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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Different Is NOT a Bad Thing · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Hurdler's Emily Abaudi here bringing you another installment of
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  Speaker 1: five Minute Friday from Hurdle. I feel like it's been
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  Speaker 1: a while since I just gave a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: background on Hurdle. I started the podcast at the end
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  Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen beginning of twenty eighteen. It was something
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  Speaker 1: I had dreamed about for a while. I knew that
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to start a podcast, but didn't entirely know
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  Speaker 1: what I wanted it to be about. I knew that
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  Speaker 1: my bread and butter as a journalist and a thirty
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  Speaker 1: something woman living here in New York City was health
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  Speaker 1: and fitness content, and I wanted to intertwine that with
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  Speaker 1: my passions for entrepreneurship and female empowerment and all that goodness.
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  Speaker 1: And thus, after going through a personal crisis of sorts
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  Speaker 1: and sitting on my couch staring at a friend saying
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  Speaker 1: the sentence, I just want to get over this Hurdle,
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  Speaker 1: it all sort of clicked, and a few months later
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  Speaker 1: Hurdle was born, and since then one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight plus guested episodes later, a podcast that started by
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  Speaker 1: weekly on Mondays now launches three times each week, and
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't feel more lucky to have you listening to
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  Speaker 1: me through your headphones, through your speakers, or however you're
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  Speaker 1: getting your podcasts. This five minute Friday segment came to
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  Speaker 1: be during the coronavirus pandemic as a way for me
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  Speaker 1: to continually engage with my lovely hurdlers during this unforeseen
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  Speaker 1: time in a fun new way. And so if you're
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  Speaker 1: new to the segment, I tell a story, I share
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  Speaker 1: a thought prompt, I offer up some of my content
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  Speaker 1: highlights of the week, some cool things that I am
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  Speaker 1: listening to, reading, what I'm buying, etc. And that's it.
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  Speaker 1: stick story thing, I was folding laundry yesterday which was
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  Speaker 1: way too long, overdue to be done, overdue to be done.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm getting at here? Anyway, I'm folding
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  Speaker 1: laundry in my bedroom yesterday, and I was just thinking
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  Speaker 1: about this time last year and what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: It was a friend of mine's birthday, and I was
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  Speaker 1: just reflecting on where him and I were at this
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  Speaker 1: time last year. We were actually traveling at Brooks Headquarters
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  Speaker 1: in Washington, and so I was thinking about everything that
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  Speaker 1: was going on in twenty nineteen in September and how
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  Speaker 1: crazy it was. I think about giving a talk to
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  Speaker 1: an amphitheater of five hundred women. I think about running
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  Speaker 1: twenty two miles this week in preparation for the Chicago Marathon.
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  Speaker 1: I think about one particular date I went on to
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  Speaker 1: eat Ramen. I think about going to hot yoga at
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  Speaker 1: lions Den and going by myself in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a workday to go see Britney runs a marathon. What
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  Speaker 1: else I think about? Oh, I remember signing this really
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  Speaker 1: big contract to work with a brand that I had
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  Speaker 1: been dreaming of working with as Emily the entrepreneur and
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  Speaker 1: not Emily the journalist anyway. I mean, I think about life,
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  Speaker 1: and life was a lot. But I was good at
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  Speaker 1: a lot. You know, I've always kind of been good
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  Speaker 1: at a lot. I prided myself on it really was.
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  Speaker 1: I was good at finding some semblance of balance despite
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  Speaker 1: waking up at five point thirty and running amok in
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  Speaker 1: this city. I think about that time in my life
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  Speaker 1: before COVID, and there have been times in the past
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  Speaker 1: six months or so where I've craved that life. I've
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  Speaker 1: craved the hectic early mornings and the treadmill sprints and
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  Speaker 1: the you know, the disheveled scene that would be my apartment.
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  Speaker 1: The night before I was getting on an early flight
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  Speaker 1: with my waste suitcase on the ground, and just like
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  Speaker 1: thinking about the three hours of sleep that I was
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  Speaker 1: going to get and how tired I would be in
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  Speaker 1: the next day I got. I craved, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: excitement of big meetings in person, and like unnecessary but
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  Speaker 1: necessary amounts of eye contact that feel slightly uncomfortable. I
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  Speaker 1: craved using my Delta app on my phone, and of
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  Speaker 1: course hugs and handshakes and high fives and and just
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  Speaker 1: what was you know. I say all this because recently,
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  Speaker 1: and I think maybe this goes hand in hand with
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  Speaker 1: Real the book Mindset by Carol Dweck, which was Hurdle's
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  Speaker 1: book club pick for this month. I realize that I am,
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  Speaker 1: despite missing that stuff and reflecting on that time in
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  Speaker 1: my life, not saying that with this idea that it'll
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  Speaker 1: never get back to being that way, but just I
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  Speaker 1: feel really grateful that this year hasn't been like that.
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  Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, I mean this year has
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  Speaker 1: been hard as all hell, so hard, but if this
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  Speaker 1: year didn't happen this way, I wouldn't be who I am.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of amazing things have happened. I've had
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  Speaker 1: a big year personally and professionally, and I do understand
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  Speaker 1: that it's my quote unquote growth mindset that makes me
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  Speaker 1: think of this year this way and reflect on it positively.
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  Speaker 1: But I have been able to grow a lot of
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  Speaker 1: been able to make some really important, valuable connections. I've
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  Speaker 1: been able to walk away from some things that I'm
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  Speaker 1: not exactly sure I would have had the guts to
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  Speaker 1: do otherwise. I've had some wins in my work. I've
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  Speaker 1: had some growth with the podcast. I've been able to
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  Speaker 1: set boundaries that literally in my life I have never
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  Speaker 1: ever been successful at setting before. And yeah, like it's different,
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  Speaker 1: But what I've come to understand and really appreciate lately
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  Speaker 1: is that different isn't bad. It's just that it's different,
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  Speaker 1: and lately, honestly, different just makes me feel pretty lucky.
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  Speaker 1: And So my prompt for you this week is, what
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  Speaker 1: is one thing that happened in the past month that
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  Speaker 1: you did not expect but you're better for Again, what
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  Speaker 1: is one thing that happened in the past month that
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  Speaker 1: you didn't expect, but you are better. For Highlights of
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  Speaker 1: the week, links to all of this goodness all are
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  Speaker 1: in the show notes. Listen my good friend Ali Feller
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  Speaker 1: I adore Ali. We text often, We've been on each
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  Speaker 1: other's shows before, and I really loved her interview with
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  Speaker 1: Justin this week. He's a doctor, he's an ultrarunner, he's
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  Speaker 1: an avid chaser of the commonly adored fkt's that's Fastest
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  Speaker 1: the late Gabe Grinwald, who passed away last year after
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  Speaker 1: a lengthy battle with rare cancer. Justin gets really vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: in this episode, and I love Ali's interview style and
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  Speaker 1: how she asks him tough questions and allows him to
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  Speaker 1: take his time to get to his thoughtful, open, honest questions.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm so grateful for their conversation because I think
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