414: Don’t Train on Leftovers: The Profit First Method for Runners

What would it look like to pay yourself first when it comes to your health?

In this episode, we explore how the Profit First principle—typically used in business—can be a powerful tool to help you shift how you think about your time, energy, and well-being. Instead of letting health be what’s leftover, we talk about putting it first—so you can show up stronger in all areas of life.

We share personal insights, practical examples, and actionable strategies to help you prioritize what matters most—sleep, training, nutrition, and recovery—even in a busy life full of obligations. From blocking off time in your calendar to conducting a “time profit audit,” you’ll walk away with tools to create more balance, consistency, and sustainability in your health journey.

We also dive into:

• Why so many of us struggle to prioritize ourselves—and how to change that
• The importance of boundaries, saying no, and asking for help
• How consistency beats intensity for long-term health and performance
• Ways to build a support system that lifts you up
• Why recovery isn’t a luxury—it’s essential

This is your reminder that your health isn’t selfish—it’s foundational. And it doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing. Let’s reframe the way we show up for ourselves—one small choice at a time!

00:10 Profit First: Applying Business Concepts to Health

01:40 The Fence Metaphor: DIY Projects and Running

03:27 Prioritizing Health: A Common Struggle

04:51 The Profit First Equation: Flipping the Script

10:26 Real-Life Application: Prioritizing Sleep and Training

16:00 Balancing Obligations: Work, Family, and Health

20:30 The Importance of a Support System

24:04 Recovery Time: The Overlooked Priority

27:43 The Importance of Saying No and Setting Boundaries

29:53 Prioritizing Nutrition for Health and Performance

32:52 The Power of Consistency in Health Habits

37:10 Practical Tips for Scheduling and Meal Planning

44:43 The Importance of Boundaries and Self-Care

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Episode Transcript

Angie (00:00):
What if the reason you're not feeling the way that you
want in your body or seeing theresults you want in your running
has nothing to do with yourtraining plan and everything to
do with your priorities?
I've been reading this bookcalled Profit First, and it's
totally changing the way that Ithink about business, and it
also got me thinking about howthis applies to health and
fitness too.
So the idea is simple.
Most businesses spend all oftheir money first and hope that

(00:23):
there's something left over fora profit.
But most successful ones, theytake their profit first and make
everything else work aroundthat.
And that's when I realized thisis what so many of us are doing
in our running and our health,and living our lives in this
same way.
We spend our time and our energyon everything and everyone else.
And then hope that there'ssomething left over for our

(00:43):
training, our recovery, or ourhealth.
So today we're gonna be talkingabout how to flip that model on
its head.
What if we took our energyfirst, our health first?
What if your health was yourprofit and it came before
everything else, and youactually held boundaries around
that?
So let's talk about what happenswhen you stop training on just
the leftovers and start treatingyour body like your most

(01:06):
valuable investment.
So stay tuned.

(01:31):
What's up runners?
Welcome back to the show.
We're talking all about Profitslash Health first, and I'm
super excited to dive into thisconcept because this is a book
that I've been reading orlistening to actually on my
walks.
and it's a co a concept I'mgonna be applying to our
business to help make ourbusiness run healthier.
And it just really got methinking about how this applies
to so many other areas of ourlife spec, specifically our

(01:54):
running and our health.
It's

Speaker 2 (01:56):
fantastic.
I'm just excited to do apodcast, not discussing a fence,
honestly.

Speaker (01:59):
the fence is still going.
So actually, maybe we should doa little fence update, because
those of you that caught ourepisode last week, we talked all
about this, fence metaphor andhow we were replacing our fence
and A lot of projects that you,DIY things might not always go
exactly to plan.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah.
that's running is a somethingthat we, DIY you've got, you can
reach out for us and for somecoaching and for help on that,
but.
Running is a lot of a DIYexperiment and you do stuff
around the house and it's oh,we're gonna start this project.
Oh, but first we have to do thatthing.
And then as we started, it's oh,there's also this little hiccup.
And with things just aren'tgoing quite as smoothly as they

(02:36):
could be as.
As tends to be the case.

Speaker (02:39):
that's because you're not a fence professional, right?
And no, I am not.
And you're doing a really goodjob.
And last week we talked abouthow we have a really good friend
that's done this before and ishelping us in this, but even
this isn't what he does for hisjob, that he's not a.
Professional fence installer.
And so Kevin has had to makemultiple trips back to the fence
supply store and multiple tripsto Lowe's because like things

(03:01):
just pop up that were notexpected or didn't exactly go to
plan or Oh, you know what, wedidn't exactly plan that the
right way.
And that same thing candefinitely happen in our
training as well.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah.
But ultimately we have abeautiful fence up right now.
It's and a functional gate

Speaker (03:17):
and yes.
And so I think that.
The fence will basically be donetoday after we record this
episode.
So that's exciting.
we just have to do a littlemore, a couple little tweaks,
and then fill in some spaceunderneath the fence.
'cause our lot is not exactlyeven like from the front to the
back.
So some kind of, functionaldetails.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
then we'll have a fence and two functional gates
Exactly.
Is really what we're gonna have.

Speaker (03:41):
Yeah.
So it's great.
But So if you have questions andyou're not sure what we're
talking about, just go back andlisten to our last episode.
But today we're gonna be talkingabout this idea of priori
priorities and how many of us,and I think this happens to all
of us at some point in time.
So I don't think it's like oneof these things that you're
like, yep, this episode does notapply to me.

(04:01):
I can just check the box and hitskip, because I definitely
prioritize my health and myfitness and my nutrition and all
the things like I think that.
I'm very good at that.
I think that you in general arepretty good at that as well.
but I think that we all fallinto this trap sometimes.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah.
It's why you gave me a caveatthere.
I think that you in general arevery good at that because I
think a lot of,'cause you're, goahead.
I think a lot of people arepretty good at this.
Yeah.
In general, and sometimes we'renot.
It's people who are okay atthis, but in general they're not
that it's gonna be super helpfulfor.
But I think everybody has timeswhere they're like, yeah, that

(04:37):
did not exactly prioritize myhealth as a priority there.

