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Speaker 1: Today, we have two incredible guests joining us. This episode
Speaker 1: idea was inspired by our producer, Stephanie Franco. This is
Speaker 1: one of her favorite podcasts and she put us on
Speaker 1: and so we're really excited to have the creators of
Speaker 1: for the Healthy Hose join us today.
Speaker 2: So a little bit about the hosts of the Healthy
Speaker 2: host podcast, Re and Sunset Tim. Rie and Sunset Tim
Speaker 2: are the hosts and creators for the Healthy Hose, a
Speaker 2: podcast dedicated to providing resourceful wellness information via casual and
Speaker 2: everyday chats about minds, intentionality, and self awareness.
Speaker 3: And we'll be.
Speaker 1: Talking to them about navigating changes, transitions and also creating
Speaker 1: like a wellness menu or creating wellness specific to you.
Speaker 1: A lot of the times, I think online we can
Speaker 1: see lots of wellness tips, wellness hacks, wellness how tos,
Speaker 1: but they don't always fit absolutely.
Speaker 2: Tim shares with us his like customized wellness routine, and
Speaker 2: I think that it's gonna maybe inspire a lot of
Speaker 2: you to take wellness into your own hands and do
Speaker 2: things that just really resonate with you as an individual, culturally,
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Okay, we are so excited to be joined by Ree
Speaker 1: and Tim, the host and creators of the podcast for
Speaker 1: the Healthy Hoes. Can y'all please introduce yourselves to our listeners.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. My name is Ree, and like you just said,
Speaker 4: I'm a podcast creative entrepreneur in Multi Dimensional Bank.
Speaker 5: And I'm so I said Tim, artists and podcast fabulous.
Speaker 2: We're so excited to have you with us today. We're
Speaker 2: really curious about how this partnership began and how you
Speaker 2: decided to launch this show about wellness and health and
Speaker 2: all these fabulous things.
Speaker 5: Well, it started off, I guess, from kind of like
Speaker 5: a rough place. We were both at a rough passion
Speaker 5: in life mentally and kind of frustrated and wanted to
Speaker 5: get a community, be a part of a community that
Speaker 5: kind of understood what were going on. But we couldn't
Speaker 5: quite find that place, which brought us to the journey
Speaker 5: of creating that space. It took some trial and error.
Speaker 5: This isn't our first podcast. Yeah, we actually had one before,
Speaker 5: but we had to find ourselves before we could find
Speaker 5: a voice or the conversation we actually wanted to have. Yah,
Speaker 5: So that's how funny Healthy Holes was actually born.
Speaker 1: Yes, everything, I love that, And tell us about the
Speaker 1: name for the Healthy Hose. It's so good, But you know,
Speaker 1: I think I can kind of guess the inspell, you know,
Speaker 1: but I want to hear in your words. What was
Speaker 1: the inspiration and the energy behind this fabulous name for
Speaker 1: the Healthy host.
Speaker 4: I create YouTube videos. I was doing that before I
Speaker 4: started like podcasting, and the videos I was creating were
Speaker 4: like mostly food videos and like health videos, and I
Speaker 4: would always call myself like, oh, I'm a healthy ho
Speaker 4: or anything that I was obsessing over at that time.
Speaker 4: I was a whole for that particular thing. So from that,
Speaker 4: it inspired an ebook titled for the Healthy Holes. And
Speaker 4: when we were having a conversation about starting our podcast,
Speaker 4: I was just like, I don't know what to call it.
Speaker 4: I don't know what the call it, because you know,
Speaker 4: for the Healthy Holes, it's kind of like either you're
Speaker 4: gonna love it or you're gonna hate it. And so
Speaker 4: Tim was just like, no, we gotta go with that.
Speaker 4: We gotta call it that, and yeah, we just with
Speaker 4: some healthy Hose, and that's how came about I.
Speaker 3: Love it for you.
Speaker 2: Does hoe stand for anything? Like is it an acronym
Speaker 2: or is it just a way of life?
Speaker 4: It's who is a way of life. It's a way
Speaker 4: of life, O holy life as well.
Speaker 3: No, but I agree who is life?
Speaker 4: Yes it is.
Speaker 3: We're totally with that.
