#581 - The One Armed Wonder

The Free Man

Ben Coomber

Self-improvement, Education, Science, Natural Sciences, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Dan Richards has one arm and is just about the most positive dude I’ve ever met. After 10 years in the army and a fateful motorbike crash Dan had his arm and shoulder amputated. This led to him having no money, 15p to be precise, and him trying to hang himself. Fast forward 7 years and Dan is now a model, athlete, and all round inspiring dude. We chat about the power of people, environment, what we can control, gratitude, and how this has shaped his mindset rehab after losing his arm.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Benkimer Radio, how an earth are you doing? So today, do you know what, I think I know what's in store on today's podcast, but I don't actually know because we literally planned this in the
0:15.1	space of the last couple of hours we were chatting on Instagram about some stuff and I
0:20.5	have a recent admiration for this person and the work that they do on
0:25.5	Instagram and I know his girlfriend who's been through our nutrition course and she
0:31.7	sent me his documentary which I think was on BBC I'll get corrected in a minute
0:37.6	but yeah I find this guy inspirational I think you're gonna find this guy inspirational and we're going to dive straight in. Dan Richards, aka the one arm wonder.
0:50.3	Hello. Hi, how are you? You're right. Hello, everyone. Hi, how are you?
0:53.0	You're right.
0:54.0	Hello everyone.
0:55.0	It's the One Armed E. D.
0:57.0	One Arm and D.
1:00.0	Yeah.
1:01.0	One armed wonderer.
1:02.0	When did you commit to that Instagram handle change?
1:06.6	Because that's quite a bold change.
1:08.6	Do you know what, it went for a couple of changes.
1:10.3	So I think I just wanted something that was was memorable or it was memorable. So it's a long it's a long thing to type into like the
1:26.4	search bar but no one's ever gonna forget the one armed wonder are they it's like
1:31.3	one of those it's one of those all can I use that not
1:35.5	use that you know what I mean yeah of course you can it's but it's my handle but it used to be it
1:40.2	used to be the real Dan Richards, which is a little bit like, who are you, mate? Like,
1:46.3	like, who do you think you are? But then that's how I discovered that Dan Richards is also the guitarist of One Direction and even now I still get tagged in One Direction fan posts on their 10 year anniversary or Harry Starves doing this or something.
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