Aidan Walsh

Just says I'll open a can of worms that doesn't really need to be opened or don't want to open now, because I know I won't go.

After the Olympics, the same person asked me again, do you want to get some help?

And that's when I met Dr. Paul Geffney.

And to be honest, and I openly say it, it changed my life forever.

It really did.

And I think regardless of the medals and the trophies and the success, I thank boxing more because it gave me the opportunity to meet him than winning any other medals, honestly.

And Paul's been a massive part of my journey since then.

They're coming back and helping me, supporting me.

We're writing a book together.

It's going to be out in the next few months and just doing a lot of good things because I always thought you had to fight everything in sport and it's the same.

When I was younger, it was all fight.

You fight your thoughts, fight your... Even out in the street, everything was fight, fight, fight because that's all I knew.

And it was only until I met Paul, it was like, there's easier ways in life, there's softer ways, kinder ways, you know, slower ways.

And that really helped me.

And basically since 2021, 2022, I've met Paul every week.

When I used to go to competitions, I would have met Paul two or three times a week and phoned him before fights, after fights.

And that for me really helped me.

And I think looking back to that 12 year old me, that's what I needed way back then.

Yeah.

And if I had had that way back then, or someone there to understand and listen, more so than anything, just listen, I think I could have done a lot more in sport, to be honest.