The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Just Don’t Fall (Adapted for Young Readers): A Hilariously True Story of Childhood Cancer and Olympic Greatness by Josh Sundquist

Episode Date: September 6, 2023

Just Don't Fall (Adapted for Young Readers): A Hilariously True Story of Childhood Cancer and Olympic Greatness by Josh Sundquist Amazon.com Adapted for young readers from his adult memoir, Just Don't Fall is the the hilarious true story about Josh Sundquist's battle with childhood cancer and how he worked his way to making the United States paralympic ski team. The inspiration for the Apple TV show Best Foot Forward! When he was ten years old Josh Sundquist had his leg amputated to treat bone cancer. But this is not a sad story; on the contrary, this memoir is a story of resilience, heart, and most importantly: humor. Young Josh had a lot of adapting to do after he lost his leg. He had to learn how to walk again. He had to accept that he wouldn't be able to try out for the travel soccer team. He knew his life would never be the same again. But when he sees a poster in the hospital elevator advertising skiing classes, he realized all might not be lost. Equal parts heartbreaking and hilarious, Just Don't Fall is Josh's story of surviving cancer with 50/50 odds, learning to be a professional skiier, and making his way to being a bestselling writer and motivational speaker. Inspirational and moving, Josh's story is one that can be appreciated by readers of all ages. About the Author Josh Sundquist is a bestselling author, comedian, Paralympian, and motivational speaker. Josh’s internet videos have over one billion views and he has more than four million followers. Josh is an executive producer and writer on the streaming series Best Foot Forward on Apple TV+. The series is inspired by his childhood and his memoir Just Don’t Fall. Josh has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, NPR and CNN. His first memoir, Just Don't Fall, was a National Bestseller and his second memoir We Should Hang Out Sometime was optioned for movie rights by a division of Disney. His debut novel Love and First Sight was published in 2017. Josh’s fourth book, Semi-Famous was released in 2022. His books have been translated into German, Italian, and Turkish and have been published in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Turkey, Italy, and Austria. A childhood cancer survivor, Josh is an ambassador for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and makes regular appearances at events and in the media to raise money for children's hospitals across the country. He has been featured on the back of Doritos bags (specifically, Spicy Nacho flavor) for his work on behalf of amputees. He lives with his wife, Ashley near the beach in California.

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Anyway. No, kids are always welcome on my lawn from TikTok. I should probably say that now that they seem to be liking the show, or at least the intro for that matter. And we have the perfect target for this audience as well on today. We have an amazing gentleman, and his new book comes out tomorrow, September 5th, 2023. Josh Sundquist joins us on the show today. He's a multi-book author, and this is an adaptive or adapted for young readers version of his book just don't fall and it's called just don't fall adapted for young readers a hilarious true story of childhood

cancer and olympic greatness so we're gonna have a lot of fun be inspired and learn a lot of really cool things and uh the kids better like it because this is a book that's adapted for young readers uh josh sunquist is a paralympian a comedian and internet creator he is the author of the national best-selling book just don't fall the novel love and first sight the yay memoir we should hang out sometime we should hang out sometime and The Yay Memoir, We Should Hang Out Sometime, and Semi-Famous. His memoirs are in development for film and television by major studios and streaming services. Josh travels the globe as a motivational speaker for conferences and conventions. Josh is best known to his millions of internet followers for his Halloween costumes.

He and his wife, Ashley, live in California near the beach and he invites you to visit him at joshsunquist.com or follow him at joshsunquist. Welcome to the show, Josh. How are you? Good. How are you doing, Chris? Thanks for having me. I am doing awesome. Normally, I do the plugs, but you stuck them in there on the bio on me, so

I did them for you. So there we go. Well, thank you. Appreciate it. We knocked it out. Yeah, I guess we'll just wrap up now. Is this the end? Yeah, that's it. Alright. See you. Good night. Alright. Yeah, thank you. Appreciate it. We knocked it out. Yeah, I guess we'll just wrap up now. Is this the end? Yeah, that's it. All right. See you. Good night. All right.

