Transcript of Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

I'm probably the biggest hater of pickleball, especially online. Online, all the big pickleball pages, they all know me. They all know me because I'm always in the comments, just like, shitting on the sport. And the reason why I was like that was because-Not only am I going to compete, not only am I going to dominate, but I'm going to be the best.

Not one of the best, but the best. What was that journey like, man?

I was never the best in the world, right? As a matter of fact, I was probably When I started playing pro, the worst in the world. By far, the worst in the world.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mic Unplug, and today we have a phenomenal guest. We're talking about a world-renowned athlete an ambassador for the sport of table tennis, known for his electrifying performances, an inspiring journey from the streets of Brooklyn to international acclaim. His dedication, resilience, and ability to connect with people of all backgrounds have made him a true icon in the world of sports. Please join me in welcoming the dynamic, the inspiring, the transformative, the Wallbreaker himself, Mr. Wally Green. Wally, how are you doing today, brother?

I'm great. Thanks for having me.

Absolutely, man. So we're about to start where we were talking offline. And I said, Wally, when I was introduced to you, I was like, Wait, I've seen that guy. Because there's not a lot of people that look like me and Wally that you see TV or out doing table tennis, right? Yeah. So Wally, man, tell me how you went from Brooklyn to picking up table tennis.

Oh, man, it's pretty crazy because I actually hated it. I hated the sport. They had it in my high school. I used to make fun of all the kids that played it. At the time, I was playing football. I played basketball for the wrestling team, and I would see it in the lunchroom, and I would make fun of everyone. I'd go, Look at these kids with their short shorts and a stick. It was just funny. For for me to see. I started shooting pool one year, and while I was shooting pool, I got hustled for a little bit of money. I got upset, took my pool stick, slammed it on the table, and it shattered. It broke. It just shattered. I was so angry. Back then, I used to take everything that was bothering me, I would take out on other people. I would blame everyone for everything and never myself. I saw some kids playing ping pong, and it was the perfect storm. The sport that I hate. I broke my pool stick. I'm angry. I'm going to go mess with these kids. So I went over there to where the kid is playing ping pong in this pool hall, and I asked one of the kids, I was like, Can I get a hit?

And the kid was like, You play this? I was like, I don't play this. Just give me the paddle. My My original goal was when he hit the ball to me, to smash him in the face with the ball and then just say, My bad. And then it wouldn't look like I was starting something. It was a mistake. But unfortunately, the angle of the racket happened to be down when I went to smash a ball in his face and it went on the table and it hit the table and the kid was like, Oh, my God, it's a great shot. He was like, Oh, you got to go check out this ping pong club. I said, There's no way that there's a place where people gather and play this sport. There's no way that there's a club for this. He was like, I'm telling you, go check it out. You got to check it out. Back then, I was going through two lives. I was in a gang at an early age at 13, owned six guns at 13. I was a very violent kid. The balance to the violence was sports. Also the balance to the abuse that was going on home was sports.

If I joined every possible team that I could play, I'd be exhausted, and those things would bother me less. I just joined every sport. When the guy was telling me that this is a sport, in the front, I was like, There's no way this is a sport. But in the back was like, Well, maybe it is. I went down to check out this sport, and when I walked in, it was another pool much bigger, but they had, I think, I don't remember, nine tables, maybe eight ping-pong tables. They had a section that was just ping-pong. Guys were standing back, making a lot of noise and whipping these balls back and forth. The craziest thing about it was that Every person who happened to be playing that day was Black. Then I was like, Wait a minute, Black people play this? I was shocked because for me, only Asians played ping-pong. I was like, What? It was like, Wait a minute, Black people play this? And I saw them playing. Then immediately, my mind changed. And I was like, Yo, I want to play this, too. And then that's how I started. That was the first thought of me touching a paddle and trying to learn the sport.

That's amazing. That's crazy, man. And I'm going to say you conquered it, right? Because knowing Wale, like I know, when you put your mind to something, you don't just go like halfway in, like you are going to be the best. So what was that journey like from starting at the club clubs, the table tennis or ping-pong clubs, to saying, not only am I going to compete, not only am I going to dominate, but I'm going to be the best. Not one of the best, but the best. What was that journey like, man?

