Motivation to Take That Walk Break with Manoush Zomorodi EP 458
Best of Both Worlds Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Laura and Sarah open with a discussion of their own movement patterns - do they track steps? Then author and NPR podcast host Manoush Zomorodi joins Sarah for a fascinating discussion of how incorporating small movement breaks into the day can have an outsized impact on health and well-being. Her new book is called Body Electric (she’s Laura’s book twin, with the same release date) and is out wherever books are sold!
In the Q&A, a listener asks for tips on staying helathy while traveling frequently for work.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi, I'm Laura Vanderkamp. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker. |
| 0:19.0 | And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and course creator. |
| 0:24.6 | We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. |
| 0:30.6 | Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. |
| 0:34.6 | From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career goals, |
| 0:38.6 | we want you to get the most out of life. |
| 0:45.2 | Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. This episode is airing in mid-May of 2016. |
| 0:51.4 | Sarah is going to be interviewing Manusse Zomerati, who is the author of the brand new book, |
| 0:55.5 | The Body Electric, which is all about digital life and health. And we are so excited to have her |
| 1:02.1 | back on the show. She has been on in the past, also talking about our digital life. She has a |
| 1:07.8 | previous book, Bored and Brilliant, that I know we both enjoyed. |
| 1:12.4 | So we're really looking forward to that interview. Sarah, maybe we could tell us a little bit about |
| 1:17.0 | her ideas with this new book? Yeah. Well, I'm super excited because I'm a Manus super fan. So long-time |
| 1:22.7 | listeners will know. I mean, I listen to tons of her podcast and I love her reporting style and her way of |
| 1:28.8 | weaving personal vignettes in with real facts and science. And that's exactly what she does |
| 1:33.7 | in the body electric, where she goes through many aspects of our lives that have been impacted |
| 1:39.1 | by the time we now spend on screens. And as someone who is kind of in that health field and who spends plenty |
| 1:45.6 | of time on screens, I kind of had a glean, like I gleaned a lot of what she said, but I never |
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