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

I understood that world just enough to know there was an opportunity to tell stories.

We can adore 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. 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 is 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 sport of wrestling. For me wrestling is saying

my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.

Well 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, 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.

If I look back my time, that's good wrestling. If you give me one thing more than anything else, that's toughness.

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

Ryan Warner. My guest today is Pat Christensen. Pat was a national champ for Wisconsin back in the

70s. Today he's the president of Las Vegas events but more importantly folks, he's the founder

of the Etch and Stone podcast series. An audio documentary series that profiles members of the

wrestling hall of fame. Episode one goes live tonight. So please check out Etch and Stone anywhere

you listen to podcast. Episode one is with Marc Turella. I'm donating Gabel the goat to the Etch and

Stone series and then in January folks, the Smith documentary will go live as part of the Etch and

Stone series. So as I said, please check it out. Etch and Stone goes live two night with Marc Turella.

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