Hey, hurdlers, Emily Abadi here bringing you another installment of five-minute Friday. This week,

it's been a week. Why do I keep saying that once Friday rolls around? I'm going to be completely

transparent with you. I'm definitely recording this later than I would like to be. Things have been seemingly nonstop and taxing and a lot.

You know, I recorded the hurdle session this week talking about how to build a social media presence.

And at the end of the session, one of the

participants, she said when I asked about their biggest takeaways, she shared, I guess I never realized

how much of a responsibility it really is to cultivate community and show up for community. And

that's really how I feel on weeks like

this week, weeks when there's tough stuff going on in the news cycle. I know that the people that I

care about my community here on hurdle, you guys are feeling some kind of way. I want to show up for you. It's hard when I don't

have all of the right things to say. And so all I guess I am saying by putting all this out into the

universe is that I hear you. I want to create space for you. I will continue to do it in the best way

that I know possible. And if there is ever anything that I can do for you, any way that I can help you,

I promise that I will do my best to do that.

Of course, if you need me, I'm always available over social media, within reason,

at Emily Avadi at hurdle podcast and and via email at Emily at hurdle.us.

For five minute Friday this week, before I get to today's episode, I do want to take a moment to give

some love to my friends at Beam, the sponsor of Five Minute Friday this week. They are a Boston

based CBD company that is making waves in the wellness

industry by offering products that combine THC-free CBD with other high-quality ingredients.

My absolute favorite product lately is their focus capsules. I have been on a focus capsule tangent. I don't even

know if that makes sense. But I started taking them last week and I just feel more capable

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