It was crazy, right? Because I was never the best in the world, right? As a matter of fact, I was probably, when I started playing pro, the worst in the world. I was by far the worst in the world. It was not because I didn't have the skill to do it, I just had the wrong mindset. I was a great athlete. I played every sport. I got MVP in every sport I ever played, every sport. I just figured, You know what? I'm going to be great at this, too, and I'm going to be everyone. And that was my mindset. But I wasn't really respecting the sport and respecting the people that actually put years into the sport since three years old. Because of that, I would go I played these tournaments. I would leave America, go to China, and lose 11:1, 11:2, 11:3, 11:1. Maybe you don't get five points in one match, and my tournament would be over. I just flew from America to China, and one day, that's it, I was done. And this happened for a long time. I was just losing. And it wasn't I couldn't play. I could play as practicing every day.

I was practicing in different countries. But my mindset was wrong. I was thinking that because I'm such a great athlete, I should be great in this. And because I started to believe that, I wasn't learning. I wasn't learning why I was losing. I wasn't learning why the score was 11 I'm 11:1 or 11-2. Then I started to try to figure out, how could I get better? Because people will come up to me and they would say, You should be playing basketball. I'm not going to let people tell me that. You should be rapping. I was doing some hip hop back then, You should be doing this. And there's, You should be doing everything except this sport. They were telling me, This is not for you. People were telling me this. I started to think like, Man, all right, something is off here. I got to figure out, how can I get better? And then I came up with this idea and I said, You know what? Maybe I'm putting too much pressure on myself. Instead of me trying to win a match, let me get five points. If I can get five points in one match, not even five points in four out of seven games, just one match, I get five points, I'm the world champion.

And so I condition my mind to believe this. So people thought I was crazy. That's why everyone in the world, they know me because they thought I was crazy because I would go and play these tournaments and I would lose 4-0. I got one game, five points. You would see me go, Yeah, and I'd be happy. But I knew at that time that one of the most important things is celebrating those those smaller goals, the smaller tiny ones. Small wins. Yeah, you need to celebrate those. I was celebrating. I was a champion. I went from that to winning, getting five points in every game, then going from five points in every game to winning one game, then winning two games. They're winning a match. That's the way that I changed my mindset to actually start to win some matches. But I never became the best. I realized there's a point where you realize there's one champion, there's one number one in the world. You have to figure out whether, okay, if I can't be the best, then what can I do? Then I realized that. I was like, Wait a minute, hold on. There's nobody like me in the entire world of ping-pong.

First of all, I'm black. I bring this swag to the sport. Electrifying. I bring this energy that no one has. So maybe I don't have to be the I don't need to be number one. Maybe I don't need to be number two. So then I went on this journey of being the most popular player. And what happened was I would play a tournament and lose, and the media would come to me immediately. I would get the interview, not the guy who won, which was crazy. I was like, and I just kept getting these interviews. There was an incident one time in China where normally in a ping-pong match, you'll have a preliminary round. In the preliminary round, preliminary round, there might be four people or three people in the group. Each person plays each other. Normally, there's no TV table for the preliminary round. If you do get one, it's one. You're lucky if you get that because it's Almost no one's getting this. I noticed when I would go to China, all my matches on the TV table. I'm like, Why these people keep putting me on the TV table? I didn't want to be on the TV table.

I would go to the head person and I was just, Hey, Why do you guys keep putting me on a TV table? I just played. Just put me on a different table. I don't want to be on a TV table. The director said something which really hit me. He goes, Walee, no, you are good for TV. When he said that, I was like, Yeah, you know what? You're right. Then I had less pressure. I started to play much better because- You were free. I was free. I was free from I'm trying to be the best of the best, right? And I got really, really good. And it was a very interesting journey. And the media went crazy with it because technically, I shouldn't even be playing the sport. More or less be good at it.

Yeah. And then you became the most marketable star in table tennis, man. Like crazy, right? But if it was going to be someone, it would have had to be someone from Brooklyn, right?

Yes. Yeah, for sure. For sure.

