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Karen Hunter Is Awesome!

Iron Will: Roderick Sewell is Running This Race Without Legs!

Karen Hunter Is Awesome!

Women's Empowerment Network

Society & Culture, Female Empowerment, Women's Empowerment Network, Karen Hunter, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Finances, Business, Women, Entertainment, Health & Fitness

5.0687 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Paralympic athlete Roderick Sewell joins Karen Hunter to discuss his new book, 'Iron Will: An Amputee's Journey to Athletic Excellence.'

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0:00.0

Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome.

0:10.5

I am Karen Hunter, and for some of you, you met me as a writer.

0:16.2

Of course, I started my career as a journalist at the New York Daily News for 16 years,

0:20.4

and then I started ghost writing, writing with other the New York Daily News for 16 years, and then I started

0:21.3

ghost writing, writing with other people, L.L. Kool-J., Queen Latifah and others. I have eight

0:26.9

New York Times bestsellers, Wendy Williams, writing books with celebrities and people of note on the

0:34.0

down low confessions of a video vixen, things like that.

0:38.3

Back in during the pandemic, I got a call from a guy that is an agent, not my agent, but a

0:43.6

friend of mine who happens to be an agent.

0:45.3

He was telling me about this story of a young man who was a double-leg amputee who just

0:50.3

finished an Ironman in Hawaii, who also spent a good deal of his childhood in homeless

0:56.0

shelters. And the first conversation I had with Roger Sewell, I knew I wanted to work with him.

1:01.6

I didn't know if I would be able to actually tell his story and do it justice. I was finding

1:06.3

myself struggling through the process, having not done it for 10 years being on the radio you lose some of that

1:12.4

you know but I found it and I thought it was important so I'm going to ask everybody to go out and get

1:17.4

iron will an amputee's journey to athletic excellence by rogerick soel I'm going to ask you to support

1:23.3

this book because this man is amazing human being his story story is amazing. And it was my honor to work on

1:29.7

this with him. Up next is my interview with Roderick Sewell. I don't know how AI is also going to

1:36.9

replace writing because so much of writing is spiritual. so much of writing is spiritual for me.

1:46.6

Like I get a feeling when I'm in a zone and I'm feeling.

1:50.0

I don't know the AI can duplicate that feeling that you put into words that

1:55.2

then go into, you know, somebody's story and you're telling a story.

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