What's up fellas welcome back to commas over cold brew with me your host Emma Abrahamson

It seriously has been a way too long since I've done a solo episode

So I figured now is my time to shine and I basically talked to myself for an hour in my room

I'm literally laying in bed using like this tiny mic right now

And this is like the most peaceful work environment ever

Today's solo episode is something that's like really relevant to me and

Seemingly a lot to you guys as well my listeners

I'm gonna be talking about how to go about retiring from sport not that I'm like an expert on this topic

But obviously like I've had my own experiences with this so I figured that I would just talk about my own experiences

Give you some tips, you know over the years of what's helped me and stuff answer a lot of your questions

So yeah stay tuned

To start off this episode. I just want to say that retiring from running has probably been the hardest process

I've had to deal with like it's just way harder than

Running I don't even know how to describe it like my identity is so wrapped up in the sport of running because that's what I know

That's been my whole life my view of success is how well I do in the track

It was just my entire identity so having to drop that and just seemingly move on and start my new life

It's a hard process to navigate so first of all

I just want to validate everyone's feelings on the topic of retiring because I don't think it's talked about enough

Especially if you like ran in college or even if you're doing it in high school to just completely pivot how you view success and how you view yourself

It's a really difficult process. So I want to say that you're not alone

I wish that the NCAA had some sort of like exit program for this specifically

Maybe they do now they definitely didn't what I was in college

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