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

You know I'm getting my ass kicked at 6-0 he's got riding time. He's got a whole lot of riding time and

I just remember getting the reverse one kind of feeling him kind of.

We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change.

Wrestling gave us that ability.

I would say nothing in life has impacted me more than the things wrestling has taught me in terms

of self-reflection, resilience. 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 has 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 support of wrestling.

For me, wrestling saved 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, thought 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, I could at wrestling.

If it gave me one thing more than anything else, it's been toughness.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the one and only wrestling

change my life podcast this is episode 102 if you can believe it my guess today is

Doug Schwab Doug is the head coach at you and I he was also an Olympian and a national champ for the

Hawk so one of the best ever do it and this was actually recorded in the you and I

wrestling room my brother and I did it right before the Iowa Penn State dual so we were

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