Hello and welcome to pursuing health. I'm Dr. Julie Foucher Brown, family physician and former

CrossFit Games athlete. Here, I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness and medicine

and support your journey toward your healthiest self.

Thank you so much for joining me.

Now, let's get started with this week's episode.

Hello, everyone.

This is going to be a very different kind of episode today where I thought I would just do a little check-in and a life update because there has been a lot going on over here. And I haven't shared a lot of it personally. And so I thought this would be a good time and a good

place to do that. So much has happened in the last few years, but it's crazy to think that over

the last 11 years, this podcast has really been a constant in my life and a venue that has

evolved as I've evolved.

So starting it in 2015 as a CrossFit Games athlete recently retired,

wanting to share the things I learned as an athlete and conversations with athletes

and coaches and people who had been influential to me in my career,

to then evolving as a medical student learning

about family medicine and functional medicine and wanting to share the things I was learning

and the conversations I was having with people and leaders in the field to then over the last

several years, learning things through working with my own patients and through my own personal journey of

emotional and spiritual healing and sharing bits and pieces of that here on the podcast and

conversations and very small bits and pieces of that on social media. But largely I've been

focused on living my own life in the present moment, in the day to day during this

time. And for so much of my life early on as an athlete and in my medical training, I followed a

formula of hard work and discipline and dedication that has allowed me to reach my goals in a very predictable way.

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