Tre Hubbard spent his whole life being an offensive lineman. Then COVID ended his college football career overnight, and he had no idea who he was without it.

Tre is a 28 year old former NCAA Division I offensive lineman, Golden Gloves boxing champion, cybersecurity professional, and now a transformational coach. He grew up in a military family in Virginia Beach with strict household values and currently lives in San Diego. This conversation starts at his lowest point. Seven months after football ended, he had gained 60 pounds and built a diet and a mindset that were quietly wrecking him.

He tells Chris about the moment it hit home, sitting at an all you can eat sushi restaurant and realizing how uncomfortable he had become in his own body. That discomfort led him back to his high school trainer, Tony Thompson, and eventually into a gym where a fighter named Zar convinced him to step into the ring. On December 21st, the one year anniversary of losing his close friend Clay, Tre agreed to take his first fight, inspired by something Clay had told him about following his heart.

What happened next went viral. In under a minute, in his very first amateur bout, Tre knocked his opponent out. He walked away with a win everyone was talking about and a private uncertainty about whether he had actually earned it. He stepped away from fighting for years afterward, slipped back into old weight struggles, and eventually found his faith, which gave him a clearer sense of who he actually was.

This conversation is about what happens when the identity you built your whole life around disappears, and how Tre found his way to a new one, not as an athlete, but as someone who helps other men do the same. Chris walks Tre through the 7 Levels process, a series of why questions built to strip away the surface answer and get to the real one underneath.

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What You'll Learn

In this conversation you'll learn:

• How losing a college football career overnight due to COVID triggered a 60 pound weight gain and identity crisis
• The moment at an all you can eat sushi restaurant that made Tre confront how much he had let himself go
• Why reaching out to his old high school trainer became the turning point in rebuilding his body and mindset
• How a fighter named Zar convinced him to step into boxing despite having no prior fighting background
• Why Tre chose to take his first fight on the one year anniversary of losing his friend Clay
• What it felt like to knock out his opponent in his very first amateur bout, and why the win left him more uncertain than confident
• Why he stepped away from fighting for years afterward and slipped back into old patterns
• How faith became the turning point that helped him find a clearer sense of identity
• The shift from identifying as an athlete to identifying as a transformational coach who helps other men through his own story
• What the 7 Levels process is and how asking why repeatedly can uncover your real purpose
• Why Tre believes people can face their fears by recognizing they are built for it, even when they do not feel qualified
• How Tre now uses content creation to help others going through the same struggles with weight, identity, and purpose