Speaker 1: Hello, Hello everyone, Happy Monday. Today is May twentieth, which
Speaker 1: means we're almost halfway through the year. There's about six
Speaker 1: months left in twenty twenty four. That is crazy. So
Speaker 1: I hope you guys use that time wisely and work
Speaker 1: towards accomplishing your goals. And that actually brings me to
Speaker 1: the topic for this week's episode. It's something I've been
Speaker 1: wanting to talk about for a while, and I want
Speaker 1: to talk about the importance of rest.
Speaker 2: So let's get into it.
Speaker 1: This is Cheeky's and chill okay, guys, So I know
Speaker 1: it's important to work hard and to be disciplined and
Speaker 1: focused in order to reach your goals.
Speaker 2: Yes, we know that.
Speaker 1: We see it everywhere, you know, especially like on social media.
Speaker 1: That hustling or hustler mentality, should I say, and I
Speaker 1: completely agree with that. Yes, I'm all for it. But
Speaker 1: there's another side to that, and that is rest. The
Speaker 1: importance of rest, you guys. I cannot stress enough how
Speaker 1: important it is, telling you guys from experience, and I
Speaker 1: think that that's the best place to speak from is
Speaker 1: from experience, and I think I'm going to start there
Speaker 1: before we get into everything and why I feel it's
Speaker 1: super important. I'm going to try to make this short
Speaker 1: and sweeten to the point. In twenty eighteen, I had
Speaker 1: a meltdown. I had to take a break. I think
Speaker 1: I've mentioned this a few times on the pod. For
Speaker 1: about three months from social media, I was working a lot,
Speaker 1: and I'm grateful.
Speaker 2: No, my was stuck a hatam.
Speaker 1: I don't like to complain about the amount of work
Speaker 1: that I have because I love to work.
Speaker 2: I love to be busy.
Speaker 1: I myself put a lot of things on my plate
Speaker 1: because now I know how to handle it, you know.
Speaker 1: But before I was starting my music career, things were
Speaker 1: going really well. I was going through a lot personally
Speaker 1: in my personal life, and my career was doing good.
Speaker 1: I had about seventy six I remember it was about
Speaker 1: seventy six close to eighty shows nightclubs, okay, And I
Speaker 1: was working a lot, and I think I was just
Speaker 1: trying to spec Towards the end of that tour, which
Speaker 1: was the apochim A tour, I wasn't getting enough rest,
Speaker 1: I mean, especially doing nightclubs, which I'm so grateful for
Speaker 1: those moments and those shows because they helped me prepare
Speaker 1: for what I'm doing now. So I felt like that
Speaker 1: was my footwork. I really had to do that in
Speaker 1: order to grow. It gave me the opportunity to grow
Speaker 1: and get to know myself as an artist. But I
Speaker 1: didn't know the importance of rest. I was just working, working, working,
Speaker 1: And then it got to the point where I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to numb everything. I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: get through this, and I'm just going to drink. And
Speaker 1: I was drinking a lot, and I was drinking excessively
Speaker 1: to get through the shows, and I was suppressing feelings.
Speaker 1: I was obviously missing my mom. I had to stop going
Speaker 1: to therapy, I had to stop going to church because
Speaker 1: my shows were on the weekend. So a lot of
Speaker 1: these shows would start, I kid you not around twelve am,
Speaker 1: one am, two am. Sometimes I wouldn't get off stage
Speaker 1: until like three four, and then I would do meet
Speaker 1: and greets, and I wouldn't go to sleep until five
Speaker 1: and in the morning, six in the morning, and because
Speaker 1: we had to go with something eight afterwards, you know,
Speaker 1: and then we would wake up and neither drive to
Speaker 1: the next city or fly and I just was not
Speaker 1: getting enough rest and it was driving me nuts. I
Speaker 1: felt it in my skin in my body. I was
Speaker 1: gaining a lot of weight. This is all before I
Speaker 1: figured out my whole thyroid issue, my hormones, everything, everything
Speaker 1: was just all out of whack.
Speaker 2: So I met.
