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Episode 65 - With Laura O'Reilly (Part 3) · Tom's Hirschsprung's Podcast

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Speaker 1: You are listening to Tom's Hirshprun's podcast, where I provide
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Speaker 1: a look into the remarkable experiences of the most inspiring
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Speaker 1: people around Hirshprung's disease and sports. Hello and welcome to
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Speaker 1: episode sixty five of Tom's Hirsprunks podcast. I am delighted
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Speaker 1: to welcome back my first ever three time guest, Laura. Laura,
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Speaker 1: welcome back.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. It's so good to be back. Like three times,
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Speaker 2: You'll be thinking I do not speak about but I
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Speaker 2: always do.
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Speaker 1: Oh you do, you definitely do. No, we we have.
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Speaker 1: And anybody who hasn't listened to episode or your first
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Speaker 1: episode and which was episode seventeen, and then your second
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Speaker 1: episode with you and Dan, which was episode thir T
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Speaker 1: three thirty four, sorry, Yeah, really really interesting story. So
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Speaker 1: if you haven't listened to those, go and listen to
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Speaker 1: those that really really interested about your your fitness journey
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Speaker 1: or IBT journey. But we're not necessarily here to talk
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Speaker 1: about your whole story because we've done that before. We're
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Speaker 1: here to talk about a little bit about an event
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Speaker 1: that you've just competed in. Yeah, you've finished last week
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Speaker 1: as we sit here now, and we're also going to
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about a company that you've been
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Speaker 1: seen as an ambassador, contributing founder. I can't remember how
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Speaker 1: they worded it, something like that. Yeah, and then a
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Speaker 1: couple of other things that we'll leave for later in
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Speaker 1: the episode as well. But if we start, I guess
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Speaker 1: from last last weekend.
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Speaker 2: Last yeah, this day, this time, last week.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, as we sit here in the middle of March.
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Speaker 1: Obviously everybody else will be listening to this a little
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Speaker 1: bit later, but yeah, so sort of beginning of March,
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Speaker 1: would you like to tell everybody about that event?
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So basically my coach is an IBD fitness coach,
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Speaker 2: so all of his clients have IBD, so we basically
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Speaker 2: are all in the same boat or shut storm excuse
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Speaker 2: the French, but you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: I was all right, you're fined to swear on here,
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Speaker 1: it's called good.
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Speaker 2: So we all have the exact same challenges. So basically
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Speaker 2: everyone in the group. Dan created this event like as
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Speaker 2: an opportunity for all of us to meet up in
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Speaker 2: London last weekend, so it's been planet It was planned
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Speaker 2: for like months in advance. I'm obviously in Ireland, but
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Speaker 2: majority of his clients are the guests are English, are British,
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Speaker 2: so it made more sense. And I mean it's only
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Speaker 2: an hour on the flight for me, it's no big deal.
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Speaker 2: I probably travel less than some of them, you know.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, So it was like a weekend event in London.
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Speaker 2: It was gym based for the Saturday. So Friday was
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Speaker 2: just like meeting everybody and we just kind of had
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Speaker 2: a few drinks and well it was late evening anyway,
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Speaker 2: so it was a very quick kind of made up.
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Speaker 2: But it was lovely because you chat to so many
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Speaker 2: people online, like online is amazing, but to actually go
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Speaker 2: like to meet them in person is crazy. And like
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Speaker 2: I sparked up so many friendships whinin the group, like
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Speaker 2: even more on a personal level, you know, Like, so
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Speaker 2: just to meet them in person is just was just
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Speaker 2: so exciting. It was lovely. So then on Saturday more
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Speaker 2: it was upperly breakfast go to the gym event which
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Speaker 2: was in It was called Gym Box. So the gym's
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Speaker 2: in the UK actually a Mayad, not even London, Like
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Speaker 2: I feel like I'm stuck in the sticks with my
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Speaker 2: gym versus the gym's in the UK, like they're amazing.
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Speaker 2: So I was like a kid in a candy shop, like,
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Speaker 2: if you can imagine my energy now, Tom, I was like,
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Speaker 2: PA wasn't. So then yeah, everybody met at the gym.
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Speaker 2: Really cool. The energy was just really amazing, like everyone
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Speaker 2: was in such good form. Nobody kind of knew what
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Speaker 2: to expect because he kept a lot of the details
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Speaker 2: to himself, which is fair enough, so there was nerves like,
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Speaker 2: oh my god, what's going to happen? Blah blah blah.
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Speaker 2: So we all got our kind of t shirts, went off,
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Speaker 2: got changed, We went into like a studio room for
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Speaker 2: for like an hour, and that in itself was just
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Speaker 2: lovely to get to know people because he done like
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Speaker 2: the whole icebreaker thing or like stand up speak about yourself,
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Speaker 2: where you're at and that kind of thing. So it
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Speaker 2: was really interesting to know more about people, I suppose
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Speaker 2: because you don't really get that online a suchgy it
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Speaker 2: was just always just a quick chat, so that was
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Speaker 2: really nice. Then we did like a quiz. It was
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Speaker 2: like a mister fact about like all about fitness. So
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Speaker 2: it was really funny because some obvious things you'd be
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Speaker 2: like second guessing yourself, so people were like going to
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Speaker 2: the left of the rumor to the right for like
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Speaker 2: true or falls, and yeah, it was just really funny.
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Speaker 2: And then what do we do after that? So all
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Speaker 2: Dan spoke a lot on like just fitness terminology, you know, metabolism,
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Speaker 2: all that kind of interest and stuff, got really cool pictures.
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Speaker 2: He actually even had a photographer there, so it was
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Speaker 2: it was like it was planned really well. And then
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Speaker 2: when we'd done that, we went down to the gym floor.
