I knew so little about what I was doing and I knew so little about why I shouldn't have been doing what I was doing early on in my career that I just did it.

I mean it was it it sounds funny. I mean I started a blog when I didn't know what the word blog meant. I was you know I was 24 years old I wrote a book called Ignite the Fire to educate my industry, the personal training industry.

Who the heck am I at 24 years old to write a book? I knew nothing about self-publishing.

And as a result, I just kind of did the thing right and then people liked it. And that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't big no-round whole thing. So I do believe that a high dose of what I call optimistic ignorance is actually really important.

Welcome to the Articoting Podcast, a show aimed at getting to the core of what it takes to change attitudes, behaviors, and outcomes in the weight room, board room,

classroom, and everywhere in between.

I'm your host, Brett Bartholmue.

I'm a performance coach, keynote speaker, and the author of the book, Conscious Coaching.

But most importantly, I'm a lifelong student interested in all aspects of human behavior

and communication. I want to thank you for joining me and now

let's dive into today's episode.

Alright so today is a special episode of the podcast and I'm

going to elaborate why stick with me because I don't want you

guys to think oh he says that every time it's always a unique

episode or special episode but this one is because it marks a

transition of sorts of where we're going with art of coaching, where we're going

with our guests, where we're going with a lot of our content. And many of you, if you're

on our newsletter, have heard about some of these changes and your feedback has been

incredible. Your encouragement has been incredible. So we're thankful for that. So if you're You're aware of my story. You know that I was hospitalized in a young age. And because of those experiences, I got into coaching, specifically training athletes.

Now I was fortunate enough to work with high level athletes from over 23 sports that's

been a big mainstay in part of my career.

But in this chapter, more and more, we are working in the leadership space.

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