Hello and welcome.

I don't like my start anymore.

I'm going to have to come up with a new start.

But welcome to this solo episode of the ESG Fitness podcast.

I have not done a solo episode in ages.

And the reason I'm doing this today is one, because I want to talk a lot.

And two, because I kind of want to use this as a little bit of therapy as well.

So for those of you who don't avidly follow my life, one, what are you doing?

And two, I had back surgery on Wednesday and it is now Monday.

Yeah.

All the days have been merging for me a little bit.

Wow.

And it was interesting, I guess, but weirdly, so obviously I'm still in quite a lot of pain. I shouldn't be doing very much. I'm not doing very much. In fact, I'm like ridiculously anxious about doing anything. And that's worse than the pain. It's like anything I do. I'm like, oh, this might ruin my back. This might ruin my back. Like any little movement. So I'm kind of uptight about that and I was hoping podcasting would help me.

We will see. Anyway, I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has been mega supportive, not just over the last, like, couple of days when I've had surgery, but over the last, I don't know, months, almost a year actually that I've been in pain,

clients that have supported me, my team, so like Andy, Shona, Nicola, massive helps,

people I can absolutely rely on.

Fortunately, I've been quite good with work and I've been able to do it,

and because I obviously work online, that's been a good with work and I've been able to do it and because I obviously

work online, that's been a huge help.

But having the support and knowing that people are there, should I need them, has been huge.

My parents, my friends, family, everything.

So, yeah, I feel weirdly emotional about the whole thing.

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