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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Why I Ditched Whole 30 (& Am Better For It) · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, emilya Badi here you are listening to the
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  Speaker 1: ever lovely five minute Friday on Hurdle. It's always lovely
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  Speaker 1: to have a moment to reconnect with you, the hurdlers.
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  Speaker 1: I've had a mega productive week. I feel like things
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  Speaker 1: are really rolling right now. When it comes to twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four and twenty twenty four planning, it's all happening.
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting to see the fruits of my labor, so
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  Speaker 1: to speak, when it comes to the goals and intentions
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  Speaker 1: that I set just a few weeks ago. And it's
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  Speaker 1: exciting when you feel really aligned with what you've said
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  Speaker 1: out to do, knowing that it is really something that
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  Speaker 1: you genuinely want.
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  Speaker 2: I think Quitter's day they call it, was this week.
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  Speaker 1: And the only resolution that I have faltered on thus
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  Speaker 1: far is doing whole thirty in January, and today I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to tell you why. So I set out to
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  Speaker 1: do a whole thirty at the beginning of the year.
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  Speaker 1: I had a couple of good friends who were joining
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  Speaker 1: me along for the ride, one of whom has done
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  Speaker 1: the diet, if we want to call it that, before
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  Speaker 1: and really enjoyed it. And she's talked about it so
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  Speaker 1: often that I thought to myself, listen, I have this
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  Speaker 1: big shoot that I'm doing at the end of this month.
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  Speaker 1: I want to make sure I'm really eating well, taking
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  Speaker 1: care of myself, investing in my mental health, my physical health,
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  Speaker 1: my gut health, everything in January. And so I'm in,
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  Speaker 1: let's do its together. And basically, I think thirteen or
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  Speaker 1: maybe twelve or thirteen days into the month, I had
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  Speaker 1: had no issues at all sticking with Whole thirty. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty aligned with what my diet
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  Speaker 1: typically looks like. I would say the only large differences
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  Speaker 1: were that I cut out dairy aka cheese, and I
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  Speaker 1: was nixing grains and bread. So that meant no toast
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  Speaker 1: with breakfast, no quinoa on my salads, no quenwa with dinner,
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  Speaker 1: rice pasta again, bread like, just some elements that candidly
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  Speaker 1: at times I have previously felt guilty for eating. And
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  Speaker 1: so I was like, I'm just gonna next season, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be really great for me. Oh and the
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  Speaker 1: last thing I cannot forget is all like desserts. So
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  Speaker 1: no more random ice cream bar from Yasso before where
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  Speaker 1: I go to bed, no more chocolate, no random croissants
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  Speaker 1: after a run, like things like this, no sweet treats,
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  Speaker 1: and so I didn't have any negative feedback on the
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  Speaker 1: way of eating until, like I said, day twelve thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have those like upfront headaches that people talked
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  Speaker 1: about when it came to sugar withdrawal. Like I didn't
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  Speaker 1: feel any of these symptoms, and I was eating a
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  Speaker 1: fair amount of fruit on the diet. But come that
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  Speaker 1: threshold of twelve thirteen, I developed a headache that I
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  Speaker 1: still feel like I have at times. But for the
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  Speaker 1: first forty eight hours it was so intense I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: focus on anything. And on the third day, the third
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  Speaker 1: morning I woke up, I spoke with a friend or
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  Speaker 1: two that are both registered dietitians. I told them what
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  Speaker 1: I was experiencing, and one of them basically said to me, Emily,
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  Speaker 1: this is your body screaming. This is a red flag,
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  Speaker 1: especially because I am currently training for a marathon, which
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  Speaker 1: meant that I went from a place of being knee
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  Speaker 1: deep in recovery practices. I've been dealing with knee tendonitis,
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  Speaker 1: which has been really so much better lately. I'm so
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  Speaker 1: grateful for it. Really putting in the work to feel
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  Speaker 1: better in my body, and then I'm met with these
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  Speaker 1: headaches from something that I'm choosing to do. I'm choosing
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  Speaker 1: to do whole thirty, even though what I'm learning is
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  Speaker 1: that maybe it isn't serving me how I'd hoped. And
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  Speaker 1: so I did the best I could with the information
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  Speaker 1: that I had, and I made the decision to take
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  Speaker 1: care of me. And I'll be candid like that was
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  Speaker 1: really challenging because I didn't want to.
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  Speaker 2: Feel as though I failed.
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  Speaker 1: But what I think really it was when I take
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  Speaker 1: a look at the choice that I made to go
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  Speaker 1: off of the program, was me getting information and doing
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  Speaker 1: something about it rather than lingering in this malaise of
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  Speaker 1: uncomfortable headaches and just not feeling my best. And really,
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  Speaker 1: I believe that failing fast is a skill set that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people are scared to embrace. And again,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as always when I say the words fail
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  Speaker 1: in quotes on the show, it really means learning how
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  Speaker 1: to pivot from where you're at and the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: learn something. And so I on that third day a
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  Speaker 1: oatmeal in the morning, I think I had rice with
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  Speaker 1: lunch and rice with dinner and really started to get
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  Speaker 1: back the carbs that end up with sugar at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day back into my diet so that
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  Speaker 1: I could give my body what it needs to fuel.
