Speaker 1: Well, hello there. Thank you for joining us today on
Speaker 1: this body and soul podcast called healthy Ish. I hope
Speaker 1: you are feeling healthy ish. Of course. I am Felicity
Speaker 1: Halle and I am joined today by the delightful, effervescent
Speaker 1: and well supremely talented Delta Gudroom and we are talking
Speaker 1: about how she maintains well her health, the health of
Speaker 1: her voice, and also balance when she is always on
Speaker 1: the road. If you do like what you hear from Delta,
Speaker 1: make sure you listening to our sister podcast, Extra healthy Ish,
Speaker 1: where she talks about the lessons she's learned on the
Speaker 1: eve of turning forty. You can catch that wherever you
Speaker 1: get your podcasts.
Speaker 2: Delta.
Speaker 1: It's so lovely having you back on here. Thank you
Speaker 1: for joining us again on healthy Ish.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me again. I feel
Speaker 3: wanted to be able to do this again with your Felicity.
Speaker 1: Loved you, the listeners loved you so yeah. Looking forward
Speaker 1: to talking about your health and wellness. Well, non negotiables.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're in La at the moment. You kind
Speaker 1: of pick your life up and move to different cities,
Speaker 1: you know, for a period of time. How do you
Speaker 1: navigate health around this you know.
Speaker 2: What it does.
Speaker 3: I would say I've even learned so much since the
Speaker 3: last time we spoke, because I think I'm learning new
Speaker 3: boundaries as time goes on, and what I can and
Speaker 3: can't do with my time, and just going okay, you
Speaker 3: know what I can do this or I can't.
Speaker 2: I think that that's definitely been.
Speaker 3: The sportsman that has had to be able to travel
Speaker 3: as much as we do and then get into the
Speaker 3: rhythm of you know, I know my body.
Speaker 2: When it comes to jet lag.
Speaker 3: It's like, okay, I have to stay on the same
Speaker 3: time for that first three days.
Speaker 2: I have to get into a country and stay on
Speaker 2: the at eight am.
Speaker 3: We've chosen eight am was when I get up. This
Speaker 3: is the time to go to bed. And just really
Speaker 3: still trying to prioritize my voice with so many shows,
Speaker 3: like just trying to work out when I can because
Speaker 3: I'm a chatter box.
Speaker 1: So you know, that's always been a what does that?
Speaker 1: What does that involve? Looking after your voice? How do
Speaker 1: you look after your voice?
Speaker 3: I mean so much it is you know, you have
Speaker 3: your steamer which you're constantly trying to keep hydrated in
Speaker 3: your voice. You'll notice, you know a lot of artists
Speaker 3: when you go into their room they've got these humidifiers
Speaker 3: a lot of the time. Or it's setting an environment where,
Speaker 3: you know, amongst sort of going out and having so
Speaker 3: much energy, you also have like a peaceful environment.
Speaker 2: Even if it's in.
Speaker 3: A motel in the middle of Scotland where we were
Speaker 3: last like a couple of weeks ago, and it's freezing,
Speaker 3: you silk, You set up your little little things that
Speaker 3: make it feel like home and you can recover. Just
Speaker 3: environments where you can recover. That is where what I
Speaker 3: definitely kind of continue to work out. But you always
Speaker 3: has to have quiet time. It has to be hydrated,
Speaker 3: it has to be warmed up and stretched like a
Speaker 3: normal muscle. You know, there is so many specs to
Speaker 3: it being having to be looked after.
Speaker 1: So you know, talked a bit about recovery, and I
Speaker 1: think that's really interesting because so much we think about
Speaker 1: that in terms of sports men and women, you know context.
Speaker 1: But you're right, you have to be on, you're energetic,
Speaker 1: you're up, so what do you do when you're down?
Speaker 2: You've alice. You've always has to warm up and it
Speaker 2: has to cool down.
Speaker 3: It is exactly the same as a muscle and I
Speaker 3: think that there's there's this psychology that I think with
Speaker 3: musicians because it is a heart space and a sort
Speaker 3: of a communication between listener and between artists in the
Speaker 3: words that are you know, maybe speaking to that person
Speaker 3: in that moment in their life.
Speaker 2: I think that it's.
Speaker 3: Sort of as a it's not as highlighted as a
Speaker 3: you know, as the kind of craft of the lift
Speaker 3: off before you get on stage, which is really important.
Speaker 3: I was watching on Jovi's documentary and he was dealing
Speaker 3: with You're constantly dealing with just keeping inflammation down, like
Speaker 3: exactly the same as muscles. So being on tour is
Speaker 3: a lot of just making sure that you can that
Speaker 3: your body and physicality can sort of be able to
Speaker 3: wind down and also.
Speaker 2: Be able to amp up and get ready for for
Speaker 2: a show.
Speaker 1: You almost need like something written on your palm. I
Speaker 1: can't talk right now? How do you actually not talk?
Speaker 3: The only way that I can do that is by
Speaker 3: isolating myself. That's kind of I've I Otherwise, I know
Speaker 3: I will want to chime in and you know, play,
Speaker 3: you know. So the only my biggest recovery is like
Speaker 3: having a day where I watch.
Speaker 2: A TV show and I zone in like it's the
Speaker 2: only way I can just stop.
