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2017 World's Strongest Man Eddie Hall reveals how he keeps mentally stable and how he nearly walked away from strongman.
In this exclusive talk from Myprotein's Labs Live event, Eddie Hall details his professional career - even before he went professional in Strongman in 2014. It's great to hear how Eddie has pulled through some tough times and strives to be the best in every aspect of his life and career.
How does Eddie keep pushing boundaries after the strongest man competitions? Eddie loves the camera and is a natural in front of it - how does it he do it? Beast tells us how.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Overcoming career obstacles
04:26 - Dealing with criticism
05:39 - Next career steps
07:56 - Confidence in media
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Toby mama what has been the biggest
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obstacle in your career whether that's
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physical or mental or anything that you
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face in time to adversity that you have
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to overcome and how did you manage to
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overcome a big question start
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um I think one of the one of the biggest
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obstacles in my career was back in 2014
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and I was just sort of getting into my
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professional career I'm still working
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full-time I was a truck mechanic I still
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I had a door company so around security
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and a lot of stove content as well it
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was a very busy guy he was working 80
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plus hours a week
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and it's completely strong man
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spending all my all my money on on a
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hobby so to say doing Strongman
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Competition at the weekend normal food
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and supplements and training you know
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it's very very tough period in my life
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and I went to a conversation it was the
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world deadlift Champs that leads
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I pulled the world record deadlift it's
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462 kilos for a world record
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461 sorry
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and
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on that day you had to lower the the
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weight to the floor after you've done
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the left so you you left to wait for me
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to be you get the lockout for the
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referee you've got to lower it down
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and I let go of the bar so I dropped the
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bar I was disallowed the left
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and the prize money for getting the
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world record that day was I mean it
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doesn't seem like a lot of money now but
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it was ten thousand pounds and at the
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time like to me that was a lot of money
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you know working full-time and
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everything it would have been a big
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break for me
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and I didn't get any money for the lift
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so I did the world record because I
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dropped it I was disallowed to lift
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and I got back home and I just I said to
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the wife I'm quitting strongman I'm done
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I'm sick of spending all my money all my
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time on my effort killing myself day in
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Day Out
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to earn pennies and even lose money on a
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sport that there's no money in so I
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decided that day I was going to quit
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strongman and it was actually my wife
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that convinced me you know sat me down
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and said like whether you got the lift
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or not
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you pull the world record deadlift from
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the floor and you prove the will that
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you're one of the best in the world and
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what you do I.E strongman if you can
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pull a world record on the floor and you
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can go out and win the World's Strongest
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Man and it was that weekend so that
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massive loss that massive failure a lot
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of people would have walked away and
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thought stop it you know that's it I'm
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done
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I decided to make that as an opportunity
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to tell myself to go full time and that
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we can equip a job I started the process
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to sell my security business
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and that was the weekend I became a
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full-time professional strongman
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the sort of middle of 2014 and uh that's
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that's when it all began and pretty much
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was it three years later I won the
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World's Strongest Man so you know
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turning that massive negative you know
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that adversity into a massive positive
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for me that was a
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a very hard time in my life and
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obviously even even at making the
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decision to quit the job and self-door
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business
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it was a very worrying time because you
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know I didn't have much money in the
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bank I've got mortgage and bills to pay
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so I had to go for all that process of
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becoming a professor strongman on a very
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very low low amount of money and thank
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God it paid off
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yeah
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I think that barely made me you know and
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I and I realized that over the years
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that you've got to have these little
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failures in life you've got to have
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these little negatives
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another setbacks to make you get off and
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come back bigger and stronger and I've
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worked with a lot of psychiatrists
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over the years and one one of them said
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to me something that stuck with me for
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the rest of my career
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and it was about losing competitions and
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I couldn't take losing I couldn't take
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losing anything in life
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but this psychiatrist sat me down and
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was like right what what if I told you
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you were only 12 competitions we were
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only 12 losses away from achieving your
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dream and becoming the World's Strongest
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Man and that's when it hit me but you've
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got to have the losses you've got to
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have the failures to go you've got to go
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for that process to be the best
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no Champions no Champion is born you
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know prepare for Champion you want to
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work hard for it and put your hearts on
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something that's that's what that
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failure taught me
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Iceberg theory is that people don't see
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all the stuff underneath they only see
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the peak of your career one of the
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things that you mentioned there was
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about
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things that you've that you've been
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through and we've asked this people this
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question to a couple of people today
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it's about criticism and obviously in
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the public eye on social media you're
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seeing get a lot of it
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how do you deal with that from a mindset
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amount of point of view
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I mean Prince says there is something
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that anybody gets you know you can be
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anyone in life and you get princess or
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not somebody
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um I just see it as fuel to the fire you
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know if you're being criticized and
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you're doing something right in my
