Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome to the Rise and Conquer Podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Georgie Stevenson. I am a lawyer and health coach,
Speaker 1: social media influencer, wife, and dog mum. On the Rise
Speaker 1: and Conquer Podcast, we dive deep into all things mindset, habits, career, health,
Speaker 1: relationships and more. This is a podcast for women who
Speaker 1: want to rise up to be the best version of themselves,
Speaker 1: who have big dreams in who are willing to put
Speaker 1: in the work to get there. I want to bring
Speaker 1: you the tools and actionable steps to feel confident in yourself,
Speaker 1: inspired to take bold action, and motivated to conquer your goals.
Speaker 1: Are you with me, girl friends, Let's rise and conquer. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: and welcome back to the Rise and Conquer Podcasts. I'm
Speaker 1: doing a solo episode today chatting about my morning routine.
Speaker 1: This was requested in our community Facebook group. A lot
Speaker 1: of people were interested, So I'm excited to chat about
Speaker 1: this because forming my morning routine and really kind of
Speaker 1: finding something that works for me and my lifestyle has
Speaker 1: always been so important because obviously a morning routine sets
Speaker 1: you up for the day, and I also notice a
Speaker 1: massive shift in my mental state, my mental clarity and
Speaker 1: my happiness if my morning routine goes to plan. Before
Speaker 1: we get into that, though obviously you would have heard
Speaker 1: at the beginning, I'm so excited. I'm going on tour
Speaker 1: with a Healthy Hustlers podcast. Me and Madeline, like met
Speaker 1: I want to say, at the start of the year,
Speaker 1: she interviewed me for her podcast and we just instantly gelled,
Speaker 1: like you know when you meet someone and you feel
Speaker 1: like you've known them for a very long time, almost
Speaker 1: like they're an old friend. And yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: we just gelled. And I'm just so excited to finally
Speaker 1: do an in person event to meet you guys and
Speaker 1: meet with my Rise and Conker community. So yeah, as
Speaker 1: we said, check out the show notes and our Instagram
Speaker 1: for tickets and all that jazz and I will obviously
Speaker 1: be giving you more information on that, but yeah, so excited.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Okay, let's get into the episode. So
Speaker 1: I want to start this episode off with the quote
Speaker 1: we are what we repeatedly do by Aristotle, and I
Speaker 1: love this because, like I said, I really notice the
Speaker 1: difference if my morning routine isn't on point, and I
Speaker 1: think it's important to realize that your everyday habits really
Speaker 1: set you up as a person, and it's really like
Speaker 1: what you do every single day is who you are
Speaker 1: as a person. So this is why I think a
Speaker 1: morning routine is very important. Before we get into that,
Speaker 1: let's talk about self care. And I know this is
Speaker 1: a morning routine podcast, but bear with me, I swear
Speaker 1: it all intertwine. So I feel like there's this real
Speaker 1: movement at the moment with self care in regards to
Speaker 1: it being very prominent on social media, which I love.
Speaker 1: I'm loving, you know, the self care and the self
Speaker 1: love movement. It's amazing. But I feel like a self
Speaker 1: care is often classed as this thing that you know,
Speaker 1: it's a bubble bath, it's getting your nails done, it's
Speaker 1: a cozy movie night, indulging yourself. And I love that,
Speaker 1: of course that is self care. But I feel like
Speaker 1: the things that we often class as self care are
Speaker 1: things that you know, you do once a week if that.
