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Chapter 1: Why is Emma concerned about her caffeine intake?
I am not going to lie. I'm a bit frightened. I'm a bit frightened because I just finished making my fourth caffeinated beverage of the day. Okay. I woke up, had a coffee, mid-morning had a matcha, then a little bit later had another one. And then now it's 4.45 PM and I'm having a third one. So this is my fourth caffeinated beverage of the day. This is very unusual for me.
I usually stop drinking caffeine after my third caffeinated beverage, latest 2 or 3 p.m. It's later than usual. Even though I think I have a high caffeine tolerance, I just don't want to have some sort of panic attack. I also don't want to be up all night. So I'm a bit frightened, but I'm exhausted. I'm exhausted right now. And if I don't drink this, I'm going to take a nap.
Chapter 2: How does Emma feel about napping and its effects on her routine?
And I'm really trying to stop napping because I've just noticed that it ultimately only holds me back in life. It tends to have a net negative effect on my life. In the moment, taking a nap feels incredible. And a lot of times taking a nap is actually quite helpful because it ultimately gives me the energy to complete the rest of my day. But then it's harder to fall asleep at night.
I end up falling asleep later and then I end up waking up later the next day. And then that makes me depressed because I'm like, oh my God, no, is my day ruined? Should I wake up too late? And then for the rest of the day, I'm kind of in a funk and I'm trying to get out of it. And a lot of times I can and it's fine, but the day never feels as good as it does when I wake up early.
And then, you know, the next night I try to go to bed earlier, but then because I went to bed later the last night, it's harder to go to bed earlier. And because I woke up later, do you see what I'm saying? So like, I don't like napping. So I'm having another matcha, matcha number three, caffeinated beverage number four. I am going to be a fucking menace for the next hour.
There's a chance that I won't, but I have a feeling this fourth matcha is going to impact me in a way that none of us are prepared for. That's the risk that you take when you deviate from your routine. You know, I know what happens when I have three caffeinated beverages. I'm good. I'm normal. Everything's fine. Now I'm throwing in a fourth. I'm breaking routine.
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Chapter 3: What changes has Emma made to her daily routine over the past two years?
Find wellness at Westin, one of the 30 extraordinary hotel brands in the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio. Now back to the episode. Breaking routine is kind of frightening sometimes. But that actually relates to our topic today. So about two years ago, almost to the day, not quite, but almost to the day, I made an episode where I explained my daily routine. And I didn't just explain it.
I explained it in such gruesome detail that I don't know how any of you sat through it and listened to it. Unnecessary amounts of detail. And it's been two years and my routine has changed a bit. And I think it's time that I do it again. And so today I'm going to be sharing my current routine in unnecessary detail.
I mean, I am just going to be telling you about every single little thing that I do every single day. The reason why I feel like it's okay to do this is because this is the type of thing that I find interesting, okay?
If somebody made a podcast episode about their exact daily routine, exactly what they do from the time they wake up to the time they go to sleep, I would listen to that and find it fascinating because I think people are fascinating. We all think people are fascinating. I don't know. There's something sort of precious about the way that we entertain each other.
sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally. Actors entertain us in movies and random strangers entertain us in a coffee shop. People are interesting. They don't necessarily have to be doing anything interesting to be interesting. Somebody's simple daily routine can be interesting. And that's why I feel inclined to share my daily routine with you. my chest is already kind of getting tight.
Like, I don't know if I can finish this matcha. I'm really, I'm a bit worried. I'm a bit worried that this is going to really push me over the edge. So I'm starting to feel a little bit shaky, a little bit anxious. So let's just begin before I start dissociating or something. Okay. So I'm going to be sharing with you my generic weekday routine. Obviously there are exceptions. Okay.
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Chapter 4: How does Emma prepare her morning coffee?
When I'm traveling, if I have a photo shoot or if I have some sort of one-off like event, like every year I have a handful of events that I go to. Like there are some events that I go to for my coffee company, like some expos, you know, where we showcase our product to people.
like grocery store buyers, like I have weird events like that that I go to, you know, like sometimes I'll have a handful of random meetings and, you know, those meetings are in person. So I'm like out of my house and my routine is broken. But my routine for the most part right now is super consistent with, you know, an occasional day that deviates from it.
But for the most part, this is what I do every single day. Starting at 7 a.m. I recently have been waking up at 7 a.m. and it feels absolutely incredible. I feel like 7 a.m. is the perfect wake-up time for me. When I wake up at 5, I'm exhausted by 4 p.m. Exhausted, okay? If I wake up at 6 a.m., I'm exhausted by like 6 p.m. And that's not good because there's a lot of day left still. 7 a.m.
