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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: So, I Threw Out My Scale · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Hurdler's Emily Abadi here bringing you another installment of
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  Speaker 1: five Minute Friday. I've been getting a lot of really
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  Speaker 1: great feedback on this segment lately, and that's good as always,
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  Speaker 1: because for a while there I felt as though I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't getting much of it and was just kind of
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  Speaker 1: hoping that this was resonating with you. So, if you
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  Speaker 1: do like what you listen to on these five minute
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  Speaker 1: Friday segments, do not hesitate to let me know over
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  Speaker 1: on social at Hurdle Podcast, at Emily a Body or
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  Speaker 1: also over email. You can hit me up at Emily
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  Speaker 1: at hurdle dot us. If you're new to five Minute Friday,
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  Speaker 1: welcome the gist. Here. I share a little story, I
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  Speaker 1: offer you a thought prompt, and I give you some
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  Speaker 1: highlights from my week, some content pics, some things that
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  Speaker 1: I'm digging to send you off into the weekend. So
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  Speaker 1: this week I did something kind of it kind of
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  Speaker 1: felt like a big deal. I threw out my scale. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: I have been on a tear lately, and not like
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  Speaker 1: the kind of tear where you're just like drinking yourself
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  Speaker 1: into oblivion, although like believe me, I've had those moments
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  Speaker 1: in my life, or like shopping like crazy. Although there
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  Speaker 1: has been some of that, I have been on this
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  Speaker 1: tear of decluttering and getting rid of things that just
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  Speaker 1: don't make me happy. It started with I went to
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  Speaker 1: visit my best friend in Rhode Island a few weeks back,
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  Speaker 1: as I mentioned on the show, and her home literally
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  Speaker 1: belongs inside of Architectural Digest. First of all, her home
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  Speaker 1: itself is stunning, but the way she has decorated it
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  Speaker 1: is perfection. Everything is minimalist and it's full of neutrals,
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  Speaker 1: and everything in the home like has a very specific place.
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  Speaker 1: It's like she's one of those people that if you say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: do you have an iPhone charger? The iPhone charger is
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  Speaker 1: not in a messy box of cords like I used
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  Speaker 1: to have. It's actually like perfectly rolled up in this
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  Speaker 1: one drawer off to the side by the right, and
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  Speaker 1: she only has two. Clearly, you know we differ on that. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I went to visit her, I came home and I
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  Speaker 1: walked in my apartment and all I wanted to do
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  Speaker 1: was just get rid of the bulk. And so it started.
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  Speaker 1: It started with me deciding to get rid of the
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  Speaker 1: IKEA bookshelf turned TV stand that I've had since twenty ten.
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  Speaker 1: And then it went to me replacing the light above
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  Speaker 1: my bed, and then it was getting rid of this
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  Speaker 1: side table which didn't match the rest of my apartment.
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  Speaker 1: And then it was ordering a new bookshelf, and then
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  Speaker 1: it was replaced the dining room table that was given
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  Speaker 1: to me by my old neighbors. Like, there were just
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  Speaker 1: so many things in my home that felt kind of
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  Speaker 1: pieced together but not super deliberate, and I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get deliberate, you get the idea. I just I needed
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  Speaker 1: to make some changes. So the first part of the
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  Speaker 1: purge was getting rid of like the bigger things that
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  Speaker 1: didn't serve me. But then I started going through all
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  Speaker 1: of the bins that I have in here, like just
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  Speaker 1: like my storage solution, and I started finding all of
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  Speaker 1: these things I haven't touched in years. Everything from a
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  Speaker 1: Nike fuel band if you remember those Christmas cards from
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  Speaker 1: my family, an MP three players specifically for swimming that
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  Speaker 1: they don't make anymore, but was awesome when I used it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see here, Kapa Kapa Gama T shirt, like just
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  Speaker 1: fold it up in a bin for no reason. So many,
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  Speaker 1: oh god, so many mementos from past relationships, like the
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  Speaker 1: notes that come when someone sends you flowers, or books
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  Speaker 1: that were gifted to me, or photos and cards, just
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  Speaker 1: so many things that felt heavy on me that I
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  Speaker 1: just didn't need anymore, and so I did all this
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  Speaker 1: cleaning out. I'm like standing in my living room with
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  Speaker 1: these two large trash bags, and it felt literally like
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  Speaker 1: a scene out of a movie. Like I'm standing by
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  Speaker 1: my front door and I'm like looking back into the
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  Speaker 1: apartment to see if I left anything that needs to
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  Speaker 1: come down the four flights of stairs to the garbage
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  Speaker 1: room with me, and I look across the room and
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  Speaker 1: I see my scale peeking out from under my bed.
