Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today's guests are both cancer survivors and teach us the power of

resilience when it comes to facing trials in their lives, Scott Hamilton and Rhonda Hodge.

Our first guest is an Olympic gold medalist and champion figure skater, Scott Hamilton.

After losing his mother to cancer, then becoming a cancer survivor himself, Scott became an activist against the disease.

He launched the Scott Hamilton cares foundation and other programs, including chemocare.com in the fourth angel mentoring program.

Scott talks to us today about his journey to skating stardom, how his wife led him to a close relationship

with God, and how surviving cancer gave him purpose.

I'm Scott Hamilton. I've been around a long time in figure skating circles.

I competed for many years and then I toured as a professional.

I've been very involved in the cancer community and Special Olympics and oh my goodness

myriad of things I like to do corporate speaking or just any kind of speaking.

And I like to write books.

So it's been a lot of work and a lot of fun.

I married man.

I've got a beautiful wife named Tracy and four children, so we're very busy.

And life is full and good.

I was adopted at six weeks of age, which comes with this really cool thing.

For the parents, there's like limited expectation.

Like, you know, it's when you're a birth child,

it's like, oh, you know it's probably going to be academic or

athletic or they have my nose or your chin or my eyes or whatever when you're

an adopted child it's kind of like what's gonna happen here it's like we have

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