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#HURDLEMOMENT: Answering Your Listener Questions! · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Emily Abadi here. You are listening to another
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Speaker 1: installment of Hurdle Moment from Hurdle. On today's episode, I
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Speaker 1: am going to be diving in to your listener questions
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Speaker 1: and there have been many to choose from which I'm
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Speaker 1: so so grateful for. If you have a burning ask
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Speaker 1: for me and you keep hitting my Instagram vms, I'll
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Speaker 1: give you a little spoiler alert. This is the guaranteed
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Speaker 1: get a beautiful audio recording of your voice and your question,
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Speaker 1: which I will then be able to answer on upcoming
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Speaker 1: episodes of the show. If you are an avid hurdler,
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Speaker 1: you know that I typically answer at least one in
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Speaker 1: every episode of Five Minute Friday, but I love to
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Speaker 1: do these entire listener queue episodes every now and again,
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Speaker 1: so the more that come in there, the better, And
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Speaker 1: of course I love to help you in whatever way
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Speaker 1: that I can. I'm gonna keep this intro short and
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Speaker 1: forever grateful for you. And that is it for now.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to jump right into your questions of this week.
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Speaker 1: With that, let's get to Hurdling.
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Speaker 2: Hi, Emily, my name is Elle, longtime listener, first time caller.
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Speaker 2: I was leaving this message to ask I'm going out
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Speaker 2: on my own and starting my own business in about
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Speaker 2: a month, and I was just wondering, I've always worked
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Speaker 2: with a ton of coworkers, I've been in person this
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Speaker 2: whole pandemic, and this will be my first time working
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Speaker 2: by myself. Does it ever get lonely? And how do
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Speaker 2: you recommend building a support network around you? Do you
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Speaker 2: have like a group of people that you can meet
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Speaker 2: with to go over things, a few questions or need
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Speaker 2: to bounce ideas off of anyone? Anyway, love the podcast?
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Speaker 1: Thanks thanks for the question, Elle, so to answer your question, yes,
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Speaker 1: working for yourself can definitely feel lonely at times. I
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Speaker 1: at this point have death gotten into a groove of
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Speaker 1: sorts where I have learned how to negate those feelings
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Speaker 1: the best I can as I go about my day
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Speaker 1: to day. So my tips for that is if you
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Speaker 1: can try to at least find one to two people
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Speaker 1: that you're going to interact with during your work day
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Speaker 1: and figure out when that interaction can actually really serve you.
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Speaker 1: So for me, I know that I am most productive
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Speaker 1: on my own during the morning. I like to get
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Speaker 1: my feet under me, feel like I have a hold
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Speaker 1: on the day. Then once the afternoon time block comes around,
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Speaker 1: I make sure to take my meetings in the afternoon.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm feeling a little less focused, but can
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Speaker 1: still give some energy to something, and that energy is
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Speaker 1: best spent on others. Also to combat that loneliness, I
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Speaker 1: would say take a step back and find the gratitude
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Speaker 1: in the idea that working for yourself has perks as
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Speaker 1: well as what can be seen to some this loneliness
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Speaker 1: as a negative perks being flexibility. I'll never forget. Growing up,
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Speaker 1: my father owns his own advertising and marketing company and
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Speaker 1: he used to work in the center of town, and
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Speaker 1: he was his own boss, and so if there was
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Speaker 1: ever something that was going on with me when I
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Speaker 1: was a teenager, or if there was a reason that
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Speaker 1: I needed him, he was able to be flexible in
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Speaker 1: his schedule that maybe someone who reports to someone else
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Speaker 1: for a nine to five couldn't be. So take a
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Speaker 1: step back, find the gratitude in your new way of working,
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Speaker 1: and do some little things for yourself throughout the day
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Speaker 1: to stave off this loneliness. Aside from the interacting with
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Speaker 1: the other people. That first tip, find little things that
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Speaker 1: bring you joy, just you in your space. Maybe that
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Speaker 1: is taking a break to write a little bit, or
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Speaker 1: perhaps getting up and taking a walk around the block.
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Speaker 1: Look for li little bits of sunshine to make the
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Speaker 1: day a little less lonely and feel a little bit
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Speaker 1: more joyous.
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Speaker 3: Hi, Emily, My question is if you had to choose
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Speaker 3: one common nutrition myth to just eradicate somehow, which myth
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Speaker 3: would you choose and why thanks.
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Speaker 1: A nutrition myth? Hmm, this is a good question. I
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Speaker 1: would say that the biggest thing that we are like
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Speaker 1: preached growing up at times is that carbs are quote
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Speaker 1: unquote bad carbs are not bad. In fact, it is
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Speaker 1: essential that you get carbohydrates, especially if you are an
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Speaker 1: active person, but if you're a person in general, carbohydrates
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Speaker 1: are an important building block to a good nutrition plan.
