#130 Nahshon Garrett - NCAA Champ, World Team Member

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Nahshon Garrett is a 4x All American and former NCAA champ for the Cornell Big Red. He was on the 2018 world team and was set to compete in his first world championships before suffering a devastating injury days before the 2018 World Championships were to begin. During this episode we talk about Nahshon’s career, the peaks and valleys of his rehab after the 2018 injury and his plans for competing in the future. This episode was recorded in the winter and was originally released on Rokfin. Enjoy folks! FOLLOW THE PODCAST WrestlingChangedMyLife.com SPONSOR This episode is brought to you by the Beat the Streets Chicago Virtual Gala, which takes place on Saturday June 6 from 8-9pm. It would mean the world to me if you registered to attend the gala. No donation necessary, just come and see what we’re doing with Beat the Streets Chicago. To register, go to WrestlingChangedMyLife.com and click on the Beat the Streets tile. ABOUT THE WRESTLING CHANGED MY LIFE PODCAST Hosted by Ryan Warner, the Wrestling Changed My Life Podcast features in-depth interviews with wrestlers and coaches to learn how the sport shaped and molded their lives. By stitching together stories of sacrifice, triumph, defeat and perseverance, the Podcast takes the listener deep inside the world’s oldest sport. New episodes are released every Monday and Wednesday.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show folks. This is wrestling changed my life. Here we go.
0:03.6	What happened to me was an injustice because the law of basic property rights say like whatever you work for generally you possess.
0:20.0	We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change.
0:30.8	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.
0:34.0	Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:39.5	And everything that has shaped my life and where I'm at today would not be there without the values
0:45.9	and basically the lessons I've learned through the support of wrestling. For me, wrestling
0:50.4	saved my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
0:55.0	We're fortunate if you wrestle because if you wrestle, natural talent helps, but it's 5% of the ingredient.
1:06.0	It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.
1:10.0	It humbled me, thought me humility. Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.
1:16.0	I think it's the learning to adapt, right? You learn, you learn how to adapt, you learn how to adapt, you learn how to solve problems.
1:22.0	If I look back at my time, that's good. and you learn how to adapt you learn how to solve problems.
1:23.8	You know if I look back my time I spent wrestling if they gave me
1:26.2	one thing more than anything else it's mental toughness.
1:29.8	Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the show.
1:32.3	My guest today's the great Nayshaun Garrett
1:35.0	NCA champ four-time all-American for the Cornell Big Red.
1:39.0	He was also on the 2018 world team and that's the focal point of our conversation today.
1:44.0	Because right before that 2018 World Championships was set to start,
1:48.0	Nayshaun suffered a devastating injury that took him out of the event,
1:52.0	and he had to give his spot to Joe Cologne. devastating injury that took him out of the event
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