Speaker 1: And for me, I've really noticed a difference in myself
Speaker 1: when self care is not just like a weekly or month,
Speaker 1: it's a daily thing. And I also think when you
Speaker 1: break down the meaning of self care, so I like
Speaker 1: to use the analogy. Of course, there's that the quote
Speaker 1: like you cannot pour from an empty cup. But I
Speaker 1: love to use the analogy of if you were doing
Speaker 1: a road trip, you know, up north or wherever, and
Speaker 1: you don't stop for fuel, you don't stop for snacks,
Speaker 1: and you just keep driving on an empty take like
Speaker 1: no one would do that, you would not expect to
Speaker 1: get far. So it makes sense why we as people
Speaker 1: cannot just keep going. And you do need to give
Speaker 1: yourself self care so we can, you know, give to
Speaker 1: others and feel great and be overfilled with generosity and
Speaker 1: patience and love. So it all makes sense. And I
Speaker 1: feel like we all know this and we all do
Speaker 1: try to do self care. But for me, I noticed
Speaker 1: the biggest change when my self care was done every
Speaker 1: single day and in the morning. So my morning routine
Speaker 1: has shifted a lot and changed a lot. But I've
Speaker 1: realized that when I make sure there is this self
Speaker 1: care component in my morning routine, it changes everything. And
Speaker 1: I think it's not as glamorous as you're probably thinking,
Speaker 1: So let's get into it. Obviously, our morning routine is
Speaker 1: very important, like I said, but also I've just noticed
Speaker 1: such a big shift in things throughout the day. If
Speaker 1: my morning routine is on points, so things like you
Speaker 1: wouldn't think of. So, like I noticed, my patience level
Speaker 1: is higher. I notice things don't get to me as
Speaker 1: they would. I'm a person who does suffer from anxiety,
Speaker 1: so I notice my anxiety doesn't get triggered as easily.
Speaker 1: And I also just feel happier from the morning, which
Speaker 1: obviously makes a big, big difference. So that's why I'm
Speaker 1: a big advocate for a morning routine. Also, like I said,
Speaker 1: my morning routine has changed a lot. So I got
Speaker 1: out of high school, I studied full time, I was
Speaker 1: working part time, and then I was working full time
Speaker 1: and studying part time. And then I was working full
Speaker 1: time and studying full time, and then I did a
Speaker 1: normal corporate job. I've had seven thirty starts, I've had
Speaker 1: nine o'clock starts. I've done a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: And I want to stress that your morning routine will
Speaker 1: often look different to others, and that's okay. And so
Speaker 1: in this episode, I'm not going to tell you exactly
Speaker 1: my morning routine from you know, like time and then
Speaker 1: I did this because I just don't think that is
Speaker 1: relevant to you guys. And I think it's really important
Speaker 1: to build a morning routine off you as a person,
Speaker 1: off your circumstances, off your schedule, because when you try
Speaker 1: and compare, it doesn't work. It does not work at all.
Speaker 1: And I understand everyone has different commitments and different things
Speaker 1: going on, and so I do really want to stress
Speaker 1: that you need to do the work yourself and find
Speaker 1: what works for you and how you were going to
Speaker 1: put these five big things into your morning routine. So
Speaker 1: I am going to talk about five things I always
Speaker 1: include in my morning So while I'm chatting to you, guys,
Speaker 1: try and have a think of how you could work
Speaker 1: this into your current morning routine or how you could
Speaker 1: see it really being optimized for your day. So let's
Speaker 1: get into it. These are five things I always include
Speaker 1: in my morning routine that just make it magical and
Speaker 1: like just set me up the day and is a
Speaker 1: serious form of self care. So the first thing, which
Speaker 1: I think will be no surprise, is movement. I talk
Speaker 1: a lot about this, and movement in the morning has
Speaker 1: just become routine for me because I have always noticed
Speaker 1: how much better my day goes, how much better I
Speaker 1: feel when I do movement in the morning. So at
Speaker 1: the moment I get up at five and I do
Speaker 1: a six am gym class. It's like a group gym class,
Speaker 1: which I'm really enjoying at the moment because I don't
Speaker 1: have to think about it. Previously, I used to go
Speaker 1: to gym and have my own workout routine, and I
Speaker 1: was really invested in my movement, and I, you know,
Speaker 1: would work on getting my strength weights up and changing
Speaker 1: the reps and the tempo and all this sort of thing,
Speaker 1: and that's great. I'm just in a season of life
Speaker 1: at the moment where I actually don't care too much
Speaker 1: what my movement is. It just has to be easy
Speaker 1: because my life is quite busy otherwise and I almost
Speaker 1: don't have the capacity, like I don't have the mental
Speaker 1: capacity to actually think about what workout I'm going to do.
