Hey everyone Benkimer Radio how an earth are you doing this morning. I hope you're very well

so this morning I want to talk about mental health after an experience at the

weekend so the weekend we had our biannual nutrition

conference the BTN Academy conference and it was amazing and the conference is

always a mixture of myself, Tom who's the co-host on this show

and one or two other coaches and then our students So our students get a chance

that have graduated from the course

to come and speak and talk about their experiences,

what they are finding with their clients,

what they've learned, like loads of stuff it's amazing one of our

students Steph Brand did a talk on mental health and she shared her story of how mental health isn't always what it

looks like and you know on the surface she always looked like this bubbly

confident everything was going well in the gym lifting PRs all good and

actually deep down underneath it was far from that and Steph shared a beautiful raw story and she was second in the lineup of the day and the day that we run is six hours of education and her talk nearly went on for an hour and 45 minutes.

She only had like a 25 30 minute slot.

Now why did this happen?

Now when she offered for questions at the end, there was a good handful of questions and I was like,

oh, this is interesting because I was sort of holding the mic and helping the day run smoothly,

interjecting here and there. we went through these questions and people

started to share stories and then delve into kind of deeper and deeper stuff and

then more and more people put their hands up and Steph then asked the question how many people in the room feel like they've

suffered from a mental health condition in their lifetime and it was

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