Time to Eliminate Your Excuses - interview with Ironman Chris Nikic
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🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
To win one must overcome obstacles both personally and professionally with grit and determination. In this episode, Chad and Bob talk with Ironman Chris Nikic. Chris talks about what it took to become the first down syndrome athlete to complete an Ironman Race. Chris brings his guide Dan Grieb to the conversation to reveal how they trained and grew both as people and athletes. Hear the challenges, share in the inspiration and learn what it takes to overcome anything and become 1% better each day.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Wind Make Give Podcast. This is Chad Himes, joined by my friend Bob Stewart. |
| 0:14.1 | Bob, say hello. |
| 0:15.6 | Chad, how are you doing, buddy? |
| 0:17.2 | Bob, I am so excited about what we have coming today. I know you are as well. |
| 0:23.3 | Chad, I'm a, at one point in my life, I would have called myself an athlete, |
| 0:28.6 | right? And we have just one of the most phenomenal athletes with us today. |
| 0:34.9 | And since this season is about winning, I'm really excited to talk to this gentleman. |
| 0:40.0 | Oh, yeah. And I do consider myself still an athlete with the Spartan races, |
| 0:44.0 | the marathons and stuff that I'll run. Yet I couldn't keep up with this guy. |
| 0:48.3 | And this is amazing, Bob. I mean, we're talking about the goat in all of the Superbowl |
| 0:53.0 | conversations that have recently been happening. Forget it. This guy needs to make the list. |
| 0:58.0 | So folks, I can't wait to bring him on the call and get this started for you today. We have the |
| 1:04.3 | pleasure of being joined by Ironman Chris Nickich. Now, you might not know the name because you |
| 1:16.2 | don't follow Ironman as a sport, but I'm going to tell you after this episode, you will. |
| 1:21.5 | Not only know the name, start following Ironman because you're going to want to follow what |
| 1:25.6 | this guy is doing. I'm going to just lay a little bit out here so you understand and folks |
| 1:31.2 | who are audiences ready for this conversation. We have with us, not only Chris, we have Chris's |
| 1:37.8 | guide Dan Grebe. Now, Dan, say hi for me. Hey guys. All right. So now Dan, I'm going to ask you |
| 1:44.5 | before we even bring Chris on. Chris is not the traditional Ironman that's out there. |
| 1:51.5 | So many people picture that person who trains 700 hours a day has a 2% body fat on them because |
| 1:58.8 | of all the running, swimming, biking that they're doing for anyone who doesn't know what an Ironman |
| 2:02.2 | is for some strange reason. But Dan, Chris is something special. Tell us a little bit about Chris |
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