Lex Gillette -- Make Sure You Keep Jumping
Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends
Bob Goff
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Lex Gillette is a globally recognized Paralympic track and field athlete who competes for Team USA. Competing primarily in the long jump, Lex has acquired four Paralympic medals, and three world champion titles, with his most recent long jump crown being won in the summer of 2017 in London, England. He currently holds the world record in the long jump for totally blind athletes with a leap of 22 feet-1 inch, making him the only totally blind athlete in the world to eclipse the 22 foot barrier in the event.
When he is not competing around the world, Lex is a motivational speaker who has spoken to organizations both large and small, including Fortune 500 corporations, trade associations, professional sports teams, non-profit foundations, and school districts. He is constantly challenging his audiences to see past their current reality as there is more to life than what is in front of their eyes.
Lex is a 2007 graduate of East Carolina University where he majored in recreation management. The four years that he spent in Greenville, North Carolina have helped shape him into the influential figure that he is today. As an athlete, motivational speaker and inspiration to many, Lex Gillette exemplifies the phrase, No Need for Sight When You Have a Vision®.
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On the episode:
Producer : Haley King
Engineer : Jackson Carpenter
Co-host : Scott Schimmel
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to the Dream Big Podcast with Bob Gough and friends. This is the co-host Scott Schimmel and I'm here with Bob Gough. |
| 0:14.7 | Hey everyone, I hope you're having a great week and I can't wait to jump in again. |
| 0:18.6 | Here we go. |
| 0:19.6 | Well Bob, every now and then, maybe once a month, I get one of those days |
| 0:23.1 | where I just run out of gas, and then I run into someone |
| 0:26.4 | like Lex Gillette. |
| 0:27.7 | Oh, what a good guy. |
| 0:30.7 | Talk about full commitment to a dream. Tell us about Lex how you got to know him. |
| 0:34.4 | Yeah, if you read everybody always, there's a story in there about Lex and boy I'm telling you, |
| 0:41.6 | if that doesn't warm your heart, you've got no heartbeat. |
| 0:45.0 | He's just a guy who is overcome some adversity in his life, like a whole bunch. But he's a guy that's taking action no better person |
| 0:55.6 | to talk about the concept that we've been studying in the Dream Big Framework |
| 0:59.7 | now about taking action than Lex. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, well we are excited to introduce to you one of our country's greatest |
| 1:07.8 | athletes, Lex Gillette. |
| 1:08.8 | Hey everybody have my friend Lex Gillette with me on the podcast and Lex thanks so much for joining us today. |
| 1:17.0 | Oh of course Bob how are you? |
| 1:19.0 | I'm doing so good it's just fun talking to a good friend. You're down at the Olympic Training Center right now aren't you? |
| 1:26.4 | I am I'm here at the Chula Vista Elite |
| 1:29.6 | we training center down in Chula Vista. The thing that we're talking about today is this idea of taking action. |
| 1:37.0 | And the whole concept of taking action is to not just think about it, have a big ambition and just think about it, but to actually |
| 1:45.4 | do something about it. |
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