What Wrestling Taught Me About Pain, Purpose & Pushing Through | #Success - Ep. 21

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This is the Russell Brunson show.

What's up, everybody? This is Russell Brunson. Welcome back to the show.
Excited to be hanging

out with you guys today. And this is like an old school show.
For those who are newer to the

podcast, you probably don't know this, but the podcast has taken a couple of different changes over the years. When I first launched, it was called the marketing in your car podcast.
Uh, and then it shifted to the marketing secrets podcast. Now it's just a Russell Runson show.
Cause I've got all sorts of stuff, not just marketing, uh, all the fun things. So, um, but when I first started the podcast, uh, I literally would, uh, I had a four minute commute to my, from my house to the office every day.
And I would hold my phone up to my mouth like I'm doing right now. And I would talk while I was driving.
Anyway, today I have a 30 minute commute to the doctor. And so I thought I would jump on and record an episode with you guys right now while we're hanging out in traffic.
Like the good old days. So, and just to give you context.
So the time I'm recording this right now, last, last 30 days, my life's been a little crazy, but it's always a little crazy as you, as you know, but, uh, twice a year or sorry, once a year, I basically, uh, I try to get back in shape and relive my glory days by going out and wrestling. And there's a tournament every single year, uh, for, um, for basically all age groups, all the way up to veterans, which veterans which are like the really old like 70 80 year old guys who wrestle in this tournament and um it's funny because i remember when i was wrestling in college i remember going to an open tournament and there were these guys that were like in their 70s wrestling and i was like that's so cool uh and i forgot about it and for almost 20 years i didn't wrestle i was just uh doing my thing doing my business and then uh when i when i moved into our house i'm in now about 10 years ago i have 10 years ago i built a wrestling room and so i just built it to be able to wrestle it's like by much my friends over we started wrestling and it was kind of fun like we get together three or four times a year beat each other up and it's just like ah reliving the glory days was so great and then um after one time one of my one of the wrestling guys was wrestling became one day he's like yeah i competed in tournament this weekend i'm like what he's like yeah there's a tournament every year i went wrestled and i'm like why didn't you tell me and so the next year i was like i'm gonna go wrestle in this tournament so uh i remember we start i was gonna i was gonna try to get in shape um but ran out of time and so the week before the tournament we started working out and then my very it was like Monday morning, we got to, you know, had a practice to get prepared for the tournament that weekend.
And the very first practice, I tore my neck and like could barely walk and had a chiropractor coming over like every single day, tried putting back together, but I couldn't, it hurt so bad. And so I literally had half of a practice before we went to this tournament, show up to the tournament.
I'm on, so as can be, and there's two styles there's two olympic styles there's a freestyle and a greco and so um i went and um anyway did the did the freestyle tournament or so it was greco first and i can't remember i think i think i took third place in that tournament with a stiff neck and then i did freestyle and i think i took second at second or something like that but anyway i placed it both the tournaments both the tournaments and had so much fun. But there's a moment that was really cool.
I remember what happened is we were warming up before and there was this old guy came over to me. It was Tony, I think, from London.
And he's probably 70 to 80 years old, somewhere in that window, right? Older guy. And he came up and we were warming up.
He walked he walked over, and he's just wearing, like, a wrestling singlet and knee pads. He's an old guy, and, like, you know, nowadays, like, we don't want to walk around in our singlets.
We're all wearing shorts and T-shirts, and there's a singlet underneath, but, like, we're not just walking around. This guy's walking around it with his knee pads on.
He walks over. He's like, hey, you want to wrestle? I was like, I guess.
And so I was like, cool. He's like, I've had two knees and two hips replaced, so just don't shoot on me.

And I was like, what?

Like wrestling is all about shooting on people.

So anyway, so we warmed up and we drilled together.

And it was just so funny.

And then I remember watching him and he went out there and he won one or two matches.

And I was like, okay, if this dude who's in his 70s, who's got double knee replacements,

double hip replacements, is still competing at this age, I'm like, I'm making a commitment to myself right now.

I'm going to do this every single year until I die.

And so that was kind of the, that was the promise myself, right?

And so I did that year to the next year and then COVID year hit.

And so we, during that year, we went in, um, actually down Florida, which was usually these are in Vegas.

This was in Florida.