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Speaker 2: So he'd set up like he'd split us all up
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Speaker 2: into teams and the challenges were so see who could
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Speaker 2: dead hang the longest, which was one.
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Speaker 1: Yes, see a few videos on Instagram about that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And I would be pretty competitive in my
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Speaker 3: own head, so like one of the guys Ross was
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Speaker 3: all week like just tormenting me, like you know, you
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Speaker 3: don't have a hope, blah blah blah, and I'm like, right,
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Speaker 3: I need to like make myself known here.
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Speaker 2: But no, he did win me by ten seconds, so
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Speaker 2: I was like human, So I think he got like
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Speaker 2: two minutes and one second. I was like one minute
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Speaker 2: fifty one or something like that.
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Speaker 1: Long time. Yeah, and for anybody who's who's on, I
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Speaker 1: guess I'm sure about that. It's just hanging from gim bar.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it basically yeah, just your body right, and then
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Speaker 2: oh my god, the assault bike. Have you ever been
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Speaker 2: on one?
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Speaker 1: I have not.
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Speaker 2: No, don't do it, okay, I hit twice. Nobody to
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Speaker 2: do the assault bike. So it was basically to burn
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Speaker 2: thirty calories in the fastest time we might meet Bobby
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Speaker 2: and Libby, so that was my team. We said, do
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Speaker 2: you know what, Let's do that first because that's the worst. Now.
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Speaker 2: The other two guys hadn't been on it either, so
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Speaker 2: I was like, right, I'll go first. Oh my gosh,
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Speaker 2: so obviously, God it's done nearly full off the bike
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Speaker 2: in a weakness like it's horrendous, Like it's just disgusting exercise.
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Speaker 2: It takes everybody, Like my chest tightened off. I was like,
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Speaker 2: what the hell is going on? I thought I was
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Speaker 2: going to vomit at one point, but they're all very
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Speaker 2: common things to feel our to the assault bike. It's
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Speaker 2: basically the name like it assaults you. So we got that.
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Speaker 2: And then it was a chest press, so it was
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Speaker 2: to see how many reps you could do on a
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Speaker 2: certain weight for men versus women. And then the last
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Speaker 2: one was a one arm deadlift. So it's just like
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Speaker 2: covering over the bar and adding the weight and see
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Speaker 2: however you could go. So I got to fifty five kg,
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Speaker 2: which felt good, like lift him at one arm, I
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Speaker 2: was like, okay, not doing too bad. The minute I
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Speaker 2: got to sixty it wouldn't move, So I was like, okay,
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Speaker 2: that's me.
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Speaker 1: You know where you are, you know you were.
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Speaker 2: But that was amazing the energy in that one because
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Speaker 2: one of the guys really pushed himself and you know,
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Speaker 2: one of the people that don't think they can do something,
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Speaker 2: and it was just like the spurring on of the
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Speaker 2: team going like you can do it, like you can
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Speaker 2: do this, and he did it, and he smashed like
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Speaker 2: one hundred and ten kg one arm deadlift, and it
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Speaker 2: was just like the masses of celebrations in the gym.
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Speaker 2: I'd say, everybody else in the gym are like what
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Speaker 2: in the name of God is the scroup doing? But
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Speaker 2: it was just amazing. Then we all went for food
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Speaker 2: and everyone had the most amazing time, like you know,
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Speaker 2: all the girls got pictures and we were just hanging out.
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Speaker 2: And then that evening we all went for like a
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Speaker 2: team dinner and one or two drinks and we were
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Speaker 2: all exhausted, so and everybody was traveling back early Sunday morning.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, that was the event, and I just think
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Speaker 2: like Dan was really taken back by how amazing it went,
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Speaker 2: and everybody's like, when's the next one? When's the next one?
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Speaker 2: So I think he's under pressure now.
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Speaker 1: He's going to out do himself. They can't just do
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Speaker 1: the side things.
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Speaker 2: He's going to have to take it to the next level.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, like it's it's it's amazing. I was sad
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Speaker 2: to go though, because obviously I've made some really good
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Speaker 2: friends and because they don't live over there, it's you know,
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Speaker 2: I get over and back as much as they can,
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Speaker 2: but it's always lovely to meet them. M hm.
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Speaker 1: So that was.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the gym event, and like he sent
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Speaker 4: you all the professional pictures from the photographer and it
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Speaker 4: was just it was done perfectly, like it was a
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Speaker 4: lot of effort went into it, but it paid off.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's buzzing, you know.
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Speaker 1: So absolutely. And I think you touched on the point
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Speaker 1: there where you talked about meeting people and it's it's
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Speaker 1: really different meeting people in real life as such and
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Speaker 1: the people that you constantly chat online. I know I
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Speaker 1: had a similar experience last month at the Hirshprung's conference.
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Speaker 1: So people have you have Facebook messaged or in Instagram's
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Speaker 1: DM or whatever, and then you you kind of and
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Speaker 1: you all get together in real life. It is it is,
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Speaker 1: it's different, but it's it's it's one. And imagine you
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Speaker 1: had the similar experience.
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Speaker 2: Honestly, Like it's so nice to see to meet people
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Speaker 2: in person. Like obviously I had made a few prior,
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Speaker 2: but there was others that I'd never met, and you
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Speaker 2: get a sense for their persona I guess from just
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Speaker 2: being online, but you can't beat the in person catch
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Speaker 2: up like really like amazing, amazing. Yeah, And I just
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Speaker 2: think you can like speak a little bit more about
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Speaker 2: your own condition and your own journey as well, And
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Speaker 2: it's just it's just so inspiring because you never hear
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Speaker 2: the finer details as much as you would in person,
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Speaker 2: you know, so no.
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Speaker 1: There's only so much you can send in a text.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like even so much as sitting down having food
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Speaker 2: after the event. It was like, oh, oh I love that,
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Speaker 2: but I can eat that because of my stupid disease.
