Speaker 1: Yes, I have to pay the bills, but I also
Speaker 1: have to make sure that my heart and my mind
Speaker 1: and my spirit are centered and that I'm well in
Speaker 1: order to still have that energy to go out and work.
Speaker 1: The first thing I like to do is thank God.
Speaker 1: It just kind of dedicate my day for me. It's
Speaker 1: important to know that there's something bigger and stronger and
Speaker 1: this force that's just much bigger than me. I grew
Speaker 1: up in this mentality of working. Working, You've got to
Speaker 1: work harder than everyone else, and working is important, but
Speaker 1: also resting is important. You guys, Hey, what up, y'all?
Speaker 1: And welcome to another episode of cheek Ease and Chill.
Speaker 1: I'm your host cheek eas and today's episode will focus
Speaker 1: on something I've been wanting to talk about for a while,
Speaker 1: work life balance. I'm going to be sharing with you
Speaker 1: some of the things I do to keep a healthy
Speaker 1: balance and some other things I know I need to
Speaker 1: improve on. So no need to waste any more time.
Speaker 1: This is cheek Ease and Chill. If you're like me,
Speaker 1: you probably have a hard time switching off when you're
Speaker 1: not working. My typical day looks like it changes because
Speaker 1: I travel so much, but let's talk about when I'm home.
Speaker 1: When I'm home, I like to wake up around seven
Speaker 1: seven thirty. I used to wake up at six, you guys,
Speaker 1: but now I'm waking up around seven seven thirty. The
Speaker 1: first thing I like to do is thank God. For me,
Speaker 1: it's super important to just not look at my phone.
Speaker 1: There are days when I look at my phone before
Speaker 1: doing anything else, like I'll get a message or something,
Speaker 1: or I'll see an email and I respond to that
Speaker 1: before I do my prayers in the morning. And when
Speaker 1: I do that, when the first thing I do is
Speaker 1: look at my phone, I feel like my day is
Speaker 1: just more hectic and just stressful. So for me, it's
Speaker 1: important to wake up. I thank God. I turn on
Speaker 1: my meditation music. I usually go on Apple Music or Spotify,
Speaker 1: or I'll just put something like Singing Bowls or Positive
Speaker 1: Energy or Zen music, and I just put it on
Speaker 1: and I liked my incense, and I do my prayer.
Speaker 1: For me, it's important to know that there's something bigger
Speaker 1: and stronger and this force that's just much bigger than me.
Speaker 1: And that's why I like to get on my knees
Speaker 1: and I like to just meditate and just kind of
Speaker 1: dedicate my day, and I always say blessed the hours
Speaker 1: ahead to just help me get through the day. Because
Speaker 1: we all live, something always happens, like you just never know,
Speaker 1: like you, there's always things that happened unexpectedly. So for me,
Speaker 1: it's important. It's important to do that the first thing
Speaker 1: I do. And if I have time that day, which
Speaker 1: I usually do, I make time. I like to start
Speaker 1: my working day around nine ten o'clock. I like to
Speaker 1: work out some cardio, some weights. Might try to work
Speaker 1: out anywhere from three to five times a week. I
Speaker 1: used to do six, you guys, and but make sure
Speaker 1: you're resting one day. It's important. We're talking about balance,
Speaker 1: so it's good to work out, but always like have
Speaker 1: one day where you just don't do anything, and I
Speaker 1: mean like strenuous, you know. So usually I take off
Speaker 1: Sundays from working out, whether I'm traveling or not. I
Speaker 1: like to always have a hotel that has some type
Speaker 1: of cardio machine so that I can sweat. It's important
Speaker 1: to sweat and to release toxins because releasing toxins helps
Speaker 1: you with stress levels, helps you not to get sick,
Speaker 1: it helps you lose weight obviously, So just to sweat
Speaker 1: and release toxins. For me is important and it's helped
Speaker 1: me so much so anyways, that's working out for me.
Speaker 1: Those two things are kind of like I'm giving myself love.
Speaker 1: I am putting myself first. I am centering myself in
Speaker 1: the morning. I am connecting with my spirituality. I am
Speaker 1: getting my body to move to sweat. Those are gifts
Speaker 1: that I feel like I give myself and it becomes
Speaker 1: a lifestyle and it becomes a part of your routine.
