Go I'm Ethan. I'm Grayson and this is Deeper the Dolan's. Welcome back

They get a macy's for sponsoring this week's episode and thank you to Nick Santana stasso for coming on to speak to us about

His inspirational life story of how he was born with a rare syndrome and overcame many hurdles to be the person that he is today

Thank you guys for being here and we hope you enjoy the conversation

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Have so many questions in the car that I was like we were talking. I was oh, let's see for the podcast

But dude, I feel like I feel like I got such a sense a new jersey hanging around you like just like I don't know

Like the conversations are just like I just feel like I'm back home because you're from Jersey and you live there until yeah

18 18 so yeah, I grew up in Jersey and we probably grew up

I'm a little short. You know a little bit. Do you think I just want to make sure it picks up

Sorry about that. Yeah, so from Jersey and we were talking about wrestling

That's where I got cultivated my confidence myself integrity. We can go through all that. Yeah, let's do it

What a sport I wrestling is like a major shift in in your life and everything like you just mentioned so

first off you were born with hand heart syndrome and you're one of twelve and

And I believe one of four that are living today a unicorn. Yeah, wow

Yeah, we can go into that. Yeah, yeah, so

I'm 24 turning 25 in a couple days and in in 1996 my mom went in for a late ultrasound

And they sat my parents down and they pulled up the baby on the screen and the doctors like started freaking out

My parents like what's wrong? And they said well from the looks of it

It doesn't look like your baby's limbs are being developed looks like he's missing his arms his legs

They said out of cleft palate, which we don't have a cleft palate and they painted a very like dark picture for my parents of what this kid would look like

And so in that moment they classify me with hand heart syndrome and hand heart syndrome is a super rare genetic disorder

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