Speaker 1: A couple who are pastors, Javier and Cynthia Buelna. I
Speaker 1: met them through my sister Jackie and she told me
Speaker 1: about them. I went to their church and he started
Speaker 1: mentoring me, and I was just telling him how I
Speaker 1: was feeling. And that's who told me that rest was
Speaker 1: a part of my job, that it was just as
Speaker 1: important as all my shows. That I needed to speak
Speaker 1: to the team and I needed to take matters into
Speaker 1: my own hands and take control of my career. That
Speaker 1: I was the leader, and that yes I had a
Speaker 1: team and they're important, but that I had to speak up.
Speaker 1: And I was very afraid to speak up. Then I
Speaker 1: was still trying to get out that whole thing of
Speaker 1: being a people pleaser, and I was like, no, I
Speaker 1: got to work. This is what I have to do.
Speaker 1: I have to work really hard in order to make it.
Speaker 1: And like I just felt this immense fucking pressure, so
Speaker 1: I wouldn't speak up. I just say, Okay, well this
Speaker 1: is what I got to do. I mean, I saw
Speaker 1: my mom do it. I saw my family do it,
Speaker 1: like this is how it has to be done. So
Speaker 1: when I had this conversation with him, I had an epiphany.
Speaker 1: I saw the light. I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: and I started thinking about, yes, my family are very
Speaker 1: hard working, all of them, my grandpa, my grandma, all
Speaker 1: my uncles, my mother, my mom didn't even know how
Speaker 1: to take vacations, you guys, Like my mom was all
Speaker 1: about work, work, work, work, and even if we were
Speaker 1: on vacation, she was on her BlackBerry, texting, answering emails.
Speaker 1: And that's what I felt that life had to be.
Speaker 1: Until I had a meltdown and I was like, enough
Speaker 1: is enough. I can't do this. I remember telling my assistant.
Speaker 1: Then I was like, take me to the hospital. I
Speaker 1: need to go to the hospital, like I felt like
Speaker 1: I needed to rest. The only way I was going
Speaker 1: to rest if I was like submitted into like some
Speaker 1: type of sanctuary of peace, or take me to the hospital.
Speaker 1: I literally told her that. I stopped her on the
Speaker 1: freeway and I was having an anxiety check. I said, I
Speaker 1: can't do this, like I feel like I'm gonna die.
Speaker 1: Like it was the craziest feeling ever. So anyways, thank
Speaker 1: goodness for who I now call Javier and Cynthia, who
Speaker 1: I now call mom and dad. They really helped me
Speaker 1: just see things in a different way. And going back
Speaker 1: to what I was saying was I started thinking and
Speaker 1: realizing that my family, as much as I admire their
Speaker 1: hard work, my grandpa never really knew how to take
Speaker 1: vacations or how to relax. It's just like we would
Speaker 1: wake up at five in the mornings, four in the morning,
Speaker 1: and it was just it's great. I think waking up,
Speaker 1: you know, the five am club, you guys, is great,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, But I feel like there wasn't
Speaker 1: enough balance. And I started realizing that I didn't want
Speaker 1: to be that way, that I wanted to live a
Speaker 1: healthier life. I wanted to feel good and I wanted
Speaker 1: to enjoy what I was doing, and in order to
Speaker 1: enjoy I had to take a few steps back and rest.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you all of this because this is
Speaker 1: why I'm so passionate about this subject and I wanted
Speaker 1: to share it with you guys, because I went through
Speaker 1: it and I know what it feels like to have
Speaker 1: a breakdown, to have you know what I mean, And
Speaker 1: I've seen and I've.
Speaker 2: Heard a lot of artists that go through it as well.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, if I can help people prevent and
Speaker 1: not feel guilty more than anything, not only prevent them
Speaker 1: from having a meltdown of their own, but for us
Speaker 1: not to feel guilty. I felt guilty, and I realized
Speaker 1: I was feeling guilty. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: if I'm not as hard working as my mom or
Speaker 1: my grandpa, I'm not going to be successful. And I
Speaker 1: had this like crazy ass pressure and now I'm so
Speaker 1: much happier, you guys. I spoke to my team and
Speaker 1: I told them, guys, I can't do this, Like I
Speaker 1: need to take a break. I'm going to take a
Speaker 1: break from everything, like in order for me to just
Speaker 1: see where I want this career, my singing career to go,
Speaker 1: I need to take freaking ten steps back and reevaluate
Speaker 1: everything and analyze it and reflect. And I need to
Speaker 1: stay away from social media because I don't want to
Speaker 1: see what anyone else is doing because it gives you
Speaker 1: you get fomo, you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh my god, I'm not doing what I
Speaker 1: think I should be doing, you know, what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I did that and it really helped me. And
Speaker 1: when I did that, I came back and I knew
Speaker 1: what I wanted. I'm like, Okay, Sundays and Mondays, I
Speaker 1: want to be off. I want to do whatever makes
Speaker 1: me happy. I want to clean my house. I want
Speaker 1: to just sit on the couch if that's what I feel.
