You can take this off the shit or not, but I don't know if you were interested, but I've never really like sent anything to anybody or like, you know, like made any type of like public announcement, but I was diagnosed with narcolepsy a year and a half ago.

And I've always had the hardest time with it.

A lot of people have kind of caught on to me like being sleepy and just like kind of just like being kind of stoned or stony and I never knew. I never knew until it became a problem in life threatening that I had an arklepsy.

I went and got tested. I spent the night in hospitals, you know, getting, you know, sleep evaluated.

And, I mean, it was so clear where it was just like man I have to actually change my life how am I going to do this how am I going to like

But I didn't realize I never felt normal everything was always struggled to me. Are you taking like medication for that?

I had to figure it out. I can't even drive a car anymore if I don't have my medication.

Yeah. Because it's a risk and it's not because of me you know I could kill anybody around

me or endanger people and I don't want to do that to my my family or my girl or my

dogs or myself and it's just like dude I was so

scared but I just you know it's such a complicating disorder that I didn't really

know how to deal with it.

Do you feel like the only time or one of the only times for sure at least you can count on feeling alive is when you're on your board?

Yeah, that's what my neurologist told me that he was proud of me that I've made it this far in my career

powering through this narcolepsy and man like it it's weird because that's the only time I'm able to

stay awake. What's up everyone I'm Paul Rabelabel, pro-Lacross player in New York and with Team USA, also an entrepreneur,

media creator and investor, and this is Soon and Up Podcast, a show that explores the psychology,

playlook of tools, and strategies of some of the most influential people in sports, entertainment, and business.

And this week's guest is one of the world's best skaters.

As you heard in the first bit, one who for the first time revealed that he has this chronic neurological

disorder that affects the brain's ability to control sleep wake cycles.

So after our conversation I did some research on narcolepsy and found it fascinating that A,

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