Hi, besties, and welcome back to the Sad to Savage podcast. I'm your host, Shelby Sacco, and in today's

episode, we're going to be continuing with week two of the Savage Girl summer series. So far in

week one, we've covered our little intro to the series and also the habit loop. In this week's

episode, we're going to be diving deep and discussing the habit of waking up early and physical health

habits, which I

also just call fitness habits, two of my favorites. They're actually the first two that I started

with when I started my side to savage journey. I want to share the impact that they had on me

and why I believe that everyone should create the habit of waking up early if you can and a

physical health habit. Then I want to dive

into each individual topic and I'll end the episode with questions from you guys in relation to

each topic. All of the questions were submitted on my Ask Shelby link, which I keep in my bio

and which I'll keep in the show notes of this episode. I've already gotten hundreds of questions.

I'm so excited. I just want to answer all of them.

Both the habit of waking up earlier and having a daily fitness habit are core, core habits for me,

and I truly believe that they have had a very heavy hand in successfully changing my entire life.

Waking up early, and this might sound a little bit like drama, drama, but waking up early,

it allowed me to feel like my life had a purpose again. When I was at rock bottom and write

the thoughts that got me to starting to change my life, I was working three jobs, living in my

parents' basement, miserable, and I started having, like, very dark thoughts that were, like,

what is the purpose of even, like, being here? What's the purpose of being alive? I didn't like my life

every single day. All I did was just work. I had no external factors of joy, nothing to look forward to,

nothing that made me feel good about myself, nothing that I

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