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5-MINUTE Friday: If It's Not a Hell Yes, Then It's a Hell No · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hay Hurdler's Emily A Body here bringing you another episode
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  Speaker 1: of five Minute Friday from Hurdle. I had a good week,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like it's important to stop and have
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  Speaker 1: some gratitude for a week that may not have been
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  Speaker 1: as productive as I hoped that it would be, but
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  Speaker 1: felt like it had a ton of small ones in there.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm putting this into the world. If you too
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  Speaker 1: are feeling a little like stuck but also finding some
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  Speaker 1: small gratitudes, you and I are on the same wavelength
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  Speaker 1: for five Minute Friday this week. If you're new to
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  Speaker 1: this segment on the show on Fridays, I kind of
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  Speaker 1: put out into the world a story from my past
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  Speaker 1: week or maybe my past in general, and offer you
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  Speaker 1: a thought prompt to take you into the weekend to
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  Speaker 1: get those wheels turning, and then share with you some
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  Speaker 1: of my content picks, some of my highlights from the
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  Speaker 1: last seven days. So this week I am talking about
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  Speaker 1: the purge. If you follow me on social media, I'm
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  Speaker 1: over at Emily a Body and Hurdle is over at
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  Speaker 1: Hurdle Podcast as well, then you may have seen me
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  Speaker 1: doing a huge clean out understatement of my apartment last
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  Speaker 1: weekend and that has been something that has been a
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  Speaker 1: long time coming, and it's also something that I do
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  Speaker 1: to some extent, like every other month.
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  Speaker 2: And I know what you're thinking.
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  Speaker 1: You're probably like, how do you gain garner gather enough
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  Speaker 1: stuff in your home to be able to like donate
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  Speaker 1: bags of things to Goodwill every month? And you know what,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes I wonder this as well. I'm like, how did
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  Speaker 1: I end up with all this stuff? So I have
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  Speaker 1: a few explanations for this. Firstly, there's like the stuff
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  Speaker 1: that falls into the category of like every time I
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  Speaker 1: go to do an apartment clean out, I think to myself,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, like this is going to make the cut.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to try wearing it more. Maybe I'll use
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  Speaker 1: it for X or Y or whatever. So there's that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's the stuff that gets sent to me
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  Speaker 1: by different brands. Now I've definitely touched on this on
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  Speaker 1: the show before, but as a fitness journalist, I write
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  Speaker 1: about and review a lot of new and upcoming products.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to know about the latest and
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  Speaker 1: greatest sneakers, I got you, I try them, I can
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  Speaker 1: give you my honest feedback, and all is right in
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  Speaker 1: the world. You want to know about leggings or gloves
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  Speaker 1: or other products like CBD things or skincare or god like.
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  Speaker 2: Literally the list is endless.
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  Speaker 1: I get so much stuff that is shipped to my
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  Speaker 1: home for review. And it was one thing when I
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  Speaker 1: was working at a big publishing company, like working at
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  Speaker 1: something like Roadale or Conde Nast, when I was the
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  Speaker 1: fitness editor itself, when I received these products and these things,
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  Speaker 1: I could try them or look at them. And then
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  Speaker 1: because I shared this office space with so many other individuals,
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  Speaker 1: I could pass on these things to someone who was
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  Speaker 1: really hyped about them. Right. Well, now that I work
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  Speaker 1: and live alone, work for myself and live alone, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have necessarily someone to pass these things onto, especially
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  Speaker 1: in the times of the COVID, So I digress. This
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  Speaker 1: purge that I did last weekend was a big one.
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  Speaker 1: I was donating a lot of great stuff to my
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  Speaker 1: local goodwill in the process of cleaning out my apartment
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  Speaker 1: because someone can get a lot of great use out
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  Speaker 1: of the things that no longer are serving me. And
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  Speaker 1: it was like we were laughing. I invited one of
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  Speaker 1: my good friends, Kara over for the purge. She's been
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  Speaker 1: in my COVID bubble for months now. She's one of
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  Speaker 1: my dearest friends. We both get tested regularly. Just a
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  Speaker 1: little caveat there. Noticed that I said that right she
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  Speaker 1: came over. We drank some beers, we had mimosas, we
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  Speaker 1: ordered a pizza, and we cleaned out my apartment and man,
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  Speaker 1: we found some stuff, like the laughing that we were doing.
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  Speaker 1: I probably donated about fifteen to twenty pairs of sneakers.
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  Speaker 1: I also maybe donated at least ten jackets, and I
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  Speaker 1: found my old weight watchers way in log I found
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  Speaker 1: things gifts that I at one point wanted to give
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  Speaker 1: to someone that I was dating and then never gave
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  Speaker 1: it to them because we stopped dating. And like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what you're supposed to do with those things
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  Speaker 1: in that circumstance. Like, I just found so much stuff,
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  Speaker 1: And I also was really proud of myself because I
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  Speaker 1: got very stern about what was staying and what was
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  Speaker 1: going right. It was like that doesn't fit anymore. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't like the way this looked anyway. I'm not using that.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't used it in a year, and just left
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  Speaker 1: and right out out out and it felt like just
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  Speaker 1: one big, one big exhale, right, and I think so often.