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Speaker 1: Carbs stimulate what's called muscle protein synthesis, which is just
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Speaker 1: so important, so so important to improve recovery and then
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Speaker 1: in turn enhance the performance during your next workout. Now
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Speaker 1: rule of thumb here, it is super important. You don't
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Speaker 1: want to push it further than two hours after your
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Speaker 1: workout to get in some of that essential post sweat nutrition,
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Speaker 1: and if you get in the carbs during that window,
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Speaker 1: then your body will be better off in the recovery phase.
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Speaker 4: Hi, Emily, it's Sasha.
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Speaker 2: I live in Brooklyn.
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Speaker 5: I look forward to your podcast every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Speaker 5: Totally motivates me and gets me through the day. I'm
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Speaker 5: totally looking forward to you moving to Brooklyn and hopefully
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Speaker 5: seeing you run in Prospect Park. My question is how
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Speaker 5: did you train for your first marathon, not only physically
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Speaker 5: but mentally, because I definitely don't have much running experience,
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Speaker 5: but I'm looking forward to accomplishing that goal soon.
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Speaker 2: Let me know.
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Speaker 5: Thanks.
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Speaker 1: Really good question. So my marathon training strategy has completely
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Speaker 1: changed from the time I ran my first marathon full
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Speaker 1: marathon nine marathons ago to leading up to the virtual
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Speaker 1: New York Marathon that I ran at the end of
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. And so how it has changed is during
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Speaker 1: the first training cycle ever, I was in college, had
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Speaker 1: a very different lifestyle, but I was literally just following
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Speaker 1: a plan that I found on the internet. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: y'all have heard of this guy before, good old Hal Higden.
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Speaker 1: That is what I followed. So in the plan that
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Speaker 1: I followed, which was completely for beginners, I believe it
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Speaker 1: was a sixteen week plan and I did not diversify
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Speaker 1: the type of running that I was doing whatsoever, So
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Speaker 1: it was super basic. I believe it would have a
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Speaker 1: week that looked like run four miles, run six miles,
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Speaker 1: run four miles, take a day off, do a long run,
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Speaker 1: run again like it wasn't anything super snazzy here. Now,
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Speaker 1: as the time has gone on, I have integrated a
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Speaker 1: lot of different types of running into my regular routine,
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Speaker 1: and I've talked about the different types of running on
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Speaker 1: the show before. A link to that episode in the
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Speaker 1: show notes. What I want to say here is that
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Speaker 1: you've got to find the right plan that works for you,
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Speaker 1: and if you have the means, I would highly suggest
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Speaker 1: that you reach out to a coach on a one
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Speaker 1: on one basis to get a better idea of what
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Speaker 1: that could look like. Even if this coach just gives
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Speaker 1: you a plan and you don't work with them through
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Speaker 1: the extent of your training journey, perhaps they can recommend
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Speaker 1: a plan that fits where you are at with your
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Speaker 1: body right now. Whatever the case may be, that extra
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Speaker 1: insight is going to be super valuable for you as
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Speaker 1: you're about to take your body through a really intense process.
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Speaker 1: On the mental side of things, I mean goodness, my
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Speaker 1: mindset toward marathoning and running has changed so much, large
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Speaker 1: in part because of the takeaways that I've had from
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Speaker 1: doing these crazy events. Right when I went into my
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Speaker 1: first marathon, I truly didn't know what to expect. But
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Speaker 1: that process and then the marathons subsequent to that, each
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Speaker 1: of them came with all of their own individual lessons
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Speaker 1: and moments that I take with me now on each
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Speaker 1: and every run. I would encourage you, from the mental
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Speaker 1: pep talk side of things to certainly have a few
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Speaker 1: different mantras or things that you say to yourself when
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Speaker 1: the going gets hard, so that you can lean into
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Speaker 1: those sayings and push yourself when things are just not
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Speaker 1: feeling super stellar. And know this, whether you are a
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Speaker 1: total beginner or a veteran runner, you are going to
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Speaker 1: have moments where you wonder, for just a second, like
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Speaker 1: am I doing this? Am I doing this well? Is
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Speaker 1: this okay? Is this enough? We've all been there. Having
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Speaker 1: these mantras, having these reinforcing things that you say to
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Speaker 1: yourself will make a world of difference when that little
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Speaker 6: Hi Emily, my name is Joey, and I've been listening
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Speaker 6: to Hurdle pretty much religiously since your Kirsty Godso episode
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Speaker 6: like over a year ago. And my question is is,
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Speaker 6: after you have gone through a hurdle and you learn,
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Speaker 6: you know, some kind of lesson or something to keep
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Speaker 6: you going, what is your best advice on keeping that
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Speaker 6: lesson and keeping that hurdle in the forefront of your
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Speaker 6: mind so that it's not just a one and done lesson,
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Speaker 6: but something that is really advising how you continue going
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Speaker 6: through life, so you don't really find yourself going through
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Speaker 6: the same problem.
