Ep. 117: Overcome and Motivate with Sidney Smith

Cutting The Distance

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.9 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We all face adversity everyday, and some days have some huge set backs. This week Dirk talks with motivational speaker and hunter, Sidney Smith. Sidney is a double amputee who has overcome loosing both legs, only to go on and lead an extraordinary life. Sidney still enjoys hiking in the mountains and hunting, not to mention competing in Iron Man, and Bodybuilding competitions. His story is uplifting and motivating to say the least.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of cutting the distance podcast.
0:15.0	I'm Dirk Durham and this week I have a guest who is someone I've been following on Instagram for years.
0:22.9	He's a motivational speaker, and his attitude on life is contagious.
0:28.0	Anytime I start thinking that I cannot physically do something, my mind drifts to Sydney.
0:33.5	And I'm motivated to try harder.
0:35.7	Sidney Smith, welcome to the podcast.
0:39.2	Hey, Derek, thank you so much.
0:40.9	This is exciting.
0:42.3	I've been following you for a long time, too.
0:44.8	Yeah, yeah.
0:45.7	And you motivate me.
0:47.2	Oh, that's awesome.
0:49.3	Man, that's, I don't even know how that's possible, but.
0:57.8	That's one thing. You never know who you're motivating. So it's important to always share your story because one person told me
1:02.9	your story may be another person's survival guide. Yeah, that's true. Absolutely. I had,
1:08.6	I had someone tell me that years ago they're like there's someone
1:12.6	out there that you maybe you barely even know them but you've impacted their life somehow
1:17.9	some way um just even by meeting them greeting them and having a simple conversation you've
1:24.2	probably impacted someone's life to where they think about that moment or that whatever it was that you told them or the conversation or whatever it was.
1:33.3	They think about that a lot and that gives them a reason.
1:37.1	So, yeah, that's, I think we kind of all get kind of muddled down in our own little BS of, BS of our daily lives. And we kind of like forget
1:46.4	about those kind of things, but, but then I start thinking like, you know, all the little things like
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