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We have an amazing guest today who's all over the bat. She is a professional boxer and

a model, which we're going to kind of get into

because it's kind of two opposite hands of the spectrum. Let's welcome to the podcast,

one, the only Avril Mathie. Avril, how are you doing? Good. Thank you. Thanks for having me.

I was very excited to talk to you today. What kind of got you into the whole boxing?

I mean, was it something you were always into?

Was it something you got into later?

How'd that begin?

Yeah, so I've always been really sporty in my whole life.

I played all the sports growing up.

But I was never like really good at anything.

Like I could play everything.

I'd always make the team, but I was never

like the best player on the team or like the, you know, on the best team or whatever.

But the thing I was best at actually was long distance running. And it's because with long

distance running, you don't really have to be fast, especially in like high school. You just have

to be the person that goes and goes and never gives up. That I can do it. I'm good at that. So as I got older, I realized, like, the individual sports are definitely

more my thing. And I was doing Muay Thai just for fitness in my 20s. And I, at one stage, broke my foot.

I threw a kick. And when I put my foot back on the ground,

I just like snapped the big toe off the foot somehow.

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