[00:00:38] Vesna: Welcome to the Peak Revival Podcast. My name is Vesna, and today I'm gonna talk about your 2026 health strategy. What every high performing woman should be tracking. I was doing a training this morning with a pretty high level entrepreneur and she talked about, you know, one of the biggest blocks that she sees in founders in their business is. Not their team or their sales or marketing or their strategy, or their offer or their product, whatever it is, right? The biggest block is the founder.
[00:01:09] The founder is the biggest block to the business, and she shared a story about how someone was stuck at a particular revenue in their business and, uh, couldn't really, his ego wouldn't allow for him to see that it was really him. And, and, you know, she had a conversation with him and he was like, right, so who do I need to become to get to that next level?
[00:01:27] And she said, within 24 months he had. Gone from 5 million to a hundred million dollars business, which is crazy amounts, right? It was really interesting and I really liked the story that she shared because she really brought it back to the person, to the business owner. So I think, you know, oftentimes, and I talk about this in in my work and in my podcast, we are looking for the right team or the right mentor, or the right coach or the right, whatever it is.
[00:01:51] But really it comes back to us. A lot of growth that I've seen in my business has come from not being in any masterminds, or I've only just started in a mastermind [00:02:00] this year, but for 10 years I was leaning into my own wellbeing, my mental bandwidth,
[00:02:06] my emotional bandwidth with mental clarity. But I'm gonna talk more about health specifics today and really bring it back to you as a business owner, as an executive, as a leader.
[00:02:17] And it could be your leading your family, your community, right? So bring it back to you. And your personal operating system, right? Your personal operating system is what's impacting everything around you and feeds into everything that you do. So how you show up on a day-to-day basis, you're mirroring that for your team, right?
[00:02:36] And on what discipline looks like about what meeting, um. Deadlines and about taking care of yourself and emotional regulation and all of those things we mirror to our team, right? So it's one thing to say something, as you would know, if you have kids, one thing to say something, it's another thing to act it out and do it.
[00:02:53] That's the way that we teach people around us. And so really, you don't see very successful people. And I'm not just talking business success, but success in the business world and in family and home life. You don't see people like that who are tired and grumpy and snapping and surviving off caffeine or soft drinks or whatever it is, right?
[00:03:14] There'll be days where they're not at their best, but majority of the time they're operating at a really high level because they've got their personal operating system really dialed in.
[00:03:22] So what you need is a health strategy, not just health goals. So this idea of just having more sleep and lose losing a couple of kilos, or you want more energy is not sufficient, right? We need goals and systems and things that we can track to make sure that you are fully optimized to operate at your highest level.
[00:03:39] So just like you have things that you track in your business, there are, business plans and business dashboards and all the things that we look at in our business, but your health is the same, right? And so if you wanna be metabolically mentally and emotionally strong, these are the things that I would recommend that you look at.
[00:03:58] So I'm gonna talk about five metrics that [00:04:00] matter most for high performing women. Number one is your metabolic markers. Things in your blood tests, which I recommend you do them, is things like fasting insulin, fasting glucose, looking at your waist circumference, right? Your cholesterols, your triglycerides.
[00:04:15] All of these things point to your metabolic health. There are more detailed tests, but that is a really good place to start. You may have even had that test already when you went for your recent checkup with your doctor, and he may, he or she may have done those tests for you. So looking at your fasting glucose, like I said, fasting insulin.
[00:04:33] Waste circumference and your cholesterols gives you an idea of, is your body burning energy efficiently? Is it able to burn off body fat for fuel, or is your energy completely unstable? Your brain is not getting enough fuel. So you've got brain fog, you've got 3:00 PM slump, you know, energy's all over the place, right?
[00:04:51] These are warning signs of insulin resistance, where metabolically, what that means is less energy, less. Performance, more weight gain. Okay. And that's what we want to avoid.
[00:05:02] It's very hard to be high performing when your metabolism is really suffering, right? Because we are just not getting that energy production from the metabolism if it's not healthy. Okay? So it's already reducing your capacity significantly.
[00:05:17] The second one is your stress recovery curve. Like looking at things like morning cortisol levels, your stress hormones, are they within range? Looking at what you're doing for rest and or re restoration, right? That was one of the questions that came up in the training. Someone said, well, what is rest?
[00:05:33] Which I laughed. Um, and she was like, rest is restoration. So whatever is. Stores, you whatever feels restorative. So you know, it could be running, it could be sleeping a bit extra. It could be just sitting out in the sun. It could be reading a book. It could be sitting down with a cup of tea. Whatever it feels like for you.
[00:05:50] That is restorative. That's your rest time. And how often are you incorporating that rest into your day, week? And you need to really schedule it [00:06:00] in like meetings. Okay? So without the rest, you cannot be at an optimal personal operating system at all. Okay. So in one of the other previous episodes I talked about wintering, which I talked about a time where we can, you know, self-reflect and rejuvenate.
[00:06:13] You know, we wanna have pockets of this throughout the week and through our day. So our body is constantly recovering. It's constantly resetting itself. The other thing that you want to track, number three is your sleep quality. probably one of the biggest things that I hear that women have issues with is sleep. And so either getting to bed late, being a night owl, not getting enough deep sleep time, right? So really tracking. Are you getting to bed before 10:00 PM and are you getting eight hours?
[00:06:38] Right, because otherwise, if not, you're not getting your REM. You're not getting that deep sleep time. That's important to do. The repair work. The mental restorative work, it kind of clears up the brain, right? Detoxifies the brain. It clears our emotions. It's important for emotional regulation. It's important for mental health.
