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Episode 34: 8 Life-Changing Lessons I Learned From 365 Days of Hurdle · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Happy last day of twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone, Welcome to episode thirty four of Hurdle of podcast
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  Speaker 2: that talks to everyone from top CEOs to entrepreneurs about
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  Speaker 2: how they got through tough times hurdles of sorts by
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  Speaker 2: leaning into wellness.
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  Speaker 1: Emily of Audi here and today it's just you and me.
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  Speaker 2: I want to kick off this episode with a big,
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  Speaker 2: resounding thank you. Today, December thirty first marks one year
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  Speaker 2: of the pod crazy and in that time I've recorded
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  Speaker 2: thirty seven episodes in two different countries, four different states.
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  Speaker 2: I've sat down with some of the most unbelievable people,
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  Speaker 2: starting with Nike Master Trainer Alex silver Fagan in episode
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  Speaker 2: two Inside of My Apartment, to Sadie Lincoln, the founder
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  Speaker 2: of Bar three and the first of many to join.
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  Speaker 1: Me inside of the We Work recording studio.
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  Speaker 2: The conversations we've had have forever changed my life. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, there were a lot of reasons I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to start the pod, but one of my twenty eighteen
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  Speaker 2: goals was to sit down with a new person every
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  Speaker 2: single week and just learn from them, and I'm lucky
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  Speaker 2: to have had the opportunity to do that with Hurdle.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, there have been a ton of conversations between
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  Speaker 2: me and you guys too, through Instagram, DM or through email.
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  Speaker 2: I try my hardest to respond to every single reach out.
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  Speaker 2: I repost the videos you guys tag me in and Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: I share some of the awesome hurdle moments you guys
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  Speaker 2: send along with our community there too. I wake up
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  Speaker 2: every morning to videos tagged of me with people tying
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  Speaker 2: their shoes, which, by the way, that whole time I
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  Speaker 2: shoot things. Sometimes I get up in the morning, I
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  Speaker 2: film it sitting in my apartment putting on my sneakers,
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  Speaker 2: and then I get out and I go do some
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  Speaker 2: fitness and it's caught on in such an unexpected way,
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  Speaker 2: and it makes me smile every single time when I
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  Speaker 2: see someone conquering a morning hurdle of their own. It's
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  Speaker 2: the same way I feel when someone out of the
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  Speaker 2: Bluest tells me to tell me that they love the
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  Speaker 2: podcast and are you Emily, and it's just it's bananas.
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  Speaker 2: It's special because it makes me feel like this is
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  Speaker 2: all worthwhile. I think about how I would feel if
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  Speaker 2: I got the chance to meet some of the content
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  Speaker 2: creators and podcasters that I admire, like drama from short
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  Speaker 2: story long or Guy raz from How I Built This
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Flaherty of Nike. When I sat down with him
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  Speaker 2: for episode thirty one, it was awesome because I was
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  Speaker 2: so inspired by him. I am so inspired by him
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  Speaker 2: with the material and the interviews he's doing over on
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  Speaker 2: Nike's Trained podcast, and I was lucky enough to get
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  Speaker 2: some of his time and share that.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness over here with all of you.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, in summary, being a podcaster is pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 2: And trust me, there's some really really good stuff coming
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  Speaker 2: from Hurdle in the new year. In today's episode, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to be running through eight of the greatest lessons
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  Speaker 2: I learned in twenty eighteen in front of.
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  Speaker 1: The mic with Hurdle's guests.
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  Speaker 2: Please take a screen grab of the pod today while
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  Speaker 2: you're listening, make sure to let me know what resonates
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  Speaker 2: with you, what you'll like, post it to your social
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  Speaker 2: media tag me tag Hurdle Emily a Body and Hurdle podcast,
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  Speaker 2: Shoot me an email Emily at hurdle Us to share
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  Speaker 2: a hurdle moment of your own, or even just clue
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  Speaker 2: me in on what your goals are for the new year,
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  Speaker 2: what you got going on. I'm big on goal setting.
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  Speaker 2: I'm big on going after what you want, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: personally ready to do some big things in twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: and I hope you are too.
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  Speaker 1: And with that, let's get to.
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  Speaker 2: Hurdling, all right, Lessons. So, with New Year's resolutions being
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  Speaker 2: a super buzzy topic right about now, it feels appropriate
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  Speaker 2: to start with this nugget from episode twenty eight guest
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  Speaker 2: Robin Arzon lesson number one set smart goals.
