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It's time to man up with Satan's nightmare, Nakia Koloch. You know what else is special about today? Let me tell you what's really special about today. You hear me say this probably week after week, like, "Oh, I got such a special guest today," and and and I do. I really feel like every single week is Mark that the show has now been downloaded in 92 different countries.
Wow, wonderful! Yeah, 92.
So it is a blessing, and we're gonna get your story out there to the world today, Mark. But we were recently together. I was up in the to my sister. Twenty six years, and we just had our twenty sixth anniversary on July twenty seventh. Twenty six years on July twenty seventh.
I actually think I missed that. Tell my sister not to get mad at me. Happy anniversary, Mark. Both up to Minneapolis.
Okay, and I was so honored.
Okay, that you shared them with me. They're almost like my surrogate daughters. Yeah.
Okay, we got really close, and. They're just wonderful, and they are a blessing to you, and in their community, and to you, your sense of humor, and and you're just as they have told me, you're just fun to be around, and I can I can diddle that, I can say amen to that. You are fun to be around.
Well, well, thank you so much. How I see myself, I'm a simple man with simple thoughts, and Gulf Shores, Alabama. Gulf Shores, Alabama. That's not a bad place to live. You know, no, no, it's it's you know it's wonderful during the winter, very hot, you know, during the summer, but it's a real vacation spot for a lot of people on the West Coast.
I don't know about that. I'm not sure about that, but but oh my gosh! I'm looking at your, of course, your education, your your your background, and and and by trade. And we'll we'll jump into more of this in a little bit here. But by trade, um, your your your career is Lori, my wife, set up a nice apartment up there.
She didn't want to come up there. She stayed home, you know, in Minneapolis or Plymouth. And so after two and a half years, um. You know, I was going to come.
Well, I was actually going to retire, okay. And he honored me by coming to my retires. You know, old bedroom, and you know that's my office. and And it's wonderful. It's sort of the newest thing now is telehealth.
You know, people that are in rural areas don't have to drive.
Okay, they can actually just be in their home in their comfort. Forty nine years, forty nine. Can you believe it? Wow! You know, I am an old guy, and I've been blessed by having so many good opportunities.
And it's I'm I'm down to halftime now, which is sort of a miracle. That started, you know, July one. And so I just only have to work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
So ideal scaling back.
So Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday off. That's that's pretty ideal. For that would be ideal for for a lot of folks, you know. But yeah, yeah. But obviously, go ahead.
Yeah, that just gives me the opportunity to start working out more. And and that is just really good for me and for my health.
Well, it it is, and in fact, and in my most recent trip up there, you graced me with your presence and and went to the gym with me. And that was fantastic. I appreciate that. Yeah, not the first time we've done that, but certainly a fun experience. Speaking of experiences, and again, I do want to get into a little bit more of of specifically of of what you do and how you've helped.
So many people over those forty-nine years. But before we get there, a couple things come to mind. Starting with starting with Thief River Falls, Minnesota, Minnesota, and Minnesota.
So, so what's interesting about that is was for me personally is. I had a traumatic experience in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, many, many, many years ago, and and anyone who's bought my book knows really the full story. You know, Nikita: A Tale of the Ring of Redemption. But and then when I found out you were working there, and then by the way, you know. Side note: Your retirement party was actually in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, and I had not been back there, Mark, since.
That traumatic experience, and so people right now are like, "Well, I and read your book, dude. Like, what what was the traumatic experience?" Right, and and so I just a shorter version of what happened: college football, and we're playing Thief River Falls Community College, and I fracture my leg, my tibia and my fibia, fracture my leg in the game, and like like it's Small like you know, Mark. It's a small town, right? We didn't even have an ambulance on site. Which I'm like, how is that possible?
It's a college football game. How could you not have someone, a medical staff on site? An opposing players' parents. Took me to the Little Thief River Falls Hospital in the back of their old station wagon, panelled station wagon. I'll never forget it.
And I was on the field for gosh, like the game was delayed because they didn't—they'd never seen that before. Didn't know what to do. If you would like to support Koloff for Christ Ministries, for a gift of twenty five dollars, Nikita will send you his two CDs, Adoration and Declaration. For a gift of fifty dollars, Nikita will include his book Wrestling with Success, and for a gift of one hundred dollars or more, Nikita will include a signed copy of his newly updated life story, A Tale of the Ring and Redemption. Go to www.
