Hey, Hurdlers, Emily Abadi here, bringing you another installment of Five Minute Friday from Hurtle.

I feel like it's been a while since I just gave a little bit of background on Hurtle.

I started the podcast at the end of 2017, beginning of 2018.

It was something I had dreamed about for a while. I knew that I wanted to start a

podcast, but didn't entirely know what I wanted it to be about. I knew that my bread and butter

as a journalist and a 30-something woman living here in New York City was health and fitness content. And I wanted to

intertwine that with my passions for entrepreneurship and female empowerment and all that goodness.

And thus, after going through a personal crisis of sorts and sitting on my couch, staring at a

friend saying the sentence,

I just want to get over this hurdle. It all sort of clicked. And a few months later,

hurdle was born. And since then, a hundred and twenty eight plus guested episodes later,

a podcast that started bi-weekly on Mondays now launches three times each week, and I couldn't

feel more lucky to have you listening to me through your headphones, through your speakers, or however,

you're getting your podcasts. This Five-Minminute Friday segment came to be during the coronavirus

pandemic as a way for me to continually engage with my lovely hurdlers during this unforeseen time

in a fun new way. And so if you're going to do the segment, I tell a story, I share a thought prompt, I offer up some of my content highlights of the week, some cool things that I am listening to, reading, what I'm buying, et cetera.

And that's it.

Before we get into the swing of things today, I do want to take a moment to talk about my sponsor, Beam. If you've

never heard of Beam, you need to stop what you're doing and listen to this. Beam is a Boston-based

CBD company that's making waves in the wellness industry by offering products that combined

THC-free CBD with other high-quality ingredients. It was founded by two ex-professional athletes who you have

heard from on the show before. They are amazing guys. And they created this company because they

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