1 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Emily Avadi here coming to you from my 2 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: hotel room in Germany. 3 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 2: Not an every day it sentence for me. 4 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: I'm out here this weekend visiting Adidas headquarters, joining in 5 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: on some fund surrounding. 6 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 2: Their Roads to Records event. 7 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 1: Essentially what that is if you didn't know, their global 8 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: headquarters is located here in Herzel, Germany. 9 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 2: They are holding this event which. 10 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: The whole goal is to break records with athletes in 11 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: the five kilometer, ten kilometer and half marathon. Tons of 12 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: running talent out here. Really exciting to be able to 13 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: have the opportunity to witness it and to join in 14 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 1: on a little five k run they're having on Saturday 15 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: for us normal humans and really get to experience all 16 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 1: that is their headquarters. I've been here once before, in 17 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, and that experience this is like a really 18 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,559 Speaker 1: full circle moment for me. When I came here in 19 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, I hadn't started the show yet. I was 20 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 1: recently laid off from my job at self when the 21 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: magazine folded, and I remember coming here and feeling so 22 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: self conscious and nervous about who I was like when 23 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: I introduced myself to other people that I was meeting, 24 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: whether they were other editors in the health and wellness space, 25 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: if they were perhaps new influencers. At the time, Adidas 26 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: was just opening up and really working on and investing 27 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: in their global Ambassador program, and I came on the 28 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: trip with a ton of their original global ambassadors, and 29 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: so I felt really really nervous and like unsettled about, like, Hi, 30 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: my name is Emily Body And what follows that? Now 31 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 1: again a really full circle moment. So many years later, 32 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 1: I am in a completely different place, both personally and professionally, 33 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: and so to be back here and you know you're 34 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: listening to this show, to have my own thing, to 35 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: have done so much work on myself as well, to 36 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: be really firm in who I am, what my foundations are, 37 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 1: what my values are. It feels really special and I'm 38 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: really really proud of that. That's not necessarily what this 39 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,799 Speaker 1: five minute Friday episode is about today. What I want 40 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 1: to talk today about is the idea of and I 41 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,799 Speaker 1: talk about this regularly on the show, but it's been 42 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: really really relevant lately, fact versus fiction and the stories 43 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:04,399 Speaker 1: that we're telling ourselves. I forever have said the sentence 44 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,119 Speaker 1: I am not good at napping. This is like kind 45 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: of comical now that I'm saying it out loud, but 46 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: I always have wanted to be the kind of person 47 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: that was good at just like taking thirty minutes. I, 48 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: as you know, and by nature an early morning human. 49 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: I love getting up and getting stuff done first thing 50 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: in the day, but sometimes that brings about a fair 51 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: amount of tiredness, as one could expect as the hours 52 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: go on, and especially coming out here completely swapping a 53 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: sleep schedule, if only for a few days. 54 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 2: I got a couple of hours of sleep on the flight. 55 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: Thankfully, I got in and I knew that I needed 56 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: to definitely catch at least an hour nap in the 57 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: break I had before heading over. 58 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 2: To their global headquarters. 59 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: And this would be, I would say, the second or 60 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: third quote unquote successful nap that I have taken this year. 61 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 2: I'm like laughing at myself because this just sounds so ridiculous. 62 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: The thing is is that, again, I used to tell 63 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,839 Speaker 1: myself that I wasn't good at napping, And what I 64 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: realized when I told myself that was that I started 65 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: to believe it and I wasn't even giving myself the 66 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: opportunity to rest when I really desired it because I 67 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 1: was resistant to the idea in my head it was 68 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: just something that I could not do again. I'm not 69 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 1: talking about like climbing Mount Everest. I would say that 70 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: right now it is a fact I probably can't climb 71 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: Mount Everest. 72 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 3: But napping, like laying down, taking a break. I was 73 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 3: so resistant to the idea of like allowing myself this reprieve. 74 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 3: And so when I stopped believing the story that I 75 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 3: was telling myself, this story you are incapable of napping, 76 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,679 Speaker 3: You're bad at napping, And I allowed myself to simply 77 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 3: lay and rest and accept whatever result happened. I am 78 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 3: getting better at not believing my own bs, if that 79 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,599 Speaker 3: makes sense, at getting too a place where I am 80 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 3: not just accepting the stories. And of course this takeaway 81 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 3: that I'm sharing with you is bigger than just napping. 82 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 3: It's like the sentence I'm not a runner or I 83 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 3: can't run. It's like, okay, maybe right now you don't 84 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:36,159 Speaker 3: enjoy running, or you don't feel as though you're good 85 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 3: at it. But what happens if you reshift, reframe, better 86 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 3: word that narrative. What happens if you stop running? How 87 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,039 Speaker 3: you feel as though you should be running and running 88 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 3: for a minute and walking for a minute, and running 89 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 3: for a minute and walking for a minute, and not 90 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 3: comparing that activity to that of someone else who maybe 91 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 3: has different feelings on running. 