Speaker 1: I think that the most successful people are those that
Speaker 1: have routines that wake up at a certain time. For me, also,
Speaker 1: another thing that's important is as soon as I wake up,
Speaker 1: I drink water. I always have a water bottle next
Speaker 1: to my bed, and I take that water bottle into
Speaker 1: my restroom because in my restroom is where I meditate
Speaker 1: and I'm constantly drinking water. Like the first hour of
Speaker 1: my day, I start with just drinking pure water like
Speaker 1: it I don't like get cold. It's just room temperature water,
Speaker 1: and it's part of my routine. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: I'm feeding my soul. It's kind of like watering a plant,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like that to me is
Speaker 1: just I don't know it's important anyways, So that's what
Speaker 1: I do. Those things are super important. Doesn't matter where
Speaker 1: I am in the world. I always make time for that,
Speaker 1: even in a hotel, in a corner anywhere, just to
Speaker 1: center myself and put myself in God's hands. As far
Speaker 1: as work goes, it's always different. Right now, I'm starting
Speaker 1: to make changes in my life where I want to
Speaker 1: take off Sundays and Mondays from everything. If I have
Speaker 1: to travel from like a show and get home on
Speaker 1: a Sunday, cool, But I don't want to do anything
Speaker 1: else on a Sunday or Monday because I want to
Speaker 1: dedicate it to my home because those things are important
Speaker 1: to me. I've learned that when I'm working too much
Speaker 1: and my home isn't situated and it isn't clean, and
Speaker 1: things aren't its place, it really messes with me. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys understand me, but if my
Speaker 1: bed isn't made, if my room is a mess, if
Speaker 1: my car is a mess, places that I spend most
Speaker 1: of my time, if they are unorganized and they're a mess,
Speaker 1: I feel like emotionally I'm everywhere. So that's why I
Speaker 1: was like, I just made the decision, and I told
Speaker 1: my manager and I told, oh me, my assistant. You guys,
Speaker 1: I need to take off Sunday and Monday, and I
Speaker 1: need to be at home. I want to cook. I
Speaker 1: want a grocery shop. I want to wash my own clothes.
Speaker 1: It's important for me because I'm so particular, so anal
Speaker 1: whatever you wanna call it, I've I've learned now with
Speaker 1: age that I am very particular. I want things done
Speaker 1: a certain way, and if they're not done a certain way,
Speaker 1: then I'm upset. So I'd rather just do it myself.
Speaker 1: So I like to wash my clothes. I like the
Speaker 1: grocery shop, I want to cook. I want to just
Speaker 1: end my week, which is Sunday, ending my week the
Speaker 1: right way with myself in my home, and starting my
Speaker 1: week which is Monday, in my home, and just setting
Speaker 1: the tone of what the week is going to look like,
Speaker 1: because again, my week changes so much. I could be
Speaker 1: super busy or I could have less busy days, but
Speaker 1: there's always something to do in the life of chiggies,
Speaker 1: to be honest, So that's what I'm doing. I just
Speaker 1: started implementing that recently, having those days off so that
Speaker 1: I could, you know, like I said, set the tone
Speaker 1: for the week and figure out what I'm doing, because
Speaker 1: if it's not phone interviews, it's interviews on zoom. I
Speaker 1: have a bunch of meetings right now with the album
Speaker 1: that just came out. We have shows, so I have
Speaker 1: to prepare myself for my shows, and it's always different.
Speaker 1: But I think, no matter how busy I am, it
Speaker 1: is important for me to know that my home is
Speaker 1: in place. I want to have quality time with my partner,
Speaker 1: with my dogs, you know what I mean. Like I
Speaker 1: want them to know that I'm not just gonna like
Speaker 1: you know that they're my responsibility. It's weird because I
Speaker 1: was bothering me for a while, you guys, because I
Speaker 1: was so busy that I felt I was neglecting Buncho,
Speaker 1: Like I felt like he probably didn't feel like he
Speaker 1: was my son, like he probably felt, oh, he's only son,
Speaker 1: or he was always at the hotel, at the dog hotel,
Speaker 1: and it was bothering me. And I was like, wait,
Speaker 1: like I don't know, I don't even know how to
Speaker 1: explain it, but it was bothering me, and I wasn't
Speaker 1: comfortable and I felt very out of balance. And those
Speaker 1: things are important to me. So I think it's important
Speaker 1: to check yourself and to just make mental notes and
Speaker 1: write things down to bi. Okay, what makes me happy.