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Speaker 2: And you know these kinds like just billy things was
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Speaker 2: so watch in common.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that sounds that sounds excellent. And so how
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Speaker 1: many people roughly were there, because I suppose you.
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Speaker 2: I think it was was it fifteen twelve or fifteen maybe,
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Speaker 2: And a lot of the guys is probably really easy
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Speaker 2: access for them to get into London because they would
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Speaker 2: live probably like a tube. Right away, we won't even
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Speaker 2: speak about the tubes because me from little low Cark,
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Speaker 2: who have won train around the whole country, nearly lost
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Speaker 2: my life really difficult. And then like I was midway
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Speaker 2: on the train and the next stop was like canceled,
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Speaker 2: So I'm like, what the hell do I do? I
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Speaker 2: really felt like Dora like honestly, but I did it.
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Speaker 2: I survived, he.
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Speaker 1: Got there and back. Yeah, So with the event itself,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned quite a few different things that you did.
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Speaker 1: So they sort of set out as lots of different
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Speaker 1: stations and you just kind of went round and did
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Speaker 1: them all. Is that kind of artworked? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: And luckily enough actually everything was almost like in a triangle,
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Speaker 2: so we were all within like arms reach you could say,
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Speaker 2: from the next station. Almost The way it worked out
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Speaker 2: was actually perfect. I don't think it was intended to
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Speaker 2: work out that way, but it just did. So it
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Speaker 2: was really handy. So like I could be standing here
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Speaker 2: doing something and I can see like Vicky ready to
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Speaker 2: lift the one arm deadlift, and you'd be like, go on, Vicky,
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Speaker 2: you know. And not to mention how crazy the gym was,
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Speaker 2: like the machines were just like I just don't have
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Speaker 2: them here. So for me, I was in my absolute element.
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Speaker 2: I could have stayed there the entire day. There was
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Speaker 2: a boxing ring right in the middle of the gym.
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Speaker 1: Okay, just have a good fight if things go wrong, like.
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Speaker 2: You know, the gloves were there to be taken. It
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Speaker 2: was just it was incredible. I'll never forget it, Like
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Speaker 2: it was so cool.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's brilliant. And I know you mentioned as well
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Speaker 1: as well as meeting people that that sense of community
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Speaker 1: as well, because it's again different online communities. Great, fantastic, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: lots of people involved, like they involved with a lot
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Speaker 1: of Hirschbrung's you know communities and speech people all the
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Speaker 1: time that to have sort of be amongst people that
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Speaker 1: are not just all really into fitness but all have
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Speaker 1: Was it all IBD as well or is it?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so has ABD. But as you said, like it
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Speaker 2: really is like you know, the diseases, the disease but
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Speaker 2: there's so many different we all had so many different
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Speaker 2: or we'd be all at so many different levels within
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Speaker 2: the disease. Like one of the girls had recovered from
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Speaker 2: surgery and she's backsmashing it and like did a deadlife
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Speaker 2: pr in front of everybody. So it's just and your
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Speaker 2: two guys had like stormas and one of them had
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Speaker 2: a support belt with them, but the other one like
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Speaker 2: would have really benefited from the support belt because they
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Speaker 2: were trying to do a different exercise, So it was like,
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Speaker 2: can I borrow that? And just lovely, like just so
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Speaker 2: so lovely, you know.
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Speaker 1: I guess as well. You learn from each other as well.
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Speaker 1: Being there, you just like, oh how you do it
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Speaker 1: that way, and oh maybe I'll try this, and you
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Speaker 1: try that and whatever, and kind of you pick up
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Speaker 1: so much just by being with other people and just
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Speaker 1: watching other people. I find Yeah, just.
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Speaker 2: By being there, absolutely yeah, And it's like bouncing opinions
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Speaker 2: off each other, and you know, as you said, like
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Speaker 2: just watching how someone else does something. Like Dan did
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Speaker 2: a few demos on like exercises that people asked, you know,
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Speaker 2: cause you show me like in person and blah blah blah,
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Speaker 2: and really interesting. It was so good, like really like
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Speaker 2: it was a lot of fun, but it was very
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Speaker 2: informative as well. So yeah, really.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely no, that's absolutely fantastic. And as well as the event,
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Speaker 1: the gym event that that's something else that's happened as
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Speaker 1: well is that you are also a contributing founder. If
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Speaker 1: I've got that work, that's great of a new company
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Speaker 1: called Laurie. Would you like to explain how or what
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Speaker 1: they do and of how you became a contributing founder.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So Laurie is in the process of being like
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Speaker 2: fully established within the chronic illness world and basically it's
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Speaker 2: an amazing couple or a sama. So the lady in
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Speaker 2: the couple has multiple sources, so she is MS and
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Speaker 2: her struggle like obviously knocked her a lot, like all
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Speaker 2: of us, you know, when we're hit with something, it's
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Speaker 2: trying to navigate and what works for you, and you know,
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Speaker 2: everybody ideally would love to take less medication and focus
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Speaker 2: more on building habits and changing up your lifestyle to
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Speaker 2: kind of enhance how you can navigate and live as
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Speaker 2: much of a normal life as possible, you know, without
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Speaker 2: depending on meds. So her husband is very very much
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Speaker 2: in it with her, which is lovely, and they so
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Speaker 2: she obviously suffered her own challenges and made lifestyle choices
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Speaker 2: as well, very much so within like wellness, and I
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Speaker 2: think she mentioned like a lot of holistic approaches and
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Speaker 2: all that kind of thing. So they I think they
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Speaker 2: were just fighting and fighting for so long that they
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Speaker 2: were like, right, you know, wouldn't it be amazing to
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Speaker 2: build a platform of people with different chronic illnesses our
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Speaker 2: autoimmune conditions where someone newly diagnosed, for example, like there's
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Speaker 2: been a lot of research and I can vouch for it.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you can toot on, but like
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Speaker 2: when you're when you're newly diagnosed with something, you're almost
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Speaker 2: handed medication, You're handed leaflets and just total crack on
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Speaker 2: without the support of like maybe you know, more mental
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Speaker 2: health support, more access to like dietitians, nutritionists, you know,
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Speaker 2: when it's digestive diseases, like I had nothing, I'd know
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Speaker 2: support like that. Like I definitely definitely can say that
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Speaker 2: I had to fend a lot for myself, Like my
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Speaker 2: team are amazing, and I speak very highly about my
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Speaker 2: own IVD team, but they're amazing for just medicating me basically.