92 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 2: You see where I'm going with this. 93 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 1: When you can separate fact from fiction, you have a 94 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 1: lot of opportunity, and you can separate the stories you're 95 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: telling yourself versus what is actually reality. So I am 96 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: allowing myself the grace to get better at taking a 97 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: nap every once in a while, and that grace enabled 98 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 1: me to accumulate, over a wonky travel day about five 99 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 1: and a half hours of sleep total, which, hey, it's 100 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: better than no hours of sleep total. I will take it. 101 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 1: My question to you this week, my thought problem for 102 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,039 Speaker 1: you this week? What is something in your life a 103 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,119 Speaker 1: fact from fiction moment? What's a story that you're telling 104 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:48,159 Speaker 1: yourself that you can break, something that you can have 105 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 1: some grease with? Again, how can you separate fact from 106 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,280 Speaker 1: fiction in your life? 107 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 2: And now a listener question. 108 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 4: Hey, Emily, this is Sarah from Boss. I've been listening 109 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 4: for a while and I'm not a runner at all, 110 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 4: but I love the interviews that you give with inspiring people. 111 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 4: My question to you is how are you navigating the 112 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 4: world of investing. I am in the boat right now 113 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 4: where I'm trying to organize my finances and I remember 114 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 4: seeing on your Instagram stories that you. 115 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 5: Also started investing. So what's your strategy? Here are you 116 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 5: meeting with the financial advisor? How is your investing journey going. 117 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 5: I'd love to hear some feedback and some tips. 118 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 2: Thanks. 119 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: I love going back to the listener questions after having 120 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: the opportunity to travel and knowing who the hurdlers are 121 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: that are calling in and asking them. I met Sarah 122 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: up in Boston. She is fabulous and I am just 123 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: I'm happy to hear your voice, Sarah investing. It's I'm 124 00:07:56,320 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: working on it right So as of now, I work 125 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: with an accountant. I was referred to an accountant that 126 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: specializes working with individuals who are contractors. 127 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 2: They have a lot of ten onion nines. 128 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: I am one of those type of humans, and I obviously, 129 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: well not obviously, but I have my own LLC that 130 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: I do all of my work under, and so I 131 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: work with an accountant when it comes to navigating my 132 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: taxes and everything like that, and also talk to him 133 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: a little bit about strategic where I could play some 134 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: of my money. Last year I opened up an earnest 135 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 1: in earnest and interest earning savings account, so now I'm 136 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: earning money on my money over there. I also put 137 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 1: a little bit of money in cryptocurrency. I felt like 138 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: it was like the thing that I was open to 139 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: experimenting with not a ton and I just did that 140 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: using Coinbase, the app. I don't open it regularly because 141 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: it just fluctuates so much, so that's kind of a 142 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: long term thing. I have a four to oh one 143 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: K from when I worked in house at Conde Nast 144 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 1: and Rodale. I also have an IRA that I do 145 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: the mac contrib max contribution every year, which I believe 146 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: at this point is six thousand dollars. And beyond that, 147 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: I am really interested in getting involved in investing in stocks, 148 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: and especially after my conversation with Jacqueline Johnson, I'll link 149 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: that in the show notes. She's the co founder of 150 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: Creating Cultivate and now has a fund called New Money Ventures. 151 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: I feel like really excited about learning more about doing that, 152 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:38,559 Speaker 1: about putting my money places. Not that I have like 153 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 1: copious amounts of extra money laying around, but I do 154 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:46,559 Speaker 1: know that long term investing in stocks and maybe companies, 155 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 1: and maybe one day I can be a person that 156 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:50,199 Speaker 1: Angel invests somewhere. 157 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 2: What I've learned about that specifically. 158 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: Is that it doesn't need to be like, I don't 159 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: need to say like I have one hundred thousand dollars 160 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 1: to give you, because I certainly do not. 161 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 2: But sometimes Angel and are. 162 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: Just like a much lower barrier to entry. Maybe it's 163 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 1: a thousand or five thousand or ten thousand. Again, this 164 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 1: is a lot of money, so I'm not saying it lightly, 165 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:16,679 Speaker 1: but I'm just having a fun time learning more about. 166 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 2: The whole space. 167 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 1: And I'd like to keep having conversations, and I think 168 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: that's important that we have open conversations about how to 169 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 1: do that. And I know that money can be like 170 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: a really taboo thing. Everyone is in a different place 171 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: and has different priorities on how they want to use it, 172 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: spend it, save it. But I think that we can 173 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: all agree that financial wellness and financial health is super important, 174 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: So the more open we can be about it, the better. 175 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that kind of sums up where 176 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:48,439 Speaker 1: I'm at with my money, just trying to make smarter decisions. 177 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: I put a certain amount in my savings every month, 178 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: put a certain amount and a separate bank account that 179 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 1: I have for rent. 180 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 2: Every month. 181 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: I put a certain amount in a separate account that 182 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: I have for travel every month, and obviously my regular 183 00:10:57,880 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: expenses and everything. 184 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 2: So just try to be more diligent. 185 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 1: With this as I get older, with the goal of 186 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 1: one day, hopefully you know, owning something, not just renting forever. 187 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 2: And That's where I'm at. And that's it for this week. 188 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening, Thanks for following along with Hurdle. 189 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: If you're not doing so yet, head on over to 190 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: social follow us at Hurdle podcast. I'm over at Emily 191 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: a Body and I'm gonna make this call out again. 192 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: I do it regularly, but listener questions, I want yours, 193 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: I need yours. I want to answer more questions, so 194 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: please call in with one. I'd love to answer it 195 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: on the show. The link to do that is in 196 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: the show notes. Another Hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time. 197 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 4: Attatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatas