Employee Mentality, Podcasts, and Heat

By: Gabriela Yareliz

This week has been hot and humid and has contained a flurry of so many thoughts…

I read this great post on the psychology of the eldest daughter. If you are an eldest daughter, this will resonate.

Danielle Bernstein wrote about getting a new phone and spending eight hours without a phone while transferring her phone data. She said she went on the most present date of her life. When was the last time you went phoneless?

I am on my Flo Living supplement protocol. A month and a half caffeine-free. Just in time for every place to have strawberry matcha, sigh. Hanging in.

As mentioned in previous posts, I am listening to every Emma Grede podcast out there. I can’t wait to start her new book. One of the most recent podcasts I listened to (How to Fail) had two takeaways that struck me:

  1. You are responsible for your life’s balance; and
  2. You must get out of the employee mentality. We fictionalize people’s power over us, but this, too, is a choice.

Are you an employee or a boss in your mind?

I also enjoyed this David Grutman podcast (loved to hear his love for Miami and Florida) and this interesting and vulnerable podcast with Kevin Boehm.

The first time you live in your car, you think that this is going to make a good book someday.” Kevin Boehm

Fitness-wise, I still feel pretty lost and uninspired. (Working on that). This unexpected heat has us all AC-less and feeling like we are doing heated yoga or something.

Is it warm where you are? Any good podcast recs? What are you reading? When can you leave your phone behind? What has been unedited, streaming through your mind?

Images by ProdbyPersona

Published by Gabriela Yareliz

Gabriela is a writer, editor and attorney. She loves the art of storytelling, and she is based in NYC.

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