Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. Kay Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon.

And today on the podcast we're going to talk about beauty from the inside.

And I have a most unexpected guest.

It's professional heavyweight boxer Ed Latimore.

He not only was a former boxer, but also a competitive chess player, best-selling author, BA in physics.

He's realized self-development. He writes about self-development sobriety, reaching your potential,

and just kind of getting over all the things that life hands to you, making beautiful things out

of that. Welcome, Ed. How are you?

Hey, thank you for having me, Doctor. I'm pretty good.

Amazing. Well, so how many years were you a boxer?

Uh, all total, 12. I think I was 12 of my amateur career, and the amateurs where you don't get paid and there's headgear and stuff, but that's how you, you know,

get there, there are accolades like the golden gloves who get to the Olympics or a national championship. I did that for six years. And then I turned pro, uh, January 20. I used to have

the date memorize like, because you, you don't forget. I think it was the 28th of the 26th.

I know it was the last week of January

of 2013 there's when I turned pro and I was pro until I officially decided to stop at the end of 2018

amazing so you grew up in the projects was that something that influenced you to become a boxer? Were you practicing self-defense?

No, no. You know what's funny is that when I was younger, I had no interest at all,

even out of high school. It just wasn't a thing that, you know, I think some guys like kind of talked me about it and always looked really interesting.

But I didn't start boxing until the ripe old age of 22.

And I didn't start boxing.

And, well, rather, the main reason why I started boxing is there was a girl I was dating when I was in my early

20s, late teens.

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