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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning Allison.
Hi Anna, how are you Good?
Thank you so much for beingwilling to share about early
morning habit your experience,how it renewed your morning, how
it impacted your life and, yeah, your feedback for other women
who are considering it.
I would love to just start with.
(00:21):
I would love to just start withwhy you initially signed up for
early morning habit and thenwhat kind of impact you saw it
having, even from the beginning,on your morning and, ultimately
, your day.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah Well, I
ultimately signed up because I
did not have any kind of morningroutine established at all.
It's always been something thatI've tried to do but had failed
.
So, um, kind of investing in aprogram and doing something with
the community felt like maybethat would be the thing that
would help.
Um, so initially, I mean rightoff the bat, it was helpful just
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to have like a program tofollow, have a community to chat
with, and the weekly meetingswere always very motivating to
stick with it.
I think before not having thataccountability, it was just
easier not to stick with it.
So yeah, that was just theinitial thing that really helped
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.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
And I'm curious
because everyone's perspective
is different here why did youwant a morning routine?
Because I think this is true.
I mean, this was my story.
For anyone who has not heard it, I won't go into it now, but I
mean, I always wanted to be thatearly morning riser but I was
not by nature.
And be that early morning riserbut I was not by nature, and so
it felt so impossible and thereliterally was no program
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teaching me how to rise earlier.
And then I didn't want tosacrifice my sleep, because I
love sleep and need sleep.
So talk to me a little bitabout what you felt like was
keeping you back from startingyour own morning routine and
then specific ways that earlymorning habit helped you
(02:10):
overcome that.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, I think the
main thing for me is I went into
this, I just didn't have anykind of like solid bedtime
routine which you wouldn't thinkwould affect the morning as
much, but I feel like that wasthe missing piece for me.
So I'm naturally like a nightowl.
I would stay up later.
I work from home with my ownbusiness, so I would end up
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working, you know, when my kidswere in bed later at night and
just all of that likestimulation and the blue screens
and blue light and all of that,I feel like it was really hard
for me to wind down and get tobed at a decent time.
And then I feel like my sweetsleep quality wasn't as good.
But once I you know there's athere's a sleep unit in the
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program, and once I kind oflearned more about that and
followed the checklist, adoptedsome of those small things,
that's what really helped me, Ithink, get better sleep, which
helps with a morning routine,which I felt like I needed
because my mornings were chaoticbefore, Like I would wake up
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with my kids and I would spendmy morning getting them ready,
getting them dressed, gettingthem fed, and then you know
myself, I wouldn't spend anytime on myself, which I think
just didn't help me be, you know, the parent and the person that
I wanted to be that day,because I wasn't taking care of
myself first.
So that's really the main thingthat I was trying to fix was
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taking care of myself in themorning so that I can take care
of everybody else better.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I love that.
And then, of course, thefollow-up question is what was
the most impactful way thatearly morning habit helped you
do that?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Um, well, the restore
your sleep unit was big for me.
Um, the gratitude journalingwas really helpful in helping me
be more present, um with mykids, Um, kind of like I'm a
very much a planner and awarrior by nature, so just it
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helps me be more in the presentUm, so that was a big part of
the program for me too.
Um, and yeah, I just thinkgetting better sleep and just
adopting those like littlechanges really helped me get a
better morning routine going.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Would you say that
you, like before the program,
would you have called yourself amorning person by nature?
No, no way, not at all.
So funny.
I mean girl preach, I hear that.
Yeah, what time?
Because this is a really commonconcern.
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When I'm in conversation withwomen, they hear early morning
habit and they're like part ofthem is like okay, yes, if you
can tell me that I can become anearly morning riser and love it
, okay, I'm in.
But that's not happening.
No one believes that that'spossible.
So tell me what time you weregetting up and, because of the
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program, what time you startedto get up and was it miserable?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well, I think, yeah,
the main thing is, you know the
program says to wake up 30minutes earlier than you
normally do.
So there's no specific timelike oh, you have to get up at
5am or anything like drastic,and then you just gradually
start, you know, increasing thatearlier time, so it's not like
a big jump from what you're usedto.
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So I would normally my kidswould wake up anywhere between
like 7, 7.30 am normally, andthat's when I would get up with
them.
So then I would start at 630,you know, at the beginning of
this program, which like isn'tcrazy and it was doable, and
then just slowly increased, youknow, to earlier and earlier,
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and now it's anywhere betweenlike six and 615.
So it wasn't a huge jump and ifyou do it gradually it becomes
much easier.
And there isn't anything in theprogram that tells you you have
to wake up at a certain time.
