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Speaker 2: What is going on, Emily Body Here, You are listening

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Speaker 2: to episode three hundred and forty one of Hurdle, a

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Speaker 2: wellness focused podcast where I talk to inspirational people about

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Speaker 2: everything from their highest hies and toughest moments to essential

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Speaker 2: tips on how to live a healthier, happier, more motivated life.

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Speaker 2: We all go through our fair share of hurdles. My

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Speaker 2: goal through these discussions is to empower you to better

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Speaker 2: navigate yours and move with intention so that you can

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Speaker 2: stride towards your own big potential and of course have

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Speaker 2: some fun along the way. For today's so three forty one,

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Speaker 2: I am chatting with Laura Horvath. She is a professional

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Speaker 2: CrossFit athlete. She won the CrossFit Games in twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: three and when you do such a thing, they refer

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Speaker 2: to you as the fittest woman on Earth. Now, Laura

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Speaker 2: is not the first crossfitter that I've had on the show.

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Speaker 2: I've had the opportunity to chat with many strong, fierce ladies,

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Speaker 2: including brook Wells, Tea Claire Toomey, Annie Thoris's daughter, Catherine

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Speaker 2: my conversation with Laura today, we are talking a lot

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Speaker 2: about strength, what strength feels like for her when she

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Speaker 2: same page. Strength is interpretive. Everyone has different strength goals.

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Speaker 2: I myself am on a pull up journey. I just

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Speaker 2: But for context, Laura can squat over three hundred and

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Speaker 3: A big thank you to.

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Speaker 2: we recorded this conversation. Make sure you are following along

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's super impressive that you have that level of

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Speaker 1: most times it's very good and healthy, and it can

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Speaker 1: help me compete or train or just be. And sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's not so great, and then I just take an

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Speaker 1: extra couple of days or I need some extra time

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Speaker 1: for myself for it to get better.

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Speaker 2: Taking your break from today's episode to talk to you

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Speaker 2: about my partner at OPEN. Everything changed when I started

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Speaker 2: doing breath work. For so long, I was living in

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Speaker 2: a constant state of fight or flight, and it was

446
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Speaker 2: through using OPEN that I realized I had so much

447
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Speaker 2: more control over my reactions than I even realized. Your

448
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Speaker 2: nervous system plays a role in your every aspect of

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Speaker 2: your health and well being, and your breath is the

450
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Speaker 2: most direct and scientifically supported way to regulate your.

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Speaker 3: Body and improve your mood.

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Speaker 2: Every morning, I do five to ten minutes of breath work.

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Speaker 2: Right now, I'm doing Open's Nervous System Reset program. And

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Speaker 2: when I tell you it is something I look forward

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Speaker 2: to from the moment I get out of.

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Speaker 3: Bed, well, that's kind of an understatement.

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Speaker 2: With Open as a part of my routine, I feel

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Speaker 2: more calm, more capable, and more prepared to handle anything

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Speaker 2: that comes my way. Join me for opens Nervous System

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Speaker 2: Reset too. It's absolutely free. Head on over to the

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Speaker 2: link that's in the show notes and again that's for

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Speaker 2: thirty days of free meditation. Again, head on over to

463
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Speaker 2: the show notes and join open for free today. What

464
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Speaker 2: is your process when you're not feeling so shiny and

465
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Speaker 2: awesome realizing that these negative thoughts are creeping in?

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Speaker 3: How do you flip the script?

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Speaker 1: I think it's different for everyone, but like I just

468
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: like spending time with my dog and also my family.

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Speaker 1: My friends are just going a walk. I sometimes journal.

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Speaker 1: I write down with my thoughts. Mostly journal have it

471
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Speaker 1: in their dialogue with yourself, like kind of talk to

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Speaker 1: yourself but not really saying out loud of things, but

473
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Speaker 1: to like have it like a chain of thought with

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Speaker 1: myself and then just fix things if that happens.

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Speaker 2: And I mean listen for anyone, regardless of what you're

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Speaker 2: working through, whether you're competing to be the fittest woman

477
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Speaker 2: on earth or you're just trying to show up for

478
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Speaker 2: a day in the office, there's gonna be some anxiety

479
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Speaker 2: that comes with that.