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Speaker 2: Anything beyond that is solely down to me, and I
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Speaker 2: had no one. I didn't even know what the disease was.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know there was an onlink, you know. I
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Speaker 2: didn't know a lot of stuff. So basically what they're
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Speaker 2: trying to do is create a platform. So the app
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Speaker 2: isn't launched soon, but it's near. It's so close to
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Speaker 2: being launched it's amazing. So there's a couple of founding contributors,
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Speaker 2: so myself and a few others with different autoimmune conditions.
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Speaker 2: So we basically build a profile. So I can add
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Speaker 2: to my profile what I'm about, what has helped me.
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Speaker 2: I can add links to my profile to take you
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Speaker 2: to instant information. I can offer my advice on my
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Speaker 2: own journey. They can connect, react like, and just really like.
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Speaker 2: For example, okay, so my my the way I navigate
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Speaker 2: IBD is now is all based around my lifestyle and
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Speaker 2: my habits. So if they went into my profile, just say, like,
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Speaker 2: for argument's sake, at the top of my profile, I
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Speaker 2: might showcase more that I'm into, like a healthy lifestyle
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Speaker 2: and nutrition, fitness, that kind of thing, So they could
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Speaker 2: go she might be quite similar to me, or like
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Speaker 2: I like the look of that. They can type in
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Speaker 2: like key search words into my profile to like find
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Speaker 2: information really quickly. So like I'd obviously have a lot
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Speaker 2: in there about medication. I was on all of that.
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Speaker 2: So it's basically going to be a personal profile dedicated
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Speaker 2: to what you have been through. I guess what you
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Speaker 2: represent and how you can maybe support somebody that's newly diagnosed.
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Speaker 1: Sounds great.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing because obviously we all take different routes
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Speaker 2: and we all work with it quite different, So it's
21:01
Speaker 2: nice to have a few different takes on things and
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Speaker 2: different our immune conditions. So I think this that's their
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Speaker 2: initial setup is to get that off the ground and
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Speaker 2: get people connecting and all that kind of stuff, and
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Speaker 2: then I believe that they're going to just expand and
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Speaker 2: grow with more conditions and all that kind of thing,
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Speaker 2: you know. So like we do we do a group
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Speaker 2: a team kind of call the last Wednesday of every month,
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Speaker 2: and it's basically the two guys filling us in on
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Speaker 2: their progress. Like they work really hard in the background,
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Speaker 2: like who they're networking with and how their growth is
21:51
Speaker 2: going is planned to perfection. Like they're really business focused
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Speaker 2: and deeducated and like just really they know what they're doing,
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Speaker 2: and I really hope it takes off, because I do
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Speaker 2: genuinely believe it's something that I could have done with
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Speaker 2: so much along with everybody else that maybe have an illness.
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Speaker 2: And it's not just for newly diagnored. It could be
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Speaker 2: for anybody. You know, you could have ease ten years
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Speaker 2: and just go all you know. Yeah, So yeah, it's
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Speaker 2: really really interesting. So I'm loving being part of it.
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Speaker 2: Like it's a nice group, really.
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Speaker 1: Nice that sounds brilliant, that sounds excellent. And the very
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Speaker 1: sort of brief chat I've had with both of them,
22:34
Speaker 1: they both seem incredibly dedicated to really making this work.
22:39
Speaker 1: I think it's it's something that I think is really
22:45
Speaker 1: really needed because trying to find information if anybody has
22:48
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously if you have a chronic illness, you
22:51
Speaker 1: try and find out as much as you can for
22:53
Speaker 1: some people, and to have that all in one place
22:59
Speaker 1: near enough, it's just I mean, that's going to save
23:02
Speaker 1: so much time and hassle.
23:04
Speaker 2: Rather the time than hassle exactly.
23:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, rather than trolling the internet, trolling Instagram sharing to
23:11
Speaker 1: find people, trying to find what they do, trying to
23:13
Speaker 1: find this that or the other, and.
23:15
Speaker 2: It's more personal, isn't it Versus a Google search where
23:18
Speaker 2: you can speak to somebody who's kind of almost walked
23:21
Speaker 2: the walk and can offer some sort of advice or comforter.
23:25
Speaker 2: You know, it's very isolating to be left hanging with
23:27
Speaker 2: a chronic illness, regardless of what it is. So it's
23:31
Speaker 2: nice to have a person versus just Google, you know. Yeah.
23:36
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's it's amazing, Like I'm really excited for them.
23:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's interesting that they're adding I know, and
23:44
Speaker 1: when I spoke to them, they said they have plans
23:47
Speaker 1: in the future to act other conditions. Obviously, you can't
23:50
Speaker 1: have every chronic condition because yeah, wise you be talking
23:55
Speaker 1: thousands of people. But yeah, I think they've got what
23:59
Speaker 1: I probably class as the main ones. I don't know
24:03
Speaker 1: if that's the right term, but yeah, yeah, the more
24:08
Speaker 1: the more common ones. So when I sort of said
24:11
Speaker 1: about Hirshprungs, they were like, what the hell is that?
24:15
Speaker 1: But it's like a lot of people do what I
24:17
Speaker 1: meant to know.
