How to Breathe Out Fear with freediver Li Karlsen

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Courage isn't about bravado. It's about staying calm.

Li Karlsen knows a lot about staying calm under the most inhospitable conditions. One of the most accomplished freedivers in the world, Li is a record-holding champion at holding her breath and diving hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.

I wanted to ask Li what freediving has taught her about managing stress and fear. It turns out the lessons she's learned in the ocean work just as well above the water. Something as simple as changing the way we breathe can have a huge impact on our own fear and stress.

This...is A Bit of Optimism.

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0:00.0	Free diving is one of the most extreme and dangerous sports anyone can do.
0:05.0	Imagine holding your breath and then diving down hundreds of feet with no scuba gear,
0:10.0	enduring the cold and crushing ocean pressure, all while making sure you don't panic or die.
0:17.0	If that sounds like fun, stay tuned.
0:20.0	I'm Andrea Gunning, host of the all new podcast, There and Gone.
0:25.0	It's a real life story of two people who left a crowded Philadelphia bar, walked to their truck and vanished.
0:34.1	Nobody hears anything.
0:35.4	Nobody sees anything.
0:37.4	Did they run away?
0:39.0	Was it an accident or were they murdered?
0:42.1	A truck and two people just don't disappear.
0:45.0	The FBI called it Murder for Hire.
0:47.0	It was definitely Murder for Hire for D'Anel, not for Richard.
0:51.0	He's your son.
0:53.0	And in your eyes he's innocent.
0:55.0	But in my eyes he's just some guy my sister was with.
0:58.0	In this series, I dig into my own investigation
1:02.0	to find answers for the families and get justice for
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1:17.7	podcasts.
1:18.7	Greetings ghouls and girls and welcome to Haunting.
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