Feb. 7, 2025
Dwayne Morton's Playbook on Resilience and Renewal
Imagine facing a life-altering health misdiagnosis for nearly two decades—this is the reality that Dwayne Morton lived through. In our latest episode, Dwayne, the owner of "Show Up to Win," shares his remarkable story of resilience, transformation, and the power of self-advocacy. From his humble beginnings in Western Kentucky to his unexpected journey in international basketball, Dwayne's life took a dramatic turn when a rare blood cancer diagnosis was overturned, revealing sleep apnea as the true culprit. Hear how this pivotal moment, coupled with surviving a terrifying police shooting incident, became the catalyst for his motivational program aimed at empowering individuals to face adversity head-on.
Dwayne’s personal journey through health challenges underscores the necessity of self-care, gratitude, and adaptability. Delve into his philosophy as he recounts the lessons learned from a chance encounter with a young boy overseas, emphasizing the importance of recognizing one's blessings. Discover his daily routine that incorporates gratitude practices, self-care, and movement to maintain a positive mindset. By sharing these strategies, Dwayne inspires listeners to navigate life's unpredictable hurdles with grace and determination, keeping focus on the present and personal goals.
The episode also shines a spotlight on Dwayne's lifestyle brand, "Show Up to Win," which aims to reignite passion in athletes and individuals facing setbacks. With exciting ventures like a new website launch and a shift into speaking engagements, Dwayne continues to build authentic relationships while seeking new platforms to share his message. As we explore his admiration for mentors and the significance of protecting personal energy, listeners are encouraged to evaluate the power of community, consistency, and resilience in their own lives. Come join us for an episode filled with heartfelt stories, practical insights, and an uplifting perspective on overcoming life's challenges.
Brice Harney
Ogden Ventures LLC
CEO of Ogden Ventures LLC
SnappBandZ
Life On Record
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Love & Light - Keep Hope Alive
Chapters
00:03 - Survivor's Journey and Healing Story
13:28 - Health Misdiagnosis and Recovery Journey
19:39 - Daily Gratitude and Positive Mindset
32:10 - Empowerment Through Snap Bands
41:27 - Building a New Website and Ventures
47:26 - Embarking on New Ventures and Goals
Transcript
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Hello and welcome to Keep Hope Alive podcast.
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We have another great show for you and I have Mr Dwayne Morton, owner of Show Up to Win, with us, talking to us today.
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Welcome, I'm so glad to have you so really quick.
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Always before I get started on the podcast, d Wayne, I'm going to ask you this wonderful question, okay, so let's say we were out friends, of course, and it was our friend's wedding, and we were walking into the church, right, there was something to sign.
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What would that thing be that we were signing?
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was something to sign.
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What would that thing be that we were signing?
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Well, so if it was when I graph, I had all these people ask me but no, it's for.
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But seriously, just the uh, just the announcements to the wedding oh, okay, yeah, definitely so.
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A lot of people, um, what did they call it?
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The guest book?
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Oh look, oh, look at me, I got stuck.
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The guest book or the register, it's like usually a book, but Life on Record who's one of my sponsors here?
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They decided to do no book.
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They do a vintage rotary phone.
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So when you walk in, you pick up the phone and you can leave a one minute, five minute, 30 minute you know, don't do 30 minutes at a wedding and you can use this for any event but you pick it up and say, hey, congratulations, brett and Michelle, you guys make a beautiful couple.
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I know you're gonna be happily married for the next hundred years.
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We're so happy for you on your big day.
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So what it does is it collects those messages on the phone.
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Now, right next to that phone, they do have like a sign with a QR code.
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So if you didn't want to wait to use the phone, you scan it with your phone.
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You can leave a message either before or after that event happens, and then what they do is burn all these messages either on a 12-inch vinyl record or they have a keepsake speaker.
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I call it the little boom box that they put it on there and it's a great gift to have because you can listen to it anytime you want.