There was a beach wrestling tournament we got to do which was like insanely cool

so we're wrestling on the beach and then they had a regular tournament

and this tournament there was this old guy

and he was terminal

in fact if you watch my YouTube channel from back there

we did a whole vlog about it but he was a judge

and he'd never wrestled his whole life

but for some reason like 10 years earlier

he decided he wanted to become a wrestler

and he told

and anyway I pulled him aside

because I wanted to interview him a little bit

he said that you know he's like

Thank you. years earlier he decided he wanted to become a wrestler and um and he told and anyway um i pulled him aside because i wanted to interview him a little bit he said that you know he's like he's like when i was a judge as a judge he's like it's tough because he's like there's people that love me or they hate me and there's there's always this this politics these things like when i show up as a as a wrestler he's like i'm a wrestler he's like he's like there's no judging he's like i'm part of a community and like that's why i'm here and he.
And like, he walked out on crutches and then he put the crutches down and he'd hobble out in the middle. He started wrestling.
And so we watched these matches. It was just like crazy watching this old guy do it.
And I remember at the end of it, over the speaker, they made an announcement. And basically, and somebody hasn't heard me tell the story before, but in wrestling, when you retire, if you're good, I mean, not for most people, but you know, you retire, you take your shoes off and you leave them on the side of that so funnel hacking live this year by the way that's something that i did is that when the event ended me and todd uh took off our shoes met dave woodward's shoes and left them on the stage and we walked off stage to kind of symbolize like the ending of an era but uh at this wrestling tournament they announced sort of a speaker that this judge said he has a terminal illness and uh this was his last time having a chance to wrestle and i remember he took his shoes off and let him outside the of the mat and everyone clapped for him and i was like man i'm looking at this guy who had never wrestled till 10 years prior he's in his he has 70s and he just wanted to wrestle you know like it wasn't something he was doing his whole life he just wanted to be a wrestler and he, he, um, and he was dying it all the way till, you know, till the end.
Um, anyway, so for me, it's like kind of recommitted, like this is something I do every single year till I die. Um, it's been fun.
Like, since I've been doing this, I've had a lot of people message me who were like, Oh, like I used to do karate when I was a kid. Now I'm new karate again.
I used to do this when I was a kid now, because I're doing, you're chasing these dreams of yours. I'm doing it as well.
So one of my main goals of sharing any of this is just to hopefully, um, for most of you guys to think back, like when you were a kid, what was the thing that brought you the most happiness for me? 100% it was wrestling. Right.
And then we, we get done wrestling. Our career ends and we stopped doing it.
And I think other sports are probably better. You know, like I have friends who played basketball and they still go find, pick up games here or there and stuff, you know, but in wrestling, it's hard.
There's not really stuff happening. I've learned jujitsu.
Jujitsu is like the, that drug for, you know, for wrestlers to get to, to do something similar. So jujitsu is a big one out there.
But anyway, I'm hoping that by sharing some of these stories and gets you guys to figure out what was the thing that you loved when you were a kid that meant the most in the world. And go start doing that thing again.
Go into a wrestling tournament. Go play soccer.
Go act in a play. Whatever your thing is.
Because, man, I can't tell you how much life and excitement it brings. So for me, it's like once a year, I have this thing.
And it's like for me to compete, I have to get back in shape. I got to wrestle.
I got to get my cardio up. I get my strength training back up.
But it means the world to me. It's the best, right? And so this year was interesting because there's freestyle and Greco-Olympic styles.
But there's a third style, which is called a collegiate style or folk style, which is the only style that we wrestle here in America. And so I was so excited because I wanted to – every single year they have it, but it's like during spring break.
So every year I'm with my family on a cruise ship. It's like, I can't do it, right? Because the cruise ship leaves at a certain time and you just can't make it.
And so this year, our family decided for spring break not to go on a cruise, but just to go on a vacation. And so I was like, wait, based on that, I don't have to be at the vacation spot like where I would happen.
So I told Claire, I'm like, hey, you're going to take the kids to Hawaii, and then I'm going to go wrestle, and I'll fly there a day late. I think she was a little annoyed with me, because, you know, yeah, especially this year it was first spring break, where our twins down in Bowen weren't with us.
Like, Dalton's home working, Bowen's on a mission, so it was already like a smaller family anyway. But I told Clyde, I'm like, I want to do this, I need to wrestle in this tournament.
Like, it's a collegiate style which I better at that style than the other ones. I was so excited to go.
And so anyway, long story short, I'm prepared for this tournament. I start wrestling and things are going well.
