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Well, the top of the morning, Tia, Brian Bafini here, and we have an amazing guest today.

You know, we've been able to have the fortune to having movie stars and great athletes and you name it at our mastermind event over the years.

This gentleman, I've worked hard to get him at our event.

He's an in-demand dude.

And when you hear his story today, I think you're going to find out

why Eric Weinmayr is a sought-after speaker. That's what I'll say. He's an accomplished

mountain climber, including Mount Everest and a whole bunch of other peaks. He's a paraglider,

skier, kayaker. And oh, by the way, he happens to be blind. Eric founded the No Barriers

Foundation that aims to build a world where barriers don't stand in the way of possibilities.

I want to get right to it. You weren't always blind. And so I want to talk about this a little

bit and just kind of give people a backdrop of your story, where you came from, when you lost your vision,

and what that transition was like for you, because your whole story is you're known for this,

but you're so much more than a guy that can't see. But maybe you can give us a little backstory

when you first started losing your sight. Yeah, I mean, I think you're dead on because,

you know, people focus on, oh, the blind guy climbed Everest and how heroic and everything, but they don't realize I'm just like a human that bleeds. And I mean, when I went blind, it was like getting hit in the head with a baseball bat. I mean, it was, it was hard. It was, I was born with sight. I could see a little bit out of my right eye. So I was always a kid like running through the forest, bouncing off of trees, falling into ditches, trying to keep up with my friends, doing some silly things like borrowing my friend's motorcycle and flying around the neighborhood, you know, barely seeing out of one eye

until my parents caught me and stopped that action.

But yeah, I know I went totally blind about a week before my freshman year in high school.

And before that, honestly, I was in, I would say denial.

Like, I kept losing sight all throughout middle school.

And I kept thinking, you know, maybe I didn't eat my weaties.

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