Cycle Sync Your Biz with Guest Christy Villasenor
In this enlightening episode of the Wealth Witches Podcast, host Katelyn Magnuson welcomes Christy Villasenor, a fractional director of operations and business strategist dedicated to empowering women in business. Christy shares her expertise on cycle syncing, a powerful tool for enhancing productivity by aligning business tasks with the natural phases of the menstrual cycle.
The conversation starts with an introduction to cycle syncing, breaking down its various applications, from exercise to productivity and business management. Christy provides an in-depth explanation of the four phases of the menstrual cycle—menstrual, follicular, ovulatory, and luteal—and how each phase impacts energy levels and productivity. She offers practical tips for tracking these phases and planning business tasks accordingly, emphasizing the importance of self-care and rest.
Christy also addresses the unique challenges faced by individuals with chronic illnesses and neurodivergent conditions, sharing insights on how to adapt cycle syncing to enhance personal and professional efficiency. The discussion extends to the importance of being a detective of one's own patterns and energy levels to optimize personal and professional efficiency.
Throughout the episode, Katelyn and Christy explore the broader implications of cycle syncing, including its potential to shift the way we approach productivity and business planning. By the end of the episode, listeners will have a comprehensive understanding of cycle syncing and its practical applications, along with actionable strategies to implement in their own lives.
Key Takeaways
- Understanding what cycle syncing is and how it can be applied to different aspects of life, including exercise, productivity, and business.
- Overview explanation of the menstrual, follicular, ovulatory, and luteal phases, and how each phase impacts energy levels and productivity.
- Strategies for tracking energy levels, planning business tasks according to the cycle, and the importance of self-care and rest.
- How cycle syncing can be adapted for individuals with chronic illnesses or neurodivergent conditions to optimize productivity and well-being.
- The importance of being a detective of your own patterns and energy levels to enhance personal and professional efficiency.
Guest Bio:
Christy Villasenor is a Fractional Director of Operations & Business Strategist dedicated to empowering women in business with diverse energy needs. As the driving force behind Her Strategic Partner™, she collaborates with visionary leaders to build strong foundations and thriving teams. Christy's early experiences in operations and mentorship have shaped her into a compassionate and driven leader. Committed to causes such as LGBTQ rights, neurodivergent advocacy, and chronic illness awareness, Christy strives to create a more inclusive and compassionate world.
Connect with Christy:
Instagram: @christyvillasenor_
Website: https://www.herstrategicpartner.com/
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Transcript
Hello, and welcome magical creatures to the Wealth Witches podcast.
Speaker:This is a place where we brew up financial empowerment and mix in a little
Speaker:sprinkle of magic. I'm Katelyn Magnuson, your guide on this
Speaker:enchanted journey to financial enlightenment. Here, we honor all
Speaker:identities and invoke our inner witches to create holistic wealth and prosperity.
Speaker:So grab your crystals, open your minds, and let's get ready to conjure some
Speaker:financial clarity.
Speaker:Welcome back to Wealth Witches. Today, we have a guest speaker,
Speaker:Christy Villasenor. He's a fractional director of operations
Speaker:and business strategist dedicated to empowering women in
Speaker:business. She's the deriving force behind good things indeed collaborating
Speaker:with visionary leaders. Christy's early experience in ops and
Speaker:mentorship shaped her into a compassionate yet driven leader.
Speaker:She's passionate about causes like LGBTQ rights, neurodivergent
Speaker:advocacy, and chronic illness awareness. Christy,
Speaker:I'm so excited to have you today. I'm so excited to be chatting about
Speaker:cycle thinking, especially with your business as something that I've been kind
Speaker:of hyper focused on the last, like, 3 to 6 months. So thank you for
Speaker:being here. Thank you for having me. It's
Speaker:actually a very fun topic to hyperfocus on, so that's great.
Speaker:Yeah. The unpacking of a little neurodivergent, like, doubling of things.
Speaker:So I I mean, first off, we didn't chat about this
Speaker:part of it beforehand, but, my question for you is how did you get started
Speaker:or, like, where did your interest start with cycle syncing and
Speaker:working with your cycle? Well, probably
Speaker:early before I even realized it was a thing,
Speaker:I was in this journey of not using birth control
Speaker:anymore because I felt like that was, you know, causing I already have
Speaker:chronic illness issues. I don't need more things on top of that. And
Speaker:birth control works for some people great, but for me,
Speaker:it was, I thought it was a an issue that I was giving more getting
Speaker:more migraines because when you already have migraines, the birth control does does not vibe
Speaker:with you at all. So first, I started tracking my cycle with
Speaker:that. I started using, reusable products, you
Speaker:know, all all of that. And when I started going into
Speaker:business, funny enough, the books that probably launched us, and I ended up reading more
Speaker:books and a whole bunch of other stuff, you know, hyper focusing myself,
Speaker:was due last by Kate Northrup, and I love her
Speaker:book. It is geared towards moms, and I'm personally not a
Speaker:mom. But there's a lot in there that I just loved so
Speaker:much about, syncing your cycle of, you know,
Speaker:kind of healing your cycle, but also how it works with productivity,
Speaker:your business, and there are a lot of good nuggets there as
Speaker:well as the moon phases as well if you happen not to be menstruating
Speaker:for any reason. I love that. And just to back up for a second because
Speaker:I realized I just dove right in, what is cycle syncing in your own words?
