1
00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:05,320
Speaker 1: When you here know it's actually a yes for something greater.

2
00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,600
Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Emily A Badi here, you are listening to

3
00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,080
Speaker 1: the final installment of the.

4
00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,720
Speaker 2: Turning of the Page series for this year.

5
00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,240
Speaker 1: Anyway un Hurdle a wellness focused podcast where I talk

6
00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,040
Speaker 1: to inspirational people about everything from their highest ties and

7
00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:38,720
Speaker 1: toughest moments to essential tips on how to live a healthier, happier,

8
00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:39,920
Speaker 1: more motivated life.

9
00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:41,040
Speaker 2: We all go.

10
00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:44,239
Speaker 1: Through our fair share of hurdles. My goal through these

11
00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,440
Speaker 1: discussions is to empower you to better navigate yours and

12
00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:50,440
Speaker 1: move with intention so that you can stride towards your

13
00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:54,800
Speaker 1: own big potential and of course have some fun along

14
00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,639
Speaker 1: the way. So it felt only natural that if I

15
00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,440
Speaker 1: was going to ask a bud of other stellar women

16
00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,160
Speaker 1: some of these questions about the year that was in

17
00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:08,360
Speaker 1: the next three sixty five, that I should answer them myself.

18
00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:10,120
Speaker 2: And so it's a solo today.

19
00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:14,520
Speaker 1: I'm recapping how I'm doing, really, what my word was

20
00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,320
Speaker 1: for twenty four, how that played out, what my word

21
00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,760
Speaker 1: is for twenty twenty five, what I want to stop,

22
00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,839
Speaker 1: start and keep doing in the new year.

23
00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,640
Speaker 2: What I'm most proud of from the previous year. So

24
00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:27,600
Speaker 2: much good stuff.

25
00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:32,520
Speaker 1: I mean, truly, when I think about the last year

26
00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,840
Speaker 1: of my life, it feels like a movie. I was

27
00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,639
Speaker 1: able to accomplish things that I dreamed about for so long,

28
00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,559
Speaker 1: and also do things that I couldn't even dream about

29
00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:49,120
Speaker 1: honestly because they weren't even on my radar. That is

30
00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:54,840
Speaker 1: truly why I feel so blessed going into the next

31
00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,120
Speaker 1: twelve months. I'd be remiss if I didn't say before

32
00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:01,360
Speaker 1: we get into it today that none of this would

33
00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:05,040
Speaker 1: be possible without all of you. Coming off of Hurdle's

34
00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:10,120
Speaker 1: seventh birthday celebration, I'm so proud. I never thought that

35
00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,520
Speaker 1: I would be doing this seven years later when I

36
00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:16,079
Speaker 1: started this podcast, and so to not only be still

37
00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,400
Speaker 1: behind the microphone, but also getting the opportunity regularly to

38
00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,720
Speaker 1: interact with so many of you, whether it be in

39
00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,480
Speaker 1: the DMS or in my inbox, and also irl around

40
00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:28,760
Speaker 1: the city, around the world. I mean, we had a

41
00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:32,040
Speaker 1: Hurdler meetup this year in Tokyo.

42
00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,240
Speaker 2: That is It's wild to me.

43
00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:39,080
Speaker 1: So without a doubt, I extend the biggest thank you,

44
00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:40,600
Speaker 1: the biggest thanks to all of you.

45
00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,000
Speaker 2: For supporting me, for listening regularly.

46
00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,839
Speaker 1: And for engaging with the show and Uh, yeah, it's

47
00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,239
Speaker 1: really really special. Make sure you're following along with Hurdle

48
00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:52,840
Speaker 1: over on the socials. It's at Hurdle Podcast. I am

49
00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,880
Speaker 1: over at Emily a body and with that, let's get

50
00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:03,880
Speaker 1: to it. Let's get to hurdling.

51
00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,320
Speaker 2: How am I doing? Really?

52
00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,240
Speaker 1: It's honestly one of those questions that I love to

53
00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,560
Speaker 1: ask because it makes someone stop and think for just

54
00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,000
Speaker 1: a second before going on autopilot with that.

55
00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:21,760
Speaker 2: I'm good.

56
00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,000
Speaker 1: Right, How many times in a day do you tell

57
00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:27,040
Speaker 1: someone I'm good and wonder if you actually mean it.

58
00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,560
Speaker 1: I do mean it when I say that I'm good.

