Today, I am honored to introduce you to Taha Manviwala, someone I haven't known long but who instantly stood out as one of the kindest, most positive, and dynamic people I've ever met.

Taha is not only a talented personal trainer and parkour instructor, he's also a world-class actor and currently playing the lead role of the critically acclaimed Life of Pie

on its first national tour. My wife and I went to see him a couple of months ago and his

performance was nothing short of extraordinary in every sense of the word. Taha, welcome to the

podcast. Dude, so happy to be here. I'm very excited to have you here. It's been wonderful to get to know you.

For everyone who doesn't know you, who are you?

It all started many, many moons ago, a small town in Detroit.

I, yeah, I've had a very, I don't know, I don't have much of a profile in the world. And it's kind of weird.

I feel the weird imposter syndrome sometimes coming on to something like this, because, you know,

you have these like doctors and all these like very, very established studious people. And I feel

like I'm like a jack of all trades.

Yeah.

Who has dabbled in a lot of different things, but have found a lot of joy in those things.

And that's sort of been my purpose.

As in a nutshell, I think movement is like the biggest part of my life.

It's always been a big part of my life.

And that sort of found different avenues to express itself in those ways.

And yeah, I, the spark notes is that I grew up in Kentucky.

I just, I loved school.

I loved the environment that I grew up in and the outdoors and eventually went to the

University of Kentucky where I was studying medicine all the way up until my senior year

of college.

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