237: A Career-Ending Injury Spawns an Unexpected Decision

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Careers, Self-improvement, Education, Business

5.0 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Sidelined by a serious injury in his 20s, Duane Cummings’ promising professional soccer career suddenly looked bleak. But sage advice by a mentor and coach dramatically transformed the setback into an unexpected career decision. Today, he lives with a single purpose, “To aid others, act on ideas, and achieve sensational results.” A trusted advisor to organizations and individuals around the world in professional and personal development, he is an author, entrepreneur, coach, and consultant. He speaks regularly on entrepreneurship, leadership, communication, sales, and finding your purpose.

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to Discover Your Talent, Do What You Love, Number 237. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:18.2	Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his
0:21.5	talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:27.3	Sidelined by a serious injury in his 20s, Dwayne Cummings' promising professional soccer career
0:33.0	suddenly looked bleak, but sage advice by a mentor and coach dramatically transformed the setback into an
0:40.2	unexpected career decision. I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Dwayne Cummings.
0:45.4	Welcome, Dwayne. Thanks so much for having me, Don. It is our pleasure. Are you using your talents
0:50.5	doing work that you love? I am fortunately doing so, yes. Excellent. We want to hear
0:55.2	the whole story. Duane Cummings lives life with a single purpose to aid others, act on ideas,
1:01.7	and achieve sensational results. He is a trusted advisor to organizations and individuals around the
1:07.7	world regarding professional and personal development. He's an author,
1:11.3	entrepreneur, coach, and consultant who speaks regularly on a range of topics that include
1:16.6	entrepreneurship, leadership, communication, sales, and finding your purpose. Dwayne, that's a summary
1:22.1	of your career today. Tell us what you're engaged in now that has you excited and motivated.
1:44.6	Well, thank you very much again for having me, Don. And, you know, I get to live every day kind of by my own crafting. And, yeah, so I'm an author. And the series of books I'm working on right now, there's still five more books to come out. So I get to write every day. And I also write blogs. I do a lot of speaking, public speaking. So I serve audiences that way and all around the world, very blessed, all kinds of audiences.
1:50.2	And I'm a teacher, facilitator.
1:52.3	I still get to work and coach with groups, people, individuals, governments, et cetera.
1:57.6	So, yeah, I'm still doing that every day.
1:59.8	Wonderful.
2:00.3	Wonderful.
2:02.0	Well, as you know,
2:06.3	everyone's life journey is composed of a series of turning points. Some people call them passages.
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