The Echo Review is going on a short mid-season break as we source more guests and begin planning for the next season. Before we dip, we wanted to share a short bonus episode with Elsie Alburquerque in which she discusses the setbacks she overcame while at basic training. As you would imagine, it involves injuries, The Forge and ibuprofen. It's a great anecdote about pushing yourself and finding your inner strength. In the last few weeks she's also launched her own in-person fitness coaching service Own Your Strength and has been helping people achieve their body goals.

• Elsie’s resiliency story and owning her strength…1:07
• Falling 25 feet is no joke…1:19
• “I don’t give up”…3:13
• Muscling through The Forge and sustaining two more injuries…4:16
• The decision to become a military police officer…7:30

Learn more about Elsie Alburquerque here: @elsiealburquerque

Learn more about Own Your Strength: @own_your_strength

Disclaimer: Thoughts and opinions of the guests on this series are their own. There’s a little bit of cursing but it’s mostly just casual conversation.

This episode was edited by Hensley Petite. ⁠⁠⁠Check him out there⁠⁠⁠.

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The music you hear in this season are two public domain songs found on ⁠⁠⁠Free Music Archive⁠⁠⁠. The intro song is called ⁠⁠⁠Coldness by “The Wanderer”⁠⁠⁠. The background music is a song called ⁠⁠⁠“Sky Scrapers” by HoliznaCC0⁠⁠⁠.