Sevan Matossian (00:00):
So good.
Hattie Kanyo (00:02):
Perfect.
Sevan Matossian (00:03):
And just like that, we’re live. Oh yeah. I feel it. Where are you?
Hattie Kanyo (00:13):
I’m in Leftbridge, Alberta.
Sevan Matossian (00:17):
Help me out a little more. What time zone is that?
Hattie Kanyo (00:21):
Mountain Standard time.
Sevan Matossian (00:23):
Oh, so it’s a good time for you. What is that? That’s 8:00 AM for you?
Hattie Kanyo (00:26):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (00:27):
I always forget about Mountain Time. I always think it just goes from Pacific to standard. Dude. Hey, it was great to meet nice
Hattie Kanyo (00:33):
Time.
Sevan Matossian (00:34):
It was great to meet you at the West Coast Classic.
Hattie Kanyo (00:38):
Yeah, it was awesome meeting you too. We chatted a lot. It
Sevan Matossian (00:41):
Was fun. Yeah, I go there wanting to chase kind of the bubble athletes. I always feel like that’s where the most tension is going to be. And you hadn’t popped on my radar before, even though Scott has told us very clearly you’ve been on a show 15 times.
Hattie Kanyo (00:57):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (00:58):
And man, it was fun watching you do that.
Hattie Kanyo (01:03):
Yeah, thanks. I had a freaking blast. Obviously that wasn’t the plan to be up there, but yeah, I had a really good time and I’m confident we made it.
Sevan Matossian (01:15):
You finished fourth?
Hattie Kanyo (01:18):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (01:18):
Wild.
Hattie Kanyo (01:20):
Yeah,
Sevan Matossian (01:21):
With the Gaza and Ariel and yeah. Hey, when you say you’re confident, what’s that mean?
Hattie Kanyo (01:30):
It just means that I lacked confidence. My whole CrossFit career, and then this is the first year that I really feel like I have confidence, I guess the most confidence.
Sevan Matossian (01:45):
Could you teach someone that?
Hattie Kanyo (01:48):
I think so. Yeah. Obviously because my mindset coach really helped me, and then obviously it was just me putting in the work over these few years. So yeah, I think you can,
Sevan Matossian (02:01):
By that I mean, let me ask this. Let me put it in context. Let’s say you’re like, Hey, Savon, you’re not very fit, but don’t worry. You can sleep in today. I’m going to do extra a hundred burpees for you. And we know that’s ridiculous, right? Because you can’t give me that.
Hattie Kanyo (02:17):
No. Yeah, exactly.
Sevan Matossian (02:19):
Is confidence in that same world like, Hey, you can’t impart that on someone.
Hattie Kanyo (02:33):
Yeah. I don’t know. I think it would be That’s hard. That’s a tough one. I think it’s, sorry,
Sevan Matossian (02:43):
Go ahead. Well, I was going to say just in another context, something else you talked about in the interview you did with Lauren was you talked about how every time you were done with a workout, your group would huddle around you and how important that was to you. You got to go into what we used to call on the Josh Bridges day, the tunnel of love. They would be there and kind of just surround you.
Hattie Kanyo (03:01):
It was a tunnel of love. That is the best word for it ever. They
Sevan Matossian (03:07):
Used to do that when Josh Bridges used to compete, the Invictus affiliate would come and they would hold hands and they would make a long tunnel.
Hattie Kanyo (03:17):
I love
Sevan Matossian (03:17):
That. And Josh would run through it with the one underneath and he would run through it and they called it the tunnel of love.
Hattie Kanyo (03:24):
It seriously felt like a tunnel of love though, because it was just like person, person, person, person. As I was walking, just all my group there and everyone came in for the hug and was just like, I’m so proud of you.
Sevan Matossian (03:37):
Yeah, they feathered you like a C enemy finishes, fingers, those clownfish. You know what I mean? Right. Yeah, yeah, a hundred percent. They protected you.
Hattie Kanyo (03:45):
They did protect me and they made me sure that no matter what, they’re still there for me. Right. I could have been in last and they were still going to be there and be proud of me.