24:18
Speaker 2: That's also a positive thing, though, is ansh Because you
24:21
Speaker 2: bring so much hirst Sprungs to your own channel that
24:25
Speaker 2: it actually educates the lakes of me who wouldn't have
24:27
Speaker 2: known what it was those guys, you know. So it's
24:30
Speaker 2: old food for Todd. It's like it's just like a circle,
24:33
Speaker 2: really is ash.
24:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, the same thing I do with this podcast. Really,
24:38
Speaker 1: if you want to find Hirshprung stories, this is the
24:42
Speaker 1: place with I think it's whatever it is, fifty five
24:46
Speaker 1: I think out of the seventy odd I've done are hirshprungs.
24:50
Speaker 1: So this is the place to find Hirshprung stories in
24:55
Speaker 1: the same way that that app will be for other
24:59
Speaker 1: various chronicle This is colitus, ulcerative colitis, crones, et cetera.
25:04
Speaker 1: And now I wish them the very best for that
25:07
Speaker 1: because that sounds that sounds amazing. It's great that you
25:10
Speaker 1: you also have meet ups every month because I know
25:14
Speaker 1: that there are some some parts that I've been involved
25:18
Speaker 1: with where you kind of you start being involved with
25:23
Speaker 1: certain companies and people and then you kind of do
25:26
Speaker 1: your own thing and you maybe don't come together that
25:29
Speaker 1: oft them. So to have something once a month where
25:33
Speaker 1: they can update you presusually you can give ideas as
25:37
Speaker 1: well absolutely of what you want to see, what you've
25:40
Speaker 1: heard back from you know, your community and whatever. I
25:46
Speaker 1: mean that is that sort of done like a two
25:49
Speaker 1: way thing.
25:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, like they'll showcase this so that I think
25:54
Speaker 2: it was a rundown on what's been done said the
25:56
Speaker 2: previous month, what they've been working on. At the end,
26:00
Speaker 2: obviously we all have questions or you know, ideas to
26:04
Speaker 2: put forward or something. They're very much work of us
26:10
Speaker 2: as well, you know, providing more information, our links, our ideas,
26:16
Speaker 2: which is nice because they're very involving. You know, we
26:22
Speaker 2: don't just sit there and listen and whatever. Like they
26:26
Speaker 2: take everything on board. They actually put everything in place.
26:31
Speaker 2: There are two people that I would consider who are
26:35
Speaker 2: going to be extremely successful, Like their business Drives is incredible,
26:41
Speaker 2: very professional, very focused and yeah, they're in it now
26:47
Speaker 2: and I think very soon it should land, so that
26:50
Speaker 2: will be amazing. Yeah.
26:52
Speaker 1: No, we will definitely share when it does. Yeah, and
26:56
Speaker 1: so people can can find that and follow that. They're
26:59
Speaker 1: giving you sort of a rough ish time frame is
27:02
Speaker 1: to the next few months or so, I know, I.
27:05
Speaker 2: Think sooner, Like I'm gonna say, probably before the end
27:09
Speaker 2: of the month.
27:10
Speaker 1: So by the time this podcast is out, then I reckon.
27:13
Speaker 2: I reckon, so yeah, yeah, I do reckon. So so
27:16
Speaker 2: we have a meeting with them at the end the
27:18
Speaker 2: last Wednesday of the month, so it could quite possibly
27:21
Speaker 2: be just after that. I'm thinking, you know, so, yeah,
27:26
Speaker 2: the sooner the better for them. Obviously they've been working
27:30
Speaker 2: sworage like so I can just sense the amount of
27:34
Speaker 2: work and effort they're putting into this. So it's it's
27:37
Speaker 2: it's really cool. And they don't just drop in and
27:40
Speaker 2: then go off for a month like they keep in
27:42
Speaker 2: contact and m it's so interesting.
27:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, that can be tough to do as well, because
27:49
Speaker 1: when you when you're so engrossed in doing stuff, you
27:52
Speaker 1: can go into your own bubble and ciget that actually
27:56
Speaker 1: you've got all these people to inform and whatever. So
27:59
Speaker 1: that's that's really really good that they keep everybody up
28:01
Speaker 1: to day.
28:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it is. It's amazing, amazing. I'm really really
28:06
Speaker 2: glad to be hurt of it actually, to be honest.
28:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, no, I wish them, wish them all the
28:11
Speaker 1: success with that, and hopefully i'll speak to them when
28:14
Speaker 1: the is out. And yeah, and yes.
28:19
Speaker 2: Hirsh rooms on the map.
28:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying to get it everywhere you are. You are,
28:25
Speaker 1: we can see that literally literally everywhere. I'm trying to
28:30
Speaker 1: make people aware off.
28:31
Speaker 2: You're going to have to get yourself some merch.
28:34
Speaker 1: Well, I'm on the case with that. It is, it is,
28:37
Speaker 1: it is hopefully hopefully coming at some point. But yeah,
28:44
Speaker 1: I'm on the case. But yeah, well we'll see you
28:46
Speaker 1: with that.
28:50
Speaker 2: Now.
28:50
Speaker 1: One one final thing that I wanted to chat to
28:52
Speaker 1: you about is your new venture. I guess we'll call.
28:59
Speaker 2: It venture for sure.
29:01
Speaker 1: Yes, well new, but something you've been doing for a while,
29:06
Speaker 1: so new, I guess we'll call it new ish.
29:10
Speaker 2: New reproach ish.
29:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, so something that, yeah, very recently, something that
29:17
Speaker 1: you've embarked on a big passion of yours. Would you
29:22
Speaker 1: like to explain kind of how this came about? And yeah,
29:26
Speaker 1: what's sort of going on at the moment.
29:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, first and foremost, let's remember that I
29:33
Speaker 2: never had any interesting fitness on my lethe until I
29:37
Speaker 2: got ill. That's changed. That's plit the switch for me,
29:41
Speaker 2: and I can honestly say my life has changed tenfolds.
29:48
Speaker 2: I've never looked back and the rest is history. So
29:52
Speaker 2: this leads me to my passion for fitness is huge.
29:58
Speaker 2: And to watch everybody, even within within the team I'm
30:03
Speaker 2: in at the moment, to watch everybody and just support
30:07
Speaker 2: everybody and to just have like to see people thrive
30:12
Speaker 2: just makes my heart so happy, like it excites me.
30:15
Speaker 2: So it got to a point where I was like,
30:18
Speaker 2: I would love nothing more in a lifetime to be
30:22
Speaker 2: the person behind pushing somebody else to be their best.
30:27
Speaker 2: And that's take my own journey into an account into
30:30
Speaker 2: account because I never did a thing and I didn't
30:34
Speaker 2: know where to start. I didn't know what to do.
30:37
Speaker 2: I had no confidence, I was sick, I was exhausted,
30:42
Speaker 2: like I just had none of those amazing things that
30:44
Speaker 2: I have now so a good A few months ago
30:48
Speaker 2: I thought about it, I was like, you know, it's
30:51
Speaker 2: literally I just I just live it like every day.
30:55
Speaker 2: I if I'm not online, recent are looking at exercise videos,
31:03
Speaker 2: I'm reading about nutrition, I'm learning about my body. Like
31:07
Speaker 2: it just became a daily thing. I knew that I
31:12
Speaker 2: wasn't just the person that went to the gym and
31:14
Speaker 2: forgot about it until three days later in might crack
31:17
Speaker 2: on and do some more. It was just a little
31:19
Speaker 2: bit different for me, like something really clicked and hit
31:22
Speaker 2: home and it made me go, right, you know what,
31:27
Speaker 2: I'm forever the one motivating and speaking positive and you know,
31:33
Speaker 2: preaching that people should always do what they want to
31:35
Speaker 2: do and chase your dreams. It's never too late, you know,
31:39
Speaker 2: push beyond your limits. All these amazing things. I'm like,
31:43
Speaker 2: I've glutton for it. I just love driving positivity, you know.
31:49
Speaker 2: So I was like, do you know what I'm going
31:51
Speaker 2: to I'm going to become a coach. And yeah, it's scary. Obviously,
32:00
Speaker 2: I'm two and a half years in now. I learn
32:04
Speaker 2: a lot. I make sure I learn a lot. I'm
32:06
Speaker 2: always learning. I want to get the most out of
32:11
Speaker 2: every single workout I do. I put so much effort
32:15
Speaker 2: into it. I put so much into what I eat,
32:20
Speaker 2: what I feel my body with and just understanding how
32:23
Speaker 2: the body even works. So anyway, I kind of rambled there. Sorry.
32:28
Speaker 2: So I took it upon myself research companies in Ireland
32:32
Speaker 2: that were like really reputable. I wanted to do the
32:39
Speaker 2: highest level of coaching or training that I could possibly
32:43
Speaker 2: do in a period of time, not rush or anything.
32:47
Speaker 2: It's all very I'm very much to take my time
32:49
Speaker 2: type person and you know, make sure I'm doing everything right.
32:52
Speaker 2: So I signed up with Apex there personal training company
32:58
Speaker 2: in Ireland. Very all will be internationally recognized. So I'll
33:04
Speaker 2: do my diploma on level four and five, which is
33:08
Speaker 2: the highest I can go in terms of becoming a coach.
33:11
Speaker 2: After that, I'll enhance that by doing performance nutrition. But
33:16
Speaker 2: I don't want to get carried away. I just want
33:17
Speaker 2: to nail the first one first. So I'm bank smack
33:20
Speaker 2: in the middle of doing that at the moment. And
33:25
Speaker 2: you know the way like sometimes you might sign up
33:27
Speaker 2: to something and I was like watching Netflix, you know Midwoods.
33:31
Speaker 2: You're like, as not for me, I'm gonna switch it off.
33:35
Speaker 2: From the minute I logged into my account and saw
33:39
Speaker 2: my modules, I was just like, yeah, I've done the
33:45
Speaker 2: right thing. I've made the right decision. Very I will
33:49
Speaker 2: say it's been very hard in terms of like what
33:51
Speaker 2: I've had to learn. You know the way you just think, oh,
33:55
Speaker 2: just go to the gym. Your coach will give you
33:57
Speaker 2: a plan, and like you're our Tom your coach, aren't you.
34:02
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was worked in professional cricket for a decade
34:05
Speaker 1: and that worked from home. Yeah, so you was be
34:08
Speaker 1: a teacher for a decade.
34:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're more than experienced and probably know what
34:13
Speaker 2: I'm on about when you know when to starting all.
34:18
Speaker 2: But yeah, so I'm like knee deep now in the
34:21
Speaker 2: middle of the course, I'll be hoping to have it
34:24
Speaker 2: completed in I want to say, may I got to
34:28
Speaker 2: go to Dublin for two weekends and do an in
34:33
Speaker 2: house kind of training for one weekend, and then my
34:36
Speaker 2: exams will be the following weekend. And then you see
34:41
Speaker 2: me make myself very known online. For me like it's
34:48
Speaker 2: it's not obviously my full time job or anything like that.
34:52
Speaker 2: I just get so much excitement and energy from seeing
34:58
Speaker 2: people come back from horrible like isolate and lonely situations
35:04
Speaker 2: like a chronic illness. So I think I'm really excited. Obviously.