Speaker 1: So I love this group training that I do. At
Speaker 1: the moment, I do fits and so I just get there.
Speaker 1: They've planned the workout, I do the workout, and I leave.
Speaker 1: So obviously, you guys know that movement is good. We
Speaker 1: all know it's good. I personally, like I said, do
Speaker 1: it in the morning, because I've tried to do the
Speaker 1: afternoon thing, and sometimes it works. But honestly, fifty percent
Speaker 1: of the time, if I say I'm going to work
Speaker 1: out in the afternoon, I don't. I'm just that sort
Speaker 1: of person, and I know I'm that sort of person.
Speaker 1: So for me, it's about being proactive working out in
Speaker 1: the morning, getting it done. Also, I find because it's
Speaker 1: just such a habit now, I do it without thinking
Speaker 1: about it, whereas in the afternoon I have like the
Speaker 1: whole day to think about it, and I often took
Speaker 1: myself out of doing it because I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: you've got more important things to do. You've got this, this,
Speaker 1: and this. So for me, movement in the morning is
Speaker 1: just what I do. It's habit, it's what I love,
Speaker 1: and I do want to stress that movement doesn't necessarily
Speaker 1: have to mean a hit session or a strength session.
Speaker 1: If I'm not feeling it, I will often do like
Speaker 1: a beach walk or a homework out. For me, it's
Speaker 1: just kind of a non negotiable that has always worked. Also,
Speaker 1: of course, movement releases and dolphins, so instantly this is
Speaker 1: mentally getting me into like a good mind frame to
Speaker 1: start the day. The second big block is gratitude. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie to you guys, this is something
Speaker 1: that I always try to do, but you know, like
Speaker 1: sometimes I slip out of habit and I don't want
Speaker 1: to sit here and be like I do this every
Speaker 1: single day when I don't, but it is something I
Speaker 1: try to do. If I can't write it down, I
Speaker 1: will try and think about it. And so when I can,
Speaker 1: I do a gratitude list of three things that I'm
Speaker 1: grateful for at that point in time in my life.
Speaker 1: And if you're wanting to know a bit more about gratitude,
Speaker 1: I actually just did an episode interviewing and from the
Speaker 1: Gratitude Project and she really breaks sit down and gets
Speaker 1: into it and shows you how to practice gratitude properly.
Speaker 1: So if that's something you're interested, I think it's episode
Speaker 1: twenty three, so go back and have a look at that.
Speaker 1: But again, gratitude really shifts my mental state. Like if
Speaker 1: I'm feeling stressed out or unhappy or you know something
Speaker 1: like that, if I do my little list of gratitude points,
Speaker 1: I will always shift into a better mood. And like
Speaker 1: I said, this whole morning routine is about setting yourself
Speaker 1: up for the day, so obviously that's a big part
Speaker 1: of it. And also a gratitude list helps with clarity.
Speaker 1: I often find in the morning. You know, something can
Speaker 1: trigger you, if you've seen something on the news, or
Speaker 1: something's happened on social media, someone's made you feel like crap.
Speaker 1: Doing a gratitude list can often just make you feel
Speaker 1: clear on Hey, that actually doesn't matter. That shouldn't get
Speaker 1: me down. I shouldn't actually be stressed about that, and
Speaker 1: like it's almost like looking at the bigger picture. The
Speaker 1: next thing that's really important to me is setting intentions
Speaker 1: for that day. So, as you guys know, I always
Speaker 1: do a to do list. I do my to do
Speaker 1: list after jim, after my shower, before breakfast, So I
Speaker 1: write a to do list on the most important things
Speaker 1: that I have to do that day. For me, again,
Speaker 1: that's about getting really clear the purpose of that day.
