Sami Spalter

So that was really great.

And then I got to the point where I could hold myself accountable.

And like I had partners in that community that like knew my name, knew what I was up to, knew about like what I wanted to accomplish.

And I have always been someone who wanted to surround myself with people who were doing more and doing better.

And it's really motivating.

Like I always say in business, I never want to be the smartest person at the table.

And when I was signing up for CrossFit, I definitely wasn't walking in there wanting to be the fittest person in the room.

So it was really cool to see these like literal athletes doing the same shit that like I wanted to do.

And I would crush myself in those workouts.

I was going for it, like really, really going for it.

And then after that year, I... Question.

No, I never thought 85 pounds was possible.

I had been overweight my whole life.

I was the heaviest kid in my first grade class.

I don't know why and what happened in first grade.

We were all put on a scale in front of each other.

And yeah, I'm literally 23 years later still remembering this moment of being the heaviest kid when I was in sixth grade.

I won't forget little moments of like my doctors growing up saying like, Sammy, like you're only 13.

You shouldn't be carrying this much body fat.

just across the board, so many moments that were so telling.