199: Zach Anner | If at Birth You Don't Succeed
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
"Lucky" to have cerebral palsy? That's what Zach Anner says in what is unexpectedly our funniest podcast episode yet! Most people work all their lives to become comfortable asking for help and showing the world their true selves, weakness and all. Zach Anner skipped all that. Using what he's learned he created and stars in his own YouTube show "Workout Wednesdays," in which he shows how spectacularly he can fail and shares what he calls "inspirational jokes." It's disarming, inspirational, genuine and really funny! He has parlayed his compelling voice into a memoir, If at Birth You Don't Succeed, and as a writer on an ABC sitcom "Speechless." Anner may fail at many things, but he is masterful at being himself.
Lessons:
1. A visible disability can be a gift in that it's a route to greater authenticity.
2. With the right perspective, terrible experiences can be transformed into great stories.
3. Failure blazes an alternative route to success.
LINKS:
If at Birth You Don't Succeed http://ifatbirthyoudontsucceed.com/
Workout Wednesdays https://www.youtube.com/user/ZachAnner
Zach on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/zachannerfanpage/
Zach in Instagram https://www.instagram.com/zach.anner/
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, and Col. Tim Nye.
Synopsis – Matt Baatz
© 2018 Spartan
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| 0:00.0 | Spartan Up Podcasts, we are at Dodger Stadium and I am Seford The Seed Huntress. We have Dr. Johnny Waite, retired Colonel Nye, |
| 0:07.0 | even though he's still active in so many ways. And Joe Descenta, of course, Marion, our producer and director and our wonderful assistant Andrea, thank you blessings. |
| 0:15.8 | Okay, so today we have Zach Anner, is that how I say? |
| 0:20.5 | Yeah, 100% for sure the funniest person we've ever had on here. |
| 0:24.0 | And philosophically brilliant. |
| 0:26.0 | And kind of blew me away. |
| 0:28.0 | I didn't know very much. |
| 0:30.0 | He's got a book out. |
| 0:32.0 | And here's a guy with so much difficulty in his life that's just having a blast. |
| 0:36.6 | I think we could learn a lot from him. |
| 0:37.8 | Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. |
| 0:40.8 | We are here at Dodger Stadium. It is what day of the week is it Marion? |
| 0:45.0 | Saturday. |
| 0:47.0 | Saturday. |
| 0:48.0 | The reason I ask, we usually don't talk about day of the week we're filming because it may not |
| 0:51.0 | be Saturday that you're watching this but I want |
| 0:52.7 | to introduce Wednesdays that's the important thing to me workout Wednesdays I've |
| 0:56.9 | got Zach Anter here Zach I'm from Canada I've known about you for years I'm |
| 1:02.1 | from Buffalo which is basically the |
| 1:04.3 | Canada of the United States. It really is, it really is. I've been watching a workout |
| 1:08.8 | Wednesday for years. When I found out you're in with your podcast off the charts excited like massive |
| 1:13.7 | fan tell us how workout went tell us what it is and how it came about. |
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