Hey everybody, Emily Abadi here, you're listening to Five Minute Friday on Hurtle.

I am recording this in my not-so-typical studio space sitting inside of one of my dearest

friends' homes in Rhode Island and I drove up here earlier today, just went a long weekend,

finally meeting her soon to be three-month-old baby and relaxing a bit as I sit here staring

outside of two massive French doors thinking that this looks nothing like my apartment.

Anyway, something that I want to talk about today is saying yes, I've been trying to do

that a lot more lately.

I am sure some of you can relate to this, it's really easy for me to get comfortable in

my groove when I'm at home of working, doing my runs, going to Sparrow to pull out these

classes, seeing some of my close friends, but mostly keeping a lot to myself and in between

work travel being here and there in Rhode Island and next week Oregon, I said to myself

that I wanted to make a priority of getting out a little bit more, of experiencing my

surroundings more.

Summer in New York is one of my favorite times and I have been spending it hold up in my

apartment, not really allowing myself the freedom, the space to try new things.

And so lately, when someone has been asking me, do you want to do this, do you want to

go to dinner, do you want to go to the beach, do you want to go to this random rooftop party

in Bushwick?

My answer has been yes and it's been paying off, I've been having fun, I've been dancing

for hours on end, I have been letting my hair down and it feels good.

I feel like this episode is a reminder for me that it's okay to step outside of routine.

It doesn't mean that you're going to negate your progress or go back to square one and

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