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1. Emily Abbate, Creator Hurdle · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Speaker 1: Welcome to my little corner of the Internet.
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Speaker 2: If you are listening to this, you have arrived at
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Speaker 2: the first ever episode of Hurdle. My name is Emily A.
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Speaker 2: Body and here are some fast facts you should know
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Speaker 2: about me.
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Speaker 1: By day.
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Speaker 2: I am a writer and editor living in New York City.
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Speaker 2: I'm a huge fitness fanatic, also a certified trainer, run coach,
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Speaker 2: spin instructor, all the things. To get a little more
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Speaker 2: insight into who I am, feel free maybe just to
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Speaker 2: peep my social channels, all of which can be found
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Speaker 2: at Emily A Body A B, B A T. E.
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Speaker 2: Now that you know the Vsball stats on me, let's
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Speaker 2: talk about this here podcast.
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Speaker 1: Here is the deal.
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Speaker 2: Although you can't go back and change your beginning, you
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Speaker 2: can change your end. Hurdle, a bi weekly podcast, features
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Speaker 2: people who got through a tough time a hurdle ofs
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Speaker 2: by integrating wellness into their routines.
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Speaker 1: In this modern world we live in.
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Speaker 2: Filled with so much anxiety and pressure and obscene amounts
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Speaker 2: of competition, wellness in all of its forms is an outlet.
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Speaker 2: Some of the biggest, baddest, most inspirational humans and top
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Speaker 2: CEOs got to where they are today because they found
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Speaker 2: themselves with the help of things like yoga, running, juicing,
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Speaker 2: a new approach to eating, meditation, crystals. Even the list
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Speaker 2: goes on hurdle brings you their stories, the lessons they learned,
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Speaker 2: and hopefully gives you the push you need to live
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Speaker 2: a healthier, happier, more motivated life. Now going forward, this
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Speaker 2: would be the part where I introduce a guest.
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Speaker 1: But spoiler alert, the first guest is actually me.
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Speaker 2: A little background, I guess first and foremost on this project.
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Speaker 2: When twenty seventeen began, I told myself there were a
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Speaker 2: few things that I wanted to do, I guess, as
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Speaker 2: resolutioners typically do at the turn of a new year.
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Speaker 1: Aside from really wanting to do.
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Speaker 2: Things like get better at spending time alone, I remember
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Speaker 2: actually going to the movies by myself and being so
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Speaker 2: proud that I kind of took that step last January.
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Speaker 2: Aside from wanting to take some more time alone, I
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Speaker 2: also wanted to start a podcast. And my ideas for
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Speaker 2: what this would ultimately become were a little all over
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Speaker 2: the place. But when I think about it, I really
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Speaker 2: do think that some of the best projects start out
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Speaker 2: that way. It's been a slow process, mostly because things
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Speaker 2: you know they get in the way.
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Speaker 1: But fast forward to about a month or two ago.
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Speaker 2: I was sitting here on my couch in New York
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Speaker 2: City venting about something to a girlfriend, and I looked
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Speaker 2: at her with so much sincerity and I just said,
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Speaker 2: I just want to get over the hurdle.
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Speaker 1: And it clicked.
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Speaker 2: I started to think about all of the hurdles I've
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Speaker 2: faced and kind of just had this aha moment. Even
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Speaker 2: if they're tear inducing, that was ugly crying kind of things.
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Speaker 2: Heartbreaking or difficult. Hurdles define us and it's hard to
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Speaker 2: see in the moment, but the obstacles that come with those,
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Speaker 2: they really shape our character. And so I know what's
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Speaker 2: coming up. You're like, Okay, true, I'm down with this,
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Speaker 2: but what's with all the wellness stuff? Well, as I mentioned,
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Speaker 2: I'm a freelance fitness editor and writer. I was last
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Speaker 2: full time at Self Magazine at the end of twenty
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Speaker 2: sixteen as their fitness editor before the book closed, and
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Speaker 2: before that, I was as an editor at Rodale, the
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Speaker 2: publishing company that only for now owns Men's Health, Women's Health, Runners,
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Speaker 2: World Prevention, Bicycling, etc. I'm also, as I said, a
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Speaker 2: personal trainer, a run coach and a spin instructor at
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Speaker 2: Swerve Fitness here in the city.
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Speaker 1: And here is a little bit of a plot twist.
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Speaker 2: I weighed two hundred and four pounds ten years ago,
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Speaker 2: so that's what's going to lead us up to my
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Speaker 2: hurdle moment, the obstacle that led me to losing seventy
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Speaker 2: pounds in college. You know, it smacks me like a
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Speaker 2: ton of bricks every single time I say that out loud.
