You Are Worth It with Kyle Carpenter
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this very special episode of The John Maxwell Leadership Podcast, we're joined by two of John's good friends: Kyle Carpenter, the youngest living recipient of the Medal of Honor, and Don Yaeger, journalist and New York Times best-selling author.
Kyle and Don have recently written the book You Are Worth It: Building a Life Worth Fighting For, which was released in October and tells the incredible story of Kyle's recovery from a grenade blast in Afghanistan. Kyle shares his story with us, along with his wisdom on what it takes to live a fulfilling life, while John Maxwell shares how Kyle's story has impacted him so deeply.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is a collection of notes from this conversation. You can download the notes by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/WorthIt and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
References:
You Are Worth It: Building a Life Worth Fighting For by Kyle Carpenter and Don Yaeger
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. Today you are in for a treat. I am really |
| 0:14.6 | excited about this episode and you will be too as you hear the story of our guest. We have some |
| 0:22.3 | special guest joining us on the phone and what you're going to learn from their conversation will |
| 0:26.8 | truly impact you personally and it will improve your leadership. First up as always we have John |
| 0:34.8 | Maxwell, the man, the leader himself. John, we're just coming off a crazy busy season. We could talk |
| 0:41.6 | about for days. In fact, we do on our candid conversation for those of you that have not joined in to |
| 0:47.0 | those candid conversations that we have on this podcast. We could talk for days, John, about some of |
| 0:52.3 | the amazing things we've experienced but I'm glad you kind of slowed down today and introduced us |
| 0:58.1 | to some of your guests. John, thanks for being with us today. Oh, it's my delight and I'm very, |
| 1:03.9 | very excited about having Don and Kyle with us. These are two beautiful friends of mine. |
| 1:10.1 | And Kyle's story, I promise you this is going to be riveting. You're going to come out of this |
| 1:16.5 | podcast and I promise you it's going to make you a better person. So I'm very excited about our |
| 1:22.7 | time together and let's just serve our listeners and add value to them what you say. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, for sure. So Kyle Carpenter is joining us today to talk about his new book. Here's the name |
| 1:33.6 | of the book you want to grab a pen grab a piece of paper because you will want to pick this up. |
| 1:38.0 | The book is titled You Are Worth It, Building a Life Worth Fighting For. This just released in October |
| 1:45.0 | a couple of months ago and it is doing quite well. It tells the incredible story of Kyle's recovery |
| 1:52.0 | from a grenade blast in Afghanistan. It's one of the best stories I promise that you will ever hear. |
| 1:58.8 | A heroic, exciting, sacrificial and yes, even inspiring. Kyle is the youngest living recipient |
| 2:06.9 | of the Medal of Honor. He's a Marine, a Marathoner and now a Speaker and Author. Kyle, |
| 2:13.4 | welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. Thank you so much, gentlemen. I never thought I would |
| 2:20.1 | hear the man to miss the legend. John Maxwell and his family talking about me as such, |
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