59
00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:33,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could tell you that in

60
00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,360
Speaker 1: this moment, I feel great, which is a little funny,

61
00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,720
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that soon. And that's because I

62
00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,320
Speaker 1: feel like I'm lingering in a little bit of uncertainty

63
00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,440
Speaker 1: right now. I do send so much possibility and excitement

64
00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,680
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty five, but I am someone who really

65
00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:55,160
Speaker 1: likes to know what's happening next, and there's a lot

66
00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:56,440
Speaker 1: of things up in the air right now, and so

67
00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,880
Speaker 1: that gives me a little bit of anxiety. But I know,

68
00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,520
Speaker 1: oh that I have no reason to believe that it's

69
00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,360
Speaker 1: not all going to work out. I have no reason

70
00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,120
Speaker 1: to believe that just because I don't have all of

71
00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,640
Speaker 1: my answers right now doesn't mean it can't turn out

72
00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:14,120
Speaker 1: better than I even thought that it could be. And

73
00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,920
Speaker 1: so I'm sending in that and I'm good. That's how

74
00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:21,000
Speaker 1: I'm doing, really, And I said that being good instead

75
00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,120
Speaker 1: of being great is a little funny, because great was

76
00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,400
Speaker 1: my word for twenty twenty four, and oh man, did

77
00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:31,400
Speaker 1: it live up to the word. The thought process behind

78
00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,040
Speaker 1: the word great for me is that my family motto

79
00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,960
Speaker 1: is do good. And for so many years of my career,

80
00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:43,240
Speaker 1: and candidly, maybe over different parts of the last seven

81
00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:48,480
Speaker 1: eight years of entrepreneurship personally and professionally, I have been

82
00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,279
Speaker 1: okay with good. I've been working hard and doing things,

83
00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:56,880
Speaker 1: but not necessarily pushing the envelope, if you will. And

84
00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,839
Speaker 1: I wanted to in twenty twenty four up into great,

85
00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:05,840
Speaker 1: to do things that were on the next level, to

86
00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:10,160
Speaker 1: make bigger asks, to try things that really really put

87
00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,720
Speaker 1: me out of my comfort zone. And I can say

88
00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,400
Speaker 1: without a doubt that I did it. I really did it.

89
00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,400
Speaker 1: I really stepped into great in twenty twenty four. And

90
00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,200
Speaker 1: a big part of this there are so many different

91
00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,359
Speaker 1: events that were so special to me. I'm literally looking

92
00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,360
Speaker 1: at a list of like twenty six highlights of the year.

93
00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,680
Speaker 1: From shooting my first ever Birkenstock campaign, my first ever

94
00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,839
Speaker 1: campaign for anyone, but my first ever Birkenstock campaign, to

95
00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,560
Speaker 1: going to Orlando for the Marathon Trials, to sitting down

96
00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,479
Speaker 1: with Joe Bunoit Samuelson What a Goat, to giving a

97
00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,479
Speaker 1: keynote for Athleta, to traveling to Singapore and running the

98
00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:47,000
Speaker 1: Tokyo Marathon, going to Paris four different times, including the Olympics,

99
00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,520
Speaker 1: running Hut to Coast. I mean, God, like, the list

100
00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,840
Speaker 1: is endless. I will I will slow down. I'm a

101
00:05:53,839 --> 00:06:00,919
Speaker 1: slow mayroll. But so much amazing great things happened in

102
00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,799
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. And they were things, like I said earlier,

103
00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,640
Speaker 1: that I didn't even fathom or dream of, because I

104
00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:11,760
Speaker 1: wasn't dreaming that big yet. And so twenty twenty four

105
00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:16,320
Speaker 1: taught me to dream bigger, to think bigger, to manifest bigger,

106
00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,680
Speaker 1: to say things that scare me, to write things down

107
00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,080
Speaker 1: that scare me, to get not only brutally honest, but

108
00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,360
Speaker 1: then like a little delusional when I think about the

109
00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,159
Speaker 1: things that I am after because they might not feel

110
00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:30,880
Speaker 1: within my reach right now, but that does not mean

111
00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,159
Speaker 1: that they are not within my reach eventually.

112
00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:34,880
Speaker 2: Right.

113
00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,720
Speaker 1: I think twenty twenty four was the year that I

114
00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:43,039
Speaker 1: really really embraced this idea that a no doesn't mean

115
00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:47,440
Speaker 1: no forever, and that when you hear no, it's actually

116
00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,320
Speaker 1: a yes to something greater. I'll say that one more time,

117
00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:55,719
Speaker 1: when you hear no, it's actually a yes for something greater.

118
00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,160
Speaker 1: And so when I think of the word great and

119
00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,640
Speaker 1: when I think of of twenty twenty four, I gave

120
00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,440
Speaker 1: you a list of really awesome opportunities, but I would

121
00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,599
Speaker 1: be remiss if I didn't say that the greatest of

122
00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:11,040
Speaker 1: them all was the bed on your self era to

123
00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:13,520
Speaker 1: a tee And that was my trip to the Olympics.

124
00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:20,320
Speaker 1: In an Instagram post earlier this year, in the summer,

125
00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,960
Speaker 1: I wrote, three weeks ago, I booked my own trip

126
00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,440
Speaker 1: to Paris for the Olympics, no tickets, no work, justin

127
00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:30,680
Speaker 1: inkling that I needed to put myself there. Four days later,

128
00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,360
Speaker 1: the planets aligned, and shortly thereafter I landed a job.