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opinion you know you end of the day
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you gotta you gotta pick a path you've
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got to pick a goal and you're going to
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stick to it people are going to
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criticize a long way but we're going to
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say you're doing things wrong people are
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going to say you're acting wrong people
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are going to say you can't be done
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people are going to say it's impossible
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you've got to ignore those people you're
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gonna you're gonna take all that all
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that negativity put it on that fuel fuel
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for the fire
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and you use it as energy to push forward
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and achieve your goals and become
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somebody if you if I talk to a little
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rip you know obviously I'll see it yeah
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but I just tend to ignore it you know I
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just a little shrug
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you know end of the day
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it says more about them than it does
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about you if they're going to take time
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out of their day to come on and call you
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names and try and drag you down it says
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more about their life than it does your
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own and that's how I see it so let them
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carry on you mentioned that about your
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goals obviously since finishing strong
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man you've got on to do some different
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challenges more and more reasonably
5:47
unboxing
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did you find like once you finished
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strongman there was like a hole there
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that you needed to to build like a neck
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Challenge and something to Aspire to do
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and is there any other challenges that
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you feel you would like to take on over
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your career the next couple years
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I mean challenges for me is my life it's
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something I've done a bit of annual game
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set challenges very few people know that
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or probably a lot of people that do know
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now because I've never show up about it
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but I was a national champion swimmer
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when I was young teenagers on the GB
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Olympic Squad so it's basically on the
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GPS Junior Olympic team to go to the
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Olympics
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and even then you know I was I was just
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obsessed with being the best of a sport
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moved into bodybuilding that didn't
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quite you know suit my friend move into
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strongman set some enormous goals in a
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strong man achieve that
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and then yeah after that it's like the
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big question mark what do you do after
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you choose such a pinnacle in your life
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and it's well documented actually that
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you know you get this Olympic gold
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medalists these world champions now
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there's massive High in line and then
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the next day you'd spot down to reality
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you're back home you're doing the dishes
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you're taking your kids to school
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you know better than everybody else and
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I guess for me that's what I'm always
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seeking I'm always seeking that Euphoria
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I'm always seeking that thrill of being
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the best in the world or something and
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you know after worlds it was a tough
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thing to do to sort of Step Back From
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the sport and
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take a different path and go down the
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you know doing TV shows doing
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endorsements doing doing meet and greets
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doing
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um doing sort of
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lectures in a way around the country and
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that became my path now I had a great
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time and then obviously the boxing match
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came up and I thought I saw that was a
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nice Challenge and it was a nice bit of
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payback for somebody but
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and now it's just resetting the goals
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again getting back into the TV staff and
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just reset the goal to get back into
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training now so yeah we'll set myself a
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lot of goals for me now it's just about
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you know I've got goals to sort of dox
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about TV and shows get the profile up
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there and just just ride the wave on the
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back of the world's strongest one title
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really that's that was my plan all along
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how did you find that transition because
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obviously it's not the most natural path
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is it from like
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then be on the other side of the camera
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it's not something that comes natural to
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people to be able to jump in from this
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stuff I mean if people watch your
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content you're you're pretty natural
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they're comfortable doing content and
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speaking in front of camera what would
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your advice be to other people who
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potentially want to document more there
8:18
Jenny and what they're doing and get
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more comfortable beyond the other side
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of the camera transitioning into the
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sort of PR world so to say and doing TV
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shows
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and something that came natural to me
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and I've always had this boisterous
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nature of just being yourself you know I
8:32
go to all the brothers you always put
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you in kicking me up you know I was
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punching kicked off I wasn't brought up
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um
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and I think you know I worked in a in a
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garage I went to as a mechanic for 12
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years I think it was I was I was a
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dormant security guard on nightclubs and
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pubs
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so I've been out there and I've
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experienced the real life you know and
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I've I took the smacks on the door and
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I've given them as well
8:58
um and I think that teaches you a lot in
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life and I think that's why I'm quite
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relatable you know you I'm not I'm not
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someone that's been handing a gold
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Trophy and sort of handed the success
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I've had to work my way up and you know
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I've done my nine to five job and I've
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worked 80 hours a week and I've never
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even killed myself and I've struggled to
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pay my mortgage you know I've been
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through all that
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um but I think that's why I'm just I
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just I think I'm a bit more relatable to
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the people that you know come a bit more
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attachable everything's the right word
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is because I'm just like everybody else
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in this room you know and today I have
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to sit down and take like everybody else
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I'm no different than anybody so that
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and that's that's what I enjoy
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I enjoy being myself and
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portray myself on camera and you know
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people seem to enjoy the real lighting
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ball
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