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Chelsea Pottenger: Caring for our mental health.

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From fast paced high flying corporate, to new mum then nine weeks later in a psychiatric ward. Faced with a choice to go back to her old life of ‘rise and grind’, Chelsea Pottenger chose to learn and grow and change her life for the better.

She founded EQ Minds which has a goal to empower people to take care of their own mental health – and have trained over ONE MILLION Australians and given them the tools to look after their mental well being.

There’s lots to love about this episode and we hope that after listening to this, you might just love yourself a little more.

Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify… or just about anywhere!

Find out more about Chelsea and EQ Minds:

https://www.instagram.com/chelseapottengerofficial

https://www.eqminds.com/

Chelsea Pottenger interview trailer with The Do Landers

Chelsea Pottenger Interview transcript


Hey, Chelsea Pottinger, welcome to The Do Landers. Thanks for joining us. How are you?

I’m fantastic, Blake and Nick, thanks for having me today on the show.

Look, we always love to start by asking our guests. It’s a it’s a really broad question, but who are you and what do you do?

So probably the best place to start is kind of my story an how I ended up as the founder EQ minds. So I was working you know in a corporate high flying job. Like a lot of people out there. I was in a cycle of 12 hour days rise and grind alcohol after work, triple shock that whites you know pounding the pavement to exercise. Everything was really fast paced. And then in 2015 after trying for six years, I gave birth to our daughter Clara and was so elated.


And then nine weeks later, I wasin a psych ward, you know, fighting for my life, suffering, depression. Yeah. So, you know, when you end up there, when I
was lying in that hospital, I was given a choice. I suppose I could go back to the same lifestyle before my mental illness or I could really learn and and grow from this gift. So I decided to move back, you know, move out of Sydney. I moved to a small town on the South Coast of NSW. I went back to university to study Psychology because I didn’t want anyone else to end up in the same place as what I had and then found out EQ Minds in 2016 with the with the mission really to empower and educate people to take care of their mental health. And and to date Blake and Nik we are very proud to say we’ve trained 1,000,000 Australians and given them thetools to look after their mental wellbeing.

It’s been awhile journey we are. We’ve, we’ve been absolutely flat out since we launched the company and it’s been so, so joyful to be honest because we train the biggest brands, but we also train amazing small businesses as well and it makes that time of that post natal depression with this. I look back on that now to be honest with a sense of gratefulness because without that, without that adversity I would never be here.

And you know within this job and having this impact work. So I feel grateful and all weird kind of way that that happened to me.

We’ll dig into it a little bit further, but hey, on The Do Landers, we’ve got this Health Quest, right? So what what we’re trying to do is live forever. Sorry,
we’re trying to live. We are trying to live forever. Yes. And I mean, I’m 93 and Nik’s 87, so we’re doing OK. But Chelsea, where we’ve got an audience of, you know, people that are 35 to 55, you know, parents got families, if you think about COVID, right? We were trapped in this place, in our places.

You know months and months if not years on end now covid over and the the doors have opened and people have charged out going Oh my God I missed out on this I missed out on that I missed out on all of these things and our rate of doing has lifted exponentially and we’re just busy flat out crazy crazy you think we would have learned but we’re you know out of control busy when you from your perspective and what you’ve learnt through.

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Everything that you’ve gone
through and what you’re

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educating people on, what’s your
advice on how do we best look

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after ourselves so that we can
be our best at life and work now

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that we’re back out into the
open?

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Yeah, it’s a great question,
Blake. And, and we see this a

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lot. And I always say to people,
you know, the three reasons why

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I see CEO’s, founders,
entrepreneurs, corporate

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professionals, mums, dads, uni
students, why they burn out is

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for three reasons. One, it’s a
lack of focus on themselves. So

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if you get to invest into the
vessel, you know, the mental

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health and the physical health.

