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Public Speaking Practice: Morning Routines

2026-06-14 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:22 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Health, sleep and habits · mode: Playful and ironic

In a one-minute public speaking practice on a Gen Z topic, Ali riffs on whether the "that girl" morning routine is achievable and decides that waking early, yoga, meditation and a matcha seem pretty achievable.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Public speaking practice: the spinner picks a Gen Z topic

  • ★ Ali does public speaking practice by spinning for a topic and trying to speak on it for a minute; he picks the topic Gen Z, which he takes on as a millennial. — 00:00:00

00:00:21 — Is the "that girl" morning routine actually achievable?

  • ★★ Six months earlier Ali would not have known what "that girl" meant; his wife Izzy Sealey made a YouTube video about how to become "that girl" and had to explain the phenomenon to him. — 00:00:21 · Izzy Sealey
  • ★★ As Ali understands it, "that girl" is the female equivalent of the "Huberman husband": the man who wakes at five, does a cold plunge, goes for a run, is home in time for the kids, has his life together and six-pack abs. (playful) — 00:00:21
  • ★★ Ali guesses the "that girl" morning routine involves waking early, yoga, meditation and a matcha, and finds it pretty achievable, much easier than a 16-mile run first thing in the morning. (hedged) — 00:01:06

Humor (significant)

  • Ali first reads the phrase "the that girl" as bad grammar. — 00:00:21

    “Was this written by someone who didn't know how to use chat GPT?”

  • Ali sketches the male counterpart of "that girl". — 00:00:21

    “the guy who wakes up at five in the morning goes cold plunge”

Mentioned

Central: That girl

Also: Andrew Huberman · ChatGPT · Gen Z · Izzy Sealey

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