Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

#302 How To Achieve The Impossible with James Golding

Oct 11, 2022

02:11:34

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Dealing With Cancer Is Easier Than Dealing With Depression

01:58

The Most Impressive Thing I've Achieved in My Life?

01:48

The Challenges We've Been Through Can Help You in Three Weeks Time

03:07

Introduction

5min

The Best Thing Ever Happened to Me?

5min

Cancer Was the Best Thing That Happened to You

2min

I've Made It. Man, I'm Doing Well.

2min

What's Next in Your Life?

3min

The Most Impressive Thing I've Achieved in My Life?

2min

What Have You Been For?

6min

Can You Come Back on Saturday?

4min

What Does It Feel Like When You Make That First Sale?

3min

10.

I'm Not Going to Take the Bigger Sale, Bigger Commission, Biggest Everything

3min

11.

How Can We Learn So Much From Stories Like Yours?

2min

12.

The Road to Ram

1min

13.

How Calm Can Help With Stress and Anxiety

3min

14.

Race Across America

3min

15.

The Power of the Media

3min

16.

Is Race Across America a Definitive Factor of Who I Am?

4min

17.

I Don't Want People to Remember, but You Like the Eye

5min

18.

I'm a Doctor and I've Been Diagnosed With Type 2 Diabetes for a Few Years Now, and I Just Want to Die.

4min

19.

I Was Angry With Cancer. I Hated It. But I'm OK Now I'll Rebel

2min

20.

How Did You Get Back Pain?

4min

21.

Do You Think That's Because a Chiropractor Was Saying It?

3min

22.

I've Got James Gold in Here

4min

23.

Cancer and Chemotherapy - What Happened to Me?

2min

24.

I Don't Know What I'd Be Afraid Of, but I'm a Cancer Patient.

5min

25.

How Did You Feel at the Time? You Couldn't Lift Your Head Off the Pillow

3min

26.

What Happened When I Got a Stomach Tube and It Turned Itsself Inside Out?

4min

27.

What Was It Like When I Was in Intensive Care?

2min

28.

The Euphoria of Man I Got It and Then I Can't Move My Toes

2min

29.

Change One Thing at a Time Isn't It?

4min

30.

The Challenge Is Not Race Across America

2min

31.

The Challenge of Cycling Across the United States

5min

32.

What a Bike Crash Could Have Done to You

3min

33.

How Much Money Have You Raised So Far?

6min

34.

Having a Tumor Don't Mean You Want to Do It

3min

35.

The Secret to 65 Years of Marriage Is the Difference Between Listening and Hearing

3min

36.

Dealing With Cancer Is Easier Than Dealing With Depression

2min

37.

Cancer and Depression - How Important Was It in Your Recovery?

4min

38.

Cancer Woke You Up Yeah Yeah Yeah It's Just an Incredible Story and I Can't Stop Thinking About You Going to the Toilet by Yourself

4min

39.

The Challenges We've Been Through Can Help You in Three Weeks Time

3min

40.

The Cliches Don't Smell Like They Are

3min

41.

How to Improve Your Health and Happiness

3min

CAUTION: Contains themes of an adult nature.

Today’s guest has survived cancer twice and been hit by a truck at 70mph. By all accounts, he shouldn’t be here. Yet James Golding has gone on to be a world record-breaking endurance cyclist – and raise £4 million and counting for charity. He now believes that anything is possible and we can each achieve anything we set our minds to. If you’re feeling lost or lacking in motivation, you need to hear what this man has to say.

During this powerful conversation, James talks us through the timeline of his life so far. From his initial cancer diagnosis to the emergency surgery which gave him a survival rate of just five percent. From recovery against the odds to a horrific road traffic accident. And through a second bout of cancer and treatment, followed by depression that was even harder for James to overcome. James’ account is moving and honest, with a thread of such positivity and resilience running through it. We explore where this comes from and why he turned to his incredible cycling challenges as a means to give back to those who cared for him.

James has a remarkable ability not to get disheartened by setbacks – and he’s experienced some pretty major ones. His attitude, he tells me, is that you should always move forward. Take one small step at a time, but keep an eye over your shoulder to remember where you’ve come from. It’s this fluidity that I think gives James such strength. Words that could seem trivial or clichéd from someone else sound anything but when he shares them. He really does embody the term inspirational. When we recorded this conversation, James was about to embark on the Race Across America or RAAM – the world’s toughest bike race covering 3,100 miles in nine days. And his plan was to win. Unfortunately, an untimely bout of Covid sadly derailed his hopes in this year’s race– but I feel confident he’ll somehow use this as a jumping off point to achieve even more. This is a remarkable life story that I hope will leave you feeling inspired to take positive action in your own life.

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