November 14, 2025 • 10 mins
Talking through the latest changes to Hurdle, what will be different on the listener side, and why this new chapter is just so meaningful to me. On not giving up, perseverance, and the power of progress (even when it's not at the pace you'd hope). Also, answering a listener question about how to know when you need to buy new sneakers!
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
What's up, Emily. Here you are listening to five Minute
Friday from Hurdle. What an unbelievable week this has been.
I am feeling gosh, so lucky. I feel so lucky.
I feel grateful and so appreciative of everyone that has
reached out.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm feeling really excited for this next chapter.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And before I get into five Minute Friday to day,
I do want to explain what will be different on
the show so that you can have a full understanding
as a listener.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
So nothing's changing here.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You're still getting content wise the same episodes on Tuesdays
and Fridays. What is changing is just the way that
the ads sound on your side, so you'll hear different ads.
Not all of them are going to be read by me,
and transparently. It's something that I really thought long and
hard about. It's a big reason why I waited for
such a long time to join a network, But when
(01:16):
this opportunity came to me, it felt really right for me,
and so I hope that as listeners you can have
compassion for the fact that, yes, the ads might sound different.
But I want you to know that I care so
much about you, and I care so much about giving
you content that matters, and I realized that I was
just so worried about upsetting the listeners, because the listeners
(01:39):
are my why there, You guys, are why I keep
showing up week after week without you.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Hurdle wanting to be a thing.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And what I came to realize is that I listened
to so many shows where this is a thing, the
ads are thing, and I just need to evolve and
know that as hurdlers, you will understand.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
So thank you for understanding.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I've learned a lot in the past almost eight years
of podcasting, and this week the most resounding lesson is
that good things take time. I've been podcasting for eight
years and we are so inundated in this.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Highlight real world that we live in.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
To see people where it looks like an overnight success.
Someone starts creating content on a Tuesday and by the
following Tuesday they have something like fifty one hundred thousand followers.
Everyone wants instant gratification. I won't sit here and say
that I didn't want instant gratification for a really long time.
That hasn't been my experience. Podcasting has just been one
(02:45):
small win after the next, and transparently. For a long
time in there, I felt like I was just getting
slammed with no but I kept trying things. I kept
failing forward. If you want to put in air quotes,
I knew that where there's a why, there is a way,
And my why has always been to help women, specifically
(03:10):
on their journeys to live healthier, happier, more motivated lives.
And over the course of the last eight years, I've
tried so many things. When I was determined to have
my own studio space, I sold a sponsorship to the
studio space so that I could afford to move into
a bigger apartment. I watched hours of videos on how
to do keynotes. I have studied for months on end
(03:33):
to become a certified professional coach, which we've talked about
on the show. You can like into it like coach,
because I wanted to be able to have smarter conversations
with my guests as they opened up to me and
got comfortable with me. I have traveled the world hosting
live shows and workshops, and I have been told so
many times that it's just not yet from speaking agents,
(03:55):
from managers, people that look at one metric like social media,
followers and they say, m I just don't think now
is the right time. But when I tell you that,
there is so much power and persistence. I knew and
still firmly believe that I have something to offer and
it was just a matter of time until the right
(04:16):
people came to the table. And this isn't the first
time that someone's come to the table and said, we
see what you have to offer. I will say that,
but it's the first time that it just felt so
aligned with what it is that I want to become,
who I am becoming, and where it is that I
want to go. I want to have conversations within the
woman's sports space. I want to sit at the table
(04:39):
and in rooms with so many of the women that
are already doing unbelievable work on behalf of this network.
At the beginning of this year, one of my good
friends reminded me of this. Honestly, I was having a
really hard time and her and I were out for
a walk and I said to her, I'm not sure
if I can podcast moving forward for much longer, Like
(05:00):
I didn't know if I was going to be able
to make it happen. And as we were standing in
the room, at this celebration on Tuesday night. She looked
at me and she said, you kept going, and that
is some inspiring stuff. And she's right, And I'm proud
of myself that I kept going. And I'm proud of
myself that I took those nose as information, not as Bible.
(05:22):
I took the nose that came my way as this
isn't the right opportunity for you, So now it's your
opportunity to seek out something else. There is so much
power in patience, and it's not an easy thing to exercise,
but that's when we get to lean into our people.
That's when we get to seek out support from the
people that care about us and our hearts and who
(05:44):
it is that we are and who it is that
we want to become. I'm so grateful for the family
and the friends and the peers and the mentors that
have guided me up until this point, and I firmly
believe that I'm still just getting started. For anyone who
feels like they're often in between a rock and a
hard place, I get it.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I felt like that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
For so many moments, during so many days over the
last eight years. For every whin that you do see
on social There are probably three to four moments that
feel like a loss, But I recognize now that the
almost eight years has taken for me to get to
this step in this journey, they weren't a delay, they
(06:31):
were a development period. I know that what I'm doing
now is better because I took that time to sort
myself out, to sort my business out, and to really
get firm on who it is that I am and
where it is that I want to go. Rejection is redirection,
and your experience is your leverage.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
The things that I know now that I can bring to.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
The table I didn't have this knowledge seven years ago.
