I was probably on college number five. I probably had switched majors eight times. I had tried a lot of different paths and nothing had stuck. I was starting to feel a little hopeless and like I was just going to be a failure in life. None of it makes sense.

I was just feeling, my confidence was totally gone,

I just was feeling very hopeless.

I also had gotten out of shape. I was just feeling very not confident in

every area of my life and it felt like it was like try with the push-ups try with fitness or there was nothing that I was just giving up on life altogether. the end of the tunnel and if this is your first time listening to the show here's what you're in for

I interview luminaries artists philanthropists creatives basically anyone who has gone above and

beyond to be the change that they want to see in the world.

And sometimes they start movements or they create films or they write books that inspire people.

And in the case of this week's guest, she created an app, a platform, and a book called the 12 minute athlete.

My guest's name is Krista Striker.

So Krista grew up as someone who was fairly inactive, physically speaking.

However, she was an avid reader and writer and she thought that one day she would become a journalist.

But after being called spaghetti arms by her brother one random afternoon and being challenged to do a push-up,

Krista decided to take her physical fitness more seriously, and then this led her to becoming a trainer and then she worked in a gym and

then during one cold winter the snow kept Krista from going to work one day and she began exploring ways of working out at home using

her own body weight in the exercises.

And she started getting stronger and this led her to reconsider the effectiveness of

spending hours and hours working out in the gym and then that led to her training

others in the short hit workouts that she had been doing in her living room using just

body weight exercises her clients started seeing results as well and this all

culminated in the 12 minute athlete platform.

All the while, Krista was navigating mental health challenges,

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