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Two it’s a like a boundaries
like people forget and don’t

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know really how to say no but
doing it in a really kind of

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nice way to protect themselves.
And three as you’re just

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mentioning people going to beast
mode like too often right where

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you just try and tick off
everything on your To Do List at

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almost the detriment to your own
health and well being and your

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relationships within the family.
So you know the gallop results

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for 2020 two reported that
nearly 50% of Aussies are face.

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Facing moderate stress, right,
every single day. And one of the

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best things that I think you
know, it’s obviously getting the

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pillars everyone knows about,
you know, the pillars of good

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health and well being. It’s your
sleep is like the elixir of your

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life. It’s like good nutrition.
It’s kind of like Whole Foods.

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It’s movement daily. It’s some
form of stress management tool.

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But something that I think that
is kind of the unsung hero is

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really kind of investing in
these mini retirements. And what

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I mean by that is so often we,
we chase these big goals.

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Uh, for what, right? For
financial security and

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commercially take us to
retirement years and then we get

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there. And if we get, because
we’ve gotten to look after the

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vessel, we’re just like
completely burnt out or a lot of

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us don’t even make it to that,
to that decade of actually

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living this retirement
lifestyle. And so I always say

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to people’s life, you know, life
is temporal and life we need to

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be enjoying this journey. And
and So what I always recommend

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to people is to kind of invest
in these many retirements, which

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is where you just take regular.

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Strikes and you have something
to look forward to. So I always

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find the six week Mark is a good
good mark of time. And I always

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encourage people at the start of
the year flick open your

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calendar and just book in your
regular breaks and so it doesn’t

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need to be expensive. You don’t
need to fly go skiing somewhere

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or it could just be that weekend
you go camping and what happens

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on that 6th week break is that 2
weeks before you take that break

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right you are. You ask anyone
you know Blake and Nick, how

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they sound.

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In there, you know going on a
holiday, they they sound

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chipper, right? And it
you off when you’re not. When

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you don’t have a break coming
up, you’re like so annoying

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because they get a natural
serotonin release, right? Then

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anticipate anticipation of the
holiday, then they go on the

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break, then they come back. Some
people might experience post

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holiday Blues, but don’t worry,
six weeks from there you’ve got

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another break scheduled in. And
so once you get these natural

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serotonin releases throughout
the year 2, you’ve got this

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great longevity.

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You know, you you both are
saying I wanna live forever.

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This is a a great strategy to be
able to do that. And three, when

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you’re taking these breaks, I’m
going to, you know, share

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something wild. I I really
encourage people to just to go

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off tech during that period of
time and just kind of switch off

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from the world. So then you can
really switch back on here on

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the inside. And the people that
are on that break with you, they

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get a very mindful version of
you and I cannot tell you until

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you try it.

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How recharging that is because
when you get back from that

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break.

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You’ve got you fully there, like
if you recharge the the battery

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pack again and so that’s kind of
what I encourage people to do

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and then you can go into the
beast mode if you want to cause

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you got these shorter sharper
breaks coming up into your

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calendar.

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Thought well I’ve got a question
on this this beast mode thing

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which I love by the way. I’m
asking for a friend has love,

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his hypothetical person asking
for a friend.

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Who seems to be always in Beast
mode and you sort of think,

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well, I can’t get off now, I
can’t get off the treadmill.

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It’s almost like you caught
yourself in your own rat race.

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What is your best strategy to
actually start?

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The process of saying no and and
decoupling yourself from the

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commitments that you’ve got
yourself into. And sorry, just

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before you answer that, can I
extend on that? Cause I think

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like if you talk about your
history, Chelsea, you had a

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moment, you had a big moment
PDSD, there’s lots of people

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running around that don’t have
that big moment but are in base

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moment based mode 100% of the
time.

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What’s your advice? So I think
you know circling in on both of

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those sort of questions. One
thing and we’ve all got our own

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bag are busy right. I I love
beast mode like as a part of my

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personality. It always has been
you know triple type, a high

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functioning personality. I am at
Uni, I have a company, I am a

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mum, right. So we’ve all got our
own bag of busy out there but

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what I cannot have happen is for
me to have a mental health

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relapse or for me to not enjoy
the journey.

