5-MINUTE FRIDAY: Stop Overcommitting Your Energy
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
It's absolutely beautiful in Brooklyn right now. After a whirlwind of travel to Boston, London, and Portland, being back home feels like a massive exhale. But as the weather warms up, social calendars tend to fill up fast.
Today, Emily's evaluating how she navigates this busy season without overcommitting. She's sharing a couple essential gut-checks: asking yourself if an event provides energy or requires an unaffordable "withdrawal," and the importance of the "White Space Rule" to allow for spontaneity and mental resets. Plus, she answers a listener question about how to prioritize both time for self and socializing.
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| 0:30.7 | Thank you. Hey, hey, Emily here. You are listening to another episode of Five Minute Friday on Hurtle. It is absolutely |
| 0:58.1 | beautiful in Brooklyn right now. And to simply say that sentence in Brooklyn right now makes |
| 1:04.6 | my heart so happy. I have loved being a little bit all over the place as of late. I was in Boston and then London and then |
| 1:12.7 | Portland, Oregon, where it was also beautiful, TBAH. But being home, oh man, what an exhale. What an |
| 1:20.8 | exhale. And also, I feel like things are about to get a bit hectic. And what I mean by that is that as it gets nicer out, |
| 1:29.6 | I don't know about all of you, but my social calendar slowly gets more filled up. And so what that |
| 1:37.9 | looks like is events, me being out maybe a little bit after my bedtime or my preferred bedtime as a woman |
| 1:47.4 | in her late 30s. Yeah. So it has me kind of evaluating how I go about this time of year and really |
| 1:56.9 | evaluating if I'm overcommitting myself. Before I say yes to any sort of social obligation, |
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