Nik Wallenda | The 11-Time Guinness World Record-Setter and Tightrope Walker Shares How to Face Fear
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
American acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, high wire artist, and author Nik Wallenda who is known for his high-wire performances without a safety net shares how he faces fear. He holds 11 Guinness World Records for various acrobatic feats but was best known as the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls.
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| 0:00.0 | Folks for all of you out there that don't know my daughter Havana is almost |
| 0:05.3 | almost 16 years old when do you turn uh... sixteen what August 30th? |
| 0:09.3 | Yes August 30th that is unbelievable are you up? I am super fired up. Okay, so you're almost |
| 0:15.8 | 16 years old. It's freaking me out and but I wanted to I wanted to have you on |
| 0:21.4 | the show today and try to have you on the show more often because I want people to hear your voice that you can actually raise kids that don't grow up to be idiots. It is possible. |
| 0:31.0 | But I want to show you this footage here Havana because we interviewed a guy today. |
| 0:34.6 | He's an 11-time Guinness World Record Center. |
| 0:38.0 | Wow. |
| 0:39.0 | He's a tightrope Walker who actually chooses to, he's a daredevil, he's an aerialist, he's an acrobat, he's a high wire artist, |
| 0:47.0 | and he actually chooses to do these crazy, I don't even know what you call these crazy expeditions of |
| 0:56.3 | awesomeness without a net. This man has actually walked directly over Niagara Falls. |
| 1:02.0 | Is this his career or he's actually walked over walked directly over Niagara Falls. |
| 1:02.6 | Is this his career? |
| 1:03.8 | He's actually walked over the Grand Canyon. |
| 1:05.8 | This is what he does. |
| 1:06.6 | Let me show you. |
| 1:07.6 | I'm going to show you the footage. |
| 1:08.5 | You tell me what you're seeing. |
| 1:09.7 | This is mind-blowing. |
| 1:10.8 | Look at this footage of today's guest. His name is Nick |
| 1:13.8 | Willinda. Many of you are going to know his name because you've seen him on |
| 1:18.1 | TV. This guy is the world's number one most- tight rope walker look at this |
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