1509: Looking after our animal selves
Today we're taking inspiration from the furry friends in our lives, and wrapping up this week with some much needed reminders!
Episode transcript:
Good morning Daily Peppers and a very happy Friday to you. So if you are listening to this, chances are you are trying to build a life you love and live your best life. I've never hugely loved that term, but. But also I can't really think of anything that quite gets to it either. Now, when it comes to living our best lives and building the life we love, we can find so much inspiration around us and I think some of it can be under our noses completely. And I am thinking about our furry friends, whether that is our own pets or whether that's birds that we can see outside the window. Now, I have always thought there is a fuck ton we can learn from them. For a start, they don't negotiate with their basic needs.
They don't put off having a wee because they've got two more emails to send. They also don't give a shit about comparison. If you think of birds tweeting and saying goodnight to each other, you haven't got some that are silent because they don't think their tweets are quite in tune. They sleep for as much time as they need to, which I know is a luxury for many of us, but I know I can learn a lot from them when it comes to revenge, bedtime, procrastination, which I'm pretty sure they don't do, and also the ability to be in the moment. We humans live in a complicated ass world and so often we forget that we too are animals. And some of it comes down to the simple things. And humans have made a lot of life way too complex. And we've got this wonderful skill of overthinking everything.
So if you're feeling overwhelmed, if you need a reminder to tend to your basic needs, or if you need permission to just play a bit more and live in the moment, this is it. So cheers to all of our furry friends, past, present and future. May we love them, may we learn from them, and may we remember that we are soft animals too, deserving of the love we so easily give them. Have a fabulous weekend. I can't wait to be back with you in your inbox. If you are part of my email community and you can find out more and get in on that by going to the rebelrousers.com letters or back in your lovely ears on Monday. And in the meantime, as always, remember that everything changes when you believe you matter.
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Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1508: You are one resilient motherf*cker
All too often we forget just how strong we are, especially in hard times. Here's a reminder I think we both need to hear today.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Thursday to you. Now, our brains are capable of many fabulous things. It's fair to say that we do not struggle with coming up with ideas or finding fun things to try out. But our brains aren't necessarily the best at cheering us on. And they really aren't the best at reminding us of all the things that we have done and all the shit that we've got through. One of the things I find the most frustrating, and I know I'm definitely not alone in this, is that when hard times happen, I completely forget that I'm actually quite a resilient motherfucker. My brain goes into overtime times infinity. Of all the ways in that it might not work out or I can't do it.
And it is like I completely blank on all the times where my back was against the wall. And either I figured it out or it just worked out. I forget that I have had hard days. I have had hard times and I've got through them. We are very, very rarely prompted to think about just how much of a resilient motherfucker we actually are. So that is your invitation with today's daily pep. Now, you might look back and think that you could or should have done things different. And that is the power of hindsight.
And hindsight can be a real bitch. But also we can look back and trust that we were doing the best we could at the time with what we knew at the time. And if you look back at it through that lens, you've been through and survived and thrived after some really tough shit. And you are so much stronger than you give yourself credit for. If you've been around here a while, you'll have heard me say that we are often the most courageous when we feel the least courageous. And I think that is just something that just needs to be repeated all of the time. You have got your own back. You are one resilient motherfucker.
It is shit that we have to live in the world that we have to be so resilient. But you have so much evidence to rely on. So take your own inner strength with you as you go about your day to day and know that maybe you are a lot braver than you think you are. Have a good one and I'll see you tomorrow.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP! PODCAST
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1507: Leave room for the unexpected
We're great at using our imaginations to use the worst case scenarios, so today I'm invent you to use it for good.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Wednesday to you. It is Hump Day. We are in the 31,000 days of January, and I wanted to pop in with some inspiration that I feel you might need. Many of us are creative. We are also overthinkers. And sometimes we use our excellent problem solving skills to try and imagine every possible outcome. And I think many of us have had many a fabulous project idea gone to die, or never to see the page or whatever our metaphorical page would be, because we thought of all the different ways that it could go wrong. Like I imagine all of us.
I have had many nights that I've not slept because I'm mulling over a problem that I just can't seem to find the solution for, even though I look at it from every single angle. And often what ends up happening is something completely unexpected or. Or an option I hadn't even considered pops up or turns up or becomes obvious. And there is another path completely. So today's episode is about holding onto the hope and holding on to the faith that things may work out in the least expected way possible, but also in the best way possible. And this episode is also a rallying cry from for using our creativity for good. We spend so much time thinking about all the different ways things can go wrong and we have a hell of a good imagination. And we can also use that for the flip side too.
You might not have the answer, and you might not know the answer, but it might just come to you in the most unexpected form imaginable. And if we have the capacity to imagine the shittiest of shitty things, then maybe we can make a bit of space to imagine that as well. Happy Wednesday. Happy Hump Day. You've got this. See you tomorrow.
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A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1505: On not pushing through
To kick off this week, we’re giving ourselves grace, meeting ourselves where we’re at, and not pushing through for the sake of it.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Monday to you. So, like I'm sure many of you have done, I have welcomed in the new year feeling pretty under the weather. I was so excited to get back with brand new episodes of the Daily Pep last week, but it just wasn't happening. And I really want to take that as inspiration to kick us off for this week, because if there's something I think we could all do with more of, it is more grace towards ourselves. Because there are so many things that are outside of our control, and rather than seeing it for what it is, we reverse engineer, we kind of time travel and figure out all the ways that we could have stopped it from happening, while all the time forgetting that as much as we wish we could have, we do not have magical powers.
