SUMMARY:
In this episode of Women Seeking Wellness, Dr. Stephanie Maj greets her listeners and expresses her excitement for the new year. She reflects on her attempts to reboot her podcast over the past year and acknowledges that she lost steam during the pandemic but is determined to try again with the help of a production team. Dr. Maj shares that the purpose of the podcast is to introduce her listeners to the amazing people in her life and to have their conversations recorded for all of history. She feels hopeful for the new year and is not one to poo-poo New Year’s resolutions. Dr. Maj mentions that she had been in a rut due to the loss of her father last year, but is now determined to take more positive actions, including working on her morning routine again.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
- Dr. Stephanie Maj's thoughts on rebooting her podcast
- The purpose of the Women Seeking Wellness podcast
- Dr. Maj's outlook on the new year and New Year's resolutions
- Dr. Maj's challenges and what she is doing to get back on track
In this episode, Dr. Stephanie Maj talks about her journey with the podcast and her goals for the new year. She shares her experiences with the pandemic and how it affected her creativity and motivation for the podcast. Dr. Maj also highlights the importance of having a morning routine and the challenges she faces with mindlessly scrolling through social media. The listeners will learn about Dr. Maj's determination to bring her podcast back to life and how she is working towards her goals.
QUOTES:
- "I’ve been thinking and I’m just laughing at my attempts at reboot. Over the course of the last year or so, I lost my steam during the pandemic and then decided to try again and then try again."
- "I have found somebody that’s gonna help me with that process, so that all I need to do is have fun and talk, which, you know, I love to talk."
- "I think some amazing people are in my life and I want you guys to meet them and I want our conversations recorded for all of history."
- "My dad passed away last year in the spring and that pretty much dried up my creative juices, and God love him. He was very sick and you know, it wasn’t a tragedy, it was just age and, and. You know, he was free of his body."
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TRANSCRIPT:
[00:00:00] Good morning everybody. It's morning here in Chicago. Welcome to Women Seeking Wellness. Happy 2023, and I just wanna say hello. Hello. I missed you all. I've been thinking and I'm just laughing at my attempts at reboot. Over the course of the last year or so, I lost my steam during the pandemic and then decided to try again and then try again.
And here I am trying again. I'm doing more than trying. I'm doing it, I believe I cracked the code in that. I am hiring it out. I'm just hiring out the production. I don't know if you guys all know this. I have been the one that does the recording. Obviously, this is my voice. I'm recording. I am the one that edits, I was the one that, audio [00:01:00] edits, tags publishes artwork, social media website.
It, was a bit. It was, it was a bit, so it was always daunting for me to, think about doing more episodes. So I have found somebody that's gonna help me with that process, so that all I need to do is have fun and talk, which, you know, I love to talk. And, also, I, have some interviews in store, which is very exciting.
You know, me and my interviews. I love that. It's really one of the reasons why I started the podcast is that I. I think some amazing people are in my life and I want you guys to meet them and I want our conversations recorded for all of history. So, okay, what is going on with me? Let me think. So 2023. Whoop, whoop.
I am feeling [00:02:00] very hopeful for the year now. If you've listened to my podcast at all, you know,, I'm actually not one that poo poo's a good New Year's resolution. I mean, I'm all for anything that gives us a little energy towards goals, and yet for me, it was around the holidays, around when I was away for Christmas.
I realized that I had been in a bit of a rud. I haven't really talked about this. My dad passed away last year in the spring and that pretty much dried up my creative juices, and God love him. He was very sick and you know, it wasn't a tragedy, it was just age and, and. You know, he was free of his body.
I know that. I also know that grief is a funny thing and it took me a while to kind of come out of it. I think being home and seeing that, you know, life goes on and everybody's doing well and thriving and. You [00:03:00] know, and I needed to take some more positive actions. So I started, I'm gonna talk about a couple things that that have been going on for me.
One of the things is that I started with my morning routine again, so I've always been somebody that gets up early. My problem is, is that I was getting up. and like frigging diving into Facebook, right? Instagram reels, you know, I could watch somebody, Do a cake decoration. I could watch a guy weed, and whack a lawn.
