158: Eleven Seconds Changed Everything for Travis Roy
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Eleven seconds was all it took. Eleven seconds stopped cold a promising hockey career scarcely before it started - all on live television. Travis Roy was a promising 20-year-old hockey star, moments into his first collegiate game as a B.U. freshman, a freak accident cracked his fourth vertebra left him paralyzed from the neck down.
One misdirected check in the most important hockey game of his life sent Travis Roy crashing into the boards and ended his dreams of hockey greatness. Instead of fulfilling his lifelong dream, he now found himself paralyzed and a quadriplegic. Yet he sees his life's glass not as half empty or half full but as overflowing! How did Roy deal with such a dramatic shift in his life? What lessons can you take to overcome obstacles
How did Roy deal with such a dramatic shift in his life? What lessons can you take to overcome obstacles in your own? This optimist talks about his challenges and the strategies he has used to cope, including starting a foundation to help others in a similar predicament. Lessons: 1. Sometimes you choose challenges, sometimes they choose you. How you handle them defines you. 2. Quality of life goals
Lessons: 1. Sometimes you choose challenges, sometimes they choose you. How you handle them defines you. 2. Quality of life goals
1. Sometimes you choose challenges, sometimes they choose you. How you handle them defines you. 2. Quality of life goals
2. Quality of life goals are as important as career goals. 3. Don't underestimate the joy in simple moments. Links: The Travis Roy Foundation https://www.travisroyfoundation.org His book "Eleven Seconds" https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0446521884/ref=sib_dp_rdr/103-9648985-3773401#reader-link More about Travis Roy http://www.travisroy.com/ SUBSCRIBE: iTunes: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay CREDITS Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion,
3. Don't underestimate the joy in simple moments. Links: The Travis Roy Foundation https://www.travisroyfoundation.org His book "Eleven Seconds" https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0446521884/ref=sib_dp_rdr/103-9648985-3773401#reader-link More about Travis Roy http://www.travisroy.com/ SUBSCRIBE: iTunes: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay CREDITS Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion,
Links: The Travis Roy Foundation https://www.travisroyfoundation.org His book "Eleven Seconds" https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0446521884/ref=sib_dp_rdr/103-9648985-3773401#reader-link More about Travis Roy http://www.travisroy.com/ SUBSCRIBE: iTunes: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay CREDITS Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion,
The Travis Roy Foundation https://www.travisroyfoundation.org
His book "Eleven Seconds" https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0446521884/ref=sib_dp_rdr/103-9648985-3773401#reader-link
More about Travis Roy http://www.travisroy.com/
SUBSCRIBE:
iTunes: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpShow YouTube: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpYT Google Play: http://bit.ly/SpartanUpPlay
CREDITS Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Tim Nye, & Dr. Delle Synopsis – Matt Baatz © 2017 Spartan
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody once again we're here at the Amy Barn |
| 0:02.7 | as always I'm joined by my good friends Johnny Wake |
| 0:05.4 | Sephi Alexander and my friend and boss |
| 0:08.1 | Alexander Ra Alexandra |
| 0:10.3 | and my really good friend Alexandra and my boss Joe deS |
| 0:15.8 | I'm not I'm not a boss well we'll see we've got Marion and Andrea behind the |
| 0:21.8 | camera with us today. This podcast is going to really kind of take your breath away I think here. |
| 0:27.0 | This is Travis Roy who's got an amazing story to tell. |
| 0:31.0 | And this is again one of these kind of emotional ones. This is a guy who could be crying |
| 0:37.6 | about himself, could be crying about him circumstances, he's in a wheelchair, he's a paraplegic, |
| 0:42.4 | and yet he's got a force of will and a mindset just to carry on and I think |
| 0:46.8 | when you hear him speak well you did the interview I find him to be an amazing guy |
| 0:51.1 | I was having a really tough day as most days are in business and I walked downstairs and I sat with them and within two and a half seconds I said I can't complain about anything and when you just said hey we're going to be talking Travis Swoy, I just said |
| 1:06.4 | Can't complain about anything. Wait until you see this is a game-changer |
| 1:11.0 | We are here Spartan up Podcast. We are in Boston on a whirlwind trip and we are with Travis Roy and our trusted |
| 1:19.4 | camera person behind the camera Marion suggested that we should have |
| 1:22.4 | interviewed Travis first because |
| 1:24.3 | he got all the good tips. |
| 1:25.4 | I've learned a little bit over the years. |
| 1:28.4 | The other thing, you know, I'm having a bad day. |
| 1:31.0 | I, um, and I don't typically have bad days I'm not supposed to complain because we go |
| 1:35.1 | out to the audience we say there's nothing to ever complain about but and I meet you and |
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