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Speaker 2: What is going on? Emily? A body here bringing you

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Speaker 2: Episode one forty seven of Hurdle, a wellness focused podcast,

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Speaker 2: wars it down with inspiring individuals to talk about their

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Speaker 2: I am chatting with Tunday Oyenain Peloton instructor and seriously,

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Speaker 2: just like the brightest light and vibe of maybe all time,

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Speaker 2: Dundee has certainly dealt with her fair share of hurdles,

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Speaker 2: from a dramatic weight loss and not getting her job

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Speaker 1: like I unraveled a layer of confidence, a layer of

437
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 1: like being so okay to step into my own step

438
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 1: into myself. I was already there, Like I didn't create

439
00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: this person that wasn't there. I just became okay with

440
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 1: letting everyone see her. And so I moved to La

441
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: to become or to pursue my career as a makeup artist.

442
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:18,439
Speaker 1: And you know, I become very successful in my own writing,

443
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,360
Speaker 1: in my in my field. I was, you know, working

444
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: for my dream company. I was doing my dream job.

445
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: I can't see me right now, but I say dreaming

446
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 1: quotes because it was what I thought that I wanted.

447
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,120
Speaker 3: It was what I dreamt of and I was doing it.

448
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 3: And when I was doing the job, I was like,

449
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 3: I don't really like this job.

450
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:39,680
Speaker 1: But it was like a thing I couldn't really say

451
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 1: out loud because I'd worked so damn hard to get there,

452
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,400
Speaker 1: and once I'd gotten there, it was almost like this

453
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 1: feeling of like, man, am I ungrateful?

454
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 3: I asked for this and I'm here now and I'm

455
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,400
Speaker 3: not happy. It doesn't feel good.

456
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 1: And so you know, I I was booked for a

457
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,959
Speaker 1: gig in New York and so I fly from LA

458
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: to New York. I get to the hotel. The hotel like,

459
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 1: the gym is bootleg. There's really no other way to

460
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,639
Speaker 1: say it. The gym is just bootleg. Like I go

461
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 1: down there, there's nothing to do unless I was gonna

462
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 1: do jumping jacksonplaces.

463
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 3: I was like, there's just nothing to do down here.

464
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 1: So I said, let me go to, you know, a studio.

465
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 1: And so I'd been hearing about cycling studios. Had never

466
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: taken like an indoor cycling experience class thing, but people

467
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 1: have been talking about it.

468
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 3: At the time. This was a few years ago now,

469
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 3: and so I said, you know, I'll go and take

470
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Speaker 3: one of the classes.

471
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Speaker 1: So by the time I purchase my seat in class,

472
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,439
Speaker 1: purchase my water bottle, my shoes, my towel, whatever, I'm

473
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 1: forty dollars deep.

474
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Speaker 3: This is a forty five minute class. Emily, Oh my god.

475
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 3: So i sit down.

476
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Speaker 1: On the bike and I'm thinking, like, I'm angry with myself.

477
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 1: I'm like, tune day, why did you just spend forty

478
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,120
Speaker 1: dollars to work out? And so I'm honestly like, I'm

479
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,120
Speaker 1: resenting the class. Before the class even starts, the class

480
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: like the lights dim the instructor comes in. People start screaming.

481
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: I have like imposter syndrome. I have no idea what's happening.

482
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: Three minutes into the class, I'm in a state of euphoria.

483
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: I leave the class that day, it's snowing outside of

484
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,639
Speaker 1: New York. I noticed that I'm not walking, but I

485
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 1: noticed that I'm skipping back to my hotel room.

486
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 2: I was like, are you magically floating somehow? You know what?

487
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 1: Honestly, if you told me that I was levitating, I

488
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: would believe you because I don't even I don't remember

489
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 1: how I got from point A to point B.

490
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,400
Speaker 3: But I'm levitating.

491
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 1: Then now back to my hotel room, and in a

492
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:40,919
Speaker 1: matter of seconds, I saw my life's trajectory pass in

493
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: front of me.

494
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 3: I always when I tell this story, it was.

495
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 1: Like a blue light, A blue wave rushed through my

496
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 1: body and I could see my life. I knew in

497
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Speaker 1: that moment, after taking my first cycling class, I knew

498
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Speaker 1: that I would be cycling for the rest of my life.

499
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Speaker 1: Not only did I know that I would be cycling

500
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Speaker 1: for the rest of my life, I knew that I

501
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 1: would be teaching it. Not only did I know that

502
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: I would be teaching it, but I knew that I

503
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 1: would be teaching it on the.

