The Only Thing Worse Than Being Blind Is Having Sight but No Vision Ft. Jim Stovall
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In spite of blindness, Jim Stovall has been a National Olympic weightlifting champion, a successful investment broker, the President of the Emmy Award-winning Narrative Television Network, and a highly sought-after author and platform speaker. Clay is interviewing him on overcoming adversity in route to success.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Get ready to enter the Drive Time Show. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back to another exciting edition of the Drive Time Show on your radio and podcast download. |
| 0:49.0 | And for those of you who are discovering our podcast for the first time, two things I want to make, two housekeeping notes I want to share with you. |
| 0:56.0 | One, as of July 2nd, 2018, we are number one in the world of all podcasts. |
| 1:04.0 | It doesn't mean we're going to stay there. |
| 1:06.0 | It doesn't mean that we couldn't move down or up. |
| 1:08.0 | But I want to say thank you to you Thrive Nation for listening to these conversations and for sharing these podcasts with your friends. |
| 1:16.0 | And we hope this show provides you the mentorship that you really can't get anywhere else. |
| 1:22.0 | And one of the things I pride myself on doing is trying to bring on guests onto the show that know the millionaire map. |
| 1:29.0 | People that don't just talk about success, but people who aren't just shardletons, but people that have actually done it, who live it, people who have gone through the struggle and the adversity that you've gone through. |
| 1:41.0 | On today's show, we have a multi-millionaire, a best-selling author, and a man who's written a book with Steve Forbes shared the stage with Tony Robbins, General Colin Powell, Zieg Ziegler, and more. |
| 1:54.0 | And this just in Thrive Nation. |
| 1:57.0 | He's done this all after having gone blind. |
| 2:02.0 | Think about that. After having gone blind. |
| 2:07.0 | Jim, Jim Stovall, welcome to the show, my friend. How are you doing? |
| 2:11.0 | I am good, Clay. It's great to be with you. Congratulations on being number one and keep it up. |
| 2:18.0 | Brother, I, again, I will try not to get emotional while interviewing you because just talking to you. |
| 2:24.0 | I remember hearing you speak years ago, watching you online, watching the videos of you speak. |
| 2:30.0 | The impact you've made on my life in terms of just not making excuses has been profound. |
| 2:37.0 | And so I would like for you to share if you can what you were thinking when you first learned that you were going blind. |
| 2:46.0 | I mean, how old were you and when did you first learn that you were going blind? |
| 2:50.0 | What were you thinking when you discovered that soon I'm not going to see again? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Clay Clark, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Clay Clark and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.