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Turning the Page With Rachel Drori, Founder & CEO of Daily Harvest · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Speaker 3: Hey, everyone, Emily A Body Hair bringing you the fourth
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Speaker 3: Today I am having a whole lot of fun with
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Speaker 3: the ever lovely Rachel Drury. She is the founder and
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Speaker 3: CEO of Daily Harvest. Now I know if you are
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Speaker 3: a Hurdler, then you have heard about Daily Harvest before,
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Speaker 3: it's been like doing the pandemic over on the West Coast,
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Speaker 3: living with family, navigating everything from Zoom school to overseeing
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Speaker 3: Today, I'm sitting down with Rachel Drury. She's the CEO
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Speaker 3: and founder of Daily Harvest. Rach, how you doing?
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Speaker 4: I'm doing? How about you? I'm doing? I love you know,
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Speaker 4: sometimes doing is just enough.
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Speaker 3: We haven't chatted since February, well for the pod, since
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Speaker 3: February twenty nineteen, and so much has happened.
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Speaker 4: It's insane.
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Speaker 1: It really is insane.
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Speaker 3: First off, talk to me about I guess, like, give
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Speaker 3: me a highlight reel of what's happened for Daily Harvest
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Speaker 3: in the last I guess year and a half or
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Speaker 3: the better part of almost two years.
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Speaker 4: Now, so much.
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Speaker 2: But I guess in thinking about recent history, I think
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Speaker 2: I have to focus there because the before time feels
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Speaker 2: like I don't like I've forgotten it all. I don't
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Speaker 2: know how life worked before the pandemic. But you know,
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty has been crazy and challenging to say the least.
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Speaker 2: And you know, honestly, the most important thing with Daily
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Speaker 2: Harvest has been helping people stock their homes with clean,
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Speaker 2: delicious food without having to leave their home.
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Speaker 1: So you know, there's been so much that goes.
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Speaker 2: Into making that happen, But it really is what we've
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Speaker 2: spent the last year on and you know, we've had
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Speaker 2: to deal with so many unforeseen disruptions and you know,
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Speaker 2: figuring out how to work remotely, having to.
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Speaker 1: Pivot plans in real time. It's been wild.
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Speaker 2: But you know, we have been in pure execution mode,
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Speaker 2: really co creating the future of Daily Harvest with our customers,
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Speaker 2: which is something that you know, I look back on
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Speaker 2: the past year and I'm so grateful to my team,
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Speaker 2: to our customers, to our community who've all just been
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Speaker 2: so supportive as we've faced like just craziness, you know.
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Speaker 2: That being said, I'm also incredibly grateful that, you know,
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Speaker 2: we've been able to help feed people during such an
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Speaker 2: insane time when you know, people really need to be
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Speaker 2: taken care of. You know, looking back, it's like, it's
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Speaker 2: honestly almost comical how we spent most of twenty nineteen
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Speaker 2: gearing up for these three huge launches that we had
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Speaker 2: planned for twenty twenty, and you know, here we are
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Speaker 2: having no idea what was ahead of us, kind of
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Speaker 2: looking towards launching our flatbreads our scoops, and towards redoing
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Speaker 2: all of our packaging and our entire transactional framework and
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Speaker 2: like literally everything from soup to nuts. You know, they
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Speaker 2: were due to launch two weeks after stay at home
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Speaker 2: orders were put in place. So just like thinking back
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Speaker 2: to the past year, it's like whoa a whirlwind. But
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Speaker 2: you know, as I said, we launched a one hundred
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Speaker 2: percent compostable and recycling packaging that breaks down naturally in
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Speaker 2: people's homes, which was so important to us. This is
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Speaker 2: something we've been talking about since the beginning.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: We also had launched two new collections, which for us,
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Speaker 2: were really co created with the people who were planned
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Speaker 2: to eat it, our customers and those collections. In order
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Speaker 2: to bring them to life, it required so much change
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Speaker 2: in our business from a technical perspective that you know
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Speaker 2: definitely shouldn't be appreciated from a customer perspective.
