The way to find Success and turn it into significance in life is not easy. But once we answer ‘Why’, figuring out the how becomes clear and simple. Everything else falls into place.
Join Jen and her special guest Dan Clark, founder and CEO of a multi-million dollar international communications company. Listen along as Dan shares why finding your ‘Why’ is so important for your journey to success!
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Making Your ‘Why’ Bigger Than Your ‘Why Not’ with Dan Clark
Hi everyone. And welcome back to Success to Significance, Life After Breaking Through Glass Ceilings.. I’m your host, Jen Du Plessis. I’m so happy to have you all here today. And I wanna just say if this is your first time, thank you. Thank you for joining our community. We hope that you enjoy this episode and I promise you will because our guest is absolutely fantastic.
And if you’ve been listening for a while, thank you for that as well. You’re going to enjoy this this time that we spend together today, whether you’re biking or hiking or driving, whatever it is you’re you’re doing. So thank you again for joining us today. So let me introduce you to our wonderful guest.
Dan Clark is, first of all, I wanna say he is a colleague and a friend, right? We’ll start it off by that way. Uh, but Dan is the wait, hold your horses, everybody, the founder and CEO of a multimillion dollar international communications company. University professor high performance business coach podcast, host of ‘Power Players’ with Dan Clark.
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You have a book called ‘The Art of Significance, Achieving the Level Beyond Success’. And it’s, so it’s such divine intervention that we’re speaking on, on a multitudes of, of layers. You know, one being that, uh, you’ve worked with the Olympic committee, I’m from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
I love it.
And so the Olympics, you know, Olympic committee is there, the air force academy is there.
Right. All of these wonderful things are, are there in Colorado. And, um, you know, it’s just, it’s just great to have you on the show. So let’s start off with, um, I, I wanna go back to what happened to you as a, um, an athlete. I don’t even know if you played football, if you played basketball, I don’t even know what you did, but what was your paralyzing injury?
And I wanna kind of explore how you got past that. So tell us a little bit about that to get started.
That’s a great question. And thanks for having me
Of course.
So, uh, I played football, American football for year international listeners and beers. I played American football for 13 years. Total one day in practice, the dream ended, we had a tackling drill coach blew the whistle.
Two of us ran into each other full speed. The only parts of our bodies that made contact Lyle’s helmet crashed into my helmet in a violent head on collision. My right shoulder was smashed into the cutting edge of my fiberglass pads and we slammed to the ground. And when Lyle got off of me, my eye drooped, I had lost of speech.
I couldn’t talk anymore. Wow. My right side was paralyzed to my arm, dangles on my side. Um, we could talk about the humorous part. You know, coach comes from over Clark.
Well, cause you love the fun part of it.
Yeah. exactly. You have to find the humor. He runs over Clark. Clarky all right. What happened? Rock show roller.
He says, well, were you from Washington, DC? I’m just kidding you. He said you better just lay there. I said, woo. Fast forward. My eye went back to normal. My speech came back. I could talk again, but my right side stayed paralyzed on my arm. Days up my side, I stayed paralyzed for 14 months.
Oh my God.
I went to 16 at the very best doctors in all of north America, 15 of whom told me I would never get any better.
And I love to ask anyone who’s interested. If you ever heard that or what happens if you believe it? We never get any better. Yeah. And my life hit a fast moving downward spiral until I hit what I thought was rock bottom. And I hope we can come back and visit that. I thought, yeah. Um, Now that I’ve recovered, the two most frequently asked questions or maybe the three most frequently asked questions are Clark.
Why did you go to so many different doctors? And the answer is very, very critical to our conversation. Jen, I kept going from doctor to doctor until I found one who believed I would get better. Yeah. The second most frequently asked question was Clark, did you get depressed? Most people who have something go wrong in their life or a relationship go south, or a business dealing unravel.
We, we flippantly use that word. Undepressed mm-hmm . We have friends, we have family members. We have associates who have been clinically, um, prescribed clinically assessed as being depressed. They have a, a chemical imbalance. And they need medication and they need non-judgmental friendship and unconditional love from us.
But most people who have something go south in their lives, they just flippantly use that, that phrase undepressed when, in reality they’re not. And so what happened to me is in that, in that downward spiral where I had suicidal thoughts, I lost my identity. Yeah. What allowed me to get back up and start my recovery start.
My steps to resiliency was first realizing there’s a giant difference between being depressed and being disappointed.
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Learn more about Dan Clark
BIO:
DAN CLARK is founder and CEO of a multi-million dollar international communications company; University Professor; High Performance Business Coach; Podcast Host; Gold Record Songwriter; Film Maker; New York Times Best Selling Author of 37 books; a Primary Contributing Author to the Chicken
Soup For The Soul series; and an Award Winning Athlete who fought his way back from a paralyzing injury that cut short his football career.
Dan has been inducted into the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame; was Named on e of the Top Ten Motivational Speakers In The World ; and has spoken to more than 6000 audiences, to over 6 million people, in 73 countries, to most of the
Fortune 500, Super Bowl Champions, the United Nations,
and to our military combat troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Dan has appeared on over 500 television and radio shows including Oprah and Glenn Beck; and has been featured in Success Magazine, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc, Sports Illustrated, Millionaire and the Mayo Clinic Journal.
Clark’s inspiring life includes soaring to the edge of space in a U2 Spy Plane; flying fighter jets with the Air Force Thunderbirds; racing automobiles at Nur-burg-ring;
serving on the Olympic Committee and carrying the Olympic Torch in the Winter Games; receiving the United States Distinguished Service Medal-America’s Highest Civilian Award presented by the Secretary of the Air Force; and most
importantly – being named Utah Father of the year.
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