Becoming Mentally and Physically Elite with Chad Vanags

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In September of 2022, at 39 years old, Chad Vanags was diagnosed with stage 4 terminal lung cancer. Chad is a surfer, runner, and all-around athlete. In the year and a half since his diagnosis, Chad has been living his wildest most authentic life as he faces his own mortality. Cancer isn't the message, but it's been the vehicle that's pushed him to become what he calls physically and mentally elite.

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0:00.0	In September of 2022, I read a blog post written by a friend's husband named
0:06.3	Chad Van Eggs. In the post, Chad announced the world that at 39 years old
0:11.0	he'd been diagnosed with stage 4 terminal lung cancer.
0:14.8	The doctors told him that if the medication didn't work, he'd have about six months to live.
0:19.9	Even if it did work, there was only a 10% chance he'd lived longer than five years.
0:24.9	The news was a huge shock.
0:26.5	Chad's an athlete and adventure, and he's young.
0:30.0	His blog post stayed with me.
0:32.1	I've been following along in his journey ever since.
0:35.0	Each day, Chad posts an update on his social media about his physical and emotional health.
0:40.0	His cancer diagnosis has been devastating, but it's also encouraged him to go after all the wild ideas he's put off or been afraid of.
0:48.0	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living, an REI co-op studio's production.
0:54.4	Chad is a surfer, runner, and all-round athlete.
1:00.0	He works in tech sales and owns a flower farm in Ventura, California with his wife Stacy.
1:08.0	And the year and a half since his diagnosis, Chad has been living his wildest, most authentic life
1:14.8	as he faces his own mortality.
1:17.4	Cancer isn't the message, but it's been the vehicle
1:20.3	that's pushed him to become what he calls physically and mentally elite.
1:24.0	He's also sharing this journey with others in real time.
1:30.0	Chad Van Egggs, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:34.0	Thank you.
1:35.0	I figured you just start and tell us a little bit about that post that I saw that everybody
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