Welcome to episode 471 of That Traathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

My name is Michael Erikson, and let me start today with a bit of a personal update.

I know the typical style of this podcast isn't to go into personal updates.

It's all about the content, what you can get out of it, whether it's from the interviewee

or from my solo episodes.

But at this time I think it's worth it because it's a big news.

We've had a little baby.

By the time you hear this, he might be getting close to one month old.

He was born towards the end of August. And yeah, everything is going well.

Mom and baby are very healthy and we're all super happy. So just wanted to share that because

yeah, it's just obviously very exciting news for us and we're very happy for it.

In terms of what it means for the podcast, I think from now on not so much.

I'm starting to get back into more of a normal routine.

And so even though September has been a bit light and I've just put out one episode that

was already recorded and this episode where I already had done

the interview and just recording this intro and outro separately.

Other than that, yeah, it's been a bit more quiet, I guess, but from now on I think I'll

get back into more of a routine and putting up content in a similar, with similar

frequency to before, I would say.

So I think that you don't have to expect anything in terms of changes there from now on.

But let's get into introducing today's guest.

It's Monique Ryan.

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