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So, whether it's a birthday party, reunion, wedding anniversary I mean, I used one when my son's football team a kid got hurt and everybody called in and left a message of get well, but you get to keep that.
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Now, the prices I don't want to give the price because 2025, I don't know if it went up or lower, but they're reasonable.
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So I can tell you last year it was a good around $90 for having that phone number.
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You got to return the phone for a year and you get to leave a message, especially if it was a wedding.
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You can always leave a message right before.
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You have to get that number back and say happy anniversary also, and then that gets burned.
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So it's a really cool concept.
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But to find out more details about them, you can always go to wwwlifeonrecordcom.
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All right.
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So, Dwayne, tell me something we would love to know.
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Who is Dwayne Morton?
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Yeah, so Dwayne Morton is a small town boy from Western, a rural town in Western Kentucky.
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I tell that to people all the time, like it's just, I still have those types of values, I still have that type of like morals.
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And so, um, you know, it really started when I was like four years old, you know, playing basketball, and then, you know, I ended up playing international basketball player.
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Uh, I did not play professionally.
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I went actually over there on a mission trip and then I signed with agent once I got back, um, but I didn't take the normal path to it.
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I didn't play my last two years of high school.
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So, like, opportunity was just there.
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It definitely did not have the.
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I did not, definitely, definitely did not take the normal path.
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And then later on, um, at 29,.
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Um, I was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer and that blood cancer they gave me five years initially and then it turned into about 15.
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And so there was a lot of challenges and things like that.
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And then, in May of 2022, I was involved in a police shooting as a bystander.
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I was driving by and a stray bullet hit the truck that I was driving, and so if the bullet would have been an eighth of an inch to the left, it would have killed me.
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If it had been an eighth of an inch to the right, it would have hit my three-year-old niece that was in the back seat and then.
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So now we get to the happy time.
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Last year, in March of this year, march of 2024, so almost a year I found out I was completely misdiagnosed with a blood cancer for 18 years and so severe sleep apnea, and so it could have been fixed in a couple of months.
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And so ever since, for 2024 is a huge healing journey, and that's how I came up with my program show up to win.
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And so and this is where I've got to come and I'm able to be a have a conversation with you but always, always, I want to thank the listeners Because, honestly, time is so valuable and when people give me their time, I want to give them as much value as possible and let them know how much I appreciate that.
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So thank you so much to your listeners.
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Whether they're watching or listening, in Monday, in the morning, the afternoon, evening or night, appreciate your energy, and so just just thank you so much.
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That's wonderful.
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So I do have questions for you too, of course.
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So how, where do I start?
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I mean, I'm going to.
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My brain says, oh my gosh, you almost got hit by a bullet.
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And that is scary because, you know, when we're driving with little ones, we do anything to protect.
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So I'm grateful that it missed.
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But I am just also wondering, because when we go through things that are like life-shaking, like that, it can be like you think about it like oh my gosh, this happened to me.
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I know I was driving down the road to go to San Antonio and there was like this margarita truck in front of me and it was pretty bigger than mine and he's for to the middle lane and I was right next to this barrier and I'm driving but I see this huge wall wood panel just rotating, rotating, coming midstream and it was just like right then.
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And there, what's your decision?
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Drive straight into it, go to the right?
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There's a car I would hit or go to the left and something bad probably would have happened.
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I drove right into it and my car took a beating.
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I'm happy it didn't go through the glass windshield.
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I can tell you that the car got banged up.
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I was off on the far right of the road in the middle of nowhere.
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I mean, I was next to a cow and I'm like trying to call the police.
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They're like where are you at?
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And I'm just like I don't even know my GPS.
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There's a cow, is there anything else around you?
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And I looked but there was like a restaurant.
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It looked like that was abandoned, like ghost town, and I drove to that with the police on the phone and I got out of the car and I'm looking down and under all this gravel was a sign of a restaurant it used to be.
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And they were like, okay, we, we know where you are.
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And I was like, oh, thank God, but just, that was so much and I can only imagine.
