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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: The Butterfly Effect Is Crazy Because ... · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: What's going on? Everyone?
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  Speaker 2: Emily a body here. You are listening to five Minute
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  Speaker 2: Friday from Hurdle. I'm laughing. I wish you could see
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  Speaker 2: me right now. I am literally recording this under a
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  Speaker 2: comforter in a hotel room in Jamaica.
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  Speaker 1: The room doesn't have kurpet and it's super echoey. And
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  Speaker 1: if I didn't do this like this, then you would
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  Speaker 1: definitely know. So here I am the things we do
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  Speaker 1: for podcasting. I am having one of those moments, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that trend that we're seeing right now on social media,
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  Speaker 1: whether it be via Instagram or TikTok, And it's like
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  Speaker 1: the butterfly effect is because if this didn't happen, then
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  Speaker 1: this wouldn't have happened, and this wouldn't have happened in
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  Speaker 1: XYZ and I cannot help but think about my career
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  Speaker 1: that way. This week, I now have a podcast that
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  Speaker 1: enables me to travel around the world and interview I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: this is crazy, interview women that I admire within the
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  Speaker 1: realm of sport, working on my mission to empower women
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  Speaker 1: everywhere to live healthier, happier, more motivated lives. And I
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  Speaker 1: would not be doing this if health and wellness didn't
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  Speaker 1: become a priority for me back in college, and if
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  Speaker 1: I go back even before that, I was overweight and
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  Speaker 1: uncomfortable as a pre teen, and I didn't make the
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  Speaker 1: volleyball team my sophomore year after loving playing volleyball because
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't run a mile and under ten minutes, and
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  Speaker 1: I went through so much trauma and boy saying negative
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  Speaker 1: things about me. And finally, one day, as a freshman
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  Speaker 1: in college, I got on a scale and saw a
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  Speaker 1: number that frightened me and sprinted down the road because
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what else to do. That was so
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  Speaker 1: counterintuitive to me, and I fell in the grass and
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  Speaker 1: I looked up at the sky and said, I can't
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  Speaker 1: live my life like this. And if none of those
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  Speaker 1: other things had happened, then maybe I wouldn't have gotten
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  Speaker 1: to that breaking point. And if that breaking point didn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: then maybe I wouldn't have started to invest in my
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  Speaker 1: own personal health and well being, and I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: lost weight, and that journey wouldn't have brought me to running,
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  Speaker 1: and running wouldn't have brought me to this place in
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  Speaker 1: my career where I wanted to dial in on being
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  Speaker 1: a journalist. That focused on fitness, that focused on female athletes,
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  Speaker 1: that got the job as a fitness editor at Self magazine,
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  Speaker 1: And if the magazine didn't fold, then I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: ended up wanting to start something of my own and
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  Speaker 1: being here and talking to you on this podcast, arguably
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  Speaker 1: sitting in Jamaica. It's wild and I cannot help but
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  Speaker 1: think about so many times that it felt unfair, so
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  Speaker 1: many times that it's felt so so difficult. But if
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  Speaker 1: there's anything that has been a resounding message for me
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  Speaker 1: over the last seven and a half years creating content
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  Speaker 1: on Hurdle, it's that these difficult hurdle moments happen to
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  Speaker 1: teach us something. And these strong individuals, the smartest of
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  Speaker 1: all of us, and I'm talking to you, what we
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  Speaker 1: do is we take these difficult moments and we learn
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  Speaker 1: from them. We use them as an opportunity to inform
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  Speaker 1: our next step.
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  Speaker 2: And don't get me wrong, I am informed. The challenges
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  Speaker 2: are still coming and they will for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: my days. But I can say without a hesitant of
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  Speaker 2: a doubt is that the phrase I can say that
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  Speaker 2: without a doubt you understand what I'm saying. I know
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  Speaker 2: I am exactly where I'm supposed to be right now.
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  Speaker 2: As corny as that sounds, I am doing exactly what
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  Speaker 2: I am supposed to be doing. I feel it in
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  Speaker 2: my gut, I feel it in my soul, and I
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  Speaker 2: am so excited about what happens next. I get this way.
