226: Meet the Survivor Making Dance Accessible to Every Body w/ Marisa Hamamoto
The Marie Forleo Podcast
Marie Forleo
4.7 β’ 1.8K Ratings
ποΈ 5 October 2020
β±οΈ 50 minutes
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Summary
Ever feel like the odds are stacked against you? Marisa Hamamoto, founder of Infinite Flow dance company, shares her phenomenal story of overcoming exclusion, trauma, paralysis, PTSD, and the COVID-19 pandemic to bring her message of inclusion to the world β through dance.
https://www.marieforleo.com/blog/infinite-flow-marisa-hamamoto
Our brains process images 60 times faster than words and when you see the beauty of inclusion you see its potential. @marisahamamoto via @MarieForleo
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| 0:00.0 | This episode briefly mentioned sexual assault, so if this is a topic that's difficult for you, please take good care of yourself. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey, it's Marie Forleo, and welcome to Marie TV and the Marie Forleo podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Let me ask you a question. |
| 0:16.0 | Are you someone who has suffered a setback and questioned whether or not you'd ever |
| 0:21.0 | be able to keep doing what you love, |
| 0:23.4 | if so, my guest today proves that nothing is out of reach |
| 0:27.4 | and if you keep listening to your heart |
| 0:29.3 | and you keep getting back up |
| 0:31.1 | that you just might start to change the world. |
| 0:33.0 | Marissa Hamamoto is a stroke survivor and founder of infinite flow, |
| 0:38.5 | a professional dance company comprised of dancers with and without disabilities. |
| 0:43.5 | Her dream is to make dance accessible to all. |
| 0:47.0 | She's a performing artist and speaker |
| 0:48.8 | adding massive creativity and inspiration |
| 0:51.8 | to the world of diversity and inclusion. |
| 0:57.8 | Marissa, thank you so much for making the time to be on Marie TV. |
| 1:02.1 | How you feeling today? I'm good Marie. Thank you so |
| 1:05.3 | much for having me. You've been such a big influence in my life. Actually when I started my |
| 1:10.9 | business, which I will be talking about today. I binge watch your content. |
| 1:15.3 | Thank you. And for a while on my old computer that crashed. I had it my desktop had one of your screen shot from one of your presentations and it said something along the lines of what would you do when you're world class you know and so that was there for like a while until my computer crashed and I'm a copy-care student, |
| 1:35.5 | redoing my websites right now and I actually purchased a copy care. |
| 1:40.0 | I think when you first launched it back in 2016, 17, |
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