We've got apps tracking our sleep.

Apps tracking our steps.

Apps tracking our stress, our heart rate, our mood, our breathing, and probably our ability to remember where we left the car keys.

But here's the question:

Have we stopped trusting ourselves?

In this episode of Tickety Boo, we dive into the modern wellness industry and the growing obsession with measuring everything.

We talk about:

• Why so many of us need a watch or an app to tell us how we're feeling
• When self-awareness becomes self-monitoring
• The pressure to optimise every part of life
• Whether wellness is helping us or making us more anxious
• And why sometimes the healthiest thing you can do is stop tracking and start listening

At one point Andy points out that his nan managed to live a pretty good life without a sleep score, recovery score, readiness score, hydration reminder, mindfulness notification, or a smartwatch telling her she'd had a stressful Tuesday.

And somehow... she coped.

This episode is funny, thought-provoking, and asks an important question:

Are we becoming more connected to ourselves... or more dependent on being told how we feel?

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This card-pull episode started with a deceptively simple question:

"Are you happy?"

Easy question.
Not so easy to answer.

What followed was a surprisingly honest conversation about happiness, expectations, and whether we're all chasing something we haven't properly defined.

In this episode of Tickety Boo, we explore:

• What happiness actually means to different people
• Whether we're supposed to be happy all the time
• Why so many people spend their lives chasing happiness without knowing what it looks like
• The difference between happiness, contentment, fulfilment, and peace
• And how easy it is to overlook the things that genuinely bring us joy

Because maybe the better question isn't:

"Am I happy?"

Maybe it's:

"Do I even know what happiness means to me?"

This is one of those conversations that starts off simple and ends up somewhere much deeper.

If you've ever found yourself wondering why achieving more, buying more, or doing more hasn't quite delivered what you hoped it would, this episode is for you.

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Imagine humans came with an instruction manual.

Page one might say:

⚠️ Your brain will occasionally lie to you.
⚠️ Do not make major life decisions when hungry, tired, or scrolling social media at midnight.
⚠️ Handle with care. Contents may be more fragile than they appear.

In this light-hearted episode of Tickety Boo, we have a bit of fun imagining what would actually be written in the owner's manual for being human.

Along the way, we end up talking about:

• Why our brains sometimes convince us of things that aren't true
• The strange ways we sabotage ourselves
• Why emotions don't always make sense
• How life gets easier when you understand your own operating system
• And the lessons most of us wish came in the box

It's funny, reflective, and full of those moments where you laugh... then realise there's probably a bit too much truth in it.

Because if being human came with instructions, most of us would probably skim-read them, lose them, and then spend years trying to figure things out the hard way.

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