This is Smart People Podcast, a podcast for Smart People, where we talk to smart people, but not

necessarily done by smart people.

Hello and welcome to Smart People podcast conversations that satisfy your curious mind.

Chris Tempe here, thanks for tuning in.

Excited to have you here.

Have you ever been in that space where you feel constantly tired or fatigued despite

doing all the right things?

Maybe you're getting your sleep.

Maybe you're eating healthy.

But you still kind of wake up and go through the day a little groggy or

unmotivated and really just, again, fatigued.

Our guest this week has a word for that, and then an entire philosophy rooted in psychology

and neuroscience, and she calls it weariness.

In this episode, we are going to talk about weariness and what might be causing it.

We're going to talk about how to actually tap into the emotional intelligence you have

instead of always relying on the logic of your brain and how that intuition can guide you

in the right direction with less concern and more vitality.

I don't know about you, but especially right now, it's a subject I greatly needed.

And many of her pieces of advice have helped me just since I spoke with her.

So this week on the show, we are talking to Dr. Robin Hanley Defoe, and specifically,

we're connecting with her on her new book called Stress Wisely, How to Be Well in an Unwell

World. Dr. Robin is a multi-award winning education and psychology instructor. She's an author

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