Jan. 24, 2024

STOP GIVING UP With Kevin "Remps" Rempel

STOP GIVING UP With Kevin

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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Transcript
Howard Brown:

Hello, it's Howard Brown is the shiny Brightly

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podcast show. I get the best guests and this is amazing today

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way to you hear this story. Oh my God, it is shining. And

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that's what I do. So your Maestro with the mic is here.

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And I want to welcome Kevin Rempel, Kevin, how are you?

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Kevin "Remp" Rempel: I'm doing awesome. Howard. Thanks so much

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for having me on my man.

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Yeah, you're up in Canada or Canada in Toronto,

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correct?

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Kevin "Remp" Rempel: That's right, we have yet to get a

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serious snowfall. But that's the land of the cold. Yeah,

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well, I'm in Michigan Land of the cold in the

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lake. So I get it, we get that that window. So it's not here

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yet? Well, let me tell you just a little bit about Kevin because

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we got introduced and I just we are so aligned, and I'm so I'm

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so inspired by him. So he's going to inspire you as well. So

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after being paralysed at age 23. And remember, I got a stage four

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cancer diagnosis at age 23. I'm not supposed to be here, okay.

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And he was paralysed. So Kevin, not only learn how to walk

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again, we've got to hear that story. But to overcome the

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mental and some of the oppression, of living with a

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disability to be able to rebuild your life. And remember, I tell

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people, we all get knocked down in life. The key is to get back

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up again. And Kevin's going to show us how to do that. But he

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did it in such an extraordinary way. So he helped Canada earn

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gold at the 2013 world championships, and a bronze

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medal at the two for 2014 Paralympics Winter Games. Oh my

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god, Kevin, this is incredible. What a story we're waiting to

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hear from it. But before we do that, share something with the

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audience in the listening and the watching group that they may

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not know about you. It's a little dirty secret. They're a

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fun secret.

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Kevin "Remp" Rempel: So I actually, this might be the

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first time sharing this, I would say maybe publicly for social

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media world. I like magic mushrooms. That's something

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that's different. I actually have them tattooed on the inside

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of my elbow as part of my tattoo sleeve. And the short story is

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just that. I was reintroduced to them about three years ago. And

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they've created such impactful transformative moments of my

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life that I'm a big proponent of some of that. So that's

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something that people probably don't know about me.

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Wow that's a good share. Well, I since you did

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that I'm going to share too, but this will maybe people know

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about me as well. I, during all my cancer treatments, I actually

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had a lot of anxiety. And I could I would wake up in the

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middle of the night and just couldn't fall back to sleep. So

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I actually take gummies and THC gummies not CBD that didn't

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work, but just a sliver and maybe a sliver more and get to

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that REM sleep because sleeping is healing. So there's my share.

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So there we go today. So all right, take me into your

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backstory here. How did we, you know before the injury and then

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and take me take me through that.

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Kevin "Remp" Rempel: Yeah, when I was a kid, I did get

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introduced to sticking ball sports, hockey, soccer,

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football, etc. But it never really resonated with me. And

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when I was 10 years old, the neighbour kids down the street

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got dirt bikes, and as soon as I saw the speed, I heard the motor

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and I just was like drawn to them. I fell in love with

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motorcycles. And at that time, this is you know, in the 90s the

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X Games and freestyle motocross was just becoming a sport. I

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started out racing, but was drawn to the stunts. And after a

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couple of years racing realised that wasn't for me, started

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performing some tricks and started a business at the age of

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23. To put on stunt shows, where I cheat like on Canada Day, July

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1 2006. But on my first show, I accomplished all my childhood

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dreams. And then two weeks later on my second show, I ended up

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crashing, and in that accident, I ended up as you just

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mentioned, becoming paralysed and broke my back my pelvis. And

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I was never supposed to walk again. And my life took a

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complete turn.

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I saw the video Kevin, I have to tell you, I I

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held myself I saw that video, it's people will go to your

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website and see that I'll show them but it's incredible that

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you live through that. I mean, it's really incredible. So, I

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mean, you got taken off the course and rushed to the

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hospital, right? Yeah, it was a conscious Were you conscious?

