Dorian Yates
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Podcast Appearances
To like, yeah, but there was a lot of things I couldn't do then.
Like my life was so restricted then.
I wouldn't even go out if I'm going to get back after 10.30 because I got to be at bed at 11.
I mean, this was all year.
It wasn't just for competition.
Now I'm doing fairly well financially.
I don't have to do anything that I don't want to do.
And I can go.
And I've always been in love with animals and wildlife.
And I used to sponsor mountain grillers in Rwanda and Uganda, because there was only 600 of them in the world.
So I used to sponsor them.
So one of the first things I did was went on a safari out to Uganda, guerrilla trekking in the mountains, and I couldn't do that before.
Maybe I could, but in my mind I couldn't.
I didn't want to take the time off.
So it started to open up more possibilities slowly, but it probably took me a couple of years to start to come to terms with it.
I mean, I had a business.
You had kids too, right?
I had a son, yeah, at that point who was โ
coming to the end of school age.
I had a business, but it's like, you know, it's not exciting.