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Speaker 2: Or the same hurdle.
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Speaker 7: Again.
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Speaker 2: Would love to hear your insight.
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Speaker 6: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: So, the funny thing about life is that we can
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Speaker 1: go through these tough hurdle moments and learn lessons from them,
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Speaker 1: but there are so many things that are just completely
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Speaker 1: uncontrollable that all we can do is the best we
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Speaker 1: can with what we have. So you can learn from
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Speaker 1: a hurdle, like you can learn from getting let go
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Speaker 1: from your job, but those learnings may not guarantee that
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Speaker 1: you're gonna not ever get let go from a job ever. Again,
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Speaker 1: what they will do, however, is help you navigate if
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Speaker 1: you were to hit a similar hurdle going forward. So,
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Speaker 1: I mean, the job layoff example is a great example
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Speaker 1: because that happened to me twice, and the first time
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Speaker 1: I got let go from my job it was I mean,
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Speaker 1: both times were devastating, but the first time was especially
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Speaker 1: devastating because I was a I think I was twenty
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Speaker 1: five at the time. Maybe I was twenty five. I
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Speaker 1: had just moved into an apartment on my own, and
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Speaker 1: I had no clue what I was supposed to do.
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Speaker 1: I needed to make money, I needed to figure it out,
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Speaker 1: and so I just started throwing, like the spaghetti analogy
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Speaker 1: spaghetti at the wall and hoping different things would stick.
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Speaker 1: And then five or six days later I ended up
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Speaker 1: at Self magazine as their fitness editor. Fast forward then
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Speaker 1: a year later, when Self folded and I found myself
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Speaker 1: let go again, I was able to calmly approach a
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Speaker 1: similar hurdle with the lessons that I had from the
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Speaker 1: first go around, understanding and not getting as or scared
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Speaker 1: or wrapped up or let my anxiety flare as much,
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Speaker 1: knowing that I conquered it once and I was going
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Speaker 1: to figure out how to do it again. Now this
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean that all of the same strategies are going
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Speaker 1: to work time after time for every hurdle that you approach.
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Speaker 1: But what this means is that you know that you
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Speaker 1: have the tools now to be in control of how
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Speaker 1: you react to an unpredictable circumstance. So reach for that.
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Speaker 1: Be proud of you knowing that, yes, you can do
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Speaker 1: hard things. And that you got through them the last
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Speaker 1: time and you'll get through them this time as well.
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Speaker 4: Hi, Emily, I hope you're having a great day. My
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Speaker 4: question is, would you describe your career journey thus far
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Speaker 4: as linear or non linear? And what advice would you
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Speaker 4: give to someone who's a liberal arts major who's currently
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Speaker 4: on a non linear career path. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting because at first I was about
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Speaker 1: to say that my career path has been non linear.
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Speaker 1: But I truly do feel as though every single thing
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Speaker 1: that I have done in my career has empowered me
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Speaker 1: to get to where I am today, and a lot
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Speaker 1: of it has built off of one another. So while
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Speaker 1: I started as an editorial intern out of college, I
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Speaker 1: moved to be an associate editor. I then transitioned to
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Speaker 1: be an assistant editor, and an associate editor, I moved
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Speaker 1: up to being a regular editor, and then, as I
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Speaker 1: said before, I was an editor itself. But here now
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Speaker 1: a podcaster, my own boss. I never expected that this
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Speaker 1: would be, you know, the next step in the step ladder,
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Speaker 1: so to speak. But so many of the tools that
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Speaker 1: I learned and the skills that I acquire during all
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Speaker 1: of those years working for someone else. They empower me
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Speaker 1: to show up every day and work for myself even better.
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Speaker 1: I would say that even if you're jumping from one
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Speaker 1: industry to the next, you're taking the lessons that you've
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Speaker 1: learned in each job so that you can show up
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Speaker 1: and be better as time goes on. My advice if
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Speaker 1: you're not in a conventional linear career path would be
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Speaker 1: just to believe in you and don't be afraid to
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Speaker 1: ask questions. That is so so important. Sometimes we've got
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Speaker 1: to put our ego aside to be able to do
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Speaker 1: a better job. There's always going to be someone that
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Speaker 1: is smarter than you that may do something better than you,
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Speaker 1: and hey, that's cool. Let your ego go, ask the
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Speaker 1: hard questions and you will be grateful for it.