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I mean, what are some of the things?
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Does anything trigger that when the gunshot like location or yeah, so that's a great question.
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I actually went there over the weekend and shot a Facebook Live, and here's the thing is like afterwards I was dealing with survivor's guilt and PTSD, so there was an officer who was tragically killed.
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I was dealing with survivor's guilt and PTSD, so there was an officer who was tragically killed.
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I always got to bring that up because I'm also very mindful that other people were a part of this and a part of the story.
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So what happened was a criminal had a hidden gun in his waistband and shot a police officer.
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So the police missed the check for weapons, missed the check for weapons and unfortunately it cost an officer a life his day, it cost an officer his life that day.
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But also, um, he was a friend of a lot of my friends.
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I actually had seen him around on campus, but I, you know, I didn't know him that well, but you know he was one of my friends, best friends I mean.
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So there was these different levels of it.
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So I understand the story from the way the people in my hometown do, and so for me was they always thought like I was good because I was alive, because they had actually had to deal with someone who wasn't, and so.
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But I was dealing with PTSD and survivor's guilt and so, as I told you, I got diagnosed in 2006.
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They gave me 15 years 2021.
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I felt like I was already going to be dead.
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2022 is when this police shooting happens and I'm okay, so that's where it was like what's going on and so, um, I'm sorry, I'm just like having a moment, like, did you have to go to counseling or anything for that?
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Yeah, so I went through talk therapy for two years and I went to and I had actually went through talk therapy before twice and I did really wonderful.
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But the third time really did not help as much and it wasn't the counselor's problem, the thing, and staying in that victim mentality.
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The good thing.
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What really helped me was hypnosis.
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Some people aren't, you know, they're not qualified to understand what hypnosis does, and I'm not calling you all about it, but what I can tell you is is it took my trauma from like a to like, where it's neutral.
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I can go talk about it and then I go take a nap so it out.
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So much it gave me.
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You know, the hypnotist just guided me to the trans, and so it's really a cool thing if you've ever wanted to experience it.
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But it's something that you should do your own research on, and for me is these different healing modalities.
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But I also my being open-minded and being like, hey, there's got to be other ways.
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And then I talked to people who had been through traumatic events and they were like, hey, you should really try this.
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And it does work.
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I've talked to a couple of people on the show that are hypnotists and they can really put you down.
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Like, even with the sleep part I've always had trouble sleeping.
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They put me on Ambien the past five years and that should be a whole podcast in itself, but I got off of that this year and trying a different one that does not make me sleepwalk and do crazy things.
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So amen on that one.
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But yeah, just listening to the person I interviewed and trying to fall asleep and they put you in that trance and then it also, of course, does help with the healing and talking it out.
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So it sounds like you were on the right path to help you and be able to close your eyes.
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That's important because something I learned in life no matter what happens to us, tomorrow's a new day and a little bit goes away as soon as you open your eyes.
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It's an interesting feeling, but with the stuff that we've gone through, you can say that just a little bit, but it'll always be there and you'll always see it.
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That's the thing.
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It's just tragic, so yeah, so the beauty part of it was was after I was healthy, so I was ready to go.
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I mean, that was.
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The other thing is like I was like a little wind-up toy wind up a toy and just hold it.
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And you just hold it.
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Hold it and it's like it's ready to go and you can feel the power of it.
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That's the way I was, you know, for 18 years.
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I had all these ideas and opportunities and I was just like ready to like, hey, okay, um, let me, let me be healthy and you know that's a whole other story.
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It was when I, you know, found out.
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Yeah, I just want to explain like it was just like, okay, I'm healed to a point and now you know I can go on and go through.
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But also I knew I still had to heal even more, even past hypnosis.
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Yeah, exactly I agree with that statement.
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Exactly I agree with that statement Now you also mentioned.
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I'm just kind of going all over the place because you've been through so much and I want to hopefully ask the right questions so our listeners can understand and hear where this is going.