Speaker 1: It's like looking at my priorities so I'm not messing
Speaker 1: around and wasting my time. And then also I find
Speaker 1: it helps me stress less because I'm that person who
Speaker 1: I'll have a million things going in my head, so
Speaker 1: until I actually put them down on a list, I
Speaker 1: will feel a lot of anxiety. And usually once I
Speaker 1: put them down, I'm like, oh, I actually haven't got
Speaker 1: that much to do, Like it's all good. And also
Speaker 1: I find setting an intention for the day just really
Speaker 1: brings purpose for me. And so if you're a person
Speaker 1: who's not really into the to do list thing, it
Speaker 1: could even be in setting an attention, like a broader
Speaker 1: sort of thing, like you know, setting the intention that
Speaker 1: you are going to be patient today or you were
Speaker 1: going to be positive today. And I just find it's
Speaker 1: just a really good practice to get into habit. The
Speaker 1: next thing that's really important for my morning routine is
Speaker 1: having breakfast. Of course, I want to say like a
Speaker 1: nourishing breakfast, but sometimes that's not the case, but obviously
Speaker 1: just getting some substance into my body so I, you know,
Speaker 1: can think and start my day. My breakfast routine has
Speaker 1: changed a lot over the years. I used to be
Speaker 1: that person who ate breakfast at like six am, because
Speaker 1: I used to have a seven point thirty start, and
Speaker 1: also growing up, I ate very early. But then I
Speaker 1: don't know, at the moment, I actually don't eat breakfast
Speaker 1: till like nine o'clock because I like to actually like
Speaker 1: sit down and enjoy my breakfast. And I just find
Speaker 1: before then I'm very fast paced and doing stuff, and
Speaker 1: you know, I get home from a gym and then
Speaker 1: I have a shower, and then I'm doing my to
Speaker 1: do list and I'm having a look at my calendar,
Speaker 1: and so it's almost kind of like a thing that
Speaker 1: I like doing is like I sit down and have
Speaker 1: breakfast and I write my gratitude list and I just find,
Speaker 1: you know, eating breakfast it just kind of gets things
Speaker 1: moving in the body. I'm always hungry by nine o'clock,
Speaker 1: so I need it. I do try and have a
Speaker 1: nourishing breakfast and really think about what is going to
Speaker 1: make me feel good at the moment. I'm having protein
Speaker 1: oats with like banana and blueberries and peanut butter on top.
Speaker 1: It's delicious. The next thing I do is I make
Speaker 1: sure that my morning has connection in it. So this
Speaker 1: connection can be either with myself or with others. Obviously
Speaker 1: it varies each morning. So as since moving house, I
Speaker 1: live very close to my brother and my sister in
Speaker 1: law and we do gym together. So either one of
Speaker 1: them they alternate each day as they have a son,
Speaker 1: so someone stays at home with him, So either Cooper
Speaker 1: or Ash will come to gym with me every morning.
Speaker 1: They pick me up, we go to gym together, and
Speaker 1: I really enjoy that connection time just with another human
Speaker 1: being where you just like chat about pointless stuff, but
Speaker 1: you feel connected to someone. So this might be for
Speaker 1: you when you first get into work and you have
Speaker 1: a quick chat with your colleagues. Or also every morning
Speaker 1: I call Melon at nine am to see what she's
Speaker 1: doing for the day, and you know, we have a
Speaker 1: quick chat. If you're more of like an introvert, which
Speaker 1: I am like kind of, I go in between an
Speaker 1: introvert and an outrovert. Extrovert sorry, not autrovert, Jesus. And
Speaker 1: so another thing is connection with myself. So you know
Speaker 1: those days where you kind of just you wake up
Speaker 1: and you just feel very almost like you're floating and
Speaker 1: very very fairy, and you don't feel grounded or connected
Speaker 1: with yourself. When I feel like that, it's really important
Speaker 1: for me to find connection with myself again. So I'm
Speaker 1: a big advocate for meditation. Again, I don't want to
Speaker 1: lie to you guys. I don't do this every single day.
