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TURNING THE PAGE: Becs Gentry On The Roller Coaster That Was 2021 · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Speaker 1: We're under such a microscope doing everything at home these
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Speaker 1: days and having to like reroute where we want to go.
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Speaker 1: And I think when we actually have sat down, it's
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Speaker 1: been so long that we've been under our own microscopes
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Speaker 1: that now we're sitting down and like, actually, no, I
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Speaker 1: can stop doing that. I don't need to be putting
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Speaker 1: that much energy into this specific thing because it doesn't
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Speaker 1: serve me. And I can save that energy and that
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Speaker 1: drive and put it into this thing and that's actually
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Speaker 1: going to serve me much better.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Hey, back for day two. EMILYA body here coming
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Speaker 2: my goal through these discussions is to empower you to
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Speaker 3: This week, I am so amped to bring you.
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Speaker 2: Five back to back episodes to jumpstart twenty twenty two
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Speaker 3: Many of you know and love her.
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Speaker 2: She is a peloton instructor and man, oh man, did
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Speaker 3: And with that, let's kick things off. Let's get to
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Speaker 3: hurdling today.
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Speaker 2: I'm sitting down with Beck's Gentry welcome back to the show.
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Speaker 3: As many of you know, Bes a beloved Peloton instructor.
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Speaker 1: How you do today, love fantastic thank you. So good
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Speaker 1: to be back with you.
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Speaker 3: I'm so happy to have you back with me.
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Speaker 2: I'll say you and I are are in close proximity
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Speaker 2: right now, but in two different places. And this definitely
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Speaker 2: is giving me like deja vu early twenty twenty vibes.
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Speaker 3: But we're healthy, we're happy, and we're moving forward.
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Speaker 1: Yes we are. It's great. End of twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 1: I think we can only have a little bit more
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Speaker 1: goodness sprinkled into twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 3: I know it's all going to be good. It's all
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Speaker 3: going to be good.
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Speaker 2: So today you and I speaking of the end of
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, we're here to talk about it. We're
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Speaker 2: here to recap as a part of Hurdles, turning the
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Speaker 2: page series on where we've been and a little bit
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Speaker 2: on where we're going. So what I'm doing this week,
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Speaker 2: as you know, as I'm sure you have thought long
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Speaker 2: and hard about, is getting a word from past guests
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Speaker 2: of the show that sums up perhaps a portion a
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Speaker 2: part of what twenty twenty one was like for them. So, Bes,
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Speaker 2: this is a big moment here. You're gonna tell me
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Speaker 2: what is your and how did you come to it?
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Speaker 1: My word is roller coaster, because it literally has come
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Speaker 1: out of my mouth every day this year for multiple
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Speaker 1: different reasons, not just the current health situation and pandemic
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Speaker 1: that's been with us for so long personally, from like
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Speaker 1: my feeling towards running, my feeling towards fitness, my feeling
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Speaker 1: towards God, the weather. You know, it just feels like
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Speaker 1: it's one. I'm on a blindfolded roller coaster this year.
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Speaker 1: I have no idea when that stomach dropping moment is
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Speaker 1: going to happen, and then you're just riding it like
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Speaker 1: you can't get off because I'm not going to quit.
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Speaker 1: I'm not that kind of person. I really am like
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Speaker 1: somebody who is when they are strapped in from the
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Speaker 1: line all the way to when they get off. I'm
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Speaker 1: in it for the ride, but at times you don't
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Speaker 1: enjoy it, you don't really like where you're at, but
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Speaker 1: you know that at some point you're just going to
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Speaker 1: get to a better part. And that's how this is
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Speaker 1: a roller coaster of emotion, of physical energy, of just
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Speaker 1: finding your power, not finding your power. It's in and out,
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Speaker 1: up and down, upside down, whatever you want to call it.
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Speaker 3: We can all.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure totally relate and you have had, I mean
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Speaker 2: a roller coaster of a year to see the least,
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Speaker 2: so many highs and lows. When you reflect back on
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Speaker 2: last year, what would you say was one of the
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Speaker 2: biggest highs for you?
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Speaker 1: The trials was definitely the biggest high for me. Getting
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Speaker 1: a to go back to the UK and see my family,
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Speaker 1: which I hadn't done since I moved to New York,
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Speaker 1: so that was near on three years. And just having
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to compete at that level. Obviously, personally it
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Speaker 1: was bigger than what the result could have been. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: going to compete for your country, you know, wearing the
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Speaker 1: British colors and being able to run for your country
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Speaker 1: is amazing. But just the personal test, I don't often
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Speaker 1: and I spoke about this to you when we last chatted.