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And you know, through health journey you had a rare misdiagnosis and it seems like sometimes that happens to people and it's just like whoa and I know for me.
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I've been through a lot of health issues and they're still at this time trying to find out what they're going to do and it's just craziness.
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So I'm a sitting duck and I'm going to say this If you're on like a market plan or whatever and it's an HMO and they're taking their time to get you here and there, but when they say you need an emergency procedure we got to see what it is but they're playing I hate to say playing they're just playing with the insurance and this and that and we're not getting answers, then that rare thing can grow and we don't know what it is.
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As soon as you were finding out this, I mean, can you tell our listeners what you experienced before it became?
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I guess saying something needs to be really checked out.
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There's something wrong.
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I mean, what were you going through?
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How did it take those steps into finding out?
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Yeah, so it's a great question.
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So I had actually just ran two miles the day before.
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I'd actually played basketball two miles the day before.
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I'd actually played basketball the night before too.
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That's the other thing I was going and I couldn't get up three flights of stairs.
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I got about halfway up and I was like I'm gassed, what is going on?
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I didn't play that hard, I was doing all these other things, and that was the thing I was like I knew something was wrong.
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I waited at the staircase for I don't know.
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It felt like 20 minutes, and I was.
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I was very fortunate because I got to work early, and so I finally ended up going up the three flights of stairs.
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I got to call a doctor, like something, something isn't right, cause I also know my body, and then I was like something isn't right and so, um, we probably about a week, week and a half, and the first one was like oh yeah, you're okay.
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And then the next one was like man, you're really dehydrated.
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Why are you dehydrated?
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A gallon of water a day, there's no way I'm dehydrated, and so I'm going to send you to a.
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At first it was just a blood doctor, and then, when I arrived, it was an oncologist, and so I was originally diagnosed with a blood disease and I was told that the blood disease turns into blood cancer.
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My symptoms were very aggressive and there wasn't very many people that.
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So that's the other thing.
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It's actually very more.
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It's much more common right now.
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Um, because they're diagnosing more people, and I don't know why that's the case, but I was told there was like 200,000 cases globally.
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Oh, wow, right, so it was very rare.
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It also was something that people didn't really know.
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In international medicine they do different symptoms.
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So all I had lucky for me, I didn't have to take any pharmaceuticals, I didn't have to do chemo, which is amazing because it would have killed me.
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It would have killed me, and now that we know that I was misdiagnosed and so all I had to do was phlebotomies or bloodletting.
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So I mean, I, truly I and you know I've been through some miracles, or you know, in my life, and here's the thing whether it's big or small, god, there's still miracles of God.
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Most important thing is to come out.
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It was like I've always, I feel divinely protected, and the reason I feel divinely protected is because there's all these things where I should have already not been here, and so that's why I advocate for my purpose so strongly.
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Yeah, I hear you on that, so I can see that in you and I feel like God is saying to you you're not over yet.
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You have so much to share with the world and your experience.
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So that makes us like warriors and we just stomp through the health challenges and any other challenges that get thrown our way.
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So that's really important.
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So, yeah, definitely, I'm glad and it's slowed down right.
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Is it like in a remission spot right now?
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Yeah, so, no, no, no.
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So misdiagnosis means they got it wrong, Like they completely got it wrong.
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So like I just have severe sleep apnea and I just found that out, like in last year?
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Yeah, no.
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So like all I have to do is wear a mask?
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Yeah, no, but I did have it where, um, in the sleep center thing, I was asleep for a minute and I was awake for an hour, like so that doesn't work.
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So my body didn't go to REM in basically 20 years, and so that's that was.
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The problem was my body never had a chance to repair itself.
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It never got rest.
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Oh man, that stinks when my body doesn't do that well, I grew up with epilepsy, so I go right into a seizure if I don't have eight or even six hours.
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So if people hear me say the dogs woke me up, it's like, yeah, that was a huge problem for me because I have to pay attention to my day now and make sure I take a little afternoon nap.