So, as you start this week, I invite you to meet yourself wherever you are at, rather than where you wish you were at. And I get that that can be frustrating and it can take a shitload of courage, but I know that you do have a shitload of courage. Very often we can only work with what we've got in the moment, but don't let that put you off doing anything at all.
For me, it was tempting to come back to the Daily Pep when my voice is completely better and I feel completely recovered, but I'm doing what I can with what I have right now, and that's actually making me feel a bit better now. Just to be clear, this is not about pushing through regardless of the circumstance. For example, last week I could not talk and I couldn't do much more than lie down and rest, and any pushing through would have been absolutely detrimental. So be honest about where you are right now. Give yourself extra grace if it is simply not a time for pushing through, and know that the minimum that you have to give, well, it might just be enough. One of the superpowers that we do have as creatives is, is that we are flexible, is that we are adaptable, and we can think of many different outcomes and ways of doing things, and that might be just what you need right now. Planning for the perfect time often sets us up to fail, and doing what we can with what we have often gets us further than we think. So here's to grace, here's to flexibility, and here's to not pushing through to our own detriment.
And on that note, I'll wrap this up, look after my voice, and I can't wait to be back with you tomorrow.
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New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1500: 3 lessons from 1500 episodes!
To celebrate 1500 episodes of The Daily Pep! I’m sharing 3 helpful lessons I’ve found along the way!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers and a very happy Monday, a very happy episode 1500 and a very happy 2026. So to mark this occasion, I thought I would share with you the three most helpful things that I have found that have helped me stay consistent with the Daily pep with my daily practice that I think can be applicable and helpful to all of us, regardless of what we're working on. So the first thing I want to share with you is that you will never feel 100% ready. There will always be more research to do. There will always be something or many things you don't know. And if you wait for the perfect conditions, you're never going to start. If you've been around here a while, you're probably used to me saying this, but a reminder that you find out so much and you discover so much in the doing that you could have never known in the planning stages and you learn so many more answers in the doing. Number two is to keep it ridiculously simple and easy.
This is one that your current, your past and your future self will be incredibly grateful for. And it will also trip you up along the way. It is so easy to get caught up in what other people are doing and their processes and their methods. Especially if, like me, you're a complete nerd about those things anyway. But it's when I've tried to religiously implement other people's systems and veer away from what works for me, that's when it is felt the hardest and the most confusing. I know for me and the daily pep, I don't need a content calendar. I don't need some fancy database in notion that might work for other people. It doesn't work for me.
I need myself, a notebook, the microphone and a vague idea. And don't get me wrong, it has taken me a little while to get here. The first episodes, I absolutely wrote transcripts and read them out verbatim. But one of the joys that comes with consistency is that we also build trust up in ourselves. But in order to get that trust, we need to keep it simple in the first place. So make it easy. That's not being lazy, it's being really strategic. And number three, this is especially helpful if you're trying to create a habit or or create a daily practice of any kind.
Start with a container. Give yourself parameters. I know many of us around here really, really value freedom, myself included. But sometimes we can have the most freedom within some kind of container. So for me, the container is simple. Every Monday to Friday there needs to be an episode of the daily pep going out. It needs to be around three to four minutes long. And it is me, my laptop and my microphone.
This stretcher has allowed me to have a hell of a lot of freedom. I've recorded the daily pep all over Europe when we've been traveling. I've never missed a day. And a bonus number four, give yourself an option for off days. And this is another way you really build up that trust muscle when you're starting out. If you do it for long enough, it gets to the point that it just becomes something you do. You worry a lot less about how you're gonna stick at it and all of the reps you've done so far really do count. On days when I don't have anything to say, I'm having a hard mental health day or things just get really, really hectic.
I'm so grateful for pass me for showing up and I know I couldn't have done it without number one, starting before I was ready. Number two, keeping it ridiculously simple and number three, keeping it in a container. That gives me freedom. So whatever you are embarking on or whatever you're continuing, I really hope this helps. And if I can do this with a neuro spicy brain that still keeps a hell of a lot of things on pen and paper. I have no fancy systems. I sometimes have really wobbly days, I struggle to regularly brush my teeth and I've only recently got into the habit of taking my tablets every day regularly. Then you can absolutely do it too.
I hope you have a fabulous start to your week and you find some unexpected joy and you start the damn thing because the world will be a brighter place for it and I think you might also be brighter for it too. I'll see you tomorrow.
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New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1480: If you're looking for signs...
You'll always find reasons to not do the thing, but what if seeing the signs that way is your dreamshitter's way of stopping you from doing the scary things you actually want to do?
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Monday to you. To kick off this week, I wanted to share a reminder that there is never a perfect time to do anything. I remember sharing this all the way back right at the beginning of the daily pep that if you're looking for signs, there will always be signs not to do the thing. I mean, my goodness, the amount of times that I've sat down to record and I've had tech issues, I've had roadwork, spontaneously starting the car alarm has gone off. All the things. If I took all of those, or even one of them as a sign not to do this, I would have stopped a long, long, long time ago. Now, there are also times when it is just not the time to start in terms of if we're at capacity or we're going through a particularly hard season. And that is really worth honoring.
