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#HURDLEMOMENT: What's Next for Hurdle & Answering Your Questions · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Speaker 1: Setting those smart, challenging goals. Regardless of how many times
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Speaker 1: I have to pivot on my way to the top
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Speaker 1: of that goal, to that finish line, It's worth it
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Speaker 1: every single time.
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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, Emily Aboudy here bringing.
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Speaker 1: You another installment of Hurdle Moment from Hurdle and I
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Speaker 1: feel the need to do two things. One, reintroduce this
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Speaker 1: segment and also maybe give a few top highlights about me,
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Speaker 1: this woman that you are listening to. First things first,
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Speaker 1: Hurdle Moment. I started this because I knew that there
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Speaker 1: were a lot of topics that I wanted to cover
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Speaker 1: on the show that weren't naturally always going to come
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Speaker 1: up in the regular interviews that I typically launch at
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the week. I wanted to focus the
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Speaker 1: original format on the show, this interview format, dedicating that
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Speaker 1: space and that time to the guests and their backstories
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Speaker 1: and their hurdles and what they've learned along the way.
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Speaker 2: So that is when I had this idea to launch
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Speaker 2: also on Wednesdays.
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Speaker 1: Now, if you're a big follower of the show, you
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Speaker 1: know that now the show is three times weekly launches
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Speaker 1: typically Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays, with the five minute Friday series,
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Speaker 1: and I really have come to enjoy all three for
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Speaker 1: their individual awesomeness. It's kind of like having three different children.
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Speaker 1: And so again, the purpose of Hurdle Moment is to
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Speaker 1: talk through what might be more evergreen topics episodes that
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Speaker 1: you can go back to from time to time depending
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Speaker 1: on what's going on in your life, and gain knowledge
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Speaker 1: to help you move through your life.
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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to continue to help you along in
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Speaker 2: your journey.
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Speaker 1: Topics that have come up on Hurdle Moment in the
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Speaker 1: past literally range from how to find your power alone,
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Speaker 1: to how to be more productive, to tips for navigating
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Speaker 1: cold weather workouts, some really popular episodes my marathon recaps,
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Speaker 1: so obviously, I mean I just covered a wide span
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Speaker 1: of topics. There's a lot that happens here in the
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Speaker 1: feed on Wednesdays as you are listening today, as you
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Speaker 1: are listening always, if you ever have suggestions for a
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Speaker 1: Pertle Moment topic, something that you want to learn more about.
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Speaker 2: I am all ears as this franchise.
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Speaker 1: As this part of the show has evolved over the
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Speaker 1: last few months, I have been bringing in more and
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Speaker 1: more experts to dive into popular topics like adaptagens, and gut,
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Speaker 1: health and mindfulness and so much more so.
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Speaker 2: I love doing those interviews. I love bringing you the
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Speaker 2: stuff that you want. And I am.
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Speaker 1: Always all years a little on me really quickly. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about myself here all of the time, but I
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Speaker 1: guess that is what happens when it's your show again.
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Speaker 2: My name is Emily.
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Speaker 1: I am a freelance journalist, a podcaster, a wellness coach.
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Speaker 2: I live currently on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
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Speaker 1: I have been here for almost ten years come April.
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Speaker 1: It has been a wild ride, especially over the last
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Speaker 1: year in COVID, but one that I wouldn't trade for anything.
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Speaker 1: New York is my home. I'm still so happy here
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Speaker 1: to this day. When I mentioned to be a freelance journalist,
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Speaker 1: I write in edit content everywhere from GQ to Men's Health,
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Speaker 1: Women's Health, Well and Good. So many different outlets. They
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Speaker 1: have a wellness or a health or a fitness vertical.
