Tech Exec Wellness Podcast: Conversations to Reignite Your Soul
In the fast-paced world of technology, where innovation and disruption are the norm, tech executives often find themselves caught in a whirlwind of high-pressure decision-making, long working hours, and constant connectivity. The relentless pursuit of success and the demands of their roles can take a toll on their mental, emotional, and physical well-being. However, a new narrative that emphasizes the importance of tech executive wellness as a crucial component of sustainable success is emerging. This is the story of the tech executive's journey to rediscover balance, prioritize well-being, and ultimately thrive in their personal and professional lives.
If you're ready to embark on a wellness journey that will empower you to live your best life, I invite you to subscribe to Tech Exec Wellness, Navigating the Digital Balance, wherever you listen to podcasts. Together, let's cultivate harmony within ourselves and radiate positive energy to the world. Each week, we'll explore a wide range of topics related to wellness, inviting experts, thought leaders, and everyday individuals who have transformed their lives through mindful living, self-care, practices, and holistic approaches. We'll dive deep into areas such as nutrition, fitness, mental health, spirituality, mindfulness, personal growth, and more.
Tech Exec Wellness Podcast: Conversations to Reignite Your Soul
Redefining Self-Care: Embracing Joy in Everyday Activities with Lisa and Paige
What if self-care could be as simple as enjoying your favorite TV show or taking a bath? In this uplifting episode of the Tech Exec Wellness Podcast, Lisa and Paige unravel the myths surrounding self-care, revealing how it doesn’t have to involve grueling workout schedules or marathon training. Paige candidly shares her experiences from panel discussions, highlighting the pressure to conform to rigorous wellness routines and how it often left her feeling defeated. Together, they offer a refreshing perspective that embraces the joy and peace found in everyday activities, such as watching TV, relaxing baths, or even the simple act of chopping fruits and vegetables.
Emphasizing the importance of personal rituals, Lisa talks about her love for listening to audiobooks, specifically recommending Barbara Streisand's "My Name is Barbara." Paige contributes by describing her aura-cleansing baths with Epsom salts and sea salt, a practice she finds rejuvenating after stressful encounters. This episode assures listeners that self-care is highly individual and can be found in the most straightforward activities that bring happiness and relaxation. Whether you’re seeking deep self-help books or light-hearted novels, Lisa and Paige’s insights make the path to self-care feel accessible and authentic.
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Welcome back to another episode of the Tech Exec Wellness Podcast. I'm Lisa and I'm Paige. Thank you so much for joining us. Paige and I were discussing self-care and how it can be a little overwhelming. We both believe that self-care should be approachable and can be anything that gives you some peace and joy.
Speaker 2:What do you think, paige?
Speaker 2:Well, I think so too.
Speaker 2:I know when we were chatting I was just telling you that here I've been in either the audience or even a panelist, and the question comes up of self-care and what workout plan are you doing and what are you doing to take care of yourself?
Speaker 2:And I know I've been in just a different space, you know, in multiple versions of myself and felt really defeated because, you know, here I am sitting with my co-panelist or even in the audience, and they're talking about waking up at a certain time and getting so many miles in or going to the gym or doing so many classes a week, and I just wasn't in that space to have something like that going on consistently and I ended up feeling really defeated. So I really liked when we were chatting because it's like you know, self-care doesn't have to be this wellness or, I guess, this workout routine or, you know, know ambitiously, I'm training for a marathon. It can. It can be as little as you know. I'm really looking forward to the tv show that I watch weekly by myself or with my spouse or with someone, and and just go from there. Agree, I could not agree more.
Speaker 1:Sometimes just that that hour that you have, even if it's just once a week, to just have some favorite tv show, but something trashy or something, something deep or whatever it might be, where you can just sit and laugh, uh is is, um, all you need. Or or sometimes it's just so taking a, a hot bath, you know, taking 30 minutes and and taking a bubble bath. I thought I have my little bath routines where I take. I take these like baths. It cleanses your aura with some Epsom salts and sea salt and baking soda. If I've been around a bunch of toxic people or whatever, if I had to deal with an escalation or something like that, I will sit and take one of my cleansing baths 20 minutes and it's amazing how much better and more energized I feel afterwards.
Speaker 2:Well, of course, and so I love that, because it's truly acknowledging that that is something that makes you feel better and now you can move forward feeling better. I know for me and hopefully you don't laugh too much but there's something about cutting fruits and vegetables that really calms me. I love it. So there's a point where you know I don't mind, you know the whole, go to the grocery store, you know stuff, because then I get to cut my fruits and vegetables, and so you know I'm going to chalk that up as a win as well chalk that up as a win as well.
Speaker 1:It's just really something different. I'm with you on that. I love to chop vegetables. I love it. It's one of my favorite things. I love to clean the house. I put on an audio book and I will scrub my house and have the best time on a Saturday. Just listen to Barbara Streisand's book. My Name is Barbara and it was wonderful. I highly recommend it. By the way, I was not, you know. I liked her.
Speaker 2:I liked some of her movies, I liked some of her music, but after listening to that, I love her now, you know okay, well, I'm going to have to add that to my list, because I'm certainly always looking for good books and you know don't get me wrong I love the deep encouraging, self-help type books or you know, whatever you try to conquer or solve. You try to conquer or solve, but sometimes just a good autobiography or just a novel it's just kind of a romance type novel is always just really good. It's like a quick read is.
