An Interview with Chad Hymas: Embracing Life’s Challenges – Episode #609

On this episode of The Dentist Money Show, Chad Hymas joins Ryan to share his journey from a life-altering accident to becoming an internationally acclaimed speaker, best selling author, and an advocate for safety awareness and personal empowerment. He discusses leadership, personal transformation, and the influence of life-mentors. Chad shares his insights and experiences with loss, mental health, mentorship, and serving others. The interview highlights the power of resilience, perspective, and finding passion amidst adversity. Chad Hymas will be a featured speaker at the 2025 Dentist Money Summit in Park City, UT. Register here to hear Chad Hymas share his full story of obstacles and success.

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Intro: Hey everybody. Welcome back to the dentist money show, where we help dentists make smart financial decisions today on the show. I interview Chad Hymas, one of our keynote 2025 dentist money summit speakers. Chad at the age of 27 to be out in 2001, had his entire life changed. In an instant with a huge accident that changed everything forever. We won’t give away all the details. You have to show up to listen to him speak. But since then, Chad has become a best selling author president of his own communications company and recognized as a world class wheelchair athlete, Chad speaking career has been in the areas of leadership, team building, customer service. And mastering change, and all of that has brought him multiple honors. He served as a president of national speakers association in the Utah chapter. It’s a member of the elite speakers round table. Only one of 20 of the world’s top speakers. he’s spoken to groups, small companies, some of the most major companies in the world. And his story is one of inspiration and motivation. how to find your passion, how to overcome challenges and how to get to that next level, no matter what’s happened to you, no matter what’s gone on. So. Many thanks to Chad Hymas for spending some time today, kind of some teasers of what’s to come at the dentist money summit this summer, 2025, go to dentistmoney.summit.com to register. Thanks, Chad. Thanks to all of you for being here. Enjoy the show, everybody.

Ryan Isaac: Thanks for being here, man. Really appreciate it. Where are you, where do you live? Where are you, where are you joining from?

Chad Hymas: Just outside of Salt Lake.

Ryan Isaac: Oh, you’re outside of Salt Lake. Oh, okay. I’m in Southern California, but that’s where I lived and grew up and I tend to be there quite a bit. So yeah, man. Well, Chad Hymas, thanks for joining the Dentist Money Show, podcast today. We are having you speak at our Dentist Money Summit. this summer there’s still some registrations open. So DennisMoneySummit. com. let’s just dive in. You have a really, really fascinating story and, so many different messages. but can we go back into your story a little bit and, talk about what led you to the point where you’re at today with the insight and the life that you have and the things that you share.

Chad Hymas: I can do that. I think I’ll be a little vague. I don’t want to give away too much,

Ryan Isaac: Yeah, it’s all right.

Chad Hymas: Coming up and, share a lot of it during the conference. But, my name is Chad. I do reside on a ranch just outside of Salt Lake City about 45 minutes and I travel frequently sharing a variety of messages. I think you tapped on that a little bit, Ryan. I do share a variety of messages. That never was the plan. The plan was always for me to be on the ranch and and raise elk and horses. We have that today as well. made a bad choice six years into building that and ended up with curled hands and numbness from the armpits down. There’s your backstory. so I’ve been traveling ever since that happened. That happened about 25 years ago. And I talk a lot about transformation. I talk a lot about adapting to change. I talk a lot about, executive leadership, what that looks like as a father, as a mother, just because we have those titles doesn’t mean that we demonstrate what it looks like. And so I talk about titles and just because you’re a hygienist doesn’t mean you’re a good one titles mean nothing to any of us. And so leadership is demonstrated by our behavior towards others. So I talk a lot, talk a lot about that. All my books are written around those premises or those premises, I should say, and all the videos that we create, and the best selling books are written around. The topics of leadership and becoming one’s best self and finding their calling and their passion. So that’s what, that’s kind of where I’ve evolved over the course of the last 20, 25 years.

