Speaker 1: Welcome to the Rise and Conquer Podcasts. This podcast is
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Speaker 1: a lawyer turned entrepreneur, co founder of Naked Harvest Supplements,
Speaker 1: and social media personality with a community of over three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand. I grew up believing I had to pursue
Speaker 1: the safe option and fit into a mold others had
Speaker 1: created for me. But then I entered my corporate law
Speaker 1: job and I realized that settling for a reality that
Speaker 1: did I didn't set my soul on fire, was something I
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Speaker 1: what are you waiting for? Let's Rise and Conquer. Hey guys,
Speaker 1: and welcome back to the Rise and Conquer Podcasts. I've
Speaker 1: got a solo app for you today and we're discussing
Speaker 1: body image and diets, and I guess just the power
Speaker 1: of being at war with yourself with body image, it's
Speaker 1: so huge and I really feel like it saturates our
Speaker 1: kind of current environment, especially with social media, and this
Speaker 1: kind of is coming from I wrote a caption on
Speaker 1: my Instagram, I think it was when this episode goes live,
Speaker 1: it will be like the week before. And basically I
Speaker 1: had a whole week off working out and we stopped
Speaker 1: the Naked Harvest Life workouts just for one week. And
Speaker 1: I personally am coming off a bit of burnout, so
Speaker 1: I was just a bit exhausted, needed a week off.
Speaker 1: Also had some stressful things going off that week, and
Speaker 1: I thought, the last thing I want to do is
Speaker 1: put my body through more stress with working out, So
Speaker 1: I just had a week off. So after having the
Speaker 1: week off, I felt so refreshed because, like I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: coming off a bit of burnout, just not feeling the greatest.
Speaker 1: And it was also just like a great reminder because
Speaker 1: that week, like I didn't change my eating, I didn't
Speaker 1: do anything different except I didn't work out, and when I,
Speaker 1: you know, was going to work out, I actually took
Speaker 1: time away would sit in the sun with the dogs
Speaker 1: and journal and whatnot. So it was a super like peaceful,
Speaker 1: RESTful week and it was exactly what I needed because
Speaker 1: I was super stressed that week. And it was such
Speaker 1: a good reminder because then when I kind of was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I've had a good break, I got this like feeling
Speaker 1: of like the will of wanting to work out. So
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I really feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: moving my body and I just had that feeling and
Speaker 1: it was such a good reminder of like when you
Speaker 1: kind of work with your body and like give it
Speaker 1: what it needs, it works with you and it feels
Speaker 1: really right. And so that's just kind of what I
Speaker 1: was explaining the caption, and it kind of made me
Speaker 1: think because I don't know if you guys remember this,
Speaker 1: but like years and years ago, kind of back when
Speaker 1: everyone was in like the thin Spow Fitzbo stage, there
Speaker 1: was a picture of a girl, and she was super real.
Speaker 1: I can't remember her name, just like an instant model girl.
Speaker 1: And there was like the quote on the photo and
Speaker 1: it was like you don't know how good your body
Speaker 1: can actually feel or something like that, and I remember
Speaker 1: the kind of like caption and whatnot was basically like,
Speaker 1: you know, when you start working out and eating healthy
Speaker 1: and lose the weight, you feel amazing and you don't
Speaker 1: know how good it feels and whatnot. And it's funny
Speaker 1: because at that time when I read the caption, I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, that's so true, like when I lost weight,
Speaker 1: I felt amazing and all this sort of thing. And
Speaker 1: then now looking back, it's really funny because I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's just not true because well, I guess like with
Speaker 1: the connotation of that photo being linked to working out
Speaker 1: and having the willpower to keep going and all that
Speaker 1: sort of thing, and I just think it's a bunch
Speaker 1: of bullshit because I've realized back in the day, and
Speaker 1: if you've been listening to this podcast for a while,
Speaker 1: you know, I have a pass of disordered eating and
Speaker 1: over exercising and just basically not being that nice to
Speaker 1: my body and to myself because of this ideal that
Speaker 1: I had to look a certain way, I had to
Speaker 1: be a certain way, and I went to war with
Speaker 1: my body. And like at the time, like it just
Speaker 1: felt so normal and it felt like, oh, everyone does this,
Speaker 1: and I just want to lose a bit of weight,
Speaker 1: so this is what you need to do. But now,
Speaker 1: looking back, like it was just like too much. Like
Speaker 1: I was so like there was no self love, Like
Speaker 1: I was really quiet. The things I, you know, used
Speaker 1: to think in my head and say to myself, it
Speaker 1: was really quite mean and I would never say them
Speaker 1: to anyone else. And I had this really high standard
Speaker 1: of what I expected on myself, and it just was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was all too much. And it's funny because back then,
Speaker 1: like I was, you know, eating less, and I was
Speaker 1: like working out sometimes two times a day and taking
Speaker 1: this and taking that and doing this and that, and
Speaker 1: I really don't look too much different to how I
Speaker 1: do now, And now, like it's just it's not even
Speaker 1: really a thought like the you know, the week that
Speaker 1: I didn't work out, It's not like I noticed I
Speaker 1: put on weight or I lost muscle or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Like it's just that didn't even occur in my head.