Speaker (04:41):
Yeah.
And I think that we're gonna bevery honest with you guys, like
we always are because.
There are times that I have toremind Kevin, because Kevin is a
very self-sacrificing human ingeneral.
He tends to put others first,especially his family, which is
a beautiful trait.
And sometimes that means he putshimself on the back burner.
And so there are some times thatI literally have to kick him out

(05:02):
the door and I'm like, go run,go do this.
this is very important.
You need to take care ofyourself here.
And I think that's a trap that alot of us can fall into as well.
So let's just start by Definingthis concept of what is this
idea of profit first?
You probably already have, agood idea of what it is, but in
the book, in business, theauthor talks about how most
people, when they think abouttheir profit of their business,

(05:25):
they use the old equation, whichis revenue minus expenses, equal
profit.
So profit is.
Your second thought, like it'sjust whatever's left over after
you, you've taken all of yourrevenue, pay out all of your
expenses, whether that's payrollor supplies or what all the,
your operating expenses of thebusiness, your taxes, all of

(05:47):
that stuff.
And then whatever's left over isthe profit and how most
businesses, this means thatthey're not profitable and that
there's not really enough moneyleft over for like owner's
compensation and payroll,especially in small businesses.
And so his concept is to reallyflip this equation.
So instead of revenue minusexpenses equals.

(06:08):
Profit.
You take revenue minus profitequals expenses.
You start taking your profitfirst, and he in the book is
very clear that you're notsupposed to just take, okay, I
want 50% of my business to beprofit, so I'm gonna start
taking 50%.
Like absolutely not.
Most businesses, if they didthat, would go under and would
not be able to pay off all oftheir expenses.

(06:29):
But we start with just a littlebit 1%.
That's how he suggests to do it.
You take 1% of.
Your revenue weekly or monthlyand just put it into an account.
Separate that you don't eventouch it.
You don't look at it.
It just comes out.
And that starts to build thatmuscle because if you say you're
making$10,000 to just choose aneasy number, if you're able to

(06:49):
run your business on$10,000,you're definitely able to run
your business on$9,900 because1% of 10,000 is a hundred bucks.
So you can definitely run yourbusiness on that.
So it's, at the beginning youdon't even feel it, but then now
you're building up.
This bank of profit that youknow, really can get you rolling
in the right direction.
And so ultimately when you flipthe equation this way, this

(07:12):
forces better prioritization, itprioritizes more efficiency in
your business and clarity aroundwhat's important.
So you can look at the expensesthat you have in the business
and ask yourself, okay, are allof these.
Necessary for me to do rightnow.
do we need that softwaresubscription?
Do we need all of these extrathings that are, we're spending
money on and really get down tothe nitty gritty and figure out,

(07:36):
okay, what's necessary for me torun the business and what can I
cut so that I can actually havemore leftover for profit?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Instead of saying, I hope there's some profit after
we've paid all of these things,you say This is the profit that
we're aiming for.
And so I only have this muchleft to spend on expenses.
And here's where it's not aperfect one-to-one metaphor
because the.
maybe it is.
'cause there's stuff inside ofbusinesses that have to get paid
off the, there's stuff,'causewe're gonna transition this over

(08:02):
to life.
There's stuff that doesn'treally get moved.
Like in a business, you have topay taxes, otherwise the
government comes after you.
I think I assume.

Speaker (08:10):
Yeah, they do.
and you have to pay payroll ifyou, but again, this is one of
those things that yes, you dohave to pay payroll if you have
employees, but are all of thoseemployees necessary?
could it be run more efficientlywith less employees doing the
same job because.
In a lot of businesses, we wereactually just having this
conversation with a guy that washelping us with the fence

(08:31):
yesterday.
'cause this is one of the thingshe actually used to do, is he
actually used to go intobusinesses and help those
businesses actually becomeprofitable by taking a look at
what they were spending alltheir money on and tell them
where they needed to startcutting things.
So in life, when we look at ourhealth and our running.
How do most people run it?
They say, okay, I've got life,I've got work, I have family,

(08:53):
other obligations, chores, ato-do list.
I have to clean my house.
And then whatever's left over,that's the time that I have left
for running or health.
And again, I.
Maybe you're pretty good at thismost of the time, but then
sometimes this happens too, andthis is why, Kevin and I are
gonna talk about there isnuance, right?
But in general, if you're doingthis all of the time, that's

(09:15):
training on leftovers.
And often this is what leads toinconsistency, guilt,
frustration, and burnout.
Because you're prioritizingeverything else above your
health.
And in this case, you'rerunning.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
So to go back to the business model, if you put all
the expenses first without everactually examining what those
expenses are, you're like, oh,you have to pay for all these
things if you never actuallylook at where you're spending
all of your time.
You're like, of course I have tospend time doing this and time
doing this, and time doing this.
Suddenly all your time is goneand you reach the end of the day
one, you're exhausted, like soyou have no energy.

(09:49):
Yeah.
Your energy tank is on empty,and your time is probably
running scarce.
Before you get to the oh, I haveto make sure that I make dinner
or whatever.
the next thing is also there'stime and energy and they're both
intertwined on this guy is Ionly have so much life to work
with.
There's only so many hours inthe day and so much energy that
I have to put into those hours.
And so if you flip it and you'relike, all right, I have to

(10:10):
figure out where I'm going toactually be able to run and take
care of myself.
Then I have time to do some ofthese other things.
And again, this is a littletricky.
Like in business you have to paytaxes.
You can't be like, this is theprofit that I want.
So I guess I'm just not payingtaxes this quarter.
that's not how it works.
there are things that have tohappen in your life, but not

(10:32):
everything that we're saying.
I only have this much time andenergy minus all of these
things.
And then whatever's left over,that's where I get to run.

Speaker (10:40):
So let's talk about.
What this looks like in our reallife first, and then we'll start
to get into some of the nuance.
So what this might look like,taking your quote unquote health
profit first would be to, numberone, prioritize your training
sessions.
Actually, I probably shouldn'teven put that as number one
because yes, training sessionsare important, but I would say

(11:01):
that your sleep would be one ofthe more important things too.
Nail down first because this isone of those things that if
you're not getting enough sleep,you're probably going to
underperform in pretty much allareas of your life.
So when you are able to.
Plan your sleep as anon-negotiable?
I would say that would be one ofthe first places that I would
start.
And there's so many people thatmake excuses around it.

(11:23):
They're like, oh, I have to wakeup at this certain hour because
I have to do this and I have todo that, and then I have to stay
up late.
But do you like, how much TV areyou watching at night?
could you get to bed earlier?
I don't know.
I can't answer that question.
And believe me, there'sabsolutely no judgment, but I
just would really.
Invite you to truly look at howyou're spending your time, and

(11:43):
we're gonna talk about kind ofaction steps towards the end of
the episode.
But I would say that number onewould be like really
understanding how importantsleep is and really making sure
that you put good boundariesaround your sleep.
Because if you get better sleep,you're going to have more energy
and you're gonna feel better inother areas of your life as
well.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, that was gonna be like my first take is I've
got 24 hours in a day to, towork with.
And then number one, subtractoff sleep.
Like now how many hours of theday do I actually have, take
sleep out originally instead ofI've gotta cover all these
things and then whatever's leftover I.
Maybe I'll fit some sleep in onthat end.
Yeah.
I like to put sleep towards thefront of it.