Ryan Isaac: Yeah, and like you said, we won’t, we’ll do a few spoilers, but we’ll save them  mostly for

Chad Hymas: I’ll call it a teaser. Yeah, I wouldn’t call it.

Ryan Isaac: We’ll do a little, a little, a few teasers. I’m very curious about your first maybe moments or years as you began to get into wanting to teach or speak. What were those first, I don’t know if it was years later, after your life had totally changed? what were those first, you know, desires or impressions to go give a message? What was that like for you?

Chad Hymas: Wasn’t that what you just said never existed. I never wanted to do this. I’m not saying I don’t enjoy doing it now. I just never wanted to indulge in this. Never knew it existed. when I was in the hospital, my dad came to see me. He had something he wanted me to watch. he’d actually been trying to get our family to watch it prior to the accident. And when I say our family, I’m talking about my younger siblings and their spouses. So, and my mom, all of us at my dad’s house, we’re gonna watch this VHS tapes on. And what it was was a VHS tape that he had purchased at his insurance meeting in Dallas, Texas. My dad was a top rep or top agent for his insurance company. And the tape that he bought there was of the keynote speaker. And it changed my dad’s life, which was very uncanny for my dad. Because he thought that, you know, the speakers were all maybe a facade. That’s just my dad’s approach. You know, he went for the awards, and he went for, and he went for the recognition. Not that he needs it, but, and he went because he liked to meet up with his friends. Loved the networking part of it. And not to say that other people’s stories weren’t good stories, that’s not it at all. It’s just, you know, the keynote addresses weren’t, it’s not like my dad to go buy a book. It’s not like my dad to go buy a VHS tape or a DVD. It’s just, it’s just not going to happen. My dad bought it because he was enthralled by the keynote speaker’s message, who was in a wheelchair and had hands that looked like mine. Now back then, I wasn’t like that. We never made it over to my dad’s to watch that. We never just sad. Sadly, it just wasn’t a priority. That tells you how things have changed in my family’s life. Now, family is everything, everything to us. We just don’t miss a thing. But back then, family was, was a big deal. We just, you know, we had worked and we had our own families and thanks for the offer dad, but we’ve got some other things. Not anymore. It doesn’t happen like that. I’m in the hospital. a couple of weeks out of a coma. My dad brings the T. V. Cart from the hospital in the room with a big box T. V. And the D. H. S. Player underneath

Ryan Isaac: Yeah. Yeah.

Chad Hymas: Puts in a tape. And I watched that over and over and over again. I don’t remember what the guy said. My dad loved it. I don’t I don’t know. All I know is that guy looked just like me. His movement, the way you contort everything. He was saying, I was watching him. I just, I was more hooked on, you know, yes, his message, which was very little of his story. I was hooked and fixated on him and how he was contributing to the world despite being over 95 percent numb, which is right where I’m at. The movement that you’re all seeing is just my shoulders. I have no hands, no, none of that. I’m giving away too much already. And I needed more of it, Ryan. I needed more. That was my drug. I couldn’t stop watching that one tape. So my dad made a call to Art Berg’s office out of Highland, Utah. Just down the street from the University of Utah, which is the hospital I was at. Asked if they would ship some products. My dad bought everything they had. Everything. Turns out that it would be delivered next day by the guy himself. Which was not planned.

Ryan Isaac: Okay.

Chad Hymas: We didn’t pay a dime. He set the packages on the floor, and then he transferred himself with his shoulders onto my hospital bed and began taking off his clothes with long johns underneath, not to be a perv or not to be disrespect. He was showing me what and how it could be done.

Ryan Isaac: Mm

Chad Hymas: And I, I was just I lost him. I just lost it. His name was Art Berg. And I just back then there was no instagram, no facebook, no link. And he just, there was just a website and I found out that he traveled the world speaking and he had worked that first year in 2002 in the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl. He’d worked with Ray Lewis and worked with the Baltimore Ravens and he was going to the, I mean, that’s what he just traveled the world and he, and he spoke and, and he wrote a lot of books and that’s what he did. And married to a gorgeous gal by the name of Dallas. And they had two beautiful Children at that time in the process of adopting their third and I followed that guy for the next nine months after I got out of the hospital and I say followed again, not by Facebook, not by

Ryan Isaac: Yeah.

