Hey everybody, Emily Abadi here.

You are listening to another installment of five minutes Friday.

I'm so happy to be here with you.

I am sitting in my Los Angeles hotel room, and I've been thinking a lot about light

and dark rain versus sun.

You know, when I got to Los Angeles, the weather here was arguably worse than the weather

when I left New York City, downpour, like absolute downpour, and unlike New York, Los Angeles

doesn't have the infrastructure to navigate all different sorts of weather, so the streets

were soaked.

I was soaked.

But looking at my window now and looking at the sun, I am reminded of the quote that's

in this week's installment of the weekly hurdle.

If you don't yet subscribe, the link to do so is in the show notes.

But the quote is, without rain, there would be no rainbows.

It brings me into a conversation I had with Minos Diaz yesterday over lunch.

She's the co-founder of Open.

He's been on the show a couple of times before.

It was so great to sit down with him in person.

And we were talking about the bright stuff and how it's so easy to share the good moments

with everyone.

But it's those dark times that tough stuff, the hurdles that we go through.

That's the stuff that really shapes us.

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