Self-care is important in everyone's lives but sometimes it could be hard to fit it into your budget. Wellness expert Sam Tejada, author of "How to Win in Modern Wellness," joined Cheddar News to explain how to treat yourself without breaking the bank.

<div class="block">Self-care is important in everyone&#39;s lives but sometimes it could be hard to fit it into your budget. Wellness expert Sam Tejada, author of &quot;How to Win in Modern Wellness,&quot; joined Cheddar News to explain how to treat yourself without breaking the bank.</div>

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Stretching Your Dollar: Self-Care Awareness Month

Welcome back to stretching your dollar here on shutter news. Well, self care is an important thing to do for yourself. But when you're trying to save money, it can be hard to fit it into your budget. There is a way to treat yourself though without breaking the bank. And so we're bringing in health and wellness expert Sam to, to help us out here. He's the author of How To Win in Modern Wellness Sam. Thank you for joining. Thank you. I love this topic. I think all of our viewers can relate to it. It is self awareness month. And so why do you think it is important to highlight this from a financial perspective? So, you know, obviously we tend to forget about our health, which our health, we it's hard to go after wealth. Exactly. So uh we need that self care awareness Month. Um It can be very expensive, a lot of the self care stuff. So um having that awareness gives us that a reminder that hey, let's take care of our health so we can go chase after the wealth. I love the saying health is wealth, right? If you're not in good health. You're gonna rack up a lot of bills to try to take care of that. So, um I think it's a very important topic. What would you recommend to viewers? Maybe some tangible tips on how to spend on self care without overspending. So the first thing is education, you have to be aware of how to take care of your health. So which that's free. There's so much resources out there that you could tap into right online, understand different things for like your mental health, right? Your body, your spirit, your mind, all of that stuff. So when you're looking at that, you know, there's things like meditation that you could do to help reset, grounding, right? Take your shoes off, connect to the soil, the frequency of the earth. And then there's other things like eating healthy, you know, learning what to put into your body. Yeah, any self care options that might not be worth the splurge because we do know self care and pampering yourself is a very instagrammable topic. Maybe we could call it. It is, it can go crazy, right? So there, there are some like when you see a lot of these fads that pop up with the the prep meals, that can be very expensive, high intensity workout gyms, you could easily spend a couple $100 a week just participating in that which you really don't need to spend that kind of money when you're to just work out, right? I like that. Um Slowing down, I think sometimes helps too, right? Just like you said, reconnect and obviously feel like what is worth my money and my budget right now. Some self care I'm sure are free. You kind of referenced them earlier. What are some free ones that you think our viewers should pursue? So what I tell people is like where I live in South Florida, I I always tell people look into some of the wellness clubs, like there's uh running clubs, hiking clubs where people in the community get together and they do it for fun as like an extra curricular activity which costs you nothing. Yeah, I like that. That's a good tip. And the weather in South Florida is pretty nice. It is, it is, it's paradise. That definitely helps. OK, obviously we talked about health being wealth. So that is true for your bank account. But what about for your professional life? If you wanna grow your career, why is taking some time for self, self care and your health so important to advance in that aspect? So, you know, I actually wrote a book How To Win In Modern Wellness where I have all the leaders in the industry that talk about it. Um And you know, for you as an entrepreneur or a professional, you, you want your focus to be on point, you want your immune system to be on point. So taking care of yourself and and focusing on a proactive preventative approach to your wellness is extremely important. What does that consist of? It means doing a few things like understanding your body. So we talk about doing blood work, your comprehensive blood work to see what kind of hormones might be in balance, so we can fix that. So um looking at deficiencies like micronutrients, deficiencies and also other bio hacking modalities that are out there to make sure that you're performing at, at your peak. Yeah. Work life balance, the coveted work life balance that I think we all started talking about especially during COVID. Is that a form an effective form of self care? So I I hear it all the time, the work life balance and I've been an entrepreneur for almost two decades and I'm still searching for this. Yeah. Right. It's one of those things that it really doesn't exist. So that's this is why it's so important to really understand your body, understand what's missing and then making that time to focus on things like meditation, movement. Right? I don't even use the word exercise, just movement. If you like to garden, go out for 2030 minutes and garden, you know, get yourself moving, get that blood flowing and really understand your body, see what's uh lacking in your body. Figure out what you could feed it and then you could perform at your peak at your best levels. I like that. So self care is a smart financial move 100%. You need it, you know, without it, without your health, you can't chase wealth. I like it. I like it a lot. All right, Sam Taha. Thank you for joining. Thank you.