If you text me, girl, you're not hearing back.
And then I feel bad, because I'm up at four.
So I'm like, well, do you want me to text you
at four? Right. No. So I have to wait, and then
I forget, and then I don't text back. Welcome
back to Keep It Good. I'm your host Carly, and
I'm your host Emily. I got to say, this is delicious.
It's good, right? It's so good. What is it? So
this is mushroom coffee. Oh my gosh, I don't
even like mushroom. I know, but it doesn't, you
don't taste it at all. Like, not at all. No,
no, it's very smooth. Yeah. It's really good.
So my dad drinks Rye's coffee. I haven't tried
that one yet, but I heard excellent things about
it. I just happened to pick this one up at the
store. It's layered. Have you heard of layered
coffee? I have. I've bought some of his creamers
and almost like an instant latte from him before.
Yeah, it's really good. You just mix it with
hot water. So this is the coffee. This one I
think is like the medium blend. There's also
a dark blend, but this one just said focus. And
I was like, yeah, I need that in my life. Are
you typically like a morning coffee drinker?
I would always stop and get a coffee. I would
typically not make it at home. But in the past
probably a year or so, I've been trying to do
it at home and make it a little cleaner. if you
will, not knowing what's in all Starbucks and
all that crazy stuff. But yeah, I definitely
drink coffee. I think if you don't, something's
wrong with you. Oh, I don't trust people who
don't drink coffee. How would you drink like
water? What does that do for you in the morning?
I mean, I have heard you should drink salt water
first thing in the morning. Yes. So that has
been my new thing. Instead of getting up and
just, you know, starting the coffee maker, I'm
getting up and doing some water. I can't get
down too much because I'm just grossed out or
whatever. I don't even know. But I try to do
like six or eight ounces, sometimes warm, sometimes
just cold with some mineral salt. Like I use,
we use Celtic sea salt right now. I just put
a couple of those big... flakes in there and
swish it around. It's not super salty. I don't
make it crazy, but I try to have that. Then I
will do my workout. Then I'll have my coffee,
which gives me about an hour about from the time
I wake up to actually having my coffee, which
is new suggestion that you should do is not have
your coffee on an empty stomach, which could
raise your cortisol, apparently. My levels are
probably like spewing out my fireplace right
now. I'm literally a robot. I open my eyes, I
stumble down the stairs. and I get my first sip
of coffee. I'm not functioning until that hits
my soul. My husband wakes up and does the water
with the salt. I need to start doing that. You're
really good. You drink six to eight right in
the morning. I'm lucky if I drink six to eight
in a week. Six to eight ounces of water in a
week. I'm really bad. They say the nurses are
the worst that take care of their health. I'm
trying. I'm really, I've been doing very good
things. I've been trying to incorporate all these
new healthy things, but sometimes it's overwhelming.
I mean, I'm just a very much like, if you crave
it, then your body needs it type of thing. You
know? I get that. I get that. So like, what is
your morning, like, let's talk morning routine
then. What do you do? Well, pretty much I wake
up, I walk downstairs, I have my coffee. Steve
bought these amino acids, which I was really
getting into the habit of it. I was trying to,
but you know, I gotta say it tastes, or it doesn't
taste bad. As soon as you open the bottle, it
smells like hamster cage. Oh no. Oh yeah, it
like punches you in the face of like pet store.
I can't do it. I just, I tried it. I can't do
it. I can't. That's the hard part with supplements,
I think. They all, a lot of them smell terrible,
so it's hard to stomach some of them, for sure.
The worse they smell, the better they are for
you. Probably. I mean, that makes sense, right?
Growing up, I used to have to chug brewer's yeast
mixed with orange juice. And I, I mean, I just
got kind of used to it. It looks like sawdust.
It's like your vitamin shot. Yeah, like, I don't
know, I don't think my kids would be, you know,
as brave as I was to just chug that sawdust.
