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We Are Unstoppable
by BurstMarketing
WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE, sponsored by the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, shares inspirational stories from great athletes, celebrities, and the most brilliant minds in medicine on how to beat adversity to win in life. Hosted by sportscasters-turned-podcasters Les Shapiro and Vic Lombardi, each episode brings you one step closer to becoming your best unstoppable self.
Episodes
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Evan Battey
Colorado Buffaloes starting center, Evan Battey, has been making a difference on the court and turning heads, even being noticed by the legendary Charles Barkley. You wouldn’t imagine that just a few years ago at the age of 19, this highly athletic and healthy young man was suddenly...
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Joanne McCallie
One of the most accomplished basketball coaches in the last three decades had a secret. Joanne McCallie, the head women’s coach for the University of Maine, Michigan State and then Duke, was suffering from bipolar disorder. In her 28 seasons as a head coach she amassed a phenomenal winning record...
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The Future of Sports with Bud Black, Kyle Shanahan and Dr. Dawn Comstock
What does the future of sports look like in a post-pandemic world? Bud Black, Manager of the Colorado Rockies and Kyle Shanahan, San Francisco 49ers Head Coach, reflect on the tough year in sports, the lessons learned amidst the virus and how sports may be forever changed. We also spoke with Dawn...
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Jason Benetti
What is it like to live the life of your dreams by beating a disability you cannot change? Jason Benetti, play-by-play announcer for the Chicago White Sox and ESPN broadcaster did better than that. Jason was born 10 weeks prematurely. During his three months in the hospital as a newborn, he...
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Ed Werder
How do you tell your son-in-law that he won’t survive colon cancer? How do you help your daughter survive a cancerous brain tumor and your wife survive breast cancer? Ed Werder, who for 40 years as an NFL reporter for ESPN, CNN, Sports Illustrated and major daily newspapers, has gotten the…
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John Tesh
John Tesh, American pianist, pop music composer, TV personality and radio host, may have a few limitations but Tesh knows no limits.The host of the Intelligence for Your Life radio show (and podcast) credits his wife Connie Sellecca and his father’s indifference with the strength he found to push...
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Jordan Wiseley
Reality star and influencer, Jordan Wiseley, talks about what it’s like to succeed in sports and in life with four missing fingers, an uncommon congenital disease known as symbrachydactyly with an unknown cause. “The human body is the most sophisticated machine on the planet,” Wiseley says with...
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Monte Morris
What's it like to grow up in the number one murder capital in the country? Monte Morris, now in his fourth year as a Denver Nuggets’ point guard, tells us what it was like in Flint, Michigan, sleeping on a couch as a boy, hearing gun shots and turning to basketball to stay away from trouble while...
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Brian Griese
Brian Griese, former quarterback and current color commentator for Monday Night Football on ESPN, lost his mother when he was twelve. He lives with her loss every single day. Where is heaven? And what if a child wants to join his lost parent there? Grief is a complex emotion. When we don’t have…
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Peter Schaffer
Sports super-agent Peter Schaffer heard the words no parent ever wants to hear – your child has cancer. And then he heard it again. Negotiating more than $1 billion in contracts for NFL Hall-of-Famers, athletes and coaches is worthless when your teen-aged children have been diagnosed with…
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Emily Daniels
Emily Daniels arrived at the E.R. short of breath while pregnant with her second child to discover she had Stage IV lung cancer. She had never smoked a day in her life. Emily’s diagnosis belongs to more than 50% of lung cancer cases without a definitive explainable cause. Did you know that lung...
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Brad Williams
Call him a dwarf, a little person or one of the funniest, most in-demand comedians working today, but never call him a midget. That’s Brad Williams. He was born with achondoproplasia, which stunts the arms and legs, but in Brad’s case grew his sense of humor. Bullied as a young child because of…
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Les Shapiro & Vic Lombardi – Health Update
Our Unstoppable podcast hosts, Les Shapiro and Vic Lombardi, are fighting the cancer fight. Both of them. What are the chances? In this chillingly honest six-month checkup, they get intimate about the last thing they want from their loved ones and the things that drive them crazy about having to...
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Jason Cole
What does it take for John Elway to overcome deep personal tragedies to return to the sport he loves? Sports-writer Jason Cole found out. Cole, who has written about the NFL for more than 35 years for the likes of Bleacher Report, the Miami Herald and Yahoo Sports, talks about what makes Elway...
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Verne Lundquist
What does it take to make some of the most famous calls in sports – all while suffering from chronic, almost crippling back pain? Veteran sportscaster Verne Lundquist reveals how he called Tiger Woods’ dramatic chip-in birdie at the 16h hole to win the Masters in 2005. Verne has been broadcasting...
