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Mindful Living: We share our essential wellbeing practices
What if the healthy habits that truly transform your life aren't what everyone says they should be? Three women business owners get real about the practices that actually work for them—and why rigid routines might be holding you back.
Forget the 5 AM club and perfect morning routines. These entrepreneurial best friends dive into why honoring your body's natural rhythms is essential, especially as women navigating monthly cycles and changing energy levels. Their refreshingly honest conversation reveals that sometimes the most powerful habits are the simplest: touching the earth with bare feet, blocking time for what truly matters, or allowing yourself unstructured movement when your body craves release.
The discussion travels from practical time management strategies (like colour-coded calendar blocking) to more esoteric practices (binaural beats for manifestation, anyone?). You'll discover why making your bed might be more important than you think, how "walking meditation" can replace formal sitting practice, and why scheduling free time is paradoxically one of the most productive things you can do. There's even a fascinating tangent about "earthing sheets" that supposedly connect you to the ground while you sleep.
What makes this conversation special is how personal and accessible it feels. These aren't influencers preaching from perfection—they're busy women balancing businesses, relationships, and motherhood, sharing what genuinely helps them stay centered. They acknowledge their failures, celebrate small wins, and invite you to find what uniquely works for your body and lifestyle.
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Welcome to Loosely Speaking, the podcast where three best friends turned business owners come together to chat about all things life, relationships and leveling up.
Laura:Each episode, we share our perspectives on what it's like being women in business, balancing everything from work and relationships to society and self-care. And from time to time, we welcome the best in the biz to share their insights with us.
Madi:Think of us as your go-to girls for real talk, big laughs and a sprinkle of spiritual vibes. So do whatever makes you feel good while you tune in. Let's get the conversation flowing.
Laura:Hi guys, welcome back to our podcast.
Lauren:Hi, we are back podcast and, yeah, today we're gonna be touching on some healthy habits. We want to help you try and build out your best life, your best routine, your best self, and if you can take anything from sort of the tips or the things that have worked for us over the course of our lives, and maybe the more recent years, then then that's a benefit. And if you have your own healthy habits that help contribute to more ease in your life, then we want to know about it.
Lauren:Yeah, please share because like one thing doesn't work for every single person, so if you find your thing, then that's really cool well, every week you are in a different energy or mindset, like especially as women.
Laura:Like you know, we we have a cycle that we need to honor and think about. So every week is different for me, with my habits, um. So yeah, I mean, it's not one one thing fits all. So I think it's really important to remember that and honor that as a woman, and then, I'm sure, as dudes, like well, they just keep going.
Lauren:Like they don't have to worry about the hormones. We won't touch on dudes because it's not our area of expertise.
Laura:But they can just keep going.
Lauren:So, yeah, I'm going to be kind of touching on, of touching on like how you know what, what my healthy habits are throughout my month I guess I would say week, but yeah, I guess I might just say my, not my whole month, but like you know, it's a good way to approach it, though, because we are so fluid and obviously we go through our natural cycle, and I think something that's let me down in the past is trying to be too rigid about. Okay, this is what I have to do every day, and I'm gonna take these three activities that I want to achieve off in my day, and life happens and the reality is that no day is actually the same and you might feel different or things happen. So being really gentle on yourself or having that room for adaptability, I think is like crucial yeah, let's preface that?
Madi:yeah for sure. Yeah, I definitely have things. If I'm feeling more energized, that I'll do if I'm not like a bit more of a slower morning. But yeah, just tuning into what feels good for you, and there may be a phase in your life like I can think of some of mine that worked for me once upon a time but now they don't. So I think if you can get inspired from this episode, um, or it may re-inspire us to try something new and yeah, get into it, I'm excited.
Lauren:What do you like? Yeah, yeah you go. Oh my god okay, um.
Madi:Well, when I used to work in an office, particularly, I used to love to like own my morning because I feel like I used to have so much time throughout the day when I was particularly working for someone else that they owned that time through that period. So in the morning I wake up energized, but I don't necessarily like to exercise in the morning, unless it's a walk, and that's if I'm feeling really like, you know, energized again, depending on where I am in the morning. Unless it's a walk and that's if I'm feeling really like, you know, energized again, depending on where I am in the month but just even getting up making either a coffee or some sort of hot drink and then getting back into bed with a book or something that I really enjoy and usually they'd be around self-help or something that I could feel inspired from and take something throughout the day.