Speaker:Like, can you kind of give a rundown for anyone that's, like, maybe wondering or
Speaker:hasn't heard of that before? So depending on
Speaker:which atmosphere you're in with cycle syncing, there is cycle
Speaker:syncing for exercise. There's productivity, which I'll be talking about.
Speaker:There's seed cycling. There's a whole bunch of cycling going on.
Speaker:Where where I love to live is productivity and cycle
Speaker:cycle cycle syncing. And Five times fast. Yeah. Yeah. No.
Speaker:But it's just like I gonna correct myself. I'm like, if I say it again,
Speaker:it's gonna be worse somehow. But what I like to
Speaker:do is kinda follow the 80 20 rule because we cannot
Speaker:control everything in our lives and have it so where
Speaker:depending on the phase of the cycle on, my cycle I'm in,
Speaker:I match what things I'm doing either in my life or
Speaker:my business so I don't overexert myself, and I
Speaker:can take on those, like, boost of energies when they're happening.
Speaker:So I'm not trying to do the opposite thing at the opposite timing of energy
Speaker:wise. So syncing your business tasks
Speaker:or even your household tasks or whatnot to your cycle
Speaker:is where I'm going at. Okay. I love that. No. I think that's
Speaker:great. I had started noticing ebbs and flows in my
Speaker:energy probably 2 years ago, mostly in my creative
Speaker:energy. And it was really interesting to me because I was not menstruating at the
Speaker:time and trying to find when that was so that I
Speaker:could have some predictions so that I could be planning my week accordingly.
Speaker:Because there's nothing like and you probably know the phase, and I'm horrible with
Speaker:the phases. But there's nothing like being super, super low energy and being like, well,
Speaker:I was gonna do 15 TikToks this week, but, like, I cannot bring
Speaker:myself to do it, and there is no spark here. And then having the week
Speaker:where I've laid out all of my client calls and being like, damn. I have
Speaker:all the creative energy. Like, I wanna do everything and not having the time. And
Speaker:that was, like, so frustrating for me to feel like I was balancing those, but
Speaker:balancing balancing them improperly. Right.
Speaker:And so the phases do you wanna just start talking about I love that.
Speaker:Yeah. Looking right here. So, typically, people start,
Speaker:with the menstruation phase. And every time I'm gonna talk about a phase,
Speaker:I'll also give a moon phase in case you are not menstruating because that can
Speaker:also affect you. We are mostly water. The moon affects
Speaker:water, so it will affect us. Now if you wanna get more deeper into
Speaker:your astrology, there's gonna be transits and whatnot that affects that. But for the
Speaker:sake of this, podcast, I'm not gonna be able to go through all that.
Speaker:So for the menstrual phase is when your energy basically is
Speaker:flat. Either it's getting flat if you're in the
Speaker:beginning of it or it's about to go completely flat. It's a great
Speaker:time, and this is where the new moon is. So think about it more
Speaker:darkness, more like you're turning in your, you
Speaker:can go deeper into your intuition, but not so much, you know,
Speaker:getting, out there or even being super
Speaker:creative. You might be depending on, you know, other factors that you have, like I
Speaker:said, other transits you have going on. But, generally, this is a looking
Speaker:within time, deeper connection to yourself, a lot of rest, a lot
Speaker:of self care. And this is a good time for course
Speaker:correcting as well because you get to look more
Speaker:demonstrative instead of being in action mode.
Speaker:The other phase you probably mentioned is at the end of the cycle about to
Speaker:go into it, so I'll get there in a moment. But the next phase after
Speaker:that is the follicular phase, and that is your high
Speaker:energy. That is great for creativity. It's great for planning,
Speaker:you know, creating goals, putting seeds in new goals, all of the
Speaker:new beginning stuff. And that is the next phase of the moon
Speaker:where it's getting a little brighter towards the full moon. For
Speaker:that one, a lot of people struggle with the transition
Speaker:between the menstrual phase and the follicular phase, especially if you're a person that
Speaker:has chronic illness because you're try your your energy is just trying to catch up
Speaker:to you. So with that, if you're somebody with chronic illness, because this is what
Speaker:I'm always gonna infuse as well, is you can rest,
Speaker:be horizontal, and be creative. So if you're still kind
Speaker:of in that weirded between menstrual and follicular, do your
Speaker:creativity from your bed. I have a lounge chair in my office for that
Speaker:exact reason. Sometimes I my body has not caught up to my brain.