Speaker 2: Like doing that day.
Speaker 1: I want to freaking read a book. I want to
Speaker 1: ride a bike, anything and everything. And it's no one's
Speaker 1: business what I do on those days. And there was
Speaker 1: a little bit of like, huh, you know, well Sundays
Speaker 1: or shows and this and that. Yeah, that's fine, let's
Speaker 1: have shows Thursdays and Fridays or Fridays and Saturdays, and
Speaker 1: on Sundays, I'll be flying back and I could just
Speaker 1: do whatever I want. And they didn't necessarily like it,
Speaker 1: but I didn't care. I felt stronger than ever I
Speaker 1: had come back, and I was like, I never want
Speaker 1: to feel what I felt. And this is when I
Speaker 1: started applying rest and whether some of my team feels
Speaker 1: that now I take too many breaks or too many
Speaker 1: I have too many vacations, Like, I don't care. I
Speaker 1: have never been happier. You guys. Even if I don't
Speaker 1: go away somewhere to a resort, I'm at home. I
Speaker 1: want to clean my house. And it might sound weird,
Speaker 1: but I want to do things that bring me joy
Speaker 1: to my life, that helped me feel that balance of Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm an artist, but I'm also a woman, and I
Speaker 1: want to do things that make me happy. And having
Speaker 1: a clean house and washing my own clothes and cooking
Speaker 1: in my own kitchen makes me happy. And sitting on
Speaker 1: my couch watching whatever the heck I want to watch
Speaker 1: and I don't care. Before I was so afraid of, like,
Speaker 1: I have to measure up and I'm telling you, guys,
Speaker 1: even if it's a day, even if it's a few hours.
Speaker 1: I know everyone's schedule is different. I knowpe some people
Speaker 1: work and go to school at the same time. And
Speaker 1: I commend you. I think it's a beautiful thing to
Speaker 1: be hard working, to be a hustler. But there's a
Speaker 1: big difference between that and just chasing the rat race
Speaker 1: of life, you know, and being stuck in it and
Speaker 1: not stopping and smelling the roses. And I mean literally
Speaker 1: stopping and smelling the roses literally and not so literally obviously,
Speaker 1: but like even those little things that we sometimes don't
Speaker 1: value and we don't see those little things in life
Speaker 1: that make a huge difference. Because I was like that
Speaker 1: for a long time. I was just so focused and
Speaker 1: so honed in that I would not look around and realize,
Speaker 1: oh my god, how beautiful the trees are or how
Speaker 1: blue the sky is today. You just little things that
Speaker 1: we can appreciate. So even like little things like that,
Speaker 1: that's taking a break, that's taking a breather, getting out
Speaker 1: of the office and on your lunch break, like not
Speaker 1: being on social media, like just sitting and eating and
Speaker 1: being present.
Speaker 2: You know, there's so much power in that and it
Speaker 2: brings you back to you.
Speaker 1: Some of you may be asking yourselves, Okay, well how
Speaker 1: do I fit this my schedule? Like I'm busy, I'm
Speaker 1: a mom. You can and I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: I don't have enough time, because a lot of us
Speaker 1: say that, oh I didn't have enough time. No, we
Speaker 1: have time. We have to make time. Whatever is our priority,
Speaker 1: and you rest should be your priority because if not,
Speaker 1: you're gonna start resenting your job. You're gonna start resenting
Speaker 1: your boss, You're gonna start resenting your children, your husband,
Speaker 1: your friends, like, it could be anything and everything. It
Speaker 1: could be, Okay, I'm gonna work Monday through Friday, and
Speaker 1: on Saturday, I'm gona hang out with friends, and on
Speaker 1: Sunday I'm gonna do absolutely nothing. It could be that,
Speaker 1: or it could be I want to have an active
Speaker 1: rest day instead of sitting or laying in bed all day.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go take a bike ride, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: walk around, anything to just kind of get yourself out
Speaker 1: of the reality of your job and that pressure of society.
