I keep going back to this quote from Kobe Bryant.

He said, the most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Yeah. Hey, hurdlers. Emily Abadi here, checking back in with another installment of Hurtle Moment from Hurtle.

A wellness focused podcast where I sit down with inspiring individuals to talk about everything from their big wins to how they've gotten

through some of life's toughest moments. With Hurtle Moment, I want to get a little bit more

granular with my mission to inspire you to be your best self, move with intention, and have some fun

along the way. Now, it's been a really tough week. On Friday night, I was in my apartment finishing

up Monday's episode of Hurdle when I got the news of the passing of Lila Janna. She was a CEO of

Samasaurus and Luxmi, episode 54 of the podcast, and I'll link to that in the show notes.

It feels like yesterday I was sitting

down with her in this small studio space near 23rd Street and I was just so in awe of absolutely

everything she was, everything she was doing, how much she was giving to other people, especially

those less fortunate than her. And then I'm laying in my hotel bed here in Denver

and a friend texted me the news about Kobe Bryant and the helicopter crash. And I just was so

beside myself. It's hard. It's hard when you feel like there's just nothing you can do about it.

It's hard when we go looking for some sort of explanation, and there isn't one.

On Saturday, I was about eight miles into my 14 mile long run, and I found myself just

like on the brink of tears.

And I kept asking myself, why?

Why do these bad things happen to good people? I just felt so tired and powerless.

And I started to thinking as I picked up my piece again, like, what is it that I want my legacy to be?

I mean, if you open up any social media app right this second, you'll see endless quotes from so many people that have just gone to

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