Chug that, I've never even heard of that. Well,
I feel like I'm always going down crazy health
rabbit holes and I've been trying really hard
to having a new resolution, if you will. I always
incorporate new things, but I've been really
going down deep. And a lot of things you listen
to, they're like a morning routine, a nighttime
routine. They're both so important because sleep
is so important. So if you have a good morning
routine and you have a good night routine, your
sleep should be wonderful, uninterrupted, really
let your body rest. So my morning routine is
I get up, my alarm goes off at 525, go downstairs,
I do my salt water, I wait for my girlfriend
to come over, we work out in my basement, and
I'm working out maybe like four times a week
with her, roughly, and then a day or two on my
own, nothing crazy. It's not like we're doing
crazy weights every single day. And then I come
up. do my coffee, the girls wake up, I get them
ready for school or the weekend, whatever's happening,
and then I slowly start to take in my supplements,
which is hard, because I feel like I'm just doing
so much right now. I'm taking the perfect aminos,
just like you, but I did get them in powder form,
and they do have different flavors, so you have
to drink it instead. It's really not that bad.
I got mixed berry, and it doesn't smell like
a hamster cage. So maybe you need to try the
powder form. I mean, you have to take five of
these horse pills that smell like Petco and hope
that you don't vomit in the meantime. But every
day, I feel like my husband is very much... like
you with these rabbit holes. And I'm just kind
of like his cheerleader. And I'm like, oh yeah,
all right, we'll do this. I'll try whatever.
But I just feel like we're getting kind of overloaded
with all of these different things. Like I'll
come home and there's three packages. And I'm
like, OK, do we know what interacts with what?
Are we just going to have a chemical reaction
in our stomach while we're trying to do all these
good things? Are we really going to blow up our
intestines? Or you know, it just, where does
it end? How many? I feel like if you just eat
a really good diet, which we eat super clean,
I mean, I should be fine, right? No? Yeah, no,
I'm with you. You know, when I bring up something
to you, you tell me that your husband just told
you the same thing, or vice versa, because we're
listening to the same thing, so. Yes, I am with
him in trying all the things, but yeah, it comes
down to, like, what is, what's the best? I guess
blood work, right? We really need the blood work.
And why we want to talk a little bit about morning
routine and night routine is we live in the Northeast.
It's cold and dreary. So we are trying these
extra things to kind of get us through these
dark, depressing months. It's, you know, not
very bright often. So trying to experience some
of the benefits of the things that we can't actually
get, like if we lived in Florida. I know. They're
so lucky. I know. I don't know if I would want
to live there year round, but... Well, it gets
hot there too, obviously, right? So that's like
something to consider. But we, up here, we have
to kind of make up for some of the things that
we're lacking from not being able to be outdoors
and get vitamin D, you know, get some of those
things from nature that we should. Have so now
I'm just doing so much stuff. I'm like, how many
supplements do I actually need now? They're like,
okay take vitamin D But you really need to take
it with k2 and you really should take it with
magnesium, too You know, I'm taking creatine
mixing that with the perfect aminos. I don't
even know if that's right They said it could
but I don't know. I'm just taking all these things,
but I do feel great that's your deciding factor
right there, is how it makes you feel, right?
Yeah, that's true. I mean, my morning routine,
like, I do need to help because, you know, I'm
gonna be turning 40 this year. Dare I say it?
And I'm not a spring chicken anymore. I wish
I was. You need to drink some damn water. And
really wisdom. I know. And I know these things.
I know this deep down. It's just like, I don't
know. It's like I have to really force myself
to get that water in. But I bought this hydrogen
water. water bottle. And it really does make
a difference in how it tastes. It's hard to explain,
but this tastes more clean. Yeah, I agree. Yeah,
that's been helping me get a little bit more
water down on the days that it's a struggle.
You can run that water through the hydrogen water
bottle, pour it into something different, and
then add lemon. or your salt to it. You don't
want to put that stuff into the actual hydrogen
water bottle while you're making it, but you
can add extras after to flavor it up a little
bit if you needed. Yeah. And salt -wise, I'm
not talking like the ocean, you know, just a
little bit. So you get those trace minerals and
vitamins too. Yeah. I'm big on getting the trace
minerals. I totally understand that part and
I put it on everything. You could put salt on
a chocolate chip cookie and it just intensifies
the flavor. So good. Oh my god, it's so good.
Yeah, I mean, my morning routine is, like I said,
I wake up, I drink my coffee. I wake up early
so that I can get, like, just a second to myself.
