AP 267: Christopher Clark || A Tribute

About Progress

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Christopher Clark didn't ask for a diagnosis of ALS at the peak of his life, family, and career. Over the five years he faced with continuously limited capacity to move and control his body, he still controlled how he was going to show up each day with his humor, smile, and generosity. Early on in my podcasting career, Chris accepted an invite from this no-name podcaster who wanted to take a microphone to his diminishing voice and record his story. That single episode changed my life forever. Like so many out there, I have been devastated to learn that Chris succumbed to the disease that ravaged his body. I know he had hard days; but the greatest gift Chris gave to all of us is that he didn't let ALS ravage his spirit. That spirit radiates through this interview, and shortly following he lost his ability to speak. It is my most-treasured recording, and I'm honored to share it all with you. Christopher Clark passed away June 7th, 2020. He was previously a guest on About Progress in August 2017. All of the About Progress community passes on its greatest condolences to the Clark family and allllll of his many, many friends. SHOW NOTES Chris's Instagram Chris's wife--Lisa's--Instagram Donate to ALS Association here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to about progress. This is episode 267 Christopher Clark attribute.
0:07.9	Progressor fam I am so sad to be sharing this episode with you today. This is a tribute to one of our own Chris Clark.
0:15.4	He passed away June 7th due to complications of ALS. Chris was a talented, well-respected, and
0:22.1	renowned actor, director, and professor, and while we didn't
0:26.1	know each other personally, I was an admirer of his humor and gifts from afar.
0:32.0	I made the leap a little over three years ago to ask him to be on my show to talk about his somewhat recent diagnosis with ALS.
0:40.0	At the time he was making the transition to being wheelchair-bound, needing to start having his family feed him, and he would soon lose his voice.
0:49.0	Now last summer I shared an encore of that original episode, and I told you then that it was my favorite
0:54.8	episode to date, and it absolutely still is.
0:59.4	Let me tell you why.
1:00.9	On top of it being a huge honor to record his voice for his family and his friends
1:06.5	before he wasn't able to speak anymore. I learned from Chris in our time together that even with the most monumental trials that we are forced to face in our lives,
1:18.0	we still have our own agency on how we are going to deal with them.
1:23.0	Did Chris have hard days?
1:25.0	Did he feel sad and even angry or helpless over his position?
1:29.0	Yes, absolutely.
1:31.0	And he admitted to all of those emotions in our interview together.
1:35.0	But Chris shared and exemplified that even while it's okay to suffer and feel those hard feelings,
1:41.0	you still have a choice. And Chris until the very end chose to be himself,
1:46.7	to have a great sense of humor and generosity and kindness, even in typing form when he could no longer
1:51.6	talk. He chose to find the good and to be the good.
1:55.3	He showed us that we can't choose our trials but that we can still choose who we are.
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