Chris Norton | The Seven Longest Yards: Our Love Story of Pushing the Limits while Leaning on Each Other
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The foreword of Chris Norton’s book is written by Tim Tebow, and in the book, Chris shares how he has been able to remain positive despite suffering a serious spinal cord injury while playing the game he loves (football).
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| 0:00.0 | Thrive Nation on today's show we are interviewing Chris Norton. |
| 0:04.3 | Chris is the author of the new book The Seven Longest Yards. |
| 0:08.2 | Our love story of pushing the limits while learning on each other. |
| 0:12.2 | The forward of the book is written by the legendary Tim the the show because it's a story of overcoming and there's so much stuff that's going on in people's lives and it's so easy to just give up. |
| 0:28.0 | This is a great story to get you out of that funk. |
| 0:31.0 | A lot of people, after having a spinal injury and becoming paralyzed |
| 0:34.4 | would have given up but that's not what today's guest did. Ladies and gentlemen I |
| 0:38.6 | present to you the Chris Norton story. Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show, but |
| 0:46.8 | this show does. Two men, eight kids, co-created by two different women, |
| 0:53.8 | 13 multimillion dollar businesses. |
| 0:57.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, |
| 0:58.6 | welcome to the Thrive Time Show. Yes, yes, and yes. We started from the bottom now we're here. |
| 1:15.0 | We started from the bottom now we're yes. |
| 1:18.0 | Yes, and yes. |
| 1:21.0 | Thrive Nation on today's show. We are interviewing Chris Norton. |
| 1:24.6 | Chris, welcome on to the Thrive Time Show. |
| 1:26.3 | How are you, sir? |
| 1:29.6 | I am doing great. |
| 1:30.8 | I am here in the Midwest, and it's so much cooler here than it is in |
| 1:34.9 | South Florida. Can you can you I'd love for you to share with the listeners about |
| 1:40.5 | your book the the seven longest yards what's that book all about what inspired you to write that thing |
| 1:47.0 | Yes, the seven longest yards is about my journey going from a spinal cord injury playing college football a 3% chance to then seven years |
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