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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: What Excites You Right Now? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Hurdler's Emily and Body here bringing you another installment
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  Speaker 1: of Five Minute Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Hi.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I talk about this in the Weekly Hurdle this week,
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  Speaker 1: but lately life feels bogged down and like a sprint
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  Speaker 1: and like there's not enough hours in the day, and
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  Speaker 1: so I feel like this exhale knowing that it's Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Well it's Friday when you're listening to this, but it's
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  Speaker 1: Thursday when I'm recording this for you, which means that
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  Speaker 1: we've almost made it to the weekend. And anyway, for
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  Speaker 1: Five Minute Friday this week, if you're new to the show,
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost, I just want to say thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's possible for me to
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  Speaker 1: reiterate enough to the people that are listening to this episode. You,
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  Speaker 1: the Hurdlers, how integral you are to my day to
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  Speaker 1: day and the success of this show. I know I
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  Speaker 1: have said this before and I'll say it again right now.
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  Speaker 1: That sharing the show, sharing the episodes that you like
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  Speaker 1: to listen to, hopefully that's most of them reviewing the show,
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  Speaker 1: all of this, it makes a really big difference. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my goal has my goals with the show have fluctuated
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  Speaker 1: over time. But what I know to be true is
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  Speaker 1: that the more people that listen to this And I
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  Speaker 1: was talking to Katrina Scott from Tone it Up.
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  Speaker 2: About this today.
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  Speaker 1: But my goal is to help and impact the most
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  Speaker 1: amount of people possible, and as a member of my community,
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  Speaker 1: it would mean the world to me if you could
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  Speaker 1: help me do that. So please, if you haven't sent
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  Speaker 1: Hurdle to a friend, if you haven't posted the show
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  Speaker 1: on your Instagram story, if you haven't reviewed the show, like,
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  Speaker 1: just do me this solid this week and do that.
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  Speaker 1: It takes only a few seconds, but truly it can
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  Speaker 1: make all of the difference, and it can help me
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  Speaker 1: grow this community, which I am so so thankful that
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  Speaker 1: you're a part of. Anyway, five Minute Friday, if you're
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  Speaker 1: new to the community, welcome. I share a story, I
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  Speaker 1: offer a thought prompt, and I finish things off with
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  Speaker 1: both the highlights of the week, stuff that I am digging,
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  Speaker 1: stuff that I think is awesome, as well as answering
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  Speaker 1: a listener question. This week, I want to comment on
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  Speaker 1: one of the questions that came in earlier. I'd say
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, I posted this asking for some of your
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  Speaker 1: questions on Instagram, and one of the questions that came
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  Speaker 1: in a question I often ask my guests what excites
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  Speaker 1: you right now?
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  Speaker 2: I have a long thought.
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  Speaker 1: About that, because I feel like the default answer would
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  Speaker 1: be Wow, it's so exciting that we are all coming
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  Speaker 1: back together after what has been the most difficult fourteen
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  Speaker 1: to sixteen months for so many and the shared experience
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  Speaker 1: of just oh.
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  Speaker 2: But what truly truly excites me right now is.
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  Speaker 1: The idea of letting go. I, like many of you,
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  Speaker 1: took the last year to dive headfirst into my work
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  Speaker 1: because it was the thing that kept me saying. It
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  Speaker 1: was the thing that empowered me to be me when
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  Speaker 1: so much felt just so uncertain. And now I am
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  Speaker 1: getting to a place where I have the resources to
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  Speaker 1: work with a podcast editor, to work with a video editor,
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  Speaker 1: to empower the hurdle interns to take ownership and learn
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  Speaker 1: from me and teach them the things that I know,
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  Speaker 1: like so many of my mentors did with me. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited because this offloading of different tasks that I
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  Speaker 1: have been doing forever, it is going to empower me
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  Speaker 1: to focus on the stuff that really matters to me,
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  Speaker 1: and that is creating high quality, great content to bring
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  Speaker 1: to you I'm also excited because, to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 1: in taking all of this on over the past year,
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  Speaker 1: I have maybe put off some of the other things
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  Speaker 1: that are really important to me. I am a single,
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  Speaker 1: thirty three year old woman, and I'll be damned if
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  Speaker 1: I don't know thirty five, thirty six, thirty seven like
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  Speaker 1: life is taken away and I am so freaking excited
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  Speaker 1: to share my life with someone. And maybe they're listening
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  Speaker 1: to this, And sometimes I think about the fact that
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  Speaker 1: some of my past partners could be listening to this,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm mortified at what.
