Hey, everyone. How is it going? Welcome to Pillars. Of course, I'm Dylan Bowman. Thank you so much for being here for another episode.

Today, it is my pleasure to welcome my good friend and fellow Portlander, Yacine de Boone, to the podcast.

As you'll hear, Yacine and I have been friends for a decade now, going back to our earliest

days in the sport.

And he has just been a hugely positive influence on me throughout my career.

He just has this palpable and contagious aura of good vibes that makes him just an awesome friend, coach, community leader, and ambassador

for the great sport of trail and ultra running.

But of course, as we all do, he's been through his personal battles as well, which we talk

a lot about in this conversation.

Yassine's story is quite a powerful one, moving from a very self-destructive period in his life,

filled with problems with addiction to drugs and alcohol and the self-sabotage that came with it to being almost 17 years sober now

and devoting his life in a lot of ways to giving back to the recovery community through his

experience with running. So we talk a lot about that. We talk about Yassine's personal life philosophies that have

rubbed off on me. We talk about his coaching and training business and what he's learned from that.

And we finish by talking about what he's excited about for the future. This was a good one.

I hope you guys do enjoy it before we cut to it. I just want to give you a friendly reminder to please go download and

subscribe to the Pillars app. We've got a lot of fun things going on right now. You may have

seen that we put up the Joshua Tree Traverse FKT video over on our YouTube channel just yesterday.

Go check that out. Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel as well.

That video has been up within the app for subscribers for about a week now. We also have a brand new

100K training plan that should be up within the app by the time you listen to this podcast.

And this week, we also have the pleasure of hosting physical

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