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And so something around, you
know, sitting these really clear

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boundaries because productivity
is, it’s kind of this bizarre,

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um, people always think, you
know, you gotta sacrifice your

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sleep to get more done. You
can’t take those brain breaks on

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every sort of 90 minute cycle
during the day because you just

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got too much going on. But if
you don’t do that, the brain,

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which is a muscle, right? It’s
not a computer system, it just

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burns out. So we end up becoming
more unproductive, we end up

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multitasking ourselves into
inefficiency and then we just

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make mistakes.

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And so it’s kind of like we
actually need these things to be

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a hive, you know, a mindful high
performer. We need these breaks

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in the day and these boundary
set so we can get more juice out

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of the brain. So one way that I
really love and something that

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I’ve learned in my own life,
because I was the yes wing

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woman, you know, I was
everyone’s yes person. If they

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needed someone at the party,
Chelsea Pottinger was there. If

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they need to pick my brains, I’m
there if you know.

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That’s almost at the detriment
to your own mental health and

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you have own wellbeing. So I was
speaking to a couple of my

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business mentors who are just
legends in their own right and

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they, I was talking to them
about this sort of conundrum

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that I was having. And they’re
like you really need to learn

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00:10:52.766 –> 00:10:56.100
how to say no, but doing it a
really kind way. And it’s been

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the most empowering thing that
I’ve learned the last couple of

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years. So I’m like the no guru
these days. So there’s a bit of

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a formula to it. We kind of set
it up together and my mentors.

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00:11:06.510 –> 00:11:09.671
Crafted it out. I took it to
university, made sure you know

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00:11:09.671 –> 00:11:12.780
psychologically it wasn’t
hurting anyone. I just asked one

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00:11:12.780 –> 00:11:16.205
of my lecturers and like is this
framework OK? And so I can give

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00:11:16.205 –> 00:11:19.630
that to you if you want for your
audience. And I set up an email

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00:11:19.630 –> 00:11:23.108
right just on my computer system
because of email efficiency hack

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00:11:23.108 –> 00:11:26.428
to be honest. So it’s just more
productive. So it’s just like,

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you know, number one when
someone comes and asks me for

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00:11:29.379 –> 00:11:32.540
something, can you be on our
podcast going to interview for

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00:11:32.540 –> 00:11:35.754
this kind of pick your brains?
Can you help me out with this

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00:11:35.754 –> 00:11:36.440
client pitch.

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Whatever it is.

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One, whoever that person comes
to you, you need to obviously in

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00:11:41.224 –> 00:11:44.530
the email saying, you know, hey
Blake, thanks for thinking of me

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00:11:44.530 –> 00:11:47.785
for this opportunity. Alright,
so you need to thank that person

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00:11:47.785 –> 00:11:51.040
because it’s really important to
them. And then #2, you need to

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00:11:51.040 –> 00:11:54.244
let that person know what’s on
your plate. If we just say that

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00:11:54.244 –> 00:11:57.245
we’re busy, people have got zero
idea of what busy is, OK,

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00:11:57.245 –> 00:12:00.194
especially, you know what,
everyone’s bag of busy is just

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so different. So you kind of
need to list it out, you know?

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00:12:03.246 –> 00:12:06.399
I’d love to help you out with
insert the requests or whatever

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00:12:06.399 –> 00:12:07.619
they’re asking from you.

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However, this is currently what
I’ve got my plate at the moment.

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00:12:11.331 –> 00:12:14.313
I I’ve got, I’m at university
doing exams. I’ve got two

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00:12:14.313 –> 00:12:17.721
keynotes a day. I’m interviewing
these people on podcasts. I’m,

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00:12:17.721 –> 00:12:21.076
you know, being a mum. So you
just gotta list those priorities

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00:12:21.076 –> 00:12:24.112
out for that person so they
know, right? And then #3 the

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00:12:24.112 –> 00:12:27.307
next little paragraph and say
this is, you know, for people

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00:12:27.307 –> 00:12:30.555
who are in a corporate job and
it’s their boss coming to ask

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00:12:30.555 –> 00:12:33.910
them for something and they’re
just completely maxed out. So I

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00:12:33.910 –> 00:12:36.679
think this is really important
mainly for corporate

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00:12:36.679 –> 00:12:38.810
professionals who are listening,
going.

