So, on the weekend my girlfriend and I decided it would be a good idea to climb to the top of the mountain behind our house called, Spion Kop. It’s more of a hike than a “climb,” but for someone with an incomplete spinal cord injury, it was a grind—a test of determined endurance. The kicker was, I didn’t fully know what we were getting ourselves into when we left the house that day.

Public speaking is exactly like freestyle skiing.Yes, you read that correctly, public speaking is exactly like freestyle skiing—for a couple of reasons…