It's just whatever works foryou in your life.
What will give you the timethat you need.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I love that, yeah,
and I love you know the
perspective that you shared,which is what we teach in the
program If you're not sleepingwell, you're not going to rise
well and, as you said, themorning routine actually starts
the night before.
So until we rehab that process,it is really hard to get up,
and that was my own experienceas well.
(06:59):
So I really appreciate that Ifyou could use kind of two words,
if you could say before earlymorning habit, my morning was
described in this way, or mylife, the way I felt, and then
now it feels like this.
How would you describe that?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I'd say before I was
more tired, I was more tired and
now I feel like I can have moreenergy.
So I guess, more tired, moreenergy which you wouldn't think
because I am getting up earlierbut I just think the quality of
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sleep has improved.
And mental health, physicalhealth I mean just starting your
day working out reading a Bibleall of that combined, I felt
like, has just given me moreenergy.
I felt like has just given memore energy.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, and it's such a
beautiful concept.
And I love what you just saidbecause I think, as women,
what's so hard to put into wordsis that the tiredness is not
just physical, yeah, it's mental, it's emotional, it's like
sometimes there's just a soulweary tiredness that we don't
really have one word for.
And then, on the flip side,when you are able to renew, that
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, it's not just a physicalenergy, there's literally like a
sense of almost whole personrenewal that does energize, sort
of from the inside out.
And so I love how you said that, because I think that's just so
true of many of us as women andit was for myself what kept me
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rising earlier was that sense oflike.
It was really like a deeperlevel sense of renewal and
energy.
Um, so what would you say inyour experience, sets early
morning habit apart from otherhealth and fitness programs?
In your experience, what makesit unique and why should a woman
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try it?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
the ease of use.
Just the app was reallyuser-friendly.
And then I think the communityaspect really sets it apart.
I have not personally done alot of different programs, but I
feel like I don't know if theyall have weekly calls, but the
weekly calls were verymotivating.
You know, there were times thatI, like, wasn't really feeling
it and then I would like get onthe weekly call and I'd feel
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like, okay, I can do this, Like,like it's fine, Like I can do
this.
So I think they were reallyencouraging.
And just like the support fromthe chat room there's a chat
room in the app with the othermembers and just getting to know
others going through the sameprogram I think was really
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helpful too.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I love that and for
those of you listening and
watching, what she's referringto is, I mean, the chat room is
pretty obvious in the app, butwe do a live weekly Zoom meeting
and um.
It's one of the mostencouraging things to me too,
because I love hearing thepeople's perspectives and
feedback.
You know it's everyone's indifferent positions and for some
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people they can wake up earlierand get their workout, um and
quiet time done before theirkids wake up.
For other people that's not asdoable, and so they prioritize
their quiet time first, but thenthey get their workout done
after, you know, their kids aresettled, and so it's just neat
to hear other people'sperspectives and encouragement
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and feel absolutely like you'rerising together, literally and
figuratively together literally,and figuratively, yeah.
What is one piece ofencouragement to a woman who you
know, who says well, I don'tknow if I have the money for it,
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I don't know if I have the timefor it.
What would you say?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I would say.
I mean, I think anything thatcan improve your health, both
mentally, physically,spiritually, I think that's
worth the price.
The information is so valuablethat I mean it can be life
changing honestly.
So I would say it is a solidinvestment if you want to make a
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positive change in your life.
Um, and then, as far as time, Imean I would say there really
isn't a loss of time because, um, but at least for me like I
just kind of shifted my wholesleep schedule slightly, so I'm
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just going to bed slightlyearlier and waking up slightly
earlier I mean there reallywasn't a loss of time for me.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So I love that.
What I'm hearing you say isthere's no loss of time, there's
a shift of priorities right,yeah, and if this is a priority,
then it'll happen.
Yeah, and, like you just said,the idea is to rise well in
order to serve your familybetter.
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So if we can help you do thatwithout sacrificing time
improving your sleep, then mostpeople would be willing to pay
for that.
So I'm so grateful for you.
You guys, if you are interestedin signing up, we would
absolutely love to help you risewell, thrive with more energy,
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freedom and joy.
In the show notes you will seea um, I'm sorry.
In the show notes you will seea link to sign up for early
morning habit.
It is specifically Alison's umreferral partner link.
She will get a small commissionIf you sign up through this
link.
If her story resonates with you, please use her link to sign up
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so she gets that.
Thank you, you and so gratefulfor you sharing your story.
Allison, such an honor to haveyou.
Thank you for sharing yourstory.
You're an inspiration.
Grateful to have you in ourcommunity.
Ladies, let's rise.