Aaron Golub, The First Legally Blind College Football Player on ”Deciding to Succeed”

<p>Our next guest became the first legally blind D1 athlete to play in a game when he played football at Tulane University. He was named team captain and went on to become an NFL free agent. Now he helps organizations and teams create leadership strategies that overcome adversity through speeches, workshops, and strategic partnerships. </p> <p>Watch this inspiring interview on YouTube here <a href='https://youtu.be/sPFQCn3VvJw'>https://youtu.be/sPFQCn3VvJw</a></p> <p></p> <p>On today’s Episode #283 we will cover</p> <p>✔  How Aaron Golub became the first legally blind D1 athlete to play in a game when he played football at Tulane University.</p> <p>✔  The key take-aways from Aaron's TEDx, on “Finding Diamonds with Your Disadvantages” that led him to uncovering his true potential.</p> <p>✔ When Aaron knew he needed to step up and do a bit more than the person next to him, to reach those higher levels of success.</p> <p>✔ The actions Aaron took with football, that have now transferred into his personal and business life.</p> <p>✔ How you can reach Aaron to speak or work with your organization.</p> <p>I am honored to have this chance to speak with someone who has learned many of the concepts we talk about on the podcast, like building a vision, and carving out a happy, fulfilled life, all without the use of his eye-sight.</p> <p>Welcome back to The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we cover the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning (for schools) and emotional intelligence training (in the workplace) with tools, ideas and strategies that we can all use for immediate results, with our brain in mind.  I’m Andrea Samadi, an author, and educator with a passion for learning specifically on the topics of health, wellbeing and productivity, and launched this podcast to share how important an understanding of our brain is to our everyday life and results using the most current brain research. If there’s a tool, strategy or resource that I find, that could be he