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Speaker 1: But you know, we're just so proud of the team and.
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Speaker 2: How much we were able to do with just things
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Speaker 2: that none of us anticipated.
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Speaker 3: You said it best, like helping people eat healthier and
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Speaker 3: like make something easier when everything feels chaotic enough. That's
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Speaker 3: exactly what Daily Harvest does for me. Like some days
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Speaker 3: i feel like I'm running a marathon even though I'm
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Speaker 3: in like a I don't even know how big my
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Speaker 3: apartment is, but it's not big, and I'm just pacing
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Speaker 3: around and trying to get shit done, and I'm like,
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Speaker 3: oh my god, I don't even have like know where
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Speaker 3: my right hand is, like, but I need to eat lunch.
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Speaker 3: And that's when I'm just like, thank God that this
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Speaker 3: thing exists. That makes it easy because otherwise, like, I'm
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Speaker 3: a big pizza person, but I can't be warming up
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Speaker 3: leftover pizza and like feeling stellar about myself every single day.
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Speaker 3: So I mean you said the flatbreads, I'm a big
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Speaker 3: flatbread human.
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Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, I like to hear that.
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Speaker 2: I just think about like this blur between work life
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Speaker 2: and home life.
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Speaker 1: There are not two separate things anymore. They are all one.
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Speaker 1: And you know, what we're sacrificing is ourselves and our
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Speaker 1: mental wellness and our you know, the way that we
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Speaker 1: nourish our bodies. So we're so happy that we were
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Speaker 1: able to step in at such a critical time and
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Speaker 1: you know, rise to the occasion.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think what's really awesome also, I mean
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Speaker 3: when I look at the information blurb from when I
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Speaker 3: released your first episode in February of early twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 3: In that blurb, I say, this is awesome. You've grown
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Speaker 3: this company to one hundred employees, and now despite all
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Speaker 3: of this craziness, you're at a lot more than one
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Speaker 3: hundred employees, are you not?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we are. Actually we just crossed the two.
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Speaker 2: Hundred and fifty team member mark, which is insane. But
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Speaker 2: the really crazy part is that I've never met one
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Speaker 2: hundred and fourteen of those people in person.
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Speaker 4: Ah zoom for the win. You know, it's so funny.
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Speaker 2: I feel like the conversations when we get back to
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Speaker 2: office life are going to be like.
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Speaker 1: Huh, I thought you were taller.
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Speaker 4: I know, it's going to be so bizarre.
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Speaker 3: You talked about the importance and the great role that
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Speaker 3: Daily Harvest has been playing for so many people over
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Speaker 3: the pandemic, but for you as as a team leader
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Speaker 3: for Rachel the Mom, I mean, I'm sure there have
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Speaker 3: been a handful of lessons that you have learned over
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty, So talk me through what some of those
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Speaker 3: have been.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and so many.
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Speaker 2: But I would say that twenty twenty for me, really
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Speaker 2: reaffirmed something that I've believed in since the beginning, which
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Speaker 2: is putting people first. Like I like to think we
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Speaker 2: are human centric at every turn, and you know, it's
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Speaker 2: always been our way, but now, more than ever, just
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Speaker 2: that that idea of leading with empathy I think is
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Speaker 2: more important than ever. And you know, the way that
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Speaker 2: there has been, as I mentioned earlier, that blur between
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Speaker 2: work life and home life, like you just there's no separation.
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Speaker 2: You have to just lean into them being one and
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Speaker 2: the same. And that means checking in with people, communicating
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Speaker 2: as much as possible, making time for conversation that's not
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Speaker 2: just about work, and creating really open channels so that
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Speaker 2: people can easily share what they're feeling, how they're like,
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Speaker 2: what they're thinking about, what their questions are, what they're
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Speaker 2: uncertain about, whatever's on their mind. And you know, really
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Speaker 2: having those open lines of communication and leading with a
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Speaker 2: lens of like humanity more than ever is just so important.
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Speaker 2: And allowing people the flexibility to be able to juggle
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Speaker 2: all that they are juggling right now has just been
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Speaker 2: the biggest lesson I think.
