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Speaker 1: The first five Minute Friday of a new season of Hurdle.

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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Emily Abadi popping in here with this week's installment.

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Speaker 1: If you are new to Hurdle, welcome. If you are

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Speaker 1: only new to five Minute Friday, welcome.

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Speaker 2: I am happy to have your ears for the time being.

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Speaker 1: So we are all on the same page five Minute Friday,

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Speaker 1: I offer up a story from my week, a little

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Speaker 1: thought prompt to send you into the weekend new to

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Speaker 1: five Minute Friday. I'm now going to be answering one

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Speaker 1: listener question a week here, So if you've got something

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Speaker 1: that's on your mind that you want to know, feel

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Speaker 1: free to shoot me those over dm over at Hurdle

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Speaker 1: Podcasts or at Emily a Body. And then I share

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Speaker 1: my content picks of the week, my highlights of the week,

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Speaker 1: things that I am digging that I think that you

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Speaker 1: should check out, and links to everything that gets mentioned

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Speaker 1: here always can be found in the show notes to

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Speaker 1: this episode. So if you have been following along on

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Speaker 1: social media, then you know that last week I ran

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Speaker 1: a mile time trial and I went into it with

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Speaker 1: a goal of running a sub six minute mile. To

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Speaker 1: hear exactly about how all of that went. Feel free

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Speaker 1: to click back over to your main feed wherever you

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Speaker 1: are listening to your podcasts and listen to this week's

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Speaker 1: episode of Hurdle Moment, in which I talk about running

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Speaker 1: that five fifty six mile.

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Speaker 2: It still it still doesn't feel real.

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Speaker 1: But what I really want to talk about in reference

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Speaker 1: to that day for five Minute Friday this week has

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with the mile itself, but actually about

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Speaker 1: how over the top loved and appreciated I felt leading

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Speaker 1: up to it, and during it and after it on

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Speaker 1: a week by week basis. Here with Hurdle, I am

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Speaker 1: constantly giving as much as possible as I can to

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Speaker 1: this community. It means the world to me, and that's

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Speaker 1: just kind of who I am. It definitely definitely carries

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Speaker 1: over to my real relationships with my friends and my

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Speaker 1: family because giving and acts of service, so to speak,

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Speaker 1: that is how I show the people that I care,

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Speaker 1: that I care about them. And it's been an interesting

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Speaker 1: year to be such a giver because so much time

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Speaker 1: spent alone in this apartment, I kept feeling like my

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Speaker 1: was wondering, when is this going to come back to me?

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Speaker 1: When is someone gonna just like, come take care of me,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not really a big woe is me human?

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Speaker 1: And because I'm not a big woe is me human,

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Speaker 1: I knew that I needed to take matters into my

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Speaker 1: just take care of myself.

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Speaker 2: With time.

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Speaker 1: Over the past seven months or so, I've come to

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Speaker 1: depend less on external sources for comfort and validation, which definitely, definitely,

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Speaker 1: definitely has not been easy. I mean, there have definitely

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Speaker 1: been tears involved. It has been hard, like physically hurting

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Speaker 1: your own. And it's just been tough. But through the work,

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Speaker 1: fully appreciate in any sense when someone shows up for

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Speaker 1: The event for me that day triggered more meaningful conversations

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Speaker 1: Saying that this day prompted more positive interactions for me

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Speaker 1: than like my birthday in June, and I was thinking

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Speaker 1: And I just felt so unbelievably and awesomely connected to

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Speaker 2: And it made my cup feel really full.

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Speaker 1: I prompt for you this week, when was the last

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Speaker 1: so thank you for this one. You know, that's a

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Speaker 1: show notes. First off, check out Pizza to the polls

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Speaker 1: Born or Made, and we're talking all about the nitty gritty,

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Speaker 1: to my personal weight loss journey. I get a lot

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Speaker 1: of messages about this on the regular, asking me about particulars,

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Speaker 1: He's also had a lot of really awesome, awesome guests

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Speaker 1: I mean, make America Green again, it's the least controversial

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Speaker 1: this week. I do want to shout out that this

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Speaker 1: month for the Hurdle book Club, we're reading Untamed by

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Speaker 1: Glennon Doyle and book club is next week on October

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Speaker 1: twentieth at eight pm. So if you want to get

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Speaker 1: using that link. It's going to be a really nice

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Speaker 1: showing up with a nice glass of wine. Hope everyone

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Speaker 1: has some good plans on deck for their weekend. Thanks

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Speaker 1: as always for being a part of my community, for

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Speaker 1: being a hurdler, and if you like what you're listening to,

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Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time, ye