Yeah, thanks for that. Any other plugs you want people to go to other than joshshunkwish.com? You know, they can go wherever they want. They can Google me and just, you know, see what links come up and follow them to their heart's content. There you go. So what motivated you on to write this book? Well, yeah, like you said, so it's the first book came out 10 years ago or over 10 years ago now, 2010.

That was my first book, Just Don't Fall. So it's like a memoir about my childhood, about I lost my leg to childhood cancer. And then I became a ski racer and eventually went to the Paralympics. That's basically the whole book. Those are all the spoilers. Now you don't need to read the bookics. That's basically the whole book. Those are all the spoilers. Now you don't need to read the book. But that's what the book was. And then this one came about mostly because during the pandemic, I had the chance to write and produce a streaming series inspired by the book slash inspired by my life for Apple TV plus like a a family comedy um called best foot forward and that uh you know the the target audience of that show was like

eight to twelve year olds and so i went to my publisher and i was like hey there's a tv show now but like the the original book was like a kind of. Well, what if we did like a version of the book for the same audience demographic? And so that's kind of how it came about. And I guess I was motivated to do it just because, you know, yeah, I like reading and, you know, reaching people with my stories. And here's a new group of people who hasn't read my stories yet. So now they will tomorrow there you go awesome sauce and just don't fall was originally a uh huge hit and uh and a national bestseller and of course it ended up on apple plus tv and so it's great you're reaching a new

audience young people now you know they've kind of gone through some hard times with covid and schooling and you know covid schooling and all sorts of weirdness over the last few years. So everybody needs about as much inspiration as they can possibly get at this point in time. You think? Yeah, I think. Yeah, I think we can all probably always benefit from some. I softballed that one up to you. I really doubted you were going to say no.

People don't need any of that. Yeah, well, I guess I should have said said yes and that's why they should buy my book oh from wherever they're wherever books are sold including audiobooks and ebooks insert cash register sound is bored here so tell us about your history people who aren't familiar with your yeah your hero's journey going through growing up and and what you experienced what got you here well like I mentioned I had this bout with cancer as a child which you know as as one might imagine it certainly affected the

trajectory of my life because I also lost my leg at the time. How old were you? I was nine. Yeah, so I was nine. I was on chemo for a year. And while I was still on chemo is when I learned how to ski. I'd never skied before. But I just, I loved skiing right away. And yeah, I kept doing it. And then I got serious about it in a competitive way when I was in high school and decided I really wanted to go to the Paralympics.

So I started training and, you know, I graduated high school early decided I really wanted to go to the Paralympics. So I started training and, you know, I graduated high school early and moved to Colorado and spent much of the next four years training and racing around the world and then barely made the team, but I made it. I was like, they took like the top 20 people. I was number 20, literally. So I was delightfully surprised that I got on the team, which was my goal. And so, yeah, so I got delightfully surprised that I, uh, that I got like got on the team, um, which was my goal. And, uh, so yeah, so I, I got to go and compete there. It was cool.

My parents came and watched, um, you know, it was really, really special. Uh, and, uh, and, and then, uh, yeah, I wrote that book, but you know, my today, like these days, you know, my, my day job, so to speak, is I give motivational speeches. Um, I do some standup comedy, obviously, as we've discussed, I know, my day job, so to speak, is I give motivational speeches. I do some stand-up comedy. Obviously, as we've discussed, I've written some books and did a TV show. And, you know, I make a lot of Internet videos. I don't know. Those are most of the things, I guess, that I do.

Occasionally act. I'm in a streaming series on Netflix that just came out like three weeks ago uh where i voice a one of the lead characters it's a anime about uh some teenagers who pilot giant robots to fight aliens it's very cool it's called mech cadets oh there you go man you're doing everything and now you're on the chris fosh show so yeah this this is it. This is the pinnacle so I can retire finally. Finally my parents will be proud of me. Well, I'm not sure after this show they'll be proud of you, but that's another story.

They'll be on the Chris Voss show. Yeah, we'll see what they think. Yeah, those were rocks. I'll let you know. I'm sure they're wonderful. And hopefully they sign up to subscribe. So thanks, Mom and Dad. So anyway, I'm just kidding.

