Hey, Nugget listeners. Before we dive into this episode, I want to talk a little bit about why I'm doing this new podcast and why I'm sharing the episodes here to my climbing audience. The simplest way of explaining it is that the Nugget just got even better. I've always been interested in health and nutrition, and I've always thought of the climbing journey

as a human being journey. I don't think we can become the best climbers we can be without being

thoughtful about the food we eat, the habits we perform every day in our normal lives, without having

healthy and supportive relationships, without training our minds and practicing mindfulness,

and so many other things that aren't directly a part of climbing

or training for climbing.

If you've enjoyed my episodes with Dave McLeod,

where he talks about his diet experiments,

or where we've talked about seed oils or nutrition research

and how messy and confusing it can be, or if you've

enjoyed my episodes with sports psychologists or physiotherapists or relationship therapists

or any of that stuff, I really think you're going to love my new show. There are a lot of people

who are not climbers and who don't work directly in the climbing

industry, who are incredibly knowledgeable, who have real world experience helping people

get healthier or perform better or live more fulfilling and rich lives.

Those are the people that I want to talk to.

It's the same thing I've always done.

I just wanted to give myself access

to guests who I wouldn't be able to have on a climbing specific show. So if you're interested,

not only in becoming a better climber, but also in becoming the best version of yourself

in many aspects of your life, in exploring new and different ways of thinking, and hearing

from people with a different

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