We’re proud to have launched a new podcast, WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE, featuring inspiring interviews with great athletes, celebrities and the most brilliant minds in medicine on how to be unstoppable in the face of adversity.
The podcast, sponsored by the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, is co-hosted by Emmy Award-winning sportscasters-turned-podcasters Les Shapiro and Vic Lombardi, each with his own unstoppable story in the face of life-threatening diagnoses of cancer.
The podcast show, which comes out twice a month, launched on May 6 with headliner episodes featuring:
- Basketball superstar and 4X Olympic Gold medalist Sue Bird on coming out of retirement to seek her 5th Gold, overcoming injury and adversity, and her outspoken support for her girlfriend Megan Rapinoe.
- Olympic swimmer Missy Franklin on her unstoppable will to overcome depression and anxiety in athletic competition and in life.
- ESPN sportscaster, writer and analyst Adam Schefter on coping with being at the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City, especially after the devastation of 9/11.
- NFL Hall-of-Famer Terrell Davis discussing overcoming his chronic migraines, systemic racism and an abusive father to compete in the NFL.
- Comedian, co-host of American Ninja Warrior, and former doctor Matt Iseman on staying unstoppably funny and upbeat while coping with rheumatoid arthritis.
- Olympic Gold medalist Amy Van Dyken discussing her paralyzing accident that ended her career — and almost her life — and coming back be the world’s #2 Adaptive CrossFit star.
- Annabel Bowlen on her family’s unstoppable resiliency in the face of the tragic impact Alzheimer’s had on her father, Pat Bowlen, former owner of the Denver Broncos and now, taking its toll on her mother Annabel.
- Hosts Les Shapiro and Vic Lombardi candidly discussing their respective fights with, and survival from, aggressive lung and prostate cancers.
The WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE podcast will also feature interviews with leading doctors, researchers and scientists, on their breakthrough work on the medical condition discussed by the guest in that episode.
- Former MLB player and coach Clint Hurdle on his battles with alcoholism and cancer.
- The voice of basketball, Dick Vitale, on his unstoppable career in sports broadcasting and on being bullied as child after an accident left him blind in one eye.
Super Bowl winner and legendary NFL quarterback Joe Theismann on his life-changing injury
Listeners can find and subscribe to the podcast on all portals and apps including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Tune-In, Blubrry and PodBean.
For more ways to subscribe to the podcast, please go to: http://www.unstoppablepodcasts.com/
