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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Can't We All Be Excited For The Journey, Together? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Emily a body here. You are listening to
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  Speaker 1: five Minute Friday from Hurdle. Now, before I get into
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  Speaker 1: what I want to talk about on five Minute Friday today,
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  Speaker 1: you answer the Spotify pole, like, go in there, just
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  Speaker 1: tap a quick button, you know, find Hurdle. Make sure
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  Speaker 1: that it's in your top podcasts. You get the gist.
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  Speaker 1: I digress five Minute Friday. Hi, Hello, how is everyone?
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  Speaker 1: I am good. I'm good. It was a little colder
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  Speaker 1: at the tail end of this week than I would
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  Speaker 1: have liked, but rumor has it it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: eighty degrees here in New York on Saturday, which is wild,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely wild, and I'm not mad about it in the
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  Speaker 1: least bit. I planned to spend as much time outside
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  Speaker 1: as possible period for five minutes this week. I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about this idea that I have been navigating,
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  Speaker 1: thinking about struggling with maybe a little bit lately, that
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  Speaker 1: you're not supposed to share the journey toward your big
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  Speaker 1: wins or your successes. I posted something about this on
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  Speaker 1: Instagram yesterday and it seemed to resonate with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of folks. It's this concept that things happen for some folks,
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  Speaker 1: and especially in the world of social media, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like all you often it is just landing with a
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  Speaker 1: big share. It's like I'm coming out with a book,
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  Speaker 1: or I'm doing a morning show segment, or I'm so
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  Speaker 1: excited to share that I'm on this podcast, or i
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  Speaker 1: am announcing this big thing. I could go on and
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  Speaker 1: make up other examples, but I think you get the gist.
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  Speaker 1: And so many people that I respect and admire and watch,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's just from the wings, so to speak,
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  Speaker 1: they make these announcements and there's just no context on
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  Speaker 1: all of the hard work that got this person to
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  Speaker 1: this mountaintop, to this big moment. I'm not saying universally,
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  Speaker 1: but oftentimes this is the case. And so sometimes I
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  Speaker 1: feel as though I'm not supposed to act like getting
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  Speaker 1: the things that excite me is challenging that I shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: let on that there were rugs on the way to
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  Speaker 1: these big destination goals that I have. Case in point, yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: I was really stoked because I had the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: lead a goal setting workshop on behalf of Nike at
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  Speaker 1: their New York headquarters for a group of women. And
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  Speaker 1: this is something an idea that I have been pitching
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  Speaker 1: and working on and trying to find the right fit
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  Speaker 1: for sometime now. Yesterday finally happened, and it is something
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  Speaker 1: that I really view as a personal and professional win,
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  Speaker 1: something that excites me, that I'm passionate about. And when
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  Speaker 1: I think about the last few months, if I'm being
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  Speaker 1: entirely transparent, Q one has been extremely difficult for me
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  Speaker 1: for a number of reasons, and so I have been
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  Speaker 1: cod heads down. I hate the word grinding, but I
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  Speaker 1: feel like just real cawing my way out of the
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  Speaker 1: mud in certain aspects, trying to do the best I
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  Speaker 1: can with what I have. And so when something happens
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  Speaker 1: that feels like a true win, that is the example,
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  Speaker 1: the product of so much work that I've been putting
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  Speaker 1: in behind the scenes, I'm excited to share and I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited to tell you that it didn't just happen that
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't just handed to me on a platter. As
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling this story, it makes me think of folks
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  Speaker 1: who maybe don't show or highlight all of the hard
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  Speaker 1: work that goes into training for something like a marathon.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I think really makes me love so many
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  Speaker 1: of the people that I keep up with on social
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to that type of content. I want
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of the process. I want to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of the journey. And so, yeah, I've
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  Speaker 1: just been struggling with this idea. It's it doesn't just happen, right.
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  Speaker 1: Your favorite author didn't just come out with a book
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  Speaker 1: because someone said I want you to write a book
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  Speaker 1: and they said, okay. There were hundreds of thousands of
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  Speaker 1: hours that went into making that book. Even for the
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  Speaker 1: best of the best authors, the ones that are household
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  Speaker 1: names right now, right, they had to put in a
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  Speaker 1: certain amount of legwork to get to where they are.
