Sean Swarner

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446 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 27 Feb

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Finding Peak with Ryan Hanley · The Man Who Died Twice, Then Climbed Everest | Sean Swarner · 27 Feb 2026 podcast

It's how you react to it.

So when I realized I wanted to take my emotions and control of my emotions back, I actually went into the bathroom and

And I stared at myself in the mirror, and I said the word cancer out loud probably 50 times.

And every time that word passed my lips, it took less and less control over me.

I just kept getting it out.

And eventually, probably around 30 or 40, I kept saying cancer, cancer, cancer, whatever.

Now, no problem, man.

But eventually, I started laughing at myself, and I thought, what am I so afraid of?

Right.

When I was younger, I was a competitive swimmer.

My parents stuck me in the YMCA at five or six years old.

So I had always been an athlete.

I've done...

Swimming, cross country, track, football, pole vaulting even.

You name it, I've done it.

And I've always been pushing the boundaries of not comparing myself to others, but comparing myself to myself.

So one of the things that my parents instilled in me was, my favorite was the breaststroke.

And I remember when I was a little kid doing the 25 meter breaststroke, touch the wall, mom or dad will pull me out of the water and they would ask me, did you have fun?

And did you do your best?

Just those two questions.

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