DB 264: The Girl With The Golden Legs (and Mindset)!
Dream Big Podcast for Kids
Dream Big Podcast
3.8 • 975 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
On October 3, 2012 at the age of 24, Lauren Wasser's life changed forever. As a result of a medical condition called toxic shock syndrome, Wasser was placed in a medically-induced coma. Doctors pumped her with 80 pounds of fluids to get the toxins out of her body and conducted several blood transfusions. Lauren miraculously survived but doctors were not able to save her right leg, which had to be amputated. Overnight, Lauren had lost her identity. As a professional model, she had developed an idea of what it meant to be beautiful and initially she felt that losing her legs meant that she was no longer beautiful. While this story could have ended tragically, thankfully it has taken an inspiring turn as today Lauren believes she is more beautiful than ever before -- inside and out. Leading brands around the world agree with Lauren's assessment, and she continues to book modeling gigs now with her beautiful golden prosthetic legs. In this episode, Eva shares the mindset shifts Lauren made in order to turn her life around. Eva also reminds all Big Dreamers that what truly matters in life is not how you look, but your character, values, and how you feel about yourself. For our show notes, visit DreamBigPodcast.com/264
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Eva Cartman, host of the Dream Big Podcast Show, the place to go, to learn, laugh, and grow. |
| 0:09.0 | What do you do when life as you know it changes forever? In instant. Today I am going to share a story |
| 0:15.4 | that could have ended very tragically but spoiler alert ends up taking a very |
| 0:20.7 | inspiring turn. You know what time it is? This is episode 264 of the |
| 0:26.6 | Dream Big podcast and it's time to Dream Big. |
| 0:29.7 | My name is Eva Cartman. I'm part of a squad of super kids that are here to change the world. |
| 0:37.6 | We don't believe you need to be adults to have big goals and start working towards your dreams. |
| 0:42.6 | We believe age is just a number |
| 0:45.2 | and you're never too young to make a difference. |
| 0:48.2 | We may be young but we are not naive. |
| 0:51.2 | We understand that achieving our big dreams will not be easy. |
| 0:55.0 | It will take incredible dedication, hard work, and yes, massive action. |
| 1:00.0 | There will be ups and downs, but we embrace the challenges and relish pushing outside of our |
| 1:05.8 | comfort zone because this is how we grow. They may not teach us these concepts in our school |
| 1:11.9 | textbooks, but we are smart enough to know that the tool teach us these concepts in our school textbooks. |
| 1:13.0 | But we are smart enough to know that the tools and tactics to achieve our big dreams are out there. |
| 1:19.0 | And we are willing to do the work to seek out these skills and master them because we know that our future depends on it. |
| 1:27.0 | We are the big dreamers and it's time to dream big. Time to Dream Big! |
| 1:38.0 | Before we dive into this week's episode, here's Silly Sophia to make us all laugh. |
| 1:41.0 | What animal is always at a baseball game. |
| 1:45.0 | A bat! |
| 1:47.0 | But it's a little corn's either the mama corn. |
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