504
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 3: World's biggest platform.

505
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: I honestly can't even say that I knew what peloton

506
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: was at the time, but I knew that I would

507
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,719
Speaker 1: be cycling. I knew that I would be teaching it,

508
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: and I knew that I'd be teaching it on the

509
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: world's biggest platform. And I knew that the world would

510
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: know my name for it.

511
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 3: I was sure of it.

512
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,439
Speaker 1: I've never till this day, I've never been as sure

513
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 1: about any one thing in my entire life. And so

514
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: I finished this New York trip out I head back

515
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 1: to La I'm at a dinner party with my best friends.

516
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: We're all just talking about whatever, and I tell them,

517
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: I say, hey, guys, and mind you. They know how

518
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: hard I've worked in my cosmetic career to be where

519
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: I was. And I said, guys, I think I want

520
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: to quit my job and become a cycling instructor. And

521
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself. It was almost that thing of like,

522
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: you know, the stuff that you should only think in

523
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: your head. You should tell people out loud because they're

524
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: going to judge you. So I said it out loud,

525
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 1: and I was just like waiting for them to call

526
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: me crazy or whatever.

527
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 3: And they start crying. I'm crying. They start crying. I

528
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:10,640
Speaker 3: don't cry. I don't ever cry.

529
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: They're crying, and I said, why are you guys crying?

530
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: They're like, we're crying because we've never heard you say

531
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 1: anything that sounded so exact. What you're saying makes so

532
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: much sense. I said, guys, you've never even seen me

533
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: do it before. I've only seen me do it one time.

534
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: They said to day, I don't know why, but that

535
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 1: that sounds right for you. And so, you know, to

536
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 1: kind of wrap this story up, it was a matter

537
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: of imposter syndrome that set and next I think probably

538
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: six to eight months past where my friends are like, Tunday,

539
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: when are you going to go and get certified so

540
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: you can teach? When are you going to get certified

541
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: and teach? And I just kept putting it off because

542
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: I was like, Who's going to be motivated or inspired

543
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: by me? I can't get up and get on a

544
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: bike with my in my sports bra in front of people, Like,

545
00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: Who's going to be motivated by me? Saying anything? Like

546
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: all these things that I told myself I couldn't.

547
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 3: I couldn't. I couldn't.

548
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: And so because I have really really great, amazing, wonderful,

549
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: wonderfully supportive friends, they kept pushing me. So finally I

550
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: went and got certification. Then I go get the certification,

551
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,239
Speaker 1: The certification found a very nice home on top of

552
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 1: my bedroom desk for eight months collecting dust because again

553
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: imposter syndrome saurd. I was, Okay, now I'm certified, but

554
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 1: I don't actually know what I'm doing. I'm not good

555
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: enough to go audition somewhere. And so finally my friend

556
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: literally pushed me into the hands of an owner at

557
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: a local mom and pop studio in LA and you know,

558
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: one thing led to another and I auditioned and she

559
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: hired me, and you know, it's it's it's wild because

560
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: when I interviewed at Pelotona, I remember now Cody rig

561
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: actually found me on Instagram and had asked me to

562
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: come out to New York to audition for the Peloton gig.

563
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: In in short, I didn't get the gig the first

564
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: time around. The full audition process from when my very

565
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: first audition to when I landed the job was a year.

566
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 3: So it was like this, this very.

567
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: Trying, trying thing for me, really tested my faith in

568
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: myself because I, like I said, I'd had this vision

569
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: that something great was going to come of this. And

570
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 1: although I had this vision, I didn't know that it

571
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: was actually for sure that it come true. Although I trusted,

572
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,239
Speaker 1: and then here comes some random guy asking me on

573
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: Instagram to become audition random to be at the time

574
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: auditioned for a Peloton And so when that happened, I

575
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: thought to myself, I said, oh my god, this is coming,

576
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: this is it's happening, It's happening.

577
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 3: I envisioned this.

578
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: I envisioned this, and so when I didn't get the job,

579
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 1: it felt like a loss. It felt like wait, but

580
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 1: I trusted and this, I saw this, and how is

581
00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: this not happening?

582
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 3: And so when I.

583
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: Finally am in my final interview of twenty five or

584
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: whatever I went through in the course in the matter

585
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: of a year, I sat down with Robin and I

586
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: said to Robin, I said, if Robin is.

