Recovery from Cerebral Palsy and Social Media Coaching with Nick Yerhart (Part 2)Recovery from Cerebral Palsy and Social Media Coaching with Nick Yerhart (Part 2)
Retrieving Sanity
Keegan Reed talks with coach and podcaster Nick Yerhart about living with cerebral palsy, questioning alcohol use, avoiding burnout and growing a personal brand through social media. The conversation centres on self-belief, parental support, rest, and treating the search for purpose as a daily mission.
26:54•15 Jun 2026
From Cerebral Palsy to 800k Views: Nick Yerhart on Purpose, Recovery and Social Media
Episode Overview
- Self-belief and parental belief can radically change outcomes for children with different abilities; don’t let others’ limits define them.
- Rest days and capped work hours can reduce burnout and actually increase productivity and results.
- Problem drinking can be addressed by honestly assessing how alcohol affects life, relationships and productivity, then reducing or removing it.
- High-frequency posting across multiple platforms is key to social media growth, even if it initially feels “too much”.
- If you don’t know your purpose, treat finding it as your main daily task so you have something meaningful to get up for each day.
“If you don’t know your purpose in life, every day you need to wake up and your goal for that day is to find your purpose.”
What remarkable journeys have people faced head-on against addiction? This conversation between host Keegan Reed and 10X business and social media coach Nick Yerhart shows how recovery, disability, and online success can all sit at the same table. Born with cerebral palsy, Nick shares how he was given a list of things he’d never do – walk, drive, live independently – and has spent his life proving that list wrong.
He talks candidly about lifelong anxiety around talking to strangers, stuttering so much he couldn’t order his own food, and how he now speaks on stages and hosts the *Infinite Abilities* podcast, even though “old habits…die hard”. The chat moves into burnout, self-care, and why forced hustle can backfire.
Nick explains how addiction specialist Dr Rob Kelly made him take two full days off a week and limit himself to nine-hour workdays, and how working less actually led to more clients and better results. For anyone questioning their relationship with alcohol, Nick shares how he wrestled with the label “alcoholic”. He describes learning that he’s “not an alcoholic, I just had a problem with it. And every problem has a solution.
You can fix it.” He talks about using short sober stretches with a friend and watching carefully for when drinking starts to affect life, relationships, or productivity. Nick also breaks down social media growth in plain language. His analogy? Every post is “like throwing a brick into the Grand Canyon” — you need a lot of posts to make a dent.
He explains why he pushes clients to post at least three times a day, across all platforms, and how that’s led to analytics jumping by 200% in a month.
The heart of the episode is aimed at parents of children with “different abilities” and anyone feeling lost: believe in them, let them fall and get back up, and, as Nick says, “figure out why you’re here.” It might be the nudge you need to rethink how you treat yourself, your kids, and your recovery. What purpose could you start chasing today?
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