Hey, this is Demorda Rosen, four-time MBA All-Star and a member of the Chicago Booth,

and you're listening to Train, Body and Mind.

Let's all be part of the progress.

Oh, hello, welcome to Train, Body and Mind, a podcast exploring the cutting edge of holistic fitness.

I'm your host, Jacqueline Byer.

Each episode I connect with the world's leading experts and athletes to talk about mindset, movement, nutrition, recovery, and sleep.

What we like to call the five facets of fitness.

This episode will be a bit different because I'll be talking with two people.

In the first half of the show, M. Sanjain, a conservation biologist, and in the second half, legendary marathoner, Joan Benoit Samuelson.

Both of them make a strong case for how the unpredictable nature of climate change is already having a dramatic impact on how we train and compete in sport.

Athletes are change makers, and they've always been that way.

And they tend to skew young, women and kids are involved in a great way.

You know, it cuts across social boundaries and an amazing way.

So the way we can engage with people who are athletes, but people who interact with the outdoors and the natural world,

I think it's going to be a huge driver to whether we can actually get collective action on things like climate.

That's M. Sanjain, the CEO of Conservation International, a nonprofit that advocates for climate innovations across science, policy, and finance.

He's combined his training as a conservation biologist with his love for the outdoors to help people better understand the state of the earth and how we can take action to protect it.

Everyone, literally everyone, is impacted in some way by climate change.

For athletes, it messes with the outdoor activities that we love.

Skiers and snowboarders are carving lines on artificial snow.

Outdoor ice hockey players can't play because ponds have stopped freezing over.

On the other side of the thermostat, summer Olympians are passing out from the extreme heat.

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