Katie Spotz - Endurance for Ambition
Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends
Bob Goff
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Katie Spotz is a Christian adventurer, charitable ambassador, author and world-record holder. Katie is the youngest person to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean and was the first person to have swum the entire length of the Allegheny River. Katie recently finished her latest challenge, Run4Water, running 138-miles nonstop across Maine. To date, $400,000 has been raised for clean water projects as a result of Katie’s adventures. Katie’s story has been featured on CBS Morning Show, CBS Evening News, World News with Diane Sawyer, Anderson Cooper 360, New York Times, NPR, and other media outlets.
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Producer : Tatave Abeshyan
Producer & Co-host : Scott Schimmel
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| 0:00.0 | Access More. Welcome to another episode. It's the Dream Big Podcast with Bob Golf and friends. I'm the host |
| 0:14.7 | Scott Schimmel. I'm here. I'm here with Bob Golf. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey everyone, we're going to take a trip today, but the most unlikely of trips, |
| 0:23.0 | we're gonna do it Rowan. |
| 0:24.4 | Tell us about it, Scott. |
| 0:28.1 | Well, I know in high school, |
| 0:30.8 | I played on the golf team. |
| 0:32.4 | We were not exactly known for our |
| 0:35.2 | athleticism or endurance but before we get to talking about our guest I know you've |
| 0:40.0 | had some extreme adventures over the years I've read about them I've talked |
| 0:43.9 | about them sailing climbing hiking tell us about how you got to know Katie |
| 0:50.5 | is this amazing woman who I had heard of but never met and I just think everybody |
| 0:56.9 | to meet the people they've heard of especially if they've heard great things |
| 1:01.1 | about him and so Katie is a woman that's rode across the Atlantic. |
| 1:07.4 | She's not the youngest woman to do that. |
| 1:09.8 | She's the youngest person ever do it. And boy is she got a story to tell. Well for those of you |
| 1:15.7 | who are listening in you're thinking okay we've got Katie Spots she's an adventurer she's |
| 1:20.6 | does these endurance challenges in her own life. |
| 1:24.4 | Why are we bringing her on the Dream Big podcast? |
| 1:26.9 | Well, here's why you should listen. |
| 1:29.2 | Because Dreaming Big requires the same qualities that Katie has. |
| 1:33.9 | Endurance, patience, resilience, commitment. |
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