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MOTHERHOOD IN FOCUS: Sarah Larson Levey On Fresh Beginnings For Both Her Family & Y7 Studio · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: So I constantly come back to this, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: old saying where it's like talk to yourself like you
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  Speaker 1: would your best friend. Like if you would not say
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  Speaker 1: that to your best friend, why why would you say
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  Speaker 1: it to yourself?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, Emily ABOUDI here you are listening to day
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  Speaker 2: two of this week's special series on motherhood. Here Unhurdle.
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  Speaker 2: This week I am chatting all about motherhood. And although
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a mom just yet, my talks with Hurdlers
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  Speaker 2: over the years have taught me so much about this
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  Speaker 2: life chapter.
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  Speaker 3: I've learned that motherhood.
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  Speaker 2: Itself is both beautiful and challenging, exhausting and rewarding. And
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  Speaker 2: whether or not children are in the cards for you,
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  Speaker 2: it's safe to say that we've all been dramatically impacted
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  Speaker 2: by a mother, whether it be our own or another
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  Speaker 2: in our life. So leading up to Mother's Day this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: I'm chatting with six extraordinary women, some moms, some nod,
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  Speaker 2: but each with their own story to tell, forever shaped
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  Speaker 2: by the women that came before them. Today's episode is
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  Speaker 2: with my dear friend, Sarah Larson Levy. She's the founder
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  Speaker 2: and CEO of Y seven Studio. The year twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: was one of drastic change for Sarah, between shuddering all
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  Speaker 2: of their yoga studios because of the pandemic, having a
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  Speaker 2: baby boy in June, and moving to Austin from New York.
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  Speaker 2: It has been an emotional whirlwind. In today's episode, Sarah
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  Speaker 2: and I chat navigating coming back to her body after
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  Speaker 2: baby moving in a way that feels right for her,
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  Speaker 2: and agree that if you want to lose a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of weight, it's your body.
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  Speaker 3: You get to make that choice.
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  Speaker 2: What's important is that you're not basing that choice solely
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  Speaker 2: on a number that you see on a scale. She
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  Speaker 2: also mentions how much has taught her the importance of
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  Speaker 2: patience and staying calm, both which have helped her while
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  Speaker 2: working to open studios once again.
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  Speaker 3: On that note, Chicago just this week.
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  Speaker 2: We agree that coming back to normal quote unquote is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a social adjustment for sure, but we're
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  Speaker 2: both excited for the opportunity to connect again, hopefully soon.
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  Speaker 3: Irl.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into it today, I do want to
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  Speaker 2: take a moment to highlight some upcoming hurdle sessions. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you are new to the hurdle community and new hurdler, welcome,
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  Speaker 2: a slew of different topics, bringing together the community to
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  Speaker 2: We've got the mid year reset thing of it as
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  Speaker 2: your mid year polse check on your goals and how
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  Speaker 3: With that, Let's get to hurdling today.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sitting down with Sarah Larson Levy. She is the
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  Speaker 2: founder and CEO of Y seven Studio. How you doing,
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  Speaker 2: I'm good?
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good?
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  Speaker 2: This is a third encore on the Hurdle Podcast. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: It is well a true member of the Hurdle fam.
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  Speaker 2: It's been so it's been way too long since you
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  Speaker 2: and I have seen each other Irl. You now live
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  Speaker 2: in Austin. How is Austin.
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  Speaker 1: Austin is good. We're here for the time being. I
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  Speaker 1: don't actually know where where will end up.
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  Speaker 4: We don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've been in the city for the past
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  Speaker 1: ten years, and you know, having a baby was kind
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  Speaker 1: of like, okay, the clock starts. You know, we're not
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  Speaker 1: from the East Coast, We're not from the New York area.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have you know, family support there, so there's
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  Speaker 1: not you know, aside from like work and like loving
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  Speaker 1: the city as a place. Like it's not my ideal
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  Speaker 1: for raising a family as much as I love Manhattan, right,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it you know, we don't know.
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  Speaker 4: We don't know. We may be back, but we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have options, like a city list of options
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  Speaker 3: that you're willing to share.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's pretty much for me Austin or New York.
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  Speaker 1: We've thought about Denver, but you know, I like the warmth.
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  Speaker 1: We're both like warm weather people.
