Hey everyone and welcome back to Be You with BU. In this episode, Brian was asked what life experience

helped catapult him into success. Keep listening to check out his answer. You talked about how you

had to face some challenges to get where you are today. So do you have a life experience that

maybe not when you were super successful at it, but when you were starting out, was there a life experience that pushed you over the top for you to get to where you are today?

Like was there, you know, you're sitting around.

Everyone's kind of beating you up about it.

You're in debt.

How did you get over that? How did you go to that next step? Just kept doing it. I know that sounds very like, oh, no, I just, I just had to keep. I had to have someone believed in me more than I believed in myself at that time. This was seven years ago. But, I mean, I was forged. I mean, I have had a lot of experiences just in life, right?

I think athletics built a solid foundation of knowing, you know, how to gracefully win, but how to

gracefully lose, how you win, how you learn through the losses. You get better through the losses.

You don't get better through the wins. One of the biggest things when you brought that up was

one of my biggest crutches in life was my dad because he always had my back. So I always knew that I had

that safety net, which enabled me is I didn't go all in on things because I knew if I failed, I had him.

And when I really became a man was when him and I gotten, you know, an argument, a disagreement.

And, you know, screw you.

I ain't never fucking talking to him again.

And my dad was my hero.

I didn't talk to him for two years.

And I was broke, didn't have a car, didn't know how I was going to do it, but I just knew I was going to do it. I just had this unwavering faith or belief. And you have to build that. That comes internal. That's work on yourself. But you get to choose what you believe. I made the choice. I was going to figure it out. And I did. in those two years, that's when I truly believe that I became a man, that I learned to fly.

There's not anyone that's really

achieved a high level that hasn't had to overcome something. And I think that the more people

have to overcome, you know, they get a choice. They use that trauma to create PTSD or they

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