Speaker 1: I probably do this four times out of the week,
Speaker 1: which I still think is very good. And I just
Speaker 1: use that headspace app or I'll do like a guided
Speaker 1: meditation and I will just do five to ten minutes
Speaker 1: of meditation or self reflection, and I find that really
Speaker 1: grounds me and it is very important if I am
Speaker 1: feeling stressed or flustered or just not feeling that connected
Speaker 1: to myself, which I think we don't really think about
Speaker 1: that as being something that is important, but it really
Speaker 1: is for me another thing that I do if I
Speaker 1: feel very not connected to myself, and that often comes
Speaker 1: in a form of self doubt. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys feel like this, but I will wake
Speaker 1: up one morning and I'll just feel really reflecting a
Speaker 1: lot of self doubt on myself, so, you know, literally
Speaker 1: to the point where I'm like, what I'm doing in life?
Speaker 1: Is this really what I want to be doing, or
Speaker 1: just like doubting myself at every aspect. And when I
Speaker 1: feel like that, obviously meditation helps. But then I also
Speaker 1: write my mantras. So I've talked about mantras before, but
Speaker 1: they're going to be very different for everyone. It's almost
Speaker 1: like you need to find what triggers a really kind
Speaker 1: of emotional state in yourself. So I talked about this previously,
Speaker 1: but my go to mantra is no one is me
Speaker 1: and that's my power, and I go to that when
Speaker 1: I'm feeling self doubt, and I feel like I'm constantly
Speaker 1: comparing myself to others, which often comes up in the morning,
Speaker 1: which is kind of odd. I guess it can come
Speaker 1: up if you're scrolling through social media a lot in
Speaker 1: the morning, which I'm not gonna lie I do do. So, Yeah,
Speaker 1: getting meditation and writing men to ground yourself, I think
Speaker 1: is very important and definitely part of my magic morning routine.
Speaker 1: The last thing that I think is really important and
Speaker 1: that I do do every single day is I always
Speaker 1: make sure there is some sort of joy or something
Speaker 1: I love in my morning routine. And I think this
Speaker 1: is important because if you enjoy a habit, it's so
Speaker 1: much easier to make so I find when I'm putting
Speaker 1: joy into my morning routine, I will stick to it
Speaker 1: a lot easier. So, for example, at the moment, a
Speaker 1: big thing that I do that gives me joy in
Speaker 1: my morning routine is I listen to a podcast or
Speaker 1: audio book while I'm showering and cooking breakfast and getting
Speaker 1: ready for the day. So kind of like those in
Speaker 1: between times when you're having a shower and then you're
Speaker 1: putting on your makeup, and then you're getting dressed, and
Speaker 1: then you're cooking Breakfast. I will have a podcast or
Speaker 1: audiobook lang. So as you guys know, I love my
Speaker 1: podcast I love my audio books. I always get asked
Speaker 1: what are my favorite ones? So like podcasts, my favorite
Speaker 1: ones at the moment, and these always change are I
Speaker 1: really love the Shameless podcast. Those girls are great and
Speaker 1: very funny, and I find it very easy to listen
Speaker 1: to when you're like doing other things. You can kind
Speaker 1: of go off and it's not like you have to
Speaker 1: listen to intently. Another really good podcast I'm loving is
Speaker 1: obviously The Healthy Hustlers. Malin has such good content. I
Speaker 1: really loved their podcasts the other day about toxic relationships.
