Hey everybody, Emily Voddy here coming to you from my hotel room in Germany, not

every day. Sentence for me. I'm out here this weekend visiting Adidas headquarters joining in

on some fun surrounding their roads to records event. Essentially what that is, if you didn't know,

their global headquarters is located here in Herzogermany. They are holding this event, which the

whole goal is to break records with athletes in the 5 kilometer, 10 kilometer, and half marathon.

Tons of running talent out here, really exciting to be able to have the opportunity to witness it

and to join in on a little 5K run they're having on Saturday for us normal humans and really get

to experience all that is their headquarters. I've been here once before in 2016 and that experience,

this is like a really full circle moment for me. When I came here in 2016, I hadn't started the show

yet. I was recently laid off from my job at Self when the magazine folded and I remember coming here

and feeling so self-conscious and nervous about who I was. When I introduced myself to other people

that I was meeting, whether they were other editors in the health and wellness space, if they were

perhaps influencers at the time, Adidas was just opening up and really working on and investing

in their global ambassador program. I came on the trip with a ton of their original global ambassadors.

I felt really, really nervous and unsettled about how my name is Emily Body and what follows that.

Now again, a full circle moment. So many years later, I am in a completely different place both

personally and professionally. To be back here and you're listening to this show to have my own

thing to have done so much work on myself as well to be really firm in who I am, what my foundations

are, what my values are. It feels really special and I'm really, really proud of that.

That's not necessarily what this five minute Friday episode is about today. What I want to talk

today about is the idea of, and I talk about this regularly on the show, but it's been really,

really relevant lately, uh, fact versus fiction and the stories that we're telling ourselves.

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