35:11
Speaker 2: I don't harp on about it too much at the
35:13
Speaker 2: moment because I've not I'm not qualified. But what I
35:16
Speaker 2: did do myself in January very privately, nothing to showcase about, nothing,
35:27
Speaker 2: I don't need to make anything public. It's just me
35:31
Speaker 2: and three three girls that just put their little bit
35:35
Speaker 2: of confidence in me. It gives me a little bit
35:38
Speaker 2: of experience. I'm not out there saying I'm a coach.
35:42
Speaker 2: To look at me, I'm doing this for these girls.
35:45
Speaker 2: I'm not doing that at all. It's just basically a
35:48
Speaker 2: little test run for me. You could say, can I
35:52
Speaker 2: switch up mindsets? Can I, you know, relate my passion
35:56
Speaker 2: onto people. The only benefit that I want to get
36:01
Speaker 2: out of this, like training these three girls, is for
36:07
Speaker 2: them to make lifestyle changes for me to make sure
36:11
Speaker 2: it's what I want to do, and to just make
36:16
Speaker 2: sure that I love it, you know, and that they're
36:18
Speaker 2: enjoying it, and that like I can learn from listening
36:21
Speaker 2: to other people as well. So these three girls are
36:26
Speaker 2: so we're like ten or eleven weeks in now they're
36:31
Speaker 2: like one is down five kg, one is down four kg.
36:34
Speaker 2: One has built savage strength, body compositions, changing all their
36:39
Speaker 2: daily lifestyle changes have massively improved. So I'm not going
36:46
Speaker 2: to say I'm not going to sit here and say
36:47
Speaker 2: I'm coaching without a qualification, because I'm not. But I'm
36:52
Speaker 2: being a support to them, yes, and it just makes
36:58
Speaker 2: me realize my love for it even more, you know.
37:01
Speaker 2: So when chained poms and we see these girls amazing
37:05
Speaker 2: results and I'm qualified, it's just a little I suppose
37:11
Speaker 2: you could say a little portfolio on the background, you know.
37:14
Speaker 1: I think that's a really sensible idea. It gives you
37:17
Speaker 1: without sort of going I know you're in the qualification
37:22
Speaker 1: stage at the moment. Yeah, but it gives you that
37:24
Speaker 1: little bit of experience to go, okay, do I really
37:28
Speaker 1: you know, because you can do the qualifications and you know,
37:30
Speaker 1: I've done plenty of football ones, cricket ones, all sorts,
37:33
Speaker 1: and you do all the classroom stuff and you do
37:35
Speaker 1: all this, that and the other. But when you actually
37:37
Speaker 1: go out and do it, it is different. So to give
37:40
Speaker 1: yourself a little taster and to go okay, I like
37:44
Speaker 1: all the modules, I like the qualifications, I like this,
37:46
Speaker 1: I like that, But how is it in like real
37:49
Speaker 1: life without going in and doing a class of twenty five?
37:54
Speaker 1: You just pick three or four, you know, pick people
37:58
Speaker 1: that you know they're going to be responsive and whatever.
38:01
Speaker 1: I think it's a really good idea.
38:03
Speaker 2: That's a really good way of putting it. Tom. It's
38:05
Speaker 2: it's like a taster, isn't it. And there's nothing wrong
38:09
Speaker 2: with that, you know, And for me it's confirmed everything
38:13
Speaker 2: like the feedback they give me weekly is just all
38:17
Speaker 2: for myself and my own growth, I guess, and it's
38:21
Speaker 2: just amazing and to see them doing stuff based off
38:26
Speaker 2: like what I can from the knowledge that I have gained.
38:32
Speaker 2: It Actually, it just makes my heart so happy, and
38:35
Speaker 2: it's exactly what I wanted it to feel like, you know.
38:38
Speaker 2: So that's the.
38:40
Speaker 1: Great thing as well as it's mutually beneficial. You get
38:44
Speaker 1: a lot of you get experience, you get you know,
38:47
Speaker 1: so much out of it, and they get bitter, so
38:50
Speaker 1: it's a win absolutely. So I think that's a great idea.
38:54
Speaker 1: That's brilliant. Ah yeah, so yeah, you said, do.
38:57
Speaker 2: You know what like little things like you know, because
39:01
Speaker 2: we have a little chat, a little group chat, and
39:05
Speaker 2: they'll ask me questions as you would do ask if
39:08
Speaker 2: you were on shore of something, and I'm so confidently
39:13
Speaker 2: able to answer, so like it's a really good little
39:16
Speaker 2: test for me, you know. So it's been a really
39:19
Speaker 2: good idea. Actually yeah, and there's still in it, there's
39:22
Speaker 2: still amazing. So yeah, do you know anyways.
39:26
Speaker 1: Absolutely no, I think that's that's such a good idea.
39:30
Speaker 1: And when I saw that you were embarking on this,
39:33
Speaker 1: I thought, well, I have to get you on to
39:34
Speaker 1: come and talk about it, because I mean you you're
39:37
Speaker 1: welcome to come on anytime anywhere, come and talk about
39:40
Speaker 1: anything you like. But I thought, oh, this would be
39:43
Speaker 1: this will be something that you know, I know, you're
39:46
Speaker 1: so passionate that. Yeah, and I can see you know,
39:49
Speaker 1: in your people, hear in your voice, and if they
39:51
Speaker 1: watch the YouTube channel, they'll be able to see your
39:53
Speaker 1: face and see how passionate you are about it. But
39:57
Speaker 1: I think it's fantastic. I can't wait to see where
40:01
Speaker 1: this goes, you know, in the future. Obviously we won't
40:04
Speaker 1: talk about plans and whatever and this, that and the other,
40:07
Speaker 1: but I can't wait to see what's for you next.
40:12
Speaker 1: Any audio follows your Instagram and follows this out the
40:16
Speaker 1: other they know how passionate you are not just about fitness,
40:21
Speaker 1: but also another vital part of coaching, in my opinion,
40:25
Speaker 1: which is the both drive and ability to help people,
40:32
Speaker 1: which I think is probably more important than anything else.
