Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. It's your host, Nees-Shobo. Today, you guys are going to listen to an interview with a great friend of mine. He's a beast, man. His name is Jim Harshaar, Jr. He's a TEDx speaker. He's a performance coach. And he actually was a former D-1 All-American wrestler. He has an incredible story, man. I can't wait for you guys to hear it.

He's a former D-1 head coach as well. And I mean, as early as the age of 26, he found himself as

the youngest D-1 head coach in the country. And he has an incredible brand all about success

through failure. He's a super practical dude he speaks that

jungle talk just like you and i do and you guys are going to really enjoy this interview man so

one of the reasons i enjoyed it as well my oldest son he's a wrestler and um and jim harshaw

junior of course is a wrestler as well so i very very much enjoyed picking Jim's brain as it relates to these wrestling questions and stuff as well.

So let's hop up into it.

Enjoy.

Listen, you've achieved a lot of success in your life.

So you, D1, All-American Wrestler, D-1 head coach. Now, I've achieved a lot of success in your life. So you, D1 All-American Wrestler,

D1 head coach, now a successful podcast, author, business, coaching, all of that. But I want you

to take me kind of to the start of it all. Give me like, where did you grow up? How did you,

what was the journey that led you to where you are? Gosh, man. So I was, uh, I was the prototypical small kid from a small town, thought small, um,

blue collar family, hardworking family.

Dad was a construction worker.

Mom was a secretary.

Uh, didn't have grew up in the six man we had

we didn't even have an adjo i didn't even have a house number we had that was an rd my address was

r d one that was that was my address rd1 didn't we didn't have a post office in my town nothing

so anyway small town and you know success was kind of always for

other people you know we worked really hard but you know success always just seemed like and felt like

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