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You can give monthly, annually, or one time, and make a difference around the world. God bless you. Here's the reason I'm telling that story. The cool part about this is, when I flew in for your retirement party, you and my brother Glenn picked me up at the airport. I had not been back to the Ever Falls, whatever that was, forty something years, whatever it was.
Wow! And and you guys were you you guys really you took me out to that football field, yes, where I actually was carried off. The field, and I had the opportunity. I think you, you or Glenn were documenting, taking pictures of the field, me on the field, and got down in my three point football stance. And I'm like, I ain't being carried off the field this time.
I'm walking off this field. I'm walking off, man. I don't know if you remember all that, but I I remember all that, and that's the rest of the story. And well, almost, because here's the now here's the icing on the cake. I didn't realize the little hospital I was taken to.
That's essentially you. That's where you were working. That's what you were part of, that little hospital, exactly. And and so the cool.
So here for you listening out there, and in in the listening world, here's the cool part about that. I was able.
Now here's the best part about this story, and how my brother-in-law Mark had an integral part in this. The best part of the story is I was able through the Good Lord's help to bring closure. To that whole traumatic experience, by being able to go back to that football field. Which had a burning memory at the age of eighteen. Oh my goodness!
That had had really deeply wounded me, and and and so psychologically, talking to the psychiatrist here, psychologically, psychologist, okay.
Well, psychologist.
Sorry, sorry, sorry. I get those two words mixed up too. My my my apologies.
So, but. I'm able to close that door and and gain healing from that. But that's you know what that's just one of of so many stories. In fact, speaking of you were again instrumental a number of years ago, and and maybe you can talk a little bit more into this when when my mom had passed and you accompanied my sister and brother and I to England where she was born. Oh.
That was the most incredible trip. Yeah how how did that how did that I know how it impacted us. How did it impact you? It brought me to tears.
Okay, it was like closure, and it was like a miracle that we actually found where your mother was born.
Okay, I can remember we were kind of driving around. Nikita was is a best driver in England. Most of us will crash driving on the wrong side of the road. But anyway, kind of swerving around, and and if I remember correctly, there was a castle that Nikita, you went and asked the lady, "Have you ever heard of?" I forget what the name of the house was, and and she says, "Yeah, yeah, it's just across the field." She pointed to yeah. She points to yeah.
Yeah, that's right there. Yep, and so we drove over there, and there it was, the the home that you know your mother, Mary Olive, as I would call her, was born. And so then we proceeded to find the graveyard where she was buried. Ah, not buried, but anyway, the local graveyard. And so we had the ashes, half the ashes.
Okay, and we actually had a kind of a walk ceremony, right? A little ceremony, yes, yes, yes. And so we went to the corner of the graveyard.
Okay, and this is all on film, by the way. I was filming, and and each one of the kids, you and Glenn and and and Lori, all had a a bit of the ashes and spreading it on the ground. And you said a prayer, and it was just beautiful. It was profound. I have never experienced anything like that.
Well, and go. Yeah, sorry. Go ahead. No, and going from you know United States to England, and finding the house she was born in, and then you know going to the graveyard and and and having the ashes. Delivered.
It was wonderful.
Well, and again, talking about closure, right?
So I talk about closure in Thief River Falls, and and and for closure.
So the cool part about that story, for those again who don't know, is so my mom's born up on the English Scottish border. Um, her mom, her mom brings her on a boat at age two. To America, and she had never been back. She lived to be ninety-three. She had never been back to England.
Always wanted to go back, but never made that trip. And so the yeah.
So you're describing for those of you who are trying to let me paint a mental picture for you. We had no idea we would actually find the the house that she was born in. I mean, back in those days, you know, you didn't go off to a hospital and all that kind. She was in a little village called Haydon, England, and so she. She's born in this home.
We find it, and then we find like every little village had one church, kind of in the center square.
So what Mark's describing is, we go down to that church, go down to the graveyard. We have this special ceremony for her coming full circle. Here's where she was born, and we're bringing her back home where she had always wanted to go anyway, and we're able to have that ceremony and and and.
So we had that incredible experience. Of course, my brother and I had home now. With a name like Dupont, some might conclude you are not English, but you have you are of the French persuasion. And you and you and my sister ventured on to a little more adventure after we departed England, right? Right, we we went to France, and we went to where my ancestors.
Came from in France, and and the name of the town was what's that famous prison?
Okay, federal prison out east. What is the name of that? Anyway, that's the name of the town. And my cousin had been there, and he says, "Oh, there's a there's a statue right in the middle of town that looks just like your father." Oh, we got to go there.
