Welcome to the Behind a Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing. And this week, it is my

absolute honor to welcome on the show, Army Infantry Veteran and the man behind Transcend,

Ernie Colling. So in this conversation, we discuss a host of topics from Ernie's early life,

his journey into the military, some of the worst days in uniform, his transition, the world of

contracting, the spectrum of factors that influence our hormones, testosterone replacement therapy,

the importance of blood testing, mental health, the transcend foundation, 7X and so much more.

Now before we get to this incredible conversation, as I say every week, please just take a moment.

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on planet Earth who needs to hear them. So with that being said, I introduce to you Ernie

Colling. Enjoy. Well, Ernie, I want to start by saying thank you to Brandon for connecting us and thank you for coming on the behind the show podcast today.

No, absolutely thank you for having me.

And Brendan's an awesome person to be working with.

And he had nothing praise to say about you.

So, you know, I appreciate the opportunity.

Yeah, well, we got to spend a pretty interesting 10 days crammed in a plane together,

so we'll get to that in a little bit.

Oh, yeah.

All right, so first question, where on planet Earth are we finding you this morning?

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