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How’s my boss? I can’t say no to
them. So what you need to do is

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00:12:42.375 –> 00:12:45.457
you need to reestablish the
business priorities, right? So

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00:12:45.457 –> 00:12:48.643
you need to go back to them
going, OK. If what you’re asking

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00:12:48.643 –> 00:12:51.777
from me is more important,
right, more vital than currently

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00:12:51.777 –> 00:12:54.964
what I’ve got on my list, I’m
happy to take it on because we

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are, because it’s better for the
business goals. However, please

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00:12:58.359 –> 00:13:01.441
let me know what I need to
delegate off and to potentially

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00:13:01.441 –> 00:13:04.679
and to whom, so they know that
you need to reschedule, right?

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Sort of reshuffle the list and
then tip #4 and this is the kind

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of the last sentence.

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People who get FOMO, right, they
fear that they’re gonna miss out

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00:13:12.770 –> 00:13:16.079
on something. They fear that
they’re doing a career limiting

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00:13:16.079 –> 00:13:19.063
move. They fear that that
person’s ever gonna ask them

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00:13:19.063 –> 00:13:22.427
again for another opportunity.
This is for you. Next time you

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00:13:22.427 –> 00:13:25.899
do insert the request, I’d love
to help you out. I’d love to be

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00:13:25.899 –> 00:13:29.262
there, whatever that is, right?
So they now know that this is

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not a no forever. It’s just a no
right now. And to be honest, you

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know people aren’t going to like
you any less for saying no.

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00:13:36.152 –> 00:13:39.244
They’re going to really respect
that you’ve got your own

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00:13:39.244 –> 00:13:40.329
boundaries in place.

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And I think we just gotta be
kinder to ourselves, you know,

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00:13:43.711 –> 00:13:46.531
we can’t be everything to
everyone. And that framework,

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00:13:46.531 –> 00:13:49.753
whether it’s an email template,
I’ve got in my notes section as

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00:13:49.753 –> 00:13:52.925
well my phone so I can decline
social events when I’m just too

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00:13:52.925 –> 00:13:55.947
flat out. You know, your friends
understand, right, that if

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00:13:55.947 –> 00:13:59.169
you’re saying that you’re gonna
turn up to the next dinner date

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00:13:59.169 –> 00:14:02.140
or the next lunch, that they
know that they’re getting the

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00:14:02.140 –> 00:14:05.262
best version of you too, right?
You’re turning up with really

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00:14:05.262 –> 00:14:08.132
good energy. And so I think
saying no is one of the best

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00:14:08.132 –> 00:14:10.600
things to protect yourself,
right? Particularly.

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Beast mode people, you need to
get your own stuff done. You

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00:14:13.472 –> 00:14:16.255
need to get your own **** done
for the day. If you’re doing

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00:14:16.255 –> 00:14:19.084
everyone else’s stuff, you’re
working till midnight and it’s

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00:14:19.084 –> 00:14:20.290
just it’s not fair on you.

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That’s a it’s a great call out.
I was actually listening to a

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00:14:25.492 –> 00:14:30.065
podcast earlier this morning and
the guy was talking about Jomo,

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00:14:30.065 –> 00:14:34.005
the joy of missing out. So
saying no and then going you

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00:14:34.005 –> 00:14:38.227
know what, how good is this?
I’ve got this time or this, my

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00:14:38.227 –> 00:14:42.589
head’s in feel straight because
I’ve parked that other stuff.

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00:14:42.589 –> 00:14:46.600
Hey Chelsea, just in terms of
some practical advice, so.

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00:14:48.270 –> 00:14:53.749
Nicks in base mode. He wakes up.
It’s Monday morning, it’s 5:30.

