What’s the greatest gift powerlifting has given you? | Topic Thunder

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to topic. You're gonna get out of breath fun

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this track. I'm here with the
game day boys and Good Company's own.

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I know he's got a job.
Uh yeah, So someone someone on TikTok

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asked me, what is the greatest
gift that being a part of the fitness

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industry has given you? That's good. You got one. No, I'll

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do I'll go last. You can't
do that, I'll go last. You

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got something because you're kind of new
to the game. Like you obviously have

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a real job. You're in school. Yeah, and you hang out with

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us. Job, what what are
we doing? We ain't got a real

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job. We aren't a real war
imaginary Um, but but you dabble and

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help a lot of people and a
lot of things. What's what's maybe,

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um, the best thing that you
find in the fitness industry you're more most

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feeling about bouncing around with us.
Definitely friendship. There's back home, Like

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there's a lot of job back home, So it's definitely nice to have people

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outside of that community. Um,
I've met a lot of amazing people within

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the past about two years, two
or three years. But and yeah,

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like I'm new But within that short
time, I met and networked with a

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bunch of people I never thought I
would even meet. So that was very

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interesting to do and it's fun and
I love all of them. Joe,

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So I think, I think,
honestly, it's within the last I don't

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know, six months, I've gained
a lot of perspective being a part of

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the fitness industry. I think I
didn't always know what I wanted out of

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life. And being a part of
this and you know, trying the whole

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entrepreneurship thing, coaching people, social
media, all that stuff that has kind

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of sprouted out of the fitness industry
has kind of given me perspective on just

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the fact that I want to live
a life of service in some way.

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Um, I want to be able
to continue helping people just sort of through

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this lens of fitness, you know, whether that's you know, own owning

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the gym, or or making content
on TikTok or or you know, just

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doing cool stuff like this. The
meat that we hosted this past weekend is

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a great example. I mean,
you know that was a lot of stress.

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Yeah, you know, obviously there's
financial stuff that comes out of that.

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That's that's great. But you know, I'll talk about the DM that

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I told you about. We we
got a DM from one of the lifters

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that said they were considering quitting powerlifting
until they did our meat another like I

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want to keep I want to keep
going. Um my Dan, maybe want

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to come out of retirement. Oh
my god. Charlie Yang who he sacrificed

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his birthday to come help us ref
He said it was the best birthday he

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ever had. Like it just it's
it's things like that that give me the

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perspective that despite all of the stress
and feeling like I'm a little lost sometimes

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that's kind of the north star that
I come back to that I have a

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perspective on what I want my life
to be because of the fact that I'm

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a part of this industry. Yeah, I think mine's a kind of combot

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yours and Nano's not to get like
sad and dark, but like, I

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deal with depression for a very long
time my entire life, and so I

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find it very difficult to find excitement
and very difficult to find the high highs.

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I'm like lukewarm arm the lows and
so similar to you, I feed

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off of other people's highs and so
like, this is one of the most

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one because I lack of sleep,
for sure, but also one of the

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most emotional weekends for me in a
long time because I saw everybody else and

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how stoked they are. Here in
Charlie's story about his just his life and

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how much fun he's had this weekend
seeing all the lifters, how stoked they

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are, all the newbies that if
you've never competed before, the first meet's

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going to make or break your passion
for fitness, whether loan competing. You

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know, like if if you get
hurt, or someone's grumpy, or the

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refts of jerk, or or the
door person's a jerk or word jerk,

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the meat director's a jerk, you'll
just stop right Like, I would never

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do that again because it's already so
intimidating, and you're putting your ass on

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the line. You're already scared and
nervous, and then if some negative happens,

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why would you want to do that
again. You're you're you're in like

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a flight state, and then it
sucks you're leaving. But if you're in

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a flight state and it's welcoming,
it's dope. Shout out, my boy,

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Eddie, who absolutely crushed it,
and I don't want to put him

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on blast, but he's telling me
how nervous he was afterwards, He's like,

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dude, but the support of the
crowd went crazy and I had so

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much fun. He's a fucking WWE
wrestler, uh, And so like stuff

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like that is what I feed off
of, the same idea of kind of

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fulfillment. I guess on the selfish
side, like, obviously I want to

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help people, but the barbell's way
for me to do that. The barbell

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has been a microphone for my journey
through life. I'm not in love with

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the barbell as much as other people. That's just the truth. But I

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like fitness and I think it's important. I think I'm fairly knowledgeable and I

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can help people. So it just
allows me to make my voice louder.

