Sean Swarner - Cancer and 1 Lung Couldn't Stop Me

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome back to the Aww Shift Podcast! Our guest is a speaker and author, performance coach, adventurer, and world record holder. He has a 98% completion rate for people to go, does a whole lot to serve, and finds ways to raise funds for cancer. Today he will talk about his mountain journey and how cancer could not stop him from being unique. Let us know more about Sean Swarner and his incredible story.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[7:22]</span> <strong>What record do you hold?</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I'm the only person in history to climb Everest, the highest mountain on every continent, ski to both north and south poles, and complete the World Championship Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii. I achieved it all despite having two terminal cancers, a prognosis of three months to live, being in a coma for a year of my life, and I only have one functioning lung. I climbed Everest and did all those things with one lung. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[7:52]</span> <strong>What was your catalyst to do all of these?</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I go through the two cancers at the ages of 13 and 16 years old. I developed a completely different perspective on life. I was worried about surviving. I wanted to use the world's highest platform to help the cancer community believe in themselves.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[10:05]</span> <strong>What was the progression of all these things?</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was not easy as the first big mountain that I climbed was not Everest. It was finding sponsors, living on my money, and sleeping in the back of my car.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[14:25]</span> <strong>What pushed you to do more?</stro