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  Speaker 2: So I have a girlfriend who recently had a baby.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say, maybe the baby is like four
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  Speaker 2: months old. Now, time flies. I feel like the pandemic
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  Speaker 2: that completely warps your sense of time. But they were
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  Speaker 2: living in Brooklyn, and they flew down to Miami two
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  Speaker 2: months after, and she said that experience, just to be
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  Speaker 2: able to walk outside and have some sun and then
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  Speaker 2: go back to taking care of the baby, or safely
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  Speaker 2: taking care of the baby outside before it gets too humid,
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  Speaker 2: there was a game changer for her mental health, her
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  Speaker 2: physical health.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, for sure, that's exactly how I feel. The idea
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  Speaker 1: that I can just walk out the front door and
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  Speaker 1: like be in our yard, as opposed to the whole
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  Speaker 1: deal with the elevators, bringing all this stuff, just to
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  Speaker 1: take a quick walk outside before the weather turns.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, it.
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  Speaker 1: Feels a lot mentally, a lot easier with everything else
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of going on.
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  Speaker 2: So with everything else that's going on, nothing has happened
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  Speaker 2: for you over the last year.
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  Speaker 3: You haven't been busy or stressed at all.
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  Speaker 2: Get us up to speed on what the pandemic was
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  Speaker 2: like for you, dealing with closing temporarily of your studios,
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  Speaker 2: and let's start there, and then we'll talk about what's
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  Speaker 2: going on now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it was not great.
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  Speaker 1: The last however, many months now, like thirteen fourteen months,
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  Speaker 1: has been really really challenging to watch everything we worked
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  Speaker 1: for kind of just be ripped away for no you know,
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  Speaker 1: for something that was completely out of our control. Was
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  Speaker 1: really really difficult. I think a lot of people in
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  Speaker 1: the fitness world felt that, right, there's not really an
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  Speaker 1: alternative for that in person experience. There is no takeout
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  Speaker 1: version of your workout class, and that's really tough.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of trainers were really incredible in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of studio you know, pivoted to online super quickly.
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  Speaker 1: I know we did, and it's still really amazing. But
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  Speaker 1: after being in Chicago last week to you know, be
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  Speaker 1: there for opening week of that studio, like there truly
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  Speaker 1: is nothing like an in studio experience, and it just
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  Speaker 1: it was devastating the last year really, you know, personally professionally,
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  Speaker 1: like what do you what do you do? So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and then I had a baby in the middle of it.
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  Speaker 1: That is the part that truly blows my mind.
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  Speaker 2: Like, first of all, I got goosebumps just now when
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  Speaker 2: you were talking about like the in studio experience, because
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  Speaker 2: I agree it's.
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  Speaker 3: And that was a huge barrier for.
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  Speaker 2: So many during the pandemic, was trying to find any
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  Speaker 2: semblance of normalcy and recreate that feeling for themselves, because
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, it's it's impossible to recreate. So first
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  Speaker 2: of all, like to get goosebumps, like thinking about that
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  Speaker 2: in studio experience, which I have yet to experience again,
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  Speaker 2: and then knowing you personally and thinking about you being
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  Speaker 2: pregnant and dealing with all of the anxiety that went
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  Speaker 2: hand in hand with all of these closures, all of
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  Speaker 2: these frustrations.
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  Speaker 3: Talk to me about what that was like for you personally.
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  Speaker 4: To put it.
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  Speaker 1: Lightly, I was a mess. And I still struggle today
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  Speaker 1: because I don't have all the answers. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what it looks like in six months. I can hope,
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  Speaker 1: I can speculate, but I'm really struggling with what to do.
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  Speaker 1: Even are people going to want to come back, you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting people savings so I can't wait and then but
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  Speaker 1: maybe they can, you know, maybe they're not comfortable coming
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  Speaker 1: back into spaces yet, and like that's okay, I get that.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, this is a business and
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  Speaker 1: if we don't have revenue coming in, we're done. And
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  Speaker 1: so it's such a challenge to you know, have those
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  Speaker 1: feelings on one side, but then also really try to
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  Speaker 1: be a leader for my team on the other side,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, know that these people are still here,
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  Speaker 1: they're still with me. They believe in what we do,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just how are we going to do it? Really,
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  Speaker 1: And we've never been here before, you know, we've built
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  Speaker 1: it from nothing, really scrappy. But that was one location.
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  Speaker 4: That was two.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't at the magnitude where we are now, where
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  Speaker 1: we don't have the luxury of being so so small anymore.
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  Speaker 1: But we're not quite big enough where we're.
