Welcome back to the Line Podcast, my name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, body, and movement.

In case the audio sounds any different in this introduction it's because I am

literally walking around barefoot in the jungle of Touloum and I'm on a little trip

and going away for the last two and a half weeks and I'm recording this

into a lapel mic I brought along. Lapel mic is just a little mic that you hook

onto your shirt or in this case it's wrapped around my neck and I'm out here. I'm in the jungle and we are recording the

podcast. This episode today was with my new friend and someone that I have respected

and even revered for many years, over a decade.

Stephen Pressfield is one of the most renowned writers

on the planet.

He is the author of the book, The War of Art, which is a seminal classic for any individual

that's interested in creating some type of meaningful creative work. If you're writing, if you're an artist, you're a

painter, you're a poet, anything of a sort, this book is one of the most important

books that you can possibly read. He's also the author of doing the work. He's the author of let's see here I got a

whole list of his books he's like he's prolific this guy gates of fire. Let's see here the

most recent book was a man at arms, which we get into in this conversation.

He's amazing.

And he's deeply philosophical, deeply thoughtful, and highly compassionate, humble individual.

So I'm very excited to share this conversation with you guys.

I think you're gonna get a lot of value out of it.

If you do, share with your friends, share with your family,

leave us for views, whatever you want to do to give back,

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