Speaker:My brain wants to be creative while my body is like, no. Which is totally
Speaker:great. But once you're able to get into that more
Speaker:high physical energy, that's when you can record a lot of your videos or you
Speaker:can plan your videos or anything like that. This is a great time
Speaker:to harness when you're in a launch as well. So when you're
Speaker:in a launch, like, this would be a great time to do, like, the big
Speaker:push type of situation and all of the initial
Speaker:creation of marketing efforts. And then you're gonna go into the
Speaker:full moon or ambulatory. And for some people, this lasts a day. Some people,
Speaker:this lasts 2 to 3 days. I tend to do the 2 to 3 day
Speaker:rule. Great time for collaborating, communicating, all
Speaker:the things that you wanna be out there. If you are
Speaker:menstruating and your hormones tend to be, you know, leveled off, this is
Speaker:actually a great time skin wise. So it's also a great time to record
Speaker:because your skin is probably the best at this time too. You're probably glowing,
Speaker:all of that good stuff. But with
Speaker:some people with chronic illness, sometimes that high energy kind of also would
Speaker:probably put you pretty flat too. So depending on where you are
Speaker:with your energy levels in total again, you could totally do a lot of this,
Speaker:like, horizontal if you need to. But you think you'll really underestimate
Speaker:how much we can do horizontally. Yes. And I feel
Speaker:like a lot of people just don't take advantage of that. Everybody wants to like,
Speaker:for example, I'm super comfortable all the time. I'm not gonna
Speaker:be uncomfortable when I'm working because once I'm uncomfortable, I start losing
Speaker:if you're if you listening, you know, the spoon theory, I will
Speaker:prioritize my spoons. So if I don't have to get ready for the day, I'm
Speaker:not going to. I will work in my pajamas if I need to, and I
Speaker:will work on my couch, my bed, or my lounge chair if I need to.
Speaker:I will get more things done if I prioritize my energy that
Speaker:way. When a lot of this, productivity
Speaker:for the menstrual cycle affects more of my brainpower because my body and
Speaker:my brain aren't always connected and they're kind of fighting all the time.
Speaker:So if you can, go ahead and
Speaker:lay down and do some work, miss Twine. I'll give you that
Speaker:permission if you need it.
Speaker:Oh, and then the last phase is the luteal phase. So this is a time
Speaker:that gets tricky for some people because they're trying they're going into their best
Speaker:phase. So they're starting to lower their energy. So this is
Speaker:when you can start turning more inward. You can focus on
Speaker:details. And because you're finishing your cycles, it's a good way to
Speaker:remember. If you're finishing your cycle, that means you're finishing
Speaker:projects. So this is a good time to put bows on projects and finish that
Speaker:out before your menstrual comes, and then you have to do the whole, like,
Speaker:I need to rest all over again. So it's kinda like a big circle,
Speaker:if you think about it that way. And like I said, if you don't
Speaker:menstruate for whatever reason, either birth control or it's not that
Speaker:phase of your life or you just don't menstruate at all,
Speaker:follow the moon. That would be my best recommendation there for
Speaker:that, and then you could cycle sync with the moon. Love that. Okay. I think
Speaker:that's fantastic. That was a really great run through. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker:I do have a question, and I'm gonna totally put you on the spot here.
Speaker:So what if you are a menstruating human and you're
Speaker:not menstruating with Oh, my
Speaker:God. It was the full the full moon. Right? You said? New
Speaker:moon. What if you're menstruating with the full moon? What does that
Speaker:do for your, like, cycle thinking? Like, if you do have that to menstruate, you're
Speaker:just doing the same thing? Mhmm. So you follow
Speaker:your energy levels first off. So if you're, menstruating
Speaker:with the full moon, which I have at some point in my life,
Speaker:that's totally fine because a lot of people,
Speaker:they will put themselves in boxes. I'm not a fan of putting yourself in a
Speaker:box. This is more of a guidance. So if you're menstruating with a full
Speaker:moon, you're just doing everything according to your cycle versus the
Speaker:moon. The moon is there if you need it. It may
Speaker:or not affect your actual energy levels, so you may be a person who
Speaker:has more energy during your menstrual cycle if the moon is
Speaker:affecting you. And that's the only real difference to it is that you may
Speaker:just have more energy during times that you wouldn't. I noticed
Speaker:that when I was, sinking that direction with the moon,
Speaker:I had shorter cycles personally, which I thought was interesting.
Speaker:And I also only needed, like, one day of rest versus, like,
Speaker:the majority of the time of rest. Oh, that's really interesting. Yes.
Speaker:Right. Okay. Mhmm. Exactly. So
Speaker:that's not it's not really, like I've talked to people
Speaker:before where it's like, well, that seems backwards. It's not. Everybody works differently.
Speaker:If we all, technically, if we all sink to the moon, then we're all
Speaker:gonna be out of commission at the same time. Right. Doesn't work.
Speaker:Absolutely. Okay. So we have the 4 phases. And, again,
Speaker:if you're not menstruating, you can sync to the moon cycle.
Speaker:And if you are menstruating, kind of go by that. Keep track of your energy
Speaker:levels. What would you say is a good way to be
Speaker:kind of tracking or being aware of that? Like, do you, you know, have,
Speaker:like, a journal or something that you're noting, or do you put notes on your
Speaker:calendar? Like, how are you kind of keeping track of where your energy level's like?
Speaker:A lot of this is just self observation. Yes.
Speaker:So I've done, a lot of different methods over the years, and I've worked with
Speaker:my clients with whatever method they tend to pull towards because
Speaker:whatever you're tending to pull towards is gonna be easier for you. I've noticed
Speaker:especially with us neurodivergent work, folk, it's not gonna work if
Speaker:you don't wanna work it. So, personally, right now, and I
Speaker:can tell you what I used to do. Currently, right now, I use Clue.
