"The Life that Built a Fighter" with Joel Velez
About this episode
Joel Velez shares his journey of overcoming struggles and health challenges from his childhood.
About Episode In this episode, he shares the unfiltered story of growing up in the projects with a single mother who refused to give up, no matter how hard life got. Surrounded by struggle and survival, he learned early what it meant to fight just to make it through the day. But as the pressure built, he turned to food as a way to cope—until it nearly cost him everything. At just 18 years old, he suffered a heart attack that forced him to confront the reality of his choices. What followed w...
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