40:37
Speaker 2: I agree with you on that. Yeah, I do think
40:41
Speaker 2: you know, you can have talent, and you can showcase talent,
40:44
Speaker 2: but you do have to be a type of person.
40:46
Speaker 2: I think.
40:49
Speaker 1: You have to want to help people. And there are
40:50
Speaker 1: a lot of very very talented people who who can
40:53
Speaker 1: do all sorts of wonderful things. They can't teach people
40:57
Speaker 1: that do it themselves. And and two teach people that
41:05
Speaker 1: there is a skill unto itself.
41:07
Speaker 2: Absolutely it really is. And yeah, You're right. I think
41:10
Speaker 2: you you either have that in you or you don't.
41:15
Speaker 2: Kind of a thing, you know, Yeah.
41:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, you either want to impart that knowledge or want
41:21
Speaker 1: to sort of stay by just do whatever. And I'm
41:24
Speaker 1: not saying one is right and one is wrong. There's
41:26
Speaker 1: just absolutely fine and not not. Everybody's cut out for
41:30
Speaker 1: you know, coaching, teaching, whatever, and that's absolutely yeah. I'm
41:34
Speaker 1: not saying one is good and one is bad.
41:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and of course not no.
41:39
Speaker 1: But yeah, I can't wait to see what's what's for
41:42
Speaker 1: you next summer.
41:43
Speaker 2: The summer I now will be. I'll, oh my god,
41:47
Speaker 2: I can't imagine how I will be when if if we.
41:56
Speaker 1: Head and myself, let's be confident to say when.
42:00
Speaker 2: I am competent in my head, I just don't want
42:02
Speaker 2: to go like I need to keep myself a little
42:03
Speaker 2: bit humble as them. But no, I'm really excited and
42:09
Speaker 2: I feel really positive about this year. I can just
42:13
Speaker 2: you know, it makes myself more accountable as well. So yeah,
42:19
Speaker 2: I've I'm living my little dream at the moment, I guess,
42:24
Speaker 2: you know, and kicking a few boxes. And you know,
42:28
Speaker 2: you're never too old to start anything, you know, like
42:33
Speaker 2: some people might think, God, you know, you should have
42:37
Speaker 2: probably done that in your twenties. Yes, I know, I
42:40
Speaker 2: wish I bloody started fitness in my twenties. But it's
42:43
Speaker 2: never too.
42:44
Speaker 1: Late exactly exactly. You know, you better starting it now
42:49
Speaker 1: than doing it in ten years time, exactly.
42:53
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, I can like lift heavy
42:55
Speaker 2: shopping bags later in life, like amazing, exactly. No fast, No,
43:01
Speaker 2: it'll be good. It'll be good. Everything's gone to plan,
43:05
Speaker 2: and yeah, I hope I can share all the ins
43:11
Speaker 2: and outs of it in a few months.
43:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you'll have to come back with four.
43:18
Speaker 2: I'll have to come back for a part four now
43:20
Speaker 2: you I'm gon't have to book me in now. Sixty five?
43:24
Speaker 2: So I did episode seventeen thirty five or the sixty five.
43:29
Speaker 1: Four thirty four? I think thirty.
43:31
Speaker 2: Four sixty five, So could be in the nineties maybe.
43:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, something like that. You know, would have been doing
43:39
Speaker 1: this like eighteen months or something.
43:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, Look, I hope you know, in all seriousness,
43:45
Speaker 2: I take a very serious I'm very passionate about it.
43:49
Speaker 2: It's exactly why I'm doing it. I'm putting so much
43:51
Speaker 2: time and effort into it, and I do think, like
43:57
Speaker 2: I know I'll be supported by an already established kind
44:01
Speaker 2: of coaching community on Instagram, and you know I won't
44:08
Speaker 2: be just left there like a lone wolf. I'm very
44:11
Speaker 2: confident I'll have that support.
44:13
Speaker 1: So let's go absolutely well, thank you so so much
44:19
Speaker 1: for coming on. Is you? Wish you all the best
44:23
Speaker 1: with well with the ambassadorial ships, the gym events, the
44:27
Speaker 1: new venture of the future, and just very quickly for
44:32
Speaker 1: I imagine more people listening to this follow you than
44:34
Speaker 1: they follow me, but we'll tell them where to follow
44:37
Speaker 1: you anyway, Where can people find you keep up to
44:40
Speaker 1: date with all these thoughts.
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Speaker 2: So my name, my Instagram name is Laura dot ibd
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Speaker 2: dot fitness. Very self explanatory and very much pretty much
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Speaker 2: what's all on my account. So yeah, I guess if
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Speaker 2: you're interested in any of those things, that's where I
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Speaker 2: have band the most about and I do with crap
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Speaker 2: a few jokes every now and again. You know, I
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Speaker 2: in me, So.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd highly recommend your Instagram account. It's very amusing,
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Speaker 1: it's good fun.
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Speaker 2: No, yes, gloom, there's there's no dooman gloom on my.
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Speaker 1: Accouat exactly exactly. That's where we come from the same
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Speaker 1: mindset with very positive people. Yeah, love exactly, fantastic. Well,
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Speaker 1: thank you ever so much for coming on. And it
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Speaker 1: goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway. Wish you
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Speaker 1: all the very very best for everything in the future.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate that's so much, and I always appreciate coming back on.
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Speaker 2: Like we have the great laugh and chats and yeah,
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Speaker 2: as you said, very much similar mindsets, you know, so
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Speaker 2: considering you like have had me on the third time,
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Speaker 2: we just can't right off the next one, so we
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Speaker 2: see what happens.
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Speaker 1: We'll have you back in a few months. Thank you
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Speaker 1: so much. Thanks Tom, Thank you for listening to the podcast.
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