5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Repeat After Me: Flexibility Opens Up Opportunity
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
You don't need to have it all figured out. You do, have to be willing to start, however. Talking about the perks of flexibility in today's episode, and answering a listener question about how to handle a major disappointment.
As a note: This is the last episode in season 19! Stay tuned, the show will be back November 11 in a ~big~ way.
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| 0:00.0 | What's shaken? Emily here. You're listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle, the last episode in what may have seemed at one point to be a never-ending season 19. |
| 0:30.3 | I started taking season breaks. God. I think I did the show regularly for maybe three or four years until I finally got to a point where I was like, okay, I need to take some time every now and again. |
| 0:44.9 | So this season went on much longer than anticipated. A lot of irons in the fire. A lot of things happening. |
| 0:51.1 | But what happens now is that hurdle will be offline for two weeks. |
| 0:55.5 | I may launch a special episode in there to be determined, but I will be launching season 20 and some changes for the show and coming back with some exciting news to say the least on November 11th. |
| 1:09.9 | So for those of you that are longtime hurdlers, maybe you're a new |
| 1:12.7 | hurdler, either or I'm grateful that you're here. I'm excited to take you on this journey with me, |
| 1:18.1 | and I cannot wait to share more. I am also leading into my favorite time of the year here in New York. |
| 1:27.0 | It is New York City Marathon |
| 1:28.0 | week next week. The New York Marathon is next Sunday, November 2nd. And it is my favorite day |
| 1:35.9 | to be a New Yorker. Everyone comes together and is so happy and the vibes are high. And I'm praying |
| 1:41.2 | like many of you for good weather. And I also have many events happening |
| 1:46.6 | throughout the next week. So if you are local and you want to come hang out, make sure you're |
| 1:51.8 | following along with me over on Instagram where you can get all of that information. Again, |
| 1:56.0 | my handle, just my name over at Emily Abadi and Hurdle, as always, is over at Hurdle podcast. For five-minute |
| 2:04.1 | Friday this week, I want to talk about being malleable and adaptable. I will never forget |
| 2:10.0 | choosing a major in college and thinking to myself genuinely at age 17, how am I supposed to know |
| 2:17.4 | what I want to do with the rest of my life? |
| 2:19.9 | And luckily for me, I always wanted to be a writer. I got into the field of journalism |
| 2:26.5 | quite young, working at the school paper and then the college paper and then pursuing |
| 2:31.0 | internships and magazines and newspapers and digital and whatnot. And it all kind of |
| 2:36.1 | worked out for me. But I think and know so many people right now, especially that are similar |
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