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Speaker 1: Oh hello, welcome to Healthy She. You're a daily podcast

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Speaker 1: from Body and Soul. I am your host, Felicity Haley

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Speaker 1: h get ready to feel and be inspired after this chat.

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Speaker 1: I'm joined today by Lisa ran now Now she is

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Speaker 1: obsessed with inspiring humans. The author, podcast and motivational speaker,

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Speaker 1: joins us today to discuss mental energy and the mindset

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Speaker 1: and beliefs that can lead to a more inspired you.

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Speaker 1: She has a new book out it is called Energy,

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Speaker 1: and she brings a lot of energy into this podcast today.

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Speaker 1: If you like what you hear from Lisa, listening to

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Speaker 1: extra healthy Ish, where we take a deep dive into

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Speaker 1: all things energy, physical, spiritual, and emotional, you can catch

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Speaker 1: that wherever we get your podcasts. Lisa, welcome to Healthy Ish.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me so lovely.

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Speaker 1: That you're in here, and especially I have to say listeners.

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Speaker 1: She is wearing beautiful bright colors of yellow. Immediately makes

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Speaker 1: well makes me feel energetic.

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Speaker 2: I love yellow. When we yellow, I feel like I'm

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Speaker 2: the sun. Like someone needs to be the sun to

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Speaker 2: date's me absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Now talk to us about mental energy. I love this concept.

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Speaker 2: What does it feel like?

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Speaker 1: What is mental energy?

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Speaker 2: So mental energy has a lot to do with how

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Speaker 2: we think and our beliefs, and it comes from like

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Speaker 2: our intentions. And I think inspiration is one of the

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Speaker 2: biggest keys in mental energy. So who inspires you? What

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Speaker 2: are you inspired by? What are you doing that lights

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 2: All of those things, And we don't think about our

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Speaker 2: head diets. We think about our physical diets more and more.

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Speaker 2: But it's like, what are you putting in your head?

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Speaker 2: Who are you watching? What's your social media feed? Like,

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Speaker 2: what are you you know? Who are you inspired by?

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Speaker 2: What music are you listening to? What books are you reading?

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Speaker 2: So all of those things go into your head diet

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Speaker 2: and they change how you feel and how you think.

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Speaker 2: And I think if you you know, and all that

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Speaker 2: attitude stuff like if you if you think the world's horrible,

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Speaker 2: you're right, the world's horrible. If you think the world's lovely,

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Speaker 2: you're right, the world's lovely.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it just when you were saying, you know, people

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Speaker 1: who inspire you an inspiration, it's just such a lovely feeling,

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Speaker 1: feeling inspired, And often we can get so caught up

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Speaker 1: in the minutia of life and the overwhelm and the

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Speaker 1: mental less and everything else that we might see, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm probably speaking about me here that I think, Wow,

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Speaker 1: when was I who? Like, when did I last feel

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Speaker 1: that shot of inspiration?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? And I think I'm always seeking inspiration. I read

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Speaker 2: a lot of poetry. I love going to the movies,

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Speaker 2: you know, I love watching documentaries about real life people

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Speaker 2: doing amazing things. Blows my mind. So it's like, and

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Speaker 2: I constantly seek that because I have this hunger for inspiration.

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Speaker 2: I love watching You're just interesting people and interesting and

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Speaker 2: there's so much out there. But it's really hard to

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Speaker 2: find an everyday life because you're just getting up, putting

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Speaker 2: and you've got to really look a look for it.

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Speaker 2: You've got to seek it out.

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Speaker 1: I'm putting it on spot here. But have you watched

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Speaker 1: any lately? Have you there any inspirational people that you've

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, I watched Phil Starts as documentary called Starts

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Speaker 2: on Documentary on a surrow Netflix, and he's extraordinary, Like

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Speaker 2: he's living with Parkinson's, he works with famous people, he's

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Speaker 2: be better. And it's like he's so inspirational and living

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Speaker 1: I love I love interviewing and also watching sportswomen. I

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the Olympics coming up. Talk to

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Speaker 1: us about the mind diet. How does this all work?

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Speaker 2: Well? I think having been conscious of what you're putting

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Speaker 2: you go unfollow immediately. I'm very discerning with my social media.

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Speaker 1: So what does it look like? What does your feed

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's just beautiful things. Like I love Instagram because

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Speaker 2: I think you've got to be in charge of it.

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Speaker 2: And people say, oh, you know, they compare themselves. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: Follow all the just follow all the European accounts from Switzerland.

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Speaker 1: I started doing that.

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Speaker 2: De Max my new papers. You're beautiful, den marks the

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Speaker 2: same Danish things. There's something about Danish things. I'm like,

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Speaker 2: And it's like when you follow beautiful things, you get

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Speaker 2: more beautiful things. You follow negative things, you'll get more

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Speaker 2: negative things. And people winging and you know, whatever you're

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Speaker 2: whatever that you're watching, you'll get more of. And I

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Speaker 2: think life's actually the same. Life has an algorithm, and

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Speaker 1: I like that. I like that view of life having

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Speaker 1: an algorithm. How can we become addicted to our problems?

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Speaker 2: Just go you're amazing, tell them that they're amazing. I

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Speaker 2: And I think we wing and look for drama because

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Speaker 2: we're desperate for someone to go You're amazing.

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Speaker 1: We just I mean, at the core of being human,

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Speaker 2: We all want attention. We want to know we matter.

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Speaker 2: and we will unconsciously do anything to get that attention.

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Speaker 1: At home, dump as I call it with my house

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Speaker 1: So give us a few little tips about how we

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Speaker 2: So I think your mental energy first of all, just

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Speaker 2: give yourself a rest. When's any time you're silent? I

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Speaker 2: How's my head? Do I feel really bamboozled today? So

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Speaker 2: you know, the sensations and we're just yabbering and we

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Speaker 1: I love those two tips, you know why, because they're

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Speaker 1: not it's slowing down to boost energy. It's not doing

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Speaker 1: something to boost energy. It's actually the reverse, the yin

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And I do a lot of restorative yoga, which

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Speaker 2: there's no bend thing involved. It's just sleeping in a blanket.

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Speaker 2: perfect and they make a huge difference, huge difference.

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