You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brookestio episode number 497.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coach Instructor, Brookestio.

Well, hello, beautiful friends. How are you? I'm good. I'm so good. I have been home in Scottsdale from my trip, and I have just been working like crazy.

It's kind of fun how when you're working on the road, because the way that my job has been, obviously I can travel a lot because I can work from anywhere, which is amazing.

But to be home at my desk with all my equipment, with just everything in place to be able to work with ease is so nice.

So I've just been working like crazy. I've been sitting at my computer doing lots of work and also playing a lot of pickleball.

One of the things that I couldn't really do when we were traveling abroad was play pickleball. They don't really have pickleball in Europe.

They don't have a sport called paddle ball, which is, I think, much harder. Paddle ball, you can hit the ball off of a wall, and then over the net, which we could not figure out.

We spent a lot of time laughing. The paddles are totally different, and the surface is different.

We kept trying to play pickleball on paddle ball courts. That didn't work either.

But now that we're home, we are back to playing pickleball. The weather in Scottsdale is great right now. So we're able to play and we're having so much fun.

I'm actually leaving next week for a couple days to go to pickleball camp. Yes, my friends, I'm going to pickleball camp.

I could not be more excited.

I had no idea that in my 50s, I was going to discover a whole new world to be excited and ambitious about.

Plus, pickleball is actually super fun, meeting all sorts of interesting, amazing, all ages types of people.

That's one thing that's really cool about pickleball is it's so inclusive for anyone who is healthy enough to play, physically healthy enough to play,

which there's so much skill involved that I've played with people who have lots of injuries who are still able to play and kick my butt.

So anyway, they go ball. They're so excited about it. If you haven't played, you have to go try and play.

If you want to know a secret, you can play. If you remember a lifetime fitness, they have pickleball there.

So you can go and do like a beginner class if you're brand new or have someone take you out to a public court where it's free.

And at least hit the ball around. We did it with my whole team last year.

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