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  Speaker 1: I am definitely guilty of this. I keep things because
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  Speaker 1: I know what my life is like with them, right,
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  Speaker 1: So it's not just you know, jackets in my kitchen closet.
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  Speaker 1: It's like relationships, Okay, relationships. It's a MacBook that might
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  Speaker 1: not be operating properly. It's a pair of sneakers that
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  Speaker 1: are like heavily worn through that I just can't get
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  Speaker 1: rid of. We keep these things around because they're familiar,
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  Speaker 1: because they bring us comfort. But when you take the
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  Speaker 1: time to do something like the purge, when you take
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  Speaker 1: the time to get rid of things and start fresh,
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  Speaker 1: that takes courage, and that opens up new doors for
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  Speaker 1: so many other things to come into your life. I
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  Speaker 1: feel lighter after the purge. I feel like my apartment
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  Speaker 1: has more space for creativity. I feel excited, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a nice reminder for me that there are other
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  Speaker 1: things going on in my life that might need the
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  Speaker 1: same treatment. My promptery this week isn't actually a prompt
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  Speaker 1: at all. Instead, it's me asking you what is it
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  Speaker 1: that you can get rid of, what is no longer
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  Speaker 1: serving you? Please, if you're listening to this tag me
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  Speaker 1: on social media, let me know what it is that
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  Speaker 1: you're clearing out this weekend. I dare you to clear
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  Speaker 1: out three things highlights of the week this week. All
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  Speaker 1: of this goodness links to it can be found in
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  Speaker 1: the show notes. First up, read and watch The New
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  Speaker 1: York Times. I Achieved my wildest dreams and then depression hit.
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  Speaker 1: This is an op ed that came out earlier this
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  Speaker 1: week from runner Alexi Papas.
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  Speaker 2: She it literally stopped me in my tracks.
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  Speaker 1: In it, she talks about how we should view physical
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  Speaker 1: and mental health as equally important. And something that really
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  Speaker 1: stood out to me when I was watching it was
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  Speaker 1: when she equated her struggles with mental health with literally
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  Speaker 1: having a scratch on her brain that she needed to
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  Speaker 1: rehab and when she thought of it that way, it
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  Speaker 1: helped her understand and really prioritize investing in her mental
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  Speaker 1: health and regularly going to therapy and doing something about it.
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  Speaker 2: She opens up about.
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  Speaker 1: Her story about going to the Olympics and after the
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  Speaker 1: Olympics just feeling so beside herself and not herself and unhappy.
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  Speaker 1: And I just really commend Alexi for being bold, for
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  Speaker 1: being honest, for being vulnerable, because her putting her story
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  Speaker 1: out there is going to do so much good for
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  Speaker 1: so many others. Watch Happiest Season on Hulu. Love Me
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  Speaker 1: a Good Kristen Stewart and Daniel Levy Moment you Know
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Levy from Chit's Creek. Basically, The Happiest Season is
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  Speaker 1: a holiday movie. Kristin Stewart and Mackenzie Davis are two
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  Speaker 1: gay women that are going home to see each other's
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  Speaker 1: families for the holidays for the first time. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: watched it yet, but it looks hilarious and who doesn't
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  Speaker 1: love a lame holiday movie On a Sunday night this
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  Speaker 1: time of year, Listen to podcast New mindset whodas Fifty
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  Speaker 1: Shades of ok Relationships.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be honest.
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  Speaker 1: Some days, I'm just scrolling through the top episodes on
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  Speaker 1: the health and wellness charts on Apple Podcasts looking for
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  Speaker 1: new content, and this one caught my eye, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: happy that it did. I love the way that the host,
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  Speaker 1: his name is Kenny Case, how he talks.
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  Speaker 2: I love how he talks about okay relationships.
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  Speaker 1: And saying that the fastest road to an okay relationship,
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  Speaker 1: which is just like subpar, prevent someone from feeling alone
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  Speaker 1: but isn't really like the gem or the home run.
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  Speaker 1: The fastest road to getting into one of those relationships
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  Speaker 1: is pursuing what you're told you're supposed to want in
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  Speaker 1: a partner versus what you actually want in a partner.
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  Speaker 2: Just some food for thought.
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  Speaker 1: And lastly, I do want to highlight in here doing
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  Speaker 1: the purge I mentioned. I've talked about it on social media.
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  Speaker 1: If you were watching that, you may have DM me
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  Speaker 1: about the sweatshirt that my friend was wearing. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: putting a link in the show notes to a similar
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  Speaker 1: sweatshirt because I probably got I'm not even over exaggerating here,
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  Speaker 1: like twenty to thirty dms asking about it. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a Scuba Shirpa half zip sweatshirt.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Try saying that five times fast, and it's super cute
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  Speaker 1: and I got you. I think that's it for now.
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  Speaker 1: If you are interested, this coming Wednesday at one pm
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  Speaker 1: Easter and I am hosting the final end of your
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  Speaker 1: goal Setting Workshop, I would love to see you there.
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  Speaker 1: Sign up via the link in the show notes, and
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  Speaker 1: if you have anything else, if you want to say hi,
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  Speaker 1: podcast and I am over at Emily a Body.
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  Speaker 2: Another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.