Speaker 1: I really resonate with that. Another podcast I love is
Speaker 1: Sees the Yay And also, as always, I love The
Speaker 1: Mind Punt The Raw Fitness Truth. I just love those
Speaker 1: three guys. They're like hilarious. And that's another one you
Speaker 1: can listen to and do other stuff and it doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter. And then actually, the audiobook that I'm listening
Speaker 1: to at the moment is really good and I want
Speaker 1: to tell you it is called and I got recommended
Speaker 1: this from a girl on the Bali retreat that I
Speaker 1: went to she's studying psychology and recommended this book and
Speaker 1: it's called Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by doctor
Speaker 1: Joe Dispenser, and it's so good. It kind of it's
Speaker 1: like a this is gonna I do not mean to
Speaker 1: offend people, but it's kind of like a smart science
Speaker 1: book for manifestation. So you know when you read like
Speaker 1: manifestation books and it's like usually a bit like I
Speaker 1: want to say, like Woo woo and airy fairy, it's
Speaker 1: always by a woman, whereas this is like by a
Speaker 1: guy and he breaks down the science and it's kind
Speaker 1: of like about manifestation, but it's all like the science
Speaker 1: behind it is so interesting. So I'm reading that at
Speaker 1: the moment too. Sorry I went off on the tangent then.
Speaker 1: So I always do something that brings me joy. Those
Speaker 1: sorts of things bring me joy, other things that I
Speaker 1: used to like doing, and these will like change as
Speaker 1: my morning routine changes or the season changes. Is I
Speaker 1: love journaling in the morning, something really funny that I
Speaker 1: never thought i'd admit on a podcast, but as something
Speaker 1: that I do at the moment is like I'll put
Speaker 1: on my favorite song that I'm really digging, put it
Speaker 1: on my little Amazon thing, what's it called? Like my
Speaker 1: Alexa and like Alexa play and then I say this
Speaker 1: song and then I literally run around the house with
Speaker 1: the dogs and they are so crazy, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've seen in my stories, and they like chase
Speaker 1: after me and bark and get really angry because I'm
Speaker 1: running away from them. But I just think it's the
Speaker 1: funniest thing. And I always like get put in a
Speaker 1: really good mood, and that's something that brings me joy.
Speaker 1: Another thing I love doing is going for a beach
Speaker 1: walk because they live close to the ocean and that
Speaker 1: really grounds me. So I guess it's finding what brings
Speaker 1: you joy. It doesn't have to be anything extravagant, like
Speaker 1: it can literally just be something that's five minutes that
Speaker 1: brings joy to your morning routine. Because when you think
Speaker 1: about it, like life's too short to not enjoy your
Speaker 1: every single day. And I understand if you don't enjoy
Speaker 1: work during the day or anything like that, but it's
Speaker 1: so simple to just bring five minutes of joy to
Speaker 1: yourself in the morning. I think you'd be surprised how
Speaker 1: much you can really change your mood. So yeah, that
Speaker 1: is like the five blocks that I always included my
Speaker 1: morning routine. Obviously, I do want to preface this with
Speaker 1: you know, these things don't happen every single day. I
Speaker 1: would be completely lying if I said that, Like things
Speaker 1: come up and I have to deal with something and
Speaker 1: get straight on my laptop and you know, miss out
Speaker 1: the joy or the connection. But for me, it's just
Speaker 1: striving for these things every single day and they usually happen,
Speaker 1: and I do notice a massive difference. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to wrap up the episode now. I hope you enjoyed that,
Speaker 1: and I hope maybe you reflected on your current morning
Speaker 1: routine and just had a like I think about if
Speaker 1: you could change anything or add something in. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm all about adding things into your daily life. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed this episode and I'll see you
Speaker 1: in my next one. Also, let me know if you
Speaker 1: enjoyed this kind of like mini podcast just talking about
Speaker 1: one topic, because I want to do more, like I've
Speaker 1: said priefly, but let me know. I hope you have
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