Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent to do what you love.

I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

On Fridays, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business development who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners along their journeys.

In honor of the four-year anniversary of our podcast, over the next several weeks,

we will be sharing with you the most popular interviews from our first 777 shows.

We hope you enjoy them, and we look forward to sharing the journeys of more fascinating guests soon.

Eric was shattered when at 14, a genetic illness left him totally blind.

Soon he connected with an organization that gave him new opportunities, like rock climbing.

He recalls running his hand along his bedroom wall, thinking, who would be crazy enough to

take a blind kid rock climbing? I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest eric winemir good afternoon it's good to connect with you eric are you using your talents doing work that you love i feel like i am yeah i've been really fortunate in my life. So yes, I'd give that affirmative.

Good, good. Well, we want to hear the whole story. Eric Weinmer was the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest back in 2001.

Since then, he completed the seven summits. His latest book, No Barriers, is an inspirational story about kayaking the entire 277 miles of the

Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. His triumphs fueled his aspiration to help other

shatter barriers in their lives. Eric's motto is, what's within you is stronger than what's in

your way. Eric, that's a summary of your career. Tell our listeners around the

world what you're engaged in now for a minute or so that has you excited and fired up, if you would.

Well, I'm a full-time climber and adventure, and I write and I speak. And a couple weeks, I head off

to Europe to the Alps to climb a big rock face called the Pisbadia. So that's a 3,000 foot vertical

rock face. And it'll take us a couple days. So pretty excited training right now, doing a lot of pull-ups.

I can't imagine. And how long has your book been out? The book has been out since February.

Good, good. And so, yeah, that took me

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