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Speaker 1: Oh hey, friends, fans listeners of this podcast called Healthy,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Of course, this comes from Body

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Speaker 1: and Soul and I'm your host, Felicity Harley. And joining

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Speaker 1: us in the hot seat for the final time in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four is our digital editor Holly Berkeleman, and

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Speaker 1: we are chanting through the top health and wellness stories

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Speaker 1: of the year. Yes, we're going to give you our

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Speaker 1: phase today, Holly.

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Speaker 2: We made it.

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Speaker 3: We made it happy end of the year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we need, you know, the pop out streamers,

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Speaker 1: and we do, and we have not.

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Speaker 2: We don't even have wine in front of us.

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Speaker 3: I know what a shame.

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Speaker 1: But clap club clap hangover is still still No I'm fine, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: but I know it was.

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Speaker 2: But it was last week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a wedding on the weekend and which

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Speaker 3: was a three day affair.

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Speaker 4: It was beautiful.

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Speaker 3: But let me tell you, my social battery is an

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Speaker 3: absolute zero empty. Gone.

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Speaker 1: I've got a wedding this weekend, my cousin's wedding fall.

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Speaker 1: So I've got to get prepped.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, prep not for anything else, but prep the social battery.

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Speaker 4: That you know what, I don't think we just to digress.

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Speaker 1: We will talk about the stories that we loved and

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Speaker 1: loathed or made us laugh in twenty twenty four in

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Speaker 1: one minute. But I think we underestimate how much energy

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Speaker 1: it does take to intend social events at this time

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Speaker 3: I agree. Energy expenditure is my new focus, actually, because

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Speaker 3: I've found that I need to have the whole weekend

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Speaker 3: doing pretty much nothing to recover in time for the

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Speaker 3: week because I like packing my weekdays full.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah, down days so important, down days.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, hit us off, what's one story that you loved?

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Speaker 3: I think loved, love, loved, so instead of down days

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Speaker 3: or maybe kind of similar, it's no spend weekends, which

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Speaker 3: was a story from earlier this year, which basically challenges

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Speaker 3: people to take two whole days where they don't spend

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Speaker 3: any money, which, if anyone's like me, is pretty much impossible.

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Speaker 3: I can't step out of my front door without accidentally

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Speaker 3: spending like fifty dollars on one coffee, it seems like.

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Speaker 3: But it's challenging people to kind of get in control

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Speaker 3: that doesn't mean you have to not do anything. You

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Speaker 3: can do activities like going for walks, having people over

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Speaker 3: just to stop things from getting out of hand financially

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Speaker 3: and give yourself a bit of control. And I think

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Speaker 3: the best thing is, as the story rise, that you

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Speaker 3: don't have to do it every weekend, but giving yourself,

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Speaker 3: you know, these little challenges first is a great little

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Speaker 3: dopamine hit if you manage to do it. But it's

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Speaker 3: also just really good for saving. So you could save

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Speaker 3: if you save two hundred and fifty dollars every month

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Speaker 3: by not spending on the weekend, even five years, that

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Speaker 3: which is pretty good that it adds up when it really.

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Speaker 1: Does, you're so right, Like, Okay, we laugh at spending

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Speaker 1: but it's forbid.

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Speaker 3: You want to take away? Yes, and you have three

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Speaker 3: I think it's.

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Speaker 2: A good little chat.

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Speaker 1: I think this is a great one to take into

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Speaker 3: And I agree, and the festivities can be so expensive.

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Speaker 1: So well, I really like this term that came up

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Speaker 4: That's a bit of about five times fast millennial pause.

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Speaker 3: It's coming up in so many conversations so swiftly. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: This is an empowering word, just to throw around if

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Speaker 3: And you're right that the more millennials who come into

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Speaker 3: get more and more prevalent. So bring on, right, MILLENNI Paul,

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Speaker 3: I love it, Millennio pause. Okay, what was next? My

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Speaker 3: We love wellness trends. We love wellness trends, and these

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Speaker 3: dopamine Mornings could be the wellness hack you need. That

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Speaker 1: I actually also like this because I feel like I

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Speaker 2: Totally agreat.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people are interview on this podcast are

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally agree. I actually have a thing that

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Speaker 1: And it's a great perfect time because you might not

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the last story I'm going to end on a

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Speaker 2: For all this now a bit like the bean salad.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, Holly, it's been so nice having you in the

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Speaker 4: Thank you for having me. It's been so much fun.

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Speaker 1: And have a great Christmas, New Years, and we'll see you.

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Speaker 2: Well back on deck in January.

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Speaker 4: I can't wait.

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Speaker 3: Can't wait to report back and hear about your holidays

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Speaker 4: Bye well, folks.

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Speaker 1: That wraps up our podcasts for twenty twenty four. Next Monday,

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Speaker 1: we kick off with our Summer series, which of course

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Speaker 1: are our best ofs from the past year. There are

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Speaker 1: some really good interviews coming up for you. If you

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Speaker 1: want to read any of the above stories, I will

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Speaker 1: leave the links to all of those in the show notes.

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Speaker 1: Anything else hedybody, insoul dot com dot are you can

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Speaker 1: follows on socials dm me at Felicity Harley. Thanks again

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Speaker 1: for joining us as always, and of course have a

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Speaker 1: wonderful Christmas, a happy New Year, and try and stay healthy.

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