We can endure 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.

Toughness. 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 where I'm at today would not be there without the values and basically the lessons I've learned through 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 wrestle because if you wrestle,

natural talent helps, but it's 5% of the ingredient. It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.

It humbled me. Thought me 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 adapt,

you learn how to solve problems.

You know, if I look back my time, I could

wrestling. If it gave me one thing more than anything else,

that's been the toughness.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the wrestling

change my life podcast.

It's your host, Ryan Warner, our guest guest today is a friend of the program. My creative partner,

Raleigh Peterkin. Raleigh and I have worked together on multiple audio documentaries. The Smiths, all the way up through the Henry

Sahuto Experiment, Raleigh's an instrumental piece of those projects and it's an

honor to have him back on the podcast today. Raleigh wrestled at Penn, he was a

four-time NCAA qualifier, a Fargo champ back in his day,

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