I'm like, I'm doing well. I'm getting back in shape.
And then the Sunday, it was March 2nd, I believe. So it's like two weeks before I was out cleaning up the wrestling room, getting ready to like turn on what we're going to be doing, like, you know, at least one, maybe two practices a day, getting ready for the tournament.
And I had this big tire, like it's a big tire that you can flip and you can hit. And it's, it's a, it's a really big tire.
Like it's hard for me to lift. In fact, usually takes two people to actually be able to lift the tire and flip it.
But I was cleaning the rest of the room. I was like, I want to move the tire.
So I went to the lift to try to pick it up. I'm like, I can't pick it up.
I'm gonna hurt my back. And so I didn't.
And i'm like i just want to move it so i walked over i started lifting it again and what's crazy is i had i had um i had like my noise canceling headphones on so that um says listen to music and stuff and so i couldn't hear anything in the room and so i started lifting it as i'm lifting the tire i get underneath it i have both my hands underneath it and all of a sudden i hear a pop in my left forearm like a like i hear it through the noise canceling. It's like pop.
I'm like, what the crap? I'm like, what was that? And I'm like, oh, well. And it's like, you kind of readjust, start lifting in and it pops again.
And I was like, oh no. So I dropped the tire.
I looked down at my arm and my arm looks like it's broken. Like it's, it does not look good.
And I try to like, I'm like, what's wrong with that? I try to pick something up. I couldn't pick anything up.
I'm like, oh no oh no so i called one of my friends tyo gada who lives in the neighbor next to me he's a chiropractor he's awesome and he raced over and he's like dude your ulna popped out of your elbow or whatever or something like that and so because he snaps it back in oh and it which hurt um but then like the muscles looked weird my arm looked deformed i was like what's happening it's like he's like your muscles all freaking out because you know the bone moved and so he spent like an hour like massaging my form to get it back to like so it looked like a normal arm and then I started some basic pressure I pressure my hand over up and then as soon as I put some pressure up my ulna popped out again and I'm like oh no so he had to reset it back in there and I was like dang it and so close so happy she's like all right you know cancel wrestling you're gonna come and I'm like like we don't cancel yet because like maybe there's a way we can heal and so then in true Russell Brunson fashion I was like all right how do we solve this problem there's got to be a way so I'm calling everyone I know trying to figure out the right things right so uh the guy who does my uh Doug Grant who does my blood work and does my supplements I tell him so he's like okay there's this these peptides it's called the wolverine protocol so he ships me out overnights me these peptides they're just making heal super fast so twice today i'm giving myself peptide shots directly into my arm right i'm doing all sorts of stuff try to get this thing healed as fast as i can and um and it just hurts every time i try to do anything that hurts and so i was about to spot where i was going to give up and then uh ty my chiropractor came overactor came over and he's like, I have an idea. So when he taped my wrist really tight on that side, he taped about three inches deep on my wrist.
And by taping it, it, it kept the two bones together closer. It's like actually my wrist, I'm like, Oh my gosh, like it still hurts, but not like, I think I could actually wrestle this way.
And so I was like, I'm going to test tomorrow morning. I called, uh, Mike Vambrill.
Who's my, one of my wrestling partners. I was like, Hey, come was like hey come out tomorrow let's wrestle i'm gonna see if i can do it so we came out the next morning and wrestled and yeah it hurts a lot but i was able to i was able to do a whole wrestling practice i'm like okay i'm back in told my wife i was like sorry colette i'm gonna go wrestle she's like what you like you literally dislocated your arm like two days ago i'm like i know if i'm gonna do it anyway and so i committed to doing it again right um at this point some of you guys are like russell's insane um and i remember i posted on social something because everyone's like oh sorry i'm gonna miss your wrestling i was like i don't think you guys understand i was like if i was missing a leg i would still go to wrestling this has nothing to it was like oh i'm healthier am i healthy like like this is something i committed to that i'm gonna do um every year till i die like i'm going to this tournament um and so that was kind of planned so then fast forward now a couple days now it's like okay now as i get close to the tournament there's two weight classes and in old guy wrestling the weight class is a bigger gap right when you're competing as a younger guy like like every eight to ten pounds there's a different weight class so you're kind of in there but with my, there's like a, there's like a 20 pound gaps.
Like there's one, I think kilos, but if you're, if you're put it into like pounds, there's like 194 pound weight class, which is what I normally weigh about. And then there's one down below, which is 172, which is a huge gap, right? That's like a 22 pound gap.
But the problem is everyone's cutting weight. So if I wrestle 194, I'm going to be wrestling people who are cutting down from 220.
If I wrestle 172,