So he went there. Standing in front of the statue, didn't look at all like my father. I had a few words for my cousin. Come on, that wasn't even close.
Okay, and so so anyways, yes.
So we got to go there, and I'm just so glad that they left that part of France and came to the United States through Canada. You know, we're French Canadian. And you know, half of the family went out east. You know, the Duponts. You know, the people that have to do with chemicals and stuff.
And the other half went to Minnesota. And so, so that's sort of, you know. Oh, I just remembered. It was San Quentin. If you can believe it, San Quentin was the name of the town.
Okay, and it sort of looked like that. It was just different. I'm just so glad that my family left that area and came to the United States. And all the rest is history, as I said before. Yeah, and that's amazing.
Yes.
Well, let me ask you. Let me shift gears here because I want to. I want to address this. You and I were talking when I was up there with you, and t here is something you had developed. I mean, over the forty nine years, and we could probably do several shows on so many stories and how you have helped individuals.
Give us a just a one minute snapshot on how you help individuals, and then I want to get to something you developed that really helped people.
So, give us that real quick.
Okay, well, you know, there's a couple main processes that I work with individuals. One is deprogramming, and what I mean by that is everybody in their childhood has survival techniques. It's just normal, okay. But if those survival techniques go beyond the time they were needed, then it becomes what we call self-defeating behavior. Which brings back the feelings that the survival technique was developed for, and you know if you have initiated a self-defeating behavior when you say to yourself, "Here we go again.
I know how this is going to end." Now, this is not you know my development. This was developed by Dr. Robert Hardy, and he's a good friend of mine.
So that's one of the things I do with my clients. The other thing is called EMDR, eye movement desensitization reprocessing, and it's a re.
Well, individuals who have had a traumatic experience, okay, those traumatic experiences lie in their subconscious, and you know if you have one, okay, is that all of a sudden you start getting anxiety. When you're triggered by some situation or person that reminded you of the trauma, or it just comes up. And so what the EMDR does, it's eye movement desensitization reprocessing. It opens up your subconscious, and it's sort of like your subconscious is like a big red barn, and inside the big red barn are a bunch of trauma horses. And so what the EMDR, it's eye movement.
You know, you move your your eyes back and forth.
Okay, the therapist has a you know their finger. Watch the finger back and forth, and it opens up the subconscious and the trauma horse runs out, and then the door closes and it can't get back in. It's not that you don't remember, but you don't have the feeling.
So I have a real commitment to helping service persons that come back. From deployment, that have been traumatized. Also, ambulance drivers—you know—that have to take, you know, really people that are in really tough shape, and the experience that police officers, domestic abuse folks.
Now, I have not developed that, but if people are interested in that process, they can put EMDR into their Google, and all the research comes up on it. And basically, the research shows that between 90 and 97 percent of the people get help.
Now, wouldn't that be nice if you could go to the casino and know that you're going to win 90 to 97 percent? And that's the research.
Now, it only works for 70 percent of the service persons because they have been trained, okay, to suppress their emotions through basic. And so, 70 percent of the service persons.
So that's one of my commitments.
Well, is with those folks. Yeah, and I know you've. It sounds so.
So, I guess PTSD is that the people who suffer exactly struggle with things like that. Right. Right. So, in any line of work, I guess, as you're saying.
So, so give that.
So, what could they? They could Google what one more time. What could they Google to find out more about that, Mark?
Okay. All right. Four four letters. E is an elephant. M is a monkey.
D is a dog. R is a rabbit. And and they can they can find if if they're interested, therapists in their area that specialize in EMDR.
Now that's well, and again, I know we could we may have to do some more shows and just have you share some stories on on just how.
Some success stories on how, through your line of work, you've been able to help people get healed and get whole and get set free of these trauma horses. Is that what you call them, trauma horses? Yeah, exactly. In in the big red barn. In the big red barn.
Well, yes, and the and the subconscious will not release that trauma.
Okay, and you know that subconscious was developed, I suppose, during the cave person days when they go out and look for food, and the dinosaur would chase them back into the cave, and and you know they'd never go out again because they'd be afraid. I understand. Then they suppress. Yep, the emotion from that. But anyway, yeah.
Well, and and you're there. Mark Dupont is there to help help heal you and set you free. And so, Mark, we're we're out of time. But I want to thank you for being on the Man Up Show today and just been sharing some of your life and some of your story with all of our listeners.
Well, well, thank you. I really appreciate and um the opportunity.
Well, it's been a blessing.
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