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00:14:53.749 –> 00:14:59.144
He’s on his stationary bike in
his garage. He’s got three kids,

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00:14:59.144 –> 00:15:00.829
3 lunches to make 3.

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00:15:02.300 –> 00:15:06.787
Kids to get to school. He’s got
he’s he’s his own boss. But he’s

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00:15:06.787 –> 00:15:11.206
got 85 things that he’s gotta do
this week from your experience

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00:15:11.206 –> 00:15:15.555
that start to the day like that
morning routine. How do we set

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00:15:15.555 –> 00:15:19.974
ourselves up for life and work
success. Yeah. That’s a you know

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00:15:19.974 –> 00:15:24.186
Nick I feel your pain. That’s
it’s a real it’s a real thing.

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00:15:24.186 –> 00:15:28.052
Right. Being pulled from pillar
to post. So I think the

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00:15:28.052 –> 00:15:32.125
beautiful thing about being a
human being is that every 24

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00:15:32.125 –> 00:15:32.539
hours.

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00:15:32.620 –> 00:15:35.937
You get to start fresh, right?
It’s a fresh slate whenever you

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00:15:35.937 –> 00:15:39.202
wake up. And so often when I see
across the board, across the

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00:15:39.202 –> 00:15:42.361
globe is that 8085% of people
pick up their phone first up.

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00:15:42.361 –> 00:15:45.679
And so there’s some really easy
wins we can get in the morning

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00:15:45.679 –> 00:15:48.891
to set the tone right for the
day, because I can promise you

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00:15:48.891 –> 00:15:52.050
right now, for those that are
listening, the way you set up

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00:15:52.050 –> 00:15:55.473
those first few minutes will set
the tone for your whole day. So

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00:15:55.473 –> 00:15:58.948
here’s some practical things you
can do as of tomorrow morning to

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00:15:58.948 –> 00:16:01.739
get yourself in the right
headspace to optimise your

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00:16:01.739 –> 00:16:02.740
energy to give you.

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00:16:02.810 –> 00:16:06.563
Good clarity, right, and good
focus for the day. So number

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00:16:06.563 –> 00:16:10.762
one, when you wake up a, if your
alarm clock sounds like this, if

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00:16:10.762 –> 00:16:14.770
that’s you, I need you to change
that sound straight away, OK?

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00:16:15.980 –> 00:16:18.880
You’re fooling yourself from
like this. You know, beautiful

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00:16:18.880 –> 00:16:21.925
delta brain waves sleep straight
up into beta brain wave, very

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00:16:21.925 –> 00:16:25.018
high stress, so kind of jolting
your way into the morning #2. I

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00:16:25.018 –> 00:16:27.967
love field. Just to stick the
phone down, don’t don’t cheque

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00:16:27.967 –> 00:16:31.109
out for the 1st 8 to 10 minutes.
What we see, you know in in the

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00:16:31.109 –> 00:16:34.057
science is that the brain is
very vulnerable to whatever you

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00:16:34.057 –> 00:16:37.006
consuming off your phone in
those first few minutes when you

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00:16:37.006 –> 00:16:40.148
wake up. So as you can imagine,
you know, you wake up, you see a

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00:16:40.148 –> 00:16:43.193
news feed, there’s a murder on
the news feed and it stimulates

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00:16:43.193 –> 00:16:45.899
this huge amount of stress,
right? The amygdala and the

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00:16:45.899 –> 00:16:46.190
brain.

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00:16:46.270 –> 00:16:49.581
They get very reactive. You get
cortisol, the adrenal glands

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00:16:49.581 –> 00:16:53.056
will start pumping up, some open
nepheline because the brain is

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00:16:53.056 –> 00:16:55.825
very vulnerable, very
neuroplastic. In the morning

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00:16:55.825 –> 00:16:59.028
it’ll start to fart noise and
haptic Connexions for things

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00:16:59.028 –> 00:17:02.557
like fear and worry and paranoia
and stress. And we haven’t even

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00:17:02.557 –> 00:17:05.760
jumped down in bed yet, right?
We just seen this scrolling

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00:17:05.760 –> 00:17:09.072
away. So I think that number one
is if they can just put the

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00:17:09.072 –> 00:17:12.383
phone down and instead inside
their mind, just lay there and

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00:17:12.383 –> 00:17:15.804
just think about a few things
that you’re grateful for. Always

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00:17:15.804 –> 00:17:16.130
say 5.