129
00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:38,239
Speaker 1: The job doing every single thing I journaled and dreamed

130
00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:42,760
Speaker 1: and talked about for the past two years, recording hosting,

131
00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,120
Speaker 1: storytelling gathering a true pinch me moment, one that I

132
00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:54,160
Speaker 1: don't take for granted. That was phenomenal. Landing the job

133
00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,320
Speaker 1: was phenomenal, and the job within itself was amazing. I

134
00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,480
Speaker 1: landed an opportunity to podcast in a space that Athleta

135
00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,680
Speaker 1: had put together at the Olympics and was able to

136
00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,920
Speaker 1: invite women that I admired that were in Paris to

137
00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,840
Speaker 1: come and sit down with me and talk about their experiences.

138
00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:12,960
Speaker 1: And Yeah, I met a loss for words because when

139
00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:16,800
Speaker 1: I look back on it, truly it was a dream realized.

140
00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:21,000
Speaker 1: It was a dream realized, and it happened because of

141
00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,360
Speaker 1: that bet on yourself era a moment. It happened because

142
00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,840
Speaker 1: I said to myself, I'm going to put myself where

143
00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:30,280
Speaker 1: I belong, and I worked really hard to get to

144
00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:35,240
Speaker 1: a place where I had the capability simply to do that, right,

145
00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:40,599
Speaker 1: because betting on myself was like out of pocket hotels,

146
00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:44,280
Speaker 1: I used points for my flight, like I didn't know

147
00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,400
Speaker 1: what was going to happen once I got there. And

148
00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:48,160
Speaker 1: if I had to just like buy a bag at

149
00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,800
Speaker 1: a day and do baguettes and afford the luxuries of that,

150
00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:55,600
Speaker 1: I would have, right, But I bet on myself by

151
00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:59,440
Speaker 1: putting myself in Paris, and when I got there after

152
00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:03,280
Speaker 1: like confros this job, like all of the doors opened.

153
00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,360
Speaker 1: I was pitching outlets that I had also never written for,

154
00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:08,680
Speaker 1: so journalist Emily was coming to the forefront, and I

155
00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:12,200
Speaker 1: was writing and interviewing athletes that were putting it all

156
00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:14,600
Speaker 1: on the line themselves to go after their big dreams,

157
00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,520
Speaker 1: and then coming back to the studio space and recording

158
00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:20,280
Speaker 1: with someone else that I admired. Like it was, I

159
00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,679
Speaker 1: felt like my best self for those two weeks in Paris,

160
00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,199
Speaker 1: and that is the woman that I am right now

161
00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,560
Speaker 1: and the woman that I will strive to continue to

162
00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,800
Speaker 1: be and to make myself proud of in the next

163
00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:40,240
Speaker 1: twelve months and beyond period. The beutt on Yourself era, Paris,

164
00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,520
Speaker 1: the Olympics, and so many of the things that happened

165
00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:45,760
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four reminded me of who the hell

166
00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:51,360
Speaker 1: I really am, and when I I'm smiling right now

167
00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:53,079
Speaker 1: thinking about this because I told you at the beginning

168
00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:56,080
Speaker 1: that I'm good. I'm not great, but I say that

169
00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,440
Speaker 1: and I am reminded of who the hell I am,

170
00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:03,040
Speaker 1: right and I I know right now that there is

171
00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:05,800
Speaker 1: more of the bet on myself, the bet on your

172
00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:10,000
Speaker 1: self era in front of me right now. I just

173
00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,079
Speaker 1: need to get back to this place where I am

174
00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:17,840
Speaker 1: truly living it because you have to be and I

175
00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:20,920
Speaker 1: know this to be true, your own biggest hype person.

176
00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:23,560
Speaker 1: If you don't believe in yourself, if you don't bet

177
00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,920
Speaker 1: on yourself, then no one around you is necessarily going

178
00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:30,840
Speaker 1: to be the person that does. It starts with you,

179
00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,600
Speaker 1: and that is something that was so hammered in for

180
00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:39,560
Speaker 1: me in twenty twenty four. It starts with me, and

181
00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:44,079
Speaker 1: it felt so so good. One of the questions I

182
00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,079
Speaker 1: asked the woman this week was what was my word

183
00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:48,880
Speaker 1: of the year. I told you it was great. But

184
00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:54,720
Speaker 1: my word for twenty twenty five is actually attention. And

185
00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,120
Speaker 1: there are a few words that I get thrown too

186
00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:58,400
Speaker 1: the mix here, but I'm going to focus on this

187
00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:04,559
Speaker 1: because where your attention goes, your focus grows. And sometimes

188
00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:10,160
Speaker 1: it can feel like our focus is specifically on something

189
00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,280
Speaker 1: that isn't serving us. Maybe it's a relationship or a frustration.

