Hello, welcome to the show.

This is Emotional Badass, where Moxie Meets Mindful.

I'm your host, Nick Yisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist.

And I'm your co-host, Chris Ayacono, producer and producer.

And on today's episode, we're discussing the challenge retreat season two that we both participated in.

And why doing hard things helps us grow?

If you can see us, we are wearing our challenge retreat yellow shirts.

You can see that I am team purple, Chris's team green.

And we're going to tell you what we did.

And I think the funnest part about this is we had a lot of reasons that we could have not gone to this. Your dad died a few weeks before this. That's a lot of traveling for us to do and then go do a trip and keep up with our production schedule and all of our work. We've basically had no downtime the last six weeks. Yes. And this was much needed. And so glad we ended up following through with it and going and it was the best experience

of my life.

Yay.

Really was.

This was amazing.

So I'm really excited to share it.

And if you ever have a chance to do anything that Emily Schram hosts, please take the opportunity.

She really is a magical person and she pulls together magical people.

Yeah, quick high level overview of the whole thing. This is a wellness retreat plus physical challenge run by Emily Schramm, who is a former cast member of the MTV show, The Challenge. I think I don't know how many seasons she's been on.

There's 40 something seasons of this show. This show has been on all of our adult lives, basically. Yeah, and we've

never seen it. So we had really no idea what to expect, but Emily was on the show for a bunch of

different seasons and decided to put together the challenge retreat, which is open to the public. You have to sign up

for it and go and do it. And that's really all we knew going into this thing, that it was going to be

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