Man, so I want to unplug a couple of things that you actually hit on earlier. But before we go there, I got to have a confession on table tennis because I was never big in table tennis, but could play, right? In college, College. You got nothing to do on a weekend. You and some fellows, you go hit and you try to show out for people that are in there, right? But I haven't played in a while. And last summer, my best friend Daniel Song has five kids. So Natalie, Leah, Lauren, Nicole, Nate. I'm talking to you right now. Uncle Mick is talking to you guys. Wally, they woke me, bro. When I say they woke me, they took turns, and it was comical for them. They were salivating to get their turn to be Uncle Mick. But that was last summer. Nieces and nephews, I've been working on it now. You don't want this anymore. I'm ready. I've been watching Wally Green tapes, and I picked up some skill. And I know that intimidation factor now because I watched what Waleigh was doing. So part of that game is mental, right, Waleigh?

Yes, a lot of it is. It's 90% mental, for sure.

So I want to go back and unplug something, Really quick, man. So you talked about 13 years old in a gang looking for that escape, man. So at Mic Unplug, we talk about going deeper than your why and really finding that because, that thing that drives you, that really fuels It allows you to be the best version of yourself every day. At what moment did you really say to yourself, I've got to be a better person than who I can be? Because let's be honest, man, because everyone watching and listening has that friend or had that situation for themselves where you choose path A or path B, and a lot of us don't choose the right path. So what made you say, I'm going to go down the right path? And not How do you go down it, but stay there? Because it's tough.

Yeah, man. I get chose from this question. It's always a very deep question. I grew up with really severe domestic violence. My mom used to get beat up all the time, a chill, punch in the face. My stepfather used to mentally abuse me. He used to beat me, too, but I got a lot of a mental abuse. The mental abuse was my stepfather always saying that you'll never be successful, you'll be dead, you'll be in jail, you'll be a failure the rest of your life. I would come home from school, and we're talking about as a kid, as junior high school student. I would come home from school, maybe I'm in a good mood, which is rare. My stepfather would say, Oh, how was your day? I would say, Oh, it was good. He would say, Oh, it doesn't really matter how it was because you're going to be a failure anyway. He would systematically try to make me feel less dead, to save time being at my mom. As a kid, you always want to protect your mom. My stepfather has been there since I was one because I don't remember my mom and my dad together.

But my stepfather and my mom been together since I was one. So this abuse started since I was born. As a kid, you always want to protect your mom. You just think about this every day. When I was, I don't know, seven or eight, I was thinking of how I could put boric acid into his capsules of the pills that he took.

Wow.

Because like I said, I watched my mom get hit all the time. It wasn't until the pandemic came where I learned about narcissism. I'm learning what it was. I was like, Oh, my God, man, That's why none of my family never came to my house. But yeah, I always thought I wanted to protect her. I had an incident in school when I was about 14. I got caught with a loaded weapon in school. I got into a lot of trouble because I had other problems, other priors before. The judge was trying to really put me away. They were trying to give me 10 years in jail, from juvenile to adult. I had one thing going for me, and that one thing going was, I always have my school work done, which is wild. But there's a reason I have my school work done was because I needed those sport teams. Without good grades, you can't be on your team.

You can't play sports.

I needed those teams because those teams made me less violent. I knew that. I had people do the work for me for protection. I had people doing my work. I had people taking notes. I was on point because I needed those teams to just keep me from doing something even worse. Anyway, my mom convinced the judge that they would send me to boarding schools. They would send me away to Africa. I got sent away, away, away. When I got there, it was me trying to find myself all over again. It was me trying to prove myself again. It was weird because I thought, if I go to Africa, then it's going to be easy peasy. Everyone's Black like me. It's going to be chill. But it wasn't the case at all. It was the opposite. When I tell people this and they go, How is that possible? When I went there, I think the most racism I ever felt was there because for them, I wasn't the real Black. They would call me in their language, the kid who eats butter. Try to say I'm soft. I spent a lot of time fighting. I spent a lot of time trying now because I had no gang members with me.

It was just me. I spent a lot of time trying to find myself again. I joined this crazy military thing there called Man of War. Man of War, it's like, how do you not explain it? It's like Boy Scouts times 10,000. They make you do stuff like just standing straight up and falling. It's wild. But that made me much stronger. That made me think or know that I can finally protect my mom. I went back to came back to America when I was 16. And the incident, an incident happened where my stepfather was choking my mom. I just looked over When I looked over, my stepfather says, What are you looking at? If you look over here, you're going to get the same thing. I just lost it. I don't even remember running out the house. I just lost it, ran out the house. I went and got a gun, came back in the house, and I put it to his face, and I was going to kill my stepfather. My mom called the police. My mom's exact words were, You guys need to hurry. My son's trying to kill my husband. When she said that, I can't explain it.

