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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: On Accepting 'Both' & Letting Go Of Control · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Emily a body here. You are listening to
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  Speaker 1: a five minute Friday from Hurdle. This is kind of wild.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of wild because I am about to say
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  Speaker 1: a sentence that I cannot even I mean, I believe
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  Speaker 1: it because I lived it, but I can't believe I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to say it. My Birkenstock campaign comes out today.
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  Speaker 1: I shot a global campaign for Birkenstock earlier this year,
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  Speaker 1: in January, and there were so many steps, in phases
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  Speaker 1: and parts of this that I won't even get into now.
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  Speaker 1: But I am in utter disbelief that this moment is
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  Speaker 1: finally here. I'm and disbelief for so many reasons, primarily
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  Speaker 1: because there were so many points in my journey of entrepreneurship,
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  Speaker 1: and there have been so many points that I have
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  Speaker 1: felt as though I was doing something wrong, that I
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  Speaker 1: haven't been doing enough, that I am completely missing the mark,
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  Speaker 1: that I need help, and all these things can be
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  Speaker 1: true at different moments, But on a daylight today where
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  Speaker 1: I can say a sentence like that, I am utterly
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  Speaker 1: almost beside myself. And that is not entirely what I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about on the podcast today. What I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about today on the show is really
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  Speaker 1: the sense of duality that I've really been lingering in
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  Speaker 1: lately and something that I experienced in the creation of
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  Speaker 1: this campaign. So for context, it's a video that will
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  Speaker 1: now live on the Birkenstock website. It went live on
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  Speaker 1: social media or is going live depending on when you're
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  Speaker 1: listening to this on June fourteenth at nine am, and
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  Speaker 1: I was so scared to shoot this campaign, and it
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to do about the product itself. I have
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  Speaker 1: been wearing Birkenstocks for as long as I can remember.
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  Speaker 1: I believe I got my first pair maybe around fourteen
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years old, and I think that I had a
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  Speaker 1: pair of Birkenstocks from age eighteen to age thirty, like
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  Speaker 1: the exact same pair that I had so much love
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  Speaker 1: and affection for. Needless to say, my purpose for wearing
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  Speaker 1: Birkenstocks certainly evolved over time. For a long time, it
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  Speaker 1: was just a shoe that everyone was wearing that I
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  Speaker 1: loved the way that it looked, it was comfortable, and
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  Speaker 1: so I too owned a pair. But as I became
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  Speaker 1: more active in my pursuit of a different lifestyle, Birkenstock
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  Speaker 1: became the companion to all the exciting things that I
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  Speaker 1: did in the goals that I set. So if I
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  Speaker 1: was going to run a five K round Central, I
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  Speaker 1: would bring a pair of Birkenstocks to change into after
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  Speaker 1: When I ran Tokyo, I put a pair of Birkenstocks
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  Speaker 1: in my gear check bag. For me, a pair of
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  Speaker 1: Birkenstocks has always been like the symbol that the effort
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  Speaker 1: is done, and now it's time to give back to myself.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's time to recover. And the reason that I
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  Speaker 1: was worried about this campaign is because it's really scary
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  Speaker 1: to let go of your likeness. I know two things
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  Speaker 1: to be true. I am excited, am grateful over the
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  Speaker 1: moon about the opportunity to collaborate with a brand that
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  Speaker 1: has been part of my life since I was fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: And I am also very scared about how I might
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  Speaker 1: look on camera when I don't have any ounce of
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  Speaker 1: control about what ultimately goes into the world, period hard stop.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to tell you that letting go of
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  Speaker 1: my inhibitions is the thing that enabled me to both
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  Speaker 1: show up presently as myself the day that we shot this,
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  Speaker 1: which was back in January of twenty twenty four, and
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  Speaker 1: now when I saw the footage and I first saw
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  Speaker 1: the campaign maybe about a month ago, I was floored.
