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

That was my sophomore year high school that joined up with Beat the Streets,

although I started wrestling my freshman year.

But some of the alumni kept telling me, hey, if you want to get like good like us,

you want to get better and stuff like that, you know, go to Beat the Streets.

We can endure 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 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 ingredient. It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.

It humbled me, felt the 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, that's good wrestling. If you give me one thing

more than anything else, it's mental toughness. Ladies and gentlemen, we're back. It's a third

episode of Wrestling Change My Life this week. Haven't done that in a while. Our guest today is

Julius Wetstone. He wrestles for Niagara Community College. He hails from the Bronx,

went to high school at Martin Luther King, Jr., and he had his life changed by the Beat The

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