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Because that gives that person
kind of a 32nd cycle of really

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beautiful serotonin release,
which is the happy chemical,

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00:17:22.698 –> 00:17:25.426
right? So it’s sitting in
cortisone adrenaline and

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starting the day that way with
that lens. I always say to

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people, I want you to own those
first eight minutes, and you set

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00:17:32.005 –> 00:17:35.321
it up how you see fit. Do not
let the world in to dictate how

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you should start your day. You
set it up how you see fit. These

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are the five things that I’m
grateful for. It’s kind of like

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to be in awe, right? The fact
that we are these tiny ants on

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this tiny planet.

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In his tiny Galaxy, we are so
small in this journey, we should

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wake up every morning in all
going, Oh my gosh, I can’t

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00:17:53.310 –> 00:17:56.903
believe I’m alive today. So
that’s a beautiful way to set it

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up instead. And then a couple of
other quick wins, you know, get

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00:18:00.733 –> 00:18:04.385
up, brush your teeth with the
opposite hand. It’s a beautiful

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00:18:04.385 –> 00:18:07.802
way to stimulate dexterity in
the brain. It’s a beautiful

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mindful task. So that also
really helps, you know, keep the

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00:18:11.336 –> 00:18:14.871
brain young, then go smash a
huge glass of water, everyone,

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00:18:14.871 –> 00:18:16.580
before you hit up your first.

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Coffee because the brain, like,
we all sweat when we sleep. I

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know that sounds disgusting, but
isn’t it? Right? OK yeah. You’re

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00:18:24.127 –> 00:18:27.457
not alone. We’re not alone.
We’re all sweating at night.

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00:18:27.457 –> 00:18:31.138
We’re all breathing. We wake up
really dehydrated, our brains,

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00:18:31.138 –> 00:18:34.760
like 75% water. So before we hit
up our first long black, you

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00:18:34.760 –> 00:18:38.499
know, it’s really important to
to chug a really big, nice glass

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00:18:38.499 –> 00:18:42.121
of water to rehydrate the brain
and the system. And then, you

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00:18:42.121 –> 00:18:45.567
know, the day kind of begins,
right, if you can squeeze in

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movement in the morning.

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It’s amazing. If you can do a
hot shower followed by cold

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00:18:50.077 –> 00:18:53.168
water shower, that’s fantastic
for the brain. There’s some

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other winds you can do there,
but what always I don’t

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overwhelm the audience. I just
say, if you can just concentrate

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00:18:59.348 –> 00:19:02.334
tomorrow morning on not looking
at your phone, you know,

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00:19:02.334 –> 00:19:05.476
brushing your teeth in the
opposite hand and then hydrating

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00:19:05.476 –> 00:19:08.933
your system with a huge glass of
water, that right there would be

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00:19:08.933 –> 00:19:12.180
sensational. That would be game
changing for people’s morning

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00:19:12.180 –> 00:19:12.600
routine.

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I have a question for you. What
if instead of hearing the beep

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beep beep as your alarm clock,
you hear dead?

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I remember those days. And,
look, I think if you’re hearing

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those beautiful, uh, kids waking
you up, I always say to people,

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bring them on their journey,
right. They wake you up. They

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kind of jolt you out. And here
we are, we’re up. And 5:00 AM

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what I used to do with Clara
when she was, you know, two

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years old and she was walking
into the room to tap me on the

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head that she was awake. I would
take her out to the chalkboard

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and just start that gratitude
practise with her. And so, you

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00:19:48.663 –> 00:19:51.960
know, we had a blackboard in the
kitchen and he always said.