Sevan Matossian (03:59):
Tyler, who’s this chick? Yeah, good point. Good. Great question. Hattie, can you
Hattie Kanyo (04:06):
Never knew. Nobody knew
Sevan Matossian (04:08):
What a great name. I always fuck it up. I’m always like calling you Haiti Cano,
Hattie Kanyo (04:13):
Katie Hao the other day.
Sevan Matossian (04:16):
What a mess.
Hattie Kanyo (04:16):
It’s a tongue twister. It’s all good.
Sevan Matossian (04:18):
Patty Cano. So when you go up there, do you get confidence from them or is that related to confidence?
Hattie Kanyo (04:27):
I think a lot of things are related to confidence and yes, my people are as well because Jake keeps telling me certain things, and that’s just being put into my subconscious. The more you’re being told that you deserve to be here, that’s me believing it from other people telling me that. Right. Me, the more I work out, the more competitions that I do, the more self-talk that I do to myself. You know what I mean? I mean, I believe solely in our subconscious and the things that we’re being told are the things that we believe. So yeah, they help significantly. That’s the one thing that I did work on with my mindset coach is working into that subconscious. And when we first started working together, I was telling myself some pretty shitty things. So where I thought that I was over that kind of stuff, I was like, I’m pretty happy go lucky. I’m always dancing. I’m fun, I’m positive, whatever. But when you go deep down, I was telling myself some shit things. So yeah,
Sevan Matossian (05:34):
My wife used to do this thing to me. It was so funny. She would say something to me and then three days later I would reference it. She would poke a joke at me and three days later I would reference it and she goes, I knew that stuck. She fucked me. Yeah, it does. You know what I mean? Does she nailed me? And it stuck. Oh, I knew that stuck a friend of mine, unfortunately one time I called them stupid, and years later they told me that stuck and that fucking broke my fucking heart. But in my life, and that was an eyeopener for me. Like, Hey, be careful. You don’t know what sticks exactly. My sister told me one time, Hey, you live a charmed life.
Hattie Kanyo (06:17):
And
Sevan Matossian (06:17):
That stuck and I was like, holy fuck. And boy, for some reason, that’s really got me through a lot of times, dude, you live a charmed life. For some reason. I believe that I decided to believe that.
Hattie Kanyo (06:31):
Right? Yeah. You just never know what’s going to stick for people. And that’s kind of something that I realized too with even your significant other, I mean, you can kind of call each other silly names or whatever, but I’m trying to bring that back and not do that as much in the sense of you just don’t know. Like you said, what sticks. Right? Even though I’m kidding, that person, their subconscious doesn’t know that. You’re kidding. Right? So that’s why something like that could stick. So yeah.
Sevan Matossian (07:03):
Yeah. We’re not perfect. If someone’s in that state where they’re feeling sorry for themselves and then you do something to validate it, then all of a sudden it’s stuck. Even though you meant it as a complete joke, but unfortunately it stuck and then they stay in this kind of woe is me state.
Hattie Kanyo (07:19):
Yeah, for sure. A hundred percent.
Sevan Matossian (07:22):
What’s your boyfriend, husband fiance’s name?
Hattie Kanyo (07:26):
Jake Hanson. I think you chatted with him once.
Sevan Matossian (07:31):
I was so excited for him. I think I ran over and maybe hugged him. I was so excited for him. I was like, dude, I was just trying to, I saw him and I was just trying to imagine what it’s like seeing someone you love so much, do what you were doing out there. He must have been just like,
Hattie Kanyo (07:45):
Yeah, he was very proud. And even to this day, we have, he’s up north firefighting, so we’ll chat on the phone and I’ll just be like, can you believe it? I’m a games athlete, and he’ll just be like, I mean, yes, but no. But yes, he’s really proud. He still can’t believe it, but then obviously he can because he is like, you’re fit as fuck. But yeah.
Sevan Matossian (08:09):
Hattie, did you ever see yourself winning the semi-final in your mind’s eye? I mean, by winning, I mean qualifying, punching the ticket.
Hattie Kanyo (08:21):
Yeah. This year I did a lot of visualization of it, and I think that that helped a lot. I definitely saw myself punching my ticket. I didn’t see myself in first place at any time of that. Right. But yeah, that’s why I say this year I had a lot more confidence because of the things that I changed in my life and I just felt really fit both mentally and physically.