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Speaker 1: I hate pressure and I really never put myself under
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Speaker 1: that situation. I said, I rarely tell people a time.
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Speaker 1: If I'm going for a time, I just sort of run.
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Speaker 1: And that day was the first time I've stood on
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Speaker 1: the line knowing, oh my goodness, me, there is a big,
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Speaker 1: big time that I want to achieve here. So that
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Speaker 1: was definitely a high in my own personal world of
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Speaker 1: training in that way.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's interesting, right, because I think that you
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Speaker 2: have this growth mindset, like really beautiful perspective on the
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Speaker 2: opportunity what came from that despite not perhaps accomplishing your
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Speaker 2: ultimate goal. Talk to me a little bit about why
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Speaker 2: you think that is. Were you always this way? Were
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Speaker 2: you always a growth mindset person, or do you feel
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Speaker 2: like the lessons that you've learned leading up to this
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Speaker 2: point equipped you to look at the bright side of things.
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Speaker 1: I think growing up as an only child, I have
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Speaker 1: a half sister, but she's twenty three years my senior,
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Speaker 1: so we never grew up together, and so I think
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Speaker 1: i've or I have always been that way because perhaps
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Speaker 1: because I really never had anyone close to me at
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Speaker 1: home to compete with. But I always wanted to be
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Speaker 1: really good. Really, I knew my sister was very academically
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Speaker 1: blessed and very sporty, so I always had that level
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Speaker 1: of like, okay, but I want to do that too.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't necessarily competition. I just wanted to make sure
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Speaker 1: I did as well as she did because I saw
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Speaker 1: he prowd. It made my dad and so I think
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Speaker 1: for sure, But you know what the funny thing is,
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Speaker 1: this year has taught me where I excel in that
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Speaker 1: way and where to put it into these yes terms
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Speaker 1: where I don't care about that mentality for certain parts
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Speaker 1: of life. It's so weird because you we're under such
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Speaker 1: a microscope doing everything at home these days and having
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Speaker 1: to like reroute where we want to go. And I
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Speaker 1: think when we actually have sat down, it's been so
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Speaker 1: long that we've been under our own microscopes that now
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Speaker 1: we're sitting down and like, actually, no, I can stop
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Speaker 1: doing that. I don't need to be putting that much
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Speaker 1: energy into this specific thing because it doesn't serve me.
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Speaker 1: And I can save that energy and that drive and
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Speaker 1: put it into this thing and that's actually going to
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Speaker 1: serve me much better. And I think that's been super
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Speaker 1: interesting for me to figure out where.
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Speaker 2: That growth can go, finding the opportunity in like this
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Speaker 2: stillness that maybe so many of us have not leaned
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Speaker 2: into previously, and not being able any longer to ignore
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Speaker 2: the little voice inside right, the one that's telling you
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Speaker 2: what it is that you really need. It's like we
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Speaker 2: got to such an exhausted point with so many of
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Speaker 2: the things that were happening in our life that were
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Speaker 2: completely uncontrollable that it was like, yo, like you and me,
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Speaker 2: me and my mental side, me in my brain Emily
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Speaker 2: Party of one, like, let's have a heart to heart
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Speaker 2: about what.
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Speaker 3: It is that you really need in this moment.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, oh yeah, And how awakening has that been?
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Speaker 1: I like you personally, but I've also seen friends and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, what you have done in the way
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Speaker 1: you have grown this past year is phenomenal. It's just
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Speaker 1: it's so nice to see as long as it's plastic.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So beyond that experience is super high high for
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Speaker 2: you in twenty twenty one, talk to me about perhaps
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Speaker 2: maybe what another lesson was for you over the past
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Speaker 2: three sixty.
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Speaker 1: Five Kindness to myself of and I mean we all
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Speaker 1: talk about that. We talk about self love, we talk
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Speaker 1: about respecting our own bodies, especially in the industry that
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Speaker 1: I'm in. But this year I actually realized that I
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Speaker 1: needed to do it. And I think that's a big
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Speaker 1: thing for someone in fitness, is that we say we'd
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Speaker 1: advise people to do things a lot of the time
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Speaker 1: when we don't always practice what we preach. And I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't say I fell out of love with running earlier
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Speaker 1: this year, but my body took a beating after the trials.
