Chris Bosh
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
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🗓️ 8 June 2021
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Summary
Chris Bosh is a NBA Hall of Famer, eleven-time All-Star, two-time NBA champion, Olympic gold medalist, NBA Global Ambassador, musician, and now, author. Chris joins Sophia to talk about finding self confidence as a young boy, leaving college for the NBA, the unexpected goodbye to his NBA career, advocating for young girls, and his debut book Letters to a Young Athlete, out now!
Executive Producers: Sophia Bush & Rabbit Grin Productions
Associate Producers: Caitlin Lee & Samantha Skelton
Editor: Josh Windisch
Artwork by the Hoodzpah Sisters
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, it's Sophia and welcome back to work in progress. |
| 0:15.2 | With me today is former NBA player, 11 time All-Star, two time finals winner, |
| 0:20.4 | Olympic gold medalist, and current NBA global ambassador, Chris Bosch. |
| 0:26.3 | Chris played for the Toronto Raptors from 2003 to 2010, and then the Miami Heat from 2010 to 2017. |
| 0:34.7 | While performing at the highest levels of his athletic career, Chris was suddenly diagnosed |
| 0:40.0 | with a blood clot in his lungs during the 2015 All-Star break and missed the rest of the season. |
| 0:45.2 | After another blood clot, his extraordinary career came to a premature close, not at a time of |
| 0:51.8 | his choosing, but as he has said in a doctor's office in the middle of the afternoon. |
| 0:57.9 | Today, Chris and I talk about his road to mental recovery after this devastating news, |
| 1:02.0 | and how mental toughness isn't something you just have or not. It's something that you build up |
| 1:07.3 | like any other muscle. I was incredibly inspired to hear him talk about how mental toughness and |
| 1:12.7 | empathy have to exist side by side in order for a person to feel fulfilled and also to be generous |
| 1:19.6 | in spirit. We also dive into talking about Chris's new book that came out on June 1st, which is so |
| 1:25.3 | fantastic. It's called Letters to a Young Athlete. It looks back over his amazing career in the NBA, |
| 1:31.6 | and today, Chris shares what it was like to enter the NBA at just 19, and what it felt like to make |
| 1:38.6 | a very personal decision to join the Miami Heat and leave his beloved Toronto Raptors behind. |
| 1:44.1 | I was incredibly moved to hear how, even as he made a decision that was ultimately right for him, |
| 1:50.4 | and was pursuing his career goals, he felt the weight of expectations of so many fans and |
| 1:55.4 | strangers on his shoulders. Chris offered excellent tips for how you can balance your personal |
| 2:00.0 | needs with the expectations of others, which he certainly gets into in his phenomenal book as well. |
| 2:06.0 | He talks about lessons he learned about how to succeed in life, especially when life hands you |
| 2:10.4 | a curveball. Chris Bosch is such an intelligent, compassionate, empathetic and inspiring person. |
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