Madi:So that's probably more of an example of like a slower morning and just you know, opening up all the blinds so the sunlight's coming in. I pretty much sleep with, um, like I need sunlight to come in to wake me. I love to wake up with the sun. Beautiful, yeah, like I used to wake up earlier but, I just find, yeah, I try to go with the like. When it gets darker I wind down, and when it's like sunrise I'm up early, so it's so good, your circadian rhythm is like in flow with that.
Madi:Yeah and our bedroom too, although we've got um shutters that are usually shut just because obviously at night time you can see through. But our main door of our bedroom the sunlight just bursts through in the morning and I sleep on that left side of the bed, so it comes through. So that's always nice. The mornings I am feeling more energized, getting up again. A walk I love doing the Terrigal loop around the skillion.
Madi:Again, a podcast is usually on pumping some sort of of self-help, just trying to get my mindset ready for the day. Um, trying not to touch my phone during the morning, but sometimes that's obviously a little bit more of a challenge. A really good hack, actually that I've started lately and this can be evening and morning is I have do not disturb on now. Um, so I put that on from 5 30 till about I think it's about 8 30 in the morning. It's like when I'm getting on for work and the only people that are not a part of that is like mum, tom and our housemate downstairs, just in case like some emergency happens. But that way if I'm in messenger and I see a friend message I can respond.
Madi:But you're not getting those alerts either in the evening or in the morning, because I find I then want to respond and then I'm kind of that thing gets me energized and then even in the morning for something that I don't particularly want to see until I'm ready. It just helps. So that's, that's a goodie, that's a little hack. I love the do not disturb. Sorry to everyone that's messaging me. I love you all, but I just find when I see something I have to reply, and then it's nice just to not know yeah, yeah exactly and be oblivious um until you're in a space.
Lauren:Be like.
Madi:All right, I'm ready to respond exactly, yeah, and then I typically, in terms of like food, to feel really like great in the mornings. I don't typically eat breakfast till about like nine, 10 o'clock, a little bit later. I find if I eat first thing when I wake up, it can make me feel a bit drowsy and like a little bit. I feel really energized and not hungry when I wake up, where, like my partner, he's the opposite. He wakes up and he's hungry, like he's ready to eat. So I find I find that works for me.
Madi:Even if I do exercise, like I just drink lots of water and I never feel like I'm missing something and then I have breakfast a little bit later. But yeah, there are a few of my tips.
Laura:Love those.
Madi:Yeah, I'm trying to think if there's anything else really Just trying to like yeah, yeah, go at your own pace.
Madi:Some mornings, you know I will be on my phone and I kind of catch myself and I'm just like, okay, I'm going to try and do something productive and just really trying to. For me, my biggest thing is like trying to set my mind frame up, up for the day, especially also now I work from home, like really trying to start the morning strong and doing something that like expands my thinking. That's why I love books and podcasts that's beautiful.
Madi:It sounds like, yeah, you're really prioritizing your own boundaries and you're like preparing your environment for the day that's really cool to think about how intentionally you set up your day exactly and always make your bed always like if you don't? Bed is unhygienic, yes, but it's just like you can't. When you get into bed and it's all made, you're like oh, yeah, that's good for my mindset.
Laura:It is a day, yeah, yeah, yeah. 100 thanks for sharing. Those are good ones, let us know what you think about those.
Lauren:Um, I'm keen to go next. I wouldn't say that I practice these every single day, um, but as often as I can, and I found these to be like game changing for my health and well-being. So the number one thing that I feel has been really good for me recently is time, like time management and time blocking.
Lauren:It's something that I've never done before and I'm someone who likes to feel like they are achieving things. But I'm also someone who really needs to be more organized now because I've got lots of different projects going on, like my mom, and there's people that I need to get back to and different tasks that I want to make sure I have time for and I'm not spreading myself too thin. But it also helps me to reflect back and be like wow, look at what I've done this month, like I've really paid a lot of attention to this and to that, and it helps me to kind of move on to the next thing in a day knowing that.
Lauren:I've allocated this amount of time, the boundary set and I don't get lost in something and then feel like I didn't get through the things that I needed to get through.
Laura:Do you do that on an app? How does that work? How do you lay that out? Is it on the Google Calendar?