Speaker 1:I love those two well, her, this was not a quick read, this was a long, a long book, oh really yeah, and she narrates it herself, if you like. If you like audiobooks. She does the narration and she also touches on. I mean, it's fun because she drops some gossip, but she also goes into manifesting. One of the things that she says that I just love is that thought transcends matter and imagination can create reality, and she goes and gives examples of how she did just that, you know, throughout her career. So it was very, very good.
Speaker 2:I love that. That's great. Okay, well, I've now officially wrote it on my Post-it. That's my to-do Post-it. You know it's a very important Post-it I have. It's going on the list.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then I've also listened to like every Stephen King book that I've listened to and read that has ever. That's great. What other self-care things do you do? That's approachable. One thing I do for exercise I can't always get to the gym. I'm certainly not disciplined enough to go to the gym. I love it, but I like to. I just I walk around my neighborhood as much as I possibly can. That's my exercise routine and that gives me a chance to just clear my mind and, you know, and just enjoy some of the beautiful things in Texas.
Speaker 2:Same here I'm. You know I'm based in Arizona, so you know we're still in the upper, or you know, in the over 100 degrees, and so I love trying to get out just in the morning you know when I first wake up, even if it's, you know, a few times around the block because I have a busy day or something like that.
Speaker 2:But for me, I mean, on some of these days, and it is just so hot, it's the thank goodness I've got the Apple Watch, who, you know, subtly reminds me that I need to get up. But I'll get up, I'll go to the other part of my house and grab some water, you know, rehydrate, and then come back. So at least I'm getting up and that's, you know, important too is, throughout your day, just to to be moving, because otherwise I think you just sit at your desk and you know, one more call, one more email, one more thing, and and that, uh, that, and I end up being sore from that, exactly, exactly, and I do the same.
Speaker 1:Uh, texas, dallas area it's incredibly hot too. It's, oh you know, been in the, you know, in the low hundreds, you know, for several weeks now it it feels like. So I have to do it first thing in the morning. I have a bulldog that loves to walk, so we have to start our walks at like 6.30 in the morning just so he can handle it. You know, that's one good thing that he gets me out and gets me moving around when I would normally not at 6.30 in the30.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bless the pooches man, they get you going, whether you like it or not.
Speaker 2:Exactly, I love this just because you have to start somewhere. So I know I, just going from my experience of you know just being feeling a little defeated on, you know, not having a set workout plan or specific days that I worked out, I know that little defeated on you know, not having a set workout plan or specific days that I worked out, I know that you know changing kind of the thought process around that and just finding the small wins. And then when I, you know, was in the space where I wanted to and you know, restarted a workout program or just being more active and had, you know, different goals, then I was able to incorporate those in. But I know, just for me, just finding those small wins on a day that's extra busy or if you're even out there listening and you're wanting to start something, you just have to start somewhere, and the more positive you are in finding those small wins, just it's easier to start doing more things that just make you happy and feel better. Happy, I agree.
Speaker 1:And anything that makes you feel better. It can be just sitting in bed with a face mask on watching that fun show, chopping up those vegetables or whatever that just makes you happy for a minute, because I think that we get so bogged down in life that we forget to just be happy.
Speaker 2:Right, we need to go back to your earlier episode on the pod about just going to the playground and swinging.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I still do that. I do that all the time. I'll walk up to the little park and, especially if there's nobody there, I'll jump on the swing for a minute and then go finish my walk.
Speaker 2:It's just, it's fun. Yeah, no, I love that episode. This is a good reminder. If you haven't listened to that episode, go back. Lisa gives some good tips. I love it.
Speaker 1:I love it, yeah yeah, I mean I'm, I'm all about the, the finding, finding fun where you can. You have to, I agree, I agree. And go outside and play with your dog, throw the ball around for a few minutes, or take the leap of faith and go jump on the swing and don't be afraid of what people are going to think Exactly.
Speaker 2:I love it. I love it Well, wonderful tips, I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, any other little self-care tips that you have have.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, I you know I'm you mentioned face mask. I, you know I love a good face mask or foot mask, or I even got these hand masks the other day and and, um, I thought what am I gonna do? Not 20 minutes sitting here without my phone. And I looked on the packaging and it said you're still able to use your phone, they still allow you to touch your screen. I was like, well, it might be a little counter, counterintuitive, but or not counterintuitive, but just like, like I couldn't believe it. So, yeah, I did get to self scroll on my phone while I was doing a hand mask, which I thought was quite humorous.
Speaker 1:Well, that's always fun. I have some face, some foot masks that I can't wait to to put on. I love a good foot mask, absolutely, yeah, and I'm at the age where where I'm very concerned about my skin. So hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. I'm fighting those wrinkles.
Speaker 2:Listen, I love a good cream, a hydrating cream or serum or whatever it is, I'm all for it, yeah me too, me too All right, any other? Not right now. I think it could be good.
Speaker 1:Well, good good, yeah well, just a short little mini-sode on. You know, self-care can be whatever you want it to be.
Speaker 2:I love it. Okay, well, thanks. So much, lisa, and please subscribe to our podcast on various platforms like Apple, spotify, iheartradio and many others, and check out our website at techexecwellnesscom. Thanks for tuning in and take care.
