Alex Honnold

You're like, I'm trying so hard and I'm just like, not as good as I want to be.

And like, that's challenging, you know, but that's,

I mean, everybody faces that to some extent, where you're like, I'm working hard at a thing, but I'm just not achieving the results that I want.

I mean, the first, my first couple of years, my sponsorship through the North Face was like, I think my first year was like 10K a year.

I was like, this is amazing.

So I was living in my car and, you know, making 10 grand when you live by yourself in a van is like more than you need, basically.

Um, it obviously went up beyond that at some point, but it was, you know, like in the 10 to a hundred range for the first, for the whole, yeah, for years.

Yeah.

And then it increases.

I mean, then free solo is obviously like a big thing and that sort of opened up all these opportunities.

Uh, because then I started doing corporate speaking and stuff like that.

And I mean, as I'm sure, you know, that's just like a whole different world.

And so then you go from just like making some money from sponsors to like making money from from other corporations.

And they're like, OK, now you're making some money.

Yeah, which is fair.

I mean, I spent years looking at El Cap and being like, that's too big.

That's impossible.

And then, you know, after years of that, I kept hoping that I would look at it and it would like look easy somehow.

And I'd be like, cool, now I'm going to do it.

And it just never looked easy.