Lauren:Yeah, I just use my Google Calendar so now I'm using it for pretty much everything. Like I'll book in meetings. I'll book in projects that I'm working on. It's really like centered around the projects I might book in meetings. I'll book in projects that I'm working on. It's really like centered around the projects. I might throw in some like medial tasks that I have to do around the home or I might pop in I actually I always pop in some sort of self-care time, like it's really important to schedule the self-care time and any like quality time with my kids, quality time with my partner, and that helps me with my phone right, because it's like blowing off if I'm talking to a lot of different people in my community. It helps me to be like okay, this is the time that I've carved out for my kids. So when I'm at home with my kids, I'm just like fully with them yeah and then this is the time that I've carved out for me.
Lauren:It could be half an hour and I know just to like put the phone away and then it just helps me to like mentally check out. Otherwise, I love thinking about my projects and the people that I'm working with, and I can get really caught up in that. So it's been really good visually I'm a very visual person to like put that into play. That's my number one. I'm gonna might take that one. I need to try that. It's so good, highly recommend and I can't believe I've gone this long without doing it. So that's been the one for this year. Do you color code? I do color code. Oh, that's fun. Laura loves colors.
Laura:It just gives it a different energy as well, you see the colour and you're like, ooh, that's that energy yeah, like orange is like my weddings that I've got booked that day, so it's like orange, it's like weddings, ooh. I need to do that, for, like my person, I need to do that. That's freaking amazing.
Lauren:Do it, and let me know how you go after I did it for one month. I was like oh, and something that feeds into this.
Lauren:Sorry, Clearly I'm very excited about it because it's helped me so much. But something that feeds into that is like, at the beginning of every month, setting up my month so obvious and allocating free time. Allocate free time because things pop up as well. Yeah. So you're like, oh, I've saved this block so I can actually put this person in here. Oh, I used to do that, it's so good. And I set up my month in advance so that I'm just making sure that I'm dedicating the time that's required of me to each thing, to have that balance, if you like.
Lauren:So that's my number one. My number two is I'm a yoga teacher. So people assume that I practice yoga or I meditate every day. In fact, I don't. Realistically speaking, that doesn't always work out for me and, truthfully, I don't always feel like doing it.
Lauren:So one thing that I actively promote as a yoga teacher is I am huge about making your life almost like a walking meditation or like trying to be mindful throughout moments of your day.
Lauren:Um and so actually, I found like doing monotonous tasks like my washing, or doing dishes, or hanging clothes out on the line, like to just be these moments where I could, I'll always do it like barefoot out in the yard, not hang my clothes up, my kids are playing and I'm just like I don't know, having this moment where I can take in the trees, take in the, the leaves, the like, the smell and the air and everything, and it's just beautiful, really centering, grounding moment that can be achieved in these like seemingly minor moments in the day that don't mean much um, but in terms of like meditation, I will. If I'm going through um like a challenging time, or if I feel like I'm just a bit low and I need a bit of an energy pick me up, or if I'm trying really fucking hard to manifest something, I will do concentrated blocks of um binaural beats before bed you got me onto that.
Laura:I haven't tried I do that in the sauna now if I'm really feeling low energy, yeah, it's incredible.
Lauren:So we were talking about frequency before right and um, yeah it just to me it makes sense, like the science behind it. But you're pretty much just input, inputting this frequency back into your body, you're aligning to it, you're attuning to it, and so there's different sulfuregio frequencies that correspond to different um like things. But I remember when I was starting the collective, I was listening to abundance meditation uh, binaural beat meditations every single night for like two to three weeks and, no joke, I started seeing like just, but abundance was happening in my life. So it's, it fully works. I fully believe it. I think it's the most underrated hack out there and I'd love to hear from you guys about um, if you try it yeah, where can you like find?
Madi:is it through spotify? Is it an app you could find?
Lauren:them? Yeah, good question. You could find them on youtube if you wanted to. Um, I prefer insight timer it's always been yeah, it's my favorite app so you can just connect with so many different amazing teachers and they have courses and you can find my meditations on there as well yeah, you actually have a beautiful meditation on insight time dude.
Laura:It went viral. It's crazy. We should actually share this. Share that in the show notes yeah, and the other one that the final bites. Oh, there's heaps of binaural voice you can even type in I have apple music and I just type it in on there and just put a playlist on or. But if you want like abundance or a specific thing, do you just youtube that?
Lauren:I just write in like whatever I want, followed by binaural beats or I'll just put in binaural beats and I'll see what shows up and if there's something that catches me and resonates in the moment I'll pick that yeah, um, I have a few saved to my favorites, but always wear them with headphones because you're going to get better quality and you're going to receive it a lot better.
Lauren:The final thing for me is movement, unstructured movement, um, with music like just yeah it.