Speaker 2: So when we started our podcast, Yosa approached me with
Speaker 2: the idea and was like, Hey, do you want to
Speaker 2: start a podcast? And I was like, yes, let's do it.
Speaker 2: So did one of you approach the other or did you, like,
Speaker 2: both just want to do this and it just sort
Speaker 2: of like brought you both together.
Speaker 4: I kind of approached too. Yeah, yeah, for sure, because
Speaker 4: I don't know if you like, we're married, So yeah,
Speaker 4: we we're married. So we do pretty much everything together.
Speaker 4: We've I've known him all my life and we have
Speaker 4: these like the same conversations we have on the pod
Speaker 4: we have in real life. They are real life conversations.
Speaker 4: And we would we have these conversations and I would
Speaker 4: be like, Babe, we need to start up. We gotta
Speaker 4: start a podcast, and I mean this is start of
Speaker 4: twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So and finally we did it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then for the most part, I'm an artist so
Speaker 5: I was able to express myself. And at the time
Speaker 5: your page was planning based princis was surrounding food, so
Speaker 5: it was a part of you that you couldn't really
Speaker 5: express to the world quite so the podcast you made
Speaker 5: perfect sense to really get those conversations out in the world.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: How do you each define what a healthy hoe is?
Speaker 1: And like, how do your listeners define like healthy ho?
Speaker 4: I think being a healthy home is going to be
Speaker 4: different for everybody. I think we see what wellness looks like,
Speaker 4: especially like with the uproar and increase of wellness content
Speaker 4: on social media, so I think sometimes we could think
Speaker 4: like it looks like this way, looks like aarone and
Speaker 4: smoothies and this, this is and that, But no, being
Speaker 4: a healthy hoe is ultimately finding the truest version of
Speaker 4: yourself what works for you, what works for me may
Speaker 4: not work for you. And I think the bottom line
Speaker 4: of being a healthy hole is knowing who you truly
Speaker 4: are a mom, body and soul. Yeah, for sure I
Speaker 4: agree with that.
Speaker 5: And just when I hear it the first time I
Speaker 5: heard it, I couldn't we just really couldn't stop laughing
Speaker 5: when we heard it, Like, ain't no way. We finished
Speaker 5: started a podcast off for the healthy host. But just
Speaker 5: embracing whatever you're into is kind of what it means
Speaker 5: to me to be a healthy hell. You got you
Speaker 5: got gym holes, got a club holes, you got music holes.
Speaker 5: Like we just healthy holes. We got to a point
Speaker 5: in our lives and we just kind of wanted to
Speaker 5: take care of ourselves so we can be better for
Speaker 5: each other altimately. Yeah, And that's just kind of way
Speaker 5: is you know, we got all types of hos. We
Speaker 5: just healthy holes.
Speaker 2: That I got a health over everything.
Speaker 4: There we go. You know what's funny, I've said that before,
Speaker 4: perfect I've actually but it didn't stick with me. But
Speaker 4: when you asked for an acronym, I was like, that's it,
Speaker 4: That's that's the one.
Speaker 1: For a while my life was saying hoe is heaven
Speaker 1: on Earth? Oh I forgot? That was like an early
Speaker 1: rendition ofly podcast. It was like heaven on Earth? You would, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was your thing, like circa twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3: Wow, I just love acronyms.
Speaker 1: She does love acronyms.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, Well I've got around the same page.
Speaker 1: We're going to go on a quick break and we'll
Speaker 1: be right back.
Speaker 3: I'm okay.
Speaker 2: So so when you started the show you were in
Speaker 2: you described kind of like a in like a difficult place,
Speaker 2: like there was a rough patch of sorts.
Speaker 3: So I think.
Speaker 2: Today we really want to talk about like the rough
Speaker 2: patch and like transitions and going from the rough patch
Speaker 2: into like fertile ground and what was that journey, Like
Speaker 2: where were you?
Speaker 3: What was going on? And then how did you come
Speaker 3: out of it?
Speaker 4: I feel like in twenty seventeen was one of the
Speaker 4: roughest patches in my life. I had just had our
Speaker 4: second daughter, and we had just moved to a new
Speaker 4: city and life was really life, and and I don't know,
Speaker 4: I found myself in just such a really dark space.