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  Speaker 4: Super super well capitalized. So it's hard.
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  Speaker 1: I think everybody likes to compare us to We get
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  Speaker 1: grouped with Berries, with Soul Cycle, you know, with all
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  Speaker 1: of these huge brands, and like we have zero point
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  Speaker 1: zero five percent of the capital they have in the bank,
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  Speaker 1: and that's tough, you know. So the expectations from I
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  Speaker 1: think former employees and clients are so so high, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's something I think we should be
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  Speaker 1: really proud of because the brand has such incredible presence.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, and so give us an adequate timeline, just
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  Speaker 2: so I can kind of put into context about when
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  Speaker 2: you had your little boy and where things were with
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  Speaker 2: the pandemic.
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  Speaker 1: So I had Lee on June eleventh, so we were
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  Speaker 1: in our fourth month of lockdown. We had been hopeful
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  Speaker 1: for a September.
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  Speaker 4: Reopened.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously that didn't happen, so we were like prime prime pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: like smack dab in the middle when I had him,
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  Speaker 1: And here we are almost till be eleven months next week,
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  Speaker 1: so almost a year later, which is crazy to me.
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  Speaker 2: So that in that experience, did you take any maternity leave?
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  Speaker 3: I tried.
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  Speaker 4: I was still around.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, if you need me, I'm here. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, as far as like my regularly scheduled meetings
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  Speaker 1: things like that, I was not, you know, there for
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  Speaker 1: any of that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: It was. It was hard.
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  Speaker 1: Had a really hard time. I think the first week
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  Speaker 1: kind of like I don't know what to do. And
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, you just kind of realized that
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  Speaker 1: you don't really get these moments back with your kid,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like you don't get them back.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I was actually reading Oh my god, now I
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  Speaker 1: forget what the quote is, but my friend Madison posted
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  Speaker 1: something and she was she also runs from business, and
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  Speaker 1: she was someone was asking for like, how do you
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  Speaker 1: like juggle everything?
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  Speaker 4: And she's like, I don't. She has two kids.
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  Speaker 1: She's like a two under two mom, and so she's
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  Speaker 1: got her hands full. And she was like, she said
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  Speaker 1: this quote and I'll have to look it up for
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  Speaker 1: you and tell you the exact words later, but something
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  Speaker 1: about like juggling balls, like if everything in your life
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  Speaker 1: was like a well, your job, your family, your marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Some of those balls are robber and some are glass,
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  Speaker 1: like if you drop one of them in my bounce back, but.
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  Speaker 4: There are some that won't, and so you just have
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  Speaker 4: to know what these balls are made of. That didn't
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  Speaker 4: sound right, But you get my point, right.
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  Speaker 3: I know I know where you were going with that.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a good point though, because, as you said before,
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  Speaker 2: you don't get some of these some of these moments back.
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  Speaker 2: So then I think the next logical question for you
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  Speaker 2: would be, how have you been quote unquote juggling.
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  Speaker 4: Very very carefully.
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  Speaker 1: It's really difficult, and you know, I mean, they just
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  Speaker 1: announced in New York today actually that everything can reopen,
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  Speaker 1: no restrictions on May nineteenth, and I was like, great,
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  Speaker 1: but we don't have a team. I had to literally
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  Speaker 1: fire everyone who worked for me, and I can't just
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  Speaker 1: flip a switch. So I don't have a team. Really
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  Speaker 1: right now, Like it's very very small, so I can't
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  Speaker 1: just flip the lights on and be like, okay, come
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  Speaker 1: on in.
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  Speaker 4: There's you know, there's stuff that needs to be done.
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  Speaker 1: And we didn't know when this was going to end,
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  Speaker 1: so no, we didn't buy a ton of like nerv
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  Speaker 1: thirteen filters, and now there are none.
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  Speaker 3: So I love that.
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  Speaker 2: You just like that just like rolled off the tongue
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  Speaker 2: for you. Like someone's listening and they're like, what's a
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  Speaker 2: Nerve thirteen filter?
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  Speaker 1: They're not even like that great. It's just like someone
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  Speaker 1: was like, this is the filter you want, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, but what that doesn't even like it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: fit it. Anyways, this gets very technical, but long story short,
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  Speaker 1: it's not right for every kind of air flow system.
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  Speaker 1: So like if you don't have one, it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: there's no airflas.
