Jess Massey: "Routines are Tools, Not Chains: Change Your Relationship with Habits So They Serve YOU"

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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What if your habits could set you free instead of weighing you down? In this session, peaceful productivity expert Jess Massey teaches how seeing habits as tools—not chains—can help you break out of the all-or-nothing mindset, let go of guilt, and create routines that actually support your real life. Jess shares her journey from hustle culture burnout to peaceful productivity, offers gentle, actionable tips for finding your own middle ground, and even lets us in on the surprising habit that’s helping her be more present with her family. It's time to rethink routines and discover a more flexible, fulfilling way to live. FREEBIE for all: Hustle Sanely Daily Planning Page download BONUS raffled off to All-Access Pass Holders: Hustle Sanely Lifestyle Course (Self-Study) Get the Basic Pass to watch and/or read each speaker session for free through Sunday, October 12th. Upgrade to the All-Access Pass for ad-free listening on a private podcast feed, + lifetime access to all content visual, audio, and written. Jess Massey is the host of The Hustle Sanely Podcast, a planner creator, and founder of the community-centered productivity brand Hustle Sanely®. She uses her framework The Hustle Sanely Planning System, to teach ambitious women how to ditch burnout and live peacefully productive lives by creating harmony between their well-being, work, & relationships no matter what season they’re in. FOLLOW ON IG WEBSITE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Monica Packer. What you're about to hear is a session from my five-day online event going on right now,
0:06.2	The More for Mom's Conference. This event is for the mom who is ready for more in her happiness,
0:11.9	habits, health, home, and hobbies. Audio versions of each speaker session will only be available
0:17.1	on the public about progress feed through Sunday, October 12th. For ad-free video and
0:22.1	audio versions of all content, be sure to sign up for the basic or all-access pass before the
0:27.4	conference ends on October 12th. You can do so at aboutprogress.com slash more for moms. Now
0:33.4	on to our special session.
0:44.1	Thank you. Now on to our special session. Jess Massey, welcome to the Moore for Mom's Conference.
0:47.7	Monica, I am so truly excited to be here.
0:50.4	So thank you so much for inviting me to hang out with you and everybody is here.
0:54.1	Well, it's my joy. We're going to be talking about your wheelhouse today. routine. be here. So thank you so much for inviting me to hang out with you and everybody is here.
0:59.0	Well, it's my joy. We're going to be talking about your wheelhouse today, routines, habits.
1:04.4	And let's just start with the elephant in the room, which is, I think habits get a really bad rap. But you and I both know it's for good reason, right? And let's just start with that.
1:12.6	What do you think are some common misconceptions that people carry when they hear the word habit or even the word routine? Yeah,
1:18.0	I feel like habits and routines to me kind of go together. Like in my mind, I view habits as kind of
1:24.0	like the building blocks of routines. So I'm glad that you used both words.
1:28.8	But I feel like people that I've spoken to, moms who come to me talking about habits,
1:36.3	routines, they think that it has to be set in stone.
1:40.8	That once you, quote, created the habit and or the routine that's it there's no wiggle
1:47.3	room it's you know like i said set in stone and i feel like because of that habits and routines
1:55.5	can kind of make us feel like we're carrying a lot of shame, a lot of guilt, almost this sense of failure.
2:04.5	But instead of viewing it as the habit and or routine isn't working for us, we view it as we're
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