Winning... While Losing Podcast

In this episode of the Winning… While Losing podcast, Chris Hansen explores how unprocessed pain can keep us trapped in repeated emotional and behavioral cycles. Through his experiences learning jiu-jitsu and navigating...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The inability of Chris Hansen to do what he did before in the gym after seven months of recovering from a surgery made him feel weak. In this Winning... While Losing episode, Chris reflects on what made him feel weak...

In this powerful episode of Winning... While Losing, Chris Hansen shares a raw reflection on how life's lower moments can become the foundation or your greatest strength. Comparing the feeling of being choked out in...

Pain is a universal and personal experience that we will all experience. Even though it is such a common thing, most people don't understand it. Even those that study pain still have so much to learn. In this episode I...

A short while after being paralyzed, I made my way back into the gym. Since I wasnt' able to use my legs, I gravitated to the bench press. There was a lot of uncertainty with my ability, but I set a goal or 275 lbs and...

This journey we call life will rob you of many things including your happiness, peace, joy, and safety. We lose in life if we sit back and let life take these things from us. Winning in life happens when we decide we...

I can make myself cry at almost anytime I choose to. All I have to do is take myself to a place where I bring back feelings of hurt or sadness from experiences that I have had in the past. Every experience has different...

April 1st, 2024 marks my 6th year anniversary to becoming a paraplegic. There are many things that my life has provided me the opportunity to learn. This episode covers the 10 most meaningful lessons that I have learned...

One day during one the most difficult times in our lives, my daughter and I discovered one of our favorite things to do together. It came from a time when I was struggling, but she was probably struggling even more and...

We often hear labels, or statements, or judgements from others about who we are. If we allow it, those labels can blur our vision of ourselves and who we can be and keep us in a place of losing. To put ourselves in a...