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  Speaker 4: It's very complicated. Okay, anyways, oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't you know, people are kind of like
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  Speaker 1: getting a little like mad and frustrated. That's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: what are you opening? It's like, I think the hardest
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  Speaker 1: thing is is and I know studios who reopened when
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  Speaker 1: they could, you know, in the faller summer and had
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  Speaker 1: to close again, and because they had to rehire everybody
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  Speaker 1: paid them to prep to open for two weeks, were
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  Speaker 1: open for a week and then had.
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  Speaker 4: To shut down again.
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  Speaker 1: They did not have the funds to reopen again, so
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  Speaker 1: we didn't do that, so we waited. So it seems
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  Speaker 1: like we're not like trying to reopen, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: really really Again, it all comes down to like these expectations, right,
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  Speaker 1: like managing people's expectations, and when you come up against
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  Speaker 1: like super well capitalized businesses, I think the perception gets
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  Speaker 1: skewed a little bit. So it's been really hard for
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  Speaker 1: me to like manage that too. Understand that, like my
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  Speaker 1: team is human. There's nine of us, Like they're humans.
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  Speaker 1: They cannot work around the clock. They cannot, And that
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  Speaker 1: for me is like another one of these like if
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  Speaker 1: we're just going to keep using this ball reference and
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  Speaker 1: so I'm like, now feel really dumb that I brought
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  Speaker 1: that out to because I was like, I don't just
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  Speaker 1: want to keep saying the word balls all the time,
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  Speaker 1: but you know those are that's one of the more
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  Speaker 1: fragile ones, Like I don't want to lose key members
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  Speaker 1: of my team, which has already happened because they are
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  Speaker 1: so burnt out that they're just like I can't even
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  Speaker 1: like get up in the morning because I'm so tired.
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  Speaker 2: And like to your point about that, these are real people.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to find good people.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the things that every mentor I have
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  Speaker 2: ever had has always told me. If you find the
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  Speaker 2: right person, and they might not know or have experience
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  Speaker 2: with all asked of a job yet, but they're a
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  Speaker 2: good human, then you need to trust in that and
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  Speaker 2: like go with that person over the person that may
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  Speaker 2: not be the right personality fit for your business but
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  Speaker 2: has X, Y and Z skill. So right now you're
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  Speaker 2: certainly going through that when it comes to rejiggering and
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  Speaker 2: finding new people to help you reopen your studios.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's tough. Everyone wants more money.
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  Speaker 1: Now. I would love to pay every one million dollars,
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  Speaker 1: but I can't. So then it becomes, you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: not paying me what I'm worth. You don't recognize when
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  Speaker 1: I'm worth. It's like it's truly not it. It's like
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  Speaker 1: I don't have the money. So you know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: really really tough balance, and everybody there are so many
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  Speaker 1: factors that go into this, right like everyone has gone
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  Speaker 1: through a really, really tough year.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, and you just mentioned the comparison to other
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  Speaker 2: businesses in the space. Kind of easy to draw a
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  Speaker 2: parallel there. When we come back to this concept of motherhood,
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  Speaker 2: easy to compare yourself to other mothers. So for you,
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  Speaker 2: after having your baby in June, talk to me about
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  Speaker 2: what that experience was like for you. That comparison trap
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  Speaker 2: because dear, like, I just think about all that other
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  Speaker 2: stress that you had.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I and we've talked about this previously on
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  Speaker 1: our multiple episodes together. But I'm not like a skinny person.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not like I don't like working out.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the whole reason why someven exists was because like
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  Speaker 1: I love yoga. I hate every class I went to
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  Speaker 1: because I felt so bad about myself because all I
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  Speaker 1: was doing was comparing. The instructor was instructing me to
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  Speaker 1: look like somebody else. I was being told what to
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  Speaker 1: look like, and that for me was like, this is
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  Speaker 1: not the point of yoga. I love yoga, And so
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  Speaker 1: why somedn exists Because I was like, I need I
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  Speaker 1: need darkness. I need to feel like I have freedom
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  Speaker 1: and space, and I can be myself and I want.
