Lessons From My 6th Year After Being Paralyzed

A Ramp and A Torn Out Door

After becoming paralyzed and living life in wheelchair, everyday places stopped being simple locations and became decisions. Stairs, curbs, restaurant layouts, parking lots, door widths, and table heights are no longer background details- they are constant calculations. In this deeply personal episode, host Chris Hansen shares two true stories that changed how he understands friendship, belonging, and love: * A friend who quietly built a wheelchair ramp just so Chris could visit his home * Another friend who literally tore a doorway down to the studs to make sure Chris could access a bathroom These weren't just acts of kindness. They removed uncertainty. Chris discusses how many people don't exclude others intentionally, but how hesitation, silence, and inconvenience can still create distance. He also shares a difficult realization: he has lost important relationships not because of limitations, but because he failed to give people reassurance. The lesson becomes clear: People don't just need access. They need to know they matter. If you've ever wondered where you stand with someone... If you've ever felt left out... If you've struggled to say what you feel... This episode is for you. Winning... While Losing is a podcast about personal growth, relationships, resilience, and finding meaning after loss. It is not about avoiding hardship - it is about discovering what actually matters because of it.

Success As A Ceiling

In this Episode of Winning... While Losing, Chris Hansen breaks down the hidden danger that comes with success: comfort. Success feels good - validating, rewarding, and safe - but it can quietly become the limitation that keeps you from becoming who you're truly capable of being. Chris explores how success can trap your identity, stall your momentum, and create fear around moving toward the unknown. Chris reframes success as a signal - not a finish line - and challenges you to step settling for the comfort of a single win. Your greatest successes aren't behind you; they're waiting for the version of you who refuses to stop growing.

Prove to Me You Can't

In thie episode of Winning... While Losing, host Chris Hansen, shares a powerful story from the gym that turns facing a simple deadlift into a life lesson about belief, discipline, and self-growth. We all face moments when doubt feels heavier than the weight in front of us. But what if, instead of accepting "I can't," you challenged yourself to prove it? Chris dives intertwines fear, failure, and self-belief - exploring how proving you can't often becomes the path to realizing that you actually can. Whether you're an athlete, leader, or anyone pushing through life's resistance, this episode will challenge your mindset and reignite your confidence to show up, commit, and lift beyond your limits.

Write Your Own Story

We all imagine a fairy tale ending - in love, in sports, in our careers, and in life. The joy after pain. The calm after chaos. Happiness after the hard. But, what happens when the fairy tale doesn't show up the way we expected? This episode of Winning... While Losing brings to light how waiting for someone or something to come into our lives to create the fairy tale often only keeps us losing in life, while playing an active role in our own story is what puts us on the path to winning.

Four People

Hafe you ever felt like you're living as more than one version of yourself? In this episdoe, Chris Hansen uses the metaphor of a kaleidoscope to explore, self-perception, and the emotional tension that comes from being seen - and misseen - in different ways. Just like one pattern inside a kaleidoscope can create many different reflections, we each show up in four version: who we truly are, who we think we are, who others believe we are, and who we think others think we are. When these reflections don't align, we experience self-doubt, insecurity, and emotional exhaustion - the mental tug-of-war that keeps us stuck. But real peace doesn't come from chaning ourselves to match every reflection. It comes from grounding ourselves in our true identity and allowing the other versions to align around it.