Picture yourself as a young man...
21 years old, a bit of an adrenaline junkie, love to push your limits, have fun, enjoy yourself, and your whole life is ahead of you.
Then one day on vacation at the beach, you're body surfing...and you end up breaking your neck.
Your Entire World Is Turned Upside Down.
What do you do?
If you're Rob Oliver, you go inside yourself and ask the hard questions...the deep questions...and then...you channel all that energy you have for your life into this new chapter of your life.
Rob's pretty impressive. He's published 3 books, is a public speaker, an advocate for the disabled community, father of triplets, and happily married for the past 25 years...to the woman who was his girlfriend at the time of his accident!!
In This Episode:
- 3:23 - One of the biggest adjustment points of my life
- 4:32 - A gift wrapped in an injury
- 5:29 - "I don't need anything else”
- 6:51 - Purple swim trunks, aqua pocket, a pink patch, and a neon yellow waistband
- 7:44 - "We need to talk"
- 8:32 - The Foundational Moment in his recovery
- 09:48 - The thing that makes the difference in life
- 11:26 - People with disabilities are first and foremost, people.
- 12:02 - "I feel liberated by my wheelchair."
- 13:23 - Kids says the most amazing things.
- 15:10 - It's all in how you frame it.
- 16:10 - The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and The "Light Bulb Moment"
- 17:46 - My motivational speaking is not run on shame
- 18:58 - I'm not Matt Foley "living in a van down by the river"
- 19:15 - A fetish for domain names…?
- 21:22 - Why not start my own publishing company?
- 21:34 - “Rob? Why on earth did you choose Roman numeral 9?”
- 23:12 - Why Rob thinks you should write a book
- 24:44 - $250,000 worth of domain names
- 25:32 - Necessity is the mother of invention
- 26:44 - No matter what your business…THIS is your REAL business
- 27:40 - Doubled the sales in 10 months – doubled it again in half the time.
- 29:55 - The Amazon “Best Seller” con game
- 35:30 - Rob’s promise to his dying friend
LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Rob's website - Your Motivational Speaker
Rob on "Virginia This Morning"
Chris Farley's EPIC skit on SNL - Matt Foley the Motivational Speaker
The Amazon "Best Seller" con job, story
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YOUR FREE GIFT!!
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The Art of Being Dar - with Dar Dixon
The Art of Being Dar - Hosted by Dar Dixon
Dar is a half Iranian/half American white boy...born in Tehran.
Yes, Iran.
He's moved over 80 times.
He escaped the Iranian Revolution with, literally, the clothes on his back.
He even found himself in a cult...
And through every crazy thing that's happened, against insane odds, he's been succeeding in life & in Hollywood, for almost 30 years.
People with boring lives have boring stories.
Nothing boring here.
This...is The Art of Being Dar - with Dar Dixon