I need to have three caffeinated beverages a day, but it's kind of the perfect time for me because any later than that and I just don't feel like I have enough day to work with. I don't feel like I have enough daylight to work with. I've noticed the 7 a.m.
wake up time allows me to like have a really relaxed morning and then also get work done in the morning time before my other activities start, which will make sense in a moment. So I've been waking up at 7am and I'm not going to lie to you. Okay. I can't wake up at 7am on my own right now. I don't know what it is. I can't hear an alarm. I don't know what's wrong with me.
I literally cannot hear the alarm. So I have to have someone help me wake up. Now, listen, Luckily for me, there is someone who sleeps at my house with me probably 95% of the time. So that person wakes me up. Without that person, I would sleep probably until noon. I'm not kidding. This person has to shake me awake every morning, fully shake me awake. Okay.
From there, I put on my fuzzy robe, of course, warm socks, preferably wool, put on my little slip-on slippers that are a bit fuzzy. I've been wearing them for the past like six years. Go downstairs and it's time to make a coffee. I just recently bought a new coffee machine and this thing is a fucking beast, okay? I completely splurged on this thing.
For a long time, I used a really standard home barista coffee machine. It was super user-friendly. It was super easy to use. You know, a lot of the complicated elements of making espresso were sort of done for you with that machine and I absolutely loved it. But I had always dreamed of getting a more sophisticated machine.
Something higher quality, something, you know, beautifully designed, something like really respected in the industry. And I always sort of dreamed of getting the classic Italian espresso machine that you see in 90% of cafes you go to. And they make mini ones for the home. And I had always dreamed of getting one.
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Chapter 5: What is Emma's approach to exercise and yoga?
I'm going to get nerdy with it. And I absolutely love it. It's made me like fall in love with coffee all over again. I'm absolutely loving it. Anyway, so I make a double shot of espresso and then I steam my homemade milk because I make milk from scratch using a milk maker. Okay.
It's almond coconut cashew milk sweetened with maple syrup and flavored with a bit of almond extract and a bit of coconut extract. I steam that and nut pod vanilla creamer. I mix those two things together. And that's my morning latte. And it's fucking delicious. I feel like it's mastered. You know, it's perfect for me. And then occasionally I'll have a 9 a.m. yoga class.
And then in that case, I'll go to yoga. But I don't want to talk about yoga yet because usually I go to yoga at 12 p.m. So just imagine that sometimes at this point I have my coffee, I poop, and then it's like, okay, we're going to yoga. But most of the time it's at noon. It depends. It depends on what instructor is instructing and I'm, I don't know.
But usually immediately after my coffee and my little poop, I start working. I'm talking about immediately. Okay, I'm still in my robe. I haven't brushed my teeth. I haven't brushed my hair. And I get on my computer and I start working immediately. Now, this could be a number of things. This could be working on a podcast outline. This could be responding to emails.
I'm horrible at responding to emails. A Zoom call of some sort. It could be editing stuff. I edit things a lot, different videos or whatever. So I don't know. It could be organizing, scheduling stuff. There's a lot of different random things that I might do. After I sort of get things together, then I actually like to record a podcast in the morning.
If I feel like I have time before my workout at 12, I will do it. Otherwise, I'll just work on other stuff until my yoga at 12. But if I am going to record a podcast, the preparation for that...
basically consists of making another caffeinated drink, either an iced latte, which is the exact same thing as what I described this morning, except I don't steam the milk, or an iced matcha latte, which would be plain matcha or like vanilla infused matcha. I make a shot of matcha, you know, with the bowl and the whisk and the whole thing.
And I mix a little bit of almond extract into the matcha and a little bit of maple syrup to kind of round out the flavor. Mix that in and then make a latte out of it. Pour it over ice with the homemade milk and the nut pod. Delish. Okay, that's what I'm drinking right now. But anyway, if I'm going to record, I always make myself some sort of caffeinated beverage. Because it just feels special.
You know, there's something magical about like just having a little drink sitting next to me when I record. And caffeine helps with the talking, of course. And then usually I'll get dressed from the waist up. You know, like I want to be respectful to your eyes. And it's kind of fun. Like I actually enjoy getting dressed up from the waist up. It's like very COVID-19 core.
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Chapter 6: How does Emma manage her post-workout routine?
I have a love-hate relationship with showering at the gym in general. Like throughout my life, I've always had a love-hate relationship with it. There are elements of it that I absolutely love. It's very convenient. But it's also kind of weird. There's people around. They're seeing you naked, perhaps. There's strangers and you're vulnerable and naked. I don't know.
There's probably foot fungus on the floor. You have to wear flip-flops in the shower. But after hot yoga, I am so soaked. My hair is soaked completely with sweat. My clothes are completely soaked through with sweat. I mean, I'm barely wearing any clothes to begin with, but it's soaked all the way through. The entire surface area of my body is covered in sweat.
And getting in the car like that is disgusting, okay? And I refuse to do it. I used to do that and just shower at home. But the problem with that was if I was going to yoga every day, then every day sweat was transferring from my body and dirty clothes onto the seatbelt in my car. And it was starting to smell like sweat. And to me, that's disgusting.