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And that goes into the what Nano
says, kind of the just community in

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good company with our motives is driven
by culture in the community, and and

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and without that without how many,
how diverse it is, and how cool

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some of the people can be.
And yeah, there's there's shit above us

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and there's ship below us. But
when you get to the core of the

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community. It's really really dope,
so um kind of combo those you got

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a little guy. Basically, it's
a combination of everything you guys are saying

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because obviously, uh, that's the
most important thing we've all gotten, um

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from the past years with fitness,
past decade for you, Hey dude,

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just for a while. Um,
I told us, I told us like

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in the last podcast when uh,
when we were doing it together, I

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was like, yeah, I literally
yeah, I literally got into fitness Mike.

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I bought my first pair of restauruts
watching Mike, Like, it's everything

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like a full circle now, Like
I've been able to train with him,

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like film content him, Like I
never thought I'd be in a position to

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film content as like my full time
thing. And to be able to do

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this though it cost you a good
amount to hang out with me, Yeah

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it caught. It cost me a
lot physically mentally, like anyways, like

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to be able to make content as
like full time thing, and like be

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able to give an opportunity for myself, for the people around me, like

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for them my videographer that I just
took on my side, for us to

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be able to be in a position
where we can make this our full time

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thing, like I'm more motivated than
ever. I made it like a video

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about burnout, Like I saw a
picture of myself with like eight of my

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friends, like I think six years
ago, and I'm like the only person

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that's little power of that. Still
it's like doing anything like fitness related and

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I'm like, damn, that's that's
deep. That hurts, like and I

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don't I like kind of evaluate like
everything going on. I was like,

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I still love lifting like so much, like never went away at all.

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And I think with the evolution of
like fitness and like powerle of thing,

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like I'm more than motivated than before
to be better myself encourage others to be

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better for themselves. Like I'm not
trying to get cheesy with motivational shit like

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that, but being in the Finnish
community, like seeing people like you like

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Joe, looked Tim, all these
great people that I've been like associated with,

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like it never wants me to stop. So that's my love it Yeah,

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I think, um, and you
know that's obviously not to plug our

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shit or even harder, but it
is my podcast. That's where a Good

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Company came about, because if you
surround yourself with the right folks. It's

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a lot easier to show up,
it's a lot easier to have fun,

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it's a lot easier to work.
That's where it came from. Makes sense.

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Jimbo's got something going on between the
years. Yeah, one hundred percent

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the name Good Companies from Jimbo.
Um and then we we ran with it

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because I believed in it and I
truly do believe community and culture runs everything.

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And if we can turn all those
notches of community in culture just daily,

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weekly, yearly, slightly more positive, we're all going to be in

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a better spot. Um. So
thanks so much for hanging out. Boys,

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It's been an absolute insane weekend.
I'm dead tired. And Nano and

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girls uh and you guys is helping
and support throughout the years, let alone

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more recently is it does not go
on deafer year. So where can people

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find any buddy? You find me
on Instagram at Nico Flor's eighty three kg

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and on YouTube at Niko Flores uh
uh, Instagram, Nano with two thirty

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one and I'm seth Mike where you
want to find me? New episodes Wednesday

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and Friday. Thanks so much for
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where fifty percent is a I messed

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it up on the last one.
Wow. Where this has been fifty percent

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facts, where fifty is a number
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Facts is a Spriaker Prime podcast in
association with I Heeartradio on the Obscure Celebrity

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Network. Dude, Joe, you're
barely wearing pants in that video. I'm

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not. I'm not. That's actually
my underweark you want to be hold shorts

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that whatever,