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

I would be in my room. I put the music on and I'd wrestle by myself in my in my bedroom.

I'd have I'd just like Tom Brandt John Smith Smith, and I would just go through it.

So then when I actually started competing in these tournaments where I was wrestling at that

national level, I would do the same thing.

I'd wrestle each match just right there in my room with doing push-up.

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 has shaped my life... 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 sport of wrestling.

For me, you wrestle saving my life

because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.

We're fortunate if you wrestled,

because if you wrestled, natural talent helps, but it's 5% of the ingredient.

It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.

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