Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of My Buddy Green,

and your host. We are all in for a treat because in celebration of the book that Colleen and I

wrote, which if you're on YouTube, you can see called The Joy of Well being a practical guide

to a happy, healthy, and long life, which is officially out today in the world at every bookseller

and on Amazon, of course, you can find out more at thejoyofwellbeing.com, but in celebration of

the book, we are having our dear friend, the incredibly credentialed, talented, and lovely human

Dr. Sarah Godfried interview us as guest hosts. We haven't done this before and we're just so

excited to have Sarah on the show with us and you know, turn it around and ask us questions.

So this is going to be a fun one. Sarah, so good to see you and thanks so much for doing this.

My absolute pleasure. I love this book. I just want to shout it from the rooftops because

this is groundbreaking and I'm so excited that we get to get into the details. And so I feel like

our listeners, our viewers already know about your bios, but I wonder what's when weird or quirky

or you know, something, something that maybe they don't know about the two of you.

So the big one for me is in the last chapter of the book and it has to do with our fertility struggles

and this is something we haven't shared publicly and that's the role I played in this and

we think it's important because 40% of fertility issues are us guys, the men, and not the women

and that was the case in our life. And this was like a really humbling, terrifying,

drop down on your knees, you know, praying to God or praying to whatever you believe in moment for

and you know, in our fertility struggle, we discovered that the issue was me and more specifically

there was no sperm. I had no sperm. And they, it could be something, it could have been something

that I was born with where I officially didn't produce sperm at all or it could have been something

called, you know, azus spermia and that there was some obstruction. And there were in this process,

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