Hello again. Welcome back to the well. I've missed you guys. I am, of course, your host, Dylan Bowman.

And I'm happy to be back recording after a few weeks off. I was busy doing some other things,

but I am rested and rejuvenated in midseason form here in July of 2020. And today I am happy and proud to bring you a super fun conversation with

Sasha de Julian. Sasha is a professional climber by trade, but that is a very small part of

who she is. And for that reason, I really look up to her as being the embodiment or the personification

of what it means to be a modern professional athlete, particularly in non-traditional sport. She started

climbing at a very young age, and she's really blazed a unique path for herself since the time that she began climbing when she was but an infant in Washington, D.C.

She has since become a world champion. She's accomplished things that put her in the upper echelon of one of the

best who's ever done it. But she also is a Renaissance woman. She keeps herself very busy with other

activities, philanthropy, activism, media projects, many other things.

And Sasha, as a result, has built an enormous following.

She does a great job of lifting her sport to a new level and also being human and open and honest about the highs and lows that come with being a professional athlete,

taking on personal risk, dealing with injury, and things like that.

And we go into all that subject matter here.

Sasha and I only connected last week when we did an Instagram live with one of our mutual

sponsors, ProTech on her Instagram account.

You could probably find it there.

If you're interested in watching that, we talked about keeping ourselves healthy through

our mobility exercises with the help of pro tech.

And it was then that, yeah, Sasha and I decided to do a

podcast. And it was a true honor to get to know her a little bit better. And I think you guys

will grow to become great fans of her as well. As always, I appreciate you guys tuning in. If you do

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