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  Speaker 4: To move to music.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be motivated, and so it has like
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  Speaker 1: the whole experience is created with all these kind of
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  Speaker 1: like tricks, right, And because I get lumped into this
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  Speaker 1: fitness you know group of people, I felt like this
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  Speaker 1: very big pressure to bounce back. And it's been almost
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  Speaker 1: a year and like I just I'm sorry. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to give up like eating the food I like
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  Speaker 1: to fit into some mold that people have decided that's
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  Speaker 1: what it's supposed to be like, and like, yeah, would
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  Speaker 1: I love to lose ten pounds? Hell yes, Like I
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: know at what weight I feel my best at, you know,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: like I know that that's where I feel the most confident.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: It's not about the number, it's about how I feel.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: So for me, I know what that number is and
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I know like that's where my clothes fit the best,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: where I like look in the mirror and I'm like, hey, girl,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: how are you? I know what it is that I want,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: But I think there's an expectation on from other people
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: outside looking in for me in a sense to perform.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: And that's really tough.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I think social media has been like is so interesting
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: because I think it's so wonderful because I've been connected
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: with so many people through it who I have become real,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: real friends in my life and real support systems in
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: my life. But then there's this other side where it's
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: this constant, like.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Idea.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I so we I'll give you an example. We at
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: like write it four months. We we did sleep training.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: We trained our baby to sleep. I hired a sleep coach.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Is incredible, and guess what, this mother sleeps through the
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: night because her child does. And I remember, like one
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: someone I know, when I said I'd let my baby cry.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: She's like, you're not going to get him. And I
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: was like, no, he's fine, he's fine, Like I'm right here, sick. Really,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: you're just gonna let him cry. I was like, he's
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: he's okay. I'm literally twenty feet away. But that's you know,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: you have to give your kids and whoever the two.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: And that's just what worked for us too, because.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: I knew.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: That I have this business that I have to focus
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: on too, and if I am not I need sleep.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: If I'm not well rested, I'm useless.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I'm useless to my kid, I'm useless to my business,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I'm useless to my partner.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: I need that sleep.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I totally hear you on the the post baby number
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: weight place. I think that it has been challenging at
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: times with the you know beauty that is the body
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: positivity movement, to be made to feel like you're not
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: allowed to want to weigh less than you do I
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: And that's the other side, right, It's like, oh, I've
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: just been breastfeeding and now I'm back to my size.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: It's like, okay, well, I was so hungry when I
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: was breastfeeding. I gained it, like what it was story,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: so hungry. I was like, I need a sandwich. You
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: don't know what feels good for me. How dare you
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: tell me that? Because I would like to drop ten
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: pounds because that's where I feel my best. That that's wrong.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: You don't know what's right for my body. I don't
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: tell you what to do with yours. End of story.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: It's all about that feeling, and that that's something I
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: can't reiterate enough in because I actually, like feel very
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: similar to how you feel right now in my body,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Like I know that I feel a little bit better
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: when I weigh a little bit less, and it's not
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: at all tied to that number. It's just about how
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I feel in my own skin and just like feeling
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: more confident and not shying away from certain situations just
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: because like I don't feel my best. But I and
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I think this a lot lately when I'm like going
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: through whatever I'm going through when it comes to like
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: dealing with my emotions when it comes to my move
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: and like just feeling at times like feeling alone or whatever.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Like they always say.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: This to you to like remind you that like everything's
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: going to be okay, Like someone would die for your
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: worst days. Yes, and just because someone might quote unquote
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: die to have the body that I have now, like
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: it's still my body exactly.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Like that's the point I find it so interesting. So
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I have a partnership with ww and formerly weight Botchers
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and listen, I thought I'm pretty big in college, Like
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I grew up playing sports. I played sports until I
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: graduated high school. I was playing tennis, I was playing volleyball,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I danced, and I went to college. I'd never gone
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: to the gym before. I'd literally never gone to the gym.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I wasn't like, you know, I wasn't like a I
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: wasn't like such a good an athlete that they were like,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: you need to lift weights. I was like, you know,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I just ran around a lot. And so when I
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: went to college, I just didn't work out. And what
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: happened because I was not active, I gained weight, of course,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: And so I used WW and I was like, unhealthy.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: It was not healthy, the lack of movement in my life.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: So I used it to understand my eating habits and
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: to move more, and I lost seventeen pounds.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I knew that you and I
