Starting today, every Monday at 9:30 in the morning, join Rosie Nest in her kitchen. The weekly series will focus on the theme for this month of Savor. Rosie used to hate cooking, but six years later she actually likes it.
Starting today, every Monday at 9:30 in the morning, join Rosie Nest in her kitchen. The weekly series will focus on the theme for this month of Savor. Rosie used to hate cooking, but six years later she actually likes it.
Every Monday on CNN, Jarrett Bellini talks about Life Lost, Loss, and Layoffs. Bellini is in the early stages of building a startup called Rebloom Health. The aim is to support those navigating pregnancy, infertility and adoption loss.
For me, cooking is a form of rest. I had emergent brain surgery in November. My new mission, ongoing mission, is how do you create space for yourself to rest. Find 20 minutes on your calendar every single day.
Hello, Cadre. Nice to see everybody. My name is Rosie Nest, and I'm going to be doing this weekly series with you all, starting every. Starting today, every Monday at 9:30 in the morning. And how I wanted to start this off was just to kind of show you where I usually am at 9:30 on Monday mornings, which is usually I'm in my kitchen, which really aligns with the theme for this month of Savor. But I have to be honest to tell you that I used to hate cooking. In fact, I would burn everything that I ever made.
And in like, 2018, I decided, you know what, I'm actually gonna try to get good at cooking because I was in a job that I really hated at the time and it didn't have a creative outlet outlet. And I decided cooking could be that for me. So, like, six years later, I actually like it. I like to start my week off cooking. Right now I'm just prepping some bone broth, which, if you're into bo breath, maybe I'll share the recipe with you. But it's just a really nourishing, kind of relaxing, calm way for me to start my morning.
So you're gonna be in my kitchen with me. I'm actually gonna try to, like, get some, you know, things chopped and we'll see how this goes as I multitask and talk to you all. But this really is just as an introduction to the series and to me. So let me tell you a little bit about me and this stream that I'll do every Monday called Life Lost, Loss, and Layoffs. So just about me, outside of Life Loss and Layoffs. So I am in Minneapolis and in my house, it's myself and my husband and our two and a half year old daughter named Rain.
And really how I started talking about life loss and layoffs is a few different things. I'll start with the layoff part first, though, and I'm going to try to peel an onion as I tell you this. So I really navigated maybe two years of infertility and was very honest about that journey with my team. At the time, I was working a corporate job and felt like it was a space where, you know, those things are hard to talk about, but they aren't necessarily things that I felt like, needed to be quiet about.
So I was very open about my journey. And when I unfortunately experienced a later term loss, I was also really honest with my team about that journey as well, because I. I didn't want it to be stigmatized. And so when I was about to enter My maternity leave after my loss with my daughter, who's now two and a half, I shared that joy with my team as well. And so as I was on maternity leave, you know, expecting to navigate some of the regular things that you'd navigate on maternity leave, which was just like, hey, how do I return to work and how do I make sure that I'm top of mind for people and who's going to take over my projects?
Unfortunately, I actually was laid off over my maternity leave, and that really changed me because not only was I learning how to be a mother and a parent, but I had to learn how to, you know, enter this new phase of my career, which was a big job hunt after a big life event. So I talk a lot about layoffs, and I think that there's different things that as a person who's been laid off, there's things that we can talk about, destigmatize it. As a person that's unfortunately had to lay people off, I think that there's ways that we can do it better and use more empathy and.
And be more thoughtful. So I'm really passionate about that. With loss, I shared a little bit about that so far, but I think that, you know, it's just loss is so challenging. And I experienced multiple pregnancy losses, infertility, which I think is just a loss of self. Because you think, wow, this is going to be something that's easy. Everybody does it. And it has been a real challenge to just navigate that. And I met a woman a handful of years ago, and she and I reconnected recently and started talking about our losses and identified that there wasn't enough support in the space.
When you find out this really hard news in the way that we really would have loved to receive it, we're building. We're in the early stages of building a startup called Rebloom Health. And the aim of Rebloom is really just to support those navigating pregnancy, infertility and adoption loss. So the aim is to support the person going through it, but also to support their existing community, so their friends, their partners, their family, their grandparents and their employers. I found that there was a lot of resource available on Facebook, groups with strangers that I didn't know, which was hugely important for me to navigate that journey.
But then I would still go to, like Thanksgiving dinner and my family didn't know what to say to me as I was navigating a loss. So Rebloom is aiming to change that and that's taking a lot of my heart space and My energy and my mind to really build that and have a product that would be launched to really support those navigating loss. And the last part is life. Well, that could be a lot of different things. But what my life has looked like lately is after I navigated a layoff, I entered actually a really long and pretty terrible job hunt.
I thought it was going to be really easy and it was just really chance challenging and took a really long time. And after I landed a job that I was really excited about with a company that I was really jazzed about, I was five weeks into this role that I was loving and I was presenting on a call with my first big client, my first big client call presenting with 100 people. And in the middle of that call I had a brain aneurysm rupture. And. And so I had emergent brain surgery in November. And that has really taught me that you need to rest.
And so my new mission, ongoing mission, like weaved into these other projects and things that I'm working on, is how do you create space for yourself to rest as a preventative measure, as a way to be really thoughtful about the way that you're resting so that your body has time and space to to rest as it needs to. And so for me, cooking is a form of rest. For me, cooking is a way that I really savor and enjoy the moment and I like to do it in a way that is not hurried. I am slow at chopping. Even if I weren't trying to multitask with you, this probably would be the pace that I would be cutting up these vegetables and just kind of recognizing and being present in.
You know, if I'm cooking, I'm cooking for my family, I'm cooking for myself to really nourish and find space to just enjoy it and not be hurried or rushed through it. So that's a little bit about me in a nutshell. I'm excited to be on this journey with you every Monday. And my call to you all as you start the week is really just to right now in this moment, find 20 minutes on your calendar every single day. You to rest. Rest could be chopping vegetables slowly. It could be going for a walk, it could be taking a nap.
But I hope that you are reminded that it is important to rest. And I hope that you'll join me again next Monday at 9:30. Excited to be here with you all. Cadre Sphere. Have a good it.
