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October 1, 2019 40 mins

This month’s theme is Resilience. Our guest is Johnboy Smith, Paralympic Athlete, UK No.1 and Commonwealth Games Silver Medallist in the Wheelchair Marathon. In ‘The Beginning’ section, he talks about growing up running around with a dog and a pocket-knife in rural Kent, until a chance encounter forced him to survive the unthinkable… In ‘The Battlefield of the Mind’, he talks about what gave him the strength to keep going after his spinal injury. In ‘The Mountaintop’, he talks about everything from, feeling completely worthless, to finding his purpose and the success that came along the way… In ‘The Things I Wish I’d Known’, he gives us advice about overcoming setbacks and why the bad days are the days that really matter. In this ‘Bonus’ episode Johnboy tells us how a bad choice led him to a second near death experience and a special new season in his life…


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Survivor

Resilience

Unstoppable

 

Bullets

Discipline

Paralympian

Mental health

 

PTSD

Tears of Joy

Feeling Worthless

Extraordinary Success

 

Satisfaction

Grab the Sunshine

Overcoming Self-doubt 

Can’t Be Bothered to Get Out of Bed

 

Routine

Bad Choices

Clinically Dying 

Everything Happens for a Reason

 


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