Waddell ציבורי
[search 0]
עוד

Download the App!

show episodes
 
Our greatest risk is taking no risk at all. Hall of Fame Paralympic athlete and the first "nearly unassisted" paraplegic to summit Mt Kilimanjaro in a handcycle Chris Waddell interviews people, who had been dropped into a situation that forced them to confront everything they'd thought to be true. "Experts in the Experience of Being Human," Paralympians, artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, share their fight/struggle/strategy to succeed in the face of adversity.
 
Those who face the greatest adversity tell the most enlightening stories. Hall of Fame Paralympic athlete, the first “nearly unassisted” paraplegic to summit Mt Kilimanjaro and the founder of One Revolution Foundation Chris Waddell chats with members of the adaptive community regarding some of life’s most enduring questions: am I a victim or a survivor, is the situation overwhelming or a challenge, am I alone or part of a team and do I have one strategy or many? One Revolution’s Nametags Edu ...
 
In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former status quo and rebuilding itself as a region of the United States where new forms of "slavery" would replace the old. This novel illustrated how race hatred and the impotence of a reluctant Federal Government trumped the rule of law, ultimately setting the stage for the rise of institutions such as Jim Crow, lynching, chain gangs and work farms--all establ ...
 
In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history. And through his use of the vernacular prevalent in the South of that time, Chesnutt lent a compassionate voice to a group that America did not want to hear. More broadly, however, Chesnutt illustrated, in this character play, the vast and perhaps insurmountable debt this country ...
 
Loading …
show series
 
Energy Sovereignty, Authoritarian Regimes, Climate Change, Green Solutions, Decarbonization, Climate-Neutral Future, Energy Poverty, Reliable Energy, US, China, Russia, EU, Developing Countries. For Retired Rear Admiral Mike Hewitt, all people deserve energy, food and clean water. In a world that has a gross inequity of power, he sees nuclear as a …
 
My name is Chuck Aoki, and I am originally from Minneapolis, MN, and I have used a wheelchair since the age of ten, due to a rare genetic condition. I am a three-time US Paralympic medalist in the sport of wheelchair rugby, current captain of the team heading to World Championships in October and have been involved in adapted sports for my entire l…
 
It’s easy to see Brad as a superhero because he’s achieved things about which most of of us just dream: Naval Academy graduate, explosives expert, breaker of a thirty year old world record, gold medalist in his second Paralympic sport, husband, father and Ivy League PhD candidate, but his success is the product of his struggles. He was about to qui…
 
Jenna was diagnosed with a congenital birth defect called Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency from birth. This means that her left leg did not grow and she was born without a hip joint. Fesemyer fell in love with wheelchair racing and decided to pursue wheelchair racing in college. After some quick research, it was easy to find that the University of…
 
Bob Babbit co-founded the Challenged Athletes Foundation, which has helped 60% of Team USA Tokyo 2020 Paralympics at some point in their careers with grants for equipment, training and travel to the tune of $700,000+ for 128 athletes. Not only has it started almost everyone on their journey, it has also built a community that strengthens the group …
 
M.C.’s professional career started, or attempted to start when he sent message to Ted Turner that he would walk from Syracuse to Atlanta to get hired by the Braves. As the process took a bad turn, M.C. slipped a dime into a pay phone and was immediately connected with the only Major League Baseball owner who would appreciate his initiative, the ico…
 
Mattochainsaw is my cousin. After dangerous years of climbing trees as an arborist/tree trimmer, he started down a different path when his wife asked him to carve a bear for the front yard. Chainsaw art–taking a piece of wood, a section of tree, or the extended stump of a felled tree and turning it into a figure and a story. Matt attends competitio…
 
Monica Quimby reconciles the life of a former anatomy professor and former Miss Wheelchair Maine with being the current goon on the US Women's Sled Hockey Team, striving for the sports inclusion in the Paralympics. For those of you who don't know, the goon is the intimidator, the enforcer and generally the hardest hitter on the team. Monica is that…
 