I was just empty. It was like the ultimate betrayal that the person that I wanted to protect since I was a kid turned around and said this, and I took the gun, I put it to my mom's face, and I was going to end both their lives that day. That day, it was it. I was going to end both. I was shaking. I was crying, and I was going to end both their lives. But then I remembered something. You can say divine intervention, Little Birdy, whatever people want to call it, came to me and says, Hey, if you do this, if you do this right now, every single thing that your stepfather said is going to happen to you right now today if you do this. Luckily, I was smart enough to listen. I think more than being smart, I hated my stepfather so much that having nothing that he ever said come true was more important than me ending both their lives. So I walked away, and that's the answer to your question. That was the first step of you can do it because I tell people it's easy to pull that trigger. It's not hard.

I'm telling you, it's easy to pull it. To walk away is the hardest thing I ever did to not do it. Because after that, I was questioning myself. You had your chance. Then Now you have the other side of you. Yo, bro, you had your chance. You didn't take it. You could end that guy's life. And now he's still walking around. Your mom and this, they're still together. And look at you now. You're living in the street. You should have did what you had to do and then had to deal with that. But after I was able to get over that, then I realized, maybe I can do this. Maybe I can want something different for my life. And that's when ping-pong came along.

That's amazing. I want to go to one spot where the ultimate betrayal for a mama's boy, and I mean that affectionately because I'm a mama's boy, too. So for a mama's boy to lose that purpose, to lose your words. Everything that you were doing for the first 16 years of your life was not because of you, was solely because of your mom. Putting your mom first in everything that you were doing. What was that moment like? And what were the next few years like for you? Because I'm sure this is an assumption, so I want you to be able to talk about it. I'm sure your heart hardened a little bit. I can only imagine Can you imagine what I would go through? I wouldn't trust people. I probably wouldn't get close to people. I'm probably looking over my shoulder. I'm trying to wonder what everybody's angle is. You're from New York anyway, where everybody has angle, so it probably made it at a 10. What was those next few years for Walee going through that?

The year following that, I lived in the street. So I lived in the street for a year, hanging out every day, hanging out with my gang, Just doing real dumb stuff. And I just felt empty. I felt lost. I didn't care. I didn't care about anything. I just didn't care. And it was to the point to where, like I said, any Everything that I felt, I would take out on other people. I could be angry at any given moment for no reason. For no reason at all. I could be talking like this, and all of a sudden, now I'm angry because what happens, I start remembering. Because I tell people, that trauma and those worries, they're with you all the time. They never leave you. I hear this all the time in my head. You guys have to hurry. My son's trying to kill my husband. I'm never going to forget it. It's always in my head. It was really difficult. Like I said, I had no direction. It was the ping-pong. That's what I say, the ping-pong is what saved my life. It was the sport that I hated, that I got so interested because I saw people like me doing it.

That just took over my mind because ping-pong is a very interesting sport. Because it's such a small ball and it's so fast, it occupies a lot of your mind. When you're playing, it's very hard to think about stuff because it's so fast. You If you play basketball, you have time where you can think about something. There's no time because it's a 10th of a second of making a decision. So I noticed that when I played ping-pong, I thought less I didn't get into those thoughts or remembering those words or remembering what my step was. I was just focused on ping-pong. When I played other sports, there'd be periods where I would start.

You have idol time, idle moments.

Right. That's the exact words. The ping-pong is really what helped me get through it. I don't know if you heard the other part of the story, there was a guy who used to come to the ping-pong club, and he had met me and asked me if I had a partner. At this time, I was living in the street, and I was like, No. He was like, Listen, I'll pay you $20 if you could just hit with me, be my hitting partner twice a week. I was like, $20? Yeah, of course. No, that's easy. I just hit with this guy. I wasn't great, but I can hit basic walls. This guy would play with me. We would play together. Then we became close because I had no adult figure that I could talk to. I really need to talk because this was right after and I was such in a bad head. I would talk to this guy sometimes. Plus, for me, he was like this random dude, so it didn't even matter. It wasn't anything serious. For him, it was more like a TV show. I always tell people, If you don't know anyone who's lived that life or been in that life, it's impossible to understand.