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: both shared a WW college story.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I love it, not only and I love it for this.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: It's not based on calories, right, It's based on point
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: So it's based like everyone thinks the points are based
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: on calories, it's not. It takes into consideration like if
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: you were on the old platform. You know, it's like
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you're looking at the can. It's like total fat, total carbs,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: total sugar, and calories all combined, so you're understanding what
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: kinds of foods you're eating.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: So my question for you, coming off of this conversation
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: about WW and talking about how we feel best in
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: our bodies, is how have you rangled some of those
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: not exactly nice thoughts over the last handful of months,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: as you've been struggling to get to a place where
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: you feel good in your body.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Again, I think it.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: All comes down to patients and also just I've come
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: back to this thought a lot because I am very
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: critical of myself in many ways, so I constantly come
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: back to this, like you know, old saying where it's
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: like talk to yourself like you would your best friend,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Like if you not say that to your best friend,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: and why why would you say it to yourself? For
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: me too, at least, what I've seen in the last
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: year is there have been more.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Women on women.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Attacks, like we have attacked each other so much in
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the last year. It feels to me like there can
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: be such a lack of community where there needs to
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: be compassion.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: And again, I think.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: That goes back to expectations. You're expected to be the
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: perfect partner, the perfect mother, the perfect coworker, the empathetic boss,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the empathetic leader. You're not allowed to make hard decisions.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Every decision you make, someone has a comment to make
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: about it, like and you're expected to answer for it
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and explain yourself when sometimes it's like it's just business.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I had to take all of these billion things into consideration,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: and if I don't make this choice, there isn't going
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: to be a business. So and I'm so, you know,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I've been very fortunate that, you know, I have of
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: people in my life. I think kind of who can
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: you know relate to me on this level and like
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: we can share, you know, these frustrations. But I just
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: want to like shape the entire female population and say what,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: what's why? Because I guarantee you all these dudes are like.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: What are they doing?
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: How special is that though?
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: That you've had so many people in your circle who
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: have recently also had children.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: It's amazing. I could not ask for anything more perfect. Again,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: it's that support system, right, So it's like what do
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I do?
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: What are you doing? Have you started ballads yet? What's
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: happening here?
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: And it's so with anything, right, I think it's all
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: about community and the people you surround yourself with and
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the people you listen to, you know. I think it
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: goes back again to media and how we listened to
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: so many people's opinions that actually we don't know or
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: don't know us, and we put weight into those and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: so it's been really empowering for me at least to
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: have women who I am close to who have also
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: had children, you know. And I think there were, like,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I probably know like ten ten people
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: who I would consider friends who we all had babies
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: within like two months of each other.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: And it was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: think about some of maybe the best advice that you've
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  Speaker 2: received from one of them to navigate your own journey
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: with Lee and your family, what would that piece of
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: advice be?
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Just taking it moment by moment. There's days where you
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: want to rip your hair out and you're like, I
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: don't know if I can do this, Like I don't
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: know how anyone does this, and then you know twenty
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: minutes later it's like, well, I love this, And it's
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: just knowing that those moments will come, they will happen.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: You really understand when you have kids that you just
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: have so little control over everything. I cannot control this
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: tiny little person. You can't control their moods. You can
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: try to, it's the best you can, right And it
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: was actually my sleep coach who also had just had
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: a baby when her and I started working together.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Her name is Zan and she's so wonderful.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I found her through another one of my mom friends,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and she was like, we can try and control and
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: speculate all we want about what they need.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: She's like, but.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: They're gonna tell you, and you you know that's it.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: And that was a real moment for me where I
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: was like, all right, I'm just gonna like let this,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: let this happen as it will, because you know it's
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: gonna happen like that anyways, so might as well just
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: sit back a little bit.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Sit back a little bit.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: I know recently also, it has been man like, what
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: a year for you. It's been difficult for you to
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: navigate everything that's been going on in the news as well.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Do you feel any sort of way at this time
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: about raising your son and question mark future children in
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: this climate?
