Falling Asleep At The Wheel with Sam Cawthorn

The Mindvalley Podcast

Mindvalley

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Are you asleep? This episode is a special talk from the Mindvalley A-Fest stage, brought to you by Sam Cawthorn — 2009 Young Australian of the Year, international best-selling self-help author, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker. The stories he’ll tell you today will make you laugh, pause, emotionally connect, and even sing! Join the tribe at mindvalley.com/membership and visit afest.com to partake at our next event.

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0:00.0	I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.
0:05.0	You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and
0:09.2	thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth of mind, body, spirit and work.
0:17.0	In this podcast episode I'm bringing you a really remarkable person. He was voted young Australian of the
0:24.9	year. His name is Sam Cawthon. And what you're going to hear is something that is quite
0:30.7	special. You see Sam Cawthon fell asleep at the wheel. One night in October 2006,
0:37.0	he crashed into a semi-trailer at a combined speed of 2006 kilometers per hour. He was pronounced clinically dead by paramedics for a full three minutes.
0:48.7	Sam woke up in a hospital bed. His kids were just happy to see that he was alive, but he lost a good deal of his body,
0:56.3	arms, legs. But rather than decide to live in misery, Sam decided that he was going to, in his words, bounce forward.
1:06.8	He went on to create a whole new life for himself, and his story has inspired people across the world from Fortune 500
1:15.9	companies to the amazing audience at A-Fest in Thailand in 2014 where he shared
1:21.3	this particular talk.
1:23.0	Sam is an authority in personal and corporate resilience.
1:25.6	He's a best-selling author, a professional speaker of philanthropist.
1:29.0	As I said, he was named The Young Australian of the Year in 2009 and he is just an all-round amazing guy.
1:37.0	So check out the speech from Sam Cotton because I know it's going to inspire you as it did for me. I'm Viscian Lachiani and this is the Mind Valley podcast.
2:07.0	I've been thinking a lot about today, I've been thinking a lot about how I can
2:14.2	add as much values I can, how I can meet you where you're at, how I can serve you the
2:18.9	best possible way. Has anyone here heard of a guy by the name Simon Scenic?
2:23.2	He wrote the book called Start With Why, yeah, his Ted Talk,
2:25.8	top 10 most watched ever Ted Talk.
2:28.0	Awesome, awesome guy.
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