Rod Cate | Living an Amazing Life Regardless of Your Circumstances
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
When Rod Cate was 15, he made a tackle in a high school football game that changed his life forever. The impact crushed two of the vertebrae in his neck and in an instant, Rod became a quadriplegic. Today, Rod needs only the aid of a walking stick and works out regularly. He is also a lawyer and author of Get Back Up. Take a listen to hear his wisdom on how you can live an amazing life, irrespective of circumstance.
Visit Rod's website | https://RodCate.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. |
| 0:20.0 | Check the Uber app. |
| 0:25.6 | He dropped the ball, but when I hit him I lowered my head too much. You know, I remember I spun around, I crushed the crushed two cervical vertebrae in my neck and badly damaged my spinal cord. |
| 0:37.7 | And so after I had I spin around, I'm laying kind of face down on the ground with my head turned to the right and so and I can see through my helmet I can see my right arm |
| 0:51.7 | Which was only 12 13 stay away from my head or from my face, but |
| 0:57.1 | man, it's weird, it's like it wasn't even my arm, it wasn't even attached to me. |
| 1:02.1 | And I remember going through the motion of trying to get up, |
| 1:05.4 | and I watched my arm just roll over. |
| 1:08.2 | And when I watched it roll over, I couldn't feel it roll over, |
| 1:10.9 | I couldn't feel anything, and that was the last movement I had for you know at least another another month. |
| 1:27.2 | I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started |
| 1:31.1 | movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books and created of dot com. |
| 1:46.0 | Rod welcome to the unmistakable creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
| 1:47.0 | Well, it's great to be you. |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here. |
| 1:51.0 | So I actually found out about your story by way of somebody who do you and when I read you know sort of the description of your life story I thought yeah this is definitely something that really resonates with me. |
| 2:02.9 | But before we get into all that, |
| 2:04.0 | I want to start by asking what I think is a very relevant question |
| 2:06.6 | given where this begins, and that is, |
| 2:08.2 | what social group we are part of in high school |
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