359: Maxwell Ivey: Becoming The Blind Terminator

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Interview, Motivation, Online, Businessinterview, Education, Businesscoaching, Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Income, Business

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🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Todays guest is someone who is marching on with his life, with something that many of us would consider a huge hindrance. In fact a total game stopper. He is a totally blind business owner, blogger, sometimes podcaster, and newly self published author. Born into a family of carnival owners in Texas, USA, he lost his sight at age 12. But having a natural gusto for life this didn't hold him back, and he graduated college, before working in the family business alongside his brothers until his father tragically succumbed to lung cancer. Faced with his own mortality, he made some life-altering changes, undergoing gastric surgery to lost over 250 pounds. He started his own business, buying and selling amusement rides, and learned how to blog using software for visually-impaired people. Overcoming many obstacles, he has made a name for himself online and now shares his experiences on The Blind Blogger. And with the companionship of his crazy Dalmation-mix, Penny, he now spends his days singing, reading, blogging, writing, creating videos, and coaching, and of course inspiring everyone he comes in contact with. So does he remember when he first realized that he was slowly losing his sight as a young man? And does he find now that his life has found the path that feels right because of it, and not despite of of it? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots, with the one and only Maxwell Ivey

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0:00.0	Today's show is brought to you by podcastersmastery.com, the premier online community,
0:05.6	teaching you to podcast like a pro. Check us out now at podcastersmastery.com.
0:30.2	Here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David Ralph.
0:38.2	Yes, hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Join Up. This is episode 359. I'm David Ralph
0:46.0	and of course we've got another guest on the end of the line who's going to share with us his story
0:51.9	and it's quite a story this one actually because he is a guest who is marching on with his life
0:57.6	with something that many of us would consider a huge hindrance. In fact, that total game stopper
1:02.6	he's a totally blind business owner, blogger, sometimes podcaster and newly self-published
1:08.1	offer. Born into a family of carnival owners in Texas, USA, he lost his site at age 12 but having
1:14.5	a natural gusto for life, they didn't hold him back and he graduated college before working in
1:19.3	the family business alongside his brothers and to his father tragically succumbed to lung cancer.
1:25.4	Now face with his own mortality, he made some life altering changes undergoing gastric surgery
1:31.4	to lose over 250 pounds. He then started his own business, buying and selling amusement
1:37.4	riots and learned how to blog using software for visually impaired people,
1:41.8	overcoming many obstacles he's made a name for himself online and now shares his experience
1:46.1	on the blind blogger. And with the companionship of his crazy Dalmatian mix penny, he now spends
1:51.3	his day singing, reading, blogging, writing, creating videos and coaching and of course inspiring
1:56.4	everyone he comes in contact with. So does he remember when he first realized that he was slowly
2:00.6	losing his site as a young man and does he find now that his life has found a path that feels
2:04.8	right because of it and not despite of it? Well, let's find out as we bring on to the show to
2:09.4	start joining up dots with the one and only Maxwell Ivy. How are you Maxwell?
2:14.9	I'm doing just fine David, I'm actually doing even better now that I've heard that introduction.
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