Speaker 4: It's unable to really express it, unable to really release
Speaker 4: exactly what I was going through. And another f patch
Speaker 4: was twenty twenty three, where I was experiencing a lot
Speaker 4: of change internally, but it was really difficult because my
Speaker 4: physical reality wasn't reflecting that, and you know, as human beings,
Speaker 4: when change isn't physical, it kind of be like hold up,
Speaker 4: you know. So it was really difficult for me. But
Speaker 4: through that I've grown so much. Like I always talk
Speaker 4: about learning to EBB and flow through life because change
Speaker 4: is inevitable, Like change is going to happen regardless, so
Speaker 4: you might as well make it a little bit easier
Speaker 4: on yourself and just fall into the change and ebb
Speaker 4: and flow with what life is throwing at you.
Speaker 5: And yeah, for me around that same time with twenty seventeen, yeah,
Speaker 5: it was like it was really rough mentally, it was
Speaker 5: rough on me. It was challenging financially too for us.
Speaker 5: I think at that time period, I was working like
Speaker 5: thirteen some hours, had like two jobs, thirty hours a day,
Speaker 5: and just ultimately I wasn't fulfilled with doing anything. It
Speaker 5: was almost as if my cup had a hole in
Speaker 5: the bottom of it. As I filled up, it just
Speaker 5: kind of was drained.
Speaker 4: Out of me.
Speaker 5: I couldn't find fulfillment in what I was doing in
Speaker 5: life and just knew something like had to change and
Speaker 5: not fighting that change probably was the biggest difference in life.
Speaker 5: Just excepting that something needed to change and going on
Speaker 5: with the process, not knowing where we put us ultimately.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just trusting the uncertainty of it all.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, for sure.
Speaker 1: I think that's something that we all learned the hard way.
Speaker 1: If we like resist the change, the universe is going
Speaker 1: to force the change, so either you like get with
Speaker 1: it and like open yourself up to the change. And
Speaker 1: a lot of the times we don't do that, you know,
Speaker 1: we're like very resistive because it's hard, right, And I
Speaker 1: think that's one of the reasons we wanted to have
Speaker 1: y'all on today is you know, we've navigated really tough
Speaker 1: transitions and changes in the last couple of years, and
Speaker 1: we know that our listeners of course humans, right, we
Speaker 1: all go through transitions and changes, and we get this
Speaker 1: a lot where our listeners want to like ask us advice,
Speaker 1: you know, like give us advice about X, y Z,
Speaker 1: and we don't always feel equipped to do that. And
Speaker 1: so that was one of the reasons we wanted to
Speaker 1: bring y'all on to talk about how you navigate transitions
Speaker 1: and changes and so that our listeners can kind of
Speaker 1: get some of that from y'all. So I guess my
Speaker 1: next question for y'all is, like, how do you maintain
Speaker 1: a balance in your wellness in your routine when you
Speaker 1: are in such a busy season of growth. Like I
Speaker 1: love the analogy of like there was a hole in
Speaker 1: my cup, it didn't really matter what I did like
Speaker 1: everything was just gonna like drain regardless, and sometimes it
Speaker 1: does feel that way, right, So how how do we
Speaker 1: maintain like a sense of wellness, a sense of routine
Speaker 1: when we do feel like there's a hole in our company?
Speaker 4: I want to first say that, at some point, after
Speaker 4: you've started to implement certain habits into your life, whether
Speaker 4: it be like it doesn't have to be this, like
Speaker 4: you know, big thing could be something as simple as
Speaker 4: drinking enough water or moving your body, going for a walk,
Speaker 4: whatever the case may be, at some point these things
Speaker 4: become like I know, auto poly sounds bad, but in
Speaker 4: the best way possible, and you don't really have to
Speaker 4: necessarily think about those things, so it's easy for those
Speaker 4: things to become a norm in your routine. I will say,
Speaker 4: though I don't have any balance, what I do have
Speaker 4: is priority. There are certain things that I prioritize in
Speaker 4: certain seasons of my life, and there are other things
Speaker 4: that I prioritize and other scenes of my life. Like
Speaker 4: sometimes that may be nutrition, Like right now I'm really
Speaker 4: prioritize nutrition because I feel lot of that. But yeah,
Speaker 4: for me, it's like it's more so about prioritizing versus
Speaker 4: balance because I balance never really works for me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel you on that. Prioritizing is everything. Often
Speaker 5: we try to do it all at once, Yeah, and
Speaker 5: we just end up somewhere laid out tired, like as
Speaker 5: soon as we come home, laid out on the couch,
Speaker 5: like you can't take any more. I think one word
Speaker 5: I'm gonna repeat whenever I'm talking about health is acceptance.
