What's going on, Hurtlers?

Emily Abadi here.

You're listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle.

Another week we did it, fam.

Last week was a week to be remembered from shooting a global campaign that I can't wait to tell you about very, very soon,

to going to Orlando for the marathon trials, to traveling to San Francisco to give a keynote

at Athleta's corporate conference called Athleta Quest. I had such a blast. And it was a special week for me because it was a reminder of the depth of what

I do in that there are so many different opportunities I have every week from writing an

article for GQ on the plane to recording voiceovers for the podcast editor in my hotel room at 415 because of the time change in

San Francisco to then stepping on stage and giving a keynote address for 30 minutes, then shifting into

this facilitator mode where I first moderated a panel with members of their power of

she collective and then facilitated goal

setting workshops. So many different hats, so many different opportunities. And I feel really

lucky that each of them fills up a bucket in a different way for me. After I was done with the

keynote on Tuesday, I walked over to Girodelli in San Francisco,

and I have such vivid memories of going to this ice cream shop growing up. I grew up going to

and from San Francisco quite often. My grandparents lived in Walnut Creek. And the last time I saw them

both together and alive, we went into San Francisco with my cousin and we went to Girideli. And I

distinctly remember watching them walk holding hands ever so slowly from the car to the ice cream shop

and splitting a chocolate fudge Sunday with chocolate ice cream and thinking one day I so badly wish

that I too will have a love like this.

Anyway, on Tuesday, as I sat on a park bench with my small Sunday overlooking the water

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