Nate Pontius

but I'm just not, I'm not that guy.

Like I'm, I don't need a crew to assemble and like go out and train hard and get motivated.

Like, I don't want to say I'm self-motivated, but even just as a kid, the types of, I was very rebellious and the types of people that I looked up to were Dennis Rodman.

I liked the lone wolf.

Like,

I went to the rodeos and like all the other kids would like be going crazy for the bull rider.

They'd like want his autograph and everything.

I was like hyper focused on these rodeo clowns, like the bull fighting rodeo clowns, like the oddballs, misfits, the loners, like.

I just more kind of identify with that.

And so the transition and being alone, loneliness has never really been a thing for me.

I just needed to find my own personal mission to get on.

I didn't need a brotherhood to facilitate that.

And I used a lot of, I actually used a lot of the opposite of that.

I built this like group of dudes that I trained with

I don't want to say that I hated them, but all I wanted to do was just prove them wrong all the time.

I was just such a vengeful, just hate.

I had so much hate in me and like I would win these competitions and I would like win some money and I was never happy because I was never doing anything for myself.

All I was doing was like, I just wanted to prove everybody wrong.

I was just very vengeful.

What kind of softened your heart?