Speaker 1: What makes me happy is giving my partner quality time,
Speaker 1: giving my dog quality time, spending time with him, for
Speaker 1: him to know he's my responsibility, that I love him.
Speaker 1: Going to church, and I don't go every Sunday the
Speaker 1: way I used to you guys, but I just say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll try to go once every month. Spending time with
Speaker 1: my siblings, like we try to do it once a
Speaker 1: month as well, Like we'll meet somewhere and we'll all
Speaker 1: go to brunch or something like I go visit Johnny's grandma,
Speaker 1: his dad's mom, and she cooks for us, and those
Speaker 1: things just kind of for me. Help me keep my
Speaker 1: feet on the ground, help me just stay like grounded.
Speaker 1: You know. It's doing things like that where it's like, wait,
Speaker 1: these are the important things in life. Yes, work is important.
Speaker 1: You know. Everyone's just constantly chasing the dollar, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, and now really focusing on what's important,
Speaker 1: you know, and not really focusing on the moment. And
Speaker 1: I think that for a while I was doing that
Speaker 1: where I was just like so engrossed in work, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I have to just keep going. I have
Speaker 1: to pay the bills, and yes, I have to pay
Speaker 1: the bills, but I also have to make sure that
Speaker 1: my heart and my mind and my spirit are centered
Speaker 1: and that I'm well in order to still have that
Speaker 1: energy to go out and work. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: So I always put those things first. And that's what
Speaker 1: I feel like is balanced. And believe me, you're always
Speaker 1: going to be out of balance, like in some point
Speaker 1: of your life. Like you know, you just have to
Speaker 1: catch yourself and rail yourself back in and say, okay,
Speaker 1: wait a second. I kind of feel myself getting out
Speaker 1: of balance. It's normal because you start getting used to
Speaker 1: just the routine of life. The important thing is catching
Speaker 1: yourself and saying, okay, wait a second, let me take
Speaker 1: a few steps back, center myself, recenter myself. You know,
Speaker 1: I think it's important. If I think about it, the
Speaker 1: most stressful part of my day, if I'm being honest,
Speaker 1: it would have to be anything that's work related. And
Speaker 1: the reason I say this is because I'm the type
Speaker 1: of person that wants to give my all to anything
Speaker 1: that I'm doing. Like I feel like if I'm going
Speaker 1: to do it. If I'm going to start it, I
Speaker 1: need to finish it, and I need to finish it strong.
Speaker 1: It could be anything. So for a long time, it
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, I have to work because
Speaker 1: obviously so many people expect so much for me, and
Speaker 1: I have so many different businesses that I feel like
Speaker 1: I've done that to myself, you guys, where it's like
Speaker 1: I I put myself in these situations where it seems
Speaker 1: easy at the time, and I'm like, oh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: want to get myself into this, and I say yes
Speaker 1: to certain things at the moment because it sounds great
Speaker 1: and it's a great business opportunity and great business move
Speaker 1: without considering the fact that I have so much on
Speaker 1: my plate already. That's another thing that I've learned this year,
Speaker 1: where it's like, Okay, it's okay to say no to
Speaker 1: certain things because I don't want to disappoint any body.
Speaker 1: I'll say yes, but then I end up disappointing myself.