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Speaker 1: I was exhausted. I was emotionally in a bad place
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Speaker 1: because I got stuck in the UK and I wasn't
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Speaker 1: sure if I was going to be able to even
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Speaker 1: come back to the US. It was at that point
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Speaker 1: of like, is my life in the US on pause
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Speaker 1: for now? And I just by the time I got
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Speaker 1: back here two weeks after I should have done, I
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Speaker 1: was really run down and really just not wanting to
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Speaker 1: do anything. I'd run and run and run while I
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Speaker 1: was stuck in the UK, which is the worst thing
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Speaker 1: anyone could do. After competing in a marathon, no matter
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Speaker 1: what time you run, you need to rest your body.
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Speaker 1: And I didn't, and I really reaped the benefits mentally,
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Speaker 1: not physically, what of how that happened, how that rolled
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Speaker 1: through my body, and it was just I didn't want
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Speaker 1: to lace up and go for a run. I knew
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Speaker 1: that my hip was sore, my knee was sore, and
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Speaker 1: I had to really sit back and be like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: you're not going to run. You're not going to head
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Speaker 1: out for a run and soothe your mind as you
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Speaker 1: have done for so many months or years previously. You've
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Speaker 1: got to find something else to do. And it was
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Speaker 1: a very gracious moment to realize, I don't I'm not
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Speaker 1: in the mood to run, and it's okay. It's actually okay,
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Speaker 1: I don't mind that, and it's ebbed and flowed. I
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Speaker 1: went from my first run outside in a month the
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Speaker 1: other day. I was sick for a while. I was
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Speaker 1: in Hawaii. That was the last time I ran outside.
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Speaker 1: So obviously you know, now it's freezing and you're like, ah,
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Speaker 1: I was in sports for a month ago on a
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Speaker 1: beautiful Hawaiian island. I don't particularly want to running the cold,
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Speaker 1: windy New York. But it was really funny how okay
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Speaker 1: I was with that. And it's not that I haven't
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Speaker 1: run for a month. I run pretty much every day
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Speaker 1: on my tread. But it's funny just to see the
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Speaker 1: changes and just being so okay with like, that's fine.
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Speaker 1: My body's better than my running, and my body's having
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Speaker 1: its own time of healing and strengthening in different ways,
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Speaker 1: like going back to the gym and lifting heavy weights
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Speaker 1: and just god, like, it's been years since I've put
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Speaker 1: on a massive frontwreck and gone to the bars. Now
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Speaker 1: I'm doing that again, and it's so fun to just yeah,
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Speaker 1: I keep saying, being okay with doing different things.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I love that point about finding outlets beyond
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Speaker 2: physical activity, certainly as someone myself who that is my
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Speaker 2: main outlet as well to take care of yourself and
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Speaker 2: like be kind with that. When you talk about finding
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Speaker 2: those other outlets, talk to me a little bit about
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Speaker 2: what's of those were for you.
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Speaker 1: Resting, realizing that, you know, sitting and I years ago
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Speaker 1: a friend said to me, never do something you don't
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Speaker 1: want to do. And then through multiple you know, not
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Speaker 1: self help books, but like readings and learnings over the
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Speaker 1: past few years, I talk about it to my runners.
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Speaker 1: You've got to get uncomfortable. And I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of the time these mantras that we say get taken
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Speaker 1: out of context after a while and turned into like
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Speaker 1: you've got to do stuff that scares you to grow
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Speaker 1: and like you've got to get uncomfortable. That shouldn't be
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Speaker 1: put in the same bucket as doing something that you
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Speaker 1: don't want to do. Discomfort and wanting to do something aren't,
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Speaker 1: you know, they're very different. And there were days where
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Speaker 1: when I didn't want to run, it wasn't because I
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, you know, I should, I should go
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Speaker 1: and get uncomfortable and find my way to run. I
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Speaker 1: just didn't want to move in that way. So I
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Speaker 1: found ways of like wanting to stretch, or do a
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Speaker 1: core class, or sit in my normal tech boots and
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Speaker 1: watch something, read something. I bought an iPad because I
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Speaker 1: was so sick of reading stuff on my phone and
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Speaker 1: having notifications coming in or getting sidetracked by Instagram whatever
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Speaker 1: it was. And I got an iPad, a little tiny
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Speaker 1: iPad that is not hooked up to anything other than
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Speaker 1: the Internet, so I can read news articles, I can
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Speaker 1: send stuff to it if I want to sit down
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Speaker 1: and just learn on it. And that was probably my
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Speaker 1: best idea that I've had this year, of that disconnection
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Speaker 1: moment and putting myself first of like, you know, you
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Speaker 1: can put do you Not Disturb on your phone, but
15:53
Speaker 1: you can still bug people. You can tell them that
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Speaker 1: they've got do not Disturb on but you can still
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Speaker 1: ask for it to be sent through. And you know
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Speaker 1: levels of how you manage your own time and how
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Speaker 1: you value it. And for me that my little silly
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Speaker 1: iPad mini is my new downtime.
