Hi y'all. Emily Avattie here coming to you live from the AG studio. My voice is back. I am back.

Hurtle is continuing on as usual. You are listening to five minute Friday. I am happy to report that I went on a jog this morning. It was a nice steady slow jog, but the main takeaway is that my body still works. We are in prime recovery mode. I'm not going to be picking up the pace anytime soon, but I'm just feeling on cloud nine after a really great week and just the outpouring of

love that came my way. I'm feeling super super grateful for all of it. I mentioned a lot of lessons that I learned during the marathon or reiterated during the marathon in this week's hurdle moment. The New York City marathon recap. But there's been something else that's been on my mind that I didn't talk about specifically in that episode. And that is the idea of boundaries. Now I'm so grateful to be a part of like this thriving community, especially during the

spring marathon week here in New York City. There are a zillion different events. You can go to a bunch of different exciting things happening. And of course, as someone who likes to consider herself figure maybe in this community, I wanted to do as much as possible. But, and there's a copy out here. I knew I had to do it responsibly and exercise my boundaries about what made sense for me.

Having dealt with injury recently, I knew the last thing that I wanted to do this week was overexercise or be on my feet too much. I also knew that I had some really big, exciting interviews to get done that I needed to prioritize up there with getting ready for the marathon on Sunday. So what did this mean for me? It meant charting out my run schedule in advance to make sure that I could get in the efforts that I needed to get in.

But without overextending myself or saying yes to like too many shakeout runs or anything like that. It also meant saying a lot of no and exercising my no and knowing when I needed to pull back.

So say if I received, I don't know, 10, 15 invites for last week. I probably only said yes to about three or four. And I did so in a way that worked for me.

I even went, I went to an event on Friday night, I believe that was thrown by whoop. It was a panel discussion and it was so interesting. But the event started at six. The discussion actually started closer to 640, I would say.

And my hard out and I knew this going into it was at 7pm. So come 7pm when there was like a natural break in the conversation. I silently, you know, excuse myself and walked out of motive on Mont Street and went home.

And I had some pizza and I went to bed. And in years past, my God, I would not have been able really to say no or I would have had a lot of guilt about exercising my boundaries.

I didn't even think twice about it this time. I mean, of course, like I want to show up for everyone, but I recognized what it was that I needed last week.

And I also made a point to let people know that I wanted to show up if I couldn't make it. I think that's really important. I am of the mindset that you want to be where your feet are. And that's already difficult enough when you have big things going on, right?

Like for me, last week, a marathon, a few really big interview moments, a big week for work. I wanted to commit to things that made me feel confident that I could be there and be fully present.

I like to think often that I am a woman that can do it all, but the reality is is that I would rather be a person who can do a couple things really, really well instead of absolutely everything poorly or not as good as perhaps I know that I can.

And I encourage you this week to think a little bit about that. Think about what it is that you have your hands in and if because you have your hands in too many buckets at the same time, you are maybe not better for it.

I get it like we want to show up for people we want to be the best versions of ourselves always we want to be able to give everything 110% but if you are trying to give everything 110% and you're doing eight zillion things at once, there's just no possible way that it can be done.

So my prompt for you this week, how can you be better about establishing your boundaries and what is one area of your life that you want to be better at dedicating more of yourself to again, how can you be better at exercising your boundaries and what is one area of your life that you can be better at giving yourself to and now a listener question.

Hi, Emily. My name is Olivia. I'm a listener from Toronto, Canada. Hi, from north of the border. I wanted to ask you, was there ever a time in your career life or your personal life where you just felt like you were behind other people, maybe friends or just other people you see.

I definitely feel that way right now, just because I'm almost 24, I'm still in school, haven't started making a lot of money yet. So I just want to know if you've ever felt this way and if you did, how did you get through it? Thanks so much.

Olivia, thank you, calling in from Toronto. I love to hear where you guys are calling in from. I have never been there. Fun fact, your question. Have I ever felt behind? Yes, yes, I feel I feel as though we all are going to feel this way at one point or another for the rest of our lives because of the beauty slash maybe not so beautiful aspect of the comparison trap, all our social media, right?

I love that you're asking me this question and you're 24 years old. The good news is that you are early on in your journey, my friend, but that doesn't make this feeling any less valid for me feeling behind.

I would say as a woman at 33 who has yet to settle down or find that forever thing or, you know, have kids, etc. society definitely makes me feel like I'm kind of doing something quote unquote wrong.

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