're found running and that really resonates with you to center you and kickstart your

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day on that strong, I took care of myself feeling that I absolutely love that we all

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have maybe one sport that resonates more with us than another.

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And it sounds like running is yours.

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Plus it doesn't even require any type of fancy equipment at home.

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That's what I love about it.

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Really just got to have a good pair of shoes and it's not a huge cost outlay.

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So that's the great thing too.

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It's a very cost effective being in finance.

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It's, I'm always looking for ways to be cost effective and efficient.

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I love that.

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And your children then are going to childcare during the day.

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So you basically come back from your run and then your day at home really gets started.

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As Margot mentioned.

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It's busy.

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So as soon as I get home from my run, it's, you know, got to get myself a little bit of

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coffee.

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And again, this goes into keeping my day extremely organized, but I get my coffee, get the daughter,

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my girls breakfast made before they're up.

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And then actually also my husband and I try and have five, 10, if we can, 15 minutes of

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just time together in the early, early morning before the girls wake up.

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It's a really great bonding time for us because, you know, when they're awake, we don't really

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get to talk.

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It's how do we take care of the girls and get them fed and get them off to school or

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get them in the bath.

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So that's something that we try and integrate into the day as well.

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I love that.

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So your superpower is that you integrate the me time into your day.

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And you also have the us time, which is when you connect with your husband and you mentioned

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five to 10 minutes is enough, but it does really let the day get started on this wonderful

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note to where you build this situation of trust and bonding.

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And I love it.

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So you basically get all that out of the way before you even wake up your children.

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And you know what?

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I think something's working.

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We are celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary tomorrow.

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Sounds like that's definitely a superpower going on right there.

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So, you know, self also connecting with your husband and getting that social connection

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going.

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I adore that.

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So let's maybe talk a little bit that sounds like your happy anniversary already.

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I'm going to say this.

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You're really doing things properly and taking care of yourself.

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And sometimes we wonder, I'm sure she has challenges too.

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Let's talk a little bit about maybe some challenges in your life and how did you manage to overcome

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them?

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I would say that a challenge that I have actually been struggling with more recently, especially

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since becoming a mom is being present.

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I have noticed that I'm always trying to think of what is the next thing that I need to tackle?

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What is the next thing that I need to prepare for?

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What is the next thing that I need to do or make sure I pay for rather than just taking

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a step back, taking a breath and just focusing and relishing in the day itself.

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It is a challenge for me at times just because especially as a working mom and working from

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home, there is so much to juggle.

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It's you know, when you're working from home, it's not just you're doing your day job.

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I'm sometimes and I put this pressure on myself.

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I put this expectation.

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Well, I also have to keep the house orderly and I also have to do the laundry and I also

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have to cook dinner.

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And I'm just thinking about all of these things that I need to do rather than just being present

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and being grateful for actually being here and having had woken up another day.

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So that is something that I do struggle with.

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It's been a challenge for me, but I'm focused on really working towards being more present.

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I've been trying to integrate meditation, which is nice.

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And actually, I work for a wonderful employer and my employer has a lot of great resources

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for being well and meditation, and they even do this thing called a midday mindfulness

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where you can join into a zoom or a virtual room and actually do some guided meditation

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with.

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I think she's a licensed therapist, so it's a really great feature.

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I work for a wonderful employer that offers those benefits.

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So is it something you've been doing for a while, the guided meditation or something

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you just recently picked up because you became aware of that challenge of becoming more present?

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Very recently.

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So I started back in January.

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And the reason why I know the reason why I started, I didn't even know that this was

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a benefit of my employer, by the way, but I had to go to work.

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I had to go to Florida for work.

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And this was one of the we do these breakout sessions.

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This is one of the breakout sessions was this guided meditation.

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I go and I do it.

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It was so empowering.

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It was 30 minutes.

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I felt like a different person after doing this meditation and come to find out they've

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been doing these guided meditations virtually for folks at my employer for a number of years.

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I'm thinking, how did I not know that I had this benefit?

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And it's just great because they do it in the middle of the day.

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So it breaks it up really nicely.

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I'm so busy in the morning.

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I'm so busy in the afternoon.

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Sometimes it's overwhelming, but I have this midday meditation that I can access and utilize.

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And it just gives me a minute to breathe.

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And then it also provides me with the just the appreciation of like, I mean, I'm so blessed.

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I have a wonderful job, two beautiful children, a wonderful husband really helps me to reflect.

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So it sounds like you're on the right track to overcome the challenge of becoming more

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present there.

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And meditation certainly is something that it sometimes sounds intimidating to get started,

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but the way that you approached it was it was already offered.

