Healing, Courage, and Leaning In with Danielle Walker
Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends
Bob Goff
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Bob Goff sits down with his friend Danielle Walker for a conversation about health, courage, and choosing to lean into change rather than pull away from it. Danielle shares how a medical crisis in her early twenties led her on an unexpected journey with food, healing, and purpose. Together, they talk about vulnerability, discernment, and what it looks like to share your story while you’re still living it. This episode is an encouragement for anyone facing a hard season and wondering if the very thing that challenged them might also be the thing that helps others.
Connect with Bob: @bobgoff
Connect with Danielle: @daniellewalker
You can also find Danielle on Substack.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the Bob and Friends podcast. |
| 0:11.5 | We're so glad you're with us. |
| 0:13.5 | And favorite thing to do is to bring friends on. |
| 0:16.7 | And Danielle Walker is one of those. |
| 0:19.0 | Danielle, welcome. |
| 0:23.4 | Thanks for having me. I can't believe we were just laughing that we are neighbors and separated just by like one little strip of highway, |
| 0:28.7 | but we end up kind of waving at each other from their end of Orange or of San Diego County. |
| 0:34.7 | We are going to fix that soon. And I've been with so many of your wonderful love does people over the last couple months too. So I feel like even though we haven't been together, I'm getting little pieces of all of the incredible team that's running so much in San Diego. I think there's this idea of a worldwide family of friends. Yeah. And then nobody signed up for it, but we just kind of all picked each other and said, |
| 0:55.0 | let's do life. |
| 0:55.8 | And we're all have our piccadillos and we're all desperately flawed in desperate need of a |
| 1:02.8 | little grace. |
| 1:04.3 | But for each of us, we bring the particular gifting and then the particular like things that just didn't turn out the way that |
| 1:13.2 | they were expected to. And then we try to make sense of that. And when I think of you, |
| 1:19.5 | that comes to my, I do a lot of time in Uganda. And the first time I said, Danielle, bring your |
| 1:25.4 | beautiful family. Let's go to Uganda. You were like, |
| 1:29.3 | I don't know, and I didn't get it. There was a little hesitation in there. Tell us a little |
| 1:34.4 | bit about this. And for me, that represents one point in this journey that you've been on that's |
| 1:40.4 | led to a career that you have, that's your unique gift that you release into the world. |
| 1:46.1 | Well, so we're going to fix that as well, the Uganda piece, because I haven't been since 2008. |
| 1:52.7 | I was 23 years old. I can't do the math, but I was 23 years old,, the only thing I got to do in Uganda was be in a hospital bed. |
| 2:03.0 | And I had planned the trip for 25 people. I was working for a nonprofit. So I planned everything. |
| 2:08.7 | The flights, the time that we were going to be serving, just all of it. And so I was so looking |
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