Ep. 921: Kayaking the Blue Nile and Maranon Rivers - Revisited - Amie Begg
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired Mar 19, 2018
Listen in as we revisit the amazing stories of Amie Begg. Adventure sports helped Amie not only to overcome her substance abuse challenges but also led to a new life as a substance abuse counselor and a whitewater enthusiast. However, shortly into her paddling career, during a rapids run, she suffered a hit to her head resulting in a serious brain injury . Amie spent time recovering and learning to read, walk and talk again. After a successful recovery, she conquered those same rapids proving she had what it took to continue her love for kayaking.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host Mason. You might have noticed my voice is a little shot. I lost it last week. And I was around a lot of people. So it was very hard for me, a professional talk or someone who loves to talk to not be able to talk. So it's back now just in time to record |
| 0:39.1 | this intro. In today's episode is a 2018 throwback, back when Kurt was the host and Amy's story |
| 0:45.7 | about kayaking the Blue Nile, but it's a lot more than that. We deal with like what she did in her |
| 0:51.0 | past, how she got to this point. It was substance abuse and a very serious |
| 0:56.1 | brain injury that kind of led to all this. And you hear that a lot on the show is what leads |
| 1:00.5 | people to adventure is so many different things. And a lot of times it's something tragic or something |
| 1:06.7 | very scary that lead people to make a big change in their life or lead them to say, |
| 1:13.1 | you know, I'm going to live my life to the fullest. So if you're going through something right now, |
| 1:16.3 | I'm going to encourage you. Um, maybe this is the beginning of, of your next big adventure. You know, |
| 1:23.4 | I, we've had some very sad stories and very hard stories on this show of people who've gone through |
| 1:29.0 | some really awful things, but it leads them to be adventurous. |
| 1:33.8 | It leads them to live life to the fullest. |
| 1:36.1 | And so I can't relate in a lot of ways to some of these stories, but I know that we've had |
| 1:42.4 | so many examples on the show of people taking |
| 1:45.0 | the worst lemons possible and making beautiful lives and wonderful lemonade with it. |
| 1:50.6 | So I encourage everybody that's out there that might be going through something. |
| 1:54.5 | There are brighter days ahead. |
| 1:56.1 | So let's dive into this amazing story with Amy Begg. |
| 2:00.3 | In one callout before we jump in is the last episode with Phil Decker, I mentioned it was a prostate |
| 2:05.6 | exam that caused him to be aware of his colon cancer, but it was a colonoscopy. |
| 2:11.5 | So I made that mistake in the intro, but we wrap that or we make that correction in the episode. |
| 2:16.6 | Listen to that Monday's episode. |
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