TikTok.com slash ChrisVoss1. There you go, ChrisVoss1. Who got the original ChrisVoss? I don't know. Somebody got on TikTok, some dude. And I tried contacting him to get it because I have ChrisVoss everything. ChrisVoss Twitter, ChrisVoss Instagram, all those different things. And I tried contacting him and he didn't reply. He put up like three videos. thing chris plus twitter chris plus instagram all those different things and uh uh i tried

contacting him and he didn't reply he put up like three videos and then somehow his account's been suspended so now i can't even get it we're going to try and reach out to tiktok and see if there's some way we can make some sort of arrangements but i don't know what are you going to do so you inspire people you help people. Um, this book is adapted for young readers. Give us kind of a 30,000 overview of what's in the book that didn't read your first book, uh, in, uh, uh, when it first came out. Well, yeah, it's a memoir, uh, about my childhood and it is about, uh, you know specifically that sort of journey from like cancer to the Paralympics and it is told in the voice of like the narrational voice is as if I

am the age that I'm relating no one story from in other words you know when I when I talk about cancer it's it's sort of from the point of view of me as a nine-year-old in terms of like vocabulary and sentence structure and like what I the narrator understand about what's going on around me and Then you know as I get older the the voice in the story matures as well ultimately, you know then yeah leading up to to adulthood and the Paralympics so the you know the the young readers version is it is the same as the adult version just kind of with the boring parts cut out which is it was

like a great thing to build you as an author you know at the time he writes out they're like this is the greatest piece of literature ever created and then 10 years later you're like ah there's a lot of boring parts i shouldn't have put in um so then when i got the chance to do this why the um uh young reader version and they were like yeah actually we want it to be like 30 000 words the original one's 100 000 i was like amazing this is great i can't wait to cut out a bunch of stuff and uh and just get it down to like the you know the the bare bones most and it's also over 10 years you know you hear a lot from readers so i kind of like i know the parts people like you know so it's just like cool i'm just gonna leave those parts in and honestly the new version is better and even adults should read the new

version because it's just better uh it's not like it's not different other than shorter um and you know and you know some some language and and maybe mature ideas are removed but for the most part it's just shorter there you go uh you know i've been hearing from authors that the books are just getting shorter and shorter with the people's attention spans and uh which is unfortunate because books are such an awesome thing but uh. And I'm sure younger people right now have shorter attention spans too. I mean, we've been joking about TikTok. So what is it, one to three minutes, ten minutes over there? Like seven seconds.

Seven seconds, yeah. Not minutes. Jeez, I don't know who's watching your minute videos. I can't hold people's attention for more than like six seconds onck yeah i i'm old i like the old i like the long videos but yeah they're probably just flipping through this stuff um so uh you go through this journey i mean i learned i tried to learn to ski one time and i was much older and uh i don't know i it was the most hardest thing i've ever done i fell on my butt so many times the first day I went and tried. I thought I'd broken a hip and a butt bone probably.

And I was just hurting by the time I gave up on it. And I never went back. So, I mean, trying to do that with two legs is one thing. But you do it with one and and you you went to the you know olympics with it the paralympics with it i mean that's extraordinary man thank you that's a hell of a journey you you just went the one time i just went once and i gave up i quit i was a quitter i should have read your book first a bit inspired yeah well you also after you read the book now i'm sure you you'll be inspired to go break your butt bone again.

It's really cold out there too, I got to tell you, man. I'm not a cold person. Tell me about it. Why do you think I don't ski anymore, Chris? I got tired of the cold and the like shuffling hundreds of pounds of equipment around the world. Yeah, it was a really fun thing for a while. But yeah, I live at the beach now like i don't mess around with that cold anymore i think they have skis for the beach don't they no they have some sort of weird thing

but i grew up i guess i grew up in socal and so that was my whole life and then my parents specifically uh in uh i was born and raised in north hollywood we lived down the block from bob barker and who recently passed away rest his soul and we used to walk the dog with him and then we moved up block crescenta and uh and then uh we moved up to utah so i went from beautiful sunny socal to freezing cold utah but as a teaser in case you want to get back to it i just saw in the news that snowbird up here in utah just had their snow so you're still in utah you're still in utah right now yeah i live in santa monica so i'm i'm close close to where you came from yeah we used to go down there all the time uh on the beach spend our days down there with

mom driving us down to santa mon Monica Pier and lots of great memories. Just a great place. I mean, it's just wonderful. So that's a rough place to be. I feel sorry for you now, Santa Monica. There's the... In fact, prior show, we were talking about the promenade, the 4th Street promenade, 3rd Street?

