Bethany Hamilton, Professional Surfer and Shark Attack Survivor
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Bethany Hamilton, a professional surfer and shark attack survivor.
Bethany has become a source of inspiration to millions through her story of determination, faith, and hope.
At the age of 13, Bethany lost her left arm to a 14-foot tiger shark, which seemed to end her career as a rising surf star.
One month after the attack, Bethany returned to the water and within two years had won her first national title.
Think about that for a second. She was back in the water within a month!
We all experience trauma -- some on a greater scale than others, but what's special about Bethany is her response to that trauma -- and that's why I wanted to talk to her.
In 2007, Bethany realized her dream of surfing professionally and since then, her story has been told in a New York Times best selling autobiography and in the 2011 film, Soul Surfer.
Bethany’s latest project, Unstoppable, a surf documentary showcasing her career is in theatres now and I highly recommend checking it out!
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| 0:00.0 | I often have said actually that almost like losing the arm was the easy part but like what felt incredibly hard was becoming famous and well known and all the attention put on my story and just being sent through the |
| 0:16.4 | ringer interviews as like a 14 year old girl and I just didn't like having all the attention. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Massford Podcast. I'm Michael Jervais. |
| 0:39.1 | By Trade and Trading a Sport and Performance Psychologist, as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. and the whole whole idea behind these conversations behind this |
| 0:46.9 | podcast is to learn from people who have committed their life efforts |
| 0:50.4 | towards mastery and we want to understand what they're searching for, |
| 0:54.2 | find some themes there. We want to dig to understand their psychological |
| 0:57.7 | framework, which is really how they explain themselves in the world. How do |
| 1:01.6 | they make sense of events themselves, the future? How do they think about what they're about to do? |
| 1:06.5 | And then we want to also dig and understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft. |
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