Identity Beyond the Fight with Chase “The Weapon” Walden

What happens when the thing you built your identity around starts to change? In this episode of The Connected Experience, Greg sits down with Chase “The Weapon” Walden, a professional Muay Thai fighter, kickboxer, coach, referee, and combat sports leader with more than 20 years of experience. Chase’s journey has taken him from amateur national champion to fighting professionally in Thailand, competing in Glory Kickboxing, and becoming a WKA World Champion. He now serves as Head Coach of ISKA Team USA and ISKA National Director for USA Muay Thai, helping build the ISKA US National Team from the ground up and leading fighters onto international stages. But this conversation is about more than wins, titles, and fight experience. After being diagnosed with career-threatening arm injuries, Chase entered a season where the future of his fighting career became uncertain. Selling his gym, shifting into a new day-to-day rhythm, working as a barber’s apprentice, continuing to train, and coaching once a week at Eastside Muay Thai, Chase is navigating what it means to keep moving when the next chapter is not fully clear. Together, Greg and Chase explore discipline, pain, humility, leadership, transition, and the identity shift that happens when life forces you to ask who you are beyond what you do.