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: I think about that a lot, and.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: What really.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Changed me during my childhood was moving overseas.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: You know this.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: My mom is Japanese and she got a job transfer
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: and so we actually lived in Tokyo for two years
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and I was ten and eleven, and that was life
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: changing for me. Really, to experience a culture outside of
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the one I had been raised in was game changing
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: for me.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: It was so.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say humbling or like eye opening,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: but it was you're more of a spectator, right, and
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: you're learning because you know, I didn't speak Japanese when
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: we moved there, and so for me, it was a
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: lot of like watching and body language and how you
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: convey respect and joy or whatever it might be through
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: you know, nonverbal language.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: And coming back.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: To the States after it was really just kind of
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: it was jarring. It was more jarring for me to
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: come back to the States than it was for me
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: moving to Japan. And I think a lot about that
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: and how I want to expose Lee and hopefully more children,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: future children to different cultures, different ideas in the sense
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: that they're able to really respect them before having a comment.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: And I think that goes a lot of things, right,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Like so many people are willing to comment, to make
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: assumptions to you know, I don't know, saying things a
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: certain way and past judgment because they're different than what
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: you know. And what I really want to pass on
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: to him is the understanding of kindness and just respect
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: for people as an as like individuals and not. You know,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of there's a lot of just kind
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: of like lumping, you know, whether it be religions, cultures
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: into one group.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: And that's that's where like a lot of.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: This bias and you know, I think racism comes from too,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: is just like these assumptions that we're taught to make
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: because it's easy. There's an openness that I think that
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: all children have and are born with that I want
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to make sure that he routines and understands, you know,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the value of a smile, of a hello, of a
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: how are you of eye contact? That stuff is really
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: important to me. So that's you know, it's tough. It's
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: a lot of work. They watch, you know, they watch
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: everything you do, their little puppets, truly, so I'm also
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: trying my best to really lead by example.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: I think about that a lot in my everyday life
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: when I think about how individuals may be perceiving me
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: in real situations beyond the narrative that I am in
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: control of over on social media. It's like, when I
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: walk into a room, how do you perceive me? And
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: am I being the person that I want to be
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: with my presence, with how I respond, with my compassion,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: with my kindness. And it's something that I've done a
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: lot of thinking about over the last year or two,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: just wanting to put forth the best version of myself.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: And now, granted, obviously I say that knowing that, like
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: they are going to be the hard days where you're
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: not going to show up and just be the poster
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: child for kindness and courtesy always, but you can still
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: be kind while going through your own stuff.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: For me, it's.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: About realizing those moments too, when you're reactive and it's like, okay,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I'm being able to say fuck, I'm really sorry, Like
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I really just had a snap reaction to that, and
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. That is not who I am, That's not
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: how I want to speak to people. And that's the
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: first step. Because people feel ashamed. People feel you know,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: those actions, those reactions you look back and you're like,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I'm so ashamed of how I reacted that I I
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: don't want to relive it again.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: I don't. I don't want to do it, you know,
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: so I think.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: But sometimes it's so important to do it.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: You have to even for yourself being uncomfortable and knowing
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: that there is space, because that's what you would want
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: from somebody else.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: That's what I think about all the time is how
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: would I want to be treated if I had just
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: reacted really quickly or something like that, Like, how would
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: I know that that person and I are okay?
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Since becoming a mom, do you notice that you handle
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: situations any differently than before you were mom?
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: I definitely have a little more patience than I did.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: He's so this sounds really like weird, but he's so
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: little still, And to be honest, there haven't been a
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: don't really interact with a lot of people. I have
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: a poor, sweet pandemic baby who sees a new person
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: and is like, poor guy.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: You know, there haven't been.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Like situations like that have been I think presented in person,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: But in terms of when I'm talking to somebody new
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: or a new employee or someone who's new the team
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: or whatever it may be, there's more patience on my
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: end when I'm entering that conversation knowing that this is
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: the first time someone may be doing something or hearing
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: something right. Like. That's something you learn about kids, is
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: that everything is brand new to them, Like the when
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: they take like I don't know, when they sit up
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: for the first time, they're like, but like the world
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: looks different from this view what's happening, and it freaks
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: them out, you know. So that's been a really interesting
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: way that I've been able to think about everything. Is like,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: people aren't mind readers. I have to be super super clear,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: patient and kind.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: It's super interesting that both you and your husband are entrepreneurs.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: I would imagine that that's been a really interesting experience
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: for the both of you to be building businesses, running businesses,
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: trying new things, while also like entering into this new
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: stage as parents.
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: Oh girl, what a trip it's been.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: What's it been like for you to see your partner
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: become a dad?
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: It's really cool, It's really cool. Mason is.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: A great dad. He is a wonderful, wonderful father. I
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: went out of town. I was out of town last week.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: I was in Chicago for three days, and he handled it,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: you know, and that's and not to say that like
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  Speaker 1: men can't do it, but that's not something you see
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  Speaker 1: a lot and you see the mom in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of situations automatically assume responsibility. It's not really in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of households. It's not a conversation where it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we both do this thing. I need to, you know,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: go out of town. How do you feel like are
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: you comfortable? Like what do I need to do to
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: help you get there?
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  Speaker 4: We just assume that I can't leave. I'm the mom.