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  Speaker 1: I was floored because A I had the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: tell my story and talk about what my journey has
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  Speaker 1: been like with running authentically. But then B I looked
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  Speaker 1: at my body and I felt so strong, I felt
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  Speaker 1: so capable, and I feel so grateful for the way
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  Speaker 1: that I showed up for myself emotionally physically, and not
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  Speaker 1: just on that day, but over the years, right there
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  Speaker 1: has been so much work that has happened, so much
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  Speaker 1: effort that has happened. And so when I look at
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  Speaker 1: a little clip, the one that's going live on Instagram
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  Speaker 1: is like thirty seconds. The ultimate video spot is around
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  Speaker 1: sixty seconds. And when I look at this video, I
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  Speaker 1: feel so proud. And that goes back to the duality
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  Speaker 1: that I talked about. I can be, in certain instances
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  Speaker 1: proud and critical. I can feel both happy and emotional,
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  Speaker 1: happy and sad. This instance of both is the human experience,
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  Speaker 1: and so I think that so often, especially the clips
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  Speaker 1: that we see on social media, we hear it all
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  Speaker 1: the time. It's the highlight reel. And so the real
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  Speaker 1: behind this major moment for me was that I was
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  Speaker 1: so anxious and nervous about showing up on camera that day.
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  Speaker 1: But what I can tell you is that now when
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  Speaker 1: I look at this footage of myself, when I see myself,
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  Speaker 1: I am so proud of this woman that I have become.
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  Speaker 1: I am so proud of the fact that I can
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  Speaker 1: sit here and say that I have put my all
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  Speaker 1: not only into my work, into building this brand, the
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  Speaker 1: brand that I will continue to evolve and build over
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  Speaker 1: it tis time, but also my body, the body that I
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  Speaker 1: have propelled to so many finish lines, but also the
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  Speaker 1: body that I have empowered to recover in the best
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  Speaker 1: way that I know possible, knowing that that recovery is
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  Speaker 1: exactly what I need to go after the next goal
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  Speaker 1: and the next goal. And so my question for you
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  Speaker 1: this week on five Minute Friday is what you're both?
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  Speaker 1: What are you experiencing right now that you feel torn
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  Speaker 1: between two sides, knowing that it is entirely normal to
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  Speaker 1: have so many different feelings about your lived experience, and
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  Speaker 1: how can you show up for yourself to offer a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more compassion about it? What is your both
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  Speaker 1: and how can you offer yourself a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: compassion as you navigate the ins and the outs of
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  Speaker 1: your day today. And now a listener question.
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  Speaker 2: Hi Emily, this is Trish from Staten Island. What book
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  Speaker 2: or books do you love so much that you've read
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  Speaker 2: over and over again. You've given copies to your friends,
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  Speaker 2: You've bought other people copies, always looking for a good
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  Speaker 2: book recommendation.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much, this is a really great question. And
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  Speaker 1: right now, let me tell you about this book that
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  Speaker 1: has me hooked. It's called A Gentle Reminder by Bianga Sparasino,
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  Speaker 1: and I found it on the street last week. This
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  Speaker 1: book is speaking to my soul. It's got so many
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  Speaker 1: good nuggets in it and I want to quickly read
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  Speaker 1: a passage from it to share with you. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: will never get back to the person you used to be,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe that is okay. Maybe that is something to celebrate,
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  Speaker 1: something to embrace, because who you were is a version
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  Speaker 1: of yourself that exists in the past, a version of
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  Speaker 1: yourself that didn't go through the heartbreak or the hardship,
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  Speaker 1: a version of yourself that did not have to navigate
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  Speaker 1: all of the ways in which life was trying to
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  Speaker 1: weather it. Who you were is a version of yourself
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  Speaker 1: that didn't have to fight their way out of the
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  Speaker 1: dark that didn't have to deal with the things that
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  Speaker 1: cause change to crack within the soul of you, and
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  Speaker 1: those things transform a human being. This book that I
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  Speaker 1: found on the street last week, Yeah, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be my gift for the rest of twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: That's it for right now. Make sure you're following along
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  Speaker 1: over on social It's at Hurdle Podcast at Emily Body.
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  Speaker 1: Another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next. Timetastassas, assassass