Ep 139 - The Courage to Compete with Jordan Burroughs
What's Next with Eric Wood
Eric Wood
5 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Jordan Burroughs is considered one of the greatest American freestyle wrestlers of all-time. The 2012 Olympic Gold medalist and 5x World Champion is only 33 years old and has dominated the sport for over a decade.
Today on the show, Jordan talks about his career journey and the importance of being a good father and husband. Topics include:
(3:45-8:00) - Cutting weight, your body's relationship with sugar
(8:00-11:45) - Growing up in New Jersey, how Jordan fell in love with wrestling
(11:45-18:30) - When Jordan realized he was elite, what separates Jordan from the competition
(18:30-24:00) - The power of the participation trophy
(24:00-28:45) - "Fear subsides what regret doesn't"
(28:45-33:45) - What celebrating a win looks like, striving to have humility and confidence
(33:45-40:15) - Thoughts on the WWE and MMA. Balancing work with family life
And much more. Rate, review and subscribe to the show today!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How do we keep people locked in to something that they may be enjoying or may not even know to enjoy yet, but they're trying to develop a genuine love for it. |
| 0:14.0 | You have to reward people for the intangibles, the things that in society today are not really rewarded. These are the unsung |
| 0:22.7 | heroes, the ability to have the courage to go out and compete, you know, to have the focus to prepare |
| 0:30.2 | and to be consistent and disciplined with your training and also to be rewarded for your ability to go out there and lay it on the line. |
| 0:39.4 | That takes a lot. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to What's Next with Eric Wood, where we will prepare you to make your what's next in life your best yet. |
| 0:50.6 | Our next guest is Jordan Burroughs. |
| 0:54.0 | Jordan is a gold medalist and five-time world |
| 0:56.9 | championship wrestler and is known by many as the best wrestler in the world over the past decade. |
| 1:02.9 | Jordan is also an incredible dad and husband, and you could always learn a ton from someone |
| 1:07.2 | who is the best in the world at what they do, as well as have the home life that we all strive to have. |
| 1:13.3 | Listen close to this one because it's full of nuggets to help you personally be your best yet. |
| 1:19.1 | If you enjoy this podcast, please rate, review, and subscribe to help spread the impact we hope to have. |
| 1:24.8 | Thanks out there to all the Spotify listeners. |
| 1:28.9 | Keep those ratings coming. |
| 1:34.7 | It's growing like crazy on there. It's now overtaking Apple, which was hard for me to ever fathom. |
| 1:41.4 | So thank you for that. Also, if you share this episode on social media and tag me and tag Jordan, we will share as well and we will double the impact. Enjoy. |
| 1:46.4 | Jordan, welcome to the show, brother. Thanks for having. So I'll admit, I grew up a football |
| 1:51.9 | player, obviously, but I grew up playing basketball. And so when I got in high school, all my |
| 1:56.3 | buddies wrestled. And so, and I have to tell you this, and I know you'll be able to relate to this. |
| 2:02.0 | So between my junior and senior high school, I was switching from tight end to offensive line. |
| 2:06.3 | I went from 205 pounds to 260 pounds. So I put on like 55 pounds at a year. Well, all my best |
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