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Speaker 3: Also, it's really interesting when we talk about getting to
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Speaker 3: a place where being vulnerable with people that maybe you
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Speaker 3: weren't used to being vulnerable with before. That has been
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Speaker 3: really interesting this year especially, I'm sure for so many
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Speaker 3: people in their work life because before you could kind of,
12:31
Speaker 3: you know, keep that separation between church and state. So
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Speaker 3: now when your anxiety is on one hundred and you
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Speaker 3: have to be on you know, fifteen face to face
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Speaker 3: calls with people every day, you can't.
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Speaker 4: Really hide that.
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Speaker 3: So sooner or later you've got to be like, hey,
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Speaker 3: this is where I'm at.
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Speaker 4: And that's hard.
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Speaker 1: It's so hard.
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Speaker 2: And also, you know, all of those small talk moments
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Speaker 2: between meetings in the hallways, sitting at your desk or
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Speaker 2: go on. So we're missing the non like transactional strategic
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Speaker 2: time just to hang out, and a lot of that,
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Speaker 2: like checking in from a human perspective and seeing how
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Speaker 2: people are feeling and what they need from you, gets
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Speaker 2: completely lost.
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Speaker 1: So you have to be really purposeful about it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean you're taking this call talk chat
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Speaker 3: from the other coast, So talk to me about the
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Speaker 3: lessons that you've learned, you know, shifting from being here
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Speaker 3: in New York, which is one kind of life, to
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Speaker 3: the life that you're living at least at this moment.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we haven't left the house, so tactically speaking,
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Speaker 2: it's a lot that different. But you know, my in
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Speaker 2: laws are here, and we just needed more hands on deck.
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Speaker 2: Juggling Zoom School, juggling a team of two hundred and fifty.
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Speaker 1: People, it's a lot.
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Speaker 2: And you know, my husband and I both work full time,
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Speaker 2: and we just needed more adults. So we came across
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Speaker 2: across the country to my in laws place, and you know,
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Speaker 2: we've been living here.
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Speaker 1: We really don't get out much. We've got some folks
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Speaker 1: in the house that are high risk.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I've learned a lot about patients and
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Speaker 2: about hiding in little nooks and crannies all over the house.
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Speaker 1: But you know, the biggest lesson there is just doing
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Speaker 1: what you have to do.
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Speaker 2: And like, yes, we're waking up at five in the
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Speaker 2: morning every day to juggle Zoom School and staying on
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Speaker 2: a New York schedule, but you know, having those additional
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Speaker 2: bodies to really help juggle it all has been invaluable.
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Speaker 4: How have you How have you taken care of you?
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Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing is letting go of control.
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Speaker 2: I think that's what I've done for myself that you know,
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Speaker 2: has really served me well. Whereas I'm very particular and
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Speaker 2: I have very high standard of myself and of others
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Speaker 2: and you know, there's this tendency to kind of want
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Speaker 2: to like jump in and solve every problem and smooth
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Speaker 2: out of every uncertainty, and you know, it's just it's
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Speaker 2: been completely impossible. So I've kind of let go of
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Speaker 2: that and just found comfort in knowing that I'm doing
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Speaker 2: the best that I can and letting go of that
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Speaker 2: control and just like relinquishing the controls on a lot
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Speaker 2: of things has you know, one, helped me grow as
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Speaker 2: a leader frankly, but also you know, it's really been
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Speaker 2: helpful with providing like structuring guardrails to make these unpredictable
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Speaker 2: conditions a little bit more palatable. And it's also helped
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Speaker 2: my team reprioritize to like kind of create this community
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Speaker 2: while we're apart, because it hasn't been like, oh, you know,
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Speaker 2: like REACHA will dive in and solve that. It's kind
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Speaker 2: of been like, all right, guys, I'm out of bandwidth
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Speaker 2: and having that that open dialogue you talked about, like
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Speaker 2: that vulnerability, just being like I'm at a breaking point.