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Speaker 1: It is pretty likely I've probably pitched them an idea
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Speaker 1: in the past. Other highlights about me. As you may
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Speaker 1: or may not know, I am a big athlete now
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Speaker 1: these days, although I believe if you have a body,
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Speaker 1: you are an athlete. But back in college, I weighed
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Speaker 1: seventy pounds more than I do now, and a big
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Speaker 1: part of that weight loss journey was developing a relationship
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Speaker 1: with the sport.
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Speaker 2: Of running and really learning to love running.
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Speaker 1: So I've recorded episodes on so many of these different
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Speaker 1: aspects of me and my life, and I will link
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Speaker 1: to everything career, weight loss, and running in the show
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Speaker 1: notes for.
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Speaker 2: You to give a listen on today's episode. It's so funny.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I've been launching a ton of great content
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Speaker 1: over the past few weeks with so many awesome guests,
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Speaker 1: but I haven't taken the time to check in myself
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Speaker 1: or have a solo episode in some while, which is
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Speaker 1: it's funny because I for so long was so hesitant
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Speaker 1: on the solo episode format, but in the Hurdle listener
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Speaker 1: feedback survey, y'all seem to really enjoy when I just
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Speaker 1: sit down with the mic.
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Speaker 2: So I'm here to hopefully continue that this year and.
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Speaker 1: Give you what you want and make the most of
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Speaker 1: your time that you are giving me in return.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, started rambling a little.
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Speaker 1: Bit today's episode, I'm going to be talking through goals
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Speaker 1: for the show going forward and offering up some of
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Speaker 1: my biggest takeaways from the podcast over the last year,
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Speaker 1: and finishing off by answering some listener.
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Speaker 2: Questions I got recently.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for staying in the loop with me,
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Speaker 1: for keeping up with me really going into this new year,
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Speaker 1: it means so so much. After three years of Hurdle,
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Speaker 1: I'm staring at a silver Milar balloon right now as
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Speaker 1: I record this. I didn't really even know where I
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Speaker 1: was going when I started, and now I can't imagine
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Speaker 1: my life without the show and without this community. So
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Speaker 1: thank you for empowering me to show up here day
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Speaker 1: in and day out. I am looking forward to what
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Speaker 1: the next twelve months will bring and excited.
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Speaker 2: To catch up a little bit today.
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Speaker 1: So at Emily Body at Hurdle Podcast and with that,
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Speaker 1: let's get to hurdling. Just like I feel, I am
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Speaker 1: a forever work in progress, this show is definitely the same.
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Speaker 1: I want to lead off today by talking about my
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Speaker 1: goals for the show going forward. As I mentioned, currently
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Speaker 1: launching three times a week, and when I started this
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Speaker 1: in March or April of last year, I did not
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Speaker 1: think that it would be a cadence that I would
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Speaker 1: be able to keep up with. Nevertheless, keep for as
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Speaker 1: long as I have. At this time, I'm still planning
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Speaker 1: on continuing forward with the three times a week, largely
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Speaker 1: in part because of the feedback from all of you
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Speaker 1: and that you enjoy the different types of episodes that
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Speaker 1: are coming here over to the feed. The first goal
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Speaker 1: to share with you is that my aim going forward
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Speaker 1: is to make Hurdle a little bit more well rounded
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Speaker 1: in all areas of wellness. I know that because of
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Speaker 1: my own individual interests and what's going on in my life,
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Speaker 1: sometimes this show can definitely skew really into the running category.
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Speaker 1: And I appreciate you, all of you, whether you like
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Speaker 1: to run or not, for sticking with me as I
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Speaker 1: kind of go into and dabble in this arena. But
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Speaker 1: it is important to me that I am covering all topics.
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Speaker 1: I want to be a place where you can find
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Speaker 1: accurate information on everything from weightlifting to hitting track repeats,
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Speaker 1: to mental health to who knows skin health? Like I
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Speaker 1: want to talk about it all, and so I'm really
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Speaker 1: looking forward to diving into maybe some things that I
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Speaker 1: haven't taken the time to do so much of before
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Speaker 1: and bringing you all along for the ride with me.