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  Speaker 1: I can't leave, and that's it, and then you get
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  Speaker 1: into that pattern, that habit, and then you create that
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  Speaker 1: boundary and that's I knew that was never going to
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  Speaker 1: be the case with me. I didn't know when I
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: was going to feel comfortable traveling. And I certainly don't
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  Speaker 1: like to be away for as long. You know, I
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: used to go to like La for like the league
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  Speaker 1: and like that. I know, I three, I think three
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  Speaker 1: nights away. Yeah, that's it, three nights I want to
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: I want to go home and all right, yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: that's just where I am right now. That may change,
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  Speaker 1: who knows, But knowing that I have a partner who
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  Speaker 1: I know, can you know, take care of our child
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  Speaker 1: like I would if I was there.
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  Speaker 4: I know there's nothing missing.
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  Speaker 1: I know that, you know, Lee is not like missing
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  Speaker 1: me in a way that he's not having his needs
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  Speaker 1: met right now.
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  Speaker 3: What are you excited about?
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to connect with people again. That's what I'm
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: excited for. That's really what it's all about for me.
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  Speaker 1: It's I've really missed that interaction.
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited to do stuff, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I Yeah, I hope that people continue to be smart
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  Speaker 1: and you know, take care of themselves and take care
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  Speaker 1: of each other. I don't know if I'm excited because
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: I feel like excited, like I know this is going
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: to happen, so I'm excited for it.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: But I'm hopeful that this past year has been.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: A wake up call for everybody and we start taking
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: care of each other and we're able to slow down
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: and maybe take a step back from this kind of
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: race that we've all put ourselves in without knowing it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel the same way.
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  Speaker 2: I also on that note of slowing down and like
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: enjoying your time with people. It's both interesting and exciting
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: to be able to get back in real life with
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: humans again and have the opportunity to connect and make
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: eye contact, and sometimes it's as.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Though individuals don't know how to do this anymore. So
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: I'm excited for us all to work on that together.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: I am so awkward, it's almost a little painful. I'm like,
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: how are you.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: I've realized I'm like really loud because I'm so used
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: to like being can you hear me? The volume's okay?
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: And I realize like every time around people, I'm like
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: yelling a little bit. I'm like, God, I'm so sorry
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: I'm yelling at you. I'm just I'm like, what do
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: I wear? Like?
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: Do I wear? Are we wearing pants?
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Or we wear?
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  Speaker 4: Is this?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 3: I literally?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I am the kind of person that likes
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: to get dressed to like be home every day, but
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: still like when I'm starting to go out again into
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: the world, and I like went on a date not
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: that long ago, and I was like, I have nothing
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: in my life that I want to wear for these
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: things at all.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: You're like, I hope he really likes matching sweatsuits.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: Got lots of those.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: I'm tied eyed this one myself. Hope you'll love it.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: I'll also like make you a delgana coffee and we
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: could do a TikTok and then like when we're done,
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: we could watch like something on Netflix and then I
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: don't know, just insert extra trend here.
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  Speaker 4: I thank you, my friend.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Right now, you have an opportunity to offer yourself a
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: piece of advice, right before you had your baby in
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: the middle of a pandemic. What do you tell yourself?
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: I tell myself, You've been here before, and I mean
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: the general you as in women. We have been birthing
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: babies since the beginning of time. You have been here before.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: You were built for this. You're gonna be fine.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: You're gonna be fine, and you are fine.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: You're doing it and studios are opening and hopefully soon
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: we can be in the same location. Sarah, how do
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: the hurdlers keep up with hy seven?
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: How do they keep up with you? Give me all
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: of the details.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: So you can keep up with Why seven are openings,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: what we're doing. We have a lot of fun stuff
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: that we are implementing as we reopen. It was definitely
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: a year of reflection and you know, work for the business,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: and I'm really excited to show everybody what we've been
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: working non internally as far as programming so look out
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: for that, and you can follow hy seven at Y
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: seven Studio on all platforms wherever you may ingest your
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: social media and if you want to hang out with
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: me see what I'm doing. I am mainly just on
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: the gram at Sarah s A r A h Underscore,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Iaco A y A k Oh and I have TikTok,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: but I don't do anything with that, so don't please,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: don't we all work it on the talk.
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  Speaker 4: I can't.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: I got no moves maybe moves pending twenty twenty two. Great.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: I love that goal break.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: I am over at Emily Abadi and at Hurdle Podcast
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: another Hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time