(12:22):
Every once in a while thingscome up and your sleep cycle is
gonna get shortened.
You are like, you actually didhave to wake up.
You got a flight.
Or you're going out with friendsand you're like, alright, this
is unplanned, but I'm going outand I actually do want to go
out.
I'm gonna stay up a little bitlater and really enjoy myself.
Don't feel bad because you, youtook that, but recognize that

(12:43):
I'm cha I'm taking away some ofthis sleep.
Portion.
But normally I would put thatthing almost immediately, 24
hours in the day, minus theamount of time you're gonna
sleep.

Speaker (12:51):
Yeah, I agree.
And I think that, but you knowwhat, like what you were just
mentioning, if you've got travelor if you've got other things
going on, oftentimes that's theexception to the rule.
And every now and then, that'stotally fine.
But then just figure out, okay,how am I going to make up for
that?
So this happened to me like aweek or two ago.
I went down to South Beach to.
Celebrate my friend's birthday,and I knew that was going to be

(13:12):
a late night.
I didn't know how late, but Iknew that was going to be a late
night.
I knew that I was going to be,partying a little bit and
driving home like late thatnight, so I wanted to make sure
that I.
Blocked off enough time that Iwas not going to plan on getting
up on Sunday morning and goingfor a run.
I was going to make sure that Iallowed myself to sleep in

(13:34):
because I needed to make surethat I was making up that sleep
that I lost from going to bedlate the night before.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah.
trying to plan an early morninglong run the next day would be a
terrible choice.
No, thank you.
but people do that, right?
They're like, oh, it's Sundayand this is what I do for my
workout on Sunday.
It's that's gonna need someadjustment.

Speaker (13:50):
and I think there, there's a lot of people that.
Take a badge of honor aroundthat too, of look at me.
I was able to go out and do thisthing and I still got up and
ran, and maybe that worked whenyou were in your twenties, but
if you're over 40, that stuffstops working.
So it's really important tounderstand, okay, it's fine.
I'm gonna make this choiceconsciously that I'm going to go

(14:11):
out, I'm going to stay up late,and then I'm going to make up to
make sure that I'm going toadjust my schedule to.
Make sure that I'm prioritizingmy health as much as possible
with this added thing that I putinto my schedule.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Okay.
So anything else that we wannaput into the non-negotiable
idea?
I think sleep is absolutelycritical.
I'm very biased towards thatafter, 2017 that I'm like, no.
Sleep needs to become a priorityat all costs.

Speaker (14:34):
So then the second thing I think would be planning
out your training sessions,which is what?
Where I started and thenreverted, but training sessions,
if you, it depends on whatyou're training for and depends
on, what your current goal is.
If you're currently training fora race or an athletic event,
that does need to be a priority.
Now, I think a lot of peoplewould say that easily, if I've

(14:55):
got a race on the calendar andthis is what.
I think leads a lot of people tosign up for, races to use as
motivation because they will puta race on the calendar.
And then now, because that raceis on the calendar, now I'm
motivated.
Now I can prioritize that thing,but why don't you prioritize
during other parts of your lifeas well?
Like to me.

(15:16):
I'm not training for a raceright now.
My goal is to build strength andto build muscle.
I'm still prioritizing mytraining sessions.
There are still times that Imove them around.
They don't always happen thesame time every day.
And luckily I have a flexibleschedule that I can do that, but
I'm still making sure that I'mgetting in all of my training
sessions each week.
Every now and then, life happensand something comes up and I

(15:37):
miss one here or there, but Inever have, I never miss two in
a row.
So where can you fit in yourtraining sessions?
Maybe you have a very regularschedule.
If you are someone that has afull-time job and say you work
the same hours every singleweek, you know what time you
have available.
So how can you put thosetraining sessions in either

(15:59):
before work, after work to makesure that you're prioritizing
those things before everythingelse, before you know all of
your.
Kids and your spouses and allthe other activities that are on
your social calendar, are youprioritizing and figuring out
where your health and yourtraining session goes?
And this is where it becomes alittle tricky, I think, and

(16:19):
where we can get into somenuance.
Because there's a lot of peoplethat will then say, I can't move
my work schedule.
how can I can't just work outwhenever I want to because I'm
required to be at work from thistime to this time.
And so we're not telling youthat.
everybody's going to do this thesame way because it's going to
be, it's going to lookdifferently.
Kevin's schedule looks muchdifferent than my schedule

(16:41):
because he's a full-timeteacher.
So he knows that from seven 30to three 30 every single day,
Monday through Friday, he's atschool.
So that is something that isobviously a priority to him.
That doesn't mean it's a higherpriority than his health and his
fish fitness and his training,right?
how would you say like that, youlook at that in your mind?

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah.
It's not that it's a higherpriority, it's just that time
block is blocked off.
Like I'm not going to, in themiddle of.
Seven 30 to three 30 be able tobe like, all right, now I'm just
going to leave campus for anhour and 15 minutes.
that's just, that's not how itworks.
Like I'm required.
It's in my contract that I'm oncampus.

Speaker (17:18):
Yeah.
But there was that year that youhad a very long lunch break that
you sometimes trained duringyour lunch break too.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
That's true.
The way the, that the scheduleworked out that year, I had the
period that was a connected tolunch.
I had that as an off period, andso I could, I had.
Essentially an hour and 20minutes that included an off
period and lunch connected toeach other.
And so if class ended and Iimmediately changed and got on a

(17:46):
treadmill, but I almost neverleft campus.
Yeah.
I was always there.
I was avail if somebody neededme.
They knew where I was.
Yeah.
I was on a treadmill.

Speaker (17:55):
I don't think you ever left campus, did you?

Speaker 2 (17:57):
I have left campus, so very rarely.
Yeah.
teaching because if you do it,you have to let 10 different
people know.
Yeah.
Is like we have a procedure thatlike if you have to go off
campus for whatever, Yeah.
An appointment, like whatever,like you, you're gonna go out
and grab lunch at the grocerystore that's half a mile north
of us.
You, there's 10 different peoplethat need to know the answer to
this thing.

