#79 Nate Carr - Olympic Bronze Medalist, 3x NCAA Champ

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Nate Carr is an Olympic Bronze medalist and 3x NCAA Champ for Iowa State. In this episode we talk about Nate’s rivalry with Kenny Monday, growing up in a family with 16 siblings (5 of which, including Nate, were Division 1 All Americans), and wrestling for the great Harold Nichols. This episode is brought to you by the Wrestling Changed My Life Store. Please visit Store.WrestlingChangedMyLife.com if you’d like to support the show. Thank you for tuning in and enjoy the show!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show folks this is wrestling changed my life here we go
0:03.2	no i think the biggest thing i think the word wrestling
0:08.0	you know
0:09.8	it's the closest
0:12.2	contact that you have in competition you know and I think literally it means to
0:17.8	struggle.
0:18.9	We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change. Wrestling gave us that ability.
0:29.6	I would say nothing in life has impacted me.
0:32.2	The things wrestling has taught me in terms of
0:35.0	self-reflection resilience. Toughness. Some guys have it, some guys don't. Adversity,
0:41.4	100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:45.0	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
0:55.0	sport of wrestling.
0:56.4	For me, wrestling saved my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy. We're fortunate if you rustled, because if you rustled,
1:05.0	natural talent helps, but it's 5% of the ingredient.
1:12.8	It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.
1:17.8	It humbled me, taught me humility.
1:19.8	Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.
1:23.5	I think it's the learning to adapt, right?
1:26.1	You learn, you learn how to adapt,
1:27.8	you learn how to solve problems.
1:30.3	You know, if I look back my time, I spent wrestling.
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