Welcome to the Choose Hard podcast.

One and Only Fitness and Nutrition podcast that goes way beyond just training and nutrition

and helps you choose hard every day to help transform your body and your mind.

Today on the show we have, I'm going to read this because there's no way I'm getting it right,

even though I'm reading it.

Nick Kamalatos.

I think I got that right, man.

Apologies if I didn't.

I probably didn't. But this is a

phenomenal podcast, phenomenal conversation. Man, it really like, it just hit me hard right in the gut

multiple times when he was talking. And this podcast is going to, it's going to touch on some

touchy subjects. It's going to poke some nerves. And I wanted that. I wanted a podcast that was going to get

deep, was going to talk about a very big problem in today's world, which is weak men and the

absurd amount of depression and dependency that men in today's world have. And it is failing our country.

It is failing our families. It is failing our lives and the rate of success that we can see as men because

there's a lack of leadership. So this podcast specifically is mostly for the men. Women, if you want to

listen to it, I think there's plenty of gems in this podcast. And send it to your husbands if you're

married because I think they need to listen to it too. Every guy does, whether he is on top of his

stuff with these things or not. But regardless, we're going to talk about Nick's history of growing up a two-time

convicted felon, transitioning from there to get his GED, work his a bit off to eventually

get into the Marines, serve 12 years, I believe it was, going overseas, touring, doing

all kinds of crazy stuff, coming back, becoming basically an alcoholic, almost committing

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