Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into Power Athlete Radio, featuring The Crew,

where a former pro football player and a D3 All-Star use strength and conditioning

as an excuse to talk about anything but. Now here's John and Tex.

Power Athlete Nation, what's happening? Tech's here. I'm on a little solo show with old friend Ali Kirchner. Ali, how you doing today? What's up, Tex? It's great to be back.

I know. We had you on previously pre-season, and this past year has been a roller coaster of emotion,

and you're facing some new opportunities and challenges, so we're going to cover this year,

and then aim to check out what's ahead for you and what motivated you to take on these new challenges.

So let's lead off with your, let's not hold anything back, man.

What are the new challenges that you're facing?

And then let's bring it back into that whole college season that you had an epic run with

your team.

It seems like a lot has changed since we last spoke.

It doesn't feel like it was that long ago, but and yet I have a new role.

I have a new set of events that's kind of occurred in my life.

But yeah, let's start with what kind of what, I guess, what challenges I'm

currently facing. Well, first and foremost, I'm working home, which is, you know, obviously

everybody was working from home and then a lot of people started going back. I am one of the

lucky few that is still, they work from home warrior. So I've got a pretty sweet setup.

But yeah, it's challenging to, you know, be remote, be virtual still a lot of the time and keep yourself motivated.

Obviously, working for a startup, a small company, art of coaching makes that a little bit easier because there's always something to do.

But yeah, it's just kind of adjusting to a new routine, a new way of life when you're used to

coaching people every day and be down on the floor for hours at a time and then kind of going

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