Speaker 1: Because I feel like my personal and core belief is
Speaker 1: when I work with my body and I give it
Speaker 1: what it needs, it works back with me and it
Speaker 1: makes me feel refreshed. It makes me feel good. And
Speaker 1: because I no longer am tied to a certain way
Speaker 1: I should look or what not, a certain ideal, like
Speaker 1: I just am so happy in my body and I
Speaker 1: just realized that this hasn't been all the case. And
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people kind of going through
Speaker 1: the same thing, and I guess and also to be honest,
Speaker 1: like sometimes I need this remind to myself, like when
Speaker 1: I had that week off and then how I felt after,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is actually how it's supposed
Speaker 1: to feel, Like I should have taken that week off
Speaker 1: like months ago, if that makes sense. And I think
Speaker 1: it's also real that like our healthy is just going
Speaker 1: to look so much different to everyone else. And the
Speaker 1: reason why I'm so passionate about this, and this is
Speaker 1: the big reason why I wrote the Find You're Healthy,
Speaker 1: a Beginner's Guide to Intuitive Eating ebook which is on
Speaker 1: my website, which I've chatted about a lot. I did
Speaker 1: it maybe like a couple of years ago, and I'm
Speaker 1: just so passionate about it because everyone's healthy is going
Speaker 1: to look so different. And I think if you kind
Speaker 1: of put this pressure on yourself to you know, work
Speaker 1: out five times a week, or to eat this because
Speaker 1: this other person is eating this, or do that and
Speaker 1: stick to the same amount of calories every single day
Speaker 1: and whatnot, it's what you don't realize is just like
Speaker 1: how you do your life and how your body is
Speaker 1: supposed to look and how you're supposed to feel, like,
Speaker 1: it's going to be so different for everyone. But what
Speaker 1: I've kind of realized is when you do find your
Speaker 1: healthy and you find a way where it just feels
Speaker 1: effortless and flowy and easy, and you feel super happy
Speaker 1: in your skin, and you know you like moving and
Speaker 1: you aren't starving yourself and you're just eating amount of
Speaker 1: food that fills you up and that tastes good and
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff, Like it just feels so right.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because I do have my ebook, Find
Speaker 1: Your Healthy that I released a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and someone actually DMed me the other day and they
Speaker 1: were like, hey, like, I just found You'll Find your
Speaker 1: Healthy ebook. I bought it, I loved it. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited to start intuitive eating and we're having a chat
Speaker 1: about that, and then they actually said they were like
Speaker 1: I was thinking, and it's funny because I've been following
Speaker 1: you for a while and I didn't even know you
Speaker 1: had this ebook because you don't really chat about it
Speaker 1: too much. And I was thinking about that, and I
Speaker 1: was like, that is funny because I'm super passionate about
Speaker 1: intuitive eating. It's healthy living. Like you guys know, I
Speaker 1: put out a lot of fitness and health content and
Speaker 1: you know it's an ebook, Like I get money from it.
Speaker 1: There's no reason why I wouldn't want to chat about
Speaker 1: it and for people to buy it. But I realized this,
Speaker 1: and it's because, like I said, like I'm just at
Speaker 1: a point where eating healthy, eating intuitively and living intuitively,
Speaker 1: like it just feels so second nature to me, Like
Speaker 1: I almost don't have to think about it. I don't
Speaker 1: sit there and go, oh, how has intuitive eating gone
Speaker 1: this week or anything like that, Like I just eat
Speaker 1: and it's been like this for a couple of years.
Speaker 1: And so I realized, like previously, my whole world revolved
Speaker 1: around the foods I was eating and the exercise I
Speaker 1: was doing, and like I remember distinctly working out my
Speaker 1: law firm and being like, all right, it's eight am.
Speaker 1: My mid break is going to be at ten am.