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Speaker 2: What a smart idea, What a great buy for you
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 1: I love that I've gotten on like the grandma of like,
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Speaker 1: oh has anyone else had at these times? iPads? Yes,
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Speaker 1: back to.
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Speaker 2: Do the folks Do the rest of the world know
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Speaker 2: about this great invention? Oh my gosh, Oh my god.
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Speaker 2: I mean you're highlighting something else that I think a
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Speaker 2: lot of people prioritized over twenty twenty two. For sure
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one as well, this idea of disconnecting to
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Speaker 2: get to a place where reconnecting feels good.
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Speaker 3: I know that for me personally, definitely.
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Speaker 2: The DND on my phone is something that I've used
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Speaker 2: more than ever for entire work days.
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Speaker 3: Now I will literally not keep my.
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Speaker 2: Phone on my desk, keep the focus mode, which is
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Speaker 2: like a new thing I think that they invented for
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Speaker 2: my computer. Again, we sound like we're like ninety two
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Speaker 2: years old just learning about technology for the first time.
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Speaker 3: But it is a joy.
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Speaker 2: It is a joy to be truly able to focus
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Speaker 2: on the task at hand, something that pre pandemic, I
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Speaker 2: can certainly say. I like used to pride myself on
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Speaker 2: being this like valiant multitasker, and now I am so
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Speaker 2: happy that I am not.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, I agree, and I love to hear
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Speaker 1: that from somebody like you, who you do come across
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Speaker 1: as being busy or did, and I've seen it in
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Speaker 1: your social media. You're so honest these days of like, no,
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Speaker 1: I didn't go for my run this morning. I did
17:39
Speaker 1: this instead. I organized your amazingly color coordinated bookshelf. And
17:44
Speaker 1: I remember when you moved into your apartment and the
17:46
Speaker 1: stuff you were going through at that time, of like
17:49
Speaker 1: resetting and getting your studio set up, and yeah that like, no,
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to focus on this right now, and
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Speaker 1: this is fine and it's not selfish. It's actually fabulous.
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Speaker 2: It's fabulous. It's fabulous. You're so kind to me in
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Speaker 2: my little space and keeping.
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Speaker 3: Track of my little world.
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Speaker 2: If we had to highlight another big learning for you
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Speaker 2: from twenty twenty one, what else.
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Speaker 1: Do you have for us backs It sounds kind of morbid,
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Speaker 1: but I think time is so precious. I've learned a
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Speaker 1: lot about health. And again, you know, I'm definitely not
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Speaker 1: the only one I'm saying, as everybody in this whole world,
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Speaker 1: we're disconnected from our loved ones unless you're very lucky
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Speaker 1: in there or surrounded and you can see them and
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Speaker 1: for me, making the most of time with be it friends, family,
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Speaker 1: whoever is huge to me. And my boyfriend's mom is
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Speaker 1: a stickler for no phones at the dinner table, and
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Speaker 1: like she's just and she's fierce about it. If my
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Speaker 1: boyfriend's twin, her husband is always working, not in a
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Speaker 1: bad way, but he just has his phone and he
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Speaker 1: has a teeny tiny one, the tiny tiny iPad, but
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Speaker 1: he often will just have it in his pocket and
19:02
Speaker 1: you can just see he'll read an email really quickly,
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Speaker 1: like he's super senior. And we were having dinner really
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Speaker 1: early and that people are still working at six pm,
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Speaker 1: and she is She's like, William, well, you know, and
19:16
Speaker 1: we all after time have learned now that that is
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Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing that we sat and we talked
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Speaker 1: to one another. We weren't looking at our phones, we
19:26
Speaker 1: weren't checking in on what other people were doing. We
19:28
Speaker 1: were here focusing on the moment of having dinner together,
19:31
Speaker 1: of catching up on each other weeks, months, whenever it
19:34
Speaker 1: was the last time we saw each other. And I
19:37
Speaker 1: think that for me has been a big learning curve
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Speaker 1: and same with it, do not disturb I've probably said
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Speaker 1: this before. We have a zero technology role in our
19:47
Speaker 1: bedroom at home and phones are left out here there
19:50
Speaker 1: on do not disturb and we both now started to
19:53
Speaker 1: implement for the first at least half an hour of
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Speaker 1: the day, we're not picking up our phones when we
19:57
Speaker 1: wake up. We will catch up on the news on TV,
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Speaker 1: or we'll just talk to each other about our day
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Speaker 1: and what's going on, and we'll take the dogs out
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Speaker 1: without phones. And it's just it's being it's living in
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Speaker 1: the here and now and not always focusing on the future,
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Speaker 1: the goal in the future. And I take a lot
20:19
Speaker 1: of that learning from an incredible book that I've been reading,
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Speaker 1: and it's about that that craving for dopamine, which is
20:27
Speaker 1: our long term like we're like I want this, I
20:29
Speaker 1: want this, I want to strive for this, and we
20:31
Speaker 1: forget about the process and living in the here and now.
