About Us

The Podcast

WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE, sponsored by the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, shares inspirational stories from great athletes, celebrities, and the most brilliant minds in medicine on how to beat adversity to win in life. Hosted by sportscasters-turned-podcasters Les Shapiro and Vic Lombardi, each episode brings you one step closer to becoming your best unstoppable self.

We Are Unstoppable is produced by BurstMarketing, a podcasting company that creates, produces, distributes and promotes podcasts for companies, brands, non-profits and government organizations.  Started in 2004, BurstMarketing’s podcasts have received more than 5 million downloads.

Les Shaprio

The Hosts

Les Shapiro

Les Shapiro has done it all in sports broadcasting — TV play-by-play for Denver Broncos games, University of Colorado football games, high school championship games and Triple A baseball. He’s covered the Olympics, the Stanley Cup Finals, the World Series, Super Bowls and the NBA playoffs.

Les started his TV career as a news writer/producer at the NBC station in Phoenix, AZ. His on-air career began at the NBC affiliate in Peoria, Ill. He moved to Denver in 1984 to take a sports anchor/reporting job at KCNC-TV where he starred for 15 years. He has also hosted hundreds of specials and coaches shows, including the Mike Shanahan, Wade Phillips and Dan Reeves Shows.

As a radio personality, Les spent four years at ESPNDenver, then co-hosted The Sports Show with Woody and Les, a multi-platform show produced in conjunction with the Denver Post. His co-host was sports columnist and ESPN personality, Woody Paige. Most recently, Les co-hosted The Afternoon Drive with Goodman and Shapiro on Mile High Sports Radio for five years. And he just completed an eight-year stint as a regular contributor to FOX31 Sports, appearing every Sunday night.

Les has a wife, Paula, and two boys, Jessie and Cary. He is a lung cancer survivor.

Vic Lombardi

Vic Lombardi

Vic Lombardi has more than 25 years of experience in the sports industry and is a 32-time Emmy award winner, 16 for Best Sports Anchor and voted 2018 Colorado Sportscaster of the year. Most recently, Vic has been the studio host at Altitude Sports for the pre-game, halftime, and post-game broadcasts of the Denver Nuggets since January 2016. Lombardi previously worked as a television & radio host in South Bend, Austin, Phoenix and as the Sports Anchor for Denver CBS4. He is also the co-host of the Altitude Sports Radio 92.5 morning show. Lombardi is one of the most respected sports personalities in the country, which the number of awards attest.

He attended the University of Colorado and graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1991. He resides in Denver, Colorado with his wife, Terri and three kids. He is a prostate cancer survivor.

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The Sponsor

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is the largest academic health center in the Rocky Mountain region, and a world-class medical destination at the forefront of transformative education, science, medicine, and healthcare.

The campus includes the University of Colorado health professional schools, multiple centers and institutes and two nationally ranked hospitals, UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital and Children’s Hospital Colorado, which treat nearly 2 million patients each year. All interconnected, these organizations collaboratively improve the quality of patient care they deliver, research they conduct, and health professionals they train.

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