Speaker 1: I'm going to have yogurt and berries. Oh I cannot
Speaker 1: wait for this yogan and berries. And then I'd like
Speaker 1: check the clock every thirty minutes, and then after that
Speaker 1: morning tare, I'd be like, oh, I have lunch at twelve,
Speaker 1: I'm going to have it at this time, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to have this. It's this amount of calories. And
Speaker 1: because I was under eating, my body was often looking
Speaker 1: for food and thinking about food, and especially because I
Speaker 1: was doing both of them, of over exercising and under
Speaker 1: eating together, my world very much revolved around what I
Speaker 1: was eating and when I was eating and how much
Speaker 1: I was eating, and it it honestly was like a
Speaker 1: second job, and like, well, not so much a second job,
Speaker 1: but it just took up so much capacity. And I
Speaker 1: talk about this concept a lot of when you diet
Speaker 1: and when you kind of go against your body, it
Speaker 1: does take up so much capacity that you could be
Speaker 1: using elsewhere. So I talk about a lot. My experience
Speaker 1: is I was kind of stagnant for the five or
Speaker 1: four years where I was dieting, and you know, I
Speaker 1: did my law degree and that was great, but I
Speaker 1: didn't really progress in too many areas of my life
Speaker 1: life other than that, because I was so consumed with
Speaker 1: how I looked and what I was eating compared to
Speaker 1: when I got out of diet culture and I started
Speaker 1: intuitive eating. And you'll even notice like my content less
Speaker 1: was about that, you know, like I started this podcast,
Speaker 1: I did the ebook, I did Naked Harvest, and it's
Speaker 1: almost like I'm like, oh my god, what I wasted
Speaker 1: so much time for those you know, four or five years.
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Speaker 1: let's get back into the show. But yeah, so I
Speaker 1: guess I just wanted to touch on this. I feel
Speaker 1: like I've said this all before, but then I'm like,
Speaker 1: I felt like I needed the reminder, So maybe you
Speaker 1: need the reminder. And I guess, you know, there's two
Speaker 1: types of people. If you're kind of listening to this
Speaker 1: and you were me, you know, four or five years ago,
Speaker 1: when you were kind of stuck in diet culture and
Speaker 1: it feels almost like you can't see the way out,
Speaker 1: Like I remember it feeling like this, and I remember thinking,
Speaker 1: oh my god, like this is how it has to
Speaker 1: be for the rest of my life because even if
Speaker 1: I would lose the weight, I could never keep it up,
Speaker 1: and then the cycle would start and it was just
Speaker 1: this huge thing. So if you were there, I guess
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say that things can feel so
Speaker 1: much easier, so much better, and you can just feel
Speaker 1: really amazing in your own body if you kind of
Speaker 1: shift your focus away from being obsessed with you know,
Speaker 1: what you're eating and eating more and just nourishing your
Speaker 1: body and and that sort of thing. And I go
Speaker 1: through the whole process of ditching diet culture and starting
Speaker 1: to intuitive eat in my ebook, which I will put
Speaker 1: the link if you guys want to check out. It's
Speaker 1: only twenty five dollars. And then also if you want
Speaker 1: to go further than that, there's definitely some books. I
Speaker 1: recommend The Fuck It Diet by Caroline June. I actually
Speaker 1: did an episode with her, so you can go find
Speaker 1: that too if you want. And another book is Just
Speaker 1: Eat It, and I think the author is Laura Thomas.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll link I'll get Grace to link that too.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if you're kind of at that stage, like
Speaker 1: I guess, that's my sort of recommend chat for you.
Speaker 1: But then if you're kind of closer to where I
Speaker 1: am now, I did want to say, like, it's not
Speaker 1: an end destination where you're like, oh, I intuitive eat,
Speaker 1: I intuitively listen to my body. Everything's all great now,
Speaker 1: Like I said, like I needed that reminder myself, and
Speaker 1: I think especially because our body's always changing, like you know,
Speaker 1: hormone wise, and you know, with stress and all that
Speaker 1: sort of thing, it's not like you know what your
Speaker 1: body's like and that's it. You do have to constantly
Speaker 1: be learning and listening to it and sort of that
Speaker 1: side of things. So yeah, I guess I just wanted
Speaker 1: to pop into your feeds today and say, because I
Speaker 1: know this is going to go out on a Tuesday,
Speaker 1: you know, if it's the start of the week, and
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you went out and had some drinks
Speaker 1: and ate and whatnot on the weekend and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I should be good and I should go on a
Speaker 1: diet and all that sort of stuff. Like, honestly, guys,
Speaker 1: stuff that you were so much bigger than going on
Speaker 1: a diet to control your weight, Like, just trust me
Speaker 1: on that this it doesn't need to be as big
Speaker 1: as you're thinking it needs to be if you were
Speaker 1: me when I thought it needed to be big. And
Speaker 1: then also, I think it's realizing that I think my
Speaker 1: journey with my body and just my relationship with food
Speaker 1: and my body like changed when I introduced so like
Speaker 1: more self love. And so I really think if you
Speaker 1: were kind of at a stage where you're super harsh
Speaker 1: on yourself and you're like, you know, calling yourself names,
Speaker 1: or you're you know, thinking, oh, well, the reason why
Speaker 1: I look like this is because you know, I eat this,
Speaker 1: this and this and you almost have like a bit
Speaker 1: of a negative relationship with yourself. I found that I
Speaker 1: had a huge change when I started coming from self
Speaker 1: love and going you know what, like, I'm actually hungry,
Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna eat. And you know, just because
Speaker 1: I don't look like what society says is the beauty
Speaker 1: standard right now doesn't mean I am less worthy than
Speaker 1: any other person. And I think that's a big thing
Speaker 1: to realize, guys, is maybe come back to you know,
Speaker 1: if you have this fitness goal that you're really going for.
Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, like you guys know, I
Speaker 1: love health and fitness. I love working out. I have,
Speaker 1: you know, been through stuff where I've wanted to score
Speaker 1: a certain weight or I wanted to get Leana for
Speaker 1: my wedding and all this sort of thing. So I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna sit here and say, oh, you should never
Speaker 1: like want to look a certain way or want something
Speaker 1: different or to challenge yourself. But I think the energy
Speaker 1: that you go about things matters so much. So if
Speaker 1: you've got this new goal or whatnot, and you're coming
Speaker 1: from a place of negativity because you don't like the
Speaker 1: way you look, or you think you're disgusting or anything
Speaker 1: like that, it's just not going to end well. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like when I talk it and this is
Speaker 1: like bit left feel, but it kind of popped my head.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like when I chat about money mindset,
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of like, if you don't have a
Speaker 1: positive money mindset, you know, and you have this mindset
Speaker 1: that you know money is evil and rich people are
Speaker 1: greedy and these like negative thoughts towards money, then you're
Speaker 1: never going to attract money because you don't think it's safe.
Speaker 1: You have this sort of negative thing to it. And
Speaker 1: I think it's very much the same with our body
Speaker 1: and our relationship with food. If you are coming from
Speaker 1: a negative place where you're really hush on yourself and
Speaker 1: you don't like the way you look and all this
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, like I just don't think it's going
Speaker 1: to work. But if you're coming from a place where
Speaker 1: you're like, dude, I'm gonna go for a run because
Speaker 1: I love myself and I love the way it makes
Speaker 1: me feel and I'm looking fucking good today. Sorry I
Speaker 1: shouldn't swear in the podcast. And it's just like it's
Speaker 1: so different, and that's like exactly like when I had
Speaker 1: my week off, Like, yeah, like I was stressed, but
Speaker 1: it's like I still like I still could have worked
Speaker 1: out and been okay. But then I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, Georgie, you deserve a week off. You work
Speaker 1: so bloody hard, you do so many things, you're a badash,
Speaker 1: you're looking really good, or even if you're not looking good,
Speaker 1: Like it's like, that's what I say to myself, even
Speaker 1: when I am bloated on my period and like feeling
Speaker 1: like shit, I would never look at myself in the
Speaker 1: mirror and think, oh, Georgia, you're a mess, you're bloated
Speaker 1: or anything like that. Like I just I don't do
Speaker 1: that anymore because it just is not helpful. And when
Speaker 1: you're coming from a negative place and negative energy, you're
Speaker 1: not going to get positive results. All right, guys, I'm
Speaker 1: going off on a bit of a tangent. I am
Speaker 1: going to wrap it up because this is a little
Speaker 1: solo short up for you. But I hope, ah, you know,
Speaker 1: this is maybe what you needed if you were going
Speaker 1: through the same thing as me, Like if you are
Speaker 1: like this is just like it's such a hectic time
Speaker 1: and heavy time, and just make sure you are looking
Speaker 1: after yourself. Make sure you're nourishing your body and taking rest,
Speaker 1: giving your self love and self care, because it just
Speaker 1: we really need to do it right now and then
Speaker 1: all the time. But yeah, I love you guys so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. I hope you enjoyed
Speaker 1: this episode. Little bit of a PEP talk on your Tuesday.
Speaker 1: And yeah, like I said, if you are interested in
Speaker 1: ditching diet culture and sort of going towards intuitive eating
Speaker 1: and that sort of side, if you're over the diet
Speaker 1: cycle and going back and forth and you kind of
Speaker 1: realize how much time you're wasting with all this sort
Speaker 1: of thing, then definitely check out my ebook, Find Your Healthy.
Speaker 1: It's only twenty five dollars. But also, guys, I do
Speaker 1: have an exciting announcement coming this week. I definitely will
Speaker 1: have a podcast out about it next week, but I
Speaker 1: will kind of be dropping some hints and some links
Speaker 1: and whatnot this week. Super exciting project. It's actually something
Speaker 1: that I thought was going to look very different, and
Speaker 1: it's something I've been working on since the start of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I'm excited it's happening, and I'm really excited
Speaker 1: to tell you guys, So look out for that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: but I hope you guys have a lovely day and
Speaker 1: I will be back in your ears on Friday with
Speaker 1: a very important and interesting conversation. So hope you guys
Speaker 1: tune in, see you later. And that's a wrap on
Speaker 1: another episode of the Rise and Concer Podcast. I hope
Speaker 1: you got something valuable from it, and I want to
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