Redefining Self Care with Taylor Morrison: Practical Tips for Business Owners

In this podcast episode, we discuss self care beyond conventional methods. Taylor, founder of Inner Workout and author, shares her unique perspective on self care, offering practical advice and revealing how she turned her insights into an accessible app. We delve into the importance of listening to oneself, breaking down self care myths, and integrating small, impactful practices into daily life. We also explore the impact of technology on self care and strategies to mitigate its effects. This conversation is essential for business owners looking to balance productivity with personal wellbeing.   KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST Self-care is listening inwards and responding with love: It's not a set of tasks, but rather checking in with yourself and understanding your needs. Forget the "all or nothing" mentality and focus on what works for you in the present moment. Start with cultivating the practice of listening within: This can involve journaling prompts to identify what drains your energy or simply checking in with yourself throughout the day. Learn to listen to your body's cues as well. Develop a toolkit of self-care responses:  This includes proactive activities you enjoy, but also reactive responses for when things go wrong. These can be anything from breathing exercises to calling a friend. Remember, self-care doesn't have to be expensive or time-consuming.   If you enjoyed this episode then please feel free to go and share it on your social media or head over to Apple podcasts or Spotify and give me a review, I would be so very grateful.   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Connect with Taylor on Website, Inner Workout App Waitlist, Instagram Connect with Teresa on Website, The Club, Sign up to Teresa's email list,  Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter   Transcript Teresa: Self care is a word that is often thrown around a lot. And sometimes we constantly think we must be doing more, especially as business owners. It is also something that I thought I had learned a lot about. However, today's guest talks about self care in a way that is completely different to how I thought about it before. She offers practical advice on how to bring it into our everyday and really gets you to think what self care looks like for you. We also talk about why she decided to take her knowledge on self care and put it in an app and what it's taken to create that app and get it out into the world. Welcome to the Your Dream Business Podcast. I'm your host, Terese Heath Waring. An international bestselling author, award winning speaker, TEDx speaker, certified coach, and the host of this number one ranked podcast. I am so excited to guide you on the journey of creating a business and life that you not only love, [00:01:00] but one that perfectly aligns with you and the season of life that you're in. In each episode, I'll share with you easy, actionable, and insightful strategies to grow your online business. Plus we'll be diving into some mindset tools and strategies that keep you focused, motivated, and are going to stop you from getting in your own way. So if you're a course creator, membership owner, or coach, you are in the right place. Let's get started. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Your Dream Business. I hope you're good. Thank you so much for hanging out with me today. I really appreciate it. And this episode is a really good one. So we're talking self care, which is a word that is like thrown around all the time, and everyone thinks, you know, self care is sitting down with a book or having a bath or having a massage. Now, and granted, all of those things are self care. And actually, as I record this intro, I have in my diary for later on today, a three hour reflexology and massage, [00:02:00] which honestly is like heaven. However, it's not really about the big self care stuff. It's about smaller things. And today's guest made me think completely different about what self care means and what it looks like, which for me was actually super good timing because I spent most of last year pretty much just doing self care. Like, I was talking to my therapist the other day and I said that in 2023, I felt like I spent 45 to 50 percent of my brain space and energy on me and looking after me and about 10, 15 percent on the business and this year it's moved, and rightly so and I'm super glad because otherwise I wouldn't have a business if I carried on that way. And. You know, I spend a big chunk of my time and my energy now on the business, which obviously I love and adore. However, it has meant that my self care has taken a bit of a battering. And I'm trying to find [00:03:00] a middle ground or a way in which I can manage my own self care and make sure I look after myself while still being super productive. And this conversation was so well timed for it and really helped me think about it and also helped me get over the kind of pressure that we put ourselves under to go, we must do these things and to look at them differently. So today I'm interviewing the lovely Taylor Morrison. Taylor turned being bad at self care into her career. She is the founder of Inner Workout and the author of the book by the same name, recently named on a Fortune's 10 innovators shaping the future of health. Taylor is tired of aspirational wellness as usual. Instead, she makes wellbeing and personal development more accessible. Taylor can go from facilitating workshops at a fortune 100 company to talking about TikTok and body image with a high school class. She uses her [00:04:00] coaching, mindfulness and movement training to meet people where they are at and offer actionable steps towards creating a world without burnout. Like I said, it's a great conversation, which I think anybody needs to hear, but also as business owners, this is probably something that should be high up on our agenda. So enjoy today's episode. Here's Taylor. Taylor, welcome to the podcast. How are you doing? Taylor: I'm doing so well. I'm excited to be here. Thank you for having me. Teresa: I am excited for this conversation because I was looking through your notes prior to your interview. And this subject we're going to talk about is a subject that I'm not very good at. So I am going to be picking all your brains to, to work out how I get better at this. But before we get started, please tell my lovely audience who you are and how you got to do the thing that you do. Taylor: Yeah, so I'm Taylor Elyse Morrison. I am the founder of Inner Workout. It's a company that makes wellbeing easier. I'm also the author of a book [00:05:00] by the same name. So, and how did I come to this work? I, I mean, I chuckled a little bit when you said, this is a topic that you're not really good at because I come to this work. I'm not personally good at this work either. And before I got into this space, I was doing work related to brand strategy. And I kept burning myself out and I realized that the way I was structuring my life really wasn't sustainable. And so I came to this topic because I kept hitting up against a wall. And as I shared some of my own navigating around self care, people started telling me that they had similar issues and that's how inner...