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but maybe those are the days that we need to give ourselves a little grace and recognize that doing your best doesn't mean perfect it just means giving all that you had and maybe that's enough today's guest has had days like that too dr sean eagle he'll be the first to tell you there are moments in life that don't just change your path
They change you, not all at once, not in some dramatic, even cinematic way.
Sometimes it's just one hit, one injury, one moment where something shifts and you don't even fully understand it at the time.
And for high achievers, especially athletes, we're taught to push through those moments, to grind and to fight and to ignore what doesn't feel right and just keep going.
But what happens when the thing you're pushing through is actually changing you?
Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.
Even at the level of your identity.
This episode is a personal one for me.
Because it's not just about concussion.
It's not just about sport.
It's about a young man I had the chance to teach early in his journey.
Whose story stayed with me long after he left my classroom.
And as a further alert, I got a little choked up more than once in my attempt to apologize for what I thought in the moment some 15 years ago was the best way to encourage a student.
This episode is about what happens when a setback doesn't just derail you, but it quietly begins to reshape the direction of your life.
Today, Dr. Eagle is one of the leading voices in the world on traumatic brain injury, with more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, and a work that's changing how we understand, treat, and recover from concussion.
But long before that, he was a captain, an athlete, a competitor, and like so many others, his story didn't unfold the way that he thought it would.
What you're about to hear is not just a story about injury.
It's a story about identity.
And if we get real honest about regret and redemption and ultimately about what it really means to become undone.
I hope you'll enjoy my conversation with Dr. Sean Eagle in episode 156.