I know. That's so weird. I like the videos that are like, start to finish the befores and the afters. We're gonna take this rusty axe and we're gonna make it into something that is restored brand new, like those. I just, , little Drs coming outta my mouth. It's, it's mind numbing. Emotion numbing, let's call it what it is.
And,[00:04:00] and it, you know, serves me until it doesn't serve me. So, so I started doing something, I don't know why, I don't really know how this, exactly came about. I, I think that part of it was me looking back into,what things worked well for me and, one of the things I'm, I'm looking at, I'm, I'm typing in my computer as we speak just because I want to have it in front of me.
So that, so you guys can have the, the correct resources, and I'll put the resources again in the show notes, but I just was looking like, what, what were the things that really served me when I was the most active? Because I, I, I really believe we ebb and flow in these things and so there's no beating myself up for being away from it.
It's just now is the time for me to lean back into, a routine. So, I remembered that I did this four part four phase meditation, and if you go back, you'll find it in some [00:05:00] previous episode. It starts out, no matter what time, let's just use four minutes to make the math easy. So you do one minute of the four minutes your, your presence, getting present in your body, doing either a review of your body to relax it, but just getting present in that meditation.
The second minute you. Visualize or go back to a time where you were filled with gratitude, filled with love, filled with just joy, just some kind of thing that, Triggered that re most recently for me, my niece asked me to be the, person that officiates her wedding. And I was just overcome with such a joy and like, oh my gosh, thank you God kind of situation.
And and then the third minute, Is visualizing something in the future, some situation that, you are hoping to manifest and bringing that feeling of joy and love and [00:06:00] gratitude and, and all of that positiveness to that situation and visualizing it as if it has already happened to. You know, as if the universe is conspiring to your highest good, and then the last minute is coming back with that, that just bubble of joy, of what it was like in the past.
What, what the visualizing the future and bringing that back into your present. And so I remembered that as as a thing. And so I. I, I remembered that, I think it was Jesse Elders is the guy's name, but he was on a podcast. Hal, his name is Hal Elrod. E L R O D and guess what? His podcast is called The Miracle Morning.
And so it's one of those situations that I fell into the internet where I'm like, went for one thing and then I was like, oh, the miracle Morning. It kind of sounds like what I'm [00:07:00] looking for again. You know, there's so many resources out there and there's so many ways to start again. So I go and. get up a little earlier every day.
Okay, I can do that. I like it when I get up earlier. Well, he gives you ways to get up earlier, which I'm gonna share with you right now, which has been revolutionary for me. There's five parts of it. Number one, first part of helping your body get outta bed is at night setting the intention. That I'm going to get up and perform, do the my, my morning routine.
For me, I have this affirmation. I can't get wait to get up and have a cup of coffee. Like there's something about that ritual. It's like I get excited when I'm going to bed that I can get up and go have my cup of coffee. So the second thing is, is to set an alarm away from you. So that you have to actually have to get up out of bed.
So if you put your phone by your bed, you put your phone over on [00:08:00] your dresser or in the bathroom. for me, that doesn't work for me because I was waking up my spouse. So I have a whoop, which is a, a fitness tracker that will vibrate and and it vibrates on my wrist and that gets me up out of bed. And so you immediately get up out of bed, you go to the bathroom, you brush your teeth.
So by the time you're brushing your teeth, then you drink a glass of water cuz you're dehydrated. Then the last thing you do is put on your workout clothes. So it's set the intention, move your alarm, so it, you have to get up to turn it off. Three, you go in and you brush your teeth. Four, you drink a big glass of water, and five you put on your workout clothes.
By this time, That's like a five minute process. You're, you're about, you're awake, right? And, and so that helps you break this habit of snoozing. And so for me it's worked. I mean, here [00:09:00] it is. I'm, I'm recording this. It's, January 24th and I started this on December 27th, I think is what it was when I got back from the holidays.
So it's been, it's been amazing. It's been absolutely amazing. I give. Sundays to kind of veer off and not have a scheduled wake up time. But every other day I'm, I'm waking up. And, it, it is, it is true that when it is a regular wake up time, your body really, my body thrives on that. So, so that has been, a really great transition for me.