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  Speaker 2: They may take away from some of these episodes.
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  Speaker 1: But I am ready to invest in myself because I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I've put in the work right. I'm ready
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  Speaker 1: to go out on a Tuesday again, which I haven't
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  Speaker 1: been doing in so long, and travel again and just
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  Speaker 1: give back to me in a way that I haven't
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  Speaker 1: been able to for some time. And I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to say all that because I feel any kind of
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  Speaker 1: way about the last year. I chose to do the
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  Speaker 1: last year like I did the last year. I want
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  Speaker 1: to continue investing in this community. I want to empower
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  Speaker 1: all of you to be your best selves. But in
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  Speaker 1: order for me to show up in a better way,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to need to be able to pour from
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  Speaker 1: a more full cup than I have been pouring form, if.
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  Speaker 2: That makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: And so what excites me is that opportunity, that opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to come back to me, that opportunity to refocus, regroup,
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  Speaker 1: bring others into the fold, and invest in myself and
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  Speaker 1: all of you in the process. My prompt for you
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  Speaker 1: this week, what is it that you are excited about
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  Speaker 1: right now?
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  Speaker 2: Again?
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  Speaker 1: What is it that you are excited about right now?
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  Speaker 1: Highlights of the week links to all of this, y'all know.
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  Speaker 1: The drill are in the show notes. First Up, sign Up,
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  Speaker 1: Empathy and Action a workshop, a Juneteenth celebration on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: June nineteenth, That is tomorrow if you're listening to this
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  Speaker 1: in real time. My friend and hurdler Taylor ray Almonte.
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  Speaker 1: She's hosting a June teenth celebration alongside her activism co
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  Speaker 1: founder Cure West and Actually Curious. It's a work show
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  Speaker 1: that combines a boxing inspired workout with anti racism education,
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  Speaker 1: as well as a mindfulness practice and journaling exercises to
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  Speaker 1: help you strengthen your empathy, muscles and resilience. Also need
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  Speaker 1: to throw this into the world. If you haven't signed
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  Speaker 1: up for Tailor's anti racism newsletter yet, I cannot recommend
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  Speaker 1: it enough. Read Sidelined, Sports, Culture and Being a Woman
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  Speaker 1: in America. Now, this is a book that is not
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  Speaker 1: only empowering, but it's seriously a call to action. Sports
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  Speaker 1: journalist Julie Decarro balances candidate interviews, personal anecdotes, and deep
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  Speaker 1: research to explore what America can do to give women
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  Speaker 1: a fair and competitive playing field in sports and beyond.
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  Speaker 1: The premise excites me, so I'm really looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: scooping up a hard copy this weekend. Watch Human The
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  Speaker 1: World Within on Netflix. I got the first episode of
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  Speaker 1: this new series a few nights ago. In it is
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  Speaker 1: so fascinating. It dives into a ton of science and
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  Speaker 1: captivating stories about the incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Workings of the human body.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking like from power and flexibility to how the
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  Speaker 1: gut processes the fuel in our bodies that we need
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  Speaker 1: to thrive. Also like the heart's capability of powering through
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  Speaker 1: extreme physical and emotional challenges. Like I love this feeling amazed,
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  Speaker 1: You've got to check it out.
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  Speaker 2: Also another worthy watch, The Weight of Gold.
