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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of Daily Stood Podcast.

My guest today, Amelia Boone, obstacle course race champion, ultra endurance athlete, and as it happens practicing attorney. So I'm always impressed by people who are good at more than one thing.

I think this is maybe the first or one of the first podcast guests who has spent the night at my house.

Amelia was dating a friend of mine and the friend was visiting Austin and Amelia came and I didn't know who she was. We'd never talked before and only when we met when she showed up.

Did that introduce me into Amelia's fascinating world? Obviously we talk about elite performance a lot on the show and Amelia has a lot to teach us about that.

But I think more directly she's a lot to teach us about overcoming adversity. She's been quite open about her struggles with a lifelong eating disorder, how that affected her personally where that came from, how she has struggled to triumph over it.

And there's a number of great pieces that I recommend. You read where she sort of opens up about this and shared and I think it's helped a lot of people.

So we get into that in the episode how often like the sort of the elements that the drive that makes us do things can also when turned against us be a source of great pain and suffering. But then also another opportunity to grow and improve and change.

If we if we choose to accept the challenge that our life and our experiences have put before us. So Amelia is on the show today. I think you'll really like this episode.

You can follow her on Twitter at at Amelia Boone AM E I L A B O O N E on Instagram. She is at a our B O O N E 11 are Boone 11 ultra runner attorney.

I'm fascinating all around person four time obstacle racing world champion. I think there's some still tendencies in there and so I can't wait for you to listen to this episode.

I was thinking you this is a weird situation where I'm having someone on the podcast who's spent the night in my house, but I may be talked to for like 10 minutes of my entire life.

That is very true. That is true. I do remember why went for a run from your house and you warn me about the dogs and that you sometimes run with a Billy glove club. And I was like, I don't really know if I want to run with one of those. It's very large.

Did you have an issue? I don't remember.

No, I saw a few, but then I got terrified and and because I was like, Oh, they were going to attack me, but no, no dogs attacked me on my run. It was successful.

Yeah, I run with like a collapsible like police baton because I think people think that moving out in the country means that your dog is just allowed to be whatever it wants to like it could be whatever monster it wants to be.

And my house has this sort of dirt road on it and these dogs.

I think they think they're protecting the house or whatever, but it's like it's not the house. This is the road. So on the one hand, it's wonderful because I can run. I can do three miles not leaving the not stepping on pavement.

On the other hand, I do sometimes have to fight off dogs.

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