What's up Trainiacs? This is Triathlon Taryn. This is no triathlon Kim, also known as NTK.

In my 20s, I was 215 pounds and I was unhappy working the desk job I was at. Now I'm a 941 Ironman athlete who, with your much appreciated attention, gets to make a living in the sport that I love.

Through this podcast and our ever popular YouTube channel, we bring you triathlon stories, science,

and training from amazing people around the world to help you get to your start lines confident

and your finish lines strong.

And as the resident non-triathlet, I try to keep

this show fun and accessible for everybody. Let's do it. Today's podcast is brought to you by

TeamTrainiac.com, our online training. I think that, you know what, let's kind of say that

teamtrainiac.com, I have made it for the average triathlete.

The person in their first, say, four or five years of triathlon who's trying to make a life change.

And that ties in really nicely with today's podcast guest, De Anur, who is the founder and the CEO of Ventum. A lot of the triathletes that we coach

on teamtrainiac.com, they aren't necessarily sure of how to get into triathlon, how to train

for triathlon. It's those people that we want to help empower and learn how to do the sport, get to

their start lines, feeling really confident

because this sport is a great life changer. And I'll just end off that about teamtrainiac.com

being where this podcast is brought to you by for this episode, because this episode, I think,

is really special.

Chatting with Dia, he opened up to us about some of the life changes and the challenges that he's had and how triathlon has brought him through that or in some cases been the cause of it.

Right. And it's interesting because you don't know the face behind many of the big brands,

many of the pieces of equipment that are just standard parts of triathlon.

You don't necessarily know who the guy or girl behind those brands are.

But with Ventum, Dia being one of the founders and, as you said, the CEO,

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