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

But yeah, those first two or three days between the lifting and the circuits and

live wrestling and the drilling and the sparring and you know it's something I hadn't felt

you know and like I've at that level in a long time.

We can adore anything and adapt and pivot and change.

Wrestling gave us that ability. I would say nothing in life has impacted me

more than the things wrestling has taught me in terms of self-reflection, resilience.

Stop this. 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 and what I'm at today would not be there without the values

and basically the lessons I've learned to the sport of wrestling.

For me, wrestling saved 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 ingredients. It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.

It humbled me, taught me humility. Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.

I think it's the learning to adapt, right? You learn how to adapt, you learn how to solve problems.

You know, probably back in my time that's good wrestling if you did me one thing more than

anything else, it's mental toughness. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Wrestling

Change My Life podcast. This is your host Ryan Warner. My guest today is Gabe Dean.

He's back ladies and gentlemen. Gabe was on episode 70 and it was one of my favorites and he's

back to tell the tale of his come back to the mat. Gabe agreed to wrestle and the flow wrestling

winner take all bracket. I guess you can call it. Gabe could win up to 40 grand in the big

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