Episode #8
Sweeping Blood Under the Rug, the 4x4x48 Challenge, and the Cost of Numbness with Michael Giardina
Jun 10, 20261h 48mS1
<p>In this episode of the Warriorside Podcast, hosts Diego Ugalde and Noah Galloway sit down with Navy veteran and elite athlete Michael Giardina, who delivers a deeply vulnerable account of breaking a lifelong cycle of emotional numbness. Michael details growing up in an explosive, unpredictable household where he learned to bury his emotions—a pattern that led to early substance abuse, a protective enlistment in the Navy, and later coping by physically crushing his body in extreme endurance sports and competing in the CrossFit Games six times. He shares the raw trauma of discovering his father's suicide in 2009, manually cl...
