Initiating, Resting and Life as a Side Quest

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode of From the Heart, Rachel shares her process of getting things done and how she stays productive in her daily life. It looks a lot like this: manifesting with the energy of a thousand suns, side questing on the way to another side quest, and then falling apart on the couch with a tub of ice cream once all is said and done. We all have different ways that we generate and create. But it all comes down to how we can rest and recover. Do you know what true rest looks like? Are you depleting yourself more than you’re filling yourself up? This is a fun episode of story-telling (and even some duck poop) that will inspire you to work hard, rest hard, and keep building the life that reflects you. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's episode of the podcast, I talk about my process of getting things done.
0:06.8	So how I remain very productive in my day today and also how I've realized that essentially
0:13.4	my whole life's work is sort of a side quest on the way to another side quest, but at the end
0:20.2	of the day, it all works. So I talk about
0:24.3	how we all have very different needs when it comes to the output that we generate and how we
0:29.3	create things and also when it comes to how we actually rest and recover. There's also a little
0:35.5	side story in there about like ducks and gross stuff.
0:41.0	I hope you enjoy it.
0:45.7	Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.
0:50.2	Mom! Up the stairs for something.
0:53.7	Back down. No idea what I went up for.
0:57.0	Mom, what's for dinner?
0:59.0	Chop, sizzle, done.
1:02.0	Hello Fresh can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.
1:09.0	So it's phones down, forks up. Hello, Fresh. Bring back
1:12.8	dinner time. Let's dive in. Hi, friend. Welcome back to the show. We are going to skip this whole
1:26.8	intro thing and just kind of
1:28.3	jump right in. I am in a weird ass mood today. I don't know. I don't know if you have like
1:36.5	a favorite preference of Rachel on this show. Sometimes you hit play on a podcast and I'm all serene and grounded and calm and sometimes you get a little intro meditation or we take a breath together.
1:53.0	Sometimes I'm like frantic and stressed out trying to pretend. I'm not overwhelmed with my life. Sometimes I can't stop giggling.
2:04.6	I don't know. Sometimes I'm doomsday, apocalypse, end of the world. And sometimes I'm just
2:09.9	kind of yelling into the mic about men. There's a lot of, you get a lot of different versions of me here if you tune in regularly
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