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  Speaker 1: And it's so funny because I have had this scale
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  Speaker 1: since before probably I started my weight loss journey, So
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  Speaker 1: this means that I've had the scale I'm not even
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  Speaker 1: getting maybe twelve years, and it is super faded, and
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  Speaker 1: all of the branding was rubbed off, and it like
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  Speaker 1: isn't anything special, and I'm not even sure if it's
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  Speaker 1: entirely accurate anymore. I saw this scale out of corner
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  Speaker 1: of my eye when I was looking across the apartment,
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  Speaker 1: and I like walked over to it and I picked
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  Speaker 1: it up and I just kind of felt what it
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  Speaker 1: felt like to be holding that in my hands, if
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  Speaker 1: it makes sense, like holding that scale not to say
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  Speaker 1: that normally holding a scale would bring you any amount
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  Speaker 1: of joy, but holding the scale in that moment, it
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  Speaker 1: reminded me of so many things that I don't want
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  Speaker 1: for my life, Like it reminded me of moments of
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  Speaker 1: self doubt, and like so many times that I felt
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  Speaker 1: like seeing a certain number was better than a previous number,
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  Speaker 1: or the days that I would like go running and
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  Speaker 1: come back in and weigh myself after the run to
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  Speaker 1: see the progress I had made, although like that isn't
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  Speaker 1: a realistic of any sort of positive progress. I thought
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  Speaker 1: about the days that I was made to feel lesser
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  Speaker 1: than because of what that thing said. And I was
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  Speaker 1: just standing there and holding it, and I thought to myself, like,
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  Speaker 1: I am so over that. And so I walked back
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  Speaker 1: to the front door and I threw it in the
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  Speaker 1: garbage bag, and it felt very empowering. It felt really empowering.
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  Speaker 1: I walked down the stairs and I threw it away,
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  Speaker 1: and I came back in and I thought to myself, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was the right thing. Now I'm not sitting here
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  Speaker 1: nodding my head, thinking I'm not going to get another scale.
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  Speaker 1: I will very likely, very soon probably get myself another scale,
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  Speaker 1: but for now, it just felt really good to let
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  Speaker 1: go of that burden, to let go of something from
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  Speaker 1: my past, to move forward more positively into my future.
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  Speaker 1: So I prompt for you this week, what is one
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  Speaker 1: thing you can get rid of today that would make
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  Speaker 1: you feel instantly lighter again? What is one thing you
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  Speaker 1: can get rid of today that would make you feel
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  Speaker 1: instantly lighter Highlights of the week. All of the links
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  Speaker 1: to this stuff can be found in the show notes.
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  Speaker 1: First things Up, listen to NPR's Life Kit how to
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  Speaker 1: Vote by Mail a guide. Life Kit is a really
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  Speaker 1: awesome podcast. I don't know if any of you listen
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  Speaker 1: to it, but basically, it's a show from NPR that
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  Speaker 1: covers everything that you could need to make your life easier,
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  Speaker 1: like topics from COVID etiquette to how to get your
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  Speaker 1: cold brew fix now that you're not commuting anymore. Whenever
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  Speaker 1: I see new episodes pop into my feed, I think
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  Speaker 1: to myself, like, Wow, that's a really helpful life topic.