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Speaker 3: That's part of life, right.

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Speaker 2: But to have the tools like the ones that you

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Speaker 2: mentioned that can make a profound difference.

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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, for sure. I think if you just you

484
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Speaker 1: just have to find what works for you, you know,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes that like you need help, you reach out

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Speaker 1: for like you start bringing me the therapist, or you

487
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Speaker 1: just talk to your parents, or you talk to your

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Speaker 1: friends or just journal. Just I think everyone has to

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Speaker 1: find the best way for themselves and then use those

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Speaker 1: tools that they found best for.

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Speaker 3: Them, use the tools that work best for them.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of tools, something we haven't talked about just yet

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Speaker 2: is nutrition, which is a huge piece of the puzzle

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Speaker 2: when it comes to you performing at your best. When

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Speaker 2: would you say you started to holistically understand the impact

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Speaker 2: that your nutrition could have on your training.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I started to understand it already when

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Speaker 1: I when I was in climbing, because maybe not understand

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Speaker 1: but I started to pay attention to my nutrition when

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Speaker 1: I was in climbing because obviously when you climb, you're

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Speaker 1: working against gravity, so your goal is to be as

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Speaker 1: light as you possibly can, so you have less way

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Speaker 1: to carry. But I think I already learned it in climbing.

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Speaker 1: That's not the best case scenario because you also have

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Speaker 1: to be strong, so lighter doesn't always means better if

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Speaker 1: you're stronger than what means better. So I think I

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Speaker 1: learned from those times when I was like, okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: just I just want to be lighter so I can,

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Speaker 1: you know, hold onto the wall longer and I don't

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Speaker 1: fall down, because that's the goal. And climbing, I learned

511
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Speaker 1: there that that's not the case, and I think I can.

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Speaker 1: I carried it over to cross it very well because

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Speaker 1: here also you have so many gymnastics. You have running

514
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Speaker 1: obviously a basis thing where people say bait, you know,

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Speaker 1: mass moves mess, but then you have to run a

516
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Speaker 1: mile and then you have to do x amount of

517
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Speaker 1: pull ups or push ups or anything like that. So

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Speaker 1: the best takeaway from me with that is just like

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Speaker 1: you know, lighter is not always better. It could be

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Speaker 1: sometimes better, but most case scenarios, stronger is better.

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Speaker 2: You needed to adopt or incorporate a diet that really

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Speaker 2: helped cater to building that strength. If you had to

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Speaker 2: give us a picture or snapshot of what your diet

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Speaker 2: looks like these days, what does it look like?

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Speaker 1: It's very simple. I eat the same foods most days,

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Speaker 1: like it's nothing crazy. I make sure that I eat breakfast, lunch,

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Speaker 1: and dinner on roughly the same times every day, and

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Speaker 1: then I have two three snacks a day as well,

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Speaker 1: so I have like five to like six meals a day.

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Speaker 1: I was tracking for a while and then I did

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Speaker 1: it and I sawed again. I think I learned what

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Speaker 1: I need, and I just make sure that the enough

533
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Speaker 1: amount of like protein, fats, and carbs in each meal,

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Speaker 1: you know, So it's it's a balanced meal for me

535
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Speaker 1: to do all these great things in the gym and

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Speaker 1: outside of the gym, I need to fuel my body.

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Speaker 1: So I look at food as fuel and not just

538
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Speaker 1: as like you know, food is not the enemy. Food

539
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Speaker 1: helps you do these very amazing things outside of the

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Speaker 1: gym or like in the gym or in a competition floor.

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Speaker 1: So my relationship with food has not always been great,

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Speaker 1: and it's still a work in progress, but I think

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Speaker 1: I've got them myself into a space with it where

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Speaker 1: where it's like a very it's a healthy relationship.

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Speaker 3: Now understandable, and thank you for sharing that.

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Speaker 2: I think this probably goes back to what you were

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Speaker 2: saying about when you were young and with climbing and

548
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Speaker 2: having this assumption that less is better, right, So during

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Speaker 2: that point in your life, would you say that maybe

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Speaker 2: there were times where you questioned the underfueling.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. I probably was underfueling for a

552
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Speaker 1: long long time, and then that it took me a

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Speaker 1: long time to like view the whole situation as like,

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Speaker 1: you know, less is not better, but you have to

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Speaker 1: fuel to perform a way you want to perform. So

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Speaker 1: I think I learned that the hard way by you know,

557
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Speaker 1: not eating enough and not giving my body what it needs.