Speaker 1: So I think for me, it's I've learned a little
Speaker 1: more to say no this year, even to my management,
Speaker 1: even to certain people, family members in my life, friends, whatever,
Speaker 1: because I need to really just do what makes me
Speaker 1: truly happy and at peace, you know. So going back
Speaker 1: to what stresses me out, I think it it would
Speaker 1: have to be work. It would have to be where
Speaker 1: it's like I want to obviously have responsibilities at work
Speaker 1: and I have to get things done, but I also
Speaker 1: want to spend time with my partner, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Because yes, Emilio is busy and he's doing
Speaker 1: this thing or whatever, but I'm a lot busier, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So finding that balance of I
Speaker 1: have to do this video. Sometimes it's stuff that I
Speaker 1: have to do videos for, like be flawless and push
Speaker 1: certain products, and it's like he's home already. He gets
Speaker 1: home and he's waiting for me, and I feel sometimes
Speaker 1: like a little pressured. I'm like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: have to give him time. But I've learned to also
Speaker 1: speak my mind and let him know, hey, this is
Speaker 1: my job. This is part of what makes me happy
Speaker 1: be And I think for me that was like the
Speaker 1: most stressful thing, even like a couple of months ago,
Speaker 1: until I just spoke and I told him, Hey, I
Speaker 1: need you to understand. And I think it was just
Speaker 1: in my mind because he's like, hey, I'm totally fine,
Speaker 1: Like don't worry about me, And I think I was
Speaker 1: just creating things in my mind, you know. But once
Speaker 1: I spoke about it and I let him know, then
Speaker 1: it helped out the situation. I think sometimes we make
Speaker 1: up all these stories in our mind and we don't
Speaker 1: talk about it, and it makes us angry and more
Speaker 1: stressed out when simply all you gotta do is talk
Speaker 1: and then it's gone, you know what I mean. Right now,
Speaker 1: I think my biggest stress is making sure that I'm
Speaker 1: not so busy that I forget to eat. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: forget to like feed myself and really sit down, you
Speaker 1: guys and enjoy my food. Like sometimes I'm in the
Speaker 1: Russian I'm working and eating and it's like, no, like
Speaker 1: you need to sit down, bless your food and say God,
Speaker 1: thank you for this food. Eat, give yourself a good
Speaker 1: twenty minutes thirty minutes to eat slowly, enjoy your food,
Speaker 1: and go back to work. I grew up, you guys
Speaker 1: in this mentality of working. Working. You gotta work, you
Speaker 1: gotta work harder than everyone else, And that's awesome, that's cool. Yes,
Speaker 1: I want to show that to my children, show that
Speaker 1: to my siblings. Working is important, but also resting is important,
Speaker 1: you guys, taking time to sit down and enjoy your
Speaker 1: food and drink your water. And now I've learned to
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, I'm on the computer, I'm doing some work.
Speaker 1: I'm there for like three hours straight and then I
Speaker 1: go outside and I take a breath of fresh air,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I I realigned myself, and I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: when they say stop and smell the roses, that's what
Speaker 1: it means. It's like, yes, you could be busy doing
Speaker 1: your thing, but stop and thank God for the sky,
Speaker 1: for the flowers, for your dog, for the plants in
Speaker 1: your house. I don't know anything, stop and smell the roses.
Speaker 1: And I come from a background from a family that
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, to make it, you need to
Speaker 1: suffer to make it in this world. And I had
Speaker 1: that mentality for so long, and guys, my mom was
Speaker 1: like that. My mom didn't know how to vacation. My
Speaker 1: mom didn't know how to rest. I mean, we would
Speaker 1: be at dinner and she was on her phone and
Speaker 1: I would have arguments with her. I'm like, Mom, you're
Speaker 1: with your kids, you're not here. Put your phone away.
Speaker 1: And we started implementing this thing that when mom was home,
Speaker 1: we would all put our phones in the center of
Speaker 1: the table and enjoy each other because you never know
Speaker 1: what can happen. And you go out to restaurants, you guys,
Speaker 1: and you look around and everyone is on their phone.