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Speaker 1: Also in terms of goals for the show. I want
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Speaker 1: to bring you well rounded content, but I also want
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Speaker 1: to continue to bring you well grounded guests. I made
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Speaker 1: it a really big priority to make sure that I
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Speaker 1: was seeking out guests of all different backgrounds and ethnicities
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Speaker 1: and occupations. Every time I launch a new season, I
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Speaker 1: really take stake of who's getting behind the mic with
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Speaker 1: me and.
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Speaker 2: Who I'm chatting with.
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Speaker 1: And I am really looking forward to some of the
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Speaker 1: names that I've already secured for the weeks and months
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Speaker 1: to come, related to the show or just related to
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Speaker 1: the Hurdle brand. I want to continue to grow the
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Speaker 1: Hurdle Secret Facebook group. If you're not a member, the
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Speaker 1: link to that is in the show notes. And I
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Speaker 1: also do want to continue to provide more education to
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Speaker 1: the community through Hurdle Sessions. Hurdle Sessions are a workshop
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Speaker 1: style series that I started during the COVID pandemic. It
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Speaker 1: is probably one of the things, one of the parts
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Speaker 1: of this brand that I'm the most passionate about, and
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Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to expanding that and bringing in
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Speaker 1: more people to the fold with me as I continue
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Speaker 1: to create that programming going forward, So stay tuned for
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Speaker 1: that from me and on like a real, real note
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Speaker 1: with goals for the show, I mean, I've got a
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Speaker 1: couple of big goals when it comes to how I
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Speaker 1: want to produce this thing and hopefully expanding my team
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. I have a ton of resumes
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Speaker 1: to read for potential hurdle interns, a position that will
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Speaker 1: be paid going into the new year. My goal is
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Speaker 1: to reach out to these individuals in the next week
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Speaker 1: or two and bring someone on for February. And I'm
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Speaker 1: also really looking to outsource some of this production and
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Speaker 1: some of what we're doing here. You know, I've been
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Speaker 1: saying the term We've been using the word we for
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Speaker 1: a long time, but for the last three years it's
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Speaker 1: just been me and it has been one hell of
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Speaker 1: a ride and an educational experience. But I am so
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Speaker 1: ready to accept that I need some help here, and
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Speaker 1: I'm putting out a lot of content and I am
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Speaker 1: trying to impact and help a lot of people, and
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Speaker 1: to do that, I'm going to need to release some
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Speaker 1: of this to some other hands. So I definitely want
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Speaker 1: to figure out what that looks like. I want to
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Speaker 1: do that soon, and I'm definitely looking forward to sharing
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Speaker 1: some of that process with all of you over here.
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Speaker 1: I do want to take a second to touch on
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Speaker 1: the Hurdle feedback survey, which I mentioned a few times
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Speaker 1: so far. Y'all are way too nice to me. Thank
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Speaker 1: you so much to those of you who took the
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Speaker 1: time to fill it out. When it comes to that feedback,
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Speaker 1: you all seem to like Mondays and Wednesdays and Fridays.
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Speaker 1: You also have loved the array of guests and are
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Speaker 1: interested in people who may have outside the box occupations,
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Speaker 1: something certainly to keep in mind going forward. Many of
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Speaker 1: you also had some interesting feedback on the ad reads.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you for the way that you approached offering
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Speaker 1: this feedback. Many of you understanding why they exist, and
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to take a moment to reiterate why
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Speaker 1: They are what make me capable of investing this much
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Speaker 1: time in this product, and I have never and will never.
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Speaker 1: This is my promise to you bring a sponsor to
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Speaker 1: the feed that I am not one hundred percent certain of.
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Speaker 1: I will never bring a product or sponsor to the feed.
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Speaker 1: That is something that I don't use myself, something that
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Speaker 1: I have not tried because I care way too much
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Speaker 1: about your well being and my audience to do anything otherwise.