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Kevin "Remp" Rempel: I was conscious. I remember the entire

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the entire day pretty much up until I would say I was loaded

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into the ambulance then it gets a little bit fuzzy. But I

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remember the entire day the whole crash and everything. I

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didn't lose consciousness. And for the viewers and the

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listeners to give you some context. What I was doing that

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day I've done before, like I've jumped that type of a gap and I

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was hitting the ramp for the first On that day, but I wasn't

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mentally focused. I was too worried about the crowd, the

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other riders, the winds blowing ramps a little crooked, and I

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was too scared to speak up and say something. So I hit the ramp

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anyway, not even trying a trick. But because my body position was

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off, I ended up taking off from the rear end came up too high,

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and so split second, I had to make the decision to either stay

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on the bike or jump off the bike. And so I jumped off and

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landed without the motorcycle. But when I was laying on the

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ground, paralysed, I described a scenario of my friend Chris, the

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reason why you saw that footage is he captured the crash on

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film. And as he ran over to grab my hand, and say remps, I love

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you, man. I literally looked at Chris and I said, Chris, you

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better be filming this.

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Which sounds completely ludicrous. Yeah. But in my mind,

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what I was thinking in that moment was that I knew I already

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was picturing my combat. Because the riders that I looked up to,

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that's what they did. When when when you get knocked down, you

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pick yourself back up, because that's just what you do in my

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mind, and action sports. So I knew that I wanted to be just

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like my heroes. And I'm not saying that this wasn't hard.

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Like Howard, I had a knife twisting in my back, it was

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excruciating, sharp pain, I couldn't move, I couldn't

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breathe, and the wind knocked out of my lungs. And I spent

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months and years in rehab and therapy, learning to walk again.

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And we can get into some details about that. But why I bring this

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particular piece up of the story for the listeners, especially

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right now is to ask yourself the question, what do you say to

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yourself when you get knocked down? Some, some people will

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say, it's over, I'm done, I'm finished. Why would I even

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bother continuing to try this is the worst thing that's ever

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happened to me. Or you can say to yourself, This is the

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beginning of the comeback. This is the start of a new chapter.

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Just imagine how great this story will be. When I get

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through this 2-3-4 or five years from now and how proud I will be

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of who I am. So, something I like to do, Howard just like

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you, in addition to inspiring people is what I love to do is

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help people shift their mindset to drive results to embrace

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change. Whether that's in your personal or in your professional

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life. And the questions that we ask ourself and statements that

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we say to ourselves in these moments are what are so key and

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important to help us in my mind become a hero in our own story.

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I just want to pause for a second because you

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wanted to get it first ramps, you know, are you okay? You get

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it on film. And but but you know what, you know, there's risk in

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this. You've seen others crashes, you've crashed yourself

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before, not this severely, of course. And I said to myself,

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listen, I was 23. And I didn't know if I was going to live or

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die. Okay, and I was a deer in the headlights for a while.

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That's the walking in the darkness part. I had to do it.

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But I also had to figure out my way out as well. And so that was

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the start. They always say that your survivorship starts at the

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point of of injury or in my case diagnosis. And in my book, I

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talk about how to put Humpty Dumpty back together again,

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Humpty Dumpty is the nursery rhymes all in a bunch of pieces.

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How do you put each piece by piece together again, and it's

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not usually done in one day? It's done over time. And so take

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take me back, you went to the hospital, and now you're it's

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setting in now. Okay, you got a long road ahead of you. Take

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take me from there.

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Kevin "Remp" Rempel: Yeah, and what a fantastic analogy. By the

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way, Howard, I've actually never heard that before. And it truly

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is piecing everything back together. Especially after you

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have something as significant as being diagnosed with cancer or

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paralysis or, you know, I today work with people who have, you

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know, acquired disability with an amputation, or people that

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are going through transitions have like, maybe your

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relationship exploded, and all of a sudden, you got to start

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over. It's like, you got to piece it all back together

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again. That's right. So when I was, you know, to paint a

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picture of what that was, like, excuse me, to paint a picture of

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what that was like after I acquired my spinal cord injury.

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You know, in the beginning, laying in the hospital bed, you

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know, you're just trying to sit up, you're trying to sit up

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straight in bed and not be in pain. I mean, when I talk about

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like baby steps, and I talk about in my keep my keynote for

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corporate, especially who are looking for a keynote speaker I

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and I share the hero mindset I talk about learning to walk

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again was literally one toe at a time. I was in bed, advised by

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my therapist, Chris just tried to wiggle my toes. And in the

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beginning there was no nothing happened. Like you're staring at

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your feet. And you feel, you start asking yourself again, the

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question is, why am I doing this? Is it even worth it? Is it

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gonna work? Does it even matter? But he told me he's like you

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just have to try. And what I learned because after about six

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weeks, I got my first total move. What I then said to myself

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is if I can get one toe, one more toe to move, that I bet

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you, I can get another toe. And I got my first toe around the

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six week mark. And then I got my second toe, about a week later.

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And then I got three more toes and another couple toes and

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ankle and ankle and slowly but surely I was back on my feet.