And I think we can also tell the difference between when it genuinely isn't a good time to start versus our inner dream shitter clinging onto any tiny, tiny reason for us not to do the scary thing. And know that when I say start, I also mean continue. I also mean finish. And they don't have to look like huge, massive actions. We know that tiny progress builds on tiny progress, and steps that seem so insignificant are sometimes the ones we're most grateful we took. Things may feel hard and they may feel scary or intimidating. Simply because they are, it doesn't mean that you're not destined to do the thing. And it is not a sign to give up.
So take whatever you need from this today. And as we're coming into the home stretch of the year, know that this isn't necessarily the time to make the big, bold moves. It really is time for those teeny tiny steps to honour the fact that if we weren't operating in capitalism, we would probably be seriously slowing down and hibernating right now. And also being on the lookout for the glimmers and the sparkles. So happy Monday. Do what you can do, know that that is enough and I'll see you tomorrow.
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New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1478: You are definitely not alone
We are officially in the home stretch of this year, and if you're running on fumes, join the club (even if no one else is admitting to being in it!)
Episode transcript:
Good morning Daily peppers and a very happy Thursday to you. So I thought I would pop in with a reminder today that you are not alone. If you feel like for the rest of 2025, you would just love to lie on the sofa, cuddle up with a blanket and a good TV show and a book. I know for the last five years we get to this time in December and it just feels like, God, what a fucker of a year. But for many of us, this one has really taken the biscuit, to put it mildly. In my work, I get to work with so many fabulous women and I can tell you that we're pretty much all feeling it, but we're not necessarily always aware of that. Some people do a great job of appearing like they have their shit together. We're officially in December, which can sometimes feel like boasting season and sometimes we can end up wondering if we're the only one who has no fucks left to give.
So I just wanted to pop in today to remind you and let you know if you didn't know that so many of us are relieved to be on the home stretch of this year. So many of us have absolutely no desire or energy to make the most of the rest of the year. Collectively, we're not feeling very productive. And most importantly, that's okay. Use your remaining fumes to get done the things that absolutely need to get done and make like you are the world's fussiest eater when it comes to what gets put on your plate. Now is not the time for adding commitments that you're going to regret later. And it might just be the time for some scary nos around here. We are deeply conscientious and paradoxically, we also probably worry more than most that we're lazy.
So please take this as your sign that you are allowed to do the bare minimum and know that your bare minimum is probably a lot better than many people's pretty good attempts. Now is not the time to prove anything to yourself. Remember that tired equals bullshit thoughts. And no matter what you did or didn't do this year, your dream shitter would always find a way to shit on you. There is no way of winning that game. So I say fuck the game and make up our own rules. We are on the home stretch. Everyone's feeling it.
You are absolutely not alone. And if you can find the time to lie on the sofa with a blanket, then grasp it with both hands, have a good one and remember that everything changes when you believe you matter.
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A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1477: Permission to tend to your own needs...
Instead of using them as yet something else to berate yourself for!
Episode transcript:
Good morning Daily Peppers, and a very happy Wednesday to you. So for this hump day I thought I would pop in with a gentle reminder, or a firm one if you need it, to quit berating yourself about how you feel and maybe just tend to that emotion instead. Around here we are curious. We love personal development. And I know I am definitely not alone in always needing to know the why behind something. But today I'm giving us permission to not know the reason. For example, today I feel absolutely fucking exhausted and the quickest place my head often goes to is is trying to justify that. I do a run through of the past couple of days and I almost pass moral judgment on myself as to whether I have done enough to be as tired as I feel.
And for both of us, I just want to say fuck that. What if I'm just really, really tired and the next logical step is to find ways to get more rest? What if you're grumpy because you just woke up grumpy? And maybe rather than berating yourself for it or trying to dig deep and find all the reasons, you find a way to have a less people y day. Maybe grump around for a bit or find something that makes you smile, whatever you feel like you need right now. Or maybe you just don't feel motivated to do anything and rather than trying to force yourself to feel something that you don't feel, or shitting on yourself because of it, or trying to find the deep, deep reason, maybe it's about saying, fuck it, I'm not feeling it. So I'm going to figure out what are the absolutely essential things I need to do, what is the bare minimum and just half ass those. Sometimes it can be really helpful to have the answers, but sometimes it can be more helpful to give ourselves what we need. And I really truly do know that is easier said than done. So if you want to put this into action today, have a think about how you feel and then how you can address that need.
See if you can try and skip over all the mental gymnastics that we do to figure out why we feel a certain way, which includes passing judgment on ourselves for feeling a certain way, and just think about what you need instead. Sometimes we spend our precious time and energy figuring out what's wrong with us, or trying to fix ourselves when that time and energy might have been much better spent, and finding a way to tend to that need instead, even if it is our minimum viable effort, because that absolutely counts. You are a human being. You are not a machine. You are doing so much better than you think you are. And you deserve the care and attention that you give to the loved ones in your life. So see if you can give yourself some of that today. I'll see you tomorrow.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP! PODCAST
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1475: A December pep-talk
Chances are, the things you think you ‘should’ be doing right now, are the exact things your future self would be grateful if you didn’t do. That’s what we’re diving into on today’s episode.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Monday to you. So if you are listening to this in real time, it is the 1st of December and when the 1st of December comes along, things tend to get a bit funky. On the one hand, everything can feel quite festive and there's fairy lights everywhere and it can be lovely. But on the other hand, our dreamshitter can have an absolute field day. As we approach the end of the year, we can feel really fucking knackered with not much left in the tank yet. It can feel that there is so far yet to go. Not to mention all of the pressure, all of the peopling and sometimes the stress that can come with any holiday. So today I thought I would share with you what I most need to hear, because I think we all need to hear it and it is a healthy dose of realism.
