Looking Inwards

Riley Allsop

Looking Inwards is a podcast about self-awareness, discipline, and personal growth. It focuses on taking ownership of your habits, mindset, and actions to become better in all areas of life. Each episode challenges you to think deeper, act with intent, and close the gap between who you are and who you want to be.

  1. Aug 6

    #36 - Stellar Hawke: Food, the Female Body, and Better Sleep in a Burnt-Out World

    Why is everyone so tired all the time? In this episode, Stellar Hawke breaks down the three biggest areas affecting modern energy levels: nutrition, movement, and sleep. From a nutrition perspective, the conversation explores how ultra-processed foods, poor gut health, unstable blood sugar, and weak metabolic health are leaving people overfed, undernourished, and constantly running low on energy. Stellar explains why food quality matters, how inflammation and digestion affect how we feel, and why wholefoods create a stronger foundation than quick-fix supplements. The episode then shifts into movement and the female body, looking at how sedentary lifestyles are affecting hormones, fertility, inflammation, and long-term health. Stellar unpacks the role of strength training, how women can better train through each phase of their cycle, and why movement is about far more than aesthetics - especially for hormonal and reproductive health. In the final part of the conversation, the focus turns to sleep - why so many people struggle to stay asleep, miss out on deep sleep, and rely on hacks instead of habits. Stellar shares simple ways to improve sleep hygiene, the effects of blue light, hydration timing, and ultra-processed food on recovery, and how social media fear-mongering has made basic health feel more confusing than it needs to be. Topics include: nutrition and energy levelsgut health, blood sugar, and metabolic healthultra-processed foods and chronic fatiguemovement and the female bodystrength training, cycle awareness, and fertilityhormones, PCOS, and endometriosissleep quality, deep sleep, and recoveryblue light, routines, and health misinformation

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Looking Inwards is a podcast about self-awareness, discipline, and personal growth. It focuses on taking ownership of your habits, mindset, and actions to become better in all areas of life. Each episode challenges you to think deeper, act with intent, and close the gap between who you are and who you want to be.