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All The Wiser

75. Lessons on Grief and Gratitude from a Two-Time Plane Crash Survivor

All The Wiser

Kimi Culp

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.9652 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Austin Hatch is one in a million. Scratch that. One in 3.4 million. Those were odds that an MIT statistician gave of him surviving the plane crash that killed his mom and two siblings. But then, just days after being accepted to play basketball for his dream school, the University of Michigan, Austin was in a second plane crash – this one claiming the lives of his dad Steve and his step-mom Julie. Yet with all this loss, Austin has found a way to keep living by finding ways to honor the family he loved. His gratitude for life and his message of creating your legacy every day has inspired people all over the world to reconcile living while coping with tragedy. 


In this episode:

  • Legacy is your day to day actions.
  • The importance of staying busy in the wake of tragedy, loss and trauma.
  • Honoring the life of someone you lost by contributing to the world.
  • Living a life that is defined by what is beyond tragedy.


Stay connected to Austin:

Website: www.austin-hatch.com

LinkedIn: Austin Hatch

Twitter: @AustinHatch30

Charity: Erin’s House


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everything secure. I'm from Fort Wayne, Indiana, originally. Small town, not small,

1:01.3

a couple hundred thousand people, northeast Indiana.

1:05.2

Austin Hatch had the kind of childhood that most of us dream about.

1:09.6

I had an incredible life growing up.

1:11.6

You know, my mom, Julie, was an incredible mother.

1:15.1

She was a full-time mom.

1:16.8

Not that anybody's not, but that was her, you know, she stayed home and helped us kids

1:20.9

and stuff like that.

1:21.7

And my dad was a doctor, had his own practice, his own clinic, and did well.

1:26.8

And my older sister, Lindsay, she was a

1:29.1

ballerina. And then my little brother Ian was a great guy. I had such a bright future ahead of him

1:34.3

too. Austin's dad was also a pilot, and he flew a small plane. And on September 1st, 2003,

1:42.5

on their way to the family lakehouse in Michigan, the airplane crashed.

1:47.0

It took the lives of his mom, Julie, his sister, Lindsay, and his little brother Ian.

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