So I figured we would reverse engineer a bit and look ahead to the end of the month. And I don't know about you, but I've never ever had a December where I get to the end of the month and I wish I'd worked harder. I wish I'd put more on my plate, I wish I'd said yes to more things, I wish I had tripled my workload and I wish I'd been even more of a people pleaser than normal. In fact, I'd say that I usually get to the end of December wishing for the exact opposite of those things. I always wish I had taken the pressure off what can be actually an arbitrary deadline, which is the end of the year. I wish I'd actually taken things off my plate, rested when I needed to. So by the time it came to any time off, it was actually rest I needed, not just hardcore recovery. And I always wish that I had gone with aiming for a C rather than an A triple star, because let's face it, and I'm sure many of us have been here before, this time of the year is supposed to be about getting cosy, about joy, about kindness.
And when I follow my dreamshitter's instructions, I just end up being really, really crabby and feeling really resentful and then it's no fun for anyone. So if you're waking up today thinking, oh fuck, it's December 1st, let's change the tone a bit into more of a oh fuck, we're nearly at the end of the year now is for coasting, not driving as fast as you can. And While you think December 31st year would be really grateful if you got all the things done, burnt out January 1st. You is not gonna thank you. So aim for a C. Let's aim for a cosy season, not a crabby season, and let's aim to not end the year completely and utterly burnt out. Have a good one. And I can't wait to see you for door number two of your Rebel Advent Calendar if you've joined that adventure, and if you fancy treating yourself to something a bit silly, a bit sassy, and also really helpful to help you keep grounded and less crabby this month, now is a perfect time to get the Rebel Rouses Digital Advent Calendar. It is a shitload of fun and you can find out more by going to the rebelrousers.com rebelchristmas and I think you might love it. See you soon.
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New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1474: Surviving the season with sass and strategy!
To wrap up this week on The Daily Pep! we’re looking ahead to the festive season with a reminder that not everyone has it all figured out and the festive family f*ckery is real!
Episode transcript:
Good morning Daily Peppers and a very happy Friday to you. So on Monday 1st December, my rebel advent calendar kicks off just in time for everything to amp up in this season. Now, I know for a lot of us, we want to enjoy this season more than we actually do. We might look forward to it, but when it gets here, there is the family drama. There are suddenly all these extra things that you're expected to do. There is even more on your plate than normal. There are also more emotions running around and this time of the year can be confronting. For some of us, it can be really challenging.
So I just wanted to pop in before it all kicks off to remind you that you're not alone. Sometimes the holidays can feel like this really weird parallel universe experiment where there's all this marketing messaging about it being the most wonderful time of the year and the reality doesn't necessarily match up. We can find ourselves feeling really stretched, really stressed. And there can also be a lot of performing the holidays rather than actually feeling any of that joy. So I'm here to remind you that most of us are feeling it, even if some people do a very good impression of having their shit together, that you don't have to do everything for everyone. Take the shortcuts and cut the corners where you can. And remember that this is also supposed to be a nice time for you. It is not just about other people and you are part of the equation.
If you want some practical and sassy help in navigating this time of the year, as well as adding a bit of sparkle back into your life and thriving, not just surviving the festive fuckery, you're going to really enjoy the Rebel Advent Calendar. It's a digital one. You get a fabulous delight delivered to you each day up until Christmas, and I wanted to give you a sneak peek of some of the things that might be especially helpful if you are nodding along with today's episode. So there's Passive Aggressive Christmas Bingo, which is really, really handy for navigating those people you don't really want to see over the holidays. There's a let's Make Sure We're Not Absolutely Fucked by the End of the Year workbook. There's a printable zine on an Introvert's Guide to Surviving Festive Gatherings, and also a really helpful PDF guide called How's Life And Other Bullshit Questions, which is full of reminders, tips and scripts to help you navigate all the festive peopling and answering annoying questions during the holidays. So those are just four of the doors it's there to dip into and out of as you see fit, and it is ultimately a rebel's guide to surviving Christmas. So if you are intrigued and want to treat yourself before Christmas, you can get yours by going to the rebelrousers.com rebelchristmas.
It costs £12 to buy and it's also buy one, give one, so you get one for a friend as well. So here's to navigating the upcoming season with some humor, with some sass, and remembering that we are absolutely all winging it. Happy Friday and take care.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP!
New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1473: If you’d told me this three years ago…
If you’ve got something coming up that feels insurmountable, then today on The Daily Pep! I’m sharing a story from my own life that I think might help.