Speaker:I know there's this big whole, like, app situation that happened a few months ago.
Speaker:I'm comfortable with Clue. I like Clue. It has a lot of features even for
Speaker:the free version. And then I also mix it with my calendar in the sense
Speaker:that, whenever Clue says my
Speaker:period's about to come, I actually block those days off in my calendar
Speaker:so I don't book calls. So that's how it shows up in my calendar. And
Speaker:then I will also mark when my ovulation should be ish. I
Speaker:don't test for that anymore. I used to, and just I figured out
Speaker:that mine's pretty regular anyway. So whenever that's gonna be, I
Speaker:put, as much as I can, that that's the day I would prefer to record
Speaker:all my, like, reels for the next month or my videos or whatnot because I
Speaker:have more energy and I can do it. Or if
Speaker:I already have the videos, maybe I recorded, like, a whole ton for a quarter,
Speaker:which happens whenever I have, like, a ton of energy All of the
Speaker:energy. All of the energy. That would be a great period of time in my
Speaker:month so I can do some outreach and try to sell some,
Speaker:you know, some of my offers or my services or whatnot because I'll have much
Speaker:more energy and more, like, charisma to do that.
Speaker:So that that would be a great way to also track your energy
Speaker:is if you're doing something and it feels horrible each time, that's that's
Speaker:not the best time for you to do it. Now can we control our lives
Speaker:completely like that? No. That's why I would fall back for the 80 20 rule.
Speaker:But when I first work with clients, what I have them do is actually
Speaker:we'll do a month of every single day. They would kinda
Speaker:put their overarching energy for today, and if they're tracking their
Speaker:cycle, where they are in their cycle to see how it actually shows up. And
Speaker:then I would suggest to do that for at least 6 months to get a
Speaker:full snapshot. And if you have any, big life change or
Speaker:event or whatnot or you get very sick or anything like that,
Speaker:start tracking it again because sometimes that will affect it and will shift things around
Speaker:a little bit. I think that's awesome. Okay. That I think is a really
Speaker:actionable tip to take away. And I'm seeing so so many similarities
Speaker:between, like, the functional astrology that I've been working with. I mean, so much of
Speaker:this is just tracking and observations. And, like, how are you
Speaker:as a unique human impacted by the
Speaker:lunar phases, by the transits, by your own, like,
Speaker:ebbs and flows and energy throughout the month. And, like, how do we put that
Speaker:all together into one nice little, you know, tied up bow, which we'd all
Speaker:love for it to be nice and tidy. But Mhmm. I think I think you
Speaker:bring up a really great point by saying, like, the 80 20. Right? And we
Speaker:I use 80 20 in so many things in my life. But we're not striving
Speaker:for perfection, for exactness, especially when you mix chronic illness,
Speaker:neurodivergent, like, anything else into it. Like,
Speaker:there are times where I might be high energy, but I am
Speaker:absolutely laying on the couch, audioing things into, like,
Speaker:chat, GPT, or, like, putting them into notes or Voxering or
Speaker:sending all of the Slacks because I just being vertical
Speaker:is not going to happen that day. Right? It's gonna happen as little as
Speaker:possible. So taking the cycle side of everything and
Speaker:the energy levels and those fluctuations that come through those different portions of your
Speaker:cycle, how do we take this and then
Speaker:start using it to plan for efficiency in our businesses or in
Speaker:our corporate careers or in our lives so that we're able to
Speaker:work with our cycles instead of against them. And
Speaker:to add a very long run onto that, I did want to
Speaker:address that I think of for a lot of us, this is something that's not
Speaker:talked about. It's being talked about more often. But for many of us,
Speaker:the 24 hour, like, you can I'm sure we probably speak to this a little
Speaker:bit, but, like, we're set up for a 24 hour day and, like, menstruating
Speaker:humans or like, we don't that's not our day.
Speaker:My my energy levels look very different from my spouse's energy
Speaker:levels, and it's just fascinating to
Speaker:have been trying to shove, like, a square peg into a round hole for all
Speaker:of these years of, like, yeah, you're gonna be 5 AM club, which, like, there'll
Speaker:be 5 AM club. Get up in the morning. Yeah. You're like, yeah. I'm going
Speaker:to bed at 5. I'm not, like, 5 AM club. Get up. Do your
Speaker:workout. Do all the things. And, like, I am not super high energy generally
Speaker:in the morning. Like, I'll be alert, but, like, there's the cadence of
Speaker:my days change throughout the month versus having the
Speaker:cadence of my day be consistent but change throughout the day.
Speaker:Yes. A 100%. The 24 hour
Speaker:cycle is exactly what you said. It's more built for non mainstream
Speaker:humans, so more it it's patriarchy,
Speaker:basically. And we do much better,
Speaker:I would say, monthly broken down by week. Now
Speaker:each phase isn't exactly a week long, but that would be much
Speaker:easier way to plan your month is by week. So,
Speaker:that's how I would suggest it for most business owners is looking your
Speaker:month over versus your days over. And what I
Speaker:would also suggest is having buckets of things you're doing
Speaker:versus every single minute of the day planned. I know it's a shocker
Speaker:hearing from a productivity coach, but I do not like that.