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Sweetie, you know what are you
grateful for this morning? And

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00:19:55.328 –> 00:19:58.669
she’s always say the same three
things when she was that young

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nanny Papa and Pippy the dog and
I’m like, where’s your mum like?

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I literally put myself on top of
the list every morning. Um. But

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kids are sponges and they
observe from their parents. And

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so right now there’s nothing
more sadder for me than seeing

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our little ones out there
develop these negative self

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beliefs. And and suicide is one
of the biggest killers for

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00:20:23.255 –> 00:20:27.463
children in Australia aged 5 to
17 and that that enrages me and

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00:20:27.463 –> 00:20:31.343
makes me so sad on every level
and I think well as parents

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right as their guides through
this life.

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Meditate them. They use tools
and techniques to make their

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life smoother as well.

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OK, you have.

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Had this moment in time. You
flicked the switch. You said I’m

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gonna go out and.

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Help people and you’ve helped
over 1,000,000 people when and

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00:20:53.961 –> 00:20:57.130
we don’t have a lot of time
left. But when you consider.

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The.

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Conversations that you’ve had
with those million people?

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If there were one or two things
that you could leave our

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listeners with to just to focus
on to help them with high

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performance, whatever that shift
from where they are today to

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wherever next. If there were
just one or two things that they

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could do in their life to get
more out of it, what would those

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one or two things be?

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OK, so if you want to be in mine
for high performer in your life,

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00:21:29.646 –> 00:21:33.758
whether that’s at Home, Uni
School, corporate world, it

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starts the night before. I
really do think you know.

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As we get older, well for
everyone really sleep is the

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elixir for our life and and
consistent great sleep.

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It gets quite elusive for people
and they feel like that’s the

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00:21:49.371 –> 00:21:52.471
one thing they can give up to
perform higher, but it’s

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actually the opposite is true.
And if we don’t set ourselves up

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00:21:56.078 –> 00:21:59.629
for a great night’s sleep, then
the next day our resilience is

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00:21:59.629 –> 00:22:03.350
down, our cardiovascular fitness
is down. We’re not consolidating

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00:22:03.350 –> 00:22:06.844
our memories from the day before
and we just start behind. So

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something that really, really is
helpful for people getting them

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00:22:10.508 –> 00:22:13.890
really quality rest would be
some really simple little tips

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00:22:13.890 –> 00:22:15.920
here. One getting off your
screens.

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00:22:16.000 –> 00:22:19.374
Half an hour before bed like
that is just a non-negotiable.

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00:22:19.374 –> 00:22:22.580
We cannot deny that in the
research anymore. It switches

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00:22:22.580 –> 00:22:25.898
off your melatonin, the blue,
red and yellow light. So you

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00:22:25.898 –> 00:22:29.216
know, if you’re watching, you
know, a series on TV, you’re

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00:22:29.216 –> 00:22:32.647
looking at your phone in bed.
Just know that, you know, your

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00:22:32.647 –> 00:22:35.459
brain kind of is 1/2 now
unwinding period, to get

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00:22:35.459 –> 00:22:39.002
yourself into deep sleep. And so
that number one would be that

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00:22:39.002 –> 00:22:42.320
just jumping off your phones
half an hour before bed. Two,

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00:22:42.320 –> 00:22:45.470
don’t drink coffee after 2:00
PM, right? Go hard in the

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00:22:45.470 –> 00:22:45.920
morning.

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Cut it off the two because the
brain, the half life of caffeine

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00:22:49.524 –> 00:22:52.984
will still be circular in the
brain for the next 6 to 8 hours.

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So 2:00 PM’s a good deadline.
And three, when it comes to

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alcohol, a lot of people use it
as a crux right to get

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00:22:59.190 –> 00:23:02.596
themselves off to sleep. If you
have one alcoholic drink, you

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00:23:02.596 –> 00:23:06.001
know, followed by a water chaser
that isn’t too close to bed,

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00:23:06.001 –> 00:23:09.241
your brain seems to be kind of
OK in terms of the deep REM

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00:23:09.241 –> 00:23:12.646
sleep, but if you go 2 drinks
ANOVA, you’re dusted. Like your

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00:23:12.646 –> 00:23:16.051
brain will go berserk on you.
You’re going to wake up, right?