3rd Street. 3rd Street, yeah. I was getting that mixed up with Denver. But yeah, wonderful things there. Hi, folks. Chris Voss here with a little station break. Hope you're enjoying the show so far. We'll resume here in a second.

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With over 35 years of experience in business and running companies as a CEO, and be sure to check out chrisvossleadershipinstitute.com. Now back to the show. So you want to influence and encourage people who are young. Who do you find reads most of your books? Is it young people that are trying to find their way? Is it people that need a lift?

Who do you think you inspire most from the feedback you get i'd say it most so i've i have four books that i've published of which three are ya which is like um young adult so that's specifically like teenagers so so teenagers read my books more than any other group um because the books I've written are for teenagers. It doesn't mean I'm like a teen whisperer or have incredible magic to share with teens. But I think that's happened because of my social media. And so publishing companies have been especially interested

in me writing books for teenagers. So this next book is kind of my first book for children right for like you know sub teenagers so yeah we'll see we'll see hopefully some of them will read it but yeah right now I see a lot teenagers and yeah I'm like you know 20-something kind of people and then people who hear my speeches will a lot of times read just don't fall so yeah I guess those are the people who to to read my stuff there you go where does the title come from to people aren't familiar with it just don't fall yeah uh from my editor um i to be honest i don't i never really understood what it meant um i've like retroactively

uh tried to try to like figure out like my once we named it my mom was like because I had like we had like lots of other titles and I had my own titles and as you know publishers always want to like add their own title which is their prerogative and so I published my editor was like how about just some fun so yeah well we like it so if that's what that's what it's gonna be and then but when I told my parents my mom was like oh well you know like when you were coming down the mountain at the paralympics that's what i just kept saying to myself over and over like just don't fall just don't fall just don't fall um so i was like great if anyone asks in the future that's where the title came from oh there you go from my mother at the paralympics um but uh yeah

you know i think um you yeah, I think there's some irony, in fact, to the title because the reality is that, of course, you're going to fall. If anything, the story is a story about how we all fall a lot of times.

And I guess the more accurate title in terms of messaging would be like just don't stay down or just don't not get up or something like that. Because, you know, when I started as a ski racer, I was terrible and I fell a lot. So I certainly didn't follow the advice of the title of the book. But, you know, I kept getting back up and that was the important thing. Yeah, that sounds like when I tried to learn to ski i would just skip falling over yeah on my butt i mean like i i must have felt like i don't know 50 100 times and that's just that's just trying to just stay in one

place on the skis without going down a slope so uh yeah they were like you want to go on the bunny slope and i'm like no i want to go home so i slope? And I'm like, no, I want to go home. So I gave up. But the beautiful part is you didn't give up and you kept on going. And now you inspire people and share your message around the world. What's a story or a piece you can maybe tease out from the book that you can tease readers to go pick it up well yeah you know I guess on the the subject of falling you know yeah let's talk about that in more detail so you my first ski race well I was 16 and I had I had skied a lot but but just sort of recreationally that never like competitively and my first year as I went it was like I was the

only person with one like there was an able-bodied race But I was very convinced like I truly believed Chris that I was gonna win the race like it was gonna be amazing You know, I'd seen like a lot of inspirational movies and I thought like this this is this is gonna be amazing like when I win and and just blow everyone's mind with my natural talent uh so i come out of the gate very enthusiastic and positive and i fell on the third turn like like right at the top like immediately uh and and i was obviously very disappointed because i you know you're not going

to win the race if you fall um but i was like well you know, this is my first ski race and I want to set the precedent of, of like getting back up and finishing. And so I like, I'm like, I'm going to get back up and I'm going to go across the finish line. No, I was too naive to the sort of ski racing to know that like, I was already eliminated from the race. Like literally, like literally it's bad etiquette at that point You should just ski off the course because you're just kind of wasting everyone else's time, but like no one's gonna say that to this poor