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But oh, my goodness, OK, now I want to know a little bit more on you own and started up.
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Show up to win, and that seems like a very fun venture.
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So tell us a little bit about that.
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So Show Up to Win is something.
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So I've been doing this for 20 years, like at least 20.
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And then I offed it for 20 years and so I built this program when I needed it, when I was sick.
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That was would relight my athletic fire to be like, hey, let's fight.
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So the first five years was like I was inspired.
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I was like, hey, I'm gonna reverse this.
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But after five years I was like this isn't done.
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Different programs, like I was vegetarian, I stopped drinking soda, I all these different changes that were supposed to make me healthy, but I wasn't getting the results.
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And so what Show Up to Win is?
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It's about overcoming adversity in unlikely and untimely circumstances.
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For me, I'm an expert.
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I've done it twice, but also I know what it means, and actually I can share something with the listeners.
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It's called Dwayne's daily plan of attack.
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I believe I was able to overcome.
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So one story that I've got to tell is when I was overseas, I met this little boy who he was five years old at the time he had not eaten in three days.
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He ate rocks, so his belly didn't hurt.
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So for me it was one of those life experiences that had such a tremendous impact.
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It actually gave me my foundation of gratitude, or my core of gratitude, whichever way you want to look at it, and so whenever I go through these challenges, I always thought other people have it worse.
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Our nightmares are other people's dreams, and so through that, I was able to push through these challenges, but what it did was it gave me my value of gratitude.
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Wake up and think about, you know, the whole entire part of being diagnosed like hey, I want to die.
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I was like, hey, I've got to come up with something to keep me charged up, at least in the morning.
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So the very first thing I do every day is I thank God.
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My very first step is gratitude, ok, and so, however, whoever is listening spiritual, religious, not you find something that you're gratitude that you're grateful for.
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So number two is self-care.
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So every day, it's like I was telling you before you know, right now I'm having a stretch because of my legs, and so I had two bad knee surgeries.
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Like I've had, not too bad.
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I've had two bad knees and I've had knee surgery on both.
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So I've always take time in my bed just to make sure my body is prepared for the day.
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So I stretch and so, however, that is for you, whether it's reading a book, reading a passage, whatever self-care.
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So the number two step I do is self-care.
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Number three step is movement, and movement is just moving.
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Just a Number three step is movement, and movement is just moving just a little bit of the day, if it's just to go use the bathroom or get a glass of OJ, just move.
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These small, consistent steps will make these big, huge impact later on.
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So for me, I tell people all the time I have a runner's mentality approach.
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I am looking forward.
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As soon as I get out of bed I'm putting my left foot down and my right foot and, like I said, I have bad knees.
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I just want to make sure that they're good.
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But think about it, I go throughout the rest of the day, left foot, right foot, just like I'm running, okay.
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Also, I can't look at the past.
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If I can't like so I can, I can glance at it, but I can't just focus on the past.
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You can't get anywhere.
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So it's slow.
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No one wants to go slow through life, but and so if you're, if you're focused on the past, you're also going to be depressed.
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Okay.
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Also, the other part of it is is, if I'm focused on the future, i'm'm going to be anxious, but also I'm going to go off misdirection.
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And so that's the thing is is you can't just sit there and focus on your destination.
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You can know it's there, but you really have to stay in the presence, like the present is the gift.
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And so I tell people all the time, like when I run, I'm not looking far, I'm looking you know very close proximity of me.
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And so then we have the number four step, and so it's adaptability.
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So the number four step is adaptability.
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And so adaptability is is like life is going to bring you challenges, like it always brings you challenges, and also life is going to like punch you in the face, kick you in the stomach, and in my case I felt like I got stomped out too by like a whole bunch of people.
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And so the reason that you want to be adaptable is like all these hits are going to happen.
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We just want to swerve and miss the pothole.
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So maybe not take a direct hit, maybe take a smaller hit, and then, who knows, we might be able to swerve enough and miss the whole pothole.
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