(18:18):
and it's a, it's an easy, it's arelatively easy email to send
out.
I'm heading off a campus andthen you have to tell the guard
that you're leaving campus.
There's stuff, so I just knowI'm on campus from seven 30 to
three 30.
But yes, that year didconveniently work out that I
could in fact run some days at1130 in the afternoon.

Speaker (18:35):
Yeah.
But going back to how youprioritize that in your head
then, like how would you say youprioritize your training
sessions versus work?
Because what we were talkingabout here with this pro.
health First equation would bewe're taking your time that you
have available and thenprioritizing your health and
your training first before allof the other obligations of your

(18:56):
day.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, I run most days I get up and run before work
because.
That's where it fits based offof my work schedule.
But like we said, prioritizingsleep is also super critical.
So if for some reason I'm uplater the night before, I'm not
going to get up at five and gofor a run because I'm gonna end
up with too little sleep.

(19:18):
And so then I will try andfigure out a way that I can run
the.
Following afternoon, which leadsto one of the other points that
we have on here is asking otherpeople for help, which does not
come easily and naturally to me.
I like to be able to do thethings like if I'm supposed to
help take the girls to differentplaces, if I've got stuff that
normally I help you with and.

(19:40):
Then I don't get up and run thatmorning.
I don't like to come home and belike, Hey, I can't help you with
this, and this, because I needto go for a run.
Yeah.
I can't help with dinner becauseI'm gonna go take off and can
you just cover taking the girlsto all the places and make
dinner because I'm gonna go outand for a run.
Like it doesn't feel good to me,but sometimes it has to happen.

Speaker (20:01):
So how do you navigate that?
Because you say some

Speaker 2 (20:03):
uncomfortably,

Speaker (20:03):
sometimes it has to happen, but there's a lot of
times that you don't hold thatboundary for yourself either.
I'm gonna go ahead and call youout here because I want people
to know that it's hard to holdthis boundary even when.
you want to, even when you knowit's good for you, all of these
things.
And so I think it's importantfor people to hear this from us
also, that it's hard to holdthis boundary sometimes.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah.
I'm not very good at this.
'cause I, the earlier you and Ican talk about it, of when am I
gonna be able to run, Sometimesthis even gets taken care of the
night before.
Yeah.
Of I'm, we're heading to bedlater than normal.
And you're like, when are yougonna run tomorrow?
And I'm like, oh, it's gotta gotomorrow after I come home from
school.
And the earlier that we can talkabout it, the less I feel like

(20:47):
I'm springing on you.
Yeah.
Hey, I can't cover this thingthat I often do.

Speaker (20:51):
but I think that this is also making me think about
the importance of a good supportsystem and having someone that
you can ask for help and thatyou feel that is really
supportive of you.
And I think it does make itharder and much more challenging
for those of you that might nothave that partner or those
people in your lives that are.
As supportive of you as youmight want them to be.

(21:12):
And I know that also as thepartner that often has to do
this, like it can be a lot forme too, because there's so many
other things that I am dealingwith in life, like the girls and
making the dinner and all thethings.
I oftentimes, it can be a pointof frustration for me that Kevin
doesn't hold this boundary forhimself because I'm like, why do
I, like, why is your health.

(21:32):
Also on me, right?
you need to hold this boundaryfor yourself.
Like, why am I the one that'sasking you, when are you gonna
run?
and there's oftentimes he'll belike, oh, I just, I'm not gonna
run tomorrow because, we havethis thing to do.
And I'm like, you still can run.
We just have to figure out whenyou're gonna do it.
and so I'm trying to help himunderstand like, this is
important to you.
Like I know what running doesfor Kevin, and I know how

(21:53):
important it is for his mentaland physical health.
So how can we fit this in?
I'm not like, oh no, we're notgonna do this.
It's always, okay, how can wemake this work?
But it can be frustrating for meat times that I feel like that
gets put on me to figure out foryou, even though that's not my
job.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, it's definitely not.
But that's why I.
anytime that we've had like racerecaps and I finish a thing that
I'm like, this has been such ateam effort.
It's not a team effort on theday of the race.
It's been a team effort formonths and months leading up to
that, like the amount oftraining that goes into some of
these things and the days thatI'm like, I cannot be helpful

(22:29):
today.
I'm heading out for three hoursand that's what I've got.
Yeah.
that's why all of it, all ofthe.
Training is a team effort also,so having as much of a support
network as you can create atall, like anybody that you can
bring in to help being willingto ask others for help.
Sometimes that's a tough shiftfor people.

(22:50):
'cause you can, you don't feelas bad asking for help on
various obligations along theway.
But to ask for help so that youcan prioritize your health for
some reason feels different thanasking for help with other areas
of your life.

Speaker (23:05):
I think that it can, until you really start putting
this.
Principle into play because Ifeel like I've gotten pretty
good at really holdingboundaries for myself.
And I think that's whatfrustrates me when you don't do
it too.
Because like I know that I do itand maybe it's easier for me and
for multiple reasons.
And I think that in some waysit's also not easier for me
because I feel as a mom thatit's more of my responsibility

(23:29):
to take care of the kids andmake sure that they're getting
to all the places.
I'm not saying that you're veryhelpful, but I think that it's
just tricky sometimes.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
No.
let's be real honest, like if Ineed to go for a run in the
middle of the afternoon, there'susually like a thing that you
are now responsible for that Iwas gonna do.
If you're gonna go for a run inthe afternoon, now there's 12
things that I need to pick upbecause those were the things
that you were doing that Ididn't even realize were taking
place.

Speaker (23:55):
and I think that's why I am good about holding my
boundaries because I know that.
I have, I wanna get my things inhere because it, that way I can
still have the time in the restof the day to do the other
things that I need to do withoutinconveniencing other people.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Because you do a thousand things during the day
and I do six.

Speaker (24:13):
I don't know about that, but I think that it, it is
interesting and.
We can oftentimes block out andget like wrap our heads around
this idea of blocking out timefor our training sessions or
blocking out time for sleep.
But are you also prioritizingyour recovery time and really
blocking out time for recovery?
And I think this one'sdefinitely trickier.
I know it's definitely trickierfor me like.

(24:34):
If I am doing something, I'mlike, sorry, I can't do this.
I have this other thing that Ineed to get in.
And like my mom literally justtexted me in the middle of
recording this podcast and askedif I wanted to go to lunch.
That sounds awesome.
I would love to go to lunch withmy mom right now, but I'm
podcasting.
And then after this podcast, Ihave to get my strength session
in because I haven't lifted yettoday.

