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#HURDLEMOMENT: Tayshia Adams On How to Make Time For Health & Wellness With A Busy Schedule · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: You'll never regret walking for five minutes, walking for ten minutes,
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  Speaker 1: getting outside and doing something for you. It'll never hurt you,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll never regret putting a little bit of time
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  Speaker 1: into you.
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  Speaker 2: Hey everyone, Emily a body here.
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  Speaker 3: You are listening to another installment of Hurdle Moment from Hurdle,
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  Speaker 3: a wellness focused podcast reconnected with everyone from your favorite
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  Speaker 3: athletes to top experts and industry CEOs about their highest highs,
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  Speaker 3: toughest moments, and everything in between. We all go through
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  Speaker 3: hurdles in life, and my goal through these discussions is
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  Speaker 3: to empower you to better navigate yours and move with
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  Speaker 3: intention so that you can stride towards your own big
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  Speaker 3: potential and of course have some fun along the way.
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  Speaker 3: I am amped today to be bringing you my recent
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  Speaker 3: conversation with Tasha Adams.
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  Speaker 2: I won't even lie. I have such a crush on Tasha.
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  Speaker 3: I had a crush before we got on I want
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  Speaker 3: to say the phone, before we recorded this podcast, and
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  Speaker 3: I have even more of an adoration for her now.
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  Speaker 3: She is just as sweet as she comes off on TV.
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  Speaker 3: And we are here today to talk all about how
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  Speaker 3: to prioritize.
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  Speaker 2: Your own well being from fitness to mental health.
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  Speaker 3: It can be really hard when life feels chaotic to
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  Speaker 3: make your well being a priority. But the good news
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  Speaker 3: is that I've got someone who knows a thing or
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  Speaker 3: two about having a packed schedule here to chat.
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  Speaker 2: All about it.
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  Speaker 3: From being smart about the workout clothing that you keep
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  Speaker 3: in your home to her full proof strategy for making
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  Speaker 3: sure that you get in regular movement. Tasha's full of
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  Speaker 3: really great tips to help you prioritize you and trust me,
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  Speaker 3: that is something you will never regret. A huge, huge
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  Speaker 3: thank you to my friends at ASEX for connecting at
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  Speaker 3: Tasha and I. She actually had a campaign launched just yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: It's called Live Uplifted.
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  Speaker 3: It is a six and Taisha coming together to recommit
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  Speaker 3: to their sound Mind, Sound Body philosophy. To check it out,
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  Speaker 3: you can click on over with the show notes watch
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  Speaker 3: the video. I say it in this episode, but Tasha
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  Speaker 3: talks about her relationship with running and how for her
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  Speaker 3: leasing up and getting out there on the road is
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  Speaker 3: her opportunity not to think at all, and man, that
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  Speaker 3: is something I can really really relate to, especially relevant
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  Speaker 3: to today's episode when things feel like they are going
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  Speaker 3: moving one thousand miles an hour. So again, amped about
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  Speaker 3: this combo, excited to put it in here on the feed,
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  Speaker 3: and I'd love to know what are your tips and
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  Speaker 3: tricks for when life feels hectic when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: integrating your best practice wellness practices best practice wellness practice
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  Speaker 3: into your regular routine.
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  Speaker 3: waiting for with that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get to it. Let's get to a hurdling.
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  Speaker 3: Today, I am sitting down with the one and only
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  Speaker 3: Taysha Adams.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing, Tasha? I'm so good? How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm so good.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so happy that we were finally able to make
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  Speaker 3: this happen.
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  Speaker 1: You have nothing going on at all? None, I mean nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I was actually waiting for this phone call forever now,
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  Speaker 1: so thank you for finally calling. I've been waiting for you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I literally died when you not only
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  Speaker 3: hosted the MTV Movie and TV Awards and then like
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  Speaker 3: it felt like within a snap, you were on a
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  Speaker 3: rooftop in New York City doing a workout.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's how life goes, right, But I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna lie.
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  Speaker 2: I swear.
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  Speaker 1: I blinked off of that stage and the next thing
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  Speaker 1: I was on top of a roache. I couldn't believe
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  Speaker 1: I was in New York City. But hey, we're.
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  Speaker 3: Whisked into a car, onto a plane, onto another car.
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  Speaker 2: Like maybe you slept? Did you sleep? Was there sleep?
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  Speaker 1: There is no sleep? Team, no sleep here, team, no sleep.