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Speaker 1: in the part where I talk to you about the
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Speaker 1: lessons I learned hurdling in twenty twenty. Okay, a few
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Speaker 1: of note the first one, I am more capable than
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Speaker 1: sometimes even I believe, and I'm not gonna front here
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Speaker 1: like I am certainly and have certainly been my own
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Speaker 1: biggest hype man for a while. Now. I find that
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Speaker 1: working for myself, I often really have no other option.
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Speaker 1: Like I need to believe in me so that I
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Speaker 1: can show up and create things and keep going and
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Speaker 1: make money and God all the things. But in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty there were so many things that I just kind
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Speaker 1: of threw into the wind and experimented with because I
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Speaker 1: didn't know any better. I didn't have all the answers,
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Speaker 1: and I knew that if I didn't move forward and
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Speaker 1: sometimes fail forward, and go through these hurdle moments, then
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Speaker 1: I would just be lingering in a plateau, and that's
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Speaker 1: not where I like to be. So my first takeaway
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Speaker 1: when it comes to hurdle from twenty twenty is just
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Speaker 1: to continue to have an unwavering belief in myself. The
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Speaker 1: second lesson that I learned really is that vulnerability is
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Speaker 1: always going to be met with compassion, or at least
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Speaker 1: I mean when it comes to the right people. There
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Speaker 1: were a lot of times in twenty twenty when I
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Speaker 1: felt as though I, as a podcaster was like a
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Speaker 1: little bit stuck and I didn't have the right answers,
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Speaker 1: and I wanted to make everyone happy, or at least
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Speaker 1: my community happy, but wasn't sure exactly how to do that.
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Speaker 1: I would be, you know, sitting in my apartment wondering
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Speaker 1: if the content that I was putting out even mattered.
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Speaker 1: And oftentimes when I felt that way, I was open
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Speaker 1: and honest about it. I was open and honest about
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Speaker 1: the hiccups and the hurdles and the moments where I
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Speaker 1: felt unsure, and every time that I opened up with
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Speaker 1: all of you, it was met for the most part
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Speaker 1: with positivity. And so for me, just reiterating the importance
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Speaker 1: of vulnerability when it comes to community and connection going
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Speaker 1: forward and with all of you as an important lesson
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Speaker 1: is something that I cannot stress enough. Another big lesson
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Speaker 1: from twenty twenty when it came to hurdling is that
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Speaker 1: smart goals are better when they are challenging. I talk
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Speaker 1: about smart goals the acronym a lot, both here on
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Speaker 1: the feed and in the hurdle sessions specific, measurable, attainable, relevant,
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Speaker 1: and time bound. If a goal is something that you
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Speaker 1: can achieve really easily, I would argue that that goal
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Speaker 1: isn't the right goal for you. Setting challenging benchmarks for
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Speaker 1: myself when it came to everything from you know, traffic
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Speaker 1: goals to the guests that I was going after, I
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Speaker 1: never regretted doing that last year, and there were certainly
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Speaker 1: moments where I felt truly truly tested. I remember one
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Speaker 1: week in particular, I made twenty two different guest requests
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Speaker 1: and I got one yes one and that was a
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Speaker 1: really hard week. It's a really hard thing when you
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Speaker 1: so passionately want to do good things but feel like
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Speaker 1: you're just spinning your wheels time and time again. But
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Speaker 1: I believe that with hard work comes reward and good
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Speaker 1: karma always comes back around. And so for me setting
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Speaker 1: those smart, challenging goals, regardless of you know how many
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Speaker 1: times I have to pivot on my way to the
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Speaker 1: top of that goal, to that finish line, It's worth
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Speaker 1: it every single time.
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Speaker 2: And one last lesson.
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Speaker 1: I learned hurdling in twenty twenty is when you want
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Speaker 1: something bad enough, you go for it, you don't complain
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Speaker 1: about it. And actually that lesson that came from my
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Speaker 1: conversation with Ron boss Everline.
