1 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 1: What's going on everyone? Emily body here you are listening 2 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: reunited with five Minute Friday from Hurdle. You know, it's 3 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: so funny the season breaks happen, and as much as 4 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 1: I know, because you let me know that you love 5 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: Mondays when Fridays aren't in the feed, this is what 6 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 1: I get the messages about from all of you. So 7 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: I'm happy that I make something that you enjoy as 8 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: a part of your weekly routine, and I'm also happy 9 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 1: that it's back for you today. Man, what a crazy 10 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I feel like there's so much I 11 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: could say here. I talk a little bit or write 12 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: a little bit about my feelings in today's edition of 13 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: the Weekly Hurdle. If you don't get the newsletter yet, 14 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 1: it's absolutely free and you could receive it in your 15 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 1: inbox every single Friday, So make sure you tap on 16 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: over to the show notes and make that happen. But 17 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 1: the theme that I focused on there and that I 18 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: want to touch on here today is this theme of 19 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 1: feeling really capable. The days were insane feels like an 20 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:24,960 Speaker 1: understatement in Paris, and this is something that Lauren and 21 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: I talked about in the episode earlier this week. They 22 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: were long. I would get up earlier than I quote 23 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: unquote had to because there were things that I wanted 24 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: to do to take care of myself, AKA move my body, 25 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: make time to have a good breakfast, make time to 26 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: write in the morning, do the things that I knew 27 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 1: would fill my cup up so that I could then 28 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: pour back to myself and to other people. I'd often 29 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: be up by seven fifteen and then wouldn't go to 30 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: bed until after midnight. That's not my normal by any 31 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination, but I felt as though so 32 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: much of what I was doing was so purposeful that 33 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,640 Speaker 1: I was flexing every muscle and skill that I have 34 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:17,079 Speaker 1: worked on over the last decade, simultaneously, from podcast recording 35 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 1: and interviewing to hosting a live event, to networking and 36 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: meeting individuals, to interviewing for articles that I was working on, 37 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: to pitching ideas to outlets, some of them knew I 38 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: wrote my first items for Outside on this trip, to 39 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: then creating content with Lauren and making videos and writing 40 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: captions and storyboarding and being creative and fun and different 41 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,119 Speaker 1: inventive ways. Right like, so many different things were happening, 42 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: and they were all happening simultaneously, and I couldn't help 43 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: but reflect even in the moment and realize that it 44 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: felt so good to feel so capable. I have been 45 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: pretty open at this point with my experience with depression 46 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: earlier in twenty twenty two, and that wasn't something that 47 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: was on my life Bengo card as someone who is 48 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: genuinely an optimistic person, I consider myself a really happy person, 49 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: as someone who's a self starter and self motivated and 50 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 1: is always down to work my butt off. I was 51 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:30,119 Speaker 1: thrown for the biggest loop when I felt like my actions, 52 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: my decisions, my being wasn't entirely my own, and it 53 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: was really challenging. But the work that I did at 54 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: that time, and I'll link an episode that I have 55 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: on the feed that talks about that experience, the people 56 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: that I talked to, the medication that I took candidly 57 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: that I'm now no longer on just because it was 58 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 1: the right decision for me personally to come off of it. 59 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: I couldn't help but reflect that all of that hard work, 60 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: the frustrating, the moments that I felt like I would 61 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: never get to the other side of this feeling that 62 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: was so hard to explain I felt so grateful that 63 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 1: it happened. And that's how it works, right when you're 64 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 1: going through a difficult time. When you're going through a 65 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,359 Speaker 1: hurdle moment, it's hard to think that you'll get to 66 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: the other side and be able to say I am 67 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: so grateful that happened for me. I believe that that 68 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 1: hard moment happened for me. It happened so that in 69 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,359 Speaker 1: moments like what I experienced over the last fourteen days, 70 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: I cannot only rise to the occasion but be truly 71 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: rooted in how grateful I am that I have the 72 