1 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: Hey, Hurdler's Emily A Bodie popping in with another installment 2 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: of five Minute Friday from Hurdle. As you know, on 3 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: five Minute Friday, I tell a story, I offer you 4 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 1: a thought prompt to take you into your weekend, and 5 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: then give you my highlights of the week. Things that 6 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 1: I thought were cool, whether they're awesome, things that businesses 7 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: are doing, content picks, podcasts, shows to watch, movies, to see, articles, 8 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: to read, you name it. It's kind of crazy when 9 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 1: I take a step back and realize that we've been 10 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: doing this social distancing, stay at home quarantine situation for 11 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,639 Speaker 1: almost two months now. I said to someone today that 12 00:00:57,920 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: I know it's hard to see it this way, but 13 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: I I feel like it's been a really unique opportunity 14 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: to slow down and reflect a lot. Right. I've been 15 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: reflecting about some of the things that used to be 16 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: part of my routine that aren't now, and that includes traveling. 17 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: So on that note, when I was a senior in college, 18 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: I started dating someone that was in the military. We 19 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: met about a month before he deployed to Afghanistan. It 20 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,919 Speaker 1: was his second tour. It was a really difficult time, 21 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: of course for him, but also for me worrying about 22 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: him as an infantry guy, living by my cell phone, 23 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: hoping to hear from him at any minute, twenty four 24 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: hours a day. That was my first introduction to love 25 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 1: in a romantic way, really, this feeling that a piece 26 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: of your heart is literally outside of your body. It 27 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: was during this relationship that I started writing letters, not 28 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: just sporadically. I would write letters whenever I was flying 29 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: somewhere on a We dated during my first year of 30 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: living in New York, and this was when work travel 31 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: started to be a thing for me, and so I 32 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: was on flights pretty often, and no matter where I 33 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: was coming back from, my rule to myself soon to 34 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: become tradition would be that I would write him a 35 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: letter on every flight home. Now that relationship is long gone, 36 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: admittedly I have been checked in on by every man 37 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: I have ever dated in quarantine. I'm not sure how 38 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: to feel about that anyway. The habit of writing letters, however, 39 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: has remained, and whenever I'm on my way home, whether 40 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: it's from our work trip or personal travel, I bring 41 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: along the same notebook and I take the time to 42 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: write down the things that maybe I'm not all that 43 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 1: ready to say out loud. This letter could be to 44 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 1: a friend that I'm writing. It could be to a 45 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: love interest, a relationship, someone that I'm casually seeing, a 46 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: family member. I've written to my parents. I mean, the 47 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: list goes on. Now. I've never actually sent one of 48 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 1: these letters, although I have definitely read I think at 49 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: least maybe two of them to the person that it 50 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,079 Speaker 1: was meant for. Like I said, I have a notebook, 51 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: and that notebook has about i'd say thirty to forty letters. 52 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: It's something I've thought about publishing one day, or at 53 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: least taking that idea or concept and turning into some 54 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 1: sort of book. I digress. So the other day I 55 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,079 Speaker 1: was journaling and I thought to myself that it's been 56 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: a while since I've written one of those letters, and 57 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: there's something really special to be said for how cathartic 58 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: they are. To get something off of your chest that 59 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: makes it feel tight otherwise, to tell someone how you 60 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: feel when maybe in real life it just doesn't feel possible, 61 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: or maybe you feel as if there's just no point. 62 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: I share this with you to lead you in to 63 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: this week's prompt. Like I said, sometimes it's harder to 64 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: say something than it is to write things down. And 65 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 1: this week I had a moment where I thought to 66 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: myself that I miss having this freedom to really dive 67 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: into something that feels buried deep inside of me. And 68 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: so I told myself that I was going to start 69 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: trying to write one of these letters once a week. 70 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: So now I invite you to do something similar. I 71 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: want you this weekend to take ten minutes, just ten minutes, 72 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: and write down the thing that's hard for you to say, 73 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 1: write someone a letter. When you're done, take the time 74 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: to read it out loud and ask yourself, how does 75 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: this make you feel hearing it out loud? Does it 76 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: make you want to change something? Does it make you 77 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: want to reach out to someone? I'm curious. So after 78 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: you're done writing, and after you've read it out loud, 79 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,679 Speaker 1: shoot me a note, shoot me a DM, an email, 80 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: whatever works for you, and let me know what you 81 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 1: thought of this exercise my highlights for the week. So 82 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: this is, without a doubt, the nerdiest thing. But as 83 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, I'm always looking for hacks on how to 84 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 1: better run my business. This sounds like an ad, but 85 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,559 