Hey, fam, welcome to the free trail podcast. Of course, I am your host, Dylan Bowman, back today with my friend Keeley Henninger,

her third appearance on the show. Of course, the pro trail runner, Trail Society co-host,

and now the head coach for Free Trail. That's right. Yes, Keeley's going to be the leader of

free trail experts, a new coaching marketplace that we are launching publicly today.

Today's podcast is mostly about Keeley and where she is in her career, especially after a

big professional renaissance that she's been going through in the past 12 months.

But we do spend the first 10 minutes chatting through the vision behind free trail experts.

We talk about the starsteader group of people that we've partnered with is our founding

cohort of coaches.

And we talk about how you can learn more if you are interested in more guidance in your

trail running journey.

What I will just quickly say here on the front end is that everything we do

here at free trail, if it's not obvious, should be supportive of or value additive to our community.

That's our goal with everything. We have a lot of people who come to us for our currently

limited training resources and we've had many people in our

community specifically ask us to offer a coaching product. So we feel a responsibility to listen to

those requests and to hopefully accommodate them. So that's what we're trying to do here.

Similarly, we thought that offering this

type of formal coaching service might bring more people into the free trail orbit, get more

people connected with the free trail community, which is amazingly vibrant and supportive and

fun more than anything else.

So one of the things that's special about our coaching product is the community integration.

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