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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: How to Get Happy In 5 Minutes or Less · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Ann Hurdlers, Emia Body. Pop it into your feed with
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  Speaker 1: five Minute Friday. Another week down. As you know, I
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  Speaker 1: am trying something relatively new. I think this is the
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  Speaker 1: what third installment of five Minute Friday. It's a new
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  Speaker 1: segment that I feel like it's going to stick around.
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  Speaker 1: I'm bringing it to you weekly at least for now.
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  Speaker 1: My goal with five Minute Friday is to share a
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  Speaker 1: story or something that I've been thinking about, offer you
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  Speaker 1: a prompt that makes you think, and then share some
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  Speaker 1: of my top highlights of the week content picks, whether
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  Speaker 1: that's a podcast or an app, or a streaming workout,
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  Speaker 1: or just something that I've seen over the last seven
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  Speaker 1: days that I want to share with all of you.
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  Speaker 1: So what I want to know as I keep doing
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  Speaker 1: this segment, let me know do you like it? Do
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  Speaker 1: you think it's helpful? What do you want more of?
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  Speaker 1: What do you want to hear about on Fridays? I
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  Speaker 1: am here to please most of the time. To connect
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  Speaker 1: with me, of course, reach out on Instagram, over at
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  Speaker 1: Hurdle Podcasts, at Emily a Body, and as always, if
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  Speaker 1: you have a hurdle moment of your own to share
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  Speaker 1: or you just want to say hi, reach out to
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  Speaker 1: me over at Emily at Hurdle dot Us. Now, for
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  Speaker 1: today's five Minute Friday, I am going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the little things that bring me joy. It is so
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  Speaker 1: important each and every day, whether this was three months
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  Speaker 1: ago or right now, to focus on the things that
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  Speaker 1: make you happy. Of course it's important to show up
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  Speaker 1: for the hard stuff, but paying attention to the small details,
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  Speaker 1: finding the small whens, focusing on the good. There is
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  Speaker 1: so much good in that. So for five Minute Friday today,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do a little exercise and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to encourage you to do the same. For the next
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  Speaker 1: three minutes, I'm going to talk to you about the
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  Speaker 1: small winds, the things that have made me feel really
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  Speaker 1: grateful over the past seven days. So here we go. First,
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  Speaker 1: up a morning routine. Now every single morning for me
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  Speaker 1: does not involve a workout, but what they do involve
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  Speaker 1: is me waking up naturally, which feels like a blessing
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  Speaker 1: around six forty five, splashing my face with some cold
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  Speaker 1: water and having some coffee and either moving my body,
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  Speaker 1: taking a walk around the block, making my to do
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  Speaker 1: list for the day, getting ready for the day, so
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  Speaker 1: changing out of the clothes that I wore to bed
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  Speaker 1: important note there, and then shaking up my athletic greens
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  Speaker 1: and sitting at my desk. This morning routine. It makes
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  Speaker 1: me feel like me. It makes me feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: taking time for myself and that feels really special right now.
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  Speaker 1: Also on the gratitude list, my new desk, which I
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  Speaker 1: just that I sit down at it every day to
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  Speaker 1: top off my morning routine. I'm pretty sure it's how
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  Speaker 1: to mention in every single podcast I've recorded since I
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  Speaker 1: ordered this thing. Next up Gopher Fitness, where I'm miraculously
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  Speaker 1: found a ton of weights and kettlebills that happened to
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  Speaker 1: still be in stock as of last Saturday. I've actually
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  Speaker 1: been getting a lot of messages from people asking me
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  Speaker 1: where I've been getting weights. Gopher Fitness. I got a
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  Speaker 1: set of ten pound dumbbills and a sixteen kilogram kettlebell
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  Speaker 1: just this week, So lots of gratitude for that. I
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  Speaker 1: realized a few days ago that I actually haven't been
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  Speaker 1: putting on my jewelry as I usually do before I
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  Speaker 1: leave the apartment for an otherwise quote unquote normal day out,
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  Speaker 1: and so I have a lot of gratitude today for
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  Speaker 1: my Poppy's wedding band, which I wear every single day,
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  Speaker 1: and looking down at it, especially during this time, which
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  Speaker 1: is passover, if you happen to be celebrating Happy Passover,
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  Speaker 1: it makes me feel connected to my family near and far,
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  Speaker 1: despite being cooped up in this small apartment. Also on
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  Speaker 1: the Gratitude list a company called The Good Good who
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  Speaker 1: sent me this Belgian chocolate hazelnutspread which has no added sugar.
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  Speaker 1: It is actually I cannot stop eating. It is addictive.
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  Speaker 1: I'm super grateful today. Let's see for my unfurnished apartment
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  Speaker 1: rooftop in New York City. If you don't live here,
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  Speaker 1: it's commonplace to call rooftops such as mine. Tar beach
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  Speaker 1: just means that it's just a roof. It's not meant
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  Speaker 1: to really be used by the people that live in
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  Speaker 1: that building, But right now it's kind of special. If
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  Speaker 1: you look around and you go up there, and you
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  Speaker 1: look up and down the avenue, you'll see a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people that are up on their tar beaches as well.
