12: Shruthi Parker: Finding Your True Passions, Navigating Friendships and Starting Each Day with Purpose
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We can all be our own worst critics, but sometimes we need someone else to give us a dose of Shruth. Shruthi Parker is a lifestyle blogger based in Austin, Texas who has an array of juicy life advice.
Shruthi shares how she discovered her passion for blogging and made it her full-time job, the importance of having a solid sense of self, and the beauty of acknowledging your current season of life. She shares how her different life experiences have shaped her and how she’s preparing for her next big life transition as a new mother. This episode has a little bit of wisdom for everyone, so you won’t want to miss out. Join Robin Long in this week’s interview on The Balanced Life.
Show Highlights:
- What Shruthi’s career looks like and how she got into blogging
- What goes into being an Uber driver and the life skills it builds
- Treating your side hustle work as a full-time job from the beginning
- Fighting for approval from family members and friends with a nontraditional job
- Shruthi’s daily schedule and what she does weekly
- How Shruthi determined when to bring on interns and the value they bring to her career
- Shruthi’s current top priorities and how she balances her creativity
- Finding time to nurture relationships during busy work seasons
- How Shruthi is preparing and planning for being a new mother
- Developing a solid sense of self and using that voice to establish a brand
- Overcoming the pressure from outside sources and setting boundaries on social media
- Aspects of life that have taken a back seat during this season of life
- Dealing with the consist intensity of trying to balance it all
- Refocusing each day and practicing self-care daily
- Rapid fire session of Shruthi’s favorite products and resources
- How to discover the path you should pursue
Links:
Instagram: @thebalancedlife
5 Day Jumpstart:
https://thebalancedlifeonline.com/jumpstart/
Contact Shruthi:
Instagram: @Thehonestshruth
Resources and Products Mentioned:
https://www.milkmakeup.com/blur-matte-setting-powder.html
https://jamieivey.com/category/podcast-2
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/baby-411-ari-brown-md/1114831396#/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode number 12 with Shruthy Parker. I try to compartmentalize my time. So I'm like, |
| 0:06.3 | okay, date night, hubby, you know, like we go to sleep together every night. Check, check right now. |
| 0:12.1 | And like health, eat as well as you can and like go on walks. With the blog, set five goals of |
| 0:19.0 | date and check those off every day before you go to sleep. |
| 0:22.8 | Honestly, if I feel any pressure right now, it would be the pressure to turn off. |
| 0:35.8 | I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and creator of the balanced life. |
| 0:40.3 | It's easy to believe that the women we follow online do it all. |
| 0:45.0 | But the truth is, they don't. |
| 0:47.4 | None of us do. |
| 0:49.0 | Here on the Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations with inspiring women, |
| 1:04.1 | sharing the real story of how they make their life work, what they do, and perhaps more importantly, what they don't do, what they prioritize and what they let go of. From food and exercise to work and family, we'll cover it all and provide practical tips to help you create a beautiful, |
| 1:13.0 | uniquely balanced life of your own. This is the balanced life podcast. |
| 1:19.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to the podcast. Okay, it's a big week in our house as I'm |
| 1:26.4 | recording this right now. The twins are turning one, which I know a lot of |
| 1:32.5 | you have been hanging out with me and following along since well before the twins are around, |
| 1:36.9 | but can you believe it's been a year? I mean, on one hand I can. I knew this year was going to fly by. |
| 1:42.6 | I just knew it was going to be a blur. Having two |
| 1:45.5 | older kids and just the pace at which life moves, I just knew it was going to be a blur. And I was |
| 1:51.7 | so right. I mean, I literally feel like they just joined our family. And I still am saying I just |
| 1:57.2 | had twins. I just had two babies. So can I hold on to that for a little longer, |
| 2:01.5 | please? I'm not ready to give up that that little statement that I add on to things when I'm, |
| 2:07.8 | you know, running behind schedule or whatever it might be. But it's been a huge year. I mean, |
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