(24:55):
could I move it to later in theday, maybe I'm gonna look at my
calendar after we're donerecording here, but there are
times that we can.
Prioritize.
I think that we can prioritizecertain things easier than
others.
And when it comes to recovery,time to actually just relaxing.
This is one of the things thatyou were even having an issue
with last night, right?

(25:15):
Kevin's been installing thisfence and been outside in this
heat doing very heavy labor fora few days now, and he was
outside yesterday from I thinknine to after 5:00 PM and.
I made dinner of course, and wehad dinner and whatever.
And normally Kevin is helpingclean up for DI from dinner and
I told our youngest daughter, Igo take dad and make him sit

(25:37):
down on the couch.
And she's what?
I go make him.
Sit down, go sit down with him.
I don't know, just go have himsit down because he felt bad
taking recovery time andrelaxing, knowing that we were
still cleaning up from dinner.
And I think that taking thattime to just rest and relax can
be much harder for a lot of us.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Because it doesn't feel productive, right?
You're not doing a thing.
You're literally not doing athing.
That's most of what recoverytime is.
Sometimes there you can havesome active recovery, but most
of the recovery time, especiallyif you go hard on physical
activities, most of thatrecovery time is spent not doing
things like you were trying tojust push me down to the couch

(26:17):
so that I could just sit andcomfortably relax.
That, and that'd be great.
There was stuff that needed toget done around the house and I
felt uncomfortable.
'cause, I sat down and I'm ableto look around and see that
there's things that needed toget taken place.
The, was it yesterday?
We were at your sister's house.
She made dinner for us.
Yes.

(26:38):
Monday.
Monday.
So that was fantastic becausethere was no way that I could
help with dinner.
There was no way that I couldhelp clean up from dinner.
That's one of the rules when wehave dinner at it is at your
sister's house.
Yep.
Is you're not allowed to help.
and so I went there and Iliterally just sat on the couch
and it was fantastic because Ididn't.
Feel?
A pull to help.

(26:58):
Yeah.
I was able to just sit there,which was fine.
And I felt physically reallynice about that.
It's difficult for me to sit athome when I can look around and
see that stuff needs to getdone.
And especially if I'm watchingother people do stuff, I could
be like, I could be helpful.
I could participate in thatthing that needs to get done and
it will get done faster.

(27:19):
But, sometimes recovery time is.
Is definitely required.

Speaker (27:22):
Absolutely.
And I think that, that is reallythe part of leaning on people
too.
Like after your ultra marathon,you, I think offered to Dr.
Drive part of the way home.
I definitely did.
I felt

Speaker 2 (27:32):
so good.
I was, oh my God.
just gimme a cup of coffee, I'mgood to go.

Speaker (27:35):
Absolutely not sit in the passenger.
Seat and close your eyes, likeyou just ran a hundred miles.
And I think that this is thechallenge that happens with a
lot of people that are serviceoriented, like I would call you
a very service oriented person.
People that also have that needfor people pleasing.
always wanting to be helpful.
Always like having a hard timeresting

Speaker 2 (27:54):
service person sounds so much nicer than people
pleaser,

Speaker (27:57):
service oriented, right?
Don't you think?

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Yeah.
Way nicer than the clear peoplepleaser.

Speaker (28:02):
But I think that's one of the things that.
All of us could probably getbetter at, which is saying no.
That's part of this as well, islike in order to put your health
first and your energy first, youhave to say no to things of
lower priority.
And this is boundary settingand.
When you grow up as a peoplepleaser, as someone that has

(28:23):
been told to prioritize servingothers or doing things or,
always being productive andaction oriented, which a lot of
us runners do, there's a certainpersonality type that is
attracted to running for areason.
That's why you can oftentimesconnect and relate to so many
runners and that's, one of thethings that we love about our
real life runners team is likewe have literally runners all

(28:45):
over the world and they're all.
They can all connect on verysimilar things because running
tends to attract a certain typeof person, and that type of
person usually is very actionoriented, very like a doer, not
just someone that sits around,obviously is not caring about
their health or about theirlife.
Like it's someone that likes tochallenge themselves, like to,

(29:06):
likes to do things.
And that can backfire in this,arena a lot of times because
then you're just always caughtup in the doing and you're not
saying no because you're alwayslike, yeah, I'm gonna say yes.
I wanna help people.
I wanna do these things.
I wanna be part of this socialcircle.
But part of prioritizing yourhealth is als also learning when

(29:27):
to say no and when to hold thatboundary.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
So that's, To go back to the metaphor that's really
looking carefully at all theexpenses and figuring out what
is not required.
Yeah.
If you're, you say you have 24hours worth of time and energy,
and then you start subtracting abunch of things and health is
left over, which of those thingsdo you not need to actually
subtract off?
Which ones could.
Literally just not even be onthe list.

(29:50):
Not that you could ask forsomebody's help with them, but
they just don't need to bethere, in the business model,
who doesn't actually need to beon payroll because they're not
contributing to the company.
Yeah.
what are those activities inyour life that are not really
actually contributing to yourlife that you feel, still feel
compelled to do?
But you could just subtract andgive yourself time and energy

(30:12):
back.

Speaker (30:12):
Yeah, absolutely.
and one more thing that we wannalook at when we're prioritizing
our health first is our meals.
And I think that as busy people,it can oftentimes be easy to
forget about meals.
Skip meals or just make meals asecond, like an afterthought
when you go over to your fridgeand you open up your fridge and
you're like, what am I going toeat today?

(30:34):
And then you end up puttingsomething together or throwing
things together.
And a lot of times when peoplecome into our coaching program
and we start talking to themabout.
Eating more food andprioritizing protein and those
kinds of things, they find itvery hard to do this.
And that's because it has tobecome much more intentional.
Like you don't just naturally,most people do not just

(30:55):
naturally eat 120 grams ofprotein every day.
Like you have to be intentionalto figure out how am I gonna get
in that much protein?
And then also eat like thefruits and the vegetables and
the things like that havemicronutrients, right?
Like.
When you start to look atprioritizing your nutrition,
both for overall health and forperformance, you have to be

(31:17):
intentional about it.
It cannot be an afterthought.
And this is one of the thingsand one of the reasons that I
think that so many peoplestruggle with this is that.
You haven't been trained to doit this way.
You've been trained to just eatwhatever and figure it out.
And it cannot be that way if youare going for certain health or
performance goals.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Yeah, if you start running in much longer things,
training for marathons andfurther beyond that, the food
that you put in during the run,that's like saying that I'm
gonna ballpark my hydration andnutrition during a two to three
hour long run.
that is not something thatyou're just naturally going to
take in enough calories,especially if you're planning on
carrying all of them.
Like you're not gonnaaccidentally have hundreds of

(31:58):
calories stashed on your body.
You need to actually plan thisout and make sure that you are
carefully doing it.
If you're not carrying like.
A water vest with you, you mighthave to plan a route out that
you know is going past drinkingfountains so that you are
actually getting in enoughwater.
Otherwise you're just not goingto take in enough water along
the way because you probablydidn't just accidentally carry a

(32:20):
couple of liters of water onyour person.