Episode transcript:
Good morning Daily peppers and a very happy Thursday to you. So if you have been a long time listener of the Daily pep, you will recall that I shared about my experiences of learning to drive, taking my driving test, I and passing and subsequently driving all over Europe. Well, I'm bringing that up today because it's just gone three years since I passed. And if you were around at the time I was doing it, you'll remember how shit scared I was, how much I struggled with the fear and the anxiety and just how big a deal it was for me. And the point of sharing this is to remind you that what feels absolutely impossible right now and what feels like the biggest deal, it will someday be a distant memory. You will get through it and you might wake up three years later amazed at the fact that it just isn't a big deal anymore. Now, I'm really aware that this doesn't apply to everything in life.
And some situations are just way too complicated and downright shitty. So I want to leave room here for the nuance and the things that don't necessarily fit into this category. But there are a lot of areas of life where this does apply. If you'd have told me three years ago that I would fucking love driving, that I would absolutely thrive on the Autobahn with no speed limit and I had zero points on my license, I never, ever, ever would have believed you. But that did not change the outcome. I also don't necessarily think we have to go as far down the line as our future selves in three years time. Because, for example, with my driving, I don't think I would have believed her. And I needed the faith that the next week Meg had, not the three years time Meg had.
This is my long winded way of saying that you can do way more than you think you can. You are way more capable than you think you are. And also a loving reminder that courage rarely feels like courage in the moment. It feels a lot like being scared shitless. But in hindsight, we impress ourselves. So keep going, prepare to be surprised and know that you've got this. I'll see you tomorrow.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP! PODCAST
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1472: Let’s bring back some joy
Today I’ve got a deceptively simple question for you!
Episode transcript:
Good morning Daily Peppers and a very happy Wednesday to you. So today's daily pep is a simple one because I want to ask you one question and it's this. When was the last time you had a really good laugh? Now, if it has been a while, it's time to get some more joy back on your calendar. Message a friend that always cracks you up and tells really good stories. Put on a favourite comedy that never ceases to make you laugh. Go seek out some live comedy. Put on your favorite stand up and if you don't have a favourite stand up, this might be a great excuse to explore. And the reason I'm banging on about laughter today is because it's fucking important.
Especially when things feel hard, when things can feel dark. And it also has amazing benefits for your body. Years ago I trained to be a laughter yoga teacher and one of the most important things we got taught was, apart from the many, many health benefits of laughter, is that your brain can't tell the difference between a real laugh and a fake laugh when it comes to the actual benefits of your body. And I can tell you from plenty of experience, pretending to laugh and feeling like a right weirdo and really awkward while you do it can also be a really good way to get the giggles. I'm a firm believer that joy is an act of rebellion and that we all need more laughter in our lives. Chances are, for many of us, we could probably name the last time that we cried, but not necessarily the last time that we laughed. Or if we can, chances are that when we cried was more recent than when we had a really, really good belly laugh. If you don't know where to begin, just look at laughter yoga on YouTube.
It looks strange to begin with, but it really, really does work. And let's open up the door in our lives to a bit more joy, because fuck knows I think we all need it. So go make yourself laugh, have a good one and I'll see you tomorrow.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP! PODCAST
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1470: You can f*ck up, without being a f*ck up
If it feels like your dreamsh*tter is well and truly zoomed in on every single tiny mistake, then this episode is for you.
Episode transcript:
Good morning Daily Peppers and a very happy Monday to you. Now, one of the things that tends to unite us around here is our common values. We care about kindness, we care about community, we care a lot about creativity, and we also have a fairly similar perspective on the world. And one of the things that we understand is that life is nothing if not messy. We live in and we embrace . And if we can accept the fact that life is messy and extend that to ourselves, I think that can be a fabulous invitation to be a bit more kinder and also fairer and realistic towards ourselves. Here's the thing. If we already know that life is messy and sometimes it gets weird, it gets wonderful, sometimes it feels magical, and other times it makes no sense, then we should be able to afford ourselves some of the compassion and grace that we so readily give to other people.
If we agree that life is messy and weird and wonderful, then we get to be that too. Both in the sense that, yes, you have something to offer the world and also you will make mistakes and you will get things wrong and that is okay. And that is to be expected for very good reasons. We hold ourselves to such high expectations and I don't want us to compromise on our integrity, but there is some room there to add some self forgiveness. There are times that you will drop the ball. There are times when you will say something you wish you could take back. There are times when you will over commit and that might mean letting someone down. There will be times where you get things wrong and you make mistakes because you're rushing and everything feels frantic.
And I'll say it once, twice, ten times, many times here on the daily pep. That is a life thing, not a you thing. Think of it this way. Your dream shitter has the magnifier turned on and zoomed in by 100%. And chances are what you think is a fuck up is a small mistake that can be fixed. And in case you need to hear this on a Monday, you can fuck up without being a fuck up. And I think nbecause we are empaths and because many of us are highly sensitive, what we consider fuck ups, if we look at kind of the general population, they're small mistakes. Now I believe wholeheartedly in having your cake and eating it, but this is a bit of an exception.
We cannot accept that life is complicated and messy and weird shit will happen and also expect ourselves to be perfect and deliver perfection every single day. So I want to end with this. Perfection doesn't exist. And I know that you know this. I know I'm not telling you anything new. So let's go into this week and embrace our own uane. Embrace the messiness and accept that our best looks different on different days. Our mileage may vary, and that is to be expected. Happy Monday and I hope you find some unexpected joy today.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP!
New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1469: Heads up, maybe you’re not the problem
We’re rounding off this week with a sassy one!