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  Speaker 1: Hence the name Life Kit. Well, they put together this
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  Speaker 1: really helpful episode explaining exactly how to vote by mail,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it answers a lot of the questions
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  Speaker 1: that I had that maybe I wasn't deliberately asking, So
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  Speaker 1: I believe it will help you as well. Next up
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  Speaker 1: order for yourself. It's called Long Distance. For many of us,
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  Speaker 1: running has become even more of an outlet during the pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: and Long Distance is a math magazine that's put together
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  Speaker 1: by a good friend of mine, Jason and his friend Dewey,
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  Speaker 1: and is now available for pre order. This magazine it
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  Speaker 1: documents global running culture in twenty twenty during the pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: and features writers and photographers from all around the world.
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  Speaker 1: This is definitely something that you're going to want to
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  Speaker 1: have on your coffee table. It again is available for
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  Speaker 1: pre order, but we'll be shipping in late September early October.
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  Speaker 1: The initial photos and the teasers that they put out
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  Speaker 1: on social media about this, this looks dope. Up. Next
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  Speaker 1: watch Selling Sunset. I know I'm so lame, I'm so predictable.
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  Speaker 1: You can tell me. I get it. I finally caved
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  Speaker 1: on this Netflix show. If you ask me, reality really
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  Speaker 1: doesn't get much more like glam or real than this
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  Speaker 1: and that sounds super silly to say, but the show
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  Speaker 1: is about a group of real estate agents working for
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  Speaker 1: a company called the Oppenheim Group in LA and they
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  Speaker 1: just sell some of the most ridiculous houses. So it
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  Speaker 1: gives me my HGTV fix, and it also gives me
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  Speaker 1: my lame reality television fix, and that's why I think
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  Speaker 1: this is a don't miss. They launch season three recently.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still in season one, but I hear it only
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  Speaker 1: gets better. So there's that last, but not least, I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk up again Thrive Market. They're a new
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  Speaker 1: hurdle sponsor, which is why I love to give them
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of extra airtime. I talked about them
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday's episode. If you don't know about Thrive Market, basically,
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  Speaker 1: they are an online marketplace that has a membership program
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  Speaker 1: similar to like cost Go and where you get grocery
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  Speaker 1: items for twenty five to fifty percent off the value
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  Speaker 1: you might see inside your local grocery store. And they've
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  Speaker 1: got all of the brands that I want to buy
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  Speaker 1: but always hesitate because it is so expensive. When I
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  Speaker 1: go to my local grocery store, it's stuff like Sun
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  Speaker 1: Warrior Noon or gain Right Rice, Missus Myers. I swear
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  Speaker 1: this so that I usually buy at my grocery store
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  Speaker 1: for ten dollars is less than three dollars on the
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  Speaker 1: Thrive Market website, and if you click over to the
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  Speaker 1: show notes and sign up for a membership, you'll get
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  Speaker 1: a free gift that's up to twenty two dollars. It's really,
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  Speaker 1: in my eyes, a no brainer, especially if you live
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  Speaker 1: in a major city. And that's it for this week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really, really really really can't even say really enough
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  Speaker 1: amped for this coming Tuesday Night's hurdle session handling hurdle moments.
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  Speaker 1: There are a few spots left. The hurdle session is
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  Speaker 1: limited to only twenty live participants, so if you want in,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be talking about how to show up
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  Speaker 1: to life's toughest hurdle moments with a positive attitude and
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  Speaker 1: emerge on the other side of challenge a more optimistic
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  Speaker 1: and better human. You know me, You know I'm all
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  Speaker 1: about putting in the work, and that is exactly what
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday Night is about. So if you have any more
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  Speaker 1: questions about what that might look like, I feel free
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  Speaker 1: to reach out to me in the DMS or over email.
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  Speaker 1: I am more than happy to chat, and I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: to say that we are now at over eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty ratings and reviews in the iTunes store. We
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  Speaker 1: have twelve days left of August. It's a lofty goal.
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  Speaker 1: I'm aiming for that one thousand. So if you are
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  Speaker 1: listening at this very moment, head on into the iTunes store,
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  Speaker 1: do me a solid rate and review the show, and
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  Speaker 1: that's it. Another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.