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Speaker 2: I have told my team that, and you know, I
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Speaker 2: think that leading by example there has also been helpful,
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Speaker 2: and I really need you guys to step in it's
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Speaker 2: really empowered people to do their best work, you know,
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Speaker 2: and it's been it's been cool to see. But it's
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Speaker 2: also just not putting so much pressure on myself always
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Speaker 2: is is what I've done mostly to care for myself.
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Speaker 3: And I also think what you said about leading by example,
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Speaker 3: like that's not just in the workplace, like that can
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Speaker 3: even be like in your friendships, just saying to someone like, hey,
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Speaker 3: right now, I really need from time to time for
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Speaker 3: you to check in on me because I'm struggling. And
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Speaker 3: I might not always want to say again, oh I'm
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Speaker 3: really struggling right now. Oh I'm really struggling right now.
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Speaker 3: Oh I'm feeling like a burden, because you don't want
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Speaker 3: to get to that point where you feel like a burden.
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Speaker 3: So having that open dialogue, being able to put yourself
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Speaker 3: out there, it definitely takes work, but with time like
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Speaker 3: that openness, it pays off.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, it really does.
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Speaker 2: And I think that we've grown as a team because
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Speaker 2: of it, because it really has become something where people
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Speaker 2: are okay to say, look, I need to check out
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Speaker 2: for a few days, I'm burnt out, or I need
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Speaker 2: to check check out for a few days because something's
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Speaker 2: happening at home and I'm not feeling mentally well, So,
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Speaker 2: you know, just being able to kind of break that
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Speaker 2: barrier that traditionally you try to separate work and home.
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Speaker 1: Has been transformational for you.
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Speaker 3: Aside from obviously daily harvest, have there been like products
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Speaker 3: or tools in your personal toolkit so to speak, that
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Speaker 3: have been game changers for you in twenty twenty.
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Speaker 2: Might sound like a cop out, but I'm not wearing
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Speaker 2: them currently. But my blue light glasses, Oh, I'm in
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Speaker 2: on this. I've been using them too.
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Speaker 4: They've been so helpful.
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Speaker 2: In the beginning of the pandemic, I felt like I
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Speaker 2: was constantly stressed and I had this like squinty tense
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Speaker 2: situation going on, and I felt like I needed to
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Speaker 2: make a ch and somebody had suggested, actually our creative
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Speaker 2: director suggested blue light glasses, and I was like, great,
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Speaker 2: let me try them.
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Speaker 4: And they were really.
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Speaker 1: Game changing for me. I really, I really.
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Speaker 3: Enjoyed that the answers that have been coming in have
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Speaker 3: kind of been like in array. It's been everything from
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Speaker 3: like I finally bought a Peloton bike, which I feel
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Speaker 3: like is like the twenty twenty answer.
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Speaker 4: Everyone's purchased a Bolton bike to.
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Speaker 3: Like I have a ACU pressure mat that I lay
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Speaker 3: on sporadically. Like it's like things that you never would
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Speaker 3: have thought like before twenty twenty, Like I'm going to
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Speaker 3: use this all the time. And for me now, I'm
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Speaker 3: like I'm in my Norma tech boots constantly.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 2: So the other thing that I've done is I've made
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Speaker 2: my desk a standing book and you can't see it here, but.
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Speaker 1: I have one, two, three, four or five nine business school.
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Speaker 2: Textbooks backed on top of my desk, and I wear
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Speaker 2: my Hopa shoes. I bought a pair of shoes that
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Speaker 2: I only wear indoors at my desk. So the nine
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Speaker 2: business school textbooks plus the Hocus have allowed me to
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Speaker 2: just like stay moving during meetings and literally like especially
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Speaker 2: being on the West Coast, I.
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Speaker 1: Work New York hours in then California hours.
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Speaker 4: So it's not it's rough, but this was a huge unlock.
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Speaker 2: And when I didn't when I didn't have the focus
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Speaker 2: as part of this setup, my back started to hurt.
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Speaker 1: So I was like, Okay, the combination is working for me.
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Speaker 3: Interesting Okay, So hokah, shoes, business school textbooks, I got you.
