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The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show

The Willingness to Try: How to Redefine Limitations with Oksana Masters

The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show

Chase Jarvis

Celebrity, Art, Career, Creativity, Money, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education, Careers, Writing, Interview, Investment, Influencer, Business, Photography

4.8641 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Oksana Masters is a world-renowned Paralympic medalist, author, and motivational speaker. She has won a total of 17 Paralympic medals - seven of which are gold - as well as multiple world and national titles in a variety of sports. I recently had the honor of speaking with Oksana about her life, achievements and the inspiring message in her new book, 'The Hard Parts: From Chernobyl to Paralympic Champion—My Story of Achieving the Extraordinary'. 

Highlights from our conversation:

  • Oksana Masters' story and her journey to success
  • The amazing family and people who got Oksana to where she is today
  • Ignoring the naysayers and working hard to achieve her dreams
  • Using your past experiences as a tool to create an amazing life

Enjoy!

Transcript

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And everyone has the ability to try that thing. And the thing that really, like, that separates, that sometimes some people don't take that step is their mind, their mind.

0:11.0

They're feeding into those thoughts of the bad thoughts of like, well, this is going to work out.

0:15.4

And like, for me, it was, I mean, your mind is, it can be your best asset.

0:21.5

And sometimes it is my weakest downfall too as an athlete.

0:24.4

But it's how you're, there's a lot of power in words and how you approach something.

0:30.6

So in my mind, I've learned to learn this.

0:33.0

And I feel like if you just say, okay, you know, right now, I don't want to accept this door is closed.

0:41.6

It might be cracked open, but this one is wide open.

0:45.1

Maybe like my, so like my strengths coach said to you like, like think of the best case

0:50.3

scenario, think of the worst case scenario.

0:51.9

You're probably going to land somewhere halfway in the middle.

0:54.4

And that's kind of how I've tried to approach that too, because it's going to, and then you

0:58.2

can work from there.

0:58.9

But just not letting your mind and your thoughts and feeding into the negative side of the

1:04.4

what if.

1:05.2

And I also hate to live life by what if.

1:08.6

Because what if you never walk through that?

1:10.5

That snippet was from Oksana Masters, who's today's guest on the Chase Jarvis Live show.

1:16.4

Oksana was born in the Ukraine in 1989 and faced all kinds of physical challenges due

1:24.5

predominantly to in-eertile radiation poisoning from the Chernobyl accident.

1:29.8

After living in a number of orphanages, Oksana was adopted at the age of seven by an

1:35.7

American woman, a solo, single parent who helped transform Oksana's life.

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