Bethany Hamilton, Surfing Hall of Famer
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Episode 335
Bethany Hamilton is our guest today on the show. She was thrust in the spotlight at just 13 years old when she was attacked by a 14-foot Tiger Shark and losing her arm. The traumatic injury seemingly ended her dream career as a professional surfer.
However, one month after the attack, Bethany returned to surfing and within two years had won her first national surfing title. Bethany’s foundation of faith has been her backbone; her source of truth, hope, and strength. At 17 years old, she realized her dream of surfing professionally and she is still an active surf competitor to this day. Bethany has been able to touch a large number of people with her faith message, charitable efforts, and overall spirit. Her greatest joy is being a wife and mother, and she continues to touch and inspire lives globally as a professional surfer, author and motivational speaker. She currently has her own blogon helping others become unstoppable.
Her latest project is a new film called "Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable," which released in theaters July 12, 2019.
On this episode of podcast, we talk to Bethany about the new film "Unstoppable," why she felt it was important to release the documentary on her career, how her faith in Christ has grown from her early teen years to now, living life as a public figure in the media spotlight, and why she lives a life unashamed of sharing the Gospel.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | This episode of Sports Spectrum's podcast is brought to you by Compassion International. |
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| 0:58.8 | It gives them hope. Check it out. Go to compassion.com slash sports spectrum, pray about it, |
| 1:04.4 | and consider sponsoring a child today. Today on the podcast, we welcome one of the great surfers of all time. And if I say the name |
| 1:15.0 | Bethany Hamilton, most of you probably remember who she was. Her story reached the national |
| 1:20.5 | stage when she was just 13 years old, out surfing, and was attacked by a 15-foot tiger |
| 1:27.0 | shark, a run-in that cost Hamilton her left arm. |
| 1:31.5 | But not only did Bethany Hamilton survive the attack, she was back on the competitive surfing circuit |
| 1:36.8 | less than a year later. And now more than a decade later, she's a mom, and she undertakes her |
| 1:43.4 | greatest challenge that is chasing a toddler |
| 1:46.8 | and the biggest wave of her career with the new film Bethany Hamilton Unstoppable, |
| 1:53.4 | which is out now, released July 12th, 2019, the film. It's in theaters across the country, |
| 1:59.5 | and it's the untold story of the heart of a champion |
| 2:02.6 | and her resilience against all odds to become one of the leading professional surfers of our time. |
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