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Speaker 2: So come back with me, will you? To my dorm room?
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Speaker 2: In two thousand and seven, time flies. I was a
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Speaker 2: freshman in college at the University of Connecticut, Go Huskies,
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Speaker 2: and I was madically overweight. I grew up in a
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Speaker 2: big Italian family and food was sort of the crux
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Speaker 2: of everything. I loved food, and you know, I still
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Speaker 2: love food. But here's an example. I was never the
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Speaker 2: kind of kid that was like, eat a quick bowl
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Speaker 2: of cereal and then Dad would drive me to school.
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Speaker 1: In the morning.
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Speaker 2: It was bagels all the time, everything cream cheese, egg
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Speaker 2: sandwiches all the time, extra bacon pancakes all the time.
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Speaker 2: Food was always an Event's that what's that saying? It's
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Speaker 2: like I live to eat instead of eat to live
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Speaker 2: that was one hundred percent me anyway, Like so many people,
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Speaker 2: this sort of comfort for me I found in food,
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Speaker 2: and as a result, literally from when I was a
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Speaker 2: tween until this point in two that and seven, my
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Speaker 2: weight fluctuated constantly. I have photos of me at age thirteen,
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Speaker 2: and I'm sit on a mini golf course and I'm
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Speaker 2: probably tipping one hundred and sixty pounds, and just for
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Speaker 2: the record, to this day, I stand roughly about like
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Speaker 2: five three and a half. And then I have photos
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Speaker 2: of me and I'm sixteen, and I'm lean, and I'm
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Speaker 2: teaching dance classes four times a day. Anyway, for the
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Speaker 2: purposes of this story, I am a freshman in college,
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Speaker 2: as I said, and I am two hundred and four pounds.
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Speaker 2: So here we are, We're sitting in my dorm room,
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Speaker 2: and there I am, and I look down and I
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Speaker 2: see a scale that I definitely hadn't touched since move
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Speaker 2: and day, and it's under a stack of books from
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Speaker 2: the previous semester. And just to reiterate again, it wasn't
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Speaker 2: like I didn't know that I was overweight at this time.
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Speaker 2: Like I look back, and uh, I look at all
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Speaker 2: the photos I have of myself, and they're all just
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Speaker 2: selfies of me and friends, and they're just of my face.
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Speaker 1: And that's a.
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Speaker 2: Pretty strong indicator that I had some body issues. Because
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Speaker 2: I couldn't even stand to like look at evidence of
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Speaker 2: myself in this time that showed my body as its
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Speaker 2: true size. I couldn't really admit to myself that I
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Speaker 2: hated my body. Hell, that's a that's a harsh sentence
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Speaker 2: to kind of put out into the world. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 2: I was getting by without feeling like I really needed
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Speaker 2: to do something about it. So I take out the
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Speaker 2: scale from under my bed, my bunk bed, and I
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Speaker 2: tap it with my toe and I step on it
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Speaker 2: in that way that we all sort of do, where
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Speaker 2: it's like if I tiptoe toward the left side, maybe
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Speaker 2: just a little bit, it'll tell me that I'm ten
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Speaker 2: pounds later. And I stared down, and I swear those
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Speaker 2: four seconds that the scale took to populate, it felt
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Speaker 2: like an eternity. And when I saw the two hundred
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Speaker 2: and four pounds staring back at me, I felt empty.
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Speaker 2: I was in the state of total bewilderment. So many
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Speaker 2: questions like how did I get here? How did I
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Speaker 2: get to this place. How did I let it get
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Speaker 2: this bad? And get off the scale and I throw
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Speaker 2: on some old sweatpants and a hoodie and sneakers and
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Speaker 2: did something that at the time was totally not instinctive
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Speaker 2: to me at all, which was run down three flights
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Speaker 2: of stairs out of my dorm and sprint down this
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Speaker 2: like dimly lit road. I probably go for about thirty
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Speaker 2: seconds until I am totally out of breath, completely zonked,
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Speaker 2: and I clapse into the grass next to the sidewalk,
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Speaker 2: just so beside myself, absolutely hysterical, and through the tears.
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Speaker 2: I remember looking up at the stars and just knowing
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Speaker 2: I was so dumb with her.
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Speaker 1: In that moment, my hurtle moment.
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Speaker 2: I knew I had to evaluate, I had to reevaluate.
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Speaker 2: I had to take a step back and spend time
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Speaker 2: on me. I knew that I was better than two
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Speaker 2: hundred and four pounds. I knew that I deserved a
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Speaker 2: life that wasn't so.
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Speaker 1: Heavy. You know.