I'm wrestling people my same size. And so I'm like, okay, I'm going to, I'm going to cut down weight for this.
And so I decided and committed to actually cutting weight. Um, and so that was

kind of the game plan. Uh, and so I got to lose, you know, I was coming down from, I was actually

195 pounds on Sunday and I'd weigh in that Friday, which I weigh 170, 1.9 technically. So yeah, that's a lot of weight.
It's 20, what, 23 pounds. And so I started the weight cut.
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So first we got my house before we left, we were cutting weight. So putting on plastics, cranking the heat of the wrestling, about to 90, whatever degrees, and I'm wrestling like crazy, right? It's like that was the first pass at it, right? And so we lost five or six pounds from there.
And then I did the next thing and then we flew out to iowa the tournament sat and then the night before we put our plastics went out there we started wrestling again to lose some weight and in that wrestling practice i'm wrestling my my arm's hurting a little bit but in one of our scrambles um mike is spinning around to get behind me to get points i went and lifted my right arm so the other arm to kind of block him and as i do that it like he's spinning behind it pops my other my right forearm i was like what the heck so now i've got my left elbow thing jacked up my right forearm's hurting so bad but i'm still cutting weight right so we get down that night i go in and like 13 pounds over i'm like okay 13 pounds waynes are tomorrow um and normally one of the ways we cut weight is we fill the bathtub up with like scalding hot water and you sit in it it makes you lose a lot of weight you can lose like two or three pounds every 15 minutes so i'm like okay here's the plan so we go that we got an airbnb we filled the hot fill up the bathtub with water and two things happen number one the hot water heater does not have enough hot water to fill the bathtub so it's like halfway fill i get in i'm like it's not covering my whole body and number two is the bathtub is draining so within like two minutes me getting in the bathtub's half empty and i'm not covered in water. I'm like, oh no, this is my, this is my catch all to be able to lose weight.
And now I can't do it. And so, yeah.
So that, and again, some of you guys are like, Russell, I thought this was a podcast about marketing or sales. Like, yeah, some days, but today's about, about you doing what it takes for you to go live the life you want to live.
So there there's the theme for today is we're going to go, because this is all I want to do, right? I want to go wrestle. I want to go compete.
Anyway, so we go to bed that night. I'm still 13.
I wake up in the morning. I'm 12 over.
And I'm like, okay, what am I going to do? I got at least 12 pounds the next like 12 hours. And so we went and we started looking for saunas.
We go to this first place. We find a sauna.
They in there and um you know i'm like hey i'm like we have like two hours in here they're like no you're capped at one session today and each session is 40 minutes so like okay so we go in there for first session we do 40 minutes uh come back out go check our weight i lost three pounds like now i'm nine over i'm like okay that's not enough so we find a different sauna place this place had like saunas with bikes in the saunas so we go there throwing plastics red bikes for an hour straight come out lost four pounds now i'm within five pounds right so then we go back we need another sauna so we find another place as a sauna but they also have a cryo um a cryotherapy chamber and so we went there got cryotherapy froze it off just because not to lose weight just because it felt good we were so beat up at this time hadn't drinking anything in like two or three days um completely dehydrated so go do cryosana go back home check our weight still i can't remember four or five pounds over so we go back do that sauna session get down to like right on weight go back check my weight at the at the hotel i'm right on so we race over to the to the place to go do our weigh-ins i get the weigh-ins and the way weigh-ins work is there's an hour for weigh-ins right but as soon as you step on the scale like like like that's your time you can't go and like leave afterwards so i go go get in line get on the scale again at the hotel i checked i was right right on weight i get on the scale and every scale is a little different so i get on the scale and they're like you're 0.2 pounds over i i'm like what he's like yeah sorry and he's like you you have two challenges if you want you can challenge but like you can't leave they can't go lose any more weight like you're done um and so i'm like yes let's do that check scale so we got this other check so i check on that one i'm still i'm 0.1 over on that one and i'm like if i don't do this i've dressed a 194 and i just lost pounds in the last five days it was all for nothing and i'm like almost in tears uh which would have been nice if i could cry i could lose some weight but um unfortunately i completely dehydrated my body so i had no tears left so i'm kind of freaking out um you know the last scale i jump on and sure enough i'm at 78 kilos exactly i jump off and he's like it counts i'm like oh my gosh and so we do that we go back and then again this is not like weight cutting like smart weight cutting where you're like losing calories this is just purely you're you're um dehydrating your body right so gallon of water weighs eight pounds so basically it was three gallons of water i had to suck out of my body to lose the weight right and so you're so dehydrated and like it's funny i looked my abs looked awesome like you could actually see i had a six pack and i had like no love handles it was amazing but my face is like sunken and my eyes are sunken in like there's just dehydrating your body so you get done and you start drinking like crazy but actually hurts to drink because you haven't drinking or eaten anything so i'm just drinking as much as i can as fast as i can and in the place we've gone into the cry, they also do IV drips. And so when they went over back to there and we did an IV drip, rehydrated through IVs and then water.
And what's crazy that night we got back and I already gained 14 pounds of water weight by the time we got back to our hotel that night. So all the water we'd sucked out in the previous 24 hours was back just by drinking and doing an IV drip.

