Welcome to today's podcast. We have Nick Sweeney in the house. Nick came in from Colorado all the way to be here with me in Texas. I love it when I get face-to-face interviews. And Nick's somebody having to follow him for a while online. I really appreciate his content. He's got some really cool outlooks. He is just a unique dude. And he comes from, you know, a space that's kind of oversaturated here in Austin. It's not saturated where he lives, but he comes at it from an athlete's background and, you know, just a beautiful mind. We do dive into spirituality because it's kind of where my head's at these days with all the messed up stuff in the world. But there's a lot of practical tips that we get into in this podcast that I think people really appreciate. Nick does some really cool stuff out there so if you're interested in more, definitely hit him up. We'll have him linked in the show notes here and support this podcast by sharing it with friends. Simple enough and support our sponsors. They make this show possible. All right, without further do, my brother, Nick Sweeney. Nick Sweeney, welcome to the podcast, brother. Thanks for having me. This is awesome. It's funny, you reached out online, and I never checked DMs. And I had been following you already, and I was like, hell yeah, perfect timing. You know, I wanted to talk breathwork and a bunch of cool stuff, and you've got such a rad story. I always like when anytime somebody dives well into a space and becomes an expert at something, if they have like a real shit transition, you know, like something that's like a true dark night of the soul, not just mentally and spiritually, but physically get their ass kicked and then crawl out of that space. So I've got mad appreciation for your background.

Tell us who you are. Tell us about life growing up and then tell us about, you know,

this life-altering point where you started to change things. Yeah. So I'm Nick Sweeney and I grew up in Colorado and I was a ski racer athlete, had a beautiful, and I was training really hard and learning how to

cross-country ski at a high level, and there's a lot of breathing involved in that. And I ended up

going to one of the best college teams in the country, University of Denver, and was able to ski race there for the first

two years. But then the third year, after a life of just training and moving my body and

enjoying nature at the highest level, I had all of that taken away from me when I got in an

accident right after COVID hit. So quarantined at home during COVID, was making mountain bike trails in my yard,

and I ate it biking in my yard, and I ended up twisting my foot,

torquing my foot in a very non-natural way and splitting my shin open.

And at first I didn't think that it was a big deal, but it ended up being me out of commission

for 10 months, unable to walk, essentially.

And I didn't know what to do.

10 months went by.

It was actually, yeah, 2020 of October when I went to a doctor.

And he was like, I don't think that you're going to be able to walk again normally.

Your career is over and just, you know,

we're going to give you some pain medication.

And I, that was the beginning of the dark night of the soul

to the deepest level, I would say.

And so I went home. I began to just

reconcile what was going on. My career was over. Everything I kind of lived for was trying to go to the

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