Speaker 1: They're either taking fucking pictures or video supposed on Instagram
Speaker 1: and all this stuff, and they're not talking and not
Speaker 1: having conversations. And that's what I mean. It's like everyone's
Speaker 1: all about the hustle and bustle, and this whole thing
Speaker 1: was just like wait a second, like chill out, put
Speaker 1: your phone to the side and listen, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And my mom had that, and I learned
Speaker 1: through my mentor, and he's the one that two years
Speaker 1: ago said you need to rest. Your responsibility is also
Speaker 1: in what you do is to rest. There's no shame
Speaker 1: in resting. And I had shame about resting, you guys,
Speaker 1: Like I was like, no, Like I'd be on vacation
Speaker 1: and I feel guilty. I'd be sitting on my couch
Speaker 1: for a little bit and I'd feel guilty, and I
Speaker 1: know if Mom was here, I would have to be
Speaker 1: doing something. Like my mom, it was hard for her
Speaker 1: to just sit down and enjoy something and enjoy a movie,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Even when we were at
Speaker 1: the movie, she'd be on her phone answering emails and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And I want to change that in
Speaker 1: my life. My Grandpa's the same way, Like I want
Speaker 1: to work, yes, but also make some time in my schedule.
Speaker 1: Now I'll plan out my vacations and I look forward
Speaker 1: to that. I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna have a vacation
Speaker 1: for my birthday. I'm gonna have a vacation for the
Speaker 1: end of the year. And the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: I'll work and Okay, I'm gonna work Tuesday through Saturday,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to rest on Sunday and Monday. Because
Speaker 1: it is important, you guys, to recharge your batteries to
Speaker 1: regenerate yourself. It's something that I've had to learn and
Speaker 1: it's been hard, but I really recommend you guys doing
Speaker 1: these things that I just mentioned because it changes your
Speaker 1: life completely. Now I can go to dinner and not
Speaker 1: have to post a video of my food. I'm really
Speaker 1: just enjoy going the moment with whomever I'm with, and
Speaker 1: it's not about just what I'm gonna put on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Now I keep more things to myself in my heart,
Speaker 1: in my mind of nice moments, or I take pictures,
Speaker 1: but I don't post them. It's just for me. Before
Speaker 1: I used to share everything you guys, and I just
Speaker 1: felt like it became this. It was a little annoying
Speaker 1: to be honest to people. I think around me and
Speaker 1: talking about emails, and I'm the type of person that
Speaker 1: needs to have everything clean in my phone. I need
Speaker 1: to not see emails, like I don't even like to
Speaker 1: see one one an opened one. But in the morning,
Speaker 1: I don't look at my emails. I look at them
Speaker 1: like after I've done everything, my personal things, my praying,
Speaker 1: my working out, and that's my personal time. Now it's
Speaker 1: work time, and I'll get into my emails and I'll
Speaker 1: start responding. I usually start responding to my emails around
Speaker 1: nine or ten, and I try to stop at a
Speaker 1: certain time. There are times it's not all the time,
Speaker 1: but I I sometimes answer them super late, like if
Speaker 1: I'm really busy throughout the day, then right before i
Speaker 1: go to bed, I'll go ahead and respond to two
Speaker 1: emails because I don't like to leave him there for
Speaker 1: a long time. I need to get better actually on
Speaker 1: my emails you guys, I really do. I like to
Speaker 1: just clean them out like the junk mill, and then
Speaker 1: I just leave the other ones and open. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll get to them right now. But I do want
Speaker 1: to get better at responding a little quicker to my emails.
Speaker 1: But when I'm in bed, I'll just put my phone
Speaker 1: to the side and I just focused. I like to
Speaker 1: just spend time with my partner with the media and
Speaker 1: like we'll watch like a show and it's just to unwind,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And our thing is this
Speaker 1: is exclusive information for my podcast because I've never said this,
Speaker 1: but I have really turned to marijuana, you guys, to
Speaker 1: sleep to relax. So I just put my phone to
Speaker 1: the side. Like him and I are the same, and
Speaker 1: it is something that he's taught me to be honest.
Speaker 1: He's like, can we just have like the last hour
Speaker 1: of our day to ourselves where you're not on your phone,
Speaker 1: you're not on Instagram. And I'm like, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: He's like, because it's important to me to spend time
Speaker 1: with you. You've been busy. I've been busy all day.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you're right, So I don't turn off
Speaker 1: my phone. I try not to turn off my phone.
Speaker 1: You guys, I'll get back to the week thing right now.
