1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Did you exercise this morning or are you planning on 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 1: exercising later today, or maybe you're doing your exercise right 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: now with me in your ear, or maybe you just 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,959 Speaker 1: told yourself that you didn't have time. Now, How I 5 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: Work has not turned into a health and fitness podcast, 6 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: but today I want to talk about some call tools 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: to improve your health. I place a huge value on 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: my health. It's actually my number one priority because if 9 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: you're not healthy, chances are you are a whole lot 10 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: less productive. My name is doctor Ramantha Imba. I'm an 11 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: organizational psychologist and founder of behavioral science consultancy Inventium. And 12 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: this is How I Work, a show about how to 13 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: help you do your best work. Long term listeners of 14 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: How I Work will know the immense value I place 15 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: on my health, because without your in place, I just 16 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 1: think you have nothing. If you're not healthy, you can't 17 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 1: be a great parent, a great friend, a great daughter, 18 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 1: and so on. And you can be sure that your 19 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: productivity will be impacted too. So let's chat about five 20 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: tools that I use to stay healthy. The first one 21 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: is the Tangram Factory smartrope. Now I'll be linking to 22 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: all these in the show notes. So This is a 23 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: skipping rope that is smart, so it detects how many 24 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: reps you're doing. I'm a big fan of skipping, and 25 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: five times a week I love doing a short skipping 26 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: warm up for a few minutes before my weight training workouts. 27 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,119 Speaker 1: And as skippers will know, it's so tedious to count 28 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: the number of reps that you do when you're skipping, 29 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: but this smart rope does it for you, which I 30 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: find awesome. So I have a little goal of doing 31 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: two hundred reps on the skipping rope is my warm up. 32 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: The smart rope connects to my phone via Bluetooth to 33 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: a specific app and accounts it for me, which I love. 34 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: So I've been using that for about a year. It's 35 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: super reliable and I would find it really hard to 36 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: go back to using a normal rope. The next tool 37 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: I want to talk about is one of the newer 38 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: things that I've added to my repertoire, and that is 39 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: the Woop band so Whop. I discovered Woop because it 40 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: made Fast Companies Most Innovative Companies list this year. So 41 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: Woop is a wearable device. It's basically a band made 42 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: out of fabric that you wear on your wrist. It's 43 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: waterproof and it only needs to be charged every five days, 44 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: and it's designed to basically optimize the way that you 45 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: sleep and the way that you train. The Woop band 46 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: is unusual and that it's got no screen on it. 47 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 1: It's just a band, so in order to understand the 48 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: data that it's getting from you, you need to actually 49 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: open up the Woop mobile app to check it out. 50 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: So Woop tracks a few things. That tracks heart rate variability, 51 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: resting heart rate, your sleep, and your respiratory rate. And 52 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: with these particular markets, it can assess how well you're sleeping. 53 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: Your sleep efficiency optimizes how much time you need to 54 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: be spending in bed, and based on this data and 55 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: your activity levels from the day before, it calculates ideally 56 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: how hard you should push yourself the following day, or 57 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: whether perhaps you need to schedule a recovery date. And 58 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: then you could run mini experiments with yourself to see 59 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: how doing certain things like maybe having a glass of 60 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: wine at night impacts your sleep, although you probably already 61 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: know the answer to that one. So there's heaps of data, 62 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: and the more that you use it, the more useful 63 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: the data becomes. Because it starts to set baselines and averages, 64 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: and interestingly, I was reading that it's actually very accurate 65 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: but predicting whether you have COVID. So there you go. 66 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: That's whoop. Now the next thing. I have been using 67 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: an Apple Watch for many years, but something that used 68 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: to straight me about my Apple Watch is that I 69 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: have a goal of doing at least ten thousand steps 70 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: a day. But you can't actually set that up on 71 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: your home screen to have the number of steps that 72 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: you've done on the standard Apple Watch setup. But there 73 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 1: is a workaround, and that is with the Pedometer plus 74 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: plus app. So if you install that particular app on 75 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: your phone, you can then set the home screen of 76 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: your Apple Watch to show how many steps that you've done. 77 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: And I find this little work around very very useful 78 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: because it helps me just make sure that I build 79 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,119 Speaker 1: in regular movement to my day to day to reach 80 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: my goal, which is a good segue into the next 81 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: thing I want to talk about, which is the walking 82 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: pad pro treadmill and Ergo desk automatic standing desk. So 83 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: this is a treadmill desk and I mentioned it in 84 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: the episode that I did about my ultimate home office setup. Now, 85 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: I don't use this as my main work desk, but 86 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: I have a second workstation at home, and I think 87 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: of this my movement desk, where I've got my old 88 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: laptop set up that I only use now when I 89 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,359 Speaker 1: travel on rare occasions, and I can basically walk and 90 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: work at the same time, or if I'm doing phone meetings. 