What are you made of?

Man, okay, when I was preparing to come on the show, I'm like, what am I going to say? Because I feel like there's so many ways that I could go with this question.

But I think what I finally landed on was what I'm made of is a lot of mistakes that turned into a lot of different avenues in my life or just a lot of struggles that turned into why I do what I do now.

I'll tell you a story, and I think that will tell you what I'm made of.

I was so painfully shy as a kid.

And the story that my mom always laughs about now is fifth grade poem party.

I could not stand up in front of my class and read the poem.

So what was your diet like when you were an athlete in college? Like what kind of food would you be eating?

But will you tell our listeners a little bit about what brought you into this like particular niche?

Yeah.

So I always tell people that I was born constipated and that's why I'm interested in gut health.

And that sounds really sad and depressing and I don't mean it to be that way, but truly I feel like my interest in gut health has been lifelong because of my own struggles with digestive issues.

And for really a lot of my life, I don't think I realized that what I was struggling with was not normal because it had just always been a part of my life until there were multiple instances, which I won't get into.

I talk about that on my podcast when I tell a long version of my story.

But when I realized, wow, other people aren't constipated and other people don't have their stomach hurting every time they eat.

about mental wellness, like, I mean, can you touch on both physical and mental health?