1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: Now from Unbreakable, a mental health podcast. This is your 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 1: mental health check in. Here's Jay Glazer. Welcome back to Unbreakable, 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,599 Speaker 1: a mental health podcast with Jay Glazer. Today, I want 4 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: you to hear me loud and clear. Be proud of 5 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: your scars, not ashamed, but proud. I'm gonna go back 6 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: to a story. There's a football player named Rain O'Neill 7 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: that I'm friends with, who was actually the first guy 8 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: we ever helped with m v P merging vests in players. 9 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: And Orn had been the rookie of the Year for 10 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: the Raiders one year man. He ended up having a 11 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: horrific knee injury. Blew out his knee more than blew 12 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: out his knee, broke bones over in that area, blew 13 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: out the knee, blew out his back. Man, he was 14 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: in a rough place as a result of that. So 15 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: I went down. I met with Rain, and Rain was 16 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 1: very bitter because of his injuries, and I said to him, 17 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: I do tell him what you got now, folks, listen. 18 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: I started wrestling in two boxing and eight mixed. I've 19 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: done martial arts for most of my life, even weaponry 20 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: mixed martial arts, starting in like ninety nine or two thousand. 21 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:11,479 Speaker 1: So I'm not a good fighter at all. So I've 22 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: got my ask kick quite a bit. So I got 23 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: a ton of injuries and a ton of scars. So 24 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: I'm willing to fight, which which makes me a dangerous fighter. 25 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: But I'm not a very good fighter. I'm not very skilled. 26 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 1: So I got a ton of injuries. So I said, around, 27 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 1: what's wrong? And he said, oh, man, you know I 28 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 1: blew out life. You know. He told me all those 29 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: injuries on his knee and I said, man, I haven't 30 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: done my knee. I partially toured my patella. What else 31 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 1: you got? He said, well, you know, messed up out 32 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 1: four all five. I said, yeah, I've ruptured out four 33 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: all five four times, l one out two three times. 34 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: Heard he had a two three four five? What else 35 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: you got and he knows, well nothing else? Said man, 36 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: I just located my elbow. I told my Bidestepp. I 37 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: broke my ankle twice, actually woke up during surgery, broke 38 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: my nose seven times, turned my camp and he goes, WHOA, yeah, 39 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: I like you're proud of it. I said, you're damn right. 40 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: I am or and absolutely because that's my only choice. 41 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: But all saw our scars are things that try to 42 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: break us and couldn't, and we came through the other 43 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: side of that tunnel. So when I walk into a 44 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: room now, I look at everybody in the room, and 45 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: I say to myself, I didn't like the rest of 46 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: everybody in the here. I'm different, and I'm different because 47 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 1: the things I've overcome. I'm different because of my scars. 48 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: Not I don't ever walk in the room and go man, 49 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: I broke the biggest scoop in the history of the 50 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: NFL and spy game. Man, I'm in the television all 51 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: of fan Man, I'm in ballers. I never do that. Never. 52 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,679 Speaker 1: I never bragged to myself about my successes. Be a 53 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: damn run. I brag about my scars because that's my 54 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: only choice. Do I wish my hobby was chess and checkers? Sure, 55 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: actually this is chest to a point, but sure it's 56 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: not fighting once. Um. Do I wish I wasn't hitting 57 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 1: the head a million times? Sure? Absolutely, But I have 58 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,399 Speaker 1: been and told they can give me a solution out 59 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: of that. The damnit is aren't even done. I'm gonna 60 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: be proud of my scars. I'm gonna walk in every 61 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: room and where their scars like a badge of honor 62 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: for every one of you. I want you to start 63 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: being proud of your scars. My depression, of my anxiety, 64 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 1: those are scars. I'm certainly not hiding from them. I'm 65 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: not using them. I'm different. There are things that I've overcome. 66 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 1: Our scars are just things we've overcome. I try and 67 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: tell people that nowadays when they use the term mental illness, 68 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: I go, Nope, no mental illness, just things I've overcome. 69 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: So gay, let's start being proud of our scars and 70 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: using them moving forward, to keep walking on this walk together.