190
00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,960
Speaker 1: I myself can tell you that I have certainly been

191
00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:22,240
Speaker 1: in situationships and my focus was on this one person

192
00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:25,600
Speaker 1: and it wasn't serving me. And that can be a

193
00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:30,240
Speaker 1: very frustrating place to be. But with that said, we

194
00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:34,160
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to shift that focus, although sometimes it

195
00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,520
Speaker 1: might not feel that way. Just like we get to

196
00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,600
Speaker 1: react to our thoughts. So my word for twenty twenty

197
00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:45,920
Speaker 1: five is attention, because I want to continually remind myself

198
00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,920
Speaker 1: that I get to put my attention on the things

199
00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:53,640
Speaker 1: that serve me and by doing that, by taking control

200
00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,880
Speaker 1: of that opportunity, good things will happen for me. I

201
00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:01,160
Speaker 1: get to pay attention to the people that lift me up,

202
00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,120
Speaker 1: the people that show up for me in good and

203
00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,560
Speaker 1: bad times. I get to remind myself day in and

204
00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:09,480
Speaker 1: day out that I do not want to simply be

205
00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,520
Speaker 1: an option. And when I am an option or made

206
00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,560
Speaker 1: to feel like an option, that's probably not the situation

207
00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:20,320
Speaker 1: that I want to walk into. Attention, I get to

208
00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:26,840
Speaker 1: choose where my attention goes. In twenty twenty five, where

209
00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,840
Speaker 1: your attention goes, your focus grows. There are a lot

210
00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:34,079
Speaker 1: of things I'm focused on this year. For one, really

211
00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,120
Speaker 1: giving some energy back to the podcast and putting systems

212
00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:42,360
Speaker 1: in place that make this show the best storytelling vehicle

213
00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,520
Speaker 1: that it can be that For one, two, I've really

214
00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:52,240
Speaker 1: loved diving in to hosting this year and to gathering

215
00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,880
Speaker 1: as well. So two different things that I want to

216
00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:59,120
Speaker 1: invest my time in twenty twenty five. More hosting, whether

217
00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:02,800
Speaker 1: that be in too very large groups or small curated groups,

218
00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:09,480
Speaker 1: moderating storytelling in that way, and then gathering. I feel

219
00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:13,280
Speaker 1: like I mentioned like that Tokyo gathering we did the

220
00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:18,880
Speaker 1: Berlin gathering. I had the opportunity throughout the year to gather,

221
00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:23,920
Speaker 1: specifically gather with women, which is something that makes me

222
00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:29,840
Speaker 1: feel very purposeful. I feel like I can be a

223
00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:34,880
Speaker 1: conduit for connection. I love to connect people. One of

224
00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,360
Speaker 1: the most flattering compliments that anyone ever gave me was

225
00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,920
Speaker 1: telling me that I am a gracious connector, and I

226
00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:47,360
Speaker 1: am someone who firmly believes that good people should interact

227
00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,480
Speaker 1: with good people, and so I will never gate keep

228
00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:55,760
Speaker 1: my relationships. I'm just not that person. Circling back to gathering,

229
00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:57,920
Speaker 1: That's why it's so important to me, right because if

230
00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,600
Speaker 1: you can get a bunch of good people in one room,

231
00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:06,000
Speaker 1: then great things can happen. And so I am certainly

232
00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,880
Speaker 1: dialed in to how do I do more gathering in

233
00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:13,160
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and culminate that with the hosting with

234
00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:17,520
Speaker 1: the podcast you get where I'm going here? What was

235
00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:22,400
Speaker 1: one new thing I learned in twenty twenty four Something

236
00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,720
Speaker 1: that's really resonant with me from twenty twenty four is

237
00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:27,160
Speaker 1: just this idea that nothing changes if nothing changes.

238
00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,960
Speaker 2: I've been coming back to it a lot lately.

239
00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,560
Speaker 1: I won't say that necessarily I learned it, but I

240
00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:37,080
Speaker 1: will say that I really stepped into it over the

241
00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:40,280
Speaker 1: past year. I made a list of folks that I

242
00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:42,640
Speaker 1: admire earlier this year, and I realized that all of

243
00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:45,520
Speaker 1: them had qualities or were doing things, whether it was

244
00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:49,320
Speaker 1: personally or professionally, that I wasn't yet doing, or maybe

245
00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:53,240
Speaker 1: a quality that I wanted to amplify within myself. And

246
00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:56,360
Speaker 1: there's the person that chooses maybe to be jealous in

247
00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,400
Speaker 1: a situation like that. And then there's the person that

248
00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:03,640
Speaker 1: says that person is doing something right. I admire you,

249
00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,000
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep up with you. I want to

250
00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,720
Speaker 1: ask myself, what is it that I can do to

251
00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:15,000
Speaker 1: get to where that person is, to maybe exemplify or

252
00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:21,280
Speaker 1: learn some of the skills that they have. Right Again,

253
00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,040
Speaker 1: you can choose to be jealous, or you can choose

254
00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,480
Speaker 1: to do something about it. There are two different types

255
00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:30,360
Speaker 1: of people here, and I am the person that wants

256
00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:31,360
Speaker 1: to do something about it.

