While I'm Out Here

Morning routines can be grounding, helpful, and genuinely good for us. But somewhere along the way, they also became another thing to optimize, measure, and somehow fail at before the workday even starts.

In this episode of While I’m Out Here, I’m talking about morning routines, burnout, productivity culture, sleep, privilege, seasonal energy, and the difference between a supportive ritual and a stressful checklist. I also get into why your routine is allowed to change with your life, your energy, and the season you’re in.

If your morning routine has ever started to feel like another job that you're failing miserably at, this one is for you.

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Networking is fu**ing weird.

We walk into rooms full of strangers, slap on name tags, ask “what do you do?”, connect on LinkedIn, promise to grab coffee... and then often never speak again.

So while I’m out here today, I’m asking a bigger question: Have we confused collecting connections with actually connecting?

I went down a rabbit hole on the definition and history of networking, including the delightful discovery that apparently we’re supposed to be cultivating “productive relationships.” Because even our relationships need KPIs now.

But somewhere along the walk, this episode became less about networking and more about belonging.

I talk about the women I’ve intentionally built relationships with over the last few years, why some of the most valuable people in my life have done absolutely nothing for my career, and why I’m far less interested in collecting people as I get older.

Maybe the goal isn’t to leave the room with more contacts.

Maybe it’s to leave this life having actually connected.

Come walk with me.

Also discussed: LinkedIn fu**ery, networking events, midlife friendship, women supporting women, turkeys taking over my neighborhood, a**hole geese, and one path that literally goes nowhere.

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I’m starting to understand why women hit their 40s and want to run away to the woods and become witches. Not because we hate our lives, but because we’re really f*****g tired of carrying everything and everyone in them. Let’s talk burnout, cognitive load, invisible labor, the expectations we’ve spent decades carrying, and why maybe midlife is our time to finally give far fewer f***s.

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I’m training for perimenopause… apparently. Let’s talk phantom smells, itchy ears, brain fog, the bizarre symptoms nobody warned us about, and why women shouldn’t have to wait until they’re miserable to get support.

Also, I'd love it if you would comment wherever you are listening (or find me on my socials) and share any strange symptoms you are having. The more we share, the better off we all are!!

So… come walk with me. We’ve got some things to discuss.

And can you quit with the smoking already - it smells in here.

Love you - Jess

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Everything in our world consumes our peace - this is the way our society is set up and the systems we operate within. And we dare to call this “normal”.

I read a quote the other day that said, “This world is not made for our peace; our world is made for our productivity”, and that got me thinking about how we move through our days, weeks, months, years, and what we all seem to agree is “normal”.

The moment we wake, we are bombarded with notifications - get updated on everything that happened when you were sleeping - social media updates, late-night emails, your morning app reminding you to drink water, a notification telling you how much sleep you got, and a “don’t forget to move” nudge.

And this continues All. Day. Long… and we call it “normal”. When you really think about it, we’ve decided that it is ok to constantly be interrupted. But if a real person were to interrupt us as much as our notifications do, I’m pretty sure we’d avoid that person like they were the plague. So why do we allow this from the device in our pockets?

I start this episode talking about how overwhelmed I am, and when we stop to look at what we have all accepted as “normal”, it’s obvious as to why we are so burnt out and mentally unwell as a society.

And that got me thinking about that quote, “This world is not made for our peace; our world is made for our productivity”. And I think it is even more specific than that. I believe our society is not made for our peace nor our productivity; it is made to demand our attention at all times and keep us in a place of overwhelm and burnout.

I hope you’ll put your shoes on and come join me on my walk today.

Touch grass and hug a tree - Jess.

While I’m Out Here is a podcast recorded on the move and from somewhere in the middle of figuring things out - literally and figuratively.

In this first episode, I talk about burnout that isn’t neatly in the past, why walking replaced running, the problem with treating ourselves like the problem, and what it means to recover while still working, leading, parenting, and living inside the systems that helped burn us out.

This isn’t a walking podcast. Walking is just where all my thinking happens.