Speaker:It doesn't work for a lot of people I work with at all. Like, they
Speaker:can plan for the best and then nothing happens. So instead of wasting
Speaker:all your planning and creative efforts with planning, with
Speaker:that, do it in a way that would make more sense to you.
Speaker:So when you're talking about more like business tasks and things like that
Speaker:I'm gonna go through the cycle again because this is just how my brain works.
Speaker:The menstrual phase would be a great time for you to review how
Speaker:you did the months before, for you to rest, for you
Speaker:to do more self care activities even in business. So if for
Speaker:you, a self care activity is actually doing your bookkeeping, then do that.
Speaker:Yes. For me, a self care task for
Speaker:my it would be inbox 0. So making sure that it's fully
Speaker:inbox 0, like, around the time my menstrual is about to hit so I don't
Speaker:have to worry about it. So self care tasks do
Speaker:exist in your business and in the corporate world. Just making sure that
Speaker:you're set up to be able to rest is a self care task.
Speaker:That's also, as I mentioned before, time for course correcting. So when you're reviewing your
Speaker:previous month, what do you need to change for this upcoming month? What
Speaker:do you need to focus on or readdress,
Speaker:have conversations, plan out when you're having any difficult
Speaker:conversations, when you have the energy to to do that or
Speaker:any amazing conversations when you have the energy to do that. So it's a great
Speaker:time just to think basically and not do.
Speaker:And then, when you get into the follicular phase, again, this would be a
Speaker:great time for, like, launches. Follicular and
Speaker:ovulation are great times for, like, launches. So if you're planning a launch,
Speaker:look to see what your calendar looks like, especially if you're doing a live launch
Speaker:and you're, like, the main person of that launch. Make sure that that lines up
Speaker:to you as much as you possibly can. So that would be a great time
Speaker:for those activities, more in-depth planning if
Speaker:you need a little bit more. You had some scribbles from your menstrual phase and
Speaker:then you wanna go deeper later on when you have more energy and then,
Speaker:even creating new relationships because it's a great time for, like, new beginnings. And then
Speaker:your obiocerase phase, that is when you're gonna focus
Speaker:on all the communication, all the collaboration, all the creation of the
Speaker:videos, all of that. And if you're more in,
Speaker:the corporate world where you're a an employee and not somebody
Speaker:who's running the business, this is a great time for you to
Speaker:schedule some important meetings, or even if you're a
Speaker:salesperson in your in that business that you're in, it's a great time for you
Speaker:to use your energy to attract new clients or anything like that. Probably a great
Speaker:time for you in general if you're a salesperson because that will give you a
Speaker:lot of energy to get it done. And then the luteal phase,
Speaker:again, you're gonna start turning inward. You're gonna finish up projects. This is
Speaker:a great time to finish up projects. Finish putting in the work before your menstrual
Speaker:hits you in your flat. I'd love that. Okay. Again, with the
Speaker:circle. I know. All it all is the circle. There's so much the
Speaker:the more aware I think or the more that I pay attention to it, the
Speaker:more I keep seeing seasonality around me or cycles. Right? Our everything
Speaker:is based on cycles, Whether it's day cycles, month
Speaker:cycles, seasonal cycle, annuals. Like, there's all of these
Speaker:cycles that I'm just seeing. And it's like, there are times where
Speaker:it's like paying attention to all of them. You're like, who's
Speaker:okay. This is impacting it this way. Great. We're gonna
Speaker:notice this. We're going to acknowledge
Speaker:it because I think that there are times, especially when I was working corporate or
Speaker:before I was, like, as aware of my own cycles, like, energetically
Speaker:where it was really easy to be hard on myself. It's like, oh, my God.
Speaker:I don't have energy and, like, the negative self talk. Like, you're just lazy. Like,
Speaker:why don't you have this? You know, dah dah dah dah dah. Versus, like, am
Speaker:I patting myself on the back on the week that I have all of the
Speaker:energy to do all of the things? No.
Speaker:But then why am I be nagging myself on the weeks where my energy is
Speaker:lower? So, like, being able to recognize that and just like, oh,
Speaker:yep. Okay. This makes sense. Like, that tracks where I am. I know 10 days
Speaker:from now, roughly, that I will have more energy. Like, this is what it'll look
Speaker:like. Cool. Is so nice.
Speaker:And I do the same thing in business. Right? Like, we have cycles that go
Speaker:through in business and, like, revenue and changes and, like,
Speaker:new clients and bookings and to, like, being able to mark on the calendar and
Speaker:look at it and go, yep. The same thing happened last year. The same thing
Speaker:happened the year before. Like, this too is part of the season. It's part of
Speaker:the cycle. How do we work with it instead of against it? But if you
Speaker:don't know or you don't recognize, then, like, only have so much information that you
Speaker:use to plan. Yes. So being a detective
Speaker:of yourself in your business or your job is the
Speaker:most important thing you can do, is always observe,
Speaker:maybe write down notes for the next time or when you're about to, you
Speaker:know, go through all your inner work for your menstrual phase.