As a mom, like, my boys wake up pretty early,
so I got to set my alarm extra early, and I just
kind of sit and watch the news and just have
a minute to, like, become alive. And then my
kids will come down, and then we just hit the
ground running. It's go time. So do you take
time for yourself like after then like yeah on
the days where I don't have to work I'll drop
them off and I'll go to yoga yoga is my My time,
you know, it's like my Zen time. I think it's
so important to Prioritize a little bit of time
for yourself because otherwise you are go go
go go go Non -stop you burn out. There's a legit
burnout. And how does it go? If you don't give
yourself rest The universe will make you rest,
you know, like whether you get sick or you just
have no choice at that point. You're done. The
past three years, ever since COVID, I just got
into this survival mode of work and I was nonstop.
And this past year, I really tried to pause,
take things slower, give back to myself a little
bit, because you really can't pour from an empty
cup. You can't. You're giving everybody the bare
minimum at that point. And so yoga, I have definitely
made that into a priority. What about, like,
there's so much talk about the morning and night
routine, and there's things I've said before
we can't incorporate up here, the sunlight and
whatever, but, you know, breath work. Some people
say it's a big thing, too, and I know that you're
into that. Do you do that at night? Like, what's
your night routine? Is your night routine better
or bigger than your morning routine? I am a rock
star in the night routine. Okay. Okay. Do share.
My morning isn't that great. I'm just... Getting
there, but my nighttime. I'm pretty much unless
we have an event and we're going out by nine
o 'clock I turn off everything I go up to my
room. I wash my face a lot of times. I'll take
a shower I'm I can't really take a shower in
the morning. I wish I could cuz I admire people
like that They're just so fresh and clean and
like ready for the day and I look like a hot
fucking mess dropping my kids off Yes, yes, my
hair is all straggly and like I just look I look
wretched. Maybe that'll be my New Year's resolution
for next year. But I take my nighttime shower.
And I know you're not supposed to do this, which
is another thing I should probably change, is
I go to bed with my wet hair. And that's, like,
you need to help me not do that anymore, because
I know it's so bad. It's so bad. I mean, it could
be better, but it could be worse. It's not terrible.
Just don't put it up in a tight elastic, says
your hairdresser. Yeah. At least they wash it.
Yeah, true that. True that. That has gone too
far with people not washing their hair for too
long. But that's another subject. Yeah, see,
this is where I fall short. Like my night routine,
there's not one at all. Not anything? Do you
read? No, not really. No, I don't do that anymore.
Like, once I get the kids to bed. And my husband,
also, he gets up early and goes to the gym an
hour before I even wake up. Like, he's out, so
he's exhausted at night, too. Sometimes he'll
watch a show or something, but it's pretty much
right to bed after that. And same for me. If
I get the kids to sleep, a lot of times, you
know, my face is washed and all that stuff before
I head up, but I don't do any breath work. There's
no specific supplement I take. I don't take a
cold shower or a hot shower, then a cold, you
know, shower for a minute or... Whatever will
never get into that the cold shower What is the
point of that you just spent 20 minutes shaving
your legs and putting in the effort and then
what you're just it's gonna grow back Like mine.
I'm like a chia pet Why would you even sign up
for that? I guess the health benefits, but I
don't do well with the cold I did a penguin plunge
one time and my body locked up. I had firemen
pulling me out of the league Well, if we ever
get you a cold plunge, at least it'll just be
you in it. So you won't be drowning in a lake.
Yeah, and I need a spotter. It was not great.
It was not a good day for me. Yeah, if my shower
is not boiling water, I don't want any part of
it. Yeah, I totally get that, too. But I'm surprised
you don't read. That shocks me a little bit.
You need to start reading. I tell you what. I...
We'll stop going to bed with wet hair if you
start reading books. Okay. I like that. I do.
