415. Why Your Limits Might Be Your Greatest Asset with Kyle Maynard

The Game Changing Attorney Podcast with Michael Mogill

Michael Mogill

Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship, Management

5.0 • 539 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What would your life look like if you stopped seeing limitations as roadblocks and started seeing them as opportunities? In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael Mogill sits down with Kyle Maynard, world record-holding athlete, entrepreneur, speaker, best-selling author, and featured speaker at the 2025 Game Changers Summit, who was born without arms or legs yet has achieved what most would consider impossible. From climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to becoming a champion wrestler and mixed martial artist, Kyle shares the mindset that has allowed him to turn obstacles into fuel. This conversation is a masterclass in perseverance, perspective, and possibility. Here’s what you’ll learn: Why your limitations don’t define you, your mindset does How to build resilience through struggle and discipline What it takes to face fear, failure, and discomfort head-on If you have ever doubted your potential, this episode will remind you that your only real limitation is belief. ---- Show Notes: 03:22 — Kyle shares how his parents’ mindset shaped his view on adversity 04:10 — The story of how learning to eat independently changed his life 07:07 — Early lessons from football and why losing 35 matches taught him more than winning ever could 09:42 — What finally led to his first wrestling victory, and how it changed his confidence 10:58 — The long road from failure to becoming a nationally ranked wrestler 12:05 — Lessons from sports that shaped his business and leadership philosophy 12:32 — How training with UFC champion Forrest Griffin pushed him to new limits 17:13 — The climb up Mount Kilimanjaro and what it taught him about purpose and possibility ---- Links & Resources: Kyle Maynard No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling and in Life by Kyle Maynard A Fighting Chance (2009) ---- Do you love this podcast and want to see more game changing content? Subscribe to our YouTube channel. ---- Past guests on The Game Changing Attorney Podcast include David Goggins, John Morgan, Alex Hormozi, Randi McGinn, Kim Scott, Chris Voss, Kevin O’Leary, Laura Wasser, John Maxwell, Mark Lanier, Robert Greene, and many more. ---- If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: 353. How He Trained His Mind to Never Quit — Using Something You’d Never Guess with James Lawrence 314. AMMA — Turning Trials into Triumphs: The Art of Resilient Leadership 210. AMMA — Failure Isn’t Final: Lessons Learned From Setbacks and Struggles

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0:00.0	We are capable of so much more than we realize.
0:05.0	Are we doing that justice? Are we, you know, serving that purpose?
0:10.0	That's Kyle Maynard, award-winning extreme athlete.
0:13.0	And a lot of the time, I think it has to do with both the standards that we hold to ourselves, you know,
0:17.0	and the people around us that are, you know, helping make decisions in ways in which we can't make decisions for ourselves.
0:26.6	I'm Michael Logel, founder and CEO of Crisp, the nation's number one law from growth
0:33.5	company. I've built my business through practice, not theory. Crisp started with just
0:37.6	$500 to my name and has grown to over eight figures in revenue over the last few years,
0:42.2	earning a spot on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America.
0:46.6	Our approach has been to take everything we've learned about generating massive growth
0:50.0	within our own organization and help the country's most ambitious and committed law from firm owners do the same for theirs in each episode of this podcast I sit down
0:57.6	with innovative market leaders from the legal industry and beyond to learn from
1:01.4	those who thrive in the face of adversity challenge the status quo and define
1:05.2	what it means to be a true game changer Kyle Maynard is a best-selling author and
1:10.0	award-winning extreme athlete whose journey
1:11.7	defied expectations from day one. Born with a rare condition known as congenital amputation,
1:16.5	where his arms end at the elbows and legs at the knees, he refused to allow limitations
1:20.3	to define his path. I sat down with Kyle to discuss why embracing discomfort is the only way to
1:25.4	expand your capacity for growth, how to identify
1:27.6	the excuses holding you back and turn them into execution plans, and how to create unstoppable
1:32.4	momentum in life and business.
1:34.5	If you look at all the areas of your life and you were to pick what is the single biggest
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