Sevan Matossian (08:52):
First place after day two, crazy with the feel of some savages. How about Abigail too? You and Abigail both showed up?
Hattie Kanyo (09:03):
Oh yeah. Her and I were going head to head the whole weekend. It was awesome. I loved it.
Sevan Matossian (09:11):
When you say you changed things in your life, any tangible stuff, like the regular stuff like diet and sleep and
Hattie Kanyo (09:20):
No, because not really sleep and diet, that stuff kind of stayed the same. It was more of me just getting out of the gym. I’m jumping into classes more because I love working out with the community, so I’m a coach here as well, and I just love working out with the community. I love getting out to the mountains. We’re only an hour away from the mountains, so I’ll try to get there as much as possible. I haven’t been there yet this season, but for it, so I’m hoping to go on Sunday. But yeah, just getting out more, taking more time off if I need it. It’s just important to me to be feeling good both physically and mentally. So yeah.
Sevan Matossian (10:02):
Hey, where are you born?
Hattie Kanyo (10:04):
I was born in Canada here, just in a town outside of Lethbridge, so it’s like 30 minutes away from here.
Sevan Matossian (10:14):
Spell that for me. I want to see if I can see where that is. Lethbridge. So
Hattie Kanyo (10:17):
I’m from, yeah, Lethbridge, L-E-T-H-B-R-I-D-G-E,
Sevan Matossian (10:25):
Lethbridge. Lethbridge. There’s like a
Hattie Kanyo (10:27):
Huge train bridge. It’s iconic, big train bridge here.
Sevan Matossian (10:33):
And is this a pretty rural area? Small town stuff?
Hattie Kanyo (10:37):
Yeah, so I’m from, if you look, so there’s Lethbridge and then Raymond right there to the right of your cursor. Bottom
Sevan Matossian (10:44):
Down, down right there. Okay. Okay, awesome. Lemme see.
Hattie Kanyo (10:48):
We’re right on the Montana border there.
Sevan Matossian (10:51):
Wow, that’s the middle of nowhere.
Hattie Kanyo (10:53):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (10:55):
Wow. I’m going to pull out so people can see. She’s just north of Montana, south of Edmonton. How far is Edmonton?
Hattie Kanyo (11:03):
About five and a half hours
Sevan Matossian (11:05):
In Carr.
Hattie Kanyo (11:07):
And then my boyfriend works at the top of that province, so if you go even more north of Edmonton, that’s where I used to firefight as well. So it’s right on the Northwest territories border, which I always thought Edmonton was north until I started working up way up there as a firefighter. And I was like, holy shit. It’s still, because it’s a 12 hour, 13 hour drive up there,
Sevan Matossian (11:29):
Like up here. When you say north?
Hattie Kanyo (11:31):
Yeah, a little bit more south, about an hour from that border. But yeah, it is up there.
Sevan Matossian (11:38):
What
Hattie Kanyo (11:38):
Middle of nowhere
Sevan Matossian (11:41):
Is this? North? Is this North Territories is Canada own that too?
Hattie Kanyo (11:44):
Yeah, Northwest Territories.
Sevan Matossian (11:46):
Does anyone live up there?
Hattie Kanyo (11:48):
Oh yeah, but you drive about four hours and there’s really nothing. It’s the Canadian Shield, so it’s just rocky because I’ve gone up to yellow knife before, which is about a six hour drive from that border. And yeah, there’s not much. There are tiny little town. Yeah, yellow knife right there, you can see by the lake there. It is beautiful up there though.
Sevan Matossian (12:12):
Hey, why do you have to put fires out there? Why can’t those fires just burn?
Hattie Kanyo (12:20):
Just so they don’t make runs into cities. I mean, sometimes we do let some of them burn if they’re really up in the middle of nowhere and they’re not ripping, then there have been a few fires that we’ve let burn because sometimes they’ll put themselves out. Right.
Sevan Matossian (12:38):
But sometimes they’ll
Hattie Kanyo (12:39):
Just go
Sevan Matossian (12:41):
And just keep going. Yeah,
Hattie Kanyo (12:43):
I guess I always forget people don’t really know much about it. I didn’t know much about it until I started the work, the job, but
Sevan Matossian (12:50):
That’s the job where every once in a while there’ll be a really serious accident and a bunch of those dudes will get, were you a fire jumper? Basically, you went into areas and put out fires that no one wants to go.
