Empty Your Backpack with Sam Demma

The Brad Weisman Show

Brad Weisman

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5.0 • 794 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

One torn-up knee can change a whole life, but only if you’re willing to look for the lesson instead of the loss. Sam Demma, Author of Empty Your Backpack, joins us to share how a serious soccer setback became the starting point for a decade of keynote speaking, service, and storytelling built on one principle: small, consistent actions. We dig into the moments that shaped Sam’s message, from picking up trash as a first “small action,” to a flight attendant who turned a paper cup into a phone...

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0:31.0	Okay, here we go.
0:32.2	This is going to be a good one, Hugo.
0:34.2	The Brad Wiseman Show, real people, real life, and everything in between.
0:40.1	So what do your kids think of this?
0:41.4	I was so embarrassed.
0:43.0	In order to be unstoppable, you simply don't give up.
0:45.3	You get knocked down, you get back up again.
0:46.8	Where curiosity opens the door to genuine connection.
0:50.5	Man really struggled with their emotions.
0:52.5	They really struggle with even understanding what's going on.
0:55.5	Unfiltered conversations with the people shaping our world.
0:59.3	What kind of show is this?
1:01.7	And there's red quilted leather all over the walls.
1:06.7	There's a swing hanging from the ceiling.
1:10.5	I don't sweat you. And now your host, Brad Wiseman. All right. Oh, man. Hugo. Hello. This is going to be really good. All right. All right. I've been stalking. I've been trying to find this guy for a really long time. No, we have a really good guest. Somebody that's been traveling all of the United States and actually even to Canada because I think that's where he's actually from. We'll talk about that in a little bit. But this is a guest that I saw one clip on Instagram. And his Instagram is just is unbelievable. I saw one clip. And as I'm listening to the clip, it was one that just drew me in.
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