499: How to Use Boundaries to Reclaim Your Time, Energy & Relationships | Melissa Urban
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/499melissaurban
Melissa Urban (IG: @melissau) is the co-founder and CEO of the Whole30 program, and a six-time New York Times bestselling author. She is the host of the Do the Thing podcast and is a prominent keynote speaker on boundaries, building community, health trends & entrepreneurship.
Today we’re discussing Melissa's brand new book, The Book of Boundaries: Set the Limits That Will Set You Free.
Learning how to set and stick to your boundaries will improve your mental health, energy, productivity and create more fulfilling relationships. Stick around and learn how to become a boundary master.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Signs you need to set a boundary
- How to categorize boundaries
- A simple approach to start setting boundaries
- Strategies to setting & holding workplace boundaries
- A three-tiered approach to boundary scripts
- Don’t over-explain your boundary
- Navigating the “whys”
- Common misconceptions about boundaries
- Establishing a healthy workplace culture
- The best boundaries are flexible
- Should you communicate changes to a boundary?
- The boundaries Melissa sets working from home
- Why she rejects the hustle culture
- Advice for starting an entrepreneurial journey
- Deepen your accomplishments
- Create more balance in your life
- Mentors offer an insightful perspective
- Setting boundaries was transformative for Melissa’s drug recovery
- Are you willing to hold your boundary?
- Setting & holding self-boundaries
- Teaching kids the concept of healthy boundaries
- It’s never too late to set boundaries
- The three boundary mistakes people make
- Don’t impose your boundary expectations on others
- What is the golden rule in relationships?
- Setting healthy boundaries in relationships
- Ask yourself, “What do I need?”
- The key to building self-confidence
- Everyone can benefit from clear, kind communication
- The freedom that comes from setting boundaries
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Related links:
Melissa Urban - The Book of Boundaries
Follow Melissa Urban on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Listen to Melissa (Hartwig) Urban previously on TUHP (episode #229)
Melissa Hartwig Urban, Dallas Hartwig - Whole30 (books)
Do The Thing, with Whole30's Melissa Urban
Randi Zuckerberg - Pick Three (book)
Brené Brown - Dare to Lead (book)
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Therapist Reveals the Secret to Healthy Relationships | Nedra Glover Tawwab (#429)
235: Lori Harder – A Tribe Called Bliss • No Boundaries = Anxiety & Resentment • Stop Gossiping
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | I thought boundaries were the thing that we're going to shrink my life and push people |
| 0:06.6 | away and make my life so much smaller and in that moment my life expanded beyond what |
| 0:12.3 | I ever could have imagined and that was the first glimpse I had at what my life could |
| 0:16.7 | be like. |
| 0:18.4 | And I recognized that continuing to set boundaries with other people and myself around my recovery |
| 0:23.0 | and my health were the key, that was an incredibly powerful and transformative experience. |
| 0:34.7 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast episode 499. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm Jesse Chapis and I'm here to take your help to the next level. |
| 0:42.3 | Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and wellness leaders from around |
| 0:46.0 | the world. |
| 0:47.0 | This week Melissa Urban is back on the show. |
| 0:49.4 | Melissa is the co-founder and CEO of the whole 30 program. |
| 0:52.7 | She's a six-time New York Times bestselling author. |
| 0:55.4 | She's the host of the Do The Thing podcast and she's a prominent keynote speaker on boundaries, |
| 1:00.6 | building community, health trends and entrepreneurship. |
| 1:04.1 | Today we're discussing her brand new book The Book of Boundaries. |
| 1:07.1 | Set the limits that will set you free. |
| 1:09.5 | Learning how to set and stick to boundaries will improve your mental health, your energy, |
| 1:13.4 | productivity and create more fulfilling relationships. |
| 1:17.1 | Stick around and learn how to become a boundary master. |
| 1:20.4 | This of our conversation include a simple approach to start setting boundaries. |
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