So many of us have wild dreams, so few of us ever make them happen.

But that's not today's story.

So when my guest today, Bernard Harris Jr. was a little kid, navigating loss and struggle,

he'd look up at the sky and dream of being an astronaut.

That dream became his refuge and eventually his reality, but it would take decades

and relentless drive to keep it alive. And now a physician, a NASA astronaut, venture capitalists,

and philanthropist, he made history as the first African American to complete a spacewalk,

logging over 438 hours and traveling more than 7.2

million miles in space. His new book, Embracing Infinite Possibilities, Letting Go of Fear to

Find Your Highest Potential, it explores how we can all reach beyond perceived limitations.

But this isn't a story about space or medicine. It's about

what happens when you refuse to let go of a dream. What fascinates me also about Bernard's story,

it isn't just his incredible achievements, but how he transformed a parade of adversity and

setbacks into fuel for growth. It's his mindset along the way.

How he pursued medicine, but never released his belief that one day he would be in space.

And how his initial rejection from NASA's astronaut program, actually, instead of pushing him

back or leading him to walk away, it led him to go and actively

seek to acquire even more expertise and skills, making him pretty much impossible to turn down

when the next opportunity came. And wait until you hear what it felt like when he first

opened that hatch to step out into space, with Earth

rushing by below at an incomprehensible speed, what it felt like looking back at the little

blue marble of a planet moving at 17,000 miles per hour, and how that perspective just forever

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