Man, what is happening? This is a long time coming. I've been wanting to do a podcast for quite a while since I launched my website.

This is the Mark Groves podcast.

Welcome to episode one where the guest is myself.

For those of you that don't know me, I ride, speak, think, nerd out, enjoy exploring the concept of relationships, but not just romantic. That's where

my inspiration or desire was born, but more in the sense of relationship to everything. I think in

our lives, we experience rock bottoms in different aspects of our life that can be, you know,

becoming obese, getting diabetes, having a breakup, which

is really, I feel, as though the most common way to really hit a bottom. Addiction, drugs, alcohol,

all those things. And all of these rock bottoms really allow us to find ourselves to, you know,

to meet ourselves. And, you know, you hear the sort of cheesy saying of you fall apart.

You can put yourself back together how you like.

And although it's cheesy, it's true.

And, I mean, let's be honest, most cheesy things are pretty fucking true.

So I wanted to create this podcast because I've been having such amazing conversations,

exploring how love works, how relationships work, how work how you know why do we overeat

you know all the things about our health and why do we have these experiences with our bodies and

where does illness come from you know all the you know not just from the sense of like why you get

cancer or why we get hypertension or cholesterol or

high cholesterol or anything like that. And you know, I certainly come from the background. I was

in pharmaceutical sales for 14 years. And I come from the background of very Western medicine

thought. You know, this is all created. You know, it's just part of our biology and an

illness and we have to take drugs to treat it. And my mind is, and just my beliefs have really

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