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Transcript

Hey folks. Welcome back to the Unbeatable Mind podcast. My name is mark divine and I am super stoked that you’re here, joining me today. Thanks very much for your time. I don’t take it for granted. We won’t waste it.

In fact, we’re on a tight timeline. We’re here at the Spartan world championships at Lake Tahoe and podcasting up a storm. I mean, it’s been non-stop and it’s been a lot of fun. I have met some incredible people – including Chris Waddell, who we’re gonna be talking to today.

Man, Chris… I can already tell, and this is something I have some experience with… It’s just this massively open heart. He’s got a heart of gold.

Chris is paralyzed from the waist down, from a skiing accident in college. So he has been living with this for a very long time. He’s a world-class athlete – the accolades and things… I won’t go through them. You can read them on the show notes.

Just extraordinary what he’s accomplished and how he’s overcome this obstacle, but also to be an example for everyone, not just people who have had similar obstacles.

And Chris has got a great sense of humor. He’s just an all-around good guy. And I’m really honored to be able to meet you. So thanks for your time, and thanks for being here.

Chris. Happy to be here. Thank you. Likewise.

Mark. So I went to Colgate university right up in that same neck of the woods as Middlebury. Kind of the same genre. Like lower Ivy League school.

Chris. Sure.

Mark. And I’m also a skier. I raced when I was a kid and I wasn’t… Our high school didn’t have a race team. I was in a little public high school – there’s no funding for that.

But then I got into swimming and I ended up swimming at Colgate. You know, we had a ski team at Colgate. Not as quite as big as Middlebury.

Chris. Sure.

Mark. So anyways, I just thought it’d be kind of cool, because we have some similarities there, but that’s about where it ends probably. Our lives went in different directions, right? Chris. Yeah, the swimming part I try to avoid.

Mark. (laughing) I can imagine. Yeah, swimming is interesting. It helps to have your legs working when you swim.

Chris. It does, it does. That was what kind of my thought. My thought on swimming was I swam from where I landed off the diving board back to the ladder…

Mark. To get back up on the deck…

Chris. I swam a little bit as a kid. As a little kid…10, 12 something like that.

Mark. Did you grow up in Vermont?

Chris. I grew up Massachusetts, actually. Western mass. An hour and a half west of Boston. In town called Granby, Mass. A tiny little town.

Mark. Yeah, those are beautiful little towns in Massachusetts, and that whole northeastern New England area.

Chris. It really is, it really is. You know, the classic just green common in the center of town. All the houses are just like white…

Mark. Look like they came right out of like 1790. In fact, the house I lived in upstate New York was built in 1798.

Chris. Wow.

Mark. It was this massive limestone structure built for Colonel Adam Mapa who was basically a mercenary, from the Dutch, from Holland. Who came over to help the revolutionaries beat the redcoats…

Chris. And so was it solid enough that you had actually like flat floors?

Mark. Well the floors were amazing. It was all these intricate little wood pieces laid in, with all these designs. Throughout the whole house. I mean, it took him years to build this house.

And it was pretty solid. I mean, it was a hard house to maintain. My parents – who are now in their eighties – they still live there.

Chris. Oh wow.

Mark. And this is a house that has 12… No 8 fireplaces, 12-foot high ceilings…

Chris. Because that’s how you had to heat back then.

Mark. That’s right. Now it’s got central heating, but it costs a fortune to heat. Just this massive stone structure on 10 acres of land. It was really cool.

My point is, those towns are really historical in significance. And they can really can’t… This house is on the national historic register. They really can’t sell it. They’ve tried.

Who’s gonna buy this monstrosity that costs more to maintain than practically it’s worth. Chris. Right. Someone has to fall in love with it.

Mark. Someone has to fall in love and turn it into a B&B, or something like that.

So Middlebury, you went and you were a skier in high school. So tell us a little bit about your high school.

Chris. Skied in high school… I skied USSA as well, so I skied with the school, but then I skied independently as well. And then going to college – Middlebury division one skiing – and I had not gone to like a ski academy, I went to Deerfield academy. So a traditional prep school. And we skied probably an hour… Hour and a half a day kind of thing. Every