Hattie Kanyo (13:03):
Kind of. I didn’t jump out of helicopters or planes, I guess, so I was a hell attack. So that’s initial attack. There’s four people on a crew. Once we get a call, we would hop into a helicopter and then they would take us close to the fire. And then what we do is we land wherever it was closest to the fire, then we would trudge ourselves in with all of our gear, and then we would put out fires. And it’s just mostly forest fires. So yeah,
Sevan Matossian (13:33):
It seems so unbelievable that four people would have any business facing that.
Hattie Kanyo (13:39):
Yeah, I mean, that one is actually in British Columbia when I was there for an export, and that was a big campaign fire, so there was hundreds of firefighters on that fire.
Sevan Matossian (13:52):
And when you fight the fire, you don’t fight it. We think someone putting out a house fire, you’re not showing up with hoses. You guys have other techniques, right?
Hattie Kanyo (13:59):
Drawing when we do hoses, so more in the states and in BC they do a lot of line digging because there’s not a lot of water. But where I am, there’s lots of water. It’s all just muskeg. When we’re walking into the fire, sometimes it’s up to my hips.
Sevan Matossian (14:14):
What’s the word you use? It’s musk. What? I don’t know that word.
Hattie Kanyo (14:20):
Yeah, it’s like, how do I explain it? It’s kind of when you’re walking on it, it’s spongy, spongy ground, I guess. And it’s just water all underneath of it. And it’s kind of looks like a mossy ground,
Sevan Matossian (14:34):
A North America swamp or bog consisting of a mixture of water and partly dead vegetation. Okay, so just super crazy moist ground.
Hattie Kanyo (14:42):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (14:44):
Would you see a lot of egrets and great blue herons and shit like that living there? Is it like a swamp or Not
Hattie Kanyo (14:49):
That It’s like a swamp. Yeah,
Sevan Matossian (14:53):
You could get stuck in that, like quicksand.
Hattie Kanyo (14:55):
Oh yeah. There was some Mexicans that came to work and there’s a funny, I think I have the photo, but all of them were walking and one guy was up to here. He had to get helped out because he just stepped in the wrong area and he was up to his head in water.
Sevan Matossian (15:15):
Dang crazy. Y Clark Chevy. I bought you a rogue ticket and sleeping bag for I don’t know what for. I don’t sleep in the sleeping bag for something that’s disgusting. Are those Taylor Swift bracelets?
Hattie Kanyo (15:31):
I guess I actually didn’t know that Taylor Swift made these until I got this from Kelly Baker and when I was working or when I was training with her. But yes, these are my, I am capable bracelets. Oh, nice. Did your kids make that?
Sevan Matossian (15:47):
No. Rosie from Rosie Photography made it and she put CEO behind the scenes. She brought it to me.
Hattie Kanyo (15:53):
Oh, I love it.
Sevan Matossian (15:55):
Yeah, I should wear it more. Okay. Born in this tiny little town. Mom and dad. Married?
Hattie Kanyo (16:03):
Yeah,
Sevan Matossian (16:04):
Still married.
Hattie Kanyo (16:06):
They’re still married.
Sevan Matossian (16:07):
Holy shit. Wow. Tell them congratulations. That’s cool. And siblings?
Hattie Kanyo (16:13):
I have five siblings.
Sevan Matossian (16:16):
Holy cow. Okay, so
Hattie Kanyo (16:18):
It’s a religious town that I grew up Mormon.
Sevan Matossian (16:22):
So all I hear is that’s no religious town, five siblings. That’s the no contraception?
Hattie Kanyo (16:28):
Yeah. Yes.
Sevan Matossian (16:33):
And you’re one of these cats in here. Are you This little
Hattie Kanyo (16:35):
One? That’s me right there. Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (16:37):
You’re the youngest.
Hattie Kanyo (16:39):
I’m the baby.
Sevan Matossian (16:43):
And when you say you’re raised Mormon, what’s that mean? You go to Mormon church and you follow the Mormon rules? The only stuff I know is magic underwear and no caffeine,
Hattie Kanyo (16:56):
Magic underwear. No caffeine, no coffee. I mean, it’s no caffeine, but there’s caffeine and coke, and I swear a lot of people drink, so I think it’s just like the hot drink. Honestly, I don’t really know. I don’t understand it.