Speaker 5: I think so much of stress and life comes from
Speaker 5: not accepting, and then we create friction in life. It's
Speaker 5: really hard to be balanced on every single thing at
Speaker 5: that point in your life. Like you said, you have
Speaker 5: to prioritize. I realized that my life kind of happens
Speaker 5: in sections. Right at this piece, I'm focused on this
Speaker 5: at this piece is something else. But ultimately got to
Speaker 5: remember it's a lifetime goal.
Speaker 3: Like you don't you.
Speaker 5: Know, you don't get fit to have your and then
Speaker 5: start eating donuts for every meal, you know, and just
Speaker 5: to get back to where you might have been or
Speaker 5: something like that. It's a lifelong journey. So just take
Speaker 5: your time, you got time, and accept that with everything
Speaker 5: comes a little lesson and a little patience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you both talked about separately right now, like food
Speaker 1: and so how are y'all when y'all are defining or
Speaker 1: talking about wellness on your show, Like, I know that
Speaker 1: it's multifaceted, but when you think of wellness, like what
Speaker 1: is it that you think of and how are you
Speaker 1: defining it?
Speaker 4: I think of wellness. I think of it as a
Speaker 4: holistic approach, a mind body soul approach, because at the
Speaker 4: end of the day, they're all interconnected, and if one
Speaker 4: isn't aligned, then the other ones are going to They're
Speaker 4: going to what's the word.
Speaker 5: I'm looking for, and like bleeding to each other.
Speaker 4: They're gonna hurt, you know what I mean if they're
Speaker 4: all not aligned. But I definitely think of it as
Speaker 4: like a mind body soul process. Like I said, BEFO
Speaker 4: for honing into whoever you are. One of the things
Speaker 4: that I realized recently is that the whole point of
Speaker 4: this journey that I'm on is to continue to return
Speaker 4: back to myself because life is going to continue to happen,
Speaker 4: and sometimes things may kind of knock us off our
Speaker 4: square and we kind of forget who we are. So
Speaker 4: we have to do certain habits like that morning meditation
Speaker 4: or going for a run, or listening to some music whatever,
Speaker 4: the case may be, to remember this is who I am,
Speaker 4: this is where home is, and this is the place
Speaker 4: that I'm going to continue to return back to in
Speaker 4: the midst of the chaos.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. I think willness is just you know,
Speaker 5: taking care of you and just the simple act of
Speaker 5: noticing what's going on inside of you, Yeah, and then
Speaker 5: taking the proper steps to soothe yourself if you need to.
Speaker 4: I love that, stop it.
Speaker 5: That's what willness is, just noticing.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back with more from for the healthy house.
Speaker 2: So I feel like sometimes when people this can be
Speaker 2: me sometimes right like you mentioned, uh, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I've noticed that I've kind of gotten away from myself
Speaker 2: and I'm trying to get back to center. And when
Speaker 2: that realization happens, sometimes it's like, Okay, I'm gonna wake
Speaker 2: up at six am and I'm gonna clean my whole
Speaker 2: apartment and I'm gonna exercise and donate old clothes, and
Speaker 2: then i'm gonna go volunteer, and I'm gonna walk my dog,
Speaker 2: and i'm gonna visit my grandma and I'm gonna do
Speaker 2: everything right and like read a book. But it's like
Speaker 2: too much all at once. But I think as I
Speaker 2: have this tendency and I feel like there's people out
Speaker 2: there listening who probably are in the same on the
Speaker 2: same wavelength. So for you guys you talked about like
Speaker 2: that one thing at a time, what do you prioritize?
Speaker 2: Like first things first, Like I have gotten away from myself.
Speaker 2: I need to get back to center. What's step number
Speaker 2: one for you?
Speaker 4: Wanna work out? I'm gonna go for a run or something.
Speaker 4: Eat will because I have I bas and if I
Speaker 4: don't eat will, it just affects my entire and I
Speaker 4: just I can't function as my best self. But for me,
Speaker 4: it's just like the small things like going for a run,
Speaker 4: eating well. Ooh, no social media because I think sometimes
Speaker 4: I can definitely get so lost in the lives of
Speaker 4: other people, thinking I need to be doing an X
Speaker 4: Y Z because this person did X, Y and Z.
Speaker 4: But no social media? What about you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: For me, the first thing I do, I mean physically,
Speaker 5: is like go clean. I'm a cleaning person.
Speaker 4: She loves to clean.
Speaker 5: It gives my body something to do while my mind
Speaker 5: kind of, I guess internally cleans like all the thoughts
Speaker 5: and purifies, like what's going on in me?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: Now, I'm an impatient soul. I've always been like impatient
Speaker 5: whenever things happen. I try my best to like mop
Speaker 5: it up as quick as possible, and it's always kind
Speaker 5: of got me in trouble. So the first thing I
Speaker 5: have to do is calm myself down and again realize
Speaker 5: that I have time, I have space. It's okay, we
Speaker 5: can't get it all up in one day, but we
Speaker 5: will get these miss off the floor of acually.
Speaker 2: Yeah, love it, And I love the IBS conversation because
Speaker 2: I feel like all hot girls have ibs.
Speaker 4: Right, do You'll?
Speaker 2: I definitely do, like I have to be very careful
Speaker 2: about what I eat or like I'm going to be
Speaker 2: miserable all day. But then I think part of that
Speaker 2: is like like I'm not careful about what I eat.
Speaker 3: So that I'm just miserable.
Speaker 2: But I think that it's like a really good thing
Speaker 2: to talk about. Like, yeah, like what you eat outside
Speaker 2: of like calories and things like that just literally can
Speaker 2: impact how your body feels.
Speaker 4: I agree with one hundred percent on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really annoying when you like the thing that
Speaker 1: you don't want to do works. Yes, you know, like
Speaker 1: I'm like starting to like eat more protein, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh god, I really do have more energy. I hate this, you.
Speaker 4: Know, it's always a thing that you don't want to
Speaker 4: do their work.
Speaker 1: It's the worst. Yeah, And I think that's part of
Speaker 1: the resisting, right, especially like now at our age, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I know what's going to make me feel good, either
Speaker 1: that be food, people's company, going out, staying in. We
Speaker 1: know like what we need now at this point in
Speaker 1: our lives, especially when we're at like center. But then
Speaker 1: sometimes it's like, well I don't want to do that,
Speaker 1: and it's like okay, well that's okay, but like you
Speaker 1: might not feel good later, and so then you have
Speaker 1: to deal with that, you know, And it's kind of
Speaker 1: then I think, cause I think about that too, like
Speaker 1: how boring, Like I have to like track my protein.
Speaker 1: Like I want to go out with my friends, and
Speaker 1: I want to eat what I want to eat, and
Speaker 1: I want to drink a little bit today. So I'm
Speaker 1: not going to like stop living, but I also have
Speaker 1: to recognize like, Okay, you know, eating this way is
Speaker 1: going to make me feel better. How can I like
Speaker 1: have that balance right of, Like I'm going to go
Speaker 1: out with my friends and drink, but like, Okay, what
Speaker 1: am I going to do tomorrow to feel better?
Speaker 4: You know exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Agree, because I don't know if you feel this way,
Speaker 1: but like sometimes it feels like we wellness or like
Speaker 1: being healthy is like so it can be so like
Speaker 1: mind consuming because it's like, okay, I have to do
Speaker 1: like all these things to be well. I'm tired. Like
Speaker 1: that's too much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there are so many conversations surrounding wellness,
Speaker 4: like I said before, especially like now, like everybody. I
Speaker 4: won't say everybody, but a lot of people are talking
Speaker 4: about wellness. And I think that, like I said before,
Speaker 4: if you want to have a drink, have a drink,
Speaker 4: but make sure because I think it's easier, like once
Speaker 4: you do the not so healthy thing, it's easier to
Speaker 4: keep doing that thing. So I think, like you said,
Speaker 4: it's great to have a plan, well tomorrow, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: drink me some tea or you know, whatever you do
Speaker 4: to return back to myself. But yeah, it's all about
Speaker 4: that moderation and doing a thing, but make sure you
Speaker 4: also do the thing that is good for your body.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then I try to customize this wellness shit
Speaker 5: as much as I can, because I just can't. I
Speaker 5: can't do it how everybody else does it, exactly. I'll
Speaker 5: get too exhausted if I do how I've seen it
Speaker 5: on TikTok on Instagram. I gotta find a way to
Speaker 5: do it how I can do it. Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 5: I can't just show up and be somebody else and
Speaker 5: be happy with you. I gotta find a way to
Speaker 5: let me shine through this wellness. Well, ain't nobody gonna
Speaker 5: be happy again?
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 1: I love that. Sorry, real quick. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: say that because I have an example of that in
Speaker 1: my personal life, where for years I was kept trying
Speaker 1: to make myself a morning person. I was like, I
Speaker 1: have to be up by five am, six am, get
Speaker 1: my workout, and do all these things before nine am,
Speaker 1: but I could not get out of bed. And my
Speaker 1: therapist was like, why do you have to be a
Speaker 1: morning person? And I was like, Okay, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: Where am I getting that from? And so to your point,
Speaker 1: tim of what you're saying, like everybody's doing their own
Speaker 1: thing and it can feel like over like why I
Speaker 1: want to do it my way? So I'm going to
Speaker 1: customize it to myself. Home what feels right to me
Speaker 1: that resonates for me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought I had the opposite kind of problem.
Speaker 5: Like a lot of my my my bros. Friends, like
Speaker 5: they stay up late, and I got old man tendencies.
Speaker 5: I like to go to sleep like early, like, so
Speaker 5: it was difficult to try to like like be out
Speaker 5: or whatnot. And I want to go to bed while
Speaker 5: everybody else trying to turn up. I'm sor I catch
Speaker 5: me up in the morning. I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really curious about your customized like wellness, Like
Speaker 2: can you give us an example of how you customized
Speaker 2: wellness for yourself?
Speaker 5: For like, for me, certain things just hit different, Like
Speaker 5: I guess a perfect example when I want to go
Speaker 5: through affirmation, this is crazy. I go listen to Juvenile.
Speaker 5: I don't know if y'all know Juvenile.
Speaker 3: Yes, I go listen to Juvenile.
Speaker 5: I feel like his music like kind of speaks to
Speaker 5: me in the way I need to be spoken. So
Speaker 5: I can't just for me, you know, I can't sit
Speaker 5: and just hear certain things.
Speaker 4: You gotta be said the.
Speaker 5: Way that I have got it in my community right exactly.
Speaker 5: So uh yeah, Juvenile for the affirmation is like it's crazy,
Speaker 5: Like you know what I mean, I gotta do it
Speaker 5: my way. I can't. I've never really been a gym person,
Speaker 5: but fans is like my body. I've never been a
Speaker 5: gym person, but I can hoop all day. But you'd
Speaker 5: be hard pressed to throw me into the gym though.
Speaker 5: But it's just customizing me for exactly who I am,
Speaker 5: because any other way, I'm burnt out and it ain't
Speaker 5: gonna get done.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love that. Sexy rad has been doing that for
Speaker 3: me recently.
Speaker 4: We love sexy. I gotta get glow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, on the way to pilates, like we go together,
Speaker 2: tell me to go together.
Speaker 3: I love it. Thank you for sharing that example.
Speaker 1: What does that look like for you, Red, Like do
Speaker 1: you have do you feel that that way? Like you
Speaker 1: also customize your wellness routine or what have you? Or
Speaker 1: how does it show up in your life?
Speaker 4: Yeah? For sure, I think A big one for me
Speaker 4: that really resonated what Tim said is like the affirmations
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 5: We hear you know, just saying we hear you.