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Speaker 7: Hi Emily, Hey, love love, love everything you do with
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Speaker 7: your Hurdle podcast. Thank you so much for always interviewing
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Speaker 7: such amazing people and giving us so much great advice
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Speaker 7: through all of it. I'm wondering if you could give
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Speaker 7: some feedback on your favorite shoes to run outdoors in
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Speaker 7: more extreme weather conditions like massive amounts of rain or snow,
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Speaker 7: and then also your favorite shoes to run on a treadmill.
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Speaker 7: With thanks again, I hope.
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Speaker 2: You have a great day.
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Speaker 1: Asking me to pick favorites is a hard, hard thing
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Speaker 1: in terms of whether I have one sneaker I lean
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Speaker 1: into ninety nine point nine percent of the time when
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Speaker 1: it's raining. That is the Nike Pegasus Shield. It's got
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Speaker 1: a water repellent upper which really really helps the foot
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Speaker 1: stay dry. And if you don't already size up a
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Speaker 1: half size in your running shoes, I would highly encourage
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Speaker 1: you just to try it. That's because when you are
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Speaker 1: running and your foot is constantly hitting the ground, as
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Speaker 1: you can imagine with time, that motion is going to
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Speaker 1: cause your foot to swell. So buying your sneakers a
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Speaker 1: half size up will give your foot the room it
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Speaker 1: needs to accommodate that during your activity. Also, you asked
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Speaker 1: about shoes that I run on the treadmill with I mean, God,
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Speaker 1: this runs the gamut. Lately, I have been running a
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Speaker 1: lot on the tread in my Nike Pegasus thirty seven.
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Speaker 1: Also a big fan of the Brooks Ghost. The New
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Speaker 1: Balance eight ninety is one of my favorites, and the
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Speaker 1: New Balance Fuel Cell Rebel V two is one hundred
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Speaker 1: percent my go to as of late. For more Sneaker Rex.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to link to the Weekly Hurdle blog post
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Speaker 1: that I did where I chatted you through all of
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Speaker 1: the shoes in my current regular rotation, so definitely check
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Speaker 1: that out.
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Speaker 8: Hi, Emily, this is Kara from Kansas City. I've been
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Speaker 8: listening to you for a few years now, and I
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Speaker 8: think I've listened to every episode. I really appreciate all
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Speaker 8: of the content you put out there. So being from
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Speaker 8: the Midwest, I've only been to New York once about
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Speaker 8: four years ago, and I'd love to travel again once
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Speaker 8: COVID has subsided slightly, and especially visit New York. I
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Speaker 8: had such a great time when I did visit, So
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Speaker 8: being an experienced New Yorker, I'd love to know a
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Speaker 8: few things for me. One, what's the best time to
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Speaker 8: come visit?
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Speaker 5: Two?
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Speaker 8: Where should I go or something I should eat? And three,
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Speaker 8: if i'm there, where's the best place to go for
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Speaker 8: a great run?
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much?
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Speaker 1: Oh love a New York tourist. So the best time
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Speaker 1: of year to come to New York? I think that
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Speaker 1: there's nothing like the fall in New York, specifically like
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Speaker 1: the very end of September early October. That's my favorite
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Speaker 1: time here. In the city. But also there's so many
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Speaker 1: special moments that you can find year round. So really
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Speaker 1: it's totally up to your travel schedule. If you come
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Speaker 1: in the summer, the city can be electric, everyone is
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Speaker 1: out the parks or poppin' it's so good. If you
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Speaker 1: come in the winter, you get so much of the
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Speaker 1: magic that comes with the holidays and being in New York,
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Speaker 1: the ice skating, the seasonal winter markets, all that stuff
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Speaker 1: is really great. And then, of course, I mean and
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Speaker 1: then whether on the spring is delightful as well, So
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Speaker 1: as spoken like a true New Yorker, I would recommend
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Speaker 1: the fall. But all you're here is absolutely great. As
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Speaker 1: for what to eat, no brainer. I'm going to tell
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Speaker 1: you to either go to our premi and get the
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Speaker 1: penny bolonaise or go to Emily. There are a few
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Speaker 1: locations either in the West Village or Brooklyn. They also
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Speaker 1: pepperoni and a little bit of kick. And last part
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Speaker 1: of this question, you're going running in Central Park game
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Speaker 1: said match. That's all the questions I'm going to tackle
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Speaker 1: for this installment of listener questions. Ask Emily if you
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Speaker 1: have more questions for me, and I hope that you
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Speaker 1: do because I love answering these. Head on over to
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