August 2, 2025 • 52 mins
Episode: 2025.11.24
The Living Full Out show with Nancy Solari encourages you to be resourceful. Perhaps you want to open a business. Maybe you want to better allocate the money you have. Join Nancy as she discusses how to turn your goals into reality.
Our first caller Eduardo wonders how to get his family on board with his dream of sailing. Nancy advises him to start taking classes with his wife. She also recommended Eduardo to find a boating community. Tune in to learn how to turn your passion into a shared adventure.
Our inspirational guest Sam Schmidt had to be resourceful multiple times throughout his life. In 2000, Sam suffered a horrendous crash, which left him paralyzed from the neck down. Despite his life-altering injury, he refused to give up and started a racing team just a year later. In 2013, Arrow Electronics Company called him, and he took the opportunity to use new technology to get himself into the driver’s seat again. Tune in to the Living Full Out show to hear how Sam technology allowed him to dance with daughter at her wedding.
Perhaps you want to find time to learn a new skill. Try spending at least 10 minutes each day practicing. Having a consistent plan leads you to be more resourceful and live full out.
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The Living Full Out show with Nancy Solari encourages you to be resourceful. Perhaps you want to open a business. Maybe you want to better allocate the money you have. Join Nancy as she discusses how to turn your goals into reality.
Our first caller Eduardo wonders how to get his family on board with his dream of sailing. Nancy advises him to start taking classes with his wife. She also recommended Eduardo to find a boating community. Tune in to learn how to turn your passion into a shared adventure.
Our inspirational guest Sam Schmidt had to be resourceful multiple times throughout his life. In 2000, Sam suffered a horrendous crash, which left him paralyzed from the neck down. Despite his life-altering injury, he refused to give up and started a racing team just a year later. In 2013, Arrow Electronics Company called him, and he took the opportunity to use new technology to get himself into the driver’s seat again. Tune in to the Living Full Out show to hear how Sam technology allowed him to dance with daughter at her wedding.
Perhaps you want to find time to learn a new skill. Try spending at least 10 minutes each day practicing. Having a consistent plan leads you to be more resourceful and live full out.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/living-full-out-show--1474350/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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through your setbacks and start living full out. If you
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hello, and welcome to the Living Full Out Show. My
name is Nancy Silari, and today we'll be talking about
being resourceful. We want to make sure that you're able
to get to what it is that you're aspiring to do.
But sometimes we can't do it alone. We got to time,
people and money right. We need to think about what
we need to do and who we need in our
orbit to get done what we want, and we're going
(00:42):
to give you those resources today. Also, I want to
make sure you're always plugged into our episodes because when
we interview different inspirational guests, they share with us their
own resources for how they got out of addiction and
abuse and navigated different waters of insecurity or heart break.
And I just want to make sure that you hear
(01:02):
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via your phone. So either way, thank you so much
for listening and coming up in our next segment, we're
going to have Sam Schmidt and again, what a great story.
I mean, all that he's gone through in terms of,
you know, getting in an accident, having an amazing race
car driving career and today that's right, he's still a
(01:44):
race car driver even though he's paralyzed from the chest down.
How does he do that? So stay with us you'll
be hearing that amazing story. Also, I'm getting work from
our producer right now. That we have a listener on
the line, let's go check in with them. Hello, Welcome
to the Full Out Show. Hello, Hi, how can I
help you?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
My name is said Arrow, and I was just having
a little tub with my phone. But I think I
hear you very well. Go ahead, can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I can hear you beautifully.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Uh huh, excellent. Thank you Thank you for taking me
taking my home.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
And how can I help you?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Well, I'm I am, I have a question and maybe
I can get some help. My I'm approaching retirement age,
you know, in a few years, not yet, so I'm
starting to plan and one of the one of the
(02:48):
goals I'd like to accomplish if if I can, is
to get a cellboart, purchase a cell board, and travel
travel around. And I'm fortunately my family family's interest is
not line up with dad. So I am trying to
see how I can work it out. And you know,
(03:13):
I'm kind of been looking forward to this plan, and
I don't see a lot of support from my family
in terms of coming along with me, and you know,
we talk about maybe how we can make it work.
It's still still in the planning phase.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
But.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
As really what I was looking forward to. You know,
I've been working hard all my life and this is
a dream that I want to do and how can
make it happen?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And now I'm curious though, I Mean, here's the thing.
What's so interesting is my dad he's passed away now,
but he actually had that same dream. It was a
dream of his for a long time now. My parents
ended up divorcing after twenty years. But he ended up
buying a sailboat after the divorce. He and it wasn't
(04:05):
like she didn't want it. But I'm just saying he
that was his dream too, and he ended up sailing
all through the San Juan Islands of you know, just
off the coast of Washington there and and but but
I will tell you we didn't love it, meaning that
it was hard to enroll three teenage daughters to get
(04:29):
on a boat. And it's just you know it. So
it is I understand the dynamics because if you have
a passion to do something like you do, like my dad,
did you know it is your dream, whereas maybe your family,
like me being the kiddo and my dad may not
love it, Okay, And so I really understand. How how
(04:53):
often do you currently sail?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Well, I am a biology so I words, I do
spend a lot of time doing field work, and I've
only sell as a passenger. I assisted friends who have
sell boats and other boats, other motocrafts, So I don't
(05:18):
really have a lot of experience. So I know I
have a long learning curve. But living here in Florida,
it's it's not difficult. I have access to the water.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
And I.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Taken pretty much challenging experiences in my life, and I
think this shouldn't be one of challenges I cannot do.
I think a lot of learning to do. But you know,
I I'm wondering whether it is feasible to buy a
boat right now, and the about the time.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
But I'm working.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I'm still working, so I don't have a lot of
free time, unfortunately on the weekends and holidays.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So well, one thing you might one thing you know
you might think about now. I mean, there is the saying,
which I'm sure you've heard before, the best boats a
friend's boat, you know, because they are expensive and there's
a lot of maintenance. So I got one question for you,
that is an important question. Why the person who in
(06:26):
your family, who has the loudest voice'll just take one person.
Why do they not want you to get a sailboat?
Is it because it's too expensive? They feel like you
can't get maintained. What's the problem, What is the inks?
What's the problem?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Well, it's not really that they don't want me to
get a sell boat. In fact that I think that
part is I'm getting supported. But the issue is that
they don't you know. My whole idea is I know
you said it. You know, it's my passion and I
want to share with them and maybe go on the
sellboard when I have it. They say they are not
(07:06):
water people. I mean, they love the ocean, but they
don't like to be on it. Okay. They my wife,
my wife, and bringing up issues like you know that
I don't know how to sell and all this, you know,
but I said, you know I can learn. I've been,
I've gone in books.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
So she's nervous.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Nervous, Yeah, she's nervous.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Okay, okay, so so so I mean, I mean, here's
the cure. Do you want to go? Do you want
to know what the good news is? So the good
news is where they have the most hesitation are actually
ones that can be solved. If they said to you,
we can't afford it, and maybe you could or could
(07:53):
not really afford it, that would be one thing. If
they absolutely I think it was a a wild dream
and you're ridiculous, and you know, then that would be heartbreaking,
right because they basically be crushing your dream.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
But the truth is the reasons for why they're hesitating
are actually reasonable hesitations. There are people that are not
water people. And if that fear is the ocean is big.