Speaker 1: And you have to be intentional. And again, we talk
Speaker 1: about this word intentional a lot on this podcast, and
Speaker 1: someone asked me the other day on Dear Cheeky's what
Speaker 1: do you mean by being intentional? And I kept thinking,
Speaker 1: I'm like, did I explain it correctly? So anyways, I
Speaker 1: want to explain it again here. Being intentional also means
Speaker 1: doing things with intention that don't come natural to you.
Speaker 1: You know, things that come natural or just they come natural.
Speaker 1: It's easy to do. But when you're being intentional about something,
Speaker 1: you make the space, you make the room to do
Speaker 1: whatever it is that you want to do. It's that's
Speaker 1: what I mean by being intentional, like not forcing yourself,
Speaker 1: but really being proactive and saying I'm going to make
Speaker 1: these changes because I want to see a change, a
Speaker 1: positive change in my life. That's being intentional, living with intent,
Speaker 1: not just living to live and a betriqua pasa, let's
Speaker 1: see what happens. It's like, no, I have the key
Speaker 1: to my destiny, and every day I have choices, and
Speaker 1: if I make the correct choice and I choose this
Speaker 1: path instead of this one, then things are going to
Speaker 1: turn out better. My destiny's going to be better. That's
Speaker 1: what I mean about being intentional. So you have to
Speaker 1: tell yourself and everyone around you needs to understand. I
Speaker 1: am not gonna take phone calls. And I keep telling
Speaker 1: my manager this Richard Bull. I was like, you really
Speaker 1: need to rest because this guy works so much, and
Speaker 1: I've told him myself, Hey, you need to chill, Like
Speaker 1: you need to go away with your wife and just
Speaker 1: be and f the phone and f the emails. It's
Speaker 1: okay for one day to put your phone down and
Speaker 1: just be and not feel guilty for just sitting by
Speaker 1: the pool tanning and having a drink. Don't feel guilty
Speaker 1: about that. So many people feel guilty. I feel guilty,
Speaker 1: and we shouldn't because if we don't regenerate, if we
Speaker 1: don't re energize, revitalize our bodies. That's why the doctor
Speaker 1: always says you need anywhere from six to eight hours
Speaker 1: of sleep, and eight is the best because we need
Speaker 1: our body, our cells, our brain needs the rest in
Speaker 1: order for us to be our best selves. Literally, our cells,
Speaker 1: our organs, everything in order for our body to function
Speaker 1: and not get sick and not break down and not
Speaker 1: create diseases. Rest is super important and essential. And also
Speaker 1: obviously this taking time away from your everyday life and saying, okay,
Speaker 1: even if it's once a month, you guys, it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be once a week. What I do is okay,
Speaker 1: I'll work really hard for two weeks and then for
Speaker 1: two days. On the third week, I'm like, peace out,
Speaker 1: you guys. I need a break because if not, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start resenting my work. And I don't want to
Speaker 1: because I love what I do and I want to
Speaker 1: go into the studio and record songs and start my
Speaker 1: tour and do it with love and be excited about
Speaker 1: it because I'm all about working hard, and I will
Speaker 1: work hard, and I will work hours, and I will
Speaker 1: go the extra mile. That's who I am. But I've
Speaker 1: learned that if I don't take at least two days
Speaker 1: or a day to do absolutely nothing or to do
Speaker 1: only what makes me happy. Like the other day, I
Speaker 1: told everyone, leave me alone. It's Sunday. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: see Emilio's grandma. I want to hang out with his mom.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go eat, and we're gonna go walk around
Speaker 1: Santa Monica Promenade. And that's what I did, and I
Speaker 1: was so freaking happy. I had no makeup on it,
Speaker 1: my hair and a ponytail. I put on some sweats.
Speaker 1: I was completely Jeanne. I took a break from Cheeky's,
Speaker 1: took off the extensions, put no makeup on, and I
Speaker 1: just went and I was just living and I needed
Speaker 1: it so badly.
Speaker 2: And then what did I do? The next day?