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  Speaker 2: My birthday's next week, and whenever I'm on the cusp
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  Speaker 2: of another lap around the sun, I'm extremely reflective, and
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  Speaker 2: I am in this place where it could be simple
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  Speaker 2: to focus on what I am without, I'm choosing to
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  Speaker 2: focus on what I am with and all of the
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  Speaker 2: goodness in my life, and how far I have come,
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  Speaker 2: and how proud I am of the woman that's sitting
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  Speaker 2: here under this comforter talking to you about all of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's good, It's really damn good. The butterfly effect, it's crazy,
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  Speaker 2: it's crazy. My question for you right now, my listener
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  Speaker 2: prompt you this week, what is one one thing, one
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  Speaker 2: hurdle moment that you've experienced that in the moment was,
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  Speaker 2: oh my goodness, so challenging, but now you look back
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  Speaker 2: on with a certain fondness. What is one hurdle moment
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  Speaker 2: you've experienced that was difficult in the moment, but has
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  Speaker 2: helped you step into who you are today. And now
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  Speaker 2: a listener question. Hi, Emily, I've been listening since twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Three exclamation points. My question for you is, how do
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  Speaker 2: you know if a decision is right? For example, interviewing
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  Speaker 2: for new jobs or opportunities. I tend to get hesitant
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  Speaker 2: because I can be a bit too comfortable where I'm
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  Speaker 2: at right now or scared of change. But question is,
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  Speaker 2: how do you determine when your gut instinct is telling
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  Speaker 2: you the right thing? How do you know if any
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  Speaker 2: decision is right? Any advice would be so much appreciated.
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  Speaker 2: Heart emoji, thank you. Eighteen exclamation points. Taylor, Oh, Taylor,
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  Speaker 2: I have been here and I think as you can see.
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  Speaker 2: Are you heard anyway in the beginning of this episode,
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  Speaker 2: there are gonna be a lot of twists and turns
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  Speaker 2: in life, and you might not always have all of
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  Speaker 2: the answers. But I trust in your intuition. I trust
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  Speaker 2: in my intuition, and no matter what happens, even if
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's quote unquote not the right decision, it is
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  Speaker 2: a decision that will get you wherever it is that
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  Speaker 2: you are supposed to go. I know that's hard to hear.
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  Speaker 2: When things feel as though they're not going your way,
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  Speaker 2: I know that you want someone to be like, this
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  Speaker 2: is going to lead you exactly to the path that
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  Speaker 2: you've thought that you were supposed to go on for
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  Speaker 2: all of your years. But the truth is is that
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  Speaker 2: there is no roadmap, and that's part of the fun.
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  Speaker 2: How do you trust your gut? It's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: You feel it like I feel my intuition deep in
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  Speaker 2: my chest, and whenever I do something where I'm like
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  Speaker 2: second guessing myself, and it happens a lot, I trust
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  Speaker 2: that making a decision will give me clarity. And when
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  Speaker 2: clarity occurs, it might not give you the answers that
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  Speaker 2: you want, but it gives you the answers that you
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  Speaker 2: need so that you can make an informed decision going forward.
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  Speaker 2: And so interviewing for new jobs or opportunities, Yes, overwhelming,
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  Speaker 2: totally understandable. But trust me when I say that you
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  Speaker 2: have all of the tools you need inside of you
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  Speaker 2: to move forward. I'll say that again, you have all
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  Speaker 2: of the tools inside of you to move forward. So
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  Speaker 2: what if it's not quote unquote the right decision. Who
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  Speaker 2: gets to decide what's the right decision except you? You
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  Speaker 2: know so trusting your gut is following your intuition. I
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  Speaker 2: feel it in my chest, and I trust that whatever
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  Speaker 2: is meant for me and won't pass me by. And
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  Speaker 2: even in the moments where it feels like that's exactly
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  Speaker 2: what's happening, that redirection is a blessing, it's information, it's
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity, but you have to choose to see it
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  Speaker 2: that way. I hope this helps you all know how
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  Speaker 2: to find me if you've got a listener question of
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  Speaker 2: your own. I'm over at Emily Avadi at Hurdle Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for me to get out from under this
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  Speaker 2: comforter and head to the airport. Another hurdle conquered. Catch
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  Speaker 2: you guys next time.