But anyway, so that's what got me to the spot, right? And a lot of you are like, Russell, why would you do this? This seems insane. This is like torture.
And the answer, and the reality is, yes, it is torture. It is insane.
But also, I don't know, for me as a wrestler who used to do this every single week for a decade of my life, it was so much fun. It was like making me feel alive again.

So like go through the pressure and the pain and the sweating and the cutting weight and the deprivation and all the stuff all to like to be able to have the opportunity to compete was just anyway yeah it was horrible and amazing at the same time so then we fast forward next day we go to the tournament to wrestle i strap up my arm i'm so excited because we're doing collegiate style which means i can do my favorite moves like a cheap tilt and leg rides which you can't do in freestyle greco the first match i go out there we're wrestling i get the guy to cheap tilt my my favorite move i turn him and he starts spazzing out and as soon as he does uh he's like jumping he's kicking back and forth and i feel my arm pop the the ulna pops out again. I was like, oh, crap.
I heard it, felt it. And literally, I can't even move my left arm.
Like, that's how bad it was. And so I finished that match.
I lose the match. I'm trying to, like, reset the arm myself.
And it just, it hurts so bad. They call me for my second match.
I go out there wrestling. I'm doing really, really well against him.
I get on top. Same day, I'm trying to cheap tilt him.
And and it just it hurts so bad and then uh we get back on our feet and he locks him in this weird throw and throws me right on that arm again and so my left arm is just destroyed i can't flex there's no bicep it's all like bruised it just it looked horrible and so i lost two matches means usually you're two and out and i was just like. Oh, I lost both matches.
And my left arm now is completely jagged. I can't flex my bicep.
It's swollen. It looks bad.
And so we're getting ready. We're about to leave the tournament.
All of a sudden, I hear him call my name again. I'm like, what? I run over like, yeah, you're up again.
I'm like, okay. So I already had undone my wrist wrap, everything.
So I go back, I wrap my wrist while I'm running out there to wrestle. I save you guys' hand and start wrestling.
And, um, and I shoot a shot on this guy with my right hand. So it's now the other arm, the one that I had kind of hurt a little bit during the practice when we're cutting weight, I shoot on that, that leg, he sprawls back and I hear my right bicep go pop.
And I was like, oh my gosh. I let go of his leg.
And, um, and also I'm like, I have no arms, both my arms, the biceps are torn now. I don't even know what's happening.
And so I start wrestling this guy and luckily I'm able to flip him over and pin him, get the match over with. I come off, I look down and both my arms look deformed.
I was like, Oh no, this is not good. And so, um, anyway, term is done.
I go over, I have the trainers like wrap them in ice so that we're icing these, these, uh, my biceps. Um, I go back, you know, to our, to our Airbnb afterwards, I unwrap them and I look at my arms.
I'm like, they both look to form. Like my bicep does not look normal.
It doesn't go to like where it normally hooks. Like it looks, it looks really, really bad.
Um, and so I'm calling some of my doctors and friends. I'm like, what do I do? And they're like, if you have a torn bicep, like you need to get in surgery and stuff.
I'm like, well, I would love to except for I'm flying in like five hours to Hawaii for my family spring break. I cannot miss that.
Or my wife would literally destroy me. I don't have an opportunity to do that.
And so, yeah, they, like basically my arms swell up. I take a bunch of ibuprofen and stuff.
And then I don't go to bed that night because my flight's like at 3 in the morning. I jump on the plane and I fly to Hawaii.
And both my arms, like I can't move them. I can't, I get hurt to lift it.
I can't lift my backpack up. Like excruciating pain.
