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Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

#163 CEO and NCAA Finalist for Michigan Mike Amine

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

Sports

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Mike Amine is the CEO and president of Wealth Strategies Financial Group. He was an NCAA runner-up in 1988 and competed for a spot on the US greco team in 1992. In this conversation, we cover the influence of Mike’s late father, running a business as a former wrestler, and of course, Mike’s incredible performance at the 1988 NCAA’s. Enjoy 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

Everything I learned from wrestling and how wrestling changed my life is just I applied it to my business.

0:10.0

We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change.

0:19.0

Wrestling gave us that ability.

0:21.0

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

0:24.4

wrestling has taught me in terms of self-reflection, resilience. Toughness. Some

0:29.9

guys have it, some guys don't. Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.

0:36.2

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.

0:47.0

For me, wrestling saved my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.

0:54.0

We're fortunate if you wrestle because if you wrestle,

0:56.0

because if you wrestle, natural talent helps,

1:00.0

but it's 5% of the ingredient. It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.

1:08.0

It humbled me, taught me humility. Nothing can humble you more than wrestling. I think it's the learning to

1:16.4

adapt right you learn you learn you learn how to adapt you learn how to solve problems

1:20.2

you know if I look back my time that's good. If it gave me one thing more than anything else, it's a myth toughness.

1:27.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Wrestling Change My Life Podcast. This is your host, Ryan Warner.

1:32.0

My guest today, folks, is your host Ryan Warner. My guest today folks is Mike Amin,

1:36.2

1988 NCA runner-up from Michigan. Go Blue. Go Blue. He's now the father to Miles and Malikamine who wrestled at Michigan.

1:45.6

But man, this conversation is wide-ranging and we talk about business. We talk about

1:50.9

Mikey Means father who was a two-time Olympic wrestler for Lebanon back in 56 and 60

1:58.4

There's just a lot of life lessons here, so I can't wait to get to the interview

2:01.4

Fain of the week goes to, let me pull it up, let me pull it up.

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