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But when we're striving to achieve something that may seem

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impossible, like piecing your life back together, it truly is

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just those small critical pieces where you might just have to

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learn how to like get out of bed in the morning, I had to fight

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myself just to get into the wheelchair for weeks. And once

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you do that, then it's starting to figure out like, you know,

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what's the mess I got to clean up in terms of maybe it's like

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paperwork, like I didn't like the legal side, the medication

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side, the hospital side, you know, where am I going to live,

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what's going on with my career, I had to go through all of that

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stuff as well. And in my case, with the surgery, I also had for

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years, I also felt like a guinea pig because I had to keep trying

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different medication. So it's like try this for helping

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because your bowel and bladder is affected once you have a

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spinal cord injury. It's like my bowel and bladder didn't work.

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So then you're on suppositories, then you're on stool softeners

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then you gotta like take nerve pain medication, then there's a

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side effects, you got to take something for that. And it's

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like, you just feel like a punching bag. So when I show up

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here on this podcast with you, Howard, like with enthusiasm, I

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realise, in hindsight, sometimes I gotta, like, bring people back

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to like, what you see today was not, I haven't always been like

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this, I I've been depressed, I've been suicidal, I've called

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the suicide hotline three times in my life. I had days where I

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would pull the sheets over my head and cry under the covers.

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Because my leg spasms for the nerve pain were just so intense.

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Like I couldn't do it. I didn't feel like I could do anything. I

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contemplated whether I was going to find a relationship or find

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love again, or if I would be employed, like it was, it was

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difficult. But just like you describe is piecing it together

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one small step at a time. And so when change happens, here's

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here's a message again for for everyone, when change happens.

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Even as I've been helping coach other people recently, a

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metaphor to imagine is that when your expectations do not meet

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you meet your reality. That's where you experienced

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disappointment. So if you keep thinking that you should be at a

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certain destination, the near you're not at yet. And your

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expectations are beyond where you are today. Ask yourself how

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can I start to focus on what is not what once was or what will

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be there's a time and a place to have our mind focus on creating

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a vision. But when you're going through change, often we may

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just need to bring ourselves back to the present moment and

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focus on what do we need to deal with in this exact moment to

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help us move ahead, not just one step. But as I mentioned one toe

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at a time.

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I got it I gotta I want to just comment on that and

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I wrote it down. Your comeback began with that one toe wiggle.

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It's amazing. And the second thing I want to come at because

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it'd be just getting out of bed for me was the dog out a walk

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and I went one step two step then further, it didn't happen

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overnight. It's over a period of time and it's multifaceted. It's

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the mental well being we call that the Mental Toughness it's

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the physical well being then you're worried about financial

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and you're worried about relationships. So that's the

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enormity of it. And we have something in the cancer world

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where we actually it says you will look great and then we have

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a big butt and then all the indivisible stuff all the stuff

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that no one saw the hardship the workout at the gym, the side

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effects that meet puking at the bathroom right me freaking out

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in the middle of night, you know on steroids, right? So they

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don't see that. But we actually have and again, you can use the

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Humpty Dumpty all you want in your keynotes that we share

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right? We're We're Brothers And speaking motivational speakers,

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oh and coaches. So please share that piecing it together and the

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Humpty Dumpty, but we have something in the cancer world

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that you might actually take on as well. We have something

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called k f, g. All right, and this is a clean show, so it's

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keep effing going. K f g is the cancer mantra. We don't have any

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choice. We don't I mean, you could just stay in bed and

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become depressed and all bad things happen, right? Or you can

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stay in that dead darkness, k, f, g, keep everything going. And

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that's what you got to do to get and move forward. And sometimes

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it's steps back Got a step sideways. And sometimes it's

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five steps forward, and you got to really appreciate that. So

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that toe wiggle is a big moment. And I love it from that,

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alright, get to get to some of the good stuff there that you're

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rehabilitating, you're getting there. And you're getting to

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become a championship athlete. This is the I'm just like,

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amazed by this. So tell me how you got there.