Speaker 1: But I try not to turn off my phone because
Speaker 1: in the back of my mind, and this is something
Speaker 1: I have to get better at. I want to have
Speaker 1: it on just in case my siblings need me. I
Speaker 1: feel like, if Mikey something happens, because Mikey is the
Speaker 1: type of guy that likes to be out late at night,
Speaker 1: or Johnny sometimes drives all the way to San Diego,
Speaker 1: like he has friends in San Diego, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what if they call me and my phone's off? And
Speaker 1: I just started thinking all these things. So I want
Speaker 1: to get better at that because I trust so much
Speaker 1: in the universe and in God that I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: like I can't worry so much all the time about
Speaker 1: my siblings. But the truth is that I leave it
Speaker 1: on just in case they call me. I'll ignore text messages,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, if it's important and someone calls me
Speaker 1: and I turned off my phone on, do not disturb,
Speaker 1: Like it would drive me nuts if I knew if
Speaker 1: something happens and I didn't respond, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But I have to just trust a little bit more
Speaker 1: you know. But anyways, so what I've been doing is
Speaker 1: put my phone on the side. We watched the show.
Speaker 1: We smoke a little joint, a little blunt, a little marijuana.
Speaker 1: It's a lot better than leaping pills, you guys. And
Speaker 1: my personal opinion, okay, it's helped me out. I'll do
Speaker 1: melotonin once in a while, but I'm really enjoying smoking
Speaker 1: a little bit of weed. Unwinding and I have such
Speaker 1: a good night's rest, you guys. If I have a headache,
Speaker 1: if my neck hurts, if I'm stressed out like I
Speaker 1: forget about everything, of course I say my prayers. I
Speaker 1: always get on my knees, you guys, before going to sleep,
Speaker 1: getting on my knees and just thanking God for the day.
Speaker 1: Even if I'm a little bit high, I'm like, God,
Speaker 1: you know what's up. You know you made this herb.
Speaker 1: It's here for us because you made it so Him
Speaker 1: and I we have a connection. That's part of my
Speaker 1: spiritual gangster situation. So even if I'm high, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I'll get on my knees on my God, thank you.
Speaker 1: And then I go to sleep, you guys, and I
Speaker 1: feel so good. I wake up and I'm more energized.
Speaker 1: It's been like a part of my like routine for
Speaker 1: the past I don't know, I want to say eight
Speaker 1: months or so. That's like my thing with Emilia. We
Speaker 1: smoke a little bit and we just chill and I
Speaker 1: sleep like a baby. So you guys know, I've mentioned
Speaker 1: it a lot on my social media on Instagram. I'm
Speaker 1: all about self care. I feel like self care is
Speaker 1: self love, taking care of yourself, whether it be like
Speaker 1: with a skincare regimen or like I said in the morning,
Speaker 1: drinking some water, feeding yourself. You know, I feel like
Speaker 1: it's important for the first thing that goes into your
Speaker 1: body for it to be water. I feel like it
Speaker 1: just starts your day off right. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: it's just in my mind, but anyways, I used to
Speaker 1: do all with lion. Now after my water, I'll do
Speaker 1: like a little tea, green tea with like collagen and
Speaker 1: fiber in it, like all in one. It's tastes so delicious,
Speaker 1: you guys, And I just feel like I'm just doing
Speaker 1: something good for my body. So anyways, you guys are
Speaker 1: well aware of that. I'm always sharing it. I'm all
Speaker 1: about taking care of yourself because it's a form of
Speaker 1: loving yourself, and loving yourself is the only way that
Speaker 1: you'll be able to love anyone else. So anyways, part
Speaker 1: of what I do I already told you guys. At
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I get on my knees,
Speaker 1: I thank God, I pray. I have a little fountain
Speaker 1: you guys that I just purchased a couple of months
Speaker 1: ago on Amazon. That it's just like a little table
Speaker 1: fountain that just is just go with them, and that
Speaker 1: helps me relax. I don't know if it's because I'm
Speaker 1: a water sign I'm cancer you guys. So I feel
Speaker 1: like water just relaxes me, and I don't know, I
Speaker 1: recommend it. I have a better sleep as well, and
Speaker 1: also like sleep music helps me. And one thing that
Speaker 1: I like to do weekly at the end of the week,
Speaker 1: usually on Mondays. I do it actually either Sunday or Monday,
Speaker 1: all the water, all my plants in the house. I
Speaker 1: feel like a plant is like a dog, if that
Speaker 1: makes any sense. That I feel like anyone that loves
Speaker 1: animals and takes care of animals and humans and like plants,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's a different type of person because
Speaker 1: they're hopeless. They can't water themselves. They can't be themselves.
