Soccer, and those you know we got some problems,

a no, we don't know where we're talking out to solve them.

We may laugh, we might learn, we might be.

Your games with some peace. he leaves.

Hey Emily. Hi, how are you?

Good, how are you?

Good, it's nice to put faces to names and be with you guys in person. Yes, thank you so much for coming on. We love your stuff. we're excited to chat with you today.

No, thanks for having me. I'm honored.

Yeah, so Alana sent me the video that you posted a week or two ago, the

crying reel. But I'd love to know just a little bit about what you do first and then we could dive into that. So do you mind just telling our listeners a little bit about you and what you do?

Yeah, absolutely. So, yeah, my name's Emily. Emily Perrin, Let's see, where do we start?

I am a former soccer player, so I played soccer at UVA.

I graduated in 2012, and then really got straight into coaching.

I knew I wanted to coach.

I spent three years coaching as an assistant at the University of Pennsylvania,

which was awesome, but kind of quickly into that work.

I really felt like so so much of what I loved about coaching

wasn't really like the soccer and the exes and nose and recruiting.

It was the people. So I left coaching and kind of just wanted to take some time away from soccer and pivoted and started to get into the work that I do now, honestly, mostly because of my own mental health journey.

I mean, I have definitely struggled with my fair share of kind of chronic anxiety and panic disorder and yeah I really landed on kind of the work that I do with athletes

Mindfulness training and then you know eventually becoming a mental health therapist through

really just finding how to heal and figure out how to live with kind of what I was

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