Hey friends.

Thanks for checking back in.

My guest this week, Mr. Matt Walsh, my physical therapist.

Matt practices here in Portland, Oregon at Evolution, Healthcare, and Fitness,

one of the coolest holistic healthcare and training facilities you'll ever come across a place with amazing people

and practitioners who have supported me a ton since we moved here back in the fall.

And Matt was specifically a person that I found at a very low moment in my career,

a moment when I was really questioning my ability to ever get back to

true health and true fitness. It was a moment when I really just had lost all confidence in my

ankles and feet. And for those who follow me and have, you know, followed my career, you'll know that

ankle instability, ankle sprains have really been my Achilles heel in what has otherwise been

a relatively injury-free athletic career for which I am exceedingly grateful. But that was not the case last fall when I first got in touch with Matt.

And he really is one of the most critical people in terms of my ability to ultimately regain confidence in my body and health in my body again. As you'll hear, you know, at the time,

I was having this experience where when I was out running, my ankles would just roll and turn

and sprain seemingly out of nowhere and for inexplicable reasons, even on non-technical trails.

And it got to a point where I even asked Matt, as you'll hear in our interview,

of, you know, is this over for me?

Have I done too much damage to these ankles to the point where they're just not going to be

conducive to running trails anymore going forward,

which of course was a pretty daunting and terrifying prospect for me as somebody who derives

not only my living to a large degree, but also an immense amount of my joy from being out

running in the mountains. And it was under Matt's guidance

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