See you do this day in and day out, and
I've been on a boat too, But when you look
(08:30):
at that water, if you're not confident in your swimming,
if you feel like I mean, I saw a whole
pot of orcas go under our boat one time, and
any one of those could tip the boat over. Okay,
you know there are things that can happen and although
you feel confident, they may not. What I would do
(08:51):
is this, I would number one, kind of earn it
a little bit with them, meaning that I would maybe
with your wife start taking some classes or maybe even
start doing some groups together. I know that there's a
site I use out here called meetup dot com. I'm
(09:13):
I'm pretty sure they would have it out by you,
and they're sailing groups because I've actually been on them.
Or maybe you can find a local sailing group. But
I think she needs to just be out on the
boat a little bit more, and maybe if it's not
a big like ocean commitment, maybe it's like a bay,
or maybe just take a sailboat to a lake or
(09:35):
a bathtub. Okay, maybe not the bathtub, but you know,
what I mean, because the thing is is, like my dad,
I don't want you to not have that dream. And
I believe the good thing is the dream can happen.
It's just a matter of whether you're actually going to
buy a boat, which means you have to maintain the
(09:56):
boat and do everything that comes with owning a boat,
or whether you can rent one or join a group.
But the good thing is, I really believe your family
will come around. It's just going to take you. They
don't have the same knowledge you do. It's not about passion,
it's about knowledge. But if you can help make them
(10:19):
feel safe, you know, maybe rent a boat and have
your whole family come and make it a joyful experience,
make it a nice outing, put safeguards in place, and
I think you can win them over. It's just going
to take a little time. But thank you so much
for calling in. And you know, I think it's exciting
(10:41):
and my dad would definitely be cheering you on. Okay,
but thank you for calling in.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Thank you for your information on feedback. I will I
will bring them around and.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Take your advice. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
You're very welcome. All right, and for everyone else, we'll
be right back after this.
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Speaker 2 (15:33):
Thank you for joining us today. I'm Nancy Silari and
this is the Living Full Out Show, and today we're
talking about being resourceful and we are always looking for
inspirational guests that we feel demonstrate what it takes to
dig in to overcome a hard time, heartbreaking, time, challenging time,
Fill in the verb fill it in there. It's there
(15:55):
are times in our life that are just epic. And
I got to tell you, Sam Schmid, truly I almost
put hero next to his name because of how far
he's come from where he was. So I'd like to
welcome Sam to the show.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Seems great to be here.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
So do you get a lot of people that call
you hero, Sam or just me?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Well, it's occasional, but my wife and kids clean. Their
object in life is to keep me grounded, so they
do a good job of that.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You know, truly you're but see, I think you are
a hero when it comes to being such a positive example.
And I mean that sincerely. Now, I know that when
you were a youngster, right you you grew up, your
your dad was racing, your uncle, your family, and was
kind of in the in the blood right that that
(16:50):
extroverted racing spirit. And you had your first motorcycle five
So I want to ask you though, growing up, you know,
you you spent a lot of time, more so with
your mom. I mean they were both working hard, your parents,
and then your dad again was racing, and so he
was busy with that or or working, you know, with
(17:12):
his buddies in the garage, and you didn't get to
spend as much time with him as you would have liked.
And how important was it, you know, how instrumental. Was
it kind of having him not be as available to
you in those early years, like just to kind of
give you that boost that confidence.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah, I mean it's weird. I think I think more
of the population has that dad that you know, football, basketball, baseball, hunting, fishing,
one of those types of things they can do together.
And you know, our outlet was racing. But as many
people involved in growing up and racing, though, it's a
very expensive sport, so to pay for it, my dad
(17:58):
basically worked you know, the crazy eighteen twenty hour days,
you know, five six, seven days a week, and then
we whatever time was left, we worked on the cars
and the motorcycles and my racing. So because of that,
you know, I wasn't you know, my mom was the
one that picked me up from school and Robby alphtt
school and and you know kind of between. So I
(18:19):
do feel like that was a little bit of a
miss and there growing up. And he will he'll readily
admit that there was a period there where he was
probably breaking too much just because it was a part
of life, you know, working on the race cars and
everything else. But you know, full circle, here we are,
and you know, I'm fortunate that I've lived long enough
(18:42):
to have a good, a fantastic relationship with him as
well as my mom. They're both eighty one and you know,
sixty one years of marriage have been great examples of
you know, overcoming adversity themselves.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Wow, that is that is impressive. That is really impressive. Well,
given that family bond, even though you didn't get as
much time with him when you were eleven, your family
got shook with really really hard and heartbreaking news. What
happened to your dad?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah, he was in a racedown in Mexico because he
raced up road and again I raced the motocross stuff,
and I happened to be visiting my grandparents back in
Nebraska at the time. But he was in a racedown.
They're very typical, you're fairly remote. And somebody was coming,
you know, backwards, because they use the same gravel roads
down there back you know, we're talking in nineteen seventy four,
(19:39):
so pretty real, pretty you know, just out there and
somebody's coming backwards. They had a collision. It was a
neurological disorder where they had a blood clot that developed
on the left side of his brain, probably the right
side lots of speeds. But fortunately, you know, just good
bad news. Good news is that you know, one of
(20:00):
his guys was smart enough to put him in a
vehicle and get him across the border because the Mexican healthcare.
That's to say, he wouldn't be around today to talk
about it, but got there and eventually got to UCLA
and they had an operation and you know, saved his life.
But they also told him he never walk or talk again.
(20:21):
You know farm board from Nebraka. You tell him something
you can't do, he'll do it. And so a few
years of out bating therapy five days a week, two
hours a day, and he walks fine, never got to
use his arm back. But you know, lived a very
productive life.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Wow. But I mean so scary because you know, you
were only eleven and this is your dad, and when
that happened, obviously, you know your mom kind of went
into her own superhero mode because she had to do
a lot more in that time, take care of you,
the business, everything else. And you went into know different sports,
(21:01):
just you know, more team sports. And then ultimately, as
you went along in your life, you always kind of
kept your eye on racing and decided to get back
into it.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Why yeah, you know, I mean I was really good
at football, basketball, baseball, had a couple dollarship offers, but
it wasn't you know what just drove my energy every
day and what I wanted to do. And ultimately my
uncle got into into road racing with SCCA, and I
(21:33):
was helping him a little bit in high school, and
you know, thought, man, I really don't want to help
them on a tiven to try. So a long story short,
we rented a car and got a license, gaped it
a try, and just you know, kind of immediately got
addicted to it. So fell back into it. But that was,
you know, thirteen fourteen years after my dad's accident. They
(21:54):
had gotten you know back into business and and done
reasonably well in the autoparts business and and but we
still had to you know, be how to find it.
So that's kind of why I I was part time
racing and in wound up giving my MBA in a
national finance because I knew I wasn't going to fund it,
(22:15):
you know, based on family wealth or you know, a
last name like Unser and Ready. So I just had
to go figure out, figure it out, you know, whatever
it took and so I think that's the story of
our collective lives is you know, tell us we can
do it. We'll figure outw to do it. And it
kind of perseverance, resilience, whatever you want to call it,
but it's really just a desire to you to figure
(22:37):
out a way to do it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Well, you know, I I love that you say that,
because honestly, I see so many people who have these
different dreams, but they're not willing to put in the
time or the energy to like make it happen. And
you're right, you had to work, you know, to pay
the bills and bring in, you know, a sponsor and
really prove to yourself that you can make a go
(23:01):
at this.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Right, it's not a risk. I mean when I look
back now, you know luckily I wasn't married, didn't have
a mortgage, and every kids. Because I think that does
hold a lot of people back when they try to
rationalize anything that's risky, whether it's a business or racing
or you know, investments. And at that time in my life,
(23:22):
I didn't have any that stuff and I figured it
by if I lost at all racing, then you know,
I can always build it back up. So I didn't
want to, you know, get that continued down the road
and say, you know what if and I wished I
had tried it.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
You know, I know those are words that could.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Have gone, you know, as far as putting a suit
on and being really successful in business. But I figure,
you know, if I'm going to try it, I got
to try it now.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Well and try and try.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
You did?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
You did it? So stay with us, everyone, We've got
more of sam story around the corner. We'll be back.
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Speaker 2 (28:23):
I'm Nancyslari and this is the Living Full Out Show,
and today we're talking about being resourceful and we have
brought you Sam Schmidt, who is sharing with us his
story of how he had to be resourceful in living
his dream of racing. But when twisty moments in life happen,
you have to dig in even further to get support.
(28:43):
So welcome Sam back to the show.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Thank you very much, glad to be here.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
And Sam, honestly, again, I think where you are today
is really inspiring. But our audience has to know that
racing is obviously expensive to do. It takes a lot
of time and training and practice. And you know, along
the way, as you were building your career and really
(29:10):
going for it, you got married, you had two kiddos,
and I mean, to be honest, that's already a packed life.
But share with us what happened when you went, you know,
to Florida and you were kind of racing and practicing
the day of your accident.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Well, has happened when the father and ultimately happened with
us as you mentioned, seven year marriage to beautiful wife
and two and a half year old and six months
old and living a dream. I just sat on pole
one my first Indy car race, really looking towards two
thousand of possibility to win a championship and I'll be darned.
(29:51):
You know, testing is a traditional thing. You go to Florida,
everybody goes the entire series for preseason testing, can kind
of get everybody showed what you got. And I you know,
we were going really fast, but unfortunately at the wall
blew apart by C three, C four, C five vertebrae,
but knocked unconscious, not bringing me five minutes keatter lifted
(30:14):
to the lovel One Trauma there in Orlando, and and
things were looking like really bleak for for the better
part of a week, but you know, pulled through that
and then it was like DAYV with my dad's accident
all over again. We got to buckle down and you know,
figure out how to fix this problem and and you know,
(30:35):
try to recreate life again.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And this led you to where you were then, you know,
paralyzed from like the chest down right.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, basically it was a very high level which got
level up there. It could be anything from you know,
on a ventilator and completely nothing from the shoulders own,
which is effectively where I was. The doctor neurosurgeon was
no badside matter whatsoever. Just told my life to you know,
find me a nurse in your home wid be an
event the rest of my life, which you didn't expect
(31:06):
to be very long. That obviously wasn't our family's nature.
So we got transferred to Saint Louis, which is pretty
aggressive rehabilitation for stonycrit injury. And thank god they got
methlevent later, about six weeks later, and the rest of
this kind of history now been twenty five years and
(31:27):
lived a lot longer than they print did.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Wow. I mean and your wife, I got to give
her a lot of credit because as your story went
along and you were going to all your therapy and
doing all the things that you needed to do to
do life right, she was also very blunt in what
are we going to do? Do we need nurses? You know?
Where do we go from here? And you know, you
(31:52):
you got a fire. You've always had a light within you,
a fire within you for racing. And the fact that
you were able to get yourself back into the car
again racing again. I think our audience is wondering, how
did you do that?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know other people's situation, but
I think we just always, you know, got a goal
and just you know, do anything to make that happen now,
I will say spinal cred injury, and that type of
injury is the first thing in my life where I
couldn't just personally overcome with perseverance it, you know, it
(32:32):
took a restructure of life. And again, as you mentioned,
without a wife now of almost thirty three years, that
stood by me. I've often said, if the shoes on
the other foot, I'm really not sure to pull it off,
you know, because of the young kids and everything else.
But but yeah, she kind of was, you know, straight talk,
like what are we going to do? How are you
(32:53):
going to start your life? And what are you going
to do to go on? Because you know, there's way
too many people in the house and we've got to
figure out, you know, what we're gonna do. So I mean,
really it's a hard look at everything I had done
in my life at the time when I was thirty
five years old, and what really drives me enough to
get up every morning do to three hours plus physical
(33:16):
therapy and that was racing. And so I naively a
year af from accident, started a race team and we've
had a great deal of success fortunately. But again, one
thing I learned really quickly, you know, after the accident
is like overnight, I had to learn how to delegate,
(33:37):
and I wasn't always a very good delegator before an accident.
And so man, just I've always had great teams, whether
it's a race team, the foundation, my family, everybody really
steps up and makes things happen, and we just success
on the track, success off the track. It's all really
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because of the great people around me.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Well, and the team obviously has done very well. But
even you personally as a driver got back to racing,
and I mean you've gone up to like two hundred
miles an hour. How do you do that?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Yeah? You know. I mean we've we've talked about faith
and family and the motorsports community, and you know, a
verse of a God doesn't give it anymore. You can
handle WK. Sometimes we've failed time out and said, you know,
okay and us enough, let us catch our wind here.
But you know, there was a time in around twenty thirteen, frankly,
(34:36):
when prices escalating, I didn't think I'd keep the Keeam
going with the partnerships we had, and you know, you
kind of again have a lot of faith that things
you're going to work out and earn up. I got
a call from electronics company in Denver named ear Electronics,
and they wanted to put me in a car and
drive again. And that's just led to it's really changed
(34:59):
my life Number one in my perspective on American ingenuity
and what is capable using technology? And then do you
know they got involved in the race team and the
rest is kind of history there as far as our
existence and where we've gone. But yes, they we started
out with the Corvette four corvettes. Later you know, we
(35:20):
went two hundred and thirteen miles an hour, so so
amazing ride. And again I really don't feel like I
can take a lot of credit for it because it
really comes down to a door opening and having the
desire to walk through it and again take the risk.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
But how is it that you assure as our audience though,
how is it that you break? And how is it
that you steer and all that?
Speaker 3 (35:48):
So, yeah, it's all it's all technology, but it's very
intuitive in the sense of the first one was you know,
like raw and pretty primitive. But just like your phone
has evolved in ten years, it controls in the car
has evolved immensely to wear analysis, AI, facial recognition and
When I turn my head, the guard turns either fast
(36:10):
or slow based on how hard I turn my head.
And then I have a let's call the sip sip
and post straw in mouth and again blow to go
and suck on the straw to stop. And I do
it really hard. It goes really fast, and if I
you know, just kind of breathe slowly, it'll just you know,
kind of take off a little stop life. So we've
(36:31):
got a driver's license, we've raced bikes Peak, We've done
all kinds of crazy stunts, and uh, you know, but
I feel really safe because again, the technology is is
the best in the world.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I love that. Now your dad was there, you know,
he's been there. He was there for the accident, is
there for your rehabilitation. He's he's seen you evolve into
this new technology and get back into racing. And how
has it been in terms of your relationship today with
your dad? I know you said earlier that he admits
(37:05):
that he wasn't around enough or available enough when you
were younger. But has he made up for that now?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Yeah? I mean, if if he would not have made
it through his accurate when I was eleven, I think
my life would be like way entirely different, you know,
in the sense of even though we weren't that close,
I watched him overcome that diagnosis and come out, you know, stronger,
(37:34):
you know, more focused, more, you know, just he was.
He wasn't like a very vocal dad, you know that
had a lot of intense conversations, but he, uh, he
lived by example, I guess, is the best way to
put it. And uh there was never a complaint. There
was never a you know, back then, there wasn't the
technology and the accessibility to have now. So he kind
(37:56):
of created all of that for himself, his own driving
system to drive with one arm and one leg. So
I saw that, you know, and I think subliminy. I
just did not know how much that would help an
effect in my life, you know, twenty five years later,
my will and my desire to just overcome and and
then of course add to that my young kids and
(38:19):
you know, their support is really what got me through
my situation. I think, Okay, now, you know, fast forward
five years later, I got the team, He's going to
all the races. My mom had just been you know, emotionally,
physically a lot more supportive because they could and they
had time to do it. And so now, you know,
(38:41):
here we are, twenty five years after my accident, and
I just think got every day that he's still alive
and that they have been the examples they've been. She's
you know, two rounds of cancer diagnosis, treatment, survival, recovery.
So you know, it's just like and sometimes you think
like why does this keep happening. At the other time,
(39:02):
it's like, I've got the strongest family in the world,
and they can overcome anything. And so I've also seen
friends who have lost their parents at you know, safety
fifty five years old, and so I'm just just thankful
for every day and now the wisdom comes through even
what I don't ask for it, you know. So I've
rather got just a diedabout relationship and I'm glad that
(39:25):
we're all, you know, honor to enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Oh, absolutely, and I mean truly, it's uh, don't we
wish we could read the last page first? It'd be
so much easier, you know, of the novel of our lives.
Would be great if we could just go to the
last page. But you know the truth is it's like
a riddle, right, and little by little, the riddle starts
to make sense. But I don't think Sam, you could
(39:48):
have a fuller life. I mean, when I think of
living full out, my friend, you've done it. You've taken risks,
you've followed your passions, you've loved your wife, your kids,
you've you've you've done it. I mean, so I am
again I'm gonna go back to calling you a hero.
Speaker 8 (40:06):
You are to me.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Yeah, and so it's weird.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
I mean, I've definitely I've done since my accent, even before.
My action is really for you know, my own self.
I don't know preservation or motivation or you know, just
going with life. But as the farther I get into it,
I don't realize that there is a reason I didn't
get my arms back. It's because I can pretty much
look at anybody with a disability and say, you know,
(40:31):
unless you're not an e ventilator, not everywhereself than me,
so well, and you want to do somewhere with your
life or yeah or not, we can help you get there.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Well and and and you do you. I mean, honestly,
it's like you're just You're just so great. You're so
great and so giving. So thank you, Sam so much
for sharing your story and for everyone check them out online,
and we are going to come right back.
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and sometimes it is truly time that lets the solutions
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(45:24):
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full out in a big way.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
You're listening to Living Full Out with Nancy Solary. As
a professional motivational speaker. Nancy can assist you to blow
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Speaker 2 (45:57):
Thank you so much for joining us today. I'm Nancy's Larry.
This the Living Full Out Show, and today we've been
talking about being resourceful and we all need that right.
We all have to plug in, figure out, you know,
how do we get from A to Z. But I'll
tell you what I've learned.
Speaker 5 (46:13):
One thing.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
If I've learned one thing, I've learned a lot. But
one thing for sure, is resources are built of layers.
And what I mean by that is I always consider
what is the time, what is the people? What is
the money that it's going to take to achieve something?
And even when I look at my personal life as
(46:35):
someone who is legally blind, it's been really wild seeing
my vision go from seeing lines on the road and
then seeing them disappear, seeing faces seeing them disappear, and
then in time everything just becomes light dark, blurry, and
then you have to learn all these skills and it's
(46:58):
been taking a lot of time. Just when I think
I've gotten something figured out, poof my vision gets worse
or more blurry, and then I've got to find a
different workaround. So time is really one of those things
where rather than feeling bad about needing to learn a
new skill or a new talking device or mobility aid,
(47:20):
I look at that like, Okay, this is going to
take time, but I know by doing this I'll be
more efficient. I know by allocating time that maybe I
don't even feel like I have, it's going to keep
me independent. And I'll tell you what I would personally
spend any amount of time over time. I would borrow
(47:41):
time to be able to retain that ability, that ability
to navigate life through ease and not feel like one's
a burden. You just can't put a price on that,
so truly, considering the time that you need to get
something done, I also look at people, you know, I
want to say thank you so much to all the
(48:02):
people who have assisted me over the years, some of
them from nonprofits and others are experts, because the people
who teach such high level accessibility tools. I mean, I'm
a little bit more aggressive than maybe your average visually
impaired blind person because I do need to do so
(48:23):
much in my life for work so fast. You know,
I'm constantly asking and hunting down, you know, AI opportunities,
or I'm constantly looking at upgrading my technology just so
that things move efficient efficiently. And it takes these specialists.
And I remember one time in the early years when
(48:45):
I was going from visually impaired to legally blind, and
there is a difference. At that point, I could still
technically see my computer screen and I was still using
a mouse, even though I had to have on the
mouse these long tail things so I could track it
easier with my eyes. I'll never forget one of the
IT specialists, her name was Sue. She said to me,
(49:05):
you know, Nancy, I know you don't think you need
it yet, but I think we should leave the current
software you're using and go to the next level, which
was the level for people who are truly blind. And
I was like, oh, gosh, I don't want to A
it was a lot of learning and B I just
knew that was taking me to that next level. But
I actually I said yes, I said, you know what,
(49:27):
I trust you. You are my people, and I trust you.
And I was so glad I did. It felt like
it was two months later that my eyes got even
more blurry, and I don't think I could have used
that old software. I was so glad that I made
that jump. So you need to make sure that resourcefully
you have people that will tell you sometimes even what
(49:48):
you don't want to hear, because they're looking out for you,
for the best of you. And then I also consider money.
You know, it's we get a lot of opportunities in life,
whether it's personally an offer for this, an offer for that,
or gosh, you go to the grocery store. I'm sure
you're swayed by, you know, a deal here or a
(50:09):
deal there. But the truth is, you have to have
a budget. You have to consider the unexpected. And I
feel like a lot of times, if I don't have
that unexpected piggy bank, m I'm in trouble. Because the
truth is, when something happens like I need an upgrade
(50:32):
for you know, some sort of a software on my computer,
if I don't have my talking computer, I can't see
my computer. And it's not like I can just go
to Best Buy or go to another store and get
a computer. I have to you know, order it, and
it has to be built for me, and it's got
to have all the talking software. And so the thing is,
(50:54):
it's really important that we consider making sure that you
have that just in case unknown piggybank, because when things
kind of go sideways and you rely on a certain
tool or you rely on certain assistance, you have to
make sure you have it. And so when I consider time, people,
(51:14):
and money, those resources to me are everything. It for
me is what makes the wheels on the car turn literally.
But I lastly look at the resource of myself. Always
remember your intuition, your ability to trust, your instincts, your
ability to you know, go at a certain tempo in life.
(51:36):
Sometimes you put your foot on the gas. Sometimes you
take it off just so you can process and analyze.
Always trust that and don't be afraid again to take
those pauses in life and really digest an offering, you know,
digest a resource. How does it all fit together in
your life? And will it all work seamlessly? When you
(51:57):
do all that though, and you are resourceful in your
you're plugging in, You're going to be living full out
in a huge way. And I'm so excited and proud
to be part of your journey. So thank you so
much for listening today and I wish you all the best.
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Hello, and welcome to the Living Full Out Show. My
name is Nancy Silari, and today we'll be talking about
being resourceful. We want to make sure that you're able
to get to what it is that you're aspiring to do.
But sometimes we can't do it alone. We got to time,
people and money right. We need to think about what
we need to do and who we need in our
orbit to get done what we want, and we're going
(00:42):
to give you those resources today. Also, I want to
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we interview different inspirational guests, they share with us their
own resources for how they got out of addiction and
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And I just want to make sure that you hear
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going to have Sam Schmidt and again, what a great story.
I mean, all that he's gone through in terms of,
you know, getting in an accident, having an amazing race
car driving career and today that's right, he's still a
(01:44):
race car driver even though he's paralyzed from the chest down.
How does he do that? So stay with us you'll
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I'm kind of been looking forward to this plan, and
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we talk about maybe how we can make it work.
It's still still in the planning phase.
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As really what I was looking forward to. You know,
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And now I'm curious though, I Mean, here's the thing.
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but he actually had that same dream. It was a
dream of his for a long time now. My parents
ended up divorcing after twenty years. But he ended up
buying a sailboat after the divorce. He and it wasn't
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like she didn't want it. But I'm just saying he
that was his dream too, and he ended up sailing
all through the San Juan Islands of you know, just
off the coast of Washington there and and but but
I will tell you we didn't love it, meaning that
it was hard to enroll three teenage daughters to get
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on a boat. And it's just you know it. So
it is I understand the dynamics because if you have
a passion to do something like you do, like my dad,
did you know it is your dream, whereas maybe your family,
like me being the kiddo and my dad may not
love it, Okay, And so I really understand. How how
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often do you currently sail?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Well, I am a biology so I words, I do
spend a lot of time doing field work, and I've
only sell as a passenger. I assisted friends who have
sell boats and other boats, other motocrafts, So I don't
(05:18):
really have a lot of experience. So I know I
have a long learning curve. But living here in Florida,
it's it's not difficult. I have access to the water.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
And I.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Taken pretty much challenging experiences in my life, and I
think this shouldn't be one of challenges I cannot do.
I think a lot of learning to do. But you know,
I I'm wondering whether it is feasible to buy a
boat right now, and the about the time.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
But I'm working.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
I'm still working, so I don't have a lot of
free time, unfortunately on the weekends and holidays.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So well, one thing you might one thing you know
you might think about now. I mean, there is the saying,
which I'm sure you've heard before, the best boats a
friend's boat, you know, because they are expensive and there's
a lot of maintenance. So I got one question for you,
that is an important question. Why the person who in
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your family, who has the loudest voice'll just take one person.
Why do they not want you to get a sailboat?
Is it because it's too expensive? They feel like you
can't get maintained. What's the problem, What is the inks?
What's the problem?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Well, it's not really that they don't want me to
get a sell boat. In fact that I think that
part is I'm getting supported. But the issue is that
they don't you know. My whole idea is I know
you said it. You know, it's my passion and I
want to share with them and maybe go on the
sellboard when I have it. They say they are not
(07:06):
water people. I mean, they love the ocean, but they
don't like to be on it. Okay. They my wife,
my wife, and bringing up issues like you know that
I don't know how to sell and all this, you know,
but I said, you know I can learn. I've been,
I've gone in books.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
So she's nervous.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Nervous, Yeah, she's nervous.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Okay, okay, so so so I mean, I mean, here's
the cure. Do you want to go? Do you want
to know what the good news is? So the good
news is where they have the most hesitation are actually
ones that can be solved. If they said to you,
we can't afford it, and maybe you could or could
(07:53):
not really afford it, that would be one thing. If
they absolutely I think it was a a wild dream
and you're ridiculous, and you know, then that would be heartbreaking,
right because they basically be crushing your dream.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
But the truth is the reasons for why they're hesitating
are actually reasonable hesitations. There are people that are not
water people. And if that fear is the ocean is big.
See you do this day in and day out, and
I've been on a boat too, But when you look
(08:30):
at that water, if you're not confident in your swimming,
if you feel like I mean, I saw a whole
pot of orcas go under our boat one time, and
any one of those could tip the boat over. Okay,
you know there are things that can happen and although
you feel confident, they may not. What I would do
(08:51):
is this, I would number one, kind of earn it
a little bit with them, meaning that I would maybe
with your wife start taking some classes or maybe even
start doing some groups together. I know that there's a
site I use out here called meetup dot com. I'm
(09:13):
I'm pretty sure they would have it out by you,
and they're sailing groups because I've actually been on them.
Or maybe you can find a local sailing group. But
I think she needs to just be out on the
boat a little bit more, and maybe if it's not
a big like ocean commitment, maybe it's like a bay,
or maybe just take a sailboat to a lake or
(09:35):
a bathtub. Okay, maybe not the bathtub, but you know,
what I mean, because the thing is is, like my dad,
I don't want you to not have that dream. And
I believe the good thing is the dream can happen.
It's just a matter of whether you're actually going to
buy a boat, which means you have to maintain the
(09:56):
boat and do everything that comes with owning a boat,
or whether you can rent one or join a group.
But the good thing is, I really believe your family
will come around. It's just going to take you. They
don't have the same knowledge you do. It's not about passion,
it's about knowledge. But if you can help make them
(10:19):
feel safe, you know, maybe rent a boat and have
your whole family come and make it a joyful experience,
make it a nice outing, put safeguards in place, and
I think you can win them over. It's just going
to take a little time. But thank you so much
for calling in. And you know, I think it's exciting
(10:41):
and my dad would definitely be cheering you on. Okay,
but thank you for calling in.
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Thank you for your information on feedback. I will I
will bring them around and.
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Take your advice. Thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 2 (15:33):
Thank you for joining us today. I'm Nancy Silari and
this is the Living Full Out Show, and today we're
talking about being resourceful and we are always looking for
inspirational guests that we feel demonstrate what it takes to
dig in to overcome a hard time, heartbreaking, time, challenging time,
Fill in the verb fill it in there. It's there
(15:55):
are times in our life that are just epic. And
I got to tell you, Sam Schmid, truly I almost
put hero next to his name because of how far
he's come from where he was. So I'd like to
welcome Sam to the show.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Seems great to be here.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
So do you get a lot of people that call
you hero, Sam or just me?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Well, it's occasional, but my wife and kids clean. Their
object in life is to keep me grounded, so they
do a good job of that.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You know, truly you're but see, I think you are
a hero when it comes to being such a positive example.
And I mean that sincerely. Now, I know that when
you were a youngster, right you you grew up, your
your dad was racing, your uncle, your family, and was
kind of in the in the blood right that that
(16:50):
extroverted racing spirit. And you had your first motorcycle five
So I want to ask you though, growing up, you know,
you you spent a lot of time, more so with
your mom. I mean they were both working hard, your parents,
and then your dad again was racing, and so he
was busy with that or or working, you know, with
(17:12):
his buddies in the garage, and you didn't get to
spend as much time with him as you would have liked.
And how important was it, you know, how instrumental. Was
it kind of having him not be as available to
you in those early years, like just to kind of
give you that boost that confidence.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah, I mean it's weird. I think I think more
of the population has that dad that you know, football, basketball, baseball, hunting, fishing,
one of those types of things they can do together.
And you know, our outlet was racing. But as many
people involved in growing up and racing, though, it's a
very expensive sport, so to pay for it, my dad
(17:58):
basically worked you know, the crazy eighteen twenty hour days,
you know, five six, seven days a week, and then
we whatever time was left, we worked on the cars
and the motorcycles and my racing. So because of that,
you know, I wasn't you know, my mom was the
one that picked me up from school and Robby alphtt
school and and you know kind of between. So I
(18:19):
do feel like that was a little bit of a
miss and there growing up. And he will he'll readily
admit that there was a period there where he was
probably breaking too much just because it was a part
of life, you know, working on the race cars and
everything else. But you know, full circle, here we are,
and you know, I'm fortunate that I've lived long enough
(18:42):
to have a good, a fantastic relationship with him as
well as my mom. They're both eighty one and you know,
sixty one years of marriage have been great examples of
you know, overcoming adversity themselves.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Wow, that is that is impressive. That is really impressive. Well,
given that family bond, even though you didn't get as
much time with him when you were eleven, your family
got shook with really really hard and heartbreaking news. What
happened to your dad?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah, he was in a racedown in Mexico because he
raced up road and again I raced the motocross stuff,
and I happened to be visiting my grandparents back in
Nebraska at the time. But he was in a racedown.
They're very typical, you're fairly remote. And somebody was coming,
you know, backwards, because they use the same gravel roads
down there back you know, we're talking in nineteen seventy four,
(19:39):
so pretty real, pretty you know, just out there and
somebody's coming backwards. They had a collision. It was a
neurological disorder where they had a blood clot that developed
on the left side of his brain, probably the right
side lots of speeds. But fortunately, you know, just good
bad news. Good news is that you know, one of
(20:00):
his guys was smart enough to put him in a
vehicle and get him across the border because the Mexican healthcare.
That's to say, he wouldn't be around today to talk
about it, but got there and eventually got to UCLA
and they had an operation and you know, saved his life.
But they also told him he never walk or talk again.
(20:21):
You know farm board from Nebraka. You tell him something
you can't do, he'll do it. And so a few
years of out bating therapy five days a week, two
hours a day, and he walks fine, never got to
use his arm back. But you know, lived a very
productive life.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Wow. But I mean so scary because you know, you
were only eleven and this is your dad, and when
that happened, obviously, you know your mom kind of went
into her own superhero mode because she had to do
a lot more in that time, take care of you,
the business, everything else. And you went into know different sports,
(21:01):
just you know, more team sports. And then ultimately, as
you went along in your life, you always kind of
kept your eye on racing and decided to get back
into it.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Why yeah, you know, I mean I was really good
at football, basketball, baseball, had a couple dollarship offers, but
it wasn't you know what just drove my energy every
day and what I wanted to do. And ultimately my
uncle got into into road racing with SCCA, and I
(21:33):
was helping him a little bit in high school, and
you know, thought, man, I really don't want to help
them on a tiven to try. So a long story short,
we rented a car and got a license, gaped it
a try, and just you know, kind of immediately got
addicted to it. So fell back into it. But that was,
you know, thirteen fourteen years after my dad's accident. They
(21:54):
had gotten you know back into business and and done
reasonably well in the autoparts business and and but we
still had to you know, be how to find it.
So that's kind of why I I was part time
racing and in wound up giving my MBA in a
national finance because I knew I wasn't going to fund it,
(22:15):
you know, based on family wealth or you know, a
last name like Unser and Ready. So I just had
to go figure out, figure it out, you know, whatever
it took and so I think that's the story of
our collective lives is you know, tell us we can
do it. We'll figure outw to do it. And it
kind of perseverance, resilience, whatever you want to call it,
but it's really just a desire to you to figure
(22:37):
out a way to do it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Well, you know, I I love that you say that,
because honestly, I see so many people who have these
different dreams, but they're not willing to put in the
time or the energy to like make it happen. And
you're right, you had to work, you know, to pay
the bills and bring in, you know, a sponsor and
really prove to yourself that you can make a go
(23:01):
at this.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Right, it's not a risk. I mean when I look
back now, you know luckily I wasn't married, didn't have
a mortgage, and every kids. Because I think that does
hold a lot of people back when they try to
rationalize anything that's risky, whether it's a business or racing
or you know, investments. And at that time in my life,
(23:22):
I didn't have any that stuff and I figured it
by if I lost at all racing, then you know,
I can always build it back up. So I didn't
want to, you know, get that continued down the road
and say, you know what if and I wished I
had tried it.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
You know, I know those are words that could.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Have gone, you know, as far as putting a suit
on and being really successful in business. But I figure,
you know, if I'm going to try it, I got
to try it now.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Well and try and try.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
You did?
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You did it? So stay with us, everyone, We've got
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I'm Nancyslari and this is the Living Full Out Show,
and today we're talking about being resourceful and we have
brought you Sam Schmidt, who is sharing with us his
story of how he had to be resourceful in living
his dream of racing. But when twisty moments in life happen,
you have to dig in even further to get support.
(28:43):
So welcome Sam back to the show.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Thank you very much, glad to be here.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
And Sam, honestly, again, I think where you are today
is really inspiring. But our audience has to know that
racing is obviously expensive to do. It takes a lot
of time and training and practice. And you know, along
the way, as you were building your career and really
(29:10):
going for it, you got married, you had two kiddos,
and I mean, to be honest, that's already a packed life.
But share with us what happened when you went, you know,
to Florida and you were kind of racing and practicing
the day of your accident.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Well, has happened when the father and ultimately happened with
us as you mentioned, seven year marriage to beautiful wife
and two and a half year old and six months
old and living a dream. I just sat on pole
one my first Indy car race, really looking towards two
thousand of possibility to win a championship and I'll be darned.
(29:51):
You know, testing is a traditional thing. You go to Florida,
everybody goes the entire series for preseason testing, can kind
of get everybody showed what you got. And I you know,
we were going really fast, but unfortunately at the wall
blew apart by C three, C four, C five vertebrae,
but knocked unconscious, not bringing me five minutes keatter lifted
(30:14):
to the lovel One Trauma there in Orlando, and and
things were looking like really bleak for for the better
part of a week, but you know, pulled through that
and then it was like DAYV with my dad's accident
all over again. We got to buckle down and you know,
figure out how to fix this problem and and you know,
(30:35):
try to recreate life again.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And this led you to where you were then, you know,
paralyzed from like the chest down right.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, basically it was a very high level which got
level up there. It could be anything from you know,
on a ventilator and completely nothing from the shoulders own,
which is effectively where I was. The doctor neurosurgeon was
no badside matter whatsoever. Just told my life to you know,
find me a nurse in your home wid be an
event the rest of my life, which you didn't expect
(31:06):
to be very long. That obviously wasn't our family's nature.
So we got transferred to Saint Louis, which is pretty
aggressive rehabilitation for stonycrit injury. And thank god they got
methlevent later, about six weeks later, and the rest of
this kind of history now been twenty five years and
(31:27):
lived a lot longer than they print did.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Wow. I mean and your wife, I got to give
her a lot of credit because as your story went
along and you were going to all your therapy and
doing all the things that you needed to do to
do life right, she was also very blunt in what
are we going to do? Do we need nurses? You know?
Where do we go from here? And you know, you
(31:52):
you got a fire. You've always had a light within you,
a fire within you for racing. And the fact that
you were able to get yourself back into the car
again racing again. I think our audience is wondering, how
did you do that?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know other people's situation, but
I think we just always, you know, got a goal
and just you know, do anything to make that happen now,
I will say spinal cred injury, and that type of
injury is the first thing in my life where I
couldn't just personally overcome with perseverance it, you know, it
(32:32):
took a restructure of life. And again, as you mentioned,
without a wife now of almost thirty three years, that
stood by me. I've often said, if the shoes on
the other foot, I'm really not sure to pull it off,
you know, because of the young kids and everything else.
But but yeah, she kind of was, you know, straight talk,
like what are we going to do? How are you
(32:53):
going to start your life? And what are you going
to do to go on? Because you know, there's way
too many people in the house and we've got to
figure out, you know, what we're gonna do. So I mean,
really it's a hard look at everything I had done
in my life at the time when I was thirty
five years old, and what really drives me enough to
get up every morning do to three hours plus physical
(33:16):
therapy and that was racing. And so I naively a
year af from accident, started a race team and we've
had a great deal of success fortunately. But again, one
thing I learned really quickly, you know, after the accident
is like overnight, I had to learn how to delegate,
(33:37):
and I wasn't always a very good delegator before an accident.
And so man, just I've always had great teams, whether
it's a race team, the foundation, my family, everybody really
steps up and makes things happen, and we just success
on the track, success off the track. It's all really
(33:57):
because of the great people around me.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Well, and the team obviously has done very well. But
even you personally as a driver got back to racing,
and I mean you've gone up to like two hundred
miles an hour. How do you do that?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Yeah? You know. I mean we've we've talked about faith
and family and the motorsports community, and you know, a
verse of a God doesn't give it anymore. You can
handle WK. Sometimes we've failed time out and said, you know,
okay and us enough, let us catch our wind here.
But you know, there was a time in around twenty thirteen, frankly,
(34:36):
when prices escalating, I didn't think I'd keep the Keeam
going with the partnerships we had, and you know, you
kind of again have a lot of faith that things
you're going to work out and earn up. I got
a call from electronics company in Denver named ear Electronics,
and they wanted to put me in a car and
drive again. And that's just led to it's really changed
(34:59):
my life Number one in my perspective on American ingenuity
and what is capable using technology? And then do you
know they got involved in the race team and the
rest is kind of history there as far as our
existence and where we've gone. But yes, they we started
out with the Corvette four corvettes. Later you know, we
(35:20):
went two hundred and thirteen miles an hour, so so
amazing ride. And again I really don't feel like I
can take a lot of credit for it because it
really comes down to a door opening and having the
desire to walk through it and again take the risk.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
But how is it that you assure as our audience though,
how is it that you break? And how is it
that you steer and all that?
Speaker 3 (35:48):
So, yeah, it's all it's all technology, but it's very
intuitive in the sense of the first one was you know,
like raw and pretty primitive. But just like your phone
has evolved in ten years, it controls in the car
has evolved immensely to wear analysis, AI, facial recognition and
When I turn my head, the guard turns either fast
(36:10):
or slow based on how hard I turn my head.
And then I have a let's call the sip sip
and post straw in mouth and again blow to go
and suck on the straw to stop. And I do
it really hard. It goes really fast, and if I
you know, just kind of breathe slowly, it'll just you know,
kind of take off a little stop life. So we've
(36:31):
got a driver's license, we've raced bikes Peak, We've done
all kinds of crazy stunts, and uh, you know, but
I feel really safe because again, the technology is is
the best in the world.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I love that. Now your dad was there, you know,
he's been there. He was there for the accident, is
there for your rehabilitation. He's he's seen you evolve into
this new technology and get back into racing. And how
has it been in terms of your relationship today with
your dad? I know you said earlier that he admits
(37:05):
that he wasn't around enough or available enough when you
were younger. But has he made up for that now?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Yeah? I mean, if if he would not have made
it through his accurate when I was eleven, I think
my life would be like way entirely different, you know,
in the sense of even though we weren't that close,
I watched him overcome that diagnosis and come out, you know, stronger,
(37:34):
you know, more focused, more, you know, just he was.
He wasn't like a very vocal dad, you know that
had a lot of intense conversations, but he, uh, he
lived by example, I guess, is the best way to
put it. And uh there was never a complaint. There
was never a you know, back then, there wasn't the
technology and the accessibility to have now. So he kind
(37:56):
of created all of that for himself, his own driving
system to drive with one arm and one leg. So
I saw that, you know, and I think subliminy. I
just did not know how much that would help an
effect in my life, you know, twenty five years later,
my will and my desire to just overcome and and
then of course add to that my young kids and
(38:19):
you know, their support is really what got me through
my situation. I think, Okay, now, you know, fast forward
five years later, I got the team, He's going to
all the races. My mom had just been you know, emotionally,
physically a lot more supportive because they could and they
had time to do it. And so now, you know,
(38:41):
here we are, twenty five years after my accident, and
I just think got every day that he's still alive
and that they have been the examples they've been. She's
you know, two rounds of cancer diagnosis, treatment, survival, recovery.
So you know, it's just like and sometimes you think
like why does this keep happening. At the other time,
(39:02):
it's like, I've got the strongest family in the world,
and they can overcome anything. And so I've also seen
friends who have lost their parents at you know, safety
fifty five years old, and so I'm just just thankful
for every day and now the wisdom comes through even
what I don't ask for it, you know. So I've
rather got just a diedabout relationship and I'm glad that
(39:25):
we're all, you know, honor to enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Oh, absolutely, and I mean truly, it's uh, don't we
wish we could read the last page first? It'd be
so much easier, you know, of the novel of our lives.
Would be great if we could just go to the
last page. But you know the truth is it's like
a riddle, right, and little by little, the riddle starts
to make sense. But I don't think Sam, you could
(39:48):
have a fuller life. I mean, when I think of
living full out, my friend, you've done it. You've taken risks,
you've followed your passions, you've loved your wife, your kids,
you've you've you've done it. I mean, so I am
again I'm gonna go back to calling you a hero.
Speaker 8 (40:06):
You are to me.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Yeah, and so it's weird.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
I mean, I've definitely I've done since my accent, even before.
My action is really for you know, my own self.
I don't know preservation or motivation or you know, just
going with life. But as the farther I get into it,
I don't realize that there is a reason I didn't
get my arms back. It's because I can pretty much
look at anybody with a disability and say, you know,
(40:31):
unless you're not an e ventilator, not everywhereself than me,
so well, and you want to do somewhere with your
life or yeah or not, we can help you get there.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Well and and and you do you. I mean, honestly,
it's like you're just You're just so great. You're so
great and so giving. So thank you, Sam so much
for sharing your story and for everyone check them out online,
and we are going to come right back.
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Speaker 2 (45:02):
When it comes to being resourceful, just remember to be
patient because truly, if solutions were right at our fingertips,
we'd have all the answers right away. But the truth
is we have to hunt, we have to ask for help,
and sometimes it is truly time that lets the solutions
be revealed. But when you are able to hone in,
(45:24):
you are able to be resourceful, You're going to live
full out in a big way.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
You're listening to Living Full Out with Nancy Solary. As
a professional motivational speaker. Nancy can assist you to blow
through your setbacks and start living full out. If you
have an inspirational story you want to share, email us
at connect at livingfullout dot com. Once again, here's Nancy.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Thank you so much for joining us today. I'm Nancy's Larry.
This the Living Full Out Show, and today we've been
talking about being resourceful and we all need that right.
We all have to plug in, figure out, you know,
how do we get from A to Z. But I'll
tell you what I've learned.
Speaker 5 (46:13):
One thing.
Speaker 2 (46:14):
If I've learned one thing, I've learned a lot. But
one thing for sure, is resources are built of layers.
And what I mean by that is I always consider
what is the time, what is the people? What is
the money that it's going to take to achieve something?
And even when I look at my personal life as
(46:35):
someone who is legally blind, it's been really wild seeing
my vision go from seeing lines on the road and
then seeing them disappear, seeing faces seeing them disappear, and
then in time everything just becomes light dark, blurry, and
then you have to learn all these skills and it's
(46:58):
been taking a lot of time. Just when I think
I've gotten something figured out, poof my vision gets worse
or more blurry, and then I've got to find a
different workaround. So time is really one of those things
where rather than feeling bad about needing to learn a
new skill or a new talking device or mobility aid,
(47:20):
I look at that like, Okay, this is going to
take time, but I know by doing this I'll be
more efficient. I know by allocating time that maybe I
don't even feel like I have, it's going to keep
me independent. And I'll tell you what I would personally
spend any amount of time over time. I would borrow
(47:41):
time to be able to retain that ability, that ability
to navigate life through ease and not feel like one's
a burden. You just can't put a price on that,
so truly, considering the time that you need to get
something done, I also look at people, you know, I
want to say thank you so much to all the
(48:02):
people who have assisted me over the years, some of
them from nonprofits and others are experts, because the people
who teach such high level accessibility tools. I mean, I'm
a little bit more aggressive than maybe your average visually
impaired blind person because I do need to do so
(48:23):
much in my life for work so fast. You know,
I'm constantly asking and hunting down, you know, AI opportunities,
or I'm constantly looking at upgrading my technology just so
that things move efficient efficiently. And it takes these specialists.
And I remember one time in the early years when
(48:45):
I was going from visually impaired to legally blind, and
there is a difference. At that point, I could still
technically see my computer screen and I was still using
a mouse, even though I had to have on the
mouse these long tail things so I could track it
easier with my eyes. I'll never forget one of the
IT specialists, her name was Sue. She said to me,
(49:05):
you know, Nancy, I know you don't think you need
it yet, but I think we should leave the current
software you're using and go to the next level, which
was the level for people who are truly blind. And
I was like, oh, gosh, I don't want to A
it was a lot of learning and B I just
knew that was taking me to that next level. But
I actually I said yes, I said, you know what,
(49:27):
I trust you. You are my people, and I trust you.
And I was so glad I did. It felt like
it was two months later that my eyes got even
more blurry, and I don't think I could have used
that old software. I was so glad that I made
that jump. So you need to make sure that resourcefully
you have people that will tell you sometimes even what
(49:48):
you don't want to hear, because they're looking out for you,
for the best of you. And then I also consider money.
You know, it's we get a lot of opportunities in life,
whether it's personally an offer for this, an offer for that,
or gosh, you go to the grocery store. I'm sure
you're swayed by, you know, a deal here or a
(50:09):
deal there. But the truth is, you have to have
a budget. You have to consider the unexpected. And I
feel like a lot of times, if I don't have
that unexpected piggy bank, m I'm in trouble. Because the
truth is, when something happens like I need an upgrade
(50:32):
for you know, some sort of a software on my computer,
if I don't have my talking computer, I can't see
my computer. And it's not like I can just go
to Best Buy or go to another store and get
a computer. I have to you know, order it, and
it has to be built for me, and it's got
to have all the talking software. And so the thing is,
(50:54):
it's really important that we consider making sure that you
have that just in case unknown piggybank, because when things
kind of go sideways and you rely on a certain
tool or you rely on certain assistance, you have to
make sure you have it. And so when I consider time, people,
(51:14):
and money, those resources to me are everything. It for
me is what makes the wheels on the car turn literally.
But I lastly look at the resource of myself. Always
remember your intuition, your ability to trust, your instincts, your
ability to you know, go at a certain tempo in life.
(51:36):
Sometimes you put your foot on the gas. Sometimes you
take it off just so you can process and analyze.
Always trust that and don't be afraid again to take
those pauses in life and really digest an offering, you know,
digest a resource. How does it all fit together in
your life? And will it all work seamlessly? When you
(51:57):
do all that though, and you are resourceful in your
you're plugging in, You're going to be living full out
in a huge way. And I'm so excited and proud
to be part of your journey. So thank you so
much for listening today and I wish you all the best.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Thank you for listening to the Living Full Out Show
with Nancy Silari. To learn more about this program, visit
livingfollout dot com for the latest episodes. Connect with the
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