It is up to you to pick yourself up when
it feels hard, and trust me, it's going to feel hard,
But that adversity, those hurdles are what help you become
the person who you are supposed to be. My thought
problem for you this week, what is something that you
(07:13):
are consciously being patient on right now? What is something
that you are being patient on right now? And what
is your ultimate goal in exercising that patience? What is
something you're being patient about right now and what is
your ultimate goal by exercising that patience? And now a
listener question Hey, Emily Alexander, here quick question for you
(07:37):
when it comes to sneakers. Do you track your mileage
on your sneakers and how do you know when to
rotate or retire them. I've always done it based on feel,
but I feel like there's a firm number for this.
Thanks so much and really excited for this new chapter
of a hurdle. Alex all right, there are a few
like buy feel ways that you can know when it's
(07:58):
time to retire your sneak within the sneaker itself. If
the cushioning starts to feel flat, if the shoe is
overly flexible, if the mid.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Soul feels tough.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
These are signature signs that's a shoe itself is starting
to really experience some wear in tear. You'll also be
able to see some physical wear and tear if you
look at perhaps the bottom the sole of your shoe
from a body POV. If your feet or your joints
are hurting more than normal, that is a big sign
that something is up there now. In terms of specific numbers,
(08:32):
it's a really wide range that people offer up for
running shoes. Specifically, they say that the general mileage guideline
is to replace them every three to five hundred miles.
But this really depends on things like your gate, how
hard are you hitting the ground, what surfaces are you
running on? All of that comes into play. I'm saying
I'll running a pair of sneakers for anywhere from like
(08:54):
five to seven months, and over that time, if I'm
running around twenty to thirty miles a week, I'm definitely
giving that sneaker a good time before I'm ready to
retire it. When it comes to training sneakers, that is
something that you can typically keep a lot longer, especially
if you're only wearing them inside of the gym, not
doing your commute to and from. So I've had a
(09:14):
pair of Nike Free met Cons, which is my go
to strength training sneaker gosh for at least a year
and a half, and with those, I really do look
for physical signs of wear. I'm taking a look not
only at the soul, but then also on the insul,
looking at the toe box and the heel. And remember,
when you look good, you feel good, and feeling good
(09:34):
is such an integral part to keeping that workout motivation going.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So sometimes you just got to treat yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Last thing if you have any doubts on whether or
not the sneaker is still good, that's usually your indicator
that it's time to switch things up. Make sure you're
following along with hurdle over on social It's at Hurdle podcast,
I am over at Emily Abadi and if you're new
around here, I answer listener questions every single week. The
way to get yours featured on the show is simply
(10:02):
email us over at hello at Hurdle dot us with
your question another hurdle conquered.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Catch you guys next time.
What's up, Emily. Here you are listening to five Minute
Friday from Hurdle. What an unbelievable week this has been.
I am feeling gosh, so lucky. I feel so lucky.
I feel grateful and so appreciative of everyone that has
reached out.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm feeling really excited for this next chapter.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And before I get into five Minute Friday to day,
I do want to explain what will be different on
the show so that you can have a full understanding
as a listener.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
So nothing's changing here.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You're still getting content wise the same episodes on Tuesdays
and Fridays. What is changing is just the way that
the ads sound on your side, so you'll hear different ads.
Not all of them are going to be read by me,
and transparently. It's something that I really thought long and
hard about. It's a big reason why I waited for
such a long time to join a network, But when
(01:16):
this opportunity came to me, it felt really right for me,
and so I hope that as listeners you can have
compassion for the fact that, yes, the ads might sound different.
But I want you to know that I care so
much about you, and I care so much about giving
you content that matters, and I realized that I was
just so worried about upsetting the listeners, because the listeners
(01:39):
are my why there, You guys, are why I keep
showing up week after week without you.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Hurdle wanting to be a thing.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And what I came to realize is that I listened
to so many shows where this is a thing, the
ads are thing, and I just need to evolve and
know that as hurdlers, you will understand.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
So thank you for understanding.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I've learned a lot in the past almost eight years
of podcasting, and this week the most resounding lesson is
that good things take time. I've been podcasting for eight
years and we are so inundated in this.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Highlight real world that we live in.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
To see people where it looks like an overnight success.
Someone starts creating content on a Tuesday and by the
following Tuesday they have something like fifty one hundred thousand followers.
Everyone wants instant gratification. I won't sit here and say
that I didn't want instant gratification for a really long time.
That hasn't been my experience. Podcasting has just been one
(02:45):
small win after the next, and transparently. For a long
time in there, I felt like I was just getting
slammed with no but I kept trying things. I kept
failing forward. If you want to put in air quotes,
I knew that where there's a why, there is a way,
And my why has always been to help women, specifically
(03:10):
on their journeys to live healthier, happier, more motivated lives.
