Good morning. This is another beautiful Wednesday, which means another meathead hippie podcast. I'm your host, Emily Schramm, nutritional therapy practitioner, personal trainer, and entrepreneur. And I am so excited about my guest today. This is someone I've wanted to talk to for a long time, but I have to give some forewarning.

This got kind of strange. So we are both problem solvers, and I think that we're going to make

anything work. So the place that we hit record and where you're going to start with is actually

in the middle of our podcast. There was some audio issues and some sound issues. And quite honestly, until I

edited this podcast, I had no idea what he was saying most of the time because that's Wi-Fi

for you. Wi-Fi for you. So I was re-listening to it for the first time after the fact and learning

things all around. So I think you're going to love it. Brian McKenzie, if you do not know of him yet,

I have two books of his that are on my shelf, unplugged.

And one of the first books that I ever got,

especially when it came to Endurance,

which was something that I was like very anti for a long time,

what is the Power Speed Endurance book?

So he is a New York Times bestselling author.

He also has many other books, including The Unbreakable Runner, just a huge fan of his work

and what he does.

And I think what really drew us to each other were the captions on our Instagram.

So understanding that both of us are changing

and evolving and finding out, you know, our new identity in this new world that we're creating

for ourselves. For me, I am writing a book. And so to take, you know, all of these things that

I've done in the health and wellness world and then say, I'm writing a book and

it's not going to be what you think, you know, that shifts you. And so I think it's the work of constant

evolution, which is such a necessity to being a human, but also really hard and really, really a

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