What is interesting about flow is that it's the ability to try to break that cycle, right? To try to focus in on something instead of trying to do it all and cover every single little thing and feeling you have to be perfect at everything, but finding your zones of interest that you can build upon that and feel good about.

Yes.

I mean, this is what makes me so passionate about flow because flow, it's ironic, right? That connecting with our joy, connecting with that spark, finding our own way to do activities in our own terms is the key to achieving a lot of those goals that you mentioned.

So the ironic thing is our lives get so much better when we find our own pathway to flow.

And the reason I wrote my book, The Flow Habit, is because what I've learned is that there is no one way to access flow.

The best way to access flow is is to connect with our own joy and our own way of doing things.

So in a way, flow is a very rebellious act, right? And there's a huge body of research connecting autonomy to flow and emotional intelligence to flow.

I got to get down there and get going.

So to start off, would you mind sharing a little bit about yourself and how you ended up working in the HPV and cervical cancer space?

I think I might be one of those examples where you just never really know where your career is going to take you.

So for many years, I worked as an RN in the acute care setting in the hospital.

and I was working in critical care and this opportunity to work in the clinical trials research office came to me and I moved into that position and I never really thought about research before but once I was in that role I was really intrigued by research.

I found it quite fascinating that the potential research had to improve and change the way we did things.

And when you think about it, everything we were implementing in medicine began in research.

So all research kind of leads to evidence-based medicine.

How can you explain this in the context of a relationship so that it doesn't create fear or blame or embarrassment? Yeah.

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... that we lose track of time.

And sometimes we even forget where we are, or we don't hear other people in the room, and we're just fully locked in to what we're doing.

And what I have found in my own life, and in my groups, and the 28-day flow challenges that I have been leading since the start of the pandemic, is that when we work with flow consciously, and really study ourselves and experiment with flow, and try to uncover our own unique formula for flow, like what activities get us into that feeling, what can we do to help ourselves have more of that locked in feeling? The more we work with that as a habit, the better our overall lives flow.

There's some magical connection between the flow experience and, from my perspective and my experience, when we're in that flow experience, we're connecting with our very best selves.

Like, we're really tapping our full potential, 'cause we've blocked out everything else and we're locked in.

And I think there's something about when we do that and we activate our own inner spark, that we just show up in the world differently.

... or work even.

What's going on here?

Now, no one has made or raised, um, human babies in space quite yet, but research is underway.

For example, last year, researchers at the University of Kyoto froze precursors to mouse egg and sperm cells, also called germ cells, and sent them to the International Space Station, where they're stored for six months.

When the cells returned to Earth, they showed no obvious damage.

Later tests confirmed they could still produce healthy offspring in mice, suggesting that frozen germ cells can survive at least short-term space travel.

And finally, it seems advertising is creeping inside our homes in 2026.

Yes, so last year, Samsung announced that in the US, screens of some of its models of smart fridge would be used to advertise to users.

A risk here is unlike TV or radio, people aren't always expecting adverts from their home appliances.