Sevan Matossian (17:12):
You don’t practice anymore?
Hattie Kanyo (17:14):
I do not practice anymore.
Sevan Matossian (17:16):
Have you pivoted to another organized religion?
Hattie Kanyo (17:19):
I have not. I’m just more spiritual and I’m all about just be a good person and good things will happen to you.
Sevan Matossian (17:28):
How old did you say you are again?
Hattie Kanyo (17:30):
I’m 32.
Sevan Matossian (17:31):
32?
Hattie Kanyo (17:32):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (17:34):
Are you having kids soon?
Hattie Kanyo (17:37):
I’m not sure. Okay. Probably not soon. We’re kind of back and forth about kids. So something that people probably don’t know about me either is I was adopted and Jake and I talk about how maybe we’ll adopt someday. So I don’t know, maybe that will be kids. Maybe down the road we’ll have kids, but obviously right now I just want to focus on the competition or the athlete life and yeah, we’ll see what happens.
Sevan Matossian (18:12):
How old were you when you were adopted?
Hattie Kanyo (18:14):
I was a baby.
Sevan Matossian (18:16):
And are you the only adopted one?
Hattie Kanyo (18:19):
There’s two of us.
Sevan Matossian (18:21):
Is it the one right before you
Hattie Kanyo (18:23):
And it’s from family? No, so it goes me, my sister, and then my brother, and it was from family. So my aunt is actually my grandma,
Sevan Matossian (18:39):
My
Hattie Kanyo (18:40):
Aunt. So say your dad. His sister’s kid had me.
Sevan Matossian (18:44):
Oh,
Hattie Kanyo (18:45):
My dad’s sister’s kid had me.
Sevan Matossian (18:47):
Okay. And then did she pass away?
Hattie Kanyo (18:51):
Nope.
Sevan Matossian (18:52):
Drugs? No.
Hattie Kanyo (18:53):
Nope. She just wasn’t ready to have a kid. And my family took me,
Sevan Matossian (19:02):
She wasn’t ready. I was picturing her as being older. Having you when she was like 50?
Hattie Kanyo (19:06):
Nope.
Sevan Matossian (19:07):
No. Wait, your dad’s sister had you?
Hattie Kanyo (19:10):
My dad’s sister’s kid.
Sevan Matossian (19:13):
Oh, your dad’s sister’s kid?
Hattie Kanyo (19:15):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (19:16):
Okay, okay. So
Hattie Kanyo (19:17):
That’s why my aunt that I’ve called my whole life is actually my grandma.
Sevan Matossian (19:21):
Yeah.
Hattie Kanyo (19:22):
If that makes sense.
Sevan Matossian (19:23):
Yeah. And do you still see her?
Hattie Kanyo (19:26):
Yep. I see both of them.
Sevan Matossian (19:30):
So have you ever drawn out your family tree? Must have. It has a weird branch in it.
Hattie Kanyo (19:35):
Yeah, it’s got that extra, yeah.
Sevan Matossian (19:38):
Hey, how good have your parents to do that?
Hattie Kanyo (19:42):
Yeah, for sure. I didn’t even know what adopted was when they told me. I think I was like, I don’t know, six or something. And I was like, oh, what’s adopted? And then they told me, I was like, okay.
Sevan Matossian (19:53):
Yeah, as a kid it probably doesn’t even seem, especially since you’re in the same gene pool, it doesn’t even, you probably just think it’s normal.
Hattie Kanyo (20:01):
And just growing up with all my siblings. Right, you still think, okay, cool. But it just was all normal and I have all my siblings and yeah.
Sevan Matossian (20:12):
Does she have any other kids?
Hattie Kanyo (20:15):
She does not.
Sevan Matossian (20:16):
Oh, okay. Wow. That’s cool, man. So good family life growing up.
Hattie Kanyo (20:21):
Yeah, it was really good.
Sevan Matossian (20:22):
Parents loved you. And what was it like? What did you guys do? What was your parents’ vocation? What was their jobs?