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00:23:16.051 –> 00:23:17.150
You’re going to get.

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Very deep room for the first
part of the night, you’ll wake

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up with a thing called rebound
insomnia. That’s when you go do

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a wee. Then you come back to bed
and you’ll stay in Lightroom and

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toss and turn. Have lots of
dreams. And so I always say to

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people you know, from a mental
health ambassador point of view,

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if you can have, you know, three
to four alcohol free nights

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00:23:35.290 –> 00:23:37.955
during the week, that is
incredible for your brain. If

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00:23:37.955 –> 00:23:40.861
you are going out for a nice
dinner during the week, have a

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00:23:40.861 –> 00:23:43.865
you know, you’re like, I really
want a nice glass of wine? Go

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00:23:43.865 –> 00:23:46.530
the highest quality you can
afford, right? The highest

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00:23:46.530 –> 00:23:47.159
quality less.

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Love on the weekend? Free Ryan.
If you’re at a wedding, you’re

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00:23:50.386 –> 00:23:53.493
at dinner and you step over that
too. Drink raw, I say. Light

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00:23:53.493 –> 00:23:56.350
yourself up, right? You’re not
going to sleep very well.

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00:23:58.500 –> 00:24:03.326
Go your hardest God grace mode.
Go base mode. Yeah. Two or

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00:24:03.326 –> 00:24:04.390
twenty, yeah.

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I like it. Hey, Chelsea, thank
you so much for your time and

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00:24:10.023 –> 00:24:14.291
our listeners, they can pick up
your amazing book, the Mindful

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00:24:14.291 –> 00:24:18.153
high performer. If they wanna
hear more about all of the

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things that that you’ve learned
and that you’ve passed on to

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over 1,000,000 Australians,
where do they find you?

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Thanks so much guys for having
me on todayeqmines.com is our

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website. Also on Instagram at EQ
Mines, we do mental health tips

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and tools and resources up there
every single day. So come and

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join our community. They are
very supportive of. They have

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about, I think close to 100,000
corporate professionals there,

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but there’s mums and dads and
uni students there too. And it’s

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a really supportive community.
So if you need tips and tools

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and resources for performance
and for mental health, we would

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love to see you.

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At that platform.

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Well, thank you Chelsea. You’ve
been amazing. Maybe next time we

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can get you back for we can take
you. We’d love to hear the whole

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story, but you know that I
reckon that’s a long form 2 hour

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chat.

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I would love that. That sounds
great. Thanks so much for having

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me today. Thanks, Chelsea.

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Alright, thank you. I think with
a minute to spare. Look at that

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awesome efficient beast mode.
That’s us. We just get it. Yeah.

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Yeah. Hey, where are you headed?
Who are you talking to?

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Commonwealth Bank. So, yeah,
then I’m back on the road

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tomorrow. So everything’s from
home today and then back on the

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road keynote speaking for the
rest of the week. So, yeah,

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that’s good. I’m not at uni at
the moment, so I’ve got some

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head space to be able to, you
know, do this other stuff, which

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is good.

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But thank you and I’ll announce
tough isn’t it being a small

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business and you know but it’s
it’s very rewarding. It’s a yeah

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hey fun I’ll never go back to
corporate. I’m like never will I

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go back.

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I love it too much. Yeah. Have
I? Thanks for the chat. That was

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unreal. Have a great day, guys.
Thanks, Chelsea. We’ll, we’ll

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shoot you a note once the
episode is ready. And yeah,

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thanks again. Really appreciate
it. Pleasure. And if you need

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social assets, just email the
team. They got photos and stuff

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to use and reshare on our
platforms, too. We will. Great.

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So, Chelsea, have a great day.

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