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: opportunity to show up at all. Over the past two weeks, 73 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: I truly felt like the best version of myself, and 74 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 1: in executing that, A big part of how I moved 75 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: and grooved in Paris was candidly putting out good energy 76 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: into the world and meeting the good energy that was 77 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: coming back to me. And I know talking about energy 78 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: can sound a little woo woo at times, but I 79 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: wasn't down for anything to ruin my vibe. I wasn't 80 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: granted there were going to be moments, especially when it 81 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: came to the work that I was executing, that some 82 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: things were going to be beyond my control, but I 83 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,359 Speaker 1: was cognizant of what was within my wheelhouse and my 84 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: bandwidth to protect my energy, safeguard it, and show up 85 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: as the best version of myself, the version that again 86 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: makes me feel so damn proud. And so that's my 87 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: goal now moving forward. I feel like I'm not the 88 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: same after that. I feel like I was reminded of 89 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: who the hell I am and what it is that 90 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,679 Speaker 1: I am capable of, and what I wanted you going forward. 91 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: And sometimes we have to have these kind of landmark 92 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: moments to reflect on and say, yesterday's experience is not 93 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 1: going to be tomorrow's experience. And so now I know 94 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: that I'm leveling up there so much more. I want 95 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: to do so many more people, to meet so many 96 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: more podcasts, to record interviews, to have moments that I 97 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: want to bask in how proud I am, and in 98 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 1: that process ideally continue to help other people. I don't 99 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,360 Speaker 1: know if you can tell, but I'm really excited and 100 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: amped and motivated by this. So to circle back here, 101 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: I know, I leave you with a listener prompt and 102 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: my prompter you this week is I want you to 103 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 1: think about a moment when you maybe didn't feel so 104 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: shiny your hurdle moment, or at least one of them, 105 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: because we have them all of the time. They're happening 106 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 1: all of the time. Reflect on a hurdle moment that 107 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: you've been through and ask yourself, what did that challenging 108 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: thing teach me? What lesson have I brought with me 109 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: into the next chapter? And am I implementing regularly in 110 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 1: my life today. Reflect on a hurdle moment that you've 111 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: been through, even if it was truly challenging, and ask yourself, 112 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: what lesson did I learn in that experience that I 113 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: am constantly implementing today. I know what you think happens 114 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: now now? Typically in five minute Friday at this point, 115 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: I answer a audio listener question. And this was a 116 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: topic that Lauren and I chatted about while we were 117 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: in Paris, because I told her that I feel like 118 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: there's some resistance here and I am really of the 119 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: mindset that I am not a round whole, square peg, 120 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 1: square peg, round hole. You get the vibe I am 121 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: just like if it's not working, it's not working, and 122 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: it feels like it's not working. That doesn't mean that 123 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: I don't want to answer listener questions. So we're gonna 124 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: pivot moving forward and we're gonna start with next week. 125 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: What I need from you, dear listener. I feel like 126 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: I'm in Bridgerton saying that I want you to email me. 127 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: I want you to email Hello at Hurdle dot us 128 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: again that e address Hello at Hurdle dot us with 129 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: a question. It can be anything you want to know, 130 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: and maybe the only thing in that email is the question. 131 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: That's cool. I love answering your questions on the show, 132 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: and I get a lot of them also in my 133 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: DM so I would say you could DM me them, 134 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: but it's better for me for organizational purposes if they 135 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 1: all go to the same inbox. So we're going to 136 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: scratch the voice recordings. It seems like y'all are a 137 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: little anxious about that. I get it. It's cool, but 138 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: I still want your questions and I want to answer them, 139 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 1: and I really want to help wherever I can. So 140 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 1: email me your questions again the address Hello at Hurdle 141 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: dot us. Make sure you're following along on the socials. 142 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: It's over at Hurdle Podcast. I am at Emily Abadi 143 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: another Hurdle conquered. Catch you guys, next time.