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Good Life Project

Redefining Possibility | Kyle Bryant

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Growing up in northern California, Kyle Bryant (https://kyleabryant.com/) loved being outside and being active. But, his late teens would change everything. He began experiencing a loss in balance, coordination and strength. A battery of doctors and tests eventually led to a diagnosis of Friedreich’s Ataxia (FA), a rare, progressive neuromuscular disease that currently has no treatment or cure. While grappling with this diagnosis and all it meant, Kyle discovered cycling, and, along with it, a new lease on freedom. He's now completed numerous ultra-distance rides including "The World's Toughest Bike Race", Race Across America in 2010, as part of 4-man Team FARA which is the subject of the documentary The Ataxian. He is the co-host of the Two Disabled Dudes Podcast and the author of a moving new memoir, Shifting Into High Gear (https://amzn.to/31R1QaR). Bryant is also the founder and director of the bicycle ride fundraiser, rideATAXIA for the Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA). rideATAXIA is currently held annually in 6 locations and has raised over $7 million for Friedreich's ataxia (FA) research since 2007.

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When Kyle Bryant was a kid, he grew up in California, kind of like your everyday kid

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running around, playing with all of his friends, super active, athletic, outdoors all the

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time, his whole family was. And then in his late teens, something started to change.

1:17.9

He noticed that he was struggling with his stability and balance and strength through

1:22.2

a certain extent and normally a super active kid and an athlete he was starting to sort

1:27.8

of see declines in his performance that nobody could really explain. That led to a whole

1:34.0

bunch of questions, a whole bunch of medical professionals being in the mix and eventually

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a diagnosis of something called Friedrich's ataxia or F.A. for short, which is a neuromuscular

1:44.6

condition that is progressive in nature. And as of now at least there's no treatment

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or cure for it. He was about 17 when he got that and he had to make some decisions about

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