Speaker 1: I flew out to New York and I was there
Speaker 1: and I worked as soon as I got there. The
Speaker 1: next day, I was working all day until like eleven PM,
Speaker 1: and I had woken up like at six am. And
Speaker 1: I was fine because I was like, oh, I had
Speaker 1: a beautiful day that fulfilled me and it re energized me.
Speaker 1: And right before the tour, I'm going to take a
Speaker 1: little vac with the media for his birthday.
Speaker 2: And why in the.
Speaker 1: Heck is someone going to be like, oh, she takes
Speaker 1: so many vacations. First of all, I was none your business.
Speaker 1: You're not paying my vacation, and you should do it too.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be I don't know, fly somewhere,
Speaker 1: like to a beach or to like a fancy island.
Speaker 1: It could be in your backyard. Paradise is where you
Speaker 1: make it, you guys. Paradise is in your mind. Paradise
Speaker 1: is what you consider paradise. I'm super happy ever since
Speaker 1: I've made this change, and I've applied this to my
Speaker 1: life and to be honest in my personal life with
Speaker 1: like Emilio right now that we're going to take these
Speaker 1: days off for his birthday because I start my tour
Speaker 1: the week of his birthday. So I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: let me find some days in my schedule because those
Speaker 1: things are important to me, because I don't want him
Speaker 1: to feel neglected, because I love him, because he has
Speaker 1: a priority in my life. My siblings are a priority
Speaker 1: in my life. My friends are too, And I'll find
Speaker 1: some time in my schedule to say hey, girls, A
Speaker 1: month in advance, I have this day, do you guys
Speaker 1: want to go to dinner? Because those are the things
Speaker 1: that make me happy and it strengthens my relationships with
Speaker 1: these people that I love and going back to a medium,
Speaker 1: I did this, I think in the beginning of the
Speaker 1: year because I knew I was going to have a
Speaker 1: very busy year, and that's what I did. I said,
Speaker 1: I want to celebrate him on his birthday. And I
Speaker 1: had a conversation with him in the beginning of the
Speaker 1: year as well, and I said, Hey, this year is
Speaker 1: going to be crazy. We set this whole plan and
Speaker 1: I said, we're probably not going to be able to
Speaker 1: vacate as much as we have in the past, but
Speaker 1: I want you to know that I'm going to make
Speaker 1: it a point to spend time with you, quality time,
Speaker 1: because we've had that issue in the beginning of our
Speaker 1: relationship where it was like I was on my phone
Speaker 1: a lot, working and he's like, hey, like I want
Speaker 1: us to be at dinner and for you to give
Speaker 1: me your undivided attention, and I'm like, shit, I didn't
Speaker 1: even realize I was doing that. And those are things
Speaker 1: that I used to really dislike that my mom would
Speaker 1: do and I'm like, damn, like okay, Like I want
Speaker 1: to be present and it does make our relationship stronger
Speaker 1: and he feels like appreciated and that's important to me.
Speaker 1: So what I've done is like, these are my priorities,
Speaker 1: and I have literally made a list you guys, of
Speaker 1: things that make me happy. What makes me happy. Going
Speaker 1: to church, spending time with my siblings, spending time with
Speaker 1: my partner, spending time with his family, going to dinner
Speaker 1: with my friends.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: I like to go and just talk and just chit chat,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, chitchat and just call it
Speaker 1: she's mad, whatever it is. But I love to have
Speaker 1: that go mad day time with my friends and have
Speaker 1: a little drink, reading a book, like anything that's important.
Speaker 2: There's times where I'm like, well what do I do?