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  Speaker 3: Well it is totally appropriate that that's what we started
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  Speaker 3: off talking about today, because you and I are here
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  Speaker 3: to chat about how you fit it all in when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to your health and wellness. It's so important,
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  Speaker 3: and if anybody knows a thing or two about how
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  Speaker 3: to make it all work, it's you. We're also chatting
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  Speaker 3: today shortly after your live Uplifted a six campaign comes out,
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  Speaker 3: And honestly, the opening line in this is truly like
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  Speaker 3: something I can totally relate to. You say, I actually
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  Speaker 3: try not to think when I'm running, just slow down
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  Speaker 3: and stay present. So kick us off a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Talk to me about your relationship with movement. How has
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  Speaker 3: that evolved since you were little?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, first of all, I was actually forced into
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  Speaker 1: movement by my father.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't like being active was something I probably tried
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  Speaker 1: to avoid at all cost. But my dad was adamant
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  Speaker 1: about us all being into sports, and he really kind
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  Speaker 1: of set a goal and precedence for us about being
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  Speaker 1: active and saying, okay, you needed to at least jog
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  Speaker 1: two laps around the block before like the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day. And so we were so used to being
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  Speaker 1: active at a very young age, but also my love
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  Speaker 1: for running kind of really developed in high school when
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  Speaker 1: again my father was like, you're joining the cross country
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  Speaker 1: team and I said, you know what, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I really have.
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  Speaker 2: To do that. He said, here you are, Yes, you're going.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm so happy he did that, because I think
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  Speaker 1: my body craves that type of movement, and it's really
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  Speaker 1: just I'm my best self when I am actually actively moving.
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  Speaker 1: It just helps all around, helps everything. Such an intricate
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  Speaker 1: part to I think being successful, and I.
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  Speaker 3: Love what you said there. It was just like two
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  Speaker 3: laps around the block, right. I think that starting smaller,
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  Speaker 3: like having some grace with yourself to the fact that
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  Speaker 3: your everyday movement doesn't need to be going out and
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  Speaker 3: running a marathon, is so integral.
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  Speaker 2: O egoshit is because this is the thing. It seems.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like cleaning your house, Like, Okay, you know
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  Speaker 1: your whole home is a mess, but like if you
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  Speaker 1: just start in one small, little corner, like it feels
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  Speaker 1: actually like you're very accomplished, you got done, and you're
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  Speaker 1: almost kind of motivated to clean a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to being like, no, my house is terrible
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  Speaker 1: and I can't start and it's overwhelming. Running is the
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  Speaker 1: same way, or just being active is the same way.
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  Speaker 1: It just five minutes, ten minutes, And I was actually
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  Speaker 1: just saying this, the more you do that, it actually
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  Speaker 1: is shocking, like how much more you can take on
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  Speaker 1: and how much more you're excited to do a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more, a little bit more. Next thing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're running twenty thirty forty five minutes and you're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just crushed six miles.
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  Speaker 2: What's the next thing?
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  Speaker 3: You know, you're signing up for a marathon. Did you
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  Speaker 3: ever think that you would run a full marathon?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, again, I love running, but yeah, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I never thought that. And the fact that I actually
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie mile twenty, I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I could do this, And then obviously
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  Speaker 1: you always think about your why, and I was like, okay, fine,
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  Speaker 1: let's let's freaking go six more miles.
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  Speaker 2: I got this.
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  Speaker 3: Six more miles is nothing when you're out there for
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  Speaker 3: that long. So for you, what did running that marathon
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  Speaker 3: teach you?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it was the most emotional, gratifying, but
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  Speaker 1: also painful experience I've ever been through. Truthfully, it taught
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  Speaker 1: me so much about myself. It taught me that I'm
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  Speaker 1: resilient and I can really do anything I put my
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  Speaker 1: mind to. But also, my body is truly incredible. It
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  Speaker 1: is truly incredible. My mind can tell me like, no,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is something worth being anxious about or
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  Speaker 1: being upset about, or being angry about. But my body's
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  Speaker 1: like now we're gonna keep going, like watch this, watch
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  Speaker 1: this happen. And I think, just really relying on that
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  Speaker 1: and really just trying to learn to be supportive of
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  Speaker 1: this vessel that we are living in. I think it
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  Speaker 1: could just make a world of a difference. And I
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  Speaker 1: just I don't know, I just learned so much about myself.
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  Speaker 1: It was really amazing.