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Kevin "Remp" Rempel: So when I got injured, here's another

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another, I'm always going to try to drop some like nuggets of

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lessons and wisdom as such. Sure. So another lesson that

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I've learned I'd love to share with others is that when change

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happens, it's often preparing you for something greater that

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you just cannot see yet. So when I got injured, I actually spent

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two years working to rehabilitate myself in my life

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before I even discovered that the Paralympics existed. In that

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time, I had to keep pushing forward, believing that there is

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something worth putting in this effort for of course, it's our

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life. And we don't know when that tipping point of that next

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thing that we can start to set our sights on will appear. So I

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was at wheelchair basketball, just volunteering and another

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kid, I was still in the wheelchair at this time. Another

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kid also named Kevin, also with a spinal cord injury in a

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wheelchair rolls up beside me. And he's like, Hey, have you

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ever heard of sledge hockey before? And I'm like, No, what's

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that? He goes, it's real sick. You get to hit people with

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disabilities. What are you talking about? Dude, that sounds

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so wrong, then like, where do I sign up. But it it literally

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just like changed my life because all of a sudden, I had

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something to look forward to. I had a goal to strive for. I had

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a community that I could immerse myself in who everyone was going

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through some kind of their own challenge. And all of a sudden

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you feel not alone, not just yourself. But it's also for the

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family like the parents because the parents have to navigate the

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change just as much as the children do in many cases. So I

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didn't know the Paralympics, I still didn't even know Team

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Canada existed. All I knew is that the sport existed. So I

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started playing at a local level my first year. And true story it

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was around I don't know how many weeks after I started playing

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recreationally. This one of these friends in the in the

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disabled community sent me a video of Team Canada winning

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gold in 2006 at the Paralympics and sledge hockey. And I was

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literally like 2am Drinking a beer watching YouTube and my

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Paralympic dream was born at the age of 28 years old. So I played

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on the provincial team the next year, then joined Team Canada

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after the 2010 Paralympics, and I played five years, as you

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mentioned, helped win a number of medals, but particularly 2013

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Gold World Championships and bronze in the 2014 Paralympic

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bronze medals Paralympics in Sochi, Russia.

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So I gotta tell you, though, I you and I are so we

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just taken different paths, but a lot of same experience. So I

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tell people to find their happy place. My happy places the

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basketball court, right. So I've been a basketball player. Since

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age six. I played college basketball, I was all based at

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league in Boston outside of Boston and growing up.

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Basketball is my place where I feel a stress free zone. So I

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will tell you, I did stuff and I broke all the rules after

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chemotherapy after surgeries. Imagine playing basketball with

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a chemo port. Okay, that chemo port is in underneath your

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clavicle going to your vena cava that gets pulled out basketball

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is a contact sport that can I would bleed out in the court and

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it's the risk I took. Now after seven half years. I just got my

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chemo poured out. I actually have it. But I had to do that I

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had to push myself. And now you know, listen, I'm 57 I'm so

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perfectly two hours last night I was knocking down threes. I had

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three threes in the game to 12. That doesn't happen that often.

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But that's my place and you found your place. I gotta ask

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this because I probably will never finish a marathon or run a

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marathon. I probably will not have a gold medal dripped on my

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what does that feel like?

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Kevin "Remp" Rempel: It feels amazing. And I'll elaborate on

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that. But you brought up something really special

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important that I want to expand please do please do. So in terms

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of the metal and competing, it was a full circle moment. You

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know being on the world stage see my mom and my grandma, my

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sister up in the stands. It brought that feeling that

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everything you'd been through was worth it. The lesson here

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the message that you just reminded me about that I really

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want to enforce for people is that you need to strive to

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become an Olympian or a Paralympian to have your own

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podium. Like my question for you the audience anyone listening

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watching is what what what is your podium So your podium might

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be raise a great family, your podium might be become the best

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parent I can be your podium might be good no financial debt,

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your podium might be getting get in physical shape. Your podium

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might be stop living under your parents roof and live

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independently and go out on your own and pursue the career and

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live in the city, the province or the state, the country that

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you really want to live in.

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yourself next, like, where do you stop? When I, when my dream

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of riding freestyle motocross was over, what I knew is that I

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didn't know necessarily what that next podium was going to

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look like. But I knew I wanted to keep fighting to not let go

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of the commitment that I made to myself, when I started that

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business was that I'm going to become an entrepreneur, I'm

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going to create the life that I want to live. And I'm not going

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to stop doing that until I figure it out. And I'm still in

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that process today. But every one of us has a podium. And what

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I can share with you because I've lived it is that once you

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reach that podium, literally or metaphorically, once in your

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life, once you've done it once, just like I told top spoke about

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wiggling your toes. If you've done it once, you can do it

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again. And I have reached a podium in motorcross, a recent

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podium and learning to walk in I've reached a podium and

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recovering from depression and mental health. I reached a

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podium in the Paralympics, I reached a podium in my keynote

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speaking, and there's these podiums that we can keep

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striving for in our life. But ask yourself, what do you say to

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yourself when you get knocked down? Where do you stop along

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the way? And what do you want your story to be?

