5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Stepping Into a New Chapter
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Can you even believe that it is about to be June? As I approach my 38th birthday, I'm feeling a certain way and doing a lot of reflecting. Sharing a powerful prompt from my Substack newsletter to help you do a personal inventory of your own life. Plus, answering a listener question from Shannon about running shoes, breaking down the difference between a classic neutral shoe and plated carbon-fiber options.
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| 0:20.2 | Hey, everyone. Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle. And wow, can you even believe that it's about to be June on Monday? I feel like it was just June yesterday. My birthday is at the beginning of June. And I, this is the first birthday as I get older |
| 0:43.1 | that I feel some kind of way, if I'm being honest. And I believe that's large in part because of |
| 0:49.9 | what Tuesday's episode is about. I'm sitting down with my OBGYN that I worked with my |
| 0:55.0 | doctor from my egg freezing and we're talking about the entire process, large in part because |
| 0:59.1 | I got so many messages and emails asking questions and for input and whatnot. So I decided to |
| 1:06.6 | record with her and that process made me do a lot of reflecting. I like to think that I reflect |
| 1:12.2 | regularly. I do try to journal regularly and just be honest with myself about how I'm feeling and where |
| 1:19.1 | I'm at. But this process highlighted what is in my life and what is not in my life and how I feel about getting older and all other |
| 1:30.2 | things considered aside from the fact that I'm without a life partner and still undecided |
| 1:36.6 | if I want to have children. Life is really freaking fantastic. I am doing so many things right now |
| 1:43.3 | that I am so grateful for. I'm having experiences and |
| 1:47.6 | traveling around the world doing what I love and having really impactful and special |
| 1:54.5 | conversations. And I'm doing things that are truly beyond my dreams at the moment. And with that said, it just, |
| 2:03.9 | it's, it's kind of crazy. I can't believe I am about to say the sentence that I am about |
| 2:08.7 | to be 38 years old. I don't feel 38 years old. And there's so much more I want to do. |
| 2:14.3 | And so a lot of my plans for this upcoming weekend include some reflecting, |
| 2:21.1 | some journaling, some inventory. I wrote a newsletter a couple of weeks ago about this annual |
| 2:29.0 | summit that I do with myself. And I do it every year around this time and gave some tips and tricks for how to |
| 2:35.9 | go about doing that. So if you're not yet subscribed to the weekly hurdle over on my substack, |
| 2:42.0 | I'll link it in the show notes and check that out because I find that this summit of sorts |
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