Misty Diaz talks about determination and being an adaptive athlete

The Mark Divine Show

Mark Divine

Self-improvement, Alternative Health, Education, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week Mark is at Lake Tahoe for the Spartan Race championships. He talks to Misty Diaz, who is well-known as an athlete and advocate for people with Spina Bifida. She has completed over 200 races herself, and she is both an advocate and an impressive athlete. IN spite of significant obstacles, she was eventually able to pursue her athletic ambitions. Misty endured much hardship on her way to becoming one of the top adaptive athletes, including 28 different surgeries. She ...

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0:00.0	You can't. I never imagined life to be this good and it all started with one simple thing taking action
0:20.8	and changing something.
0:23.0	All right folks,
0:25.0	all right folks,
0:30.0	welcome back.
0:31.0	This is the Unbeatable Mind podcast.
0:33.5	My name is Mark Devine.
0:35.2	And I am super stoked to have you here today.
0:37.4	Today we are in Lake Tahoe for the Spartan World
0:41.0	Championships.
0:41.8	I just met my friend Joe DeSana who's the
0:43.9	founder of Spartan and we got a lot of interesting things going on today. But my
0:49.2	guest today is really amazing. I've just really had a great time already just get and meet her.
0:54.0	Misty Diaz, an adaptive athlete with, well I'll tell you all about her when I introduce her
0:58.7	more formally.
1:00.2	There is a little noise in the background because all the Spartan racers are all twitting away over there.
1:04.6	Yeah, this is like human twitters. They're all excited. They will be vacating shortly, so don't mind them.
1:13.8	Before I get started, a couple of reminders.
1:16.0	I'm going to harp on these for a couple more weeks.
1:17.9	But our annual summit, we do this three-day summit
1:21.1	in Carl's Bad is coming up December 29th to the second of December.
1:24.8	It's the last time we're going to run it.
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