Speaker 1: it is not. And I recently started using this free 86 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 1: website called wave. It is for basically accounting needs or 87 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: keeping your books together, so to speak. And what I 88 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 1: love about it is it's super user friendly, and for 89 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:25,359 Speaker 1: the first time in over three years of being my 90 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: own boss, I have a reasonable expectation about how much 91 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: money will come in at a certain time, which sounds 92 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: when I say it out loud, like something that I 93 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: should have been keeping track up for quite some time. 94 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: But I'm finally on it. It was one of my 95 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 1: big to do list items to check off during this 96 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 1: time at home, and it feels really good. So I 97 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: want to share my new secret of sorts, my new 98 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 1: hack with all of you. It's called Wave. Check it out. 99 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: Also shout out this week to Lulu Lemon. I ordered 100 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 1: a belt bag a fannyback for my mom for Mother's Day. 101 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 1: She's seen me with my fanny packs over the last 102 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: few years and has wanted one herself, and I thought 103 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: that Mother's Day would be the perfect opportunity to get 104 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: her one of her own, so I ordered her one 105 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 1: of their belt bags and I did it on Monday 106 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: of this week. The package was at her doorstep by 107 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon, which says something. Because I can't tell you 108 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: how many things that I have ordered over the last 109 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 1: couple months. To be honest with you, way too much 110 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: ordering has been done over the last couple months, and 111 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: some of these things that I have wanted in a 112 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: rather efficient manner have literally taken four weeks to arrive. 113 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: So big props to Lululemon. My mom loves her belt bag. 114 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: And on that note, a huge, huge, Happy Mother's Day 115 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 1: to all of the mamas listening to Five Minute Friday 116 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: this week. Next highlight for the week, a company called 117 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 1: Remind Me What Matters is inviting users to mail themselves 118 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: or a family member or a friend a postcard that 119 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:02,039 Speaker 1: will arrive a few months into the future. Now, the 120 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: card is only a dollar, and the rest of the 121 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: proceeds they go to one of the fu charities that 122 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: they've selected. And I super dig this. I think it's 123 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: so cool, just this idea of not knowing when the 124 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,239 Speaker 1: card is going to show up, and what a cool 125 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: thing to either give someone you care about or even 126 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: send to yourself. I mean, maybe right now, think about 127 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: what you're gonna want to hear in three, four, five 128 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: months from now. Maybe you don't know what that is, 129 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: but you have an opportunity to send yourself a note 130 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: in the future or someone you love, and I think 131 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: that's just pretty awesome. Again, the company is called Remind 132 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: Me What Matters, and all of the links to everything 133 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: I'm talking about in this highlight section as always in 134 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: the show notes. Also from a content highlight perspective, I 135 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: asked my Instagram followers with some of their favorite other 136 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: podcasts are to listen to, and I am so excited 137 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: to dig into a bunch of the recommendations. As you know, 138 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: I've been walking a lot more. I've been trying to 139 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: get out to do some of that for at least least, 140 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: you know, thirty minutes in the morning before I'm inside 141 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: all day. And so a few of the recommendations that 142 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: you all sent over Crime Junkie, the Happiness Lab, Unlocking 143 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 1: Us with Brene Brown, which I have highlighted on the 144 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: pod before, Bad on Paper, Dax Shepherd's Armchair Expert, and 145 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: today a friend send another one the Ezra Klein Show 146 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: from Fox. Some good stuff to get us started. And admittedly, 147 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: while we are talking content, I have a confession. I 148 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: watched Too Hot to Handle on Netflix, and while it 149 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 1: was almost pathetically entertaining, it has nothing on Love is Blind. 150 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: So if you're looking for a little bit of mindless TV, 151 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: something that gets your mind off of whatever else is 152 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: going on. There you go. You are welcome, and that's it. 153 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: I do want to flag that I've been getting a 154 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: lot of requests to host another intro to podcasting webinar, 155 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: and so what I'm going to do is actually make 156 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:00,040 Speaker 1: a downloadable guide that you'll be able to snap. I 157 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: get from the Hurdle website, so stay tuned for more 158 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: details on that. As many of you know, I read 159 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 1: from the meditation book Journey to the Heart every morning 160 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 1: and today's verse about loving yourself really hit home for me, 161 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: and I think it'll hit home for you too, So 162 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 1: I'm finishing with some words from the book again. It 163 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: is called Journey to the Heart. This situation will change, 164 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: This time will pass, and the magic will return, so 165 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,559 Speaker 1: will joy and faith, and you will feel connected again. 166 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:37,320 Speaker 1: But the first thing to do is love yourself and 167 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 1: the good you want will follow. At Emily Body at 168 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: Hurdle Podcast Another Hurdle Conquered. Catch you guys next time.