It's impossible for a lot of people to understand how a 13-year-old has guns. For me, I hear it. I'm like, Okay, that's normal. I'm not going to go, Oh, my God, really? But he was like, Oh, my God, really? It's impossible. So he never really took it seriously. Then one day, I went to the club, and a 22 fell out of my bag in front of him. He saw it. Immediately, I said, Yo, I got to go because I don't know what he's going to do. He's going to call police. I don't know what he's going to do. So I left, and I thought that would be the end of the $20. But the guy called me. Actually, he the next day or it was two days later and says, Hey, are we still playing? Which was weird because in my mind, like I said, he was a white guy. He was an Israeli guy. And in my mind, it's like, if you're calling me to say, Are we still playing? Without mentioning what happened, what's really going on. But I needed that $20. I went and met with him. Then he says, Hey, I want to invite you to meet family, which is also weird.

I mean, you don't invite the guy who just dropped the gun in front of you to your house. He had an apartment in New York. He had a house upstate near Hunter. I was like, Okay, it's weird, but I go with him. We go to meet his family. Now everyone's sitting at the table, real, I don't know, little house on the Prairie family where people are passing food to each other and thank you, yes, no, and everyone's smiling, Oh, how was your day? I was getting angry because I was like, Why would this guy bring me here knowing that I don't have this? I was becoming really angry about it. Then he tells me, he goes, Hey, I really want to help you. I know you really like ping-pong. I have a connection in Germany, and I'm going to pay for you to go to Germany to learn ping-pong. I was like, What? He was like, Yeah. At the time, it was all crazy to me because the only thing I knew about Germany was Hitler. I was like, Why is this dude sending me to Germany? I didn't know about sports schools in Europe because we don't really have sports school.

Actually, we don't have sports schools in New York City. We have schools that have sports, but we don't have sports schools. It was all new. But like I said, I was always a smart kid, and I knew that there was something better, and I took the chance and agreed. And that's how I actually got out and started that real life of ping-pong.

Yeah. And the moment that truly changed your life, that changed your trajectory of real life was that. And that's where I say, whether it's mentors, accountability partners, whatever it is, every human being on Earth should be either seeking one of those or delivering the other, either seeking mentorship, guidance, and accountability, or being that for someone. Because to me, that's how the world moves forward, because we all need wisdom. We all need to seek wisdom or give with them. And so I love that you actually shared that part of the story. So kudos to you and kudos to that man and that family for allowing the world to see the real Wally Green, man. That's dope. That's dope. So I know table tennis, you're like, I'm retired, right? You're done. What's Wally Green doing now? Because I know you're not just going to sit still. I know you well enough to know Hey, you're either going to break out into hip hop, you're going to be a dope producer, or you're going to find some other sport to go dominate. So what's Wally Green doing, man?

Yeah, man. So there's another sport that I I also hate. I mean, I think I still hate it. I'm sure I don't love it yet. It's the sport of pickleball. I'm probably the biggest hater of pickleball, especially online. Online, all the big pickleball pages, they all know me. They all know me because I'm always in the comments just shitting on the sport. The reason why I was like that was because this sport has been out for a little while, but it just started getting popular since the pandemic. When it came out, people were obnoxious. They were like, Oh, this is the greatest sport in the world. Oh, it's the best sport in the world. They started taking people's course. There's another sport that I played pro called Padeltonist. They would come and take our course, and I'm like, This is not a Pivelton course, it's a Padeltonist course. It was just it being such an obnoxious sport, it just made me go on this rampage of hate for the sport. Whenever it popped up on my feed, I would just trash talk it. Then people were like, Oh, you're not even talking about this great sport.

I'd be like, Man, this sport was created for seven years. That's the original reason the sport was made. I really hated the sport. My sponsor, they are now the number one pickleball company for equipment, my table tennis sponsor. They jumped into pickleball a few years ago, and they became number one. Right now, the number one selling racket is from my table tennis sponsor, which is wild.

And who is that?

Yola. Yola. Yola, okay. It's spelled J-O-O-L-A. They're number one now. And they mentioned to me four years, I think four years ago, maybe, I should play pickleball. I was like, You're crazy. I'm never playing this. I'll give you a sneak peek of why I'm playing it. I'm actually going to film the unboxing and I will tell the story in my unboxing. But like I said, I hated this sport, really didn't like it, didn't care for the people in it. In the ending of December, I had surgery on my right hip.

