Hello everybody, welcome back to the Notches Paleo podcast. Today's episode is with Jim Laird. He's located in Lexington, Kentucky, and he is a strength and conditioning coach and has been in the fitness industry for almost 20 years. So he is a massive man who's done many strength competitions and he can also train men and women.

He actually just got done coaching a group of women in all different type of power lifting

competitions. So you'll get to hear a little bit about that process and some of these women

are stronger than me now. So it's pretty cool stuff. But I wanted to read a review that we got from a guy in italy named paulo i wanted

to read this review and then give him a little bit of what he asked for he said thanks evan from

an italian listener interviews are interesting but please once in a while make a show at the

beginning when you described your daily life your your work, sensations and wild nature,

your workout routine, meditation, etc. I might end up doing a more in-depth podcast, but just to give

you a couple minutes of that, my park where I work is a 4,000 acre park. I do that part-time now

since this podcast is just taken off so well, and it's becoming a great source of happiness for me, and it's helping a lot of people.

So eventually, the park job may not be there, but for now that's what I do.

I drive four-wheelers.

I yield chainsawls.

I drive tractors.

I build hiking and mountain bike trails for people. I inspect trails to make sure trees haven't fallen over them after storms. I remove invasive plants that

are European, that are from European descent that are now in the United States. They actually

drown out some of the native wildlife.

And it affects the plants and the animals in the area.

So I remove some of those type of plants.

And that's where a lot of my meditation and topics come from just by being out in nature, listening to the birds.

I mean, you really do get a heightened sense of awareness in life when you're out in nature.

I think everyone could use more time out in nature myself, but I could do a whole podcast on this.

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