Hey, good morning, you know what time it is, it's Quick Time Friday.

You know, welcome back to the great you experience. This is a Quick Time Friday and

Shaboy B Myers and welcome. Welcome. I don't know if you're new here or you've been coming

back for all the podcasts and listening in, but I really, really suggest that you share

this podcast with someone or you just go for a walk right now and prepare yourself

because it is a story time. And with Quick Time Fridays, you know, it's not 40 minutes,

50 minutes. So this is going to be 10 minutes of powerful, powerful stuff that is led

by passion. So let's just get right into it. So if you know me at all, I have been training

and working out since I was 12, 13 years old. And I remember I used to train beside my

dad at LA Fitness and Boing Beach. Floodied that is where I'm from, baby, represent 5,

6, 1, let's go. And I also used to train with one of my closest friends, Chris Gardner.

And we used to just get after and then we'd play some basketball and it was a great time,

right? And I remember during that time of my life, I would also be training for something

bigger, meaning not just like bodybuilding or anything. I never was a bodybuilder. That was

never my purpose. But I wanted to train for a sport. I wanted to be the absolute hardest

worker to ever live. And I wanted people to recognize that. I wanted people to see that

because I was hurting in my life. For many of my 10 years, I was hurting. And I didn't really

feel hurt. I didn't feel seen. So I felt like this was the way. Eventually, if people saw how

hard I worked, they would want to work just as hard. And we would be one big happy family in the

world, right? And so when I think about 12, 13 years old, when I was grinding and I was trying

to figure it out, I wasn't suicidal. I wasn't depressed at this moment in time so much.

I did have a lot of anxiety. I did go through a lot of different things. But that's just where the

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