587
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 3: Again our VP, I said, if.

588
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: I get this job, I know that part of my

589
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: existence here is to gift people with the ability of

590
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: knowing that anything can happen. I am a first generation

591
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: American to a descendant of two Nigerians. I was overweight

592
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: half of my life, like this wasn't supposed to be

593
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: my story. It wasn't even something that I daydreamed about

594
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: because it was so far from the fabric of my

595
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: DNA of where I was. And so if this opportunity

596
00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: could happen for me, then I dare people to have

597
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: the audacity to dream and to dream bigger.

598
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 3: And this has taught me.

599
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: Personally for myself, to dream and to dream bigger. Everything

600
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: that I've asked for or dreamt about in this lifetime,

601
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: in some way or another, it's happened for me. I've

602
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: experienced a lot of tragedy in my life. I lost

603
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: my little brother when he was nineteen years old. Three

604
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: years after I lost my brother, I lost my dad,

605
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: and three years after that, I lost my mom. And

606
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: you know, I think that if I decided after losing

607
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: my mother, I think if I decided to do nothing

608
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: with my life, that the world would have given me

609
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: a past. The world would have said, you know what

610
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: she's been through, shit like, we're just gonna let her just,

611
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: you know, skate by if you will. And with those experiences,

612
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: I decided that I'm not going to let that trauma

613
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: dictate my future.

614
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 3: I'm going to pull pieces of it.

615
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: And the pieces that I pull is the understanding that

616
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: life is so short. Life is so short, and it's

617
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: so beautiful. And I do everything that I do because

618
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: I know that my family members cannot. I know that

619
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: they're not here anymore, and so I try to live

620
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 1: life fully for them. Stepping into twenty twenty one, my

621
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: goal this year is to not let my ambition rob

622
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: me of my current joy, to not let my ambition

623
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: rob me of my current blessing. Meaning that I think

624
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,479
Speaker 1: that we all have things that we're trying to build

625
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: in our lives, build for our families, build for ourselves.

626
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: I don't want what I'm trying to build rob me

627
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: of enjoying what I've already built. There's so much around me,

628
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: like when I open my eyes and look around me

629
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: in this life, like wow, wow wow. But I don't

630
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: want it to be in a place where I'm so

631
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 1: busy trying to get to the next thing, where I'm

632
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: so busy aspiring to the next thing that I forget

633
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: to just live and the joy of where I am

634
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: right here, right now.

635
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for sharing all that with me,

636
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 2: and I think a huge takeaway here. You mentioned both

637
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 2: loss not only in that first round of your dream

638
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 2: Job audition, but then also of course of your brother

639
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 2: and your parents. Talk to me about your strategy really

640
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 2: for coming back and showing up after such hardship. I mean,

641
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 2: the show is called hurdle, So talk to me about

642
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 2: what you do when sometimes it just feels like you

643
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 2: keep tripping and tripping and tripping and you're not clearing

644
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 2: where you want to go.

645
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: I think that when people look at success, they envision

646
00:34:52,040 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: success as a straight line to the top, when in fact,

647
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 1: there are peaks, there are highs, there are valleys, and

648
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 1: there are.

649
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 3: Lows, There is no straight line.

650
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: I think that on the road to success, within that journey,

651
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: there are hurdles, and if you understand that and you

652
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: trust that that is part of the process, then when

653
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 1: those hurdles or roadblocks arrive, you're less apt to stop,

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Speaker 1: You're less resistant, You're willing to lean in and trust

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Speaker 1: that you'll move through it. I believe everything happens for

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Speaker 1: a reason. It's a wild thing to say, or for rather,

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Speaker 1: it's a wild thing for me to still believe given

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Speaker 1: my life's experience. I said, I believe thing happens for

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Speaker 1: a reason, and then one might argue, well, why did

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Speaker 1: your brother pass so soon? You know.

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Speaker 2: Why? Why?

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 2: Why?

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 1: And it's like I don't have the answer. I don't

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Speaker 1: have the answer, but I do know one. I would

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Speaker 1: give anything to have any one of them back, even

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Speaker 1: for a moment, to have two minutes, thirty seconds, ten

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Speaker 1: seconds with any of one of them. Would I would

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Speaker 1: give the world. With that being said, I know that

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be the person that I am today had

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Speaker 1: I not gone through those experiences. And I trust that

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Speaker 1: part of my being here, part of that being part

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Speaker 1: of my story now, my DNA is that I'm supposed

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Speaker 1: to share that story.

