Ladies and gentlemen, I have such a special episode for you this week. We're gonna be sitting down with Mr. Herkey Garcia, someone who shot me an email in 2015 telling me,

I'm gonna go to the CrossFit Games and I need you to help me. Not only that, but he wanted to work here. He wanted to work out here.

He wanted to be around me and be mentored by me and all these things. And I get a lot of messages like this. And I read them and sometimes I write back, depending on how long it is.

And sometimes I don't write back. But he got a response from me. It wasn't good. I said, no, you can't come out. I don't have anything for you here. And I don't really have time to be mentoring anybody.

But he kept out it every year. He just write me again. He write me again. I didn't necessarily remember that it was him every time, but he came and visited one time. And we worked out together and then he started to tell me,

hey, I'd message you a few times and blah, blah, blah. And he showed me the messages and we talked about it on the show. And he just like stayed really, really persistent. And eventually he just felt like this was the place for him. And he moved out.

Didn't necessarily have everything lined up. Job was, stay was, all that stuff. And he's just living in the moment and and making it work. And I think it's so applicable to so many people out there who may or may not be in this place in their life where they're ready to work.

And they're in their life where they're ready to make some serious changes and they're scared to do it. And there's someone out there that they idolize and they really want to be mentored by this person.

And it's not to say that you should go and just like move to this place and do what he's doing. But I think it's just an incredibly motivating story to hear because he's actually doing something that is so, so rare.

He's really just following his, his dreams and to see where they go and to be on this road to, you know, the mystery of what is in front of him.

We never know what is in front of us. But if we love something, I have always all for you doing what you love and trying to figure it out in the process. And I'm really excited for him. And I'm happy that he's part of my gym now. And I'm happy I get to see him all the time.

He's got, he's got a great presence and he's very good with people. So if you guys follow CrossFit Chalk, he's doing a lot of the stories all the time. He's really, really funny. He's always having just great banter with all the other coaches and he's just a great guy to have around.

So you guys about to hear him in a minute. Before we hit the show, I want to hit our sponsor for the show, which is Sunlighten. Sunlighten is the people, they are the people who create these saunas that you can have in your house. And it's the infrared saunas.

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