Episode transcript:
Good morning Daily Peppers, and a very happy Friday to you. It is the end of the week and I thought we would round off this week on the daily pep with a sassy one. So around here we tend to be pretty curious. We love journaling, we love all the kind of self improvement personal development stuff and I think it can do magical things for us. But I'm just popping in today to remind you that also life can just be really fucking complicated. And that is not through a lack of you trying. That is not through a lack of you trying to find a different perspective. Some things just suck and some problems are just really sticky and it's hard to find a resolution to it.
And I think one of the ways our dream shitter can win is by convincing ourselves that unless we have the solution and the perfect solution, then we are at fault and we just have to try a bit harder. But through the fact that you are even listening to this, you are already trying hard. I know for near enough every single person who listens to this, including myself, we struggle with this idea that we are somehow lazy. And we're not lazy. We do the work, we show up. Yes, we have off days, but everybody has off days. And if we could give ourselves even 10% of the grace that we so easily give to loved ones, I think it would make a huge difference. And I know that's not easy.
So if you are untangling something at the moment, if you're wrestling with something, if something feels hard, it is probably not for lack of trying. And it may be hard because it is hard. Objectively. Yes, there are many tools available, but I'm just going to put this out there. What if we use those tools to support ourselves and our own nervous systems rather than exclusively trying to use them to solve the exact situation which might be external to us. So that is some food for thought for you. For the weekend. It is Friday.
You have done so much better than you give yourself credit for. You are categorically, absolutely not lazy. And here's to treating yourself 10% kinder than usual this weekend. I can't wait to be back with you here on the Daily Prep on Monday or in your inbox on Sunday if you're part of my Letters of Rebellion community. And if you want to get in on that, you can go to thereebelrousers.com/letters or just click the handy link in the show Notes. Either way, I can't wait to see you soon. Thank you for being here. And remember that everything changes when you believe you.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP!
New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1467: Here’s to our own messy process
Around here we love novelty and new, shiny things. But sometimes what we really need to embrace is our own tried and true messy ways.
Episode transcript:
Good morning Daily Peppers, and a very happy Wednesday to you. It is hump day and today I want to remind you to trust your own process. So lately I've been doing some business planning and I simply forgot just how much I fucking love Post it notes. I can get really tempted and seduced by all of the latest productivity apps and I often forget that I do my best thinking with pen and paper. And when it comes to really brainstorming and figuring things out for me, there's very little that is better than the Post it note. Now, I am not here to sell you on Post it notes, although I'm sure I could do that at length. But I am here to remind you to go with what works. It can be so easy to fall down the rabbit hole of what tools do other people use? What would be the best way of doing this? And for many of us who are neurospicy, we love novelty and just the glimmer of a shiny new thing gets us really excited.
But sometimes there's nothing better than going back to the tried and true for you. Now you may do your best thinking on a walk or at the gym. You may bloody love a spreadsheet. You might be more of a verbal processor and find voice memos really helpful. And the most important thing to remember is it only has to work for you. It doesn't matter if it looks messy. It doesn't matter if it is understandable or legible to anybody else. What matters is that it works for your brain and your way of thinking.
So whatever problem you're trying to solve right now, whatever you're trying to work out, maybe a brand new tool and maybe a brand new perspective aren't what you need. Maybe you need good old fashioned time with yourself in the way that has made the most sense in the past. Even if that looks like doing a collage. Here's to figuring our shit out. Here's to remembering that we know way more than we think we do. And here's to doing it in our own messy way. I'll see you tomorrow.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP! PODCAST
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1464: Some lovingly bossy homework
Bossy Meg is back and today we’re wrapping up this week on the Daily Pep! with a reminder that we all need time to just be human.
Episode transcript:
Good morning Daily Peppers and a very happy Friday to you. So today's episode is a really practical one. So I kicked off this week by declaring that we can all say fuck it, to ending the year strong. And, and believe me, I am not changing my mind on that. If anything, today we are doubling down because I want you to look at your calendar for the rest of the year and figure out when you are blocking some time off for you because in the run up to Christmas and in the next kind of six weeks, everything just starts getting quite chaotic. It can all go by in a bit of a blur. We end up over committing and saying yes to way too many things and we can end up resentful and exhausted. And if we do have any time to take off over the holidays, it ends up being recovery time rather than resting time.
And that is if that's even a possibility in the first place. So to all of my self employed friends, I want to make sure that you have got some time booked off and I seriously mean off. I know it can be tempting to do a little bit here and there, but for our work, wherever possible, I know this year has been a wild one for business. We need to be able to have some time where we can just be the human. Not the worker, not the CEO, not the freelancer. We just need some time to be human. And if we're working for ourselves, we don't necessarily have accountability or the structure to get the dates in. So this is me bossily telling you to, to do that now, now if you're not self employed, don't run your own business.
There are a myriad of situations that we could be in and I'm not going to go into all of them because I'm really worried I'm going to leave one out. But whatever our situation, I also think it's important to look at kind of the months ahead and look at kind of how spread out or how compact things are and really build in some rest. Now might be a really good time to start negotiating when it comes to what things you do want to do and what things you want to say no to. If you buy gifts, how you can make that as simple as possible. But if gifts are your love language, by all means go wild. But I think it can just be really helpful to take a bit of a moment before the festive fuckery begins to situate yourself to see what kind of a season it is for you, what you need to say no to, what you'd like to say no to, and also what you'd really like to make space for and to say yes to. Because whatever situation we're in, chances are no one else is going to keep us accountable for prioritizing ourselves or putting our needs on the table. So this is your bossy homework to do.