Two-time Paralympian in CP Soccer Eli Wolff led the effort in 2019 for Major League Baseball to change the "disabled list" to the "injured list." What's in the word change? For people with disabilities, it's the difference between being in the game and out of the game. A disability doesn't preclude you from playing and contributing, while an injury…
 
Lonnie’s father was a second generation pro wrestler–a villain, who turned kind, soft and human with his fans after the match. His uncle was a turnaround executive leading several companies from distress and treating everyone with respect. Lonnie followed his uncle’s path, working to right companies in difficulty for thirty years until he started R…
 
Keith Gabel swept the podium with his US teammates at snowboarding's inaugural Paralympics in Sochi 2014. Almost ten years later, you might think that Grizz is getting grizzled, but he continues to stay fresh incorporating jiu jitsu, meditation along with a fair amount of coffee as he and his wife own their own shop. Keith's journey to success goes…
 
Josh Sweeney grew up in Phoenix, AZ, joining the Marines directly after high school. He deployed to Afghanistan with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines as a Scout Sniper in 2009 where he was injured by an IED while on patrol. He sustained severe injuries to his legs and arms resulting in the amputation of both legs above the knees and multiple hand and arm…
 
Stan Clawson is a Utah filmmaker with nearly 20 years of production experience. He owns his own freelance production company and is currently working on a documentary series. He is also an adjunct film instructor at Salt Lake Community College, with over 14 years of teaching experience. In addition to filmmaking, Stan is also heavily involved in th…
 
Along with twelve buddies on a skiing trip to Val Gardena in Italy, Gregg contracted COVID before anyone knew what to make of it. He’d spend thirty-one days in a coma, waking to an entirely new world, and sixty-four days in the hospital, having to learn to swallow as well as walk. He lost all the fingers on his right hand and all to the one knuckle…
 
John Register is a Silver medalist, two-time, two-sport Paralympic Athlete, two-time Olympic trials qualifier, combat Army veteran, amputee, and the founder of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee's now defunct Paralympic Military Sport Program. Register uses his life experience as an inspirational speaker to inspire people to hurdle …
 
Connor Hogan’s tongue betrays him. It pokes out of his mouth when he’s skiing and mountain biking telegraphing his desired direction. The ski racer with Cerebral Palsy athlete turns perception of disability upside turns perception of disability upside down in his singular desire to go fast as possible, regardless of direction.…
 
Spencer Wood ended up with an absolutely awful haircut as part of a rookie initiation to the World Cup tour. The rules were, he had to keep the cut until he reached the podium. Spencer turned perception of disability upside down by winning his first Paralympic World Cup. A stroke in the womb resulted in hemiplegia, but his ski racing career started…
 
Cindy Ehnes was the first American woman to win Gold in a Winter Paralympics. Her speed might have been a result of being a Bonne Bell girl, the sporty, outdoor group of girls that skied fast and sold cosmetics. If she lost a race the man got to kiss her. Then Cindy earned a law degree and launched a high-profile career in the healthcare field that…
 
Wheelchair innovator Joe Bieganek was a cop before he became a seating specialist. He turns perception of disability upside down by giving paras and amputees the connection to their equipment to make the impossible possible. Aspen Seating/Ride Designs fits athletes in monoskis, handcycles, hockey sleds and many other sports to maximize performance …
 
Marko Cheseto lost his cousin to suicide while they were both running at the University of Alaska. Deep in grief, he took some anti-depressants and went for a long run in the woods only to get stuck in a snowstorm, lose his way, consciousness and eventually both of his legs to frostbite. He turned perception of upside down by running a 2:35:55 mara…
 
Curtis Gunn just wanted to change beauty. Well, he didn’t want to change it as much as he wanted to show beautiful people who might not have been previously noticed. The SHOT Modeling Agency might have been a bit ahead of its time when it represented solely models with disabilities, but it ushered in a shift in our view. It turned perception of dis…
 