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Speaker 2: In the past five six years, I've picked up running,
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Speaker 2: which we'll get to, and I've done multiple marathons, I've
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Speaker 2: done a triathlon. As a personal trainer, I've taken my
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Speaker 2: own personal training clients. But this night in the grass.
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Speaker 2: This was my biggest victory that night. I decided to
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Speaker 2: invest in myself that night, the girl who was so lost,
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Speaker 2: like it just clicked. I needed that scare, I needed
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Speaker 2: that empty feeling. I needed that reality check on the
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Speaker 2: scale to reaffirm that I was worthy of my own energy.
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Speaker 2: So I'm thinking that this is the part where we
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Speaker 2: talk about how I lost the weight, because it's not easy.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't easy, So I think we'll cover that a
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Speaker 2: little bit here. The first half of losing it all,
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Speaker 2: which I would say to giver take about three years,
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Speaker 2: was really developing a better relationship with food. It's embarrassing
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Speaker 2: really when I say this out loud, but I remember
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Speaker 2: points growing up where my parents would leave me at
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Speaker 2: home alone, and I'm like at least sixteen at this point,
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Speaker 2: and I got excited that I would have free rain
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Speaker 2: over the kitchen. I would make French fries in the oven.
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Speaker 2: I would eat ice cream out of the container. I
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Speaker 2: would eat cheddar cheese from the bag.
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Speaker 1: Oh man.
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Speaker 2: I remember distinctly texting one of my oldest friends, Tom Dargan, Hey, Tom,
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Speaker 2: if you're listening to this, I'm saying something along the
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Speaker 2: lines of I need to get to a point in
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Speaker 2: my life where I don't go to the fridge and
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Speaker 2: eat cheddar cheese out of the bag. So these habits,
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Speaker 2: they were really only exacerbated once I got to college
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Speaker 2: and I had the option to eat tater tots three
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Speaker 2: meters of the day and indulge in banana chocolate chip
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Speaker 2: ice cream from the Yukon Dairy Bar, which important note
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Speaker 2: here is by far the most delicious of best.
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Speaker 1: Ice cream in the world, if you want my opinion.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, with losing weight, my relationship with food had
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Speaker 2: to change. I started to learn more about portion control,
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Speaker 2: and instead of completely eliminating foods or feeling guilty about eating.
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Speaker 1: Them, I just I learned how to eat them in moderation.
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Speaker 2: I never really wanted to be on one of those
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Speaker 2: elimination diets or feel like I couldn't live my life
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Speaker 2: as a twenty something college student and go out drinking
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Speaker 2: from some sketchy keg or what have you. And I
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Speaker 2: was lucky because there were parts that I was really
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Speaker 2: good at. You know, I loved vegetables like I adored them.
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Speaker 2: I still adore them, and I adored them almost as
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Speaker 2: much as I adore banana chocolate chip ice cream, and
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Speaker 2: I learned to eat more of them and less tater
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Speaker 2: tots and more protein and.
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Speaker 1: More just good stuff.
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Speaker 2: And those changes paid off, because within about a year
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Speaker 2: and a half I'd lost forty pounds and was keeping
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Speaker 2: it off. And that's about the time where I started
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Speaker 2: to fall in love with running. Now to date, I
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Speaker 2: have run five marathons and done a single triathlon and
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Speaker 2: way too many half marathons to count. And that run
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Speaker 2: on sentence is just crazy to think about, because I
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Speaker 2: never thought that I could be a runner, especially because
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Speaker 2: growing up my brother, who was the track athlete of
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Speaker 2: the family, with me being slightly overweight, he'd always quip
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Speaker 2: a me, telling me to go run a mile whenever
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Speaker 2: I was annoying him. And now today I can't even
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Speaker 2: tell you how many people I talked to that want
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Speaker 2: my advice on running. They want to know how they
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Speaker 2: can run, how they can become a runner. Well, I
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Speaker 2: sucked it running. I was the worst at it. I
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Speaker 2: hated it. And at this point, again I had lost
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Speaker 2: about forty pounds and I was working for a summer
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Speaker 2: at Camp Laurelwood in Madison, Connecticut, and obviously at summer
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Speaker 2: camp there is no planet fitness where you can go
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Speaker 2: log forty five minutes on an elliptical mindlessly. And I
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Speaker 2: didn't want to go back on all the progress I made,
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Speaker 2: you know, for me, at that point, it was not
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Speaker 2: an option. I'd worked too hard to get there, and
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Speaker 2: so I knew what I had to do, and that
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Speaker 2: was pick up running. And so every day after lunch,
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Speaker 2: I would change into some black cotton leggings from Target
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Speaker 2: and Haynes white cotton v neck and I would go
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Speaker 2: run for fourteen minutes and I did the exact same
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Speaker 2: route down and back every single day. I did this
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Speaker 2: for about seven and a half weeks, and at the
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Speaker 2: end of the eight week summer session, I decided to
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Speaker 2: measure it with my car. And I kind of had
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Speaker 2: just assumed going into it that I was running a mile.