Speaker (32:22):
Yeah, and I think that when people get into training
for longer distances, they do.
Prioritize their trainingduring, or their, sorry, their
nutrition during a run, butthey're not always the best
about planning their nutritionfor the rest of the day.
Yeah.
and that part is way moreimportant than the calories that
you take in during your run,your overall nutrition, what

(32:44):
you're feeding yourself forbreakfast, lunch, and dinner,
and.
Snacks throughout the day is waymore important than just the
things that you're taking induring the run.
And I think that this is whereso many runners and people get
in trouble because they'relooking for these like little
things.
They're focusing on these smalldetails without addressing the
low hanging fruit and the thingsthat will actually make a really

(33:05):
big difference in how they look,how they feel, how they perform.
Because.
They're too simple in, in someways, right?
Like in some ways, like this isthe simple, boring, unsexy stuff
that we're doing every singleday that's actually making the
biggest difference in how wefeel.
Like I had this conversationwith my sister.
And my sister, I'm actuallygonna have her on the podcast,

(33:28):
so I'm excited to introduce youguys to her.
at some point when, whenever weget the time to record this, but
she's been, on this journey ofeating more protein and lifting
weights and really changing herbody composition.
And she was talking about howshe's.
Having conversations aboutnutrition with her friends and
things that, we're all over 40now.

(33:48):
And so now all of a sudden, allthese women are looking at
things differently.
And she was talking to a friendof hers and she's asked her, how
are things going?
And her friend was like, I hadground beef and cottage cheese
for lunch today, and my sisterwas like, yep, that sounds about
right, because it's the boring,unsexy stuff that is going to
actually lead to the results.
It's not the things that youknow are all over social media,

(34:12):
but it's the things that you doevery single day that you just
repeat that actually give youthose results.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Yeah.
that's the answer for business.
That's the answer for training.
That's the answer for mostthings, is it's not the stuff
that looks cool to put on socialmedia that gets the results.
It's the boring consistency thatgets you phenomenal results.
It doesn't get you phenomenalresults tomorrow.
It's the boring consistency dayover day, month over month, year

(34:38):
over year that compounds, andthen you look back three years,
four years later and you'relike, wow.
Look at the change that I'vemanaged to accomplish.
But it doesn't look cool fromone day to the next.
It almost never looks cool fromone day to the next, and

Speaker (34:51):
you don't feel a heck of a lot different either.
Just the same way that the bookwas talking about taking 1%
profit, you're like, Ooh, I'vegot 10 bucks in my account.
Like I've got a hundred bucks inmy account.
Whoopy do.
At the beginning, it doesn'tlook like much.
But when you keep doing it, thenit builds up over time and all
of a sudden you've got all thismoney in your account and you're

(35:12):
like, oh my gosh, look at this.
How great is this?
Same thing with our health dayby day.
You getting a little bit moresleep on Monday.
Maybe you'll feel different onTuesday, maybe not.
But if you continuouslyprioritize your sleep and you
are consistently getting eighthours of 7, 8, 9 hours of sleep,

(35:33):
and by the way, some newresearch that's coming out is
also showing that women actuallyneed more sleep than men.
so that's something to keep inmind because I think, I feel
like women oftentimes get lesssleep than men because we're
taking care of a lot of otherthings.
that's just my own.
Random opinion, not based onresearch at all that statement,
but anyway, you know when you dothat over time and your body

(35:54):
actually gets to reset andrecover and rebuild.
You're gonna start seeing thatpay off in dividends and just
there's compounding interest inthe bank, there's gonna be
compounding interest in yourbody and your health down the
road as well.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah, no, that's a good way of putting it.
it's, they're dividends.
Yeah.
That's why you buy the boringstocks that just keep paying you
dividends.
Because they're showing up on aquarterly basis that you didn't
even do anything and money justshows up in your account.

Speaker (36:18):
because when you start prioritizing these things and
making these investments in yourhealth, and this is, that's
really how I want you to startthinking about this, is when you
get the right amount of protein,when you get the right amount of
sleep, when you're prioritizingyour training sessions, you are
literally putting investments inyour health bank.
And when you continue to invest,you're gonna have more energy,

(36:40):
you're gonna have more clarity,you're gonna have more presence
for everything else in yourlife.
Those things that.
You need to do in your life,those other life oblig, quote
unquote obligations and takingcare of your family and all of
those things, you're gonna showup way better when you invest in
yourself first, when you havemore energy, because you know
how it is.
Like when you are not well fed,when you are not well slept, you

(37:02):
do not have patience foranything.
You are cranky.
this is what happens.
And maybe I shouldn't say you.
I know I am okay.
Like this is one of the thingsthat happens.
And when I take care of myself,I.
Have way more patience andtolerance for everything else in
my life.
And I think that's really theway that we need to think of
this, is that all of theselittle health habits we are

(37:23):
investing in ourselves so thatwe can show up better in all
areas of our life.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Yeah.
No, that seems, it seems reallygood.
So maybe we get into some of thepracticality of, I, I feel like
we've touched on some of this,but let's really highlight some
nitty gritty of what is it thatwe can actually implement now,
coming off of this, there'sprobably a lot of people that
are like, yes, I get the idea ofI should prioritize running.
But how you talked about havingsome micro shifts.

(37:51):
I'm gonna skip ahead on thething to hit the one that I
really like.
Making your bedtime a boundaryof your day, not a bonus that
you can be like, this is when Iwould like to get to bed.
But actually putting it on thereand being like, this is when I
get to bed.
And we talked earlier thatsometimes you move it because
you have consciously chosen thatyou're going to stay up later
that day.
You're going to get up earlierthe next morning.

(38:13):
But that bedtime is a fixednumber, not a super gray area.
It's actually a fixed number.
And that's helpful.

