Most people think boxing is about learning how to throw a punch. For me, it's become a place to study my fear. Every fight has challenged a story I believed about courage, confidence, failure, or strength. This is where I try to make sense of what I learn when those stories are tested.
Friends told me how calm I looked walking to the ring. What they couldn't see was the conversation happening underneath it. On what courage actually feels like - and why it rarely arrives looking the way we expect.
