– WHAT IS YOUR PODIUM? In Episode 63 of the Shining Brightly Podcast Show, titled STOP GIVING UP, please meet Kevin “Remps” Rempel, best selling author, motivational speaker, corporate and life coach who had his FULL CIRCLE MOMENT at age 23 after an X Games motorcycle jump that left him paralyzed. Through sheer will and determination, he learned how to walk again and overcome the mental battle of both depression and living with a disability to rebuild his life and help Canada earn Gold at the 2013 World Championships and a Bronze medal at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games. Come listen, download, share and review this amazing story of TRUE GRIT and HUMAN RESOLVE TO GET BACK UP AGAIN TO INSPIRE AND COACH OTHERS.
Mentioned Resources -
Website: https://kevinrempel.com/
Instagram: @kevinrempel
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinrempel/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rempelinspires
Book Link: https://a.co/d/gNvF3V8
Contact to Speak or Coach - https://kevinrempel.com/contact/
About the guest –
Kevin Rempel has surmounted incredible life challenges to reach the Olympic podium and now brings his powerful message of hope and resilience to audiences through his speaking and writing. Kevin Rempel is a 2013 World Champion and 2014 Sochi paralympic bronze medalist in sledge hockey with an incredible story of overcoming a tremendous amount of adversity.
Overcoming Challenges After a freestyle motocross accident left Kevin an incomplete paraplegic at the age of 23, he was told by doctors he would likely never walk again. Adding to this, Kevin had to deal with his father, Gerry, who fell from a tree while deer hunting, leaving him a complete paraplegic only one year from retirement. Unfortunately, Gerry couldn’t deal with living with is circumstances and took his own life in July 2007.
Physical & Mental Resilience That following year, “Remps” as he likes to be called by his friends, was determined. He willed himself to move one toe, then another, then another until – eventually – he not only walked again but was able to become one of Canada’s best Paralympic athletes, earning a bronze medal at the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi, Russia. Since then, he has travelled the world, inspired thousands of people, and has been featured around the world in media such as CBC, TSN, and BBC Sport.
Making a Difference, Today Through his keynote, The Hero Mindset, Kevin shares his personal story inspiring others that even when you have every reason to give up, you must keep going. By adopting The Hero Mindset and applying the principles inside The Hero Mindset Blueprint, you too can become the hero of your own story. Unlock the mindset that enables you and your organization to drive results and embrace change.
About the Host:
Howard Brown is a best-selling author, award-winning international speaker, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, interfaith peacemaker, and a two-time stage IV cancer survivor. He is also a sought-after speaker and consultant for corporate businesses, nonprofits, congregations, and community groups. Howard has co-founded two social networks that were the first to connect religious communities around the world. He is a nationally known patient advocate and “cancer whisperer” to many families. Howard, his wife Lisa, and daughter Emily currently reside in Michigan, and his happy place is on the basketball court.
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Hello, it's Howard Brown is the shiny Brightly
Howard Brown:podcast show. I get the best guests and this is amazing today
Howard Brown:way to you hear this story. Oh my God, it is shining. And
Howard Brown:that's what I do. So your Maestro with the mic is here.
Howard Brown:And I want to welcome Kevin Rempel, Kevin, how are you?
Howard Brown:Kevin "Remp" Rempel: I'm doing awesome. Howard. Thanks so much
Howard Brown:for having me on my man.
Howard Brown:Yeah, you're up in Canada or Canada in Toronto,
Howard Brown:correct?
Howard Brown:Kevin "Remp" Rempel: That's right, we have yet to get a
Howard Brown:serious snowfall. But that's the land of the cold. Yeah,
Howard Brown:well, I'm in Michigan Land of the cold in the
Howard Brown:lake. So I get it, we get that that window. So it's not here
Howard Brown:yet? Well, let me tell you just a little bit about Kevin because
Howard Brown:we got introduced and I just we are so aligned, and I'm so I'm
Howard Brown:so inspired by him. So he's going to inspire you as well. So
Howard Brown:after being paralysed at age 23. And remember, I got a stage four
Howard Brown:cancer diagnosis at age 23. I'm not supposed to be here, okay.
Howard Brown:And he was paralysed. So Kevin, not only learn how to walk
Howard Brown:again, we've got to hear that story. But to overcome the
Howard Brown:mental and some of the oppression, of living with a
Howard Brown:disability to be able to rebuild your life. And remember, I tell
Howard Brown:people, we all get knocked down in life. The key is to get back
Howard Brown:up again. And Kevin's going to show us how to do that. But he
Howard Brown:did it in such an extraordinary way. So he helped Canada earn
Howard Brown:gold at the 2013 world championships, and a bronze
Howard Brown:medal at the two for 2014 Paralympics Winter Games. Oh my
Howard Brown:god, Kevin, this is incredible. What a story we're waiting to
Howard Brown:hear from it. But before we do that, share something with the
Howard Brown:audience in the listening and the watching group that they may
Howard Brown:not know about you. It's a little dirty secret. They're a
Howard Brown:fun secret.
Howard Brown:Kevin "Remp" Rempel: So I actually, this might be the
Howard Brown:first time sharing this, I would say maybe publicly for social
Howard Brown:media world. I like magic mushrooms. That's something
Howard Brown:that's different. I actually have them tattooed on the inside
Howard Brown:of my elbow as part of my tattoo sleeve. And the short story is
Howard Brown:just that. I was reintroduced to them about three years ago. And
Howard Brown:they've created such impactful transformative moments of my
Howard Brown:life that I'm a big proponent of some of that. So that's
Howard Brown:something that people probably don't know about me.
Howard Brown:Wow that's a good share. Well, I since you did
Howard Brown:that I'm going to share too, but this will maybe people know
Howard Brown:about me as well. I, during all my cancer treatments, I actually
Howard Brown:had a lot of anxiety. And I could I would wake up in the
Howard Brown:middle of the night and just couldn't fall back to sleep. So
Howard Brown:I actually take gummies and THC gummies not CBD that didn't
Howard Brown:work, but just a sliver and maybe a sliver more and get to
Howard Brown:that REM sleep because sleeping is healing. So there's my share.
Howard Brown:So there we go today. So all right, take me into your
Howard Brown:backstory here. How did we, you know before the injury and then
Howard Brown:and take me take me through that.
Howard Brown:Kevin "Remp" Rempel: Yeah, when I was a kid, I did get
Howard Brown:introduced to sticking ball sports, hockey, soccer,
Howard Brown:football, etc. But it never really resonated with me. And
Howard Brown:when I was 10 years old, the neighbour kids down the street
Howard Brown:got dirt bikes, and as soon as I saw the speed, I heard the motor
Howard Brown:and I just was like drawn to them. I fell in love with
Howard Brown:motorcycles. And at that time, this is you know, in the 90s the
Howard Brown:X Games and freestyle motocross was just becoming a sport. I
Howard Brown:started out racing, but was drawn to the stunts. And after a
Howard Brown:couple of years racing realised that wasn't for me, started
Howard Brown:performing some tricks and started a business at the age of
Howard Brown:23. To put on stunt shows, where I cheat like on Canada Day, July
Howard Brown:1 2006. But on my first show, I accomplished all my childhood
Howard Brown:dreams. And then two weeks later on my second show, I ended up
Howard Brown:crashing, and in that accident, I ended up as you just
Howard Brown:mentioned, becoming paralysed and broke my back my pelvis. And
Howard Brown:I was never supposed to walk again. And my life took a
Howard Brown:complete turn.
Howard Brown:I saw the video Kevin, I have to tell you, I I
Howard Brown:held myself I saw that video, it's people will go to your
Howard Brown:website and see that I'll show them but it's incredible that
Howard Brown:you live through that. I mean, it's really incredible. So, I
Howard Brown:mean, you got taken off the course and rushed to the
Howard Brown:hospital, right? Yeah, it was a conscious Were you conscious?
Howard Brown:Kevin "Remp" Rempel: I was conscious. I remember the entire
Howard Brown:the entire day pretty much up until I would say I was loaded
Howard Brown:into the ambulance then it gets a little bit fuzzy. But I
Howard Brown:remember the entire day the whole crash and everything. I
Howard Brown:didn't lose consciousness. And for the viewers and the
Howard Brown:listeners to give you some context. What I was doing that
Howard Brown:day I've done before, like I've jumped that type of a gap and I
Howard Brown:was hitting the ramp for the first On that day, but I wasn't
Howard Brown:mentally focused. I was too worried about the crowd, the
Howard Brown:other riders, the winds blowing ramps a little crooked, and I
Howard Brown:was too scared to speak up and say something. So I hit the ramp
Howard Brown:anyway, not even trying a trick. But because my body position was
Howard Brown:off, I ended up taking off from the rear end came up too high,
Howard Brown:and so split second, I had to make the decision to either stay
Howard Brown:on the bike or jump off the bike. And so I jumped off and
Howard Brown:landed without the motorcycle. But when I was laying on the
Howard Brown:ground, paralysed, I described a scenario of my friend Chris, the
Howard Brown:reason why you saw that footage is he captured the crash on
Howard Brown:film. And as he ran over to grab my hand, and say remps, I love
Howard Brown:you, man. I literally looked at Chris and I said, Chris, you
Howard Brown:better be filming this.
Howard Brown:Which sounds completely ludicrous. Yeah. But in my mind,
Howard Brown:what I was thinking in that moment was that I knew I already
Howard Brown:was picturing my combat. Because the riders that I looked up to,
Howard Brown:that's what they did. When when when you get knocked down, you
Howard Brown:pick yourself back up, because that's just what you do in my
Howard Brown:mind, and action sports. So I knew that I wanted to be just
Howard Brown:like my heroes. And I'm not saying that this wasn't hard.
Howard Brown:Like Howard, I had a knife twisting in my back, it was
Howard Brown:excruciating, sharp pain, I couldn't move, I couldn't
Howard Brown:breathe, and the wind knocked out of my lungs. And I spent
Howard Brown:months and years in rehab and therapy, learning to walk again.
Howard Brown:And we can get into some details about that. But why I bring this
Howard Brown:particular piece up of the story for the listeners, especially
Howard Brown:right now is to ask yourself the question, what do you say to
Howard Brown:yourself when you get knocked down? Some, some people will
Howard Brown:say, it's over, I'm done, I'm finished. Why would I even
Howard Brown:bother continuing to try this is the worst thing that's ever
Howard Brown:happened to me. Or you can say to yourself, This is the
Howard Brown:beginning of the comeback. This is the start of a new chapter.
Howard Brown:Just imagine how great this story will be. When I get
Howard Brown:through this 2-3-4 or five years from now and how proud I will be
Howard Brown:of who I am. So, something I like to do, Howard just like
Howard Brown:you, in addition to inspiring people is what I love to do is
Howard Brown:help people shift their mindset to drive results to embrace
Howard Brown:change. Whether that's in your personal or in your professional
Howard Brown:life. And the questions that we ask ourself and statements that
Howard Brown:we say to ourselves in these moments are what are so key and
Howard Brown:important to help us in my mind become a hero in our own story.
Howard Brown:I just want to pause for a second because you
Howard Brown:wanted to get it first ramps, you know, are you okay? You get
Howard Brown:it on film. And but but you know what, you know, there's risk in
Howard Brown:this. You've seen others crashes, you've crashed yourself
Howard Brown:before, not this severely, of course. And I said to myself,
Howard Brown:listen, I was 23. And I didn't know if I was going to live or
Howard Brown:die. Okay, and I was a deer in the headlights for a while.
Howard Brown:That's the walking in the darkness part. I had to do it.
Howard Brown:But I also had to figure out my way out as well. And so that was
Howard Brown:the start. They always say that your survivorship starts at the
Howard Brown:point of of injury or in my case diagnosis. And in my book, I
Howard Brown:talk about how to put Humpty Dumpty back together again,
Howard Brown:Humpty Dumpty is the nursery rhymes all in a bunch of pieces.
Howard Brown:How do you put each piece by piece together again, and it's
Howard Brown:not usually done in one day? It's done over time. And so take
Howard Brown:take me back, you went to the hospital, and now you're it's
Howard Brown:setting in now. Okay, you got a long road ahead of you. Take
Howard Brown:take me from there.
Howard Brown:Kevin "Remp" Rempel: Yeah, and what a fantastic analogy. By the
Howard Brown:way, Howard, I've actually never heard that before. And it truly
Howard Brown:is piecing everything back together. Especially after you
Howard Brown:have something as significant as being diagnosed with cancer or
Howard Brown:paralysis or, you know, I today work with people who have, you
Howard Brown:know, acquired disability with an amputation, or people that
Howard Brown:are going through transitions have like, maybe your
Howard Brown:relationship exploded, and all of a sudden, you got to start
Howard Brown:over. It's like, you got to piece it all back together
Howard Brown:again. That's right. So when I was, you know, to paint a
Howard Brown:picture of what that was, like, excuse me, to paint a picture of
Howard Brown:what that was like after I acquired my spinal cord injury.
Howard Brown:You know, in the beginning, laying in the hospital bed, you
Howard Brown:know, you're just trying to sit up, you're trying to sit up
Howard Brown:straight in bed and not be in pain. I mean, when I talk about
Howard Brown:like baby steps, and I talk about in my keep my keynote for
Howard Brown:corporate, especially who are looking for a keynote speaker I
Howard Brown:and I share the hero mindset I talk about learning to walk
Howard Brown:again was literally one toe at a time. I was in bed, advised by
Howard Brown:my therapist, Chris just tried to wiggle my toes. And in the
Howard Brown:beginning there was no nothing happened. Like you're staring at
Howard Brown:your feet. And you feel, you start asking yourself again, the
Howard Brown:question is, why am I doing this? Is it even worth it? Is it
Howard Brown:gonna work? Does it even matter? But he told me he's like you
Howard Brown:just have to try. And what I learned because after about six
Howard Brown:weeks, I got my first total move. What I then said to myself
Howard Brown:is if I can get one toe, one more toe to move, that I bet
Howard Brown:you, I can get another toe. And I got my first toe around the
Howard Brown:six week mark. And then I got my second toe, about a week later.
Howard Brown:And then I got three more toes and another couple toes and
Howard Brown:ankle and ankle and slowly but surely I was back on my feet.
Howard Brown:But when we're striving to achieve something that may seem
Howard Brown:impossible, like piecing your life back together, it truly is
Howard Brown:just those small critical pieces where you might just have to
Howard Brown:learn how to like get out of bed in the morning, I had to fight
Howard Brown:myself just to get into the wheelchair for weeks. And once
Howard Brown:you do that, then it's starting to figure out like, you know,
Howard Brown:what's the mess I got to clean up in terms of maybe it's like
Howard Brown:paperwork, like I didn't like the legal side, the medication
Howard Brown:side, the hospital side, you know, where am I going to live,
Howard Brown:what's going on with my career, I had to go through all of that
Howard Brown:stuff as well. And in my case, with the surgery, I also had for
Howard Brown:years, I also felt like a guinea pig because I had to keep trying
Howard Brown:different medication. So it's like try this for helping
Howard Brown:because your bowel and bladder is affected once you have a
Howard Brown:spinal cord injury. It's like my bowel and bladder didn't work.
Howard Brown:So then you're on suppositories, then you're on stool softeners
Howard Brown:then you gotta like take nerve pain medication, then there's a
Howard Brown:side effects, you got to take something for that. And it's
Howard Brown:like, you just feel like a punching bag. So when I show up
Howard Brown:here on this podcast with you, Howard, like with enthusiasm, I
Howard Brown:realise, in hindsight, sometimes I gotta, like, bring people back
Howard Brown:to like, what you see today was not, I haven't always been like
Howard Brown:this, I I've been depressed, I've been suicidal, I've called
Howard Brown:the suicide hotline three times in my life. I had days where I
Howard Brown:would pull the sheets over my head and cry under the covers.
Howard Brown:Because my leg spasms for the nerve pain were just so intense.
Howard Brown:Like I couldn't do it. I didn't feel like I could do anything. I
Howard Brown:contemplated whether I was going to find a relationship or find
Howard Brown:love again, or if I would be employed, like it was, it was
Howard Brown:difficult. But just like you describe is piecing it together
Howard Brown:one small step at a time. And so when change happens, here's
Howard Brown:here's a message again for for everyone, when change happens.
Howard Brown:Even as I've been helping coach other people recently, a
Howard Brown:metaphor to imagine is that when your expectations do not meet
Howard Brown:you meet your reality. That's where you experienced
Howard Brown:disappointment. So if you keep thinking that you should be at a
Howard Brown:certain destination, the near you're not at yet. And your
Howard Brown:expectations are beyond where you are today. Ask yourself how
Howard Brown:can I start to focus on what is not what once was or what will
Howard Brown:be there's a time and a place to have our mind focus on creating
Howard Brown:a vision. But when you're going through change, often we may
Howard Brown:just need to bring ourselves back to the present moment and
Howard Brown:focus on what do we need to deal with in this exact moment to
Howard Brown:help us move ahead, not just one step. But as I mentioned one toe
Howard Brown:at a time.
Howard Brown:I got it I gotta I want to just comment on that and
Howard Brown:I wrote it down. Your comeback began with that one toe wiggle.
Howard Brown:It's amazing. And the second thing I want to come at because
Howard Brown:it'd be just getting out of bed for me was the dog out a walk
Howard Brown:and I went one step two step then further, it didn't happen
Howard Brown:overnight. It's over a period of time and it's multifaceted. It's
Howard Brown:the mental well being we call that the Mental Toughness it's
Howard Brown:the physical well being then you're worried about financial
Howard Brown:and you're worried about relationships. So that's the
Howard Brown:enormity of it. And we have something in the cancer world
Howard Brown:where we actually it says you will look great and then we have
Howard Brown:a big butt and then all the indivisible stuff all the stuff
Howard Brown:that no one saw the hardship the workout at the gym, the side
Howard Brown:effects that meet puking at the bathroom right me freaking out
Howard Brown:in the middle of night, you know on steroids, right? So they
Howard Brown:don't see that. But we actually have and again, you can use the
Howard Brown:Humpty Dumpty all you want in your keynotes that we share
Howard Brown:right? We're We're Brothers And speaking motivational speakers,
Howard Brown:oh and coaches. So please share that piecing it together and the
Howard Brown:Humpty Dumpty, but we have something in the cancer world
Howard Brown:that you might actually take on as well. We have something
Howard Brown:called k f, g. All right, and this is a clean show, so it's
Howard Brown:keep effing going. K f g is the cancer mantra. We don't have any
Howard Brown:choice. We don't I mean, you could just stay in bed and
Howard Brown:become depressed and all bad things happen, right? Or you can
Howard Brown:stay in that dead darkness, k, f, g, keep everything going. And
Howard Brown:that's what you got to do to get and move forward. And sometimes
Howard Brown:it's steps back Got a step sideways. And sometimes it's
Howard Brown:five steps forward, and you got to really appreciate that. So
Howard Brown:that toe wiggle is a big moment. And I love it from that,
Howard Brown:alright, get to get to some of the good stuff there that you're
Howard Brown:rehabilitating, you're getting there. And you're getting to
Howard Brown:become a championship athlete. This is the I'm just like,
Howard Brown:amazed by this. So tell me how you got there.
Howard Brown:Kevin "Remp" Rempel: So when I got injured, here's another
Howard Brown:another, I'm always going to try to drop some like nuggets of
Howard Brown:lessons and wisdom as such. Sure. So another lesson that
Howard Brown:I've learned I'd love to share with others is that when change
Howard Brown:happens, it's often preparing you for something greater that
Howard Brown:you just cannot see yet. So when I got injured, I actually spent
Howard Brown:two years working to rehabilitate myself in my life
Howard Brown:before I even discovered that the Paralympics existed. In that
Howard Brown:time, I had to keep pushing forward, believing that there is
Howard Brown:something worth putting in this effort for of course, it's our
Howard Brown:life. And we don't know when that tipping point of that next
Howard Brown:thing that we can start to set our sights on will appear. So I
Howard Brown:was at wheelchair basketball, just volunteering and another
Howard Brown:kid, I was still in the wheelchair at this time. Another
Howard Brown:kid also named Kevin, also with a spinal cord injury in a
Howard Brown:wheelchair rolls up beside me. And he's like, Hey, have you
Howard Brown:ever heard of sledge hockey before? And I'm like, No, what's
Howard Brown:that? He goes, it's real sick. You get to hit people with
Howard Brown:disabilities. What are you talking about? Dude, that sounds
Howard Brown:so wrong, then like, where do I sign up. But it it literally
Howard Brown:just like changed my life because all of a sudden, I had
Howard Brown:something to look forward to. I had a goal to strive for. I had
Howard Brown:a community that I could immerse myself in who everyone was going
Howard Brown:through some kind of their own challenge. And all of a sudden
Howard Brown:you feel not alone, not just yourself. But it's also for the
Howard Brown:family like the parents because the parents have to navigate the
Howard Brown:change just as much as the children do in many cases. So I
Howard Brown:didn't know the Paralympics, I still didn't even know Team
Howard Brown:Canada existed. All I knew is that the sport existed. So I
Howard Brown:started playing at a local level my first year. And true story it
Howard Brown:was around I don't know how many weeks after I started playing
Howard Brown:recreationally. This one of these friends in the in the
Howard Brown:disabled community sent me a video of Team Canada winning
Howard Brown:gold in 2006 at the Paralympics and sledge hockey. And I was
Howard Brown:literally like 2am Drinking a beer watching YouTube and my
Howard Brown:Paralympic dream was born at the age of 28 years old. So I played
Howard Brown:on the provincial team the next year, then joined Team Canada
Howard Brown:after the 2010 Paralympics, and I played five years, as you
Howard Brown:mentioned, helped win a number of medals, but particularly 2013
Howard Brown:Gold World Championships and bronze in the 2014 Paralympic
Howard Brown:bronze medals Paralympics in Sochi, Russia.
Unknown:So I gotta tell you, though, I you and I are so we
Unknown:just taken different paths, but a lot of same experience. So I
Unknown:tell people to find their happy place. My happy places the
Unknown:basketball court, right. So I've been a basketball player. Since
Unknown:age six. I played college basketball, I was all based at
Unknown:league in Boston outside of Boston and growing up.
Unknown:Basketball is my place where I feel a stress free zone. So I
Unknown:will tell you, I did stuff and I broke all the rules after
Unknown:chemotherapy after surgeries. Imagine playing basketball with
Unknown:a chemo port. Okay, that chemo port is in underneath your
Unknown:clavicle going to your vena cava that gets pulled out basketball
Unknown:is a contact sport that can I would bleed out in the court and
Unknown:it's the risk I took. Now after seven half years. I just got my
Unknown:chemo poured out. I actually have it. But I had to do that I
Unknown:had to push myself. And now you know, listen, I'm 57 I'm so
Unknown:perfectly two hours last night I was knocking down threes. I had
Unknown:three threes in the game to 12. That doesn't happen that often.
Unknown:But that's my place and you found your place. I gotta ask
Unknown:this because I probably will never finish a marathon or run a
Unknown:marathon. I probably will not have a gold medal dripped on my
Unknown:what does that feel like?
Unknown:Kevin "Remp" Rempel: It feels amazing. And I'll elaborate on
Unknown:that. But you brought up something really special
Unknown:important that I want to expand please do please do. So in terms
Unknown:of the metal and competing, it was a full circle moment. You
Unknown:know being on the world stage see my mom and my grandma, my
Unknown:sister up in the stands. It brought that feeling that
Unknown:everything you'd been through was worth it. The lesson here
Unknown:the message that you just reminded me about that I really
Unknown:want to enforce for people is that you need to strive to
Unknown:become an Olympian or a Paralympian to have your own
Unknown:podium. Like my question for you the audience anyone listening
Unknown:watching is what what what is your podium So your podium might
Unknown:be raise a great family, your podium might be become the best
Unknown:parent I can be your podium might be good no financial debt,
Unknown:your podium might be getting get in physical shape. Your podium
Unknown:might be stop living under your parents roof and live
Unknown:independently and go out on your own and pursue the career and
Unknown:live in the city, the province or the state, the country that
Unknown:you really want to live in.
Unknown:So each of us have a podium. But in pursuit of that podium, ask
Unknown:yourself next, like, where do you stop? When I, when my dream
Unknown:of riding freestyle motocross was over, what I knew is that I
Unknown:didn't know necessarily what that next podium was going to
Unknown:look like. But I knew I wanted to keep fighting to not let go
Unknown:of the commitment that I made to myself, when I started that
Unknown:business was that I'm going to become an entrepreneur, I'm
Unknown:going to create the life that I want to live. And I'm not going
Unknown:to stop doing that until I figure it out. And I'm still in
Unknown:that process today. But every one of us has a podium. And what
Unknown:I can share with you because I've lived it is that once you
Unknown:reach that podium, literally or metaphorically, once in your
Unknown:life, once you've done it once, just like I told top spoke about
Unknown:wiggling your toes. If you've done it once, you can do it
Unknown:again. And I have reached a podium in motorcross, a recent
Unknown:podium and learning to walk in I've reached a podium and
Unknown:recovering from depression and mental health. I reached a
Unknown:podium in the Paralympics, I reached a podium in my keynote
Unknown:speaking, and there's these podiums that we can keep
Unknown:striving for in our life. But ask yourself, what do you say to
Unknown:yourself when you get knocked down? Where do you stop along
Unknown:the way? And what do you want your story to be?
Howard Brown:It's strong, that's powerful. I love the
Howard Brown:podium analogy. It's amazing. I want to transition just a second
Howard Brown:because, you know, I wake up every day and I look in the
Howard Brown:mirror and I do this every day. This is my this is what I do. I
Howard Brown:look in the mirror and I say, I am blessed. I am grateful. I am
Howard Brown:lucky and who can I help today. And this is what I want you to
Howard Brown:kind of dovetail into. You help people you're coaching, please
Howard Brown:go tell me about your programme and tell me how you're helping
Howard Brown:people. And that's what I admire, because you're taking
Howard Brown:all this lessons, all this knowledge, all this experience,
Howard Brown:and you're pouring it into others take me through there.
Howard Brown:Kevin "Remp" Rempel: Thanks, Howard. I just recently I've
Howard Brown:started coaching, both individually and through group
Howard Brown:group coaching. And so as I've mentioned my keynote titled The
Howard Brown:Hero mindset. Over the years, I've assembled a framework
Howard Brown:called the hero mindset blueprint, which is the steps
Howard Brown:I've lived myself to get myself to reach all these different
Howard Brown:podiums. And I have a group called the hero tribe and the
Howard Brown:hero tribe is a community of people who are navigating a
Howard Brown:career or life transition. And in that community, I help people
Howard Brown:like I mentioned, whether it's navigate, you know, maybe it's a
Howard Brown:job, maybe the job, maybe they were let go from their job, or
Howard Brown:they want to make a change, maybe same thing in a
Howard Brown:relationship, something's happened, or they know that they
Howard Brown:need to make a change. It might be as I mentioned, they have
Howard Brown:acquired a disability, people that I'm helping right now those
Howard Brown:who have acquired a spinal cord injury or become an amputee, or
Howard Brown:maybe you've got an illness or you're depressed, and you want
Howard Brown:to get yourself out of that. I've navigated those spaces
Howard Brown:myself. So I've always found in my life journey, I've had these
Howard Brown:one on one conversations, or in a group setting, like maybe it's
Howard Brown:a locker room or on a tailgate with a bunch of friends, helping
Howard Brown:people figure these situations out. And I've delivered keynotes
Howard Brown:for about 15 years, though a keynote over time has become a
Howard Brown:bit of a like a one and done. It's like I want to continue to
Howard Brown:work with organisations on going. But after you leave the
Howard Brown:stage, what happens to the audience, like they go to live
Howard Brown:their life, and I want to help people, not just, I don't want
Howard Brown:to just help inspire people, but I want to help them through that
Howard Brown:transition that they need to make. And so if someone who's
Howard Brown:hearing watching this right now is seeking support, for someone
Howard Brown:to help, you know, maybe hold your hand a little bit to kind
Howard Brown:of just show you the pathway and encourage you get those mental
Howard Brown:blocks shifted, of how we show up and get in getting in our own
Howard Brown:way. What I like to do is help people navigate, change,
Howard Brown:navigate transition. And by doing so again, that's how you
Howard Brown:show up and become that hero in your own story. It's
Howard Brown:just awesome. And when we're gonna give,
Howard Brown:everyone's gonna have all the contact information. But we're
Howard Brown:gonna do that right now. So you haven't, I'm putting on my
Howard Brown:sunglasses. For those who are just listening and not watching
Howard Brown:that white metallic sunglasses are shining brightly on you tell
Howard Brown:people how to get a hold of you. I know you have a little gift
Howard Brown:for folks to workbook or something. And then give me
Howard Brown:leave me with a story or a chord of inspiration please, for sure.
Howard Brown:Kevin "Remp" Rempel: So the best way to get in touch with me if
Howard Brown:you're interested in keynote speaking, or if you want to
Howard Brown:download a free copy of my book that I've written, especially if
Howard Brown:you're someone who is navigate didn't change my website, Kevin
Howard Brown:rempel.com is the best place to go for that. If you are
Howard Brown:interested in some coaching support the best, fastest way is
Howard Brown:just go to Instagram. Just look up Kevin Rempel everything's
Howard Brown:simple. Just my name at Kevin Rempel are em p e l on
Howard Brown:Instagram. You can also find links to my website and my book
Howard Brown:there. But just DM me the word coach, and I'd love to have a
Howard Brown:chat with you. The final like message that I would just
Howard Brown:reiterate to leave everyone to reflect upon here, when you're
Howard Brown:navigating change is to just ask yourself that question. What do
Howard Brown:you want your story to be? Every single day, we have an
Howard Brown:opportunity to begin a new chapter to write a new script.
Howard Brown:And how we choose to think in these moments of transition
Howard Brown:determines what that story is going to be. So I like thinking
Howard Brown:about what my heroes have done and that's inspired me to become
Howard Brown:a hero in my own story. And I want you the viewer listener,
Howard Brown:every one of us to become a hero in our own story. So when you're
Howard Brown:going through transition, ask yourself that question. What do
Howard Brown:you want your story to be?
Howard Brown:I love it.
Howard Brown:Kevin, you inspire me All right, I'm just telling you I following
Howard Brown:you now and I just I'm You're incredible. So thank you for
Howard Brown:being here. This has been the shining brightly podcast show
Howard Brown:you can get a hold of me always at shining brightly.com And
Howard Brown:again, like Kevin speaking, my advocacy work in cancer and
Howard Brown:entrepreneurship and interfaith work is all on there the book
Howard Brown:and then of course this podcast there So come visit me there
Howard Brown:come interact with me and just remember if we choose to shine
Howard Brown:brightly choose to shine brightly a little bit each day
Howard Brown:for ourselves, so we can lift up others and others to and then in
Howard Brown:our communities and our neighbours the world we become a
Howard Brown:better place. Great show, Kevin. Be well be healthy, happy
Howard Brown:holidays. And this thing. We're coming out in 2024 and we're
Howard Brown:going to share your message with the world so I want to say that
Howard Brown:I'm greatly appreciative of you brother.
Howard Brown:Kevin "Remp" Rempel: Thanks, Howard. much appreciate it my
Howard Brown:friend way to go Remps