Festive Flashback | Evy Pompouras' Feel Good Habits

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Emma Gunavardhana

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Here's some twinkly goodness in the shape of my Top 10 Feel Good Habits interviews. In this episode, Evy Pompouras.

This episode was originally published in May 2021.

Evy Poumpouras is a speaker, mentor and former Secret Service agent who joins me on the podcast to share her feel-good habits, the strategies she uses and recommends to make sure every day is a good day.

In this episode, @evypoumpouras shares:

•Why avoidance gets you nowhere and it pays to face and address the things in life you find challenging.

•Why so many feel-good habits won’t feel good in the short-term, but it’s the long-term yield that makes consistency and perseverance worthwhile.

•Why her favourite form or instant gratification comes on the shape of a @dunkin Cappuccino Blast.

•Why her evening habits routine is ‘Evy Time’ and is how she can ensure she operates at her optimum.

•Her evening workout, which includes some kit from @onnit and why she loves being strong.

•The benefits she feels from using an inversion table.

•Why cold showers and meditation are part of her post-workout routine.

•The gratitude ritual that allows her to note what has gone well, but also holds her accountable for what hasn’t.

•Why getting outside in the morning is a way to really ‘wake up’ and why getting an errand done first thing leads to greater productivity throughout the day.

•The conversation she had with Marc Bernays-Randolph, the founder of @netflix about success and what makes people successful.

•And much much more…

If you want more of Evy's expertise and insights then her book Becoming Bulletproof is available now.

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0:00.0	Evie Pompores, welcome back to the podcast. How are you?
0:10.8	I'm well, Emma. How are you?
0:13.0	Goodness me. Now, that's a proper FM DJ radio voice there.
0:18.9	You do have the best voice, I have to say. I i was thinking earlier i was listening back to our last
0:23.7	conversation thinking if i had that voice i'm pretty sure more people would take me seriously
0:29.7	well you have um a beautiful i love listening to your voice because of the way you sound i definitely
0:36.5	want to say not the love the
0:38.8	British accent, right? From my perspective, it's an accent. But I think you speak well. And side note,
0:46.4	I had to work on my voice because it did not sound like this. Interesting. Maybe we should
0:52.1	unpick that a little bit. But it's a habit. Okay, good. Okay, so for context,
0:58.2	listeners may remember that Evie came on the podcast last year. And we talked about her incredible
1:02.2	book becoming bulletproof, which is such a game changer in terms of understanding yourself,
1:07.9	how you react to things, how to essentially navigate life
1:11.6	with fewer bruises. Or maybe you take the hits. Maybe you take the hits, but the scars are
1:17.7	actually things that you're proud of and feel good about having rather than feeling that
1:22.3	you're constantly getting beaten up. Yeah, I think if you think about it a lot, no, let me rephrase it, my previous career, and I'm just going off of my previous career when I was a special agent, if I sat and just thought about, today I might get shot.
1:40.4	If I just had that narrative in my head, today I might get beat up. Today I might this,
1:44.9	today I might that. You just live in this panic and this, if this, if that. And it was always
1:51.4	kind of like, all right, bring it. Let's see how it goes. And rather than be afraid of it and
1:59.5	not want it and avoid it.
2:02.2	Like we spend so much time avoiding conflict.
2:04.6	We spend so much time avoiding getting hit and avoiding this and trying to control everything.
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