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Hurdle with Emily Abbate

338. Tips For a Fresh Start In the New Year: Embracing 2025, Using Affirmations To Your Advantage & the Perks Of Quitting With Yasmine Cheyenne

Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Health & Fitness

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

There’s a lot of pressure to start over at the beginning of a new year. Days after “Quitter’s Day,” I’m sitting down with self-care expert and the newest addition to the Start Today family, Yasmine Cheyenne. We’re talking about everything from how to meet yourself with grace during moments of transition and embracing the good in your routine to how to “break the matrix” and how to answer the question “what’s best for me?” Without shame or guilt.

IN THIS EPISODE

(3:50) What is “Start Today” and Yasmine’s role in the app

(11:05) How to choose “doing the work” and choosing yourself every day

(14:45) A helpful breathwork meditation to get more grounded and present

(17:50) Why presence is the most important thing and how to become ~more~ present in your day-to-day

(20:00) How your friends can help you with your self-reflection process

(32:15) Where to begin with goal setting

(36:15) Why is it important to know what your values are before you set goals

(44:50) How can you move forward from friendships and relationships that are no longer serving you

(1:05:09) Why we’ve got to get away from the societal idea that weddings, babies, and engagements are the only events worth celebrating

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0:00.0

If you want to have the energy, the excitement, the joy, the creativity to be able to create all the things that you want to do this year, you're going to have to let go of the stuff that is completely wiping you out and that isn't good for you.

0:15.1

And that's going to require you to really choose yourself.

0:41.5

Hey, hey, Emily Abadi here. You are listening to episode 338 of Hurtle wellness focus podcast where I talk to inspirational people about everything from their highest highs and toughest moments to

0:45.9

essential tips on how to live, a healthier, happier, more motivated life. We all go through

0:52.5

our fair share of hurdles. My goal through these discussions

0:56.0

is to empower you to better navigate yours and move with intention so that you can stride toward

1:01.5

your own big potential. And of course, have some fun along the way. You know, one of the pieces of

1:09.5

feedback I got going into season 19 of the show, which we are in right now, is that y'all love a topiced episode.

1:19.4

You love hearing stories from athletes and founders, but you also love this actionable advice that helps you get to where you want to be.

1:29.4

And so for today's episode, I am bringing in Yasmin Cheyenne.

1:34.5

She's a wellness coach, a self-healing and wellness expert, a two-time author, one of the

1:40.1

newest members of the Start Today family, and we are chatting all about fresh starts.

1:46.8

It's something that's super relevant at the beginning of a new year.

1:50.2

So many of us after fresh beginnings.

1:52.9

And so in today's episode, Yasmin and I are talking about how to meet yourself exactly

1:58.9

where you're at to get to where you want to be.

2:01.7

The importance of not judging your beginnings too harshly.

2:06.8

How to get honest with yourself without guilt or judgment about your current circumstance

2:12.5

in order to move forward and progress.

2:16.9

When I tell you, I could sit down and listen to Yasmin

2:20.1

talk for hours, that is an understatement. I feel as though I am calm when I am in her presence.

2:26.4

And I felt so lucky that we were able to connect while she was in town, like I said, for that

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