S2E192 No Barriers with Erik Weihenmayer
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Celebrated athlete Erik Weihenmayer is the first blind person in history to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest. In this episode, he tells Brian how he lives a life of meaning and purpose by consistently breaking through barriers and helping others with special challenges to lead active and fulfilling lives.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· Why he never lives on the sidelines.
· How climbing Mount Everest changed him.
· Why he started a nonprofit.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
National Federation of the Blind
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“When I went totally blind … it was like the gloves were off. I could do anything I wanted now. I was free.” – Erik Weihenmayer
“Wisdom gets beat into most of us, sadly.” – Erik Weihenmayer
“We're always sort of straddling this knife edge between limitation and possibility.” – Erik Weihenmayer
“When you have a really bad day there's nothing better than sleeping and waking up the next morning to say, ‘Today's a new day with new possibilities – I can do better than I did yesterday.’” – Erik Weihenmayer
“It's an ongoing, never-ending commitment to reaching and failing; falling short and bleeding a little bit; and reaching again and getting a little higher each day up the mountain. To me, that's what constitutes a good life.” – Erik Weihenmayer
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life, the Podcast for Entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing |
| 0:07.7 | yourself and your business. |
| 0:09.7 | Here's your host, founder of America's largest business coaching company, Brian Bethany. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, the top of the morning, Tia, Brian Bethini here and we have an amazing guest today. |
| 0:21.4 | You know, we've been able to have the fortune to having movie |
| 0:24.6 | stars and great athletes and you name it at our mastermind event over the years. |
| 0:30.1 | 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 Weinmair is sawed after speaker. |
| 0:42.8 | That's what I'll say. |
| 0:44.2 | He's an accomplished mountain climber, |
| 0:45.8 | including Mount Everest, and a whole bunch of other peaks. |
| 0:49.2 | He's a paraglider, skier, kayaker. |
| 0:51.5 | And oh, by the way, he happens to be blind. |
| 0:54.0 | Eric founded the No Barriers Foundation that aims to build a world where barriers don't stand in the way of possibilities. |
| 1:00.0 | And we're so honored to have him today and so excited to have him at our mastermind in August in San Diego. |
| 1:06.0 | Eric, welcome to the show. We're honored to have you. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, that's going to be wonderful to meet you guys in person in August. |
| 1:11.5 | But I'll just start by saying I'm so impressed by your life and all you've built and the good work you do in the world and your team. Really, really fantastic. It fills me with just like a really beautiful feeling today. |
| 1:25.0 | That's great. Well, we're really excited to have you. It's our 25th anniversary at |
| 1:29.0 | Mastermind and it's a it's an audience that speakers come away from going, oh my gosh, if I could do that every day of my life. |
| 1:36.1 | They're fired up, they're enthusiastic, and it's an inspirational event. |
| 1:39.3 | And I want to get right to it. |
| 1:41.7 | 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. |
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