Om & The City’s Jules Acree—Productivity & Happiness Hacks, Financial Minimalism, and Easy Approaches To Sustainability

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

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

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Jules Acree. Jules is a wellness writer, entrepreneur, and video content creator behind Om & The City. It’s her daily mission to bring wellness down-to-earth and to help others simplify life to find more joy. She is also the founder of The Homebodies, an online shop for low-waste, intentional living. On this episode, we discuss: How to actually set—and stick to—boundaries that will transform your career and relationships What financial minimalism is, and how Jules implements it in her life The one thing people get wrong when they embark on a sustainable lifestyle Jules’ personal mental health journey, including how she’s overcome struggling with depression and anxiety Her go-to mental health tools for feeling good, energized, and productive every day Her morning routine Her experience in couples therapy Amazing relationship advice FROM her couples therapist And so much more! You can find Jules on Instagram at @omandthecity, and we’d both love to hear your reactions to this episode, so please screenshot and write any thoughts or questions that come up as you’re listening and tag us both (I’m @lizmoody). Enjoy! PS: My foodie preset pack is officially live. You can get all 8 presets, designed to make your food pics look as good as they taste, at lizmoody.com/presets. They’re on sale for 50% off for this week only!! PPS: Healthier Together is officially a number one best-seller! You can get your copy on Amazon or at lizmoody.com/cookbook. Please keep sending me your creations on Instagram—they make me so happy! This episode is sponsored by Lifeway Foods, makers of America’s best-selling brand of kefir. Kefir has 12 different strains of live and active cultures and 25-30 billion Colony Forming Units (CFU), while the average yogurt can have anywhere from 1 to 5 strains with 6 billion CFU. Plus, it’s also up to 99% lactose-free. Lifeway Kefir comes in all sorts of delicious flavors, and they even have a dairy-free Plantiful line. Go to lifewaykefir.com and click “where to buy” to find a store that carries Lifeway near you! Healthier Together cover art by Zack. Healthier Together music by Alex Ruimy.

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0:00.0	Hello friends and welcome back to the Healthier Together podcast.
0:05.7	I am your host, Liz Moody and I am a longtime journalist and cookbook author and I am
0:10.0	so excited to share today's guest, Jules A. Cre, whom you might know as Om and the City.
0:15.9	Jules has been on my radar since my full-time editorial days.
0:19.0	I have long loved her balanced, solution-oriented, accessible approach to wellness, which is
0:24.1	really grounded in minimalism and sustainability.
0:27.7	We talk a lot about minimalism in this episode.
0:30.6	Jules practices minimalism not only with physical spaces, but also digital minimalism and
0:35.3	what she calls financial minimalism.
0:37.2	I wanted to get all of her practical tips around that.
0:40.7	We also talk about sustainability, including the one thing that she thinks a lot of people
0:44.9	get wrong when they embark on a sustainable lifestyle.
0:48.0	We talk about her mental health journey, which you know I love my mental health chat,
0:51.8	including how she has overcome struggling with depression and anxiety and her tools for
0:56.5	feeling good, energized and productive every single day.
1:00.4	We also get into her relationship with her partner, Andrew.
1:03.9	I love talking about this stuff with people.
1:06.6	I perceive to have one of those dreamy couple goals relationships because I know that people
1:11.7	think that about Zach and me and I like to sort of lift up that curtain because guess
1:16.1	what?
1:17.1	Nobody has as dreamy a relationship as you see it as on Instagram.
1:21.7	So Jules shared some amazing advice that she got in couples therapy and just like
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