Wellness Simplified: Evidence-Based Health Habits for Busy Professionals
Jun 22, 2026 · 46 min · 11 segments
You're doing everything right. The early alarm, the gym, the gratitude journal, the meal prep, the ten thousand steps. On paper, your health looks sorted. So why are you still so tired? That's…
think what you're saying about well several things like one how it creeps up on you it's not just like bang I mean you might have a experience where it gets so bad that you can't handle it anymore but But it's something that's been, you know, over time getting worse and worse.
It's like all of those things, like all of our caring roles, everything kind of coming together.
Yeah, I think the paradox or the wellness paradox really came about because I wanted to write a well-being book or a wellness book that wasn't a self-help book.
I really like sometimes as a well-being speaker to get put in a box and it's like, you're going to talk about yoga and meditation.
We now, more than ever, have more information, more resources, more gadgets, more hacks, more products we can purchase to support our wellness, to be well, to have a great well-being than ever before.
That burnout is increasing, overwhelm is increasing, anxiety is increasing, people are unhappy, life satisfaction isn't where it used to be, especially in the Western world, and we're seeing people no longer want to show up to the workplace in the way that they used to, and we're seeing all these differences, and You know, why is it that right now at our fingertips we have more things available to us than ever before to keep us well, but we're just not? And that's the paradox.
Like, where have we gone wrong? What has happened? And how did we get to a point where you can order anything without leaving your house that's supposed to fix you and make you feel better, but it actually doesn't work? Yeah.
think what you're saying about well several things like one how it creeps up on you it's not just like bang I mean you might have a experience where it gets so bad that you can't handle it anymore but But it's something that's been, you know, over time getting worse and worse.
It's like all of those things, like all of our caring roles, everything kind of coming together.
Yeah, I think the paradox or the wellness paradox really came about because I wanted to write a well-being book or a wellness book that wasn't a self-help book.
I really like sometimes as a well-being speaker to get put in a box and it's like, you're going to talk about yoga and meditation.
We now, more than ever, have more information, more resources, more gadgets, more hacks, more products we can purchase to support our wellness, to be well, to have a great well-being than ever before.
That burnout is increasing, overwhelm is increasing, anxiety is increasing, people are unhappy, life satisfaction isn't where it used to be, especially in the Western world, and we're seeing people no longer want to show up to the workplace in the way that they used to, and we're seeing all these differences, and You know, why is it that right now at our fingertips we have more things available to us than ever before to keep us well, but we're just not? And that's the paradox.
Like, where have we gone wrong? What has happened? And how did we get to a point where you can order anything without leaving your house that's supposed to fix you and make you feel better, but it actually doesn't work? Yeah.
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