457: Hope is a Verb with Amy Downs
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Hope is a Verb
with Amy Downs
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Amy was buried under the rubble of the Oklahoma City Federal Building during the 1995 attack. Fully conscious but completely incapacitated, she waited nearly an hour before her rescue. In her own words, her life flashed before her eyes complete with doubt, regret and fear.
The trauma of everyday life is unavoidable, but this was another type of experience altogether. Half her team lost their lives, she spent over a week in the hospital, and has spent all these years since that tragedy rebuilding her own life and her community. From trauma to triumph.
Listen & Learn:
- How Amy lost over 200lbs
- The power of community for health and wellness
- Why it's important to simply start moving forward, right now
- How to create a future focus
Links & Resources
Amy's Website
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Amy Downs is CEO of Allegiance Credit Union in Oklahoma City, which lost more than half of its employees in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. In the years since the bombing, Amy became a mother, lost 200 pounds, competed in an Ironman Triathlon, obtained her MBA and became CEO of the same credit union that was bombed. She's the author of a new book, Hope is Verb.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The largest domestic terrorism attack in U.S. history happened on April 19th, 1995, as |
| 0:11.0 | you might remember Timothy McVeigh drove a truck bomb made of homemade fertilizer into |
| 0:16.5 | the federal building and killed 168 people. |
| 0:20.6 | I was a teenager at the time, but I certainly remember it. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm sure many of you do too. |
| 0:24.3 | And when something like this happens, I guess there's a couple of things that you're hoping |
| 0:27.4 | the first one is, you know, they'll get the bad guy, and in this case, they did. |
| 0:31.2 | You hope it'll never happen again. |
| 0:33.3 | In this case, unfortunately, these things continue to happen again and again. |
| 0:36.8 | And I guess the last thing that you hope is that there's some learning, some growth, |
| 0:40.7 | some positive outcome from such a negative, such a tragic event. |
| 0:45.6 | My guest on this week's show is certainly a symbol of that. |
| 0:49.4 | If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood Shaw, a yoga teacher, a trainer, a serial entrepreneur |
| 0:53.4 | on the father of three kids, but first and foremost, I'm a student. |
| 0:56.1 | I like to learn things. |
| 0:57.1 | So I go to the world and I find people who are authors and experts, personal growth development |
| 1:02.2 | health and wellness. |
| 1:03.2 | I try to bring their best work here on the show. |
| 1:05.8 | So hopefully we can all live more inspired lives. |
| 1:09.3 | If you'd like to support this show, leave a rating and review and whatever app you're listening |
| 1:12.7 | on. |
| 1:13.7 | If you'd like to send in a question, you can message me on Instagram at Lucas Rockwood. |
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