What a pleasure to talk to my friend Sumana Dutta Burman. Sumana is a fitness professional based in India and got into the industry fourteen years ago when there was barely a fitness industry at all in India. Here are some of the things we discussed

• How Sumana got into fitness and the challenges she faced culturally when she decided to become a fitness professional.
• Why you need to have the courage to pursue a career that speaks to your heart regardless of what other well-meaning people have to say.
• Mike discusses the early days of the modern kettlebell movement and why people thought he was crazy to pursue a career as a kettlebell instructor back in 2002.
• The immense growth of the fitness industry in India over the last decade
• Why being unhealthy and unfit is useful for a fitness professional to understand the needs of others. –
• Mike on the difference between biochemical depression and regular depression which is really circumstantial sadness.
• Why too many wait until it is too late to offer help to friends and family suffering from depression.
• The negative impact of inauthenticity on social media and the illusion of trying to be perfect all of the time.
• Comprehensive hormone optimization and why it is much more than increasing testosterone and lowering estrogen.

Follow Sumana on IG at https://www.instagram.com/sum_db/