Recovery Revolution Live with Richard Jensen

I had no idea the magnitude of the role that wrestling would play in my life when I first got on the mat as a skinny, freckled kid in Tigard, Oregon. After high school, I got caught up in the grips of addiction and unfortunately, it drove me to jail, prison, and eventually I was living on the street by age 34 and in a complete downward spiral. I woke up from the homeless shelter gym floor and decided I needed wrestling back in my life. I knew enough to understand that if I could restructure my life around the sport of wrestling, I might have a chance for a better life. So, at the ripe age of 37, I resumed training and went back to college with a goal to not only compete on the wrestling team—but to win. After a year of losses and brutalizing my body from the training, I set my sights on a national wrestling championship title. I chased that title for 10 years and never gave up hope, even when I felt defeated. Here we stand today almost 20 years since that gym floor at the homeless shelter, author of Be a Champion in Life, with an Emmy winning story on ESPN, 2016 National wrestling champion with almost 20 years of sobriety. How far I have come, how far you can go. www.beachampioninlife.com

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