Hello, everyone. If you are listening to this, you have made your way to the second ever

episode of Hurtle. If you're new here, let me introduce myself. My name is Emily Abadi,

baseball card stats. I am a writer and editor living in New York City. I am a fitness fanatic, a certified trainer, a run coach, a spin coach.

The list goes on.

If you want to know a little bit more about me up front,

feel free to head over on to my social channels at Emily Abadi, A-B-B-A-T-E.

And now a little bit about Hurtle.. Hurdle is a bi-weekly podcast that features

people who got through a tough time, a hurdle of sorts, by integrating wellness into their

routines. In this modern world we live in, filled with so much anxiety and pressure and obscene amounts of competition,

wellness in all of its forms is an outlet. Some of the biggest, baddest, most inspirational

humans and top CEOs got to where they are today because they found themselves with the help

of things like yoga, running, juicing, a new approach to eating, meditation,

crystals, the list goes on.

Hurdle brings you their stories, the lessons they learned, and hopefully gives you the push

you need to live a healthier, happier, more motivated life.

Thank you. more motivated life. Today on Hurtle, I'm here with Alex Silverfagan, Nike trainer, Willamina model,

fitness entrepreneur. I love that designation,

fitness entrepreneur. When you asked me to explain what I did, that is, I feel like I do so much

that fitness entrepreneur is just such a good, like, umbrella term for all of the things that we do.

And there's so many, everyone's a fitness

entrepreneur. Everyone's an entrepreneur nowadays. Like we're all trying to figure out what we want to do

while working on something that we already know what we want to do and exploring and talking

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