Speaker:But it's good that you brought up seasons because seasons affect me not
Speaker:just as a person, but as someone with chronic
Speaker:illness. I don't do well in the heat, so summer is not my best time
Speaker:to get most of my stuff done anyway. Winter, oddly enough for me,
Speaker:I'm a winter gal. Once it's cool, I am happy, and I can get a
Speaker:lot of things done. So with that, the
Speaker:seasonality also affects your energy levels, especially
Speaker:uniquely to you as a person. Trying to figure out when you have the
Speaker:most energy overall in that season will help you because then you can also
Speaker:plan your year much better. Like, for example,
Speaker:if you want if you're a personal chronic illness and you want to
Speaker:have a big thing coming up, you can do a lot of the legwork
Speaker:in the season, for example, for me in winter, then when you have the most
Speaker:energy because you know there's not gonna be a whole bunch of things affecting other
Speaker:parts of you. And then you can plan your maybe
Speaker:again, I'm gonna use me because I just did this this year. Instead of
Speaker:dying in this in the summer here, I went to an Alaskan cruise,
Speaker:which was amazing. So I disappeared for, like, 10 days in a much
Speaker:cooler environment. So you can plan all that so much better
Speaker:if you are a detective of yourself and start learning as much as you can
Speaker:about you as a unique person and not putting yourself in boxes,
Speaker:but seeing where you fit, when you fit there because you
Speaker:will change as you go through week, through month, through year, even
Speaker:in through, again, back to big transits. Every 5
Speaker:years, things happen, things like that. No. I I think too,
Speaker:I'm my prime season is
Speaker:fall.And I have a little glimpse since I too don't do well in, like,
Speaker:the very, very, very heat of summer. Like, August, we are not
Speaker:great friends. But early summer, late
Speaker:spring and fall, all of the energy.
Speaker:But, 2, that has changed depending on, like, where I
Speaker:live. Yep. Not all I like winter's a
Speaker:medium energy. Spring's kind of low energy. When I
Speaker:live somewhere else, that wasn't always the case. Like, the weather, the environment,
Speaker:like, the seasonality, all of it impacts. My love I've never heard someone
Speaker:say it that way, but being a detective of you
Speaker:Yep. Yeah. Why would you not?
Speaker:Like, we're all unique. We all have different cycles. We all have different, like,
Speaker:factors that impact us. I I love that. That's gonna be
Speaker:my go to quote. Well, funny enough, I wanted to
Speaker:be a detective, so but life brings me
Speaker:here. And
Speaker:and, yeah, with any big life changes, you're you're going to have
Speaker:to be a detective of yourself all over again. Either you
Speaker:have a new chronic illness, diagnosis,
Speaker:just bought a house. That's me. Like, you have to figure out where all your
Speaker:energy starts to shift and then resettle back down. Because it's kinda
Speaker:like when you're kinda like when you're cleaning too. You're getting all the dust all
Speaker:over the place and you have to see where everything's about to settle to see
Speaker:where you're gonna need to put everything. It's kinda like, oh my gosh. I'm gonna
Speaker:give you so many metaphors right now about unpacking what I'm trying to do.
Speaker:But it's it's it's really that. It's like learning your new
Speaker:space and how your body is reacting to that new
Speaker:space regardless if that is a physical space or an emotional
Speaker:space too. Well, that so much of this brings you back to, like,
Speaker:meditation practice. Right? Because, like, where can you be observing and not judging and, like,
Speaker:just letting the the thoughts, the emotions, like, anything that comes up, like,
Speaker:just exist. And being an observer prior
Speaker:to just, like, snap judgment or taking action based on what where
Speaker:where can you be mindful and observant without
Speaker:just having to do all of the things right away? Like,
Speaker:it's so easy. I think especially in the, like, hustle hustle hustle. Go
Speaker:go go Do everything, all of the things every day
Speaker:to conscientiously, like, take a step back from that and intentionally,
Speaker:like, slow it down, observe,
Speaker:and course correct instead of having that, like, frantic energy,
Speaker:having the, like, calming, grounded, centered,
Speaker:like, peaceful energy
Speaker:that just feels safer,
Speaker:feel better, feel more sustainable.
Speaker:Exact no. Sustainability is one of the things I always focus
Speaker:on. Is your business sustainable? Is your
Speaker:household sustainable? If it's not sustainable, and I'm not talking about, like, eco
Speaker:products even though that's great and all, energetically
Speaker:sustainable. If you the the main goal I would
Speaker:love people to walk away with when I'm working with them
Speaker:specifically and, actually, any any service I do is sustainability
Speaker:in your business, your energy, whatnot. Because if it's not sustainable,
Speaker:you're gonna burn out. And I've been there. That's how I ended up with one
Speaker:of my main chronic illnesses. It's not fun. I highly do not suggest
Speaker:it. And and it it it has to do
Speaker:back with, I don't know if you've ever read the book, Laziness Does Not Exist.
Speaker:I don't know if we've found it. But I own it. It's sitting on the
Speaker:bookshelf in the other room. It's a great book. Even if you only get through
Speaker:chapter 1, it will piss you off, but in the best way.
Speaker:And and getting away from the you have to
Speaker:work in order to feel worth something. No.
Speaker:There are different types of productivity. One that I
Speaker:focus on the most is kind of like
Speaker:inactive productivity, if you wanna say it that way. I don't like saying it that
Speaker:way, but it's the best way to get it through people where rest is
Speaker:productivity. If you don't rest, you cannot do x, y, and z. If
Speaker:you don't rest, you cannot plan. You cannot be a good leader. You
Speaker:cannot run a business. You can't you can't really do anything. You will burn out,
Speaker:and then everything else will change. And if everything changes, guess what? You're
Speaker:back at square 0, and it's not fun. Right.
