Hello and welcome to Redirected, a podcast where we sit down with celebrities, entrepreneurs,

and elite-level athletes to hear how they handle life's unexpected events.

Each of our guests have reached an incredible amount of success by responding to life's

moments of adversity and uncertainty extremely well.

I'm your host Andrew East, engineer, turn professional athlete, turn entrepreneur,

and I'm super excited to bring these stories to you to help inspire you to reach your dreams

and to help you learn how to respond instead of react.

Today we sit down with World Champion Swimmer Michael Andrew and discuss what it looks like

to step away from the ordinary and blaze your own trail.

Michael is partially known for his unorthodox training method which he has to defend regularly.

If you are interested in connecting with Michael on social media, you can find them at

Swimmer Michael on Twitter and Instagram and also in the show notes down below.

Also, be sure to check out his YouTube channel where he takes you around the world and behind

the scenes of his success.

Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, Michael Andrews.

Michael, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

We were just talking, Michael and I have interacted a lot, mostly via social media,

but we've never actually had an in-person phone call, so this is fun to finally do it.

You could finally put your face across the screen, at least you live.

So I was watching the stories.

I know, dude, I went on a huge rant after you sent me that amazing box of swim gear.

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