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It was a free benefit and you thought, we're not try it out.

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There's nothing to lose.

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And that really seems to be working for you.

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How long is the meditation?

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Is it fairly short?

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Yes.

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So it's about 15 minutes, the midday mindful meditation.

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But there's benefit that I have at work.

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You can actually, I mean, they have other ones throughout the day as well.

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But the one that I just do is short and sweet.

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Because again, I don't have a ton of time.

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But I think the thing to recognize is you don't need a ton of time to just be present.

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It really will have an impact on the other pieces and parts of your day.

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If you just take even a few minutes for yourself.

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I love that.

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So there is the run.

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There's the connection with the husband.

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There's the midday meditation.

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You're basically the sprinkling little nuggets of joy through your day and making your day

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far more manageable.

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Because certainly working from home is a challenge.

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And you mentioned your husband early and the bond that you have with him.

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I would love to hear who are your influencers in your life where you're feeling like if

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it wouldn't be for them, I wouldn't be where I am.

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If it wouldn't be for them, my day would look completely different.

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So who are they and why?

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Definitely my husband for, as I mentioned just a little bit ago, he is so wonderful

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in giving me the space and the time to do something like running to give me that just

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that me time that I need to feel fresh and clear and to be a better mom.

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So my husband's wonderful.

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My parents are great too.

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I am so lucky.

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I live near my parents.

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So I live about 20, 25 minutes away and they have always just been my biggest cheerleaders

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in helping me recognize that I have the tools in my arsenal to be the best that I can be.

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And so they provide a lot of encouragement, emotionally, verbally, and then they're also

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just there to help me when I need it with the kids.

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Some days are better than others.

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In fact, just last week I got a call from their daycare that, you know, my younger daughter

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had hand foot and mouth disease.

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So these things happen.

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I had to go pick her up.

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I had to keep her home the rest of the week, but I still had to work a full schedule.

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So my parents, my mom was wonderful.

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She was able to just hop on over, help me out to help me get through my work day.

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And so my parents are just, they're wonderful, wonderful people, really lucky.

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I know not everyone wants that.

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It's wonderful to have that connection with your family members, especially if they live

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close and they can jump in and be the superheroes when you need them at the right time there.

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So certainly it sounds like you have actually somewhat a very simple life.

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A lot of the things that you mentioned are very accessible to us.

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So maybe going for a run, connecting with your partner, reaching out to family members

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and building that social connection.

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What is maybe one of your biggest recommendations for any working woman who is at home and trying

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to manage all the little life that is being thrown at her?

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I would say take it one day at a time.

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If you try and tackle every little thing that you have to get done or do in the next week,

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month, year, you are going to become so overwhelmed.

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And I have done this.

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Take it one day at a time, one step at a time, one breath at a time.

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It will really help manage the anxiety level.

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And that anxiety has been something historically that I have struggled with just because I feel

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like I have to get it all done and I have to do everything perfectly.

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You don't actually.

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It's going to be okay.

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So that would be my recommendation is one day at a time, try not to be thinking about

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your to-do list, but think about what you need to just get done today and it will happen.

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And it's okay to lean on other people.

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Life will go on and asking for support is certainly something that all of us can probably

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get better.

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I'm just letting people know I need help and letting them know how they can help really

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expressing yourself and communicating your needs there.

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Well, thank you so much, Julie.

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It was so wonderful to have you here.

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I love that you appreciated the small steps that lead to wellness, which is also something

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that my wellness program really emphasizes.

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So in general, we always want to be very humble with how our body will appreciate those little

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breaks, whether that's a five minute stretch break or a little healthy snack you're adding

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So doing the mindfulness that you're taking in the middle day, I certainly loved having

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And if you want to reach out and ask any other questions, let me know.

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But otherwise I'm going to let Julie go on to her midday mindfulness meditation.

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And I certainly love that she shares some of her wisdom of nuggets of joy there.

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Oh, thank you, Christina.

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So happy to be here.

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So before you're hustling off with your day, I have a few fun announcements.

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First of all, I have some quick resources for all of us, happy, healthy hustlers.

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In fact, I have some freebies, some free eBooks and checklists that you can check out on my

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website.

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You can download them for free and make your healthy habits checklist to optimize your

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wellness.

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I also have some eBooks with some health hacks to increase your daily energy or some simple

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tricks to avoid gut health issues.

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I would love to connect with you on Instagram.

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So check out my Instagram at hello.happy.nest or send me a direct message.

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And I would love to add you to the VIP wait list for my journey to wellness course that

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will be launching soon.

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Thank you so much and let's tune in again on the next episode.