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  Speaker 3: We kickstarted this off talking about how important and great
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  Speaker 3: it is to fit in time for well being and movement.
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  Speaker 3: Talk to us a little bit about how you do
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  Speaker 3: make it a priority with your busy schedule, aside from
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  Speaker 3: being okay with handling it all in that smaller time increments.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I don't think if I worked out,
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  Speaker 1: I could do all that I'm doing if it didn't
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  Speaker 1: work out. I mean, it's such an it's a huge
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  Speaker 1: part of my day. In fact, I don't skip it.
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  Speaker 1: That's one thing that I really do not negotiate on
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  Speaker 1: because it's what jump starts my mind. It's what jump
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  Speaker 1: starts like my creativity, because it's so true. If I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have an alarm clock and I didn't have something
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  Speaker 1: to do this second I get out of bed, I
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  Speaker 1: could lay there all day and there's nothing wrong with that.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, they did that yesterday. It was a Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's my little rest day. But the first
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  Speaker 1: thing I do is I roll out of bed, put
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  Speaker 1: on those workout clothes, because you don't have an excuse
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  Speaker 1: after that, drink your coffee and then go, because if
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  Speaker 1: once you're dressed and you're ready, you have less of
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  Speaker 1: an excuse to be like, well, you know, you almost
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  Speaker 1: feel bad that it's already on, Like why not be active?
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  Speaker 3: Are you set your workout clothes aside the night before
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  Speaker 3: type of person?
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, girl, that's way too much work. Now now
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  Speaker 1: you're making it complicated. Okay, listen. I have all of
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  Speaker 1: them in my drawers. They're all coupled up my sports,
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  Speaker 1: but in the pan for matching sets. I love a
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  Speaker 1: good matching set, and it basically depends on what color
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  Speaker 1: I want for the day.
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  Speaker 3: What you've done is actually make it easier for yourself
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  Speaker 3: because you only keep workout clothes that you know that
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  Speaker 3: you want to put on your body exactly. I would
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  Speaker 3: say like paring down is probably a really helpful tip
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that you're not standing there in this
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  Speaker 3: indecisive molise.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's true, because then you think too much, you
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  Speaker 1: give it too much time, you give it too much
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to be like, Okay, yeah, I'm not doing this anymore.
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  Speaker 2: You wear really cute workout clothes.
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  Speaker 1: That's half of it, actually, because you want to put
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  Speaker 1: on your body, you want to feel good. It makes
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  Speaker 1: you confident, and you want to go show it off,
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  Speaker 1: Like why not.
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  Speaker 3: There's actually a research study that found that people that
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  Speaker 3: feel better about the clothing that they put on while
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  Speaker 3: they're working out are more motivated to stay at it
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  Speaker 3: for longer.
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  Speaker 1: And I fully, fully believe that, and I'm part of that.
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  Speaker 2: If you're listening to this, I'll link that study in
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  Speaker 2: the show notes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so beyond loving what you're wearing when you work
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  Speaker 3: out and getting it done first thing in the morning,
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  Speaker 3: have you shifted in the types of workouts that you're doing,
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  Speaker 3: especially when you're kind of on the move all the time.
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  Speaker 1: So the one thing that's really great about running is
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  Speaker 1: that most hotels have treadmills. But also you don't need
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a workout equipment. The other thing that
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  Speaker 1: I do in addition to running is I love to
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  Speaker 1: wait with In fact, I zoom and do those weightlift
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  Speaker 1: workouts every Tuesday and Thursday, even if I'm on the road.
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  Speaker 1: Those two things are imperative to me. I also love pilates.
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  Speaker 1: Pilates is amazing, It's so good for you. But the
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  Speaker 1: thing is my trainer is like Platatez doesn't build a button. Honey,
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  Speaker 1: we're on the butt mission. So yeah, we have running,
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  Speaker 1: we have plates, and we do weightlifting.
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  Speaker 3: Beyond choosing a workout that excites you, I think that's
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  Speaker 3: really helpful. Do you often involve other people in your
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  Speaker 3: fitness or is this something that you're undergoing solo.
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  Speaker 1: I think workout classes are great because it helps keep
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  Speaker 1: you motivated and kind of like in check and with
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  Speaker 1: weightlifting idevil I love to use a trainer, but I
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  Speaker 1: am actually a girl that loves to run solo. I
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  Speaker 1: don't like to talk. I don't like to think. I
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  Speaker 1: will listen to music like as background music just because
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  Speaker 1: like that kind of motivates me, like you to go
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  Speaker 1: faster or slower, kind of would go with the beat.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm really into a solo workout mission.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because that's like the time for you to give
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  Speaker 2: back to you exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the thing. I I'm a people I
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  Speaker 1: surround myself with people all the time. I'm constantly traveling.