I always say that. Yes. Okay. We'll have to like
the water or water. Hundred percent water. I'll
drink water. You read books. Okay. I think the
deal is I have to go to bed at the same time.
as my husband, because I don't want to wake him
up. I guess I could just read on the couch or
something, but I just don't. I think that's kind
of my time to chill and watch a show, and to
me, that feels like relaxing my mind. I love
to read. I just don't really give myself the
chance to, I guess. Well, they say you really
shouldn't be watching any screens for, what,
the last hour of your day. I'll watch a show
with my husband, because that's the only time
we ever get to binge watch anything, but... 9
o 'clock comes, that TV goes off, that phone
goes off, I go upstairs, and then I'm reading
for like an hour. Yeah. Reading, though, for
me, when I have done that in the past, it does
make me sleepy. It shuts my mind off, which is
nice because then I can fall asleep or I've fallen
asleep reading. And so I do know it's good for
me. I just, right now, anyway, it's like I'm
doing all these wonderful things in the morning,
all day for myself, for health. But come night
time, I just like met. Yeah, we're like yin and
yang. Yes, we are. You shine in the morning,
I shine at night. Yeah, I'll tell you, though,
too. Having the morning routine with our other
friend is so helpful, too, because I have somebody
who pushes me to get up. Like, if my alarm went
off at 5 .25 most mornings, I'm not getting out.
It's cold. I'm comfy in my bed, under my blankets.
I don't want to get up. But I know that she's
going to be waiting for me in 20 minutes to,
you know, be ready to go. And I know she says
the same. So I think that that's helpful, too.
Like, I'm meeting somebody. Just a good start
to your day to get it going. And we continue
throughout the year. But I think especially in
these winter months, it just keeps you going.
I know a lot of people in our area up here can
fall victim to, you know, a little depression.
And I'm counting down the weeks until we get
a little more sunlight at night. I can't wait
for it. I need it. So yeah, I try to keep my
morning routine pretty strong. Well, you know,
you're motivating me to be a little bit more
active in the morning, but then you can chill
at night. Do you take magnesium at night? It
depends. I, I have it. My husband, I have like
medicine containers that we keep our supplements
in, which we look like we're. Ninety with our
little cherry watching. Yeah, but so it depends
if I am just rushing through I sometimes will
just take them all at the same time But other
times I will keep the magnesium ones out so I
can take them before bed But I think as long
as they're in your system, it should help with
sleep for sure Yeah, I have one that's all the
magnesiums in one because there's magnesium that'll
help you poop magnesium That'll help your muscles
magnesium will help you sleep or whatever This
one's cool because it's loaded with all of them.
So I'll take that before bed. And I've, sometimes
I crash hard where I wake up and my neck is like
tweaked, you know? Getting older. Remember when
you could like sleep on a freaking bathroom floor
and wake up refreshed? I have like a specific
pillow too. I'm, you know. Forty's creeping up
on us, babe. Yeah, it's like knocking on my door.
I want to kick it in the face. It's horrible.
Yeah, totally. I'm 28 forever. That's... I'm
just 20, so. Yeah, same. I always say I feel
24, so we're gonna keep it that way. Oh, you're
a baby. I am a baby. But, okay, so you're gonna
drink more water, because you have to, because
you just have to. Yeah, what are you doing? I
didn't actually know that. Yeah. Six ounces in
a week, girl. I'm dying. Well, that's an exaggeration.
I know. but I mean sometimes I'll go like two
days without water and then all of a sudden I'm
chugging six glasses because my life is dependent
and it's like survival like oh my god you need
to get a whole gallon of water in right now but
I don't even have time to pee when I'm at work
let alone keep myself refreshed and eat I'm the
same at work though too work is hard because
I as a hairstylist I do it to myself like I don't
take the time to eat, drink. I book myself crazy
and that's on a, I mean, your situation's different
because people actually need you to live. That's
not my situation. I just do it to my own self.
So I feel like this morning routine has also
got me where I've taken in a good amount of water.
A lot of times I am fasting for a little bit
in the morning. So I try to set myself up, especially
for the days I'm working or I might not fast
and I'll make sure I have. breakfast on those
days, because it might be a while until I eat.
See, I've never been a breakfast girl. And if
I do, I'm taking a nap. It makes me tired eating
that early in the morning, especially eggs. Forget
it. I don't know what's wrong with me and my
sister. We both, like one egg, we've done the
math. One egg equals one hour. I have gone out
to breakfast with you where you're like, I have
to, I'm taking a nap if I'm getting an omelet.
