Brad Smeele

Brad Smeele

Brad Smeele was a world champion wakeboarder at the top of his game. His life was an endless summer of travel, competing, modeling, building, and meeting women when a catastrophic accident changed his life and left him a quadriplegic in 2014. 

Brad talks about the mental and physical challenges of losing mobility, the realities of life without the use of limbs, the darkest thoughts he had – and how he overcame them, and his incredible path to happiness, fulfillment and being present.  

Brad’s talk and outlook on life is a perspective shifter. He suffered just about the worst possible thing that could happen to a young man in the prime of his life – and has found a way to turn it into a positive. It will put your own struggles into perspective and leave you feeling incredibly inspired.  

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How to Find Happiness After Tragedy

Episode 95

Brad talks about the astonishingly raw and honest book about his journey – Owning It – The Ride That Changed My Life. The mental and physical challenges of losing mobility, the realities of life without the use of limbs, his sex-life, what it looks like now and why he included so much of it in the book, the darkest thoughts he had – and how he overcame them, and his incredible path to happiness, fulfilment and being present. And how he got there.

This is a chat that really left us speechless. Brad suffered just about the worst possible thing that could happen to a young man in the prime of his life – and has found a way to turn it into a positive. It certainly put our own struggles into perspective and we both left the episode feeling incredibly inspired.