Hi Cadre! It’s Josie Jade, holistic health coach, RYT, & co-founder of Charm Social Tonic. Let’s talk about hobbies, and why doing fun things isn’t just “fun,” but important for our wellbeing (and productivity), too!
Josie welcomes the group, names her roles as a holistic health coach, yoga teacher, and co-founder of a beverage company, and introduces the theme of hobbies. This brief opening sets the tone and credentials for the talk.
Josie asks viewers to recall the last time they did something purely for fun and explains how life’s demands make it easy to neglect playful activities. She challenges the idea that hobbies are unproductive and urges rethinking their value.
Using drawing and painting as examples, Josie admits she often thinks about turning hobbies into work and reminds herself (and listeners) that some creative acts are meant only for personal enjoyment. This segment encourages permission to pursue hobbies without pressure to produce.
Josie acknowledges feelings of guilt about taking time for herself, then reframes hobbies as essential self-care that recharge and enable better contribution to others. She connects play and curiosity to overall health alongside sleep, nutrition, and stress management.
The speaker defines flow with examples like getting absorbed in a book and explains how rest and play complement productivity. She argues that stepping back into hobbies can restore quality, creativity, and focus, making hobbies practically productive.
She recounts a period of neglect, how reconnecting with painting and fun reading became therapeutic, and describes carving out weekly time for creative play. Josie invites viewers to identify a past-loved activity and try 5–30 minutes this week, offering to hear their responses.
Josie wraps up with thanks and a warm signoff, wishing viewers a nice evening or weekend depending on when they watch. This brief close ends the talk on a friendly note.
All right, hi Cadre. How is everyone doing today? It's Friday, which is fantastic. I just wanted to hop on here and talk a little bit about hobbies, something fun. And then again, my name is Josie Jade. I am a holistic health coach. I'm a yoga teacher and I am also the co-founder of a beverage company called Charm Social Tonic. And yeah, so let's get to it. Let's talk about hobbies. When was the last time that you can think of that you did something and actually enjoyed it and you did it just for the fun of it?
I'll just let you think on that for a little bit. When was the last time you did that? it's so easy to get caught up in the rush of life with work, commitments, all the things that we're doing, and just completely neglect that part of ourselves that wants to do the things that we love, have fun, is playful, and just does things purely for joy, not because it's productive in any sort of way, but just for the fun of it. And we're conditioned to think that those hobbies and things that we do for joy are sometimes unproductive.
And especially as adults, it can feel like every free hour should go toward work, exercise, running errands, self-improvement, or building something. But it doesn't all have to be that. And your hobby also does not have to turn into a business. And honestly, this is a reminder that I need to keep telling myself constantly, because I'm always trying to think of, okay, how can I like, how can I monetize this? How can I maximize the output from this. But that is not what it's about. Not at all. Completely, I am completely missing the point when my brain starts to go to that.
And so then I have to bring myself back and remind myself, hey, that's not the point. The point of me doing this, the point of me, I like to draw, for example, and paint. The point of me creating And painting is simply for the joy of doing it. I do not need to try and show this off or sell it or create some sort of business from it. No. This is purely for me. For me and my own enjoyment. And I think sometimes we need to give ourselves permission to feel that way. Permission to let ourselves just enjoy.
just for the sheer fun without creating something, without any sort of output. It's just for you. It's just for me. Nothing else and no one else. And somewhere along the lines, And I have definitely experienced this. Sometimes that feels like selfish in my brain for some strange reason. But it's important to take care of yourself and to do those things that light you up and bring you joy. And you know what? Maybe it is actually one of the least selfish things, least selfish things that you can do.
Because when you give yourself that time to show up for yourself and to experience that joy, it gives you a reset and it helps to recharge you. And then you can go on throughout the rest of your day, throughout the rest of your week, and feel like a more full version of yourself, allowing you to be able to show up better for other people as well. When you show up for yourself, you can show up better for other people too. And that little mindset flip is something that really helps me as well. And hobbies and feeling that joy is also part of health.
It's part of well-being. It's important for us and our physical bodies. to feel that. We talk so much about nutrition, sleep, exercise, and stress management, and all of those things matter. But well-being, your well-being also includes play. It includes curiosity. It includes trying new things. Reading, playing music, connection, hanging out with loved ones. meeting new people, doing the things that make you feel alive. Those are all part of health and wellness too. And health isn't only about removing what stresses us.
It's also about adding those things that nourish us as well. on the plate and off the plate. And on the topic of stress management, however, hobbies can help us shift out of stress mode. Activities that we enjoy can give our attention somewhere safe and absorbing to go. And that can help create a mental break from the constant stream of responsibilities that we may be feeling going on around us. It can feel very therapeutic. And when we find a hobby that we really enjoy doing, we can enter a flow state.
So have you ever been so absorbed doing something? Like for example, even reading a book And you look at the time and all of a sudden it's been 2 hours because you are so absorbed in the story of the book. That right there is flow state. And flow state is so important for us as human beings as well. And hobbies can actually support productivity as well. Rest and play aren't necessarily opposites of each other and both are very necessary to have. And constantly forcing yourself to do work and keep going doesn't mean that it will always be high quality.
Eventually the quality will start to dip. But if you step back, take a break, it helps you to get a fresh perspective on everything. It can boost your creativity. and it can boost your productivity. So hobbies might seem counterproductive, but they are actually very productive. So yeah, ever since, there was a long period of my life where I didn't let myself enjoy the things that I usually liked to do. And that was a pretty dark period of my life, to be honest. And something that I have been making a health practice of mine has been reconnecting with those hobbies that I know bring me joy.
And so every week I make myself sit down. I make myself sit down out of love. not out of a forceful way. I carve out time in my week to sit down, pull out my pencils or my paints and to draw or paint and create whatever my heart desires. And I've also started reading fantasy books for fun instead of just reading my science books or personal growth books. I also have my fun books to read as well. And that has honestly been so therapeutic and inspiring for me as well because I can also see myself through the characters and they inspire me to do more of the things that I love.
And so I've actually gotten so much value from it as well, but the value piece isn't what it's about. so I have a little challenge for you. Think about something that you loved doing before life became busy. And what would it look like if you gave yourself 20 or 30 minutes or even 5 minutes for it this week? What would that look like? And if you would like to share, I would love to hear what your hobby would be, what you would like to dedicate some time to for yourself. Feel free to drop it in the chat.
All right, Cadre, that is all I have for you for now. Thanks so much, and I hope that you all have a lovely rest of your evening and day or week, weekend. whatever time you may be watching this from.
