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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: I’m a Morning Workout Person. Here’s How I Make It Happen (Almost) Every Time. · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey Hurdlers, Emily Abadi here bringing you another installment of
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  Speaker 1: five Minute Friday. For those new to the show. On Fridays,
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  Speaker 1: I tell a story, I offer you a thought prompt
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  Speaker 1: to take you into the weekend. Then I share my
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  Speaker 1: highlights of the week. My content picks the stuff that
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  Speaker 1: I'm listening to and reading and watching and so on.
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  Speaker 1: And then last, but not least, I finished us off
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  Speaker 1: with a listener question. So, yesterday I woke up in
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  Speaker 1: a Boston hotel room. Now I had some work in Boston,
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  Speaker 1: so I drove up there. I rented a car by myself,
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  Speaker 1: and that just felt like the smartest, easiest, quote unquote
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  Speaker 1: safest way to go about it. So I wake up
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  Speaker 1: in Boston to an alarm and I am like completely
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  Speaker 1: disoriented when I wake up. Firstly because as someone who
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  Speaker 1: used to travel a ton, to wake up somewhere that's
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  Speaker 1: not my bed felt super odd. But also because I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned I woke up to an alarm, I have not
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  Speaker 1: been setting an alarm for the entire coronavirus pandemic. I
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  Speaker 1: would say this is certainly a silver lining. And even
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  Speaker 1: without the alarm, I mean some days I'm awake at
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  Speaker 1: five point thirty and other days I'm way closer to seven.
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  Speaker 1: I just kind of trust my body that I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: get up whenever feels right for you know, the amount
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  Speaker 1: of sleep that I actually need. So when the alarm
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  Speaker 1: went off, I laid there for a minute, and I
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  Speaker 1: asked myself, like, will I be better for today if
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  Speaker 1: I just get another thirty minutes of sleep. This is
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  Speaker 1: definitely something that was on my radar. I, as a result,
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  Speaker 1: instinctively just asked Siri plightly to set an alarm for
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  Speaker 1: six point thirty and close my eyes, and I would say,
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  Speaker 1: about another sixty seconds went by before I sat up
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  Speaker 1: and like took this like super deep breath and just
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  Speaker 1: put my feet on the floor, walked to the bathroom,
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  Speaker 1: splashed the water on my face, and I was like, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get up now. Admittedly, I've always been pretty
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  Speaker 1: good at mornings, Like even back in college, after what
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  Speaker 1: we used to call nickel night, like way too many
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  Speaker 1: drinks that cost five cents and going to bed decently inebriated,
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  Speaker 1: I would still like wake up and go to the
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  Speaker 1: gym the next morning on campus or right when I
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  Speaker 1: moved to New York City, like I went through a
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  Speaker 1: phase as many do after they moved to a city
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  Speaker 1: like New York where they go out until the wee
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  Speaker 1: hours of the morning. But still I was able to,
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  Speaker 1: without fail, make it to a seven ten am Barry's
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  Speaker 1: boot Camp class without wanting to off myself during a
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  Speaker 1: treadmill sprint. I know that the number one thing that
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  Speaker 1: gets me up and out most mornings is the fact
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  Speaker 1: that I know that sweating and working out is going
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  Speaker 1: to make me feel better for the rest of the day.
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  Speaker 1: Like I feel more clear, I feel like I can
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  Speaker 1: handle more, like I can take more on. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I interact with others better, like I'm just a
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  Speaker 1: better version of myself. However, I think that promise alone
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  Speaker 1: isn't necessarily enough for some people who may want to
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  Speaker 1: be mourning people to become mourning people. And so I
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  Speaker 1: am sharing with you today just to cap this off,
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  Speaker 1: a few strategies that make things easier on myself to
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  Speaker 1: get up and get out the door and get a
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  Speaker 1: sweat in the first thing, know what you want to do.
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  Speaker 1: So I have definitely been a little bit more flexible
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  Speaker 1: with my workouts since developing a little bit of knee
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  Speaker 1: Tonight is on the right side. But what I will
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  Speaker 1: say is that knowing what I want to do, either
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  Speaker 1: when I get to the gym or if I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go for a run, or if I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: do something on demand at home, Knowing all of this
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  Speaker 1: helps take some of the decision work out of it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think when you have too many decisions to make,
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  Speaker 1: especially early in the morning, those decisions become excuses. So
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  Speaker 1: first thing, know what you want to do and perhaps
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  Speaker 1: set a plan for your week as to how that's
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  Speaker 1: going to play out. Next up, know what you want
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  Speaker 1: to wear. Again, decisions can equal excuses. So while I'm
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  Speaker 1: not the kind of person that's necessarily going to lay
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  Speaker 1: out an entire outfit the night before, I am the
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  Speaker 1: kind of person who has eliminated a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: things that I wasn't wearing to make, like going to
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  Speaker 1: the leggings draw and being like, eh, not into this
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  Speaker 1: not something that I can say. The third thing, turn
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  Speaker 1: up the music. Don't get me wrong, you are listening
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  Speaker 1: to this podcast, so I support all podcast worker outers,
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  Speaker 1: but for me, the right playlist changes everything. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: share some of my go tos in the show notes.
