Never Part of the Plan with Mike Shaw (ep. 546)

Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary

John O'Leary

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

With a love for extreme sports and adventure, Mike spent his childhood taking on any sport that would push his personal limits. After finding his passion in freestyle skiing, Mike began performing professionally at international levels.

After numerous injuries, Mike was forced to shift his plan and began coaching the British Columbia Freestyle Ski Team which allowed him to continue skiing the best competition venues imaginable.

During a seemingly normal practice, though, life as Mike knew it changed in an instant. While demonstrating stunts to his athletes, he suffered a ‘scorpion-like’ crash, dislocating and breaking his neck and leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.

Determined to not only walk again, but to ski, Mike set down a new path riddled with hardship and seemingly insurmountable challenges.

My friends, today’s conversation reminds us that others cannot define your possibilities and even when things don’t go to plan, we can still achieve great things.

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0:00.0	At Killy Companies, it is no secret that they believe in the power of people.
0:05.5	In an effort to help their Keeleans get to know each other a little bit better, they decided
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0:12.9	The goal was simple.
0:14.4	Keeleans were encouraged to have a conversation with someone outside of their circle.
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0:23.2	together and farthered their world-class culture. Shout out to the Keeleans who have made an effort
0:29.0	to have meaningful conversations with new friends. You can learn more about those conversations,
0:34.3	about those amazing friends by visiting them online at Keeley Companies.
0:41.6	Welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary. John is the number one national best-selling
0:48.5	author of the book On Fire. He's a world-class inspirational speaker and he's the host of the
0:53.6	live-inspired podcast.
0:55.5	John interviews extraordinary individuals on their life story so that you can wake up from accidental living and more fully live your life story.
1:05.3	Here's your host, John O'Leary.
1:08.4	Hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live-inspired podcast with John O'Leary. Hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary.
1:15.0	Today's guest had a plan for his life.
1:19.5	And like many of us in our lives, the plan that our guest today had did not exactly
1:26.0	work out the way he intended.
1:27.8	With a love for extreme sports and adventure, Mike Shaw spent his childhood taking on any sport
1:33.9	that would push his personal limits.
1:36.5	After finding his passion finally in freestyle skiing, Mike began performing professionally
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