Speaker 1: I'm like, I have so much time on my hands
Speaker 1: right now because I have a rest a And then
Speaker 1: I look at my list and I'm like, oh, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I can do this. I can do that, And it's
Speaker 1: helped me because those things are my priority and those
Speaker 1: are the things that bring my life joy. And I
Speaker 1: want the people that are in my life that I
Speaker 1: love and that are important to me to know that
Speaker 1: they're important to me and to feel it. Not just
Speaker 1: for me to say it, but I want to show
Speaker 1: them with actions. And I suggest that you guys do
Speaker 1: that to really figure out who are the people that
Speaker 1: I love to be around, What are the things that
Speaker 1: really bring my life color? Make a list, and whenever
Speaker 1: you forget or whenever you don't know what to do,
Speaker 1: fit those things into your schedule. Don't just work work, work,
Speaker 1: work and live live live live, and then you're like
Speaker 1: working to live and not living to enjoy. And I
Speaker 1: feel like now more than ever, we see that everywhere
Speaker 1: it's like hustle, hustle, hustle, Like yes, but I also
Speaker 1: have to live. I have to enjoy the things that
Speaker 1: I'm creating, you know what I mean, the money I'm making,
Speaker 1: Like I have to we have to figure out a
Speaker 1: way to say, Okay, like maybe I can't go on
Speaker 1: this elaborate trip, but I can take this extra little
Speaker 1: money that I have a month, and I'm gonna, I
Speaker 1: don't know, go to a museum. I have no idea,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like anything that brings you joy.
Speaker 1: Basically that's a big word on this episode right now.
Speaker 2: You guys. Joy.
Speaker 1: Joy is priceless. Joy has no price tag, like that's free.
Speaker 1: But we need to also find it and seek it
Speaker 1: and do things to grasp it, you know, not to
Speaker 1: lose that joy and feeding that inner child in us.
Speaker 1: You know, we all have an inner child, like don't
Speaker 1: ignore it, don't neglect it. And if you're listening to
Speaker 1: this podcast right now and you're kind of wondering, okay, well,
Speaker 1: Cheeky's how do I know when I'm feeling burnt out
Speaker 1: or when I need a break? I think some easy
Speaker 1: indications are when you're moody and irritable, when you are
Speaker 1: looking for Friday to come around because you can can't
Speaker 1: wait to have a drink and just get drunk and
Speaker 1: forget about everything. That's another indication. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: there's anything wrong with drinking and socially drinking and having
Speaker 1: fun because I like to do that.
Speaker 2: But I have.
Speaker 1: Learned that I don't want to use alcohol to numb
Speaker 1: whatever it is i'm feeling or thinking. I want to
Speaker 1: work through it and like be raw with it. I
Speaker 1: want to use and drink alcohol to enjoy and to
Speaker 1: say I just want to have a good time and
Speaker 1: I want to feel good, not to numb things. That's
Speaker 1: a huge indication. That was my first indication where I
Speaker 1: was like, shit, I'm drinking excessively and it's because I
Speaker 1: just want to get through the show and I just
Speaker 1: want to get through the weekend. And it makes everything fun.
Speaker 1: It gives you that liquid courage, you know. So that's
Speaker 1: an indication. Also, if you're getting a lot of headaches,
Speaker 1: if you feel like your head is about to explode,
Speaker 1: that means, okay, wait, let me come back to myself,
Speaker 1: let me look inward. Obviously, drink a lot of water
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But if you're getting constant headaches
Speaker 1: and you have tension headache, so that means you're stressed out,
Speaker 1: then that means you need to take a break. And
Speaker 1: if you can't take a break because you have a
Speaker 1: nine to five or you have to work every day,
Speaker 1: like I'm telling you guys, even taking deep breaths and
Speaker 1: like stepping out of the office or out of the
Speaker 1: situation you're in and just taking profound deep breaths and
Speaker 1: just saying, Okay, this is my mental break, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be fine, Like breathing intentionally, not just breathing like I'm
Speaker 1: breathing in right now, but breathing intentionally, taking really deep
Speaker 1: breaths from your diaphragm, from your tummy. It clears your head,
Speaker 1: It helps you so much. That's taking a mental break.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when I'm feeling a little irritable or I'm not
Speaker 1: as like when i don't have that pep in my
Speaker 1: step and I'm not like joyful doing what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, wait a second, like what's going on?
Speaker 1: It could be even as easy as working out, taking
Speaker 1: a little walk, like moving our body does so much. Yes,
Speaker 1: we want to work out and look better, but more
Speaker 1: than anything, you want to feel better. And working out
Speaker 1: and just taking a little walk a little stroll gets
Speaker 1: your mind off of so many things. It releases dopamine
Speaker 1: and that makes you happier. So that's another indication. If
Speaker 1: you're feeling a little like your mind is feeling a
Speaker 1: little too clustered, then that means you need to work
Speaker 1: out your body to balance it out. If your body's
Speaker 1: feeling tired, then you need to work out your brain,
Speaker 1: which means like you know, reading a book or doing
Speaker 1: something that simulates your mind. So those are like indications
Speaker 1: of like, Okay, something's going on. I'm at a balance
Speaker 1: and it's okay because it happens to all of us.
