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In 2020, Mike Dickinson was sitting in a doctor's office in Asheville, North Carolina, when they told him to go to the hospital immediately — his blood sugar was dangerously high. He weighed around 420 pounds. He had diabetes, blood pressure medication, heart medication. A year or two earlier, his nieces and nephews wanted to walk a few blocks and he asked if they could call an Uber.

So he picked a target most people would call ridiculous: Atlanta Braves Fantasy Camp. He needed a picture on the bulletin board, something to run toward. Twenty minutes of cardio became thirty. Thirty became a habit. Weights came two years in. No workout partner, no trainer — just Netflix, music, and the voice in his head that refused to quit on him.

This past January, at roughly 170 pounds, Mike Dickinson walked onto a field in a Braves uniform, played for a team captained by Brian Penn, and made a diving, game-saving catch against the Yankees that his team celebrated like a championship. He didn't want to take the uniform off. He also reversed his diabetes and came off every medication.

Oh, and his day job? He runs fifteen-plus strip clubs across the country, from small-town Tennessee to Chicago to Oklahoma — and the thing he loves most about it is finding the person everybody else overlooked and turning them into a star.

In this episode:

• The hospital visit that started everything
• Why 20 minutes every day beats two hours for two weeks
• Trading the boss's chair for the rookie's locker at fantasy camp
• Meeting Andruw Jones in a batting cage — and Brian's very awkward run-in with Leo Mazzone
• Growing up in Richmond watching the entire 90s Braves dynasty come through Triple-A
• Why "Instagram lifestyle" is the biggest lie in modern life

"It's better to do 20 minutes a day for a month than two hours a day for two weeks." — Mike Dickinson