Chad Hymas: Just website. Yeah, just literally just called him up and he gave me his number and I went to his house in Highland. I saw his office, the elevator in his house, how that worked, the bathroom, the bed. He showed me how he drives his big rig and how the lift went way down to the ground. It was boosted up for, I mean, four inch lift on this sucker. It was unreal, unbelievable, and I was just inspired. I couldn’t get enough. He came out to the ranch. We went on a hayride with his family. We built a ramp, loaded the wheelchairs up on the gooseneck trailer, and the ranch hands took us out. I spent nine months just stalking this guy. And he invited us to go to Hawaii to watch the Pro Bowl, where Ray Lewis was playing. And he was going to speak to the Pro Bowlers before the game, just a little pep talk, about 20 minutes, out on the practice. I got pictures of all this stuff. It’s unreal. I got photographs of all of it. And we got home. That was February 16th, 2002. February 16th is the day he spoke to him. Pro Bowl, and then Super Bowl. The next week, February 18th, two days after we got home, I got a phone call that he had passed away in his sleep. How? I have never lost somebody that close, Ryan

Ryan Isaac: Whoa.

Chad Hymas: I haven’t, hadn’t lost a sibling or a brother or a sister or a mom or a. And so I just went out on the ranch and I just started pushing by myself and I was angry and I was talking to God and I, and then it hit me. I wonder if there’s not a void that I can maybe help fill. That’s how it started.

Ryan Isaac: Mmm. Mmm.

Chad Hymas: Quick. Doing a lot of speeches at devotionals at churches. Schools first. And now here we are 20, almost 25 years later. And my tires on my chair have taken me to 89 countries and all 50 states, at least 50 times. And I’m moving. I mean, I like to move. I’m not saying that in an arrogant way. I’m not trying to be pompous. I like to spend time with people. Today I’m farming, just not the way that I thought. I love to farm. God knows I love to farm.

Ryan Isaac: Mmm.

Chad Hymas: I do. So I can’t get enough of what I do.

Ryan Isaac: Man, thanks for sharing that story. I’m,

Chad Hymas: That’s it. No more spoilers.

Ryan Isaac: No more spoilers.

Chad Hymas: Podcast is over. Nice to see you all. Don’t miss the event. We’re going to have a great time.

Ryan Isaac: DentistMoneySummit. com. See you this summer. Yeah. I’m curious, what you said earlier too about, pushing through uncertainty and, into new phases in life. where we all go through that in different ways. And it’s so scary and it feels so impossible sometimes to move into a next phase, to do something you’ve never done before, to do something, you know, our brains are so wired to keep us in our familiar comfort zones. And, it’s so hard to push into those next ones. Can you recall a little bit about what those first events or speeches you gave? Like, were you scared? Did you think this isn’t me or I can’t do this or I’m going to fail? Or what was that like as you started that new journey?

Chad Hymas: Happens. Yeah, it happens with all of us that go through change. And there’s not anybody that’s listening to this podcast or watching it that doesn’t go through it. There’s not anybody immune from this. It happens to all of us. Some call it divorce. Some call it depression. One in four men go through suicidal thoughts. I mean, I’m just saying it’s not, this is not something that’s new. This is, this is something that’s been going on for centuries, if not, you know, Millennials. This has been going on for ever since the beginning of time, ever since God started the earth. I mean, this is not, not anything that’s new for me, I am Those doubts and those fears, those uncertainties, I went through and I have learned through who I associate with and who I surround myself with. But that’s what compensates for those thoughts. When I am, you know, feeling like, inadequate. Or maybe, there’s no way that I can benchmark at this level. Or that I can make this amount of money. Or that I can serve this many people. Or that I can have a job because I’m numb. It’s so much easier to take the free money from the government. It’s called a disability check. I never felt good about that, by the way. I never did. I just felt like I, I just Not that I was better than a disability. I just felt like there was other people that needed the check more than me. But I had to take it because I needed to provide for a family. I’ve since paid that all back. And I, again, I say that with humility because thank God I live in a country that allowed me to do that. But I didn’t, I didn’t want that money. And so you know, I am surrounded constantly by people that are doing things better than me. Dads, Disciples. Coaches that coach your kids in basketball. Even though they’re not in a chair. And I’ll just watch how they do it and I’ll go coach my kids my way. I am constantly looking at people that are doing good things. And I surround myself with good stuff. Not social media, scrolling crap.

