Welcome to the show folks. This is wrestling changed my life. Here we go.

Long story short. I lost a little over 40 pounds of muscle. I have a muscle

wasting disease, muscle weakening disease. Again, it's called a bunch of different things called Polymyocytus.

I basically went from, you know, I woke up, we won the state championship. I looked at my wife, my now

wife, who's my fiance at the time.

And I said, I don't know that my life could get any better than this.

We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change. Wrestling gave us that ability. I would say nothing in life has impacted me or the things wrestling has taught me in terms of self-reflection, resilience.

Toughness.

Some guys have it, some guys don't.

Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.

And everything that is shaped my life and where I'm at today would not be

there without the values and basically the lessons I've learned through the sport of

wrestling.

For me, you're wrestling saving my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.

We're fortunate if you wrestle because if you wrestle natural talent helps but it's 5% of the

ingredient it pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.

It humbled me, taught me humility.

Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.

I think it's the learning to adapt, right?

You learn, you learn how to adapt,

you learn how to solve problems.

You know, if I look back at my time,

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