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  Speaker 1: So it feels like something that's just kind of bringing
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  Speaker 1: us all together. And if the weather holds out, I
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  Speaker 1: am personally looking forward to getting up there to do
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  Speaker 1: some yoga later. Today, all right, my three minutes, I
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  Speaker 1: think is starting to wind down. Also on the gratitude list,
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  Speaker 1: my new skincare routine I learned the other night that
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  Speaker 1: it goes in order of the products that you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to put on your face, from thinnest to thickest. And
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  Speaker 1: so now I am using serums and oil and moisturizers,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know. If I don't come out of
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  Speaker 1: this special time in our lives with the most awesome
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  Speaker 1: skin ever, then I'm obviously doing something wrong. And last,
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  Speaker 1: but not least, I said this on a FaceTime catch
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  Speaker 1: up with one of my dearest friends, that I'm really
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  Speaker 1: happy and grateful for feeling okay by myself. I recorded
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  Speaker 1: I hurd a moment on this back in September of
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, and I'll put it in the description to
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  Speaker 1: this episode as well, how to be alone and be
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  Speaker 1: okay with it. I feel really grateful that I have
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  Speaker 1: done a lot of work of feeling okay being by myself,
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  Speaker 1: and that's not something that happens overnight for me. I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm on my fourth or fifth year at least
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  Speaker 1: of living on my own, and it took a lot
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  Speaker 1: of conscious work. But The good news is that if
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  Speaker 1: you're doing this solo and you're not feeling super stoked
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  Speaker 1: about it, firstly, you're not alone. And secondly, there is
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  Speaker 1: no better time than the present to start getting okay
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  Speaker 1: being by yourself again. There's no magic pill for that,
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  Speaker 1: but what that does involve is certain exercises like outlining
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  Speaker 1: your values and getting honest with yourself about the things
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  Speaker 1: that you do like about your character and maybe the
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  Speaker 1: things that you'd want to change. Like I said, I
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  Speaker 1: recorded an episode on this. I definitely encourage you to
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  Speaker 1: give it a listen. But right now I am feeling
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  Speaker 1: so grateful to be a work in progress and to
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  Speaker 1: be at a point where I am grateful for this
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  Speaker 1: time just me and myself now. Of course, that's not
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  Speaker 1: to say that I don't miss an absolutely crave physical
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  Speaker 1: touch and being around friends, and I'm sure that many
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  Speaker 1: of you can relate that you even crave maybe situations
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  Speaker 1: that haven't been the best for you in the past.
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  Speaker 1: But I think what's most important and the last last
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  Speaker 1: thing to be super grateful for right now is if
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  Speaker 1: you are listening to this and you are safe, and
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  Speaker 1: you're inside, and you can appreciate the opportunity that has
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  Speaker 1: been presented to you. Who. Okay, so the prompt for
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  Speaker 1: this week take three minutes. I'll even a lot you'd
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  Speaker 1: go as long as five minutes, but basically a short
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  Speaker 1: amount of time to think of as many things as
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  Speaker 1: you can that are small and wonderful about your day
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  Speaker 1: to day right now. Don't be so harsh on yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I mean one of the things that I highlighted was
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  Speaker 1: my desk putting serum on my face. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: isn't crazy stuff, but it's all stuff that makes me
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  Speaker 1: feel good, small moments that make me smile. We all
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  Speaker 1: deserve to smile now, next week, next month, next year.
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  Speaker 1: You get the point. Cool things for the week first
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  Speaker 1: and foremost. If you are in New York City, I
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  Speaker 1: am really digging this Masks for the Masses initiative, This
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  Speaker 1: group that's making reusable masks for absolutely free, produced locally
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  Speaker 1: and delivering in a contactless way or shipping them directly,
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  Speaker 1: no questions asked. I just think, Wow, what a great
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  Speaker 1: way to give back to your local community. I'm also
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  Speaker 1: digging this week. Adam Rozonte. He's a trainer that I've
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  Speaker 1: worked with, a real guy. He's doing something called Gym
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  Speaker 1: Class with Adam. I know I have some parents that
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  Speaker 1: listen to the podcast, and basically, he's hosting a gym
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  Speaker 1: class that's right for kids in grades K through three
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  Speaker 1: at eleven am at eleven forty five am for grades
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  Speaker 1: four and five. That is on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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  Speaker 1: That is inventive programming. And I'm sure so many parents
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  Speaker 1: and of course so many kiddos are going to be
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  Speaker 1: super super grateful. For another thing, I love Alophine Tuliamuk
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  Speaker 1: is crocheting beanies and she has an Etsy shop and
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  Speaker 1: they are adorable. If you don't know about Alophine, she
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  Speaker 1: won the US Olympic Marathon trials in Atlanta. Her training
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  Speaker 1: might be on a little bit of a pause at
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  Speaker 1: the moment, so why not create an ETSI store. I
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  Speaker 1: also have really good news to close us out. You
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  Speaker 1: guys have been asking for playlists and I am officially
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  Speaker 1: working on it, so live now. Hurdle has a Spotify account.
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  Speaker 1: I will put the link to that in the show
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  Speaker 1: notes as well, So give it a look see and
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  Speaker 1: let me know what kind of playlists you are after.
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  Speaker 1: I again am here to please closing us out today
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  Speaker 1: with the quote that is sitting on my desk as
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  Speaker 1: I record this episode. When in doubt, choose love at
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  Speaker 1: Emily Body at Hurdle Podcast. Another hurdle conquered. Catch you
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  Speaker 1: guys next time.