Hattie Kanyo (20:33):
So my mom stay-at-home mom and then my dad mechanic his whole life. So he owned a business in Raymond, and then I think he sold maybe it’s probably been eight to 10 years and he’s still working a mechanic. And then they actually go to the States to live at my sister’s RV park. They’re that cute little couple driving around in the golf cart.
Sevan Matossian (20:56):
They do that six months of the year or something. They do that in the winter?
Hattie Kanyo (21:00):
No, they do that in the summer. So they kind of do the opposite of what people usually do here is they go there for the summer, come back for the winter.
Sevan Matossian (21:09):
And what state is that that they go to?
Hattie Kanyo (21:12):
It’s in Idaho, so it’s just outside of Boise in McCall. Well, in Cascade.
Sevan Matossian (21:19):
And what was he a mechanic for?
Hattie Kanyo (21:23):
Just regular vehicles,
Sevan Matossian (21:24):
Just like Michael
Hattie Kanyo (21:25):
And not heavy duty. Yeah, just your car. Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (21:28):
And then as a kid, what did you do to fill your time in the formative years, your first 16 years? Were you a good student? Did you play sports?
Hattie Kanyo (21:38):
I played all the sports since, I mean, that’s our small town. Everyone. Raymond is known for their sports, so we win a lot of championships and it’s just, I believe that it’s because we’re all just pushed into sports as soon as we could walk. So I played basketball, volleyball, rugby, soccer, track, badminton, anything that I could play, I was playing. And then just living in a small town was so much fun. You have your best friends that live across the street, so we would ride our bikes to our friend’s house, we would walk around the town. It’s a tiny little town to get to. The other side is like what, 15 minutes? So yeah, it was a really good childhood and I loved sports and yeah.
Sevan Matossian (22:29):
Was there any particular one you excelled at?
Hattie Kanyo (22:33):
I would probably have to say in the younger years it was probably basketball or volleyball. But then in high school it was rugby, so I was going to go to university for rugby, and then I turned down the scholarship. I just didn’t know what I wanted to do.
Sevan Matossian (22:49):
They had rugby at your high school?
Hattie Kanyo (22:54):
It had just come out, so I got to play grade 10, 11, 12, and I think it came out when I was in grade nine, but they didn’t have a JV team yet.
Sevan Matossian (23:07):
So you played on the varsity team, is what you’re saying? Yeah. The only team, Hey, this is a good question. Matt Burns, no hockey.
Hattie Kanyo (23:15):
No, my mom or my dad wanted me to play. He’s a big hockey fan and I think my mom just didn’t want me to play. I’d get hurt or something, and then ended up playing rugby, which you also can get hurt there. But yeah, I kind of wish that I did. I mean, I’m a pretty good skater, so I think that I would’ve been pretty good at hockey. But yeah, played all the others.
Sevan Matossian (23:40):
And when you say it was a good life as a kid, meaning you could just leave out your front door, there were no worries. You could just walk to a friend’s house and call your mom when you got there, you could go to the store. It kind of, I guess how I grew up, just your free range. Kids come home for dinner, everything is good.
Hattie Kanyo (24:00):
Yep. Bring people. It was amazing. I loved it. Bring people over whatever you want. Have sleepovers. During the summer, we would always sleep on the trampoline.
Sevan Matossian (24:11):
All your friend’s parents, when you go in, you say hi to ’em, all that shit.
Hattie Kanyo (24:15):
Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (24:16):
Did your parents teach you stuff like that? Were you a good kid? Were you polite? Hi to people, good eye contact, all that stuff.
Hattie Kanyo (24:22):
Yeah, I think so.
Sevan Matossian (24:25):
A shy kid.
Hattie Kanyo (24:27):
Not shy. No, no. I wanted a lot of attention. I think being the baby in the family. Yeah, I, I don’t know. I wanted my siblings approval or I always wanted their attention kind of thing. So yeah, I was a crazy kid. And even in school I was a little bit of a class clown. But yeah,
Sevan Matossian (24:49):
Seon, do you know what rugby is? Yeah, of course I do. It’s what gay European men play.
Hattie Kanyo (24:58):
Oh, perfect.