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Speaker 4: What are you excited for? My friend in the New Year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, COVID is a tragedy, there's no question.
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Speaker 2: But through this crisis, I think that there's also an
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Speaker 2: incredible opportunity to address some of the issues that are
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Speaker 2: plaguing the food industry.
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Speaker 1: I think that they've really come to the forefront and
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Speaker 1: are more visible than ever before.
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Speaker 2: And you know, we have a system that leaves millions
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Speaker 2: of people hungry, while at the same time we have
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Speaker 2: farmers who wonder wonder if their crops are going to
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Speaker 2: be purchased.
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Speaker 1: You know, all the disruptions we've seen across the food system.
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Speaker 2: And supply chains just highlight and punctuate the problems that
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Speaker 2: already existed. And when we recover from this pandemic, there's
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Speaker 2: going to be a lot more urgency to build something
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Speaker 2: different than what we have and is altogether more resilient.
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't think fixing the food system is
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Speaker 2: what we need to do. We need to scrap it
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Speaker 2: and start again, you know. And I see people harnessing
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Speaker 2: this energy for change, and I have so much hope
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Speaker 2: for the future. But we need to work together to
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Speaker 2: fix these systemic issues, ensuring there's there's sufficient supply of
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Speaker 2: food that's accessible for all. So you know, I'm excited
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Speaker 2: about kind of the silver linings of this all outside
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Speaker 2: of the food system, I think people are waking up
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Speaker 2: to their own health and wellness needs, which I'm also
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Speaker 2: really excited about. I think this is there obviously is
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Speaker 2: so much tragedy and loss, but I do think that
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Speaker 2: there are going to be a lot of positives that
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Speaker 2: come out.
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Speaker 3: We're winding down here, Rachel, if you had right now
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Speaker 3: the opportunity to offer the Rachel back in March one
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Speaker 3: piece of advice, what would you tell her looking back on.
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Speaker 2: It now, Yeah, I mean it would really be to
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Speaker 2: just trust my instincts, because when you're leading during your crisis,
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Speaker 2: there's so much at stake and so much self doubt.
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Speaker 1: Comes to the forefront.
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Speaker 2: You know, I would give my early pandemic self a
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Speaker 2: pep talk, you know, to trust my own voice, but
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Speaker 2: also offer some reassurance that I was going to get
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Speaker 2: through twenty twenty. You know, the daily hervest mission is
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Speaker 2: worth it, and the team, you know, has been incredible,
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Speaker 2: and I think there was just so much doubt flying
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Speaker 2: around in those early days. So you know, just a
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Speaker 2: little like you've got this, I think is what I
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Speaker 2: would have needed.
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Speaker 3: I also think you just said something that I just
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Speaker 3: want to touch on quickly, which was like, the Daily
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Speaker 3: Harvest mission is worth it. And I think that's so
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Speaker 3: often in times of crisis or struggle, if you just
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Speaker 3: take a step back and like ask yourself, what are
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Speaker 3: my values?
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Speaker 4: What am I about? And checking in like that, that
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Speaker 4: helps you move forward. Yeah, for sure. Okay, any last
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Speaker 4: words for the Hurdler's reach.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think it goes to what I
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Speaker 2: said earlier. Just don't be so hard on yourself, you know,
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Speaker 2: whether it's the small wind of putting on real pants
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Speaker 2: or making your bed or making time for a good breakfast,
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Speaker 2: just start small and follow your instincts and give yourself
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Speaker 2: what you need.
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Speaker 3: Give yourself what you need. Thank you so much for
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Speaker 3: hanging out with me today, Rachel. How do we keep
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Speaker 3: up with you? How do we keep up with Daily Harvest?
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Speaker 3: Give me some details so.
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Speaker 2: Dailyharvest dot com or you know, you can always follow
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Speaker 2: us on Instagram at Daily Harvest or at Rachel Drury.
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Speaker 3: I'm over at Emily Body and at Hurdle Podcast Another
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Speaker 3: Hurdle Conquered.
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Speaker 4: Catch you guys, next time
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Speaker 2: You