Speaker 1: Oh hey, friends, fans listeners of this podcast called Healthy,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Of course, this comes from Body
Speaker 1: and Soul and I'm your host, Felicity Harley. And joining
Speaker 1: us in the hot seat for the final time in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four is our digital editor Holly Berkeleman, and
Speaker 1: we are chanting through the top health and wellness stories
Speaker 1: of the year. Yes, we're going to give you our
Speaker 1: phase today, Holly.
Speaker 2: We made it.
Speaker 3: We made it happy end of the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like we need, you know, the pop out streamers,
Speaker 1: and we do, and we have not.
Speaker 2: We don't even have wine in front of us.
Speaker 3: I know what a shame.
Speaker 1: But clap club clap hangover is still still No I'm fine, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: but I know it was.
Speaker 2: But it was last week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a wedding on the weekend and which
Speaker 3: was a three day affair.
Speaker 4: It was beautiful.
Speaker 3: But let me tell you, my social battery is an
Speaker 3: absolute zero empty. Gone.
Speaker 1: I've got a wedding this weekend, my cousin's wedding fall.
Speaker 1: So I've got to get prepped.
Speaker 3: Yeah, prep not for anything else, but prep the social battery.
Speaker 4: That you know what, I don't think we just to digress.
Speaker 1: We will talk about the stories that we loved and
Speaker 1: loathed or made us laugh in twenty twenty four in
Speaker 1: one minute. But I think we underestimate how much energy
Speaker 1: it does take to intend social events at this time
Speaker 1: of year.
Speaker 3: I agree. Energy expenditure is my new focus, actually, because
Speaker 3: I've found that I need to have the whole weekend
Speaker 3: doing pretty much nothing to recover in time for the
Speaker 3: week because I like packing my weekdays full.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah, down days so important, down days.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: Anyway, hit us off, what's one story that you loved?
Speaker 3: I think loved, love, loved, so instead of down days
Speaker 3: or maybe kind of similar, it's no spend weekends, which
Speaker 3: was a story from earlier this year, which basically challenges
Speaker 3: people to take two whole days where they don't spend
Speaker 3: any money, which, if anyone's like me, is pretty much impossible.
Speaker 3: I can't step out of my front door without accidentally
Speaker 3: spending like fifty dollars on one coffee, it seems like.
Speaker 3: But it's challenging people to kind of get in control
Speaker 3: of their finances a little bit, to try not to
Speaker 3: spend a single dollar on the weekend and do activity
Speaker 3: that doesn't mean you have to not do anything. You
Speaker 3: can do activities like going for walks, having people over
Speaker 3: to your house, cooking with things that you have at home,
Speaker 3: just to stop things from getting out of hand financially
Speaker 3: and give yourself a bit of control. And I think
Speaker 3: the best thing is, as the story rise, that you
Speaker 3: don't have to do it every weekend, but giving yourself,
Speaker 3: you know, these little challenges first is a great little
Speaker 3: dopamine hit if you manage to do it. But it's
Speaker 3: also just really good for saving. So you could save
Speaker 3: if you save two hundred and fifty dollars every month
Speaker 3: by not spending on the weekend, even five years, that
Speaker 3: adds up to fifty ten thousand dollars. And if you
Speaker 3: invested that, you could end up with about eighteen thousand,
Speaker 3: which is pretty good that it adds up when it really.
Speaker 1: Does, you're so right, Like, Okay, we laugh at spending
Speaker 1: dropping fifty dollars on a coffee, but you can go
Speaker 1: to a coffee shop on a weekend and then you
Speaker 1: might have a well bacon ed roll or something for
Speaker 1: you if you don't have a hangover. Yeah, then you
Speaker 1: pick up some groceries and then there's fifty it's just gone, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's forbid.
Speaker 3: You want to take away? Yes, and you have three
Speaker 3: little kids. Oh my goodness. It's so expensive to be
Speaker 3: alive these days, and I think with the cost of
Speaker 3: living concerns, especially at the back end of the year,
Speaker 3: I think it's.
Speaker 2: A good little chat.
Speaker 1: I think this is a great one to take into
Speaker 1: the new year, especially if you're feeling overwhelmed with the
Speaker 1: cost of Christmas.
Speaker 3: And I agree, and the festivities can be so expensive.
Speaker 1: So well, I really like this term that came up
Speaker 1: earlier this year, millennio pause.
Speaker 4: That's a bit of about five times fast millennial pause.
Speaker 2: That's better.
Speaker 1: So I thought this is interesting. Now I'm actually on
Speaker 1: the cuss I'm like a young gen X millennial here,
Speaker 1: no no, no, no, no, at the end of the year. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I just really like this term because I felt like
Speaker 1: it summed up what a lot of people around me
Speaker 1: and a lot of listeners would be feeling. So millennials
Speaker 1: are entering perimenopause, so of course there's a word for it,
Speaker 1: and I think this one's just should be on our radar,
Speaker 1: and it's a big deal. And what I've loved particularly
Speaker 1: about this year and probably last year is that we
Speaker 1: are talking about perimenopause, menopause. It's normalized in a huge way.
Speaker 3: It's coming up in so many conversations so swiftly. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And I just feel the more that the millennial era
Speaker 3: gets into perimenopause, the more we're going to hear about it,
Speaker 3: feel empowered and that it's okay to talk about it.
Speaker 3: So I suppose this perhaps is my word of the year.
Speaker 3: And yeah, so for all those people who are feeling
Speaker 3: like they might be entering into perimenopause or are in there,
Speaker 3: or question whether they're in there, I think that's a
Speaker 3: big thing. Yeah, kind of don't know whether you're in
Speaker 3: there totally.
