EP 78 - Steve Simonson - It's Only A Mountain Book Review

Steve Simonson - It’s Only a Mountain Book Review This is an inspirational story about a father and his commitment, drive and love for his nonvocal quadriplegic son. On this episode, Steve introduces us to the Book of the Week, It’s Only a Mountain by Sam Nall. The most important key points you will get from this book are: How to shift to the right mindset when going through great obstacles. The importance of having the courage to do whatever it takes in life. The challenges in taking care of a handicapped loved one and how you can find inspiration and great purpose in it. So, take time to listen as Steve reviews the book It’s Only a Mountain, a wonderful story about the love between a father and his son and what they have accomplished together. 01:45 (Steve introduces It’s Only a Mountain as the Book of the Week.) 03:22 (Steve shares one of the previews of the story.) 04:47 (Steve talks about Dick and Rick Hoyt’s origin story.) Welcome to the Awesomers.com podcast. If you love to learn and if you're motivated to expand your mind and heck if you desire to break through those traditional paradigms and find your own version of success, you are in the right place. Awesomers around the world are on a journey to improve their lives and the lives of those around them. We believe in paying it forward and we fundamentally try to live up to the great Zig Ziglar quote where he said, "You can have everything in your life you want if you help enough other people get what they want." It doesn't matter where you came from. It only matters where you're going. My name is Steve Simonson and I hope you will join me on this Awesomer journey. SPONSOR ADVERTISEMENT If you're launching a new product manufactured in China, you will need professional high-resolution Amazon ready photographs. Because Symo Global has a team of professionals in China, you will oftentimes receive your listing photographs before your product even leaves the country. This streamlined process will save you the time, money and energy needed to concentrate on marketing and other creative content strategies before your item is in stock and ready for sale. Visit SymoGlobal.com to learn more. Because a picture should be worth one thousand keywords. You're listening to the Awesomers podcast. Hey everybody, it's me Steve Simonson. I'm back again with another Awesomers podcast episode and this Episode Number is number 78 of the Awesomers podcast series. And the procedure if you wish to find more details, show notes, etc. is to just go to Awesomers.com/78. Now today we're doing a Book of the Week episode and I wanted to share that the Book of the Weeks are important and even though we don't do them every single week we drop them on as often as we can. 01:45 (Steve introduces It’s Only a Mountain as the Book of the Week.) We're doing today's episode about the book It's Only a Mountain, It's Only a Mountain and it's written by Sam Nall, but the book is about what we call Team Hoyt and it's Dick and Rick Hoyt who are some of the most incredible – like the subtitle says Men of Iron, some of the most incredible inspirational stories you've ever seen. Now this is a true story. This is like a you know kind of various biographies and sub biographies throughout the book and it's a true story of a dad who literally took his quadriplegic son who was also nonverbal and took him around and ran triathlons and ran marathons and this if you have never heard the story it really is truly inspiring and it's an amazing thing. And I love the title because it starts out with this concept that indeed it's only a mountain right and that points to the idea that you can climb any obstacle, you can overcome any challenge that's necessary and in this case you know Dick Hoyt said he wanted to help his son be a really high functioning you know kind of member of society and an athlete. And I just want to tell you for those who may be listening or watching on the video version, I had the great