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  Speaker 1: And this is really, you know, a lesson something that
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  Speaker 1: happened to me that I'm proud of. I'm proud that
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  Speaker 1: I quit whole thirty because again, I was doing what
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  Speaker 1: I needed to do. And so my question for you
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  Speaker 1: this month is is there something going on in your
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  Speaker 1: life right now that you may be lying to yourself
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  Speaker 1: about something that you could choose to quote unquote fail
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  Speaker 1: fast at and then move forward. What is something that
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  Speaker 1: you're doing right now that actually isn't serving you at all?
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  Speaker 1: And now I'll listen to our question.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Emily Christine from Portland, Oregon. Here a long time hurdler.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks so much for your great perspectives. I have been
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  Speaker 3: empowered to reframe hurdle moments in my life thanks to
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  Speaker 3: your thoughtful insights. I'm reaching out for some advice about
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  Speaker 3: an upcoming trip. I'm heading to Orlando for the Olympic
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  Speaker 3: Marathon trials and I'm excited about getting to see the
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  Speaker 3: race in person. It should be awesome, but I'm also
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  Speaker 3: a bit anxious since what was originally planned to be
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  Speaker 3: a girlfriend's getaway, has turned into a solo trip. I
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  Speaker 3: hope there will be opportunities to connect with and meet
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  Speaker 3: new people during the weekend events, but who knows. I
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  Speaker 3: know you've had a lot of great experiences with solo travel,
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  Speaker 3: so I will be grateful for your advice and hopefully
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  Speaker 3: some insider scoop on events for the big week in Orlando,
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  Speaker 3: maybe a hurdler get together. Hope to see you there,
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  Speaker 3: Thanks so much.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, ah, I love this. You might see me there.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, I am going to be in town, although I'm
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  Speaker 1: not hosting any events or any hurdler meetups, but I
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  Speaker 1: certainly will be cheering TBD if I'm bringing the megaphone.
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  Speaker 2: But it's going to be a good time now.
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  Speaker 1: As for solo travel, yes, I've done a lot of it,
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  Speaker 1: and I would say I have three big takeaways from
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  Speaker 1: traveling on my own. First and foremost, I always bring
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  Speaker 1: a book or a journal if I'm going to sit
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  Speaker 1: down for a meal that's not like a fast casual situation,
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  Speaker 1: for instance, maybe dinner, and I bring that because the
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  Speaker 1: last thing I want to be doing when I'm out
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  Speaker 1: to eat alone is sitting there on my phone scrolling
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  Speaker 1: through social media. I want to be present with my surroundings.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be able to look up and I
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  Speaker 1: want to greet people, and I want to invest that
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  Speaker 1: time in myself. If I'm traveling alone, I view that
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  Speaker 1: as an an opportunity to date myself. And let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you you are worthy of dating. The second takeaway
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  Speaker 1: I have on social travel is you do want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that you pack your schedule or schedule something
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  Speaker 1: that excites you. One thing in the morning and one
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  Speaker 1: thing in the afternoon. When you are on your own,
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  Speaker 1: it is a really great time and opportunity to meet people.
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  Speaker 1: And also you get complete control over your schedule. So
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  Speaker 1: in this instance, in particular, there's going to be so
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  Speaker 1: much stuff happening in Orlando this weekend, on top of
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  Speaker 1: of course Orlando being the home to Universal Studios and Disney.
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  Speaker 1: So make something happen for yourself, find activities that excite you,
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  Speaker 1: and make sure that you do whatever needs to happen
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  Speaker 1: to set yourself up for success. And the last thing
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  Speaker 1: I will say is just be open. It may be
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  Speaker 1: a little different for you to be a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more open to your surroundings, right to say hi to
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  Speaker 1: someone on the street or compliment someone on what they
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  Speaker 1: might be wearing. But in this instance, you're on your
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  Speaker 1: own and it is a really, really great opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: make some new friends. This is one of those situations,
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  Speaker 1: what's the worst thing that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to be exactly back where you started.
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  Speaker 1: If the worst thing that's going to happen is you
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  Speaker 1: pipe up and try to strike up a conversation with
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  Speaker 1: someone or ask about programming later in the day, or
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  Speaker 1: whatever the case may be, and they're not into it.
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  Speaker 1: A they're a jerk, but B you're exactly where you
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  Speaker 1: started and that place it's not so bad after all.
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  Speaker 1: So embrace this time for you. Use it as a
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  Speaker 1: self care moment. Also, such an exciting weekend to cheer
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  Speaker 1: on so many amazing humans, and I trust and know
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  Speaker 1: that it will be a lot of fun, a trip
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  Speaker 1: that you will definitely remember. That's it for this week
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  Speaker 1: at Emily a Body and at Hurdle p Podcast, another
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  Speaker 1: hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.