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The speaker's podcast episode is about the benefits of walking and why they are grateful for it. They personally walk every day in their neighborhood and find it relaxing and mentally beneficial. Walking can help improve mental health and maintain a positive outlook. It can also make you look and feel younger. The speaker hopes to live in a walkable city in the future. Walking instead of driving can also help reduce carbon emissions. The speaker advises listeners to spend 10 to 30 minutes a day walking outside and enjoying nature. Hello everyone, welcome to my podcast, this is going to be a series of things that I'm grateful for and today I'm going to be talking about walking and why I'm grateful for walking. So I'm just going to give a little fact about myself. I walk every day in my neighborhood, one, two, three miles a day. For me it's very relaxing and it gives me a peace of mind and it's something I try to include in my everyday life if I can. There is evidence that walking helps improve mental health. According to the American ACAT of orthopedic surgeons, walking helps maintain a positive outlook and can make you look and feel younger. Right now I live in a town where everything is far apart, but in the future I could see myself living in a walkable city. Also speaking of walkable cities, according to a study at the University of Michigan, avoiding 10 miles of driving every week would eliminate about 500 pounds of carbon emissions a year. So to end this conversation, I'm just going to give a bit of advice and that is to add 10 to 30 minutes of your day outside walking and just enjoy it. It doesn't take much. Just enjoy the breeze, enjoy nature, take it all in, be grateful for your ability to walk and take advantage of it. That's my advice.