So carve out some time this weekend. Know that no matter what it looks like on the outside, nobody has a Hallmark family Christmas. See if you can open up some spaces on your calendar to just be because this season is a lot, and I'm pretty sure your future self is going to be really damn grateful that you did this. So you've got your homework, you got through the week. Now let's put your needs back on the table. Have a good one, and I look forward to being back with you here on the Daily Prep on Monday or in your inbox on Sunday for my Letter of Rebellion. And if you want to join but haven't already, you can find out how to do that in the show notes or by going to thereebelrousers.com/letters either way, I look forward to seeing you then. And Happy Friday.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP!
New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1462: Sometimes you have to take the boring route
Today’s episode is inspired by our road trip back to the UK! We’re focusing on how there are times in life where we need to avoid doing what others feel is the most exciting thing ever, and take our own needs into consideration, even if it’s a bit dull.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Wednesday to you. Now, on the day this episode goes out to you, we will be traveling from Germany back to the UK. As you know, if you've been around here for quite a long time. I only passed my driving test about three years ago and my goodness, we have got the miles in. We love a road trip. We're also really good at picking a particular podcast or audiobook we really want to listen to on our road trip and just completely not doing it. I also love a road trip, but when it comes to traveling with the deadlines, we've got to get to the Eurotunnel by a certain time and also our newly acquired challenge of traveling with insulin, which needs to be kept at a certain cold temperature the entire time. We don't necessarily do the stereotypical meandering road trip where we stop in certain places, we have a destination, we pick the most direct route that we can find, we pack food before we go, we stop for coffee in boring places when we need to, and we definitely don't take the scenic route.
Now I'm aware that that makes me sound like a completely boring fart. And you know what? I'm okay with that because for many of us, the idea of making everything as interesting as possible and taking in all the scenery and doing all the fun stuff can end up feeling more like a burden. I know for me that on long travel days I cannot stop in a massive supermarket because I will get so excited and overstimulated that my concentration for driving is gone. I know what I need on those days and for me, I just need to get from A to B. So I guess my point for this more rambly episode is to remind you that not everything has to be utterly fascinating, which is hard for us creatives and multi passionates because we really want to make it so. But it's okay if you're doing something that just needs to be done and it's not photo worthy, it's not particularly story worthy, and you just get it done because sometimes you just need to do that. There's a time for a really good random road trip where you stop in all the weird places you find, and there's also a time for just getting to the destination. But I think a gift that we need to remember we all have is that we can find the fun and the curious along the way.
Even if we choose the boring route, I still end up finding the weird and the wonderful in the service stations we stop in, in the cities we drive through, and maybe that is the best of both. So in case you need a reminder today, it's okay to do the sensible thing, it's okay to do the boring thing. Sometimes that is required. And sometimes that's exactly what you need to do to get to the fun bits. We are over halfway through this week, and we can do it. I'll see you tomorrow.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP! PODCAST
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1461: Finding glimmers in the dark
In the Northern Hemisphere we’re approaching the darker months, which can be challenging. So today I’m sharing a fun community challenge to find some silliness in this season.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Tuesday to you. Now, in the Northern hemisphere, we are approaching winter and I know not many of us are a huge fan of the short days and the dark nights, and you might even be sick of hearing about it and thinking about it. But today I've got a bit of a fun challenge for you. So I have an email community called Letters of Rebellion. And for this week's email, I sent out an invitation for us to really look for the glimmers and the brightness during this season. Now, this was inspired by a quest that I've just kind of decided to start while we're traveling and getting back to the UK and to find the ugliest Christmas ornament that I possibly can. And I think sometimes we need a really silly challenge and something just a bit fun to enjoy during the season. I know for a lot of us we are highly sensitive and or neurodivergent and Christmas shopping isn't exactly the most fun because the lights are so bright, the music is so loud and.
And some people just turn into absolute arseholes. So my community challenge for this season is to find the ugliest, the naffest, the cheesiest, the most downright bizarre Christmas things that you can find. And I am so excited to put them together in an email roundup just before Christmas to give us all a bit of a giggle, to provide a bit of joy, to share and connect with our own glimmers and. And to also give us a fun challenge and something that we can look for when we're getting sick of the festive shit. So if you want to join, come over to the rebelrousers.com letters where you can join my email community. Please send photos of what you find. This year seems to be a fucking brilliant one when it comes to the most random and just awful Christmas tree decorations. So I can't wait to see what you find.
And here's to some silliness during this season. Create your own challenge. Go off in whatever direction you need to. And if you're looking for some really practical, no bullshit and fun ways to get through the festive fuckery, my digital Advent calendar might just be for you. It's really fun. It's really sassy. There is a delight behind every door as well as a really bad Christmas joke. And it's designed to bring a bit of joy back into December and also give you a bit of time for you, the Advent calendar is £12 to buy and you can get it by going to the rebelrousers.com/rebelchristmas where you can also find out more about what's inside. Here's to silliness. And here's to finding some glimmers and bringing some more light to our own lives. I'll see you tomorrow.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP!
