All right, hello and welcome to Choose a Phi. Today on the show we have Boy Dunlavy. Boyd is a long time Choose a Phi listener and member of the Phi community.

And he's a two-time blood cancer survivor and ten-time marathon runner who has a message of hope, his story and the perspective.

The through line is things that matter. And when Boyd reached out to me with that, it just resonated instantly because that's what we all want to concentrate on. Things that matter.

And that's what Phi enables us. So I'm really, really excited to get into with Boyd here. Welcome to Choose a Phi.

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Boyd, thank you so much for joining us. I've been really looking forward to this for a while.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, this should be great. So I went back and looked at our email correspondence and you actually wrote in an email to us in December of 2018.

I did.

It was wild. You left a review for the podcast and you said, we are still a few years away from reaching Phi.

But so many things that you guys are talking about. I have had success with such as taking our family to Disney on travel points or learning life hacks like how to replace my roofshed.

I felt like a loner sometimes trying to figure these things out. You guys have put it to words and more importantly, it is a community of like-minded people who feel they have so much more to give than being stuck on the hamster rail.

Way to go and keep going.

You are a friend from Canada. I just love that. So that was 2018. We're almost four years later.

It was. I remember it like it was yesterday and it wasn't an exaggeration or an embellishment. I just randomly found you guys and something clicked inside of me that this is this has been part of my journey since 2011.

Just trying to make it work.

And so like you said, we'll get more into this story about cancer and all those other things. But part of the reason why we reached out is some of the choices that we made 20 years ago are bearing fruit today.

And that is a good life lesson for anybody.

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