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Hello Thrive Nation. Welcome back to another exciting edition of the Thrive Time Show on your radio and podcast download.

And for those of you who are discovering our podcast for the first time, two things I want to make, two housekeeping notes I want to share with you.

One, as of July 2nd, 2018, we are number one in the world of all podcasts.

It doesn't mean we're going to stay there. It doesn't mean that we couldn't move down or up. I want to say thank you to you Thrive Nation for listening to these conversations and for sharing these podcasts with your friends.

And we hope this show provides you the mentorship that you really can't get anywhere else.

And one of the things I pride myself on doing is trying to bring on guests onto the show that know the millionaire map.

People that don't just talk about success, but people who aren't just charlatans, but people that have actually done it, who live it, people who have gone through the struggle and the adversity that you've gone through.

On today's show, we have a multi millionaire, a best selling author, and a man who's written a book with Steve Forbes shared the stage with Tony Robbins, General Colin Powell, Zieg Ziegler, and more.

And this just in Thrive Nation, he's done this all after having gone blind.

Think about that after having gone blind Jim Jim Stovall. Welcome to the show, my friend. How are you doing?

I am good, Clay. It's great to be with you. Congratulations on being number one and keep it up brother. I again, it's I will try not to get emotional while interviewing you because just talking to you.

I remember hearing you speak years ago, watching you online, watching the videos of you speak.

It's just the impact you've made of my life in terms of just not making excuses has been profound. And so I would like for you to share if you can.

What you were thinking when you first learned that you were going blind. I mean, how old were you and when did you first learn that you were going blind?

What were you thinking when you discovered that soon I'm not going to see again?

Well, it started as a young man. I grew up here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And I had no ambition other than to be an all-American football player and go on to make my living in the NFL for the sake of your audience. We'll say the New England Patriots.

And every year before you go play football, you have to get a physical exam. They want to make sure that you're healthy before they take you out and try to kill you.

And the exam was taking a lot longer that year than I had ever remembered it. And they poke you, they prod you, they weigh you, they measure you, they do all this stuff.

And then a doctor shined a light in my eye and wrote something on a chart and called another doctor. And he did the same and then a third doctor came in and ran several tests.

And eventually they took me down a long haul and sent me down to the table. And these three doctors told me, Jim, we're not sure why and we're not sure when.

But we do know someday you're going to be totally blind and there's nothing we can do about it. And your whole world just stops right there.

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