Olympian Tanner Gers: Overcoming Adversity & Creating A Life Worth Living
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2015
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
After losing control of his car in an auto accident, Tanner lost his sight at age 21. The biggest tragedy in Tanner’s life, wasn’t losing his sight. It was not living life, and taking every day by the horns, like he does today.
Since that day, Tanner graduated from college, is the 2011 Para Pan American gold medalist, 2012 US Paralympic trials gold medalist, 2012 Paralympian, and a 2013 World Championship team member, 2-time National Beep Baseball Association World Series Offensive MVP, 4-time Offensive All-Star, published author, public speaker, and when he’s not doing that stuff, he dabbles in business. His latest project, which is launching this summer, is The Athlete Summit, an online event designed to help athletes and coaches achieve greatness in sport and in life.
Listen as Tanner discusses:
- The mindset of a champion
- How to cultivate personal power
- Overcoming adversity
- 2012 London Olympic Games
- How Tanner uses Bio Force HRV, Heart Rate Variability for smart training
- The Athlete Summit
- Giving Back to the community
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| 0:00.0 | Wellness Force Radio, episode six. |
| 0:03.2 | You know, motivational books and everything is great. |
| 0:05.4 | That's external. |
| 0:06.6 | The real rubber hits the road when we start to look inside. |
| 0:09.7 | Welcome to Wellness Force Radio, where you will hear inspiring and passionate experts in the areas of wellness technology and behavior change. |
| 0:19.0 | Your host, Josh Trent, will empower you with the knowledge and tools you need to take the very best actions in transforming your mindset, your body, and ultimately your life. |
| 0:30.0 | Now here's your host. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome back to Wellness Force Radio. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm your host Josh Trent, and every week we bring you |
| 0:38.0 | inspiring and passionate experts in the areas of wellness, technology, and behavior change to empower you with the knowledge |
| 0:44.8 | and tools on how to take the very best actions in transforming your mindset, your body, and ultimately |
| 0:50.4 | your life. |
| 0:51.4 | And today I am extremely pumped to have on Tanner Gears. |
| 0:55.1 | Tanner welcome to the show. Oh Josh thank you so much brother I am like you very |
| 1:01.6 | pumped to be here. |
| 1:02.6 | Yes, I cannot wait to dive into your story, your contribution, what you do as a trainer, |
| 1:09.2 | but I read through your bio man and we were kind of chatting it up here in the last five minutes before the show and I want to give the listeners a really solid connection to you as I read through your really eclectic bio. |
| 1:20.0 | So let me just give this a shot here. |
| 1:22.0 | Tanner Geers studied business and communications at U of A. |
| 1:25.9 | He is an insatiable consumer of food, |
| 1:28.0 | a raging cajun cook, has a barbecue addiction, |
| 1:31.0 | a phenomenal dancer, an elite sprinter and track and field and is the |
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