The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant #29 - Paralympic Medalist and a Real Life Champion - John Register

The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant

Adrian Durant

Self-improvement, Sports, African, Health & Fitness, Motivation, Education, Field, Month, Black, History, Track, American, Inspiration, Success, Olympian

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Welcome to another episode of The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant, where we meet and have conversations with some of the most inspiring and elite athletes, coaches and sports personalities. Our today's guest is an inspiration to not just athletes but for every one of us. He has one of the most heart touching stories of courage, determination and powerful will to never give up. We have with us, a U.S Army veteran, Paralympic Silver Medalist and famous keynote speaker & Media personality, John Register. Sports was Josh's passion from the childhood but his life forever altered with one misstep over the hurdle. Just when he was at the peak of his career, when he seemed destined to compete as a member of the 1996 Olympic Team, in 1994 John suffered a serious injury due to which he had to lose one of his legs. Where most people could have broken down and gave up, John showed and extraordinary will to fight back. Never turned back from that point, John went on to create history, he earned the Silver medal in the long jump at the 2000 Paralympic Games and set the American long jump record in the process.

John's story is an inspiration to many, here in this interview; John Register will share his extraordinary life story in his own words. John talks about, from an Olympic track hopeful; after an injury, how he became a two-sport Paralympian. After a tremendous sporting career, John went on to become a successful keynote speaker and an entrepreneur. From his exceptional story of courage and inspiration, John shares the life lessons he learned through times of testing and developing the mindset to focus on what is possible.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Home Stretch podcast where we interview world champions, Olympians, amazing
0:17.7	people, amazing athletes who have accomplished just amazing things, things that we want to
0:23.1	strive for and we want to learn the points on how to achieve success from their stories.
0:28.5	So today I have another special guest, John Register joining me today.
0:32.8	How you doing, John? How you doing? It's great, great to see you again. Just saw you in Vegas,
0:38.6	man. That was great. Yes, that was my first time at the influence, the convention,
0:43.6	the speaking speech convention, and it was a great experience. I got to connect with a lot of people
0:47.9	including yourself, so it was definitely worth the trip. And so you have a great story,
0:53.2	and I definitely want to dive into it for those who aren't familiar with John.
0:56.7	Just a little bit, he was an all-American track and field athlete at the University of Arkansas.
1:04.2	And a silver medalist, power Olympic silver medalist in the 2000 games in Sydney, man,
1:10.0	that had to be amazing. Yeah, it was, that's like a lot, right? Because you go from Olympic hopeful
1:21.1	to Paralympic medalist, American holder, and that's just like what's the story behind that,
1:26.4	right? So we got it. Yeah, I know, that's a story, that's a whole story in itself, but I want to
1:31.2	start from the beginning. Yeah. Because I always like to start with the sports, you know, asking about
1:36.0	the sport foundation, because I find that that's where, at least for me, starting a track at a young
1:40.4	age, that's where I gave my confidence and a steam, and that's when I started setting goals,
1:44.9	and seeing a reward, you know, I was able to travel from island to island because of track.
1:49.6	And so you started in sports at a very young age, you were a swimmer first?
1:53.4	Yeah, I swam, but I think before it's swimming, I was actually playing ice hockey.
1:59.1	Ice hockey? You know, I was playing hockey, man, it was a,
2:03.1	okay, at Risencomans pool, I mean, at Risencomans, there's a pool there, but there's ice,
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