5-MINUTE FRIDAY: How To Use Vulnerability As a Productivity Hack
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
We all have them: "Monster" tasks on our to-do lists that we avoid for weeks or even months. For 5MF this week, I'm sharing a personal story about how I tackled mine by doing something I used to consider weak: Asking for help.
Aside from talking about "body doubling"—simply having another person in the room to keep you focused and anchored while you work, I also answer a listener question on dynamic versus static stretching.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:39.6 | Hello, Emily here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday on Hurtle. If you are listening to this in real time, i.e., on Friday, January 16th, I am currently on my way to the West Coast for a slew of different things, some work, some play, a friend's wedding between San Francisco and Los Angeles and Las Vegas and then back to Los Angeles. |
| 0:46.3 | It's going to be a nice couple of weeks on the move. I would be remiss if I didn't tell you |
| 0:52.7 | that I am both excited and a little overwhelmed |
| 0:56.6 | by this. It's always an interesting experience to navigate, aggregating all of your things |
| 1:03.9 | so that you're not leaving anything at home. But alas, I keep telling myself that if there's |
| 1:08.2 | anything that I truly need, I really can just figure that out wherever I am. |
| 1:14.0 | It will all be fine and everything is fixable. This is my mantra for the day. I digress. This week on |
| 1:20.8 | five minute Friday, I want to talk to you about something I did last week that is apparently |
| 1:25.8 | trending. And I'm not talking about like I did it. |
| 1:28.8 | And so it's trending. I'm talking about that I'm not the only person that is taking this |
| 1:33.8 | approach. And that is I enlisted a girlfriend to sit down with me and help me go through some |
| 1:42.3 | paperwork that I needed to go through. Now, let me explain. I've been putting off |
| 1:47.1 | going through, well, a number of things, but a few of note the financials that go hand in hand |
| 1:54.2 | with egg freezing, the information I want to comb through when it comes to some of the investments I'm hoping to make |
| 2:02.6 | this year and a backlog of resumes from individuals that are interested in working with me as my |
| 2:12.5 | assistant. And all of these things very important, each of them, on their own. But collectively, I was making |
| 2:19.9 | these items on my to-do list, the monster. I was continuously writing them down in the things |
| 2:25.8 | that I want to get done every day. And for some reason, I could not bring myself to do it. And so |
| 2:33.3 | the most time is of the essence, one of these, the financials |
| 2:37.2 | of egg freezing, considering I'm hoping to do it by the end of Q2 at the latest, that was something |
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