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  Speaker 1: Next up, number four, make it a part of a
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  Speaker 1: greater routine. I've talked about my journaling practice before, I've
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  Speaker 1: talked about how I love sipping it an espresso before
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  Speaker 1: I get to sweating. These are all things that I
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  Speaker 1: have habit stacked, so to speak, that make up my
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  Speaker 1: ideal morning. It's wake up, journal, splash some water on
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  Speaker 1: my face, make an espresso, get ready for my workout,
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  Speaker 1: do the lace up. Then I work out. Then I
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  Speaker 1: drink athletic greens. Then it's breakfast and more coffee, in
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  Speaker 1: a shower, and just like that, I am ready to
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  Speaker 1: start the day. So make your sweat part of a
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  Speaker 1: greater routine that just feels right for you. And then, lastly,
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  Speaker 1: don't take on too much too soon. Something is better
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  Speaker 1: than nothing, period. So if you are someone that wants
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  Speaker 1: to wake up earlier and get some movement in but
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  Speaker 1: is having a hard time making it happen, instead of
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  Speaker 1: saying to yourself, I'm going to commit to doing sixty
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  Speaker 1: minutes every other day, start with something like ten or fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Find a routine that works for you to make it
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  Speaker 1: less of a daunting task. This week's thought prompt, what
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  Speaker 1: is one thing you can add to your morning routine?
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  Speaker 1: That'll make your morning's better again. What is one thing
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  Speaker 1: that you can add to your morning routine that will
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  Speaker 1: make your mornings better? All right? Highlights of the week.
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  Speaker 1: First up, A Renegade's Born in the USA. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: can't say that I expected to hear that Barack Obama
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  Speaker 1: and Bruce Springsteen we're going to collaborate on a podcast,
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  Speaker 1: but I love to see it. I listened to the
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  Speaker 1: first two episodes on my drive up to Boston this week,
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  Speaker 1: and I really loved the natural flow of the conversations
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  Speaker 1: and the topics that they're covering, and it just sounded
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  Speaker 1: like two good friends chatting it up who just happened
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  Speaker 1: to be total icons. Next up, Why I Decided to
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  Speaker 1: cut my hair short for the first time ever? By
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  Speaker 1: Sophia Row. I, like many of her two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty one thousand Instagram followers, was super invested in watching
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  Speaker 1: Sophia Row cut her hair. If you don't know who
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  Speaker 1: that is, she is a chef. She lives in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 1: I've just loved following along with her over the past year,
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  Speaker 1: and she recently completely chopped off her signature curls. Wrote
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  Speaker 1: about it for Vogue, and I can really just relate
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  Speaker 1: to what she was saying about the sentiments in this article,
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  Speaker 1: especially the idea that there's a certain trauma and scariness
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  Speaker 1: attached to the idea of starting over. So if you've
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  Speaker 1: had long hair, it's just like a security blanket. So
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  Speaker 1: I really liked what she had to say in her
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  Speaker 1: Vogue article. Next up a sweat Bell's Up TV. My
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  Speaker 1: friend Lacey and her business partner Missy just released a
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  Speaker 1: new offering called Bells Up TV. It's a combination of
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  Speaker 1: kettlebell and bodyweight classes that follow real strength training programs
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  Speaker 1: in an online video format. They've got a mission to
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  Speaker 1: provide guided sessions that you can do anywhere that follow
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  Speaker 1: an intended sequence, which I will say is not something
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  Speaker 1: you see often, especially marketed toward women. In the link
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  Speaker 1: to the show notes, you can click it to get
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  Speaker 1: a free seven day trial of classes from beginner to
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  Speaker 1: intermediate level. So definitely check it out. And last, but
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  Speaker 1: not least, listen John legends playlist on Headspace. I really
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  Speaker 1: love seeing apps like Headspace and Come evolve over time
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  Speaker 1: to include more than just meditations. Now. Last year I
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  Speaker 1: did an interview with John Legend for GQ when they
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  Speaker 1: announced that he was going to be the chief music officer,
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  Speaker 1: and this playlist that he recently launched on the app
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  Speaker 1: is like the perfect background of music for any work
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  Speaker 1: from home stint period, or just like hanging out and
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  Speaker 1: making pancakes on a Sunday. Next up, our listener question.
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  Speaker 1: This week's comes from Megan.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Emily, my name is Meghan, and my question for
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  Speaker 2: you is what is your best advice for a recent
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  Speaker 2: college graduate who's still trying to find their place in
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  Speaker 2: the real world.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man, I mean I can totally relate to this.
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  Speaker 1: I think the interesting thing about graduating college is that,
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  Speaker 1: like so many people make you feel as though you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to have it all figured out, but it's also
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  Speaker 1: like a really exciting time because you so have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of opportunity in front of you. My best piece
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  Speaker 1: of advice for a recent college graduate, whether or not
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  Speaker 1: you have a job secured, is to continue to reach
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  Speaker 1: out to people that do things that interest you. So
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  Speaker 1: just because you may have majored in journalism or political
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  Speaker 1: science or finance or god knows what, that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that you can't explore and learn about other industries. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we always have the opportunity to expand upon our skill
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  Speaker 1: set and if you approach people in the right way,
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  Speaker 1: you will be able to get you know, just a
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  Speaker 1: little slice of their time if you do it with
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  Speaker 1: some kindness. So in this approach, if you find someone
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  Speaker 1: that you want to chat with and ask them for
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  Speaker 1: a slice of their time, make it as convenient as possible,
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  Speaker 1: which lucky for us all, in this digital heavy way
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  Speaker 1: that we are living our lives right now, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people may be more willing to make a slice
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  Speaker 1: of time or make some time for someone that they
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  Speaker 1: don't know because they have a little bit more of
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  Speaker 1: it without a commute. So reach out to people that
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  Speaker 1: inspire you. Ask them if you can inquire, ask them
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  Speaker 1: a few questions about their career and their career path
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  Speaker 1: and you might be surprised what you'll learn along the way.
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  Speaker 1: That is it for this week. As always, please make
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  Speaker 1: the show notes Another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.