Ryan Isaac: Yeah.

Chad Hymas: I’m surrounding myself with positive influences. Books to read. Messages to send. And then I’m trying to find a place to build other people up. So here’s one idea we’ll give on. here’s a teaser. If you want to understand why we’re having this podcast today, and get a little taste of what’s going to happen this summer, why don’t you all pull out your cell phones right now. Just pull them out. Find someone in your family on your contact list. A spouse, a niece, a nephew that you don’t text very often, if ever. A parent. You pick. You can choose whoever you want. I don’t care who it is. Pick somebody. And just say this. Hey there. listening to Ryan Isaac right now with Chad on a podcast. You don’t have to say my name. I don’t care. Listen to a podcast right now thinking about adding value to other people’s life and want you to know how much you’ve added to mine. And I wanted to share this with you and I hope you have a great day. Sorry I don’t send this message to you very often or that I didn’t send it sooner. God bless. Bye. That’s it. That is it. I’m going to make you a promise. You’re probably going to blow your wife’s Feed away because she doesn’t get those kind of texts from you. You’re probably going to blow your husband’s socks off because he doesn’t get that kind of text from you. You’re probably going to blow your, guarantee your, your teenagers. They’re going to think, is mom on drugs? Is mom drunk? Is mom in the

Ryan Isaac: have teenagers. They might think that. You’re like, what does he want? Yeah.

Chad Hymas: Send that message off to the teenagers for sure. The next time those teenagers are faced with the same question you just presented to me. Fear, rejection, disvalued, bullied.

Ryan Isaac: Mm.

Chad Hymas: Depression, suicidal thoughts, I’m getting a D in math, whatever that is, they’re going to know one thing. My dad, Ryan, thinks a lot of me. I need to be there for my dad.

Ryan Isaac: Mm.

Chad Hymas: Now you’ll begin to understand why I was so drawn to Artberg and why I do what I do. And you’ll begin to understand the power of influence you have on those that are in your closest circles. Or, you can do the alternative, which is what most do. Don’t apply yourself on. Listen to Ryan’s podcast. Show up to the convention like everybody else. Leave there the same way you arrived. I would just assume you didn’t show up to the convention. It’s called a waste of a convention.

Ryan Isaac: Mm.

Chad Hymas: Come there with an open mind, ready to really make an impact. And it doesn’t take a lot of effort out of you, it doesn’t. But it will take some, guaranteed. You’re going to have to put forth some effort. And you’re going to have to come there thirsty to learn. If you’re coming there without a desire to grow and learn and make some new friends. You’re better off. I don’t know. Just probably probably stick around at home. Don’t even put on that. I’m just saying I’m not trying to take away from your tenants. I’m saying we want to build a

Ryan Isaac: No, it’ll be yeah, this is

Chad Hymas: You got it. You got to come with an open mind. And that’s what has changed my entire life.

