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

I was tell you my first day there in Minnesota.

You know, he pulled me down in the basement, you know, and that's what the wrestling

was. And, you know, he was a little power nugget and I mean but he made me feel big and I was still young right but just a

strong little intense guy and he comes out as like let's go all right boom.

We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change wrestling gave us that and 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 is 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, wrestling 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. 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 my time, I could at wrestling, if it gave me one thing more than anything else, it's

a myth of toughness. Ladies and gents, welcome back to the wrestling change my life podcast this is your host Ryan Warner.

My guest today is the great Corey Cooperman, New Jersey legend was part of that Blair Academy team that had Kurt Backus,

Zach Espizito, Steve Michael, Mark Perry, they were dominant.

And Corey went on to wrestle at Lehi, he's a three-time All-American there,

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