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  Speaker 1: I watched this on the plane earlier this week coming
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  Speaker 1: back from Miami, and wow, I believe it came out
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  Speaker 1: maybe last year, but the documentary examines the widespread mental
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  Speaker 1: health issues among Olympic athletes. And let me tell you,
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  Speaker 1: this conversation is very, very important. Hearing athletes like Lolo
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  Speaker 1: Jones and Michael Phelips talking about how they were made
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  Speaker 1: to feel like they weren't allowed to be not okay
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  Speaker 1: because they were such quote unquote superior humans. This is
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  Speaker 1: we've got to talk about this stuff. Definitely, definitely give
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  Speaker 1: it a watch. And last I do want to direct
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  Speaker 1: you back over to the Weekly Hurdle newsletter again. The
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  Speaker 1: link is in the show notes one more time because
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  Speaker 1: I have been getting so many questions on Instagram about
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  Speaker 1: ideal running shorts, and I have got a ton of
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  Speaker 1: recommendations in there for you with links to buy. Now
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  Speaker 1: a listener question.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Emily, I noticed the other day on Instagram, when
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  Speaker 3: answering listener questions that you said you're good but not great,
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  Speaker 3: which I totally appreciated the transparency because sometimes when people
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  Speaker 3: ask how are you, it's hard to tell people the
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  Speaker 3: truth like that. So my question is, can you talk
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  Speaker 3: about what you do in those moments and then how
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  Speaker 3: you get back to a more positive mindset. Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, love love this attention to detail. Okay, so I
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  Speaker 1: actually just mentioned that documentary The Weight of Gold, and
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  Speaker 1: my transparency came from watching that in that I think
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  Speaker 1: all too often and we feel guilty for not being
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  Speaker 1: absolutely great. I talk to you all about how I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited to offload some of this responsibility, but I'd be
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  Speaker 1: remiss if I didn't admit that all this responsibility has certainly.
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  Speaker 2: Been getting to me a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And so that is a big part of the reason
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  Speaker 1: why I'm good and not great. I'm good right now
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  Speaker 1: because I am grateful for my circumstances. I am grateful
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  Speaker 1: for the work. I am so thankful for so many
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  Speaker 1: amazing things in my life. But there are some things
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  Speaker 1: in my life that just don't feel stellar, and so
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  Speaker 1: I find it to be my responsibility to be upfront
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  Speaker 1: about that because I believe that when we are open
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  Speaker 1: and honest about our mental health, then we have an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to cultivate conversation with one another that empowers us
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  Speaker 1: to be our authentic and true selves. We owe it
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  Speaker 1: to one another. I get it. It's not always easy.
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  Speaker 1: To be open, to be honest, to be upfront about
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  Speaker 1: where you're at, and it can be scary to be vulnerable,
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  Speaker 1: but I want you to know, as a member of
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  Speaker 1: this community that you have an opportunity to be open
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  Speaker 1: and honest with one another. If you're not a member
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  Speaker 1: yet of the Super Secret Hurdler's Facebook group, that's a
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  Speaker 1: great place to start.
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  Speaker 2: I highly encourage you to head in over there.
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  Speaker 1: Also, I mentioned this on socializing the other day, but
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  Speaker 1: my dms have just been absolutely bogged down lately. So
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  Speaker 1: if you ever have something that's super important, if you
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  Speaker 1: need to talk, feel free to reach out to me personally.
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  Speaker 1: My email is Emily at hurdle dot us. One thing
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  Speaker 1: I'll say to you on the question how do I
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  Speaker 1: find the good is that you've got to consciously make.
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  Speaker 2: That effort right.
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  Speaker 1: You have to pause with intention and do an inventory
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  Speaker 1: about the things in your life that you're thankful for,
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  Speaker 1: that you're grateful for, and it doesn't need to.
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  Speaker 2: Be the biggest thing. It can be the smallest thing.
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  Speaker 1: I like the way that my face looks in these glasses,
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  Speaker 1: or I'm thankful for the opportunity to take a nice
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  Speaker 1: walk in the afternoon, whatever it is be intentional about
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  Speaker 1: making time to point those out, and that will help
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  Speaker 1: you be good when things don't feel great.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for that question.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you're following along with the show over at
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  Speaker 1: Hurdle Podcast. I'm on Instagram over at Emily a Body,
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  Speaker 1: Another hurdle conquered.
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  Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time.