431 - Big Waves, Shark Attacks, & Facing Your Fears with Bethany Hamilton
The Marie Forleo Podcast
Marie Forleo
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🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Are you letting fear hold you back? Learn how Bethany Hamilton got the courage to surf again just 4 weeks after losing her arm to a tiger shark — then went on to win a national title.
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| 0:29.8 | If you are someone who has been knocked down by some big waves in this life, I think you're |
| 0:36.4 | going to love today's show. My guest is here to show us |
| 0:39.2 | how faith and joy and determination can help make any of us unstoppable. Bethany Hamilton is |
| 0:46.6 | an inspiration to millions. After losing her arm to a 14-foot tiger shark at the age of 13, |
| 0:53.8 | she went on to become a professional surfer |
| 0:55.9 | winning a national title only two years later. From chasing big waves to chasing her kids, |
| 1:02.5 | Bethany continues to use her faith, hope, and determination to rewrite the rules of being a modern |
| 1:08.3 | role model. Bethany, thank you so much for making time to come on |
| 1:13.1 | Marie TV and the Marie Forleo podcast. Glad to be here. Thank you for having me. So you are such a |
| 1:21.1 | force of nature. Most people know your story. Hopefully our audience does because I wrote about you |
| 1:26.4 | and everything is figureoutable because |
| 1:28.0 | you are so incredibly inspiring to me. So I want to dive right in. In your book, in Body and |
| 1:34.1 | Soul, you wrote that two weeks prior to the event. You and your mom actually prayed to God |
| 1:39.9 | to guide you to be more than just a surfer. I wanted you to tell us about how you found not only |
| 1:46.9 | peace, but purpose with everything that's happened. Yeah, it was amazing, really. My mom and I, |
| 1:55.4 | my mom was an amazing woman, or she still is. But growing up, she just influenced me in such beautiful ways. And I think |
| 2:04.9 | maybe it was just God working through her to prepare me for what was to come. And so, yeah, |
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