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  Speaker 1: I'm constantly here, constantly there. Sometimes you just want to
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  Speaker 1: be alone, and I think that we forget that it's
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  Speaker 1: okay to be alone and sit in a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of quietness.
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  Speaker 3: So oh yeah, yeah outside of moving your body, holse,
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  Speaker 3: are you taking care of it? Mmmm?
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  Speaker 1: Therapy, I love myself some therapy. Therapy has been such
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  Speaker 1: a game changer for me. I really honed in on
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  Speaker 1: that journey this past year and like I said, workouts
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  Speaker 1: and that is something that's like probably a non negotiable.
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  Speaker 1: I've never really moved it around. And if I do
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  Speaker 1: move it around, it's like one of my first text
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  Speaker 1: messages I said, I'm like, okay, I have to do
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  Speaker 1: this meeting.
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  Speaker 2: I'm texting a therapist, like we got to change it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's that really and you'll relate to this In
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  Speaker 1: New York. I love going to dinner or doing something
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  Speaker 1: by myself outside. I love reading a book, going out
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  Speaker 1: to a bench reading a book by myself. But to dinner,
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  Speaker 1: buy myself, want and dine and treat myself. It's like
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  Speaker 1: this really weird.
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  Speaker 2: Thing.
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  Speaker 1: I guess people don't don't normally do it New York.
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  Speaker 1: It's very normal and it's so funny. I was just
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  Speaker 1: recently orange kindting, like I to detererm by myself and
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  Speaker 1: like everyone's staring at me because I don't know why,
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  Speaker 1: but like, not a lot of people do it, but
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  Speaker 1: it's such a freeing experience.
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  Speaker 3: Are they staring at you because you're Tasha Adams or
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  Speaker 3: are they.
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  Speaker 1: Right? I never actually thought about that, nah, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: by myself.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, I got to dinner by myself all the time,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't know if everybody's Shoot.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we never thought about that one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: I love that for you and I do it too,
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  Speaker 3: And I think that the reason why so many people
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  Speaker 3: don't take the initiative to do stuff like that is
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  Speaker 3: because exactly what you're saying, It's like it's not seen
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  Speaker 3: all the time, so doing it it can be a
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  Speaker 3: little bit uncomfortable. But once you get over that hurdle,
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  Speaker 3: so to speak, and get into this place where you're like,
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  Speaker 3: this is something I am doing for myself, it's such
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  Speaker 3: a beautiful opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: No, it really is. It really is.
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  Speaker 1: And once you like really learn to appreciate it, you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to change it up, Like you actually tell
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  Speaker 1: your girlfriend's like, no, I'm actually going to din it
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  Speaker 1: by myself tonight, and it's something that you really.
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  Speaker 2: Look forward to.
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  Speaker 3: Literally walk out of my room, I sit down on
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  Speaker 2: I love what you.
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  Speaker 3: Said about needing to make sure that prioritizing your therapy
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  Speaker 3: appointment is like the first thing you do when you
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  Speaker 3: figure out there's some sort of a schedule shift. I'm
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: certainly the same way. I love a therapist that texts
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  Speaker 3: is on speed dial. Right with that said, I feel
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  Speaker 3: as though this is a really good point when it
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  Speaker 3: comes into you fitting in your workouts and your movement,
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  Speaker 3: even when things feel like there's balls flying everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: You have to treat it like an important meeting.
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  Speaker 3: You have to treat it like something that you know
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  Speaker 3: that if you miss, it's going to be detrimental to
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  Speaker 3: everything else that you want to get done.
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  Speaker 1: Well. I mean it is again, this is part of
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  Speaker 1: the reason why I was obsessed with this a six
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  Speaker 1: running campaign, because it's sound, sound body. It can't just
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  Speaker 1: be just as sound mind like you have, like they
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: both work together, and you have to nurture both of them.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: And when you do kind of like give a little
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: bit of leeway and kind of like cut one thing,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: guarantee you the next week you're going to have another
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: opportunity to whereas one of these things can be canceled
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  Speaker 1: again and you're going to cancel it because you really
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  Speaker 1: did it once and you went forward with your life
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  Speaker 1: and you know you didn't really see the big change.