Tabitha (Tabi) Haly is a software engineer and coder with JPMorgan Chase — and she also is a singer-songwriter and a disability advocate. Tabi was born with Muscular Dystrophy and was profiled on CNN's "The Human Factor" with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. In 2019, Tabi performed at Mercury Lounge in celebration of her first studio album which is named after he…
 
While he was still in Chemotherapy, Brian convinced his parents to hit the Nordic jumps at his home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. With each bigger jump he was more and more hooked. Then he convinced them to let him join the program. Nordic Combined became his sport when he followed his friends not realizing that it meant the pain of Cross-Country…
 
The youngest track and field athlete in Rio at 16, but came away with two silvers and a bronze. Five years later Alexa Halko looks to put her stamp on these Games. She’s battled two athletes from the UK since 2015. Will this be the event where she breaks through?על ידי Chris Waddell
 
The 2002 US Sled Hockey Team only qualified for the Paralympics because they were the host country. Goalie Manny Guerra represented the last line of defense. Defend and score goals they did, all the way to the Gold Medal. No one gave them a chance, but them. That’s turning perception of disability upside down.…
 
Odessa is a Hall of Fame Running Back and the President of Emtrain, a revolutionary eLearning and analytics company that goes beyond compliance to create inclusive workplaces. It’s all of that and a movement to help others find the voice that she shares so beautifully. It’s not about clamoring for equality, but earning equity. It’s about breaking t…
 
While Triathlon was Kendall Gretsch’s first love, she’d already won Paralympic medals in second sport of cross-country before she had the chance to demonstrate just how good she could be. In Tokyo, she did exactly that, making up twenty-six seconds on the final lap of the wheelchair portion to take the gold at the line. Kendall turns perception of …
 
Tanja Kari didn’t care that she was a one-armed cross-country skier growing up in native Finland, she just cared that she was one of the twenty fastest in the country. She turned perception of disability upside down when people complained that she was too good for the Paralympics and by setting a new standard for them to chase.…
 
In 2022, Orlando Perez became the first Puerto Rican to compete in the Winter Paralympics. He turned perception of disability upside down, switching from basketball to monoskiing, fighting, cajoling, and strategizing so that he could make the start in Beijing.על ידי Chris Waddell
 
I kept Steve’s title lowercase because he usually does and because he doesn’t take himself too seriously, even though he’s undertaking the serious work of brightening the day of children, often with long term stays in the hospital. Steve cashed the $8 check for his first published cartoon, he met his hero and mentor Dr Seuss by arriving at his door…
 
Andrew Haraghey might ski better than he walks. The Paralympic athlete with Cerebral Palsy turns perception of disability upside down by being a speed specialist. Even with compromised leg strength, he loves the fastest events. Clean-cut and soft spoken, you’d never know that his greatest joy is going like his hair is on fire.…
 
Muffy Davis became a more successful Paralympian handcycling in one Games than she had in a lifetime as a ski racer. She turned perception of disability upside down by going from one the top Junior ski racers in the world to being one of the most disabled on the US Adaptive Ski Team following a training accident in which she broke her back. She wen…
 
Difficult times forced Jumpin’ Jay to determine her why. It’s to be a role model--to be the person that she wished she’d known when she was a kid. She’s been through a lot. Her help comes from experience. She’ll set her standard in Tokyo and then teach and coach both track and wrestling (yes, wrestling) when her athletic career is over.…
 
Adam coaches the University of Illinois, the most successful wheelchair racing program in the world and a school that has set the standard for educating people with disabilities since World War II. He is kind, polite, respectful and constantly in search of a way to improve his athletes, his sport and his community. Then he shares it.…
 
David Brown is the fastest blind athlete in the world. He was the first to go sub 11 seconds for the 100 meters, but he learned something new in quarantine. He learned to run straight, which should make his competitors nervous. The World Record Holder and defending Paralympic Champion feels like an athlete for the first time. Scary.…
 
