1 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:24,960 Speaker 1: Emily a body coming in hot that felt unnatural here 2 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,479 Speaker 1: I am. I'm here to grace your feeds with the 3 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: little rambling thoughts and wisdom for you to take into 4 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 1: your weekend. I today recorded my sixth hurdle episode of 5 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: the week. It has been an insane week. I am 6 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: working to kind of get my ducks in a row 7 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: before heading out of town next week, and so that 8 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: meant getting a leg up on all the work that 9 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: I had on deck, also having the opportunity to interview 10 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: some really awesome people. So one of the people that 11 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: I sat down with you're going to be hearing from 12 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: her on Monday. Her name is Brooke Wells. If you 13 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 1: don't know Brooke, she is a crossfitter. She came in 14 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: fifth at the CrossFit Games last week. I've been wanting 15 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: to chat with Brooke forever and was so excited that 16 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: we were finally able to make this happen. And something 17 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: that I really took away and was really just enamored 18 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 1: by from our conversation was the fact that for the 19 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 1: first six years of Brooke competing professionally CrossFit being her profession, 20 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: she did it alone, and that she trained alone, she 21 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 1: worked remotely with a coach, but she found that next 22 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: level of intrinsic motivation to get up every day and 23 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: not just do hard things. I mean hard sometimes for 24 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: me is like walking to the mailbox downstairs. Brooke was 25 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: out there like slamming prs, lifting heavy bar bills overhead, 26 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: putting in the work with so much grit and so 27 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: much determination, and showing up to train completely on her own. 28 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: And it made me think, right, it made me think 29 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: about how many times we choose to do things on 30 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,519 Speaker 1: our own because we don't know, perhaps any better, or 31 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: perhaps we're scared of change. For the first gosh handful 32 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: of years, maybe six to eight years of running, I 33 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: was scared, very much, so scared to run with other people. 34 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 1: I was scared that I wasn't good enough, that I 35 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: wouldn't be fast enough, that I would slow them down, 36 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: that I was going to be an inconvenience. It's like 37 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: name the worry, and I definitely had it. And so 38 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: instead of opening myself up to community, I did it 39 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 1: on my own. And as I'm sure Brooke can attest to, 40 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: it definitely had its challenges. The good thing is when 41 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,839 Speaker 1: you have a goal and you know why that goal 42 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: is important to you. Then that makes doing things on 43 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: your own feel a little more like part of your purpose. 44 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: But that doesn't necessarily mean that each and every day 45 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: is going to feel effortless. And I'm sure that there 46 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: were so many times on that journey for her where 47 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,639 Speaker 1: it could have been really easy to walk away without 48 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: consistent accountability and support. Not to say, of course, that 49 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 1: she didn't have those things within her coach from a 50 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: distance and her local friends and family. But still it's challenging, 51 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: and it's a lesson that I myself have learned over 52 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: the last few years as I've opened myself up more 53 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: to running with others and scrapping those stories that I 54 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: was telling myself, knowing that as long as you have 55 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: a body, you are a runner, and there is a 56 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: community out there that is going to accept me anyway. 57 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm so impressed with Brooke now. She 58 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: is the fifth fittest on earth according to CrossFit, and 59 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: she got there because she was willing to put in 60 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: that work and was able to define why this was 61 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: important to her or why she. 62 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 2: Wanted to keep showing up day in and day out. 63 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: And so this week, I want to encourage you to 64 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: think about the things that are important to you in 65 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: your life, and maybe on the goals front, take some 66 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: time to write down the why. So think about what 67 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: some of your goals are, what some of your aspirations 68 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: may be, and take some time to write down the why. 69 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: Because when the going gets tough, regardless of whether you're 70 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: going at it alone or lucky enough to go at 71 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: it with the company of friends or peers, going back 72 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: to that why is always going to bring you motivation 73 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: to keep on, keeping on and show up when the 74 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: going gets tough. 75 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 2: And now a listener question. 