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Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

Bethany Hamilton - Unstoppable Dreams

Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

Bob Goff

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

 Bethany Hamilton 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.

In 2007, she 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 is involved in numerous charitable efforts, including her own foundation, Friends of Bethany, which reaches out to amputees and youth, encouraging and offering hope to overcome through Jesus Christ. Using her platform as a professional athlete to promote living a fit and healthy lifestyle, she authored the book Body and Soul in 2014. Bethany's latest project, Unstoppable, a surf documentary which showcases her as one of the best women surfers in the world, released theatrically in the USA on July 12, 2019, accompanied by a photo book and a children's book.

Passionate about helping young women be unstoppable in life and faith, Bethany has launched a new website and online course for sharing content and facilitating connection. Her greatest joy is being a wife and mother, and she continues to touch and inspire lives globally as a professional surfer and motivational speaker.

BethanyHamilton.com 
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On the episode:

Producers : Tatave Abeshyan and Haley King 

Engineer : Jackson Carpenter

Producer & Co-host : Scott Schimmel  

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome back to another episode of the Dream Big Podcast with Bob Gough and Friends.

0:12.9

I'm your co, Scott Schimmel.

0:14.1

I'm here with Bob Gough.

0:15.3

Hey everyone, I'm glad you're here again today

0:18.2

and I think we're gonna have a good time today.

0:20.2

Yeah, we are interviewing Bethany Hamilton, who is definitely a household name, just in case you forgot. Who is Bethany?

0:27.6

Oh, amazing, brilliant mom, speaker,, a motivational person.

0:35.0

Many people heard of her tragedy when she was young and she lost her arm

0:40.0

to a shark attack in Hawaii.

0:42.6

But unrelenting in her determination,

0:46.7

that's the way that I would describe Bethany.

0:49.1

More than just a physical attribute,

0:52.2

it's the character of the person that you're going to learn, the

0:56.2

tenacity and go forward of somebody that just has an ambition is going after it.

1:01.2

And so I think you're really going to enjoy hearing from Bethany.

1:03.4

Yeah, I can't imagine anybody who's gone through life

1:05.9

without unexpected losses, changes.

1:08.5

Obviously, hers is very extreme, remarkable.

1:11.9

But as you're listening to this interview, pay attention to the

1:14.8

things that have happened in your life that you didn't plan on, you didn't plan for.

1:18.1

And a lot of these conversations, how do you dream big in the midst of things that have changed. So listen and take notes and

1:25.5

we're thrilled to have Bethany on the podcast.

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