Lauren:I remember when I discovered it, like moving for no outcome or no purpose, but just moving for the sake of it, and I I did it probably about when I was 22 for the first time I don't know why I was going through a really hard time and I just like put my headphones in and I just started moving my body and moving parts of me that felt like they wanted to be awakened and something I ended up going for like two hours like something deep was happening for me emotionally. It was like a big release of energy and now it's become part of my practice that when I really need some anchoring or I know that I have something that needs to be released, I put in my headphones, I put on a playlist not necessarily words, it could just be ambient and I just let my body take me and I get out of my head and I get into my body, and it's been so beneficial, I think, for my self-concept, for me to become more aware of what's happening.
Lauren:For me somatically and just as a really beautiful way to like be free and expressive, yeah it's beautiful. Yeah, I'd highly recommend you used to do that too. You sometimes pop um songs in our chat. You're like listen to this and have a boogie in the morning, I know you do, I know I do it I should do it more often.
Madi:It's a good reminder, but it is good when you just there's no one around my pets. Look at me a bit funny what is wrong with mom?
Lauren:oh, they probably wish that they could just move like you but yeah that's my three oh, they're amazing.
Madi:I'm definitely the time blocking that has struck a chord with me and I'm doing that I need to implement that in my life. Yeah, and I like, like setting your month up as well. Like you could even make it fun like pour yourself a glass of wine like it's like a ritual, yeah sit down with your calendar like what birthdays have you got coming up for that?
Laura:oh, I need to do that and my mom's birthday yeah, that was bad. I need to make a birthday calendar like and my neighbor has it and she sticks it on her fridge and it's just like a print off of people who are important in the days and the year that they're born. And I'm like dude, I need to do that and actually, yeah, I need to, I need to do that.
Laura:Yeah, well, I am shocking. You must be robbing off of me now. Oh no, just kidding, um no, but yeah, I feel like we can all improve and like I just feel horrible forgetting someone that I care about's birthday like and yes, I know work's busy and like time like your life can be Facebook anymore, that's right, yeah, facebook's like my lifesaver, it's like yeah. I know, yeah, but it was at a time. Yeah, like sometimes I'm like, oh, I need to check when their birthday is and I type it in, do you?
Madi:do that sometimes. I usually go into events and then you can go like upcoming friends and I like skim it.
Laura:I'm, like anyone, important because I have so many people in there and I'm like, oh my god, yeah, no need to do a birthday calendar. Yeah, thank you for sharing. I really liked those. My pleasure struck a chord with me.
Laura:I'm definitely gonna implement some of those. Every day for me is just different. I feel like I'm very fluid in my energy and like I'm very in my feminine energy a lot Like almost every day. Every day it's when I'm in my masculine it's, you know, when I go to the flower market or when I'm in production In the studio here I feel like I'm very much in that masculine energy. So I feel like, for me, I think I I feel like I'm in a good place and I've implemented a lot of healthy habits that keep me kind of grounded. But I feel like every morning when I wake up I let the light in, cuddle my baby, like just see my connect with my husband, and every day is different, but that really just like you know, on a slow morning or even with work, I love to just hold my family or hold my cup of coffee.
Laura:It's like a hug for me, like a warm hug. I'm very. You know Pat laughs like I'm very slow in the morning.
Laura:He's like you're a freaking snail, like I am, and I don't think that's a bad thing. Obviously, when I go to the flower market, it's like I's like I need to, like you know, be on time and get out of there by a certain time. But I'm very much in my feminine energy a lot of the time and that's a good thing, because for a long time I was in my masculine energy. So for me to stay true to that, I need to like just slow down and yeah, like even I I mean I've got a lot of. I'm generally very healthy and orientated with health, Like I love whole foods, I love nutrition, I love every aspect of health. But for me, I think, another healthy habit is touching the ground, the earth, every day with my son, and that doesn't have to be anything crazy.
Laura:I just yeah, like you said hang the washing, lie on the grass with him, play on the swing like and just slow down. We look at the sky, like the trees and like that is mindfulness to me. And you know I don't meditate time and really when I do meditate it is when I need that, like my. I need to just like, like you know, I could be having an anxiety moment and I'm like I need to. I need to do that.
Laura:That will really sink me into that, but for me meditation is just not that's, that's not for me, I'm more into like um, my meditation is walking and nature, anything, nature even working in coming to work, like when I'm in my flow state making a bouquet. Um, you know, I have, like my team talking with me, but you know, I'm in my flow state making a bouquet. You know I have my team talking with me, but you know I'm like channeling and I'm just like. You know that is meditation to me. I'm very hands on and anything to do with nature, that's meditative for me.