Sevan Matossian (25:00):
Okay. And you ask, I answer. That’s it. I mean, yeah,
Hattie Kanyo (25:05):
That’s
Sevan Matossian (25:05):
True. That’s why you come to the show for the, oh wow. Tyler not playing hockey in Canada as a misdemeanor. It should be, dammit.
Hattie Kanyo (25:14):
It should be. It really should be.
Sevan Matossian (25:20):
What do you think drove you as a kid? You’re playing these sports. You’re playing all these sports on one level. I’m going to make the assumption that you did it because everyone else did it, right? So do as others do, right? It’s what kids did. Right. But what about you? And then you also said you liked the attention, the accolades maybe from your cohort, right? Was there anything from your parents? Did you get approval from them? Was there any love from them? I make sure yesterday my kid was playing tennis. It was a really hard drill. He started breathing hard and he dropped to one knee and started crying and it was just him and the coach out there. So I walked away, I walked like 30 yards away and I sat down and watched. And then he got up after a couple minutes and he played really hard the next 30 minutes, and I wanted him to know when he came back, I’m like, Hey, dude. That’s one of the proudest moments I’ve ever had as a father watching you go to the dark spot and get through it. But I’m clearly trying to manipulate him. Right,
Hattie Kanyo (26:21):
Right. Yeah.
Sevan Matossian (26:23):
I want him any tools I can give him to help him push through. Did you have anything like that you wanted your dad or your mom?
Hattie Kanyo (26:32):
I mean, could you ask Jake? I love my parents.
Sevan Matossian (26:34):
Could you ask Jake to lower the TV set? Thank you.
Hattie Kanyo (26:38):
Yeah, I love my parents, but I don’t think that, I mean, they came to my games, but I think my dad was more hard on me a little bit. And then I think right now they’re starting to come out with that kind of stuff where they’re telling me that they’re proud of me for all that I’m doing. I think back then it was more of just like, get me out to do sports, to do the sports and not go be a shithead rather. You know what I mean? And so it was more of just pushing me to go do sports rather than pushing me to go somewhere with the sports, if that makes sense. Just like I don’t know if that makes sense, but yeah. Does that make sense?
Sevan Matossian (27:26):
No, listen. Listen.
Hattie Kanyo (27:33):
I didn’t really feel,
Sevan Matossian (27:34):
Why do you think you played sports? Did you like moving your body?
Hattie Kanyo (27:38):
Yeah, I think I loved playing it because I was out there with my friends. I loved being active. That’s probably, it was more social and being active. I wish that I was pushed a little bit more in one sport because I just played all of the sports and I was good at all the sports. But if I focused on one, I almost wish that my parents had pushed me. I mean, I know it’s on me as well, but I wish that they maybe would’ve just pushed me in one sport, so then I could have just focused on that. But I think it was more of just like, yeah, go play all the sports, be active rather than go, like I said, be a shithead or whatever. But I played because I loved being there with my friends and I loved being active.
Sevan Matossian (28:33):
David Weed tennis equals gay. Yes. I will throw baseball in there too though. I’ll raise you one baseball. Oh
Hattie Kanyo (28:38):
No. Jake played
Sevan Matossian (28:41):
Baseball. Sorry. Sorry. Jake. Gay
Hattie Kanyo (28:43):
Pro baseball,
Sevan Matossian (28:44):
Which is fine. I love gay. Gay is good.
Hattie Kanyo (28:47):
Gay is good.
Sevan Matossian (28:47):
A free, that’s interesting you say that. Now I’m going to be ask you a selfish question. What would that have looked like? Let’s say they pushed you into rugby then instead of in the off season, instead of playing another sport, you would’ve done rugby training specifically around that. Work on your balance or your throwing or start honing, I guess in CrossFit, what we call accessory work or find skills.
Hattie Kanyo (29:15):
And now that I’m thinking about it, now that we’re kind of unraveling this, I am really grateful for playing all the sports. I think it’s pushed me to now be a CrossFit athlete, which is amazing. So what if they would’ve pushed me into rugby? Now I’m a pro rugby player or whatever. I think that I had a really good childhood and I think that maybe rather than just focusing on that one, that I got to experience everything, which I’m really grateful for. So I don’t know. I always said that I wish that they pushed me into one sport, but I really am grateful for all the experiences and being able to play all of the sports. And that made me into the athletic because I am athletic, right? Even with cross.
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