And over the course of the last eight years, I've
tried so many things. When I was determined to have
my own studio space, I sold a sponsorship to the
studio space so that I could afford to move into
a bigger apartment. I watched hours of videos on how
to do keynotes. I have studied for months on end
(03:33):
to become a certified professional coach, which we've talked about
on the show. You can like into it like coach,
because I wanted to be able to have smarter conversations
with my guests as they opened up to me and
got comfortable with me. I have traveled the world hosting
live shows and workshops, and I have been told so
many times that it's just not yet from speaking agents,
(03:55):
from managers, people that look at one metric like social media,
followers and they say, m I just don't think now
is the right time. But when I tell you that,
there is so much power and persistence. I knew and
still firmly believe that I have something to offer and
it was just a matter of time until the right
(04:16):
people came to the table. And this isn't the first
time that someone's come to the table and said, we
see what you have to offer. I will say that,
but it's the first time that it just felt so
aligned with what it is that I want to become,
who I am becoming, and where it is that I
want to go. I want to have conversations within the
woman's sports space. I want to sit at the table
(04:39):
and in rooms with so many of the women that
are already doing unbelievable work on behalf of this network.
At the beginning of this year, one of my good
friends reminded me of this. Honestly, I was having a
really hard time and her and I were out for
a walk and I said to her, I'm not sure
if I can podcast moving forward for much longer, Like
(05:00):
I didn't know if I was going to be able
to make it happen. And as we were standing in
the room, at this celebration on Tuesday night. She looked
at me and she said, you kept going, and that
is some inspiring stuff. And she's right, And I'm proud
of myself that I kept going. And I'm proud of
myself that I took those nose as information, not as Bible.
(05:22):
I took the nose that came my way as this
isn't the right opportunity for you, So now it's your
opportunity to seek out something else. There is so much
power in patience, and it's not an easy thing to exercise,
but that's when we get to lean into our people.
That's when we get to seek out support from the
people that care about us and our hearts and who
(05:44):
it is that we are and who it is that
we want to become. I'm so grateful for the family
and the friends and the peers and the mentors that
have guided me up until this point, and I firmly
believe that I'm still just getting started. For anyone who
feels like they're often in between a rock and a
hard place, I get it.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I felt like that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
For so many moments, during so many days over the
last eight years. For every whin that you do see
on social There are probably three to four moments that
feel like a loss, But I recognize now that the
almost eight years has taken for me to get to
this step in this journey, they weren't a delay, they
(06:31):
were a development period. I know that what I'm doing
now is better because I took that time to sort
myself out, to sort my business out, and to really
get firm on who it is that I am and
where it is that I want to go. Rejection is redirection,
and your experience is your leverage.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
The things that I know now that I can bring to.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
The table I didn't have this knowledge seven years ago.
It is up to you to pick yourself up when
it feels hard, and trust me, it's going to feel hard,
But that adversity, those hurdles are what help you become
the person who you are supposed to be. My thought
problem for you this week, what is something that you
(07:13):
are consciously being patient on right now? What is something
that you are being patient on right now? And what
is your ultimate goal in exercising that patience? What is
something you're being patient about right now and what is
your ultimate goal by exercising that patience? And now a
listener question Hey, Emily Alexander, here quick question for you
(07:37):
when it comes to sneakers. Do you track your mileage
on your sneakers and how do you know when to
rotate or retire them. I've always done it based on feel,
but I feel like there's a firm number for this.
Thanks so much and really excited for this new chapter
of a hurdle. Alex all right, there are a few
like buy feel ways that you can know when it's
(07:58):
time to retire your sneak within the sneaker itself. If
the cushioning starts to feel flat, if the shoe is
overly flexible, if the mid.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Soul feels tough.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
These are signature signs that's a shoe itself is starting
to really experience some wear in tear. You'll also be
able to see some physical wear and tear if you
look at perhaps the bottom the sole of your shoe
from a body POV. If your feet or your joints
are hurting more than normal, that is a big sign
that something is up there now. In terms of specific numbers,
(08:32):
it's a really wide range that people offer up for
running shoes. Specifically, they say that the general mileage guideline
is to replace them every three to five hundred miles.
But this really depends on things like your gate, how
hard are you hitting the ground, what surfaces are you
running on? All of that comes into play. I'm saying
I'll running a pair of sneakers for anywhere from like
(08:54):
five to seven months, and over that time, if I'm
running around twenty to thirty miles a week, I'm definitely
giving that sneaker a good time before I'm ready to
retire it. When it comes to training sneakers, that is
something that you can typically keep a lot longer, especially
if you're only wearing them inside of the gym, not
doing your commute to and from. So I've had a
(09:14):
pair of Nike Free met Cons, which is my go
to strength training sneaker gosh for at least a year
and a half, and with those, I really do look
for physical signs of wear. I'm taking a look not
only at the soul, but then also on the insul,
looking at the toe box and the heel. And remember,
when you look good, you feel good, and feeling good
(09:34):
is such an integral part to keeping that workout motivation going.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So sometimes you just got to treat yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Last thing if you have any doubts on whether or
not the sneaker is still good, that's usually your indicator
that it's time to switch things up. Make sure you're
following along with hurdle over on social It's at Hurdle podcast,
I am over at Emily Abadi and if you're new
around here, I answer listener questions every single week. The
way to get yours featured on the show is simply
(10:02):
email us over at hello at Hurdle dot us with
your question another hurdle conquered.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Catch you guys next time.
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