676
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 3: I'm supposed to share my story.

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Speaker 1: The thing about life is that no day is promised,

678
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Speaker 1: no day is guaranteed.

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Speaker 3: People lose people.

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Speaker 1: And I think that part of my story is to.

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Speaker 3: Be there, to.

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Speaker 1: Be a light for people who are going through the unimaginable,

683
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: to again to not hide my story, but to share

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Speaker 1: my story, to show people that life does go on.

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Speaker 1: And for me, again, it's about living because they cannot.

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Speaker 1: If I were to you know, you said the name

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Speaker 1: of the show, it's hurdle, if I were to go through.

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Speaker 1: If I were to have said, Okay, this is a hurdle,

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to stay here. It's like I don't

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00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,439
Speaker 1: know how to say this, But like what good does

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Speaker 1: that do for them? Right? Like, unfortunately I can never

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Speaker 1: have them back, And so I can live life life

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Speaker 1: fully and intentionally. I can live life in purpose and

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Speaker 1: on purpose. I think that a life lead of service

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Speaker 1: is a life lad of purpose. My sign off every

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Speaker 1: time I finish a class, I say, it's my absolute

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Speaker 1: on this spike. And I think when you're living a

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Speaker 1: life of service, when you are doing for people. You

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Speaker 1: are doing things in purpose, within your life's purpose and

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Speaker 1: on purpose. I think you know, Emily Hurdle podcast, this

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Speaker 1: is your purpose or one of the many things that

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Speaker 1: may be within your purpose.

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Speaker 2: of us have been through the unexpected and some difficult moments.

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Speaker 2: For you, when you went through your difficult moments, was

729
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Speaker 2: it difficult for you not to maybe dive back into

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Speaker 2: some of the habits from earlier on that were a

731
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Speaker 2: little bit less than healthy or didn't make you feel

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Speaker 2: good about yourself. Yeah, And that's the thing.

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Speaker 1: It's a journey. It's not a snap, snap pop. You're

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Speaker 1: cured if you will like you're cured, meaning like this

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Speaker 1: is no longer something that you have to continue to

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Speaker 1: focus on. So yeah, So when the pandemic first happened,

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Speaker 1: I was I've said this before, but I there moments

738
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Speaker 1: where and like.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: I didn't remember walking to the refrigerator. I didn't know

741
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Speaker 1: how it was happening. Girl, And I look in my hand,

742
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Speaker 1: I'm like ice cream who bought ice cream. I live

743
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Speaker 1: in a wonder apartment by myself. Unless Caesar, my dog,

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Speaker 1: purchased the ice cream, I'm pretty sure that I bought

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Speaker 1: this ice cream. And so it was just like this

746
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 1: thing is like, you know, you're just and I think

747
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Speaker 1: it was more I'm a very focused person, but I

748
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:27,359
Speaker 1: think it was more so just being sedentary and being

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Speaker 1: in the house. I wasn't used to being in the

750
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Speaker 1: house quite as often, and so it was just about

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Speaker 1: it's been about finding a new normal. It's been about

752
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Speaker 1: giving myself grace, like not trying to measure myself now

753
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Speaker 1: to what I was physically, be it the way that

754
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: I look or the way that I feel, or a

755
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 1: strength how much I can bench press or spot like,

756
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Speaker 1: I can't compare myself to what I was a year

757
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Speaker 1: ago because a year ago I wasn't in a pandemic,

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Speaker 1: and unless I, you know, have the results or another

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Speaker 1: pandemic to measure myself against, then it's not really It's

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Speaker 1: really apples to apples, you know, and just an understanding

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Speaker 1: of loving my body at whatever physical capacity I'm at,

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Speaker 1: If that makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you mentioned a couple of times briefly, like

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Speaker 2: nutrition and where you're at with this. I think what's

765
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Speaker 2: really what would be really helpful to touch on a

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Speaker 2: little bit is to get a better understanding of kind

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Speaker 2: of like how you are fueling for the fact that

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Speaker 2: you are, you know, constantly showing up to be in

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Speaker 2: service drenched in sweat for other people. So how how

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Speaker 2: are you showing up in a way that you're fueling

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Speaker 2: your body to be able to do that.