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  Speaker 1: So smart is an acronym.
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  Speaker 2: It stands for specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time pound.
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  Speaker 2: I'll break each one of these down just a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: using an example of one of my goals for twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: So in twenty nineteen, I want to save two thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars for a trip to Italy in twenty twenty. And
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  Speaker 2: this goal stems off of a promise I made to
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  Speaker 2: myself earlier this year, after I took a trip to
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  Speaker 2: Italy alone. I wanted to go back and explore different
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  Speaker 2: parts of Italy every other year for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: my life, which I know is a bold statement, but
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to at least be in the position to
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  Speaker 2: do that. And if I just signed to go to
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  Speaker 2: another country, instead, so be it. So the goal go
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  Speaker 2: to Italy twenty twenty, save two thousand dollars for it
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  Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen s specific. The goal is specific. It's
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  Speaker 2: not just like I want to save money for a trip,
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  Speaker 2: it's I want to save a specific amount of money,
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  Speaker 2: being two thousand dollars for a trip to Italy. This
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  Speaker 2: way I can visualize where I'm going, and that can
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  Speaker 2: be motivation for the whole money saving thing. Also, two
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars a specific amount of money, and that's me
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  Speaker 2: looking at what I spent on my last trip to
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  Speaker 2: Italy and making a budget for what I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: see the next time around. M for measurable. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to make a separate bank account to keep this Italy
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  Speaker 2: Fund money in and then I can check it whenever
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  Speaker 2: i'd like a for achievable. This is when you have
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  Speaker 2: to think about it. Realists, right, two thousand dollars saved
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  Speaker 2: in a year is a lot of money, But if
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  Speaker 2: you break it down a little bit more, it's one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty six dollars a month. I'm setting to
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  Speaker 2: the side, and when I say it like that, it
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  Speaker 2: probably feels a lot less overwhelming. The achievable category highlights
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  Speaker 2: something that I think can be a huge problem when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to setting new goals, and that goals need
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  Speaker 2: to be realistic. Another example, when I set out to
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  Speaker 2: lose weight back in college, and if you want to
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  Speaker 2: hear more about that, you can peep on over it
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  Speaker 2: to episode one. I didn't start one day and say
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  Speaker 2: I want to lose seventy pounds. Instead, I said I
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  Speaker 2: want to lose weight, which definitely could have been a
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  Speaker 2: smarter goal.
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  Speaker 1: But I did set small, actionable goals.
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  Speaker 2: The first one was that I want to be able
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  Speaker 2: to run a mile comfortably, and the second one was
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  Speaker 2: I do not want to eat tater tots every single day.
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  Speaker 2: These seem a little silly looking back on them now,
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  Speaker 2: but they were stepping stone goals that helped me get
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  Speaker 2: toward my bigger mission. They were doable, and that's integral
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  Speaker 2: to good goal setting. Are realistic. Can I put aside
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty six dollars a month? Am I
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  Speaker 2: making enough money to do that right now? And put
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  Speaker 2: aside that amount of money? Well maybe before the healthcare
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  Speaker 2: cost insurance increase for twenty nineteen, So I guess realistically
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  Speaker 2: that is a lot of money to set aside every month,
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  Speaker 2: but I can maybe work a little bit harder, take
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  Speaker 2: on an extra assignment, figure out how to make that
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  Speaker 2: extra little nugget so that I can comfortably put it
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  Speaker 2: aside and not feel like I'm stretching myself too thin. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and lastly, we're onto te time bound. I want this
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  Speaker 2: to happen by the end of twenty nineteen. So instead
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  Speaker 2: of getting to December twenty nineteen and being like, shoot,
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  Speaker 2: how am I doing on this goal? I will have
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  Speaker 2: to be smart about it and look at it maybe quarterly.
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  Speaker 2: How much money should I have by the end of
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  Speaker 2: Q one in March? How much money should I have
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  Speaker 2: halfway through the year. If you're just like I want
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  Speaker 2: to save money and you don't give it a deadline,
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  Speaker 2: that reduces the sense of urgency. So yeah, set some goals.
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  Speaker 2: Write them down. I think that's a big mistake that
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  Speaker 2: people make from the get go, is that they don't
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  Speaker 2: write them down. And it's super important to have a
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  Speaker 2: record of what you hope to achieve. Write them down,
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  Speaker 2: take a look at them and ask yourself, are these smart, specific, measurable, achievable,
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  Speaker 2: relevant and time bound Lesson number two, this one's from
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  Speaker 2: Olympian and Paralympic snowboarder Amy Purdy.
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  Speaker 1: In episode sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: We talk a lot about the importance of vulnerability in
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  Speaker 2: that episode, and she told me that the more vulnerable
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  Speaker 2: we can be, the more open we can be, and
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  Speaker 2: that's how more people connect. It brings me to a
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  Speaker 2: conversation I actually had last night with my girlfriend, Kasey Barry.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely look her up. She's an awesome DJ here in
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  Speaker 2: New York City. She asked me, how do you talk
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  Speaker 2: to people so openly all the time, referencing being an
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  Speaker 2: open book on social media? And I think here's the
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  Speaker 2: thing I realized quickly when I was starting to build
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  Speaker 2: my personal brand and hurdle, that being transparent has a
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  Speaker 2: lot of value. People want to talk to someone that
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  Speaker 2: they can relate to. It's not for everyone, but being vulnerable,
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  Speaker 2: like Amy said, it's it's important to creating these deeper relationships.
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  Speaker 2: There's always going to be someone somewhere that has an
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  Speaker 2: opinion on who you are, but their opinion isn't what matters.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel about you?
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  Speaker 2: We are the person that talks to ourselves the most
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  Speaker 2: on any given day, and I have to be okay
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  Speaker 2: with the emily that I am in order to stop
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  Speaker 2: worrying so much about the naysayers. Of course, vulnerability happens everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: not just on social media and definitely not just on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're not willing to be vulnerable with your
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  Speaker 2: relationships in the real world, whether that be with your
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  Speaker 2: family or your partner or your friends, then that's only
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  Speaker 2: going to be you putting up walls more questions. Why
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  Speaker 2: are you putting up walls? Are these people that you
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  Speaker 2: actually want involved in your life? The beautiful thing is
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  Speaker 2: that we have the conscious choice of who we want
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  Speaker 2: to associate with. Surround yourself with the right people, and
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  Speaker 2: then maybe vulnerability won't be so scary less than number three,
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  Speaker 2: trust your gut. From Hayden Slater, the founder of Press
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  Speaker 2: Judictory and episode twenty. When we sat down, he said,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you just got to go with your gut, take
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  Speaker 2: the first step, trust the unknown.
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  Speaker 1: I can hear his voice in my head as I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying this now.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, he was talking about starting a juice company
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  Speaker 2: from scratch, which, by the way, if you haven't listened
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  Speaker 2: to Hidden's episode yet, the way that him and his
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  Speaker 2: co founders decided to price the juice at Press Juicory
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  Speaker 2: is hilarious. So yeah, trust your gut applies to so
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  Speaker 2: many things aside from obviously just starting a business. There's
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  Speaker 2: something so special to be said for intuition, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of which I had to follow over the course of
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  Speaker 2: the past year while growing Hurdle. Even with starting it,
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  Speaker 2: it was like I had no idea the first thing
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  Speaker 2: about a podcast, how to edit it, how to record it,
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  Speaker 2: how to pitch my podcast to guests, or draft up
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  Speaker 2: sponsorship agreements, all things, but I did them. I just
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  Speaker 2: went for it, and to borrow a Nike saying I'm
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  Speaker 2: better for it. There's been so much unknown this year,
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  Speaker 2: but what I've learned is that if I don't try,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't start, then you'll never know what your
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  Speaker 2: true potential could be. If I never started, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: get message the I got from Ashley over the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: who said, quote, I'm looking forward to a new year
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  Speaker 2: of crushing hurdles.
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  Speaker 1: How amazing is that? Thanking me for.
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  Speaker 2: What I've done, for what's been happening here and for
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  Speaker 2: helping her be a better her. If I hadn't taken
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  Speaker 2: those leaps, that I wouldn't have interactions like that, I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't be here thirty four episodes in rambling. This also
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  Speaker 2: touches on an idea that I struggle with a lot,
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  Speaker 2: which is that not everything has to be perfect. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to have all the answers or the ideal
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  Speaker 2: roadmap to begin. You've just got to be brave enough
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  Speaker 2: to start Lesson number four, It's never too late to
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  Speaker 2: say I'm sorry. From Nike Master Trainer Kirsty Gotzo apologizing,
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  Speaker 2: I'm big unapologizing, and not in the way where you
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  Speaker 2: just apologize to someone and say sorry for no reason,
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  Speaker 2: like when a stranger bumps into you.
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  Speaker 1: Unnecessarily on the sidewalk.
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  Speaker 2: I actually promised myself that I would stop unnecessarily apologizing
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  Speaker 2: more over the past year. But what I learned this
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  Speaker 2: year with my talk from Kirsty is that sometimes it's
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  Speaker 2: really special to apologize for making someone feel a certain way,
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  Speaker 2: not about the decision you made.
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  Speaker 1: You know, every day we have the.
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  Speaker 2: Opportunity to make choices on way to work out and
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  Speaker 2: how to execute at the office, and how to be
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  Speaker 2: with our friends and or how we handle our relationships,
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes there's just no way to make everyone around
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  Speaker 2: you happy. All the time, and that's okay. For instance,
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  Speaker 2: when I've had a crazy long week and a friend
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  Speaker 2: wants to watch to dinner on a Friday, or even
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  Speaker 2: just take a yoga class. It's not that I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to, especially since if you ask me, hot yoga
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  Speaker 2: on a Friday night is what dreams are made of.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot of the times, by then, sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: just need me time. And so maybe I'm sorry that
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  Speaker 2: I can't make it happen, and I'd love to plan
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  Speaker 2: something else soon. Instead, I am sorry I can't make
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  Speaker 2: it happen. Like I said, hot yoga on Friday is dreams,
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  Speaker 2: but I need me time, so I'm not apologizing for
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  Speaker 2: that part. I also think that apologies are critical for
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  Speaker 2: open communication. It takes a big person to own up
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  Speaker 2: to their faults and whether it's intentional or unintentional, a
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  Speaker 2: little recognition and go a long way. Lesson number five.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't have a plan B, then you don't
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  Speaker 2: have a plan. From Fred Santarpia episode three.
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  Speaker 1: Fred.
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  Speaker 2: As a side note, you throw a great party. It's
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  Speaker 2: just at Fred's wedding last weekend in Austin, and it
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  Speaker 2: was epic. If you're like me, you work really hard
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  Speaker 2: at plan A. Plan A is what you dream about,
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  Speaker 2: it's what gets you up in the morning. It's the
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  Speaker 2: main squeeze. But sometimes Plan A doesn't always work out.
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  Speaker 2: Like my plan A for twenty nineteen is to hopefully
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  Speaker 2: make Hurdle a bigger business. I have goals surrounding that
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  Speaker 2: smart ones, and I understand it's going to take a
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  Speaker 2: lot of hard work. But if things don't pan out
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  Speaker 2: as I hope to, then I have a plan B,
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  Speaker 2: and that's continuing to write and edit content for so
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  Speaker 2: many of the sites that I've been expanding my portfolio
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  Speaker 2: through within the past twenty four months of freelancing. Both
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  Speaker 2: plans fulfill me. I become better through both opportunities, and this,
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  Speaker 2: my friends, leads me directly into lesson number six from
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  Speaker 2: DNA castor not to view failure as failure, but rather
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  Speaker 2: view failure as an opportunity to learn. In episode fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: Caster said, think of disappointment as the desire to be better.
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  Speaker 2: Ask yourself, how do I get more on myself the
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  Speaker 2: next time. That's how you evolve a growth mindset. It's
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  Speaker 2: something that can be super hard to put into practice,
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  Speaker 2: especially when you're really emotionally invested in a situation or
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  Speaker 2: a project or whatever we're dealing with here. None of
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  Speaker 2: us work really hard in life hoping that something's going
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  Speaker 2: to blow up in her face. You didn't pull an
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  Speaker 2: all nighter in college in the library to get a
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  Speaker 2: D on your final paper. But it takes a really
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  Speaker 2: strong person to go through a tough time and be
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  Speaker 2: able to reshape misery as a lesson. Here's the thing,
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  Speaker 2: and i'll borrow a quote from Ryan Flaherty here, when
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  Speaker 2: you learn that things happen for you instead of to you,
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  Speaker 2: that's a magic moment. In Ryan's instance, he dealt with
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  Speaker 2: his third ACL injury that benched him for good from football,
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  Speaker 2: which was something that he thought he'd do professionally, and
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  Speaker 2: when he couldn't play anymore, he shifted focus to learning
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  Speaker 2: more about the human body and movement and performance and
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  Speaker 2: eventually this all led him to being the senior director
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  Speaker 2: of Performance at Nike, which is epic. So while it
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  Speaker 2: was tough in the moment for him not to be bombed,
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  Speaker 2: he was able to shift his perspective, learn from the failure,
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  Speaker 2: and then eventually become better for me. A good failure
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  Speaker 2: turned lesson could be this year's Boston Marathon, oh Man PTSD.
