JOSH TETRICK, JUST INC.

You were a star football player at West Virginia University but later diagnosed with a hea condition. Most would have gone to pieces but you picked yourself up, how on ea h did you accomplish this?

You know I stopped playing football because I realised that I wasn’t good enough. I actually found out about the heart condition later and you know, I needed to find something else in my life when I realised that football wasn’t going to be a thing. I had a lot of energy to do something. I wanted something that was gonna be challenging to me that was meaningful that you know can really allow me to grow into the kind of person I want to be and at first that was doing some work in Sub Saharan Africa and then it became what I do every day to try to make the food system better.

Just so my readers understand that you’re human like the rest of us, were you angry or cynical at least for for a while before deciding you wanted to go to Africa?

When I realised the football dream wasn’t going to happen I felt disoriented. I feel like for for so many years in my life you knew exactly who you trying to be. For a long time I could say what I’m going to do today is training to be a professional football player. And then one when that’s taken away you you know you lose the focus that you had.

Then, you try to fill it up with something else. You know the best way to to deal with not knowing where to go, was to put your head down and do something. So, I just decided to throw my energy into what was