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  Speaker 1: But once you do that every single week, guarantee you're
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: going to miss two workouts, you're going to miss three workouts,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: you're going to miss more therapy, and it just you'll
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: get out of the habit. You cannot allow yourself to
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: fall into that.
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  Speaker 3: I think also of importance is like having the grease
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: with yourself when you feel as though maybe you have
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  Speaker 3: fallen into that rut, to allow yourself to get back
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  Speaker 3: into movement in a way that might feel different than
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: a bit did before.
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  Speaker 2: And that's okay, right, so true, so true.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Even if I am working out now two three times
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  Speaker 1: a week, I like yesterday, I was like so toch
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  Speaker 1: Nic yesterday two days it's Saturday. I was so tired,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, why isn't this easy today? And your
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: body just it's ever evolving. It's it's tired, fatigued one days,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: one day's gonna be ten times harder.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't mean you're out of.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Shape, or it doesn't mean that like you know, you
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: can't do it anymore. It's something you just have to
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: constantly work on. It's okay if you do fall off
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: the bandwagon, just again setting a small goal to get
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: back on. There is something you should highly praise yourself for.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Every day can be your day one.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: And I'm interested to know when you started traveling more,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: when life started to feel as though it was getting
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: a little bit hectic. Of course, like leading up to
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: even the filming of your season of the Bacherette, did
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: you go through a time period where you really related
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: to that idea, where maybe you weren't prioritizing your own
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: wellness as much.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Of course, of course, it's because you just think, like,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: you know what, I can't do it all. I can't
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: do it all, and you get really stressed out and
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: you struggle and guess what's the first thing to go.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: It's it's doing things for you. And I feel like
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: you're so busy about saying yes to everybody else, You're
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: so busy to making sure you're here, there, there, there,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and not worried about what's going to actually give you
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: or make you the best version of you and what
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: you actually need and putting yourself first even when you
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: are have a ton of obligations. I definitely fell.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Off that did you hit like a specific moment where
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: you had kind of like a come to Jesus with
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: yourself about it?
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember. You know, filming schedules are really hard,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: just because especially during the pandemic, because you're kind of
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: in a bubble, not kind of, you're in a bubble
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: and you're in a very small type proximity. You can't
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: really go out and do things normally. And so I
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: think that was really getting to me, and I was
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: just coming super overwhelmed and I just couldn't I wasn't
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: even having fun anymore. And that's when I realized, like, Okay,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: something's going on, because like I'm not even enjoying getting
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: dressed and going on film and doing the things that
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I was so excited to do. And I really had
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: to sit down. And then I started talking to my
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: therapist and she was like, well, okay, what are you
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: doing for yourself? Are you working out? And I was like,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: oh my god, like no, like I don't have enough
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: time for that, shak Tasha, but all of these things
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: are falling apart because you're not doing that. And it
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: was to the point where I had like told teleproducers,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I'm like listen, I need an hour every morning to
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: work out, and that's the one thing I'm asking. And
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: it happened, and they said, Okay, if that's what you
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: need to do in order to do your job, then
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: people prioritize that mental health and your health above all.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: And I think that that's something that is great about
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: what we've had to navigate over the last couple of
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: years is that now, regardless of what industry you're in,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: hopefully there is a little bit more acceptance in of
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: vulnerability and transparency when it comes to doing the things
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: that we need to do to take care of ourselves.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: You know what, I think there is a lot more
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: acceptance because, you know what, this is the thing that
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: we all felt, every single one. Nobody was exempt, nobody
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: was exempt. We all kind of felt a little lost
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: or a little down, or a little confused or or
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of confused, like you know what I mean.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: So I think everyone has kind of realized, like, hold
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: on a second, like I even need a minute, Like
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: no one says like nope, just keep going, keep moving
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: through it. I think everyone has a little bit of
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: a little bit more grace, thank God, Like because of
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: all of this, and I loved.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: I was going back and like looking at the posts
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: that you put up leading up to the marathon, and
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: I love how you were so transparent saying that draining
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: for the marathon, beyond being tough, was like far from
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: what you have imagine, and that you were.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Cool with showing up when you could.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Again, it goes back to that idea of just having
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: grace with yourself. But for you, showing up when you
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: could was actually pretty impressive considering of all the things
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: that you had on your plate. So do you lean
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: into mantras or just like, do you do any visualization,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: like what helps you get on that sports bra and
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: get out the door when it does feel like you're
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: about to climb Mount Everest?