So now I shower at yoga and I have all my little things that I need. I only wash my hair once a week. And so I actually don't even bring shampoo or anything because if I'm going to do an everything shower, I'll just do it at home. So my yoga shower consists of using a specific vagina soap because if I don't use... a special vagina soap, my pH gets off like immediately and I start to have issues.
It's uncomfortable. It makes me, I have very sensitive skin, okay? And that includes my vagina. She's very sensitive and she's very sweet and she's very nice. So I treat her well and I wash her with special soap, okay? And then I use a body scrub because I just sweat so much. I like need a body scrub. I use a eucalyptus smelling body scrub from the brand Necessaire. That's my favorite one.
And then I'm using a face wash. And the face wash I use after yoga specifically is by the brand IS Clinical. It's like, it just, it looks scientific, the bottle. You're like, I trust this brand. Anyway, great face wash. Rinse my hair. That's it. I don't even have to wash it. That's the joy of having a bleached pixie. You never have to wash it and you don't even have to style it.
It just kind of does its own thing. It's incredible. I get back into my sweat pant, sweatshirt, little outfit, and I'm out of there. Here's the silver lining of the nine floor parking garage that I mentioned earlier, okay? Starting on January 1st this year, I decided I was going to walk 10,000 steps a day, minimum, for the entire year. Just to see what happens.
And spoiler alert, I absolutely love it. I mean, I absolutely love the routine of it. I have fallen in love with walking in a brand new way. It is just a joy. some days it's hard to get the steps in. You know, it's not always easy. Sometimes I'm like, you know, walking on my treadmill at like 10 p.m. because I'm like, damn, I have like 2,000 more steps. All right.
You know, and it's raining outside and I can't like go for a walk outside like I usually do. Like, God damn it. But, I absolutely love it. And so the fact that now I am always trying to get steps in, it inspired me to start taking the stairs after my yoga class. So after this insane yoga class, I walk up nine flights of stairs up to the top floor of the parking garage to my car.
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Chapter 7: What does Emma's afternoon and meal routine look like?
After you place your order, be sure to let them know that we sent you. Select podcast in the survey and then anything goes in the drop down menu that follows. Now back to the episode. I am usually not that hungry in the morning. It depends. I go through phases in my life, but recently I haven't been. And so I wait until lunch and then I fucking go ham.
Okay, so usually I'm having some sort of egg bite that I made prior. I tend to prepare them in bulk so that I have them for the next few days. And I prepare them at varying times of the day. There's no specific time that I prepare them. But I'm constantly switching up what I put in them. For a long time, I was putting broccoli and they were quite good.
And then I had a traumatic incident with broccoli where I had to stop eating it because I found a snail or slug, sorry, a slug in some organic broccoli that I bought. And it absolutely traumatized me and gave me a complete food aversion to broccoli that I've been trying to heal ever since. And I can eat broccoli now, but only when I didn't prepare it.
Like when I prepare it, it's really tough for me. I can do it if I like... put a bunch of garlic and Parmesan cheese on it. Sure. I can get it down. Okay. But I could get anything down if it had a bunch of garlic and Parmesan cheese on it. You could literally give me a fucking dog shit and it's crusted with Parmesan and garlic. And I'd say totally fine. I'll eat it.
I will eat anything Parmesan garlic. So it's like at that point, it's not even like I, I'm not even really eating the food. I'm just eating Parmesan and garlic. Broccoli is simply the vessel. Okay. And I don't, that's not what I liked about broccoli prior to the food aversion. I liked it because I actually liked the flavor and the texture. I loved broccoli.
So anyway, one day I'll get back there, but for now I'm completely, completely traumatized by it. So for a while there, I was weirdly putting peas and carrots into my little egg bites because they just kind of disappeared into there and have like a really mild flavor or whatever. Recently, though, I fucking unlocked the best egg bite recipe I have ever unlocked in my life.
OK, let me tell you about it. I'm a vegetarian for the most part, pescatarian sometimes. I do eat fish occasionally nowadays. Imagine this, okay? We're chopping half a red onion, one red bell pepper, one green bell pepper, okay? We're chopping it. Oh, oh, oh, sorry, excuse me. And a zucchini. with the seeds scooped out. Fuck those slimy seeds. Get those bitches out of here. Okay.
Then we're chopping it up. We're chopping it all up into small cubes and we're cooking that up with some fajita seasoning. Okay. You can buy it at the store. Chicken fajita seasoning on there. Then in another pan, I'm cooking up some whatever plant-based chorizo you can find. Okay. I've actually tried multiple brands.
They're all good because they're all probably highly processed and using the exact same seasoning blend. Delicious. Okay. So I cooked that up. So now I have chorizo and then some fajita veggies in the other pan. Okay. Then I take a muffin tin, spray it, and then I do little scoops of the chorizo and little scoops of the veggies into each little tray and then top it off with egg.
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