I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudette. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. Today's guest blows me away with his wisdom and determination and how he sets himself as an example for so many of us to follow.

In April 2017, when Ed Jackson was still a professional rugby player. He jumped in the shallow end of a swimming pool and broke his neck.

As a result he suffered a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed

from the neck down with doctors telling him that he will never walk again.

Through sheer determination, an intensive focus driven by Ed's desire to not be a burden to anyone. He reached the summit of mountains within a year of his operation. He didn't just walk. He climbed mountains. He inspires others to overcome their fear by detailing how

his goals are achieved and how goals in general can be achieved no matter how impossible they see.

Ed's life altering experience I think has provided him with an extraordinary ability to motivate. I will tell you he motivated me for sure and I now feel that he just somehow convinces me that nothing is impossible and I hope that this conversation will convince you too that nothing actually is impossible.

If you put your mind to something, you will get there.

So I've been looking forward to this conversation for a while. I hope you're going to enjoy it and find

some inspiration in it, Ed Jackson.

So I normally would do a quick good introduction of my guests.

The more I read your story and what you speak and so on, the more I realized I wouldn't do you justice at all.

Actually, I would love for you to introduce your story to our listeners, starting from Rugby and where you were in rugby. I think it's mind-blowing, it is really

inspiring and the way you tell it is just, it gets my heart every time. So go ahead. I will stay silent and you take us through what happened.

Okay, so I suppose just to give a little bit of context I am from the southwest of England. I'm 33 years old. I keep getting how old I am.

Once I got past 30 I kind of lost count or I've deliberately started to lose count.

Yes. I'm 30-something.

30-something.

I probably will be the rest of my life, hopefully.

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