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Speaker 1: Right, and so yeah, so I mentioned the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. You know, I fell I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say fell off. I took a different course, if you will,

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Speaker 1: than the one that I was on, and as I

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Speaker 1: try to as I now pay way not to necessarily

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Speaker 1: get back on course, but as I paved the roads

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Speaker 1: of a of a new course. I've just gone back

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Speaker 1: to what I know as best, like just tried and true.

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Speaker 1: And so for me, that's fueling my body with foods

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Speaker 1: that matter, foods that I need to actually fuel my tank.

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Speaker 1: It goes back to how I supplement my body. Like

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Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, I'm part of the nutrition team and

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Speaker 1: they actually reached out to me at the end of

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Speaker 1: towards the end of last year, and it was such

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Speaker 1: a beautiful partnership. I've been a huge fan of obdomen nutrition.

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Speaker 3: For a long time.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I end a lot of classes by saying you or

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Speaker 1: you're only as strong tomorrow as the recovery that you're

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Speaker 1: willing to put in today, Meaning people want to go

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Speaker 1: so hard in their workout. You can only go really,

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Speaker 1: really hard in your workout when you properly refuel your

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Speaker 1: body today, meaning you can only go so hard and

795
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Speaker 1: tomorrow's workout when you refill your body today.

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Speaker 2: What excites you right now Tonday?

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Speaker 1: I have a couple of things twenty twenty one. I

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Speaker 1: want to be stronger than ever. And I say that, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I went through this phase where I was

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Speaker 1: really in my head about not feeling as strong, and

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Speaker 1: then I kind of found myself in a place where

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Speaker 1: I felt like, Okay, give yourself grace. And now I'm

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Speaker 1: in this place where I'm just like, girl, you're a badass.

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Speaker 1: Like I'm kind of in this place where I want

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Speaker 1: to rather than feeling like I have to. And it

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Speaker 1: kind of goes back to what I was saying earlier.

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Speaker 1: But now I don't feel like I have to do

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Speaker 1: anything but show up as me.

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Speaker 3: But now I'm a place where I want to.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to say get in the best shape

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Speaker 1: of my life, because then that comes back to this

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Speaker 1: physical look, this physical image. I want to feel stronger

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Speaker 1: than I've ever felt before. So that's something that I'm

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Speaker 1: looking forward to doing. I am excited about being aware

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Speaker 1: of my joy, meaning I'm so excited to focus on

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Speaker 1: what already is, to enjoy the fruit of what I've

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Speaker 1: already built.

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited to let go of what isn't.

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Speaker 2: Yet and just be.

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Speaker 1: Like, we spend so much time as people trying to

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Speaker 1: provide a living that we forget to just live. We

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Speaker 1: spend so much time trying to provide a living that

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Speaker 1: we forget to just live when we think of Like

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Speaker 1: when you think of self care, self care is worth

825
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Speaker 1: that has a bad a wrap. When you say self care,

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Speaker 1: people think it's this luxury thing. They think, oh, spa,

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Speaker 1: da nails, facial, which self care can be those things.

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Speaker 1: But self care, in my right, it's not a luxury.

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Speaker 1: It's not a privilege. If you took the word self care,

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Speaker 1: if you replace the word self care with soul care,

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Speaker 1: then soul care.

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Speaker 3: Shows up as this thing that sounds like a must.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like a right, I need to do things

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Speaker 1: for the good of my soul when our phones are

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Speaker 1: on ten percent, Like I know myself when I like,

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Speaker 1: if I'm at dinner and my phone's on ten percent,

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Speaker 1: I run to the to the person at the front,

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Speaker 1: and I ask them if they have a charger, because

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Speaker 1: God forbid my phone fall below ten percent. But when

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Speaker 1: it's ourselves, when it's our own bodies, when it's our

841
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: own minds, when it's our own spirit, we let our

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Speaker 1: bodies and our minds run on ten percent all the time.

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00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 1: Why not have that same urgency. Oh my gosh, I

844
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Speaker 1: gotta find an outlet to plug in my smartphone. Oh

845
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Speaker 1: my god, I'm I have to find an outlet to

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Speaker 1: plug in myself. And so this year, I just want

847
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Speaker 1: to focus a lot on my own personal soul care,

848
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Speaker 1: on restoring, on recharging at the same time being my

849
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Speaker 1: strongest self, showing up in my fullest capacity of joy.

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Speaker 2: How does Tunday give herself soul care?

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Speaker 3: You know what? I you know what? Sometimes are we

852
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 3: figuring that out?

853
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 2: We're figuring that out.