91 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: I have a general rule where I will always walk 92 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: if I'm doing phone meetings or move in some way. 93 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: And this is really handy. That's desk because now I 94 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: can take notes on my laptop while I walk on 95 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: the treadmill, which is super cool. And again, it just 96 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: helps me move and stay healthy during my work day, 97 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 1: which if I don't try to build in all these habits, 98 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 1: can be very sedentary because I am a classic desk worker. Now, 99 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:37,840 Speaker 1: the final tool I want to talk about is something 100 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: to stay mentally healthy. And this is a company that 101 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: I love called Magic Puzzle Company. So I discovered them 102 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: through their Kickstarter campaign where they launch three jigsaw puzzles 103 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: that each have a secret when you get to the end, 104 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 1: and I'm not going to tell you what that secret is, 105 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: but it's very cool. I'm onto the third of the 106 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: three puzzles now and I can tell you I'm going 107 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: to be very depressed when I finish this last one 108 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,919 Speaker 1: because they've been such a joy for myself and my 109 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: seven year old daughter Frankie to do together. They're one 110 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 1: thousand pieces and they're very very challenging, I will say, 111 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: and they've become a mainstay on my dining room table, 112 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 1: so whenever family and friends come to visit, they're always 113 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 1: invited to contribute to doing the jigsaw puzzles. I think 114 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 1: the jigsaw puzzles are such a great way to stretch 115 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: your brain, and I also find that I get into 116 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: chicksaw flow quite easily and I just love it. So 117 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm going to do when I 118 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: finish this third puzzle, but the mas Chick Puzzle company 119 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: who created these jigsaws are working on the next series, 120 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: so stay tuned for that. So those are five tools 121 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: that I used to stay healthy. That is it for 122 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: today's show. If you have been loving how I work, 123 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 1: you might also enjoy MoMA MIA's podcast Lady Startup Stories. 124 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: Each week, Georgia Love, who you might remember from The Bachelorette, 125 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 1: sits down with female entrepreneur to ask how they've built 126 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: their businesses. Georgia recently sat down with Michelle Battersby, the 127 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: woman who helped launch the dating app Bumble into Australia. 128 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: But Michelle isn't here to talk Bumble. She is actually 129 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: co founding an app called Sunroom, so she joins Georgia 130 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: to talk about why she left a very secure job 131 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: to go out on her own and why she thought 132 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: Sunroom was worth taking a risk on. Here's a little snippet. 133 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 2: It's crazy to say, Ellie, Lucy and I have never 134 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 2: met each other in real life. Wow wow. 135 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. 136 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 2: So they're both in the States and I'm here. So 137 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 2: the company is actually based in la and I'm moving 138 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 2: over there in a month. But it's very twenty twenty. 139 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 2: We've co founded a business without ever meeting each other 140 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 2: in real life, and I think it's been an advantage 141 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 2: because it meant that Lucy could pick the skill sets 142 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 2: that she needed and then go and find those people. 143 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 2: But we did this thing called a co founder dating Questionnaire, 144 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 2: and I think it was around seventy five questions, and 145 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 2: it gets into some really deep stuff, things like can 146 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 2: one co founder fire another? Would you prefer to own 147 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 2: eight percent of a billion dollar company or eighty percent 148 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 2: of a one hundred million dollar company, big goal type stuff, 149 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 2: but questions you really should be asking your co founders 150 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 2: and things you really should know about each other before 151 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 2: you decide to enter a business, like what is the 152 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 2: worst interpersonal conflict you've ever dealt with? What makes you 153 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 2: feel stressed? How do you deal with stress? Have you 154 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 2: ever dealt with depression? Like a lot of big questions, 155 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 2: And we did a couple of sessions all going through 156 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 2: how we'd answered these questions to really get to know 157 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 2: one another, and our values were just so aligned. We're 158 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 2: three actually very different people, but our values are all 159 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 2: the same. And yeah, yeah, it's crazy to think that 160 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 2: we have never been in the same room and we 161 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 2: just closed a preceed and are about to launch it up. 162 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: You can listen to Lady Startup Stories with Georgia Love 163 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. So that is it for 164 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 1: today and I will see you next time.