Hey, everybody. How is it going? I hope you're doing awesome. Welcome to Pillars. Of course, I'm Dylan Bowman. And this week,

it is my honor and privilege to welcome Jerry Colonna to the podcast. And while he might be an

unfamiliar name to some of you, maybe most of you, Jerry is a big deal. He is one of the most sought-after voices in the world of executive

coaching and leadership development. He is the co-founder and CEO of Reboot, which is his coaching

firm based in Boulder, Colorado, but with presence in New York City and San Francisco as well.

And he is also the author of a book called Reboot, Leadership and the Art of Growing Up that

we talk about a lot in this podcast. And if you're an avid podcast listener, you might remember

Jerry as the coach to the founders of Gimlet Media, the podcasting empire that

sold to Spotify just a couple of years ago. But while his practice is focused mostly on

entrepreneurs and executives, I think you'll find that Jerry's approach and his message is just as relevant to us athletes.

And since we didn't have enough time to really go into how Jerry and I became acquainted

during our conversation just because we had limited time,

I wanted to provide a little background on how Jerry's work had a huge impact on

me personally, professionally and athletically. I generally don't like podcasts with long introductions,

but I think it's important for context in this episode to provide that here on the front end.

And as I've spoken about many times in this podcast and

other places, 2019 was a terrible year for me. And when I was in the middle of my depression and

injury spiral in the summer of that year, my good friend and a former guest of this podcast, Brett Jackson,

came to Aspen on a little business trip where I was living at the time.

And after he was done with his meetings before he went back down to the front range,

we went for a little hike together one afternoon, and we had a really great deep discussion about life and struggle

and the painful moment that I was navigating at the time.

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