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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 that keeps you from becoming who you're truly capable of being. Chris explores how success can trap your identity, stall your momentum, and create fear around moving toward the unknown. Chris reframes success as a signal - not a finish line - and challenges you to step settling for the comfort of a single win. Your greatest successes aren't behind you; they're waiting for the version of you who refuses to stop growing. 

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 when doubt feels heavier than the weight in front of us. But what if, instead of accepting "I can't," you challenged yourself to prove it? Chris dives intertwines fear, failure, and self-belief - exploring how proving you can't often becomes the path to realizing that you actually can.  Whether you're an athlete, leader, or anyone pushing through life's resistance, this episode will challenge your mindset and reignite your confidence to show up, commit, and lift beyond your limits. 

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 expected?  This episode of Winning... While Losing brings to light how waiting for someone or something to come into our lives to create the fairy tale often only keeps us losing in life, while playing an active role in our own story is what puts us on the path to winning. 

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 seen - and misseen - in different ways. Just like one pattern inside a kaleidoscope can create many different reflections, we each show up in four version: who we truly are, who we think we are, who others believe we are, and who we think others think we are.  When these reflections don't align, we experience self-doubt, insecurity, and emotional exhaustion - the mental tug-of-war that keeps us stuck. But real peace doesn't come from chaning ourselves to match every reflection. It comes from grounding ourselves in our true identity and allowing the other versions to align around it. 

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 and why blaming external forces keeps you powerless and how accepting weakness is an invitation to follow a path to ownership, strength, and growth. 

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 jiu-jitsu to facing paralysis, betrayal, and personal loss, Chris explores how confronting your worset experiences can teach resilience, self-awareness, and confidence.  He breaks down how adversity strips you down to your core, forcing growth through confronting fear, discomfort, and vulnerability - and how learning to "appreciate the worst" is what truly makes you unstoppable.  If you've ever felt overwhelmed, discouraged, or trapped by life's challenges, this episode is your reminder that strength is forged in struggle. 

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 provide an brief explanation of pain. Understanding pain can have a significant effect on how we perceive and experience pain. 

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 pushed forward. Where I ended up at 405 lbs is much further than what I thought I could do and in the process of achieving more, I learned a lot along the way. 

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 want to rob life of its ability to take those things that are important to us. 

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 senses and emotions that are woven into them. When we have experienced negative things in the past, it can be easy to bring ourselves back to those negative feelings by what we chose to surround ourselves by. If we want to change how we feel and create a more positive space, we can choose to surround ourselves with those things that will build that more positive space. 

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 in the last year that have helped me progress to where I am now. 

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 in her struggle I had no solution, so the only answer I had was to just be present. 

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 place where we are winning and moving forward in our lives, we need shed ourselves of the weight of the labels that others put on us and focus on who we want to be ourselves. 

Negative feelings that become attached to things we enjoy and love can often lead us to missing out on things that we love and enjoy as we try and hide from negative feelings. What we are willing to miss out on is up to us. We have the power and get to decide whether we will change our perspective and actions to take back those things that we love and enjoy. 

When we feel like we hit rock bottom, it is common to say "it is only up from here". The challenge with that, is we can still go down. When we are in the moment, it may feel like we can get worse, but it can. We have to choose to make the steps and the choices that will move us toward better.