Yeah. And I will, I mean, I splurge, but my family's
like, They know what to expect that day. My husband
will make Sunday breakfast sandwiches and they
smell so good. They're so freaking good. And
I'll be like, oh, you know what? I can go for
one of those today. Both my kids are like, no,
don't do it. But every once in a while, you know,
I'll have a little bit of breakfast and then
I enjoy some. Nappy naps. That's pretty much
my lifestyle. No water, coffee, and intermittent
fasting. I think that you should drink your water
even if you're fasting. I feel like I've been
doing it since I was a kid and my body's just
so used to it. I think I do very well with how
we eat and how we exercise. Right. But there
is some things that I can definitely do better
at. This be a little taste of or a little sign
to drink the water, start supplementing for your
body. Try and give yourself a morning routine
or a night routine. I'll start trying to maybe
read a book before I go to bed. And, you know,
one thing I maybe do at night is I will have
a cup of tea. I love tea. Yeah, you know, something
like that just to chill out. But otherwise, I
really don't have that. But I will say the morning
routine in the past, my girlfriend and I, we've
been doing this since May. So good for you. Yeah,
we're coming up, you know, to a year of getting
up early. You know, most days, obviously things
come up, kids get sick, we're not feeling well,
we pull a muscle or something, but I think that
it's just, it's just really helped. And not for
nothing, but getting up early like that has made
me be tired, right? Don't want to stay up till
10, 11. I'm ready for bed at a good time. People
make fun of me because they'll text me super
late at night and... They don't hear back from
me because I'm an old lady and I go to bed at
like nine o 'clock. If you text me, you're not
hearing back. And then I feel bad because like
I'm up at like four. So I'm like, well, do you
want me to text you at four? Right. No. So I
have to like wait and then I forget and then
I don't text back. And I feel so bad. Yeah, I've
done that too. Like, yeah, like, oh shit. You
know? Yeah. I was supposed to text her back four
days ago. Right. Yeah, I think that should be
a good solution for everybody is like get your
morning and night routine on point So that I
mean sleep is the most important thing, right?
You can't function without good sleep So if the
morning is gonna help and the night Routine then
I got to start getting on your side and you got
to start getting on my side And then we'll just
be like the best versions of herself I love it.
Someone that I listen to and really like is Gary
Brekka. A lot of you probably have heard from
him. He's got a wonderful podcast, Ultimate Human,
but he has some real simple things to implement
for morning and night just to kind of get your
body into a good circadian rhythm. And that might
be something you could listen to too on his podcast.
How to help your body get regulated to know when
it's time to wake up and time to go to bed. Yeah,
I love him. I think it's been helpful. I mean,
like we said, there's so many things out there
that are popping into your feed or whatever.
Do this. Take this supplement. It's so hard to
pick which one is right for you, but listening
to your body, listening to what feels right,
I think that's, you can't go wrong. If something
makes you feel good, you know it's working. But
I mean, one thing that has lasted for me, and
I have tried it and I love it, is this layered
coffee, man. I can't stress it enough. It's so...
So good. If you haven't tried it, I'm telling
you, you're gonna love it. My furnace guys love
it. My husband loves it. I mean, I should be
the clear leader for this coffee, because it's
so good. It's so good. Well, I think I'm on board,
and you don't like mushrooms in there. I don't
like mushrooms. It does not. Honestly, all those,
like you said, rice coffee and stuff like that,
like, you did not have me at Mushroom. I'm not
interested. I did. I know, I tried to give it
to her one day and she's like, I don't do mushrooms.
And then I gave it to her today and she's like,
this is the best coffee I've had. Like, what
is this? It's so good. It really, really is.
It tastes absolutely nothing like that. It doesn't
taste like dirt or anything. It's amazing. It
gives you all, like, mushrooms are so beneficial
for you. It's crazy. It's absolutely insane.
And you just got a whole bunch. Yeah, I love
it. Get out and get yourself some layered coffee.
We are not sponsored by them. I said it like
37 times. At least not yet, maybe. Maybe not
yet, yeah. But no, legit, I just seriously love
it and I think you will too. But anyway, Emily's
got a little quote from Gary Brekka about morning
routines. I think it's perfect. Here you go,
Em. So, your morning routine not only determines
the trajectory of your day, it determines the
trajectory of the rest of your life. So, if you
start your day off strong, why would the rest
of the day not go well? I love it. That's so
true. I'm getting into it. I'm gonna start it.
Hey, I'm gonna get you some water in the morning
tomorrow. Alright guys, well that's it for today.
I hope you have a fantastic week and as always,
keep it good.