Speaker (38:20):
Yeah, and I think that can shift around, like right
now, it's summertime.
Our girls are older, they wannastay up later, and family is a
priority for us.
So we are staying up a littlebit later than we normally do,
but that's also because we cansleep in a bit.
A little bit later too.
Yeah,

Speaker 2 (38:36):
everything gets shifted because of the summer.
It's a thousand degrees, so it'sstill nice to get up and run
before it becomes just thesurface of the sun.
But I am okay with running at 10o'clock in the summer in South
Florida.
It seems weird.
It's super, super hot.
But it's okay to me to do that.
And so I can shift my wake upand workout time back if we're

(38:57):
staying up a little bit later onthe other end.

Speaker (38:59):
So some other little things that you can start to do
is to put your runs and yourtraining sessions on your
calendar as if they weremeetings with yourself before
you schedule any other meetingslike.
Put those things in if you have,work from nine to five, I
understand that is somethingthat you have to schedule
around.
But in general, there's a lot ofother flexibility that you might

(39:19):
have put your training sessionsin your calendar and make them
non-negotiable.
Another thing you could do wouldbe to.
Think about your meals for theweek and prepare your meals
ahead of time, or at least planthem ahead of time.
Go make sure that you plan them.
You go to the grocery store, youhave all of the ingredients on
hand so that when it's time foryou to make dinner, you don't
have to think about it.
You just make what's on theschedule.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Yeah, being able to prep this stuff ahead of time is
fantastic.
I'm sure back in the episodesomewhere before a hundred, we
had a whole thing on batchprepping.
Yeah.
If you could plan out all ofyour meals and do all the prep
work on Monday, and you're gonnabe so smooth sailing, if you
could just figure out what mealsyou're going to eat.
God, that'd be so helpfulbecause come like four o'clock
in the afternoon, the last thingthat you want to do is try and

(40:04):
figure out what you're going tomake for dinner if you at least
have a plan.
Sure, you still have to gothrough the steps and actually
create food, but if you don'thave to come up with an idea,
that just makes it seem so mucheasier to do.
I can do the steps of, this isthe meal tonight.
Now just do A, B, and C andwe're going to have food on the
table.
But opening the pantry, openingthe fridge, and being like.

(40:25):
What do I feel like making fordinner sometimes?
Seems exhausting.

Speaker (40:30):
Yeah.
Sometimes that's too big of ahurdle to get over.
Yes.
And that's when you pick up thephone or go online and put it in
an order and you just go pick itup?

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yes.
Yeah, because it's just too bigof a hurdle.
Yeah.
Just lower that hurdle andfigure out what you're going to
eat during the week.
God, that sounds easier.

Speaker (40:43):
because you can do that when you are fresh and when you
have, your head on yourshoulders, you do that on a
Saturday or a Sunday, whateverit might be.
whatever day works out best foryou so that you can think
through it, make sure thatyou're getting the proper
nutrition for yourself, and thenyou just have to go get it done.
Let's just real quick as we wrapup some like common things that
might be coming up for you thatwe may or may not have addressed

(41:06):
right now.
So if you're thinking, okay,Ang, this sounds like a great
idea, but I just don't have thetime for this.
I would really invite you totake a look at.
How you are currently spendingyour time, and this is one of
the action items that I wouldlove for you to take away from
this week, is to really do atime profit audit.
So look and literally take acouple of days, maybe one day,

(41:29):
two days, and write down everysingle thing that you do that
day and every single thing thatyou are spending your time on,
and then figure out, okay.
What is negotiable here?
What is non-negotiable here?
How can I make more time for thethings that are important to me?
Because I don't think it's amatter of more time.
I think it's a matter of clearpriorities and yes, everybody's

(41:52):
life is different.
I am not saying that we all havethe same amount of time.
There are people out there thatwill tell you, we all have the
same 24 hours in a day.
Yes, right.
We do.
There's 24 hours in a day, butwe all have different.
Obligations and social thingsand family situations and things
that there are people that it'sgoing to be a little bit easier
that to prioritize these thingsthan others.

(42:14):
I understand that.
So I'm not trying to say, youcan do it, and you just don't
care enough about it.
That is definitely not what I'msaying.
So please don't hear it thatway.
But I am inviting you to take alook in a survey of exactly
where you're spending your timeand figure out.
What lower priority things arecurrently taking up your time
that you could maybe prioritizewith some higher priority

(42:35):
things.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
also, how many times do you switch tasks during the
day instead of being able totake a task that should take you
an hour, do you do 20 minutes ofthat and then do 20 minutes
doing something else and thencome back to the thing?
Because every time you flip fromone thing to the next, there's,
it's not a smooth transition.
Yeah.
You don't immediately start thenext task.
Your brain has to get on board.

(42:57):
You have to actually be able tostart and get your brain
thinking about that next thing.
The fewer switches you have, thesmoother your day's gonna be.
And it's not like you'resuddenly gonna have three hours
left over at the end, but if youclean up your task switching,
you could end up with a bonus 30minutes at the end of the day
easily.

Speaker (43:13):
Yeah, for sure.
I know that's true for myself aswell.
And this is one of the reasonsthat calendar blocking and
actually putting things into acalendar is super helpful.
So I personally use GoogleCalendar for this.
anybody, obviously GoogleCalendar is free, so you can
start using that.
You can use the calendar app onyour phone.
There's lots of ways you can dothis, but I literally put my
workouts on my calendar, mywalks, my runs, like all of my

(43:37):
daily tasks.
I tell my girls, if it's not onmy calendar, you can't hold me
to it.
they ask Mom, can I do thisthing?
I said, put it on my calendar.
If it's on my calendar, I willfigure out how to get it done.
You know how to make it work.
But if it doesn't go on mycalendar.
I can't promise that I'm gonnado it because I may have
prioritized other things andthere might not be any space
left for that.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
I love that everything that you do is on the
calendar because then I alsoknow where you are.
I know, is she out on a walk?
Oh, she's probably gonna be backin 20 minutes.
No wait.
This one's a long walk.
Because of whichever day of theweek.
Maybe she's gonna be back in 40minutes.
It just gives me such awarenessof what's going on.
I think it gives other peoplethe ability to plan around you,
which is also super helpfulbecause then people aren't

(44:18):
asking you questions, Hey, canyou do this for me?
If you can see the calendar?
You're like, no.
That's already blocked out.
That does.
There is no time for that personto do anything.