Speaker 1: But for me, it's important to like water my plants
Speaker 1: and talk to them. Call me weird. I'm a plant lady.
Speaker 1: I'm a crazy plant lady. I'll sit there and I
Speaker 1: name my plans, I give them water, and I feel
Speaker 1: like it's a part of I'm caring for them, but
Speaker 1: I'm also caring for myself. It's like a relaxing thing
Speaker 1: that I've just discovered, like the past year, where I
Speaker 1: sit there and I'm talking to them. I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my baby, like I love you. Like I'll cut their hair.
Speaker 1: I I it's like if I'm cutting their hair, but
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, cutting their little like dry spots.
Speaker 1: And it helps me so much. It's helped me like relax,
Speaker 1: you guys, And I don't know. I mean, if it's
Speaker 1: watering your grass, if it's doing something like without you
Speaker 1: even knowing that you're doing, it's like, okay, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: my lawn, but in reality, it's a living thing, your grass,
Speaker 1: the plants. Like I just feel like you're doing something
Speaker 1: good for the earth, for yourself, for them because they're living.
Speaker 1: Is that weird for me to say? But anyways, it's
Speaker 1: helped me so much, so I recommend that as well.
Speaker 1: Get yourself a little plant. Start with one and talk
Speaker 1: to it and and water it, and it feels like
Speaker 1: you're doing something good for someone because they are someone.
Speaker 1: I sound like freaking, I felt, I sound like crazy,
Speaker 1: lady write out, but whatever. I don't know. If there's
Speaker 1: anyone out there that understands me. I'm sure there is.
Speaker 1: I cannot be the only one. Guys, if you're listening,
Speaker 1: you guys probably think I'm crazy. But buy yourself a
Speaker 1: damn plant. Put it next to your like sink in
Speaker 1: the morning, and water it and it just it makes
Speaker 1: you feel good. Anyways, as to hear myself speak, you guys,
Speaker 1: I feel like and it feels good. Oh you guys.
Speaker 1: One thing I don't know if you guys do this
Speaker 1: a lot of people. For a long time, I did this.
Speaker 1: I would put on forensic File because I love forensic files,
Speaker 1: and I would sleep with it in the background, and
Speaker 1: my mom would too. I learned it from my mom. Actually,
Speaker 1: there are studies that say that it's the worst thing
Speaker 1: that we can do for ourselves is sleep with the
Speaker 1: TV on, even if it's on me. You guys, the
Speaker 1: frequencies or whatever you want to call it, that come
Speaker 1: out of the television. It's not good for our bodies
Speaker 1: and our mind and our brain. That's why even sleeping
Speaker 1: with your phone too close to you is not good.
Speaker 1: People sleep with their phone under their pillow or on
Speaker 1: the bed. It's always good to keep it, like they've
Speaker 1: told me to keep it in another room, like in
Speaker 1: the bathroom or something. I can't. I haven't gotten that good,
Speaker 1: you guys. I want to get better at it, but
Speaker 1: I leave it like it's on a little table away
Speaker 1: from my face, away from my body, because all that
Speaker 1: radiation and stuff is not good for us. So I
Speaker 1: stopped sleeping, you guys, with my TV on because for
Speaker 1: a long time it was my baby's sleeping music. And
Speaker 1: I stopped doing that. Like now, I try to just
Speaker 1: turn it off. I try not to forget because all
Speaker 1: that stuff like it gets into your brain and you
Speaker 1: can have bad nightmares and it's just all kinds of things.
Speaker 1: You guys should look into it. Google it and you'll
Speaker 1: see what I'm talking about. And ever since I stopped
Speaker 1: doing it, I feel a lot better. I feel more energized.