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Joe Theismann
What makes you special? It isn’t what you think. What happened to Joe Theismann is not what Joe Theismann will tell you happened to him. His take on the day that ended his career as an elite NFL quarterback has made a huge difference on how his life turned out. Theismann’s football career ended…
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Amy Van Dyken
“If I ever walk again . . .” she says. The woman is tall, a fact easily overlooked because she is folded into a wheelchair. Her voice is loud and she laughs often. When she laughs, her black ponytail bounces when she jokes about movements her eyes can see but her body cannot feel. The woman’s…
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Mark Schlereth
What price do you have to pay to do what you love? Anyone can show up when they are feeling great, but what qualities do you need to have to keep showing up after 29 surgeries? Mark Schlereth played guard in the NFL for 12 seasons, most of them through agonizing pain. He later became a football...
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George Karl
What can you control in the battle against cancer and who are the cancer angels? Controversial former NBA coach, George Karl, joins our UNSTOPPABLE cast to talk about what it means to live on the edge of COVID-19 when you are a three-time cancer survivor. He is joined by Doctor Antonio Jimeno,...
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Terrell Davis
In this electrifying episode, NFL Hall-of-Famer, Terrell Davis, shares the one thing that has made him unstoppable despite a life where he has had to overcome injury, the loss of his father in his early teens, systemic racism and blinding migraines since he was nine years old. He is joined by...
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Sue Bird
Basketball superstar Sue Bird will come out of retirement to fight for her fifth Olympic gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics despite COVID-19 uncertainty. What makes Sue Bird push her way through obstacles when others would have given up? Bird (who, has won 3 WNBA championships with the Seattle…
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Jason Kipnis
How do you put on a smile when your heart is 95 percent broken? And what is it like to play against your friends and your all-time favorite team? Jason Kipnis, All-Star second baseman for the Chicago Cubs, opens up about risks and past mistakes with his trademark intensity. When he was starting...
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Dick Vitale
Bullied as a child after losing his sight to a sharp pencil, Dick Vitale turned his boyhood’s turmoil into “a ball and a dream” and eventually became the voice of ESPN college basketball — a job he’s enjoyed for 41 years. How did Vitale turn his lost sight into better prospects and overcome...
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Annabel Bowlen
Memories in the making getting lost and no way to stop your loved ones from forgetting who you are: This is Alzheimer’s. Four years after former Denver Broncos’ owner, Pat Bowlen, went public with the disease that would later take his life, his wife Annabel, disclosed her own diagnosis of...
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Clint Hurdle
Clint Hurdle, former MLB outfielder and manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Colorado Rockies, talks about what happens when you are labeled at a young age. Tagged as a “phenom” by Sports Illustrated at the age of twenty changed Hurdle’s life in unexpected ways — few of them good. On the 21-year...
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Matt Iseman
“This is the first time in history when the whole world is focused on a single problem,” says Matt Iseman, the comedian who gave up being a doctor because he believes that being a doctor is more than a job. Find out what turned Iseman unstoppable after beating the death sentence that is kidney...
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Adam Schefter
After experiencing the devastation of 9/11, ESPN sportscaster, writer and analyst Adam Schefter talks about coping with being at the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City. With his characteristic humility, Schefter praises first responders, the medical community, and his wife…
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Missy Franklin
What happens when you put on a game face and the effort leaves you depleted, depressed and desperate for answers? That’s what happened to Missy Franklin, the world’s sweetheart in the swimming pool with five Olympic gold medals to her name. Being unstoppable isn’t about winning all the time. In...
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Les Shapiro & Vic Lombardi
No one is ready to hear the words: “It’s cancer.” In this candid, emotional and sometimes humorous episode, WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE hosts and sportscasters Les Shapiro and Vic Lombardi interview each other about how they discovered they had cancer — Les with stage four lung cancer and Vic with stage 3...
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Welcome to We Are Unstoppable
Do you have what it takes to become unstoppable? Welcome to the WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE podcast, sponsored by the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Twice a month, we’ll share inspirational stories from great athletes, celebrities, and the most brilliant minds in medicine on how to beat...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE, sponsored by the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, shares inspirational stories from great athletes, celebrities, and the most brilliant minds in medicine on how to beat adversity to win in life. Hosted by sportscasters-turned-podcasters Les Shapiro and Vic Lombardi, each episode brings you one step closer to becoming your best unstoppable self.
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WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE, sponsored by the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, shares inspirational stories from great athletes, celebrities, and the most brilliant minds in medicine on how to beat adversity to win in life. Hosted by sportscasters-turned-podcasters Les Shapiro and Vic...
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