Meredith Atwood - The Year Of No Nonsense

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meredith Atwood joins us for today’s episode. She is a former attorney, author, podcaster, speaker, and coach.  Her book,</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Triathlon for the Every Woman: You Can Be a Triathlete. Yes</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">achieved a must-read status for beginner triathletes. Today, she shares with us her journey o how she turned her life around from being in the darkest point in her life. Join us as she shares her experiences and how you too can be healthy, fit, and change your life for the better.</span></p> <p><strong>Why should we listen to you?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[7:26]</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because I have been probably in the darkest that anyone has been and I have been in the serious lows. I drank like a fish for 20 years and I've been severely overweight, out of shape, and just suffering. And that's such a word that people don't want to admit.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[7:58]</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think that my relatability is because I've been in the trenches and figured out a way to climb out. I fall back in sometimes and climb back out but it's that rebound effect.  I've learned the art of the rebound like when you fall down, you get right back up so that's where my audience I think has come and followed me.</span></p> <p><strong>Being real and sharing the truth</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[10:05]</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We're too busy in this avoidance culture or the numbing culture to just pretend things are okay and act like we have it all together. For me, I think I do disarm people by just shooting straight and telling my story about being suicidal or telling my story about being a drunk.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[10:39]</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There's always a sense of realness when you're sharing your truth. Look in the mirror, what