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Ep 5: Life is kind of like an ice plunge · Adventures in Adversity: an inspirational podcast

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  Hello, Hello, Episode 5. Here we go.
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  I'm a little bit late getting this out, so I got to kind of
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  cut to the chase and not really have as much banter as I
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  typically do, You know, being a seasoned podcaster with four
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  episodes under my belt. So anyway, let's get right into
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  the topic here the other day. I guess it was yesterday.
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  I posted a A story on my Adventures and Adversity
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  Instagram podcast. If you haven't followed me,
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  please do if you have a moment. I believe I'm up to 38
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  followers. People I know.
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  I know it's a lot. Don't be jealous anyway.
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  No, for real. Follow me.
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  Thanks. Yesterday I posted a story where
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  I actually did one of those cold ice plunges for the first time.
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  You know, super trendy, but like, actually very effective
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  for all kinds of things. Mental health, inflammation,
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  soreness, anxiety, depression, sickness, all kinds of things.
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  Apparently it's really good. So my husband's super into that.
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  Like Wellness, physical gadgets, things like that.
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  And so he got this ice tub and I swear I'm going to relate this
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  to Adventures University in one second.
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  Let me just do the set up here. I found it really funny, like
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  the whole experience of actually doing it in the backyard.
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  This ice plunge was kind of crazy because I found myself
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  when I did it getting like really mad and irritated while I
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  was in the water because it was freaking freezing and I ended up
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  staying in for about 12 minutes. But it only got numb at 5
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  minutes. So I was super irritable and
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  pissy saying I hate this, I hate this, I hate this over and over,
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  which was amazing. Anyway, it really reminded me of
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  kind of like something that I could talk about on the podcast,
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  which is most things that are like worthwhile and you get
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  benefits from might suck in the beginning and feel really hard
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  and feel like extremely uncomfortable.
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  And The funny thing was that as at about 5 minutes and like went
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  totally numb and it was amazing and super relaxing.
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  So the first part sucked and then it just subsided and I felt
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  amazing after. Seriously.
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  But can't even tell you how refreshed I felt.
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  So I'm probably rambling, but what I wanted to say was, and
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  I'm going to keep this episode under 5 minutes because who has
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  time to listen to long episodes sometimes?
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  You know what I mean? The ice bath Ice plunge that my
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  husband Ryan bought for us that is sitting in our backyard is
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  actually a metaphor for adversity.
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  The cold water is seriously anything in your life that makes
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  you uncomfortable but that you know is actually good for you.
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  So you avoid doing it because you know, part of the way you'll
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  be uncomfortable, even though, you know, at the end of it it's
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  going to be awesome. And that's what I felt with the
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  cold plunge. I seriously was so annoyed.
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  Like I was my kids were like putting their finger in the ice
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  tub. And you can see on the video,
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  I'm like, get out of my face, Don't talk to me.
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  I was very resistant to it. And then when you just, like,
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  accept it, everything gets easier.
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  So yeah, Adventures in an ice plunge, which actually is a
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  metaphor for any challenge you go through in life.
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  I'm realizing, as I say this, it's like at work, if you have a
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  big project, getting started sucks because you don't know
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  what you're doing for the first hour.
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  And then once you get in the groove, it's great, but you
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  avoid it. And then at the end of it, you
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  feel amazing and you like, deliver.
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  But it's those first 5 minutes in the ice plunge that suck.
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  First one hour of the project where you feel kind of dumb
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  sucks. The 1st 10 minutes of a party
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  where you don't know anyone until you, like, find someone to
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  chat to sucks. So everything is an ice plunge.
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  Life is an ice plunge. Jump in anyway, All right, it's
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  at 508. I got to finish up some work,
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  but I'm glad I could get on the microphone and just talk about
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  this because even though I'm late in posting it and I'm very
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  deadline oriented, I figured, hey, why don't you just get on
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  the mic and see what comes out with this whole ice plunge
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  thing? And I think I'm pretty happy
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  with it. All right.
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  Well, I think when I post this, it will be Tuesday and all my
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  faithful listeners will listen to it right away.
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  Of course. So have a wonderful Tuesday.
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  And just remember, if your day feels like an ice plunge, that's
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  a good sign. It means good things are on the
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  way. All right.
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  Take care and talk to you later.