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It's strong, that's powerful. I love the

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podium analogy. It's amazing. I want to transition just a second

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because, you know, I wake up every day and I look in the

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mirror and I do this every day. This is my this is what I do. I

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look in the mirror and I say, I am blessed. I am grateful. I am

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lucky and who can I help today. And this is what I want you to

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kind of dovetail into. You help people you're coaching, please

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go tell me about your programme and tell me how you're helping

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people. And that's what I admire, because you're taking

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all this lessons, all this knowledge, all this experience,

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and you're pouring it into others take me through there.

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Kevin "Remp" Rempel: Thanks, Howard. I just recently I've

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started coaching, both individually and through group

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group coaching. And so as I've mentioned my keynote titled The

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Hero mindset. Over the years, I've assembled a framework

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called the hero mindset blueprint, which is the steps

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I've lived myself to get myself to reach all these different

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podiums. And I have a group called the hero tribe and the

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hero tribe is a community of people who are navigating a

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career or life transition. And in that community, I help people

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like I mentioned, whether it's navigate, you know, maybe it's a

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job, maybe the job, maybe they were let go from their job, or

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they want to make a change, maybe same thing in a

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relationship, something's happened, or they know that they

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need to make a change. It might be as I mentioned, they have

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acquired a disability, people that I'm helping right now those

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who have acquired a spinal cord injury or become an amputee, or

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maybe you've got an illness or you're depressed, and you want

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to get yourself out of that. I've navigated those spaces

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myself. So I've always found in my life journey, I've had these

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one on one conversations, or in a group setting, like maybe it's

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a locker room or on a tailgate with a bunch of friends, helping

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people figure these situations out. And I've delivered keynotes

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for about 15 years, though a keynote over time has become a

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bit of a like a one and done. It's like I want to continue to

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work with organisations on going. But after you leave the

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stage, what happens to the audience, like they go to live

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their life, and I want to help people, not just, I don't want

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to just help inspire people, but I want to help them through that

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transition that they need to make. And so if someone who's

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hearing watching this right now is seeking support, for someone

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to help, you know, maybe hold your hand a little bit to kind

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of just show you the pathway and encourage you get those mental

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blocks shifted, of how we show up and get in getting in our own

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way. What I like to do is help people navigate, change,

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navigate transition. And by doing so again, that's how you

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show up and become that hero in your own story. It's

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just awesome. And when we're gonna give,

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everyone's gonna have all the contact information. But we're

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gonna do that right now. So you haven't, I'm putting on my

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sunglasses. For those who are just listening and not watching

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that white metallic sunglasses are shining brightly on you tell

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people how to get a hold of you. I know you have a little gift

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for folks to workbook or something. And then give me

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leave me with a story or a chord of inspiration please, for sure.

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Kevin "Remp" Rempel: So the best way to get in touch with me if

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you're interested in keynote speaking, or if you want to

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download a free copy of my book that I've written, especially if

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you're someone who is navigate didn't change my website, Kevin

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rempel.com is the best place to go for that. If you are

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interested in some coaching support the best, fastest way is

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just go to Instagram. Just look up Kevin Rempel everything's

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simple. Just my name at Kevin Rempel are em p e l on

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Instagram. You can also find links to my website and my book

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there. But just DM me the word coach, and I'd love to have a

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chat with you. The final like message that I would just

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reiterate to leave everyone to reflect upon here, when you're

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navigating change is to just ask yourself that question. What do

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you want your story to be? Every single day, we have an

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opportunity to begin a new chapter to write a new script.

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And how we choose to think in these moments of transition

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determines what that story is going to be. So I like thinking

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about what my heroes have done and that's inspired me to become

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a hero in my own story. And I want you the viewer listener,

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every one of us to become a hero in our own story. So when you're

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going through transition, ask yourself that question. What do

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you want your story to be?

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I love it.

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Kevin, you inspire me All right, I'm just telling you I following

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you now and I just I'm You're incredible. So thank you for

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being here. This has been the shining brightly podcast show

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you can get a hold of me always at shining brightly.com And

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again, like Kevin speaking, my advocacy work in cancer and

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entrepreneurship and interfaith work is all on there the book

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and then of course this podcast there So come visit me there

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come interact with me and just remember if we choose to shine

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brightly choose to shine brightly a little bit each day

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for ourselves, so we can lift up others and others to and then in

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our communities and our neighbours the world we become a

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better place. Great show, Kevin. Be well be healthy, happy

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holidays. And this thing. We're coming out in 2024 and we're

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going to share your message with the world so I want to say that

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I'm greatly appreciative of you brother.

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Kevin "Remp" Rempel: Thanks, Howard. much appreciate it my

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friend way to go Remps