Ryan Isaac: So the theme for this summer is you know living in finding the beauty and living in the present and finding the gift in you know in our present circumstances and which aren’t always great like you said What would you say to people who find themselves in present circumstances that they’d rather not be in they wish they were in the past Or in the future the present isn’t treating them so

Chad Hymas: Of those some of those things, they’re not changeable, right? So let’s say the loss of a loved one. You can’t reverse that. maybe it’s the loss of a spouse, divorce so here’s I can’t go back and change it. I can’t get this back. I can’t change that so I can focus on the loss and be absolutely miserable. Our focus on the little bit that I’ve still been given and more comes to me in the process. In other words, do not put a big number, do not put a big number on what you’ve lost. You’re going to be miserable. You’re going to be unhappy, you’re going to be anxious all the time, and you’re not going to be a very productive person. You’re going to be a horrible dentist. Horrible. But when you focus on what you do have, more comes to you in the process and you will find a way to adapt to the changes and the adversity that comes your way. this hits very close to home to me because I had a high school buddy, orthodontist, not a dentist. Who? Almost a year. It’s been a year ago, February 20th. And two months prior to that, he developed tremors in his hands. So my age tremors and he could no longer be an orthodontist had two associates in his practice with him. My age valedictorian went to college number one graduate in his class. Unreal. This kid got this kid’s awesome football player physique. You name it, he’s got it. In fact, I could get Go look up staymentallystrong. com, staymentallystrong. com. It’s started by his wife. There’s no judgment allowed here. But that orthodontist, because he lost, he had to leave the practice, which devastated, he lost everything.

Ryan Isaac: Everything.

Chad Hymas: And on February 20th last year, he ended his life. And, uh, No one would have ever thought that about Sean. Sean Olverson. You look it up. Look up the obituary. Sean Olverson. You watch Gina, his wife, talk. You watch. You listen to some of their sacred moments. You can listen to the whole thing. The story is amazing. Go to staymentallystrong. com. Look it up. She started that foundation after he died. and this is a guy that I’ve known and his wife I’ve known forever. Beautiful, beautiful family. Beautiful gal. Everything going for him. And without any judgment towards Sean, there was a, it just, he lost this. He lost, and so he couldn’t put braces or dentists, couldn’t, couldn’t do the dental work anymore. So now his life is lost in his mind and he’s no longer with us. And his three children are going to grow up. He’ll never see his grandchildren in his life. And again, we’re not allowed to judge that. I’m not a suicide expert. I just, you ask the question, Ron, you open it up. I’m telling you straight up, you have to focus on what you still have. Then find a way to adapt to that. And Sean had a lot going for him. Now he’s left the lady behind with three children. And their family is financially fine, but money means nothing.

Ryan Isaac: Yeah, not yeah, not when you have

Chad Hymas: I’m not saying money doesn’t have value. I’m just saying when you and I leave this life, you have the same amount of money.

Ryan Isaac: Yeah. Yeah.

Chad Hymas: Leave behind? The legacy, right? The legacy. What did you create? Who did you lift up? God’s not going to ask me, how much money did you make? What was your salary? Were you eight figures? Were you seven figures? What did you invent? He’s not going to ask me. He is going to say, did you teach him? Were you good to her? And I’m going to have to tell him, well, I stayed locked up for a little while. I just struggled. But then I finally found, you know, a little bit of light through the dark room and I grabbed onto it. No, no, I slipped once in a while and still do, but I know what the right thing to do is. And I gotta stay focused on that. There’s not too many people listening to this podcast that don’t go through that. Not not if there’s there’s not one.

Ryan Isaac: There’s not one. Yeah, and in such a variety of ways, too. I want to go back to, your mentor, and so many of our listeners, well, mentors mean a lot to all of us. Do you have any advice or tips on how to How someone can find the right mentor for the right time in your life. How do we go about doing that?

Chad Hymas: Well, you don’t search the Internet. Um, you don’t go on some app. For me, it’s easy. It’s who are the people that are helping me do the right thing and choose the right thing. And and those. So it’s not just one mentor, although I do have a coach for health. That’s true. I do have a coach to help me stay mentally strong. That’s true. I do have a coach that helps me write books. That’s true. So, I have several different coaches. I have a marriage coach, a marriage counseling that’s a positive thing. It’s not because we’re on the brink of divorce, but I want to always be a better husband. And so, I’ll visit with that person once a month And, I’m still learning how to be better. All those things we just mentioned. I’ll look up some great YouTube videos on, you know, ways to teach my kids how to play sports without the use of my legs. I mean, there’s There’s resources that are out there, but the true mentors are the ones that have your back. It’s called success. The people that love you the most care about you most as well. And if you don’t have those people on your side, you’ve got nothing.