Speaker 4: Like, Yeah, these like Instagram you know affirmations, but sometimes
Speaker 4: you just I let yourself know I am a bad bitch,
Speaker 4: like I do this shit. Everything that I have ever
Speaker 4: wanted to do, I've done. So I definitely can resonate
Speaker 4: with customizing, like things into your own language, because it
Speaker 4: just it feels so fake and like you said, you
Speaker 4: feel burnt out. And even for me, like so my smoothie,
Speaker 4: even Tim, he does this blueberry smoothie every single day,
Speaker 4: and with me sharing my life online a lot, I'd
Speaker 4: be like, but I share this every single day, but
Speaker 4: also like, this is what I have every single day,
Speaker 4: and it just it works really well for me. Another one,
Speaker 4: I used to love the gym. It's because the customization
Speaker 4: happens in seasons. Like at one point I was a
Speaker 4: gym girl. He loved the gym, loved doing weightlifting. But
Speaker 4: now I remember the last time I went to the gym,
Speaker 4: I was just like, this really feels like prison. Like
Speaker 4: I don't love it here especially. I think it's because
Speaker 4: the seasons changed, Like the sun is out, so I'm
Speaker 4: like I have to be outside on my runs. I
Speaker 4: have to. I've been doing like pilates at home, and
Speaker 4: because we've created a space in our home where it's
Speaker 4: just like it's us and it really feels safe. You know,
Speaker 4: I can't do at the gym. What I would do
Speaker 4: at home where to be listening to music, turk and dancing.
Speaker 4: I can't do that at the gym, you know. So
Speaker 4: that's another customizable thing in my routine. And again staying
Speaker 4: off my phone. And one more so, I know when
Speaker 4: we think about wellness, there's all these self help books,
Speaker 4: which are great. We love self help books, but I
Speaker 4: am out of that area in my life and I
Speaker 4: can't do it. I cannot. I can't. So I've been
Speaker 4: really into like novels and fiction, and it really just
Speaker 4: it doesn't for me, and lessons be learned in those novels,
Speaker 4: life lessons be learned.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think like the self help
Speaker 1: genre like has exploded in the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: especially on social media, and there's nothing wrong with reading
Speaker 1: self help books, but when that's the only thing you're reading,
Speaker 1: I'm like, is there still a self to help at
Speaker 1: that point? Because it's like you're constantly trying to better
Speaker 1: yourself or beyond an improvement, which again is fine, but
Speaker 1: to the point where you're like intellectualizing and reading so
Speaker 1: much about it. It worries me, you know, like what
Speaker 1: we're doing to ourselves and like really like looking at
Speaker 1: everything under a microscope, you know, with what we do
Speaker 1: and who we are. It feels obsessive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it does. It's information overload for sure, and it's
Speaker 4: just like live life. And like what Tim said, willness,
Speaker 4: A big part of willness is self awareness. I think
Speaker 4: that like, what is happening with me right now? Why
Speaker 4: am I feeling like this? And we often opt for
Speaker 4: like the service level thing, but like we need to
Speaker 4: do a deep work and you don't. Really I'm not
Speaker 4: gonna say you don't need a self help book to
Speaker 4: be self aware. I mean, I guess you have to
Speaker 4: have some kind of basis, you know, to start from,
Speaker 4: but at some point it can become too much and
Speaker 4: you really just have to look inside and just to
Speaker 4: live life. It's really not that serious.
Speaker 3: I wonder.
Speaker 2: I know, we have listeners who have kids, and you
Speaker 2: two have kids, and how do the kids get incorporated
Speaker 2: into like your own wellness routines, a family wellness routine.
Speaker 2: Do they have their own like their rituals that they
Speaker 2: like to engage in.
Speaker 5: In the beginning, it was a little it's a converting
Speaker 5: them over into like spirituality as a young person. Right
Speaker 5: in the beginning, It's just it's almost like an assignment.
Speaker 5: Dad told me I had to do this, So I'm
Speaker 5: doing it so I can get back on the iPad
Speaker 5: or get back on the switch or whatever it might be.
Speaker 5: But now of my oldest daughter is older, like she's
Speaker 5: getting to that age where she can recognize when she's
Speaker 5: having anxiety and things like that. Now these practices are
Speaker 5: actually coming into her real life and they actually mean
Speaker 5: something and they can help her out.
Speaker 3: In the beginning.
Speaker 5: I'm always I've always been a you're gonna do what
Speaker 5: I said. I'm one of them, like I'm grown you ain't.
Speaker 3: It is what it is, like.
Speaker 2: I mean saying, Read and Tim for the Healthy Host,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for sitting down and chatting with
Speaker 2: us here on look I thought our radio. I just
Speaker 2: wanted to ask thoughts on those who are currently unhealthy
Speaker 2: who want to become healthy host and how your podcast
Speaker 2: can figure into that journey.
