Hey, hurdlers, Emily Abadi here bringing you another installment of five minute Friday. This week,

first and foremost, I want to say welcome. I feel like I have been getting a lot of reach out

from new hurdlers and I am so happy that you're here. I want to be the first person to welcome you into this community. And

I'm really proud to say that. Establishing community for this podcast has been a priority of

mine since day one. And I really feel now more than ever that we're getting there. And it feels

great. So if you want to join in conversation with

other hurdlers, I got you. The link to our super secret Facebook group is in the show notes.

And also another great way for us all to connect is via these hurdle sessions. I've got a slew

of them coming up. These are interactive

workshops and seminars that I host regularly on a slew of different topics in the works for

the next few weeks, building a social media presence, media strategy for fitness professionals,

and October's handling hurdle moments token hurdle

workshop. If you have any questions on those, any concerns, feel free to reach out to me.

It's Emily at hurdle.us. And of course, always available for you over on social media

at Emily Boddy and at hurdle podcast. For five minute Friday this week,

I'm kind of expanding on something that I've been touching on a fair amount lately. And that is

this feeling of like overwhelm and just like we're trying to get through it here.

You know, this week especially was one of those weeks where I felt like I was doing everything

and nothing. And on Monday and Tuesday, I was sitting at my desk and staring blankly and feeling

unproductive and frustrated. And I know having had a lot of conversations with many of you about

this topic, that many of you have certainly been feeling the same way lately. So lingering in this feeling was not something

that I was really willing to do. And in an effort to break out of this, I decided on Wednesday that I

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