Episode 035: The Other Shore with Diana Nyad
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2017
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
“I refuse to go about any day other than all in.” — Diana Nyad
Although she had a successful broadcasting career, Diana Nyad is best known for her multiple attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida, finally achieving her goal at the age of 64. In this episode, recorded at the MasterMind Summit, Diana Nyad weaves a motivational tale of achieving success after multiple failures. She shares her journey as a small child who dreamed of being a champion to the heartbreak of losing her first race to the existential crisis the led to her attempting the 111-mile swim from Cuba to Florida at the age of 60. Diana’s gift for storytelling places you in the middle of the action of each attempt and is sure to inspire you to reconnect with your goals by the end of the hour.
Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:
“I am a fanatic. That’s how people get ahead in life because they’re fanatics.” — Diana Nyad
“There’s a beautiful star, it’s your dream, it’s in your soul and it inspires you so much even though it may be unreachable, untouchable, impossible. You dig down with all that’s in you, month by month and year by year, with focus and with discipline and one day, you may not actually touch that star of yours but by then you’re up in the heavens playing in rarified air.” — Diana Nyad
“I couldn’t have done it a fingernail faster.” — Diana Nyad
“Every day in my life, no matter what I do, succeed or not, do everything I do, not a fingernail better.” — Diana Nyad
“I loved coming to the other shore and being a person who just didn’t quit.” — Diana Nyad
“It was will alone that helped me swim another 18 hours.” — Diana Nyad
“I was always chasing after other people who were chasing their dreams.” — Diana Nyad
“It’s not about making it; it’s about not giving up on it.” — Diana Nyad
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Henry David Thoreau
Mentioned in this episode:
EverWalk; Diana Nyad’s walk across America to inspire people to get out from behind the screen and get moving.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brian Baphini show, where we explore the mindsets, motivation and methodologies |
| 0:19.3 | of success. |
| 0:20.3 | Here's your host, Brian Baphini. |
| 0:31.0 | Well, the top of the morning to you and welcome to the Brian Baphini show. |
| 0:36.0 | You know, for the past 20 years, I've been out presenting and speaking all over the world, |
| 0:40.0 | and I've not only presented at events where there's been other really good speakers, |
| 0:44.0 | but also our own events that we put on a befining company, we've put on thousands of them. |
| 0:48.0 | We bring in keynote speakers and we've had from politicians to entertainment, |
| 0:53.0 | to sports, to world leaders, you name it. |
| 0:57.0 | A couple of years ago, I had a great privilege of meeting someone who's become a good friend, |
| 1:01.0 | and her name is Diana Niaat, and she is an inspirational person. |
| 1:06.0 | She has an inspirational story, and what's even more important to an Irishman, |
| 1:09.0 | she tells it in a great way. |
| 1:11.0 | She's entertaining, she's informative, but this is really going to be a boost for you today. |
| 1:17.0 | Diana is well known as one of the greatest long-distance swimmers of all time. |
| 1:22.0 | She came to notoriety as a young woman in 1978. |
| 1:26.0 | She swam around Manhattan Island, and no one had ever done that before, |
| 1:30.0 | and she became a regular guest on the Johnny Carson show, |
| 1:33.0 | eventually got involved in broadcasting herself. |
| 1:36.0 | She made four attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida. |
| 1:41.0 | It's over 100 miles, very, very tough currents, |
| 1:45.0 | sting and jellyfish, shark infested water, all kinds of issues, |
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