Speaker 1: Oh, welcome to Healthyish and happy new Year. Thank you
Speaker 1: for joining us on the podcast from Body and Soul.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Felicity Harley, to celebrate well summer and
Speaker 1: new Year. To inspire those goals, those resolutions, whatever you set.
Speaker 1: We're dropping our top Healthyish episodes from last year now.
Speaker 1: In this one, Athletia Queen Laurna Jane joined me in
Speaker 1: the studio to share how she starts the day, plus
Speaker 1: some other health lessons she's learned along the way. Listening
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Speaker 1: about her top health rituals, you'll find well, not only
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Speaker 1: new year.
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Speaker 2: NA. Welcome to Healthy Ish. Thanks for having me. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's a pleasure having you in the studio.
Speaker 3: Good to be here. I can't wait to see what
Speaker 3: questions you ask.
Speaker 2: Well the first one.
Speaker 1: Now it is still morning recording this, So what were
Speaker 1: your healthy habits this morning?
Speaker 3: This morning?
Speaker 4: Well, I was staying in a hotel, but I did
Speaker 4: get up and have a walk and it was freezing.
Speaker 4: Can I just tell you it was freezing? It is
Speaker 4: very cold in Sydney right now. I think they're saying
Speaker 4: it's the coldest day on record this year, so.
Speaker 2: Well well done.
Speaker 1: A Brisbane person getting up breeze by night walking in the.
Speaker 3: So I went for walk.
Speaker 4: I saved some lemons, so I had some lemon water,
Speaker 4: not the usual thing I would do at home, but
Speaker 4: I had that before I left, and I made sure
Speaker 4: that I grabbed a few things from the buffet. Oh,
Speaker 4: I like it, but that's it now I'm straight here.
Speaker 2: Do you have a.
Speaker 1: Set morning routine or is this something that you just
Speaker 1: mold depending on where you are what season.
Speaker 4: It is absolutely and it's always been my dream to
Speaker 4: have like a morning that extends to eleven and then
Speaker 4: start work at eleven. I know, and I used to
Speaker 4: when I used to spend a lot of time in
Speaker 4: the US. That's how I used to live there, and
Speaker 4: it used to be fantastic, you know, do a nine
Speaker 4: o'clock class instead of a six o'clock class my dream,
Speaker 4: and it was so.
Speaker 3: Lovely, you know.
Speaker 4: But I haven't really achieved that yet, But yeah, I do.
Speaker 4: I definitely have a morning routine because and generally a
Speaker 4: whole fitness routine because I think those rituals and that
Speaker 4: consistent behavior really sets you up for success.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I do. Do you want to know it?
Speaker 2: Yes? What are some of those rituals?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: So in the morning, I do sort of a sort
Speaker 4: of a meditation. I think it's just a fancy word
Speaker 4: for breathing meditation for me. Anyway, maybe I'm just not
Speaker 4: seeing it.
Speaker 3: For what it truly can be.
Speaker 4: But I just lie in bed and really like, I
Speaker 4: feel like I get my best thoughts and ideas in
Speaker 4: the morning. Like when I wake up, it's like my
Speaker 4: filing system has actually worked and I get these pops
Speaker 4: of ideas. So I usually write things down and then
Speaker 4: just sit and think about what I'm going to do
Speaker 4: that day.
Speaker 1: So while you're lying in bed at four thirty usually,
Speaker 1: well that's early, I know, but that's when I naturally
Speaker 1: wake up.
Speaker 2: What time are you going to bed?
Speaker 3: Nine o'clock?
Speaker 2: Nine thirty? Okay, Yeah, you're one of those people. Yeah,
Speaker 2: five am.
Speaker 4: Club Not always like I get up it o'clock when
Speaker 4: I'm training with my trainer, but some of the days
Speaker 4: when I'm just going for walk or something, I do
Speaker 4: five thirty.
Speaker 3: But I genuinely wake up.
Speaker 4: So that's why I have that time to stay in
Speaker 4: bed and do some thinking and writing some things down.
Speaker 1: Not always, but has it been like this since you say,
Speaker 1: started Laurna Jane, or has this evolved, like your approach
Speaker 1: to health and wellness over the years.
Speaker 4: I've always been a morning person, and you have to
Speaker 4: remember I started as a fitness instructor, so six o'clock
Speaker 4: classes have always been my thing. So I've always enjoyed
Speaker 4: exercising in the morning because nothing can get in the way,
Speaker 4: you know, Like, I'm a fairly motivated person when it
Speaker 4: comes to health and fitness and working out. But if
Speaker 4: I don't work out in the morning and I tell
Speaker 4: myself I'm going to do a class, first of all,
Speaker 4: it stresses me out because I then have to schedule
Speaker 4: everything to make sure that I get out of work
Speaker 4: on time and get to the class, or even go
Speaker 4: for a run before it gets stark, all of those things.
Speaker 4: It just doesn't happen myself out of it because I
Speaker 4: love work, I love going for a walk with my
Speaker 4: husband and spending time with my family, So it all
Speaker 4: gets in the way and I can so easily manipulate myself.
Speaker 2: What do you do for fitness nowadays?
Speaker 4: Fitness Okay, strength training really important.
Speaker 3: And I actually love it. I do wish I had
Speaker 3: started earlier. I really do.
Speaker 4: Like I tell the girls at work all the time
Speaker 4: who are in their twenties and thirties, start weight training.
Speaker 4: So weight training with a trainer twice a week, and
Speaker 4: then I train by myself another two times a week.
Speaker 4: In between that it's yoga. I walk twice a day's
Speaker 4: that's a bit of a meditation thing too. I do
Speaker 4: with my husband, who is the CEO of LRNA Jane.