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Speaker 1: And that's it's changed my mind so much this year
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Speaker 1: of like, no, the hero and now is actually what
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Speaker 1: makes us glow and what makes us people humans, That
20:43
Speaker 1: human interaction is here and now and that that's probably
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Speaker 1: my my other big learning that and the iPad.
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Speaker 3: Wow, do you remember the name of the book?
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Speaker 1: It is the molecule of more.
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Speaker 2: The molecule of more. Maybe it'll be an eventual hurdle
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Speaker 2: book Club.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I would highly recommend it. I've read the book
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Speaker 1: and listen to it. I listened to it first on
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Speaker 1: an audio book, and then the author very kindly sent
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Speaker 1: me a copy of the book, and I've also read it.
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Speaker 1: I just love it. I feel like I learned so
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Speaker 1: much from it every time.
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Speaker 3: I love it. I love it well.
21:19
Speaker 2: So interesting hearing all of your takeaways here, I think
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Speaker 2: that a lot of us can really relate to what
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Speaker 2: you've been going through. I personally am also super big
21:29
Speaker 2: on this, like no tech for the first thirty minutes
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Speaker 2: at least of when I get out of bed in
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Speaker 2: the morning. Oftentimes, like the first time I'll actually grab
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Speaker 2: my phone is when I'm just about to leave to
21:40
Speaker 2: do that lace up and get out of there, so
21:42
Speaker 2: I'll have my whole morning routine, the coffee, the journaling,
21:46
Speaker 2: all that stuff, and then I'm like.
21:48
Speaker 3: Okay, I guess I'll go pick up my phone now.
21:50
Speaker 2: And some days I dread it, and that's because like
21:52
Speaker 2: I don't want to see what's waiting for me on
21:54
Speaker 2: the phone. But a lot of days I won't even
21:56
Speaker 2: get to that part of my day until after the
22:00
Speaker 2: So it's like I'll pick up the phone to do
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Speaker 2: what I want to do, and I won't like truly
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Speaker 2: look at what anybody else has tried to communicate with me,
22:07
Speaker 2: what emails are in my inbox until that run is done,
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Speaker 2: and I've taken the time that I need for myself
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Speaker 2: so that I can better serve whoever else is trying
22:15
Speaker 2: to get at me, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. That's so nice of being able
22:20
Speaker 1: to go for a run like that. And I definitely
22:23
Speaker 1: said this you before. I mean, I never ever really
22:27
Speaker 1: take photos of my runs anymore, and it's I kind
22:30
Speaker 1: of forget my phone I go out, you know, especially
22:33
Speaker 1: now I'm doing short runs. When I was marathon training,
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Speaker 1: I had my phone for safety and yeah, an audiobook
22:39
Speaker 1: probably as well. But now sometimes I just yeah, I
22:42
Speaker 1: get out the door that I come back and I'm
22:44
Speaker 1: like double the amount of messages and emails.
