If you truly want to be successful, you have to truly want to be successful and put forth the time and effort it takes to build, you know, the muscular foundation.

You respect the fact that you may have to take a little bit more time before you can get on stage.

We are individuals, but we're not islands. You know, we can't get through anything that's difficult

or anything that we want to pursue completely by ourselves. I don't think you'll ever be

exactly where you want to be, but you have to find beauty and where you are. I think people

underestimate the physiological impact of stress, and they think it's just a mental thing.

But I think that large amount of stress that I placed on myself in past preps really held me back from unlocking my full potential this prep.

So I told myself, I was like, we're not going to do that this time.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome to the Ice Cream for Pierre's podcast.

My name is Jeff Nippert, and I'm'm your host and i've got my co-host

robin galant joining me this week hi everybody and we also have a special guest emily duncan joining us

emily is a nationally qualified npc bikini competitor sports nutrition specialist

certificate holder from the

ISSN. She's a PE science athlete. I think I'm saying that right it's either PE science

or yeah yeah PE science oh everybody always says PE science like that's not okay good I'm glad I got it

right and Emily's gonna be joining us today for a conversation about contest prep, psychology,

and mentality, and other lifestyle considerations for the contest prepping athlete.

And we're going to take a specific focus on the bikini division,

because I feel as though that's something that has been a little bit overlooked in the history of this podcast, especially since Robin went on a little hiatus.

So that's going to be the focus of the conversation.

So Emily, it's a real pleasure to have you on the show.

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