Child with one leg who just started ski racing. No one's gonna be like, excuse me. You've already been disqualified You need to ski you need to leave. No one's gonna say that I like don't I just was able to keep going and took forever because they kept falling I like fell like again and again and again I fell five times on on the way down the course so it was it was a took a long time and I was last place by far but I made across the finish line and you know and now And that was the important thing and the thing that I could look back on and be proud of. So, like I said,

it is ironic that the book is called Just Don't Fall when it has stories like that of falling repeatedly. But that ultimately is, I think, the relatable message to everyone because, you know, we all are falling metaphorically every day. Yeah.

So it's more a question about what you do after that. And sometimes winning just isn't winning, being the first to cross the finish line. Sometimes the winning is being true to yourself, being true to your goal. And like what you did, you kept getting back up and you kept moving towards the goal line and sometimes it's not about you know getting the ribbon sometimes it's about you know achieving in your mind that i'm going to finish this race you know it's kind of like life yeah they don't give you a medal for for that but um it's uh on a personal level which is perhaps more significant than than the medals um yeah that can

that can be a victory and that certainly felt like that um in a lot of ways for me in that that particular race there you go i was reading i'm currently in the middle of reading uh david goggins never finished and he tells this story about how he does like a i think it's a 240 mile race run yeah and it ends up going bad. Some of his health becomes an interference. They go off course and he ends up, uh, having to,

I think, give up, uh, the race and go home, uh, to the hospital, uh, where there's,

uh, maybe 70 miles left in this race. And he gets healed up in the hospital. They get them all set up straight, get his medication, right. He goes home and is asleep in the hotel room, wakes up in the middle of the night and asks his wife, hey, how many days do we have to finish that 70 miles?

And she figures it out, and he's got enough time to do it. But he's already lost the race. He's disqualified. You know, he's not going to win anything but the power of of the same sort of thing that he had with the jew did where it was more important for him for himself to finish it to do it to say he to say he went and did it was more important in the power word in his brain and in his motivation everything else and i think that's really inspiring because sometimes it's not about winning sometimes it's just about showing up and

doing the best you can and knowing you you you did the best you can and then and taking the next level you know yeah yeah that's cool life is kind of a big relay race uh what what do you what do you what inspires you what got you through uh the hardships there were a lot of challenges that went into you uh you know, trying to train for becoming a skier, professional skier and stuff. What was your motivation? What cut you through a lot of that? I think, you know, as a ski racer, I was just very enthralled with the, you know, the idea of getting on the team, like on the Paralympic team and wearing the uniform, which was, you know, important to me personally in that right before I, like actually the same week that I was diagnosed

with cancer when I was nine, I was going to try out for this local travel soccer team where I grew up in Virginia. And I largely wanted to try out for the team. I love playing soccer, of course, too. But like, I really wanted to wear like the uniform they had this cool uniform and a friend on the team i thought man would be so awesome to get that uniform and so i never got to try out for that team obviously and never got to play on it uh so i think when i sort of learned about the paralympics uh as a teenager that i was like oh this this is how i can get the uniform um it's a different uniform but maybe a better uniform and so for me i you know that that that was the you know the tangible goal that i was uh working towards uh yeah and so if i were to expand on that um to make it relevant for other people i would say um

the you know the important thing is finding your uniform which is to say like the thing that gives you that sense of like emotional excitement or buzz you know when you think about it right which may or may not be what other people think would be a good goal for you or what other people think is cool but but it doesn't really like ultimately it if if you are not excited and inspired by it like you have you won't get there because like your capacity to get back up or to overcome inevitable challenges on the way to to getting your uniform is a function of your excitement about being there because that's what's gonna like that's