New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1460: You’ve already finished this year strong
Today I’m kicking off the week with some unconventional wisdom around finishing the year strong, and giving you permission to aim for a C-.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Monday to you. So I want to kick off this week on the Daily Pep with some unconventional wisdom. Now, if you've been in your inbox or on social media lately, you'll have seen so much talk about finishing the year strong, getting shit done, and kind of making yourself proud by the end of the year. And today I'm just giving us all permission to say fuck that shit, because if the year was to finish now, we have been strong motherfuckers this year. This year has tested us in so many different ways that we expected and didn't expect at all. And also, I don't really think that right now for a lot of us to go balls to the wall if for whatever reason you have to. I've got some advice and tips around that in a second, but I just wanted to remind us that as animals, we're not really designed to go 100% at this time of the year. And if you're feeling exhausted and you can't really be fucked, or if you feel like your social battery is drained and you just need to take a minute for yourself, I'd say that lines up pretty well with the season that we're in.
And maybe rather than trying to journal and figure out why you're not motivated, maybe it is just that you're in alignment with the season. So much of the work I do with my fabulous coaching clients is finding ways to really get shit done and make significant progress in the things that matter to us with compassion. But I knew when I started getting a lot of the emails about finishing strong myself, I was like, that's the last thing we need at the moment. And that just could turn into some artificial pressure. So this is your permission slip to lean into the season, to say no to the things that you can do and to aim for a grade C rather than an A. And if this is just a really busy season for you and. And you just have to go hard, then I think we reframe what success looks like for the end of the year. Maybe it's not getting every single thing done in your list, but it's getting to the Christmas holidays, not being completely burnt out and exhausted and depleted.
And I think if we made that your biggest goal and your kind of touchstone for this season, it would be a great way to simplify and prioritize what you've got going on. So here's the saying, fuck it, we've done enough. Maybe all the things on the list don't need to get done maybe we will drop some of the plates we're spinning and the world won't end. And you might even find, like I have myself and so many of the fabulous women I work with that you can actually get a shit done. More with compassion than beating yourself up. So here's to knowing we are already ending the year strong and to not ending the year depleted. I'll see you tomorrow.
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1459: Seasonal living vs the productivity bros
We've all heard the absolute BS the productivity bros have been spouting at us for some time now, so to wrap up this week's episodes of The Daily Pep! I'm offering a seasonal alternative.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Friday to you. So to wrap up this week on The Daily Pep, I wanted to pop in and remind you of some things that I think we could never get sick of hearing. And we might intellectually know, but can feel really hard to remember on a soul level when we tend to be so damn hard on ourselves and always find fault with ourselves. Because here's the truth that we often forget and we generally aren't brought up with your best is going to look different on different days. You will have some days where you feel shitty. You have days where it's hard to get out of bed, but you also have days when you laugh harder than you have in a long time and you feel really fired up and inspired. The same way as there's going to be so many different seasons of your life, in some seasons it will be about surviving. In other seasons you'll be absolutely thriving.
And in other seasons you might be really striving and being really laser focused. And in other seasons you might just not be that productive because of all the work and the energy it takes to do said surviving, thriving and striving. For so many of us, we are brought up with this cultural norm that every day you do your best and you push yourself hard and your outputs are going to be similar. But that is never ever the case. But the problem is, is that we end up thinking that there's something wrong with us rather than the bullshit system that we've had thrust upon us. We all have wildly different lives and wildly different circumstances. We have different levels of energy and capacity. We have different responsibilities.
And so much of the stuff out there that gets put on a pedestal, just pretend that isn't the case. If you look at so many of the morning video routines on YouTube, and if you look at a load of advice by the productivity bros and the tech bros, well, let's face it, not all of us can get up at 5am and do 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes of journaling, 10 minutes of meditating, and then jump into our really handy cold plunge pool outside. That is not a reality for a lot of us. And also in different seasons we need different things. And that's where our love of flexibility and creativity comes into it. As much as our culture would like it to be otherwise and says it is otherwise, we cannot go with the foot on the gas pedal the entire time. A car literally doesn't work like that and neither do our fragile human bodies. So here's to embracing the season we're actually in here's to honouring the days where it feels like we're having every season in one. And here's to treating ourselves more like the humans we are rather than machines, as that fabulous saying goes. You know I love not everything in nature blooms all year long, so don't expect yourself to either. So let's take that into the weekend and if you're curious about treating yourself more like a human, honouring your own seasons and also your own curiosities and finding your own ways of doing things, I would love for you to join my seasonal living class which is starting this Saturday November 8, 2025. It's a two parter so this week we are really going to be diving into what the fuck seasonal living even is and how we can really harness it as creatives, as the non woo and the woo adjacent people and a way we can use it to also support our hobbies and curiosities. And then in part two, which is happening on Sunday 16th November, we're using everything we learned and putting into practice for the winter season ahead of us, which I know many of us struggle with. It's going to be really cozy, it's also going to be seriously helpful and I can't wait to really dive into this fabulous and creative alternative to the boom and burnout cycle that so many of us get stuck in. It costs 25 pounds to join both parts of the workshop. There will be recordings available with lifetime access if you can't attend live and I would bloody love to see you there. So have a good one. Check that out if it sounds like it's up your street and I can't wait to be back with you soon.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP!
New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
MORE REBEL-ROUSING THIS WAY!