Welcome to the Salt Strong podcast, Disrupting Fishing Entertainment as you know it.

Prepare to laugh.

Prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way.

And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing.

Here's your host, Joe Simons, like diamonds.

Take three deep breaths when this happens.

Hey, everybody, Joe Simons, like diamonds, in a very calm and relaxed manner for this podcast. It's all about breathing.

Breathing, slow, breathing, deep breathing, intentional. So let me backtrack and tell you why I'm

doing this, hopefully short podcast. I have had a crazy number of people in the last 10 days or so

have reached out to me via text. I've talked to a couple people personally. I was in a C-12

meeting where it came up and the topic of this slow breathing has come up over and over again

in different ways on how it's helped people cope with

anxiety, panic attacks, like in the, like, meaning in the midst of it. I met with someone recently

just ran into them when an old friend hadn't seen a while and we're talking about how my

old video that I had posted on YouTube quite a few years ago now about

how I overcame anxiety without using drugs. And a big part of it was breathing. And they were

talking about how this really deep. And when I say deep, I don't mean like, like breathing and

slow just meaning deep within your, almost like within your belly.

It's more of like a belly breath.

So you're not actually like your lungs aren't, you know, expanding like that and doing

those real deep breaths like you would think before you would, you know, jump in a lake off

a diving board or something.

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