Hello, Pod Squad. We have Melissa Arnaud-R-Nodreed. She is the first American woman to summit Everest without

supplemental oxygen. It was her sixth summit of the highest ground on Earth, cementing her place

in mountaineering history. And in doing so, she became

a media star in demand for many publications, television shows, and organizations looking for

inspirational speakers. She continued us to work as a mountain guide, as well as running the

Juniper Fund, the nonprofit she co-founded.

Her new book, Enough, Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest, is available now.

And let me tell you, this conversation is one of my favorites, first of all, because there's so

much athleticism and psychology around athleticism andness, so much around the conversations of self-worth

and pursuit and what we're running from. Melissa is just a gem. You're going to want to stay

tuned. She's wonderful. And also Glennon is here and she was like trying to learn about sports

and it was fun. But this is not a podcast about sports, y'all.

This is a podcast about somebody who's climbing the Mount Everest of herself. Take a listen.

Okay. I'm so excited for various reasons, but the Pod Squad may not know this about me.

I have had a small fascination, especially throughout my time as an athlete with Mount Everest.

And it was always something that I thought throughout my career that that's something that I would accomplish when I retired.

And for all of the reasons that I

thought that at the time, yeah, I don't know. I just find it so fascinating now, having been

retired for 10 years. Like that thought is so comical to me now because I've healed a little bit

from professional sports. But today we have, Melissa

are not read, but I really want to get into with our pod squad who may not be as versed in what

Mount Everest is. They probably know of it that it's a high mountain. But can you give us like a crash course,

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