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Part of Power Athlete Radio, and back when we started this, it was kind of based on this idea

of battle the bullshit.

And then I realized that more so than just battling the bullshit at, you know, at max intensity,

I'm fascinated with origin stories. So I'm interested to know, like, how people got to where they were, you know, what their influences were and like how this whole thing started. I mean, you know, you're obviously from the U.S. You're living in Dubai now, but like, you know, you mentioned, I don't know where you played college football, but I'm sure we'll get into that. But I'd just love to know how you got into training, how you got into it.

And obviously, you know, what the origin story was, where you grew up. And just love to hear how it all began. Yep. Yeah, sure. I'll keep it brief. Basically, I just grew up playing sports my entire life. I always loved playing sports is all I've ever wanted to do. And my dad

introduced training to me when I was seven years old. So I learned how to do a barbell back squat

when I was like seven years old. My dad was a power lifter. But I trained basically all through

fifth, sixth, seventh grade, middle school, all the way through high school.

And then I got more focused on football.

I grew up in Alaska, of all places.

It was really hard to get a college football scholarship playing in Alaska.

So my dad moved me to Oklahoma, which was, whereas I was born in Oklahoma, moved, I was raised up.

But my dad moved me back down to Oklahoma so I could play high school football, so I'd have a chance at getting a scholarship to play college football.

Fortunately, that did pan out. I had a pretty successful high school football career. I got a scholarship to play at Rice University down in Houston, Texas. I had a couple other offers. I was not a big recruit by any means.

But I was fortunate to get the Division I scholarship.

I elected to go to Wright University because it was a good school and it was still

relatively close to home, which was Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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