1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Hello there, it's Amantha. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 2: I'm currently on a Christmas break, so I've handpicked a 3 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:09,119 Speaker 2: bunch of my favorite episodes from the last year to 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 2: share with you. 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: Okay, on with today's best of episode. 6 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 2: Did you exercise this morning or are you planning on 7 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 2: exercising later today? Or maybe you're doing your exercise right 8 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 2: now with me in your ear, or maybe you just 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 2: told yourself that you didn't have time. 10 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: Now. 11 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 2: How I Work has not turned into a health and 12 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 2: fitness podcast, but today I want to talk about some 13 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 2: call tools to improve your health. I place a huge 14 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,840 Speaker 2: value on my health. It's actually my number one priority 15 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 2: because if you're not healthy, chances are you are a 16 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 2: whole lot less productive. My name is doctor Amantha INMBA. 17 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 2: I'm an organizational psychologist and founder of behavioral science consultancy Inventium, 18 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 2: and this is How I Work, a show about how 19 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 2: to help you do your best work. Long term listeners 20 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 2: of How I Work will know the immense value I 21 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 2: place on my health, because without your health in place. 22 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: I just think you have nothing. If you're not healthy, you. 23 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 2: Can't be a great parent, a great friend, a great daughter, 24 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 2: and so on. 25 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: And you can be sure that your productivity will be 26 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: impacted too. 27 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 2: So let's chat about five tools that I use to 28 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 2: stay healthy. The first one is the Tangram Factory smart rope. 29 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 2: Now I'll be linking to all these in the show notes. 30 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 2: So this is a skipping rope that is smart, so 31 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: it detects how many reps you're doing. I'm a big 32 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 2: fan of skipping, and five times a week I love 33 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 2: doing a short skipping warm up for a few minutes 34 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 2: before my weight training workouts. And as skippers will know, 35 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 2: it's so tedious to count the number of reps that 36 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 2: you do you're skipping, but this smartrope does it for you, 37 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 2: which I find awesome. So I have a little goal 38 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 2: of doing two hundred reps on the skipping rope is 39 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 2: my warm up. The smart rope connects to my phone 40 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 2: via Bluetooth to a specific app and accounts it for me, 41 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 2: which I love. So I've been using that for about 42 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 2: a year. It's super reliable and I would find it 43 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 2: really hard to go back to using. 44 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: A normal rope. 45 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 2: The next tool I want to talk about is one 46 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 2: of the newer things that I've added to my repertoire, 47 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 2: and that is the Whoop band. So Whop. I discovered 48 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 2: Woop because it made Fast Companies Most Innovative Companies list 49 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 2: this year. 50 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: So Whoop is a wearable device. 51 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 2: It's basically a band made out of fabric that you 52 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 2: wear on your wrist. It's waterproof and it only needs 53 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 2: to be charged every five days, and it's designed to 54 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 2: basically optimize the way that you sleep and the way 55 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 2: that you train. The Woop band is unusual in that 56 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 2: it's got no screen on it. It's just a band, 57 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 2: so in order to understand the data that it's getting 58 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,959 Speaker 2: from you, you need to actually open up the Woop 59 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 2: mobile app to check it out. So Woop tracks a 60 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 2: few things that tracks heart rate variability, resting heart rate, 61 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 2: your sleep and your respiratory rate. And with these particular markets, 62 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,839 Speaker 2: it can assess how well you're sleeping. Your sleep efficiency 63 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 2: optimizes how much time you need to be spending in bed, 64 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 2: and based on this data and your activity levels from 65 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 2: the day before, it calculates ideally how hard you should 66 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 2: push yourself the following day, or whether perhaps you need 67 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 2: to schedule a recovery date. 68 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: And then you could run mini. 69 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 2: Experiments with yourself to see how doing certain things like 70 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 2: maybe having a glass of wine at night impacts your sleep, 71 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 2: although you probably already know the answer to that one. 72 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 2: So there's heaps of data, and the more that you 73 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 2: use it, the more useful the data becomes because it 74 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 2: starts to set baselines and averages, and interestingly, I was 75 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 2: reading that it's actually very accurate a predicting whether you 76 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 2: have COVID, So there you go. 77 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: That's whoop. Now the next thing. 78 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 2: I have been using an Apple Watch for many years, 79 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 2: but something that used to frustrate me about my Apple 80 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 2: Watch is that I have a goal of doing at 81 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 2: least ten thousand steps a day, but you can't actually 82 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 2: set that up on your home screen to have the 83 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 2: number of steps that you've done on the standard Apple 84 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 2: Watch setup. 