Ep. 8: Paul de Gelder - Improvise-Adapt-Overcome
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Change is a Choice.
Paul de Gelder wasn't given a choice the day he was attacked by a shark as a clearance diver in Sydney Harbor.  But he did choose how he would react. Using the mantra he’d been taught in the Army to "Improvise, Adapt, Overcome,” Paul was able to fight back from life-threatening injuries and to create a life that exceeds his most wild dreams.
In this episode, Paul shares how and why he adopted a plant-based diet and what it’s meant to his health, and his efforts to save the very creatures that nearly killed him. Now a host of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, Paul is a vocal advocate for shark education and conservation.
Buckle-up for this one and prepare to be inspired by someone who will make you question every excuse you’ve ever made.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm absolutely grateful for the fact that I got a second chance and the strangest thing |
| 0:07.6 | is that if you had asked me if I would rather die or lose two limbs, I would have said |
| 0:14.3 | I would rather die because I would not know who I would be. |
| 0:19.7 | I would not know how I would do my job or live my life without these two limbs and it's |
| 0:24.7 | so strange now to live a life where it's just normal. |
| 0:31.0 | Today I'm talking about change and what motivates each and every one of us as humans to change. |
| 0:36.9 | You know you hear this saying that people never change and you can't teach an old dog, |
| 0:41.1 | new tricks. |
| 0:42.1 | I wholeheartedly disagree with this. |
| 0:44.8 | I have worked with literally thousands upon thousands of people who do change because |
| 0:50.4 | they have made the choice to pull themselves out of this sea of inertia and paralyzing |
| 0:57.4 | fear that have an unfounded stranglehold on so many of us these days and inspire them |
| 1:05.9 | to set sail for a whole new life destination. |
| 1:10.2 | You may want to be healthier but this involves starting an exercise program. |
| 1:15.0 | This involves you eating a cleaner, greener plant-based diet. |
| 1:19.4 | You may want a new job, you may want to get out of a broken unhealthy relationship. |
| 1:24.8 | Whatever it is, all of these things require you to face the fears that are holding you |
| 1:31.2 | back and preventing you from living the life that you absolutely deserve. |
| 1:37.1 | Today I'm working with people to inspire them to eat a plant-based diet, to face their |
| 1:43.9 | fears and to live a bigger and more nourishing life. |
| 1:49.2 | In this episode, you're going to learn all about these things and be inspired to create |
| 1:55.3 | change in your life. |
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