Hello, happy Wednesday for a meathead hippie podcast.

And I'm stoked about this one because it's with Morgan King, who I've been following her journey

for a while, and we are just both meathead hippies.

So she is an American weightlifter.

She is somebody that is just good at sports and athletics and found her calling with Olympic weightlifting.

If you're new to Olympic weightlifting or you don't really know what it is, it's a sport that

involves the snatch and the clean and jerk. So when you compete, you get on the stage and you have

three attempts at the snatch, three attempts at the clean and jerk. So when you compete, you get on the stage and you have three attempts

at the snatch, three attempts at the clean and jerk, and that's it. And we'll talk about it a little

bit, her experience, the emotional piece, the mental piece, the recovery piece, her finding

her journey in this, the grief of when you fail a lift or when you fail anything in life,

right, just having to grieve and then see if it's something that you want to do again.

Of course, we talk about how to take care of yourself and the self-awareness piece that we love

to talk about at Meathead Hippie, the body awareness,

and then just the realness of it. And I think you're going to really, really love it.

This person made it to the Olympics in the 2016 season in Rio, and she's on her way to do it again

in 2020. And I just want you guys, please look at pictures and posts of her lifting.

I mean, just so fierce. The amount of weight this person can lift for the weight that she is is

just mind-blowing. So regardless of if you're into Olympic weightlifting, I think you're going to

love this because Olympic weightlifting is truly, to me, a metaphor for life. You feel like you nailed it and then the next lift is just so far from

what you thought you could do. So it's just this constant battle internally and externally.

And so it applies to everything in life. And that's why, honestly, I love weightlifting and strength

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