Episode 70: Dr. Jen Esquer i.e. @DocJenFit, Physical Therapist

Hurdle

Emily Abbate

Health & Fitness

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Hurdle has been getting pretty personal lately and this week’s episode with Dr. Jen Esquer is no exception. Over the past few years, everything has changed for the physical therapist known as @docjenfit to her 545K+ followers on social media. She exited a full-time job at a Santa Monica rehab facility to pursue private clients, work on online programming, and travel the world doing public speaking. Then, late last year Jen was blindsided by infidelity, which moved her to make the difficult decision to walk away from a long term relationship that wasn't serving her anymore.

In episode 70, she tells me about how this #hurdlemoment turned her world upside-down, and how she took ownership of the situation rather than playing the victim. We get real honest about how post-breakup strategies helped her cope with heartache, and she sheds some light on how stress can manifest itself as physical pain. She also offers up some essential advice that will help you move better, including a simple exercise that you can perform in less than 5 minutes a day.

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0:00.0	All right. Now, I know I can't be the only person that's excited about this. You are listening
0:06.7	to episode 70 of hurdle, a podcast that talks to everyone from entrepreneurs to top CEOs and
0:14.3	athletes about how they've gotten through tough times, hurdles of sorts, by leaning into wellness.
0:20.3	Emily Abadi here. And for today's episode I am going
0:23.9	to be chatting with Jen S. Gare, better known to her 540,000 plus Instagram followers as Doc
0:33.0	Jen Fit. Before I get into talking to the physical therapist, a quick shout out to my sponsor,
0:40.1	Athletic Greens. I've got to be honest with you, Athletic Greens saved me this week. I was out in
0:45.6	Los Angeles. I was a little all over the place and so was my diet. But I knew that every morning,
0:51.0	by starting my day with the greens powder and about 10 to 12 ounces of water, I was just doing something right. I felt like every morning, by starting my day with the greens powder and about 10 to 12 ounces of water,
0:54.6	I was just doing something right. I felt like every morning drinking this stuff, it gave me an
1:00.5	opportunity to start fresh. Athletic Greens is offering hurdle listeners a great opportunity
1:05.5	to get in your 12 servings of fruits and vegetables first thing in the morning by giving you
1:10.1	20 travel packs,
1:12.0	a $79 value, absolutely free with your first purchase. Just head on over to athletic greens.com
1:18.7	slash hurdle. Again, that's athletic greens.com slash hurdle to get yours today. No code necessary.
1:27.4	Now, let me chat with you about Jen. She is a warrior. I sat down with her
1:33.9	when I was in Los Angeles a couple months ago, and she just emits such positivity, such light,
1:39.8	such confidence, and that's taken a lot of self-work. On today's episode, Jen talks to me about
1:44.6	getting her doctorate in physical therapy, her first job after graduating, and the tough
1:49.0	decision she made to walk away from something full-time to pursue her own individual clients.
1:54.8	But the real meat of today's episode is Jen getting really honest with me about the hurdle
1:59.1	moment that she went through at the very
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