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Speaker 1: Like I just figured I was slow.
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Speaker 2: It was taking me fourteen minutes, but I was doing
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Speaker 2: it and that's all that mattered. So I get my
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Speaker 2: car and I measure it, and at the end I
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Speaker 2: look down and it's a half mile.
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Speaker 1: A half mile. It took me fourteen minutes to run
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Speaker 1: a half mile.
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Speaker 2: And it's kind of funny thinking about it now, because
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Speaker 2: how I wasn't angry about that.
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Speaker 1: In retrospect, it's crazy.
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Speaker 2: The thing was is that I didn't even care that
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Speaker 2: it was only a half mile at the time, because,
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Speaker 2: like I said, I got to a point where I
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Speaker 2: liked running. I looked forward to that time for myself,
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Speaker 2: and it didn't matter how far it had been. All
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Speaker 2: that mattered was that I was doing something for me.
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Speaker 2: I was investing in myself. I was keeping true to
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Speaker 2: that promise that I made myself in the grass, and
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Speaker 2: that was really really special. You know. It's definitely something
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Speaker 2: I struggle with a lot still, this concept of self
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Speaker 2: love and investing in myself. I think a lot of
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Speaker 2: people share in this notion that it's so easy to
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Speaker 2: give to others, but it's hard to spend time and
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Speaker 2: energy and money on ourselves. As a freelance writer, if
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Speaker 2: I land some mega assignment and I'm making crazy money,
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Speaker 2: I tend to develop what I like to refer to
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Speaker 2: as total Oprah syndrome.
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Speaker 1: I become super generous.
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Speaker 2: It's like you get a sweater and you get drinks
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Speaker 2: on me, and I'm gonna buy you this cactus, even
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Speaker 2: if I know you're going to kill it within two weeks.
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Speaker 2: It's just what happens. And the thing is is that
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Speaker 2: when it comes to giving back to me, I am
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Speaker 2: so conservative, so conservative, I feel like I don't need much,
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Speaker 2: you know, because this idea of giving to other people
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Speaker 2: it feels so much more rewarding than giving back to me. Still,
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Speaker 2: out of all of the lessons I learned at losing weight,
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Speaker 2: which like I said, took at least three years from
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Speaker 2: start to finish, the biggest of them all was that
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Speaker 2: the people around you, if you surround yourself with the
16:36
Speaker 2: right kinds, they really want your best self. And although
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Speaker 2: it might feel a little counterintuitive, sometimes spending time on
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Speaker 2: yourself is really for the collective benefit. Good people won't
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Speaker 2: be mad at you when you need to do things
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Speaker 2: for you, period. And although it may not feel like
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Speaker 2: you need to get back to yourself, you just got
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Speaker 2: to do it.
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Speaker 1: And there are so many ways that you can do that.
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Speaker 2: You know. Maybe you're taking a step back and you're
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Speaker 2: relaxing on a Sunday afternoon and watching HGTV until you
17:12
Speaker 2: don't ever want to hear the word ship lap ever again.
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Speaker 1: Or maybe you.
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Speaker 2: Wake up an extra hour earlier and if you like
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Speaker 2: to run, you run a few miles, or perhaps you
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Speaker 2: go on airplane mode after nine pm at night and
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Speaker 2: you just totally disconnect whatever it is.
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Speaker 1: You've got to do.
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Speaker 2: Something, because when I take a step back and I
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Speaker 2: look at where I've come from, my whole life changed
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Speaker 2: because I decided to give back to myself my career
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Speaker 2: path too.
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Speaker 1: Really, I mentioned being a freelancer a few.
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Speaker 2: Times now, and I really just don't believe I would
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Speaker 2: be as successful as I have been, or have the
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Speaker 2: grit to be my own boss or chase assignments and
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Speaker 2: deadlines and meetings and people if I didn't go through
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Speaker 2: through this period. It's as if getting over this hurdle
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Speaker 2: instilled in me this champion's mindset. It's like I became
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Speaker 2: very aware that as hurdles would keep coming at me,
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Speaker 2: I would have the tenacity to get over them. That's
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Speaker 2: not to say that I've got this whole thing figured.
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Speaker 1: Out, far from it. Far from it.
