I'm Emily Strom, the ultimate meathead hippie. Welcome to the show.

I don't know why that intro is a little crackly, but anyway, I'm so happy you are here.

I was just having a moment of gratitude.

You know, this is something that's really important before I get into this amazing podcast with

Stacey Sims, who we're going to talk about sports performance and women are not small men

and are menstrual cycles. Men, you should listen to this too. It is important to understand

that women are not small men. But before I dig into that, I will say, you know, everyone talks

about gratitude and how it can turn your day around and you need to write three things that

you're grateful for. And sometimes you just do it because you're like, yes, let me get into that

space.

But I literally wrote this in one of my book chapters that it just feels so disconnected.

Like in our head we're like, be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.

And then our body's like, oh, but there's so much to do.

And I feel so, today, all of that aligned. And I felt all the gratitude that I've been just sometimes too busy to

notice and I just want to say how wonderful it is that this is my life that I get to do this

and it's because you're listening it's because you're here it's all of those things without

you guys here there would not be any of this and i just

want to make sure i first express my gratitude for that also i wrote a book and it's ready so be sure

to look at the link below you can get it with or without audio you never can get just audio so

both selections will include the actual book,

shipped to you by January 8th. And it is called The Process. And it's what I've been talking

about, the last few podcasts, really about my story of A to B and kind of this collection of palms but prose but longer rants and diagrams and

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