76 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 3: Good morning, Emily, This is Monica from Houston. I want 77 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 3: to ask you, if you, for some reason, somebody tells 78 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 3: you that you only have twenty four hours, what will 79 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 3: you do in those twenty four hours? Like, give us 80 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 3: a hand of like most of the day, work out 81 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 3: what FRADI A You're going to go eat? What else 82 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 3: you're going to do? You have to travel just twenty 83 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 3: four hours that you have left? What are you going 84 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 3: or planning? 85 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 2: You know? 86 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: I feel as though a variation of this question has 87 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: come in before, and I love like in my soul, 88 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: I love that when I think about answering it, it 89 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 1: really does just riff on what a quote unquote normal 90 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: day is for me, and that I don't immediately think 91 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: that I want to be in Italy, although that would 92 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: be nice. I think about the things that would bring 93 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: me so much contentment in my everyday life to have 94 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 1: the perfect day. I feel so blessed that I get 95 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: to do what I love by talking to people on 96 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: a regular basis and helping others and living in this 97 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: place in Brooklyn that I love. 98 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 2: And so when I think of that idyllic day. 99 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 1: It would start in the morning with me waking up 100 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 1: next to my partner, who I am in a happily 101 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: committed and great relationship with the someone who I feel 102 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 1: comfortable with to be my entire self and supports me 103 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: just like I'm excited to support them. I would then 104 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: go out for a run, probably on my own because 105 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 1: that's where I do some of my best thinking, and 106 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:30,039 Speaker 1: maybe along that run I would run into two or 107 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 1: three friends and we would finish the run together and 108 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 1: of course eat a croissant. Then I would grab a 109 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: niced coffee and come home and get ready for my day. 110 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: And on my ideal day, COVID is a non thing 111 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:48,799 Speaker 1: and I have about two different sessions in the studio 112 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: with some of my dream guests. Let's say Ashley Graham, 113 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: who I cannot believe I'm saying this, but I'm going 114 00:06:56,279 --> 00:07:00,160 Speaker 1: to have the good opportunity fortune literally the this is 115 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: something I've manifested forever to speak with on stage next 116 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: month at the Bold Conference in Los Angeles. I'll put 117 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: the link to that in the show notes in case 118 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: you want to come out and support. So, let's say 119 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: Ashley Graham and Venus Williams. I really really want to 120 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: sit down with Venus Williams, and so we do that 121 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: in my studio, and I then am able to outsource 122 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: some of the work that doesn't excite me as much, 123 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: including editing those episodes. I have a delightful lunch down 124 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 1: around the corner at one of my favorite small Italian restaurants, 125 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: perhaps a summer squash salad. When I'm done there, I 126 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: have a massage and a session at an infrared sauna. 127 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 2: I bob holme, I shower, I meet. 128 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: My partner because he lives with me, and we grab 129 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: a happy hour drink. My drink would either probably be 130 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: a martini with extra olives, dirty vodka or an old 131 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:05,679 Speaker 1: fashioned or maybe just bourbon on the rocks. 132 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 2: I'm really big on four roses with an orange peel. 133 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: And then he goes to meet up with some friends, 134 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: and I go to meet up with some girlfriends and 135 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: we have a really, really great dinner at one of 136 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: my favorite restaurants, Barbree Me on the Bowery in Manhattan. 137 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: I don't even have to order an uber to come 138 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: back home when we are full of bucatini and red wine, 139 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: because I have a car service in my dream day, 140 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: and the car brings me home and maybe we enjoy 141 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 1: a glass of wine or at this point it might 142 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: be time to switch to Seltzer on the roof and 143 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: wind down at the end of a really great day. 144 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:54,199 Speaker 2: And that's it. It's not super different than what I'm 145 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 2: already doing. 146 00:08:55,120 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: It definitely has some aspirational highlights, but there things that 147 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: I'm working toward, and mark my words, it's happening, all right. 148 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,439 Speaker 1: Make sure you're booing along with Hurdle over on social 149 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,839 Speaker 1: It's at Hurdle Podcast. I'm over at Emily Body. I 150 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 1: would love, love love to hear about your ideal day. 151 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: Feel free to talk to me about it over on Instagram. 152 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: Tag the show at tag me, and as always, if 153 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: you have a listener question, I'm all eres a link to. 154 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 2: Send me one is in the show notes. 155 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if my day was a little too boring, 156 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: but it makes me happy, all right. All right, that's it. 157 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: Happy Friday, y'all. Another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.