Minisode Series: Practicing what you preach and this weeks guest episode

This episode highlights the importance of self-care, particularly during illness, as the host shares her experience dealing with the flu while adapting to a new job role. It also features an upcoming discussion with Kimberly Grustas on empowering children with informed skincare choices during puberty. 

• Emphasis on practicing self-care during illness 
• Reflection on balancing work and personal health 
• Preview of Kimberly Grustas’s insights into skincare for kids 
• Importance of natural ingredients in skincare products 
• Discussion on empowering children during puberty 
• Reminder to prioritize health and rest during flu season

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

Hello everybody, this is Steel Girls' podcast. This podcast was created for women, by women, to elevate women's voices. I hope everyone is having a great week. As you can tell by my voice a little bit raspy, I am still not feeling well. I think the last episode I recorded solo, I was hacking and coughing away. This week I tested positive for the flu, which is why you're hearing from me again later in the week than I had really would have wanted. But we pivot right. Nevertheless, we pivot.

Speaker 1: 0:35

One thing I wanted to mention to all of you, and part of the reason why I wanted to record today, was to let you know like my thought process while I was becoming sick this week. So I think, as some of you know, like my, my thought process while I was becoming sick this week. So I think, as some of you know, I started a new job, um, and when you're starting a new role, like in any situation, you want to put your best foot forward, and this was one of those moments where I was like, oh my gosh, um, I'm sick and I'm trying to show them the best of me and that's not going to come out this week. So it was a definite pivot for me. But then there was also some thought behind the scenes. One, I want to be somebody who practices what they preach. I'm consistently telling people and I'm saying it to you guys here to be mindful, telling people and I'm saying it to you guys here to be mindful, give yourself grace, to allow yourself space when you're sick to listen to your body and to actually let your body heal and give yourself that space to heal. So, on that regard, and to be honest with you, like again, like I thought of all the times that I come onto this podcast and I sit here and preach to everybody that we need to take care of ourselves and I, um, you know, tapped out and said I'm not well, I'm going to have to be on and off today and I, you know, I had to take care of myself and rest in between calls. And, yes, I still worked um, because I didn't want to, you know, pull the rug out from anybody, um, but I was very, it was a light touch and I just did what I could for as long as I could, and then I would break Um.

Speaker 1: 2:08

Sometimes you have to pivot in that regard. Sometimes you just have to do it that way, um, to be perfectly honest with you. The extra rest I got yesterday was very helpful and it was, um, it was something that I think is going to help me heal a little bit quicker, because today, while, yes, I got diagnosed with the flu, um, I I feel much better today and I think it was the rest, to be perfectly frank. So I wanted to share that with all of you. Again, I'll say it to you let's practice what you preach and let's make sure that you take care of yourself because you have to. No one else you know no one else is that. You take care of yourself because you have to. No one else you know no one else is going to take care of you better than you. You have to really be mindful of yourself. So that's number one.

Speaker 1: 2:52

Number two I wanted to just give you a highlight for this week's upcoming episode. On Sunday, the 26th, we have Kimberly Grustas. She's going to be talking about navigating puberty and embracing natural skincare for your daughters and sons. We specifically reference daughters, but skincare is also for boys.

Speaker 1: 3:12

The episode talks about the importance of obviously empowering young girls to make informed skincare choices during their transition to womanhood. She herself, kimberly. She founded this company called Good For you, girls, and it's natural skincare products for, um. You know your young daughters to start skincare routines. Um, it's important for it's important for them to be able to have, um, a good baseline, but we also don't want to be putting products on our children's faces that might cause irritants. And I'll be honest with you, there's a lot of products out there on the shelves that even that I've used and I'm thinking like, oh, this is great, it says natural or it says this, but the reality of it is there are a lot of ingredients in these products that are harmful and that can cause other issues. Young people in general, like they're going to be more prone to having a reaction to something because they're getting exposed to things for the first time, so I think it's really important to be able to be mindful about that. So we talk about importance of informed skincare choices, the necessity of reading labels and understanding ingredients, and then how puberty impacts young girls in addressing body image. So it's just making sure that we're very informed so that we can then pass along things to our kids.

Speaker 1: 4:33

So that's going to be coming on Sunday. It's a very interesting episode Strong recommend, especially if you have young kids. I'm going to be really quick today with my episode, just because I am trying to make sure that I get this out to all of you. So tune in for Sunday and we'll continue on with the guest episodes and making sure that you have really good information being brought to you. I hope you all have a really, really wonderful day. Please make sure you're taking care of yourself. This year I know in New Jersey the flu virus, norovirus, rsv everything's really bad this year. So please take care of yourself, get those extra vitamins in your system, do what you can. I hope to have you all with me on Sunday. No-transcript.