Reflecting back on the darkest day of my life, and how necessary it was for me to become who I am today. On Today’s episode Russell talks about his darkest time and how that lead him to all the good things in his life. Here are some of the inspirational things you will here in this episode: Why losing in the state wrestling championship senior year of high school made it possible for Russell to become everything he is today. How he was able to pull himself up and work harder than ever before to try and become the best. And why we should try to look at our hard times as good learning experiences and how they could be just what we need to become everything we want to be. So listen here to find out why not being state champ senior year of high school led Russell to where he is now. ---Transcript--- Hey everybody, this is Russell Brunson. I want to welcome you to the Marketing Secrets podcast. Today I just want to share with you a story that happened back when I was wrestling in high school. Hey everyone, so I am, wrestling season is done with my kids, as you know. It’s fun because I’ve finally had a chance to get back to work. I bought three hours a day back into my work, and it’s been interesting as I’ve got back to work, I’ve been missing wrestling like crazy and I’ve been missing that extra time with my kids. I had about a whole week where I was just at work, the full day, catching up on stuff and it was nice. And then my kids and one of their close friends started saying, “Hey coach Brunson….” And “Hey dad, can we start wrestling again? We want to start practicing again.” And we kind of talked about it earlier in the season and I was like, “Hey you guys, if you really want to get good…” And I told them, it’s kind of funny I told them this, because at first my kids did not like wrestling. And I kept telling them, “As you as you guys like wrestling, I can make you really, really good. But you have to like it first, If you don’t like it, I’m never going to be able to make you good at it because you’re going to fight me and you’re not going to enjoy it. You’re going to have a bad attitude. But as soon as you like it, I can make you really good.” And about halfway through the season, I was out, I can’t remember, I was on a trip or something where I was gone, and Bowen, one of my twins called me, he was the one that hated wrestling the most. He called me one night and said, “Dad, guess what?” I’m like, “What?” and he’s like, “I like wrestling now.” And I’m like, “What? Dude, that means I can help you become a good wrestler now.” He’s like, “I know.” So it’s been fun. Anyway, so we started the practices this week with them, where basically, oh and I put in my two boys, the weight lifting coach that lifts weights with me, I have them lifting weights with him as well, after school. So I’m trying to get them some muscle on their little frames. And then after they get some lifting, I come and we do a practice for, it’s supposed to be an hour but so far they’re going like an hour and a half to two hours long. But they’ve been really, really fun. It’s just us three, it’s Bowen and Dallin, my two kids and then Tyler, who is one of their buddies, and me. So that’s four. Anyway we did a practice yesterday and did a practice today, it’s fun. And then this Saturday I’m actually having them all come over and watching Rocky part one together, because I think that’s essential. For you to be good at anything, you gotta watch Rocky part one because then it gets you pumped for training hard and beating the odds and all that fun stuff. So we’re watching Rocky this weekend, I’m so excited. But I’m telling you this because tonight after practice they were looking over my medals and things like that, and I was telling them about it. And I showed them, of all the awards I got in wrestling, the one I’m most proud of was, there’s this plaque on the wall, and it’s second place in the country All American. And basically when I was in high school I went to