Speaker:So maybe clarifying that resting isn't just sleeping. No.
Speaker:It's not. I And that's a really common misconception. It is.
Speaker:So you know what? Let me give you some of my more, like, resting, but
Speaker:I'm not actually just, like, laying around, which I do love.
Speaker:But for me, sometimes, resting is organizing things. You know?
Speaker:But that's because I'm a Virgo, and I'm just, like, crazy that way. But I
Speaker:love, doing little projects that don't
Speaker:necessarily mean something's gonna come out from it. Like, I'm not
Speaker:stressed to do it. Maybe it needs to get done. Most likely, it doesn't at
Speaker:that very moment, but it helps me kind of rest and get into myself.
Speaker:Because in a way too, a lot of those little activities that you do that
Speaker:are rest or self care or even things like that are a
Speaker:sense of, like, what is what do they call it? Like, active
Speaker:meditation where you're not just sitting there in your thoughts, which for some people,
Speaker:it's really good. For some people, it doesn't work at all. They just kind of
Speaker:go into chaos. But you can, like, wash
Speaker:dish dishes and just let thoughts come to you. It's great.
Speaker:You can showers are great. Baths are great. You can lay
Speaker:around. That's totally fine. I like playing video games because, like, I'm
Speaker:doing something, but I'm not. Like, I feel like I'm doing
Speaker:something, but I'm not, because, obviously, it's not giving me any money, which would be
Speaker:great if it would. But Oh, man. Yeah. Which I hope people make
Speaker:money from that. I just don't wanna do that. Gardening is one for me.
Speaker:Yeah. Being able to be out there and do something productive, but, like, restorative
Speaker:and, like, active meditation. Yeah. Oh, and then, like, for
Speaker:example, my boyfriend, he has been playing his
Speaker:piano and violins. That's his son's rest.
Speaker:After, you know, packing the entire day, he goes, sits down, and
Speaker:plays his piano. And that's his sense of rest because it is something that
Speaker:is just for him, not for anyone else, and he just gets to be with
Speaker:himself. And, also, if you're an extrovert, you can do things
Speaker:like, honestly, going to a party, which doesn't sound great to me because
Speaker:I'm kinda no. Going to a party for extroverts, that's their rest
Speaker:because they're refilling. So Yeah. That's the opposite
Speaker:for me. Yeah. No. I I'm just just like that. Unless I'm, like, in
Speaker:my ovulatory phase where I'm just like, yeah. I don't wanna do
Speaker:that. But so 2 2 ways you can think of
Speaker:rest. Is it filling your cup, or is it you're helping your cup not
Speaker:overflow? That is your rest. So either
Speaker:giving you energy or removing that anxious energy, that is your
Speaker:rest. That is, like, the basic way you can think about it. I love that.
Speaker:I love that. Those are great examples of rest that's not just
Speaker:sleeping. Because, yeah, I think for so many of us, we're like, oh, yeah. I
Speaker:rested. I slept outside. But, like, did you sleep and then just, like, work
Speaker:16 hours and not do at, like We need a little bit more to
Speaker:take care of ourselves. Window shopping is my favorite way of
Speaker:resting. I'm not a anybody. I'm not
Speaker:spending money, but I'm not doing anything that causes
Speaker:me stress either. I'm just kinda like, oh, that would be fun. That would be
Speaker:fun. There's so many different ways to go
Speaker:about rest and self care. I love having a self care menu,
Speaker:especially when I'm overanxious or even either depressed or
Speaker:just really stressed. I can look at my self care menu and be like, I
Speaker:need a 5 minute thing, that, or I need an hour thing, that,
Speaker:or I need something to get my energy up. I'm gonna go dance it out,
Speaker:Something. So if you don't know, when you're in a good
Speaker:position, make your self care menu, and then you could pick from it. And that
Speaker:Oh. During different types of your phase cycle. You can
Speaker:actually plan your self care menu with yourself with your,
Speaker:cycle so you can pick things as you need them. I like the self care
Speaker:menu. Yeah. They're it's amazing. I love it. It's a great
Speaker:idea. Okay. Take note of decision fatigue because you've already decided that you
Speaker:like it. Mhmm. Oh my god. No. That's great. Yeah. Because that's
Speaker:that's such a real thing. Especially, normally, when I'm needing self care the most. It's
Speaker:been like, okay. Now I do have to go through, like, figuring out what I
Speaker:wanna do, planning the thing. Like, do I have to drive to the do I
Speaker:have to do that? And all of that that goes into it is just
Speaker:it can make you end up on the couch watching Harry Potter marathons, which,
Speaker:like, well, that's not the end of the world and can absolutely be a form
Speaker:of rest, may not always be the most restorative go
Speaker:to. Yeah. Granted, the other
Speaker:day, I did watch Grey's Anatomy the entire day, and then I restarted it over
Speaker:again because of what I That's just Yep. Yep. Yep. That's
Speaker:yeah. Just the background loop. Yeah. That David's David's self care show is
Speaker:South Park, which is always it's good. It has the nice thing is it has
Speaker:so many seasons just like Gray and Dove. And so you can just Mhmm. And
Speaker:loop and wherever you are. Yep. And it's just and I'll do the same thing.