Speaker 1: This is an empowering word, just to throw around if
Speaker 1: you can pronounce it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 3: And you're right that the more millennials who come into
Speaker 3: this stage, the more we'll hear about it because they're outspoken,
Speaker 3: they know how to use social media properly. It'll just
Speaker 3: get more and more prevalent. So bring on, right, MILLENNI Paul,
Speaker 3: I love it, Millennio pause. Okay, what was next? My
Speaker 3: third one was another one I loved. I haven't done
Speaker 3: any ones. I hate it now because I'm we're leaving.
Speaker 3: We love wellness trends. We love wellness trends, and these
Speaker 3: are just the good ones. So my pick is low
Speaker 3: dopamine Mornings could be the wellness hack you need. That
Speaker 3: was the headline and low Dopamine Morning. So basically, I
Speaker 3: was trying to do things slower in the mornings and
Speaker 3: not stack your dopamine too much early on in the
Speaker 3: day so that you don't crash out by lunchtime, because
Speaker 3: I think we do this without thinking. A lot of
Speaker 3: the time. We wake up and we might, you know,
Speaker 3: make a coffee and look on our phones and play
Speaker 3: music and talk to your housemate, and you're doing all
Speaker 3: these different things which are building up your dopamine, and
Speaker 3: then you crash out because you get to work and
Speaker 3: you're sitting there and maybe you're a little bored, and
Speaker 3: then all the good.
Speaker 4: Stuff you're drained.
Speaker 1: I actually also like this because I feel like I
Speaker 1: feel like there's been a lot of pressure on people
Speaker 1: this year to get their morning routine right.
Speaker 2: Totally agreat.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are interview on this podcast are
Speaker 1: very particular about what they do in the morning, and
Speaker 1: sometimes when I hear them, I'm like, it's exhausting, like
Speaker 1: you do the ice prot then you go for a run,
Speaker 1: and then you do this.
Speaker 2: You catch me doing none of that. Can we just
Speaker 2: sit in stillness?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally agree. I actually have a thing that
Speaker 3: I tried to do this year, which is not so
Speaker 3: much this year. Actually I picked it up during COVID,
Speaker 3: Whereas because there was so much time to feel I
Speaker 3: always said to myself, just do one thing at once,
Speaker 3: So I don't watch TV and paint your names nails
Speaker 3: at the same time. Paint your nails and then watch
Speaker 3: TV because I was trying to fill up my time
Speaker 3: because I'm so bored. But I do think that this
Speaker 3: is similar to this dough dopamine morning thing and that
Speaker 3: wake up Maybe check your phone and then go for
Speaker 3: a walk, and don't message your friends to listen to
Speaker 3: a podcast at the same time. Just go for a
Speaker 3: walk and enjoy that stillness. I think that's something that
Speaker 3: we can take into the new year, especially post festivities
Speaker 3: when it's been so hectic.
Speaker 1: And it's a great perfect time because you might not
Speaker 1: be running off to work and you actually got time
Speaker 1: to take mornings. Yeah, just take a beat, guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the last story I'm going to end on a
Speaker 4: TikTok trend.
Speaker 2: For all this now a bit like the bean salad.
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks, my faved, I love that I
Speaker 1: have to bring up the marry me chicken. We actually
Speaker 1: talked about this was not you, I think that was
Speaker 1: that was that yes to be in the hot seat,
Speaker 1: and it was big on the site, and did you
Speaker 1: write the story though I didn't write it anyway, it
Speaker 1: was yeah, this is this blew up on the website. Also,
Speaker 1: we talked about the podcast, and it blew up on
Speaker 1: the podcast. It's a dish that's garned millions of viewers online,
Speaker 1: and it's obviously for those who don't know. It's for
Speaker 1: women to make hoping that a chicken dinner will make
Speaker 1: their partner pop the question or fall in love with
Speaker 1: them or I.
Speaker 4: Mean it's so good, it's also bad, so bad.
Speaker 1: It's very Nora Efron I love, yeah, but I actually like,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously women came out feminists and said, oh,
Speaker 1: you can't do this, there's more to you know, we're
Speaker 1: not what are we reverting back to nineteen fifty and
Speaker 1: sixties when we're of course there's models step wives, But I.
Speaker 2: Don't know, I liked it. I thought it was harmless.
Speaker 4: It's really good.
Speaker 2: Have you made it?
Speaker 3: I haven't made it because I'm so scared of cooking
Speaker 3: raw chicken. I was raised in a vegetarian household.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right.
Speaker 3: They call to meet for us, but I'm scared of
Speaker 3: raw meat, so I don't do it myself very often.
Speaker 3: But I should make it, and maybe I'll make it
Speaker 3: for my friends rather than making it for a few us.
Speaker 4: It's really easy.
Speaker 2: Actually, I'm gonna make it for dinner to night.
Speaker 4: I make it for myself, marry myself chicken. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 1: It's just I'm just going to call it bloody good
Speaker 1: chicken recipe perfect.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Holly, it's been so nice having you in the
Speaker 1: hot seat this year.
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me. It's been so much fun.
Speaker 1: And have a great Christmas, New Years, and we'll see you.
Speaker 2: Well back on deck in January.
Speaker 4: I can't wait.
Speaker 3: Can't wait to report back and hear about your holidays
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah you too, I see then.
Speaker 4: Bye well, folks.
Speaker 1: That wraps up our podcasts for twenty twenty four. Next Monday,
Speaker 1: we kick off with our Summer series, which of course
Speaker 1: are our best ofs from the past year. There are
Speaker 1: some really good interviews coming up for you. If you
Speaker 1: want to read any of the above stories, I will
Speaker 1: leave the links to all of those in the show notes.
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Speaker 1: for joining us as always, and of course have a
Speaker 1: wonderful Christmas, a happy New Year, and try and stay healthy.
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