Speaker 3: And actually, you know, I think a lot of girls,
Speaker 3: you know, I know, you know, so if it's like
Speaker 3: get on the trash TV or something that can completely
Speaker 3: zone me out and you know, do my work on
Speaker 3: my laptop and be quiet.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite trash TV show?
Speaker 2: Well, of course it's you know, like I'm at the moment,
Speaker 2: I'm into love is blind. You know, it doesn't love that.
Speaker 2: I love them all on to a bus.
Speaker 3: When we wish and I recently I was forcing all
Speaker 3: the all the band to watch a perfect match.
Speaker 2: That was love it. Now I didn't appreciate it as
Speaker 2: much as I had hoped. I'm watching the Castle after that?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, make everyone watch the castle. Great idea. Yeah, now,
Speaker 1: he did tell us last year, you've learned how important
Speaker 1: it is to you know, have balanced but also have fun.
Speaker 1: How is balanced looking this time round? Because you know,
Speaker 1: life ebbs and flows, we have the ups and downs.
Speaker 1: Are you feeling balanced? So to speak?
Speaker 3: Now? I think I think that that came into my
Speaker 3: life from love in my life as well from my partner.
Speaker 3: But but I think now it's more it's an enchapter
Speaker 3: of I'm feeling really inspired, really creative, and enjoying so
Speaker 3: much work coming to a place where you're right, the
Speaker 3: enjoyment had stepped in, and now I'm sort of just
Speaker 3: moving with my passion and wherever that flows into, I'll
Speaker 3: give it my everything for that, and also, you know,
Speaker 3: allowing projects to to you know, just kind of making
Speaker 3: the album if it's making the show, if it's I'm
Speaker 3: just really enjoying.
Speaker 2: That, or being on the road, or or you know, or.
Speaker 3: When we made the commercial recently, or like whatever it is.
Speaker 3: We I sort of just move where move where the
Speaker 3: passion is.
Speaker 1: Watch Out Delta is in her inspiration era. We like error. Now,
Speaker 1: can we just take a moment to talk about that
Speaker 1: magnificent dress you wear in the new optasad That is
Speaker 1: just beautiful? Do you ever get sick of wearing these
Speaker 1: amazing dresses?
Speaker 2: No? Absolutely no I don't. I very very.
Speaker 3: Grateful, my beautiful, my beautiful friend Maggie who talked to
Speaker 3: tool Addict and she made that dress for the Optus commercial.
Speaker 3: Do you know the crazy thing? I had done an
Speaker 3: Optus commercial in nineteen ninety three, so that was I
Speaker 3: had done one when I was about seven years old.
Speaker 3: It's one of my first ever commercials, and I had
Speaker 3: a gold dress that I still have in storage no way,
Speaker 3: and it was made for that and then I and
Speaker 3: then cut to thirty years later and I, I'm getting
Speaker 3: to have this beautiful dress with the team for this
Speaker 3: TV commercial.
Speaker 2: So it was.
Speaker 3: Really lovely to have a fully interesting, full circle moment again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that. Now just quickly be before we
Speaker 1: go for any listeners. You know, looking at you, you've
Speaker 1: got a busy life, and you know you're managing the
Speaker 1: demands of career and health and time for yourself. What
Speaker 1: does just going back to the idea of balance, what
Speaker 1: does it look like for you a balance life?
Speaker 2: I mean every I mean I always say everything in moderation,
Speaker 2: but it is.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm probably I probably tip a little bit more.
Speaker 3: I do tend to work a lot, I am. I've
Speaker 3: always been like that. I've always been an energizer buddy,
Speaker 3: and I got that from my mom. My mom and
Speaker 3: dad both worked very hard. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: the balance is that you know, I do get to
Speaker 3: the gym, I do get to you know, go We
Speaker 3: went for a high essay.
Speaker 2: It was but it was boiling hot and I was
Speaker 2: like this is too hot. The balance is off on
Speaker 2: the temperature here. But I do you know, I enjoy
Speaker 2: all the small things as.
Speaker 3: Well as in like I enjoy just a beautiful cup
Speaker 3: of coffee, and I know that sounds. I love having
Speaker 3: my morning coffee. I love having my little just time
Speaker 3: to you know, seat of the piano and reflect or.
Speaker 3: My version of balance is having the moment in the
Speaker 3: tour of us where I can watch a girly show
Speaker 3: for me, you know, or having the balance of you know,
Speaker 3: just I do feel like we have a balance because
Speaker 3: I because I get to work with a Matt as well.
Speaker 3: We find our balance of our friends kind of travel
Speaker 3: with us as well. We have to bring family, you know,
Speaker 3: and that's kind of it's a bit of a gypsy life.
Speaker 2: But we make sure.
Speaker 3: That while we're in oz we celebrate our friends and
Speaker 3: see them and you know, all their milestones, and that's,
Speaker 3: you know, we find a way to have our version
Speaker 3: of balance. Everybody has their own version of what fills
Speaker 3: their cup up, and I think we do a good
Speaker 3: job at finding that.
Speaker 2: For us as well.
Speaker 1: Delta, thank you for coming unhealthy.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: What's your version of balance? Interesting isn't it when you
Speaker 1: get so clear on what a balanced life looks like
Speaker 1: for you and then when you're off kilter. Oh hell,
Speaker 1: you know it, don't you. Anyway? I hope you enjoy
Speaker 1: this chat with Delta and by the way, her magnificent
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