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hundreds of fans all around the world. It's the starting strength gyms podcast with your host, Ray Gillingwater.

Today we're here with Shelley Hancock Wells. You may have seen the episode I did with

Josh Wells. So this is Josh's wife.

She works at Starting Strength Houston.

She's been around Rip A Toe a long time as well.

She's been a starting strength coach for a while.

She is a lifelong athlete.

She's got some good stories this year. And she has a very unique perspective as a lifelong female athlete,

especially one that's around my age and the things that, you know, the cultural stuff that we

dealt with as children, especially women and kind of the negative expectations, I guess,

is the way to put it, that a society had on women, especially female

athletes. So I thought this topic was important because I by no means am connected to pop

culture in 2022, but I imagine there's still plenty of issues when it comes to society's pressures

on young people and especially women. And I remember seeing those issues firsthand

growing up. So Shelley, let's first define the problem. I mean, you were a ballerina when you were

young. You dealt with the unfair expectations of perfectionism. I imagine that came along with

some eating issues, some body image

issues, a bunch of negative stuff that it seems like you've overcome really well as an adult.

And now you're strong as hell. I'd actually like to start there. So what are your PRs? And then

let's talk about the problem that I mentioned. And I want to hear how you might define that.

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