Nick Bare

And this is when you started competing in CrossFit at a elite level and dedicate a lot of your life to training and fitness and performance.

And I've listened to a few of your podcast episodes talking about these

these stories in this chapter of your life.

So as much as you want to share or talk about, feel free to.

But I think one of my favorite stories was, and you've shared it on multiple podcasts, it's when you were homeless and you were going to this diner that was close to a fashion school.

And this just reinforces your love and passion about food and fueling your body.

And this diner would serve these massive portions and all these skinny fashion model students would come in and order these big plates of greens and potatoes and eggs and meat and veggies.

And they barely touched their food.

You'd come in, buy a 75 cent coffee and then ask for their scraps and eat that.

What was that phase of life like as a whole?

Coming back from these combat deployments with the Marine Corps,

And of all places going into LA and being exposed to that life.

I think the military as a whole has to find some sort of solution for

Better transition programs.

Yeah.

I saw a lot of my guys, because I was a platoon leader, and I saw a lot of my guys struggle with the transition out.

What was it, and maybe CrossFit was part of that, that facilitated that structure back into your life?

Because it feels like even today, you are a...

a man that is a creature of habit and structure, just like me.

I have a question and I'm trying to figure out how to ask this, that it makes sense.