204. Scout Bassett, Paralympian
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Born in Nanjing, China, Scout Bassett was abandoned after losing her leg in a fire when she was around 18 months old. She spent the next seven years in an orphanage, living through difficult conditions until she was adopted at age 7 by a family from the United States. She obtained her first running prosthetic at age 14, and then went on to run competitively at UCLA and would be recruited by a head performance director for U.S. Paralympics. In today's episode, we dive into all of this, plus talk about her time competing as a triathlete until she quit her full-time job in 2015, sleeping on couches and inside her car as she trained for the Paralympics. Scout talks about the lessons she's learned through her #hurdlemoments about resilience, her time hosting the Paralympic coverage for NBC, and offers up tips on how to chin up when life feels impossible.
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| 0:00.0 | Even when I get in situations that are challenging or I go through hurdles myself |
| 0:04.6 | I have to remind myself of oh, you've been through much worse like this is just |
| 0:09.5 | You know a little bump in the road and and it's good to look back in the past and remind yourself of what you've been through |
| 0:16.3 | So that you know, okay, I can get through this too |
| 0:30.0 | Hey |
| 0:34.0 | Hey everybody Emily a body here. You are listening to episode |
| 0:38.3 | 204 of hurdle a wellness focus podcast |
| 0:42.2 | Reconnected everyone that from your favorite athletes to top experts and industry CEOs about their highest highs |
| 0:47.4 | toughest moments and everything in between we all go through hurdles in life and my goal through these discussions |
| 0:53.9 | It's to empower you to better navigate yours and move with intention so that you can stride toward your own |
| 0:59.7 | Big potential and of course have some fun along the way. I |
| 1:05.8 | Am elated that feels like the biggest understatement to bring you this week's conversation with |
| 1:12.4 | Paralympian scout |
| 1:14.4 | Bassit scout story. This is the biggest understatement is one of |
| 1:19.1 | grit and |
| 1:20.6 | Resilience now when it comes to facing hurdles scout is no stranger |
| 1:26.7 | She was born in China and abandoned after losing her leg in a fire when she was just about 18 months old |
| 1:34.2 | She then moved into an orphanage and we talk extensively about what that experience was like for her today and was then adopted at age |
| 1:41.5 | Seven moved to the United States and adjusted to not only learning the ways of a new culture, but also a new |
| 1:49.6 | Language now despite her disability |
| 1:52.5 | Bassit was always always always passionate about sport and movement and |
| 1:58.4 | Eventually she learned to run using her prosthetic leg in today's episode |
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