And as I'm flying to Hawaii, I have this realization. I'm like, my wife did not want me to wrestle, to wrestle number one she wanted me to spend time with with her the kids you know she's got the she definitely got like i told you so attitude you know which rightfully so um but i was like i don't want to ruin this trip for her or for my family i was like i'm gonna go to this trip and i'm gonna have extreme annoying happiness and optimism to the point where yeah just to just because i don't want to really trip my kids and i don't i don't care about myself like this is not about me this is about them and so i go to the um i go to hawaii and first off we're in hawaii and i'm like it's beautiful and i was like so happy to be there and even though i couldn't lift my own bag up i couldn't i couldn't move both my arms this point um are swollen like they're huge it looks like pop my arms it's kind of cool other than it's just swollen with fluid on both it's like from my wrist to my to my armpit like both arms are just completely swollen i can't even bend them um and it was crazy because i was there hawaii and i was like again extreme happiness and optimism and like everything's positive trying to to have no thought for my pain or for any of these things because this was about them.
And anyway, the Hawaii trip was insane. We had so much fun.
It was such a good time. So I'm almost at the doctors, which leads me to why I'm doing this podcast.
I'm actually now, we're back from Hawaii and I'm going to the doctors to have them check my arms and do MRIs. And I'm going to find out here a little bit if I tore both my biceps, which I have a weird inkling that I have.
It's been over a week now. And again, from my wrist to my armpit, my arms are completely yellow and purple, just pretty bad bruising.
Both my biceps don't look normal, which sucks. I'm like, oh, these don't look like my arms.
So we're about to find out. But I share this for a couple reasons..
Number one, you guys probably think I'm crazy. Now, you know, I really am.
Number two is I want to kind of go back. Like, like a lot of people don't, they don't want to do things.
They don't want to get hurt. Right? Like what else do I have to do? Right? Like I have a desk job.
I'm sitting all day making funnels and talking with my, like, I don't need my body, my arms, you know, know like anyway i think a lot of people are so scared of getting hurt or they're so scared something happening they don't do anything whereas for me it's like i don't care if i get hurt like that's the point of it like i want the soreness i want like i want to relive my glory as i wanted to have that that fun experience again you know and so it wasn't about like i don't want to get hurt it's like i'm probably hurt in fact year I've done these tournaments, I've gotten hurt consistently. There's not been a year that I haven't.
I always get hurt in them, but it's okay because I have a year to heal, right? But it makes me feel alive. And that's the key, right? So the lessons I hope you get from this, number one is do things that make you feel alive.
Don't be scared of getting hurt. Worst case scenario, what else am I doing in my life right like like this is such a fun exciting thing it made me feel alive like all the the pain the suffering the torture all those kind of things all made me feel alive so that's number one number two is i'm looking through the pain i was in and like and by just mentally shifting like i'm gonna have a positive attitude i'm like i'm not gonna let my wife or kids know how bad this is hurting me i'm to be extremely optimistic and positive.
And we made this Hawaii trip so much fun for everybody. And nobody, I mean, I'm sure they kind of knew I was being, you know, being a wuss, because I heard I couldn't do zip lining with him a couple of things like that.
But, but I brought my, my, you know, happiest, most optimistic, um, attitude to it. And we made the trip amazing.
Um, and now I have a chance to heal and figure it out and probably have to get some surgery. Who knows what's going to happen.
Um, but I don't regret it. I would do it again in a heartbeat because, um, just that, that, that reason to exist, that reason to work out, the reason to cut weight, the reason to like be excited, um, was worth everything.
Like it added energy and excitement on every other piece of my life, my business, my writing, my everything. And so I didn't want to lose that.
And it's worth the pain and the suffering. So there you go.
I hope it helps you guys. Again, some of you guys are going to ride this episode off.
Like Russell's crazy. And some of you guys are like, I'm going to go and do the thing I want to do now.
And hopefully you give yourself permission. And don't be afraid of being hurt.
Because the worst case scenario, you get a surgery and you're back at it. I got a year to heal before next year's tournament.

So thanks, guys.

I appreciate you all.

And I'll talk to you all soon.

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