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Speaker 2: And it can be so frustrating, right because you think

559
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Speaker 2: or you feel as though you're doing what you're supposed

560
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Speaker 2: to be doing, when in actuality, you're incapable of doing

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Speaker 2: what you want to do because you don't have the

562
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Speaker 2: foundational building blocks to go ahead.

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Speaker 3: And get after it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, when you say there are a certain amount

565
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Speaker 2: of proteins, fats, and carbs that you're aiming for, you

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Speaker 2: have some of the same foods that you're eating all

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Speaker 2: the time.

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Speaker 3: Give us an example of what some of those foods

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Speaker 3: might be for.

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Speaker 1: Carves that eat like rice, be potato, potato mostly, And

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Speaker 1: then I eat meat, So I eat chicken, beef, all

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Speaker 1: kinds of fish, all kinds of meats, and yeah, those

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Speaker 1: are mainly what my protein and carb sources. But I

574
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Speaker 1: also eat like eggs in the morning, I eat bread sometimes.

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Speaker 1: I you know, it's just like I try to eat

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Speaker 1: like a little bit of everything. There is not something

577
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Speaker 1: that I refuse to eat or I don't think it's

578
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Speaker 1: good because I think all everything is good in motivation.

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Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 2: So as your relationship with food and nutrition has evolved,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure also your relationship with your body has evolved.

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Speaker 2: How do you feel like your personal body image is

583
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Speaker 2: these days?

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Speaker 1: Well, there are good days and bad days, obviously, but

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Speaker 1: I think now I'm the happiest with my body and

586
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Speaker 1: overall I've ever been, you know, Like, I think it

587
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Speaker 1: takes some time to accept who you are and what

588
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Speaker 1: your body looks like, because you can try to change it,

589
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: and there are all kinds of tools now out in

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Speaker 1: the world that you can try to change your body.

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Speaker 1: But I think for me, I think it took some

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Speaker 1: time to accept that this is me. If I want,

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Speaker 1: I can obviously, you can get thinner, you can get bigger.

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Speaker 1: This is me, and I just have to accept that,

595
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Speaker 1: and I just have to be okay with that that

596
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: I there are genetics that I have that I will

597
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: never look like other people. I can want to be

598
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Speaker 1: someone else, but that's not gonna get me anywhere. You know,

599
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Speaker 1: they're just I'm just gonna get miserable, like wanting to

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Speaker 1: be that person or that body type or that's something.

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Speaker 1: So I just have you just have to be accepting

602
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Speaker 1: and okay with who you are. And obviously there are

603
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Speaker 1: good days and bad days that I said, but I

604
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Speaker 1: think I'm very happy with my body image.

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Speaker 2: I love that, and I think that to your point,

606
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Speaker 2: there are always good days and bad days, right, There

607
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 2: are always going to be no matter where you are

608
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Speaker 2: in your journey. You could feel so solid and good

609
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Speaker 2: in everything that you have to offer, but there's still

610
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Speaker 2: going to be that sporadic moment where you look in

611
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Speaker 2: the mirror and you're like, Eh, don't feel the best today,

612
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Speaker 2: And that's okay, right, that's part of it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you just have to accept it and probably maybe

614
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: or probably other people see that even more beautiful because

615
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Speaker 1: you have those insecurities, you know, like everyone, even all

616
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Speaker 1: the girls in the magazines and the models and the

617
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: whoever you look up and you want to achieve that

618
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: like they also have insecurities. They also have things that

619
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Speaker 1: they don't like about their body, and you just have

620
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Speaker 1: to get to terms with that, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, six months ago on Instagram, you were to caption

622
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Speaker 2: my body is worth more and does more than just

623
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Speaker 2: what it looks like. Was there something specific that inspired

624
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 2: that caption or have you been inspired to write on

625
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 2: that before?