257
00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:33,320
Speaker 2: Nothing changes if nothing changes.

258
00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:37,160
Speaker 1: So in my case, I've had the opportunity to sit

259
00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,040
Speaker 1: down with some of these people that I'm like, wow,

260
00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,720
Speaker 1: I really admire you, and so cool for me then

261
00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:43,640
Speaker 1: to be able to learn from them and then be

262
00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,080
Speaker 1: able to bring their knowledge to you right here on

263
00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,960
Speaker 1: the show. That's awesome. That's really awesome. But not everyone

264
00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,760
Speaker 1: is going to be someone that then comes on the show.

265
00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:57,600
Speaker 1: So I in some cases was able to grab some

266
00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,960
Speaker 1: time with these people. In other cases is I did

267
00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,440
Speaker 1: some of my own learning on these people right listening

268
00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:06,160
Speaker 1: to podcasts that they've been on, following them closely on

269
00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,560
Speaker 1: social media, and so yeah, I think that's been really

270
00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:13,160
Speaker 1: refreshing for me, that idea of ownership over nothing changes,

271
00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,640
Speaker 1: if nothing changes. Instead of just being like why not me,

272
00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,600
Speaker 1: that's not what I want, that's not who I want

273
00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,320
Speaker 1: to be, I want to come back to that through

274
00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,240
Speaker 1: line that I mentioned earlier, which is I want to

275
00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:29,040
Speaker 1: be empowered and determined and I want to keep up

276
00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,680
Speaker 1: the hard work knowing that I have never ever ever

277
00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:38,400
Speaker 1: regretted putting my all into anything, and that I am

278
00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:42,440
Speaker 1: and you are too, the most important investment that I

279
00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:46,440
Speaker 1: will ever make. I am the most important investment that

280
00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:50,960
Speaker 1: I will ever make, and everything I want stems from

281
00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:56,080
Speaker 1: that investment of self. And I think that's something else

282
00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,240
Speaker 1: that I'm really carrying with me right now into twenty

283
00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,840
Speaker 1: twenty five. I think about how I am the kind

284
00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:06,080
Speaker 1: of person that loves turning the page, that loves the

285
00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:09,160
Speaker 1: beginning of the new year. That's because it's an opportunity

286
00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,840
Speaker 1: for me to really embrace the fresh start on my

287
00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:18,600
Speaker 1: habits and my routines. I love, understatement, my morning routine

288
00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:23,879
Speaker 1: right now, and it is time consuming and can be

289
00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:29,560
Speaker 1: a little bit tedious, but it feels so fulfilling to

290
00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:35,160
Speaker 1: give back to myself in this way. I am in Washington,

291
00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,680
Speaker 1: d C. As you're listening to this, and before flying

292
00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,520
Speaker 1: to DC, I got up at four forty five because

293
00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,440
Speaker 1: I knew that if I didn't do my morning routine

294
00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,960
Speaker 1: and the things like the breathwork and the journaling and

295
00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,200
Speaker 1: the reading and the moving my body, that I wasn't

296
00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,600
Speaker 1: gonna feel good for the rest of my day. And

297
00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,359
Speaker 1: I had a nine thirty five flight, and so that's

298
00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:02,800
Speaker 1: what it took. I wrote earlier in the day on

299
00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:06,000
Speaker 1: Instagram and a note from my notes app that motivation

300
00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:11,320
Speaker 1: can wane, right, but what will never go away are

301
00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:15,720
Speaker 1: your values. Knowing your why, the opportunity to reach out

302
00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:19,720
Speaker 1: for support. Those are things that you can do. You

303
00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:21,840
Speaker 1: can take a look at your values. You can talk

304
00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,840
Speaker 1: to someone about what you're going through when the motivation

305
00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,440
Speaker 1: isn't there. I think that there's a common misconception that

306
00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:33,840
Speaker 1: people that are successful are just extremely motivated. Period. Those

307
00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,679
Speaker 1: people aren't always motivated. They just have a really strong

308
00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,360
Speaker 1: foundation for why they do the things that they do.

309
00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:45,399
Speaker 1: Some food for thought. So again, the thing that I

310
00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:47,680
Speaker 1: learned in twenty twenty four, I'd say that lesson that

311
00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,200
Speaker 1: I embraced in twenty twenty four, nothing changes.

312
00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:52,760
Speaker 2: If nothing changes.

