When Your Career and Your Body Are Taken From You Overnight | Ryan Curtis, MMA Fighter

Ryan Curtis was building a career as a professional MMA fighter. Then a catastrophic spinal injury took it — and nearly everything else — away in an instant.This episode isn't about sports. It's about what happens to your identity when the thing you've built your entire life around disappears without warning. Ryan talks about the mental war behind the physical recovery, the visualization and discipline that kept him moving when movement itself was uncertain, and why he now feels called to show up for others fighting battles nobody can see.Every executive who's ever had the rug pulled out will recognize something in this conversation.