626
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Speaker 1: Back in the day, But I didn't have as many

627
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: followers as I do right now. I thought more about

628
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Speaker 1: what I posted and what my caption was than right now.

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Speaker 1: I use social media now as my digital journal a

630
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: little bit. It's more like for myself than for other people.

631
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Speaker 1: And if they see some value in it or if

632
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: they like it, it's great. If they don't, that's also great.

633
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Speaker 1: It's just something that I put out for myself, so

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Speaker 1: maybe some day I can go scroll down or look

635
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Speaker 1: at it or something like that. But definitely everything I

636
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: post there is something that maybe I had a conversation

637
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: that day, or I had a you know, I read something.

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Speaker 1: It's something that can inspire someone or even inspiring to me.

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00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that day in particular, just having a moment

640
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 2: to write yourself a reminder. And sometimes I think that

641
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Speaker 2: that can be the beauty of social media, right It's yes,

642
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 2: our thoughts can be good to write out and beneficial

643
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 2: for us in that process, but also then in turn

644
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 2: have the opportunity to impact others, hopefully for the better.

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00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, definitely. Yeah, So probably that day I had

646
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: some kind of issues with my body or you know,

647
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: a conversation with someone. So yeah, your body is like

648
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: you're really at home, so like you have to take

649
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Speaker 1: care of it because at the end of the day,

650
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Speaker 1: this is what you got for the rest of your life,

651
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: so you so you have to you know, like accept it,

652
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: appreciate it, and use it as.

653
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 3: You wish, use it as you wish.

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Speaker 2: I love that sentiment, and especially with a CrossFit, I

655
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Speaker 2: feel like body is such a topic of discussion, right

656
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Speaker 2: largely in part because it is a sport where people.

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Speaker 3: Are wearing very minimal clothing and doing extraordinary things.

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Speaker 2: So for you, have you felt as though that has

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Speaker 2: either impacted your performance for the better or for the worse.

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Speaker 1: I think it's to be honest, it's not just in

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Speaker 1: cross but it's in all sports. What's great about CrossFit

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Speaker 1: is that it's not really how you look like. You

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Speaker 1: don't compete like for looks. You could look like not

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Speaker 1: the fittest person in the room, and then you'd be

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Speaker 1: the fittest. I think it's very important to appreciate our bodies,

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Speaker 1: and it's great they what they look like, but appreciate

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Speaker 1: more what they can do, obviously, because that why we compete,

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Speaker 1: not for looks, but it's for the benefit of what

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Speaker 1: your body are capable of.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's just a byproduct.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned the growing number of followers that you have

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Speaker 2: on social media. How does that make you feel that

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Speaker 2: so many people are keeping tabs on what's going on

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Speaker 2: in the world of Laura Harbeth.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as I said before, at the beginning, when I

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Speaker 1: had like a fraction of these people, I was paying

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Speaker 1: more attention. But maybe because I was just younger and

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Speaker 1: I thought that those people really care what I post.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, I realized that

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Speaker 1: people don't really care, you know, like and also it's

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Speaker 1: like one second of their time that they pay attention

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Speaker 1: to like read the poster. They might not even read it.

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Speaker 1: They just look at the picture and scroll too. Like

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Speaker 1: the world is so fast and everything is happening so

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Speaker 1: quick that even if I post something that, oh, it's

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Speaker 1: not that great, or like I don't look my best

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Speaker 1: in it, like, people won't even notice. It's just me

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Speaker 1: that I overthink these things that are like, oh, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, like my arms looks bigger here, or my

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Speaker 1: belly is out, or I don't even know, like something

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Speaker 1: that other people wouldn't even notice. And obviously, you like,

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Speaker 1: I noticed it for myself because I overthink my own

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Speaker 1: post or over my own pictures, or I used to.

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Speaker 1: And now it's just like, you know, I just post

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Speaker 1: whatever I feel like. And if all these people are

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Speaker 1: interested in what I post, it's great. But if they're

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Speaker 1: just like, you know, some people follow me a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago and they just forgot to Some people

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Speaker 1: don't even see those posts. Like it's really just like,

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Speaker 1: you know, all, we are all just people, and like

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Speaker 1: we're just always trying to do our best. And if

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Speaker 1: someone can take away from these posts a little bit

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Speaker 1: and it helps them a little bit, that's already great.