313
00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,840
Speaker 1: Taking a little break from today's episode to give some

314
00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,719
Speaker 1: love to my friends at a six. Whether your New

315
00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:08,879
Speaker 1: year's goals consist of more positive mindsets, more movement, or

316
00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:12,000
Speaker 1: more miles. Asex is here to make every step a

317
00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:16,160
Speaker 1: step in comfort, now launching on January tenth, a hurdle

318
00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,399
Speaker 1: favorite the gel Nimbus twenty seven. I laugh whenever I

319
00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,800
Speaker 1: say the word nimbus because it makes me think of

320
00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:22,399
Speaker 1: Harry Potter.

321
00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:23,160
Speaker 2: But I digress.

322
00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:26,000
Speaker 1: The gel Nimbus twenty seven, a shoe that creates a

323
00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:30,120
Speaker 1: softer and smoother running experience for all of the miles ahead.

324
00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:34,680
Speaker 1: Now A six is providing hurdle, listeners and exclusive deal. Seriously,

325
00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:38,000
Speaker 1: you cannot get this anywhere else. To purchase a gel

326
00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:42,080
Speaker 1: Nimbus twenty seven or your favorite A six sneaker now

327
00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,920
Speaker 1: through January thirtieth, use the code hurdle.

328
00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,480
Speaker 2: Ten at checkout at A six dot com.

329
00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:53,240
Speaker 1: That's ASICs dot com for ten dollars off orders of

330
00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:56,640
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars or more. Again, get ten dollars off

331
00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:00,840
Speaker 1: your next order using the code hurdle ten hul E

332
00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:13,919
Speaker 1: one zero at checkout at asix dot com today. Stop,

333
00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,680
Speaker 1: start and keep doing. In twenty twenty five, what's on

334
00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,040
Speaker 1: my list now? If you are a subscriber to the

335
00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:22,360
Speaker 1: Weekly Hurdle, then you may have read a little bit

336
00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,840
Speaker 1: about this. There again the link to subscribers in the

337
00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:26,399
Speaker 1: show notes.

338
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:27,239
Speaker 2: I'm going to keep.

339
00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,840
Speaker 1: Strength training twenty twenty four was the year of strength

340
00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:32,240
Speaker 1: training for me. Strength training changed a lot for me,

341
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,119
Speaker 1: not just physically but emotionally. It felt really great to

342
00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:38,080
Speaker 1: get back to a place for the first time since

343
00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:43,679
Speaker 1: Man twenty seventeen where I'm regularly lifting heavy and using barbells,

344
00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,679
Speaker 1: and so I want to most definitely keep up the

345
00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:48,520
Speaker 1: momentum in twenty twenty five.

346
00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:50,200
Speaker 2: When I think of the.

347
00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:52,359
Speaker 1: Strength goals that I have for the new year, I

348
00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,399
Speaker 1: want to get three consecutive pull ups. I want to

349
00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,840
Speaker 1: press one hundred pounds overhead, which feels very lofty right now.

350
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,320
Speaker 1: And I really want to make sure that I'm continually

351
00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:06,560
Speaker 1: doing post deior work because running is still something that's

352
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,560
Speaker 1: my bread and butter, and I want to do whatever

353
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:12,520
Speaker 1: was in whatever is in my power to prevent injury.

354
00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:17,919
Speaker 1: So definitely keep strength training in twenty twenty five, I

355
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:22,080
Speaker 1: want to stop. I want to stop the deadline mentality.

356
00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,760
Speaker 1: I'm a career journalist. I thrive on a deadline, and

357
00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,480
Speaker 1: that means, for example, that sometimes my newsletter that comes

358
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,040
Speaker 1: out on Friday mornings gets written on Thursdays. And so

359
00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,320
Speaker 1: one of my goals for twenty five is to be

360
00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:36,760
Speaker 1: better about getting ahead. I want to use time blocking,

361
00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:40,919
Speaker 1: and maybe I'll use either Notion or my planner for this,

362
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:44,160
Speaker 1: but i want to work ahead so.

363
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,639
Speaker 2: That I'm not working up to the why or so regularly.

364
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 1: And when I set a goal like this, I have

365
00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 1: to ask myself the why, and the why is that

366
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,400
Speaker 1: I don't want to feel anxious like I do regularly

367
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,679
Speaker 1: right now in a way that is completely avoidable, and

368
00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,240
Speaker 1: I want to create better and I know that if

369
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:05,119
Speaker 1: I think ahead, it will empower me to do so

370
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 1: in the long run. And then for my start in

371
00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,399
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, I want to start setting an alarm again.

372
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,879
Speaker 1: Since the pandemic, I've really been team no Alarm. I

373
00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,199
Speaker 1: think many of us have, right, and I've loved the

374
00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 1: relaxed approach to my morning routine, especially because I make

375
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,960
Speaker 1: the rules and I just have a target period of

376
00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 1: time that I like to be at my desk, but

377
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 1: it's flexible for the most part, and so when I

378
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:33,639
Speaker 1: get up on the later side, or when I have

379
00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 1: done that over the past year or two, sometimes the

380
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,440
Speaker 1: things that I like as a part of my routine

381
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,760
Speaker 1: fall by the wayside in favor of just running into

382
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:49,240
Speaker 1: movement actually and just figuratively right. So, by setting an alarm,

383
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 1: maybe depending on the day, that alarms at six or

384
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 1: six thirty at the latest, I will have more time

385
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,439
Speaker 1: to do the things that make me feel good. And

386
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,240
Speaker 1: I have a really strong why for all of those things.

