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I'm Gail Strawb and you're listening to She Explorers.

Alright, so are you are you ready to get started?

Yes, ready as I'll ever be. Well Irene, welcome to She Explores

Our Women in Water series. So I love that about free diving that it's like about letting go,

letting go of your ego, letting go of your expectations because you could be

doing great one day and then all of a sudden your ear tells you,

nope and you just have to listen to your body because if not you can hurt yourself, right?

This is Irene Marcoo. Every now and then I'm gifted with an interview that turns into a conversation that I didn't know I needed.

And today you'll get to hear that little gift.

So Irene Marcou pronouns, she, her, L, because I'm bilingual.

About me, I'm a water addict. If there's water, I'm into it.

Scuba diver, instructor trainer, mermaid instructor trainer,

free diver instructor, synchronize swimming coach. I still swim, master's level, so that's for adults.

So it's competitive, but also very social. And I'm still involved in the life saving world as well so

think that kind of covers it. I have a real boring human job, we don't talk about

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