Speaker 3: What is your advice?
Speaker 5: My advice would be start gentle and start where you are.
Speaker 5: Don't try to, you know, jump on whatever trend you
Speaker 5: see like happening online right now. Is got to be
Speaker 5: real accustomed to you and just accept where you are
Speaker 5: is a good place. To start. I think a lot
Speaker 5: of times we wish we were at a certain point
Speaker 5: so bad that we won't even get started because we
Speaker 5: just don't like where we have to take off running from.
Speaker 5: So just be comfortable exactly where you are. It comings yourself, really, I.
Speaker 4: Agree exactly what Tim said. You have to reach a
Speaker 4: level of self acceptance, because I think a lot of
Speaker 4: times healthy lifestyles can come from a place of hate
Speaker 4: and you know, or like self hate and not loving yourself,
Speaker 4: and it never ends well. And you never said, of
Speaker 4: course when it comes from that space, So it definitely
Speaker 4: has to come from a space of self acceptance. Like
Speaker 4: Tim said, meeting yourself exactly where you are. I mean,
Speaker 4: you can't run ten miles, and I mean like figuratively
Speaker 4: and literally, you can't run ten miles. And if you
Speaker 4: never ran a maut before, you definitely have to start
Speaker 4: off gentle and healing journeys and just getting healthy are
Speaker 4: definitely individual journejorneys. We speak a lot about that on
Speaker 4: our podcast, about how like our own specific journeys, as
Speaker 4: well as how wellness and spirituality is such an individualistic journey.
Speaker 4: It's so important to know yourself. I think that's the
Speaker 4: first step in healing or getting healthy is knowing your
Speaker 4: truest self and trying to continue to uncover more layers
Speaker 4: of you, know, your most authentic self.
Speaker 5: And then with and also like with us, like all
Speaker 5: holes got baggage, so it's okay, bring all your whole
Speaker 5: shit with you, Like it's a community, a whole healing together.
Speaker 5: It's okay, bring all of it with you. And none
Speaker 5: of us perfect in this community. So when you get here, yeah,
Speaker 5: all the hoes is very welcome. And when you get here.
Speaker 4: Exactly yeah, no one is perfect or will ever be perfect.
Speaker 2: That's reassuring because sometimes that baggage is heavy.
Speaker 3: Bring yes, Oh my gosh, Red.
Speaker 2: And Tim, hosts of or the Healthy Host podcast, can
Speaker 2: you tell our listeners where they can find your podcast,
Speaker 2: where they can tune in, and where they can follow
Speaker 2: you and your various projects.
Speaker 4: So you can follow our podcast on Spotify, Apple, pretty
Speaker 4: much everywhere you listen to podcasts at for the Healthy Host.
Speaker 4: Our instagram is also for the Healthy Host. YouTube is
Speaker 4: for the Healthy Host, and my personal instagram is Returner
Speaker 4: to Ours. Your personal grand instagram.
Speaker 5: Is Sunset Team the Sunset Too.
Speaker 4: I think it's Sunset Too Underscore sunset, Tim, I can't
Speaker 4: remember one of.
Speaker 2: These fabulous any last thoughts for those tuning in.
Speaker 5: Today, thoughts. I think that it's a beautiful time pee
Speaker 5: in the culture of black and brown people to get
Speaker 5: started in healing. I think it's like one of the
Speaker 5: most beautiful time perioge like I've ever seen. Like the
Speaker 5: knowledge is out there various I guess, like messengers or
Speaker 5: whatever you want to call yourself, content creator whatever, everybody's
Speaker 5: calling themselves various people for everybody to get involved. There's
Speaker 5: a community for you out there, whether it's for the healthy,
Speaker 5: holder for somewhere else, you know what I mean. It's
Speaker 5: definitely a community out there for you. Just be brave
Speaker 5: enough to get started, be brave enough to challenge the interview.
Speaker 4: I agree, I agree everything he said.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: I'm here for it, and I agree completely. This has
Speaker 2: been a really thought provoking interview. And thank you guys
Speaker 2: for coming back, coming back on so that we could
Speaker 2: finish out our interview. Thank you to all of our listeners.
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