All right here we go. Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is

Jenny Yerich. I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside and Andy Bryant is here

today a podiatrist and he's got his foot models.

So this is exciting.

This is our first podcast with someone who has foot models.

Andy welcome, thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me.

So we connected on Instagram and I just been so inspired by the things that you post and they're so informative and people ask so many questions about feet and kids shoes and all that kind of stuff.

So I really appreciate you taking time out of your work day today to join in and and help

parents to learn.

Can you tell us a little bit about you about your background?

Yeah, so I'm a podiatrist here in Melbourne, Australia, and podiatrists here are a little different to the podiatrists in the States,

where more like a physical therapist training-wise, so we're not medical doctors first and foremost like the podiatrists in the

states but so we don't do much surgery but otherwise the podiatrists are like

looking after people's toenails and corns and things like that, but also looking into biomechanics of the foot, likeophotics and shoes and things like this. So I was just like a regular podiatrist for 15 years, and then through my like looking to bear for

my feet started getting stronger and then I was like looking to bear foot running

and looking into middle shoes and it just aligned more with the way I lived than making

orthotics for people and putting them in conventional shoes and so it's just

been a bit of a progression from there, first my own journey and then into my profession.

Yeah.

And I work on my own. I used to have a big practice, but I sold out of that to just do this on my own and I don't have reception

staff ready here I just do it all on my own. It's just a tiny little practice that's very busy.

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