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Speaker 2: He's a celebrity trainer.
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Speaker 1: He's known very well for his work with Kevin Hart,
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Speaker 1: and he was talking about you know how he as
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Speaker 1: well felt like many times he was spinning his wheels,
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Speaker 1: and so often he would see other people in similar
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Speaker 1: situations to him, struggling and complaining, but rather like he realized, like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm in this position now where there are things that
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Speaker 1: are frustrating. I am in this position now where I
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Speaker 1: have so many of the things that I wanted and
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Speaker 1: I'm just at you know, this hurdle moment. You want
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Speaker 1: me to complain now, Like, no, that's not how it works.
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Speaker 1: Like if you want something, rather than complain about the process,
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Speaker 1: you keep going forward. And I just love that perseverance
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Speaker 1: that can do mentality, and it's something I definitely visit
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Speaker 1: time and time again when I feel like I am.
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Speaker 2: Just at a hurdle moment. Across Roads of sorts.
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Speaker 1: Finishing off today's installment of Hurdle Moment with answering a
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Speaker 1: few of your most popular questions. Question number one, No
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Speaker 1: matter how many times I watch you on social media,
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Speaker 1: I cannot get myself to be a morning workout person.
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Speaker 1: How can I become a morning exerciser? Listen, If you really, really,
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Speaker 1: really want to be a morning workout person, you just
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Speaker 1: have to commit to it. And there's nothing wrong if
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Speaker 1: you don't actually want to be a morning exerciser. You
20:43
Speaker 1: need to commit to a wellness routine that works for you,
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Speaker 1: that inspires you. The last thing, whether it is with
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Speaker 1: exercise or any other thing you want to go after
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Speaker 1: in your life, is that you start doing something because
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Speaker 1: you see somebody else doing it and you're not inspired
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Speaker 1: by the thing that they're doing, you just think you
21:04
Speaker 1: should be doing it. Never should yourself into anything. Instead,
21:11
Speaker 1: set intentions and goals for yourself that inspire you and
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Speaker 1: motivate you so you genuinely want to become a morning exerciser. Again,
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Speaker 1: it is in the routine. It's in setting an alarm
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Speaker 1: if you need to do that. It's in around creating
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Speaker 1: a routine, creating habits that's around that workout that make
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Speaker 1: you feel excited and rejuvenated. For me, when I wake
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Speaker 1: up in the morning, now I'm at a place where
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Speaker 1: I do it without an alarm, usually by six or
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Speaker 1: six thirty. I'm then out of bed, I'm making an espresso,
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Speaker 1: i am journaling, and then it's straight into go mode.
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Speaker 1: It's getting dressed, heading to the gym, or heading out
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Speaker 1: for that run, and continuing this routine day after day
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Speaker 1: as my self imposed training schedule allows for because it
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Speaker 1: makes me feel happy, it makes me feel like myself.
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Speaker 1: Another question that came in, do you feel pressure to
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Speaker 1: work out daily even if you're not feeling it as
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Speaker 1: your brand is built on wellness?
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Speaker 2: The answer is no.
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Speaker 1: I at least take one full rest day each week
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Speaker 1: and one active rest day each week. So that means
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Speaker 1: that I'm typically hopping on the bike one day a
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Speaker 1: week if I'm not running, and the other day might
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Speaker 1: be something just some stretching and laying around the apartment
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Speaker 1: and hopping in my normal tech compression boots. I especially
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Speaker 1: as I'm adding more and more strength training back into
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Speaker 1: the fold here, it's a big focus of mine in
22:37
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. As I'm adding in more strength training,
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Speaker 1: I'm really listening to my body, and if it is
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Speaker 1: super super sore, then I'll definitely make time for a
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Speaker 1: walk to get that blood flowing. But really my priority
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Speaker 1: is recovering as best as I can and not overdoing it.
