Hey everyone, welcome to the Peter Atia Drive. I'm your host, Peter Atia.

The drive is a result of my hunger for optimizing performance, health, longevity, critical thinking,

along with a few other obsessions along the way. I've spent the last several years working

with some of the most successful top performing individuals in the world, and this podcast

is my attempt to synthesize what I've learned along the way to help you live a higher quality

more fulfilling life. If you enjoy this podcast, you can find more information on today's

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Hey everybody, welcome to this week's episode of The Drive. I guess today is sort of me,

as you may recall, we launched this podcast with three episodes on July 2nd, 2018, and

the few weeks prior to that, we launched a special little sneak peak episode where I was

interviewed by my daughter, Olivia. So we figured there would be no better way to celebrate

the one year birthday of The Drive than with another interview by Olivia, as we talk about

the past year and some exciting things to come over the next 12 months. So I hope you enjoy

this little look back and look forward.

I'm going to start by asking the first question I asked a year ago. Does the world really need

another podcast? I mean, probably not. Someone told me that there are, and I could be wrong,

but like 500 new podcasts appear in the podcast store every week. That's a lot. Yeah, so I'm not

going to put you in the spot and make you calculate how many podcasts that is in the last year.

And by the way, it's probably more than 500. But anyway, no, the world does not need another

podcast. But I think that what we started out doing last year was a three month experiment.

And at the end of that 12 weeks or whatever it was, I was surprised by how much fun I had doing this.

I was surprised by the feedback we got from folks that said that they kind of dug it. And so

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