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Speaker 1: What's going on everyone? Emily Badi here you are listening

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Speaker 1: to five Minute Friday from Hurdle. It's so good to

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Speaker 1: have you listening. It's also been really invigorating the launch

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Speaker 1: of this new season. It feels like there's an exciting

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Speaker 1: momentum right now. I think it comes hand in hand

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Speaker 1: with summer tailing off Fall, my favorite season on the

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Speaker 1: Horizon Fall marathon season. You know me, I love a marathon.

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Speaker 1: They are coming, We're doing all the things, and I'm

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Speaker 1: really amped because by the time that this episode hits

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Speaker 1: the feed, I'm going to be in Oregon gearing up

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Speaker 1: to run my first ever Hood to Coast, which I

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Speaker 1: talked about last week on the show. It's a relay

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Speaker 1: that goes from Mount Hood to the Coast in Oregon,

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Speaker 1: and I could not be more excited. This week for

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Speaker 1: the show, I want to talk about feeling overwhelmed now

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Speaker 1: after any big thing. I feel like classically people talk

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Speaker 1: about the post wedding blues on the show, I've talked

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Speaker 1: about the post marathon blues very different than a wedding.

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Speaker 1: After any big thing, it's inevitable that there's going to

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Speaker 1: be some sort of a come down, and I think

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Speaker 1: that for the most part in the last few years,

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Speaker 1: I've avoided this come down because I am a thing stacker.

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Speaker 1: I love to know exactly what's going to be happening next,

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Speaker 1: what I'm going to be working on next, before the

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Speaker 1: current project is already over with. That said, even in

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Speaker 1: this one week period that I had home after getting

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Speaker 1: home from Paris, I felt not so much the post

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Speaker 1: big thing blues come down, but more so purely overwhelmed,

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Speaker 1: and not because I feel like there's too much on me.

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Speaker 1: I actually feel like my workload right now is very doable,

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Speaker 1: but it's the sense of almost paralysis in that I

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Speaker 1: want to do more things, but I it feels like

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Speaker 1: a lot now. What I can do better than explain

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Speaker 1: this overwhelmed feeling that I have is tell you what

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Speaker 1: I do when I feel this way. So my priority

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Speaker 1: this week has been taking time to feel good being

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Speaker 1: home in the time that I'm home. So what that

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Speaker 1: means for me is not making plans that go late

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Speaker 1: into the night. It means getting to bed early, and

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Speaker 1: by early I mean literally before nine to fifteen PM.

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Speaker 1: It means prioritizing sleep and making sure that I can

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Speaker 1: make the accommodation to get to bed by nine to

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Speaker 1: fifteen pm. It means taking walks after dinner. It means

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Speaker 1: taking the time to journal and reflect, It means moving

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Speaker 1: my body. It's all of these different things that I

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Speaker 1: do to fill up my own cup so that I

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Speaker 1: know that not only can I pour back into that cup,

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Speaker 1: but then pour out to others. What happens when you

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Speaker 1: don't prioritize yourself when you are lingering in this feeling

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Speaker 1: of overwhelm, is that it just keeps building, and sooner

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Speaker 1: or later it will become too much that straw will

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Speaker 1: quote unquote break the camel's back. And So when I'm

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Speaker 1: feeling the sense of overwhelm, when I'm feeling like there's

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Speaker 1: a lot happening, or maybe I'm incapable of proceeding because

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Speaker 1: there's just this like cloud over me, I ask myself

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Speaker 1: what is within my control to do right now? What

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Speaker 1: is within my power when things feel bigger than me?

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Speaker 1: And there are two really powerful questions. So my question

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Speaker 1: for you this week, my listener prompt, is when you

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Speaker 1: feel overwhelmed, what's one small thing that you can do

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Speaker 1: for yourself? And perhaps even think about this a little

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Speaker 1: bit differently, What is one hurdle you are facing right

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Speaker 1: now now that feels bigger than you. And what is

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Speaker 1: one small action step that is within your control to

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Speaker 1: act on right now. I'm excited actually, because the listener

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Speaker 1: questions via email seem to be taking off. Y' all

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Speaker 1: love this idea, and I wish you told me sooner

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Speaker 1: that you didn't want to hear your voice on the show.

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Speaker 1: I'm not mad at it. In fact, I bet a

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Speaker 1: lot of you have really great podcast voices. But I'm

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Speaker 1: going to dig into my pile of listener questions right

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Speaker 1: now and answer one from Jenny. Jenny asks, I've been

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Speaker 1: listening to you for years, girl, thank you for everything

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Speaker 1: you put out. I finally took the leap and started

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Speaker 1: creating content and writing articles. So my question is this,

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Speaker 1: if you could talk to yourself when you first started out,

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Speaker 1: particularly in writing content and being seen, what advice would

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Speaker 1: you give her? Jenny. My biggest piece of advice for

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Speaker 1: anyone who wants to start writing, whether it's just personally

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Speaker 1: or for an editorial outlet, if you want to create

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Speaker 1: content that you want others to consume, is truly be

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Speaker 1: your self. I can't tell you how many people come

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Speaker 1: to me and they say something like I want to

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Speaker 1: start a podcast, but there are so many podcasts, And

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Speaker 1: my answer to that is always, but there's only one you. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you can draw inspiration from other individuals. That's totally fine.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it's very important to the creative process. But

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Speaker 1: when it comes down to the thing that you are making,

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Speaker 1: the words you are writing, the photos you're taking, the

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Speaker 1: videos you're making, whatever it might be, know that it

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Speaker 1: has to start with you. So in order to be

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Speaker 1: authentic to who it is you are creating content requires

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Speaker 1: getting to know yourself even better. Who is it that

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Speaker 1: you are, what's important to you? What are your values?

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Speaker 1: What is it that is a priority to you. Being

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Speaker 1: able to answer these questions will make a world of

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Speaker 1: difference when it comes to whatever it is that you

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Speaker 1: are creating, outputting, et cetera. Get to know yourself, and

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Speaker 1: not just in the scheme of creating content, which, of course,

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Speaker 1: as I said, it's so valuable, but it's just valuable

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Speaker 1: in life. You are the person that you spend the

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Speaker 1: most time within any given day. You're the person that

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Speaker 1: you talk to the most in any given day. So

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Speaker 1: you owe it to yourself to invest in yourself and

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Speaker 1: the rest well that's really just logistics. Make sure you

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Speaker 1: are following over on social at Hurdle Podcasts. I'm over

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Speaker 1: at Emily a Body as well, and like I said,

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Speaker 1: loving the listener questions submission, so keep them coming. Send

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Speaker 1: me your thoughts, your concerns. Love note over to hello

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Speaker 1: at hurdle dot us another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys

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Speaker 1: next time