112: Amy Winters | Exceptional Endurance Athlete Achieves More With One Leg Than Most With Two

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Adaptive athlete Amy Winters, is so resilient she was chosen to help struggling athletes complete the brutal 60+ hour Spartan endurance event Agoge. If you ask her, she won’t credit rugged individualism for her perseverance. She relies on the strength of others to buoy her up as she does the same for them. It may be that the wellspring of grit that her loss summoned helped her to recognize and rouse that same potential in others.

Lessons:

1. When you see something different about a person, smile with them.
2. Working as a team, as a community, you bring to the fore each other’s strengths and lift each other towards completing the improbable.
3. To connect with people, disconnect from the screen.

LINKS:
One Step Ahead Foundation https://onestepaheadfoundation.wordpress.com/
One Step Ahead Foundation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/OneStepAheadFoundation/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Spartan Up Podcast. Here we are in Pittsville, Vermont. We have Joe,
0:04.2	Cephra, Johnny, Dave Marion, and I'm super stoked about this one.
0:09.2	Looking forward to hearing how this interview goes because it's Amy Palmaro Winters. I know Amy from a number of
0:14.9	death races here. One of the most inspiring people I've ever met. The funny thing is this
0:19.3	season what's inspiring about her so Amy has one prosthetic. The things...
0:23.0	The things...
0:24.0	No, no, all I want to say is the things she accomplishes are unbelievable.
0:28.0	Like she accomplishes things that almost any able body person I don't know can and she would not for a second consider
0:33.6	herself in any way disabled but just who she is as a person raising two great
0:36.7	kids so I'm stoked to hear what she has to say to you yeah this is gonna blow
0:39.4	you away is gonna reset your frame of reference let's do this. We are here in Vermont for Spartan Up
0:47.3	podcast with Amy Winters.
0:49.8	An athlete mother.
0:51.0	mother she gets it done one step ahead one step ahead foundation
0:56.0	uh... tell us about that what it is is i think
1:00.5	when i was growing up
1:01.8	i had an amazing foundation and that foundation is what helped me get through everything.
1:07.0	Everything that I experienced in life, and so when I had an unfortunate accident and lost my leg, it was that foundation that I fell back upon.
1:17.3	When I met children later in life who had lost limbs, I realized maybe they didn't have that foundation that I had.
1:24.0	So I give them experiences, whether they're sports experiences.
1:27.2	It could be learning how to dance, learning how to ski, but it gives them that foundation
1:32.0	where they can fall back upon and they can feel
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