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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: What's Your Craziest Life Goal? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey Hurdlers, Emily about he here bringing you another installment
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  Speaker 1: of five Minute Friday from Hurdle. I'm so excited to
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  Speaker 1: be here with you. I'm so excited that this beautiful
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  Speaker 1: week was such a beautiful week. I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of us were off a little bit on edge going
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  Speaker 1: into the inauguration, but the day was just filled with
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  Speaker 1: hope and promise. I loved what the President said about
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  Speaker 1: unifying our country and wanting to show up for everyone,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of whether or not they voted for him. Even
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  Speaker 1: more so, what I adored was seeing Kamala Harris and
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  Speaker 1: every single woman that came up on that stage, whether
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  Speaker 1: it was Lady Gaga or Jennifer Lopez, the way that
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  Speaker 1: they looked at her with such admiration and such awe.
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  Speaker 1: I think that woman all over the country, you know
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  Speaker 1: they feel that way. Then they look at her because
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  Speaker 1: Kamala is a hard worker and the first female in
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  Speaker 1: the White House properly as the Vice President of the
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  Speaker 1: United States. Like it just it's insane. What I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about today, like so much of the Internet
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  Speaker 1: is talking about today, is Amanda Gorman. Unless you've been
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  Speaker 1: living under a rock, you and no offense maybe you've
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  Speaker 1: had a busy week. Amanda Gorman is the poet that
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  Speaker 1: spoke and read at the inauguration. She was the twenty
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  Speaker 1: seventeen National Youth Poet Laureate. She graduated from Harvard. She's
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  Speaker 1: a twin from Los Angeles. She has been very successful
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  Speaker 1: leading up to the opportunity to speak at the inauguration.
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  Speaker 1: I was reading about her. She has written for The
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  Speaker 1: New York Times. She's had a ton of amazing brand partnerships,
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  Speaker 1: ranging from Nike to Praduct. This young woman is a
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  Speaker 1: show stopper. And the moment that she got up on
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  Speaker 1: the stage, she had such a poise and a presence
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  Speaker 1: and a confidence about her that I thought was really beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: And then her words like God. As someone who uses
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  Speaker 1: words a lot and says a lot of them on
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  Speaker 1: a weekly basis, with the opportunity to, you know, impact people,
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  Speaker 1: I was at a loss for words listening to hers.
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  Speaker 1: After listening to her and reading more about her, I
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  Speaker 1: feel so inspired by her. It brings me to this
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  Speaker 1: concept of wanting to lift each other up and that
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  Speaker 1: there doesn't need to be like one person that can
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  Speaker 1: win in life, like people can be going on their
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  Speaker 1: own path and along their own journey, and good kind
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  Speaker 1: people want to lift other good kind successful people up.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to be here cheerleader, and I believe
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  Speaker 1: that there is room for everyone's successes. Just seeing her success,
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  Speaker 1: it literally gave me the chills, and it made me
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  Speaker 1: excited and it inspired me. It inspired me to think
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  Speaker 1: about what it is the really big things that I
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  Speaker 1: want to do. What are my loftiest career goals, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure for her, like speaking at an inauguration was
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  Speaker 1: probably one of them, and she checked that off at
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. I spent a part of my morning yesterday
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  Speaker 1: in opening my gray baron fake notebook and sitting on
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  Speaker 1: my gray couch and writing down literally my wildest dreams
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  Speaker 1: that I don't think I think about enough. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're so focused on the here and the now and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just staying afloat and getting the things done
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  Speaker 1: that we need to get done so that we can proceed.
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  Speaker 1: And it felt exciting and I kind of got, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a little choked up thinking about my own potential. Not
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  Speaker 1: to say that so many of my loftiest huge goals
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  Speaker 1: or anywhere within reach right now, but when you take
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  Speaker 1: a step back and you ask yourself, like, what is
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  Speaker 1: it that I can do within my power, within some
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  Speaker 1: sort of more immediate timeline, to put myself in a
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  Speaker 1: better position to one day get that thing. It's not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily like a concrete action at all, but perhaps just
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  Speaker 1: shifting your perspective or being more kind, or treating people
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  Speaker 1: the way that you hope to be treated in return.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that a lot of really successful people,
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  Speaker 1: or at least those that have left a lasting impact,
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  Speaker 1: got to where they want to be because they didn't
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  Speaker 1: treat other humans with compassion and goodness. And so it's
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  Speaker 1: just something I'm thinking about. I'm thinking about my big dreams,
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  Speaker 1: and this week I prompt for you is to encourage
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  Speaker 1: you to do the same. So ask yourself, what is
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  Speaker 1: one thing that you are after that you haven't put
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  Speaker 1: pen to paper on in quite some time. Then ask yourself,
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  Speaker 1: what is one thing that you can do, maybe within
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  Speaker 1: the next year, to get you in the direction that
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  Speaker 1: you need to go, to propel you in that way
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  Speaker 1: to maybe one day do this thing. Don't hold yourself back.
