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At 16, Blake Norton started drinking, and while fledgling a career in media was initially very successful, it was only a matter of time before his compulsive escapism caught up with him, leading to unemployment and depression.
Blake's path changed at 23, when he was offered a job coaching professional wrestling for a small gym in Dublin. It became immediately apparent that if Blake didn’t learn an awful lot about how to be the kind of role model young people need awfully quickly, he was going to wind up passing on the same insecurities, disconnect and frustration to these students that he experienced in his relationship with his father.

When Blake Norton was 11, his father left home and moved back to America.
Like many who lose a parent during their formative years, Blake was consumed with guilt and confusion. As time went on, his relationship with his father deteriorated, as did his relationships with other family members and at school.
At sixteen, Blake started drinking, and while fledgling a career in media was initially very successful, it was only a matter of time before his compulsive escapism caught up with him, leading to unemployment and depression.
Blake's path changed at 23, when he was offered a job coaching professional wrestling for a small gym in Dublin.
It became immediately apparent that if Blake didn’t learn an awful lot about how to be the kind of role model young people need awfully quickly, he was going to wind up passing on the same insecurities, disconnect and frustration to these students that he experienced in his relationship with his father.
So began Blake's schooling in earnest, whereby he went to work each day acutally aware that it was he who was studying. By trial and error, Blake looked to the students to help educate him how to become the role model they needed, and in the process, learn how to repair his relationship with his father.

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