IN CONVERSATION: Dylan Alcott

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Shameless Media

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Hiiiiii listener friends! You asked, we listened. Today, we bring you the man you’ve all been wanting on the show for quite some time: the utterly impressive Dylan Alcott. Dylan is a professional athlete, media personality, motivational speaker, bestselling author, and disability advocate. (And us? We’re completely out of breath just typing that.) In this episode, we talk about the childhood moment that shaped Dylan’s approach to life, his career jump from pro basketball to tennis, and the love story with his partner Chantelle. Thank you so much to Keep It Cleaner making this episode of Shameless possible. Sign up to Keep It Cleaner here. And make sure you’re following them on Instagram at @keepitcleaner to join their FREE live workout this Friday the 27th of March, 7AM. If you’d like to hear more from Dylan, which you no doubt 1000% do, check out his podcast, ListenABLE, here, and make sure you hit ‘subscribe’ on Apple Podcasts and ‘follow’ on Spotify. You can also catch Dylan on Instagram @dylanalcott. As for us? Here are all the links your heart desires! Our Insta profile. Our Facebook Group. Our book-club. And our weekly newsletter! Shameless Podcast is very much an independent vehicle that runs on the support of our incredible listeners - that's you! So, if you'd like to support the show, we would like that very much. Hit 'subscribe' on Apple Podcasts or 'follow' on Spotify, and leave a review if you're feeling especially generous. Then sit back and bask in our eternal, abundant love. Your hosts are Zara Beach Hero McDonald (@zamcdonald) and Michelle Wants Michael Buble’s Attention Andrews (@michelleandrews1). This episode was produced by Annabelle Lee for Shameless Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.0	Success to me is I guess making a difference.
0:46.7	It's not about money or Instagram followers.
0:49.7	It's not about Grand Slamms or Gold Medals.
0:51.4	It really isn't.
0:52.1	It's about making a difference in from my
0:54.4	community and people that I care about. And success to me is being happy with the person that I am and living
1:00.2	a happy life with the people that I love. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
1:17.0	oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you, Hello and welcome to this in conversation episode of Shameless with Dylan Alcott. We are sure this man needs no
1:34.4	introduction but in case you have been living in a remote area of Peru for the last
1:38.2	decade let us introduce you. Dylan Alcott is a professional athlete, media personality, motivational speaker, best-selling
1:46.3	author and disability advocate.
1:49.0	At the age of just 29, he has won six consecutive Australian Open Quad Single titles on top of winning a gold medal for the Australian wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Paralympics and a world championship title in 2010. On top of all of that, Dylan is the founder of Ability
2:05.5	Fest, a music festival that normalizes disability, the host of a new podcast, Listen Able,
2:11.0	and the proud recipient of an Order of Australia medal.
2:14.3	Dylan was vivacious and an all-round legend when we sat down together and we hope you take
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