Speaker 1: It still happens to me. I just now know, oh shit, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe I need a rest. And for a long time
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, or I didn't know that. It's
Speaker 1: a part of my job. It's a part of our job.
Speaker 1: It's a part of our responsibility, and it's part of
Speaker 1: taking care of our body, our temple that was really
Speaker 1: just lend to us. Our body is like we got
Speaker 1: to do things to keep it functioning correctly, and rest
Speaker 1: is huge. You guys, look it up. If you don't
Speaker 1: believe me, go google it. Google it and it'll show
Speaker 1: you not only is sleep important, but also taking a
Speaker 1: mental break. And this is why I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about it so much, because I've been want to talk
Speaker 1: about this for a while. But I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of us, a lot of people now more than ever,
Speaker 1: we have more depression, more anxiety, more diseases because we
Speaker 1: have this idea of the only way I'm going to
Speaker 1: be successful is if I work twenty four to seven
Speaker 1: and there are no rest days, you know, no rest
Speaker 1: days like this and that, Like you see all that
Speaker 1: stuff on Instagram. I know you guys do I've seen it,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, damn, yes, you're probably gonna get
Speaker 1: really far. But then you're gonna get there and you're
Speaker 1: gonna be like fuugh, You're not gonna enjoy it. And
Speaker 1: why not enjoy the journey the way to your destination,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like, why enjoy it? Stop
Speaker 1: and say wow, all right, this is nice and keep
Speaker 1: on going and then take another little break and then
Speaker 1: look the sky and then walk a little bit more.
Speaker 1: There's no reason to have the run all the time,
Speaker 1: like you can't walk and enjoy. That's the easiest way
Speaker 1: I could put it. You guys, walk, enjoy, take your time,
Speaker 1: pace yourself. Don't just like ah, I want everything so quick.
Speaker 1: We live in that world if it's just like quick, quick, quick,
Speaker 1: everything quick. I want the magic pill. I want this,
Speaker 1: I want that. Like, enjoy the damn journey, trust the process.
Speaker 1: Take care of yourself while you're doing it. Love yourself
Speaker 1: enough to say, dude, I'm gonna do me right now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna love myself. I'm gonna have some self care,
Speaker 1: some self love. There's nothing wrong with it. Because you
Speaker 1: can't give yourself to anyone, or to your job or
Speaker 1: to anything that you're doing. If you are not aligned,
Speaker 1: if you are not happy with yourself. I say this
Speaker 1: a lot on the podcast too, but it's true self
Speaker 1: care self love hand in hand.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: So with that being said, I will close our episode
Speaker 1: and hopefully something resonated with you, because this podcast is
Speaker 1: all about helping, in any way possible, inspiring and empowering
Speaker 1: for you to become your best self, whether you are
Speaker 1: a woman or a male. I am speaking to the
Speaker 1: human within you. I am very grateful for each and
Speaker 1: every one of you, guys, and I love that you
Speaker 1: come and you listen to Cheeky's and chill and dear cheekys,
Speaker 1: and I'm just so grateful. I can't say it enough.
Speaker 1: So thank you for listening to this episode. I hope
Speaker 1: you enjoyed it. Share it with someone that you feel
Speaker 1: may need to listen to this, and even if they
Speaker 1: don't share it, come on show us some love, all right, guys. Well,
Speaker 1: I love you, and have a beautiful week. Kick ass
Speaker 1: and take a mental break if you need it. Remember
Speaker 1: that there's nothing wrong with taking care of yourself. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's all take a deep breath together.
Speaker 2: And you let it out.
Speaker 1: Love you vesitos. I will see you on the next
Speaker 1: episode of Cheeky's and Chill. Do you need advice on
Speaker 1: love of relationships health emails? I'm so excited to share
Speaker 1: with you that my Cheeky's and Chill podcast will have
Speaker 1: an extra episode drop each week. I'll be answering all
Speaker 1: your questions. Just leave me a voice message Monday. All
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Speaker 2: I can't wait to hear from you.
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