Speaker:And so one of the 2 will normally be playing. But, yeah, I I love
Speaker:that. Long shows because it feels like you're watching a different show when
Speaker:you started over again because Grey's is 19th season. Like, you're literally
Speaker:watching, like, 5 different shows. Mhmm. No. It gives
Speaker:yeah. It gives so much more content to be able to, like,
Speaker:embrace. So that's yes.
Speaker:I love that. Okay. So, Christy, anything else, if like
Speaker:someone were to have one main takeaway and I have a feeling I know what
Speaker:you're gonna say, but I want you to say it anyways. If anyone would have
Speaker:one main takeaway when it comes to cycles and productivity and,
Speaker:like, thinking your cycles with your business, what would you want them to take away
Speaker:from this? Well, now I'm not sure what you think I was gonna
Speaker:say, but I'll tell you after you say yours. I was
Speaker:gonna say, be a be a detective
Speaker:with grace. So like you said, don't judge
Speaker:yourself. Just observe yourself, see where things are going, and then
Speaker:implement them as you need. I figured you were gonna say be a detective of
Speaker:yourself. So okay. Right on. Right on. Go. I was like, you know, that that's
Speaker:the biggest takeaway that I have from that that it just keeps, like, and it's
Speaker:hilarious because my astrologist will, like without saying it, it says the same thing. Right?
Speaker:Like, so much of this is just observation and, like, noticing patterns and which,
Speaker:like, speaks to the neurodivergent side of me by far. Like, I'm a patterned person.
Speaker:Like absolutely. Like, let's pattern recognition the shit
Speaker:out of this and figure it out. And so it's just funny that I keep
Speaker:seeing this recurring theme coming up in my life. So, yeah, that's the one that
Speaker:had really stuck with me. So I'm glad we picked the same model, though I'm
Speaker:sure anything else you put out would have been valuable. If anyone's wanting
Speaker:to connect with you more or, like, follow-up or go over, like, how to
Speaker:cycle sync with their own business or anything else that you offer, where's the
Speaker:best place for them to find you? Like, what what are you doing right now
Speaker:that they can be involved in or subscribe to?
Speaker:So the best place where I hang out where people can, get in touch with
Speaker:me would be my Instagram. And I'm sure it'd be linked somewhere here
Speaker:because my name is annoying to write, but it's be this and then underscore.
Speaker:So that would be the best place. Now coming
Speaker:up, which it's in development now, so it just
Speaker:depends on when you're listening to this. The so the great place to
Speaker:go find this would be my Instagram, is I'm coming out with
Speaker:a tool where you can put in your information for your mental cycle,
Speaker:and then it'll give you what you what you I don't like to say it
Speaker:should, but what you could be doing throughout different parts of your cycle,
Speaker:and we'll help guide you through a month or even 3 months depending on
Speaker:which tool you're using. Oh, I love that. How cool. Okay. What a great
Speaker:resource. And I think if you if you pop a note our way when you
Speaker:have those, we'll add that to the notes too so we can find it there.
Speaker:But, also, yes, your Instagram will be in the notes. Oh my gosh.
Speaker:What a valuable chat. Thank you so much. This was really great to,
Speaker:like, flesh out and, like, increase my understanding of it as well as I'm, like,
Speaker:delving further into it this year. No. Thank you. I always love
Speaker:geeking out on this because we I think we've talked about this
Speaker:before. There's not too many people talking about this
Speaker:because everybody's like, oh, menstrual, taboo, ew.
Speaker:It's not. It's literally a part of our lives that we
Speaker:experienced for decades, so we should be talking about it.
Speaker:Decades. Like, that's that's the wild thing. And then
Speaker:there's always, like, the cycles both before and after that as well that, like, can
Speaker:impact energy levels and everything else that goes in. No. I it was really
Speaker:funny because the I recorded a podcast earlier this morning with someone and we were
Speaker:talking about the taboo that goes along with, like, money and sex and,
Speaker:like, women's health and, like, there's so many taboos or things that just are,
Speaker:like, not talked about, like, they should be. And so that's such a big part
Speaker:of what I'm wanting to do here is just have those discussion, because I'm having
Speaker:them in my own personal circles. Why should we not be having them in
Speaker:a more public arena? Like, I'm not embarrassed about it, and I
Speaker:don't care if anyone else thinks it's gross. Like, that's their thing. It's a part
Speaker:of my, like, regular life, so let's talk about it
Speaker:instead of just, like, shoving it, you know, into some little shame box. Yeah.
Speaker:And the more we talk about it, the less shame there'll be around it.
Speaker:Absolutely. Thank you so much. Everyone, check the notes.
Speaker:We are gonna have all of Christy's links in there so that you can go
Speaker:follow along because you put up a lot of really
Speaker:valuable content when it comes to productivity, energy management, like chronic
Speaker:illness. I know that I found just a lot of your free Instagram content to
Speaker:be incredibly helpful throughout the month. Thank you.
Speaker:So amazing. Well, awesome.
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