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So Don Yeager attended our third ever business masterclass.

Now Don, a great guy, is a long time associate editor for Sports Illustrated and now an 11-time

New York Times best-selling author. He helped

NFL Superstar work on write his autobiography titled Running for My Life

back in 2008. It's an inspirational story of tragedy, loss, success, and hope.

I want to share a few pieces of that story and the biggest lesson in it because it packs in

an important lesson that I think all of us should be reminded of here this morning.

So on Thanksgiving night 2007,

the crowd in Atlantis Georgia Dome roared with praise.

With a short burst through the line of scrimmage,

Warwick Dunn became the 22nd running back in NFL history to rush for more than 10,000 yards.

No one ever thought that a player of Warwick's size, a mere 5-8 and 180 pounds, would have the strength that withstand 12 years in the NFL having to continually

run through walls of 300 pound linemen much less become one of its all-time leading

russers. The next smallest person to reach that milestone,

weighed nearly 20 pounds more, but Warwick treated his lack in size

as he did every other obstacle thrown his way as fuel.

Wark done was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and he was the oldest of six brothers and sisters.

They all idolized their mother police officer Betty smothers.

Betty was forced to work several other part-time jobs to keep her family afloat, but she always

made time to nurture her family.

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