Speaker 4: So in the morning we walk out dog Harry about
Speaker 4: twenty minutes, not a fast walk at all, but we
Speaker 4: talk about our day, which is really nice.
Speaker 1: I tak business absolutely, it's like a business meeting every
Speaker 1: morning it is.
Speaker 4: It's a walk meeting, and sometimes we have pretty heated discussions.
Speaker 4: I'm sure some of the neighbors those clerks and are
Speaker 4: going to get.
Speaker 2: To do sometimes.
Speaker 3: But we talk about what.
Speaker 4: We're doing, and I might have some questions I want
Speaker 4: to ask him, and I'll say, are you free for
Speaker 4: this someone's coming in, I'd really like you to have
Speaker 4: a chat to him, blah blah blah. So we talk
Speaker 4: through that and then at night it's more a how
Speaker 4: was your day?
Speaker 3: Check in?
Speaker 4: And so then we can really transition not completely we're human,
Speaker 4: but transition into that more relaxed be at home.
Speaker 2: We're a couple rather than business partners. Yeah yeah, so interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, an active week though, What perhaps is the biggest
Speaker 1: lesson in health and wellness that you've learned over the years.
Speaker 1: What's some wisdom you can impart?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: So many, so.
Speaker 3: Many, I think give us a few.
Speaker 4: I think the strength training was a big thing, especially
Speaker 4: as you age and for women, like, you're not going
Speaker 4: to get big. Look, I'm not a big person and
Speaker 4: I do it four times a week, and I really
Speaker 4: do heavy weights.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: My trainer is a great big, you know, bodybuilding champion.
Speaker 4: So you're not going to get big, You're just going
Speaker 4: to get stronger. And for me, I meant feel more
Speaker 4: powerful because I'm strong.
Speaker 2: It's so empowering lift. I mean, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I love lifting heavyweights and I have actually haven't done
Speaker 1: it for two weeks and I feel I'm in my head,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I have to go on strength train, like
Speaker 1: I really need to feel that power.
Speaker 3: Makes you feel it does?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it really makes you feel powerful, so absolutely, And
Speaker 4: I then really love yoga as well. I sort of did.
Speaker 4: I think it's probably about five or six years ago.
Speaker 4: I went to Bali and did my instructor training just
Speaker 4: so I could really understand what I wanted to achieve
Speaker 4: out of yoga. So that's my be kind to myself.
Speaker 1: And did that help doing the yoga training. Do you
Speaker 1: feel like you, well, you get more out of yoga.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's me I do. But I like to know
Speaker 4: the ins and outs of things, you know, Like I
Speaker 4: had so many questions and I just thought, I just
Speaker 4: really want to immerse myself in it. And I think
Speaker 4: the girls at work thought that I'd possibly teach a
Speaker 4: yoga class every Thursday afternoon, which has never happened. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I just wanted to know a little bit more and
Speaker 4: it does help, I think, to understand what you're trying
Speaker 4: to achieve and that push and pull, that flight and
Speaker 4: fight that you have when you're pushing yourself to your limit,
Speaker 4: to understand it and give into it.
Speaker 3: You know, if I'm really stressed.
Speaker 4: I just can't do yoga like I can when I'm
Speaker 4: not stressed, because my body's resisting. And I guess that's
Speaker 4: what I need it the most.
Speaker 2: Well, it's your mind, isn't that telling you? Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't do this now. Move nourish believe. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's long been your company's ethos. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful mantra. Do you still live by this?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 4: And most people don't know this, but it was actually
Speaker 4: my way of living before we even started Lorna Jane.
Speaker 4: It's always been my way of I guess, justifying and
Speaker 4: not understanding why people. I get so fustedt why people
Speaker 4: don't find time for the health and wellbeing. I just
Speaker 4: it does frustrate me. I know all the reasons, of course,
Speaker 4: I know all the reasons, but I can't understand why.
Speaker 3: They don't put it on the top of their to
Speaker 3: do list. You know.
Speaker 4: So for me, it was always like, wake up every day,
Speaker 4: move nourish belief, Move your body in some way.
Speaker 3: Doesn't you can just be walking the dog.
Speaker 4: You know. I'm not sure I won't do that much
Speaker 4: today because I've got to fly back to Brisbane and
Speaker 4: all those sorts of things. But I've had my walk
Speaker 4: this morning, you know, move your body some way, eat.
Speaker 3: Good food, just make some great choices.
Speaker 4: You know, it's so easy, like I looked at the
Speaker 4: choices my husband made on this trip compared to me,
Speaker 4: his were not as good.
Speaker 2: As much that live the Londa Jay mantras.
Speaker 3: He does usually, but it was his birthday today.
Speaker 2: That's okay, we'll let him up.
Speaker 4: And then I think the most important one is believe.
Speaker 4: I think positivity. So if you just walk into every
Speaker 4: single day saying I'm going to move my body, I'm
Speaker 4: going to eat good food, and I'm going to try
Speaker 4: to be positive about everything, just thinks a great way.
Speaker 4: And if you do that every day, I feel like
Speaker 4: and I've witnessed women who haven't been in a good
Speaker 4: place with their health and well being actually wake up
Speaker 4: a few months down and the track and go, hey,
Speaker 4: I'm a different person. And it's just half an hour here,
Speaker 4: you know, a few minutes there chopping up some vegetables,
Speaker 4: you know, the night before before you go to work.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's a.
Speaker 4: Way of life, and you just have to be consistent.
Speaker 4: I think it's an easy way to think about it
Speaker 4: and achievable for most people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, achievable is Keith Lona. Thank you for coming on
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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to this interview as part of our
Speaker 1: summer series. Also, just a heads up if you do
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