Bag & Paddle: Rebuilding life with a stoma, in public
Bag & Paddle is my 3×-a-week letter.
You’ll get behind-the-scenes of competing again, living abroad with chronic illness, and building a new company (Ostowear) in real time.
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Pro sport with a stoma. Life abroad with chronic illness. A new business from zero. Get 3 short letters a week with the experiments, wins, and mistakes.
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Who am I?
I’m Rob Nunnery. I’ve won 19 pro pickleball titles, but that’s not the story anymore.
After three years of chronic pain, five colorectal surgeries, and a colostomy, I’m the only racket-sport pro competing with a stoma.
I sold most of what I owned, moved to Asia, and now I’m trying to rebuild: competing again, working abroad, and starting a new company, Ostowear, from zero.
What will you learn?
- What really happens traveling and working abroad with a stoma
- Stoma accidents and fixes no one else will tell you
- The exact systems I’m using to train, recover, and keep energy up
- How I’m building Ostowear from zero and lessons you can steal for your own projects
- 5 weekly recs: books, gear, and tools that actually help
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