85 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: But there is a. 86 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 2: Workaround, and that is with the Pedometer plus plus app. 87 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 2: So if you install that particular app on your phone, 88 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 2: you can then set the home screen of your Apple 89 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 2: Watch to show how many steps that you've done. And 90 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 2: I find this little workaround very, very useful because it 91 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 2: helps me just make sure that I build in regular 92 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 2: movement to my day to day to reach my goal, 93 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 2: which is a good segue into the next thing I 94 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 2: want to talk about, which is the walking pad, pro 95 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 2: treadmill and Ergo desk automatic standing dep So this is 96 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 2: a treadmill desk, and I mentioned it in the episode 97 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 2: that I did about my ultimate home office setup. Now 98 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 2: I don't use this as my main work desk, but 99 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 2: I have a second workstation at home, and I think 100 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 2: of this as my movement desk where I've got my 101 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 2: old laptop set up that I only use now when 102 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,559 Speaker 2: I travel on rare occasions and I can basically walk 103 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 2: and work at the same time, or if I'm doing 104 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 2: phone meetings. I have a general rule where I will 105 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 2: always walk if I'm doing phone meetings or move in 106 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 2: some way. 107 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: And this is really handy. That's desk because now. 108 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 2: I can take notes on my laptop while I walk 109 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 2: on the treadmill, which is super cool. 110 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: And again it just helps me move. 111 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 2: And stay healthy during my work day, which if I 112 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 2: don't try to build in all these habits, can be 113 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 2: very sedentary because I am a classic desk worker. Now, 114 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 2: the final tool I want to talk about is something 115 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 2: to stay mentally healthy. And this is a company that 116 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 2: I love called Magic Puzzle Company. So I discovered them 117 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 2: through their kickstart a campaign where they launch three jigsaw 118 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 2: puzzles that each have a secret when you get to 119 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 2: the end, and I'm not going to tell you what 120 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 2: that secret is, but it's very cool. I'm onto the 121 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 2: third of the three puzzles now, and I can tell 122 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 2: you I'm going to be very depressed when I finish 123 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 2: this last one because they've been such a joy for 124 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 2: myself and my seven year old daughter Frankie to do together. 125 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 2: They're one thousand pieces and they're very very challenging, I 126 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,119 Speaker 2: will say, and they've become a mainstay on my dining 127 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 2: room table, so whenever family and friends come to visit, 128 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 2: they're always invited to contribute to doing the jigsaw puzzles. 129 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 1: I think the jigsaw puzzles are such a great way 130 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: to stretch your brain. 131 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 2: And I also find that I get into chicksaw flow 132 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 2: quite easily and I just love it. 133 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 1: So I don't know what. 134 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 2: I'm going to do when I finish this third puzzle, 135 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 2: but the mas Chick Puzzle company who created these jigsaws 136 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 2: are working on the next series, so stay. 137 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 1: Tuned for that. 138 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 2: So those are five tools that I use to stay healthy. 139 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 2: That is it for today's show. If you have been 140 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 2: loving how I work, you might also enjoy MoMA MIA's podcast, 141 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 2: Ladies Startup Stories. Each week, Georgia Love, who you might 142 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 2: remember from The Bachelorette, sits down with female entrepreneurs to 143 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 2: ask how they've built their businesses. Georgia recently sat down 144 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 2: with Michelle Battersby, the woman who helped launch the dating 145 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 2: app Bumble into Australia. But Michelle isn't here to talk Bumble. 146 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 2: She is actually co founding an app called Sunroom, so 147 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 2: she joins Georgia to talk about why she left a 148 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 2: very secure job to go out on her own and 149 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 2: why she thought Sunroom was worth taking a risk on. 150 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: Here's a little snippet. 151 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 3: It's crazy to say, Ellie, Lucy and I have never 152 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 3: met each other in real life. 153 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: Wow wow. Yeah. 154 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 3: So they're both in the States and I'm here. So 155 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 3: the company is actually based in la and I'm moving 156 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 3: over there in a month. But it's very twenty two. 157 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 3: We've co founded a business without ever meeting each other 158 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 3: in real life, and I think it's been an advantage 159 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 3: because it meant that Lucy could pick the skill sets 160 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 3: that she needed and then go and find those people. 161 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 3: But we did this thing called a co founder dating 162 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 3: questionnaire and I think it was around seventy five questions, 163 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 3: and it gets into some really deep stuff, things like 164 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 3: can one co founder fire another? Would you prefer to 165 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 3: own eight percent of a billion dollar company or eighty 166 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 3: percent of a one hundred million dollar company? Big goal 167 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 3: type stuff, but questions you really should be asking your 168 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 3: co founders and things you really should know about each 169 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,680 Speaker 3: other before you decide to enter a business, like what 170 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 3: is the worst interpersonal conflict you've ever dealt with? 171 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: What makes you feel stressed? How do you deal with stress? 172 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: Have you ever dealt with depression? 173 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,839 Speaker 3: Like a lot of big questions, And we did a 174 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 3: couple of sessions or going through how we'd answered these 175 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,839 Speaker 3: questions to really get to know one another. And our 176 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 3: values were just so aligned, where three actually very different people, 177 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 3: but our values are all the same. And yeah, it's 178 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 3: crazy to think that we have never been in the 179 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 3: same room and we just closed a pre seed and 180 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 3: are about to launch an up. 181 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:24,679 Speaker 1: Hello. There, that is it for today's show. 182 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,679 Speaker 2: If you enjoyed today's episode, why not share it with 183 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 2: someone else that you think would benefit and maybe get 184 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 2: some useful tips to improve the way that they work. 185 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,680 Speaker 2: Hell I Work is produced by Inventi and with production 186 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 2: support from Dead Set Studios. And thank you to Martin 187 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 2: Nimbus who does the audio mix for every show and 188 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 2: makes everything sound so much better than it would have otherwise. 189 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: See you next time.