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Speaker 3: Do you think that there's anything negative about it?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, I think social media could be an amazing

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Speaker 1: and a terrible place at the same time. There could

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Speaker 1: be like one hundred good comments about how good everything

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Speaker 1: is and how amazing I am, and then there's one

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Speaker 1: comment that says something negative about me or my actions

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Speaker 1: or something, and that's the one that sticks with me,

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Speaker 1: you know, like not the other hundred that we're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you're so great, like whatever. The good ones are just

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Speaker 1: like okay, they are just they're great. But then there's

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Speaker 1: one negative or two negative comments, and that's the one

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Speaker 1: I remember.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's entirely understandable. That's human nature, right. But

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Speaker 2: then you get to decide what to do with that.

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Speaker 2: You get to decide whether you're going to let that

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Speaker 2: one comment make for a bad day or you're going

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Speaker 2: to let that just be a bad moment in the

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Speaker 2: scheme of so many other moments. You said that you

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Speaker 2: wanted to do a lot early on, from the get go,

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Speaker 2: really leaning in heavily to the sport, and although you

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Speaker 2: have to learn some lessons with that, you leveled up

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Speaker 2: rather quickly, excelling rather rapidly. What would you say the

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Speaker 2: biggest change was for you after you won the CrossFit Games?

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Speaker 1: Surprisingly, there were not too many changes, you know, like

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Speaker 1: people think it's like this urch othering it's amazing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was a great moment for me, and it was

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Speaker 1: a very good weekend for me, But my life didn't

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Speaker 1: really change drastically. Like I came home, I was still

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Speaker 1: the same person, Laura. I had the same friends. Like

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Speaker 1: my friends know what I do and they know like

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Speaker 1: they know me as the athlete, but they also know

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Speaker 1: me as the person and they always going to relate

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Speaker 1: to me more Laura as the person. So I don't

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Speaker 1: think a lot of things changed other than I got

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Speaker 1: a nice medal. The people around me didn't change. I

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Speaker 1: didn't really change. I stay the same person. So it's

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Speaker 1: not like whinning got into my head or like I

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Speaker 1: wanted people to treat me differently just because I want something.

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Speaker 1: They say that the destination is not as important, but

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Speaker 1: the journey is. But I think it's so true because

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Speaker 1: all those people were there with me when I took second,

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Speaker 1: and then when I didn't play very well, and then

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Speaker 1: I placed second and third, and then finally I won.

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Speaker 1: And like to them, I think my parents or my

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Speaker 1: brothers or my friends, like they they really saw the

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Speaker 1: whole process and it was just like we all knew

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Speaker 1: it's going to happen. It just took some time, you know,

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Speaker 1: like from the beginning when I when I took second

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Speaker 1: of the games, like we were just waiting or like

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Speaker 1: they were just waiting for it to happen. It just

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Speaker 1: took some time, and there were some ups and downs

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Speaker 1: in between. Like in life or like any sports, there

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Speaker 1: is you know, it's not a lineal upward line. It's

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Speaker 1: always like there is good days or bad days, or

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Speaker 1: bad competitions or good competitions and just have to take

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Speaker 1: them as they come and learn from them and then

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Speaker 1: move forward.

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Speaker 2: What would you say the biggest challenge has been for you,

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Speaker 2: the biggest hurdle perhaps as you navigated that nonlinear path.

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Speaker 1: It's just like accepting it because at the beginning, I

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Speaker 1: obviously improved a lot from the beginning because I was

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Speaker 1: a new bie. That was my first introduction to CrossFit,

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Speaker 1: and at the beginning, you improved so gradually, so much

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Speaker 1: so quickly if you stick with anything, I think, and

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Speaker 1: now the improvements are so little, like it's a one kilo,

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Speaker 1: you know, like you improve one kilo and it's huge.

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Speaker 1: And back then I was improving like fifteen or twenty

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Speaker 1: kilos in like a workout or like a in a lift,

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Speaker 1: and it was like, oh, that's good. And then the

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Speaker 1: next week I improved again five more kilos. And here's

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Speaker 1: just like now you just want to take those one

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Speaker 1: percent or one kilos or one second or you know,

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Speaker 1: like these little small improvements and you have to always

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Speaker 1: celebrate them. I think it's very important. But yeah, just

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Speaker 1: like learn that things take time and is always room

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Speaker 1: for improvement.

