#156 Victoria Anthony - 2x World Team Member, 2x US Open Champ

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE Victoria Anthony is a 2x World Team Member, 2x US Open Champ and the founder of FreeFlowGusto.com. Victoria also has an extensive background in Judo and trained with the likes of Ronda Rousey in her youth. Enjoy it folks! SPONSOR This episode is brought to you by the Wrestling Changed My Life online store. We have podcast T-Shirts, Hoodies, Crew-necks, Stickers and more. Go to Store.WrestlingChangedMyLife.com to shop. 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. FOLLOW THE PODCAST WrestlingChangedMyLife.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show folks. This is wrestling changed my life. Here we go.
0:03.6	As soon as the term was over I was like
0:05.8	I was right there and I now understand that I have to set my life up in such a way that this is, for me anyway, it's like pretty much everything.
0:16.1	I can put all of my focus into it, all of my direction.
0:18.6	We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change. Wrestling gave us that ability.
0:29.2	I would say nothing in life has impacted me or the things wrestling has taught me in terms of
0:35.0	self-reflection, resilience. Toughness. Some guys have it, some guys don't.
0:40.0	Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:45.0	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 to the
0:54.7	sport of wrestling. For me wrestling saved my life because it allowed me to focus and
1:00.0	channel my energy. We're fortunate if you rustled, because if you rustled,
1:05.0	natural talent helps, but it's 5% of the ingredient.
1:12.0	It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.
1:17.0	It humbled me. Thought me humility. Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.
1:22.0	I think it's the learning to... can't humble you more than wrestling.
1:23.1	I think it's the learning to adapt, right?
1:25.7	You learn, you learn how to adapt,
1:27.4	you learn how to solve problems.
1:30.0	You know, if I look back at my time, I've spent wrestling.
1:31.6	If it gave me one thing more than anything else, it's been toughness.
1:35.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the wrestling change my life podcast.
1:39.0	This is your host, Ryan Warner. My guest today is Victoria Anthony, two-time U.S. World Team
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