what's going to inspire you to leave the hospital and go run another 70 miles because for david goggins crossing those finish lines in the ultra marathons clearly um is is his uniform right that's like really exciting to him to you or i that sounds horrible and like something that would cause permanent injuries to all of our joints but for him he's like that's what i want to do so you know you got to find you got to find what that thing is for you um and uh and and that's that's what i think can kind of give you the fuel to get there there you go and now you're inspiring others motivating us and everything else any final thoughts as we go out um well i uh you know i i i've been very fortunate um i've been very fortunate to you know to see to see some of those dreams come true right to to have wanted to um you know from a young age i wanted to become

a writer amongst other things and so to be able to write books now is It's such a such an honor and a pleasure and a privilege You know going to go to the Paralympics getting to have a TV show made about my life super cool but but you know when I was diagnosed with The cancer and you know found out about the chemo I was going to be on the side effects found I was going to lose my hair and so forth and they also told me that I might not be able to have children when I grew up which at the time wasn't you know a super high priority as a nine year old didn't feel terribly important but as they got older, of course, that became relevant. And I got married about coming up on eight years ago.

And so, you know, that becomes an important consideration when my wife and I wanted to start a family. And I'm very fortunate to be able to say that we have. And we had a son that was born almost five months ago. So just before I came downstairs to record this podcast with you, I was upstairs playing with him and watching him do very simple things just like with his hands or whatever.

But as a parent, it's like, wow, amazing. Well, this is so cool to watch. So I'm just so fortunate to have to have seen a lot of cool things happen in my life but but you know in particular to have been able to pass my life and and my genes on to to a new new life form I think that's this I'm so grateful for that there you go well congratulations it's been awesome to have you on the show man thank

you very much for coming on yeah thanks for having me on the show and uh you know hope everyone subscribes to your tick tock uh tick tock dot com slash you say your url is so fast by the way when you're like facebook.com subscribe to your twitter.com uh then yeah but tiktok.com slash the christmas one um so i hope everyone subscribes to that and gets their brains melted bleed bleeds bring brain bleed brain bleed from the hottest podcast on the planet there you go thank you very much yeah they they the the subscribers yell at me they're like dude just get us past the plugs and so. And so we try and dress it up and speed it by them as quick as possible. Because, you know, most of it really... Rather than cut them out, you're just like, I'm just going to say them unintelligibly.

Therefore, it's a lose-lose. Nude people don't understand what I'm saying. And subscribers still have to listen to it. I can imagine people are sitting there trying to write it down. What? What was that? Yeah, let what was that yeah do it rewind i think on podcasts can't you slow stuff down like you can you can you can slow them down like i'll slow i'll speed them up on a novel two times but yeah if you ever if you ever can't hear the plugs just speed them up but dude i've had like there's some there's intros it's like i think 36 seconds then i usually do

like some little quick ramble which is like i don't know another 30 seconds and then the plugs are like 15 seconds right and i've literally had people yell at us on youtube going jesus it's like eternity to get to the guest on your show man you're like two minutes like what's going on in your life like nothing you know i don't know yeah i mean yeah i i want to go over to people's house like that and just see what they do all day and be like so this is what the fuck you're doing right now and somehow it's taking up all your time right yeah yeah i interrupted you yelling at your mother to go make you a sandwich or something where you're in or something what could they have done with that two minutes that to them is an eternity

they're probably watching TikTok videos anyway their time is clearly very valuable it is they probably make at least I don't know however much unemployment pays anyway thank you very much Josh for being on this show for being with us and thank you for inspiring

people man it's a wonderful story and uh people need all sorts of motivation i think young people need a lot of help today because this world's crazy you know you got wars and and all sorts of stuff going on and pandemics and and uh we all need as much positivity help we can get thanks to josh for being here uh thanks to honest for tuning in Go order up his book wherever fine books are sold, but stay away from those dirty alleyway bookstores. The book is entitled Just Don't Fall, Adapted for Young Readers, a hilariously true story of childhood cancer and Olympic greatness, available tomorrow, September 5th, 2023.

And also check out Josh's other books. He's got quite a few wonderful books that are also there. Pick them all up. Order multiple copies. You can give them away christmas christmas is coming up people so sack up you always need that extra gift for somebody who gives you something and of course you didn't care about them so you didn't think about them but then you need that gift you could pull out here's this i thought of you don't do that people anyway guys thanks for tuning in be good to each other stay safe and we'll see you guys next time