Speaker 1: The next day. I just feel like for the lack
Speaker 1: of a better word, cleaner. So yeah, I don't sleep
Speaker 1: with my TV on anymore. I like candles on. I
Speaker 1: like a nightlight. I love nightlights, you guys. I don't
Speaker 1: really love the dark. You know. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: in another episode where I don't like the dark, but
Speaker 1: I like to have a nightlight and all those little
Speaker 1: things like the little fountain, the little sleep music, a
Speaker 1: little nightlight. It just gives you, like a peaceful like
Speaker 1: night's rest, a little bit of weed if you want,
Speaker 1: if you know, if your doctor recommends it, it helps
Speaker 1: you sleep. And I feel like since I've been doing
Speaker 1: all that, I feel more energetic, I feel happier. So, guys,
Speaker 1: I've gotten this question a lot where people ask me,
Speaker 1: like how do I sleep? Like Becky said, so it depends.
Speaker 1: It depends. I'm very much a pajama girl, especially during
Speaker 1: the winter. I like like cute little matching pajamas, like
Speaker 1: I love pjs, I love robes. I'm very like much
Speaker 1: that girl. My siblings always for Christmas give me like
Speaker 1: they always know, like pajamas or bantus, which are slippers.
Speaker 1: But anyways, it just depends. There are times when I'm
Speaker 1: feeling something sexy, like if I'm wearing something sexy is
Speaker 1: because we're about to get down, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like Emilia already knows it's that night you feel me?
Speaker 1: And sometimes I just I don't really like to sleep
Speaker 1: naked anymore. Before I used to sleep naked like a lot,
Speaker 1: But now that the dogs are around, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I started like because right basically sleeps with us, like
Speaker 1: r use a little puppy, like the little small puppy,
Speaker 1: so he sleeps on the bed. So come, okay you no, No,
Speaker 1: I don't feel comfortable. It's weird. I don't feel comfortable
Speaker 1: sleeping naked, but sometimes I will, depending if it's really hot.
Speaker 1: But I usually like to keep my air conditioner. I
Speaker 1: like to keep the room cool, like at seventy two,
Speaker 1: sometimes sixty nine, sixty nine or seventy two. Those are
Speaker 1: like my two numbers, Like I like my air conditioner
Speaker 1: at but I guess I would be warm. I would
Speaker 1: say pajama girl, and then the other I would probably
Speaker 1: say I'm either naked or something sexy. But I guess
Speaker 1: I am that girl that wears likes to wear pajamas.
Speaker 1: And I used to have a silk pillowcase, because that's
Speaker 1: really good for your hair, for the health of your hair,
Speaker 1: for your skin, you guys. I used to and I
Speaker 1: actually should get one, but it doesn't go like with
Speaker 1: the decor of my room. So maybe I should get
Speaker 1: a pillow that's just for that and hide it. But
Speaker 1: they make me hot. I feel like the silk makes
Speaker 1: me hotter. It makes me like warm while I'm asleep.
Speaker 1: But it is very good. It's good for your hair
Speaker 1: and for your skin, you guys. But yeah, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to share that because you know, I have gotten
Speaker 1: that question a lot. People are curious. I guess to
Speaker 1: know if I like to sleep naked. Alright, guys, So
Speaker 1: that'll do for today's episode. I hope that you guys
Speaker 1: enjoyed it and learned a little sutten and remember that
Speaker 1: improving your work and life balance isn't easy or simple.
Speaker 1: But the sooner you discover the importance of it, the
Speaker 1: happier you will be. Before I let you go, I
Speaker 1: want to leave you with this Monday motivational quote. If
Speaker 1: another can easily anger you, it is because you are
Speaker 1: off balance with yourself. Let me say it again. If
Speaker 1: another can easily anger you, it is because you are
Speaker 1: off balance with yourself. Damn, let that sink in. Thank
Speaker 1: you guys so much for listening and for all the
Speaker 1: support you have given my podcast. I'm so grateful. Tell
Speaker 1: everyone about it, your mom, your thea, your brother, everyone,
Speaker 1: to all your friends. I love you guys so much.
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