387
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 1: This is coming out on January fourth. I'm only four

388
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 1: days into the new year incorporating all of these fun

389
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 1: things of my morning routine. But it feels good and

390
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 1: I don't want to get rid of it, and I

391
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: want to set an alarm. So I'm going to start

392
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 1: setting an alarm again. And those are my stop start

393
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:25,159
Speaker 1: and keep doing in the new year. What was I

394
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 1: proud of In twenty twenty four? I talked about the

395
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,000
Speaker 1: bet on Yourself era, but I do want to say

396
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 1: that there are a few tips that I can offer

397
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 1: you if you two want to bet on yourself. The

398
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,120
Speaker 1: first thing really comes down to knowing who you are.

399
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,880
Speaker 1: And I get dms all the time when I talk

400
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,440
Speaker 1: about doing a values assessment and asking yourself what's important

401
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 1: to you?

402
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,680
Speaker 2: I don't even know who I am. That's the DM.

403
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 1: You can do a simple activity, which is go to

404
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 1: Google and put in a values list like Google like

405
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 1: what are core values?

406
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 2: And see what comes up, and then.

407
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: Write down the buzzwords that resonate with you, like family

408
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 1: or health or movement or finances, whatever those buzzwords are,

409
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 1: and then write on why each of those is important

410
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,240
Speaker 1: to you. And it might feel a little silly in

411
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 1: the moment, but you will never regret putting in the

412
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 1: work to get to know yourself better. So if you

413
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 1: want to bet on yourself, it starts by knowing who

414
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 1: you're working with and knowing yourself. The next pillar I

415
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: will say is that in order to bet on yourself,

416
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 1: you need to also choose to be a good person

417
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:41,360
Speaker 1: to others. I cannot tell you how important it is

418
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 1: to be a kind human, not just because it's a

419
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:49,719
Speaker 1: good thing, period, but also because it will always, always,

420
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:53,159
Speaker 1: always always come back around. You want to be the

421
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: person that is good to other people. You want to

422
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: be the person when you're not in the in the

423
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,399
Speaker 1: room that people have good things to say about. Period.

424
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 1: I think that so often there is this concern, well,

425
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 1: if I'm a good person, then I'm gonna get walked

426
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: all over. That's not it at all. You can be

427
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,679
Speaker 1: kind and good, but also firm, and so I believe

428
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 1: that in order to truly step on the bet step

429
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: into excuse me, the bet on your self era, you

430
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 1: need to choose to be a good person and be

431
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: kind to others. Something else, when it comes to getting

432
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: into your own bet on your self era is getting

433
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 1: used to know and knowing that no isn't the end all.

434
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:43,880
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just a redirection, and like I said earlier, oftentimes,

435
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 1: most always, oftentimes, most always, most always, period a no

436
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: is actually a yes to something that's even greater. And

437
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: that redirection may make you feel some kind of way

438
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 1: at times, but trust me, and I tell you the

439
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: knows are happening for you, so get used to them.

440
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: I hear no a lot more than I hear yes.

441
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,199
Speaker 1: And sometimes it's easy to look at someone, especially with

442
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 1: the highlights of social media, and think that all they

443
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 1: hear is yes and compare yourself to that. Robin said

444
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: something really special in her episode earlier this week, and

445
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 1: she said that so often, when you're shooting for a goal,

446
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: you're comparing yourself at square one to someone that is

447
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: in a completely different place than you. Her example was

448
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: that you're starting to write the first chapter of your

449
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: first book and you're comparing yourself to a New York

450
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: Times best selling author who's like on their sixth and

451
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: it just doesn't work like that. It's totally understandable that

452
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 1: you're in that place of comparison, it's human nature, right,

453
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,919
Speaker 1: but that just isn't fair. So get used to know,

454
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: understand that no is not a dead end, it's just

455
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,400
Speaker 1: a redirection, and allow that to roll off of you.

456
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 1: You can feel your feelings in the no. I want

457
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: to make that clear. You are human, feel your feelings.

458
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: But then you owe it to yourself to stand up

459
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 1: and ask yourself what's next?

460
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 2: Okay?

461
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: And along with that, the last thing I will tell

462
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: you in this bet on your self era is be

463
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,199
Speaker 1: willing to fail. And that is in quotation marks because

464
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: failing isn't failing if you take the opportunity to learn

465
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: from the misstep, the side step, the thing that went

466
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 1: wrong right, it's a lesson and every failure is an

467
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 1: opportunity for us to move forward with new information. And

468
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 1: what a privilege that truly is. So again I reiterate

469
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,159
Speaker 1: on the things you should do, things you should know

470
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 1: if you want to bet on yourself.