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  Speaker 2: Just bringing it up. I trained for months to run
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  Speaker 2: a personal record time in Boston. I ran thirteen miles
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  Speaker 2: at altitude in Deer Valley. I ran twenty four miles
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  Speaker 2: around Italy on vacation when I could have been drinking
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  Speaker 2: Aberrell sprits somewhere, And when the day came and went
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  Speaker 2: on April sixteenth, thanks to so many contributing factors, mostly
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  Speaker 2: the weather that didn't happen, I remember trudging through the
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  Speaker 2: Newton Hills, just absolutely soaked, wanting to cry, wanting to stop,
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  Speaker 2: but reminding myself that there is so much glory in
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  Speaker 2: this struggle, even though it was a huge struggle. Instead
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  Speaker 2: of looking at that tough day as a failure, I've
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  Speaker 2: been able to be grateful.
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  Speaker 1: For the experience.
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  Speaker 2: I've thought about the grit that I have as a result,
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  Speaker 2: and man, that's gonna take me further down the line.
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  Speaker 2: Lesson number seven from Liz Plosser, good friend of mine,
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  Speaker 2: editor in chief of Woman's Health magazine. She said, it's
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  Speaker 2: okay to zigzag, and when you do go off course,
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  Speaker 2: that's when the magic happens. This kind of goes hand
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  Speaker 2: in hand with having a plan b but I think
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  Speaker 2: more so, it talked about accepting hurdles as they come,
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  Speaker 2: be open to what could happen in the unknown. So
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  Speaker 2: instead of being a little frustrated when things don't go
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  Speaker 2: as planned, go into new situations with an open heart,
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  Speaker 2: be open to curve balls and pivoting, and when you are,
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  Speaker 2: you just might find yourself in a better position than
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  Speaker 2: when you started.
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  Speaker 1: Lesson number eight.
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  Speaker 2: Love Bigger from doctor Jason Worsland, creator of the farragun
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  Speaker 2: which is actually launching their latest model, the G three,
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  Speaker 2: this week. First of all, I felt really special about
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  Speaker 2: the bond that I created with doctor j and maybe
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  Speaker 2: that makes me a total sap, but when we were
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  Speaker 2: sitting and recording using a massage table as a desk
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  Speaker 2: in the back room of his brand new office in
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  Speaker 2: Santa Monica, I got to know him really well, really quickly.
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  Speaker 2: And if you listen to his episode It's number eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: you'll hear him talk so passionately about his sense of
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  Speaker 2: purpose and dealing with life changing injury and how much
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  Speaker 2: his family and kids mean to him, and we both
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  Speaker 2: even got a little choked up about the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: But what really struck me was what he said in
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  Speaker 2: The Hurdle Life we taped at Hub seventeen. He was
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  Speaker 2: talking about the recent unexpected loss of his brother, and
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  Speaker 2: he said that the whole experience just taught him to
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  Speaker 2: love bigger, to tell the people that mean something to
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  Speaker 2: you that they mean something to you, to be open
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  Speaker 2: with your feelings without reservation, give what you can without
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  Speaker 2: hesitation and granted. In order to love bigger, you have
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  Speaker 2: to be willing to get a little vulnerable. But I
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  Speaker 2: really feel that I'd rather love a little extra and
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  Speaker 2: be upfront than hold it back.
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  Speaker 1: And that's less than number eight. Man. I could keep
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  Speaker 1: going on here for a while, but I've got some
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  Speaker 1: New Years to do. Remember that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the beginning of a new year is a time
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  Speaker 2: when a lot of people are setting new goals. But
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  Speaker 2: every single day you have the opportunity to make a
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  Speaker 2: choice to try something new, to be a better you
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  Speaker 2: as always. Hit me up at Emily a Body at
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  Speaker 2: Hurdle Podcast, shoot me an email Emily at Hurdle dot us,
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  Speaker 2: let me know what's going on, keep me up to
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  Speaker 2: date with your resolutions, and let me know who you
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  Speaker 2: want to hear on the podcast. In twenty nineteen, I
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  Speaker 2: love giving you guys what you want, and I'm happy
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  Speaker 2: and blessed to have you in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you to all of you, to my sponsors, to
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  Speaker 2: the guests for making the past three hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 2: five days some of the best three hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 2: five days of my life. Twenty eighteen, another hurdle conquered.
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  Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time. Yeah,