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  Speaker 1: That's something else I'll say here. Oftentimes, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: are the only people standing in our own way, and
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  Speaker 1: I actually watched a snippet of an interview that Amanda
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  Speaker 1: Gorman did on The Today Show from twenty eighteen, and
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  Speaker 1: when she was talking about her speech impediment, she said
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  Speaker 1: that for her, she realized that she was the only
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  Speaker 1: person standing in her own way when it came to
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  Speaker 1: getting out in public and breaking down those walls and
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  Speaker 1: putting herself out there. And so be your own biggest
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  Speaker 1: type man, and keep going. Write down your big goals.
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious to hear about them, so feel free to
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  Speaker 1: tag me with them over on Instagram or shoot me
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  Speaker 1: a DM Highlights of the week. As always all of
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  Speaker 1: these the links to this stuff can be found in
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  Speaker 1: the show notes. If you have yet to watch this,
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  Speaker 1: I can't talk it up enough. I'm obsessed with the
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  Speaker 1: Shawn Mendes in Wonder documentary on Netflix. I've always been
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  Speaker 1: a Shawn Mendes fan. I loved his MTV Unplugged album.
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  Speaker 1: It's like definitely in my regular rotation, but learning more
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  Speaker 1: about him and how he grew up and how he's
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  Speaker 1: literally been after this since he was super young, it
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  Speaker 1: was really cool. Also, I've been on a celebrity documentary
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  Speaker 1: kick lately, and just a documentary kick in general. I'm
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  Speaker 1: linked to the party, but I just watched the Taylor
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  Speaker 1: Swift Netflix documentary Miss Americana. I thought that was super interesting.
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  Speaker 1: So if you have more documentaries to recommend to me,
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  Speaker 1: definitely message me. Another thing to be in the note
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  Speaker 1: about Bridgerton is officially renewed for season two. I, like
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  Speaker 1: many of you, binge the whole thing in about forty
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  Speaker 1: eight hours. Maybe a couple weeks back, someone else said
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  Speaker 1: to me that there is likely to be eight seasons
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  Speaker 1: total of the show because it's based on a set
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  Speaker 1: of historical romance novels which ran for eight books. Who knows,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we'll get eight seasons at least. Also, I want
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  Speaker 1: to say congrats to Ayisha Prottleer. She's a past Turtle guest.
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  Speaker 1: She does announced a new sponsorship with Puma. There's so
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  Speaker 1: exciting things from Puma to come in terms of running
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  Speaker 1: this year, so stay on the lookout for that. If
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  Speaker 1: you haven't listened yet to Aisha's episode of Hurdle, I'll
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  Speaker 1: put a link to that in the show notes. Also
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  Speaker 1: this week on Hurdle, if you missed it, don't forget
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  Speaker 1: to listen in to Dave Asbury. He's a biohacker and
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  Speaker 1: an author and the founder of Bulletproof. And also on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: I posted an episode on how to find workout motivation
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  Speaker 1: and make movement a regular habit. And lastly, I do
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  Speaker 1: want to plug Alexi PAPIs over on Finding Master Rates,
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  Speaker 1: a podcast with doctor Michael Gervai. He is a high
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  Speaker 1: performance psychologist. He works with a ton of really great athletes,
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  Speaker 1: some of which have been on the show before, and
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about a lot of stuff, discussing her battle
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  Speaker 1: with depression and strategies for improving mental health. I really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate this. I'm excited about this because this month's Hurdle
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  Speaker 1: book Club pick is Alexi's new book Bravy, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't often bring spoilers to the feed like this, but
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  Speaker 1: she may or may not be in an upcoming episode
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  Speaker 1: of Hurdle, so stay tuned. That's all for this week.
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  Speaker 1: As always, as you're listening, tag Hurdle over on Instagram
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  Speaker 1: hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time. My hear