Laura:So yeah getting out in nature. I think that's my number one healthy habit. Like we are nature, like we forget that and it's crucial, like we need to know you.
Lauren:you know, remember just to touch the earth like, just get out there. If you do anything after this episode, kick your shoes off and put your toes in the dirt grounding is essential for yeah, all the human that bed thing that you told me.
Laura:I still want to get that I am like people think I'm crazy, but I have earthing sheets on my bed. I'm like. What is that I feel? Amazing. What's an earthing sheet? So an earthing sheet is literally like a sheet.
Lauren:You can get mats so you can sit on one. You can get mats with the pressing like the studs that come up. No, this is just like fabric.
Laura:You can probably, and you can put it under your bed. You can get a whole sheet, you can get pillowcases, you can get I've got one on bo's bed and then I've got one on our bed and essentially, um, you know, like a powerpoint socket in the wall like um, there's like the earthing.
Laura:I don't look, I'm not tech savvy with this, but there's like an earthing spot that like if you just plug it into there, it connects to the ground. Those girls look, I need we'll get an expert on to talk about. My partners are sparky. Don't take my word. I'm not very good at articulating myself. Are you doing a better job than I would?
Lauren:I don't know how to explain it wait, keep going with it, because I still don't understand what's going on. Yeah, so like when you the socket.
Laura:It has like three holes. I think the bottom one is the earthing hole. The straight one yeah, I could be wrong the straight one. Don't take my word for it. Don't take my. Okay, we're doing electricity lesson, girls. We might need him to tell us the reality. Can we get top of the line?
Lauren:sorry, keep going.
Laura:So you have to plug it into power yeah, into the socket and then it connects because every household has like a like, a thing that's stuck into the earth to like prevent us damage from storms, I think, and other things I don't look, this is out of my scope, but I know that there's something there and there's documentaries.
Laura:Yeah, grounding and yeah, it's, I think it's crucial. And so, actually, my mom, she uh minded my son and we only have a two-bedder. Um, it's a cozy little little, cute little home and she stayed over and she stayed in our bed and we have the earthen sheets on and my mum wakes up with like a bit of inflammation in her, like her ankles, and she woke up that morning and there was no puffiness. She felt great. It's like it's.
Lauren:I'm about myself some sheets, yeah, I get mine from Better Earthing.
Madi:Well, it's similar like to going out in nature and putting your feet on the grass like what are they made of, though?
Lauren:are they made of like special materials?
Laura:and then there's like metal in there that connects to the powerpoint, so you're like charging it yourself and it's grant like it's, like you're putting your feet on the like grass grass like earth.
Lauren:That sounds awesome yeah really have.
Laura:Me and patty have reflected on it and we do feel good like I'd say. My third one is just like being, um, I just like to like keep hydrated, really, I guess, yeah, that's key, that's vital, mate, that is vital. And going back to being like a pisces, like I'm a double water sign so I just need water.
Lauren:I need to sauna I need to move Even Avalon.
Laura:When I did a reading with her, which we'll get her on, she was like we need her on Shout out to Avalon. Shout out to Avalon. She was like you need to sauna. You've got a lot of water in your you know your energy field, or whatever. She said um, and it's true, like we are water and I water, that's my first thing I do when I wake up water, like even you know what. When I started breastfeeding, I was like oh, I need water and I just have water.
Laura:And now, like every morning, I don't have a coffee.
Laura:I have water straight away, and then I make the coffee and of course coffee's next.
Lauren:But that makes sense, because you've just gone like six to eight hours with no fluid yeah, water um even like swimming like just water.
Laura:That's my three healthy habits just being like in the ocean. All the negative ions and like just water's amazing, we are water as well. We could do a podcast on water um, we will, we will, we're going to. That's such a big topic, we need to yeah shed light on and um yeah it's really cool. So I'd say they're my three healthy habits. There's nothing crazy, but I think there's some goodies in there like.
Lauren:I don't know about you guys, but I feel like there's some things that I want to try from what we've said, that I haven't tried. Maybe too. Yay, um, we would love to hear from you what your healthy habits are. Whatever it is game changing um let us know. Connect with us on instagram, just dm and email just talk to us, please, we'd
Laura:love to hear from you um nothing's up with us yeah, thank you so much guys.
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