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

For in Armenia, you do you do some kind of a combat sport wrestling, judo, boxing,

sambal. That's just their culture of it.

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 it.

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 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 is

ain't no 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, 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, it's mental toughness.

Yes indeed, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome back to the wrestling change in my life podcast.

This is your host, Ryan Warner. Our guest today is the pride of Armenia,

Arsene, Alexian. Back when he was 14, he was on the Kidette national team for team Armenia,

and then he moved to California without speaking a lick of English.

He placed at the California State Tournament and then went on to wrestle at Michigan State Ghost

Party. Today, he's a director of events for a new way, a wrestling organization that's

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