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Speaker 1: I understand that the bigger picture of wellness is treating
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Speaker 1: your body with kindness and grace, and also treating your
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Speaker 1: mind with kindness and grace. I want to be honest
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Speaker 1: with you. I'm definitely an active person, but I'm also
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Speaker 1: a realistic person, and I do the things that make
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Speaker 1: me feel good, not the things that I feel are
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Speaker 1: going to lead me to injury. Two more questions to
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Speaker 1: answer here, are you feeling more or less alone now
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Speaker 1: than you did at this time last year going into
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Speaker 1: the COVID pandemic? I want to say, I do want
23:26
Speaker 1: to point out, if we're really being honest here, we
23:28
Speaker 1: had a couple of months at this time last year
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Speaker 1: before we were fully into the COVID fold. But the
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Speaker 1: last year was a really big learning opportunity for me
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Speaker 1: on how to spend time alone and feel good with
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Speaker 1: that time, and take opportunity to at times be productive
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Speaker 1: with that time and at other points do absolutely nothing
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Speaker 1: with that time. I definitely am on this ever evolving
23:55
Speaker 1: quest to hopefully find my LFE partner is something that
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Speaker 1: I definitely haven't given enough time over, I would say,
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Speaker 1: the last twelve months, and now I am making it
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Speaker 1: a priority in some ways that are within my control
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Speaker 1: to be better with that going forward. And so do I,
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Speaker 1: you know, hope for that for myself, And do I
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Speaker 1: hope that one day I'm going to have someone to
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Speaker 1: share all of this with.
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Speaker 2: Of course I do, But again, I'm grateful for what
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Speaker 2: I have.
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Speaker 1: I think I have a pretty level head about it all,
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Speaker 1: and I understand my worth beyond me just being alone.
24:34
Speaker 1: And I also understand that it took me a long
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Speaker 1: time to get to this place, and if I'd found
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Speaker 1: that quote unquote right thing before, I'm not sure it
24:42
Speaker 1: would have been the right thing for the woman that
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Speaker 1: I am today, So onward and upward. I know that
24:48
Speaker 1: criticism or what feels like criticism sometimes from family and friends,
24:52
Speaker 1: insinuating that you may be doing something wrong because you
24:56
Speaker 1: are doing life solo at points be really frustrating. But
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Speaker 1: just believe that you're doing the best that you can
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Speaker 1: with what you have and that we're on our way
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Speaker 1: to something great. And the last question, what excites.
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Speaker 2: You right now?
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Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I'm really excited about the
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Speaker 1: possibility of moving in the middle of the year. This year,
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Speaker 1: my lease is a June one lease, and I'm looking
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Speaker 1: to hopefully kind of make the jump either downtown below
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Speaker 1: fourteenth Street or most likely Brooklyn in May. And that
25:32
Speaker 1: potential and moving into a place where I have a
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Speaker 1: real kitchen and maybe even a separate office and recording space.
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Speaker 2: It makes me really giddy.
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Speaker 1: And I really believe that I've been manifesting this and
25:46
Speaker 1: that a lot of things are starting to fall into
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Speaker 1: place to help me to be able to make that happen.
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Speaker 1: So I'm excitedly looking at this website called street easy
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Speaker 1: all the time and stalking apartments, but more so I'm
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Speaker 1: just proud of me for being in this place where
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Speaker 1: what I want finally feels like a really viable thing
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Speaker 1: that is out there for me. So thank you for
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Speaker 1: being a part of this community, for listening to me
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Speaker 1: unpack a bunch of stuff in this Hurdle Moment episode.
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Speaker 1: I am so so excited to continue this journey with
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Speaker 1: you in the new year. And like I said earlier,
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Speaker 1: if there's anything that you need, anything that I can
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Speaker 1: help you with, I'm always a dm away hurdle over
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Speaker 1: at Hurdle Podcasts, Emily me over at Emily a Body,
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Speaker 1: and of course over email it's Emily at hurdle dot Us.
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Speaker 2: Another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.