Hey, what's up? It's Ben Greenfield. You may have heard that I wrote a new book. It's free at fitsoldbook.com

as a digital download. You can also get the physical version for next to nothing. I'm just covering my

shipping and handling and printing costs. I'm not making any money off this book. I just want

you to experience some of the things I've written within the pages. I'm also recording the audiobook

version. But I'd like to give you a bit of a taste of that audiobook version and I may actually

begin to release every chapter for you on this podcast on Sundays. So you can sit back and prepare

to experience the half hour long or so audio recording of the first introductory chapter of fit

sold. I hope you like it. There's actually no show notes for you to go comment on. So you can't go

leave me a comment like Ben never do that again on this Sunday. But anyways, it's here for you

to listen to. And if you like it, you can go to fitsoldbook.com. All the resources and everything

for what you're about to hear are at fitsoldbook.com slash introduction. I hope you enjoy this first chapter.

And you can always find me on social media at Ben Greenfield Fitness on most social media platforms.

And perhaps there you can just let me know what you think. And if you want me to keep releasing

chapters like this on a weekly basis, it helps you out. Touches your life somehow or gives you

good information. I'll do it. So without further ado, here we go.

Fit Sold Tools Tactics and Habits for Optimizing Spiritual Fitness by Ben Greenfield.

Introduction. Who am I? I got lucky. On second thought, I need to work that lucky expression

out of my vernacular. I still find myself lazily using it, even when writing, luck,

coincidence, and seeming serendipity are all simply signs of a great God doing his work in

mysterious ways. So a more appropriate phrase would be, God bless me. Why do I say this?

Frankly, I was born into a very happy stable home. The second spawned of five siblings,

one older brother, one younger brother and two younger sisters. I was raised in homeschooled by

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