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  Speaker 1: I try to be my own biggest hype human. I
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  Speaker 1: know the importance of putting out your big dreams and
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  Speaker 1: your big goals and going after the things that you
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  Speaker 1: want and affirming that and hype, hype, hype, But there's
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  Speaker 1: a journey and I am on it and I am
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  Speaker 1: nowhere near your perfect and I know that vulnerability is
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  Speaker 1: relatable and that unexpected level of perfection just isn't anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we'd love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to hit
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  Speaker 1: me up over a DM or let me know if
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  Speaker 1: this is something that you think about over at Hurdle Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: And of course I'm also over at Emily a body.
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  Speaker 1: What excites you right now? What are you working on
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes that maybe you haven't told even your
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  Speaker 1: friends or your family only the whole story. Why haven't
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  Speaker 1: you told them? And could it be good for you
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  Speaker 1: to open up about it just a little bit? What
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  Speaker 1: are you working on behind the scenes? What are you
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  Speaker 1: excited about right now? And maybe my challenge to you
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  Speaker 1: is to talk to somebody about it today. And now
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  Speaker 1: a listener question. Hi, Emily, my name is Kim. I
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  Speaker 1: know this is a super random question, but as someone
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  Speaker 1: who also owns her own business, I am wondering if
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  Speaker 1: you have any tips or tricks for us for tax
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  Speaker 1: scenes And I love this. Whenever April comes around, I
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  Speaker 1: get super overwhelmed. And although I've been working with the
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  Speaker 1: same account in for years, I'm always worried that I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing something wrong. Would love your insight on this. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much, love the show. Oh, Kim, Kim Kim Okay. Well,
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost, I'm happy to hear that you're working
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  Speaker 1: with an account in I think that it is truly
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  Speaker 1: the most valuable thing that you can do for yourself
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  Speaker 1: is allow someone who is better than you to do
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  Speaker 1: the thing that they are good at, so that you
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  Speaker 1: can focus on the things that you are good at.
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  Speaker 1: I know that it's hard to spend sometimes to make
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  Speaker 1: that happen, but tax season is, without a doubt, a
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  Speaker 1: very important time and it's not something that you really
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  Speaker 1: want to mess around with. I've been working with the
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  Speaker 1: same account and for the better part of the last
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  Speaker 1: four years. He works with a lot of people that
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  Speaker 1: are similar to me, and that they have many ten
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine's. I don't just have one W two from
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  Speaker 1: my job, and so that's kind of my only secret
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  Speaker 1: to me honest, my tip is to outsource help. It
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  Speaker 1: is certainly worth the investment, and then focus on the
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  Speaker 1: things that you are good at. And also I have
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  Speaker 1: another tip that is my expenses. I use an app
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  Speaker 1: called Expensify, not sponsored just something that I'm truly a
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  Speaker 1: fan of. I believe it's something like four or five
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  Speaker 1: dollars a month, and I forward all of my work
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  Speaker 1: related expenses to an email account that they provide for me,
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  Speaker 1: and then that uploads them and keeps track of them.
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  Speaker 1: So come tax season, I can simply just print out
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  Speaker 1: a document and give it to my accountant. I also
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  Speaker 1: have a spreadsheet that I put in every contract that
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  Speaker 1: I sign and the amount of that contract in the document,
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  Speaker 1: so then when I get my documents from all of
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  Speaker 1: the different vendors that I've worked with, I can crosscheck
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  Speaker 1: and make sure that all of those amounts are correct.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that conventionally someone might use something like quick
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  Speaker 1: books for that. For me, Google sheets does just fine.
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  Speaker 1: I've figured it out for myself in that way, so
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  Speaker 1: worker than an accountant, if you can expensivey is the
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  Speaker 1: best keep track of what you are spending and then
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  Speaker 1: also what you are making. And those are my top tips.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's stressful, we're all going through it. You're
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  Speaker 1: not alone how you feel. That's what I'm gonna tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe that April is on the other side
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  Speaker 1: of this weekend. Wow, another month and another herd all conquered.
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  Speaker 1: Catch you guys next time.