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00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 1: No, no, no, it's like you want to have like

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Speaker 1: this big, fancy answer. But when I'm like, if I'm

856
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: being completely honest. Soul Care for me is doing absolutely

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Speaker 1: not a damn thing.

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00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 3: Doing nothing.

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Speaker 1: I will turn music on something like because I want

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Speaker 1: to say, like, oh, I'll sit in a hot tub.

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Speaker 2: I do do that.

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00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: And sometimes I can't make it to the hot tub,

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00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: to my hot tub meeting my bathtub.

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Speaker 3: I can't make it that far. Sometimes I can't. I can't.

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Speaker 1: I don't even really watch a lot of TV, but

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Speaker 1: I can't even turn the TV on. Sometimes I want

867
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Speaker 1: to sit here in silence, turn on a candle and

868
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Speaker 1: be by myself. Sometimes I'll open the window. I love,

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Speaker 1: oddly the sound of New York traffic, like when there's

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Speaker 1: a candle and music and New York traffic with like

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Speaker 1: a little.

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Speaker 3: Bit of cool breeze coming in. I know it's kind

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Speaker 3: of weird, but I love it.

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Speaker 1: Listening to a podcast like soul Care is whatever I

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Speaker 1: need in that moment.

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Speaker 2: I give it to myself. That is soul Care. I

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Speaker 2: dig it, I dig it. You mentioned reading a book.

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Speaker 2: I've got to ask any book recommendations for the Hurdlers.

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Speaker 2: We have a book club.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, the book.

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Speaker 1: I mean, not necessarily what I'm reading right now, but

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite books.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you know what.

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Speaker 1: Actually, I just read The Year of Yes by Shonda Ryan's.

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Speaker 1: It's a quick read, such a great book. Basically, she's

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Speaker 1: talking about how she spent an entire year saying yes

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Speaker 1: and sometimes actually saying no men saying yes.

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Speaker 3: Too much detail there, but she talks about how this

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Speaker 3: year of.

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Speaker 1: Yesque changed her life in her outlook on the way

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Speaker 1: that she shows up in the world.

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Speaker 3: I'd say that.

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Speaker 1: And then one of my all time favorites that I'll

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Speaker 1: always recommend is Daring Greatly by Brene Brown.

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Speaker 2: Oh classic classic, Okay, Dune Day. Final question here, you

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Speaker 2: have an opportunity to offer the tune day going through

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Speaker 2: one of her life's biggest hurdles. I would I mean,

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Speaker 2: we talked about a lot of them here today, whether

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Speaker 2: it be the passing of your family members or perhaps

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Speaker 2: that first great loss that first know from Peloton. You

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Speaker 2: have the opportunity to offer her one piece of advice

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Speaker 2: going through those large hurdle moments. What do you tell her?

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Speaker 3: Trust?

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Speaker 1: Just trust, trust, Trust that nothing is happening to you

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Speaker 1: and every thing is happening for you. Failure can only

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Speaker 1: be judged in hindsight. You're not allowed to go through

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Speaker 1: something and while you're going through that thing, call it

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Speaker 1: a failure, because in that moment, that thing, this thing,

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Speaker 1: tune day, that may come that you may deem a failure,

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Speaker 1: it may not actually be a failure. It may be

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Speaker 1: a course, recourse or a redirection in your life. It

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Speaker 1: may be the universe setting you on path or setting

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Speaker 1: you on track.

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Speaker 3: For something that you just can't see yet. So ultimately, trust,

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Speaker 3: just trust.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time today, tune day.

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Speaker 2: How do the hurdlers keep up with you? Give me

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Speaker 2: all of the details, girl.

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Speaker 3: I am so bad with social media.

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Speaker 1: Like I tune to tune day, tune like music too,

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Speaker 1: number two tune days. My Instagram Facebook is tune Day.

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Speaker 3: I think it's.

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Speaker 1: Tunday Peloton Peloton tune Day. You'll find me something. And

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Speaker 1: then Twitter, I haven't even dabbled in.

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Speaker 3: Girl. I'm look, I'm trying. I'm trying soul care.

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Speaker 2: Let's focus on soul care, and the.

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Speaker 3: Soul care is not being on social media as much.

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Speaker 3: How about that? Girl, I'm with you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time again. I could

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Speaker 2: chat with you for hours. I'm over at Emily a

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Speaker 2: Body and at Hurdle Podcast. Another hurdle conquered. Catch you

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Speaker 2: guys next time.