Welcome to the Mark Devine show, I am your host Mark Devine. On this show I explore what it means to be fearless through

the lens of some of the most inspirational, resilient and incredible leaders in the world.

Speak to martial arts grandmasters, special ops leaders, and incredible journalists like

my guest today, Christine Ew.

Christine is an award-winning journalist. She focuses on the intersection of sports science

and female athletes. Her writings appeared in Outside, Washington Post, Runner Worlds,

other top publications. She's a lifelong athlete, yoga teacher who's a runner, surfer, and skier.

She lives now in Brooklyn, New York.

Christine, thanks so much for joining me today.

Christine, so. Christine so stoked to have you on the Mark Devine show. How are you today?

Thank you so much for inviting me. I'm doing well. How are you?

Awesome. I'm doing great.

I'm sunny and warm out here in California.

Yeah, it's hot and humid here in New York City.

Yeah, I remember Brooklyn.

I have a place in Park Slope and that was back in 1983 to 85 I think something like that but just changed a lot since then I bet

Yeah, no it definitely has it's pretty incredible I've been living in Brooklyn for about 20 years and it's wild how much it's changed.

Yeah, I'd love to get back there and see that. I was actually talking to another guest who lived in New York City the other day,

just how much it's changed since I was there in the 80s and just radically safer.

And I don't know about the last two years, I know that there's been some challenge.

Right since COVID, right?

But the city's much safer and then they closed off a lot of streets for, you know, kind of like that street pedestrian living and they have a lot of little pop-up type restaurant, you know, scenarios going on. It's just really cool what they've done there.

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