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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: What's Balance & How Do You Accomplish It? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: What's going on? Emily Abadi? Here you are listening to
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  Speaker 1: five Minute Friday from Hurdle. This week, I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about balance. I have really been mulling over the
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  Speaker 1: concept of balance lately, and I'll tell you why. Recently,
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  Speaker 1: my days have been quite back to back. As I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned last week, I was out of the office, and
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  Speaker 1: so now being back in my usual groove, I am
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  Speaker 1: catching up on meetings that I put off for a bit.
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  Speaker 1: I am finding the time to do other things that
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  Speaker 1: I had previously put on the back burner, and so
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  Speaker 1: from one thing to the next, running from point A
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  Speaker 1: to point B. The days have been a little bit hectic.
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  Speaker 1: And when life is life in I make it more
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  Speaker 1: of a priority than ever really to find balance. And
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  Speaker 1: so what does that mean in an applicable sense for
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  Speaker 1: me right now? Balance for me when my work schedule
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  Speaker 1: is hectic, is making sure that I'm finding time for
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  Speaker 1: other things that I know make me feel good. And
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  Speaker 1: I say this with the understanding that I genuinely do
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  Speaker 1: really enjoy so much of the work that I get
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  Speaker 1: to do, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't feel
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  Speaker 1: like work. And so when I feel as though it's
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  Speaker 1: inevitable that I might get a little overwhelmed. I program
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  Speaker 1: in things to make me feel sane this week. That
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  Speaker 1: meant doing things in a way that I might not
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  Speaker 1: conventionally do them. What that looks like in practice, me
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  Speaker 1: doing a workout in the evening on Tuesday when I
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  Speaker 1: much would have rather done it in the morning, but
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  Speaker 1: I had a breakfast meeting. Me finding the time, making
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  Speaker 1: the time to have dinner with a friend on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: night a little later than I would have liked, but
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  Speaker 1: I knew spending time with this person would fill my
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  Speaker 1: cup up. Balance for me is dispersing the responsibilities. It's
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  Speaker 1: asking myself what's good for Emily. And I tell you
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  Speaker 1: this story. I tell you about my relationship right now
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  Speaker 1: with balance because I think that every so often we
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  Speaker 1: get in this groove where we pour too much into
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  Speaker 1: one cup. I've certainly been there, and more often than not,
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  Speaker 1: the cup that I'm pouring into is my work cup.
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  Speaker 1: And so what I try to do, what I try
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  Speaker 1: to be proactive about, is to plan ahead, to achieve
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more balance, To understand that some weeks
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  Speaker 1: that balance might not feel totally aligned. Some weeks it
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  Speaker 1: might feel like that balance is out of whack. But
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  Speaker 1: I have the opportunity to do something about it. I
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  Speaker 1: have the opportunity to plan ahead. When overwhelmed sneaks in,
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  Speaker 1: when it feels like the balance is off, it is
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  Speaker 1: up to each and every one of us, and I say,
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  Speaker 1: us with a purpose to do what we can to
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  Speaker 1: find that balance again, to find that harmony, to pour
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  Speaker 1: into our own cups so that we cannot only show
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  Speaker 1: up for ourselves, which is so important, but then in
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  Speaker 1: turn show up for so many of the other people
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  Speaker 1: that we care about. Balance. It's not easy to accomplish
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  Speaker 1: all the time, right, But when you make yourself a
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  Speaker 1: priority and you understand the why, you know what I say,
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  Speaker 1: Where there's a why, there's a way, and there is
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  Speaker 1: a way to finding that balance. And so I ask
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  Speaker 1: you this week, what is one thing that you can
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  Speaker 1: do to find some more harmony in your day to day?
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  Speaker 1: What can you do to bring balance into your life?
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  Speaker 1: And now an old school listener question.
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  Speaker 2: I recall on some of your episodes you talking about
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  Speaker 2: getting your health and wellness coaching and was curious what
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  Speaker 2: the difference is between a health coach and a wellness coach?
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  Speaker 2: Can you be both? Is it one or the other
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  Speaker 2: or what that looks like. I'd be really curious to
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  Speaker 2: hear your experience in that real Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: This is a good one. And also on the note
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  Speaker 1: of an old school listener question, you can still feel
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  Speaker 1: free to send in your listener questions to Hello at
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  Speaker 1: Hurdle dot us over email, but if you feel so
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  Speaker 1: compelled to leave me a voice message, the link is
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  Speaker 1: in the show notes. Please do not hesitate. I love
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  Speaker 1: to hear from you in any way that you want
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  Speaker 1: to reach out to me. Okay. The difference between a
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  Speaker 1: life coach, a health coach a wellness coach. So what
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  Speaker 1: I did, and I've talked about this on the show
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  Speaker 1: before I'll link this episode of the show notes, was
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  Speaker 1: that I became a certified professional coach, which you can
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  Speaker 1: liken to a life coach. And this coaching certification enables
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  Speaker 1: me to help individuals essentially through anything. And you can
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  Speaker 1: align this coaching certification to your passion and interest areas.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, my vested interest is in health and wellness.
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  Speaker 1: I am in addition to being a CPC certified Professional
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  Speaker 1: coach through i PACK the Institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching,
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  Speaker 1: I'm also a certified Personal trainer through ACE as well
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  Speaker 1: as a Level one precision nutrition coach as well as
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  Speaker 1: at one time a certified spin instructor and also a
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  Speaker 1: certified run coach through UESCA. Lots of letters and abbreviations
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  Speaker 1: and whatnot, certifications, etc. Someone that calls themselves a health
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  Speaker 1: coach or a wellness coach, maybe they have my certification
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  Speaker 1: or maybe they have another one, whatever they might have.
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  Speaker 1: If you are interested in working with someone that uses
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  Speaker 1: this title, I would encourage you to do some research
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  Speaker 1: and ask them where did you get your certification and
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  Speaker 1: get to know a little bit about their background. You
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  Speaker 1: are entitled to that as someone that may be paying
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  Speaker 1: for a service. Now, when it comes to a certified
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  Speaker 1: professional coach, a certified health coach wellness coach versus a
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  Speaker 1: certified personal trainer, these are very different schools of education
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  Speaker 1: and knowledge and require very different investment of time and energy,
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  Speaker 1: and again the learnings that you're getting from each of
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  Speaker 1: these are wildly different. So make sure that if you
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  Speaker 1: are talking to someone who might be a certified health
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  Speaker 1: coach or wellness coach and you want them to have
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  Speaker 1: a hands on approach to your body to help you
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  Speaker 1: with your training, that they also have a relevant certification
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  Speaker 1: to that they also are a certified personal trainer. I
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  Speaker 1: know again these words are can be something that catches
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit, so I will reiterate. It is
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  Speaker 1: up to you if you are interested in working with
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  Speaker 1: an individual, that you do the research on your size
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  Speaker 1: to see where they garner their education from and if
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  Speaker 1: it is truly relevant to what it is that you
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  Speaker 1: want to accomplish, so that you can be safe in
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  Speaker 1: the pursuit of whatever it is that you're after. Cool,
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  Speaker 1: come prende. As always, I'm an open book, So if
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  Speaker 1: or of course with anything else I got you, I'm
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