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Speaker 3: There's always room for improvement.

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Speaker 2: Did it feel some kind of way as more people

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Speaker 2: started to pay attention to your journey? Was there a

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Speaker 2: level of pressure that ever made you feel uncomfortable or

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Speaker 2: made it hard to focus?

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Speaker 1: Not necessarily hard to focus. I think there was pressure,

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Speaker 1: for sure. There was externally and internally pressure because I

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Speaker 1: put a lot of pressure on myself to perform to

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Speaker 1: the best of my abilities, or to perform the way

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Speaker 1: I know I can perform. I really tried to just

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Speaker 1: like focus on myself and do the best of my abilities,

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Speaker 1: and I believe that if I do that, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: work out.

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Speaker 2: I would be remiss if I didn't mention that along

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Speaker 2: with success and hard work also comes the benefit of

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Speaker 2: things like sponsors. What has it been like for you

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Speaker 2: to be able to secure these sponsorships enabling you to

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Speaker 2: make this a full time occupation.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't have done this without them. Obviously. My first

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Speaker 1: sponsors were my parents, because without them, I couldn't have

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Speaker 1: done anything. They just like helped me at the beginning

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Speaker 1: and and then when I got better results. I've gotten

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Speaker 1: all these amazing sponsors and I'm very fortunate to work

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Speaker 1: with them. They helped me in ways that I never

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Speaker 1: imagine sponsors can help. It's not the financially help, but

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Speaker 1: also introducing me to other athletes or other things and

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Speaker 1: recovery methods. For example, the Red Bull use the athlete

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Speaker 1: performance in terms and use all their amazing people there.

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Speaker 1: So sponsors are amazing and without them what we do

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be possible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, years ago, I visited the Red Bill Athlete Performance

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Speaker 2: Center in Santa Monica and was absolutely blown away at

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Speaker 2: all the different tools and technologies.

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Speaker 3: That they have there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they have everything.

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Speaker 3: They have everything.

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Speaker 2: Someone comes to your Instagram page and they see you

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Speaker 2: as this crossfitter with something like almost five hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: followers keeping up with you every day. But when you, Laura,

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Speaker 2: look in the mirror, what is it that you see

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Speaker 2: looking back at you?

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Speaker 1: Just like a regular girl? You know, like, obviously I

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Speaker 1: did these great things, but I don't think those achievements

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Speaker 1: define who I am. You know, like I'm Laura the

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Speaker 1: person first, and then comes to the athlete, and then

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Speaker 1: comes all these achievements which are great. But with the time,

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Speaker 1: I think they all fade away and you're just gonna

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Speaker 1: end up with who you are like as a person.

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Speaker 1: If you are happy with yourself and who you are

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Speaker 1: as a person, that what really matters at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day.

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Speaker 3: That is what really matters at the end of the day.

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Speaker 2: Right now, Laura, you have an opportunity to offer yourself

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Speaker 2: a piece of advice, maybe when you're in the thick

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Speaker 2: of the This is taking a lot longer than I

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Speaker 2: had hoped. It's after twenty eighteen. Your podium, You're not podium.

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Speaker 2: You're trying to figure it all out and you're just

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Speaker 2: having to exercise a lot of patience. What advice would

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Speaker 2: you offer your younger self knowing what you know now.

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Speaker 1: You know, just like good thing takes time and you

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Speaker 1: just have to be patient and work hard for your goals.

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Speaker 1: But if you work hard, you're gonna get there.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna get there.

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Speaker 2: Laura Horvap's so happy that we were able to sit

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Speaker 2: down today for Hurdle. For those that may not be

845
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Speaker 2: following along with you just yet, give us your info.

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Speaker 3: How do we keep up with you online?

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00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 1: And just look up Laura on Instagram Laura Hormaz and

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Speaker 1: then you'll find everything about me.

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Speaker 3: You'll find it.

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Speaker 2: I'm over at Emily a Body and at Hurdle Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Another Hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time