Lacey Henderson is an alternate for the Tokyo Paralympics. She was on the bubble for Rio too, but that doesn’t mean that she won’t make some noise if she gets there. She’s ready to go. Let’s see if she gets the chance. She started to pole vault on a bet from her father, which led to long jumping on the highest level.…
 
Kara is one of the most respected, beloved and outspoken members of the running community. She was a historic performer and continues as a huge proponent of clean racing both with regard to performance enhancing drugs and technology. With Olympic, Track and Marathon television analysis, she’s a voice of running while also battling Repetitive Exerci…
 
Ann Cody is Special Advisor for International Disability Rights at the State Department, but she was also one of the top wheelchair athletes for years. She’s been shaping this world one way or another since the ‘70’s.על ידי Chris Waddell
 
In Riding with Giants, Peter Holmes à Court demonstrated the honesty and vulnerability to be human, fallible and curious as he searched for his path. His father Robert is credited with being Australia’s first billionaire. His mother Janet was more successful than his father. As their oldest child, Peter was involved in investment banking, music and…
 
Bob is a US Army veteran and served from 1976-1978 when he sustained a spinal cord injury in an automobile accident. Post-injury he moved to California and earned a degree in Broadcast Journalism from California State University, Long Beach. As an athlete, he twice won the Los Angeles Marathon and represented the United States at the Paralympic Gam…
 
Back in ninth grade, I knew that Jeremiah was a performer when he was break dancing for the other team before our soccer games during a school trip to what was then the USSR, but at the time, he was really known as the best athlete in school. September 11th and sense of responsibility for our freedom sent him to the Army, Special Forces and three t…
 
Josh George moves fast. At the age of four he traded in walking for rolling and then turned those wheels into wings, constantly striving to move faster. Josh has won five Paralympic medals, is a six-time world champion, world record holder, and has won multiple major marathons. Along the way he has become a sought after motivational speaker, and an…
 
Becky Castle has been in social change her whole working life, starting her career with the Carter Center and working with the Gates Foundation among others to try eliminate the biggest threats to life in the developing world. She’s also the mother of the three daughters, hence the Mother of Anarchy for Sisters of Anarchy Ice Cream, which goes from…
 
Eduardo is a chef. He’s also an entertainer, a philosopher, a son and a husband. Most significantly, he’s a man, who lives in concert with his world, and seeks ways to bring its beauty to those around him. Art and cooking, the simple and the complex lead to connection. He’s known abandonment and renewal, selfishness and selflessness, and he greats …
 
Dana lost her leg to cancer, but leaving her abusive marriage was more difficult than cancer recovery and amputation. An educator at heart, she’s shifted to empower others to extract themselves from abusive relationships. Those efforts go well beyond words as she recently finished her first marathon.…
 
Erik has achieved the incomprehensible, climbing the world’s highest mountains and kayaking some of its biggest rapids, but he’s also a thoughtful guy who builds community and shares the beauty that he feels interacting with climbing pitches, rivers and a variety of other places. I think you’ll be amazed at the aesthetic that a blind guy sees in th…
 
John broke the World Record for the 100 meter breaststroke at the 1984 Olympic Trials. He broke the Olympic Record in the Prelims, but also told his abductor muscle. Was not winning the gold medal in front of 15,000 fans at home in LA a crushing defeat or a gift? Join us for John’s ride from the top of the world in swimming to the top of the world …
 
Kendall Gretsch is not one to go to sleep without solving the problem. In Tokyo, she solved a math problem of epic proportions to make up four minutes and four seconds to win by a half a chair length. That she won shouldn’t be surprising, she’s already won numerous gold medals in her second sport of cross-country skiing because originally her class…
 
Loading …

מדריך עזר מהיר

זכויות יוצרים 2023 | מפת אתר | מדיניות פרטיות | תנאי השירות