“When you are knocked off your ‘paddleboards’ in life, you can get back on and keep going. We are all capable of doing exceptional things.”

In this episode, I sat down with Mike Shoreman, who is is known by many as the Unbalanced Paddleboarder, but is also a published author, motivational speaker, mental health advocate, and much more. Mike is also the leader of the global Paddles Up Movement celebrating people’s confidence and power. Join us as we discuss mental health, overcoming obstacles, the power of positivity, and more.

Connect with Mike @ http://mikeshoreman.org/

In this episode, I sat down with Ethan Zohn, who is is known by many for winning survivor Africa, but is also someone who, among a wide variety of endeavors, played professional soccer, is a global humanitarian, cancer survivor and advocate, television host, and co-founder of Grassroot Soccer. Join us for an incredibly varied conversation that is full of important lessons and takeaways for us as we navigate our daily lives.

Key Takeaways

We are all going to have successes and failures in life and some of these failures you can’t control, but you can control how you react to them. “Don’t worry about failing, worry about all of the things you could miss if you don’t even try.”

There is power in creating goals that you know are attainable because the feeling of accomplishing something is motivational and positive to our mental health.

Build a network of people who you trust and that who you can talk to truthfully and openly. A lot of the times, the thoughts and feelings that someone going through a challenge are having are the same ones that the people supporting them are having, but if you don’t talk about it, you may never know.

Norway has adopted a youth-focused sports development system. The majority of youth play sports, costs are low, teams are organized differently in the younger years of development, parental involvement is uniquely structured, and new ideas are introduced regularly. Our youth sports systems here in the United States need to ask real questions about how we are organized and how we can increase access for our youth. What can we learn from what Norway is doing?