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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Who Do You Really Want to Reach Out to? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hang Hudlers. It's me Emily popping in with a little
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  Speaker 1: experiment of sorts. I am trying to think about what
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  Speaker 1: the best way is to connect with everyone during whatever
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  Speaker 1: is going on right now, and so I am trying,
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  Speaker 1: at least for now, five minute Fridays. It's a term
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard used by other content creators before,
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  Speaker 1: and for me, the purpose of this segment is really
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  Speaker 1: just to check in, to give you a story, to
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  Speaker 1: offer you a thought provoking prompt, to share with you
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  Speaker 1: the content that's really resonated with me this week, whether
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  Speaker 1: that's podcasts or books or things on social media, and
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  Speaker 1: leave you with a quote that really impacted me, to
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  Speaker 1: take you into the weekend. Obviously, you are listening to
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  Speaker 1: me right now, but I want this to be a conversation.
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  Speaker 1: So when you're done listening today, I want to hear
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  Speaker 1: what you think. Is this something that you like, is
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  Speaker 1: this something that's helpful. I don't know what's going on here.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like none of us do, but I'm just
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  Speaker 1: navigating this the best I can. So starting with a story.
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  Speaker 1: Last night, I was sitting on my fire escape listening
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  Speaker 1: to John Legend's Instagram live video. He did, which I
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  Speaker 1: think was titled Together at Home, and he was doing
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  Speaker 1: a little concert with his little family at their home piano,
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  Speaker 1: and I was sitting there enjoying it. Especially oh I
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  Speaker 1: died when he went into tailor as old as time
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  Speaker 1: from beating the beast. I digress. I'm sitting there and
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  Speaker 1: I have this thought, I haven't facetimeed my mom tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Granted like I facetimed her earlier in the day, but wow,
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  Speaker 1: and I realize in that moment, before this whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: I would go days sometimes without talking to my parents,
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  Speaker 1: maybe just because things got busy or work got in
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  Speaker 1: the way. And how special is it that I took notice, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you haven't connected with your family, Hey, you should check in.
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  Speaker 1: It was a little alarming, but also really special that
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  Speaker 1: I had that realization right that I'm taking this time
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  Speaker 1: to invest in my relationships and check in on my people.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm really thankful for that. And so the prompt
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  Speaker 1: for this five Minute Friday this week is who is
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  Speaker 1: it that you want to reconnect with? I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the time, when it comes to relationships that
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  Speaker 1: maybe have fallen off a little bit, it can be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a pride thing, or maybe there
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  Speaker 1: was a specific instance or incident that happened that made
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  Speaker 1: you fall back from a certain situation. But right now
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  Speaker 1: is a really great opportunity to reconnect. Maybe that involves
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  Speaker 1: you offering an apology, Maybe that involves you going outside
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  Speaker 1: of your comfort zone, but why not now? So again
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  Speaker 1: the prompt, who is it that you want to take
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  Speaker 1: this time to reconnect with and what is it that
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  Speaker 1: you want to tell them? Maybe writing this down it's
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  Speaker 1: the first step, and you need to let that sink
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  Speaker 1: in a little bit and then you can actually make
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  Speaker 1: that reach out, that connection all right now. My content
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  Speaker 1: picks of the week, my highlights of the week. Headspace.
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  Speaker 1: Headspace is doing some really awesome stuff right now for
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  Speaker 1: both paid and free users. They are offering up a
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  Speaker 1: set of meditations they call these packs on Weathering the Storm.
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  Speaker 1: And one of my favorite components to their Weathering the
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  Speaker 1: Storm pack is this walking at Home set of meditations
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  Speaker 1: and basically Andy Puticolen, the co founder of Headspace, he's
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  Speaker 1: been on the podcast. A link to his episode in
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  Speaker 1: the show notes here. He talks to you through an
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  Speaker 1: exercise where you're just leisurely strolling through your space, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a really effective way to get people
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  Speaker 1: who may not feel like they can just sit with
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  Speaker 1: their thoughts and do meditation well quote unquote, to open
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  Speaker 1: up to this idea of working with the mind and
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  Speaker 1: moving while you meditate. And so I really really liked
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  Speaker 1: the walking at Home and I suggest that you take
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  Speaker 1: a listen to it. Another highlight of my week a
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  Speaker 1: song of the week. I cannot stop listening to The
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  Speaker 1: Key by Madison Ryan Ward. My book of the Week
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  Speaker 1: is The One Thing That Is by Gary Keller with
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  Speaker 1: Jay Papasan. I'm probably saying that wrong, and I think
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  Speaker 1: right now more than ever, this idea of doing one
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  Speaker 1: thing at a time when we feel sporadic and you
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  Speaker 1: want to clean your apartment, you want to sit down
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  Speaker 1: at your computer, you want to get work done, you
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  Speaker 1: want to connect with your friends. It feels like we
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  Speaker 1: have nothing but time, but there's still not enough of it.
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  Speaker 1: Focusing in on one specific task at each moment, it
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  Speaker 1: allows us to really give all of our energy to
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  Speaker 1: that one thing and to do that one thing well.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what the author talks about in this book.
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  Speaker 1: So I highly recommend it. And last, the quote of
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  Speaker 1: the Week comes from the class. It's a workout method
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  Speaker 1: created here by Taren Toomey in Tribeca in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing one every morning in their live digital studio,
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  Speaker 1: and on Wednesday, I believe I took a class by
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  Speaker 1: my friend Natalie Kuhn, and she said, if there is
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  Speaker 1: anything that you let die in this whole fucking thing,
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  Speaker 1: it's your old story that really impacted me. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: This feels like a lot of rambling, and I do
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  Speaker 1: think that with time, these five minute fridays will get
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more concise. But reach out to me,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm here in this one bedroom apartment on the
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  Speaker 1: Upper East Side of Manhattan and I'm not going anywhere
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  Speaker 1: you guys next time.