And so then in the Miracle Morning, They talk about this acronym savers. So in your morning, having some kind of a structure. So savers is, one of those acronyms. S is for silence, A is for affirmation, V is for visualization. E is for exercise, R is for reading. S is for scribing writing, but [00:10:00] W doesn't look good at the end of this.
So I write savers at the side of my journal, and, I've messed with this. I find that even though I'm tired, if I do my, four-part meditation, that includes the silence and the visualization, and, I do do an a, a written affirm. Afterwards. But, doing that first gets it done. Sometimes if I go right into reading, or writing, I run out of time to really do a, a good meditation.
But sometimes I'm too tired and I'm afraid I'm gonna fall back asleep. So, It's a work, you know, it's, it's a work in progress. And then I went through my week and I said, okay, what kind of exercise can I do on each of these mornings to get the energy moving? You know, I have a Peloton bike, I can get on that bike.
I've been doing 15 minute rides in the morning, and it's amazing. Stokes the [00:11:00] fire. and my exercise consistency has gone through the roof when I lower the bar and say, 15 minutes is enough, which I'm gonna talk about that in a second. and then, you know, the writing and, and the reading. I'm back to, you know, I was always reading, I was just reading Facebook, so now I have, I'm back to reading.
Plotting through my books. That's really how I've gotten through reading some, you know, one of the books that, I've really, really resonated with is that badass woman. Her name is Jen, something or another. I'll look at, I'll look it up and put it in the show notes. it, she is, she has such, I, I have listened to her, as well as I have, read her books, her last name.
Dun da da da. Jen Sinero, S I N C E R O, and she wrote like, you're a badass at making money. There's a whole badass series. You are a badass. Badass [00:12:00] habits. Habits badass every day. She has a really great way of talking. And at first I was like, this is probably like bubblegum. It isn't. Some good shit. There's some good shit in there.
and one of the things I love that she says in there is that if you have a dream, that dream something that is always with you, it's God-given. Like God put that dream into your consciousness and also will help you achieve it. If you take the right actions. And so, you know, that morning routine is a time where everybody else is asleep, that I'm able to really get back, some of that like, just centered time that I was missing, you know?
So, so this routine has really been amazing. My, that's my hope for you is that you can carve out a little bit of time, you know, even if it's like, today is a day where I'm in the. At 8:00 AM and and so today is not a day where I want to get up at five to do a workout. [00:13:00] So today's a day that I've said, okay, let's do some sun salutations.
Let's do five minutes, and this is what I want to talk about next, is this movement. There was an article just, when was it? It was just, Recently, when was this article put out an ink magazine and it says, neuroscience says that, that this two minute rule will help you start every day feeling more energetic, focused, and mentally sharp.
And so it talks about how this This article that is in transitions in Sports Medicine, it's a meta-analysis that was PU published in there, is saying that two minutes of exercise, moderate to high intensity exercise can improve your attention, your concentration, and your learning and memory functions for the next two hours.
So if you do two hours, two minutes. Of exercise, it will affect you for at least two hours. And so their recommendation is 5, 5, 5 30. There's five pushups, [00:14:00] five squats, five lunges, and a 32nd plank. So something to get, your heart pumping. Something to get, your body moving to, you know, in, in Chinese medicine, they would say it's something to move the chi you need to, there are certain, poses in yoga that are more,relaxing poses, and there's certain poses that move the chi, and so like moving your energy, getting that energy going like a downward dog, you know, in a sun salutation.
There's, there's some stretching, but there's also a, a plank and a downward dog, and there's, you know, other, other things like that, that really kind of move the energy. And so for you, , that is my hope, is that you find something and if you don't find something, you know, doing this 5, 5, 5 30, 5 pushups, five squats, five lunges, and a 32nd plank.
Something to get your body moving. I also love a good cup of [00:15:00] coffee and I could do a whole podcast on how coffee works as far as getting a little bit of, you know, when it, a little bit of coffee. Can improve your focus, improve your productivity. You know, there's, there is, more and more information out there That being said.
A little bit is good. Too much is too damn much. So anyway, I've blathered on enough. I cannot wait to share with you, different things this year. I don't know where this podcast will take me. I just know that I have, recommitted and that I really am excited to, get into 2023 with you all and I love and appreciate you.
So thank you so much.
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