Hey Goody My Project listeners I'm sharing something special this week. It's an episode of the

podcast what it's like to be from New York Times best-selling book author Dan Heath.

So in every episode Dan interviews someone from a different profession,

a cattle ranch or an FBI special agent, a professional Santa Claus, and he asks, what does a couple's therapists think when a friend asks for a relationship

advice?

What does a hair stylist do when a client asks for a celebrity hairstyle that will never work for them?

If you've ever met someone whose work you were curious

about and you had 100 nosy questions but were too polite to ask this is the

show for you. In this preview you're about to hear, Dan talks to an ocean lifeguard about performing

CPR on a dolphin, learning to read the ocean, and leading daring and sometimes foolish

rescues.

Okay, so here comes the preview you can find more episodes of what it's

like to be wherever you get podcasts. Ed Vadraska has been an ocean lifeguard for

47 years. He's semi retired now and has spent his career lifeguarding and training other lifeguards.

In Southern California where he spent most of his career,

being a lifeguard comes with high stakes.

Maybe at least once a summer,

you make a rescue where you absolutely positively know that person was going to drown.

And you're facing them and you see the fear of God and their eyes in the water

and you strap him in that buoy and you try to calm him down and say,

listen, I'm here, you're going to be okay, I'm going to get you to shore.

I want you to kick for me.

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