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Chiquis and Chill

Hustle Culture: Confusing Exhaustion with Ambition

Chiquis and Chill

My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts

Music, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Hi, everyone! Welcome to this week’s episode of Chiquis and Chill. Today, we’re talking about HUSTLE CUTLURE. We’re talking about what it is, why it’s so damaging and why it’s so much more important to prioritize ourselves. I’ll share some of the changes I’ve made in my life and how I’ve managed to shift my priorities.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:10.4

What up, everyone?

0:12.0

Welcome to your favorite podcast, Cheekies and Chill, the podcast where you come to learn,

0:17.9

to grow and to glow.

0:19.5

And talking about glowing and learning and growing and all the good stuff,

0:23.2

we're going to talk about hustle culture, okay?

0:26.7

What that means, why it is that we do it, or at least me.

0:31.6

And I want to talk about that today.

0:33.9

So we're going to talk about all of this and more on your favorite podcast, Cheekies

0:38.6

and Chill. So, hustle culture and toxic productivity. What is that? I call it the rat race of life.

0:52.6

You know, like the wheels at the hamsters, they're on and they're

0:55.7

just wheeling away. A lot of people are on that wheel. I was on that wheel for a long time.

1:01.2

And in some ways, and sometimes I'm still, I still am. There's nothing wrong with hustling.

1:06.4

There's nothing wrong with working hard. I think that's a beautiful thing. I admired my mom

1:10.7

for working hard all of her life. But I think back's a beautiful thing. I admired my mom for working hard

1:11.9

all of her life. But I think back and I'm like, did she enjoy her life? Was she able to enjoy all of

1:19.3

her hard work? And even my grandpa. I'm not close to him, but that's where this comes from. My grandpa has always been a very hard worker.

1:30.0

Always wakes up at four or five in the morning. I don't know if he still does, but when I was in his life,

1:35.8

I mean, I saw this man wake up every single day at four in the morning and put his health as a

1:42.3

priority and would run, I don't know how many miles and work,

1:49.6

work, work, and he never vacationed.

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