Ryan Isaac: Mm.

Chad Hymas: If I don’t have my wife, my Children on my side because I’m in a very dark place or I’m making bad choices, it’s very tough to get on that spot. Very tough because those are the ones that are closest to doesn’t mean you can’t get out of it. You’re gonna have to find an outside source to do that because you’ve already lost the trust. And once you breach trust, it’s very hard to get back.

Ryan Isaac: Mm.

Chad Hymas: Once trust has been breached,

Ryan Isaac: Yeah.

Chad Hymas: It’s not impossible, but it’s tough to earn. But your dog will be quicker to forgive you than your kids

Ryan Isaac: Yeah. Uh huh.

Chad Hymas: Spouse. So you can’t breach trust. So you find coaches that help you build trust, build relationships and network with those that build you up. And then you’ve got to be able to give back. It’s reciprocated. You’ve got to build up others as well. And I gave you an idea to do that. What I did, I mean, it’s sitting right here. I gave you the phone. You have access to everybody, your fingertips on this phone right here. So just get the message off. I mean, this is sitting right there.

Ryan Isaac: I’m sure you’ve been through this many, many times, and everyone goes through this, the times in your life where you, I guess the question would be, how do you know when you’re on your right, your right path? in the face of adversity, in the face of doubts, in the face of impossibilities, in the face of, you know, you lack money, resources, time, opportunities, people, something, physical health, strength, whatever, how do you know when you are on your right path?

Chad Hymas: I don’t know that you ever know. I didn’t know that I was on my right path. I just knew that I was following a passion. So,

Ryan Isaac: Yeah, what did that feel like? Yeah,

Chad Hymas: That feeling, So, passion has nothing to do with intimacy or sex. Passion is, are you willing to sacrifice everything you have for those you love the most? Or for that which you really love, that you really love? And I am. I’m willing to sacrifice sleep to fly in an all nighter. I’m willing to sacrifice time away to go spend time with people. I’m not willing to sacrifice time away to miss a game. That takes precedence. So what are you passionate about? And then follow that passion. And if you don’t know what you’re passionate about, What do you enjoy doing when you’re not working? Do you enjoy service? My wife, she has a couple of passions. My wife loves her religious service. Let’s just call it service. It doesn’t have to be religious. She loves her service. She likes to serve the elderly. And she loves to work in a temple. So she works there a couple of days a week. And she loves horses. So she’s taken those passions and used those to help other people. IE, the horses. She’s turned that into a clinic where she teaches people how to communicate without having to whip their horse. She’s taken classes on that in Phoenix and in Florida to become certified. I think it’s amazing. I use it my retreats. I bring people out and watch what she does. It’s unreal. I mean, I, that’s what I tell me when they come to my, my leadership course at our ranch. I have them, I have Shanda do a course on it. It’s unreal service two days a week. She’s doing meals on wheels. It’s two hours each time. So she’s out going to get their groceries and deliver them to the elderly in town, which is 30 miles away from here and her temple work. that’s something that’s very, very sacred to something that’s a secret, but she’s there doing work for people that can’t do work for themselves. That’s her passions. And as her husband, I want to support that. That’s one of my passions is to support her. I love that. I love the fact that while my body does not work physically, She knows that I will take care of her. I do, I’ll do whatever I can to make sure that she can live and fulfill her dreams. Whatever I can. I will sacrifice my life for that. Guaranteed.

Ryan Isaac: Thanks for sharing that. follow up question to that would be, what about those people who don’t feel passion for something? They don’t have, you know, kind of that burning excitement or desire or longing to do something meaningful or fulfilling or that gives them purpose or identity.

Chad Hymas: What that’s like

Ryan Isaac: Yeah. Yeah. We all probably know what that’s like to just feel so lost and kind of just blah, like.

Chad Hymas: Very, very dark. You’re in a lull. You’re in a lull. No matter where you turn, you can’t get out.

