What's going on, everyone, everyone, Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle.

I'm laughing. I wish you could see me right now. I am literally recording this under a comforter in a hotel room in Jamaica.

The room doesn't have carpet and it's super echoy. And if I didn't do this like this, then you would definitely know. So here I am, the things we do for podcasting.

I am having one of those moments. You know that trend that we're seeing right now on social media,

whether it be via Instagram or TikTok? And it's like, the butterfly effect is crazy because if this

didn't happen, then this wouldn't have happened and this wouldn't have happened in XYZ.

And I cannot help but think about my career that way this week. I now have a podcast that enables me to

travel around the world and interview, I'm like, this is crazy, interview women that I admire

within the realm of sport working on my mission to empower women everywhere

to live healthier, happier, more motivated lives. And I would not be doing this if health

and wellness didn't become a priority for me back in college. And if I go back even before that, I was overweight and

uncomfortable as a preteen. And I didn't make the volleyball team my sophomore year after loving

playing volleyball because I couldn't run a mile in under 10 minutes. And I went through so much trauma and boys saying negative things about me.

And finally, one day as a freshman in college, I got on a scale and saw a number that frightened me and sprinted down the road because I didn't know what else to do.

That was so counterintuitive to me.

And I fell in the grass and I looked up at the sky and said, I can't know what else to do that was so counterintuitive to me and I fell in the

grass and I looked up at the sky and said I can't live my life like this. And if none of those

other things had happened, then maybe I wouldn't have gotten to that breaking point. And if that

breaking point didn't happen, then maybe I wouldn't have started to invest in my own personal

health and well-being. And I wouldn't have lost weight. And that journey wouldn't have started to invest in my own personal health and well-being.

And I wouldn't have lost weight.

And that journey wouldn't have brought me to running.

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