22:49
Speaker 2: I don't know how you all handle it, man, I
22:51
Speaker 2: really don't. I applaud you for the good that you
22:54
Speaker 2: do on behalf of so many other people. Now, as
22:57
Speaker 2: we wind down here, we talked about reflection in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty one. Do you want to give us some insight
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Speaker 2: into what you're excited about about twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 1: Continual growth always is twenty twenty two for me, and
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Speaker 1: I think just the I think whatever is on the
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Speaker 1: horizon right now is very daunting because we're in this
23:23
Speaker 1: big place of uncertainty and the world is sort of
23:28
Speaker 1: going in circles and nobody likes that, you know, unless
23:31
Speaker 1: you're Nemo, and it's not. It's not where I think
23:35
Speaker 1: humans thrive the best at all. So I think it's
23:40
Speaker 1: it's a continuation of learning to ride the wave and
23:45
Speaker 1: learning to be adaptable. And I'm not generally a very
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Speaker 1: adaptable person. That may sound funny, people are I want
23:54
Speaker 1: I'm quite I'm aries, I'm quite stuck in my ways,
23:56
Speaker 1: I'm quite stubborn, and I'm I've been working with a
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Speaker 1: life and energy coach to try and help change that
24:03
Speaker 1: because I feel if next year continues has this year
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Speaker 1: has been in the previous year, I am going to
24:10
Speaker 1: have to lean on somebody else to help me navigate
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Speaker 1: these changes and be more open to changes of stuff
24:17
Speaker 1: that I don't necessarily like or want and then not
24:21
Speaker 1: let that affect my positive energy. And I'm really excited
24:25
Speaker 1: about that journey. Oh my oh god, this is going
24:28
Speaker 1: to be a really new thing for me. But I
24:31
Speaker 1: think that taking on something new that you know is
24:35
Speaker 1: going to challenge you in a different way, not a
24:37
Speaker 1: fitness way. I have no races on the calendar next year.
24:41
Speaker 1: I have no idea if I will do one or not,
24:43
Speaker 1: and what that would be, whether it be a marathon
24:45
Speaker 1: or a mile, I don't know. And I kind of
24:48
Speaker 1: like that. And so maybe the life coach is helping already.
24:53
Speaker 2: I mean, what a beautiful kind of sentiment there, right
24:55
Speaker 2: about the importance of allowing someone else to help you
25:01
Speaker 2: when things feel hard. I think that so often it's
25:04
Speaker 2: kind of a little bit of stubbornness and just this
25:07
Speaker 2: you know, determination almost that we want to be able
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Speaker 2: to shoulder the burden and to take care of ourselves
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Speaker 2: and do everything on our own time. But there is
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Speaker 2: absolutely nothing wrong with reaching out for help. And I
25:21
Speaker 2: would argue that the strongest individuals are the individuals who
25:24
Speaker 2: have truly homed in on that skill and are okay
25:29
Speaker 2: and almost excited about the opportunity to have someone else
25:33
Speaker 2: help them get to where they want to be.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I hugely agree, especially having been the
25:39
Speaker 1: other person who never asked the help.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, such a game changer, Such a game changer.
25:46
Speaker 2: All right, final question here becks right now, you know
25:49
Speaker 2: how we do haun hurdle. You have an opportunity to
25:52
Speaker 2: offer yourself this week, the first week of the year,
25:56
Speaker 2: a piece of advice. Back on January one, twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 2: what do you tell yourself looking back on the past
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Speaker 2: three sixty.
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Speaker 1: Five this year, the road least traveled might not be
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Speaker 1: the best way. I think it's definitely something that I
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Speaker 1: normally I do like going the road least traveled. Do
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Speaker 1: something new, do something interesting. I think twenty twenty one
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Speaker 1: was a year of you know what, why don't we
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Speaker 1: stick with the safest and most experienced route to get
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Speaker 1: from a to be? And I think, yeah, trying not
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Speaker 1: to deviate off for the sake of it. Would it
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Speaker 1: be my advice.
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Speaker 2: Stick with what you know, find comfort and what you know,
26:48
Speaker 2: and trust the process.
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Speaker 1: It seems right process for sure?
26:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 2: Well, thanks again so much for your time. I appreciate
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Speaker 2: you as always. I hope that I actually run into
26:58
Speaker 2: you irl soon.
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Speaker 3: How do the I know?
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Speaker 2: I can't believe that we haven't run into each other
27:02
Speaker 2: with like our proximity and.
27:04
Speaker 3: Our running in general.
27:06
Speaker 2: But how do the hurdlers keep up with you? How
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Speaker 2: do they follow along with you? Give me all the details.
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Speaker 1: You can find me on Instagram, at text Gentry, you
27:15
Speaker 1: can hop into a pass on class on the app
27:18
Speaker 1: or on the hardware, whatever you like. Or you can
27:21
Speaker 1: probably find me running in New York somewhat sometime.
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Speaker 3: Somewhere, sometime. Just look up. She might be right behind you.
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Speaker 2: I'm over at Hurdle Podcast and over at Emily Abodi
27:33
Speaker 2: another hurdle conquered.
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Speaker 3: Catch you guys next time