Hey, hey, Emily here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle. I am in Savannah. I've never been here before. I am excited to be here. I'm on the ground this weekend for every woman's marathon where I'll be hosting some exciting things at their wellness

expo today and then cheering on all the runners tomorrow in their inaugural event. There's nothing

better in my opinion than being surrounded by excited, empowered women. And so to be at an event that is for women by women feels

very naturally aligned with who I am and what about it. And so, yeah, all things considered,

I amamped for this weekend. I have been thinking a lot lately about not rushing. And it started last Friday when I had

candidly the ultimate day. I started my day off with a run with some girlfriends that ended in

a pastry, always good. I did work for a few hours before heading into the city for a

couple of meetings. And then my meetings were near one of my favorite restaurants, bar preemie.

So I went into preemie and had a great salad for lunch, treated myself to a glass of wine

because it was the week after the marathon and the celebrations are still not over.

And then I finished some more work and headed toward bathhouse in Flatiron where I had an early evening massage.

And I wasn't in a rush.

I planned all of this so that I didn't need to be stressed so that I had the time to do

the things that I wanted to do and so that I could just be. And I am meandering my way from

Hudson Yards to Flatiron. When I hear my name, I turn around and I can't make this up, the man saying my name is the

owner of my favorite small panini shop in Florence, Italy. His name is Alessandro. And he is in town

because he has a gig at the four seasons residences. we just happened to run into each other or he spotted

me in front of Italy and nomad. It was, it was so special. And after I caught up with him briefly

and we both went on our ways, I thought to myself that this happened because I wasn't in a rush. This happened because I wasn't

walking down the street with my headphones in, not paying any attention to the people around me.

And it was so awesome. And so after I ran into him and then I got this amazing massage and then I

stopped by the Sephora sale and I got home before 745 and I was

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