Chris Welton was born with one hand. He's a performance coach, TEDx speaker, and international bestselling author of One Jordan — and he built his entire professional network by mailing strangers a single Jordan sneaker with a note: want the other one? Give me a call.
It worked on Damon West. It worked on Ben Newman. It worked well enough that John Maxwell built a keynote around the strategy and started naming Chris from the stage — Chris found out because strangers began messaging him on LinkedIn mid-talk.
In this conversation, Chris and Josh get into what separates lived adversity from performative resilience: the four ways people show up when adversity hits, why Chris intentionally puts himself in brutal physical situations before life does it for him, and what happened at HYROX in Dallas when he went face-first into the turf twenty meters from the finish and his wife told the paramedics to back up.
He also opens up about mental health, PTSD, and why men his size don't have those conversations.
In this episode:
- The One Jordan strategy and why most people aren't bold enough to try it
Why the gap between top producers and mediocre performers is smaller than you think
- Victim, Survivor, Warrior, Architect — the four adversity paradigms
- The Adversity Accelerator: training for hardship before it arrives
- Why Chris moves foster-care kids to the top of the resume pile
- Accountability versus ownership, and what it costs teams when leaders get it wrong
- The sentence his grandmother said to him 47 years ago that shaped everything
Connect with Chris Welton:
Website: https://chriswelton.live
Instagram: @onehandatatime
Podcast: One Hand At A Time
Book: https://onejordanbook.com
Connect with Josh Kosnick:
https://joshkosnick.com
Life Quotient Assessment: https://www.joshkosnick.com/assessment
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