[00:06:55] There's so many benefits to it. We are not machines. We need the downtime, the repair work that happens overnight, but if we are not getting that deep sleep time, it's not happening. Okay. So are you getting to bed on time? Are you able to sleep through or are you waking up multiple times through the night?
[00:07:11] And it's driving you bananas, right? So that needs to be tracked and that needs to be addressed. So no matter how bad your sleep patterns are, they can be improved. They can go back to normal, okay? They can go to a place where it's very healthy sleep patterns. And without that proper sleep, we have very poor emotional regulation. We don't have mental clarity and we just, our metabolism is really struggling at a low level.
[00:07:34] Number four, tracking mental bandwidth. So we do this tracking tool where we trap track how much deep work you do. Okay? So your mental clarity, your focus, your you know, mental reactivity, right? So the amount of. Deep work that you can do for a period of time without interruption gives you an indication of your mental bandwidth.
[00:07:56] Okay? And so people will find that. They'll sit down to do something and they get distracted by [00:08:00] all these different things. When they're tracking what they've done, they're like, oh man, I'm all over the place. Like someone with a d. D, right? Not so. Okay. Just that mental bandwidth isn't there. Right. That mental focus, that clarity, that ability to concentrate for long periods of time without getting distracted with like busy work or notifications or just having a break, right?
[00:08:19] Having that follow through power is tracking your mental bandwidth, which is honestly. One of the biggest resources for your business, okay? It's one of the most important capital for your business, okay? Without your mental bandwidth, you cannot create, you cannot grow, you cannot do all the things that you need to do.
[00:08:37] You can't even see the things that you need to do. Okay? So tracking, you know, and I'll give you a PDF. So at the end of this podcast, there'll be a link. You can download the PDF of what, what I'm talking about here and the things that I would recommend that you track and looking at what you're getting done through the day. And do these all for seven days and really start to see a picture.
[00:08:58] 'cause my clients start to see a picture very quickly. They're like, oh wow. I am really not that productive. I'm. Hell busy, but I'm not actually getting that much out. Not completing things, tasks, projects, bigger projects, right. They really get a very good snapshot of what's going on there, and then we can correct it, right?
[00:09:15] We can have a look at what is causing this. 'cause often it's very much diet, metabolic, cortisol, mental stress, lack of bandwidth, you to long stress over time. But we can identify that through this simple process and start to correct it.
[00:09:30] Number five, is your emotional regulation probably one of the most important tools or skills in leadership, right? Because do you get overwhelmed? Do you catastrophize? Do you have a meltdown? Do you find it hard to let things go? Do you feel very reactive to problems that occur and feel like you are in a constant mental stress or mental busyness?
[00:09:52] Because that is going to reflect on your performance. It'll reflect on how you. Speak to people every day. Your team, your loved ones, right? Because when your mood is unstable and when you're overwhelmed and stressed, you're more likely to snap at people. You're more likely to be short with them. You're less likely to be present with them.
[00:10:08] So you know, you'll come home and you'll just be in all sorts of different places. People are talking to you, you're just not with it. You know? You're not present with the kids, you're not present with your partner, and it all starts to have an impact. So looking at tracking, well, what are the days? When am I feeling very stressed? When am I over catastrophizing? Is this something I already recognize about myself?
[00:10:27] So there were the five metrics, looking at your metabolic markers, your stress and recovery curve, your sleep quality, your mental bandwidth, and your emotional regulation. And you also wanna look at your pathology. Okay? And I recommend this twice a year. We do it more regularly for our customers or clients in our program because we wanna look at one, what is the baseline?
[00:10:45] Where, where are they starting at in terms of. Cortisol hormones, metabolic markers, kidney function, pH levels, liver detoxification, so much more, right? We wanna look at, well, what's their baseline? Where are they at in three months? Three months from there? What has changed? What do we still need to work on?
[00:11:04] Right? So everyone comes differently. Everyone has their own background, their own health. Journey, their own stress journey, right? And so therefore, not everyone's at the same place. And so we need to be able to customize that and look at, well, this is your baseline right now. And in three months we revisit that and we're like, this is how far you've come, right? But this is what we need to work on next to optimize you to really high performance.
[00:11:26] So making sure that you don't put these things off. Don't put off getting your pathology report done, right? It's really important to really track, do I need to detox? Do I need to take some downtime now? Like what do I need to do? What is the best possible action I can do right now that will influence my health and my outcomes in my business and in my personal life?
[00:11:44] And then finally, this kind of shift from. You know, maintenance to mastery. Because for some women they're kind of maintaining where they're at, right? And just kind of pushing along and they're used to operating at that level. And until you can see how much better you can feel and how much [00:12:00] more energy you can have, and how much you can wake up feeling refreshed and excited and, and inspired, like perhaps you did at the beginning of your business.
[00:12:09] And how you can still feel that today regardless of what's happening around your life or what your health journey has been. Right? So going to this level of mastery in order to bring your best in the work that you do, particularly if your work is to make a difference and has an impact on. People's lives and community around you, but also to show up as the best version of yourself at home and with your family and to the people that love you.
[00:12:32] So going into 2026, I really want you to look at, well, how can you master your health and what do you need to start tracking now to identify where are your biggest gaps? Now, you'll see a link below, depending on what platform you're on, you'll see a link. If not, come to my website, click on the link, and you can download the PDF of the tracking sheet.