Speaker (44:26):
and I think that's a really important lesson that we
can teach our kids as well, isboundaries.
Like I, this is when I'm doingmy thing.
I am here and I'm available foryou.
And it's not that my kids.
Second to that, it's that, Hey,if you need me, no problem.
you're my priority, but I needto know ahead of time so I can
move things around so that I canstill prioritize myself and the

(44:47):
things that I want to do thatare important to me, and also
take care of you and get you to,take you to the mall or take you
to whatever it is.
But if you're not, if you'recoming to me last minute and I
already have my calendar as.
Full then.
Yeah, you taking you to the mallto hang out with your friends is
not gonna be high on my prioritylist.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Yeah.
that kinda goes to one of theseother kind of objections that
you might be getting is myfamily my job?
They need me first.
And yes, they do need you, butyou are going to show up best
for them when you're actuallytaking care of yourself, both in
how you feel after going forworkouts, after prioritizing
your health.
But also from a fuelingperspective, if you're getting
in the food that you need on aregular basis, if you're getting

(45:26):
the recovery that you need on adaily basis, then you can
actually show up as a betterversion of yourself for those
around you.
Like you just said, if someoneneeds your time and you have it
blocked out for lifting, likeyou didn't lift this morning
when it says so on the calendar,you're moving it.
But you have to know that thingsare getting shifted to other.
Points of the day, the earlierthat people can give you a heads

(45:48):
up of, Hey, I might need yourtime during this window.
It allows you to shift thingsaround.
It's not that your running hasto be on the day during this
exact time slot, it's just thatit needs to be on the day
somewhere.
And so if it's gonna get moved,you need to have some advanced
notice so that you can plan outthat movement.
Yeah, that is super helpful.

Speaker (46:08):
Yeah, I a hundred percent agree because I just
need to know what are all thethings I need to get done today?
And it doesn't necessarily meanthat they have to happen at that
time.
And for you they might though,if you have more of a rigid
schedule, there might be a timewhere you're like, this is the
window I have, so that means I'mgonna have to say no to anything
else that conflicts with that.
And that's okay.
I think that holding boundariesis often something that is very

(46:31):
underestimated and it ha.
undervalued in our societybecause we are taught to do
things for others, which is abeautiful thing, but it's also
very important because you can'tpour from an empty cup.
You have to be able to take careof yourself.
It's not selfish to take care ofyourself first, because then you
will have more to give.
And I think that.

(46:52):
Me holding those boundaries andpeople might argue with me and
people might tell me that I'mselfish and that's okay.
They can have their opinion ofme, which again was a very hard
thing to come to, is likeallowing people to have whatever
opinion they want of me.
That is definitely a personalgrowth thing that I've developed
and am still developing.
But me holding boundaries formyself is also, I'm trying to

(47:13):
live by example and show mygirls.
These are the boundaries thatyou're allowed to have for
yourself as well.
Like in the future, as you growup, as you're a teenager, as you
grow up, and to be a young adultand an adult, it's important for
you to set boundaries with yourtime, with your priorities as
well.
To take care of yourself becauseI don't want my girls to just
be, bend over and people pleaseand then not take care of

(47:35):
themselves and end up burnt outand depressed either.
So it's really important that Iam setting that example for them
and they know that yes, they aremy priority, but.
Also mom's a priority forherself too.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
So I think we've got a couple of takeaways that we
can come out of this episode.
Your idea of writing down theactions that you actually do
during the day so that you cansee whether you can schedule
things smoother.
So you can see, is thereanything that I have on here
that I actually don't need to betaking care of that maybe I
could get some help with that Icould actually just not do and
remove off the list.
and then I think something elsethat we could use moving forward

(48:09):
is some non-negotiable.
Health habit that you are goingto actually just protect at all
costs this week that you aresaying, this is one thing that I
am definitely going to put on myschedule, that this one doesn't
get moved, this one does not getadjusted.
This one has to take place andthere's a variety of things that
you could do.
sleep is a good place to start.

(48:30):
Meal planning is a good place tostart off of this guy.
Don't try and hit all of them.
Hit one of them

Speaker (48:36):
1%.
Yes.
1%.
So something go back to the 1%task.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Something that is achievable That you're like, I
can be successful protectingthat thing.

Speaker (48:44):
Yeah.
And I think that's reallyimportant is like when you try
to go okay, you know what?
I'm all in, I'm gonna do all thethings.
That's where we oftentimes justburn out and fall off like.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
That's New Year's Eve.

Speaker (48:54):
Yeah, new Year's Eve.
what is, but what is the 1%like?
What can you start doing thisway to start building this
muscle, to start building thesehabits?
because you are your mostvaluable asset, and so it's
important for you to stop tryingto run your life on leftovers.
Stop trying to promote yourhealth or build your health on
leftovers if you're notprioritizing these things in

(49:15):
your life.
It makes sense that you're notgetting the results that you
want.
And that might be a hard truthto hear, and I don't want you to
feel any guilt or any shame.
But again, this is aboutbringing awareness to this area
so that, because when you haveawareness, now you can take a
step forward.
Now you can change.
Now you can decide, okay, what'sthe 1% task that I want to do

(49:35):
this week that's actually goingto help me?
To invest in my health, toprioritize my health first in
this area, and then that willstart to get the ball rolling
and then it'll, other thingswill become easier for you.
And if you are someone thatloves having support and
accountability.
I would love for you to comecheck out our real life runners

(49:55):
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We give you your training planwith all of your runs, all of
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'cause again, it helps when youdon't have to figure it out,
like Kevin said, with meals, youdon't have to figure out what
you're doing every day.
You just have to.
Pick a place in your calendar toget that in.

(50:17):
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Okay?
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(50:37):
Head over to real liferunners.com/team and check that
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support you.
Do you have any other finalthoughts?

Speaker 2 (50:46):
No, I think you got it.
Like the team.
I just wanted one, one thoughton our team.
It's so supportive.
It's no one's gonna show up andhelp drive your kids to whatever
event it is.
that's not where we're at'causewe are around the world, but
it's.
Being as part of a group whereeverybody else is, has similar
challenges and being able torecognize that we're all real
people trying the best that wepossibly can and some days are

(51:08):
gonna go smoother than others.
and having that as the group ofpeople around you, I think is
just so helpful when you'retrying to shift your.
Your mindset around some ofthese things.

Speaker (51:18):
Yeah, I definitely agree.
So as always, guys, thank you somuch for joining us.
If you haven't yet, I would beso appreciative if you would
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And as always, this has been theReal Life Runners podcast,
episode number 414.

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Now, get out there and run yourlife.