Ryan Isaac: Mm.

Chad Hymas: I don’t know how to share this. Sometimes there’s nowhere to go but a higher power. I’m not here to preach to you guys. I’m not a pastor. I’m not ordained to do that. I’m not, I’m not, I’m not, I’m not a minister. I’m not a, I’m not a priest. but sometimes those in the darkest moments, that’s the only thing they got left to turn to. And I don’t know a better way to answer that. and I don’t think he cares whatever you call him. I don’t think he even cares if you say the name Jesus. Amen. I don’t think he cares. In fact, I know he doesn’t care. Sometimes it’s just finding your, finding a sacred place. Some call it meditation, some call it prayer. I don’t care, I don’t think he cares what you call it. Just let out your feelings and share some things and ask for some help.

Ryan Isaac: Mm.

Chad Hymas: And it doesn’t have to be with somebody that’s in your household.

Ryan Isaac: Yeah.

Chad Hymas: Although I don’t think he’s too far away.

Ryan Isaac: Sure. I kind of like the first thing that you said. Grab your phone. Message someone that’s close to you. Let them know what they mean to you and let them know that you’re always there. Sometimes it feels like when you are in those LOLs, maybe you’re the one that ends up doing something for someone else who’s also in a LOL and that’s what mutually pulls

Chad Hymas: Right.

Ryan Isaac: Out of there

Chad Hymas: Go find someone to serve when you’re sitting there. That’s a, that’s a, that’s a great, that’s another great answer. That’s different than my answer. It’s a great

Ryan Isaac: Well, you gave it earlier. I’m just combining the two.

Chad Hymas: You find someone to serve when you’re feeling in your darkest moments. Go find someone to serve.

Ryan Isaac: It can work that way. Sure. Yeah, man. These are, there’s so many things here. like you said, we’ll save the details of all the stories for the summit this summer. I mean, I’m curious you’ve done so many things. the books, the speaking, I mean, I could list the awards here. I’ve got your bio, the awards, the associations that you’ve been a part of what’s next for you. what are you passionate about doing that you’re currently not doing?

Chad Hymas: I just became a granddad. I never thought that. And, uh, I want to be around for her. she’s growing up with a grandpa in a wheelchair. one of the worst things that we could do is to compare ourselves to other people. I’m guilty of that. with his granddaughter, she has another grandpa as well, who is able to put her on a horse, ride a horse, and get on a four wheeler, go around the ranches, and do different, and that’s great but when I compare myself to that relationship, I’m a very bad grandpa,

Ryan Isaac: Mm.

Chad Hymas: I sit with little Josie and play a game or watch Elsa, she loves Elsa, she loves Zootopia, she loves Moana, it’s, or she just wants to sit on my lap and go for a ride. She’s three years old now. comparison will be the thief of all your joy.

Ryan Isaac: Ooh, yep.

Chad Hymas: Comparison will take away every bit of it. So when I compare myself to other men that are holding their wife’s hand, or compare myself to other coaches that can kick the ball, or play some catch, I’m a very horrible coach, I’m a horrible dad, I’m a horrible grandpa, I’m horrible. But when I focus on what I still have, and focus on what I can do, I’m not supposed to be like anybody else. God didn’t make me to be like anybody else. So I should stop trying. And then I go spend some time with that little girl and we have a great time. Last night she was over at the house when her dad came to pick her up. She didn’t want to leave. I

Ryan Isaac: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Chad Hymas: Kind of, I kind of like that made me feel good. She did not want to leave grandpa’s side.

Ryan Isaac: Yeah.

Chad Hymas: Daddy, can I sleep over?

Ryan Isaac: Yeah.

Chad Hymas: Well, you know, you can stay over, but not tonight. But you can stay over this weekend. And so, you guys are, they’re leaving on a trip today, and so they’re going from Salt Lake to St. George, or our town, Rush Valley to St. George, because my son’s a volunteer firefighter, and so there’s a firefighter conference down there, so that’s, why she, but, most of the time, she gets, well, when she sleeps over, because there’s no rules, I mean, we stay up, we

Ryan Isaac: Yeah. Movies and treats.

