Hey, everybody. Welcome to the well. As always, I'm super, super grateful to have you here. My name is Dylan Bowman,

and this week we're talking to the great Stephanie Howe. I'm sure Stephanie will need no introduction

for most of the people listening to this episode. She's obviously been a top ultra runner for a decade plus at this point

and has achieved some truly remarkable things in her career, including winning the legendary

Western States 100 mile endurance run, which she did in 2014, among many, many other amazing accolades and

accomplishments over the years. She's a teammate of mine at the North Face and a longtime friend

of Harmony and I, and through my friendship and relationship with her, I've known for a while that last year,

2019 was a year from hell for her, as it was for me in many ways. She endured an injury

and a surgery to her Achilles tendon as well as a divorce in her personal life and all the

obvious psychological and emotional pain associated with those experiences. So we spend much of this

episode discussing how this really terrible year of her life impacted her and how she feels she's emerged from the

experience a stronger and more resilient version of herself. And I think honestly, you will all

really appreciate her openness in talking about this difficult and personal subject matter.

And then, you know, leaving the negativity of 2019 in the past, Stephanie also very recently

announced that she's pregnant expecting a baby boy in the coming months. And so we also spend a lot of time

here talking about motherhood and what she's looking forward to in this incredibly exciting

new chapter of her life. And just to be honest with all you, we don't really talk a lot about

running at least, at least

directly in this episode.

And while I'd love to eventually go deep with Stephanie on her amazing career at some point,

we both agreed that it would be more interesting and more valuable to you all to instead

focus this conversation on the real stuff,

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