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. You know, there are.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Little things that really moving. It really helps, like having
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: a really support like good support system around you. Honestly,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: people that like know that even when you do not
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: want don't want to do things, or they're noticing that
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: you're kind of like retracting and pulling away and they
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: just check on you, like, hey, you get over there,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: like you do your little you do your little routine today.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: And my friends did that, especially with being on the
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: road and for me myself, it can be Again, we
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: just talked about this, it can be just difficult. You
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: just get so consumed with everything else that you just
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: forget about it. And I think for me, I think
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: it's the smallest things of just constantly waking up and
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: just putting all my workout clothes. It's kind of like
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the one thing that really helps.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, how do you work on your inner dialogue so
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: that you're speaking kindly to yourself?
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: I feel like that's a part of this too.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Oh well, that's that's that we are always working on that.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: We're always working on that. I'm my toughest critic and
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I'm relentless unfortunately so and it's actually really hard for
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: me personally to see the good in any of my
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: accomplishments and and really give myself praise. So journaling has
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: really helped with that. But also at the same time,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I do have about six ol things that I like
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: to like pray to myself and pray to God morning.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: In fact, I wake up every single day, look at
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: my eyes or open my eyes, I look up to
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the ceiling and say hello God, Hello Universe, and I
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: just kind of like say six things I want today
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I want you to put like good people in my
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: life today. I want you to give me opportunities to
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: smile today. I want you know thankful that I have
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: a bed to sleep, and I just give gratitude and
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I also put out there what I want to happen.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: And it's really just given me a lot of motivation
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: to just be happy for what comes throughout the day,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: but also look forward to what comes through the day
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: and also just to get through the day.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: So thank you for sharing that with us.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: I think that it's always challenging, whether you have that
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: millions of eyes on you or no eyes on you,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: to navigate what can be that little voice in the
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: back of your head. But when you are able to
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: flip the script and talk to yourself like you would
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: a loved one, then there's opportunity in that, right there's
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: opportunity to go take on the day and go after
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: all those things that you lay in your bed and
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: you say that you want.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm, absolutely absolutely, you just had to start.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it, that's it.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Well for you right now? What excites you? What is
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: the thing that lights a fire? Wow?
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Right now, honestly, it's just being here in the city
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I think it's like a really new adventure for me
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: and really fun. Thing that I love to do in
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: the morning is because I do wake up early to
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: go work out, do whatever, and go grab my coffee
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: with no one Else's like walking around like the area
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: and you just kind of explore and you find new
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: little places that you want to go to dinner at,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: or go eat at with your friends, whatever it may be.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: And next thing you know, you realize you just walk
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: like three miles all around like the neighborhood, and you're like,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: first of all, I just got a little work out,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and second of all, ill just take out my coffee. Third
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: of all, I know where I'm going to dinner tonight.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: It's just like it's fun, it's cute, it's I love exploring.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: I love that. I love that. For you.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Someone looks at your social media, they see someone again
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: with all the followers in the world, the biggest, most
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: beautiful smile, passionate about what she does. When you look
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: in the mirror, What is it that you see looking
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: back at you.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, my eyes, my smile, I guess my
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: oh't know, I see a child of God.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: That's just me. I just want to see. I just
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: want to be a light.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I just want to be a light to people, and
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: so that's what I try to look back at and
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: try to reflect.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: So right now, you have an opportunity to offer someone
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: who just feels like they can't make the time for
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: themselves a piece of advice to get out the door
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: and do just that.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: What is it that you tell them, Tasha.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: You'll never regret it. You'll never regret walking for five minutes,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: walking for ten minutes, getting outside and doing something for you.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: It'll never hurt you, and you'll never regret putting a
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: little bit of time into you.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: I love that, Tasha. I'm so appreciated of your time.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: I wish we had so much more, but thank you
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: for it. If they don't yet, how do the hurdlers
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: follow along with you?
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: How do they keep up with you? Give us all
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: your details?
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Well, Like can find me on Instagram My handle is
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Taysha t a y s h I A follow me
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: there or on Twitter, which is also Taysha TikTok, which
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I'm guess I'm gonna start trying to do a little
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: bit more. Maybe we'll do some like run club things.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: That's it, girl, hopefully on.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: TV again soon. I'll see y'all soon.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I'm over at Hurdle Podcast and at Emily a Body,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Another hurdle conquered.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time.