471
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 2: One know who you are.

472
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: Two, be a good person to others, Three get used

473
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: to know, and four be willing to fail. I said

474
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: at the top of this episode that the bet on

475
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: your self era also requires a certain bit of delusion,

476
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,919
Speaker 1: and if you don't aim high, you won't know what

477
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 1: you're capable of. I'll say that Again, if you don't

478
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,919
Speaker 1: aim high, then you won't know what you're capable of.

479
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 1: So shoot right, like, go for the damn thing. You

480
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: will never regret betting on yourself, period period. Oh man,

481
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: what am I excited about for twenty twenty five. It's

482
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: a good question, It's a really good question. I have

483
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: some travel that I'm looking forward to this year. It's

484
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,639
Speaker 1: not booked yet, but I believe that twenty five is

485
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: the year that I finally get to Sydney, Australia.

486
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 2: I've never been to Australia.

487
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: I also believe that twenty twenty five is the year

488
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: I go to Mexico City, so I will accept all

489
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: recommendations on both of these destinations. I also believe that

490
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: there is a Ted Talk in my future. I believe

491
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: that there's a morning show segment in my future. I

492
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: could list my lengthy goals that feel like I am

493
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: shooting for the moon right now, and maybe that's one

494
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: way for me to manifest it right But I'm going

495
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: to keep some of them close to the vest. Can

496
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: I tell you that once I met a guy at

497
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: the bar at Rios. If you live in New York,

498
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: you know, If not, you probably know the pasta sauce.

499
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: But there's this highly exclusive restaurant up in East Harlem.

500
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: It's called Raos, and my dad was going there for dinner.

501
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: He had like a business reservation, and I read that

502
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: you could go to Raos and just sit at the bar.

503
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: You can't eat that is reserved for the tables, but

504
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: you can't go sit at the bar. And so I

505
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: went to the bar and I said hi to my

506
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,479
Speaker 1: dad and I went into Raos. I had never been

507
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: inside before. This is likely in twenty nineteen, I think.

508
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: And there was a man who used to be a

509
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: bartender at Raos called Nicki the Vest, So whenever I

510
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: say this sentence close to the vest, close to the chest,

511
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: I think of him. Anyway, I ended up sitting at

512
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: the bar with Nicki the Vest, who at the time

513
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: was a man like maybe in his late eighties, and

514
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: he told me so many stories of his days working

515
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: at Rayos. And keep in mind, like this isn't impossible

516
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: to get into restaurants, so the people that go there

517
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: are super notable, high profile. If you will, what happened

518
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: and then I'll you know, skip this sidebar. Is that

519
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: someone that worked at Rayos walked up to me, looked

520
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: at me and gestured for me to come with him.

521
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: I looked at my dad. My dad said go with him,

522
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: like he gestured the same thing. The man walks me

523
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: to a back room and gives me a small plate

524
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 1: of penny and meatballs. I am in a storage closet

525
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: eating Rayos food because they don't let people eat at

526
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 1: the bar, and they didn't want me in that restaurant

527
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: without feeding me. That's like one of my favorite, favorite

528
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: favorite stories I have of living in New York. Anyway,

529
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm going off the rails twenty twenty four, y'all.

530
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: It's going to be hard to top. I feel so

531
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: lucky for what I had the opportunity to do. I

532
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: think from an inventory perspective when I think about personally

533
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: what I want for myself in twenty twenty five, I'm

534
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: really manifesting really great love for myself. I mean that

535
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: both by meeting someone but also continuing the journey that

536
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: I've been on of self love. The last twelve months

537
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: for me tested me in ways that I didn't necessarily anticipate,

538
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: and I was able to come out on the other

539
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: side having invested in myself. And I'm so proud for

540
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: that that I was able to keep up my routine

541
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: and ask myself what's best for Emily when the answer

542
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: to that wasn't always an easy one to come to

543
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: terms with or the most convenient right. And so personally,

544
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 1: I seed love for myself in twenty twenty five and

545
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 1: it feels good. I'm like sitting here smiling, which feels

546
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: kind of cheesy. Is that it is that the episode

547
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: am I turning the page Attention in twenty twenty five,

548
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: Love in twenty twenty five, good things in twenty twenty five,

549
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: gathering and hosting in twenty twenty five, more goodness, more greatness,

550
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: more everything, more love, more life.

551
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you again.

552
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: I'd be lost without you, and I cannot wait to

553
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:44,239
Speaker 1: see what happens in the next twelve and reflect on

554
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 1: it again at this time next year. Like I said

555
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: at the top, make sure you're following along over at

556
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: Hurdle Podcast, over at Emily Abadi Another Hurdle conquered.

557
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 2: Catch you guys, next time

558
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: You pay in my hair