On your hip?

Sorry, left hip in the ending of December. So I have a full bionic hip right now. I was riding a city bike to PT, physical therapy, and I took a different route. I took way, way on the east side. As I was riding, I saw a park where there were pickleball courts. Now, I've never seen a real pickleball court. I've only seen the videos. So I started, so I was like, Oh, the pickleball court looks a lot like my paddle tennis courts. That's why these guys keep jumping on the courts. I got down, I pulled over, walked down the stairs, these little stairs that go into a smaller part where the courts are. I sat down and I watched it for a little while, and then I could appreciate, Okay, I can see why people like this, because there's a low learning curve. It's very easy to play. It's very easy to start. Maybe people who normally don't get exercise can now do something funny exercise. I was Having some small appreciation. Then I look over, there's a guy sitting next to me and says, Hey, do you play pickle ball here every day? And the guy goes to me, What?

I'm a four, five. What? You're, What? I Okay, I know what a 4'5 is now. It's pretty high level. But at that time, I didn't know what he was talking about. What do you mean 4'5? I said, Bro, I didn't ask you what you were. I said it more intensely than what I was saying now. But I said, I didn't ask you what you were. I just asked you if you played. So you have some more questions. And then he did what he did. He goes and looks up and looks away opposite direction.

Oh, just straight disrespect, huh?

Listen, oh, man, I'm telling you, it took a It took a lot for me not to hit this, dude, bro. I just wanted to hit this through hard. It took a lot. I got so angry inside, and I said, You know what? I'm going to be here tomorrow. And I started going every day. And that's why I play this sport now. And then I noticed at the higher level, everyone's so cocky and they write you off. Now, I don't know if it's because there's not a lot of Black people that play this sport or what. But what I notice is when I go meet new people for the first time and it's a high-level game and I say, Hey, my name is Wale. They'll look at you like, What is this guy doing here? Without knowing that I'm a world-class athlete. It'll be written off right away. Then when you play and after you show them, all of a sudden, now, they want to be a friend. They want to get your number for games later. I'm like, No, I'm good. So that cockiness in this sport, that makes me want to play every day.

And it's like the ping-pong. It's the same thing exactly like the ping-pong. I'm going to prove everybody that I'm going to... Not only am I going to play, not only am I going to be great at it, but I'm going to do it the way I want to do it. That's what I'm talking about. And that's why I play this sport.

The swag is coming to pickleball.

Yeah, it is. And it's coming.

The swag, Walee G, is coming. Walee G is coming. That's what I'm talking about, man. I got to introduce you. I don't know if you know or remember Hall of Famer, Rick Berry from basketball. He did the underhand free throws. So he is now a pickleball legend. He is a champion in pickle. We were just talking the other day, and he is just casually. Yeah, I'm four-time champion. I was like, What? Those competitive juices don't leave. Wally, man, I know you're so busy. I appreciate you taking some time with the viewers and listeners. What's one tip that you want to leave the viewers and listeners with? I don't care if it's sports, if it's life. What's one thing that you want to message out to the world today?

I think this is probably one of the most important tips. If you need help, don't be afraid to ask. It's very difficult to do everything on your own. Then more importantly, if help is offered to you, take it. You never know where that help is going to get you. If I If you didn't take the help that was offered to me, I wouldn't be here talking to you. I would be dead or in jail, just like my stepfather wanted. So, yeah, if people offer you help, you definitely should take it. Don't try to do everything yourself.

I love it. I love it, brother. So where can people follow you and find you?

On Instagram. Instagram, Wally Green, NYC. That's the best place, right?

There we go. Wally, brother, I appreciate it, man. We're going to make sure that we are journaling and showing your experience in pickleball. I want to have you back on in a couple of months after the holidays so we can see exactly what's going on. And if there's anything that the Mic Unplug community can do, brother, we are there for you, my man.

And when we come back after the holidays, we talk about my North Korea Diplomacy for World Peace.

That's what we're doing.

Yeah, we'll save that.

Part two after the holidays. I love it. Ladies and gentlemen, remember, your Because is your superpower. Go unleash it.

Thank you for tuning in to Mic Unplug. Keep pushing your limits, embracing your purpose, and chasing greatness. Until next time, stay Unstoppable.