Chad Hymas: We can watch Beauty and the Beast till midnight, one o’clock, and then she’s tired, and go to bed, but, we’re having ice cream watching Beauty and the Beast until we can’t eat anymore, and can’t stay awake anymore, I just, I just. I love sitting with her there and then she goes to her bedroom and she has her own room. She goes in there and then, man this happened. I got home from a road trip and Shondell was watching her for Lindsay. Lindsay’s the mother. Lindsay’s great. she got up in the morning and I was just getting ready to head out to my office. And she ran right up to my side and just gave me a hug. And I just lost it. I just, she’s cool with this.

Ryan Isaac: Yeah, yeah.

Chad Hymas: She’s totally

Ryan Isaac: As you, as you, people who can’t see this, you’re hitting your wheelchair. You’re hitting the sides of your wheelchair. She’s cool with the wheelchair. She doesn’t care. She doesn’t care. Yeah.

Chad Hymas: Around in the wheelchair. Yeah, she’s cool. She doesn’t care. She’s, she’s gonna grow up with a grandpa in a wheelchair and she’s gonna know that. It’s not a feel sorry for thing. It’s not a sad thing. It’s, she will, that will, something that she’ll share with her own kids. My grandpa, I know how to deal with people like that. I know how to Yeah, it’s normal. I know how to, I know what to do. You guys might not know. I know what to do. You don’t leave them alone. You don’t not take them to dances. There’s a way to do it. We’re going to figure out a way to take those kids in wheelchairs to dances.

Ryan Isaac: And that’ll be normal. Yeah,

Chad Hymas: So I do have a place to contribute if I’m willing to teach her. Otherwise, here’s another way to look at it. Those of us that say stuck in a lull, you’re robbing those around you. And I think theft is a horrible practice.

Ryan Isaac: Yeah,

Chad Hymas: And I am, I’m guilty of that. So when you start getting stuck in that lull and start thinking about yourself, you’re robbing people that are around you. You’re committing theft. And I am guilty of that. It’s one of the Ten Commandments to not rob. And, so one of my goals today is to stop committing theft. So people that don’t commit theft, they use the words you, we, ours, and us more than I, me, and my. Which means their focus is on others more than themselves. It’s a great drug to get out of your lull. It’s a great drug. And it’s legal too. I mean, we’re not talking about, you know, fentanyl or marijuana or heroin. This is, I mean, it’s a legal drug and it’s a great drug.

Ryan Isaac: Yeah, it’s like this circular process of being mentored, being a mentor. I love, man, the story of comparing yourself to someone not in your situation is so powerful. It’s such a physically, visually powerful lesson, but to your point, the beauty and the beast knight with endless treats with grandpa, it mattered to her. She didn’t care about anything else in that moment, and that’s how everyone will experience it with you.

Chad Hymas: That’s right.

Ryan Isaac: Yeah.

Chad Hymas: So.

Ryan Isaac: Thanks man. we’ll save a lot to be, to very much to be continued. This is going to be such a cool thing to come see you speak and meet you in person. is there any, just for people who would like to reach out, see more of you, watch some of your other presentations, read your books. Where’s the place that people can reach out and find you Chad?

Chad Hymas: Pop up. YouTube videos and

Ryan Isaac: Hymas, H Y M A S.

Chad Hymas: Know that I want you to watch too much of that though. I don’t want you to, I don’t want you to just, maybe

Ryan Isaac: Save it. Yeah. Bookmark everything for like September. And come back to it. Yeah. Well, Chad, thank you for spending some time with us on the Dennis Money Show. We really look forward to having you in the Dentist Money Summit. Everyone can go to DentistMoneySummit. com register for the summer. Last year was a big hit. This year will be even better. Chad, thanks for joining us and we’ll see you in a few months.

Chad Hymas: Likewise. Thank you.

Ryan Isaac: Take care, man.

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