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I actually I retired from sport in April, so I’m like, I’m a retired sport. But I’ll tell you what we did, because I did do it for 15 years. So I — we actually right now, so I know where I’m going to say Canadian celsius.

That sort of time frame, just trying to make incremental changes the whole time. That’s really difficult. And I feel like in the college environment, it is it can be more challenging because whether you’re a junior or senior, you’ve got seniority.

Actually, eight-year-old Justin wanted to be an NHL player. That’s what Justin wanted to be. And if you ever asked me at that age, it could have been teachers, it could have been parents, it could have been other people. 

I think it must be much harder, like when you’re in that latter half and everyone’s catching you and passing you back. I think it’s never a fun place to be. I know I’ve been in that position in many CrossFit workouts where let’s say this actually happened to me in 2019.<...

We’re just so disconnected with our bodies. And our bodies, like patients, will come in and they’ll be like, “I threw out my back. I didn’t do anything. I was just picking up my shoe” or something. 

I’m going to pull lessons from that experience for the rest of my life. But the main one for me was — somebody asked me a couple of years back, like, what’s one thing you’ve gone all in on in your life? And I just didn’t have an answer.

That’s it’s all BS, right? Because what you’re doing when you do something like that, like, well, I’ll just use that example. Like when you if you do say, “Oh, I’m mad because this guy cut me off,” like that’s why I’m angry. What you’re doing is you are giving your power...

Well, I think as a small business owner, it’s me, myself and I in this room, you know, like I do so much of this on my own. 

What I’ve discovered. And, you know, people ask like, “How do you get through the hard moments out there? When it’s, you know, zero degrees and you’re hungry and you’re nauseous and you haven’t slept.” It’s like, well, it’s not that that’s the opposite of a good moment f...