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Speaker 2: But once I believed in my inner game changer. You
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Speaker 2: know how great is that term game ginger?
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Speaker 1: I love it.
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Speaker 2: Once I believed in my inner game gener and I
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Speaker 2: believed that I was strong and capable and that I
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Speaker 2: could be better, it ripped off on other things, and
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Speaker 2: that's when everything changed, and more than obviously in a
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Speaker 2: physical way. Also a little note I want to throw
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Speaker 2: in here. When you make a difficult decision, you come
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Speaker 2: to terms with this idea that you're about to put
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Speaker 2: in work. You know, and I truly believe the people
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Speaker 2: that say I just can't do this they don't want
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Speaker 2: it enough, they don't want to put in the work,
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Speaker 2: And man, can that be frustrating, especially if it's within
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Speaker 2: a relationship. Fact, you can't make someone want something for themselves,
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Speaker 2: but when you want something bad enough, you come to
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Speaker 2: terms with this idea that every single day going forward
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Speaker 2: may be a little bit more difficult than the last.
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Speaker 1: And it's scary, yeah, but think about the payoff. Just
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Speaker 1: think about it.
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Speaker 2: The biggest rewards in life come from moments of adversity,
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Speaker 2: for things when you've worked your butt off. I once,
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Speaker 2: here's a fun fact about me, ran two marathons in
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Speaker 2: one week. It's crazy, I know, and in hindsight, it
19:50
Speaker 2: was absolutely insane and involved so much opportunity, cost abundant
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Speaker 2: amounts of training. I had to skip over dinner with friends,
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Speaker 2: I had to get up early as all hell and
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Speaker 2: run twenty xs miles starting at five point fifteen am.
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Speaker 2: It was a lot, But the reward of that experience,
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Speaker 2: the reward of those experiences together, one day, you know,
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Speaker 2: I'll be able to tell my kids that I did
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Speaker 2: this and they're going to think their mom is a
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Speaker 2: total badass. And that's the nugget. And granted, you know,
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Speaker 2: the nugget isn't always going to be two marathons in
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Speaker 2: week one week, But you just think about the things
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Speaker 2: you really want and how great you feel at the
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Speaker 2: end of them when you realize that you were capable.
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Speaker 2: You were capable all along, and that's the good stuff,
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Speaker 2: that's the magic. So what do I want you to
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Speaker 2: take away from my story, Well, really hopefully that anything
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Speaker 2: is possible if you believe it's possible.
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Speaker 1: Period.
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Speaker 2: You are the one who decides where you're at mentally, physically.
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Speaker 2: It's so important to invest in yourself. There are gonna
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Speaker 2: be so many hurdles along the way. And although the
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Speaker 2: work may be hard, remember that it's part of a story.
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Speaker 2: It's part of your story. And even though the end
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Speaker 2: might not be exactly what you envision, that doesn't mean
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Speaker 2: that it's not beautiful. It doesn't mean that you didn't
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Speaker 2: work hard. To get there and whether or not you
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Speaker 2: believe it yet you.
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Speaker 1: Too, Yeah, you.
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Speaker 2: You're a game changer. You are I think I think
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Speaker 2: it's about time to cut it. If you're still listening,
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Speaker 2: thank you. I appreciate you. I can't even stress how
21:45
Speaker 2: much work has gone into this project already and you're
21:48
Speaker 2: only listening to episode one. It's still in its infancy,
21:52
Speaker 2: from doing things like learning how to build a squarespace
21:57
Speaker 2: and host content and finagling the best way to host
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Speaker 2: these from my we workspace, which has been the ultimate
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Speaker 2: fuel my never ending thoughts.
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Speaker 1: You know, the work feels endless, and.
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Speaker 2: I also, of note, wouldn't be able to do any
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Speaker 2: the next episode of Hurdle, I am going to sit
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Speaker 2: down with Alex silver Fagan. She's a Nike trainer, a
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Speaker 2: Wilhelmina model, a creator of her own program Flow into Strong,
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Speaker 2: and author so many accolades. I like to rag on
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Speaker 2: her because she calls herself a fitness entrepreneur. I guess
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Speaker 2: everyone's an entrepreneur in their own right. Alex got to
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Speaker 2: a point where she was only ninety pounds working in
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Speaker 2: nightlife and kind of had this hurdle moment where she
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Speaker 2: knew she needed to make a change for the better.
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Speaker 2: I catch up with her about bikini body competitions, what
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Speaker 2: life is like now, and what inspires her every single day.
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Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to sharing this with you guys.
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Speaker 2: And with that, the first of many hurdles conquered until
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Speaker 2: next time. Last time,